ERRATA. Page 20, line 12, for "want" read "wants." Page 251, line 18, for "proportion" read "proposition." Page 302, line 14, for "in its doctrines" read "its doctrines in." CONTENTS. Mr. Deacon Hume consolidates the laws of the Customs-He Evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons-Mr. Huskisson-Manchester Chamber of Com- Duties on timber-An essay by Mr. Deacon Hume on the same Mr. Deacon Hume retires from the Board of Trade-Resides at Reigate-Sir Robert Peel's request often complied with- Mr. Hume succeeded by Mr. Macgregor The former suggests the appointment of a Select Committee on the Notions on biography-Mr. Disraeli quoted-Sir Robert Peel's 270 Difficulties-Exertions-Mr. Hume's soheme for life insurance for the working classes-His usefulness-His unostentatious Parallel between Mr. Hume and Mr. Clarkson-David Hume- His Political Discourses Forestalling and regrating · Remarks of Lord John Russell-Free Trade doctrines of English, not of French origin-Mr. Hume's long-continued exertions-His caution-Application of principles-The Anti- Corn Law League-Mr. Cobden-Sir Robert Peel's advances -The opposition he encountered-Free trade, at first, not a party question-Sir Robert Peel's statement-Mr. Gladstone quoted-Corn Laws repealed-Benefits resulting-Navigation Laws repealed-Reply to questions proposed in 1858 by the Ir was not until this volume was printed that the Author met with the following passage, referred to at the twenty-fourth page. "The task (of consolidating the Customs' laws) was of great magnitude, but we did not shrink from it. I am free to admit, that we never could have succeeded in our undertaking without the assistance of a gentleman in the service of the Customs, a gentleman of the most unwearied diligence, and who is entitled, for his persevering exertions, and the benefit he has conferred on the commercial world, to the lasting gratitude of the country. In the performance of this duty we had innumerable difficulties to encounter, and battles without end to fight. And now, sir, in one little volume which I hold in my hand, are comprised all the laws at present in existence on the subject of the management and the revenue of the Customs, of navigation, of smuggling, of warehousing, and of our colonial trade, compressed in so clear and yet so comprehensive a manner, that no man can possibly mistake the meaning or the application." Mr. Hume's volume "is the perfection of codification."-HUSKISSON. |