The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-12 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION duction of sugar latterly in the colonies of this country, that we should not require it from foreign colonies. The House ought to recollect that the country was in an artificial state ; it was burdened with a debt, the charge on which exceeded all the other expenses of the country, and its pecuniary matters were, therefore, placed on a far different footing to those of other countries. It had been admitted on all hands, that such was the fertility of the island of Cuba, that it could produce sugar of a superior quality at a lower price than could be obtained from our own colonies. If the question was one simply of price it was therefore at an end. But there were higher considera tions than those which were connected with money ; and much as the people of England might be relieved by lower ing the price, he was sure they would cheerfully consent to pay the higher price, rather than abandon interests which were dear to them. With respect to the market of the Brazils, whilst the people of that country re quired our cotton, hardware, and other manufactures, they would continue to take them whether we continued or ceased to be the carriers of their sugar.—(Hear, hear.) There had been a great increase in the produce of the West Indies during the last year, and he had no doubt, that when the great experiment of free labour had been fully tried, there would be as large an amount of sugar sent to this country as there was formerly, which, on an average, was one-fourth more than was actually con sumed. As to any benefit which would be conferred by this reduction, he apprehended that there would, in reality, be very little benefitito the consumer. As was generally the case, it would be absorbed by those per sons through whose hands the articles passed in the way of trade. It had been clearly shown that many of the calculations made in the Committee on the Import Duties were greatly exaggerated. They knew how petitions were got up, and how fre quently people appended their names to them without knowing what they contained. He thought it would be much better to discard the petitions on both sides, but the President of the Board of Trade had do right to make use of that petition as his pet argument, after knowing that many of those who had signed it had re pudiated it. To give any benefit to the consumer a much greater reduction must take place in the amount of duty, and if that took place, he could readily imagine that such a reduction might lead to an increase of the revenue.—("Hear, hear," from Mr. Hume.) He himself had voted in a minority for reducing the Sugar Duties. That motion had been resisted by Lord Althorp and Mr. Poulett Thompson, on the ground that they had made other, reductions, and that they bad only a surplus of 400,0001. Now we have a deficiency, and therefore, if it was dangerous to try the experiment then, it must be still mere dangerous now. Why if they wished to adopt the recommendation of the Committee of the Im port Duties, why did they not at once adopt the sugges tion of Mr. M‘Gregor, and propose a reduction of the duty on colonial sugar to 155., and on foreign sugar to 30s. ? An HON. ALEMBER—WouId you do it ? Sir G. CLERK would certainly not do it, and he would tell them why ; because; instead of a surplus, they now had a deficiency. Gentlemen who contended that a reduction of duty always immediately led to such an increased consumption as to lead to an increase of re venue had furnished a test to go by—the Post-office. The same argument had been used at the time of the re duction of the duty on the postage. - The principle was fully carried out. The reduction did not take place by halves. A twopenny rate had been repudiated, the low est rate had been adopted ; and what had been the con sequence ? In the quarter before the reduction of the duty on postage, the postage revenue amounted to 1,600,000/. ; in the quarter ending sth July, 1840, it amounted to 100,000/. ; in the quarter ending 10th Oct., 1840 it amounted to 123,000/. ; in the quarter ending sth January, 1841, it amounted to 98,000/. ; and in the quarter ending sth April, 1841, it had fallen to 93,000/. In Ireland there had been a positive loss upon the postage. It had been stated that 6,0001. had been re ceived from the Post-office revenue in that country, but when the accounts came to be investigated, what turned out to be the fact ?—why, that in the beginning of the year the Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand had been obliged to lend the Irish Post-office 27, 000/., and that at the end of the year the Irish Post-office had paid 6,000/. of the debt back again. Gentlemen on the oppo site side, when alluding to the deficiency in the revenue, had said that the Members on his (Sir G. Clerk's) side of the House were equally culpable with the Government, because they had supported propositions for an increase of expenditure. Let it be remembered, however, that one-half of the deficiency was to be attributed to the de ficiency in the Post-office revenue, against any alteration of which as a measure of finance the Government had received nothing but remonstrances from his side of the House. Another cause of the deficiency was to be attributed to the state of our relations with China. Had Hon. Gentlemen on his side of the House approved bf our policy with regard to that country ? On the contrary, they had last year, he was sorry to say, ineffectually brought forward a motion on that subject, expressly attributing the unfortunate state of our relations with that country to the neglect of the Foreign Secretary in not furnishing our superintendent there with the necessary instructions to guide him in his intercourse with the Chinese authorities under the altered state of affairs consequent upon their throwing open the trade. He had always supported an increase in the Na val establishments of the country, and had always con tended that they ought to be kept in an efficient state. When it had first been stated, from his side the House, that the navy was in an inefficient state, the charge had-been denied, but it had' since been admitted that a considerable expenditure had become necessary in naval stores in consequence of a previous great defi ciency. He thought, looking to what had taken place last autumn, that those who insisted on keeping up the naval establishment in an efficient state were entitled to the gratitude of the country. But even then, at the time we had a large fleet in the Mediterranean, our own shores had been left unprotected. We had narrowly escaped a great peril, and he hoped that no future Board of Admiralty would so neglect their duty as to leave the shores of our own country so wholly unprotected. The members of the Government appeared exceedingly an noyed that any one should suppose that the present mea sures had been proposed in consequence of their recent defeats. Most certainly they had not held those opinions last year, and it must have been obvious to every one, from the first day of the meeting of Parliament, that they stood no chance whatever of carrying their Irish Qualification Bills. Under these circumstances they had recourse to 'the means to which they always resorted when they were hard pushed. In 1835, having managed to quarrel with many of their supporters, in order to conciliate them, and get again their support, they were content to throw overboard the Irish Church, finding that measure would not succeed. The next difficulty they found themselves in they threw out the bait of making the Ballot an open question, and by that secured the support of the Hon. Member for Sheffield ; and when subsequently they were in the last extremity of danger, when they had even so far lost the confidence of the country as to be obliged to tender their resignations, they threw out the bait of the reduction of the Pest-office duty. Their friends had forced that measure upon them, had told them that they could not give them their support unless the postage of letters was reduced,, and the Government, regardless of the injury they were inflicting on the finances of ti - ,e country, gave way, and with a deficient revenue consented to the reduction required. They were now in a similar situation, and hoped to extricate themselves by re sorting , to similar means, but, as the Secretary at War h a d ac knowledged, they had, in the present instance, gone too far ; the bait would not take, because the c'suntry knew they had tie means of carrying the meas'.tres they pro posed. He felt for and pitied, as sincerely as the Hon, Member for Sheffield could do, but he doubted if even among the suffering inhabitants of theht town many could be found in favour of the proposition of the Government. Mr. WARD had presented a pratition. Sir GEORGE CLERK—The Hon. Gentleman was too old a member of that House not to know how easily petitions of every sort could be got up.—(Loud ironical cheers from the Ministerial benches.) He objected to the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer— First, because it went to encourage slavery and the slave trade ; second, because the supply of sugar to be expected from our own colonies would be fully equal to the de mand ; third, because as a financial measure it must fail ; and fourth, because the reduction proposed was so paltry in itself that it could not by any possibility benefit the consumers. For these reasons he should support the re solution of his Noble Friend. Mr. WARD said that the Honourable Gentleman who had just addressed the House had accused them of at tempting to widen the question, and he had also given them a dissertation on free trade, of which he had pro fessed himself an ardent admirer, at the same time stat ing that the friction or disturbing causes must be looked to. What he meant by that he (Mr. Ward) was at a loss to know. The Right Hon. Gentleman then talked of all the subjects that had come before the House for the last ten years ; he had talked of the Post office, the Report of the Import Duties Committee, in short about everything, but the real question before the House. He had talked about the 800,000/. l os t by th e Post-office, but had completely for go tt en to say one word of the 800,000/. that had been lost by giving com pensation to the West India planters.—(Hear,hear.) 