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~ i *is mach better than applying a fictitious remedy to the 1 resorting to an income tax? After the good-catured reebhalt.
le I embaraesment of the finances of the coentry. But there were ; wiiieh bad been given to provincial Chancellors of th_
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ie 1 two causes only on which he should be disposed to support chequer, it would be doubtless called impertinent for in .
i; i a measure similar to that proposed by the Right rim , propose any new taxes.—( Hear. ) But it had been stated, tle i Baronet. The first would be supposing that the country was other evening, that a number of taxes had been taken
the
3f fighting for empire and existence against some foreign foe, I without being of the slightest benefit to any one—such wast, t_ils.
le I desirous of deetroying her power and blotting her from the ; leather tax, by which the country had lost four hundrede..
They e nations of the earth ; in that case he should submit to any sand pounds, and the consumer had gained nothing. "hosYthe
is ' sacrifice, for that sacrifice would be nothing compared to the knew that 25,000,000. of taxes had been taken. off ,
nut
1, I evil it would ward off. Or if the Right, Hon. Gentleman . the war. Would any one say then, after that, that it wee,
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had come down that night and stated to the • House the ex- possible to raise two or thee millions without raising the
tessera
Fr 1 istence of alarming deficiencies in the revenue, and stain of necessary articles of consumption, and with far less phrheart
e ' that deficiency was more likely to accumulate than diminish, on the country than must result from the income tax:
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t and with that deficiency existed a previous depression hear.) The second ground urged why they should a,11,,, rii; ,
e of trade, and that universal distress prevailed, when whole tax was the commutation of the taxes which the Rnuantripro, 1
- classes could find no work, when there were whole cities, Gentlemar, had mentioned. The Right Hon.
Gentlecountry ;
r , like Paisley, in ruin—if to remedy this frightful calamity there posed a eeneral revision of the import duties of this
when, if ate
t 1 had been attempts to repeal restrictions on trade in order to he Air. C. Wood) would not now revert to the imputationhc_a_tt
t I open new ehannels for industry, by giving a stimulus to enter-, on those unfortunate duties last year—( Hear)—
), prise, and if to do this he had stated that, it was necessary to Hon. Member attempted to revert to them, a universal titteraeeh
, make an immediate appeal to the property of the country, was their only reception from the other side, a d a broadtu:h., he would, in that case, have been willing to have offered his al ways met: them.—( Hear.) Now, he was quite ready-to
support to tho Right Honourable Baronet, and should have mit that a revision of the im
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given the measure his cordial assent, as now he , good in itself, as it might be made subservient to
opt to that
, . apposed it with an uneompromising resistance.—( Hear. ) I the many. With ,this view he gave his hearty suiseih. no
The Right Hon. Baronet's measure was one of. partial legis- , measure last year ; but he apprehended there couldo,i.uern,
e sue-
' bijou ;it was brought forward in order to enable the Right doubt, oven although the Right Hon. Gentleman_ indies!, ,to' 1,.,
Hon. Baronet to preserve the existence of a monopoly —to to doubt it, that a revision of those duties might be
co
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enable the Right Hon. Baronet to favour the interests of a servient to an immediate increase of the revenue of the
enouve"J
the
particular class. Those were the objects for which the, Right —( Hear.) If the Right Hon. Gentleman would remove
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Hon. Gentleman had brought forward a measure which had differential decrease of duties, an immediate increaseh.,t,tir Bon,
Port duties was a goodintheeasurieh
never been resorted to except in times of wars Those were the would.ensue. In the list of duties proposed by the I,', thot2 was a
I objects for which the Right Hon. Gentleman introduced that Gentleman the other day, there was only "e
which was
wag'
I measure which would have the effeet of sending over the land a differential duty ; in Many articles where the
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whole army of tax.gatherere end commissioners, invested with decreased one-half no increase of consunaption wouldsne had'
I' the most obnoxious end, immiseorial powers.—( Hear, hear.) If the Right Hon, Gentleman had called on them, ;hie}, le-
A more &liege epeortnnitv than the present never was given told them that there was a defficiency of revenue „semi t 53
to too Alinister of the Crown to hand down his name to a (paired to be made up, and had asked them to take in hrhe
greeefeh posterity by the introduction of such a measure as that end, he (Mr. C. Wood) was sure there wouldis side
would revive British interests and , rescuscitate Eeites,le corn- been no.objection made to it by Hon., Members oh, eh be
mereee-o( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Geellileneeen neglected of the House. But how were the main articles 0.a%; eons.
