Attention will be powerfu...
Attention will be powerfulty sLtracted to the proceedings of persons interested in the silk trade against ihe petty finance scheme of the present y'ar. a petition, signed by no less than 23,000 per!o'nf of that body, who are averse even to the abrupt rewiisaion of the duty upon imported raw silk, but most averse to,the intr6 duction of-the French manufactured article. lThe situition of the CIANCELLOR of the Exonacuiza is at .pre"eUt,A singular,we should say anauiprecedented one, for a Finance iMinister. He oflErs a remission of taxation to; certain class of individuals-at least he proposes a measure by which the revenue is to be diminished-and yet they wltota he pretends to relieve, they for whose sakes he is content to suslain a loss, crowd ground to beg he would withhold his proffered boon, which,saythey,w il only involve themin ruin: and in the mean time all the rest of His Majesty's subj6cus, who are really panting for relief, and who umig4; be reliev- ed with the utmost eace ant) promptitude, are ihiMy, 4e glected and overlooked: their hufrdens are not to be touched, And this is not the case in one instanee only, but in two: the wol-dealers being. as averse to tie expmiriaot to be made upod dtr initerests, as the silk-mxnufactureqs to that by wbich their existeUce is to be put to the hazard. Notwithistanding the debate of last night, we scarcely think, that the C&aNCELLO'S Of the Eicaqtu,R -will persevere in his new propositimon Whv has he pot gone oin unburdening us of our heavy taeO AcknowleOdWg, as he does, that we need furtber relief, and profess, ing his readiness to' administer it, he could have found no difficulty in his course, had he not created Qqe hinseslf by offering a confused, puny, insufficient meaure, vheta solid, substantial, and intelligible ones were within reach. He is like a man who attempts to finesse with a.sinall OMd, when he has a sure winner in his hanid. e i4ould have played off the window-tax at. once, and the gamie w#o,i have been his own. This trieky fantastie mode of proceed- ing looks mnonstrously like playing booty with the enemy, and wishing to deceive his friends, the people,