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MARCH 25, 1852.

Major-General Jackson, on promotion, by the Duke of ! MR. HUME, THE MALT TAX, AND THE
Wellington. , FA IiMERS.
Rev. John Jackson, on appointment to a canonry at The following lett, r trom Mr. Hume will be gladly
Bristol, by the L,,rd Chancellor. i read by all who take intertst in the malt-tax ern scion.
Commander Oliver J. Jones, R.N., by the Duke of ! London, March 2.0, 1852,
Northumberland. To Mr. Frederick Wsse, farmer, Charsfield, Suffolk.
Mr. Lister Kaye, by his father Sir John Lister Kaye, Sir,—l have rsceivcd and presented to the House of
Bart. Commons the petitions transmitted by you from twenty-
Colonel Kelly, on promotion. by the Adjutant-General. five parishes in the county of Suffolk, praying" that
Mr. Wynn Knight, on his marriage, by General Lygon. i immedive measures may be adopted for the speedy skid
Mr. John C. King, delegate from the colony of Victoria, entire remission or 'the excise duty upon malt."
as the bearer of au address to her Majesty from the I have, on every ,occasion that the repeal of the excise
inhabitants of the colony of Victoria, expressive of duty upon malt has been proposed in the House during
their devoted loyalty and attachment to their Sove- the last thirty years, voted for its repeal; and I shall, on
reign, and of their sincere thanks to her Majesty for every opportunity, support the prayer of the petitioners
the erection of their province into a separate colony of —being opposed to the tax as a bad bax, whether it be
the British empire, under the Royal name of " Vic- considered us violating the rules of political economy
toria," by the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington. and of commercial policy, or as being injurious to the
Lieutenant J. Lawder, by Colonel Dunne. morality and social happiness of the industrious classes
Major-General Leslie, on promotion, by Field-Marshal of the community.
the Commander-in-Chief. This tax injures a great branch of native industry,
Lord Leigh, by the Duke of Northumberland. and limits the consumption of its agricultural produce,
Mr. B. Lewis, by Mr. Alderman Wilson. by raising the price of the wholesome beverage of beer,
Lieutenant Francis Lean, by Colonel Menzies. an important necessary of life, to an extent that deprives
Lieutenant-Colonel Chatles R. W. Lane, on return from millions of the people of the enjoyment of it.
India, by the Earl of Donoughmore. The Legislature has of late years, after great opposie
Lieutenant Loch, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Loch. lion, freed bread and meat, the chief articles of food,
Lieutenant Colonel Logan, by the Duke of Hamilton. from taxation, and by their tree importation from other
Rev. James 11. Long; chaplain to her Majesty's ship countries has greatly improved the condition of the in-
Arrogant, by the Duke of Northumberland. dustrious classes. I desire, in like manner, to free malt
Mr. John Savile Lumley, first attache to her Majesty's from taxation, and thereby to add the cheap beverage of
Legation at St. Petersburgh, by the Earl of Malmes- beer to the comtorta of the people.
bury. The malt-tax was imposed, and has been continued
Mr. Mainwaring, on appointment as deputy lieutenant by Parliaments, consisting chiefly of landlords, who
for Shropshire, by the Vice-Chamberlain, the Right have had the power, if they had thought fit to exercise
Hon. Viscount Newport. it, of repealing the tax. There is now a Government in
Captain H. J. Matson, R N., on appointment to corn- power whose members have for the last six years been
maul her Majesty's ship Highflj er, by the Duke of loud in their advocacy of protection to native industry,
Northumberland. and especially of the welfare of the agricultural classes;
Lieutenant and Adjutant Wm. Mansell Mansell, R.M., and it behoves the farmers to test the sincerity of Earl
on appointment as Adjutant to the Chatham division Derby and his followers in their long-continued pro-
of Royal Marines, by his father, Rear-Admiral Sir lessions, by demanding the repeal of the duty upon malt,
