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sidered as foreign, and the distinct interpretation put upon it by both parties was, that the Russian ships were upon the same footing as those of any other state in Europe. Mr. C. FURGUSSON resumed. If they were not to see the treaty, how were they to judge whether it would bear that interpretation ? Certainly the effect of the treaty would be to protect Russia in the only point in which she was vulnerable. Russia contemplated a vital blow against the power of England in the East. She had before possessed herself of the keys of Persia, and now she had secured those of Turkey. The hon. and learned gentleman then adverted to the case of Poland as another instance of subjugation, and called the attention of the house to the unhappy condition of the Poles, who had been compelled to take refuge in this country, and who, by the tyranny of their persecutors, were denied all succour from their friends and relatives at home. Sir E. CODRINGTON denied that the weakened condition of the forces of Turkey was at all owing to the results of the battle of Navarin. The motion was then put and negatived, but the house did not divide. The house having resolved itself into a committee of supply, Sir IL PEEL moved a sum of 17,0171. to defray the expenses of the Britisb Museum for the ensuing year.—Agreed to. CAPTAIN ROSS. Mr. C. FERGUSSON moved (Lord Althorp having pre viously signified the assent of the Crown) that a sum of 5,0001. be granted to his Majesty, to enable him to reward the great service's of Captain Ross, rendered to the public by means of the discoveries which he had made during his late voyage in the arctic seas. The hon. and learned gentleman dwelt upon the extent and importance of those services,—their value in esta blishing the fact that no north-west passage could be found in any latitude useful for practical purposes. Alter pronouncing a warm eulogium upon the princely manner in which Mr. Booth contributed to the expense of the undertaking, and to the approbation with which it was noticed by Captain Franklin, he moved the resolution above given. Mr. HUTT supported the motion. Sir R. INGLIS thought the proposition ought to have ori ginated with a minister of the Crown. The expedition of Capt. Ross had been undertaken more with the view of reco vering his reputation, than with the view of benelltting the public, by discovering the North Pole. He would oppose the grant. Lord ALTHORP said it was undoubtedly true that this had not been a public expedition, yet it should be borne in mind that it had not been undertaken with the view of private emolu meat.—(Hear, hear.) The correct version of it was, that it had been undertaken with a view of vindicating the reputation of Captain Ross. Taking this circumstance into consideration,. and viewing it in the light in which the hon baronet had placed it, Government had certainly not thought it their duty to come forwaid and make the proposition for this grant to the house. But then the hon. baronet must be aware of what the feelings were of the country generally upon this subject —(Hear.) And in those circumstances, looking to the sentiments also of the majority in that house, his Majesty's Ministers did feel that they would be acting a most ungracious part if they did not accede to the proposition of the hon. and learned member. _(Hear, hear.) He did think, considering the feeling of the country on this subject, the house would be justified in voting a moderate sum of money as a remuneration for the gallantry and successful enterprise of Captain Ross during his expedi tion.— (Cheers.) Sir E. CODRINGTON gave his cordial support to the proposition. . Mr. O'CONNELL looked on the expedition as a private speculation, but net as a mercantile one, and considered the proposed grant a most stingy and inadequate one as a remun e. ration for the great exertions of the gallant captain. Mr. CHAPMAN thought that in a commercial point of view the successful enterprise of Captain Ross well entitled him to the consideration of the house. The grant, however, which was now proposed was much too small. Mr. G. YOUNG approved of the grant, but begged leave to submit that it would be a most invidious distinction to leave Lieut. Ross, the second in command, without receiving some mark of the favourable notice of the house. The hon. mem. ber then moved as an amendment, that the grant be in creased to 7,0007., with the view of giving Captain Ross the opportunity of giving some adequate remuneration to Lieut. Ross for his very efficient and skilful services during the expe. dition.—(Hear.) Sir R. PEEL felt greatly at a loss as to the precise grounds on which they were now called on to vote the present grant. He had the greatest possible admiration for the character and fame of Captain Ross. If, however, they were to vote the sum proposed.for services rendered, the house in his opinion had not sufficient data for enabling them properly o estimate their character and extent; and if upon general admiration for his chivalric character, he believed there were many more who would become entitled to share in the grant.—(Hear.) He wished that a committee had been appointed for the purpose of settling and reporting the nature and extent of the scientific and other services which had been rendered by Captain Ross before the hon. and learned gentleman had come forward with his present proposition. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Admiralty had gone to the utmost of their power in remunerating all those engaged in this expedition, with the exception of Captain Ross himself.— (Hear.) The gallant captain had promised his men double pay, and he (Sir J. Graham) had considered it his duty, having re gard to the extraordinary circumstance of the case, to advance on the part of the public, 4,5001., with the view of enabling him to redeem that pledge.—(Hear, hear.) A grant by this house to Captain Ross would, he believed, be most gratifying to that gentleman's feelings, and would confer a high honour on him —(Hear, hear)—which undoubtedly his extraordinary exer. tions and services merited.—(Hear.) He did not think this was likely to be drawn into - a precedent, because similar privations and dangers were not likely soon to occur again. Mr. A GLIONBY supported the proposition for the appoint ment of a committee of inquiry, for at present he did not feel himself competent to decide what amount of public money ought to be granted to Captain Ross. Sir H. HA RDINGE said he was prepared to vote either for the proposed grant or for the appointment of a committee, but he must say, that as an officer, he thought Captain Ross would be more honoured by the appointment of a committee of inquiry, than by the house coming at two o'clock in the morning, by acclamation, to a vote on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) He conceived, too, that the claims of the sailors, who had conducted themselves with so much spirit during the whole of their perilous adventures, ought not to be lost sight of, for „in his opinion they were entitled to reward as well as Captain [toss.