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Or ,'OO.OOO/•and the cost of colleetinzit was 4,280,000/., ; tlemen opposite, the unanswerable speeches of Hon. Gentlemen
then'reovreenthan eight *per cent. on the gross amount. In 1806 ou his side of the House—he could handy think it necessary
Yet the a° was more than six millions greater than in 1840, ' for him to proceed, but be would not on that occasion give a
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an.ieo.lection of it in 1840 amounted to more than a mil- j silent vote. —(Cheers and counter-cheers.) Hon. Gentle-
.so ant half than in 1806. What was the .necessity of , men opposite did not think those speeches unanswerab:e he
coke Bctuch more now than at that period? The Right I hoped they would favour the House with arguments and figures
IlLecor: roeet had intimated that the revenue officers were j to show 'en to so, that if the measures proposed last year had been passed,
e extent pa:d by fees, but then it should be re- they should now be obliged to have recourse to an income tax
that they were paid in paper money, depreciated, jto supply a deficiency of 4,000,000 a —( Cheers. ) That tax had
chap..g to the authority of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. been denounced by men of the gi eatest eminence, and by nearly
not less than 35 per cent. Looking at the mer-
every constituency in the kingdom in 1816, as the most inqui.
,tiaotos;jh manufacturers
, shopkeepers, and tradesmen of all de- sitorial, the most oppressive, and the most intolerable that hu-
14dipme contended that the condition of all these classes man ingenuity could devise.—(Cheers.) He did not wish to
det ally deteriorated. The condition of his constituents IFo further into the subject, feeling that the arguments used
and
414., poorated to the extent of 60 per cent. The Property nis side of the House had exhausted the subject.—( Cheers and
at-o'n in manufactures was depreciated in value. The Hon. Counter-cheers.) But when he found the House Was about to
factorustier for Salford had stated that a building for a manu- go to a division, and that Honourable Gentlemen opposite
ry
3°'staiffer".ie"'nuic.n cost 120,0001. had been sold for less than were adhering to the "silent sytsem," he thought it necessary
this w fly should they throw the weight of the taxes on t e debate should not terminate wi hoot hearing what Hon.
thief bur g portion of the community ? He thought the Gentlemen opposite had to say.—( Hear, hear.) If Hon.
%qui n ought to be borne by those who had obtained for Gentlemen referred to the debate of 1816, they would find that
itsileonpowlieestepeacsualiar privileges, the landholders, the West India night after night for months before the then Chancellor of the
sort of co-operators with the landholdere, and Exchequer brought forward his proposition, the subject had
eeZet!ho derived their incomes from the public revenue of the been discussed on the presentation of the petitions, and some
the, ~!. He woula propose that, instead of imposing this tax, of the best speeches had been made on such occasions. But
tia4e;°,uld make a deduction, not only from the incomes of Hon. Gentlemen she uld recollect that that rule being altered,
fee aboven° Occupied ter Treasury benches, but he would go and, as he thought, very wisely altered, they should expect to
aad, them, and descend, to a certain extent below them, have more time consumed in the debates limy, and they should
. .
of thellotel them to make a sacrifice,' as well as the other classes not exhibit such impatience to come to a division.--(Hear,
Of the irnunity. He then read an extract from the pamphlet hear.) He thought that the public interests required that
.sprats tight Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), advising the more time should be now spent in debates. For his own part
lihat the submit to a free trade in corn but with a condition he had the indisposition to go to an immediate vote, if the party
'lige care hold be a remission of other monopolies, and a opposite re determined to adhere 'to the " s;lent system."
