The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

THE EXPR FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1850.

side of the home vetoes& to separate the question
of Inland ban esesideration ea the present osessies. (Bsi-
ama oiegia4pof Pent tined that Isla*.
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en that to be Wo begs* party in
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then They basest ftemit)we SO be ea ialOugiegre=
in this weany—it party set pledged to this et AO
hapset duty. bat dowdy, Inns trusted irrovembl, pledged
to that matins end somprehessive polity whisk bad simo-
nises& ow nestshises empire. (Chien.)
Mr J. GRAHAM agreed with the hos. paths= who
bad jest me dews (16. Stafford) that the peed= sow
under disown's was a very largo sae, rt ba *might it
weld be oserewod within the limn which the hos esembet
kg Besidsglissesaire (Mr. Diana) hod wedded, he should
ban boss windy willing to rust Wm vote ea the pressed
amain es dut spoon of the right hos. basest the Star
twy ire the Reese Department (Mr G. ONO, tee ho sow
Moroi that thee ape* had met doe mean in a deer,
orawbesin, and someniesodve swam. (Cheers Int 1110
salaidsdalists, sad &dein laughter from Pe prewidiedsw)
There wad be so doubt that NM pistol Amine had
bon made to him sad 'then with whom is spool he
Soo Is the souse of the donee, sad however pied wash
diadem must be, yet it tooled see be triton
thatedlse, he wgluesas idenprep eat, net oily is Minterest
at by
projs, and
with the Wan gentry of th
is vestry—'( elhons)--mot
that if he &said, teas a sons of drily, ken WWI co W.
Jaw on the ogrisaltural news; they mitllt have the owe-
Inn of hoiswing that he bad, et all neon, merlieed his
sea Wendt Limbo. (Conies& neon) Under then
sireemsesales, he hoped he mishit Peen • pant, if not a
to ruble, hearing. (Hew Ms) Mosso West to »-
meek, that he did not think ;his weeedeSSIPPI be taken cm
the sinew grounds on whisk it had been it shoal&
be takes by the has member Sr BodftUseskire. He
had thought as hose the ameassonasn. Whet be had
heard during the debate had greatly osallesedl ism in that
improsias; sad he wee saddled that the gowns they were
sew Mining web as Leos than this--whdded Ws) would
sommens ma andire review of the wiedeieVlG deed bur-
dens, of tide country. (How, Isar, sat life did sot
believe there wield be mini dined from
I. the ird hestesce, if they retied Pe es ft bad
bean by the Ms amber it ors
but thinsammeamemost of a owns Mpropeldne he was
about to luendsee. It was pito am &Widest they were
new dismiss was but a frogmen of that large measure
whisk had hen poseeed SO swim in the grass ; it was
bet delarairs is Pee that which had his. put prominently
helm them is he Wirt salsas last swam (Hear, hear.)
It wren the 11111111001111 the peorratessely they were discus-
sing. They IMO dieressing the wassris of the county rate
also, kr, let Ibsen= of the debate yesterday, it had bean
wend, chat the Asa was to treader to the con-
sdidated land the satire coonty rate, and this alone
involved a wain of 12,000,0001. (Hear, hoar.) The
Ids .usher f. Bwkingkomehire had told the
house thee, hig the sake of, amuses% he discarded
the laud N. from sonsidenedest ; bat the ,qusstion of the
land tax was issivel is the debate—nay more, the malt
tax was (awned is it. (Hoar.) He wished to put the
question tb. IMO disowning with puke. candour, and it
was this—w sem 18,000,0001. or 20,000,0001. should
be transfereed from lad to the consolidated fund. (" Hoar,
bear," sad ehown) Now, this was a question of immense
assaitude. It 'evolved the whole question of our fiscal
arranges she, sad the reversal of the policy which within
the lest 6 or 6 years had been deliberately adopted I. this
sountry. (" Hear," and renewed cheers.) Nay more—it
iavolired not merely the reversal of the present policy, but it
iavolved the question of a cheep, of administration.
('' Hear hear," from Lord J. Russell.) • noble duke, in
another, piece, had frankly avowed what was the
intention of that , the importance of
which had not been unduly mapps irld, and which was paw-
ned has Its numbers. sad station, and Doane:ion with
the soil of the Baited Kindel& That noble duke had said
frankly what wee mean. He told us that the object was
to tan oat the genreamart, to revers the present policy,
and to reimpose penestioa. Let the house take that ad-
Weiss items:lm with the frank avows' of the hos
awns he Ileilthaemosbira is that house. What had the
has. somber NM His IS Tuesday night ? He said then
wan as olternades—ehat they nom either reverse their pe
Soy and Inns to proteedon, or that they must revise their
tomtits awl redistribute their burdens. Nothing was more
true; ami the noble duke in the other house added that
he greatly preferred the first branch of this alternative.
He (Sir J. Graham) did not hesitate to avow that
wan 'widely, Wanes had "Bitted the landed interest
with onsiderable diificulty and distress. (Loud protec-
tionist aborts.) Bat, in granting the relief now
Use tenanteusur would express very
21Cti'views from the bon. member for Buckingham-
shire es to the immateriality of giving that relief to the
owner or the ocepapier, he In the long ran if it were given
the landlord woad be the gainer, and sot the tenant from
year to year. The bones Auld recollect, too, that poor
rates had last year hales is England 15 pr east., and that
the bards. of the sand pew in Scotland had diminished.
