The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-15 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION ....••••,.. ile freel the PL ° ' ; ilt a frqui -de elec- daps cl;;- bov ly, to • see a single expres4on of feeling in favour of the present Corn ...laws, but that, on the contrary, the most influential and re ' spectable of nur provincial contemporaries have declared them selves firm advocates of Lord J. Russell's propositions.— Ibid. CORN LAWS, - &c.—A meeting of the Board of Directors • and Guardians of the parish of Marylebone took place last - night, at wliieh—afier many able speeches had been made, for :which w e regret we have not space—it was resolved to ' Pe'ilion Parliament for an alteration in the existing system of ' Corn laws. Meetings also on the same subject, have been - held during the Week at St. Marlin's-in the-Fields, St. Leo ' nard's ShOrediteh, at Kentish Town, in the Ward of Farring don Without, and generally throughout the country. THE CORN LAW AND THE POOR- LAW. - To THE EDIF6ii . OF THE SUN. SI I address you because your Paper is 'more read In News -rooms here, and other places where I have tra velled, and is calculated to give more light than many other; which appear like a star in comparison to the great orb of 'night. I have concluded, from .the result .: - of the Nottingham election, that surely we must have arrived at the summit of ignorance on the one hand, and decepti on on t h e other. When. the Poor-law is con trasted with the Corn-law, the first does not affect above • we in an hundred, while the other affects ninety-nine . out, of every hundred. Even admitting the Poor-law was bad, which I deny—though not perfect, I am sure it is superior to the old law—indeed, in large towns, the new law is very like the old law to them, so much so, that there required no alteration, where is the compa rison of the 'two questions ; and the model of the new I ,„a'y was found i n N o tti ng h ams hi re un d er th e o ld s y s t em . - "he aged, infirm, and deserving poor will find the supe , rierity ef the new Law, and idle, drunken, bad characters, •, who are the cause of more than one-half of pauperism, will find the new law too strict for them. OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW POOR-LAW.bilild • LAticE BASTILES.—EIegant, clean, well-regulated ; instead of low, filthy places, which would not keep Out the rain, wind, or snow—all masters, and fighting continually, in some of the country places. SEPARATION OF MAN AND WIFE.—I have been in a Workhouse bAnging to thirty-eight parishes, but there !vas not a couple there ; if there had been, they would have bee n separate 'd ur i ng th e d ay , an d toget h er at n ight, unless young people ; indeed it seldom happens a man and'his wife to be paupers together: Too :117CH EXPENSE WITH OFFICERS. - 7 4 believe they save the towns more by preventing imposters drawing front the f un d, an d es p ec i a lly l aw ex p enses a b ou t t h e Nht settlement of paupers, which is not so much dis puted, than is paid to all the officers put together ; and t he Guardians are respectable, cost nothing, and meet la the morning in their sober senses, which, under the ';', 1(1 , law, was far from being the case, the business being done at public-houses in the country. - OIIJECTIONS TO REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. I T WILL LOWER, WAGES.—If so, increase the price ; out When corn is low, wages are high ; and when high, Wage s are driven lower. IT WILL RUIN THE FARMERS.—Does the farmer eat bread ? If rents are lowered as they have been raised, - it must b enef i t the whole community except the land °Wner ; in manufacturing districts some farms are four tin es ,the re n t th e y were f or ty y ears ago . In country Places we use three kinds of corn, viz , oatmeal, flour, a nd malt. If a moderate family, the corn will cost ss. t er week, 2s. of which may be used for clothing if the is repealed, if not our populatilm must continue in r ang, and destitute of the common comforts of life, like Ina nY of the Msh and Irish. Indeed, some the here say. " if the Corn-law cannot be repealed ~vitaoitt universal suffrage, which may be universal con _fusion, we had better have it than universal starvation." laud Population is increasing 1,000 per day ; our best !loanirs. covering with buildings and railways ; two-thirds Population in some districts are not so well fed as . 1 15 11 the workhouse ; our cottages are deserted, and hus bands seeking shelter in a foreign land, and leaving their wife or children to the parish. One of our best cus tomers is in debt to us and cannot give us money ; but c an give us corn, which we want far worse. Indeed, in Arnerica, 101bs, of best flour may be had for one shilliag, QM the same would.cost us two shillings ; _the carriage (Which i s a su ffi c i ent protect i on to our farmer) to Liver -11 Of a barrel is 2s. 6d., though it weighs 1961b5. ti tter and b u t c h ers ' m e a t w ill be -more within the I . each of the poor man, for they are - double the price gluey were in the memory of some who are now living. 1 :7- - aring 'you to make use of what you please, a nd when J'ou please, of the above, _ - I am, &c. . . . . . YOUR CONSTANT READER. liuddersfield, May 11, 1841. P.S. I believe we had one of the most un an i mous a nd best meetings on the Corn-laws in this town, a short time ago, that ever there was in this large county. - LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 15.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze 0:n E. to S.E., fine clear weather. DEAL, AilY 14.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrived the Sumatra, from Ceylon ; Malcolm. Sims, Singapore. Arrived from the river and sailed the Forth, for Sydney ; Jasmania, Hobart Town; Five Sisters, Quebec ; Dev a , P or t Dowss.—Arrived the Alexander, from Calcutta; Penyard, Part, Mauritius. SHEERNESS, May 14.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Volage, from Portsmouth. STANCATE CREEK, MAY 14. —Arriv , d the Sharon, Fos, from Alexandria. HASTINGS, MAY 14.—Arrived off, the William Nicholls, Elder, from Manila for Hamburg; President, from La Guayra •;.7for trenaen. • MAY 14.—Arrived off, the Eleanor Ruisell, I C ri. :"th. from the ' Mauritius. • r Po Nrslrouris, AlAv 14. —Wind S. S. E.—Arrived off, the so n , from Jamaica, with loss of boats, bulwarks, Ike., 1 3 4v , i ng experienced very bad weather. Sailed the Sarah Bell, l, fur sydney, New South Wales; Boadicea (transport), eir o. Liv taeoor., May 14 —Wind variable.—Arrived the liar -55,°„ E ly, Jamieson, from Mobile ; Fairfield, Wilson, New York, lath ult. Sailed the Richard Anderson, for New York ; teen, Queb ec ; Sh annon , P r i nce Ed war d' s I s l an d. A rr i ve d off, the Lancashive, from Mobile. The Alpha, bound to New port, which was on shore on the North Bank, got off last night. Pt vmou'ru, AIrAY 14.—Wind N.—Arrived the Lucretia, i ir al e a r n in d g . , for Antwerp. Sailed the Prince Rupert, for New SaLcomnE, MAY 13.—Arrived off, the:Gazelle, Donaldson, irutu the Mauritius. MA Y 11—Wind variable.—Arrived the Royal . ‘v illia,n (steamer), from Dublin, for London, and has received on board 200,000 dollars. sailed the Prince Albert, for St. John's, Newfoundland. L 0 C ... ?,", MAY 12.--Arrived the William Metcalfe, from . "Qati. fur Sydney. Sailed the Queen, for Quebec. Ar li;ved,efr the Seven, France, from Mauritius ; Robert Parker, V'OM North Orlans, and sailed for Havre. The Sovereign .aek , t) f rom L ondon to M a l ta, h as b een towe d roun d b y t h e p a ' c r t ,w%a (stea mer ), with mainmast cut away. The Robert Ca pe "r, arrived o ff thi s P or t, from North Orleans, saw off Clear yesterday, a black ball Liverpool packet ship. n e Seven, France, arrived here from the Mauritius, en "Nei ed a heavy gale the 19th and 20th February, off the 'Ca t , Da and lost bulwarks, sprung bowsprit, &c. The Columbia "„ - `'" e t. from Monte Video to Antwerp, rrported yesterday, has _me in, and the master reports that ten days since, in lon. 18, p saw at some distance a large steamer, bound to the eastward, which appeared to him to - be disabld, as she was going very and could hardly keep way with his vesscl. As night hea vy on he lo s t sight of her, and two days afterwards had a gale t o th e eastward ; she was so tar from him that he ;'_,Tioot d escribe her appearance further than tl.at she was a l arge itt amer. SWANSEA, MAY 14.—Arrived the Smith, from Cuba. 4 ACHY HEAD, May 13.—Arrived off, the Wanderer, from Calcutta. - . - , 1, • , - SUGAR D 11 TIES. GLOUCESTER. —At a meeting of the Committee, together if - ' "ith several friends of the Anti-Slavery cause, held the 13th ~ of May, 1341, a communication was read from the British ,0 aild Foreign Anti-Slavery society, urging upon their friends in the country to oppose the alteration proposed by Govern ment in the duties on Foreign Sugars,— Releolved—That this meeting is not prepared to give their 9Pliosition to the measure without further information on the ttilaject ; it appearing to this meeting that it is of the utmost 3 , importance nut hastily to invalidate the great principle so long enforced by the advocates of freedom, that free labour is niora economi,lal than slave labour, and would effectually compete with it under fair and equal circumstances. ~. 'a. IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FROM SCOTLAND. btu!--The large importations of live cattle and meat from Scotland i t , taro London is fast equalising the value of provisi'ms in the two erauntries. The Scotch graziers obtain a much larger price tor oxen in England, and, after deducting the expenses of freight, embarking, and landing, averaging at least 21. 10s. per head, they are gainers to the amount of 30s. or 2/. for each ox, „ The North Star steamship, which arrived off Downe's wharf on ' , Friday from Inverness, had her decks covered with cattle, :14iich - were landed in the evening, and soon found purchasers. LOItD JAMES BERESFORD.—We understand s i tlerel,ativei of he Noble Lord had not up to a. late hour last nioe received any confirmation of the report that he had coin ' nutted suicide on the 27th Ult., on his passage home. His I 4-ordship is youngest son of the late, and brother of the present Alarquis of Waterford, and brother of 'Lady Sar th Ingestrie. lie was born 6th October, 1816, and is consequently only in his 25th year. TOKER KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last, as the luggage-train from Leeds was proceed to Derby, when near Duffield the stoker of the first engine stopped to adjust a chain, and his foot slipping he fell between ° the rains. The ash-pan of the second engine completely severed the head of the unfortunate man, who was killed on the -spot. Sheffield Mercury. • ANTI-TORY MEEEING IN DUBLIN.—The 'friends of honest Government in Dublin are to assemble to morrow' at the Royal Exchange, to renew their deciaration of unalterable hostility to the Tory-Orange faction, and to ad dress the Queen, imploring her Majesty still to preserve her devoted Irish subjects Irons the perils and the calamities of ()range rule. Lord Charlement takes his legitimate station as Chairman of the Metropolitan Reformers at this trying mo ment. There is a current rumour that the Orangemen mean to disturb the meeting. Our friends, we are sure, will be pre areJ , for such a contiugency.