New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-09
Nfwpork DAILY Tsibn,ss
GREAT BRITAIN.
FIoG Our Own Correspondent.

put TO the Esrl Of Clarendon about oar rclatlous
with you in Central America, and the answer
amounted to this: Tha, grest variety OF pro-
"pssals bad been laid before Ministers for pro-
teciiDg Central America. and that al had been
" refused: tba. no British Interference had taken
place in Costa Rics; and that some time since
"wben Walker took possession Of Nicaragua, and
" of some British property there, Clarendon CON-
" municated with Marcy, aud Marcy Gin conven-
" ton with CHAMPION, March l5) condemned
Walker" We now want TO know whether yoar
Government is going to recognize Walker-as some
people here predict. The details of the bloodshed
in those regions have been difused through our
press, and all is uncertainty about the future
Government, however seems 10 take IL quietly
enough; for on the same Monday night, the
Chancellor of the EXchequer spoke of the
slight cloud with America as soon to be dissi-
psted. This was on bringing on the Budget,
which has been the only event Of Importance
this week-wbile the only topic of talk really Is
- Palmer" ard his trial which is still going on.
Before saying any more of it, let me tell you what
kind of budget was given us by the scholarly Sir
CorDw all Lewis, an amiable, most learned, rather
ponderous Wing gentleman who has risen 10 this
post by dint of hard work and aristocratc wife.
The Excbequer Chancellorsldp is one of those
Offices which ia not a swell one exactly, but ls
given to the minor important en-and hence has
been filled successfully, lately, by novelist
DsraelD, theOlogian (GladstOne), and classical
scholar (Sir COrnwalD. So that every ambitious
man in England must learn finance if he hope 10
rise to ofice-at least to rise from the middle
classes or from below the high range | dare say
it ia tough and unlOyable job; and / remember
how amused was when | read in Frere's Ars-
tOphanes that when he was once puzzled for
meter Cornwall Lewis kindly suggested the Cap
"tain bold of Halifax" 1t seemed odd that the
same man should now be regulating the sugar
duties. However, in spite Of the tory wits who
are always chatting him as pedant, he seems to
have acquitted himself well this time.
The Budget is not grumbed at, and our fnan-
cial affairs are considered satisfactory Of course
We now know the cost of the war pretty nearly
the total expenditures for three years 1--WE had to
prepare for third bear in mind) being over
seventy-seven millions told you once before
that it makes man feel quite oPulent to have
share in spending such sums; but many people
think we have had little enough for oar money.
We have paid il out Of taxes and by adding forty
two millions TO the National Debt. The abOmna-
bic Income Tax 10 to last-at its present rate OF
Is. 4d in the pOund-for the next and another
year; and the present duties on tea, &c, remain
as they are another year, too. Ii is the Income
Tax which is grumbled at most-especially as the
lOurDdlhts are hll Dltu U-hnu Inc IbHes re-
minds the working class that they are better of
than ever, and that the respectable people pay
the war for them. We are reminded, too, that
this is one way by which the respectables keep the
lower orders quiet-many heavy and solemn gen.
tlemen concluding that the people are SO naturally
ferocious that they would eat US up If We
did not stay their voracty by similar sops.
And curious reflection it is, that English Society
thanks to the breaking up Of human ties and the
L..fx and
man-should be so narmingly like dog kennel
II is one of those thoughts which come over spec
ulatiye man in his duller moods, and remind him
that we are SO basely dependent on the accidents
of the year for the stability OF our institutions, ana
that temporary distress may endanger them
any time. Hence, your new, young statesmen ar
ali social reformers; hence, the wish OF your e
derly statesmen to keep out Of wars; hence, emi
Grafton, reformatOries, &c, are so endlessly dls
cussed-and we begin to hear OF factory acts
snain. The Budget altogether is thought TO shew
a satisfactory state of "sops," am glad to say;
and the ballot has been once more rejected by the
Commons without exciting any popular indlgna
ton. As often tell you, this is not time when
the people are eager forpolitical changes. Chart
ism has no head; and Manchester has no tail. The
explanation of absence OF pressing Distress
and destructive effects of the war.
Shall never be done with that war l think
hear YOU say. But the fact is, we shall feel IT'S
effects, one way and another, this long time-not
to forget that transports come up the river every
now and then and land fine, bearded, bronzed iel-
lows. with their medals on their breasts, and that
we have accumulated mass OF warke maferef,
as Lewis reminded US. One effect of the war has
been the entirely new interest with which our peo-
pie regard foreign affairs. They are eager about
Sardinia. anxious about Belgium, sorry for the
Circassians, aud believe the ground-swell which
rolls on after this Eastern question TO be one cause
why their heads don't get quietly fixed on your
Western one see that your journals complain
of the delay here about it, and indeed it is too bad
but am not called on to defend the Ministry
only the cOuntry-and it is my belief that the
country will insist on hearing all about 1t, IN Para'
ment, before long, The quiet, matter-otfact way
in which Ministers have given people to understand
that very little was wrong has tended TO make the
country comparatively Indifferent to the subject;
end along with this, class the aforementioned IN
terest in the general politics of Europe
To be sure what this interest will find for its
qualification, is more than l can say. We are
totally in the dark about the great Italian matter
Nobody knows what Intervention, or whether any,
will be undertaken; hOw We are to reconcile our
Austrian alliance with our Sandman enc; or how
We are to CRAFTY the passionate hopes which We
have awakened in the breasts OF the patrols oi
Italy. You know that have never been sangutne
ON thi. subject; and see nothing to make ME more
so in recent declarations When the Sandman
loan came on the tapis, in the Budget debate,
nothing could be got out OF Pamerston but the
generality that Sardinia Was "a bright ccnstitu-
'tional example TO Italy But why talk OF an
example which il is impossible for the people you
preach to, to follow Disrsei was very sharp
on Pam. in this matter. The party have never
forgiven 2. the intrigue by which he broke of a
Derby coalition at the commencement of his reign
K Apropos Of foreign politics, the young Prince of
Prussia has just arrived and for aught know, 10
flirting with she Princess Royal at this moment
We shall have that alliance on the apis before long
you may be sure The Princesss the ceverest Of the