The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1860, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 graves by aliowtng their minds to brood Counei! of State, i ‘with the Depart- | the levying articles mentioned and extended commerce. (Cheers.) 1 believe, indeed, | you have a duty on foreign wine of 66. 10d. the gallon— sand maprcrigs responce o ool apne myy Heh Forge airy nM Reber, Grand caro pad mrp bm ny eps that the protibory sytem nso &a colonial wine of 8.114. the gallon and oa Brith wine Mitule hope for 4 relief. Bome persoas even Tmoperial of Honor, &c., Senator, dues, in France Unnatural J gallon. result \ Sa ei Se oe ha “cay Tas | eer andSereay tat fre options ot | iene be naa oy FE Cg ok gy one, whic! ui A mention, cannot be eradicated, but SQnreaas a pt to each other their re- ame fm the which formerly soyareted: England roa Sovland, and has trebled within the last ten years. This has all the es- wy to put it down, the more it won't” How: Ne spective full powers, found in ‘and due form, have | and rivers of Great Britain trom Ireland, 2 T shall be told, per- | sential chara>tcrietics of a trade carried on under the in- Piper Ney Dale effort has as yet been meal aad agreed upon and concluded fee flowing artciee advantages which are or shall be granted to national vessels eas Oe cyan Sek oe a certainly in Soaten of didorential duties. Le ai aul Md therefore * ” generally, or to the goods imported respect » we have sent w! juty is & protective differential duty with Iawful means in their reas, ‘The stuastion of Mayor His Majesty the Tpefor of ibe Prenen, sogagee that on | sbal) be equally be ble importations from Franca; but when I remember how } respect to the three classes which enter into our consamp- ‘Wood is, with this view, salle to the subject. the following articles of British production manufac- | and to the goods much we still prohibit, | have no hesitation in ayn that, } tion; namely, foreign, colonia! and British wines, all Jt would require too much space to enter upon a full | ture, imported from the United om into France, the wna scr Chena 3 Rete en that ‘ance, | paying different rates of duty to the revenue. @escription of other well known impositions, humbu; duties eball in no case exceed thirty per cent ad valorem, | The two hi yh other > eed from being whai | hear.) Out of the enormous quantity of foreign wine and disreputable entertainments, daily aod nightly | the two additional decimes included, the exportation ought to be, (Hear, hear.) Let us look at the ques- | manufactured abroad, no doubt it is true that only ssmall carried on im this city under the very nose of justice. ‘The articles are as follows:— portation. tion on the French side. Tho doctrine is that we | fraction would become available ia this couatry. The ‘They are as public and notorious as it is possible for any- Refined sugar. should attend to our own interests and leave France to | preat bulk is a wine which au Englishman would uot take ‘hing to be, and perhaps the very cause of their not being ‘Turmeric in powder. ‘The subjects of manne bere. peice bey pe Eg in exchange for hig beer; but it is also true that between ieoked y by the police in the fact of their being | Rock crystal worked. aball in the dominions ik joe? _In 1868 the total value of exports from } that common and coarse wine and the fine wines there 80 common. y much smaller nuisances than those fron forged in lumps or prisms. tion as native sul to France—not British exports, but exports of J are 10,000 intermediate shades, aud there is an immense ca - briefly and jmpertect y uketched above are being pursued Brass (copper alloyed with zine), polished or un- | in trademarks whatever origin—was £14,821 ,000. 4 vm, amount ty for producing wines fitted for the oe market and with a vigor really ferocious. But wo fear it is the old | polished, of every description. ARTICLS XIN. home consumption in France was £ ef . 000. A +4 for the taste of the middie and lower middle classes in this tory of ‘straining ata gnat and swallowing a camel.” ‘Chemical productions, enumerated or non-enumerated. ‘The ad valorem duties established within the limits fixed of the articles are unenumerated, an Cn pon Fd e gow, which capacity is at present entirely stifled by ‘The great evils shoula first bo looked after, for they are Extracts of dye woods. by the ing articles shall be converted into specific one, but I have obtained the of cles 10 operation of the wine duty. There ie ® notion that the prop and support of the smaller. Garsncine. duties ‘® supplementary convention, which shall be the value of £9, weths: there is something fixed and cachangiial an Eogliah- Common soap of every: , and perfumed soap, before the Ist of July, 1860. The mediui whole. Observe i Of the goods | man’s taste with respect to wine. You a great mum Stoneware and earthenware, fine aud common, prices during the six months the date fons to France in 1008, sisounting ber of in this country who believe, an ar- China and porce!ain ware. present tueaty shal) be taken as the bases of this con- | © ing to France by this treaty | terials, u; r and } ticle of Christian faith, that an Englishman is not ADDITIONAL FROU EUROPE. Gises, chrystal, mirrors and plate glass. ‘version. wi not given with as liberal @ hand to our: | the bul born to drink French wines. (Laughter.) Do what ie Cotton yarn Duties shall, however, be levied in conformity with the | selves. ‘And the changes here proposed are | but merely passed reo will, they say; arguo with him as you will; rehase ‘Worsted and woollen yarn of every description. bases above established :— ‘one of which deserves the el ey of | £8,700,000, and half . | your duties ag you will; endeavor even to pour the French. ‘Yarns of flax and hemp. 1. In the event of this tary convention not | this itsown merits, in conformity all the | The total amount of res wine down his throat, but still he will reject it. & THE MAILS OF THE EUROPA AND Vigo, Yarps of hair, enumerated or non enumerated. having come into force the expiration of the that have been recognised and acted upon | every year is laugh.) Well, these are most worthy portions of 1 Cotton manofactures. period fixed for the execution by France of the present | for many past. Sir, as to the charge of sub- | of manufactu only . | community; but they form their judgment from the nar- j Horsehair manufactures, enumerated or non-enume- ' serviency France, I know that this treaty may | It is worth row circle of their own experience, and won’t comdescend ] 7 rated. 7 SUIT, Jn thane articies tdienaeila duties on which shall {| be said to bear a politioal character. ‘The commercial | analysis. Of that £688, to look beyond that circle for any consideration whatever. The Commercial Treaty Be- | “Worsiea ana woolen manufactures, enumerated or | not have been settled by common consent. relations of England wits France have always borne «@ po, | shawia, which mere What they maintain is absolately the reverse of the truth, non-enumerated. ARTICLE XIV. litical character. What is the history of the system of | for machinery, wi water for nothing is more certain than the taste of English peo- tween France and England. loth liet, ‘The present treaty shall be binding for the United King: | prohibitions on the one side, and on the other, which grew | pleased to admit under some tage, | pleat one time for French wine, (Hear, Bear.) in ear. Manufactures of hair. dom nT Sceardemls cat wand eee ene necessary | Up between this country and France? it was simply value of all the other tu r periods of opr history French was the great ar. " ‘Sik manufactures. legislative sanction shall have been given by Parliament, | this: that finding yourselves in political estrangement | £263,000. tt ticle of consumption here. (Cheors.) Taste is @ mutable Manufactures of waste and floss silk. with tbe reserve made in article VI., respecting wines. from ber at the time of the revolution, you followed up | a state of thing. «af You go back to whiat an eminent living peet has. Speech of the Chancellor of the | svonutctures of bark and all other vegetable fibres, | Further, her Britannio Majesty reserves to borself the | and confirmed that estrangement both on the one side | opportunit; galled ‘‘the spacious times of great Elizabeth,” you will Ex enumeratsd or non-enumerated. power of retaining, upon special grounds, and by way of | and the other Saree of prohibitory duties. And [| so. 1 understand the si find tbat the most delicate lady in the land did *< Se chequer. « Naaecheninas ef dlabene baw cxusciscn.