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■ i •! i , * i i: , 1 { t :~ tea., and he wished much that some memoir should be adopted kebab regard. lie had heard a amain high legal personage was ,nienne to introduce • MR se rtgolate Joint Stock tompanios ; he had "heard the Bill was to be what was called • Rubble Rill. . Member that was atoning or eat he did not know, but it was be t biro be expected some meaare of the sort he retrained from ad : • fie to the subject beam; at the same time Ire must deelsee, that did not see ell the danger which some Hon. li.ortler•-!en tikended from the new Companies; and he was sure any Bill re fteiricg the amount of the milleaription to be paid up on the forms- 1 des of the Company, would be attended with bad consequences, ill would have ;he .fee of obstructing • great deal of useful ad egagare. (Hear. hear.) He wished his Right Hon. Friend oppo dm (Mr. Huskisson) hell made up his mind as to what course to =be was sure that if be examined the matter, be would do Mg to satisfy the House sod the country. i t fZ. a nusKissom understood himself to be called to give his • in his °Mehl] rapacity, es president of the Board of Trade. surely must be rcey.digcuit for him to asetrtain the merit of Me several companies, and an know which were of sufficient stabi iaty to entitle them to ; it was impassible far him to ex pow himself more decidiny on the subject than he did la.st session. If any of them asked foe an Act of Parliament to limit their peen. ahoy liability, it would meet with his most decided opposition; bet when they merely payed th form •rompany, without claiming a ey muds-elm wieder* mot other companies, when they only • • mihed far perrnission to em end be sued, he confessed he saw no reel objection to their prayer. He was at • loss to see how the poiorK could be Wooed bf their being allowed to sue.and be sued ; • . be had no powers of. mint (wee of Weikel that could enable him •• , =an the apt t.Moo att o ,,Mad to discover which wore and which SOIL Ibiliublic, were most interested, ought ignecertain that (hews' in his opinhotought to be raorecautious then hitherto they hey beet ( Hen, hear.) M. MIME thgegilit it sea quite right to meddle with these • awed. wttast they _asked no more than lease to sue and be tvaraa inaresdble for the House to decide which were those fleeted to . greetelearidit, or ihich were moat likely to succeed. Wbq for inmenee. Trail have thought the*Waterloo Bridge Com. play was a &Wien t It was thought a project thot would probably Ives out to ; and yet he understool it brought complete ruin on all Sol emmeeted With it., ft was not altogether X: m rnthvow matey co piny ; and while they asked no hale rdBaMi aw anif fu erred niier by h th t en e t ß h i s i t i h b:f w or og e i t d he no H t ou tcesai se, he to. t Ram The Bill_wee seed a seeped time. AO. Ss WOSTL Y obtained leave to bring in • Bill for the hem llitt pi hm. of the any of Fork. eigenWorn illentlekuill brought up several private Bill., Millallwits a Prat and second tine ; but from the noise in the we were unable to collect their purport. r. W. 8 obtained leave to bring in a Bill fie the better • lighthig itotlyeebig the elty of Norwich. Hr. LOCRHART presented a petition from Oxford for the re p& of the House sad Window Tax. Mr. NEWMAN presented a petition from Iktheal-treeen to the tame purport_ Mr. HOBHOUSE, in p tiny a petition from St. Martin's lottleadields for the repeal of the House and Window Tax, took • itelhelee to observe , that although this petition had been signed in • lig mime of two or these hours, yet that it contained the names of every householder in the parish except six—so general was the lie log against that tax from which they prayed relief. Asa proof the Maven produced by its continuance , he instanced the pariah • . ht. And which, out of 1400 inhabited and rateable houses, i t n tos ityl oi: ocotwh f u o gre r : f i C si ing7 , the first proofs , 1 4 ::: "E T t lr E rzhi . , th l ith l to as bare ta i!e t ionti nt l s i g ensm ofT wdence W wh es i e itZ pona in ti h r s le t et u ar uh n onew d f h a red ad iniatsonm d d b o i or s tih t 111 1nrAVIRLY took this opportunity to caution the Hama 1 merehrst giving ha content to any Resolutions which might he brought forward lay the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-night, because they might phtigelheetoelres to the support of measures which they ortght hemalher see reason to disapprove. That Right Hon. Oentlemsh haltairomised the reduction of taxes to the amount of 1,1110.010111.., and he urged them to see the Resolutions printed be footling ammeted to their passing.Thii polio was then laid upon the table, and ordered to be primed. Aldemeirs WOOD presented a petition from the inhabitants of the loamy of lloweghan „against that Bill, which, lie reretted, bad theedy peneed Ms Hoarse—the Bill for putting dawn the Ca tholic Aleedstile. Title . petition might, in point 01l order, be 3:ll:&seek weber eiehlte ; but he trusted it would not be re -0 that accent., when we Lad refused to hear theca by CoMett e ' - -s' the - this petition estab. have the advantage to present upon a nothing unusual in I improbable that into consideration ;SI and ordered to in Ipswich for the repeal at a from Greenwich, petitioners, he soid, which had not hitherto assepunenis, which pressed "--- repesied.—Ordered an/ ir r UPON COAL. Aber presented a petition from the NW aidiailety upon Sea-boeae Coal. . • peasant:ad a petition from the City of London the lob Mr. " OOD took eccaslon to press this subject upon if the Chancellor of die Exchequer. I that Right Weald take off the duty upon small coal, he on . diet upwards of 750,000 chaldron of small cools, which millitlpawa away as useless now, would, by that repeal, be brought no resift for the consumption of the poor. It had been, he knew, Objected, that, In that case, these small coal would be used as a mixture with larger, and that they . would therefore be defrauded of the duty open the larger by that mixture; but he contended, that it wcnikl still require the same quantity of large coal if the smell are sifted upoo the ,p, and that therefore the fears upon that subject were ifhfounded. The Petition was then laid upon the table, and ordered to he printed. Colonel WOODmoved for a Return of all papers and documents cossessed with the improvement of the road to Milford Haven. rtMliwed. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the parish of St 7r7a.-y, Are/cliff, Bristol, in favour of the Bill to put down the •,:atholic Association. The Honourable Gentleman said this Peu tiee, although from a parish not one of the largest in Bristol, had 100 eignaturee. Sir RONALD FERGITSSON said, that although from a part of the kingdom where the relig i on of the people differed even mote widely than the Protestant from the tenets of the Catholics, still, he was happy tory, that whether from the superiority of their educa tion, from their possessing a body of clergymen who made it their pram*e as well as their profession to do good--or than aH from the absence of a certain claw of distinguished by their lawn sleeves in thin coo more free.' and he be' payed f The The Honourable Member aphssed his eoncurrer.ee in these Senn• menu.