Star. — London, England, 1827-03-20 00:00:00

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Mr: DlCKllKSON.pramonted a Pethion from Frame, In Wotan, against lorther concession to the Roman Catholics. the motion of Mr. Dawson tbe day for tables Into eon ott the Denbigh Rieetlon Petition, was postponed lentil after Raster freest...P.l9a, not bind. !BI SHIPPING INTIRIEST. Mr.tARING said, he had a Petition to present from numerous and most respectable body of ship-owners, agtinst the changes which had been recently made in the Navigation Laws. He obierved that this was a matter of vitarimportante to the interests of the coun ts?, and he wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, whether be would Consent to a Committee being appointed to investigate the subject ? He ex pressed his belief that the public were kept in suspknse as to the intentions of Government on this and other subjects, on accodnt of the present mealier situation of Cabinet. It was time that thetoontty should kn,pw was to be !'time Minister. Unless the Cabinet arrangement should be completed in two or three weeks, be trusted that some independent Member, un connected with any party, would direct the attention of diament to the subject. It was generally understood, 4 a division of opinion prevailed in the Cabinet with respect to the liberal system introduced within the last o or three years, and that that was the reason why office of Prime Minister had not been filled up. He considered the present situation of the Cabinet a serious calatnity, and thought it impossible that matters could long continue in their present state. Mr. C. GRANT believed the House would agree with him in thinking it,advisable , te abstain from enter ..g into any discussion With respect to the subject which bad been brought under their notice. His Right Hon. Friend was most anxious to have an opportunity of stating his sentiments to the House, and expected at no great distance of time to have an opportunity oldoing so. The Hon. Member must therefore excuse him if he abstained from stating whether the prayer of the peti• (for a Committee) would be acceded to, or indeed ..om pledging his Right Hon. Friend as to any course whatever. General GASCOYNE said, that in order to give the .fight Hon. President of the Ward of Trade, a fell opportunity of being present upon the discussion of the motion relative to the Navigation Laws, he had it in contemplation to postpone that motion till after the re cess; and he proposed the fist Tuesday in May. He should abstain from any discussion now, and then enter /Lilly into she subject. If, however, the recess was longer than usual, he should name an early day. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON said, that after some difficulty he had made up his mind upon the pteient question. There was, no doubt, great distress in the trade, but he did not think it such that Parliament would be able to find an adequate remedy—(Heer, hear). did not think the operations of the shipowners would auger to any considerable extent. It would appear that sere bad been a great excess of British tonnage, during three last, over the thrm preceding years. He could not think that the shipping interest would be affected . the way the commercial interest had been. At the same time, as it was an important matter to the country, ,-was inclined to support a Committee of Inquir s y. • Mr. Secretary PEEL suggested, as the most advisable eburie of the House wrong, as his Right Hon. Friend As unavoidably absent from indisposition ; and as the postponement of the questioulail not been made at his request, that Gentleman should ahst4in trout discussion, Ntnd.not enter into precipitate pledges. Mr. C. GRANT expreised the sense entertained by Right Honourable Friend of the indulgence shewn him by the House, and his consciousness of the in convenience which the postpon. ment of the queiti would occasion; but he by -no means desired it to be postponed on his account. and would attend the House • any hazard—(heer, hear.) He might now es well ;wer a question which had been Fut to him by an ,lonourable Gentleman the other night respecting the conventions. It had been stated that they had not been laid on the table: he had ascertained they had all been laid on the table immediately after their signature. