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LONDON, THURSDAY, sEPTEMBER 2, 1841.

No 15,2 4

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS.

TAXES ON LAND.

1796 the wages of a Sussex labourer wore 12s. per week,
with wheat at 89s. per quarter. and in the three follow-
ing years wages continued at the same rate, although
the prices of *heat were 515., 505., and 495. per quarter.
In the years 1800 and 1801 wages were 12s. to 13s. 6d.,
with wheat at 1345. and 1455., and in the following
years wages were also 13s. 6d. and 125., with wheat at
675., 575., and 525., being less than half the former price.
In the years 1812 and 1813 wages were at 135., with
wheat at 141 s. and 1195., and in the three following

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sut—Having now before me a French volume of
general statistics, published at Paris in the year 1838,
and edited by Messrs. Moxeau and Slawaezyanski. I
beg to be permitted to furnish you with one or two ex-
tracts therefrom, showing the amount of the land-tax in
several of the principal States of Europe, and the pro-
portion that tax bears to the general revenue in each of
them, in order that your readers may compare these
amounts and proportions with the insignificant land-tax

years wages continued at 135., although wheat was 675:,
635., and 71s, or little more than half its former price.
In the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, wages conti-
nued at 135., with wheat at 1075., 845., 785., and 81s.,
and in the years 1821, 1822, and 1823, wages were at
13s. and 125., with wheat at Ms., 435., and 38s. It is
needless, however, to multiply such examples, as it is
evident that this rule in regard to wages applies with
still more force to manufacturing operatives, as the ar-
ticles thay are employed to produce yield no higher
prices after bad than they do after good harvests. The
master manufacturer of this country can, of course, only

of our own country.
In France, in the year 1838, the land-tax is stated in
the above work at 261,852,762 francs (10,474,1101. ster-
ling), out of a total revenue of 1,053,420,078 francs (or
42,136,802/. sterling), that is to say, about one-fourth of
the whole. In Austria the total revenue is stated at one
hundred and thirty millions of guilders, which, at 2s. Id.
each amounts to 13,541,6661. sterling, and of this the land-
each, tax amounts to forty-two millions of guilders, or
4,375,000/. sterling, nearly one-third of the whole. In
Prussia the land-tax amounts to 9,735 thalers, in a total
revenue of 51,740,000 thalers, which is nearly one•fifth
of the whole. In S'iveden, I find, on reference to an-
other authority, that the direct taxes on land amounted,
in 1827, to 12,622,621 rix dollars, out of a total revenue
of 19,465,970 rix dollars, or nearly two-thirds of the
whole In England, on the contrary, the land-tax
actually paid amounts to, little more than one million
sterling jaws.' ,41.41Attioa—of .41. that has been
1-retteined, reme limit is two millions out of a total
revenue of forty-eight millions, which is a twenty-fourth
part of the whole. When we inquire how it is that
such injustice can be found to exist in a country claim-
ing to be the most enlightened of Europe, the obvious
answer is, that the taxation of England bas hitherto
been fixed by an oligarchy of landowners.
That the land of the. United Kingdom is, to'say the least,
equally valuable with that of France, might be taken as
self-evident ; but having embarked in statistics, I shall
proceed to prove it by some quotations from the work al-
ready mentioned. For the year 1836 the total gross
value of the agricultural production of Great Britain and
Ireland is given at 5,725,720,000 francs, or 229,028,800/.
sterling ; and that of France at 5,237,178,000 francs, or
209,607,12C1. sterling ; and the net revenue derivable
from the land of the United Kingdom is, for the same
year, given at 2,200,000,000 francs, or 88 millions ster-
ling ; while the net revenue of France is stated at
1,685,178,000 francs, or 67,407,1201. sterling. It follows,
therefore, according to justice on this comparison of the
resources of the soil in the two countries, that the land-
tax of the United Kingdom should amount to thirteen or
fourteen millions sterling, instead of two millions, which
has been its extreme amount.
To those persons who argue that in consequence of the
amount of English taxation the agriculturists of this
country cannot compete with foreigners, it may with en-
tire truth be replied that the taxation of France (42 mil-
lions sterling) is much greater in comparison to the ge-
neral resources of that country than a taxation of forty-
eight millions is to the more extensive wealth of England.
In addition, however, to the deficiency of eleven mil-
lions, which appears as above to exist in the landed tax-
ation of this country, upon the equitable French princi-
ple of obtaining revenue from each class of tho commu-
nity somewhat in proportion to its wealth, there are a
multitude of unfair minor exemptions also enjoyed by
the landowners and agriculturists of Great Britain. For
example, there is no duty on the descent of landed
property, however remote the degree of propin-
quity may be. No tax is levied on farmers' dogs or
farmers' houses—no stamp duty for fire insurance on
farming stock—and even as respects the window-tax,
that portion of their dwelling-houses which is devoted to
the business of their avocations is specially exempted
from that duty. Indeed, had the constitution of England
formally proclaimed it to be the first business of Parlia-
ment to exalt agriculture at the expense of every other
interest in the country, that object could scarcely have
been performed more effectually than it has been.
I perfectly remember that the principal reason urged
for taking off the duty on salt, many years since, was an
expectation that the article might be extensively used in
apiculture. It was the Farmers' interest likewise that
was chiefly consulted in taking off the tax on leather, and
it is much to be hoped the measure may have benefited
them, for it has certainly relieved no other class of the
community, unless it may possibly be tanners and shoe-

