At the great meeting of Wednesday, we find a Mr.MUnPHY,
one of the candidates for Marylebone, amidst the plaudits of a large portion of the meeting, declaring that he could put his finger on parts of " the Pensions and the allowance to the King and the Army" where reductions might be effected that would enable an honest Minister to take off four times the amount of the House and Window duties. Now just examine, by the unerring test of figures, the reductions to be thus effected by an honest Minister. The Civil List amounts to 435,0001.; the Pensions to 648,7821.; the Army, including Ordnance and Commissariat, to 5,123,1661.; the sum of the three is 6,206,048/.. The Window and House duties. amount to 2,500,0001.; four times which sum—namely, 10,000,0001.—Mr. MURPHY proposes to save out of the reductions to be effected in 6,206,9481. O'KEEFE sings of one •
" Who spends half-a-crown out of sixpence a day;"
but even O'KEEFE'S hero did not aim at saving half-a-crown out of a sixpence; that was a feat reserved for his countryman Mr. MURPHY.
Mr. WAKLEY, a candidate for Finsbury, is to save the nation twenty millions a year, without touching the public creditors ! Better and better.
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