The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-11 00:00:00

CORN LAWS.

Mr. WHITMORE postponed his motion on this subject to
the 26th of this month,

CATHOLIC CLAIMS.

Lord HOTHAM, alluding to this question, saidhe should
to-morrow move for a call,of the House), for the day upon which
it would be discussed.
IRISH STAFF..
Mr. OOULBURN said be should to-morrow more for a
Reduction of Irish Stail: •

.---ASSESSED TAXES.
Mr. SIABERLY, in rising to move for a series of Papers,
requested Gentlemen the Mioieterial Benches to withhold
every pledge to support the financiatscheines of the Ministry
'till they had heard what he had to bring forward on the subject.
—lf he could shew that 7,00001. of taxes could be taken otf
without impairing pnblic credit, he thought he should have a
strong claim to their support. The taxes, it was true, had been
reduced considerably—he believed he might say at the-rate of
eight per cent. on the whole amount; but he was prepared to
thew that the value of the whole property was reduced in a
much greater proportion—he believed in the proportion .of 58
cent.. Of'..the 38,000,11001. of property estimated to belong
to the ocCupierS of the land In 1813, there was absolutely none'
left. Thephipertv of the proprietors of the soil had diminished,
he believed,: one7belf, and the various profits of trade, menu-
factories, dee., also had been considerably diminished. It was
not cnshitnitiV for Minidters tb give notice of what theyintend-
ed to do, and he believes!, therefore, that they had only men-
tiorted their intentian of repealing the , Assessed Taxes, in
order to diveit. the 'public from claiming thoso larger' reduc-
tions which they ought to have. The Honourable: Aleinber
concluded moving for a number a AccouTit, .rel4.ive
to prOperly, of de,;criiAions, paying. Taxes, and exempt
frompaYeng Taxes, betwteei April 5,1614, and April 5,181 O;
and also varions.Aecoonts relative to the value of property at
present, in' order, as was Understood, to shew that the reduction
of taxation which had been made: since the peat* bore tto pro-
portion to the diminished value of the property of the country
between the year Itil,l and the present tune.
Mr.-GRt SPELL- wished to know if his Hon. Friend in-
tended to make any Motion subsequently having fur its object
the renewal of the Income and Property Taxes
Mr. MAIIERLY replied, that he had no intention what-
ever in moving lor these accounts to bring forward any motion
fOrlaying on any sort of property-tax under any modification
whatever e hut that he thought that he could shew'that the
public service could be as well Carried on as pow, and public
credit preserved, after the repeal of seven millions of taxes.
Mr. LUSH INGTON expressed his acquiescence in the mo-
tions made 1,7 the lion. Member, and said every facility should
be. given to making up the accounts moved for.
SINKING FUND.

!fir. FIUME rose to move for the printing of several Papers
which had been that day laid upon the table, and took the op.
portunity to read and to call the attention of the House to one
of them. It was an account of the sums of money expended by
the Cenumissioners for Liquidation of the National Debt, for
one year, ending the Ilth January ~lest. That stun was
14,640,4601. bin • wits merely a transfer front one account to
another, without altering one shilling of the amount. Sire were
about to have a stew Chancellorof the Exchequer,: and he
hoped, with the old (31ancellor,the farce called a Sinking Fund
would also be removed. If a; Sinking Fund win to be main.
tainfxl, it ought to be a real one. •
Mr. 011ENFELL, although he fully agreed with the Hon.
Gentleman in his character of the present system, which he
(Air. tirerifell) considered to be extremely fallacioue, yet he
felt that the Ilan. Otritlerinut had not done full justice to the
-Right lion. Oentlernan, the late Chancetlor of the Exchequer.
From &paragraph in one of the Papers, then on the table, he
inferred that the whole system was about to be changed ; and
he begged to know 'from- the Might Hon. Iltrattemart wag he
right in that conjecture? ..
LLISHINGTOIst said, the Ifonourable tlentklnan'a
inferencivias perfectly correct : that it was the intention of his
Majesty's,Ministers to propose, at the earliest day poled*'
plan for sitripFly Mg the jiresent system he to .1 therefteno
objection to-thi: production' of any papers connected with the
subject. •
'rhe LORD 31AVOIt heard witlvinfinite regret that it was
then intended to depart from that system which had been sane_
tionedby the-approbation of the highest Att,thorities, and of the
greatest men that had ever sat in that Bouse, and alhs4d putt-
(ulraly to Xr...Hheriden. Ile lied no hesitation don tut eark that
to the SiAbsi FUnd did we owe the Meanie brreleie we

Mr. LUSHINGTON moved for an Abstract of the net
Public Revenue of: the United Kingdom for one year, together
with other usual Annual Accounts—Ordered.
Mr. WHITMORE noVed for a Return of the Quantity, of
Corn brought to market in OR City of Dublin ftu. the Jut ien
years.—Ordered.