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the subject of the exportation of gold. In spite of • France, a reciprocity must take place in case of ever, pound's worth of goods imported from that cc/Unify into England. He-did not care whether this recipe,- city was founded upon treaties, or seknowleigkd at the • Custom House, or only produced by the intervention --cf smuggling; the reciprocity would undoubtedly exist. "A rest deal of reflections had been made upon those -who were called political economists, amongst whom he admitted that he was enumerated himself. -?h Waourable Seconder of the motion (the Member for Worcester) had, however, last night thanked his stars that he was no political economist—(Hear, hear) The definition of political economy was that of* science which consisted in the knowledge of the laws which ' regulated the production and distribution of those ar titles which possessed an exchangeable value, and which were either necessary, or useful, or agreeable to man. Notwithstanding the nature and objects of this science there were every day found men wbd returned public thanks to GOD for their ignorance of the principles of that science which influenced the greatest number of the effects to which the attention of Legislators was called every day. The Hon. Member for Newark had • not defined what he meant by the tree trade to which he objected, and this want of an understanding of the terms used in the discussion had led in this, as in other cases, to great confusion. He (Mr. Hume) understood by free trade—a trade not limited by any restrictions; and. acting tin this principle, be wished that the whole civilised world were one series of cbmaisrcial States, exchanging their proioce amongst themselves as freely as the several counties within the kingdom of England. Those who opposed the principle of free trade should (if they were inclined to push home their principles) carry them to the same extent in this country as they were carried to in Sicily, where there were seven or eight provinces. and where a sack of flax could not be carried across the frontier from one province into ano ther without the intervention of a Board of Commis sinners. Every body knew that it was to the existence of some degree of free trade that we owe the greatest y art of the conveitiencies of life. But, if the opponents iii the measure were true to their own principles, they must aNalidon every thing but the produce of the farm yard. Tae Hon. Member for Coventry said that this free _ • trade •►as very beautiful in theory, but injurious in practice. Now he (Mr. Hume) could not see how that could be—indeed, he thought it morally impossible.— The House had been told by the Hon. Member for Callington that the English manufacturer laboured under great disadvantages, and that the foreign maws . I tourer enjoyed advantages which rendered it impos sible for the English manufacturer to compete with him. The Hon. Member bad also, in the course of his speech, reflected upon the doctrine held by the late ' Right Hon. Sir George Rose, at a former discussion of the question; and yet, before he sat down, the Hon. klember himself had concurred in that Right Hon. -Gentleman's sentiments, and said he had, in 1826, fore. told the difficulties into which the trade had fallen, un less protection were extended to it. Who did the Hon. • Member mean to protect? The individual who would have to c •meete with the foreign manufacturer in the tHreign market? If so, let him gave to that individual the r material on such terms as would enable him' to enter upon that competition. The comparative state of i:rance and England, with respect to the production of .ilk, had been referred to. How stood the facts? The en.ire annual consumption of silk in France was shalt 50,000 41 , 4. or 5,000,0001b5. of which about 29.000 or 90,000 gds. were of French produce; the remainder was imported from Italy, from Persia, and elsewhere. Now, the Hon. Member for.Callington had ' . put it to the House, that a portion of the .ilk werked ' up in France being of French produce, the English ma nufacturer, whose countay p'oduced none, could not compete with him., Did the circuits to tee of France pie. dodos the raw mates i ri protect the manuf .cturer from foreign competition? No; for these were iiii poi tations of m anuf. c: used silk into France from Tut key and from lash,. He (Mr. Ilume) would. therefore, say, remove the 17 per cent. which continues to shackle the English minufacturer, and there was little doubt that be would be able to produce his fabric as cheap as the Lyons • trissnufac urer could. The markets of Italy were open to us as to the French, who drew two-fifths of their raw material from thence. We bad, therefore. the means of meeting the French m .nufacturer in all the articles into the composition of which Italian silk entered, and that we were capable of doing so be bad the authority of several eminent manufacturer. It was in fancy articles that the French surpassed us; in every other which we had attempted we had beaten them, and he had my doubt that we should soon be superior to them in the manufacture of silks as we were in that of cotton. It had been said that the silk manufacture was an exotic. Was that any rlsson why we should not, in a . shoot dme. attain to perfection in producing