h,_ad
gri;_uction of taxation, as the operation of Mr. Peel's Bill And he had no doubt that when they came to a division, the
It! (itdr".n,a. bonus to particular classes of 30 per cent. Right Hon. Baronet would have a large majority ; and he
Tett Hen wliams) was thus fortified by the authority of the only hoped that—if the tax were imposed, and that. w hile he
et env, ;esoiaronet, now one of her Majesty's Government, . trusted if it were necessary, the people would submit tot—they
rived front 3 than a tax of 30 per cent., or the incomes de- were not throwing away that great weapon from acy struggle
.gage"lu land or from the public Exchequer would free the in which they may be engaged in an European. war..—(Ch. eers.,)
r from its embarressments. It would be a great service Colonel SIBTHORP rose amidst loud cries ot " Divide, di-
this Government if the Right Hon. Baronet would instil vide," and " Oh, oh." He said he would not trouble the
Paninhlet into them; but he was afraid the Right Hon. House, were it not for the allusion which had been made to him
11"c'net had
' outlived those excellent principles. The Right by the Right Hon. Baronet who had just sat down, though he
eight net at the head of the Government declined the other knew not for what reason he alluded to him.—( Laughter. )
Ile (ler state the probable amount of the revenue on corn. The Right Hon. Baronet ( sir R. Peel) was, he was glad to
2000,0 co• ;NO found it estimated in the Banker's Circular at say, placed in the responsible position which he occupied by the
:t4 iflea e• which ha thought too high ; still it would give united voice of his country. When he heard the Right Hon.
tAler4,°' it. But he was now going to point out some items Baronet attacked for the measure he proposed to augment the
eal retrenchment might be Profitably practised. The finances of the country, he was attacked for his endeavour to re.
tae C03,,,T,1t amounted to 4,640,0001., the pensions charged on trieve them from the position in which they were placed by the
lit 3207( .dated Fund 620,0001., while in 1829 the latter were misconduct and delinquency of the party opposite.-- (Loud cheers
11,4'9111d hay /. He was astonished that so great an increase and " Oh, oh.") It is true he resorted to extreme measures to
bven permitted in time of peace. Then let the meet the extreme delinquencies of the party opposite.—(Cheers
Zalte jell. Baronet do one act of justice— let him and "Oh, oh.") He saw the Noble Lord, the late Secretary for
':e'sOnals.ol property subject to the probate duty that Foreign Affairs, who seemed to stand behind the two sinking pit.
`rtl,o then
ePrioperty paid; let him also reduce the expenditure Isrs on his side—(Loud laughter)—smarting under theloss of power,
p petty.a'e of 1836, and he would have 4,000,000/. Les the lace, and solar (Loud
laughter.) His Right Hon. Friend
~ of such men as the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of (Sir R. Peel) d:d not act like the Noble Lord. lie was never
E`4t and the
Marquisof Hertfrd, be not subject to the tax obliged to have recourse to a tail wanting a head.—Loud
ihe ntlit'Posed upon the inheritance of the 501. accumulated . laughter.) No. That independent, honest, and manly man—
i4 a aa'try and penury of the hard workingman. A property (Laughter)—would scorn to have recourse to suet attempts.
t-Nar ukt support to three times the present sum if it were He was a tower of strength, and he would be supported.—
° gati teytyl but for the reasons he and other Hon. Gentlemen (Laughter.) He was called on to make these observations in
~.f.((lit night, stated, he would oppose an income tax.—(Cries consequence of what had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet
Nl°n," amidst which the Hon. Gentleman eat down (Sir G. Grey), but as lie was on his legs lie could not avoid saying
her auroptly
that his Right Hon. Friend (Sir Robert Peel) would have his
la,itNb G. no
said, the Hon. Gentlemen opposite seemed humble but sincere support.—(Cries of" Hear," and '• Divide.")
Zttle
`o come to a division. At this he was not surprised ; Mr. BLEWITT moved that the Chairman report progress, and
N.ttwas surprised that, on a question of such great import- ask leave to sit again.—(" Oh, oh," and " Divide, divide.")
t‘vat on a question so vitally affecting the interests of at The Gallery was then ordered to be cleared for a Division, on
:aeh-,e,a° kingdoms of the empire—England and Scotland— the motion of the Hon. Member, when
alp; 'arkable silence should prevail amongst those who were Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as there were many Gentle..
