Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 89
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Excerpt from Blackwood´s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 89: January 1861 Attorney-General could boast of in the late session. But legal reform has long ceased to be a question of politics; and we do not know that there is any other important matter connected with the administration of our domestic affairs which has either caused in the past, or promises to create in the present year, any considerable excitement in the country, unless it be the question of church rates, which, however, we have but small hope of seeing finally settled for some time to come. Those who are opposed to any rate whatever are too confident of their strength, and those who are in favour of the Church are too divided in their views as to the wisdom of any concession, and what that concession should be, to permit of our entertaining the expectation that, in spite of the more healthy feeling which now prevails with regard to this vexed question, it is very near to a final solution. In a political point of view, everything, as far as we can now see it, must he regarded as subordinate to the one vast question of finance which is banging over our heads. Last year was confessedly a year of experiment, of transition, and of patient waiting. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been waiting for a good many things, but, above all, for the pacification of Europe, and the reduction of our enormous military and naval expenses, of which at present there seems to be no prospect. The great difficulty of our finances depends upon considerations of foreign policy; and before we can satisfactorily deal with it, we have to form some definite opinion on the state of our foreign relations. In foreign affairs there are at this moment not a few topics of great interest, on which we might dwell at considerable length, if we did not desire to confine our attention to questions that directly bear upon the state of parties and the welfare of the nation. We may, accordingly, pass by for the moment all reference to the remarkable success obtained by the Republican party in the United States, through the election of their candidate, Mr Lincoln, involving though it does the most important issues. Nor can we pretend, in a few sentences, to dispose of the vast financial problems which our present position in India forces not very pleasantly into the light. Happily, also, we are saved the necessity of troubling the reader with a disquisition on our Chinese policy. Now that peace has been concluded, the treaty ratified, and Pekin evacuated, it is to be hoped that for some time to come we are at last quit of this difficulty. Of one thing, however, we are not quit, and that is the payment of the expedition. Even if we succeed in obtaining from the Chinese a considerable indemnity for the expenses of the war, still, as this must be divided between the allied forces, it is not to be supposed that it can go very far to putting the balance of the account upon the right side. By the end of last session there were close upon six millions of money voted for this Chinese expedition; and it was stated again and again, without contradiction, that the money was all expended before it was voted. Thus, even with the pleasant assurance of peace in that quarter of the world, and with the prospect of an indemnity, amounting, as we infer from the latest reports, to a million and a half for our share, we must still calculate on a considerable expenditure, as entailed upon us in the current year in consequence of the war. The mere cost of transport involved in the return of the troops is a heavy sum, to defray which the Chancellor of the Exchequer might be glad to have back again some of the duties on butter, on tallow, or on silk manufactures, which he last year threw away in his recklessness. The expenses of the Chinese war, however, are a small matter when compared with the disbursements to which we are compelled by the troubled state of the European
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