The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Mr. BANKES, on a former occasion, gave notice of
his intention to move a resolution on the first occasion
of going into Committee of Supply, and he begged leave
now to give the terms of the resolution. He should
move that the House had heard with deep regret, from
a correspondence on the table of the House, that her
Majesty's Foreign Secretary of State had endeavoured
to interfere with the internal affairs of Spain, which had
placed her Majesty and the British representative at the
Court of Madrid in a position that was humiliating in its
character, and was calculated to affect the friendly
relations hitherto existing between the Court of Spain
and this country.
IRISH POOR-LAW.
Mr. F. FRENCH gave notice that on an early day he
should move for a Committee of Inquiry into the truth
of the allegations contained in the petition he had al-
ready presented from Roscommon.
_SAVINGS BANKS IN IRELAND.
Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice of his intention, on an
early day, to bring the state of the Irish savings banks
under the consideration of the House.
SHANNON NAVIGATION. _ _

Dr. BOWRING gave notice that on the 23d instant
he would call the attention of the House to a return he
had moved for connected with the Shannon navigation,
and showing that not only had no similar return been
made during the last ten years, but that there was
130,0001. of the public money unaccounted for.
NAVIGATION LAWS.

Lord G. BENTINCK presented two petitions from
Glasgow, one of them emanating from the Chamber of
Commerce of that place, praying the House not to agree
to any relaxation in the navigation-laws.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from 16,000
burgesses of Dublin in favour of the Dublin Improve-
ment Bill.

REGIUM DONUM.
Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of the order to the
Government agent in Ireland, Dr. Cooke, to withhold
the Regium Donum from the congregation of Clonmel
in connexion with the General Assembly of the Pres-
byterian Church, and of any correspondence be-
tween the Ist day of August and the 31st day of
December last ; of any correspondence between
the said congregation of Clonmet and the Irish
Government since the Ist day of December last, or be-
tween the Presbytery of Cork and the Irish Govern-
ment since same date. And of the annual certificate
from said Clonmel congregation, received and passed by
the Irish Government in April, 1847, and included in
the Parliamentary estimates for the past year.—

Agreed to.
ORDNANCE SURVEY (IRELAND).
Mr. E. DENISON said as he intended to move for
a return of the expenditure in connexion with the
Ordnance Survey of Ireland, he wished to aak his
Gallant Friend if it was true that the expense
would be 120,0001., and not 30,0001. as originally
estimated by Colonel Goldwin ; and, it' so, whether any
second reference had been made to the Treasury ?
Colonel ANSON was understood to say that no addi-
tional reference had been made to the Treasury, but that
it had been found that the survey could not be made
for the estimated sum. It would, we understood, come
to the larger sum.
Mr. E. DENISON intimated that he would consult
the Committee now sitting on the matter, before he sub-
mitted a motion on the subject to the House.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose in
favour of the Sites for Churches Bill.
Mr. COWAN presented several petitions from Edin-
burgh to the same effect.
NAVIGATION LAWS.

Mr. LABOUCHERE then moved to refer the laws
with respect to the navigation and regulation of ships
and seamen to a Committee of the whole House.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON saw no ground what-
ever for the House going into a Committee. Tkere had
been no report of any Committee on the subject, there
had been no petitioning in favour of the adoption of such
a course, or requiring any change of the navigation-
laws as they at present existed; and it must be recollected
that the subject was under the consideration of a Com-
mittee of the House of Lords. He thought the Right Hon.
Gentleman, considering the present state of Europe,
should have detailed to the House what course it was
intended by the Government to pursue upon this
important subject ; whether they intended to
throw open the ports of this country to the
whole of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America;
whether they intended to make any alteration
with respect to the merchant seamen, the pro-
visioning of ships, the quarantine laws, and so
on; as these were all matters which, in his judgment,
the House should be informed upon before it acceded
to such a motion as that proposed for its adoption.
