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December 11, 1852.] THE LEADER. 1183
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER11, 1852.
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BRITANNIA GROWING GRIM. So wo are to hav...
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In The House Of Commons, Last Night, In ...
and he t hought it would be nearly that Bum . He had expected a slight advance in the Excise ; and though the increase was at present much greater , he would not estimate it at more than he had said . The Stamps had greatly increased . He thoug ht the surplus , on the 5 th April , instead of being , as he had estimated , 460 , 0002 ., would exce ed that estimate by nearly 1 , 000 , 000 ? ., amounting to between 1 , 300 , 000 ? . and 1 , 400 , 0002 . The loss by the remission of the malt duty , which would not come into operation until October , 1853 , when a drawback must be' paid upon the stock in hand , he took at 1 , 000 ? . ; the reduction of the duty on tea to 1 * . 10 d ., at 400 , 000 ? . ; the duty on hops would not affect the vear 1853-64 ; the extra estimates would be 600 . 000 Z ., juuut total amount to be
and the lignt auea . , . xne supplied was , therefore , 2 , 10 O , O 00 Z . It was his duty , therefore , to propose some addition to the revenue of the country . He would not lay it on the Customs , or on any source of indirect taxation . He was not going to propose a new tax , but to ask the House to consider an existing tax , and apply to it the principles they had . supported—namely , the present arrangement of the house tax . This was a direct tax , but it was remarkable for all the features by which direct taxation ought not to bo distinguished . Its operation was limited to houses of 201 . a-year . He proposed to reduce the limitation to 101 . a-year . At present private houses paid 9 d . and shops 6 d . He proposed that
the former should pay Is . 6 d ., and the latter Is . The amount of the tax would then be 150 , 000 ? . less than the window duty . He would have half a year ' s income tax , 2 , 500 , 000 ? ., to meet the extra expenditure of 2 , 100 , 000 ? . In 1854-55 there would be a loss arising from the various remissions , which , with 600 , 000 ? ., the increased estimates , would make 3 , 087 , 000 ? . ; while the ways and means would amount to 3 , 510 , 000 ? . In conclusion , he maintained that the policy he had developed was one which he believed would promote the welfare of the people of this country founded as it was upon sound principles of finance . A conversation , rather than a discussion , ensued , in
which Mr . Gotji / buen , Lord J . RirssEiiii , Mr . Hume , Mr . Labottchere , Sir C . Wood , and other members took part , and various explanations were given by the ChANCEKLOB of the EXCHEQUEB . The resolutions before the Committee were agreed to ; the House resumed , and , after some other business , adjourned at a quarter past eleven o ' clock until Monday .
December 11, 1852.] The Leader. 1183
December 11 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 1183
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Had it been possible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to surprise the House of Commons , he would certainly have done so last night by a financial statement which Peel himself would only have ventured on under the most encouraging circumstances , and in one of his most exuberant n ^ tods . But for some recollections , which it is impossible ' wholly to suppress , we might say that , so far as concerns the annual ceremony of the Budget , Mr . Disnieli has entirely filled up the lamentable gap left by the most illustrious of his recent predecessors . Without committing ourselves at once to every item in
the long and weighty catalogue of financial reforms now before us , we must say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer not only takes advantage of his position with the dexterity of a master , but has really succeeded in showing that a new position , new resources , and new capabilities are before us . He has done much to remove that almost oppressive feeling which for the last two or three years lias been creeping over the energies of the country , that we had pretty well got to the end of our tether , and , like the Arctic discoverers , had carried our political inquiries to the last limits of utility and discretion . —' Mines of this day .
The Long-Promised Budget Has At Last Bee...
The long-promised Budget has at last been opened , and it fully deserves the character its author seemed desiroiiH it should enjoy . It is , indeed , a hold Budget . As might be supposed , a large audience- assembled on the occasion , and the House of Commons was not only unusually full , but was also unusually quiet , and with marvellous patienco listened for more than live hours to the level , clear , and interesting , but very umlucoi-ated discourse of tbo Chancellor of the Exchequer . — Daily News .
