The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

IRISH SAVINGS BANKS.

Mr. REYNOLDS rose to ask the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, if it was his intention, during the present
session of Parliament, to propose a vote of money suffi-
cient to pay the depositors in the late savings bank,
Cuffe-street, Dublin, the repective balances still due to
them?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
was not his intention to propose any such vote.
Mr. REYNOLDS then gave notice, that in conse-
quence of this answer he should take an early opportu-
nity of moving that the House resolve itself into a Com.
mitten for the purpose of considering the best means of
effecting that object.
SALE OF POISONS.

In answer to a question from Mr. STANFORD,
Sir G. GREY said it was the intention of Govern-
ment to introduce this session a Bill for regulating and
restricting the sale of arsenic and other poisons.

THE BUDGET.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of
Supply; Mr. I3ERNAL in the Chair.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
rose to make his Financial Statement. He said—Mr.
Bernal, often as I have on similar occasions ex-
perienced the kindness of this House, I feel that
I never stood more in need of that kindness
present
nt7osasemhna's,foirn my
yddlliticnion
to the ordinary duties imposed upon a Chancellor
tEhraillendl do
oe
uponme thmbere
fof the Exchequer in making his financial statement,
called upon me to enter into some accounts of the inci-
dents of taxation for the year. I cannot sufficiently
describe the importance of the proposal which I am about
to submit to the House, and the more than usual difficul-
ties with which I
income-tax
surrounded upon the present occa-
sion. When the was renewed in
the year
1845, thecountry
prosperity
was in a state of which
seemed to justify that renewal. In 1848
matters were very
different, and it is upon the statement of that
year that
I have to submit the proposal to the Houseand to take
its sense. The proposal which was then submitted was
that the income-tax should not, if renewed, be extended
to Ireland.—(Hear.) My object is, I may say, to some ex-
tent altogether different.—(Hear,) In saying this I
must also observe that the matter with which we have
to deal is more a matter of anticipation than of retro-
spect, and the matter which I have now to bring under
consideration is not that which respects the past,
but the future, and the complexion of the
report which I have to submit to the House bears,
therefore, in that respect, upon the question. It is true
that the matters with which I have to trouble the
.a no
House
bear upon four months of the last year, but they i
respect affect the general question. The question which
the House will bo callod upon to affirm just amounts, in
principle, to this. As might be expected, the receipts
from the corn-duties had largely fallen off. During the
six months of the present financia l year those duties
have
ing only beear, and
41 per cent. of the duties
fo
d therefore the estimates to be llow y sth of April
on
made up to the
Ththat account
The intimation fall equally short. , ion Which I gave to
the House during the last session was that the probable
income of the country, up to
.April 5.0 f the present year,
would be 52,585,000 L It was
. in reality 52,810,0001., and
we have reason to expe,c, that during the ensuing
it
year .
will be 52,6J6,0001. On the Excise,
there was an increase of 14,0551. on the quarter, and
upon the year of 688,0004 T
- May therefore fairly esti- .