The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-16 00:00:00

RIVER PLATE.

Mr. E WART asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs whether there is any prospect of an adjustment
of the difference existing between the Republics on the
River Plate; and whether there would be any objection
to lay before the House any correspondence which may
have passed upon the subject?
Lord PALMERSTON was understood to say that at
the present moment it would be injurious to the public
interests if the papers on this subject were laid before
the House.

SIR 11. BULWER AND THE COURT OF SPAIN

Mr. BANKES begged to ask the lion. Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, now that it was stated that Sir
H. Bulwer had been appointed the accredited ambassador
to another Court, whether the matters of difference be-
tween the English Court and the Court of Spain were
adjusted, or were in the course of adjustment?
Lord PALMERSTON replied that the negotiations
on that subject were still going on.
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACT (IRE-

LAND).
Mr. WALPOLE said the motion for the third read
ing of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act for Ireland
was expected to take place on Monday next. As other
important business was likely to come on on
that day he should be glad if the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government could say whether the third
reading of that measure Ras likely to take place o❑ that
day in preference to the other business.

Lord- JOHN RUSSELL said he hoped there would
be time to get through the other business of the day;
nevertheless the motion on the Habeas Corpus Suspen-
sion Act would take the precedence.
THE ESTIMATE.

Mr. HUME said he had put a question on this sub
ect the other night, and the answer which he got was
nc ither courteous nor explanatory.—(Laughter.) They
had had estimates for voting 15,000,0001. of the
public money at least ; and he begged to ask her
Majesty's Government whether they were prFpared, be-
fore the call of the House, to submit a statement—call it
a budget or whatever they pleased—by which the
House would be info! med of the accurate amount of the
expenditure of the Government and the means by which
those expenses were to be defrayed. At the
end of the last session they bad had to have
recourse to loans, which was much to be deplored and
condemned; and therefore he begged to ask the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequr whether it was his intention to
submit to the House a statement of Ways and Means
as well as the amount of expenditure which the Go-
vernmeat contemplatedthis Ses►ion.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said (as
we understood) that the usual course would be followed.
Mr. DISRAELI said he had se. n a statement in the
papers, that in consequence of the affairs of the countr)
it was necessary to have a great increase of taxation.
He certainly trusted that the usual course would not be
followed on the present occasion.

Mr. HUME was sorry to say that if this system was
persevered in, he should be compelled to take a course
which he feared would be considered very troublesome
by the 'friends around him, but until he was rightly in-
formed as to the means of meeting these expenses, not a
sixpence would he vote towards either of these ser-
vices. He would be no party to any such thriftless
measure as this was, to spend the money first, and then
look out for where it was to come from. As it was chit fly
through the assistance of the country gentlemen that this
expenditure was incurred by her Majesty's Ministers last
year, he did appeal to them on the present occasion, and
entreat them to join him now in an attempt to resist
such an imposition on the country.
Mr. VERNON SMITH said that his Honourable
Friend the Member for Montrose had asked two ques-
tions, one of which was as to whether it was the inten-
tion of his Right Honourable Friend the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer to lay the estimatee
on the table of the House, with such ',statements
as would enable Hon. Members to judge of the diffe-
rence made through the recommendation of the Com-
mittee last year.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that that was not the question. What his Hon. Friend
the Member for Montrose wished to know was, what
means the Government had in possession, or whence
they intended to derive them, for meeting the expendi-
ture; and how far the estimates differed from those pre-
pared last year. In reply, he might say that all the
matters to which the Hon. Member referred had been
duly considered. He proposed to lay the estimates on
the table of !the House, and take the estimate on the
second reading.
Mr. WARD—That all the decisions of the Committee
had been duly considered, and such as bad met with the
sanction of the Board to which he was attached had been
introduced into the estimates.

Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was necessary to adopt
a certain course in preparing the estimates; but every
proceeding which had been recommended by the Com-
mittee of last year had been adopted.
HABEAS CORPUS (IRELAND) SUSPENSION