'The Right Hon. Gentlem an had then stated th a t th e present was not a commercial or financial question, but it was one that involved a great principle: lie was sorry that his Right Hon. Friend the Member for the Tower Hamlets had fallen so easily into the trap that had been laid by, the Hon. Member for Liverpool--(Hear, hear)-- for by doing so, he had sacrificed almost all the great principles for which he had fought during a long 130 E_ tical life. It was said that humanity was dangerous when not kept within due bounds, and that observation might be justly applied to his Right Hon. Friends. It was said the object of the Govern ment was to let in the produce of Cuba and Brazil, thereby letting in a slave-labour produce. He denied that Government had any such object in view ; their ob ject was to give a protecting duty of 50 per cent. to free labour sugar, over that produced by slavery. Now, he begged to state t o th e House that he was not prepared to go the full length of his Hon. Friend, the Member f'- the City of London. He was not prepared to do "' f with all restriction on s ugar , b ut he desired co'T.7 „ expedient of 1834 succeed ;at the same t: .i see the distinctly to state, that he could not ...are he begged high prices to the West Indies consent to keep up confident that the change - monopoly. He was Majesty's Government w watch 'was proposed by her pies, and true faith eerisistent with true prmci „Aro population eat figs Wh i ask, should the r' hear.) arin h e k. ch wou ar l a d . as thr a y had heen told . by. Mr. G an urney they did through Pagn e' ' ~ae fans of taxing the people orthi cane - s a y ; nquaeystion -411 `...dr, hear.) They had . been called mmber:for ziw.wool, to allow theirliorah-1 the f; IT: fags to predominate above all others on this Ile was not prepared to adopt any such cours e ; nay, the thing had been carried further--they had been a p_ Plied to, not only in the name of religion, but for the Way of humanity, his opinion humanity began at home. there, he would ask, a single manufacturer in th e country, if b rought before a Committee of that House, ttorawazoi,ialt,n,Lt tell them of the distress th a t ex i sted in during di stricts ? Such was the state of those • districts, that the labourers there had no hope but either going to the parish, or such a change as that which was proposed by her Majesty's Ministers. The distress of the manufacturing districts was an element which that House could not overlOok. It demanded its prompt at tention, and it would have it. How different, as he had stated before, was the black population in the colonies ? There could be no doubt that it was most desirable that comfort should be attained as the result of labour. But the comforts of the black population had been produced, he might say, in an unnatural way, for they were the re sult of direct taxation on the labour of this country. All the large towns such as Sheffield, Leeds, and other places, had their eyes open and were fully alive to the declarations of principle made by either of the great parties in that House. On the one hand they had one of the most statesman-like and far-seeing declarations that he had ever heard, on the other side nothing but indi vidual declarations of the utmost hostility to all free trade. The experiment of the Chancellor of the Exche quer of last year afforded an abundant proof that unless they changed their system, the crisis in their finances was but beginning—they had broken the spring of their prosperity by pressing too heavily upon the great body of the people. He had only one fault to find with the proposition of the Government—it was too much in fa vour of the landlord.—(Loud cheers.) He spoke as a small proprietor, but all his prospects in life depended upon land, yet he thought the proposition of the Go vernment was one that would prove highly advantageous to the country.—(Hear; hear.) An argument had been raised in another place that he was obliged to charac , terise as in fact foolish ; it was said " for God's sake don't tax the bread of the people."—(Laughter.) That was the day on which the Government intimated their intention to put a duty of Bs. per quarter on wheat, while at the very moment the duty was 24s.—(Cheers.) That was treating the gullibility of the people in a way that they did not deserve, and he would give his warmest support to the whole proposition of the Government, thinking it a step in the right direction. Whatever might be the fate'of the question in that House, it was one of great importance thrown before the people, and their - good sense would induce them to take it up in such a manner as must make it successful. Sir R. INGLIS had been anxious to address the House, because no one on his side of the House had taken the ground upon which he intended to oppose the propo sition of the Government. He looked upon the question as one connected with slavery and the slave question, and not one of party at all. The question was not whether they would adopt the Budget, or reduce the duties on corn or timber, but whether they would place the slave-owner in a better position than that which he new occupied. He complained of the attack that had been made upon the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the Tower Hamlets from the other side of the House. No one could appreciate more highly than him self the sacrifices which, during a period of 30 years, his consistent advocacy of the emancipation of the slaves had entailed upon the Right Hon. Gentleman. He thought his last appeal on behalf of these oppressed and persecuted individuals did him more honour than all his previous efforts. Although he might not have so high an opinion of human nature as others, yet he did not think so ill of it as to suppose that with the miseries of the slave-trade before them, they would place in a worse position the inhabitants of the great continent of Africa, and in a better position those atrocious slave-trading countries, who would necessarily benefit so much from the adoption of these measures. It was not more than three years since that House had unanimously agreed to address her Majesty, praying her to put an end to the foreign slave trade ; but he asked the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Colonies, how he could come forward and call upon the slave-trading countries to put down the iniquitous system, while they themselves brought for ward measures, the direct object of which was to promote and encourage slave-labour ? Those who had taken the same views of the policy of her Majesty's Government as himself had been taunted with hypocrisy, but he would not retaliate upon the opposite party in the same strain. For his own part, he could conscientiously say that he should have felt it his duty to vote against such measures, from whatever party in the State they might come. At what time had the pro position come from the Government ? At the very mo ment when they had fitted out an expedition, with the laudable object of putting an end to the slave-trade ; but, exactly in the same proportion as they had exerted themselves to send out that expedition, in the same pro portion were they stultifying themselves on the present occasion. He would remind the House of the admission of the Hon. Member for Cumberland, one of the most strenuous supporters of her Majesty's Government, that he thought the measure was calculated to give some en couragement to the slave trade. From all these consi derations he was induced to withhold his assent to the present proposition of the Government. One word with regard to the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary at War, whose name had been alluded to in the course of the debate of last night. No man who took any inter est in the question of the slave trade, could fail to acknowledge their deep obligations to the late Mr. Macaulay, and he, for one, was not unmindful of, or un grateful to that individual for his exertions on behalf of the oppressed African. He should give his Vote in favour of the resolution of the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool. Mr. C. WOOD expressed his satisfaction that, at last, some Hon. Member on the other side of the House had broken through the narrow bounds to which the Noble Lord who had moved the amendment had endeavoured to limit the debate. He doubted, however, whether the omission of the words alluded to by the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford would have so well served the interests of party as the reso lution in the shape in which it had been submitted to the House by the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool.— (Hear, hear.) The question to be •, - tetermined, in his opinion, was, upon what principles their commercial policy was to be conducted ; and whether, without the imposition of new taxes, they wrze to make their income equal to their expenditure.—',Ffear, hear.) That was the question his Right Hon, Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had submitted to the House, and they were about to go into a Committee of Ways and Means to discuss the question, when the Noble Lord interposed with the present motion. His Noble Friend the Secre tary for the Colonies, and his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had distinctly stated that their objects were, not to a dd t o t h e b ur d ens o f t h e people, but to take off some of the pressure that already . existed. It mattered little to the people of that country —it mattered little to tl: L e manufacturing population, who legitimately looked for relief, under the present distress, to the financial me`ssures of the Government—it mat tered little to therri whether each measure was thrown out by itself, or the question disposed of as a whole. He had heard fror A the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, 'And the Hon. Member for Beverley, a state ment of ',heir attachment to free trade. The Hon. Member for Beverley had expressed his anxiety for all ar'jcles entering into the consumption of the poor man, but he was not a little surprised to find that his practical conclusions resulted in a deter . rosnation to oppose a reduction of the duty on sugar. — (Hear, hear, hear.) He wished to know how far those principles would carry the Hon. Member and the Hor. Member for Kilmarnock, in support of the proposi:a on of the Hon. Member for Whitby, with regard to the duties on timber. He would be curious al` A) to see whether they would be ungrateful to the Hon. Mem ber for Lincolnshire, who had no objection to a reduction of the duties on sugar, but who would resist the proposition for consistency sake, in order that tlie monopoly in corn might be supported.