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c„niectli and Wales. and where not only f. wee
crimog were committees, het where the crimes ise-
mac communed Were of a less revolting thirstier
Coo in other places. He remarked that there were
cows of offences ender the salt laws. than
unifer soy other part of one criminal system, for
out of 1,980 commitment, in Cornwall. 'luring
„,en your, there were only eight cases of offences
against the salt laws. But however these laws
might operate upon the morality of the people, it
would he useless to remove them while there re-
mined many other more prolific sources of crime,
and he adverted to the iojurious effects of our
rs'ensive manufactories in this particular.
Mr. Cuawsx argued on the impoliey of the
~It laws, ioid expressed his astonishment at hear.
in Certain Gentlemen. en the opposite side, en.
&avow to defend the laws which, under the art.
motistnetion of Mr. Addington. they had expressly
censurer!, lle mated, that the salt laws were pe.
culiarly Fur ounces
upon the labouring classes of the
ppovir. ounces of salt were necessury iii the
making of bread to every stone of flour, and being
used n, the same proportion in every other snide
of food, it absolutely amounted to the twenty•
meth part of every labourer's wages. The Right
Ihniourahle Gentleman opposite had urged, that
tax was so long is existence, and was so
tile complained of by the poor, that there was
no loonier now for repealing it ; but did nut that
j{i4tit !lon. Gentleman know, diet in coosequence
ut the i.rroriit circumstances of the country, the tau
• lilt snore severity now than on any former
ocr,ioo ? It Via% notorious that the wages of laboser
seer not nowt regulated by the necessaries of life—
/Iraq—and that in consequence the unfortunate
lahourer . It the pressure of taxation to a greater
extent now than in any former period of our history.
—(lleur, keur.)—The Him. Member then entered
lido a tiro of the advantages that must result to
vivicoliu••• by the removal of the salt laws, where.
by ail, might be sited to a great extent in the feed-
tng of to the and iii manure. The repeal would
also wit:or t:.e supply of food throughout the
touniq, by enabling the fishermen to ant fish
to all *meld. equal to the dementia of the
country, and we should not in future years
have to a- lid less Mlaaalla annually to foreign
nations fur feeding our owes people. Hr thought
the rep...l of tiie laws should be total. and
that a commutation of tax should be imposed
to the amount of 5 per cent. on rents, and on
houses.

Doctor lintu.istoas explained.
Lord EIIRINGTON expressed his astonishment
that a tax should be defended. which raised the
price of one of the indispensable isecetsaries of life
forty told. The tan was one of which the poorer
claws.* felt the severity, and constantly carnnlainetl.
He remarked that in the administration of Mr. Ad.
dingiest, a ftesulution had received the sanction of
the Mostar sef Cot ttttt osis, approving of the principle
of redwcisig the salt LIZ. and Whitil the tax was
look 'primly& the iiicrease was unposed on the un.
derstaildisig, that it should be repealed use the cm•
station of hostil ties. He observed, that when a
labourer earned la/. a year wages, to which many
were re•trictril—the salt duty alone took from his
stages With revert to the law res.-early es s.
acted, having die relief of the fisheries ferrite ob.
ject, the provisions of it were so ineffectual that
the fidirrineti declined taking advantage of the
&setback.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he
should um have risen we►e it not that some allusions
had been addressed by the Hon. Member for Car.
lisle, to opinions he had formerly held on the sub.
Ject of the salt laws. Ile slid not deny that at
the period alluded to by the Hon, hleimber, he did
rotative those laws to be injurious, but the cir-
esitnitancts had since that time altered met.
belly, and with them Ins opinion had likewise in
some degree clanged. It should, however, be re-
membered, that the injury than contemplated had
Lo reference to agriculture, but to the fisheries.
Btu it was before the establishment of the salt
lass that the Dutch had formed the fisheries on
the CO4q, with which our ancestors found it ins.
siumoble in compete, and ►ince their establishment,
the li.heiies of this country had considerably in-
creased. The Right Hon. C;entletiosii then reed
some extracts from the Commissioners of the Her.
nog Embrey, to spew that the quantities of fish
ctirril amid exported had very considerably increased
within the few last years. Ile deprecated discus.
111011 s which went to cosdrn►n a tax which could nut
lie repealed, because it rendered the people sew-
wive to its pressure, and rendered the tax less
pnaluctive without relieving the country. Ile
therefore. to get rid of the motion, should move the
previous questiou.
Souse 'lusher discussion took place. in which
Lard Cumtßosi, Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, Mr.
A Idertuais Holger, sod Mr. Cripps, expressed
their intentions of voting for the pre/toes question ;
while Mr. D.G. Gilbert, Mr. Protberoe. sad Sir
C. Burrell spoke briefly iu favour of the whitish
Drietne PHILLINORR replied. •
After the Honourable Gentleman conclude's the
11 the divided—.
For the original motion
lot 'be !Dreyfus" wishes ......

Wig/city for Ministers l7
THE CONDUCT OF A JUDGE.

Mr. MARTIN. Inrising to make his promiawd
minion, aster], that he had caused a prosecution in
the year 4811 to be instituted against Mr. Edmund
8ur1..., all attorney, for wilful and corrupt per.
Lure ; that • motion was made to postpone the
trial, grounded on the affidavit of Mr. Burke,
'mil the trial was accordingly postponed; that in
the en• g Sessions, held in Dublin, Mr. Martin
attended, but two of his witnesses were found
to lie absent, mind a Mr. Cunsiii, a Barrister, a
materiel witness fur the prosecution. was then ill with
fever, and unable to attend ; that this fact was
proved by Mr. Martin himself. by Mr. Crampton.
a physician, and by another person; yet the Learned
Judge refused to postpone the trial, even from
day to day during the Session. and the tra-
verser, fur want of prosecution. was acquitred.—st
He concluded by saying. tlint since the principles of
English law had been Lot established um such deci-
tom had ever been 'tide. He appealed to the
L, "riled and Don. Gentlemen (the Attorney and
hnlicitor.Generai) to say if it was a right or fan
*lelluottor one which, if they were in a jodscsol