The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

TIMBER DUTIES.

Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from the Chamber
of Commerce, Liverpool, in favour of the reduction of dutie, on
timber. The petitioners stated that they heard with great
satisfaction the proposed measure of the Government, and that
for the purposes of ship building there was felt a great scarcity
of hire oak and pitch pine.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the inhabitants of
Leith, praying also for a reduction of the duty on foreign
timber. The petitioners stated that the interest-of the general
community aunt] be greatly benefited by the proposed measure
of her Majesty's Government, and that there was a scarcity of
timber for the\purposes of house building.
Ordered to he en the table.
TEN HOURS' FACTORY BILL. .
Mr. LAWSON presented several petitions in favour of the
Ten Hours' Factory Bill. They
were ordered lie on the
table.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from Bradford, in
Yorkshire,in favour of a Ten Hours Bill.,
Sir-G. STRICKLAND presented two petitions from Chor-
•. • .. •
ley, in Lancashire, to the same effect.
SE ITLEMEN.T OF NATIONAL DISPUTES BY
A RATION.

Dr. BOW BIN G preivated a peutiou foul Newpoit 'pray-

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ink► that all disputes between nations be settled by arbitraties
instead qf war.

AGE Fl.ioAl THE LOttOs.
illeefngers from the Home of Lords brGught, up scroll

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ISLE OF l
f r. BOWRING moved fur certain returns relating to tile.;
Isle of Man.—Agreed to.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
Mr. WYSE gave notice that on the ith of April he sieesli
move for a Committee to inquire into the preterit state et
education in Ireland and the hest means of improving it.
POOR LAW.
Mr. GEORGE BANKES gave notice that. on Thort
next, he should move that the reposed Bill for the rein's
of the poor in Englund be referred to a select Committee' t
Mr. O'CONNELL, not wishing to throw any
in the way of she adjourned debate on the corn-laws, peOP,°,llo
hie Motion for a Bill to enable the county of Cork to sem' '
,i,
additional Members to this House, to replace those foto° )
returned for Sudbury, till after Easter. A eis
Mr. WYSE, under similar circumstances, postpone,
motion for leave to bring in a Bill relating to art-uniomn
LICHFIELD FREE SCHOOL.
Lord INGESTRE then proceeded to bring under the eon'
sideration of the House the petition of Thomas Woods geld
prietor of the Wolverhanzron Chronicle, in relation to Liebtlie
imp on
Flee School. lie would wish to call attention.—( Oh, oh. ) • s
hoped the House would hear him patiently, he would be Ter,'
brief; but it would be better to let him go ca; if they did au
t
he would adjourn the House.—(Laughter.) The to °,
rial he Blinded to had been signed by the Mayor and •-°',.;
poration of Lichfield; and if the House would inquire its
it, they would agree with him in saying that it would he t.,
bad if the editors of newspapers were to be treated in this tc6,
There had been two actions brought, one against the pubs
usher of the paper, and the other against the editor, su..,e
verdict of forty-eight shillings, with costs, was obtsint;
He had thus briefly stated the case, which he did not swirl'.
dwell upon. .t was a case of the greatest individual hardsbl,pi;
and he had therefore deemed it his duty to bring it under te
consideration of the House. The Noble Lori then conclau7.
by moving that the memorial of the editor be taken into coon
aeration by the House.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he hail no intention whatever:
enter into the merits of this question at present. He belied be
that there were many similar cases, and he thought it svouise
unfair to decide exclusively upon the merits of this parti'e;O..
oi
case. But he merely wished at present to submit to diet!sr
. -
that, whatever might be their desire to deal
aca
the question, nothing should be brought furfset
which would have the effect of delaying the settlement oi o
important measure which had been brought forward ether
Right Hon. Baronet.—( Hear, hear.) He would ask oi',
it would Le unreasonable if he moved that the orders of of
day be then read ? Unless some good reasons were ehoer_lie,
proceeding with the motion at present, he would certalajt
ei inet that the consideration of the orders a the tie s'
in
ought not to be deleted, because the people of this eountri,
particularly those of the manufacturing districti, werecis
state of the greatest alarm lest the session should premature. ) -
close before the question of corn was setter d.—( Hear, heaths
The greater portion of the .labouring classes of us:
country were at present almost wholly %site; ~
employment, owing to the doebts which es'Ape !
as to the settlenuen of the present M-nisterial measures. hoe,
that being the case, be did think that it would be untair (into,
to postpone that settlement, by entertaining such a motiot;,
was then before the House. He weule, therefore, more
