Retrenchments of Expense.

There must be retrenchment in some other matters, it is admitted.

or, 'Yes, but might not such and such be the case?'" Clough was at Oxford in 1847,the year of the terrible Irish famine, and with others of the most earnest men at the University he took part in an association which had for its object "Retrenchment for the sake of the Irish."

If, for instance, we call for Governmental retrenchment on what we deem extravagant policies of housing and education, we usually speak as though they represented the profligacy of a spendthrift as contrasted with the saving that is indispensable.

Mr. Hume's persevering scrutiny of the public expenditure, forcing the House of Commons to a division on every objectionable item in the estimates, had begun to tell with great force on public opinion, and had extorted many minor retrenchments from an unwilling administration.

Upon deliberately considering the matter the last winter and spring, I came to the determination, in the first place, to free myself from the pecuniary obligation under which I had so long lain to my friends of the Association, and I commenced a system of economy and retrenchment by which I hoped gradually to amass the necessary sum for that purpose, which sum, it will be seen, amounts in the aggregate to $510.

She had promised retrenchment at home, and another big loan was being hatched to tide her over her difficultiesor perhaps increase themwhen the war cloud began to gather and she has had to resort for the second time in her history to the indignity of a funding scheme.