'that opportunity. No one could tieulet eiseit the Right Hon. the Right Hon. Baronet ? He remembered, that I°o by.
Gentleman had sufficient power tee Wee such a mea ure, but sideration of the import duties, a table was given in article-s,
he had exerted that pewee foe particular classes, instead of Pater, in which it was mentioned that there were
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legislating for the hetnreshe awl advantages of the ,country at hem which resulted 94e per cent. of the whole revr et-
large. leg elee,se reasons, he (Lord Dalmeny) would strenu, rived from the Customs, and which were wholly untouched.rhicies
of the lie, ge
en sly opev tho proposition orthe Right Hon. daronet, cept in some very triflin deeree. Only three, oda
Ale.. %). WOOD said he did not know what raison the were differential. The article of corn was atacif...iii which
Aight Hon. Baronet had to say that he anticipated opposition would not say more on corn now, than that the.nelni!"-the'eigeni
from that (the Oppeettion) side of the Rouse, whatever it had been dealt with was utterly insufficient for the hrtiele °
might be the financial measure proposed. If that cies of the country.—( Hear. ) The next was g the Bight
was the fieet tepee he (Mr. C. Wood) had taken up the coffee, amid he did think that in his charge sac
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opinion; len entertained waling the income tax, he might be , Honottrable Gentleman had unnecessarily litae° er, oRt he
etubjeciedi to such a censure ; but when it was recollected thee 1 duty. The, next article was that of ticu_ Geverereeet
in lEeles, he had voted with the Welt Hon. Baronet egetast : (Mr. C. Wood) would say that on that article the.teon f re"
seleh a tax—last year he had suFpnrted the prow:el:time of the ' had made. a large, a needless, and a wanton reduction cods°
Hon. Member for Portsmouth, and after eheet he (Mr. Wood) tuns.--(Cheers.) With regard to timber he es such s'
knew not upon what grounds he weeteehe charged with giving that he was at a loss to understand on what ground' been ir
a factious arid vexatious teptipsttiine tei doing that now which he ' enormous and such a needless sacrifice of revenue ,orgl
had already dotteee:Ahseee lee heel acted in perfect aceordelese curred ; and certainly the Right lion. Gent•hh wool
e P.'"" e',lll
thwith the Ito/lope oethe Right Hon. Baronet himsele e for if him for saying that he was very unlucky in his patsutou'
iehh tees aeish one gentleman in that House wile Lithe depicted Sir Henry Parnell. The Right Hon. Member for
oxioe
IA mere ferethle language than another the eeele of- the income • stated that in 1821 the course purshed was to all loserisf
tee, is, was the Right Hon. Baronet (Sett kit. Peel) himself.-- the foreign and colonial duties, by raiserg one an,, three
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Wood) essede no charge against the the other. The Right Hon. Gent, had •quoted Sir
clreiorsiohe
Right Hon. Baronet iter ethangeeg the opinions he had then as an authority for the course which he was pursuittetaintog et
(Chentertained—circeenetenees were undoubtedly changed since— sing a nominal duty on colonial timber, and yaw' eige tnr
eer* ire% the. Mirosterial benches)— but the deficiency at great a difference between the duty on colouial and fths eeeher 1
Sir ..
