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Ifllliel OW we are from 20 Is 25 per cent. dearer; a pot.
ties of which difference is perhaps to be accounted foe by a
pore of machinery whit% haa been for some yeera in owe at
Lyons, and which is dewribed to be an inestimable Wean.
tags ia weaving the finer and varied patterns of Silk. This
machinery is now known, taid has been 'nought to peek*,
tioo in this coviotry by a Gentleman who has shown very
cuosiderable skill and iodestry in making himself master of
TV' kilril-ketilt6Tgettifia—tfrillsgbliglis dW.
Upon Om wholes Hui Committee are of opinion, that it
would be highly &delineate! to a manofactory which has so
Lam, &rived ea eardmirm _
...._ . • owl has been bid
latelylirooght to any great of activity nr perfection,
rilitpelly to hike ofr AO prObfb Ones and duties upon foreign
(FWD*,
*rile ; beit'cousidering flip iendincj to increased demand
'$ its has for lassie Our intinifested itself is the home
market, a, eery matt diintoptiim of the duty upon the raw
mitriiill nsiglirbeealsellti4 to produce considerable effect in
grhogs 'lterated itiititinesy to the manufacture, and, if
eirestriewoevni 'of tWe cooldry allowed it gradually to be
foie's off, 'a small dotty only beiog left upon the Organaint.
o.ir mineisfecturee "mold have nollbiog to dread from the
iowiretitiim of Frerichs Gabs, even if permitted to he intro-
J 4,04 Orli • &it, of From 14 to 15 per cent., and • consi-
derable augmentation upon die export might, of the same
tiiie, he'reimuobly expected.
It it was found 'impracticable to make any speedy redo..
lion In the linty on raw silk, without the sobstitutioo of an.
oilier, it might deserve consideration, whether it might out,
iii:th safety to the revenue, be transferred le the matfulac-
tweed article, by which all the Weonvenience arising from
DJ of capital and the necessity of drawbacks might be
a:aided •
There is another consideration cooneeled with this branch
of trade, upon which the Committee think themselves hound
to solicit the attention of the Legislature. The silk mann-
ficiore In London and Illiddlesex is regulated- by the Art
IM (;gene 111. r. 68, under which the Lord Mayor, Mame-
(roles, Ike. have a power of settling and regulating the wages
its be paid to journeymen weavers by persons residing with-
in holds therein p esershed, nod by which heavy penalties
go* 11811001"1 upon Permit. so ruddier and employing, for
the purpose of evading the Art, w who live beyond
these prescribed lineal. The effect of this law has been 'to
:endnce a variety of orders, with prices and limitations
offeeting every description of Ane work. Instances fre-
oneoily have °marred of thew priers beteg raised, none
..1" them ever being reduced. Their variations with re-
spect to the number of threads to an inch, the penalties
on which a menufseturer may ianoeeutly become subject by
arse variations, and the obligation to pay the unskilful the
same wares with the skilful workman, the discourage-
...lent to rill improvement in machinery, the total omission
in the Art of •Il limitation is point of time within which in.
;oformations may be brought ; these, and moony other vexa-
tions have been stated to the Committee as affecting the
i.u'aister manufacturer, and more than all, that part of
LW Art which prohibits him employing in what part of
the conotry he thinks load advantageous any portion of
Ea capital; and it appears to the Committee, that it
illist ultimately have also an injurious effect with re.
card to the jouriseymeo; tor, even as it is in hates whet,
:be trade WI. been checked, it has prevented the piano-
feaster tram relieving his workmen Is, giving them
work at • lower rate than usual, and obliged him at once to
discharge them ; bet its plain and certain tendeory is to
banish the trade from Spitallields into the roe airy, where it
/nay be carried on with freedom, and therefore with gm*,
advantage and profit. Some branches of work are aired,
OMNIe in the country at two Nerds of the price for which It
can he done nailer this Act; mid it is clear that there only,
fee • time, or at least while this Act tootinnes in force, will
every improvement to machinery be adopted.
Is be but lately that great weaving establishments have
beim get up at Alwelealleid and Manchester, and in other
p4eirs, bet several branches are now carried on in these
plidtes, which hare in manwspeute been entirely disconti-
riiserd in Apitatirida; and it is clear that, coder the existing
ismilations, the Lumbar workmen must be underside,. The
geterni increase of demand for silk manufactures, the diffi-
culties always attendant rip". the removal of capital, the
proximity of these establishments to the best market, anal
their stability, from long continuance, have allowed them
hitherto In prosper ; but it i• clear to the Committee, that
listless some moilifecation take. place in this law, it must
Isir in the 'minimums to the silk manufacture of Spitalliohlk
nothas injurious to the workmen as it will be to the rage'
plover- The toconsiriiienees sounding this Act are iedlleit
and will be found shoot",
retie obvious in themselves,
muted by many of the most intelligent witnesses; but the
sitgoairats in iis favour, a• keening down the poor's rale,
shod affording only • sufficient compensation to the work-
anon, will be hest Wood in the evidence of Mr. Hale.
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WINI.
The great dienionstion whit* appears progressively to have
"token place fur senor years past tt the importation of Foreign
tviies, has induced, the Committee to direct its attention to
teat branch of trade, with a view of roinitilertog bow far it is
effected by the candling state of deities, anti more parties.
laxly by the preference which has been so long 'hewn to
Swinish and Portuguese Wine over those of French produc-
t Ica.
At, however, great doubts are staled to be entertained
laurae of the winsome' m most casement in the trade, wbe-
tZr a diminution in the amorist of duty would• lead to a
cotiaiderably increased consumption of French wine, aced -
4117tiriutien of the lower duty imposed upon Spanish
Portogitese wine, cats iu the present circusost of
en;ntry be contemplated, tie Committee du not feel them.
NAVIN justified, while they unisex to their Report the evi•
denim they here received upon Ibis snbjert, t. recommend,
upon speculative ground, soy material alterstio• of the tele.
S system, until some disposition is evinced by the French
Government to facilitate such an arrangement by making
ribs concretion in f f articles of British matiubse-
lire. It may„ however, be worth considering, whether the
sabstitutior of • dotty od cabanas, for that which is now
vaifen by the measure, upon French wine, would sot lead to
••• increased emesempliun, and contribute, without rdetri.

