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the feliele_hs week.
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MRNage elan MC LOOMS.
A Kemp how the Lords announced the couturrebee of the
Lordships In several Private Hills, and *shed have for H. Ha,
cock, Meg. a Member or this House, to attend and give ',oleic*
before a Canaanite of Privileges it the House et Lira oci ties
Roscommon Peerage.
The SPEAKER replied, that the Howe would retire an venue!
by Messengers of Its own.
Stave rasa:

Hr. CANNING laid upon t►e tank copies of earrevemais,4
relative to the 21w/evade in I 446 an 4 1427.

WOOL TUADIL

Mr. PORTMAN gave notice, that on the nth of Ray he ghost
present a Petition from the Landowners of Dorsetshire, and wooht
Ellen call the atomise of the House to the subject of the wool trade

ISA 110/0 11141CTION.

Mr. MONCIE restated a Pethinn tom W. H. Hall, Beif
Please of the Borough d Reading, complaining that many ms
had voted at the lam Rieetion who were not qualified; and praying
the Home to adopt sons norms d preventing a recurrence duck
wakes at fame Nisaksa.
The 1111111111 Han. M. 11.20. reStOttd Petition from the Inhabit:
uses ex needing and its Vicinity, for the abolition of eke practice of
blaming Widows in India.—Ordeeed to be open the taw, and to
be printed.
lord MILTON promoted a Pidde.a frogll fie fens of Miro;
Is Yorialdre, praying for someone's., mode than the law farina d
of recovering small debts.
Mt. BANKER named that there be laid before the Houle, a
Copy ed the Lease granted to his late Royal Highness the Duke of
Yost, of the site of Godolphin Hesse.
SA ST nom SYBIL

Petitioca were presented in ramie id a more free trade with In.
die, by Lord StA/ILIT, from the hlambeater Chamber of Coot.
mem; by the name Noble Lord from Blackburn ; by Sir
Walarramer from Wolverhampton; by Lord MILTON from lAAa
and from Halifax; by Mr. DOSIBALS, from Birmingham; and by
Mr. Bram from the Shipowners and Merchants of Moon.
spet.Hell.
Mr. W. WHITMORE rose lee the purpose of bring.
ing forward the important motion of which he had
given notice ; it was impossible to see the distress of the
country, the want of demand for our manufactures, the
falling off in the Revenue. which amounted in the last
year to between four and five millions, and the diminu-
tion of our commerce, which if estimca I by the amount
of exports, was also between four and five millions, it
was impossible to see without great alarm, the progress
of national distress which went on continually intim-
ing, which bad engaged the particular attention of a
Committee of that House, now sitting upon the subject
of Emigration, and which, according to their report,
extended not only to the Weavers, but to every other
portion of the industrious class. In these circumstan•
ces they were bound to seek the means of relieving the
industrious part of the community, who had acquired
even a new claim to their attention and their
sympathy from the patience with which they had
sustained their sufferings. He did not, however,
bring forward his promised motion under the
fluence of temporary motives. It was founded upon
his mature and unchangeable opinions, and if he
could offer, as he believed he could, sound and unaa•
swerable reasons in favour of his opinions, he hoped his
motion would be listened to by the House. He did not
rest his motion upon the depression which now pre.
wailed, and which he hoped and believed was only of a
temporary nature, but whoever reflected upon the ge.
neral state of the country, upon the present magnitude
of its debt, and upon the wars in which it would here.
after in all probability be compelled to engage, mist
feel with him the necessity of exercising by every po •
Bible means the natural resources, must feel anxious to
lighten the springs of industry, to afford every envoi-
ragement to trade, and thus to augment the wealth,
and by augmenting the wealth, to increase the power
of the country. Let them look back to that portion of
the Empire, the interests of which was the perpetual
subject of discussion in that House, and if they did not
then feel the necessity of doing all that was possible
to encourage trade, they took indeed a very narrow
and imperfect view sf the subject. To moderate religious
differences would do much, but it would not do all fir
that portion of the Empire. It was highly necessary
to encourage the people of Ireland in that course of ma-
aufacturing industry upon which he believed they had
entered. This was above all things necewkey, if they
wished to insure their peace, happiness, and prosperitY.
In considering how these objects might best be accom-
plished, it was impossible not to look at the policy, the
dangerous and mischievous policy of the Corn Leese
The most pernicious restrictions had fettered that branch
of trade ever since 1815, and were to a great degree
continued by the Bill lately paned through that House,
and now probably about to receive the sanction of the
other House of Parliament. Whatever benefits might
be supposed in other respects to flow from this system,
it must be admitted to have the effect of vatting us of
from a great portion of the trade we might otherwise
enjoy with Europe and Monica. In adopting this system
we had acted in violation of all sound principles, in op
position to the plainest dictates of justice and common
sense. Its necessary effect was to reduce the mow
lactates of this country, 'and encourage those of Ice
reign nations, It lost us the markets of the northers
parts of Europe, of Germany, of Belgium, and of the
United States of America. But this Bill had passed this
House and would probably become a law, it becalm
then necessary to inquire whether means did not still
exist in the power of the country to counteract, at least
in some degree, the evils we had thus brought upon
ourseleee—whether in 'a part of our own empire (he
meant India) we might not find the means of
nation and redress for the injuries thus indicted? The
House need not be told that previous to the year 1814
an entire monopoly of this trade was possessed by the
East India Company ; nor that by the renewal of the
Charter, in that year, the monopoly of the CoolpaeY
was invaded, except so far as regarded the trade with
China. At that time great difference of opinion re'
Tailed; and it was held by many that no considerable
extension of the trade was possible. They urged the
poverty of the people, their habits and prejadices---
even their religious opinions were dwelt on, as likely
to counteract the vivifying influence of commercial
freedom. It was never dreamt that the cotton trade could
be materially advanced, or that a great demand could
grow up for the other staple manufactures of this couto
try. It was thought that perhaps there might be a smell
additional export of woollen goods,aod of a new article.
of luxury; but that we should largely import raw
produce of India growth, and send it back to India in
a.mattufactuted state, was what nobody conceived. It
was indeed an extraordinary achievement of manefac-
curing and commercial energy and skill that England.
where tie wages of labour is seven tinsel as dear as Of