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The Budget Analysed. "Vjete Were: Not As...
trade as essential to the prosperity of all classes ; but it is only one branch , of industry— -every part of which needs freedom as much aa the exchange ] of . commodities between the inhabitants of Liverpool and Bordeaux . On the vast inisdiief caused by restrictions oil this part of industry he is very eloquent , and adds many demonstrations to those already known of the folly of previous legislators ; Every word of denunciation of the * duties he proposes to repeal -frill be echoed throughout the . ' country .. He confirms the opixiion that the moral and social evils of exorbitant wine duties , intended to check exchange , and of duties on butter and cheese to collect a revenue for the state , are enormous , and the existence of these evils is his ; justification for lowering the former and abolislnng the latter , though by so doing lie . deprives the state of revenue . The latter is , in his estimation , a trifling olyject compared to the
fbi-mer . Bat restrictions on other species of industiy are equally injurious . The excise duty on p aper is at least as mischievous as the duties on wine . Every other species of honest industry is equally meritorious as paper-making , and should be left equally free . Mr , Gladstone and all of us see and feel the evils of existing taxation and the existing restrictions which he proposes to abolish ; but . , he does not see nor feel , nor do any of us yet see or feel the evils of the many stamp . ami . warehousing and licensing . taxes he proposes to inflict on us . We have yet to learn" them from experience ; and Mr . Gladstone , drawing on a glowing fancy , fondly believes that money will l ) e raised by his new taxes without injuring ; the public ; , just as the imposers of the dxitics on wine and butter believed tlie same of their impositions . The authors of the corn laws even , believed that they would not injure - . . the nation , arid many years of great suffering had to be endured before they and their heirs in the legislature
were convinced of the contrary . Mr . Gladstone goes mechanically to work , after the .. ' manner ; of PeeV in abolishing custom house duties , being ignorant that the evil is taxation , that he inflicts on industry , a great number of onerous new restrictions . He does not comprehend the general principle at issiae , and repeats by his new taxes the evils inflicted on industry he « xults at getting rid of by abolishing old taxes-. To . all his new regulations about warehousing , and his new duties on contract notes and dock warrants , we must raise a ¦
general objection . He removes , from the tariff many articles which are no longer subject , to duty ; and the object of all such tariff ' regulations being solely to raise a revenue , the articles nor longer ' subject to duty should be released from the control of the Custom House . The import and export of commodities is one great branch of industry , and if it be . not right to tax them for revenue , it cannot be rig ht to impede the import and export for any minor purpose . As sooii as duties on . exports and import ' s arc abolished , to force tliem all through the Custom House , and to force importing and exporting merchants to give an account there of their proceedings , becomes a mere measure of police . Even if it be adopted to prevent the smuggling of
any of the articles yet subject to duties it has . ho other character . Subjecting this great branch of industry to restrictions for the sake of obtaining a revenue was bearable , if not wise , compared to subjecting it to restrictions , however apparently trifling , as a matter of police . . After sheer necessity has driven the Government from'the old plan of interfering with every commodity that eiunc in or wont out of the country , in order to raise a revenue , Mr . Gladstone renews and extends this plan on the bureaucratic principle , thai ; the Government must control business . Custom house regulations , as duties disappear , become mere police regulations , and Mr . Gladstone , by his now impost on rill commodities imported and exported , and on all removals of commodities froyn warehouses , only extends
im ' cl confirms and rivets such regulations On trades . It is the passport system applied to the fruits of industry instead of industrious men . It is ' the continuation and extension along our ¦ whol e seaboard of those dounniev establishments which guard the frontiers of all ' conterminous Continental States . To beat down ami destroy them , as by the union of the States of Germany under one ' Custom House system , is modern wisdom , to which Mv . Gladstone's extension of Custom House regulations , while lie exempts commodities from Custom House duties , is 'directly opposed . Xo doubt the time will come when exports and imports will be as free to and iVoni' other countries , m they are now' mutually free to and from the counties of [ England , and ¦ all Mr . Gladstone ' s new regulations are at variance with this obvious and certain progress .
Ho boasts of striking ' " fetters olf the arm of industry ;"—ho docs so with one" hand , and with the other places on it new letters . To the old fetters society has accommodated its relations , and his new letters will be found more galling than tho continuance of tlwj old . The neeosaity of dealing with finance Wliilo the reform fit ' Parliament is pending might liavc been met hy keeping down
the non-essential expenditure , and by a judicious application of the . £ 2 , 400 , 000 no longer required for ' the debt . Unfortunately it has pleased Mr . Gladstone not to take this simple course , and to allthe difficulties of the Government : he has added the great difficulty of unnecessarily disturbing without settling the whole financial system , and many of the fiscal regulations Tvliieh affect commerce . He has . found himself obliged . unwillingly to bow to public opinion ; but in doing so , he has still been resolved , like a time politician , to take a course of his own . Such a Budget as -his was never before seen . It was wholly unexpected . The public will scarcely be found ready to support it , thoughthe great , features of " abolishing the excise dnty on paper , and removing so maiw articles from , the tariff , strongly ; recommend it to public approbation ; but these amiable features are connected with so many ugly and distasteful attributes , that the scheme seems more likely to generate confusion than promote prosperity .
