1 CLJNITIO OBITUARY:IGIDDA DEATH OF MR. KINLOCH, M.P.-It is with deep regret that we announce the death of this true patriot and excellent man, which took place on Thursday night, at his lodgings in Parliament Street. Mr. Kinloch has fallen a martyr to the rigid performance of his Parliamentary du ties. During the long debates on the Address, and on the - Irish Coercion Bill, he was never absent from his post, till driven from it by illness. From the time the Speaker entered the House, till the adjournment, he was always to be found in his place. This incessant fatigue brought on an inflammatory attack, from which he suffered severely, but from which he appeared to have in a great measure recovered; and he was on the eye of departure for his seat of Kinloch in Perthshire, for the purpose of relaxation and a change of air, when he was seized, on Thursday evening, with a sudden faintness, and was dead in a very few hours. -Spectator. les 1 We are sorry to announce the death of Mr. Forbes Hunter Blair, late candidate for the representation of Edinburgh Mr. Blair was a man of integrity and honour, and greatly respected by a large circle of friends. Lord Gambier died lately at his house at Iver, near Ux. bridge, in the 77th year of his age. His Lordship was one of the few remaining officers who had a command in the glorious battle of the 1st of June. On that occasion he commanded the Defence of 74 guns, which was the first ship that broke the line. The Defence was dismasted in the action, and had to contend with two French ships-of"the-line, one on each side, both of which struck to him. At Copenhagen Lord Gambier was the Commander-in-chief of the naval forces, and for that service was rewarded with a pension of £2,000 a-year, which latter he generously de#clined. His Lordship again commanded the naval force against the French fleet in Basque-roads. At 8, Howard Place, on the 21st instant, Mrs Christie, of a daugh412166 begee At 53, Queen Street, on the 22d instant, the Lady of George Dickson, Here, on the 12th current, Mrs A. J. Lîzars, of a daughter. M a son, At Townhead Manse, Langholm, on the 19th ultimo, Mrs Dobie, of 07687 At Minto Street, on the 30th ultimo, the Lady of Major Macgregor, of a daughter. At 1, Eyre Place, on the 1st instant, the wife of Mr John Forster, surgeon, of a son. At the General Post Office, London, on the Ist instant, Mrs Freeling, of a daughter. At Newburgh, Fife, on the 11th instant, the wife of G. Baumbach, Esq., of a son. At 19, Lauriston Street, on the 14th instant, Mrs Alexander Henderson, of a daughter. ter. At 8, Coates Crescent, on the 15th instant, Mrs Ker, of a daughter. At Dalkeith, on the 27th ultimo, Mrs Craig, of a son. At Coll House, Island of Mull, on the 31st ultimo, the Lady of Hugh M'Lean, Esq., younger of Coll, of a son. At 21, Lynedoch Place, on the 31st ultimo, Mrs William Gordon, of MARRIAGES. Here, on the 27th current, the Reverend Patrick Fairbairn, minister, North Ronaldshay, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Pitcairn, Esq., Edinburgh. At Duncrub, Perthshire, on the 27th instant, Captain Robert Knox Trotter, 17th lancers, younger of Ballindean, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Right Honourable Lord Rollo. Here, on the 26th instant, David Cormack, Esq, writer in Edinburgh, to Elizabeth, daughter of the deceased Mr Alexander McMillan, late merchant in Campbeltown. ་ ་ ་ } ་ ཐཱའི་ ་ Here, on the 22d instant, Mr Alexander Miller, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 8, Rankeillor Street, to Alison Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr Alexander Galloway, merchant there. At Ingram's Crook, near Stirling, on the 19th instant, John Wilson, jun. Esq., Bannockburn, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas MMickling, Esq. of Miltonise. At Ayr, on the 17th instant, by the Reverend Mr Roxburgh, of Kilmaurs, John Ballantine Rollo, Esq., second son of the Hon. Roger Rollo, Ayr, to William, daughter of the late Robert Robertson, Esq. of Duncanzemer. On the 6th March, at Millfield, parish of Inverkeillor, N.B., Margaret Smith, in her 103d year. She was 15 years old at the memorable battle of Culloden, and recollected of her sister's " providing" with part of her own, being put in a chest and buried in the kail-yard for fear of the rebels." She also recollected perfectly well of the rebels entering her father's hen-house at Cockhill, parish of Kinnell, and when he asked them what they wanted there, they answered Nothing, Sir," but all the while they were acness-shire. tive in killing the feathered inmates, and adding them to their spoil. F On the 25th of January, by special license, at the Palace of his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Isles, Captain John M.Crummen, of the 11th regiment, to Frances Chambers, youngest daughter of the late Norman