—(Hear, hear.) He put it, then, to the hon. and learned member (Mr. Fergusson) whether it would not be better for him to withdraw his motion for the grant of 5,0007., and pro. pose that a committee of inquiry be appointed. I Lord SANDON also recommended the hon. and learned member to submit the case of Captain Ross to the consideration of a committee of the house. Mr. C. FERGUSSON said he would not resist what ap. peared to be the general feeling of the house, being perfectly convinced that the merits of Captain Ross would be so clear to a committee of inquiry, that the sum which he (Mr. Fer gusson) asked would at the least be awarded that gallant offi cer. He was confident that that tribunal would not fail to ap preciate the great services rendered by Captain Ross to geo graphical science by the solution of the problem of a north west passage.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore begged leave to withdraw his motion, intending, on the Speaker taking the chair, to move that the claims of Captain Ross to the con sideration of Parliament be referred to a committee--(Hear, hear.) _ _ The motion was accordingly withdrawn, and the house having resumed, Mr. C. FERGUSSON gave notice that he should propose a motion to the effect just mentioned to-morrow (this day). The house then resolved into a committee of ways and means, and on the motion of Mr. S. Rics the following resolu tion was agreed to :—"That towards raising a supply for his Majesty, the duties payable on pensions and offices be further continued." The house having resumed, The Bribery Law Amendment Bill was, on the motion of Mr. HARDY, read a second time, and referred to a select coin. mitten. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LmscwrEa, Mutcu 15. ADDISON AND OTHERS V. HUNT. This was an action brought by the returning officers of Preston, to recover from the well known Mr. H. Hunt the sum of 88/ 18s. 6d. for his share of the expenses at the last election for that borough. Mr. Hunt conducted his own case. After hearing evidence the Jury consulted for a minute, and then gave a verdict for the plaintiffs tor the amount claimed, 881. odd. NIL Hunt immediately said he would move for a new trial. r 4.ii: or s OF swans TH. s ',AV AT ON , ' o'er ocu. 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The Duke of Cumberaind, Lord and Lady Bingham, and a select party lunched with the King. _ . . His Majesty viewed the pictures in the Palace, and after. wards, attended by Sir Benjamin Stephenson, took an airing in an open phaeton, with outriders, in the Royal Gardens, fol low.d by some of his suite in open phaetons. His Majesty left Kew Palace in the evening on his return to Windsor Castle. A Deputation of the Society of Friends, headed by Mr Wil liam Allen, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Treasury. Prince Talleyrand had an interview yesterday with Viscount l'almerston at the Foreign Office. Mr. Burge, the agent for Jamaica, transacted business yes. terday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Secretary Stanley had a large dinner party of Members of the House of Commons on Saturday evening. Amongst the Members present were—Viscount Duncannon ; Sirs Oswald Mosley, Francis Burdett, and John Campbell, Admiral Fle ming, Dr. Lushington ; Messieurs Christmas, Rolfe, George Byng, Tancred, Morrison, Clay, Grote, Brotherton, and Mar. Mrs. Bonn, wife of Captain Bunn, and mother of the L• ssee of the two Tt.e-ares, died in Dublin on Saturday, aged 'M. She was a lady of mist ex emplary dont:ter, and of high literary attainments, which brought her in astoziation with . ..all the eminent e•hvlars of her time, 4'421Y4,, kr- VS' t. ,4-7,tk‘f - att-b - il , z7 - 6 *tin • t i n LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1834. In the House of Lords last night Lord EL LENBOROUGH called the attention of their Lordships to the unprecedented arrear of ap peals which had accumulated in that house, and remarked on the singular fact of forty days hav ing been permitted to elapse without one having been heard. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in reply, Entered into a most triumphant and ex tended explanation, both of his judicial and official career, and observed that he should sit in that house during the Easter recess to hear ap peals. He stated that "in his first year he had heard in the Court of Chancery double the number of causes that had been heard in any one preceding year. Let the papers be produced, and it would be found that of appeals and re, hearings he had disposed of upwards of 100 in that year. In the same year he had decided in that house, without any assistance except upon two days, when his noble and learned friend sat in his place, a greater portion of business than was ever heard in their lordships' house, if he put aside that particular year when Lord GIFFORD gave himself up almost exclusively to the appeals, which were argued before their lordships. Therefore, he must say that there was no man against whom less cause of complaint existed. With respect to the lapse of forty days, to which the noble lord had alluded, he would maintain that it would have been attended wi'h the greatest inconvenience to the Court of Chancery, not only to those who practised there, but to the suitors before their lordships' house, if they had at once gone on hearing causes, instead of intermitting those hearings for a short time." It i 3 fortunate for his lordship that every effort his enemies make to injure him in the eyes of the country, invariably recoils upon themselves, and strengthens public confidence in his vast energies and abilities. Mr. SHELL brought forward last night the question of the Russian and Turkish Treaty ; and, in doing so, made out a strong case, and to our minds an unanswerable one. Lord PALMERSTON, who undertook to reply to the hon. and learned gentleman's statements, must have thought the same, for he made but a lame defence, contenting himself with opposing the motion, on the old, stale principle, that matters were not yet concluded, but were still in a train of, he hoped, satisfactory adjustment. Among other things, his lordship observed, that though England had not rendered naval assistance to the SULTAN, when he formally asked it, yet she had lent hitn—what ? " moral assistance," which he -had no doubt had materially contri buted to bring the war between MAHNIOUD and IBRAHIM PACHA to a termination ! We can imagine the effect that English morality, unse conded by an English fleet, must have had on Egyptian diplomacy ! No doubt it was this theoretical cannon-ball, and not the more vulgar, practical ones of the Russian army of interference, that induced IBRAHIM to desist from his attempt on Constanti nople ! England must have piqued him into a generous ambition to show that his morals were equal to her own ! His lordship further stated, that after Russian influence, or rather English mora lity, had put an end to the war, the Czar's troops retired, and thus the " Govern ment were justified, not only in not com• ulaining, but in rejoicing at the assistance afforded by Russia to Turkey." His lordship must be a most fortunate minister, blessed with A most sunshiny and accommodating nature, if he can derive materials for rejoicing from an interference like this ! For why did the Russian army retire ? Not from any sense of duty—not from any conviction that they had nothing fur her to do with Turkey,—but simply because their plans were not yet ripe—simply, because they felt that a . show of mode ration, at such a moment of triumph, would he the most effectual way to gull an English C.binet, which had nothing but its morality to boast of. But his lot &hip is evidently doubtful of the propriety of his rejoicings ; he has evidently a lurking suspicion that