The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS
TDITION•

SUN-OFFICE, Hcqf-past Eight.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
At Five o'clock, neither the Lord Ciancellor nor the
Earl of Shaftesbury being in attendance,
Lord BROUGHAM inquired if there was any ob-
jection to Lord Denman officiatfng instead? •
No objection being tal:en by their Lor.loiips,
Lord DENMAN tools his seat On the Woolsack.
PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE.
Earl SOMERS presented two petitions from occupiers
of land, and other persons residing in the county of Here-
ford, against the proposed withdrawal of agricultural
protection. The petitioners stated they were apprehen-
sive that great evils would, in consequence, fall not only
on the agricultural interest, but on -all classes of her
Majesty's subjects.
ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
The order of the day was then read for going into
Committee on the Administration of Justice Criminal Bill.
The Bill then pa,sed through Committee, and the
report was brought up and agreed to.
RAILWAYS.
The Earl of REDESDALE presented a petition,
complaining that several names were attached to rail-
way schemes w hich were not sanctioned by the parties
whose names were thus attached. He considered that
in a matter of such vast importance the standing
orders in Committees ought to be carefully attended to
and enforced by their Lordship;. He (Lord Redesdale)
would suggest that where names were attached to
any such scheme, security should be given that the

parties had actually given their consent to such pro
positions. _

- The Earl of DALHOUSIE then rose to mwe the
adoption of the resolutions contained in the second
report of the Lords' Committf e on Railways. He had
to mote that certain alterations should be made
in the standing orders 219, 220, and 224, in order to
facilitate the passing of certain Bills, which were to
originate in that House during the present session.
The Noble Earl then entered into a detail of the altera-
tions intended. (These have been already given in the
resolutions inserted in our yesterday's paper.)—Agrced
to.

The Earl of CLARENDON wished to ask his Noble
Friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he
would have any objectiol to lay on the table any
cot respondence between himself and the Spanish Govern-
ment on the subject of Cuba sugar?
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he could not
have any objection to produce the correspondence re-
ferred to.

Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday.

LORDS' SUMMARY.

Lord DEN MAN, in the absence of the Lord-Chancellor,
took his seat on the Woolsack in the House of Lords, shortly
after Five o'clock.

Earl SomEns presented several petitions against any alte
ration in the corn laws.

On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Administration of
Criminal Justice Bill went through Committee.

The Earl of IZEDEDALE presented a petition from an indi-
vidual complaining of the course pursued by many parties
with respect to railway Bills, and praying that their Lord-
ships would make it a standing order of the House that all
parties, before they should be permittted to introduce
railway Bills, should be bound to prove that the provisions
of the Registration Act had been complied with.
The Earl of DALILOUSIE moved the adoption of the resolu-
tions contained in the second report from the Lords Com-
mittee on Railways, which was agreed to.

The Puhlie Works Ireland Bill went through Committee,
and was ordered to be reported en Monday.
In answer to a question from the Earl of CLARENDON,
The Earl of ABEnDESN stated that he had no objection to
lay on the table of the House the correspondence that had
taken place between the Spanish Minister and himself rela-
tive to the duty on Cuba sugar. •
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice of his inten-
tion, on Tuesday next, to ask the Noble Duke (WELLING-
ToN) the cause of the dismissal of Mr. GUNSIONE from the
Poor-law Commission in Ireland.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said he would take care that
the Noble Marquis should have the information he required
on the day he had stated.

The House then adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before
Four o'cic•ek.

PETITION FROM THE CITY—CORN-LAWS.
The Sheriffs, of London, Messrs. Chaplin and Laurie,
appeared at the bar, clothed in their insignia of office,
and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, aldermen,
and citizens of London, in Common Council assembled,
in which, after stating their approbation of the general
policy pursued by her Majesty's Ministers with respect
to the commercial interests of England, ri'gretted that
the total repeal of the corn-laws was to be delayed for a
period of three years.

- NEW WRIT.
A new writ was moved for by Mr. BERESFORD, for
North Nottinghamshire, in the room of Henry Gaily
Knight, Esq., deceased.

