The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-12 00:00:00

TRADE TO INDIA.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition
from the Corporation of Cutlers at Hammerfield,
near Sheffield, praying that the trade to the East
Indies might be thrown open.
COALS.

The Earl of MALNIESBURY presented a peti-
tion from the inhabitants of Redruth, in Cornwall,
praying for the repeal of the duty cn sea-borne Coals.

SHIPPING.

Lord GODERICH, in rising to move for eertal

returns relative to the shipping of this country,
stated that his object in moving for them was to
vindicate the reciprocity treaties. It had been stated
that those treaties were negociated, and alterations
subsequently made in our navigatiou laws in the spi-
rit of change, and that they had been productive of
evil. He denied that those alterations had been
made in any such spirit. To act on principles of
reciprocity had been made necessary by the growth
of the United States of America, and the principle
on which our commercial treaties had been subse•
fluently formed had been recognised in our Commer-
cial Treaty with that country, concluded by Lord
Grenville and Mr. Pitt, in 1794. The same principle
was acknowledged in our Treaty concluded with the
King of Portugal, after the removal of the Royal
Family of Portugal to the Brazils. The Returns
that he should move for would stew that the altera-
tions made in our laws had not been productive of
evil. The first Return he should move for was for
an account of the number of vessels, and the amount
of their tonnage, built and registered in the several
ports of the British empire, from 1814 to 1824 inclu
sive. If he were not misinformed, this Return would
shew that in the four years since 1825 the number of
ships built had increased beyond the number built be-
tween 1821 and 1824, 2,260, and to the amount of
341,000 tons. The nextßet urn he would move for was
for an account of the number of vessels and the amount
of their tonnage, with the number of men and boys
usually employed to navigate them, belonging to the
different ports of the empire, from 1814 to 1828
inclusive, stating if these numbers had been in-
fluenced by ally Act of Parliament for regulating the
registry of shipping passed in that time. The reason
for this latter part of his motion was that an Act had
. been passed in 1826 which had regulated the
registry of vessels in a manner much more strict
than before ; and it would shew that a great number
of vessels, principally returned as registered, had
been struck off since 1826. He believed that the
return would shew that more British shipping were
employed in 1828 than in 1827, and than in any
former year. The third Return he should move for
would be for an account of the number of ships en-
tered inwards and outwards in all the ports of the
British empire, from all parts of the world, from
1814 to 1828, distinguishing the Foreign from
British ships. This Return would shew, he was
well aware, a great increase in the number
of British ships within the last few years, in par-
ticular during the last year, the number of English
vessels employed then being greater than during any
former year. The same Return would show that the
number of British seamen had increased from 114,000
in 1814 to 118,000 in 1828. The number of
foreign vessels, it would be found, had not increased
in the same propoftion. To make this matter quite
clear, he would add a Return of the same descrip-
tion, exclusive of all the trade between Great Britain
and Ireland. The last Return he should move for ,
was one declaring the Number of Ships entering and
clearing at British ports from the year 1814 to 1828,
distinguishing the British from the Foreign ships,
and describing the trade in which they were em-
ployed—whether between this country and foreign
parts, or between Great Britain and Ireland. These
Returns would prove, to the satisfaction of every
impartial person, that the changes which had been
made in our system of trade had been founded in
good reason, and dictated by necessity—that they
were the only means by which we could hope to
preserve our trade, and that they had net been made
from a mere love of change, but from a sense of
their necessity and propriety.
The Earl of HARROWBY was glad that all
these Returns were to commence with the year
1814, because that would afford the fairest means of
estimating the effects of the late changes.
The Duke of WELLINGTON had no objection
to the production of the documents moved for by
the Noble Viscount, and indeed he was sensible of
the obligations which the House lay under to the
Noble Viscount for having made the motion, on ac-
count of the result which would appear from the
papers when produced. It was net a matter of
astonishment that the country was looking with
anxious expectation to the result of the intercourse
recently established between this and other nations,
and he had no doubt that by the production of
these ,papers they would find that result was not only
not injurious, but was beneficial.—The Returns were
then ordered.

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STANDING ORDERS.
Lord BERESFORD give notice, that on Mon-