The Sun. — London, England, 1842-06-15 00:00:00

Y • S g. t itself ~ -97 name the ifirtabers of his Committee to-morrow. quiry ought to be instituted, on the same ground as other Inquiries had taken place. It was his intention, there fore, to vote for inquiry, and fur the suspension of the Writ for a limited time, till that inquiry should take Place. lie thought, at the same time, that they ought at once to determine what the nature of the inquiry Fhouldit be, a n d th e const i tut i on o f t h e tr ib una l to con sider. . Mr. O'CONNELL would leave the constitution of the C ommittee to• the Right Hon. Baronet. Sir R. PEEL—Oh, I'd rather not have it. Sir C. LEMON was for the inquiry, and Vie su;pen sion of the writ. Sir R. INGLIS thought that it Ought to be issued for 1/el fast, even if they had a Committee of Inquiry. No ?tifficient grounds had, in his opinion, been shown why, in that instance, the great privilege of the subject should be withheld. REDINGTON thought that the writ should not 'now be issued ; and he thought the Right Hon. -arbnet had acted, on that occasion, in a manner which thd him great credit.—(Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said, that his Hon. Friend oppo site stated that he would not suspend the writ unless the I ?nse was prepared t o di s f ranc hi se th e b oroug h : N ow this seemed to him (Lord J. Russell) an extraordinary Position. It was natural that the House should institute an inquiry in the first instance, and leave the seat vacant In the mean time. The facts stated to the House were, In his opinion, sufficient to justify such a course. The remedy which they would hereafter apply might be such 17 to procure a better and a fairer system of election at If ust- It might be proved that a numbee of i lyitnesse s were in the habit of receiving b r ib es - , L ! . ttitq might purge the constituency of that part of their uu3' , lie might devise other remedies for the evils which 11 °w prevailed in the electoral system in Ireland. They T aight find, for instance, that too great a number of names could poll in one booth only, and they might remove that in 'convenience. But all these things, and many others, ,Brit be the result of the inquiry. They should not allow 1 large borough to escape without any investigation into al ited corrupt practices, while they were ready to suspend the 4 ! ti ts iu smaller constituencies. In large boroughs, as well 14 . in small ones, they were bound to take the course which ,Its_ight be th oug h t appropr i ate i n eac h i nstance. H e con f esse d 11e *gretted that a different course had been taken with re spect to some of the boroughs in which corrupt practices were Flo' Plained of, and it appeared to him that it . would have been tl to have issued none of these writs in the first instance until the diff erent cases h a d a ll b een cons id ere d . H owever, i n the Present instance, he was quite satisfied with the course wby the Right Hon Baronet, and he should certainly vote with m. • ‘ l r- P. SHAW in reply, said that he had no desire what , : 4 :7 1• - . to make this a p ar ty conflict. The Members themselves 7‘ed th a t t h ey h ad had any participat i on in the compromise. e l y - stated that no such compromise had been acted on, and believed what they stated. A compromise, as such, was not -ttrtong, 4* a -compromise were entered into by Members of -, t rouse for th e - p ur p ose o f a v o id ng an investigation into .. berg,;-i e ., then su c h a compromise was a gross breach of e on' the p ar t o f suc h M em ber s , and should be visited as - gc a lt ; but here, such was not the case. He verily believed ;fit Air, Johnson' was a bona fide candidate, and that if the f ‘.7 1 1 were issued,' there would be a severe contest, All probability a fresh petition, and in coo -14-▪ 51t teuee afresh Committee. He had no doubt that et t, ; ,/_iltjaal to defend the seat, was a mere matter of The agents, ' no doubt, considered that ..,2Vould b e l ess expensive to go to a new e l ect i on t h an to • Cend the seat. In the Nottingham case the Members had t .772. declared duly. elected. But that was not the case here. and parties here w e r e, he believed, bona fide candidates again, !Were would be a full opportunity of investigating the latter before a tribunal constituted for that purpose. He did Wl think t h ere was any case made for the suspens i on o f t h e 7t,..bee ause i t was the esta bl is h e d l aw t h at t h e wr it s h ou ld he rme until sufficient cause was shown why it should not, and did net think that sufficient cause was shown in the pre ' It ea, Le. He knew very well, after what had fallen from his (C - k"' flea. Friend, what the result of a division would be.— heers.) He knew he would be in asmall minority—( Cheers) Z i atid he would not be willing to afford the gentleman oppo- It party triumph.—(Cheers.) His wish, therefore, was ,i i r` t o press the motion.—(" Divide, divide.") If it went t h tn a division, he should vote according to his own convictions, di v i d liu uviing what the result would be, he did not wish to s ee "'e• - •-(" Divide, divide.") As the gentlemen around him I ned to be 'anxious for a division, he would press the motion . T he House then divided when there appeared, For issuing the writ : Against it Oa • Majority against issuing the writ oar return to the g allery, we found Woul r • O'CONNELL stating (as we understood) that he • The CUS'I OMS ACTS. , -.ewe then went into Gnnmittee on the Customs Acts. ell ?: the resolution imposing a duty of 4s. per ton on coal, tincinders, exported in for . eign , ships, being proposed, a ti n . I 'rY conversation ensued, in which Mr. Ward, Lord %CI:A. Mr. Gladstone, and Dr. Bowring, took part, after "Aoh the item wagr eed to. , m u L t l the proposa l of a duty of 2s. on coals in British ships, jag small coal, 44 rd ße CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Noble dut y pee n had the other evening asked why the 4s. m toite ; epo a te b d andoned. When his Right Hon . . Friend made_ ightandel statement, the Government conceived that coal uy of 4s. per ton without material as ' e ace to the trade of the country, or, at least, without te4iravenience at all proportioned to the . advantage which ib woi roe derived to the revenue. It had since appeared to that tb statements of parties connected with the trade, u aty could not be contineed with effect. Fore ign t hnaad luiorcquied the coal of this country, and do ing so V vern. a lk „,: a duty on it. It therefore became i the Govern to consider whether they could not derive a „ - 474 . 