The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-11 00:00:00

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and ti. rdon Mimeo Burke and Winght.—Lrall. Howe.
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LO2VDOX, WEDNESDAY, NOv.ll.

THF ELECTIONS AND 7'HR DAtirIER OF

BRIBERY.

PAkLIAMENT is dissolved to-day. To-night will
be conveyed through the Poet-office the write for
the election of a new House of Commons. The
" sovereign people " will in a few days be called
on to exercise the serious and sacred duty of
choosing the men who are to compose at once the
most powerful and the most popular organ of the
Constitution. How far the coming elections will
differ from those which have taken place under the
old law it is at present impossible to say. The con-
ditions of the context are so entirely changed that
election agents and candidates are now beginning
to realise the full meaning of Lord DERBY'S "leap
•. in the dark." Old traditions, of course, are
powerful over them, but they have an uneasy sus-
picion that those traditions may mislead them.
The old organisations still put themselves in
action, but they find that a power has
arisen around them which knows them not. The
old local leaders, accustomed to manipulate elec-
tions in their boroughs, find the power to do so
slipping through their fingers. Probably it is for
this reason that we hear so much said about the
probability of extensive corruption ut the coming
•lectikn. According to some writers the next
rarlisnecit is to be a plutocracy, and they have
elretely styled it by anticipation the capitalist
l'arlipecerst. But persons who are practically
ngag(ll in borough elections assure us that
the signs at present are rather against the
probability of this result. The Reform Act
itself, by so vastly increasing the number of
electors, by disfranchising all paid agents what-
soever, and by forbidding the conveyance of voters
to the poll, has cut off two gnat sources of the
illegitimate influence of wealth, and rendered the
exercise of that influence in other dinetions more
complicated and difficult. Under the old system
every bribeable man in a constituency was well
known, and his price was quotable in the market.
The Tory agent knew the Liberals he could buy
if Le doubled the Liberal offer ; the Liberal
agent* knew the Tories they mould win
by the same process. But now, in moat
towns the new constituency hoe outnumbered
the old one, and nobody yet knows what, from the
point of view of election agents, the new men are
made of. It is continually complained that
•' nobody knows who's who now." Then, too, it
is rather more difficult than it used to be to apply
the pc euniary test to the political virtue of the
new voters. The Corrupt Practices Act has not
added much to the penalties of bribery, but it has
made the machinery for its discovery and punish-
ment far more efficient that it has over been before.
t will Le a dangerous thing to offer money to a man
whose corruptibility is not fully and certainly
known. Indeed, it will be a dangerous thing to
singer bribes et ell, unless both parties to the
transaction are ui on that footing of dishonouraMe
lc Grab:nee which corruption 1,10e515. Such con-
gide:ices, however, take years to e4tablivii. They

..L^~ rra~y

THE E,

cannot be improvised with respeot to so
class as the nowly-enfrenehised voters.
agents of corruption must feel t'. air way,
will do so with so great an additional sense
certainty and danger as will opale
heavy discouragement in their week.
will they feel as much contempt
" petition" as they have hitherto shown.
presentation of sueh a petition is easier ,
was, and its trial will be a very different ani
much more formidable thing when oonduoted by
a judge upon the spot than it was in a committee-
room of the House of Commons. In theseoironm-
stances, and under all these disoouragement", we
cannot see resew to anticipate any unusual ex-
tent of corruption in the approaching elections.
There may possibly be but little less, but we can-
not believe there will be sure; and, though there
may be a larger number of petitions, they will be
due rather to the greater facilities for petitioning
than to any breakdown of the law for suppreselog,
bribery.
One other fact mud be named which may have
considerable influence on the chances of corrupt
influence being widely influential. Hit to
bribery has thriven in towns where the divides
of the electors between the two parties wee Mau,:
ably close, But, with the exception of the purely
agricultural boroughs, that division is not only.
far lees close than it was. but a vastly prepaid'•
rating power has been given to the Moral
side. In Birmingham it is found that
nearly all the now electors are extreme Liberals,
and the preponderating Liberal majority is be-
lieved to be sufficient, not only to counteract the
ingenious device of the minority clause, but to
give the lowest of the three Liberals a clear majo-
rity of 4,000 votes over the highest of the Tories.
In many other large towns a similar result is antici-
pated, and the only danger to Liberalism in such
boroughs is that the new electors look for candi-
dates of a too advanced type to be pleasing to the
mor c moderate section of the party. But this
pro ponderance is fatal to the arts of corruption.
It renders those arta needless on the ono side and
us, lees on the other. There is no possibility of
safely bribing many hundreds of voters in one
constituency, yet there are few borough constitu.
encies—exoept those of small agricultural
boroughs—in which the purchase of many hun-
dreds of votes will not be needful to influence the
result. We believe that all these considerations
will tell so formidably against corruption that,
with a little watchfulness on the part of those
who desire to suppress it, •it may oven now be
eliminated from many constituencies which, in
other times, have boon unfavourably aft,eted
by it.