—Dublin Evening Post of riday. THE ROYAL ELOPEMENT IN PARIS.—A gteit sensation has been created in the highest circles by a t - essing event in the family of the infanta o: Spain, Dun Pnrucisco de Paula, occasioned by the elopement of one of the Prinoesses, his daughter, with a Polish gentleman (Count Garovoki), aged, it is said, about 50_ e elopement took Place,'tna convent in Paris, where the Princess had b een placed, and the escape of the young lady was effected, wN hear, by weans of a ladder of ropes. The telegraph was set to work immediately on the circumstance being discovered, and the further alight of the fair fugitive and her companion ahsusrt,azeyd. at, 1,1 - . 1 understand, Vale nc i ennes.—Galignani, o f • A very retnurkable circumstance has just oc :, eutred in the c om mune of Woluwe St. Lambert, near Brussels: 1 1 : , o ne r eeetive ages of 39, ur broth ers, farming labourers, living with t h e i r mother, of •p 36, 29, and '27 years, a ll b ecame in sane in less than two hours. The eldest ran away, the three their in fury ‘J.l4..,:others were taken to the hospital St. Jean at Brussels, where was with difficulty restrained. so groat was their cider bodily strength, and so violent the species of madness un- ' , Which they were labouring. One of the at at the pital narrowly escaped being killed by them. None of th ese unhappy men had, it is stated. showed previous signs of mental 04Lerr ation.—Brussels British Gazette. or aired off on Mr. Muntz's motion respectin g d Cardi gan. t-- , ,•Sir B. 'fall f0r...441 r.Bretnsttm naainst, 0 15 Lt GREAT ANTI-SLAVERY MEET ING.-(YESTERDAY.) Mr. O'CONNELL (in continuation froin cur Evening Edition of yesterday), said—They had been told that the mighty experiment of emancipation would be followed by every crime that could disgrace humanity. They had been told so by these new Anti-Slavery advocates. (Loud cheers.) What had happened' 'I he calum niated African race had obtained the physical power which force gave the multitude, mid their revenge had been forgive ness and mercy.—(Cheers.) Not one crime had been com mitted. The bridewells and the gaols were empty, and the chains which had worn away the limbs of the negro were now wearing away with rust.—( Loud cheering.) He had recently seen the Roman Catholic Bishop of British Guiana, who had stated that recently a community of negroes had purchased a large estate in that colony, and having en gaged a gentleman as superintendent of that estate, at a salary of 500/ had bound themselves to abide by his directions. They had also instituted a school for the instrurtion of the chil dren, and he had the satisfaction of stating, that he had asked the Bishop if the children of the African race really exhibited that mentalincapacity which the yellow mi s creants of North America imputed to them, and the answer was, that on the contrary They exhibited a greater readiness than even the generality of children, because they were actuated by a greater desire to learn.—( Cheers.) Would the Americans, now that the cape.. riment had succeeded, follow our example? The tatted themselves Republicans, forsooth, yet they practised the most abominable tyranny. A CllAivras.r.—Not so bad as the tyranny of the middle classes. Mr. O'CoriarEm..—There is a tyranny worse than even the tyranny of the middle daises ; that beastly tyranny which would attempt to confine all discussion to one particular point. —(Loud cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con tended there was no tyranny he abominated more than that tyranny which attempted to interrupt all public business. What would they say if a few individuals were to go to one of their meetings for the purpose of interrupting their pro ceedings because it was a Chartist meeting, and they would put it down. He (Mr. O'Connell) would oppose any attempt to inter fere with one of their meetings as strenuously as he would any at tempt to interfere with the present, for in both cases it would be gross oppression, and there did not live a human being who would go further to put down oppression than himself. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to de nounce, in glowing and eloquent terms, the abominations of American slavery, more particularly the slave-breeding system as practised in Maryland and Virginia. He also inveighed against the Texians for rebelling against the Mexicans, and described their Charter, the fundamental princi ples of which were that negro slavery should be perpetual, and that the native Indians should be excluded from the soil of Texas, as being not written with ink, but with human blood— not sealed with wax, but imprinted with the hoof of a dmon. —( Loud cheers.) Yet this was the nation that Lord Palmer ston, in the excess of his folly, had had the audacity to recognise ; and the reason given was, that the opening Texas to the literature of Europe, would make the Texians ashamed of being slave owners. His Lordship when he had coaxed the birds from the bushes, might coax the Texians to free their slaves, but not till then.—( Cheers and laughter.) He should bring the subject before Parliament as soon as the Treaty with 'texas should be printed. He so lemnly warned all men against having any thing to do with Texas, or with any Texian loans ; whoever advanced money to the Texian land jobbers would be sure to lose it. His trade was agitation in behalf of justice.—(Cheers.) He wished to see freedom and representative governments all over the world— ( Cheers)—and he thought that every man in England who had attained mature age, and was possessed of a fixed habita tion, whether lodging or house, should have a voice in electing representatives to the British Senate.—(Cheers.) But in the work of the great regeneration of mankind, let them beware of the ,hypocrisy of those who, while they pretended to weep for the sufferings of humanity, were only in reality sigh ing for office.—( Loud cheers.) John Bull was remarkable for his good sense, and he saw at once their's was a flimsy pretext to delude, and not a conviction to be worked out for the sake of humanity.—( Cheers.) Could he forget that the West India planters themselves, in their own country, con sumed nothing but slave grown sugar, which was first of all imported from Brazil and Cuba into England, refined and reexported under a drawback (and there never was a draw back without a little swindling), to be consumed on the estates of the Goulburns, and the Grants, and the Gladstones, and the Sandons—(Cheers)_who cared nothing for the sugar being slave-grown, in their delight at getting it so cheap.— (Loud cheers.) There was another point to which he alluded, as connected with this question. Could there ever be a greater crime committed than when a weeping child cried to its parents for a second slice of bread to force that mother to refuse the bread to her hungry child ?—(Cheers.) Yet now the mother was forced to say to her hungry child, " I cannot, my dearest, famishing child, give you another slice of bread, because the Duke of Buckingham has a tax upon the corn.—( Loud cheers.) Our loaf is small, only half what it ought to be, because the other half is allo cated to the Duke of Buckingham, in order that the wheels of his coach and four may glide glibly over the stones of the city of London."—( Loud cheers.) He was an Irishman—lreland was an agricultural citunty ; he believed he represented the wants, the wishes, and the feelings of his countrymen, and he ould raise the et yof "Justice to England—a free trade in Itead." The Hon. Gentleman, after apologising to the meeting for having introduced the subject of politics, end stated his wil lingness to hear any length of speech which the gentleman who had attacked him might choose to make, if he would attend a meeting at the Crown and Anchor that evening, at which he (Mr. O'Connell) would be present, concluded by calling upon the Association to continue their exertions in the cause of justice and humanity, and sat down amidst loud cheer ing from all parts of the Hall. Mr. REMEN (a gentleman of colour) from the United states seconded the resolution, and expreased his fears that the system of American slavery must endure as long as Great Britain encouraged it by purchasing slave-grown cotton from the United States. The resolution was then put and carried by acclamation. W. EVANS, Esq., IMP., moved the last resolution, expres3- ing the satisfaction of the meeting at the advance of education among the emancipated negroes, and to assure' them of the earnest interest thQ meeting took in their welfare, and to ex press the regret and indignation at the conduct of the British Mining Associations in becoming the purchasers of slaves in Cuba and the Brazils. The Hon . Gentlemen having expressed his disgust at the conduct of the British slave-holders in Cuba and the Brazils, sat down amidst loud cheering, G. W. ALEXANDER, Esq., in seconding the resolution, ex pressed a hope that Brazil and Cuba would be excluded from the English market, and vindicated the course pursued on that question by the Committee of the Society. The resolution was then carried unanimously. A GENTLENIAN on the platform proposed a vote of thanks to the venerable Chairman, who had been forced from indisposi tion to quit the meeting, and whose place had been taken by Mr. J. T. Gurney. Mr. ASHWORTH, in seconding the motion, said that the feeling of the meeting had been so clearly expressed in answer to the statements of Mr. O'Connell, that he should not trouble them any furthers; he merely wished to explain, that he had not come to ask any sympathy for his neighbours in Lancashire. He came there to express ti;eir sentiments. The present was a struggle between class interests and the people. The Lancashire people askei for no protection whatever ; all they asked for was lair play.—(Cheers.) The class interests were those of corn, sugar, and timber ; and when they saw this trinity of monopo lists all suddenly converted, and giving utterance all at once to their Ansi-Slavery sympathies, he thought they had good reason to suspect the grounds of such a marvellously sudden conver sion.—( Loud cheers. ) The vote of thanks having been carried by acclamation, the meeting separated. