The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-17 00:00:00

THE ESTIMATES.

Mr. HUME said he had put a question on this sub-
ject the other night, and the answer which he got was
neither 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 prepared, 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 informed 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 had 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,Exchequer whether it was his intention to
submit to fife House a statement of Ways and Means
as well as the amount of expenditure which the Go-
vernmesit contemplated this session.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said (as
we understood) that the usual course would be followed.

Mr. DISRAELI said he had seen a statement in the
papers, that in consequence if the state of the country
it was necessary to ha►e 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, be 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 the 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 chiefly
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 estimates
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 bow 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 discussion on the
second reading. _ _

Mr. WARD said all the decisions of the Committee
had been duly considered, and such a 3 had met with the
sanction of the Board to which he was attached had been
introduced into the estimateF.

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.
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