Cu, to discern
idea in numerous cases.

presence

WHAT 18 ITI

Tun subjoined advertisement appears oonspi-
enously in the seoond oolumn of the Mom :
11 B.—Retained alree for the Conservative
irellutesee..rt"rtiumadvtairgresnes=l"
Lit a legal gentleman with • fluent tongue or
front of brass, and no particular prissolides, "re-
" Mined to eons* formed at the last mement as
• third or fourth " liberal" candidate, to open a
breach for • Tory omaidae to pass through P Or
is it limply a distinguished pugilist, or a select
troupe of roughs P

OUR ca

mils DAY.)

a tears .L sereureor.
The Timea ooatabre ea elaborate review of the
histrei of the reformed parliament from 1131 to the pre-
sent thee, and arrives at the general criarinsion that the
country has governed itself, and can chasers impulses
in that respect with any former period. The moral, how-
ever, of this history is the vary contrary of what it was to
be by au enticipatiome. One fault has pervaded all
the governorate of the period, and that was that
they have really not kept pace with the natural
progress of the nation, with its nermaities, or its
sentiments. In the sense of metro!, there has been
too much government; in the higher sense of animating
and guiding the life of the nation, there has been too little.
All the great resistances have, however, failed, while many
petty victories of conservatism only remind us of what Is
now to be done. The political mate is not deteriorated.
The traditions are almost intact. It is still as difficult as
ever for men of inferior metal or lees calibre to force their
way to the frost. If anybody expects a dissolution of
political manners and prejudices in the days that are at
band be is expecting probably what his father expected
before him, and the event may possibly prose him
wiser than his father; but it also may prove hies to be
no wiser, and that is the alternative which the Tinn
thinks the more probable of the two.

1.0 NNW POLMC/J. LIPS.

The Doily News thinks it difficult to imagine a period
more fruitful of results than that on which the leaf hat
kit been turned. The revolution which England has
weed through has been a revolution of thoughts, feel-
ings, and policy, rather than of institutions. All the ex-
tarsal feature*, eo to speak, of the constitution remain
the mom The throne, the Rouse of Lords, the church,
us in appaaraisoe what they were. But the spirit of
everything has been renewed. Possibly the new
political generation on which England enters to-day
will resemble m its essential features that which is now
closed. A new force had obviously become necessary, not
simply to give additional strength to, but to continue in
its original vigour, the movement dating from 1832. The
old impulse had spent itself. Most probably the changes
which are impending, whatever they may be, will m little
affect the forms of things as the revolution which dates
from 1832.

XI. DIIMAILL

There is nothing, says the Ref, more strange and
singular io the career of the Frowsier than the utter care-
lema with which, at caftan IDOMeltll, is order to make
• party:cry, he deals with facts at home and abroad. He
appeals to the country m the saviour of the comalitutioa,
as the founder of goodwill with America, and as the
triumphant pacificator of Europe, bat within a fortnight
the elections will slow the value which the country Saar
on Hr. Disraeli's estimate of himself and his deeds, and,
in spite of his brilliant audacity, he will fall "sever to
ries 'gala."
The Herald so far einem with the Timm that it is re-
joiced to think there is still one great statism who will
do what in him bee to prevent the debates in parliament
and the election speeches from degenerating into as dreary
a record as that book on the Wan of Pisa by Oiniciardiai,
to the peraal of which a Florentine criminal, who it was
armed to him as an alternative punishment. preferred
immediate execution

of tho
than

we bins crwried oa MF roh000" , pope
modification of mug artitise the
*lndy of Pgria, PIO 1 lam of
prevailing any singleeM exerShing
billnenee is the internal of the Danubian
inaipalitiee, sad to roadie the supreme power
• Porte over the Priadpotitios leas illusory
%hitherto been the owe.'

