3 FEBRUARY 1849, page 14

Can The National Debt Be Extinguished?

IN the abstract we gave last week of Mr. Rigby Wason's "Bud- get," we pointed out an arithmetical error of great magnitude, which affects the very basis of his plan for paying......

The Coming Change In Anti-slave-trade Movements.

ECONOMY will now enforce those arguments that prove the utterly useless and mischievous character of the West African blockade, and signs are not wanting of the next turn which......

Irish Poor-law Reform.

WITH a praiseworthy pertinacity, the Reverend Thadeus O'Malley keeps before the public a plan which he suggested two years ago for the amendment of the Irish Poor-law, and which......

Mr. Wason's Budget.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 1st February 1849. Sm—I was much pleased at your quiet mode of indicating . the error I con- mitted in "The Budget for the Million"; for,......