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received, and nrdered to be read third time ' * . 1141511
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the Marty, Bailiff, and evaporation of the Borough of Leicelo.
ter and freest the Aldermen of Wu Borough of Grantham.—
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ewe fed a Petition from vericiee.
presented a Petition to the same effect,
from the Palish of Devilish, in Driionshire.—Laid on the tab' Art.ltitolluelotidivroN. the Marriage Act.—The Nekton
• The Bishop of CHESTER also presented five Petitions frame.
Corporations pf Edinburgh and Inv . ..
Burghs Aceoinits tn.—Ordered to be-printed.
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Woollen Manufacturers and Merchants resident9in London,
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EthaerlDnottsyHoMAFTForemigniduWitoriyl.p—reseLantidedona thepeu tuabonle:froln• ',the Bill.—Ordered, to-lienu the table. •
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presentedslered to Isiindie Petitionpriarnted. • :
Synod of Glasgow sold Ayr, apinat the Catholic Peere MIL—
Laid on the table, BuMrgresses. J.
from the).
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S preseeted eightlethions to -Mr it. FERGOSSON presented a Petition on the same sub-I
the same effect from Deaneries in his Diocese.-.-Laid on the able. 1t f`,,,,.°°' the Royal 'Burgh of Xtleilimeze..--Order
erne.--Ordered to lie on*
The Marquis ,of LANSDOWN presented a Pelham% •ft-ons "'`..". a?,•_. % - - t / .1.11,:.• I • '.
char„ Amigui?tus Busby, Architect,
complaialoir rhea kw ow • ale- Decret49. rum. brought op the Report of the Sok
bad tarectieed from his Majesty's Government the notice to Consiiittese on the of the Police of the Metropolis, which
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•which they weretmtitled.—Laid on the table. was ordered to ba laid on the table, and to be printed.
• The Noble Marquis then presented several Petitions from Mr. HOBHOINE presented a Petition from certain Benefit
thwarts and Oceupiersdf Landon the South side of Scarsdale Societies, complaining hf the Bill not; in the House for the re-
•prayieg for Agricultural Relief.—Laid on the table. ' gulation of the Stamp Duties, and suiting that a clause in that-
The Bankrupt Joint Commission Bill went through a Cum- Bill took from these Societies the exemption from Stamp Duties •
mittee, and was reported. which they had hitherto enjoyed.—The Petition was read, and
ordered to be printed.
NAVIGATIoN LAWS. Mr. HUMS
presented a Petition from the Corporation of
The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose to move the second reading Perch, '
of the Bill for repealing ancient Commercial Statutes. He said ;. against
()thde Stamp Duty payable on Indentures of Ap-
pre(n)nicehship. r red Co lie on the table.
that this measure, together with two other Bills which had
of tei motion of Lord STANLEY, accounts of the gnat:tide,
passed the Lower House, for regOlating colonial importations,
and
'untoPotashnitpor from the United States into the Colonies,
and encouraging trade with America, formed of themselves awere
he Lords
to be laid before the House.
complete revision of the Navigation Laws. They would re- A lilessareafnrOmt s.announced tb:ir Lordships' assent
move a great deal that was useless, simplify the whole system Courts- "
to thelmprovement Bill, and other Bills.
and remedy many evils. The first Pill repealed three hundred SALT TAX. .
Acts of Parliament, but not by one sweeping clause. Every
Act was nominated and specialised, so that if their Lordships Mr. 11. BRIGHT presented a Petition from certain Fish
Curers and Dealers in Fish at Bristol, praying the total repeal
wished to examine them, they would be saved much trouble.
of the Salt Duty.—Ordered to be printed.
Great good would result from this clearance, as in the present
Lord FIFE presented a similar Petition from the Fish Curers
state of the laws, the Acts were so numerous, that a set of
in the County of BanfE—Ordered to be printed.
people got their livelihood—honestly, hewoukl admit, but still in
Mr. IIItATHCOTE presented a Petition from the Mer-
a manner which formed an additional burthen for which all ne-
chants, Ship Owners, and Wharf:tigers of Gainsborougb, pray-
cessity would now be removed—by telling Merchants what they
log for the total repeal of the Salt Tax. He strongly supported
could, and what they could not do. The first and-second Ilik,
the prayer of the Petition, and hoped 'this unpopular measure
would repeal all those Acts with the exception of that which
would be wholly repealed, as that alone could remove an im-
related to jewels. In adopting this system it had not been
pression now very prevalent throughout the country, that the
thought proper to depart from the great principle of the Naviga- p
ortion of the Tax proposed to be retained was only kept up in
tion itself, that of giving it a preference in all cases, and con-
order to serve for a foundation to augment it at no distant pe-
sidering it as the great nursery for our seamen in time of war. But
riot to its late amount. —Ordered to lie on the table.
