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Ing of the whole county. li. should be anziOusio know from his
Majesty's Ministers, whether they intended to bring forward any
rneaaure for the relief of Mash Wool growers, who now laboured
under the pressure.of two years' grovrtleof Wool without a mar-
ket.—No answer was returned, and the Petition was laid upon
the table.

LOrriCte DUN/MANVILLE pre.Wted a Petition front a
place in Cornwall, for the Repeal o the Dilly on Coal and Cuba
carried Cameron.
The Cdrporatiou Feeds' ail was read a second time.
offes ramie* 'mem&
Tim Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from R.
Gibbon Wakefield, praying their Lordships to put off the second
reading of the Bill to annul his marriage with Miss Emma Tomer,
mil to issue an order to cause him to be brought to their Lordship'
Bar, or before any Committee which their Lordships might ap.
polnr,, and at such time as they might think fit, in order that he
might be heard against the Bill.
The Petition having been laid on the table;
The Bari of SHAFTESBURY moved that the eider for the
second reading of the Bill be discharged, and be-fixed for Wednes-
day morning at ten o'clock.—Agreed.
The Noma EMIL then moved that an order be issued to the
Keeper of his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, to bring E. G. Wakefield
tette Bar of that House, at ten o'clock oa Wednesday morning, in
order to be heard against the Bill to annul his marriage with Miss
Emma Turpor.—Agreed to.

. 11111TPLY or Willa.

Lion of the Honia lo it for a few moments. The peti-,
queers whom he repfesented upon this occasion were
the short and coarse wool-growers, whose interest chil
feted from that of thelong wool-growers. The former,
at present, cadd find no market for their produce.
The. crop of two or three years was still on hand, and
if to this Should be added tht crop of another year, the
consequences 'Would be.loost injurious to them. Vari-
ous causes might be assigned for the glut at present in
the martket. The first was the great importation which
took place in 1825, being not less than +3,847,0001b5.
Another cause which he treliEved might be assigned was
a falling off in the market for the woolleit manufac-
tures of The country. He *could not positively. state
whether such was the caw; and, if wrong, the Right
Honourable Gentleman tHr.linskisaon) would. set him
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time to procure from Spain: The present.price,
' was certainly low for long yield; bet it was doable
the price for which the Article could be had at the
commencement of the last war. All bis enquiries con-
firmed him in the idea that by making any addition
to the price of die raw material, they would deprive
themselves of whatever Market still remained fat their
woollen manuilactures. In confirmation et...this he.
would read a passage from a letter which wale lately
received from the British 2,onstil at IVrio.ol. tiers
the Right Honourable Gentleman. reel a passage froth
the letter, stating, among other things, that fine British
woollens and kerseymeres.were declines& is themarket,
the French being able to sell at a loviet price; but the
English coarse cloths had the adiannige over
_French,