his " lo Pman" is premature, fur lie confesses almost ''+ immediately afterwards that the treaty which grew out of that very Russian interfer ence, that has set him capering with such precocious ecstacy, " was not one which his Majesty's Government beheld with satisfaction." He hoped however, he added, that " it would remain a dead letter." Indeed ! And is Hope then all that his lordship has left to succour him in this perilous emergency ? Is Russia to conclude a treaty with the Porte, notoriously detrimental to British interests, and the British Cabinet to take Hope only as an equivalent ? But the noble lord cannot be serious in his observations. He cannot, surely, ima gine that a treaty which Russia has drawn up at such a moment, under such circumstances, with such an eager desire to conceal it from all but the parties concerned—his lordship cannot, surely, imagine that a treaty like this will be suf fered to remain a dead letter ? No, no ;itis a shrewd, careful Russian provision against the con tingency of a war with France and England. It is a clever, we might almost add, a decisive attempt to make all sure, against the season, which the Petersburgh Cabinet, knowing well the game it is playing, foresee; will soon arrive. But no matter. What have we to dread from a war with NICHOLAS ? To Russian decision we can op pose English hope—to a Russian army, Engli s h morality. We are strong in virtue. See what it is to have a moral Foreign Minister at the head of a great nation ! The only part of the noble lord's statement that has given us the slightest satisfaction, is 'Where he alludes to the political relations between this country anti France. " They were," he said, " now more intimate, confidential, and kindly than they had been at any former period." M a y they long continue so ! Sir R. PEEL'S reply to Lord PALMERSTON's observations, though we disapprove of its spirit in parts, was yet, as a whole, marked by much sagacity and modera tion. The right hon. baronet was singularly happy in his comments on Lord PONSONBY s long delay at Naples. Mr. SHELL'S motion was negatived wiliout a division. By the way, the hon. and learned gentleman is wrong in sup posing that the intelligence of the Russian treaty with Turkey was first announced in the Morn ing Herald. It had been published in all the daily London Journals three days before it ap peared in the private correspondence of our Morning Contemporary, as we pointed out at the time. The French papers of Sunday contain much miscellaneous intelligence, of which that from Madrid is the most important and interesting. Tranquillity had been restored in that capital, and it was said that the Cortes would be con voked for June, when their bonds would doubt less be recognized. Don CARLOS was re ported to have removed his head-quarters to a point which threatened Gallicia, and it was ap prehended at Madrid that Don MIGUEL might he in , :uced to join him with his forces, and proceed with him, to swell the ranks .of the rebels in the north of Spain. M. de SAR MENTO had arrived in Madrid to negotiate the recognition of Donna MARIA. Two journals lately established in that capital had been sup pressed by Royal ordinance, at the request of M. de BURGOS, who still remained at the head of the Home Department. Mr. COBBETI 'S motion, last night, for the unqualified repeal of the malt tax, was rejected by a majority of 142 to 59. . This was a matter of course, for the question had already been fully discussed and divided upon, and the hon member's motion was therefore superfluous. Brussels and German Papers contain no news of the slightest public interest. New York Papers, to the 15th February' have been recrived. Their contents are only remarkable for the following tragical and most melancholy catastrophe : DEATH OF JUDGE BOULDIN.-The proceedings of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, were brought to a sudden close by the fearful and tragical death of Mr. Bouldin, from Virginia. Mr. Bouldin was the successor of the late John Randolph, of Roanoke, and was in the act of eulogising his eloquent predecesior when he was struck with the hand of death. The following description of the melancholy occurrence is more particular :_-.. " A most tragic scene occurred in the House of Representa tives yesterday. The successor of the late John Randolph. of Roanoke, Judge Bouldin, rose, and began his speech by apo_ logising for having declined hitherto to ask the usual tribute to the great orator who died a member of the house, and who, while living, had made it illustrious by his eloquence —when in the act of offering his remarks, the Judge fell dead in the arms of one of the members near him. The sensation produced was extreme, and excited to the highest, by the appearance of Mrs. Bouldin in the hall, who had witnessed from the gallery the fall of her husband. When she approached him, and found that all attempts to restore life were in vain, the bereaved and almost distracted lady pierced the hall with her shrieks. She was borne from the hall, and her husband's remains were car ried to the Speaker's room, to await the order of the house in relation to his funeral," A public funeral and public mourning have been decreed by the House of Representatives. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, THIS DAY, TUESDAY, MARCH IS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at ten minutes past twelve. Mr. GEORGE ROBINSON moved the third reading of the Haslar and Stoke Bridge Bill.—The bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. PENLEAZE presented a petition from the mayor, bur gesses, and inhabitants of the town of Southampton, against the Southampton Railway Bill. Mr. LAMBTON brought in a bill for making a branch from the Hartlepool Railway, county of Durham.---The bill was read a first time. Mr. SANDFORD moved the second reading of the Poole (Dorsetshire) Bridge Bill.—The bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. Mr. WIGNEY brought in a hill for supplying the town of Brighton with water. Mr. BYNG brought In the Staines Bridge Bill, which was read a first time. The hon. member also presented a petition from the directors of the St. Catherine's Dock Company against the bill now before the house for widening and improving East Smithfield. Colonel SEALE brought in a bill to improve the Kings bridge and Dartmouth Roads, which was read a first time. Mr. J. MAXWELL brought up the report of the committee on the Wishaw. Railway Company petition. The same HoN. MEMBER obtained leave to bring in a bill for making certain roads and bridges in the county of Lanark. Mr. MURRAY brought up the report of the committee on the Leith Harbour Improvement petition, and obtained leave to bring in a bill. The same HON. MEMBER obtained leave to bring in the Crinnan Canal Bill. Mr. J. OSWALD presented a petition from the town-coun cil of the city of Glasgow against the Shotts Road Bill. Mr. HAWES brought up the report of the committee on the Amendments to the Lambeth Waterworks Bill. Mr. J. BULLER presented a petition from the inhabitants of Exeter in favour of the Exeter Market Bill. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Hounslow against the Great Western Railway Bill. THE TEA DUTIES. The discussion on the presentation of two petitions respect ing the new duties on tea, which was adjourned from yesterday, was resumed. Mr. ROBINSON said the subject contained in the petitions was one of such great importance to the country as to justify a deviation from the usual course adopted by the house to avoid discussion on petitions. He begged to say that he dis sented from the infererves in both of the petitions. With regard to that from Hull, he would dispose of it without comment, because it was only signed by one person; but the petition from the city of London was of a very different charac ter, and in every respect deserving of consideration, not only as regarded the respectability of those who had signed it, but also on account of the reasons which had been urged by the hon. member for London (Mr. Crawford) in support of their prayer. The petitioners prayed that, instead of the scale of duties which had been fixed upon tea by the bill of last year, there should be one uniform rate of duty upon all sorts of tea. A great deal had been said as to the possibility of collecting the duties, and if that had been the only question he would not so much have cared, but it was aquestion affecting the consumers of tea, who were in fact the great mass of the community. If the house looked at all articles of consumption upon which du. ties were levied it would be found that not one, excepting per haps sugar, was in such general use as tea ; they should there. fore look at the subject as one involving the interest of the con sumers. When his Majesty's government last year brought in the bill to levy three rates of duty on tea they took the opinions and consulted persons of eminence in the tea trade as to the best means of carrying such a proposition into effect, and there fore it was stated rather incorrectly yesterday by the right hon. member for Tamworth (Sir R. Peel) that the plan was iinpracl ice ble. He believed that before the government had decided upon adopting the present scale of duties, they had received infor. mation from those persons connected with the tea trade who had attended from Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Hull, and after a very careful inquiry into the subject, which was one of very considerable difficully, they had come to the con clusion that the plan was practicable; and as its object was to afford to the lower classes a good beverage at a moderate rate of duty, they had proposed the present scale of duties to the house, and the house had adopted it. He was willing to admit that it was introduced at a late period of the session, and might therefore justly be considered as open to farther dis cussion. He would now address himself to the arguments in favour of an equalised scale of duties. Before doing so, how ever, he must remark that there was some fatality in all the fiscal regulations of this country, which by some untoward ac cident left the house to levy a greater proportion or taxation upon the lower than upon the upper classes.—(Hear, hear.) He did not charge the house with any desire to do so, on the contrary, he thought he would be able to show that a great deal of the present inequality of taxation arose from accidental circumstances.—(Near, hear.) In the present instance he would ask whether any gentleman could deny that a rated scale of duties, charging a higher price upon the better qualities of tea, was not an act of justice, and whether it would be fair that there should be a single rate of duty upon the higher and the very coarsest qualities of tea? Unless it was shown that the collection of the revenue under the present act was impracti cable, nothing else would satisfy him that they should have a single rate of duties.—(Hear, hear.) Whiist he stated this, he admitted that there was great force in the observations made yesterday respecting the duties upon Congou and Bohea. He admitted that there was great difficulty in distinguishing between the finer Bohea, and the lower Congou, and that was a reason for equalizing the duties upon those teas. He had no objection to hive a mean taken between the present scale of duties upon Congou, and the pro posed duty upon Bohea, so that this deficiency might be done away with, but he would propose not that the Bohea should be raised, but that th e Congou should be lowered, say for in. stonce tots. 9d., and that the higher rate ofduty should becharged upon the other teas. Let the house see what was done by the government, and what was proposed to be done by the peti tioners. The Government, seeing that it was not possible to collect an ad valorem duty upon tea after it had been taken out of the hands of the East India Company, had recourse to a scale of duty, and fixed upon something like the relative value of tea. By the Government proposal, Bohea tea paid a duty of nearly 200 per cent., whilst the finer teas did not pay more than 75 per cent. This was manifest injustice to the lower classes, adding to the existing inequality and injustice of tax. ation, and he would never consent to allow any addition to this injustice; on the contrary, he would contend that they ought to go back to a more equal rate of taxation —(Hear.) It,was a manifest act of injustice to equalise the duty on tea, and the adoption of such a course ought not to be tolerated by the house, unless it Could be shown it was impossible to collect the duties. Such a course would in fact change the fiscal system of the country. He could not consent to have the finer description of teas lowered down to the rate of duties on tea of an inferior description. In stating this he begged the house to understand that he did not contend in favour of du ties proposed by his Majesty's government, but what he con tended for was the scale of duties proposed by the act of par liament—namely, that there should be lower duties on the low priced teas. He thought if the duties were . equalised on Congou and Bohea all the difficulties would be removed. He believed that the importers of tea were men beyond the reach of temptation, and would never be found guilty of defraud. ing the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) Still, however, be that as it might, it was the duty of the government to guard the revenue. —(Hear, hear.) He considered that. the present rate of duties should be tried, and if applied to the quarter's sale of the East India House, it would be seen whether it was practicable to collect the duties proposed by his Majesty's government. In his opinion the effect of equalizing the duty on tea would be to deprive the poor consumer of tea of the benefits of an open trade to China, and would confer advantage only upon the higher classes, who would get the higher priced teas at a much lower rate. He therefore trusted that his Majesty's ministers would well consider the subject before they adopted the course they had intimated their intention to adopt. He did not ask them to reject the petition, and had no objection to the appointment of a committee upon the point, whether the pro posed scale of duties was objectionable in its operations, or whether the present duties on Bohea were fair, believing the adoption of the appointment of a committee on the subject would be attended with the best possible effects. He consi. tiered that the present rate of duties was too high, and that the duty on Bohea ought not to be more than Is. The consumption of this country amounted to 31 millions of pounds, i. e., about 1 lbs. to every individual annually. It was thefefore a matter of great importance. Without trespassing on the house further, he earnestly hoped that government would take pains to constitute a fair scale of ad