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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY ir.

LAST week we were told how much revenue
it was meant to dimipate at the outset of the China
War ; tits week we are informed out of which
national pocket the money is to be taken. Mr.
Gi.sosrowc explained last night how he proposes
to provide for the principal part of the require-
ments to which, "at a guess," Mr. SIDNEY Has-
sear says the country will be liable during the first
campaign. Direct taxation is no longer fashion.
able in our Conservative Parliament ; and the
CHM/CELIA/IL of the Exoneores seems to have
made up his mind to lay aside for the present the
doctrine he once so eloquently propounded regard-
ing the special fitness of a property tax as a
financial weapon of war. Two shillings a gallon is
to be added to the duties on home and foreign
spirits ; and as the House of COIIII4OIIB Iss thought
fit to acquiesce in the decision of the House of
Lords regarding the excise duty on paper, Mr.
GILA ism:ix consents to appropriate 1,400,0001.
arising from that source, to help lay for the in-
glorious expedition to the Gulf of Pecheli. Thus
the whole of the cost is to be defrayed oat of
indirect taxation. Although it is certainly un-
fortunate that ere the French Treaty is six
months old the charge on one of the principal
articles of import affected thereby should be
raised 12} per cent., most persons will probably
think that if we must go back to the old system
of taxing consumption, alcohol is that the pro-
duction and use of which deserves the least
amount of sympathy.

What we deprecate and deplore, however, is the
surrender p►o kit rite of the salutary check of which
we lately heard so much, upon wasteful and wan-
ton war expenditure. So long as the cost of
aggressive expeditions can he provided for in this
fashion, wanton and wasteful wars we shall have
without fail. Could the commercial and indus-
trious community at the present moment make
their wishes felt, it is notorious that they would
decree a very different policy regarding China from
that on which wo are embarking. They see in
the success of Sir Hon E Gaarrea expedition
nothing of which as a nation we can be proud.
They know that infinite misery will unavoidably
be inflicted upon millions who know nothing of
us, notch less wish us harm ; and they have a strong
belief that if a serious blow is dealt by our troops
to the feeble (:overnment of Pekin, the conse-
quence will inevitably be either the increase of the
power of Russia or the United Staten, or
of both, in the farther East, or the com-
mencement of a pennanent system of armed
interposition on the part of England, certain
to lead to incessant misunderstandings and
collisions with our European rivals in that region,
and certain to involve us in a new and 01' 't

species of useless expenditure. And all for whitf
To compel the Mantehou Court to admit that our
political civilisation is superior to theirs, and that
an inni jar is sure to break an earthen one
when knocked against it. But as for the ex-
pansion of trade or the diffusion of Christianity
by the means our Government is going to employ,
the public opinion of this country utterly re-
pudiates any belief in it.

We are wit surprball at the easy assent ac-
corded by the Opposition to the new Ministerial
demands. Of course it is a source of exultation
to all the reactionista of every hue that a Minister
elm fur a time had shamed them out of their old
practices should avow himself constrained to
allow matters once more to resume their
wonted way. We have too much respect for the
convictions and principles of Mr. GLainiToNE to
conceal our regret that he should in the present
instance have, been induced to waive their applica-
tion. At heart se have no doubt that he agrees
with those wl.o think with us, rather than with
those who most billy cheered him yesterday
evening. W.- tamed hying ourselves to believe
that he is satisfied so any Sense with these supple-
mental expedients; but he proliably Saw that hr
could d.. 111,11 better under the circumstances, and
he is oqiirsit to tale in sail, and let the ship run
before the wind, against whose force he cannot
for the present make way, prepared, with helm in
hand, to seise the first opportunity to resume his
onward course. We shall not, therefore, join in
the jeering cry with which he is sure to be en-
countered because he has made up his se;,,d
to
lose • move or two instead of throwing up the
game. Until he recants the principles he has
so
often and so ably advocated, or deserts theta in
the main conditions of his financial policy, we
shall not renounce the hope of acting Liw and
them eventually triumph together.