The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH. 12, 1855.

The nerretitincellpr of the ExcheqUer will find
it no easy tialrio,froake,, "both; ends, meet" this
year. ThetcOuntry will'ino longer allows the
War to Is'fl4*;;o4 fc.,*eet•,tltC,:tiAti.4ar
expenditure within the national income, nor will
an arwrthlt,..;iPi*ii.o_,o4-.P4
be sanetionsil4rAlte• lucre ; purpose .0, protecting
posterity.l.rNANlA aptom*., .14 on
account - a • war, undertaken ,not, on_ our.
own. account, bl 4 solely fa' the protection of
future gen.:44lone. '.".He must 'distinctly and
unequivOCilly abandon the -GLOSTONE policy if
he desire that the public approbation Should,
crown his labouri: The extraordinary indulgence
afforded to every Ministerial proposition will no
longer be exhibited. We stood almost single
handed in opposition to the principle, that
because it was war time Ministers should be
allowed to act• as they thought proper, without
let or hindrance. It is by no means impossible
that Parliament may now fall into the other ex-
treme, an,d,niore strictly scrutinise every proposi-
tion. It would unquestionably be a safer course—
one that 'could not possibly produce such disasters
as the blind and unreasoning confidence formerly
domande.); 'and so tialiesititingly conceded..." •
The guardians- of the public purse will now
require that-lphe posit,ion of the Coptry
should be -fairly. and candidly placed before them,
that thee"; gliOnld no deception.'„
The estimates should, .therefore, be framed in-the
first instance 'with some degree of' approxithation
to truth anfl Einamial Minister. will hence-
forward be permitted to • put forth palpably
erroneous: aec,ionnts,lfor• ,the purpose of inducing
the representatives of the people to. folk/w.& par-
ticular line,''ofpOliey?,,Which yirpnld unheSitatingly
be rejected:if, there were the slightest, notion of
the supplepietital:definulitS: • 'l ';
Let us now look to the estimates "-broughtt for-
ward in the first instance last year, and compare
them with the-actual
„expenditure. The original
claim was 17,621,312/. -- the real outlay,
2'7,153,931/. There was __thus_ an error of
mete than. .54 per cent., and that on the
wrong side --of the • account ! We' should
•"-haii allowed an •
ample
margin
for any mitAtikfis, considering the want of eXperi-
ence and:44B4m'
that' characterised our public sex-
Tice ; but 54 it, .
at. tee bad, especially when
so many.o4l4 deiciencies are 'to be accounted
for as those which —all, -Led to the, appointment of
the Selett Committee on the State of the Army
before Sebastoppl.
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But the first estimate of last .year.lis2 al7ad
t.y ,
more than doubled. In place of 76
,
we have 37,427,0034 now demanded ; qnd if,that
should baexceeded in a similar ratio; 50;009,0001.
sterling will scarcely defray the actual cost for Pie
year ending:the sth April, 1856'! ! .
We are 'not discouraged on that account. If
more were 'required it should be freely forth-
coming. • Ins' Order to maintain the honour and
dignity of the British empire not only will our
purse-strings be- readily unloosed,.`but the thews
and sinews OT the adult male population will be
applied te.the same cause. But we ask fOr,--nay
more, wc;(klil 4.llg=fair, play. We insist. on the

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