The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-19 00:00:00

tish enterprise and native industry in India, would over.
come. The cotton plant was an exotic in 'lndite and 11.1
the spree) of sixty five years, they had it by return'
that 775,000,000 lbs. of the article were produced, thus
showing that under the application of industry, °6l3`„tant
skill, and enterprise, cotton in that country might
only be greatly productive in quantity, but greatlY
en-
hanced in quality. The question was one of del
terest to the people of this country, and he saw D 0 snot
son why the laeouririg population of India should 13°f
be employed and served materially by the cultivation °
the article. He thought it must be quite clear to the
House that their conquests in India had been most
pensive, and little available for the interests of this
country. The war in Affgbanistan was attendee Nitta
vast expenses, and great sacrifice of human lite,
what did this country profit by it ? Nothing wua,
ever. The war in the Punjaub was, in like manee,,q
most costly in blood and treasure, and the conquot "e
the country was not made available for the purposes
industry, production, trade, or commerce. In 01°5
wars the loss of human lite was great, and the exPetls°
incurred vast; bet the conquests made were hitherto
barren of all profitable account.--(Hear, hear.) Ther
war in Siude had not nearly paid its expenses; the wat
in the Punjaub had not done so by five or six thousa,ats
pounds u-year. But admitting that all these coneuebe
had been profitable, they had no doubt entailed uP°D,t
company future expenditure in their having to edge,
the affairs of those new provinces, and, therefjra'l
no opportunity ought to be lost in acquiring additior.v.;
means of rnestieg this increasing expenditure. IDd
Right Honourable Baronet the President of the .13°itre
Control had read a letter from an assoeial:
in Manchester ageinst sending a Commission to In el-e
in the terms of the motion, but he confessed that Pt
considered that letter rather an evidence for thane 4litibso
such Commission. It was not fair that they sl7 be
compelled to abide by the evidence of the servants oi the
East India. Company in respect of this matter. 0
doubt, a difficulty might arise in finding such me net
could make themselves understood by all the differe-b
tribes in India and ascertain their opinions on theessme
ject; but no doubt such men could be obtained. °°--iit
years ago the East India Company themselves sent °le
ten American planters to India, in order to inveotitghtley
the matter, and while it was no doubt the fact that the
found the merchants of India too much engrossea 'Doh
management of their own affairs to give thernfr- of
assistance in that investigation, yet, after manY Yseeetiee.
strict inquiry and practical investigation there, the of
tlemen had come to the conclusion that the natinte
India knew as much, some of them more, about the ;
tivation of cotton than the people of America thenise„,;:te
did. The question, thee, resolved itself into a 7- f
matter of government. Let the GovernolenA';
India countenance the matter, and remove those of
culties which lay in the way, and the culdvati°
cotton in India would increase to an enormous o,,te"
0 ,
but he had no hesitation in saying that the len"„' f
was one of the greatest drawbacks to the cultivatio`;
cotton in that country. He would, therefore, eall„%st
the House to give the subject due consideration.
not a party question, but one which interestedly
country as well as India. And, believing that a °bee
mission proceeding to India, and fully investigatinge, 0
far the cultivation of cotton there was practicable, v'et•
to what were the difficulties in the way of its being ea
tivated, would be of much public benefit, he would s'.
po .
rt the motion(Hear
Sir JAMES WEIR HOGG said he admitted, owh
the Hon. Member for Manchester and the Hon. geef
who had just sat down, the inestimable importaneedes
having a supply of cotton from India, so as to Irv('
this country independent of a supply from the °lee
States, and if it was possible that the East Indio co;
gt
pany were actuated by interested feelings, it w°ll' eed
once be seen that in this matter they had as strong ter
deep an interest as any manufacturer in ManDb,rie'
possibly could have.—(Hear, hear.) But he had t", be
quire of the Hon Member for Manchester what the
wanted ? Was it information that he wanted of his
subject ? Why he had that information, an'eter
speech proved that he had it in considerable seoo •
0
dance. The Hon. Gentleman asked for a 000
mittee some time ago. That Committee it.