it? Cer tainly not, and in that as ertion be was fully borne out by the result of our efforts hitherto; for so considerable had our progress within a few years been, that he was assured by many manufacturers that on looking back a• the articles formerly manufactured by them, and comparing thear with their present products, they were surprised at titer own improvement. From all he had said he was iberefore katified in saying, that place the E glisb manufacturer on a footing with the Lyonnais (as repecred the price of the raw material), and he winli he able fully to compe'e with him. He admitted, with Hon. Members. the state of distress under which the EnOi h nranolacturer at present suffered, but similar and equal distress pievailed in France. Ile held in his hand a Ly.ns newspaper of the 25th of Februaty last, which contained an account of a meeting bold in that city (at which the Maya presided), for the purpose *of entering into a subscription for the dis.ressed and unemployed silk manufacturers. The Maor himself subscribed 5,000 francs. He (Mr. Hume) had had a letter lately from Lyons, which stated the continuance 'of that distress; that, of 22,000 loons generally ear • ployed there; fully one-third were idle; aqd that the wages had been rederced much more considerably than in'England; for instatik, in one article from bp. to sd. Distress being. therefore, -as extensive and as ex treme in Lyons as an England, ao argument could be founded un the distress which unhappily ; revailed.beie 'in support of a proposition to return to the prohibitory 'system. The lion. Member here proceeded to enforce , the same arguments, in reply to various othei portions of the speech of the Hon. Member for Callington, con *tending that the English manufacturers having suc ceeded to such an went, even though trammelled by a duty of seventeen per cent. in the raw material, it war unfair for that Win. Member (Mr. Baring) to say that the experiment made of partial relaxation bad failed. He could not approve of the exptessions of despoil dace' y to which Honourable Members had given Sear. There was no reason for entertaining or ex- • ptes•itog any such feelings; and. in answer to those of. the Hon.. Member for CAllington. qttered list night. ' be tbruitin he mien successfully pioiligntthe Arade by the same Hon. Member onihe Bth of May, 1826, at which time distress prevaarea to wail, tha • same extent as at present, Consistency will i Zeing evtn in tharHouse—ate so,,asimatisfactory clusjiie bad bet% the reasonint and the arganients of thellon. Meinberfittallington, that he (Mr. Hants) *di stilt in &subtler which . pWe'of the question fissi' Hscortroble,Oentlerean *alit to vote. The Hasionot able Wernher here refeired to the petition which haf en a former occasion been presented to the House, and contended that the Honourable Member for Cagington;' not having shown any injury done to the manufacturer by -the experiment, hi the misting of which he. had concurred, he (Mr. Baring) Was bound to concur, in the' proposed farther extension of the principle of relaxation. One or two points . more remained of the Honourable Member's speech to which he (Mr. Humo)'begged he might be allowed to advert. It was quite impossible for any Honourable Member to prove that, under any circumstances, commerce or manufactures had im proved under restrictions. In France the resided* system had been carried to an extent scarcely na edible.l (Hear, from Mr. C. Powlett Thomson). That par; if' the case he should, however, leave to his Honourable Friend. the Member for Dover (Mr. Thomson). lie should,notw ithstandingoefer to a ease nearly in poi nt.The town of Tarrare, in the south of France. wits the Paisley of France. The yarn spinners of Tarrare, at a moment of distress, applied to the French Government to pro tect them, by prohibitory duties, against the introduc tion of English yarn. The Government acquiesced. and laid on a duty of sixty or seventy per cent. on the ankle; the consequence was, that the manufacturers of muslin and cottons were obliged to smuggle in their yarns from England. In fact, in spite of the prohibitory duties, the French muslin manufacturers were ruined. In one town which bad been much en gaged in that branch of manufacture, nine out of every ten of the looms were idle. He should mention one fact to show the difficulty of maintaining a restrictive sysH tem. An ingenious individual, a native of this country, had obtained a patent for an improved ma. chine for the snanufactutecii lace or bobbinet, by which the plain article was made at one, hundredth part of the cost of production by band. He obtained from the French Government leave to bring over his invention to France, and to manufacture bobbinet there. English yarn only was fit (or his purpose, and on account of the heavy duty or; that article he was obliged to smuggle his whole supply; and the French Government finding it impossible to prevent it, at last winked at it, and al lowed him to smuggle in all the yarn he wanted for his manufacture. A similar case occurred in another dis trict of Rance, pear the frontiers, where, notwithstand ing all the motions of the authorities, the proprietor of certain machinery, an Englishman. smuggled in 'all the material be wanted. The same line of argument was supported by that which took place respecting