The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1853.

hon. patients* has put. (Heat, hear.) I leave him to
give notice of any motion on the subject he may think
props.; and I shall be ready, at any moment, to defend the
Okras I have taken. (Hear; bear.)
INCOME TAX BILL.
The home than went ins* committee on this bill, had
tie consideration of clause IS was resumed.
The clauses up to clause 31 *are speed to.
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..Da clause 31
- Mr. bPOONER moved—" Provided, neverthelees, that
waking in this act shall be construed to compel any occu-
pier, being a tenant for the time being, to pay the arrears
if into.* tau due by any former tenant or occupier of the
SIMI lauds, tenements, or heseditameats, or to deduct sad
retain from his Landlord wet (Irony subsequent payment of
nit Gush re, unless the landlord shall have received
his rent for the period for which the arrear is due."
Alter a conversation the committee divided—
For the proviso 63
Against
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LONDON, TUESDAY; 141' 31.

Clausi32 was agreed to.
Mr. LOCKHART moved an addition to clause 33, pro-
viding that a deduction shall be made for the amount of
parochial rates, LIMP, or assessments in Scotland, which
by statute or custom are payable by the landlord.
That CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid the
hos. gentleman bad directed their attention no doubt to an
inequality, but the question molt be treated in reference
to its general bearings, and it would be found that this in-
equality was one of a multitude which to • great degree
balanced one another.

Mn. GLADSTONE'e carriage stops the way. The
Budget prevents everything else from "passing." Mr.
WooDiN's monster carpet- —the car inviting the
public to view the " two lands of gold"— the hands
of hirsute foreitrners which block up our thorough-
fares with their instruments and their admirers—the
acrobats in the carriage road and their audience in
the footpaths—are less obstructive to material than
Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget to political motion. The
honourable gentleman knows it himself. He is fully
aware of the utter paralysis of business, because this
fatal Budget is prevented from "moving on." He is
evidently tired of the inactivity. His comrades and
his opponents are equally bored. They are to be seen
at the Derby, at Botanical Fetes, at launches of Hima-
layas, at the Opera—in fact, everywhere but at the
Houses of Parliament. Even the Opera House has
been turned into a senatorial lobby. The enter-
prising manager of that arietocratio place of amuse-
ment, with &knowing desire to save his clients the
trouble of attending the " Lords" and the " Commons,"
when there is " absolutely nothing going on," has
compassionately laid on • set of electric wires
from the two Houses to the Opera, that progress
may be continually reported and members sent
for, and put au courant of what is being done
in St. Stephen's. They may learn, without the
trouble of listening, the nature of the movements of
their respective Houses, while their souls will be
"lapped in Elysian slumbers" under the influence
of the perfect harmonies of Prima Donnas and Mr.
COSTA'S band.

Aftar some conversation,
The committee divided—
For the amendment 42
Against it

- 69
This remainder of the clauses wen armed to, after more
or lees discussion. With the view, however, of allowing
certain new clauses relating to the mode of assessing the
tax in Ireland to be separately considered, it was arranged
that the bill should be recommitted on Thunday.
CUSTOMS, &c., ACTS BILL.

The house then went haat:o6'We. on this bill.
The CHAIRMLN having read Deer a list of articles on
which the duty was to be repealed, until he came to
" cables,"
Mr. MITCHELL said hi wished to make a few remarks
with regard to that article.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
had pledged himself not to take any discussion afar mid-
night. (As this time it wanted abut 10 minutes to 12.)
The article was then passed by.
When the Chairman same to "copper ore."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had
hoped that this was sn innocent article, as it oonduced to
the employmeat of British labour. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. T. BARING did not wish then to ffer any obstruc-
tions to the business of the house, but he must protest
against duties being taken off simply because they were not
oppressive. (Hear, hear.) He thought they should re-
move only duties which premed heavily on the consumer
or the manufacturer, or the removal of which would rodeos