—(Hear, 'sear.) He regretted to find that with but few excep'dons little reference had been made to the wretched state of th e p opu l at i on o f that country. The Hon. Member for Stamford (Sir G. Clerk) had expressed great indignation at any one on that (the Ministerial) side of the House being astonished at the sympathy for the slaves that was manifested by Hon. Gentlemen on the other side. He (Mr. C. Wood) should be sorry to suppose that Gentlemen on the other side of the House did not conscientiously entertain the opinions on that subject which they now expressed. But the Hon. Member for Stamford must suppose hat they possessed but a very short recollection if he thought they did not recollect the course pursued on th:is s-abject by a large portion of the party to which the ROn. Gentleman belonged. Although he (Mr. C. WrAd) did not wish to claim for that side of the House a l ,l that had been done to put an end to slavery and the ;lave-trade, he would remind the Hon. Gentleman that the exertions of Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Pitt were , of little avail, com pared with those of the Whig Administration of 1806, and the resolutions moved by Mr. Canning in 1824 re mained but so much waste payer ; the real death-blow was given to slavery by t i de Bill on that subject passed m d p u rao r nb in as g bele L em o ee r ffd d ec G ttos re tl y tla ' views H H o n e . G dor e fe n w t l t h e ae sktheAelmniprotpotes7 d ttrian ai :r. e (l as l u a r lir e Ye . highly-coloured picture of sl very, and attributed to this measure all the horrors if the question was to be of the last forty years. Why, _made a matter of principle, and not a matter of degre,-,and of an infinitely small de grr.,e—he (Mr. C. Wood) would be disposed to yield. (Hear,) If the arguments used on the [ other side of the House were of any weight, he would ask why did they put down the growth of tobacco in Ireland some few years back ? That tobacco might have put down slave-grown tobacco. There were reasons of revenue, no doubt, for the prohibition, and the same was the case with regard to slave-grown coffee. By their legislation they gave advantages to the slave-grown coffee of Brazil over the free grown coffee of Hayti. The case of the slave-grown sugar imported into this country from Brazil fur nished a still make forcible argument. That sugar refused to to imported the purpfQ ose of being refined, and it was the sL s to 4 introduced roduced for consumption. He would w tnow where w the distinction. In either case sl ave-grown sugar w as was purchased. The Right Hon. GeAitleman the President of the Board of Trade said with truth, I'4; whate v er ex t e nt y ou ex p or t ma nufact ure d R,Y l ' , .fAs to Brazil you are to the same extentlpaid with s•axe-grown sugar. Yet, in those cases just instanced, no feelings on the part of humanity were shocked. With respect to the present condition of the working classes he would trouble the House with a fewextracts from documents which had come into his hands. One gentleman stated that among the working classes no man could support hi m self at the present moment, and that confide altogether gone. In South Lancashire #' tips InDll teinthkeePsAsltoaytesellotFttly^Cf?our c:117- ..-uce was ...ge labourer was .- week. The Report of —uners appointed to inquire into —.nand-loom weavers, stated that with al -tut-6f them (the weavers) low wages produeedim- Mediate disiress, and want. of employment producid medi6 . 6-deititittion. "We do not believe (said the Com missioners) that any one who has not mixed with the working classes —we do - not believe that we ourselves can adequately :estimate how' - much mental and bodily suffering; --how much" , disappointment and disease are implied in the terms fall of wages.' " What, he (Mr. C. Wood) would ask, must be now the state of those poor people when there was little or no . employment ? To what measnies but such as would improve the trade of the country was that House to look for a remedy, of that state of things ? Ke xls WO" . • most THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MAY 12, 1841 nished last night to hear an Hon-:Gentleman on the other side of the House running down the foreign trade of this country. It was known that for the last six years in the manufacturing districts wages were gra dually sinking, whilst the price of corn was gradually rising. He had there a statement of the wages in Halifax and Bradford for the last seven years, accompanied with the price of corn, which he would read to the House. The price of corn rose from 465. 2d. to 68s. 9d., in the year 1834, in the space of a fortnight and the wages in that time of the first class of workmen fell from 10s. to 6s. 9d., of the second class from 14s. to 10s., and of the third from 18s. to 13s. 6d. When bread was cheap men clothed themselves. He (Mr. Wood) heard from another gentleman that the popu lation in other towns were now only half fed, and for that reason they were unable to purchase clothes, or most of those articles which were the actual necessaries of life. Now if trade was bad at home to what could they attribute it but to the state of our foreign trade, and the absence of foreign demand? And what was,the cause of that absence of foreign de man d? It was the small amount of our exports to Brazil and other foreign countries. He (Mr. Wood) thought the time was gone by when it would be said that we would send out goods to other countries without being prepared to take something in exchange for them.—(Hear, hear.) This small amount of our exports to those countries was accounted for by the fiscal regulations of our per nicious commercial code, which were such as to prevent our taking goods in return. There was most clear evi dence given before the Import Duties Committee, to prove that the want of comfort, and in some instances of almost the necessaries of life, experienced by the poorer classes, was owing to the high price of corn. That was not confined to the manufacturing artizan only, but ex tended to the agricultural labourer also, There was clear evidence given by a manufacturer of Leicester, that at the time when the price of corn was high, the agricul tural labourer could not afford to purchase necessary clothing--the cheap wool and hosiery, which was one of the staple articles of manufacture in Leicester. That gentleman stated, as a matter of fact, that the commer cial travellers from Leicester, who went through the country for the purpose of selling those articles of cloth ing, laid it down as a maxim, that the demand for those articles in the agricultural districts was slack in proportion to the high price of corn. If it were true that the corn duties were a grievance to the whole population,—if the restrictions on trade were a grievance to the artizan,—he asked if they could look at the depressed state of all classes, and yet refuse to go into a Committee to consider what means should be adopted for their relief ?—(Hear, hear.) He was ready to admit that some protected interests might suffer. He would admit further that some of the landlords' rents might be reduced ; and, in calling upon others to forego their protection, he was also ready himself to forego that he had enjoyed.—(Loud cheers.) He might not value it so much as others ; but, whatever it might be, he con sidered that his interests were more bound up in the ge neral interests of the country than in any individual advantage he might derive from such protection.— (Hear, hear.) One most essential feature of this pro position was, that it was not merely a measure for the relief of trade, but a great financial measure, for tk e purpose of raising a revenue.—(Hear, hear.) H e was at a • loss to understand the objections tat h a d been made made to it on the score of tinle" ' on any other principle than that they had originated in party feelings. The Hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Col quhoun) had disclaimed them, yet the only remedy he proposed was to remove the lleesent Government from office.—.(Hear, hear.) That. might be a reason for the vote he intended to give, but the Honourable Mem ber would hardly convince the world that his mind was free from the influence of party considerations. Anything more inconsistent than the arguments em ployed against this measure, he (Mr. Wood) never heard. The Honourable Member for Beverley said the country would be inundated with Brazilian sugar, yet he said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer world derive no revenue from the measure. On which of these two propositions did the Hon. Gentleman mean to stand ? It seemed to him (Mr. Wood) a matter of no great difficulty to show that the expectations or his Right Hon. Friend were not quite so unreasonable as gentleman on the other side seemed to suppose. If there were a decrease in price there would be an increase in consumption, and if there were an increase in con sumption it followed that there would be an increase of revenue. Hon. Gentlemen opposite disputed the point, that lowering the price produced increased consumption. But if they took a paper on the table of the House and looked at the quantity entered for home consumption, and at the column which contained the price, they would see no instance in which•there was a remarkable increase or decrease of consumption that was not accompanied by a corresponding increase or decrease of price.—(Hear, hear.) If this was so, he did not think the Chancellor of the Exchequer could be accused of having taken an undue estimate of the probable increase of revenue, when he fixed it at so low a sum as 700,0001. If the Right Gen tleman (Mr. Goulburn) allowed this calculation to be cor rect, he should like to know on what grounds he had stated the estimate to be utterly groundless.— (Hear, hear.) But there was another question of great importance for the consideration of the House, namely, what was the proprosition which would be sub mitted to the House, if that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were defeated. He was sure that those who were called upon to reject this proposition, ought to have some intimation of what was to be the alternative. —(Hear, hear.) He dared say the Hon. Member for Whitby (Mr. A. Chapman) had been curious enough To know what was the opinion of those around him on the subject of 'the timber duties. Were they to look to an increase of the duty on timber, or was their only object to remove the Government in such a manner as to leave their successors at liberty to introduce the same measure ? In either hands he feared the fate of the Hon. Member for Whitby would be the same. He did not deny that he thought they ought to know how the revenue for the year was to be made good. He had heard of some who were only anxious for a quiet life, and who thought that nothing was so easy as to meet this, like former difficulties, by a loan ; but he must say th a t t h e on l y f au l t he had to find with the financial policy of the present Government was that they had carried this system too far. He thought Lord Althorp's proposition for taking off the taxes was a wise measure. He took off seven millions, yet the actual loss of income was only two millions. The next course adopted to meet the difficulties was a tem porary loan ; but last year the Chancellor of the Exche quer stated that it was impossible to pursue so discre ditable and ruinous a system further, an.',l came forward with a proporition for increasing the taxation, in order to make it equal to the expenditure perhaps, only a temporary e, Pft the country. This Iv da, 7-pedient, but it could not b e denied that it had entirel 7j , failed, and that we ":eere, of ne cessity, reduced to ad -~pt some other mew -_,are. If, then they would not ta , I :.e off direct taxation, t h e only other mode was that which had been repudiated, not only b the present y ;,chancellor of the Exchequer, but even still I by the Right H on . B aronet , t h e M em b er f m o o r r T e ps_tr ;ugly mworth. If, then, the House was not prepared to athrpt the Government proposition, he asked what was .ae alternative to which they were reduced ? To pro pose the imposition of direct taxes was doubtless a straightforward and honest proposition ; but, in the pre sent state of the country, would it be right to add to its burdens before they tried the expedient of relieving them ? Were they, then, to re-impose such taxes as that on salt and candles, or a house tax ; or would they fall back in time of peace to that which had been al - way s held as a last resource, a property tax ? He, could not agree with those who wished for a tax of that kind, I believing it one which it was Most unwise and inexpedient to impose in time of peace. But if' they imposed that tax they would not relieve trade, and if not he wished to kn "Zak? to what source they were to look fo r improving tie , was so to improve l as revenue ? The only resource and E trade to add to th e r evenue o f t h e - Cust oms they would ..kcise. If Gentlemen wo u ld not d o t h at !eject the only mode of relieving trade from a depression not temporary but arising from the compe tition 'of manufactures on the Continent, and which there W 5 no other mode of putting down but by relieving our trade from the fetters which encumbered it.