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tlieii pursued the subject into its colonial and fiscal "branches , and ended by claiming justice for the land of England . Lord John Russell said it . was satisfactory to him to find that upon the subject of the malt tax Mr . Disraeli did not represent the sentiments of Lord Stanley , who had declared that , if a member of that House , he would oppose the remission of this tax without a substitute . He ( Lord John ) had never expected that the transition from ¦ one system to another could be unaccompanied by Tsartial suffering ; but when he was asked whether % e considered low prices a benefit or an evil , he
answered that , discussing the question as a matter of speculation , he should say that low prices might be the result of unusual circumstances , which should not be taken as a rule ; but , as legislators , the Government said , be those prices high or low , they would not legislate to have artificial prices for the food of the people . Pointing to the successful results of the free-trade policy , he inferred therefrom that the temporary depression of the agricultural interest had been more than made up by the general prosperity of the country . The House having divided , the motion was negatived by 247 against 123 .
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The Revenue Returns for the quarter are as favourable as the most sanguine Chancellor of the Exchequer could desire . The returns for the quarter show an increase in every item over those of the corresponding quarter of last year , except in stamps and the property tax . The decrease in the former is only £ 28 , 930 ; in the latter only £ 6405 . In the Excise the increase during the quarter just ended , as compared with Ihe corresponding quarter of last year , amounts to £ 304 , 623 ; in the Customs the increase amounts to £ 204 , 391 . AN ABSTRACT OP THE NET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE OF GREAT BRIT 1 AN IN THE YEARS AND QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5 , 1 849 , AND JULY 5 , 1850 , SHOWING THE INCREASE OR DECREASE THEREOF .
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Official Changes . — Mr . Tufnell retires from the Treasury ; Mr . Hayter takes his position . Mr . George C Lewis , now Under Secretary for the Home Department , succeeds Mri Hayter , and the Honourable E . Bouverie , the member for Kilmarnock , goes to the Home-office . — Daily News . By the United States steam-ship Hermann , which touched at Cowes yesterday , we have news from New York to the 20 th ult . Letters from Washington , in the New York Herald , state that the Compromise BilJ , as
reported by the committee of the 13 th ult ., would certainly pass the Senate , and the opinion was gaining ground that it would likewise pa « s the House of Representatives . The amount of foreign immigration into New York had experienced a sudden and unexpected decrease , not more than one-third the usual number having arrived in the first two weeks of June . The Temple of Nauvoo , erected by the Mormons in 1845 , but purchased in March , 1849 , by the Icarian community , was totally destroyed by a hurricane on the 27 th of May .
A committee has been formed , consisting of highly respectable tradesmen , for the purpose of raising a fund to erect a poor-man ' s monument to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel , M . P ., the subscription to be limited to Id . each person , and to be extended to the whole kingdom . It is intended that the fund ( as every £ 20 is received ) shall be paid into the Bank of England , to the names of trustees , viz ., Joseph Hume , Esq ., M . P ., Right Honourable W . E . Gladstone , M . P . ; Lord John Russell , M . P . ; Sir James Graham , M . P . ; Viscount Hardinge ; and John Masterman , Esq ., M . P ., or three of them .
Robert Pate , late an officer in the 10 th Hussars , who stands charged with having assaulted the Queen , on the evening of the 27 th ult ., was brought up in custody for reexamination , at the Home-office , yesterday . No new facts were elicited , but the Attorney-General said abundant evidence had been adduced to warrant the committal of the accused for the misdemeanour of having assaulted the Queen , which , under the new act , subjected an offender to transportation and other penal enactments . The prisoner , who made no observation during the proceedings , was then told that he stood committed to take his trial for the misdemeanour of assaulting the Queen .
It is confidently stated that , when in the 10 th Hussars , his brother officers always considered him , to say the least , very strange ; and curious stories are in circulation as to his freaks when the regiment was stationed in Dublin . In reference to the crime with which he stands charged , we understand the prisoner has declared that he had no intention of striking her Majesty the moment before he did so . If the plea of insanity be set up in his defence , it is said he will endeavour himself to disprove it , having a natural horror of confinement for life in Bedlam .
Great excitement has been caused among the Wesleyans in Sheffield by the expulsion of Alderman Schofield from the body . Mr . Schofield was a local preacher and trustee , and ia excommunicated because of his presence at the recent reform conference held in London , and for his attendance at other political meetings .
