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TTe next argued that the proposed repeal of the jualt duty would do so little in reducing the price f beer , that the estimated increase in . consumption would not take place , and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had miscalculated his means , and would be in a wilfully created deficiency . Demanding where was the vaunted novelty of the Budget , he said that the taxes dealt with were ill-selected and jll-handled . He approved , however , of the mode in which the tea duty had been treated . Bufc the trumpery amount of hop duty it was proposed to retain was unworthy of preservation . As for the malt reduction , the
maltster and the brewer between them would pocket the advantage . He then animadverted on the inconsistency of the conduct of Ministers when out of office with their present conduct in regard to the incometax , and expatiated upon various unjust results which would arise from the proposed plan . He did not think the extension to Ireland a wise step ; that country was , in its present circumstances , taxed sufficiently heavily ; and it was to be remembered that most of the reductions of late years were of taxes applying exclusively to England , so that Ireland had gained no advantage at all . A time might , and he hoped would come , when the property-tax might fairly be extended to Ireland , but that time was not
yet . With regard to the house-tax , he did not so much object to the extension of the area as to the doubling of the tax ; and he contended that , in thus increasing direct taxation , they were needlessly wasting the resources of the country , which ought to be reserved for times of pressure . On the whole he advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take back his Budget and amend it ; and reminded him , amidst the laughter of the House , that he need not be ashamed of doing that which his predecessors in office had often been compelled to do . Let him give up the house-duty and retain the malt-tax , and then the Budget might be supported . The debate was then adjourned .
Whilst the House of Commons rings with objections to the Budget , the people outside the walls of Parliament are not idle . The example of Marylebone and St . Pancras is to be followed on Monday by Anti-Budget demonstrations in Southwark and Westminster , and the meetings in Sunderland and Bath are likely to be rivalled by similar gatherings at Southampton and elsewhere . The Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Sulford Town Council oppose the scheme .
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The following despatch in anticipation of the Overland Mail , dated " Trieste , Thursday , " has been received : — The steamer Adria arrived to-day with the Indian mail . The Hindostan , with the Calcutta mail of the 7 th November , arrived at Suez on the 1 st inst . The Irrawaddy was no longer navigable for large vessels . General Godwin was en route for Prome , with the second division . It had been decidod to advance by land upon Ava . The Chinese rebellion continues gaining strength .
At the chapel of the British embassy at Paris , on Sunday last , tho congregation were not a little surprised by the officiating minister , after tho prayer for tho Queen and royal family , interjecting into the service a supplication for his Imperial Majesty Napoleon III . After tho congregation recovered from tho surprise a few fuint " Ainen « " were audible . General Narvaez has had a private interview with Queen Isabella , which lasted half an hour . The Queen , it io said , received him very graciously .
The Cassel Gazette , under date of Dresden , 4 th , says— " We learn from a positive source that JL ' riiiee Albert of Saxony went to Prague- on the 2 nd , for Iris Imtrothal with tho Princess Carola Wasa . " This paragraph has caused some surprise in Paris , and has nithur served to strengthen the current rumour of a matrimonial alliance with Naples . Tho Count Walewnki , who returned to the EmbuBHy , in Urosvenor-squure , on Thursday evening , from Os-Wno House , where de delivered his fresh credentials , linn received tho usual instructions to deliver passports ' »» the name of the Emperor of ¦ tho l < Yoneh .. Tho ' Vouch minister at Brussels issued the first from Iris omlmnsy , on Thursday , to General Lainorieioro , who '" tended departing forthwith on a tour ia Germany . Major-Goneral Sir Robort Nicklo hat ) boen appointed to command the troops in New South Wales .
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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 . —Db . Abjtoxd .