Thomas Mansell. which is more oppressive to the tarmers and to all the
Mr. Maxwell, Ensign 47th Regiment, by Major-General other industrious classes, than any other tax levied for
Sir Thomas Wilishere, Bart., K.C.B. the public service.
Carlin Alfred R. Margery, on return from foreign ser- It is submitted that the farmers must now be con-,
vice, by Major- General Fane. vinced, by the late debates in the House of Commons,
Commander F. L. M'Clintock, her Majesty's ship In- that there remains little chance of any duty being re-
t., epii, on promotion and return from Arctic service, imposed on the importation of agricultural produce,
by Captain Alex Milne, R.N. which could raise the price of their corn and cattle, the
Captain Milne, R, N., on re-appointment to the Admi- two objects for which they have been contending, in any
ratty, by the Duke of Northumberland. appreciable degree; and it is to be hoped they will not
Lieutenant M•Nair, by Colonel Chas. Wyndham. be any longer deluded by empty promises, or persuade
Lieutenat George F. Mecham, 11 N., her Majesty's ship themselves that by any mere shifting of taxation from
Resolute, on appointment to Arctic Expedition, by the shoulders of one parry to those of another, any per-
Captain Sir B. vs,. Walker. manent relief can be afforded to the termer. The Pre-
Lieutenant• General Mercer, on promotion, by the Duke tendon's' Csbrnet does not promise' she farmers any re-
of Wellington. _ _ . lief by a reduction of taxation; but, on the contrary,
me_ 3,1,..tif, Crofton Morrison, by Sir George Staunton. k,ne of the present Secretaries of State has for the last
Lieutenant-Colonel Morse Cooper, on promotion, by three years successfully opposed the reforms in the levy-
Viscount C.anbermere. iag and expenditure of the county rates, which would
Lieutenant-Colonel Mundy, on his marriage and return give to the farmers the proper constitutional control over
from service in Australia, by Lieutenant-General Lord those retes/ which in mune counties are not in-
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Fitzroy S,rmer..,et.
Right Hon. Jo,eph Napier, on appointment as Attorney-
General for Leland, by the Earl of. Derby.
Lieutenant IL Nason, R.A., by Major-General Sir John
Owen, K.O B.
Mr. Newman. on appointment to Royal Devon Yeo-
manry, by Viscount Courtenay.
Captain Nicholson, by Lieut.-Colonel Lord de Tabley.
Captain Nott, by Lord Glenelg.
Major-General Sir Charles O'Donnell, on promotion by
the Duke of Wellington.
Mr. L. Oliphant, by Sir F. Pollock.
Commander Richard A. Oliver, R.N., on return from
foreign service, by the Duke of Northumberland.
Mr. Lionel Oliver, by Lieut.-General Goodfellow.
Admiral Sir John Ommanney, on appointment as corn-
matinder-in•chief at Devonport, by the Duke of North-
umberland.
Lieutenant Sherard Osborn, on return from Arctic ser-
vice and re-appointment, by the First Lord of the
Admiralty.
Commander Robert Joeelyn Otway, RN., on appoint-
im-nt as deputy lieutenant, county Tipperary, by
General Sir Loftus W. Otway.
Hon. Francis Pakenham, on appointment to her Majesty's
mission at Lisbon, by the Earl of Longford.
Mr. Arthur T. G. Pearse, by Sir Richard Bulkeley.
Lieutenant-Colonel Paschal, on promotion, by General
Sir Colin Halkett.
Lieut.• Colonel Passy, on promotion, by Lord George
Lennox.
Captain Sir George Brooke Pechell, RN., on appoint-
ment as a naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, by Vis-
count Palmerston.
Lieut.-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., on promo-
tion, by General Viscount Hardioge.
Mr. Edward Porter, late her Majesty's Consul at Bahia,
on return from foreign service, by the Earl of Malmes-
bury.
Sir John Potter, on his appointment as a deputy lieute-
nant for the county of Lancaster, by the Earl of Sefton.
Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter, by Lord John Russell.
Major-General William G. Power, on receiving the tes-
timonial for good service, by the Marquis of Anglesey.
Commander Pullen, R N., on re-appointment to Arctic
Expedition, by the Duke of Northumberland.
Captain Herbert Patton, by the Master General of the

