The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH asked the hon. and
learned lord on the woolsack whether there was any inten-
tion on the part of the Government to introduce any
mea-
sure to alter the constitution of the Irish Ecclesiastical
Courts.
Tho answer of the Loup CHANCELLOR was inaudilule. •
SAVOY AND NICE.
In reply to Lord NonmANny,
Earl GRANVILLE said there was o correspondence
n
which could be considered official in the possessionßritish
Ambassador at Paris, Lord Cowley, and Count Walewski.
lie could not undertake to say there had been no conversa-
tion between the I.Nlinisters on the subject, but certainly
nothing that could be considered official existed on the sub-
ject.
ust sat down
Earl GREY said the noble earl who had j
had said there we: no official correspondence, but he should
like to know whether there was any correspondence at all
on the subject.
Lord WODEIIO USE said he thought his noble friend
had answered the question of the no ble marquis very
clearly. There was certainly no despatches or correspond-
ence in the possession of the Government on the subject.
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Viscount DUGANNONof divine onedworship in the minor
his motion with
respect to N
ormance
the perf
theatres of the metropolis until Friday, the 24th inst.
Lord PORTMAN suggested the withdrawal of the
motion altogether.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that if the ser-
vices were conducted with piety, they ought not to be inter-
fered with.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said these services
had been instituted by private individuals, and as they
tended to the promotion of religion and piety, no difficulty
ought to be thrown in the way by this house.
After a short conversation,
Viscount DUNGANNON refused to postpone his motion
further than Friday, the 24th.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The interest felt in the financial statement which it was
announced, late last night the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer would' be sufficiently recovered to make
this evening*, was apparent in the state of the
house, which was crowded from the commence-
ment of the proceedings. The seats on the floor were
occupied a few minutes after four o'clock, and the galleries
appropriated to members and strangers were also filled,
several members of the Upper House and distinguished
foreigners being present. Exactly at half-past four o'clock
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who appeared to bo in
good health, entered the house and was loudly cheered.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Marl-
borough Branch Railway, and Northleach and Witney
Railway.

SILK MANUFACTURES.
Mr. BRIGHT said he had to present a petition which
bore on the subject to bo brought before the house this
evening. It was signed by 18 or 20 of the silk manufac-
re-
turers of Manchester, and prayed for a removal of the
striations on silk fabrics introduced into this country, in
conformity with the principle of free trade. (Cheers.)
_ _ _

HARBOURS OF REFUGE.
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON asked the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to take any steps in the present session with
a view to carrying out the recommendations of the Har-
bours of Refuge Commission.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that,
as soon as it was possible, Government would adopt the
necessary stops in reference to the subject.

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MISSION TO THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. MAGUIRE asked the First Lord of the Treasury
whether he had any objection to produce the papers relat-
ing to the mission of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone as
High Commissioner to the lonian Islands ; and, if it was
the intention of the Government to produce them, at what
time they were likely be laid on the table of the house
Lord PALMERSTON said it was not intended to pro-
duce tbo papers, as such a proceeding was quite tmneces
sary. (Laughter.)
HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY.
Sir HENRY STRACEY asked the Secretary of State
for War, as officers promoted to the rank of major-general
from the household cavalry receive one pound nine shillings
and twopence per diem, and officers promoted to the rank of
major-general from the infantry of the line received one
pound five shillings per diem, why cavalry officers of the
line promoted to the same rank, and who had been re-
quired, to attain that rank, to expend for the regulated price
of their commission one thousand six hundred and seventy-
five pounds • more than the sum required as the regu-
lated price for the same commission of the infantry
officer, should receive the same pay only, i.e., fis per
diem ; and, the principle of higher pay for greater outlay
being recognised in the instance of the officer promoted from
the Household Cavalry, why it was net applicable to the
cavalry officer of the line, who had been required to expend
for his commission £1,675 above the sum required of the