Mr. LABOUCHERE believed that the course he
proposed to pursue was consonant with the regular and
established practice of the House. The objection of the
Hon. Member seemed to him to be only as to whether
the plan of the Government on the subject of the
navigation-laws ought, to be stated in the; House
itself, or in a Committee of the whiffle
House. He believed the best course to pur-
sue would be for the House to go into Committee,
and then that the Government should bring for-
ward its plan. He thought it would be highly
objectionable to debate the subject upon the ques-
tion that the Speaker do leave the chair, instead
of in Committee of the whole House. He bad framed
his resolutions so as to embrace the whole scheme pro-
posed by the Government on the subject, and when the
House went into Committee he should state them to the
House. _ _ _ _

Mr. ROBINSON believed that it was a most unusua
thing, in a subject of such vast importance, to ask the
House to go into Committee before the scheme of the
Government was laid before it. He regretted that
the Government bad thought it proper, in the
present state of public opinion, and at that ad-
vanced period of the session, to introduce the subject
at all ; and he trusted that they would see the necessity
of acquainting the House, before going into Committee,
of some of the reasons which had induced them to bring
forward the measure in question.
Mr. BERRIES did not pretend to say that the Right
Honourable Gentleman was not correct in the statement
which he had made, because he was well aware that the
House often went into Committee in order to receive
the statement to be made by the Minister of the Crown,
and either to adopt or reject the Bill; but on the other
hand he was also aware that it was more frequently the
case for the Minister, in the first instance, to state his
reasons for inviting the House to go into Committee at
all on the Bill.—(Hear.) The measure was to effect an
important change in a most important fundamental law
of this country, and they had not been told from any
quarter whatever what the reasons of the Government
were for inviting the House to go into Committee. He
thought the Right Hon. Gentleman ought to state
in what respect those laws required revision, and when
they went into Committee, he could state his reasons and
opinions more in detail. He, therefore, did think that
his Hon. Friend (Alderman. Thompson) had properly
called the attention of the Government to the propriety
of explaining their views before going into Committee,
which he considered was by far the most regular course,
and he trusted that the Government would adopt it.
Captain HARRIS was of opinion that more evidence
ought to have been laid before the House before any
alteration was proposed in the law, and he considered that
the information which had already been obtained was
for the most part erroneous. The Honourable Gen-
tleman gave notice that he should take the
earliest opportunity in Committee of moving that
the Chairman do report progress for a month, in order
that the evidence taken before the Lords' Committee
might be laid upon the table of the House.
Mr. HUDSON said it was unfair to call upon the
House to go into Committee without some previous
reasons being assigned for their doing so ; and if the
Noble Lord at the bead of the Government had any
statement to make, he could just as easily do it then as
wait till they got into Committee.
Mr. THORNELY said it was usual to make such
alterations as those in a Committee of the whole House,
and for any one who had any objection to urge
to make his statement on the motion for going
into Committee. He was acquainted with shipowners
who opposed any alteration of these laws, but he knew
of more who were opposed to the alteration of the prin-
ciple which prevented ships from importing iato the
continent of Europe the produce of Asia, Africa, or
America. He thought they ought at once to go into
Committee, and then discuss the proposed alterations.
The House then went into Committee; Mr. BERNAL
in the Chair. The passage in the Queen's Speech with
reference to the navigation-laws having been read by the
, Chairman,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said, in rising to redeem the
pledge given in her Majesty's Speech at the corn-
mencetnent of the session, that the Ministers
would lay before the House some proposed altera-
tions, he assured the House that he approached
the subject with a full sense of the great re-
sponsibility which devolved upon him in rising to state
the nature of them to the House. He was aware that
the navigation-laws had been defended by some of the
greatest statesmen and some of the greatest philosophers;
but, on the other hand, he might venture to remind the
House, that they had been the object of changes and
alterations.—(Hear.) It was remarked long ago by
Burke, that if the Navigation Act was suffered
to run the full length of its principles,
and was not changed and modified according to the
altered spirit of the times, and the fluctuating
mischief
of commerce, that it must do
and defeat its purpose. aboutf the changes which
the Government were to propose - were

more extensive than those proposed, he begged to tell
the House that everything else had been changing about
them.—(Hear.) What changes, even in their time, had
they I not witnessed in the circumstances which
governed the industry, intelligence, and commerce
of this country.—(Hear, hear.) They had witnessed a
revolution in the government of the South American
colonies—the introduction of steam navigation, and that
awakened a spirit of rivalry which, since the peace, had
placed this nation in commercial enterprise far beyond the
other nations of the world; above all. there were the great
changes that had taken place in the laws and system of
protection—the system under which trade was conducted,
—all these things rendered a change in the navigation-
laws necessary, but only such changes as would main-
tain the commercial greatness of the country, and keep
the navy in an efficient condition. The first law on
the statute book with respect to navigation was that of
Richard 11., which was to the effect that no subject of
the Crown should send goods except in the King's ships
6r private ships, which being found oppressive was
modified the next year, but even then the character of
the law was exclusive, and productive of monopoly and
extinction ; it rested so, however, until the time of
Elizabeth, when the law was reversed, as it adopted
the principle of differential duties instead of ab-
solute exclusion, as it allowed foreign ships
to come to that colony as well as English
ships, on paying a certain differential duty.
