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LONDON, 77 ESDA 3', FEBRUARY 18.

Ir ever tin re was a Chancellor of the Exche-
quer on whom it wits incumbent to bring forward a
budget that would redeem his own character, and
reflect some respt tt and popularity on the adminis-
tration, it was Sit Cft.tat.f:s Woof, last night. That
gentleman must, or ought to, have kit, how unfor-
Mimic has hitherto been his career. Compelled to
deal, in his first years of Alec, with • famine
and with continued deficits, he still failed
to persuade the country that his mode of
meeting those deficits was either acceptable or
whir. Still, evern• one made allowance fur the diffi-
culties of his positron ; and so he stumbled on, until
during thisyear. the I:st year, andthe year to come, this
financial minister has had a surplus to deal with of
at least seven millions in the three yearn—a surplus,
too, that the buiwant rise and provenly of the country
might have emitted him to give awns wisely at seed-
time and gather up again at harvest. With the mantle
of vr.t. upon his shoulders—with a House of Commons
and a public fall of admiration fur what PEEL had
accomplished, anal must ready to venture any ex-
periment in pursuance of the same policy, what
might rat n Chaneellor of the Exchequer have
done? Ile might have immortalised himself, and
given fresh youth to his party. Fur the old age of
punks, after all, is the slumber of doing nothing,
the incapacity that lases opportunities, with the
fatuitv that Nees not danger as it approaches.
Sir'enmars Worm has done not one of the things
that he might have done. Fascinated, or it might
be said —petrified, like his colleagues, by the me-
nacing attitude of that aglicultuntl interest, which
the popular hare had compelled to sacrifice their
private interest to justice, the whole thought of the
present Chancellor has been to propitiate that inte-
rest, and to dole out to these country gentlemen what
financial boons he had to bestow, not largely enough
to conciliate them, but in dribblets, which they
steepled and despised.
After his peddling with the stamp duties last year
and Hinging the brick tax to the agriculturists, who
did not thank him, one might have expected this
year that he would have looked largely around him,
dealt out the surplus,and arranged II scheme of finance
in sonic way becoming his position and the progress of
the age. Ile had been driven close last year in a divi-
sion on the window duties., anal these he especially de-
clared his intention to deal with. Well; thervini,:aunof
such a tux Ismail have heen a boon to the industrious
classes. And all men consoled themselves, that if
no new impulse was to le given to trade, still that
the civic elw.st4 would be rid of a barbarous and
heavy tax.

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Orintly will they be mistaken. The good CHAN-
CEIIOI: is not the man to do anything largely,
frankly, or wholly. lie is a genuine pedlar, whi:
will give the temple an inch. but never an ell; who
will Niggle with them for a fraction; and who could
never bring his mind to let one hand part with a
w about a prospect of fib hing back nine-
, penis. with the other. Such is his measure about
the window tax. Repeal it, indeed'. Bless the
murk! The man had not the heart to do
any thing so frunk. And so the window duty is to
he abolished for all new houses, but they are to pay
a 5 per cent. tax on the rent. The owners of
existing houses are to be gratified by a remission
of one-third of their present window tax. But shops
or Louses worth more than 20/. must pay tad. in the
pound: und so must farmers who live in houses above
lino value. So that in lieu of the window tax, which

tumid not be augmented from its unpipularity,
Jolts Brit. has got a house tax, without a grievance
to plead mrainst it —five per cent. on the rent to
comm. me with, and ready for the first augmenta-
tion that is to come. The home tax, it is plain
enough, will not be paid by the owners of house
property, although the en INCELLOR argued
upon the few claims such property had
to exemption. The house tax, like rent it-
s. If. will be paid, nine-tenths of it. by the
industrious. the trading, the professional classes. It
sill be punt out of income, not property; and is, in
but an immense augmentation of one or two
schedules of the property and income tax, and those
ulrendy the most unjustly overburdened.
After having combined as much blunder. pettiness,
and injustice as was possible in the chief measure
of his budge t, shat could be expected from the
smaller items ? Sonic of them are just enough, as
farce, they go. and as the make-weights
)osc of a good
and large scheme, might have We last week
recommended the reduction of the timber duty
in justice to the shiplmilders, and of the
entree duties. if reel coffee were any longer to
he tasted. These are unexceptionable. But what
shall we ray to the marvellous generosity
of taking 130.000/. of the expenses of pauper
•lutilities and flinging it upon the consolidated fund ?
This relief of the locality Sir CHARLES Woon would
not give to towns, but merely to country districts;
and these heprobably would ridof all the expense but
for the cherished necessity of retaining for the county
justices that control over the expenditure, whether
*d by the consolidated fund or not, which the
CHANCELLOR thought imlispensuble to the being of
the state. In truth, Sir Cu inbt:s Coon, in these
indeedarguments. and throughout the whole speech,
rented labouring to prove his fitness to serve am
Chancellor of the Exchequer in a STANLEY and
lth.ttvt.t ministry. 'The squirearchy itself could
show nothing more orthodox or more cruse than Sir
Wis#l).
After such a budget as this, propounded at such a
time, we may consider the days of the Whig ministry
to Is. numbeied. Lord JohN Ilessui is a spirted
leader. well able to face about, and when foes close
annind him, show undaunted courage, with the
nsources of a free and liberal politician. But what
seen he do with such a colleague as this ?
lips inn he face the clamorous crowd of angry re-
liffioni.ts with a bill that does not satisfy them,
yet
disgusts the politician? How does ho meet the
accustomed to and expectant of that address
and wen grandeur in dealing with financial diffi-
culties that reconciled men to burdens, and replaced
discontent with confidence ? Sir CHARLES MOOD
lnidget will this dim be welcomed throughout Eng-
land by a shout of derision. It is not that on amend-
ment might be carried against it, but any amend-
ment : and the best would be a vote repudiating the
Whole thing on the simple ground of the incapacity
of its proposer.

