The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

MINING STATISTICS.

We annex &statement of the produce of the Capper
mines of Cornwall and Devonshire for the quarter
ending at Midsummer; from which s,me idt a may
be formed of the importance of this branch of industry.
It is also valuable at a test of the truth of the re-
ports put forth from time to time with respect to the
productiveness of the mines; although it does not
indicate the true value of the shares, which depends
upon t; e amount of profits or dividends and the pros-
pects of the mine for the future. We propose to
follow this up a ith statements of the tin and lead
mines, and the Swansea ticketing..
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PRODUCE OP THE PRINCIPAL corrett WINER OP CORN-
WALL, POE TRH QV AAAAA ENDINO JUNE 24, 1460.
Mines. The:Wags, Toes. Amount.
Devon GreatiConsols ... ......... ... 4,173 -41;0.91 14 0
Corn ltrea
United Mines
Great Consols - .. 2,1/99 ... 10,392 14 a
Par Consols 1,469 ... 10,691 3 0
Fumy Comas
West Caredon ..... ......... „ ... 1,041 ... 9,26319
Wheal Bassett
Wheal Seton and Pendant).
TraMskey and Earlier. 1.016 ... 7,332 0
tXreratarnhate and Neaselndoe ... LIU ... 9,490 15
1 16
North Pool . IL,
6,
715 ... 4,13951 17
Wheal Buller ... 410 ... 3.573 19
South Canidon
Camborne Vean and Wheel Prude ..„ . 1,169 ... ..,333 4
Month Wheel Prances .
East Wheal Crotty, Dadnanee, and
Longelm
Wheal Priendehlp _ 645 ... 4,749 16
North &Maar --- ... Ilta ... 4,5.+7 19
South Wheal Tagus
Levant
West Wheal Treasury .. 433 ... 3,143 9
Ptomain Alines
Tretorean
Helloed l'alted - ... SLS ... 3,313 9
Perms St. George. ss ... 2,231 7
Cundurrow .. 523 ... 2,148 1
Dolcoattt 443 .., 1,991 3
Wellington Eines 321 ... 1,001 4
Alfred tkosols
Wheel Mary
Mark Valley .... .. 129 ... 1.491 Id
Wheal .tgar ....- ............ „.„.„ ..... ... 298 ... 1,337 2
ie
Treleigh Comm 333 ... 1,289 4
East Pool 479 ... 1,300 11
Wheal Triomphe . 231 ... 1,243 4
llolmbousb - ...... -- ... 234 -. 1,232 7
Wm l Whea atm
_ .. .. 211 I Pea 12

Tretbellan . ... 3 ..........
Wheal Cagliari 3
Wed Fuwey One* I
Poklice .......

i,013 N
•{3 9 •
•di • 0
136 18 0

Chark to iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Wheal Elba

acv -6 6-
NS 14 6

Wheal Ileou .....
South Wheul F0rtin...........
Wevt Wheel Jewill

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ill ......
104 ...
144 ...

rii s 5
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4st s 6

330 17 6
3t9 It. 6

so

isti ti 0

288 -8
8
116 0 0
142 tl 0
133 10 0

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDW!SDAY, Joins 26.
T. lirs•Asa took the dub st'l2 tee!eak.
PUBLIC SUSI IS M.
PET! noxs PRESENTED.
Jews O•Tb BILL —By Mr. P. BENNETT (10), bong
&Soak; Lord RENDLVSHAM, slap hots • place is
balk; Mr. PLUMPTRE, from a *co ho Ktot ;
0. A. HAMILTON, front Dublin; Mr. FLOYER, he.
DtabirOndee ; against this bill.
PAILLIANIWI'AILT Rll,OllOl. —By S r I. WALMSLEY,
ben the non-eleetots of the haltered of Hariesurere, in the
emit, of Sufr.A. in favour of household mgr.(' and Tote
by ballot.
OF COPTIIOLDC-By Sir J .wAL3III-
- front Ike inhabitants of Hammon, is lall"f 01 the
esfrenehietstent of entyhold proptri,. J. „
INTILIVIATIONLL AUDITRATION.-By 54 VI/LURID.
LEY. Mtn inaebi.aste of liertesiaoree, is favour of locum
Basal arbitration.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Lad J. RUSSELL begged to move that on Thursday,
hi, IS, order of are Say ihould have primedenee et notices
of maw without priority to government craters. (Rear.)
Arta Oft
COUNTY RATES BILL.
_ _

