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)ecting , If th-- ir2telit4 , law as ; )ect terallyv•4 of that r any [II the :ral used •••il for , • rich he , art testirra he '633 al 1v 45 but -; but of, t ought " tr ' t . l 0 0 I suffi- '1 S that Hon- ?! ttinctli wheti.r,!! -e ts.t 10 , 1v th. 40.7 b 3. n Non' • A PeCI); 5Cd on which heat; the wit he ion of t. e ititce IN 11 ir,ll • if the a fair tl .' was n his crest. with this lips (31r• bad eakes %sat that upon that's ittee, hair ; the was 110 g ive ovar- Tru of co rn pro in- . c ted • a ble 0 be ere- rleY h er ould ;t int ob dun port '" the 'ora r ide ,ved old to on- icy/ • ". 1 , 0 , )ats de n d the , I .! )n • , 11t. tips 0 1 , 1 lat he - • P r o7oseu measure of which, as a whole, he approved. As of himself, he bad no objection to a fixed duty--( Hear, hear) h ighe •-provrthided it were sufficiently high, b u t i t oug h t to b e much an the one proposed by the Noble Lord. Ile hoped the G osernment would take into their considetation the parti tTeirr circumstances of the case as regarded Ireland, and shape t th accnidingly. He fel a difficuly in voting o eft : etion before the House, becatoe t he did not. understand then iTaras(tiricilid'ati:ed ttioleolGt ,„„:1 i t might produce.-.( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) If it oats, to re-consitter the question as beshould not hesitate to vots for it. tinder the present ei " hk • ho w he should vote on r eurnstances, scarcely C%‘ ' lll .lll, air. • m ot . CH R ISTPH Ell said. if he thought that by voting for he ar s ! s e ri 'hey should arrive at any practical restilt-( Hear, of i' -- (1 " there was any ultimate or reasonable prospect i n" n a: ein g the Goveinment to increase the protect brert dot on barley, and the kinds of grain that had th e tif mentioned, he would support the rnot . with l t had most s atisfaction, for he concurred entirely with w p osH "en said as to the inadequate protection which the pro !ism le totwd afford to the barley grower. But the prac • auppeituties'en conid was, how was it possible for. them by th a , n g the measure of his Hon. Friend, to give thers r ii r s e - o s ' e t P li h r tn ,:: iti t r , ( i ' v e ta i t in i , o n n aahicali they considered absolutely . necessary. ll' th e ~,nt it would bear heavy on the grower of beans, and c ir of th e s t rong clay soils. From the h the °I h e w state the market of oats and barley, and a ,. enterinis so greatly into the general sa,..oalnPtion not of the peaple, he thought there was not the ,a i rssing• necessity fur altering the duty as for altering ote tli ftl ei4 i oailn..Yer.File:.nohtueitai• place'l f h: h t i h g o b u c g r h p t ro th c o at m i : l t t io o r n i nt-hoeuset articlesiricuc support it, but II! did not sec how they diri, n -rive at any practical conclusion by proceeding to a eth er ' s 'she s ooner this question was s.ettlad, one war or andtaint* bette r i t would be for the convenience of the House Ati'.lo satisfaction of the country. had sn AW said that the part of the scale referring to oats i wp ceeasioned 'great excitement in Ireland, and the general Protection that prevailed was, that it did no'. give a sofficient ea r ,a'"on to agriculture. It was his desire to allay that ex it, tt i: T s"t, and without going into any eetail of figures, the (h a , In tl them on more than a single point, he would beg Ittiaeamtrorstotieeniti,zar as their plan went, to give some informa- If he was rightly informed, the Govern eiat„ a'Eumed that 225. was a sufficient price to protect agri ho brli lle would not give any opinion upon that point., btu tild on the whole, that if it did afford prot ec ti on it r) sitffie i ?e P rather a .seanty ne. Assuming that 225. would b e ) th e G , M protecti on t o oa t s , he wished to ask the attenti on o f lt,t, s e rnment to the fact that foreign oats might be sold at av e' his NO. Friend could convi nce hi m th a t th a t was t h e g stlr,„', price of f or ..ign oats, then he ahoul,i say th a t th a t was isro'eient protection to agriculture. If he had been rightly d % % fli ed oats might be obtained from Sweden at 9s. 'tar t er, and 2s 6d eight. 'I his was not a time to 11011," experim.ent on 'the staple trade of the coun t r y. etoi,',"`l'a earn er ble G ent l emen opposite would recollect that o7, :e as the only source of employment fur a grat mass at e ) 0 . o P o pulation. Th ey w e engaged in agriculture, a!n lie, and it h a d b een f oun d more advantageous to thae„ejfats than an y Oth er gra i n . If, th ere f ore , any serious lalsei t ' w as made in the trade between this cots try and Ired hib.'t Ras made croail a most serious evil. He therefore i hope Proa r ," lo t iron. Friend would" reconsider this subject ieto .. re it it s ; 'lng his scale. Ho knew that it would be in vain to resist it., it were prop;sed.-( Cries from the Opposition of " . Try `i aan ghler.) Certainly, if a fair divi,ion was insisted bight Il should vate for tint which was suggested by his h Frierid, but, he could have hoped to have seen t h e "atal higher; lint he should leave the proposition t e the Government, and he should give them his last upop t. 111 :i i e r h i) * ROCHE ma d e sine o b se r v atio n across th e t a bl e , i t ,h was inaudible in the gallery. C • HULLER said that he had heard of a fairy tale, in sorts o. es:::;! a fa ir) was continually occupied in making all f s kosas " "nta• 03c of the greatest difficulties she had to sur 'l5 hseparate barley from oats, which she could on h ad 5 ' the aid of a magician. He (Mr. Buller) wished they kr Norte Magician there.-(Laughter.) The Hon. Member t llisaXn'ik seemed to be of opinion, that the best way of se - 8e4""" aitestion was to stop the business of the House alto ken to and report progress. In order to enable Hon. Gentle • Nokreolleet their ideas on the subject. Hhell.Bid.) , k now how long that might take, but believe it (C saa a'alse a considerable portion of the time of the House.- *taw laughter. ) And he, therefore, hoped such a step fa re a llot be adopted. with respect to the question then e•• than Hauge he (Mr Buller) could take no other course 1 , 1: 0 1 -'t of , gong with . the Right Hon. Baronet. In the first Plac e ' 11 ,was useless putting the same question. In the second Ma l ' a tne Hell. Member for Not-folk should devise some 'up s , 7P°, n Which he can act, and provide against the in. la s •a,2,10 forms of the house. The Honourable Mem ailil, t n a ls hed to increase the amount of duty upon oats, aerefore, he had not courage to say s , No," to the propo ,ke Rialit Hon. Baronet, and vet, at the same time, enl'course' was to go on witti the scale proposed by . lire ssi ir ,st Lord} of the Treasury. Wh a t was th e use of ex /ta thei r opinion, unless they supported them with a vo!e. , n e , % h ear, and - cheers.) - The lion. Gentleman said it potlicioh..se tryi ng his nuition, and yet he was averse to say he e thul at - '' t try it.-( Laughter, and cheers. ) Why did he not the I f e that Noble Lord, so much admired on the other side of . a eift a t °n . se ,s and who asked if there was ever anything got with noe.aintiV ": 1 Let them take the noble example of the Du , ke of Ai r 1 1 "nas --- " Pluck up your courage, man, and do it. tieIas"YODETIOUSE said his answer to the Hon. Gen ''Anc,74,,iinPia was, that be wished . the . Government . to give aiatitg pression of their future intention with respect to the he ~‘1 , ..e.n hf forei n oats He received that expression, and ( 1 1 e- V;;. ' not *do m g ore than thank his Hon. Friend. Now he "odeliouse) 'would go one step further, and state that, h !P i nion the present system of was inadequate, n it protection beahllitted it to be 'a fair subject of national rec . t. c Cit enn '; I not think that, because it was necessary undu. heat, tb: la l i tees of the country to raise a revenue . upon !a se re ue there was a corresponding necessity to rat .. ",f r en all other sorts of rain. Admitting the weaknas - , e a ' s e nne, yet every man knew that the agricultural in ,alllr ‘ as. ' " . "',. subjoin, of iaramount importance. I'AIALFII Ihe would not be cried down by , „ " in 5„i; .... n on t los oppos....ite sule s who took up this ques t-kindore tl , .- Ala asmanner. By the - forins of the I louse, he h e N ''„` t 'icY could not propose a higher duty then ; there• air • lilVat it better not to press the motion. thous so alai,' WI',LL was understood to say, that there ''Amoliss i t e offtlict statements made to the Houe, t he 'e th •41 (1 be Cater for the Right. Hon. Isaronet to e scal e. • w ohl C, D STONE said, he • thought at that , late hour t i , t , h art till °titter for the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Vtodelio , r u e l ) arly efi rt ~, the question of oats was brought forwardrt„ Zle Commiltee when the question was fully discussed. „ o'Bit lEN ;aid he thoug,ht it would witht to do o d . Las. of Mr. Wadi:house was then . drawn, ap 11 ° r - g a nial resolution was put from the . Chair and . passed. dade ' 0 th • tfIIRIEN, who was for a consderable time . rna abl e ' G allery was understood to say he s t ought it was e n ` l to Perceive tbat the scale proposed weuld e i nc . ouia h gc 4 isrt `;''re the foreigner. Foreign oats could be so.d t tcltear at a profi t w h en t h e pr i ce was at `2os. and the duty 6 3 .; is in the w es t ern parts of Ireland the price would "ad „ t Y °act exceed 7d. or 7%d. a stone. The price 4,, 0 1v er exceed e d 10d .. or I s. un d er t h e present law. To tyttl, , flat this•wa s not an exaggerated statement ho would a retur n h e h eld in lii`s hand, and he found that ni tha t ' hen the average price was, a that not less ° 626 °7O quarters were admitted at 6 s . duty. In 1839 he Lay°ail •s. o less than 855,000 quarters were introduced at a uca i ft ( ;'• nd., being hioher than that proposed by the Right ; this - qua'iitity of 855 . ,000 quarters received in ; • a hreater than that received by the whole of Eurape. "ie last year not ICSA than 841,000 quarters were sent I'tel-°,n,don alone In conclusion, he thought that the scale •"iadit Hon . Gentleman Would afford quite sufficient t , et i l l on to Irelat . id• • k ll° cliE said he felt that the constituency h e re p ro N • ,deeply t. e suffer by the resolutions proposed by the Wti i fed II one hoped the Right Hon. B arone t Ireland ider t h e subject, as it was one of vital importance ▪ • p,,.ons , t o of 4 ,a fESUN congratulated Hon. Gentlemen on . that taalhei me for the number of converts they had gam apt. ""e''nons of the necessity of protection to the agrocul fst,,,feth„,l!•ould assure the House that there was a very gene 'cr- o to Ireland, amongit landlords, land-owners, and b,'' thlt ' a:4 Nei if the protection was not increased, there would , protection to the grower in Ireland as would enable 111"nPete with ti foreign grower. This, he could as . at,,uped arcs the general fee;ing . in Ireland, and i sial'frtaeti tsentleinen opposite would, if they rid Pro' that they had been mistaken, consent to afford 11:Nn'etni for the sjiring corn as they did for whe . a . t. 1 ;"et ;'''>-1'11:11.12.Y believed the scale of the Right Hog. Alad th e le t H be collie satisfacturx to the constituency which 11p.r;nalur repreaent. "t) - INGTo N 11 not but cangratulate the Right oat, are a , t roe tat, , too Alenl6'r for Tamworth, for the number of b'`e had• I • e •Minly sacs the most successful a t at ) , made , la c.l an al there that had caer been seen. Ile had converted many, wa„ 'W" one nohlemao, great, powerful, and p n ` ,i i i - till oefractory,_ unconveriible.-(Laughter. ) .° understood Hon. Gentlemen opposite to ssbatelt''a the reirosiicirt in th e duty on oats and barley was p . ro : 'he las s 4 aallwheat reduction on wheat, If that were the cw. , d nty 5 65. the old duty being 30s. 8:1. arid the a is 132.. the duty being 13s. pa.. kin k „tar,;,:),,,1t. to be, not 61, isr.olio,...:".V...,b,yutith,e would i:ot 7 5 . 