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that France did not consume some than one-third of silk which they manefactored.autthat as bar Mini outlets for the trade were Americo and China; irk riff. thew markets should be *at .;against portals:in of silks: the result brat be to eat' the mer chants residing in this country, and to transfer to this country the superfluous goods which have been menu facnted far a foreign usgriret This is a serious evil, • as the state of the manufacturers of this country are doomed tomtit upon the contingencies of the commer cial regulation of other countries. Various causes have been assigned for this di -tress, amongst which have been over-trading, competition. and others. But is it competition that led to such consequences. when .six thousand looms are out of employment? The obvi ous cause of all the evil has been kept, I will not say intentionally, out of view ; and that lathe great gawky of manufactured goods which are continually imported from abroad—(Hear. hear). The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. C. Grant) has attributed to these free trade regulations the prosperity which he said was de rived to the trade froM these ; regulations. Bite it eVi• deritly appears from the retinas of the nine years, from 1815 to 1824, that the state of the trade was pro. giessively improving during all these years. Io the years 1818, 1819. and 1820, the aggregate amount of silk imported was 6 592.0001b5. weight, the average of each of these years being consequently equal to 2,194,000 pounds, being more than double the average importa tion of the three preceding years. In 1821, 1822, and Ind 1825, the aggregate amount was 8,072.0001b1. which was equal to 2,691,0001b'. per annum. I have thris now shown that the importation of raw thrown silk increased progressively from the year 1815 to 1824, and in a very large proportion. It must be obvious, theiefose, to Honourable Members, that with respect to thisilk trade, at least its progress and flourishing con • dition cannot by any means be traced to the introduc tion of these new principles for whith Right Honour ableand Honourable Gentlemeo so warmly contend, and' consequently it most be inferred that but for those new measures trade—that particularly to which I al lude—would have gone on increasing. The Right Honourable Gentleman will take, I :appose, the quest. tity of raw silk imported, and for which duty was paid at •the Custom House in each year, rise fair criterion of the consumption. In 1827 there certainly was a large importation of the , raw material, which the, Right Ho mutable Geatlenien will bring forward as ,a proof of the Nourishing condition of the silk trade in thavyear ; but I deny that the importation of any single year should torus the groundwork of his argument or system; such a mode of argument most be fallaciottsi She daly line and proper foundation is the average of a number of years. If die Right Hon. Gentleman takes the wrong of raw and thrown silk imported in 41ye years 1826 and 1827 he will find a decrease as compared with- the iinroti . 4011 in the years 1824 and 1825 of 1.149,1.531b5. Now these two last mentioned years (1824. and 1825) were tears of prohibition, and the two othei yeats (10 4 26 . and 1827) were years of relax-tion. There ate two other 'peculiar circumstances which contributed to an Increase of importation in the years 1826 and 1827. It will be •reeollected that in the year 18'26 great alarm existed owing to the ignorance that prevailed re-pecting the nature and extent of the measures to be proposed to Parliament. There was in consequence little stook taken out' of' hand. Confidence having returned in 1827, and the price of silk being 10w•, large quantities were taken out of the stock. not only for consumption, bat for the purpose of making op the stocks already ex, bunted \ If the Right lion. Gentlemao will take the additional stocks on hand in the sth January, 1828, over these on hand on the sth January 1827, be wiN find that they amounted to 600,0001b5. and an increase over the stocks of 1824 of' only 215,8761b5. Then, wit* regard to the importations of the present year (I Meal 1828), it is of great importance to state what the ishS creased importation of the raw material bas 'been, bra! cause the argument founded on that increase is, that increased consumption