—Ordered to be printed. WAYS AND MEANS—TILE BUDGET. On the Rouse having resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and ad dressed the Chairman to the following effect:—Although, Sir, I can not forbear to offer mycoogratulations to this House upon the favour able auspices under which I rise to call its attention to the financial state of the country, yet I beg them to believe that I do not say so from any wish to wake a flourish, or from any desire that they should indulge unreasonable exultation for the past, or anticipate extravagant advantages for the future. Although, Sir, I have no such purpose, yet I know that there are many persons in this coun try, as well as in others, who, either jealous of the prosperity they see us enjoy, or ignorant of the causes upon which it- is founded, think we have arrived at this height by a dangerous path-- - " Numerate parahat Estelle turns tabulate, node altior esset Cetus et impulse preeeps immane ruin* ;" and that we will pursue it at great peril. Although, Sir, there may be persons who are disposed to take thig, view of our situation, yet I would trust that upon a calm and dispassionate consideration of the edifice of our greatness, it will be found there is nothing unsound in its foundation, artificial in its superstructure, or flimsy in its proportions; but that we may safely boast in future both of its harmony and solidity ; and that no one can look dispassionately and philosophically at our present condition, without seeing plainly and legibly that we have not only consolidated out own resource', but promoted the happiness of the civilised world. I wish to keep this coneideration iu view in the course of what it will this evening be my duty to state. I shall now proceed to call the attention of the Committee io the immediate object we hare to discuss; and in doing so, it is my desire, in the first place, to bring under notice a comparison of the amount of pctual revenue of the year passed, and of tha estimate I formed at the commencement of last Session. In that estimate I pssumed, that at the expiration of the year 1824, the surplus revenue would be about 1,060,000/. Acting on that assumption, and carrying our views forward In the end of 1827, the House proemided to effect a considerable reduction of taxation, amounting in the whole to 1,260,0001. ; and, according to the estimate which I then took the liberty to present, I calculated that of that sum at least one half would be altogether lost to the revenue. If, therefore, there be a surplus, at the end of 1821, exceeding 1,400,0001. instead of 1.060,0801. as I originally esti mated, not only will my hopes he realised, and the expectations I held out to the country entirely fulfilled, but a result will have been obtained far more favourable than any I had the confidence to anti. cipate. I have then the satisfaction to state, that notirithstanding the reductions that were made, notwithstanding the foss sustained by the revenue, and which turned out to be more considerable in operating the reduction than I had anticipated, in consequence of the charge for duties remitted on the stock bought previous to the reduction, the actual net surplus revenue for the year. after applying 6,150,0001. to the reduction of the debt, t7u no less than 1,437,0001. • (Cheers.) This sum exceeds not only that which would have been sofficient to have realised my anticipations, but that which would htve been the surplus if no reduction whatever had taken place. I (Chars.) The Committee will pardon me if I now solicit their at ' tention in detail to the several items of the revenue, and to some claims which were connected with one particular and principal branch. At the commencement of lest year I estimated that the produce of the Oustoms duties would be 11.310.0001. Of those duties no less than 960,0001. were repealed in the course of tbat year. The loss sustained by that branch of the revenue was fully equal to the reduction ; indeed I rather think it exceeded the whole amount repealed, because it happened, that , in order to give greater facilities to the improvement of the silk trade, an allowance was made for the stock on band to the amount of 460.0001. and if that suns be added to the actual diminution, I shall be found to have been cor rect. At all events, supposing that particular demand not to have taken place, and the loss to the revenue to have been simply hat( the amount of the duties repealed. namely 4141,1111 K any eseicntfe would have been perfectly realised, if the Columns had produced 11,0;0,000/. In point of fact, however, notwithstanding the drain from these two causes, the actual produce during the year 11124 was 11.327.0001. The total result cor.siderably exceeds that which would have been necessary to realise my estimates; and the fair in ference is, that the excess would have been still greater if the sun: of 460,0001. had not been repaid, in order to give activity to the measures adopted with relation to the silk trade. The question that naturally occurs on ascertaining this result is, what are the circumstances that have led to this greatincrease ? The proximate cause undoubtedly is, the greater capacity of consumption of all articles of foreign produce, arising from the greater ease and pros perity of all classes of the community. The increase was also partly occasioned by the greater capacity of foreign nations to con. some our produce, as we offer them the means to bring theirs into our market. (Ilear, hear, hear.) The growth of our commerce is oat to be considered as an accidental circumstance peculiar to one year, or even to this country compared with others. No : it rats on principles independent of all casual and fleeting event, and Is, I may say, rooted deeply in the nature of society itself. The natural tendency of theatream of population will account, in some measure, for the great commercial intercourse now subsisting between nation and nation ; but there is a more powerful and obvious principle in the very constitution of humsn society, that leads one nation to open its arms to others, to foster new connexions, to create new wants, to gratify new desires, and, by the benevolence of Providence, to contribute to the general beneit of all mankind. ( Lond and continued cheers.) It may be impeded by war ; it may be diverted by accidents from its natural channels ; it may be, and we are ourselves an example of the fact, thwarted by the folly of injudicious legislation. But it is always in progress. Its irrepressible tendency is to make its way through the world, and . . . se it visits. (Cheers.) ibuted to any fortuitous • shaken. There can when we take into at work with these , when I result of of eausea increasing in power. (Hear, hear.) the prvst ace of as the basis three years to come. I beg to call the attention of the Corn. • Ceennei et the bar ei - K Bows. A lilerber ebeiltelt, Obit as the rereption of ti isti elerit, lillbildebbell a be trusted he abould hl of it in re. Midi bo would take leave . . ' li lt Ain. obeerend. that there was tic • 41Iae 0 sod 'pesitions. WOOD amid. k was not at all im ellen tole bate to take the meagure Into be maned to them from another place. - . fetich* was then lud upon Me table, a ._..iketlOCHippepeated a petition from Ipswie •SI Remo end Witstow Tax. • T. 4,, i WON prormated a similar pl 1 . 11 , • . si. VIA • •• r L presented a petit ion Assessed Tame+. Toe pc' • 1 . bootee were now rateal whic that these an:rumen , 6 IN )7" - - l i a =mi g ht be altogether re ~.* _ _,' DUTY UPON COAL w, ► _ hut he must say that the tables we now turned. It was the Protestant who was Intolerant, not the Catholic. (Loud Win of heart bear.), Petition h id upon the table ' and ordered to Fe printed. Mr. W. % % IS presented a petition froin Swansea, for the ra- [peal of the Hatew and Window Tax. Sir E. HARVEY presented a petition from the Archdeacon and . Mergy of the Archdeaennry of Colchester, expraming . it to be their opinion that the House had already gone far enough to iu C 0041111.- sions to the Catholic.; and praying them to pant no more. (Hear.) mistake sinned el The next Mr. tepcal life . resenntt. perish, abase petition _ now preseni_a, was one o. m the kingdom. and he was sure that they expromed the tt. of the smote country, when they prayed the repeal of the direct taxes in prefereeze to those upo.t articles of luxury. ..Mr. SOL M E SUMNER wi'hsd the whole duty to be taken off windows up to a certain number. The petition was thee laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Sir J. NEWPORT rirerisited • petition from Kerry, praying fR Catholic Emancipation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL pt-eeenteil a petition from Dfennport optima any further mermen to tbeCatholtca.