11 . 4 ., e from the export. The sum originally fixed upon was Re usi u t itX, and si nce that, propositions had been made to the It was t r u e , a great variety of statements had been 1 4 4 - ri e t o the G ove rnment on the subject, and inquiries had tot ; 14 ; 'de, with a view of seeing how far the duty proposed Ak e 11aPosed was one which the article could fairly bear, .and '- e solt. of that inquiry was the proposition which his Right had submitted that evening to the House. There ke • also another Consideration which arose out of the state of arie ll4 l , t • n avigation. It had been represented to the Goveri • 101.4 co the owners of steam-vessels having depots of cca in gee - ''' 4 countries, that the duty of 4s. a ton would be a bur k which t h ey would not be able to bear, and they asked that t e pt s might be devised for exempting them from this charge. as examination of the subject, it was found that i t would eo a ltg s Possible to devise any satisfactory means of exempting tram , scat abroad for these steamers, without leading to It therefore appeared mi cl_esire e lethat such a rate of fairly borne by the • V., t ,4:°ould be imposed . as ke l wea engag e d in this sy c stem in . steam navigation, and %y e 4T oid fraud ; these were the main inducements to the r !Mtent to adopt the present proposition. The amou nt of Y_ anticipated from the duty of 4s. was 200,0001., and from ation that he had received, he believed that the duty. o f as d,the expo r t at i on o f coa l wen t o n i n the same proportion -140:t'at the y ear t h at h a d e l apse d, would produce altoge the r an ku , •* which was a reduction of 60,0001. on the g ross chit antieipated by his Right Hon. Friend. cons idered H e. tba dle House was perfectly justified in endeavouring to raise a NJ. „which, without affecting our foreign trade, would make fir ' addition to the revenue. •qELL said, that, considering the strength of the Go tekk eat in that House, he felt grateful to them for the c d on- t Alev 4l they had made. A meeting had been lately hel 01. castle ., upon-Tyne of the proprietors of collieries upon Xttb - ,""Ject now under the consideration of the House. Iseti e `, Meeting resolutions had been agreed to, stating the imd • attga„ l l imposing any duty on the exportation of coals, an littel3; A "ag that if it should be deemed expedient to impose a ka uuty, t t Ought not to exceed 2s. per ton on large coal, ba t 1 ' Per ton on small. He felt grateful to the Right Hon. t rot :attt for the concessions he had made, and he trusted that t he great anxiety which the Right Hon. Baronet had e xhibited to promote the commercial interests of the • r ate „1.. if the imposition of the duty should be found to ope.. arre rre iadicially, he would not hesitate to reduce it, or to do I• l k ! with it altogether. He hoped, also, that the Right Hon. lit eit tle t would consent to postpone the imposition of it to the ki,Passible period —say to the month of October—because cat,: convinced that if it were imposed earlier it would ope- Oot t e iudicially on those engaged in the collieries. He could f i, d °wl2 without express ng his gratitude to the Govern had b e not having extended the duty to culm and cinders, as irat first proposed. o unt HO W I C K bad heard, with regret the intimation of t iat i n ° , tl ,: Gentlem an oppos i te , t h at i t was not his intention to per 4ave,ii'uue eourse of which he had given notice, because he be atrZ..."t it he bad persevered, a case would have been made out t• t iote k ic h g t _ " that if i t h a d b een brought forward supporte d, as it have b been supported, her Majesty's Government would dad eo n obliged to Meld.— ( Hear.) He was sorry, because the H evolved upon him (Lord Howick) to take the sense of tioft:l 4 ,l 6 aPon the subject, and it had imposed upon him the 44 Y of expressing te the House his opinion of the e , 04 'a which the negotiations between the Hon. Member, nthtiVe and her Majesty's Government, had been.con -iia bee He ought the manner in which that negoti ati on Was per r i ! conducted was a ground for grave objection. He laent h i l,etlY aware that in all cases in which au announce: ) actit to ".ucen made of an intention on the part of the Govern ' ararae r ,„L ut , P°aa a duty which wee likely to affect any of , 1 1 -wetted-h.. interests of the country, those whose interests were 1412 Y a right to state their reasons to the Government dotY should not be imposed. Nothing was more that tb,„ - an that these communications should take place, and 141 4 Government should, in deference to the information Vher.7,olll.whith mig ht be adduced, modify the propositions itli t iii'"ornitted to the consideration of Parliament. But, at laatud z ite e,-it was th e d uty o f G ove rnment to make up their liro w :tatter delib erate consideration of t h e f acts an d reason s ii ose r before theta, upon the amount of taxation to be im- It " 411 7 particular interest, • and hav i ng so de vras the duty of Government to propose ft ri o t : "arnent the rate of duty that they thought at tb e y t° ,..kaPose, without reference to the parties interested. mid no right to say to the parties, whom a particular Perm d affect, .‘ If you sa from your opposition, we • )oti ers .rnend to Parliament a modified rate of duty ; but if ettre htit in Your opposition, and impede and thwart the mea. • i' l.° Pc 4 cs-we will p unish you, by adhering to the wo ke to iaal itTesition; and im pose on the interest with which you te bea:tted luavier duty than we think it ought in reason takehear.) A Government had no right to of a tourse ; and • he thought no independent Member tixtit7....tarnent was entitled to assist in carrying on any nego "it Oerni4""e_t induce parties to submit to the propositions of Go tte,angbt to u'• That was a practice against which every Member rep res set his ace . No the Government listened to the 1., 'At enlatitnlS of.persons w . Connectedwith the coal trade . gßed to th - "u co urt ank the Right, Hon. Baronet, for the patience 1, 4‘ hi r4 esy with which he ha dlistened to the statements made er .