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN stated that he should have to present, to-Morrow, a Petition similar to that )w before the House. Mr. BARING obseryed that the encroachments by foreign nations upon our shipping interest were so manifest, that it became absolutely necessary to recon sider the propriety of the alteration of the law. He did not know what was to become of the country if the fact was e.tablisbed that we could not maintain our com mercial superiority. Mr. WARBURTON, in allusion to what bad been ,aced by the Hon. Member for Callington (Mr. Baring), to the division in the Cabinet, observed that so far 'rom that being the case, on this subject, if anything in to conduct of Government had given satisfiction, it vas that all its Members had repeatedly stated they were all agreed in the propriety of following the liberal principle of which they had already given proofs. .air THOMAS LETHBRIDGE observed, that the Hon. Member who presented the present Petition, was the very Member who, two or _three years agp, presented • Petition to the House, calling upon Government to put into execution those very plans which be now so igularly reprobated—(Hear, hear). He (Sir Thomas) tad ever entertained but one opinion--that was, that was impossible to follow up the system of fie* .rade in this highly taxed country. The more he looked into the question the more he was satis fied with the propriety of that opinion. The proteo lion they had formerly enjoyed being withdrawn from our shipowners, they bad now to compete with foreign shipping in a manner they had no idea of. He thought the Gallant General (Gascoyne) ought to lose no time bringing forward the motion, of which he had given notice, considering the vitarinterests that were at stake. This was the more necessary, when it was recollected to *hat a distant time it might be put, if it was put off ill after the recess. Mr. Secretary PEEL again requested that the subject might not be further discussed in so irregular a manner. General GA6COYNE said, he was determined to Aura to his intention of postponing the motion to the I.t of May. Sir E. KNATCHBULL said, that if the motion were postponed to Vie Ist of May, the appointment of a Committee at that period would be useless, so far as re garded the present Session. Mr. BARING said, that the question of time was of great importance, and it was for that reason he was de sirots of learning from the Vice-President of the Board ' Trade. whether Ministers intended to oppose the ap pfsintarst of a Committee. If Ministers were resolved not to scant a Committee, it did not much matter when • •• • General GASCOYNE , that if Ministers in tended to accede to his motion, there would be no necessity to postpone it; but if otherwise, he would not bring it forward till the time he had stated. Mr. SYKES thOught that the motion should not be postponed to so late a period, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that without pledging himself as to any particular ' course which the Government might think it advisable to adopt when the motion should be submitted, he begged to state on the putt of himself and his Right Hon. Friends, that their wish was that the Gallant General ihould take exactly that course which be con, sidered most convenient to himself, to the petitioners, and all the parties interested. If the Gallant Officer should fix upon a time when his Right Hon. Friend, the President of the Board of Trade, should from ill health be unable to attend, he undertook to say on the part of those about him, 'that they would, though deprived of the assistance of their Right Hon. Colleague, endeavour to give the best explanation in their power of the views of Governmeht•Hpon the subject. General GASCOYNE said, that after what had (alien from the Right Hon. Gentleman, he would postpone fiis motion till Friday teennight. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that Friday woold be an inconveaient day. General GASCOYNE ellen fired his motion for Thursday sennight.—The Petition was ordered to be' printed. Mr. A. CA hi PBELL presented a Petition from the ship owners of Glasgow, relative. to the state of the Navigatios Laws. The adjourned Debate em the Bribery at Bleak= was post posed to Mandel. neat. CORN TRADE. Mr. C. GRANT moved the Order of the Day for a Committee of the whole House upon the Corn Acts. The Smits& basing left the Malt.. the first Mastodon put was, I "That when the average prier of rye, peas, sod bean* shuold be 3.65. the quarter, and under 36a. the duty upon foreign lasportadoo dwold be 155." Sir J. BRIDGES regretted the introduction of the measures before the House, and believed that they would be injurious.to the Agricultural interest. Mr. GIPPS moved an amendment upon the original Resolution—" That when the average price of rye, &c. amounted to 40s. the foreign duty should be 155." Mr. WESTERN objected to the course which Mi nisters had taken in departing from the old principle, according to which the relative value of corn had been *titillated. In all preceding arrangements the value of rye, peas, and beans, had been taken to be two-thirds that of wheat, and