The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

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lane, for the purpose of ta •ldn late coneiderattoo the
Duty Bill introduned Into .iament by the ponder
the EacbsOner, and now in committee la the House of
Commas ; Ifx.-Nthacitholl moulded the chair. I
slue in eamesiquemes of the argument that the malt duty
told Maud the sgrionitual interest to the exteot of
vesting farmers farmers from getting • fair pries foe their inferior
barley.. TM in fact. was @imam. to that which
led to the in notion last year of the memo= to allow the
malting et =het= barleys as food for cattlaameasure which,
as wee well koown,_ had proved • perfect nullity.
la the present bill the standard from which borlay
was to have the benefit of the reduction wee plead so
low 'hot the very extreme of benefit to themarmer and
manatee would sot exceed is. 3d. a quarter. 11806 a bill
was Introduced to allow the Booth and Irish manatees to
nes inferior bully by obseging Ha =steed of 21s. Bd. •
quarter,and he did not sae why they should have the benefit
of 4s. M. a quarter while the English monsters were only to
have • helmet of is. 3d. What the trade wanted wee that
the standard weight of • bushel of barley should be :rube.
linked of 531b5., as proposed by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. With respect toll= oldng down of the cisterns,
the object woe to prevent monsters, after the sample had
been taken, from removing the barley out of the cistern and
replacing it with barley of greaterweight, but everyone
acquainted with the trade would know that the precaution
was unnecessary, seeing that the oat of the removal would
amount to nearly as moth as the benefit derived in respect
of the duty. Another objection to the plan was, that it
would prevent the smiting into the cistern now commonly
practised.
A Itleuress observed that if thet were the case, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would not have many advo-
cates of malting by wmglit.
Mr. FORD moved—" That a bin being now in committee
in the House of Common', entitled, • A bill to allow the
charging of the excise duty on malt according to the weinht
of . oorn or grain need,' it appears to this meeting that the
standard weight of • bushel of barley should not be leas than
64 paned' ; that • etaudardweight 0f63 pounds would be to
low to justify the trade in adopting the principle, and would
render the bill as nuptory as the act of last amnion for
nuking malt for cattle.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. &WOODED. and
carried unanimously.
Oa the motion of Mr. WALgBLZT, seconded by Mr.
DOWNS% the following resolution wee also carried : • That
the third clause enacts, amongst other things, that before
the monster shall place thy corn or grain in cistern, for the
purpose of being made into malt, to be charged with duty
under the provisions of this act, he shall provide and affix
to snob cistern a proper and secure cover, with proper fasten-
ings, to the satiafaction of the supervisor of Excise, and
such cover shall, when there shall be any corn or grain in
such cistern, be kept locked and secured by the officer of
Exam during such period of time as the Communions= of
Inland Revenue shall order. That it appears to this meeting
that such restrictions are not only perfectly useless but
vexatious, and affording no additional security to the re-
venue, inasmuch as the corn or grain in cistern is subject
to the same system of charge by measure ss ganged is
cistern, couch, floor, and kiln as that made in the ordinary
Mr"
.DOWNES in moving anoolution to the effect that amore
equitable memoirs would be that a fixed charge or duty of
2s. less than the present duty should be allowed for all bar-
ley steeped of the weight and under say 52 lbs. per bushel,
instead of the sliding-sale proposed by the present bill, ex-
pressed his utooishmait thst the mahatma sod agriculturists
of England should have been so led away by the eophistry of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to acquiesce in a mea-
sure of this sort as • relief to fanners. by enabling the malt-
ing of light barleys. The only advantage would be to the
Burton brewers, who for their ales required • particular
quality of barley, sad the tendthey would be to encourage
the introduction of the 50 and 51 pound foreign barleys,
which had finer brewing qualities than the light weighted
barleys of England. The English monster should be
allowed to malt English barley of 52 lbs. at a fixed duty of
lie. ad.
The resolution having been adopted sod • deputation ap-
pointed to communicate the result of the meeting to the
Caancellor of the Exchequer, • vote of thanks was paned
to the chairman, and the meeting separated.

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