the orders of the day be proceeded with. sof
Dr. BOW RING wished to ask, whether there would be., be
compact between the Noble Lord and the Government it
consented te postpone the motion? ' rod to
s
Sir R. PEEL said he would have no objection to P
that, if the motion were postponed, the document alluded
should be before House on an early day. .
r. WYSEd the
hoped that the House would sot. delaY thoepssr:
tlement of the important question of the corn-laws by -
taining te
Ito ion at present. t a tit°
Sir-R. h
H. I would prefer the postponeunen- pe.
corn-law debate, so that the motion might be fully dis
meots!:rial,
Lord INGEST BE said he merely moved foe then' e
fle
in order to get it brought under the notice of the Vloose;il .0.
would consent that the debate should be adjourned ti
morrow week. el‘'
The debate was accordingly adjourned till to-morrow vie
ART UNIONS BILL. . t Ibe
it
Mr. WYSE would not detain the House by entering .0.-001
me, its of the Bill he was about to introduce. He of
simply move for leave to bring in a Bill to legalise art a
PROTECTION OF LIFE (IRELAND)' .e el
Mr. POULET SCROPE moved for leave to intreeutod
Bill for the better protection of life in Ireland, by Ines
the better relief of the destitute poor therein.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM would not offer the slightest ofill
eition to the introduction of the Bill.
Leave was given to introduce the Bill.
HARBOUR o
d DUES.cH ere
, le
Mr. H7F: :M moved—Tis chasge a ress March 3, sere
five to hat bore's, and insert the following:—Address lori'd
turn of the sever al dues and charges of every kind err
as port harbour aloe on, shipping, and on gooll'ee
ported and lauded -at each port, harbour. end , so
in the. United Kingdom ; stating the rates 0
°, vet
several dues per ton, or other we;:eht or measurement. ` ;iel
tally, and distinguishing, in each hafehour, the amount
toleer'
on shipping from the amount levied on ;mode, e° a' evett
hibit the entire amount of port and harbour- charges t;_f
dthf
kind levied on the shipping, and on goods landed atemwtheor
ports, harbours, and creeks of the United Kingdonte AO
gregate levied on shipping and on goods in Scotland, Dn,l4'iss Si
and bellied, for each of the years 1644 and 1845. r, so'
similar return from the several docks in London 141'010'
other rivers and harbours in the United Kingdom, and jets''
eluded in the above order, for the same period. '''
agreed to.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' BILL.
On the motion ler resuming the adjourned debate, f tts
Sir J. GRAHAM observed that it was the intentim!.; welt
Government to postpone till after Easter the amendedreinid
reference to Friendly Societies, and also the sec3ni
the Hon. Member for Oldham's Factory Bill. 1301
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND)
Colonel RAWDON wished to ask the First Lerd,.„°,,-,Ta4
Treasury whether, in the measure contemplated by '5,4', eel,
mint with respect to the Registration of Voters (Irelvorioto•
provision is to be made for the shortening of borough elec' rost
Sir R. PEEL said it was the intention of the Govern
to limit them to one day.
Mr. 0 R SAITIY GO RE presented a petition from the
of Mongomery against the Government measures. 1)1'
THE ADJOURNED DEBATE ON THE CORP
PORTATION BILL.
Lord POLLINGTON said he rose on the the pre:ent:rePregi
casion to express his opinion in opposition to the n 3 the
he:' Majesty's Government. He had given them. d'!lstir
last five years an earnest and truthful, but not a 1!!!.,00
port, as iv of her
on the occasi.n w • will it
his vote on the occasion of the 10J
si
grant. The last rote that he had iven in favour mete
testy's Government waswhen the Hon. the
her for Hull (Mr. Hutt • in ett fle
colonies at a nominal duty To that question,
.01,ein o,
related to the present measure, he
) p:OPO2ed to admit corn
had never belonged to a protection society,
dit address:ell, $ po(01
rev a.
_t °l:e die
to
tection meeting; and the reason of that was, t• 18,, tbefe the
agree in all things with the principles or policy te tined
;
constituted such societies. In last sess.on of ob.`",,g
Noble Lord the Member for the city of London py.0.1: cP,
series of resolutions, one of which was on the subjle,o too;
corn-laws, that he ( Lord Pollington) opposed at ;:e fern
and he w, ulil still tell that Noble Lord, that if he es
0.0
total and immediate repeal 'of the corn-laws. be 91,4 gee
place himself under his guidance. They had hear`,, to
deal about c,rapensa.tion to the landed interest; a"L„'he tier
oilier place, a Noble Duke had given the assent tee.`oo4
rinunt of a repeal of the corn-laws on account of the ,if 10,1,
sation afforded. But he (Lord Pollington) said, t_hid,sr
removed all restrictions on toreign grain, they sh°,ahe etePo
same time, remove all burdens that pressed upon
rinse.
interest. This they were hound to do. If the to r:a: 40:5
to great expense in acquiring chemical skill and set .1, it
0.
pliances, and had to give a good edr cation to their 90f ;'t Oleo,
but right that they should be ;.laced in a position to 0%1, el