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peer* etas net greeter than it was when the Right Hon. her, that the duty en foreign timber should be 25 th'ren, e Per 1
Peerenet expressed his opinions against the incosge tax ; and than that on colonial timber. The plin which
ueint those grounds he (Mr. Wood) said, for himself and hell purposed, however, was, that there should be 7istinede:
his friends on that (the Opposieeme) side of the House, cluey of 355. on all timber whatever, making no obi'
that at least they should net be accused of a factious between the two, but at the same time imposing a-
rotiiebe''
and vexatious tempeitton; merely because they retained the would give a great increase to the re.venuederivablv frioiisi tiro'
opiniees they h,ad already • expressed, not deeming those If they had reduced the duty to 7s. or Bs. upon c°°olberi lie
oeteetteestaneeti sufficient to change their opinions, though ber, and, eontinued the duty of 30s. upon foreign "A. rii!-,,
r. Right Hon. Baronet had tholeht prewar to change his.— believed a large increase of revenue would 1)• obtainenuopti?!: I
(Hear, hear.) In coalmen with, his Noble Friend-who had mire the three articles, of the great articles of eel'fferseest:
just sat down, and the tether Hon. Gentlemen who had act- with which the tariff psoposed to deal, which were, child 9sr
suchdressed the ?tenses, he concurred in the neceSsity of raleitig ditties. With sugar they refuse to (teal at all, and "efeebeeLlo I
eVnis. 4 c9PutV as were necessary to sustain the honour of but express his surprise that the Chancellor of the,
to fr° '
t c.,o,untq . The estimates were not voted 1 Haut he (Mr: should say that so long as an acre Hate supply ethellue 0 ane .
Wend) would answer for himself and fog those around him, the colonies, there was no reason to deal whle„he Gene
that they would give no opposition whateyer to a vote of that ( Hear.) He should like to know what the Right L-„ told thatb
House to raise such sums of neoney as were necessary to maintain man considered an adequate supply. They had ~0. brute.
the independence and honour of the country—nu disposition the quantity introduced hest year was the largest,ehhet MLR,
had been shnem upon that side of the House to give any oppo- into this country ;he (Mr. Wood) was rather inc"" the "LT;
eittoet to the raising of just and necessary taxes. For his own that that was not the case, and if they would refer tAne, he (P•ei,
Fel he was prepared to vote for any taxes that might be really Gentleman the Viete-President of the Board of 'era; test al,l
required, but he could not see that that dsclaration (which he Wood) had no doubt that he would bear him out heeared'
made with the utmost sinemity h was in any way inconsistent Ilion. He remembered last year having a return Pal rhasto.4
with his intention ;pd determination to offer a most determi- the Board of Trade, which showed' the aetu.on d'irel t,
nate oppositeeet teethe measure which the present Government which had been brought in for home consumPA,joo were
bretsgiee eorwerd. That a, tax was necessary he (Mr. Wood) was the year 1831, and it appeared that instead of 3, '"ht., sethe
noe disehotsed to, deny,—(e Hear, hear," from the Ministerial being the quantity introduced, it was 4,36000 en eetedolel)
be.techee ) that additional taxes might be necessary, ho would believed that a much larger quantity had been iutreir. tV e
not deny.—(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) He would year, without reference to population ; but he less rodent
go the length of saying even further, that, obeectionable as was thought that the best way to consider this question Werote to
the income tax, ifs there, was an urgent neeessity shown fo.• it, with it,in reference to population, and he thought
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he would not he eposed, to give any opposition even to an in- that it would be found that if the supply had been seed i!tei
cones tax; but he thought the necessey for it should be come in so as to benefit the consumer, the revenue wri rot
Wendy she:wet-4 should be shown by most conclusive proof. beset increased some hundreds of thousands of peun sol
0,
1;i et the Right Hon. Gentleman had altogether failed in wine and fruit also the Right Hon. Gentleestan b Clta,h,
aeldneing those proofs.—(Hear, hear.) Was it not necessary propose to deal. If in the present position of the Frere!,cbs( 'O,
that. the Government should demonstrate the neeensity for the hers we were to wait for their reduction of the tarti,,,e; be
tax beyond all doubt ? The Right Hon, Gentleman had C.'Wood) thought they should have to wait a lone tell'i. clitae
attempted to show that no alternative had been left to the prehended the sound principle was not to watt 'A'aihbt, be
country; except the adoption aan ineome tax. Ifthathad been ( Hear,) If the • duty was taken off here, they ietahlas.