(Lord 11 • k Zsubj ect. , owie ), and the Hon. Gentleman opposite, on arie cted .-Lie would now read to the House some documents „ ould , i .,._w 1 91 the subject, and at greater length than he lie 1/o,2en would the subject was so important, that he hoped • Vfter e rea"L excuse him —(Clieer. ) (The Noble Lord ~1: u a letter from the Hon . • Membe - r . foe Northumberland • Bell), 1 4• T. _ , o the Chairman of the United Committee of the ,9 k ic„. • •Itt e l 73 b l a n d Whecawrdeale-upon- Tyne, to the effect tha , t . he to remit 2s that the Government had shown a oisp iztill.:dtiicb:lel:iarobiu_ttbdreal).tveetirpetetedrhd of the duty shi proposed p d t e o d b uleetho , twit araended ba(riNfri, e effect of inducing the coalowners opposition to the duty as it now stood na_piely, 4s. per ton; that it would be . favourabl ;clot), to him ,a:v_nertinnineent of r. Bell) to learn that such a proposition receivedY whih e had by . the trade in general, as th anent was so strong that he had no hope of carrying the iv th en ey n w ot e i ti c l e , kv';ce dotslure would be that se ahthle satdhdiateithe unit f 4s ) The Noble Lord went on ii,t that letter .w per t°ll. _en reduction' * :)441 as communicated to the Committee of the fr.4'""latZ7l:ustaNteinwgeathstaltelhaendirt°eettihngewith e t the a y 2.b s, a t s h g i r n oe s t they fer thead adopte d and of 2s on coals exported in British ship, and ed to ex e hat faprreastsththeedirisegrate.ful sense of Mr. Bell's exertions was coneerned rimin , ating duty between British and with tt e the meeting were strongly im- G Re * flied eCn nlettpli LW the duty of 2 s . cou ld w ithout • %manly affecting the importation was a tc I ai Abp Chamber of Commerce in Newcastle on the 3d of June, 1842, at which the fallowing resolution was adopted—" That this meeting are unanimously of opinion that the imposition of any duty on the export of coals is not only objectionable in principle, but will be highly injurious to the commercial and shipping inte rests of this district, as well as to the important interests de pendent on the prospecity of the trade. and, under this con viction, they express their hope that hi r Majesty's Govern ment will abandon the proposed or any other rate of duty." In addition to this a meeting was held in Palace-yard of the mem bers connected with the coal district. 'This meeting was held on the 30th of May, and then there was no intimation of any farther modification of the plan being in contemplation ; but on the fallowing morning another notice w a issued, and the meeting again • assembled : at this meeting a resolution was agreed to that it was inexpedient to accept a duty of 23. per ton on all coal, but if the Government would fix a duty of 2s. per ton on round coal, and Is. per ton on small. it would be their interest to accept it, rather than risk the impsnit ion of the duty originally imposed. A further resolution trusted that the Government would be induced to abandon the imposition of any duty, as they were convinced that any duty must be injurious, in proportion to its amount, to the trade and the shipping, and other intese,ts connected with it. These were the only papers necessary to read to the House ; and after he had done so, and referred to the speech of the Honourable Member for South Northumberland, he would ask whether they did not fully substantiate the state ments made at the commencement, that this degree of acqui escence in the real trade in the rates of duties now proposed, had been obtained by a dread that if they persisted in refusing to agree to the compromise the Government proposed, they would propose the ruinous duty of 4s. Was that a mode of proceeding to which the House should give its sanction and approbation. Ile would say no more as to the manner in which they compromised; but lie would now consider whether the duty, in its present modified shape, was one which the House ought to consent to. He contended that it was not. Had any sound reason been shown for the House adopting so high a duty? He had received a statement from a gentleman, who was one of the largest proprietors of colleries on the Weir, and he stated that they had been selling coals at Is. 6d. a ton, so that the duty, in some instances, would be 40, and, in others, 70 per cent. on the value of the article. He argued that the increase in exportation of coal was always contemporaneous with the decrease of duty ; there had recently been a diminu tion in the amount of the exportation from this coun try, which he ascribed to the sevete competition to which they were subjected. In Holland they had to compete with the Belgian coal, and it was the same in the Mediterranean ; there was reason to fear that if any duty was imposed they would lose the market of the Mediter ranean altogether. It was calculated that in the course of the last year 1,000,000 tons of small coal had been destroyed in the coal districts; and there could be no doubt but a still greater quantity would be destroyed if our colliers were de prived, by the imposition of a new duty, of any of the markets which they now possessed. It should also be remembered, that in order to enforce the payment of the duty, there should be a large addition made to the Custom-house force ; and the re venue expected from the duty would, of course, be propor tionately diminished. Coals were now shipped at all hours of the day and night, and it would be found necessary to inter fere with that practice; so that the imposition of the new duty would render various vexatious arrangements neces sary ; and the trade would thus •be materially crippled. The argument he advanced was, that the effect of the Govern ment proposition would be to reduce the exportation of coal, and instead of 140,000/., which the Right Hon. Gentleman ex pected, he would not get half that sum. The Right Hon. Gentleman said that the exportation of coal gave an impulse to manufactures abroad; but was it not notorious that manu factures could best be carried on where the coal was found