The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

Would an ...,
i , Yand°neuseelnens
immense
He, for elri.ee;
stenhdurtdheant
to
oheeu-s w? ould net be an
would say that if such was to be the future p
of the country, he would be no party to tax the p-eoople.
" Zlgland to maintain colonies, which Ministers by
their to
had ruined, destroyed, and renderedi
Useless to them.-(Elear, hear.) To show that t atie.co.
not Mere idle declamation, but that it was a f I '
reso-
Which obtained to a great extent, he would read a . _
itttien come to by the West India Association of
eL‘ilv,ee.st-
Pool, in which they said it was impossible for
the
and
India colenies to continue the production of. sugar..
and
coffee on terms of equal competition with foreie,nere u"
'eat there Was no course left for the West India interest.
pikretsetnnt
might
atiPtlPeal to the Crown to release them from their
profitable allegiance, in order that they
attach themselves to some other country thatl would
s
extend to them the protection of a parent
'sta. state.
interesti
felt tibelPtorthtttenyt, as showing that the West india
might be driven to seek &emu
„tates teat protection which was so cruelly tI 11
dee nUi endi f et
od
-a-"ellt by England. He was anxious that thehpeee(fTeleet(o)ff
:','neland should fairly understand whet re
tirhlese measures as regarded the coloniesu?sliteblfu,e if then
haveeY supported the 6Government in them they would
hilt: themselves alone to blame.
as to what must be the effect on our shipping
He would
sno.pwp.inng-
'lnterest. The Might Hoe. Gentleman, when he broughtower
°Nerd these resolutions, admitted that the power
ice greatness of the country' depended on the mainten
*eine° of her conamer ial marine: it followed, therefore,.
hatany Measure Which was calculated to weaken
4.4 L of the United States, would be injurious le_ enelniercial marine of England. .antios
tsotruesnigriththene
ilitte Proportion as it was advantageous to our rivals.
N„- what
.e.': weeld take that admission as granted..
the' .F.'.11,Y of
compcompromisedprof: to
England
for this injury?
Would
.) And they had beenAt.old that thatreltd..udemtiii)tn-
not be less than one million annually.
artlegu_tb_ert.co.rrectness of that estimate,. for the sakfethoef
leeltiZe telt was because he believed the interest o
hett he
even at
shipowner was the interest of the. whole people,
, was. prepared to maintain that interest,B how
Wae-tehs.t of a million a year.-(Hear, hear:
II ""'3 advantage of reduced freight to
hear.)
ii.Yilt the
employment of foreign ships.-(Hear,
we
be obtained?
been 43, we gave employment to foreign ships,)
eisnlae,
They
'e,oulci nor our own ships.-(Chiere. 'uritish shipsemPloy foreign ships without
Take the case of
the British out of employment. throwing
the 0,,.. .West Indies. He was ready to admit that
teeest,e'leation-laws acted unfairly to the. colonial, in-
lieeed'she(Stinieterial cheers)-but that injurye,arh)e-bhe,r-
!be eeleal been much exaggerated-(l.lear, h
bad e,enlsts, feeling how unfairiy they. w.
h h those
wee
eelltallY enough exaggerated the evil
wh
le
British
treated,
West imll.iled on them.-(Hear, hear.) The .
