The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

HAWKERS' LICENSES.

The How. MEMBER then moved for a return of the number
of hawkers licensed in the sears 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and
1840.—Agreed to.
The House then adjourned at a Quarter before Five o'Clock.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Ilfenchester Gazette).
Owing to the continued advance in raw materials, spinners and
manufacturers are unwilling to sell, except at increased rates,
which the buyers, and especially the shipping houses, are ditin.
dined to give. The business done has consequently been limited,
both in goods and yarn, the sales being generally at the (WI rates
of last week.

ROCHDALE FDANNEL MARKET, FEB. s.—We have a brisk mar.
ket to-day ; the merchants are quite eager to buy, but the manu.
facturers stand out for an advance in price, which has considers.
bly limited the quantity of business transacted. Those who were
willing to accept former prices have no difficulty in meeting with a
customer. It is supposed that the upward tendency of wool is the
cause of the good demand for flannels.

LIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 6.
CORN-LAWS.
Lord REDESDALE presented twenty-nine petitions
from different places in Lincolnshire, praying their
Lordships to continue to the agricultural interest that
smal amount of protection which they yet possessed.
The Duke of ROXBURGH said that, although no
allusion had been made to the corn-laws in the speech
from the throne, yet the Noble Mover of the address had
alluded to them in the course of his speech, and on that
same evening an announcement had been made in the
other house of Parliament that it was not the intention
of her Majesty's Government to make any alteration in
the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) He rose for the purpose
of expressing the gratification which he had felt on hear-
ing that announcement. It would tend more than any-
thing else to restore stability to that apiculture' interest
which was now so sorely depressed, and would enable it
to resist those attacks which were so unjustly and so
perseveringly levelled against it—it would give fresh
courage to those who had recently so nobly stood up in
defence of their rights. He felt it to be his duty to
take this, the earliest opportunity, of expressing the
satisfaction with which he hailed the announcement of
the Government on the subject of the corn-laws.
BANK CHARTER.
Lord MONTEAGLE disclaimed all party motives in
bringing forward the subject of which he had given
notice. He was aware of the great difficulty in treating
of banking affitirs, and while the difficult task of treating
of those affairs had devolved upon him in the other House
of Parliament, he had received from the members of the
present Government such cordial assistance, that he
should be guilty of ingratitude were he to discuss this
subject with any degree of hasty feeling. At the time
his Noble Friend Earl Spencer had brought forward the
Bank Charter Renewat Act he had also introduced
another Bill on the subject of banking, which had un-
fortunately not passed into a law. Since that time
no very important inewire on the subject
had been submitted to Parliament. He agreed that
premature discussion was unadvisable, but he also
thought that every possible information should be com-
municated to their Lordships: Their Lordships were
already in possession of a vast deal of information on
the subject. He by no means recommended the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject,
but if it were the attention of the Government it cer-

tainly was advisable that the Committee should be ap-
pointed as speedily as possible. The first question he
had to ask was, whether it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to institute any inquiry of that
description? The next was, in the event of an inquiry
of that description being instituted, whether it was the
intention of her Majesty's Government to lay before
Parliament any documents showing what negotiations
or what communications they had had on the subject
with the Bank of England? He would not ask that
question. without a word of explanation. Ile thought
nothing could go further towards impeding the settle.
ment of this question than the production of any papers
which had only incidentally helped the Government to
arrive at this conclusion. On the other hand, he
thought any papers distinctly explanatory of the course
intended to be taken by the Government ought, as far as
consistent with the public service, to be laid before Parlia-
ment. An impression had obtained ground that it was in-
tended to create a monopoly in banking. This was a most
erroneous impression, as nothing of the sort could be
intended. He thought the sooner the terms of the pro-
position agreed to by the Government and the Bank of
England were made public,- the more likely was this
question soon .to be settled. Ile did not wish to draw
from the Noble Duke what that proposition was, but he
hoped the Noble Duke would, as soon as convenient,
put the public in possession of it. The third question
he had to put was, whether the alteration of the law
contemplated on the-subject of banking would apply to
Ireland as well as England?
The Duke of WELLINGTON was willing to give
the. Noble Lord all the, information in his power. - The
first question was, whether it was the intention of the
Government to appoint a Committee on banking. Ile