The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.

General GASCOYNE presented a petition from
certain persons having an interest in lands in the
neighbourhood of Liverpool, requesting to be heard
by Counsel at the bar of the House against parts of
the Bill for the erection of the Liverpool Docks.—
Referred to the Committee on the Bill.

Lord W. PAULETT presented a petition from
the Union Friendly Society of Darlington, against
the Bill for the regulation of Friendly Societies.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from tb::.
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Member expressed his etttiv: concurrence in Ile
prayer of the petition_ Ordered to be pribted.
Mr. LLOYD presented petitions from several
parishes in the county of Limerick, praying for the
repeal of the disabilities under which the Roman
Catholics suffer.

Mr. DAWSON brought up the Bill for the
amendment anti consolidation of the Acts imposing
stamp duti,es op Cards and Dice.—Read a first time,
acid oxdcied to be read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. DAWON brought up a Dili to empower
barristors to act as solicitors for • the Revenue in any
Court of law in the kingdom.—Read a first time
and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. DAWSLOti obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to rectify.iniatahes in the names of the Land Tax
Commiss.toners, and to appoint others. '
pailYisihr'esSiHn IRthLeEl' countyp presented
Catholic Claims.
Mr. SPRING RICE presented several petitions
from the county of. Mayo, praying for Catholic
Emancipation, tfetimotlntaregehz,etiatgioaninsstfrtohme
Mr. W. SMITH presented a petition from the
Brotherly Union Friendly Society of St. Ann's,
Mayo, against the Bill now before the House for the
Regulation of Friendly Societies.
Mr. W. SMITH also presented petitions from
Stoney, in Staffordshire; Stockwell, in Surrey ;
Newton, in Montgomery ; and Uxbridge, in Middle-
sex ; for the Repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts.

Sir CHARLES HASTINGS presented a peti-

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tion from the Vicar and Parishioners of St. Mar-
garet's, Leicester, against any further concessions to
the Roman Catholics.—Laid on the table.

Mr. STANLEY presented a petition from the
maltsters of Preston, against the Malt Act.

Col. HARRIS presented similar petitions from
Kidderminster.

Mr. STANLEY presented a petition from a
Friendly Society in Preston, called the Constitu-
tional Society, against the Bill now before the Howe
for the regulation of Friendly Societies.
Mr. BARING presented a petition from the
Elders of the Friendly Benefit Society of Gosport,
:&gainst the Friendly Societies' Bill. Also, a similar
petition from the Ebenezer Society of Gosport.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition
from the Agriculturists and Landholders of Bradford,
in Somersetshire,praying that some protection should
be extended to the growth of wool in this country.
This subject he deemed to be of the utmost import-
ance, for the agriculturists had suffered serious and
severe losses in consequence of the importation of
foreign wool, upon which the duties had been re-
pealed. As the present Administration seemed to
agree in the necessity of extending protection to the
Agricultural Interest, he hoped they would extend
to wool that protection which they deemed proper
to afford to corn. Some Hon. Member had said,
that he would bring the subject before the House ;
but he had yet seen no notice given. He hoped,
however, that the Hon. -Amber for Sussex would
bring the subject before the House ; and as the Ses-
sion was wearing fast away and a great deal ofbusiness
remained to be done, he trusted that it would be
brought forward soon, in order that it might receive
the fullest as well as the earliest consideration of the
House.

Mr. HUM 2 said, that when he looked at the
present _state of the manufacturing interest, and
saw them possessing such a monopoly as they
did in grain, be felt surprised that they should
seek to extend that monopoly also to other artielei.
He did not blame them for attempting to dO so, but
if the House consented to it, the commerce of thf•
country must be crippled, and the country itself'
rendered unable to maintain her present high station.
Et could not fail to prove injurious to the commit-
nity, anti ultitnately to the agriculturists themselves,
and was therefore very short-sighted policy. Again
he repeated that he attributed blame to the agr:eu:.
turists for bringing this matter forward ; hut upon
the part of those who could not be benefitted by any
measure such as was contemplated by the petitions,
he thought it necessary to restate his opinions upon
the subject;

