The Sun.
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THE SUN,

LONDON, 'RID AY EVENING, JULY 5, 1850.

the grant was, in his opinion, on the report of the
instructors as to the number of children properly
educated.
_ Mr. HENLEY, who rose amid cries of "Divide,"
said, what the public complained of, and justly com-
plained of, was the departure from the principle laid
down in 1839 and 1840. The present mode pressed with
great hardship on the smaller agricultural parishes.—
(Divide.) He was glad that the Government had con-
sented to the question undergoing a searching investi-,
gation, and was sorry that the Noble L ird et the head
of the Government should have expressed his regret
that the Church of England re.ieived three-fourths of
the grant.—(Divide.) At that late hour he should not
trouble the House with any further observations.
The vote was then agreed to.
The areeldruents to the Charitable Trusts Bill were
considered and agreed t
The second reading of the Oath of Abjuration (Jews)
Bili was fixed for Thursday, the 18th July.
Oa the motion of L ird J. RUSSELL, the Lord-Lieu-
tenancy Abolition (Ireland) Bill was ordered to be com-
mitted that day three nuont,hs.
A ritniiar motion was agreed to with respect to the
sec ind reading of the Wools and Forests Bill.
Lord DUNCAN prote led against the mode in which
the Bill hail been proceeded wi,ll. He had not m wed
for the re-appointment of the C immittee on the subject
on the understaeding that the Governount wouhl pro-
ceed wiih the Bill. He should take an early oppor-
tunity of calling the wtentiou of the House to the
question.
L yrd J. RUSSELL fedi he had till lately intende3 to
proceed with the Bill, but the length of the debates on
other questions, aud the number of amendments on etas,
gave no hope of the Bill heiiig pa sod this session.
HOME-MADE srimr,s. IN BOND BILL.

Lord NAAS having moved TLesecondr:;aiiTigof this
Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he felt it to Lon his duty to oppose this Bill on a former
occasion, and he would, therefore, on the present occasion,
take the sense of the House on the second reading, as he
considered that it was his duty to express his opinions at
present more fully than he had done on a former oc-
casion, as ho considered that the claim of the Scotch
and Irish distillers was anything but just. He must
say that he did not think that the Scotch and Irish dis-
tillers
had any claim to pay a less duty than they were
now paying. They had, in fact, a great deal of indul-
gence extended to them in their spirits being allowed to
remain in bond, without any pressure on the part of
Government for the pay men; of the duty. He felt that
it was extremely disagreeable that one system should
prevail in Ireland and Scotland and another in England.
The duty was now uniform.—(Hear, bear.) It was ad-
mitted in evidence before a Committee that it was im-
possible to charge the duty on spirits in England in any
other manner, and that was the statement of the greatest
distillers of this country. It the present system of levy-
ing the duty was departed from to suit the Scotch and
Irish distillers, the greatest inconvenience would be the
result, and he therefore thought it would be unfair to
do that in regard to those two countries which would
he prejudicial to the interests of the distillers of England.
He was enabled to state that the English distillers
had made tie strongest representations to him that
such a course, if acted upon, would be extremely unjust
to them. He had stated before that there was not
the slightest similiarity between the two cases. The
ground on which the Bill rested was, that the introduc-

Lion of colonial spirits had injured the home producer,
and that it theref 're operated prejudicially to his jute
rests. If this were so, the proper course would have
been to have brought forward a motion either to re-
move the duty on home spirit, or to raise the differen-
tial duty on rum. But this was not done. In order to
show that the introduction of colonial spirits had not
had the effect suggested by the promoters of this Bill,
he wculd read tue following statistics : —ln 1847, the
Trantity of rum consumed in Ireland and Scotland was
558,000 gallons. In 1849, the quantity was 432,000
gallons, showing a reduction in the consumption of this
article, of 126,000 gallons—a tact which fully premised
that no injury was produced to the home producer by
the introduction of colonial spirits—and this fact was
fully established by the fact that while the quantity of
h3me• made spirits consumed in this country, in 1847,
was 12,230,000 gallons, it rose in 1849 to 13,908,000—
thus showing an increase in the consumption of
I,67B,ooo.—(Eiear, hear.) Upon these grounds, there.
fore, he moved that the Bill be read a second time that
day six months.
Mr. WYLD moved that the debate be adjourned.
Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE opposed the adjourn-
ment.

After a few words from Mr. Roche. Mr. Bass, and
Mr. Reynolds, who complained of this effort on the part
of the Hon. Member for Bodmin to deprive the sup-
plrt,.rs of the measure of a discussion on it, the House
divided, when there appeared—
For the adjournment 95
Against it 135
Majority 40
This result was loudly cheered by the supporters of
the Bill.
On entering the gallery we found
Mr. F. MAULE contending that this Bill was a dis-
tiller's measure, and the feeling of the people of Scot-
land was against it. The tendency of the Bill was to
make whisky cheap, and the effect of this was to fill
their gaols and workhouses with thieves and paupers
He hoped the returning good sense of the House would
induce them to reject the measure.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, it was quite evident that the
last division proved that the feeling of the House W 43 in
favour of that stage of the measure. He would not
further oppose it then. At the same time he begged to
say that the Government had still the same o'tjection to
the measure, and that they would opposa it in a future
stage.—(liear, bear.)
The DI! was then read a second time, and
Lord NA AS moved the committal of vie BM for to•
morrow (this day.)
The other orders of the day we .e then di,posed o',
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.