1:4 lee e'ltiles Were supplied with lumber
.to the
,exte.„'l,..t.
,eOO •
American shlPil!g.
I:114r
t, tone a year by meanseof
heel( „tee present lewe those ships coualidi
cease -"`"goes of' sugar to British ports,
and
Indian
notwer
et a kin
e
ports(llence often obliged to leave
Might Ltil balladt. If close laws wertehereperaoldedee,
ethteoyr
.I]riti3h 40 in cargoes of sugar or other...
tpa
ign , should
asp Ports at a reduced rate of freigh e. And,
yett,64 that 50,000 tons of American shipP
way,e
there
tow' btake in cargoes for British
Would be ne doubt that 50,000 tePnosrtosfirA
nt But that
Would sot thus thrown out of emploe me
thisitish shipping
440,7(4 .be the only evil. These vehsseßls.riwtios
rateet, tlt:i° obtain return cargoes from
the
eey would take
uhldpoernts-
frelitta' eri return empty, and.
..
that rti Et, ta' ler rate than Brittsales ships,
be thrown out
of ebaentee more English shippi.ng would ,
v't).Yrae t Alwyn, in
seat ro4 n • Mr. the stet( mhat ent he had
it followed
his firm,
eveieh held to Members of the House,
tiaeot "0 been for many years conneestgefddatisthcpthseferoolml-
teeoLenuld at any time charter American II
If)s, j'ata Ports to ealeutte at 41. 10s. a ton,
shin ". turf less than he would have to ptaiyoalof 'foreign
lepl.uge and he added that the competition ~o'rhicT,hritwisahs
frephl,ll thous Est India and China trade
000utldotloelepriott;e. to eti't " nr. British ships and throw them out
compete with
ti,311. That American shipping would
carrying
teeleeeesefully in the China and
doubt "'blob we now had in our couldhanEdea:thertreadeotablye, itoo
*ll,Ol. There was one trade, aid one
25
years
with
the tr "e had beea competing fairl f
°favour had been,
show ratted States, and in
no
been the result .
she"l to either party; and what had .
which
far as England
tts t°tal di-struction of that trade.
as
United States.
ell eoecerned, and the triumph o
thef the South Sea whale_
keertrade he alluded to was N, 3'.---a trade requiring- much capitatlo,
Ike, ea teen, and a trade calculated vfobrlemant
dh
eeab ee
rs
of
what had been the
eane(h, for the navy_ England had all the advantages o espial lied sailors ready at hand-yetOn the Ist of
PlO-trt? In 182 the number of American ships em-
'l,atie: Ivas Under 90, the seamen, 2,9 s :
had increased to
(17elti, 1846, the number of
s ships in the saner!
'4°oo'n7e number of officers and seamen to upwards of
Pe'ri e". Well, the number of British..ieey was in 1821, 290,
kild°-, engaged in the whale- S tOl (4 seamen 11,900,
Thus had we been
4461, and the seamen 2,6
whereasft3inol.lB4B the vessels were
If he was right in as-
ly driven out of this trade..
41311 kt as he did, that by
ertl rttish vessels would be put out el t of employment, and
this measure a certain number
kaPican vessels subfstitutedommmtheir place; if it would
;eitiratteiearideefc re ercial marne, and the
decease of
those who proposed it would
4 illstly, incurred the iraliguation of
.the people of this
he:let:Y. whose interests would be sacrificed, without the
1cet.,..0f any adequate remuneration.-(Hear.)
b "• WILSON considered that the utnendmennt
'I " Was the proper one to bring the whole
Et, °Z, the liou- question