unit time Made a dilferenee of 2400,0001.
in the county sof Dorset alone. With such a dimlnu•
eon of profit, how was it to be expected that the far.
Merle!' that county ccitdd pay rent and taxes? For the
payment _of rent they depended principally on the
wool, and they prayed therefore that a high duty
might be imposed on wool of foreign growth. Ire
knew that the subject was one of very great difficulty.
Even if a dutyof sixpence Were imposed, it would not
be sufficient protection. and he did not well know whet
remedy to suggest. A duel, on Moot could not be con-
sidered one upon necessaries, and therefore was not iitS
objectionable as others. If ithportatian were to be pro-
hibited altogether for a limited time, 'instil the stock in
hand was disposed of, it would be attended with great
benefit to the Petitioners. The only effectual relief,
however, would be the removal of part of those burthens
with which the agriculturist hire was loaded. His
Right Hon. Friend (the Secretary for the Home De-
partment) must know froM experience, and from hit
knowledge of the county in which he resided, how Very
hard the county rates alone pressed Upon the farmers,,
He-was the afore desirous to press this Petition on the
attention of the Administration, • because an idea had
gone abroad furlong the agriculturists that they Were to
expect nothing from the present Government, who were
represented to theta as their determined enemies. His
opinion was Very different. He thought they were more
likely to defend and protect the agricultural interest
than the late GrWernment, because those who seceded
were constantly and invariably opposed to all reduction
of expenditure. They were fattening on the land, and,
resisted every thing in the shape of retzeftchment. The
present Ministers wen swats drat dellytrould not deist a
moment without the *ippon of that slide of the House
which had for years been pressing the necessity of eco-
nomy, of reducing the overgrown establishments of the
country, and abolishing useless offices. They would,
therefore, see the necessity of making some compensa-
tion to the agriculturist for the low prices of corn and
wool, by diminishing the burthens he was at present
obliged to bear.
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that after theludicious maul
nee in which the Hon. Gentleman had introduced this
important subject, and the clear view he had taken of
its general bearings, it would not be necessary for him
"to detain the House at any great length. He stated
'fairly and very truly that the present depression of the
wool trade was to be traced to thq depression of that
branch of manufacture which supplied the demand Tor
the raw article. This being obviously the nowt of the
depression, it was rather a strange, he might say an
Irish remedy, to ptopose an increase of duty on the raw
materials-(hear !)-a-es if that could give encouragement
to the manufacture; and yet such was the remedy cur
Bested by the petitioners. la 1825 there was a great
importation of wool. This was soon followed by a stag-
nation ;' and from these causes arose very naturally the
present depression of the wool trade. It would only
'tend to aggravate the distress if they were now injudi-
ciously to adopt a measure which must have the effect
of placing at a greater distance the chance of returning
to the usiial source of demand, which could be afforded
only by extending the demand for their woollen =ow.
factures. In 1825 speculation was carried to a most
unprecedented extent, not in wool alone, but in every
branch of commerce% it was not, therefore, to be Won-
dered at, if in that year the importation of wool was
carried to a great extent, so great, indeed, as necessarily
occasioned a depression in the year following. It was
not, however, on wool alone that a depression took place.
He had the curiosity to look that morning at a list of
various articles, and found that there was a propor-
tionate depression in theta, between 1826 and 1826..—.,
Cotton fell from Is. 61d. to 7d.; sugar fleas 455. pee
cwt. to 305.; silk from 17s. to 95.; and the fall in
tobacco was fiid per lb. In addition to the general
cause which affected wool equally with other articles,
there were others which operated on wool. The change
could not be attributed to the ditty, because from 1790 to
1803 there was ao duty,and yet the grower here was fully
able to meet foreign competition. From 1803 to 1819 the
duty was less than Id. and a duty of 6J.was subsequently
Imposed. la 1819 the importation was 17,000,0001bs ;
and after the duty was imposed, it remained nearly the
same ; but the duty falling on the manufactured arti-
cle, they were outsold in the market. In 1824 the
duty was taken off, but the price of English wool, so
protected, between 1819 and 1824, was not a high
price. It rose in 1825, when every other article rose.
At present it was depressed as much as in 1619; but
still the present price was above any previous to 1819.
The Hon. Gentleman said that long wool only was an
object of jealousy. He could assure him that the con-
trary was the case, and that the laws affecting short
wool were far more numerous. In considering the
subject various other considerations must be had in
view. From the moment foreigners found that -they
could net expect a market here for- their corn, they
turned their attention to the cultivation of wool, and
there was four or five times more Merino wool now
'produced is Germany than they were able at, any

