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Varlianuntarp Irortaiings.

HOUSE OF LORDS

MONDAY

Lord Eglintoun presented petitions from Montrose and
Ayrshire, praying for a modification or repeal of the Bank
Charter Act.
After a short discussion, the Diplomatic Relations
(Court of Rome) Bill was read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

'MONDAY

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving that
the House should resolve itself into a committee of ways
and means, observed that he thought it desirable to avail
himself of that opportunity to state more fully than his
noble friend at the head of the Government had done on
bringing forward the budget what the state of the finances
were, and further to draw the attention of the House to
the course which the Government had now determined to

pursue. The right honourable baronet having proceeded
to give a revised version of the financial affairs uf the
at it was not the intention of the

country, intimated tl-

Government to persevere in the proposition—in conse-
quence of the objection it had met with not onl

37 within

lint without the walls of Parliament—of imposing an
additional amount of income tax of two per cent., as an-
nounced by his noble friend, but to continue the tax at
nt rate for three years from the period at which
have expired. It was proposed to pay
f 1.000.000. and the

it would otherwis
the expenses cf t

excess of the last year's navy estimates of £245,000, out
of the existing balances in the Exchequer, leaving the
deficiency for the year, supposing the present income tax
to becontinued, at about a million and a half. He did
not '

pledge Move,. or the government as to the course
it might be necessary to pursue in reference to this ch fi-
Ciency. It might become imperative to propose, instead
of an increase in the income tax, such an amount of taxa-
tion, in the absent of the revenue to that

of an increas

pected, as would balance the amount of expenditure for
the year. _ The right hon. gentleman concluded by mov-

ing that the HoUSe resolve itself into a committee of ways
and means for the purpose of an amended resolution
being proposed, continuing the income tax at its present
rate for the period of three years.
A protracted discussion ensued, Mr. CARDWELL sug-
gesting that the committee should be postponed for the
purpose of affording time for the consideration of this
amended proposition, to which the Chancellor of the
Exchequer acceded, and the committee was fixed for
Friday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY.
EY, in an explanatory speech, moved th

reading of the New Zealand Government Bill, which
motion, after some observations from Lord Stanley and
the Earls of Waldegrave and St. Germans, was agreed

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

Colonel DUNN

moved for the appointment of a select I
_tire into the working and efficiency of

the Poor Law in Ireland

motion was opposed by the Government, and, after
,e, was negatived by a majority of sixty-fours the

165 to 101

After some discussion, on the motion of Mr. NEwDE•
GATE, a select committee was appointed to enquire intc
the law and custom of different parts of the United King-
dom, as between out-going and in-coming tenants, an
also as between landlord and tenant in reference to un-
exhausted improvements or deterioration of land anc
premises occupied for agricultural purposes.

-WEDNESDAY

andlord in tl)(

Something must be done to

of such a description, which could

countries as Algeria

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yesterd

Sir G. G

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