Alit 'is to
tio.e testify, by their votes, the confidence they felt in the men who wished to continue the debate, he hoped it would not be
14,4est$, of the Right Hon. Baronet—( Loud cheers from the interrupted. He trusted that there would be no indisposition on
h thltal side)—could testify that confidence, by their votes, the part of the Committee to listen to any Hon. Gentleman
'tea eY shrunk from the oblcquv—( Loud cries of " Hear, who wished to speak.—(Hear.) But before they proceeded
1tega,,,,,°'1,, the Opposition benches)—and the unpopularity of any further he wished to ask a question with regard to
w,ntitet,Vrie measure proposed, er of venturing to state in that a notice of motion given by an Hon. Member, as to an amendment
palth rust the measure would be acceptable to the constituents of the resolution. A question was to be asked, whether any excep-
„t 4, 'turned them to Parliament•—(Cheers.) But while Lion from the tax was to be made in favour of professions hing ter-
',aat lie-raarkable silence had been broken, he believed only bv minable annuities, or incomes from trades and p? And
kAO,:* and Learned Gentleman, the Member for Horsham.: that question could only be put by taking away the first part of
on the Ministerial benches)—he did not mean to allude the resolution. He should, therefore, like to know the opinion of
Membersf those on the Treasury benches, but to those the Chairman, whether, supposing the intentions of the Right
btielund them ; and he believed that almost the only one Hon. Baronet were carried, it would be competent to move a
e-
Nein. "on. Members who had addressed the House that solution of that description?
Plat e, was the Hon. Member for Horsham, who had ex- Mr. GREENE was understood to say that he must express his
his ..
s„t f willingness to make a sacrifice of his personal in- opinion that it would be contrary to the rules to omit words of the
!atleet°' the public good. —(Laughter.) Another Hon. resolution, and he apprehended it would not be competent to move
1414, that n, the worthy Alderman (Alderman Thompson), such a resolution as the Noble Lord alluded to in a Committee of
st.otlet he was ready to adopt the proposal of the Right Hon.. Ways and Meant, but that it would in a comtnitteeott the Bill.
pharra, and that our war in Affhanistan! and our commercial' Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was then to understand that if
eetabeess_inents justified the measure; but when that Hon. the Resolutions before the Committee were carried, it would not
~evaalle to the details of the proposal, he pulled out of be competent to move the resolution in a Committee of Ways and
"tatirr7 t Unimpeachable and incs.ntrovertible documents to Means, but that it would in Committee on the Bill.
lollalitylie.great injustice of the tax in question, and the ire- BLEVVITT said he would persevere in his motion, as he be.
2,114%1.4.1th which it would press upon various classes of the Rested the measure would press on the country in the most despotic
;Eet1.1111,... He knew not whether the remarkable silence ob- and aristocratic manner.,
N'aidol Hon. Gentlemen opposite was part of the discipline The gallery was then cleared for a division, but no division took
(I.o_l`t,d been imposed upon them Opp the Right Hon. Baronet place. On our entrance we found
retNire'T Cries of " Hear," from the osition benches)._who • Sir R. PEEL slating that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir 0.
salved
hia of them their votes on condition that they should not Grey) had said that he was unwilling to travel over the field which
,elvede:leasUres by their speeches.—(hear, hear.) He per- had been already so much beaten, and, as tar as he was concerned,
tioa.Pressions of dissent from that statement ; but then he he was perfectly ready to go on with the discussion. He trusted
,Poe ;Tie ought to be some reason given to the House why, that the House would reject the motion.