> dutinne petemoniesnatient eae Tuy | do not deny ‘was effectual for its end. I don’t er then to breakfast off cad ls Seen Mixed manufactures of every s Noo lot af soul 1000, halt of the dation on mean for its economical end. Economically it may pos- { that all breal Revolutiow French wine was largely consumed here. I ‘Gasery, nag si phe epg one tag Dy the | Sibly have been ruinous to botn countries. But for ite | is wise to bre our have seen it stated, and have no reason to doubt the aa- \ Another Letter from the Pi to Haberdsthery and emall wares ene w ipalated political end it waseffectual, And because {t was effe- | of our neighbor standing if we cannot touch them than to | sertion, that in 1687 there were imported into this country La ‘ope Masrulpetares of cqoutchous and. guitepercha, pare or | Meemtiresty. toarticles of atk | (ual Teall upon you to legislate now by the reverse of | perpetuate both. ‘hat is true and reasonable; but I can- | §,800,000 gallons of French wine, or about two thirds of \ Napoleon. mixed k aoe er, does not apply that process. And if you desire to knit together in amity | not understand those immoderate and uni ible free | the whole quantity of foreign wine which we now consume. id “Articles of clothing wholly or in part made up. hype “y those two greai nations whose conflicte havo often shaken | traders whocome from other quarters, who, { must say, | How was this consumption checked gnd t \ d skins. Jf The m Arraied bey hie the Empe- | tbe world, undo for your purpose that which your | know Uttle of what they talk about, and who say it isa | By the influence of ibitive duties. The ve Arisa every sort manutatored from, leaber or | rr oft each nal befall ad’ as tripe: | sere Od for Wl porte ane a ce | vere uct ca eManeyag Mak cent | MZ LOW way deers, tn PY ares ae oe Wogland’s Proposition for Settle- luded under the denomination of small ! DC: - pa Payer - - nee ee Se ee Sir, there was once a time when close ‘relations Sdoubling of the benefit. They think there la a chivairy | tastefor French wine’ But for one hundred years after ., Ment of the Italian Question. Piated articles of every description. ipo coal and cobs, fom the In of July, 4860, | °C, amity wore ealabliahed between the govern: | in free trade, which is if it becomes a mattcr | that the taste Itself remained, for when Mr. Pits made the , } Cuuery. 2 For ter " ‘thn and for steel of the kinds which | wente of England and France. It was in the reign of of bargain, whereas it to me that bargain isroally | treaty of 1786, what was the resuit? According to the in- Metal wares, whether enumerated or not. are Det ruocs to eebibition frees the les of October “eco, | the later Stuarts; and it mares a dark spot in our annals, | at the root of the wholo thing. The only reason why wo teresting paper written by Lord in the year pre- Pig and cast iron of every description, without distine- &. For worked metals, machines, tools and mechanical | because it was a union formed in a spirit of domineering | have not made to the present in former | ceding 1786 the import of French wine into was Official Reply of France on the New tion of weight. i iuetramenteof all sorts, within « period which sball not | *mbition on the ono side, and of base and vile subser- | years was simply we could not make them. It | under 100,000 gallons. In the six years from 1787 to 1793 Four Points, * Bar and wrought iron, with the exception of the kinds | exceed the Slat of December, 1860. viency on the other. But that, sir, was not a union of the | was not for want of trying. , For four or five years such | the import grew to 683,000 gallons. Then, with the war two specified in Article XVII. 4. For yarns and manufactures in flax and hemp, from | nations, It was « union of the governments. | This {1 not or three years aftewards, a nearly prohibitive, af all 2c, &o, eo. ' the lotol Jone, 180n p> wane dee. Cpr i fg we the i ronnie Sak, et Se are chine! mechani fraument “d nations—(cheers) ; anc confident say again, a8 ve rage to 4 average it re- Par ml bony oak, Se in of anaes i And for all other articles from the jst of October, already psa to say in this Howse, thes there never | concessions which each party made to the other were not | ruined ull 1824, when the differential duty, instead of 4a. can be any union between the nations of England and | a benefit but an injury to itself. (Hear, hear.) We have | 6d., became 2s. 5d.,and the consumption rose to 379,000 France except a union beneficial to the world, because | not proceeded upon that principle. We never pretended gallons. I must admit that when the duties were eqaul- Girectly either the one or the other begins to harbor | to France that we were going to inflict injury upon our- } jzed in 1830, the consumption of Frenoh wine did not in- ‘The mails of the Europa reached this city, from Boston, Carriages on springs, lined and painted. ARTICLE XVI. Cabinet ware, carved work, and turnery of every de- His Majesty the Empe the French that the yesterday evening, bringing us interesting details of our | scription; worked ivory and wood, ‘netoe parable am ieportation ito France ufactare wlegraphic ‘tg from Halifax of the Euro) news to sebemes of selfish aggrandizement—(osposition cheers) | selves. We have offered France our best aid in breaking | crease. It seemed as if, by that time, after the pressure tune Pee Owe NO ince, cheer e arise eactuding ‘hove not distilled from | of merchandise of Britiah production and manufactare | that moment the jealousy of its neighbor will powerfully | down her own vicious probibitory system. In doing 80, | of heavy duties for e century and bait, the taste for — Ships and boats. ao ie ee ee react, and the very fact of their being in harmony will of | we may have given a greater benefit to France than | tt was nearly forgotten, and it becamo the luxury of a Baring Brothers say in their circular of the 10th of Feb- | With respect to refined sugar and chemical productions : axnice xv. ftgelt’be the most’ conclusive proof tbat neither of them | to ourselves. 