Wrt.t., the rising in South Notts is no longer
rebellion, it is victory and conquest.
The tenant Harmers and the 'manlier freeholders
have, as we had from the first anticipated, fairly and
effectually beaten, pat to rout, dispersed the dukes
Md persons. the lards and attornim the scrims, and
of that once beridden dukcry. they have
'allotted their man to parliament : not, to be sure,
by a large majority; but by one which, like .Vcr-

rotas wound, is enough—'twill do ; which will
pmve an example to be bettered elsewhere. Nor is
Mr. BARROW, their choice, the man we liberals
would have selected. But between his and Lord
Ni:wAnk's return there was all the difference that

exists between a sham and a reality—between inde-
pendence and electoral slavery. His election is
therefore a great fact.
Three things South Notts has established: 1.
That the tenant farmers do not believe their in-
terests to be identical with the views entertained by
their landlords ; 2. That the point 0:1 which they
differ is public expenditure; 3. That county repre-
sentation is in the tenant farmers own hands if they
choose to be independent. To them may be added
that success requires more courage than money on
their part.
These, we any, are great things to establish.
Hitherto the governing class has monopolised county
representation. Now the governed are resolved to
possess it. And for what purpose? To mitigate
that pressure of taxation which the govern-
ing class imposed on the country, and which they
now maintain, because in its expenditure they and
their sons and their daughters--yea their man ser-
vants and their maid servants, their very oxen and
asses--are interested. Politically there was not a
straw's difference between Lord NEWARK'S and Mr.
Ilsuitow's opinions. except on this point of public bur-
thens; intellectuallv,marally,and nocially,therewas,of
mune, the greatest. difference, Mr. Bsiutow having
incontestably the superiority; but politically, therein
lay the point. Lord NEWARK was for robbing any-
bOdy and everybody, to benefit landowners and keep
up rents Mr. Itvithow was for lowering the esta-
blishments of the country to its financial condition,
that all might fairly meet low prices; and the tenant
farmers, notwithstanding all the threats, the coercion,
and the intimidation of their landlords, have pro-
nounced for reduced burthens in returning Mr.
Ilsicnow. Therefore does this South Notts election
afford a resting-place whereon the wearied politician
can reinvigorate himself—a point of departure for
great events and mighty changes.
The county members now in the House of Com-
, mons are the retainers of landlordism; on Mr.
BisRAELI'S motion they spoke and voted for getting
rid of their burthens be shifting them on to other
people's shoulders. Mr. BARROW is the tenant
krmem choice ; and he talks of reducing every one's
burthens. They would rob their neighbours—he
would be just to all.
Mr. BARROW, may, however, fall into the protec-
tionist rank and file in the house of Commons. Very
likely he will not be able to resist the allurements of
party, and will sink into its trickery. Better things
are to be hoped of him. But, be it so ; that he does
this. The lesson his election teaches will not, there-
fore, be lost : fur the cause of his lapse will be appa-
rent enough. Ile is, after all, a squire, full of the
great fallacy of his elms—protection. Though he
appears to fie in other respects an unusually good
specimen of his order, and has been elected Because
of political superiority to some of their stupid pre-
judices, still he may disappoint expectations. But
in that case the inference will be irresistible, that
protectionist squires are incurably bad politicians.
And the hopes of the tenant-farmers must be trans-'
ferred from any of their landlords to one of them-
eaves,
Mr. BARROW'S sincerity will, however, be at once
put to the test. On Thursday night Sir EDWARD
BUXTON moves to raise and keep up the price of
sugar, on the ground that Brazil and Cuba still carry
on the dace trade ; though the government of Brazil
is notorimuly carrying on an active crusade against
it. and though Cuba has really ceased to deal in
African slaves. Now, if this motion be carried, the

