The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he would postpone
his motion with regard to sugar, which stood on the
paper fur to-day.
OPENING OF LETTERS IN THE POST.OFFICE.

Mr. T.DUNCOMBE gave notice that, immediately
after Easter, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill
to secure the inviolability of letters passing through the
Post-oilice.—(llear.)
Air. SHIM-. gave notice that he would on Tuesday,
the 11th of March, move a resolution expressing the
regret of the Ilouse that letters addressed to foreign( rs
residing in this country had been opened in the Post-
office without their knowledge or sanction, and that cer-
tain information with regard to the disturbances in the
Papal states should have been communicated to a foreign
power.—(hear, hear.)
PROPERTY AND INCOME-TAX.

Mr. SPOONER gave notice that he would, in Com-
mittee on the Bill for the continuance of the property and
income-tax, move three clauses—one to enable all per-
sons to deduct from the profits of trade all sums of money
paid to their own families for the purpose of carrying on
the trade, which otherwise would have been paid to
other persons ; also a clause to enable persons to deduct
the amount of their poor-rates and other rates from
their income ; and a third clause, deducting the amount
of insurance upon life, and also the amount of expendi-
ture on articles necessary for carrying on the trade,
though such articles might occasionally be used for other
purposes.
TOBACCO DUTIES.

Mr. HAWES wished to direct the attention of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to a recommendation
which had been made, and to an expectation which was
generally entertained, that some alteration would be
made in the tobacco duties, and to ask if it was the in-
tention of the Government to make any such alterations?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was
aware that great anxiety existed on the subject,
and was, therefore, much obliged to the Honour-
able Gentleman for having put to him the
question. He was aware that it had been re-
commended that a difT6rential duty should be imposed,
so as to make a distinction between leaf tobacco
and the other sorts of tobacco ; but he had to state that

it was not the intention of the Government to make any
alteration at present in the duties on tobacco.

TALLOW DUTIES.

Mr. POULETT SCROPE, seeing the Right Hon.
Baronet in his place, would put the question of which
he had given notice on Friday, on the subject of the
tallow duties. The present import duty on foreign tallow
was 3i. 4d. the cwt., but there was also an export duty
in Russia on leaving that country. There was a rumour
that the Russian Government was willing to take off the
export Cuty on tallow if the import duty were taken
off in this country. The duties united amounted to
15 or 20 per cent. on the value of the tallow imported.
In looking over the list of the 250 articles from which
it was proposed to remove the import duty, he
found tallow was omitted. There were, however,
a great many articles which were either infe-
rior sorts of tallow, or were used as substi-
tutes fur that article from which the duty was to be re-
moved, such as, for instance, grease, which was
an interior sort of tallow ; hogs'-lard, which was
swine tallow ; whale oils, animal oils, various
sorts of vegetable oils—all these were used as
substitutes for tallow in the manfacture of soap, and
some of them in the manufacture of candles ; and if
the duty were not removed from tallow, it would operate
as a serious burden upon the consumers of this article.
It was material, therefore, to ascertain if the Right Hon.
Gentleman purposed taking off the duty on tallow when
some arrangement should be come to with the Russian
Government on the subject, or if he had fully re-
nounced the idea of taking off the duty on tallow.
He wished, therefore, to ask if any negotiations were
going on with the Russian Government on the subject
of the removal of the export duty on tallow?
Sir R. PEEL said he hoped the Hon. Gentleman
would excuse him from giving any answer respecting the
intentions of the Government. He always objected to
answer any questions respecting the future exemption
from duty of articles of trade, as those answers tended
to produce great derangements of trade. With respect
to the question with which the Right Hon. Gentleman
concluded, he had to state, that no negotiations were
pending with Russia respecting the removal of the export
duty on tallow in that country, on condition of the re-
moval of the import duty here.