The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

DUTIES.

From the Derby Reporter.)
will
Worship tae
a public meeting is appoint 4 d
to Oheurberelf ticy7hs(
requisition, on Thursd the Mayor, in compiance with a
petitioning the Legislature to
to consider the propriety of
Tais is a question wilieb der: Ito revise the Lop rt Duti
.eiecept a few wealthy :any interests all classes of society,
tl.e trade of the country. monopolists, to whose adv int ige
have been long eaer;ficed. The time
carnkrt of the peaple
portune and well chosen ; the time Li- ietitiming is o '
revenue •
national expeaditure ; the experiment is, n..t equal to tr.e.
augment our resources by additional
taxation
la4t tession to
arid the Report of the Committee on
the
has f,i'e 1;
leap°, t butie,,
comprising the opinions of practical men—
n'
tax-collectors, payers of duties and receivers oefrOtlka.z""nnts and
as favourable to the expediency of adapting thesns d are
to a scale which would promote commerce, as could be
wished. This country owes its greatness t) its manufac-
tures and commerce ; a large portion of its induarious
inhabitants must depend upon trade for subsistence ; a-4
ail classes must look back to commerce for the numerous
comforts and lUxuries to which we are habituated, and
without which they could not be purchased. TLe necessi-
ths of the country are pressing., something must be done;
to increase the debt would be ruinous, but if present exi-
gencic s could i.e met by so doing it would be cruel and impo-
litic to-deny the working classes the advantages which a
revision efour Import Duties would confer upon t I, ern, while it
would lucre ise the revenue. The enormous disparity of prices
of what have become, by long use, necessaries of life--tea,
coffee, sugar, &c. &c. in this county and foreign States,
subjects our artisans to a very unfair competition, and
taxes
their powers of endurance to a degree which is in-
compatible with their health and comfort and the national
welfare.
Hitherto it has been urged
of the country would not admit of any remission of the e
duties, bht since it is the opinion of official men, whose
bt ttion and experience oughtlwhose to make them the best judges
of what is desirable, that
the Import Duties, e revenue would be ineratted
by lowering
les, Leeause it would lead to a
' greater consumption of the articles on wl • nal they are levied,
the experiment ought
to Lue hi,
people arc ali eto tin it own i.,;(1. At all even's, if the
themselves in their strength, and !restJ, ,hey will now show
such numbers as wid commaid rutin the Legi lature, in
dently lock for such measures as
will
c.t, that they c .nfi-
to their industry, and enable themllt,..give encouragement
quantity of those fore•go articles which are
a greater
become, from
long habit, necessary to their comfort and.
enjoinaeut.

DUBLIN, MARCH 4.—Viscount Massarene has
sought the protection of the law against two young gen.
tiered', I believe relatives, Mem., James and Arthur.
Fester. It appears that his Lordship, with his brother
the Hon. Mr. Skeffington, and Lord Muskerry, were pro-
ceeding along Nassau-street, when they were encountered
by the Messrs, Foster, one of whom, after putting 'some
interrogatory to Lord Massarene, lifted a horsewhip and
struck him, saying, " Consider yourself horsewhipped."
and, it is stated, repeated the blow. The Noble Lord did
ontorteeitecent, but appliel to the Magistrates of College.
talc:otothle on *aodge
informations. The Magistrates declined
being to. issue ex parte statement, the usual course
e a summon,
The mattCr will underwhich was accordingly done.
The cause a the a.formai investigation in-morrow.
dispute cud not transpire,