The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

THE TARIFF.

Mr. GISBORNE wishel to know from the Right
lion. Gentleman opposite when it was likely the pro-
posed reductions of the duty cn coffee would come into
operation.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that, with respect to all the
duties which it was proposed to reduce, they would all
mate into operation on the same day, that was the day of
the passing of the Act embodying the resolutions which had
been proposed to the !louse by his Right Hon. Friend the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Those resolutions he
was prepared to lay on the table of the House, and
he took that opportunity of saying that they would
contain the article of vinegar, because
there were some inquiries requisite respecting
the use of malt in the making of vinegar. Some time
would be requisite for the necessary investigation on
that point, and hence it was that vinegar would Jnot be in-
cluded in the resolutions. .

Lord SANDON would like to know whether the
rdt?ration of the duties would be passed•in ten days or a
fortnight?
Mr. GLADSTONE said it would be rather ha-
z:irdous to predict how long
.the resolutions would
take to pass through the House. However, frOm
the disposition which he was sure existed in
the Howe not to retard any measure affecting
c,)mmercial. interests, he was of opinion that in the
course of a fortnight, or the furthest three weeks, the re-
solutions purporttng to repeal the duties in question
would have becoube the law of the land.
COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.

In answer Co a question from Mr. PENNANT.
Sr R. PEEL said that the subject of the Hon. Gen-
tleman's question was of considerable importance, inas-
much as it related to the speedy communication between
this country and Ireland. With respect to the relative
merits of the ports of llolyhead and Port Dynllaen for
the departure and arrival of the packets, the question
had been discussed by professional men of the highest
eminence, and the opinion of the President of the Institute
of Civil Engineers, Mr. Walker had been taken upon
it, and that gentleman's opinion was iu favour
of Holyhead in preference to Port Dynllaen. • There-
fore, he (Sir H. Peel) might say that her Majes-
ty's Government, drawing their conclusions from the
highest professional authorities, - were clearly of
opinion that llolyhead was the preerable harbour, and
as far as his own experience went, he (Sir R. Peel)
would draw the same conclusion. With respect to the
question as to whether the Government had decided to
I sv out a sum of money in improving either of those
harbours, be had to say in reply th3t they had
coma to no decison upon the matter. The
Government wanted first to know whether any
railway company was inclined to make a railway
communication between Chester and Holyhead.
It should he remembered that whatever money they laid
out for Holyhead Harbour, they were laying out for the
ternfnus of a railway. They had a right, therefore,
odemand that the railway should be perfectly construct-
ed. In his opinion it would be for the interests of any
railway company to make that railway in the most
direct, line. It would be much better for them to make
a perfect line at once than to make an imperfect line, and
have to amend it afterwards. He was anxious that the
line lelected through Anglesea should be brought
from Chester to Holyhead in the most direct line. He
thought it would be good economy in any railway
co:npany to make the outlay necessary for the forma-
tion of the line in the first instance. Then with
' regard to the Straits of Menai ; it would be a
highly improper mode of passing° the Straits
or Menai to take advantage of the present bridge. It I
i was never intendei furrailroad communication. It
a.1.71(1 be impossible to useit with locomotives. In
pi opinion bridger:aowwaise antioo:,
lotvooefr the Menai Straits, fit for a
conlZucet°elnd railway,
interfere
imt
hi might easi l y
navigation.he
It might have the same elevationah as theLpresent bridge,
end if they erected a railway-bridgeo.
which he believed was 120 feet the level of the sea,
there would not be any risk ofinterferinof
those
gsewith the navi-
ual height
gation. Unless they could enableresiding in '
Dublin to answer letters from London by return of po
they would do little to justify an outlay of public money.
He wanted to see the day when a letter posted in London..
at 8 o'clock on Monday should be answered from Dublin
by u letter received in London on Wednesday morning
:—(Hear, hear)—when the party receiving the letter in
Tuesday should be enabled to answer that
letter by obyil athe return of the Tuesday's post—when
thirty-four hours only should elapse between the depar-
atiairaewoefr the
mleit)tue
hr
ifi rap.
raLeL(t .London
taankde tt thee
hreoeueirpotft of fe the
de-
parture from London at eight o'clock on the Monday. In
fifteen hours the letter would arrive in Dublin. There
would be four hours allowed in Dublin for the writing of
the answer, fifteen hours for the transit of the letter; and

thus the communication would take place in thirty-four
hours. This would be a great public advantage. It was
an affair of minutes almost. The object of the Govern-
ment was to make arrangements to secure the most expe-
ditious intercourse possible between the metropolis of Ire-
land and England, and he. begged that the House would not
urge them too strongly to the expenditure of public
money, unless by that expenditure they could secure the
public advantage.
NEW ZEALAND.
In answer to Mr. I3ELLEW,

Lerd STANLEY said that all the papers which were
in the possession of the Government relating to New
Zealand, would be laid before the Committee, and would
be presented to the House with the report.
SLAVERY.

. _
On the motion for going into Committee on the glasS
duties,
Mr. M. GIBSON wished to ask her Majesty's Go-
vernment whether, in the Go-vernment measure which
had been announced with respect to sugar, any distinc
tion was to be drawn between slave breeding and slave
importation.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would answer the question when the subject came on
for discussion.