—Ordered `°c mil,, .ilAGWELl.presented a petition final Clonroell. signed 17 owl/ Noble Catholics. and veveril thousand respectable inha bitants, against *bat he would justly call the Bill of Pains and Penalties which had passed that flout,. (Hear, hear, hear.) The same Hon. Gentleman presented petitions from Clanwilliam and Carrick-upon-Suir, in the county of Tipperary, in favour of Catholic Emancipation. These petitions had been fmwarded, wesompanied by letters, informing their grateful thanks for the fairdllas their cause had receivril from their Protestant fellow anatryinen. (Hoar.) Th? Hon. ."Alernbez for Hertfordshire had expressed himself upon a fo?rner evenir.g as *shamed of living in the only crowds, of civilised Euircpc, where any class of men were esclodei ars =own of their religious teelirgs from participating in Abe privileges of their fellow-citizens. He could any that he was ashamed as an Irishman to lire in habits 1.. f social intercourse with Mai over whom the laws gave him a superinrity, merely bemuse they were Drone religious feeling, and he of another. (Hear, hear.) He Iran webemcd exile, undeserved prefetence. (Hear.) Sir J. SEBRICI HT was obliged by the Hon. Gentleman's re fflinnbrimce. He was anxious to impress upon the House the se?essity of uhnitting wiz millior.s of our fellow.countrymen to the Amman of the same rights end privileges we ourselves possessed. It bed bees objected to the Catholics that they were intolerant ; mittee is of the greatest importance, as affecting the domestic comforts of the rest body of the people; at the same time no put of the revenue is greater in amount then that derived from the Excise. Here again I have the 2aq-if - Action to state, that the produce not only exceeds that or last year, but passes con siderably beyond my estimate, in which I reckoned it at the same sum as the year before. I assumed that the prixtuce would be 25,825,000/, whereas the actual produce has been 28,788,0001., being an increase of 1,143,0001. upon the estimate which I ventured to make. This result must be a matter of sincere congratulation to every one wbo cares for the interest and happiness of those around him ; and it is peculiarly gratifying to me to know, that I am addressing an assembly in which those feelings prevail which ought to guide the course of legislation. When it can be shown that almost every individual article that contributed to the revenue of Excise has increased in consumption, we hare a fact which in dicates, beyond all possibility of doubt, the increased ease, corn fort, and happiness of the community. (Chee-s.) It will not, perhaps, be entirely a waste of time to know the details of this general increase. First I must state, that the whole produce of the Excise, for the year 182-4, not only exceeds that of the year before, but the average of the Lut three years. (llear, hear, hear.) I will now proceed to the paniculu items. In auctions, the in. crease on the quantity charged, the proper mode of estimating ;he state of the revenue, is 12 per cent. over the average of the three previous years. In strong beer, the increase is 18 per cent.; in table beer, 29 per cent. ; in bricks, 40 per cent. ; in tallow candles, 91 per cent. ; in wax candles, 8 per cent. ; us mice, 3i pa cent. ; .;~ \ \ tity t. eider, ble, of 1, , in erns. is II per cent.: in leather, 10 per cent. ; in skins, 13 per cent. ; in linnets, 7 per cent. ; in paper, 12 per cret. ; in printed goods, 24 per cent. ; in stained paper, 20 per cent. ; in salt there is 'diminution arising evidently from the expectation that the whole duty would be suffered to expire, for I am , not so absurd as to sup pose that the reduction of the duty could have led to a diminished consumption. In temp, the Increase is 73 per cent.: in soft-soap, 112# per tent. ; in starch there is a diminution of n per cent. ; in British spirits en increase of 6} per cent. ; in foreign spirits, 25 per cent ; in stone betides, IS per cent. ; in tea, It per cent. ; in to bacco, 3 per cent. ; in vinegar, 9 per cent. ; ice wine, 6 per cert. and on wrought-iron, 13 per cent. The increase on all thzate articles to the degree I have stated, most afford unquestionable gratification to every individual. (Cheese.) The next branch of the revenue on which I wish mazy a fed words is, the duty on stamps. The Com mittee will recollect that last year. after I had made my first state ment, the subject of 14w stamp was brought under the considers. fton of the house, and I felt Myself bound in duty to propose the repeal of theno.• •I anticipated that this would • cost the revenue about 200.006/. The i• hole amount at which I hail enviously es timated this branch of the revenue was 6,80,0001. Presuming that at least one fourth of the dlitier repealed would be lost, the produce ofthe games for the TOT 11124 would be within my esti mate if it had yielded 6.7304001, but, in point of fact, it Ins 7.241,000/. (Heat, hear.) We have thus gained the geed and suffered no evil. We have abolished an objections able impost, and not impaired the revenue. (Heat, heqr, hear.) The Poet-office last year I net onted at 1,4110,0001., it has produced 1.4120,000/. This increase was naturally to be expected, when all Ike great branches of our industry are in such • suite of activity. I know that there were some who thought that I wan MO sanguine, sod that I was exposing the revenue to some risk in the reductions I proposed ; but I truntatow, that all will admit that I kept safely within bounds, aid th:t I shall net be blamed if I now act on the, same principles and assume the some improvement, in order to jellify a perseverance in the saps pslicy then adopted by Perlin- Seot. (Cheers.) Haying ealtaiae4l to the Committee the actual site of the revenue lot year, as compared with the estimate natured to submit, I have now to state the estimate I have formed for the present year, and to explain the groped on which I assume that that estimate will prove to be correct. In the first place I will state the figures simply, and then the grounds an which the calcu lation is made. The whole receipt of every kind in the year 1836, I estimate at the sum of - . . . . ES6 44.1 370 66.001.8i2 - • C ; , inair.tairell. The country applied it -4 it must see that this system was founded ~ble principle. It is necessary, therefore. I A on its legs ; boa I do not propose to make ..tely, on account of the toss and inesr.venienet , to which .als would by that course be exposed. I propose that the bounty should continue till July, 18%, and then cease. At the same time I shall have no objection to fix the duty so that it may never exceed twenty-seven shillings. It is contr try to every r..tity,al principle to raise the duty on a commodity in proportion as it grows dearer. I intend to give the parties "hose interests are likely to be sheeted by this change, a full equivalent by the reduc tion of duty on an important article of their produce. The sur plus revenue for the four years will stand thus—. . . For 11124 . . 1,437.744 3125 - 443,528 - - - - 11126 - - . - C 64,675 1327 - . - - 1,244.676 Total Surplus - - - 4,000,411 When I made my financial statement last year, it did nut appear to me that the surplus would be so great. The question I then asked was, what shall we do with it? I repeat that question now. land I answer it in the same way. We can do a great deal of good with it, and it is our duty to do it. (Cheers.) The course I shall recommend Is calculated to do that good, end though particular ie. wrests may not be pleased, yet, looking as we ought to look at all interests, that course is the best calculated to promote the general ' welfare, and to extend the benefits of that prosperity on which we congratulate ourselves to all parts of the work!, even those the most remote from our connexion. (Cheers.) The relief then I propose should be given will coosist in the reduction of taxes, which I wish to apply to three objects; first, to extend our commerce and increase the facilities of consumptioo ; secondly, to endeavour to carry fur. they the attempts we h ave ma de to extinguish the monstrous nil of smuggling; and, thirdly, not to orerlook that relief from the pressure of direct taxation in which I am quite prepared to acqei , ace, if I atn not, by that acquieseecce, driven to abandon these two other points, which I believe, on my conacienre, are ten thousand times more importam than any relief that can be given from direct taxation. (Loud cheers.) I am well aware to what I expose myself by this declaration. 