watches and jewellery in France. Nearly the whole of the articles of that description to be found iu the shops of Paris were manufactured in Switzerland, and although strictly prishibited, were delivered there, (smuggled of course) at a premium of /3 per cent. on the first cost. Such were the effects of the prohibitory system in F. mice, and he bad little dodbt that the Government of that country were prepared to meet us half way and Alter it. He trusted, therefore, that his Majesty's Governmentl would persist in the measures they had announced. He' would now askorhat did the Hon. Member for Callington expect from inquiry? He (Mr. Hume) admitted the distress of the manufacturers, the advantages over them possessed by their French rivals, and would ad mit any thing else required. But he would ask, what remedy did ' the Honourable Gentleman propose? Did be want to set up the throwster, and throw the weavers and other manufactures% who were to the (browner& salons to one, out of employment. for such would be the eonsequarie. ? He ,suss propose one of three things—absolute prohibition, modified restric tions, or free trade. Prohibition had been tried, and failed; and moderate restriction would only go to load the manufacturer, already trammelled to the extent of 23 or $0 per cent. (The Honourable Member then proceeded to contend that in a short time, when the affairs of India should be arranged, we would be able to supply the whole European market from our Indian possessions; and that, therefore, it would be•inspolitic , in the extreme to set aiiestrimple of exclusion or restric tion, and concluded by a brief recapitulation of the topics of his speech, expressing his hope that the House would support the views of Government on the subject) Mr. DAVENPOR 1, notwithstanding the declaration of the Right Honourable Gentleman who bad spoken last night, would not be deterred from stating that t: e parties before the House as petitioners ought to be. heard. Living as he did within a few miles of the largest silk manufacturing town in Lancashire, he must be supposed to know something onlhe subject ; and he could assure the House that the situation of the people' engaged in that manufacture was one of deplorable distress. A great many of the manufactories were per fectly still, and the machinery going to decay. The , distress arising from want of employment was not, however, confined to those poor people themselves, forming the great majority of the consumers in the town; their inability to become purchasers affected, of course, the dealers io articles of consumption. who wire, in consequence, in their tin is, incapacitated to pay tent or taxes. These poor, industrious, well behaved, well conducted people—(hear)—looked up to Paoli.. Rent for redress, and unless (as had been ably , argued last night by the Honourable Member for Calliogtoo) something were dune for their relief, the trade of the Country must be lost. The throwsters were 'still more distressed, if possible, than the others, because the» Machinery was not applicable to any other purpose. • Mr. FERGUSSON said„ if he thought inquiry could mitigate the distress of the silk trade, be would wit., lingly vote f .r the motion. He did not think Govesaiw men[ chargeable with having yielded to the political ecocomists on this queition. He decidedly approved' of the duty of thirty per cent. It was necessary for the protection of the immense capital employed in the silk trade. If the silk trade were properly protected, it would increase in the same proportion as the cotton trade had in forty years—namely, by one hundred fold. He thought the Right Honourable Gentleman's plan was the best that could be adopted. He thanked the Right Honourable Gentleman for hii proposed used& cation of the laws affecting the silk trade of India • it would be a great benefit to India, to that people w hom we had conquered, and whom we were bound to aid and encourage, particularly since, by the importation of our muslin, into India. we had destroyed the Indian muslin manufacture. Our fellow subjects of India were not the barbarous slives that some Hon. Members had described them. As fellow subjects they were entitW to all the benefits resulting from the system of ha trade adopted by hogland. Mr. SADLER, in explanation, defiied that he bad said the people of British India were slaves; if Om were slaves the disgrace belonged to the Government under which they lived. He thought they were the subjects of the &au •lodia Company, not of the Crocco. if they were fellaw...,mbjects of the people of England be was glad they weit'so— if they were riot he hoped they soon would be so. As to the goopbrofAllare he had iii , feeling towards them but e rif kin - disett• ..