The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

TILE REVENUE.

Tar accoent for the quarter audio op this day
is of a ♦ery favourable character—showing a general
increase of about 200,0001., notwithstanding the loss
ari.ieg frogs the fall in the rate of income-tax from
7d. to 6d.
In customs the incr.:sae is about mom.

The excise shows an inereaas of about 320,0001.
Land and assumed taxes, Post-office, and crow.
lands, will yield a small 'acreage of about 30,000/.,
on the whole.

In " Miscellaneous Items" there will he an im-
provement to the extent of about 130,0(10f. Thu there
will be a total increue in the above heads of revalue
of about 760,0001. Against this, we have to report
a falling off of about 120,0001. on stamps, and about
420,00e1. on income-tax; leaving a net increase on
the whole account for the quarter of rather more
than 200,000/.

The account for the year now ending (June 30).
shows some important resulh. Thus, on in-
ce:mate:, there is a lose of upwards of
4,000,0001., owing to the collection for the
year being at en average of 6d. instead of
boo., in consequence of the variations of the rate.
In every other branch of revenue, the year's account
yields increseed receipts, se follows:

L 1,600,000
270,000
230,000

Customs
Excise...
Stamps
Land and Assessed Taxes
Post-office
Crown Lands (about)
Miscellaneous Items (about)

30,000
910,000
4,000
400,000

The above increases reduce the net loss on the year
to about 1,200,1)001 , thus making up about 2,800,000/.
of the loss sustained by the reduction of the income-
tax.

THE new Ministry meets the new Parliament for
the first time to-day. After well nigh three
months wasted in contention, the business of the
Session is at length about to begin. How much of
promise and importance must of necessity stand over
now till winter cr spring it is needless to say. If
the pressing wants of the public service can be
meetly provided for in the course of the next six
weeks it will be as much as can now be done. The
Estimates have yet to be pound, and the Ways and
Means to meet them have to be considered and
agreed to.

A sense of the public exigency will no doubt
entrain to some extent the disposition to find fault
upon the part of the Opposition. Lord Denny has
spontaneously pledged himself not to sanction any
movement on the part of his friends that could
justify the epithet of retaliatory or factious; end he
is said to have already given one indication of his
desire to earn at least the repute, in this respect,
of keeping hies word. We know, however,
by experience, Low soon fins gold of this
kind grows dim, and how upon a sudden
the smooth and harmless-looking surface of the
political water' ruffles with rage and surges into
foam. The late Government, having left their esti-
mates for the current year ready prepared, cannot in
common decency oppose them, unless they be mate-
rially modified by their successors ; and as for the
Budget, under existing circumstances there would
seem to be but little room to choose. There are on
both sides a large number of persons who we may
well believe feel unaffectedly • fax deeper in-
terest in the well-being, honour, and prospe-
rity of the country, in its being kept safe
from injury or bamiliatioo, and secure from
harm to its (reedit or its trade, than in any
transient triumph of party. All these will natu-
rally concur in facilitating the passage of such
measures as are now indispensable, and in dis-
couraging undies, contention on theoretical or
general grounds. Nevertheless, it must Le owned
that • Government which has been brought into
power by a majority of thirteen will require the
exercise of all the tact and skill it con command, If
it would get through the initiatory state of its
existence this day commencing with credit to itself
or advantage to the country.
As yet Lord PALMERSTON has put forward no
programme of his policy. Whether ha intends doing
so on the occasion of his taking his seat for the
second time on the Treasury bench in the capacity of
Erne NI inieter, we know not. It is impossible to doubt
t 1...• tt,e sally enunciation of sound and liberal views
rewarding the issue of the pending struggle in
',sly at the present moment be of infinite
sane, comirg from one who occupies his position.
Can any one believe that in similar circumstances
or Mr. Csssisi, would have hesitated to
define the true position of England, especially if her
intentions bad previously been wrapped in 1160111 e
natty and hal or imputed ambiguity ? Were all the
members of the present Cabinet men whose antece-
dents justihed the world in ascribing to them the
sentiments habitually entertained and exprened by
the noble Sio ILTARI for FOREIGN Ai Ftllts and by
Lord I' airriis Cox himself, then might possibly be
less necessi.y for a distinct devlsration of foreign
policy from tither. But it were idle to conceal from
ourselves the fact that the present Administration
has Into formed by a combination of diverse
and discrepant elements, in which that of Consent.
tism holds a large and prominent piece. Conserva-
tism at home his, ever since the time of Sir
HONEST PILL, been undergoing • constant pro-
efts of thinning end lopping; and without ceasing
to saris the purpose of • screen, its admires, boast
that it km been so premed as to let any amonat of
light and sir pass Omagh. In a certain sense Lord
AMAMI]: wesjustilled in saying that ammwentim

had become Liberalism, and that intelligent Libe-
ralism was little more than wise Conservatism.
How real and deceptive much of this sort of thing is
we know ; but, nevertheless, in home polities the
staying is a half truth, and not altogether delu-
sive. In foreign politics it is a very dif-
ferent matter. A Conservative foreign policy
is a policy conservative of all the surviving evil
of the status yuo establi.lhed in 1816. The tra-
ditions are those of the diplomatic elders who eat in
Sanhedrin: at Vienna. The national !creep cove-
Dented and guaranteed by the treaties of 1815 are
its tavourite phylacteries, which on all safe and
solemn occasions it delights to wear. Some ■mall
scraps and shreds of them have, indeed, dropped off