21d . H o (mi. tt , , .. $ ) . The i kitial 42 e w . t hen the difference %%mild be outs t th e 1,1"4-71ndll, but it was still a difference. lie further "hotly`;dle in e, tett on the picot of the ..ale, ought to be ill fli t Ile should take the opinion of the House 114. 31 ` 8 ,a" ought not to be left out, and the nitiehaCid.aiiiiituted in their place. barley on the other, - tl " ,' i n'eet t ,' 3 , l l' °NE said that in the propiyeil scale the re .,fty , eat on the one side, rice and " th N:r%e a ::: t i na , e - t:l ,, s fli itirt altessential . proportion;. It was true if ht find a certain ao ate va ... do arbitrary point, they . , from the just relation ; and here it, 14,, Ivltttt:'B) vra6,rat"iing to mark the difference existing between tif ditteravery swan. The divergency was very small, and t , ht ,: p n • taekttetntea there was had arisen from the circumstance ' ern en not having taken the pains to uncle: stand 'ni a 'hat "1 16 " which the proposed scale was founded. It was thoua i t 'as r iot. relation throughreit the scale between wheat and a t'ai taiiexactlY prescrved same. The Hon. Geode the `the." ll 'y °ne end of the ' scale, and had shown that a itt -n a eats was somewhat lower than the duty on k3dst nn , t e (Mr. Gladston e ) could take the other end of : 4 'l\ 1 1 . e ;`, show that the dot y on oats was higher than the K a "' th e t i;', 'loth Gentlemen had not objected to . taking ha t .- f ao„, 6"r for oats, which would correspond with the l ay I .*s, • for wheat •t. Il b vta s the _ an ' d . he (Mr. Gladstone . ) mieht add; etaern corresponding figure for barley ; bie7the r.O - eY1144 i n ata aad barley, to which was the highest rem °ads was'ad for a long time. In 1663, when wheat as as l a • % 275. ; 17'74 /Then whsat was 1003„ oats was at v 1 8 . 22 4 81 _ 5 oats rerna'ined at the same pr . ic . e. ha r t p r i re ":as raised to 355. ; and in 1823 to 'WS. IN.L , tit, for it was proposed to be continued. With regard tr 4t • l a st ,. ) l9ll g period the price was taken a' half thas of ssi,,a e ir, a 1 ... a it was raised from fifty a hundred to fifty- Ish t. ,tl t e Mired, and at that they wished to keep it. He otzih a d' , ( a s t . out to the Hon. Gentlemaa opposite the error lttseatitunalnnuated itself into his calculation. Ile (the 05 h at , t 5 b eat , ,el'Posite) assume:l that the new duty on o its tibOre to t...nii_samo relation at 225. as the old duty on ft h a , eat which a., but the old duty at 565. oft wheat ever nos happened to fall on and ri ile b i 7n,h .!' en "Pon any cliculation what 'D:4,, Taal, tis.......,lanstone) would suggest to the Ilon. !iti„h ,),!!!-:.ell.hea3.liMed that 16s.was theaum which would hea; l4 lve ntnql when wheat was at sfis as to prevent any da ta the sattraln competition, the duty on oats a t2a3. ought to 0 , 1 4, 0 f sa",.e,proportion. He must, however, state that the old th e "ir, nus a ," t} as ca rl i i „ t l e a . n accidental figure, which had been 4"t Y h Y . koin " ation whatever. He woutd not trouble b Ai elab n e e r d fqty 40..11 oats, anti a ( n iti d ty i jo p w l . 1); er tint entire details with respect to the h h a a l p i epc exactly cones 'ended th e o ea Anglesea added to the testimonfilltdl- that had th a ei l . r l e i a7l; e (Ni le protective duty h ten s c fie as hi s c . y ontutuency were concerned, they upon barley very fair, and net debater• Gladst N e t gen eral 9 n .e) easy convinced that if it were 3 , his }pinion with reference to the measure pro.- i Ve t belle°n"ue prolongedPri much lS l i or ti ll ge o r ber ti t i Peel, this neaawl • eolle'deration was that:the charge of conveyance dea ths) duty erY 'much. upon f the bula of the article, and, therefore, aad charge of the conveyance afforded a distinct pro / tection to the growers of barley and oats as contrasied with wheat. The important consideration was, at what prices l a rge quantities of gra'n couldbe brought into the country. He mi ght assitne that the calculetions made by gentlemen on both sides of the House, and by his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Dublin—in the first place, that Right Hen. Geatletnan (Mr. Shaw) said, that, in 1829, there were 193,0'. 3 quarters of oats laid I Is. duty; and, therefore, assuming that those oats were got at average price, that lc ft the price of foreign oats at something, under 125., which was the lowest it could be introduced for—but the figures before the House showed that in that year there were ma 190,000 quarters of oats, but 530,000 quarters ; that clearly showed that the trans actions were not good mercantile transactions; 19'1,00 quar ters of oats sounded a large quantity in that House, but if any one reflected upon the quantity which was sufficient for the consumption of the country, that could not be considered a great deal; there were 2,500,000 quarters of oa t s f or i ns t ance imported from Ireland. Now, suppose 15,010,000 quarters were taken as sufficient far the United Kingdoms, it was a very moderate calculation, and 190,000 quarters was only one-eighth • part of that quantity. There was another case quoted by an Hon. Member: that Hon. Gentleman said that there were three hundred thousand quarters of oats importer! in 1836, and the average price he slated was 21s. 91 The lion. Gentleman referred to impor tations which took place in speculative years; the duty then paid was I Is. Suppose the (lay as it is now proposed, it would make the price 145., so that it Would allay the whole alarm of the agriculturists, which arose from the idea that by the proposed scale oats canki be imported at I Is., 125., or 133. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Essex referred to several cases too he said he had been told, and there was no doubt the Hun. Gentleman's mercantile exeerienee was entitled to great weight, he said that the best oats coul4 be had on the Continent at lis. 61 Now, suppose, freight and other charges were added to that, it would make it ltis. Ile (;11r. Gladstone) did not deny that particular parcels of oats might be had at that price, but I 1 s. 61 could not be taken as the averaee price. Again, according to the returns, it would be seen that Sweden, for instance, was not likely to supply mare than 12 ; 000 quarters of eats annualy. Then what was the official information before the House? Ho was certainly disposed very much to place the most implicit reliance, both upon the returns of the Consuls and the calculation in the Report of Mr. Meek—he was the more disposed to do so, as he did not know that lion. Gentlemen, or any body of men, had come forward to complain of th )se calculations, or say that the estimates included in that Report were erroneous or unworthy of credit; and upon the discussion upon the wheat question, both . sides of the House relied upon the geaeral returns of the Consuls. •He (Mr. Gladstone) (Id not therefore think that the returns of barley or oats were at all less worthy of credit than wheat was. The returns showed that the average price of oats was 18s. 2d. ; and the quantity that could be embarked at that price was 835,€30 quarters. Suppose freight and other charges of that sort amounted to 53. a quarter, that would make the price 235. 2d. a quarter. 793,000 quarters of oats was the quantity. supposed to be annually imported; and. that could be had free in bond at - 1 Is. mi. a quarter. Suppose freight to be ss. a quarter too, that would be 163. as the pries at which sets could be imported, and the diity of 6s. added would give a total of 225. ; and, surely, no gentleman who was at all reosun able in his calculations could expect oats would be admitted at less than that. By Mr. Meek's report it appeared that oats could be obtained in Ostend at 293. Bd.; but the lowest price he stated was at Elsinore, where oats were only 13s. ; if 4s. were added for freight, and 6s. duty, it would make oats 235. 6d. a (parter. It was quite plain that, according to the statements relied upon by both sines of the House, the protec tion afforded to barley and oatse according to the scale proposed by the Government was very ample, and bore sufficient rela tion to the duty upon wheat. It was said that barley and wheat had frequently sold at I4s. and 16s. a quarter. These were extremely low prices ; that might be, and no doubt it was, a great grievan c e u p on th e gr ower, but these low prices were not owing to the alteration proposed by the Right Honourable - Bar onet - (Sir It. Peel); on the contrary he (Mr. Gladstone) was firmly convinced that in point of fact the glutted state of the markets with reference to'oats particularly, was the real cause of the law that existed. When agriculturi s ts were getting low prices for their produce, when even the prices of agricultural productions were extremely low in this country, the agriculturists had been always disposed to consider that it was because the protection was not sufficient., and whenever the prices were low they always i atitioned Par liament upon the subject. They did so for instance in 1821, and the Committee then pertinently replied that it was quite true distress did exist, but that the protection upon corn could not be decreased. Upon the whole, he conceived it was quite manifest. that the scale of duty upon oats and barley proposed by the Government afforded as suf f icient protection as it afforded to wheat. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL regretted that he had not had the pleasure of hearing the whole of the speech of the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. He had risen merely to ask why the ground which was 'taken up on the ori ginal proposition :of this question had been departed from ?—( Cheers from the Opposition.) It was stated by the Right Hon. Baronet, when he fi rs t. addressed the House upon this subject, that he intended to abide by the relative propor tion of duty upon wheat, barley, and oats. It appeared to him (Mr. M. J. O'Connell) most strange that the Right Hon. Baronet's proposition should be held between wheat and oats in the maximum duty, but the proposition be tweea the minimum parts was not at ail held.—( Hear.) As 5 rises to 2, so does 50, not to 18, but to 20. That was the proportion, and he wished for an explanation why the scale had been departed from in the maximum and minimum duty up.—(llear, hear.) All that he heard the Right Hon. Gentleman say went to prove that the scale was sufficient for protection, but he required to know why the proportion had been departed from in the case of oats. —( Hear, hear.) The Right lion. Gentleman had stated that the trade in oats was the most satisfactory of all under the existing law, because there was not the same over-holding to obtain the lower duty as in the instance of wheat; and yet it was with regard to this trade that the' greatest change was to be made.—( Hear, hear. ) Ile (Mr. Gladstone) stated that out of the 3,000,000 quarters taken out of bond, there were 248,000 quarters taken out for home consumption at a duty of Is. 9d. ; 690,000 quarters at 3s. 3d. ; 243,000 at 4s. 9d; 9.10,000 at 6s. 3d; anti when it thus appeared upon the Honourable Gentle man's own corifesoan that the trade in oats worked better-than the trade in any other sort of grain, he yet proposed to make in that trade a still'greater change than in that which had worked less protitably.—( Cheers.) He might have shown that the duty was 7s. 9d. on 545,000 quarters, fP. 3d. on 193,000 quarters, and 10s. 9d. on 485,000 quarters, which had been taken out for home consumption ; and, with that result, how could it be said that a fair proportion could have b;-en kept with regard to the duties on oats and wheat? Ile heard the cause of that divroportiqu, but of emir. e (Mr. 111. .1. O'Conn,li) did nut believe it, attribute,l to political antipathy or, the part of the Right Hoe. Baronet ;, but it was, at all evenfs, unfortunate. that . his conduct on this question should appear so utterly inexplicable -and irrational. With regard to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, if the protection he proposed were so ample with regard to the inferior grain, he would ask him hoW it happened that in the oat market so great a fall in the price of Irish oats had taken place within ten days after his plan had been 'an nounced ?—( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. M. J. O'C. ) was of opinion that protection was not beneficial to any interest. in the country, but if a certain amount of protection were given to peculiar interests in this country, he should like to know why ft proportionate amount of protection was nut given to the con,ti tuency—unrcasoning, perhaps, Hon. Gentlemen, might cow icier, but who would understand that question very well—which he yepresented.—(llear, bear.) He hoped the Right Hon. Gen tleman would give an explanation on the Subject; and he wrs aware that for himself it might not be consistent to require an increase of duty, as he hitd already voted for the removal of protection altogether.—(Ministerial cheering.) Ile hoped the Right Hon. Baronet, however, wads( show why he did nut keep up the proportion of the duty on oats, and why he departed, in the interval when he produced his proposition, and the pre- Sent-time, from what he stated in his first proposal —(.Hear. ) Sir 11. PEEL said that the greater part of the Hon. Gen tleman's speech went to show that it was impossible to keep up an exact arithmetical proportion between the duties that applied to oats and wheat ; buy his Hon. Friend did prove that the proportion, though not arithmetically correct, was subAantially so, and that practical and equal proportion was kept up between the duties on oats and • wheat; and . . when the Honourable Gentleman called fer au expla nation, he (Sir Robert Peel) thought that it was from the Honourable Gentleman the explanation ought to come— from him who voted against all duties at one time, but who now rayed for an increase of them.—(Cheers.) The llon. Gentleman quoted his (Sir R..Pcel's) speech with reference to the importation of oats, and said he was not dealing fairly with regard ,to the importation of Irish oats, but how he c",h l reconcile that with the vot e w hi c h b e had given fur Ime removal of all protection to Irish oats, he (Sir 11. Peel) could not understand. They could obtain from Denmark, fi out Stettin, and from every part of the Continent, that arti cle which constituted almost the whole agricultural produce of Ireland, on which Irish prosperity so much depended. —(Laugh ter.) The lion. Gentleman loo!Ail with much dislike on some !mall difference between the degree of protection in oats and wheat, and hinted that Ireland was to be ruined becans4 slut had not that sixpence of protection—(Laughter)—to which Elie had a ri 4 lit, but. the Hon. Gentleman would make an in& /lite! y greater hardship, by depriving Irish produce of allprotec tion whatsoever. flow the lion. Gentleman could reconcile that to the House— tohis unreasoning constitu ncy t h e un reasoning' part of his constituency—not to men who could examine into it with nice arithmetical calculations—(A laugh)—he would leave the Hon. Gentleman to s3y. But the greatest injury to the progres, of free trade proceeded from the unrersoning part of the community. When the lion. an exit] ination from him, he ( Sir IL Peel) doubted if the tants. of Kerry, if that were a-great oat-growint . , county, woul►l not rather demand an account from the Hon. Gentleman, nho voted last year for a duty of 3s. 411 and never whiapred any objection. Ile hoped that the longer the,e debates lasted the country would be more enlightened; and he would ask lion. Gentlemen who abused him for insulting the people of Eng- lied by proposing his Corn-law--Hon. Gentlumen should re collect that to touch their protecting monopolies was a ttifficult to,k.---( Hear, hear.) Yes, but 1-6 . n. Gentlemen were loud in their outcries minst them, and charged him with in tilting the people of England ; and now, when the interests of their own constituencies were touched, their outcry was raised on the other side, anti they called for explanations, because he was guilty of the enormity of touching Irish oats.—(Cheers.) The people of England paid 300,0001., and he was asked if he was going to increase Bic misery by reducing the duty on Irish oats. But the longer these debates continued the more the coita l would be enlightened, and the people would see that the course he had taken was the most moderate one and the bost calculated to reconcile the conflicting interests of the country. He deprecated as one of the greatest evils the increasing of the present dis tress by any violent disturbance of agricultural interests, which would be sure to reach the commerce and manufactures. —( Cheers.) He trusted the people of England would come to the conclusion that his measure was founded on fair and just principles. And he firmly believed that p: - actical experience would confirm the impr ess i on w hi c h a gr e a t portion of • the communil were coming to, namely, that it was the best set tlement that could be made.—(Cheers.) Mr. ORMSBY GORE agreed with the Right Hon. Bl• moot as the inconsistency of the Hon. Gentleman. It should be recollected that. oats was the main produce of Ireland. Ireland had a much larger extent of uncultivated land than England, and they all knew that when waste land was sought to be reclaimed, oats, awl not wheat, was the grain which was tried in such soil, and which would best repay the cultivator. Uniler those circumstances, he entreated the Right Hon. Ba ronet to consider fully this question before he had fluidly do• cidcd upon it, He (Mr. Gore) diet not wish to throw any dif ficulty in the way of the passing of the measure of the Right Hen. Baronet, but he entreated that, as a specific point in the measure, oats might be con s id ere d not merely with - regard to Ireland but this country a l so . Oats •NaS one of . the chief pro ductions of IsTxtja Wales, where a bad season, wiih respect to that article, was almost destruction to the farmer; it was, there fore, a matethl. subject in the consideration of this goes tion. He could not conclude without alluding to the taunt, of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, who charged Honourable Mem bers on that (the Ministeri a l) s id e of the House with tergi. versation, with advoewing one opinion sylien they were on the benches opposite, and a different opinion when they had come to that side of the House. He wished he had some proof to bring clown—some Mirror of r.Vlia,nent to show what had been the sentiments he had expressed on this subject when he sat on the other side. Although he had totally disapproved of the repeal of the duty on corn altogether, yet ho had thought that the present scale was most defective, and he had been prepared to support any measure brought in even by his op pownts,provided it *as an improvement on'the existing scale, b ut - preserving the principle of the sliding-scale. Li e was glad have that °ppm tunity of stating that, instead of changing his opinions as he had his seat in that House, he could retort upon Gentlemen opposite the accusation which they sought to fix upon Hon. Members upon that side of the House. Dr. BOWRING, amidst cries of "Oh," "oh," and Order," "order," which rendered him for some time inau dible, stated, that he should vote against the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman, because that proposition implied that the food of the people might be conveniently and properly taxed. If the Hon. Member proposed a higher duty thrn that of - the Right Hon. Baronet, then he should vote against such a proposition in order to carry out his (Dr. Bowring's) own prin ciple. The concluding observations of the Hon. Member were lost amidst the cries of " Divide," which rose from the Minis terial benches. Mr. F. 'l'. BARING would in a few words express to the House reasons why he thought it his duty to give his vote in favour of the Right Hon. Gentlemen's proposition. But before doing so, ho mu,t say that he did not think the Right Hon. Gentleman had sufficient grounds for the triumphant tone in which he replied to the Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. M. J. O'C.) en •hat side of the House. He ( ttr. B.) apprehended that it was quite consistent for those gentlemen who advocated and voted fur the principle of total repeal of the duties on corn, when that question had been disposed of, and the House had determcned on adopting the principle of a duty, and hal come to dismiss it in detail—it wits then, he apprehended, perfectly consistent in those gentlemen to argue that the protection given by that duty was not as- fair a protection as that given to other descriptions. of grain. Upon a previous occasion, he. ( Mr. B. ) as it was the first opportunity they had bad of entering their protest against the scale of the 1- ight Hon. Throtiet, hail voted against the first proposition upon the (mission of wheat Ile had done so for the purpose of entering his protest, not only against the principle upon which the duty wasfounded, but also against the duty itself. But he apprehended that the present was a question of proportion—whether they should follow the same proportion in barley and oats that had previously existed or should abandon that proportion, and adopt some new principle giving additional protection to oats beyond what it before re ceived. He could not pretend to speak in the same manner on the details of this subject as other lion. Gentlemen had, but having listened attentively to the debate, he felt that the much wiser course was to adhere to the old proportion, and not aban don it for the purpose of introducing a new principle, anc giving additional protection to one particular article which it did not b fore receive. On those grounds he should vote with the Right lion. Baronet. Mr. HARTFORD thought the protection granted to the agriculturists quite sufficient. Strangeea were then ordered to withdrew, and the Com mittee divided, when there appeared— For the resolution 256 For the amendment Majority for the resolution The scale of duties on rye passed through Committee. On the proposal of the scale with respect to wheat-meal and flour, Lord SANDON said, under the circumstances in which the Committee was placed, after a series of succesres, he did not, of course, intent to trouble the Committee with more than a siropk. statement of the reasons which induced him to think that neither the law as it then stood, nor as proposed to be altered, afforded an adequate protection. lie thought the manufacturers of flour would be placed under a disadvantage by the propore:l me 'sure. When the present Bill was esta blished in 1828, there was ne , regular trade in corn. The sub sistence of the people was the prime object to be eossidered, and the Legislature were not required to take into account the relative .proportions between wheat and flour. At resent they had . to provide for a new state of things, and to examine whether, in laying the foundation -for a permanent system of trade, they were establishing the im portation of corn upon such a footing that the mill-owners of this country would not be placed at a disadvantage when com peting with foreigners. The proportions between wheat and flour would vary according to the quantity of fine flour which it would be desirable to extract from the quarter of wheat. He did not wish in any way to vary the calculation of 1961b5. of flour as equivalent to 38 11 A gallons of wheat, but what he wished to impress upon the House was, the necessity of giving to the miller of this country some protection equiva lent to the advantage which the foreigner would derive from importing; his corn at a reduced cost.