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M I .1. ' so powerfol Iniseltiof. As to the danger of the Atwell prineildert el repalsioe aMOngst faellinti. Noe let if establishment, end the will of the clergy, which bad boss , h e seppoord that the kw on this subject was clearly I involved i ill a argoimest, he wished to God time Ate awry. the parochial owlish, elergo—(Hear, Lear)—toold be ex. andermosid. The Marriage Act declared that all a nined at th e bor. He would trust the decision of the the , insn ' i lg et of persons ander age, - celebrated oirestios epee their assertions. What, then, was in the was , without the consent of the natural parents ilf *.weistemewt? The well-paid episcopal clergy of the err gaterdnorts simald he invalid. But when country. As to the charge or isainuatiost of trenching on the Act mentioned a natural mother, it was ehurth peoperty, by promoting as alteration of the potato tithe Maua one of the last who would attempt to reduce not supposed that it meant that the consent of a the property proeirfi of (tat body. tie wished that citfieri it OM l mmh " t° the marriage of a child illegitimately time of the Umiak had lees hawed as to the appoweistiow I 'men would render tile Contract valid. However, of the church property. He considered that according to 1 the derision of one of the greatest Judge' who ever the Scat principles of Justice, they were bound to preserve t eat in the Ecelesiamiral Court (Sir Wee. Scott), in that property; bet it was no evasion of it to propose a the case of Legget sod Horner, altered the opinions eirowiatation, without which it would be lepossible to col- lees it at all. t 0... mankind, soh eh had been held from the passing Mr. GOULBURNroplaisseil. of the Marriage Act in 1753, to the period of make Me. PLUNKETT reauteketi ea the impropriety and in.. ing that deetatott in 1799. It coald not therefore convenience of going into this disteseion at presets', sad es. he reasonably argued that the law was sufficiently pee:ally in a tone which the Petition did not reeve. The clear, and required no illustration. He should prayer was for as •Iterallos io the colleen°. of tithes— mot for • reduction of tither, which the Honourable Gentle- therefore vote for the Bell, and oppose the adVird• man himself would scarcely wish. For himself. he had went proposed by leis Hon. tool Learned Friencf. . beets oufairly dealt with. He was not opposed to the land. Dr. Lusuitte•roe observed, that the grievances lards—he had always berm os the best terms with them : but of the present law were so strong and pressing, lie repeated what he bed said before, that the far greater pert i s____ attnougn per haps not quite so great we represented of the rhumb arose f ro m the revenue of too heavy rents. by Isis li on. and Learned Friend who had just sat He explained the principle of the me boat to be intro• dated is be merely • power for egtesdneg and con6reaing a down, Set were eufficiently urgent to justify the very advantageous practice which had been adopted is some int rodoetion of the measure. of the parishes,hy which the landlord sad parson came to as Dr. Pott.ustoaa said, that the measure which agreement as to their tithes to their mutual beurSt. IN said, lie had introduced most nut be considered as con. as before, that \remold not see his way in Use mitten's* sad fined to the marriages of natural children. bat to alteration of tithes:, hemmer whatever wield be held to am ply here, would equally affect all other properly. Ile I all mariiiges generally. The Marriage Act de sioaid go as far as any one in geese rid of thht Oared all martiages lend without the consent of imisacce, the tithe proctor—and that greater nu/sante, the parents Nod guardians invalid; therefore that law tithe farmer. Let the landlord sud parson eseoptrate sod t affixed a blot which must be perpetual ; time they would soon be rid of both. If they could not ce-ope. could not cure the evil. The object of the pre sage, they men madame to suffer as they were sloilig at Ker m i t. sent Bill aide to remedy • defect which had existed Lure ENNISMORE def. nded the landlords in Ids pert of for a length of tiros., but which bad become porta tbe country, and attributed the heavy reels to the exactions cularly manifest within the last Obesity yeses. or the middlemen. Perseus sometimes willingly, sometimes unknowing- Sir J. NEWPORT said that the Howse moat be comdeced ly, entered into the Marriage contract in this tine by it. own papers that something //OM NMI be dose. There were Niue parts is tea where uo potato. tithe had yet bees lawful manner, and every day they had instances tsaeled. Sturdy they would sot leave those plates open to of ire:eons applying to the Court, after cohabiting the demand s aid th e leasing of the tithes made It trepoil- and having issue, endeavouring to set aside the elide to interfere. There wee ad r Irmo le pestent • tolln. licenses obtained on their own oaths, end in fret 'notation, especially with lay lospropessiors. The patio.. , _ ... tithe hod been recently demanded is placer where the rent availing themselves or the benefit of their own per. led out been isiereased these thirty years. lie had had on. jury. It could hardly then be denied that such a eke his eye Wit hundred tithe causes of one Court, the stare grievance would require some remedy. men of which was 9J. the =WNW* 14d. ; the highest costs The chitin was theta put and carried. 