1 hear in mind what I was told this evening—that if I wish to for wiedt-she popularity of Government, 1 should apply myself to the reduction of direct taxation: but I do not wish to obtain popularity for Governmera at the expense of the real and im portant interests of the country ; and I think we should not deserve it if, for the sake of obtaining it, we were to abandon ' the principles the most conducive to the public prosperity (Cheers.) Firm, then, as to those arrangements et mention affecting the interests of foreign nations, and the consurieption of their pro ducts the desirableness of getting rid of the system of pro hibitions hibitfons is now generally admitted. Much has 'been done, but much remains to do. (Hear.) I hope no great time wilt elapse before my Right Hon. Friend t,3lr. Illnekisson) will introduces pro position which will go to put an end for ever to those narrow and mistaken views which I am anxious, if possible, to strike for ever ' Iron our recollection. That, however, is more properly his provines and he will state it with Iris peculiar clearness Ind precision. The duty on foreign iron has been adverted to this Session. I hope none of those who are concerned in the productime of iron will consider it incompatible with their interests to give free admission to foreign iron. Every one knows the price has risen, and that it is impossible to supply the demand. Shiny orders in hardware at Birmingham and Sheffield cannot be executed at all, and they find their way into other countries. I believe that the iron masters will not surfer a mistaken jealousy to blind their sense of justice. By reducing the duty from 61. or 71. a ton to 1/. 10s, the revenue rill not suffer. On the contrary, u the duty removed is next to prohibitory, the revenue will be improved. Th e free intercourse, of which we set the example, we hope to see followed by other countries. We desire a free and open admission for our manufactures, and we must give the same to theirs. But we are not bound to give it unless there is a perfect reciprocity. I ought to observe however that it is our duty to follow up our principles steadily, and not to profess them one year and abandon them the next. (Cheers.) I will now proceeed to state the reduction I purpose in the ' various articles of foreign produce. The first item is hemp. I No man can doubt we should do all in our power fairly to serve the shipping interests, and maintain this wonderful naval superiority which, after all, is the fideram of our strength. The reduction I propose in this article is 150 per cent. The duty is now Id. per lb. The Ines to Coe revenue. by reducing it to id. vriU be about 100.0084 The next article is coffee—the duty is now Is. per lb. It is important to give facilities to the trade of the West Indies, and I propose, therefore, to re duce this duty 50 per cet.t. The loss 1 estimate at 150.000!. The next article is wine. By some it is called a luxury, but that seems carrying the definition much too tar. At any rate when its medical qualities are considered, it cannot be always so regarded. It was LICK certainly from any regard to the luxuries of the rich that I propose the reduction upon wine, which it is my inuntion to submit ; if they derive additional comfort from it, one would not grudge it to them ; it is net, however, fur their sake. but because it is calculated to operate as a practical benefit to the middling classes of society, and as a general measure of utility to the other interests of the country. The high price of wine was naturally attended with a diminished consumption, and the high ditty upon it was further attended with a diminution of the means of ciliponsing of our pea. duce. Thus did it operate injuriously, not only as regarded the consumption of wine, but had also the effect of not giving play to several branches of our industry. Looking at the question of con sumption, and asiabliabiug a comparison between the consumption of wine In the yams 1801, 1802, anti 1110$, when the duty was less, and the ' , resent consumption new that the duty is high, 1 find the forester jar exceed the latter in quantity. Tne average annual con sumption in Great Britain alone (not including Ireland) was 274,559 gallons of certain rare wines, whiclw were net in general use, and of that wine which-was imported front Portugal and Spain, and which was in more demand, 7.306,105 gallons. Such was the average consumpnon of those years at the lower duties; and at pre sent, when the duty leas high, notwithstanding the increase of wealth, of population, and of the general prosperity enjoyed in a time of pence, the consumption of the former class of wines did rot exceed 214,268 gallons, and of the latter 4,847.1176. It might be Aid that this diminished consumption was owing to the altered ha- i ills of the people, that people don't drink wine now as much as they were wont to do. This might certainly be true ; but it would , be admitted that the high duty also operated to prevent the con- sumption, and that the reduction of it would naturally remote one principal cause of the diminution. That the people had altered in I,:teir habits, as to 11* quantity of wine they were disposed to take, was a reason why no danger need be apprehended front the reduction of the rates, on the ground of the reduction, being accompanied by the immoral or drunken habits of the people. By the reduction I contemplate. it is expected that the consumption will be at least equal to what it had been in the years 1801, 11102. and 1803. For the purpose of showing the intended change, it will be necessary to compare what the ditty had been at these former periods and the present. The present duty on French wine was 1 is.3ed., and on wine imported from Portugal and Spain and other places 7*. 7d. per gallon. In the years 11102, 1803, and 1804, the duty. was lie. 9 '(1.00 the former,and en the latter it varied from ss. to 6s. and 6s. hi. per gallon. The duty that I note pro. pose to affix on these wines is (is. instead of Ils. 514. on French wines, whigh is little more than half the present duty; and 4s. on wine from Portugal, which is also little more than half that which is at present laid on. The result of this reduction will be, that French wine may be had at Is. 3d. a bottle, and Rhenish and Por. tuguese wines a: Is. a bottle, less than at present. The following 1 presents a view of what the duty had been in 1802, what it now is, I taking the year 1822, and what it is in future to he:— m d. In 1602—French wines - 8 91 per gallon. Other wines . - 5 9. Jo I/W.2—French wines . 'll tit Other wines . - 7 7 PROPO3ED lIEFE•L. French wine - 6 0 Portuguese . - 4 0 This was going below what the duty had been in the former year. but not to an extravagant degree, nor to an extent that will not be found injurious to the revenue from the increase of consumption. With respect to Ireland. which it was intended to include in the proposed regnlations, and to assimilate on this point with the duty paid by this couture. I am satisfied it will be deemed but reasonable even by the people of that country ; for it should be remembered. that they pay no assessed taxes. (flew, hear, from the Opposi.' tion.) 