The Atherstone Times. — 1879-08-23 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

NUNEATON.  PROPOSED TRAM WAY FROM NIINEI.N TO CO. VENTRY. —A movement is on foot for tha construction of a tramway for passenger traffic between the towns of Nuneaton and Coventry ; and the proposal, which emanates f:om a London firm of train way proprietors, was discussed at a meating ef the Nunemon Local Board, on Thursday itight. The distance between the two towns is nine miles, and the tramway, if constructed, will pass through • number of thickly-populated villages. Toe Boarsl gave the applicants permission to mike the necessary survey of the roada and to submit a scheme fur their consideratien.  the Government to to. out.  THE FINANCIAL, Arrest ALT, TIIE GBEAT TEST QUESuuN. I think !here is no doubt of one thing, that there are van- us modes used for entrapping the approbation of Vie people. ate of these is a showy and pretentious poliey—th• preference of what is apparent to what is real, and the preference of what is present to what is future. Well that game, I should may, has been played with tolerable liberality and boldness for the last five years; but a very large number of human affairs, belonging to all imaginable categories of thought and action, have a great habit and likelihood in this world of coming to one single issue, of a kind of all others the most intelligible, and that is the issue of pounds, shillings, and pence (cheers). The greatest of all the objects of the bold policy of the Government has been to stave off that issue— (Cheers.) I resnember a period, forty years ago, of what may be called financial scandal; and I am sorry to soy it bad then to be borrib by the Liberal party of that day, by the Government ot Lord Melbourne—a goveroment which centered great service upon the country. but which ia the depart. meat of finance was extremely weak Those of you who are old enough will recollect that Sir Robert Peel, when the respected head of the Conservative party--a very different kind of head from such as are now in fashion—(loud laughter) —derived enormous benefit from the financial niiieloiags, the financial laxity of the Whig Government, But yet what was the charge ? His charge was this ; that when he came into office there was an accumulated deficiency and two and a half millions of money. You have failed to pay your way by that amount : does that express the question of the operations of the present Government I (No.) No, at the beginning of the financial year their defieiency was six millions—(hear)-and it is going on accumulating— (hear, hear.) Do not conceal that from yourselves It is accumulating week by week and day by day (hear, bear.) Whatever efforts you may make to postpone the day otpeyment, the day of payment must come--(eherre). It must come sooner or later, and the longer you postpone it the longer will be the bill, and the more deplorable will be the predicament in which you will stand when you have to confess to your misdeeds, and to come before an offended and indignant people— (cheers)—to ask them to bear the cost which you have, by every shift you can contrive, endeavoured to keep from their view. Now, that bears upon the question of dissolution. They say murder will out—(laughter). They may say the same with the deficiency—(laughter). It will out, and the sooner the dissolution the sooner it will out. Some may think that the peop'e of England will never come to a proper mind until they have to pay the bill—(hear, hear). It is like dining at a hotel with a friend. You have an excellent dinner, the wise is good, and the enjoyment perfect uwil the bill treeented—(lauguter). In this particular case we do not think the enjoyment has been so much that when the time for the presentation of the bill comes it will settle the whole affair. It will be a great stroke of the Government if they can put off the presentation of the bill until after the dissolution instead of before it, and there is a motive for it, and they have great raoson for it.