What is to be thought, I ask, of the science of government, when its professors cannot understand one another's figures?
Whatever be the immediate causes of this growth of the budget, it is certain that taxation increases at a rate which causes everybody to despair.

Everybody sees it, everybody acknowledges it; but nobody seems to understand the primary cause.[1] Now, I say that it cannot be otherwise,--that it is necessary and inevitable.
[1] "The financial situation of the English government was shown up in the House of Lords during the session of January 23.

It is not an encouraging one.

For several years the expenses have exceeded the receipts, and the Minister has been able to re-establish the balance only by loans renewed annually.

The combined deficits of the years 1838 and 1839 amount to forty-seven million five hundred thousand francs.