3 FEBRUARY 1849, page 13

Can The National Debt Be Extinguished?

IN the abstract we gave last week of Mr. Rigby Wason's "Bud- get," we pointed out an arithmetical error of great magnitude, which affects the very basis of his plan for paying......

" Difficulties " To Be Conquered.

BY many, not without a show of probability, the Times is re- garded, for the present, as the regular Ministerial organ,—volun- tarily and independently, of course, but still......

Political Dining.

A SATIRICAL contemporary enumerates the political dinners that are to assist in collecting the forces for the Parliamentary cam- paign ; including the official dinners, the......