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Mr. HUTT wished to put a question to the Right
Hon. Baronet relative to the Stade Duties. Ile naked
whether any arrangement had been made by the Govern,
ment on this question
Sir R. PEEL said, that As the negotiations were still
pending, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not press
ins question.
Mr. HUTT would only take the opportunity of re-
minding the Right Hon. Baronet that this queakon had
been pending for a long time.
Sir R. PEEL said, there were many other qtsiiestiosa
which had also been pending for a long time.—(A 1.:!1g9
As soon as he should be enabled to make any communi-
cation on the subject he would do so.
SYRIA—THE DRUZES.

Sir C. NAPIER asked whether any despatches had
been received by the Government from Beyrout, rela •
tive to the union of the Maronites and Druzes for warlike
purposes.
Sir R. PEEL was understood to say that despatches
had been received, but that from the necessity of read-
ing up the foreign despatches each night he should not
i)e prepared to answer any question on the subject till
to-morrow (this day).
THE REVENUE.
Mr. HA.WES asked when the Report of the Revenue
Commbsioners would be laid before the House'?
Sir R. ;PEEL stated that it would be laid on the table
as soon as practicable.
A message from the Lords brought up certain Bills.
MARRIAGES—IRELAND.

Lord J. RUSSELL asked what was the present state
of the Bill brought into the Lords on this subject ?
Sir R. PEEL said, his impression was that the second
case that had occurred on this subject was not a cri-
minal but a civil case, had been turned into a special
one, to be argued before the Judges in Ireland, and
that an appeal, if thought necessary by the parties,
would be made from the Judges to the House of Lords.
But the question was, for the present, suspended, as
their Lordships were desirous :o consider the decision of
the Judges, as a Court of Law, before they further legis-
lated on the subject.
FOREIGN CATTLE.

An HON. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn,
begged to ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether he could
state what would be the probable amount of revenue de-
rived from the importation of foreign cattle.—(Laughter.)
This was no laughing matter—(Laughter)—and he
would be thankful for a precise answer.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said this resembled the ques-
tion put to him the other night, when an Honourable
Member said that because he (Sir Robert Peel)
knew the rests of the sliding scale, he ought to know
what revenue the Corn-law would yield. To answer
the present question would be still more difficult now
that the prohibition on the importation of foreign cattle
was about to be removed for the first time. But he was
sure the apprehensions on this subject were greatly ex-
aggerated. He had no fear that the importation
of cattle, fat or lean, would materially, if at all,
injure the home grazier.—(Hear.) This was all he could
say at present on the subject. He had heard of a
calculator who, having given the height of the mast and
, the name of the Captain, was asked to find the latitude
of the ship—(laughter)—to give a precise answer to
the question put by the Hon. Gentleman would be about
as difficult.
On the motion that the Order of the Day for the
House resolving itself into a Committee be read,
Lord HOWICK presented a petition from the coal
owners and ship-owners of Sunderland, against the pro-
posed tax on coals. •
Mr. FOX MAULS said that before the Order of' the
Day be read, he had, in consequence of several
communications which he received from Scotland,
no other alternative than to state to the Right
Honourable Baronet opposite the position in which
the people of Scotland were placed at that mo-
ment. The Right Honourable Gentleman developed
his financial scheme on Friday week, and had stated
that he had taken the greatest possible care to se-
cure the utmost secrecy with respect to his plan. The
knowledge of that plan had scarcely reached Scotland,
when it created considerable alarm amongst the classes
who were to be effected by it, and the Right Ho-
, nourable Gentleman was now proceeding to take
the resolution of the Committee upon it, and it
was only at the time that he was proceeding to take
that resolution that the people of Scotland were in-
formed for the first time of his plan; nay, a portion of
the people of Scotland were in ignorance of_
it, although that portion of the United Kingdom
would suffer more severely from his scheme than any
other. He would, therefore, put it to the Right
Honourable Baronet whether it was not due
to that part of the country, to which he (Mr. F. Maule)
belonged, to wait until the people there had expressed their
opinion on the tax with regard to which it was his
duty to state they entertained very strong feelings.
He had, therefore, in the name of the people of
Scotland, and in. the name of those who had
communicated with him to request the Right
Honourable Baronet to consider before the Order of the
Day was read, whether it might not be consistent
with his duty to defer taking the sense of the
House until after Easter, and to give the people-4 '
of Scotland an opportunity of communicating with their
representatives, and letting them know their wishes on
the subject.7l(Hear, hear.) _ _