shown, as he (Mr, Wood) thought and firmly believed it had .end upon it teat, by some way or other, our 117)ttereers
not, sew, ;mends might be given for imposing that tax upon taken into that country. On this subject nO had 03 Ole' country,-.,( Hear, hear.) He did not want to, use any thority could be quoted than the name of him wb° ne
exaggerated expressions in showing the House the objection- so often mentioned in the course of this debaterjt ~".h
able nature of that tax. He would merely refer to the always with respect and reverence—he allude"' teat 'Soo
language of the petition of the citizens of London in 1816, Deacon Hurne.—(Hear, hear.) His opinion wasseonie Viet
it
stating that an income Utz was arbitrary in
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and •at should always give the freest admission of other ehge, 701
variance teith, %he interests of the country." The necessity far this country, and leave other countries to take adverph eit"re
tip OA at that time was greater than it was at present. No as they thought fit, and the result would be a gibe g,elhe
body could look back at the financial state of the country at interchange of goods. He would not go over e ell ins
that time and say that for two years en Meome tax was not principle on which the proposed tariff seemed to betaelelhe
more necessary then to whed, elp the heavy expenses of the but he could not help referring to the impolicy of es I veil
10 war than the present tax was necessary for three years.— dithereutial duties. He had csrtainly been much °lir tuseline
(Hear, been) It was then stated that an income tax running his eye over the tariff to see these duties intro e' „.
enia necessary to place the finances of the ceentry upon such an extent, He would admit the clearness wia'estiostti, •
a solid basis, and such was the oppositima, given to the tax, the Right Hon. Gentleman had entered into many ;le hi co.
that Lord Liverpool's Government was obliged to give way, he admired the soundness and clearness diselaYceetershe
and leave the country in le large deficiency. The objection to Right Hon. Gentleman in enlarging upon the ,
_einles he
the tax was not its amount, but its obnoxious principle, and its and his only wonder was, that with such ~prtile,hhti
erhierery inquisition into the private affairs of the people. That Right Hon. Baronet could stop where he del. wont
was the universal ground of complaint. Was it likely that the . hear.) ele could not help thinking that the tariteefeed,
objections to it would be less now than they Overeat that time? I by the Right Hon. Baronet had been laid on the t, irld do,
Were they to be told that, in the present sleets. of the manufae- i the House without due consideration. With resP:t eel" „a-
tures of the country, the inquisitorial; pracess sanetioeed by the sto the import of foreign cattle, he :quite agreed eel' 0..
present measure was likely to, be more palatable than ' Right Hon. Gentleman that the alarms on that OAd the r,
it was in 18l6?—(1-Aear, hear.) On the contrary, the measure fou,•cled But with that exception, and he would 1"„ ea' I
neve re.ceenneeiedeit was likely to cause paying to no end, or a tiele of coffee, he knew of note from which the de 's fleareh 1
shiedioattre of affairs which might lead to immediate ruin. lie . duced so as to lessen the price to the consumeers ,stc.ji !
did not think that any modification meld be introduced that The income tax was proposed to maintain motiol'°':,is ceisshl
could mitigate the pressure of thee neeneure; he believed they ' as the revenue of the country was concerned, he was hjosseh•
should take the tax as the Reg ht Hon., Gentlemen had pro- , that it could ho made op from other sources far less 'hes erre
pesed it, but the unthirneeseweth which it pressed upon incomes ' unjust than income. So far as the commutation of taenes ilia
derived keen peofessions, or from temporary means, .he saw nothing in the mode in which the impost etee, seed
emit
•Wend all doubt a fatal objection to the ire,- dealt with which should induce the House to submit as,
Pctsitinn of such a tax at all.—(Cries of " Hear, hear" ) tax as the one now proposed. He knew not tha s sod 0,
There was an argument used by Hon. Gentlemme on the op- which had been said could tend to remove the eeitnitbsthot
posite side to which he (Mr. Wood) wished to refer; he I quisitorial nature of this tax. He would conclude tae,
erti e
meant the argument which went to show that those who sage from Mr. Fox, delivered in 1798, against this sentecrere
brought forward that measure were the friends of the people-- 1 eminent statesman said--" The moment the State eve; es',
that they proposed 4 tea which would in no degree p:ess upon , greet supply, I will grant it ; but let me ask, if jt., . iti'
the pnonr eliasses.,..that it would bear exclusively upon the rich 1 that the State should require so great an injusticte ths' :
sesi Cheers and counter cheers)—and that it would not in the 1 An How. Meisteee. observed across the table • sel
slin'e
least bear upon that class of people who depended upon their : was in 1806.
