The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. MAY 21, 1840.

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decided opinion teat the Government was wrote; et t enie the en ti:,: - t ._ pt .., oi' •-• i' ..f i. le - .t ' .i. t . e
when such such was not asserted by the American Government. mere extievagatit than the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The course taken by the Right Hon. Gent. Was extremely who might exclaim, es did Lord Clive at the bar of the
inconvenient, although it might be convenient enough to House of Commons, that at that moment he was astonished
the parties, and he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman at his own moderation. He should vote against the tax
wculd not pursue it. It wiis a case of British subjects proposed be the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
appearing at the Treasury, and stating they considered Mr. HUME explained.
that good faith towards America compelled us to make Mr. E. RICE having voted against the amendment of
this reduction at a time when the British and American 1 the Member for Kilkenny the otleir night. he wished to
. Governments were in perfect accordance on"the subject; 1 state that he should vote for the second reading of the
and when such was the ease, were they the parties to ' Bill, as he considered the proposition of the Chan-
whom the Government should listen ?—( Hear, hear.) eellor of the Exchequer was the best means of meeting
As to the remonstrauces which were said to have been the emergency in which the country was placed.
made to the Treasury, he could only say that was the first Mr. DARBY would not oppose the second reading of
time he had heard of them. The Right Hen. Gentleman ' the Bill, but he wished to know from the Chancellor of
did not appear to understand the words of the treaty, the entchequer alien he intendiel to go into Cern:twice
which stated that any rice wherever grown, if imported on the Bill, because time ought to be afforded to parties
from the west coast of Africa, should be entitled to come to censider the situation in which they would be placed
in under the lower rates of duty ; but cif the other by this Bill, in order that no injustice might be corn-
it stated no such thing. The bees'-wax must be the mitted. It might be a good principle to put five per cent.
produce of Africa, as well as imported from the West on different articles, but if there was an immense texa-
coast of that country. The object of the treaty was, tion, say 1,200 per cent. on one article, and only 5 per
,
'giving to that country these articles of sale, to turn their cent, on another, the raising of that taxation by 5 per
attention from the slave trade to honest industry. He felt cent. might in particular instances operate very unfairly.
confident the American Government would not press the He admitted it was an easy mode fur the Chancellor of
case in a way which would compel us to recur to our the Exchequer of inceasing the revenue, but gross itijus•
former prohibition, and thus prevent the little good which lice might be:committed by it.
had been effected by it from being continued. Mr. E WART concurred with those Hon. Gentlemen
After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. HER- who deplored that Ministers had been urged into an ex-
RIM Sin explanation, penditure by Hon:" Gentlemen opposite. Indeed, one of
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, without passing any the happy effects of a Conservative opposition was, that
opinion on this particular case, of which he was not suffi- extravagance was coincided in and frugality opposed.—
clently informed to do, he thought if a British merchant (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He was glad that his Hon.
put a correct construction on a treaty, and made a specula:. Friend the Member for Kilkenny had called the attention
tion on the faith of it, the waiver of one of the contracting of the House to the predominance of the landed interest in
Governments had no right to disentitle him to the advar,_ its exemption from taxation.. In no other European na-
tages of the treaty.—( Hear, hear.) tion 'did that distinction exist, for in almost every other
Mr. LABOUC HE RE thought that the statements of country there was a land tax, and instead of taxing labour
his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and commerce they taxed superfluous luxuries. Originally
wero not properly understood by the Right Hon. Baronet, the principle revenues of England were derived from land
He should also say that he had never heard with greater and malt ; the wars of ' William 111., and all:the great
surprise a speech in that House than the speech in which victories of Marlborough, were supported principally
the discussion had been introduced by the Right lion. by a tax on land, but now our commerce was loaded
Member for Harwich. The question was whether it was and land was exempt from taxes. The secret was
in the power of this country, consittently with the rights of that the majority of both Houses of Parliament were
treaties, to give a preference to articles of commerce pre- landlords.—( Hear, hear.) Not merely by the exemption
duced in any particular country. Without entering into from some taxes, but by the addition of others, they derived
any particular discussion on the subject he should observe benefit, as for instance in the Corn-laws.—( Hear, hear.)
th t that was the general practice of all commercial No doubt an aristocratic country, where the landed interest
countries. predominated, would have a tendency to taxation and ex-
After a few words from Mr. GOULBURN and Mr, travagance. Because the aristocracy would have a ten.
