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SUN OFFICE, Fire o'clock,
FRANCE.

An Imperial decree dated 2d inst., declares the
present extraordinary sitting of the Legislative
corps closed. The same decree convokes the Legis-
lative Chamber for the 14th February, 1853.

claims—when we have arrived, as I hope we may arrive, at
a general, if not unanimous opinion, on the course we ought
to take with regard to them, we shall then ter-
minate all appeals on behalf of peculiar burdens
and grievances, and we shall then be able to
take an unembarrassed view of our financial position,
undisturbed by sectional appeals to our feelings or sense
of justtice, and we may be enabled to arrive at some per-
manent conclusions which may form the basis—and the
beneficial basis— of the financial systeni.which ought to
be adopted and developed in this country. (Hear, hear).
I will, in pursuance of the plan I have sketched, pro-
ceed to consider the claims that have been urged on
Parliament by the shipping interest in respect to the
burdens which it endures and the grievances which it ex-

periences—burdens borne under the previous system
without any overwhelming sense of their weight and
grievances—not of a nature, in fact, to require our in-
terposition so long as they were mitigated by privileges,
which we have terminated. (Hear, hear). I have lis-
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tened with great attention to all the representations
made to me with respect to the shipping interest ; and I
say now with respect to the shipping interest what I
would say with regard to any interest that believes
it is subject to regulations and laws entailing on it
burdens which other classes of the community gene-

rally do not endure—that it will be wise for- Parlia-
ment to approach the discussion of these matters in a
generous spirit. (Hear, hear.) Ido do not want, and
am not myself desirous, in any way, that we should at-
tempt, by any proposition we bring forward, to conciliate
sympathies to which we ought not to defer, and least
of all I am anxious that the House of Commons, so

far as I can direct its opinion, should, for the sake of
Ailencing a claim which they may not consider just,
enter into any arrangement which ultimately they
Might think was not a sound and proper one ; but of
this I am certain, that nothing is more prejudicial to
the country generally than that considerable classes of
her Majesty's subjects should consider that they are
liable to regulations injuriously affecting their industry,
and from which the rest of the community is free,
and that they suffer from the injurious effects of
those regulations in consequence of changes in the
law, which have universally contributed to the advan-
tage of the remainder of the community. (Hear.) I
can conceive no state of society more to be deprecated
than one in which there are minorities, but powerful
minorities, who believe that they are subjected to in-
justice, in consequence of changes in the law con-
tributing to otherwise universal welfare. Therefore,
if there be on the part of the shipping body, or
on the part of any other class in this country,
well-founded claims to the consideration of Parlia-