RAILWAY BUSINESS.
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Lord DUNCANNON brought up
.the report on the
Manchester, Matlock, and Buxton Railway Bill, which
was ordered to be read a first time.
The following Railway Bills were read a second time,
and ordered to be committed:—Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole Railway (Methley, Askern, and Oakenshaw
branches) ; Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield,
Huddersfield, and Goole Railway ; Leeds and Bradford
Railway (-alteration of levels in Bingley).
Mr. STIVUTT brought under the notice of the House
the fact that several petitions for private Bills had been
received by the House in consequence of some irregu-
larity which they contained having been overlooked.
There were several instances where the standing order,
111 A, had not been complied with.
Mr. GREENE gave a notice of motion to the effect,
that in all cases of private Bills no petitions should be
received unless they had been prepared and properly
signed by the parties themselves.
Mr. ENT WISLE said, that complaints had fre-
quently been made of the operation of the standing
orders in reference to matters of a minor and very trivial
nature, and parties were often put to enormous expense
by being compelled to attend here, and then all
that was lest by reason of the Bill being
thrown out. upon some
,matter of a very trifling
nature, and they were told that they had been defeated
by a non-compliance with the standing orders. With
regard to what the Hon. Member for Lancashire had
said, he would just make this observation, that the
number of petitions was so great thot that it was quite
impossible fur this House to take cognizance of the con-
tents of the whole of them. It would be well, there-
fore, if some measure were introduced to prevent this
useless expenditure of thousands of pounds before a 8111
had passed the sanding orders.
Mr. STRU TT said his observations did not apply to
the Standing Orders Committee, but to the commissions
of this House.
Mr. E. ELLIS said that much inconvenience had
a-isen by reason of the vague manner in which the
standing orders required the notice of a Bill to be in-
serted in the " first part" of the petition, withcut defining
the particular part.
Mr. GISBORNE said he could not at all understand
on what grounds his Hon. Friend had submitted his
motion to the House. The House itself had established
certain rules, and they were neither few or unimportant,
with which all public companies were compelled to
comply. He believed they amounted to about 120 or 130,
the slightest infringement of any one of which was suffi-
cient to cause the rejection of their petitions ; and
now there were petitions presented to them by parties
who had only two standing orders to comply with.
He thought it, therefore, extremely unreasonable
to ask for this indulgence in the House, with-
out any notice having been given of the intention
to present them, although they concerned property to a
very large amount, and when in fact the House knew
no more about them than if they had just dropped from
the clouds. He could see no reasen for assenting
to the proposal of his Hon. Friend, and if his motion was
persisted in, he should certainly divide the House against
him.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE begged to explain that the
resolution upon which the Committee had acted was
one which had been imposed by the House. It was not
founded upon any general apprehension of the standing
orders, but was a specific direction of the 111th clause.
) Although many directions of the standing orders
were general in their character, yet, whenever any
particular rule of proceeding was to be observed, it vita
clearly laid down, as was the case in No. 9. The Coin-
noit!ce, therefore, could nut dispose of this case, and he
conceived the Hon. Member for 1)( rhy was perfectly
right in repeating it to the House, instead of disposing of
it summarily.
After a few observations from Sir GEORGE CLERK
and Mr. Gisnonem, which did not reach the gallery.
Mr. R. HODGSON said if the parties ie ferred to had
made a mistake, they might petition the House to allow
them to rectify-it. The case was precisely similar to one
which occurred in the House a few nights ago. The
27th order required that a list of the assents and dissents
to a Bill should be delivered to the Clerk for
Private Bills, who was desired to endorse the fact of
their receipt on the back of them. In the case
to which he referred, this endorsement had been
omitted. The parties petitioned the House to permit
them. to rectify the mistake, which was granted. The
case was perfectly analogous, and the parties in this
case might adopt the same course.
The r 4 port was then ordered to lie on the table.
Sir JOHN YARDE BULLER presented a petition
agains:. the Birmingham and Leicester Railrvey Bill.
Mr. BARRY BALD WIN presented a petition against
the Direct Union Railway Bill.
Mr. VILLIERS gave notice, that he should, on
-Wednesday next, move—for a return of any direction of
the Poor-law Commissioners for the incorporation of the
parish of Farnham, in Surrey, with other parishes in
a poor-law union, and the copy of any memorial that
may be presented against it.
LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Mr. FERRAND gave notice that he would, on Mon-
day next, put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet at
the head of her Majesty's Government, (if he should
then be in offiee)— (A laugh)—whether it was his inten-
tion to fill up two offices lately vacated—he alluded
to the offices of Lords of the Admiralty—(Laughter)—
as, in the event of his: not doing so, he (Mr. Ferrand),
should more that the offices be abolished as being quite
useless to the country.—(Renewed laughter.)