on the spot? That was the case in this country, and it was the same with regard to other countries. The Right Hon. Gen tleman had said that this measure would have the effect of making foreign countries tributary to them. It may be that foreign countries would levy a tax on these coals, and they would be a legitimate object of taxation. The imposition of this duty would stimulate foreigners to pay attention to the raising of coals from the mines in their own countries. A ge neral activity already prevailed abroad on this subject. In France and Spain the attention both cf the Governments of those countries and of the capitalists had been directed to the subject of their collieries, and the Government of this country was about to render them most im portant assistance by the imposition of this duty. The loss, which we should experience in consequence, would not be limited to the loss of our export trade for coals, but, if foreigners succeeded in establishing a cheap production of coals, they would employ those coals in carrying on a variety of manufactories which would compete with our own.—(Hear. ) The coal trade was, at the present moment, in a most depressed condition, and they were about to add to the difficulty, and the distress experienced in the coal districts. If a small pro portion only of that trade should be lost, it would add greatly to the general distress and depression. The ships which would be thrown out of employment, would enter into competition with those now engaged in the coasting trade, and thus depress still lower the present ruinously low rate of freights. The labour ing men, who were now employed in raising coals for the foreign market, would be thrown out of employment, and would enter into competition with the other collieries, and thus bring down the rate of wages ; and they were about to risk all those con sequences for a duty whirls it was calculated, in the gross, would not yield more than 140,000/., and that, on a calcula tion that there would be no diminution in the exportation in consequence of the tax, for a tax, the net produce of which, would never exceed 70,000/. a year, and that at a time when they were throwing away a revenue of 170,C00L, by a useless alteration in the duties on coffee. He was surprised at the Right Hon. Baronet adopting this retrograde policy with regard to one article at the very time whenhe was stating, as an excuse, for imposing a heavy pecuniary burden upon the nation, that he was by his tariff affording increased facilities to trade. Mr. HUTT, as the representatiee of an important coal district, felt bound to protest against the imposition of this duty even in its tnodified form, and he felt convinced that the coal owners of the North of England must have had other arguments than those derived from reason laid before them to induce them to consent to the adopting of a proposition 30 disastrous and ruinous to the districts in which they reside. The duty would annihilate the export trade in small coal. He could not look at this postcript to the tariff, without expressing his astonish ment that such a postcript should have been added by those who introduced the tariff itself , so inconsistent was it with all those p: incipl, son which the tariff was founded. As it was hostile to all former legislation on the subject, he thought the Government were bound to state satisfactory reasons for the proposed alteration. When the facilities of conveyance, which were now in progress, had been completed, the coal trade would be subjected to a most injurious competition. Nearly the whole of Europe, as regarded the article of coal, was as yet un explored, and this fact, together with the progress of railways on the Continent, might well lead them to expect great com petition in coal. The Hon. Gentleman trusted that the pro position of the Government would be abandoned, as he was convinced there was no soundness in it. The Hon. Member concluded by seconding the amendment of the Noble Lord. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained. Lord HOWICK explained. Although it could not be said that a threat had been held out to the coal trade, yet it could not be denied that an inducement had been held out to them not to agitate. Mr. LIDDELL said, that as the Noble Lord had declared his intention of dividing the House on this question, it became his ( Mr. Liddell's) duty to explain the vote which he intended to give. He considered that great danger was attendant upon any impost on the exportation of coal, but he was happy to find that a difference was still to continue in favour of exportation of English buttons. He was decidedly opposed to any addi tional duty on coal, but as there was no chance of successfully opposing the original proposed duty, he had considered it to be to the advantage of the trade to accept the modified rate. But taking all the circumstances into consideration, he could not help regretting that her Majesty's Government had proposed any duty at all. Having co-operated with the Hon. Member for North Northumberland and others connected with the trade, with respect to the compromise, he felt bound in honour to sup port it, and he should, therefore, not vo e with the Noble Lord, but with her Majesty's Government. He reposed in the per fect hope, that if the Government found the proposed duty bad the effect of diminishing the export of coal, they would take hereafter some remedying steps. They must recollect that where a market was lost it could never he regained, and if such should he the case with respect to the coal trade, the Government would have much to answer for. Mr. BERNAL said that with respect to our being able to compete with foreign countries, they must recollect that prices of coal in France and in Antwerp had been for some time past declining, and he thought it very doubtful whether they would be able to compete with the foreigner, even if there was no duty. If the Government risked the prosperity of a great in terest, they incurred a heavy responsibility. Mr. GLADSTONE trusted the Committee would not think that the proposed imposition of a duty upon coal would be productive of very ill effects, because Hon. Members who re presented the coal districts had thought