LABOUCHERE, deney to wars, for their lands being mortgaged, they
Mr. CHRISTOPHER withdrew the amendment cf
which he had given notice, until the House went into C0.,.-wished to get their younger sons provided for. He thought
the present system was much more unfair tnan a system of
miitee on the Bill. ad valorem duty, because, it that cyst( m were adopted, the
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rich would pay a larger portion of the tax in proportion to
proposed that the House should go into Committee on the quantity and value of the luxuries they consumed. He
Friday next. confessed he thought that was the only just and fair system
Colonel SIBTH OR P censured the dangerous and ne. of taxation, and be trusted it would be eventually adopted.
farioue courses pursued by Chancellors of the Exchequer He fully agreed with those Hon. Members who demanded
of late. He wished that the Chancellor of the Exchequer a revision of the present system of taxation. If they did
who laid his Bill on the table of the Houvo or. that morn- not take up the matter soon, and with a determination to
lug only, should postpone the further consideration of it for effect sound and judicious alterations in it, they would one
a week or ten days. cf these days be awakened from their slumber by the loud and
The queition of the second, reading ,having been put— urriversal discontent which at present prevailed throughout
Mr. WA RB UR.TON objected to the additional duties the country, and which before long would overwhelm the
proposed to he levied on timber. He believed that the country. He trusted the-subject would be taken up early
Chancellor cf the Exchequer would not gain what he ex- in the next Session of Parliament by the Member for Kil-
peeled by such an arrangement. The result of it would kelt:ly, whose attention to that subject best fitted him fur
he that in the course of a short time they- would not have bringing it forward.--( Hear, hear.) He should on the
a stick of colonial timber. He believed that if the Right present occasion vote for the amendment, as be believed
Hon. Gentleman had merely imposed a duty of 10s. on the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was
colonial timber, and felt the Baltic timber as it was—he in many respects objectionable.
would benefit by such an arrangement to the extent of Mr. W. ATTWOOD was unwilling, from the general
660,0001. concurrence which the plan of the Chancellor of the Ex--
Captain GORDON objected to the additional duty on chequer bad received, to offer any observations to the
...piths, particularly to the mode in which it was to be House, but it appeared to him, after a full consideration of
levied, which would he unequal and unfair. ; and as 50 par the subject, that the plan was not the beat that could be
cent, was to be taken off the foreign spirits duty, that adopted under the circumstances. The House, however,
would come into competition, and the result would be the having admitted that in the present deficiency of the re-
increase of smuggling. In CoMmittee he (Captain Gor- venue some temporary expedient of the kind should be
don) should propose en alteration on this point. - adopted, he should not vote for the amendment. Tin;
Mr'. WILLIAMS could not allow the Bill to pass by House would pause, host-ever, before it put implicit faith
without saying, that if he could believe that the expenses in the statements of the Right Hon. Gentleman as to the
which had been incurred were just, he should be cblieed probable results of his calculation, which he apprehended
to admit that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had would be found lamentably deficient. That would be mat-
adopted the only honest mode of meeting them—by in_ ter for future consideration with the House, and he felt
crease of taxation—( Hear, bear)—but he did not per- satisfied that his predictions would be fully verified.
ceive any justification of the great increase which bad Captain PECI-lELL had supported the reduction of
taken place in the national expenditure for the last few the postage, and bad been one of those who had pledged
years. The increase in the standing arty, for example, himself to make good the deficiency, but he thought the
was in his view unnecessary. On the whole, there had
been an augmentation of upwards of four millions in the steps that had been taken for that purpose in the present
instance were objectionable in many respects. He was
expenditure since 1835. Was this the cheap Govern- decidedly opposed to the additional duty which it'was in-
merit ?—( Hear, bear, from Colonel Sibthown ) Why, tended to impose upon windows. He had little hope of
there had been an increase of between two and three mil-
success in any representation he might make on this sub
lions in the expenditure since the year before the Reform i
ect to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and feared he
- Bill—a positive increase over the expenditure of the old should be obligedoo oppose him at a future stage of the
boroughmnngering system.—( Hear, bear.) Mr. Williams
Bill.
