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I ... ter:; the public. resreetiO; w islt fell-tfula hies upon thessula ject of the Combination Laws list night. He was made to say that he opposed the bringim up the Report; be cause it was founded upon the evidence of the masters' alone. .If any tinnourable Member was present who heard him, be was sure k would be remembered that he unit , rose to put a questi - n to the Right H -pourable 'Gentleman, as to whether or not an understanding wh th ex steel amengut the jOtirneffitini, that the Report was Emended upon the exclusive evidence of the masters, waseor feet or not ? He did stet meal to found any ton‘plains upon this mistepresentelloa. because he knew there could be n• Intention of -Disking it. He onlyirissted that those who bad so misrepresented him, would do him the favour to state correctly what be did say. The Petition was laid on the table. The University Police Bill weal through a Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Monday next. WRITS OW ERROR. • Mr. Secretary PEEL; in reference to the above Bill. said he found that die interests of some individuals would be foliated by the abolition of Writs of Error. He therefore intended to propose that a Conunirsion should be appointed, to report upon those cases to the Treasury, and that the Lords Commisdonen bs empowered to grant compensation where they saw fit. Lord CLIVE instanced the case of Mr. Kenyon, ar big ens in which great loss would be experienced, and which demasdod the consideration of the House. This Gentleman was the sewed son of the late Lord Kenyon and the office which he held was be. stowed upon him as a provision for life. This was a casein !Ma he trusted his Right Hon. Friend woad i.e that justice was dens. Kr, Secretary PEEL said, that the interests of iudiviimis swat net be made paramount to all othet. considerations, M the regress of necessary reforms would bh entirely stopped: He was, hew. ever, desirous that just compensation should b made, is well in the case mentioned by his Noble Friend, at In all Others. Lord CLIVE said. that these fees had been conaiderecl Weedy legal by four successive Lord Chief Justices. • Mr. ABBILCROMBY was duteous to acknowledge the !Mike which the Right Hooourabk Gentleman bad rendered the couniry, by abolishing this evil. The case of Mr. Kenyon deserved attention. After a few further observations from Mr. LOCZNIAZT, Mr. Cat.- CRAFT. and Lord Cirri, Mr. Secretary PEEL moved a Resolution declaratory that pylons sustaining losses under the Bill, should receive compen sation, to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.—The Resolution was agreed to, and the Report ordered for Monday. Mr. LIUME presented a Petition from the • operative Weavers 'of Irving, against a repeal of the existing Combination Laws.— Laid on the table. ?dr. Secretary PEEL absented, that the Juries' Bill, notwith standing the predictions of Honourable Gentlemen opposite, bad been returned from the House of Lords with only one verbal amendment—( Hear, hear). The Bill so amended was agreed to and passed. The Coatis of King's Beach and Common Pleas Bilis' vrere tad a third time and rued. JUDGES' SALARIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, moved the ()icier of the Day for the third reading of the Judges' Salaries Hill. Mr. BROUGHAM awd that he should be sorry to do anything which might appear disrespectful to the R ever end and Leatned Personages to whom this measure telated; but he felt it his duty again to declare his objec tion to the alterations which it was intended to effect. He held that a Puisne Judge was - ettremely well paid at 5.0001. a year, uonsideriag what they formerly re ceived, and the increawd . yalui of money in conse quence of the restotatioitt. of 'the currency. Be.. that operation•the %OWL which. Was. so long considered a' sufficient reward for.their services became worth 4,000/. and then it was thought proper to raise the,ir income .to 5,0001.. A still fin Orr intreast. was now proposed, afid *mild *A the House whether they called tins fahbful stewardship, and whether they dealt justly by the publk funds? With all due respect for the important stroke* performed by these Learned Personages, he objected to see drem Overpaid. net bite came tuo Much like iiish , sps when they were liable to be trans. laud, and were overpaid for their services. lie wished to see than' properly rewarded, but he did not see why, a Palm. Judge, who had no establishment to shpport when, be was off the Circuit, should receive the 