The Right Hon. Gentleman, after reading the preamble
of that Act, observed that the principle adopted by
Queen Elizabeth was the principle that prevailed
in these times, and at the present day—the
infliction of duties upon goods in foreign vessels
for the protection of their own. Oue country in Europe
only acted upon a different principle—Holland,
who gave the most unrestricted eommerce, and
the result of that policy on the part of
that country was most remarkable—Holland built
herself up a fabric of such commercial greatness
that the world had no parallel for. But while Elizabeth
made this change in the navigation laws, she made for
the first time th coasting trade of England a monopoly;
for till that time it was open to foreign vessels. The
state of things lasted till the time of the Commonwealth,
and then began the system which had lasted till the
present moment. This system was developed in the
statutes of Cromwell, and confirmed by the
statute of Charles the Second. Those statutes,
he believed, were not founded upon commercial
motives, but in order to punish certain colonies which
had espoused the royal cause, and also for the purpose
of clipping the wings of the Dutch. This system
had existed certainly, with some considerable changes,
up to the present day ; the first circumstances that
broke down that system were the events that
led to the independence of the United States.
That declaration produced many remarkable events;
in the first place it destroyed a great existing trade, and
it required the consideration of the first statesmen of
the day to avert the consequences it might engender.
It was some time before Parliament could make up its

mind to adopt the course which it was ultimately obliged
to take. Mr. Pitt, on the first declaration of indepen-
dence, with true wisdom and great courage, came for-
ward to propose the continuance of the intercourse
which had formerly existed with the United States of
America, but he failed in convincing the country of
the necessity of adopting the course which he proposed.
It was not till the greatest practical evils had arisen that
Parliament gave its consent to a measure to remedy
the objections to the law as it then existed.
The island of Jamaica having been visited with a hurri-
cane for two successive years, no less than 15,000 slaves
perished between 1780 and 1787 from the want of the
accustomed supplies of provisions from America, occa-
sioned by the interruption of the system of inter-
course which had existed between those two colonies.
At last, however, a step towards a more free intercourse
was conceded, and proved successful ; but it was only in
our own time that the intercourse had been made so com-
pletely free between the United States and our West
Indian colonies. These changes, he asserted, made the
first breach in our navigation laws.—Jlear.) He had
seen many changes subsequently, but he would not
weary the House by going into them, as they were fa-
miliar to all who had paid the slightest attention to the
subject. No person could look at the results of these
alterations in the law without seeing the advantages
ts hich had arisen to this country, and that a considerable
breach had been made in our navigation system which it
was difficult to repair, and still more difficult to resist
extending. The Right Honourable Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to call the attention of the House to
the state of the law as it stood at the present
moment, and which was comprised in three stattites.
He came now to the anomolies which the present law
exhibited with reference to the ownership of vessels,
such as, for instance, that a foreigner naturalised in
England might be the owner of a British ship, whilst
a foreigner naturalised in the colonies could
not. The next point he wished to touch
upon related to manning British ships. A Bri-
tish ship engaged in the coasting trade must have all of
its crew composed of British seamen; every British
ship engaged in foreign trade must have three-
fourths of its crew composed of British seamen.
