The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—May I request you to correct an error in your
report of my speech on the adulteration of coffee?
lum made to say that "in my opinion the latter
course (viz., to impose an Excise duty upon British
grown chicory) is the most advisable to adopt."
Oa the ct.ntrary, I said that such a course wou'd be
both impolitic and unjust, and I censured the Govern-
ment for havinf, two:mined it. I repeated my observa-
tions on that and in my speech in reply.
The course which I proposed was to leave chicory to
the operation of the existing law, and to take off the
present Customs' duty on colonial coffee.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY.
4, Elm-court, Temple, May 11, 1849.

Viscountess Palmerston entertained a
Viscount apn,claty
at dinner on Saturday last
included his
distinguished
tChearilltaovna-griaarndertniisn.
istTerheangduet
mansion in
CAertutnod,
etlhaendEsaurlrreeyn, dviCscoouunut et sasn
dCo
Viscountesspsehtes
Lord and Lady Norreys, Lord Bowden, Lord and Lady
Beaumont, &c. Later in the evening the Noble
countess had an assembly, at which several
members of
the corps diplotnotiqzte and many of the
nobility were
present.
GARDENERS' AND SALESMEN'S PROTECTION SO..
CIETY.—(From a Correspondent.)—Owing to the serious
expense to which wholesale venders of vegetable pro-
duce arc subjccted by the loss of sacks and baskets
stolen, viz upwards of 5,000 annually, the farmers,
market gardeners, and salesmen of the mettropolis and
have established an association tor the better
its suburbs,
protection of their property, and on Tuesday last Wil►
Liam Johnson was convicted at the Middlesex sessions,
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, for steal-
ro ertv of George Stela, farmer, of
ing ten sacks, Le p .
t3tanwell, a member of tho association. r th e BaronessJa Earl theirdo de

TO THE S.ECRETARY OF THE

METROI'OLITAN. REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On 'Wednesday the 9zb, ali with the title
of Employment of Labour (Ireland), after having been
ou a former day read a second time, was thrown out
on the motion for going into Committee, by 166
against 41. The Irish ideas of political economy do
net app?ar to agree with those of the country at
large.

str 6u
eat
on 1
ambrnsudta
oV;ir‘e'\airtsh Europe fsaindg i
,
mons House of Parliament, "That this House views
with serious concern and disapprobation the great
w a in mad
nn tt e r
ce enonn-
i _
and growing increase of the consumption of the
plant Chicory in the adulteration cif Cotiee.., After
several lengthened speeches, some maintaining the
right of every man to drink decoction of Chicory
provided he liked it better, and others denying it,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the
reasonable middle term, of announcing that if he
found the revenue seriously affected by the degluti-
tion of Chicory, he must in self-defence put some-
thing of duty upon it. If it was rot like
what has been called breaking a butterfly
upon a wheel, there are a good many points
on both sides of the question, which might be use-
fully discussed if anybody had nothing else to do. In
the mean time, the fidgety ardour of the agriculturists
to see no impediments thrown in the way of a crop
which has been known to net 181. per acre, and the
convulsive eagerness of a different set of monomaniacs
who seem to think man lives only for the sake of
paying taxes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
make a not altogether unamusing scene.
On the same day, it was moved that the House
should resolve itself into Committee, " to consider the
ieclaireeivdxephentnrldei tfuaprrreei)snastunhdremt
may
yep
obrel existingrtehveis
revised, with
tmirtyho faotflaixtehawe-
ttp
tot lo
bn
,
r
country." This looks very fair ; but when the litter
came to be turned over, it appeared that underneath
was the return to dear postage, the restoration of
protection to all industries that represent themselves
as capable of taking something from the industry of
anybody else, and the suppression of foreign trade
where anybody can be found to make the article
dearer and worse at home.
It is but just to add, that
with this was joined a proposal to lay the taxes in
general upon the rich in preference to the poor, and
to invent some special taxes of
thi kind for the pur-
pose of diminishing the debt. But it was clear that
these were the peculiar notions of the individual pro-
s
poser, and that if the rest Were carried, these would
be
ii,enl it
n lurch. tv‘ha lrch.
ronug,
in
opl is
pt difficultosingttie
p rtnoßsraeys
st(hde
whatG oveiri
had
d-
such a programme. But many individual Members
not connected with the Government, thought it right
to record at least their non-resistance to anything
which had the revision of taxation flying at the peak.
75h1e
apgraeivnisotu
oqou. estion being put, was negatived by
A Select Committee was on the same evening ap•
pointed without a division, " to inquire into and re-
port upon the expenditure of certain sums which
appear unaccounted for, under the head of Parliamen-
tary expenses, in the report which was recently pub-
lished by a Committee appointed to inquire into the
management of the affairs of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company." It is clear that after the asser-
tion made that these items could not be explained,
the House of Commons could do nothing but inquire.
On Friday a series of dull debates was partially
enlivened by a question of Irish Corporation compen-
sation. The ill arriage question, it appears, is put off
till the 6th of June. There has been something like
an anxiety on the part of the opponents of the Bill to
prevent its coining to a decision, which bodes present
weakness. Where an evil effects a comparatively
small portion of the community, it often happens
that the bigots rally faster by delay than the opposi-
tion to them. If the question were of burning men
at Smithfield, the result might b? different. But,
is frequently in favour of the
Short of that, delay
wrong.
AN OLD REFORMER.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, "May 14, 1849.