Excerpt from Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Financial State and Prospects of the Country: Delivered in the House of Commons on Monday, April 18, 1853 However, as I have already stated to the committee, there has been a further improvement in the revenue of the country, and there are likewise some few items Of public expenditure on which the Government have been able to effect some small saving. With respect to the important and unsatisfactory charge for the packet contract service, it has been our most anxious desire to see what, consistently with justice, was to be done to amend the position of the public. We think that the amount of charge which that service has reached is wholly disproportionate with the benefit derived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.