The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

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mmitteu ee. antalbag. of
do lon_ pimp et •livelai a_drawliach cei the
ter ilikami. . lier.) So way
ked been made to him boon gent '
t an blared la the se**, did be tire& it his duty
le Mir why he geed re
,rip to the hoes..
The of his repaid wee set he ftiWsi or to ember-
vase remaillips of this graineart. He was not un-
to the relazatisa of do navigation laws i he
to see theft reseal eddied, oat effected is
sad" a way es to soil _ Wry abed to the great
inrwhisk were dished In Mak shipping.
For this remelt De shield her boa perkily wild', to
kis prepraal, bad there bra a hips, wield lee was at
It, See minim emeash to eaters* ef its mosidog each
r te roads, probable the asellesseat of the tree-
dip
dos
—belleeig. as all did, that ids
at all thaelome pesediarly so ell the
sereed. (Hear, ben.)) KW illemes amid with
Worsts dm a ikgmkisa to asset tal seek
M have made se brie • essiese of die
views es the gabled of protestins. he abesh have flak blood
to urge that. en Me adeptira of theme hee; rites Sr
frog that ba tokzeahe had set the smalisee repos to
deedbi that was to ward by the relent law
either reedy as was, or with kw and kosiaddomblii
afteratiems. (Kai, bear.) In • *nal of that dm to sew
as mheithement smarnoing a reesintion SONS to by the
CezEithsCommittee kr Uplieldiag the Principle of the
N laws, to the east that their *birdies
to bin were sat removed by the amendment of
whisk mike had bees given by Kr. Beaverk sad
• her that that amendment woad net
eareedwirelte mead= of the friends of de iatersts
He took that enneemsement Ie apply, oat I, the
redirder lona en whisk the boa. member kr
:awl to pre= bat also to be aired et say prepositioa
en madded lighted," in the math,
yet hadtet avowed objest the Mal repeal of the moire-
time laws. U. did net aigeidea the bactottstsnillejwereil:
EC" :,11=, weld immithe strength 4dhtiste:ght k emohlont with
tkeardlisiduty to litedify, in the grant err elsoalli-
, the pea which they bed prepaid to dee
Isors."-Wr Iliejesty s ministers, however jedgad Gem-
wise, and it ISM DOS fat him to ear whether they judged
wisely, er act, with • view of aerials the object whisk the
tight lementable pentleama had so muck at heart.
dell& kiimiwar._ OM thp sight hosmusble gentlemen
was egad Mkt taitbse end • more herr come,
be id mot disk it word eerier to the parr advantage if
he WIMP to the tints of the lessee is dissuader, per-
haps peed ested an his pa/dealer plan. He was
set raw dot k shrill be used as • mem of obsinedag
the el4lll/01M repassed by her Kelesty's gesommeat. (Hear,
hear.) He did-met think it would be advantrers that the
comparatively small number who agreed with him on the '
merits of his prepedlien should divide alone against the
great majority of the home, as so doing he should be giv-
ing an opportunity K the measure of the go-
veroment without advancing the principle of his own plan.
(Hear, hear.) Even if &dyable, it would be painful to
him to force his preposition on a resisting and reluctant
I government, but the more especially as the coasequenees
might be that the hill would be sent from that house with
an equivocal recommendation to the Hones of Lords. (Hear.)
He would not therefor* be reeponsible kw the coatinnance
of the present law unaltered, declaring that Ulm were driven
to make a choice between the continuance of the resent
law sad the plan of his ken. ?Mead the member for Bihar-
seek, that choice must be in favor of the plan of her Ma-
LZ• government. When they came to the motion of his
kited, he would state the reasons which prevented him
boss 'spirting the clause he proposed. (Hear.)
Kr. BERRIES said he came down prepared to ro-
omed at one into committee on the bill ; but the peeped-
dr of the right hon. gentleman had indeed surprised
idea greatly, and led him to believe t, were not gar into
emamittee with any prospect of:a satisfactory issue. (Hear,
hear.) It was an extraordiaary occurrence that, in a
bill, long projected, and carefully prepared, and me
which the utmost attention of the government must
have been bestowed, her Majesty's government should
now come forward to make a material alteration in it, and
to declare that, at originally proposed by them, it would in-
volve snit practical inc-nrainee in its working that they
could not press it me the house. (Hear, hear.) It happened,
unfortunately, also, that this statement came after the receipt
of a communication from the American government, which
had he.. laid on the table of the house, that to that portion
of the bill they could not consent. (Hear.) This happened
very awkwardly, to my the least of it. (Hear, hear.) An-
other circumstance which would make this reservation very
extrierdinary was this—that they had communicated to all
taiga governments the proposition which they now made.
(No.) What ! had they failed to do that ? (Cheers.) If se,
1 thsy made a very great omission. (Hear, hear.) They her
offered these foreign governments certain specific terms, and
they had sines excepted the coasting trade. The very fleet
bursas to which they should have addressed themselves
was to communicate this to the governments abroad. (Hear,
bear.) However, they received a peremptory refusal from
the American government with respect to the coasting trade,
and under the circumstances of the change proposed by the
government, what he wanted to know was, whether they
would go tate eommittee,inetead of adopting the usual practice
on each oreasions, namely, to withdraw the bill with the
view of substituting an amended one, or commit it pro
form& (Hoar, hear.) He did not say this for the pardon
of delay. for he was gqnits prepared to go into committee.
