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upon all projects for t
principles of religion,
and injurious. to the hest interests of
Brougham) entirely differed from the petitio,.
first grounds of their objection, but he thought .
great deal of truth in the assertion, that the best intt.
society required the repeal of those laws.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE called the attention of the
house to the petition he had presented on a former
from the woollen-manufacturers of the west .of Eng..
stating that it was the opinion of the petitioners that them
"-",,re in the woollen trade, and that
and neutralised

contrary to the precepts of m

there was a

ccasion
int],

was now a considerable tai
the restrictions upon prov
trade, and pauperised the

produced by part
stated, by reason (
tition further stal

duties on provisions were most prejudicial to the interests o
all classes of the community, and that all duties intender
for the protection of British manufactures should be repealed
His lordship proceeded to comment at some length on tlu

impolicy of the corn laws.
Lord ASIi 41IIITON said be could not permit such state-
ments as thaw', made by the petitioners without entering his
protest against the conclusions to which they had come.
He entertained no doubt whatever of the existence of great
distress prevailing amongst the woollen manufacturers ; but
be doubted whether there was not some exaggeration in the

statement that the nurr
ployed in the partieulal

this were, however so, it was pr

clear that such a declen-

siOntnuA be owing to something more than the petitioners
bad described. The principle against which he had entered
his protest was this, that distress experienced in any one
branch of trade, or even in agriculture itself, however impor-
tant that interest, or however great the number of persons
whose labour was absorbed in that pursuit, was no reason,
and should be no reason, to induce the ministry of the period
to propose, or the legislature to adopt, propositions which.
would upset and shake the whole commercial system of the
nation.
Lord CLIFFORD of CHIIDLEIGH again brought forward
the claims of the Portuguese government of Goa to appoint
Roman Catholic priests in certain districts of India, and asked
if any reply had been received by the Board of Control to the
letter of Lord Ellenhorough, written on the 4th of Uctober
last, to the governor-general of India on the subject ?
Lord FITZGERALD said that no communication had been
received until the arrival of the Indian mail, on the receipt
of which he learned that a private communication from Mr.
Blackburn to Lord Auckland was contained in the papers
received by the governor-general; that communication he
had been given to understand was considered as anything but
satisfactory by the person through whom it had been commu-
nicated.

Lord CLIFFORD said the difficulty arose from the (Hire-
rence in the laws of t

cies, as to who was a

priest qualified to officiate)

Thei-r lordships t

HOUSE OF CON

Lord PA LMERSTON asked a question relative to the treaty
for the suppression of the slave trade, recently agreed to by
the five great European powers. There had been a confe-
rence at the Foreign-office, in December, 1838, respecting
this matter, and he had to observe, that though at the treaty
of Vienna EnglAnd stood almost alone in her efforts to put
- 1838, 17rance

an end to th

a plan was proposed tc

ammer, the

some eorresponden

been agreed to by the other

matter stood

the trea

three gre
settled.

Lt power
He now

bad been mad

it had been yet

in that treaty,

ratified, and wh,

,her such ratifications had been• received an

exchanged.
Sir R. PEEL said he had no difficulty in confirming the
accuracy of the statements made by the noble lord. The
treaty had been signed by the five powers subsequent to the
accession of the present government to office, but he must
say that though there had been some alterations in the treaty,
there were none that could be deemed important. The rati-
fications had not yet been exchanged, but the time for ex-
changing them would not expire until the 20th of this month.
In the meantime, however, some of them had been received.
Lord STANLEY obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the 6th Geo. IV., c. 88, for rnakingprovision for the salaries
of certain bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries and
ministers in the diocese of Jamaica, Barbadoes, and the Lee,
ward Islands, and to enable her Majesty to separate such
diocese. The noble lord said that the proposed changes and
separation of the diocese would lead to no incresse of expense,
Mr. GLADSTONE having moved that the house should re-
solve itself into a committee of the whole house upon our
colonial duties. stated the course which government meant
to propose with respect to them. His measure, with the
exception of a few alterations, was the same as that the right
hon. gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) had brought forward the
last session of parliament. The right hon. gentleman en-
tered into a lengthened statement, to show that the high re-
strictive duties on the importation of articles into our West
India colonies were unnecessary, and then proceeded to state
the alterations he proposed to effect. The first resolution he
would submit to the committee was, that it was expedient to
repeal all existing duties on imports into the West Indies
and our British North American colonies; secondly, that
new duties should be established in their room ; thirdly, that
those duties should be in addition to any duties levied b? the