fit to represent the results as most ruinous and devastating : such opposition had been raised to almost every proposition, and for a time they were almost led to believe that threet taxation was a bad system of things ; and then again, when direct taxation was proposed, the most powerful arguments were raised against that system. It was their duty now, however, to consider the peculiar arguments which had been made use of against this article, and the most feasible of those, as it appeared to him, was that which related to the money that was expected to be raised by this tax, which was between 130,000/ and 140/. per annum . . He did not think that this tax would be injurious in its con sequences ; if the effect of it would be to impede the progress of the trade, then it might be held to be injurious ; but when the effect would be to raise a sum of money for their own proper and necessary purposes, then he thought that the impost must be considered as a proper one. Revenue was the principal object in view, and he must say he was surprised to hear the Noble Lord, the Member for Sunderland, say that the effect of this tax would be to increase the price of coal to the home consumer; on this point he (Mr. Gladstone) was of a directly opposite opinion ; he thought that the effect would be a certain reduction of the price to the home consumer.—( Hear, hear.) 'fhe question for the Committee to consider was, whether the result of this impost would be any considerable diminution upon the amount of coal at present exported. He thought that the case of such a result occurring had not been at all made out, for though an impost had been imposed he did not enter tain the slightest expectation that the foreign coal would be able to compete with the British. The Belgian coal was of so very inferior a character to British, that it could never compete with it in that country for purposes requiring good coal. In Denmark there was no doubt but the quantity at present ex ported from England to that country would be increased rather than diminished, and hedid not hesitate to say that with regard to that country the duty of 4s. might have been imposed with very considerable advantage. To Norway, also, he thought the exportations would increase. We had been for many years exporting coals to Holland, and from 1831 to 1833 we exported no less than 120,000 tons at a duty of 3s. 4d. per ton. He could not think, then, that the apprehensions with regard to the effects of this duty had the slightest grounds for their foundation. _ _ Mr. LAMBTON felt himself obligedto oppose the duty even in its modified shape, inasmuch , as it was calculated to obstruct our commercial intercourse with other nations, and injure large and important interests. It would injure not only the great coalowners of the north, but also the shipowners. It would also prove most injurious to the great steam navigation compa nies and the continental gas companies, which had entered into large contracts expressly on the faith of the repeal of this fluty. The proposition of the Government was in consistent with the principle of the tariff, which was one of reciprocal benefit to this and to foreign countries. The imposition of this duty was calettrated to irritate those Govern ments with which we sought to establish commercial treaties, and to strengthen whatever determinations they might have contemi4atgd as to imposing restrictive or prohibitive duties on articles exported by us. On that ground alone this duty ought to be condemned. Tt was a duty greatly calculated to impede the commercial policy which the Right Hon. Baronet considered of such paramount importance to estaii4sh, and he (Mr. Lambton) should therefore feel it his duty to support the proposition of the Nobls Lord. (Lord Howick), in opposi tion to that of the Government, Mr. BELL defended himself from the attack of the Noble Lord (Howick). He had accused him of making the inte rests of Li; constituents subservient to a wish not to oppose the Government 4. more unfounded accusation was never made, and he repellecrit with lk..e scorn and indignation it deserved.— (Hear.) He - ne v er did , and ; 4 , never would, sacrifice the interests of his constituents, to sufiport any Go vernmeAt whatever. No blame could attach to her Majesty's Governmenifor tlefart they took in this subject. Nothing could be more manly and` straightf,crward than the manner in which they acted—( Hear, hear) —and if there was blame any where it should rest with himself. He did not feel called upon to oppose the proposition of the Government. ' Lord MA HON raid that he had not a single doubt on the important subject now before the Committee. The proposition of her Majesty's Government coincided with the opinions of men of the highest scientific distinc tion in the country, one of whom declared that to export coat would 1 e to waste the vitals of their posterity. —( Laughter. ) He should eordially support the proposition of the Government. Mr. F. BA RING opposed the proposition of the Govern ment, and supported the amendment of his Noble Friend. He was in no small degree surprised at the course pursued by the Noble Lord who had just sat down, because he said he should vote for this proposition because he thought it would check the exportation of coal, while with the same breath he stated that he believed it would have the effect of con suming the vitals of posterity.—( Hear, hear.) If he was to adopt the proposal of the Government he should be blowing hot and cold wi:h the same breath. He owned that he felt some alarm when he found it admitted, on all hands, that we were now engaged in a neck-and-neck race with the foreigner. That was admitted even by those Hon. Gentlemen who professed themselves ready to vote with the Government. The result of imposing the proposed duty would be to give a great advantage to the foreigner in his competition with the proprietor of coal in this country. On these grounds he entirely coincided in the views of his Noble Friend the Member for Sunderland. Sir R. PEEL said that the prevailing feeling left on his mind by the speeches he had heard that evening, was one of cordial satisfaction that the Income- tax had been secured..