Remarks Upon Recent Commercial Legislation

Excerpt from Remarks Upon Recent Commercial Legislation: Suggested by the Expository Statement of the Revenue From Customs, and Other Papers Lately Submitted to Parliament The Expository Statement of the Customs' Revenue' of the United Kingdom, which was presented to Parliament at the opening of the session by her Majesty's command, has attracted considerable notice from the public: and a desire has been ex pressed in the House of Commons by one of its most distinguished members* for something in the nature of a commentary upon that statement, which should bring clearly and definitely into view the leading results it may be found to establish. It is, indeed, obvious that a series of tables so complex and extended afford rather the crude materials of information to the general observer, than information itself. On account of my official cognisance of those changes of the law in 1842, which led to the preparation of the document in question, I am led to make an attempt of the nature I have described. And upon the whole I have preferred making it through the medium of the press, rather than occupying so much of the time of the House of Commons, engrossed as it is by the mass of other business, as would be requisite for the purpose of an oral exposition essentially involving many figures and details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.