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and increase our amicable relations with France,
whether this moment is the time to do it, when we
have an enormous deficit in our revenue, and when,
in order to obtain the supposed advantages of this
Treaty, we must largely increase, and, in point of
' fact, make permanent, a system of taxation which
has always hitherto been reserved for periods of
emergency and war ; whereas if you introduce the
amount of 10d. in the pound on all monies in time of
proposed peace, you are establishing it as a portion
of your ordinary revenue, which you can never get
rid of, and depriving yourselves of the most powerful
engine that you have for the purpose of raising an
extraordinary revenue in time of war. I object to
some of the articles in this Treaty on their own
merits. I objeet to others, not on their own merits,
but because even if I thought the financial calcula-
tions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer likely to
be borne out, I conceive that this is not the moment
at which to enter into such stipulations, and that
if there were at this moment any means you could
provide in the present state of the revenue as a
substitute for the loss about to be occasioned by
this treaty, I think they would be most objection-
able for the present, and most dangerous for the
future." Thole aie surely—surely very solemn con-
siderations. They are objections to both Treaty
and Budget breathing rather the spirit of Patriotism
than of Party. Yet undeniable though they are in
their forcefulness, what is the conclusion in regard
to both, arrived at, by the hon. and consistent
member for Birmingham P Why, Mr. BRIGHT
" frankly admitted," to use his own words, in his
speech of yesterday, "that he was so much in favour
of the Treaty that he could take it as it stood, and
he was so much in favour of the Budget that he
could take it as it was." He must have an immense
financial appetite, Mr. BRIGHT, and the digestive
power of a hundred thousand ostriches. He used
to strain at gnats only the other day upon plat-
forms in the northern and midland counties,
frankly avowing that he knew no thin) of finance
or currency. Yet now, in the House of Com-
mons, he is swallowing at a gulp a whole
caravan of camels. It only needed one thing
to render the anomaly perfect on the memo-
rable night of the Financial Statement, and
that thing was not awanting l Mr. GLADSTONE
(of all Financiers!) then proposing (in 1860 !)
the indefinite renewal of the Income-tax (at
10d !) was interrupted, it may be remembered,
1 by Mr. BRIGHT (of all men in the wide world !)
with a sonorous cry of " Hear, hear !" And
now at the first intimation of a contest (not
as to principle but as to procedure), the hon.
member for Birmingham—the avowal is too remark-
able not to be repeated—" frankly admits that he
is so much in favour of the treaty that he can take
it as it stands, and he is so much in favour of the
Budget that he can take it as it is !" Al-
though the Free Trade of the Treaty is of
so very peculiar a kind that it results in that finan-
cial phenomenon—a purely one-sided Reciprocity !
And although the Budget thus beloved by the
peace-at-any-price economist imposes in a time of
Peaoe, and for the sake of Peace, a war-tax of
£10,000,000 levied upon the incomes of the popu-
lation—and although the same eulogised Budget
sets apart £30,000,000 in the shape of war
expenditure ! This is certainly not only Going
the Whole Hog, but doing so with the Hog in
Armour.

We beg most earnestly to call the attention of
members of Parliament and those of our public men
who do not delight in fostering the enormities of our
" domestic institutions," by getting rich at the
expense of the life and blood of our poor women
and children in the factories. Aye ! those bleaching
factories, where the helpless sufferers are themselves
bleached as white as their smocks. " Get money
honestly if you can, but get money." That is the
humane injunction of our boasted manufacturers
in several parts of this kingdom where men boast
of freedom, and yet practice such slavery as would
almost shock the sensibility of a Yankee nigger

driver.
Verilywe live in strange times,professin g humanity
to the top of our bent, and practising its counterpart
to the utmost depths of the most abominable
depravity. We spend thousands a year for fac-
tory inspectors and other officials in order to keep a
sharp eye on the working of those nurseries of
hu man misery, and yet the game goes on as ever.
Surely ! surely there must be an end of this brutal
system ere long, or this Country will have much to
answer for. We again point the attention of those
" born of woman" to see to the std fate of the
poor little children who once had mothers, but
who now have neither fathers nor mothers to help
them in their sad condition. The public is much,
very much indebted to Mr. HOPLEY, of Eastbourne,
for his unceasing labours in the cause of Wrongs
which cry for Redress.
LATEST

NE AV 8.

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, TUESDAY.

A circular of M. Billault says :—The time has
arrived to put an end to the attempts at agitation
on the Roman question. M. Billault instructs the
prefects to prohibit according to law the distribu-
tion of writings and pamphlets unless duly autho-
rised, and to report to the Council of State when-
ever the liberty of the pulpit is abused. He re-
commends them to combine moderation with firm-
ness, as the Emperor desires peace and liberty for
religion.
VIENNA FEB, 2L

The official Wiener Zeituny of to-day contains
an Imperial decree by which the right of buying
and possessing landed property is conceded to the
Jews of Lower Austria, Moravia, Silesia, Hungary,
Vorfwodina, and the Banat, Croatia, Slavonia,
Dalmatia, and the Littoral districts. However,
the Jews in Galicia, Bokowina, and Cracow may
acquire and retain real property on condition only
ahaving received their education in one of the
public colleges, or of having the rank of an officer
in the army.

NAPLES (via GENOA), FEB. 14.
The Minister of Justice, Signor Galotti, is dead.
He has been replaced by Signor Rosica.
It is stated that Signor Ajassa will be entrusted
with the portfolio of the Interior.
Thirty thousand scudi have been sent to the Com-
missary of War, Signor Morelli, at Trieste, to con-
tinue the enlistments of Austrian volunteers for the
military service of Naples.
Two hundred sub-officers and soldiers arrived at
Pianella.
The persons lately arrested for political causes
have been sent to the Isles of Favignana and Pan-
tellaria ; others have been sent to the Castle of St.
Elme.
Four ambulances were forwarded yesterday to
the army at the frontier.
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PARIS, FEB. 20,

M. Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Duke of Albon-
fera were yesterday received in a private audience
by the Emperor, who gave them the positive assur-
ance that M. Thouvenel has already received in-
structions to seize the first opportunity of entering
into negotiations with the English Cabinet, with
the object of removing the last obstacles which op-
pose the realisation of the Suez Canal project.

RAVENNA, FEB. 19.
The Governor Parini has been recei,ed with
great enthusiasm at Ravenna,. The inhabitants of
the towns and of the country came to meet him.
The National Guard was drawn up. The town was
illuminated. There was a grand ball at the Govern-
ment Palace.

DEATH OF M. DRUMMOND,
M.P.—We regret
to state that the report of Mr. Drummond's death,
which we were enabled to contradict in our yester•
day's impression, was only premature. Mr. Drum-
mond died on Sunday night, at his seat, Albury,
near Guildford. Mr. H. Drummond was born in
1786, and married, in 1807, Lady Henrietta, eldest
daughter of the 9th Earl of Kinnoul, who died in
1854. He had sat for West Surrey since 1847.