The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

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RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number

day's racing.
AUGUST.

Brighton (2) 3 . Tonbridge (1) ...............1
Airdrie (2) 4 Radcliffe (3)
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Edgware (2) 4 Egham (2)
Brighton Club (1) 5 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2)..24
Wolverhampton (3) 8 Derby (2) 2b
Yarmouth (2)
Reading (2) lO Eccles (3) 29
North Staffordshire (21-10 Lichfield (2) 29
York (3) 17 Chelmsford (2) 30
Canterbury lB

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)
LEEDS, Friday.—The woollen cloth trade continues
in a satisfactory state. There has been a good business
done in the Cloth Halls this week in nearly all descrip-
tions of seasonable goods. Stocks continue low. Prices
are firm. The trade in the warehouses has been rather
still and quiet during the week. The shipping season
being now nearly over, and the demand for the home fall
trade not having yet commenced, there is, as is usual at
this period of the year, only a moderate business doing
in finished goods.
HUDDERSFIELD, Tuesday. —Our market continues
without much alteration in any. way. The demand
seems quite equal to the supply, and prices are much
the same as they have been for some time past. Wools
are quite as firm, but not much doing in the mean time.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Monday.—We have
had but a dull market to-day, and less business has been
transacted than on the preceding Monday, but prices
have been much the same. In some instances the work-
men in the fulling mills have returned to work at an ad-
vance of wages, but in most cases they are yet out. The
wool market has been quiet, and prices rather easier.
For rape oil of the best quality 381. 10s. is asked.
BRADFORD, Thursday.—There has been little varia-
tion from preceding markets. The unsettled state of
foreign affairs destroys confidence and indisposes parties
from buying for any but immediate wants. As to co-
burgs, which are a great article for winter consumption,
many orders were given for them in anticipation of the
rise which took place, and consequently fewer pieces are
now wanted. The prices of wool in the country are in
many cases higher than could be obtained in this mar-
ket, if carriage, expenses, and profit were all sacrificed.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.
Earl GRAN VILLE moved the second reading of the
Government of India Bill. After observing that the
numerous discussions which had taken place on the sub-
ject in their lordships' house during the present session
had made his hearers perfectly well acquainted with the
character of the measure,' he said that he would only
enter into such a description of the bill, and such refe-
rences to the objections which had been raised against
it, as he deemed respectful to the house. He prefaced
a general sketch of the peculiar circumstances with
which the East India Company had had to deal in the
government of India, by some illustrations of the sys-
tem to which the natives had been submitted under their
old rulers, and he introduced, as a specimen of the mode
in which Mahommedan justice carried out its sentences,
a narrative of the dragging a wretched culprit, fastened
at the foot of an elephant, through the streets of a city
until he was torn to pieces. Proceeding to indicate,
very briefly, what had been done for India, he showed
that the best principles of free trade had been deprived
of exercise in that country, as manufactures had been
ruined by legislation, and competition had been let in
against them. He then adverted to the leading features
of the measure, vindicating each as he dismissed it, and
he stated that the bill had been prepared with the utmost
care, and with a deep sense of the es pn ibility attach-
ing to such legislation. In the courser-
responsibility
shis concluding
observations he expressed aconviction that the great. re-
sources of India were in course of development. inci
-
dentally remarking that the Greatx n
E hibitio of 1851
had thrown more light upon the capabilities of India
than upon those of any other country.
Lord MALME,SBI.TRY said that had Lord Derby
been present he would have abstained, as he should him-1
self do, from either praise or blame of this measure,
which it was impossible at that period of the session to
consider as the subject deserved. It was humiliating to
the house to have such a measure thrust upon it at the
end of the session. Re proceeded to complain that,
after a session of eight months, and within a fortnight of
its close, there should be 42 bills before their lordships,
and others, which would increase the number to 72,
coming up from the Commons. The latter house
would not bear such treatment, and had actually thrown
out the Colonial Bishops Bill on no other ground than
the lateness of the time at which it had been presented.
The fault was not that of their lordships, but of the
Government, which, moreover, possessed unusual ad-
vantages, especially in having _
the experience of such a
man as Lord J. Russell, as an amateur member of the
Ministry, to conduct the business in the Commons.
He then assailed Sir Chas. Wood for his speech to his
constituents, which had produced an effect in every
Court of Europe, and which had done much towards the
bringing about subsequent events, and he demanded what
Sir Cawood had been doing for the months between his--
accession to office and the introduction of this measure.
He saw no excuse for the slothfulness and delay which
had taken place, and said that the system would come
to a regular demand on their lordships to accede to
any measure which the Commons might pass. Lord
Derby and his friends washed their hands of the
consequences of this measure, for which they were
certainly irresponsible, and they left the whole of
such consequences on the shoulders of the Ministry.
The Earl of ABERDEEN--I feel called upon to
make a few observations on the course taken by the
noble lord. He has commented upon the manner in
which this bill has been brought before the house, and
has taken a course which, I confess, is to me really in-
explicable. (Hear.) He complains of the manner in
which the house has been treated by the course we have
taken. Does he think it a constitutional course 9 does
he think it respectful to this house to get up and say
that he will give no opinion as to whether he approves
or disapproves of this bill? (Hear, hear.) Is that a
course which a man in the condition of the noble earl
might be expected to take before your lordships' house ?
(Hear, hear.) It may be very convenient to do so
—(cheers)—that I don't deny ; but when the noble lord
declines to give an opinion upon such a subject he must
permit me to think that it is not quite respectful to the
house, and I must say not such a course as I ever before
knew followed by your lordships. (Hear.) Now, my lords,
as to the period of the session at whichs
I this bill comes
before you, I must confess that, long a bill
comes
a '
member of this house—and I have been a mem
isber longer
than any of your lordships now present—th is a com-
plaint which I have never ceased to hear at the close of
every session. I admit that, on many occasions, that
plaint has been made with great •truth and justice ; but,
on this occasion, I must reject the accusation of the noble
lord in respect to this case. He says, that the right
hon. gentleman who has proposed this measure to the
other house of Parliament has taken more time to pre-
pare it than he ought to have taken. The noble lord
wished the right hon. gentleman to have proceeded with
more haste, and said he had been too
mlong in the process
Now, y lords, the noble
of incubation. (A. laugh.)
earl will recollect that the right hon. gentleman, with
reference to this subject, was nearly, although not alto-
gether, in a similar position to his predecessor in office.
But he had to prepare a measure perfectly new, and one
which I-think could hardly have been p
preparation of it.
noble earl will recollect, too, that in addition to the time
necessary for the preparation of a measure of this vast
importance and complicated nature, there were other
most important matters before the Goanuof m
Comons
which could not possibly be
which, to a
certain degree, affected the periodof
financproductionialthe measures
which were indispensable to be considered, and which
were required indispensabl heap)recede the consideration
of this measure. (Hear, . My lords, when the
noble earl says that he is obligea,to condemrAhe slothful
manner in which business has oeer.i conducted during
this session,' believe the public business never has been
more forward than it has been during this session.
(Hear, hear.) It is not for me, certainly, to describe
the qualities, the knowledge, and the activity of my