The Sun. — 1850-04-17 (London, England)

EXCHEQUER--; but on seeing the notice he had ordered a return, and found that. it duties were remitted according to the pre; position of the Hon. Member, the revenue would se"; to the extent of 1,538,0001, which, with the other clef tion now before the House, made up a remission of u:; tics to the extent of 2,838,0001. He trusted the flou't. would not think him unduly anxious on this subiee tb but when propositions of this kind were made aign, after night—when, on a recent occasion, a zep",l tion to repeal one single duty, which prodne-0 1,820,000/., was defeated only by the narrorie 0 possible majority—(Hear, hear)—there was more 014 enough to excite the most serious anxiety to find veg" thus given without a full consideration of their coase; quences upon the public credit.—(Cheers.) These a'sj., the grounds upon which he resisted the motion of P'ti Right Hon. Friend. He thought it unwise, unsafe, se;• discreditable to the character of the House to make I'm; reduction of 1,300,0001.; and he thought it Writ' though not so discreditable, for the House to pledge'' self to deal with any particular tax in the ensuing ,1; sioa. Those must anxious for economy could bar" ' wish to destroy, by this course, the happy state of trite° quillity which, by the blessing of God, had made 05 land the refuge of the world.—(Cheers.) He could /314 express himself sufficiently against a course which iveure be a political suicide. The question was not a reo. matter of 10,000/. here and 20,000/. there, but it be essentially a question touching the public bredit; anuies trusted, therefore, the House would neither deal to, these taxes now, nor pledge itself to do so vext iess'w but negative the proposition of the Hon. Member. Mr. HUME said no man was more desirous than PI o self of upholding the public credit, and he woultl6os further than the Right Hon. Baronet, and assert t,ilio any attempt to interfere with the claims of the powch creditor would bring on the country calamities 03130greater than anything hitherto heard of. But the raises of the Right Hon. Baronet were not correct, Ile he would show that the House ought to take a ec tot just the reverse of that which the Right Hon. Bsr"heil recommended. The Right Hon. Baronet said that, wileolt he stated his proposal how the surplus was to be /hir. with, it met with universal acquiescence. lie ;0 De Hume) considered the brick duty a very proper one; of repealed, but he objected to the purchasing up elfoose part of the national debt while there were taxes t) fait ing fur immediate repeal. That did appear to ~," ns error in judgment, and he said so at the time, ant,,,ose• the acquiescence was not unanimous even in that 11).' the .rde It was absurd to apply a trifle like 500,000/. Wt..— shev liquidation of a debt of 900,000,000/. ; but the which was insignificant as compared with oral debt would have relieved the public from se far• taxes, the repeal of which was loudly called 00i. The Right Hon. Baronet bad not stated fairly thejtbe tion of the finances. It was true there had been pass famine, the commercial distress, and the distuals to abroad; but the Right Hon. Baronet bad no rig ft attribute the deficiences of the revenue to thesteat• arose mainly from the extravagance of the GoVerithech The revenue remained untouched and undirojel' or The deficiency was created by the unnecessary ea oa. dituro in the warlike establishments. The Rightifiog airoeet had epekon of this motion as inv- (Mr' 1,3 00,000/. ; bat in truth, his Right Hon. Friend OO Gibson) only proposed to deal now with the duty/o, stamps and advertisements, amour.ting to 300,000t0t of deed, the speech, just delivered was no reply 102' 006 the Right Hon. Member, which was one of the 0,0 be able, the most convincing, and the 'most condo .AO.O, had ever heard on the subject of the taxes online/re:at (Cheers.) This question was the more ileP_u_iiop, because large sums were annually spent in °dna:nine and the House was about to consider a national s t139;00 fir that purpose, while the abolition of thes?, „fret would do snore in that direction than all they coa_l_a_7so by this expenditure, actual and proposed. It "oat reflection upon the House and the country_ like these taxes ,were allowed to continue. It wit expending money in sanitary improvement and reps