—( Hear, hear.) Th ey would dby referring to the papers before the House, that the grower of corn ie Poland and I'russia, or other countries, had a great advantage in sending flour rather than wheat into this country. It appeared that a merchant wl.o sent 100 barrels of grain into this country from the remoter parts of the United States would have an interest to send flour rather than the raw material of ss. lad. per barrel. Now, that was so much advantage in favour of the foreign .miller, as compared with the miller of this country. lie believed that if the proposition before the Muse were adopted a vast quantity of foreign pro • duce would come into England in a manufactured rather than in a 'raw state. They would find, even under the- present system, that since the year 1831 a very large proportion of foreign produce had come into this country in the shape of flour ; and the English - miller was thus deprived of the advantage of grinding the corn. Now, that was a mat ter which deserved the serious consideration of the House, for various reasons. In the first place, it was the usual policy of the Legislature of this country to favour the importation of the raw material instead of the manufactured artie'e. In no instance that he was aware of had the Houseeadopted a different line of policy ; and it was but the natural policy of a great ma nufacturing country. In addition to that disadvantage, the importation of foreign flour instead of wheat would prevent the importation of the coarser kinds of produce, and they would raise the price of the food of the poor. Ike found that this had actually been the case for the last ten years, during whiCh fine flour had been five per cent dearer than in the ten years preceding, while the coarser quality of flour hail been twenty per cent dearer as compared with the same period. He trusted that, in removing the existing protection, the Go vernment would take care not to prejudice existing interests. lie hoped they would examine the subject minutely, net taking for granted the reports of the millers only, or indeed of any one interest exclusively, which would probably be more or less prejudiced, but that they would look at the question for them selves, and see whether there was not an advantage in bring • ing the article into the country in a raw state, leaving the English miller the advantage of manufacturing it into flour. Whether the amount of protection was to be Is., 25., or 35., if they found. that it would not compensate fur other advantages possessed by the foreigner, lie hoped they would see that the milleeshould not be compelled to work at a disadvantage. lie believed that the amount of duty was no more now than a clear and adequate protection ; he did not wish to press the question to a division, he only wished to hear the Government state the reasons that had induced them to think that they had fixed on a full and adequate protection. Sir lt, PEEL said, while he was fully aware of the im portant interest referred to by his Nob'e Friend, and of how many Members connected with it who had strongly urged the. claim of the milers to an inyeage of protection, it would be his duty to state that, havingTiven the subject a full considera tion, he could not, consistent with a sense of public duty, agree to any increase of protection to that which they at pre sent received. In the first place, this subject was fully consi sidcred in the year 1827. At that period he was a Member of the Government which proposed that 1961b5. should be considered equivalent to • five bushels of wheat, or forty gallons. He recollected perfectly well that the duty on wheat relatively to that of flour was as 2 to 5, and that it was reduced from 40 gallons to 35 e Again, with respect to barley and oats, it was alleged that ffiey were departing from the proportion they had fixed, and that they could not justify the proportion of the scale bet Ween barley and wheat. The law, as it at present stood, fixed the duty of 1961b5. of flour at the equivalent duty on 381 gallons of wheat, and that proportion they proposed to con tinue. Supposing they made an alteration, it would operate most injuriously on the two countries with which, of all others, they must wished to establish commercial relations—Canada and the United States. They must all feel that the state of their commercial relations with the United States were such, that if there was any country in the world which they might feel at liberty to place on a footing of advantage with re spect to the importation of corn, it was the United States. If they looked at the state of their direct imports with Russia, and their direct imports with the United States, it was clear that if they wished to establish a preference, they should give it to the United Statei. Now, if they m a d e a d epar t ure f rom the existing scale, it would tell most against the United States, with which they most wished to establish an intercourse. Ap ieesring there as the advocate of a qualified free trade against monopoly, he held the same opinions new as he held in the year 18'27. The Honourable Member then read a quota tion from a speech delivered by him at that period. at ge o e alsttttiwolth u hi:ihaaltisiii r ilaiireae g silece)stliogditu,h,i i itn:lonyu n sheoeett,. o g aciyirrbit,, sgreei)trolu t etshofeityt h fagoi ss%owi iltuolroloynihrreecui l imuoy - e l mcsitlrwlunhit , i orofdl a ifilu t at f:llm i billvi,ilsbeci s eig,th e ilareio.eac.urolitntusaiincaed.3 l gfinisecst.timt:d o rsllhtuifle: t tlipi.fiugfnlsarairotrerttptsig2 t l eq.segi o uler ne7,l3iiutura:rhali t aitl.eien i tartlitrea i ge, ideeen adroitictimpedimentsaeanirtinclaim weitdio; of sbdtttuiatietethehemsihe would in gin: the unor.ahscui ga a hbl y s of vecoaagtsm. ttt t u - t hhi h iss ec e ett ngdom, amounting barley and oats. g is upposing ho took ole of that must ue t oas i • r lr :r tlr iva s issioe ' ri:tm tb tto.it i nh laene'iHeci besides large,i dtlioe: competition N hs s is sti te t u hu l e i p ea ta illi t ct est imported, they t oble Friend hat thou had ron the exists 'g s t y o s b te e L t e s n , secured. The alarm of the millers was based, not on th li e orn s a u n p (; - p ft ( si wheat!ie I n v at,haant hunjuste i - ) proportion butti on because betweena the r ge duty i n r t fl , a o ! wheat would come in on more favourable terms than hitherto. But though it might be true that to a certain extent they !abound under a disadvantage, as flour was not so fitted for bonding as wheat, as it was More hazardous, and though 34. gallons of wheat would not produce I 961bs of tine flour, ye , , it they took the quantity of second fl.mr" which was produced from 38 gallons, in addition to the fine flour, he thought the protection given to flour in relation to wheat was amply sufficient. Coupling this with the monopoly the millers necessarily have of grinding all their own home grown wheat, and all the foreign corn imported, he, did not think that the claim to additional protection was well founded. It should be remembered, also, that there was a disproportion between the price of wheat and the price of oats.—( Hear.) This disproportion existed .to such art extent is times of scarcity, that he could not help thinking some additional faci lity for the importation of foreign flour might greatly tenth, when the price of provisions was exceedingly high, to reduce that disproportion of price whch was sometimes perceived. The House must decide on general principles ; and with out going into any minute estimates,' and looking at • the peculiar position of this • country, and the United States, he could not consent to any proposal that should disturb the existing rela , ions between breast and flour. Mr. LA BOUCHERE concurred with the opinion expressed by the Right Hon. Baronet. Since 1828,, theee had been im ported 13,500,000 quarters of core, and of flour ()lily 4,300,000 barrels. One-twelfth only. of the bread stuff imported into Eeeland was brought in in the shape of flour. He quite agreed fit thinking that it was most important to interest of the-con suave-, that the power which the millers possessed to enhance the price of bread should not be increased, and that the im portation of flour, to a certain proportion, certainly not less than at present, should be continued. He wished he could indulge the sanguine expectation of the Hon. Member for Li verpool, that • hereafter there would be a regular foreign corn trade with other countries. Though it might be somewhat improved he could not look forivai'd to the trade becoming constant. ire begged, however, to express his satisfaction at the opinions laid dowia by the Right Hon. Baronet with res pect to wheat and flour. The question was then put, and negatived without a division. Mr. SMITH had 4 0 iv ' e B . R n lE ot N ice ti : i_enz T os h e at to au m so a r k t e s t o h i e g T a c i e n i , on th o o f o e f Culon.al possessions i n if ic): G dr a go e ur a a t tr l ht l ee r r it i a n7i in p , o s r h ta o n u e ld e, b a c s a s p" t :.. . l a holL t nic e cteiu d th:cde b e'l y t:a' t r h t A e alN l- l l ti , m n E . eYs G a' e vt n a as t ( e flu e ul i tl a yy n oe , fo o ni f ysi. improving and encouraging the connexions between the colonies and the mother country. No one could look, with more friendly interest than he did, to the trade between this country and our North American colo nies, or be more desirous to remove all impediments to their free commercial intercour e. Bet he did'not understand the argument of the lion. Gentleman, that this Bill would place our North American colonies in a averse position than they were now. At present a duty of ss. • attached, until home grown wheat was 675. ; under the new Bill a duty of ss. would attach, until: the price of our markets was ses. And wishing to avoid sudden falls and rises in prices, the Government would legislate for the colonies On the same principle that they adopted stowards the United Kingdom. There would be a, good deal of foreign wheat the Hon. Gentleman had said, if the produce. we now imported was the growth of Canada and our settlements; a n d he be-' lieved the agriculturists at home would not be at all jealsus at the free importation of wheat aria flour bona fide the produce of Canada.—( Hear, hear, rut the fact was. wnat we had been importing from Canada was not Canadian wheat and flour, but the produce of those vast adjoining districts of the United States—( Hear, hear)—th e corn f rom w hi c h, co ming there ground i n t o fl our , acquired the character of Canadi an flour.