Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-01 00:00:00

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It was a mere shall-

Mr. Bright said the House of Commons did

to his (Mr. Adderlpy's)

mind the House of Commons had always represented
I had always altered itself to suit the
. Mr. Bright expresses his
but, as he was pretty well off

the country

feelings of the country

hostility to rich men
himself, and had relations ric

h enongh to bribe con-

s animadversions

those rich men who had the misfortune to invest
their money in land; and he said these horrible men,
who filled the House of Commons, had no i

Test in

economy; they only take an interest in extravagance.
He (Mr. Adderley) hardly knew any man in the House
of Commons who so little took his part in any of the
discussions on supply nights as Mr. Bright. He had
scarcely seen him in the House on those occasions for
eighteen years, and he did not recollect him ever taking
part in a discussion on the supplies. He recollected
last session, when he proposed to save this country no
less than £2,000,000 a-year by throwing upon the colo-
nies a task which ought to have devolved upon them
long ago—making them support their own defences.
Now, in such a moment as that was it not reasonable to
suppose that the men who so loudly abused them (the
Conservatives) for extravagance, would only too readily
give the measure their support ? But how was it ? He
(Mr. Adderley) said to Mr. Bright, " I belong to a class

which you accuse of extravagance. I am going to
make a proposal by which a large sum will be saved to
the country. Be it good or bad, will you join me, alid
take part in the debate, and give me your independent
opinion, whether it is done or not, or whether it is
worth anything or not ?" In the course of the debate
Mr. Bright disappeared—(laughter)—long before the
debate was over, without taking part in the discussion.
(Renewed laughter.) Mr. Bright said the House of
Commons was filled with men who were tax consumers
and not tax payers, and he said in his letter to his con-
stituents the other day, in the House of Commons the
leaders were of the class of tax consumers, not tax

payers ; they received more out of the revenue than

Just conceive the common sense
of that. (Applause and laughter.) Mr. Bright said that
those gentlemen whose income was in the shape of

they paid in taxes

salaries had larger incomes than the income tax they

paid upon these incomes. That was a very remarkable
and brilliant discovery. (Laughter.) Those whose
incomes consisted of salary, probably found their saleries
larger than the income tax they paid upon them. (Re-
newed laughter and applause.) Was there ever such
Ise as that talked before ? Ile hardly !mew
what MC Bright would have, except that these officials
should have no salaries at all. But then, suppose they
were to abolish the salaries cof 04vgrnme4t
why it would lead simply to this, that only rich men

could hold offices—a rather aristocratic notion for Mr,
Bright. But let him tell Mr. Bright that there was
nothing dearer than ill or unpaid servants, and it was

cheaper to have servants who were paid well than ser-
vants who were paid little or nothing at all. (Ap-
plause.) He felt sure that if a Reform Bill were intro-
duced—and he believed that the Reform Bill which will
be introduced will be very much like that introduced by
Lord Derby's Government, whatever might be the shuffling
of the political cards—it would only end in strengthen-

ing the Conservative party. (Loud applause.)

ROLLS' COURT, CHANCERY LANE, Nov. 25.
(Before the MASTER of the ROLLS.)
From the " Times" of Saturday.