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    foreign service , are in themselves facts even less striking than the concurrence which MinisteTs find in their efforts to render the war effectual . Party can get up a debate on some -trivial questions ; there may he preference for the house-tax rather than for a malt-tax but it is evident that no one ventures reallvMo hoa | der tle ^^ j ^ s ^ sters in the duty of raisii ^^ ai » &nd inwcqiBsinfifsoiir strength for the -war . Ev ^|§| trict friend ? < p | tlie Ministers descry weak pllfet 3 m " *^ kt | i | j £ et .

    The disproportionate Qphawwtaent of th < ygpMi 5 &-The disproportionate onham ^ nent of ^ the ^ MBoafttax , which will *|| fl withfj Sse&sive svtfjpf upon some parts of the middle class—an atiempt , likely enongh to fail , at doubling a previously increased duty on spirits—and the abnost exclusive duty . © n beer , have provoked crjticiatn- ; Kajt ^ hiie i » , considerable portion of $ ie public would agree with one objection or the other , there is almost a single feeling on the general question—that Ministers sh $ u } dJbayethe money they ^ ajpit , apd be free to user "it without Miidrance , 'so long as they besiir

    themselves in getting reSdjPtio % fisstise the Czar . ^ f e ^^^ I ' . ^/ . ^^ i pkyft ^ ' ^ more ; rthau . . a mere demonstratioaon a particular point : Poles , dot ^ tr , M ^^ ej oie ^ ^ iu ^ e « that important town asserting the resqi ^ aien ^ of ^ iieir re-estabughment fn T ^ TiTv ^ A . ^ .: ^ rt ri ^^ njg j ^ grnrt ' TVfltr ^ ii i On many ^ fS& n «^ Sj political ^^ 4 tit ^ i ^|| rjJ the ^ vice is ^ ood ^ femirj ^ fr ^ Sr ^ BSrmm ^ aW it is also a good test of Englfeh feeling vaildlthilown to which a select r / munittee of . ihe House ^ £ ommoBs has restored

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    in such a conflict : if once the truth of the report were established , ^ JaeJieve that Cuba woul d be annexed ^) thja , J ^ i te if ) States within a few days ; and we apfc not prepared entirely to disbelieve the report . - # ^ nother ~ rumour , that the Emperor NapolgMi has sent to . Queen Isabella » message ixcojppm ^ support a ^ gwpMi ^ America ? 4 . ^| ji ^^ dibte ^ ]^)|| oleo ^^ ias sho ^ pc % n . yextraord 1 li | Kry |^ plness vvlp | e haiiipiing the ijg |> 5 t desperat ^ meaeuMjii ; but hfl | gs not ,, «| i | ite so T ^^ nary -as to build ur ^ wtrned «* % ^ flMfcfipai ^ ' \ Mto Jpjk any porlgj&'tiff his , stre ^ prby taJdrigfjpart ' * pth that bai ^ g-upt and miserable Government .

    torn && / $ * . ^ tf ^ ik&MM&tBmiHh i "» e ^ t se smgn , " . e ^ er ^ dqe ^ JWj&re , ^(^ Jg % ^ i 4 g ^*^^^^ . i ^ , | H ^ l ^^ ls ^ gpalAJw « of wt&m&e Mm lm- , Pfm ^< mMA &l *» «** $# } S ^ OfL th # ; S ^ O ^ , ^^^ Of ^ evjerai mewfibere fajfojir ^ e * p ttyg &jll # n ( l of W&SfeNf * W ? th ^ ^ ^^ wVHP . ^ a * WS * W *» ^ u ^ jjRg Jb $ subjeftt ^ ^ nd . ^ is prp ^ f 0 th&t Jjgjpgtaprs ^ emselT « a : J ? a ay fcajjy ? . it / ira .

    $ fo T homas Ohambers > Committee $ p wujuifcre l ^ to GQJayeBWaJ Establishment iaa &Keq s . et aside % ihe flex ion . Mr . Newdegate , ft ^ vjlsed bina to withdraw it jn the face of a . tyrantn ^ ority ; apd a , hundred tq one on the divisio ; n concurred in Mir . Iflewdegate ' s adr ice . A bone of contention , at a , n inconvenient time has thus been removed .