Macdonald, Esq., of Bernisdale, InverW At St George's, Hanover Square, London, on the 11th instant, by the Hon, and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Thomas Chariton Whitmore, Esq., M.P., eldest son of T. Whitmore, Esq of Appleby Parky Shropshire, to the Lady Louisa Ann Douglas, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Queensberry Here, on the 20th current, Mr Robert Clark, spirit-dealer, Plea sance. TYOKAI KALLIIW At Dryfesdale Manse, or sdale Manse, on Saturday the 16th of March, very suddenly of a fit of apoplexy, the Rev. John Hender son, Minister of that Parish, in the 67th year of his age, and 46th of his ministry; author of the Transfiguration of our Saviour on Mount Tabor. As a Minister of the Gospel, during the long period he laboured amongst his large Congregation in holy things," his eloquent Sermons and Discourses, both from the pulpit and through the mediumHere, on the 20th instant, the Rev. Bonjamin Dickson, minister of of the press, bear ample testimony of the soundness of his Christian principles and of his efficiency as a teacher of a Christian community; and the lamentatious and sorrow of a whole people declare what he was, as a "man among men. His winning and mild disposition and familiar aban manner, endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his by acquaintance, and mor more especially to the members of his own extensive congregation. Well, indeed, might he have been dstyled the father of his flock, for certainly he gained to himself that most endearing title. Many may be the suns that may arise above the broad corn-covered top of the Table to At Philpstoun, on the 16th instant, Mrs Isobel Kerr, relict of Mr Robert Murray, late schoolmaster of the parish of Abercorn. On the 31st January last, Wilhelmina, aged 15 months, and, on the 24th March, Gavin, aged two months, children of the Rev, Z. M. Ha milton, assistaut minister of Walls, Orkney. On the 29th ultimo, William Hamilton, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon, At Aberdeen, on the 1st instant, Miss Eliza Gordon, daughter of the late James Gordon, Esq. of Littlefola. At his house in North Street, Elgin, on the 24th ultimo, Mr Thomas on the parish of Dryfesdale ere we may be M Lachlan, aged 62 years. ike again. The parish, at the kindly sug gestion and in conjunction with the brethren of the Quhytewoolen Lodge of Freemasons, Lockerbie, intend, by erecting over his tomb, a handsome monument, to perpetuate the respect and esteem which they hold for their departed pastor and brother. POSTSCRIPT. SCHOOLMASTER OFFICE, MINISTERS," always on the brink of ruin,” have once more weathered the storm. They will not abandon the helm at this time. They repent their late pettishnesses, and will continue in office, " wiser and better men." The landed interest, which had supported the Ministers in every extravagant vote of supply, and virtually said, " lavish away," but, from an impulse of blind greed, left them in a minority, when the means of expenditure might be shovelled into their own pockets, deserve little gratitude. They will receive none. The motives of their consistent vote are perfectly understood. The exact line of policy which Ministers are to follow, was explained by Lord Althorp on Monday night. They are, as it were, to throw the onus upon the House of Commons. As an amendment on Sir John Key's motion for the total abolition of Assessed Taxes, Lord Althorp is to move the following resolution,-" In consequence of the deficiency that must arise in the revenue by a reduction on the malt duty, and the abolition of the house and window tax, that such deficiency must be supplied by a general tax on property." This will at least test the sincerity of those who pretended that the vote on the malt tax was to relieve the people. We heartily approve this resolution; nor do we see how it can be evaded. Whoever pretends to be the friend of peace and order,--whoever really wishes to avert convulsion, ought to seek a fair, full, and equitable tax on property, with no such evasion in favour of the aristocracy as took place in the Assessed Taxes. It was and is in defence of property, and for the protection of property, that all our extravagant military, naval, and civil establishments are maintained. On what, then, every other source of taxation being exhausted, should the burden fall? Exchequer Bills, or a vote of credit is at best but a temporary wretched make-shift, a something that is nothing, to procrastinate the evil day. Lord Althorp's resolution appears a manly facing of the evil. If it is lost, then let the blame be laid upon the right horse,-upon the House of Commons. The opinions of the Times of Monday upon this crisis are worthy of attention. In them we heartily concur. "As a rider to Sir W. Ingilby's resolution, there ought to have been another introduced forthwith, to