The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-02 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROM OF COMMONS —FRIDAY, FEB. 1. rimearsazas use the elate at 4 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Tan PLATS Tacna —By Sir R. H. INGLIS fun the hihabitests of Barb e d,,.s, signed h e t h e m ehap, by a asaabaa of :rupees and unieter of different deseesisetieses pro. pervert, pleat re, and lnhourers of Atrium dessest, IMF platting Of tit* non futtlintent by the plasters of Cubs, Loco Rico, and the 13r..site„ a the treaties which bad bees envred tato by then with this country; and preying the buss to eilopt senates to prevent the as. Suisse. of • legalieed slave trade. Ordered tit lir upon the Ode; Sk E. N. BURT l ON from the inbabetaste Kingstown, Janina. 'Wild by eeriest doers `s. The petition staid that the free C 0:J tee of Britain are easels to uniesee with Cuba sad Bend ia the peoducties of sour, so keg es those erantries onness• to Malone their pease with iseportatiAlsof Airless *bees. Tag prey that sesanure ate) be saes to compel the 11;111,11% of lb, treaties already made with this country ; 11; ey Hr. BRIGHT. fru the Presbyteries soegrgatioa of in the pariek or St. Mary's, is the Woad oChunalos, rioting the buss Iv estate the treaties with Bruit F; its for tbe leppersisa of thee slue trade. AusictLTetu. DMITILINS.—By Mr. CHRISTOPB ER, I treat unny. netility, sad formers in Ltecolitshiie, aimed to et a public meeting at Lincoln, at whiob Iron MOW to !Wilily thoneand persons were prima. complatning of ' urceitural discus, deeleritig that the agricultural interest bed, Is the opinion of the petitioner, been uafdrl)l dusk with by the ligielsture. and praying that the leg Multi impose each fdr ..n4 reassn.ble duties on fenigs septissientel reduce, es widald sedge Eulisit Ilerkilltlll4lllll lettewtgysstsq with them in their ows markets ; Mr. HAMIL TON, the Coact, of Dun, to the sues effect. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND THE CONVICT BTBTEM. Mr. ADDEILLET prearnt;elWeiltfon agreed to at a pulbite meeting at Cape 'Poem and .used by 4,17 l meow, eon. pl.ialau of uk. mien is dawn of Sept 154% under which ;k4l warble were seat to that *deny, at the nth of polluting it ; .ad replay tSe house to promote the revosation of that own. Item were two other petitions of a similar Ware one from the iababitaats of Port Slistbetb, ia the eastern pr of South Antes, the other from the eolatnirionees atd oaks sat the anualeipality of Caps Toes. The hoe. member wished to hear from the Under Secretary to. the CJl,tniee whetter or not the order in council referred to had hers retched I Mr. HAWES replied that it bed ►es revoked. Mr. ADDEBIZY wished also to know whether the con vict ship :Peptone was still off the Care, a•sd what was its ds+•instien ; els if there were say troth is the rumour that Sts Harry ilialth had boa reasised. Mr. HAWES WI as order bad been mat oat that the N..ynne e►eold proceed to Van Diet:ivies Land. There was no tossadatton lot use rumour mentioned by the hon. ger •lemaa. NOTICES OF MOTION. SLAYS TIZADE —Mr M. GIBBON gave notice on behalfl of Mr. Hatt that on bander wet he would submit a me., tam tweeting the shre trade in connexion with the repasts of the commiturcs of 1318-1849. ITaLIAN Roorotra —lir. HUME said on Monday ant he would oak her Majesty's ministers whether they intended to lay on the table t. y papers respee:ing the ',total at Malta to melee Italian refugee% Yon BALLOT.-51r. H. BERKELEY, on an early oppot• Unity, to move for Inv' to being In a bill to the adoption of the trillst in the election of niensban of parliament. COnirt EXPINDI7rII.-02 the noun of Mr. FERWEN, the kl owing addrean wen ordered—Addrein Ur return of the abinacts of the recounts of the 'even' e..unty triaisinre in England and Wales for the yearend. kg \Whitlow, 1548, and Ilichaelthas, 1849 (in a eimaar form to the return presented and ordered to be printed by the Howe of C-mtz.ins on the 4.h day of May, 1849, Patin. nisatary Paper, NJ. 260). Address for return showing the number of g-lice constables in each county, or division of a county, in England and Woks, under the Let 2 and 3 Vic., C. 91, distinguishing each elan or denomination, and the rate of payment =ell to each constable ; including also a nines in the runner of polies constables stationed in inch pry unions division in said counties, with the sun and r. , pulation of said divines, and the amount geld to the county polies rats by each division ; together with an ea count, in detail, of the motel items of expenditun fog the years 1643 and NEW WRITS. A new writ was ordered to be Issued for the election of • sattaber for the borough of Colchester, in the room of fia George U. Smyth; and elm ooe fur the election of a member fee the borosgh of Windsor, in the room of Lord Hay—the rtpresentation having become vacant in both cuss through the acceptatze of the Chiltern Ilan &Wt. CONVEYANCING COMMISSION. Mr. HEADLAII wished to know whether the commis- Mown on the reiietration of conveyances were likely to snake their reput ? Sir G. GREY had hoped that it would be presented bw fare that time. He had Ma several communications on the sub. , e,l with the Muter of the Roths. the ebairman of the Commisaime, who had toll him that the report was in pre. paratim, and wall be ready for presentation at an early SESSIONAL ORDERS. TLe SPEAKER then read the emeisseal orders of last maim, disposing of them ser.atim. On striving at the par ti near order which prohibits the bringing forward of amend ments on the order of the day, Et ME moved the postponement of the clause, which prohibited en ansenilmint bein4 moved upon the question of the orlon of the day. His object was a:platted by the hon. mishit to be the restoration of the popular privileges of that assembly, which had been encroached upon by the chis-zes efiret - d two years sines, when the country was in great mann placed at the mercy of ;government as to the time when questiors of public importance were to be brought *a for diongisioa. Alter a miarelleneons conversation, in the course of which End J. RCSRELL and Mr. Baornaarox spoke la favour of the extet:ap method of artnamag the bushiest of the house a dirdioa took plum, and dm motion of the hon. member for Mon:roes was tiegatived by a majority of 151 to 81 votes. The risottos was thea agreed to. The remaining semioaal orders were agreed to. ADDRESS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE ON LORDS COMMISSIONERS' SPEECH. The Marquis of GRANBY, in addressing the louse, said that he should cooing hmself entirely to the paragraph of her Mests's S,mels to which the amendment bad been directed. lie thought it would be imporei'sle for bis hon. hind, the member for Laurin, sad those who entertained his views, to agree to the paragraph in the Speech of Her &Nest, without moving en amendment. That paragraph stated, that " Her Majesty has great satisfaction in ma 'Mulatto( yea on the Improved condition of comma and manufactures. It is with regret that her Mejesty has ob served the complaints which in many parts of the kingdom bays promded from the owners and occupiers of lead. Her Mikity greatly laments that any prison of her subjects should be suffering distress. But it is a source of sincere gratification to her Majesty to whams the increased enjoy ment of the necessaries and oomforh of life which cheapness red pieoty have bestowed upon the great body of her people." Now,whern it was remembered that complaints did not proceed soisly hoes the occupiers and owners of land, it seemed that there was an intention on the part of her Majemy's ministers to insult the large bid, who complained. Bat what did they bear from the boo. mover of the address lest night? What wee the comment be pve to this passage ? He said, with a sneer, I thick that any ezpremion of our sympathy in favour of the swam and occupiers of the had is sere to receive • reedy espouse. Now, he (the Marquis of Granby) said that he beeMved that the distress of the owners and occupiers of land would receive the sympathy of the member of this house, and not only of this house, bat of the country, not only for themselves, bat because every thinking man knew that they could not be distressed without the labourers being distressed also. It had bees admitted by the only member of the government who had yet spoken. that the labourer was suffering. His right boa. friend admitted that there was dishess in the agricultural districts, and he said that that distress mainly hll upon the small tenant tamers; that they were the men who felt it most severely ; and he believed that was correct. But allow him to remind the hon. member, and to remind the house, of the large number of them tenant taxmen. Aqui hint to remind them that the tenant fanner' were equal to every male above twenty years of age employed in manufactures in this country; that they were • class that had ever been very loyal to their sovereign; that they were essentially belonging to the middle elm of this country. Allow him to remind the house