8 MAY 1841, Page 2

Debates ant( Vrortainas in llatliament.

REDUCTION OF DUTIES.

In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord SANDON announced, that on Friday he should move a resolution which would give the House an opportunity of pronouncing an opinion on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's contemplated change of the Sugar-duties.

Sir ROBERT INGLIS intimated, that he would take an opportunity of ascertaining the sense of the House as to the propriety of bringing into the country or any of its dependencies slave-grown sugar.

On Wednesday, Sir GEORGE CLERK, for Lord Sandon, stated the terms of the resolution which the latter would move before going into Committee of Ways and Means on the Sugar-duties " That, considering the efforts and sacrifices which Parliament and the country have made for the abolition of the slave-trade and slavery, with the earnest hope that their exertions and example might lead to a mitigation and final extinction of those evils in other countries, this House is not prepared (especially with the present prospects of the supply of sugar from the British possessions) to adopt the measure proposed by her Majesty's Government for the reduction of the duty on foreign sugars." Lord Joint RUSSELL said, that in the event of the House not going into Committee on the Sugar-duties, and Lord Sandon's resolution being put from the Chair, he should move another resolution, the terms of which he stated on the next evening " That it is the opinion of this House that it is practicable to supply the present inadequacy of the revenue to meet the expenditure of the country, by aludicious alteration of protective and differential duties, without any material increase of the public burdens: that such course will, at the same time, promote the interests of trade and afford relief to the industrious classes, and is best calculated to provide for the maintenance of the public faith and the general welfare of the people."