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London, England, 1861-05-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAT, mar 1.

THE coarse chosen by the Opposition in dealing
with the Budget betrays the conviction that
their rivals in office are too strong to be over-
come so long as Mr.(;uncross presides over the
ll:chequer. Their unconcealed purpose, there-
foes, is to concentrate hostility upon objects which
Mr. °LAWTON'S is supposed to have peculiarly at
heart, in the hope that should they succeed in per-
seeding the House to reject some essential part of
his financial scheme, his high spirit would proem'
him to resign, not with his colleagues but without
them, and that Lord Pometiurros, with nearly the
whole of the remainder of the Cabinet, preferring
power to honour, would, to save their places,
separate their canoe from that of a oolleagne
whose ideas they have never enthusiastically
shared. No doubt it was upon this calculation that
Mr. BAILING was induced to undertake the tali of
opening a general debate upon the 'object, and it
was doubtless with a view to the s=ecretion of this
project that ho wee advised to throw oat many
expressions of hope that no mere differences ea
the Budget would lead to a cheap el Govern-
ment, an event which ha deprecated se at the
present moment likely to prove highly inopportune.
Similar seotiments were uttered during the debate
by Mr. Roaamoir and others. Their general drift
and tendency were too palpable to be mistaken by
discerning and reflective hearers, yet, so long as
the manteulrrin. g aim was wrapt in the robe of
evasive or eloquent verbiage, than were many
perhaps on whom the precise messing was lost ;
and it was difficult, if not imposeible, to ix its
authors with the responsibility of the Wen-
tion we have described. The speech of Mr.
DIARAISLI, however, had the merit of a candour
not possessed by those of his friends who presided
him in debate. They had simply insinuated their
willingness to respite the Paeans and his col-
leagues from political execution, provided they
would repent and renounce the Paper Duty repeal;
but Mr. Lissom.' offered laudations and rewards
with the sir of a generous patron. They
had only ventured to address the Govern-
ment collectively as a body of dolmen whoa*
patriotism ought to induce them 104 take back a
Budget in which a conopienens error had been
pointed oat ; but the Masher for Backs boldly
steps out of the ranks, enema the leer, claps his
veteran competitor on the shoulder, and pointing to
his distinguished lieutenant beside him, exclaims,
in the hearing of both hosts, "Throw him over,
" and I'll back you to hold the Premiership se-
curely for another year." What Lord PAI.MIANTON

felt or thought at this audacious offer we know
not precisely, for ho did not say. His speech
was one which might have bees made es either of
the previous nights of the disiumies i and he
took as little notice of the proposal to mil the pre-
sent CRANCELIAIR of the reze, and to pur-
chase instead the friendiddp and support of his
predecessor in that elks, s• if the &liege offer
had not been made is proprid permed by the right
hon. gentleman, or as if it had not been made at
all. There is indeed • silence whisk is bitter than
any speech ; and if Lord PaLMI2II7OIII wished ft
to convey the impression that suggestions of the
kind thus nakedly made by Mr. DIZILLELE were of
a nature which he as • man of honour
and consistency could sot understood, hie
silence constituted • species of rebuke
more contemptuous than any he could have
embodied in words. The principal reason gives
by the Passim for his desire that the Budget
should peas as it stood was indeed a truly con-
servative one, and therefore, as might be rap.
posed, distasteful to the abort-sighted party that
with traditional tenacity cling to the notion that
they and they alone are Conservative. There they
nt, and chatter never-teasingly about the firm
grip they keep of the cable, and of its strength,
while the bow anchor of Church and State has
long ago slipped from its holding ground, and the
ship and its unconscious crew are steadily drifting
down the stream of changeful time. Lord Psi,
seiterox truly appreciates the danger of keeping
open a question of constitutional privilege between
the two Houses of Parliament. Fifty years' expe-
rience has not been thrown away on him, and he
knows well that, underlying all party distinctions
and rivalries, there exists in the House of Com-
mons a strong instinct of self-vindication and self-
assertion, as against any encroachment on its I
authority by the House of Peers. Sooner than'
precipitate a quarrel between the two Homes, he
was last year willing to go great lengths in acqui-
escence under protest in the assumption by the
Upper House of • power to veto the remission of
a particular tax. But no man knows better than
the veteran Viscount, that after what then oc-
curred it would be hopeless to get rid of the
question of the excise duty on paper. The
history of the country records no instance of the
House of Commons having submitted to be
stripped by the House of Lords of a great power
and privilege they have once been accustomed to
exercise. Again and again the repeal of the Paper
Duty world infallibly be brought forward, sad
every time the Lords would be dared or defied to
refuse their assent. Sooner or later the Peen
would be compelled to give way, as they have
so often been on questions where their authority
was far less disputable; and a statesman whose
sympathies and feelings are confessedly far more
bound up with those of the order to which he
belongs than with those of any other, may well
view- with distaste, if not with apprehension, the
prolongation of a struggle, the only end of which