It is really impossible to find fault with the uni-
versal desire to get rid of a discussion which goes
on in a circle without ever coming to a point
of rest. There are the Ministry waiting under
the tents, like the knights in " Ivanhoe," for a
challenger. Suddenly the horn is sounded, an
unfortunate wight presents himself; he is unhorsed
in a twinkle, bites the dont, and retires in disgrace.
The challengers walk back at their sue, and the
tournament languishes. Take, as an instance, Mr.
BARROW'S proviso of last night, to enable persons to
be entitled to deduct from certain incomes any source
of annual interest paid for money, whereby the in-
come shall be any way diminished. The honourable
gentleman thought himself secure on a cheval de &s-
-teals that would carry him through all dan-
gers. To his dismay he is told that the
occupiers of farms were entitled to deductions for
interest on money borrowed, in the same manner as
traders under Schedule D. Upon this Mr. BARROW,
although discouraged by this home thrust, returns
bravely to the charge with a singing in his head,
and coolly proposes that the words of his amendment
should be inserted, because he knew of an inspector
who had interpreted the Act wrongly. Whereupon
Mr. GLADSTONE administers a courteous coup de
grace, with great calmness, declaring that he could
not introduce an amendment into an Act of
Parliament merely to correct the error of
a subordinate officer of the Government. An
attempt being made to prolong the tilting, Mr.GIAO-
- puts the whole down by declaring that it was
not a " profitable discussion. The truth of this
assertion seemed to strike members so forcibly, that
the conversation dropped. Mr. Lucia then comes
in with a question concerning exemptions from duties
on deductions from the incomes of Roman Catholic
priests. To this Mr. GLADSTONE replied very
suavely that Mr. Lreas knew nothing at all about
the' matter—that he hid mixed up things
essentially distinct. Not content, however,
with this, he administers a very bitter dose
of sompassion to Mr. LUCAS, at which the latter
gentleman evidently winced. As the incomes of
Roman Catholic clergymen must have suffered con-
siderable deductions lately—by conversions and emi-
greion, we suppose—he, the CHANCELLOR, would
be glad if it was compatible with public policy to
have them exempted from the income tax. Mr.
Lucks, as sensible as M. VEutturr, the edi•or of the
Univers, to any reflection on the decline of
his Church, did not want any special exemp-
tion for the Roman Catholic clergi—not he.
As 10 evidently considered Mr. GLADSTONE'S
charitable proposition in the light of one of the
" tender mercies of the wicked," nothing more
could be done. The conversation dropped, and so
clause 30 passed. Mr. SPOONER then brings for-
' ward a tiny motion to relieve landlords from the
necessity of the payment of arrears left due by
their tenants. Mr. GLADSTONE plays with the
motion a little while, and then knocks it out of the
field. Mr. SPOONER divides, and is left in a
heroic minority of 76. And so the House gees on
talking and dividing, without any appearance of
earnestness,—every one knowing that the Ministers
and the Majority have determined that the Income
Tax Bill shall pass, and both being at the same
time certain that there is no power in the House to
prevent it.
In the meantime, the great wants of the country
are left unsatisfied. Each day puts a further barrier
between our wishes and their accomplishment. In
proportion as useless discussions on the interminable
Income Tax are prolonged, the early prospect of effect-
ing other great improvements becomes more dim. If
the Ministry are really wishing to gain time,
and throw over the settlement of the three
or four great questions of the day to an-
other session or sessions, their opponents are
just playing into their hands. It will soon become
utterly impossible to achieve at the end of the ses-
sion any of the grand reforms which we looked
forward to. Education, Electoral Purification, India,
will soon be subjects to be shelved, from the mere
impossibility of entering on the discussion of them so
late. And all this because Mr. GLADSTONE is sus-
taining a blockade;—which is probably the very
thing that he wants, and for which he evidently
does not cue one jot. There are faults—heavy
faults—in the Income Tax, which we ourselves
have drawn attention to and should wish to see
amended. If, however, present amendment is im-
possible—if there is no party sufficiently powerful to
bring about any change, feeble opposition become
mischievous, by helping to put off reforms on which
a stand might be made. Liberals must not play the
game of the Tories on 'one hand, nor on the other
should they permit Ministers to hold office under no
conditions but those of administering homeopathic
doses of reform,—so small as to put off the cure of the
diseased state to a political eternity. It is to be
hoped, therefore, that the Liberals at least will see
the necessity of coming to some decision, and hasten-
ing the settlement of the present question, for the
sole purpose of getting on to the next. Let them
endeavour, if nothing else can be done, to clear the
road, and not allow public business to be obstructed
any longer, merely becanee—with or without his
will—Mr. GLADSTONE'S carriage "stops the way."

