The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-10 00:00:00

Nests► et Vallee'. Temage.
Pr.. 11Novive Pmts.... 767 .. 117,618

From Gress Whole 11,1148 11611,11181
The eight velem of Ore Wpm, we—.
Ferric* sod Ismorsell frees Fereigt Porte !SOON
Gloried Predeer arse frees Gems 1,110,212
Drisish Prudery sad Memdaeturee 14432,142

The duties collected ma the imports were—
Oa Foreign mod Imparted from Forgive Parts 11441.571
Colonial Produce Ditto frees Greet Ilwilaio 733,?R0
O. Irish Produce and Alassfartures 364,673
la tie same year we lad tbst the seism of 183,000/. was
paid bock to prams, who had imported geode from Great
Britain into Ireland, which goods bad already paid defy ea
their *admission tats the former country, sad were liable to a
second duty on their miry into the latter; and that in like
manure the sum of 44,7241. woo is tint year draws hack is
Ireland sport goods imported Into that mushy, mid from
thence exported to (:neat Britoil'. The MINIS we have stated
belvog s. the admire of Comm. may.
With regard to the Excise, 40,007!. was draws heck is
F.ngland, mid 111,41571. paid in England on ruciseettele arti-
cles imported from lleelasd is the same period.
Hut it is lee by the amount of timer repayments, than by
the number of the retries and other regalstion• to which
they give oil:vision, that an ides may be formed of the meat
to which this system produces embarrassment and delay. N-
ettie view It may he eialßetasH to state, that the deawberies
shove alluded to were tebtaioed spots article* of 345 differed
eleseriptioes, all of which it was necessary to class sod charge
sutler separate head..
A striking ithistreitios of the isjarione effect of this system
of duties and drawbacks as • hisdraace to commerce will be
&Boded by as explaastioe of their operatic. ass the trade is
books sod paper. We select those articles fur the parpeoe,
because the Eerie* duty on paper (which gives 'heehaw for
the rasstervaikag duty ea the trade is books) is the some is
both coeatries, v.s. 3d. per posted ; and it is, therefore, see
of those eases is which the ioesaaventenee of pitying the duty
no the import of the article into either country, and drawing
it back is the other, cutler the present eyeless, may, is our
opinion, he easily sad eneirely remedied by the regulation
which we shall hereafter propose.
In she evidence of an agent i• Ireland to ao extensive
publisher be Lowithao, which is annexed in this Report, there
wall be found a detailed SiIIiCIIIPIIII of the expense*, sod an
replanalio• of tbe ellfficultie• which guise ise obtraiag the
drawback la books. Throe be drat ibra as bailee ao iseeens-
orderable, that It Is out worth while to apply for it at all, if
the parcel I. of less weight than 160Ihs.
Mr. Archer, a considerable bookseller is Dublin, also ow.
presenied to ea the leronvealeace to which the trade was
subjected from the meaner in which these ditties sod draw.
backs operated, with respect to email consignment', ; epos
which he slates, " h is not worth while to look for the thaw-
hark, as they ettosiet very mark of periodical works, and
thews of that deseript ion." The second duly is them caste
tis•*t, therefore, either become a complete lima to the irn.
purl. r, or be made the occasion of an additional charge to the
, enesnesier to Ireland, as compared with the purebater
&gamed.
Mr. Wakeman, the agent shove alluded to, described the
prevalent scarcity of book. in ell the considerable towns of
irthaarl; few (if say) of which have the same accommoda-
otos is this respect ails porarad by the towns of mach less
besporlasee is Great Britain. Thi• diff he attribeten,
M a great measure, to the expense and diffi•ulty uf obtain-
lag a supply from Great Britain. Mr. Parnell informs us
Slot 'levee carotin •f Ireland are actually without a stogie
lienkreller's shop; and that, greenfly, the trade is (maimed
within sorrow limits, and to a few hands.
It ie soli unworthy of remark that al Ike time of the
fiwtaw the Copyright Act was orteothttl to /retread, mud the
ItMn publisher Wed then deprived of the power of reprint-
fag British publications for the supply of the biome market*.
Dia extension of the law, however just is prime-41r, has
bed the effect of nearly destroyaeg the trade of publacetion
in 'seised; and the peer et this lime affords so supply he.
peed that of • few tracts of local interest, and some school
broke used eselssively in that country.
Ju this Masser, therefore, the effect of Oho regulation
has brat wholly to the prejudice of 'reload; she ha. bees
derived of as odmeasage without receiving as eqesysiest,
mod bee heel the Privileges of separation, without acquiring
t* *wit/ ref mhos. It is, we think, a point of nevoid. r-
able tesportaate to provide so adequate remedy for an evil,
*ION beers is so material a degitte opus the progress of

