The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 20.

Tim present Cassczuka of the Escusquza's
Budgets possess the singular merit of suggesting
matter for much after•meditation and stimulating

the curiosity of reformers. The

tion of a Finance Minister is perhaps rather to meet
expenditure than to restrain it. But Mr. GLAD.
STOLE, like an honest family lawyer, never loses
an opportunity of reminding his country of the
truth of the simple saying, that " you cannot eat
" your cake and have it too." He does not abso-
lutely resist the wastefulness of departments, he
attributes the fault of national expenditure to
causes beyond his control, such as public opi-
nion and the advance of military science.
But he contrives to impress upon the mind of
every reader of his Statement, that high expendi-
ture means high taxation, and that the nation
must blame itself if it endures war estimates in
time of peace. It is the fashion with some Tories
to ascribe the astonishing extension of the public
wealth to the discovery of goldfields; and by the
same reasoning to treat an expenditure of seventy
millions a-year as a " fleabite." Mr. GLAD-
irroNs laughs at the heresy of supposing that
is decrease in the value of money with-
in the last ten years accounts for the
rise in public expenditure; and while attributing
the development of prosperity to the operation of
commercial freedom, he is as far as possible trots
allowing it to be believed that because we pay
seven or eight millions a year more than we did
eight years ago, we are, therefore, better off, or,
in a word, that wastefulness means wealth. We
are confident of doing no injustice to the Crux-
cruse of the Excuse:lu= if we accuse him of hav-
ing only a partial sympathy with the habit of
high and fast living in a government, and with the
disposition of a Legislature to treat a popular Minis-
ter as a spoiled child, to humour all his magnificent
whims, and to forget that a government is the
trustee of the hard-earned savings of a patient and
laborious people. Sir H. Wrizotroarcr gave utter-
ance to the feelings of thousands oat of doors,
when he expressed a doubt whether the House
Gould further sanction the present rate of national
expenditure. Nothing has made Mr. GLADSTODI
more obnoxious to the race of satisfied political
cynics, who care about as much for the grievanoss
they don't feel as the itinerant dentist who feels no
pain in the ase of the pincers, than his indiscreet
appeals to that impatience of taxation which springs
eternal in the British breast.

Mr. Gianeronz's bitterest detractors will hardly
somas him of financial sentimentalism. He rides
that noble steed, the British taxreyer, with a
light but firm hand on the bridle rein ; mostly on
the snaffle, sometimes on the curb, with a touch of
the spur by way of " relief." A Deputation
comes to complain of • an " anomaly," in other
words of some other more fa►oured interest.
Mr. thAnwrons listens attentively, converses
freely, opens the month of the Deputation, and
draws its teeth. "You complain, gentlemen, justly
" enough, of the exemption of clubs from the wine
" and spirit license ; or of the exemption of carriers
" from the stage carriage license ; or of the cramp.
" tion of railway excursion trains; or of the ex-
emption of endowed charities. No doubt hen
"is a case for consideration." And the CREAN-
mums of the EXCRIQUIR affords relief to the suf-
fering patients by administering an equal does of
taxation to the "exempted." The injured interest
is, perhaps, no gainer, but on the other hand the
Exchequer is no loser, by this admirable method of
relief.

Betting aside at this moment the larger question
of direct or indirect taxation, or the smaller (idea-
tion of tea or sugar, we believe that—havingmade
up his mind that he could not reduce at once both
duties, and that pending the result of French legis-
lation on foreign and colonial sugars, it would b.:
imprudent to attempt a permanent settlement of
the Sugar Duty—Mr. GLADOTONE could not
have conferred a greater boon, or a boon affecting
larger portion of the community, than by alle-
viating the pressure of the tax on incomes between
1001. and 2001. a year. There is no clam more de-
nerving of a Finance Minister's oompassion and
respect than that of men who, if they cannot dig
and to beg are ashamed, do nevertheless, six out
of every seven days in the year, a hard day's work,
in positions often of trust, of responsibility,
of temptation, and on the salary of a
railway excavator are obliged to keep up
the appearances of gentility. It may rm.
sonably be doubted whether these modest
contaibutors to fifteen millions of Army estimates
would feel the benefit of reduced sugar duties so
keenly ea the permission to deduct GO/. from the
assessment on an income of 2001.

The proposal that Clubs shall pay the same duty
on strong liquors as the keepers of hotels and coffee-
houses will hardly be deemed worthy of any re-
sistance in Pall-mall, or indeed from any quarter,
unless the Society for closing publio•houses on Sun-
day should consider the legislative assimilation of
Clubs end public-houses dangerous, and subversive
of oafs and proper distinctions. Will the Endowed