The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-16 00:00:00

SILK TRADE.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition
from the Silk Manufacturers of London and its vi-
cinity, complaining of the Bill that had been read a
second time before their Lordships, and stating that,
if it was suffered to pass into a law, it would be
their utter ruin. It was most respectfully signed,
and certainly deserved the serious consideration of
their Lordships.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Sir Alexander Grant, Sir NVm. Rowley, Mr.
Davenport, Mr. Egerton, Mr. George Phillips,
and Mr. Green, brought up the Navy Treasury
Bill, together with several Private Bills.
Mr. Johnson brought up the 17th Report of the
Commissioners of Accounts in Ireland from the
Chief Secretary.
Mr. O'Neill brought up an account of Tolls and
Rates from the Commissioners of the Royal Canal,
Ireland.

Mr. Pearsall, from the Coal Market, presented
returns of the selling price of coal from 1807 to the
present time.

Lord DELAWARR presented 'a petition from
the county of Sussex, against the importation of
Foreign Wool.
MILLERS AND MEALMENS' PETITION.

The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a peti-
tion from the general body of millers and meal-
men, praying their Lordships to take into considera-
tion the state of their trade. They asserted that the
importation of foreign flour had been carried on
to that very great extent that their mills had
become- a burden to them instead of a source
of profit, and that in consequence of the export of
machinery of late years to the continent, they had
no hope of being able to compete with the foreign
producer in the market. They stated that the raw
produce should be alone allowed to be imported,
and lb= the restriction would equally serve the
trade and the consumers, the public; for they added,
that in these large importations of foreign flour we
lose the offal, which might be employed in feeding
pigs and poultry, and devoted even to purposes, if
he might use the expression, of a nobler nature. He

(the Earl of Malmesbitry) would not go the length
with the petitioners of placing a prohibition upon
the importation of an article of the first necessity,
but he thought their petition well worthy of their
Lordships' attention.
Lord KING presented a petition from the Sur-
rey Anti-Slavery Society, praying the House not to
emancipate their dark-coloured fellow-subjects.—
The Noble Lord also presented several petitions
against the Corn Laws, from the neighbourhood of
Gloucestershire, stating the distress under which
they laboured, and praying for relief.
Lord FARNHAM begged to call the attention
of the House to a subject of vast importance to Ire-
land. The Grand Jury laws were extremely
oppressive and inequitably distributed. An ord.
dance survey of the counties of Ireland wat
now in progress, and as far as this survey had
gone, the Noble Lord believed it had been found to
be extremely accurately performed. He understood
that as soon as the survey was made, the valuation
was to be applied by the Lord Lieutenant in the
place of the taxation that had been so much
complained of, and he wished the Noble Duke at the
bead of the Government to say in what state this
subject now s:ood and was to be regarded.
The Duke of WELLINGTON was glad to
have the testimony of the Noble Lord who
had just spoken, as to the accuracy with
which the work of survey had been performed by
the Ordnance Officers. It was a work of greater
magnitude, and required more time to accom-
plish, than was at first anticipated. Ile was
not aware that any one county had yet been
completely surveyed. A Bill %vas in progress in
the other House for settling the boundaries, and as
soon as that passed no time would be lost in render-
ing every facility to forward the object in view.
The House then adjourned.