The Express. — London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

iMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • HOUSE OF LOADS —FEDAT, MAT 31. The hoses met at 4 o'clock. ROYAL ASSBNT. The Royal anent was giveu by commisiden to the hollow ly/wing bilis :—Altention is Plead(agt• West I rala AP' crest ee D•tee s is Lessee Aet AsieshsestA Presses and (bislang ; Kew aad Pete/sham VlOlllllO 1041- de sad Coleraine Railway ; Loadeaderry sad Ramis kill's :Railway ; Walsall Improvement and Market Let (184$, ameadmests); Bella. The Lords Coreatiesinen were Lord Lsagdale, the Earl ef Cashel', sod B.rl Mina 'The house then adjeuraed during plotter, awl Ti mud at 6 *Week. SUNDAY FAIRS PRIIVRNTION‘BILL. Os the motion of the Sul of Cams.nirt, this bill was mid • mend time. DISTRESS FOR RENT (IRELAND) BILL. The Earl of LUC ANptend the seand wadi* a this bill. By the 63 Geo 111. Ma power of distesiang rent* my" far mat wee eztsoaed to Irelasd. That est lied to re pealed la 1849, and the shiest of the present measure was I. Tenon thee power. The repeal of that law wee sasalled for, sad hat b. en mat isjarnits to tbe pun of !Mead. This power exited is England, and there was so MKS why it should sot snit is Imbed. It was desirable that the tallest, is that Pone, nimbi know that the Indians pos sessed sash • power. The sable lord thee minded to three iastanes is whisk large begin of people had assembled for the purse of tarrying of * tans growing wpm. The Marquis of LANSDOWNI was sot prepared to pledge himself to support the bill, hat he thought it would ealy be fair to the seek serf to read the bill a snood time sow. He would seerlier the subject, as he agreed with the noble earl that some remedy should be applied. After • few words from the Marquis of Weermsaut sod tks Bail el Ginn+ au., the bill wait rind • wenn time. SUNDAY TRADING PRBVIINTION BILL. The Eel of HARROWIIIt moved that the hone amid go iota cessmitte.: as this bill. Lord BROUGHAM looked upon nessame of this on wits Mat ninety. Na oar had ever felt the deep impor tune of Sabbath rem more this he had, but if they at- Isimpeed to do toe mans, his her was they would defeat the el ‘set they had to view, and feeder the setnesraties of the Sabbath ..popular with the multiltaile. If they strand too bard, their penalties would all be fa van. Why should this measure be ceellasel to the metrepylb ? sad why should • person then be allswed to bay milk and arena es the Sunday, but se tea sad seen ? Shelties and hairdressing alter 10 o'clock were to be prohibited ; but people might bey uewspapers, just as if they were etc of the absolute seesseiries of life. They coiled not buy • Bi day • Prayer-book, or a stermoo, but they could bay Belle's f.ye is Loudon, it they wanted to know any- Wog sheet Ms D.rby or the Oeks. He must take this impartially of Lisreasior his surprise at the immersion ad dress agreed to is the other house, by which all Poet-yilin Wirer, sad ems. qiently all business, was to beliuspended for 24 hosts, for it type itsd all the maila won to be stopped on Sundays. The Sal of 110ENTCASHELL—Thet i. not this bill. —..---- Lord BROUGHAM.—Did the noble lad think be was such as idiot as sotto know that ? (Great laughter.) He knew very well it was not the bill before the house, but if they paired the measure now under c3rsideratiow, the alter might follow in its wok.. He bad es mach respect for the authors of the address in the other house as it WWI possible for him to feat. (" Hear."' and a laugh.) All ships, Re supposed. wire lot to sail oa the Sabbath ; these men seeme.t to thiak that idleness was the best way of keeping the Sabbath. If they were to go on in this course of legis lation, the effect would be to cause the &aeration of the sabbsth, instead of its being more respected. After some cor.venstion, the bona went into committee en the bill, the Eal of SIiAITIPBUKT in the chair. Clause I was agreed to. Oa C 11314 2 beine unposed. The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH suggested that the time for alliog tea ad sugar on Sandals should be extended to 10 o'clock. . . . Lori BROUGHAM saw no reason why milk should not be included as well as tea and sugar in the Sunday morning tare. Mtn a few words from the Earl of HARROWBY in wit de T y ie clause wee agreed to. The bill pealed through committee and the rouse resumed. AUSTRALIAN ''OLONIES GOVERNMENT BILL. In moving tte mend reading of this bill, Earl GREY commented on the imp ortanoe of a Nestles timid measure for communiti-sexhihiting so rapid • growth as the settlements in que.tion. Tee oldest, New South Wales, was founded little more than linty years ego ; and daring the last twenty years the esporte of that settlement and of Yen Dictum's Lend had increased Bfteenfold. The object of toe present bill was to avoid needless experiment, by building whatever inci'ution were required on the ex isting foundations. Up to 1842 the Australian settlements were all ruled by governors and legislative councils. At that period Lord Stanley introduced • bill constituting the present form of government of New South Welts, which, though theoretically imperfect, had not worked ill. TLe principle of the present bill was, that it respected the sanc tion thus given to that form of government by *aperient r; and he cited fd.r W. Denison's opinion to prove, that what. ever constitution was selecied for one Australian colony should be extended to the rut. He proceeded to show But this measure would correct the deficiencies of the set of 1812, by suspending the district councils until they should be required by the inhabitants ; by charging the police-rates on the general colonial revenues; and by enabling any future district c:unci!e to apply a portion of the land sales funds to roads, schools, gaols, dc. The pries of tte l.nd would be maintained not only because it conduced to these ends, but because it pre vented unwieldy estates from falling into the hands of land sharks He did not propose to give up the control of the proceeds of the land sale:, as he thought that the lucid govern ments might be induced to petition for district councils, it they fouud they could not be benefited by those sales on any other conditions The colonial legislatures would be em powered to deal with the whole re. enue arising from taxa tion ; but there would be certeia fixed charges, each as judi cial ularies, dm, which would be unalterable except with the went of the crown. Another feature of the bill wee the general assembly. His belief was, that, so far from Inch a federation being prejudicial to colonial allegiance, the Amos revolution would never have taken place had the earl attempts to form a 'congress in that country been sueeessfuL Local jealousies might retard each a union in Australia, but only for a time. He desired, therefore, to provide for the exiguity ere it came, by enabling a governor-geaeral of Australia to convene a federal, assembly on the adrese of two or more colonise. A very essential feature was the power to !hangs their constitutioneven to th e local legslature, sub ject to the went of the olonial.office. That went would not be given until the local bills authorising such changes had lain before both bosses for thirty days, during whack time the crown might be addressed es the subject by per il s. meat. This was the utmost power of intervention which the legislature ought to require. He concluded by observing, that as the Report of the Privy Council on which this Bill was founded had been approved of in Australia; and as a body of London merchants, connected with the Wanks, had petitioned in favour of the measure, he trashed it would re efiVe the sanction of the house. that ministers had not gives the measure all the completeness in their power. If le principle of the present bill was confined to the policy of panting free institutions to Australia, he should adopt it; bat he protested whist this *evermore of the principle from the details on which it depended for its vitality. The new legislature world be a hazardous constituent assembly, un like anything in history. As to the objection to change the constitution of New Beath Wales, itself was only eight ysan old. A Gamut chamber, combining the advantages of deli beration and eonserratism, might be toned In Australia, though no material existed there for a peerage. Loed MONTKAGLE observed that Lord Grey's method of "standing in old ways" wee strangely exemplified by the fact that he hi , ' advocated for Australia in 1849 tke very double chamber which he was now repudiating. He had endeavoured to apply it to New Zealand, and was about to introduce it at tie Cape. As to the abuser of materials for oath a chamber in Australia, there were