went, it is highly expedient, not only in the interest
of public morality, but from the most utilitarian
considerations that could possibly occur, to the
most unsentimental minds, that we should enter into
these questions, ascertain their merits, and decide ac-
cordingly. Now, with respect to the shipping interest,
I may say this on behalf of the Government, that, hav-
ing investigated with great pains, and listened with ?reat
patience to their case, the Government are of opinion
that the shipping interest, principally through the con-
sequences of recent legislation—the repeal of the naviga-
tion laws—are at this moment subject to burdens to
which they ought not to be liable, and to restrictions
which (to use the words of the noble lord the member for
the city of London) impede their prosperity. (Hear,
hear.) If this be so, and if it be the opinion of the
House of Ccmmons that it is so, I think it much better
that we should meet that case, difficult as it may be, in
a just and liberal spirit, and see if we cannot remedy the
complaints of so influential, so important, and so worthy
a body as the shipping interest and the classes connected
with them. (Hear, hear.) Now, we have examined
shipowners and persons in the classes connected with
them (all those, indeed, comprehended by the not very
accurate, but still popular title, of the " shipping interest,'
which title I use because it is one to which the house is
accustomed)—we have examined all those persons, and they
complain that they are subject to vexatious taxation under
the head of light dues and passing tolls. They complain
of the present system by which the pilotage of the country
is regulated. They also greatly complain of what they
describe as Admiralty grievances, of the circumstances
under which an individual belonging to the mercantile
marine is enlisted into the Royal navy ; of the system
under which salvage is established ; and of. the regula-
tions under which. anchorage takes place. They have
great complaints as to the restrictions on the manning
of their vessels, as to the stamp duties levied on marine
insurances, bills of lading, and eharterparties. (Hear,
hear.) I intend to touch on these subjects, and to ex-
plain what would be, in the opinion of the Govern-
ment, the manner in which we think these claims ought
to be met ; and, as the recommendations we are about
to make are founded, I think, on a very impartial and
liberal condition of the whole case, we believe that, if
those recommendations are adopted by Parliament, we
may fairly say that the just claims of ~the -shipping in-
terest will be satisfied, and-that in our future Legislation,
so far as that interest is concerned, we shall not be dis-
turbed by appeals of a class nature. With respect to the
light dues, we have examined the subject, and it is our
opinion that in a great degree the complaints of the
shipping interest are founded in fact. It certainly seems
quite indefensible that, irrespective of the dues which they
pay for the advantage of lighthouses, which are amply
and properly supplied in this country, they should be
paying in the form of dues a large sum of money, which
is, in fact, the interest paid to the Trinity-house for the
purchase of private lights, which were improvidently
granted by the Crown or by the Parliament many years
ago, (Hear, hear.) As far as that portion of the light
dues which consists of the interest paid on sums ad-
vanced by the Trinity-house for the purchase of these
private lights, it seems to us indefensible, when the
principle of unrestricted competition is established,
that the shipping interest of this country should be pay-
ing a tax not for the lights supplied for ,their benefit
(because for them they pay sufficiently), but in order
that improvident grants of former Sovereigns and Par-
liaments should be counteracted by a peculiar tax raised
from them, and in respect to which they get no return
whatever. (Hear.) We think also that all that which
is levied from the shipping interest under the name of
paSsing tolls is a vexation, a grievance, and a burden, to
which the shipping of this country, under present
circumstances, ought not to be subjected. (Hear.) We
think it, too, highly inexpedient that, under the name
of light dues, the shipping of the country should
be taxed to maintain the charities of a corporation ;
and, taking these three conclusions to guide us, we
shall be prepared to deal with the light dues as at
present existing. We would confine the tax on shipping
merely to a payment for the benefit which the shipping
receives from the lighthouses ; we would relieve the ship-
ping interest from what is paid for the interest upon those
loans incurred to purchase private lights ; from the con-
tribution to the charities of a corporation whichi however
laudable they may be, ought not to be maintained, under
present circumstances, by taxing a British ship ; and,
further, we would relieve the shipping interest from all
passing tolls. (Hear, hear.) I estimate that this set-
tlement of a long agitated question will probably cost the
country about 100,000/. a year ; but it appears to me
that the claims are just ; that it is impossible to resist
them, and that they ought to have been considered when
the repeal of the navigation laws occurred. (Hear.) The
next question to which I would refer is the question of
pilotage. The system by which that is regulated in this
country is extremely anomalous. It is quite unnecessary
on the present occasion for me to enter into the origin of
these anomalies. The subjects of which I have to treat
to-night are so various, and some of them so complicated,
that perhaps the house will allow me to say, once for all,
that I shall not attempt to enter into any argument on
any of them, excepting so far as it may be necessary to
do So in order to make my meaning clear. I confine
miself to-night to the exposition of the policy of the
Government. There will be occasions when in detail
we may enter into argument on all these various ques-
tions, but at present I consider it my principal, and al-
most only duty, clearly to explain to the house the policy
recommended by the Government on all these different
subjects. I will not, I repeat, enter into the question of
the anomalies of our system of pilotage. The house, I
am sure, knows well that a Thames pilot can steer a ship
to a Cinque port, but may not steer it back. Another
pilot connected with another corporation performs the
duty of returning ; and, of course, the shipping interest
having to employ two men to perform a duty which one
man could discharge, the expense is proportionately in-
creased. There has been a committee of the house upon
pilotage, but it is a great many years ago: its investi-
gation, however, is very worthy of attention. But I
think, although myself always disinclined to avoid re-
sponsibility by proposing committees, that there are oc-
casions on which a committee of the House of Commons,
can effect very great good ; and I think it would be
very advantageous that upon the whole question of
pilotage and ballasting the feelings of a modern House of
Commons should be consulted, animated by those views
with respect to commercial affairs especially which pro-
bably had not so great an influence some years ago—that
a committee of the House of Commons should investi-
gate this subject, and report to the house. It is the in-
tention of the Government to recommend to the house
that there should be a committee appointed to inquire
into the whole subject of pilotage and ballasting, and I
have myself no doubt that the report of that committee
will be satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) I come now to those
grievances which I have described as " Admiralty."
The house is aware that :when a merchant ship finds
herself on a foreign station, one of the crew, without
any ceremony, quits the captain without any notice, and
often without any cause, and immediately enlists in a
ship belonging to the Royal navy that happens to be
upon that station. This right and privilege acts very
injuriously upon the discipline and general conduct of
the merchant shipping. (Hear, hear.) I am myself
most anxious not to diminish the just privileges of the
Royal navy—that force upon which this country mainly
depnds; I certainly would not propose any change which
would in any way affect the necessary powers of the
Royalnavy. But with respect to this first grievance,which
I believe, from the representations that are made to
us, is one of an extremely vexatious character, we pur-
pose—while we are prepared to maintain all the necessary
privileges in this respect of the royal navy—that no man
quitting the mercanaile marine under such circumstances
• shall receive his wages, which then are due to him, until
the rest of the crew are paid off. At present he can, at
a moment's notice, notwithstanding his engagement with
his master, hoist his red shirt, enlist in the royal ship