He certainly preferred the proposition, which was to have
bra the plan of his right hon.friend, to the measure of the
pronesent, bet he did not think that the bill of the go-
vinamett was capable of being made • good bill, beeaute its
pririple was fundamentally and ementially an-English, and
re whisk in the particular eirtmeastanees of the country
mad seas world, the bow should lees them ever be prepared
le maitisa. (Hear.) Under these eiresunstances he should
be preyiered, not ia committee, but is every other stage of
*old, to give it his most dransose opposition. (Hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Borate vow, the house went
late ermuniter ea the bill.
On Masse 1 being put,

Mr. LABOUCHHIfia pereal the Ist of January, 1850,
u the day on which the es would some into operation,
which was agreed to.
Or. BOUVERIB reposed the following proviso:
Maths erversi meterthen end rebirthr le the abresskt sets
Nehired, rle re voyages In eit dr thipe at say heels country
mop aseser es es dm per whir dry may Mesa Imo or export
her the Wad Ilmera or Yes add& pseesidee, as to re
Cabled ireXerarr imarareyle=ege part oa
of
la ray pmt of a. world to smy err ileWib remeira (eisept sash
if re rid Nealselese est preliblitsee es 1111=01~01M to
be reareel we vadat by the grew of Whir
), muds
Maui be la Wriliserersuiely till it shall
rairilelli to elliet ef kr la her pd
Osnadlonli shall be ikereed by her *Mu% In council,
ihal MI6 ere
armor sea herr esestary the like
@squeal er se le re mugs, la which
mew sip" ar se le reds dry sag read Moor Mthey
ort
tam ear tarp anmerh or tea peemedin themed or eery asst.
who la err pet et sash lendp sorry : merge/ Itirm, with re-
@mut to Or ledrielleas end prehibldens M dig ehromid iota ores.
Week as to the psis whin" r.=id ray Ilweltwoountry may
rod orapelimer re ip Wray, by
Ire maw k Area dist the w=iiiras'eny pot, of iwth
raddelisme Sid ilea Nose to remain or be In fell farce
as le tliii&on wry, esuntry, although the like restrictions
sod , as to the rain which say British skip
ring Baser export NW, 11011•Neke sleuth foreign min-
e% net In all remossis ham hese remseoli.
pregiedes this areedrest, he begged leave to disclaim
emy Merin ef thwarting or hording the progress of the
hid • sad the best proof that be mold have no such intention
mesa, that smi be the port time he had given it his best
support. He mast also disavow and repudiate any supposed
hosing towards protedion Ia making this amendment ; be.
sure it was on free trade pounds, and is a free trade secs.,
awl will a view to remove restriedeas from the general
ougniggiao of the world. that Ise effaced kis proposition for
the earlderstion ef the senusittee. Ia regard to this ques-
tion, bedlam &think preteetion had a leg to stand on, for there
was as taboret sod radical difference between the interest of
the obi sod those who wished to inform protection
in this esnatry. Their interests were quite lore-
eosin la sus kola eh llountry all foreign prod's:a. But
te atakie theelita men, kreiga timber, and tertian wool
kw Ids country was to eat up the shipping interest root
keselt. (Hear, hear.) Neither was be induced to
=agamdmnt in eonsequence of the alarming and
theelethup of those who this and the lest session of
=lrpromoted petitions to the hones on this subject ;
a referring to the journals of the house he found
that twenty-three yam ago, when the first alteration in the
navigation laws was proposed, equally gloomy nrophecles
were made respecting the ruin of the shipping interest
which the progress of events had falsified. He considered it
a strong argument in favour of the view which be proposed,
that it was the course of policy recommended by Mr. Hue.
hksan. His diffusion with the government on this subject
was simply a Menace as to the mods in which the changes
they proposed should be effected. The prop union of the
gerrameat involved important, almoettremendous, changes.,
and it behoved them to take care that the chsuges so made
were effected is oath a way as would prove least
disastrous to the Interest especially concerned, and
hest likely to muse diasetisfaction to them. It
appeared to be forgotten that though at their own end
trade could be left unrestricted, f 'reign states might so
haulm! it by their legislation as practically to force the
whole into their own ships, thus pureeing the course which
had been pursued by this country for the last two hundred
yeses. France enforced spiast them similar restrictions
to those imposed by the navigation laws; and though it
appeared from the correspondence laid on toe table two days
ago that Sweden had professed her readiness to make re-
legations peva passes with this country, he should peeler to
such professions the security of an act of parliament. An
opportunity
was
now
propos tfforttade tsamssenalmaaaseatl,"snaoP serttnittrie;
view of retaining restrictions, but in order to
make our own relaxations a NM= of forcing con-
ceseinas from other nations. The government re-
taliatory clause afforded no such mesas. It might lead to
a good deal of negotiation, and possibly give ties to • chance
or wee, but anything beyond was altogether illerory. All
experience proved that if they made taar own relaxations
maditimal on similar relaxations on the pert of other
natio.% they would be met in a similar manner. That was
the principle established by the United States as the founde-
d= of their navigation laws. There was complete reci-
procity, and it was by that that all their otnumercial inter-
course had been guided. His hon. friend, the member for
Westbury, bad endeavored to find an objection to the
sageadsgsga, bat with ell his ability he had signally
flied. Ibe honourable number said the &mead-
ow, would, if passed, involve this country in
endless segotiationa That was exactly what it
would not do • it would establish a golf-working system.
Th• objection was arid* a rash one, considering that the
retaliatory clause of the goveranesat, if worked at au, could
ealy be waked by mesas of negedwion. The hon. mss- i