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Mr . Oaken lias beaton Mr . HardeiiHtlo , at Bury St . JulinunriH by eight , majority . ' . Lord frraiikfort h ' aa boon sent to tho HoiiHOof Correction for l . wolvo inontJiH , for dicu luting paporn ( ielmnutory of tho •• liaractcr of Lord Henry Lennox and others . Hoar Admiral Mio lion . Sir Flout / wood Urougliton Uoyiioldn INilW , C . U ., K-O . IL , ban limi ted the command in Chi , if of tho Kant , India station , vice Roar Admiral AiiHton , ( J . H ., riomiHod . Tho gallant admiral ia mm of < ho lato ( liHl . inguiHhod admiral Jj < ml Ifixmouth . Tho following from tho llaguo was received ycNlorclny '\ y < 'l ( ' ( 't , rii ; tolographal , . Paris :-- " Tho Mini . slor of . Kiiiunoo I'iin announced for Him wuok . tho proHonUition of a bill for tlio oonvcTHion of tho l <\> ur i > er CoiiI . h . "
M . Ablm . U , ucrc ; i and ( JenoriilCiuTelol , aro oroatod Honii-Ioi-n . Cantnin . s Oclot , Pollion and Lugool , commanding < ' » o Napoltiou , aro inndo . Roar-Admirals . A Npedal mooting of tho . ioiinc . il <> 1 " < hc > Ampliation tor JToiMotJniraOluiap and uniiorm Hyfitom of ( Joloiiiu and l'il . nriial , i , > iiul P < mtago , waa lioltl on ' Tlmrmliiy at llio Iioiiho <>! ' Mi » H < M ) ioty of Arts , in tho Adolphi ; li »« l Umnvillo , Aim pniaidont , ofUio AHHoriat . ion , in tlio chuir . H / wnur ' ti Gtiaotlo rloolaroH itself in a potation to hUiU * Mint tho Miuliu-i aro to bo liboratod within a month Irom <¦!»» timu of Count Arnim-Hlombuig ' H dopailmo from ' 'lorciuio , and conaoquontly to-morrow ( l « t Docombor ) or *»») xt day .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the - world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Aen-old .
Britannia Growing Grim. So Wo Are To Hav...
BRITANNIA GROWING GRIM . So wo are to have a complete system of national defence . Orders are actually out about our arsenals and dockyards , the enect of which , will be , Mr . Disraeli assures us , to put the question of our ability to resist invasion at rest for ever . It is pleasant to see the unanimity with which this announcement of the Government has been received . While the Budget as a whole is being torn to bits , not a complaint has been raised against the proposed expenditure for the increase
of our army and navy . Lord John Russell tenders the measure his cordial support ; Mr . Cobden , quailing at last before facts too strong forthatwretched peace-philosophy which is killing his statesmanship by inches , takes refuge in significant silence ; and honest Mr . Joseph Hume , after haggling a little , as was natural , lets the money go like a man , and declares himself satisfied . Humour , always busy , does attribute much of this unexpected alacrity to the influence of a Lady high in the land , a lady to whom these free islands must be dear as an inheritance : who , as
she travels over them , must look at their hills , and bays , and landscapes , with a feeling such as none of us can know ; and who has children , whose future , as connected with these islands , she must think of many a time with a strange solicitude . "JtVhat rumour says is substantially this—that when the estimates for the increase of our service for defensive purposes were laid before this lady , she pronounced them insufficient ; and that the higher sum she demanded is the sum as it now stands . Of the truth or falsehood
of this report we must of course remain ignorant ; but , if true , one cannot help wishing it had been in etiquotte for the words to have been spoken " in some placo where the shout of a nation would have shown how they were appreciated . For the country has come round to a right view of this subject . It is not long since a pro-Eosal like that of the present Government would avo been received with hooting , and no end of angry opposition . It is not long since we laughed at the poor old Duke , who lias since gone , when he talked of his " seventy-seven years passed in
honour , " and , expressing his hope that he might never live to see tho day when a foreign force should land on our sliorcH , told us that , so far as our preparedness to resist such a force was concerned , this might any day be the case . Wo called him an old dotard , an old alarmist ; ayo , and fellows among us who never -fired a gun , and if they saw one , hardly knew tho breech from the muzzle , expounded to un beautifully how tho Duke was wrong , and how , on this or on that military principle , it was quite- impossible that a landing could bo eHected . It was in vain that
a wiser low tried to resist this deluge- ol sedentary nonsense . It was in vain that somo tried to point out tho indubitable fact that tho state of our coast defences was purely a military question , and that what tho Duke said on such a question w iih more Hure to be right than what anybody cine Haid . It was in vain that Homo men , going deeper still , tried , to insist on hucIi generalities as < , Jie , s <>—thai . Ijiore in no other ultimate foundation for tho liberty of a people- against either foreign
1 'ooh or internal < loHj > oti . sni , than the willingness and preparodneHH of that people to defend their liberty by anus ; and that , according to all liintory , the one and only circumHtanco about a people once truly great , which marks that thoir day of power is over , and that God has doomed them , in their having abandoned or committed to others the uh
the hopes of the human race were declared to bo incorporated with the Crystal Palace . Slowly and gradually we have come round . If we are still far short of ihe ideal which all our best minds entertain on this subject— -namely , that we should have a citizen-force , consisting of all our men of a certain age , duly trained and armed—we have at least thrown off our stupor , begun to see facts as they are , and ceased to
laugh at the old Duke . The incessant irritation , to which we have been subjected by the Pope , Austria , and our Imperial friend on the other side of the Channel , has done more than argument , to bring about this change . The fact is , we are beginning to lose our temper . Mild a little while ago , our old combativenoss is being roused ; and feeling some stirring of the warlike spirit within , we discern more easily the signs and appearances of war without .