'lead. Here woven evil of loesieslable remit. The next clause enacted, that the marriage of Mr. DALY raid, that nothing short of • complete revision any persons who had cohabited up to the poising of the system week, be at all useful, and coufirmed the lee , timuny of the Right Hos. Baronet (Member fur Waterford). of this Act should be considered valid. He knew of three ur four Courts, where the Seneschals got Mr. Vl' ETHERELL objected to this clause, because from 200/. to 400/. fur judging tithe causes, the highest of it had a retrospective operation, and, on the pre. • which was So. sumpt i on or anieudit4 a general measure, it tended .: . Mr. N. COOPER said a few words. to i nva d e private rights ; • and he challenged his Hon. Mr. GRATTA N rejoced at every word pronounced by every Irish Geolleman this evening. They all adoritteol that and Learned Friend to produce an instance, in she system was intolerable. There was no Irish clergyosass which a measure affectiog the poesessioa of property who did his slaty to_kia flock, who would nut rej.iice at so bad a retrospective operation. alteration. If the bill cooly went to Rive a leasing power, a ,4 ail) reform:l- the Roo. sod Learned Geollemas might as welt keep it is Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, teat his pocket. tory measures mind in some degree ilirVe ll retro- Mr. CAREW presented a Petition from Cesar Colelough, spective tendency, in order to establish that quiet •of Comity of Wexford, complaining of the tithe system. possession of rights which was necessary to preserve Mr. COKE pretested a Petition from Wells, Norfolk, the order and harmony of society. And when he sew ageism any alteration is the Naription Lais. Mr. HUME presented a Petition from the Law Statiouers the watchful guards that were tasted round the melee orient the Bill for regulating the Stamp Duties, frivolous rights, such as a butcher's, or a baker's, Mr. H. G. BENNETT brow& op the Report of the or a tailor's bill, he could not help expressing hair : Masslaughter Bill. surprise that we should leave the most important Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that one part of the Bill interests of mare in which the happiness of father, would have a moat beneficial operstios. It would remedy . **s of the great defects afore criminal code, which snood wife, child were involved, exposed at all times egaiest the canons of criminal jurisprodeaces namely, affix. to be called in question. lie admitted that log a diaproportioard punishment to some offences, and also there was come justice in the deviation of to t ma.sseerael punishment to the same offence. The principle Feigners frotn our laws oa that subject, and some i prof Aught ovens our criminal law should be this, that in truth in the remark that we protected no tights , all rises there should be the least possible punishment that ..moold preempt erumeo-that is, there should he the greatest brit those which came under the denomination teulausay of human 'offering. and in all issuances that lb, of ponsids, shillings, auud pence. His flonctersible depaalsbasent should bear • jam propos tiou t.i the crime cum. and Leaned Need (Mr. Wetherell) had thrown silted. Nothing could weaken tie coalldence of the people out. • challenge to produce a case in wbich femurs is the wilasusistratiou of justice, which should be al • law affecting property had a retrospectiit ten. ways held sacred, than to punish the lesser offrnee with the teary ; but did he forget that ten yests after the s ' , r pontsbasent, etc she same crime with differeut mulish mint. Marriage Act was pissed, a message was carried Some amendments were then proposed, and the Results. which had a retrospect to that period, and was in lions, in their semorded stale, were agreed to. fact an ex pustfado law ? It was to him a matter The Dill MSG ordered to be read • third time to-morrow. of great satisfaction that lie was not acquainted PUBLICAIEW LICENSER. with a single individual who could be affected by 9a the motion of Mr. BENNETT, the Rill fee regu- this measure, and lie could therefore speak his laimeliablieass Liceses was postponed to Pride) nett. mind the more freely. Ile considered the laws as Me, .BERNA L wished to take that opportunity of stet. Intelsat he considered to be a defect in the Blit. He seder. they cloud at present of the most obnoxious elm • , stood drat its operation would extend ell over the country, racter. If • younger son looked with an anxious ••d exclude Losidoo and Weat c nioafrr. N o w this he coosi. eye upon the property of has elder brother, and dered would be very unjust to the brewers in the eonntry, in prying into the secrets of the family of his wife who in fact would be taken by surprise, and it would affect should discover some family secret that would , most materially the property vested in publieshouses. 