'tlace question of the greatest importance brought before it Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no wish to prolong the debate,
ieisa 4,7 Reform Act, Hon. Gentlemen who had recently but if the Hon. Gentleman persisted in dividing the House, lie
41. 41.Ouse in their expressions of confidence in the Right would think it his duty to vote against an adj turnment•
i''',°4l(ji.2onet, and in their assurances that the measures he Mr. PROTHEROE said it was stated that this proceeding was
3`..1511Z7P.05e to Parliament would be entrely acceptable to one for there was a precedent in former Parliaments. He
tiZtituents, would not then get upland say they were begged to flask the Hon. Gentleman who proposed the adjournment
Cieh theylie had led their constituents to anticipate.—(Hear, lion, or merely to mark his dissent from the measure of the Right
tits He 6_, read was glad to see the Right Hon. Gentleman oppo- lion. Gentleman ? If it was for the latter purpose, he could not
jive's; " Hansard," and he hoped the Hon. Gentleman give him his support . If it was for the purl: use of securing fur-
'lthr studied the debate which had taken place in 1816 ther discussion, he should submit to him that it was too early to
~.'c04,71 to a repeal of the income tax That might, indeed, propose an adjournment.—(Hear, hear.)
iltiee.scinie measure for their silence upon the present oc- Mr. BLEWITT said he should imitate the prudence of the
ttpe able would find ample evidence that the Right Right lion. Baronet, and decline to answer thi • question,—(Great
Baronet was now acting in perfect con- laughter.)
athe
„with his conduct at that time. They would find Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided,
,"llrn 'ad voted in support of the income tax which the Go- when there appeared,
'o4t: At
,rl4,,,itself had pledged itself should lasr only during the For the motion
10'er
ro th;e! of the war. The country at that time smarting Against it
le;„ infliction of the tax—an infliction which they had Majority against the motion
the "a heroic fortitude long as a necessity for it existed Immediately after the division was over, and before the gallery
a t4lllt
hoot y struggle in this country was then engaged was opened,
tirthebllany point of honour, or any orject f conquest, but Dr. BOWRING (as we understood) moved that the Chairman
existe,ce—the country, after having submitted do report progress. On (air readmission to the g allery, we found—
• tkorne tax, and continued the war for years, which they Mr. BLE VVITT on his legs. He said that the Right
rstsegli.t length to a happy and glorious termination in the Honourable Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, had
waterloe, could bear that tax no longer, and, in spite turned out the late Ministry, and had taken live months
4 ab„ nsernment of the day, supported by the Right Hon. Ito deliberate on the propositions which he should make
oii,hetrs they declared that it was a tax which should be re- ! with regard to taxation.—(Cries of "Oh I" from the Ministerzal
_ie‘Zelusively fur time of war—not a war in Affghanistan, Beaches, answered by vehement cheering from the Opposition
a'gli,fopean war ; for it was in that sense by every one who Benches.) Yes! the Right. Hon. Baronet had taken five months to
4,,,ltat`north_e history of the last half century that it was named ; deliberate on his proposition—(Contin-ued Opposition diem s)—and
• .sstner taxes to the amount of many millions had since he had stated them to the House o n Friday week last.--(Loud
h arislea ed; and the Right Hon. Baronet now came forward cheers.) It was only on Friday last that lie had stated to the House
;`,pt"„_
our
of an income tax, in order to enable him the machinery by which he proposed to carry his plan of taxation
.I.lr finances in, a proper and fitting condition.— intoeffect,and now he refused to give time House time to deliberate
1.4 front the Ministerial benches.) He would give Hon. on the proposition, or the country time to consider it.—(Loud
titev`th the benefit of that cheer; he was happy to find j cheers.) Tiie Right Hon. Baronet had taken five or six months
b,
defiri ) ad reserved their votes for their cheers.—( Hear, and the House was to have no time at alt.—(Vehement cheering.)
.one was more ready to admit than he was that Such conduct was not fair either to the II use or to the country.
Qesiety fles Which now existed in the revenue to meet the Capt. BERKELEY had voted against the motion for adjourn.
ae,si he di7Penditure of the country ought to be supplied ; !Dent because he considered it was not fai.r to stop the discussion at
1), 'al be not stand there to say that no additional taxes - that early hour, but he must say that he t bought there was equally
o:,l'oseei•lmposed. He did not even say that if the measures as much faction in a dead silence—(Loud cheers)—and in the de.
