The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1850.

ties of this country; sad in so &lag be Meseta be
would be supported by every seeded mat le the
boor. (Her, her.) The ,tleg polisy el iseassuite
was very keen, end .militated saris the shies
bower ; sad therslnre, Hirt house divided, be would feel
himself read to support the mere of his hem freed the
somber for Glargow. (Hoer, best)
Mr. HUMS sailed ea the Charities. of the Hasbequer to
redeem the promise he bad made at to time Mille passim( of
the navigation laws, and on the faith of whiela promises—to
the ghee that the shipping interests would be relieved, so
es to OMNI ale* to enter tato etnepstitioa with other
astisaa—hi vane, es weU es the votes of vary other boa.
podium., had been hire is favour of the government'
policy. (Heat, bear) Now, be wished to burr why the
right hon. gentleman, the Chancellor of the Embepar, did
not apply the surplus of 500,0001 to the relief of the shipping
interim. instead of applying it to the liquidation of the
arrest debt ? (Hear, leer.) He timer the bore relit
to compel the government to falai the pledges made by
them. (Hear, hear.) He would vote in favour of the
preposition of the hoe. member for Glasgow; sad he hoped
the house, by its we, would compel the government to see
that it cold not with impunity violate its promisee. (Hut.)
Lord J. EUSIDILL begged to est the hon. gentleman
right in refers/me to has saserien' that the goverameet had
made promis's on the comesiun of the repeal of the naviga-
tion IBM. The hon. gentleman was =Walvis in thinkieg
so and is saylag a. The government had no object in re-
tainiag the tax In question more than any other lex; and
the simple reason why they did not repeal it was, that it
eras sot alone desirable, but absolutely necessary, to maintain
the credit of the country. (Her, hear )
Mr. DUNCAN should are that the impression on his
mind wee, that the right hon. gentleman, the President of
the Board of Trite, had promised to remove all restrictites
sonnicted with shipping r sort as possible, and under that
impression his Tot, wee 0.. He, therefore, hoped his
hon. friend .oeld divide the house on the question.
(" Hear, hear," end " divide.")
Mr. HENLEY rogreced hoe. gentlemen did not held
their vies until they got all that had been promised
them. (Laughter.) Ev ry elus and interest had its own
grievance to tomplais of ; and if ail those grievances in the
shape of taxation were removed, the Mame of the country
mutt suffer materially. ((Hear, hear.) Howevtr, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had shown no reason for con•
tinning the tin ; and BS there was a surplus, he thought it
could be better applied is the abolition of a tax, than in the
way it had been. (Hear, bear.)
The house then divided, when there were,
For the swims .
Again tit
On returning to the gallery

Mr. DISRAELI was addressing the house—Nesrly two
saoethe ego the government favoure 1 the house with a
general view of the financial state Of the country, and with
what they intended to do with respect to the remission of '
taxation. It had been always held as a matter of great im-
portico that the financial statement should be made as
early in the erasion as possible; because, before the house
voted the sopplia, it was of primary importance that the
ecnstituente of hon. members should know if they were in •
position to bear the burden of supply about to be voted, and
also it the minister were in • posiion to remit any of the
tales. 'Hear, heir.) When they knew the amount, they
were better prepared to meet the exigencies of the
ambit ; and therefore it was of great importance
ea the finenciel statement should be mad* as early
se possible. (Hear, bear.) The government, he should Ili
them the justice to •tmit, took an early opportunity to
main that statement, which they did two months ago; but
although commenced as far back as two months since, they
had not yet finieh.d their statement. (" Hear, hear," and
laughter.) He wee not can that the house would not find
itself in the same position now that they did in 1848. In
1843 her Majesty's minir ere made their statement; hut in
that remarkable y. ar the budget wale opened en the 17th
February, and was not concluded until the 25th of August
(Laughter.) He wanted to remind the house of • circum-
stance, because the government might be about to pursue
the identical coarse now that it did on that occasion. In the
year 1848, her Majesty's ministers, in the course of their finan-
cial exposition, got entangled in the
the ministry brought forward a new sugar bill, which was
not earessful. They brought leeward a second one, which
shared a similar fate ; when a third was produced, and all
those tells wan compiled with schedules similar to those
that had been recently criticised by the house so successfully
that her Majesty's ministers found themselves in a similsr
position to that in which they were in 1848. (•• Hear, hear,"
and laughter.) Though the government commenced the
year with an exposition of their views of the condition of
the country, well digested, and the consequence of many
councils and grave deliberations, yet they were now at the
26. h of April, and no member of the house
had • clear idea as to what the objects and
views of her Majesty's ministers were. (Hoar, hear.)
N-ow it was a matter of groat importance, especially after
the late division, that the government should fairly tell the
house whether they intended—he would not say, to proceed
with the r measure respatiog stamps, because that measure
was entirely given up—but to introduce a sew measure. If
they m ant to i.atro,luc. • new measure, they were, in fact,
again commencing their financial exposition. (Hear, bear.)