in the application of this principle regard must be had to circum-
err.W
stances. The first principle of our Navigation Laws was,ohat V. SMITH presented a Petition from the Fish-
no goods could be imported from Asia, Africa, and America, curers of the town of Bolton, in Cambridgeshire, pray-
save in British ships. The second, that all the European countries ing for a further remission of the Salt Tax.
might bring their own goods in their own ships. The first had m
i r. CURWEN pressed upon the consideration of
been infringed by the Intercourse Act of 1786, by which du
the Chancellor of the Exchequer the propriety of re-
United States of America were put on the same footing as F.uro-
pearl countries. This, however, did not affect the other parts of moving this burden from the fisheries, which was so
Asia, Africa, and America. Great changes had taken place since grievously felt, and for retaining which no adequate
that period, and it was clear that the American trade could never t eason, he thought, could be assigned.
again be treated on the narrow principle of colonial trade. The -
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
present measure would open a direct intercourse between this
country and all the independent States of South America, whit- that it was not his intention to persist in retaining the
ever might be their denominations and their relations. With re- duty of two shillings on the salt used in the fisheries.
spent to the rest of Asia Africa, and America, it left the law He • 1 only y proposed that it should remain subject
as it originally stood. chat 1
was to say, that no goods should be
to that duty for twoyears, at he
brought directly' from those countries, except in British ships.—
There was this new provision, however, that other vessels would most of the bounties would expire, and the whole sub-
be allowed to bring to Europe the produce of _Asia, Africa, ject would then have come under the consideration
and America, Provided it was not for home consumption, but of the House. S. ince, however, he found that the re-
for exportati6. The result would be to keep as close as it was .
of • .
tention this portion of the tax had created great
Practicable to the principles of the Navigation Laws, and the
great object, to make this country, as much as possible, an entre- alarm in those interested, he had resolved upon not
pot foe all the merchandize of the world. There was no other persisting in his original intention—(Hear).
limit to the exportation of her manufactures than the means of General GASCOYNEcomplainedof
payment possessed by foreigners. It was that, it was the want I, ^
avin
been
entefed into on a subject of so much ge-
of returns which caused the distress of which our manufacturers "
had complained, and which operated as a check on the extension neral interest at that period of the evening, and when
of our trade. This consideration had induced his Majesty's so little expected. The consequence in the present
Government to give up the narrow notion, that by limiting instance, had been to him, that he had not been able
the trade of another country we benefitted our own. The con- .
to hear all that had fallen from the Right Hon. Gen-
trary was the fact. Any increase of wealth which we gave to
another country, was given to ourselves. We afforded it the tlernan (the Chanbellor of the Exchequer).
means of paying for our manufactured goods, and by augment- Mr. BRIGHT hoped that if the Chancellor of the
ing its prosperity we increased our own. It was on these grounds Exchequer had any scheme for the reduction of this
that he trusted their Lordships would agree to the second read-
most oppressive tax, he would carry it into effect di-
ing of these Bills.
The Earl of HARE WOOD acquiesced in what the Noble realy. Whatever he did with respect to it, it was
Earl had stated, that the more we favoured the trade of other quite necessary that he should remodel the Excise
countries the more we benefitted our own. This would, how- Laws for the collection of the tax. He could ret"
ever, be still more likely, if all countries were placed on the • tnem for no other reasons than patronage, or that he
same footing as to the price of manufactures. Ile therefore
would not abandon one or two hundx.ed thousand
trusted that in one instance at least, if this free trade were to go
on, his Majesty's Ministers would not object to remove the duty pounds ; and strong as his Majesty's Government
on the importation of foreign wool, which compelled our manu- was, if it went forth to the country that it 's as not
facturers to raise their price. their intention to repeal these laws, they would re-
The Ancient Commercial Statutes Repeal Bill, the Imports-
ceive a shock front public opinion.—The Petition was
tion of Goods Bill, and the Navigation Act Amendment Bill,
were then read a second time, and 'ordered to be committed then read, and ordered to be printed.
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to-morrow. %MONEY WAGES.