at any rate the pre. sent nominees, who would carry far more weight than at present if they owes their authority to popular election. Eves in Cahlfersia materials for a double legislature had been (mad. The noble bred concluded by givir.g notice of an anseadment to the effect that a legialative comma and sieembly should be established la New filoatk Wales and Victoria 11;;;ICiRAN VILLE denied that the proposed form of legislature would be a constituent assembly any niers than was the Bugle& parlament ; and u to the advantages of a mooed chamber in this vinistry, he urged that they resulted trona association , ' and analogies which could sot be created in Australis. Lord WOURHOUSE alluded to the objection of the colonists to the powers invested in the governors. The elective franchise squired regulation, owing to the change that had taken place in the value of property. The federal weimishii was objected to by all the colonies except New South Wake. and the latter only assented becalm its own voles la the &defers would be disproportionately great. Lord STANLEY said that he had harmed the constitu tion, for *bees antiquity so great a veneration had been ahead, eight years ago, only ma stepping•stone to a double legislature. At the first outset of a coldiy, when, fur fa stens*, the peps's, body could consist of only fourteen, and the legislative council of only six, members, a division of the two might not be advisable. This he had binned( seen ex emplified in the ease of Newfoundland. Hat whether this was or was not true of the other Australian colonies, New Smith Wales had nude such great advances since 1842, that it bad probably become fit for two chaniben. He objected to the power given to the erloniets to propose alterations in their oonstitution. If they attempted to act upon it demo s:radially, the Colonial-office would interpose its veto, and thus the power would •tnly be productive of bad feeling. He pointed out that the alleged necessity for uniformity between the several colonial cony i tut ions was not reconcileab (e with the previsioes by which each colony might change its form of ='Dent without consulting the rest. And he concluded flail, that the power of regulating so influential • body as the proposed federal assembly, if vested anywhere, should he entrusted not to the colonial minister, but to par- After •tee words from Ilsrl (*hair is reply, the bill was read • second time, •od ordered to be commuted so the 10th of./ use. Thar lordships adjoined at 10 railatoo to 11 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FazDAT, MAY 31. Tin Eiramm took the ebair at 4 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED. o.kto-oitowsi Soomc.—tly Mr. MUNTZ, from the 4 t g...4416v0q Boa*/ oi Birmingham's; Mr. HARRIS, from orwich, sad other places, set hoard; Kr. N hem amnia pumas laterestedft WW ladistiner, NEWDEGATR,_hoes seven l et the West W ands' Sir J. PAILINGTON, her the Mauritius Arseatjsm, flee amine plass (atm set heasi); Mr. P. NUNS, hem esmeslplasia Glesesatentheritr. PARDWELL,frem lammed B U XTO N STLEY, hem a Taira sot heard ; sad by Sit I em Gleipmr, from the island ef Orr sada, hem St. Viseest,e ad hem melees preshytsdas me porgatleas is BMW; all prints( bra diserialeallas daty as Wall.graws mar. Pomornos.—Ey Lord ASHLEY a number et peti tions hem ittlerm_t *en,. Kr. atria , tn. a la the .ssatry ; ow. L. wATILINS. hoes the elerrereal vinistie methadon el theSerespli of Beeskserk ; Ler/ H. LENNOX, from a plan is SWIM ; Mr. !WADLEY, hem a picas le Yorks he the abolition of Sands, Is how is the Pest-s/se. lITILANOLL lorsainstrs —By Kr. HARRIS, treat Norfolk, is favour et examine! intersteste. Nersoreirrasi ItrTaetrstrrr Ina.-11y Lard DUDLEY STUART, heia St. Panora.; Mr. WYLD. from St. James's sad St. Anne., Soho; kr. HINSHAW, heat Naryhbeste sad Lasimos Ba r ed. maims eartais Gleams as tke NIL Samos Basis BILL—By CoI.LINDSAY. hos Wises; Sir IL WILLOUGHBY, hem inelam ; Yr. SCHO.- FIELD, fees Binaisgbeas; Sir G. GRIT, fres a place same am heard, against the Savings Bub Bill, mad pray ing that it might he referred to a utast esmalttes. STANT Durum—By Mr. K. GIBSON fr em the UMW@ aut. Numbest*, Stock !Whim's ; Mr. bODD, hem atter aim ef Maidmose, splint the stamp dudes reellatiess a. sew modified. Nun rrrrr STANPS.—By Kr. N. GIBSON, hem Greenwich sad hos persons is the employment of Maws. Liddos, of Dnotors'-eosamens, 'Amiss for the repeal of the newspaper stamp daty. TAXIS ON KNOWLIDON.—By Kr. IL GIBSON, from the letterpress priaten, reporters, sad others ottesseted with ilia press is Belfast, and frost Cleriteswell, praying for the repeal of the tales on keowledre. SUGAR DUTIES. . Mr. GRANTLZY itiiiiiiii save aotiot that is the evert ef the mottos of the hew. member ler Heath Bess Wag misdeed, he would ea ea early a day as peribie beim beieee the beam the set of the 4th liepeeethsr, 1648. ire repealiea the datum ea nor ' with a view I. the emeileratiew ef the meat duties ea fo reign sad slaw-grows eager, sad m eanies their ezpirieit. THE HALT TAX. Mr. FREWEN, for Mr. Csgby. far 2&h Joao. to Ism for liars to briag is e bill for tits yrs& of the mat las. COFFEE TRADE. Mr. ANSTBY, os 13th luse, to move for a select eon mitres to esquire iato the declining state of the trade is toffee, and whether it was attributable to frauds of the sellers or °then, and what mesas should be %akin to prevent those fraud.. CHURCH BUILDING ACTS. Mr. ADDSRLEY wished to km* from the right hon. gentleman the home veretery whether the government were prepared with soy bill for the alteration of the Church Building Aces, in pursuance of the recommendations of the commission eu that subject. Sir 0. OBEY said that the commission had appended to their report the draft of a bill which had been submitted to the government, which had their concurrence, and he hoped to lay ir, or some bill, on the table in the clone cf the seesien ; bat he could not hope that it would ba palmed this maim. THS CENSUS In answer to a question from Mr. NEWDZOATI, Sir G. GREY said that it was.the intention of the govern ment to bring in a bill dazing this session authorising a Genius to be taken nem peer, which was the proper time, and which must be pared this session. It would be brought in in sufficient time, bat he could not now stake the precise period when it would be introduced COUNTY POLICE. Mr. FRB WEN said that io returnsr;lative to the County Polies, one or two counties, viz., Bast Sussex and (Homes te rehire, had made no return. Ho wished to know if theirs was any objection to requiring the authorities to fill up the returns? Sir 0. GREY said that East Salt I and Gloucestershire had not tilled up the return, as the information required only related to the population in the divisions of the comm• bulary, which were the use as had been given on previous returns. It was nor, therefore, worth while to hays as amended return, as all the information required would be found In the previous returns, METROPOLITAN INTERMENT BILL. Lord D. STUART would appeal to the right hen. gen tleman the Some Secretary whether, ender all the cir cumstances, he would proceed with the Metropolitan Inter ment Bill on Monday evening. The amendments were not few sr trifling, for nine or ten new clauses had been introduced, and there ought to be time given to consider their effect. They might be improvements or not, but in common Mimes time should be given to consider thi.m, and he hoped the bill would be postponed at least until Friday. Sir DB LACY EVANS wished to make • similar appeal on behalf of his constituents. Sir GI. GREY said he thought the request every unreason able one. The ameadmenta related to an alteration in the principle of compensation under this bill. The hon. member for Bodmin had given notice of a motion on going into com• mines to refer ihe bill to a select committee, and he (Sir 0 they) wished to give him an opporunity of asking that motion. If his noble friend (Lord D. Stuar )in committee came to any new clause which he said he had not had time to consider, he would postpone such clause, but he certainly intended going on with the bill on Monday. Sir B HALL also wished the right hon. g:ntlieraan to give further time for the considerstiln of the bill. MERCANTILE MARINE BILL. a a m ews R Gk., West' ham wthis 'hi me to N thee in awe this yens from 41th erten the d. en their nth= weld Vets be brought hewn to the level of the deg cm foreign ham eager, that as that time they skald Milan as gnat dishes' le the West ladles se May had had lame. He belled ler a illifseit dm* its stesedea of the home M a &health ressivet ham Genesee Bakly, tibia tag doe* befsee . quoted la Mat Mum sad whisk seetheilltillith Nth tertian the gonad= a tithes