Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-07-10
BR1r1sa PARE1Anur,T
From the london Courier Of Mey 8.
HOUSE OF COMMONS MAY Z.
MR.. HUsKIssON's Speech continued

fefhaps I'm OBTAINING the House Hear hea
- OUT II is necessary for me TO exhibit the facts
a. " - win facts am dealing, and 10 shew how
/ utterly groundless the charges made sgains
the system, which ii is my duty TO defend
must now go through those facts in deral bee aus
must vlndicate Parliament from the charge O
contributing TO the ruin Of the shipping interests
oy pefseverng in the measures which it was my
'"sA W introduce. Last year, il is true, mad.
my statements, and all the eurns then ALLUDED
TO, have been since prodrced. i. any Honourabl,
MEMBER VIII compare what I then stated wi /
NOSE returns, he will find that no one can, viii
J"S"ee' accuse me OF exage ration; but have been
accused "y some individuals, .Ior pur poses bes
SNOW" 10 themselves. BY some individuals o
doors nave been greatly mirepresented, and per
hap-, with come effect, as having earhied and
mixed up those returns, 90 as TO msiead the coun-
Try IL has been asserted, and believe use the
very words, that have been guilty of mixing
'He itish aud toasting Trade together for the
fu P"Se VI producing false result instead OF the
rear win view TO promote the foreign trade and
10 inluTe The trade of the country'' Sir as this
statement is calculated make great in,Ir e-sion
out OF doors, and TO revive Glamour which had
nearly sao-ided, 1t was my duty, before motto ell
~ 10 can Tor those returns, which would put it
Out OF the power of any Individual any longer to
aVail themselves OF go base and riiful an areu-
neht. i, therefore, did call for these Returns
when would shev The comparative state of The
Dflish trade with The foreign trade The house
must Dear In mind, that with the foreign trade uu
W Tue ear 1873, was included the trade of Ire
Iand; and why this? 1t was through rnista
Ken policy, which it was my duty and object TO
see terminated Up 10 that year the trad. of Ire
iaha was considered as foreign trade, and SUBJ
Jected 10 all lis restrictions; therefore, up 10 thai
year was forced so to consider H. And now Sir
the statements have before me have been taken
rom the Restoration up to the year 1911, and from
that year 10 the preseat; and what effect have
those principles OF reciprocity had since that peri
o. with the single exception oil the year 1925,
TO this last year! The year 1926 be it remembers
ed, " as year in which trade was materially de-
pressed and injured by specuaions of an extraor-
dlnaTy nature, and 10 extraordinary extent
ell, IN The year iS26, greater amount of British
shipping entered into, and cleared out of the va
rious Bf.ish ports than during any year since 1914
with the exception Of the yesr 1925 Here, then
l. my first proof of the efficacy of the system
winch II Is my tssk 10 Introduce. le- hon gentle
men look at the columns of those returns from 1914
to 1926 and they VIII that they stand higher in
1870, Than at any other year since the Res.ora
tlon. But, inasmuch as separated Ireland from
the foreign trade, and consider ed her as part of
! MS country, WHICH it was necessary TO her
welfare and our honour that should do | did not
include her In my estimate, and now hold in NV
hand the returns o! onr trade with all foreign ports
Ireland excepted, and here those returns are NOR,
favourable. 1t would be Iecoliected that 1925 wac
year OF unprecedented speculation, and that the
following year 1895 was likely TO be affected by il
yet The paper before me shows that in 1926 a grea
ter anouai OF British shipping entered inward. &
cleared outwaTds than in any year with the exceD-
ton of 1925 since 1914 ICheers. y Gentlemen
have The returns in their hands they will see tina, in
1926, 2,47O,OOO tons were cleared, while in 1914
there was but SAT, GOO, showing an increase q,
more than 60 600 TONS. AZ, however, I separated
Ireland from the foreign trade, and made it, as IL
properly IL, part OF the coasting trade | am de-
sir q he IS ,l,a
trade, properly so called. The result Of the com
paTison Instituted on the return is that increase in
the British trade had ac,uslly taken place. in com
parison with the foreign. 1 admit that, arisino
from the exiraYasant specGations of IS25, falling
off occurred in both, but the decrease is greater in
the forign shipping than in our own. In 1926. The
decrease of British shipping was one-,enth, and
the decrease OF the foreign two-seVenths teiop
nearly one fourth So, then, what is 10 become
of the argument which seems so plausible bat
which the House will perceive had no foundation
In the yesr 1926, the depression of British trad,
not in comparison with that which fell unon
foreign. When 1t is said that the system of rsci
procy attacked Ou interest, l will beg Of homo.
rabe gentlemen TO look down the columns of ;hese
returns, end out OF the fourteen years TO refer ia
the four ahieeedent 10 those OF reciprocity.
told, that u quite unfair to take The ave
rsges OF any particular year. / admitted il. and
instead OF taking the year S25, took The average
OF he many years pr ece,ling, and compared them
wliiTrlbat of the pe-eni. have been therefore
an obedient disciple OF the honorable gentleman
aud have taken their mode of proving the etIic;.
eucy of my own theory. The average for the f g .
ears following 1914 WAS, of British shipLiue in
the foreign trade $40 600 lous; ahd for The ten
years subsequent to lsl4. including those five al
ready named the average was 600 900 tons: and
for The inrce years Subsequent IL cluding 1895.
the average was 1868 600 tons. The wear IS26
which have TO compare with hose, was l. $50 900
being only Is, 900 tons less than the average OF
three years, including 1925 and exec ding the Fl
fears AID the ten years 10 sensibi- amount The
foreign trade Tor the same period was for the first
five year,, $50 coo; for the three years inclniiog
1925, SO4 OOO snd Tor 1926, 600 600. Ills will
set the point al rest. There was in the last year.
compared " TN the average Of years, decrease OF
The foreign instead Of the aedged increase If a
Comparison DO taken Tor period Of eight years.
or for any other tenn, or on any other standard
That ingenuity coulJ devise, tie advantage 10 Bri-
ish shipping over tiat Of all other foreign states
will be conspicuous. / am aware that acute fe,-
soners may object TO me- what you say IL tue
but the calculation which you make OF what YOU
cell the Tor sign trade British vessels although IL
is exclusive Of ireland, includes the commerce yviil,
the w est Indies and North American Colonies
where there is no foreign competition, and IS here
you have not 10 contend With the hvally Of 70.
reign Powers. ! atn willing to Iaks the question
even on this test, for that purpose have called for
returns - lst. OF the amount oi the shipping trade
with foreign Europe includingtbe Mediterranean;
2dly. With foreign counties out Of Europe; 3JIy
/ The trade with the East Indies; 4ibly. With A
frics 5thly. With the West Indies, including tIie
sugsr Islands; 6ihly With North America; 1thly
1 With the fisheries, Sc; Lastly, (Which return,
/ am so.fy TO say, embraces only the last tire,
years.) The coaslirg usde. From these returns