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T he Glasgow Argus contains the following para
grail h :
Le RD BROUGHAM AND THE COUN-LANcs.—We are happy to
h, eye it in our power to announce the hearty accession of one
nivel able champion to the cause. Lord Brougham has
Ilrov ri himself heart and soul into it. We have good autho-
r ''tY t or statinc, that he has pledged himself to lead the battle
c n is subject both in and out of Parliament. He
entertain
st
hit s self ; stow, then. comes the tug of war.
W
e shadow of a doubt that the gigantic mind which, as an
dant Hercules, strangled the Orders in Council, will, as a
nature Hercules, crush the monster Corn-laws.
But before the Argus can accept, at least before we
3'l ate-apt, and before the people can accept, Lord
aoliG.n.am as a leader on this subject, some ex-
Planation appears to be indispensable. The Glas-
gow Argus has declared for an unconditional
repeal of the Corn-laws ;so have we ;so did Mr
STURGE in the letter we yesterday inserted ; so do the
people generally ; and nothing can or ought to be put
in competition with their demand for Universal Suffrage,
'hut the absolute, unconditional repeal of the whole
.body of the Corn-laws. But Lord BROUGHAM has
"very recently delivered an opinion at variance with this
not to say directly hostile to it, which we notice
ao produce some explanation. Lord Baouorram
aai (I. in the house of Lords, as reported in our Paper
of Al igust 15th—
It . is a gross delusion to suppose that any thing could be
so .()°,l for the landlord as to have a fixed duty, which would
eaus cot n always to be at a steady price. It would be better
for the country—it would be as good for the producer, in my
opini on, as
.it would be good for the consumer."
A t present we can import corn at all times on the
payns .ent of duty, varying as to the price, till it rises
to 73;5., when it is brought in at the nominal duty of
lsve We prefer this echeme to a fixed duty. What-
er trtight be. the amount of a fixed duty, unless it
were so high tas to amount to a prohibition, corn
world always be imported, and the revenue of the
State would be increased by the whole sum levied on
the imported corn. But the aristocracy is the great
recipient of taxation, and has the disposal of the
whole sum. A fixed duty on corn, therefore,
which added to the amount of the revenue, would
of itself swell the resources of the aristocracy and in-
crease their power. Moreover, a fixed duty would at
AI times enhance to the consumer the price of every
quarter of corn by a sum equal to its rate. If the
duty were, as some persons propose, 15s. per quarter,
it would levy a tax of 15s. per quarter, not only on all
the foreign corn brought in, enhancing to that extent
the public revenue, hut it would also levy an equal tax
on all the corn grown at home, enhancing to
that extent the revenues of the landlords.
Now, by a little juggling with the market,
greatly to the profit of the speculators, we admit, and
defeating, at which we rejoice, the hopes of the land-
lords—the gambling of the former correcting tho plunder
of .the latter—a supply is brought in at no duty,
which
does not swell the public revenue ; while the monied
classes take care that neither landlords nor farmers
401 reap much profit by the existing system,
sOwtever misery it entails on the country. We there-
fore prefer the present system to a fixed duty,
and w ould not write a line nor stir a hand to effect
that eh:lige which, judging by Lord BROUGHAM'S
Speech 013 August 14, appears to limit his views.
We cat; understand a tat: levied for the public ser-
vice ; but at present, the people require a reduction of
such taxes, and will not therefore tolerate an additional
'tax levied on their food. But on no principle can sve
defend a tax which is levied on the people's food, not
for the service of the State, but for the benefit of the
landowners. It is merely taking. property from one
class to give to another, and is a violation of the prin-
ciple on which obedience is claimed to political antho-
ical duty and
autho-
rity. On the same principles, therefore, of poli.
t
common honesty, we declare as
stoutly against a fixed duty as against the vary-
ing scale ;
while, in a mere pecuniary point of
view, it is more to be deprecated. A fixed duty
would
continue to relieve the landowners, who now per.
form not one of the services fur performing which chi
. soil was originally appropriated to them, from bearing
.xelusively the burden of that child of their love and
their adoption, the Established Church ; and neither
--on principle, therefore, nor as working in practice,
• does a fixed duty on corn offer one advantage which
can induce us to recommend it to the people.
On what ground is a duty proposed ? The home