The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-28 00:00:00

THE CITY AND METROPOLITAN POLICE

In reply to Col. FRENCH,
Sir G. GREY said the bill would be referred to the Ex.
ambler of Bias on Friday, and would be subsequently re•
ferred to the Standing Orders Committee, and it would re•
port whether or not the rules of the house had been com•
plied with.

THE PARKS.
In reply to Mr. TIMBER;
Lord PALMERSTON said that at the present moment
the Government did not intend to propose any additional
grant, but if corporate bodies taking the initiative required
aid they could do so by loans, and the Government would
extend to them every reasonable facilities to carry out their
intentions.

GRAVEYARD AT CHATHA3I.
Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR asked the noble lord the
Secretary to the Admiralty whether there was any founda-
tion for the rumour referred to in the recently published
pamphlet entitled " The Dockyards and Private Shipyards
of the Kingdom," to the effect that during the war with
France, the French prisoners of war dying in London and
neighbourhood were buried, to the number of several thou.
sands, on St. Mary's Island, Chatham; and that the Ad-
miralty works in progress require the removal of their re-
mains; and that quick lime and other means have been
employed to effect a rapid dissolution of the bodies instead
of providing them with decent sepulture elsewhere.
Lord C. PAGET replied that he had telegraphed to
Chatham for information. One of the authorities had, in
consequence, come up to the Admiralty, and he gathered
from him that there was reason to doubt the truth of the
statement.

On the motion of Lord PALMERSTON, it was agreed
that the orders be postponed till after the motion was
disposed of.

COTTON MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
Mr. FERRAND then rose to move the following reso-
lution :—" That, in the opinion of this house, it is the duty
of the Government to take into consideration without delay
what measures may be necessary to relieve the distress
which prevails in the cotton manufacturing districts, so
that the people may no longer continue unemployed." The
hon. gentleman said, immediately after he had again been
honoured with a seat in that house, he had been
inundated with applications from factory opera-
tives to bring their lamentable condition before the
house. They knew that, through good and evil
report, he had stood their firm friend. He charged the
cotton masters with being the cause of the pre-
sent famine, by solely relying upon America for
a supply of cotton and neglecting India and other parts of
the world, and only a year or two ago they shut out the
workpeople from their mills and largely exported
the raw material which was now so much lacked. lle
deprecated hon. members attempting to shelve the matter
by referring it to a committee up stairs, or a Royal com-
mission, as absurd and futile. In a letter which had been
publishedß in the Times by the hon. member (Mr. Potter),
he stated, in the first place, that the cotton manufacturers
of Manchester were not accountable for the present state of
things in the manufacturing districts; secoudly, that the
cotton trade was the most regular, the most healthy, and
most moral of ail trades;
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take place in the cotton trade, and that it was worse than
madness for them to depend upon America alone for a sup-
ply of the raw material. The lion member quoted Sir Jas.
Graham's opinion in 1839, that it was an evil to be depend-
ent upon any one country for a supply of cotton. The
cotton manufacturers, however, had turned a deaf ear to the
warning, and had remained dependent upon America for
cotton until 1850, when they appeared to wake from their
dream, and to be startled by the danger which surrounded
them. Three years after asserting their right to barter
their cotton goods for the food of their workpeople, and
pledging themselves, before the house and the country, that
they could not only drag the world in their wake, but unite
all nations upon earth in amity, unity, peace, and concord
—after pledging themselves to bridge the Atlantic, and to
make America and England one united happy family, ex-
changing for the food of America the productions of the
power-looms of England, pledging themselves, if the house
would place a moderate duty upon corn, that for the next
hundred years the factory operatives connected with the
cotton trade should never know what it was to want plenty
of American corn, beef, and pork—only three years after
all this, the hon. member who then represented Manchester
(3lr. Bright) came down to that house " whining for pro-
tection to the cotton trade." The right hon. the Prebident
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