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The ballot for President of the French Assembly took place on Thursday with the following result : —M . Dupin , 325 ; DeBourges , 102 ; Gen . Bedeau , 35 ; M . Lamoricore , 63 . M . Dupin wan accordingly reflected for the President next quarter . Opposition parties could not agree amongst themselves about a candidate . General Bedeau would owe nothing to the Mountain , while the Legitimists would not have General Lamorieiere ; so that each party put forward its own representative , and gave M ^ Pupin an easy victory .
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PEEL . " Who is there to . take mis px-ace ?" That sentence is the living epitaph pronounced by the public on the departed statesman . To take his place in what ? I 3 e was not in office , and was charged with no ostensible function . What , then , is it that the public mean by " his place" ? Evidently something which is independent of the side that he might happen to occupy in the House of Commons independent of his being in Downing-street or not . The post of Peel was something distinct from that of Premier , or Privy Councillor , or Member , or " Leader" of the Commons . We must seek its
definition in the peculiarities of his own conduct . Now , his conduct was specially distinguished among his compeers , not by his clearheaded viewa and comprehensive grasp of a subject—other men had those in a greater or less degree ; nor by 'his candour , for other men in Parliament are candid ; nor by the keenness of his logic and the rapidity of his apprehension—other men far exceeded him in both ; nor by his superiority to the motive of ambition—he avowed that it was strong within him ;
but by these two things—that he sought to gratify his love of power by serving his country , and that when his conviction was once matured he possessed the will and resolution to carry it out . His political education had taught him that the readiest if not the only method of acting was by means of a party ; his own observation had taught him that the only true end of statesmanship must be something to benefit the country at large ; and a powerful will enabled him to turn his convictions into deeds . He
was , therefore , a practical , an honest , and a resolute statesman . Among all men in Parliament , he was the only one who systematically endeavoured to collect the will of the nation , and haying collected it , stood prepared to do the work of giving it efFect . He was , therefore , the true Member for England , the only effective patriot . In Rome , the ancient Senate has dwindled down to one titular representative , and the Conscript Fathers are now impersonated by the Senator Romano : Sir Robert Peel was the English statesman . of i
We do not , even in the hour regret , gnore the limitations upon his character j on the contrary , those limitations are necessary to define it , and without them we cannot thoroughly comprehend his true greatness . We have no complete means to penetrate his private life ; we have have still less inclination ; but personal disposition is toa large an essential amongthe elements of a statesman to be overlooked , and the influence of Peel ' s personal nature on his career as a statesman , is a striking corrective of the modern impersonal cant . He has testified that his father was a man of " a
mechanical genius and a good heart : the mechanical genius was obvious—the good heart must be taken on the authority of the son . The elder Peel was a harsh narrow-minded calculator , with whom worldly success appears to have been all in all ; and the genial part of the great Peel ' s character may perhaps be traced to the sinister side of his escutcheon . He entered life under the influence of a
mechanical genius , who was rigid by nature and arrogant with success . Peel also entered life among Tory connections : the concrete turn of his mind led him to the administrative branch of statesmanship , in which he attained great tmccess . He became a landowner ; his command of words and facts gave him early success in the House of
Commons . He was a valued servant of " the powers that be " in " the good old Tory times j ' * his successes were identified with the party ; he was the man to take things , at first , as he found them . Not imaginative , nor speculative , he had no sympathy for remote or ideal opinions . He was therefore a thorough Tory , looked upon fay the public as a sleek , thorough-p ^ ced , overbearing disciple of
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YEARS ENDED JULY 5 . 1849 . 1850 . Increase . Decrease £ £ £ £ . Customs 18 , 810 , 774 18 , 740 , 194 .. ' 70 , 580 Excise 12 , 196 , 913 13 , 097 , 336 900 , 423 — Stamps 6 , 103 . 408 6 , 325 . 499 222 , 091 — Taxes 4 , 339 . 500 4 , 351 . 530 12 , 030 — Property-tax 5 , 36 i , 083 5 , 459 , 343 97 , 76 i ) — Post-office 849 , 000 8 ! 7 , 000 .. 32 , 000 Crown Lands 130 , 000 160 , 000 30 , 000 — Miscellaneous 204 , 564 ! 209 , 744 5 , 180 — Total Ord . Rev .. 47 , 096 , 212 49 , 161 , 146 1 , 267 , 484 102 . 580 China Money 84 , 284 ; .. .. 84 , 284 Imprest and other j Moneys 600 , 568 6 & 2 . 807 76 , 239 — Hcpuymints of Ad- j vances 511 , 789 570 , 797 59 , 008 — Total Income ... 49 , 198 , 883 50 , 414 , 750 1 , 402 . 721 186 , 861 Deduct Decrease 186 , 864 Increase 011 the Year 1 , 215 , 867 QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5 .