the duty imposed had We two- thirds of the wheat duty accordingly. Now, however, the value was' pot at lower than twothirds—it was • i to 60s. and the duty imposed was three-fourths, it was 15s. to 205.. He thought it would be far more lair and convenient to return to the old standard, and take the relative value of two-thirds, both as to the commodity ' and the duty; and be should propose to substitute for the words of the original Resolution 40s. for the average of the rye, peas, scc. instead of 2.55. asd 151 s. 6J. instead of 15s. for the duty. • Mr.C. GRANT said that the preset calculations had been made upon a comparison of die prices of rye, peas. and beans, for the last six years. • Mr. WODEHOUSE said, that the resolution pro posed left the farmers. %fallout any remedy in the event of a losing crop; now, the fact was, that every crap of. the last year, except that of wheat, had been a lo,ing crop. He would support the amendmeat of the Hon. Member for Dorset. Sr E. KNATCHBULL thought that the whole cal culation of Ministers had been upon erroneous princi ples. The average taken had been that of the last six years; now the fact was, that during the whole of the last six years, the agriculturists, instead of making a profit, bad been growing to a loss. The course of Mi nisters ought to have been, not the considering the average, but the ascertaining what was a fair remu• Inerating price. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the question, though it lay in a narrow corn- pass, was an important one ; but the course of the Ho nourable Gentlemen connected with the landed interest placed Government in rather an unfair situation.— When it had been pi opcseJ to rely upon the average of the last six years, in the case of the oats and barley, the Hon. Gentlemen were quite agreed, because that gave them a better rate than under the old rule they would have obtained; but now, upon the rye and peas, *hen the weapon cut a little the other way, they wanted to turn about, and said, " Let us calculate upon the old principle.' Now it was at least fair that the course pursued should be uniform; and certainly that taken was one by which the landed Gentlemen did not suffer. Mr. CALCRAFT thought that each case ought to stand upon its own merits. He did not see that the agriculturists were bound to accept a rule as regarded the peas and beans, because they had agreed to it for the oats and barley. Mr. 6. ROBINSON trusted that it was not the inten tion of Ministers to give way upon this point, as they had done in the ease of the oats and barley. The landed Gentlemen should recollect that there were other inte rests to protect besides their own, and the change in the measures as to oats and barley bad given them 2s. a quarter additional duty. Mr. CRIFPS argued that the interests of the land owner and the manufacturer were inseparable. Mr. W. WHITMORE hoped that the .Committee would not be led away by the supposition that the alte ration proposed was of a trivial nature. He trusted that his Majesty's Ministers would persevere in pressing the original resolution. • Sir T. LETHBRIDGE contended that there ought to be an alteration in favour of the home grower, and that the Resolution, as it now stood, could not be agreed to without injuring the agricultural interest. A great deal had been said about the conduct of landed Gen tlemen, but he begged the House to recollect that they were there upon their defence, and that they would not do their duty if they did not watch every item of the Resole' ions. Colonel WOOD said that the importation of beans was not words talking about; and he must put it to the Hon. Member who had proposed the amendment, whe ther if was worth dividing the Committee upon ii? Sir T. GOOCH said, that Beaus and Peas were land in Ens's* anal he , - • -. I some ohsetrtotiont i taws alliwarOdi. so. Against tt - - - ea Majority for the origistaf alheorirotet .1.-41 The original resolution was then put and carried. The resolution respecting wheat meal and flour, viz. " for every band being 1961 b. a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on Ave bashehtof wheat,* was then put by the Chairman. Sir J. NEWPORT proposed as an amendrnent i that the following words should be added td the resolution, " and also a duty not fluctuating of 4s. on each barrel of 196 k,. at all times" The Hon. Member said, that he made this proposition in order to confer a benefit on the tower classes. If grain were imported, the worst and middlings went to support the poor ; when flour was imported, it was of the best sort, an I con sumed exclusively by the rich. In the first instance, our own poor derived the benefit ; and in the latter, the poor of other countries derived it. He