—(Cheers.) They would reject the only mode of relieving those who were willing to contribute to the revenue of the country, and would prevent the population ftom contributing, as they were willing to do, to its indirect taxation. Those considerations regarding the interests, the feel ings, the welfare, and the future prosperity of the coun try weighed with him so heavily, that he was not without a hope that the House would take into consideration the proposal of his Noble Friend. But however that might be, he was perfectly convinced that the state of the coun try was such that measures like those could not much longer be deferred.—(Ministerial cheers.) They might be introduced by others—they might undergo some modi fication, but as the deeper ruin and distress of the nation would make their consideration more imperative, he was thoroughly persuaded that sooner or later, and at no very distant period, Honourable Gentlemen who had come forward as the strenuous advocates of monopoly in that House, would find their expectations disappointed, and that for the general benefit those Protecting duties must be diminished, and that the interest of the country must be preferred to the interests of a class,—(Hear, hear.) Mr. GOULBURN said that when he reflectA that the period at which he was called on to address the House against a proposal for reducing the duty on foreign sugar was that precise period which, by the Act of Emancipation of the Negroes in the West Indies, was marked out as the first year in which the slave popula tion of these colonies should enjoy perfet freedom ; and when he reflected, also, that that period had been antici pated by three years by the voluntary act of those colo nists themselves—when he reflected on that circumstance, he could not but consider what would have been the feeling of that House and of the country, if, when his Honourable Friend near him had first proposed to the House the Act of Emanci nation. he had accompanied it by a proposition to the effect, that as soon as the apprenticeship should P.'" slave-grown sugar should be admitted wit) , into the markets of this court" believed that if any m^ - political o*i-- would ' restriction _.ay.—(Hear, hear,) He whatever might have been his ' had stated that such a proceeding _ na've been "adopted i n 1841, the assertion wou ld nave been scouted and denounced as an imaginary ap prehension. He would have been told, that if Great Britain, which `was doing an act of justice to the.negroes, immediately on the accomplishment of that act were to turn round and deprive the West Indies of the protec tion which tbeY-2had enjoyed in pur markets, she would enter on a proceeding vvhich no Miernment could re commend,- mid - Which no 'louse of Commons could sanction. -And although, with respect to the first part of that proposition, they h a d b een undeceived by the pro, posals of the Government; he belieVed that • with regard to the second part of the proposition their confidence would still be unshaken, and that the House'of Commons would not approve of the measure which the mittistry submitted for their consideration. —(Hear, hear.) In that view of the question it mattered not whether the measure was brought forward as a financial one or as a part of the budget ; for when he remembered, Ow 3 cir cumstances uncler;*hibii the Emancipation AO Waq - . passed, the House could pot, in his opiniqn, adopt such a proposal. The measure had been brought forward as one of financial policy; and the justification offered for it was the extreme necessity of the country. He (Mr. Goulbourn) did not then, any more than on a former occasion, deny that w e had arrived at a crisis in the financial affairs of thecountry which demanded the im mediate application of a remedy.--(Hear, hear.) lie did not, and he could not, deny that ; but, while he ad mitted it, he was bound to say also that those who were responsible for the crisis were bound to prepare an ade quate remedy.—(Cheers and counter cheers.) It was not sufficient for the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, or the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, to come forward and say that they proposed a measure for the reduction of the duty .on sugar, which would give them 700,0001. a year, while they were absolutely silent as to the mode ' in which the revenue could possibly be so greatly increased. For his part he thought that the explanation given on the subject by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies was altogether inefficient. Hon. Members on his (Mr. Goulburn's) side of the House had been taunted by the Hon. Member for Halifax because they adopted two inconsistent modes of argument. The truth was, however, that they were driven into opposite courses by the contradictory statements of Mimsters, and the fault was not in the reply to the propositions but in the propositions themselves. But he should like to know in what mode the Right Hon. Gentleman proposed to arise those 700,0001. from an alteration in the duties on sugar. The Right Hon. Gentleman required no more from the contemplated alteration than was raised under the present system in the year 1828, when the duty on sugar realized 5,000,000 L, whilst the .Right Hon. Gentleman anticipated only 4,400,0001. under the new duty. He was consequently persuaded that they might raise the revenue to the required amount, without the nostrum proposed by the Government. The only effect of the contemplated measure wouldbe:an alteration, probably, in the revenue ; but at the same time they would substi tute a certain quantity of Brazil or Cuba sugar for that of our West India colonies, and would thus give a com mensurate incitement to that slave-trade which they had been so desirous to remove ?—(Hear, hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Halifax had made it a great ground of complaint against Members on his (Mr.. G.'s) side, that they did not enter upon the general question of commercial policy. But he (Mr. G.) did not think that they would be justified in entering upon the discussion of any other question than that of the sugar duties, which had been submitted to the consi deration of the House by her Majesty's Governine:; (. _ . (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman accused s` on all reduction. B the he Opposition wuu ld t sideell the o n f ü b m ein G g en o t vosed to ma"... that they by no means resisted reduction, when `Lc was consistent with financial and commercial o^:ficy.___.(llear, hear.) The price of sugar was alreaLy below that to which the mea sure of theGovcianr..ent . would reduce it.—(Hear, hear.) At the same time,, if they looked to the last fifteen years, and took periods in which the consumption of sugar was the greatest, the price would be found to above the price upon which the Noble L,,rd had calculated as that which would increase the consumption to the large benefit of the revenue, which Ministers were pleased to anticipate.—(Hear, and a laugh.) It was his own firm belief that the consumption of sugar would not be increased by any legislative enact ment beyond the present amount, and it was on that ground he was of opinion that the rate of duty ought to be left as it was. It had been asserted that they (the Opposition had no sympathy with the feelings of the poorer classes of their countrymen, and great pains had been taken to contrast the unfortunate condition, and the privations of the industrious classes in this country, with the happy state of the slaves in the Brazils. But, without regretting the happiness of the slave:„ or wanting a proper sense of the se. 4 .7 er i ngs which his own countrymen had sometimes to endure, he must say that he did not thific that the re duction contemplated in the duty - .:(pon slave-grown sugar would tend greatly to imPro:ee the condition of the la bouring classes of Great. Britain.—(Hear, hear.) It had also been stated that he, and those with whom he acted, were indifferent to the importance of our foreign trade. Now, for himself, he must say that he had, for the greater 'Part of his political life, served with Mr. Hus kisson, and supported him in Parliament—(Hear)—and although he had in the latter part of their connexion the misfortune to dissent from that lamented friend on some points, yet he had been so long known as a supporter of his policy, that it could not reasonably be supposed he was indifferent to the prosperity of our trade in any branch. He was quite alive to the value, both of our colonial and foreign commerae, and the only distinction which he. would make in favour of either would be grounded on this . question alone ; which of them em ployed the greater number of our own population ? (Hear, hear.) Much stress had been laid upon the dis satisfaction with England which prevailed in Brazil, and the importance of conciliating that country, before the commercial treaty expired.--(Hear, hear, hear.) But he did not ascribe the dissatisfaction to the same cause. He believed it arose only from our efforts to put down the slave trade.— (Cheers from the Opposition)—and whether we conciliated the friendship of the, Brazilians, by relaxing in those efforts, or by the measure now before the House, the effect would be the same, to cover this country with odium and contempt.—(Cheers and cries of " Oh, oh !") The No ble Member for Halifax said that, as we already took the cotton and tobacco of the Brazils, why should we refuse to take dual'. sugar ?—(Hear.) But he shcail.a. remind I-the - Hon. Gentleman that thia was a question whether we should open our markets to a slave-labour product against which they were closed before.