eadY coy' •
personal labour and exertion to maintains themselves and ' Mr. C. WOOD said it was not so. 'He had alr
hat
toot
their families.—( Hear, hear.) If he thought that was to the circumstances of 1806, when there was aig:be c°,,,
a true description of the measure, it would remove . nental war, and when the feelings and opinions} 1 heesis'
one of the melte* objections it had in his (Mr. went with that tax, in order that the honour, net" her
Wheel's) epithion, In 1833, the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. of the country might be maintained. 0 ere
'd a° ''' '
Peel) said that the effect of a tax like that would be to induce Mr. SCAttLETT thought that those who Pah, tbefhete
persons to seek investment in foreign countries for their eapi- tax would contribute a much less amount than " e eeh' ea'
tal.—( Hear, hear.) Did the Right Hon. Baronet consider taxed in a more indirect manner. He denied that "'lend,'
how much of the employment of the working classes of this had arisen to justify the imposition of such a t3s* et of
the
country entirely depended upon the supply,' not of the necessa- such a necessity, but it had not arisen through all et "
ties, but of the lexurtes of the rich. No doubt one of the greatest present Government, but through the mismanages' tele
elejeetio,ns to the tax was the effect which it would necessarily party who had been in power for the last ten years' (the tae
have, in forcing capital abroad to other countries. There was Mr. POULETT SCROPE wanted a eefinitie?.°,hilh'isse''
already too great a tendency to produce that effect—( Hear, " income tax"--what the incomes were, and on wu-idholl'
hear)—and what was
.still more, it was well known how was to be levied. He would take the instance of an 0e '',ll, lii
large a portion of the produce of, the foreign manufacturers' in a town who kept a member of cows for the linitich:efits'
establishments—the rivals of this country—were every day ins- plying the inhabitants with milk. Was such an in the ';eal'e
ported by English capitalists.—( Hear, hear.) Hon. Members wanted to knotte.to be taxed on the gross amount 'he t° of re'
of that House' were heard to say that they had themselves thus derived, or did the Right Hon .-Baronet pro
tterhf
invested large sums in manufactures on the Continent, where allowance for the annual loss arising from the neecf: tea
articles and commodities were produced cheaper in rival markets. placing stock ? He wished to be informed on t"'' tritg
It was well known that machinery was exported from this the Right Hon. Baronet. ..I,' tti,
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country to the Continent—that our artisans were every day Sir R. PEEL said he meant to adopt the genteel never
leaving this country, and it could not he prevented. In various of ;the Bill introduced on this subject by Lord hseeietteh
articles of our mannfactures, the Grecian and even the Swiss now Marquis of Lansdowne, when Chancellor of the
ile io,,i f 11°
manufactured articles were as good as ours, and much cheaper ; in the administration of Lords Gre and Grenville nostril to
.
however, there was hitherto one advantage retained in this If the Hon. Gentleman would refer to that Ace
the
ente Itch
country—that was, its greater amount of capital —(Hear, provisions of the most minute nature on all "en 021.01
hear.) That single advantage—the accumulation of its capital— which he referred. The information contained
r:, 060° .