Sir H. HALithift,l; navies reseed man of
this bill, said an elaborate report had bee. drawn up in
1143 by the To tt.lew diuntiofin, which inquired into the
subject of !nest tummies ; and the oommissioaere torrid in
recommei•ding that the taxes should be charged against the
owners, instead of the occupiers, as at present. The bid
which he then had the honour to More thli sound reading
of, wee sot a. extensive In its provisions as that reams.
nemidetion, althosigh proceeding in the mime dire lion. It
extended to the minty and police rates, but did not apply
to the borough rate or Door rats. The rates levied on the
c'uniy were kevi•4l en l'sd, sad not rid house ; and • dis-
tinction had been noticed by Arthur Young in that regard,
to lb. etiect that • house, sot being productive, the uses
fell on the occupiers, sat in the owners; whereas, land
being productive. the taxes *mild fall on th• owner, not
on the occupier. With regard to the poor rat*, there
wu a dist:action between it aso the county
rate. The poor rate was • p. ruble, tax levied
in .aeh ptrish ; it wu • flutuating tax, sad,
the fanner being as employer. it was right he
should have sums share in the administration of the funds.

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That was not the epee with the wan, rate, which was a tax
for g @ 1 pureness over which the farmer had no control,
and which watt often levied foe purposes with which he had
n• concern. Now, the bill before the bows was not to be
coasidered as of a mt-rely nominal character. That there
was greet dtasatisfaction in eonaexion with these teats there
could be no doubt, because such hod boon sufficiently
proved by the somber of petitions mowed to the house in
support of a bill introduced at the commencement of the
sewim, the object of whi .11 was to dive occupiers of land •
share in the adatimistration of their funds. (Hear, hear.) He
thought the farmers had a right to complain of the
power entrusted ts magistrates to vote away large sums
of money for purposes with which they had no concern.
(liner, hear ) Bias what was the fate n( the bill to which
be had been referrine ? It bad been referred to a committee
—what was don* with it he could not say : but it wit cer-
tain it would not some again Into that hotter in the shape
of a bill. The sicced reading of the bill which be then bed
the honour to novo was postponed to the present in noise-
queue* ef that bill having been referred write eommittos. But
it should not be supposed that the present bill was introduced
in say spirit of antagonism to the toesarr. The County
Rites and Expenditure Bill contained a monstrous anomaly,
insomuch am It would have admitted tenons to the admi-
nistration of the taxes who had no there in the payment
of these taxes. (Hear, bear.) Without troubling the house
any further, sad be the reasons stated by him, he then
begged to move the second reading of the bill before the
boss*.

LEWIS should deny the aceurecy of the state-
nut of the hon. barons!, when be said " the Poor-law
Commissioner, in their report on local taxation recom-
mended the general rating should be imposed on and kvird
from the owners not the eecupion." (Hear, hear.) The
1.401!•W COMllliftiONlll recommended a enneolidotion for
the pupae of improving the mode of awes-
ment ; but they did sot recommend that in all
claw* of memento the rates should he imposed on the
0.111,r1 not on the occupiers, except in came of smell tene-
ments. (Rear' near.) The bill which they were then
called up m to madder introduced the general principle that
Is the tenements of el-we—large and smell —.here .mould
be a redsetios oftke tete by the (*copiers from the owners.
(Hear, hear.) Bet that •,•• a principle that sever bad bea
admixed by the law of England. The primly.* we*, that
the Widnes of the rate *Mauldin on them:evokers cot on the
owners, sad only in special saw, where a proaliar caw
could be shown, the relaeloo wr wanitted to be held by
the etwpier ursine the oweer. The special ass existed,
der instance. in the gameter of small tenements. The reasons
were fella mated in the debate that took plies on the intro-
duction of the metier, at the opening of the ',Won u to
why, in the Calf of small tenement*, the owners not the
oeceipiera should he rated. (Hear, beer.) If the
honourable baronet had confined the blli before the
hose to county buildism, such as prisons, court',
and lunat'c misplays, he (Mr. C. Lewis) would have made
no
objection I. the mend reading ; bet because it coespre-
beaded the peaks rate, highway rate, and county rate is
rural, h• amid not give his runt to the second reading
ed the .sours, and should move that the bill be read a
seemed time that dew six months._

