Star.
London, England, 1829-05-14 00:00:00

LIIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF 1;0111)S. MAT 13.
I►*lP Pi 80 ,rne!'imfibleiosanws; ofts? PAO
the ptisp adrunted.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
PROTHEMOgypeested Petidenitroat pro.
teed.le-Bovr, sad Ilegjey. preying that the'day she
Code Market u Smith&id might by denied* iron Mendel he
Tweedy.
Idr.
_DENISON repented a Petition free she Ronan ARAl-
_Oliver/ Society forte Abolition of Slavery in the Wit 47.18.
ROCISON prsented Kilda, front the M
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end bers.el Whisk praying for the opening tridoei
—Ordered go qe the table.
44. R. OIgANT preempt! a Petition 6:11101 AO helot earli
iltambisstri.llf tM Rflaillirlib of Ban[ alaßlis the lilionbAbel
/MO.

—Mr. H. TWIN) preowned Abstracts from slot RoSoloirof die
Illve Popolorion of the Wapiti. . . .
Sir A. CA llHrli/L,LI. promised o P. lam die Rea.
Magistrates. COitiFil of lOgis op* di, bomb God MIL
Mr.
Mr. IL 1:1 PSI MOND prplegis a.Petidivo knit Alt So dot
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tans diet

Mr. PENDARTIMI promoted throe Petitions boo glass
pornetallrelitive,to4bo Riabary at Pileliarda . r
sr. A. DAWSON Feinted a Petition trent the Comodia
down se the'Oripid dilato Intbod, praying that .tb, Pft•
wield not Mho soy DAUM or a Nikkei which had bee.
to the Altameloy Abe Directoni al the kola Goal. • tliaidie
ketitiepereopaylpe Mooed .to Premed with Mope works 'Fidel'
they iTtgo.thell corn* Mi.
After a leir *fords from Lord Tata.azonut sad M. Duties
•Cioeits.,the Petition waiardered to taipititial
Lord Id LTOR preempted elPetilipin treat a repos el themime
el-gadosio Gm**, contend isms eauestiene epee the "ol-
ive' of sol!tWel10 'gifting the P•el:rl dome.
too mine Noma Loa, -preemptod a Petitioe .from Thaw
• iintith, praikai thel'a ligisiative measure may bi enacted tors the
al redecias the osnibet et Perim, engaged In the asmileo
din lii A siziu.T. sewed far,soonelteturim apenneeted 'MN die
Lines tride ii Great lirimia sad Ireland.—The itetorie *.*P•
. . .
'inisied.
The Bari 44511RATT presented a Petitions Icons the worn
and.oceapien el lend in the Hundred of Illootepiead, in amees,
OM* lime 'Ol.O fur be Weft Trade..—Ordired to Mr a Ai

apatcourogat. nooses.
Mr. WESTERN rose to tilt ken to.bring io a 2111
explanatory of thelit andld of the.ging, pissed for
the purpcie of ineyopting tr.rns. taxation horses em-
ployed in the busineisoragricultare. In his opinion,
thosubject hadbeen taxed without. any authotity, and
in violation both of the.letter.na spirit of the law. He
would fully proeothisaspertion. ino2l a motion bad
bees *wale; to exempt agricoltural.hotses Irons tn 4 t
and it had been carried; but notwithstanding which pie
Tax Office had thought Koper, to re-enact that tax, arid
to subject toils operation a number of persois who
really were not liable to the duty. He had teceraed a
petition upop this subject from a posher of persons
who occupied
,10,9Q0 acres of land. the average of
the , petitioners holding about ISO asses each. Theo
people, employed their. agricultural. horses la cart yew
their produce of. vegetables and potatoes to mar, let' and
upon which ground they were praoirenced by. the Tax
Office to hetratlers, sled accordingly deemed liable to
he.tased for the horses they used. It was arter a lapse
of four years that the Surveyors had come to this de-
termioation, and, they then, surcharge 4 the parties. The
afgriesed persons appealed to the Comisissiooers.ef
leafs, who decided against the Surveyors, but these
thought proper to refer the case to the opioioos of the
Judges. The Judges at once propounced that the
Commissioners_ were wrong, and that consequently the
agriculturists were to pay the tax upon their horses.
Under this decision, the Treasury deemed that it wcmld
not be right in them to afford the parties any relief.—
In his opinion, it was quite as competent for the House
olCommons to decide the case Ins the Judges, f?r who
could better tell what bad been their intentions in
making the laws? Such as appeal would be impar-
tial, and would be if very great advantage to the sub-
ject generally. The Commissitions,howeve., were the
intermediate Board of Appeal from the people againit
the Surveyor ; but if the latter found theConsmissionen
against them, they referred the case to the Judges. Of
the fate of these referecces the House would be. sir,
prised to bear, that of fifty pine cases referred. te.ibe
Judges, their decisions in favour of the . subject were
only eight ! Thus fifty-one cases out of fifty-pine were
given in favour of the Crown. When the Commis: .
sioners decided in favour of the Crown, these Judges
always pronounced them in the right; and When they
decided for the people, they were always pronounced
to be in the wrong—(Hear). Out of forty•sis cans,in
which the Commissioners decided in favour of the Sub•
ject, the Judges had pronounced them wrong in thirty-
live instances. When they decided for the Crown. out
of twenty-one cases the Judges pronounced' sot less
than eighteen to be right—(Hear). In consequence of
this the parties aggrieved thought proper, to present
memorial to the Treasury ; and the Treasury ward
did so far relieve the petitioners as to decide that,those
horses employed is the cultivation of wheat should be
exempt from taxation, whilst those used in cultivating
potatoes were to be liable to the tax. For his part be
must confess that he wanted to knoir the grcunda of !It a
dnikion, for be was wholly unable to compreheoll tl •
distinction. In all cases, however, in which there ex:
isted a doubt, that doubt ought•to be give" In 1ai,01444
the subject. It was a, well known fact. that posit% e
bad recently beta imported from Scotland for ably*,
ache London masker ; sad he would a k whetherpofre
growers of those potatoes were not equally liable to' it
brought wi!hin the operation of the tax ? The Hun.

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