and that question he looked upon..
_e
tr- bather we ' e prepared to carry out the principle
let ,Illttre" ',trade tow:hrip-ping. To the theory of Adam
::mitt •T oPposed the experience of the last twenty
Nrelltt "darn Smith, in treating of the
'irt4ded, that if the shipping could be burst. manned,
Gobs ou ee
be the
ley or eaper in other countries, it
question,
freelyttn d
et‘is hi, ,tilis to maintain its defences. If that were the
h'dro's'uould be prepared to assent to the doctrine of
-‘11t,<1": naith, .behatour political defences must be main•
I riority. But
Adat'Ll'L4 preference to our commercia_ s.up.e ale i namely,
itll,et eeteu'tlth had overlooked a great print,
It jill road rade not only introduced cheaperPeommoditiaes.
ttrter2.e, e;11i,,, but a larger and cheaper productiont
kir'lkti eoil "g.%4 increased power of. competition with
ti ea of mntries. Surely if the partial free-trade mica-
, 4,,vph, kr. lluskisson had had that effect we. had_e.nee
40;eerie te
Mr.Hus-
i eee a' as go on in the same direction. The
1 40e 4 as ion reality °n© of facts. In 1823 . .
)n-
-'a e) 41 Ord„ P
d dangers arising
kits
. opt
Pt° °sct the amelioration of the navigati!
ektieeey
isider, to avert the:difficulties an '
had been the
ti°e c'tett:ellt 31h.1141111gWthhaetn fined ask,wsiouncled?For several years
ljete18`1"; get lot,
1823 it bad been in a declining state.
elhatedooe
otantilB23 the amount of tonnage
1164e1a f tibillY declined from 2,623,0000ft0t127506,000
d until in
Ith 1t wrene, 8,2 a it had gradually irreasehe'ar ) IC
ki,.., it hape:, is
than 3,817,000,-
_Hear,
:ter our se._ 'e .L
and
that .4ipm,,[l .ua.t ill our strongest state of hear.)
I,itvprso teeCtehge_treee Was in. a declining state, a
'de Per oo " was a rapid increase, until ia 1846,
t libt the nt.iar,
IN, e ebe. her than in 1823, he saw no reason
t, •s of th, +li b. .
td
0' the ship•builders arid the ship-
L4:' 4,,,,,,,T e,oentry to compete with foreigners.-
,Iletv 141 tee.' Let the House see the differenced
'ess;.,, Ie 14-21 nunaber of ships built then an
etaiettel°4 of up ,1e22, 1823, the years preceding. the
;e4r ,-!'l in be law
2,
Mr. Husleessen, the ships built
Leeeebett%ie tb-e4ulltia.ge to 74,000, 78,000, and 86,000;
a'arl ?te lb" 'tree years 1844, 1845, 1846, they
;o; ti , "4,000, 203 000 and 223.000 tona-(Hear,
'lN''.;hipee -ilat observe ' sou,' that these did not include
the eerlx,"vtiteh we ' distinct and separa •
te These
iih. oa, , peot, , re
ill-e .'e oe ere that there had been no decline in
lie; tele the ee•
nor the
ers . povvners to sail vessels,
Itletik 1, Le build
4, le, help d thena in competition w.ith the cone
tte'ratle•-were told that the reciprocity Acts of
v'hi thei "leted th E 1. h h ing. In order
Oe bt t qie e
'ng ts a, pp
tkrt ',the iet
,he thought they ought to take the
ftllete4,lfeeesettTlog.,prior- to those Acts and for some
18,, ell), er shot en 1820 the British ships entered
e16.11.-,%lty e one countries with which we had treaties
to th,N i4,l:4:tioutited in tonnage to 6,026, which ,
t Ilerl NI eeeed' to 1 199 000 tons. If we referrea
ro4l th,t e of -4 ,- ,
ttu.' over there i lue whole world it would_
_nbe.
tee; of 4er fb €e Data been a large and rapid i