—(Cries of ''Hear, hear.") into Canada, and b e i ng The Honourable Gentleman argued that we were bound to give every facility and encouragement to those persons who, emi grating from the United Kingdom, settled in our Colonial pos sessions. But the fact was, as regarded Canada, the lion. Gentleman would find that if he had consulted the agricultu rists of that settlement, they would tell him that the present footing between Canaaaand thellruled States called for no such regulation • and, in fact, th e f armers of Canada would depre cate the lion. Gentlema n ' s i ntended kindness. What was the fact of the relations between Canada and the United States ? The United States impoaed on Canadian flour and corn com • ing into them a duty of Is. or Is. 3d. a bushel; being about Bs. or 105. a quarter; whereas those commodities were allowed to come from the United States into Canada duty free. It would be unjust to allow such importation under the appa rently plausible pretence of encouraging Canadian agriculture, and on the 'importation of fl o ur from C an ad a without akin th g e s dy e u c t u rity that w e s h ou ld not b e i nun d ate d w i t h American wheat passing as C ana di an fl our. H e b el i eved i t o was generally allowed th at i f an alteration were to take place ( t relax taking in the law in Canada, and that if the Canadian legislature were to impose restrictions upon the importation of wheat into that colony, so an to secure the agricultural interest of this country from the competition of American wheat under the denomination of Canadian flour, then the case would be altered. But if they refused to set free the trade in American wheat directly, sorely they would not do tint indirectly which they refused to do directly. He thought the agricultural interest was not unreasonable, not in opposing the importation of Canadian wheat, but in opposing the im portation of American wheat under the denomination of Canadian wheat. Mr. LABOUCHERE did not pretend to have any very exact information on the subject, but he could not help suspect ing that the Noble Lord had greatly exaggerated the real state of the crae, when he described all toe flour imported into this country as Cam/lien flour, as being the produce of Ame rican wheat, He believed that a certificate was re quired on importation, showing not only that the flour was ground in Canada, but that the wheat from which it was ground was Canadian produce also. He would admit that it was impossible to form any system so stringent as to pre vent absolutely sach practicei from taking place ; but he (Mr. Labottchere) did not think they had taken place nearly to such an extent as the Noble Lord seemed to imagine, and he trusted the House would not deprive the colonies of the advantages they had hitherto enjoyed. Ile had no doubt that when the Canadians found it to their advantage to sand their flour here, they sent the whole of their produce to this country, and imported their own supplies from the United States across the frontier. That was precisely what took place on a small scale in the Channel Islands, The Channel blinds were permitted to import their produce duty free into this country, and he believed it was well known that the Guernsey and the Jersey people never con sumed a grain of Guernsey or Jersey corn, but sent the whole of their produce to England, and imported their own supplies front France. He (Mr. Laboucherc) did not pretend to any very could not but suspect that the Noble Lord was not quite accurate in representing tile Canadian trade in flour to this country as a mere transit trade. '1 here was one other subject to which he would allude, which although net exactly before the House, yet was so intimately connected with the subject under discussion, that he could not help alluding to it. He trusted that if it was intended to legislate on the subject of the importation of corn or flour from the United States into Canada, the legisla tion on that subject would be left to the Canadian legislature. If they chose to impose a differential duty the British Government would certainly be right in confirming it ; but it was a subject which the .British Parliament certainly ought not to meddle. He should be glad, before giving his vote, to hear some explana tion from the Vice-President of the Board of Trade on the snbjeet. Mr. GLADSTONE thought that it was agreed on all hands thee it would be improper to stiffer American produce to be imported as the produce of Canada, The question to be decided was whether the flour imported was the produce of the United States or of Canada. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would look to returns of the imports during the last three years of flour and grain from Canada, he would perceive that the greatest part of the flour im ported recently, must have been manufactured :Aim wheat, the produce of the United States of America. From 1828. to 1839 the annual amount of flour imported from Canada underwent little alteration. In 1839 the quantity of flour imported from Canada was 41,0 Cg cwt. ; in it!') it was 380,0U0 cwt., and in 1841 it had risen 41 632,000 cwt., be sides 61,000 quarters of wheat. Now, making all allowances for the improvement of agriculture in Canada, it must be evident that such an increase could not be accounted for, except on the supposition that at least fore-fifths of the importation must have been the produce of the United States. He was afraid he had misled the Right Hon. Gentleman by what he had stated the other evening, on the subject of the certificates. He considered that according to the clause in the Act, a certificate was required that the flour wan not gaound in Canada, but that it was the produce of Canadian wheat. It appeared how ever, on reference to the Custom-house documents, that Ame rican grain ground in Canada was legally and practically hel i as entitled to importation as Canadian flour. There was no doubt whatever of that. In point of fact, then the Canadian Act hail not made any miraculous sprinw, but what it exported in 1838, was the grain of the United .Sates. No one could suppose that American grain was careied all orer the country, and was substituted in aßthe districts of Canada for Canadian grain, but there was no question that American grain did cross the border and was shipped over to this country. They were now about to propose a duty of 2.1. a barrel on the importation of flour fom America. They had brought for ward this motion,. with neither a British or a Canadian object ; the reference to Great Britain was altogether trivial and re mote, and he did not think it Would have been worth while fur England to pass such an Act, but it was relative to inaercolonial trade, and justice to all our colonies. Canada had at present the privilege of charging the duty on flour and exporting it, and our other colonies were compelled to purchase corn from Canada ; take Newfoundland for example. Was it not most unjust that the consumer in Newfoundland should be prevented from going to the cheapest place for his flour ; in other words, that he should be compelled to go to Canada for his flair, when he could get it much cheaper in the United States. It wa s to prevent such a state of things as this that they proposed to lay a duty of on the importation of American flour into Ca n aria He thoeglit they should either equalize the tax on importation of corn in all thee colonies, or else abolish it altogether. The state of that law, therefore, would be to place a duty of 2s. on the importation of corn into all the Colonies of North America. Canada was the only one exempt at present. ss. was the duty in the other colonic:, it was now proposed to reduce the duty in all to 2s. Mr. LABOUCHF.R,E having briefly explained, said he wished to know which of the British Colonies would be benefited by the proposed measure. Canada took no flour from any other country but the United States. By putting a duty on American flour, they were protecting no produce whatever of the manufactrees. It appeared to him, and he did not make use of the term out of any disrespect—to be done in a spirit of malevolence ; every other colony had some, duty on imports, and it was too bad to leave Canada out. After listening very attentively to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite with tercet attention, and though he was always re markably clear in his statements, yet he (Mr. Laboucherc) was utterly unable to reconcile them ; he hoped that the Government would reconsider that question, for they must see, if they did reconsider it, that it could effectuate no good whatever; a more unwarrantable, foolish, or absurd tax never was imposed —(Cheers from the Opposition.) He trusted the Right Hon. Gentleman, if he could find no other better reasons than those he stated to maintain the proposition of the Government, world not stein the Statute-b kelt with such a measure.—( Hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE said the astonishment expressed by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite appeared to be so great, that he could not resist saying a word with reference to it. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) asked upon what principle this measure had been brought forward ? The Go vernment intended to do the same—the very thing which the Right Hon. Gentleman himself (Mr. Labouchere) had done last year when he was passing his Bill with reference to East India rum.—(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) The Right Hen. Gentleman then gave a privilege to purchasers of East India rum in another market..--( Hear, hear.) He pro posed a prohibition upon the importation of rum into the East India markets. That article wee prohibited there. Now, it was precisely upon the same principle that Canada claims, as an exporting country the iirivi lege of other exporting markets; that they sdould not ,be subjected to prohibitions, Nut to a moderate tax. What he (Mr. Gladstone) me int by saying that this was not a British object was, that it was not exactly connected with the British markets. The object of the Govesame at wrs to do just'ee to Canada and to all parties interested. Mr. C. 13ULLER asked, h ow cou ld t hi s measure be neon the same principle as that of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. a.a imuchere)? In what colony was it that the Right Honourable Gentleman (Me. Gladstone) proposed to put on a duty upon Canadian corn, to give a fear chance to the importation of American corn? The Right Hon. Gent.'s ( Mr. Gladstone's) statements were quite at variance with his magniloquence at the beginning. It appeared that he found one colony better off than another, and he told the House he was determined to place both on the same fo?oting.—(A laugh.) Tic would now apply another argument. ,The quantity of Hour amt corn im ported amounted U, 5h)3,000 quarters, or 43,000 qu.—ters per annum, and the price, according• to their olio rvtr..T., was from 50s. to 5 . ).. The:reight to England from Montreal could not be less tha Ms., so that the price was 635., or 05s. in this country. It therefore appeared to him, that, placing any duty on Canada produce was quite nugatory, because it could, not ... . come into the market without any duty at. all.—(Hear, hear.) They might make the most of Canada for the purposes of • hour of the night, trade, but Canada would make returns, and the • bad already ). • pot a duty of 5 per cent. on British manufaaturc , . Suray, an importation of 43,000 quarters at a rate of •635. or 655. would not ruin the agicultorists, and . they might get th?ir duty of 5 per cent. taken off their manufactures —( Hear. ) a sabstantial in. He would suggest to the Honourable Member not to n e steps tot to th m e make that privilege Noble Lord near ofsomuch impr.tance ought not to be so I pressedisposedcaulsteisamegfou, t ee i s o et n di 0 nt t i o ie a best divisioncourse, atthat i n Its opinion, to ba pursued, would be to put it off till the House went into Committee on the Bill, and thus he by that means would he giving the Go- Mr. S. WORTLEY rose for the _ . p purpose of "Presiing his justice. — nt ( a i n iea or h a e r a t r u . n ) ity to do away with w o it s h e c h o ilo nc . urr H en e ce oo l n v in favour of Canada, as being on'- of their own colonies, and that if they did not so act, they would be conferring an advan tage on America, which deserved no such "'outage at their hands. .He did not consider the reasons i given by the Hen. G en _ s it i h der 's e .h d a i t t fa h i a r d to fa t i a le k Gen tleman opposite valid or substantial. there The Committee then divided, when appeared_ peas, anti beans, was agreed to. Wipil:nrSloeinber, after the . For the resolution .................................... In resolution.., 97 rm b es e osvi b neg e t t h le ai r st For the amendment ..................... ~ ........... 