had taken place within that year. The increased importation of raw thrown silk in 1828 over 1827 was 78.5501b5. (The Hon. Gentleman bete stated the respective amounts in. each year. They how. ever, pr oved that the increased importat;on of 1828 over 1827 was only 78,550.) But this bears no proportion to the large stocks on hand ; and when we shall couse consider the quantities of silks imported we . must bear is mind the stocks on band, and consequently unsold, at the end of the year.' would also call the attention of theHossi to the subject of importation of manufactured silks, hi order to see what these importations are. In each yaar they bare increased to an alarming extent. The astir• tinned regular importations in the year 1828 amounted • ha l vahs. to 676,9751.195.6d.which showed an increasing, indeed a rapidly increasing, amount, for in the year 1826 the imports (that is, for which duty was paid to the Customhouse) amounted in value to 44,..000L only; in 11127 they wen 555,0871. Now, taking the *mount for which duty was paid to be only one third' of the value of all that found their warintotheeountrle the other two thirds being smuggled, it would be found that the annual value of foreign manufactured silks im ported r Warty and irregularly is no less than 2,000,000. Now, if we reckon the value of the mate: vial and of laboor as equaly it will result that a million arks per annum At taken from the English annefac: - carers. It is here extremely necessary to state what .osi the exact amount 'of this importation, because most tertaiply it must be conceded that ill foreign manufac. tared goads imported displace an equal amount of our own manufactures. If, therefore, we follow up this re mark to ascertain what is the amount; of the loss of labour tow by these importations, we shall And it to be . 1.068,2331. per annum. I feel that lam catering into very long and very diffuse details. Ido not wish to Intrude unnecessarily upon the time of the House. but I feel it my dißy on this occasion to state all the facts of the eine I have ventured to bring forward,in order that the House should see exactly how it stands. There Wane branch of. the silk manufacture of this ci wary already nearly annihilated. I mean the fancy and the figure branch. Owing to various CirCUltitteptili it Will . be found that this hitherto important of our Manufacture has been giver' up, to foreigners., In esti. 'mating the prosperity of this trade, I most say that,the cAul..tion ought to be frunded, not on the number of pounds weight, but on the number of yards, for it will be seen that it the articles we now manufacture be of a heavy nature they will teq tire a smaller.quantity of labour ,to product them than those of a finer and more •elabOraiely worked description, and that consequently the most 'lucrative portion of our trade is, given, op to foreigners. isimportant, therefore, that. the Right, Om,. Gentleman should show to the Hods, and the country the advantages of the pee system.oter that wbich'it has displaced. In the article of capons lam inclined to think he *rill find this a matter of,sonsidifil, cult,. !Or the whole amount of &high aspnallettute4 silks exported list year anmented only to 81,0001. Th Samittat qf tiatitiket_utes exported to Franc! i in IS* geas,: i ttboor, • - "ftt tbil .wi ll not be enough ; for it ii linen . on the Right Hos. tientleman to show, trot merely what has bees date, but what is expected to be the' ww system ! ! Wo b ant his iiipinopi 'and tbriuktere Allithatt have bestir Kopecting Ointiornan intish prevent sariviling, - - _ (and in making - this observatitro lei stood to impute negligence of duty., , per pitied in the Preventive Service) —surely, I _say. it must be conceded that there is rio mode liy which ef. fecteally to prevent smuggling but by placing the *port, duty .et 4 point .so low as to leave two temptation, no profit, to the smuggler. Bet in doiok so you destroy the 'horse inanufactorer 'altogether: I contend that France is capable of manufacturing - any . Amount of b ilks which the consunsption of this tourney may require., • Reduce tl:e duties to the point at lihiCh• :smuggling will cease to be advantageous, and she will monopol se your markets to the utter turn 6f your ohs manufacturers. Report says that it is in the cutup Onion of the Right Hon. Gentleman to propose a dm -crease of the duty•en thrown silks, and that the duties on manufactured silks are also to be reduced. -But I ask, what benefit could result from Such meaSurei. what consequence could flow from them other thud's; the already low scale of wages of the •manufacturer must suffer still farther reduction? 