valorem duty. , Mr. STR ICKLA ND spoke of the great interest felt through. out the country, especial y in large manufacturing towns on this subject. He did not possess much information on this subject, but he thought it fallacious to be guided in such a question by taste only. After, however, what had fallen from the hon. member for London and the statements of the noble lord, he should rely with confidence upon government. Mr. LYALL admitted with Mr. Crawford that there would be some difficulty in relation to the duties on Congou and Bohea Teas, as long as the present stock existed, but no longer. In the ye tr 1832 the amount of Bohea Tea sold, paying a duty of Is. 6d., was 6,500,000 lbs. ; but the whole amount of teas sold was 32,00 0,000 lbs. Therefore it would be seen a very small quantity of the whole consumption consisted of Bohea. Out of the whole, about 24,000,000 lbs. paid a ditty of 2s. 2d., i. e about three-fourths of the whole, so that the revenue de rived but little from the teas which paid aduty of Is. 6d. He thought it would be very unjust to the East India Company, as they had at present a stock of 90,000,000 lbs. in their hands, if the ad valorem duty was not suffered to exist until that stock was exhausted, because an alteration would produce a di.. minution in price, which would occasion a considerable loss upon the wholequantity. Mr. HAWES had taken some pains to inform himself on the proportional qualities of tea sold in the retail and whole sale line ; the result of which was, that the consumption of Congou tea exceeded the cheaper teas much. The annual im portation of teas was thirty.three millions of pounds, of which twenty-one millions were Congou, so that two-thirds of the revenue were yielded by the latter. He found that in Bir mingham, and in Manchester, one chest of Bohea was con sumed, while there were nine of Congou; in Plymouth and Devonport the ratio was one chest of Bohea, to fourteen of Congou. That information he had trot from one, but from many. He would direct the attention of the members of Ireland to the fact that one chest of Bohea was only imported into that kingdom for seven of Congou. He (Mr. H.) concurred with the hon. member fur London in the opinion that the lower the duty the higher was the per centage. One general principle should ba laid down for obliging all consumers of tea to contribute equally, and he considered that the higher the teas were the greater would be the consumption and the greater the duty yielded. In America the scale of duties was varied, while in France it was fixed; in the former country the highest duty was one shilling, and the consequence was the in creased importation of bad teas. Some time past a ship laden with tea was sent back from France to America because of the too inferior quality of the article. In France the fixed duty had the effect of increasing consumption, which was the contrary in America, where the duty varied. He would call the attention of the house to what had occurred in the year 1830, on the subject of the sugar duties, as it might apply to the present subject.--(Hear, hear.) Great objection had been taken by members who sat on that side of the house at the mode in which the quality of sugar was ascertained, yet they took a better mode then than they do with respect to tea. Now they only judged of it by the opinion of an inspector ; but the sugar was estimated by its value in the open market. He thought that the hon. member had proved that the great consumption of tea was in congou, and he was satisfied they must give up their present plan, by which that description of tea was so heavily taxed. Sales in March. June. September. December. Bohea Congou Campoi 5,100,000 5,100,00 0 5,400,000 5,500,000 Souchong Twankay Hyson Skin] 1 , 300 , 000 1,2.10,000 I t eoo,ooo 1,200,000 Hyson 300,000 300,000 aoc,ool 300,000 8,500,000 8,300,0.* 8,400,000 8,500,000 Total 6,500,000 is. 6j. duty. 21,100,000 •2s. 2d. duty. _ c ß o o n li g e o a u, B,C. - Twankay, &c 4.000000 2s. 2d duty, - Hyson 33,700,0.0 The Scale of Duties in the Uni B3l.ted States, as per Tariff', 31Dec 1 Bohea Souchong and Congou Twankay Hyson Gunpowder Two Cents. are about equal to an English Penny. Mr. HUME rose to say a few words upon what he consi dered a very important question. He considered that every article admitted into the kingdom should be subjected to an ad valorem duty ; if not, they would deprive millions of consumers of the means of obtaining what was now considered a luxury. • He thought, if the suggestion now made was adopted, the government would act most unwisely. If a man desired to consume an inferior article, that was no reason why he should be obliged to pay the same duty as for a superior article. The bon. member for Southwark had very fairly stated that congou was the great article of consumption, an I that the great bulk of the duty would fall upon it. That in his (Mr. H.'s) opinion was why the scale should be revised; but he would not consent to take away the scale. The price of tea could not be ascertained merely by the quantity of each description sold. The hon. member for London had stated that the difference between bohea and congou was from 2d. to 21d. per lb. Let the house look to the price these teas had borne in the United States for a period of ten years from the year 1820 to 1829—they were the same price within a penny. Sir H. PEEL—But there was a difference of 9d. by ad lirg the duty.—(Hear, hear.) ' Mr. HUME resumed—The differential duties had existed for a period of 40 years, and no difficulty had been found in the mode of collection. In the United Slates they had no less than five different rates of duty, and if they had found it ne cessary to remodel these duties, some change would have taken place, but that had not been the case. Bohea was only 91d. prime cost, and the duty charged was 61d. Congou from 81d. to 91d. per lb. prime cost, and the duty charged was Is. The rates of duty were taken from the different value these proportions bore in England, and the quality of tea in England was speculative and had been forced upon that country by the peculiar manner in which the teas were supplied. Souchong cost Is. 6d. per lb., and the average duty was Is.; this was, doubtless, an error in the ad valorem scale.— (Hear, hear.) Hyson 2s. per lb., primecost, and Gunpowder 3s. Hyson paid a duty of Is. 84d., and Gunpowder 2s. lid. up to the time that the duties had been taken off. The system had been found to work extremely well there, and he considered that the teas should pay a duty in proportion to their value ; but that the scale should be revised. When the right hon, gentleman opposite brought in the bill last year, he (Mr. Hume) then said he doubted the correctness of the scale of duties, but the house had not time to consider the subject, for it passed too rapidly through the house—(Hear, hear,)—to be properly considered. He, however, contended 'that the principle was right, and such as the government ought to try. As to the question whether the present ad valorem duty was correct, he must say it was not, and that it ought to be revised and fixed according to a better valuation of the article. He should fix it according to the prime cost in China, because when the trade was thrown open the prices here would be regulated by those in China.