111,7ornsilsitatAieot,itihmefpoiorroeici,:ooi:cngsi
tsshooe,
Rather then reveal the corn-laws, and give the faxrawettio,s
nats,hwet iv; inoeuatgtheetyt them tutee's rdi °E) Tue. rt:ayl
s
dent supplies of food fut their increasing populat,l); r,l"teii
they %%add have the colonies to fail back upon.— t 111, la
Py consider tog those ceuraries vs integral petti°l-betivief
empire, this Government admitted that they were nf
take Their produce. He denied that this mode ;-te,Vevi
eonld have the effect of creating any -feelings °' soot'
With regard to Russia, his opinion was that „
would fellow the example of this be dealing with t"
duties in the same way as this country had chid(' we 4'
duty on French brandy. There was another Tw0..., cr
was opposed to the present measure, which was tbi' 1 „gal
(erred relying en his own country to any other for abaci is
ply of agricultural produce.—( Hear, hear.) Ile,en, satet
his course, and no man on earth should make PI 30,1
front it —(1-leer, hear.) , were os
Mr. PLUMPTRE (after a few words will" via de
in the contesion occasioned by Hon. Members I,and to
House) said, he believed the measure to be resit id 0,
just. Hon. Members had changed their opinion:eiget
reasons they had given were not sufficient. Tee eel he
Baronet had said, that because he had changed whir 1;
he felt himsell at liberty to consider all the speech"oe al,•
riot
had made when holding different opinions as di'l3?; eat et
might be very easy to dispose of declarations, bat,;
quite so easy to dispose of facts. In the county I" it cattoboh
resided, and which he had the honour to represent, and Ibiee
variably found that low prices produc.d low wagesoge °.O 1,
in fact, according to circumstances, and the ra 11 tl'Terr
corn took, there was neither more not less act µa I,o°ol
sliding-scale. At te me whn cn %vat' ll ecaine jet
wages had been abeh ti
about 10s. a we eek, or
whet; it eel° 00
depressed indeed in price wages funk to 7s. r_boeter these
when the price of wheat rose the wages of the labourer $5 the
to as much as I3s. 6d. a week. These, he 1bl•tioto °fell
were facts, were unanswerable arguments 111 °Mts' nth h-k°
' Right Hon. Baronet's measure. If he looked akri-,„ assettlfts
compelled to say, that he could not find one pub last
liad been connected with the Government for IPidetee• led
years, in whom he could place the smallest, e°11,..t tbe,
Right Hon. Baronet had assured the House t"-soitie`,l 0
1840 had been a year of great trouble and deep ovel°slP
him, owing to the Chartists having established theile,lest
large bodies, and occasioning great disturbance. ; oft,o,s
Plumptre) entertained no doubt, that it was a }else`, this!)
anxie, y and trouble, but those days had gone bPdderse °via
days had passed, but he would ask, was not
was now being pursued one of the most liketlyh'eelehaubseYcihrs;
about a repetition of the scenes of violence e'lli'crop 000;
acterised those times ? The failure of the potatO „of., „es
forth as the ostensible cause of a repeal of
very 1- your bl
hut he must say that it appeared to him to be a ebeen eel° t
cause. The present movement seemed to bav ttiA
about almost entirely by the agitation of that tleasc,° 000'
bady the Anti-Corn-law League, and he not the
body had accomplished their eurposcs, vvas not tl:11. ust teePree
posed to having other leagues formed, and to ae,„,ree! leis'
which would not be taeisfied entirely until their r7beforiot
however extravagant, should be saiii•fied. Perhaps' or rd,
long, it will be found expedient to coincide witi! 50111,01!
of the Chartists, with respect to the extension etu!ece prudent
and by thus going forward in the dark, in consee
to,„0
miserable expediency, the golden reign of a wr,e,i`ana C.O WO
rule of an iron democracy. Ile thought, most . limited monarchy might be translated into the
his best judgment and conscience, that he shouldeacttre rodali
an injury to the country it he did not ePP's .0 be
measure, and, therefore, under these eireumstanc
ha e
most strenuously opeose it. wit° eed t
Mr. HAWES said that the Hon. 11Iember
cent re
sat down had been pleased to characterise the Pre,o„ reneilr
as a dangerous measure, and that public opto,ee-tee,,,,001
004
thoroughly enlisted in its favour. He would ee.'"jist Poe',
Gentleman to the numerous petitions presented `large :3,00e!
from London, Marchester, Liverpool, and othefhe Ft na.
unneees;..el,r,
facturing districts, all of which preyed thet_:.,r, d-.fri;itt;
measure might be passed without any
the ground that it would promote the general pr._
_sr bent /civet
country.—( Hear, hear.) He inust take t nipo si
say that .there never had been gor,eava„en
vased in that House the opponents I
with so littlo sympathy from all sides as
undertaken to obstruct the progress of the. Psieee:%ct
He was not. avearee tleeteeny eympathy tied
nbe,ew"itb.ec4deeitr
resent those 'lo;_e si ao,
opposition to the silk questtope perrote_„
limber, were here any petition* pi esente 11),
lug tri that ertie••• in opposition to her 31 •
Lie (Mr. Hawes) repretiented a WY