that Uwe' mainly through the existence of this dm of men that we had been, through Almighty Providence, saved from those comnbions that had ove rth rown the constitutions of other ematries. He told him to remember that on them, and that immediately, the stability of this country depended. He thought that in looking at the wellbeing of the labourirg elmes is this country, there were two things that must be takes fate consideration • yea mut consider, not only the sip arse of th e necessaries of Ufe, the Mimi of food, and the cheapness of things whisk they imai to purchase, but you must also consider the magemt it the wages. The setricultanl labourers by far outnumbers& Seel engaged in msnufectarea and other pursuits. At the pint woman, by your legislation the agricultural labayser we. worse off than be was previous to the tntroduaties of lies trade useemuses. There =John* • reduction la Ye pries of bread, but those who were employed at Musa wages were worn off than they wore before. It wm set only th ese who were employed bat these who were set employed. (Hear.) The right be.. g --- hed skid se the .at Improvement la esimse ant meashetama Na body rejoiced I. that Miami lie than he (Lied Granby) did, but be Wien' Yet the returns it n width the right hon. radleseade speed) was reeasdnog b e taken with some quilled's& Mask had been sod et the leamenee itemised la teak ef Sheffield. New, le held la his hand • letter whiek be had aim' from a easaistises is that town, whir& solsies& the sin Mali of ileMek, without say mini he de rased isehledre imps. lik eisisysat add, it undealitilly di bed beim agent Imre= it i the lei 0 Midi hr Ss is issues Whim Chimes, sad the musth after, but lie added That the ia miesames seamed in' entirely to the Maio Dada Large einhad some la ism Saida Ailed'', thaValled lie, bads ea se hid bees 11111, at se hiss la des sed al is sl is she !1 lbw maa WPM It id& be rus Sat eat" I matheat of Sipe was hat Serrl u risr P ikileth serfftill the i r i lliming le MOM* MO 11 Is the midi d Auselsciad is aim Antdpelsgo. Immense orders Lad also Wm received from California, bet that was only temporary, sod Ide ewes pondent macluded by stating that he feared a gegedgmen minim, such as madly followed every shed bile of Mailing prosperity. Us hod written to his sli=dielot ' again, to asCtrtSlD whether there bad Wei any recent improvement la the hems hie alswer was that so far from there befog ony thsaa eng • marked falling off is the or the Mal emblem In the article of fire stoves, eneentially as snide Of home demand, there had been • method filling off in the emmnt of orders. (Protectionist cheers.) Hs withal to make the hoes, fully aware of the importance of this here trade, which present legislation went so ruthlessly to destroy. He band that, taking fte retorts of the cotton trade tor the Years 1820, '3O, '4O, '45, '46, '47, '4B, sad ' , the total amount of cotton mannfratored was' 442.777,8741D5. The hotel exports f r those years were, British poetised.= Included, 185;213,04116., the total of I 'sports brine 136,337,96511., and of experts to British colonies 46,883,186 the. ; while at the more time the arouse consumed by the home market was 257.632,95911., or the house and colonial markets together 303,426,3251 be. (Protectionist cheers.) He thou ght therefore, that the int penance of the home trade to the co tton market could not be overrated. (Hear.) Dot supposing the home trade to be his than it was, he had heard no an seer to the assertion of his kosouroble Mead the member for Liaooloshire, that j ibe he.. trade was pro. Meted by a ditty of 10 per sear. (Cheers.) Ho wasted to know why no person had iris at to contradict that state. atent, or U it wee admitted why an equal amount of protec lion was withheld from measles's. (Protectionist cheers.) How different in value wee the home trade, now completely ander year own control, and the foreign trade, which might be withdrawn from yea at any moment. That such a contin racy was not impuesible might be inferred from the report of Mr. Meredith, the American Secretary to the Teraaurl, at least so far es regarded our trade with the Doke.' States He knead that the total valise of our exports was 33,819.7861 and of this amount 10,974,1611; went to the Unites' States, being me-third of the whole. Sepias* them, that the Dented States were to carry the plan of th eir seaway into issecutimi what would bemuse of ore American trade ? Why on Alain! of our foreign trade would be at ones ent off. He /eared he w s detaining the hots a (Lou'! cries of " Hoar, hear.") His endeavour had been to stow that the distress which now affected the segriceltoried, wool 1 000 D estend to the other classes of the commanity. (Hear hear.) The agriettlturista could not yew endure Ouse burdens which whilst they had some compendium in the shape of the protection which was extended to their produce they bore wiltiegly, (Hear, hear.) They said if free trade is to be the order of, the day let it be fully and impartially carried wt. (Chiron from the free traders.) He ahoteld on the present occasion give a hearty support to the amendment of kis hoe. friend. (Hem). Bat (continued the noble lord) I warn her Majesty 'a government, the: in spite of evarhing, in spite of the threats of the Anti-Corn-law League, sad the indifference of ministers themselves, who are aioptior the views and promoting the objects of a:ciess of men who, it:is my belief, desire to undermine the institutions of the eons. try—(" Oh," a laugh, and ctemrs)—in spite of the indaua dons se to oar motion, conscious of the integrity of those motives, sad oe th, justice of our cause—fully (=premed with the equity, the humanity, the patriotism, and the nationality of our principles, we will coalmine to taproom them &gal It all who may offer opposition, confident that an ealightoned public opinion will in the end &clue in our favour. (Loud cheers from the Protectionist benches.) Mr. E. DENISON, who was but imperfectly heard, was understood to say that the question under consideration was not whether protection should be rc-established, but whe ther certain words shou'il be introduced into the address, describing the difficulties under which sericulture laboured. If that declaration were not to be followed by legislative action, it would merely create inconvenience, and by holding out false and delusive hopes, prevent that attention to their l evel position en the pan of the aeri.ultniiits which was :=lBlto be enabled to meet tale circumstances of the t (heer, beer.) He presented, however, that it was intended by this amendment that the house shanld pledge itself not only to reconsider its measures, but speedily to reverse that policy on which, of late years, it hod proceeded. It was most important both to the landowners and the men piers that this question should be finally determined at the earliest possible moment, and that their muds should no Boger be diverted by delusive hopes from that attention to the improvement of the land, which was necessary to their mutual interests. (Hoar, hear.) Now, wider what circum stances were they mat for the discussion of this question ? He believed many of the cobwebs wtich had obscured it had of late been swept away. At a late meeting in Lince/nahire, presided 010 r by the bon. gentleman oppodte (Mr. Christo inher), it was endeavoured to be shown that free trade was jurious to all classes, but the hon. member's mileages, who moved the amendment totbe address, had admitted that commerce and manufactures, and the general interests of the country apart from agriculture were in a prosperous state. No doubt the read= of the agriculturists and of the owners and occupiers of land was one of great difficulty at the pre sent moment. But how was that difficulty to be met ? lie resided in a county bounded on the one side by the most im portant county in England, ant on the other by Leicester shire, and had observed the manner in which the landlord. and occupiers of land had of late been umpired. Instead of endeavouring to improve their land and increase its puduct ivenew—give encouragement and confidenosjto their tenants, and find employmect for labourers—he found them attends, at great public meetints, where the object appeared to be to aggravate the distress and difficul.y which really existed, to promote acerbity of feeling, and to indulge (as, he wet sorry to say, was too often the case) in personal invective. (Cheers from the ministerial side of the house.) The noble lord (Granby) wu aware of the partiality of his countrymet for a grievance—(hear, liar)—that they liked to be told they were vary adly off, and the noble lord was ever ready to earn the cheers of his agricultural audiences by Indulging that pecu liarity. (Chun.) The noble lord told Its hearers that there was but one hope for than, and that was in the re iteration of protection; and under this assurance they were content to rest quiet, in the exputatim that protection must speedily be achieved ; well the noble:lord would, in a day or two, have to tell them that the battle