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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

could have voted a few nights ago
"mmon with all other pro-

rotection to Irish in

'bout a fractional dispropor-
Members opposite were
which they

,e continuation of any protection
ly loud on the other side of the
)tectiop of their own constituents

sates lasted, the more was
had framed was the safe

aoderate, MUM

house divided, affirming the

rity of 236 to 53

the duty on flour,
,ed his satisfaction at the successful
attended the resolutions proposed by the
and said it was his intention merely to.
ittee the reasons which induced him to
measure now on the table of .the house,
millers of this country had not received
He conceived it was the duty of the
''iers of this country such protection
compete with foreigners, who en-
gea in bringing flour to our market.
Ants had an interest in importing flour
• than corn, for the former article was
cunt of duty than the latter. It
';sh millers could compete with
e of flour, labouring, as they
advantages. The usual policy of this
) favour the importation of the raw ma-
which was derived from so

he Eng

manu tact

employment to the population. But im-
ead of wheat supplanted that employ-
e poor of the benefit to be derived from
ferior and cheap portion of the flour,

hey were in the habit of using; as none but the finest
as imported, to avoid the payment of duty. He need
allude to the injury which the milling interest of Ire-

would suffer from the removal of the prohibition on the
rtation of foreign flour. He would submit to the house,
her it would not be advantageous to the foreign manu-
rer to bring his goods to this country in a manufactured
inasmuch as they would be of less bulk, and conse-
Ay pay less freight. He should not press the question
division, as h 3 only wished to hear from her Majesty's
sters whether they had considered the point, and were
tied that they had given an adequate protection to the

ced, that after giving the fullest con-
ct, he could not consent to alter the
If the protection of flour were in-
mers who would be the most prejudi-
r those w

m every man must admit
)st our interest to favour, namely, those of
tie proceeded to show that the existing

satisfaction at the deter-

loved, that all colonial grain should
for one year, or for some other
irliament. He urged the claims of

th-er country ; and

olonies ought to be repre-

in common WI

!ourse of the colonies with

lsent to this proposal. The
, would feel little jealousy

)elieved

t or flour from the Canadas, if it
idian produce ; but, in tact, it would be
ce of the United States, conveyed through
the Canadian law as to importation from

:a should be so altered as to prevent that
then, indeed, the question might take a

Lord Stanley to over-esti-
imported into the Canadas.
nt some explanation of their

I returns showing the very
f Amu ican corn imported into, and ground
as. The same thing was true as to Nova
ect to the question about the subject of
r barrel intended to be proposed on flour
United States into Canada, he would say
either a British nor a Canadian object simply,
donial one. The duty in- every other colony
gs, and it ought to be of the same amount in

UC H ERE professed himself at a loss to under-
he regarded as a mere needless and

policy, wl3

3 innovation

IiLADSTONE referred to a similar arrangement made
'ear by Mr. Labouchere himself as to East India rum.
C. BULLER ridiculed the attempt at equalizing dif-
'-s among each other by additional duties, liken-
)l he beadle, who, being ordered to put a
sock ne end of the church, put a second boy
r pair of stocks at the other end " for the sake
amity." He recommended that Mr. O'Brien, in-
nf pressing the subject to a division then, should take
upon it in committee upon the bill.
A.T M,ORTLEY supported the views of gover-

ject of t

O'BRIEN persisted in dividing the house, and was
!d by a majority of 135 against 38.

HOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY.
I CAMPBELL laid upon the table three bills for the
regulation of the appellate jurisdiction of the House
ds and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Coun-

in the course of which

id, that, in his opinion, no-
r than the present system, and that it
avagant to make any alteration in a

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