21 OCTOBER 1871, Page 3

Mr. Rylands addressed his constituents at Warrington on Wed- nesday,

in a speech which reads as if it had been made twenty years ago. He was opposed to any increase of the Army, and in favour of a great reduction in expenditure ; hoped to see a free breakfast- table ; denounced the notion of equilibrium between direct and in- direct taxation, advocating direct taxation only ; and was anxious to throw the whole charge of the national defence upon the owners of the soil, " as had been the case for centuries in our history." This as- tounding proposal was moat warmly received, and means just this, that the English masses are to have all power and pay no taxes, for you cannot get direct taxes out of men living on weekly wages, and should be enabled to go to war whenever they liked, at the ex- pense of the landowners alone, who, all the while, are to have no control of the House of Commons. Will Mr. Rylauds vote for the only possible corollary of that otherwise iniquitous scheme, that all who pay no taxes shall be compelled to give personal service in war?