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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23.

TER short and wie;;what perfunctory announce-
ment which Lord PALNIIIIRON made last night in
Parliament will disappoint those who have been
preparing the public to look for a Ministerial
Crisis as the least result of the vote of the Lords
on the Paper Duty. Ministers take the rejection
of their Bill very coolly. There are no mere
party or personal reasons why they should not.
The large number of their own friends who voted
against them on this question, and the still larger
number who abstained from voting, takes from the
division the character of • party defeat That old
Whip envy and hate Mr. ()LAWTON; and that
old Tories resent the introduction of • financial
system which makes the Minister of the day more
than ever responsible to the country for the wars
into which it is an easy to drift, may be very re-
grettable, but it is no reason why Lord Patniaeron
and Lord Joint Roseau. should retire and hand
us over to Lords DERBY and Itfm.mnssuar,
bringing back the days of bewilderment and panic.
It is rather a reason why Ministers with a character
and a policy should remain at their posts.
But all is not over when this more immediate
and practical question has been disposed of. The
vote of Monday night may do little present harm
to Ministers, but its effect on the character of our
legislation is most pernicious. If that vote stands
unredreesed by any action of the House of Com-
mons we shall be living for another year at least
under political conditions wholly new. We shall be
subject to a system of taxation which our repre-
sentatives have not only not sanctioned, but
which they have not even discussed. The pro-
position to levy the excise on paper together with
an income tax of I Od. in the pound, was never
once mentioned in the House of Commons this
session. A minority of that House thought the
time for repealing the paper duty was not come,
but they did not suggest that its collection should
be continued together with& tenpenny Income Tax.
The burden which the House of Commons declined
to place on the nation has, however, been bound on
it by the House of Lords. No amount of special
pleading can get rid of this fact. When all is
done and said, there will next year be collected
as taxes • million sterling more than the
House of Commons meant to be collected
when it voted the various heads of the Budget.
If these proceedings of the Lords are constitu•
tional, then the succession of eminent statesmen
who have in their speeches and writings dwelt with
pride on the inseparable connexion between taxa-
tion and representation in our system of Govern-
ment have laboured under • delusion.
It will be for the Government to consider how
the false position in which the two Houses are
placed is to be rectified. Lord Pautritsros an-
nounced last night the formal and preliminary
measures which he will take to-morrow for this
purpose, and added that " her MAnstery's Govern
" ment disclaim any intention of taking any step
" calculated to place the two Houses in • state of
" hostility." And he was quite right. The ad-
vantage of • second Chamber, an institution which,
like the common law, accompanies Anglican liberty
everywhere, is too widely appreciated at home to
allow popularity to any measure likely to weaken
it. But if the House of Lords is to preserve its
fair share of influence, it must learn to respect
those privileges which the House of Commons
exercises as the representative body of the nation.
We shall look with much interest for the further
action of the Government on this subject. It is
idle to talk of Reform Bills if the House of Com-
mons is to become • cypher.

GAILIBALDI.9 lauding at Marsala, u it is re-
counted in the vivid and stirring narrative which
we were fortunate enough to present to our readers
yesterday, will rank high in the record of daring
exploits and brilliant adventures.

One need not be perhaps a sympathiser with
the cause for which patriots lay down their lives
to feel moved by such a story of discipline
and devotion as that of the disembarkation, under
tire from a frigate's broadside, of the vanguard of
the Italian volunteers, under the command of that
renowned " Admiral and General at sea," whom a
COCUILANE, or a CHAILLIA JAMES NAPILI would
not disdain to call a comrade and brother in arms.
Even Mr. BERN Ossoftxr, in his professional
capacity, as ex-Secretary of the Admiralty,
pleads guilty, we dare say, of admiring wonder
at a feat warmly surpassed in skill and
courage, in conduct and temper, throughout the
glorious annals of our own great naval wars. We
may be permitted to °omit it as a piece of good
fortune for the illustrious Italian chief that British
sailors were there to see and to tell again to their
countrymen at home that the race from which
Cutunsys came was not degenerate, and that