to "Nee 1.. lee Net shippinee in 1824, the
.fi.ret
,kt , eet 'l/41SSon's 1
441t,,,!1/4 sh r'ed 0 aw' the
• f 3 000,000,
kt All 4 ippiti,. utwards was upwards o
'amount of British
4^ it, ie, was 1,325,000. In 1846 the,_ foreign
teae ies ~,p t th
"kt'l bad
ba kkresed to 3 327,000 or more than 100
!bp,lo`llk ie 000-:0t000f Great. Britain had increased. to
latdee Peeeetv_
_, •---(Cheers.) In 1826 the foreign
thi,,,-q h , 4 l'eg 40 per cent. of the whole shllelecereag
.
torypitld' the
,046, notwithstanding the demand o . a
);laelee, e,el, to
be;Atisratission of foreign grain, foreign
l :het. 4:7 41 per cent. of the whole. Th.e.ree.
eieieete
I,lNies
of regard to those countries withe
had as
hii'all i'llitiiutt t": 'eciproeity, or otherwise, e.
et. foNi P•bliiht dart °r by the sunnosttion that
I,N,eeleePoes. e„ers or owners Were unable oeuelle „
r,!rtieje`". It
Rasa
had been said on tee tonssject.ot
elett'rte"ktlttee for a Popular opinion that our colonies
kee,i.al te,tieltfectee e the purpose of securing a market
NTill ant 'lee, j;', and a large trade for our coin-
eit
otlY feets.ut,that was a fallacy
.which could be
,to et. kr 411 1820 the quantity of shipping
80,14 r o, t 4 was 1 549 00 -Of tht 746,000
I,ttitr .1,4 111:41i„, , , 0 tons.
e. 4liit enloti , , and 803,000 to neutrals ountries.
e• ; , hi.,
.41 trad, chiefly of the East Indies.. and9o
e:l:eresetr,leil;mtill_elcreased from 746,000 to 1,2,6,0
tme et L,rc.,te ti,7 trade
to neutral countries had
theehtllo p,z,u2s 300 to 2721,000 tons, being an in-.
'NO qc,N, our cent on our colonial trade, but of 240
INiollterbille trttde to neutral countries.-(Hear.)
,t‘tle the trade
,of this country could remove the
I,tob,:ta ta ~- wßieh the ,
Vileb7 hag -live, colonies !deemed, by en-
-8 theie Y lumber ships from North Awe--
Sit° ht,,,e coriktr,oduce to this country, a great bene-
Vtetete, celela e theuPon them ; and it the autnufac-
),,tl voyar:eer'q out their goods by those ships, on
lApti,f,4ett-I%itir. 4'o'll'lf! 4 cheaper rate than at present, a
nret et ' het eleue red not
merely on the British
‘4llNle,Periciellt 400
.all theindustrious classes,
11,%4144111.,141ed .g'4ll who ?Pon his efforts.(Cheers ) The
i.. bete,
IT the fl' ad last addressed the House had
,:'t e4llereeri te, e.ealaWleich. the.pr9posed alterations
eki_ labie _ rats, isTee__ t.lmita shipping
tellllrtwtr"tilti sheulefl'd (Me,
" ila")
. apprehendedeeantage
ots
ivpit..t
.114 Icon to oa eootf greater advantage
by
elik,etetrde. ble /' cotton d
could P beaniYmported and
el tal,leee3,i-s(llet rnanufacture and eons-umption in
elotNtl tone ear
war" }Telles he thought the facts
"eilleietiaosely,
,tea
suflicieut to establish the position
'l`.4llle.Diett lehleettte there Was nothing in the free-
eer '4 to Bead." 14nd yet b
t s tied th, „o bees
extended to the. n. a. -
, seers, or ,
.kip.b4ol4 use to doubt that the British
tr, I
to Ihduee
,Ter was able to compete with
6 ivhi
~_ ce
e, ine belief that the shipping inte-
' V'llieeLe Ire -'uld be
A,eat it• -• trade . n exception to other riat-
.. IN to • PrInCIA2S had been applied.
' 7 If ho ad eaith's
that to the na-
u'd Waown that free trade had ati-
A

