Star. — London, England, 1829-05-13 00:00:00

I ~.~- - lic. When be recollected the pare which the ream otihe Rolls -had taken in' the Winn of Coni.- ' *Ms in iSiS, he entertained no .doubi skin such a pru . position would receive his support. There was "whir point to which he would allude, and to sehichthe cogs sides-Ed-dee-attention of -their;Loesiehips accessary—else _ ryes cottioaion - and delay that took place In the Chart • tif Chancerrin consequence of the Counsel going from • opetouet to another, and being not onfrequently arm . amigo on two cAuses at theaanbe time, the leading Counsel in one cause oftei holding the board in his baud tp ascertain when he is to proceed to lead another . cause in another Court. It was only justice towards the Meraberaof the profession to say, of them that they wereequallt kazions with him that the Go/unifplated -improvements should be carried into erect: He knew it.would be contended._ in reply to him, that, by in creasing the number ofJadges, we should be mate. riapy adding to the number of appeals, for that from the division of every subordinate Judge appeals Would be made. He admitted that there was some weight -in this argument; but if, by this mode;Ake nuMbeeof appeals were increased, the power of the Lord Chan cellor to bear then) would be increased also. It was now impossible to hear the whole of those that wets before him. Another evil that would be removed . hy the appointment of an additional Judges was thisit . would preveot many metious.from being. made incises . sequence of a cause not having been beard. which N. , tons would never be made after the cause had Wes heard. This argument he would set against that which contended that an increase of appeals would be creates . by the appointment of a subordinate Judge, and be thought that the one would nearly balance the. other...-. ' It would be also asserted that the number of Judges would double the number of appeals not only to thi L•ird Chancellor but to the House of Peers; but in an.s, ewer to this argument it was only necessary to state, tit ' there was now a tight of appeal from the Maginot the; ai l , Bolls and from the Vice Chancellor to.the l a ord Chan • ceder, and fi om the Lord Chancellor to their Lordships; i :.c yet nor none than two appeals had been made frost the. Court of Chancery, nor mote than two from common • law., nor more than two bent the Conn of Exchequer, , during the year. The great mass 9f appeals was from Ireland and Scotland—from Scotland more especially. . Anothir impoutant improvement would be with re , sFect to the Privy Council. and to the arrest of bo . sine:: there. Such was the outline of his views; to his plan, however, he wak by no means wedded. aid . if any person would suggest a better he should be most ready to adopt it. He knew there were individuals who thought that other means might be adopted, via. to separate the bankruptcy jurisdiction from the joris. diction of the Court of Chancery. To this plan he COP. ceived iliac were many objections; and it seemed to him impossible to carry it into effect, inasotech as theePPel" ' lantjurisdietion moat of necessity rem,ain with the Court of Chancery. But if it were separeted, even then an • additional Judge would be necessary; for, although the Vice Chancellor heard cases in bankruptcy sixty or se venty days during the year, it was insuf f icient to relieve the Court of Chancery. To this plan, therefore, he ' objected upon principle s and also because it could not he efficacious. He might be asked if it-vracthe jet's clop of Government to late, the bankruptcy jurisdiction in the state in which it Dow was? and be would say . 'that doubtless it was not so intended; .but the question , was ooe of great difficult/ and muck complicated. He .would now, then, beg to direct the attention 4 their Lordship; to the Bill that lay upon their. table. Its object was to facilitate the • bearing of causes in the Court of Chancery —an object of paramount importance. When this object was accomplished much public benefit ' would be the result. Their Lordships might, be satisfied that be would never lose sight of the subjectuntil :that had been, done which this country had a right to expect; , and he felt assured that. with the assistance of an en lightened profession, he should succeed in removing many just causes of complaint relative to the proceed ings in the Court of Equity, and the constitution of that Court. . The Earl of ELDON was anxious to have ti to consider the very important question now before the