infantry officer of the 'line.
Mr. S. HERBERT said that in the cues alluded to the
rate of pay had no reference to the purchase money.
THE TREATY WITH PRANCE.
Lord J. RUSSELL laid on the table the commercial
treaty with the Emperor of the French.
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Excnr:Quxn,
the Speaker left the chair, and the House resolved itself
into committee upon the Customs Acts.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who was
again greeted with loud cheers, addressing the Chairman
(Mr. Massey), said,—Public expectation has long marked
out the year ISGO as an important epoch in British finance.
It was well known that in this year, for the first time, we
were to receive from a process not of our,own creation a very
great relief in respect of our annual payment of interest of
the national debt—a relief amounting to no less a sum than
£2,146,000—a relief such as we have never known in time
past, and such as I am afraid we never shall know in time
to come. Besides that, other: and more recent arrange-
ments have added to the importance of this juncture. A
revenue of nearly £12,000,000 a-year, levied by duties on
tea and sugar, which still retain a portion of the additions
made to them on account of the Russian war, is about to
lapse absolutely on the 31st of March, unless it shall be
renewed by Parliament. The income •tax, from which
during the year we shall have derived a sum of between
£9,000,000 and £10,000,000; is likewise to lapse at the same
time, although an amount not inconsiderable will still re-
main to be collected in virtue of the law about to expire.
And lastly, an event of not less interest than any of these,
which has made public feeling thrill from one end of the
country to the other—l mean the commercial treaty with
France which has been just laid on the table—rendered it a
matter of absolute necessity for the Government to request
the House to deviate under the peculiar circumstances of
the case from its usual, its salutary, its constitutional prac-
tice of voting the principal charges of the year before they
proceed to consider Supply, and induced the Government
' to think they will best fulfil their duty in inviting atten-
tion on the earliest practicable day to those financial
arrangements of the year which are materially affected by
the treaty with France, and which, though they reach
considerably -beyond the limits of that treaty, yet, not-
withstanding, tan only be examined by the House in
a satisfactory manner when examined as a whole. (Hear.)
This must be our apology, if any apology be needed, for
asking the house to take into its earliest consideration the
matters which lam about to submit to it. Every considera-
tion both of gratitude for the kindness of the house to my-
self and of the public duty likewise will ensure that, if I have
an extensive field to traverse and many subjects to open and
discuss, I shall not, at least, make any wanton trespass on
the time and attention of the house. (Hear, hear.) The
results of the finances of the last year, inasmuch as it has
hot positively reached its close, can only be presented in a
form founded partly on account and partly on estimate. At
the same time they will be gives in figures on which the
house may place reliance as being perfectly safe. It is ne-
cessary for me here to remind the house that, as is not usu-
ally and commonly the case, circumstances have occurred
during the latter portion of the financial year which tend
materially to influence its results. The expedition to China
na
has made it necessary to enlarge the proposedmilitary
naval expenditure of the year, even beyond the liberal scale
of provision made in the last session ; mad the arrangements
likewise accruing or coming into force under the comraer-
Cial treaty with France—in case the treaty shall receive
C the
panction of the house—will act materially upon the us-
toms revenue for the residue of the year. I will, therefore,
with your permission, just present to the committee the
state of the account at it stood, entirely apart from these
disturbing causes, and I will then in a few words show the
vommittee how, since these causes have come into action, it
is likely to stand. The results of the year in a financial
point of view—at least, so far as receipts aro concerned
—have been eminently satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) The
Customs revenue, which I estimated at £23,850,000, and
which I estimated at that amount so lately as the
month of July last, will:produce—apart from the causes to
which I have referred—and I beg the house to bear this
Parenthesis in mind—i2l,7so,ooo. (Hear, hear.) The
Excise I estimated at £19,310,000 ; it will produce
£19,724,000.. The stamps alone shsw a small deficit, having
been estimated at £8,100,000, while they will produce only
,000,a00. The Land and Assessed Taxes were estimated
at £3,000,000 ; they will produce the same sum. The In-
me-tax was estimated at £9,940,000 ;it will produce
40,894,000. The Post-office revenue was estimated at
£3,250,000; it will produce that sum. The Crown Lands
were estimated a i; £280,000 ; they will about fulfil that es-
timate. The in Iscellaneoue revenue was estimated at
•
:£1,530,000, it will 'saoduce £1,480,000. The general result
be this:—The revenue was estimated to produce
£09,460,000, and i t would have produced 4-0 -8, 00
(Hear, hear.) On the ether hand, lookingat—tihe'slo
side of
expenditure, we should have stood as follows:—The inte-
'rest of the fur ded and unfunded debt,th
Miscellaneouse)
estimated at
Goo.ooo,will antof int to V. 8,638,000 ;
and Consolidated. FA nd charges amount to £1,900,000 ;
the Army was estimat ed at £13,300,000, and it would have
cost £13,5,30,000, in cc nsequence of an excess of expendi-
tare from the procedin g year. The Navy was estimated at
£12,789,060 ; it woula have cost £12,630,000. The Civil
Service—c ailed ruisee4 -meow—expenses were estimated at
7,825,000 ; • they would. have cost,i7' 700,000. The Revenue
Department Was estimated at £4, ih4ot,ooo ; it would have
hereas the estimactoesdi
44,447,000. ;The total result is t
ckarges of th year wee a £69,270,0a00,wthe total expenditure
would have b en soraeA hat less than £65,9b3,000. (Hear,