mulated the shipowner and the ship-builder, and that
competition acted upon them as it acted upon every
ether class—if he had proved that free trade: had tended
not to the diminution but the increase ot British ship-
ping, then he had proved that the national defences
were maintained and ready to be so. He found that in
the year 1820, the whole of the British merchant ships
employed 130,000 men, while in 1846 the number ern-
'loved under the new principle of action amounted to
230,000 men. And surely this large number of men
from which strength might be drawn rendered the royal
navy safer from want of hands in time of need. 'I hut,
ho thought these facts must remove any doubts which
might exist as to the alteration in the navigation-laws
endangering the national defences.—(Hear, hear.) But
there was another consideration which bad been very
much overlooked in the course of this debate, and that
was that since Mr. Huskisson had introduced his policy
—a policy which had been followed by successive Go-
vernment:, and lastly carried into execution by the
Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, in
many articles of increased demand and consumption in
this country, he (Mr. Wilson) asked if an increase had
not taken place in foreign shipping, how it would
have been possible to have brought to this country
the increased quantities of the raw materials for ma-
nufacture which had been imported within the last
twenty years? During that period the whole object
and intention of legislation (as especially during the
last seven years) had been to increase the quantity
of the imports and exports. If that was the
object, then it would have been necessary to increase
the amount of British shipping ; and he contended that
it would not have been well to divert, by high protec-
tion, capital to the shipping trade when capital was
scarce for other purposes to which it could be better
directed. In 1823 the quantity of sheep's wool brought
into this country was 19,000,00016 s.; last year it was
62,000,0001b5. Of cotton wool, in 1823, there had been
imported 169,000,0001b5. ; in 1847 it amounted to
473,000,0001b5. Of sugar the imports in 1823 were
210,000 tone.; in 1847 it was 410,000 tons ; while of
wheat the importation in 1823 reached 449,000 qrs.,
while last year it was: 2,950,000 qrs. This showed the
necessity for foreign ships to brine these raw materials
to this country. If, however, the shipping interest of
Great Britain could compete successfully with that of
foreign nations in some respects, there were neutral
countries in the latter had greater success. Ho had a
return from Rio Janeiro, showing the number of ships
entered from that port in 1845. They were 571 in num-
ber, and of those 84 were British ships. And where
did they go to ? Not home, but with cargoes to all the
foreign countries in the world, in open competition with
the ships of Trieste, Prussia, and other nations. Only
20 came to the port of Liverpool, and the rest went to
foreign ports. He was however sorry to find from ac
counts he had received during the past week, that com-
plaints had been made against the carrying trade of this
country. This had been referred to iu the consular
returns quoted by his Right Hon. Friend the President of
the Board of Trade. Hisßight Hon. Friend'; statement on
a former evening had been corroborated by a letter he
(Mr. Wilson) had received from a highly respectable
house at Rio Janeiro, dated the let ot April last, and
stating that while foreign ships were getting freightat 508.,
555., and 60s. for coffee, and though there were 21 English
ships of twelve years standing, they were unable to get
chartered in consequence of the character of their cap-
tains for carelessness, and for the bad manner in which
they discharged their cargoes.—(Hear, hear, and cries
of " No, no.") This letter was corroborated by a do-
cument which had been stuck up one day last week at
Lloyd's, but which had been taken down by a member
of the committee of Lloyd's. However, there now re-
n:ained the great question as to shipping, in which a
great variety of opinions were entertained by gentle-
men of very high authority. Many thought that the
principles of reciprocity first adopt by Mr. Huskisson
should be the principle now to be followed. He differed
from that opinion. It free trade was good to this
country, it was well to make other nations adopt it.
The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Oxford
(Mr. Gladstone), had admitted that, in 1844 and 1845,
the then Government had dune all in their power to
induce foreign countries to join them in acts of reci-
procity; but their experience of that effort would pre-
vent them adopting again that course of policy, for after
long negotiations the efforts had proved futile. He,
therefore, thought it was quite right to urge the adoption
of the principles of free trade, ler it was better to set an
example to induce that adoption than to attempt to enter
upon any treaties of reciprocity. On that ground he
thought the plan proposed by his Right Honourable
Friend (Mr. Labouchere) must be more successful than
if his measures had rested upon reciprocity treaties.—
(Hear, hear.) Honourable Gentlemen opposite had
cheered when he (Mr. Wilson) had referred to the suc-
cess of free trade. It was quite true, and nobody could
deny it, that at the present moment, the commercial in-
terests of this country were suffering under great pres-
sure and reduction of prices, and that there had been a
cessation of the usual demands for British manufactures;
but he would ask those Honourable Gentlemen who had
cheered, what would have been the condition of this
country if free-trade principles had not been adopted?—
(Hear, hear.) Look at other countries, arid it was matter
of the greatest wonder and surprise that England should
have been able to pass through the ordeal of difficulty
and distress to which she had recently been exposed.—
(Hear, hear.) It was painful to refer to the condition
of neighbouring states, in which monopoly and restric-
tion had been adhered to with the utmost tenacity, but
he was confident that had it not been for the measures