LANDLORD AND TENANT.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice of his
intention to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet
the First Lord of the Treasury, as to whether it was the
intention of Government to propose any measure on the
subject of landlord and tenant in Ireland.
'MERCHANT SEAMEN'S SOCIETY.]
An HON. MEMBER inquired whether it was the inten-
tion of Government to bring forward any measure in
the present session in reference to the Merchant Sea-
men's Society, as the matter had been strongly recom-
mended td the consideration of the Legislature by two
Committees appointed on the subject?
Sir G. CLERK replied that he had been for some
time in communication with some of the most eminent
merchants on the question, end he hoped in a few.days,
to be able to give a satisfactory answer to the question.
Mr. FORSTER said he had no doubt the petition
spoke the sentiments of the Ship-owners' Society. He
must, however, protest against these parties coming for-
ward in the way they had done of late, and stating that
they spoke the sentiments of the great body orship-
owner.s That society had been invariably opposed
to relaxation.--(Cheers.) He was . not, however,
opposed to discussion on the subject of which
they complained, as the more they entered into the in-
vestigation they found that they had no reason to com-
plain.

Mr. LIDDELL said he was not desirous of bringing
on a discussion then, hut he could not allow the re-
marks of the Honourab:e Member for Berwick
to pass without a reply. It was his intention to make a sub-
stantive motion to the effect, that the petition be printed, when
it would stand before the House on its own basis. The chair-
man of the General Society of Shipowners had signed the
petition, and he believed it expressed the opinions of the whole
of the members of that body. It was a matter of little conse-
quence to him whether Hon. Members said the petition was got
up or not.— (Hear.) By printing it, it would be placed before
their observation. He should take an early opportunity of re-
f;r►irg to the suljcc..

Mr. WALL, said he was prepared to support the allegations
in the petition. _

The petition was then ordered to be printed.
RAILWAY DISTURBANCES.
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Mr. JAMES asked the Right Hon. Bart. the Secre-
tary of State, if he had received any official account of a
savavage affray which had taken place at Penritb, in the
county of Cumberland, • between a number of Irish
labourers, who were armed with knives, sticks, and other
weapons, and to such an extent had this been carried,
that it had been difficult, with the assistance of the
yeomanry cavalry to preserve the peace of the district.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had received no official
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information on the staject.
Mr. EWART wished to ask the Right lion. Gentic-
man the I'reside•nt of the Board of Trade, whether he
had taken into hip considerati-n the necessity of obliging
railway Companies to make some provision to prevent
the recurrence of such acts, and thus to protect the
public against the injuries likely to be sustained, by
Laving some hundreds of these labourers scattered over
the country.

Sir G. CLERK made a remark across the table,
whibh was inaudible in the gallery.

WESTMINSTER•tRIDGE.