'Ated
.her her Majesty's late Government were now to be termination to come to a vote without any attempt at answering the
t.vioolui be no necessity to impose fresh taxes very forcible speech of the Right Honoura ble Baronet on his (Cap.
ass o,Wks:4,,,,7eit—uir-ibi:l financial deficiency. But the ques- tale Berkeley's) side of the House, he sa quite as much evidence
tha`
had been denounced in 1816 of faction as in voting for an early adjourn anent.—(Loud cheers.)
then lite4ln
•t odious, the most inquisitorial and intolerable Sir GEORGE GREY said that teferen• had been made to what
in poly Ingenuity could devise—a tat which the country hi.d fallen from him in the course of the eli.seussion, as to, the argu-
tt4"atel 'obmitted to in consequence of the circumstances ments on his (Sir G. Grey's) side of the douse being ex'bausted.
lert,a to we were placed—the question was, whether that he had not for a moment meant to say—it .deed it would have been
llet7ace to which they should have recourse in con- presumption in him to have done
so—he had not for a moment
4.4111,14;
ra deficiency in the revenue, which the Right meant to say that no arguments could be urged against the meusure :
tkh egrett Liatonet himself admitted to be but temporary ? what he had meant to say was, that a fter the several speeches
b" that he did not then see in his place the Right which he had heard, in which the argumi ents against the measure
%ea), w"L`tentan the Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr C. had been urged with great ability,and. to which he had heard
of ti,laeeele4.o had been one of the most -active- denouncers' of scarcely any attempt at reply—(Cheers)---11 e should not fatigue the
tf,h_me Ezell'ea..a in 1816, and wh.o had ta.unted the Chanee.ll.or House by entering in any lengthened ergo ments on points t.vli ch
thiseitera,,elier of that day with speaking of the possibility had already been discussed. lie had never had the pre,umption to
of 'nag the evils of such a tax. He believed it was the say that Hon. Members were to be preclu. led from addressing the
ell tl sell44etieriee of the tax on the part of the present gene- House on subjects which were so intereseii it; both to themselves and
induced the Right Hon. Baronet to presume to their constituents. On the contrary, his ors ti opinion was the debate
leoas the House to agree to such a proposal ; and strong ought to be protracted—(Cheers)—and h e had voted against the
te h. the support of a party so recently and cheply motion which had just been negatived, mu achy because he saw ne
I%Ni. elimt, Whatever their own opinions might be, and reason why the debate should riot be cot dinned until the usual
k, 1)14 Olt be the opinions of their constituents, he had no hour for adjournment.—(Cheers,)
Ile that
ow the Right Hon. Baronet would be supported by Mr. FOX MAULE said he undoubted' a• voted in the minority,
I,l44attlejtsctity. But he felt certain that after experience and he gave his votp, not with respect to any discussion that had
luiet'tarial "own the nature of the tax—its odious and taken place on that motion, but becs i:ake he wished to see
hoist
uta, Process, of which the Right Honourable Ba- the vote upon these resolutions die erminately delayed.
a: stele so slow to tell them a process which (Loud cheers-) ,He had made an app :al to the Right Ho.
Utd:Olsee avatired to attribute to Lord Grenville and Lord nourable Baronet before that discussie n was opened ; that
ttel
„nettle
process which would he absolutely necessary in night he (Mr. Fox Mauls) told him that a vast number
to ',ll_es him to extract the tax from the pockets of the of the people of his (Mr. Maule's) country had not even the know.
lerr, t„it47 c=ertain that after a short experience the same ledge that these resolutions had been time osed ; and it was upon
agd" the ax would be engendered which had existed this ground that he (Mr. F. Maule) was .und in the minority. It
4tti • ant° that there would before long be a unanimous and was on this ground that he intended, by all legitimate grounds in
tie 441, „el.'6`lrtl, and for its abolition. What were the arguments his power, to prevent the vote.—(Loud el ieers.)
