The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

N°. 18,206.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING S 7 JANUARY 29, 1851.

NATIONAL LOAN
EQUITABLE FIDE
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
DIREC
f*T. LAMIE MURK
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
*Hugh Croft. Esq.
Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S.
*Ralph Gough, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.
*John Moss, Esq.

FUND LIFE AND
INSURANCE COMPANIES,

Y, Esq., Chairman.
*John Rawson, Esq.
*John Shaw, Esq.
t*Edmund S. Symes, Esq
1401ement Tabor, Esq.
t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
t*Augitstus Vlgne, Esq•
trYOfCSSOY Wheat tone, F.R.S.
PHYSICIAN.
*J. Elliotson, ig.D„ F.R,B„ 37, Conduit-street.
SIIBIEON.

t*E. S. Byrnes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.
ACTUARY.
t*W. S. B. Woolhonse. Esq., F.R.A.S., &c.
SECRETARY.
■D. T. Lyons Ciannhy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*W. A. Hawkins, Esq.
Eszaulas.

t.Messrs. Glyn, Hallitax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lomb xrd-strat.
SOLICITORS,
}Messrs. Sutton, Evrens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall•

street.
SW. Tatham, Esq.. 22, Throgmorton-street.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.
CAPITAL-500,0001.
The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that
can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with-
held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the
event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the
Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be
returned by the Society.
Lapsed Policies may be renewed Without fine, on proof of health
and payment of arrears of Premium without interest.
Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities in the hands of
third parties.
No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp.
The presents rutual income of the ty from Premiums is
63,000/. ; the amount covered by the es of the Society is
1,781,5801.; and the reasaireWillik to iliture bonus to
the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. . . - the last annual inves-
tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As-
sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums
in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original sum assured by
each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent.
EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED.

SALLE de Mons. ROBIN, 232, Piccadilly.
In consequence of the great number of persons who have been
disappointed in not being able to obtain admittance to M. Robin's
Morning Performance, he has the honour to inform the Nobility and
Gentry that he will give another MATINEE MAGIQUE next F. KI-
DAY, 31st of January, and every following Wednesday and Friday
Morning, at Half-past Two o'clock.

Parma-
Al Policy Bonus in f cent Re-
- taken addition Bonita in duction of
1. ant in to Sum Cash. Annual
Assured. Premium.
A s. 4. A a d. £ s. d.
1 1837 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1
1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7-
1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8
1 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010
1841 189 12 6 89 5 10 13 8 11
1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 1 10
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11
1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 1

Anus
Age. g Pre-
mime,
s.d.
60 1000 74 3 4.

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.

EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0101.
(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.)
The leading principles of this Office ar3 —Moderate and equitable
Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits.
The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so
great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess
than calculation.

It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the
different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the
amount of annual Premiums received by each.
It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers,
that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the
true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu-
rance Company is established.
The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap-
?roached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied.
Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to
the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as
security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer
is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by
supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classiffca-
tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk.
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to tic e, adopt such rates of Premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange-
ments as regards tariffs with other offices.
With this view an annual investigation will be made into each
class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett
excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have
been in force for three years.
Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon
every description of Property on moderate terms.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, ou applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

THE WIDOW of the late Rev. GEORGE
EDWARD HOLLEST, of Frimley, Surrey—Frimley, Bag-
shot, December 31,11350.—An earnest APPEAL to public benevolence
is respectfully submitted by a few friends and neighbours on behalf
of the WIDOW of the late Rev. GEORGE EDWARD HOLI,EST,
who for a period of H years, in an exemplary manner, performed
the duties of his church, and was distinguished by his benevolence
and charity in the wide district under his charge. The act of
atrocity by which the Rev. Mr. Holiest was soddenly cut off is
universally known, but those only who are acquainted with his posi-
tion are aware that he never had the means of making a provislin
for his widow. Under such circumstances, it is hoped that the case
of Mrs. Holiest will commend itself to the generous consideration
of those who are blessed with the means of alleviating, so far as
human sympathy and assistance can alleviate, the distress of a
family so fearfUlly bereft of its natural supporter. The income of
Mrs. Holiest does not exceed 401. per annum, and subscriptions are
earnestly solicited in aid of these inadequate means. Subscriptions
will be thankfully received by the following bankers :—Messrs.
Ilerries, Farquhar, and Co. ; Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.;
Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co. ; Messrs. Coutts, and Co.; Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co.; Sir S. Scott, Bart., and Co., I, Cavendish-
square; Messrs. Mangles Brothers, Guildford; Messrs. Stevens
and Blandy, Reading; also by the following members of the Com-
mittee :