of protection had again been fought and lost. (Cheers) What then must be done ? It was not for him to suggest what would be the natural answer of the tenant farmers to this comma niceties. Be did not like to allude to a sutdeet se Stikine. (" Bear, hear," and • laugh.) Bat speaking as • landowner himself (and one of those landowner, whom land net being of a very good desert tan, must suffer at Wet much as any—(hear lusar)—he could not shot his ern W the bet that be tint be prepared to submit to a redthethin et theme. (Cheers.) One part of the SHMOdislatlimesis to speak about local burdens, but they must lemember that those local burdens were in &great mums impseed by themselves and under their own control, and if these landoweers who were magistrates would turn their attention to the matter of the management of the funds raised for keel parries, they would find that the espendi. tart might in 'most eases be greatly reduced. In his own eounty, on a recent occasion, be had found by instituting • strict exualtatins, that out of 130 items charged in the ac counts, 97 were illegal, and could not be supported by nay existing law. (Bear, hear.) In condemns, he begged to say that he had never given a vote with ss much confidence both in its justice and its necessity, an the vote he should give that tight spinet the amendment. (Cheers.) - - _ le.rd NORREYS could not but feel that the statements made of the probability of the imposition of a moderate fixed duty on corn were raising expectations in the minds of the agriculturists which wen domed to be disap points& (Hest, hear.) He saw no other hope of agricul ture] relief than In such a diminution of taxation as might be effected by a wise, prudent, and economic arrangement of the pubs expenditure. (Cheers.) That was a ones. tion they maid bereaffne have ample opportunity of die ethnic mil be mid me se advantage in deputing from that theme ef prneseiliag which was usual on such occa sions es the peeesat. (Hear, hear.) Capes "'ALBAN lama be should be able to satisfy hen gendeme• en bath Marna the house that he bad some mien fee shimming them ea a subject, which, personally, wee set to him. He had been long anxious to mid the titles of public life, but having talon the step to come iste pediment for a most independent borough, he comaidered Skis ditty on the present occasion, in consequence of the tura the debate had taken, to refer for a moment to the county of Lincoln. He was the only mem. her within that county who bad bun returned 1 to that home on free trade principles; and he admitted 1 that the amendment which had been imposed, couplf d with the remarks made upon it by the hee. mover, bad placed gentlemen like himself, who were emnected closely and intimately with the agricultural interest, in some little difficulty with regard to the vote he Mudd bare the honour to give for the first time la parliament. (Hess.) He would commence by saying thatif lektook, as he did, his place upon the rnelei berths aa • free-trade member, he was tot di in yield the hon. gentlemen on the opposition aide of the me the exclusive right of arrogating to themselves the title of being the far mers' ifriends. (Hear, hear.) It had hem as mimed by these hon. gentlemen that her Majesty's government and their supporters were indifferent to that distress which there was no on-Won prevailed In the agricul tural districts of this country. Now if he sup that that imputation was founded in justice, L a lloald have no hesitation, from the respect he felt for that elm of the subjects of the empire, the landowners and occupiers of bad, to rote against her Majesty's minhtus ; bet so far from that being the case,the believed that there we. no disposition to tun • deaf ear to the statements of hon. gen tlemen opposite, made on the part of the agricultural interests ef this country, and that her Majesty's government had exer cised a wise discretion in not adopting such Mena as were new d to be intreduath into the address. (Hear t hear.) Pr Zil se hon. friend the member for South Lin (fib J. Trollops) bad last eight made come re m• elts, In many of which he (Captain Pelham) cordially eceseurred. That hes. gentleman had addressed the house In a me and NASSOW which reflected credit ; and, sharing se he (Captain Pelham) did is some respects with the opi. aims dim expememl, he felt it ineumbent on him to state she* why be we all prepared to vote for the amedmegl lie could set beget that on the opposite aide et the beam NS those who were in the habit, not of eatbatiesillwousives with mica that the agricultural in- Mean were in iblesse, and that Om sight tots alleviating samara pined M amble than to get through the &W -ealthes of that distrese, hat that it wee and dettireitle to retain as a spasm of preen s. sir the sale- UNION of Vises istewas. Tbseelbre, with erarf rawest fir lea iselleesea opposite, be viewed with ms Ip ales the werfez i e: t : eateadessat. y's Wined that if arseedel la tat su rest en the Want valublic th 2 vitti esaleat thaseesives with sells eslams Set emidiasat, belt that they walla eadasosar to de Sea white they arlasablad we aseassery kr the pesmerity of the baud Menet mid the iaterest of the wawa at large, asaarly,V. ipe bask le that system of pro- Medea which had beta alutemcal blle giserel own of 1 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1850. the satiny. (Cheers from the minheeidiste) He Co.- I wised that the landed Interest had great isms ts af ela was raser in which, is am mss% Ihey s a l t: Ho was not drat lid hes . gestlesse led* eaglets .et the remand is wbM h the own iddbw t a d ; bat wadi I :ll: sa went bare b t; c reLlter mab la t big dna leall diet the generahen. , Vat Wria of the mufti hat Ikea 'attired the Moseyed alasere.) There wee we meature.whieh be of gnat service to the agrltsitsral Interest—he alluded to an alteration of the law d settlement, which wesid greedy affect the candle* of Se agricultund la beim aad occupier of land. He sonteaded that the time had arrived whoa the total 'lodides of the law of settlement was demanded b the fewest, of the working tires.., and mere y by the employer of the agrisaltarl bower, in order to carry oat tau mope, system of waltire doa which ought to take place. He west farther, and mid that then w. ru great didlealtir L the way of landmass, in this - country la trivia( That eneeinge meet. by Se application of ektli, lad a, end capital, to thesaltintlea of which time wets open to put k pekoe by the ministerial Aloof the Imam He Defined that In a Mb= 1111.0111“111 similar to those adopted to Militate the of repity In Ireland would bs neces sary also in anstry. met is giving Ms support to pro poaitions Wended fir the relief of the agricultural interest, her ever weld he prepared to advocate say measure which, while benellthig one elan, would do inlaid's to ether Weesse. (Hear, hear.) His oblivion to the corm law had bees this, that it was unjust to other dance—(chum from the mi. nisterialista)--and, that being nejust to other clause, it must be projae'irdil to that interest for whose behoof it was more particularly enacted. He must observe, also, that though be wa• about to v as with hon. gentlemen who had been lately addressing large cithstimeacies in the north of England, yet that, in hie °piano, the way to treat the agricultural ceases was not to use amass towards them, or to tee lineage which night be of an initatieg character. Its He bad low HAW the seconds upon which wouldits veto be recorded, and he had to thank the house Ike the Mad and patient attention wi:h which this, hie first giber, bad been neeived. Mr. CHRISTOPHER raid he 'Wald have been much mere Paddled than he was if the Ina gentleman who had just resumed hie seat had followed is the wake of his noble relative (Lout Yarborough), and defended the principle of protection. Hu obliet in rising war to emote the right hon. gentleman, the Chaaeellor of the Exilwaner, and other hon. gentlemen oa the Wait/arid siie dabs knee, that if they thought the great qatetiest of free treats and protection was to be brought to a final Issue by the mae new te be riven, they were inestgelevensaly mistaken. (Ghent from the pro tectionists.) Be made this amertiva in order that it might be kite+, cat of doors, and that those who held the opinions he meintehted might not suppose that this question had been brought before the house with the view of *siding the con flicting opinion which prevailed, but that it bad been forced on by the austner in which the agricultural interest had been tnated. It was no dine upset e to her Majesty to say that he and *then complained of royal speech, for the speech was not that of her Majery, bet of her Majesty's ministers. (" Hear, hear," from Col. Sibthorp.) Hon. gentlemen opposite seemed to suppose that her Majesty in the 'perch sympathised with the distress in the agricultural diotricts, bet this was not the ease, for the existence of that distress was not event acknowledged. (Hear, hear.) He bad lately witnewed the greatest distress, arising mainly from free trade measures, in the county which he had the honour to represent, Lincolnshire. That county had lately assembled, on a requisition presented to the sheriff, and signed by the principal tenant farmers, t t express its views of them mea sures. 