The present attitude of this country towards France is curious . At the very same moment that we are officially recognising Louis Napoleon as Emperor , the clang of hammers is going on all over the nation , preparing the means of resisting a danger which we look for from this very man . At one and the same moment , our foreign Minister Lord Malmesbury is openly paying compliments to his friend Louis Napoleon in our House of Lords ; and the Government to which Lord Malmesbury belongs is as ostensibly founding
cannon , building ships , and enlisting men , with a reference , deny it as they may , to this Louis Napoleon . With the exception , of course , of Lord Malmesbury ' s gratuitous eulogies on his friend , both things are right . The French have a right to an empire , or to any other form of government they like . We may have our own thoughts as we look on ; but we have no more right to prevent their having their own way in their government , than we should have to interfere if they
were all , the thirty or forty millions of them , to agree in future to walk on all fours or stand on their heads . At the same time , we are right as respects the cannon , & c . It has entered into our minds , reasonably or not , that a nation which has agreed to walk on all fours , and to stand on their heads , is not a very safo neighbour ; provided they remain within thoir own limits , they may tumble about as they like ; but so long as we are not quite sure on this point , we must continue to get the cannon ready .
And the fact is , we aro getting leas and less sure on this point . In addition to all the general considerations which have hitherto seemed to make a war with France a possibility—the consideration of the character of Louis Napoleon , his fanaticism , his peculiar style of action ; tho consideration that he must do something or other out of France , to keep his army out of ennui and mischief at homo ; the consideration , guaranteed even by tho confessions of French democratic rcfugecH amongst ourselves , that a war with England would be the most popular stroke for any French ruler—in addition to all these general
considerations , our daily talk with each other is now full of stray facts and reported actualities which bring tho danger nearer to our view , and convert mere possibility into something very like probability : we have rumours of sayings of Narvacz in Spain to the effect that Gibraltar will not be much longer in the hands of the British , rumours confirmed b y signs of unusual vigilance on the part of the ; Gibraltar garrison , and by tho accusations inside against the French ( jioverninent , and faintly denied by iXvv- Monitcur , of their "being concerned in promoting the HO-ealled * ' constitutional changes" in the government of Spain . Wo have rumours of instructions from . Paris to
French hankers in London , pointing to n . possible coii ' p-dV'tat in Portugal , in the Miguel interest ; wo have 'rumours of French ecclesiastical intrigue in . Ireland ; and we have rumours of messages to our ( 'government from Cherbourg , conneefHl with the state of the French licet ; we have such intimations an those conveyed the other day by I ho MorniiHj ( 7 /// W // V 76-correspondent , that ML Ducos , the French Minister of Marine , in making our
preparations for defence here n , pretext for a , further activity and outlay in-the great ui'mimiuIs and dockyards of Kraiuo , so hh to outstrip . Knglund while Heeining only to follow in her wake ; wo have tlm Hlarfling accounts of speeches made by Frenchmen in the Imperial eonlidenco , Hiiuihir to that of the chairman of the ICcola M"ditaire of 1 ' uriH , nt a . great military banquet on Friday lasfr , when lie told the students present that " the 10 mporor reckoned on tlieir nervicoM abroad aa JUo JUad
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11121852/page/11/
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