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the Quarter Sessions. The follanang Thursday would
he the King'- birth-lay, over which the House *met
adjeourn. H.• wonl.l therefore put it to the
Biala
Honours'ole tient. whether it would not be better, if it
did not trench too mach upon the public business, to
extend the period of the recess to the week following
the day he had appointed :-
said,
The CHANCELLOR of the ENCHEQII:R
that he eltonld have lengthened the recess, but for
the reasons whir hhe had before sssiened. With r
spect to .Monday being the nut day of the Quarter
Sessions, it was the usual day on witi.:lt Parliament
met, anti no material inconvenience had hitherto been
experienced on that account.
CONDIERCIAT. INTERCOURSE BETWEEN GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Sir 11. PARNELL roee to more fur a Committee to
con irier the hest mean, of improving the Commercial
Intercourte between Great Britain and Ireland —l.l
With respect to articlee subject to Excise Duties,
where the internal dative were the same in both coun-
tries, he should propose that the present system of
Drawbacks and countervailing Putiee be done away,
and that the articles pass flee between both conntrieences
st
:rid where the intern:A ddlltiee differed, the
artic differes of
only 'Amnia be the drawback. '2. As to l
roreign and Colonial produce, be wiehed the same
t-gulati n 4 to be adopted in respect to Drawbacks and
oonntervailittg duties. He maintained that the whole
trade between the two countries ought to be carried
on in the same manner as the Coasting Trade. As to
ankles subject to the Union Duties, be should pro-
pose that those duties be repealed on all articles not
made in Ireland, and continued for a short time only
on 'hot' fow articles which are made with the aid of 1
c spi:al and machinery. Ile proreetled to say, that
one of tl:e objects he hail in view was that some regu
Wien sheeld be established to relieve persons travel-
ling between Great Britain and Ireland from bring
euirject to have their luggage searched, which was
very vexatious, and inconvenient, particularly when
%itch persons were under the necessity of bring at
ti eir destination on a given day within a short period,
es in the Limerick case, where twenty persons were
ordered to attend the House of Common's front that
ei,v, within ten days from the dve of the order. Ile
37, uhl have Ore search only to take place when there
'rem circumstances to justify suspicion, which would
sulciently tieritre the Reroute from fraud. Another
olaject of the greatest importance which be would pro- I
lose, was the assimilation of the ciirrency of the two
cantitrie4, but that was nut the titoe to enter into a
th.tall of it: lott it was impossible that both countries
s'n uld be placed on an equal commercial footing,
eil-ile the differences of the currency produced
nd
a
f :actuating value ill CJ111M41631 commoditiee, a
threw lousiness mnetly into the hands of little brokers
a-il est-barge riealeis. If a Committee was a pnointerl.
/ e would prepu e that there ebottirl be an alteration in
tl-se cnrper role. wl-leli tumid have the effect of re-
moving ti.e tliffn niries; on :be whole, lie was convinred •
eat if the comm.:vial etrateettierits which lie wished
to submit to a Cottenitt.e were adopted, th t th
ey
ey
roxiti have the effect of raisin's the character
tve..ltli of Ireland. lle concluded by trios lug, that a
Seicc". Coustaittee be appointed to intetire into the
Commercial Intercourse between Great Britain and
Ireland.
Mr. GREIgrELL seconded the motion. Ile thought
Is most desirable that some of the arrangements of the
cature proposed should be acceded to, more partieu•
I :fly that fur assimilating the Irish currency to that
of Oreat Britain, as it would have the effect of sitn-
piifyirg financial accounts. lie hail conversed with
ieecral intelligent and practical Irisitinee on the sub-
je..t, and although there was some diffetence of opinion
among them, yet on the whole lie bad reason to believe
that the general opinion of practical aid well inform-
ed me:: was in favour of ends assimilation. By means'
1
of it they would get rid of all that machinery which
made tl e exchange between the two countries so corn-
plrx. Ile had also 1C3.4011 to believe, that the Right
Hon. Gentleman opposite (the t hanrellor of the Ex-
cheqeer) bad, aed the Government had for some time,
a grieactl•-e of the kind in contemplation.
flie CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that lie a.,::e oi with the Hon. Baronet so far, as tu .
think that it was highly desirable the subjects which
he tueutioee I should CO,lle under the cuneideration of
tie Horse, but to undertake a plan of the kind pro- i
Hosed in the present Session coithl only' excise anxiety
and alarm in the minds of permit's concerned in the
trade between the two countries without proditeitigi
any practical result. It ties necessary to hear the ob-I
jections to be urged against the pl al, as w•.. 11 as the
arguments in its favour. It %vas mot so far advanced
in the Sesiitnl, that no practical result could be accom-
prshed by a Coutruittee of Parliament, but he so far
coincided milli the object of the lion. Baronet's to-
tien, as to think, that upon due notice given to the
parties concerned, they should prepare their several.
statements, and on the evidence submitted, the Par-
liarneut should undertake the investigation. Ile these
pr.spar eery inittiriee, it was likely that a considerable
mass of evidence would be procured, arid in the next
Session of Parliament some practical result might he I
obtained ; be would therefore move an Amendment 1
to that etiect. As to the assimilation of the currency,
it was one of great importance and deny:icy, and could I
not be undertaken without great disadvantage. at the I
moment of approaching Cash Paymert of the two'
Hanks. It would have the effect of agitating the 1
public mind, and could not take away the necessity of 1
culiatige, as it depended on the course of payments
and remittances; with respect to the Union Dittieetes,
he believed there was great jealousy xi the eubj
aiming the manufacturers in Ireland : it would be
therefore far better to postpone the measure until both I
parties were prepared. He concluded by musing as
an Amendthent, " That the House would, early in the
next Session, take into consideration the Duties and
Itegolations affecting the Trade between Great Britain
and Ireland."
Mr. DAWSON thought it a hardship that those pro-
prietors who chose to reside in Irelauti, should nut be
allowed to have their goods from England ; there
ought, in his opinion, to be no restriction otlthe trade
between the tow countries, and the tirst Capitalist in
Ireland on the Woollen Trade agreed with him, as did
other Manufacturers.
Mr. PHILLIPS observed, that the Protecting Duties
were a serious evil is the Trade with Ireland. He
thought the House ought to be pledged to enguiry.at
the earliest opportunity.
Mr. GLADSTONE thought the pledge gives hy the