—(Hear, hear.) It was true that there might be some difficulty, but it could be got over by the same means as were adopted by the East India Company, as well as in America and other countries. He knew it etas impossible to prevent frauds altogether, but after the experience of forty years in America, by men who were very anxious upon every occasion to evade duties, he was confident the plan was prac ticable. He hoped, therefore, that the question would again be considered, either by the government or by a committee. With regard to what took place abroad, the house could scarcely be guided by it. It was true that in France there was one uniform rate of duty, and tea worth three shil lings a pound paid no more duty than that worth six pence. In the Netherlands there were only two discriminating duties. They imported bohea, congou, and suchong, and the only duties were lid. on black, and 21d. on green. The object of evasion was there so trifling that it was not worth while resorting to it. The hon. member concluded by hoping that the principle adopted by the Government in this case would be extended to all articles of consumption, in order that the people should only pay duties in proportion to the quality and value of those articles. Sir G. STAUNTON said, that having been so long connected with the tea trade, he could not allow this opportunity to pass without making some observations. He regretted that it had been thought necessary to abandon the plan of ad valorem du ties, as he thought it the most fair mode of assessing the duty, with perfect equality, in proportion to the qualities of the teas.—(Hear, hear, hear.) But it having been found necessary to abandon this plan, he conceived that there was no intermediate step whatever between this and the plan of a uniform scale of duties.—(Hear.) The only argu ment that had been adduced in favour of a rated duty was the example of America, but there the duty was very small, in fact, insignificant, and could not be held in comparison with the very large duties of this country ; it was therefore no argument, as there was no temptation for smuggling in Ame rica. He must also observe, that the chief consumption in America was in green tea, which admitted of some distinction; but in the black teas, which were chiefly consumed in this country, no such distinctions existed. He was afraid they were misled by the terms by which black teas were generally known in this country. They were called Con. gou, Bohea, and Souchong, but these names were not given them by the Chinese, who merely described their teas as infe rior, middling, and superior. All the black teas imported into this country, with a very small exception, were produced from the same plant, and in the same part of China--in what was called the Bohea district. The term Bohea was formerly given, in this country, to all descriptions of black tea, as might be seen on reference to one of the numbers of the Spectator, where it is spoken of as of the highest quality of black tea. The literal meaning of the term congou in the Chinese is " prepared or manufactured," and the meaning of souchong is "selected."—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, in fact, there was no possibility of a separation of these kinds of tea into three distinct classes. There was no article of con sumption more liable to, adulteration than tea, and he need not point out to the house that the people of China were per. feet adepts at practising frauds of this description.—(Hear.) An experiment of the capacity of the brokers of this country in distinguishing teas was mentioned yesterday. He did not rely upon this experiment, when he had himself seen so many instances in China of persons of great knowledge of teas de ceived by the people of that country.—(Hear, hear.) Looking at the difficulty of collecting the revenue, and also the still greater difficulty of distinguishing teas, he could not conceive any mode more safe and satisfactory than an equalized and uniform scale of duties. Mr. GROTE said this question was evidently one of fact only, for throughout all the &bate the speakers had agreed in principle.—(Hear.) From inquiries which he had made among persons connected with the trade, he had found that there was a great proportion of Congou sent front London to Ireland and Scotland, where scarcely any Boh-a at all was consumed. The proportion was something like 20 to I.—(Hear.) It also ap peared that not only did the lower classes consume a great deal of Congou, but of Twankay also and the better sort of teas —(Hear, Fear.) The quantity, indeed, of the lat. ter was very nearly equal to, if not greater than, that of the former —(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that the opinion of persons engaged in the trade ought to be pre-eminently re garded; and he saw no reason why any information which they furnished, should be mistrusted.—(Hear, hear.) The honest trader• could have no object in view but to pre vent that fraudulent system which was expected to result from the proposed scale td* duties. In China there would not be the leas: difficulty in procuring a fraudulent kind of Bohea, and he was informed that in anticipation of the new stale, commissionswere actually sent out to China of that kind. Another great evil was this, that if once the fraudulent practice was to get a footing it would be difficult to eradicate it. The great difficulty was to distinguish bohea from congou. With respect to the appointment of inspectors, an indulgent one might draw the whole trade of tea to a certain part of the country, while a rigorous one would drive it away. This would greatly inconvenience not only his Majesty's government but all those who were disposed to act fairly ants honestly. He thought in the alteration of the present mode of levying the duties on tea, that no scale ought to be acted upon which could not be shown not only thoroughly practicable but better than the present scale. He considered that the scale proposed by his Majesty's ministers, would not have the beneficial effects contemplated. He thought the appointment of a committee the best mode of arriving at a round judg ment upon the subject, and he hoped that his Majesty's Go vernment would give it its support. Mr. REID would give the petition his support, considering a graduated scale of duties impracticable and injurious. Mr. BUCKINGHAM opposed thepetition. He considered it preposterous that tea, which only cost 9d. a pound in -China, should have the same duty as tea which cost half-a-crown in that country. The man who enjoyed 50,0001. a year property would have an equal advantage over the man who had only 501. ; for as the consumption of the former could not be more than double that of the other, he would be contributing but a very disproportionate share of duty compared with his that to raise the duties on tea would be to t e o n o c of it becoonos.upropy ed in the great property.