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

tish enterprise and native industry in India would over-
come. It e cotton plant was an exotic in ledis, and in
the seaee ef sixty-five years, they hart it by returns,
that 775,000,000 ifs,. of the article were proiluced, t.hus
ehowiag that under the appieation of industry, eerie',
stall, and enterprise, cotton in that country alight not
only be greatly productive in quantity, hut greatly en-
minced in quality. The question was one of deep 10"
terest to the people of this country, and he saw no rea-
son why the labouring population of India thould not
be employed and served materially by the cultivation of
the article. He thought it must be quite clear to the
Howe that their conquests in India had been most ex-
pensive, and little available for the interests of this
country. The war in Affgbanistan was attendel with
vast expenses, and great sacrifice of human lire, sad
what did this country profit by it ? Nothing what-
ever. The aar in the Punjaub was, in like wanner,
most costly in blood and treasure, and the conquest of
the country was not made available for the purposes 0'
industry, production, trade, or commerce. In the
wars the loss of human life was great, and the expense
incurred vast; but the conquests made were hither,re,,
barren of all profitable account.—(Hear, hear.) 'I tie
war in Shade had not nearly paid its expenses; the
in the Punjaub had not done so by five or six thousan
pounds a-year. But admitting that all these conquests
had been profitable, they had no doubt entailed upon the
company future expenditure in their having to adint•
nister the affairs of those new provinces, and, therefore;
no opportunity ought to be lost in acquiring additiossi
means of meeting this increasing expenditure. It'd°
Right Honourable Baronet the President of the Boar
Control hatl read a letter from an aseociation
in Manchester against sending a Commission to ludts
in the terms of the motion, but he confessed that he
considered that letter rather au evidence for than against
such Commission. It was not fair that they should
e
compelled to abide by the evidence of the servants of the
East Indic Company in respect of this matter. N
doubt, a difficulty might arise in finding such men 51
could make themselves understood by all the dif erf"
tribes in India and ascertain their op n
3 09 the sub-
ini°
ject; but no doubt such men could be obtained. Sgal
years ago the East India Company themselves sent Out
ten American planters to India, in order to investigate
the matter and while it was no doubt the fact that tie?
merchants
found the of India too much engrossed irn;
management of their own affairs to give thew reticd
assistance in that investigation, yet,
after many years
strict inquiry and practical investigation there, the 10-0 i
tleman had come to the conclusion that the natives
India knew as much, some of them more, about the ea „
tivation of cotton than the people of America themselle-e;
did. The question, then, resolved itself into ra, Of
matter of government. Let the Government.
India countenance the matter, and remove those,
culties which lay its the way, and the cultivation et;
cotton in India would increase to an enormous e%;e,ne%
but he had no hesitation in saying that the laner'',4
was one of the greatest drawbacks to the cultivation
°a
cotton in that country. He would, therefore, call uPa,
the House to give the subject due consideration. It rele
not a party question, but one which interested
country as well as India. And, believing that a C(,),°,3 ;
mission proceeding to India, and fully investigating
far the cultivation of cotton there was practicable. or
al,
to what were the difficulties in the way of its being ea
tivated, would be of much public benefit, be would or
port the motion.—( hear.)