20,000 tenants and labourers were present, and those unable t, attend assembled at the various railway sta tic= along the line of country, and cheered the train as they pawed, thus showing their seattiseesace in the roues adopted by the leaded interest. (Hear.) He believed it would be found from the poor law returns that the pauperism of the county of Lincoln had increased within the last year to a very alarming extent. The boa. member recapitulated the items of cost and profit in en estate belonging to himself, chiefly consisting of land so reclaimed, and ssid the change of prices within the last year had cane rted an annual gain of 2171. into a Mos if riot. It might he very well for honourable gen tlemento say, and he did not quarrel with them for holding the °pinks, that the importations of corn were for the benefit of the country at large, awl therefore the apiculture' interest must put up with it it might be all very well for them to show that this was (or the benefit of the couatry at large, but he wanted to know what answer these morons could give who held out to them in future better prospects, and a return to more prosperous times, when it was admitted that these enormous importations must take place. He heard nothing from his right h so. friend, um Chancellor of the Exchequer; had be hold out any reason to suppose that they were to hare more proeporous times, that they were to have better prices for agricultural produce ? And if they were cot to have better prices, if these who held extreme opinions upon this subject were to say that the agricultural interest malt suffer for the benefit of the manufacturing districts, then, he said, the statements he put before this Mew would be realised, and, instead of having thow scenes of misery and famine which had been witnamed in Inland In the union of Kilrualt, he ventured to say that, unless they were to have some substantial relief by legislative means—he did not pretend to come here as a prophet—bat he ventured to my they would have the scones of Kilnish netted here. In departing on this occasion from the usual course of at quiets:ins in the address, they had been compelled to adopt that course by the condition of the agricultural interest. For himself, if he stood alone in the house, he could not acquiesce in the statement that the agricultural interest complained without reason. It was because he could not se quiet's in such a statement, sad because he believed that the present ',stem had inflicted a deep-rooted injury on agricaltan that would not be remedied unless they retuned back .0 the principle of legislation which they had abandoned, that be should vote for the amendment. Mr. J. T. M'CULLAGH said he wished to disclaim the imputatioa that had been thrown os that aide of the house, ' that they &stied the existence of agricultural distrees. The hoe. gentleman was muck better acquainted with the state of things in the agricultural districts in England than he (Mr. M'Culligh) wee, but the amendeneat proposed by the right hes. baronet contained the significiot words " especially Ia Inked," mid he thought he would perdue him for stating UM he hew the state of that country u well to the hcn. baronet did. If he were to be rather hypercritical upon time, ha might venture to surest that the hoe. gentleman had Ow a rather peculiar significance to the ten that was mete of the tenant farmer due in the work of agitation if ha did not misunderstand him altogether, he told them that the owners of land in his county lefties& ham beta, any part until they had obtained the SIMS of tholl tenant farmers to the requisition. That bad suseasded in England, but it was well ascertained that the gene wettest of annageneat had net anatuded en the other aide of the emu). They (sks prelistimiels) had asked for the l.dgmeat of the turned belied, and it had hum given against them. The hon. hugest who morsel the eenesdinent to the address spoke of the that had heat made under protection, and that land been drained and oulti. vested, but he would tell him that be found ahem under protection—be did not say in Sounnence of protection—but he wished to make a comperiese Ia order to show what w as the state of agriculture in the county of Galway in the year 1834, when they were enjoying protection. Out of 740,000 acne not only then, but down to the last year o! the exist ence of protection, not one in fear was able to produce wheat. He had chosen for inquiry those parishes which were most remote from each other. There was cue which he had felt it to be his duty to exudes cerefully and minutely, the ' only district in Inland where the Coercion Act of 1833 was then in operation —an sot pealed upon the allegation that such wee the discontent and distress prevailing in party of Ireland that crime had reached its highest point — and the enforcement of which was left In the discretion of the executive government. This was one of the places in whisk the Marquis of Nonnanby, who then bad the conduct of the Irish government, had thought it necessary to apply the act--a district about equi-distant from Galway, a ship ping port, and the Shannon—a place es little known the country ea any that mid be named—the parish of Killiney. In that tigrish it had been truly said that if all the broken days' worki were mat together, there was not employment for 100 men all the year round ; and that was what wee called espying proteetion. (Hear, hear.) One man daft said, " We grow the corn, but we are not allowed to eat it;" another, " We can rear, but we may ate est, the bout" another, "Everything that is reared and grown for fifty miles round goes to a folio market"—meaning the English market. (" Hear,' Ames, and laughter from the protectionists.) Ha eaereeed that cheer, _sad would tell the hon. mode ms. hem when presesiell that anything more foreign to the rifts sad hopes Si the Irish people could not be con. ' ceived than le mad them back to "the enjoyment" of pro tubas. (Ohms.) It was the worst and most tumble course that could be taken, If the object was to obliterate snit distinctions u he had alluded to. It was said the return to protection would enable the owners of the moil to borrow money more cheaply. No doubt, the period of protection wee on. of unparalleled enjoyment for those who lent and borrowed on mortgage ; but, besides those two elusee, every one declared that the pupils were growing worse and worse, that there was no chance of site. quate employment for the population, that the land—owing to factitious prioto—commanded a rent which people were unable to pay, and that, in a neighbouring country, labour was literally of no value at all. (Hmr, bear.) What was the alternative now proposed by the protectionists, based on other principles than that which had hitherto characterised OUT legislation ? The house was asked to circumscribe the poor law, so as only to give out-door relief in cams of great emergency—to undo the act of 1846--and to go back to protection. There was one body cf men in Ireland whose opinion on the misguides of the people wee moat valuable and entitled to the highest regard, because, though emeeisting with the middle classes of society, both be cows sad senetry, they wen not exclusively of one creed, party, or eft, het bekeZ a t a o all who had hitherto been considered the lamb= a in that country, who di ff ered from each ether ea one matters, but whose *Amide"ce and essaimlty ea OW subject was a pregnant sign of the dam, whisk MUM could mistake. Thonoble lordoppoefte ( Granby ) seemed le be esesedinsty uneasy as to the course likely to be baba Mime this country by the United States. It was a new to blffhear the government of the = INSll l Oates gaoled as an authority, and praised by hen. opposite. He had no objection to this; but was ono quality is which all would agree that that government Ins sot deficient—in taking very good eon of their own interests. The noble lord seemed greatly afraid of the threat thrown out by somebody—of a refusal to take wine ten Wiliam' wee* of oar manedisiares. It might be supposed from this that it was a matter of pm bertelkonos, free tholes or eagles, white led the people of the states to take eo largely of oar maafectaree. Bat bad they not, in rit• turn, a luge market for their agricultural produce ? (Hoar, boar.) We were cot la the habit of giving away our etanufeeturas, any um than they would give away their mile. As to the snide of raw cotton, he did not be. Urn it was in the pewit of a• goverment of the Ballad BMW, except by a total sad fundamental change in the oonsehatioa of the republic, to impose any ditty whatever on that article., Before that could b. &gut, it would be nemeary to change the opinion, not of a ats. jority may, bat of two-thirds or three fourths of the whole people. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BOBEftT PALMER', as re presenting a purely agri cultural county, supported the amendment, uneidering the words it prop' sed to add to the address, framed, as it was, of very great importance. He justified the calling of public meetings to ascertain the opinions of the clears interuted in the cultivation of the land, and the result proved that this was a tenant-farmers' anal labourers' question. T: .e cause of agricultural distress was obvious—it was the necessary consequence of the changes introduced since 1846; end the distress reacted upon small traders, whilst wages fall with the depreciation of neutraraing the advantage of cheap bread. He dls• putt , ' the ',nation, that the but test of the CCP dition of the labourieg claws wu the amour t given by way of pauper re lief; there w.s a distinction between pauperism and poverty ; the diminution of the former might co exist with mach dm tress amongst the better clams of the poor. He urged the various arguments in favour of the principle of protection, which was recognized in respect to other inter. sta whose claims were lets seas enable than thine of the farmer; and he insisted that ens of two courses must be tak-n—tither protection must, in itime degree, be rest.rsd, or the burdens if the airit unless' interest must be reduced. Mr. MUNTZ said that were he to cumuli his own opinion SP to the advisability of contiauieg the debate, he w t have remained in his seat, because lee could no: cat • ove tno use of debating a subject matter, the reality of which was admire' and acknowledged. (Hear, hear.) He wished to ask the peoectionist gentlemen—suppoeieg the government felt inelteed to reimpose a duty en foreign pro duce, how they were to tetrad, their steps ? (Hear, hear.) Ile defied them to retrace their at. pea Olen, hear.) The question was settled, and thou woo sought ter eretecti7n should seek it from another quarter and by other trues than government or governmental interferecee. (Hear, hear.) His object in rising was to ask a question of bon. gentlemen at the opposite sale of the house, in reterenee statements which tee ha: locoed put fel weed, but watch he could net comprehend, and which question w e, " shy should not agricultural produce advance la price ? (Hear, hear.) Very probably, some hoe. gentlemen would reir.em her that in 1846, when he vaned kr the abolition of protective, he said he d so because he conceived, by the abolition of tarot eclat' price inreality would not be re laced; and for that reason he voted for the repeal of the c ern laws. (Hear, h at.) Now, there bad been a great deal said on the fres trade side as to the state of commerce, and in creased prosperity of the country; but with all their bound preeptrity he should sty it was e. ono-sided pr .sperity. (Hear, hear.) He wished to know bow protection—so mach whited for by gentlemen on the other side of the hurt—was to be obtateed ; or, if attained, how the export trade of thee country was to exist? (Hear, heir) How could any man manufacturing for the export trade exist? (Hear, hear.) The protection they looked for torus protected themselves, therefore let theta not reek it, for they =Leta rest assured they could not obtein it, unles through a *ea of blood and cba'e, the idea of which it must be )earful to contempiete. (Rear, hear.) Whilst on the question of exports, he should notice an erroneous return made in the manufacture of zinc. (Laughter.) In the returns the article of mice hid been set down at 2,000 tons manufeetared, though tie well knew, and could show, that not 1,000 tons were manufactured in all Englani. Next, in reference to the article of bullion—let theta lock to the returns of 1847, when the exports of bullion were so great that the reduction in the price of menu &eland goods be came greater than was ever known previously; yet the result was that when the,o ertielea went eat of the country it had the effect of entering the bullion—•(hear, bear) — and even at present these goods were relatively lower than was ever previously known. The high price of corn would have a tendency to increase the price or wag 1, and conse quently of manufactured produce. That relatively high price, he believed, could be attained without protection ; and therefore the gentlemen who advocated protective could not, and, in his ceinion, did not deserve to succeed in their object, and consequently he should be prepared to support her Majesty's ministers. (Hear, hear.) Mr. IiERRIES and the gentlemen who sat upon the benches neer him found it irapossible to acquiesce in the language of her Majesty's erech with justice 'o them selves, or to those whose interests they represented. They felt that it would have been subserviency in them to allow the occasion to pass without formally declar ing such t) be the case, and he, therefore, rose to give his cordial assent to the amendment. As the debate had proceeded now to something near its ta ere ioation—a strung disposition having been manifested to close it that night—(hear, hear)—he would suggest to his (rienZa near him that the pro cut was not the occasion upon which it was tad:smoothly necessary for them to put forward all their force of argument in favour of the principles they main tained. (Laughter.) The right hon. gentleman then proceeded, rather inaudibly, to show that the stmistical state ments made by the mover of the a-luress in support of the assertion that the repeal of the navigation laws has already improved the shipbuilding trade, were not correely applied, and had been made use of unfairly. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had likewise boosted that the Bank of England in 1849 contained as mach as 15,700,0901. in gold. But he met that feet by another equally strong, namely, that before that great convulsion of 1847, which shook the mercantile condition of the country to i's foundation, the Beek of England contained the largest amount of gold ever kuowa 16,000,0901., be. beg 390,0001. mare then in the boasted year of 1819. It was admitted on all hands that there was great distress amongst the agricultural interest. (Hem.) The govern• ment admitted it, though of in a satlefectory manner ; awl the Chancellor of the Exchequer coupled himself by saying that the cheapness of food caused b 7 free trede had greatly improved and benefited all the other isterestsin the country. Now, even admitting such to be the fact it spoke little for the foresight of the government, who, during the debates on the corn laws maintained that the repeal of thou laws would not create such a fall in price as was then prognosticated, and as had since taken place. (Hear, hear.) Without then entering at length into the question of protection and free trade, he would observe that by protection they meant something very different frost; what some _ imagined they meant. It was assumed by their opponents that by protection they meant encourage ment, favour, and security for their own special advan tage. Now, he denied that such was the fact. By protection they. meant justice, and only justice —( hear , hear)—they asked soy no more, and while he knew not how strong might be the courage of hon. members in reference to that subject, he must say that when such a body of men, when an interest which weeded the whole of the United Kingdom, which was the foundation of all other wealth and the sub stance; of the country,' asked far justice, justice must ultimately be conceded. (Hear.) Hs would not imitate thou who had instigated these changes by dealing in threateniogs in the presence of assembled multitudes—(hear. bear)—and telling those multitudes that so and so should ba done. (Hear, hear.) The honourable gentleman whet spoke last had told them that if they were to at tempt to return to protection, the commerce of the country would suffer in consequence. Why, lire years ago the export had, of the country was even more fl oartsh• ice than at present. A larger quantity of manufactured goods was exported within a given period in ledi than was i6e cog exported within the same period at the present time; though in 1845 that corn law, the existence of which, the hon. m• Wier said, was incompatible with a flourishing export of British_ produce and manufactured goods, was still in operation. (Hear, hear.) He supported the amend ment, in order to indicate that it was the feeling of that side of the house that their claims should have been referred to in the royal speech in a different tone—that more regard should have been evinced for the agricultural hasn't, and that its connexion with the social prosperity should have been more clearly recognised. ()ear, hear.) The day must come, and that spey, when there would be a full consideration of the whole subject. An appeal must then ba nude to the judgment and the wisdom of the I. gislatnre, and, with temper and moderation, they could hardly fail to secure success. With these feelings, abstaining from imitat ing the .language of those to whom he had referred, but entertahung • respectful confidence in the returning judg ment and sense of justice,—the patriotism, prudence, and