te whisk be lied staged falli Wist vetoer lia2L i sa the 111th y am s odd; lottoren momeet, , with nasal sad i s ed prise eif pudgier, sager cultivedsa ha elide beams rmaseentive, and fora time, at least, ft will meligne so." TIM inhibited the mastitis& el Britt!' Oulthe ender the Mon se wish of Is4l. It was at moose is a oratimeatively s iz . senditios. At the M as Mae time, fat as Ise esehriages, m. "( m um la British Guiana, with a soil noel le my he the wield, wee ussodinely reduced. (Her, bow.) He led beard of 11 MO Of GO mean belinglag oo n g s thilop. which wee sot wog le 4 , 4 bought mow, with steeliest mothinery, sad was mid for 6,000 dol lar. That showed that la Edda Oulaaa they did not anticipate pagmaist patemeitto trader the act of 1848. He had a letter also from Mr. Alexander, a member of the Society of Fslende, who was travelling to the West lodise, which I m mo means gave a glowing idea of the preegmitr of the West laden. Mr. Alexander mid " I de got lkedd the Immense* of excluding have-prim mar Os Ism streagly now that I have sees • large potties ear ma West India colonise. la some of them totals/ tbe depression is very serious, of all alum, sad I fear shield very low prism orietiffee daring the mama year there will he • ennsiderable dinsiaatma of saluvation. Al though every Christian meet rejoice in the cheap from slavery to freedom, the sugar bill has In no antral degree contributed to despoil that seaman of in legi timate benefits to all dames of the community." Let him however say that be loped*, bones would shindy understand bow considerable was the isenellt whisk the West Indies had derived from the act of 1848 la the newsmen the greatest stress was Mil en the seadition of the West lodise, sad it was set forth that that onolition was in eseemasom of the set ef 1848. and that these prophecies whisk were made la 1846 had bees fatiOni W the present sedition of tie West Indies; whisemothe reuse feat wee, that the gement son &dem of the West ladies was be eensequeees .1 the Mesh does made ha the seta 1846 by the act of 1646. The pre east protestlea under the act of 1846 would ham been 3e. • ewt. up to the raid of Joly ; from July next it would have boon Is. Bd., and in July 1851 it would have been entirely equal ; whereas at the present time they had a protesting duty of Os. 64. per ewe Therefore it was in coasequeme of their having in 1849 yielded to the West Indies a certain degree of protection in addition to what they had before, that they were now, to use a vulgar expression, enabled to keep their hinds above water. Now, as far as he was informed, the exportatioa of machinery, and such like mesas of extensive cultivation, were, except in pert/160ra cues, tad to • very limited degree, not going on as they did go on to the West Indies. And now let them turn for a moment to the condition of Cuba. The exports of Inger from Cube had increased from 145,000 tens, in 1840, to 270,000 teas in IMO. He thought it likely that the power of exportation of sugar Nem Cuba was likely to Mayan still further. It is use that the number of slaves in Cuba altogether was diminished, but the production of coffee was greatly diminishes, the export having been reduced from 24,000 tons to 10,000 tons; and Mr. Kennedy, who was em ployed by the government, end who we. living in Cuba, wrote home word that 39,000 slaves had been transferred from the cultivation of coffee to the cultivation of sugar. In another letter he stated that • large number of slaves, wk., had been employed in the making of railways, were now employed in the cultivation of sugar. He would not enter generally into the state of Bread, but there also the quantity of sugar exported had been considers* in creased, and there also a very great degree of prosperity erevaited among the planters. One thing, however, was remarkable in the state of Brasil. Toe Emperor of Brasil, in making cis speech to the Corte not long sines, informed them that their agriculturists were in great want on labourers, and recommended them to supply that want of labour by some means, thereby showing that, notwithstanding what we considered a great degree of prosperity, they contemplated illumine their cultivation. If it were the simple question of the colonic alone, considering the many experiments we had made in the West Indies he shout I have been divined to treat them with more tender news and to give them a greater length of time than bad been allowed by that house; but, at the same time, be must say that it was not on account of the West Indies, but on mount of the great question of humanity which it involved hat lee was induced to press this matter upon that house. Per fiftyyears this country had considered that no effort was too great, that no sacrifice was ill made to put down the slays trade. In 1815 they gave instructions to the Duke of Wellington, by which he went abroad and proposed that • convention should be made of the different items of Eu rope by which they should prohibit the importation into their respective dominions of c lonial produce from within the territories of powers that refused to inter into that con vention. We were to prohibit even at that time slave grown produce from countries where the slave trade was still carried on. He found that at that time we gave • greet sum of money-300,0001., besides remitting a debt of 400,0001. to Portugal, and 400,0001. to Spain, to induce those countries to put down the slave trade. It was quite unnecessary to remind the house that we gave 20 million in 1833, in order that 'livery might be 'yin guished in our own colonies. He thought every one would acknowledge that i! there was one orineiple which this country bad maintained during the present century, at home and abroad, it was that having abolished the slave trade and slavery in our own country, we would do all that in us lay as a great end Christian nation to put it down in foreign countries. (Cheers) Ho hoped the time would never come when we should give up that great principle. He remembered the words Cr an American who unfortunately was himself a slave owner, who, alluding to this subject, said, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God is jut." He thought we might tremble for our country if we should arrive at the day when we pave up the great principle that the slave trade was to be opposed by eve means that was likely to be effectual. There were some objections cer tainly employed against any efforts by means of a duty to repress and to keep back the slays trade in Cuba and Brazil. He wee told that if they wished to keep out slave grown articles, they should keep out not only sugar, but also cotton and toba-co—(hear, hear)—and that while they in troduced cotton and tobacco, they tad no wish to keep out sugar. Now, he saw no reason why he should not oppose an evil that he could successfully oppose, because there were other evils that it was impossible for him to oppose. Bat he thought, if any one looked at the history of our cotton trade with America, he would see that that sou an temple rather to be avoided than followed. We first introduced cotton from America at the beginning of this century. At that time, unfortunately, we held slaves our selves, ind,tberefore, could not cusistently tell the Americans we would not admit their slave grown cotton. And what was the consequence? At this moment we were obliged to admit it. We had a vast population dependent on • manufacture which was curiae on with come, which was produced by slaves, and slaves who, he was sorry to say, were in • state I of great misery and degradation. Now, if fifty years ago we had been in the same condition we are in now with re gard to sugar, had we then introduced cotton from some other Mace and very little from America, had we made • stand it the time arid said "we will admit free operas, but will not admit slave grown cotton," would any one tel him that by this time we should aot have had an ample supply of cotton, not grown by miserable and ill-fed slaves, but by freemen ? It was also said, that if we ex cluded slave-grown sugar from this country, the effect would be that that sugar would go abroad, that foreign free sugar would come to this country, and that we should not thereby discourage slave-grown sugar. Now, that argument was theoretically true but practically film. Cuba and Brazil took a different view of it. They considered it of the greatest peeeible im portance to them that this market should be open tr them; and the day on which we, unfoetunately, as we thought, admitted slave-growa near into this country, was kept as a day of rejoicing in Cuba. The plan of the right hon. gentleman opposite to keep out slave-grown sugar, and to admit foreign tree