'I beg leave to state to the House that I am in no der connected with the throwing branch of the silk trade; but I am bound to say, that those engaged in the other branches of the manufacture are not desirous of ad , vantages to the prejudice of the thtowster. Let the Right Honourable Gentleman bear in mind that the remuneration of the unfortunate throwster. is already re duced from seven shillings and sixpence to five Shillings (that is, by a full one third of his vested property) by the arbitrary and speculative .measures of which the trade hat been the object. Let him bear in mind; also, the large amount of capital that is locked up in machinery necessary to that-manufacture; and let them consider the various other hard,hips he would inflict on the manufacturer by measures'tending to a still further competition wit's the foreigner. The question I there fore ask is, are vested rights to be obliged to )leld to the influence of political or experimental opinions? If the duties shall be reduced in the manner 'reported to be intended, that on thrown silk will amount to one per cent. only, and that trine, spread over .the whole mameacture. will scarcely be-felt. What; -I will ask.f must that spiels& be which -can only be maintain' by the bankruptcy of the manufacturer and the *WA*, famine enforced upon 150.CU0 men? I -must considest as an argument ..against the further maintenance 114 that system that p new proposition respecting-ithas lase come necessary. But then 'we are told that these -aril the triumphs of fie* trade! If they be triumphs, they, are triumph; like many other results of visionary, la booted. and speculative innovationr, which liaireentailed pain, and privation, and suffering, upon hundreds of , thousands of previously happy and independent indi. eiduals. Instead of deeming the proposed measure of the Right lion. Geatleman artattempt. to insposee schen she ..system, I • should rather call it a struggle td evade and to ward off the blow,-by which, in the end, ill cannot fail so beset's...mimed. With respect to themb. jections which the Right Hon. Gentleman may take ici my intended motion for a Committee I can only say, that what distress is so extensive, so extreme, and so urgent as it is, something should be done, and expedi• tiously done, to terminate it. The proposed measures for the discouragement of smuggling. and the reduction of duties on thrown 'silk, will not be sufficient for that putpose. We shall have in autumn-neat a repetition of the distress which at present so lamentably prevails —(Heat, bear).. his now high time that something, should be done—that the silk trade should be t). LI upon a firm basis. If the Right Honourable Gets shall give a negative to my proposition, then, indeed, shall tremble for its effects upon the silk trade of the country. I trust, however, that such will sot be the CU,. The eyes of the country have been long and anxiously rivetted upon this question. The Ritht-Hou Gentleman himself must feel that if .he rejects the , motion for a Committee. with which I mean tocoaclade, he will be entailing on himself a heavy sesponsibility. Half a million of men are at the bar of this Rusk representing the distress that has been brought lapel them. Let those unhappy persons be no longer . •thd victims of speculative legislation. Let us hope that the Right Hon. Gentleman will not identify himself with the acts of his predecessor—that he will not take •for, 1 his motto Vestiges lulls mimeses. Let us hope that, talking into consideration the situation of this particular branch of trade of the country,. the measures be shall propose to this House for adoption will be every way suitable to . the emergency. The Hon. Gentleman con cluded, by moving for the .appointment of a Select Committee to consider the State of the Silk Trade. Mr. ROBINSON, in thing to second the (notice, culd notrefrain from offering , a few observations to 1 the consideration of the House, although the important nature of the case, and the peculiar circumstances con fleeted with it, obviated the necessity