The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, having taken his seat
on Monday night after re-election, proposed, and promptly lost, a small Government measure,—for transferring to the Consolidated Fund eertain sums received for Irish fees, fines, and penalties, which till 1851 went to pay the Irish Constabulary ; but have not since been needed for that purpose, as the Constabulary have been paid out of the Consolidated Fund. 67,000/. had thus accumulated be- tween 1851 and 1858 when a measure passed authorizing the Lord-Lieutenant to apply these sums, if he chose, to hospitals and -other charities. The House appeared to think that the surplus between 1851 and 1858 should have been similarly applied, and threw out the Bill without a division,—which Mr. Disraeli and his subordinate did not venture to challenge.
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