mu, seemed to him a wise one, and it was a great misfortune that it was not mom strongly adhered to. He confessed that, for his part, he should far prefer a return to that plan. He thought that the W, at Indies had nothing to fear from free-grown sugar; he thought that they had everything to fear from due grown suzar. Bat if it were said that it was quits impossible to return to that plan then he would rather keep a differ Mid duty on all foreign sugars; Ito would rather, instead of gradually decreasing, gradually increase the duty en foreign augan. And sow let him ask the house for one moment, to consider what was the condition of the slave trade. Let the house reflect for a moment on what was the effect deny measure that they took which clearly promoted** slave trade on he coast of A ttica. He did not mean to harrow up their (milieu by descriptions of the horrors of the slave trade in its different forms, bat let him beg the house for one moment to amider the misery that was produced in the case of every slave that was captured, the miseries pro duced by his original seizure. In each ease perhaps a whole country was thrown into confusion and despair by the attack of some hostile tribe. Let him beg of the house to rawest , ber the destruction of life and the misery calmed by the detention of the slaves in those horrible places which were coiled betracoone. Let them remember that if they were supplied by slave grown sugar, they were supplied by the blood of those men who were carried across the Atlantic In those awful prison -houses the slave ship Then might be some difference of op;nion as to the misery of slave ships at present compared with what it was fifty years ago. He would avoid entering into that googlies, but would simply call attention to Mr. Wilberforee's deurip • don of a slave-ship, in 1807, fifteen years after the alcove trade had been regulated by an act of parliament. His statement was that no greater amount of misery could be in itiated on teems beings than was endured in a slave-ship on the middle passage. The condition of these poor creatures was probably no better now. On their arrival at Cabe no description of human Rimy could be more desperate than their condition. In some instances SOO slaves were shut an on one estate without a single female ; an d during crop ' siviabeemetiorjrith t:i n ne etwasksisp lui tEsowingtbs • et w a l t : 4:iro w th:fa or inp.anigsear" lt hala ied tgounaimaarabves l imurd B .,:dw h isk o edoeoy u ri.r:e. rs op,ingtirt a rbinensuarata d dlte dameteiy.trydi.tn.whic th a t increased a C oTtm u tthh r he: he y v st e is co a s a . demand i Rhwhb hers planter. a k l thatuf 0 r o t° ios f ; and' disk lives were mostly at the disposal of t heir noun wouLd w p rad rum at o ion te if, he the sake of supplying th e people with cheap sugar, they th em to admit the slave-grown sugar of Cube and a great d ß u nisa rete W • th o fi tl7 a t a m Peti n t mis ery , heyand suf. Wise that meld possibly be conceived in any human audi tion. (aw, ham.) In addition, the amelioration of Africa by othffleatien or otherwise would be prevented. The slave In answer to a qualms from Mr. Ht:rr, Sir 0. GREY mid it was his intention to proceed with the Mercantile Marine Bill. THE JEWS' AFFIRMATION BILL. Mr. GOULBURN iuquirid ft it wu proposed to pro ceed with toe Jews Afiluselion Bill on Monday. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would fix a day. ADJOURN/4EN I OF THE HOUSE. Os the rutin that the house at It. rising do adjourn till Monday, Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on Monday he should aek the noble lord at the head of the government to fix • day for proceeding with the Boclesiasticel Commission Bill. Last night the noble lord had said that the reason why there should be a ditty *protruding" with the bill, was that it had come down from the House of Lards ; and, in the begin ning of the session, he had given as a reason for delay, that it was about to come before the House of Lords. Four years they had bees trying to get a discussion of this question, and they had not yet been able to do :o. Sir G. GREY maid that what his noble friend really said wee not that he wished to postpone the bill because it had fume down from the House of Lords, but because there were other tonsures he wished to paw in order that they might go up to the Lords. His noble friend had said that a day would be flied for proceeding with the bill. EVICTIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. P. SCROPE said that on a former occasion he had asked the noble lord at the head of the government whether he had taken the opinion of the law officers of the crown as to the legality of the wholesale eviction of tenants in Ireland, or if no', whether messianic would be taken to cheek those evictions. The noble lord's answer was not utisfactory, and he (Mr. P. Serope) begged to repeat the question to the right hut. gentleman the Home Secretary, sad to give notice that he should repeat the question from week to week as long as the session buted, and while the evictions continued. Sir G. GREY said that as his ion. friend had now given notion of his putting his gumption from time to time, he would answer him on the next occasion, us he had not given notice previously to making it now. SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST-OFFICE. Mr. FORSTER begged to eve notice to the right hon. gen. deman the Chancellor of the Exchequer that on Monday he would put • question to him in relstien to the opinion to which the house came last night on the question of Sunday labour in the Post-office. He thought their opinion had not been fairly tested, as the subject had not been bully gone into, and the division had been obtained by clamour in • thin house. The motion for adjournment of the house to Monday was then agreed to. STAMP DUTIES BILL. Mr. MULLINOS wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer If the Staaap Duties Bill would be brought on to night. The CHANCELLOR of the EXIMEQUER said it could not be brought on tonight or Monday, but he would give full notice as to when it would be proceeded with. SUGAR DUTIES AND THE SLAVE TRADE. Sir E. N. BUXTON, In moving the resolution of which he had given nodes—" that it is unjust and impolitic to ex. pose the free-grown sugar of the British colonise and pos. sesame abroad to anti strieted competition with the sugar of foreign alavo trading countries," said it was with great dia. donee and • great feeling of his own inefficiency that he brought forward so great and important a question before the House of Commons. Bat haling as he did that this question was of great importance to our Weft India colonies, and as it seemed to him of still greater importance to the interests of humanity, he had ventured to throw himself on the kindana of the house. It wee of course well remembered that it was In 1841 that the first proposal was made by the whig government of that day to Introduce slave grown sugar as not aa equal duty, but at II duty which was at that time sup posed sufficient for it to compete with sugar from British poessetions. The right hon. gentleman opposite (Sir R. Peel) took a different course. Toe course that he took dur ing the time that he was in office was to reduce the duty en free foreign sugar, but jealously to exclude the produce of those countries which carried on the slave trade. In 1844 the duty en foreign was 34., sad on home sugar 245. per cwt. Some further alterations were made, end in 1848 the measure was introduced by her Majesty's present ministers on their seceseim to *Moe, against which made his chief conspisint. It was quits true that in 1848 an alteration was made, the 1.14•1111 . 