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BRITANNIA GROWING GRIM . So we are to have a complete system of national defence . Orders are actually out about our arsenals and dockyards , the effect 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 for that wretched 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 . Rumour , always busy , does attribute much of this unexpected alacrity to the influence of a Ladv hierh 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 . What 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 courBe remain ignorant ; but , if true , one cannot help wishing it had been in etiquette for the words to have been spoken in some place 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 proposal like that of the present Government would have been received with hooting , and no end of angry opposition . It is not long since wo laughed at the poor old Duke , who has since gone , when ho talked of his " seventy-seven years passed in honour , " and , expressing his hope that he might
never live to see the day when a foreign force should land on our shores , told us that , no far as our preparedness to resist such a force was concerned , thin might any day bo the case . Wo called him an old dotard , an old alarmist ; aye , and fellows among us who never fired a cun , and if they saw one , hardly knew the breech from tho muzzle , expounded to us beautifully how tho Duke was wrong , and how , on this or on that military principle , it was quite impossible that a landing could bo effected . It was in vain that a wiser i ' ow tried to resist this deluge of sedentary nonsense . It wan in vain that some triod to point out , the indubitable fact that the state of
our const defences was purely a military question , and that what the Duke said on such a question was more sure to be right than what anybody else said . It was in vain that some men , going deeper still , tried to insist on such generalities as those -thai , there is no other ultimate foundation for the liberty of a people against cither foreign foes or internal despotism , than the willingness 1 _ . „„ . 1 ... , v | 4 lt . t ! iwwivwih i r \ / wwjkTt / l 4 'lwki *« i uuvh
3111 ( 1 HI Cltlll I . IUIJl'no WI H « M [ "J" ['" «'" v * v »^«** liberty by arms ; and that , according to all history , the one and only cireumHtanco about a people once truly great , which marks that their day of power is over , and that God has doomed them , in their having abandoned or committed to others the use and practice of tho implements of defence—in other words , the undue prevalence of tho Manchester mode of thought . AH this wok in vain ; invasion was Htylocl a bugbear : and
the hopes of the human race were declared to be incorporated with the Crystal Palace . Slowly and gradually we have come round . If we are still far short of the 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 combativeness 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 cur 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 safe neighbour ; provided they remain within their 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 tne cannon ready . And the fact is , we are getting less and lesa 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 home ; tho consideration , guaranteed even by tho confessions of French democratic refugees 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 the danger nearer to our view , and
convert mere possibility into something very like probability . We have rumours of sayings of Narvaezin Spain to the effect that Gibraltar will not be much longer in the hands of the British , rumours confirmed b y aigns of unutmal vigilance on the part of the Gibraltar garrison , and by tho accusations made against the French Government , and faintly denied by the M . oniteur , of their being concerned in promoting the so-called " constitutional changes" in the government of Spain ; we have rumours of instructions from Paris to
French bankers in London , pointing to a possible coup-dV . tat in Portugal , in the Miguel interest ; we have rumours of ' French ecclesiastical intrigue in Ireland ; we have rumours of lneHtrngea to our Government from Cherbourg , connected with , the state of the French fleet ; we have huoIi intimations as those conveyed the other day by tho Aforniny Chronicle vorriMVondimi , that M . Ducoh , the French Minister of Marine , is making our preparations for defence hero a pretext for a further activity and outlay in the great hi-hourIm and dockyard of Franco , so hh to outstrip England while Heoming only to follow in her wake ; we have the ntartling accounts of speeches made by Frenchmen in the Imperial confidence , similar to that of tlio chairman of the J ' Jatlo Militaire of
Paris , at a great military banquet on Friday last , when he told tho students present that " the Kmporor reckoned on thoir oorvicos abroad aa ko hod
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SATUEDAY , DECEMBER 11 , 1852 .
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December 11 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . ^ 1183
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Kongo , the ftunoiiH religious reformer , nddnwied u "looting hold rt <; the Hliigrovo ItooinH , in Mortiiner"troet , on tho principles of a new association , called tliu « Humn , lo HeligioiiH ( immunity . " Mr . Ingram ^ "clthart and Oscar Fallco aluo npoko on the question . MoutingH are announced for every Thuiwlny evening .
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Kontoijfto of death Iiuh l > o « n paasod ou Kirwan for tho murdor of hia wifo at Iroltiml ' u ISyo , in Dublin iiay .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1852, page 1183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1964/page/11/
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