61e. BENNETT said, it would have been worth the deprive her of her fortune, the present law would V( bile o f Isis Hon. Fries'd to have examined the contents of enable him to carry destruction into that family, to tbe Bill before be bad made the representation to the Horse blast the expeciatious of the children, and send which he had just done—for, in point of fact. the Bill would them adrift orphans through the solid. He did iaclude London sad Westminster, and extend all over the not say that this was a ease of frequent occurrence. country; and he protested against the opportunity his Hon. Happily Friend bad selected for his observations, when the Bill was for the character of this country, the law about to be postponed, as well as seines the unfoooded in. only operated as a triul of the virtue of English. foreestion he had given to the House. men. Frequent examples might be adduced of the Oa the motion of Mr. CH ETWYND, the Vsgraut Laws moat heroic and magnanimous conduct of younger Aaseadosest Bill was postponed until to-asorrow. brothees. He wee willing to admit thst the character Mr. HOBHOUSE postponed his motion on the subject of the repeal of the Window-light Tax, which stood for Wed- no where existed except in Fos description. bet it aresday next, to the 19th June. was sufficient fur him to know that it had that ten. AGRICULTURAL COMMITTER. dency. But on the subject of precedent he wished to Me. WODEHOUSE brought up that part of the Report remind his Hon. and Learned Friend of the Act of tits Aericeltaral Costroutee which related to the Warc- passed in 1814, respecting the suits of the clergy. • imagist of Corn. • It would not be contended that that measure had' . THE MARRIAGE ACT. not a retrospective operation upon property, On the motion of Dr. PHILLImoit• the House for the Legislature annulled three hundred suns. went into a Committee on the Marriage Act against the cl.ergy, because, by lon disuse, the Amendment Bill.' claims brought 'against them were considered null Dr. l'Hirttmoae proposed en amendment to and void. 13y the present state of the law, the mar one of the clauses, namely, shut the words .‘ emu. ;loge contract was degraded below every other . cal mother" should be substituted for 44 'muml species of contract. All other contracts made by and lawful." a minor were not, as thin was, void ab kith". iE Mr. WZTHERELL said he considered the Ines- • minor contracted for the purchase of any thing, sore extremely objectionable, and uncalled for. It if he took laud on rent, the contract was voidable in feet Kehl out a bounty upon obscurity, instead f at his option on his coming to maturity; but it' he of doing what it professed to do, that is, to eltscidate continued lass possession after he became of' age, die laws relating to marriage. It gave an encou• and suffered the contract to remain undisturbed for rageaseet to every young Man of 40 years of age a time. that would be tuken in law as an assent to to violiteehe obligates's of the marriage contract the terms of the contract by which lie would become into which he had entered, or at least to leave it a bound. But the marriage of a minor was void chance and uncertainty whether he ratified that ab kith, and 'to continuance of the connexion tosmage when he ationied his majority. He should after maturity, no matter for what length of time, therefore propose that all the words after " tit it would bind either party that might afterwards be enacted," should be left out. however, should the &spoiled to question the validity of the coronet. Its t sense of the Committee be again,' him, at was his the case of any other contract being set aside, on illiculien to express himself more strongly upon the ground of nullity, bull) parties were placed on the different clatters as they were proposed. an equal footing as 'trisected the effect of their Sir JAMES MACKINTOSU said he did not hope to contract upon their station iii society; but in the be able to express himself in the strong language of case of a marriage contract disturbed and set Heide his lion. and Learned Friend (.tlr. Wetherell), but as inert's' after an observance of years, our parry lir wet hot prepared to hear any man in the king- ' only could be restored to hie former consideration. clout assert that there was no nrces.iiy for an &lie- The condition of the unfortunate woman was ration in the existing law ; for lie (Sir James) con. for ever lowered ; she was divested for ever sudered the prevent laws relating to marriage of the of what constituted her honour and gave einem. must objectionable character. They created dissen- lino in Bewley. The vld Marriage Act was tents and discord rinongst families—they diseulved replete with injustice. It wasoriginally intended to all the social ties, and introduced the most itetive present marquel marriages beteten