The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-10 00:00:00

ENGLAND.

Bank of England ....
Private Banks
Joint-Stock 8ank5........ ..
SCOTLAND.

Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,713,627

IRELAND.

• Bank of Ireland 3,625,925
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total.
Bullion in the Bank of England - .£15,844,000
HENRY L. WICKHAM.
Stamps and Taxes, May 12, 1844.

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at eight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 61
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 l 5
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight— - 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine
Petersburgh, 3Us 364
Berlin
Vienna, effee. ff. 3M. 954
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36/
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

,NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar •

Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 90
Milan —

Venice 47

Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon 534
Oporto 534
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23

Buenos Ayres —
NewYork,2lclys sight
Philadelphia —

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.— 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 0 0

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Four o'Clock.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The LORD CHANCELLOR announced that a Com-
mission had been issued to give the Royal Assent to cer-
tain Bills, and directed the Commons to be summoned to
their Lordships' bar by the Usher of the Black Rod.
The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The Commissioners, having taken their seats at the
foot of the throne, the Speaker, accompanied by several
Members of the House of Commons, appeared at the
bar, when the Royal Assent was given by Commission,
in the usual form, to the under-mentioned Bills :
The Exchequer Bills Bill, the National Copyright Bill,
the Dean Forest Inclosure Bill, the Great Western and
Cheltenham Railway Bill, the Norwich and Brandou
Railway Bill, the South-Western and Guildford Railway
Bill, the Midland Counties Railway Bill, the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Bill, the Norwich and Yarmouth
Railway Bill, the .Alanchester and Birminhain Railway
Bill, and the a rby Junction Railway Eill.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
Their Lordships resumed at Five o'Clock.
CONFERENCE.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.

A Conference with the Commons took place respecting
some amendments which had been proposed in the Lan-
caster and Carlisle Railway Bill.
The Duke of RICHMOND reported to the House that
the Commons agreed to a portion of the amendments.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Bills, which were read a first time.
Several petitions were presented in favour of the York
and Scarborough Railway Bill.
The Courts of Common-law Process (Ireland) Bill,
and the Bail in Error Bill went through Committee.
The Earl of MOVNTCASIIEL presented petitions
from Donegal, Coleraine, and several other places against
the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
DUTY ON WOOL.

The Duke of RICHMOND, after presenting a peti-
tion from a place in Sutherland, in favour of agricultural
protection, said he wished to call the attention of their
Lordships, in consequence of a notice which he had pre-
viously given, of a motion to order certain returns upon
the subject of the wool trade in this country. He was
the more anxious for the production of these
returns in consequence of the proposed re-
duction of the duty upon this article, and be-
cause he recollected that the facts adduced before
the Committee, appointed in 1828 at his suggestion, am-
ply proved that the reduction of these duties would tend
materially to injure the farming interests of the oottntry.
He disliked this measure much, not because it met the
support of his Noble Friend, who presided at the
Anti-Corn-law League, but because when this re-
duction was mentioned in another place it was
loudly cheered there. Another reason was, that,
at the present moment the greatest distress pre-
vailed all through Australia, and they all were aware
that by taking off one penny from German wool,
they would do much to injure that colony. He
would ask the Noble Lord, the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, whether her Majesty's Ministers had had
any communication with foreign Governments on this
subject—whether the Austrian Government were con-
tent to allow the manufactures of this country to
enter Austria with equal facilities—or, if that Govern-
ment would take English long wool as well as short wool?
He would also ask whether they had received any
assurances of reciprocity on the part of the
French Government, so far as trade was concerned ?
He only hoped that the same result would not now take
place as w hen the sixpenny duty was reduced to a half-
penny. The United States immediately put on a higher
duty upon our woollen clothes.—(Hear, hear.) He con-
cluded by moving for several returns relating to the im-
portation of foreign wool.
Lord DALHOUSIE had no objection to the motion
of his Noble Friend, accompanied as it was with an
undertaking to abstain for the present from geing into a
discussion of the substantial question. At the same
time, that he would not object for the returns, because
he also was desirous of more exact information on the
subject. However, he was not prepared to answer the
question ©f his Noble Friend as to whether her Majesty's
Government had communications with Foreign Powers
in, reference to the reduction of their duties in our
woollen goods. He had not received any information
on the subject, but he was able to say that when
foreign nations would or would not reduce the duties
on our woollens, that would not affect the question
His Noble Friend had alluded to the Committee of In-
quiry in 1828, on the effect of a reduction of the wool
duty, in 1824. But his Noble Friend did not inform
the House that it was clearly made out before that
Committee that the depression t,f the wool masters was
not traced and was not traceable to the reduction of the
duty.—(Hear, hear.) As his Noble Friend was not
going into the question at present, but only wanted the
papers for information, he (Lord Dalhousie) would
also abstain 'from going into it. But it was right that
he should acquaint their Lordships with the fact, that
the depression of the wool masters was clearly traced to
the high duty imposed in 1819, which caused our woolen

goods to be thrown out of competition in the foreign mar-
ket, and necessarily to lessen the demand for home-grown
wool. Be bad lately had a communication with Mr.
Bishop, a gentleman who was well known in connexion
with this subject, and from whom he learned that when
the duty was raised in 1819 he knew a Nobleman who
was a large grower of wool, that Nobleman told Mr.
Bishop that he would not sell his wool at 2s. 6d. a lb.,
but would keep it till the next year, when he would get
3s. Mr. Bishop however told him that if he kept it
for one year the price, instead of being raised by-the
duty, would be lowered, and instead of 2s. 6d. he
would get no more than Is. 6d., and if he kept it for
two years he would get no more than one shilling.—
(A laugh.) The nobleman had kept the wool for three
years as the prices were going down, and at last he sold
his wool for 9d: a lb.—(Laughter, and cheers.)