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC' JOURNALS. FR33i THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The most extraordinary doctrine put forth by the official justification of the Horse Guards, of its abstinence from all interferenee with Lord Cardigan, is found in that part of Mr. Macaulay's speech in which he laid it down as a fixed principle, which ought not to be departed from, that no officer should be removed from the service unless he were guilty of some specific offence against the Articles of War, and cognizable by court-martial ; and that if this rule were not observed, men of spirit and honour would be unwilling to enter the service, as the tenure by which they held their commissions would be rendered inse cure. The argument founded by the Right Honourable Secretary on the high purchase-price of their commis sions, the interest of which would be found nearly equal to the pay they received, is at once got rid of by the practice of selling, as well as buying, commissions, which prevails. Lord Cardigan may have steered clear of any palpable violation of military law. The Ar ticles of War were framed with a view to the preven tion and suppression of ordinary offences ageinst the discipline and subordination of the army ; and they have been found in the general sufficient for the accom plishment of the objects proposed by those who framed them. It remained for Lord Cardigan to set decency at defiance—to violate decorum, and to subvert disci pline, and yet to entrench himself within the letter of file Articles. The high-souled honour of a soldier scorns to stoop to the low level of a practitioner of chicane: To out rage the spirit of rules which the good of the service re quires to be held sacred, and to meet the allegation that lie has so outraged it—not in one or two instances, but repeat edly and grossly—with the technical plea that the framers of the articles so violated omitted to specify the par ticular acts of outrage of which ha has been guilty — may comport with the notions of propriety and professional duty cherished by Lord Cardigan, but we fain hope, would be scouted with the scorn they merit by every other officer in her Majesty's service. Respect for public opinion, unsupported by which no branch of the executive can be administered with effi ciency—an opinion indignantly and all but universally expressed by the organs of public opinion without re spect to party—renders it imperative upon the autho rities at the Horse Guards to comply With the demand for a general inquiry into the conduct of Lord Cardigan, as Commanding-officer of the 11th Hussars. If they have so far committed themselves by their past refusals to institute such inquiry, then let them convey to him an intimation that it is expedient he should " sell out." Thus the obnoxious, because injurious Lord Cardigan, will obtain the price of his commission, and the army be relieved frotu the odium which his unprecedented pro ceedings have tended to fix upon its acknowledged repu tation for the possession of those qualities which consti tute the gentleman and the soldier—the lack of which has, in the person of Lord Cardigan, shown that it is possible to be both a Peer and a Colonel, without having the urbanity of a gentleman, or the keen sensitiveness of honour which characterises the solder. COURIER.—The Bill introduced b y the Duke of Argyll; has no reference to the question which has arisen out of the Strathbogie question. It is altogether a very silly affair, into which the worthy and well-meaning Duke has been led by the cunning Non-Intrusionists— we might say, the unprincipled, without using too strong language. 'We just ask any man of common honour and honesty to observe, that Mr. Candlish, for example, after having declared patronage to be " anti-scriptural"-- after having, in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, asserted that " the greatest sin" which the last General Assem, bly committed, was to sanction this system in Mr. Glad. stane's new church at Leith—and after having piously rejoiced that by the difficulties which had overtaken the Church, God was providentially conducting, and con- I fining her to the Wiping awa y of this great' sin :"=-- after all this, the same Mr, Candlish—this would-be teacher of youth in the University of Edinburgh, tells the Duke of Argyll, in a letter which his Grace read to the House of Lords, that for the sake cf the peace. of the Church he and his friends, who agree with , him as to the sinfulness of lay patronage, are yet con. tent - that it should remain, and that, of course, tiny themselves should taste of its good things when they came their way I Can want of principle go further ? ~ pANDAR- M inisters expect to . obtain 70 0 , 00)1 . from Brazilian and eutA swy pgs. the cwt. proposed THE sUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1841. duty ; this will require a consumption of about a million and {. a quarter of hundred pounds weight of Brazilian and Cuba sugar, to be for the first time consumed in the British empireand also to be producedp/us the quantity now pro duced in the Brazils and Cuba ; but as all this sugar is produced by slaves, sixty thousand tons of new sugar will demand the labour of at least sixty thousand new slaves ; and according to Sir T. .F . Bux ton's calculation, each slave costs three lives. This part of the Ministerial project will cause yearly the murder or • slavery of 240,000 human be ings now walking in life and liberty. Yes,_ if there be truth in a r ith me ti c , t h ere mus t b e one h un d r ed and eighty thousand annual murders, and sixty thousand new slaves, or there will be no seven hundred thousand pounds from sugar. Again, the sixty thousand tons of Brazilian and Cuba sugar must displace an equal quantity of West and East Indian sugar, so that these colonies must lose something more than two millions, or no seven hun dred thousand pounds will ever find its way into the Ex chequer. Ministers next hope for a gain of 400,000/., we suppose in additiOn to the million gained last year from the corn imports, by substituting their new scale of duties for the Corn-laws ; but taking the average of the different kinds of grain grown and consumed, we may, in refereuce to that average, take an average duty of Gs. 81 Now, to raise 1,400,000/. by an import duty of Sd. on the quarter of grain, four millions two hundred thousand quarters of British grain must be displaced. There fore, the British landowner and agriculturist must be robbed of nearly ten millions sterling, or there will be no one million four hundred thousand pounds of corn revenue. Lastly, Ministers hope to obtain, by a shifting of the timber duties, a revenue of 600,0001. We are not in possession of the details of the project, but it is a sub stitution of Baltic timber, all, or nearly all, imported in foreign vessels, for Canada timber, universally imported in British vessels. The amount of the new importa tion from the Baltic must be considerable, to afford a new revenue of 600,000/.—say 4 or 500,000 loads, dis placing so much Canada timber, and so much British freight. Here, then, again, the Canadian and the ship ping interest must lose two or three millions, or there will be no six hundred thousand pounds, obtained by the timber duties. This is statesmanship !—this is economy ! Rob the people of fourteen or fifteen millions, in order to bring leSs than two millions into the'Exchequer. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Nottingham Review.) The warp silk blond hands have made a faint attempt to raise their wages, but it has failed. This is truly la mentable, as that fine body of artizans are great sufferers. They should strike at the root of their distress—the baneful restrictions on the importation of corn. The making of figured plat nets still continues, and is extend ing ; though the Jacquard is as yet very sparingly ap applied • the workmen, not aware of its amazing powers, prefer, for the present, the extra bar system. It is to be regretted that the patentees (if as their advertisement states, published some weeks since), mean to license that they do not declare the terms. We have been favoured with the sight of some ex quisite patterns sketched by Mr. Webster, drawing master of the Free Grammar School, for the ornament ing of glove backs, in the French style of ornament, that is in coloured flowers ; nothing can be a greater contrast than these designs with those which our chevinerS have been so long in the habit of snaking, and the adhering to which have in many instsnces lost them their ,employment, a s th e li g h t b eau ty an d flowing elegance of the finished drawing pattern upon comparison would command a sale, when those orna mented by old system would be scarcely given away. It is bs4 justice to Mr. Webster to say, that his de signs excel most of the French, we have seen, as they are so light as to seem a sort of flying bouquet, the artist having taken Nature as his guide, his teachers being flowery banks, hedge-rows, and wild products of our native fields. They have been, to the credit of our hosiery manufacturers, bought up with avidity for the purpose of being imitated by the cheviners, who, it is hoped, will exert themselves to the utmost in com pleting them ; for this purpose, they must wholly abandon the wale counting system, and insert their needle-work in the same manner as though the pattern was first printed or stamped on the glove ; this may appear very difficult at first, but perseverance will soon enable them to overcome it. The French chaviners find little or no difficulty, and they ought not to des pair of doing what others can accomplish. The greater part of the London tambourers, though working the most difficult and complete patterns, have no stamp or guide but the eye, but practice enables them to do it with ease and fiteility. Even at the present time there are consi derable quantities done in Derbyshire upon the French principle, and they must exert themselves or lose their employment. The bobbin net trade in some dpartments is very dull ; many of the hands, we are sorry to say, only work short time. The traverse warp . branch has a little recovered ; but the pusher branch is nearly ex tinct—all their hope is in the Jacquard, which is ex tremely expensive to apply-. We have been credibly informed that the Jacquard is well at work at Cambray, in France, upon a principle for which .the inventor has obtained a patent ; it is applicable to the circular bolt machine—several machines are building, but they are much impeded in not being able to obtain implements from England ; every attempt to establish the making of good insides in France has hitherto failed. EXTENT OF THE SUGAR TAX.—In the year from April, 1840, to April, 1841, the people of Britain paid (in addition to the duty) the almost incredible sum of 6,290,9591. above the price at which sugar might have been bought even in London, and above the price at which it is bought in all the other markets of the world ! As this may seem beyond belief, we shall give proof of the fact. The quantity of sugar retained for home con sumption in the year 1840 was 3,594,834 cats., or 402,621,408 lbs. Ina circular issued by the Brazilian Asso ciation of Liverpool, signed " Chas. Saunders, Chairman," (and abundantly confirmed by the prices-current of the day), it is stated that the average price of Brazil sugar, in bond, from April 1840 to April 1841, has been less than lid. per lb., whilst that of West India, also in bond, has been 6 : fd. per lb.' It appears, then, that West India sugar was clearer than Brazil sugar by 34d. per lb. Now mul tiply the consumption of the year 1840, namely. 