moderation of the howl., lie awaited the result. (Ckeen.) Mr. LABOUCHERE said there were one or two observations in the speech of tho right hon. gentleman who bad jut sat down which he was unwilling to pass over in silence. The right hon. gentleman had said that so far as the effect of the alteration of the navigation laws had yet been aseertainee it could not be asserted that the apprehensions which had been so well lently expressed on his own side of the louse as to the operation of the change on the shipping interest and on the mercantile community in general, would not be realised. He quite agreed that it would then be far too early for himself, or any one else, who had promoted the recent alteration, to boast of success ; hut, on the other hand, when challenged, as he had been by the right hon. gentleman he confidently appealed to the repre sentatives of the shipbuilding and the sbipowning port of this country to declare whether it were true that the paraly sation of the industry of the dockyards of this country had yet resulted from the measure of last session. (Hew, bear.) The subject was one which he had examined with the great est care; and never had he made an assertion with more oonfidenee—and he challenged contradiction on the part of any mercantile men, or any representative of a ges-port, in that house—than when be said that the whole butane of this conatry in connection with ship-building and ship-own ing was in a most satisfactory state. Ile believed it to be a feet that there were at least as many ships building in this country at that moment as there had been at any period daring the last twenty years. A larger and • better &seri tion of vends was being built. He had received a eownfeatlon from a person of the very highest authority is Noway, which stated that with regard to the fears that were entertained of the competition of the ships of this country with Baltic vessels, although seve ral orders had been sent to Norway from this country to take up Norwegian vessels, not one had been chartered for the l on g voyage, for it was found that the Norwegian shipowner could not sell his Tugela la long voyages at so cheap a rat* se it could he done in this Gauntry. The same gentlemen, a man of the very greatest experience fa Nirrll L slsied that he was convinced that the Nerwegian Wei bon RR Mg Magas meet come to this country to he appered, to ban thsh boats put in, and other services m eowed. He would not say mere upon this subject, for the hetes would have ether and fitter opportunities for discus leg it. There was another point which had been raised at many of the meetings which had been held in various parts of the Country by gentlemen connected with the landed interest. Several oldies* gentlemen had stated that favour of same sort wu still shown to the mutafaaturers of the country which was net shown to the agricultural ntereMs. It was quite true that there were still some VCIF tiges of the old protection system remaining, but they applied equally to the 'manufacturing and agricultural interests, Any gentleman who would take the trouble to look into the tariff would find that the articles of manu facture to which protection was still afforded were pro• tooted only by ave:y low duty. What were the articles of msnufactutts which were still protected? Thegreat article that still remained protected was silk. (Ilene hear.) Un doubtedly on silk there still remained en important protec tion; it was protected by e duly of 15 per curt , which produced a revenue of 224,0001. The other articles co pro. nand were gloves, artillend Bowers, and several others of minor importance. He would °burro here that the great staple articles of the manufacture of the country— woollens and cottons—were absolutely and completely unprotected. (Cheers.) With the exteption of silk, there was not one single article protested which was not the produce of artisan. employed in making up manufactured goods of a secondary kind—(heat), or articles the produce of a clue of persons for whom great public sympathy had been excited. He alluded to Anode labour. The duty on artificial Bowen was 25 per cent., and it produced a protection of 15 per cent. on the labour of the needloweraen, a class of the community necessarily from general reasons one of the most distressed and suffering, but up to the present moment it bad enjoyed nearly the greatest amount of protection. Nor was the produce of agriculture entirely excluded from protection. It was not because he denied the existence of distress that he was opposed to the amendment which had been moved to the address, but because be was perfectly satiefitel that the coarse which it proposed to take would only lead to delusion. (Cheers) He hoped that that distr..' was bat temporary, U. did not wish to enter into any unnecessary calcula none or arguments upon the subject, but he would say that it was inc.nceieable to him how any i) stem which pro moted the commerce, the manufactures, the trade, and the general interests of the country, should not have a similar e fleet upon the landed interests. It was abetted to Pay that the commerce of the country would flourish, and that it', fields would fade—that its commerce and trade would be ex tended, and that its agricultural interests would languiee. He looked to ward with the most perfect conlideece to very dif ferent peep, e.ts to the agriculture of the c..untry, and he believed the: there would very speedily be a censiderable amendment it the situation of tee landed interest. He t. r one did nct doubt that the house would persevere in the commercial policy lefties had recently been introduced. in the firm and 'cement conviction that it ICJI the oelyeiossible mode of obtaining general security awl prosperity. (Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI rose to support the ameedment which had been moved by his hon. friend the member for Lincoln shire. He IVA sure that tha noble lord would not think it disrespectful in him if he did not enter into aey comment on more than one portion of the address in answer to the speech trent the throes. That addend' contained notices of subjects of the very greatest interest and importance, on many of which ho would have ventured, untie, other cir cumstances, to =guiles some information from her Majeety's ministers; hut, cerniderieg the hour of the night, the general tone of the debate and the anxiety felt, he believed on both sides of the house, that the question should be settled th et night, the noble lord would permit him to confines his remarks to one point is the eddresr. Ile (Mr. rseli l believed that there was no question in the house at that moment, whatever might flute been the case preview te the commencement cf the debate on Thursday evening, • hat what was celled agricultural distress prevailed. They had had, after some ecejelcel expressions, wit nesses from both sides of the bane of coasidereble intelligence and intormatioil, who had attested that fact, the last was tee President of the Board of Trade He (Mr. Disraeli) thought be might state without exieg geration tbat agricultural distress prevailed in Eneland ; is Scotland agricultural dimity at the least, and he supposed he must leave for Ireland agricultural desolation. (Cheers.) He thought that no better evidence was required of the existence of this distress and of its cause than was given by the bon. gentle men who moved the address. That bon. gentleman bad frankly in formed them that he had no deem that a sum amounting I almost to an eighth of the national debt had been taken from the ce.ieultural classes, sad taken from them within a very brief peeled, by the influence of legislative enact ments. (Cheers.) He was net going to sneak either of the wisdom cr of the fully of these enactments;' ho was merely calling a witness forward who upon such a topic must surely be considered of the very highest authority. 