    The American intelligence is remarkable in many respects . It is stated , wftu great plausibility tfcat Russia , while asking for facilities to equip American privateers , hap offered to concede her territories on tie western continent to the Qovernqaent at Washingtpn . There is ikQt the slightest chance that the Republic will retract from the rule which it has laid down , to discourage privateering ; nor will the promise of lands on the other side of the Oregon territory , and fur beyond , the distance to which even Mormons would emigrate

    at present , have any temptations for the States . Very different appears to be the prospect of another annexation . Prom Spain it is reported that the Government is preparing to sen < J out tl QQ ^ nxen to re-inforce the Spanish islands in the West Indies , with intimations of some kind of Negro or-Mulatto aggression on the Union . Such % tii ntention on the part of ^ pain is far from being lopreAibte . •; Ignorance and recklessness nre too ^ trx > ug"in , Madri < l to admit the salutary fear of play-I * ng ; witb fetfeh incendiary materials . The United SlyifcW . ccmkl not permit Spain to take the initiative -Ui . ^ -

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    What had now become of the cheerful exhortations which ha addressed to the clerk who complained of the income tax £ && * & § £ } The "f honourable gentleman the other BTght K 4 p ? steajSe 4 to flavour the compliment which he be / stowed o ^ pp ^ pwi with sarcastic remarks against Mr . Pitt ' s . \ &gpff $ r—aiwiji etxor ^ no doubt that Minister might have com > appi 4 ' fijlJMbHSli was the defect which the ri ^ ht honourl able gentlfiai . sjpeciall ^ selected ? Why , that Mr . Pitt was shortjs ^ g ^ igj . , - ^ tfie nglit honourable gentleman had beea yresenft ^^ h «^ J ^ Rve gone more into detail ; but he would sst tlm | Jj ^ t ^ e ritht honourable gentleman ' s absence that . the © H ^ r « pcame-lroin a gentlemaa who was the only man in ^ Is otMl l ^ ikiet who could not foresee the wax for which he ftad nj ^ tpjMWTrid a -frapji a gentleman who converted stocks f ^^| iJMN «» p ^ the resiilt—who lad one budget in March ranotberia may . Th&bswas tha gentleman who sneered Mr . Fitt ' s » orlBighte-dn ^ eH |^ ( Ckeprs . ) Sir Alnlwer ^ L yttpn advocated war-loans , on the _ ground tBW'posterity ought to pay for the war . Mr . Pstfmmond made one of his customary speeches , hitting hard at everybody and everything . He agreed in everything Mr . Gayley had said respecting the t « HC Ifc'TvaisDne of -the worst -that could possibly be im-- posed- ; and he entirely approved of the Dudget of the

    PAHLIAMBNT OF THE WEEK . The House assembled on Monday , as -usual and debated flte - malt--tax after tha -old party fa&bieH Mr . Disraeli and hip-fiends ^ eeem to have gained courage &pm the forbearance of J ^ inistere , and to have made ^ regular party stand . But the subject of debate XH pj | e . Vith w , hicH - "" ZJ (> Txr _ readera must - be 'already too familial ; and , as might be expected , the main interest of tte debate lies , not in . the arguments , as tbey ^ a ^ . cabled , by courtesy , but in the party attacks on either side . : The formal matter before the House waa the

    second reading < yf - ^ e Excise ,. I ) uties Bill , imposing the additional duAJcs upon ^ g \ rit& and malt . The increase of the malt-tax seemed almost to have Jbeen talcen ait a party . " utaui ^ and irrought out the old Pxatectiopista in fall force . The Opposition forloEfl hQpe yfstA . < JB ^ r . Qjl ^ jsy ^ whp rppyed tljafc the ibili l »| read ft-i S ^ conJa $ m tha ^ dav j ' ^ x JQifflQv * ' . fa fEQftdj se , t ^ p lir * se Mr . 9 ^ f % ; c ^ ll ^ n ^ d t ^ e Jm ?^ cj pf tfyej Opviertyqient as inconsistent with ^" ree-tra ^ e prin- : idplesj as * n « iaiiilt ^ to tlie ^ agriculturists , as- ' a ] tank on ; tfie poor Lmap * and : ah a . special tax on the farmei . ; Mr ,- ^ uOeumk- % epPEdeti the aimendmeRtJ

    and tpolcsimilarwK ^ nd . Th , e $ e w * re m ^ b j ; , I , ord Monck , vho sliqwed' clearly enough that the consumer paid the tax j and that -the demand for barley wouldte scarcely , diminished . Wh&i foUowedvarious meiiibej ^ tfa ^ ing sides , but a ^ dii ^ JjtjlAe tp the ; debate - ^ lip ^ ooUJtd they . witTi m Iiinitted a ^ subject ^ Siding witH'Mr /^ Jajrley ^ ere ' Oblonel Qxtvis , an enraged JProtectiooist ^ the Marquis of Gaa ^ by , Mr . Toward ^ fH * PWJJp r » ' $ fe » Sbkti ^ c ^ , ¦ 2 | & Tfyvwm £ BSm--&e napaea of men well knpvra to bj © never weary of discussing the mait-tax—and oh tiib side of iviiniaterp , Mr . WA . aNEB , Mr . Fhank Orossley , Mr . John and

