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discussion. He attributedto Ministers the whole blame of the 
pen against the cine laws, here had been Ba up by the im- 
mmittee, and by the commission on the hand-loom 
a 
The Back of CLARENDON gave 
e the most pointed and unqualified 
contradiction to the charge now ae against Ministers of 
having ta excite agitation e denied that there were 
at 18,000, 00: 
were correct, those laws must mt oe cost the 
ass as gi y commission, to the 
ay Collection of Excise Bill, Slave Compensa- 
tion Bil, Banking C Sopartnership Bill, Abolishment of Arrest (Ex- 
port aca Bill Dublin Wide Streets B: 
he Bills. The 
ill, Sir W. Scott’s Monument 
Bill, and a few Railw: ote Commissioners were 
the oncinee aftesbury, and the Earl of 
& The Criminal J ustice (Quarter Sessions) Bill was read a second 
time, on the motion of the Earl of Devan and Siena or a oe 
Mittal on Monday.—Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS 
R. Ine ts postponed his moti ion 
till after 
‘onday.—' with respect to 
xtension 
d Sandon’s resolutis 
ee cena the adjourned 
ed, M 
hi f the 
The right hon. pases dwelt 
"ym place 
ple 
monopolies might be to the gery for 
the Legislature to turn round too suddenly on interests which it 
had itself cherished. 
Captain Marnew observed that it was a novelty to find fault 
with parties attacke: je because they united for their own defence, 
to think that left a 
separate without a 
beaten on or eect ory’ he hoped they would ap- 
country.—Mr. Srrurr considered the 20,000,000/. as 
precluded the West Indians from all right to co: anna vuln 
ent regulations upon the Sugar 
ugar were to be resisted 
pace AM sed the use in favour of bic dios sora: seer 
gure-Mr. rca denounced the 
matchless hypecrisy. He was berg to becca a ne oe “oe 
abl d virtuous sy t ich he heard expressed 
very skilful in keeping a secret; 
none ‘of th them teresa — their own plan was, ex- 
AL 
e 
Bak 
ny 
Goulburn, and his rem: as to let things alone. The 
of deficiency wake ction of postage and 
the ini cons’ ion of excisabie liquors; and he pre- 
Sumed the Pories would ily restore the rates of postage, or 
the practice of intemperance in I . He hoped that the re- 
sult of this division would not induce Ministers to despond, He 
believed the try would join the Ministers if they persevered; 
and be would now give them a With greater 3 nenaepar than 
on any since: — mowdiacabmgind wa nl perrr 
A.—Mr. Briscom ¢ meas 
is was a national, not corcacsh nag 'itinevolved the happi- 
f a the Sovereign on the throne to the Dumblet of f 
= the master manuf: ers. The alteration, he said, 
be made in the iacumeary ire stem. Without that a ouene 
of th the Corn-law would transfer the — land - the monied 
interest. The most honest tax, he dered, would be a tax on 
gage extensi with t 
it ie soroes id ‘pave hi hesitated 
reel as these reasons 
pared to vote. 
coffee the colonies were adequate to the supply of that article for 
England; but when the reduction of the du i 
English consumption, foreign sla’ ie ray ath 
revenue was vastly increased. A was 
it to be 
= the East India og their forces with those of 
e colonists of the rest of the world? 
e continent of E rope, paid our Taare ten were now 
everywhere met by formidable competitors, and we should, there- 
fore, direct our attention to Nope markets than those of Europe 
for our export trade. To what 
our ecaoyhe with so fair a proien 
Ss! 