Sir R. INGLIS said he had given notice of his inten-
tion to put certain questions relative to Westminster
bridge and the in w Palace at Westininster. At the
close of the last session of Parliament he put several
questions upon these subjects. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man the First Lord of the Treasury then said he bad
received certain communications on this subject. He now
wished to ask w hether those communications comprised the
amount of money which bad been expended in the repairs
of the House, if such a word could b::applied to such
an object, and whether the Government Isere prepared
to appoint a Commmitte or object to the appointment of
a Committee upon the subject.
Mr. CARDWELL said that the subject had been
carefully and fully considered by the Right Ho-
nourable Gentle-man at the head of her M*s.
ty's Government, and after considering the report
of the Commissioners who had the care of Westmin-
ster- bridge, he did not think that there was sufficient
reason for building a new bridge. Instructions, however,
were given to the Commissioners to inquire into the
state of the bridge with respect to its security. The re-
port of the Commissioners did not recommend any alter-
ation in the bridge, nor did it recommend any further
steps to be taken. Under these circumstances, seeing:that
ample care had been taken with reference to the safety of
the public. He (Mr. Cardwell) hoped the Hon. Bart.
would not think it necessary to move fore Committee
Sir R. H. INGLIS was not at liberty to say more
than he thought the answer most unsatisfactory. He
would now, however, ask %Olen it was likely that the
New Houses of Parliament a ould be ready to be occu-
pied ? He did not mean the room only in which
the Legislature was to meet but the committee-rooms
and the other parts of the building. He wished
to know when they would be able to
have their accommodation in the new Houses
of Parliament—not merely into the room where they
were to sit, but also when the other apart-
ments w• old be in a state of readiness.
If the expectation which had been held out that
that the new Houses wonld be ready at the commence-
ment of the session of 1837, would not be realised. He
would also wish to know whether her Majesty's Govern-
ment would consent to appoint a Committee to ascertain
the cause of the delay.
Mr. CARD WELL—I have some reason to entertain
a doubt that the expectations with regard to the readi-
nets of the new Houses at the commencement of the
session of 1847 may possibly not be realised.—
(Laughter.) I ant aware that some causes of delay
have occurred with regard to them, and: in consequence
of those causes some postponement may take place, but
I can assure the Honourable Gent:eman that every
exertion will be made to bring the works
to a completion without any unnecessary delay.
And I hope, in answer to the last part of the Don. Gen-
tleman's question, that should the Houses not be iu a
state of readiness at the expt cted time, he will not ap-
point the Committee to which he referred.
Mr. COLLETT begged to ask the Right Hon. Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department if the statements
which had lately appeared in the public papers in refer-
ence to an alleged loss which the revenue had sustained
by a flaw discovered in the recent Corn-law Act were
true, and if so, what course the Crown intended to adopt
in reference to the parties concerned ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said that different constructions
had been put on the Act in question. The first ch vision
was in favour of the Crown. The parties afterwards
appealed from that decision, and by the judgment of
the Judges in the Court of Exchequer, that decision
was reversal. Now, whether. the case would proceed
further he was not prepared to say ; but the case, as
stated in the newspapers, was considerably exaggerated.
It was then agreed that the House at its rising,
should stand adjourned till Monday.
CORN-LAWB.

Lord MORPETH presented a petition, numerously
signed, in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the,
corn-laws.
Mr. RAIKES CURRIE presented a petition from
Northamptonshire in favour of a total and immediate
repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition against the
abolition of the corn-laws.
Mr. HUME presented, several petitions from dif-
ferent places, one of which was from the linen reanu-
facturers of Reading, praying for a total and immediate
repeal of the corn-laws. The petitioners stated that
the Legislature afforded no protection to their trade,
and they, therefore, did not think it was just to protect
agriculture.
Mr. L ABOUCHERE presented a petition to a similar
effect.
Mr. B. SMITH presented a petition from the city of
Norwich to the same effect.
Sir J. M'TAGGART presented a petition to the
same effect.
An IloN. MENDErt presented twelve petitions from
Hampshire in favor of protection to agriculture.
Sir W. IIEATIICOTE presented a petition, pray-
ing for total and immediate repeal of the corn Jews.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a numerously signed pe-
tition from the inhabitants of Cockermoutb, in which
the petitioners stated that, although the proposal of Go•
vernment was in many respects defective, yet as
a whole they looked upon it as a good measure, and they
therefore prayed the House to pass it into a law. He
had also another petition from the inhabitants of Egre-
mont, in Cumberland, praying for a total and immediate
repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. E. BARRINGTON presented a petition in favour
of agricultural protection.
Mr. G. BANKES said he had a petition to present
from the inhabitants of the county of Dorset. That
petition was agreed to at a public meeting of that
county, regularly convened after a long notice, and the
meeting was ofso extensive a nature, that no-hall in the
eounty-town, or street in that county-town, was capable
to contain the number of those who attended.—(Minis-
terial cheers.) The consequence was, that they ad-
journed to a plain without the town, and at that meet-
ing the petition which he was about to present was
agreed to.
Mr. P. lULETT SCROPE presented several petitions
in livour of a total repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. B. ESCOTT presented several petitions from
Suffolk in suprort of the Government measure, with the
exception that they pra3ed the repeal of the corn-laws
might be immediate.
Sir A. BROOKE presented a petition from Lanark in
favour of a repeal of the corn-lawn.
Mr. PHILIP MILES presented a petition from the
county of Devon against the commercial policy of the
Government, and stating that the present corn laws had
entirely answered the end for which they were pro-
posed, and praying that no alteration be made in them.
Mr. BRIGHT presented, petitions from the county of
Durham and Wiltshire in favour of a repeal of the
corn-laws.