R. R. Bayley, Esq., Mitchett, Frimley, Bagshot.
J. F. Burrell, Esq., Manor House, Frimley.
Rev. J. IL Clayton, Farnborough, Bagshot.
Rev. John Lawrell, Cove, Bagshot.
Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., Farnborough-plate, Bagshot.
Thomas Longman, Esq., Farnborough-bill, Bagshot.
Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Poyle-park, Farnham, Surrey.
The Committee have the satisfaction to state that her Majesty the
Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Bishop of Winchester,
have sanctioned their exertions by very liberal donations.
The Committee return their grateful thanks for the liberal manner
in which their appeal has been responded to, and they thankfully
acknowledge the following
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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The Right Hon. S. Lushingloil,-LL.D.
Sir Fredorick Thesiger, Q.C.

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National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society.
* Equitable Fire
t. Both Offices.

LA W LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
Fleet-street, London, Dec 20, 1850.
Notice is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING ofthe Proprie-
tors of the Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the Society's
Office, Fleet-street, London, on SATURDAY, the Ist day of February
next, at Half-past Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, pursuant to the
provisions of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the Auditors' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society
up to the 31st December, 1850; to Elect a Trustee in the room of
the Right Hon. Lord Denman, who has disqualified; to Elect Two
Directors in the room of the Hon. Charles E van Law, Q.C.,
and Richard Preston, Esq., Q.C., both de !eased ; and for general
purposes. The Directors to., be chosen in the room of the lion.
Charles Ewan Law, and Richaid Preston, Esq., will remain in office
until 24th June, 1854.

By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.
Business will commence at Twelve o'clock precisely.

METALLIC CANDLES, 61; Palmer's 61d.
per lb. ; magnums, Bd. ; mid size, 7%d.; candles, 414 d. and
5d.; wax-wick moulds, 6d.; composite, 7%.3., 9d., and 9%d.;
Botanic wax candles, Is.; German wax, Is. 2d.; fine wax, Is. sd.f;
genuine wax, 2s. 3d. ; sperm candles. 2s 2d. to 2s. 4d. ; transparent
wax, Is. 4d. to 2s. 4d. mottled soap 565. and 60s- per 112 lbs. ; yel-
low soap, 445., 505., and 565. ; Windsor soar, is. 4d. 7er packet ;
brown Windsor, Is 9d. ; rose, 2s. ; almond, 25. 6d.; sperm oil,
7s. 6d. per gallon ; solar, 3s. 6d. ; seal, 4s. ; argand, 4s. 6d. ; sealing
wax, 4s. 6d. per lb., for cash, at DAVIES'S old established ware;
house, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite Westminster County Court.

THE MODEL GENTLEMAN

The only thought that enters In my noddle,
In picturing a gentlemanly model,
Is simply dress ; for rank and education
Are matters for distinct consideration.
A model gentleman, we must confess,
Is one who clothes himself in
MODEL DRESS.
A model gentleman will never go
To any mart but MOSES—Oh dear, no !
For where could he obtain attire so smart
As that displayed at MOSES' model mart ?
'Twould matter not, wherever he might toddle,
Ono thing is clear—he'd never be a model.
A model gentleman, besides all that,
Would go to MOSES for a
MO DEL lIAT.
Such model hats as those of MOSES are,
Dave spread their stylish character afar ;
And whosoever wears not on his noddle
One from their stock must prove himself no model.
A model gentleman will also choose
MOSES' famed mart for

J. G. Y.

MODEL BOOTS AND SHOES.
A gentleman would never be complete
Unless he made two models of kis feet,
Which cannot be effected if he buys
Any but those which MOSES' house supplies.
These are the boots and shoes in which to toddle,
And he who wears them not is not a model.
A model gentleman you'll never see
In anything but

H. W. M.

MODEL HOSIERY.
His shirts and handkerchiefs, h s gloves and hose,
Will all be found in keeping with his clothes ;
And if you ask'd if MOSES were the model,
You may depend ho wouldn't shake his noddle.
A model gentleman would never do
Unless his lady were a model too ;
But it must be his choice, as well as hers,
To favour MOSES' MODEL
for
FURS.
Nor would he be pronounced a molly coddle
In trying thus to make his spouse a model—
A model gentleman at once would know
The mart to which his lady ought to go.
prime shop he'd name to her,
MOSES and SON'S
As that which model ladles should prefer ;
And thus I've given, as simply as I can,
The outlines of a model gentleman.
A handsome Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on
application.
Notice.—The Fur and Shawl Departments are now replete witk
,very novelty of the season.
Observe.—Any article purchased, either ready-made or made to
measure, if not approved of, will be exchanged or the money re-
turned.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition, but having hoard that the untradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or it is the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they
beg to state they have no connexion with any other house in or out
of London, except their own Establishments, as 'ollows :
London City Establishment, 151, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford " Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
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Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe-
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J. R. E.