    Bajul , SJ ^ r . W ? mm $ OX , M ^ r . Wn . BQ »; othersadyainciotg thj 3 plji rejoiodera teoibeiir opponents , and bringing in allusions to thje war tq animate the debate . It waa now growing late , and the lesser lights had set , and the stars began to come forth . Of these the PrQ ^ efitip nia ^ Sir BqijW ^ it I ^ yttp ^ was the £ i : st to appear , vigorously assailing tliq Goveroment with anything-, new or old , that came to hand , available for rhetorical purposes . Government , he said , had withdrawn , the Jteform . 3 i \ k to avoid dieputea , and now they have -introduced this augmented malt-, tax —the v « ry tax to provoke bitter resentment , revjye old controversies , and disgust the people with the war . Bulogising Mr . Disraeli ' s budget of 1852 , he

    attacked Government for its abandonrqent of poli * tical economy in augmenting a tax which Mr . M * Culloch says is injurious to agriculture and ground for a compensating duty on foreign corn . If there is a malt-tax , says M'C « lloch , then there ought to be a fixed duty levied on corn . The fact is , the malt-tax is a class tax—a tax on agriculture for the benefit of manufacturers ; for now > a-days , instead of the manufacturing districts finding soldiers and paying taxes to maintain , them , the agricultural districts have to do both . The class ia the manufacturing towns are spared both blood and treasure . Ministers , actuated by a determined hostility to the land , were carrying on a war now against their poiitir . al , now against their pecuniary interests .

    He should like to know what the country had gained from the saorifice of private inclination which the public virtues of her Majesty ' s Ministers induced them to irj « Ko when they agreed to share amongst them Uic disagreeable- fatigues of office . ( Hear , and laughter . ) It was remarkable how old rivals and hostile statesmen had consented to net togotherthe Enrl of Aberdeen announcing himself a . Liherul-Conservative , and the noble lord tho member for the city of London calling himself a Conservative-Liberal { Laughter . ) The names , perhaps , might imply tho same tiling , but until these two noulo lords were seen acting together no ono supposed tkiat Conservative-Liberal of ono House was tho same as n Liberal-Consei vutive of tho ^ ther , any more than that a horse chestnut might bo a chestnut horse . { Laughter . ) In dealing with tlio ltcfonn Bill Miniaters showed

    themselves ignorant of the feelings of Llio people—ami now look at , tho ' '' loose , romantic , linaiuiiil notions of JJr . Gludhtono . Last year that prophetic statesman vi-nturrcl to predict the repeal of the iucome-tux in seven joars , and would not listun for a moment to those who talked uf thy possibility of a war .

    Chancellor of the Exchequer of the late Administration * That was a bold and manl y budget ; and it was to carry out princi p les , which _ t ^ e Ministerialists ,. < b . $ d , fyls ^ yiaculcated ^ but which they never bad the co-ara " ge " t 6 ' carry but m " th& face of ^ heir own supporters . /{ Qjapatitidn cheet-sJ ) Ther& $ 4 $ ' %$ < expression conttemrmatoryi -fcf'iitist'tBbc- in which he ¦ WQtild ' not join . Be repeated his J > eU , ef that it was the yery worst possible tax ; . but" that was tiot ^ all , ^ ffey had . on all eMes'of-tHe House \ iiheered on thei ^ aEj ^^ y ^ iaq eaid to Qthersj— " Go and < bleecl on the feaLfctWfieW , irfute we sit at home ;' and now when , for theiirstiiriie , thej were brcraglt to grapple with , the Realities of TO * r , they began- to shirjik

    from them . He had tpldthe Mtnistar hefore ^ toa ^ the QpposN ti ' on would lead him'lato a mess , Wt w 6 ul 4 never get him outot ' it . { Laughter . } It was impossible to -propose-any single tax against yehieh , % be Ter ^ r ^ stopulesb ^ aan- ^ tbe-House could not finjl , af > ta& vaKd 'objection . Jflr . Disraeli proposed the very best tax that could bejproppsed— -the most Jtist :: &n& iho most fair , —^ riatnely , -the house-tax "; 'But they had given the jower ^ n thi ^ .. couatar i ^ ito tb . fe'h ^ nds of tie householder ^ iandjthe n dyie lor ^ 'if he , jia ^ his own-way would give'it " ten times ' moire still . (^ Opposition cheers . ) Well , then tie question wasj were they going to raise money . ox flo , t ,, and r ^ oaei .. Backet ; did tfev mean 6 q mcl $ ? ¦ I *© that he not

