three or four—France, Spain, and Belgium, and perhaps one other.
Mr. Disraeli.
Majority for Bill, 61.
Mr. Disraeli assumed the privilege of the last
word, and, in reply, quoted the last report of the
Shipowners' Society, which has been already given,
intimating their readiness to discuss the policy of
amending the Navigation Laws on all points not
involving fundamental principles. He next took a
rapid review of the effects of repeal on the Australian
and other colonies, arguing that, if Canada
had not a Protective duty on corn restored to it,
as demanded by the Legislative Assembly, Canada
would be lost to the British Crown. "Woe to those
statesmen and to the policy which plucked this jewel
from the Crown of England! No shuffling change
in the Navigation Law could compensate the people
of Canada for what they had lost, and which they
felt so acutely." Mr. Disraeli then referred to the
papers from foreign Powers, arguing that they
were valueless, and, especially, that everything respecting
the United States was a tabula rasa, all that
we had heard last year having been obliterated as an
element of consideration. The last division on this
famous Bill now took place upon the third reading,
when the Ayes were 275; Noes, 214; Majority, 61.