was quite sure that the House would not give away this benefit to to reign countries. Mr. LEWIS called the attention of the Committee to the scarcity which prevailed in 1801, and hoped that they would not adopt any system, but one thst would work in all seasons, in seasons of plenty as well as scarcity. If they did, it would certainly break down. Millers, from the very nature of things, possessed a monopoly. He knew it to be a fact, that during the great scarcity in this country, when the quartern loaf was at 221 d. some large purchases of floor had been made, the market price of which would have brought the loaf to only 18d. This was the open competition price. It would pot, therefore, De wise to shut up the trade in BOW; by charging a high duty on that article. The Hon. Member refetred to a fact sta:ed in one of the P.olutmentary reports, of a merchant who, in 1801, imported a quantity of wheat, which was found to be so hard he could not get it ground in this country, and was obliged to send it abroad and reimport it as flour. Mr. IRVIN(S thought that it Ischaved the Committee to consider the proposed measure well before they adopted it, since it was calculated to interfere with a trade in which large capital was embarked. He should support the amendment of the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. SPRING RICE considered the propcsal of hit Right Hon Friend (Sir John Newport) to be fair and moderate. He earnestly prayed the Committee to adopt the amendment, and not to throw difficulties in the way of these Resolutions being carried into a law, the re-, jection of which would be, in his opinion, one of the most fatal events that could happen to this country. Mr. C. GRANT opposed the Amendment. He coo-, sidered that the duty on flour ought to be in proportion to the duty upon the quantity of wheat which would I produce the barrel. Hitherto, there bad been a dispro-, portion in favour of foreign flour, which this Resolution , went to remove. He chewed that there would be a protection given to flour of the home manufacture to, the amount of 20 or 25 per cent. which he thought no one could say was too little. With respect to the Eng lish millers, it was preposterous that they who had the monopoly of grinding fifteen millions of quarters an nually, shotild come there and complain that some hundred or two hundred thousand quarters, at the most, would be introduced from foreign countries. He did not wish to speak harshly of classes, but he must say, that the millers had always been alive to their own interests, l and, in many cases, hid found means of enforcing them I with much Rigour. He therefore thought it would not be wise to remove fhe check afforded by the power of importing foreign flour. Thy proposed alteration would in fact amount to a prohibition ; and as the prohibition had been swept away, although by accident, he thought •it would be extremely unwise to restore it. The ques tion was not, whether they should give protection to the flour of British produce, but whether it was not sot ficiently protected already. American flour was the only article from which the floor of Ireland had any thing to apprehend, and against that it was impossible for Irish flour to have a more efficient protection than it already possessed. • The Right Hon. Gentleman then referred 'to some papers, horn which he chewed that the protection given to flour, according to the pro posed scale, was greater than the protection on wheat. In considering the question as one ef a political nature, he could not forget the state of America, and that the additional duty proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet would amount to an absolute prohibition of the flour of that country. He should not press this part of his ob jectioo further, but he was sure be should sufficiently appeal to the judgment of the House by the brief alto. sion he had made to it. These were the reasons why he should oppose the Amendment. Sir J. NEWPORT observed, that a lathe' protesting duty had been added upon American flour imported' into our West India Islands. Mr. W. WHITMORE thought the House must be perfectly satisfied with the statement of his Right Hon. Friend. He denied that there was any exclusive pres sure of taxation upon the manufacture of flour in Ireland which entitled the millers of that country to peculiar protection. Mr. MOORE called upon the House to protect the milling interests of Ireland. He thought that the mann facture of flour, if not created, had been nurtured by the state of things which had prevailed in Ireland with the authority of Government, and that therefore it was entitled to the protection which he claimed for it. Mr. Secretary PEEL expressed his intention to sup port