    TionSeholders had . told Mr . Glad ^ toae should nick their *; and Mrv © rnminand said tiatthey bttght not to gick ihepoQ ^ ets ^ f the agrigHltarists . Bftt ^ he latter were ^ t « minority and ; so then- pockets would be picted . Sis rigXt lienifrifend'trail peiiectl ^ ^ i ^ h 't wrlien he- spoke of delusions practised < on this ,. snj ^ ect ; and , Jus beBev « d his : right % oa frien ^ l « P , pfce of t ^ e di ^ culties wbich ^ , XJb& ^ allor of ^ f Exchequer experienced in the city , OhTJ . 'he ought to "know ¦ b y this tihiothat * popular Ohancftllor of the Ekdhequer w&s , ^ mm y > hQ 2 ^ ^\^|^^^ m ^ tfM ^ P < 'ob ^ J ^ k ])^ ef Let fheM oeveare of s popular CThanceUqr of tne llsdhequer . Tlie right hon . g » ntleBaan opposite w « s not a pfottdlar Chancellor fehfc ones great reason irny

    of the ii ^ c'heiqvie ^ , ^^ J ^ was Mr . Drummond ^ v ^ ppoi ^ ed - him .., K t"he , manjif ^ cturer toxoftd useless cotton , by his labour , into something that could be woco , and if 4 be farmer « took a few grains of corn and turned them into pa ^ ny quarUrS j qr coBveited a hap . bea&tiqta a good fat orie , they did their counUy some service ., Bijit what did a loan contractor d « ? He nwrely took their money out of th , eir papketa and put it iftta h ' ^ own . ( flfefff , and laughter ?) The loan contractor added nothing to the public wealth . And then some gentlemen said , "Oh , give as paper ; carfy pn the war by a papei ouwfenoy . " That wcnalii be doubly cheating posterity . { Cheers wid laughter . ) Hfr

    was sorry to say that they had made that House such , ( Eat except lor the purposes of destruction and opposition to every fchirjg that was light , he knew not for what it vs , a& effective . How on ejirth they were going to carry on t"JS war passed his comprehension 1 In all things unity vvas essential iax every practical purpose . Where was the vgaity in the Cabinet ? And where was the unity in that Hou . se ? ** Oh , " they said , " we are all for war , and we will all give money for tlie support of the war , " and yet they did not like tax ; A , or tax B , or tax C ; and so he might go through all the letters of the alphabet . Byit they had entered into a , partnership . He had Jieard of a partnership where one maa lounu tne anotner uiv urtuua wit vk

    money anu . nvw . w * know , in this partnership between the Emperor of the Fre » ch and the Ministers of England , who found tho money , but he was sure it was the Emperor wlio found tlie braiaa , Ihe Ministers most certainly had gone on in hin wa . ke : he was the head and they -were the tail . He had led them fromfir . st to last . Ho suspected that their new ally saw into them quite as keenly as they saw into themselves ,. He strongly suspected that their new ally saw what he ( Mr . Drummond " } took the liberty of stating at the beginning of this question , that the House and tho country would not svpport the Wflir ; for he hoard accounts of a camp of 100 , 000 about to 1 ) & formed at Boulogne .

    They were told that this was for the purpose of watching Prussia . Let them toll that to tho marines . { I / ear , and laughter . ) It was , ho-wever , satisfactory to know that there was a select set , u pleasant club , meeting in Downing-str « et 7 and dining together every Wednosday , that was firmly pwsuaded that the camp at Boulogne was for the purpose of watching Prussia . Ho did not believe it , and his advice was that they should embody the militia antl have threu good permanent cainpu—' in thenortli of Knglund , in tho midland counties , and in tlie youth—of 80 , 000 men ; and , aa to their getting rid of the malt-tax , they might think themselves lucky if tuny esca-pud a double mult-tax and n double income-tux , with the addition of tho house-tax . { Laughter . ) After all , he said that they ini ^ hl be wull content if , by hu-cIi means , they could a » ve England from being the Untlle-iWU of Kuio | ie .

    Cries of " Divide" saluted Sir John 1 ' akinciton , who reproved tho House foi its unseemly conduct , tuid luunuiered away at the worn-out arguments "wi-th

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    458 THE LEADER [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 20, 1854, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2039/page/2/