Sir ROBERT PEEL said that he was sometimes told
that he was afraid to touch anything, sometimes that
he was touching injudiciously •, and now the Right
Hon. Gentleman told him that by the proposed admis-
sion of foreign cattle he was affecting the interests of
the entire people of Scotland. He could only say that
he had attempted to do' justice to all parties.—(Hear.)
He (Sir R. Peel) proposed, for instance, to go on with
the Corn Bill this day, and at the suggestion of
Honourable Gentlemen he was obliged to deter the con-
gideration of it. On the whole he should say that he
could not be a party to any further delay which was
caused.—(llear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.)
He thought the House was in a condition now to deter-
mine whether it was politic or not to supply the deficiency
in the revenue by an income tax, or what other tax,
and therefore he could not be a party to any further
delay.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Right Hon
Gentleman (Mr. Fox Maule) must bear in mind
that if the people of Scotland had a claim for the
diminunition or reduction of the duty which it was
proposed to lay upon them, they would have a perfect
opportunity of urging their claims in the progress of the
Bill, or it would be perfectly open to the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman to propose an amendment while
the Bill was in Committee; but as to the general
question whether or no there should be a tax
upon income he (Sir Robert Peel) could not
help thinking that the House was now fully in a condi—
tion to determine that question.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FOX MAULE said, his object was simply
to claim, upon the part of the people of Scotland,
time to consider between the receipt of the intelligence
to impose the income tax and the passing of
the resolutions upon that subject. The Right Hon. Ba-
Toner, in giving so courteous an answer as he had just
w.ven, had done his duty to himself as Minister of the
. Crown, but he (Mr. F. Maule) felt it his duty towards
the people of Scotland to ask on their behalf for time to
consider the question before the resolutions were passed.
Sir ROBERT PEEL assured the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman that he had received many t ommunications from
Scotland since the proposition for imposing an income
tax was made known, and speaking generally he (Sir
R. Peel) must say, that from all he could hear upon the
subject the people of Scotland were most satisfied with
the proposition.—(Hear, hear.)
MINISTERIAL MEASURES.

In reply to a question from Mr. C. WOOD, with re-
spect to the Corn-law Bill,
Sir ROBERT PEEL said he was most
anxious to bring the Ministerial measures to a
conclusion. The proceeding with the Corn question
depended entirely with the House ; if it was thought
that the discussion upon the subject was sufficient, no-
thing could be more satisfactory to him (Sir Robert
Peel) than to bring it to a conclusion, but it seemed
as if there was no desire to do so.—(Hear, hear.) He
had evinced every anxiety to determine the question—
he had fixed it for every night last week. The other
night ha asked the Gallant Officer opposite (Sir
C. Napier) to grant his motion to have prece-
dence to the corn question ; but the Gallant
Officer (as he had • a right to do) claimed
precedence, and the Corn Bill was postponed—in fact he
(Sir Robert Peel) h:Ad exhausted every means to bring
forward the question hcfore, but he found it impossible.
it lion. Gentlemen opposite thought the question had
been sufficiently discussed, and were disposed to permit
the Bill at once to pass into a law, he should
be most happy to hear it.—(Hear, hear) If he
could brill.. on the Corn Bill to-night he should be most
happy to du so; but if not, he hoped the Hon. and Gallant
Officerwould permit him to bring it forward to-morrow.
Mr. C. WOOD had not expressed either impatience
or the reverse ; he was -s anxious as the Right
lion. Baronet could be that the question should be set-
tled, so as to set the anxiety of the public at rest on the
subject. He had asked simply for information, more
with a view of ascertaining when he might be able to
je,,ve town, than for any other purpose.
CHARLES BULLER thought the Right
Honovrable Baronet had a few nights since
told the: House how extremely important it was that the
Corn Bin should pass without delay—(Opposition
Cheers)—and now he was for bringing forward his

ail of India, in the month of December last:. The in-
structions were to cause a full and searching ..inquiry
to be instituted at the earliest prictiCable period into,
the actual value of the quantity of opium Con-
fiscated in each district in the months of April and
March, 1839, and what were the quantities in the
markets at the time that confication took place—
to report the result of the inquiry, and trans-
mit to the Lords of the Treasury the evidence
adduced on the occasion, together with whatever other
information on the subject the Governor in Council might
think fitting. He (Sir Robert Peel) had no doubt
that the Governor-General of India would direct
those inquires to be made, and would remit
to this country all the information possible to be col-
lected on the Vet.
IRELAN --NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Mr. SHAW wished x 9 plat A question with re-
ference to the interests of the gsts.iilished Church
in freland, in c,lllnection with the kr,eoM ;mem
of education in that couerY. His queajoi? WE?" wAk4ef
now that the Irish estirnats b.''re inVire 11-,rPaYa:*
tion, it was the intention of her alaJestY "
Majesty's 47.9.4-
ment to devise any means,
or receive any PTen§4/§
for schools in connexion with the
in that country. The members of the Established Cii;;;!ch
had not enjoyed a reasonable share—s(Chmoll from
the Opposition benches)—of the advantages to be 44
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rived from the funds annually granted for the promo.
tion of education in Ireland.
Lord ELIOIJ said that it was the intention of Go-
vernment to ineludg the usual grant for National Educa-
tion in Ireland, in this Estimates for this year without
proposing any alteration.
THE STADE DLTES. _ .