young permit)* , . ' \ l of diffettat rants in life ; k is Amity et variantee in principle with the condition of British society; in which all ranks were urn confounded bat blend ed ; it was a law to prevent marriages of affection, and to promote those of interest; it was • law to uphold the distinction of ranks in society. foggiest the laws of virtue and of nature. It was intended perhaps to protect the daughter from the poor for tune-hunter; but it enabled the father to sacrifice her to the rich fortune-hunter, for the gratification of his own interest or caprice. On those grounds he should move to leave out the concluding part of the clause. Mr. WETHERELL argued in favour of the retro spective operation of the present Bill, from former ensettnents of • retrospective nature in other amt. Mr. D. GILBERT also justified the retrospective application of the Bill by reference to an Act passed a few years since, to give validity to dead. and wills, under which property to a very large animmt had passed agreeably to the intentions of testators and devisers, bat which had not been axe. cuted in strict and literal compliance with the forms of legal ahsignment, being only "signed and sealed," and not "deliVered." The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, the dap,. rience of every day furnished abundant and painful proof of the moral evils of the present state of the law of marriage in this country. which called loudly upon every considerate)* of moral benefit to society for amendment; and if it were admitted that there was a moral obligation to alter the law, he could not bring his mind to stop at any point short of re. !pairing the whole worse of crime and calamity aris ing out of the law as it at present existed. Where a great and acknowledged evil, one calling aloud for redress, existed, it became the Legislature of the country to step in to the relief of the suffering parties, and adopt such regulations as would not only prevent the future recurreoce of similar mischief, hut, so for as it could be done with safety, to remove that which the defective state of the law bad already crested. Ile could not therefore conceive on what principle it was that parties who had already gone into the Courts to seek their remedy, were to be deprived of the ad vantage of that redress which it was the object a the !present Bill to afford to parties hereafter placed in similar circumstances. Dr. Pistwuoite supported the clone its its original form; bat the amendment of Sir J. 1111Acs -1,44.0.ti was agreed to without a division. The remaining clauses of the Bill were severally agreed to, and the noose having resumed, the Bill was ordered to be reported to-morrow (tint day). DISTRESS OP IRELAND. The Irish Poor Elipploymeipt Bill went through the Committee, and was ordered to be reported to-morrow (this day). • . COLONIAL TRADE. At the request of Mr. Hume, the Committee on the Colonial Trade Importation Duties Bid was postpunedtill to-morrow (this day). . . NAVIGATION ACTS. Mrs WALLACE, in moving the order of the thy for the Committee on the Navigation Bill, said, 'he would take that opportanity of making a few observations, partly to explain the rens on which the measure was founded, and partly to remove some of those objections which had been made to ►t, on, as he conceived, an erroneous notion of its object. That object was to carry into effect the proposition which be, had stated to the House at the close of the last Session, for timplifyingthe Navigation Laws of the country, and extending and improving its niter. course with foreign nation.. This was 'imposed to be done by the repeal of • variety of Acts passed at different periods, froM the time of Edward 111. to the reign of Chance 11., for the regulation of the navigation of this couriory. Tile Act of 14 Charles 11. and those which had been parsed sub. requeirtly to that, were now generally considered as founding the existing navigation laws of the king. dim. Mo.t of those which had been passed pre viously, had by these subsequeot Acts been either partially repealed or - rendered uheeeessary. On the general principle of the expediency of asking the whole law on the subject clear and explicit, lie anti cipated no difference of opinion; the question of the • particular laws which It might be fit to retain might give rise to some discussion in the Committee. It was the intention of this Bill to ►epeal the law prohibiting the exportation of wool, which circum stances had rendered no longer necessary, and which had indeed long ceased to be operative. The law for regulating the importation of woollen cloths also was declared to be no longer necessary; indeed it had been virtually repealed by the heavy duties im posed iu 1787. It was his intention to preserve the law which granted to foreigners, in any case in which the interests of a foreigner were concerned, the privtlege of ■ Jut' , of one half British end the other half foreign subjects, which was granted by Edward 111. in confirmation of the Great Char ter, and proved the anxiety