The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-13 00:00:00

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Mr. B.ENETT moved, ai an amendment, tiiitt tho,Bill should
be referred to a Colonliteeof the whole House, in order *to con-
eider of the amount; of duty to be levied on the corn 'now in
bond. ; In the course of his speech,. he took occasion to .observe
that this, though an attempt m relieve the lower, and particu-
larly thh Mantifiietining clarto, most fail of ever, rcokhirkg, Am,.
in the way of lowering the price Of bread ; and dial theionly
persons benefitted would be a set of gambling .speculateiri-in the
Corn Market. He pledged himself to divide the BoOse on the
amendment. .
Mr. HUSKISSON regretted that the Hon. Member should..
,have permitted :himself, in the war/hell of his observations on a
subject particularly interesting to himself, to InyV'e :atigniatlxed a
cut of vety resta:ctable persons as gambling speeulators,^"wtiose
only offence Wu:, Oro,' they dealt in corn like any other mer-
chants in any other allele, not prohibited by law, from whence
they expected to derive an iittraptage. This was the ttrore 'ob-
jectionable, as applied tolkopli, because, in fairness, the lien..,
Member shotild take into account, that the greater part of this'.:
corn had been in bond, or .embargoed Ite-ntight say,- ever line*,
,18251.. The price of foreign corn at Rotterdam, at the period
when this measure *''as firA intrtidneld, was above 1103. per
quarter, and if US that were added the, expellees Of ahitipiOg, car-
riage, Unloading, and warehousing, it would be soon see it. that,
without taking into consideration any deduction by the lour of
interest, in consequence of being unable to sell their earn, there
could be but a moderate profit on corn impinged by these persons
who had been so very harshly characterised by the'llon. Mouber
for Wiltshire; These parties also,wore.tiow compelled to' 'bring
I.tiut fill thie emu between this and the loth of Auypd, or' , lase
'their-chrome' of disposing of it. Tinder these ,:ciretiiturtatmes, it
was too ittoeh to contend that a duty of I7s. should bit levied-on-
this corn, which was, after all, only set at liberty io wit the
purposed or the public, and Prevent scarcity.' . ~-,
Mr. BARING', if he thought the difference of the duty iittild
ever be all Owed to reach or relieve the working
,chtsses, or bier -
the price itt bread, ahould not throw any interruption in the Ivey
of the Right,Hom.Cientleman, exeept perhaps to mom e that,the
duty should beNlowered instead of being increased. 'But the Wes'
was a mistake that any one would reap any benefit from it exoept
the speculatOrs in : tern. • At the present prices abroad, , open
!..could be iritported arid warehonied here at 47e. whieli torn, top-
sidering the price it would fetch here, must yield the &44; in
corn a very large profit.'
Mr. HUSICISON read the extract of a letter, to proselbet
Corn, uii the let of May, the day this measure wits ,isttrotiatted,
bore no higher price at liotterdatn than Wis. 4d.
Mr. ELLICE was apprehensive of the emisiveihivii'a.ii Intik
high rate of duty. The real viihject Of alarm was, that here-
after, at utrdietent day, we should be obliged taglie'ittliountyftn
encourage the importation, instead of fixing duties to circum-
scribe our supply. In proportion to the restriction of the cur-
rency, the price of Corn must be reduced to the, price of, all,
other relative articles of , value, and especially articles of generals
constreption. - -.-

The Gallery wits then *loured Amidst 'Cries of " Question..
Question ' .

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"Thu HOuse, howtwer; did suit divide, and on our rt,rullnissioxv
to the Gallery, the Howie was in Committee on the Bill, and
Mr. lIUSKISSON explaining to the Committee, that, in this
arrangement for letting out the bonded corn, they must take into
the account that a considerable poition of this corn by lying so hing
was not adOpted for generapurposes, but only tit for being made
into starch and other inferior purposes. The rest did not exceed
289,000 quarters, there were 227 quarters also of Okti4. which
were about equal to the quantity that came into tiliw reentry *LIM
threign.porta in the last year. There was also very arnall•qtruw,
City of barley , •
In answer -to * few observations' fierit Sir JOHN 'flavours awl
Mr. Ovarian, .„

Mr. IitI.S.KIS,SON observed that a great part of the tooPPlf of
food distributed to the distressed inuaufaertatens of Istrinehmter at
present 'consisted of oatmeal.--(llear.)*lte clause for tising the
duty at lea. was then agreed to..
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tcrforPtltleP°4er evetnhienga.me, TlT:lenobtjt°v.ft :virh-1.111.184
,11,;:tilbil,,:n:d:TgaisAvtlItLerric°1ect'itt.77O1::P.iy4 a change in the law, corresponding
precisely to the *eves of the evil complained of. The rill,
this law was intended to redress 'was only felt by a titian
portion of the population, and that principally in it liMited
district. The 'importation of hOO,OOO quartars of wheat must
lower the price of corn, and proportionably that, of other ar-
ticles nceesisary for human subsistence thronghout all classes.
wasdesiiable to.restriet the'boon. Tu make this meto‘ure for re-
leasing the bonded corn avililablit, to relieve the distress in those .
districts in patticular, he would therefore move as' an. atnendment .
on a certificate, signet! by three lumbers- of Committe4,
acting fur the relief of the prevent dilates, that any banded cab'
had been brought by tliein for that purpose, the eutn so bought.
Ph011lt) be, on application' to his Maiestioe Treasury, entiniti''d
'frsitu all dory whatever, andlhe gum aif: Wed by the remission of
fluty should be applied to the further relief of the distress in thf-it,
districts.
and ntctt,V't R'or tBh?l\ll,itsr4i:ft (r;t:Pn4tleirttn4 ri°ltrnbPriiinn:lttgtnffitri:awrdl'ilitnlll:
motion, felt it aluiost a matter of delicacy_ to rnkropt to anovi to:'..
the liouve the ,iiilerable rotisetoinees of gratitrne
wilich hcul originated in a Mt,l44l4rlbt highly' latulabln'' fit;
inkdr, though founded on reicioniug rertaittlg.lidlaciout. ft xilk
clear to every one that the who], of the ktlyaowil
and provisions in the ilistreased districts unlit. clinr.ll:fkid,..'"
the poor rattly Pilaf districts, or were lii.rottlitgct;7.,„,a4in.-
of parish relief, The effect of the reenisttioniktrl
, a, tax on wro
so used for benevolent purposcv_ivonth " Niro- 6 Ik.
generally fur the purposes of aiding the 4-44?"1"44;0;.;
tux levied tin &stip .eoru would .not in ' the til,