text: " The possibility of the supplies being refused by a refractory House of Commons seems either not to have occurred to the khan or to have escaped his recollection at the moment of his penning this sentence; and though he subsequently alludes to the responsibility of ministers he never seems to have comprehended the nature and extent of the control exercised by parliament over the finances of the nation so fully as the Persian princes who tell us in their quaint phraseology that "if the expenses that were made should be agreeable to the Commons well and good--if not the vizirs must stand the consequences; and every person who has given ten _tomans_ of the revenue has a right to rise up in the House of Commons and seize the vizir of the treasury by the collar saying 'What have you done with my money?'"--a mode of _putting to the question_ which if now and then practically adopted by some hard-fisted son of the soil we have no doubt would operate as a most salutary check on the vagaries of Chancellors of the Exchequer