0 of 1846 was in 1101:03 degree altered, and the immediate effect was certainly mitigated foe • time. He thought no sue would deny that in 1849, et • time when a noble lord, who was now no more, (the late Lord George Bentinck) was chairman of the committee, that the greatest damns. existed in the West Indies - and her Majesty's ministers, who had previously d eclared their Intention to adhere to the act of 1946, intro dosed • measure by which the effect of that set wee greatly mitigated, and the di...trona effete of it were postponed. Now he oid not wish to say to the home that at the present moment anything like the distress 'hate:Wed in 1848 now existed in the West Indies. The fact was that the act of 1848 had been very beneficial to the West Igulies, and they were enjoying for a year or two a comparative respite from their evils. But still these amount. of great prosperity were, I. his opinion, not tree. The fact was, that they were just able to eet on. They were in a condition that was jest satietwory ler the time, but he saw nothing in THE EXPRESS, SATURDAYVONING, MIL 1, VW. AR'. wri t anP tYy Hie e=enee I okras am, was Om messy Of as eled 141041 em ep impel. inn Mth* ' noun lin 6111011 M te 40011 k Ile Winn 'Wined IOW& At um Reap Ws ha 11101/117"415.1. edgeiff6 seeks, mi the valbjeod slavery ; hiSecosee wm mush diminished, lar s by edssittiag alave-gremsengar at us equal duty with our own, we imposed ourselves reed eon tempt of foreign mime end to tbesharge, ef heist slave traders ourselves for the mike of getting sugar a penny a pound chum. (Hear, beer.) He held that the NM who bought the mg& produced *the slave was as bad se the mast who bought the slave that .prodneed sugar ; Is aural guilt there was no great diffarentee, (Hear, hear.), At *ll events, it was a very ins admit bentenity to let free our own slaves, and not only to eatemeute other_ people to keep theirs, hut to buy mete. (Hear, beer.) lis hoped hes. members it his side of *is house would beget the kallealeatioes Into which they be led by free trade, sad would retire to those h goalies, of morality which they bed Sermerely 'Tired en saltiest, He hoped that these who had been led away by the hen. member for Man °beau and ethers meted quit their leadership for ones, end return to the go od mune of opposing the introduction of slavogrown sugar. (Hear.) No mu maid deny that the effect of the am of 1846 had bass, and must be, greatly to promote the slave-trade of the Brasile. The report of the parliamentary ecnunittes on the edam trade, widish sat two years, and of whist' he had the honour to be a member, de clared usaninuntsly—" That the admistioa of slave-grown sugar for oonsturepticm in this muntre has toadied, by greatly increasing the demand for that description of produce. so to stimulate the African skive trade es to ruder soy effectual check more difficult of attainment then at any former period." The right hon. member for the Ileivenity of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone) had said on a resent occasion—" If you really meant to oppose the slam trade you should n have passed the sat of 1848," and then was scarcely a member in the house who bad not, at some time in hie parliamentary Meer, declared most distinctly that the &destinies of slay.. grown eager would increase the slave trade, and that it was I necusary on that account to keep it oat. He hoped that hon. gentlemea opposite, who were in a Merest position from the free traders, would not vote marmot this amine, while sereeiag wit h it in their hearts. The right hon. berated (Sir R. Peel) had is 1846 decimal most diatisetlf and forcitsly his impruelen that the art of 1816 was llkely to increase the slave trade ; and though, from motives of policy, he then refrained from opposleg the government, those reasons had now paned away, and he hoped the right honourable baronet would be disposed to alter his vote. Ile appealed to the country volt • great confidence, satisfied that the people would willingly and gladly forego any advantage which they might derive from cheap sugar, if the house would take upon itself to maintain a high prisciple and declare, on the ground of humanity and justice, tit it it was unjust to expose fee• - labour sneer to a competition with slave-grown foreign sugar. Would the house declare by their vote that night that they were determined to take a course which would tend, by keeping out slave-crown sugar, to reptass the slave trade.' they would be backed by the opinion and the support of the great majority of the people of England. (Hear, hear.) Ito must say further, he thought a hi...int would rest upon this country if they would have the courage to adopt that course. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W. EVANS seconded the motion. Though a fres - trader, he wished, for the a Ire of humanity, that the exist ing differential duties should not be reduced below their present amount. Mr. HUME said he folly agreed in the terms of this motion—that it was unjust and impolitic to expose the free orown eager of the British colonies and possessions abroad to unrestricted competition with the sugar of foreign slave. trading countries. For many years he had felt that this was unjust, and had urged the house to take measures for en abling our free labour I. the West Indies to compote with slave labour elsewhere. (Hoer, hear.) He wan not or.e who could be accused of inconsistency, for from the m meet when emancipation wee proposed by Mr. Stanley in 1832. he had always maintained the opinien which he now supported. The colonies could not exist without labour; yet it had been the po.icy of this country to compel them to compete with slave labour, hut to refuse them that supply of labour by which alone they could to compete. (Hear.) He hod the authority of some individuals having great interest in the West Indies to state broadly that they did not want pro• Mellon. (Hear, hear.) They thought it unjust to throw en the people of England an increased price for an article of so much importance. Though having property in the West Indite, thus: who had looked most correctly at the matter did not thick, after what the government had done, and after the secrifices that had hsen made, that England ought to be longer suhjected to protection in their fescue. That protection recently amounted to about four millions a year ; and they were of opinion that no such tax was nrcessart • and that that was not the way to out down the slave trade. Could tree labour be fairly brought in'o competition, the' pro tun would he cheaper than that of slave labour. There was no other mode of potting an end to the slave trade ; the whole united fleets of England, France, mot America, if employed on the Arian coast, could not present the smuggling of etas.* which cow prevail. I. Nothing could go to the root of the evil but to mike the praline of tree' ' labour cheaper than the produce et slave tabour; then the slave trade would cease es a matter of course. The hon. barcnet might have r.ferred to the report la't year, containing an account of the horrors of the slave ships, which were e ven worse than in the time of Mr. Wilberforce, and the mortality was greater. Let the hon. baronet review the eroestion on his own pri-ciple of t umanity, and r e whe ther the condlion of the slave had not been rendered worse by our interference. No people could have acted on more hon. principles than this nation had done; and yet in this, the seventeenth year since emancipation, the export of slaves from the coast of Africa was as great as ever. What then wee to be done ? Al Mr. Canning had pointed out, 30 years ago, the population of the colonies ought to have been pre pared for freedom by being trained to labour; but no thing of the kind had taken place. The following were the resolutions prop std by Mr. Canning on the 16th of May, 1823 : Thai It to expedient to adult effeettial and &Metre measure* for meliorating the condition of the stare population to his Map ety'a colonies. itTSl,through a determined and persvverinft, but at the same time judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, thin house is forward to a pm/rewire Improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil right. and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects. That this house is anxious foe the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-brume of the clime themselves, wl'h the safety of the ententes, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property. Committees of both houses had sat on this quetion, in 11532, and that of the Common. (of which Sir F. Buxton was chairman) reported that they had only had time to examine the parties in England in favour of emancipation, and re commended that the inquiry should be resumed in the nest session, as to the heat means of carrying out emancipation, by the exeminatton of witnesses from the colonies. In the nest session Lord Stanley had at once proposed the enianeination. He had;opposed it throughout, on the group'' that the com mittee had not completed their inquiry. The col mists were evidently an anxious for emancipation as the people of Eng ' lend, hut they did not wish to lee their property sacrificed. The feeling of the house being against him (Mr. Hume) he had ceased his opposition to the measure, merely protesting sgsinat the haste with which it was sought to be carried. What had bean the result ? The noble lord the Foreign Secretary had been most energetic in his efforts to put down the slave trade, by means of treaties with France and other powers ; but notwithstanding all this, the trade still flourished as much as ever ; end in the last three or (cur years, he understood no fewer than 2.5,000 morals had been