'ese „,,,o induce the House to consent to a continuance of Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but no division took
titteliddresl'l'37, they were precisely the same arguments which place. Ott our return to the gallery we sound
tto as ke:."(.1,:o the House in order to induce them to vote for Mr. VERNON SMITH addressing tt ie House. He said that
th be %tilt e. The House was told, as now that the tax was he never remembered a great questi 07.1 like the present one on
bps arti I 'tiled, and that if it were not imposed, they should which all the Cabinet Ministers rani tined silent. He must say
e es of
•.rd,r consumption used by the Poorer classes, and that they had treated this question alto contempt to impose so
kr,ee Of • oi' the people more odious than the tax com- mighty a tax on the people of this ceuntry with so
La thi 'Jut at th tt" th
e a ime e country. had expe- little argument in its favour, for which he would not except
;14 tetra the "r and they unhesitatingly adopted in preference toe very able speech of the Right Hi ra. Baronet, the Member for
to old at t„ consumption of the country. When the House Tamworth, because he had' declined t cutter into any argument in.
k be time that the tax should 1;e but temporary, and behalf of the machinery of raising th e tax. He must say that this
.I,t4ce'Pttelfsled in a less odious manner, they turned a deaf ear question had not been debated in ie manner it ought to have
ttr istalioe e, because they felt confident that no.essential been. He was not endeavouring to csf :er• a factious opposition, but
tz, 1 :thas t c°lld take place in the machinery of the Bill if he would say that it was an intolerabe mode of proceeding, and one
Ih e„.,„ PrOdUce the amount of revenue which the Minis- so which they ought not to snbinit,,f towever large the majority, in
i:taliaY anticipated from it. Did any one believe that forcing such a measure througit tile' House without debate. Ha
1,1" th Nat i"
coted now be made in the machinery by which confessed he was perfectly astonished. that the Right Hon. Baronet
ii motet it ,„,° hie extracted from the people? DAI any one be- who load usually shown such deferencef and courtesy to the House of
WhicTs'd be divested of that odious and inquisitorial Commons at the course he had taken- on that occasion. It was for
the tc„,, tiZ;,had its pressure so much felt on former occa- that reason he (Mr. V. Smith) matt found in the minority, and
urettle,"'l tns'" thci people only submitted to, because they voting for the adjournment, and nor.' for the purpose of delaying
'41:41 wee Make Make any sacrifice when the national honour indefinitely the debate on that que: it ion, which he hoped to see
iatt'r e:,lasse - Concerned, and the name and power of England properly debated in the face of th s.t House and the face of the
At
tk.upp,,t°,ll, but which they would not submit to when any countgao
lea tleY'rig r,ehoffered of meeting the demands of the country Sir J. GRAHAM, who spoke in :in extremely low tone of voice,
ih"(141? fMtter„; e means of providing for its expenditure ? said, that the Hon. Gentleman who tad just sat down,liacl attacked
in,:tat„ar a 1.l ent that it was proposed to levy the present the Cabinet Ministers for their silei ace on that occasion, but the
„mired period, he would remind, the House, that Hon. Gentleman seemed not to rec ollect the speech of the Right
)risejtgleijans‘ been formerly made, and the House did not Hon. she Chancellor of the Excheep ler, who went fully into the
gelatefaieN of to its adopt ion. Then they were to have questaon. He was quite surprised • bat no Cabihet Minister had
ail eath'.iald „and other salaried officers, which he was sur- spoken in this debate Now he en' s.'d remind the House and the
IVhslotie,74l))' not call up the Hon. Member for Lincoln (Colo- country, that in the early
.parl of that. evening an announcement
I,e who
t It wa Important to know that th • Corn-
rh_ er it •esethose had been made of a determined oppo: tion on the other side of the
th,yeeled be appointed by the Right Hon. Baronet. House. The House had been infoi n ned -that night by the Noble
.Neel,the‘"l hereafter be proposed that the tax should Lord, that be should take the opinir;a of the House on these reso.
stZ,,th,,"les 4 would again he told that it was not advisable tuitions, and that it was his inten'Aoto , when the Bill founded on
11,,,,.,c,0n5ur0pt,00 to the injury of the poorer those resolutions was brought in, to d wide the House on the first
til,t7 be told that machinery for the tax already reading of It. Oil the secone rea titig of the Bill, he, there.