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'Cb'ck.
The Attorney-General (Sir W. Follett) took the oaths
and his seat for Exeter.
COMMISSION. _

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The Übher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and
summoned the House to the House of Peers, to hear her
Majesty's Commission read for giving the Royal Assent
to certain Bills (for which see Lords' report.)
NEW WRIT FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE.

Lord F. EGERTON, in moving for a new writ for
South Lancashire, in room of Mr. Wilbraham, deceased,
said he regretted his inability to do adequate justice to
the merits of that lamented and re spected gentleman.
Few men had more justly earned the good will and kindly
feelings of all parties, and he was sure he would be
borne out in this assertion by Hon. Gentlemen oppo-
site.—(Loud cries of " Hear hear," from the Liberal
Members.)
Mr. MARK PHILLIPS fully concurred in what had
fallen from the Noble Lord who had just sat down with
respect to the estimable character of the late lamented
Representative for South Lancashire, and felt sure that
this feeling was concurred in by every Hon. Gentleman
on his (Mr. M. Phillips') side of the House.
Mr. AINSWORTH said he shosld be wanting in
respect to the memory of Mr. Wilbraham if he did not
also render his meed of praise and admiration for that
gentleman's high character and feelings.
MANCHESTE R IMPROVEMENTS.

Mr. M. PHILLIPS obtained leave to bring up the
report from the Committee on the Manchester Improve-
ment (committed) Bill forthwith.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition against the
Swansea Harbour Bill.

On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, the
Blacicburfi and Preston Railway Bill was read a third
time, and passed.
Sir R. INGLIS presented petitions from places in
Yorkshire in favour of a ten hours' clause in the Fac-
tories Bill. The Right Hen. Gentleman also presented
petitions against the union of the dioceses of Bangor and
St. Asaph.
Mr. liIENRY BERKELEY prevented a petition from
the Solicitors of Bristol, complaining of the insufficiency
of the compensation allowed under the Act the 6th of
Victoria, relating to Chancery Reform.
Mr. FERRAND presented two petitions in favour of a
ten hours' clause in the Factories Bill.

Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition from a nu-
merous and respectable public meeting at Bolton, in
favour of a Ten Hours' Bill.

Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Kendal,
praying that if the Ten Hours Bill passed, that there
should be a reduction •f all duties on corn and pro-
Visions.

Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the
journeymen coopers of London, complaining of the ope-
ration of the duty on the importation of staves.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a petition from the
neighbourhood of Halifax, in favour of the Ten Hours'
Bill.

Lord MARCH presented petitions from Sussex and
Kent, praying for a repeal of the stamp duties on in-
surances against hail-storms; also four petitions against
the union of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph.
Sir J. GRAIIAM presented nine petitions—two aom
Bradford, signed by seventy-four millowners; one from
Ashton-under-Lyne, signed by four millowners, em-
ploying 12,741 persons ; one from a town in York-
shire, signed by twenty-eight millowners, employing
10,000 hands ; one from Oldham, signed by millowners,
employing 6,000 hands ; one from Staleybridge, signed
by millowners, employing 6,600 hands ; one from Brid-
port, one from Warrington, and one from Bolton. These
nine petititions, together with the one he presented
from Manchester, were signed by 326 millowners, em-
ploying 100,000 persons, paying 50,0001. a week in wages.
and 2,500,0001. a year, and they prayed the House that
no diminution to ten hours should be made in the time
of employment as such a reduction would be fatal to the
manufactures of the country, and prove detrimental to
the manufacturing labourers themselves.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.

Mr. ESCOURT appeared at the bar, and said that
he had been to the House of Lords, and that their Lord-
ships had appointed a conference to consider the amend-
Aunts on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill.
Several Members were appointed as a Conference,
and they immediately left the House to meet their Lord•
ships. After a short time,
Mr. ESTCOURT returned, and informed the House
that he had left the Bill, and the reasons of the House
for disagreeing from their Lordships' amendment, with
the Conference. ,
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Mr. HUME gave notice that he would put a ques-
tion, at an early period, to the Noble Lord opposite,
respecting the expenses of' the New Houses of Parliament.

bISSE.NTEIIS' CHAPELS BILL.

This Bill was brought down from the House of Lords,
and read a first time.
Mr. HINDLEY hoped the Bill would not be hurried
through the Hmise, as there was great interest excited
in the country about it.
Sir R. PEEL said that the Bill was only going to be
printed, and that the House would have full opportunity
of discussing it.
INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.

Mr. lIUME inquired whether there was any objec-
tion to collect, as speedily as possible, all the
orders that had been printed and published regulating
the intercourse of British subjects with the Chinese.
Sir R. PEEL said that every order and regulation
that was necessary on the subject had been made known.