The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-02 00:00:00

SILK TItAD-ET

(Prom the lifaccksfirld Herald
We are happy to hear that the Deputations sept by the Silk
Trade of this town and Manchester, have obtained some very bene-
ficial arrtuigements in the Bill now passing for the regulation of
Duties on Foreign Thrown Silk and Silk manufactures.
Broad goods of the lengths only betwixt 60 and 66 yards, hav-
ing a ferule or bar woven into each end, are to be admitted. This
regulation, though strenuously opposed by the retail trade of Lon-
don, is nothing but reasonable, as this country would otherwise
have been inundated with all the odd lengths and old stock of
foreign countries.

East India Bandanna are to be admitted by an ad valorem
duty of SO per cent. until January the sth, 1827, and afterwards
by the following scale :..—Piecea of 6 yards end under, 6e. per
piece-7 yard, 7a.—and for every yard above, 11. This will
include Rowels, Pullicats, and China handkerchiek—The
Excise-duty on printing is to cease from the sth of April last,
with a remission of duty on soap and dye-stuffs used in-the manu-
facture.
The clearing away this incumbrance as .it Are, instanter, is
obviously a very judicious step. According to the origi-
nal Bill, the duties on fbreign thrown organzine Tram and
and gingles, were respectively to be ss. Ss. and 2.. until July,
1828 ; and afterwards to be reduced to 41. 2s. 64. and Is. 64.
This was evidently an unequal division of the protection to
be afforded ; for whilst the manufacturers• possessed pro-
tection 'for three yeare, or the expiration of the Act, a pm-
spective legislative measure hung over the throwster, and
would in a very short time have been felt most severely, as pro-
spective alterations are often more-injurious than immediate re-
ductions, if possible. These prospective clause are to be left out
of the Bill, and it is upon this most important concession that we
congratulate the throwstering interests of this and the adjacent
tlwris; for whatever may be the issue of the approaching conflict
betwixt the rival manufacturers, the throweter has now the as-
surance that his fate is bound up with that of the manufacturer,
and whenever the future question of the state of the Silk Trade
comes to be agitated, the throwster's degree of prosperity will be
taken into consideration along with that of the manufacturer.—
During the diecussion of this subject, it was distinctly intimated
by his Majesty's Government, that it was far from their intention
to crush the throwstering branch, but to aflOrd to it every pro-
te.ction in, its power.
The gentlemen who have been engaged in these deputations,
ritmk in the strongest terms of gratitude of the great personal at-
tention and exertions afforded them by our two highly respected
Country Kenhers, Davies Davenport' and Wilbraham Egerton,
Eaq uires.

We have the pleasure to announce- a most effectual mode of
Relief to the Silk Trade. It has been intimated to some of our
manufacturers to be the intention of several Gentle Men who will
be candidates at the. ensuing eiedion, to give each of their friends
a silk handkerchief of their favourite colour. This to the elector
would he a useful gift, and to the distrested artisan, a most accept;
able and substantial means of participation' in the good things dia.
triblited by a general election. It scarcely necessary to add,
that if this proceeding should become general,- it would give active
employment to thousands,' and' Do titaaidibuldlniont by gentlemen
in giving orders to their IllerCOM