said he would never cease recommending a property tax— Sir G. SINCLA IR thought the Chancellor of the Ex.
which would be tha only fair and equitable system, and chequer bad now adopted sound principles, and was adopt-
the only means of securing economy in the administration ing them in practice in a proper manner. He protested
of the national funds—(Hear, hear)—which was vow little against the system which had been pursued, and thought,
thought of, in consequence of the taxes being borne princi- if persisted in, it would meet with a speedy and abrupt '
pally by the middle and lower classes.--(Hear, hear.) termination. He feared the outward bound bills which
The existing system of taxation was unjust in the highest were equipped and waiting for orders, would be obliged
degree; it was imposed on the articles required by the for the want of them to lay by for the winter, and he
working part of the community; 30,000,000/, of the re- feared at the Queen's Theatre of St. Stephen's the curtain
venue was levied on spirits; malt and hopswsngar, tea and of prorogation would di op before any of those extraordi-
coffee, butter, corn, cotton, tobacco, -paper, Ste., and by nary performances had been exhibited which had been so
weight and measure, not advalorem duty ; so that the rich glaringly advertised to the country.—(Laughter.) All
paid no more for the best qualities than-the poor for the they had• yet done was to make long speeches 'and 'vote
worst.—(Hear, bear.) What reason could be: assigned, money.--k Hear, hear.) How would it be possible for a
now, why there should not be a tax levied on- the -descent person to go on in private life on this hocus-pocus sys-
of real property, as there was upon the descent of real tem of raising money on Exchequer Bills?—(Hear. )
property? He would certainly
.be no party to the conti- Wny were Frost and his associates regarded by the work-
nuance of the present unfair and unjust system of taxation, ing classes as martyrs instead of malefactors? Because
and he therefore moved that this Bill be read a second time the Reform Bill had failed to produce to them any of the
that day six months, benefits that it promised, and they had neither better elec-
Mr. HUME, in seconding the motion, said they tors, better Members, or better measures through it. He
were driven to that course by the forms of the was as much a friend to education as anybody, but people
House, which would not permit them to alter must have bread as well as Bibles—( Hear, hear)—and
the - mode of taxation proposed, and therefore were they to place a copy of all the publications of the So-
they must object to 'the whole, or to no part ofthe Bill, He ciety of Useful Knowledge in every cottage in the king-
perfectly agreed that the present system of taxation was dom, it would be useless unless they at the same time ad-
grossly unjust and -.partial, bearing chiefly on the lower ministered to the physical wants of the inmates. The
and middling classes; the aristocracy, with all their basted whole financial system of the country was wrong. The
stake in the country, paid less than any other aristocracy. country was like a patient between two quack physicians, the
In other countries the landed interest paid 27, or 25, or -Whig and Tory parties, and would die between them both,
20 per cent. in direct taxation in Franco, Belgium, Hol- All that the people wanted was shelter and protection, and
land, &c. -But what taxation did the land bear here? In kindness was never thrown away on them, There was a
1795, when-Mr. Pitt brought in two Bills, one to tax per- complaint, however, among them that the. House never
:tonal, the other real property, the first was. carried, the paid sufficient attention to their interests, and that while
other rejected—( Hear, hear)—and the equalization had the rich were represented in it, the claims of the poor were
never been attempted yet, though never was there such neglected.—( Hear, hear.) The present condition of
beneficial to those
misery and privation as new pressed upon the working things was undoubtedly who could look
classes. On no honest principle, then, could he essent to forward to places for their relations and power and profit
this Bill. Since 1836 there had been an increase of for themselves, but the humble never shared in its benefits.
