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London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

IMP E; RIAL PARL LAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 15. •
The SPEAKZI took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
POOR LAW.
A message from the Poor-law Commissioneis, containing the
report ordered the other day, was brought up.
CORK AND WATERFORD RAILWAY.
Mr. ELIOT YORKE moved. that the report on the Bill
to
this line should be received. In doing so it was but right
rObserve,-
_that it appeared from a communication which he
414 received from one of the parties connected with the line,
at the retition presented the ether day by the Hon. Member
I,°r Finsbury had been rescinded before the Committee through
foul way...
He stated this that the House might, if they
'noughtroper, take notice of this.—The report was received.
a. HOUSES'
OF REFUGE FOR PRISONERS.
"Ir. M. biILNES presented petitiona from Boston and Bever-
praying that the Legislature would take the necessary mea-
:tea for establishing houses of- refuge for discharged pri-
nerat in order that they might be reclaimed and restored to
society.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
Or. WAKLEY pres lited several petitions in favour of this
„in, and amongst others one from 65 of the must respecta-
fit druggists in London, praying that the law for regulating
ine sale of spirits might not pass in its present shape, and
stating that the persons who had concocted this Bill were
;holly ignorant of their business.
°IETALITY OF THE ARMY IN THE COLONIES.
Mr BRIGHT presented a petition, praying the Legislature
T.O take measures for the prevention of this evil, from St. Luke's
is-OUTHWARK, WATERLOO, AND VAUXHALL

BRIDGES.
Mr. BRIGHT also presented a petition from Southwark,
Praying that the tolls on these bridges might be abolished.
INCOME TAX DEDUCTION BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.

SUPLY.
The report ordered yesterday P
was agreed to.
CITY WORKS PRESENTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
PUBLIC WORKS AND FISHERIES (IRELAND)

BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL, No. 3.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.
On the motion that the House go into Committee,
Mr. ESCOTT wished to know what course was to be
pursued on the Irish Arms Bill. As there were just seventy-
two hours between now and the time appointed for the reading
of that Bill—no inconsiderable period, as times go, in the ex-
istence of any Ministry—he trusted the Government would
take that time to deliberate wisely before they concluded.
Sir G. GREY said that it had already been stated that the
Bill would go into Committee pro firma on Monday, and the
discussion would be taken on the next day.
The Bill before the House then went through Committee.
BRITISH POSSESSIONS BILL.
°•,
_lt the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
2...,7rel G. BEN TINCK said that at the close of the few ob-
-•
'hatiiens which he had, in a House of fifty Members, to make
he should feel it his duty to move that it be read a
nos le.,;w,e, this day three months. This Bill was neither more
steyesttei:i. -uan an intention to overturn the whole of our colonial
' and to take from the colonists the last slice of pro-
since n which they possessed. Hardly six weeks had passed
lLe the Free-trade Bill had received the sanction of the
eisglasisaturer and they had already evidence of its fruits.
urßie °Y had the millowners of Oldham, Stockport, Ashton-
a er-Line, and Dukinfield, given notice to their workmen
t they should reduce their woges 5 per cent. Such was
also tthhecase with respect to Glasgow ; and he would read an
e,!traet from the trade circular of Messrs. Gibson and Ord, of
‘'laliehester, which showed that the business in which they
were
▪ i_ engaged was never at so low a depression, or in
e° a state of gloom at this season of the year as it
al now, And he would tell the House that the
'artless of England, who were the best customers of the
manufacturer, and who saw how corn was falling off to 40s.
quarter, would hold their hands from removing the
evi before they saw whether they bad the power to purchase
Vwels- When the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for
Canada
first introduced his free-trade measures, flour in
fallen soada was six dollars the barrel, but it bad now
to four dollars; and wood, which! had sold
readily at cevenpence a foot, could now hardly find a
!Ilarket at 3d. a foot, and he had heard that one house, which
the given orders fur IGO,OOO/. worth of dry goods, had retracted
e whole of it. Such was the state of the colonies. If th
protection of the manufacturers were destroyed in the colonies
we effect must be, that they who sought todestroy the middle,
ben—the merchant, the manufacturers—and who sought to
merchants themselves, to become such would be
ethnnlielled to seek for the cheapest carriage for
fneil: goods, and they would consequently employ
""To ships instead of the ships of this country. The
te.lult must be the destruction of the navigation laws and the
Prosperity of the shipowners, and consequently also of the
Blrielaants of this country. Arid all this was to be done by a
thl „°,3ly printed on the 11th of this month, and forced through
haste,
nouse with what he could not but term the most indecent
when one half of its members were gone to the moors
with
another portion had left for the Continent : this, too, done
a a bill, the object of which was neither more nor less thao
til7wt°Plete overturning of the whole of the colonial system of
had
' empire. His Noble Friend at the head of the Government
thi said well—as everything he slid say was said well—that '
ba,s Quurary could not stand a revolution a year; but now we
should ,a revolution not once a ear, but once a week, and he
be Wlutianting to the agriculturists of this country, to the
he oufacturers themselves, to the colonists, to the party which
not ' "Presented, and, lastly, wanting to himself, if he did
be PPose this re
,A a ill, d
that day tas he di to the
hree months.utmost, and move that it
r _thir .
1 d time
I.:,,,ILINDLEY seconded the motion.
said til.'utlN RUSSELL had hoped, when the Noble Lord
That I,:` three.fourths of the Members had gone to the moors,
turns „." Was amongst them. When the other House of Parlia-
Could Waled the Sugar Duties' Bill with only ten dissentients, it
the Lewarsi_lY be said that this Bill was opposed to the wishes of
carrying 'ture. and in his opinion, this Bill, which was only
Sorely .out this same principle, was still less open to objection.
rhea ~ if the colonies supplied this country with sugar at the
His rate, they ought to be entitled to receive provisions
His this country also at the most moderate rate.
do Noble Friend had alluded to the navigation laws. No
übt persons might use what ships they liked for the trans-
mission of their commodities, but then the support of the
British navy would become a matter of consideration if this
course were adopted to a great extent. He considered the
doctrine that protection led to greater wealth than free trade
IMO fallacious. In this case he considered that no danger
Woufel result to this country or the British possessions from the
r . )
pa3Aslirn.,gSoP- OthOisNEßßill. hadso much objection to the Bill in its
present form, that he should give his vote for the motion of the
Noble Lord.
Mr. BRIGHT said, no doubt, during the absence of the
Noble Lord from the House of Commons in the list few days he
had been making a tour in the manufacturing districts, but if
the truth were told it would be found that he derived his in-
formation from the columns of the Standard newspaper, and
that it was contained in a paragraph which had no other
foundation than the brain of a too imaginative editor.
had no hesitation in saying that wages were
low in the manufacturing districts, and that food, he
was glad to say, was sold at a moderate rate ; but no man
-would dare to say that wages had keen reduced, for that was
not easily possible, for the corn-law had not yet been actually
repealed. ln.the memory of the oldest inhabitants of the manu-
facturing districts the labouring classes were never more fully em-
p:.oyed, and never derived more comforts from their week's cages
than during the present moment. He (Mr. Bright) cheered
the Noble Lord when he spoke about the navigation laws. He
cheered beztatuie he considered that the principle of free trade
11ue," bad been carried out with respect to corn and sugar,
would
be ultimately arrived at with respect to ships.—( Cheers
--"ll4Th. L.esd eorge
.Bentinck and the protectionists. )
in
Canada was was notorious that corn was cheaper
before
,to the' than after protection was given
out forCanadi He should not have addressed the House
the staternents of the Noble Lord. He believed there
as
,0, no ground for them, and that the Bill before the House
11„-„,7 we Productive of much benefit to this country and the
c°l4-55,---( Hear, hear.)
r' BERNAL would support the Bill, although at the
Mae time he considered it would not be productive of much
benefit to the colonies.
likelMr. RENLEY said that he did not consider shoed ill as
to produce any good effect, and be therefore op-
Pose it.
Sir B. DOUGLAS thought that the effect of the Bi