the original Resolution proposed by his Majesty's Government.' He acquiesced in that Resolution re specting the ,barley, because he felt that no ground had been offered fur a departure from it. What objection could there be to apply that Resolution to Ireland, which promoted the interest of England ? - It bad a tendency co place this country higher with respect to prohibition than she had ever been. His Right Has. Friend had said the quarter of wheat would only pire. duce 5131b5. of Sour, but in point of fact it would hfi p ao rod dur u t c ai e mke that false assumption be imported into s . a n protection.dtthis couTnhtreyqaboanrteitynoof proper.foreiga po ns36 rt t e hl Lion to the foreign wheat, and yet they were asked to depart froth the principle kn ows to b e b est i n law for the purpose of fixing, an undeviating rigid duty of ss. Whatever might be the combusation among millers in this country, there was to be a fixed duty of 4s. That proposition could not be ad Ii was said the United S tates wou ld sen d over lie:odr: In answer to that remark, the Right Hon. Gentleman was ready to say it.would look like a narrow feeling at the part of Great Britain to make a total exclusion of 'American flour. The policy which Might dictate such a measure would produce an injury to the totUlt/y., thirds of .k.maivo the nwatt;n was made, but if the contrary ws• the saw, grows on two thirds of the lan e • it ought to be Imanght forword immediately. He re- abnaW taMpurt the A mendmem. Om Ssilar - . commended Ministers to , tutn the matter in their minds. CoIonsi,GRAHAM made i lim a 'and to sire' their decision , not that night, but 0-mor- favour of the Lapdtd.lntorest. , • 1 she l b rt./ or the .nest -day. If pat decision should bt in lb. OPlitatiftee thal invideli. *bee 1 ill , ittour of the appointolait of ommittoe. it might be For th ne it e Anutodentia - Arli - Immediately nominated, and t subject would then be .ad m a j w i ty f or t h e me g ; A t im mot from calmly and dispassionately inyestipted. The original resolution wa. ti owners. General GASCOYNE obstir:l4, that if Ministers in- ..The resolution --t t....:- respeictng whe • The, Merest the millets *eight competed with the Mischief lintreslece. . 1,6101 Clisma TRENCH considered fore io +eland in point feeling due to America , Ihe quarks Original gaveled= • • Per the Araradiaeat Itaiority The Muted meteors was , On Oafr TIMM to the gallery pins on between Mrs C. Glt Al alit Mr. Tiaouaos, respecting the latter Gentleman era to the duty on a qua posed on every 170 pounds instead of every 190 pounds, 'nal It solution After a few words from Mr. Secretary PEEL conflict of opinions it was , nal proposition was 2.52111. and an Hun , urable Gentleman rut ther to 1701 b. He supported of his Right Honourable Friend. Mr. FERGUSON said," the part of his Majesty' oatmeal on which duty afterwards reduce it to Sir G. CLERIC said, had received from rear' lie was led to think that produced from the quarter Edinburgh bad flagd the disposed to place reliance The CHANCELLOR served, that when the ports imported, although a taken place of oats. when the ports were opened, ters of oats were imported, ' oatmeal was brought scarcely worth while number of pounds at duty—(Hear, hear.) Mr. LITTLETON country respecting the that a quarter of oats answers fixed it at 113.51b5. he received varied from lb able Gentleman concluded amended motion of the P The House then divided. Fee the Amendment Apia* it Majority to teener t On being re-admitted CHA111111•11 proposing viz... for every quarter barley, made up and published 6w, shall be 335. per quarter the duty shall be 6d." The CHAIRMAN specting oats, viz. for of British oats shall be such price shall be at for every quaiter The resoletion respecting also agreed to. On the Lesolution relating . being put from the Ch. she appeared to be equal, in I wo was obliged to repeat leinnity with which the tof.eated their " no," . sent. Strangers were so division took place. On ear return to the biting on the question Mr. CHAPLIN said, Mss, the corn Mil ket - of speculators. - Colonel WOOD said, fir advantages being he thought that they might . Mr. BARCLAY observed, while to raise.any question Mr. W. WHITMORE he used on a former evening by the week. Sir EDWARD KNA ment to the Resolution should be calculated ' and so taken. Mr. H. DRUMM( averages should be confined They should be taken. average price of corn also omitted. The CHANCELLOR reply, that corn in Scotland in England, and consequently land was to be taken ' rcou greera r wouldbe lconsequently doe of the Honourable ..._ With respect to the amendment curable Baronet, if he (t 1 gess) could be satisfied six weeks instead of one if fraud which seemed some Honourable