"Next session," says. Sir ROBERT, "you
shall see what you shall see." About next February, _Orson_, in the words
of the oracle in the melo-drama, will be "endowed with reason." Until
then, we must accept a note-of-hand for Sir ROBERT, that he may pay the
expenses of the government.
"I have already expressed my opinion, that it is absolutely
necessary to adopt some measures for equalising the revenue and
expenditure, and we will avail ourselves of the earliest
opportunity, after mature consideration of the circumstances of the
country, to submit to a committee of the whole house measures for
remedying the existing state of things. _Whether that can be best
done by diminishing the expenditure of the country, or by
increasing the revenue, or by a combination of those two means--the
reduction of the expenditure and the increase of the revenue--I
must postpone for future consideration._"
Why, Sir ROBERT was called in because he knew the disease of the patient.
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