—( Hear, hear.) The proposal of the Noble Lord the Member for London was, that they should raise 3,000,0001. or 4,000,000/. by taxes upon consumption. That was the object cf the memorable resolutions directed against the Income-tax by the Noble Lord, in which he tried to collect as large a force as he could under his banner. The Noble Lord had insinuated that 23,000,0001. of taxes had been repealed previous to the year 1836, and that they should now impose a portion of those taxes for the purpose of increasing the revenue. That was the inference to be drawn from the course pursued by the Noble Lord, although he might not have said so is express terms. Now, whet, he (Sir R. Peel) proposed to raise by a duty upon coals a portion of the three millions or the four millions to be secured by the Income tax, ho was met with an oposition that made him rejoice that the Income-tax was beyond the reach of Honourable Gentlemen opposite. It was admitted, however, that the present proposal with respect to the coal-tax was in • - finitely better than that which the Government had originally introduced. Now, that which was infinitely better, could not be said to be very bad. If one system were infinitely better than another, it must have been, at least, on the high road to perfection.—( Laughter. ) The Government proposal was sup ported by the coal trade.—(No, no.) He did not say it was supported universally by the trade, but it was pretty generally supported. It was alleged, however, that a compromise had been effected between the Government and the trade, and that the present proposal had been the result of that compromise. When he had heard that statement he thought Hon. Members were about to refer the alleged compromise to the Committee of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Bath.— ( A laugh.) But seriously, for his part, he could say he had entered into no compromise.—( Hear, hear.) He had merely pursued the course which he thought, upon the whole, it would be advisable to follow. The Noble Lord opposite (Lord Howick) came over the pre vious night and made a proposition to his Noble Friend (Lord Sandon), and said, " If you bring your duty down to 6s. or 71., I shall support you, but not above that."—(Hear and a laugh.) Why should not the Government, in a case so much affecting the public interest, bo allowed, as well as the Noble Lord, in the case of sugar or coffee?—(Hear and a laugh.) All the nego tiations that had taken place on this subject were published in the Newcastle papers—( Hear)—and yet these negotiations were spoken of as secret and unworthy compromises.—( Hear.) He would return to another part of the subject. The state of the revenue was embarrassed, and here was an article—not ca pable of reproduction—in which this country hail natural ad vantages.—( Hear, hear.) He would not say that it was de sirable to prevent the exportation of English coal for the purpose of putting down foreign manufactures. He would only say do not altogether lose the advantage offered of sub jecting it to revenue—( Hear, hear)—and he would show that the duty proposed would not tend to prevent the exportation. In the years from 1836 to 1841, the exportation of coal had risen from 736,000 to 1,848,000 tons.—(Hear, hear.) That showed that it was an article which would bear a duty, and he could not think that a duty of Is. or 2s. would put an end to such an exportation.—( Hear.) And he had the authority of no less an economist than Mr. Warburton, for saying that it was not desirable to encourage the exportation of British coal. But on the other hand it was said, that foreign countries would take umbrage at this attempt at restricting the exportation. Now, what was the poicy of foreign countries themselves on the sub ject ? In the Mediterranean ports, France laid a duty of 4s. 6d. a ton on foreign coals imported in French vessels, and 6s. 3d. when they were imported in foreign vessels.—( Hear, hear. ) But on other parts of her coasts she charged 4s a ton on coals imported in French, and Bs. in English vessels. In Holland the duty was 6s. 10d. a ton. In the United States, which took some of our coals, a duty of 6s. Bd. per ton. So it was with Sweden, Sardinia, and Prussia. He thought that when foreign countries did this, they had no right to have the ad vantage of our coals, and to have an extensive revenue from them besides.—( Hear, hear.) Besides, this was not like silk and other articles, which could be reproduced almost without limit. Now, it might be true that some foreign countries had coal mines. But take the scientific maps of Germany and France, and look to the comparative extent of the carbonife rous strata. The superficial area of the coal tracks in France, was not more than one two-hundredth part of the whole, whereas it was in England one-twentieth. He thought, therefore, that nothing was to be feared from the competition of the French mines, whatever encouragement might be given to them.— ( Hear, hear.) Notwithstanding the heavy duty imposed upon our coals by the French Government, still the importation was large ; and in some towns, as, for instance, in Nantes, the consumption was entirely of English coal. He would read a letter which he had received on this subject. —(Name, name.) He could assure the Committee that it was a bona fide letter, from a person engaged in manufactures, and he hoped he should not be called on to injure him by a eisclosure of his name. ( The letter stated that the writer had no objection to publish the fact that the coalowners of New castle and Durham had refused to let him have small coal except for exportation, and that some time back they refused to send him 200 tons, unless he went to the expense of having it screened at 4s. per ton, and in consequence he did not get them.) There was something, continued the Right Hon. Baronet, in this, which he did not understand; but certainly there was a general impression among the manufacturers of the country that there was a higher price demanded for small coal, if it. was to be used in domestic manufacture, than if it was to be exported. He made every allowance for the coo tingent expenses, but still that was the general impression. Now, that was a rather unfair disadvantage to which the do mestic manufacturer was exposed.