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u 18 consolatory to learn that England is thus far safe from those latent causes of difficulty which have llad so much influence in producing the overturnings ery where apparent on the continent. The national Parse is safe j I'T ex t to the mind, perhaps the purse is the most iltlportant element in a mau's existence, and in a coun- welfare. It is what some wit once described good toup to b- in-eat, drink, washing, and lodging." It provides comforts by day, and serves as guardian angel bJ nigbt. It keeps the body in strength, and soothes Its alumbers when weariness overtakes it. Without it, cace, in "civilized" society at least, becomes a blalik.. If, gold forsake us, we can no longer live and taot have our being" as we have been accustomed. W- bteotQe socially dead and practically helpless. As th ro, ?? without its blossoms, is man without the  pqrse. Shakspere talked nonsense when he valued  ?tne?' above a purse. The latter provides the cheeks, clothes for the back, and a house '\0 cOY., Obe, and indeed all the little blessings vulgarly "eensual" by those who love them most. If repUtation, or name," had been so potent as the immor- 1. tal «< "Will fondly believed, many a struggling genius  J ?IL4d not -n born to blush unseen-many an honest  **? bad not gone not only unhonoured but unfed *0 -friii The needy want not a name, but a purse -tb "t at "makes the mare to go." y 4ut ? are forgetting that ?his matter of money is a triou. ofI.. Ita importance in a national view must |v sight of. Neither can we afford to forget ''Œrit ?&a Bull just now is fortunately circumstanced. MKc protrudes omciously even beyond his rotund *??'on. It carries comfort for many days like the torpoWi'Dn., It.c-arri es comfort for many days like t)ie ?uach—provender that will smooth many a tu¡ P'H', and calm many moments of acerbity. 1\e Chancellor of the Exchequer has laid his financial °Jent for 1349-50 before the House of Commons. 1t  'f h *b*ws that our estimated expenditure for these years ^Ml2,891, or more than the actual expenditure of Past twelve months by £ 1,129,410; that the esti- to4td iIlcotne of the current year is 952,262,000, or an ^^over the estimated expenditure of £ 849,109. The 8II8to. duties are less productive than last year, in Oonteqllence of the cessation of the corn duties, and a slight failing off on spirits. But on the whole the pros- Pttt i. InOst-cheering, for while there is no real decrease "f revenue, the reductions of expenditure have been On the items for Navy, Ordnance, Mis- tb eous, and charges for management of public debt, Qj^ehaVebe€n considerable loppings-the amalgama- on of stamps and taxes, and excise boards, having eltected the saving of a considerable sum. A new  etnent in keeping the accounts, prevents the H] °e ? favour of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ■ tirton na apPearinø ao great as it really is-the real reduc- ti0c of expenditure in this, as compared with the last  ?og jE2.100.000. teeounts for the past year as closed, still shew a .deN.I]But.it is argued that this deficit would have b6eti ?fplua, had not extraordinary expenditure by >ay Of 6?ts for Ireland and many Pxcesses of former jea ?'ented. We certainly do not desire to be hard t&fe hancellor of the Exchequer, but it does seem to ? the whole of a year'* expenditure should be Provided for vriibin that year. And this may easily be one t.. d 1! or'L' by adopting Mr. Hume's suggestion to ascertain tst Ptecisely what the Income will be, and then to agree 88 to the expenditure. The plan now pursued is tQat f all improvident man who rushes dl  j, of improvident man who rushes headlong into 'toes, which he does not know if he will be able to t b S. tet i 'I the fault is certainly not peculiar to Sir ,ri ? *?' for it has been handed down to him as pteced '? "°'" previous Chancellors of the Exchequer. tili now* admitted to exist, it should be avoided. ?hcre cati if ° no excuse for blundering wilfully; and teeting t? "<' excuse for blundering wilfully; and ?a Year's exD'M??' '?? ?? "? ? remark that the whole 'Ofa .Vear- endi.tt)e Aether extraordinary or ordinary, '?'Id be 0 ""?''?? as not to "ceed the Income. ?'?dua!s ?) ° the bankruptcy court, by adopting ? ODnne!? ?"'?"??? upon it, it is not wise ODnnc;»!« !J!, adding to our National Debt in time of ?? ee. ? tew there are who will deny this much. JJMI » reTert t0 tlie that is Ma!!y cheering, we  a fture promises well. The national purse is to *»n ailed, and the disbursements will fall within its %I Ih ???'?y- And trade is b"?. the condition of ? tn.? districts daily improves, so that there ? reat? to hope that the estimate of the receipts *fll be rather augmented than decreaaed in its actual ?!tt INTELLIGENCE. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

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