The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-22 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. DEC. 22.
WE publish to day • communication from mr.
COBDEN to the President of the Liverpool Ro;
Association, containing that gentleman's v•ews ore*
degree and kind of retrenchment possible and stnii„
sable, as well as of the mode in which the rereth,
thus spared should be remitted to the public.
We may take credit to ourselves for bas
adopted similar views to those of Mr, CZ
Dm. Like him, we have not coned •
point to 1835 as the year of a somewhat torrid
expenditure in time of peace. Yet that year was
no means so ultra-pacific, eo devoid of caresand dy. y
turbances. It was a year of conspiracies and seats
trials in France, and of our own intervention in Spain
There were differences about Luxembourg, squabbles
about Cracow ; and if we were better friends with
France than since 1840, we were on far war sod
more dangerous terms with Russia and the agent
powers. Yet is this year the army, navy, and 0,,d,
nance estimates were but eleven millions and a half,
and the entire expenditure only 44,420,0001., thi
millions less than our present budget.
Persons will very probably_ as why 1835 wilt
year so economical. The answer is, that minimal
and secretaries of state had something else to do thee
to swell the estimates. There was a keen compel.
Lion for place in that year. Sir ROBERT PEEL us
minister at its commencement, and he was driven*
by no great majority. The whiga did not bring in they
budget till late in the session, and then, u It were, one
the fire of a still exasperated enemy. A *ormolu
public might easily be tricked out of a few million;
but the tones were too lately expelled not to shoe*
upon any other than a most economical budget. NJ
then is the secret of the cheap budget of 1835. II
was the year of a deadly quarrel and statd.up fight
between the two aristocratic parties. They raided
up after, at least they came to some kind of an andee
standing, even when they displaced each other. Am
the consequence of the mutual understanding visa
addition of ten millions yearly to the unload ape*
ditare. We may add that committees were append
in that year to examine the estimates, with whet re
suit the world well knows.
Mr. COBDEN would immediately take off the
additional ten millions, and leave government to men
' as good a use and distribution as it could of what es
left. Nor is such mode of voting the expenditure it
lump an invention of Mr. COBDEN'S ; it was the pays
recommendation of one of the oldest of the wig
officials, Sir HENRY PARNELL.
To the ten millions saved by bringing Wide
estimates to the vote of 1835, Mr. COBDEN wedded(
a million and a hall to be gained by the extensimd
probate and legacy duty to real property. AM b 7
means of the economy of eleven and a half million
he would abolish the malt end hop duty, the sinks
tax, half of the duties on Vs, the timber duty, the
advertisement duty, and the minor ones set down is
his letter.
The first reflection raised by the contemplation d
this plan of economy suggested by. Mr. COBDEN ie the
relief that it holds forth to the agricultural populades.
Year after year, and day after day, bare
the "farmers' friends" been fumbling and mesa
btieg remedies and prescriptions for farmed
woes. They have made ahundance of speeches he
the repeal of the malt tax, but never a plan did they
devise whereby the malt tax might be dispensed
with. Their cue has been to divert attention feat
economy, and direct it to the nostrum of prone*
r s if the prosperity or profits of one interest or trade
could be dammed up and filled to overflowing, smelt
a watchful and intelligent community.
The only argument put forward by the protection
lets worthy of being listened to was the weightof the
burdens, the weight that hangs round the acid
every industrious Englishman—the weight of Id
shillings • head, as Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY air
his speech at Bolton; and what would that weight*
if we took away the heads of the destitute, ni
limited it to those who actually can and do pay
it is which weighs down the tweaks&
as well as the mercantile man. AM el
admit that this treasure may be more WM
felt by the agriculturist in these years when thum
kete must come down to continental prices. He In
indeed had time to prepare. But has that thrill
well employed in listening to the mooseinelon
mins and jeremiads of the protectionists, mild*
faith in such Quixotes as the Duke of BMW,
who raves the reinstallation of the can laver,
srlY
French marquis dreams of the restoration at 91
right divine.
sh!taldewraereta
thbeettwerhefeolr,
athade
jacgiculmtrurist.
cot:00:i
fight for retrenchment and retorm, which, like ell
onward things, are sure to be carried, than to *I
with the dukes and earls in their crab sulk ink
wards to a state of things that, after all, was Dar*
perity while it lasted, notwithstanding all itsinjoine:
But the West Riding election offers a very fair Ett
final mode of judging of the chances of protecticel!
corn law ham, in fact, ceased to he a to*, ant
expired in the public mind and hope, even before
has been interred by statute. We may
_see Mori
Charts or the Reform Bill thrown over beton we.
a free trade in wen abrogated.
Let the agriculturists. then, abandon weitat
and what is -hopeless, and seise what is
and just. Let them aid in throwing of hi"!
that needlessly pesos on the whole commanity,,!'
that in the first instance pre and shackle lho,•_
The navy estimates for 1836 were four million'.
1849 they were intended to be nearly eight
The difference is the malt tax. ne
shi PedP?
1811
chow between cheap beer or proud PP
tween men-of-war and home-brewed; between MO
Duke of RICHMOND and Mr. COBDEN.

THE expiring swan at Washington has sag 161
last note—in other words, Mr. President Pal be
delivered himself of his last annual missive to**.
poss. In this long and elaborate state paper, eel
is, of course, much which is of purely doss.
relevancy, and in which we, en this side of tie
At!antic, feel but little interest. There are _te
points, however, to which it refers at
able length, to which we cannot feel indifferent-.
the termination of the Mexican war, and the MO
of the tariff bill of 1846. We are interested is IS
former, because, from the very first, we fearid he
the path of the republic, which we desire to see*,
smooth and unobstructed, would be emus.'
with difficulties by the conflict into which the es t
try, no matter what pains Mr. POLK may
ustify his conduct, was unnecessarily prteir
withp Mexico—and in the latter, because the
coin. 00111 r.
cial olicy embod ed in the act was but the
part- of that, on which we ourselves had bet WA
embarked.
Mr. Pouf sincerely. congratulates the count:lo
himself on the conclusion of the war. Andesl°
may: for had the Mexicans been true to theest
however inadequate their military rescues
enable them to cope with the Anglo-Ausericau
; lie, their powers of endurance as a nation Et:
have so protracted the contest as ande"
roughly 'tamed the United States of it, beet
' Mr.POLK and the system which he personateeint""
highest disrepute, instead of blowing, u he nos don
so long and fond a fluurieh upon his own trumpet!
, fore descending from the presidential chair. A, it_r,l.4
• we mach fear that the issues Atha Mexican we"'
have an unfavourable effect upon the American Re
ple. They have got too easily out of the diffirall
The contest lasted nit two years; and the pubce hih
with which it has saddled them is utterly iet.
niflcant compared with the magnificent ter