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ture on civil estimates,” and laying stress on the 
fact that the “ estimates of the actual year showed 
no surplus.” ® The influence of this advocacy of 
economy is exemplified in the debate which en- 
sued. ° For repetitions of the nature and terms of 
objections to the Report and Plan, as already 
denounced by Mr. Gregory, Mr. Bernal Osborne, 
and others, reference may be made to the volume 
of “ Hansard,” cited below. An estimable hon. 
ntember, whose words had always and deservedly 
carried weight with the country party, lent his 
influence to the same result. Mr. Henley, repre- 
sentative of Oxfordshire, said : “ All the House 
knew was that a building was to be put up some- 
'vhere. He considered this a bad way of doing 
business, particularly at a time when nobody could 
be sanguine that the finances of the country were 
in a flourishing state. Let the stone once be set 
tolling, and then all gentlemen of science and 
taste would have a kick at it, and it would be 
knocked from one to the other, and none of them 
Ptobably would ever live to see an end of the 
expense.” ^ 
‘ Permit me to give one more example of the 
baneful influence of the opening speech on our 
great instrument of scientific progress. Mr. 
Henry Seymour, member for Poole, said: If a 
foreigner had been listening to the debates of that 
® Hansard^ 1862, p. 1927 - 
1 Ib. p. 1932. 
8 Ib. 