Heese.wed had only a few day. ago heard even of the report of, the Commistionve of Inquiry. to which the Noble and Leitned Lord had alluded. He did not mean to follow the Noble and Learned Lord through all his statement‘and would now merely state that with 'some Of them he could not agree, although of some of them he much approved. He would first observe, in allusion to an observation of the Noble and Learned Lord, that if he (Lord Eldon) bad beets ready to be angry he was not unwilling to be, reconciled. He trusted the day would come when justice would be done to the individual who OQW caressed the House. Of himself be would only say, that while he held the great seal he did all that industry could do—mote he could net do. He agreed with the Noble and Learned Lord that it became necessary to relieve the Lord Chancellor as much as possible; and there was one point to which"e thought the attention of the House ought to be directe&—vis. . the necessity for the Lord Chancellor's sitting is Idles as possible in , the Court of Chancery, where the great: weight of his character would nsakehk deeisions such es w, old give satisfaction to the public. 'He did noe l mean to say that this duty was not sufficiently 47.•• . eicised, but he meant to say that it ;cold . not possi. • igf be exercised to its 4 1 44 eaten oonsistently with • the duty which the Lord Chancellor . owed to that House. The Noble Earl, after alluding teitte east number of appeals from the Irish and Scotch' Courts, progeeded to say that, when a motion wasAnide by the la's Lord Liverpool that he (Lord Eldosaabould min that House three days of the week to heerApPeals, be did so to the detriment, he might almost ea 'Abe scandal, of the Court over which he then presided.-7. It was quite impossible that the duty of the Lord Cbatv.ellor could be carats. ally discharged unless the 'attendance of Counsel was . better regulated. To suchen extent did the evil exists that when a Barrister watteogaged to attend the Coon of Exchequer to Weldon-a cue there, be not unfit. quently stipulated that he was not to , be employed, if. his attendance was necessary, because be might be eft! gaged lit another Court. When he (Lord Eldon) was, at the Bir,'young Banisters rejoiced when the leading Coosa was absent; but now it was the fashion for a young Barrister to say be mild sot - conduct a cause bmanse Ote leading Counsel was absent. He (Lord E.) ovoid vontend . thatevery means should be resorted to, to enable the Lord Chancellor to give more attendance iii the Costa of Chancery ; and it appeared to him that this-might be done by the appointment of a Deputj Speaker. He has: only further to add, that; if their Lordships read this Bill a second limo-day, be trusted it might be considered without,prejodice as regarded 4 future stage's. Wo man could deny that SONlctiliag was necessary to be done, however persons might dila a l i to the mode. After a rew observation from Lord atIDESDA M. than well ri as a seessid time. sad ordered to be committed on Friday scat. Atoms (Aback *tie Lordship adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. dte males of Mr. Alderman WOOD. tie Louden-Map Appeodies MI was reed•ddrd date undimmed. \ ' Mr. R. GRANTpreeemed eindlar Peddens *ton tit. ' I Burgesses, and Town Ooonclial the Royal Dorgigof !overarm Sairn....Orderod to be referred to the, Commits,. on the, all. Mr. & RICE presented a Petition from the Apotheeprios of _ city of Limerick. proylog that no altetodon may be made is !overarm taws relating to Apotheoades In Irelaod..—Ordered to ha gdateil. , Mr. !MARRY presented a Petition from the Retail Rpnbriti **town of &o:bport , I. the county of Closter, praying that tbeg may have immediate nodes of soy Information that may be lediM 1 them for alleged irregularities la their trade...A/Meted cobs ,prkeed. Mr, %V. WHITMORE presented a Padden Mai lie and traders of Manchester, preying that the OAP MP . le China may be thrown open on the expired= Mthe Mar 4ot "t may.—Ordered East India y.—Drdered to be p • • • Mr. ma-miaow presented a dmilar "Wilk Rom the Chamber of Commerce of the Staffordshire. Potter*. • The peel , litmen oonsplaused of great distress , which th ey =Owed, in et t measure , to the nieunpoly en joyed at present by the Rail =la Company. The Honourable. Member proceeded to soma the prayer of the Petitioners, and referred to the fact of consider of& qsandties of British manufactured china being sent into Vblea itself, even under their present disadvantages.