Sir R. PEEL presented a" petition in favour of the
Government measure, from Sunninghill ; also one from
Fifeshire, for a total repeal of the corn-laws.

ADJOURND DEBATE.

On the order of the day for the adjourned Debate
being read,
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS said that he was sure
the Right Honourable Gentlemen at the heed of her
Majesty's Government would understand his objec-
tion to the measure now before the House. It
was his intention to vote against the measure
for the purpose of protecting agriculture. The present
combination of parties was a significant circumstance.
Ile had uniformly voted against a repeal of the corn-
laws in the House, and he (Sir Howard Douglas) had no
r.ason to regret his having done so, although he had
re-considered all he had said and beard stated on that
measure. He had nothing to regret, except that be could
only imperfectly speak his sentiments on that subject, to
which he had given his most dispassionate considera-
tion. He could not, in consequence, concur in the
measure of the Right Hon. Baronet, on which he would
take leave to make a few observations. It was true
there was a stop put to the exportation of
British and Irish produce in the year 1844.
The period which the Right Hon. Baronet had tak. n
was that of the lowest depression, he meant the year
1842. It was very material to inquire what were the
causes of that depression. He believed that the solution
would be found in the system which prevailed in their
manufactures, and the extension of mechanical
power ; but with, respect to the corn-laws the
Right Hon. Baronet had himself admitted that no
alteration of the corn-laws would remedy evils in-
separable from the commercial system he had already-
referred to. Tllll9, ho admitted that the corn-
laws were not the cause of the depression. In
1844 the exportation to foreign countries was not
so great as in many years. With respect, f r
instance, to Russia, it was greater in 1837, and
as regarded France, the case was nearly similar.
He ehould be sorry to attempt the repeal of protection,
or the relaxation of restrictive duties. When he first
appeared in Liverpool, and avowed the principle of pro-
tection, he admitted his readiness to alter and
modify it so as to make it of advantage to the
general interest, and as little hurtful as s-
sible to individual rights; but he was now calisd
upon not to modify or surrender protection, hut abso-
lutely to extinguish it. Protection had neter been de-
voted to the interests of any particular class of persons,
and fe,r less had it been devoted to the interest of
any class which he had the honour to represent.
It war; his principle to protect all classes of
artizans without distinction—to protect labour when.
the I:tbour market was in that state of severe (le-

pressi.on which it so frequently experienced. n
he perceived tee Government about to rush into
a measure by which native industry, unprotected.
was made to compete with the protected industry of
fore:7;n states, without even much capital to protect it,
he felt it necessary to enter his protest. He was
not, going to discuss the relation—if there was indeed any
relation—between th eprice of food andithc price oflabour.
He would not take up much time, ho would leave the!
question in abler hands, but he was prfeetly qoavinced

