'BUDGET DAY,' when the Chancellor of the D Exchequer introduces his Budget for the year, is always one of the occasions on which the House of Commons is packed to its utmost capacity, and the Budget speech is awaited with a degree of expectancy not very often raised nowadays by any Parliamentary speech. And this is only natural, for this afternoon Mr. Churchill tells us all how much we must contribute to the State, directly and indirectly, out of our own income next year. Last year, for the first time, the Budget speech and its reception by the House wore described over the microphone, the same evening, by Mr. Wickham Steed ; and everyone who heard it will welcome the opportunity of again hearing so important an event summed up by a famous journalist and publicist with exceptional experience of public affairs.