The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1851.

IMPEItIAL PAItLIAMEN'I' the 5,:e37 inmates, being about
..the same rate of mor-
tality as at the present time. He went on to say
—•- " mauy of the paupers do not seek admission into the work-
HOUSE OF LARDS.—FRIDAT, Arrat 4. house till they are exhausted by disease," mid be said fur-
The Lento CIIMICRLLON took his mat at five (o'clock. they that the only hospital institutiou in the union was in
The Earl of ALCR>•aate took the oaths and his seat, and that workhouse, With regard to diet, with the exception of
subscribed the parliamentary roll. milk, he could out find that there had been any diminution
MILLS AND FACTORIES (IRELAND) BILL. whatever.
On the motion of the Marquis of CLANUIC tithe, this bill Mr. REYNOLDS, who rose amid some noisy expressions
was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. of impatience,charged the workhouse authorities with being
PATENT LAWS. avro....wies to murder. For every one that died, somebody
Lord 8i10b.3111111 having pee.eated a petition numerously was accountable before God, and he wished he was 50
snot respectably signed, praying teat his bill on the subject with men. (Cheers.) It was really quite melancholy
of the patent laws which had Meet laid on the tulle about that each a Bung as this Kilrush Uniom should be allowed
ten tlays ago should he referred to a select coolutnittee, to exist in any country calling itself civilised or Christian.
Earl tilt.aN VILLE said the debt,' in bringing forward (Hear.)
the government measure On this subject had arisen Irons Sir 1.. O'BRIEN (who was received with much imps-
certain legal changes which had recently taken place ; but tience) admitted that the strong inoputations which had I
he hoped very shortly to be utile to lay the bill before been east upon the guardians had nut hitherto been contra-
their lordships, and it would then be dolr.kble that dieted. ILe hooped the subject would be further discus-ad
both hills should be refernel to • select conenkittee, who when the Medical Chariti, Bill (Ireland) should be brought
should take gr neva evidence on the subject. ; before the house on Tuesday next.
Lord BROCrillAal trusted when his bill came nit for, ritomtAT.tN BUILDINGS BILL.
second reading that it would be read a second time without Sir L. L. EVANS, having alladed to the present unsa.
dietotesion. !tiafactory state of the New House of Commons, whet! who.-
COUNTY COURT (Ft ItTlIE:It EXTENSION) BILL.' thee' it was intended to proceed with the wound reading of
'1 he report om this bill was brought up with amend- the Metropolitan Buildings Bill at a late hour that
dents. I es going ?
1: ad ABINGER was under-towel to suggest the impor- I Sir G. GREY replied in the negative.
tan., of giving county court judges an teouity jutiediction I 'IIIE INCOME: TAX.
'Owe, comparatively small sums of tome y were in- Mr. COWAN withdrew his motion on this subject.
molt, TILE 1101' DUTY.
leorol BROUGHAM mid that was the subject of another Mr. FRI:WEN adopted the same course with respect to'
bill. The bill before their lordship. wae a mere suppleuter, i the reduction of the hop duty to Id. per lb.—lath geutle-
MI memoirre. The wade and kennel lord teat hefted foe men alhging their unwillingness to delay the financial
certain returns connected with county courts, shah were statement of the right bon, bonnet (Sir Charles Wood).
Ordered. The rising of each of the last half-doses members had beau
Loonl BERNERS movie! for returns of the number of received with much ern, atik uce.
prisoners convicted of petty larceny in England and '1 lie niotioe that the holia at its rising do adjourn till
Wales, in I hI9, Irain, and Dail, his ohjt et being to ricer- Monday next was then agreed to.
tin whether there had mast been or great increase of Giant. WAYS AND MEANS.—TIIE BUDGET.
Ordered. The house having resolved itself into • committee of
Their lordships then, at six o'clock, adjourned. M'ay. and Means,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ma anti
said—Mr. Bernal, se vend weeks have now clapad einee 1
Met put into your hands the resolution upon which I out now
about to tail upon the house fur its decision • and since that
time the attention of bon. memlsere has boas disertsal too
twoics of poisibly mute interest, but certainly riot of more
on*iterial impertalire. (Hear, hear.) Tillie has been
afforded one to recookeitler the proposal I then made to the
holier, with the advantage of those observation.
and criticisms which, with no sparing hanol, have
been bestowed upon it. We have also heard from
'the lips of the noble lard who Meets the great
party opposite the (owes, of financial policy which he is
prepared to pursue. Ile i. prepared to reduce, as far as
passible, at once, and to extinguish as soon as eirectinstauces
will allow him, the income tax —(cheers) ;—and he is pre-
pared to aid that operation by a ditty upon foreign corn.
(Cheer, from the pretectionists.) The proposal I have
selnuitted too the hoouse, leie for its of the promotion of
the comfort, health, and welfare of the labouring portion
of sour torumunity • :rod further, too io duce the duty on
whether for cuonstimptiolt, or as raw Male-
/W. (Chiare.) That is the policy which we have theUllit
it our duty to pursue. Thew two, courses are In fore the
bow.o soil the country, and it is for the house and the
country t., deride 011 which title the preponthorance lies, and
wince, on the whole, is the mint beueficial cuura to
be relented for the welfare of this gnat empire.
(Loud cheer. o This I know, that not in vain shall 1
:eh Gov that indulgence of the house• which ha. never
111, a refused to arty one who has herd theobject of eo mooch
attack as I have; and I trust to your kind indulgence while 1
viudie ate those opinions which I have propoundetl, and
jillotily the mime which I have adopted. (LAO sheen.)
1 admit at once that my proposals were not nevi% ed with
'satisfactions by the country. (l'heers.) That they should
sot have ben so remised by gentlemen memos:ming, and
connected with, the agricultural inwreet—an interest which
1 MU sorry to my is suffering melee the pressure of those
eizeurreitikatto which always attend the removal of protec-
tive duties--1 am not surpriatl. hear.) They have
askt .1 relief, either the reinnoneition of protective duties,
or the transfer to the public revenue of a large proportion
of their local burdens. (flew., hear.) But believing, as 1
do, that neither of those pro woods would be for the interest
oaf the country if weeded to, and, then:thee, not for
the it own interred in the long non, it was nut in ray
power, consistently with my public duty, so to [Mine
!tour financial legislation. With regard toothier parties in this
11.. WW and the country, 1 Confess I was disappointed at the
roccption our prooposals not with ; but I see in the various
egusurt* and critirietim which have been cast upon thooa
proposals that the prevailing demand ha. ben hor the re-
