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an iodeoemiest, and Ile biped it would be so, with
all than who could cotontaod capital naves splay
is • ss'bgle barrel at a time. to brew their Ant beer.
•It would, no doubt, have a good effect in the
country in inducing the farmer to brew his *wit
beer. and to furnish it for the consumption of
laboutemt and their famihes, instead of giving them
nothing but money wages, a considerable portion
of which at present went to the public-hoisee for
the purchase of beer and liquors. It would Amin
.bighly peeper thet 'the serious 'glottis's of the
bligiatrates should •he directed to 'an inquiry
into the system of lieensing.—(llear. hen.
Such had been the state of things in this rasped for
• number of years, that there was hardly such
thing now to be found as a fete public.biense.
They were almost wholly in the beads of the bm*-
ernw.(Hear; hear) —and if *donator 'reefs, be takes
of this repeal of a part of the dory ou malt. to
perfect this system of, he would •not call it mono-
poly. for that would perhaps. be timataraii a term,
but combination, to deprive the public of the belle&
which it was entitled to expect from such a mea-
sure, by keeping up the price of beer, it would
be worth while to comic/el how far it would be be-
neficial to the public to iscresse the number of free
houses, by withotiling licenses from those in the
hands of the brewers.—(Hear, hear, bear.)—Tbe
intention of the Legislature in repealing the
duty was to promote an increase of cooseseptimi,
mid if the price of beer were not lowered, that io-
tention would be defeated. It became the duty,
then, or the'Legislature, to inquire how it might
best prevent ite intention from being frustrated.
The bast course that coeld, in his opinion, be adopt-
ed for that purpose, and the House ought to be
prepared for such a proceeding, would be to lay a
duty on every barrel of beer brewed by the puttee
brewers, the duration of which should be contin-
gent on the keeping up of the present price.—
(Hear, bear, hear.)—The amount of the mot duty
.to be repealed was Bs. a quarter, and if *loaner
el Salt would brew three barrels and a half of
beer, the additional duty to the brewer should be
in proportion to the increase of prodi on the beer,
which the reduction of the duty on the malt would
otherwise give him.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—The
brewers mutt either have been losers for sonic
time to an extent far beyond what he could con-
ceive their att.mtion to their own interests would
have allowed them to undergo by remaining in the
busineos, or they must now be making the most dis-
proportionate and inordinate profits.—(Hear, hear.)
—When the fall in the price of barley, the fall in
the price of hope for some time past, the dimiou-
limo( their outgoings in cattle, fodder, and ex-
penses of every kind, and consequently in the
'Y aunt of capital necessary for earning on their
iffitheee, move •oit -term into etthsiilerstion, the

pablie bibs*ta►ty a right to eel:net that the pi ice
.r beer should be lowered, independently of am•
redaction of duties; hut it was impossible that the
price should be allowed to be kept op now that a
diminution in the dory on malt wee hiking place,
which would at least amount to a farthing iu the
pot of beer; end, therefore, if his Right lion.
Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had
been present, he should have suggested to him a
hope, that unless he received some intimation of
the iiitention of the brewers to lower the price of
beer, he would impose a duty to that amount.—
(Hear, hear.) •

Mr. CA LCIA FT not having been present at the
discussion of this Bill on Friday, did now know to
what communication the Right Hon. Gentleman
alluded ; but he fully concurred with I in his
observations as to the propriety of imposing such
duty on beer as he had suggested, if tiny design
were entertained of intercepting the relief proposed
to be granted from the pockets of those whom the
Legislature tutended to benefit by the repeal of the
duty on malt—(Hear, hear)—and be felt a pecu-
liar pleasure in hearing the suggestion of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, because, independent of those ad-
vintages to the farmer, and others which lie had
Isolated out, soch • measure would afford hint an
opportunity of renewing, with increased strength of
claim, his proposal to repeal that most odious of all
duties, the tax on salt—(Hear. hear, hear)—
which such n measure as that suggested by the
Right Hoe. Gentleman would enable the House
to do not only free of expense to the public trea-
aney, but with intrettied gain to the revenue; fur
kin motion went only to the repeal of 500,0140/. of
opsiree,whereas 1,500,0001., which it had beets pro.
to give tap, sould be retained hotted. His
C:t H... Friend having spoken of h Haight
..ops, .t
be.prensitted hies to remind the House of thetirCjill-
stases 'of about 50,000 acres of land, according to
'the returns on the table, being employed in the
growth of hope, the duty on winch war calculated
et 440,0001., being neatly 5/. an acre, is proportion
of duty which he could not hut consider as a v.
unfair pressure on that pert of the agricultural c..-
pital of the country which was invested in the few-
duotioo of hops.
Mr. HUSILISSON said, his Hon. Friend appeared
In have entirely misunderstood what lie had said..
lie had only suggested the tax which he had nevie
turned contingenity on the lowering of the price or.,
beer. He was sure the intimation would have doe
effect which he iutended, and that the brewers
would hove the good sense to lower their trier.
Mr. CALCIAFT said, he relied on the ii as of
the brewer. to adhering to their resolution fur the
contrary.—(A lough.)
-Mr. Damsoront expressed his gratitude to the
Right Hon. Gentlemen for the suggestion which he
had made, and bayed it would have the effect
! which he enticipatedlii'"
Mr. Buxton said, that certainly no proposition
could be more monstrous than 00, slier the Lev..
lame. had agreed to the repeal of a Fart of the
duty, as a measure of relief to the farmer, sod 0.e..
nend benefit to the consumer, this sum should Ise
taken out of the pockets of the public to go into
the pockets of the brewers.—(Hear, hesir.)-,-The
brewers, it was true, had large stocks on hand of
beer and malt, which had paid the old duties, and