402,621,4081b5., by 34d., and the result is 6,290,9591., as the sum which the people of the United Kingdom paid in that one year, beyond the price for which they might have bought Brazil sugar ! Of this enormous sum, 5,379,846/. went into the pockets of the West India planters alone, as the quantity of British Plantation Sugar consumed in 1840 was 3,074,198 cwts., out of a total consumption of 3,594,834 cwts. Thus the tax paid by the people to the West Indians, purely for protection, is at least 5,000,0001. sterling per anuum, in addition to the tax of 4,449,070/. paid as customs-duty to the Go vermaient ! At this rate, the English people, who paid the West India planters 20,000,0001. for that which has turned out to be no sacrifice on their part, are paying the 20,000,0001. over again every four years ! Is not this intolerable ?"—Leeds Mercury. _ _ THE PRESENT RACE OF HUMANITY-MON GERS.—Many persons, who owe all they possess to slavery and the slave trade, have dared to make, and to persist in this monstrous experiment on the gullibility of the people of England. 'fake our own Gladstones as an ex ample. Mr. Gladstone the elder was in his time the staunch clemipion of slavery. He maintained that there was nothing in it contrary to Christianity—thatits exist ence was euthorised and acknowledged by the Holy Scrip tures—tin, : the slaves in the West India colonies were kindly tre :ted ; and in one of his letters on the subject, if we mist Ate not, he even went "so far as to palliate, if not, to defend, the custom of branding the names or ini tials of the owners in the flesh of human beings ! This he did on the ground that the operation was performed with great care, and with a silver tool—not with a red hot branding instrument of any base metal. Mr. Glad- . stone ; too, was the prime mover in the Hill Cooly traffic, the proved atrocities of which were not a whit less appal ling than the horrors of the middle passage ; and he is now, we believe, engaged in the cultivation of sugar in the East Indies, the labour of which is performed by men in a condition but one degree removed from absolute sla very. From such sources Mr. Gladstone the elder has derived the greater part of his enormous wealth, and yet we have Mr. Gladstone the younger standing up in his place_ in the House of Commons, and declaring before Parliament and the world, that he has the utmost horror of slavery, and that on the ground of humanity alone he refuses his assent to the proposition of her Majesty's Government. The same ground has been taken by all the speakers on the same side. Its shallow hypocrisy was admirably exposed by Sir George Grey on Tuesday night, and that in a manner which drew forth some can did and not less curious admissions from Mr. Irving, one . of the new sect of humanity-mongers. Mr. Irving, it will be seen, more than hints that some of the active members of 'the Anti-Slavery Society, are themselves working negro slaves in the mines of Brazil, and perhaps this revelation, coupled with other facts of the like na ture, will have the effect of opening the eyes of the honest, consistent, and conscientious members of that body to the gross fraud and delusion, towards the perpe tration of which some of them seem disposed to lend their aid.—Liverpool Mercury. THE SPIRIT IN THE WALL.—The Spirit in the Wall was first heard in March 1554, soon after the accession of Queen Mary, in a house without Alders gate, and was certainly a Protestant spirit ; the tenor of its exclamations and prophecies, as Strype acknowledges, being " against the Prince of Spain, and the Queen's ' matching with him, and against auricular confes sion, the mass, and other Popish worship newly in ' troduced." In fact, so far as it went, the affair was as exact a parallel to that of the Maid of Kent as well could be. By her dark utterances, " the people of the whole city," says Stow, " were wonderfully molested, for that all men might hear the voice, but not see her person." The sounds were supposed to come from nothing less than an angel. It turned out that Croft, , 6 a wench about the age of eighteen," made them with a peculiar kind of whistle, which she had got from one Drakes ' • among her other conf e derates w e r e se veral parish clerks ; but the plot was nipped in the bud, before it had time to attract any higher patronage orcoun tenance. On Sunday, the 15th of July, she was brought out at Paul's Cross, and placed upon a scaffold erected for the purpose on the usual spot, where she stood all the time of the sermon, and made open confession of the de ception she had been guilty of. Strype relates that " she wept,bitterly, and kneeled down, and asked God mercy and the Queen, and bade all people beware of false teach ing; and said that promises were made her that she should have many good things given her, as though that had been the cause that induced her to this deceit." Neither she herself, nor any of her accomplices, was put to death ; but one of them, a weaver, who lived in Golden-land, was a few days after set on the Pillory— C. Kniglti's Loudon, ALARMING DECLINE IN WOOLLEN Ex roars.-The quantity of cloths exported last year was 215,746 pieces; now the export the year previous was 392,854 i piece; ; showing a falling off of 177,108 pieces, or '45 per I cent. ! This is a striking proof of the extreme depression ' under which the Yorkshire trade hay been and is still labour e er• coy. gg. —Le'eds M . • , . - PRICES OF UANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &C. LONDON, FRIDAY, NIAY 14. Number Divides d Price of per CANALS. tier Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average 07/.lBs. sh. 110 1,482 41. Ashby .de..lc-Zouch ..... AVV-rage 1151.5 h. 72 1, 60 Basingstoke 1001.611. 5 1 . 04 0 4'. P.recknock and Abcrgavenny lsol.sh. 33 0,00.) 1.16t11. 101 Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....631. & 711. 200 I,COO Ditto & Liverpool Juitct.l 9 ';f. sh. 100 p', 25 690 N. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/. sh. all p I - 400 Si. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001:sit. 101 300 321. Coventry, 1001. sh. 600 Cr ile oy d do; 0, ... ...... - Average 311.25. 1 101 . h. .:h. - 2,0570 51. Os. Di 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh. 12U 20,0 0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 41/.135. 4 cl.pd :3 3.5154 4' Ellesn,reand Chester AVer2g 0 133;.da. 81 231 62/ Erowasn 1,297 3'l. Forth and Clydv....Average 4.01. 16F. A. &O 11,000 Si. Grand junction - ..... 1091. s a 12 s 2,0194 255. Grand Union lool.sh 26 1.500 ... Grand Surrey Mash. 15 1,0/ 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) Lo . an lOO l. '236 Grand Western 600 131.125. 56. Glanvirgan:hire, Aver, cost - 1721.135.4 d. 2Z.0 745 Ht. Grant'avA lsol.sh. 207 4 6,213 21. Os . Huddersfield Average U/1. tis.tid. sit 27 160 2.% 52,3 1/.1 , :5. Kennet 2nd Avon, Av. 39/.188.104. sh 213{ 11,6991 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d 2; % 2,8974 set. Leeds and Liverpool loo/. sh 750 5451 • 111. Leicester 1401. it 156 1,807 51. 46, Leicester & NortMampton A ver 6131.500 73 2,0.9 10/ Monmouthshire lOOl.Bll 200 230 101. Melton Mowbray lOO/. sh. 21.::, con 254 Mersey and Irwell ICOI. sh. 555 3,019 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh, all pd. 343 i 247 171. Neat h 1001.612. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest k vc , h,ge. about 78/.sh. 73% 21,418 Os. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.163.8d. sh. 9% 5,609 51. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 06 500 81. Shropshire ../251. sh. 137 8119 101. Os. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 180 3,600!. 41 p.-r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh.. 11% 700 311. Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 603 500 .51: Shrewsbury....,.. 1251. sh. 280 3'o 11 i 3tourbridge - ..... 1451.5h. 396 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon A fer.... 79/. 9s. tsd. sh. 35 533 12f/ Swansea lool.sh. 265 3.762 2!. 108. Severn and Wvc ar.d Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,600+ oh, 321. 10e. Trent and Mersey, f share lOOl. sh. 5.,0 8,149 1,0005h.1 ,„ 1, Warwick and B.rmiv.gham ...... 1001.3 h • 240 I,ooo}xl, ' " 980 13 . Warwick and isapiln . 1001. sh. 163 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av. 761.81. sh. 55 5,000 325. Wilts and Becks Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 2J 800 6., Wp la v and Esslngton 1 2 51. sh '74 .a 1 ..... ... Wisneacn . .- :35 . :. sh. au nos 1.. Wey and Amu. 1101. so. 2239 DOCKS, i '.1500 81 1 3p. c. Commerc.al lOOl. sh. 63% 1.06515 h. 5 per sent. East and West India ....Stock 99 3,238,310,1. :51 p.ct. London Stock 70 Ditto Bonds 2,209 31. 6s. sd. Bristol everege 14'1.95. sh. 75 118,3241. Si. percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 1,152,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock :97 500,0e0 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford I'ier .... .01. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. - 1,1600 1!. Hammersmith Me sl. 21 1,231 , 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7e per cent.. 50/. sh. 16 .4000 5,000 112 s. 011. Ditto, Old Annuities of 01 201. ti , 4 21 5,000 19e. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18% 50,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 26s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sb 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/10s Albion 5031. sh. 50/. pd 72 5',000 { d t , e , r , cent, }Allianceßritish &Foreignloo4sh. 111. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. oh. 5/. pd 5 23 000 11. per sir. Atlas 5O:. sh. 51. pd 143' 1, 4 .0015 h, 5/. Birmingham lire.. 2504 sh, 551, pd 10734 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 5(1/. pd 40 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 5 1 e 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsle 2/10s pd 4 311 4,000 3! Os County lOOl. sh. 101. pd V' 20,000 Is. Eagle 200 f 5 per cent. and 3;a „ , ,,3 Economic Lite 10001. sh. 250/. pd 406 2,271 222. per cent. European Lb e `'o/. Th. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd I% ,000,0001. 61. per ct Globe Stock lIS 21,000 51. Guardian 3,1,000 4s. Od. Hope 2,400 51. 12,. 60. Impend Fire eOO/. sh. 50/. pd 133 7,500 Os. Imperial Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100!. sh. 81. pd 29 2,0e0 31 lOs Kent Fire 5O/.811. all pd 92 34 Ditto Life 5O/. eel loi 10,000 10s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 3034 5,00 U 10s, London, Fire 25/, sh. 12/. 10s. pd 1831 3,900 10s, L , MtleD, Ship "51. sh. I'2l. 10s. pd 1834 1.0(10,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 5 e 1,0004 30,01ii1 5/. per cent Palladium lite 511!. sh. 24 pd 21 65 50N0 5!. per cent. Protector lef : 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 18s ed 10,000 4 per cent Protestant leisseniers .... Bele sh. 5/. pd -5% . 4500 11. Provident Luc 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20 200,1(6 3s. Cd. Rock Leib 5!),2'201 5/. per cent, Royal Exchaiige Stork 190 6,609 5 per cent. University Lite 1001. sh. M. lid 5 1 4 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100 e sh. 51. pd 714 JOINT STOCK BANless, 05.000 Agric. and Coin nf I relarnl2sl. sh. 10/. pd 10,1100 6 per cent. AUStr3l2.i 3 401. sh. 40/, pd 5e34 10,006 10 percent. Bank of Sim Ingham 506, D e . to & pd 134.. 