- • - Mr. FAG USSOAtedpisi 'Mier. of Igtilatitint *owed lbw doe People or In. wiles s 4th* Cretins of Great Britain. Mr; EGERTON sal4ftbr utile in Metelerdirkl oad other 'play' were moth dlstriiiied. ',milli:as, dase;veAliquiry. He ciredially approved tire litotion. ' Mr.P.THOMSON-ezpressed gratitude to the Right Hon. Gentlenian (Mr. Fitzgerald) for the very able speech* whiCh'he had delivered on the former evening. He, however, felt considerable difficulty on the question,- 'for he had not heard one word, with the exceptionof the speech of the Honourable Mover, that any connec tion really existed between the distress at present exist ing and the trade of 1826. The Honourable Gentleman , contrasted the speeches delivered on the preceding evening in illustration of his assertion. With respect to the proposed measure of relief, the appointment of a ComMittee, that would be the very means to prevent relief; it might be likely to produce a further stagnation of the trade; such had been the case in lornser instances, but at this late period of the Session, no benefit could arise. He should rather say to the Hon. Gentleman propose your plan, rather-than move for a Committee of Inquiry ; but in truth he had no plan to propose.• He admitted.that distress in the silk trade existed io certain disteicus but it was not general ; he read an extract from a letter of a manufacturer, which stated that most of the mills at Manchester were in work—that he was not afraid of a reduction of the duty on silk; there was a stagnation not only in the silk trade, but in other trades, which had arisen in a great measure from the delay of Ministers in coming to a decision with respect to taw and thrown silks. The H•rn. Member, in alluding to one of the causes of the distress, said it had been cleatly weed by documents upon the table, that it proceeded from overtrading. Did it not occur to the Hon. Gentleman, that the silk trade had been depressed at other periods—in 17F5 and in_lBl6? Did it not extend to other branches of commerce? Were not local causes operating to produce the distress? Was there not a species of book prices which operated to cause the distress? The question, however, was to be judged by facts. He would state one—A manu facturer of serge, a friend of his, had an order ; he sent for, two operatives, and asked them woulJ they take the work. The asked the price; he repl ed , he would give them 7J. p e r yard. The men desired time to con sider; they went to their Parliament to consult, and the result was, they .declined to work. Now, what was the consequence? His friend got the work done in Essex for sd. per yard. Bqt how stood matters at Manches ter? Why, it was well knowis that the men there turned our, and were able to support themselves f I four months, in consequenie of the combination which existed in that town. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. P Thomson) then directed kir attention to the case of the throwster. .In concurring with the plan of his Right Honourable Friend, he did so because it was best exited for the purpose for which it was framed.— He contended that it Would be a benefit to the throw ster to relieve him' (torn the duty. The quantity of now . Silk imported into this country has greatly in creased, while the quantity of thrown silk had de creased. There had been a constant reduction of duty ow the litter 'article, therefore the throwster had no case to stand upon. The great cause of the present distress was want of capital to purchase raw silk. The throwster generally applied to the broker for raw silk on credit, and after throwing it, returns it again to the broker, who sells it to the manufacturer, and pays the throwster for his labour. As long as things went on well, there was no cause of complaint, but when there was a de cline in the market the broker hesitated to trust the throwster, who for want' of capital was obliged to leave off business. It was a matter of fact. that no throwster employed his machine in throwing fine silk, while he could employ it in throwing coarse silk, as the profit on the latter was more than on the former. .He maintained that no matetial disadvantage could possibly arise to the throwster by diminishing the duty on the importation of fine thrown silk, because the finest quality could not be thrown in this country. He thought that if persons of fashion would indulge more in the wearing of silk, it would give an impetus to the consionption4, Joel( the . lady who went to Alusack's would wear silk, the female Who lived at St. Gileis would do the same. He could by no means agree with the Hon. Member for Caliington, that the trade of this country was on the decline. He would convince the House. by returns on the table, that there was no foun dation for such an assertion. Thu Importation of sugar in 1813 was 3,127.000 cwt. In 1824 ... 3,876,000 cwt. In 1826 ... 3,574,000 cwt. In 1263 .. 3.540,000 cat. The kaportatloa of moose In 11183 ... 2,742.000 lbs. In 1824 ... 8,524,000 lbs. In. 1826 .. 1:1.5511 003 lbs. • • In 1588 ... 13,272,000 lbs. The importation or cotton in 1223 was 187,000 lbs. In 1827 ... 24%000 lbs. A similar Increase appeared in the importation of Raz. The insportation of tallow to 1823 was 788.000 cat. In 152$ ... 