for any powerful display oforatory. The House would recollect that in the year ISIS the silk manufecturees, who were thou labouring under great distress, put forward some claims requiring that the importation of foreign manufactures 'should be prohibited, and that they. were rejected on the ground that they had made out no case, and as* repteeentation.of Abe two Rr., Hoo.Gentlemen o f the then President and Vice President of the Board' Trade (Mr. Huskisson • and Mr. C. Grant), that th ppl would propose measures which would be found to ' tarn a satisfactory remedy. for the distress compsahml of ; one of the Right Honourable Gentlemen is penis, culay, the Member for Inverness (Mr.C. Great), addi that If !that distress should not be obviated by the measures, the l before etitiOners would tom e oust l with increased claiths oa• its arteatiaa-4 His Honourable Friend (Mr. Pyles.) had gone so. into detail as to render It' .nnneeessary-,for. him. apply, himself to all the points of the question ; there was one, and an, important . breach • of- the trade, to which be could not help particularly toallodes He meant not to:dilate upon the sufferiagsof the-thew+ sandslof persons who were brought to.dturese and ruii by the decrease of that branch of the trade i•but , he should not be doing his slut" did he not .state that tat. .Macclesfield, Coventry, and, other places•isZo - glud„ and in Ireland. and Scotland also, thzatmost distresain. that particular branch. prevailed. He did not believe, that all that distress had. had its origin in the measure` of the Right Hunourable - Gentlemen opposite; ,but , it. bad been so much 'aggravated• by them •that, if•the imps-ratios of foreign silks was not mina restrained,' it was impossible that any measures the. Right Hes., Gentleman could peptic- would pause the effect of nm moving it. We were told that we mug• have-foreign silks, either legalfy introduced or smuggled rand there foie the petitigoete wereuskerli.which ere see.to adroit.; those which pa's A data to bit Majestyi 0e,030511 which' are snollfliesda by which the *WM is cOlivequesl l 7' defrandgd ? . If.‘hativert the only question for 411116 i. derelicts,, he shssid At:lithe:hate to causerie o tha-ob.. vious argument founds,: on it ; but if he found that mingling increased with the relaution of the duties, of, mailufactuses and commerce; but he would ask,was not the-mischief productirby ovettrading incredied by allowhigtheimportatiosof foreign "undreamed goodi. by *bid% the possibility .of recovering from the conse quences of overthatfin- twos elhottialry prevented ?-.-. Mit was also told Thar .shis. , Rho all other branches of manufactiim, was liable lb altethations of pros 'pricy and adversity ;•4sist be would ask, could that Distress be termed local or temporal y which had been revelling wove 189&?` He mewed,. therefore , that bough.heitcnitted that 'there had been overtrisding. vihish had a past in producing the existing distress; still thepriocipal evil was. the e importation of foreign silks, which rendered it impossible for the home manufacturer ter meet his opponent. 'fie had taken some . pains to in form himself respecting the principle of what was termed sae trade, and pnneipdly by reading with. attention the h efts Noble Lord (Gliderich) then, 111824, Chan cellor of the Exchequer, who recommended the relaxation of the restrictive system of the country. That Noble Lord Geld out, &monarch's arguments for the adoption et his , proposed alteristionso the great advantages that would arise - out 'of .relazatioo by the increase 'of our export trade; bat he would ask that Noble Lord to what ex mat bad his anticipations been jostified.to what caned bad exportation taken place toliussia,. to France; or par. titularly' ow the United Stater of Ativericit, - lhe flioitern meat of which had last year calmed an almost probid bitory tariff? Foreign States were aware that at present .they could not compete with us in meoufacturtm 'and therefore they abstained from actual provocation to reptirals; • and, in par* (dar t the United 'States knew very well that, their manufactures being only its their infancy. they would.. were • they to enter into ita race with us, be completely broken: A distinguished 'Frenchmen had atso• stated' tharthe liberal .s stem of England was admirable, and that, when they (the French) were able