The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-03 00:00:00

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tease bee' fa voitr..(l to h o ropy of ti r.
Host tasoN's allover to'the NI,-inorial of Ott, 0 op.
rative Silk Weiiiers and dyers Of tiliv lowa.
" Board of Trade, Dec;
OENTLitiatr.t4,—r have to ackno riled 1,4,! rui 7
letter of the 14th inst., encloSi3g A Alernariiil frtan ttv weave.,
and silk dyers of the borough of Mac:clettHd, anti also
*Ono tree Mayor, which accompanied that Nlev.lural.
" In conformity to your request. i hare cocuionnicetee.
documents to the Chanc.llor of the' Eitcheiluer. lie v,..?ry Ai.
cerely regrets, in common with myrielf, the depressed stet - of
the itinufacture of Maccltetfield, and the. unfortunate f A
which have lately mama there ; but, idle( the moat mature
consideration which we can give to the subject of the flak Trade,
we do not reel otivielees justitied.in departing iron: the decision.
latelrcommunicsted by the board of Trsde, in answer is op
application to the pseioet.trorn filacciesfiald.

" That decision in substance was, that we could het consent
to continue the prohibition of foreign wrought silks beyond the.
period now liked by the Act of lila
" If, however, any practical propoial shall be brought fir
ward•by the manufacturers, which might appear to them coo.'
clamed to render the protection whieh that law substitutes for
prohibition, More erectusl without the risk of throwing the
trade into the hand% 'of the smuggler, such a proposal will re,
ceive front us the most attentive consideration.
"As the Memorialists profeSs that 'they do not go into
arguments upon the question,' it is only farther eieceissitty fur'
me to date, that, in the judgment of this Board, the preeetit
depression of price, the stagnation in the Silk Trade, are
mainly to be ascribed to other CSIIVCX thati the passing of tit,"
Act of the Swam before last ; and among these causes, in no
small degree, to the extravagant speculations in the raw me -
terial, and to the very unusual exertions made in many part,
of the kingdom, but more especially at Macclesfield, rapidly
to increase the manufacturing establiehmente, and the number
of hands engaged in them ; speculations entered into, and
exertions made, since the pessing of the law 14 the admissia:i
of foreign wrought silks, and when this change must have been
! as much within the knowledge and contemplation of the par-
ties as it ill at this moment.
" I have the honour to he, gentlemen,
" Your very obedient humble servant.
" W. lIUSKISSON.
" To Wilbrahim Egerton, Esq. and D. Davenport, Esq."

GREAT QUEENATREET ISSIONARY ASSO.
CIATION.

The Annual Meeting of this Society teas
holden, last evening, in the Methodist Chattel, Oreat Queen-
street, I.oe the purpose of receiving the Report of the Contivii:t,
for the past year. JOSEPH BIIITTETINVOIatt, Esq. M.P. in
the Chair.
The Co AIRMAN, after the business of the Meeting had beta
opened by singing and prayer, observed, that it was unnecessary
to go into a lengthened detail of the objects of this A ssocietioe
He had heard with no inconsiderable Alegree of regret, that
affairs were this year in a less floatishing state than they
been at the lest, but he trusted that this decline was to tie it:tt.-
buted rather to uncontroulable events titan to any relaxation
endeavour on the part of the collectors, or any diminution
feeling in the contributors ; and he had no doubt, when the
Christian world was made acquaintea, as it speedily would Lein
by the publication of vtrious Missionary works, how nt.i.n
1 good heti been effected uth the instrumentality of M'e.•
sionary labours, and how much yet reninined to bee done, tt,at
the same feeling of philanthropy width had first founded this
institution would induce them to euppott it. He was glad to tied
that a powerful etlhrt was about te, be made by this country fel,
the emancipation of the slave —( Hear !).--end though htegloried
in the prospect of his disenthralment from moral lettere.' re:
he conceived that the enlargement of the mind was of sop y.
riot consideration. This was the object of Al iseinnary Antoine-
thins. The accounts from South America, that interesting por-
tion of the world, recently received, tended to prove the no-
comity of increasedexertion. The state of society was tepee.
sewed in a most deplorable light- assmeination was so esta-
blished, that scarce a night passed without recording one, me.
three, and sometimes four or five of thole frightful oceurrenees.
In all places where the Missionaries had gone a material reeriii
and social change had been effected, a convincing proof or their
utility ; and he felt satisfied that, however a ternf..orney glom
might be thrown over the hopes of the friends of civil and
gioue freedom, it would sZeedily pass away.
The StertETARY theta read the !tern% which, though it
admitted a deficieney in the matins of the last year, spoken
congratulatory trans on the general success which had attended
Missionary labours all over the world.
Several Gentlemen addressed the meettior, anti after passing
a series of Resolutions, the businew was concluded with thy
same ceremonial of singing and prayer, and a handsome rub.
ecription was made In behalf of the hinds.