Right HunOttrahle
into consitletatiou
to satisfy the essmitry.—They were now
ascertain the effect of the Protection Duties by an et-
prriment of '2O years.
CHICHESTER expresses% himself anxious that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer should say something
decisive with respect to the Protectiug Duties ; to
know his real opinion on the subject would be a matter
of satisfaction.
The CHANCP.I.I.IIII of the EXCHEQUER said.
that by the Act of las; year, those duties were renewual
ed,
not Perusanentle, but with a view to their grad
expiration. Had they ceased at once the consequences
would have been very injurious ; he thought, un-
doubtedly, an end ought to be put to the system of
Protection, hut then it onglit to take place in the gra-
dual way provided for by the Act, to prevent the shock
which nould otherwise be given to the interests of the
Irish 31anufactitrers.
tfeneral HART supported the motion; he stated,
that the interests of Ireland reqnired immediate cotssi-
d-ration and relit.f.
1I r. C. lIICTCINSON opposed the motion, and
H
complained of the ninon 111 which (lie Honourable
Baronet had thon!tlit proper to briug on this propo-
sition. lie bad b..en deferring it from day to Jay, for
many weeks, and he came forward now at er those du-
ties had beep settled by a solemn and deliberate act of
last year, which provided for their gradoul abolition,
to endesvour to put an cud to them by a sudden mea-
sure, for which the persons most concerned were to-
tally unprepared. lie slid not see why Irishnci inatilifrom
ac-
turt•rs should be trealeti on a
11111.141'111 priple f
those of Ilreat lititain, and it was never known that
where a solemn act of trade was passed to protect Bri-
tish mannfaetnrers in one year, it was abrogated in
the next. Ile cared not whether the principle of the
proteetitor duties was correct or yitions ; he objecrated
to the motion, because it went to remove, by ,a pid
measure. reenlations which were so recently ut by
p
Parliantent on a footing of slow but defined enira-
tions. It was nut only the manufacturers wwho a ere
concerned in this qut•stion, but merchants and deadens+
and he wonlil protest nettiust their interests being treated
differently from those of any hr inch of the 'mercantile
body in this country. This subject of thss protecting
duties the Hon. (tart. had slipped in among the other
six subjeris which the propositions embraced, and it
was the principal one which he hail in view, ths.ugr.
h
he did not think fit to make it appear so. lie (M
II.) had advocated the protecting duties the last t• •
in which they rime before the (louse, although on un•
popular measure tot if the principle of protecting
duties was impolitic and unwise, why was i that
llac the
Vice-President of the Board of TradeTrade(Nit-.t Wae)
:was then in the House, for the purpose of vrocitring
the enactment of such ditties relative to the Canadian
Colonies. Ile then adverted to a Petition Otitis he
Is rid in Isis hand, on this subject, from Lverpool,
and read some parts of it in confirmation of his ar-
giont•nt.
Sir 11. PARNELL node a short reuly, oloserviug,
that his object was nut. as seemed to he apprehended
hr Isis llossynral•le l'uiend who had just sat down, t.s
make an ipittsNliate change in the laws regulating the
commercial intrerstarse tween the two countries, but
inertly that Pulioitit•nt should enterinto an inquoweveriry
iota the subject. lie had no objiecti on, h,
to leave the wattl•r to tike the course proposed
by the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the 1..
chequer. and therefore tt wild not press his motion to a

lANCES.