admit foreign barley free, for Mr. Warburton was unanswerable in his statement that the effect of the motion, as now carried, will be no more than to raise the barley rents of Great Britain about £2,000,000 per annum. It is to be hoped that Ministers will have manhood enough to propose from themselves this cure for a gross deception-this just and honest retribution upon the landlords for their grave hypocrisy. If the price of beer is to fall-if the poor man is, in truth, to be benefited-destroy the landlord's monopoly of the material for making beer; there will then be something consistent in the votes of the House of Commons. But more than this must be done. It is plain that, with such a hole in the revenue as these agriculturists have created, the public creditor or the public service must be left unprovided for. Why, then we repeat Lord Althorp's words there must be a commutation for the malt tax; but not for a moiety of the malt tax: abolish the whole of it. Consult, moreover, the universal feelings of the middle gentry and trading interests of the kingdom, abolish the house and window tax, and raise the deficit to upwards of £7,000,000. What next? Then face the monster of landlord cupidity boldly, and, like another evil being, it will fly from you. Dismiss, also, the Maccullochs, and other quacks of that superficial and prating school, as unworthy of serious attention; propose a good bold property tax, and it will be carried in spite of the landlords and fundlords, increasing rather than diminishing that surplus of revenue over expenditure, of which, when not immoderate and not wasted, Lord Althorp admits the policy in his last budget. Our advice, under all the circumstances, would be to pay the landlords in their own coin, give them the whole malt tax, take away their monopoly of barley, relieve the people generally from the house and window tax, and lay on a tax on property in commutation. If Ministers resign on vich a difficulty as this, they deserve to lose the confidence of all parties, and of every honest man in England; but they must not adhere to their present budget!—all classes repadiate it." The Tory prints are taunting the Whigs with adhering to office under such defeat, but they do not venture to assert, that their party durst venture in. There is nothing in the late votes, nor in the metropolitan meetings, favourable to Tory prospects. As the Assessed Taxes must come off, we see nothing as a succedaneum but a tax on property. Till we meet our readers this day month, we would exhort all who truly love their country, to support a reformed Whig Ministry, and to keep steadfastly in view, a Property Tax for Britain, and a Poor Law for Ireland. On Monday the 29th, at close of the market, consols were steady at 871. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. ・・ The Mid-Lothian Dairy Company, at Meadowbank, near Edinburgh, carrying on business there as diary keepers or cowfeeders, as a company, and of Edward Wright, residing at Meadowbank, as partner thereof, and as an individual. John MacDiarmid, commission agent and merchant, Glasgow. David Gilmore, flesher and cattle dealer, Glasgow. George Thomson, baker, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. Hugh Montgomery Fraser, merchant, Glasgow. March 28. Robert Jamieson, wright, Glasgow. 29. James Johnstone and Co. clothiers and hatters, Glasgow, and James Johnstone and Samuel Johnstone, part ners thereof, as individuals. IRON TRADE. We understand a further advance of 10s. per ton on manufactured iron took place last week in Staffordshire, making in all thirty shillings per ton advance in two months. THE METAL TRADEA still further rise has taken place in the price of metals raised in this country. Since this time last year, iron has advanced 25 per cent., and lead 20 per cent. It is rather remarkable that neither copper nor tin has ever been depressed like other metals. The trade here is again rather more brisk, The approachTHE WOOL TRADE London, Thursday Evening.— ing sales are looked for with some interest they have been increased to 15,000 bags. The accounts this week have been, from Germany, 605 bags; from Leghorn, 80 bags; and from Sydney, 21 bags. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, MAY 1. We had a small supply of all kinds of grain to-day, and sales heavy There were in market, 148 quarters Wheat; best, 678; current, 58% to 62s. Barley, 46 quarters; best 35s 6d; current, 31s to 348. Oats, 192 Pease and beans, t quarters; best, 228 8d; current, 188 to 205. quarters; best, 32s; current, 28s to 30s. EDINBURGH PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 2 Beef, per lb. 34d to 6d; Mutton, 5d to 7d; Veal, 6d to od; Perk, 4d to 6d; Lamb, per qr. 58 to 6s6d; Quartern Loaf, d; Potatoes, per peck, 4d; Butter, per lb. 9d to Is Id Salt do, 7d to 9d; Cheese, Dun lop, per cwt. 468 to 548; Common, 30s.; Eggs, per dozen, 64, GLASGOW BAZAAR. best sold at 98. to 10s. 6d. per stone tron. Fresh butter 70 stones, APRIL 24-In the Bazaar to-day there was about 830 stone cheese; 9d. to 10d. a lb. Salt do. 25; which sold at 15s, to 1, d. per stone tron. Fresh Pork from 5s, to 68. 