There was also an enactment relating to these latter
ships which provided that every ship should have a
certain number of apprentices, the number being as
large, he believed, as to amount of one sixth
of the whole crew. He had now endeavoured as
concisely as possible to bring the present state of the
law before the House, and he would, with the permission
of the House, proceed to state the reasons why he
thought many of the regulations he had alluded to
required alteration. The House would perceive from
hat he had already stated, that the law rested upon
three main principles ; first, to secure the Colonial
trade ; secondly, to secure to British ships a portion
of the foreign trade ; and, thirdly, to secure the car-
rying trade. He would, in stating his reasons for ob-
jecting to the law, commence with the Colonial
trade. He believed if there ever was a just demand
made upon that House for relief, it was the demand
the Colonies had made to be relieved from
the evils of these laws. The House had
already, for the benefit of the mother country, adopted the
principle that no differential duties ought to be tolerated
on produce coming into the English market, and as they
had suffered enough from the navigation-laws, now
that they;were afforded no protection from differential
duties, they ought to be relieved from the bnr-
dens which these laws imposed upon them.—(Hear.)
He then read a communication from the Governor-
General of Canada strongly recommending a total and
immediate repeal of the navigation-laws. He might mul-
tiply similar recommendations to the same effect; but he
felt it unnecessary to do so. They sought, by
cheapening freights, to give every facility to their
colonies to carry on a largely increased amount
of trade. The Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded to say—
I now come to the case of the West Indies, and I find
in the same way that the strongest representations have
beau sent to this country from those colonies as to the
evils which the inhabitants believed were imposed on
them by the restrictions of the present navigation- lava.
—(Hear, hear.) I know there are some Hon. Gentlemen
who will say the West Indians do not understand their
own interest, and that these laws are really beneficial to
them ; but in reply to that, all I can say is, that the
%Vest Indians themselves are of a very different opinion.
If any faith is to be placed in documents emanating from
the bodies the most important, and submitted to the
consideration of this country. the West Indians claim
it as a matter of right and justice that we, having re
moved all pr section from their goods and produce,
should set them free from the trammels of the naviga-
tion-laws. I shall now proceed to lay before you an ex-
tract from the memorial of the House of Assembly in
Jamaica to her Majesty's Government :—" Your
memorialists could point out the advantages pos-
sessed by the island of Jamaica for becoming a commer-
cial depot, especially as to a position with respect to both
continents of America and the surrounding islands. It
the navigation.laws were withdrawn, foreigners would
bring assortments of goods from Europe, Asia, and
North America, and other foreigners would come to
purchase and re-export these; and as the Government
of England already permits the abolition of all differen-
tial duties hitherto enforced for the protection of her
manufactures, no injury could arise Irons an extension of
this permission and a relaxation of the navigation.
laws. Your memorialists would call to your Majesty's
consideration, that the prosperity of your Majesty's
colonies cannot but be beneficial to the people of Eng-
land, who always have been able to undersell the
manufactures of all other countries, and could not
fail to find in the free ports of Jamaica a profitable
outlet and depot, for their productions, both for con-
sumption and exportation, nor could any loss occur
to them in regard to their shipping, which has ever
competed successfully with that of the world; a great
demand would inevitably arise both for ships and manu-
factures, and merchandise of all kinds. The benefit to
Jamaica from such relaxation to the navigation-laws
would be infinite; it is' the most desirable boon that her
inhabitants could solicit or receive from your Majesty's
Government; it would aid Jamaica out of her difficulties;
it would be hailed with exultation, and acknowledged
with every sentiment of gratitude and respect; and it
would be an honourable and generous concession on the
part of Great Britain, which would exalt her in the
esteem and admiration of all nations." The next docu-
ment I shall quote is an extract from a dispatch of Lord
Harris, Governor of Trinidad 'addressed to Earl Grey,
the Noble Lord at the head of colonial affairs, on the
30th ;of January, 1847:—" But what I intended to
ask is, whether any relaxation in the terms of the
navigation-laws might be hoped for; such as I am in-
formed has already been granted to the Mauritius,
and which the nature of the population of this island
and its position might warrant, so as to allow the goods
of all nations to be brought here in any vessel without
restriction? it would undoubtedly promote an extensive
and direct commerce between Trinidad and France and
Spain, which is now mach retarded and restricted by
being carried pn by way of Martinique and the Spanish
main. Another great advantage would accrue respecting
immigration, as the freight of immigrants would be
much reduced. When Coolie labour was first proposed
to be introduced, American vessels could have been pro-
t aced to bring them at 91. per head, whereas the present
charge is nearly 181. But I really feel it is a waste of
time to argue the question whether or not the advantage
of the colonies would be promoted by abolishing those
restrictions. The West Indian colonies are, by their
position and natural advantages, qualified to be the
entrepots and depositories of the commerce of the world,
and it is as impossible to say to what development their
trade might not reach, if they were allowed to ex-
tend their own energies, and to hold unrestricted
intercourse with other countries.—(Hear, hear.) I
am unwilling to detain the House any longer than is
necessary, bat I could quote from the evidence taken
before the Committee, on the motion of the Honourable
Member for Stoke-upon-Trent (Mr. Ricardo) many pas-
sages to justify these views. I cannot mention the name
of the Hun. Member to whom I have alluded without
paying my humble tribute to the great industry and
ability which he brought to the investigation of the

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subject, and in promoting the formation of just and
sound views on this important questten.—(Hear, hear.)
