The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-18 00:00:00

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It waddle seen that as to 1819 and 1841, for the first
four otailia of two successive years, although there had
been an larrease in the amount of our foreign trade, it had
aid gone prhseipally to the British ahipuwoer, but had been
almost entirely absoeheel by the foreign powers, who were
threatenitig us with their rivalry end the supremacy of the
am. The petitioners complained of the stamps on marine
amairamtes ; and he slid rot know what waa the amount,
but there was so tax which it would be more nitre
eat to defend on principle. The practical operation of
keeping up the stamp duty on marine assurances was such
that • large amount of insurances were now being with-
drawn Irons British insurance offices and token to ofilees on
the continent—a thing that no merchant would have
thought of doing live or six years ago, but which they
were saw obliged to do to save the duty. The petitioners
made another complaint—namely, of the extravagant fees
charged 17 British consuls in foreign ports. Next, they cam-
grained id • practice which they said they believed to be
peculiar to this country, and somewhat of a hardship, that
the officers ul the navy should, as they had hitherto, receive
pecuniary reward far salvage of merchant vessels. They
Jae complaiiivil of the encouragement given by law to the
desertion of seamen from the mercantile navy, with •
view to enter her Majesty's service. They next
stated that they were compelled to navigate their weasels
with British inninen. Ile thought that was a wise provi-
sion which compelled the owner of • British merchant
vorel to man his scowl with • certain number of British
seamen; but if they compelled him to navigate his lead
with • letter crew. who lived on better food than foreign
sailors, and received higher wages, he was entitled to some
onisaleration, and it wits nut fair to compel him to
aavigate hi, ship with • dear and expensive
crew, while the foreigner navigated hie vessel with • cheap
and inexpensive crew, and that they should give to both
the like advantages. Bet this was not all; British vestal
'Amino' under serious disadvantages. pecuniary and other.
VW, in foreign ports—the petitioners referred particularly
to Spain, to France. and to the United States of America.
Ile thought it must Ire fibvionA that in the direct trade alone,
if a vessel coming from one of the ports of those countries
to this country was admitted on a footing of perfect equality
and might import Ronda from any part of the world, the
duties being no higher than upon goods imported in weasels
of this country—he thought it was obvious that reciprocal
advantages should he enjoyed by British vessels trailing
1 those countries. This, however, was not the case,
hr the vessels of this country going with a return cargo to
dr peels when those vessels came from found themselves
Odor tauisied altogether, or charged with • large dif-
lbeeatial duty. (Hear, hear.) Ile thought the noble lord
'pima° would sot justify that as fair competition, or say
that any mount of skill and capital could countervail such
dindwastaiti. (Hear, bear.) He had recently met with a
mlintimiportaat statement in • most useful but somewhat
Ella& book—lie secant ss Bradshaw's Itailway U aide --
teblelt showed the efeet of the law in its present state. He
Tsai at it an advertisement for the steamer sailing be-

tween the poets of London and Hamburg, going aa---"Sunda y
morning sad retuning sa Wednesday; and after a well-
deserved esilogiala on all the merits of this vessel, there
was this notice, by way of bushier " Shippers are re-
spectfully requested to observe that in consequence of this
Meamer being under the Belgian flag, a saving of nearly 1.1
per mat. is daty will be effected on all the goodseent by her."
(Haar. hear.) He would now take the case of Spasu. lle
ludil la his Mad a table of the duties les ied in Spain under
the teal of the poor 1849. The noble lord then r' ad the
fallowing table:

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la two under our system Spun bad increased
=threefold in the amount of the dir et tragic of
oh 'tempts to the parts of this country. France also '
'Sightly adhered to her own restrictive navigation laws: she
W not mode a single step in advance, but maintained as
= ualy the proviaions of her navigation laws as we did
Whilst a French vessel could bring goods
ken any part of the world to this country. no British ship
IRO per mit tad to take into the ports of France—although
Wiese to • differential duty—one single ton of foreign
pas unless they were direct from the port of the
easantry in which the goods were produced. (Hear,
km.) lie believed he might go further, and my
teat no foreign vessel was allowed to introduce any &union
geode at all now into France. Was that the reciproeity
whit* we had • right to coped, and were told by her Ma-
jesty's government we slimed obtain ? (Hear, hear.) Bat
there wee soother country to which the petitioners alluded.
It was said that if there was one ioustry 'sore Ilion
another from which we ought to obtain tea reciprocity. it
was America; and there had been an act passed in the
'lnlaid States by wl :eh full reciprocity was established
with awy mew, which admitted thur tr-Le. We had