Mrs. W.

J. R. B.

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MARRIAGE with a WIFE'S SISTER: the
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TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF
THE CITY OF GLASGOW.
Gentlemen,—You will in common with the rest
of her Alsjesty's subjects, be looking forward to the
meeting in a few days of that Parliament in which
I have the honour, by your confidence and generosity,
to be one of your representatives.
That the finthcoming session will be one of un-
usual importance and of more than ordinary lab Jur,
both to the Government and to independent Mem-
bers, is certain, when we consider th it, exclusive of
Parliamentary and law reforms, and ecclesiastical,
educational, Irish, and many other question ,a one 01
great difficulty will aria out of the fact that the law
under which the income and property tax is levied
must either be renewed or abandoned.
As to the Papal assumption, it will no doubt
occupy more of the time of the House than w ill be
interesting to you or to me, and it will undoubtedly
delay very greatly other business of the first im-
portance.
I will, however, say no more on this subject than
that, as far as Scotland is in question, I know your
good sense, toleration, truth, and piety, are more than
sufficient to defend your faith, liberties, and institu-
tions against all bierarchial danger.
But the taxation and expenditure of the country is
too important in regard to your interest to be neg-
lected by me. Although it will be difficult for any
Chancellor of the Exchequer or any Government to
carry through Parliament even the financial measures
which may appear to them the most equitable—much
more so will it be for the House to entertain the pro-
jects of others—yet every Member of Parliament and
every one of her Majesty's subjects have an undoubted
right, under the British Constitution, to remonstrate
against grievous or unequal taxation, and unjust or
indiscreet expenditure. But more than all, it is the
duty of Members of Parliament never to consent to
any profuse or unnecessary expenditure, and to resist
all unfair taxation. If the House of Commons be
supported when right, and controlled when wrong, by
the people out of doors, no Minister, however inca-
pable or corrupt, can unjustly tax the people.
But it was a House of Commons not representing
the people—a House corrupted by the Crown and the
Ministers of the day, which allowed the Sovereigns
of Britain and their Ministers to tax the people for
the expenses then and ever since of the following wars,
the entailed expenses of which now constitute the
whole of our taxing perplexities. First—To allow
William of Orange and Queen Anne to wage war
for the gratification of the Dutch, or William's ambi-
tion, and for the glory and fortune of the Duke of
Marlborough; and which war ended-1. by Louis
XIV. placing his grandson Philip V., in spite of
England, on the throne of Spain ; —2. by his form-
ing the famous family compact, against which Eng-
land afterwards made several expensive wars ;-3. by
ceding Louisburg and all Cape Breton to France,
which saddled England with another expensive war;
—and, 4. by imposing on the people, for the first
time, the burden of a national debt; the invention
of which was imported from Holland by William 111.,
and which debt amounted, after the peace of Utrecht,
to 54,145,3631, for every farthing of which you are
still liable, and on which you have paid for 136 years,
at simple interest (it was first 6 per cent.) no less a
sum than (at 4 per cent., being less than the average)
393,000,000/. sterling.
The extra expenses, over and above the peace estab-
lishment—caused by'the wars of William and Anne
against France, amounted to 59,572 0581. sterling,
exclusive of palaces and grants to the Duke of Marl-
borough, and disgraceful pensions paid ever since to
the heirs of the husband of one of his daughters. I
will exhibit this scandalous annual payment else-
where. George I. was not very belligerent, and the
extra expenses of his little waramounted to 6,048,2671.,
and the interest of the debt was diminished in his
reign by lowering the interest.
But in George ll.'s reign we engaged in wars of
enormous carnage against France and Spain, which
caused high taxation, and the extra expenses of the
war of 1739 against Spain, and the general war of
1755, amounted to 157,690,6851. What was the loss
and gain ? The expenses of maintaining the Govern-
ment until 1825, and of the army since 1759, in
Canada, and of having ceded to England three small
islands in the West Indies, for the soil of which,
however, British subjects paid French proprietors, very
justly, 3,000,000/. ; besides which, that war led to a
ruinous commercial crisis, and the national debt at
the peace of 1762 increased 146,682,844/ ; this was
exclusive of the high war taxes voted, levied, and
spent. Then came the American war against public
liberty, and for enforcing the payment of taxes with-
out representation—which attempt brought forth the
Catnous dictum of Chatham, " THAT TAXATION WITH-
OUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY." This unnatural
war, persevered in by an obstinate King and a wicked