that of length beinkalready determined by the experi.
tweets related is our former reports: and we have fonad
by the computations, which will hr detailed in the
appendix, that the weight of a cubic inch of distilled
water, at 62 deg. of Fahrenheit, is 252,72 grains of the
parliamentary standard pound of 1;53, supposing it to
he weighed in a vacuum.
We beg leave therefore finally to recommend, withal
humility, to Tony Majesty, the*doption of the regnla-
lions and modifications suggested In OUT former reports,
which are principally these:--
1. That the Parliamentary standard yard, made by
Bird in 1760, be henceforward considered as the au-
thentic legal standard of 'the British empire; and that
it be identified by declaring that., 39,1393 inches of thtt
standard, at the temperature of WI deg: of Fahrenheit;
have been found equal to the length of a petultiluin
posed to vibrate seconds in bond" on the level of the
sea, and in a vacuum.
2. That the Parliamentary.standard Troy pound, ac.
cording to the two-poun.l weight made in 1;56, remit
unaltered; and that ;MI Troy graius be declared to
constitute an Avoirdupois Omit! ; the cubic inch of dis.
tilled water being found to weigh at I's 2 deg. in a vacuum.
252,72 parliamentary grains. •
3. 'Chat the ale aid corn gallon be restored to their
original equality, by taking, for the statatable common
gallon of the British empire, a mean value, such that '4
gallon of common water may welch It) innuitls avoirdo-
pois in ordinary circumstances, its content being near!v
277,3 cubic inches : and that correct standards of th;,
imperial gallon, and of the bushel, peck. quart, and pint.
derived from it, and of their parts, be procured without
delay foe the Exchequer, and for such other offices itt
your Majesty's dominions as may 1w judged most con-
tenient for the ready use of your 51ajesty's subjects.
4. Whether any further legislative enactments are re-
quired, for enforcing a uniformity of practice throogima
the British empire, we do not feel oarselyes competeet
to determine : hut it uppers to us that molting would
be more conducive to the attaii ttttttttt of this end, than
to increase, as fas as possible, the facility of a read, re-
currence to the legal standards, which we apprehend
to
be in a great measure attainable by the means that we
have recommended. It would alstb, is all prollahlity,
he of advantage to give a greater degree of publicity
to the appendix of our last report, containing a com-
parison of the customary measures wopioyed througbeat
the country.
5. We are oot aware that anv further services reeuin
for us to perform, in the execution of the couimastislai.l
upon us by your Ninjestv's commission : lint if any sr-
perintentianee of the regnlations to he adopted ere
thought neerssary, we should still he ready to undertake
inch inspections and examinations as :a; Ott he required
for the complete attainment of the tqects in question.
Signed) lironutt Cures.
I)svir.ti 611,9E1tT.
WM. hi. Wout.as Ns.
Tnom Yo xe.
London, March 31, 1921. Ilesnv Ka.ree.

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the fol/owing :
FROM VIP 11111.11,‘X JouttNAL•mAnc" J.
PROROGATION OF Till.: GF7`.lltAl. ASIIF.I%IIII.T.
At twelve o'clock on Satorday la't his Excellency
the It rel.. Govsason, attended ac usual, went to the
Council Chamber, and being seateol, sent a message to
the House of Assembly, cow:oat:ding the attentlanceof
the Representative Body. Mr. Sin.:ll.A:r, nil' the men-
berg, attended Ilia Excellenci gAri his ussent to sot
rat arts, and afterwards closed the Sei,iun.
AusTotre of liti sek, rem.
The harmony which has prevailed in your delibem
'inns, has afforded me peculiar satisfaction, and I can•
not too highly applaud the zeal u :Acts you have matte
fested for the public service, in the diicliarge of p.m
ditties. The discipline and ettbrienev of the militia f
t hr.
lug an object of great importance to the seenrity ohe
protince, I must express Inv particular thanks for the
attention you have given to the improvement of that
Inable constitutional force. I tl,anh yen in Ws `l.
jetty's name for the liberal supplies which you ;
you bto!
are
granted for the service of the present jear
rely on their being faithfully applied, for I conside
(retie.
rare of all public ts ..... ies placed at my ant
minty in their expenditure, one of my first ditties. For
some time past, toy attention has been partially
m tf•
reeled to the best mode of affot,ling facilities to il
settlers upon the forest lands, and putting an end tar I+
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evils that have arisen from irregular locations.
1
with confidence of receiving, your cordial Illpport ard
assistance in carrying it into effectual operation in puff
rz.spective counties, anti upon yourhe constinuin ofg
(ta en-
n.:
"'orate, by eveny putt
tpt attai
Imanstry, uhich now happily prevails in this iniprotir;
and happy colony.
TRINADAD, FED. ei.—Extrart of a letter frOM.
Cigna, dated 17th February.
An express has arrived from the Corte*, if
G nadalonpe to our Governor
; but at lie is at fart
some distance in the iottutry, the particulars bare m',yet tesnspir.ii
, tut the Captain:c of II express info.
us that I brig, supposed to be front Iluadalone,
dren %matted and snot. trl Point a Petre, by the
who have murdered the captain, his wife, chilli,
mate. The crew landed at Point a Petre, atal
observed to have a quantity of money, they wee e
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petted and taken up by the police. tine of they: b

owned the piracy.
Slllew I.: I brig 31apraret from goti.rt•
bound to Jamaica, was lo Ft on the S. E. 110, at tk
Isle of Sabb, on the nile.tt of the .2.9 th of October, :0
melancholy to relate thirteen i5er...004 perished.

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