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naliall'agrints. He 'Wilds object to be to have the Bill
a int time, and printedijn order to b& sent to the Magistrat.
through the county?, **llia At/ abidments might be lug.
gested.4lse Billawas raw) kirst time, and ordered to be printed.
Isciit4Altv I'INBNIEDINOS BILL.
Oath. Atiodo‘foillabiliOtifri Committee on the Summary
Troceedings Bill,
Mr. CH ETWYND said, that hi consequence of suggestions
from several Members of that House, and from some country
Magistrates, he thought the best way would be to have the Bill
committed then, with a view to have the Amendments added
and printed, and to be recommitted on a future day.— The Bill
then went through a Committee of the whole House.
The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be
brought upon Friday sennight, and to be printed.
IMPORT DUTIES ON TALLOW, BUTTER, AND CHEESE.
Mi. CURWEN said, that he would have cordi-
ally yielded the subject which he was now about to
bring before the House, to the care of Government,
had they she. n any disposition to take it up, as, in
justice to its importance and the necessities of the
times, they were bound to do. He had, early in the
present Session, urged the subject on the consideration
of the Government. But seeing that there was no in-
tention on their part to take up the affair, and having
received a variety of letters on the subject, some of
which considered• that the import of tallow was a
great cause of the fall of grain, it was not necessary
for him to say one word with respect to the general
distress. He would he content to assume that it was
the wish of every Member of the House to relieve the
public distress. He would premise that what he now
proposed would net involve any diminution of the
public revenue, and therefore stood in a very different
view from that in which other propositions coming
from his side of the House were placed. Whatever
was the distress of the people at the opening of the
Session, every one must admit that it was not now
lessened—he believed he was warranted in saying
that it had increased. So that if the measures of his
Majesty's Ministers for the relief of the country had
not succeeded (as every one felt that, as remedies,
these measures were greatly disproportioned to the
evils to be redressed), and if it appeared that other
measures might be had recourse to, he thought he
had a good reason to claim the support of the House
upon this occasion. The failure of the measures of
Ministers to afford relief put the House under obli-
gation to seek out other sources of relief. It the relief
were ever so little, still it would be a great benefit,
because it would spew a disposition on the part of
the House to sympathise with the suffering people;
and he was sure that the Ilouse would receive thel
bonus with gratitude, and bear patiently their suffer-
ings, in the hope that time would at length put an
end to them. In the measure which he had to pro-
pose he recognised no such principle as that of re-
lieving one part of the country at the expense of the
other. There was no such partial dealing in this II
measure. No one could deny that such was the ex-1
tremity of distress, that the farmer now, contrary to
the ancient practice, was not enabled, after he had
made his market, to spend a farthing in the town,_
The distress was not confined to one-body or class.
Every man who had anything to sell felt the pressure
of the times in the difficulty lie had to get a purchaser
for his commodity, and in the small price which it
fetched. Under these circumstances he confidently ex-
pected the support of the House in proposing a measure
which tended to alleviate the distress at the same time
that it did not infringe on the revenue of the State.—
Whatever the House Ind hea:d of the sufferings of
the agricultural body, he would take it upon him to
say that the gralier suffered a considerably greater
degree of distress. The price of animal food, which
used to be sold at 10d. was now depreciated to 3d.
4d. and 31d. The farmer who was selling to the
butcher could obtain no more from the butcher, sink-
ing a quarter for offal. The measure which he would
propose, was to raise the importation duty on tallow.
lie knew that the effect would be to raise the price
on the consumer, but the advantage which would be
obtained on the other hand would more than coun-
terbalance this addition. The quantity imported into
this country from Russia amounted to above a third
of the consumption. The quantity of English tallow
consumed was 75,000 tons. The quantity of Russian
was 35,000 tons. The price of the home commodity
was about 3id..per lb. The Russian fanner got in
our market lion 3d. to 3d. per lb. The English
farmer fed his cattle on ground which paid on the
average 20s, an acre; but the Russian farmer fed
his cattle on land standing him in about a shilling
an acre. In short, the cattle were kept for nothing
else but their tallow by the Russian farmer. Under
these circumstances, what possible competition could
there be between the two farmers ? Was it fitting
that the English Government should recognize in its
own market a competition between the Russian far.
mer and the English one ? The House should not
disregard the condition of the English farmers, a
class of men who, some time ago, possessed a supe-
riority over the same class in every other part of the
world. He asked, was it the wish of the House to
see them upon the same footing with the Russian
boor ? The Emperor Alexander, when he was here,
used as he was to the wietched condition of the vas-
sals of his dominions, after he had seen some part of
the population of England, still asked where was the
People? by which he meant the vassals. That state
of superiority the People were losing fast; but yet
much could be done for them. The mode which he
was about to propose, appealed to him to be capable
of affording relief to the grazier, by raising the price
oF tallow, and at the same time not enhance the price
of the manufactured commodity to the consumer, as
tlle tax upon candles would be taken off. In evet y
respect it was unwise to leave so small a duty upon
imported Russian tallow. It bore a great dispropor-
tion to the duty upon hemp, an article so necessary
to our shipping. At present, the duty on tallow, an
article into which no labour entered, was only 10 per
cent. whilst on hemp, which was produced with great
labour and great expense, and with which no Eng-
lish •article was put into competition, was 35 per
cent. Now this was a great disproportion. It was
unjust and unwise that that which was in competition
with our produce should be lightly taxed, and ano-
ther article necessary to our shipping, and with which
)pete, and therefore wanted not pro.
should be taxed so much out of pro-
was an idle fear, to think that by in-
on tallow, we should exclude it
The trade was too good to be
(en if the duty obliged the Russian
his profits (which he was sure it
had uo doubt but that Russia would
rather than low the market. The

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