—(Hear, hear.) If they first abandoned the sugar duty, and then went to Brazil for the purpose of obtaining additional powers from that nation for the suppression of the slave trade, They would be going with their hands tied, and without the means of inducing Brazil to consent to any such mea sure. He would, therefore, recommend the Right Hon. Gentleman to follow the example which his Noble Friend had set in his negotiations with Texas, and to which allusion had been made during the de bate last evening, and to pause before he made reductions which must be injurious to our own colonies, until he was certain that by so doing he could be securing the paramount interests of justice and humanity._ (Hear, hear.) The Preside'll, of the Board of Trade had given a brilliant, but at "tie same time a just description of the great natural advantages possessed by the Brazils, with a view commercial object s . But, w hil e h e h a d been the: enlarging on the peculiar advantages possessed by t:atit foreign country, he had forgotten to advert to .ne superior advantages enjoyed by a possession which was no foreign country, the population of whi c h was not like the population of Brat% confined to six millions of inhabitants, one of which' was a slave population, and therefore unable to consume our manufactures so exten sively—but a country which was inhabited by a free people in the highest state of civilization, with rivers extending through a vast *d densely-populated country, and which was fully equal to the Brazils in the possession of the means of making a return for our manufactures. He saw the Noble Lord the Member for Totnes whis pering to the Right lion. Gentleman, and no doubt he was confidentially communicating to him, although at rather a late period certainly, the information which had been comm'anicated to the Import Committee, as to the capacity of India to become a most extensive ens torn'a for our manufactures—(Cheers)—and that all she required was the power of making returns for our efforts, and that the only return she could make was hi sugar.— (Loud cheers.) He would therefore ask the Right Hon. Gentleman to have some corresponding feeling for India. --(Cheers.) He was aware that many persons had em barked a large amount of capital in India ; by adopting this course they would check the rising prosperity of India. If they looked to the rising prosperity of India —to the sources which India possessed for making' us returns for our manufactures —he believed that no better customer for England could be found thao India--(Hear, hear)—and that India would take, not like Brasil, our coarser articles only, hat that she would take, also, our more e l a b orate manufac tures. When the ' Hon. Gentleman expressed his . fears that, by giving an increased stimulus to the diversitai of capital into India, did he forget that, by the measure proposed, he would create a diversion of capital into Brazil which would employed in the production of an article which Meat necessarily give encouragement to slavery and the slave trade, that British capital would be made accessory to the forwarding of that traffic which Parliament had so recently denounced ? Ile would refer to the documents which find been last year laid on the table by the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to prove this assertion. It would thus be found that the Commissioners had reported that British capital had been employed in the Brazils in forwarding the slave trade, and in cultivating land by slave labour. —(Cheers.) Surely the Noble Lord would acknowledge the truth of the fact, and that it had been proved that not in one, two, or three instances alone estates were cultivated by Negroes newly imported by bletitls of British capital. Thus British capital was diverted into the Brazils for the purpose of being employed hi violat ing the laws of the country _; and that was another argu ment for givin g every possible stimulus to the introduc tion of capital into Indita.-='--(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman the 3Nieniber for Edinburgh had said that the question Of the encouragement of slavery ought not to diveat tit din from their purpose on the present occasion ; that according to his views we had performed our duty on the subject when we had taken upon ourselves to ter minate slavery in our own territories, and to put a stop to the slave trade, and that it was no portion of our natural duty to prevent the slave trade in foreign coun tries, but that when we put a stop to slavery ourselves we had done all that we were bound to do. He was anxious to protest against such a doctrine.--(Flear.) had been the fashion to say that the Whig Government was the only Government which had proposed and exe cuted measures for the extinction a +"- ' they had 0rn,,,,--a and executed 41 _ traLue. True, bwo great measures .ur tne abolition of the gave trade and for the abolition of slavery, and he was free to admit that the proposing and carrying of these two great measures did them the highest honour— (Loud cheers) and he had given his humble support to both those measures. lie could not forget when these claims were made on be half of the Whig Government the part which had been taken by a Government to which he had belonged. He t'ould not forget that at the treaty of Vienna the British negotiator, acting under orders from a Conservative Go vernment, brought all the Powers of Europe to a unani moUs declaration that they would exert their utmost powers for the suppression of the slave trade.—(Loud cheering.) Though he would not attempt to dis parage the acts to which he had before alluded, yet he could not but think that the period would arrive when the world would bless' the country which authorised, and Minister who proposed, a declaration so honourable to humanity—(cheers)--and he could never admit that we had fulfilled the obligation which the treaty had imposed on us by our Emancipation Act. No sooner hid the Neg-ra Emancipation been carried than the Hon ourable Baronet, the Member for Oxford, called upon the House to address the Crown, beseeching the Crown to use every effort in its power to induce foreign Powers to con sent -to the abolition of the slave-trade. The . Noble Lord had cordially united with them on that ) occasion as to th e necess i ty o f pursu i ng measures ! to give effect to the treaty of Vienna. The Noble Lord had on this occasion not only given an account of the steps which he had taken to attain that object, but he also stated the difficulties which he had encountered. In 1839 an address from the other House of Parliament had confirmed those views, and again the Government had been called on to leave no means untried for the suppression of that traffic which was represented as being more especially carried on by Cuba and the Brazils from which it was now proposed that sugar should be admitted. (Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord had on that occasion explained that he had received from all those Powers expressions of their willingness to sup press the traffic, but that they used no efforts for that purpose ; and when the Noble Lord should be next called upon to urge upon those Powers the necessity of taking more active measures for the suppression of the slave-trade, he did not think that they would be inclined to agree to his proposition, when they found, by his own acts and speeches, he was encouraging that very product, the cultivation of which gave the greatest stimulus to the traffic. He was opposed to the present measure, because he considered it useless as a measure of finance, which could produce no revenue, except at the expense of our c o l on i es, to wh i ch it must prove deeply injurious,and because it would give a direct encouragement to slave l a b our , w hi ch he felt bound by every motive of humanity, and every feeling of justice to our own colonies, to discourage. For these reasons, he should support the resolution of his Noble Friend. Sir G. GREY said that, on the third night of this de bate, he was happy to have it in his power to impress upon the House an important disclosure which had been made by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, in the speech just made to th e H ouse . I t would be in the recol lection of the House that on the night when his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his scheme, the Right Hon. G ent l eman opposite concurred in the opinion that decisive measures must be token In order to make up the deficiency. They cautiously re served, as they had a perfect right to do, their opinion on the subject until this scheme had been breught before „,' them. Hon. Gentlem en on t h at side 1,.., in three nights' debate, been anxio u sly expect i n - opinions of the Right Ho- - 6 to hear what were the whole financial statt• _. ..s. Gentleman, not only on the without enter;- , ~went of his Ri g ht H on . F rien d, b u t h .....g into minute d e t a il s , b y w h at means theewould . - propose to supp the defici e n c y ; a nd wh a t was answer of the Hon. ientleman in answer to the re , peated questions proposed to him ?—(Hear.) Why, he said he would just leave things alone.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.) Such was the satisfactory announce ment made to the House by the Right Hon. 'Gentleman. The attention of the country had been fixed on the sub ject of the Import Duties for the last six months, ever since that much traduced, but valuable Report had appeared, which united the whole country irrespectively of political opinions.- 7 (Tory cheers.) He (Sir G. Grey) thought the country would hear with anything , but satisfitetioa that it was the intention of the Govern ment', who intended to succeed that now in existence to leave the deficiency in the revenue altogether untouched.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.) He was sorry that in the speeches of the Right Hon. Gens tlemen opposite, there had been no distinct enunciation of the principle on which their opposition was founded. The Hon. Member for Newark stated to the House at the commencement of his address, that he did not come there to discuss principles.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir G. Grey) would have thought, that on a question of that kind, he at least would have been anxious to propound some principle by which the con science of the State might be guided.—(Hear, hear.) But the Hon. Member distinctly stated that it was not a question of principle.—(" No, no," from the Tory benches, and cheers from the Ministerial benches.) He rested his opposition entirely upon the promise of a greater supply from the West Indies during the coming year than had been received for several years past. In another part of his speech the Hon. Gentleman concur red with his Hon. Friend, the Member for the Tower Hamlets, and had adopted all that horror of sla very which had exposed his Hon. Friend to the shafts of malevolence from the West India body. It turned out, however, that the principle was to be maintained only when sugar was at 57s.