600,0001 a year in the charge upon the funded debt. The --(Hear, hear.) The substance of the remonstrances of
charge on the unfounded debt was in 1836 736.0001. In the poor amounted to this—they said, "We are a large
1839 it was 771,000/. In all the establishments, such as Portion of the inhabitants of this country ; we are willing
the Civil List, there had also been a increase. In to work, but we lead an existence so wretched that life is a
1836 • the charge upon the Civil List was misfortune, and vie call upon you to adopt such measures
2,137.000/., last year it was 2,410 0001., and in .
as will enable us to emigrate to foreign chines or to earn at '
the four departments, the Army, Navy, Ordnance, borne a sufficient livelihood." Those remonstrances, how- '
and Miscellaneous Estimates, there had been an increase ever, passed unheeded, and the people were cen-
of three millions. The aggregate increase of the expendi- stared and condemned beyond measure for Murmur.
ture from 1836 to 1839, was 4,296,000/. That increase ing against the institutions under which they lived.
had been produCed by the immoderate votes of the House. Radicalism and riches (if not incompatible) seldom went
—( Hear.) Gentlemen on the other side were constantly together—( Laughter)—and few thought how much our
harassing the Government to increase the navy, and raising patriotism depended on our prosperity.—( Hear, hear.)
a cry of the danger to which the whole country was ex- If the Patriarch Job—( A laugh)--had declared that none
posed in an unprepared state. They ought now to be served Cod far naught, and that if he lsid his baud upon
manly enough to take the charge upon. themselves. them they would speedily curse him, so the Chancel-
( Hear.) Tne Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a consei- for of the Exchequer would find in his case, if he proposed
entious man, ought to ler& to the rich, wlyi had occasioned to tax the rich—(Cheers)—to rate incomes, or to tax
-the expenditure, and make them hear their proportion of briefs.—( Laughter.) Unless, however, the grievances of
the burdens. A tax upon landed inheritance was ealeu- the working classes were redressed, there might be a !her-
b:Wed to 'produce 2,4 000,003/ The additional duty of ful crisis, much nearer then politicians, however prudent,
3 per cent. upon the raw material would greatly affect our or statesmen, however sem:Mous, imagined.—( Hear, hear.)
manufacture and diminish employment, adding to the Their outbreaks might for a time be repressed by ballets
staff. ring of the productive part of the community. The and bayonets, and their leaders crushed by gaols and gib-
conduct of the Minister in this respect was inconsistent bets, but nothing could suppress the sullen -moulderingwith his duty and the oath he had taken —( Hear, bear.) discontent of millions suffsriag end aggrieved,' but the re-
Could he lay his hand upon his heart and say dress of their wrongs, and the removal of their misery.-
-that the mode of meeting his financial difficuliits (Hear, • hear.) And while our fellow-countrymen were
was the best he could propose? Last year there was an thus suffsring it was hypocritical to expend our philander°.
iacrease in the revenue of 1,460,'1001, of which he was lihy on Hindoos. Hottentots, and Hill Coolies.—(A laugh.)
sorry to say the greater portion r.rose from the duty upon Mr. MrUNTZ feared that this increase of taxes was
an article of food.—( Hear, hear.) Whilst many of tha cot temporary only, but permanent, and that every year
-working classes were, with their wives and children,. dying' would bring in fresh and larger calls for increase; he
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for the want of food, they could see the corn through the therefore should feel bound to vote against the Bill. The
grated windows locked up from their reach. Gentlemen 4 landed interests, he thought, had no right to protect them-
-smiled, but did not want produce disease, and did not die- selves by the Corn-laws, unless they gave the people
-ease produce death ?—(A laugh.) He (Mr. Hume) wages in proportion to the price of corn,—(Hear, hear.)
wished the Hon. Member who laughed had a trial him- The fact was, that our difficulties arose from the contest
self, and he would sing to a different tune.—(A leugh.) between the Corn-laws and the
.money law—the first
If that House were really the representatives of the rt.-ass ,tending to make cent twice as high as the latter had a
of the people, and as the ballot-hex would make it, the tendency to make it. Between them,. we paid 50 per
excess of expenditure would never take place. But it Rats , cent. more for food titan our manufactures could stand.
absur!a to call that House the House of Commons, as it The people had long found that the Whigs but followed
attended only to the interacts of the rich, from whom it in the wake of the Tories ; and hence, feeling that if
threw all the burdens on the shoulders of the people. they were to be starved to death, it might as well be by
Mr. HAWES was sorry that on this occasion he could Whigs as by Tories, had became indifferent as to what
give no support to the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, for be party governed.—(Laughter.) In fact, the loyalty and
was bound to say that the mode in which the Chancellor of religion of Englishmen lay rather in their stomachs__
the Exchequer had endeavoured to raise the additional in- (Laughter)—and if nut well filled, their stomachs would
come necessary was, as far as he could .understand the nut allow of either.-4 Hear, bear.)
feeling; in the House and ounrather acceptable than other- Mr. BERNAL wished to know treat was to be done
wise. There was one clause, however, in the Bill, to which with regard to windows opened (as we under-
be wished to call the attention of the Chancellor of the stood him to say) for trade or professional pursuits.