the expense of mlleeion to a large extent. -
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that,
as to the duty on agates and Cornelius, which the hon.
gentleman opposite called " miserable," he did not much
differ from him; he was only surprised at the conclusion to
which the hon. gentleman had come—namely, that because
they were " miserable " they ought not to be got rid of.
(Hear.) He (Mr. Gladstone) qnite accepted the hon. gen-
tleman's criteria of what constituted a cause for repealing a
duty ; and though he would not pretend to say that by the
abolition of the duties on agates and cornelians a very great
relief had been given to trade, yet, stiU the result of the
removal of these small imoosts had been to give, to some
extent, an actual freedom to trade. (Hear.) As far as
authority went, he might refer to that of Mr. Pitt, who was
in favour of levying a large amount of duty upon a few
articles, and of leaving the whole range of eommerce out-
side of it. (Hear.)
Several articles were then postponed. Several were
agreed to, and a few others postponed which were objected
to by Lord J. MAW/Una and Mr. VANSITTART.
On the article of tea,
Mr. DISRAELI complained that there had been no de. I
tailed Ministerial statement, in reference to this subject, on
the state of China, and be objected to proceed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER supposed
that upon this subject the minds of the committee bad been
unanimously made up. He believed that the commercial
world would rather have a settlement of the question than
a speech from the minister, especially as he had already
generally stated the views of the government on the subject.
After some further observations from Mr. DISRAELI,
Lard J. RUSSELL said that all requisite information
had been given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In
regard to Chins, any Misenmeat most be merely speculative.
Mr. DISRAELI seiteenha his complaint, and declared
that this was not the unizzasepertanity on which govern-
ment had sought to MI6
Lord A. VANE owed that Nieves' be reported.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
the government were bland by their own words not to
oppose such a motion, tough they regretted it.
hlr. DISRAELI then laarl• • fourth speech, sad shortly
afterwards

The T.. 0111600 war agreed to, and the house resumed. 1
The third reading of Mr. Fitaroy's Hackney Carriages
Bill was moved.
Lord D. STUART opposed the proceeding at such an
hoer—half-past one.
Lord PALMERSTON deprecated the postponement of
the

After considerable waste of time in discussing whether
the Bill should be proceeded with, it was read a third time,
the foal stage being postponed until this day.
The home then resumed.
HACKNEY CARRIAGES BILL

.......
Oa the motion that this bill be read a third time,
Lord D. STUART objected to its being brought on at
that hoar (half-put 1), and mowed that it be read a third
time this 457.
♦ disenision followed, in the amnia which
Mr. FITZROY resisted the motion for postponement,

moved the adjournment of the

Mr. FITZROY would consent to the postponement, if
it was the with of the house. (On on. Divide.) If the
bill were read a third time now, be would postpone the
amendments till that (this) evening.
The bill was then read a third time, on that under-
standing.
_ _ THE CASE OF LIEUT. ENOLEDUS.

On the motion of Sir G. B. Paestum., it was agreed,
"That it be an inetruction to the oonamittee on the dock-
yard appointments to consider the return refereed to
them op the 30th April last, and the circumstances oen-
neeted therewith, and to report their opinion thereupon."
The house adjourned at two o'clock.