'ewes {opt intended, not was it his wish that the ancitot and generous hosp itality which was the characteristic of that coml. try sbould.beloterforati with, though the ewe:sof that hospitality , MAY be curtailed. The revived comounptiorref then t r 'ears In England and Scotland, on a moderate caleit ton, fairly eapeetcd at least to be on an i Wm; it the years )609, 1808. end 1810& ..,Tak .. ' . o r what the produce to the Exchinhemerauld be, to he sestained by duties on wine proposed to he repealed would be 230,000 i The nest part of the subject to which Inm desirous of calling the attention of the Committee is one of peculiar and pri mary importance; it is one vitally affecting the principles of coin fierce, and which prevents their tree anti fair operation in every department—l mann smuggling. Without exception, we hare not a greater domesfie evil to contend against than this ; it haunts us everywhere we go. In vain it is that we have our coast guarded and metered, still it finite its way to our shores, and even Into cur very harbours. It is to be met with in thc very palaces of our Nobility, and in the cottages of our peasantry. It seduces alike the peer and the peasant: every where there is a disposition to encourage it ; all are di to yield to its temptations. (Hear. hear, hear.) Every srroog measure has been resorted to, to suppress it, but without =mesa. But whilst strong measures had been resorted to, the law had not been altered • the only course that was then left was to alter the law. (Hear, hear.) We have an example in Scotland and in Ireland, of the success which attended the alteration of the law by the merle which was taken to ',appetite illicit dmillatinn ; the duty on spirits was lowered, and instead of the people becoming addicted to drunks:nom in con sequence of the change. it remedied the evil—it restored pewee, and prevented that confliction between interest and duty, which often operated on the magistracy of the county to abstain from carrying faithfully into efEct a law which was in many instances incon venient to themselves We are bound to go still further, and the principles of ditty unite with the principles of humanity and the inte-ests of the community, to alter the law so as to sup. press this great evil. But in doing so, we must proceed gra dually. I sin desirous of going far, hut am unwilling to pro. crest with indiscretion or haste—" one should not ride a willing horse to death." The lowering of the duty on spirits had been productive of great benefit in Ireland end Scotland, but at the same time that these parts of the kinedoni were materially r-- " ' d -'' Frac*e ee well as their profession to o good—or perhaps more folly of injudicious legislation. But it is always in progress than all from the absence of a certain class of persggs who are irre distinguished by their lawn sleeves in this country,—they nose mrchirrepressible tendency is to make its way through the world more free from prejudice aeon the subject of tfid Catiqolie claims, tarry with it increased benefits to every shore it visits. (Ct and he believed almost uniformly friendly to the concestions they I Our prosperity, therefore, is not to be attributed to any rots fnr. lifft g Petition was ordered to lie upon the ' ran d to 14 pr i me d . circumstance+. It rests on a basis not to be shaken. The ASSESSED TAX be no rational doubt of its solidity, especially when we taki Mr. J. B. :HONER presented a petitio# . Reading, for the consideration dust new power of production, now at work repeal of the House and Window Duty. ..4 11* ersoutable Gentle- such wonderful activity-1 mean the steam i s e m .4r man described these taxes as highly op. t lower classes. - There had been circumflex:lms I s=oe, I Lope, a lad as depriving them of both light • e, so eifilaty.five appeals Rom Reading at the ''.. envenom and he im- maintain that th e ' vement of our ion is nafthe ret p.ored the House to consider, that the ..A. o f thele* l'P eah any chente or accident, but the gateletary consegnence of i wee grater eTtO than the tax itself. r',. , lie upon the tble . permanent in tiller nature, and consequently increasing in p Mr. DENISON, ia presenting a ti.. . . • It ale be checiAgnirtir taspeovident legislation. (Hear, I /Wei/elan feral+, repeal el the Alien .......... ' - regt..A.4.../. may annum safely, then. I think, to affirm that the prods inismite which had gone abroad ,wispecting the petition he had pre- f this particular branch of the revenue may be assumed as the *suited on • former evening from Croydon. That petition like the present, for • repeal of the whole of these taxer. he on which we may calculate the produce foe three years to , wish., whose petition he had nos presented, was one of the largest I The next branch to which I beg to call the attention of the in the kingdom, and he was slag that they expressed the feelings m i ttee is o f the greatest importance, as affecting the dot THE 4 13RITNH PRESS. f tionoa, it per ears.; is glue, 20 per cent.; in gtase bottles arrangement was awe to be ere is a dinitontille of 2) per cent., but as the whole suss. Self 10111C.St questions, and i . o a n y n to o roundpu t thisor intelligible r y made is until, tliongh the rate of the diminution is con- kW:4e, the gross amount of it is trilling ; in cider the in- the change immediately. on was is lit pet cent. ; in leather, 10 per cent. : in skins, 15 per to which individuals would The expendiLure of every kinl Leaving a surplus of . . - . 443.528 I take the customs at 11,350.0001. The committee will observe that this sum rather exceed the actual produce of the year just passed. It is my duty to e Wu the grounds on which I' conceive that produce likely to be r . iced. I have said enough, I think, generally to satisfy the Conlmittee that there is nothing unreason. able in assuming the revenue of the year 1824 as the basis of the estimate of 1825. I begin with a deduction for that portion of the remission of ditties which did not app!v to a part of the previous year. This reduces the estimate to 11,327,0411. to which I add 50,0001. The first share of benefit results from t he gradual aboli tion of certain bounties whirl' Parliament last session thought fit to cut down, in pursuance of those wise principles which has latterly regulated our commercial policy, and which I am sure, the more they are carried into execution, will be the more approved and che ri.hed. I then add 400.0001. being the amount last year repaid on the stock of silk on hand. That was clearly a casual payment, and cannot recur. The whole may then be fairly and safely estimated at 11,837,7411.: but from that sum I am bound to deduct that portion of the remission of taxation which will come into operation earlier this year. This I ea/estate at - . - .£410.000 The total probable revenue for 1825 will therefore be 11.427,7411. But that I may be quite within bounds, and run no risk, I will take the customs for 1825 only at 11.350.0001. ; leaving 77,000!. fir elbow-mom.--{A laugh.) The excise I estimate at 28,400,0001. The actual produce of last weir was 28.7011.0001, but from that sum 2i7,0001. ought to be deducted : 280 ; 0001. for the remaining duty on salt, and 37,0001. for a portion of the expired duty on rum. I have still left 28 ; :131,0001, ; but it will be more prudent to make my estimate 13e,01.10/. lower, and state the eecise at only 26,480.000 h The stamps I take at 7,100,0001. allowing 150,000 f. for the loss that will result from the complete remission of the law stamps. The asiessed and other taxes I take at 4,875,0001. This estimate is founded on the most accurate com putation of the returns made to the Tax Office, and may be consi dered correct. The Post Office I take at 1,500,0001., what is rather less titan the actual produce. The miscellaneous branches of revenue consisting of a greet variety of items too tedious to go through, I take at 750,0001. This is rather more than I should estimate them for another year. but it happens this year that we have to receive 100,0001. from the King of the Netherlands in consideration of some arrangements made according aD some treaty relatii g to the East Indies. To these I add the payment from the trustees of half-pay, and the total result stands thus:— ESTIMATED 1111:0111r VOA 1825. C Customs - . - .. ' . . . 