The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1854.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS,

UNFAIR CHARGES MADE BY THE
NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Shr Paid. RAILWAYS Leasing Cloglna Prices Baldness
Compans. this day. this day.
50 all Bedford and London &
Bletchloy N. West. ...
St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.&N.W. 95 100
St. 100 ClydesdaleJc. Calodon 99 101
St. 100 E. Lincoln gr.
6 per cont. ;Gt.Nrthn. 134 136
25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian.
Neils. Direct
25 all Do. New, Do — •••
25 all Glstr.dt Dn.Fr Gt. Westn
100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New.
Railway & Berw. •..
50 all Hull & Selby Y. &Mid 104 106
25 all Do. :4 Shares. Do . • •••
12i all so. Shares. .Do —
12i all Lon.&Grocnw S. Eastern 13 136
20 all Do. Preference Do 23 —24
10 all Lon., Til., S. Pete &Co ll 111'
St. 100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent. Norfolk ...
St. iOO Do. 6 per ct.
N all 'Ala,nch. Than. L.& N. W
and Matlock & Midid 23 -2i
50 all lliddlesbro' & Stckton &
Rcdcar Darlingt.
101 all Nlidld.Bradfd Midland.. 93 95
50 all Northern and
Easternsp.c. E. Count. 58 60
50 all Do. 6 per ct. o ••• •••
si) all Do. Fixedsp. Do'
25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &N.W.
&Ln&Yk ..„
12+ all Do. Shares, Do • •••
St. 100 Roystn,k Hit. GtNorthn 134 136
25 18$ Shef•Roth Lancash&
Gooleg.s p.c. Yorksh.
12 9i S. Stallordsh. 1 f.3lClean 2 —11 d
50 all Wear Vallem itoekt. &
6 per cent... Darlingt
25 all Do 0......... 30 31
St. 100 Wilts&Bornrst tWestn•____9(2o

THE QUEEN V. NEWTON-THE ALLEYNE CASE AGAIN.
This was an idictment for perjury arising out of the
endless Alleyne case. The defendant was an attorney at
law, and the alleged perjury was said to have been
committed in connection with the Alleyne conspiracy.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sirt,—The above company are wanting to enforce a
charge of 3s. per day for demurrage, which they can-
not charge unless by " agreement," and should any per-
sons so far forget themselves as to agree, this is the way
it would operate in my case. The company commence
their date on the arrival of the waggon at Normanton,
loaded, and again when arriving there empty. The
person using the waggon having no check against the
railway officers entering false dates—take it at the
quickest possible despatch to and from, thus :
Normanton June. Wichnor June. Great Bridge.

Before the jury were sworn,
Mr. Powell, who appeared for the prosecution, said
Captain Kennedy, the principal witness, was absent
in India, and he was therefore unable to offer any evi-
dence in the matter.

Lord Campbell expressed some dissatisfaction at this
announcement, and peremptorily directed that the jury
should be sworn.

for for
N. E. Railway Midland Railway S. Staf. Railway
Arrd. hero Nov. 1 Arrd. here Nov. 2 Ar. here Nov. 3.

This having been done,

Mr. Powell repeated his former observation, that he
was not in a position to offer any evidence in the case.
Lord Oampbell—Gentlemen of the jury, no evidence
having been offered in support of this indictment, it will
be your duty to acquit the defendant ; but I must say
circumstances have come to my knowledge judicially,
which convince me that it is essential for the safety of
her Majesty's subjects that some legislative enactment
should Ole place to prevent the perversion of justice by
preferring indictments for conspiracy.
The jury then returned a verdict of not guilty.
Mr. James, on behalf of the defendant, stated that his
client had been no party to any compromise in this
case. On the contrary, he was quite ready to meet
the charge, and all his witnesses were in attendance.