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A SERIOUS SOVEREIGN . NEAE . LY all writers who have moralised upon inntrimony have dwelt a great deal on certain discords of disposition conducing much to a general harmony in the marriage union . Two spouses of . ¦ ' equal levity , equal prodigality , equal impatience , even equal good-natured noudltaldnce , are " not generally supposed to he well matched ^ either for mutual respect , reciprocal happiness , or family progress .-Perhaps it was from this analogy , that one of tlie acutest Preiieh' moralists was led to the wise remark , that "France
ought to have a serious sovereign . " He meant , doubtless , a seriotisness in the highest and . grandest sense of the word ; not the mournful gravity of exhaustion , " * nor that passive calmness often the companion ' of stolidity ; for amongst the many varied contrasts that may be imagined between Jinan and wife , there is one which never ansyrers—poorness of spirit on the male-side of the lioxise , matched with . vivacious courage on the part of the female .. For this iiiiopposing opposition tlie lady liei-self never either respects or . admires , whatever" advantage she may be
pleased to take of it . The probability is , that , afro- making endless concessions for peace and quietness' sake , the gude man of the house is ultimately tunied out of it altogether , and the lady- makes as many changes as lively fancy , giddy will , and 2 ; audy vanity may suggest , tilt she falls in with some imcompromising lover , who fascinates her senses , dominates over her will in a style which has nil the charm of novelty , and whom she admires at last , as another humorous Frenchman has said of the ]) ames de la Halle and their liege lords , " parcecpa'il frappe
bien . " . iVance has had long to wait for her serious sovereign , in the serious sense of that word . At the . time when L ' a . Bkuyjsk . e , who supplies our text , Wrote , she had a king who was serious enough ' in one way , for , as she who knew him well Avrote , "it was terrible to find amusement for one whom nothing could amuse ; " another king , who spent his life in making himself i / we anil nxe—a s « id frivolity and a sad gravity ; a third who , be . onusc he was too slow in family reforms , though kindly
disposed enough , was turned out of the house with most summary cruelty ; a fourth who died with a jeu d ' eaprll in liis mouth . With such royal spouses , and ; with intervals of more lovers than a Mi : ssALrxA , " aud one publicly acknowledged , who indulged her to tho height of her bent , till she was sick of him and of herself- — with such as these lins France been capriciously' pleased or dissatisfied , a . 3 the ease might be , since one of her shrewdest sons declared that she had need of a serious sovereign . - But she has got him at last ; fortunately with a . dash of blood advantageously alien in his veins ; a man whom she does not thoroughly understand ' , and therefore cannot twist round her
lingers ; , with a sombreness which interests her , with a silence bcliind which flicrc lies something besides the memory of old debauches , ' - and acquiescence in old " bonnes fortunes ; " a silence which does not dignify emptiness , hut conceals neliviiy , which makes even . England criticise her neighbour's spouse with n hush , ns she contemplates a monarch who by no means choose * to bo " rend over and put down , " and who never allows liimsolf to sit long enough in one altitude even to be daguerrcotyped 5 , or to permit " swift contemporary historians to decide whether in those features , sometimes " discharged of' nil ex pression , " smd sometimes changing like a ( jahhjok ' s , 1 lio good or tho bad is to be
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* Considering nvluifc Napoleon has done nn < l bonio sinoo the following ; wns writton , wo itppcdl to tho rotulor as to whether tlio following , nnd others lileo it , oun bo oorroot fik ^ toboH s ~ " JJo pavo mo tho ideu of a man Who had a porfoot rollnnoo on himeolf , . . . hut thero wns n weary look nbout him , nn aspoct of oxqoflflivo watohfulneRB , an ivpp ^ vunofi of wn , nt ol ek'op . oforor worje . nt ' ovvv indulgence too , that gives mi n-ir or oxliauetion to fiVoo nnd fo ' rni , i . nd louvop an Imprdlraloii on . tho miiid of n f ^ an ohaorvav that tho innoblne of tho body will bremk down poon mid MiiMcnly , 01 t ) ic mind will givo way undor tlio prowuro . of i > ont-up thoughts / bc—MmMfM t . Itwiji fi / ctwhit / foil .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 18, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18021860/page/9/
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