11.350,090 Stumps - - .• - sits"—: JO' . . Taxes . • ..• -.hies' .-- 4 " . '. ri,„.l Post Office - . .ii . . - - 1.100,000 bliscellaueous 700,000 Trustees of half-pay 4,470,370 Total incrase - - - £3.445,370 ESTIMATED EXPENDITUSC FOR 1315. Consolidated Fund : Interest of debt 27,233,1170 Do. Exchequer Bills 40,000 Civil List 2,051,000 Half.pey Annuity 2,800,000 Sinking Fund 5,4118,834 Supply : Interest of Exchequer Bills Army Navy - - - Ordnance - Miscellaneous 829,000 7.911:751 5 983.126 1,370,641 2,300,000 - . . Total Expenditure - b8,01)1,1342 Surplus for 1825 - - 443.528 The charge for the Sicking Fund has been increased by the ar rangement made last yeas to reduce the 4 per cents. The non assenting holders of that stock were paid off, and the other names transferred at once to the new 3} per cents: The re-payment of the Exchequer Bilk for the former purpose was charged on the Sinking Fund, applicable to the discharge of the debt. With respect to the increased expense of the army, I do not think it de. sirable, or reasonable that I should take the trouble to bring it this evening under discuss]sti. I hail hoped that my Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston) would have been able, last week, to have made his statement, but it is no urcessayy part of mine to justify the measures he will explain. The miscellaneous expenses have been increased by one or two items, to which it mny be as well I should advert. A sum of 50,0004 has been appropriated to call in the miserable tokens formerly ciroulisting in Ifeland. and substitute the replier coin of the country. This expense will fall on the present year. There will also be 2or 3801.81151. - 07 be paid according to treaty with the United States. During the ear, certain slaves, the property of individuals, deserted from their masters, enlisted into our service. and pliced themselves under our protection. It was impossible to restore these men to their former servitude, and as they were private property, She Government of the United States considered that the proprietors were entitled to be indetnntfied. By the treaty of Ghent, the principle was sanctioned and the adjust. went of the amount was referees trill - 40rd Nair. The Emperor of Russia, after a fair and ininartillt consideration of the subject, estimated the amount K not less than 250,0001. This constitutes an important iteet in the miscellaneous services of the year, but never likely to return. The general result it, that the surplus revenue of 11.125, will amount to 413,5•-'Bl. ; but I wish the Com mittee to permit me to do again as I did last year, and carry their attention forward and see how this species of estimate will apply to the three succeeding ye/n.4.1145. 1028, and 1027. I then brought my calculation dime to thee.' 4-4 1325, andi wish to do the same now. I will assume fur 1828 antllB27 the same revenue as the actual receipt of 1824, supposing noineresse to take place but such as will speci ally result from the emission of some particular duties in the Customs. In 1828, the income of the year may be estimated at 256,195,080 The expenditure 115,330.324 Leaving a surplus of 864,876 In 1827, the income . & Lam. 090 Expenditure 55,105,321 Surplus 1,254,876 .• I will next explain bow I eoute to suppose that the revenue of 1827 will be so mach larger than that of 11126, and that of 1816 than that of 182.5. The difference arises from an increase in the Cus toms, which I anticipate from a measure I shall submit on a future evening, but which I think it right to state new. The drawback on exported sugars exceeds by about three shillings per cwt. the duty intended to be allowed. Tice Committee are aware that in 1806 it was proposed to lay on an additional duty of three shillings, namely, to raise it from twenty-seven to thirty shillings. Consi derable objections were stated, and, as it seems to me, with some fairness. An arrangement was finally adopted, according to which the high duty of thirty shillinps was to attach only on a certain high price ; below that it was to be only twenty-nine shillings, and at a lower price twenty-eight shillings, and at a still lower 275. I confess this strangeinent appears to me to be contrary to every sound principle. The drawback, however, was fixed on the supposition that the high dotty would be generally paid, and the consequence is, that Government now receives a duty of only twenty seven shillings, Rad pays a drawback at the rate of thirty. It is perfectly obvious that the only tendency of this system is to induce foreigners, who are qulci-sighted enough to take advantage of our errors, to hamper our sugar trade with all sorts of restric tions. They think that the excess of drawback may just as well come into their treasury as remain in the pockets of the expeller, and they lay on a higher duty to get possession of the object. The served, the change had been attended wi:h an evil here. Although the smoggier had been remored (tart the North of Scotland, he had the sagacity to find his way to the South, and contrived means to convey spirits over the borders, to the great deprivation of the morals of the people of this country, and it introduced here an evil which aid not Wore exist. The obvious course, therefore, to adopt was, to get rid of the duty OW spirits, transmitted from Scotland and Ireland to ISSlonsi. In England the illicit manufacture of spirits was not an evil to any formidable extent. lam not aware that the people of 1 this country like it. Gin, which was an ardent - spirit, more generally drank here, went through a variety of hands. Firer, t there is the making or manufacture of the raw spirit ; it then goes through the hand of the rectifier, who distils ir, and is then distributed and sold again. In the change of the law about to be proposed, it was only intet.ded that the article should be allowed - to be sold in the same way; that through emaggling It now found its way into the country. The alteration of system would only pro to exempt those from the penalty to which they were before liable, from the introduction of spirits \ from Ireland and Scotland. And I am here harpy to congra tulate the lion. Member for Aberdeen, who, on a former aces- 1 ,ion, amorgat the smuggled articles which he boasted he pre- muted, stated that be was never without some excellent Scotch 11 whiskey in his house, he may in future have it without bele; subject to any apprehension from the penalties of thelsw.(Laughter.; The repeal of the duty on ardent spirits,which stay be regarded as an encouragement to the consumption of them may by some he deem ' eel bad policy. I admit it is bad that ardent s pi r i ts s h ou ld b e too cheap, but this teral is proposed because smuggling has node them too cheap. This repeal will not have the effect of increasing the quantity of spirit imported Into this country from Helfand or elsewhere, but it will, I think, have the effect of bringing whstevtr a; irit finds its way into it under the observation of the Excise. Al. though at some future period a greater diminution might take place than at present proposed, as yet it would not be prudent or politic to have the rate of duty so low as at present prevails in Ireland ; there the duty did not exceed 2s. a gallon ; in this country the duty hitherto had been 10s. 6d. per gallon, which it is proposed to alter to ss. per gallon from malt and frs. from grain. This my be deemed as affording a facility to drunkennesa, and the objection ie not without force; but then there was the greater evil of smuggling, which aftbrded a still greater facility, and asare are surrounded by difficulties, it becomes necessary foe us to make choice of the kilt. Incidental to this part of the subject is the coasidaration of the api. ~ rite imported from our colonies. The present duty on nun ailluof t is lea. Bd., which I propose to alter to ill. Ido not act unfaia)l V. wards those interests, in not making that reduction greater; for the manufacture of spirits Prom sugar was attended with less expense and less difficulty. owing to the operation of certain restrictions in. the corn laws of this country, than the manufacture cf 'pints from malt and grain. One fact is importers fur the colonial distiller, that be can import it into this country. and by its passing through the hands of the rectifier, it may be converted into gin. end sold us such here. As to converting rum into whiskey, that is a consider ation on which lam not at present prepared to pronounce—the pre- sent is an experiment. Let us see how the system works, and before we embark in the consideration of mode', of re convertirg one spirit into another, we must be cautious that we do not 'afar a greater kiss than the revenue an sustain. The following is the estimated loss to the revenue, by the proposed reductions in the article of spirits : British Spirits—From Ws. faL per gallon to Ss. from malt, and 6s. from grain. Rum—From 10s. 6J. per gallon, to Os. per ditto. Total—L . 