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Buckingham) thoughtoorage smuggling. If tea were lowered, the would be-doubled ; more ships wou l d trade; British manufactures would increase asi the revenue of the country would be increased . warehouses in sea-port towns ; w h ere by the quality of tea con establishment . n China; the malt! mended the of bonded ld•be investigated, and the duty rated ad valore m of the article. Mr. POULETT THOMSON thought it was not quite fair to discuss • the subject of tea duties on the presentation of a pe titi on . The hon. member who had just sat down h a d sug . g-neost a ted an novelty— ( Hear , y— w ahr assurehear)—for d—forit had been that hon.cogentleman andwas that most maturely, by the government. The hon. member had a perfect right to consider the intended plan, and other hon. members had a perfect right to consider and propose their plans, but he thought the house ou g ht to consider the prin- ciple on which the plan was grounded which had been proposed by his Majesty's Government, and which had been brought under the consideration of the house by the petition of his hon. friend. He would call the recollection of the house to the principle of graduated duties, of two or three different 1 rates and the ad valorem duties, and he would show how they bore upon the present plan. The principle upon which the Government acted was not to lose any revenue by the alte rations which they proposed, and therefore it became ne cessary to consider—not only how to give the consumer tea, at the cheapest ate—(Hear, hear)—but, also, to avoid any loss to the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) He stated that, because it might account for some of the faults which hon. members had found with the proposed scale. But the government having to start upon that principle—not to aban don any of the revenue—they were obliged to fix upon such a scale as would give the same amount of revenue they at pre. sent received. What was the consequence ? Why, that the hun member for Middlesex had stated that the right hon. Sec retary of the Treasury, when he brought down his bill, had told the house that the thing was done in a hurry. He (Mr. Poulett Thomson) was satisfied that his right hon. friend had stated no such thing—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—because it would have been directly contrary to the truth. The fact was, the subject had received very great consideration from his Majesty's government. The hon. mem ber for the city of London had said that the subject ought to have been settled after communications were had with practi. cal men. Why, he (Mr. T.) could assure the house that there had been such communications.—(Hear, hear.) There had' sively engaged in the trade in London —de p utations from tea-brokers again and again—and the th re e p la n s, been deputations from the outports, gentleme n exten . . • 0, had the ad valorem duty, the rated duties, and the fixe d duty been all considered, and the result of the whole had bee° 's list dvice to the government on that occasion, although be it was considered most advisable to fix the scale adopte ve ti e government. It appeared that a great change had t 3 e ri pace in the opinions of some hon. gentlemen who bad 0 1 ii st th too sufficient attention to their recommendations, it sss— that those hon. gentlemen had nog reater informattensr given now. When it was said that the government bad : o - s i id he much found, on the contrary, that they had received 'Meows , attention. The revenue would be much more easily e° l ' essn . and it would have been much more agreeable to the g . But ment to have only a single duty to collect than a rated ° ll _, do ne ' what were the grounds upon which the government hau,..est that ? Their object was to give the consumer a the n . 7 ,,,„ quality . of tea, that tea at the cheapest rate which was co lowerlo classes to procure Bohea at lower rates.—( with the revenue. No man would deny that taking a sso duty on the lowest qualities had been done to enable the Pr ,',., lower qualities of tea were consumed Bear, . e _: But what were the arguments opposed to the government ! I t s , It had been said that they had made a mistake, that there classes did not consume the lower qualities of tea, but th s t es 7_ (Hear, and cries of " No, no.") Well, then, be wo n u s l wri who consumed it, for he had been told that no one co menit : it.—(Hear.) The house had been told by the 1n n.,.. T he for London that the lower classes did not consume Ow., show that hon. member for Lambeth had made a statement` o e sent to from the quantities of different teas which er called f hy the higher clas d as ": the various manufacturing towns, what lie of tea, the lower classes did not in fact consume that The house were told that the taste of the lower classes wa s On congou, and therefore that by giving bohea at a cheaper_ .r s ~ they forced on the public a new taste. Now he found InSS But what had been the state of the importatiotlilltoadf bohea_i: book containing returns of the quantities and prices of teas , by the East India Company in each year during their late c the ter, wasfisr3s9t unusuallyyo ao aware 0 s b w l . a. ter, beginning 1814-15, that the quantity of bohea sold ! s e . i rie 3 a .:97a.ai,nrif0dOcrO Congou nlabtgs therefore , yue a a n l r : , hto o l e: f e o, congouooowouldo f2i quantityni lbf, infer f O n , leo o not O hnt O ighno l e b gt ic s• oft ilr : 000 : 1 as r t ga h the sales that year. In 1815-16, there was sold o f 800 of 15, 16, or 17 years the quantity of Bohea that was SI, had risen from 500,000 to six millions and-a-half, whil e ``...; quantity of Congou had only risen one or two millions.—(H e ;,; hear.) That was a fact, and a su ffi cient answer to those w h o. asserted that Bohea was not according to the taste of the los e '' classes, for it was notorious that the consumption of te e ' had greatly increased among the lower classes, and there w as °.° question, but the largest proportion of it was Bohea. /ges s : f t not evident that the poorer classes would use the WO' i,t quality of tea ?—(Hear, hear.) That teas might be Int tet „ i n t London, and were so, he had no doubt, and that might W e : it y for the small quantity of nominal Bohea, and thelargan u° ,;re of nominal Congou which went out. But when mixe d A t. ,, p e. should be a difference in the duty of Bd. per lb. It scou l : O - 0,1 rate to do away with the practice, and so tar the public ss — ise be benefitted. The hon. member for London bad sta tc " i s t difficulty of distinguishing the quality of one tea fi l l & p er of another, and that by making so gt eat a difference as ' ss , to pound in the duty, it would be found more advantat e e — w ig import Bohea at even a higher price than Conga- '-' on s alitie l „, aware that where an attempt was made to ha ve -w° e mow , any one article, the difference between which la 211, : and not se for the purpose of levying those duties was 5° , and th at easily definable as to prevent mistakes alt°g e noa s - iy i there when the qualities of the article approached s° lied to OS I muit always be a great difficultythat only a pplied qual tides which approached so very near to each other 1 ire He would state a case which was very curious, but e lln7 a , is similar to the present. The house knew that ther thoug ht be a duty upon manufactured silk, and it had bee: _'' figur ed exceedingly di ffi cult to tell what was plain and svhat s : P re wa s silk. It was almost impossible to tell, and Yet t!,! slow. duty upon the one of lls., and on the other of i s al sd g ot then, was it decided ? Did the custom.house officer_ ,'!!: sar ties difficulty? Not at all. They had the assistance ` l te , in the trade, and next they had the value of 1 dte.criptioll °I serve them, as a guide to show under what e migh t quality the silks came. So also in the tea trade. hefit to be difficulty with regard to what was the inverother respects and the very inferior congou, but - ... d e ciding . difficulty u there would be no considerable i n ? The,' before What evidence had the Government .hstt tricks of au were told that it was impossible to decide, ...