Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-10-14
THE TRADE IN WHEAT WITH
CANADA AND GREAT BRITAIN.

A letter from Lord Stanley to Sir Charles
Baeot, Governor Of the Canadas, informs
him that the government ofth mother coun-
try is willing to content itself with nomi- |.
nal duty on Canadian wheat and flour,
leaving to the Canadian parliament TO fix
the duty on American wheat and flour I'M
ported into Canada from the United States.
The effect of this will be an indirect admis-
sion of our wheat and -four into Great Brit
ain, and virtual repeal Of the corn law
prohibition, so far as our trade is concerned.
Wheat and -four once imported from the
United States, can no longer be distinguish
ed from the products Of the province, and
will Immediately find their way to England.
This will be good news for the cultivators of
wheat in he western states.
The Kingston Chronicle says that the
Canadian government have concluded to ac-
cept the offer, and proposes to fix the duty
ON American wheat at three shillings ster
ling the quarter, a duty which it is expected
will make a large and welcome addition to
the provincial revenues The importation
of our corn into Canada, will obvia,e one
great Inconvenience of the sliding scale OF
the cron-laws-namely that the American
exporter, who sends out his wheat when he
hears that the duty is low, finds, before his
cargo arrives, that the market is already
supplied from the North of Europe, and
that the duties are again high.
The following is an extract from Lord
Stanley's letter, published in the British
Wing, of Sept. 9Th:
"By the law, as it hitherto stood, Canadian wheat
and wheat -four have been admissible into Great
Britain at rate of duty estimated at 5s. per quarter
until the price IN the English market reached 10s.-
at which amount the duty fell TO Cd. BY the bill
which i now before Parliament duty of SIS is levi
adltlony while the price is below 55s and at SO fall
to Is only-But in addition To this reduction in the
amount of price at which the lower duty becomes
payable it is proposed TO take oil the restriction
which has hitherto been imposed upon the lmpora-
ton of Canadian flour into Ireland, and thus 10 open
new market to that which may justly be considered
as one of the manufactures OF Canada
"Itl true that the Imperial Parliament at the time
that they admitted Canadian produce AT a nominal
dut,, might constuuonaly have imposed a cores
ponling duty upon the imports Of American whea
in Canada, and might thus have placed a check upon
the undue influx of foreign under the name of Cana
dian produce, but whatever might be the view taker
by her Malostys Government under different stat,
of circumstances in which tax imposed by colonia
authority, and of course receivable into the colona
trcasuryupon wheat imported rom the United State
might secure the agrculturlsts of England agans
the competition of foreign growers, they have beer
unwilling to impose such tax by the authority o
, parliament upon raw article which might be requr
ed for home consumption in Canada, and in the alb
sence of such tax have felt impossible TO propos
to Parliament further reduction than that whic
they have submitted, in favor Of wheat hour shppe
S from the ports of Canada"