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greatly increased the difficulties of the Government.
After an anxious consideration of the subject, he
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that House :And ask for c1;-: ':irr.,ry powers.
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than by a departure from the first principles Of the con-
stitution. It was the duty of every Goverment to pro-
tect the lives and properties of the people committed to
their charge ; but he could only say in conclusion that
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not help joining in the prai ' e awarded to the N.,ble Lord
at the head of the Irish nment, whose conduct
had merited th,, high, at
The motion was then a‘zrerd to.
CULTIVATION 01,' COTTON.
Mr. BRIGHT rose to move a Sleet Committee to
onittire into the progress of the cultivation of c••tt,:n
in
India. He sa:d that what the potato was to Ireland,
cotton was to Lancashire and the cotton manufacturing
towns, and lie Le,lieved that if the scarcity of cotton still
continued, the same (listless which overwhelmed
Ire la',d
would also spt cad its baneful eff, e,s. To show how the
supply of cotton stood for the last few years. he would
give
the f 110 Mg results • • —ln 1844 the stock of cot-
ton in hand in this country was 950.000 bales. or thirty-
three weeks' consumption. In 1845, it was 1,060.000 bales,
or thirty-five weeks' consumption ; while in 1846, it was
only 545,000 bales, or eighteen weeks' consumption.
The result was that, in 1844 the price was 4d.
per pound, while in 1846 it had risen to 7d.
per pound, or 75 per cent. In the year 1844, the
quantity of cotton imported from the United States was.
2,400.000 bales; in 1845, it was 2,100,000; and in 1846,
it was only 1,800,000, or 2.000,000. Now let them con•
trast the importation of cotton in 1820, compared with
what it was in 1846. In 1820, of American cotton, the
importation was, 216,000 bales; and in 1844, it had in-
creased to the largo amount of 1,229,000. In 1820,
there was imported of American cotton, 216,000 bales;
in 1846, 1,229,000. Of Eist India cotton, in 1820,
184,000 balef•; in 1846, 140,000. Of Brazil cotton, in
1820, 140,000 bales; in 1846. 98,000. Of West Indian, in
1820, 84,000 bales; in 1846. only 14,000. In 1820, no
Evptian cotton was imported, while in 1846, it was 50;000.
bales. Thus, from 1820 to 1846, while the American cot
ton had increased 600 per cent., the East India had only
increased 50 per cent. The real question then which
they had to deal with was the power of India to furnish
is supply of cotton for this country; and, if so, what were
the best measures to encourage its growth. He, for one,
had no doubt of the resources of India to produce all
that was required instead of depending on the United
States. In 1818, there had been imported into this coun-
try from India 140,000,000 lbs of cotton. If this was so,
how much more might it not have increased had it been
encouraged up till this time. The Honourable Mem-
ber, after reading extracts from several documents
on the subject of growing co:ton in India, and
the necessity of encouraging it, proceeded to say that it
was in order to devise a remedy, and to acquire some
knowledge of the best means of encouraging its growth,
that he proposed the present Committee. The Hon.
Member sat down by moving a Select Committee of the
House to inquire into the cultivation and the progress of
cotton in the East Indies.

Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said it was not the intention
of the Government to oppose the Committee ; only,
as the conduct of the East India Company had been
alluded to, he wished to say a few words in regard
to their exertions to encourage the growth of
cotton in India. From all he knew of the
progress of the question, he did not, however,
expect much benefit from a Select Committee, or
that its labours would result in rendering this country
safe from dependence on the United States of America.
With regard to the East India Company, ever sine*
1787, that body had done its best to forward the
growth
of cotton. The native cotton was experimented on till
1822, when an attempt was made to introduce fereigni
cotton. Since then the Indian Government had sup-
plied report upon report, which would go far to
prose that this Committee was not necessary. Still
he had no objection to its appointment.—(Hear, bear.)
He said there were now 20G,000 acres preparing for the
cultivation of cotton, and although it had not yet been
perfectly successful, he had certainly seen a sample
which could compete with the New Orleans cotton. In-
deed the prices of the two were near a par. The prin-
cipal rea'on for cotton not being imported from India.
last year to so great an amount was the great amount of
culation in opium. There was also a very great
amount of speculation at home, and a large number of
freights were taken up for bread stuffs. This accounted
to him for the diminution of imports. The Indian Go-
vernment had made very great sacrifices for the culti-
vation of this article in that country. They had spent
already 100,0001., and there was scarcely a mail which
did not carry out despatches encouraging works, roads,
and canals necessary for the cultivation of this article.
Ile assured the Hon. Gentleman that the India Company
tell great interest in the cotton manufacture, and would
oiler every facility to the Honourable Gentleman in all
his inquiries.
_ _ _

Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said he was more san-

guine, than the lion. Gentleman who had just sat down,
.n the good effects of an inquiry into the subj Pct. It ap-
peared to him singular that the East India continent
•hould not be able to compete with the United States.
Mr. fluskisson said in the old House of Commons.
that India, with proper protection, would supply
not only England with cotton, but all the world besides,
With such a guide as this they were not likely to stray
when they urged inquiry. But one element for-
gotten by the Honourable Member for Durham,
when speaking of the use of cotton cultivation
in the United States was, that it was fostered
by a protective duty. That was the point which had
been quite lost sight of by the two free-traders who had
spoken, but which, he hoped, would not be lost sight of
before the Committee which had been moved for. - The
importance of the subject before them might be ascer-
tained from the amount of imports from America in
1846, which, at 6d. a pound, would amount to 13.000.000/.
Yet, in return, the whole amount of exports to that
country, was something like 1,056,0001. Now, that was
as item which might be provided for in the colonies of
this country. Another point that had been quite lost sight
of by the Right Hon. Gentleman, was the effect which
the railways in India would have upon the cultivation of
,•otton in India. It was not railways that the Right
lion. Gentleman seemed to patronise, but those anti-
deluvian works, the canals.—(Laughter.) The con-
struction of railways would save the use of four regi-
ments of infantry, and that would go far to liquidate the
whole of the expense of the railway ; and he, therefore,
hoped that this would be one of the subjects that would
soonest be brought under the consideration of the House.
It had been boldly asserted that foreign nations
would take either gold, or manufactures, as payment
for their corn, but he did not think that opinion would
be entertained now either on 'change in London, on the
Corn Exchange in Manchester, or in Liverpool. Last
Nlonday the first Minister of the Crown said, it was not
expected that other countries would allow us to take
their corn without paying for it, and then addressing
himself to him (Lord G. Mntinck) he said, " You say
that we shall have to send out gold for it. I shall, per-
haps, astonish you," continued the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, "when I say that I wish it may be so."—(Great
laughter.) But would the late First Lord of the Tres-
' sury say so now. We were taking the corn" of Prussia,
and the timber of America, but the words of the Right
Hon. Gentleman has been justified with a vengeance for
the United States would take gold, and nothing but
n
' gold, for their corn, and he would venture to say that
the most rabid advocate of free trade would not
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the Americans would take either gold or manufactures
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t London,
in exchange for their corn —(Laughter.) He thought
that the best question for this Committee to consider
was, whether they should encourage the growth of cot-
ton in India, by restoring the duty on American cotton?
By such a proceeding they would be encouraging the
cotton of a country that would be satisfied to take our
cotton manufactures in payment ; whereas the Ameri-
cans had expressed a determination to be paid in
sovereigns, and nothing but sovereigns, and those sove-
reigns, too, of the last coinage, in order that there might
be no loss of weight.—(Cheers.)
At this point an HON. MEMBER moved that the House
be counted, when there not being forty Members pre-
I sent it was adjourned shortly after Eight o'clock.

A DETERMINED SDICIDE.—IN ednesday afternoon
alarm was excited by a strong smell of smoke and sulphur
from a house in Greyhound-court, Water-lane, Strand, oc-
cupied by a shoemaker named Daviss. Two engines were
instantly on the spot, and several parties forced open the
room whence the smoke escaped, when they beheld Daviss
lying insensible on the floor, enveloped in a dense smoke
which emanated from a pot close by him, filled with brimstone
and charcoal. The unfortunate man had closed the chimney,
and covered every cranny with paper. He was taken to
the hospital in a hopeless state. Domestic quarrels and dis-
tress are alleged to be the causes which induced him to at-
tempt the rash act.
It is proposed to establish a hop-market at Maid-
stone, and steps have been taken to obtaind support for the
I
project, which appears likely to be realised
of Lewes is quoted in favour of the plan.. The
example
THE ETHER EXPERIMENT. An accident occurred
at Mansfield, in the treatment of which, the benefits of the
inhaling of ether, were shown in a novel and very interest-
ing manner. A stout active "man named Benton fell from some scaffolding, and in the fall dislocated his left hip.
Surgical aid was summ
and Mr. Paulson, accompanied
i ed
by Mr. Cooper, was soononil attendance. It was at once dis-
covered that the dislocationt
was one most difficult of re-
duction, and the young man being in robust health, some
considerable difficulty was anticipated. The usual means
were resorted to to procure considerable prostration of
muscular power, and the pulleys were then applied. After
persevering as long as was thought prudent without success,
it was agreed to take the patient over to Nottingham, to
have the benefit of a consultation with the surgeons of the
hospital. When he arrived there the pulleys were again em-
ployed for a considerable time, and still without the desired
effect; till it was then decided to subject the patient to the
influence of ether. No sooner had the inhalation produced
its effect, than complete relaxation of the whole muscular
system ensued ; and the resistance being thus entirely over-
come, the thigh bone slipped into its proper cavity without
any further trouble. On the following morning the patient
was comparatively easy, and he has been gradually improving
wittsvit feeling any ill effects from the application of the new
1 remedy.—Derby Mercury.
CALLS TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'S INN.---The follows

ing members of the Society of Lincoln's Inn have been called
to the bar, and were on Tuesday evening, May 4, sworn in
before several of the benchers :—Louis Henry Shadwell,
Esq., the Hon. William Hamilton Stuart, William Alfred
Wearing, Esq., John Vincent, Esq., George Jessel, Esq., and
Leonard Francis Burma, Esq.