506 LI¥B OF UOBLEN, {omar

1849,
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strictly the rule ¢ whatever thon doest, do with all thy heart.
You know that of old I have felt a strong sentiment apon
the subject of warlike armaments and war, It is HS
moral sentiment, more than the £ & d. view of the matters
which impels me to undertake the advocacy of a reduetion
of our forces. It was a kindred sentiment (more than the
material view of the question) which actuated me on the Corn
Law and Free Trade question. Tt would enable me to di
happy if I could feel the satisfaction of having in some degree
sontributed to the partial disarmament of the world.”
“Feb. 8. ( , )—I hasten to reply to your kind
inquiries about my budget. In a day or two I intend
bo give notice of a motion declaratory of the expediency of
reducing the expenditure to the amount of 1835. The term?
of my resolution will be to reduce the expenditure ¢ with all
practicable speed.”* TI am too practical a man of business
to think that it can be done in one session. But I will raise
the question of our financial system with a view to save ten
millions, and that will arrest public interest in a way which
no nibbling at details would do. In less than five years all
that I propose, and a great deal more, will be accomplished-“I
 say I am too practical to think that the reduction of
ten millions can be made in a session, because the changes
in our digtant colonies will take time. But these changed
ought to be set about at once. For instance, we have #2
wry a9 large in Canada and the other North-American
Colonies as that of the United States. Yet under the régime
of Free Trade, Canada is not a whit more ours than is the

¥ The motion was bronght forward on Febraary 26, and was to the effect
that the uet expenditnre had risen by ten millions between 1835 and 18433
{hat the increags had been osused principally by defensive armaments; that
it was not warranted, while the taxes required to meet it lexsened the fands
wpplicabie to productive industry; and that therefore it was expedient ©
rednce the annual expenditure with all practicable speed to the amount of
1835. The division went against Cobden’s moticn by a majority of 197
raly T8 going into the lobbv with he movas.