in connexion with it I may be allowed to mention that
it was but the other day one of the most eminent North -
American merchants—a gentleman who would be known
to many Hon. Members—Mr. Gillespie—came to me at ~,efre
the Board of Trade, and said, " Let us have the St. Law-
rence free. If you do nn, I have made up my mind to
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abandon my trade with Canada." He is, I believe, a Pro-
al
tectioni,t, and was very sorry we reduced the duty in this •.fJet
country on colonial produce.—(hear, hear, from the
NLI
Protectionist benches.) Yes, but the House having .4.11
done so, he said "You must do away with these restric- •
tions—(Renewed cries of Hear, hear, and icheers front
the same quarter)—you have reduced the amount of
colonial protectioe, and if you refuse to free the colo-
nies you will commit a monstrous injustice." I; the
majority of the House do not agree with him, and
with
Hon. Gentlemen opposite, in thinking we should retrace
our steps and impose a differential duty on the produce
of the colonies, we certainly should not impose on them
those restrictions which drive Mr. Gillespie and other re-
spectable and enterprising merchants out of the trade,
because they are unable to contend with the foreigner in
consequence of those restrictions, which, if renewed,
would leave them in a position to do so. I have said
this much with respect to the result of the navigatio-
laws upon our colonies; and I will now proceed to advert
to those portions of them the object of which is to se'
cure to this country the long-voyage trade, and whisk
prohibit British ships from bringing the produce of
Asia, Africa, or America from any foreign European
part to this country. A British ship, for instance, can-
not go to Havre or Hamburgh, and bring back W this
country a cargo of cotton, sugar, mahogany, or of all
other article tne produce of Asia, Africa, or America.
believe this part of the restrictions of our navigation.
laws are almost entirely c,ndemned. I shall certain!!
be much surprised if it finds a defender even in al°
ranks of Honourable Gentlemen opposite. There are,
see, some indications on their part of an intention to
resign some parts of these laws; and if so, this must
certainly be the part they intend to abandon, for they
are extremely mischievous and indefensible. What hall
the results been ? Just see how produce suu
manufactures are affected. If the mahogany 1
made into furniture—if the Alpaca wool, wn'es
you bring from Peru, be made into cloth---041
if the sugar be refined, you may bring theca
from any part of Europe, as they are no longer colt'
sidered produce, but manufactures. The consequence 111
that these laws operate, in this respect, as a bouhti
against our own in favour of the foreign manufacturert
while at the same time they deprive the shipowners
themselves of a large share of the trade which the!