AMERICAN TRADE. Mr. LITTLETON presented a Petition from the
Earl BATHURST, in moving the second reading of the
C d Coal an Iron M asters, and others of the town of
West India Trade ' Bill, briefly explained the nature of the
measure, which was to allow the trade now carried on indirectly Dudley, in Staffordshire, and its neighbour hohd,
with the United States, to be carried on directly ; laying at the praying the attention .of the house to the laws re-
same time such a duty on the produce of the United States as straining the payment of Wages in any other corn-
would not amount to a prohibition, but would protect that of
modify than money. The Hon. DI ember • on. ern er impressed
our own Colonies. It would place all the Independent States Y.
upon the House the necessity of taking this subject
of South America on one and the same footing, to import into
the West Indies the produce of those respective countries. The into their consideration. The master-manufacturers
second Bill would allow sugar and other articles of colonial pro- had resolved in many cases that the workmen should
duce to be exported from the West Indies direct to European la out
v their wages at certain shops which belonged
ports. This was not a new enactment, an Act to a similar effect •
themselves, and in order to evade the law, they
having been passed in the reign of George the Second, but the to
'objections which had applied to that measure had been removed discharged ail. those who did not do so. The conse-
from the present.- quence of this was, as the pe.itioners complained,
The Marquis of BUTE did not rise to oppose the motion,
that tiro, had bad provisions at exorbitant prices.
but to call their Lordships' attention to the Slave Trade, which
Mr. said
r. ROBINSONrthe House would perceive,
he thought the present measures were calculated to increase.—
When a Bill was brought in to encourage the manufacture of from the Petition, that the Bill which had been passed
sugar, he thought that it should have been accompanied by one of late years to restrain master-mantitacturers and
to register slaves in the West Indies. HA turas, that it had others
from paying their workmen's wages in any
been recommended that regulations of that kind !should be left
thing but money, was quite inefficacious. It was clear
to the Colonies themselves. This hid been done, and some
Islands had passed Registry Bills, of the efficiency of which, that ways and means could easily be found to evade
however, strong doubts were -entertained. He •wes ready to the law on that subject. He ••.onlesed this had al-
contend that the right of passing such Bills belonged to Parlia- ways
Veen his opinion•andthat -
, now it appeared to
mem, and he trusted that his Majesty's Ministers would give be sa beyond doubt, he should feel it his duty here-
some pledge on the subject. • .
The Colonial Trade and the West Indian and American after to draw the attention of the House to the ques-
Trade Bills were then read a second time,- and ordered •to be tion of the propriety of continuing the law.
committed to-morrow.--Adjourned. . . Mr. DAVIES GILBERT concurred in all that
HOUSE OF COMMONS. • ' had fallen fro.n the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr, ho-
Mr. DAVENPORT presented Petitions from the inhabi. • • •
oinson) with respect to these laws. These laws re-
tains of Lancaster, and the Mayor apd corporation of Congk- • '
provisions
ton, against the Warehouilng Bilk—Ordered to be'printed. Vented many masters.from importing from
Mr. CU IT presented a Petition front Newark, caning the at- , cheaper districts for the benefit of their men, whilst
tendon of the House to the evils •resulting. frona.thre-prevaksee . they „did not prevent those from doing so uhOse in-
of Mock Auctions.--r Ordered to be printed. , •;.
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1 tentions were had. ' . • -
M.•
r. it. SHAW presented a Petition from the ehatier of , • . •
Mr. RICARDU thought it possible to renew so
Commerce, Dublin, praying that the H
obnoxious an !louse will revise the late I =
regulations adopted relative to the Salt Duties,*crunideted by else Act, Air. Owen prided himself ,upon
Petitioners to he prejudicial to the interests of Ireland. • having introduced the provision-system at Lanark.
Mx. CURWEN thought the prayer of the Prtitioo was He bad opened. a. -shop. there, in which he Aoki the
Wotan' gf attfatl9ll.—Akderad to be printed. knien cheapgf than
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could be obtainectelsewheVe; and he was fully per-
suaded that the practice was a beneficial one.
Lord STANLEY said, that however much he
agreed in the propriety of removing the inefficacious
restrictions on this subject, he hoped that some met•
sure would be introduced to prevent the payment of
weges in commodities.
Mr. MONCK observed, that there was a great
distinction between paying in commodities and pay-
ing in provisions. The latter was most useful and
beneficial, and the former very much the reverse.