'LIMO income as the Speaker et the House of Commenting the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Me...L . WiLLIA MS esprea:ed his opinion that some provision ought t , y.he made for compell , ng retirement from the Bench before the latulues of Judges became disabled by age and infirmity. . He agreed with his No". and Learned Friend that the more the income of Judges was increased, cl.e longer they would be induced to nagaio upon the Bench after they became incapacitated: thought the appropriate sum would be se,ooo a year during the holding of the office, and £4,000 as the retired allowance. Be regretted that hi had heard no promise front the Right lion. ND. demon opposite upon the subject of the period of life at Which Judges should besppointed and retire. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that it was a difficult thing to legislate upon the question of age, but that he agreed with the Hon. and Learned Member in the general principle. lie was, however, aware of no understanding as to the age of sixty years being the earliest at which a Judge should be appointed. He had no such impression an his mind, but on the contrary, he thought a Judge might be as well qualified as fifty, or forty years of age, as sixty. Mr. HOBHOUSE said, he entertained a strong ob jection to the Bill. He saw no reason whatever for the . increase in all that bad been said, and he knew of none unless'it. was that. the wives and sons of those Learned Persons should be enabled to dash at the West End of the ToWn. He also objected to the measure, because it gave, them no security for the removal of those fees, ins ead of which the increase was said to be made They ought not to rely upon the mere promise of the Chan cellor of the Escheq.ter, whose word was only good as long as he remained in of f ice. Some declaration or pledge for the abolition of these offices ought to be in troduced in the pi eamble. He should feel it his-duty to move an amendment for reducing the salary of Puisne Judge to 50001. There was another topic upon which he was surprised that his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Member for Winchilwa, had not more dwelt. lie felt most strongly that the Palms Judges ought to be immoveable. People could not disguise from themselves that setae translations from the office of Puisne Judge to the Chief Judgeship, had not been calculated to ensure the pure administration of jostles. It was welt known that there wete political Judges, although, thanks to the existing Government, and to the nature of the dews, they had no opportunity of shewing.tbeir feeling. Mr. N. CALvERT said, 'that if the Hon. Member for Westminster proposed an amendment for redzi ) n o f the salary to 50001. and raising the pension to he would sup?ort him in it. He did this with a view to prevent Judges from remaining on the Bench beyond the time at which diey could sit with advantage to the proper administration et the laws. He had seen instances where individuals bad retained the case longer than he could have wished. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, . that were he disposed be could not now increase the alleoUnt of the retired allowances, although it was com petent for them to reduce it. He still contended for the Farley of the scale that was arranged in the BAD, and also e that it was calculated' to .i n d oe s p onc es o f aft q ouseatioss to undertak ludiclal rakes at a drat of li fe when they were best calculated to perform their duties with Mr. • &tient ONSLOW said, that he personally knew the efficiency with which the judicial business was performed by the oldest Judges*on the bench. who were neither weak nor feeble. He defended the conti ngence of some of the offices which the Hon. Member for Westminster had disparaged, and also the practice of enabling the Crown to translate Judges. Some of 'she best Judges who had ever adorned the Hach bad been raised from Puisnitudges to the thief seats. ChielJasdce Wilmot was 40 rutted, and even offered she nab. So wu in late dues CbklF Baron Thompson. Idr. N. CA'LVERT disowned the intuition of saying anything at all invidious of the Judges slow presiding. lgr.R.M A RTllfikad himself been engaged in.eolleq ing public siphsions. upon this iubjett , and could safely declare that it was universal's' in favour of an increase of salary to the Jukes, by reason of the smallness of their remuneration. But, without suth - evidence,he must have come to the wad eend:telest, wises he (mind that emu of the first talent could not be prevailed impels accept the ogee of Puisne Judge. He called upon the Hon. Member for Westminster to say, if it were not notorious that men of the first asleep dr dined it ?