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afford to pay V such a money price for labour as will
enable him to compete with the foreign producer, and
consequently the advantage of the English artisan lies
entirely on the side of cheap food.
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Star--You have the reputation of being an exceed-
ingly clever man, and I dare say with truth, but the
more, therefore, is my wonder, that in your speech, in
the House of Commons on Friday evening last, you
should have given the smallest importance to the fluctua-
tions which sometimes take place in the price of corn in
the United States of America ; for it cannot but be
known, even to such blockheads as myself, that a country
entirely depending upon herself for her supplies of corn,
will be subject to these variations, just as the season may
have been favourable or otherwise.
In naming the fluctuations in America, you afford a
good reason for free trade ; for if these variations take
place in a country which generally grows corn, as well
for exportation as for the use of her own people, and
which, therefore, even in bad seasons, must be suili:ient
for her own consumption, how much greater are these
fluctuations likely to be in Britain with her most un-
steady climate, and with a demand for corn in general
more than equal to her supply? And the matter is likely
to be made worse as time shall move on, with our annual
addition of four hundred thousand bread-eaters, unless
by some extraor linary good luck there shall rise up
every year some few thousands of acres of good wheat
land upon our sea coasts. My wonder at you, Sir
Robert, is the greater, as I plainly see, that to depend
for a supply of corn from any one spot on the globe, is to
be liable to great fluctuations, owing to the uncertainty
there is in weather. Free trade would render the price
steady in making wide the field whence the supplies
would come ; for God Almighty in his kindness to man
never inflicts a general scarcity. If he do so in England
he does not in Russia, or if he should do so in both these
countries he does not in America.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN GREEN.
Petersfield, Hants, Aug. 31, 1841.

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SPANISH DEBT•
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—Do you not consider it an outrage on all sense of
justice that the Spanish Government, which cannot bor-
row for less than five or six per cent., should persist in
consolidatino. the arrears of interest it owes to its un-
fortunate creditors,' into.a THREE per cent. stock.
In the name of consistency and common honesty, let
Spain, if she cannot pay in full all the arrears of inte-
rest, not be so lost to all feelings of honour as to be
guilty of another put off towards the holders of the New
Deferred Debt, which is the only portion of the Cortes
Loans that can now be distinguished from the infamous
loans contracted by Ferdinand alone to put down and
keep down a constitutional form of Government.
In 1834, Toreno threw all the unpaid Coupons then due
and owing from 1824 on the Old Cortes Loans into a
New Deferred Debt, subject from the year 1838 to twelve
annual drawings into a Spanish Stock, which was to pay
FIVE per cent. interest. By this arrangement the bond-
holders had to,wait four years before the first twelfth of
them had even a chance of receiving one farthing of their
Coupons owing to them from 1824.
Four drawings have taken, place, but not one farthing
of interest has been forthcoming. And now, instead of
paying the trifling interest on the four drawings of the
years 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, it is proposed to capi-
talise the interest due on these four drawings into a
THREE per mat. stock.
The effect, of this will be that as long as, the stock-is--
in existence it will be a perpetual memento of Spain's
bad faith and bad policy, in order to save two per cent.
on the trifling amount of interest due on these drawings.
Why should the Old Cortes bondholder—the most
legal and liberal of all Spain's foreign creditors—who
advanced fourteen per cent. more to tilt Spanish Govern-
ment than the Messrs. Barings advanced to the French
Government of the Restoration—be treated worse than
the subscribers to the loans contracted by the despot Fer-
dinand to put down and keep down a constitutional form
of Government ? _ _