iniveitin of taxation beyond the amount which I felt and
feel it to be pue.ible too concede, consistently with the pre-
servatinn of our natiunal credit, and the maintenance of
thoee public establishments which We believe to be neces-
sary to the welfare of the country, and in which opinion, so
far, we have had no reason to sums.: that a majority of the
Move would nut concur. ylear.) Mooch, therefore, as I re-
gret the disappointment, can only say that we propoad
all bunted budget. I might, no doubt, have made some manner
of change. I might have reduced the duties upon soap and
pups : , II- Lail of on toffee and timber. I might have inaoluoneh
thaages, lout while I pleased atm, I should only hove
ibis-
.ati.ti al others. (Hear, hear.) I MK that unless 1 Watt
pr; hared to Concede an antuunt of omission of taxation for
beyond that which the circumstances of the country would
justify I could not have complit•d with a tithe of the
de-
mends which were inside upon me. (Cheers.) Under
the, circumstances it akeoncol to me to be the policy, tie
well as the duty, of the government to point out that sound
course which we believed to be right, and to abide
by it. ((Loud cheers.) It is a matter of little
moment whether our budget be popular or not, low it is a
matter of the deepest importance whether the principle upon
which our financial policy is based be sound or unsound.
We are bound to look for beyond the present year. We
are biretta too resist the first step in the wrong direction.
(Clears.) We are bound to resist the begiokikings of a course
which, if persisted in, I am persuaded would be fatal to
our credit iind to our character. ((.heere.) Sir, the all per-
vading colojcetion to our promo.' was, bemuse we had
thought it necessary to retain wine sUrpluSOVer our present
expenditure. I should have thought that recent experience
would have abundantly demonstrated the irapoliey of pur-
suing a dilfereut course. (Cheers.) Sir C. Wood then
fah fly went into the financial history of former years, ar-
guing against the psolny of continually borrowing, and in
favour of that of keeping a surplus in laud ; and in support
of this latter argument, said, within u fortnight
of the time when 1 made tlkis propose], just such
another occurreuce took place in the unexpected break-
ing out of a new Kafir war. (Hear, hear.) What
expeutliture that will entail I cannot pretend to
say; but in the cireuntstauces of that colony wo are
hound to extend too it our protection, as indesel we see
Wall the emigrants whom we send out in such considerable
numbers; and therefore same charge, *nue considerable
I ,b,kekoe,muot be impoweel on the avenue of this country. Within
the Met two days a demand has been made upon me—l
hops: it will not turn out to be so serious as it tttt apnears
—but a demand has been rustle upon me on the part of the
East India Company tie the unliquidated balance of the
Chinese expedition, amounting to 4410,0001. [This state-
ment et ioloattly Created a great reweition in the house.] I
hove and trust, continued the right hon. barohet, that upon
au accurate investigation of the accounts the balance may
not turn out to be that which tit is alleged to be by the
East India Company, but nevertheless there is the demand,
there is a possibility of its being found to be just, and under
those circumstances, if it be MI, that demand must
he paid. (Hear, hear.) In the previous discussion
upon this point, my hon. friend the member for Moutroa
(Sir. Hume), though approving in generated' the proposal 1
made, stouteil the notion of staying off any portion of the
debt. Ile objeetkel to the inaiuteuance of any margin fur
that purpose. 'tut he is the last person' in this house
froon whom l should hate expected ouch auobservation. What
did he nay when 1 borrowed eight millions a few years ago
in permanent stocks ? That 1 ought to have borrow...l it in
terminable annuities ; and only the other night he ex-
',reseed his wish that the whole debt hail been invested in
the .hapg of tenniamble ;nitwit:es. Now what is the ditfar-
, slice in principle, so far as the existing tax-payer.
are eviscerate', between a terminable annuity and a
permanent charge with a *hiking fund applied too
its reduction ? 'they both proweed ou the self-same
prime* of a greater present charge. (Hear, hear.)
%Vs are continually pluming and tato:ruin ourselves on the
proepeetive rehef to aries, from the falling in of certain
charges which will occur in Dell, ii, 1860, and in suttee-
quent care, from the extinction of that present charge
whirl, the providence of those who have gone before us
treated 36 u relief to those who should come after them.
And are we, oo praising them, to refuse to those who come
alter to. any such benefit as we ourselves enjoy ? There is
indeed this difference between a terminable annuity mud a
permauent debt diminished by the application of an annual
surplus, that in the one case it is out of our pewee to be
dishonest, and alas that it should be said in a British
Ilona of ('ommons that when we have the power of doing
that a Welt is right, et for the sake of alfunliowl wine tem-
porary relief, we leave not the self-denial or the courage to
do that which we ;thud ought to be done. (Hear,
hear.) Let me remind the house of that delusion
which seems so prevalent, that any failure or risk in
the payment of the public dividends would ouly
iujure the rich. The late Lord Ashburton called fur a re-
turn of the amount of all the clivideude paid iu the public
stocks; and I sec by a recent return that five-sixths of
those receiving dividends receive amounts not exceeding
50t. per annum; while as to one-third of the whole, the
amount does not exceed ill. per annum. (Hear, hear.) 1
do not pretend to say that this is a true criterion of the
total income of thew persons ; but it is sonic index to the
number of those who are in such a position that their ale
depenthuce almost is on our public filth being infallibly!
maintained. 1 believe, and these who sit scar me
believe, that the result of our recent legislation has
been nuiterially to improve the well-being sad mauls I
of our countumen at Large—(hear, hear;—that they
are better sod, and richer, and re able than
before to pay those: taxes which still remain for
diem to pay. (Ilear. hear.) No doubt this arts
moot might be used by some .hon. gentlemen whonn I
have in my eye—fur instance, the hon. memher for North
Warwickshire (Mr. Newdegate), who has lately print ol to
us that the 'plum nt prosperity of the country is main-
' tainted by • gradual abstraction of the capital of our manu-
facturers and merchants, that the agriculturists ari the only
persons in distress, uud that the labouring population are
souring front the want of employment and load wag, v I
should understand the argument if it proetechtl from gen-
tlemen who hold those opinions; but when it proceeds from
the mouth of gentlemen who agree with me that the coun•

