Star.
London, England, 1829-05-09 00:00:00

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Decrease per annum last eight years......
The decrease in amount of exports in home manufac-
tures and colonial and fordo produce for the last
years is
The depreciation in value is twesity.eight sallies es forty-eight
million, or 'boot sixty per cent.
It was said that consumption had Increased sine the peace, and
that. therefore, we must have prospered ; but it should be remem-
bered that our importatioo bad increased perhaps three millions in
that time, and that therefore our eunstanption might have been aug-
mented without the people having experienced correspooding
crease of happiness. It had been said that if we sent money abroad
fur foreign prod ace, it would return to us in exchange fur our ma.
nufactures; but it did not appear that. in consequence of our
having during the last year three millions worth of corn from Ger-
many, and two millusis worth of silk from France and Italy that our
export trade had increased. lie contended that it was impossible
that it should. for the South American markets were glutted with
our goods, and the continent of Retort would not admit them
The only things that we exported to the continent were men, ma-
chinery. and tin. and it w.s Impossible that we could compete with
the foreign Illanstactures with the weight of taxes with which the
country was oppressed. He would not allude to the present state
of the manufacturing population, nor of their feelings towards the
Government, farther than to say that the hest way to soothe the
public mind was by listening to the complaints of the peopk, aid
by showing a diliosition to relieve them by a reducti..n of taxation.
Colonel Dis VIS, although attrilliting the taus, s .it
distress to different ~peratious to the Woithy
was yet feelingly alive to it. exicence. indeed iii ev i y
part of the commercial would it was. too obvious to le-
quire him to expatiate upon it. Who could reßect upon
the altered c.'noition of this country without deep lame
tatiosi. We now witnes•eJ credit aunihilate
duals unable to fulfil their e gage...cots, capitalists
without employment for their money, and attic ois
deprived of the means of ext.ting by their laboui.—
Nothing couid he ain't absurd than to atttihute
these evils to over productiol.; however ingenious
Geinlenien might talk—whatever the Right Honour-
able Gentleman. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, might
wish to make of that argument, it was not tostoori in
fact, it went for no.hing—(bear, hear). It was nut over
pioduction that was the cause of the misery in this
country—it was over tax ition; over pioduction sculd
not very well enable the foreign manufacturer to
undersell ours in our own market; nor was the distress
confined to one department alone—the cotton and the
iron suffered equally with the silk, and yet no at.
tempt was made by Parliament lo ascertain the cats
In his opinion the fact was, that although in time of
war England would naturally be successlul in h• r
commerce; yet by nature, by her geographical situation, by bee
soil, or by her climate. her population was not destined to be a
manufacturing community. In a more especial manner, therefore,
ought the Legislature to endeavour to lower the amount of taxa-
tion—how did our relative situation, as compared with France and
the United Stares. stand? Why in France, according to the mese
accurate returns, the cases inflicted amounted toll. los. a-head upon
the population—in the United States to 10s. while in England It
amounted to M. The Honourable Member thee went through
a long hitter, of our expenditure, from the year 1754 to
the present time, from which details he contended that our expenses
had increased in about the same ratio as the necessity to keeping up
the army and navy bad decreased. The country had borne a bur-
den for the last thirty-eight years unprecedented in the history of
nations, and what It could net be supposed It mild have sustained;
but should a war unhappily again occur, would it be possible to
bear that burden for thirty eight years longer ?—(Hearj. He was
convinced that by no system that could be devised could we
du it. From the year late. when Ministers did seem to be
earnest in the reduction of the burdens of the people. to IMO.
the taxes had remained undiminished. while every article to trade
and' manufacture had fallen, some one, some two, and sense three
hundred per cent. The Right Hon. Member concluded by ob.
serving, that the people of England now thought, and that pest..
rity would know. that that House had not date its duty. He
would however add, that the people bad likewise not dope their
duty to themselves. They ought to have Insisted en theft Repre-
sentatives voting for the reductive of taws.
Sir JOHN W ROTTESLEY expressed his dissent from many
of the observations, and from most of the anticipations, of the
chancellor of the Exchequer.
1 he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to give the
desired explanation. He thought that be had before stated that the
plan respecting the life annuities bad already, and to a very coast-
derable extent, been eatried into affect. An Honourable Bennet
apposite had spoken of it as a very popular mode of love.tikg mosey.
and there was every reason to believe it would be attended with sue-
new With respect to the small duty, he had to abetter, that in
the year 18117. partly owing to the Act which had been passed
respecting this subject, and partly owing to other causes, it had
happened that the parties interested had betrayed great unwilling-
ness to embark in the trade, and accordingly there had been is that
year a considerable tailing at la the malt duty. In the year lee*
he had taken the average of the two preceding years; and that
le2f was deficient to an extent that, in order to place it upon an
equality with the year 1821, it would be necessary to augment it
a, much as 700,0001. for 1125 not only came up to the amount of
ordinary year., but exceeded diem by 6tiO,uool. However, as the
last was in respect of malt an unusual year, he had taken:the primut
.t au excess of 500,00 W.
Mr. RARING said that be would not enter into the question
of trade at that time, nor stay to inquire whether the Maurer w
paid sulkiest wages. nor would lie attempt to point out awn dy
hit those evils—nab the question before the House it heti Inaba's