... FATE OF TILE WHIG BUDGET. COERCED by the unanimous outcry of the whole nation, ministers have withdlrawn their proposition for al in- crease of the income tax, and now crave, as a boon, the simple permission to extend the impost, on the old terms, over ...

... THE, WHIG GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. Tiur twice-adjourned money-pressure debate was biuught to a close on Friday night, Mr. Wilson having withdrawn his amendment, The feeling of the house pith regard to the main proposition-that of a corn- ...

... through the town until it struck against a la p post, hell he nabbed it, and never let it go again. Inone way, such as this, the Whig got hold of the idea of ree Trade, and the consequence is, that we are dosed with it ad nauseota in every number. Now, Free ...

... and allow.- What was paid in income-tax, it was said, would be saved to the consumer by the tariff. Of course no one hut a Whig could expect, unless there arose a truly marvellous increase in the nmnber of consumers, that the consumer could pay less, ...

... revenue returiis sieo ] 824, whichl has uot as yet been'satisfactorily ac counted for by the political econoomists of elilser the Whig or Tory school. It must be observed with reference to the last returns, that much of the prosperity apparontly nansifest njpoe ...

... reduction of taxation? Were we not told, that the operation of free-trade would be such, that the only difficulty with the Whig financier, would be how, and when, to stop re- pealing the taxes which now so heavily burden the community ? We find ourselves ...

... '1']It TOM' ('OUNCIL.-SALARY OF THE TOWNV N CLERIK. We pereole, bhy a paragraph in the W'hig of last Tuesday, that the ad(lition of £150 por annuin to the s ailary of AMr. Bates, in consideration of the additional dulits irvquired by tbe transfer of the ...

... the principle of Free Trade in the colonies-wvas moved by the Earl of Clarendon, one of the most experienced debaters of the Whig Cabinet. A debateg nsuedna rather unusual occurrence at the earliest stage of an un- important measure in the House P Lords ...

... to be sent as a kind of bosuss to the disturbed ones. Lord Clarendon, however, one of the most practical and intelligent whigs of the upper ioseu, warmly seconded Lord Roden's suggestions, and confirm- ed his accoust of the fearful nature of the present ...

... present government brought forward during the session has been abandoned, mu consequence of the weak- ness or incapacity of the Whig government. In the Ilouse of Commons, on both days, the princi- pal subject of discussion was the ncev Bishoprics' bill, the ...

... of April. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. Belfast, 61h March, 1848, SIR,-lfaving seen a manifesto in the Northema Whig of Saturday last, signed by G. Mhllvecn, Chairman of Com. mittee (what committee ?? stating that certain propositions were ...

... is, that it will last no longer than the day which sees the last of the agitator's family party amply provided for by the whig government. ...