6d. a stone. Hens from 2 to 38. Ed a couple; Eggs 5d. and 6d a dozen. EDINBURGH: Printed by and for JonN JOHNSTONE,-19, St. James's Square Published by JOHN ANDERSON, Jun., Bookseller, 55, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh; by JOHN MACLEOD, and ATKINSON & Co... Booksellers, Glasgow; and sold by all Booksellers and Venders of Cheap Periodical NEWS OF THE MONTH. SINCE the opening of Parliament the Whig Ministry have been labouring with all their might to render themselves suspected and unpopular; but during the last month they have gone farther;— they have prepared one part of the nation for the return of the Tories to power; and reconciled another portion to that event by their singular felicity in hastening the conviction that, as no good can be expected from them, the sooner the other party is put on their trial the better. The Tory organs, who were scared till now, declare the country ripe for a dissolution, which shall bring "their patrons in;" for they wisely scout the idea of any compromise with the Whigs which could only irritate the people. They counsel, as better policy than a coalition, “a vigorous and ingenuous adoption of the interests of the people by the Tory party." We look for no new things under the sun. But let us turn to the Whigs. We left Lord Althorp der great embarrassment." We find him and his colleagues in exactly the same predicament. Among their first acts, since we saw them last, was a decided opposition to the abolition of the Assessed Taxes, moved by Sir John Key. The same fate has attended a subsequent motion for this object, made by Sir Samuel Whalley, the new member for Mary-le-bone; though his motion contemplated no instant adoption of the measure. The consequence is, that London, and the great towns in England, are in a general ferment, and beginning to practise the dangerous lessons which Government have forced upon them, in a passive resistance. The most strenuous of the Ministerial papers condemn this reiterated opposition to the abolition of this most obnoxious impost.* The un • We must except the Scotsman, which if not a Ministerial journal distinguished by much tact in service, is, at least, very zealous. Speaking of Sir S. Whalley's motion, it says,-" The time of the House of Commons was wasted on Monday [Tuesday by another motion for the repeal of the House and Window duties, which was negatived, as the mover himself knew it would be. Ministers have declared their willingness to give up these taxes, as soon as their produce can be spared, or their place supplied from any other source; and there is little doubt, that in one or two years, the object sought will be attained. This, however, does not satisfy the impatience and self-conceit of the Cockneys, who think that Government is bound to comply instantly with any demand of theirs, whether in or out of season; and, if they require it-to work impossibilities! They consider the assessed taxes as their special grievance; and that their grievance should take precedence of all the grievances of PRICE THREE HALF-PENCE. Tories exult in it. It is playing their game to admiration. The Whigs thus virtually confess that all the Tories did was proper. They can do no more than follow their steps. What then is to be the cure of those manifold calamities which their coming into office was to remove? "Their present conduct confesses," the Tories say, "that we governed the country so admirably that now when they have the power, they really, upon close inspection, see no room for any important improvement. What they once thought improvement they now see to be ruin ;" but, say they, if the people will try us a few years more, we may perhaps con trive something." The next great Whig stand of the month was made in both Houses. It was against the corn-law system being approached in any shape; that iniquitous monopoly against which the Whigs, as a political party, have so long declaimed, must not be touched. How can we so soon forget all the arguments, professions, and pledges upon this important point, made within the last twenty years, although the last Edinburgh Review should controvert all former Edinburgh Reviews, And, how is it possible to avoid feeling such conduct inconsistent and revolting in the last degree? The moderate resolutions of Earl Fitzwilliam were op, posed by Prosperity Robinson, Lord Goderich, (Earl Ripon,) the Privy Seal, who, though the advocate for free trade and freedom of manufacture, would continue heavy restrictions on that commodity a free exchange in which must be the basis of all