1 shall not attempt to measure it on | very limited class in the community. But it is remirkable reary:— of which salt is the basis, tke excise or ioland daties shall | 7 is understood between the’ two high contracting | CM Meditate anything which is dangorous to Europe. | one side or the other. What we have done is good— } thai, in conjunction with the very changes of taste which pal ave. taereinadaath ined be added to the amount of the above specified duties. PO eeeseemt af ihe conversion of the adrolorers | (Hear, hear) There is another class of objec- | nay, doubly good—good for ourselves if France | have been proceeding of late years, we may ixewiee per. 4 Prog on ory me oe peomams ory Fol pam ution nto specific duties, that for the kinds of bar iron ps Of which I do not complain, but which I hope | bad done nothing at all, doubly good because France { ceive in the operation of the present wine duties pi toremove. There are those who say thata commercial | bag done a Re ee ee ‘One word upon | » growing taste for French wine; for whereas from 1825 to ) juce markets this week, and we have little to report. ‘mer period. About twenty | 1430 we only consumed 379,000 gallons a year, and after nL. His — Majesty 1 to reduce the import | which are at t subjected on importation into France to the amount treaty is an abandonment of the principles of free | our exports to ey bas been ia good demand at 4a43; per cent per | {pti in Krance on Brith coal and coke & | to 8 duly of 20, notincinding the two additional decimes, Ma} treaty would be | years ago there was trade in English manufactured goods f+ fednied to iike 310,- ee : i it in- reat; uced our duties, not rea jut inde- v ; > gousiderable, but there le litle stock offered for rate. | Hit Majesty the Emperor also Stwoe jecimes. Rial S wbh, re ee ee mite’ init |. peeanly: pircniseee bao MM to SE repetition d rte possi of France. How did that country reply to us? | tion of French wine is absoluiely increasing, four years | both cases the two additional bye sense I admit that Mr. Pitt’s com: troaty would, if within , ‘There have beon transactions in United States 6’s at 98, | ftom the date of the ratification of the preseat was under a very friendly government atthe time, | centage of the total consumption ig rapidly increasing. to . ‘Masa: ? establish upon the importation of coal and land geme treaty of merce ‘adopted terms meet mense bene! made | Taste, * © pity @ Maia Snel atin Maly Hien id nea valor duty, which shall not exceed that aro appucabis te Algeria, both for the exporaiion of her bei oe] Gave been ces Cota seas eens tren bap ce hapecmmocna ee met oy oisitae thie sin: | port 1 Aled piney highly: branded. wines as fixed and tn "bonda at $4. Virginia offered at $2. Railway Se eee FESS OCR ee ee ee ‘But, at the same time, I cannot mention that treaty | g'e branch of trade in British manufactures with prohibi- | Gnd unchangeable. There is a power of unbounded supply and few » bur at lower prices Tew und that the rates of duty mentioned in the t teat See Pape fed to | Without saying that I thiok it was for the timo at which it | tory duties, She raised her duties on linen yarn, which | of wine it you will only alter your law, and there ls a ‘where business has been dono. jeretood Esch o high contracting Powers engages was toade one of the best and one of the wisest measures | before 1842 had been from 9 to 12 per cent, to from | power, I won't say of unbounded demand, but of an ener- preceding articles are independent of the differential | confer on the other any favor, privilege or reduction in buted 13 0 27 t. Her duties linen cloths, which ts ef EF. Satterthwaite says, in his circular of the 10th in- } Guties in aver of French hij h which duties they | the tariff of di ‘of im] ‘oh the articles mentioned | °*er adopted by Parliament, and has contributed at least ir cen ler duties wy » which | mously increased demand, for this most useful and valuable S. shall net Pact ipping, inthe See ‘wnich the said Power ‘sonceds | ® much ss aby other passage of his brilliant career, to | before 1842 had been from 16to 28 per cent, were increas- | commodity. (Hear.) Now, 1 think cause enough has been Nis om rie arctitaanian (epics is interfere, pie Pe ~ poder bobo They farth Beg Spo aned the fame of ‘great statesman who concluded ‘it. | ed to from 20 to 86 per cent. ‘The result may be anticipa- | shown for an alteration in the present system of wine \erense in tho rate of Slecouct has been tie.” The mar. | Tbe dutiesad valorem sui tn the prosent treaty | one against the other any prohibition of importation or | (Bear.) We, Bowever, have no exclusive engagements; | tea. In tt wa ae to Freee eas In. 1868 we scat oniy. | aulies., But I beseech the commitiee to remember the for American securities remains inanimate: ‘United | Sail be calculated on the value at the place of production | cxportation which shall not at the same time be applica- we have not the pr e of an exclusive en, ment, | the amount ;090,127, Mier od et bet : im! of evil which are cont with that sper cat are Bicady. Bt 0d; fOr Meryiead Ged | or iabricauon of the object imported, with the addition of | bie to all other mations, por Hb pte tele oe ry hg rie oe ple ag pte ang erm ET tag Sea lea ying = fee 5 5 it, and the cost of transport, insurance, and commission neces. ARTICLE XX. See eee y demand. iow ork Care corer cent | nary forthe importation into France a far as the port of | The present treaty shail not be valid unless her dina nic Majesty shall be authorised, by the assent of distinction between one nation and another, and that | France; and | confess I am not so well satisfled ise. (Hear, hear.) Many of the houses eee ee enact ior hor we ehall at the same exact for all | wish ites notto think that it admis of some improvement, | fveeTise., (Heat, bear} Many of te houses, ‘ee the world. I am surprised at the number and variety of | As an honorabie friend whom I see opposite sald the | land: but those gentlemen will tall you of the difficulties these objections which come rushing from all quarters. | other day, with respect to our wine duties, so I say of they have to encounter in holding“ their ground againet : y ? Bends are rather easier to buy. In Erie shares little . : \ doing; frst and second mortgage bonds are firm, but third | | For the levying of these duties the importer aball Hament, to execute the —— contracted by her in | 1'ie°xe the ancient explanation of the physical cause of | our trade with France, it is not in the “best possible” | trons or inferior character whe are brought inte that Section Dons nrc tits st"T0s nnd vharoe at | ‘slow docrption o the goods imported Ute Ou | 2 to sense i, see te aes ens St Fa | Ss Se ee nee Renate tier | Cray gat cu ov eena st eae ae ae u shall declared Pe 1 ~ ? our law invites m to do Bo. ESN Meet te semi Yor'sroads | Tose tmumct try sal eaten takes | of Me" 9te Slaton the Gee eelfa® | “EAREerinwe Note root, croberqn ponte | Sin uni meeig oh daca a wa ere | Mar "esa renin operauo of 7a rt . J q it ma) 8 whic! The return from the Bank of England for the week ena. | {074 cnyaying to the importer the price declared, with } of ratications; and incase nolihor of the igh | sometimes a treaty'ia an obsolete and antiquated ides; | I presume nobody will pretend that a duty of 168. upon | Foeist wo counterfet ibe. article on which yu have laid | img the 8th of February gives the following results when | _ This payment, together with the restitution of any duty Re tekce meuthe “hence Ear" to, the | sometimes it is a dangerous innovation; and st others it is | French brandy, compared with a duty of 8. on British | Sach heavy duties. (Hear, hear.) That is the way in > which may have been levied uch goods, shall be | said” period” of ten the expiration of the | an abandonment of free trade. There are also another | spirits, isa revenue duty. Taere is an article manufac: | Which the wine dutice work; and let me, in Semper Saree nee nace within the fifteen days following the’ declaration, tan end/to its operation: the treaty shall continue in force | cla#¥of men, and those are gentlemen with whom we tured {n this country which some of us may have been | hy remarks on this subject, ask the ‘committee to Public deposits, .