1,194000 cwt. He would ask the Honourable Member if this appeared like a &cline in trade? There were complaints of dis tress in other countries as welt as in this. The state of the wine trade in France was much lower than that of the silk trade in England. The only mode w..ereby this country could rise in ber manufactures, was by a steady perseverance in the relaxing system, which she was now pursuing. The best way to promote indutiry was to let it have its own course. Mr. F. BUXTON said he bad heard much of politi cal economy in the course of this discussion, but he had beard nothing urged against the appointment of a Com. mittee, but that it would occasion delay,and delay would cause a stagnation of trade—that customers would not give their orders. This objection came with a bad grace trout the Kish* Hon. Gentleman, who might on the first day of the Session have moved for a Committee, which would have bed its report ready before this time. Even if there had.beetisonse delay, its disadvantages would be compensated by the benefits that would have , resulted, from foluiry. After objecting to the partial views taken by some Hon. Members, of the state of the trade at particular periods.' for the purpose of making out their own peopositioos. the Has. Gentleman went on 'o show that the trade of the tbrowsms was in a state of decline. In proof of this be read an extract of a letter from a Gentleman whose opinion on this subject, be observed, was entitled to more weight than that of any Other man in Englaod. He alluded to Mr. Ber nard Royd, of Manchester. The extract stated, that they bad written .to the Right Honoufable V. Fitz gerald, stating the advantages enjoyed by the Italian throwster over the throester in England, and they begged to be allowed to trite themselves and their machinery out of the country. To this letter they did not expect an answer, nor did they complain of it ; but still they thought it too , had to destroy a man's trade, and not allow him to take himself and his tools to another country, where he might carry'oo his trade with advantage. 'The Honourable Member (M. P. Tbonsson) bad said that th e distress of the trade was bight: coloured, and that there was as much felt before in the trade as at present. That might be, but, the distress felt at the time of the meeting at the M ao sio shows., in 1816, was temporary—it seat ff in the following spring; but the present distress began in th e autumn, continued through the wines, and there." now no chance of its being removed in the spn al. He wished he could say that the distress was overrated, but unfortonstely there were . now. thousands in th e trade in a state bordering oa starvation, from which they were preset red by the liberality of the public and theformation of soup societies. When - he 'kuei or t h at distress, which was greater than could be conceived by those who had not witnessed it, he should suppott the motien for a Committee; he sbould,support that nia tion even for the sake of the Government itself, to show thatit was not the cause of the distress. It wa s sa id the system proposed by Government would put an end to smuggling, and would create an export trade; big had it done cater? He apprehended it would be lon td that it had nor. If the superiority of our machine ?) . could compensate fur our disadvintaees in other q. l spects, it would be something; but the costs of therm, material and the price of labour were slut us had to compete with. How could we Compels with the French in the former when they pe. duced that m aerial; or how could we compete win dem in the price of labour, with the he4•y press seed taxes, and the high prices of every article of CaitiValp. lion in this country? Under all the cireumstances, hr should vote for she Committee. because as inquiry wag but an act of justice to all parties. Mr. C. GR A /,IT, alter eulogising the general conduct of the Petitioners. and expressing his sympathy in their distress, said he should confine himself to a consider.. tiros of the single point, as to whether a Commune ought or ought not to be m i sprinted ? He denied that it was possible to return to the general restrictive system, and contended that there a as no ground for attributing the distress of this pat tic ular branch of trade to the system which had beers adopted by his Right Hon. Friend... I file Right Hon Gentleman then went into a statemett of the imports since the new law, - and justified an asset. tine which he had foinie. ly made, that the trade of * throwster bad been crested in this country by it, aid that it had given rise t . the most important improve. ments iu machinery. There was thetefote no ground for the argument that a Corn Littee could possibly proveany connection between the present distress and the system of his Rig h t Honourable Friend. He felt surprise and the deepest regret that those who now suffered should be led info ally such delu ion as to suppose that they . could find relief in returning to the restrictive laws... their digress was attr•but d to the ed.rrissi..o of i lte i ga manufactures under the new law; but %%hen. in the years 1816 ni.d 1817. 40,000 persons acre thsovin nut of employ in S,•italfields. and 40.0001. was subsciaied by the public for their relief, the cause was then said to be the inundation of the country with the silks of France. H then was the present distress to be ie. lieved by a return to a*state ssi things under which as equsl distress was seen to have exited? If they found the general industry of the country lahnuring.onder ow common distress and difficulty, he could not see wby that was a reason for appointing a Committee to inquire into the causes of depression in the silk trade. If thee no ground has been put f.rward upon which a Conn mittee could do good, they were bunnd to look at the effect which the app• intment of a Committee would have in aggravating the distress of those who asked f r it. For these reasons he could not consent to give . a silent vote sgainst