'that witness had come forward, and had Lad them that one of the most important—nay, the principal breech of the national industry, had, according to his own account, within a very brief period, been deprived of the receipt of between ninety and a hundred million sterling, which, according to tko same wit ness, it had beta in the habit of receiving, and that the want of receipt bad been caused by a recent and certainly unexpected chang3 in the laws. (Hear, hear.) It was therrtore evident, and he thought it would be acknowledged by all to be not eurprisine, that distress and suffering should be so severe and so general; that it should be complained of in Eeglsnd, that it should be acknow lodged in Scotland, and that it should be deemed over whelming in Ireland. (Cheering from the inetectionists.) He begged to enforce there circumstances upon the et:orlon of the Louse; and the house recollecting hew wisely ex tended was the distress, according to the boa. gentlebtan woo moved the address, and how that distress had peen caused by the previous conduct of the house, would permit him to recall to their recollection, also, the terms in which that distress was intimated in the speech from the throne. (Haar, hear.) Unhappily, it was not then described as distress—(chap)—but the expressing of the feelings of great clause of the community who had been submitted to the action of circumstances as vast as bad been eeknow lodged by the hon. member for Wolverhampton, were merely noticed u " complaints "—(cheers)—they were merely noticed as complaints the justice of which wee studi ously not acknowledged. (Loud cheering.) It was indeed said in a subsequeut sentence that her " Majesty deeply " laments that any portion of her subjects should be sneering severe distress. But he denied that that was an admission, or even a qualified admission, that the agsiculturel interest of the ' United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was suffering severe distress; but as an accepted observation that appeared in reference to the cendition of these countries ; it was merely an abstract prices; le, and it was followed by a sen tence which was pure philanthroeic mockery. He would beg the house carefully to consider the character of the amend ment that bad been moved; he said carefully consider, because he begged to remind the house that it was by this amendment, sad by it alone, that the quieten wets about to be raised, and not upon *ems imaginary reteraent set the case, which it might be eouvenient to her 31ajeety's govern ment to adopt, end supposing that one of its members might have prepared a speech net adapted to the amendment. (Loud laughter.) The amendment the house was now called upon to discuss counted of two parts. He would call particular ettention to the first part. You are asked " humbly to re present to her Majesty, that in many parts of the United Kingdom, and especially in Ireland, the various cßests other Msjesty's subjects connected with the cultivation of the sail are labouring under severe distress, mainly attributable, in our opinion, to recent legislative enactments." Who denied that proposition? (Hear, hear.) Not the mover of the ad dreu to her MajOBV. That hon. gentleman admitted the fact, and accounted for it, and this amendment was merely an echo of the speech of that hon. member, anti it would be uereasonahle for any one to malaise:l that it wu not true. The amendment did not call upon the house to declare that there mast be as instant return to protection ; that the pro tective system must certainly be re-constructed in the coua try ; it called upon the house to take that subject into conside ration, and in that discussion they would not hesitate to come forward freely, calmly and candidly, to express their opinions. He did not think that on the amendment on the address it was right to contest so grand a principle,. but remembering what the state of the country was—believing that it was universally recognised, that, whether right or wrong, the distress of a great portion of her Majesty's subjects heel been occasioned by recent legislative enactment, he thought that nothing could be more legitimate than to come forward, when such an address to the throne was proposed, and ex press with temperance, but with firmness and with preci sion, their belief in the existence of a great calamity, end that that calamity had been occasioned by legis lative interference. Was then anything unreusuable in it? What could be more natural than that in a house of parliament which represented the commons of England— whatever might be the truth or falsehood, whatever might be the jollies or injustice of certain economical principles— whedthey met together, and when it was stated that greet bodies of the people were in a state of great depression and embarrassment, that they should come forward and express the fact dutifully and respectfully is the sovereign? And what could be more natural than that they ahoulel record their belief in the cause, not a wild extravagant belief, for they bad been anticipated by the very organ of the government? The right hen. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had called their attention to the state of the manufactures of the country. He acknowledged that it was no didicultion their part to acknowledge the satisfac tion with which her Majesty's ministers counselled their sovereign that the manufacturing interest of the country was in a flourishing condition, for he never heard any one in the house who came forward and counselled opinions, the adop tion of which would tend to depreciate any branch of any great industry of the country. Every one must be honoured with the representation which her Majesty's ministers had thought ft on this occasion to bring forward for their con sideration, but he might be allowed to ask why the Chan ceder of the Exchequer in noticing the complaints which had been made by the agricultural interest, of the distress which they at this moment execrienoed, why he was delighted with the prosperity of the manufecturing Interest, and at the mate time had thought it his duty to denounce the manner in which the agricultural body had thought fit to bring forward their complaints? Why should the right hon. gentleman, who was himaelf a member of a liberal government, at a moment when he told us that all other interests were in a state of prosperity, think fit to come forward and my that another great branch, which he acknowledged himself as suffering, had acted in a manner, if not unconstitutional, unauthorised ? They had come forward in a manner quite consistent, not only with the spirit but the machinery of the con stitution, and expressed their sense of their sufferings and applied to parliament and the throne for relief. Tho right hon. gentleman said last night that there had been very violent language used on this occasion. He should not enter into the question which the right hon. gentleman bad originated in this debate reopening the value of our ex ports. He was bound to say, as far as study and observation could have assisted him, he saw no reason to relin quish those conclusions which, with great deference, he had expressed in this house. He believed it could be proved that the exchangeable value of British industry had diminished within the late few months. He had never heard any argument respecting the contrast between fees itsporta and hostile tariffe.pi e h i d come to the conchal= , hat no efficient argument teem b e supplied. Again, the right hon. gentleman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had noticed e. main calculations But his (Mr. Disraeli) made last year to show that, althen 4 h ey e amount of a:isn't, were increased, they were diminished 4, value. He wee not going to enter into that part, esti he °sly adverted to it because the right hon. gentleman had chosen to revive It; but let him retain/ the r Ott has. gentlemen that last year he told us he could not uuders.a u d his argument, because, if it meant any thing, it mean , t o prove that the menu:aeturcn of E,glanit intended tom MU: laotere without a profit, and be had waited from " Be net Commercial Glance." Let him remind him that in aeo•h er economical publication equallyj cidebrated—vie , the F 4O . noweisf, there had been a series of Amides 4, boured in composition, the object of which to prove that for the Lot four ye...re talli woo f ieturers of Manchester had ,been mettnio,turieg nt a leen Nobody had Imagined that the preseure oa the labour of the agricultural districts would lie test with the speed experienced In seasons of like deprention is the hives of manufacturing industry. But it WAS 4:: the result, although much dower I. arriving, much more permonent in dura , ion, and that tley 4, 4 establishing a system which would s en d er t h e red. ctioo the employ ment of labour not only eon r il era bl e, ig4r. eminent. (Hear, hear.) But there was another ?eosin wby pauperism did not immediately incr• use in the ear ; cultural eistricts. It was quite forgotten by Lou. god,. opposite that we had in this country a social system threw by force of law, the support of thou) ut.o employed in productive 'shear, on a machinery whit; sustained by the capitol of the ownere arid otta,,i• of land. (Protectionist cheers.) Aln that t:. him to the seconi part of the amendment e!, be had suggested to the notice of the h ouse . They. „: that time humbly to aelle.o 'ledge that distress whit'. government itself acknowledged, and 'n allege V.at • of the distress which the organ of the goverentent accepted. In that request there was co ground : , •7 • ..r . contest ; and, in the second place, they ask , .1 the assert that the &stress of agsiculturo was coos:T.., by the burhen of local tuotion. Now, he to know was there any one in that house who wouid say that agricultural distress was nut aggravated by 1,4 burthens. Many would rise and say, as ho had • o y rise t.od say, that the dietrres of the occupiers of :oil 'cis not aggravated by local buttltens, but nobicly wo that such burthens did not exist, or did not press upon some branch of 1;1. cultural interests. Ile thought, that on 8..: and after the speech of the h.,nourable member for `.t . ,r -himpton, who h-ad been so ostentatiotody broucct to move the address, it was just t:.at they should clear conception of the nature of thaw horthen, •, they bad hoard so much talk. The hon. m,..yh er the pcsaihility of the reducti cf !veal barther . . rear to the occupier of Nisi. He (:it. b..... • wanted hon. gentlemen opposite to in et this with some degree of candour. Night aft a: ..;ri : t ._s. gentleman had risen on the other side, and ha , :. t o :d that than srzs no difference betweto lad and an; ct , . ,- r drairiptien of property, that laud ws co•hiox more, n: fact, than a raw material. Meta, hear.) V. 1.., tied betn cheered by the friends of go, .rtiratot, soil Ltd . accepted by government, belch In fact a par: t .:., • etanousical crec 1. Well, what he usitvd hue. geld., rnt •.:I do was this. It land was only a raw material, why i:., 7 tax it 7 (Protectionist cheers.) Why di , : oat tc.. . c . 