Dorf of gorope,ot
mated nuvels, fancy it .: sign
of bravery in the soldier to sleep on a Leath with I°
martial cloak around him," sod consider it 10010
warlike to see long lines of horses picketed in the opea
sir. Common sense reaseners remember however
that to " belong to the army" does not render either
man or beast waterproof. The first duty of a
General is to protect the health of his troops, that he
may have their services when required. If necessary
the soldier sleeps en bivouac, but he wisely gets shelter
When he can. It is in this point that the French
on service outdo every other nation. Their kettle is
set boiling and their hut is run up whilst our men
are thinking of what is to be done. The erection of
sheds at Chobham for the protection of the horses
appears to have excited the risible muscles of the
Time., but (to say nothing of humane feeling) as
each horse costs the country some sixty pounds, there
is no need for laughter at those who seek to take
every care of those useful and costly animals.
It multi not be supposed, because our camp at
Chobham is to consist of ouly ten thousand men
whilst on the Continent they reckon theirs by ten
times ten thousand men, that our soldiers will not
have as good a chance of obtaining &practical insight
of their profession as the foreigner obtains in
his larger encampment. A divisional command
of ten thousand men is a very sufficient one.
It is as much as a general officer can conveniently
manage, and many a time, even in action, one divi-
sion knows nothing of the manoeuvres of the next
one to it. For, though they each carry out the
directions of the Commander-in-Chief, and though
their manoeuvres may each tend towards the
same point, yet they act totally irrespec-
tive of one another as far as they are
individually concerned. Indeed, it may be said
that, by successively assembling one corps after
another at Chobham, each will be far better exer-
cised than it could have been had they all been
assembled in a body. There is, however, a subject of
great importance which requires to be noticed with
respect to this encampment. In every civilised
country, except England, the operations of an army
in the field are taught theoretically at the military
schools, and therefore, when an officer goes to a
camp, he has a very fair idea of what is going to
take place. In fact he merely puts into practice
what he has been previously made acquainted with
io theory. But with us, the only portion of military
study given to our cadets consists of the manual and
platoon. We educate him to be either a private of the
line or a gunner. The consequence is that he joins
his regiment totally unacquainted with his lull duty
as as officer. If he happens to fall into a regiment
in India, or if he at any time comes under the com-
mand of Lord FREDERICK FITZCLARENCE, he may
learn all about out-post duty, but ninety-nine out of
a hundred subalterns spend their time in the service
without seeing anything more of soldiering than
mounting a garrison guard, or assembling to march
past on a field day. Our staff are still more ineffi-
cient. Selected for family influence, they are, with
few exceptions, entirely ignorant of what they
should know. If they are dexterous at all it is com-
monly in carving and waltzing,—neither of which ac-
complishments are of much value in the field.
The selections of positions for encampments, the
drawing up of reconnoissances, &c., are so many
bugbears to men of this class. Even general
officers in England commanding districts are not
fond of manoeuvring troops together. We may
therefore expect to see a great many blunders com-
mitted, and to witness very great trials of patience
on the part of an able soldier like Lord SEATON. On
the other hand, as men must have some hobby or
another, and as that of our military officers does not
usually coaaist in studying either the great or the
minor operations of warfare, we may expect to find
very remarkable perfection in minutios—far more
perhaps than would satisfy an Emperor of RUSzsIA.
Men with well pipe-clayed belts and highly-
polished boots will be abundant; horses gaily capa-
risoned with pretty looking fly-flappers dangling un-
derneath their throats, and groomed more like
thorough-bred racers than troopers ; officers weighed
down with gold of every description and pattern ;
the whole mass looking magnificent in line, of a
bright afternoon in June, when the bands will play
" God Save the Queen," and troops present arms to
some foreigner of distinction. But shall we see, as
we have seen, regiments clubbed together by generals
commanding brigades ; artillery ordered to fire into
the squares they are intended to support ;or Lancers
sent out skirmishing to slaughter their own wounded
men ? Let us hope not. Let us trust that this
Chobham Camp will be the first step towards a
decided practical improvement in our army. British
sinew and " pluck " do not require to be concealed
under gold and feathers ; but they do require a fair
share of instruction. Give them fair discipline
mid drill, and they will make what they have
made before, the best soldiers in the world.
When Lord ANGLESEY commanded the Seventh
Hussars, his maxim was rough and ready. He
cared little for the encomiums of dandies, about the
high state of polish required in the steel work, or in
the fanciful grooming of horses. But he was
anxious to me what amount of work a regiment
would do on service. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, the
present Inspector-General of Cavalry, is a good dis-
ciple of this practical school, and the discipline of his
old regiment, the Seventeenth Lincers, may lead us
to hope that the rest of the Cavalry will be brought
to imitate it.
It is on practical points that the public will judge
the camp at Chobham. The tents, the red and blue
coats, the bands, will be for awhile a popular novelty
—a military nine-days' wonder. But the manner
is which the men go through their movements, the
ability of their generals, the aptitude of the dress for
service—these are what the public will look to and
pronounce judgment upon. They will see at Chob-
ham whether the household troops are so much more
efficient than the cavalry of the line; whether the
Horse Artillery is so much more useful than the
field batteries to justify the extra expense of keeping
them up ; whether young officers have any notions
about strengthening their outposts, or whether their
seniors can teach them if deficient ; whether 'the
Sappers and Artillery can throw bridges with
rapidity over rivers and marshes; whether
in night alarms the men fall-in with ra-
pidity and steadiness, and their command-
ing officers carry out their instructions without
fuss or flurry. It must be remembered that this
encampment is looked forward to with no little inte-
rest on the Continent. It is a long time since
foreigners have been able to see anything of an
English army actually in the field, and, though an
occasional traveller in the East has given a good
account of our prowess, yet many a skilful eye will be
present at Chobham to detect any deficiency which
may present itself. Officers there in command should
remember they will be not only responsible for the
honour of their regiments but for that of the whole
service ' • and since the Horse Guards have not yet
considered it necessary that junior officers should pass
examinations in what the French call "la petite
guerre "—on which our neighbours have so many
excellent treatises—it would be as well were officers
to instruct themselves of their own accord, so that
when they arrive on Chobham Heath, they may
not be out of their clement for lack of theoretical
information. The art of war has now reached a
point at which it is not only necessary to possess an
able General, but intelligent men to carry out his
orders. In no nation is such knowledge so requisite
as in ours, for owing to the manner in which our army
is distributed, regimental officers are often called
upon to exercise commands which en the Continent
would fall to the lot of General officers, and unfor-
tunately our late wars have demonstrated the ue-
pleasant fact that a Lieutenant EDWARDS or a Lieu-
tenant LAKE is seldom to be found, whilst many a
subaltern is satisfied with the amount of military tame
possessed by a Gonwie. Since we are to have a
camp and military operations, let the whole affair be
as perfect as possible—a camp creditable and
valuable to the country, and by its efficiency and
good conduct calculated to reflect honour upon every
man included within it.

