The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2.
Ova remarks, the other day, upon the difficulties
r. which beset the new Chancellor of the Exchequer,
id which rendered it unlikely that he could grapple,
.3 session, with any of those great consumption-
,elex ies, which stand foremost as sources of revenue,
wen •by no means intended to deprecate or preclude
tions in minor items. The recent reforms of the
rednc
lave left many discrepancies, perceived only in
the wt rking, and have pointed the way to other
changes: obviously supplementary, from which the
amecai, p• of the Exchequer need not shrink. The
excise shi. uld now principally attract the attention of
fiscal refor, ners, especially those less important articles,
the high psi ce of which obstructs the fulfilment and pro-
=of the t sanatory and educational reform which
jou, ItussEci. has announced as the first
business of tht • opening session.
The necessity •of more commodious dwelline for
the r, at chi
aper rents, involves a diminution of
pou
the duty on bri aka. In a country where voluntary
contributions has o set on foot such successful and
4ishments as baths and washhouses,
pt hilanthropic estal
seems pcepmiere as, that the state should think fit
to derive a revenue from soap. The excise returns,
'steal department of the Board
published by the sort um Trade in September
show that the consumption of
that article, which, in the first six months of 1845,
-pillions of pounds, lc fallen
exceeded seventy-eight .
kg months of this yar to
off in the correspoudic

seventy-one millions.
In the midst of general desires and efforts to ex-
tend the means and cheape n the instruments of edu-
cation and knowledge, it set ns preposterous that the
&lei material by which kno w ledge is communicated
and conveyed, viz., paper, shoal l be made tho object
of fiscal exaction.
Amongst the suggestions that have been made to
Mr. Woor, since has accession to office, there is pro-
bably none more reasonable, none more likely to he of
benefit to larger interests, or less prejudicial to the
revenue, than the request which has reached hire,
that the prohibition on the use of sugar and molasses
in brewing. shall be withdrawn. In reference
to the existing scales of remuneration of labour
and to the habits and diet of the gnat
mass of the community, er is, to the wet k-
ing classes, a necessary obef life ; it is necessary
to their adequate physical maintenance, to the proper
performance of their industrial occupations, and to
the acquirement of adequate pecuniary means of sup-
port. It may. hereafter, in a more prosperous con-
dition of society, when the reward of labour is
largely increased, or when the cost of provisions is
greatly reduced, cease to be a necessary ; and it is poip-
fible that when, having abundance of good food in
other respects, the labouring classes shall drink more tea
and coffee and less beer, they will be a much happier
and stronger race than they now are. But the arrival
of so millenial a state of society is at least distant;
and the legislature is, therefore, bound (having, how-
ever, regard to the revenue) to remove all legislation
that unnecessarily augments the price, or deteriorates
the quality, of so important a necessary of life as bear.
The malt-tax the Parliament cannot, for financial
reasons, repeal. The next best step it can take to
such repeal is therefore to increase the materials
from which beer can be made. The landed interests
profess to advocate the abolition of the malt-tax for
the sake of giving their labourers better and cheaper
beer. They cannot, therefore, with any consistency,
oppose an alteration in the law which by increasing
the materials of brewing would, without loss to the
revenue, attain that end. Any opposition on their
parts to such an alteration would indicate an amount
of selfishness such as we are disinclined to believe any
class of our countrymen to be actuated by. At pre-
sent our barley growers have, in ordinary seasons,
practically a monopoly of malting barley ; for the
*eight on foreign barley is so great an addition to
its cost, when we have an average crop at home, as
to prevent its importation to any considerable extent
for malting purposes; and the deterioration caused
forbids the use of foreign malt in any
Practically, therefore, our domestic
monopoly of barley for malting, if
.ag purposes also. And monopoly,
exists, mesa prices and deteriorates
immediate abolition of the duty on
would not seriously affect this mono-
ly means by which it can be broken up
itroduction of other materials whence
er. Now, it is admitted by all
practical persons that beer can be made
and molasses equal to that extracted from
ler interposes and enacts that it shall
Not for the purpose of protecting the
domestic barley ; for it now stands
recorded in our statutes that all protective
impolitic and unjust. Can, then, the
- the prohibition be justified on the
supporting the revenue ? If it can ; if by
' o the prohibition the revenue would be
restriction is justified ; for in the present
f the country, revenue considerations
, of primary importance. But so far
, removal of the prohibition being likely to
prejudicial effect on the revenue, we think the
r and molasses in brewing is, under proper
likely to produce beneficial results. For
-that by the use of sugar a consider-
of malt would be displaced in
excise will only have to levy
sugar so introduced the amount of duty
have been payable on the malt; and
that amount is a question easily solved
which has only to fix the respective quan-
-t extractable from common qualities of
Whereas, if, by the introduction of

by the voyage for
large quantities. .
agriculture has a I
Rot for distilling
wherever it exist
quality. The inn
foreign barley wet
poly. The only in
is by the introdi
to make beer.
scientific and prat'
from sugar and mi
malt ; but the law
not. Why? Not
cultivation of do,
indelibly recorded
legislation is imi
continuance of tt
ground of suppori
the removal of th
injured, the restri
earcumstanees of
are, no doubt, of
from the removal
have a prejudicis
use of sugar and
regulations, likel
even assuming 0]
able quantity
breweries, the
on the sugar s
that would have
bow to levy that
by science, whicl
titles of wort e:
sugar and malt-