colonial legislatures ; fourthly, that there should be an ex-
emption in favour of all articles required for the use of the
British fisheries ; sixthly, that the produce of the channel

islands should be placed' 'on the same footing as that which
was strictly British produce, and be admitted free of duty ;
and, lastly, that all measures upon the subject of these; duties
should be consolidated. He should propose that wood Should
be admitted into the West Indies free of duty; for the tax
ou wood was indirectly a tax upon the consumer in this coun-
try. He did not propose to abolish altogether the duty on
provisions, and it would be seen by the schedule, that he pro-
posed that after a fixed day there should be a duty imposed
on the importation of wheat and flour of 3s. per quarter, of
2s. per cwt. on salt fish, and of 4s. a barrel on pickled fish.
He proposed a duty of Bs. per cwt. on butter, and ss. per
cwt. on cheese. With respect to coffee, cocoa, molasses, and
unrefined sugar, he proposed to re-enact the same duties as

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at present. On tea, unless imported direct from China or
from the British dominions, he proposed to place a duty of
one penny per lb. He should leave the duty on foreign spi-
rits as it now stood ; but• on British spirits he proposed to
abolish all duty. With respect to refined sugar, he proposed
that there should be an ad valorem duty on that of British
manufacture of ten
cent

per cent

ind on foreign of twenty per

lie also proposed an ad valorem duty of seven pel
cent. on wine, bottled or not, on manufactured cotton, slik,
linen, woollen, glass, paper, soar, cordage, oakum, pitch,
tar, turpentine, &c. ; while on oil, blubber, &c., he proposed
to remove all existing prohibitions, and impose an ad valorem
ut his

_..ty of seventeen per Cent. The hon. gentleman moved
Tesolntions without intending to press them to a discussion
until a future opportunity, •
Mr. La.auncutenz said he had listened to the speech of
the hon. gentleman with unalloyed satisfaction, because he
was proceeding upon the same principles which he (Mr.
had laid down in the course of last session, and any assist-
ance he could eive isin, • •-- into

effect would be—mowhich had been made, he stcliee'r'facl'ityc Yailfn:rdieid. I"..9".nry—alterations
of last year, were, by the hon. gentleman in his own bill
hon. gentlemen Opposite liesed, improvements ; and as right
sawreason to adopt the views of the
late government in this respect, he hoped that having done
justice to the colonies, they would now do justice to Great
Britain, by reducing the duties which consumers at borne
were compelled to pay.
IVIr. G. PALMER hoped the government would pause be-
fore they adopted the measure of the late government. lie
made the remark because the measure ow brought forward
was one of those measures which turned the late ministry out

of office.
Lord 5. RUSSELL hoped that no duties would be placed °
flour and wheat passing from the United States into Canada,
for any such duties would, he feared, materially interrupt the,
growing prosperity of Canada.
Sir C. DOUGLAS said that many hon. members on the go_
tvernment side of the house had during last session supported
the present measure when produced by the late government.
Sir R. Pero, entreated that the hous
ferences of the future

government from the

.•. -
formerly stated that, notuith-

present measure

lie late government on other

4tandinz the differences WI

ionfd have h

measures, yet upon this on
the grounds of policy an(

e
I Of justice to our coloni

are no r

opportunity of stating t
feared the harmony whi
be somewhat disturbed
would no longer be a
views.

After a fewebser

STOVE movedthatti;CY;

ask leave to sit again

Mr. Gr.

for the better ri

;new was tne oeLter protection of the public from acclue
,on railways, and for this Purpose he proposed to have In
efficient powers pfinspection of new railways, and pc"

also to suspend their openiniifneC;

larger power of obtainiitg7reiu.jrns.

At present they could only require -a
return of such us.
is had led to the loss of life or limb ; but it• was etitta,
.tessary' to have a return of all accide,

its, as thereinight be

much negligeti,

also pro

not be across