carried by the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir Robert
Peel) during the last seven years, the sufferings of this
country would have been greatly aggravated, and he,
for one, entertained the strongest hopes that those
measures, when fairly and fully developed, would be
found to contain in them the germs of great and future
prosperity.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. DRUNIMOND said he wished to state his opi-
nions on this question, though it was not his intention to
embarrass the Government by giving a hostile vote on
the present occasion. In the first place, he owned he
was astonished that it should be proposed by the Go-
vernment by one fell swoop to carry off all the code of
laws relating to navigation which had been passed from
the reign of Richard 11. down to the:present time—laws
not enacted at once, but developed age after age. It
was said that this proposal was onlyanoiher development
of the thing called free trade. Many Hon. Members
might know what was meant by that conventional term,
but he confessed he was at a loss to comprehend it.
lie knew that Yorkshire had heaved on one side, and
Lancashire on the other, and that something great was
expected to be produced, for the Board of Trade lent its
obstetric aid, and the Economist Club was ready to at-
tend the bantling.—(" Hear," and laughter.) He knew
elso the dogma promulgated in that House, of buying in
the cheapest and selling in the dearest market, and that
it was contended that by such a test the national de-
fences, naval and military, were to be estimated. Ile
knew also that the sages of ages had pronounced dogmas
suck as " Know thyself," " Pleasure is the greatest good,"
" Virtue is the greatest good;" but the simple definition
of the free-trade dogma was " Buy for a penny, sell for a
pound."---(Hear, and laughter.) This was the prin-
ciple on which the Government had founded this mea-
sure, and the only ground furnished for it to-night was,
that by its adoption cochineal could be got at a much
cheaper rate. No doubt that this country was now in a
different position to that in which she stood at the end of
the war, not only as regarded herself, but also in respect
of other continental nations, and it was wise in Mr.
Huskisson, Mr. Wallace, and others, to inquire whether
regulations which were good when the trade of England
was in its infancy ought to be continued. It was felt,
then, that the only possibility of preserving the colonies
was to make them au integral part of the mother coun-
try; to give them every privilege she enjoyed; to make
their traee as free between them as it was between the
provinces of this island; to leave them to adopt what-
ever of English laws they pleased, for though they
found laws some Dutch, some German, some Spacish,
and some Portuguese, they would have amalgamated
with the mother country. But instead of this they sent
them out constitutions from the Colonial-office which
were never adapted to their state of society.—(Hear.)
They preferred sacrificing the colonies to the mainte-
nance of the manufacturing system—(Hear, hear)—and
they were going on in the same direction now by conti-
nuing class legislation.—(Hear, hear.) They knew that
no trade could be carried on unless it was beneficial to
both parties, and yet they intended to give the benefit
of their trade to the French and other foreigners, to the
prejudice of their own brethren the colonists. They
spoke of the abolition of the corn-laws, and boasted of
giving the poor cheap bread. Did they think that the
poor did nut see through them when they talked of
cheapening the poor man's loaf and at the same time
took away the poor man's employment?—(Loud cheers.)
They were ungrateful, and they were said to be set
against the manufacturers. There was no need of setting
them against the manufacturers. He never spoke to an
English artisan or labourer who did not say—not in the
languago of Lord Bacon, which he was going to use,
but in language which involved the same sentiment—
"our ingratitude is only a keen insight into the motives
of others."—(Loud cheering.) The Noble Lord said
that he contemplated with the pride of an Englishman
the greatness of their colonial empire, and that if
ever the time came when it was necessary for their
colonies to separate from them, it should not be his hand
that would sign the deed. These sentiments did credit
to him as an Englishman, and were worthy of his high
reputation as a statesman.—(Hear.) But there was one
in this country greater than he, and if it was a painful
thing for him to contemplate the time when he might
sign such a treaty, it must be doubly painful to the So-
vereign who must as such love all her children alike.
The Noble Lord must recollect how painful it was to '
George 111. to be obliged to receive the ambassador of
the United States. And it they continued to pursue the
policy they were now pursuing they could not keep
their colonies. They might be rich, but they would be
also contemptible. The policy of their Edwards went
long before that of their RichardS. They tried to make
their country great, because they knew that to make it
great was to make it rich.—(Hear, hear.) But the ob-
ject of your idolatry is wealth.—(Hear, hear.) Wealthy
you may be, and your Sovereign may have an island like
Corsica or Sicily, but the sovereign or empress of a
great empire never can she be.
of Mr. 1 .oeu SCeOO TT addressed the House, but in the midst
noiseuouarrsetdo in gal-
lery.atlhmeossteuitnimaueduitbsleofinhitsheliou.
Friend who had just spoken, but was
so m
He
gong t tor thatgiveloquently expressed. give
as
the his
Committeeso
surprised
dof-
that House had not made any e
ought not to be called on sohurprioerdtlon the subject, they
on so important a question. The to give a decision
encroachments
they had already made in the navigation which
attended with the results which should-laws were not
proceed in the same line of policy.duce them to
ad-
mitted that there was an increase in
British
Although be ad-
solutely, yet there wit, a great fairer off' shipping ab-
solutely,
countries. The evidence which h relatively to
before the Lords' Committee silo ad had been given ,
w— that the manning