Gentlemen, concede the point on tars. He was of opinion, verage would, after all, preventing fraud, because weeks the power to increased, and the means , Sir E. KNATCHBULL. Mr. BARING said a door would and tricking ; and be average for a greater slitting fraud would I the Hon. Baronet to pt, Mr. Secretary PEEL one opinion in the House adopting some plan to guard consideration, and a reference jesty's Ministers should might, with advantage, .ure that there could part of Government, thought it right,however before the 'fosse was prove, in the end, to be of all. After a short bens dilated upon the i.erest would suffer Might derive, would he bit's' 1/All chief which stteh a system Mgt • II" nnsid i er m ed pen t ta be n in t :ete s e fat bero ag a r ea t of d or any other country. nor, the Committee disSed— • I biodaa . • tat • • • Ili • 6 mostiqmody cried, 4..44 gallery we found a conirmsetios - C. GItAV, Sir JOHN Ntwpo t peetieg the duty on ostnaeal;(", eman proposed that the duty, quarter of eats, should be Foto, ands weight of 'Meal imported hie leads, as contained in the origi: om Captain Goabox, • . observed, that amid su c h as difficult to decide. Theorio ; i2lb. 1901 b. was then p ropeak i i 1 6 1 adman wished it to be re d uced 4 .7 ipported the amended resolstica le Friend tid, it was an evident mistake o n as r's Ministers to fix the quantity of y should be paid at 2521 b. and .11 1901 b. d, that from advice' which he liters on which he could confide, ,at 1861 b. of oatmeal might be tai nailer of oats. The county of he quantity at 1861 b. and hears to net on that calculation. OR of the EXCHEQUER ob. . • ports were open no Oatmeal w 4 ▪ considerable importati-n hat we In the month of Augur, 1820, pened, upwards of 700,000 gear , srted, but not a single quarter of 311 -in; so that, after all, wad discussing the difference of the Lt which oatmeal should pay a • si wrote to some persons is the : number of pounds of oatmeal . is would produce. Two of the Sibs. and all the accounts which rin 180 to I9Olbs. The Honoer. sided by giving his support to the le Right Honourable Gentles t& to 1, when there appeared— 41 4 . St • . 135 sr or die attend Maim -+—lab. ted to the gallery, we found the ai ; the resolution relating to bailey, • et 2s. 61 until the price of British sa published in manner required by quarter, and when at.or above 35 1 • ; "—The resolutioti was agreed tre then proposed the resolution re r every quarter 2s. until the pria .. be 245. per quarter; and whestee t or • above SU. thrdoty shall •--Resolution agreed to. petting rye, beam, abd peas, vs . a 1 relating to wheat •iseal and . h ir,.the numbas..‘ masa sad . .1 in consequence of-whieb theati . repeat the question, ,and the he Hon. opposerewathe moist' • 11 occauceied a goo& deal of mar . , s :re toms ordered to withdraw, • - . r a. Ise gallery we found the Home - 4 in of taking the averages sr • s • id, that if this resolution were would be throwtriato the has. • a • id, that is order to prevent any un• • ; taken of averages struck weekly, might betaken every six weeks !served, that it was hardly worth 1 iestion on the point. 3 /RE repeated the argument which :veiling against taking the average JATCHBULL moved an amend ' on to the effect, that the average from every six preceding weeks lOND wee not satisfied that the confined to the maritime ports.— a.through England generally. The is in Scotland he complained was • OR of the EXCHEQUER said is cotland sold at a lower price this mquently if the average of ScDv en into the account, the general - lower, 'and the import Fie be raised t therefore, this ohjew ale Gentleman went for nothing. imendment proposed by the Hoe he (the Chancellor of the Ude tied that taking the average e one, would diminish the chance d • lem w en b en h weigh a good dal 'oath ee world willingly the part of his Majesty's Rims• opinion, however, that a weal! all, be he most effectual mode • cause by taking the average at 14 commit imposition would be tans of detecting it less easy. BULL. explained. d that if the average was tales be open to all sons of jobbing thought that by carrying over the r space of time the facility of glom be diminished. He suggested le propose four weeks instead of biz. EL said, that there seemed to be bat . ouse with retard to the necessity a ' 0 guard against fraud. If after due , reference to practical men, hit Me' old be of opinion that foor weeks ge, be substituted for one, he al l I be no oljectios whatever, on ebs to agree in that suggestion. He wer,that there should be some pave ; berried into a measure that might be disadvantageous to the interests. t discussion, in which several Mew' . • injury which sheragricaltmak e if the Winclwater measure we •