Empty, Nov. 6 Empty, Nov. 5 -Unloaded, Nov. 4.
Five days occupied under the quickest despatch, four
days allowed—thus securing 3s. for one day in every
trip over and above the illegal charge of ls. 6d. per ton
for waggon hire—and under the present system of ma-
nagement they will take good care the waggon earnsv in
every trip 9s. or 12s. demurrage, and this when agreed
to is an account over which the colliery owner or merchant
has not the least control, because although he unloaded
the waggon immediately on arrival, he is made responsible
for detention in transit. The Railway Consolidation
Act, 1845, with clearing-house regulations, makes this
demurrage a charge made by one railway company upon
the other for detaining the waggon ; the clearing-house
being a disinterested party, and having full particulars
of dates of arrival and departure of each waggon, to and
from each company, they can show in all cases which
railway company has detained the waggon. By their
regulation they debit the railway company detaining the
waggon 3s. per day. I think all reasonable persons will
say this is only fair, because, if not adopted, ono railway
company, not being honest to its neighbour, might de-
tain the rolling stock and use it with their local traffic.
The North-Eastern Railway Company have unloaded 16
waggons of, my coke, and refused to forward it unless
the owner of coke works will agree to the railway oom-
pany charging him with demurrage. It is possible, and
very probable, that the waggon may be detained, as I
have pointed out, and in such cases, under " agree-
ment," the coke works owner or the merchant would be
debited with 3s. per day on this account, over which he
had no control, and to meet this charge it would take
more than the profit in the trade. I refuse to comply,
and my trade is stopped in consequence. I ask the
shareholders, the directors, and the public, is this a fair
and honourable way of managing the railway / lam at
all times willing to pay any correct demand made against
me, but to be charged with an account over which I
have not the least control is what I will never sub-
mit So.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
SLATER ♦. CHILDREN-BREACH OF PROMISE OF

MARRIAGE.

This was an action brought to recover compensation
in damages fora breach of promise of marriage, to which
the defendant had pleaded denying the promise. The
parties moved in a respectable sphere of life, the plaintiff
being a milliner and dressmaker, and the defendant a
retired tradesman, residing at Tonbridge.
Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Honeyraan appeared for
the plaintiff, and Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, with whom was
Mr. Duncan, for the defendant.
The jury having been sworn, •
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins said the parties had consented
to take a verdict for 501.

A verdict for that amount was accordingly returned
by the jury, without the details of the case being gone
into.

I have since tke first opening of the railway brought
a large traffic upon it by every honest endeavour in my
power. I wish to continue to do so ; but the trickery,
and jobbing, and tortuous courses of some of the ma-
nagers is doing everything to prevent me.
These officers are well known to me, and I have no
desire to name them, or do them any injury. If the
shareholders examine the particulars of their railway
accounts I think they would discover that which would
place Mr. George Hudson's doings entirely in the shade.
I trust that your inserting this will cause the share-
holders to enforce fair dealing towards all who wish to
use the railway, and at once do away with all jobbing
officers who are oppressing the poor and corrupting the
rich. Illegal wealth, obtained by trickey management,
will de no good to any one. I ask for fair usage and no
favour.—l am, sir, yours obediently,
WILLIAM OXLADE.
York, Nov. 27, 1854.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Commissioners Evans, Fonblanque, and Holroyd sat,
bat the whole of the cases were for audits and dividends,
and not of the slightest interest.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Reoorder.)
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY CLZRK.

Robert Kersey, a clerk upon the Eastern Counties
Railway, surrendered to take his trial for having em-
bezzled two sixpences, the property of the company, his

masters.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk occasionally
engaged to take the place of the inspectors and ticket
collectors when they took holidays. Upon the 19th of
October the prisoner was so employed at the Barking-
road station of the North Woolwich Junction of the
Eastern Counties Railway. At this station all the
tickets to and from London upon this line are collected,
and if any passenger starts from that station, the
ticket is issued and paid for as at •any other
station, but almost directly upon the party getting
into the carriage, the ticket is retaken, and it became
the duty of the clerk engaged as prisoner was to return
the tickets so collected by him to one of the inspectors,
to be forwarded to the audit office at the close of the
day. The prisoner was upon one period of the day seen
to take the fare for two first-class passengers, 6d. each,
and afterwards not to return the two tickets so issued,
by which the compacy alleged that he had embezzled
the sums paid for them.
The cross-examination elicited that the accounts were
very loosely kept at this point of the line.
Mr. Parry commented at some length upon that fact,
and said that the case was too much in doubt for a jury
to convict his client, who had been for years a servant of
the company, and bore an excellent character,

UNFAIR MANAGEMENT OF THE NORM.
EASTERN RAILWAY.

