The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-11 00:00:00

of the duty laid on English clr,ths in Gm
s,,M much cheaper ;hall English. A
Prussian cloth at

Ci that a

qua!ity to an Engfl:h cloth at t:2s.
a In favour of Prussia b now

:d by

—me:leans. English tine wo,,llens are al-
irnn German", and from seven,' neutral markets ;
' ,o;,11 a the P,4,,siens can sufficiently extend their manufac-
",Y (1,,1ts With astoni:bing rabidity, they wili beat
markets, and probably even in the home
t:rithstancti::g the impoi t duty on foreign

ti,i itset

001iCTAS n, tii:N ,tailary

4th,. That the morose in the Continental manufacture of wool is
ay the Lot, that fortiguers purchase a very inereasiag quantity
f 11;gland and Irelan:l, of which formerly the home
ture ;Ltd the exc:usive use. The export of British wool in 1838
(Me1...1"M value 01432,0001., whereas the average of the
ri'vecling was only 274,0001. This, therefore, shows an
' ;:/••1* coat. in the exportation from Great Britain of the
mar macture. The quantities of wool
the iaw materials of manufactures, ex-
ngdom, gave an annual average for the
r c,i 178,035; and for the years 1833,
and 1337 an annual pverage of 3,741,293. These facts
i,c;;•eisl in . the manufacture abroad, but
iuu tier the article raises the price to the home mann.
It is lxlitvoil that the French will shortly take nearly all
c::^:, The rapidly increasing export of worsted yarn for
f the fwreign manufactures, also proves the increase •of the
•-‘n the Contin:r.t.

troWt

I led from
'an- I'3'3s_

" 601.

1 •, _~ 1

prove

I.ire:gil Governments in imposing merely a
mprt of yarns tooth to raise the price of the
,'. manufacturers, and consequently to make
:Ts in the finished goo:is more
vill still further incro2se. this effect.

line of the British woollen manufacture is proved
2 expos is of last year, compared with the average of the four
'ling years. Export of British woollens in 1838-6,157,000/
—'94-,,,7e of for years, from 1834 to 1837-6,542,000/. Decrease
---385,000/."

I 14r Sr:l-e.,eeen observel that these Were the evils arising in the
natural order of things from those Corn_laws which the Legislature
had once thou ht fit to iMposa on the nation.
err. Seuieie said that it would net be right to repeat the ten,
ver3atturt U hieh had token place between the members of the Depu-
tation
e, ',ld Lord Melbourne, but he must bear testimony to the
„-",‘"aullY With which his Lordship had received the Deputation, and
—B° to the great attention which his Lordship had pail: to the com.
Municateoris which they ha.l made to him, particularly to
th°4e facts which bore upon the agricultural branch of the
:11:".k't, aced eine!) tended to show the unnecessary alarm which
;r''`cd emcee; the agricultural interests on this subject. He had
- 'en thus curly, because be was about to leave town this evening,
ant ber ire his departure he wished to bring forward a resolution,
Which was rendered n. cessary, in consequence of what fell from
1 the letze :learn last night in the House of Lords. Ho would read
of the ''a,ee to which he el Wed, from the report which had appeared
..lohle Eareespeech in the Morning Chronicle. The passage
faetea:."l°'''s :—" He believed that when the opinions of the menu_
wentptX classes were examined into, and he tie:heti that the House
b, sin.",atoine into them, Mei rLordships would find that they would
Pena- ed with much less than they were enabled to claim, and
ii_,....
nl)% then they might claim in the petitions which would be
neirieriel to that House. Therefore, if those petitions went to the
and t,)ngth of calling on their Lofdships to abrogate all Corn_laws,
reig, e.,PL't all end to every regulation upon the importation of for
1 these ~,,',.r.n! he apprehended that they would not be able upon-
views of it"
to form a just estimate of what were the real
Now . thersore reasoning part of the petitioners."—(Hear, hear.)
ne (Mr st
in which no • • urge) was delegated from a district of the country
Cornea,..lo,er ground will be taken than a total repeal of the
to go hein' and if this were refused, it would be better
also convgitnieseeetiand give up the question altogether. He was
that the that it was for the interests of the agricultural body
a 3 their pro ori should he settled at once and for ever, inasmuch
fro Pert 7 would suffer a much greater extent of depreciation
in the conti
possibly sufre -*lli al agitation of this subject than they could
repeal Of the CIO •n
consequence of an immediate and total
tentive exennn r.n-htwis. He was convinced, from a careful and at-
would not be ation of the subject, that the rental of the landholder
lie thought thPennat 110
atnen.tly lessened by a. repeal of the. Corn-laws.
resolution Of the sth quite sufficient publicity had been given to the
th instant, which resolution is as follows: ,
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