§ The Committee will therefore see that I have still to make good a sum of £3,820,000, without allowing any margin for contingencies, and without making any further progress towards the restoration of balances. How are we to get it? I have been favoured, like my predecessors, with a great number of suggestions, and if in a multitude of counsellors there were always wisdom I ought to be a very Solomon. Unfortunately, many of these suggestions ignore the practical limitations under which I must work. Many of them are contradictory; not a few of them are impracticable, and a large proportion of them emanate from gentlemen who are evidently much more concerned to tax out of existence somebody or something which they dislike, than to provide revenue to the Exchequer.