—The 13111 was then read a third dun. Mr. HOBHOUSE, on the question for its passing, moved that the sum be 5,0001. instead of 5,5001. which was con sidered by almost every leading man in the profession as too large a salary. (" Name, name," from Mr. R.Mutin—cries of" Order" from various parts of the Howse). Mr.-BROUGHAM seconded the motion. He had ver known the office refused at 5,0001. a year salary; nay, he had never known it re'used at i t,OUOL— These was seine talk of going through the Other' great officcs with the same augmentation. He was determined to resist such a proposal at every step. He might fail; it was more than probable that he would fail ; but if, against sense, and justice, and good principle, he should be defeated, then be would at once move a proportionate Increase of pay to the so'diers. Lord J. BUSSE L L uid, that as the °See with the iforatee salary had never been declined within the recollection of his Hon. and Learned Friend, there was no occasion to raise it ou the supposition of wanting able men to 611 it, which was a fear purely elsemetical. Mr. MONCX would have no objection to the salaries now pro posed. if accompanied with ad assurance that Ike Puisne Judges not be prouseted.--The Hems divided — For passing the Hip . • . 74 Ter the Amendment 45 • Majority SIR S. WILSott. On the mustiest that the. House go into a Committee on the of Grants Bill. Mr. ABERCROMBY said, that on this general question he would avail himself of the opportunity of calling the attention of the House to the situation of one of its Members—he meant the Member for South wark (Sir R. Wilson). That individual's long services were known; he had been rewarded by this country, and had received the testimonies of distinguished Sovereigns. He would not question the condom of die Commander-in-Chief; he would not review the past, but it could not be forgotten that Sir R. Wilson had been dismi,sed, his military prospects blasted, without any trial, by Court-Martial or otherwise—(Her):That Honourable Member's errors, if errors they were, arose from the most ardent, generous, and noble feelings—. (Hear, hear). But the result had not altered the opi nion respecting 'Sir It: Wilson in that House, in the country, or in the.Aimy ; and that individual's tulip,- rate defence on the occasion had given satisfaction to all his friends.. He (Mr. Abercromby) could not but think, that had his gallant friend's name been restored on a late occasion, (the brevet), it would have given aqua! satisfaction to the country and the Army. He trusted,that his gallant friend's brothers in arms, who might be in that Hause r and the Members who bed Witneised.his conduct in that House, would give an expression to their feelings; and he knew that there were those in the House who would make such feeling Itnown in the proper quarter. He felt assurid that if 'his Majesty were to eatedd an act of grace and favour, and: restore his gallant Fiend to his taut and station in Be Army, would be most grateful to the .Army, the country, and that Hosea-{ Lend cheers from both aides of the House). :Mf. urrLwroN was glad that this sureertion;..l been made. NA urged witheoluich propriety iand tho;eht that a Royal Act of grace and favour, by restoring Mr Robert Whoa to Itli rank in the army, would: be mo* grateful to all—AtAseers). . • • Mni WGURHOUSIC was Iliad that this proposition bad huh nude. and be trusted that it wield lop wielded with sagest% Lord W. BENTINCY felt anniektial such - an act of favour would be most pleasingte the Army. lie bore testier:my to the brilliint qualities of Sir R. Wilson, and wished the favour to come, if it were extended from the Crown, should vow as as act of neresity--(Cheers). Mr. CA LVERT bore testimony to the good qsalitles of his lion. and gallant Colleague. and be hoped rue IlajeAy might be pleased to extend the act of generosity to his Culleogue. Sir M. W. RI LBY was pleased Mat this propesitien bad beep nude, and trusted it *NMI, successful. ' • Sir R. FERO U3o:*f said, Ai mattocks! et Sir It. Wilton to his rank would be highly gratifying to thi Ardiy ; And he trusted 'that the snuestion would have use.testred effete. Sir J. HOPE spoke of the liberei•enoduit of the Cosonsessder.in. Chief ; bat after all that bad Os*, he hoped - the gallant Member would be restored tw.bli unit. Mr. MANSFIELD . :pike to the like effect. Mr. BROUGHAM bore tostinseny to the forbeitriag conduct 'of Sir R. Wilson towards. his political adversadea, doting the most pailful discussions t complaint against them never escaped him.' The House afterwards went loto a Committee on 'the Surplus of Grants Bill ; the CUMIOELLOW of the Racameend propoSed-the Ap- Ipropriatten Clause.