Ministry, cost the people of Great Britain
139,171,876/., exclusive of about 3,000,0001. paid as
compensation afterwards to American loyalists. What
was the loss and gain ? The disappearance of British
authority over a country now inhabited by more
,than
26,000,000 of people ; and the gaie of an enormous
international commerce, without the expense or per-
plexity of governing thirty sovereign states, now in-
dependent, and astonishing the world by their pro-
gress, prosperity, and power. Then came the wars
with France, equally wicked, and more dreadful in
their carnage. From the year 1793 to the year 1801
there was added to the national debt, by loans at
high interest, 327,000,0001. sterling, for which the
Treasury received 215,000,0001., or 66 per cent. of
the amount funded; but this was far less than the
expenses of the war, for there was about 50 per cent.
and more added to the revenue as war taxes, squeezed
out of the produce of labour, and the debt was in-
creased to 561,203,2341.
From 1801 to the close of 1815 the war expendi•
ture amounted to 708,376,8301, and allowing
15,000,0001. per annum as a peace expenditure,
which is far too much for navy, army, and ordnance,
that expense amounts, in fifteen years, to 215,000,0001.,
which reduces the extra expenses caused by the war
of the French Revolution, and of our second quarrel
with our brethren in America, to the respective sum
of 493,376,0301. sterling; add to which subsidies
from 1793 to 1815 to Hanover and the other states of
Germany, to Austria, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal,
Sicily, Russia, and the Prince of Orange, amounting
to 46,289,459/., besides clothing and arms to the value
of 1,582 045/.
The Battle of "Waterloo and its attendant and
consequent expenses added, in a little more than a
year, above 120 millions to the national debt;
the interest paid on which has absorbed ever since,
for 35 years, nearly 4,000,000/. per annum ; or in
all nearly 140,000,0001., and far more than double
that amount at compound interest. That is to
say, the British people have paid for the glory of
Waterloo, annually, ever since 1815, all the window-
taxes, and all the Excise duties on soap, and the duty
on hops, besides which, in consequence of those wars,
extravagant payments and corrupt pensions hive been
so mystified in the public accounts that it is impossible
to unravel the scandalous practices which prevailed,
and which were sanctioned by a House of Commons
not representing the people—a House which has con-
tinually, by its money votes, enforced the infliction of
fiscal tyranny over an unrepresented nation. Nor
can I forget that the country known in history as the
ancient kingdom of Scotland was until 1830 one great
corrupt borough, the Members from which always
voted for the worst measures of the worst Ministers.
Having made these preliminary remarks, let us
look at the consequences. After the efforts of all
Europe to extinguish the Bonapartes, and all our blood-
shed in Spain, the heir of Napoleon is this day the
supreme ruler over France, by nearly the universal
choice of the French people. Louis Philippe, before
his overthrow, concluded a second family compact
with Spain, from which a British Ambassador was
insolently expelled. But we, the people of the United
Kingdom, are of all nations the most grievously, and
unfortunately without the remedy of honourable ex-
trication, oppressed by the calamity entailed upon the
whole people, in consequence of our belligerent glories.
We have now, and for ages will have, or else submit
to national disgrace, to deal with and to provide for
the enormous and evil bequest of a debt of 800 mil-
lions, by an extra annual taxation, exclusive of the
cost of collection, of about 28 millions sterling. With
this oppressive burden, and the general naval, mili-
tary, and civil expenditure, we have to legislate, in a
House of Commons, which is far from representing
those who pay 58 millions annually of taxes, exclusive
of local taxation, out of the products of skill and
labour. , I will not at present enter upon a great
question, which I consider a necessary reality, that
must inevitably be carried, before long, in an age of
steam-ships, railways, and a steam press—l mean a
fairly reformed House of Commons.
Now, with regard to the taxation of the country,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will probably show
a surplus of from two to two-and-a-half millions.
Each interest wishes to apply it to the relief of its
particular grievance-tax. The window-tax is proba-
bly to be abolished ; that will take, including
btheWli:
per cent, additional, about 1,800,000/.,
leave from 200,000/. to 700,0001. to be spreadiover a
reduction of taxes on knowledge, stamps, paper, hops,
malt, and other obnoxious taxes.
All the claims and clamours, therefore, for abolish-
ing any of those taxes are all absurd, without a
thorough reform of our expenditure. I gave my

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Tynemouth Castle, ready at a moment's notice. The
mayor has written to the Admiralty requesting them
to send a war-steamer down to protect the vessels in
the harbour.

