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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1853.

The real contest on the Budget will commence
this evening. Hitherto it has been confined to
the sharpshooters and skirmishers of the "Fourth
Estate." But it will no longer be an affair of
outposts—the legislative corps on either side will
at length be compelled to take an active part in
the engagement, and the fate of the conflict, and
with it of theABBRDEEN-RussELL-IVIoLEswoRTH Ad-
ministration, will depend on the result of the first
trial of strength between theThelligerents, on the
division respecting the renewal of the Property
and Income Tax without change or modification,
and that not for three years, but for seven years
more. That there are good points in the Budget,
we freely and willingly admit, and for these
we are disposed to give every reasonable de-
gree of credit. But it is not because we
approve of the extension of the Probate and
Legacy Duties to real estate that we ars
bound to sanction the monstrous iniquity—the
infamous injustice perpetrated on the industrious
classes, or to give an assent to its perpetuation—
for a renewal for seven years is to all intents and
purposes equivalent to a perpetuity. It is im-
possible for Mr. GLADSTONB to give any valid-or
binding pledge as to what the Legislature
will do in 1860. The then Representatives
of the people may entertain fiscal opinions
of a very different character from those which he
now professes. They may not be so very willing
to sacrifice the rights of industry on the altar of
property, or to maintain a number of vexatious
imposts, in order that accumulated and realised
property should be exempted from contributing
anything towards the liquidation of the National
liabilities or the maintenance of the National
Establishments. Many circumstances may arise
to render the redemption of the promise impos-
sible or inexpedient. The only points for con-
sideration, then, will be-Ist, whether the tax
should be at all renewed in its present form, at
least until some bona fide attempt had been made
to remove some of its glaring inequalities, and to
afford something like an approximation to justice.

2d. Whether the term for which it has been
demanded should not be limited to two, or, at
the outside, three years; so that the popular branch
of the Legislature should be enabled to exercise
its legitimate control over the fiscal and financial
policy of the nation.
On the first of these points, it would be a work
of supererogation to repeat the arguments which we
have so repeatedly, almost incessantly, put for-
ward, showing the very important differences be-
tween precarious and permanent incomes. Mr.
GLADSTONE is, or at least professes himself to be,
unable to recognise the distinction ; but we ven-
ture to assert that no other person of ordinary
ability who has been instructed in the primary
rules of COCKER could feel any difficulty on the
subject. As we announced on Saturday, " The
Times
even yet observes, it is clear to every one else
'what are precarious incomes, and what are not."
NOW, Mr.DisRAELI recognised the distinction; and
had the first
portion
of
hisdlvision been taken on that
have been Budget, the result might
veorYlah labour of
statement different from what it has
been, and th
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GLADSTONE. n
upon Mr.
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even Lords ABERDay reasojnably suppose that
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RUSSELL dis-
.erned a distinction between trdifferent kinds
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suppose of income. We cannot for a moment°
these Noble Lords endeavoured t o obtains
gence under false pretences, or that their speeehnesuto-
which such frequent allusions have been made were
delivered without any real intention of proposing
an equitable, or comparatively equitable, arrange-
ment of the vexed question. No, they gave their
Own impressions at the time, but unfortunately
they have suffered themselves to be overruled by
the crotchets of GLADSTONE and WOOD (there is,
perhaps, not a third member of the Cabinet
who would abide, with such perverse ob-
stinacy, by the untenable proposition), and have,
therefore, shown themselves to be totally unfitted
for the stations they respectively occupy.
The notion that, because the number of those
litho earn entirely industrial incomes are compara-

* " Miseries of Prostitution." By James Beard Tal-
bot. London.

♦ " Prostitution in London." By Dr. Ryan. London.
$: "De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris." 2 tomes.
Par Parent-Duchatelet. Paris.

§ " Letters in the Morning Chronicle—Metropolitan
Poor." By Henry Mayhew. London.
" The Great Sin of Great Cities. Being kreprint,
by Request, of an article entitled Prostitution.' From
the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review for July,
1850.". Bvo., pp. 52. Chapman. London, 1853.

ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COURT.—We understand that
her Majesty, who is progressing most satisfactorily to-
wards perfect recovery, and who is expected to be able
to take a carriage airing in a day or two, will, with
Prince Albert and the Royal Family, prolong their so-
journ in the Isle of Wight, for which place the departure
of the Court continues fixed for Saturday next, until the
third week in May, and the Royal natal day will, it is
probable, be passed in comparative privacy, at the
Queen's marine residence. The King of Hanover, it is
understood, will stand sponsor in person to the infant
Prince, who will receive the name of George, after the
last monarch of that name, George the Fourth, and of
the King of Hanover. His Royal Highness the Prince
of Prussia, one of the intimate personal friends of the
Queen, who is now at Potsdam, and the Princess, have
been invited, with other illustrious foreigners, to be
present at the Royal christening, which will take place
in the middle of' June. The Court season, which will
commence about the Ist of June, though short, is ex-
pected to be brilliant.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen have undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22nd inst. :
Messrs. Thomas Forder, Winchester ; Edward William
Alexander, St. Helena ; William Cuthbert Blackett,
Durham; Thomas Henry Moxon, Brigg, Lincolnshire ;
Thomas Dixon' ' Bedford • Joseph Arthur, Shadwell ;
Samuel Joseph Bayfield, St. Thomas-street, Southwark ;
Edward Sword Morley, Blackburn, Lancashire • Jose
Maria de Mier, Santa Martha, New Grenada ; William
Edward Hedge Vaughan, Crewe, Cheshire ; and James
Tirlden Howard, Rochdale, Lancashire.
POETRY AND LITERATURE. -- Professor Aytoun of
Edinburgh, author of the " Lays of the Scottish Cava-
lhu
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tifEea ezr ' indE London, early in May, the
course s of lectures on poetry and dramatic literature which
pwards of 80,000/, have
been suObvscnW. beEdL
memorial to the late Duke
of
Wellington.TLlhtNee
WELLING—
Upwards Tamor
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will be applied to the
erection of a natioal monument
in the shape
the gratuitous, of a
or earl schoo or college bearing his name, for
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pchriilndcreenAolbfeorffit, owerilslinia;htlearinfozdation aßt:yeaolfHtifehness
new
holding so soon as the necessary arrangements are
made, and there is every probability that her Majesty
the Queen will be present at the interesting ceremonial,