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and that this country in exchange should supply them
with manufactures. ' Seventy years since, when
In&a began to reel silk, every encouragement \Nu,
held out by the-India Company and the Government,
that factories should be raised, and that British in-
dustry should be trained to work up their silk pro-
duce; yet, under the pretence of doing justice to India,
it is now proposed to raise a new race of weavers in
India, and bring them into competition with your
Lordships' petitioners, with only five per cent. pro-
tection.

That your petitioners believe, that these new com-
petitors are still held in slavery to a great extent, and
subsist on untaxed rice, sugar, &c., and live upon. 1441.
or 2d. per day. Your Lordships' petitioners humbly
submit for your Lordships' gracious consideration,
whether it be a matter of justice to reduce the arti-
sans of this country to the same level, or to encou-
rage such an unequal competition.
That your Lordships' petitioners wsre examined
before the Select Committee on East India Produce,
in 1840, and delivered statements, drawn from
the highest authority, showing the inability of the
people of this country to compete with foreigners,
under a system of free trade, until they were freed
freed from the taxes which press opon their in-
dustry, and demonstrating the cause of the different
of wages from the area population, revenue, debt,
and proportion of each, to each individual, in the
various States of Europe, and British India, from
which it appears that in the United Kingdom,
the proportionate amount of the public debt to
each individual was, in 1834, 321. 10s. 7d., and
the revenue to the population 2/. Os. Bd. each. In
France, the highest taxed nation in continental
Europe, the proportionate amount of the public
debt to eack individual is 51. 19s. 7d.; and the
revenue to population, 1/. 45.; while in British India
the revenue w.:s as compared to the, opulation, 3s. 9d.
each, and the public debt, 9s. each. Your Lordships
will perceive the impolicy and injustice, in the pre-
sent state of the country, and the great number of
unemployed artisans, of still further aggravating the
public distress by bringing the impoverished artisans
of the silk trade in competition with the untaxed
natives of India.

That your petitioners entreat your Lordships
consider whether this be a wise occasion to introduCe
infractions on the scanty protection to the labour of
this country, when ,111 r. Clay, one of the ablest men
amongst the American Legislators, has lately laid clown
such opposite prineipleS for the future guidance of his
own country; when France has, notwithstanding our
concessions in silk in 1826, so uniformly pursued a
contrary course ; and. when Prussia and the German
League are meditating heavier duties on woollen
goods. And justly did an experienced Commissioner,
before his departure to America, enter his protest
against the removal of essential protections, when all
'the surrounding countries were beginning to foster
their own industry.

That the follov;':ing is a very brief summary of the
injury which will be sustained by the Silk Trade,
should the intended tariff become the law of the
country :-Ist. It will reduce the duties upon Euro-
pean Silk Goods exported to our colonies, from 30 to
15 per cent.-2nd. By abolishing the Debenture
System, it operates against the exportation of silk
goods from England.-3rd. By reductng. the duty
upon Foreign Thrown Silks to ls. per lb., without
any reference to the various qualities, or the different
cost of production, it will operate most injuriously to
the Throwing Trade,—although it formerly received
the greatest encouragement.-4th, it will reduce the
duty upon India Silk Manufactures, from 20 per cent.
to 5. Your Lordships' justice and humanity, your
petitioners trust, will avert these impending evils.
Your Lordships' petitioners, therefore, at even th
eleventh hour, implore your Lordships to rescu
them from the pernicious principles of a system
of policy, which, under the specious
,plea of free
trade, by an anomalous fiat, • encourages free-
dom in the superfluities, and restriction in the
necessaries of life—cheapens manufacturing produc-
tions, but supports the price of food, encourages low
wages and dear provisions, brings the competition of
the Indian weaver in contact with the British arti-
san, with only 5 per cent. protection, when
agricultural produce and manufacturing labour
should be both placed upon equal terms, because equal
justice should be the basis of all legislation.
Your petitioners will not manifest such distrust of
the wisdom, and kind disposition of your Lordships
to attend to their prayer, as 'further to enlarge
upon these various subjects, hut, on behalf of their
fellow-countrymen, humbly pray your Lordships to
rescue the industrious classes from the evils which will
result from the further reduction of the Protective
Duties which are necessary under the present circum-
stances of the country, to retain many of the valuable
handicraft trades that exist in the empire.
And your Lordships' petitioners will ever pray, &c.
JOHN PROEM, Water-street Macclesfield.
THOMAS COPE, Fountain-street.
Macclesfield, July 7th,. 1842.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, 'JULY I.s.—The occu-
pations and amusements of the week have suspended regular
business ; a few euea►s have been disposed of,•and prices re-
main very firm—Bristol Mercury.
ABSURD RUMOURs IN. PARIS.—The following ap-
pears in the National of Thursday ; it is
_difficult to
account for such an absurd and dangerous rumour:—
"There was a report at the Bourse that an insurrection
had broken out in. London, and that the Queen had been
made prisoner in her Palace. The English journals, re-
ceived to-day, take no notice of such an affair."
A Meeting of the bankers, -merchants, and manu-
facturers of Leeds is to be held at the Court-house, on Mon-
day next, " to take into consideration the present appalling
state of trade and of the country, with the view of making
another appeal to her Majesty's Ministers and Parliament on
the subject before the close of the session, irrespective .of all
party feeling and party measures.'s
The Constitutionnel, M. Thiers' paper, is the only
Paris one of Thursday which• we have received, that
wears the mourning similarly used by the English jour-
nals on the death of members of the Royal Family.
Even the Debuts, the Court organ, is without this tri-
bute of loyal grief:

MAKING A CROPPY.—On Thursday last, four
young men, charged with cropping the ear off a person named
O'Malley, surrendered themselves voluntarily to Tomkine
Brew, Esq., the Resident Magistrate, and were by him com-
mitted to the Bridewell of this town to await the answer
of the law advisers of the Crown to their application te,
be admitted to bail ; and we feel bound in justice to the ac-
cused to state that, if ever such an assault was justified. it was
On this occasion. It appears by the sworn informations of
O'Malley, that the offender was a servant in the house of the
accused, when he succeeded in seducing their s ster, arid got
her with child—and, in place of making the only reparation in
his power to his unfortunate victim, he married another woman
—and, on the day laid in his informations, the unfeeling ruffian
had the daring effrontery to come on the very street of his
former master, when, in a moment of madness, he was made
to lend an ear to justice. Such are the simple facts of the
case, which do not in the slightest degree affect the peaceable
character of the Miltown district ; and, although the indiscre-
tion of youth led the accused into a breach of the laws of the
country, better-behaved, or more inoffensive young men are
not to be found in the community. We have learned that Mr.
Brew received directions from the Government'to admit them
to bail, which was immediately entered into.—Tram. Herald.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE
BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM FLETCHER, oilman, Birmingham, to sur-
render, July 26, and August 26, at twelve, at the Waterloo-
rooms' Birmingham. Austen and Hobson, Raymond-build-
ings, Gray's Inn, London ; Reece, Birmingham.
WILLIAM DOWNING, draper, Sheffield, July 29, and
August 26, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Wilson,
Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, London; Wilson and
Younge, or Pierson, Sheffield.
EDWARD ROGERS, surgeon, Great Witley, Worcester-
shire, July 30, and August 26, at ten,.at the White Lion Inn,
Kidderminster. Benbow, :stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn,
London ; Wormall and Prichard, Stourport.
CHRISTOPHER BRAYSHAW, tailor, Great Castle-
street, Regent-street, July 22, and. Aug. 26, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ;
Rutter and Trotter, Ely-place, Holborn.
THOMAS LEDIA RD, money scrivener, Cirencester, July
25 and Aug. 26, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn.' Ciren-
cester. Mulling', Cirencester; Jones, 'frinder, and Tudway,
John-street, Bedford .row, London.
JOHN HANFORD JACKSON, grocer, Eastwood, Not-
tinghamshire, July 25, and August 26, at eleven, at the
George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Campbell and Witty,
Essex-street, Strand, London ; Fox, Nottingham.
EDWARD MOSS, draper, Liverpool, July 28, and August
26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Winstanley,
Manchester; Milne, Parry, Mi!ne, and Morris, Temple, London.
ALEXANDER BOWER, banker, Manchester, August 10,
at three, and August 26, at two, at the Commissioner's-rooms,
Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London;
Higson and Son, Manchester.
WILLIAM MILLS, innholder, Caterham, Surrey, July 26,
atone, and Aug. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, Abchureh-lane, Lombard-street, official assignee;
Dyne, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Drummond and Sons, Croydon.
grocer, Old Buckenham,
at ten, at the Royal Hotel,
Norfolk, July
JuNirlyES23loaiNid PAAugL.SI2E6B:
Norwich. Fillett, Norwich ; Storey, Field-court, Gray's Inn,
London.

EDMUND FRANCIS GREEN, merchant, Leadenhall-
street, July 26, and August 26, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings; Bor-
radaile, King's Arms-yard.
GEORGE HENRY WATSON, apothecary, Stourmount-
cottage, Moscow-road, Bayswater, July 21, at half-past twelve,
and August 26, at twelve, at the Coui tof Bankruptcy. Tur-
quand, official as,iXnee, Copthall-buildings ; Watson and
Broughton, Falcon-6quare.
DIVIDEND:3.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
L. Bryant, coal merchant, Stamford-hill, Aug. 6, at half-
yast twelve-11. Speedily, commission agent, Fenchurr h-
street, Aug. 6, at twelve—W. It. Webb, wine merchant,
Kuightsbridge, Aug. ti, at eleven.
In the Country.
W. Gibb, currier, Alowick, Northumberland, Aug. 8, at one.
at the Star Inn, Alliwick—J. Heywood, cotton spinner, Heaton
Norris, Lancashire, Aug. 22,
at eleven, Commissioners'-rooms,
Alanehester—R. Martin, carpenter, Wales, Suffolk, Aug. 8,
at one, at the White Lion Inn, Beccles—J. and H. Noble,
cloth finishers; Brighouse, Yorkshire, Aug. 5. at eleven, at the
North Gate Hotel, Halifax—C. S. Jackson, woollen cloth mer-
chant, Leeds, Aug. 13, at four, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Leeds—D. Cook, rope maker, Liverpool, Aug. 8, at one, at the
Clarendon-rooms, Liver p. ool—G. Wifson cloth manufacturer,
Lindley, Yorkshire, Aug.
Aug. ar nin
9,e Pack Horse Inn,
at the
at twelve, at the Shire-
Huddersfield— Brooke, P.. Broo, grocer, Leeds, Aug. 12, -at five, at
.
the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds--W- 13. Prce and J. Ed-
wards, bankers, Shrewsbury,hall, Shrewsbury—F. Willett, E. Willett; and R. Willett,
bankers, Thetford, Norfolk, Aug. 8; at one, at the Bell Inn,
Thetford—H. and R. flildyard, wine merchants,
Hrigg, Lin.
coln3hire, Aug. 2, at eleven; at the Angel Inn, Brigg.i.J. Ll.l
locturtiviVerby,-Aug. IliKote;atibie NviTs4,l74/#

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