Exchequer, and which he was sure could only shave He wished to ask it it was intended to add the 10 per centif
been inserted through mistake. Tire clause (the 7th) upon windows opened on the faith of the former Act?
was to the t ffset that in the ease of contract entered his Right. Hon. Friend could give the explanation con-
into before the passing of the all, either party—the cot.- sistently with his duty, it would be very thankfully re-
tractor or the pureimeer might declare the contract in- ceived by the country. —( Hear, hear.)
valid. The inconvenience of that was so obvious that he No answer was given.
Member fear Kil-
me
could only believe there was some mistake. If the addi- Mr. TURNER said that if the Hon. M •
don of 5 per cent. was to be permanent, he would oppose kenny had moved for a property-tax, he would have sup
it, but if it was to be a temporary expedient, he hoped ported him. But he could not support the
rd the neces-
amendment,
that the House would, in the meantime, turn its attention considering the difficulties of the finances a
to a revision of the whole system cf taxation. There was city for raising a larger income.
Howas
t productive
desirous of such.
no country in the world where so much of the taxation a revision of the taxation as would relieveb
u ens upon the
was paid out of the productive capital, nor was there any classes, and throw a portion of the rthh
country which possessed so much capital not applied to the wealthier classes. He hoped the time
when the wealthier classes would take.i:as not far distant
to their considera-
purposes of production, and yet that unproductive capital who were
contributed nittidog to the burdens of the country. tion the means of relieving the working classes,
as was ever
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was at this moment in a state of distress as great
understood to say, in explanation, that he saw the clause suffered by any people in the world.
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alluded to with surprise, and that it must have been in- Mr. SLAM EY (who spoke amidst cries of Divide )
served through mistake.—( Hear, hear.) - could not agree to the amendment, as it would only defer
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Mr. GISBORNF—I-1 thought the theory of the Con- the evil day; but, at the same time, he
otosted against
stitutien to be that the House of Commons was a check the measure of the Government as
i a permanentr enactment.
upon the extravagance of the Government. But if ever There was a great and growing ridifference amongst the
that roes the case, the tables were now turned, and there people as to which of the two great parties in that House
was no security but that of the Chancellor of the Exche- held the reins of Government, and he would urge upon
i
themselves to a re-
side against the extravagance of the House. On one Hon. Members on both sides to app
• - yld the relief of the
side of the House there was unqualified approbation of a vision of the system of taxation, and
lavish expenditure, and on the other hend the Hon. Mem- / suffering. pep` le.
lor of the Exchequer
bar for Lambeth info: mod them that the Chancellor of the Mr. WARD thought the Chancel
Exchequer had increased his ' • b increase 'might have increased the revenue by other means than
popu.arity y an of ll on the mess of the
t"alimh-e--( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Every one had resorting to a taxation that must fill
the least able to
his hobby. His Hon. Friends the Members for Kilkenny, community, and upon those who were
Lambeth, and 13riti hadattachment .
port no to armies and gufft
diminutionof the small return they at present
r a
daily and hourly
natirs •
, their hobby was in hole-and-corner improvements,, derived from their labour. He received .
.
represented, Sheffield, of the
and accordinely tl •voted • complaints from the town ho reprete
Downing-street.—("
, . , they 400.000/. for improvements in
mowning-strect.—(" No, no," from Mr. Hume.) He did pressure which the Corn-lows imposed upon .
