We insert a printed lette...
We insert a printed letter which has been sent to us fioni Liverpool, on the Salt Duty generally, and on the ivery singular attempt made by a County Member to frustrate the concessibns of tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCUEQUER, and rob the peopie of the pronSised pled1ge that the tax should be totally repealed. Even in ordinary eascs it is muci moke advantageo ts to remOYe one tax entirely, than to remit the zame di liy tbe partial repeal or allev'iation of two or three others; because, by the abotiiloda of the single tax, the costly apparatus necessary for its cellection is abolished also: but after the partial repeal of two or more taXes, the apparatus attached to them remains, and is probably of liself equal to a no slight impost. Now, with respect to the duty on salt, the remii*a*rk Just made applies more forcibly than,perhaps, to any other article dfions1infip- tion: for the expense of the agency is in this case beyonid all bounds onerous, in proportion to the sum collected; and not the expense only, but the trouble and inconyve- nience to which persons are subjected who use much salf, and have a right to a (draw-baok. Salt also, it must be observed, is not a provision itself, but applhes to the cure or fabrication of all the other articles by whichl human IIfe is sustained; the increased consumption of which, therefore, must pay Government for the relinquishment of a duty amoUnting now only to the stun of 208,76JI., but fettering the subject to a degree that Cannot be estimated by alfy pecuniary calculation. It must further be remarked, that the continiuance of the taX is not only a violation of the promise of Ministers, but also of the new policy professed by them4of opening a free trade; for the tax, or rather the forms necessary for obtaining a draw-back, are more than equal to a port-duty upon our fisheries. Upon what principle, therefore,.a proposition for the re- tention ef the remaining salt-duty can be made, we are at a loss to conceive ; except it be simply that the moRey is wanted for the contemplated disfigurement and iinjury of Wodsor's hallowed pile: but if this sacrilege he to be Cemmitted, why might not Brobdignag-cottage be pulled down, and the materials sold to defray the expenses of the fresi architectural enterprise? TwoY royal residenca3 can- not be wanted so near each other.