WISE BETIMES.
It will generally be remarked, that in moving for an annual Select Committee to inquire into the Miscellaneous Civil Service Expenditure of the year preceding, Mr. Wise acted with suitable wisdom. The fact that the motion was carried is truly cheering; for an ever increasing outlay, accompanied by a constantly re-imposed Income-Tax, frightful in amount, and outrageously unjust, has plunged the mind of everybody but the careless millionaire into an abyss of despondency. The present House of Commons is not a year old; but it is beginning to take notice. If its existence were to be prolonged, it would perhaps proceed farther in the path of an inquiring mind. It would want to know something, also, about the details of our Military and Naval Expenditure, which is so vast compared with the moderate strength of our National Defences which we have to show for it. But when this House shall have been dissolved, Reform will furnish us with another, which, we trust, will prove even yet sharper in its infancy than its juvenile predecessors, and constitute a real addition to our political happiness.
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