IT is now fifty years Lime England witnessed nay
considerable body of troops assembled together at
home to go through the field operations of an army
on service as we are now to see at Chobham. During the
last half century, however, the improvements which
have taken place in the equipment and discipline
of our troops have been so various and of such im-
portance, that the public may well look forward
with real interest to the display on the present
occasion. We are anxious to judge for ourselves
how far our British soldiers, of the school of Moon
and WELLINGTON, differ from the powdered and - -
ruffled individual, who did us so little credit in ROCKY BAR MINING COMPANY. Yesterday a
Flanders under the Duke of YORK. Our men in special meeting of this company took place at the offices in
the new camp will have many things in their Throgmorton-street ; Mr. Satterthwatte (from New York),
favour. The best manoeuvring officer in the army, in the chair. The business of the meeting consisted in
Lord SEATON, is to command. The most able com- passing resolutionsby which the English shareholders pro-
test against the terms of the proposed lease of the Rocky
Bar Mines to the Ages Fria Company, considering that it
d that important L7,77:17,. Every precaution that does notsuilieiently serve thr ir interests, and require the board
PM be taken to prevent man and beast from suffer- of directors in New York not to confirm the lease as alert-
ing the evils of encampment are to be adopted. Pail- said. Further, that considering the well-ascertained value
Imes are to be allowed to save the .men from the of the property now in pcwat7sion,i3esf the company, theeTlFerr.
damp earth, during the hours of sleep, and huts will Iby y sallea or°le se" toeeinpltrtvewTtliin the (lir eeet jo'rnetlalt ,o
f the
protect the horses from the night air. M.kny who undertaking. Ties' resolutions havirg been agreed to, the
have formed their ideas of withering -from Ausos'e meeting adjourned.

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

Tho bllowing telegraphic message has been re.
Icein:l this morutng :

71.
„ prince It2,nchikoff arrived °thnisESsA' ""
Constantinople. morning lick

" Tarkey, suppocted by L9rd Stratford, rails (d
his animation.
"The rest of the Itustdah Embassy are expelled
within three days."

CONSTANTTIVOPLE, NAT 15.
Reschid Pacha was hardly installeci in the ministry
of foreign affairs, when M. Ozet off, charge-
d'-affaires of Russia, presented himself theic, and had
a conference with him. As soon as M. ozeroff had
departed, Lord Redcliffe arrived and remained long
with thenew minister. In the evening all the minis..
tern assembled in council and delherated long upon
the definitive reply which Prince Nlenchikoff de-
mended without delay. The next day M. de Lacoar
waited upon Reschid Pacha, and Lord Redcliffe on
the Sultan. Both the ambassadors declared their
opinion to be that in questions vital for Turkey
nothing should be conceded, whatever the conse-
quence. Hitherto the Ottoman ministers hare of.
cupied a ground where they must have the sympn.
tines of all Europe on their side. They tell Prince
Menchikoff that they cannot concede what he demands
without violating the treaty of 1810, which guarantees
the independence of Turkey ; that, in violating this
to the profit of Russia, they would draw upon them-
selves the displeasure of the other powers which sub.
scribed that treaty; that their full intention and
that of the Sultan is to do all that is possible, not
solely in favour of the Greek community, but also for
all other Christians; that on this account they can-
not grant the Sened which he asks ; that a firmaa
proclaiming the equality of all the populations, and
of which copies would be given to ell the foreign
ministers at Constantinople, would be a satisfaction
to all Europe ; while the partial treaty demanded by
Prince Menchikoff would displease it, and alienate
the other allies of Turkey.

This morning M. de Lacour went to Reschid
l'acha, and remained in conference with him fur two
hours. Prince Menchikoff hes also been this fore-
noon with the new Grand Vizier, endeavouring to
indoctrinate him, but has not succeeded. At this
moment (4 p.m.) Lord Rodeliffe is closeted with the
Sultan. Throughout Constantinople public opinion is
against the Russians, and the refusal of the Porte is
everywhere approved of. M. Balabine, the first
secretary of the Russian legation, said yesterday that
when Prince Menchikoff should quit Cunstutitioopl_ ,e
having failed iu his mission, he would order the
troops of Russia to advance into the Moldavian and
Wallachian principalities.