FUEEICf. INTELLIGENCE.
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POTMARL
PAW, NoVIENBRI 18.
His Majesty receives this evening the grind de-
potation of Peers, with their Address.
Fur several weeks past, the Missionaries have
been preaching in different parishes of Paris. On
Tuesday evening they were at St. Etienne•clu-Mont,
where there was an immense crowd; the Archbishop
of Paris was present. At the moment of the ben.-
diction, a violent detonation was heard, which
caused same alarm the church. On making a
secrets, there was discovered eg.tinst the wall of the
church on the aide next Hue Neon, the remains
of a 'sax Onset ten inches square. end capable of
containing a pound and a half of gunpowder. The
police are endeavouring to discover the authors of
this impious and scandalous ection.

Letters from Frankfort. of the 10th instant, say,
" Th.. P .e de Metternich set out to-day to re•
turn to Vienna."
A duel, with sword and pistol, has taken place
within s very few (lop in the Bois de Boulogne
[hens there as a Malik space of two or three lines].
—(Jowraal des Debuts.)
Au stiskritcsuie event happened on Thursday
near the BM* de Boulogne. rie Count Alfred
Derville, aged 24, riding on horseback, with seve-
ral of his fireside, his horse took fright and threw
him against a wall. Ile survived only two hours.
The number of Greeks at Vienna amount to
12.1100.
Letters from Smyrna, of the 4th October, state
that the city was perfectly tramed.
Letters hoist Perpignan of the sth November say,
" Private 1011.114 which arrived this evening by the
courier Corn Catalonia, give very alarming detail,.
It appears, that notwithstanding the change oftem.
perature, the malady has lost nothing of its mobil-
snwy. If we may credit the information contained
in them, Dr. Bally has followed Ins young colleague,
Dr. Maze!, to the tomb, and the contagion was
spreading in souse villages in the neighbourhood of
Barerlomi, situated hetaeeu that city MIA the sani-
tary cordon."—(Gazette de France.)
The Sieur Mortise, one of the Forest Gourds,
who pretended to have discovered au ambuscade in
Ilse Buts de Boulogne. has written. acknowledging
that the whole was a stratagem of his own, in order
to give a high idea of his own vigilance and fidelity,
and obraist his promotion to the rank of Guard-
General. Ile has been placed at the disposal of the
! erocureur du RM.
:Lettets from Stutgard state. that the Grand
fluke Michael of Russia is about to marry in a
short time the Princess Frederica Charlotte Maria,
• daughter of Prince Paul of Wirtemberg.
The Quoiidiemne thinks it extraordinary, says the
i Poiewrwestr de Lyow of the loth instant, that we
should tears, the arrival at Paris of a great personage,
who. according to that Journal, had never quitted
Bavaria. The most certain information authorises
to believe' that we were nut deceived...-(Consfi-
telemeter/4

The smog meal letters from Odessa stare. that
the freedom of that port is to be finally established.
Fitts PM Cum.—Tuesday, 89 f. 85 c.
Wrdoesit.ty, 89 f. 90c.
DU,RIM) STOCK, 99 f. 65 c.
EXCIUNDI ON LONDON, One month, 25f. 50c.
Ditto at three months, 45 f. 30c.

PARIS, NOVEMIIIR 16.

Last evening the grand deputation or the Cham-
ber of Peers, preceded by the Members of the
Bureau, was admitted to au audience, when the
Marquis of Pusturet presented the address to his
faje,ty.
A letter from Bayonne of November 10, says—
" The FA-Minister of the Spanish marine, Java,
arrived yesterday at the Lazaretto of Behobia; be
is going to Paris on a mission from his government
to the Court of France."
The Hereditary Prince of Denmark, accompa-
nied by several arnatesra, lately visited the tine gal-
lery of the Bonnentaison.

ADDRESS OF TILE CH ASIDER OF PEERS TO THE
KING.
64 SUL/ —Yosr &ideal sod loyal subject', she Peers of
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