The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-30 00:00:00

CEMENT STONE.

Mr. HAWES drew the attention of the Vice-Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade to the great increase of the
duty on English cement stone under the new tariff,
amounting to 200 per cent. ad valorem. This had caused
great apprehension in the trade at the port of Harwich,
and he wished to know if the Government had received
any representations on the subject from the vicinity.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that the petition to which
the Right Hon. Gentleman had referred had been
printed three months ago ; but no observation respect-
ing it had reached the Government until that day. It
appeared that there was some reason to question the ac-
curacy of the information supplied to the Government
on the matter by certain parties ; and the subject would
now receive their further attention.
GRANT TO THE COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH.
Colonel VERNER wished to ask the Noble Lord, the
Secretary for Ireland, whether it had been intimated to
the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland, as had been
stated in their organ, the Dublin Evening Post, that it
was the intention of the Government to have granted
an increased allowance to the Roman Catholic College
of ➢iaynaoth this year, had it not been for the financial
embarassments of the country."
Lord ELIOT said that he bad no objection to re-
peat that evening, the answer be had given to
a similar question, in the early part of the session.
If the Honourable Member had referred to the
Irish Estimates, then on the table of the House
he would have seen that it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to propose the same grant which had been
made in former years ; and, consequently, no alteration
such as that to which the Hon. Gentleman had referred,
had been made by the Government.
Sir R. PEEL said that as a great number of statements
appeared in the Irish newspapers of dissensions amongst
the Irish Government, he would take that opportunity of
begging Hon. Members not to draw conclusions too
hastily from them.—(Hear, hear.)
SILVER STANDARD OF VALUE.

Mr. WALLACE said that perhaps it would not
be inconvenient if he now put the question
which stood No. 17 on the motion list. The
question he wished to ask was whether the
great inconvenience and commercial distress which
has been attributed more or less to the drain of
gold out of this country of late years, and the consequent
restriction in the issue of paper-money by the Bank of
England, and by other banking establishments, coupled
With the general stagnation of trade and want
of employment among the working classes, to-
gether with the great trouble and positive loss
recently inflicted on all ranks, by crying down the
gold coin, which may have become light from the in-
evitable wear and tear to which a metaltic currency is
ever liable, will induce her Majesty's advisers, with a
view to mitigate these evils and to stimulate trade by a
prevention of their recurrence to recommend to her Ma-
jesty and toParliament the substitutionof a silver standard
of value in aid of or in lieu of the present golden standard.
Sir R. PEEL said that he could not help noticing that
a practice was of late growing up of printing a summary
of a speech, when notices of questions were given.—
(Laughter.) The question of the Hon. Member con-
tained the summary of the argument in favour of the
silver standard of value. He would not answer the
argument then, but he would state it was not his inten-
tion to propose any alteration in the standard of value
in this country.
Mr. WALLACE approved of the observation of the
Right Hon. Baronet with regard to notices of motions.