sacrificed on the passage. The question recurred—were we acting on a right principle? He maintained the negative; for we refutsed to our colonies that supply of labour which wes necessary to enable them to compete with slave coun tries. Thus we had not only failed to put down the slave trade, but had ruined our colonies,—the depreciation of pro perty could not be estimated at less than 100 millions ster ling. In Demerara estates wire duly going out of cultiva tion; the condition of the people was becoming worse; schools were decreasing, and missionaries were leaving the island. (Hear, hear.) In British Guiana the evidence be fore the committee of last year showed the deplorable state to which the colonists were Mooed. The protection given baring utterly failed to prods*, the advantages d • d, and nothing but starvation and ruin havirg been the result, it was natural to look to some other remedy for the evil. The anti-slavery society were opposed to the only means by which the slave-trade could be effectually stopped—the introduction of African labour under proper guarantees and protection. If they really desired to prevent the introduc tion of slaves into Cuba, and to put an end to the horrors of the middle pangs, let them not stand in the way of the only method by which that could be amiomplished. All he asked for was that the labourers from Africa should be ap• prenticed for two or three years. They would then be under legal prothetion, and he had no tears that the bond would be violated, for they had paid magistrates in the colo nies to protect them. The hon. member for Newcastle under-Lyne (Mr. Jackson), stated on a former occasion that there would be no difficulty in obteinini emigrants from the coast of Africa, because the chiefs would prefer consign ing them to the English to selling them to the Portuguese. He did not see any injustice or cruelty in this. (Hear.) The measure which he now called upon the govern ment to adopt was recommended in the report of the committee of 1811, over which Lord Bandon presided. It was proved before that committee that in 1841 no people had so many comforts and enjoyments—that none were more remarkable for sobriety. Having quoted from the despatches iu proof of his psi ion, the honourable mem bar asked, with these facts before them, was it not evident that the condition of the African would be greatly benefitted by his introdueion, under proper rules and regulations, into their colonies? (Hear, hear.) Ile calls d on the house to assist in bringing about such a change, for the sake of the unhappy African himself; for it was only by doing so, and not, as p ro • Keby the Anti-Slavery Su dety, by maintaining r. strict ire tt, that they could amalisrate his condition and put an end to the truffle in slaves. (HINT. bear.) If, therefore, the bon. baronet consented to the addition of the words he (Mr. Hume) proposed, he would support his resolution. Mr. MANGLES seconded Mr. Home's motion, entirely agreeing with him in his view of our true colonial policy. Colonel THOMPSON saw nothing in the principle of (rim-trade to prevent free-tradentroni supporting the motion of Sir B. N. Buxton. But he had a distrust of apprentice ship, of which he had seen much when he was governor of Siena Leone in 1808-9-10. It was slavery under anotha MOM -- it; 0. BERKELEY gave his entire approve! to the re odation proposed by the hon. 'wisher for Booth Est:, but ssid that it was incorrect to state that the sufferings of the West India colonies were not now is great as ever ; and he inwanesd cement extraordiney depreciation of property in British Guiana and elsewhere. Th. meddling of ths Colo nial-ofliee had done all It could to depri ve British Guiana of free labour, by forcing that colony to a distant mart for la boursrs. But the feet was, the colonise could not, in their (spit wreldhetilWaMitftlet a(spit 'Me mad abie , afford ita Allmanded was preerettma - 11re llb = siodustiey'ldayr dr tamer , by main ad Um log lb‘ denial •Vr• ttam sugar. Ile /Amiga the policy slid* landil • aims abate Baader labour la tbe PeetyMM, Jiad bemeht supr to maim erbidt ski ekes worked ftekt Ittitte on the Sabbath. He saw ale at sees. length * oar Intercourse with various barbarian slave telling as arca! that we were sot in tersest is af feedsg (be traffic; and be int hailed by nesert fug kb belief that the pretest system would Messiest* in the lies of ear iatibiiire. UNISON Matsmded tb,at, so &Mom the govensment Whinftog bees medeetive of helm" to tie selowee, it ire/hid meet • favourabl ac erturaing all the propaeeles which lad been uttered i t. Be want late statistics to show sat Improvemeat the productive eoaditfoe of se veral eolowies, sad without desyag the existence of distress, attributed ft sot to oar present polar, but to Odom Meal stastai ettablished, tral4 to the bed ammegerent, of colonial agriculturists. He also =Sit theta ,of brie yams, beets a pest [peruse IS Int_ _pliedastlen of shimegrowa sager, bat emerted that shlefimiswase had arisen he= 1828 to 1840, which "arm hithin we bad mhalttod the foreign eager, end that the Weems 1n oar own production had proceeded in at bait ea equal ratio. But, during the four years since the legulatioo, our consumption of free-labour sugar had/laoreased from 227,000 to 282,000 toes, wbile that of slave-grown auger had decreased from 61 000 to 86.000 tons; and he described a similar proaw in record to molasses and rem. The whole world prodaad 1,227,000 tons of eager. Of this, 897,000 tone was prodom dby free labour, sad but 680,000 tons by slave labour. let ear I.miteel market it was Imputable, tine* we had screed to admit udoed Nagar, and since the repeal of the morleatimt laws—it was impossi ble to draw any distinction ae to the origin of tee retitle. The gradual depritenion of protection had bees smolt beet le:dal sat, sad any revered of that policy would be most dangerous. Re predicted that, tong before 18-54, the 'Mo nies would be in Me same position as regarded sugar as they ▪ were in regard to ooffee. To vary our legislation would be to annouoce the fai are of our own free-trade polier, and would induce slave-holding nations to adhere, with even greater earnestness, to the only system by which, in that ease, they could possibly defend themselves. lie, therefore, oposed the motion. - Mr. B. 11.41TAHLEY rote to rapport the sootiest Amidst general cries of " Divide ;" but on stating that he had th re addressed the house for the first time, the hon. gentlemen was bond with evident attention and interest. He had not a steel, statistical table, and could quote no figures in sup port of his views upon the question, bat he should (Refine himself to a simple reply to some of the observations which had fallen from the speakers who hid preceded him in I the debate, and be should do es as briefly as it was I possible. The hon. gentlemen& oppuite (Mr. Wilson) at tempted to prove by a moat elaborate and careful calculation that the growth of roger had greatly increased within the last few ysers,uot only in the West Indies, but lean owe E est Indian colonies too. Now, he (birStanley) wished at the out set to corroborate the statements that had been already ma le, that the question now under consideration was not a prate c tionht question, and he was anxious to say it was not in tended on that (his) aide of the house it should be so cowl tiered. The question was sample enough as regarded the West India colonies. Brion the motion would be etjcetcd, the how. should none to the conclusion that free labour eou:d suctudully compete with slave labour, and that was, in his opinion, notwithstudiag the argument of the bonourable gentlemen opposite, Impossible for them to do. On the otter hand, if this country indirectly maintained slavery by th , consumption of slave-grown produce, they should confetti tt at the 20,000,0001. paid fur the enencip e tion of the Owe, and the 50,000,0.101. expended in the sup pression of shivery, was so much money literally teroen away. It was a very difficult queetion to argue upoil gen- rel grounds, but he would refer to a few facts to show the dis advantages to which, he was aware, that free labour was ex. posed when in competition with slave labour. He should first refer to a despatch of Colonel Rue in May, 1818, whea govern .r of the island of Barbadoee. It wet distinctly stated by Colonel need that the cost of molting sugar by hoe labour in that island, was much greater than under the system of slavery. Now he (Mr. Stanley) could speak with some con , tidence upon that point, and he mat unhesitadegly eta'. d that it there was one place more than another in which the question as to free and slave labour could be fairly triad, that place was the island