All that bad happened hitherto was the repealing of an el-
rise duty. No one would pretend that that was the budget
of the government. (Hear, hear.) It was not offered as
ouch; and all that recommended it was, that it was the re-
peal of an excise duty. The repeal of an excise,
and not • customs, dry was certainly the recogni-
tion of • salutary principle. ("Hear, bear." from the
protectionist members.) Now he knew very well that
a conventional indulgence was always exhibited towards
the finance of • whir ministry. (Laughter.) They could
not expect the government to excel in every branch. The ,
foreign office by its peremptoty dictation maintained the
dignity of the country, and by its numerous blockades vin-
dicated its supremacy. (Laughter.) The colonial office,
by its ingenuity in making constitutions, upheld the well-
earned reputation of this c tinny as the pattern of liberalism
throughout the wurld—(laeghter)—and there was always
in the pigeon holes of a whirr cabinet a traditionary policy
which inevitably rendered Ireland rich and England cemented,
These were circumstances which compels, eted for an occa-
sional deficit and for startling propaitions to double the
income tax. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Re repeated
that the finance of the government was a subject which
had always been treated with indulgence. But there was a
limit even to parliamentary patience, and as two months
had elapsed sines they had the exposition of the govern-I
meat, wed u, so fat as they could form an opinion, there was
no prospect whatever of their ideas being fulfilled and
completed, be thought it would be indiscreet on the part of
the house hastily and hurriedly to vote money without giv-
ing these gentlemen an oppor unity of telling them what
their intentions were. (Hear, bear.) Honourable
members on that aide of the house were par-
ticularly interested in that question. It was not • monstrous
asenaption that they would hear no mire of the Stamp
Defies Bill ; for the ease of the Stump Bill was a much more
aggravated case of ministerial incompetence than thet of the
Sugar Bell, and it three failures in the Sugar Bill brought
the government to the 25th of August, with four failures in
the Stamp Duties Bill, it amounted almost to a certainty
that the original scheme of the government or one at all
similar to it could no longer be contemplated as a political
probability. (Laughter.) What then, was the position of
her Majesty's ministers ? More embarrassed with a surplus
than they had ever been with • deficiency, they had aat
knowledged the distress of the agricultural interest, rod hod
e(lotted • particular sum for its relief, Tbi Chancellor of
the Exchequer bad promised • moiety of the sum at his
disposal, and the house must acknowledge that they might
claim it with re ill grace after snakiest in the interval more
than one attempt to relieve interests which, to their astonish-
ment, they had found to be also suffering. But those at-
tempts had not succeeded. One had failed within the last
few minutes ; and now that her Maj sty's ministers asked
them to form themselves into a committee of supply to vote
public money, he wanted some distinct explanation from
them ae to their Intentions and their means, with
the view of securing for the agricultural interest
the relief as long and so voluntarily promised.
(Cheer) Ho asked whether the circumstances which
prompted the government to come forward at the end of
February and announce to the bouts that • considerable
portion of their surplus was ready for the relief of that in-
tereet—he put it to the house whether there had been such
en alteration in those cinema:those as rendered the engage-
ments of her Majesty's min eters less binding ? He knew
there had been an opinion prevalent on the treasury
bench that alter Easter they (the protectionist man-
hen) would meet with more cheerful counte-
nance* and that the passing cloud which had
lowered over the broad fields of England would have va-
nished. (Hear, hear.) Wes that the cues? (Hear.) They
were now told by the nterithsra of gov. rnment in another
place, that this unprecedented depression, resting upon the
agricultural interest, was an exceptional CYO. (Hear, bear.)
Excerptions' in what respect ? Were they to understand
that low prices were exceirt-nal ? Why, he had thought
that it was to attain low price. that parliament had changed
re legislation. (Cheers.) He could not admit that the
circrostances were exceptional. It was not for the credit
of that house, or of this present or the late govern-
reset, to believe that them circumstances were ex-
aptiowel. (Hear, hear.) If wheat were selling at 800.
• quarter. he could understand the legit which would
make • free trader telt him that the circumstances were
exceptional ; hut when what was selling at 3-ss. a quarter,
instead of denouncing the sale he must regard the 'fiat's of
a legitimate end 'eminent character. But if that were the
, ease it was still more important that her Majesty's ministers
, reould inform the hour what they Intended to do to relieve
the agricultural intend!, mourning as he .lid that the legis-
lati el a apecting the stamps was defunct. If It were
necessary to relieve the agriculturiet interest two
months ago, the necessity was still more urgent now.
teem "to"votetheawagrettniormepau;:lic b'flei.)ards It" telelxPrhetedm
distinctly whether they meant to proceed to another at-
tempt to complete the budget upon their original scheme,
an', if nut, what they proposed 'o do for the relief of the
staging agricultural elegem' of this country, (Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL mid he tt•mght it hardly worth the
I
a. gentlemen's while to proyent the how.. from proceed-
ing to the prerticel hiseineee of .he evening, either for IL.
rake of the inf innst•nn which he bad conveyed to the
a -ese—(langhter)—or for the purpcel of inking the in-
'Prig which he had mad,. ( Renewed heighten) In the
first pl me, the hon. gentleman had iniureneo the house that
when the house went into con mittee of supply, they would
orobably do so for the purpose of voting politic money.
As hit right I.oli. friend the First Lord of the Admiralty had
giros Lotice of the u•s.l cremate, that information he
thought, was beraely erquired. In the next place, the Yon.
gonileroen intortnad the house that it was the usual course
d all minis ere to brig ig 1-rward the ImdKet very early; to
state what they into ad to remit, and then to pr,cved with
the nip:disk Now thee woe en: the reel course. (" Hear,
h. -.r.' end I rip Itt,r I In titre. .of poamt it would not be a
"r 7 ' zWrrilurt ten'. . it-tine. of -.r uoal be utterly