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After the police took possession of the quay the fol-
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- " NOTICE.

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views explicitly on that expenditure, as well as the
taxation, in my letter addressed to you on financial re-
form, two years ago. I stated those views before the
Import Duties Committee in 1840 ; and I believe the
reforms still necessary are practical; for more than
half of what I then proposed was afterwards carried
into effect by that great and magnanimous statesman
Sir Robert Peel. lam of opinion that not only the
window, but all assessed taxes—the hop duty, and all
the excise taxes, excepting spirits and malt (the latter
also as soon as practicable), and all taxes on know-
ledge should be abolished. But, as I have a holy
reverence for our national credit, and the maintenance
of tranquillity and order in our houses, streets, high
ways, and fields—and peace with all the world, I must
pause. before I aid in abolishing any tax whatever at
the expense of that honour, security, and peace.
Thererore I will at once procetd to review the
pub.i ; expenditure. It stood thus for the year ending
sth January, 1850:
Charges of collection ... ....... .
Other payments deducted in the progress of
taxes to the Exchequer ..

606,310

---
Total deductions
Interest of debt
Civil list, salaries, law, &c,.... 2,794,892
Miscellaneous charges, &c.. 3,911,231
Army £6,549,109
Navy
Ordnance

Total expenditure ......... .£55,481,658
Now I believe it is practicable and safe to reduce
the above expenditure as follows, viz. :
Civil list.
Miscellaneous charges in the annual
grants of Parliament, including
113,542/. for relief of Irish emi-
grants ....
Annuities, salaries, courts of law,
pensions, &c.
Charges of collecting the revenue 4,020,726 to 3,350,000
Other payments divided..... 606,310 to 500,000

Total, from
That those reductions are practicable and equitable,
I am prepared to prove ; but the details of the various
items of reduction, especially in the four last sums in
the above statements, would extend to far too great
a length for me to enumerate them further than to
say-1. That I propose not only to abolish the whole
expenditure of the Woods and Forests, but to sell or
lease the whole of the lands occupied by those forests,
and to transform them into the uses of man, for which
Providence designed those uncultivated soils ; 2. To
reducing the expenditure of the army, by withdraw-
ing nearly the whole of our troops from the colonies,
according to the plan which has been most judiciously
begun by Earl Grey, and to reduce the army, which
constitutes a police degrading to the military force in
Ireland; 3. That if the Irish people will not, like the
people of England and Scotland, preserve the peace
and save the lives and property of each, they, and not
the taxpayers of Great Britain, must defray the
enormous sum of 563,607/. per annum for the pay,
clothes, arms, and horses of 12,758 armed constables
and 353 horses. Of this expense 523,7711 is charged
on the Consolidated Fund, and only 39,926/ on the
counties and towns of Ireland. My opinion is, the
Irish are in every respect fully able to take care of
themselves, if you do them justice in removing other
grievances.
4. In the next place, I pray the Admiralty not to
go into an epileptic fit; and I beseech all her Majes-
ty's subjects not to be alarmed by anyone who would
frighten them by the cry that England will never
again sing " Britannia rules the waves ;" for I am
sure that she will long ride proudly over all the oceans
of the world, and I hare no idea of rendering the
British navy less effective than it is now in the first
year of the last half of the nineteenth century. But
I do, notwithstanding, propose what will before long
be as effectually done, as the repeal of the Corn and
Navigation Laws ; that is to say, no less than the
utter abolition of three naval dockyards—to sell the
lands, buildings, and docks, which they occupy—to
apply the proceeds to the sinking fund, and to save
all the annual expenditure and blundering naval con-
struction, and waste of those establishments.
Deptford was at one time the property of the East
India Company, where they built crazy and expensive
ships. The vessels built by contract for the free
traders, as they were called, of the Indian Seas, were
se eminently superior for sailing and sea-worthiness,
and so much cheaper in cost, that the company to
protect their monopoly against these interlopers,
wisely sold their dockyard to the Government, and
hid their ships built afterwards by contract in private
shipyards. Deptford has always been a yard of enor-
mous expense ; and it is ❑ow useless except for main-
taining an establishment at great cost. All the space
it occupied is absolutely required for the commerce
of the Thames ; fur such has been the amazing in-
crease of steam and sailing tonnage, that it will not
be longer pus,ible to navigate the river, with the
coal fleet and coasting craft anchored in the pool.
Therefore let Deptford, the only space left to form
dock-room for colliers and coasters, be sold, the money
applied, and the annual expenditure saved, as above
stated.