HUNGLItY.
I~er'
11* mend** below*. to the 717:15 thelltn-
garb* delegation have Caned their meek in ma-
ieff el the reeoleeles team by the Lower
yesterday Drelative to the title to be borne
by seedgas it Austria sod Thuggery.
Iliwyeror left for Vienna last night

ITALY.
1118114111, Nov. U.
last" &Nisi& boat Psycho has arrived
Hcr Imo, •
mow: dam trivia Hadyidoa is daily
ovoidal bin, whoa oho will mho& tho Earl of
Mayo, tie mow "%away of India.

rn
(Via Briiliel.)
BOMBAY, Oar. 24.

It is announoed that Muscat has fallen without
a atingle, and that flynd Botha, the Imam, has
been deposed and suceeeded by the chief of the
Wschabres.
Te cotton crops in Behar are reported to be
most luxuriant.
Cholera has almost disappeared at Bombay.
Terms of peace have been oonoludad with the tribes
of the Hussunzym, Ahamies, and Cbiggursales,
and alio with the Bands of the Purraroe district.
The exixditionery fords is how operating against
the independent Bwateee.
Bieknee-s is on the increase among the troops
owing to the recent hardships and exposure during
the mountain warfare.
Accounts received from Bajpootans, in Central
India, are still very unfavourable as regards the
impending famine.

CALCUTTA. OCT. 20.

The meteorological department has organised
the system of storm signals to be exhibited at seve-
ral prominent places in this city.
Reports from Assam represent the condition of
all crops as satisfactory.

SINGAPORE, Oar. 9._

A public meeting has been convened at the
Town Hall to protest against a breach of faith
on the part of the Home Government with that
colony in the matter of military contribution.
SHANGHAI. Barr. 26.

The survey of the Yellow River in China under-
taken under the auspices of the Asiatic Society,
bad commenced. _

Mr. Cooper had reached as far as Bathange
when the Chinese authorities refused to allow him
to cross over into Thibet. He has fallen back upon
the Bliamo route in the direction of Calcutta.

At Hong Kong the fees for gambling licenses
have increased from 136,000 to 206,000 dollars per
11311111111. _ _

Advice. from Yokohama to the 20th state that
the political aspect of affairs has undergone no

AXIIRICA.

RIM YORK. No•. 10.

Closing prices : Gold closed at 1341; the highest
quotation during the day was 1351; the lowest,
1343 ; sterling exchange on London, 1091 ; 5-20
United States Bonds, 1882, 1085 ; ditto, 1885,
1065 ; ditto,lB6s, 109 j; 10-40 United States Bonds,
105; Illinois, 142; Erie, 39 ; Cotton, middling
upland, 241; petroleum, standard white, 273 ; flour,
extra State, 6 dole. 45c. to 7 dolls. sc. ; corn, old
mixed. 116 doh,.

advocates,
the bit.
opening
. Bsudin
Nation-4k
an 01.31 -
," pawed
memory,
Oreini's crime.
That such a law should v seventeen
years of empire. after the amnesty, and after the
letter of hammy 19, is astounding. Of two things,
one, either the government is influenced by has-
leper, fears, or it feels itself in reel danger. In
the latter ease, what becomes of the repeated
esseveratione of the Alicia press, that the old
poetise are reds:ate a stall without any soldiers?
The latest sews of the health of Baron James
de Biotheoldid is fee from eatiefeetory ; he has
peened a bad night
Romini is not much better. The Curt of Palsy
who mane to me him wee politely refused Mais-
el= to the sick chamber. The Pope's Nuncio
paid the maestro a short ridi the other day, but
gavelullatee by asking whether he had lately per-
il:l:mit& the duties of a good catholic.

lie _
AN ANGAGBNANT rirm MAUS.
* met x Darlira,46Vh.
al 1 ... an armoaat of
• "Med wrgsgpossal with *rake at CheaCtd. The
teas Ches.Chilas, bum tune issassmorial, °Detained •
perslaticw el pirates, who have reedssed the transport of
seercimedise from the esteem by the River Han a matter
of extreme difilsalty sad dearer, sad may bays been the
complaiats el asseeheate whose boats lave been pleadered
in light of the ships awaiting their cargo in the harbour of
Swetow.
.. . . . .. . . .