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a similar petitlen frees dm Woken, merchants, sad inhablunts of Bristol and its eieleky.4ll‘ demi to be prhned. . • ..• Mr .IA.MRS GRAHAM presented similar reddens fro* iln, operative Weavers of Carlisle. and from the Manufacterem of Clicherrneuth. Mr It KNAKCHBULL presented a redden from dui MM. , to of the welt division of Kent ea the Duties on Mak; slifi , do a retitioa against the &l foe sies.Disloteromele M the Tat from the town of Tenterden. liAre ti DIAS:IOWA NT'll MUM& Mr. HUBKIBBON, its presenting to the House a Petition - from the Merchants and Manufacturers of Li. verpool. said that the paramount importance of the sub. tject, and a sense of courtesy to Honourable Members interested in it. might warrant him in making observe. dons at some length on the question. He still had no intention to anticipate the discussion fixed for Thursday night. However, he would not think - he had done jus tice to his constituents if he omitted to state to the House and the public the grounds of the prayer contained in the Petition which he had the honour to present. The Charter of the Bast India Company was Last renewed in, 1813, the renewal having been preceded by a full in. quiry, instituted inconsequence of the petitions of the merchants and manufacturers to that House, praying a partition of the trade to British India, and those other countries. in the East to which, before that period, no per sons but the Bast India Company had access ; and here • he begged to call to the recollection of the House the fact that several Gentlemen who had spent their lives in the service of the Bast India Company, and among these several persons of discernment, gave evidence before Parliament on the subject; such, for instance, were the late Mr. Charles Gratit and Sir t, Monro, petsuns a hose character for integrity and ability entitled their opinions to the. greatest consideration and 'respect. ' These wit nesses declared their opinion that any attempt to extend the British trade to India would be unprofitable and un availing; that the wants of the people of ledia were so few, their habits so unvarying, and their conduct so much controulled by religion, that any attempt to intro.' deco among them•the comforts consequent ons cots mercial intercourse with Brithin would turn out useless; sod that those who should make the attempt 'would only meet disappointment and loss: It was further stated that the authority of history -and the cape. rience of too hundred years, confirmed that• view of 'the subject. These opinions certainly came from' high authority; yet against • that authority the mer chants •said, only allow or to make the experiment, and let the risk and the loss benurs in our. attempt to overcome the prejudices and habits of the people of In dia. The trade to India was in part opened, the exp.. 'lsom was partially - made, though attended with many obstacles and difficulties, such as ineipetience of India and of her wants and resources. Under this di,advan tage the trade was opened on the Ist of April, 1814. It has now remained open' for fifteen years. ' When the Hogue looked at the circumstance as the establishment of a wewcomatercial intercourse between two parts of the globe•so distant front each other, the trade could not. even sow be said to be so much In its infancy as iwits. birth. Yet what was the result? Why,'that though in 1814 the whole of our capons to the countries eastward of the Cape of Good Hope amounted only to 1,600,0001. our 'experts to "India. alone last year exceeded 4800,0001. an amount equal to one-eighth of the whole exports of Great Britain: In 1814 the amount of shipping employed in trading to India was but twenty. eight thousand tons. while in 1828 it rose.to 109,000. fbese facts showed that all that the merchants had predicted sO be the results of their industry was realised. It had been said before the opening of the trade that the returns to our commerce would be limited to gems, and that returns of- the precious metal would be with diffunhy tobtained. /low. it was found and complained of, that the eturns made from India for our manufactures were almost limited t r the precious metals, and that no ads gnaw returns on manufactures or pro duce avid, under the present system, be made to us.