the proposition of the Right Hon. Baronet was calculated to the Hon. Gentleman would find to be much rsi°lhni, ree tus
annihilate • that advantage.—e( Hear, hear.) If the effect of than it was in his (Sir R. Peel's) power to giv'', be rfi.'rees :h
the measure proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman was Mr. P. SCROPE was apprehensive that, ths eroctsher i
merely to drive capital abroad (and no :one could deny the Act, he might not be able to comprehend th joss Orhafteh
that it would have that effect), it was certainly a laid down. He had referred to the case of anonaerson
ice ineue
most objectionable measure, and the Right Honourable in keeping up stock. He wished to know if a evhoesehsioese Gentleman would find that he would derive but very in the trade he had referred to would have any, his
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little from the tax which he proposes to impose upon the pro- him for the expenses incurred in other respect' °tee qoay re
ducts of foreign capital embarked in this country, and so far Sir ROBERT PEEL said the Honourahet 3'.
a the
from the working classes net being interested in this measure, would find all those cases provided for in the
applie bole
he (Mr. Wood) believed there was no part-of the country upon ferred to.
whom it would more severely press. Those were the reasons Mr. P. SCROPE went on to say that if tihsle,"; Perl9inay
which induced him always to believe that an income tax principle of compensation in the case of chearellres'oe iris'
should be reserved for time of war, On those occasions, when commodities, why not apply it in that of Wane repaireee deo
the honour and independence of the country are concerned, much as expense was annually incurred in &the rteer eoety
the feelings of the people would induce them to submit to chinery. In the case of ship-owners, would „teener' onee'
taxes oven as obnoxious as an income tax, because then they rived from all the ships possessed by any onet one the e. io theo
see and feel that the interests of the country depend upon them. they make allowance for the expense arisiee -r urgency freh
The objection which had been taken against direct taxes in of keeping up a stock of vessels to meet .any derived
repenht
time of peace he believed to be perfectly valid and correct. trade? In like manner, in the case of inc"hor tbe we° i
If we looked at the history of our taxation we should find that houses, would not some deduction be suede be riteerive
direct taxes had always been taken off .in preference to others ; arising from repairs? If such were the, case; incomesh. a ech
the property tax had been taken off for that reason, and other they not apply the same rule in the case Incetneebseh thew:
tastes on the same ground. The assessed tax was the only from professions, which were by no eneansdistiog°l the two
direct tax that now remained, and that would ere this have been manent character ? To a property tax, as reqire" ;„et two .
removed, were it nut that people could easily relieve an income, he had no objection, if occasimerter wee
_soetete eh
themselves from it, and for that reason alone were the people position ot such a tax. A tax on real proPiroicee be
nwoe, into
enter
,on elf,
reconciled to its maintenance. If there were now such a time post, in his mind, and from stating that oPt of warfare, as happily was Hot now the case, if we had now such shrink.—( Hear, hear.) He . would 0° t °eels'
~. t
or v"%eaney
a war as the time when the property tax was formerly imposed, the question as to whether the Preseton
pest to
then, he would say, as the country had willingly submitted to for the imposition of .an income
~„euot or eere•kef
it before, he doubted not it would again, if similar circumstances tax a perishable income to the same 17,eoits of in-'t I oe• n
occurred —( Hear) —he doubted not but they would submit to a property was to prevent outlay in the Pt- drive caerile-bt ilti;
tax so vexatious and so odious as this. But his firm conviction divert it into unproductive channels, °rieet.ber the '''''rishee
was, that under existing circumstances it would be impossible, the country. He, therefore, asked, "'en between Pe
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tact
and he did say, therefore, that it was an unnecessary
,and a Baronet intended to draw any distinctie .