Sir JAMES WEIR HOGG said he admitted, Willia
the Hon. Member fur Manchester and the Hon. Iters-hef
who hrd just sat down, the inestimable r
importauce;
having a supply of cotton from India, so as to tea
this country independent of a supply from the IJee'n,os
States, and if it was possible that the East India t-i?"-ei
pany were actuated by interested feelings, it would 07,1
once be seen that in this matter they had as strong lei
deep an interest as any manufacturer in Manehssiee,
possibly could have.—(Hear, hear.) But he bad
quire of the Hon Member for Manchester sr"' the
wanted ? Was it information that he wanted oa bje
subject ? Why he had that information, audeea-
speech proved that he bad it in considerable co
dance. The Hon. Gentleman asked for a `ddos
mittee some time ago. That Committee it,
granted, and the Hon. Gentleman presided Cre„teel
He sailed every witness before that Committee who C aO4
speak to India and the cultivation of cotton there, bad
that Committee reported, but the Hon. Gentlen3al'A Oct
not founded his motion upon that report. Ile ha'alets
done so, because in the report of that Committee -,eir
was no mention of the appointment of a Royal Cote-as•
sion to be sent to India. There was, he believed, 11,,rii" 0
cedeut, and only one, for the appointment of 811 ii•
body. That was in the days of Clive, when a C°ll/-eps
sion—but it was not called a commission then, those
ors
pointed .were called surveyors—when surveyors ,rivile
appointed to go out and investiga.e the matter. ',
surveyors were appointed and away they went, ha' pee
ship in which they sailed having foundered at ses' els
thing more was ever heard of them,—(Hear, hear') 1130
was always ready to pay the utmost respect to
ter,
opinion of so large a manufacturing town as Manches,bli
but it was fitting that the House should Wee cer,
although the Hon. Gentleman represented Marletiehtbe
he did not represent the opinions of 011,00,
people of Manchester. Now his Right „,/tol
Friend the President of the Board of `-'ee-rsiel
read a letter from the chairman of the Corara'aen,
Association of Manchester repudiating the Elett that
tleman said his Commission, and he could state t,",",-etfea
body had done more for the promotion of the cuit',-dsaa
of cotton in India than any other body in the kill' • t t°
The East India Company sent all their experiuteni4the
them before they were aware of the existence „e-000'
Chamber of Commerce, and the president of that led°
elation (Mr. Turner) was the greatest consumer
cotton in England. That association, theref°l,-,' tbP,
dared that the East India Company had done a'`,/ite ei`
it was in their power to do to promote the gr°3 /et'
cotton in that country. The Hon. Gentians!, It, sob'
that he would not road Indian newspapers on t'stace.
ject, as they were on all sides now acting on the blit
principle; he would read the Manchester Guardia?", 1)9
1,
the Hen. Gentleman knew what was in that ~aPhe,;
knew that it denounced him and his motion. "'Cool'
(Sir J. Hogg) last was chairman of the East India 0 Os
pany a deputation came to him from Manchester eut otti
subject, who talked about petitioning Parliare,s,
the subject, but he told them were awl leeks
some of their capitalists over to India and esii-
agencies there, to purchase the cotton when
an
grown, and see that it was properly Pack °n4sent to the coast, they would do more in °n4
year to promote the growth of cotton in India 1136
would do in a dozsn by petitioning Parlise3eol" s
,i Ino
the subject. Why did not the Hon. Gentleman as tit
friends send out agents to India? No doubt, feetl;
Right Hon. Baronet the President of the Board c),til;.l9co
trol had said, the report of the Committee on the 12,
was a controversy, but there was one point iitust 000;
which all the witnesses examined agreed, and to to s
the establishment of European agents in outlnd' itt?