£6,304,217 Increase. . for al r year, ‘and £0 on ear to year the ball bave much difficulty in dealing. These are they | happy or unhappy enough to taste. It is called British | consider one thing more. We hear of the rich Otber deposits. 14,301,686 Decrease. Re ARTICLE Y. pote * phew Eb a who find fault with it—and that I must the | brandy. (A laugh.) In consequence of the immense | man’s luxuries, and of contemplated reductions of \ Rest........+-.+ 8,420,045 Increase. e, Distasitie Meveney eagnes t -reccmamend to: Parlin) <= Viper et te tigh comseanting: Poweer ahall Dave co 1 omnia itis an the | price to which French brandy is raised by our duty, Guty ‘upon articles which the poor man does not On the other side of the account: tbe following articles, neritic meg rie woeaealive inser an Lek shall have an- | principle of protection. (Hear, hear) This treaty is an a ae a a, the <_< of ts consume. Now, I make my appeal to the friends of the ‘ a yr abandonment of the principle of protection. I am not | best French bran excluding entirely every- eeaesees 21,061. re 2 it ce 8 DO ve an ren randy comes into the wi . % Notes unemployed 7,448,700 Decrease. ....642,880 | Lucifers of every description. ee ag Ags) ~itond sprit and pind abandonment of the principle of protection, ‘anda means | left empty for it by. means of our prohivltory duly. As Sariatered (0 tie Rego perme me gg oy nd The amount of notes tn circulation is £21,354,700, being | fereuesion cape: eee | or sweeping from the statute book the obet relics of that | far as brandy "ts concerned, therefore, wo are sepinaw which makes it impossible for’ the poor maa le OF al Pemane (penne oti ia both | Jewels, ack i af Rept wat ave will prascntiy tes ther hae thetocr cdtrind | the deter’ upon, sik and ‘wine aa Toveaue dates? | When bes sick to obtain the comfort and support derived > An wi see ‘80. our ol 1e jut venus ual Sipetecnts AIGA, howeg wera wf |B eager et Be aes at an a | AEE Consol ere ea | Wo Saag" wt nt fey doom | Reuse ant ant roma bry £24,816 when compared with the preceding retura. ee pete saa Bs aujo er: soem epee! perot the land, sind who was dislodged from them some 10 or 15 | Here especially we are met by the cry that wine is the | trend. (Hear) © Gousult the medical profession; ask 4 ° is baith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have | Yeers #60, nas, since that period, found very comfortable | rich man’s luxury. It is the rich man’s loxury, but 1 | what sort of wine is supplied to boards of guardians i this The Monileur of February 10, publishes the usual Embroideries and needlework of every description. signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms. monthly retarn of the Bank of France, which shows the Brase and bronze manufactares, and bronzed metal. igned it, uplicate st Paris, the 23d day of Janvary, in a 7 ‘sticks, umbrella parasol Done ta di following results as compared with the previous return:— | cto °enratct pcined oF cltertiine ornamnaaieg” the year of our Lord 1860. country; go on board the Queen’s ships and see the wine supplied there. Some time ago I had the honor of being on board her Majesty’s ship Scourge, at a time when an thelter and good living in holes and corners (a laugh); | shall show presently that those who are not rich are and you are now invited, if you will have the to | making desperate struggles to get at it—(a laugh)—and coucur in the operation, tosee whether you cannot like | that, too, with some limited and qualified success. But ‘wito eject him from those holes and corners. Itold you | wine, forsooth, is the rich man’s luxury, Ia tea the rich RICHARD COBDEN, | The? we are toremove the duty from all mantfactared | man's luxury?” No. It isthe poor mai’a, and, above al, | socient had happened to one of the sallors. | 1 want tomee F. ROUBER. , and there is hardly one of that class of duties which Butl in the year 1860. operation. ‘What wine do you give him?” I asked. “We are forced to give him the wine of our own mess,” the sur- geon told me; “we cannot give him the wine’ supplied to the Queen’s sbips.’’ He insisted on my tasting the ship wine, and certainly it was with great difficulty I suc- the peor ‘woman’s luxury. speak is not, in poin} of fact, the re] ive of astrictly pro- | In 1760 tea was the rich man’s luxury. In 1760 there tective duty; nay more—and mark my words—in many | was no more tea consumed per head of the population i be | than there is wine now. In 1760 there were 4,000,000 best explained by my to the committee what will ands of tea copsumed; pow the annual consumption is be the nancial resuits of the treaty as it stands. I will 6,000,000 pounds. The price of tea which is now sold at WHAT MR, pay res THINES OF THE In the Héuse of Commons on the 10th inst., the Chancel ‘reaeury baianes, 295000000 inetruments. lor of the Exchequer rose to make his finapcial staie- | notenter into any small details, and will take throe | 3s. per pound was then advertised by the chiet houses at | Cecded inswallowing part of a glass. (4 laugh), | Now, ‘The Gibraltar Chronicle of February 1 says:— Catlory and other articles of steel, tron or cast iron. — | ment. branches of reduction only—the ‘reduction of tho duty | £1 Ber pound. (Hear, hear.) Wine is the rich man's luxa- | oi Wine i taken out of bond, aud pays no duty; but our Xt is reported by a person who left Tetuan yesterday | . ANCY ornaments of steel and iron. The House having resolved itself into a Committes wine, the reduction of that upon brandy, and tho | ry, and you may make tes or sugar or any other article | *Ystom of outy viltalce tha Moline trails an exer evening eat thirniohing was polng OM the whole of pes. | Articles covered with copper by galvanic process. of Ways and Means, he said that the year 1860 had long of the duties upon manafsctured goods. | of consumption the rich man’s luxury {f you put on daty | Tekard to the higher And most Cxpeusive cites of wines, SIRE) a toat the Apauich’ artilery was shelling the | millinery and artificial Sowers. been marked out ag an important epoch in British com- | The reduction of the duty upon wine from 66. 10d. to 3s. | enough, by which you will not only effectially bar the a3- | ™mAkes it almost tmpoeni oll Laoartangeait caatae Soorkh camp. Nomerous steam. end sailing transgorta.{ Saw 200s. merce. The long annuities, amounting to £2,146,000, fell | per gallon will afford ‘to the oonsumer a relief of | cess of’ the poor man to it, but reserve to yourselves the | Smearticle, (Hear, hear). Well, I don’t mysa off the port of Martin, discharging shot shell, pow. | G/0ves and other leather articles of . in; the war duties on tea and sugar, unless renowed, re- | £830,000, and will entail upon the revenue, after allow- | proud satisfaction of saying ‘Our taxes are paid by tho | ‘8! under thofe circumstances, the government can re. cor preven, Se toe (caer er pnd + PO! Manufactures of caoutchouc and gutta aco A rte the commercial treaty with = ing for an re Ce pneeien, 2; eet 85 | rich; pone ey: _ articles {suena by the Fog pS = ori a at maeee, Fa} ro ya. 4 Oils. com © government to ‘& new and unusi r cent, a x e reduction of the duty | poor:” fear, hear.) Let us consider now neces- We bave not yet (Feb. 2) recetved aay account from | yusical instruments. course. ‘e int tipon brandy from 166. to 88.24. « gallon will give tot 4 Bry operation pon un article like wine of @ uniform rato | Heady of the commercial wenky mith Pragoe. principal