Sir J. PAKINGTON wos uaderstood H soggiest to the
hon. baronet, after what bad fallen from the hon. gentleman*
("poke. the proprsety of oith4r &Willie the second reeling.
Mr. M. OIBSON raid 'hot from his experience of select
committees he was prepared to say that they did not olways
discharge the duty swigged them in the ernse in which the
house understood they were bound to do. He felt it his
duty to call attention to the proceeding of the committee
with reference to As bill suhatitted to them at the cow•
m•onmen• of the woolos. That committee undertook to
consider the b-e• wide of carrying nut the intention of the
house by devising machinery by which the principle of the
bill could he ...vial into practical application.
Sir T. EGERTON rose to order; but

Tr.e SPEAKER having decided that the how. gentleman
was striely in order.
Mr. GIBSON eontinued—He would he unwilling to in-
fringe tee orders of the house, but the bill to which he was
referring and the committee also, had been me nrioned in the
speech of the hoe. baronet who alloyed the sawed reading.
(Heir, bear) He empidered the measure at present before
the home was an extremely injudicious one, and if carried
out in the form in wh‘ch it bed been introduced, it
would be a great injustice to the owners of property.
Ile thought the better way to secure justice would be to
allow the ratepayers at large a control, by representation,
over the sew wing and expenditure of county rates; and, en-
tertaining the., views, if the hon. baronet pressed to a Mei-
sim, he should vote against his motion. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ROBERT PALMER approved of the principle of the
measure, so tar an that the owner should pay the expense*
of all permanent improvements made by the Knant. (Hear.)
But if the hon. baronet pressed his bill beyond that coLside-
ration, be (Mr Palmer) stieuld vote against him.
Mr. AOLIONBY suggested to the hon. baronet the good
policy of withdrewing the bill.
Mr. SOTHERON hoped his hon. friend (Str H. Salford)
would listen to the suggestions male, and be content with
having the atasare referred to the consideration of a select
1:0111111itte*.

Sir H. SALFORD stated his readiness to comply wilt the
suggestions mad• by his hon. friends, on the undentanding
that the matter should be refined to a select committee.
(Hoer, hear )
Capt. HARRIS said the ►ill was founded neither on jus-
tice aer p Any. Agricultural &siress must be remedied, not
by melt wears, but in a fait lust, and equitable manner.
Mr. T. EGERTON theist/he the house shoull be cautions
how it sanctioned the priseple of the bill.
Mr. BUCK übjected to the bill beim/ referred to sealed
eemesittee, end sagges'ed the postpinament of it until next

fiiiTi. DUCK WORTH thought the views of all parties
would be forwknied by refening the bill to a select eissa-
'Kitts'.

Mr. HILL:MASH enneifered the prineiplis of the bill
moat objectionable, and believed the practical consequences
of panne' It would be that burden' which fairly beloneed
to lithe tenant would be bens* by t►e occupier. The
landed Interest could not sustain the operation of such a
measure. Huse bill were adopted, its principle would not
stop there, but would be extended to poor-rates and other
Imposts.
Sir H. HALFORD said that as the house appeared gene-
rally opposed to the bill, he would not press It to a mooed
readinc, but he would iatroduce a similar measure early In
the reit session.

The second reading wae then negatived without a di-
vision.