3t • -- ----97 The remainder of the scale was then agreed to. The scale of duties tir.on . rye/ why' reat many Members of t u o- o d u i l s d eu tl s t s cit th b e e a l v )e e i r l a e g e e t 3 ly v ) l p le Z t t i o le tlIT II II 11 :1 is an opportunity o f list the Bl n j o i : : f a h lin o ti l s i . le vie o ) t r f E o l‘ l t i lL e s a lh qsiat a u s yi d ec h lsi o b tn l i e l j e fa l a t u tv : for l e a :n i o ir c u l i lo :be t t i f i t °: ol P d r 'cirj.l' i ci f t:Ol h iel e H t. h o o u ti s e pg e oh : st rn t ep o , m pirto i hp t c : e rc e . " : s t,ould eg :ee to the resolution Mr. BARCLAY had no objection to this Bill being pro caemeedneadmweintht,inifchoemsalhoitutlethave he was C. aßatUtfo..LsaEglgt—estTshaesr,,taisio,tn a course they this side 0 the House had (Pit" it , under the impression that there would have ben en adjournment of the discusiion. He would propose that they After a short conversation between Sir R. Pz.Et. and Mr. ninoi'gvh, t le t a h %i I n k g a t x h p e e in d ,geruiitt.e_a(thileiabre,rtileatro. >r .e , a, y HAWEs, the resolution was agreed to. Co'onel SII3 . •.. THORP left it to t he decision . of the House ychother he shouli go on with his resolution f`V Co. 1! Sir R. PEEL suggested that the SPeaker shoul 4 state whe ther it would be consistent with the forms of the Hense for hi. Gallant Friend to move his resolution in COmmitteb on the Bill. The SPEAKER said, if the resolution would have. the effect of increasing the duty on , corn, it could not he. Colonel SII3THORP then withdrew his resolution "for the pregent. Sir V. BLAKE then rose to move that corn should be THE SUN, LONDON, J TUESDAY EVENING. MARCH 1, 1841. admitted free of duty for a yell., or for such other limited pe riod as Par iament might deem fit and proper, but at the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel he withdrew his motion. The Report was then brought up and ordered to be received this day (Tuesday), and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. iTAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Though there is no lack of erudition in the essay on the " Pagan Oracles," which leads off the present Number, yet there is a vagueness and mistiness about it, which is any thing but inviting to the general reader. The author does not keep his theme suffi -1 ciently in view, but is constantly wandering ffom it. his ablest passages are the introductory ones, wherein he casually alludes to the Greek and Latin Fathers of the early Christian Church, of whom he justly ob serves, they were the elite of their own age, but not in advance of it. They, like all their contemporaries, were besieged by errors, ancient, traditional, invete rate ; and accidentally, from one cause special to themselves, they were not merely liable to error, but usually prone to error. The Emperor Julian—of whom miso a passing mention is made—is much too .harshly dealt with, for though he was not the hero and sage that Gibbon, in his avowed admiration, has made it appear that he was, yet he certainly was not " a malicious and unprincipled liar," for, at least, he is entitled to the merit of having acted from convic tion. There is much truth in this remark respecting the famous Grecian Oracle :—" Prudence it was, and state-policy, not the power of Christianity, which gave the final shock to the grander functions of the Delphic Oracle. In the new condition of the Roman power, there was a perpetual pet;l, lost an oracle so potent as that of Delphi, should absolutely create re bellions, by first suggesting, hopes to men in high commands." In the " Notes on the Fishers of the Scotch East Coast," we recognise the pen of a lively and forcible descriptive writer. Ilerci is a vivid sketch of the interior of a Scottish fisherman's cottage : Let us enter one of their villages—one of their cottages. The outside of every row of the low-walled cottages is festooned on ropes with jackets, petticoats, and bright-pattetaed handker chiefs, or else these articles dry peacefully on the thatch. Oc casionally haulins, tipped with hooks, are seen; or creels or marlins, clustered round a pale, which overtops even the wooden hag or .chimney itself. The men are at sea, many women away disposing of th ••ir fish, and only nursing mothers, and happy, noisy, playful, and dirty children enliven the scene. A solitary sullied scagul, or a scrolls (cormorant), a huge 1,..ey creature, three feet long, 'with wing clipped, a captive, struts with a solemn half-happy pride about the mussel mid dens, or wades through the gutters, or approaches the edge of the undulating wave, which rushes gently up to kiss the smooth sand-beach. Enter one of their cot tages. The floor is earthen; but being Saturday afternoon, i► neatly sanded over, r:om the door inwards to the hearth. There is no passage. The cottage consists of two rooms, a " but and a ben." At. the fsr end from the door, the turf fire is burning on a hearth of brcks, awl the smoke ascends past the couples out at a hole in the roof. As the evening is approaching, the fish on hakes (wooden triangles, with nails for hooks), which, during the day, hung outside the walls to dry, are now su pended on them inside. In one corner a few deal boards are nailed, so as to make a bed for children above, and a place for fuel below. A wooden cradle is opposite. The seats are fir stools and chairs, and the little round turning-up table is of the same material, and all are as clean and white as snow. Oars, wicker baskets, and creels and nets, are placed on the couples. Let a regArd for Finnan paddies invest these details with in- terest and respect; for, from such a scene, and such auenvi ronment, do they pass on their way to make up that feast for th e g od s - 1 Scotch breakfast. The evening darkens in, and the " eruisie," a small iron lamp, is lit up. A patriarchal family assembles, including sometimes four generations. Let a reverence for the great domestic drama of every-day life, of which these humble details make up the scene, stir the imagi nation to realize them all—the grandam with her grandchild upon her knee—the nursing mother, the toiling faker, the children gazing at thei r e ld ers s t u di ous ly—th e little fellow asleep on the net on the door, and the small light struggling with the smoke to display all. I will look at the Claudes and the Titians in your pictured drawing-room another time. It is a poor place, but you cannot till your palace with more interest ing things than it sees—births, deaths, marriages 2 -life. Of the fishwomen on the eastern coast of Scotland, we are told that they are all married young, and that an old maid is scarcely known among them. " Sel dom," adds the writer, " are their marriages un happy. Prostitution is hardly known.] Occasionally the first child comes very soon; but generally the women are chaste." We have been pleased with the following anecdote :—" In the spring of last yevr the traveller was shown the entire clothing of two sea men, who hail been cast ashore and decently in terred on.the spot. The clothes - lay exactly as they had been taken off the bodies, the braces still hooked to the back-buttons, the boots and everything were good. Yet the neighbouring poor ha -I left them scrupulously untouched!. A boat, wh;cli , has once cost a life,. is never , again used by a Buchan fisher ; it is drawn up on a lonely par of the beach unt'l it rots, or is destroyed by the first storm that reaches it." " Caleb Stulwlv" is an - entertaining story, the . scene of which is laid in Cambridge. The sketch of the gouty Vice-Chancellor, .who, after- delivering a devout and eloquent homily on Christianity, "damns" his listener fora; " young villain" because he happens. accidentally to break the bell-rope, is highly charac teristic. The "Portraits of. Versailles" is sufficiently explained by its title. The writer's lamentations, however, for the loss of the ,"glorious times of Ver sailles," are sheer cant. What Frenchman, with his country's interest at heart, could possibly sigh fur the restoration of such times—when dissipation and reek- less extravagance were esteemed virtues, and passive obedience was the fashion of the day ? Thank God, times like these are past for ever, in France as w e n as in England! The "Prussian Monarchy" is, a re view of an amusing work lately published, entitled, " Frederick the Great, and his Times." The "North ern Circuit" is cleym:sh, which is as much as we can say in its praise. The "World of London" justly satirizes the Cockneys for thei , inordinate puston for shows and processions. The " New Houses of Par liament" contains several judicious observations on the law of design. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The variety of matter in this month's Miscellany, which alternates most agreeably between the grave and the gay, proves that it has lost nothing by its change of Editorship. Neither is there any filling off in the illustrations, which are more lively and numerous than they have been for some time past. Alfred Crowquill contributes two highly humorous plates illustrative of the " Philosophy of Physic," one of which, under the quaint title of "Two Pumps Con sulting," represents a fat physician with a bald, hciad, and spectacles on nose, engaged in learned conference with a pump, on which are stuck a doctor's Is ;g and hat, while the handle does duty as an arm. Of the two medical professors, the pump looks by far the most sagacious, though there is an air of dignified, goose-like gravity about his companion, by no means to be despised. We verily believe that half the secret of a physician's success consists in a grave and formal phiz. No patient ever encourages a sprightly-i isaged doctor. Such a biped is an impertinence—a solecism —in a sick-room. If we must have an M.D. by our bed-side, with a watch in one hand, while with the other he fumbles about for our pulse, we prefer one who looks its solemn as if he had just come from the funeral of one of -his patients. Another illustration represents Death poking his grim, fleshless counten ance out of a moVar, evidently More to the annoyance than the surprise of an apothecary, who accordingly aims a vicious blow at. his skull with a pestle. The sarcastic leer on the face of the gaunt phantom is very archly pourteayed. Of the article which these plates . illustrate, we cannot speak so favourably. It is, in truth, a flippant, common-place affair, stuffed full of excruciating puns, which it is clear that the writer lo , stakes for wit. and humour. The theme, thowoi not novel, was a tempting one, but it has been marred in the treatment. The " Harmonious Owls" is a spi rited quiz on singing clubs, introduced by some pithy, pertinent remarks on the system of clubs in general. The satire is justly applied, awl is remarkable for its breadth and freedom. The " Enthusiast at Shak spere's Tomb"—a Shaksperian enthusiast, by the bye, is apt to lie an awful bore, and most supei acquainted with his author—is an account of a visit paid last year to Stratford-on-A,von. The descrip tion is. and graphic, and the sentiment not exag gerated. 'the illustration, representing the interior of an old-fashioned .chamber is as picturesque as the best of Cattermole's plates in " Master llumphrey's Clock." " Valentine's Day"- is a pleasant, seasonable subject, pleasantly hit off. Ladies r.lways write well about St. Valentine—their pet 'Saint—we need not wonder therefore, that Miss Carey has a3quitted herself sue • cessfully. But the Penny. Postman is the man to write most feelingly, if not complimentarily, on this topic, bending, as he does,' from morning till night, beneath a load of delicate embarrassments. " Rambling Reflections on St. Valentine" from his pen would be a great ' treat. In the present chapters of " Richard Savage," we are introduced to the acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele, whose conversation is characteris tic enough. The scene of his quarrel with Savage , s among,the best, because the most natural, incident ; in the story. "Tommy Doddy" is a passable 'account of a Lord .illavor's Pageant in the year 1G33. "Aunt Sarah's Ghost" is one of those supernaturpl traditions which we all affect to laugh at, but all read with avi dity. The description of the phantom is very ghastly and bewildering. "OH Green, Offley's Regular Customer"—a sketch introduced by - an admirable hal f length portrait of the hero, by Leech—represents to the life one of those ,gross,. animal voluptuaries who may occasionally be met with in London taverns, and who have about as much intelligence and sensibi lity as the turtle and venison on which they make such desperate assaults. Old Green, says his biographer, lived but to eat and drink, and when his appetite failed him, he committed suicide. Of the "Philosophy of Physic" we have already spoken. . " The Old Fa miliar Strain," though it,cannot bOast. of much vigour or originality, is. yet • agreeably, v ers ifi e d , after the li ayn es Bayly fashion. We subjoin it acaordinglv Sing me that cld familiar strain Which touched my her - •t in boyhood's years, Bo'bre its chords were jarred by pain, _ Before its hopes wer? dimmed by tears. • • Time has fled fast since first I heard Its music from those lips of thine ; But well remcmher2d is each word: Ss sing once more, oh, Mary mine, The old familiar :train. Thine eyes have their soft radiance kept, That won my heat i n lif e ' s y ou:1 sprin, And o'er thy teauty Time Lath swept Gently, wjth light and charmed wing. Unaltered is thy graceful form, Thy trusting heart is still the same, Keeling those true affections warm As when, bef re I dreamt of fame, You sang me that old strain. Yes, sing l—a 3 in those golden hturs When life, and love, and hope were young,_ When fancy s rowel our path with flowers,_ Oh ! sing the strain that then you sung ! Your voice may have a sadder tone Than made sweet music in that time, Ere grief or trials we had knoviln, When first yol sang in youthful prime That old familiar strain. Methinks that on thy p'acid brow. So lightly tcuehei by furrowing years, Since first we plighted love's fond vow_. Thought's graver ehaduw now appears ; But yet if in thy very mirth Remembrance of cur Dead will come, Strong ti s yet bind thee to the ear;h— So breathe ones mo-c within our home The old familiar strain. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Poole here continues his piquant story of "Phineas ( - biddy," and shows himself in every chap ter a shrewd and caustic observer of the every-day world about us. We relish Ms tale the more, that it is not pitched in too high a key, but represents He as it really is. Much of the dialogue is dramatic enough for comedy, and the descriptions are invariably spi rited, without being overcharged in the colouring. " A Sketch on the Road" (which we subjoin) is by Mr. Hood, as the peculiar tu• a of observation will at once show :—" It is a I Tat to see Prudery get into an omnibus. Of course she rejects the hand that is held out to her by male Civility. It might give 'her a squeeze. Neither does she take the first vacant place ; but looks out for a seat, if possible, between an innocent little girl, and an old woman. In the mean time the Omnibus moves on. Prudery totters—makes a snatch at Civility's nose—or his neck—or anywhere—and missing her hold, rebounds to the other side of the vehicle, and plumps down in a strange gen tl eman ' s l a p. True Modesty would have escaped all these indecorums!' The particulars, which are detailed with infinite gravity, of the "Life and Writings of that remark able Child, the late Miss Mprgaret Daw," fol.n an amusing quiz on precocious genuises. We must con fess to an innate di s t rus t o f all precocious genuises. In seven cases out 'of ten they end in confirmed blockheadism. Is it not a little singular that in this article; as also in another in the present Number, the memorable couplet written by a young London pick pocket on the walls of Newgate—as was duly stated in the Police Reports of the day—are twice quoted, and twice quoted erroneously. The following is the correct version : Him as prip vot is'nt his'n, Ven he's cotched, vill go to pris'n. Never had poetic couplet so many commentators as the above ! It has been honourably noticed by Oliver Yorke, by Christopher North, and most of the ima ginative spirits of the day ; yet all have quoted it erroneously, and it is with a justifiable critical pride that we now (for the second time) give the true read ing. But, alas, for the destiny of genius ! We have every reason to believe that the author of this immor tal distich is now wearing away the cheerless hours, with a chain round both legs, in the unimaginative re gions, of Botany Bay ! lie was transported —yon true poet is very apt to be transported—for making a. mistake with a gentleman's watch and seals in the Strand—no very flagrant offence, for great geniuses are proverbial for their absence of mind, and are not to be tried by the laws of ordinary humanity ! " Graduates and Under ,Graduates" furnish us with whimsical details of certain fishing excursions on the Thames and ,else where. "Recollections of Eton," will be read with pleasure by every Etonian. They are genuine and heart-felt reminiscences. " A Record of the Police Office" is an affecting anecdote told with an earnest ness and simplicity worthy of Dickens. The " Schoolmistress" is a highly humourons journttl of a pedantic schoolmistress's excursion to the Continent. We quote a portion of her prudish and characteristic letter to a young pupil : For your j amusement and improvement I did hope to com pose a ournpl of our continental progress, with such references to Guthrie and the School Atlas as might enable you to trace our course on the map of Europe. But unexpected vicissitudes of mind and body have totally incapacitated me for the pleasing task. Some social evening hereafter I may entertain our little juvenile circle with my locomotive miseries and disac.Trecables ; but at present my nerves and feelings are too discomposed for the correct flow of an epistolary correspondence. Indeed, from from the Tower-stairs to Rotterdam I have been in one universal tremour and perpetual blush. Such shocking scenes and positions, that make one ask twenty times a day, is this de corum ?—can this be manners ?--an this be morals ? But I must not anticipate. Suffice it., that as regards foreign travel ling it is my painful conviction, founded on personal experience, that a woman of delicacy or refinement cannot go out of Eng land without going out of herself ! The very first step from an open boat up the windy shipside is an alarm to modesty, exposed as one is to the ofli , !ious but odious attentions of the Tritons of the Thames. Nor is the steamboat itself a sphere for the preservation of self respect. If there is any feature on which the British female justly • prides herself, it is a correct and lady-like carriage. that particular I quite coincide with Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. lir-malt More, and other writers on the subject. But how—let me ask—how is a dignified deportment to be maintained when one has to skip and straaidle over cables, ropes, and other nautical hors (Pawl-re —to scramble up and down impracticable stairs, and to clam ber into inaccessible beds ! Not to name thin sudden losing one's centre of gravity, and falling in all sorts of unstudied at titudes on a sloppy and slippery deck. An accident that I may say reduces the elegant and the awkward female to the same level. You will be concerned therefore to learn that poor Miss Ruth had a fall, and in an unbecoming posture particularly dis tressing—namely, by losing her footing on the cabin flight, and coining down with a destructive launch into the steward's pantry. For my own part, it has never happened to me within my remembrance, to make a false step, or to miss a stP;r ; there is a certain guarded carriage that preserves one from such spraw ling denouemens—but of course what the bard calls "the poetry of motion," is not to be preserved amidst the extem pore rollings of an ungovernable ship. Indeed, within the last twenty-four hours t ,lhave had to perfoi.n feats of agility more fit for a monkey than one of my own sex and species. Par example —getting down from a bed as high as the copybook cupboard, and, what really is awfel, with the sensation of grop ing about with your feet and legs for a floor that seems to have no earthly existence. I may add, the cabin-door left ajar, and exposing Sou to the gaze of an obtrusive cabin-boy, as lie is called, but quite big enough for a man. Oh, je cc • jamais ! FRASER'S MAGAZINE. There are one or two more than usually enterta:l - literary sketches, or criticisms, in this Number; and the best is " Hints for a New Bonk of Liter "-y Parallels," in which occur some clever, cursory re marks on Dante, Vire, Chaucer, Milton, and Pe trarch. The writar, however, entei Mins, we think, too high an opinion of Virgil's poetical powers, who, master, as he undoubtedly is, of versification, laboUrs under a striking deficiency as respects -vigour of ex pression, and originality of thought and invention. With the sole exception of Dhlo—his most consistent and animated portrait—he has no characters in his /Eneid—none, at least, that are in the slightest degree marked by individuality. What is his "pius .Eneas," but a maudlin, sentimental hypocrit a Methodist in his sayings, .a scoundrel in his doings ? Luean has delineated character with infinitely more truth and vigour, yet for one man that reads the " Pharsalia," a thousand dote upon the "iEneid," The writer's observations on :11ilton's lam.siage are just and fbreible. I t is described as " moving with a mighty; a stately, and a resounding step, at onee mujestie, and yet sweet; at once ancient, and yet intelligible to every pausing- listener; the war-note of the giant, the , has mony of wisdom, an,l 'w sigh of beauty." But this praise applies only to Milton's poetry ; his prose —though it contains .numerous splendid passages— is stiff and pedantic, frequently 'confased and clumsy in its construction ; and at all times it jars harshly and "painfully on the ear, like the grating of a file upon steel. The " I;'orsthaus in the Soiling" is a wild German story, exaggerated to an almost ridiculors degree in description —as, for instance, where the re later details the impressions produced on his imagi nation by witnessing the opera of "Don Juan." In the " Chapter on Dogs" we have an anecdote highly cre ditable to the courage and humanity of Mr. Duruset, the singer, who, it seems, once saved the life of a poor dog in the street, which was pronounced by the crowd gathered about it to be mad, and was just about to he murdered as such, when its. protector interfered, at . the hazard of being bitten by the animal for his. pains, or " pitched into" by the disappointed mob. In the " Vagrant's Lodging , House" there is one emplia:c passage, .descriptive of the horrors of poverty. "DiAens in France . ' no tices with contempt and indignation the vituperative criticism of Jules Janin—a well-known Parisian li terateur—on the novels of-this popular author. In the remarks on the " New Edition of Campbell's Poets," the Reviewer, cursorily plluding to Ilazlitt, says of hiM that "that he is an unsafe guide." This is time, for his criticisms, were almost all fashioned according to the mood of his mind, while he happened to be penning them; and he was seldom in the same mood for half an hour together. In a fit of dyspepsia he would discover nothing . but absurdity in 'Cole ridge's " Christabel ;" when his digestion was sound, he would find out that it teemed with beauties. In two points only Hazlitt was consistent—in his love of the old painters, and his democratic predilections. Prom " Nimrod's Life and Times" we quote Mr. Ap perky's recollections of Wynnstay, its fashionable company, and its private theatrical:-; : Young as I was, I was honoured by beia; admitted into the dinner-room, si ting by myself at a side-table ; and on being called by my godmother to approach her for some purpose,-- a glass of wine, it may be presumed,—the fo'lowing teifortunate discovery was made :—" Illes, me !" exclaimed her Ladyship, " this boy cannot perform to-night ; he smells of onions enough to frighten away a Welshman !" The fact waQ, aniong,t ether things on this side-table, placed there until wanted, was a pla!e of voting onions; considered rarities at Christmas ; and rari ties must I have considered them, for I a!e them all, and thus was my dilemma occasioned. - Orders, hoWever, were given to me to keep orange-peel in - my mouth as the means of making myself bearable ; and, with the exception of my failure, the I thing went off well ; the acting of " Young