makers.
It was the all-prevailing agricultural interest that was
again consulted when the House of Commons untowardly
voted a reduction of the malt-tax, in order that the far-

mers might find amore extensive market for their bar-
ley, and this without regarding either the state of the
public revenue or the morality of the country, which
would have been sadly injured thereby. Even down to
the most minute matters, the same unjust favouritism to-
wards agriculture is manifested, in so much, that on
turnpike-roads farmers' carts conveyinglime, or any other
manure, pay no toll. What manures are to a farmer,
coal, wood, iron, wool, cotton, and (lye-woods, are to the
manufacturers, yet no such exemption has been accorded
to them.
Again, the wealthy farmers and landowners (for it is
only such that use them) have long been specially ex-
empted from any duty on such tiles.as are used for drain-
age, while the poor cottager by the road-side either is, or
until very lately certainly was, taxed for the materials of
the humble roof with which he covers his head.
But all these minor exemptions, though collectively
they may, perhaps, amount to two or three millions per
annum, sink into insignificance when we come to consi-
der those monster iniquities of the age, the corn and
provision laws, by means of which many of the principal
articles of food are absolutely prohibited. while the rest
are loaded with sliding duties which generally exclude
them from use. By an excellent table compiled by Mr.
Bischoff, from official documents, and published by
Waterlow, of Birchin-lane, it appears that, on a com-
parison of the price of wheat during the last fifty
yeas in England and Berlin, after allowing ten shil-
lings per quarter for bringing -it over, the people of
Great Britain have, during that period, paid eleven
hundred and eighty five millions sterling more
for wheat alone, than they would have done under a
free trade system. if 'to this amount we add only an
equal sum, for the difference of price in barley, oats,
peas, beans, butchers' meat, butter, cheese, &c., we ar-
rive at a grand total of two thousand three hundred and
twenty millions sterling, which the landlords of Eng-
land have extorted from the community during these
fifty years, being above three times the amount of the
whole National Debt. Enormous and almost incredible
as this sum may appear, amounting, when divided by
the number of years, to forty-seven millions, four hun-
dred thousand pounds annually, yet it is fully con-
firmed by all the great statistical authorities of the
kingdom, who have, from other data, variously esti-
mated the amount of the landowners' tax on the commu-
nity, at sums ranging from forty, to fifty millions an-
nual( y. _ _

-
I beg the aid of your powerful pen and influence to
expose this unfairness towards the
ORIGINAL CORTES BONDHOLDERS.

THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.

Sept. 1, 1841.

Tenders.

Even that excellent and intelligent public officer, Mr.
Hume, so long Secretary to the Board of Trade, with
all the caution and reserve of his official character, esti-

