The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-16 00:00:00

CUSTOMS' DUTIES ACTS.

At a quarter past one o'clock this morning, Mr. P.
THOMSON moved that the House resolve itself into a Com-
mitte of the whole House, to consider of the Customs'
Duties Acts.

After an objection from Mr. GOULBURN to proceeding
to the consideration of such an important subject at so very
late an hour, the House resolved itself into the Committee.

Mr. P. THOMSON then said that his reason for urg-
ing the House to enter into this Committee was his desire
to lay before it the new schedule of duties which he pro-
posed to insert in the Customs Bill, which he was about
to introduce. The Right Hon. Gentleman then entered
into a very long statement of the duties which he intended
to alter ; but we are sorry to say, that the late hour at
which he commenced his speech, renders it utterly impossi-
ble for us to give even an abstract of it in this day's pub-
lication. lie informed the Committee that the state of
the revenue rendered it impossible for him to make any
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In order to benefit British shipping, he had entirely taken
off the duty on hemp. By this the revenue would suffer
a loss of 60,0001. a year ; but as his Hon. Friend was of
opinion that he could spare that sum from the revenue of
the year, he knew no duty which it would be more bene-
ficial to the country to have repealed. He then proposed,
for adoption, a schedule of duties, which occupies five
closely printed folio pages of the Parliamentary Papers.
He was afraid that many gentlemen would blame him for
not baying made more omissions in this schedule ; but his
only reason for not making them was a desire to avoid any
defalcation in the revenue of the year.
A discussion of some length then ensued, in which Mr.
COURTENAT, Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. WARBUR-
TON, and several other Members stated their objections to
the duties in the present schedule, and gave notice that
they would urge them more at length when the resolution
should be reported to the House.

The resolutions Were then agreed to, and the House re-
sumed.

TAX-CARTS.

On the motion of Lord ALTMORP, the House resolved
itself into a Committee of the whole House on the As-
sessed Taxes Act, when his Lordship proposed a resolu-
tion to the effect, that the owners of tax-carts with two
„Flipp, under the value of 214, plight be allowed to we

them for the purpose of pleasure, upon payment of an an-
nual duty of I/. 108.
The resolution was agreed to, and the House resumed.
On the motion of Mr. J. CAMPBELL, the limitation of
Actions Bill, the Fines and Recoveries Bill, the Curtesy of
En eland Bill, and the Inheritance Bill, were severally read
a third time and passed.
The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Re-
form of Parliament (Ireland) Bill.
The resolutions respecting the payment of barristers
were agree:l to, the House resumed, and the report was
ordered to be received on Monday.