—Agreed to, without any remarks on the suh ject of the Finances: ': • . • CUSTOMS COSSOLIDATioIt ACT. • Mr. HUSKISS OW moved the Order of the Day for the fur• tber consideration of the. Report en the Resolutions relative to the Customs Ommlidation Aet.—The Order leaving bees mad, Mr. HUSILISSON moved that the Resolutions be ewes- I 1 minted.—The Sews& 'having left the Chair, Mr. HUSKISSON proceeded to address the Com mittee. They would recollect, that on the 25th of March last, he had submitted to the House 'rations Resoluti ns, relative to the importation of certain ma nufactured art'cles horn foreign countries. He men. tioned, at the time, the grounds on which he thought 'it his duty to make the al erations which he proposed should tak! place. He states!, 'that the principle upoo I which he meant to act was one of extended An I liberal commercial intercourse with_foreign nations; but he said, at the same time, that in making changes and al terations of so extended and important a natute, it was his wish to receive every description of informations and , suggestion from the various quarters likely to be af fected, or conceiving themselves likely to be. affected, by such a change. He assured* the Committee, that this request, onbis part, had been most amply aim plied with. No Department of the State had ever a more extended correspondence, or more individual re presentation, than had been presented to the Board of Trade upon this subject. He did not complain of this, nor was he surprised - at it, as many individual and general interests were likely to be affected by the pro posed measure; and, therefore, it became his duty to receive those communications, and he only mentioned the circumstance, in order to explain and apologise to the Committee for the delay which took place in bring ing the subject under their consideration, with that at tention to the claim and statements of the different' parties who did hiin the honour to apply to him. Now, having heard alI that was to be said on the subject by the different parties interested in various ways by the' proposed Resolutions, he came to the Committee for the purpose of explaining the additions, reductions, and alterations which a sound policy imposed it as a duty on him to make is those Resolutions. He felt that, in justice to the country, a subject so extensive arthis ought not to be conducted in haste or precipi ration. It was true, he had received some of the state xnentr.made to him with considerable jealousy awl distrust, but he telt it right to weigh all that was urged on the other side, and to wait for further infOinsetion from every quarter from which such information could be expected. Upon most of the branches of foreign commerce, he felt that he should be able, consistently with the commercial interests of this country, to ad- 'bore to the Resolutions as he had on proposed them. Itt the great and *staple article of oar commerce, that of cotton goods, be meant to make no alteration in his original proposition, to reduce the charge on the fa reign manufacture to an ad talons, duty of 10 per cent. With respect to our neat great article of manufacture, the woollen, he meant to adhere to the ad 'dorms duty of IS per cent. on the importation of the foreign article. In lowering the duties on the raw material, however, he did not consider that such a dial' would afford adequate protection to our home trade. In the importation of metallic substances, he meant to make no alteration in the Resolutions, except with respect to the article of lead, the high price of which, as a raw material, would enable him to reduce the protecting duty. Upon the importation of earthenware he meant to make no alteration from this original proposition.— There were other extensive branches of ourlrommerce; however, with respect to the duties on which, he regretted to say, he was obliged to make some alter ation ; he did so with reluctance ; but, after hearing all that could be sai 1 by the best informed persons on the subject, he found it necessary to impose a duty (founded on an ad valorens duty) from year to year, for a. certain time, upon the importation of foreign linens. This would have the effect of stimulating the ingenuity of our home manufacturers, and induce them t.) exert sach increased industry and skill in their trade, as would enable them to compete with the foreign market. 