mates, if I recollect aright, in his evidence before the
Parliamentary Committee, the annual amount of the !
landowners' tax at about thirty-five millions. The re- •
peal of these iniquitous laws should be considered en-
tirely as a landowners' question, for the farmers and
agricultural labourers would be as much benefited b
it as any other classes of the people ; and when English '
landowners declare that they cannot compete with the
foreign producer, in consequence of high taxation,
should be reminded of the equal taxation of Fr nce
Holland, and Belgium, and that they have hitherto con-
trived to throw two-thirds of the general taxation of
the country on the commercial classes ; notwithstanding
which, our manufacturers have, after paying those
taxes, and at least an equal amount of bread-tax, to
compete with the foreign producer in every market of
the world. That they can now no longer do so with
effect, seems entirely owing to the taxes on food,
and the want of a reciprocal interchange of
commodities with other countries. The soil of E-tgland
generally is equal to any in Europe, and so, perhaps, is
also its climate for general agricultural purposes ; nor is
there any other country that is so well supplied with a
variety of mantres, as well as with roads, canals, and
railways, for the transport of farm produce ; added to
which, the English system of agriculture is vastly su-
perior to that pursued in any other country—all which
sufficiently proves the non-necessity of any agricultural
protection, and the entire reasonableness of a free trade
in every article of provisions.
Were the undeviating rules of impartiality and jus-
tice to be consulted, the only question now would be,
how the landowners of England, in addition to the con-
cession of a free corn trade, could sufficiently atone for
their past extortion? At present, every manufacturing
operative pays at least one-third of his hard won wages
towards the landowners' tax, and the sum of ten or fif-
teen pounds which is thus levied on each family of them,
is about equal to the hundred roubles which the nobles
of Russia demand from each of their serfs by a more
direct, and consequently more honest, system of slavery.
My Lord Stanley's avowed principle that it is meet
and proper that the families of a thousand mechanics
should be starved, in order that each aristocratic land-
owner may be able to maintain a certain number of sleek
hunters and liveried lacqueys, has been already too long
the law of the land. Nor has the Lord of Netherby
been more fortunate in his Scriptural quotations ; and
his allusion to ancient Tyre, a city which sank into in-
significance in the same way, and possibly owing to the
same causes that are now sinking England—namely,
selfishness, and want of enlightenment in her rulers. In
reference to the consequences of English illiberality on
his country, Lord Byron happily remarks—
. 6 What Athens was in science, Rome in power,
And Tyre appeared at her meridian hour,
'Twas thine at once fair Albion to have been
•
Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen ;
But Borne declined, and Athens strewed the plain,
And Tyre's proud piers lie shattered in the main."
Should bin James Graham happen to visit the rnamp-
facturing districts of England twenty years hence, he
may perchance find, should his favourite Corn• law be
continued, that those colossal hives of industry which
are, though unacknowledged, the chief sources of his
present income, have become as deserted and useless to
the world as the shattered piers of Tyre.
In conclusion, I would beg leave once more to refer
to Mr. Bishoff's excellent table for a refutation of the
hollow arguments which were lately used by the Tories for
electioneering purposes, viz., that wages rise or fall with
the rise or fall in the price of provisions. In the year

Tho tender of Mr. Thomas Jackson was, of course, ac-
cepted. The whole of the works are to be completod by
Midsummer, 1844. _ _

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The contract of Messrs. Webb for the foundation'of
the New Royal Exchange was finished on Thursday even-
ing, and the Gresham Commtiee met yesterday at one
o'clock to receive tenders for the second contract, which
is for the completion of the whole of the edifice.
Fourteen of the principal builders of London had, as
we formerly stated, been applied to, and it was also de-
termined that each tender should contain two prices, the
one being for executing the mason-work with the best
Portland stone ; the other, the additional price for using
the magnesian lime-stone, similar to that introduced into
the Houses of Lords and Commons.

The contracts of the several tenders were as follows:
Portland. Magnesian
Lime-stone
Thomas Jackson 115,900 .£ 124,700
Baker and Sons 122,765 127,300
H. And J. Lee 126;390 131,900
Sam. Grimsdall 126,762 133,348
Grizell and Peto 127,400 132,000
Piper and Co 128,700 131,100
John Jay ....... 129,609 134,905
T. and J. Little
Webb and Co 130,150 134,450
Joseph Bennett 131,500 133,500
Bridger and Co 131,519 138,660
Win. Cubitt 132,200 135,700
Nicholas Winsland 134,219 136,620
H. Ward and Co 135,500 138,500

The foundations at present laid are a very interesting
specimen of the expedients adopted in modern science for
procuring a permanent and solid foundation. The con-
crete is in some places 18 feet thick, and the walls and
piers are laid together by arches in all directions, the
piers being further strengthened by the introduction 'of
large quantities of wrought iron hooping laid in alternate
beds.

The form and general arrangements of the building
are clearly- pointed out in • thete foundations. The
Merchants' area appears to us much larger than the
area of the Old Exchange was. The form is, how-
ever, different. In the new building the area
is oblong, whereas in the old Exchange it war.
square. We understand the exertions of the Gresham
Committee, and their able Chairman Mr. Richard Lam-
bert Jones, have been unremitting in completing the
necessary arrangements with Lloyds, the Royal Ex-
change Assurance Office, the various public companies.
and other tenants who are to occupy the new building ;
and that the rental to be derived will exceed 10,0001. per
annum.