—( Hear, hear.) He was quite aware that no duty could be imposed oa any article without producing some disadvantage, but he did trust that under all the particular circumstances of the present time, seeing the great financial exertions the House had been called on to make, remembering the duty now pro posed to be laid on was imposed on the same article by every foreign country, he hoped the House would not deprive them of the supply to be derived from a duty that it was believed would not injure either the shipping or commercial interests of the country. Mr. HUME rose amid loud cries of " Divide, divide." He said the Right Hon. Gentleman had mixed up two questions entirely different. The whole matter depended on an arrange ' went of the trade with the shipping, and ought not to be con sidered at all. They had been told that science had assisted the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the proposition he had made. Ile thought no one connected with commerce could have made a proposal so contrary to all the sound principles of trade. It was limiting the market of a commodity which they possessed in abundance. His objection to the proposition rested on the declarations the Right Hon. Gentleman had him self made. The duty on exportation lessened the consumption, and narrowed the market for it; they had a proof of what took place when the duty was formerly imposed, and had they not a right to expect that the same effect would be produced again ? Ile reminded the Right Hon. Baronet that no act of the Whig Ministry was so welcomed as the reduction of the duty on sea- borne coal ; all the credit that England then gained they would lose by the proposition of the Government. It was against all sound policy to lay a duty on exports instead of on imports. Believing that there was no special ground is this case for departing from the general rule, he would cer tainly vote for the entire removal of the tax. Mr. HODGSON HINDE said the body of the coal trade in the north of England had agreed to accept the proposition of the Government. He agreed with the estimate of the Right Hon. Gentleman the late Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the amount which was likely to be derived to the revenue from this source He did not think that it would amount, as estimated by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, to 140,000/. He hoped before they divided that the Right Hon. Baronet would satisfy them as to the time when the duty would come into operation ; that was a most important point to the brokers. Ele wished to dispel the groundless alarm which, from the state ment of the Noble Lord the Member for Hertford, it ap peared existed with regard to the duration of the coal mines. From a paper which he held in his hand he could state that one coal field in the North extended for fifty miles in length by fif teen miles in breadth ; that field would be sufficient to supply the consumption of England for the next 1,700 years, and that calculation had been made upon the assumption that the average thickness of the coal was eight feet, whereas it was nearly twenty-four feet—( Hear, hear)—and he would further state that even if the coal fieldsof Northumberland and Durham were exhausted, the coal in the West Wold would be sufficient for the consumption of the United Kingdom for 2,000 years. Lord J. RUSSELL was desirous, before the House went to a division, of stating the reasons which induced him, with regret, to vote against the proposition of his Noble Friend, the Member for Sunderland, and to oppose the views of his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth.—(Hear, hear.) But before he stated the grounds on which he was about to give Isis vote, he felt it necessary to allide to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, at the commencement of which the Right Hon. Gentleman had, as he (Lord .1. Russell) thought hi t c h h e he im h p ad os b it e i e o n n left, unnecessarily,land which al l h u a d d e d o t d o e t e h d e d h i i ffi m c t of the Income-tax. The Right Hon ourable Gentleman t d o tie p s ro i p n o:e ' said that the taxes which had been proposed in place of the Income-tax, had been taxes on articles which, if imposed, would have been the destruction of the trade in that article. Now the basis of the Propositions which he (Lord John Russell) had brought forward was a reduction in the duties on corn and sugar. Now with regard to the question immediately before the House, if the question were to be decided solely upon the principles of trade, if the question they were discussing was whether they should prohibit the ex portation of coal, whether they should prevent the manufacturers of foreign countries from deriving the advantage which they might gain from using our coal, he certainly should not consent to such a proposition. But if the Right Honourable Gentleman, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, had discarded all those arguments, and had at once stated that the one object the Government had in view was the raising of revenue—( Hear, hear) —in the present state of the finances they had to consider if the tax was of so objectionable a nature that the House was bound to vote against it. It was said that the trade would be destroyed. If that were the case the revenue could not be obtained, and the same arguments which would go to show that the trade would be destroyed would also go to show that as a measure of reve nue the measure would be useless. But he did not think that that ease had been made out. He admitted that it would be a perilous experiment. But ho did not think that a trade which had been increasing for many years, would be likely to be decreased by the proposition before the House. A duty of 4s. might perhaps have inflicted a serious injury upon the trade. A statement had been made that the proposed tax would amount to a ditty of 25 per cent. on round coal, and to a higher duty on small coal. He did not think that that was a just manner of computing the amount of the tax. The proper method of computation was to consider what would be the per centage on the price of coals, with the duty on foreign coals. Now, the price of British coals at Marseilles was 225, a ton ;at Amsterdam it was 235. An addition of 225. a ton upon that would only amount to 9or 10 per cent. upon the art*. Tiqt duty would not be destructive to the trade. Ever since 1837 the eft of coal} to Denm4rk, to America, to Holland, to Germany , and France, ha increased, Under those circumstances, the revenue proposed . could be raised without serious injury to the trade,' and under those circumstances he felt that he mould not he j„stiAed !