considerable.
I wish the far mers would consider themselves—as they
in reality are—as manufacturers of agricultural produce,
and believe that cheap food and low taxes are as neces-
sary to enable them to compete with foreigners, and as
requisite to the comfort of their labourers, as these pro-
ducts of free trade have proved to the general manu-
facturing interest of the country.
The working-classes were for many years under the
delusion that the amount of their wages depended upi•n
the price of food; but that delusion had passed away;
and the rate of wages is now found to depend upon the
supply and demand of labour, and not on the price of
food. Farmers have been under a delusion of the same
kind with respect to the rent of their farms, which must
depend upon supply and demand, upon the number of
farms to be let, and the number of farmers desirous to
hire.

The price of produce, therefore, affects the permanent
interests of landlords more than those of tenants; and
farmers, as well as manufacturers, should advocate cheap
food, cheap drink, and economy and retrenchment in
every department of the state.
To obtain these benefits, the House of Commons must
be made a full and fair representation of the people at
large, and then the interests of the farmers and all other
industrious classes will be duly considered and attended
to; for the House of Commons, as at present constituted,
does not fairly represent either the people or the pro-
perty of the country, and, therefore, reform of Par-
liament is one of the first objects which should occupy
the attention of all the industrious classes of the com-
munity.
With extension of the suffrage, protection ensured to
the voter by ballot, and a more equal distributio❑ of re•
presentatives to electors, the constitutional balance of
power will be established in the Commons' House of Par-
liament; and then, and not till then, may the agricultu-
ral as well as all other industrious classes, hope to have
full and Equal justice done them.
I remain, your obedient servant,
JOSEPH HIMIE.

Ordnance.
Lieutenant Charles B. Payne, H.M.S. Herald, on ap-
pointment to the South Sea Expedition, by the Duke
of Northumberland.
Sub-Lieutenant A. W. Peyton, on appointment to let

Life Guards, by Colonel J. Hall.
Mr. George H. Poring, on appointment to 87th Regi-
ment, by Major-General Sir Jobe Ruh.
Captain W. H. Reeve, on promotion, by General Earl
of Strafford.
Ensign J. L. Reynolds, on return from India, by the

Right Hon. J. C. Herries.
Captain Peter Richards R.N. on nomination to good
service pension, by the Duke of Northumberland.
Commander G. H. Richards, on return from foreign ser-
vice, and appointment to her Majesty's ship Assistance,
by the First Lerd of the Admiralty.
Mr. Richard Grater Roach, on appointment to the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by the Earl of Sand-
wich.
Nisjor-General Sir John Rolt, on being
appointed to the
command of the western district, by the Duke of Wel-
lington.
Lieutenant Rolt, Coldstream Guards, on appointment to
the Staff, Western District, by his father, Major-Ge-
neral Sir John Rolt.
Captain Ross, by Admiral Sir George Sartorious.
Captain J. C. Salkeld, by the Right Hun. J. C. Herries.
Mr. J. Boyd Saunders, by the President of the Board of
Control.
Paymaster Scott, an appointment 38th Regiment, by
Lieut. General Hon. Hugh Arbuthnott.
Lieut. General Shubrick, on
promotion, by Admiral
Kelly.
Captain Charles Schomberg, R.N., on promotion, by the
Earl of Dundonald.
Rev. Honywood D'Owyns Yate Scott, by the Duke of
Richmond.
Mr. Charles Shubrick, on return from India, by Lieut.
General Thomas Shubrick.
Lieutenant Alexander J. Smith R.N., on return from
her Majesty's Magnetic Observatory, Hobart Town,
by the Duke of Northumberland.
Mr. Solomon, Hanseatic Consul at St. Helena, by Mr
Colquhoun, agent and Consul General for the Sense
Towns.