of our ancestors to give every encouragement to foreigners in their inter. Otarrie with thts country. The tint question for consideration was, whether any alteration of our ex isting Navigation Laws was expedient ; and the meat was, whether the alterations proposed were such as it wind be most ad►isable to adopt. He but heard it said that the Navigation Laws were the foundation of the wealth and prosperity of the country, and that the principle of those laws could not be surrendered without leadiog to t he deatruction •uf the shipping interest, on which oar 'national greenest depended. If by that it were Ascent that it was , necessary to the interests of the country to reserve the coasting trade, the fisheries, and the trade with those countries that had no shipping of their own to British vessels •lime, he was quite ready to go to that extent ; but if it were meant to decline that Al the existing restrictions upon the trade of foreign nations with this country should be preserved. he could not concur in that doctrine. He thought that many, if not most of those restric lions, might with perfect salety, and with great ad. 'unmet to the general interests of the country, be removed. Though it was perfectly true that we had a right to adopt whenever negulatiotis we might think proper. in respect of the trade to be carried on by foreign nations with this country. and that foreigners would harm no right to complain of our exe►cising such an authority ; yet tither nation* would have a right to retaliate, and to meet pro hibition by prohibiton. It became a quesitoo fur ronoiderution, therefore, how far it was for the in. teteat of this country to provoke such retaliatory measures. With respect to the great interests eta. t . A oft booked in our ahlppiog, in our Colook* in our commerce. and in our COMM Get ores, if other Powers were disposed to concur, lie Ovoid as 7 that the present system of trade was that which would be found the most conclusive to the prosperity of the general interests of the Gauntry. If hair. my heretofore observed • restrictive policy in our trade and navigation laws, we had at length discovered that the coarse we had been pursuing led to consequences ultimately injurious to our own interests, looked up to as we were by other nations as an example of prosperity, greatness, and strength, encouraging them to walk to our footsteps, it be. came the wisest and soundest policy that we could adopt, to shew them an example of an approech to the most liberal system; which, by benefiting them, would prove most beneficial to ourselves. The object of the present Bill was to mark the disposition of this country to do that, as far as was consistent with the national interests. The law, passed in the reign of Charles 11. were wise in • political point of view, the object being to pull down the naval power of our oppouents. But, that object having been effected, the laws began now to prove injurious. He kaew not how far the shipping interest might be disposed to concur with him, but he could assure them that they had not their own interests at newt more than he had. He knew how much and how closely the other interests of the country were connected with their prosperity, but he wished to promote that prosperity through the other interests of the country, and not to their exclusion. He knew that the safety of our com merce depended on the extent of our nasal power; but it was also clear to every man who paid any attention to the subject, that the way to foster the naval power of the country was to cherish its com merce. For observation and experience taught us that no country that wse flourishing in commerce had been without a powerful navy at the some time. Sitter the object of putting down the commerce of the Dutch, wills a view to the diminution of their naval power, which was the primary object of our restrictive navigation laws, the system of this coun try had been one of successive and continual re. taxation from those restrictions. The measures which bad been adopted with that view, amounted to somewhat more in number than 300 ; and yet under that system, within the last five-and-twenty pare, we had succeeded in carrying our commerce td its highest pitch, and our naval power had gone him* in hand with it. With respect to the time at which it might be proper to enter upon a general revision and amelioration of our navigation system, if it were to be done at all, he should say that no time could be so proper as the present moment. if they looked around, they would see every nation endeavouring to become commercial ; they would see regulations adopted by every fo reign nation to foster its own trade ; but at the same time, let them look to the restrictions and prohibitions which all were adopting against this country. We had no right to complain of those regulations ourselves, having vet the ex ample ; but the soundest policy we could adopt, the wisest course we could pursue, was to lead other nations Ilse way to a more liberal systeni. The first relaxation which lie had