Britisb-wroofffif plate, as Importation into Irelead, is
charted with • Roil of la per csouce, which Is ale* the rate
of mensal duty la that eisnotry ; but leisbewiresaght pie;;
is admitted into Wawa dos, free, though se import ditty
might, to hare heel impend, to countervail that, whisk i.
paid on the masoftetesee of British plate. : .
These samealist barons doubt arisen in • gent measure
from the nieces of separate and discordant systemosif tee-
sageneent. If the renews is the two nevoid., h. 4 beet
governed practically ley the same authorities, your Lied•hiper.
sad the Legislature would have bees duly apprised Mow,'
innageoons segalations steel enactments, sod they weld clout
have bees
so end to exist. We have already receilleteadedi
as interpose of the Revenue Boards in the line ceshtricas„
as the eel, ii remedy fur the 11111111111101 M Ovii. helengsag
to this passes stem of ataaagiag sad collecting the ikerease
in Ireland, as the most effectual means Ise amiosilailog
the practice in the two meanies. We sow with nisei cowl,.
demo rest the sonessfill &Winona of all the seemletleos to
be framed Ibr the retacreal of these aosereseary restrictions la
the commercial interenone between the two ononleies, spots
that same iscorporalloo. Wilkens it a complete remedy for
these obstructions to the erase Channel trade, eoneisnotly
with the doe security of the Reventie, would he dl Beets with
regard to the duties of Commies; and with respect loth/ du.
Iles of Excise, we conceive shot it would be found eisite Im-
practicable, if they should tontine* to be contend as they
are st prawns is Ireland. We shall stale anis& example to
show the eorreetneas of this opinioo. ,
la our astood Report we described the erect of the im-
perfect maosgemeet .f the Each* department as the col-
lection ads deity a Isiah-made spirits. le that ease coon-
tervailtag desks were shears to he nugatory as a rolleetkes
to the Eagan\ niaaufacinrer, by reason of the habithal
'resins of a proportion of the nominal tax impaled talon lb*
article in Iretood. We shall wow advert to liIM 1111611110•ChlPe
of
seised pore, to ',xylem how those duties are liable so he
defeated, and the Irish Revenue defrauded, by the Witty or
ill management of the same deportment. or thin article
there are extensive maoofiactorers its Inland, predestine a
quantity which is eqn•l to the entire nosemptioo of this
notary. The whole deity collected from thew issourae.
tourers war, however, its the jeer 1110, only 1,2111. a NUM
greatly below that which the quantity welly nisoolectoord
ought to have yielded t. the Rs seesediag to the opi-
nions of all the prestos% whether traders or officers, whom
we have examined upon the subjert.
The monde in which the fraud whieb sensitised this loss of
Retests* is practised by the mensesetoree, or, to speak pure
correctly, the 11111101111 in which the erasion of the deg is
permitted by the Excise officer is 'reined is Billy sad mi.
mutely explained is the eviderce of the British Euless oaten,
insetted in the Appendix to our &coed Report, who egret-
emitted, upon the best authority, that to sae leatimes the
manufactorer made twice as moth of theartiele as h.rd
duty fur. The manner is which this restive of the of,
is calculated to operate upon the eyiati terve ding dell is Ma
the• maiinfactneer who pays for a neesoilify Beene to use
a table, is enthled to have all the paper which ha disietsfee-
-11111111 within the amount to which that license la appli•
Pablo, certilled as Introic been fluty cleaned eith duty.
ttpon the export of that paper into Gist &titan, he
would he limbic to pay the British Excise ditty, and would
draw back the Irteh Excise duty upon the mensal quan-
tity, according to the rate at which it is leipoeed by taw.
But as it is admitted that he may make a moth larger quan-
tity this is covered by the liceasit ditty, it follows that the
rate of duty which he pa)* tapes Ilse *bole quantity really
produced is much len than that el which he obtains a draw-
back epos the tinestity exported. In the nue of his soaking
twice the somber of yards for which his lease le calrolated,
the duty which he paid might best the rate of throe farthiogs
• yard. The duty which he would draw back as the quan-
tity imported into Eneland would he at the sate of three
halfpence a yard. It was naturally to be ellpreifti that such
an advantage should induct an exportalio• of this article
from Ireland to Enelaud. We accordiwgly and, from the
evident* of the rnanufseiorees already referred to, that a
trade in that direction wee rst•bliskiior emelt sometime back,
when it wag met liy an increased serenity ow the part of the
English Excise department I. the exisittioatien of the paper
imported; which being followed by the reliertiou of • heavy
duty on the colouring malice attached to it, seder a sew ie.
issepretation of she law by that Board, the corobisorli opera-
tion of vexation and duty succeeded is potting a stop 1 o ti ••
trade.

This instasee 14 only one of many which sight be aildurvt
to 'hew how grievous these doll.. rau•t prime Ow the Iwo ,st
trader under • dirjoinied maisagenseat of t►e Rcireasse. Las—
fy eml nmi.smess uu she one aid., are eliewastered by veaa•
tines severity on the Diller, so necessary safegesrds; snit
whd!e brserbrs or ?ride are iudocrimigately linseed by
impediments, in order to petrel some ps,ti.l halide to
which they are knows to be liable; the destrectioa ut the
trade bring mote the memo of preventing the Nude. That
the waist of mutest understssistlag, conceit, mid ituiformity
of practice between the departments, is a great aggravatio•
of the complexity of the cross Chassoet spurts of eights.
Ems while we are addressing t►em whermatimm le year
Imidships. wt reviler Gems yoe a eviscerate Irtbirb after is
amither iostsiere of the evil effect of separate awlisitrit,cs.
In a Itepurt of the Camosiesiouers of the Customs M.lnelasd,
which )ois have traitosittod to so, OS She subject GI thikrvist