1,0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 506, sh. 10/. pd le 33,000 6 per cent. London & W estminster 1001 eh. 00!, pd 22 60,000 54 London Joint Steck 501. sh. 101. pd 13 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO/. oh. in/. 10 NO 05,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 1231. pd 1:;34 50,000 72 percent Manchester and Liver ] 501.5 h. IS/ pd 10% pool Distress 20,000 7 ner , , , t. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 Bpe cent. Provinciel Bank of I relandloo/. sh. 05/. pd 42 10,s00 0 er . cut National Bane of Ireland 50/. sh. 1711. pd le% (0,000 6 per cent National Prov;..cial Eng.loo4 sh. 354 psi 35(1, 10,006 Ditto New 101. sle 10/ pd 103 5000 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd Is GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 I6s ltd Bath 204 sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 British 40!. oh. 16/. pd 18e, 5000 / 51 '" cent 'l Ditto Provincial 0 01. sh. 191. pd 25 Land Els. 6s. WS 51 lOs Birmingham 50/. sh. 96 1,250 2/ Os Bristol 2,e50 2! lOs Brighton 0 01. sh. 13% 7/50 3/ 101 Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 1/. pd 9 2,471 4} per cent. Brighton General WI. sh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. 1011. pd lON 1,000 10.4 Cite of London.. ....... JODI. ;h. all pd 195 1,600 CI. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 751. pd 150 4.000 3/.os. Equitable 10,1<00 21. per cent. Imperial 501. sit 104 800 51. per cent. Isle nt Thanet 25/. sh. 204 pd le% 1,350 64 per cont. Independent 304 sh. all r, 49 0,000 41. per cent. Elicenix 514 sh. 39/. pd 53% 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 100!. sh. 804 pd 00 eel(' Seutli Sletropoiitan ...... 3Ol. sh. 191. pd 16 0,000 51. per coot. United General 504 sh. 471: pd 30 .. elO 51. per cent. Warwick 5O/. oh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 25/, sh. '22 11,0(0 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 I9s. Ditto New . 511. oh, 1114 pd 11% etlo 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. oh. 18/. pd WATER WORKS ion 31s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 21 1,4:3 7/. East London 100/. sh. 164 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. les. 40. sh. 61 5,0110 21. Kent 100/. sh. 4634 972 IN. Liverpool Bootle *XL sh. See 1,500 2 /I('s New River Loedon Bridge Water Ann... 40 0,456 '2l 10s Mtnchester and Salford. ...... ,lOO/. sh. 55 1,01)0 e per cant. South London Mash. 104% 8,224 43!. West Middlesex Average 631.128.9 d. sh. 92 1.360 ll 14s York Building 1,0. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,330 Birmingham and Derby 100/ pd 694 9,500 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester If 0/. pd 19% 15,100 ... ..... Bristol and Exeter 100!. sh. 60 pd 37 1 e 7,500 ... ...... Cheltenham& G. Western 1004 sh. 62e/. 3034 3,000 Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 30 8,000 50,0001 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 23!. pd 9 10,00(1 Great North of England 1004 sh. 90/. p 0 7 i 10,918 14 percept. Grand Junction lOOl. eh, all pd 209 2,,000 ..... .... Great Western 1001. oh. 054 pd 94 25, 0 00 Ditto New 50!. sh. 10e pd PR% 3,000 per cent Gosport Junction 50!. sh. 404 pd 47 2000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. ob. 1004 pd 145 6,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 504 1 . ).1 45 2,100 44per cent. Leeds and .Selby 100 sn. 65 5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 1001. sh. 1004 pd ley 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 p 3 90 11,195 10 per cesit. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 36,1100 London and Brighton 501. sh. 501, pd 463( 1 94,000 smog 3 per cent. London and Greenwich...ooe sic 001. pd 811 eve° 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90!, pd 159 25,003 Ditto Quarter Shares -.254 sh. 5!. pd e 336 31,250 Dit o New Shares 324 sh. 324 pd 51 3 30,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 36/, 17s. 9d. 57 1 . 15s. 33,C00 ...... ... London and Croydon Av. 13/. / Ditto New Scrip... ild. 1311 13% 13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. oh. 70/, pd fei 1.3,600 .. Ditto Half Shares 5O!. 25/. pd 2 7 10,000 Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2% 10000 Midland Counties .... : . ...lOU/. sh. 100/, pd 88 15,000 . ...... .. North Midland ... ...... 1.01. eh. Pr/ Pd 75 % Ditto New 404 pd 3536 5,128 ...... ... Northern and Eastern...looe sh. 50/. pd 28 e6Ol/ Preston and Wyre 5O!. sh. iine pd 36 58,000 South Eastern and Dover l3l. pd 15 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO4 sh. 275 0,000 MOO MINES. 8,000 ...... 4,000 11.55. Alters 1 51. sh 121. It kpd 10 10,000 ........ Angto efexicaness. 5/. pm.lool. sh al 'pd lee Ditto Subscription - 0 5/. pu 1% 2,00(1 15 1 1. Boleros lsoe oh all pd 35 10,000 11. lOs Brariliatilmp.iss. 51. pin 25/. sh. 20/. pd 5 6,000 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Hey ...'2Ol. sh. 141. pd 2 15,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. see 201 p d 1 10,000 tow a Ditto Scrip 20,000 British Iron „wt. sh. 60/. pd ,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 4k!. pd 1 ei, Cote Retiree 6l/. pd 6% Candonga....... 7O. pd 5 10,000 1 1 Copiapo 8,500 ... Colombian, iss. 51. pin 55e sh. 55/. pd fle e 2,850 31. English 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company lOO/. see en/ pd . 6 I.i i Noll Pothcroit Consols lO/. sb. U!. pd 4 11,600 Real clef Monte, Unrugistered Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 100 30,000 united Mexican, ass. 2 pin. 40!. sh. all pd 2te , Dive Scrip 3% Ditto New Scrip SLsi.ronze ...75g5. sh. 16 5/ pd 4 West Cork •Als..a...lioari 5O/. sh 501. pd 38 I: Nc i i t :t e s ; jr l .. .. Ticket l . l o o .; S O . . . s . . h s . ............. p p d d z 7, 1,000 1,500 700 ... LlV Lo rE n i d le en ß , Y wl l tl sl , ... . .... e ........ engs. sh. 6 Sale . 1 . 1 . .0. ........................... i s s i cl , . 3 1 1 9 Bing' Cellege ... 1 153. lAI uu London tj,,,s stipzripl:i:. MISCELLANEOUS. Ec., i n . a.L i .Ai v . .Li.ig e . . 19% 10, V., af o , S n. t i t i :: ... .............. ..... .4. • • 254 6, T.O 1. per cent. British American Land Company 313 pd ,„ 80% 8 2 1(0 0 ) , 10 : 1 : 0 0 11:111/leertcscc.e'''''ntt.. GCC:eit:lsrlalg;S::::::::4l::cla.r.v.cii.graa..tt.i.:olls. i s .:: . 10 1:i . . pd 1 2 ()° 4% /i' le pd 107 i n" ....... New Brunswick Land . C .---......1241 ' Pd 12 London Corn. ' S Iterersienary Int. Soc 1 . " ornPaey . 50/ pd 12 7,154 Si. per cent. 004 sh. 100/. pd 107 Ditto New... "' `? 6 33 5/. per cent. 4 : w ....... l‘l _. T , le. .............. 50/. sh, all pd 10 Van Die.ner. s Land toe , 10,000 Os. "•• 1 . -h. 171/. pd 5 ,c3B 101. per c:nt. chaiold:toenhosulie LIST of SCOTTISHOM COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 8, 1841, BANKS. 1.010.110r1 , . 6/. p. ct. rank of Scotland ...A3l. a ,, l f l i p pd d 2, ' 5:: 2,000,00C1. 6 p. ct. lir yal of Scotland ............ lOU/. sh , all pd 154 Mocp )(161 /: 111. P?.. ct. C6orinlerLciigaeln.ff.=..sool.... 1004 pd 169 500,0 n, r, ~. et. wational _,,.. 250.0 ,, 61 p. ct. .Icottish Union ............................................................... rap: 245.0d. 214,il 50100 N. ' 71. p. ct. 0 I zsgnw U 11.......... 2511. sh. 50/. pd• 85 1 000 ('"0/ 6p. ct. Western of Scotland —.2001. sli 40/. pd 7234 , • ~, • INSURANCE COMPAN/Es . 7.5i5) 7p. ct. Hercules ...... .............. 100/. sO. to/. pd 13 4 1 '51 5 (;) : : 044 Ss '. p. ct. C c t t. •*. C F. NI an° 4 ls i red i lt l la u nil r ie g r:i h tlCi Is° . 11 : r. :e .e..1 .... 5 ... c ... a l t. ............................................. i rl : i'd d ' 1 11(7 :li • 15 4 0 ,13 .0‘ 18 0 .. 5 .. 1 . P ..: c" E:tit t i . t . s : A C n iE l d S k i :Cl e oi a l t a Al 2 :.. N. :0 . ...1 . ? . .... U C .. .1; . . 115 . 1 : 6 . 0 / . 1 .. .. 2 . . ................ p p pl d d 5( 11% 5,45( 5 per cent. Minh. Joint Stock Water.:2sl. sh. all pd 3 1 1 i 2,00)150 :5 per cent. Shotts Iron F0unuerv......50/ sh 45/. rd . 42 all zl l p o d f. 4 51 10.000 3 per ciet. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/.sh. 13/. p 1 034 4 t wo it) pe r cent. l r .ed i i i n tni, b b t c t u r (.2, Coal iunal 1 ..) 0 . . 15 . . e. i . ; ... .; ...( 1. ..: 2 5;. w. s q h h .. 4,450 10 per cent. c tasgo w ,?,_ ...... ... ...... 25/. sh. all pd •52 ay 50/. sh tYJ 1 y9 4 2i per cant. mild weather and proved highly favourable to grawing 511()"."8 littgvereateiln. atioc°itnusdencleueen: _., 3 s. per bag of 1401bs. and looking beauti eispoitt,partooeosf :t i o d te ful everywhere, and promises a heuntiful crop. Clover of the great forwardness of the sOixson i Mr, IL rr orr i n ,v ; grass' was never known in umkeeper, in Ashpringtoll, rear rotes, hail qn wydne 6 s, are'fiTt ln l i l e e S reducedkOai 1 1 l lo b i l blossom gelation c i et s : i f n iri o :1; s m' t ial a 14:1 1 :1 day, the 28th ult., 5 Ana s war m of bees_; such a n histaucia was - nevott hefore known to have happened so ear l y i n t hi s elghbourhood.—Pir"th 'im u 'ncli. ' ';- -3 /., a,i st - ' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 14. The CHANCELLOR having taken his seat on the Wool sack, The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a second time. Lord. SONDES presented a petition from Kent and Norfeld, praying for Church Extension ; also praying for .the exclusion of Catholics from Parliament ; and against any grant to the Colley of Maynooth. Also one praying for the abolition of Tolls on Bridges over the Thames. • • Il me sage from the Commons brought up several Private ./Bills. Lord SALTOUN presented a petition from Black friars -road praying for the removal of the Tolls on Wa terloo and the other Bridges. The Duke of ARGYLL and the. Marquis of DOWN SHIRE presented numerous petitions against lay pa tronage in the Church of Scotland. The Marquis of DO WNSHIRE presented a petition against railway travelling on, and for the better observ ance of, Sunday. The 'Frivolo il us Suits Prevention Bill went through Committee with amendments. The Bankruptcy Partnership Bill went through Com mittee. The Dublin Wide Streets Bill, the Arms (Ireland), and the Slave Compensation Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. Lord DUNCANNON laid the Minutes of the Com mittee of the Privy Council on Education for 1840 and 1841 on the table of the House. Earl RADNOR presented numerous petitions from congregations of Protestant Dissenters in various parts of the country against Church-rates. The Noble Earl _then moved for a return of all wheat and wheat flour imported from Ireland from 1820 to 1840. Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested that as several important returns relative to wheat and other grains were made to the House last year, it would be most im portant to have them all continued up to the present time. The motion was agreed to, as were several other re turns relative to the importation of foreign grain. The School Sites Conveyance Bill was read a third time, several verbal amendments were made, and the Bill passed. The Earl of lIADDINGTON presented a petition from a parish in Oxford in favour of the Corn-laws. Earl PITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from the bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of Edinburgh praying for free trade in the necessaries of life.