Sheridan," as he ; toT:4T-701,- DLIMPT was called, was very highly extolled. In fact, he was what is now called ttlivaessttahre. still i mongst the visitors at Wynnstay, and ( o , f r e renowned,the critic , als l4 o h;a o cna f hsd h -arel a a ring his lady— rfridegaunehnitml3s.'elf, the auth or of It e e nothing r r i f n : e • c l e t y r e S c h o e l : wanting to establish any lection of his person and d m is a p n la n s er f i s a , ln a e s . more. is musical and vocal talents, . e s r he U rit t l il lately, my acquai l ance Lindsley that was— to the great delight of her hearers' e to h h ig ad f , i ,e ta r le eg nt ul l a v r it ly h with the name and family of in the confined to a period when I was too young to appreciate. which they are endowed, but which appear% I he ne , %; a er fell descended through at least four generations, with little diminution from that of the parent tree. In thencompany of the late Tom Sheridan, when arrived at manheod, , but twice. On one of these occasions, the first himself. A cloud appeared to rest upon and obscure his usual brilliancy, brilliancy, and I was disappointed in my anticipation of the pleasure he might afford me ; but on the second he made ample amends. Ile was, to use a phrase much in vogue in those (tars, " in high form ;" and although there were two other Clever men of the party, neither of them equalled him in the ta'ent to amuse, which he appeared to possess to its full extent. -' A INS WORTH'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Ainsworth continues his " M;ser's Daughter" with spirit, though we must enter our protest against one of the incidents, as wearing t)o much the aspect of improbability. For instance, he describes a Sir Bulkeley Price as riding through the streets of West minster at the head of a troop of fourteen armed horsemen, '' every man being provided wiih two bags, each containing live houndred pounds in gold, slung over his saddle-bow ;" and then laying down these " preciou s sac k s " at the street-door of the Miser's house, to whom the Baronet owed the money. Nov, this is a " New Way to Pay Old Debts" which we cannot help thinking is somewhat at variance with the ordinary usages of the period at which the circum stance is supposed to have occurred ! We should have doubted its probability even in the turbulent times of the Plantagenets ; but it comes on us •Like a shock when we bear in mind that it is represented to have taken place at the comparatively modern and business-like period when Fielding was alive, and writing his " Torn Jones." Sure are we, that there is no incident so strange or out-of-the-way in the pages of this novelist. If we except this defect, there is no fault to be found with the present chapter of the "Miser's Daughter," which contains an ably con ceived character in the person of one Crackenthorpe Cripps—a good-for-nothing fashionable valet, who bids fair to furnish the reader with no ordinary amusement. " Proverbial Philosophy" is by Mr. Tupper. Some few of the thoughts are subtle and ingenious, and we at once acknowledge the force and truth of the aphorism that " Pride kicks at obligation and pushes the. giver from him." Would that all the proverbs were equally natural and intelligible ! But many of them are so cloudy in thought and vague in expression, that we can make nothing of them. IVe quote one of the best, which will con vince our readers that Mr. Tupper—despite his occa sional quaintness and Oscurity—is a just and earnest, if not deep or original, thinker :-- • " Give to the Poor 'discreetly, Nor suffer idle sloth to lean upon thy charitable .arms ; To Diligence give, as to an equal, on just and fitting.occasiOn ; Or he bartereth his hard-earned self-reliance for the casual lottery of gifts : The timely loan hath added nerv e, w h ere easy liberality would palsy ; Work and wages make a light heart, but the Mendicant asketh with a heavy spirit. A man's own self-respect is worth to him more than money ;. And evil is the Charity that humbleth, and maketh man less happy," These striking thoughts deserve a more lasting re cord than is to be found in the perishable pages of a Magazine. Dr. Franklin would have been delighted with them ; and even Paley would have confessed that they were worthy to vie with the shrewdest reflections in his " Moral Philosophy." The " Grave-digger" is an interesting story, told with feeling and simplicity, and the sketch of a village churchyard, with which it is introduced, is as just in idea as it is easy and grace ful in expression. " Science and Good Humour" is an airy, sportive poem, full of delicate raillery. " Strawberry-hill" is an account of the curiosities to be found in this " Birmilgham Toy-shop," as Burke, not inappropriately, styled Horace Walpole's favourite retreat. The " Bight of the Fiddlers" is a so-so tale by Mr. James. From " A Day and Night on the Banks of the Euphrates," we inote Is passage that may possibly amuse our readers : Our road lay along the banks of the Euphrates, which was now seen to the greatest advantage in the moonlight, broad shadows being thrown on the lucid bosom by the dependent landscape. In a shoot time, use began the ascent of some hills, the crest of which we had no sooner gained than my guide laid himself down on the ground, and scanned the naked upland that now extended before us. I sat down in the meantime. When he had finished his surrey, he slowly muttered the words " No Arabs," as if he himself had not been one. He then came and placed himself by my side, in closer propinquity than was desirable, while he put forth his hand to examine the steel buckles of my braces (for I wore no waistcoat), which shone like silver in the moonlight. In doing this, his hand trembled, and betrayed his intentions. I rose quickly, and seized a. stone, ' he at the same moment lifting his club, and boiling out his hand, rubbing the thumb and forefinger together—a signifiCant manner of asking for money, common to many tarts of the world. The indignation with which I regarded my antagonist was now.at its height. It is true lie was tall and bony,.but he was aged, and not even active ; his forehead " villanous low," his nose long, his eyes red and purulent. It was, however, for our mutual advantage that peace should be established ; so walking on, and keeping all the time beyond the reach of the club—retaining, moreover, possession of the stone for fear of renewed hostilities, we argued the matter over in a pleasing and edifying manner. First, he asked frr money; I told hits ( I had none: then for sty fez—l said I could not expose my head to the sun : then for an Arab kerchief I had tied round my wrist; knowing the value he would set upon this, I deter mined to propitiate him, if poss.iide, and gave it up. He then put his club in his waistband!, and a temper:try confidence was re-established. We now turned down a ravine, and then crossed some low hills, when my guide again resumed the re cumbent position—the usual reconnoitring posture of the Aratis. I advanced, and to my delight, for it was just break of days, found the river flowing below, with inhabited islands oa its bosom, and between me and it a cultivated and peopled country. My guide went no further than this spot ;it was in vain to urge him 7he was as muc h i n d read of fe llahs as he might have been of Turkish authorities; so I descended the hills by myself. But my mishaps had not quite terminated ; for some feflahs labouring in an adjacent field observing mc, hurried away at full speed to intercept me. 'they were armed whit small hatchets, which they waved ovrr my h ea d . I told them that I had been robbed of everything on the hills, and they did not discredit the story but contented themselves with tho ker chief round my neck, without examining my person. It was the third and last I had to give. Proceeding a short distance beyond this, I came to some cottages. Ilere there were some Arab women, who received me most kindly, anti gave me milk. From them Ifirst lear ne d , . to my infinite joy, that the steamer was not far d istant, behind one of the islands. This turned out to be the case ; and I had not travelled many miles down the river, before I distinguished the funnel ainong the column-like date-trees. TAIT S MAGAZINE. The " Peel . Mystery" ;s an energetic, shrewd, pithy, political article, suggested by the recent discussions in Parliament, and exhibiting a sturdy spirit of libe ralism. The writer observes that the time for com promising or shilly-shallying.with the Corn-law que t'on is past, and . that " now it must be either total repeal of the taxes on food, or something , better still, which shall include this among 'other gains." Ile goes on to say, " a storm of wrath is meanwhile. bursting round the head of the unhappy Minister, whose condition really moves Compassion. How could he avoid failure ? Finesse was of no use here. Those who doubted of - his Statesmanlike capacity la • an era l'ke the present, yet had faith in his sagacity and tact as a party leader. And there he stands, eon. fessing himself in the predicament of the old man and the ass in the fable, who, trying to please every body pleased nobody, and lost his ass into the bar gain." This is hard hitting, but our stern Radical :•iend Tait -seldom spares his political enemies. Ahednego the Money-Lender," is a graceful anti lively tale, from the pen of Mrs. Gore, One of the most prolific novelists of the day. " Laing's Notes of a Traveller" is an intelligent notice of a recent book of • travels: ".Hiss 13urney's Diary and Letters" is another review, but much too eulogistic. What the succeeding. volumes of the Diary may be; we know not ; but the one just published—namely, the first--is full of the most sickening ' egotism and self-ceneeit, just as if the writer 'belieed • there was only one subject worth talking abont—and that one was her own over-rated novel of " Evelina r As a favour able specimen of Tait's poetry, we quote the "Song 1 of March :". Hark ! hark !—A crash is in the woods; The gun , led oak bends lace mountain-larch : • 1% no shakes the forest—whips the floods, Like March, mad March ! I s lid down the storm from the drifting cloud, To f-olic awhile in sour mansions proud. While the usurer dreameth cf thieves, in affright, I will rattle his casements and blow out his light.. I will hurl on the head of the learned owl, While he studies the stars, the huge chimney cowl ; It. shall cut his nose, and black his eye, To test his sublime philosophy. Thence, where hard Asthma hacks and lieu*, With purple face and vital sloughs, Against the w'idows ' PI batter th e ra i n, And thrust the thick smoke down the flue again, And just ere your tunnel- 'ncath the cover is put, I will dredge it defty with ashes and soot; I will rond the furled sails as I ride on the blast, Singing hurricane tones Through the navy ; And I'll the bold mariner down from the malt, To Dave, For ;. ; ravy To his marrow bones ! I will bleach for the laundress, and blacken her starch, Such a whimsical fellow is roaring mad March. Look ! look !—Amidst yr - i Ocean's strle, Fe•r's fever brave men's lips duth parch ; : human s 3 r . Shall mourning m o th er — w id ow 'd w if e , C e n h ipa , mad thy. March ? I am not to be ho lm 'et!, nor curbed in my glee, Ily the ph an t om of hu I will search round your jaws for the carious teeth. And fiddle away on the fibres beneath. I will blast the old iv ter, and ruffle his dam, And strip off his mill-top like the bladder from jam. The dishelont dank from a beggar's mail, I will o'er Patrici- t 'scutchcon trail ; • While erieth priest, "Lord ! I have drouth," I'll whit?' a cobweb in his mouth. Wherever I find a nervous heart beats, I will fashion the curtains like winding sheets. • While the grey sexton dreameth he hears his death-knell, Iwillsweep out hi: mattock and toll the church-bell ; .- I will shake down the mansion, the trees will uproot, Decree'd, and contest Yours eternal. I dible AI to ted• ,u 1 "or