other free trade that is to be safe or prosperous; and maintain the most iniquitous monopoly ever devised by selfish landed lawmakers to grind a people for the exclusive advantage of their own body. Their Lordships made short work, and no ceremony with this question. Earl Ripon made his speech; and the resolutions were negatived without even a division. There ought to have been a division. Earl Grey is avowedly hostile to the people's interests on this the other nineteen-twentieths of the people! The arrogance of these proceedings is most offensive. It is nothing less than an attempt of the metropolis to dictate to the whole empire." There is here a trifle of mistake. Would that the House and Window Tix were only a local tax, a special grievance; but unfortunately, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, every town and village feels it, as well as the "conceited cockneys.”* Even the Morning Chronicle, which is stultifying itself with time-serving, calls this a "political blunder.” point. But there are other peers in the Cabinet; and we should have seen how they chose to vote. When Mr. Whitmore brought forward a motion in the House of Commons for a moderate fixed duty on grain, which might check the tendency to such perpetual, and often violent fluctuation, Lord Althorp thought the measure inopportune," not bad, (for he was, or had been, an enemy to the Corn Laws,) but not to be complied with. Ministers, and their subservient majority on which they may safely reckon in cases like this, which affect only the landed interest, threw out the motion by a very large majority. It was, of course, wasting the time of the House to make such motions, as Mr. Whitmore might have had a good guess that it would be negatived. Votes of this kind, whatever be their fruit, are not running to waste,—they are sinking deeply into the hearts of millions. They speak, as Elliott of Sheffield says, "from his children's trenchers" to the poor man's reason and his feelings. The plan of West India Slave Emancipation, propounded by Mr. Stanley, and brought forward as the Government scheme, is disapproved by Lord Howick, and has made Mr. Macaulay tender his resignation. It is another happy feature of the Whig Government, that it is constantly at sixes and sevens. Some Members, Hobhousically, try to serve two masters; others, like Stanley and Lord Palmerston, take high aristocratic ground; and a third party Talleyrand with the country and their colleagues alike. One thing is certain, more unpopular they cannot be. Being now sunk to the lowest ebb, they may come up again. The notoriously bad character of their predecessors is much in their favour. They cannot be more detested than the Tories. They have even yielded a little where Tories would have resisted. A motion made by Mr. D. W. Harvey for inquiry into the special reasons for which certain among the Lord Charleses and Lady Emmelines receive their pensions, while Timothy Higgins must, whether he is able or not, pay for having shop windows, and Hodge Clodpole give double price for his loaf, only to benefit the landed relatives of Lord Charles and Lady Emmeline:— this motion the Tories never would have yielded, and it has been wrung from Lord Althorp. The latest rumours are of a speedy prorogation, during which the Whigs may gain strength from a coalition with the Conservatives. In this case, Earl Grey retires in disgust-Lord Brougham becomes Premier, and the new. party, or the double-headed monster, recovers its feet. Overtures are stated to have been already made to Sir Robert Peel-and rejected. The ministerial papers deny the reports of a prorogation, but this does not make the thing a whit less probable. The discussion on the Irish Church is impending in the Peers. If the Tories think the time arrived when they may safely venture in, they will throw out that Bill; and in that case the Whigs are pledged to retire. A prorogation anticipates this defeat; and we rather incline to believe that, in another month, we may have occasion to make a retrospection oF THE ACTS AND DEEDS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE BE FORMED PARLIAMENT:―a beggarly account it will be! Meetings have been held in several of the grea towns to adopt petitions, praying the King to dis miss the Ministry. We can join in the prayer of that petition, so far as hoping he may "Throw away the worser part of it, And live the better with the other half" There is still some sound material in the Whig Cabinet, which, with new additions, may be available for good service. Honesty and boldness may yet retrieve opportunities that have been so madly thrown away. Where it is their evident interest to forgive, the people will not be implacable. Upon the first symptoms of repentance shewn in sincere amendment, they will be ready to pass an act of oblivion and indemnity. On the disruption of the Cabinet, and upon the separation of its good from its evil component parts, the people now rest their final hopes of the Tories they will none. The Radicals! where are they as a leading and guiding party? They can, however, furnish the better half of the Whig party with a powerful and most useful auxiliary force. HOUSE OF LORDS. POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND.-Upon Monday the 6th instant, the Duke of Sussex presented a petition from London, for establishing a system of Poor Laws in Ireland. The Duke of Hamilton strongly supported the prayer of this petition. The expense of maintaining the Irish paupers was a heavy burden in Scotland. In the county of Lanark alone, he believed that there were 40,000 destitute frish. He did not wish to wound the feelings of Irish noblemen, but he must say that the Irish who emigrated were the most destitute beings he had ever beheld. The Earl of Wicklow said, that the people were constantly excited by the writers for the periodical press; who were always trumping up lamentable accounts of the state of Ireland, and of daily and nightly outrages. There never was any complaint of the influx of Irish labourers in harvest-time, when the English farmers derived so much benefit from their labours. The Earl of Haddington concurred with the Duke of Hamilton in his remarks respecting the injury inflicted on Scotland, by the influx of Irish paupers. Lord Ellenborough said, the Irish might lower the price of labour, but they worked like other people, and were as fully entitled to relief as any Scotchman born. TUESDAY the 14th instant, Earl Fitzwilliam prefaced the following resolutions, by a long and able speech : The 1st resolution of the fourteen is intended) to › prove that the plan of a graduated scale of duty produces, „great fluctuations in the price of corn. The facts stated án support of this proposition by the noble Earl are the following: On the 11th of July, 1828, the average price of Wheat was 55s. 7d. per quarter; in October of the same year it had increased to 65s. per quarter; in 1829, the following fluctuations took place on the 2d of January the price wis 758. 11d.; on the 3d of April 70s. 3d.; on, the 30 of July 68s. 2d., and on the 2d of October 60s.; in 1830 the variations were as follow:-January 1, 558. 5d. per quarter: April 2, 65s. 1d.; July 2, 68s. 6d. ; October 1, 628. : in 1831 as follows:-Jan. 7, 68s. 3d.; April 1, 72s. 4d.; July 1, 66s. 7d.; October 7, 61s.; in 1832, January 6, 59s. 1d. per quarter; April 6, 59s. 6d. ;, July 6, 63s. 2d.; October 5, 54s. 7d.; and in 1833, January 4, 52s. 6d.; April 5, 53s. 10d., the greatest variation in 1828 appears thus to have been 9s. 5d. per quarter; in 1829, 14s. Id.; in 1830, 13s. 1d.; in 1831, 9s. 4d.; in 1832, 8s. 5d., and in 1833, ls. 4d. The second and third resolutions are intended to prove that wheat sells on the Continent and in America at much cheaper rates than in this country, to establish which his Lordship gives the returns of the price of grain during the last five years and a half at Dantzic, Hamburgh, Leghorn, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Havre, and Marseilles. A specimen from each year will be sufficient. In July, 1828, when wheat was selling in England at 558, 7d. per quarter, the price at Dantzic was 24s. 3d.; at Hamburgh, 233. ; at Leghorn, 398. 7d. ; at Philadelphia, 298. 9d.; at Amsterdam, 30s. 9d.; at Rotterdam, 33s. 4d.; at Antwerp, 34s. 6d.; at Havre, 50s. 3d.; and at Marseilles, 52s.; in October, 1829, the average price of wheat in England was 60s. per quarter, (being the lowest return ;) and, in the same month, the prices on the Continent and in America were, Dantzic, 38s. 8d.; Hamburgh, 34s. 6d.; Leghorn, 38s. 7d.; Philadelphia, 36s.; Amsterdam, 43s. 3d.; Rotterdam, 41s. 9d.; Antwerp, 51s. 4d.; Havre, 51s. 3d.; Marseilles, 58s. 6d. ; in January, 1830, the price in England (the lowest in the year) was 55s. 5d.; whilst, in Dantzic, it was 29s. 9d.; in Hamburgh, 31s. 3d.; in Leghorn, 35s. Ild.; in Philadelphia, 36s.; in Antwerp, 41s. Id.; Havre, 44s.; Marseilles, 57s. 10d.; in October, 1831, (the lowest average,) the return in England was 61s. per quarter; abroad, Dantzic, 41s. 1d.; Hamburgh, 45s.; Leghorn, 45s. 3d.; Philadelphia, 35s. 8d.; Amsterdam, 43s. 2d.; Rotterdam, 50s. 6d.; Antwerp, 57s.; Havre, 54s. 6d.; Marseilles, 58s. 7d.; in October, 1832, the price in England was 54s. 7d.; abroad, Dantzic, 30s. 7d.; Hamburgh, 28s. 4d.; Leghorn, 39s. 5d.; Philadelphia, 36s. 7d.; Amsterdam, 39s. 9d.; Rotterdam, 37s. 3d.; Antwerp, 43s. 4d.; Havre, 51s. 6d. ; Marseilles, 57s. 6d. The other resolutions are as follow: 4. That it further appears to this House, that the total quantity of foreign wheat entered for home consumption, under the provisions of the 9th Geo. IV. cap. 60, to the 5th April, 1833, has been 4,795,746 quarters, 1 bushel; and that the total amount of duty paid thereon has been L.1,604,190, 10s. 10d.; and that the average rate of such duty is 6s. 8d. per quarter, or thereabouts. That of the aforesaid total quantity were imported Qrs. Bush. 508,217 7 do. 10s. 8d. viz.