SP THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
BlR,—Some time ago I wished to purchase a few stacks
of hay, and under the system of managing the above
railway I was compelled to apply to the goods-office,
Newcastle, to be informed the charge that would be
made for the use of the railway conveying the hay to
my order, and the reply was-255. per ton. Under this
charge I would not purchase the hay.
A. more favoured buyer applied for a rate for hay for
the same and a further distance, and one was granted
his!' at 20s. the railuray waggon load—say 35 to 40 cwts.
This person bought the hay. I ask, is there any jobbery
in this management for which the shareholders pay
500/. per year I
If I can obtain some shares before the shareholders
next meeting I will attend to hear what the directors

report.
The management of this railway is likely to prove that
two blacks can make one white, provided, in all cases,
that the first black is more honourable and much the
fairest. A great deal of uproar and misrepresentation
was made about the errors of the Railway King, who
has now become Poor Mr. George Hudson, by honour-
ably giving up his property to meet the claims made
against him, aid this much-abused man did more pub-
lie good in one year than his successors have dono since
they dethroned him. I think if the merchants and the
public compel the shareholders to return all charges
made above what is allowed by the act there will be a
considerable amount to refund. Your inserting this
Will much oblige,—Yours, obediently,
Thirsk, Nov., 1854. A HAY BUYER.
P.S.—lf an abstract of the company's act was posted
up at each station, showing the toll authorised to be
taken for the use of the rail way in large letters, white,
on a black bettrd, or black, on a white board, the unfair
charges would be more difficult to impose.

The Recorder having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

TIIE RUSSIAN ARMY OF THE DANUBE,

The Corriere Italiano of Vienna has the follovr•
ing from Bucharest, of the 14th :--
"The numerous reinforcements sent the Russian
army of the Danube to that of the Crimea have sensibly
weakened Prince Gertschakoff. In spite of the troops
sent him from Poland and from the interior of Russia,
his army, which, although very superior in number,
had been obliged to give way before the forces
of the Sultan, is now reduced to one-half its former num-
ber. Fearing to be attacked at any moment, he is col-
lecting together all his available forces, and has ceased
completely to send reinforcements to the Crimea,
notwithstanding the pressing request of Prince Men-
schikoff. He leas done wisely, for be will soon have
to contend with an army of 60,000 men and 160 pieces
of cannon. And even that number is not all, these
forces being merely the men whom Omer Pacha is con-
centrating on the frontier of Bessarabia, from Busco
te Fokschani. Another army, of nearly as great a
number, remains under Ismail Pacha. It is im-
possible to depict the joy of those who are
going through this place to the frontier ; one would
say that they were going to a banquet rather than
to a battle. The generalissimo, however, neglects
nothing; he is collecting on various points stores of pro-
visions ; the whole line of the Danube has been placed
in a state of defence ; and the fortifications of Silistria,
Giurgevo, and Rassova have been completed, on the
plans of Colonel Dieu. The reserve is coming from
Sebumla, to occupy the places of the Danube, and is
replaced by recruits."