'nitre were circumstances connected with this trade, which induced him to adopt this course. In Ireland the manufacture of linen was carried on, not so much with the aid of machinery, as by manual labsur—a cir eumstance which rendered competition in foreign markets more difficult. He looked to Ireland with every desire to see capital and machinery► spread them• selves throughout that country; bat if competition had been admitted earlier. it might have overwhelmed the manufacturers. At prewar great capitalists were giving employment to machinery, for the increase of all breeches of trade, and they mere better able' to meet competition and the inroads which foreigners, under less favourable circumstances, might havebeen able to make. He had thought that he was best consulting the iatetests of the manufacturer and of t' e p üblic, by forming such a scale of duties as admitted of imme• diite competition in some essential branches, but by being gradually lowered during the next eight years would stimulate the employment of capital and machinery to meet , the increasing advantages the fot eign trade would thus be allowed in each succeeding year. Such WAS the purpose he had in view in making the , charge in the duty On linens, which, while it gave adequa'e protection.. would afford nothing more, and *void everything like prohibition. There-was another branch on which he had also found it expedient to aber. his original determination: he allsded to glass, on which he had intended to propose a mere ad valorem duty. Glass, however, the Committee would know, was exposed to a heavy duty of Excise, and Honour able Members would also be aware, that the amount of duty was not in fact the amount of burden, for Par liament had been obliged to impose restrictions and regulations, to pi rstribe even the mode of carrying on the manufacture, which formed another charge to be ,borne by the manufacturer. In prder to arrive at a just conclusion, he bad resorted to all the information he could procure from parties interested, and be had now to recommend, not an nd valorem duty, though a duty considerably less than that hitherto paid. Like the new duty on linen, it would go on gradually and anrually decreasing, compelling A corresponding improvement in our own manufacture, as the duty was, lowered, and foreign competition more freely admitted. :For very neatly the same reasons he bad beet under ' the necessity of changing the duty on paper, which was also subject to certain regulations of Excise, which added to the amount of Charge. There were other consiierations which likewise rendered a heavier duty expedient than he bad at first intended to substitute for that now paid. Tile raw material was generally prohibited in foreign countries, it was so in France and. in the Nethet lands, and as the paper manufacturers there could thus obtain it upon more reasonable terms, they could afford to sell the paper they made at a cheaper 1 rase. In the importation e l books he had also introduced a variation. At • present 'all books were prohibited of' which there was a copyright in this country, and, in deed, no book pub'ished in Great Britain, within the last 20 years, could be imported. He intended to lease the law in this respect as it stood : the duty at present was 61. 10s. which he wished to reduce to 11: and then standard works would be admitted that, in fact, constituted the bulk of every library. The same rule would be appl ed to manusciipts. He should weary attention were he to go through all the various sr - tides regarding which he had made a change sines ' his statement on the 25th of March last, but he woad notice some of them. On flax and tow he bad made a still further reduction. Bailie bad excited some atter' tion, and it was intended to reduce the duty upon It gradually, after the fifth of January t*lt. That date had been named bee.use he had reason to believe that there was an understanding, amounting almost to a premise to the trade, when the last change was made, that no further alterrion should be introduced until after the lapse of five years, and that period would aspire on the fifth of January next. Subsequent to that period the reduction would be made at two differ ent times, until the duty fell back to the old charge of. 51. The duty on timber had also attracted much notice. After much inquiry and discussion, he had considered it inexpedient to make any general change in the system at pre.ent. The duty now paid was 21. 