that a repeal of the corn-law would displace the produe!.
Lions of British manufactures in every market
nth world to which the British merchant had access.
lie found another remarkable deduction, from the reef
to tvhich he had referred, and that was; an unlimited
importation of corn did not by any mians
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produce a cotemporaneous exportation of manufac'uree:
The fact, then, was, that it would be quite apparent
from this statement that the truth of the axiom, that n
England was England's best customer, forced itself ups
their minds, and that the great cause of their recent
prosperity was the activity of the home markf.s.
fie would now say a few words upon the dt,,
advantageous position in which freo trade laws wonoina
place this country. He would ask would the posillee
of the country be such as the Hon. Member °N osier,
had depicted ? Would it alter their position in leer!:
to France or Germany or the United States.:
Thee had often evinced a disposition towarq,
France to relax the English tariff; but the I'o.'ll_l'
eas only to make France enforce her prate totes
with a still more stringent hand. The United State.,
would do the sem", for be would contend for it that on)),
Pre:iilent of the United States from Washington (I°.:ir.
had evinced a disposition for protection ; end
toe
P Bt's last message stated that he would be PrePiop,
• • recommend a reasonable amount of protreuto
tie thought it was necessary to trice every precaori
before they made this great alteration—to make before
trial for improving the condition of the country to
they made this plunge. -For what were they abet:jot
_do ? They were about to enter into a corapetithecied,
hostile tariffs—not with hostile tariffs, foe,
no tariffs could be hostile but with rival to educe
And the effect of that competition would be tn,r bole
the products of British industry and British atthose
a hich was the chief component in the value of
reins
projects, not to the level, but above the level, of tn 7,10
articies. The liberality was to be all on this side •yeets
water, for it could hardly to supposed that forele,beir
would purchase articles of British production in owe
own markets, at a higher price than-those of tbeilroftee
manufactures, when of equal quality. If, instead could
scheme now laid before the House, and which ha the
designate in no other way, to say the least of itt,witre
height of imprudence, they had looked to the tloll,oete
resources offered to them in immense variety and im
eion of our foreign possessions, they would havdera'
proved and extended the market without t teio
ciating its value. But now, by entering:in:oM'
competition, they would only prove 6' 00,
fel by rendering British labour choopertioo
it now was. It was evident that by this redit.oue
the import duties they would be reducing the rel:ei•bieulS
the country, and they could only restore the ((ltrilbal it
of its finance by annual grants. He contendsl that on
was not of the slightest interest to lay heaVY `lll3 in s
articles of importation when foreign tariffs acte Wtss
similar way towards British exportatioes• lie
was the advantage he wished to know ete the
agreed with an obscrvaton which fell last night °coil,'
Noble Lord who represented the West Riding of Ife,riestisg
that it was necessary to provide food for an °fa- t et;
population. The populatinn was increasing to aLg-,s tbe),
tent, and the question then naturally arose lonnstia;
were to be fed.--( Hear.) His (Sir Howard 111;a1.00
conviction was that if agriculture continued to be non °
there world be no difficulty in satisfying the wants owductio°
increasing population, for he was satisfied that any section
in the price would be followed by a corresponding re" of free;
the price of wages and provisions. There was a seeelessaolas;
trade which might be introduced with great advantage,..-cana",i
ourselves.—( Hear, hear.) When he voted for trthatili's
Corn Bill, he imagined that the principle on erhicu„- ertic'ef
was founded would be carried out with respect to of '.,sale
produced in our colonies, from whieh he believed the
this country would derive great advantage. The iebtlehl
the colonies might also derive great advantages, from sc
tad
wet e now shut out, by being a market in which they 1007
their produce at the best price it could realise. fa,"
that Australian earn ought to be admitted on the Home
ietl it
