The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-09 00:00:00

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iIIOYAL AMR/0C
Xi-Ulf-past three o'clock the Leeti Cna'itn*
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the Earl of Suarvaantinv anal Viscose* Met.
*reared, as his Majesty's Commissioners, and b
&Ivo the Royal Assent to the foilowiag Billst-.—TIM
!tesniiiit's Wages Bill, the Orampound DiefranclidM
tiaeni Rah the hirer's Attendance Bill, the Attortieye
Ind Solicitors Regulation Bill, the Sale of Bread
Ifilt',the Oliniwley Divorce Bill, the Salop Judges
Ltufkings 1111 k and the Edinburgh Gaol MO.
Me. Basemen and others brought up the South See
Trath'Bill and the Irish Insolveat Debtors Bill from
the Olommons.--.ltead a first time.
V,. Cllisninni, front the Treasury, presented sr
Eopfiretf the Report made to the Commissioners of the
Mem in Ireland, by the officers appointed to inquire
httlethe *proems of Distiliation.—Laid cm the table.
The &send Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill was
read a Second time, and ordered to be committed on
Friday next.
'V'be Irish Rate of Interest Bill was read a third
thatotathed, and returned to the Commons.
Lord REDESDALE presented a Petition from M-
ite& Matthews, one of the Clerks of the Good of
iehuneis Pleas in Ireland, praying to be beard b
roused at the Bar spinal the Irish Courts of Law
Fee Regulation Bill.—Laid on the table.
The Irish Election Expenses Bill was read a Seenlid
•istinte, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
• 72101410/1 MLR MANUFACTUItR.
',The Merlons of LANSDOWNE held a Report of
thi Committee on Foreign Trade, on the subject of
S mad Wines. He did not expect that any general
enure u could be adopted this Session, bat he trusted
.2ik
lie should stand excused with their Lordships whilst
lie brefiy described the subject and the nature of that
Report. Its principal part referred to an important
domestic manufacture, and he bad no doubt their
-Lordships would be highly gratified with the informa-
tion which it contained respecting the prospects of
that manufacture. As the views of the Committee
were favourable to a great existing interest, they were
snore likely to meet the views of Parliament, than
those, which, although equally well grounded, hap-
peold to be in opposition to other existing interests.
Their Lordships would not be more gratified than sur
prised to learn, that the extent to which the silk ma-
nufacture had been carried in this country, had been
snch as to create a new demand for labour. That ma-
nufacture had been established under particular cif-
niestances, and had been originally supported by
prohibiting laws alone. For a considerable period;
it bad been compelled to draw the raw material which
it consumed from those very countries whose mann-
twisted silks were prohibited. It had since happily
occerred, however, that it had been enabled 'o draw
Its supplies 'from a part of the world placed under
the British dominion, and to receive those supplies
twice, and even three times a-year. The consequence had
been, an increase on the part of the silk manufacture in
this country to an amount scarcely credible.—
It wee a fact not less important than true, that the
queasily of raw material now used by the silk mane-
faiturers in this country, was greater than that con-
tained in the whole of France. It appeared from the
official statement of the French Minister, that the
quantity of raw silk grown and imported in one year
in France, was two millions of pounds; whilst that
imported into Britain in 1820, amounted to two mil-
ti7ns and an half of pounds, and the actual value of
ti•e silk manufactured here, was ten millions sterling.
A convincing proof of the advantage of adopting the
printiple of a free trade won'd also be found in the
fact, that from the moment when a free trade bad been
' • admitted to the Bast, and the efforts of individuals had
' •been allowed, there had been a progressive increase,
• net only in the quantity, but in the quality of the silk
-_ imported and manufactured. The first point to which
the Committee had directed its view was the duty on the
raw material. A large reduction of that duty would ini. I
'tnediatelv create an increased consumption in this coon-
-try, and large exportations abroad. The silk manufac-
•terers did not wish to rely for protection on the conti-
'nuance of the present system of prohibitions. They
confidently stated, that if a duty were imposed on Fo-
reign Silks, to the amount of affording. them compensa-
tion for the increased price of labour in this country;
Sand if the duty on the raw material were lowered, the
wuulti be prepared and desirous to stand the competi-
lion with the French silk manufacturers, both in Eng-
land and for exportation. It was indeed already known,
' that in the United States, and in other parts of the
-trtirld, a preference was given to our silks over those ma•
irttifectnreal by the French. There was another point
which the Committee recommended to the attention of
their Lordships. The place where our silk manufac-
turers had been established, Spitalfielils, was now sub-
.& Jett to an Act of Parliament, authorising Magistrates to
'regulate the prkes of the workmen, and to interfere in
. loch a manner, as to make it impossible for any silk
I esennfacttirer, however intelligent lie might be, to intro-
&ice any new machinery, not only at Spitalfields, but
lit lny other part of the country. The effect of this Act
was to prevent all the improvements which had been
*made by the French in their silk manufactures from
lfreing used in ours. There now existed in England a
• 'thachine, the exact copy of one invented in France, and
'efivaidered in that country as the most perfect piece of
'machinery ever applied to the manufacture of silk, and
•• yet it could not be used, on account of the existing Act.
1. here was no doubt that the Act itself was intended to
secure the parish against the increase of the poors' rates ;
'but the mischief which it did to the silk manufacturers
more than counterbalanced the good which it was in-
'tended to produce, and would justify its repeal. On the
Whole, the Committee trusted that their Lordships would
think the British Silk Manufacturer entitled to their at-
tention on terry principle of political economy. The
other part of the report related to the Wine Trade, and
, though the inquiry had not been extended so far tied,.
; •resent circumstances, as it might have been had any
rfishee been contemplated in the existing system, yet
their -Lordships would find that much interesting infor-
,aseildit had been collected upon the subject. The Noble
.. *keyless concluded by movin, that the report be laid
• en the table and printed.—Ordered.
:4' The Marquess of LANSDOWNE then gave notice,'
that •after the Recess, be should call the attention of
ti, the House to the Foreign Slave Trade.
* ,$ The Earl of DARNLEY postponed his motion re-
•.etopeating the Stationery Office in Ireland, to Monday,
re; Vie 18th inst.
.Ipitk,. IRISTI COURTS OF LAW.
.0. laitoUnt SIDMOCTH moved the Order of the Day
,infieigaing into a Comathtee on the bildt Courts of Law
tees Regulation. Bill.
‘ ~.. Tbel Eat! of DONOUOIIMOIRE moved thattefore
Jog into .a. t7otetnittee, Monad shook! be Wird It
the lignin support of Clanery• 's Petition against tbelMll.

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