from time to time, as the pearls were said to drop from
Prince ESTERHAZY'S jewelled jacket whenever he
put it on. But, in the main, dynastic and diplomatic
Conservatism continues to be what it has ever been,
repressive if not retrogressive, incredulous of consti-
tutional progress abroad, if not openly opposed to
it. For ten years of civil war absolut;am in
Spain boasted the sympathy of English Conser
vatiam. During the fifteen years of the Restoration
in France the same sympathy was unm;stakeably
shown for what called itself the party of order. As
for Italy, it is painful to recollect bow consistently
the statesmen and the journals of Conservatism in
England have for more than forty years preached
the duty of despair to that unhappy country, and
defended the rightfulness of a ruthless foreign domi-
nation. Conservatism in foreign politics has been
Bourbonism in France, Cali= in Spain, Ans-
trianism in Italy. It was the consciousness of this
that, more than any other feeling, drove Lord DIZBY
and his adherents from power; and the nation will
not be fully satisfied that its self-vindication in

this respect is complete until it hears distinctly
from the mouths of its new rulers the
profession of the opposite creed. We know that
there are, indeed, in the present Cabinet men whose
Liberalism of feeling and conviction needs no war-
ranty. Bat if they are a minority, as some suppose,
it is but reasonable that the country should know
whether their policy is to predominate or that of
their colleagues, who have been brought up in a
different school, and who have never, in foreign
affairs at least, recommended liberal tenets. Nobody
wants to set up a shibboleth, or to pry into the
secrets of personal accommodation in the formation
of the Cabinet; bat, as it is one avowedly
founded in the spirit and on the prin-
ciples of Coalition, the public have a right to I
know what is the net result, and to take care
if the balance preponderates as they wish, that in
any changes that may henceforth occur that balance
should not be changed to their disadvantage. If
philo-Austrians there be in the Cabinet, we have •
right, at all events, to protest against their number
being augmented. We prefer saying this before
any individual case arises, because our desire is to
enforce a principle, not to assert a personal prefer-
ence. There are thou who think the friends of a
liberal foreign policy are already too few in Lord
PALMERSTON'S Government ; there is all the more
reason, then, that, whenever opportunityserves, their
relative proportion should be augmented.

THE Second Court of Queen's Bencb, at Guildhall,
was yesterday presided over by Mr. Justice BLACK-
BURN. " Nonsense !" replies any member of the bar,
who has just returned from Quarter Sessions,

" There is no such Judge on the Bench." We beg
his pardon, and assure him that we speak on the
beet authority. After a week's deliberation, after
nine years' opportunity of studying the qualifications
of the whole English bar, the late Lord Chief Justice
of the Queen's Bench, now the LORD CHANCELLOR,
has commenced the exercise of the most important of
his functions, by converting a very promising junior
barrister into a full-blown Judge of the Court over
which hi: lordship so lately presided.
For the week past we understand thet the whole
profession has been anxiously speculating upon the
mode is which Lord CAMPBELL would prove hie
metal on this occasion. It was acknowledged that
he was in a great difficulty. Au embarrete de
eiehesses is not the least of embarrassments. There

were so many ways in which Use pupularity-hunt-
ing Chancellor might give feta to his first appoint-
ment, if he would give his party a lift, and at the
same time appoint a well-tried M.P. and leading
counsel—such men there are in Parliament ; would
he, regardless of party and of Parliamentary posi-
tion, confer the honour of his unbiassed preference
upon some other tint-rate advocate and lawyer, the
names of half-a-dozen good men readily occur.
Would he bravely and honestly depart from the
narrow path of his predecessors, and carry out
the Catholic Emancipation Act by at length
granting the judgeship which has for years been
due to the learning, the eloquence, and the high
character of Serjeaut Suez?
All these and a dozen more, possible and probable,
solutions of Lord CAstriittt's difficulty were dis-
cussed and settled and uosettled, acid reported and

contradicted. Any one of them would have found
its supporters, and would not have greatly surprised
erg one who gave Lord CAMPBELL credit for wish-
ing to avoid an insult to the profession by which he
has risen to his present position. But the LORD
Cumicauka is no ordinary man. He thought,
perhaps, that he could not appoint any man having
strong claims on one ground, without offending
all than who had strong claims on other grounds.
He met the difficulty by appointing a gen-
tleman who had no claim at all. His course
recalls the old story of a famous parliamentary coon-
eel who, when he warn retained and instructed in
every ease which stood for hearing one day before
every committee of both Houses of Parliament, was
found, at about two p.m., strolling in Hyde Park, and
justified himself on the ground that he was treating
ell hie clients with impartiality, and not neglcetiug the
business of one by attending to the business of another.
If it was necessary to pass over all the leaders of
all the circuits, and to ignore all party claims, a
dozen juniors, of standing and practice, might be
lamed, whose appointment would not have shocked
and outraged the whole Narration as this appoint-
ment has done.

THE right-hearted and sound sensible speech
which Mr. Contixx yesterday delivered at Liver-
pool on landing from America will increase the
desire of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen
to see him cordisPy co-operating in the re-
construction of the Liberal party by accept-
ing the Presidency of the Board of Trade.
We shall respect the sense of responsibility which
he expressed in his address, and not obtrude com-
mon-place considerations on his attention. Bet we
may assure him that the sentiment. and wishes
embodied in the addresss read to him by Mr. BIiOWNE
are those with which the great body of his party
regard him ; and we cannot refrain from cxpressing
the hope that the otter so frankly and courteously
made to him by the Premier may be accepted.

We hays moon to believe that It ie not the inten-
tion of the Contervativse to oppose the election of
Mr... Massey as Chainnea of Wiwi and Means.
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GREAT NORTHERN HONTITAI, XINWS.EROHI.
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