would otherwise possess. We have had recently sa°6
conversation in the House as to the difficulty of bring:
ing cotton from Havre. It was stated tbat a merchoP
in this country had sent over a cargo of cotton to Oast
port for the supply of the manufacturers there. TIN:
political events of the last few weeks destroyed t'""
market there, but it could not be brought back to Vie, th'
pool, where it could have been sold at once, as no Brit's
shill could take it. The result of all this was,. that 1 •
British merchant lost his money in his venture, .11°,.,
the manufacturer of Manchester could not get ~t;
cotton, of which he would have been so glad. Ira-
evil is the consequence of your futile attempts to serh
the entire possession of the long voyage,
heawill)
so constantly eludes your grasp.--(Hear,
An Hon. Gentleman, a Member of this House, 561'4,
cargo of crushed nuts, extensively used in making dio.4
to Havre. He called on me, and said he hoped [ w°"its
use my efforts with the Government to procure the
but
mission of the cargo inn the ports of this country; a
I was obliged to tell him that such a course was "e:a
in the teeth of the navigation-laws. It is an absurd °
Coolish restriction, to be sure; but the Treasury ks°
the power of dispensing with the law of the lona;
What absurdity and nonsense restrictions of thii.",°::oo
are!—(Hear, hear.) I cannot imagine that the tle;i,
for a moment can suppose the maintenance of the les
gation-laws in their present state conduces to the s•
port of this country, or that it is necessary for
terests of her trade to keep up those absurd and °Del,
restrictions.—(Hear, hear.) It is true, Sir, that t ig•
may have as yet comparatively produced but small 'Pries
chief; but now, when the distances between coulPheo
are shortened by better means of interclurse, Woo
facilities of communication are increased, it is sbssiler bat
maintain those antiquated laws. Such a coach
putting new wine into old bottles, and the result serve
but be destructive to the article you intended t° Pret,kee
hear)—nay, important evidence stss --0011
before the Committee on this point, but I will 4,
trouble you with a few important extracts frontti3kia;
Mr. lt. V. Swaine, a merchant at Hamburgh, said, the „:
if the navigation-laws were repealed, the wholeof 'f
Alpaca wool, South American sheep wool, and pivot:6o,
soda, and almost all the palm oil from the coast of iot•
brought to Europe fur account of Hamburgh raercb
)01,
in foreign bottoms, would go to London or LifsTP:co
The palm oil which now goes to Hamburgh would ge the
England in Hamburgh vessels. The operation o'oo
navigation laws with respects to the supply of rerlioote
wools to this country, such as are brought to the c..fA
mut of Europe first, is unquestionably unfavourabi'fo•
British manufacturers, because the German ints°l'3o4
turer is purchasing that article now at a less price od
the manufacturers can purchase it in Lancashire ajoa
Yorkshire, and the consequence must be that the G•rfice
manufacturer can afford to sell his cloth at a lea, r;
than the English." Mr. G. Mapleton, a meechse:cia
London and the Canary Islands, said, " The navile,-,'
laws
T interferehe excessivelycochineal
producedwit h the
there
terraed eisw
obligedith the Co be
ries.
shipped to Cadiz, owing to the few English vessels `'‘i
ing direct to England. Having once been islt Oh°
Europe, it cannot come to England as heh 06"
produce of Africa, except for exportation, siL-°lll°
the Canaries are virtually part of Spaeiont.l
ifi
so
consequence is, that it now goes almost ire
France. The barilla trade is circumscribed te°4 par
the same way. Cochineal can be sold at 4d. to
giros
pound more for consumption than for exP°_,rfroo
This prevention of the importation of cochinnioe
Europe into Great Britain gives a very great Auf-r the
to the French and other foreign manufacturers 104
English manufacturers, as the cochineal of the, so O.
Islands is of a very superior quality. The effect I° Of
dition of 6d. per pound to the price, besides theosafe;
caused by the prohibition of its use in British 11, and
tures." But the House will form a very iii2Perie:ol 111
inadequate estimate of the evils which this sr.' which
produced, if they look only to the critical cases In. tench
it can be shown to bo injurious. There is ll°, seta
wider field which we are to regard in colinl trs
the effect of these laws. We must look to for
PotW
which is absolutely prevented from coming to !oll4,rce,
by their operation.—(hear, hear ) I believe itlsr;
possible to estimate the development our commer, and the
receive if these restrictions were thrown 00 so.'