—(Hear, hear, hear.) On that side of the House he had no such • complaint to make. The objections to the measure had been stated clearly and distinctly, and Hon. Gentlemen opposite had cheered their speeches. To what principle were those cheers applied ? The Hon. Member for Lincoln had said, treating this a whole, that if he admitted the prin ciple contained in these measures, they :would touch the capital, and down would come the Corn-laws. That having resisted it in one case, he would be in a better position to resist it in the other.—(Hear.) Were Hen. Gentlemen opposite prepared to adopt that ar gumen t ? —(Hear, hear.) Would there be the same eagerness to protect the West Indies, if they did not believe that this was an outwork which must be defended in order to maintain their position with respect to the existing Corn laws ?—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets would not consent under any circumstances to admit slave-made sugar into this country. Did the Noble Lord or the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite adopt that principle ?—(Hear, hear.) It would• be satis factory to the country to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman who had addressed the House, put forward as he was as the agent of the Right Hon. Gentleman and of that great party with which he was connected, that however extravagant the price of sugar might be, his actc,rinin.tt.n wars to malco no nitoration, and that the consumer should in no case have the benefit of competi tion.—(Hear, hear.) He must say that the extreme hor ror which had been expressed with regard to slavery, coming, as it did, with a good grace from his Hon. Friend, came with a very ill grace from 4ny of those who joined in it. The •petition presented a few nights ago by the Hon. Baronet opposite implored the house not to incur the guilt of slavery—putting that forward as a plea which was to excite the warm and generous feelings of the people of England—feelings which had been evinced in that profuse gift which had been so liberally showered upon themselves. They knew that they could not main tain their position without enlisting those feelings; there fore they professed a great horror of slavery.-s -(Hear, hear.) He would ask his Noble Friend 'opposite was it against sugar only that he intended to wage war ? Would it not be extended to many articles the produce of slave labour which were indispensable articles of con sumption ? The English were a great commercial peo ple. They had, infinitely to their honour, abolished slavery, in spite of opposition for a series of years ema nating from that very party which now came before the Rouse to complain of enconragement being given to slavery. Having done that, having dissolved all connection with slavery, was it to be said they were to sacrifice the in terests of the people of this country by waging war against all slave produce ? The Hon.,Member for Newark had endeavoured to draw a distinction between cotton and coffee, and he stated that in the produce of those articles there was great difference in the labour of the slave—that was a distinction which the Hon. Gentleman was more competent to decide than he (Sir G. Grey) was.—(Cheers.) But that was a species of argument which the people would not tolerate ; it was against the principle of slavery the peoyle were determined to contend, however mild it might be. Did his Hon. Friend believe the people of this country would draw a distinction between the slavery which existed under a burning sun, and that, which was carried on in the.cotton trade in America ? The strength of the people on the subject of the slave-trade bad been shown with respect to the exportation of Hill Coolies, and even the Right Hon, Baronet himself had rather an active part in check ing that which he thought tended to slavery. The Hon. Member for Newark, had stated that they were aban doning a principle long acted upon with respect to the slave-trade Ihe denied that they were doinc , so. No one knew better than his Hon. Friend that those duties on sugar were placed upon it long before the abolition of the slave trade. There was nothing in the prohi bitory duties, except by the merest accident, which had the effect of ehangino slavery or the slave trade. If the House acted upon the principle laid down by the Right Hon. Gentleniati, they must revise the whole commercial tariff, hi order to exclude every article that was produced by slave labour. Now, that he thought was Et principle that could not be acted upon by a great commercial country ; more, perhaps, might be done than had been in order tO check English capital from finding its way into other countries, for the puose of carrying on slave labour. rp It had been said that English money had found its way into Cuba and the Brazils, in order to employ slaves. If such was the case, it was a most shameful transaction, especially if that money came, as had been stated, from those who professed their abhorrence of it ; but he thought he knew an instance where the name of an Hon. Member had been seen to a Company working mines in the Brazils where slaves were employed. The Right Hon. Gentlemen here read a document to show that slaves were employed in every one of the colonies of the ceuntry, and observed that he thought the course . that naa been pursued by those who opposed the measure proposed by Government arose from a political pretext. lie wits very glad to see that even the Hon. Gentlemen opposite had given up the petition which had been pre sented by the West India interest. Even the Hon. Member for Newark, who was formerly a West India, advocate, had now changed his interest, and was the ad vocate of the East India interest.—(Loud cheers.) • The great object of the Hon. Gentlemen opposite was,' to show that the supply from the East and the West In dies was to be enough for the demand ; but what was the ground upon which the Hon. Gentlemen made such a proposition ? We had now been four years acting under the assimilated duties, yet the supply from th a t coun try had not increased adequately to the expecta tions form-- .** ear he - ar.) - ri l'! , '_ , Question before the House was, whether protection should be 5'..... 1 '. stituted for prohibition.—(Lond Cheers.) It was said upon a .. former Occasion, tu ft the Iffilifirta i tIOTI , of East India sugar • - at would pauperise Lae negiO, btit tie Would ask whether s that prediction had *ll borne out by the facts ? His Right Hon. Friend had taken security against any iast mono poly, while at the same time he took security tha any scarcity that might arise. It was said the negro mea sure proposed by the Government would bring t thae '' race back to a state of barbarism. - That al ss d , ould indeed not see in be a matter for lamentation, but he c what way the Hon. Members made out such a case. the sac had set . a noble example , mil ions, but in fice, not only of twenty consenting to bear a taxation of ten millions in the in creased price of sugar—(Cheers) —but was that sacrifice to be made indefinite ?--(Cheers.) Was that House to proclaim that the great experiment of emancipation had been a failure ?--(Cheers.) Thej, would do so if they decided that the West India colonies required so much protection that a differential duty of 50 per cent. would not do, that such a protection was not adequate. Hon. Members on the other side, and among the others, the Hon. Member for Newark, bad stated' that they did not come there to discuss principles, and th e Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Camb rid g e stated', that he should not enter into a general and desultory discussion of the subject. It might be a prudent course for them . to take, but he believed the country would see through it.— (Loud cheers.) They would duly appreciate theunwiLs lingness of Hon. Members opposite to grapple with the principles laid down by her Majesty's Government. And although they might dwell with satisfaction upon their an ticipated triumph, and the result, of the eoniWg division.; he believed with his Hot ti'fiend the Member for Halifax, that the ntOte the question was discussed, the better it vothild be understood by the country.—(Renewed cheers.) He believed, the better it was understood, the less chance there was, whatever pretext or, guise tleyfight assume, to enlist the Vnitifill'e6 tif the soon -thinking' Tportion of the aimunity on their side of the question. ilt inure the question was discussed, and the better it was understood, the more certain would be the triumph of the principles submitted to the House by her Majesty's Ministers.—(Loud and general ehWiiiiti) Lord SAND 'rose to explain, but was met with tend &les of " Spoke," ." Adjourn," &c., which ren dered it impossible to catch his observations distinctly. We understood the Noble Lord to complain that the Right Hon. Baronet had attilliuted to him sentiments which he entitely disowned. The Right Hon. Gentle man hadinterpreted his cheers as if he had agreed in the Right Hon. Gentleman's exposition of the sentiments of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the Tower Hamlets, which was not the case,---(Loud cries of " Spoke," " Adjourt') Mr. GOULTIUIIN also explained. The Right Hon. tientleMan had imputed to him that he had stated that in the present crisis of affairs it was necessary that nothing should be done.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) What he stated was that they were in a crisis which de manded great exertion, but the additional revenue that would be derived from sugar under the circumstances of the qtuitity announced by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be, in the course of arrival from the East and West Indies would be sufficient, and he had said that that revenue would be obtained by their doing nothing.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir G. GREY in explanation, Mr. BROTHERTON rose and moved the adjournment of the debate.—(Loud cries of " Adjourn," " Go, on," " Divide, &c.; for some minutes.) Mr. IRVINE said that it was not his intention to have said a word on the subject, if he had not been singled out by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir G. Grey) to justify some remarks which were made in answer to the , questions put by the Committee of which he was a member. He (Mr. Irvine) thought that if the evidence of Mr. M'Quean were read by every Member of that House, it would give them a due and just account of what the Westlndies have been and what they are now— of what they were likely to become in the event of such a measure taking place as was contemplated by her Ma jesty's Government. He was sure that if the Govern ment had that consideration which was due to the country, and to the great - principles on which .the country was hitherto governed they would not have proposed the present measure. They would hesitate in carrying that measure. He agreed with Mr. M'Quean, that the West Indies would become a place of desolation if the present Bill were carried. The question at present under consideration was not, in his opinion, argued ac cording to true principles. He could not pass over the accusation that he was connected with a gold mine worked by slaves. It was perfectly true that, like a great number of'persons opposed to the slave trade, he had a share in property worked by slave-labour. He doubted not there were many persons in the House as much concerned in mining as he was, and he wished them joy of their speculations.