The Rev. W. Hobson, late curate of Portsmouth
Church, who is appointed one of the chaplains to the
forces in the East, has not gone out in the Royal Albert,
but awaits a passage in the Charity, hired transport.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27.—Amongst the passengers to
the Peninsula by the Iberia were Mr. Oliveira, M.P.,
and Mrs. Oliveira. It is understood that the hon. mem-
ber is about to visit the various wine districts in the
Mediterranean, as he has recently done those of France,
to ascertain the effect of the vine disease, the stocks of
wines, capability of increased produce, and reciprocal re-
duction of duties, as bearing upon the proposition Mr.
Myelin is to bring forward on the meeting of Parliament
for a reduction of the wine duties.
THE RECENT ATTEMPTS AT INCENDIARIEM IN MAN-
CHESlER.—Yesterday a man named Benjamin sellers
was brought before the magistrates at Manchester,
charged with attempting to set fire to some warehouses.
About three o'clock on Sunday afternoon a police-officer
saw the prisoner issue from behind a block of warehouses
with a ball of burning cotton waste in his hands. As
soon as he saw the officer, the prisoner attempted to
extinguish the fire, but he was at once taken into cus-
tody, and the waste found in a burning state. The
magistrates remanded the prisoner until a further inves-
tigation is made.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—At a late hour
on Saturday evening a very destructive fire broke out at
the railway station, London-road, Manchester, which is
occupied jointly by the London and North-Western,
and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail.
ways. It originated in the cashier's office of the Man.
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, and before it
could be subdued, had extended to the various offices
of the London and North-Western. The rooms occu-
pied by the Sheffield Company, which were burnt, con-
sisted of the engineer and clerks' offices, and the draw-
ing office, the accountants' and clerks' offices. The
offices of the manager and the secretary were saved. The
cashier's, goods manager's, and stationery offices, be-
longing to the London and North-Western, were all
burnt. The damage, which is very considerable, has
not been ascertained.
FIRE AT READING.—On Saturday a fire took place at
Reading, which caused the destruction of property, to a
large amount. The fire commenced at tie warehouses
of Mr. Wriet, a coal merchant, in Queta's-road, and
communicated to the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Biggs,
jun., a builder. Thnleadworks of Messrs. Clark, which
contained property to the value of 3,0001. also caught
fire. The principal workshops of Mr. Biggs were con-
sumed, and the damage done altogether is estimated at
several' thousand pounds. All Mr. Biggs's premises
were insured, but there is only a partial insurance on
the works of Messrs. Clark.
There are now no less than eight seats in the House of
Commons vacant ; seven of them by the deaths of their
former occupants. Abingdon was vacated by Lord
Norrey's succession to the peerage ; Marylebone, by
Lord Dudley Stuart's death ; Bedford, by the decease of
Mr. H. Stuart ; Coventry, by that of Mr. Geach ; East
Gloucestershire, by Sr Michael Hicks Beach's death ;
Fermanagh, by that of Sir Arthur Brooke ; An trim,
by by
Colonel Pakenhant's death at Inkerman ; and Ar,
that of Col. Hunter Blair, also killed at Inkermaa.
THE CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE.—Professor Wilson has
accepted the appointment to this chair, but on his repre-
sentation that it would be unadvisable to commence the
course of lectures this session, the delegates, at a meeting
held on Thursday, agreed to acquiesce in his views, and
to rescind the resolution formerly come to by them upon
that point. Mr. Wilson will, however, be formally in-
stalled as professor in the beginning of the year, and
will, durin the Highland Societys meetings hers abou
that period deliver a few lectures' ia his class-room gra-
t
tuitously.—Scotsman.
APOTHECARIES TO THE FORCES.—In consequence of
the large number of applications for these appointments
at the office of the Army Medical Department, we have
been requested to publish the following official memo-
randum :—" It is understood that apothecaries to the
forces will be selected from the dispensers of medicines
who are already employed with tie army in the East."
We may add, that dispensers of medicines have the same
pay and rations as assistant-surgeons, and wear a plain
uniform. They undergo an examination at the office of
the department, and are generally selected from those
who have testimonials of ability as dispensers from re-
spectable druggists.—Medical Times.
Tim RUSSIAN PRISONERS AT LEWES.--Three of the
Russian officers who were on parole in this town and
three of the privates who were in the war prison took
their departure on Friday afternoon for London, en route
for Russia, in exchange for English prisoners captured
by the enemy. The officers who have taken their de-
parture aro Captain Von Essen, Captain Snellman, and
Lieutenant Pischulin, of the Imperial Horse Artillery,
who were taken at Bomarsund. A few days since one
of the officers on parole purchased one of Colt's revolvers
of a gunsmith in the town, and he subsequently received
an order for about a dozen more, but before executing
it he consulted a legal gentleman, and declined to supply
them. These circumstances became noised abroad in
the town, and eventually reached
he the ears of the local
representatives of the Government; t result of which
was that inquiries were instituted as to the purchaser,
and that having been ascertained, the weapon was de-
manded from lainl and taken.

THE ME.ETING OF PARLIAMENT,

- (Front the Times.)
The replace of the regiments of the line on Mediter-
ranean service by the Militia is not the only object of
the early meeting of Parliament. It must have occurred
sometimes to everybody who has thought about it, that
with preparations continually increasing to a larger and
still larger scale, the resources of the Exchequer must
be almost exhausted. That, in fact, is the case, and
Government must want money. It is, not a result
wholly unforeseen, for the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer did not profess to provide for the expenses of
the war till next February, and, had the war taken the
turn that was generally anticipated at the date of his
budget—viz., a campaign in the Danubian Principali-
ties, with the contingency of a Torres Vedras on the
Balkan and a defence of Constantinople, undoubtedly
Parliament would have been asked for money. It
was only the long period of inaction at Gallipoli and
Varna, and the subsequent delay in the !anding of the
expedition in the Crimea, that led the public to cherish
the delusion that we were not likely to exceed the an-
nual income. That delusion has passed away, it may
be said with scarcely a murmur, so entirely has the whole
mind of the nation been absorbed in the fortunes of the
war, in the fate of the allied armies, and in the thousand