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1819 . 1850 . Increase . Decrease . £ £ £ £ ¦ Customs 4 , 12 ^ , 777 4 , 3 . ( 8 , 708 204 . 931 — lix « is « 3 , 020 , 602 3 , 325 , 225 304 , 623 — Stamps 1 , 619 , <» 97 1 , 590 , 767 I .. 28 , 930 Taxes 2 , 034 , 730 2 , 073 , 281 | 18 , 551 — I ' toperty-tax 1 , 033 , 2-40 1 . U 26 . 835 .. 6 , 405 rost-office 196 , 000 210 , 000 14 , 000 — Crown Lands .... 40 , 0 ( 0 40 , 000 .. — Miscellaneous 70 , 140 81 , 474 11 , 334 — Total Old . Itcv .. 12 , 163 , 186 12 , 681 , 290 553 , 439 35 , 335 China Money .... .. .. .. — linprestMoneys . &c . 109 , 875 135 , 827 25 , 952 — Jlepayments of Advances 170 , 841 188 , 289 17 , 448 — Total Income ... 13 , 443 , 902 13 , 005 , 406 j 596 , 8 : 59 35 , 335 Deduct Decrease 35 , 335 Increase on the Quarter .... •¦ 561 , 504
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Mr . John Bright has been taken to task by one of lus constituents for not deserting his principles by "voting for Mr . Roebuck ' s motion . Mr . Bright ' s reply ia frank and manly . After showing that to have ¦ voted for Ministers would have been contrary lo all the declarations he had ever made regarding our foreign policy , he points to the men along with whom he voted : — ' I have the satisfaction of having voted with my coUeajje in the representation of Manchester , and < jf his judgment and principles and political honesty I have the highest opinion . I voted , too , with Mr . Cobden , whom few men will suspect of a ¦ want of political sagacity or a disregard of the true incrests of liberty and of his country . I voted , too , with -Ur . Hume , of whoRe character and labours for the public iv el fare I need say nothing . I voted , too , with that statesman , since then so suddenly taken from amongst us , whose good disposition towards the existing Government : iotie could doubt , and whose sacrifices for his country and whose services in recent years have been such as to make his name sacred among his countrymen ; and , if on this point there be any distinction among them , most of all to be revered by the inhabitants of your city . "
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THE LATE SIR ItOBEItT PEEL . Before this announcement meets the public eye , all that was mortal of this distinguished statesman and Jainented individual will rest under the roof of Drayton -Manor , in Staffordshire . About six o ' clock last evening a plain hearse , drawn by four horses , and followed by a
mourning coach and four , entered Whitehall-gardens . On nearing the residence of the lamente i deceased , a coffin , covered with crimson velvet , was removed from the hearse and carried on the shoulders of eight men into the mansion . The hearse and mourning coach presently withdrew into Privy-gardens , where they remained in waiting . At seven o ' clock they returned into Whitehallgardens , and in a very few moments afterwards the coffin now containing the remains of the lamented deceased , was borne from the mansion through the court yard , and deposited in the hearse , which had drawn up at enclosed in black
the gates to receive it . The coffin was a wrapper , but not covered with any pall . It was preceded by two footmen in livery , and followed by Mr . Townes , steward for many years past in the right honourable baronet s family . After the coffin had been placed in the hearse , the coach drew up and received Mr . Frederick Peel , M . P ., Viscount Hardinge , Sir James Graham , and the Right Honourable H . Goulburn , M . P . The hearse and coach then proceeded at a slow pace through Whitehall and up St . Martin ' s-lane , in the direction of the North-Western Railway station .
Neither the hearse nor the coach had any feathers , and no pages or undertakers-men , accompanied the removal . On the arrival of the cortege at the station the horses were taken out , and the hearse placed upon a truck , under the direction of Mr . Brooks , the superintendent of the station . The truck was subsequently attached to the train , which left town at the usual hour , a quarter to nine o ' clock . Viscount Hardinge , Sir James Graham , and Mr . Goulburn remained until after the departure of the train , and then returned home . Mr . Frederick Peel alone accompanied the remains to Tamworth , at which place arrangements had been made to receive them by a local undertaker . The funeral will take place on Tuesday next .
We are happy to be enabled to add that Lady Peel was more composed yesterday . Her ladyship will leave town this morning for Marble-hill , Twickenham , the residence of Colonel and Lady Alice Peel , where she will pass a few days in retirement with her children . —Morning Chronicle .
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SATURDAY , JULY 6 , 1850 . _^^
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Leader (1850-1860), July 6, 1850, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1845/page/11/
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