granted, and the Hon. Gentleman presided aeroid
He gelled every witness before that Committee win gad
speak to India and the cultivation of cotton there, bed
that Committee reported, but the Hon. GentlenistlA sot
not founded his motion upon that report. He "-there
done so, because in the report of that Committee min'
was no mention of the appointment of a Royal te,°:ere'
sion to be sent to India. There was, he believed, ;:eh 0
cedeut, and only one, for the appointment of e"oes•
body. That was in the days of Clive, when a CD°
Or
sion—but it was not called a commission then, thueeose
pointed mere called surveyors—when surveyell Thefe
appointed to go out and investigate the mattes t eye
surveyors were appointed and away they went, be. e•
ship in which they sailed having foundered at sec' $e
thing more was ever heard of them,—(Hear, hear.e, 1110
was always ready to pay the utmost respect htventer,
opinion of so large a manufacturing town as MOD:. O°C
but it was fitting that the House should ka°hee,ter,
although the Hon. Gentleman represented Mialell" the
he did not represent the opinions of inpoi
people of Manchester. Now his Right reetrDi
Friend the President of the Board of :eel'''.
read a letter from the chairman of the Com'oeir
Association cf Manchester repudiating the 001:1,:„ttbat
:
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of cotton
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The East India Company sent all their experi°lo3ftg 10
lbe
them before they were aware of the existence
Chamber of Commerce, and the president of thatiloe'
ciation (Mr. Turner) was the greatest consumer o-e
del
cotton in England. That association, therel°l.,i' the'.
Glared that the East India Company had done tiveelifl
it was in their power to do to promote the grk°,esskr
cotton in that country. The Hon. Gentleman 71," se";
that he would not read Indian newspapers Oil
ject, as they were on all rides now acting on t,"-. be
e;
principle; he would read the Manchester Gord't
the Hon. Gentleman knew what was in that Pearbeee °-
knew that it denounced him and his motion. Cote:
(Sir J. Hogg) last was chairman of the East Ind
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pany a deputation came to him from Manchester eat od
subject, who talked about petitioning
the subject, but he told them were they,,Steb_,li°o
some of their capitalists over to India and 'it rf,-4
parliao3-0 oeb
agencies there, to purchase the cotton wbellif lfroo
grown, and ate that it was properly Pae-eie 1:1-c
sent to the coast, they would do more e-.olbeeo
year to promote the growth of cotton in India t'oet hvio
would do in a dozen by petitioning Perlin sad "se
the subject. Why did not the Hon. Gentlerat: es
friends send out agents to India? No don`frefq;es
Right Hon. Baronet the President of the I3oare" 9tilree
trol had said, the report of the Committee on tiro II ;11
was a controversy, but there was one noir)" ire II
which all the witnesses' examined agreed, 01,1 to
the establishment of European agents in' ~.:60',0 Tie?
that the cotton was properly dressed, and se,!'",,e-
proper state. Why, .then, bad net that areeent'to
W by. the gentlemen of Manchester had r1°11.,-500;tet
enterprise of the public press, for when they v'worlu
collect inforenationehey sent to-all parts of the Pled
the purpose of obtaining it. Seventy years
America supplied. the world with indigo, and iLrot Ed to
that the soil of India would not do so, but Ole' gre!,"ieeti
peens went to India, established agencies, ilau„-, tel","01
take it when grown, and in 1830 there was D:recle9;oo
sterling of European capital invested in that ;eses I:tittr
India now supplied the world with indigo. If tils-toneei
with indigo why not with cotton? It was th,e eia" Dot
opium, which the Hon. Member who spoke la! boo 0.