of heads of the commercial treaty with France. I do not think that the friends of free trade, or those who are anxious respecting the revenue, will find fault with the provisions of that treaty. (Hear, hear.) I believe Paige gets Sh eT in Saker ac Mate ok qi rted and woollen ahawie, plain, printed or pattern | “ir “Gxanmonx added{come now to the queen of - | the comme: treaty wi France, and I will confident Jo which the Spanish treope have yet. been engaged. Goverlids, woollen gloves and other.worsted and wool- | recommend: the adostion of that tre “a consumer @ relief of £446,000, assuming that tie luty. Wine, I suppose, more than almoat anythin, fc produced from th of man, Moorish treaty to 88 Serre tmored that another brother. of the Sultan had ar. | 2 manufactures not eaumerated. fulfliog and salitying all the conditions of the most beao- consumption will be raised to the point at which it stood { elee that is e earth by the labor in 1850, just before the disease of the vine commenced, it | varies in quality and price. It is not too much to say that will cause a lots of £226,000 to the revenue. There are | the price of wine runs from 1 up to 11 Upon all quali Handkerchiefs and other manufactures not enumerated, | ficial change in your commercial legistatin. But perhaps, | three small articles, the abolition of the duties on which | ties wo lay the same rate of duty. What is the effect | ™y#elf that you never were called upon to make a sacri Fived with a reinforcement of 20,000 cavalry. of linen and bemp. sir, a8 ibe cousiahios Man’ ah ‘yot had an opportunity of | we propoee to posipone for a single year, in the teen | That wotaxeven the highest wines somewhat heavily; ena te care mune ee geod (etn ng A despatch from Madrid, dated February 7,says:— Perfumery, cabinet ware, carved work and turnery of | reading the treaty, it may be convenient that I should | time redveing it by one-half. One of them’ is the article | the next to the highest we tax very heavily indeed, and | [romana lne eilte which will ‘be created whi be im- ‘Tetuan has been taken by the Spaniaras, after a battle, | © very descr: state to them very brie! cork, which been the subject of a great deal of de- | al) except those limited classes we totally and absolutely “4 % fly ite principal covenants. (‘Hear, ‘which was fought on the 4th. Signt haudred large tents. Clocks, watches and opera bear,” and a laugh.) First, I will take the pie wri glasses. bate in this House. I mustsay, that although there never | prohibit. Let me give one illustration from a simpler forming the fine encampment of the enemy, the artillery, ‘Manovfactures of lead, enumerated or not enumerated, of France. France ep; to reduce the duty on English ¥ mense; and I know very well that the expedition of trade ‘was a stronger apparent case made out for protection, and | case than that of wine, which very clearly explains how ‘and the economy brought about in the public eatablish- 7 by abolishing the duties on manufactured goods camels, and all the other equipage of the Moorish camp, Feathers, dressed or not. coal and coke from the lst of July, 1860; on bar an althougb, in congequence of the measures which were | this matter stands, and dispoee, once for all, of the | Me™ 4 sae nen taken. Tho broguers’of the Emperor tok to | Goat's and other hair manufacta res. iron and steel from the 1st of October, 1860; on toels cad |. adopted, there has been a considerabloulock to the trade, | notion. that we ars dealing with revente: duties laid a etic nS Bp. cpcrinan cannex(Eaeans — flight. A summons having been transmitted to the enemy China and porcelain ware. machinery from the Ist of December, 1880; ‘and on yarns | and s cousterable change of ita nature and of the course | upon the luxuries of a class, and not upon articles want. | S&tin, eriry poly apbrdans ili oF pep “a to surrender Tetuan within twenty-four hours, a deputa- Stone and earthenware. ond goods in flax and hemp, including, I believe, jato—in | which it takes, the House has nothing to repent. On | ed for the consumption of the poor. It is the very | Sor tariy will immensely facilitate that intercou Link ga tion from the city came mto the Spanish camp to beg for Grapes. which a great and very just interest is felt in some im: { the contrary, the total consumption of cork is much | simple case of gloves, which was stated to me by & | Sho? the Custom’s ccdline ean $0, porter he , by en- mercy, as the Mussulmans had begun to pilisge and Sulphate of quinine. portant districte—from the lat of June, 1861. Tiat is the | larger now than it was before the duty was reduced. | most intelligent and respectable deputation, who, as be. Wetcthe auumvion Yeslianiin, @hich aso Lgraeer4 slaughter in the town. The division of General Rios en. | Salts of morphine. firet important covenant Inte which France enters. Her | On account of the importance of the present change, | came them, made no secret at all about the matter, | P&r tha ich are pow found necessary. (Cheers) sir, J cannot pass from the subject of the French treaty without paying & tribute of reapect to two persons, least, tered the place without any opposition, and was received Manufectores of silk, or of silk = ie ae other | second and great engagement is postponed to the Ist of of fhatever at who have been the main authors of it. (Hear, hear.) { with manifestations ; materials, of wi sy may October, 1861, it being, I think, in the knowledge of the Teomense popolar rejoicings are taking place at Madrid, | Articles not enumerated in the tariff, now paying anad | committee that that is done under a pledge given by the go which ws splendidly illuminated. The acclaniations of de’ | ‘alorem duty of 10 per cent, subject, Lhe such | vernment of France to the classes who suppose them- however, we propose to gire, until the Ist ‘of | Our duty upon gloves is 3s. 8d a dozen. We im- April, 1860, for the reduction of the duty on cork, | ported in 1869 about 300,000 dozen. The value of and of thote affecting two other trades, upon the | the gloves we import is about 24s. a dozen wholesale; the simple ground that they are trades carried on almosten- | retail price ranges from 30s. to 36s. Our duty is some- , 1 ear this witness, at any rate, with regard to bt are general, and great ationg are being mado | Meatures of as the protection of the public | sejvce to be interested in the maintenance of prohibition. | tirely by diffused rural labor, to which itis not desirable | thing like fifteen per cent, which seems very moderate, | *™ bound to bear ry raw, gar Me pale ences temo iy Teveuue may require, against the introduction of mate- | On the Ist of October, 1861, France engages to reduce the | to give «sudden shock. ‘These are the glove trade and | and enables those who arc so disposed to say, ‘ah! wo | the Emperor of the French= that he has gine the most The M the action at eleven | tals liable to custom or excise daties, in the composition | cuties and to take away the prohibitions on all the articles | the trade in straw plaiting. Inthe meantime the duties | do not discourage the importation of French gloves, we | wequteocal proofs y earnestness the floors, it appears, began rs o'clock in the morning by'a flerce attack on the Spann | Of articles admitted duty free in virtue of the present | 51 British production mentioned in a certain list, in such a | will be reduced, and neat ycar they will be taken off. | merely lay upon thom a duty of fiiteen por cent for the Of this “great wrk, & Work uot misimisipeose. Fated for the purposes of the English alliance, but with ‘a