76o,ooo. The next branch of the public revenue to which he solicited the attention of the (louse, is one small in amount, and though local in importance, was one that merited isecullar attention. I Allude to the duty on cider. In the parts of the country where dais article is manufactured, the present duty is productive of the greatest mischief. It causes the gaols to be crowded. particularly with females, and is the source of manifold evils ice the districts where cider is made. Though this was an evil of a local, and not a general nature, yet it was not the lees proper on that account to provide a remedy for it; I shall therefore suggest a specific one—it is the reduction of duty front 30s. per Itatehead, co lbs. p,r hogshead. This was a reduction at the rate of SO/. per cent. lied would amount to a loss to the Revenue of 13.000/. Mr. HCM E suggested across the table the further redaction of from ISe. to lOs. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQI:Eft resumed—" I have no objection that it should be ten, if it meets the wishes of the Committee. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The reason I recommend 15s. is, because it is the exact duty which those who ate affected by it recommend themselves. (Hear, hear.) However, I an satisfied that it should be 10s.—the less to the Revenue then will be on this item 20,0001. The measure is one that will certainly give relief to an industrious portio t of the community, and six counties will receive great practical benefit from it. The correction of an abuse - in one department leads naturally to the correction of any that may exist in another. Thought local, it was important, for it was the cutting of one unsound branch from an evil root. The two principles which Government has kept in view in the propssel `changes are, first, th e promotion of those free principl es w hi c h are lest calculated to ex:end the commerce of the country, and secondly, to put down and effectually suppress smuggling, without which these principles could not have a free and full operation. In these arrangements the general good of the empire has been consulted, and to this the partial interests of individuals must sometimes give way. If, therefore, there were some wishes in the petition presented that night by his Hon. Friend the Member for Surrey (Mr. H. Sumner), to which I cannot accede, it is became: their request is inconsistent with that due regard to the various gees Interests of the &entry with which theirrirticular interest is wet pod up, and on which the prosperity of nations depends. (Hear, hear.) 51y Honourble Friend has stated that petition to cone from persons of rank and station in the parish of New listen. 1 am disrosed to believe that they are as he has represented them to he, but they owe it to themselves and to the country to consider how far an acquiescence to their desires la com patible lath what the general interests and wants of tLe country re quire. For my part, I should blush for mrsons of high rank and station (of which I am myself an unworthy member) which would permit partial views to weigh for a moment in the balance against the principles I advocate, extending benefit equally to aU classes of the community— " Inciptt ipsorum, comra te. stare parentuot Nobilitas : clersenque farm prier/ere pudeodls. In looking to that part of the United Kingdom which, from the proposed alterations, and the encouragement they were designed to give to commerce and manufacture's. Ireland is. I think and hove. likely to reap great advantages , . It was not, however, an easy office, nor was it one of a day, to eradicate all the evils with which that poor country had long been afflicted. But much of late had been ' done for her. Much more may be done for her. (Hear, hear.) And one means of effecting that desirable object, was by promo ting and extending its freedom of intercourse with all i ans of the world. Sbe was extending her intercourse, and advancing in pros. perky-eller do I know of any country at this moment better adapted fur a useful and profitable application of capital. If there be one peculiar boon which she asks, and we cannot conscien tiously grant, we are doubly bound by the refusal of that boon, to increased generosity in extending to her every advantage, and other boons that we can confer. (Cheers.) By sympathy in her fortunes, and aiding her by all the means in our power we may raise her in the scale of nations--we seat her by our side, and she will becomes par; of our greatness and our strength. In that country, comprising a population of seven millions of persons, the revenue does not exceed three millions and a half. 'What is the cause of this? It Is owing to her unhappy CO7 (Hon. (Loud ales of hear.) But I think I perceive symptoms of improvement, and by our taking every opportunity to promote her growing prosperity, we may fairly caret to co that revenue doubled. We have taken a course which it would be mischievous not to pursue; aye, mote 1 mischievous even than if we had never entered upon it. (Hear, hear.) 'With respect to one important topic which had been ad reread to in the petition presented by my Hon. Friend, namely, the assessed taxes, from the resourc e s of the empire, and front the general prosperity that prevail, and that promises still tnore to pre vail, I am enabled to suggest some measures of relief. (Loud cries of bear, hear.) That relief was rot perhaps as extensive as some may desire or expect, and is nut of that description which enables me to h ild out any participation in it to the wealthier classes, or to the middling classes , butt to the poorer classes there are so me i tems of taxation that may be remitted, as as effectually to save and re lieve them. I particularly advert to those duties, the collection ue levying of which may be regarded as a taxation. All duties were, to be sure, more or less vexations, but where the burden pressed with moat inconvenience and severity—where the sore place was, there was the most need of the applitatititt of a remedy. The items .area s is even instances, apyrently Metal, and may, from this small amount, excite srmietimes a smile—they male ups long cats. e, whiall. as they will be asbmintel in the shape of resolutions aler, it may be well to postpone. or if it be the pleasure of the rouse I will proceed to read them row. (Loud cries of read. read.) The lest was the remission of the tax on small four-wheeled car riages. drawn by ponies ; this would be a loss of about 857/. to the revenue. (Laughter.) This was certainly not a large sum, but before I conclude I thali submit some of large- amount. The next is a duty that is seldom paid ; it is one arising from a class of persons known by the name of occasional waiters. The loss to the re venue by abandoning this duty will be 1,3481. The next tax I propose to *hike off is the coachmakere licences. In various parts of the country there are mules employed in care t oy ore, cooks kc.; this a vexatious ditty, and ought rot to be continued. The neat item relates to pawns quitting hooves after the commencement of the year. As the law at present stands, if a person enters into pttwessian commencement of a house after the commment of the fear, be is liable for the assessed taxes of the whole; b u t i t is 1—... nonneeil,.