—(Laughter.) He hoped they would be more fortunate than he had been.—(Loud laughter.) Much was said about the blood he had squeezed out of the negro, but he could squeeze no gold. He doubted not that the Right Hon. Baronet would be glad of a share in it if it were a profitable specUlation.—(Laughter.) The House had paid a large sum, for . the emancipation of the negro, but another Government had valued the negroes at 140 millions, and if the House would do the justice they were so fond of talking of, they would pay the planters the other 120 millions.—(Loud laughter.) This was a subject in which he had a deep interest, and he therefore. trusted the House would excuse his obtruding hiniself on their attention.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to. PUBLIC PARK AT THE EAST-END. Mr. E. Ji STANLEY proposed that the House should agree to a resolution authorising her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests to devote the sum of 100,0001. accruing from the sale of York-house, and the interest received upon the sum of 72,0001. for which York-house had been purchased, to the formation of a park in the east-end of the metropolis. The site chosen for the purpose was Bonner's-fields, and a portion of the vicinity, consisting in all, of 290 acres. Sir R. PEEL wished to know whether the money ac cruing from the sale of York-house would cover the entire of the estimated expense of the undertaking. ' Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that the sale and the inte rest thereon amounted, as he before stated, to 100,0001., and he believed that sum would be quite sufficient for the intended purpose. Mr. KEMBLE thought that so large a sum should not be voted at that late hour, and in so thin a House. Mr. E. J. STANLEY explained that the resolution would merely enable him to bring in a Bill for the ap plication to the object he had stated of the money ac cruing from the sale of York-house. The property was not public`, but belonged strictly to the Crown. Colonel SIBTHORP opposed the resolution. Mr. E. J. STANLEY having again explained, the re solution was agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'Clock. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. " General condemnation is a proof of general ignorance." Sin—Though coinciding with the Correspondent of the Times, who signs himself " a Surgeon," in his re marks upon the " drenching system" pursued by surgeon apothecaries, for the purpose of putting money in their pockets at the sacrifice of their, patient's health, I must differ with him altogether in his desire to abolish the sale of all patent medicines. Empirics, it is true, gull the public by putting off worthless nostrums ; but, at the same time, it must be acknowledged that some of the most valuable remedies now in use are patent medi cines. Of these I need only mention " James's Fever Powders" and "Feaver's Gout Embrocation." The latter medicine, the discovery of a gentleman residing in Friday-street, Cheapside, London, has cured me within the last few days of an attack of highly in flammatory gout in the short space of a few hours, al though the fit had been upon me ten days, and in former attacks I suffered from six to seven weeks, hav ing recourse to the usual medicines without effect. This invaluable remedy has, to my own knowledge, performed more wonders in the cure of gout and rheumatism than all the recipes of the faculty could effect. Now, would it not be monstrous to prohi bit the sale of a specific which has worked, ana may still work so much good? or to refuse to the discoverer of a remedy that confers the blessing of health upon his fellow men the just reward of his ingenuity. I trust that Mr. Hawes will introduce a clause in his Medical Reform Bill, now before Parliament, to test the nature • and efficacy of all patent medicines, so as to let their merits be fairly tried by competent and im partial judges in the public hoSpitals, and certificates per mitting their sale be granted where they are found de serving them. This would be the true mode of dis covering the remedies that are really beneficial ; and I feel confident that the proprietor of " Feaver's Gout Embrocation" would not shrink from au ordeal which would tend more completely to establish the well-earned reputation of his valuable discovery. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, G. B. EVE. Louth, Lincolnshire, May 18, 1841. REPORTED SAFETY OF THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP. On Saturday afternoon a very great sensation was created in this dty (Exeter), by a report that C. Gordon, Esq., a Magistrate of this county, who is now living at Havitree, had . received a letter from I'lymouth, brought by a ship from Barbadoes to that port, which stated that the President had made Barbadoes in a dismantled state, but with her crew and passengers all safe. Our first impulse was to consult .the packet list, where we find that the 'Tyrian, which arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday, left Barbadoes on the 16th of March, and as the storm which must have disabled the President did not take place until the 16th, 17th, and 18th, she could not arrilT at Tarbadoes until long after this packet b a d sa iled.. Tills. increased our hopes that the rumour would prove true ; 'as •a Yowl coming direct from the island would arrive here in_ less time than the packet ; that is, a vessel might leave Barbadoes the first week in April, and arrive here I he first iveek in May. Our next course was, to ace Mr. Gordon, who, with much politeness, gave us the following intlxmation :—He had received a letter from his son, who lives near Ottery, in this county, which states that a letter had been received at Otter jr from the Bishop of Barbadoes, or talirough the family or establishment of the Bishop, addressed to This friends at Ottery, saying that the Presiduot had ai:- rived these as above stated. The difficulties to which this account is liable are these :—The same means of conveyance which brought a letter to Ottery, would, in all probability, have brotiht other accounts ; and the captain of the vessel by whibh it came would also have • giien information ; still we have known so many in stances in which true accounts have been brought iu she most unaccountable way, coupled also with the fact th a t no accounts have reached this country from Bar possible the President could have bade that i!". was made that island, being the best place for which she the storm of the 17th of March c ould make, if disabled by weighing all these things toged2fT, we must still preserve hope that this account, which we fizve now given as ru mour, will prove in a few days to be a w's!'ll authenticated fact.--North Devon Chronicle. ELEVENTH titggArts.---; The head-qt :liters are at Hounslow, under the talent/640t tire Earl of Card_ig ; a detachment is stationed at 'Haiti/ton Cond.. The Noble . Earl is reported to have slept very unsoundly ainee the issue of the General Order forbidding the infliction of corporal punish- 1 1 ment on the Sabbath. The abolition of such an Innocent arid laudable amusement as that of lacerating men's backs with the cat-o'•nine-tails on the most sacred day of the week, is highly reprehensible and vexatious. _ We de not, therefore, wonder at his Lordship feeling uncomfortable and restless in his nightly slumbers. It is true that Lord Rosslyia Lord Greenock, - Lord Sand) s,. Lord F. Fitz-Clarence, Lord 6 ha rles Wellesley, Lord Sussex Lennox, and several other noblemen who havibeen in command of regiments, never had recourse to such pious and princely Sunday pastinies as those indulged by the Noble Earl ; but then those noblemen are what i 3 vulgarly called " slow coaches" in comparison to Lord Cardigan, and have no con ception of those elegant fancies in which he of the " bottle" delighteth to revel. Surgeon &trident leaves the regiment and retires to half-pay.— United Service Gazette. The North Midland and Other .connected rail ways are making arrangements, by which . they will be able to convey passengers from London to Edinburgh in about two hours less time than they can go by the western routes. They will also be able, by . the starting of a coach from Newcastle at half-past five in the morn ing, to take'passengers from that town to London in a single day. The mails will shortly be still further acce lerated on this line.—Tyne Pilot. MORNING 1 . , EIDITION FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETT t DOWNING-STRBET, Mar 7, IS4 o rris, DV 1. ThP Queen hasbeenyleased to appoin;: Patrick M to be Treasurer of the Island of Newfoundland, DOWNING-STREET, MAY 14. ghee' The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander , herd, Esq., to be Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealou' boWrING-sTRET, bay 10, 1841. ui e lsb, The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas " Esq., to be Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 10, 184 1 Golf The Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel iod William Archibald to the office of Master of the Rolls, l / 4 to W. Johnson to be Attorney-General; and J. B. be Solicitor-General, of the Province of Nova Scotia. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 11. n .erli The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint 0 • Lloyd Hodges, Esq., late her Majesty's Agent andt1:101 General in Egypt, to be her Majesty's Consul-Ge nera l burgh' Circle of Lower Saxony and for the Free Cities of flan Bremen, and Lubeck. _ 0 ; The Queen has also been graciously p l eas ed to Charles John Barnett, Esq., late her Majesty's Consul 14 ` ittw, to be her Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 11. PiP 4 sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. AV. B. or to be Captain, by purchase, vice Colquitt , who retiresine; net W. Barnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vieeLoiti J. Fort, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice May 11. 11th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir I. K. C. 8., from the 82d Foot, to be Colonel, vice Ge ne ' 14th R. S. D Foot—A. Qui c onkin, deceasd ke, Gento. , May 1. to be Ensign, by P ° reh vice Halpin, who retires, May 11. 31st Foot—Ensign J. D. C. Smyth to be Lieutenant, per out purchase, vice Graves, appointed to the 14th Lig ht ll' goons ; R. Sparrow, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Smyth , fla t , 58th Foot—Surgeon W. Stewart, from the 62d Fo° be Surgeon, vice Munro, deceased, Slay 11. 70th Foot—Lieutenant J. W. Baird to be Captain; b r chase, vice Johnston, who retires ; Ensign H. H. L. C c i° o l to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Baird ; fl G. A. Schreiber, from the Royal Military College, to be gn, by purchase, vice Clough, May 11. 