tooompete with us, theysiould. adopt it,:but that.for the mown i thty , woeld . abstain -from imitating us, acrd standby theft itstrielivelcws. He did not deny that advantages might restart from the. re. .move) of restrictions.bot whet he vt. old eontend forwas; - that we gave &demitasse teforei goer si and he defied the Right Hon.theot. to- point' out one instance in . which the country bad derived any lietiefit from those relaxations. How lamentable• was it a. t, thereto., that those poet persons. (the silk manufacturers) should trot . only suffer,. bet that 'their 'suffering - trad - beiglisated " in imageries which . had produced no Wee& to the cooetry at large: 'He would ask.the Right •Ifee..Gentlereas whether it would , not be wiser t° receardettlie whole questfoothad perilek. and by firsesistinivermtinor to inSetgreit (Viii opou the coootty P It pras qbite impossible. for Sakai . well known, that Abe. labourer of chi* country meld 'compete with-the labourer of France—(Hear; hear): It warrld, asoreoventbr inrpterant to -brat id mind the .certain consequences that must result from an bleeped, bility to supply a sufficiency of labour for the poor. Machinery had, both its manufactures and agriculture, 'already dune a great deal *abridging labour. 'Whit would, therefore, be the hate' bf the Country *hen I large proportion of its population should be destitute of employment, and :driven -ism phone and poet houses by crime and poverty. instead of being hides. .triously employed ? A Mod= similar to that helots the House bad been brought forward in. 1626, and was opposed by his Majesty's Governments principally on , thelptooad *ODIC *Wear flOrtire proper moment. 'lle did not call upon Goometheist to retrace g its i • bi t but be would say that the distress of 1626 to eighths .act exaggerated degree formed the grouod% for inquity. Reports.' falls tae' Oaf ed. frequently inched that Houle; and, being . * forward unexpectedly. passed without contradiction or refute. lionr—He confessed that he hid bear greatly surprised when .be heard she Right Honourable' Gentlemen (*# Member.for'Llverpobl)' last year. ' When • the shipping *platted bas under ditaussion. re ad a letter:from the *gent. of 'certain shipowners in the north of Eng , land, which -stated, that there win do want of em ployeieet for thippitig, but, on the contrary, they bad more than they, could Undertake: In . * few days after. wards he (Mr. a.) met -the winner chat letter, lied asked hint bow beosulct think iNf potting such a wea pon into the 'hinds of e Rightelonoutable Gentleniatt already 's'ufficiendy liable CO attack? He replied (bin he (Mr. Robinson) wished not to insinuate that the Right .ffonnerableGentleman had bees rainy of intentional suppression or omission 'of thee fact) that he '(Mr. Hite. kisson) had not'tead tbe whOle of the pissage--forßirit, after .stating that there :wawa mildewy of employment, be (the writes) had added that it wasiborrever; without leaving. any 'profit to 'the shipostuet. One arguldeet end by Hon. Members agaidst key alteration is she regulations 'of the silk trade . is, that there in of employment. to be had la the imanufacturst elitist article; and' I particularly ittersuber -the Heetarable Member for Inverness (Mr. C. glean - I) lairteor :(liodelf the great increase of import of ease raw materiel ara proof of that fact. But the Right Honourable Member swat initials' in. hie opinion spot that lnibjekt. • 'He -should have recollected' that the alteration in the Saban required a greater quantity-of the raw material to be used in thensenefacture of theartiele; bat even if the .ioeteastt of memniectore hid teen; &AIWA, stalit'would be no proof of the prosperity of the wide, so lees as the prices afforded-no pfit to the snansfacturer.-- (Hear, bear).—lt is DM my intention to enter into** detail of the principles if hire -trade; 'bet. I contend 'they trethteg .. it'eetetr libtted thila to "apply those principles to one Antioch •of one smseafactere to the MICIIIO9II 4i the - Wiwi. and vitheue any thing like sesipsvei4oollsrpunwlforeignitatieas.