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London, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

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LONDON
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1842

To the over-taxed people of England the re..
cent arrival ffom- the United States brings on
intn of i:Jelligence which is calculated to grievc
and alarm them. Those who, being over-taxe,:,
lock upon cur colonies as burdens, and grumble
alread'y at the expense incurred on their ac-
count, may perhaps be indignant, as well a -
alarmed, at the intelligence. The statement will
be found amongst our extracts from the Ameri-

can paper 3, and it seems only necessary to direc
attention to tile subject to make the public a

once aware of its hearings.
The readers of The 31172 will remember, for we
had occasion. recently to advert to the nitibtter,
that the Colonial Customs' Act imposed, foi(tin.
first time, last session, a duty of the barrio::
American flour imported into Canada. Wit
learn; however, from the Kingston Chronicle,
that the English Government—that is, Sir R'
PEEL, 'Lord STANLEY, and Co.—offered to the
Canadian Government to repeal the Imperia.
duties on Canadian corn, if the Provincial Par-
liament of Canada woUld. • impose a duty on

imported into Canada from the "Unite
by which, in 'fact, the Ininerial dot
Nvill be superseded by the Colonial duty. V.l
Cana.diun Provincial Administration agreed I

the Offer, and proposes to levy a duty on Amer
wii;2ol imported into Canada of 3s. pl

Our Government executed its pa

of the plan by allowing Canadian wheat
to be imported at a duty of is, when
and ss. when the price is 553.,
the price is 535.,
thoti7h we have forgotten if it informed the
per:al Legislature of what it had proposed to the
Canadian Government.
Upon the wheat imported from America con-
sumed in Canada, this duty, as the Kingstm
Chronicle observes, will be levied on the Cana-
dians ; but upon all the American wheat which
imported into England through Canada, the
English consurners‘will pay that 3s: duty. To
what extent the importation may take place we
pretend not to say. The Kingston Chronicle sup-
poses that the revenue to be obtained from it may
be upwards of 200,000/., but whatever may be
its amount, the whole sum paid on American
corn imported through Canada into England,
will be levied on the people of England for the
advantage of the colony, by the Executive Go-
vernment having made, we believe without the
knowledge of the House of Commons, an under-
hand bargain with the colony. The Executivc
Government has authorised the Provincial Par-
liament of Canada to tax the people of England.
To the tax of 2s. a barrel on American flour

imported into Canada, the House of Commons
assented, h the belief, no doubt, that its produce,
like the produce of other taxes levied by the Im-
perial- LegiSlature for the regulation of the gene-
ral trade of the empire, would be collected into
the Imperial treasury. But it appears that Lord
STANLEY has effectively bartered away the tax
for the colonial tax we have mentioned. " This
is the first time," says the Kingston Chronicle,
" that the imperial Government has given up to
a colony the duties it thinks proper to impose in
England on colonial imports for the regulation of
its own trade." To impose such duties is held by
some persons to he unconstitutional but for the
Executive o-overnment to give them up, and for
a provincial administration to levy a tax at its
suggestion, which is to be paid by the people of
England, without the consent of Parliament, is
as gross a violation of the principles of the Con-
stitution, as has for many Years fallen under our

notice. - _
All this is done for behoof of the landed inte-
rest at home, whlcii seems to be so important in
.the minds of statesmen that it warrants any
and every departure both from the principles of
justice and the constitutional practices. " One
object of these regulations," says an American
paper, "appears to be to compel American wheat,
intended for the English market, to go through
Canada, be ground in Canadian mills, and
shipped is English vessels." " Unless," it adds,
" our Government sbould adopt some counter-
vailing' measure, this object will be accom-