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P\RLl niENTARY FIIOC E E D i XGS. {r In the Commons, on the occasion of some, peii- being presented against the sit. Katharine's 2)ock Bill, another conversation arose respecting the votes of interested Members, it was moved, ttuu. nil who a! sanded the Committee above stairs ■on the Bill should have 41 voices" {votes) insnch Comiitiitee ? hut Mr. Grent'ell opposed Mr. C. tti'tt there were. .-alrcajy ali tlk ;\Ie¡nbers f,r ,the nnri¡jrue, as wdl -as tor -the hi.vwe comities, making upwards of eighty Members on this one Committee. 1\Ir. of daily discussions as to the motives of Members; .and after Lord Folkestone.had observed that all the maritime counties were in favour of the Hili which made it the more requisite that other Mem- bers should attend, the Committee was enlarged according to Mr. Calvert's motion. Mr. Lavvley having presented a petition from the Birmingham •■Chamber ot ( cinmeice, praying for a repeal of the duties on Copper and other Metals, Mr. W. "Whitmore expressed a hope that the Minister would extend the same attention to tha duties on copper, &c. that had been paid on iron. ',Itea(iried That thi* and other measures recently proposed were fraught, with great wisdom, and if they were carried to the fell extent, the Minister would con- f 'r greater benefit on the country than had been effected by any preceding taxing Administration. Mr. llaskUson then informed the House that in thf course of the next week, he expected to have the opportunity of stating his views respecting the -copper and other taxes, which had been, imposed for the protection" of trade, as it was called, but which, in reality, were so many impediments. In the contemplated alteration of the copper taxes he trusted he should experience co-operation from the owners of copper-mines, &c. similar to that which he had obtained from the iron-masters. Mr P. Greet fell said that although his own interests might he considerably affected by the proposed alterations of the taxation ot'copper, from him the Government should experience no opposition, provided the plans were enforced with becoming. caution. Mr. Hume has postponed the question of the Sinking Fund, or rather surplus of five millions, which Mrs. Hume and Maberly would wish to do away with. Do those gentlemen wish to continue the Debt ü f SUJ,OOO,O(){)l? Do they not wish to take the advantage of peace, and pay off part of that Debt; do they agree with Mr. Justice Bayley in opinion, that a large Debt is a blessing We would, however, recommend Mr. I-luine and Mr. Mahedv TO consider attentively the ac- counts from the East Indies. Supposing that a further mutiny should break out, and that the of peopl. whose territories we have taken under one pretence or another, should follow the example of the regiment ofSepoys, Suppos- ing this 100,000.000 of people, whose Kings and Chief we have deposed should require an addi- tional force of 50,000 men to keep them in order. what would the extra annual cost amount to ? We ask Mr. Hume and illr. illaberly, wliethei- it might not amount to five millions a-year; We therefore say 'o Messrs. Maberly and Hume, that the surplus you want to get rid of, may be wanted before long, and therefore we recommend you to abandon the idea of not caring, politically speak- ing, for the future.—Nothing would be more pleasant for the people than to be eased of five millions of taxes, but should the Indian war spread, and should 50.000 men, and fi vemillions annually, be wanted, Messrs. Hume and Maberly would find the people tog-rumble at the laying on again of the five millions taxation. We would for the present, fteep John Bull where he is. He bears K*K*»rdens with a good grace—be is even •thankful to the vnm,t „ v.- ,,nfor ms prosperity. And as to his moneyed men, their moi,0J burns so in t'teir pockets, that they are thankful for all descrip- tions of schemes whereby they may be relieved of the burden which weighs them down. We do entreat Messrs. Maberly and Hume to quiet with respect to the Sinking Fund, till we fli-st see how the Burmese and others in the East mean to proceed. We have inserted in another column a letter Upon the Tea Trade, which illustrates, very strongly, those pernicious effects of monopoly to which we called the attention of our reader. boiote, in allusion to the trade in Oporto wines The subject of the letter which we present to- day is, undoubtedly, of a far more general interest tti-t" the price of Port wine. And the abases which the writer describes are not less flagrant, than those practised by the Oporto Company, and immediately open to correction by our Go- vernment. It will be seen that the East India Company is in the systematic pratice of contracting its sales in order to keep up a scale of prices, which, at the expense of the public comfort and the national revenue, secures to it an enormous profit. It is idle to question., or perhaps to blame, the disposition of all men to avail themselves of their power over others to aggrandise themselves.— The East India Company does no more than every other Company would do if invested with a si- milar monopoly of the necessaries of life. The Co:npany is under no moral obligation to send a ) pound of tea into the market; and as far as it is uncontrolled by competition, we cannot reasona- biv expect that it will issue a pound of tea beyond what will maintain its profits at the highest point. t is absurd to be affecting to teach a liberal policy to all the nations of Europe, whilo we nourish in the bosom of our own empire one of the most unreasonable and offensive parts of the old system of monopoly and it is even preposte- rous to make sac; iiiees of solid revenue to pro- mote the commerce of the country, and to add to the comforts of the people, while a nuisance like this monopoly of the tea trade is permitted, to ntt.ke war indifferently, and equally, upon both tile one aild tlw other.

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