— The extension of the trade to India tended to increase our opens thither in iron and-copper. The only onion we received in the shape•of East India produce was ladigo, a bleb afforded most valuable returns, becato,e it was 'thrown open to cultivation by British traders. . There was another point to which the petitioners called the attention of the House, namely, - the trade with China. They held that 'English meiatiints ought not to be. excluded from intercourse with China commerce unless for strong political reasons; yet the intercourse huh that country was a strict monopoly in the bands. of the East India Company.— The petitioners complained that, while the other restric tions on trade between England and the East ladies were telexed in 1814, that opportunity was taken for making more strict the Company's monopoly of the ,trade with China. The petitioners particularly pointed at this subject, as they thought.that the House might deal with that part tithe question before the espiration of the Company's charter:The old charters provided that if the Company's monopoly granted by those charters proved injurious to the coustry the charters should expire at the end of two years. By the law of 11748 it was enacted, with a view to keep the pile, of tea in England on an equality with the price on the continent of Europe, that the Lords of the Treasury should be empowered to authoi ise other merchants beside the East IndiaCompaoy to import tea into Eogland, if the 'slices of tea in Ear" land should rise higher than on the continent. Thai pro vision remained in force until 1813, when it was enacted that no persons but the East India Company. or persons licensed lay them, should import tea into this country. The result of this was, that the prise of tea in this coon try was more by half than in the neighbouring coon. tries. Where . was another poi n t th a t d eserve d attent i on . It w as provided that all foreigners and foreign skips may trade in British goods Irons this,eoestry to Mimi, sod from China to all other pert* of the world. Yet Iltachants were excludes& fro% isotticapatens in China—an exclusion , basin .panOtble to btu *A o( Phhilk would Worth oi the Bsisish koosinarotk Per ship . *led . or Myna * 0 0) gilt yea", natls,..Btiaish siaolfosintes, and cargos , ' from China_ to any other part , ;OS it was certain that they found their _account:in chit venture. Now, it was very hard that .English traders and English ships should. be &minded - from that trade merely because they - vitro English, and that after two Conirnittees of the Louts had repotted - that the trade fronsChineto Britain might be opened to British merchants without loss to the East Company. The allegations of the petitioners on that part of the subject deserved the sesinus attention of the Hoare. They prov'ed the extent of these °pep. , ing commercial prikitcts in the east front which British traders were now excluded. There were other conside t rations , connected with this question of a higher nature , than commercial interests, namely, that increascof vilization, that improvement in social comforts, and eetration of the moral character of the people of India, which must result from opening their commercial inter-, course with England. Besides, India was ours by con quest, and it was our duty to atone for the evils aris ing to them iron' that subjugation, by extending to them al/ the benefits that our commerce would supply. In proportion as our commercial intercourse with them increased, in the same rate their industry would be sti mulated.their enjoyments insproved,their morals raised. their connection with us made more valuable; and our . possession of India be more permanent, attended. with happiness to India and prosperity tr.Britaia. Oa the sumo° that the petition be brought up, • Mr. BARING confirmed the alfegation that the et elusion of British merchants from :he trade to China, ,and hem China to other parrs of the world than Eng land, was not at all profitable to the East India Com spany.. He should suggest to the Chairman of the East India Company /he policy of the Company's lotto iducing a Bill this Session, or early next Session, in !concert with the Government, for allowing Bri.ish (shipping to participate in the trade from England to IChina, and from China to the other parts of Europe. (Hach a measure would tend to conciliate in some de- lgme the opponents of the renewal of the Company's' charter, and prepare all parties for a more calm conj. ;disunion of the main question. Mr. ASTELL would not have risen to make any ob.' leareationi before the regular period of discussion, had `hr not been called oo by certain allegations ceetained ill the Petition to•fore the House. The petitioners' state. meats represented only. what they believed to be the lan. He trusted