" It amens," says& correspondent, "that on an unlucky
day, times rascals fired epee and robbed a boat that was
bringing down stores for her Majesty's gunboat Bustard,
and ill-treated a British subject in charge ; upon which
the officer commanding the Bastard demanded of the
authorities the immediate apprehension and punishment
of the offenders. The chit mandarin replied that he
wculd most wiringly comply with the demand, but that
he was rot ab'e t do so, as the town of C'hoo. Chi was
tri ugly fortified, and too well manned and armed to be
attacked by the force at his disposal. On the 2)th of
June last, whether in obedience to superior orders or on
hie own respoosibility does not appear, Lieutenant Cecil
Jot uson, commanding the Bustard, steamed up the river
and anchored at about a mile and a quarter from the town
of Chop-Chi. Having madearrengements with some man-
darins commanding 300 troops, Lieutenant Johnson sun-
mooed the town to surrender. This was at once peremp-
torily refused, and he landed, accompanied by fir.
Thompson, acting British consul at Swatow, as interpreter,
and Dr. Jones, also of that place, who had volunteered to
attend the wounded, there being no medical officer on
board the Bustard. Lieutenant Johnson placed himself
et the head of the mandarin's troops, and marched on
' the town, which was well fortified, and mounted
two guns. The Chinese troops seem to have fol-
lowed we 4 under a fire from two guns and a large
body of small-arm men, until they got inside the outer
stockade, when suddenly they came upon ground that was
staked with spikes of iron and hard wood, and being with-
out shoes, and exposed to a galling fire, their further
advance became an impossibility, so they retired, the
wounded being well cared for by Dr. Jones. Finding it
impossible to storm the place with the small number of
Englishmen under his command, and it being evident that
the pirates could bring at least 600 men to any given
point, Lieutenant Johnson returned on board his gun-
Wet and weed fire on the place, which was kept up till
dark. In the night of the 29th Lieutenant Johnson
landed a 24-pounder howitzer, which, manned alro-
tected by 16 men from the Bustard, was got into position
within 600 yards of the fortifications, and opened upon
them on the morning of the 30th. After some hours fire
had breached the earthworks of the inner fortificatione, the
imperial troops again took courage and followed the
English lieutenant to the assault; they were, however,
driven back with great less, and it was only after two
lays' bombardment, and when the town wee on fire in
several places, that Lieutenant Johnson succeeded. with
24 at has own men, in getting pommies of the town,
which, having levelled its fortilostions and burnt the
stockades, he handed over to the mandarin authorities."
The Hwy Keay Daily Rem says that the town of Choo-
Chi sten& in an opsnain surrounded by rice fields. The
ferliiketiens eowskeed of two lines of earthworks, three
lines of deep breed ditches tilled with water, and, outside
all, a strong banshee stockade, the whole covered by two
heavy guns of English manufacture. The town of Moo-
Chi, having become rich from centuries of plunder, has
long been the terror of the mandarins, and a source of
great lore and anxiety to the merchants of Swatow, to
whose thanks, the imeW paper states, Lieutenant Johnson
is entitled, for having taken and placed under imperial
control this den of robbers.

Zbt Court.

WIN—DOOR COSTLY!, Nov. 10.

The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by the Princess of Wales, and walked with Prinee4.s
Louise in the grounds in the afternoon.
The whole of the royal family and Count Gkichen dined
with the QOlllll. _ _ .

After dinner Der Majesty's private bend played in the
drawing-room before the Prince and Princess of Wales,
the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal),
Prince and Primal Christian, Princess Louise, Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Bestrice, and Princess
Charlotte of Petunia. . . .

The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and visitors at the
Castle had the honour of joining the royal party.
The following bad the honour of being invited after
dinner:—The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, General
the Hon. C. and Mn. Grey, Colonel the Hon. D. and
Lady Elisabeth de Roe, the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, M.,
Madame. and Miss Van de Weyer, the Dean of Windior,
Captain Arthur Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Engl....heart,
Mr. Collins, and Mr. Woodward.
The band played the following selection :
Overture, " Roy Rim". . . .
Allegretto, "et gisfertio"
Demo ekeiloodukatio, " Memos et Dwane. C. tiosoxl.
Overture, " Borame" F. &tuber,
MT de Billet, "Lee Rogoeseirr ..........
rareir
Overture, "_ (pens"

licaklmohe
Beethoven'.

Im Bouquet der Demo Wawa
The Queen went out this storming, accompanied by
Princess Beatrice and Princess Charlotte of Prussia.
The Princes, of Wales and the Crown Prince.. of
Prussia also went out.

