Describing the delivery of the Financial Statement, the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes : — It must have cost Mr Yogel no slight effort to have so punctually redeemed his promise. Up to a late hour in the after noon it was indeed very doubtful whether he would be able to do so, as he was really very ill. He looked so when he entered the chamber at half-past seven o'clock, and his appearance was greeted with hearty cheers from all sides of the House. I never heard him deliver a statement better, and it was listened to with the greatest attention by a crowded house, both on the floor and in the gal leries. The ladies, however, did not muster quite so strongly as they usually do on such occasions. In fact, com paratively few of the members have, this year, brought up their families, and con sequently the lady's gallery is not as well filled as during previous occasions. The announcement of the new tariff was the part of the budget .which produced the most effect on the House, and, on looking at the faces of members at the time, those who were in business might readily have been detected from the evident anxiety they displayed. Each immediately began to calculate how the change would affect himself. The Statement occupied two hours and three quarters in delivery, and at its conclusion, after a brief question on some point of detail put by Mr Johnston, the resolution authorising the collection of the new duties was passed by the Committee, and reported to and adopted by the House, ■which then immediately adjourned. The members were evidently desirous of ex changing opinions about what they had just heard, and although very few (if any) decided opinions were expressed as to the policy of the various proposals, everyone agreed that the Financial Statement they had just heard the clearest and ablest of the five Statements which Mr Yogel, with justifiable pside, referred to as hav ing delivered. Since Tuesday there has been very little business clone in the House of any public importance. There has not been any discussion of the fiscal policy, but that is to commence on Tues day. 