ciple as the Canada corn, and he considered that es
Canada Corn Bill should be carried out to a greater e(leor,
ought to have included Prince Edward's Island.
sos •
hear.) That Bill (the Canada Corn Bill) Coon"
solemn compact made between this country ands GO;
and when the measures proposed by her 510.1e5,,,.tit- of
meat should be passed, it would have the euie-nat •-so"
mediately abolishing that solemn compact; anu_sn-Id
_;;;1
would it act thus towards Canada, but it si,7 nalorn,
extinguish the colonial system itself.—(Hear.) "-frbillais
system is nothing more than a system of protection• lease
ment byou abolish the differential duties you resaaarl:,..
colonies from the necessity of dealing with the Per ono
Briti.h goods, and also of our dealing• with them lee $
The it glorious flag might still fly—there might be, outitfl,
would wish to die under that flag in support of tbe°
rights-that flag under which h their ancestors at 1')of
but he (Sir H. Douglas) would tell them, tt trlj
ships might *guard their colonial coasts, and Ill°. 000
-might garrison the country, but their colonies 1. lec
be useless to them. This country would
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any right to regulate the commerce of the Theyla go
Mr. Huskisson's Acts were not free 'trade Acts. ltttt
for their object rather the protection of agrieu" Woo-
found the colonial trade in a srate of monopoiit estilts
brought forward his Acts of 1824, for the for'etsli,l'e,
of colonial trade. The obfect of his ; trlh'er
direct, was prevented, except that of the eoot'ila °tide
' was to allow the Colonies to have free-trade wf3reear er
countries that were independent States, but till. aelsroe
intercourse with the mother country, either or,
They had taken off the timber duties here.—(Hetr'n'prd, •
the American colonies laid a tax upon the West In°,l3,set'!:
—they had a perfect system of free trade amongst wstoser ,
and the German States had also a free trade amongst
eige
but by a compact they had a protection against the forte, re 0
ports. It could not be denied that the German Sthseiasel:s
pered by the protection they had fenced ts",factuihe
with. We had introduced our cotton rnarse-a
into India, and by so doing we had rn"- hel"no'
native • manufacture of that country.—(Flesre, et;
The manufacturers of this country had superseded tired
arlr
facturers of India, and thereby render the manufacto. )
ch s in that country mush cheaper.—(Opposition cheeTisel;
• Huskisson in a speech which he delivered in tile ti
on the Bth April, 1826, clearly pointed nn,t L'ea
dangers which this country would render itself bsia"„eol c-ch
making itself dependent upon foreigners for the OPT, sfe'76a
The Hon. Gentleman here read an extract from t' Ibs
in question to the foregoing effect, stating that since
,olersAa
up to the period of the war, we had been to a 1.
extent dependent on foreigners for the supply of f°°,arrlier
we had paid sixty millions of money for a seat:11000
corn ; and yet, though we had parted with our and
currencies, Europe had shut its ports against tiosotte_fbi
and America laid an embargo en its produces
The statesman to whom he (Sir H. Douglas)
stated, that if this country was made to depend cierier,de'
foreign nations, improvements would stand still, in
ends'
would go to waste, and the nation be subjected to
the),
dine. He (Sir H. Douglas) considered their 'see
protect the colonies so as to proveide for °l'd Po.
and defence. Honourable Members shot!
a 1 oro
listen to the theory which would put an end to coloilt:e'vcisve;
tion, en which depended the safety and commercial s-cto rerod
of Great Britain ; and least of all should they listeencority
anadllu?,lo%es,
1
sentations evincing disregard to the nation's!, sr,
peace, and maritime ascendancy in war.--( Pes-roc ';00
Fie alluded not to what other nations were rels,t'bei
He believed they had a sincere desire to cultivate tbhe the) hot
of peace ; still he was sure that thoSe powers, thetig.,„trlSs
no immediate intention of going to war with this eec'ecart(l,4
an intention, whenever a a favourable opportunilY eieet Is'ee
the future, of giving it a stab. Their ultimate Is the
eeis
to deprive Great Britain of the dominion of.
ht
He felt that he had trespassed long upon the fOuse,iest that tb<
and cries of " No, no") - but he hoped and ear(' rests °o ats
Right Hon. Friend, who was as devoted to the irate bin' to,aot
country as his judgment and his experience r 11. ‘ll