These gentlemen hare been most ably seconded by
their architect, Mr. Tite, and though the public com-
plained of the delay in the first instance, the exertions he
has made since the building was placed in his hands,
and the success that has followed, lead to the confident be-
lief that by the time named in the contract, the mer-
chants of London will assemble in an exchange worthy
of them and of the commerce of the greatest commercial
city in the world.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Three Sister, Jersey to
Aricati, 15th ult., lat. 39, long. 13 ; Blucher, Liverpool
to Jamaica, '24th ult.' lat. 48, long. 9, by the Crescent,
arrived at Liverpool. Edinburgh, Bremen to New
York, 19th ult. lat. 42, long. 42 ; Oberod; bound to Rio
Janeiro, July 2, lat. 16 S., long. 38, by Ike Amiable, ar-
rived at Bordeaux. Dalhousie, bound to Trinidad, 23d
ult., lat. 55, long. 10, by the Coquette, arrived in the
Clyde. Fanny, Liverpool to Quebec, with loss of fore-
topmast, 29th July, otf St. Paul's. Marquis Wellesley,
of Dublin, for ditto, 2d ult., lat. 46, long. 58 ; Charles,
Stornaway, ditto, 3d ult., let. 45, long. 28, by the Scipio,
arrived at Whitehaven.

GREENWICH AND WOOLWICII
COURTS.—A Correspondent calls our attention, and the
public attention, to the fact, that the Clerks to the Wool-
wich and Greenwich Police Courts are engaged in pri-
vate business, and are solicitors to some Steam-boat Com-
panies, which brings their public and private duties into
collision. We shall not publish the communication, but
we notice the circumstance in order to warn the parties
that the eye of the public is on them, and also to in-
form those in whose hands are the appointment, that they
will be held responsible. In short, the public interest suffers
from their employing pluralists.
The Nouvelliste Vaudois states that the Com-
mission of the Diet on the Argovian question has received f, om
the Deputy for Argau an official expose of the grievances of
that csuton, on the subject of the convents. The majority of
the Commission is understood to have decided that the con-
vents of Mari, Hertnetschwyl, and Baden, should be re-esta-
blished, and those of Wettingen and Bremgarten should con-
tinue to be suspended. The Report has not yet been pre •
Fated to the Riet.

PRICE 5d

THE STATUE 1O DE RUYTER.

We have received by the Dutch mail the following
account of the inauguration of the statue erected at
Flushing, on the 26th August, to the gallant De Buyter.
The King of Holland, with his three sons, were present
on the occasion, and though 200 years have passed
since Dc Ruyter was the Nelson of Holland, his deeds
appear to be still fresh in the recollection of his country-
men. This is honourable'tO them, and we have on this
account, as well as in admiration of this celebrated Naval
Commander, subjoined to the intelligence from Flushing
a faithful account of his life and naval actions.

FurstuNG, Auousr 27.—yesterday was the day fixed
for the inauguration of the statue erected in this town
in honour of the brave Michael de Ruyter. This na-
tional festival was honoured by the presence of his Ma-
jesty, our beloved King and of his three sons, the Prince
of Grange, and Princes Alexander and Henry. His
Majesty, who arrived early from Middelburg, having
reviewed the garrison and the Civic Guard, went to the
Town-hall, where he gave audiences to the civil and
military authorities, and then proceeded to the church,
where a very excellent inaugural- discourse was delivered
by Professor Van der Hoon.

The King, the Princes and suite, proceeded to the square
in which the statue is erected, which was uncovered on
a signal being given; and this fine work of M. L. Rovan
cast in iron by Messrs. Paul Van Vliessinger and liudok
Van Heel, was exposed to the admiration of the specta-

tors. His Majesty was pleased to express his entire sa-
tisfaction to all the persons concerned in the arrange-
ment, and the execution of the national solemnity. His
Majesty afterwards visited the exhibition of paintings
executed by Zealand artists and amateurs, in honour of
the great seamen and officers of Zealand, who distin-
guished themselves in the arts and sciences. The King
then went to the dockyards, and set out for Middelburg
amidst the loud acclamations of the people.