advance posts. They are gaid to have returned with in. | Paregraph. way that no duty upon any of those articles snall exceed | The amount of daty om manufactured goods, which will be | sake of revenue.”” How does this work? It works in this creased joo to the attack. They closed with the Spanish arnciz vL thirty per cent ad valorem. Ido not speak of provisions, | abolished, amountsto no Jess than £432,000. The princi. | way: tMat it causes the French to furnish us with the (nor Meosd to eae See drome im horton bth Dattalions, and in the hand to bund combat which ensued | Her Britavnic Majesty engages, also, to to Par. | which do rot materially enter into the treaty; but those | pal articles are silk usanvfastures, £270,000; gloves, sub- | qualitice of gloves, while they leave to us the sapoly of bpd Dd Otte wie ata ane were at just defested, though they obstiaately disputed | linment tbat the duties on the importation of wine | articles, sir, include all the staples of Briuish tnanufactore, | ject toa short delay, £48,000; arlificial flowers, £20,000; | the poorer qualities. Abolish the duty, and you will tad | Wn 'eare ; Dameathen paged Much dene every foot of ground. In a cavalry charge ordered by | be at once reduced to @ rate not exceeding 3e. a galion, | whether of yarns, flax, hemp, hair, wool, silk or cotton— Geveral Galiano, four squadrovs found their retarn inter- | and that from the 1st of April, 1861, the duties oa impor- | a!) manufactures of skins, leather, bark, wood, iron, and cepted by a body of two thousand Moorish horse, an! had | tation shall be regulated as follows:— all other metals, glass, stoneware, earthenware and por- so cut their way througb. In this they were aided by 1. « n wine contaling Jess than 15 degress of proof spirit, | celain. I will not go through the whole list, but I am not .wo other squadrons eent to tacir support. General?rim, | verified by Sykes’s hydrometer, the duty shali not exceed | aware of any great or material article that is omitted. watches, £15,000; certain oils, £10 000; musical instru: | that a quantity of gloves would be imported from France, ments, £,9,000; leather, £9,000; china, £8,000; glass, | Napes, Germany and Belgium. They will not be gloves £7,000. There are also a great number of minor aries of | at 248. a dozen. but gloves at 18s., 158., 10s. and 68. a industry luced largely abroad, especially in France. | dozen. The leeser priced gloves cannot pay the duty, The {total relief to the consumer, that is the amount of | for the duty, when applied to gloves of 10s. a dozen, exprasing our obligations to him for the labor he has, at no smali sacrifice, bestowed @ measure which he, not the least among the Tree trade, beliares to be one of the greatest fe Ne MS oe Rare 6 Cheers.) It is a great privilege for any min who, having with six battalions, stormed a height commaniing the | 1s. a gallon. France also eng to commute these ad valorem duties | duty remitted, under the French treaty, will be £1,737,- | 8 37 per cent, and when applied to gloves of 6s. f 0 rendered to his country one ii it field, but had to charge four times with the bayonet before | 2 On wine containing from 15 to 26 degrees the duty | into rated duties by a separate convention; but if there | 000; the loss ‘to the revenue for the first year will be | per dozen is 68 per cent; and those gonlemen, | Steen years ag — he could gain the position. shail not exceed 1s. 6d. gallon. should bea a ment a8 to the terms on which they | £1,190,000. Now, sr, the objections ‘which are taken to | whose words I heard with implicit belief told me | and signal service, now enjoys the singular good fortane of having had it in his power—undecorated, bearing no mark of rank or of title from his sovereign, or from the people—to perform another signal service in the same cause, id the benefit of, I hope, a not ungrateful country. (Cheers. It was decided te hold the ground thas taken, and artille- 3. Un wine containing from 26 to 40 degrees the duty | eball be rated under the convention, the very maximam this treaty in the interests of free trade will not, I am | distinctly that if this duty were shargeable on every class will be thirty per cent. Then ra removed @ lar, quite sure, be very Jong alive; but there is one objec. | quantity of gloves would be imported here at 10s. and 1s. on which turns upon anotber point with which I must | te dozen. Therefore the duty is not arevenue duty, but endeavor to deal. It is that which tells us that the | it ia protection duty on the higher qualities as regards duties we are about to repeal are, forsooth, revenue | the bulk of the trade, and as regards the bulk of the Bri- bt ahi g i nape pagent etsy athe did shall not exceed 2s, a . The Joss on the Spanish side is reported as consid: . 4 On wine in the duty shall not exceed 2s. a ities will be levied at the proper period upon but the pumber is not given. We hear that a transport | gallop. ~ the value, which will be ined by the process now arrived this morning at Algesiras with twenty-seven offi- 6. Wine shall not be imported at any other ports than } in use in the English ‘That isto say, theim- cers and two bundred and rank and file wounded. those which shall be named for tha: ‘defore ths | porter will declare the value, and {t will be in duties, and duties which are levied u] luxuries and do 4 tish consumers it fg a duty not of protection but of pro- i uae a present treaty aball come into force, far Britannic aes of the Custom House authorities in France to not affect the man. ‘Compassion for the poor man ig | hibition. So it is with the wine duties. Is that doubted? THE ITALIAN QUESTION. “ ty reserving to herself the right of substituting the article upon paying the price which he has . | avery fine , and I should be very sorry to say any- | Let ussee bow the wine duties operate as a system of ‘ We continue to receive more and more conflicting nows ports for those which shall have been originally named, | with s per cen! added. (Cheers.) And I must say | thing that to depreciate or undervalue s0 sacred | protection. We have heard of Cape wine, and if we visit The Propesitions of England to the Great Powers for a Settlement— Reply of France— Another Letter from the Pepe to Nape- Jeon—A Speech from the Pope, and his Fer- mer Opinions on Temporaliies, ke. In the House of Commons, on the 7th of Febroary, Lord Ciavp Hamutom begged to ask the Secretaty of State for Foreign Affairs whether it was true that Lord Cowley had been instructed to communicate to the French government a project for the definitive settlement of the Tta¥am question, and if so, whether he had to communicate the details of that project io the’ Mouse, Lord Joun Russet said—It will be necessary for me, in order to give satisfaction to the noble lord, to enter into gome account of what has lately taken place. At present Teannet produce the papers, becauie negotiations are still pending. What hag passed is this:—The House is aware from her Majesty's speech, that he Majesty’s government were in- any ut I must say that it is entirely out of place | places much frequented by the lower middling classes here. There is not one of these duties that is revenue | we ree advertisements representing large tuns surround- duty—no, not one of them. How they work with respect | cd by jovial people, with the words Cape Port and to poor men, how they work with respect to those not } African Sherry written on them. In all bability rich men, we will inguire. But if these are { that is not Cape port or African sherry, who revenue duties it is very curious to see