ich ourselves the rulers, human victims, 
whose sufferings we could not mitigate or release by our prohibi- 
tions upon trade. the continu: those prohibitions the 
slave trad ot be put down, but our revenue would be 
paired, the prices of the necessaries a life be angmented, 
employment would be ci iled, our commercial 1 Haein would 
be interrupted, and a deep and perm: eae ij on the 
whole British empire.—Mr. Herriss called wy bey e : oe to 
e notice that the present was the only bata giemy- recorded 
in the hist f this Pago? which gone m year to 
year, in ti ce, with a still-continuing vanacsehey: He 
charged Gov with the most flagrant maladministration 
of which any example was known, Had the springs of 
public income, he said, dried up? Had any very e rdi- 
ry © poe _None but whit every Minister ought 
To the proposed alterations 
sugar 
oa experim: 
” our West Indian population, and it ‘ended ‘ Fthe 
aggravation of slavery and the slave trade. Lord J. Russell, he 
saree s 
structed upon so | peerably Shencalghtak “ 
Ministers themselves should be so, miserably short-sighted. The 
shipping interest, for instance, was protected, not for the sake of 
the shi, class, but for the sake of 
phi or how the 
, am 
e e cont 
this Ho ed to merely for a change of parties, but 
before he could suppo: different set of Ministers he must kn 
what mene to power.— 
would be distin loser by that reduction in the price of wheat 
which the ies aia th ired.—Mr. C. BULLER con — 
policy of encouraging the growth of sugar in the East In 
The increase of our population at home, he said, had Enposed it 
as a duty on Government to open new markets. Upon the great 
subjects now under discussion, new light was dail 
—he bnew on his ms the well-known distresses of the peopie 
and the seen on rela the steers rtd 
erial proposition, and 
at even though no question of timber or of 
mixed with that of a he would have voted 
against the introduction of slave-grown 
market; not upon the abstract 
all 
perim in progress. woul msent to a step 
bastion poser withdraw the slaves from the € production of all ex- 
table articles, annihilate the capital i invested in the colonies, 
and ae mew ds var balsas te ope ion of the whole Archipelago. 
He was sorry t le subi terfuges had been re: 
Ateneo or w prmere 4 Theqece. 
ia a noi mance ir of wok Upy should give 
further encouragement to slavery. They claimed a 
hold high language on this satject to ae roche mao ye the 
earth. They had purchased a rif for that right; and, not. 
Sooo that they admi itted co and coffee, and toi 
they still had that right. Would preg by admitting foreign slave 
grown sugar, abnegate that right, and lower themselves from 
their exalted position the example of nations? 
m’s resolu 
mmercial p ‘ospects 
of the country. a tate his opini on free 
de. He coul Sie the fi fall on ‘h doctrines of abstract 
free oa nate ated state of existing relations. If those 
principles were strictly carried out, even the eight-shilling duty 
now proposed was indefensibl With respect the Corn Law 
he would distinctly declare his opinion. ould repeat the 
possession. On that. point he would not aa 
quainted with the political circumstances of the ques, 
ion. On the subject of finance the Minist no light 
degree eagrorrmeet but it was too much for them now to say 
they were martyrs to fee trade, d call on him ‘urnish 
te 
For the existing defic i vel it, he considered, were 
responsible; the evil cl |, 2 it of individual 
ability, but use, as a Government, had retained office 
when they longer had the means of e the m 
the country or the interest of the Crown that Ministers should 
be seen, at home and abroad, incapable of effecting t ea 
s e admitted that if ose now t e their station 
and authority, they might perhaps create an excitement which 
would for a time collect the fragments of their party strength; 
but they would learn too late the sprees? — authority, — it 
condescends to tits itself with a » becomes no longer 
ally, but a slave. 
Pine Seger said the Chancellor of asked 
e Excheque: 
0 budget from the opposite Perey. but asked only wheter that 
party west —_ the proposal of Governme e fresh 
e people. To that ques' 
toe had sai with an 
paar a sliding scale to a fixed tae sl 
very slippery a moore Sir R. eo. had not declare 
See seale On the subject ied Pacem he 
given a can timber he had t expressly 
reserve: od eae The qi 
tion and monopoly—between the interests 
Lar of the few. e 
ime at ho Hl as True, millions oi 
suffering abroad, but, he would ask, wefe there not also 
millions of our fellow-countrymen at home who required © 
ee 
notice. 
“put from 
cbarlauaiig of tbe present 
