The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-14 00:00:00

REPEAL OF TUE MALT TAX.

DEPUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR:OP THE EXCHEQUER.

On Thursday a deputation, consisting of farmers from
all parts of the United Kingdom, waited upon the
Chancellor of the Exchequer at Downing-street, to urge
upon hini:the necessity of repealing to some extent the
duty on malt.
The deputation was so numerous that it was im-
possible for more than a fraction of them to find their
way into:the room appointed for their reception, and
the stairs, lobby, and part of Downing-street itself was
crowded by members anxious to hear what the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer would say to their repre-
sentation&
The deputation was introduced by Colonel North.
MP., and the following members of Parliament were
present.:—Sir Edmund Filiner, Bart., Hon. W. E.
Dunoombe, Lord Henry Thynne, H. Surtees, Sir M.
Cholmondeley, Bart., Major Parker, Lord Holmesdale,
C. Duncan& J. C. Cobbold, Captain Jervis Hon. Ralph
Dutton, Abel Smith, Sir John Trollop°, Hart., Ormsby
Gore, Colonel Fane, Colonel Cartwright, Lord Augustus
Hervey, E. B. Hartopp, 3. Handley, G. Hodgkinson,
Major Beresford, W. 011 i. Foster, Charles Douglas, B.
Gordon, Colonel Bathurst, Right Hon. Sir Bulwer
Lytton, Bart., John Peel, a. M. Cobbett, Right Hon.
C. B. Adderley, Visoonnt logestre, Sir Charles Moil
! daunt, Viscount Newport, Banks Stanhope, Darby
Griffith, W. H. Barrow, Lord Stanhope, bro. The
management of the deputation was ably regulated by
Mr. Archibald Kintres' parliamentary agent.
Various members of the deputation having spoken,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said: I am bound
to thank you for the sery suocinct manner in which you
have presented your views on the present important
subject. On previous occasions, when I have had the
honour of receiving deputations with a similar object, I
have been glad to enter freely into an exchange of
! remarks and arguments with those who might choose to
! wait on use as the organ of the government, presiding
over my department. I am sorry the circumstances
under which we have met to-day are not favourable to
conversation of that kind, and I will beg you to under-
stand it is not out of any disrespect, bet from the plea-
sure of what I may call physical necessity, if I do not on
this occasion enter into details, although, a number of
very interesting details have been brought forward. I
will further only assure you, gentlemen, that when the
proper time comes, or what we think is the proper
time, that is, the close of the financial year, it will be
the duty of her Majesty's government, if they find
themselves happily in the possession of a prospective
surplus of revenue, to make such proposals to parlia-
ment an seem to them, on full consideration, to be most
just to the community at large; and in the community
at large I need not Bay that *great cLus, an important
branch of which is represented by the gentlemen I wse '
before me, must be included sea prominent pert. lam
only add for your consideration that if her Majesty's
government were not willing to do you further. justice
you are not altogether unprovided with the means in
the House of Commons of procuring further justice for
youraelves. (Hear, hear.)
The deputation then withdrew.