rivate incidents that sadden and adorn the international

struggle. Yes, all the reveries of economists, all the
hopes of financiers, all the pictures of universal peace,
all the estimates of extinguished debts and overflowing
exchequers have melted away, and we suddenly find
ourselves thrown back to the period of the early Revo-
lutionary War, when we were slowly opening our minds
to the immensity and costliness of the conflict before us.
War, we are all now fully aware, means money. The
public is urging more men, more steamers, quicker and
more frequent communications, better artillery, better
small arms, better housing, better clothing, demonstra-
tions on the Danube, the destruction of Odessa, the
occupation of Perekop, the conquest of the Crimea, and
the precipitation of the Austrian difficulty. Every day
brings us the most costly suggestions, and Government I
hardly keeps up with the fertility of the projectors.
Wrought iron steam batteries, mortars of prodigious
calibre, rifled guns, and other devices for sudden, vast,
and secret destruction, employ the attention of the Ad-
miralty, the Ordnance-office, and the Woolwich en-
gineers. The deep soul and the mighty intellect of the
nation is turned to war. Nor is this any matter of
surprise. The time has passed for weighing the merits
of the question, and we are finally and irrevocably com-
mitted to the part we have chosen. Nothing remains for a
great nation but to do its utmost, and, so thoroughly is
that the feeling of all classes, that we doubt if
there are fifty men among us who would not gladly en-
dure a large amount of private loss and inconvenience,
and who would not indeed forego much advantage and
enjoyment if by so doing they might secure the success
of the British arms and the just chastisement of the fee.
Since, then, we have all made up our minds to pay
heavily for the war, there arises the question as to the
form and method of that payment. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer has done his utmost to confine the ex-
pense to the income, and even when compelled to obtain
a larger amount of ready money than the taxes would
yield, he tried to obtain it by a new system of Exchequer
bends, redeemable after periods of a few years. It is no
discredit to Mr. Gladstone's ingenuity, and tells much for
his sanguine hopes of peace, that his plans have had but
imperfect success, and that operations of a much more
definite and ordinary character are now required to
meet the increased and increasing expenses of the
war. These are immense. The hire of private
steamers has been estimated at 3,000,0001. a year, be-
sides those which Government is buying or building.
The hire of sailing transports is another vast item. The
strength of the army is half as much again as it was.
The navy is equally augmented. New arms are de-
manded in every branch of the service, and for these
new ammunition and other stores are required. The
cost of completing, embodying, and mobilising the

militia will amount to several millions a year. Then we
have had to feed, and to arm, and shall probably have
to clothe, to house, and to convey our Turkish allies.
We are forbidden to mention "subsidies," because they
are too likely. If we add up these main expenses we
shall soon see that the day has arrived for a bolder
finance than the nation would have borne so late as last
spring. We must have either increased war taxes, as,
for example, a 10 per cent. income tax, or a loan.
Tne sudden meeting of Parliament so long before
the expiration of the financial year points to the
latter expedient, and the public are probably quite pre-
pared for an addition of five or even ten millions to the
funded debt. For our part, we believe it the best policy
to carry on the war without any regard to expense, and,
if the hope of keeping within our income leads to
crippled armaments, to languid counsels, and dilatory
operations, we have ne hesitation in advising that we at
once give up the fiction of immediate payment, and
draw on posterity. The next generation is as much con-
cerned as ourselves in the result of the present war, and
it will not thank us for a heritage of cheap shame.
Glory, freedom, power, and rank among nations are as
fair objects of expenditure as house and land, and it is
as reasonable to encroach on the public stock of material
goods for the independence, security, and elevation of
our race as for the improvement of our cities, roads,
mansions, parks, churches, and other ornaments and