that the House would not decide the goes.. don until they should have heard the counter statements of the other side. As the China trade was but a part of the question, be would not, before the general discuses I I lion of the subject, compromise himself by giving any decided answer to the suggestions of the Honourable Member for Callington. It was set forth in the Petitiou that in 1013 the British shipping to India amounted but ip 23.000 tons, while in 1828 • it was nut less. thiso '109,000; but that was the trade of the Company alone. The amount of the public shipping' of the country meld not be ascertained, the documents having .been , destroyed by the fire at the Custom-house:, but in 181$ it was ascertained that it amounted to 79,099. and iM 1024 it was no more than 79,000. It was not lair ito the Right Honourable Gentleman who presented the' "'tidos to omit all mention Of the imports hose India, and as to the exports frons_England, he was sure it mold be found they did not answer the expectations of those most interested in them. But the timefor de tiding the raestion had not yet artived, as the - Charter of the Company would not expire before fite yeara:: 7 - The Right Honourable Gentleman thought prow to have one opinion, but he believed these were two upon the subject, and he begged of the Memberiof the House to suspend their judgment. .. .. ' Sir•C - , BIJREELL said, that it could not be denied that 'the price of tea was very high, and this should not be the ea s e when the poorer class were iii mach misery. lie wished to see the trade tbeeritn opin,ind he did not think it ,Fight that foreign. iemels . should be enabled to bars a freer trade. to China than British. General QASCOYNE thought that, in compliance with the suggestion of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Baring), there should:be sonsimirdifiCatlin of the charter before the time arrived when theyshouldle called upon to renew it. *An arrangement with the East India Board, by which the trade to China mightlke. thrown open to English as well as foreign vesselr,,wotild, bri,was sure, be. received as an act of grace on the part- of the East. India Company; and would te'serviceabjeto.'theiiinte rests, as well as a benefit to the' shipossmeis 04'16 the general trade of the country. .. • . ... . .. , ... . .. _. Sir GEORGE PHILLIPS agreed with. his -Rieit Honourable Friend (the filemberefor Livirpool), whose statements, in his opinion; recjuirect..little,cr nothing !lather in support of them from him.- There, was one e.licomstance s however, to which be would. beg to call the atteition of the House, namely, thatsincethecotton trade had been comparatively thrown open great advan• sages had arisen, and instead of ruining thoie:who were embarked in it, the profits ariung :from the-export, of cotton had been greater than thoseof any other; trade in tire first year. The cotton exported last year to iridie ansounted to between two, and three millions , and not a single shilling's worth would have been sent out had it not been for the relaxation which had taken place I. the year 1813; and if there was a further removal of restrictive duties, he was sole there would be. e sail ater quantity exported to that country. . < ..i•.: Mr. W. W HIT410R1; supporied the ppree of dee pod ell4lllll ' ' h i 111 " 14 " 4411 a liatiSP; boating whoa be ibool4 immillikee. a a intended modem The petition was then ordered to lie op astable. On the question that it should be. peloted, • ' Mr. AsT4l.l9roPtfndeds net witiatarillos what the Hem Mem bra for Liverpool had sold. that tee wits am sely hitter but despot to this onintrY than on Oa Coiititteat, fisitmonse saws, the duty of 1 gorar Pear. wbick Wes iraPelli4 01 dill XVIII* 90111MNant. - • Mr. HIJSRISSON was unwilling to prolong the de bate, but he wished to refer to what bad been stated by < it Hon. Chairman, who hed accused hiM.of tint bring.: big forward the amount of shipping ler the year 1815 c That year was one of older trade, as must always be the ems the first open year. Ai to what *the litrnopf abl Chairman had said Of tea being chestier ;and „bet . ttt 1 this country thin on the contineot, he wdoid onlY es the Board of Directors to givesome of his vonatituent I license to import this dear tea, and enter-01V ttiltriiiet' lion with the East India Company; 111147*ithol I Mt thought, refuse if their own washetter end., . - pgr , NO be had no doubt that many of his xonstitoeat ~ would. be silly enough to run the ,riska-i-Catilitigh I , He knew nothing of the bu s