of Baroadoes. The population was as dense there as in China—wag. s were very low, almost as low gin Ireland, or in any coast part of the world. They did not exceed 81. a day, so that if free labour could suo eesefully compete with slavery, it should be capable of tieing so at Barbadoes. At all events, the trial of line labour was es fair as it could possibly bo, especially when the situstien of Barbedees was compare with that of Jamaica, Trinidad, or Galena. The last-mentioned col hy was an extensive country conteining some thousands of equate miles, but its population wee not half that of Berbodoet. Regular la bourers in the colonies were very few, because abundance, for the purpose of a mere subsistence, could be obtained in those climates by • ry little labour, and sometimes without working f d it at all. Then there was little diffioulty in purchasing land, and there were many other a:. ens open to people who were disinclined to earn a fair day's lieges for a heir day's work' in those distant regions. As to emigrant labour it could never be obtained as cheap there as slave labour, and if it ever became as cheap, the emigrants must of necessity fall many degrees below the condition of slavery. It was unreasonable to expect, therefore, that the present commerce,' system of this couctry could succeed in the supprueion of slavery, especially when it was recollect. d that one Fueceseful voyage with slaves produced a prc fi sufficient to'cover the expenses and losses of five failures. The hon. gentleman referred concisely but ably to the con dition of our West India col miss at the period when the slaves were emancipated, and argued that the compeneati:n they otid by England to the planted and proprietors o' slaves in our colonies in no respect compensated the various other interests which were deeply affected and injured by the various chimp" which had been since then effected in our commercial law , . The ado:nits no doubt were compensated by the payment of a sum of money, certainly very large for the British nation to bestow, but it was as nothing when compared with the hues Retained by all thee connected with West Indian property. Immediately baoro compensation was awarded to the planters and proprietors of slaves in the West Indies persons were sent out to value the property, and they estimated it at 43,000,0001. It aeon, however, dwindled down, and ultimately became very nearly worthless. The bon. gentleman called on the house not to mock with any insulting sympathy those weeme in terests had been so much prejudiced, but to agree to the resolution, which would be, at least, one step in the right direction. (Cheers.) Mr. HUTT complimented the hon. gentleman who had just addressed the house upon the excellent speech he had made. But notwithstanding the pleasure with which he had listened to the honourabie gentleman, he was not convinced by his arguments, and he should, there fere, vote against the motion of the honourable baronet. He would contend most strongly that it was utterly im. possible now to change the policy which had been pursued with regard to the importation of sugar. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he would give his cordial support to the motion of his hen, friend; but he also felt it to be his duty to indicate the course he should pursue in the event of the motion bring carried. He should in that event take an early op portunity of moving for a committee of the whole house for the purpose of reconsidering the sugar duties of 1846. The present motion was in an incomplete shape, and only pledged the house to an abstract resolution, but did not indicate the manner in which the injustice which it com plained of was to he prevented. There were difficulties in the way of reviving the distinction which had been made by hts right hon friend the member for Tam worth between foreign free-grown, and foreign slave-grown sugar, sod that difficulty was increased by the repeal of the navigation laws. He should propose to carry out the object of the motion by an alteration in the sugar duties, he would not say now to what extent, but certainly they were not to descend lower than the difference which existed between foreign and colonial sugar. As tenet altering the policy which had been pursued, it had been done already by the present government in 1848, in consequence of the dewier* of the colonies, and he believed that the government would not venture to approach the equalisation of duties, even in 1834. The hon. baronet then read as extract from a pamphlet published within the last day or two by the hon. member for Lynn, in which he spoke of the ruinous state of British Guiana, the houses being dilapi dated, and the machinery in some cases taken away, in others not. Ten estates, which from 1835 to 1844 cost in the aggregate 155,0001, had bees brought to the hammer within the last three years, and sold for the aggre gate sum of 17,0001. One estate of SOO acres without any encumbrance upon it had been sold for 601. And let him all attention to another subject, the terrible effect they were producing upon the creole population, who he feared were rapidly degenerating into barbarism. In support of this point the hon. baronet read an extract from the lest re port of the Wesleyan Missionary Surety, and a despatch from Lord Grey in answer to a despatch from Governor Meekly, in which his lordship laments the ruin that had fallen upon the planters, and that the negro population instead of making a great advance in civilisation, as might have been hoped, they were as a body less amenable thee they were to the restraints of religion and law, and as subject es ever to the degrading superstitions which th• er fathers brought with them from Africa. The hon. baronet also cited in support of the earns the evidence of Dr. Lush• ington before the antislavery committee, and then read an extract from the speech of Mr. Gladstone in the debate on the withdrawal of the slave trade squadron, to the effect that if we wished to maintain a character for consistency with the world we should repeal the act of 1846. The lad authority Its should quote was that of the noble lord (Ltd J. Russell) himself who in the same debate distinctly admitted that by the act of 1846 we had placed our own colonies at a great disad vantage. He had heard with surprise and sorrow the noble lord's appeal to the Almighty on that occasion, coming as it did from the 011.1iltel• who had done more than any other living man to stimulate the slave trade by passer( the act of 1846. We lavished our money in the maintenance of a squadron on the coast of Africa. lie, on the other hand, was for accomplishing the object by nfusing to seeded the produce of slaves. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his hon. blend had now redneed his motion to ex press an opinion that colonial saw should not be ex potted to unrestricted competition with that produced in foreign slave trading countries. When the principle was to be found that enabled his hon. friend-to drew the distinction between thou slaves brought across the Atlantic and those brought from Virginia to Caroline, and worked in sugar plantations there, be was at a loss to know. His hon. friend did not profess to deal with sugar produced by slave labour in those countries which were not slave Reding. His hon. friend said he who bought slave-crown sugar was as guilty as he who bought the slave. Testa was not he who bought alsve-grown maim as guilty as he who bought the sugar And when the ken. mesalwe for Dororshir Husks ed elsweegtown sup, and of alaviedt-e-w, 1 75 a d,, pared his (ek C. Wood's) Comprehension. *1 ;,;•:,, 'IMO • his hes. Mead would feel thee guilty.' of 1 d Bat the principles which th e ' k u .„, — "' 2 . _` l • lemma opposite had supported the motion s r Mead were totally at • •'• b vita those 11, Mend hlssuilhad leid doves. Weeat his h o laid down wu to exclude the sugar of cub s▪ "4 Ated - Ite should have best prepared to a a airiest beton, a n d, indeed, had barn 'Hu r tled - that by the eihniesies et frie labour steer fZ t i - .171, newel owls" they Just as certainly, though a ercieuragedthepeoduatiea of drere.grown ne ra ni admieted it tote this oeuntry direct B ut iippoirite bad mimed him the trouble of a eßw i wa th - • hue err he threw aver Mat dioniaction altuether. had aelearge eggiut the present government i k haw l l "wee hampered thefteelves by deciaretlen, wh en —.7116 4 that it weeimpouible to malstals th e dieriee- oe friend said it was impossible te make tha • • and be proposed, *bevel , r•e, to pu all font: on the sage foot:ng. The object nt ti e gentleman aid of thou who were with him was after all protentiee ;to re;.