After a few words from Mr. HUMZ, the Petition
was brought up, read, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. LITTLETON also presented a Petition from
certain Silk Manufacturers in the neighbourhood of
Dudleyagainst the Warehousing Bill.—Ordered to
be printed.

TUB DISTRESSED
Mr. V. FITZGERALD rose for the purpose of,
putting a question to.the Right Hon. Secretary for
Ireland, on the subject of the afflicting accounts which
continued hourly to be received from that country,
and which must also have reached his Majesty's Go-
vernment. Under these circumstances it was that he
desired to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman
below what further measures of relief were in con-
templation a his Majesty's Government towards Ire-
land, and what progress had. been made in the appli-
cation of those already adopted ? He need not tell
the House that the awful situation of that country
Would admit of no longer delay—(Hear, hear).—The
charity of England, however active its liberality,
however extensive, was yet not xplficient; and the
sums voted by Parliament were-net enough to sup- I
port present distress, and still less to meet that which
was approaching for the next seven or eight weeks.
Those who thought that much.diti inn remain to be
done, greatly deceived themselves—(Hear, hear)—at
all events. the House must see that if the employment
of the poor in public works were intended to alleviate
present distress, no time should be lost, knowing how
deep-felt that distress was—.(Hear,hear).—He begged,
therefore, that the Right Hon. Gentleman would
answer the questions that he had put to him, and he
ventured to assure him that Ireland awaited his answer
with the deepest anxiety.
Mr. GO U LBU RN offered his thanks to his Right
lion. Friend for the opportunity he had afforded him'
of explaining the conduct of ate 'lrish Government,
en this interesting subject. In answer to the question
as to the measures of relief already put in practice,
he had to inform his Right Hon. Friend that, from
the moment it had appeared to the Lord Lieutenant
advisable to interfere, a Committee had been ap-
pointed in Dublin for the purpose of communicating
with the Committee existing in the part of the coun-
try suffering under the pressure of distress; and funds,
which, since the year 1807, bad been at the disposal
of the Lord Lieutenant, to be applied in the event of
a calamity like the present afflicting the country,were
placed in the hands of that Committee, and by them
to be applied to those districts which seemed to them
most in want of assistance. The Committee applied
itself sedulously and anxiously to the task, and put
themselves in immediate communication with all the
other Committees throughout the distressed districts,l
through whose means they had been enabled to con-
tribute, as far as the limits of their funds would per-
mit, relief in particular cases. It would also be in
the recollection of the House that a measure had been
under its consideration, having two distinct branches
of operation. The one was to enable the Govern-
meat of Ireland to institute the commencement of
public works, and the other for placing absolutely at
its disposal a sum of £50,000. Upon these powers
being granted to the Government of Ireland, persons
were dispatched into the distressed districts, with full
powers to put into execution any species of work that
might appear to be most applicable to the local dis-
tress. In some districts works had already been com-
menced, and he had no doubt of the steps that had
been taken in this respect answering the expectations
formed of them. He had said before that he did not
think the sum placed at the disposal of the Lord
Lieutenant adequate to meet the exigencies of the
CAW ; but it was the object of the Government of
dist country to obtain the commencement of works,
aad afterwards to apply for such sums as the liberality
of Parliament should be disposed to grant for their
continuance and completion. Ile felt much satisfac-
tion in being able to state, that the extreme distress
which had afflicted different parts of Ireland,was now
limited to not a very large portion of the country.
hut undoubtedly there was enough left to call upon
Parliament and the Government of Ireland to provide
further measures of relief; and whenever the funds
at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant should be ex-
hausted, it would be his duty to come to Parliament
for such further sums as might appear necessary.
Mr. JOHN SMITH contessed he was surprised,
upon healing that there was a Committee sitting in
Dublin to afford relief, and coupling with that fact,
that the accounts received that day were more cala-
mitous than any that had yet been received. He
would state to the House some accounts of the ex-
tent of the distress in Ireland, derived from sources
and in a manner that could admit of no doubt as to
their. accuracy. Such was the situation, for instance,
of the County of Clare, that there ,were not less than
93,639 individuals subsisting on charity—(Hear,
hcar).—ln Cork, from an estimate made by a Com-
mittee of Clergymen and Magistrates, there appeared
to be 132,000 who had no means of their own of sub-
sistence, and must perish from hunger without cha-
ritable relief—( Hear, hear).—ln addition to this, the
account from Clare that day stated that several indi-
viduals had perished of hunger. Now what the Irish
Government was doing he knew not, but the first
duty of any Government worth a farthing was to re-
medy such a state of things. He was sure that the
Irish Government had not enough money at its com-
mand for this purpose ; the Committee was not suf-
ficient for the exigency of the case, and he implored
the Right Hen. Gentleman-to take more active steps
than bad yet been taken for the relief of this over-
whelming distress—(Hear, hear).