Sir CHARLES BURRELL said that the landed
interest had no desire to have any thing like a
monopoly; they only sought to be placed in such
a position as would enable them to compete with
the foreign grower. It should be recollected that in
the year 1819, when it became necessary to stitaitt
the Sinking Fund, amongst other taxes there had
been one laid upon foreign wool, and in order to
reconcile •the Agricultural Interest to the taxe,.
which were laid upon them, it was intimated that
this tax should remain as a protecting duty to them.
Subsequently, however, this tax had been Jemoved,
and this faith was broken with the landholders. The
supply of Foreign Wool, since these duties had been
repealed, had been beyond all doubt enormous ; and
if continued, must prove as injurious to the manufac-
turer as to the-agrieulturist, for such quantities of
eloth would be manufactured that the market would
be drugged far beyond -the consumption, and the
operatives• Would then' be :throWn altogether out of
employment. He did not wish to take up more of
Hon. MeMbers! time than ,was necessary; but, ill
order to show the considerable increase of the quan-
tity imported since the reduction in the duty, he was
anxious to state that, in one year, the receipts
amounted to 15,000,9961b5. The next year they
amounted to 30,000,3451b5., nearly double that
quantity; and the receipts for the last year were
65,000,0001b5. - The lion. Baronet concluded 1w
expressing his satisfaction that the subject was
likely to be brought forward, and hoped the House
would afford to the subject the fullest consideration.
Mr. MABERLY said this question struck him.
in a different light from that of the Hon. Baronet,
for if Wool came into this country it must be paid
for by British. labour, and when manufactured, would
be exported, and thus give additional- employment
to British capital and British labour, He could
assure. the Hon. Baronet, that the more he ap-
proximated those restrictions, the more evil he
did to the agricultural interests, which he was
so anxious to protect. He was very sorry that
the agricultural interest did not appear to hint
to have read those publications which were issuing
daily from the press, and which proved that the
system of restrictions which they advocated was as
injurious to their own interests, as to the manu-
facturing. When the Honourable Baronet spoke of
the manufacturing interest, he ought to recollect thi.t
if the manufacturing interests were not supported,
it would be idle to expect a Sinking Fund for the
relief of the national debt.

Mr.HEATHCOTE. begged to add his testimony to
that already brought forward as to the extreme anxiety
which pervaded the landed interest on this subject.
The landed interest was no doubt anxiow about the
Corn Laws,but he could assure the House the grievancv
felt by that interest from the existing state of the law
with respect to.the importation of Wool, was greater
than any other under which they laboured. tie
begged to suggest to the lion. Bart., that as so many
interests were involved in this question, it would 3it--
better to discuss it before a Committee than in any
other shape.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT--He felt very
strongly upon this subject, as well as upon the
others which interested the country; and as it wa,,
his intention to endeavour to convince the House at
some future period that a free corn trade ought to exist,
and that all those duties which were adopted, as,
measures of protection, were in fact, no protf4,..
non at all, but were highly detrimental •.o"the
agricultural interest itself; he should
discuss the question, but merely not now
nion that a jealousy betwee,-
. the manufacturing
and agricultural interests - ' I him to be the
6eemet to
most irrational and i;-
eoundless imaginable. It was
generally suppow i experience le people wise,
,e( ma(
but he wa.-
were some pee_
sorry to say that there
e °".. whom experience was thrown away—who, in
tact, thought themselves so wise already, as not to
stand in need of experieneef—and that there were
others, who did it worth while to read the
. No man, however able or intelligent,
not think express his opi-
publications which thre‘t, light on the subject of
Free Trade, and without reading which, it would
be impossible to - understand the iinnortance of
could
l subject.expect
to gain as much information from lii,
own' experience as front the publications of the pre-
sent day, ..which brought forth all the learning
of
and ability the country, on those interesting.
topics. .He trusted that Honourable Members
would study these publications, and not scorn them
because the writers were what were called political
economists. If they were to read those publications
the consequence would be that their minds
wouldkeep pace with the improved information of the (by,
instead of being swayed by old, antiquated, and lie
might say,
exploded principles, which made them act
contrary to their own principles. He agreed with
those Hon. Members who were designated the agri-
cultural portion of thatHouse,that the agriculture way
the basis of all the other interests of the country, and
taking his stand upon that, he hoped he should Ira
able to show those Gentlemen that their opinions
were erroneous. He spoke to the country gentle-
men with no unfriendly, voice; but with a degree of
interest and a community of feeling incidental to the
circumstances of his belongirg to the same class. II e
knew of no course so wise as the leaving all matters
of this kind to adjust themselves ; hut, as to what
had been said about "gluts," his answer would be
shortly this—let those who created gluts suffer by
their consequences. He himself meant to bring on
he question of the corn trade—of a free trade in that
.ommodity—and was decidedly of opinion that the

more it Iva; discussed, the better for the nation at ;
large.—(Hear.)
Th, petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE in rising to move that
the petition be printed, wished to offer a few obser-
vations; in reply to what had been said by the
Honourable Baronet Who had read a lecture
upon the antiquated notions held by the country
gentlemen in that house, and who had given advice
which every Hon. Member had availed himself of
by acquainting himself with this subject before it
was discussed. He, for one, entertained what
the Honourable Baronet was pleased to call
antiquated notions; but he was glad to hear that the
Hon. Baronet intended to take up the question, upon
which he would, no doubt, bring to bear his ac-
knowledged talents and information. His notions
came from parochial observations of the situation of
tie country ; and his complaint was, and the com-
plaint of the petitioners was, against the monopoly
enjoyed by the former wool-growers.—The petition
was ordered to be printed. •