who are the | import African sherry know how to make a better use Je who are alarmed at the treaty. Are the manu- | of it. There is a system of promotion and prefer- facturers of British brandy the guardians of the British | ment. (Laughter.) ‘the African wines are used revenue? Are the importers of Cape wines the guar- | mixing with foreign European wines, and, to employ lan- dians of the British revenue? Have the manufacturers a to my right honorable friend the Secretary of British wines a pecular interest in the well-being | for War, vice the African wine promoted some new of the exchequer? The manufacturers of Spitalfields | comports are brought forward and delivered to a discern: and those of Coventry, who have an incompara- | ing public, with what results it is not for me to say. ble organ in my right honorable friend (Mr. Ellice), Langhter.) The Africdn wine has a differential duty in are most excellent citizeas, and no doubt contribute | its favor nearly 38. a gallon; and, if there really be their share to the revenue, but my right honora- Tie eae ence Se ea rereeon from wine, I hess ble friend won’t tell me that their great activity in | who Fist aaxiety fo 9 along with us in reforming the rushing up to London and making representations upon | wine duties; for they will see that the decrease in the re- this sabject bas arisen from their interest in the British ped OAs Sea year to year would, apart from any with }, but from fiscal considerations, com They don’t come into my room and tell me that they are 1 them in the course of a few ycars to reform the wine there as the ‘imag of the revenue; tll a juties. I take for each period of three years, during the much more simple and a much more intelligible tale. They | last nine years, the consut say this—that the duties which stand wine in the United Kingdom. The averago of foreign tariff are, and it is perfectly true, wine consumed im the three years, 1851-3, was 6,225,000 tage . . Venetia, | They have sent off to the fortresses of Mo- | or of increasing the number of them. that 1 hold it to be @ ‘signal ‘proof of carnest- wis and the Danube two trains—one of 80 and the other | “he cuty fied upon the importation of wine at porta | xees and liberality on the part’ of the French otber than those named shail be 2s. a gallon. government that it has introduced an adminis- 6. Her Britannic Majesty reserves to herself the power, | tative regulation into its code for the purpose of notwithstanding the provisions of this article, to fix the | disarming suspicion and aig ina efficacious execation mazimum amount of proof spirit which may be contained | of the treaty. (Hear, hear ) re ig afurther provi- in liquor declared as wine, without, however, the maxi- | sion, sir, that the maximam of 2 per cent shall, after a degrees. period not Steins, three peste, be reduced tom maxi- vn. tom of 26 per cent. And be permitted to remind Her Britannic Majesty promises to recommend to Par. | the committee that this rule 30 per cent, to parle atm pethghineg oS A ee ae . | my ‘om a ox . wi y ph, as on, thirty- | CUEy which Wg or shail be imposed upos arucles of the same | the Britsh Parliament when "Mr. Huskisson was’ out ~days out, with her main shaft and a fan of her pro- | description in the United Kingdom. At the eame time the | Minister for trade, and we first set about making broken. She had five cabin and ten steerage pas. | duty ‘geable upon the importation of sucn merchan- | ‘mportant commercial changes. But there is, gers, and a general cargo. She loft Glasgow on the dige may be augmented by such a sum as shall be an equi- | 1 am bound to say, this difference between the two cases— 4 valent for the expenses which the system of excise may | that the rule was accompanied in land with such of January. entail upon the British producer. modes of operation that duties far exceeding 90 per cent ° ship Jane R. Waleh, of Yarmouth, from Liverpool . Ro a tect Col ary EM a Coa Elegant as founde: Ip accordance Preceding article, Britannic terms instrument g>, France think pavenn, with @sargo of coal, red at sea January | 0 ty undertakes to recommend’ to Parliament the ed- | given us @ security tat 80 per-csat will really be the iat. 47 N., long. 9 W. Crow saved. miseion into the United of brandies and spirit | maximom, }, from the nature of things, ia a great | ae ship Guy Mannering, Captain Dollard, from Liver- | imported ie ee juty.exactly eq: ee yowsvenGetasameteres genre’ (oe m pete as New ‘back cige du uy me made spirits, with rateeven'on manufactured goods. (Hear, hear.) I come - for New York, put back February 1, having shipped | ors uri, of 2a.'a gallon, which will make. the fotual | next to the Eogliah covenants England engages, with a i! £ zi i i ied upon articles vited to take part in a Conference seavy sea and received some damage. dut: yable on French brandies and spirits Se. 2d. Umited period of exception, to be exercised with respect | consumed by the rich. But why are they not levied u gallons. During the same period the avei consump- or Congress respecting I one. only to two or three , to abolish Immodiately and | articles consumed by the middie, the lower middle clsss, | fon of colonial wine. was 264,000 gallons. 1m the period preys epee Sd na REE ' Her Britannic Majesty also undertakes to recommend to { totally all duties upon al] manufactured and the poor? Because they won’t let them in; because | of 1854-6 the average consumption of foreign wine was | from the Frencl soverkinens es fh Gee reed THE ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY. Parhament the admission of rum and tala imported from | will be a sweep, clean, entire and absolute, of manufac: | they are probibitory against those articles.’ (Hear.) | 6,803,000 gallons, being an incrosse of 168,000 galions | in) ate but that, ve should. be: informed if ig ond Eee en aca stled at eras | gages reduce te diy ou trendy fom Sa gatonto | ures pve over Se Faacr' ihe “ghar cents | giro the "doce Ofte ioe wag at for wor | avy mento of" e\ medng href. Fa levied on these same articles im rom the r on 158. a facture! vel ance q wi oret; ‘he New Commercial Treaty tm Fuil—inte- | Cones fhe Sevel of the colonval duty-—viz, Ge. 24. “She en. | under cover of duties which are as good fer themes pro. | and I. mention thie particularly” because, ap” this yr apa fe ogre mien Seana. resting Analysis ef the Document by the Her Britennic Majesty undertakes to recommend to | gages to reduce immediately the ‘duty on foreign | hibitions, and reserve for themselves the mating of the | represents the consumption of foreign wine dur. | Do. pein vat pales Bo thet aa 16 may, Pt ‘5 y Pa-lemcent the acmiesion of payer hanglags imported | wine. In the treaty it is of course French | lower qualities, and the power of ox: from the | ing the disease, it shows that the increase which onto ae ‘eg tbat it was a very ‘serioos Pooh a . Jugiish Chancellor of the Exchequer, &e. | from France at a duty equal to the excise tax—that ia to | wine which is specified ; but it will be perfect- | British consumer price than they will be able to | has taken place in the consumption of Cape wine cannot | fovernment felt iil It tas Ney tte in expectation that say, at 14s. per hundred weight; and cardboard of the | ly understood that we proceed with regard to the oe by Parliament. (fear, hear.) | be owing to the disease in the European grape. When Italian ‘affaire would be solved by the Congress, should g same origin at a duty which shall not exceed 18s. per | commodities of all countries alike. Eugland oe: teok the liberty of to one of the deputations, | that disease was at ite worst the consumption of \e following ia the treaty of commerce between her | pypdred ‘weight. then, to reduce the duty on wine from nearly 5. bs Mauch the caso of the cord | foreign wine Increased, a8 Ihave already stated, by fg have no regular government and ‘no apparent Cape wine ie ne terminating the condition of uncertainty in which | sty Victoria and the Emperor of the French, signed Her Britavnic Majesty further undertakes to recommend | 3s. per gallon. She en; further to reduce that dut law over again.” Don’t let there be any mistake. What | 000 ; the average consumption ' Dt, warts, Jeneury 23. 