- elves from it.
not reeret Vint the Chancellor t f ti- . E h found the utter impassibility of extricetiow themselves
himself' in difficulty, which he >bd..eev dxc equer
he
The Hen. Baronet, the Member for Clithotem (Sir G. i
lof c would be t
fate of the poll- .
the I
only means of inducing Chancellors the Exchequer, or Sinclair) had described appropriately
the House
The tions that were presented to that House. They were not .
of Commons, to reduce the expenditure. i

is eee eoe ie; o-eti
as they were kid on the table. He thought tin theeilt
reckon that Hon. Baronet henceforward as an earecet con-
vert to the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for
Wolverhampton, for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and as a
decided opponent to the motion of the Hon. Baronet the
Member for the University of Oxford, because he had told
the Hattie they must deal henceferward with the physical
rants of 0-e people.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Ward) had
nu doubt a substitute might be found for the grant pro,
posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and feeling it
was iliter duty to ameliorate the pressure on the working
clesees, and not to increase taxes on articles con-
sumed by the great mass of the population, he should
give hia vote in favour of the amendment of the Hon.
M-ru ber f .r K•'keney,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would
detain the ii eeie for a very short hew, because Hon.
Gentlemen, in the course of the present debate had token
the opportuuity of expressing their own opinions as to the
course they were likely to pursue, rather than entering
into any argument as to the arrangement he had pro-
posed. These were one or two things, however, which had
dropped in the course of the debate, and questions had been
put to him which he ought to reply to. The Mon. Mem.
ioer for Lambeth, in addition, ha then took the liberty of
enswering„ lied asked him whether this was a temporary
arrange.nent? He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer)
rasa quite sure that the best course in cases of this kind
was that there should he no concealment between hint and
the House.—( Cheers.) Nothing would give him greater
pleasure than bein, enabled, by the circumstances of the
couriery to reduce taxation, but he would not shrink from stet-
iog that it was not his intention ever to place the finances
of the country in such a condition, that the income might
be permanently below i s expenditure.—(Loud cheers.)
That duty he had felt so imperative as to compel him to
call upon the country on the present occasion to make an
effort to render the income of the country equivalent to its
oxpenditure.—( Hear, hear.) That same duty would in-
duce him to continue that course, believing it was the only
sale and proper course to pursue.—(Cheers.) He sin-
cerely believed it was the best course for the poor as well
as the rich; he sincerely believed that disordered finances
were the seeds of all calamities that befel nations.—
(Cheers.) Temporary expedients were easily talked of,
but disordered finances led to distress at home and con-
tempt abroad.—(Cheers.) It led to an incapacity of
meeting those pressures which must occasionally occur
from interests being heavily dealt with by a 'particular class
of taxes, and it led to an impossibility of relieving those
parties who laboured peculiarly under difficulties; but
there were on the present occasion some interests
he should have wished to have relieved if he had
been able to sacrifice any portion of the income.
That was the only observation he should make upon what
had been said against the principle of taxation he pro
posed. The Hon. Member for Greenock had made use
of en argument that appeared to him rather seigular, an
argument against the per centage he proposed. The
Hon. Member said who ever thought of taking off taxes
by a per centage when the object must be to increase
consumption. The whole object when taxes were laid on
was not to affect comuraption. In laying on a tax his
anxie.y would be not to eff:et the consumption of any
aricle at all ; but if he took off a tax• his object would be
to effect consumption in the greatest possible way.—
( Hear, hear.) Therefore that ground of objection ap-
peared to him to be utterly untenable —( Hear, hear. )
His Hon. Friend, the Member for Rochester (Mr. Ber-
eel) had asked him a question, and had stated there was
some alarm as to the mode of proceeding with respect to
the window duty. He was glad his Hon. Friend had
given him an opportunity of distinctly staring that the 7th
clause of the 4th and sth of William I V , which gave
privileges to certain parties to open windows would he
observed. He had no power, nor had be any
wish to repeal the clause of an Act of Parliament, and
shat clause, therefore, would be left perfectly untouched.
Strnngers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided—
For the second reading lO7
For the amendment
Majority —92
CANADA REVENUES.
The House then went into Committee on the Canada
Rev: flues Bill, Mr. Bernal in the chair.
On the Resolution being moved,
Mr. HUME objected to the principle of that country
appropriat!hg the revenues of the Colonies.
The Resolution was then agreed to, and the House
reiumad.