per cent, The length to which schemers and specula-
tors proceeded in 1t125, was incredible. they w
woolgathering to eery part of the globes Even fore;
manufacturers, to his knowledge, encouraged by
ofer of high ptices, sold out of their .torts the vet; net
tick they bid purchased to work up for tbetuselvesr-As
The necessary ionsequence of this was to derangt the
whole of their manufacture. There was most Money
thrown away in these speculations than had priibabig
been espeuded during the most etpensive year of the
last war. He believed these was in Frantic a urge duty
on foreign wool. That duty, hbwever, was returned,
in the ship* of a drawback, on proof that manufactures
to the amount of the wool imported, were produced and
exported. It was impossible that such a system could
be adopted here without producing great embarrassment
and inconvenience. It might be done in France where
the manufacturer was so much under the conporal of
the Government, and where every article of raw ono
duce was watched from the time Of its importation until
it was exported as manufactnre. In France and the
Netherlands they were now running this rountey very
hard, i odeed—( hear) ; in some branches of manufactures
and he would caution the House to consider seriously
how they imposed duties on any law material used in
their great branches of manufacture=(Hear.) They
Must consider the evil that must arise to the apical-I
torist himself, if numerous classes of Manufacturing la-
bourers were to be thrown out of Employmenr—(Hear.)
The most certain way of securing the agricultural pro-
sperity of the country was to take care that all artisans
, should have sufficient work. Thii was the principle on
Which the Government bed toes endeavouring to act.
and k was far better their nay attempt to force prodoo
tick beyond demand-1 ear.)
Colonel DAVIES opposed the Petition. He felt ilia
dignant and surprised that such an attempt should be
made to add to the but then, of the people by the imposia
tion of a tax on wool.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE having been informed what would be
the best coarse for him to pursue to. asawer the object of the inha-
bitants of the Western part of thi Metropolis, whose Petition for
Inquiry he had submitted to their Lordship, last Friday, gave
notice that ha Monday the 11th of June, he should move that an
humble Addreu be presented to his Majesty, to request that be
would be graciously pleased to cause a Special Commission to issue
to take into consideration the supply of water in the Metropolis...-
Adjourned till Wednesday.

Mr. CALCRAFT did not think the Petitioners mR.
rited the indignation of his Hon. Friend, though he was
not disposed to support the prayer of the Petition. All
classes were now so taxed, that they endeavoured, na-
turally enough, to remove the burden from their own
shoelders. In Dorsetshire they could get no market
for their Wool. However, the way to remove the evil
was not, at the Right Hon: Gentleman truly stated, by
adding to the price of the raw material. They must
only get on as well as they could until such time as
trade was adjusted.
Mr. G. BANKES said it would have been better if
his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Colonel Davies) waited to
hear the Petition read before he passed so Severe a censure
be the• Petitioners. He regretted much that the Mema

bee for Dorsetshire made any allusions to the late
changes in the Administration. The terms in which
the Petition was drawn Op did not warrant or call for
such observations. For himself he was never disposed
to obtrude his opinions on the House, and he concurred
rather in the sentiments which his Hon. Friend (Mt.
Portman) imputed to the Petitioners with respect to the
Administration, than in those which his Hon. Friend
himself entertaiued. He must Confess) it was with much
surprise he heard It said of those who seceded from the
Government, that they fattened on the land and were
opposed to all plans of economy. • This language was
nth as be believed his Hon. Friend would not, in his
cooler moments, attempt to defend. If there was any
occasion on which more than another his Hon. Friend
should have abstained from such reflections, it was
on that particular night on which, it must be so-
torions, that the individuals to whom .he alluded
were absent; and from a peculiar circamstatite
Pitt Dinner)s could not be so .well represested es
they otherwise would. The Petitioners were des
solving of the highest respect and attention from the
Houses They were not persons trrho were in the habit
of frequently obtruding upon the attention of Parlia-
ment, or of the Crown, with Petitions and Addresses,
not like those of Canterbury, who first addressed the
Queen on her injuries, and afterwards the ring, on a
supposed infringement of his prerogative. He regretted
that the subject had not been brought forward earlier-
in the Session, but it was no answeaf.o the complaints of
those who came before the House,-that the close of the
Session was at hand. It was their duty to attend to
the grievances of the people, 'and if possible to redress
them i and they were bound to remain there until they
had at least given these complaints due consideration.
Neither was it an answer to the Petitioners to say that
this wasa new formed Government: He denied that
for the purposes of considering this question the Go-
vernment was not a new one. A considerable remnant
of the Seceders, as they were called, still continued in
the Administration, and the Gentlemen who supported
them professed to have done so for some years pait,
and, indeed, to have been the fathers of the measures
against which the Petitioners complained.. He would
contend, therefore, that the House has no excuse 1. r
re-
fusing to grant an enquiry which was called for, not
only by the agriculturists, but by those tradesmen who
had found experienee that the prosperity of she