Mr. SPRING RICE said, that in Limerick, out
of 67,000 there were 50,000 subsisting on charity.—
He took that opportunity of stating his opinion, that
however great the funds, and however zealous the
Committee, yet if they were treble what they were
it would be impossible for them to do more than alle-
viate in the slightest possible degree the sufferings of
tend Irish. They must rely upon Govern.
check the misery that was rapidly spread-.

ing. He that • whores" wn.tieir ii
they wallet it speedily; for those Who were in
*aat'of it 'Would Othervise perish. • •
.Sir E. OTRIEN: said, it was their duty seriously
to review the situation of the resources applied to this
purpose, which weft diminishinglbst. :Whatever was
to be done he trusted would be done speedily.
-Mr. V. FITZGERALD said he bad meant to
throw out no rdproach, but be felt it right to state
that the case was one of such extensive distress and
such dire necessity, that the means at the command
of the Committee were utterly. inadequate to meet the
evil. He. WOW ahstain from reciting facts, though
if disposed to do so, he could add many to. those
which had been, mentioned by his. Hon. Friend: It
was, however, propertto bear in mind that the ravages
of fever were now added to those of famine in that
unhappy country. Not only were the funds placed
at the disposal of the Committee incapable of stop-
ping the calamity, but it continued to increase from
day to day ; and he therefore thought that the most
manly course that could be taken would be at once
to submit the case to the House, and appeal to the
liberality of Parliament.
Sir J. NEWPORT was of optnion that unless
means were found to employ the population of Ire-
land, and that extensively, the foundation of an ul-
terior evil would be laid, more formidable even than
that with which we had at present ..to • contend, an
evil which would not only exist through this or
through the next year, but which would strike at the
root of all industry for a long period to come. Large
as the means, and great as. the benevolence of this
country unquestionably were, those means acrd that
'benevolence were incapable of affording efficient re-
lief, unless the means of existence were drastn from
the immediate neighbourhood of the sufferers. The
aid that might be afforded ought to be given in such
A way that it should take the shape of reward for
labour, rather than that of a boon to mendicity.
Mr. Secretary PEEL appealed to the House if
enough had not been said on the subject, to prove
that further discussion was at this time unnecessary ?
He perfectly agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet,
that this'was not a mere pecuniary question. The
importance of the subject lifted it above the ordinary
rules of financial calculation. The question was not
whether a sum of money should be advanced to Ire-
land? but, besides considering.of that, other duties
of no mean importance devolved upon the Govern-
ment. At present, he could asisure the House that
the attention of the Irish Government was almost ex-
clutively devoted to this one subject. They were en-
deavouring to give relief, in every possible way, not
with strict regard to the principles of political eco-
nomy, for unhappily the case was onethat compelled
them to set all ordinary rules at defiance. The Irish
Government, then, without any view to a mere saving
of public money, were labouring to do as much good
as they could, at the same time striving to guard
against those evils which were but too likely to be
concomitant with the efforts thus made. In order to
accomplish all that could be effected for the relief of
the millions who now called for aid, engineers were
engaged to see what works could be commenced,
that would afford occupation to the people. Three
engineers were now employed in the South West of
Ireland for this purpose. Their report was immedi-
ately expected, and six thousand pounds had already
been thus AN ropriated, not for any public under-
taking, but in order to effect improvements of a local
and private nature. They were thus looking out for
ways of employing the sufferers, not forgetting, at
the same time, that many hundreds were enduring
great privation who were incapable of labour. On a
subject of such delicacy and importance, he hoped
the House would come to no resolution at present,
but be satisfied the attention of the Government was
fully directed to it ; he trusted they would feel, that
Ito extend the limits of this conversation might be in-
"urious rather than beneficial.

Mr. ABLACROMBY had always felt, that in at-
tempting to afford relief, great care and foresight
were necessary to guard against future evil. He was
of opinion that this debate ought not to be further
extended, but could nut help rising to express the
satisfaction he had felt at hearing what had fallen
from the Right Honourable Gentleman.—Here the
conversation terminated.

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