Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-05-22

yll hnye to pay this year 42s per cwt. aud
ri other sugars, including the finest white
islNaar and Srazils, 9s per cwt being an adj
o;t!on "a Is per cwL on the former and only
- aot 4d or the latteh Thus the Russian
hchner IS To pay 50s to Cos for Havana and
5razils sugars when he might have an article
from this country of equal quality, and an.
s'rcring has purpose full as web, If not bet
Isr, ~ ~ To tGs. Belts .liess.
.larch 2G.--One OF the most important
measures during a long period, has been ac-
eompEslled during the last week, in Mr..
Westerns bill for repeating the War Matt
Lax. liz was carried, by majority of 81 a.
g;einst the ministry and will do more TO
encourage "a rising spirit of retrenchinent
upon the part OF country gentlemer than
Miy thing which has recently occurred in
fariia'nent. When Mr.. Hume was lately
expllning in how many departments of the
public service, money might be saved, by
Il more vigiLant spirit OF economy on the
part OF ministers, Mr. Tierney said that he
might spare himself the trouble of this de-
mi, rs no economy could be expected so
I>nS as Parliament allowed the ministry to
letain the means of extravaganza. There
arc no hopes OF reform, said Mr. Tierney.
N public expenditure, or in the diminution Of
.,:stress, until the two great interests in the
iioiee OF Conmons--the agricultural inter
ests and the manufacturing interests--shall
cordially unite for their mutual RELIEF. and
compel the ministers to abandon some of the
most oppressive of the taxes. This ohser
vation ot Mr.. Tierney IA thorough-paccd
party ieader,) has more public spirit than his
speeches generally possess and his recon-
Mendation contained manifest good sense.
aud enforced an interest strongly visible to
ait has been attended to, and has led to
i's important result We understand that
y ~ The purpose oil ministers to propose
another tax III the lieu of the one 10 be 4
bo!lshca> b. Mr. Westerns bill and that
Some OF the members VINO voted for the bill
ha'e pledged themselves to support this sub
stitte. m
.f6Tti Or the Parliamentary Commit
t22s new sitting, in consideration Of the stato
OF thc Commerce aud Manufactures OF th.
I,ingaoln, the Committee on the Timber
'ir,ihc has made its report 70 the House ::
;'nd, through the medium OF Mr.. Wallace
tl2 chairman OF the committee, has nropos
ed several resolutions, correspondents with
tie substance OF the report As government.
is understood, intends to support a bill.
lunudci upon these resolutions, and about
10 h. introduced into Parliament. the mra
s"E"s Proposed may be considered as parts
al Inc new commercial system about 10 be
:,lo3tcl
the subst,ace az Mr. Wallacc's resolu-
ma Is, TAFT OF TIE present high duty of thrpe
pounds thirteen shiiiings upon Baltic timber
tNopountis shall be removed, and shall! be so
distributed upon American timber as to eulla-
we inc 0nlties upon American and Baltic
's':loeT: and to reduce the present enormous
advantage, winch the Law, as il no,v stands.
aiows 10 timber from Canada am, Other
parts Of North America
We understand that hemerchanfs engar-
81 IN the Colonial trade, aud the Shin own
ef5' nave .rade strong representations against
THESE resolutions, and the bill about To be
founded upon them.
~ the eject OF the bill now about TO be
nhroduced, the duties upon American aud
Baluc timber VIII be eQualiZed and the
Colonial timber, as we above remarked. will
lose that enormous advantage. which. in
OFT own humble opinion, it ought never to
nave obtalnca. The future duties will stand
AS follows Norway timber, i IL . per
load Swedish t. / IL Russian, 81 i3 ::
Prussian, : II and Canadian and Ha-
hilX timber, : , &. We see. therefore.
ny these daties, that Colonial timber is still
ID retain, as It ought, a preference of about
lls; and is 10 lose only that MONOPOLY
which resulted from the duty of { 3 ID
Bat why not, it may be demanded, allow
TINS monopoly to our Colonial timber-why
not buy all our timber of our own Colonies,
az well as our own wheat from ourselves
Only simply because this monopoly is
NOT Tor the public good because this mono
poly IS runou5, as far as il goes, to our GEN
crid comnercc-because the Colony de-
rves less good from if, than the Empire
suffers mischief: aud because il is in contra
riety with all the received and established
principles Of political economy. Nations
dcai with ca n other As the traders of our
great Metropolis they live upon each o.
+her-tney afford each other the means of
buyin5 and selling with each other; the more
tley can sell the more they can buy the
nearer they approach to an exchange Of their
several commodities, the better customers
are they with each other.
Thus, from the diminution, or rather
total extinction of our former brisk Timber
Trade with the North OF Europ", we have
lost the sale of our manufactures in those
markets they buy nothing OF us, because
they can sell nothing TO us. The consequence
~, that the sphere of our manufacturing mar
ketis pr0Portionally diminished, and we lose
those who, according to the natural state of
things, ought TO be our customers. Nor is it
any answer To- object, that the Canadians
themselves expcnd what they get from this
trade amongst u.s. and that if the MONOPOLY
dep1yeS us of the market OF the north of
Europe, 1t propOrti0nally augments the Ca
indian market. For tire Canadians already
take from us all they require for their current
consumption, and though their Timber Trade
should produce twice IFS present amount.
they would takc no more. But, by dividing
IT." Timber Trade, We shall gain two custom
ers instead OF one and it is surely unncceg-
sary 10 argue, that two dealers will take more
than one and that Sweden, Norway, and
Canada, viii c6hsu,ne more Of British plaut-
lectures th1n Canada singly. III.
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