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d Lord Normandy an assurance of the
- moral approval Of Louis Napoleon,
policy by England, upon which LORD
John Russell had insisted upon and
obtained his c%elleague's resignation
A ministerial crisis arose on the
militia bill The government had
brought in Q bill On this subject OF a
purely local character, and to such q
Limitation the house would in no
wise submit. On q division on this
point the government was left in q
&c @lnority Of II. aud Lord John Rus
sell At once resigned. 10
Lord Derby was therefore sum'
.s moned by her majesty, u under-
took the formation OF q ministry,
which came into Office in March.
- no. g.
NE, DIsRAELI AS CHANCELLOR OF THE
ExCHEQUER,
brought in his budget on the SOth Of
= April, and found it was generally APP
proved, though the wing organs as
sured the world that there was
u nothing in it but the proposition OF
the f%ree-traders toisted upon the
: country by q protectionist ministry.
The prorogatioR came before the
r6naucial propositions OF the govern
ment bad been completely discussed.
and was Immediately followed by q
general election.
Parliament reassembled in NOvem-
! her but ths state Of parties appear
.SSedsto be little altered. The confiic,
va still between + eelrade and pre-
teotion, and on those principles the
proposals Eof the government were
submitted to the severest scrutiny. !.
Gss Hhe debate lasted four nights, and
on the 18th of December Mr.. Disraeli
rose to wind it up on behalf of the
= government His speech was unsuc-
Q eesafnl in attaining.its great object
the acceptance of the financial policy
81 she government by the house.
Darling his exile from Office Lord
oaoonsfield attended diligently in
i the house ; he allied himself with no
q faction, be gave q loyal aud generous
support to Lord Palmersten when
patriotism required it, and when DR..
Bowring had plunged the country in
to the costly aud useless war about
the Chinese lorcha, Arrow, Mr.. Dis
raeli was one of the strongest oppo-
nents of the ministry.
few days before parliament met,
In February, 1850, Paris had been the
scene ora grievous crime-ths Orsini
consplrscY against the emperor. On
one Of the earliest nights of this ses-
Sion Lord PalmerstonJ had moved for
leave to bring III q bill to amsnd the
laws relating to >.
CONSPIRACY TO MURDER,
Gnd the VIGOROUSLY disturbed state
Of the public mind in France render
Sitive on this subject. Suspicious
were openly expressed in many quar-
tsrs that the government intended to
sacrifice the dignity of the country
to the demands of the French gov
ernment, and the proposals of Lord
Palmerston were from the outset ex-
kx6u16ly 0uRVHulo4s vi bu0 1utIO.
duction Of the bill, Mr. Disrssli ex-
pressed his intention Of voting for
the bill, on the ground of its being II
mark Of national goodwill toward
France. By the time that it came Oh
for its second reading popular opin-
ion sn.the subject had intensified it.
self in ne common degree ; and when
NJ. Miner Gibson, with the support
Of all the distinguished mem
bers ON both sides of the house moved
its rejection, Mr.. Disraeli supported
the motion. &.
Lord Palmerston in vain tried to
stem the current ; a division was call.
cd for, and the government found-it-
selfsin q minority of nineteen in a
house of feur hundred and forty
nine. ~" IT,
Lord. Palmerston at once resigned,
and when the house reassembled OIL
the LIST of March MI. Disraeli once
more took his seat on the treasury
bench ~ chancellor Of the exchequer.
Mr.. Disraeii's budget was of au emil
-a1ently practical and business.like
type. The income tax then stood. at
ID. In the pound he reduced it to 3d.,
and expressed q strong hope.that this
impost-whfch he described as most
"anjust. unequal, and inquisitorIal,"
and which was
4t CONFESsEDLY A WAR TAX
might eventually be got rid Of alto
gether. To supply the deficiency
thus created, he Imposed the penny
stamp on bankers checks, and equal
t5ed the duty on spirits, besides max
ing some alterations in. the arrange.
AZ ents relating to exchequer bills
.. proposals. which even Mr.. Gladstone
approved. Next after the budget the
most important measure with which
Mr.. 1Disraeli was concerned in the
session of 1858 was the bill for the
future government in IndiA. The
cabinet drew up q series of fourteen
resolutions, which were proposed by
Mr.. Disrasli, aud which eventually
formed the basis Of the great measure
BY which the government of India
Was vested IN the crown.
The session of 1859 opened on the
whole, favorably for the ministry.
The opposition Of the ministry was in
deed far from being q secure one, but
II had held its own during the preced-
Ing session in a way which had sur
prissd even its friends and support
ers. The state of things was pretty
much the same as when Mr.. Disraeii
and his colleagues came into Office il,
1852. On all sides there were signs
of>administrative debility and exc.
cutiye f~eehleness. When they retired
they had certainly spent q considera.
BILE amoant of money, but they lef,
England strong where she bad been
weak, and respected by those who
had despised her. OF that former
tenure of Office it is worth while te
recall n fact: When Mr.. Disrael
became chancellor Of the ~exchequeI
for the first time, he found Engiane
with an artillery force of fewer thai
forty guns when he went out, sh,
had q seige train OF two hundred
pieces of artillery, and it was with i
that the Crimea was conquered.
On the last day Of February Mr.
Disraeli brought in
LIS REFORM BILL,
n it was at once felt that the fat
Of the government was sealed. Tn,
government proposed to give vote
to an immense number of person
hitherto excluded from the franchise
and to make that privilege dependen
upon such qualifications as the DOS
session of 910 a year in the funds
EGO in q government savings bank