But, after ell, the peat gesdin was—wasx the, recent policy
with respeot to tenths as ho moved, sad were the burdens
en MS property to be Omni apes labour and industry ?
There was neither equity am justice hi the plan pro-
posed. Lot the lines reeolleet that the interests of
sad sommeres wars Mendell, and that
rare: insisting bargain ever made by the
intense was ink ia 1819. He then reminded
Onloan boas et Pena ankles which entered largely into the
been= and mss aspi=c of the humbler closes, and which
bad ordempons a wedgies or duties of late years. These
won dasher, Widen baths, these, soap, coffee, sugar,
110111•18, entreat', rabbis, and spirits. Now were those
mines feisty selected ? Did they not enter into the 'boo-
kie aseuesseiss it the bulk of the people, or were they to be
eansidored only as awns of their consurapdos ? What
was the anent el the inns that thus articles paid ? More
than the Steens of the Missal debt, more than 28 millions
a year, more His 10 siding a year. Then eleven articles
yielded to the exchequer about 31 millions a year. They
talked of Junes they talked of equity. Was there justice,
was then spin in transferring from realised proport7,
not tree lied wily, but from realised property in
Ito hill enesat, was then justice—was then equity—in
tressilswing burdens from that realised property to the
IsvaAhltir dames, both commercial, manufacturing, and &gri-
mace:el Bat was this harden se affecting land a pre
=jsed woe atden ? The valuation of real property, in the
currescy, w 61 million in 1913. It roes to
di rein= about the year 1846 is the restored currency,
awl at ohs t moment it had risen from 85 millions
to 90 Apia, was this all ? There was
a remarksble fact as to the proportion borne by
land. He was now speaking as a landowner.
The proportion borne by land, as contralieinguished from
other realised property, consisted of canals, docks, railroads,
all connected wi the realty, though net land. Taking the
entire land of England, la the year 1824 land ben 05 per
cent. of the burdens, and other realised property 31 per cent.
They dimmed this quid= in 1844, and the proportion of
land had thee fallen from 69 per ant. to 62, and the burden
on other realised property had risen to 42 per cent. What
was the statement made by the Secretary of State, sad was
land stow progressively in a worse position? Quite the con-
trary. Fiveyeare had elapsed, and the burdens of land had
fallen from 62 to 42 per cent, and on other realised property
it had vises, he thought, from 48 to 55 per cent. Now, it
right be said that We was unfair, that it was not a fair re
preesstation, because they took the area of England and did
as take it se between parish and parish. Now, he would
state en thing he could speak coofidently of, that if they
west into any parish land was not rated up to its full value,
while all other property was rated up to the last shilling.
What would they my to railroads? (Hear, hear.) The
boa. member for Manchester had stated a most remarkable
fact, he stated that In 3,000 plinths. there bad been in 20
yea's an outlay of 200 millions of money. And look at the
effect of thatentlay es bearing on the question they wen now
arguing. There were 3,000 parishes in England ; the poor
rates in those parishes were 800,0001., and railroads were
rated to the extent of 260,0001. out of that 800,0001. But
did it stop there ? The railroads were rated to every local
rate—to the poor rate, to the highway sate, and, if he mis-
took not, tothe church rate; while they added nothing to the
burdens and prodated no paupers, apd they increased
the value of land by the outlay of capital and the
increased demand for labour. These things beluga*, surely
his hon. Weed might pause, if there was such a thing as
ounenca pradasee. He said it was not for their interest
to open this question. Local burden' were becoming lighter
and lighter, if they left it as it now was, He had said.
he did not deny, that at the present moment the landed
interest was labourits under difficulties, and some one bad
spoken about his using the expression showhere about the
passing cloud, and he was asked what was the price he
imputed to be realised. What personal good management
could affect the hoe, bonnet exemplified by his own expe-
rience, the poor rat*, county rate, and highway rate in his
neighboarbood haying been reduced from 30 to 40 per cent.
sines he came into his property 1822. The Inc.ewed imports
of guano and application for inelo.ure bills showed that
agricultural enterprise was still lively. Land enjoyed many
exemptions from taxation. Nothing was paid by it on do-
nuts, while personal properties had paid 60 millions in
legacy duties gins 1797. Stamps, servants, rebid's, and
horses wore oho exempt from duty whelk they appertained
to land and agrisultan. The reliefs to which tho landed in-
tense who fairly entitled were the alleviation of burdens
that checked improvement. Among these were the duties
on bricks sod Slather. If the income tag were reenacted
after its 'aphides next year, some claim might also be
urged for • revision of schedule B, which fixed the farmer's
profits at half his rut ; and even of schedule A, where no
allowance was made for the landlosi's expenses in ropers.
Let them best eisaornise the expenditure of the
oonetry—let them endeauer to avoid the necessity in time
of pose of impala' an income tax ; but if, Co a
large, view of the interests of the country, it
were thought bettor to reicapow it, let the landed
interest, whole they came to debate the question,
press these points to which he had referred on the principles
of justice, and he thought it would be found they had a just
claim for mike If time did not fall him he would cone to
the gaieties of settlement, which was a moat important
branch of the poor law, and they could not disturb the poor
law without entering into that question. Swim the
distress of the leaded interest let him ask them
what was the real coadition of the great sue of
the people, with the exception of Ireland ? He
spoke Daly of his own nee•ebourltood. He had re-
sided ever lime parliament roG as his state, awl was