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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18.

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Ter objection of Lord loan RUSSELL to consider-
ing the Navy Estimate', before the Home of Com-
mons has pronounced an opinion on the contents and
pneral scope of the Budget opened by Sir CORNY.-
WALL Lawn, is a very intelligible and constitutional
proceeding. For, though it reveries the ordinary
peonies of the Hon►—wbieh is but to make pants
to the Crown, and then, when the great bulk of the
Pullmans have been voted, to provide ways and
11101111 s. !err the current year's expenditure—our
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financial position is at 'present so. exceptional
and abnormal as to render it more advisable
first to come to an understanding as to the earn total
Parliament intends to grant the Crown, and after-
wards to proceed to its appropriation in detaiL
To that entree there are indeed some obvious
otdeetions, and, as a general rale, it would perhaps
be found to be impracticable. It evidently tends to
deprive Parliament of the free exercise of its
right of considering the Estimates on their own
merits, and of pronouncing an opinion on their
separate 'efficiency, insufficiency, or extravagance,
as well as to diminish the responsibility of the
Qtrs./es Ministers, and to adjust the grants
to the Crown to a foregone conclonon as to the
expenditure of the matey, instead of regulating
that expenditure on the anertained exigencies of the
public service. Under ordinary circumstances, the
wiser and better plan is certainly to adhere to that
which has now for centuries been pursued; and if
the Navy and Army Estimates be deemed by &majo-
rity of the people's representatives too high, to take
bunk with the Government in the very first vote, and
to reject it in such a manner as either to evince •
general want of confidante in the Cabinet, or to
compel Minders to revise their demands. In that
way an Alain and eillbsteili control over the tax-
ation of the esentry is best reconciled with the dis-
tinct functions of Govenament, and the right mis-
time between Parliament and the Quer-m's Ministers
me mast sonvniently pawned.
let the mesa; it must be confessed, is not an
erdhery am is We are commencing, let us
Yost, sneer forty years' penes in Europe, and it is
only right and peeper to give, at its commencement,
large predominate to the consideration as to what
the average expediters of the country ought to be;
to start with a the and thorough knowledge and
comesimenion of what is aimed at by the Quern's
Kinisters ; motherly to examine into the system on
whisk we mime and spend our income, and to lay
horn same general principles on the part of Parlia-
ment hr the guidance and direction of the Govern-
ment Moreover, we me engaged out of Europe
ha katilities, if we may net call them wars, the
pulley of which aught certainly to be most
semingly investigated before side to carry
them ea are granted to the Crown; and,
thseigh the general character of oar relations with
From remains encouraging, it is impossible not to
panne miner di/once@ of opinion growing up on
• variety of emotion the tendency of which I. to
Menet France tower& Ewen an to throw the
English Government more and more into that
Annie aims which is not only of all others
the met ditsidefel to the Foglia peons, bat as
in the long seen had to nothing bet to maineammest,
confusion, and dishonoer. We san there are well
understand the comprehensive views with which
Lord lone Rusexu. insists at this thee an taking
the larger diecamice fist, sad, when an agresiont
has been arrived at on the principles of the Budget.
then, but not till then, proceeding to week out that
agreement in its details on the Estimates. To this
emus Lord P•uniunrox has wisely seceded. He
has laid before the Hoene of Cowman the ohms
of the Military Fotabiailuente which, in the esti•
maths of his Cabinet, are Recomary, not far •
sake dram, bat for the service of the year 188741.
He has told Parliament the roman he requires to
pay for thew astablkiests, an what taxes he pro-
' poems to remit. Is addition, Lord Joax Roseau
asks Men, bare messy is granted to the Crown far
I Nina expeorlitoce, to be equilly, explicit sad epee