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Om the prnpie► without endangering the credit
of Ibe coati! ry ; arid if his Moneasy's Misisters per-
sisted is witiihuldiug.that relief, results ,oat pro-
bably would ensue which the child yet uuburii
aliakt •ae.

Sir C. lleetter.t. contended, that by protecting
the agriculturist, the general interests of the emu-
aututty =Wad be best promoted ; for he was cons
vinced that the moment its agriculture failed, every
class in the country must be involved in the ruin.
Sir kfts Viet** could trot attribato the dimness
of the egricaltarists to taxation h he was coneiuced,
on the coutra►e, that no reduction or taxation which
that Mouse could sanction would afford it more
than • very Manic relief. He, of course. pre-
eluded all supposition of such a redaction as t►sd
been *reposed by the Hon. Member for York
(Mr. Wyrill), of 20,000,0001. which it w:ni impossi-
ble t• effect without injustice to the fundholder.
The townie of the trade and manufactures of the
country were so intimately blended with those of
its agriculture, that any thing that was done in
foveae of oar, to prejudice the others, must be inj tr.
eines to all. Conaideriug. therefore, the proposi-
tion of the Noble Marquis as best calculated for
the getter., benefit, he should vote in its favour.
Sir .1. Saam.re was convinced that the system
of the Noble Marquis was much better thau the
existing state of site corn laws, and would do a
great deal of good.
Aldeeman C. Simi tboogbt if the House came
to s divisiou in favour of the propositions of the
Noble Marquis, they would prove advantageous to
the coontrs•;

hlr. Wurruoas said he was of °rialto that the
present distress wan caused by over-production. He
did not mean that abundance wee in itself an evil,
nor was the over-production of which he spoke the
result of abundant harvests; but it was the result
of the ericouragetneut given to cultivation by the
circumstances in which the country had been
placed for a period of many yearn during the war,
which had In to the cultivatiou of inferior hinds,
on such an extended scale as required an enormous
capital to support, and at a twat of produc-
tion which only high prices could maintain.
fir thought the other Resolution was ohjecteonshle
from the amount of tee duty, which he thought
wolald, if agreed to, throw the country into all rine.
Upon the whole, he was disposed to favour the pro-
posilion of the Hou. Member for Portarlington.
Mr. WESTERN said, that he would take their
own premises who cositeuried for the doctrine of re-
dundant production, and from them he Icon-
tended he was warrauted in the couclueiou which
lie should draw, that under the present circum-
stances of Europe, any stale of protecting du-
pes which it should be proper to adopt as a
permanent scale, roust be inefficient if the glut
sewer so great as stated. lie would also wit the
Noble Lord if, during the last 45 years, whilst
the paper currency existed, the markets of the
(7rintment, which were governed in price by the
British market, were not aloe estimated in British
currency ? lie put this question to the Noble
Laud, in answer to *hat lie had stated. sf the
average prices of wheat at Datiteic end Memel;
and he contended that, before legislating on the
subject, the House ought to know what the
reel prices were. The document which was
now before the House, and winch formed an
arklendont to the pamphlet of the Hari. illembir
for Porterlingtoo, completely bore him out in the
proposition which lie had made. One line of coil-
duet he could distinctly see which was proper for
him to pursue, and that was to paste, and legislate
• nut at all in the present moment.
r' 'Alderman HEYGATE rose amid loud cries of
Jiis'Qiieetinu .1," and said a few wordy, hut front the
tnoise in the House we could nut catch the teuour of
them.
Sir WILLIAM, CIINNINGHAVI thought the duty
ought to be one almost amounting to a prishibitmn.
Mr. RICARDO said lie wished but to say one
ward. The Hon. Member fur Esse*, in spr4iug
of the prices 01. cent abroad, had said that they par-
took 0186 she stertattures of ore paper currency" but
he•lsegged leave ali.tinctly to deity. •
Tbelillery was then cleared.
During our absences Gem the gallery sip under-
. steed that the different propositieus which had. beeu
submisled (twirl; the sliserstims had old been ergs-
tilted. • On the original motion of Lord Lends's-
„deny; that the present cent duties should cease and
; deletrivine,, the number were.—
Arm • •• . . SIB
Sabel

—,..
Majority ..... lSt

On our return to the gallery we found the Finnse
(11Si:11011111g the various creoluirmar arising oat of the
Noble Lord!. motion. Many of the resolutions
were gone through. When the resolution was read
for granting the power of grinding foreign cora
whirl► had been warthoused—

Lord LosoosossitY arid it was not his in►en-
tiou to found au► proposition upon that re►olution.
Tht CHAIRMAN then gut leave to report pro-
gress, and the Haw rev...tied.
The Report was ordered to be received to-mor-
row (this di.)).
The oilier order.. of the day were then disposed
of, and the house ii.ljuvirited at half-pa..t twelve
o'clock.