I the .ot
mischievous proceeding to make the country depend upon a and permanent incomes ? A. nprOved ° esrnm'ef
tax whieh could not be maintained.--( Hear, hear.) He must Mr. WILLIAMS said, though he "isate. it the Geer uiie° hi
say that, in his opinion, the arguments which had been urged generally, yet he must say, that in preparahe the tinane y
n theooo this,
w o IP. e rBWiala:r
1 'lid
mee
onothatat tnedeeeer°
eeting be ail
fir the necessity of this tax had 'altogether failed,—( [lean) had taken a bold anti manly mode of ems
went of t to ell 0
They were called on to support it, first, because there was a tee country. Looking at the mismanage, it ought
half, fro e
deficiency in the revenue of 2,800,000 e, which, with a fair of the country fora great number of year 'eos Ind !„,h, theft,
margin of 500,000/., made the total 3,000,0001. to be man with alarm. During the last seeen,Yjanuary, le,;his bOO.O
raised for the exigencies of the country. Was it, indeed, the 10th of October, 1834. to the 2115. t of Jan heecieneYwhiei be
true, that we were to have recourse to such a tax as hail been no less than 169,000 °°.°,,e interest °'
~ O„tre
this to raise a revenue of 3,000,0001.? He did not wish to rowel of the Bank of Engla"lier whole revei:,u'ehat t'he
enter into any of the disputations which had occupied their 24,000,0001., or
nearly half of La.cear, he fount
the
anetual.
time last year, but he could not help saying that, in his onion, sth of January in the Present hhp,er to
the Right Hon. Member for Portsmouth demonstrated, as a was only 3,600,0001., an the
,Exeoh,thee due ,
matter of fact, that if his eroeositions heel been adopted, a of the interest en the debt
than
•"dee
considerable increase of revenue would have resulted.--( Hear. ) This was a circumstance
There could be no doubt whatever that 600,0e0/. more would should not have been in °
thr
the interett otuftritebou
army airch
have arisen from corn if the Bs. duty bad been imposed upon ell third of the amount required fosor ..ie
" SUP°II crince wa'oet
andoe that
corn imeerted last year, Of that there could be no doubt ; pendent of the other dert. 1 whatever sa
its dangeteco
it was net a matter of estimate. but of facc.—( Hear.) He navy. He was prepared wise%
the countr "'n' The quelie
certainly was surprised to hear the Chancellor of the Excite- quired to be made to relieve Hear, hear.) He for that
quer saying that the same quantity of corn would have been position, ought to be made.—( to be made tile ,ny the _,
edition to —.OOOO
admitted.—( Hear.) He did not believe that anybody in or was, how the deficiency was a permanent a -1,
660. iee
out of the House would credit such an assertion, but they from 1834 to 1840 there li% 5
inaterest on which
artsbeen
),Oktry
of f_e
Eteheirnqupeorrtai,,nn.ci,errn_
Jew.,
i,
and
would believe with him (Mr. C. Wood) that the contrary of 33,900,0001.,the c°l2 ef
would be the fact,—( Hear, hear.) The same thing was areued a year, and during
last year with regard to the sugar duties; and then the Chan- out inducements so . . During the h Govern'aroto
annuities.
the
cellar of the Exchequer said that it was unnecessary to go into into permanent
a intimated to - _to pay
see
the proof of that statement, for he admitted it would be the last year he ha:, he collectors of the teruge: the vioc7l,
case,—( Hear.) He (Mr. C. Wood) believed that the result of that if they compelled ''"
ss amount of required rev
to
parrthe dif
a reduction of the duty would have been attended with an in- the Exchequer the
ou
crease in the revenue of 1,500,0,30/. He was quite ready find that a sum Of 4 4
?nted out that the
deal presteet ; be , 0
to admit that the income to be derived from corn was impose lectors. He then Pot east ,
sN'-out
.thahhe
, convert the they
ilo.f_
nrt
gos., 0
sible to be calculated, so long as the l'd.scale '
s i ing was main- collection increasing; he
• oily pointed
which l'' t•
e venue, _ _n
tained.—( Hear, hear.) But if anything like 1,500,000/. was that it was eonsta
collection of the e__
°la° Wu! , or 41 fer erre h
to be produced from that measure, and 400,0001. was to he raised 1806 the cost of
the
was only ee•-,_
ara.aunt 0 the t
from Ireland, would any one believe that it was ;impossible to amounted to 58,000,0001., collected. In 1840 tne derive from Great Britain 1,0Q0,0001. or 2,000,0001. without on the gross amount
I. of the revenue was a