-3,892,653 6 do. 10s. 8d. 903,092 3 do. 13s. 8d. do. do. or under do. or upw. 6. That it therefore appears that the supply of foreign wheat afforded to the people of Great Britain, under the provisions of the 9th Geo. IV. c. 60, has been at the rate of 1,008,860 quarters per annum, or thereabouts; and that the revenue derived therefrom has been at the rate of 1.337,479 per annum, or thereabouts. 7. That nothing is more injurious to those classes of the community which are engaged in the cultivation of the soil, than great and rapid fluctuations in the value of their commodities. 8. That such fluctuations cannot altogether be prevented in the price of an article, whose production is necessarily affected by the variations in the seasons, but that it does not appear to this House that the existing regulations for the trade in foreign corn have succeeded in diminishing those fluctuations, but that, on the contrary, they have a tendency to aggravate them, by placing occasional and unnecessary obstacles in the way of a free trade in corn with foreign countries. 9. That any disparity between the price of provisions in one country and another has a tendency to give comparative encouragement to the industry of that country in which the subsistence of man is obtained at the lower rate, and to impose difficulties upon that of the country in which it is obtained at the higher rate. 10. That the price of wheat in Great Britain stands generally at a higher level than in the other countries of Europe whose inhabitants are engaged in similar pursuits with those of the British Empire. 11. That such higher price, in a great measure, is to be ascribed to the laws which regulate the trade in foreign corn. 12. That the varying scale of duties imposed by the said laws operates frequently as a prohibition upon the import of foreign grain, and, consequently, upon the export of British commodities. 13. That, therefore, the manifest effects of the corn laws are to leave the agricultural interest exposed to all the dif ficulties which arise from frequent and sudden fluctuations in price-to discourage the export, and, consequently, the production of British commodities-to increase the cost of cultivating the soil, and of producing the manufactures of the United Kingdom-to render the industry of this nation less capable of competing with that of other nations and to make the people less competent to support the several burdens which the various exigencies of the State have imposed upon them. 14. That it is therefore expedient to revise the said laws, and to place them upon a footing more consistent with justice, and more conducive to the welfare of the most important interests of the country. The noble Earl concluded by saying, that Whether he looked to the interest of the agriculturist, tion, or to the ultimate interest of the proprietor of land, (that was, the cultivator,) or of the manufacturing popula(he said ultimate interest, because he admitted that there might be a temporary advantage to the proprietor in a continuance of the present system,) he would say that that House could not confer a greater benefit upon the country, gratitude out of doors, than by going into consideration of or perform à duty which would be received with greater the laws which regulated the duties upon corn, The Earl of Ripon, (late Lord Goderich, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and thus a member of the Government,) would state clearly the Government intention upon this subject, which it was highly important should be set at rest. I He objected to Lord Fitzwilliam's resolutions, in the first place, because the time and circumstances were not favourable to the discussion; secondly, on account of the gross fallacies on which the resolutions were founded; thirdly, on account of the fallacious conclusions drawn by the noble Earl from those false premises; and, finally, because the noble Earl proposed to pull down the present structure without being prepared with materials for a better building. He compared the fluctuations which had occurred in the price of corn previously and subsequently to the enactment of the present laws; and concluded, from the comparative steadiness of price during the latter period, that any alteration would be injurious. He knew that by coinciding in his view they might be denounced as selfish, and that a popular clamour might be raised against them; but he considered it to be the duty of the Government not to yield to any thing like popular clamour on this subject. The Earls of Winchelsea and Wicklow opposed the resolutions. |