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farmers of South Nolte will either immediately or
very soon have to pay an increased price for tiwir
sugar. They have returned Mr. Iltnnow to keep
down public taxation. Here is an attempt to keep
it up in the worst of all forms. What will Mr.ll.tu-
now do ?—how will he vote? Let his constituents

look to it.
South Notts may not in securing its independence
base made a first-rate selection; but great is the ,
gain of independence. In it there is hope, and pro-
gress, and improvement. Not merelypoliticallv, but
tonally. The farmer who votes as he himself thinks
is in a much better position to negotiate with a land-
lord than the farmer who allows his vote to follow
his farm ; and whose bad cultivation has hitherto been ,
tolerated because of his bad vote. The time is past
when landlords can afford to trifle with rents by
haggling about votes. That was all very well when
protection ensured, or was supposed to ensure, high
rents. But now, when rents arc falling; when
nothing but really good farming will secure mode-
rate rents; when intelligence and skill and capital
in tenants are conditions precedent to fair rents,
landlords won't allow their political passions to over-
come their pecuniary selfishness. They will take a
good tenant without his vote, rather titan a bad one
with it. Oh ! there is a great change coming.
And of it there are, as we foresaw, other symp-
toms in Bedfordshire. Colonel GILPIN, the protec-
tionist candidate, is not to be allowed to walk over
the ground, as if one-half that county belonged to
the tories and the other half to the i)uke of BEDFORD
and Mr. WHITBREAD, good men and excellent poli-
ticians as they are; and the colonel can very ill
afford to enter into an expensive contested election.
Encouraged by the example of South Notts, the
small freeholders of Bedfordshire have brought a free
trade tenant farmer to the rescue of their county
front dictating landlordism. and a better choice than
Mr. Ilorottrox they could not have made. Natu-
rally enough, the tenant farmers, with their present
prejudiees, shrink at first from a free trader; hut
courage, Mr. HOUGHTON—courage! Only get them
to listen to a few home truths about their land-
lords, about taxation, about the pernicious effects
of the law of distress, and about the delusion
party practises on them; and gradually thcir pre-
judices will yield, their hearts will warm to one of
their own duss,until ut last out will come the hearty
assent, Dang it, it be truth, after all!" and then
the battle is won. They must be talked to, addressed,
and reasoned with, and this Mr. HortairroN is just
the man to do.
What if Mr. Hot GHTON do come from another
county? The sea does not divide Bucks from Beds.
The line of demarcation between them is an
imaginal. one. So is the objection on that score
to Mr. HouGarox. But, failing to get or find a
proper man in the county, what so natural or so
fitting as to step into the next county after one?
The qualifications are in the man, not in his resi-
dence ; in his head. not in his purse; in his courage
and capacity, not in his calling. If Mr. Hort:mos
be qualified to represent the tenant farmers. the
small freeholders, and the little manufacturers of

Bedfordshire. what matter, where he comes from ?
It may be a pity they have not such a man at home,
but that want only increases his value.
The tenant fanners of Bedfordshire had better
follow the example set them by the tenant farmers
of South Notts. It is in their power to give an im-
petus to agricultural opinion and popular strength,
such as even the Reform Bill did not give. They
have now an opportunity of achieving independence
for themselves, as South.Notts has done, andof giving
to their independence a right direction, which South
Notts has not done. If they rise to the situation in
which they are placed, the beginning of the end will
have commenced in the little county of Beds. 'We
need not fear for Rutland after that.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT,—As the seven p.m.
train from Rugby wit on it. way to Leicester, on Sunday
last, one of the tubes of the engine burst. William Wilkin-
son, the driver, having been before severely scalded from
a similar accident, became alarmed, and made hi. escape
from the font-plate over the coke to the hack of the tender.
when he fi U between that and the adjoining carriage ; but,
holding on, he was dragged sixty yards before he loosed his
crop, when the back of hi. head was beaten in, and one of
hi. hands cut off. Joseph Crowdy, the fireman, missing the
deceased, after the first gush of steam from the tube had
evaporated. shutoff the steam. reversed the engine, signalled
the guard to apply the break, and brought the engine to a
stand-still, after proceeding about one mile and • quarter.
lie teen sent the under-guard to rUeetorpe, from whence
a telegraphic message was. sent to Leicester, for the purpose
of obtaining another engine, the train and disabled engine
remaining on the line till its arrival. The deceased was one
of the Oldest most careful, and steadiest drivers in the
, employ of the company. He has left a widow and six AB-
' den, but had insured his life for 3001. in the Railway
Insurance Company's office. An inquest was held ye:ter-
day (Monday) morning, at the Bull's Head Inn, Leicester,
before Mr. Gregory, on view of the body, when the jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
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RITENSME ROBBERY IN GLV,CoW.—The Glasgow
Daily Mail states that nearly the whole of the large sum of
money (7000, stolen from a mntlon.ui in Glasgow on
Monday lad, has been recovered through the ezertioas of
the local police.