The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-30 00:00:00

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Mr. Fa .xlittlAND Lewis, Clihirman af=tlieCont
mittee lately appoint ;t1 to ingnire into the Trittle
eeds,ao i4to the I,,:iavits relative to the WoOl.
lett Trade, before tip the Report Of clic
Cotmnittee on the. sobject t,t %Vool, wis• ed to
ohsrrtte to the House, that. from the
taken it apretred that the pike of 11Youl, fri:ts
176 U down to the present time, awl panic:l,ll.kt
•
thiring the hest ten years, It wi been tiz,Lig,
therefore a nwinrity of the Coctimittee coo
that sio part of she Ogricitttitiii
nrisen irom the low price of lVool, 'and that no
alteral ion in the laws was at pieellt lieCeSgiiry 9:lt
thitt ilee,olifit. Bit. the 11111iti (111C3:ioll had this.
th-eil taken into consideration ; Ftual evhatevet
might lie tie expediency of :ILI iliClTWieit duty oil
the importation of Wool, qtr tnkihg, Of the pro-
hibition on txporiation, on this .object the Re.

port afforded no information.
Lord „LASCELLES StEitkA, that the apprehensinus
entertained in the districts where the woollen ma-
nufacture was. carried on, when they understood
this subject had been refored to a Committee,
were not that the importation of. Foreign Wo4‘d
would be prohibited; but they thought that any
duty Which coirld be of service to the' agrieul-
turalise must be n, duty amounting to it
prohibition. A brisk domestic trafic tv,inid b.
found most to the interest of the wlfol-grower,
when %veil considered. -
Mr. WESTERN stated, that the CoMmittee had
closed their Report, while he Was absent ;it tio.t
Sessions, in the County whieh he represented.
tie complained that the Committee had made no
jnottiries reipectitig the monopoly of Hume Wool,
enjoyed by the manufacturers, and the protection
.of the grower against foreign impOrtatiOn.
Mr. liaoponiot said, it appeared that instead
of considering the whcplestihject, theCommitte2
hall considered only n part of it.----they had le.
_ported a fact which no Man, Would deny, the fa et
that the distresses of th country were not oci.4,
byithe low price of Wool, Bttt would this
high price continue ? The large IttiSsian orders 1.. r
present kept- up the price; but Were there
strong reasons for apprehending, that in.a si.ort
time, Wool would be as low as all ott:er prodtr
tions. fle.felt a strong disposition to oppose to,
bringing up of the, it Tort„ tbat it might again be

referred bads To the t orntnittee, That they might
discharge the duty committed to tlicnt by the
Mr..CALCRAFT vindicattul the conduct of the
Committee. They had exereiked their discretion
as to how far they were bound to go into the sub-
ject. tie certainly thought this was the last mo-
Invnt in which they ought th disturb a large ma,-
neFaeture, such as Ate Staple Manufacture at
Wool, without the strongest grounds.
Mr. IleotrotiAsr explained.
'Lord Mr c'roN thought this Hotise, when they
saw the evidence, would agree, that there ought
at present to be no duty on importation. ,
Mr. FRANKLANDLEWIS and Mr. CALCRAFT mu-
tually explained.
Sir Jolt N NEW.PoRt said, be bad hoped to have
received notice, at least a day or two, of the inten-
tion of closing the Committee. liut he had only .
received notice at II o'clock to attend at 1 o'clock
that day; He could not attend that day, and the
same thing, he supposed, had happened to others.
Two or three days notice ought at least to have
been given. It was out of the usual line to close
a great question on two days evidence.
Lord LBsCELLES and Sir JOHN NEWPoRT mutu-
ally explaiiled.
Mr. J. P. GRANT had also received notice at
eleven o'clock, and could not attend that dim
Mr. ToomeseN was of opinion, that the Com-
mittee had reported, with very great propriety,
because they had reported soon. Them was no
hi 'the country at present, that the subject
should be agitated at all.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed,
that the conversation harrgone to a great length,
On a question respecting which there was no dif-
ference of opitriou, and the Report had been de-
bated hrtletail, though the House; both lit form
rota reality, knew nothing of it, When the Re-'
port was really before them, it would. be compe-
tent for any Member either to move an instruction
to the. Committee to push their inquiries farther,
or to send back the Report fur their consideration.
After some observations by Sir J. Newport,
Barham, Colonel Stanley, and Mr. Finlay,
the Report was received and read. The opinion
of the Committee was,—

*4. 'That no part of the agricultural distress had arisen front
the price of wool, and that it was not expedient to vnaLe 311 y
alteration in the law. On thatsuliject.",

On the question that the Report be laid upon
the table and ordered to be'printed,
A conversation -- arose between Mr. F. Lewis,
Sir M. W. Ridley, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Thorn-
ton, Lord Laseelles, Lord Milton, and 111 r:
-craft, in the course of which Mr. Brougham. ob-
served, that the Report did not deserve the ex.
pence of printing,. as it consisted merely of u
truism and a nem sequitur. • r •
The question was put and carried in the affir-
mative. „. -• , .
Mr, CALCRAM then presented a Petition from
the Mayor, Constables, and ,Conspany• of Mer-
chants of Wool staplers- of England, against any:
*alteration in the law. Ordered to lie on the
table.