ering
the succession to the throne; or for changing the established religion
of England, Scotland, or Ireland. The bill passed almost unanimously
through both houses of parliament, Lord Brougham only urging an
objection against the omission of any portion of the royal family in the
lists of lords-justices named in the bill. His lordship even made this
omission the subject of a protest entered in the journals of the house.
His lordship began at this time to display an obstructive disposition
towards the government with which he had so long acted. He had proved
that his exaltation to the office of lord-chancellor had inflated
his vanity, and made him so self-willed and crotchetty as to render
co-operation with him either in the government of the country, or in
conducting bills through the legislature, next to impossible.

THE BUDGET, ETC.

On the 30th of June the chancellor of the exchequer made his yearly
financial statement. After adverting to the embarrassments which had
beset the commerce of the country since the close of the preceding
session, he proceeded to state the actual income and expenditure of the
country, as compared with the estimate he had formed of its probable
amount in the course of the last session. He had calculated, he said,
that the customs would produce L20,540,000; the actual receipt was
L21,445,000; the excise he had taken at L14,150,000; the actual income
was, L14,439,000: the stamps he had calculated at L7,000,000; the
receipts were L7,100,000: the assessed taxes he estimated at L3,575,000;
they produced L3,681,000: the post-office revenue he had reckoned at
L1,450,000; it amounted to L1,618,000. On the whole the income, which
on the data then before him he had calculated at L46,980,000, produced
L48,453,000. Mr. Rice then proceeded to state the expenditure, with
reference to which he had fortunately, he said, rather under than
over-estimated the probable income for the present year, as otherwise
government would have become embarrassed. He had taken the interest
on the funded debt at L28,528,000; the actual payment was L28,537,000:
other charges upon the consolidated fund, exclusive of the West India
slave-compensation, he took at L2,092,000; the actual charge was
L2,183,000. With respect to the army, navy, ordnance, and miscellaneous
estimates of the year, he had taken them at L14,585, but that estimate
was taken before all the supplies of the year were voted: the sum
actually require