tally abolished, and if navigation were condileo,o !60
Sallie large and liberal principles which the rs'
°pear,
decided should prevail with respect to the itteer
of foreign corn. I now come to a ',es' effeel to
taut part of this question. I mean the to do
those provisions of which the object apriesrs,ae. her
,e
secure to this country the indirect carrying svbe'sat
not think it is necessary to go into the questw."-niesi ,;00
or not those provisions were wise in former Do 're
I will not hesitate to declare my opinion thatisd 17,0 rs
did they ensure the effect they were intenoethe 0' 00
duce. We shall, however, very much mistake retie °se
of the real ques ion at issue if we decide 50 c7;arsei,y,
the supposition that we are free to take what 00 00
please upon it. This is a game at which ter°oo 01,00,
flier° is already no obscure or doubtful indict t 0011 is
4 ,Ae intentions of other countries os the same
Already we see signs which warn us that tlioeuaeo4,
fast approaching in which we can trade °nil sat, t 0
terms with other nations, and when they va oil . , or,
" Whatever we give we will require trot:l2llo4C °toot
question now is, not whether these laws ir als if
not, but whether we are prepared to enlhtshr;wrorvildb:;;lbpeor's
retaliation with every other country in
be our real interest to embark in this war, a siweerle'
by a course of wise and timely concession, Is fish Itio,
in reality do more for the prosperity of Elloris,.o of
and place it on more secure and barer ,ote,00,,)00•
than we could possibly obtain by the maim 008041'0
those narrow and useless restrictions? ir„Tnot t,intga,
try already
tauterhs roceeded a voice—l "foe 1111)°,00`
menace, tor ed no unfriendly or h°s"-t, tbei, i°
—but a voice of warning. It has issued froi iU
riduseuo•
country, considerations respecting which itereac?„ei°
1823, Mr. Huskisson to propose his greater spesklit: efolf
the navigation laws—l mean Prussia. Shidresse,3t
the name of Germany on this occasion, a" the po oeflci
the time when a commercial treaty is °_n_dby D~'ric
expiring, and this is the language addreasv,Tobfe pa,i
sea, the representative of Prussia, to my
to cal! ,f
at the head of Foreign Affairs. I beg are do
orj
ticular attention of the House to it. 14 ri fjo
the intention on the part of Prussia not toi.reeo-01 te:of
isting treaty, and proceeded (in a note ado.:The tre;;re,
Palmerston, on May 10, 1847), to say' ,eved /0,,`
1814 does not allow Prussia, as the aggr' y10(01404
and public opinion of Germany, which P?„.iet infer t°o
ports those interests, would require, to reb;:.,,,, tie
alogous manner the admission of British. ,I".roit Pte Of;
second article of this treaty accords to url,/,ectolf 014
the right of the most favoured nation with irooll the
importation of sugar and rice. The
reS,t° 0;10
treaty at the end of the present :0004
liberty to the Prussian Government, and
üb~ec Pot o4'
laws affecting navigation has been the s
serious consideration. The norainatiollh
mentary Committee to examine the Enghso, ofinosisie
laws, and to report during the pre s ntp onbttibocebe;;;;;;
meut thereupon, has nevertheless held otit,i,
at so 000
ros
Government a hope that Great Britain
meeoltreji ticd
period, by means of a general legislative
the restrictions to disappear which at
German navigation and commerce, Oa _vosereloserci
riously impede the development of the eve Will dolt),
lions of the two countries. '
o
that the nomination of the Committee t
the Hon. Member for Stoke-
of the composition of which some
°°nr3oPellicitlg Ord^
made, actually had the effect p „to bne(l,
pension of that which Prusszlid whienooieda'
to strike at British shipping, an,..reo 40
have fallen on them had it riot ro7
seeded eldhatvheis rveomiciendoefd
wtharenlilnogu.seFthr,,oa_mt
eirpaorn:oceloti;lo.relot:ool,oo3ii:
among foreign nations at the same 01000, s
ngoretaottrewp•aurbniiinegorbuthteoßf
awnD.rtcheiegrseeot,ooe: ae:
to ourselves in commercial and ritish
m.
Mean the United States of Amerie %lot
1
ft, Wile ga'is of* o
aAumtuemrincanofmlai
°vition °f part °lir 001
Friefself, aidndthine
iSoerinrtieedtYtaeeurreirto—Mhf:Srth.tteahßteeeannGf,dcirr°-oFefronrlen;:ttfiipcjleoo7:rtio:
believing that it was the d"Pliith regarcite ripi3eslllii
make large and liberal changes
oust 0
us
~flnstl aft,
tiworme tt !7.
ttibmisewlaowrks,.
le to the restwana 'd'o
n mostthec° iwe isS.
be productive of a most extensive 5°.-- •