Rutland

Abingdon
Airlie
Caledon
Che3terfleld
Courtoun
Denbigh
Guilford
Leven
Mayo

and victualling of British vessels was more expensive
than in foreign countries, and promotion was necessary
in order that they might be able to compete successfully
with other countries which possessed superior advan-
tages. A small reduction in the freightage was a small
compensation for the loss which the abolition of the navi-
gation-laws w6uld entail upii them.
Mr. MOFFATT moved that the debate be adjourned
to Thursday next, which was agreed to.
TOBAGO RELIEF BILL.
On the order of the day for the House to go into Com-
mittee on this Bill being read,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked whether the sum of
5,0001. granted to relieve the auffe:ers from the hurri-
cane in Tobago had been paid out of the civil contin-
gencies fund?
___

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that, although he might have been justified in so provid-
ing for the payment, he had not done it, but had pre-
ferred coming to Parliament for a distinct grant.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
On the clause proposing the loan to Guiana and Tri-
nidad for the purpose of immigration of labourers into
those colonies being proposed,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY protested against the system
of malting such loans to the colonies.
The tlauses of the Bill being agreed to, the House
resumes, and the report was ordered to be received this
day.

kr. V. HARCOURT, by permission of the House,
delivered in his qualifications, and subscribed the Par-
liamentary roll, which he had neglected to do on taking
the oaths and his seat as Member for Oxfordshire, the
Hon. Gentleman when he took the oaths having been
the eldest son and heir apparent of a Peer of Parliament,
and as such exempt from that rule of the House
which enjoins the observance of the formalities re-
ferred to.

SHANNON NAVIGATION.
Dr. BOWRING was about to draw attention to this
subject, when
An HON. MEMBER moved that the House be counted.
There not being forty Members present, the House
stood adjourned.

LORDS' MAJORITY ON THE

JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.

NON-CONTENTS ON THE SECOND READING.

ARCHBISIIOPS.
Canterbury
Armagh
DUXES.

Athol
Beaufort
Buckingham
Buccleach
Montrose
Manchester
Newcastle
Northumberland
Richmond
Wellington
MARQIIISES.
Camden
Chohnondeley
Exeter
Downshirs
Drogheda
Salisbury
Winchester

EARLS.

Abergavenny
Aberdeen
Eglinton
Aylesford
Brandon
Bathurst
Beauchamp
Warwick
Brownlow
Cardigan
Cadogari
Cathcart
Cawdor
Charieville
Devon
Dartmouth

Delawarr
Desart
Rigby
Ellenborough
Effingham

Llandaff
Erne London
Falmouth Oxford
Clare Ripon
Limerick Rochester
Glengall Salisbury
Ilardwlcke Winchester
llarrowby BARONS.
Harewood Abinger
Kinnoull Banning
Jersey Bolton
Lonsdalo Boston
Egmont; Braybrooke
Lucas Carew
31almesbary Castlemaine
Mansfield Churchill
Manvers Clinton
Mountcashell Colchester
Munster Crofton
Nelson De Tabley
Pomfret De Ros
Powys Delamero
Romney Farnham
Galloway Faversham
Selkirk Forester
Sheffield Godolphin
Vernlam Gray
Wilton Hawarden
Winchilsca Hill
Waldegrave Howe
viscouNrS. Kenyon •
Combennere Lilford
Hereford Middleton
Maynard Polwarth
Strangford Rayleigh
Sidmouth Redesdale
BISHOPS. Rollo
Bangor Sydney
Bath and Wells Skehnersdalo
Carlisle Sondes
Chichester Southampton
Exeter Stanley
Gloucester and Bristol Templemore
Lichfield Tenterden
Lincoln Wynford

EARLS.

PROXIES.
Morton
Onslow
Orford
Pembroke
Somers
Shannon
Stanhope
Bantry

B kito ?TS.

Carteret
Colville
De Lislo
De Saumarez
Grantley
Northwiek
Rodney
Rivers
Sal toun
Sherborne
Sinclair
St. John

VISCOUNTS.

Beresford
O'Neill
Strathallan

BARONE%

Mayney

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. )
MONDAY, MAY 29.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee:—

1. That in the case of the Londonderry Improvement
petition for additional Provision, the standing orders
ought not to be dispensed with.
2. That in the case of the Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midlands Junction Railway (Deviation and
Branches) petition for additional Provision, the standing
orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be
permitted to introduce their additional Provision, if the
Committee on the Bill shall think fit, on proving before
the said Committee the assent of all the owners, lessees,
and occupiers of the lands on the proposed Branch be-
tween Baston and Bakewell.

Second Resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the
:able.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE “LONDON

GAZETTE" OF FRIDAY.

WHITEHALL, Max 29.
On Saturday, the 27th day of May, her Royal High-
ness Princess Sophia, aunt to her most Gracious
Majesty, departed this life, at Kensington Palace, to the
great grief of her Majesty and of the Royal Family.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MAY 29.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Thurs-
day next, the Ist of June, for her late Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia, aunt to her Majesty, viz.:—
The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen,
white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, black or white
shoes, fans, and tippets.
The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed
or plain linen, black swords and buckles.