15s. en every 50 cubic feet of timber, and 41. on every 125 planks, which had occasioned an evasion which it was neces sary to prevent. The evasion was this—that what was in fact timber, and used for the purposes to which timber was applied, had been brought in and paid duty as planks ; so that-only 165.8 d. for every 50 cubit feet of timber had been received at the Exchequer, instead of 2L l5s. The 'duty on timber, as it exited, in Ireland, would not be at all changed, and what was paid upon every other kind of timber imported into Great Britain would remain as at present. It was; *somewhat singular, that the evasion bad only been recently discovered, and in order to take advantage of it, shipping 'hid been engaged to such an extent 'as to inconvenittra the other branches of commerce.— He had been tiOeciitly-anxious to lower the duty on all raw tnateriah; •iiiittparticularlr upon dying drugs: Besides changing his original determination on many articles he had added several that he -had omitted on the 25th March. He had then stated his desire t" pro mote celtivation among the smaller West India pm prietors, by encouraging the importation-of all minor articles of prodote, and this desire,•it would be found had occasioned several as he addition:: of wi.ich Le had spoken. He was aware that, takea hZisAi ate ly. r Ot _ hest reductions, Wined latalletint to any very late_ turn, but idthoegh - he - aptstehended • the Etch** would but slightly - suffer,. &indeed it -suffered *rill, yet taken collectively the sum was of importuner.. tie was not far from the mark when he flitted it at irons 400,0001. to 500,0004 per annum, and the whole he trusted would operate to the relief and benefit of,-.the manufactures of these kingdoms. Another article de,' -served mention—he alltsded to the duty on ships, boat in the Colonies and broken up here; which was not left than 50 per cent. this was the real cause why the huge timber vessel from. Canada had not been broken up end sold to considerable advantage in England: This duty be would reduce to 15 percent. He ardentlyboped that the whole change of system would lay the foinda don of gradual improvement and national prosperity. " It is (said Mr. Huskisson) peculiarly called for * the present moment, for sure I am, that if the system a combination cannot be repressed by the interpositimi of. the Legislature, it must be repressed by giving ihrt esied facilities to the importation of foreign articles'—lifierl. , The consumers of thiseountry cannot and ought not to be compelled to pay unnaturally high prices—and the people at large placed under difficulties and disadvaok cages, merely from Isese attempts to prevent te e free employment of capital and labor. lam ready to say this, that if the shipwrights of England vsillootaet in lamb a manner as to allow the unshackled employmeot lef capital in ship-building, and to lease the artifices* at 'liberty to follow their own views of haute, Parlia;. spent must allow the introduction of foreiga-buile .. vessels—(Hear, hear). I world say the sameto -the operative classes in all branches of manufacture. -1 • $. would tell them to beware of the consequences of the Course into which the designing are inveigling them, — (Hear). The necessary consequence of pursuing it • must be, that the country will not submit to such die-I tation, but will remove those restraints which, in ar ticles of necessity, comfort, or luxury, have hitherto given the artisans of Great Britain the advantage over foreigners. If resort be had to these offensive and illegal combinations, injurious, in Ore long run, to all, the country must not stand still; bufthe ports mustbe opened to the production of the industry of surrounding nations. It will then be the duty of Parlinisent oe tea& these deluded men, that they must conform to **re gulations necessary to maintain a due distribution a capital, and the unfettered employment of labour. s i contend, that at peseta no such freedom exists—=and if.. it be not obtained otherwise, w• must secure it, not. try . roes eive penal laws, bat by augmented competithis-,-- coin petition on tkl part of men who a M give us the fruits of -their industry on. equitable and te..sonable terns'. This is a stateof things which more ahan 7 istPother calls upon the House to receive wi•lt Immo any hew lotions like those now before the Commitare.ilbe elfeet. of which will be to diminish the exclusive. system of prohibition, which tends to nurture Combination, and produce other evil; of