STOPPING THE SUPPLIES.
ALIFVFLEBONE is coming forward on the Windew-tax with gallant bearing. At the meeting in the Workhouse Court on Monday last, the parishioners took up a very uncompromising position. Delegates from other places attended, wearing blue scarves on which were inscribed in white letters, "No surrendei! " "Uncondi- tional repeal !" and several Members of Parliament showed front. Altogether the assemblage had a truly revolutionary aspect. The tone was no less so. The meeting resolved to call upon the Borough Members to "stop the supplies "—until the Window-tax should be repealed; and a committee of permanence was appointed to watch over the movement. Some speakers took a very practi- cal view of taxation: Mr. Whitmore proposed to meet the defi- ciency by reducing high official salaries and abolishing the African ' blockade squadron. Other parishes have already exhibited a simi- lar spirit ; they are working up each other to a paroxysm of reso- luteness, and Ministers ought to quail before them. ALIFVFLEBONE is coming forward on the Windew-tax with gallant bearing. At the meeting in the Workhouse Court on Monday last, the parishioners took up a very uncompromising position. Delegates from other places attended, wearing blue scarves on which were inscribed in white letters, "No surrendei! " "Uncondi- tional repeal !" and several Members of Parliament showed front. Altogether the assemblage had a truly revolutionary aspect. The tone was no less so. The meeting resolved to call upon the Borough Members to "stop the supplies "—until the Window-tax should be repealed; and a committee of permanence was appointed to watch over the movement. Some speakers took a very practi- cal view of taxation: Mr. Whitmore proposed to meet the defi- ciency by reducing high official salaries and abolishing the African ' blockade squadron. Other parishes have already exhibited a simi- lar spirit ; they are working up each other to a paroxysm of reso- luteness, and Ministers ought to quail before them.
What a pity, however, that all this ferocity and heroism should be bestowed upon a tax which, according to long circulated and credible report, Ministers have already resolved to abandon. The Window-tax, it is said, will be given up under cover of the surplus. But Mr. Whitmore's position is quite sound : the money bestowed annually upon the costly and cruel toy of the African blockade is
rniTt, • I simply wasted, or rather not simply wastedii
, feel terly barren of good, are not barren of 'iliac various sums might be found in the nati ,_•bmw unwarranted, to say nothing of taxes that chief by mere readjustment. If the maintain their indomitable front, but to the Window-tax, where it is not needed, Soap-tax, or some other tax equally eond: wit/ -6111.1°", but not equally condemned by exchequer commove ihez.aancht
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do some real good.
We have before now seen the " fearless " and " determined " bearing of the hustings diminish to the feeblest and most convenient of oppositions in the House ; as the swell of the stormy Atlantic smooths itself to a ripple before it reaches the well- regulated dock of LiverpooL There are patriots who consent to "hick up a row" on permission, who demand with demagogue threatfulness what is ready to be given, but will consent to let all their forces be drawn from them when they stumble upon de- mands inconvenient to the giver. The pressure from without has become an article made to order, like petitions. In the market d popular demands, the counterfeit is so well manufactured that it is impossible to discriminate between the adulterated article and the genuine. We suspect that no modern invention contributes so much to conceal the genuine will of the people, the actual pub- lic opinion, as popular cries and manufactured movements; got up to pioneer the way for spontaneous Ministerial concessions. "First Mob" is organized to take the start of the unprepared people, and to urge a minimum demand which Ministers have prearranged to concede ; and then, as the criminal convicted on a lighter count pleads it in bar of trial on the heavier charge, so Ministers plead the satisfaction of" First Mob" as an autrefois acquit. it"1,02; from tFic, 'et. the
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