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Finnkv,

ilsebr;u---actstook tla• chair at a ituarttr to War o'clock.
NEW MEMBER,.
-- • •

Mr. William Page Wo 1, the new Nolieitor-f ion:nil, took
thr oaths and his seat, on his se-eleetiou for the City of
01Mt.

PRIVATE BESINESS.
THIRD REAMS/i.-11aln liceele., and Raililistwe
Railway Bill.
Stroud awl Gliourroiter It•nd Bill.
I e *cowl Mewling. of the Metnwolitais Cattle Market
Bill ,Ind Smaithatid Enlisr;remeitt Rill, w re, iin tlk tuatara

or Mr terrariad imatimmvl till W;1 ..ry next.
Mr. U. LEWIS gave u.mee that on W 01114,114 y neat he
would, more that the w. rnment bill for the removal of
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timithliehl market he taken op at the time of privete
; and in ran' the. bill %Mullet be read a "cloud nu e, he
would more that it be ref...mil to a velvet committee of lire
member,
WATERFORD AND DUBLIN RAILWAY.
Mr. LABOUCIIEIII aid that yederilay the hen. ram-
bur :or Armagh (sir W. Vanier) had d for maw

Murat lisrcte• to the 11-. shred, Wicklutt ,

awl Ihtltlauluny Comistuy. rrturtry had tn..
ordirrvel u. ur...ppueetl. Tory seer , I...we%er, opposed r.-
turn.„ and hr (Mr. Lohourh 11.“1 thr ranrurvirre of the,
Ihun ,urablr I..srussrt (Sir %V. nor) to now awning liwittlw
orolyr fur the v returns br

The taller was diyiehargvil arronlingly.
I't' ISUSINENS.
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Mr. REYNOLDS Este nod*, that on an early day after
Ita,tcr he would on fur a select eontatittee to inquire and
nTort as to the policy of continuing the ituicau d
tap ..1 1.111•111. tummy in ruu-tneetiug the harbour of r.fuga
at tt.,lria-.1.