Let Chatham Dockyard be also sold, for there is
no necessity for it. Sheerness may be necessarily
retained as a dock near the mouth of the Thames, not
for building, but for refitting ships of war.
Pembroke Dockyard was a blunder from the first,
and it has been scandulously mismanaged. It also
ought to be abolished, and its ground and construc-
tions sold for whatever they may bring. The annual
expense would then, at all events, be saved.
If a dockyard be at all required in the Irish
Channel, the real point of command, and the best
port for refuge in distress, is Cork. But even in that
port the utmost that should be maintained ought to
be no more than convenient for refitting.
Now, Woolwich, Portsmouth, and Devonport, are
amply commodioul, as national docks, for any neces-
sary construction, repairs, and refitting, of ships of
war; and I believe it will be found that a far more
formidable navy, and at much less expense, may be
maintained by having all ships of war, both steam and
sailing ♦essels, built by contract, with sufficient
guarantees for efficiency. Let Sheerness be main-
tained merely for refitting, and let there be infused a
practice of economy and intelligence in all that may
hereafter be administered, under the Admiralty, and
then the sum of five millions per annum will be suffi-
cient to maintain the British navy in a far more for-
midable condition than it is at present, with a❑ ex.
penditure of nearly seven millions sterling.
As for the Ordnance, there has always been great
waste in buying a far too great supply of stores,
many of which have become obsolete by new in-
ventions, made while those stores of arms and other
articles have remained useless in the arsenals. Con-
sidering the greater cheapness and rapidity of manu-
facturing every article required by the Ordnance,
the sum which I have set down ought to be amply
sufficient.

Believing it, therefore, practical to reduce the
present gross expenditure from 55,481,6581. to
49,180,0001., the saving effected would be 6,301,6581.
—say, in round numbers, six millions under the pre-
sent system of taxation, and it ought to increase.
There is now a surplus of mere than will compensate
for the repeal of the window tax. Let us suppose
that repeal accomplished. There remains of the as-
sessed taxes (exclusive of unredeemed land tax) rather
more than one and a half millions. All these inqui-
sitorial taxes ought, for good reasons, to be abolished.
The taxes on carriages and horses are injudicious, as
all limit employment.
We have now to meddle with the Excise. The
duty on bricks, which yielded nearly half a million,
we repealed last session. The hop duty, which pro-
duces 206,0001,, ought also to be repealed. Pap r
pays 810,000/.—a large sum. If we can cover our
expenditure without it, the duty should immediately
be removed out of the list of taxes. The railway
duty is a moat indefensible tax; unlike tolls, for no
part of it is applied to mending railways. It pro-
duces about 236,0001. in Great Britain—none in Ire-
land. Now, we have from licences about one mipi.o.n
.
one hundred thousand pounds. The soap duty.pel°
about the same amount. Malt about millions,five.ons. In
and home-made spirits also about five
all, about fifteen millions are yielded
duties.
of about seven
The stamps yield a gross revenueiedge
—that is, on
millions ; of which the tax on
tknowarn by the Excise
ounts to rather
newspapers and advertisements—amounts scertainly a barbarous
more than 500,0001.
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Britain, and little more than
maanriln,e?oao3/3.uirnanlrceelsanadr.e Thestamps on both fire
pre-
miums on imprudence, and ought to be repealed. I
cannot enter farther into detail as to stamps, but the
whole scale, including probate and legacy duty, re-
quires an equitable revision.
Now we come to the property and income-tax.
My conviction is, that the property-tax neither can
nor should be abandoned. But lam now—as I have
always been, and as I stated in my letter to you two
years ago, on financial reform—of opinion that it
should be, de facto, a property-tax, and none else;
and to this tax it must come, as in all justice it can
be proved to be the only equitable mode of imposing
this tax.

I therefore consider-1. That, in justice, all tenant
farmers should be relieved from the tax on their farms,
or that valued on rents, which they pay under the