the highest importance." The...! Right Honourable Gentleman here took his ,sole, but • rose again to add a point which he apeltigised . far having omitted. He' was* anxious to compensate the traders of the East 'IWO.' _aa far' as p .ssible for the duties they paid on articles of general consumption. - The duty on pepper, as th is .aiontent, was et least 500 per cent. for the cbstptice of ayound of pepper 'was only /id. white theatre, was ds. ed. - The esossutrebto was thus leesested, sad saniggflog prodigiougly eneouraged. The whole m ould sonsmagsios tithe United Ikiajgdoos was ass 1,1110.410011t5. *taboo' 1 i os..ges head. lie Proposed to lasses the ditty to Is. *lb. He herd that the Abet would be to essourage the foitibl'• '' _ sty sad promote we weltate of tits Let Indies, already mach but. ' dosed (moocher ewes. - - Sir H. PARNELL thetiglit; that when the 'hipping charges, freight, and:duties, were added together,. the duties would still bear much of a prohibitory chaiall. ter. He did not see why the duty an *woollens eourl •, not be seduced as low as the duty On cottons.. In the former article we had the advantage of producing the • raw materials at home. He could net agree altogether with the views of the Right Hon. Gentleman With re- • sport to the linen manufacture; he conceived that at the end of eight years the duty of, say 25'per cent. to' which add for charges 12 or i ls per cent; and thitt, he conceived, would amount to a prohibitory duty. He thought that the high duties still retained on hardware, • under the advantageous circumstances in which that., trade was placed, were quite tnnecessary ; sad also the. , same might be said of earthenware. He was 111% • .. , .Mimed to the Rick lion. Gentleman for the reduction of setts/ entedilt, ISt he thought there hadboes emit vegetet e - eevendea poled*, otherwise we should ant haws' MAI thee ill* ' duties would have hien rett a s en tase arderai lo Wide% w+ ago' liable to a ustapeddea erkb sod tam sesii/semoiher ' • to which vow were Uhl* to lso _stale etosapetitists.! Siam ob- ' jested to the Id& dlittes radioed ea several snider et Tay hoary, each as seas** sod ti4ed testis. 1 Mr. MABERLY - thought e Hon. Baragli"..bie tif o hardly done justice to thelSigh ,Hon. Gendesonolitr. Huskisson). The Right, Hon. entlemae Wet pro- fessed to do more in this:matter. than - to redsicteland regulate the protecting ditties 'so that none shoat be higher than SO per tent. The Right Ifon:Oesitliman • was, in his opinion, entitled to the gratitude of the country foe the .unwearied attention he, )nnl, Reid to every representation made to him, and the.soao4oo - he had come to ultiniatelya -11trdefiede&the exceptions which the Right Hun. Gentleman lisid•Made with respect to the Linen Trade, as necessary frAttithe peculiar circumstances in which tLis..aottle sae Om placed. He again complimented the Right' liar. Gen demae (Mr. Huskisson) fora the measures how *oder consideration, and he thought it due to ilseOMMlrteial . . and Manufacturing Interests of this Conway, that the President of the Board of Trade (now such •ao-issepoe- . tant office), should no longer be considered aura secon dary Officer, but rank with the Secretailesi and have a suitable salary. St H. PARNELL explained. Mr. T. WILSON concurred in the propositimeof the Hon. Member who had just sat down, with refevelitne to annexing a salary to the office of the neaSdidithlf the, Baud of Trade. If the present systseeTtif4Ousoli- • dating and improving our laws were. prievapedlia, it would soon become unnecessary to keepals.thig= coast blockade at present maintained. -fle wiff ' - at the objections of the Hon. Baronet opposite; to the amount of the duty on Linens, as be could moceire the Government had no motive but kindlless to Ireland in that duty. With regard to Comm Wig . ft t lowardiitty, that proesseisd from the perfect soeurirp thin wts,thotto nem would ever surpass our toungatstwero is that ordelo. Mr. BRIGHT thought thit the duty Osittkifitieles 4 1 1 . 0* enumerated in this . schedule shoat' be extroinely low. The object of the schedule seemed to Waft pre vent the int °studet of any new articles of compocee. ily a proper priadpie 0 *stades assay ortidee ind elt, =Wm' dueed from vstrever peniaW hioe b the N est ' ' He hoped the Hight**. Glostionsa would iskollas ambjestrigto se rious b eesahlorstkapssoirt the Dort .flowito .4 Itsdisimetih mid if ponile, in th i e j tar , •, . . -Mr. EL begged to cell the attention of the Bight Hon. Gentleman to the duty imposed upoi coals - , % • i