East India Company had a monopoly of, but 11111 e, tvo'dis,
the case. At the time the cultivation of in le Ilistbe
troduceci no European could bold or lease len foe 0, 00
or go through the country without the PerrDigsteges treJ
East India Company; but they had this adyaiDeesed,ote,
now they could go to whatever part theY P there boa
hold or lease land as they pleased. There was:twat' l 0
none of those difficulties which the indigo sPeee-e 01,
to deal with. The lion. Member for the Tfawd-ie lea to of
had said that if they gave the people of le pear ;be
nothing they would not cultivate cotton for Abe
f Ore
Manchester. That was holding out a b,tette,t'e bee)
growth of cotton, which he thought woutau es. eeet:,ee
the Hon. Member for Manchester. The Pft drod g_af.
had also said that the land-tax was the greh-ee baD
to the growth of cotton there; but on the to lot 0
Mill, the great political economist, had st being t ert
the very perfection of taxation, the system tot serf;
certain portion of the rent of the' soil era: the eatilitieee
meet the exigencies of the Government van
d cra pri'
Then as to roads, the Hon. Member of 01%30'
that there were no roads; but at Goojerat, ~ees in ;dill,
cipal cotton districts, there was not better Lute% in 'fp
With respect to the oppression of the 10" gentle°,
no doubt oppression occurred—but vvehlietve or 'il.esoll
that House who possessed a property at ""of opP eeto
sand acres, had not had similar instaneeseedergor tb
on their estates, by means of agents or l'._rceets over
oi
He was glad, however, to know that their to reesoevotto:
East India Company did all in their Piecsog ° Oleo
redress those oppressions. As to the Pr we, noar Titeete
in India, he believed that more cot too`` eettoneldeti4
there than was manufactured by Seethwtiat a P°,,Pes ftetl
of Manchester for all the world. ed thetase'egliwei
there was in India, and they elotue ending on ter.
t unda
ovherrow Aesoetefoeter'i
cotton manufacture, nor were they dePe they .0--
for a market,for they had China
sale. The President of the Comone the grOwtb„°o est!ce,
Manchester said they should irnPr°veto would lle'Aete,l.,o
in India, or else it would be of none t a failed ~ entree
a high price, unless the cotton allot for the's, Oro.
So that they had absolutely no mar lace, told 1, eirDtler
cotton, unless such a failure took p to 0 0,
to expect the people there would,. ,nbutoe Ceeee
stances, grow cotton when they cou,liete aet, jo_to ee..o
port themselves and their family ? of tea, ,11 bee
pany tried experiments in the groWleg„_
they succeeded, gave it up for the pi Yo
as OP OJ° tee°
so; and they were prepared to do. so
co to pe
if Manchester merchants could be nduy;3. fbeelvolo
they were precluded by Act of rarliam" 010' eV
to superintend its cultivation. The iktetuitte ,;et
read a passage from the report of the carry &het ',t
log that European capital would slot?! belief
cultivation of cotton, and expressed bla,e tutbet,`oo,
time had arrived when such efforts cou_ir'eteee, `',lteisl
with success. He earnestly hoped, th'ieb toe .0 klieg
Hon. Gentleman would not ores, his °p
witb bloolitoo
Mr. WILSON PATTEN said he Batt the C° 001131i0
Friend who last addressed the Hollie, on cf. AOO,B
and certainly that Committee was unanimous: Jor Clot Poe
orOW t" • •
that the greatest difficulty to the . est° do
India was the want of internal constralatelied ono,
hoped soon to see a proper remedy comma plied
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government of the Noble Lord who now .e., et ire
eestioe f tO'
Mr. MANGLES said, upon the el" ,ems ot eel ist
revenue, that it was one of the best Ile, reeertieey
th
injurious
ovue
sr the Vgoo. t,eot
Manchester. In this opinion be was !Ted to POOlOOO
ewtl9(sctisnva'tntrtibdu'teadnitiobaill by the _OO otitis Pee'
eminent authority, Mr. Mill, who a°
of India. He should like the 110 Use tO /o.' iflOvr
knowledge of political economy
saeragaeoLt
the actual amount of the laud a
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