- ; th e 1.4 t colonial auger to the consumer la thin en nor 0- ,`„" hear.) That he was not prepared ho el hoped that louse was sot prepared tn d o Inland (Hr. Wilacio) had stated the terretiti which eta seater is this country bad deriv e d jr„. the itics ed hate within . fat fc♦ tcei the statement which T* tt this country wee aoser ~ h44 t ie : : :n s r np u dti ; b in sit i a :p g t ai i l e o i.f B44 a n su of ti liog u aa r a t w u ri g: em s P ? 2o6 i r u t: it s lammed to 300 toes. That benefit had been ate; 4 *quietest. In consequence of the decreased pric e ' " If the motion was carrird they: sunned is diaeouregiog slate injare the consumer toe considerable deg:to. Te e . thou per head in 1840 was 19 lbs. ; in the Lett te ' c --- u t 171bs; in 1849, erten the lint nueseure el e.rried, it was 201bs. per head ;In 11i47, fint y the second measure ofrelanatlon, it woe • ,ao4 Tens 24111 e. That was an increase of newer Those who took an interest in the will.lni ee of is, classes of our popahstion would, lit was that they had derived so cous;derable a hen , that policy. (Hear, btu.) There was • ; behind, and he fully admitt e d t h e • i t yes a very arrest impoetaisoe, and that was, whet was .4 o, it would produce upon the West ld'ies eireaveler believed with the hon. member for Seesibur.., that unfortunate course for the West ledisn i the passing of this measure, could net be der admitted the statements that had been made ~• distress fa those adonis*. No urea ci4 than he did with that distress, or ass i¢ . to afford them such r• lief as he nee,. conduct,' to the interests of the where lived that in eansequenee of the act of 1 . ,16, exerted themselves to a degree that mativ th e capable ot, end had eteapened their pro - stele, T r :ion of the East Indies. of the Maniitiu.. at•! e; • Indir s, had been considerably feereased in ~r last two years. All these facts were .I.e ~ there could be no dispete shoo. i..r. ; .. gentleman the member for Dirtutoire. the quantity of sugar of the different co, year., aid the best test ef the podia was the importations into this countiy,... : m -is would reter to that return to , s .• it 1848 aid 1849 there was an ine • . 1 tity imported from Antigua, from s Jamaica, from Br. Vincent, ae•i From the whole of the West 1.. • was from 2,791,000 cwt. to 2,810,000 cw men seemed to say that that had faller nit the existing year. It was impossible to ;• . :he sent moment; but from the last despicen t. qeantity was 9,336 cwt. in the first quart. r 7,900 cat. in the tint quarter of 1819, th,u a h t tion of one year a. compared with arena-e• he much depended on the weather. 11.. had observed that all the 'figment ease. the committi e4l thIS prLdn;tt t:tel - - and said that Ceylon would be a desert ~ clac:ion of c-Mec, and the Mauritius r u., hon. friend showed that these but his hon. frieno did not, as the h :3, supposed, omit the West Indies, because paring toe three yetis before 1846 with quo., there was an increased Wes: India colonies; the quantity 01.3 ._. that three years, and 148,001 t yam subsequent to the passing et t' Taking rather a longer serifs of ye ra— years, and comparing thrill with the pr, 1 • • . ha found that from moat of the colonies t' ▪ iccreene of imperavioe. From . r the average icoportatim in the din . 177,000 cat. ; r.ow it was 180,000 ewe 1 r I - the former period it was 290,000 es ; 402,C00 cwt. From Derbies (as was u. crease had been from 282,000 cwt. to Kitt'. from 89,090 ewe to 107,000 ewe ; 66,000 to 57,000 owe. In all these colonies annual importation of the last five years cousi. ceeded the annual average of the nine •, ceding 1939. The one was the setae in . An average importation of t22,0f..0 cwt. come 572.000 cwt. In Jamaica the lamas: had '• 602,000 cat. to 665.000 cat. In the Materefu cat. had become 907,000 cwt. Taking it e seer• our colonies, the aaaaa etc annual impertatien years bad been 5,000,000 cwt., as comecre 1 war. cwt. in the preceding five rut. Hon. geia:e•re its beine utterly im,ineible to do now what w . time o: slavery; but he begged et:end-it. eonclesive stetemerd An account hao •, annual aggregate amount of sugar imp etr . colonies in the six years ending 1834, !he slavery, and the annual avera ge of the s,it.e . • six years ending 1849. Of course, tacit e ge•ther, there was a considerable • • ; Lion was, whet could be done by :a • whether it was possible for it to coca : slave labour. In three of the colenies, important ones, the average son,, .1 import, the last six years exceeded whet it was cn the het 51 of slavery. From Antigua, the ae‘rize imp , in the six years earring 1834 wee 171 e.. 0 eat last six years, with free labour, it hat From Bsrbadoes, where it WAS s:a - d •. able for free labour to compete with nerd average produce for the slit yiar• 343,000 cwt. In the last six years it ea In the island of Trinidad, with a ',hue c. and uncultivated soil, where the neer pelted to labour by the want of the 111:•43. the annual average prolnce le the las c, y been 310,000 cwt. In the last six Taus, with a I:wer price for their , r diminished cost of production in the re. r• three Wanes had been able to on quantity of sugar in the last six L . six years of unrestricted and untnitiest. hon. friend (Mr. Wilson) had sheen of colonial sugar had increased white t. .• had fallen off. As the house was now L. •• hon. friend spoke, he would restate the , c: ,•A son which his hoe, friend had made; r ...•, a.- extent a question of statistics. It was tr consumption of foreign sugar had fallen it had increase! fomershat in the hegi of The entry of 1849 had bees ma:. riall•..:! „I I.y ordinary entry of IS4S, when 15,6'0'0116 re ill:, week : therefore the year 184:1 acrard r o I*.ie s•Ji But taking whole years, as his bun. tri.r. I hid .17. be seen that in the last four years. ending 1..1 been a gradual increase in the (attars c f it'. falling eft in the entries of foreign. t.t..... 17. ending in July, 1847, the colocial so: er.:. 227,000 tons; foreign, 61,000 tons. In t 0- July, IhlS, the colonial had increased t.. foreign had decreased to 39,000 tons. In the n colonial had increased to 2.31,000 ton-. Ist. , also increased, owing to the circuniece. , s he 'limed, to 49,000 tons ; but in the last 1849, the entry of colonial sugar had 111..,0• tons, while that of foreign sugar had . tons. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, toting th.• and not two or three particular nuntEst.. , ...• act of 1946 had been io operation, whsn it er s e., COUT74llll2filt was given to slave.grown etre ,r, an. vernment bad forfeited all claim I,) hr 01.5. possessed of the feelings of honor::-p. t Gumption. of colonial sugar had 227,000 to 292,000 tons; while that of had fallen off from 61,000 to ;i0.7C0 hoses. , th, His belief, therefore, was that freo !shout a 0 u'..1 • slave labour (hesr)—that it was as ch,..r, sr..t cheaper. A dispatch from Governor Rei I. tow e t , , had been quoted by as hon. gentleman o t e..:s.te. A• freedom required to be nursed by pride , c n, se— , would be necessary for six years longer. hot ought to have read two paragraphs more, he have found that the opinion of the govern r a .0 t. I (trent from that which he had re preic added—" How lone that time shill b • I ca:o.•. • there be no protection the cultivation of e. , . given up; it will dwindle in all the Wit...Wsl.l 1.• cept Barbados." (Hear, hear.) Thee, •5tu....:, be the result to the other isisiels, the e.oe an ork t prepared d th t a o t sa flo u n i ! ,. pti c i nhr ..pa his it field n y :dy o i tge. even extract o o t f an i ‘e n .,: t eros h om e so c laa u b : I t .h, u riue r ar. e piaal fpw. g om r iri e tott a npe t miac f lo at trodiv , roiee w ful ti r i e c la h , sabeil eou taiudibart l :ta d pertuh n fßaio o eai t rtl be r great obstructions to the in!t0.1..e:i• , . 1 into the colonies. What were those rtatent 4 ? thepiaerfee ladies.sci ) a t u l v y rs e e su tru l ie n e d h it i ic A h d h e ,nri g t ot.. h o a n : b th o e n. h g o e nse ntie w m o an uld wu be and the slave trade, but in effect it w , I . h „„ ll'ir, sir g. tteiTO duty against foreign sugar. ( • e . uses • ( e l i h t le s t r ar s 'a t . ion h et e :th7 ar i m atese . u b t iar es i ta bo ) 7o o f the house would net suppor lenatt t teiw a inneg na bf liti tChlel i i t wo l a i rl ei l:7r:l : .l7l°l:at:reij . : ,l :: :l, intended as a dierour.e.nwi v • ...., in to cheek that enterprise by hai,lititt chest that the delusive system 0: prat uom stored. (Ileac, hear .) Ile admitted that g• reet cultivation the th at wproductions o k o i l n a land, , he sugar t t r h u date s hl : th e e Iteitt ' ; ‘)°‘: h yt:h rV ieui: h m:lj e ati u ctot!ihti:trl. " ettr Rki :1 • , T ' It 15.. I.e. sr.,l e :*. fie i