that the cotton was properly dressed, and sent ‘100;,,
proper state. Why, then, had not that begnoo
Why, the gentlemen of Manchester had not entedros
enterprise of the public press, for when they *lsla fed
collect information they sent to all parts of the ;te
the purpose of obtaining it. Seventy years !awes 000,
America supplied the world with indigo, and itsal E 3 to
that the soil of India would not do so, but ser, ever.e
peens went to India, established agencies, and 700104
take it when grown, and in 1830 there was oaroleesso
sterling of European capital invested in that :0,9 Dies
India now supplied the world with indigo. If ths400:100
with indigo why not with cotton? It was the -t eai" Dot
opium, which the Hon. Member who spoke la,s-hoes'ite
East India Company had a monopoly of, but whet', wilscis,
the case. At the time the cultivation of itiwel'ia Pere
troducei no European could hold or lease 10'1.00 of ;0
or go through the country without the perroissitage, tad
East India Company; but they had this adrairlaased,,:to
now they could go to whatever part they P'"teers'itecl
hold or lease land as they pleased. There wits' ors vie
none of those difficulties which the indigo sPeeeer 80/ for,
to deal with. The Hon. Member for the T° die 15070 of
bad said that if they gave the people of the peol). the
nothing they would not cultivate cotton for Prod
Manchster. That was holding out a b 0
startle
growth of cotton, which he thought would t°
aloe. Se sage
the Hon. Member for Manchester. The t dragA )IP
had also said that the land-tax was the grehser ttu' eel
to the growth of cotton there; but on the ntlthat, 013/
Mill, the great political economist, had aal being le I°
the very perfection of taxation,
certain portion of the rent of the soil of
the CO .00.1
meet the exigencies of the Government of Coals*
Then as to roads, the Hon. Member hs'o of tbeloafte
that there wet e no roads; but at Goojerat, 0110 itt
cipal cotton districts, there was not better r°„ in Pio it)
With respect to the oppression of the land'sgentictateole
no doubt oppression occurred—but
"'hi' eor si% oioe
that House who possessed a property 0- - rof oePreeati
sand acres, had not had similar instanees_deaag r
the system
set opootris
on their estates, by means of agents Or ueProets °S., et
Ho was glad, however, to know that the
to ranoCOt:100
East India Company did all in their poWtl..cia of et,ooo,
redress those oppressions. As to the pro'S% now tot'''.
in India, he believed that more cotton wt`
te
poles
there than was manufactured by all twhat a
of Manchester for all the world. Seed therosell
there was in India, and they cloth Eutt,epli
cotton manufacture, nor were they defendingthyw:l(l°,o 15,,
for a marks afor they had Chins,vrhenrajui eassocisottse
Core
Bale. The President of the
would neferprils
Manchester said they should insprtud
in India, or else it would be of noose'
rop failed in -8 it
a high price, unless the cotton
market for theirs it ie
So that they had absolutely
took Place' and was
;00'
cotton, unless such a failure
!yo under such cc° .0017;
to expect the people there
they could have graltrli Co 0
stances, grow cotton
When rattily ? The East ill
rt.-the growth or_ „off
gib s
port themselves and their toe
growing of' tea, ,rl"becatl,:;
pany tried experiments in
for the public goir'°oo do1;0,
they succeeded, gave it uP f Parliament It d colt ti
ct ode gee
they were precluded by A
Bred to do so as rotas esti 0
,e 0
so; and they were prepare
induced 1° 6 vet tD„,/'
if Manchester merchants could be _ oaeo
: The 0'
eettee,
to superintend its cultivation.
f the Coull', the
read a passage from the report o
lone ear!'s ths‘g-iid
ing that European capital would a
.4,. ae, bbl
cultivation of cotton, and expressed
could be aisho/
,t
0,
tam© had arrived when such efforts
thereiOre'ds
wide success. He t arnestly hoped. .00 to a
lion. Gentleman would not prey- lits moil
with big
roitli
tr:
.sir. WILSON PAT'FEN said he tiara ",he
Friend who last addressed the House, ou_nly ~1
and certainly that Committee was uutinimou.: Jot
that the greatest difficulty to the grown .:00i
/ te'
nica"
India was the want of internal comtieu lied tie
hoped soon to sees proper re medY ePPoied leee
government of the Noble Lord who nowstiou teoteo
Mr. MANGLES said, upon the
q"CSterag tS°l for
revenue, that it was one of the best sy .ever' herbt
that ever was invented, and had the veil 1 gtea'
he lion' tJrs
injurious effects attributed to it by t n _ e I
00
Manchester. In this opinion be was bore
,e
to ~nre
eminent authority, Mr. Mill, who add 100,
.00.,
knowledge of political economy a thoroug' e/ty:,
knOr • lov
of India. He should like the House to
the actual amount of the land assess:ost?