--- .... wo uld h e kinds were played in China, that Chinese ingenun o f de' exercised to rob them—and - that no was Capab leo wall th e ciding upon the different kinds of tea. "hY'subissitted t° case? Forty-four different samples of tea were on the su bjec i t i i testers in this country dpring the examination : d '" ' hits, th .., and, with the single exception of two ti adstieotbe's, were made, the qualities had been exactly defineuthlianspshaw, forty-two instances. The hon. member for t eas Ile (I 0 said, the Chinese made no distinctions of black t7:_,,,.. or the P. Thomson) was aware of this, but what did it ign"' purpose of describing them here. Mr. CRAWFORD to explain. the hop. OM Mr. P. THSON rose said he did not allude to Ol e ' member for London. hon. ge iis Mr. CRAWFORD said he regretted the r ig ht ,s pot t man had not been present yesterday. As that iv'boa' case, he begged leave to draw the attention of the ri_g_ . ..,„.4 gentleman to the catalogue of sa l e o f t h e East IndiasgLea.74o at their last quarterly sale, in which they l'ad ciari ht hor'' and congou tea under one head. He pot it to the tseonclea gentleman to explain how this circumstance could be rc 1 under the action of the new scale of duties ? that tbe Mr. THOMSON resumed —He wa s not aw the _osoin% hon. member would have presented his petition at Z en sig. sitting, as some petitions had been set down for tbe. ' of fea aunties A The hon. member said in the catalogue great 9u s stat e :: were put down as bohea which the East India pactColiiP an s ; t os , tea t lie to be congou ; well, all he could get from that ofssa was possible to distinguish the different quail" - al as. fi r m: ~it could be easy to detect Bohea teas of Con gou qu i p otiesl t o the authority of the brokers, and the experiences= _ 0 fo oll.. er experienced to whom government had applied, ' th i s roa t ` its be perfectly easy to distinguish qualities. Si nc e , sf iisers e l fiti o had come under discussion, the most experience: . i red their les t revenue had been consulted, and they decl4_ _ , s ol e „, conviction that there would be no sifficultysseas, h ea r' ) conviction ing the duties under the new system- ° r oost , offie ts , It was easy to imagine difficulties, but as tried the a nt oa l , i, said, " There never was a new system tris- W s . p ease(' ° A s si si, pation of great di ffi culties, which, however, do"P f r _ e d in" fi t H n e ss ' ay.te as the plan was put into execution." ss - a that anY - ss - for that he would be a bold man if he conten d c k- would work well before it was tried--ell be f triat --.(fi th e was this, that it was an experiment worthy °- s giving he hear.) It would afford an opportunity ' ° pis tea ° s lot consumer the chance of paying much le ss for, .. ss -sat .0 , .would if the object of the petition was anal' e v en son. W a s occurred in America ? The duties in Atueriehe'e low est 6 4 , sio s her had said, were trifling. Why they We re t rev elltl a t hat cent., and the highest 150 per cent. ' "edollar', sli d 00 from the consumption of bohea was 300,000 ...... is owed an on the other qualities 1,600,000 dollars. . 1 " isaud esrtest. in America they had the power of & co s re:7 grea - % stss preventing them from being carri ed on to . so to he ir o He must confess that he felt no small surpripresent ineast.e.i, gentlemen making comparisons between the 0 .s suga r d e o ,es ' t and that propssed some time ago relative t we i s wits r °di asure wa , t ios because the only reason for that me on the house, . ot to the drawback. He wished to inapr e es, s ef d ojo, he din o st it might be advisable ta change the n s o s n ' b ' eo, i wacii they [vac." detiy that, but he entreated I"' lite amount of the re on that subject, to recollect that t hit was at present• t it must be raised to the extent at wide se had been told ilia Sir R. PEEL observed that the hoU —(Hear.) 1 1 ) :1 I t year. .) would be 600,000/. more than it was . robablY u. '" 1 sere Mr. P. THOMSON said that that P s. row ans' I . 0 the case in the present year, because the Y. 1 e ", ty „old . . , obliged to sell their stock of teas ; but what the du ty He Wollial 53) ;; in another year it was impossible to say. -- P rim ripleA , those gentlemen who were inclined to adopt th e wishw, • time f e d; his Majesty's Government, but who at the assn e ect , to , c h an ge in the scale, wait till the experiment ha' es fo ssva o " and if it does not succeed, then bring your Trtee' ur 0 0 , Sir GEORGE STAUNTON explained. defen ded JO Mr. GOULBURN never heard a measure e ,ight weaker grounds than the present. A false stsl ).°l- s be ia tf c Much injury article a rise re to the revenue • a spurious is use be 00 duced ; and therefore ought ' the house t° • e m s. Gotlihs, ss , rushed rashly to any precipitate change. He t oed hl pr 4 could show that Bohea tea was the article Con'. it \ ,.;. 5 poor. . Formers) , the Bohea tea was so b ad .th a n ntios Os tia used; but, in subsequent years, it imPr c la o en tigoo. fsesP ec e iri s was substituted would often p referrea fa ountrY when ce ~el jr °4 the fraud that extend to thecountry R was in't 111 0 came, as well as the country into which _ se to n it bohea tea cal.- A ttic , it was a notorious fact, that 't would be ests, and i country in congou Packages , . thatlis °' isle How was it possibletoo a to detect the imposition. udgslie nt °f f tsi' with somany di ffi culties to embarrass the j in ssst bos pos os to fix a certain standard by which to ascerta li s i s p n i : o4 i ,r i t . ; ' . ) was intended, or that the previous custom o f d. Ile (li e sisi tea in congou packages was merely continue" , sil t li' stis ii was an advocate for lowering the duties an t rottoor a' 10 against encouraging the introduction of 011 to amongst the poor. A 'ties __ A the - firs t ettSlis Mr. WALKER said for many years o , the , ~ America were divided into five classes ; vi ! .d do , d O, twry: . 12 cents, on the second class 2.5, on that hn onsosuenti.s ills! fourth class 40, and on the last class C oe dent' , oh; ing from 12 to 50 cents.—(Hear, hea r ' ) oo o f fra!!,,' os s i s j ef i s ..' those duties were abolished in consequens the dia s d gr, did not see any danger of fraud in Foglonta 0 ,, g radu f at av e eo f s' in America. His statement showed t b ,„ was in at was beneficial in America, and therefore ' ls e r esent P tie the plan adopted by the government. s t the Pres st s e Lord SANDON said he was aga i ns t it wa s theug".. s r.) ere, • M e se ( ministers. In Liverpool, and elsewh ss „, duties*" 09 - ~,t to return to the former system of ad ral"'„ s ,, su bject 1., 0 , r ii e traje ' I- ti sor t ; ' Mr. C. KNIGHT could not admit that L"` i a to the merchants of Liverpool, because fre i oa.so in o nti . g years an universal topic. As to period ' Le ~ sla t le was found to be impracticable. l os' _, 0 h, 04- Sir R. PEEL read a letter, dated }l a r ch , _ sios t too 0 - . the undersigned merchants considered the ng w eell . _ Ai co s h •ssue e' „pie the not a fair judgment of the question at 1 . r oe) s i s s vernment and the trade• the taste of the tea. ~,,tilii` , , d out,' not . o' . other so much, that the undersignc c Ss° difference. an the The petitions were then l a id on the table, a left the chair at 3 o'clock . d d " PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY 111URDO yov • Sus °rens, 119, STIONP. r 44