0 , to that raw material th:r same economical printii,.s s. had applied to all other raw matte's! they said, oily a raw meanie!, why was them• ' corn to be stv•Aect to other economical prir.c.p:e,, one, economical syston - ., th in the roanaratturtr ‘.t c.•).• (hear.) Now he asked the great economist, the people of the Matchtster school, ta• tbs., I late and present guvcrum nts—(l laugb)—te :•••'„c. • how could they vindicate Inch a system ot the , • ..• on which the y had based their finakcial creed ? (Hear, hear.) They (the prouvi.i..s • asked the house to do things ; they ha.i it, when the agrici4tural interset wrs in ,o_t unprecedeoted state of depression, to come :•,• • : and humbly to express, to the crown, synaraths lit:. 7 .! distress, and also their opinion that toe Cella, • JE tress is the same es was stated by the enc.:, f meat. Was that unreasonable? Was that irs:i ~• that an attempt to unsettle a great qutation .;.. were told had been settled long ago, out eh:, L u were told every night remained unsettled ? T Icy house to hear, and in the second place to that distrt u was a,zgravated by the barthent whits . on the agricultural industry of Great Briton sad I: He wanted to know, now teat he had put the cy,•io.. before them, if any rational personcouldAppos:: two propositions. (Hear, hear.) He had no w.• real what were his ulterior vttlig co jeot of the great rival ;industriEs of _ t try, which ought not to be cmu: •_t lag to his ilea, but which bad been rekrri.l tn. were not thEn before the house, but he wou:3 rst the question. Hz thought that the cultivattr of TL: had a right to two things. In the first place, t. be ; u:.: same footing u his fellow subjects. (Hear.) HE ti t..' had a right in thE second per. to be put iis his ee 111. on the same footing es the foreigner. k i • were rot just principles, ,f tl.ey were not Lund, : Eternal sentiments of right, which in the long, rt.. govern a nation, or that nation must fall, t'!tie ..e admit that he was greatly mistaken. He was kit and his friends were advocating the interests ot c a 1. he were to collect the sentiments of governmetp, • much from the speeches they had heard that niaht, :. the reyai speech, he would suppose that egrieuiture we .: insignificant interest, that was so arrogant in its die . s as to ask for sympathy, and so nor. asor.able in suffering, as to suggest the possibility of a retc: - They were told that it was only the owners and occupier. land, but his re-,bie friend the member for Stunt:se: Marquis of Granby) had shown that it was not a merely of the owners and occupiers of lvid, whose to-night they were in a great measure called to docile u; (Cheer..) But he should take a much more narrow . the quer.l.n before he asked the house for its v..:e. admitting that it was only the owners and cceuplirs who were aggrieved, and who now in their acknowioi. . sufferings came forward to ask the sympathy and cim.i - ration of the house, were they so small a class II hear.) Were they in numbers and ittinenee ✓ificant that it became statesmen and parliament to them by disregarded and unheeded ? (Chc-irs.) were according to the hat accounts, 250,000 pr prietiits the soil in Great Britain and Ireland. This 1141 the ca: numerous separate class in the country as regarded property for if they were exceed. d slightly in cumbers by de proprietors of the funds, they must remember that mt: y of these latter were foreigners. (Rear.) Then wire the occupiers of land so contemptible in number., char: --et, or ooeduet as to be unworthy of consideration? We ta t. according to the most moderate accounts, 700,000 farmer: is Great Britain and Ireland. Taking the owners and ez• copiers of land together, with their heath= th, v amounted ter millions . (Conservative cheers.) They a:- knowledged that these millions were in a state of great :lies tree., in eon= quenee of the recent legislative enactmeno , , and yet they (the House ct Commons) were thou. to cones,', the Sov=tftn to treat their feelings with derision, a'el their complaints with contemp:. (Cheers from the protecti- - r lots.) One would have supposed, from the tone 3f the bate, that they (:he protectionists) had come forward VI: tie first assembling ot the session of parliament to ask the to repeal those laws which they had so recently puse..l—to violate those principles of political economy they hod .r.- shrineil—that they should come forward and deci , sr: they had flagrantly erred, and that the on:y chore national regeneration was to fall back on the position :t -•p had quitted. (Hear, hear.) But was it so ? While rat et e on tfiat (the opposition) side of the house shrunk from vocating those principles on which they thought the dustriat policy of this country should be cer blioticd, ho denied that that wee the ccce': on which they should be called upon to r t ( ehon , tte l e ar t c .; on . ..o h v a e t ri t ag e , y e n r ow to an d k o ed b w at , ll s e for t t i l i:t t apparent—that it being a matter of national ultoricy the: a great body of the nation was at this time in a sure ot great suffering—that it being a matter of parliticen•ary acknowledgment even on the side of the goverement. 'hi: that suffering had been occasioned by the recer.t chanslf the law—(no, and cheers)—that the house should tote forward—:hat they should thick it decent to come r t and express to the sovereign their recognition of the CIO(' :! that suffering, and their sympsty with thee illrfts, (Hear, hear.) Let ministers not suppose they , estop. the settlement of the qneetionittey might themselves on their accidental majerity—(loud from the protectionists)—and in the array of these full of hostile ambition, and united only in their hati:a. " • suffering community. (Cheer', and cAeuter cheers ) - they had the happiness of living in an age when an a. to the truth was never unsuccessful, and when the c'. • principles of justice must be the foundation of perliam: ' • statutes. (Cheers.) lie called upon minister,, the:. state, in the name of those gentlemen who sat on the tion benches—the representatives, mainly, of Omer suct.::T classes—to accept other alternative. They should e. , t 1. out of that house and misrepresent their (the protecticr.'.•:.! purpose. (Hear, hear.) Either recocetiuct ' system on those priciples favourable to British ind which we advocate (said the hon. gentleman), or to catty out the principles on which yc.o have established 'cur new system in all their legitimate consequences—(.ml stars from the fee-trade members and counter cheers iron protevion'sts)—but do not, under this system, ii.o land of England with the pharisaical pretence that tic the advocates of a great political economical ectetne not tolerate the taxing of a raw material, supposing mono time tint the whole social system of Eueland earto: .o to be founded on a principle which, morning, neon. era night, in everylminute and in every duty of the lice ct ex Englishman, taxes the greatest and most importan t Ts* material of the country. `Loud cheering.) He &said thou. not on behalf of himself and friends, to ri cur to &brags:CA .0. 0 . —those laws were planned by one whole subsequent entitled them to any posthumous respect—icheers froxi ;be protectionist members); but he called oa them to do ; that rapt to the ownere, the occupiers, the cultivaidrt set ..! the lan . They could not much longer postpone the meet of this question. Enshrine themselves in their ;" 1, , tics! economical scheme, if they would—he accepted their principles, but he called on them to carry them out to thee legitimate consequences. (Hear, hear.) Let the Tin mete ' dal—that most tropoitant raw material of the Olt 0:10. 111; dustry—be as free as other raw materiale. Bear, Admit in its fulness, as respected the land, the economies' principle they had extended to ell other raw noitenals— (eheers)—and do not permit, in the cultivation of tbdt raw. material, artificial restrictions to prevail after it was deemed of those artificial privileges which had hitherto operated ss some compensation for their legislation. (Hear. he" 4 Or let them cam forward and say frankly to the (*of . ' `, England, " we cannot afford to do that j ustice to the low