to propose was one that had been almost generally approved, which was, to permit foreign ships, manned by foreigners, to.bring goods from any part of the country to which they belonged. The next was in favour of a particular pat of Europe—he meant the kingdom of the Netherlands. By the Act of Charles 11. goods, the produce of any country is Europe were generally allowed to be brought into this coutory,either in the situps of thecouotry producing them, or in British ves sels ; but there were certain articles, the produce of Holland and the Netherlands, that were wholly pro hibited. He wished to place the kingdom of the Netherlands in the saute lineation as the Vest of Europe, by removing the restriction. Almost all the commercial men who were examined by the Commit, tee of Foreign Trade on the subject were of opt. nion that the restriction did not of all benefit the trade or this country, but that it was a great obsta cle in the way of our intercourse with that king dom... One objection he had heard, Which aloe out of the difference between the Dutch quarantine laws and our own ; the time allowed by them foe landing certain articles being shorter than oar own. But to meet that, if necessary. we might relax our laws. What was found by experience to be safe for the Dutch iu that respect could not be less safe for us. Another regulation which he had in view related to certain articles of Russian produce, which had hitherto been permitted to be imported into this country in the vessels of other nations. He should propose to oblige them to be brought either in the ships of that country or in British vessels, in the same manner as the produce of other nations. There was a subject connected with this 13111 which he had particularly to notice, in order to remove an erroneous and unfounded impression, that the alterations he had to propose would facilitate the introduction of thrown 'silk into this country. That opinion had given rise to the besetting of Members at the dour of the House in the manner which had been been that day, and to the violent remonstrances and representations of the numbers of proem likely to be thrown out of employment by such a mea sure, which had all been urged in a most forcible manner, and which be could view in no other light than so many attempts to intimidate Parliament. His opinion was, that the throwing of silk in this country ought to be protected. It had hitherto been efficiently protected by • very considerable ditty, which he did not propose in any way to touch. That duty hitherto had lint been evaded, because the attempt was not found to answer the purpose of doing it ; and there wee nothing in his Bill which would render it more easy or more profitable. The fears which lied been entestaitied on that head were thereforegroundless. The effect of these relax.. twos io our European policy would be to get rid of the confusion arising out of the Act of Charles 11. winch established one set of regulations fur one country, and others with other countries. The pre , sent plan would unionist, the whole. The neat relaxation he should propose related to America. ' It was inniecessary for him to call the attention of the House to the field opened for commerce in South America, or to the advantages which it preseuted. The House was aware of the eagerness of the United Stares of America to take advantage of the opening, and of the steps taken liy the Pre sident to anticipate us in the benefits to be derived from the trade in that quarter. He (Mr. .Wallace) did not mean to prescribe what ought ~ ~; •, , to be dose •by the Executive Government of thin country with' regard to the recognition of the inde pendence of the several States of South America ; whether they were to he recognised or not, and ;a what period, he should leave entirely to their de. ciaion. What be meant to propose gas, to pim a the law in such • state us to enable us to derive mediate advantage from the communication with them, whenever their recognition did take place. He proposed therefore to admit the ships of those Stated, with the produce of their own country, into our ports, ott the same terms as they should admit our ship , . With respect to British ships, it was not proposed to allow them to bring every thing front every piece, bat only from the countries *here commodities were produced ; because that would encourage fo. reign ships to bring goods from the most clis. taut parts of the world to their own pone neared' to this country, leaving to our ships only the trans.. It had been argued that other nations. from the greater cheapness of their construction, would hav e the advantage over our slupping, in the niter. course between us and them. But the fact had proved otherwise. For though the coon. tries in the north of Europe had the advantage of us in cheapness of construction, we had gained much upon them in dist respect eines 1815. He contended that our greatest rivals in that respect would be the Dutch, French, and Ameri can. ' • and not the n a ti ons i n t h e north of Europe. He