- to alter the law so as to render him liable only for that portion of , the year he occupies the house. The next neat exempts Isonsts left in care of a person. There was also an important one, a hien exempted farm-houses occupied by labourers : this law pressed with great severity on those Ludlords who had farm-houses thrown upon their hands. Hitherto it ass necessary fur him to build a house or tenement apart from the farm-house, whielt,when the farm-house was let to a tenant, he wan obliged to throw down again. Farmers letting husbandry horses should also be exempted from the tax ; It was but fair that a fernier who might have his horse idle for a few day s , after doing the busin ess o f his far, should let him foe purposes of 'm husbandry, without paying a duty. I beg next to call the attention of the Committee to the houses which it is proposed to exempt. The number of houses paying assessed tries is 627.40. Of that number the houses rated at the rent of 101, a year, and trans th at (lowa to six pounds. p a yi ng a tax of Is. etd. in the pound, sere 132,141. They yielded a sum which en an average might be estimat,d a' 62,0002. This, owing to the ma. nagement which he resented to in order to bring minions who paid 101. or 111. within the benefit of it. ni.gfit tie regarded's WINO!. ; thus a 10111 to that amount would be experienced to the revenu., ~~. e r / 6 _ . ---. by the tctel exemption of . was also intended that all exempted from the operati rated at this rent is 144 fit bosses with seven windo ' exempted duty, under the according to the fallowing Four-a heel Carriages. dr ' Occasional Waiters, &e. • Coachmakers' leicer tea Carriages sold by Auction, Mules careyiag Ore, etc. Persons quitting 110411E11 the Year Houses left in the Care of a ....,.....• - One additional Window ..6.04" Cheese Room or • Dairy ' ;7 1 1)Pfarm Fleutses occupied by e H usbendry Servants moue Farmers, teeing !Labeller 4 Taxed Cars _ Houses and Win ' • Wiwi , of the Duty on WI .... ing more than Seven la Inibited House Duty on I t The total Inca frnill the ' weal Le three millions ai To meet this, there would 4,099,621 e, so that . there w • thousand polled, and upwere and be speeneniaext to oth r vehicle I p - op rte to subtet• i • mittee to support me. I with them appear before I a consetousneca dim I ho-: in endeavouring to carry tit them, and not with an no presumption, but with a eon my duty, I would call fur Ileafonelent. sat down a eti • . . dilleivflOLitil SUM tiEl quits inaudible in the gallery Sir H. PARNELL was i made to the Houle by the I jag the reduction of taxes B. ma re made eeveralo•ectve tided in the body of the hears . ' - Net' MABERLY hoped t t scats rated net pled re the I peropeeee, until they had an • in detail, which could pot g • fully agreed with the Right could understand the sultan eat go into the whole diecus:i Be therefore hopes that th a l pledge the House to any spec Right Hon. (lentlerhan had present thee literally kr.ew promised ap, r betion nor of. knew mare of them ; and he proposed by the Right Hon. lthe surplus. He was always 1 that might be beneficially ap Chanceller of the Exchequer thing to MI tine Resolutions we Mr. SYKES said that the would be hailed by the ship)) . ! a uspicious events. The CHANCELLOR of t observed, that it was not usual report on them had been r pledge the Howse, and the only tonight were those relating i• hemp, and such parts of the A I' redu. e. rl. SIABERLY wished t whole o f the Reeolutione were} ' Mr. BRIGHT expressed his neglectedt i w iv as peutfst 017 bringbring•griny wat i s e. i v i lnces, the Right Horn tee. ' • them. The reduction of ti• d these of Wcst India spirits, we in the islands. Scotch and let me? West India spirits ; but I of the English, and therefore no sequence. The islands hal look this small reduction on the dot. ' t• back than ever. He hoped i l‘• give ample time for discussion. smuggling was tobacco ; and w ' word had to-day been said. If smuggling would cease. The e ~ erno c ett of 154/.0001. per annum equivalent to the injury that th by reason of the small redeiction Mr. WILLIAM S3IITII temper to listen to objeedo is. ao • suit to exprees his opinio. %la eta t, 1 DAI'IES tagged to r 0 • illeighei that a motion or his ' • Joel of the tobacco duties. Me t HOBHOUSE thought i aims War equalised, and instead o imams coefident that the country Right Honourable Gentleman's which would only tenet to make it bring then, within the peozurued ed Mr. JOHN SMITH u by adhering to national honeee' ladle ireereet was particularly be had expected some reduction o afford the greatest relief to that in Mr. HART DAVIS wished of one.balt. The exports from but the imports to Ireland were s smuggling. Mr. Alec:et:an T H 031 PSON ... s u e r n u um ., :in u l . of smuggling, and eZ re duce the duties on ezch. lie a diminution in the duty on hemp. dal on foreign nob.. he did not ex e iro ve n ry te:de e k newleet kit no oa.. )e ~„11 . ' r Irons ~. Mr. IiC3IE was out-trisect tha immense military netabliehmeet the enormous expenditure of are latelus services, and without t mm:, navy. and entrance amount In 1 6111 it was said that the eteabliehment, and ever since the Ittght Hor.ourable Gentleman de for a return to the old sound print be abided by. If the duties on reduced, smuggling would not inten s•, he thought, had nut been stood last year that the same rediec of tl e duties on IVest India spirt The interest of the taxes on mal reticles of tsamiou, were only the Right lion. Gentleman would 'heti s, malt at d tobacco would revenue. He concurred in t' e pr Hon. Gentleman. but still her eel his stoppin .; shcm in the to dt t o more ea! ac ow then keeping up stock at 91, eel iet the ct un ry Honourable Member concluded faction at the statement of the although be felt it DeCCSS: IV 40 111 • the dealt. of the Oar. Mr. HCSKISS.ON was sure hi Chancellor of the Exchequer must etpreetetems of satisfaction ei.h whi been received by the Heese. lie satisfaction of the douse would be that but one feeling could exist with adopted, and the radar...hear/04de ' He had heard with great please?, from the Honourable Merrber f T i lhomption). The worthy .alderir mace in the redaction of chree.fou Teen imported into ibis country. the dettnau Thompson) was largely int iron. He, of course, concur:el wit I Chancellor of the Exchequer, and i the policy of this reditction, which calcalatel to benefit the elm mane ' the same time that it affortini an ad e nieree. The high duty upin the i . e.. to'ntributed to occasion a all duct .; lot but be prejudicial to all those nut E t t utacture in which the use of male same time that it bad deprived the in eft o ppertunity of reedering the wee perfect by the:Meat h -aeon of forego found to be a watered improvement bail can part when the opeeremety leagues the propriety of placing cop'. similar footing. not merely utele. firtancial reduction, bill for the puttee manufacturing and commercial intere aubject, he rcpetted, he would team prohibiting eh:rine as far as was pr • member for Bristol had objected to sugar; but lie thought, with the I: th,it et would be it:menses:tilt with to continue it. However his liotioun afford relict' upon other articles, the i to the extent of the reduced bounty. . 'mutable Member could be, that th. I. was by no means the criterion of los: I. trey, alien lee telt. iluelessoit) WWI he pound the duty on coffee from ts..) which duty he 'had reduced to f ..; the reduction was to increase the 4 / , _ •••••• ..