ht, Lax . ats. machinery should be created for raising fore, anticipated ample discus•;ony—. (Loud cheering.) It wLs for
°e b ;11"d then, although he did not think that the public convenience that nu , unnecessary delay should
4iiis,4infe-4'l be "sy task aft, r en
.experience of the take place on that pre'iminary question. They did not
w rya uthisc,tl thearit
,obtained, to continue to impose it ; wish to avoid discussion ; on the co or teary, they were willing fully
thas extent tt he saw no security. in the general to eater into it, but on the present o c easion this was only the intro-
has re_ tte,, x would create, that it would not be duetion of the preliminary measure, dhen such a course of oppose
vat! ~votie.," is 67r now to adopt it.—( Hear. hear. ) It tion—(The rest ortiie sentence was ,P
West in the loud cheers that fol. and v mien to go into any figures with regard to lowed on the Ministerial side of the . Rouse.)
'll4l'lll at YL;Miltlez'telee4..a.ii,enditute of the country, as the. House Sir B. HALL said he agreed in a flat had fallen from the Right
h,"ti .711 h "le nue.7.F. subnotted to its consideration upon Hon. Baronet who had spoken last, that it was necessary sic come
ti.MO ),,t,troe,44 reore"Xn ; and as it had been placed before to a resolution on that subject; but when there was so much op.
of 444 beet, 'into !'itY than he could pretend to. position in that House stud the coo ntry ; when they were placed
thtte tipell Shown 'l.lDell he stood was, that no reason in that situation, as stated by the Spi taker—when these resolutions
la, ite:e ts,rtthieh her
the imposition of such a tax—the should be adopted, via, that it was sof nosstb.le for the people to
e rne , the „ went was, that at the termination petition against the measure—the I ositii 'it in %Oki) they. wer.e
gs-r:,,ity:4„.414‘ ba! shou'jditttry had, with one voice, demanded that placed by the Right Hon. Baronet a t the head f her Majesty s
con, w4rinw. recess
removed. He admitted that other Government—who acted wisely; he s
lieu e eau ° Hoe ;oar) but when he spoke of that ne- questions as to the details of the qu- ions bs aught forward, and
to
ises wh,., ~entlemen opposite cheered any allu- adhered to strict silence, and reins' - .
a'o' old st in not answering
e'2osr tl, at 1.,,Q•t thern''',l had created the financial deficiency, he what his views were, and only a f 'eased since that
ew Jays had ei •
ettree'at irefieiee au approval of those steps which bad statement had been made ; and' l•
fro teen at hadihe e). Did not Hon. Gentlemen opposite to determine as to this tax, whicl eoen: week they Vere called upon
,141 to de,la. e to the country
w
site 'Le h easure
tea Alio• lee s Proposed last year by the late Go- anti which, as regarded many
Isteri,l was rrit st obnoxious—die thought
on, all classes,
i press heavily
--‘4O t'at ' nench (Hear, hear, and derisive cheers the least'they could expect 1!
om the Government was, that time
too salted, th, es)—could Hon. Gentlemen oppo- should be given for the cone •• sition •
is.l Lne measures try t`
ti icier that great piano ,
Aft•suie4; et], same
(len o. the late Government had to consider whether it was r ,ecess ti it a tax of this kind should
tte the In island that ?lency which now exists, would be imposed on the courier,: Readr3! I hiek it would have been a 4,4
,epetitieorne tax ,t,. vvoted be found necessary fair course towards that House w4d 1,
'll4. ~._l3rl of the 4.000,0001. a-year ?—( Hear. 1
Baronet had stated hi.,
.todd spee propositions, ; ind the House
be •tiven time to .
jUdgeri t...es—the unanswered speeches and the country after Easter,
to cons ides what those proposi.
from the silence of Hon. G ' • en* tons were. He %old only say that h e des, .red to offer no factious