The Queen of the Netherlands visited her Majesty to-
day, and remained to luncheon. Ifer Majesty was SC\lOll3.
panied by the Crown Prince of Prussia, who visited the
Queen of the Netherlands in London this morning.
On her Majesty's arrival at the Castle she was received
at the entrance by the Queen and the royal family. at-
tended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting.
The Queen of the Netherlands. attended by the County"
Bentinek, Baroness de Dedem, Count Itandwyck, and
Captain Oeraerts, de Simoinhaven. returned to London by
the Great Western Railway in the afteruoon.
Count Gleichen, General Sir William Knolly.,
Mr. Fisher. Dr. HoL:mann. and Ur. ltob.•rtc.m. b•ft the
Castle this morning.
Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., has filllCANWhili
W. H. F. Cavendish as Groom in Waiting.

The Queen will hold acouncil at Windsor Castle to-day
(Wednesday).
'Vines Hassan, second von of the Viceroy of Egypt., had
an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-otriee yes-
terday.

It ie understood that the reversion of the Mar-
quis of Hastings in the whole of the family eatute e. both
in England and Scotland, was some time sine* sold to his
Oster.
Count von Normann, seuretary to hie Royal
Rigtutees the Crown Prince of Prussia, has left the Palace
Hotel, Buckingham-gate, for Berlin.
Lord and Lady Nigel Kennedy and family have
left their residence in Grosvenor-place for the Continent
for the winter.
Lady Leigh and the Hon. Miss Leigh, Sir
Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., and Lady Octavio and
Miss Stewart have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-

square.
Hir Walter Riddell, Kart.. and Lady Riddell
have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, from
the Palace, ILaidetoue.
Tehterday morning the Earl of March, eldest
eon of the Duke of Richmond, wail married to Mize Amy
lacy 'Moira°. eldi,t daughter of Mr. Percy Rioardio, at
St. Venn. Chtint, Knightdiridge. Captain Chaplin acted
as giconurten. The bridesmaids were the doter and two
totieine of the bride end two other young ladled No
ininudiate relatives of the bridegroom appear to have
been prevent.

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MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

Mr. Bright yesterdsyevening, in oomplisnoe wit►
a anaseroualy limed requisition, addressed a crowded meet.
lag of the gun trade of Birmingham in the Town-hall.
Mr. Wm. Soon preeided ; and =conga theee present were
Mr. Dixon and Mr. Muntz, the liberal candidates for t►e
bon:mgt. ; and Mr. G. F. Muntz and Mr. Flower, the
liberal candidate for the representation of North War.
wickshire.