i ness except welt,' it'd been told. by pentium competent iti itiiige;. * itis. by . the prices current of the wall markets.r,ansk it appeared that tea could be bad in. Neer York fr 4 .e halt the price it could be had betit,indeppodeile of, 'Me duty. The East India COmpenyireeeralisayetk . ''' to beep a qoantity on band, the resalt.of whiels.wapt' , delP Wet; tbo-anick. is qpality. - This- wt., 06•44 - th 1,1 canterWhip:lemitrikei *ware raised and the qhiliti . ii plied to this usury. He would not detain the House • Mr. GRATTAN moved that *har be laid begot, the: , • illetthste return tu ba:,s chi ll * 81 11A911 1 .4 11 4711° wok thit ttodg Cbi Am of ilib sad. GeleiknL Yuga. • •• • . ebitiPanrs ladesCie sad plammias- to. - Mr BUNION prompted ,- frein the i nba k o i s . utengassath be Nesametle.upoo,Tyar ‘ seam tbs. ' Wagsi aprolsik _we:Ametican delitat* prios!. ' i raes _ last, . Mr. ItbIDSAY prei - eseed *Widow 00 . Ibellsafige apirk c Periksigainst tbaStimb OirAlaigrarilidetetita.beasterre. tet site of the Committee so the SUL any lager. He bad merely risen to 9%1144101e 11 % Chairman to move, at the first Meeting of the ba l d at Directors, to grant I liceeoseto thelietnioners to imp ort tea from the continent. After an Anervation from Sir Coolant Panuma dm redde n 1 , 11 ordered to be treed. Al e : SON presented a similar pethion trons•Chata v • 'T is** cRePs7 tali.cffttre MALT AIM TRADir e Mr. SLANEY ruse to move that a Select Committee shnold Ise appoints.( foe the purpose. of inquitia A ,i sto the spilt and bee& ttivles. ' 13e. had ventured t o bei m , 'tilts motion before tber‘ 1(3.1/ , e, PG Ise• tease** it a most important suhj-st. and one wit.b, which hnh at t taken considerable pains. It was, he *pain, of the utmost consequence to the puor.the landed interest, ant t h e Government •of the county. To the workin g clarets it was oe‘ineporiance because it trier , ed to sa in t :wit, the second necessmy of life to them. The ,nbj ect might be divided into three heads . ; the first to at l a s ietir doe meteor she mak and beer trade, with reln i g wa to us increase or cleclin.-; and second to inqtine nut waithe cause of that decline; and the third ill ' 4 4 .1 1 1 ari s ing from 4 1 4 dTcliOot rq she Omer cusses. The whole ,cif the. sr i ateasent 'thigh lee should make reseed * * ' on his own Noisome, boss on enures which it would be impossible to eunteneert. He would, however, 'Rake those stwerseents.in rhind numbers. The quanti t y o f inak manufactOred might be considered as the favor s of the comforts of thelseople, iiraimucl as it fleeted ih second necebstr yof life tu. them. It was also the weed description 4 folio, nod was one way of ateestvieing the prtoperitruf she agricultural interest. By the es. tunas of malt istaunfaconed hoot the year 1707 to the ye ll ! 1828, it..aptieited that.in the year 1707 these. had bee? three obits its brur- bandied thousand quarte t otiesele manufactured, whereas in the year lb/8 - them Ares cooly- three milli , nr. one hundred thousand, beihg the course of forty years a diminution of 6 .u:hundred thousand cinniteis of malt. He knew there "We re many who Worilsk mak why he tied not take the year isoo, as these 'hid been a s partial increase to three million s eight hawked . tbottsatlT, .(lut he kaki t h e sothority.rd the first loali t gess in the .country fur saying. tkai tM twenty peen hach these had not- been such an arroadant growth of barley as hest year. Bat, even isting toe average of the two years. it would appear that there was a considerable diminution doting the lan 40 ?ears in this important necessary of life. If the averageque lily was taken of• any. three years during that time it • would be found to be the same. Was it not surpritiag ihat s Mittle I he contuniptioo.of almost every other saute was iticreaung, ibis atoms was diehinishing ? flat the compaiatiee dinsioution *as . .s'ch greater than that which he had stated. He vrotild beg to call the Enmities of the House to the increase of populattun during that time. In the year 1707 the populatiois of England mad Wales had mitOunted to on? 7400.006; in the year 1821/Jae the lett , oar ppearisf roc . reined ,tolS,500.000; so that, v.. ith !am Mete use of more that 6000,000 et copulation, Om Chid' been a real diaries tioa in the national beverage, eXid bi, eta time when, as Ached said before, ev,. y other necessary of life bad increased. Its the year 1787 each Porian•vongu!Ned three bushels and seven pints of malt; au that,ro the year 1828, there ought to have been