Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

CHURCH-RATES BILL

d. Trelawney,
Is. said

t tilt Committee on the Church-
taken at a morning sitting on Tuesday.,

LONDON CORPORATION BILL

that the House should re.solN'e itself into a
lys and Means, a fruitless discussion took
pct of the London Corporation Bill, which
:ropolitan members called 99. the Home-
mug forward during the present session.
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTIIY.

Committee of IV

place on +.l'. 1.;

e of themh

Secretary not to .1

Mr. DISRAELI
condition of the c
Ministry in a mo:
was not only just

rose to make some remarks on the financial
country. Reviewing the conduct of the late
onetary point of view, he contended that it
Aifiab le, but praiseworthy. Th ey 'had been

e first for thi ndcessity of meeting an extra-
of, three and a-half millions during the

tirdinary dimiand

ltry had be(

Lions as to the resources of the
more than realised, by the result. Tht
lace of the year's revenue over the estimatE

'heir expo

exceo -ofthe pro(

have fully met fi
eumstinees whit

se demand, but for the extraordinary cir-
-1 had arisen in Europe. He declared
rag of Abe country had been left to his
;ate perfectly satisfactory, and that, having
,t with the full concurrence of the House,
Parliairient or out of it could question the
tly taken to improve the condition of the
at our defences in a proper state: He made
,ese remarks in reply to those who had most Unfairly mis-
.epresented the financial policy of the Ministry of which he
was a member. As to the proposition of the present
Government, he' fully approved of their decision to meet
the actual deficiency by taxes, and not by hian. Referring
to the new'tlixes of Mr. Gladstone, •he thought that if the
malt credit' were to be disturbed, it should have ber--
the hOpe of a greater 'resource. As to the
regretted that

at 'the finance

been' done excep
_ _

navy; and to pu

compelled
Still lie

ne Chancellor of the Exchequer should have
to resort to the tax at the late period of the
admitted the necessity of having recourse to

inestion
on that

emergency ; and; that there
Is to the' amount, he would not
head. He admitted this ; and in

3overnment he yet did not

k that rrc

aking the whole inc

ne warmth against the proposition
crease of the tax upon the next half
ctionable' and in some respects an
mg with unnecessary severity and

If w•as an .objet

)ggible, plan,

•eover, quite unneCeg:
nidment in committ
tctionable arrangeme
tciples, he argued in
1, and urged the cot

ig portion Of the Community; it was,
sar3r ; he should, therefore, move an
tee, with a view of removing the
ants. Adverting to general financial
favour of indirect over direct taxa-
untry to keep such a treasure as the
lot to be touched in ordinary cireuln-
s, they were now raising £70,000,000
this could not be done continuously
punity. He I6oked upon the expec-
m the civil estimates aF delusive.
al people, and these estimates were
nubile advantage. He came to the
,nditure, which was far. from
at , present th

nne-tax in reserve, n

Lees. As to the futurc
'ar by taxation,' and

any epipitrk with 1111

daily -raisea of the

deficiency of
Mat, under

lot a ery
,was eon-
our defences, Of our
r Such cireumstisuces,
country in this matter
to recent events, he

f our r

v we to d

v. Itefi.nin

dared that if

those neutral poers
tse to be neutral, and

Lance of the power w
obtain. We ought,

therefore, fron

,m-rtot thrust Ihemsi

lves into the

egress we must ei

adva'iliatr

responsibility a

to-be.satisfactor!vto—;
objects raised against
that the. Empe.ror of

l't Country, an