• if the princi ples of fir e trade scold be veraiscitatly established its this seeetey,•and at the sametase acted' upset in Our inaoisleureers4dalother satinet, tomtit, most gladly sup- Ireettthiste Eirlditsksi Set I - tad** eonshit to ippty those i tprindotet ta i lbekhstiecit ttresielselitea lean& of ear; i ands Another piedictioebastmen hazarded by a Right" ciao. Geotlematvnernely.lthet we &mild, by thw latioot termer introthitedtile INV to comps* wi th trigs mitrbela in thentabefaititittand beret Ofrilks- Own my Lord GOderikh went So Eat lista lay that we s h oul d Altai* litho lo *e wbeleteorld: -But hoer, I ask.. his: that pseditlitnt bentiverilled?. The trade ii at this db.' ment at ,it 'Stead still. 'Theed . ii: 'Gee `other Seisarli I wish to make spots this subjectr•Tbe Right Hon. Member; for LiverpeoliMt. -linakbeno).'. in • leek founded hie' orgessentsfressi epatieiestopreeinted brthi liteasteatime( for Taunton (Mr. .1110 . 1 ) - petition' containing u found-principles of pistitse4 etinomy as any I have swat 'restated to sit - fit bet illieotthialtobatboreeml abet . :Hight.bitnuttlievidemeirl?nothe , Odiftittione- Siblithi he has drawn frottait. Ido M I MI sefi ) 4 ' Itellioitld'ilf4 low Yet dikweiif toati4i - *),* 1 . 4 s4l: time of this► codriAty;uniess they idopied the piinciples upon which OM Government thOOPIA it expedient to act. If propel regulations were introduced for the due ptotection o ; ' 'the silk trade, the capital sod industry of this emam y were such as to WON its success. But I would oat, are we prepared to continue the system of free tied, after Noce and America have refused to adapt Jill*: principles, and have met ever; effort of ours by a enotinisante of their prohibitor; syitifin? We hist R e on with our system, but by , &big so owe shall add to the distress and misery to which the silk trade is reduced inn eiely part of the Upon sha le grounds I feel bound to support the !Dotson of the Nos, Meals► r for Coventry. That motion is only for a Com o suttee of Inquiry, and If inquiry was to be Mime a t present, the time may come 'Own •it wiltioree %kip upon us. and that too at a petiOd when It will be aa a d i more difficult to• enter upon it, or provide a same d n than at present. It is not my intention to deters the H% use any further. and I bhalicoackide with 4ptedios al hope that. after hearing the statement prososnoedk, the Bight Hon. the President of the Board of Tradi, the Home wdl consent to the motion fertile appoin, nsent of a Select Committee, to inquire into the dip. tresses which are oo all hands admitted to cast in the silk trade. • -- I Mr. V. FITZGERALD said be bad listened with the greatest possible ittentida to the itaternentS Of the Roo. 'lslember who introduced the motion, ai well as whose of the Hon. Member who seconded It ; btu nothing had occurred to shake his opinions is to the soundnesa pad good policy ofthe ezisthig tegtflationr.' AltboegValase of the many and peculiar difficulties with winch the S'ilk Trade was 'surrounded on every side..olthettgli warned by both the Hoe. Members not tiiesiskintstry —although he coofessed his inability tomer minutely into all the details of this great and complicated questisi —although be felt all the difficulty. of *Mails*: armlet. stances, and the suffering aid distress whleh 'atiteMeot existed in districts in which Trade Was carried op; although he felt the full 'foie of all these ergs. Mew, be felt it his duty to oppose the motion. 'He *Driblet& sintsfelyerith 'the - unfortunate suf. firers, Set be meld not meek to cheap the existing law upon the soisetateaseuts and •nstsappeehinsioas under which they laboured: He would; 'with ei leave of the 'Home, state the outline of the Mew 'sores which •Goieninsent Meant to adopt with ro. spect to dub important branch of our manufactories It would then become his duty to show that the din. tresses which . ..sifted in the lilt trade did not mire, hos the causes stated by the Hoe. Mover and Seconder of the present molds, but from circumstances over which neither the - Government not Parliament hid any cos. troll; sand further, he should show that the remedy proposed by the: Hoomeable Mover sad Seconder would, instead of curies, aggravate the evils corn plaine4 of tenfold. Set beforwhe proceeded to do kith. he Wilted the Housesto consider the manner in which the question was placed before them. He did only justice eo his owe feelings in paying i tribute Of justice to the manner is which the Hon. Meniber has•discharged his , day whit conditions% is introducing the motion. But, at she nose time, be 'could not - couteal frees himself the fact