an' inme . tre ao less than nineteen millions. It . produced twenty-arms millions of strikes its the year .1787, and ought: on that .calculatioa, to produce fort psi* millions in 1828, whines it 'produced but twenty fur ntilltOns and. o. ba(4 which was a didsinution of neaely one i half; hilt they bugbt to expect it to increase only fo .peopesnioa 'the population. In making this calculation he wit 'understating it. It ought also to bc - caltosto i ill xi ference to the increase of cultivation; end. pealed from recants which be held in his band.ffiat . these were at pse,ent• three millio ns of neditioul acem cultivated sines the period to which had refeired ;* so • that if =-014- half e.stltliiewiligskladst tindifilsnellY; ifiere — woulti be Ars saeliy;oa : q(, twelve millions of beads. 'Hp ropested,.. then, that with a millions additional population, and three 'millions sd dit;onal acres, it must.bnovripg to some kosher mese ibat there was a diminution of malt. This dimieetion did not arise froth the poverty r f the people, (or there had been an Increase of every other necessary. ;What, then, were the causes of it ? .The fits; was, the med dling in every process .of the manufacturer. The nest, the. heavy duties which were imposed; and the third, the numerous restriction; which were applai to retailing malt liquor s —(H e a r , b ear ). Tae precast, enithieg was very short, and yet until the other dry there were no less than forty Acts of Parliament foto& them how it should be done! Those were now reduced. or he should rather'sae expanded, to one. Before the .1 41 012 . of the.Att villich . be was then bringing awder thAcon.idevatibn.e f the. House these we. e seventy Acts of Parliament all applying ice • the caseof the bre wps. arid to whigh . they -were troind t o .pay attention; rhea the Att inAherioisiVas itassed:• which he might:Veil call an espahiaoh OT the other seventy; arid was perbeps, upon tlm whole, worse. trinn - all the otheis put:toge ther. Every step the mal;.ter took •be Ira, .nbligt4 to take accntding to a prescribed foins.;• He bond to steep nos lima than forty hours: nor more than Sur five. On every the most trifling occasion he ms bound tb give a written _n0:40 . 4 the slightest sag he took. 11e.Was to frail stated hours too for tale ink out hisUsalt ; he, was to deposit it on couches:sc. cording to seniority and be was to take case shit Ake eifsecsirere,nOt ragged ; and . with all those .vegatioirs reigulakihnsiter*l ? co Comply' under a penalty . of *AIL The Hon. Member then detail'ed at mach length a ma. miety Of- otbAr..mioute rules -which hart been enacted* the; goidaisedikf Ifirmaltster. Aroimgist 'other obligsricart imposed updnllirti beWls btiutpd ao keepi book in Which he was to resiitet.theasitkos of ell men who sold bar ley.to hins,•andrif all•tawlions he sold malt, giving NI each certificate's- In fact,' it was . 'impossible to loot through that: famous expansion statute without seeds` every fold of it - heavy with the penalties under whit* the unfortunate :roakster was doomed to suffer. Mr. Hallam's wink,-" The Constitutional Hittury of (ilea' Britain," Contained, he obeserved, a passage which with the permissioa of the House he would then read. (Which he did accordingly; it orkteluded by saying that the people of this country were surrounded with legal difficulties; they walked continually amidst the Wanes and pitfalls of the law.) If that, he continued, were true di men in general, bow much more true was it those who stood in the unhappy situation* of the milt' stets? Nut only was the duty on malt exceediagly eissenter in it* amount, being no , less than 5.800,0004 hub the raode...of the collection was most distressing. He the& proceeded to the comparison of several years, from 1797 to.lBos, for the purpose of showing that theincrealC . Jitietled to diminished consumption . N o man arhosag not tur*his attention to the subjectcould conceive* , evils to - sibieb the country was subjected in cps* . rioenee'if the . laws . nffecting the brewing trade;, thef 4 . . Operated ntemit isnegyelly in the amount of the bertlivlo Yeppoted upop ;he different pans of the country. TIM eg l * ise -rip* bore three times as m uc h as Devonshire, thrP.. it was e-filth liirger; Suffolk three times as rusca Devonshire t. Hampshire th ree t i mes as much as _ ford ; Bedford three tinsel as much as Chester, shove ti s C I .1. - .1 . 1 s ~. 1 ;1 tl t 1 it 111 V!) lb 4), VII !~1 i ai • ~. eni 4.1 the He .1441 PM di( or' ,for. Ski 0,4 the ot. iqc an( GC wrii of: tea w 6j C