had felt it essestial that the transit trade should be protected, sad that it ought not to be placed is any risk whatever. He hail therefore thought himself bound to propose that if goods, the predate of Africa or America, were imported to au, port abroad in foreign bottoms, and were afterward s brought into thus country in British ships, the goods should be entered for exportation oily. The first object was to simplify the Navigasi a s now scattered through a hundred Acts of Perlis. anent ; they would be reduced to a few simple enactments, and would be intelligible is any fo reigner who wished is tarry on a commercial ie. tercourse with Great Britaio. He trusted that if this country should thus set the example of relaxing of her N a vi ga ti on L aws, the example principles the severity would be it commerce e Ifollowoedratce wouldbryother the. coeutr hv t,aiel sounder e place. Mr. DAVERPOST defended the silk trod' from the imputation of being clamorous; it was at pre sent the only one worth carrying on, and it was very natural they should desire to be heard. Mr. WALLACE explained. Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY begged to enter his pro. test against the present Bill, because he conceiviid it mightarssentially militate against the interests of our ship-owners sod sailors. Sir M. W. Ittotre did not think the eppseiren sions of the ship-owners were at all overcharged it the present Bill should pass, and under all t►e ci►. cutustances he did not cooceive this was the most suspicious time for a change from a restricted ma more liberal system, particularly with reference to the rates of wages, prices of provisions, and taxes, with which inm ship-owners were encumbered, and which rendered it impossible fur them to compete with fo►eignere. The Him. Gentlema■ proceeded to give a detailed coniparisen of the expenses of s Prussian merchant vessel of SOO runs burden, sod an English merchant vessel of the same hinder., the result of which was, that there was • different against the British ship-owner, Is the Fleet Cost fl,ooo 0 0 la the Wien is the Provisions 274 0 0 £1,074 0 0 With this difference, which he could prove at the bar of the House, if necessary, it war not to be wondered at if the ship-owners Mt considerable alarm, and he implored the House therefore to pause before they broke down a system wider which the country hod so long prospered; more par ticularly ought they to be cautious, us even the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wallace) himself was not sanguine that any positive advantage would result from it. The question was then put, and the House writ into a Committee on the Bill. On the first reso lution being put— Mr. DAVENPORT rose and raid, he conceived the silk trade had not had an opportunity of bring heard, and he would therefore muse that the lords •• thrown silk" be left oat. Mr. MULL was convinced that in the trade at large the subject was not sufficiently understood, and lie would therefore second the motion of his Honourable Friend the Member for Cheshire. Mr. T. WILSON thought that en opportunity ought to be allowed to the silk trade of being heard in a matter which they thought so materially af fected their interests. With respect to the mea sure itself, be thought it would open a dour to smuggling ou an extensive scale. • Mr. ELt.ICE agreed in opinion with those who thought that the Geutlemen concerned in the silk trade ought to be consulted. He did not see that there was much reason for the shirrs which they hissi given way to, but be trusted an opportu n ity would be afforded them of being heard before the Report was brooght up. Mr. W•Ltkca defended himself from the inept'. tetion of having improperly pressed the measure. The silk trade laud had oppttriunity to consider the measure, and there ru4ht s ihl be au opportunity la their being heard before the Report am brought ult. Mr. IN. A. T_ sYLoil opposed the Bill; he 140004 its teudency was to trausfer the trade of England to the opposite shores, and on that account Ire should give it his decided opposition. Mr. IDAVEsironT commuted to withdrew motion. Mr. RICARDO said his complaint egsitset the Bill Was that it did not go far enough, and he recou• nirtided the Right Mo. Gentleman to go on to the same fwd. Mr. ASTELL explained. Mr. Alderman Hisireays said a few word+. Mr. BROUGHAM concurred with his illoosmsb!c Friend, the Member to, Portarliagton, in las ap probation of the Bill, u it 'sr a portion. Stough I very moderate portion, of that improvement in of commercial policy for which he had always ewe terided. Indeed, five years ago he had Prolm' d this very measure, and some others of a similar tendency ; but the only answer he then met woh born those very gentlemen who now patrooisetflo present Bill war, passing to the order a sot 00 oattl went !eau- the wing voids le at load, ruin' twit r l mea- if to who silk • that they c l {oily the opu- NM. r the 5 to 1.. (1.41 1 t Oisitt At he r his ! Bill cum- u the Table ay- ' . igh a a oat Caw 1 0 " 4 oils! yob t itre :00