that he has headed his argotneiftstipdti mistakes pants, to - Which *big d lave oceesiosi to advert more par. deeded** and by. He would, however, declare here, that if he believed the proposed ingeire weeldteatribme 'to 'alleviate the .distems and 'Wiring' Which existed in 'that trade—bovietter how far be Might differ front the Hon. Members ors other points cossetted with it—ibe would dome give way, and coasent to the apptintmed :a f si t y commiture. But It was because be entertaiatta opialdn—it iras becalms be felt that a stateef suspense would be a state of iicreiried distress, that he opposed it. The very fact of a doubt being eassmaisedby the House of Comaloin, *bleb the appointisent o( the proposed Conimittee would imply, would have a ow deacy toidd to that distress, as k would give rise to as impression that the Legislature was about to recede from show regulatidni by•whith the Silk trade was regulated. The HOB. Meiriber who 'seconded the Motion had not left the Rouse in Mr difficulty as to what his objects were upon that occasion: The Holm must see if the silk tradestelpflret an impulse, that impulse Oleo be slow - Idd fewes totem upon an inquiry by a Select Coninsittie: Theligisiry by a Select Committee weal/ lead to opinion No w ids and vet loss that the trade mast , be strangled before any salutary tesult could be arrived From the i,pe of the Hon. Member who screeds/ the motion, it Clear that his object is the appals. meat of the Committee was a retura to those laws ipso. -hibittcarethich it • bud been found necessary to repeal. Did the Hoi. Me a gher or the House forget that only a few moments before the Honourable Member 'deemed the-nation Ira inquiry, he stated the necessity of re turning to theisrollibitoersystern 1" Let it not go forth to the country that there was in .t h at Hpsse less spa pitchy for the sufferings of the Mk-Trade than easited in the country generally. .It had bees said that every Mick .of foreign manufacture. iatrodoeid late the (gantry, was so mach takes front Abe industry of the booms maaufacturer. This was an assertion which he must combat and contradict...lb could ark the Has. Member who made it to refer to the year. when prohibition misted, and ask bias whether there was then a fair epeeist for competition I He would ask him further, whether be was permed a resist competition, when all temptation to the improper introduction of foreign articles was removed ? He would ask him, if prohibition were to be again resorted to, whether with it be could restore the high prices for merly enjoyed by the silk throwster and wearer? Would he be enabled, by the adoption of that aseassee, to secure or increase the consumption; or by what means would he prevent the public from resorting le the use of cotton? He would refer to the amoem of crag paid when a certain portion of foreign Alb was allowed to be impacted--would the same cooked , . tion arise when restriction was introduced ? The Hoe. Member said it leas in vain to attempt to pat dews smuggling, unless they loomed the duties;e and yet he asks, will prohibition prevent smuggling ? In I 821„whea the other House of Parliament inquired into the object the silk trade, they found themes of the distils' thse sting to arise from over-wading, and abate therm. sire of smuggling French silks • into this country. Ii 11116, when upwards of 40,000 persons were out of employ in that trade, the whole was attrffieted to smug gling-a-so Much so, that persons interested is the trade proposed to Government the conditional admissim al franc% silks, with a Timm the prevention of uniullag. It had been said that it was easy to ffistinguish Mtwara English silks and silks of French saanufamore. Was the Hon. Mosher sure of that fact.? He would tell the Hon. Mamba, that whoa the prohibited laws were is force, the English silks were easily knows by their its feria*, to those of fors*, isandattere; but slats competition was allowed, the Eighth manufacture had intichimpmved, thaterizersis bad by mistake bee* of &OA goods, which seisms were; aped vary, obliged so be abandoned.llleas). But if the prohibitory system• were to he re.esseted, bow woad be Honourable Member proper* to -eaforce k? We, they to 'return t 6 claw diniticilarr visits into ' , Mr man's rmittenek upc the bob of any comma is former ? 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