the motion. Mr. RANKES had no intention to follow the Hon. Member through the wliole of his speech ; the Host. Member seemed to deny the state of distress that es. isted ; it would almost seem that he thought the trade was in a floutishing state, but the facts proved the din tress; and when any branch of trade or manu'actures were in depression and difficulties. the House always thought proper to appoint a Committee r f Inquiry. It cannot be denied but that within these few years the Silk Trade bad met with unexampled distress; but then it was said it was owing to the improvident extension of manufactures—instances were given of the great in. crease of mills, looms, Ice. Why, if thid was the case, surely . that al •ne was. g fit subject tor inquiry —(Hear, hear)—and a Committee ought to •be appointed. All he aske3 for was . inquiry. and it was not do corous in the House to shut its ears against the universal cries of distress—(Hear, he r) But an inquiry ought to be Instituted to ascertain It tae present system was she cause of It. He saw the present feeling of the House was In favour of the Right Hatintrable Gentleman's policy. He sincerely trusted k might turn out for the good of tbe.eonotry ; but he did not disk that it should be taken for granted that that system was right. sad all who differed front it wrong—(Hear, bear). He thought the principles of free trade the way of making a great country late a small one---(Hear. hear). He was afraid free • trade would be pushed to an extent that must bring general ruin on the comm. A favourite argument was, that other nations would follow es —ibis bad not been the case, but then is was said—" Oh s the experiment has nut been fairly tried." He thought the liable were pretty well saddled that the country was ruined. and Gus forbid the experiment should be further pushed. Was it not minim to..walk the streets, and see the starving spectres, in the sloped meo w that were every moment to be met with. H. did notions to say by voting for a Committee of Inquiry be should recommend if it was appointed to return to the old system, but merely fortis purposes of inquiry. The Hon. Member here went into a lose statement of the capons and Imports of silk bit the last few years. He denied that appointing a Committee would have the effect of increasing the present distress. The experimental measures omit not to be carried to a greater length without inquiry. lie Amid 'tappet t the motion, and sincerely hoped Hon. Members would est oppose it, whatever they might think of the present sperm. Sank they would not say, knowing as they did the distress which 'AMA that there should be DO inquiry. Mr. Alderman WA ITH MAN said, at the lateness of die beat he would not trespass long upon the attention of the . House. nos knottry; under a free trade, never could compete with Freon — no arguments that he had beard in favour of it were in hie "leis satisfactory. All that they amounted to was that there was as over production; but no 'Hon. Member had given statement of the imports bond& country of foreign silk within these hot kw years • if they had, it would have bees found to have greatly Is. creased. They were told that it would increase our internam with other countries, but the experiment had now been tried lee several years,and he did net know where to look for a desk edam tap that bad has obtained. France has Imported within these dime years Into thin country 1.200.0001. of fancy goods and articles tif luxury.and had only taken beck plain goods to 400.000 L This meaty was different to most others ; it was a manufactories country, ml ought as am* as possible to import the raw material, and ewe the masolosturod goods. He knew much had been said and written on heti dine et the "nylon. He had read some of them, aptil be was se bengliered that be hardly koew any thing abouesis 1011WIF at had been that some of the new machinery, abut ' so muck had lon said* was feted Mt to answer se well old. There were many renew to account for the incensed oleo suespdoe et the raw asatorial—it was In the 'master:tun at WM goods;, it 'should. however, be recollected that there was NW 700,0001. worth same of raw silk on band than at this time MI year. Meth./ reason of increase was, that silk had become a mese general snide of wear, .therefore the costae weavers at C and other places bad tC .therefore IllaiS hands to silk manufactureYV present eyeteeth* must denounce as impolitic and unjust, sad. It t etiin a few years longer, would rein the trade shogsthee dotiedd be considered that the silk theorems outplayed 100,000 men, woonen,.and children; and if these measures were persisted in. they must room to some other country, sad then. he wesM ask, what was to biome of the population? The Hun. Member here went into many particulars of the distress which new per vaded the manufacturing districts, and concluded by urge oaths House the Aswissky of appointing a Committee. media would have Ids hearty support. Mr. COURTRNAY Opposed golne.lnto a Committee, became be did not see any geed which could be done by it. It apitested that few Membeenhit soy desire to return to the old system s sod the only question 'ditch a Committee could - settle. was the mood of the protecting duty. Now the duty already established was mf• • I 1 1 . 1 - 1 .4 i C 3 I C • i , . 1 • I • i 4 C m •1