82d Foot—Major-General Sir A. Pilkington, 1 01 ' . Cot t' be Colimel, vice Sir J. Wilson, appointed to the 11th May 10. vor 86th Foot—Lieutenant J. Edwards to be Captain , 14 0 a chase, vice Hay, who retires ; Ensign the Hon. E. S. kett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edwards ; vf' Holland, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice P'''" May 11. froln Li .Cel. A. Ki Rifle Brigade—Brevet Lieut.-. ..ennedy. - p a ? pay Unattached. to be Major, vice Kelly, promoted; fi s H. F. Beckwith to be Major, by purchase, vice Keimenl'o 4 retires; Lieut. F. Belson to be Captain, by purclulotr Beckwith ; Second Lieut. A. Macdonell to be First nant, by purchase, vice Belson ; S. Stewart, Gent , to be cond Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macdonell, May Cape Mounted Riflemen—W. Fraser; Gent., to be without purchase, May 11. l 3 . .UNATTACHED.—Major T. E. Kelly, from the ill Bade, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, v ithout purchase, MaY,. MEMORANDUM...-. A ssistant- Comm issary. General lieu ' nold has been permitted to receive a commutation in c 0 the half-pay [o f his rank, awl his commission has bee a b o celled from 24th October, 1840.-Lieutenant F. Whit tiet pr appointed Captain of the 80th Foot, en 30th April, 0 4 0 , promoted from the 67th, and not 87th, Regiment, as sea the Gazette of that day. ---,- OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 104 MEMORANDUM.—The Commissions of Surgeon v" Or ardson and Assistant-Surgeon W. Mackintosh, of the 0 4, nance Medical Department, are dated the 10th Apri l instead of the 15th, as stated in the Gazette of the 2 ' 7 " Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County . 0%, The Hon. William Twisleton Fiennes to be Depu t y L e nt'`, ant ; Francis Dashwood. Esq., to be ditto ; William :„ 3 .0 Esq., to be ditto ; David Salomons, Esq., to be ditto , 'l i e. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestersl'l.de The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yo6'6? H. B. Domvile, Gent., to be Cornet, vice J. W. l' aa signed, April 30. ,fO, The following places have been duly registered for 5 700 ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and Ram IV., chap. 85 : Siloam Chapel, Langtree, Devonshire. Zion Chapel, Bridlington, Yorkshire. , DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY . kee GEORGE JOHN BENNETT, lodging-bon g' York-street, Portman-square. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. pori JERRY REYNOLDS, woollen-manufacturer , within Saddlewerth, Yorkshire. LEWIS EDWARDS, grocer, Merthyr Tydfil. BANKRUPTS. s'ef JOHN HARRISON THOMPSON, silk-throwst av er ' r c i, castle, Staffordshire, to surrender, May 21, at two, oP S 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canlos l° assignee Finsbury-square ; Crowder and Maynard. , house -place. Coe ( It' WILLIAM LINSDELL, umbrella-manufacture r . 00 4 street, City, May 21 and June 22, at eleven, tk e of Bankruptcy. johnson, o ffi cial assignee, Basing' Mullens, Middleton-street, Spa-fields. GEORGE SADLER, linen-draper, Cheltenha, t h e cestershire, May 18, at ten, and June 22 , at three,1!40,..4 Hotel, Cheltenham. Jones and Son, Sise- lane, I._,TstA JOHN VAUGHAN BARBER , IP.'d shire, May 22 and June 22, at eleven, at the L7 to bbs Walsall. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London; -- 1 a Rolling,, Birmingham; Jesson, Walsall. st a , o r (I ,, ( M P RICHARD COPE, sack-dealer, Stafford, , - ,9t1r 4 ) May 25 and June 22, at twelve, at the Swan i nn ' SO' Keen and Hand, Stafford; White and Whitmore' .. row, London. t t l o ' t JOHN and EDWARD MILLARD, opin e ; i t . I , l ' l Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, May 18, at twe lve ;dba zi ni , . 22, at four, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. T he neraw rulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London; Stephens', e so/ THOMAS GUY. WAKE, scrivener, Castle ''', 3 ' Y :SOlne e setshire, May 26 and June 22, at eleven, at in e N e e' Hotel, Wells. • Burfoot, Inner Temple, London ; q and Lycn, Yeovil. a ri d j e d TAMES MANN, woolstapler, Norwich, Mall -- io B. 22, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Norwich. .10 1 1 1. 4 itreet, Cheapside, Lond , in ; Taylor and Sons, Nor" 610 V GEORGE COMLEY, clothier, North Nibley , pfd tershire, May 14, at two, and June 22, at nine, at th e t V Inn, Dursley, Heathcote and Holman, Coleman-sw- ' 0 don; Bishop, Dursley, Gloucestershire. „ fait ' Og' JOHN BEAUMONT, grocer, Huddersfield , 4 ",„7.0:0 ° one, and June 22, at half- past two, at the Pack ..„,-, r Huddersfield. Battye Fisher, and Sudlow, Cin nl " - o t London ; Cloughs, Hu ddersfield. „t el e a GEORGE GO WER, grocer, Cardiff, May 1 9 .. , `" /tIY: 6 I and June 22, at two, at the Cardiff Arms, Cardin, pri s ,', 4 son and Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; Haberfie n 7o4 JOHN YOUNG, ship builder, Newport, Illonran_,,,lll,l, May 18, and June 22, at eleven, at the Westgate Illyei port. Hall, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's Inn, Lon ° thero and Towgood, Newport. 4 'WILLIAM HEGINIIOTTOM, cotton spinner:lAl; under-Lyne, May 25, and June 22; at twelve, at A p e, 1 missioners'- rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, PM I , Morris, Temple, London ; Potter, Manchester. 1 .ro fI V WILLIAIII HENRY lIIGMAN, saddler, Brig" o t i,f- °1 and 22, at twelve, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. '' Currier's-hall, London-wall, London. DIVIDENDS. ...pet. .. 6 1 lAt the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-s'' -- ,„ J.' W. Morisco, stationer, Fenchurch-street, Lon' at half-past eleven-T. and J. Keasley, tanners. Iv''':_ . . June 3, at half-past twelve-R. and J. Underhill, linc:,tl Plymouth, June 3, at one-J. and W. Field, win! -.), .. d brokers, Mincing-lane, London, June 2, at eleven---,••jas l o and P. Summers, fancy statior.ers, Tabernacle-walk' 'bite June 2, at one-W. Charleton and J. H. Reddell, icrcialtli ri and colour manu'acturer, Berners-street, Comin e l l i ai c k East, June 5, at one-H. Knowles, silk throwster, Fic 11 6. Somersetshire, June 5, at two-J. Redly, chemist, iireVi son-street, Bermondsey, June 5, at half-past one- -6 ' bsill f lt commission-agent, Milk-street, London, June 6, toee ti b ie eleven-J. Bingley, brush-maker, Henrietta-street, J A 5,4., square, June 1, at half-past eleven-J. and J. •12,111, bankers, Regent-street, Westminster, June I, a t 0 0 twelve-J. James, woollen draper, Southampton -stree 'June 1, at twelve. ' 0e In the Country. 4 st ' , lit' H. Dorset, grazier, Herstmoncieux, Sussex, Jun e a r, (i , . at the George Inn, Battle, Sussex-11 , Simpson, KT" sir , ', ti field, June 4, at one, at th Town-hall, She ffi el-- -n ioe.l, and J. Morton, merchants, Kingston-upon-Hull , "c, ( 0 7 1 twelve, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston-upon-Hul l t Y ef' bank, metal dealer, Birmingham, June 4. at twelve,'.;hr t ,tei Hotel, Birmingham-R. Hutchinson, merchant, : 13 , v 7; a eli e n ' o b June 15, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms ' 7 - 10 - r _-E. Snook, common brewer, Southampton, June .;,: e m o tj e at tbe Dolphin Hotel, Southampton-R. Roberts, qe ll- t chant, Yoxford, Suffolk, June 19, at twelve, a t the e r o s i 4 Norwicii-J. Blayney, stone mason, Chester, ,', /1' o ° ' thA eleven, at the Hop Pole Inn, Chester-K. and J. r a , e ile , builders, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 31, at t lf e -. l ' 0/ 1 1 Bankrupt Cornmission Room, Newcastle-upon- Te a pie, a i l! linen-draper, Blackburn, Lancashire, June 4, at__Z a ti L a r /, Town-hall, Preston- G. Tennan', maltster, 1vk1 e ,!.M,,l shire, June 10, at twelve, at the Swan Inn, Bolton; at 0 '4; 1 IV.-Baines, treacle ni.mulacturer, Liverpool, June 4 ' , ,ash the Clarendom Rooms , Liverpool - .L C.,ockeroft, se, l . l '',i I ",pf Fletcher, jun., stuff merchants, Manchester, June , , :". r , o' o , at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester-J. Spenu","o„ Winlaton, Durham, June 2, at eleven, at the Bo.nkrure; sion Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-W. Vicker, nurs e ,' kV Holywell, June 4, at eleven, at the White Horse Ho t' shire. CERTIFICATES-JUNE 1. Of l / .4 j 4 l I. Isaacs, clothier, Chatham, Kent-A. and W. lill' A l v , heim, timber merchants, Mansell-street, Goodman's' ;All, H. F. lijchardsoo, dealer and chapman , Ironntongel'or London-J. Megson, cloth manufacturer, Dewsbu r y , shire. b' PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. , c ti V r e IL Hearon, B. Bright, R. Thompson, and IV. A',.„. ‘ o,r wholesale druggists, Bishopsgate-street, London ' (so ' - f, 1, 1 10 1 1 gards R. Thompson)-W. Hopwood, F. Hankin, end , n , j thews, common brewers, Sculcoates, Kiogston A ran ci ,tr (so far as regards F. Hankin)-J. Montgomery, set' . flop Montgomery, jun., timber merchants, Brentford---..t0, Lico, ton and E. Deacon, boot and shoe-makers, Brick: a ," ,4 street-L. James and J. Burchell, linen-drapers , ‘,,'" - 011 ,f i Essex-W . H . Cl ar k e al ,:d H. Frankham, distillers, `:' Cbe - aid A e_ . V. S p an ar d s a lo u w an an d Jd. fl i ow ß ell e , n a n t e t t o t rn , e t y ai s, lo K rs i:V c i r tre e/ e v t ' e e ffl lti c l e Woodward and W. R. BaYl;ffe, iron merchants, ileg,str? J. Watson and A. Nairn, gauze manufacturers, Wat , br elf .e ., Lonon-B. Salter, T. Owen, jto., and S. Kn0w:11..10,4r Exeter (so far as regards 'l'. O wen, jun. )--E. 29 u sia tef,:o. ironmon-,ers, Carlisle-D. Antrobus and J. Donato. an d :Pe --- , E. C• to r chants, N'otwich-J. A. Morris and 't'- Lowe, b°° ' With makers, Charlton -upon-Medlock, Lanca•Aire - s ofa , ir e/ J. Hawarden, anti .11..Myerscough, cotton clotl.' to _o4' : ,le Stockport--.T. and J. Pilditch, builders, Bwilch, Br' l . #t) ,1 , 111. Whitwill and J. Ki;zg, ship-brokers, Bristol. 4 ' 94 ao fre ' e t, and T. Rogerson, attorney.!. Liverpool-J. Will'!...dar" ~e 1 Procter, ventry-R, and' . Clay, merchants, rr.l2..drar.bio London-W. H. Ambler, H.. , Scott, and It 3 , Ol f ef' Sunderland-T. Hyde, J. Doclr, , y, and T. Am blerp. Cv.ii,o, manufacturers, Hunslet, Leeds-J: Ilradley and . 11- _ 0 .,,F, If' leather sellers, Crown-street , Finsbury-Sou BlicnTi,...,J, den, and H. J. Buchan, house painters; tharor ° fs-,".,,./ 13 °' 0 4 1 , and R..J. Megson, lime-burners, Stratford- le- Baitl,o , J. and J. Burton, merchants, New City 0:a a nn t otlr i o n 0 T. and G. King, carriers, Portsmouth-J. Rio, J. P i vitf , Newton, casters, Leek, Staffordshire-W. Dail i b ro . a s re_ , ; ( ie ,, and T. H. Holford, grocers, Wolverhampton (sl> l .,othe! T. H. Holford)-C. -H. Ashwin and F. C. Batt, .Pr; • , , Ab erg avenny, Monmouthshire. .. d : SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION"4O, P o st tis DAVID DOBIE, bleacher and yarn tnerencoleet i Bleachfield, Fife shire, Ma y 14 and June 1 1, a t '" St y George NE N, Inn. C TL Pa S r O Fife. Map lb JO bookbinder, Glasgow, • June s, at one, at the Black BulunD, Glasgow'