Major General Simpson, on appointment to command
south, western district, by the Earl of Stafford.
Mr. Alderman R. S. Spiers, sheriff of the city of Oxford,
by Right Hon. S. H. Walpole,
Ensign 3.11.111. Stewart) by Rear Admiral Houston
Stewart.
Lieutenant Charles Sullivan, her Majesty's ship St.
George, by his father, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles
Sullivan.
Sir George Grant Suttie, Bart., by the Duke of Mont-
rose.
Tbe Solicitor-General for Scotland, by Mr. Secretary
Walpole.
Captain Herbert Slade, by Lieutenant-Colonel Lord
George Paget.
Mr. Deane Shute, Deputy-Lieutenant of Hants, by the
Duke of Wellington.
Lieutenab.nyt
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aOrdnance.
Royal Artil-
lery,
Lieutenant Frederick R. Stack, by Lieutenant-Colonel
311acDuff.
Esrl Talbot, on appointment as one of her Majesty's
Lords in Waiting, by the Lord Chamberlain.
Surgeon Tardrew, 2d Lite Guards, on promotion, by
Colonel M.Douall.
Lieutenant Richard Williams Thomas, 7th Royal Fusi-
Hers, by his father, Vice-Admiral Thomas.
Lie Thomson,omerse.
t C. 8., 74th Highlanders,
by ute L
Dr. Todd, by Lord Claud Hamilton.
noarndt
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Gelonel Trevel) an, Coldstream Guards, on promotion,
by the Earl of Strafford.
et
Fitzroy
Lis utenant Harvey Tower, Coldstream Guards, on ap..
pointment, by the Earl of Strafford.
Lieutenant S. D. Turner, 21st Bengal Native Infantry,
by the Right Hon. J. C. Herries.
Ensign Roger D. Upton, Ist West India Regiment, on
appointment, by Lieut.-General Mercer.
800. Henry P. Vereker, her Britannic Majesty's Consul
at Rio Grande do Sul, by Earl Granville.
Mr. Samuel Vines, her Majesty's Consul at Para, on ap-
pointment, by the Earl of Malmesbury.
Commander F. P. Warren, on promotion, by the Duke
of Northumberland.
.Rear-Admiral Wallis, by the Duke of Northumberland.
14r. W. Walter Wells, Bengal tactical service, on re-
turn from India, by Liew.-Colonel Lane, C.B.
Surgeon A. C. Webster, 78th Highlanders, by Lord
Fi zroy Somerset.
Captain T. Narramore Were, Elder Brother of the
'trinity Howe, by the Duke of Wellington.
Mr. Whrble, by the Marquis of Clanricarde.
col oriel R. W. Wilson, C.B , Bengal Army, on return
to Jodie, by Viscount Gough.
Mr. Sydney Whiting, by Lord William Lennox.
Edward Andie‘! Wylde,
Lieut Dant R.M., on return
front foreign service, by Sir J. 0001'13.
Sir William Cubitt.
Mr. Mr. isx Si
. Digby Wyatt, by s.
3.
FAvard Wyndham, by Law Lushington.
Captain George K. Wilson, R.N., by Lord Berners.
Frederick Green Wilkinson, 42d Royal High-
Captain
promotion,
by Sir John RAt.
on
laude,"s•
nd Prince Albert returned to Bucking-
ham Her griik'sq
a the Levee.
l'Allee after
University Commission had a meeting
The 0 aford
effieial residence of the First Lord of
yesterday at the
Dian wninstreet. Presen•t—the Bishop
the Treasury in
°of Carlisle, the
" h the
of Norwich, G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, E:q.,
broke, the Rev. •
11 the ev G•
H
Professor Powe •G.H. S. ona on,
and the Rev. A. Johnson,
and Rev. (secretßary.\
P. Stan'ey

The Duchess Dowager of Becitord and the Lady
Rachel Evelyn Russell, who have beenpassing the winter at
irighton, have returned to Caropden-hill for the sewn.