— (Hear.) One to the same effect from Forfar ; twenty from places in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Noble Earl said as some Noble Lords objected to inci dental discussions on this quegtion, he would give notice, without subscribing to the doctrine, that probably he would present a petition from the Corporation of Manchester,' on which occasion he would take the li berty of discussing, the question upon some points, more particularly respecting its relation with its foreign trade. • LAW OF MARRIAGE. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from bankers. merchants, and others, of Leeds, complaining of that portion of the new marriage laws which prohibits the marriage of a sister-in-law. The laws of the land on this subject, they thought ought not to go further than the law of God ; also from Manchester, Birmingham, Bath, Bristol, Leicester, Macclesfield, Hereford, and numerous . other places ; also fuom the Dissenting Clergy of Leicester and Macclesfield, to the same effect. He also presented petitions from the solicitors of all the before-named places. He had given notice of his inten tion to bring the question under their Lordship's atten tion in the hope of inducing them to modify the ex isting law, and upon his success depended the happiness of many of their countrymen and countrywomen, so that he deeply felt all the responsibility he had undertaken. The Noble Lord went at considerable length into the history of the marriage laws, as instituted in the time of Henry the Eighth, which he said bore internal evidence of having been passed for his own unworthy purposes, and to suit his own ease at various times. All the petitioners wanted was, that where there was no consanguinity marriage should not be prohibited—where the relationship was by marriage they thought that no prohibition. If he • could only remove the prejudice against the marriage to a deceased wife's sister, then the Noble Lord would have no difficulty in conceding all the rest that was asked. Who, he asked their Lordships, who was the most likely to make a good friend of chil dren left without the most tender parent, than the sister of their own mother. In his opinion, the state of society would be maintained in a more pure state by allowing a man to marry she who is must likely to reside in his house, and take care of his children after his wife's death. The Act of 1835 made marriages absolutely void which were contracted within the prohibited degrees. But even now such marriages did take place, for the parties had only to go abroad to some place where the marriage was legal, and he believed it would stand good in England. lie would not disturb the present laws unless the cases to be . affected were numerous. Their Lordships would be as tonished to find that in Manchester alone there had been 91, and had more time been given, his informant said he would have been able to add at least 500 more. • Earl FITZWILLIAM—Since when ? Lord WHARNCLIFFE could not say, but a consider able number were since 1839, and thatwas only one place. Many persons had gone abroad and got married who were within the prohibited degree ; they returned, and were received in society in the same manner as if they had done nothing wrong, or against the usages of society. That proved they had not carried the feeling of the people along with them. This country was the only one in which the law was so stringent. On the Continent, and in America, the prohibited degrees were not near so close as ours. In America the state of society was very healthy, yet second marriages with a dece a sed wif e ', sister was very common, and they had the authority of some of the most eminent men in that country, that it worked well, and its tendency was towards morality. All they asked for was inquiry upon the subject, and he would then pledge himself to prove that there were • not only hundreds but thousands of such cases.' He was prepared with a Bill on the subject, but would not offer it to their notice until he saw how the proposition was received. The Bishop of LONDON said he fully believed that if the laws of the Church were overturned it would prove a heavey blow to morality. He said the parties who had married illegally, or were prepared to do so, had engaged solicitors to make inquiries, and collect evidence upon the point. That accounted for the number of petitions. The marriage of a deceased wife's sister was prohibited by the canon law, almost from the time of the apostles. He was quite sure that a very large majority of the clergy held that these prohibitions were necessary and supportable on scriptural grounds, He called upon their Lordships, before they took another downward step, too many of which had been taken during the last two years with respect to marriage, steps which had materially affected the morals of the country. He was not about to enter into a discussion of the New Marriage Act, but he would say, that upon an inquiry it would be found, that the greater portion of the marriages within the prohibited degree had taken place under that Act. He was persuaded that the pro hibitory system had been the safeguard of domestic society in this country. If they were tb alter the pro hibition it would be impossible for a deceased wife's sister to give her maternal care to her sister's orphan children without at the same time obtaining a promise of marriage. Besides, he feared that this was sought as merely the first step for the removal of prohibition. He did not think the people of this country would look coolly upon any meddling with the law which would make it legal for en uncle to marry his neice. The evils of it would be too great, for then it would be impossible for any uncle t ) adopt his mice and treat her as a daughter. For all these reasons he was disposed to say that the mar riage laws should remain as they now stood. He trusted, therefore, their Lordships would not consent to repeal that which had been the law of the Church almost from its formation. The question then dropped. Several petitions were resented which were lost in the noise of Members leaving the House.—Adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 14. The SPEAKER took his seat at the usual time. GLASGOW AND DUNDYVAN RAILWAY BILL. _ _ _ ➢lr. PRAED brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Glasgow and Dundyvan Railway Bill. They reported that the preamble had not been proved to their satisfaction. Mr. CRISTOPHER said the Hon. Member for Glasgow had a motion to make for the recommittal of the Bill. Before the motion watt made, he begged leave to present a petition from Sir John Maxwell, of Polloc, against the motion ; he also grayed, if the House should re- ' commit the Bill, he might be heard by his counsel and agents against certain clauses. Mr. DENNISTOUN, in pursuance of the notice he had given, moved that the Bill be recommit ted, and that the Committee have leave to pro ceed on Monday next. The Committee had been unanimously of opinion that the railway would prove of vast benefit to 'the inhabitants Of Glasgow, —merely a majority were of opinion that certain clauses ought to be introduced ; and being on the preamble, which Would have settled the whole question, they were . of opinion that they could not postpone it for the purpose of introducing them. It - turned out that they hail been in error in that - opinion. (Bear.) They had the power of postponing the preamble, and that being the cage, he believed a large• Majority of the Coin- mittee would no* proceed with the Bill, if his motion were - agreed to. • Mr. PRAED said he had never given any: opinion on the Bill, nor did he intend to do so. Mr. WALLACE said the Parliamentary rule was strict that in no case should Bills be recommitted Oniess some special reasons were given to constitute an excep tion. The fullest opportunity was afforded to the pro moters in Committee to establish their case. Mr. OSWALD said, having voted against the preamble, and seeing no reason for altering his opinion, he should vote against the recommittal. Mr. ESTCOURT said that four 'days Were given to the Council in favour of the preamble of the and the Committee were unanimous in the decision to which, they' . came . It was perfectly true that there were two or thre instances upon the Jotirnal in which the rule"had been de parted from, but there had, in this case, been no reasons . stated why the House should depart from the ordinary. course. Mr: GILLON said the preamble had been - rejected, upon the ground that there had.not been sufficient notice. He believed the Committee had no right, in fact, to take that subject 'into - consideration. But beSicles thiS the Committee were led to suppose that they could not post pone'the'preamble of the Bill, which - was - riot the fact otherwise they would have gone into. the con sideration of the clauses. He 'would state; on be half of the promoters of the Bill, that they .were prepared to insert clauses, which • would in duce all the members of the Committee to vote for the Bill. He thought it would be a very great hardship to the promoters, if upon these grounds the House should r efuse to rvatunait the Bill, Mr. GREEN said, after listening four days, during which all the parties hlb owl heard, to the arguinent - in favour of the Bill, it appeared to him to be a very strong act on the part of the House to recommit it. Mr. BROTHERTON said that mistake should not be visited upon the promoters. The Committee were told by the Clerk that they had no power to postpone the preamble. To prevent the Bill from being recom mitted, that they might rectify the mistake, he did think would be a very great hardship. Mr. LOCKHART said the House would act with its usual discretion if it refused to recommit the Bill upon the opinions which had been urged against the motion. Nearly every Member on the Committee had risen in his place and stated that he had acted under a misconcep tion of their powers, and he believed would now support the Bill. Lord .1": STUART understood that several 'clauses, without theintroductiOn of which he would not support the Bill, could not be introduced because of the want of notice.. He, therefore, could not support th e p r esent Motion. - Colonel SALWEY must, as one of the selected Mem bers, set the Hon. Member for Salford right upon the subject. The Committee had sat most patiently listen ing to evidence for four days, and they divided five to two against the preamble. They had the assistance of able Counsel both for and against the Bill, they there fore did not act under any misconception at all. Se lected Members would be put in a most awkward posi tion if their judgment were to be appealed from to that House. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 7O Majority against the motion —3o On the motion of Lord SANDON, the Lords' amend ments to the Liverpool Docks Bill were considered and agreed to. Mr. BROTIIERTON presented several petitions from Lancashire and Cheshire, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws ; and petitions from Baptist congregations, praying that they might be a ll owe d to ma k e affirmations instead of taking oaths. Mr. BAINES presented a number of petitions in fa vour of the plan of her Majesty's Ministers for relieving th:t public burthens of the people. One of the petitions complained that in consequence of the high price of food, and the difficulty of providing pr o p er clothing for their children, they were unable to send them to school, to ob tain the necessary education, and they prayed that the Corn laws might be repealed. Mr. TURNER presented petitions from Blackburn, signed by 6,700 inhabitants ; from chorley, signed by 3,000 ; and from several other places, praying a repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord WORSLEY presented petitions from places in Lincolnshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from Inverness, to the same effect. Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition to the same effect, from a place in Sussex. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented twenty petitions from Bradford, and other places in the West Riding of Yorkshire, for the abolition of the Corn-laws, and a re duction of the import duties. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Denbigh in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a petition from Kidder minster, to the same effect. Major AGLIONBY presented two petitions from places in Cumberland, and twelve petitions from the metropolis to the same effect. Mr. LABOIJCIIERE presented a petition from the Cliamber of Commerce of Manchester, in favour of the abolition of the Corn-laws, and for the alteration in the Similar petitions were also presented by Mr. Oswald, from Glasgow ; Mr. M. Philips, from Lancashire Si: Matthew Wood, from a parish in London ; Mr. B. Wood, from Southwark ; and Mr. Ainsworth, from Bolton. Colonel SALWEY presented petitions for the total and entire abolition of the Corn-laws from 1,632 me chanics, miners, and workmen employed in the iron and coal works at Colebrook-dale, Horsehay, Dawley, Light moor, Salop ; and from the inhabitants of Mab ley, in the same county. Mr. BLACKETT presented a petition in favour of the three propositions of Ministers for the reduction of Sugar, Timber, and Corn .Duties ; but the names of the petitioners were not heard in the gallery. Mr. MACAULAY presented petitions from the Town Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh, in favour of the proposed alteration of the differential and prohibition duties. Mr. GILLON presented similar petitions from places in Lancashire. General SHARP moved for retarns connected with General and Field-officers, promoted, and on half-pay. Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice, that on the 27th of May he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for im proving the navigation of h ar b ours i n th e Co u nty Kerry. Mr.FOX MAULE moved the first reading of the Rill brought down from the Lords—a Bill for removing doubts as to the liability of Peers in Parliament to pu nishment in cases of felony. The Bill was read a first time. The Woodside and Hoylake Road Bill was read a se cond time. The Vaccination Bill was read a second time. ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the Order of the Day for resuming the Adjourned Debate being read, Mr. V. E. 'GLADSTONE said that it was with great reluctance he' felt it necessary to request the attention of the House for a few moments on their return to the impor- tent business which stood forthis evening, in order that he might call their notice to 'a matter of personal interest. The personal discussion to which he re;erred related not t ) himself but to his father, whom he was bound most. dearly to love, and with whom he considered it the highest. honour. to be connected. In - the debate. of the preceding evening, the -Noble Lord the Member for Northumberland had thought fit, in the discharge of his Parliamentary duty, to throw out sonic imputations, and make an attack upon his father. —(Hear, tear.) Before he proceeded further, he could say, although it was difficult to answer fur oae's feelings on such an occasion, he trusted that while ' hewould fairly state the ground of complaint, which he thought the House would consider a fair subject of com plaint againSt the Noble Lord, he should endeavour to do so without saying anything offensive. The Noble Lord said he would not follow the example of the lion. Member for Newark, by imputing low and degrading motives to individuals. The House would give him credit for never having unnecessarily wearied it with personal explanations, which appeared to him to be a great waste of public time, and he would rather trust to the good sense of the House and the country, to vindicate him from such imputations. He denied that he had imputed low and degrading motives to the promoters of the measure. The Noble Lord observed that it was im possible to forget the part which the lion. Member fur Newark had undertakeei in the debates of 1833, on the sub ject of the abolition of slavery.—(Hear.) He challenged the Noble Lord to state to what he referr id. Did the Noble Lord mean to impute to him, that he had said any thing opposed to the great measure of emancipation ? The Noble Lord could state no such thing. The most material portion of the Noble Lord's speech was what follows :—" It was impossible, also, to forget who was, before that time, the owner of the Bran den-hoop estate in Demerara. It was clearly shown," the Noble Lord proceeds, " that the rate of over-working and mortality on that estate was remarkably • high even for Demerara, where, unfortunately, both those evils prevailed in an eminent degree. In three or four years an enormous quantity of sugar was produced on the estate, and the number of slaves who died was no less than eighty-one, being one seventh of the whole number. Now, he asked the House whether so grave a charge as that should be made, unless the Noble Lord was prepared to substantiate it. The charge was that the great mortality . was produced on • the estate by the over-production of sugar, and this the Noble said was clearly shown. He (Mr. Gladstone) denied that it was ever shown at all. The- Noble Lord, after he had made allegationan to this effect, gave notice of a motion in 1833 fee a return, which would exhibit a return of the mortal:Ay on the estate. He (Mr. Gladstone) in his place, said he should object to the production of such a retum as that, because there was a great deal of ether evidence which was absolutely necessary to set the matter in its true light. Upon that the Noble Lord then at the head of the Government rose in his place and recommended the Noble Lord to withdraw his motion. He did withdraw it, and thereby abandoned the investigation. Now, undoubtedly there had been a great mortality on the estate. But at that period there was a great mortality through ,the whole colony of Demerara. Nor could anything be more natural. It was not the course of the slave trade to introduce entire ±itmilies into the colonies, but adults only who were fit for labour. The consequence was, that twenty years after there was a great mortality. Airing the short time that he (Mr. (Iladstone) was in the Colonial-offiee, a document was prepared, by the protector of slaves in Demerara, stating that looking to the state of the popu lation, and considering the circumstances under which it. was imported, it was evident that there must be a conside rable mortality in the population for many years to come. But the whole ...force of the Noble Lord's accusation rested upon this, that he connected the fact *of the poPu .lation with the production of an enormous quantity of sugar. He (Mr. Gladstone) met this by a simple and unequivocal denial. He denied that there was any pro ductle,n .of sugar that could by the Noble Lord or any other person properly be called enorreous. He -could `show hyreturns from other estates . that it was a common occurreace that 40 or 50 per cent. more sugar was pro ' duce d from them than on that estate. This matter depended, upon. the 'Noble • Lord's own imagination. At this dis . tancet , of time he could not recur to the facts, but he be hove d that there were 560 persons in the first instance, and that the quantity produced was about 680 hogs lietttl •a year. He said, that taking into consideration what the Noble Lord would seem to have forgotten, considering •the means and fitcilities it possessed, the, production of sugar on the estate was below hich might have been expected. Unless the Noble 'Lord .• could prove to the contrary, the House would believe the accusation made was not made on good grounds. But if these things were true, he askedl o io r ld it i y d the NOble Lord show the connection betwe en the m o de - of thepopulatimi and the production, vthich was not enonn oils, but under all the circumstances of the case a rate production considered with re s p ect to timecapacity of the-ktate ? He did not know what the Noble Lord having nothing but the record before him, but he did complain of the - Noble Lord making any such wen • d sa id tie n n ot in rely th t e much. 'Phissttplace'n grounds on which h e was not the fir s t t i me this statement had been made ; it was made i n the year 1833. lie (Mr. Gladstone) then complained of the Nobl e Lord's making an a ttack on the feelings of MeMb ers of that House , wit hout an y inti mation that • he was about to make such an attack ; and the Noble Lord replied that he could assure the Hon. m e mbee, moaning himself (Mr. Gladstone), that if' he aeyuld have conceived that the statement he (Ler 1 Howick) bad made -tdd have been considered by hint EDITION. EVEN IN •••.* or any othei'llon. Gentleman as an attack upon- tl. character of those With . whom he was connected, he would not fail to have communicated his intentions before hand. With that. he (Mr. Gladstone) was contented at the time, and he did not expect after the lapse of eight years that the Noble Lord would have repeated precisely the same imputation on the character of his (Mr. Gladstone's) father in his absence, and without giving hint notice.