The CHAIBYAN, in opening the proceedings, said that
up to the Crimean war the government of this oocntry
had alway 6 relied upon the gun trade of Birmingham tar
its supply of small arms for the public service. At that
time the government stocks were at a very low ebb, and
commissions were sent out to Belgium and America, he:
he believed not a single rifle was received from either
country during that struggle. At the same emu the now
enormous establishment of the government et Eutr.:d
was begun; but he believed that it .L.I no,
furnirli a single arm until 18.58. He complainel .tren.ey
of the injury done by that establishment to the gun wets
of Birmingham. and characterised it as mod unfair set
unjust to that department of the trade of the town, whisk
in the great emergency of the Crimean war, and all pre-
vious occasions, had rendered such good serviee to the
country. In conclusion, he strongly appealed to the tam-
ben of the country to return representatives who would
apply all their energies to redress this monstrous piece
injustice.
Mr. BRIGHT, who on riming was received with meek
chewing, paid—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, if we were
to jug/e by the advertisement under which this meeting
has been assembled we should conclude that it was one not
only of a peculiar character, but that it had reference
to private, or sectional, or trade interests, rather
than the great interests of the country ; but I understand
that those by whom this meeting has been convened have
no intention whatever of urging upon their present or
their future representatives any course in regard to say
particular trade or industry which shall not be consistent
with the true policy of government and the true
interests of all portions of the people. 'Sheen.)
I have always been of opinion that it was a great
mistake for the government to undertake the chine-
ter of manufacturers. I believe it is so with re-
gard to the building of ships. I believe it is so with re•
gard to the manufacture of clothing for the army. I
believe it is so likewise in the manufacturing of true.; and
I recollect that so long ago as 40 years since a committee
of the House of Commons peered a resolution which
seems to me to include nearly all that can be said upon
this matter. In the year 1828 a committee of the
of Commons reported thus :—" The committee are not
disposed to place implicit reliance on the arguments
which have been urged by some public department.
against the contracts by competition, and in favour of
work by themselves—the latter plan occasions the
employment of a great many officers, clerks. artificers.
and workmen, and not only adds to the patronage, but te
the appearance and the importance of • department . ear
can the committee suffer themselves to feel any prejudice
against the contract system by reference to some instances
of failure ; they believe that most cases of failure may be
attributed to negligence or ignorance in the management
of contracts rather than to the system itself,- Now. ii I
were to put into one sentence my opinion upon du,
matter, I should quote this sentence, which I find in a
speech-the most able speech on this question I suspect eve,
spoken in the House of Commons by our lamented friend
Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) On the 22nd of July. within lee
than a year of his death. be delivered this speech ; and this
is an extract from it. He says:—•• This is the principle
that I have always advocated—that the government
ought not to be allowed to manufacture for itself any
article which can be obtained from private producers in a
competitive market—(cheers)--and if we have entered
upon a false system in this respect, we ought so far es
poadble,
pomible, to retrace our steps.' (Hear, hear.) Now. if all
the speakers to-night devoted all their attention exclu-
sively to this topic, they would not be able more thoroughly
to examine the whole question and to explain it than as
done in this speech. (Hear, bear.) The etPendi-
ture of our ivernment is excessive in every depart-
ment—(cheer —and wherever it is exceed there exceeded
grows up rap* y a powerful interest which is not in har-
mony with the Interest of the people. (Cheers.) Every
man who lives on the public expenditure, whatever be his
service, comes naturally to have an interest—a personal in-
terest--which, if he is not very careful, takes sides velar
the interstate of the taxpayer—(mar. hear) —and you have
in this country. with your expenditure, your mili-
tary expenditure only--I mean military an
naval—you have an expenditure of more thee
28,000,000/. per annum ; and there live upon that
26,000,000/.. so vast a body of men—men looking for
better wages, better salaries higher Promotion. 'lilt
they form necessarily a moat powerful ineuenoe, saner
constantly upon the executive. and against the interests
the taxpayer. (Hear, hear.) . Let me tell you this: the
present House of Commons. on its present system, seem=
to be whollyincapable of contending with thei power. Io
fact, many scores of men are Mee/teed in this expenda-
tute. I suspect May hundreds who have seats in that
house—and if you will trace fora moment the manner
in which the expenditure is determined on and the este
mates are p
ropueoloou will see how difficult it is for
three members for Birmingham, or for thirty, to make
much difference in this matter. The heads of departments—
the Horse Guanle for the army, the Admiralty for the navy
produce certain proposals with regard to expenditure
which are laid before the caleuct ; but the public are
never heard et the Hone Guards, or at the Admiralty.
(Hear, hear.) I hare not referred to any throne le
preparation for this meeting. but I suppose that within
the led twenty years, or little more, the expenditure
of the country has risen by nearly 20.000.0..1W.
per annum. I peppiest,. that sauce the tine
when the Puke of Wellington and ter Robert l'oel wen? at
the head of the government, a few yearn after the peeing
of the Reform Act of lee/ the military expemhturo of the
government has been doubled. and all this when the
changed, and when we dotetlretend to mdertaketo settle
all the affairs of Europe--- leughl and when we twe
foreign policy of the country has been reformed end
told continually that her ajeety's relation.. to . other
states are of the most amicable kind, end there o. not
so much as the slightest cloud in the sky. Now.
what is wanted is an entirely new eystem. and
I will in one single sentence tell you a
tb
estimates shouldno longer be left to be determined
ought to be; in one particular. the formation .!‘
Hone el uards, or the Admiralty. or the Cabinet
ought to be an honestly chosen committee of the H
Commons, which pretends to hold the . puno
nation —it does so, indeed, but its
always in it (Loud cheers.) Vihy
stmid of having 6:10 gentlemen, who for ~..
pert know nothing about the mates, to determine
questions, all the estimates ought to be referred
honestly chosen committee of the House of Common
that committee ought to go into the consideration
whole question, ought to bear opinions to take
and make make a report with regard to every item
mates which it resents to the house.
opiuiou that the time is coming when
England will begin to discover that this ~
very grave importance-70 millions a year
Seventy millions a year! I got a letter to
somebody— I have not brought it with me—but
a gentleman who has read what I said the
at Edinburgh. Ile tells me that I do
anything about seventy millions. for
know correctly how much one nulhe
and 1w bap sent me a calculation of how many bat,
it would take, pal.d one upon another. and peeved.
to resell as high as the Monunieut : but if pin w
70 millions, and think what it is in tee years,

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