The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

PRIVATE BIJtiIN E&4.

SECOND READlNGS.—Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Compute;
Birkenhead Dock Company; Croesford Bridge and Manchester Road ;
Dublin anti Mullingar Turnpike Road • Herculaneum Dock; Hudders-
field Improvement; Liverpool Desk (erection of warehouses and
construetion of new works) : Patent Galvanised Iron Company (in-
swporation of company with powers to bold lands, to raise money
by loan, and to purchase letters patent) ; Patent Galcaniard Iron
Company trading wrier the style or Item of 4. Matins and Itavribison";
Ricer Dun Navigation (extension to Sheillekl); Southampton Gas
Light and Coke Company; Tadeaater and Halton Dial Turnpike-mad
(diversion, &e.. of the road in the pariah of Tademter ; Walsall Ina-
'movement and Cemetery; West of England and butith Wales Land
Draining Company Inceporation;
PUBLIC BUtIINEfWi.

BRCOND READING:;.--i'aarengeTa;i'lli3VC Health, bills.
NOTICFS OF MOTlON.—linos TAX.—Mr. Mo.'s., on Mon-
day next, on motion for going into CUMllittee of supply, to move that
on assenting to the re-imposition of the income tax it is theduty of the
home to render it more fair and equid in its operation, and especially
te remove the very obriouwinjustire of imposing the name rate of duty
on incomm derivable from pensonal exertion and en income derive.
tile from realised property—Mr. Belo or, on name occasion, to move
that it I. expedient to •olmnute fur the prriient proposition of the go.
vernment for raising an increased recerue extension of the probate
and legery duties to real property.—Sir B. Hatt., on same occasion,
io move that the Income tax, if imposed, be extended also to Ireland.
Now HOUPES Or PAIIITIAIMNT.—Mr. OrnoitYx, on the occasion of
Sir R. Inoue's motion for a committee respecting, to move t►at &com-
mittee be appointed to superintend the expenditure of sums voted by
parliament toe their completement, with a view to their judicious
application, and to effect the construction of the houses with the
greatest possible expedition.
&transits AT Casroci.—Dr. %want°, on Thursday nett, to ask u
Question of the government relative to the murder of six persona at
(Union.

On the motion of Mr. FULLER, leave of absence until
the end of February was granted to Mr. Frewen, on the
ground of illness.
COVE OF CORK.

Mr. FAOAN asied;llWhe;iiwas the intention of
her Majesty's government to complete this year the docks at
the Cove of Cork /
Mr. F. MAULE said that the greater part of the works at
the docks last year was done by labour paid out of the relief
fund, so that a balance of more than 5,000/. of the sum
granted for the purpose remained in head, which would be
applied to the completion of the works.
NAVAL AND MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
SECRET COMMITTEE.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that,
in rising to move that the hems do resolve itself into a com-
mittee of supply, he wished to state what the course was
which her Majisty's government thought it most advisable
is pursue with respect to the naval and military estimates
which had been la:d on the table of the house. He had
found on the paper a notice of his hon. friend the member
for Montrose to move that the committee of supply be post-
poned until the house had decided upon the proposal made by
his noble friendtbe First Lord of the Treasury on Friday night.
It was impossible for him to secede, on the part of the govern-
ment, to the proposition of the hon. member, for it would
reverse the constitutional mole of proceeding, by bringing
forward the ways and means before the supply was voted,
the effect of which would be that, if be 'toe Chancellor
of the Exchequer were to propose to go into the com-
mittee of ways and means before the committee of supply
had determined upon the amount to be granted, he should be
at ones stopped by being told that he must show the amount
required before the way of meeting the vote was provided.
The mode of proceeding which hepotnted out was that justi-
fied by reason and common sense, for it was necessary hurt
for the house to decide what sums were to be paid before it
proceeded to provide the manner in which they were to be
raised. It would be monstrous to suppose that the esta-
blishments of the country depended on the state of the
revenue. The practice was (or the house to ascertain what
money bad been granted to meet the expenditure, and then,
when that was done —then, and not till then, could the house
be called upon to decide upon the ways and means of raising
the sum required in the least objectionable manner. For
these reasons he could not accede to the motion of his hon.
friend. On Monday next it would be his duty to state the
reason which had induced the government to propose the
imposition of the tax which his noble friend had proposed
to the house, and he should abstain from saying anything on
the subject until then. He could only at present say that the
committee of supply must precede in its nomination that of
the .committee of ways and means. The estimates only
exhibited a slight increase on those of former years, and her
Majesty's government were surprised to find that it should
have been thought in that house, as well as very generally
out of doors, that the increased taxation proposed by his
noble friend was the result of increased expenditure, and
also that her Majesty's government entertained vast schemes
of war. He hoped a calmer review and a coo'er considera-
tion of the figures recapitulated by his noble friend would
produce the effect that such an impression was entirely a
mistaken one. It was obvious that the figures quoted by bis
noble friend showed a deficiency of two millions and a half,
which must be provided for. That fact, therefore, formed
the guide in respect to framing the estimates of the year.
But there was another fact to he noticed with respect to the
present expenditure—namely, that much of the increase in
the estimates had been occasioned by certain outlays which