The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-16 00:00:00

Schedule.

No. 1. each article pro- 25 articles produc-
ducing under ing the aggre-
£loo of duty.
2911
2. 5001£,378229
3. 1,000 B4 gate..... 5um..... 0f:.... .. .
4. 5,000
5. 100,000
12 ..................
0. 500,000

oats, and other grain, and oxen,
No. And duty £916,435
sheep, goats, and
That whilst the agricultural produce of wheat, barley,
other animals, are admitted duty free to compete with
similar productions of the United Kingdom, it is both
impolitic and unjust to the country and to the agricul-
tural interests especially, to continue duties of import on
articles of foreign manufacture of the same kind and
class with those manufactured in the United Kingdom,
as by these protective duties on imports the fair compe-
tition of foreign manufactured articles with the articles
of British manufacture is prevented. That this House
will, at an early period, take into its consideration the
inequality and injustice of the existing tariff on articles
of import into this country, both of manufactures and
agricultural produce, with the view of speedily removing
the inequalities of import duties affecting unfairly every
interest in the country.
The object of Mr. Hume was to explain to the
House and to the country that, although Sir H. Peel
had struck off the tariff 600 or 700 extras in the
customs imports, that there yet remain (and he has
had them all stated in these returns to avoid cavil
and opposition) 233 of manufactured, and 42 of agri-
cultural produce having a protection of near 1 mil-
lions sterling.
Mr. Hume, in the last paragraph of his resolution,
desires to pledge the House to an early consideration
of those duties, with the view of carrying out free
trade fully and completely,. as demanded by the agri-
cultural interests, as we think fairly and justly.
We would recommend the Marquis of Granby and
all that class of quondam protectionists (for we must
suppose there are no Protectionists now in the Mi-
nistry) to examine those returns carefully, and to
make the distinction between the articles imported
and duties imposed for revenue, and those with du-
ties of a protective nature. We trust that the new
Parliament will be soon called upon to make the dis-
tinction.—Morning Paper.

THE METROPOLITAN MARKETS
QUESTION.

Mr. Secretary Walpole felt he was morally bound to
allow the Corporation to set down the cattle-market
nuisance in Copenhagen-fields, having, in fact, already
agreed to it. Is the Homo Secretary under no moral
obligations to the public? Why is ho morally bound
down to Corporation abuses alone, if sheer neglect of
his moral obligations to the public led to the moral error
of agreeing to such a public nuisance? Is not such a
morel error much more easily retractable in reality than
a transaction involving moral corruption would have
been? In their memorial to the Corporation the Cam-
den-town committee point attention to the fact, that
should the Corporation persist, they will have to submit
to very stringent by-laws, which must be approved by
the Home Secretary; but is it possible that the Cam-
den-town committee can lean on that brittle reed after
what has occurred? The public interests have already
been betrayed in the much greater matter of the re-
establishment of the nuisance itself, nearly as much in
the midst of the population as it was, and notwithstand-
ing the public battle that was deliberately fought to get
rid of it: the disgusting object, though compel!, d to
" move on," has plumped down again in the midst of the
streets immediately the policeman's eye was for a mo-
ment off it. By-laws, they may depend on it, will not
operate in terrorem on such a subject, We have more
faith in the force of a full representation of the extent
and intensity of the proposed nuisance made to the
Corporation or the Market Committee themselves. We
cannot believe that these gc ntlemen wilt persist, in the
face of such a representation, in re-establishing the
market on the site in question. One very strong objec-
tion to it, even apart from its public demerits, is the
fact that there is not a sufficient supply of water for
such an establishment, there being already a very re-
stricted supply. chiefly from the ponds at Highgate and
Hampstead. The populous and settled character of the
district, however, constitutes the main objection to a
nuisance which has already been found intolerable in any
such district.—Builder.

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