would see grounds for changing his °pinkie —( "-ea e'iee
Siscerel did Le hope that the opinion' , e"or•
(Si: Kowaed Douglas) professed might t31,;i5
be erroneous, but under the strong conviction that h jeee're or
cannot be carried out with advantnee to the Briu'isatotelote
and that agriculture will be injured', and that man? 10.1 cote
commerce would not be improved, he would gtc-ferls;
against the measure.— ( Hear, hear, and cheers: id tescrer
respects he (Sir H. Douglass), reluctantly 011)°:enf, se out
e
bue on the whole, he gave a confident, conscientiothe reels it
sistent vote against it, for it appeared to him that;
was an unnecessary and dangerous experiment* cnea
was a movement from which there was no retrea ; ;rail t
sa
it depended in a great measure the prosperity', th
honour, and the glory of this great country or d-caelistes
ruin.—( The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst 13" the ,$ 0
Lord VILLIERS said that on appearing bef°rheis t'es thss
on that occasion it was his intention to eareE6rson ijiebieegis
briefly as possible.—( Hear. ) Was not every' Pe aids s.oir,
House aware that protection would always re`prte a Perlieve;
of contention, and could he conscientiously OPP-that ‘1"00,e;
of that character. He would be bound to saPri at $ 'ef
opinions he had entertained upon this ettesll°,rietteesoes
period had been completely changed by the elP",rl iebe lee
, lest few years.—( Hear, hear, ironical cheers, oof
stay
" Oh, oh.") He would repeat that the en:Perla oc tE°O
few years had established beyond a doubt that tbtry by the
longer necessary to the prosperits, of the Out° oendbir,a;
opposed to the opinions advanced on the las /bola tAP
Honourable Baronet the hlember for r I°,lootll
that the prosperity of the last few VI; r,
abundance of capital originated not in "et .firre(lo%
of the Right Honourable Baronet, but - P".rtb '-
harvest and the employment afforded by failvssr;eo able coo;
Mess) contended that railways had not 1;1- • jiel
capital, but that capital had given rise to railwa,A area le:
tended further that the reduction of trasts`ivel
to
necessarily imply a fall in the revenue. lillelsitfistle:tcor
country rise from a condition pregnant wit :e big
er-
state of comparative prosperity. He should gl' 05 nte
dial support to the measure.—(Clieers.)
Ines had bare
Mr. F. SCOTT said, that when this Ines he ,
thatfiebteest
siteui33)s9 o;
brought forward' by her Majesty's Governmen" asigu'saVni
down toHouse with the hope
been enabled to afford it his
(Hear.) He had always given his "ice ble oiset,
to the measures of the Right Honour:o other toil
He regretted that he was now compelled to d 010%00,
with
tot
hi
own principles and the inferr,,,eicen 2°3;1 5,14.
with his constituents. Although be had nethibbe the ia F-setl
ple.ages to them, his principles in 1846 et°ll".. ndidstesotP!,,
as those be had avowed when an unsuccessful
_.,cl he.
In 1841, he addressed them with more success,',"s„sc oc`,,tirt(re
their suppert. When he again entered that r7its r,i'on
_OO
tainted the same course from a firm convictiotn.°Je` oter id_cna
and a belief that he could not follow a sa.f.l.-
Right: Honourable Baronet, whose oPincTodeciee aete
e n epee,
on the subject lie knew from so wet aeo
n'tairns:.ott)
se `hen
whom he had always regarded with rest
ottiond tar 1,0
ration. Thcso feelings bad increased tbereiend Moan °,,hs
dtoutt%:aall,e"til'i
which he had felt when he heard that his ;tea tho ne (;0,1
round on all his former opinions, and had dose
hear.)
arra
had placed him in his high position.—(
aftfiigrhunt
clolnonvieStioanrotnheatt)
ihtadwansoindcouumbbteifetlot
course, and to hoist another flag. Ile o,l„rnien etllle, 'I
ever, felt it his duty to deliberate what tars inisera or ealfo
ce. He felt that although he appeare V
d ernZijigeoeof ha
compared to the Right Hon. Baronet in Lscention
city;, "
yet he would yield to no man in his Pe
ti his country.

London
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Sheriff
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way Bills were
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Lord DUNC a 015"
ordered -rie.zaaNdiulfasyebcoroDnudilglh;itnw,ii,ehn.ictbhev3Latloek, _. 4,
Mr. ST pu-ri b
an -- - roug,ht under the coraideration.o
for $ r'.
irregularity that had taken place in a p'tit.ol f 11
Way Bill, IviiiCh led Oho= diMlE5b2Py iA the °Pile°
read f
to
000. a.