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better withJtaw his charge for the present, to correct
that part of it where Mr. Justice Le Lt!.ttic wAs men.
tioned.

Mr. V. FITZGIVIALD, Sir G. CLAM. end Mr.
LVTTLETOJ supported this suggestion.
Lord COCHRANE expressed himself willing to
attend to it, in compliance with the feeling of the
House, and the charge was accordingly withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. CALCRA FT, accounts of
the quantity oh Corn Warehoused in England, were
ordered to be laid before the House.

BUTTER TRAM
The House having resolved itself into a Commit. •
tee on the Butter Trade,
Mr. R OBINSON stated the object of the measure
he was about to propose to be, not the prohibition of
foreign butter, but the protection of the Irish trade.
With this view he should move, That the duty ern
foreign butter, which was now 51. per cwt. should
be raised to 20s. if fmported in English, and 2.51. If
fofeign ships. He was aware many obje‘tioes
might be urged to his proposition. Those engaged
in the It ish butter . trade would probably think the
duty ought to be raised to 30s. while these interested.
in the Dutch' butter trade might think a higher ditty
than I Os. ought not to be imposed. In taking 20*.
he had endeavoured to hit on the mean between the
amount of the dot), with which the parties lie had
mentioned were respectively of opinion the butter im-
ported ought to be charged. He concluded by
moving the Resolution he had announced. for raising
the duty on butter from .ss. to 20s. it imported in
English ships, and to 255. if imported in foreign ships.
Sir J. NEWPORT stated England and Ireland
in this, as its most cases, to be equally interested in
the measure to be adopted, and he who should endea.
your to separate the interest of the one from the
other, would work inevitably the ruin of both. To
A certain extent 'he concurred with the Right • H
Gentleman in looking at this as a measure of prutee.
tiou, and not of prohibition, bat feared the measure
would not go far enough he hoped, however, if the
duty mentioned should give me:ely an increase- of ,
revenue to England, and not suffice for the pra tec.
lion of Ireland, that, in another year, the Right Ho.
nourable Gentleman would be willing to raise the
amount of the duty, so as to give that protection
which it was now in his contemplation to afford.
Sir F. FLOOD had expected the Right Linnour-
able Gentlernan would haste gone further than he
had done on the present occasion, and he Loll loped
he would amend and extend his (;reposition. He
did not wish for a prohibitory duty, hut a poitecteig
one he united would not be denied. In the n .toe
of justice, he implored the Right Honourable Gel.
tletnan to substitute 301. for 255. in the motion
which he had submitted to the House. After some
further observations, the Honourable Baronet moved
an Amendment to the motion before the tee,
which went to substitute 255. for 20s. and sos. tot
251. in the Resolution.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD opposed the Amend.
ment. He thought it was not in the spirit of that
liberality which on this subject had been professed on
all sides of the House, to press such an extension of
the vote proposed this day. His Right Honourable
Friend (Sir J. Newport) had hoped that if the mea.
'sure now to be adopted, should not prove equal to
the accomplishment of its object, an extension of it
would be proposed in a future year. He might rest
assured no time would be lost in taking this e,,urse,
, when it was found the protection now to be afforded
was inadequate. At present. he was sure, on taking
a general view of our domestic interests, the House
would feel it was not expedient to lc° further than to
adopt the Resolution of his Right Honourable
Friend ; under the present duties, he shewed, the
Irish buuer trade had greatly improved. In the
year after the Union, her exports of butler amounted
to 225,000 cwt. In 1814, they were more than
double what they had been at the period first re.
ferred to—they amounted to 432,000 cwt. From
that it would be seen a most gratifying improvement
had taken place. Last year, though the Dutch
butter had come immediately in competition with the
Irish butter trade, the exports from Ireland were
432,000 cwt. and their value 42,269,000.
Sir N. COLTHURST hoped the Honourable Ba-
ronet (Sir F. Flood) would consent to withdra t. his
Amendment.
Sir F. FLOOD declined giving the Committee
the trouble of dividing on the motion be had made.
In submitting it to the House he had done his duty
to his country.
Mr. PONSONBY, though anxious to promote
any measure that could benefit Ireland, did -not
think Ireland had a right to expect the interests of the
Empire generally were to be sacrificed to her advan-
tage. He thought the proposition of the 'Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman opposite went as far as a mea-
.sore of experiment ought to do.
Sir F. FLOOD explained.
Sir J. NEW PORT.—The present measure, adopt.
ed with the good will of the House, would be limey
then a higher protecting duty, adopted against the
opinions of many of its Members.'
The Resolution was then put and carried.
Mr. GORDON thought it desirable that the do.
ties on cheese should be placed on the same footing
'as those of butter. The duties on batter and cheese
had been Ss. and 4s. per cwt. The Right Honour.
able Gentleman bad quadrupled the duty on butter;
he proposed to do the same by that on cheese.' •He
moved that a duty of 16s. per cwt. should be paid
on cheese imported in British ships, and 20s. it im.
ported in foreign ships.
A desultory conversation ensued, in which Mr.
ROBINSON, Mr. MUTHUNN, Mr. HALL, Mr. EOM.
TON, Mr. Tnoupeon, the CUANCIILLML of the Excise-
Qom, Mr. Poxsomay, and Mr. GoaDoN, p.srt.cipated.
It was contended that 12s. would give the same pen,
action to cheese that-20s. gave to butter, and the
analogy supposed by the mover between cheese end
butter did not exist. Mr. Gosport had ao criterion
to go by but the relation the drs ea eMese and