1800, nad the ratifcations of which | ‘0 Parliament the acmission of gol and silver plate im- | from the 1st of April, Teel, to n tcale which has reference | is wanted i a-higher price. than, that xt which you can | ing the same perlod-—1864-66—rose from 264,000" gallons ee ee is ti nie td hd ge ge ee : cites ported from France st a duty equal to the stamp or excise | to the strength of the wine ae measured by the quantit; get goods from France. That is the Alpha and Omega, to'298,000 gallons. Dnring the last term of years—1557- | Dit POUOt? > ine definitive solution of the Ttalian ques. 4 exchanged at Paris February 4, 1860:— enty which is charged on British goid and silyer plate. of spirit it cont That scale is as follows:-On all the beginning and the end of it. I sald, ‘Ie not this the | 50—the disease of the was very much mitigated, Phe ce proposals were’ contained in @ to ‘ar Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ARTICLE ‘IX. wines in bottle, wl the strength, and on all wines | case of the corn law?’ ‘‘Oh! dear, no; not the least like | but the a consumption of wine showed a de- | 7 oe Cowley, dated the 14th of January, first ‘in and Ireland, and bie Majesty the Emperor of the It is understood between the two high contracting | baving twenty six d and upwards of proof spirit, vt! 4 the corn law.” In fact, there is genei a0) tals fed ingles gallons as com; with the consump: } fropoenl was that, as the rivalry of France and enc, being equally animated with the desire to draw | }owers that if one of them thinks it necessary to establish | 2s. per gallon; on wine having fifteen and under twenty- | the most respectable classes, a desire for the protection The average consumotion of foreign led to great evils in Ital; the tes of (riendabip which unite the two people, | an excise tax or inland duty apon any article of home pro- | six degrees of proof, 1s. 64. per gallon; and on wine with | their own business. ‘They ‘show that though they are | wine in 1857-80 was 6,803,000 gallons, while the ooncuray | AUNTS )T oe “these foo Powers should ‘me ee ‘ishing to improve and extend the relations of com. | duction or manufacture is comprised among the | lees than fifteen degrees, le. per gallon. A power is re- | without exception adherents of free trade, they are not | tion of the colonial wines bad increased by 357,000 ey. foi inierfere by force im te Itrliam Peninsula without between their respective dominions, have resolved | preceding enumerated articles, the for imported article | served to us of increasing our duty on wine in case we | adherents of free trade without excoption. (A laugh.) Let | Jona, the average consumption ia this last perind being |p, © necnt uf the fire great Powers. By the second propo: » conclude @ treaty for that purpose, and have named ag | Of the same destription be immediately liable to an | should increase our excise on spirite. And if, upon due | us now the circumstances which render it neces- | €55,000 gallons. The colonial wine, is i rapidly dis- | ‘ion (twas proposed that the Breach Soepe Gueesd pe. Plenipotentiaries, that i¢ to say— equivalant duty on imy fiacal considerations, we should find it necessary on that | sary to make @ special arrangement. [entreat the com- gg oe Tho present daty is iy aprotet | oe '« convenient time and with al! proper precautions, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great It is equally understood between the high contracting | account to increase our duty on wines, we also engage to | mittee to look at the present state of the trade between B and differential duty, and is hostile t (h qi:hdrew from Lombardy and Rome. By the third pro. et and Ireland, the Most Hon Henry Richard Charles | Powers that in case the British government should deem | charge on any French articles which are sabject to excise | Fogiand and Franee; it is not a little instructive. Consider, | revenue of the country. Bat ere $8 another | ‘evcies it wes proposed that the governments of Earope lar! Cowley , Vieceant Dangan, Baron Cowley, # peer of | 5 veceseary to increaee the excise duties levied upon | in England a duty corresponding with the excise duty, | in the first place, tho relative positions of Eogiand and | clement affecting the wine revenue, ani wet \& TF chouis not interfere in the internal governmcat of Vene- United Kingdom, a member of ber Britaanic Majesty’s | bome mace ts the duties on the importation of wines | together with any extra and further charges to which the | France. Itis perfectly truethat France is a foreign country, | (he mapufacturo of what is called Britis wine Tn aso proposition should be made to qualify the in- Fovy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Must Hoa. Order | tas be modified in the following manner:— English producer may be putin consequence of the regais- | but sbe is @ foreign country absolutely separate? | While the cousnmption of foreign wine bas fallea from an | a) government of Venetia by the Teaperor of Austria. ihe Baib, ber Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordioary For every increase of 1s. per gailon of spirits on the ex- | tions of our iniand revenue department These, sir, are | from you by @ narrower channel than that which | average of 6,725,000 gallons to 5 993,000 gilious thers ‘its To these three proposals the government of France, with Plenipotentiary tothe Emperor of the French; and | cite dnty there may be on wines which Js 6d. di the chief covenants on the partof England. Both pariics | divides you from Irelan¢; and while nature, or Provi- | been am increase in the mana‘a 3: se eathe . fee Cobden, Baq.,® member of the British Parlia. | an avpruentation pot exceeding 14d. per gallon; sad en reerve to themselves power to place customs duties aae¥ | dence rather, bas placed’ sou in the close: ‘proximity, | British wine—i mean that in the ban ay . oowm paar tr00p ig wa tee tae Coa foent wines wbieh pay 28. an augmentation not exceeding 234d. | on any foreign articles whatecever, provited they it bas given there two great countries such rsities of | ble manufacturers, and am rot referring to waa iamecarins arupeniin toe Degeed tenet comuilan / His Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Baroche, | per gallon. the same duties on the like articles of donmetic pro toil, climate, pro@ucta and character that I ¢o believe | for fraucuient purpores—ix madewery maven int fase commas Ca Oe wren age | avd Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Ho: ARTIC x. tion. They likew ce wo trest ened other on the ea’ you cen find, on the face of the world, (#0 other coun. | gugar and brandy. The duty paid 00 aes >eay a ce Lag Jor, &¢ ya member of his Privy Council, President of bis® Ibe two bigh coptracting parties reserve to themscives termane the most {ayored raticn® AL the ar ‘ries which are fo constituted for carrying on 8 bancfoial rechere? ee amounting to Te gotten ° ONTINTED ON TENTH PAGER