—(Hear, hear, 'hear.) At the same time he aid not mean to accuse the Noble Lord of having violated hit; pledge. He was perfectly convinced he had entirely forgotten that pledge, no less than the feelings of those who were interested in the matter. He should say that a more absurd and irrele vant attack than the one in question was never made in that House. What did the Noble Lord do ? The Noble Lord said that the Hon. Member for - Newark had no right to speak upon the subject, because his father had possessed a certain estate on which acc or di ng to t h e Noble Lord, abuses had taken place. But what if those abuses had taken . place ? Would it follow that he (Mr. Gladstone) should be . responsible for them ? And did the Noble Lord think that his liberty of speech should be abridgeil, because another had been guilty of abuses over which he had no more control than the Noble Lord himself ? He there fore contended that the attack of the Noble Lord was totally irrelevant and unjust. He did not, however, mean to say, that the misconduct of any man was to be safe from investigation. On the contrary, he admitted that that House was the grand inquest of the nation, and he should say, when there was a subject of complaint, let it, by all means, be brought forward there—let it be sifted to the bottom—but let it not be merely used as a weapon of debate—let not that kind of attack be made with which the worst of men might amuse themselves, and against which it was impossible for the best to make a defence. He was aware that he had no right to claim a freedom from animadversion in that House—he did not mean to set himself up as a model on which discussion should be conducted—and he knew that 1 some had found fault with the remarks he had ad dressed to •his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Edin burgh with reference to one who had preceded him. But what he did was this:—lf he made an attack he made it, not by assailing the memory of those in whom his Right lion. Friend felt deeply interested, but by pro nouncing on the memory of the dead a eulogy which if it was feeble, was at least sincere —(Cheers)—and then calling on his Right Hon. Friend to vindicate his consis tency, which he • did in a manner worthy of himself, — (Hear, hear.) But if he was to be punished for his Parliamentary delinquencies, or if other Hon. Gentle men were to be punished for excesses in debate by at tacks, having no reference whatever to themselvesor their own conduct, but merely- aiming, through the son, at the absent and the innocent—then he would tell the .Noble Lord that such a description of warfare was of a ' nature of which 'he would much rather be the - object than the agent.—(Hear, hear.) _He would next refer to a statement made by his Honour able Friend, the Uunder-Secretary for the Colonies, on the debate on Tuesday, with respect to the Hill Coolies. He had never heard that there was any mortality among the Coolies beyond what was natural. He had never heard that there was any extraordinary mor tality amongst them, andthe had never heerd any complaint except by one Cooly against another. He held in his hand a documcet which was in the possession of the Noble Lord, which he had most courteously supplied, showing that the Coolies were satisfied with the treatment they re ceived, and that they had declared themselves that they should prefer continuing in the employment in which they were: He had now only to thank the House for - the patience wid: which they had listened to what he said. Lord HOWICK was convinced that the House would think it imperative on him to answer the statements of the lion. - es ember, and in doing so, in the first place, he would. state to the House what it was he slid say.— (Hear.) On a.- . former evening on which he had made. the statement, he thought and he appealed to the. Gentlemen who were in the House at the time—he thNight the Honourable Member for New ark in the course of his speech did bring this heavy charge, not only against the Government but against those who supported them, that for some mere party pnri-cae, .or at least with a view to over come some financial difficulty, they were prepared wilfully and deliberately to incur all the evils and all the horror of increasing the slave-trade.—(Hear, In at.) When lie (Lora Howick) said he imputed low and de grading motives, what he meant was this, that he thought the Hon. Member for Newark did impute to the Government and to those who supported them an indifference to the vast amount of human suffering which the encouragement of the slave trade involved. The Hon. - Gentleman might view this question dif ferently from him (Lord Howick), but he could assure the House that there was no imputation of motives which lie felt more • deeply, and sensi bly than that. He thought that to suppose a Member capable, for party purposes, of overlooking all the sufferings of the slave-trade—he thought that would indeed show that that man had an extremely black heart. What he said 'expressly was this, " That he would not impute such motives •to his opponents." His object was to show that the Hon. Member for Newark ought to have the same charity for others, which himself, and Cose connected with him, required for- their own persoiss.—((slieers.) He (Lord Howick) did not impute to Mr. Gladstone, the owner of the Braden-hoop estate, the horrors which he recited.—(Hear, hear.) He had not attributed to that gentleman that he had wilfully and -. frightfully sacrificed human :life for the pus-pose of in- ' creasing his own wealth.—(Hear.) W hat he wanted to show was that it was important for men to put a charitable construction upon . the actions and motives of others who differed from them. He had asserted before, and he repeated the assertion, that Mr. Gladstone could not be supposed to approve of the treatment of his slaves, but it was the tendency of the system itself. lie wished to show hovaimportant it was for Mr. Gladstone and his son (the Hon. Member for Newark) that they should make allowances for the Motives of others, and not put the harsher and more uncharitable interpreta tion upon their conduct. He would repeat the statement which he had made as to this fact, that where there was a large production of sugar, there was also a large mortality.—(Hear, hear.) lii 1833, when he argued this question with the Hon. Measlier for Newark, that Hon. Gentleman did not dispute his facts, although he drew a different conclusion from them. The mor tality upon the sugar estates was vastly greater than upon the cotton plantations. In both classes of cultivation the proportion of births to limbers was the same, the dif ference was in the great mortality upon the sugar estates. And that was a mortality which fell not upon the old and infirm, but upon those on whom all the burden of the sugar cultivation devolved. That was the statement which he (Lord Howick) made in 1833—that was the statement which he had then with him. It was a very -long paper containing a list of deaths, and it was hardly possi ble he could make it intelligible to the House. But if the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) wished, he would re-. peat the motion which he (Lord H.) made in 1833 ; and, let hint state; that Hon. Gentleman's account of what tract taken place on that occasion was not strictly correct, On the Occasion referred to, he (Lord H.) moved for re turns, showing the number of deaths which had taken place on that estate.. The Hon. Gentleman objected to. the motion, because he said the house could not conic to a fair conclusion from the return, because sufficient means of information did not exist in the colony for that purpose. He (Lord H.) did not withdraw his motion. He still conceived that the returnwould elicit all the informa tion which he thought necessary, and he only abstained from pressing his motion to a division, because Earl Spencer, then at the head of her Majesty's Government, stated his intention . or not granting the return, and he (Lord Howick) was . then aware, accord ing to the usages of the House, that there was no possible object in requiring the information. But to say, as the Hon. Gentleman now said, that he (Lord H.) had withdrawn his motion, because he had departed from. the statementwhich he had made—(" No. no,' from Mr. Gladstone.) He (Lord Howick) would appeal to the recol lection of the House whether the Hon. Member had not ten minutes ago, in stating that he (Lord Howick) had, in withdrawing his motion, said„ " And by so doing he 'in • fact gave- up the case." He (Lord ' Howick) totally • deided that he gave up the case. He gave up the inquiry, because he was not, allowed to proceed with it ; that was the explahatiem which he (Lord Howick) wished to make, and he begfred to say that he did not mean anything offensive to hon, but he wanted to show that it was the Hon. Member and those with whom he was connected, that required the in ' dulgent consideration of the House for their conduct, as much so at least as Hon. Members on that side of the House, who supported the proposition of her Majesty's tiffoveih-9e meat. That was the explanation which he hto too yr. . could sincerely assure the Hon. Gentleai!th .th th e la N t s : s so 9n great ali sorry to have given him pain, but he had! thought it was not unimportant he should, at tempt had beets made to excite a Cl') ciwasi connected, country of inhumanity anainst those wide whom h _ a s cot, themselves for the that others should suffer not less than . nzotives to men's eonduct. when practice of imputing. the worst the -se, . sal cam Lord, state ,Mr. GLADSTONE said that __tr meat, as he understood it, Wai very di et ent from that ',lt If he me an t to argue which he made the other no, • a that the cultivation of sugar destrnctive to hu man was more _ .. . man life than the cultivation of cotton, that was a gen era l was ready to admit. But he could - proposition which he ' aclusion which was dr-t not agree with ti r co, 'd the Hon. " vn 'from it. Lord HOWILIa said .G entleman had just. reminded him that he had omitted' one point,Which he' intended to mention. He W•m Ild repeat wh at h ad been: asser ted, that th e Produce upon that estate was consider the average produce in the colony. Th e Consider ably. above , eo. r.ave. , n •oauec for y n a ro employed was ra g - '.. 1 showed The greater than usual. documents that there were some a bout 2,000 where lbs, of sugar produced for every neo-ra em ploy-cal on that estate ; and that upon another estate o n which there had been no decreaseof p r oduction had not been e than a half. Mr. GLADSTONE, taking into consideration the im provement of miehinery, unequivocally, 'distinctly, and broadly denied that statement of the Noble Lord. Mr. VERNON SMITH said the mismanagement or the Hill Coolies in British Guiana was the cause of the objection to their introduction into the Mauritius. As explanations were the order of the day, he wished to correct a misstatement of his argument by the Noble Lord the Member for North Lancaster. The Noble Lord would lead the House to infer that his (Mr. V. Smith's) argument was, that the main object of eman cipation - was to put an end to slavery in other coun tries ; now, what he really meant to state was, that the object of emancipation was to put an end to slavery in their own colonies. The Order of the Day having been read, Mr. P., HOWARD rose and said, that after the lengthened discussion the subject had already under gone, he .WOlO not trespass for any time on the atten tion of the House. Some Hon. Gentlemen opposite hail seemed to treat the question as if it merely regarded the introduction of sugar into this country ; but in his opinion i t embraced many other considera tions ,of a higher nature. With regard, however, aeo n to the question of sugar he believed it waoerronee neou siy supposed that the stmpply of sugar from the West