ould
- be to bring the colonies into angry collision with
having Legislature at home. He thought, that after
they withdrawn protection from colonial produce,
entire
at least, give them leave free and
kedriVeave—to purchsse in whatever markets they chose. He
tred Mere asserted, and he repeated, that colonies and free
thee could not co-exist. The colonies were released from
ir
they u trade with this country, and in no other country could
find a trade so extensive as the one they carried
Kith
us. He had received many and voluminous
ymnlnunications from all parts of the colonies, expressing
Peat disapprobation of the manner in which they had been
treated, and at the present measure and others which preceded
He should therefore give his support to the amendment of
the Noble Lord on the opposite side of the House.
Mr. M. GORE also opposed the Bill, on the ground that it
Would seriously injure our colonial possess,ons. He considered
they were bound to keep the commercial management of the
colonies in their own hands.
Mr. NEWDEGATE thought it was a serious matter for
the House to abdicate its colonial authority, considering the
feelings that prevailed in the colonies. It would seem as if
the &use wanted to go home, being tired of its work, and
therefore decided to leave the colonies to make what arrange-.
bents they thought fit for the regulation of the colonies.
Mr. ESCO TT thought the Bill a just one, and imperatively
required after the recent commercial changes that
had been made. He considered her Majesty's Go•
'ferment were not to blame in bringing forward
the Bill at that late period of the session, nor was the
Bill itself of so much importance as to provoke a long dis-
cussion ; but it now assumed an extra importance, from the
('Position of the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, who
Ir'a; 0" declared to be the leader of a great
and hifiuentiat party. The Noble Lord professed to be a
tisr.eng supporter of the colonies ; if so, how could he oppose
ia Bill, which was absolutely necessary after the commercial
nig
these which had passed for the welfare and prosperity of
'4lese colonies? His opposition was perfectly inconsistent.
•„:the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHLQUER said the
t/11 Was absolutely necessary, considering the position in which
e colonies were now placed. The principle of the Bill was
?0t a new one, having been applied in several instances before
in relation to the commerce of the colonies.
he thought P. BORTHWICK supported the Bill, because
`"eght it would be effectually protecting native industry.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—
For tke amendment
Against it
Majority in favour of the Bill —39
The Bill was then read a third time and passed
THE PAVILION AT BRIGHTON.
PECHELL wished to know from the Government
Wnetizer it was intended to sell this palace by Act of Parlia-
inent or by powers which were possessed by the Commis-
sion„„ t Woods and Forests.
, The CO AYCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that
it would lye sold by Act of Parliament. Any.Linconve-
'li, chee which might be suffered by the inhabitants in conse-
quence of the ;sate would be duly considered, and if it were
necessary, componsation would be made to any parties who
fight stiller damage in consequence of the sale.
NAVAL AND ,'MILITARY DEPARTMENTS BILL.
This Bill then went through Committee, and was ordered
to be read a third time on Monday.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PREVENTION BILL.
The report on this Bill was agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be read a third timei2R,lljonday.

110iii,'S—(FERGUSON'S) ESTATE BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged to give notice, that on
reading the first order of the day on Monday next
woull state the whole of the question of the
distress h Ireland, as well as the whole of the measures
1/11i4 bad been taken to relieve tint distress, lad the ammo