acquisitions of peace.
During the last war there was a strong party of finan-
ciers in favour of terminable annuities instead of the per-
petual incubus which constitutes the main portion of
the national debt. The plan was adopted to some ex-
tent, and we are now about to realise its advantages in
the approaching spontaneous cessation, so to speak, of a
large portio❑ of the annual dividends. The quiet way
in which the national debt of the United States has
dwindled to a mere trifle is another testimony in favour
of the system, and the Chancellor of the Fxchequer has
shown a decided leaning to it in his late comprehen-
sive, though undeveloped, plan for commuting the
Three per Cents. Should he now come before
Parliament with the project of a loan, we shall
possibly have the question of terminable annui-
ties once snore discussed, where it has often hewn
before. We believe the solution to be rather in prac-
tice than in theory. Borrowers will always get money
on the easiest terms within their reach, and if better
terms are to be obtained for perpetual than for termi-
nable annuities that will probably settle the question
without much reference to the supposed moral difference
of the two methods. Still it is an open question, aod
after the very little way the country has made in paying
off its debt during the long peace, it is reasonable to
conclude that the effect of perpetual annuities is bad on
the public mind, tending to make it acquiesce too readily
in a burden which seems to have become one of the
permanent institutions of the country. Fortunately
there never was a time when we could so easily stand a
large addition either to our annual taxes or to our na-
tional debt, whichever course the Legislature may think
fit to choose.

MR. DISRAELI ON A WAR LOAN.

(Front The San of May 6, 1854.)
Mr. DISRAELI said—Sir, there is one point so remark
able, so anomalous, in the speech which the noble lord
has just addressed to us, that I cannot help briefly advert-
ing to it. I complained that the Government anticipated
unnecessarily by a month the making their financial state•
menu, the result of which is, that they offered to the house
a deluding estimate and a deceptive budget. (Loud
cheers fro the Opposition benches.) Now that was the
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point of whicL I complained ; and the consequence is,
that within eight iC.
eeks of their statement being made,
and within four weeks .oly if the date by custom had
been followed, when it nee,l. to have been made—we
are called up to vote a sum of n: arly 6,000,0001. in the
shape of a supplementary budget. Bat how does the
noble lord account for this circumstance : What is his
vindication for the conduct of the minisiZr 1 I con-
fess I listened with no little surprise as with evident
self-complacency the noble lord substantiated mY
case. The noble lord says, " The right hon. gentleman
forgets this important circumstance, that between
the financial statement and the present time a great
event occurred—namely, the declaration of war." But
I say the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to have
made his financial statement as usual after the d
t lapse
of the financial year. And when, however, dihis
declaration of war take place I The end of the
financial year was the sth of April • and the (Lan-
cell of the Exchequer, following the usual course,
might have made his statement on the 10th of
the month. But the declaration of war was not
made until the 27th of March, and that proves the great
expediency of not hating been premature in his statement.
Surely, the Minister who at the beginning of March called,
in the most formal manner, the attention of Parliament
to the state of the finances, ought to have had a tolerable
anticipation of what was going to happen in a month.
So there were irresistible reasons why the financial state-
meet should have been made at the usual time, and why
we should not have been placed in the situation in
which we are, and why the Minister should have had
an opportunity of putting a comprehensive and ve-
racious statement before the country. And that
was the reason alleged by the noble lord to account
for this unreasonable, this strange departure from
usual custom. Why, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer wanted to get 3,000,0001. of money, and he
could not get it unless he made a proposition at the be-
, ginning of the month of March ; so that at the beginning
of the month of March the attention of Parliament--
with war impending according to the general confidence
of the country—and according to the repeated declara-
tionst and warnings of the Ministers themselves—the
tention of Parliament was formally called to the finances
esti
of the country ; our resources and burdens
:feorr what
mated for a great and impending truggle--li
enuer should,
reason? That the Chancellor of the F_sx
Was there
by calling into play a vast and decehptiveeearrne.clachinery, be
able to get 3,000,000/. at the end of
offered
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oon benches.)
ever such a peddling vindication ffored for the conduct
of a minister ! (Cheers from theoooop
I.Pb adopting such
Why, if he could have got 10,00
ii, t they country in a
al course—if he could haveud
strong position—if he
oco l hapve availed himself of
a dtresources of the country and
the general sympathy
the confidence of Parliamen , and had raised alarge loaner
made a.,rrhatungi moats for any emergency or any difficulties
g eeet him I could understand the argument of
thatthe nobleml lord. (Renewed cheering on the opposition
benches.) Butthatsuchanuprecedentedcourse, realising
such contemptible results, should be resorted to that
before eight weeks have elapsed since the announcement
of your budget, you are obliged to come forward with a
supplementary estimate for such an amount—is, to my
mind, a course of conduct the most surprising I have
ever beard of. (Loud cheers on the opposition benches.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said—The right hon. gentleman says
ithat 3,000,000/. of money is a very small sum. Now, it ap-
pears to me, sir, that no financial Minister that we have
had since the enactment of the income tax, in introducing
that tax, ever thought it an immaterial circumstance to
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