-3 refusing the Government a revenue of I40:000?.; sehicle'courd i liT'ettlineci without any serious injury, He wished that the' ()Onion 'of the eoalowners ha d het been influenced lir the threat which had been held out THE SUN', LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1_842. to them. It had been said that the measure would inflict a serious injtfry upon France. France was possessed of an easy remedy. Ilshe wished to bare The advantage of English coal she could take off the import duty which she had imposed and she could derive the same advantage. With regard to what had been said of the supply to be derived from the continen tal coal fields, they were at such a distance from any seaport that they could not compete with British coals except in their own immediate neighbourhood. - Mr. C. BULLEI was not surprised at the Hon. Gentleman opposite saying he did not approve at all of the proposition of the Government, and yet he felt himself compelled to vote for it. Hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House had frequently been placed in the same situation during the present session.—(Cheeers and laughter.) Throughout the debates on .the tariff he had always sup ported the Government ; but on this question he felt bound to oppose them. The Noble Lord who had just sat down admitted that there was some risk' in interfering with the trade. He (Mr. C. B.) was not inclined. to run so great a rtsk for the mere purpose of eking out the enormous amount of :be Income-tax by such a paltry sum as 140,000/.—( Hear.) There was a very str,ng argument Which had not been met by the gentlemen on the opposite side, viz., the mis chief they were doing to the interests of this country, by leryiog a duty on articles of raw material, upon which the in dus!ry and wealth of the country depended. They were holding out to foreign countries an inducement to levy duties on their produce. They were holding out -inducements to fluss3ia to impose a duty on the export of hemp; they were holding out an inducement to France and. Italy to impose a duty on raw silk ; to the American in respect of cotton ; and to the German and Spaniard in respect of wool. To all these they were holding out an - inducement to tax articles upon which the manufactures of this country depended ; and they were laying down this principle for the paltry sum of 140,000/. a year. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Com mittee divided, For the Government proposition Against it Majority fur the motion -133 On the duty of 6d. per cwt. on the export of clay, China stone, cement stone, and flints being proposed, a short conver sation ensued, after which the item was agreed to. Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the duties imposed in the foregoing schedules on articles other than spirits and timber, shall be respectively subject to the charge of 5 per cent., pro posed by an Act pa!sed in the third year of her present Ma jesty, cap. 17, and the duties imposed in the foregoing schedules on spirits shall be subject to the additional rate laid on spirits by the said Act ; and the duties imposed by the fore going schedules on timber be subjected to the additional duty of 5 per cent. Dr. BOW RING opposed the resolution, on the ground that the Right Hon. Gentleman . had himself acknowledged that these additional duties had proved an entire failure. After a a few words from Sir R. PEEL, the resolution was agreed to. This being the last clause of the voluminous tariff, the decision was received with loud cheers from the Ministerial Benches. An HON. AIEZtiRER wished to ask the Right Hon. liaronet opposite when the new tariff would coma into operation. Sir R. PEEL sa;d the universal rule would be that the new duty would come into operation from the passing of the Act. He hoped that now the gengral feeling of the House would be, that as the tariff had . been fully and fairly discussed they should, as much as possible, expedite the passing of the Bill. There was no probability that any ma terial alterations would now be made; and he thought it was for the public interest that the Bill should come into operation with the least possible delay. TITHES COMMUTATION BILL. On the motion for the third reading of the Tithes Commuta tion Bill, Sir R. INGLIS protested against the principle of the Bill, and objected to all compulsory commutations of tithe. Mr. HUME thought the compulsory process ought to have been more strictly e nforced by the Commissioners. Sir J. GRAHAM vindicated the principle of the Bill and the conduct of the Commissioners. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. ASSESSED TAXES BILL. The Assessed Taxes Bill was read a second time. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock. A LETTER TO EARL DE GREY, ON THE AMELIORATED CONDITION OF IRELAND. By W. W. SIMPSON, Member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; and the New Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. We have read this letter with great delight. Every Briton must take an interest in the condition of Ire land, and it is gratifying therefore to find that her prospects are every day beeoniinemore bright, that riot and drunkenness are giving way to order and so briety, that agriculture is Making rapid progress in various parts of the island, that the landlords begin to see the advantage of acting generously towards their tenantry, and that a general moral improvement has taken. place in the habits of nearly all classes. Thanks to the Governments of Lord Normanby and Lord Ebrington. They treated the Irish like rational beings, and their lenient and just administration of the laws were amply repaid by the obedience of a grateful people. Mr. Simpson has had much inter course with that country ; he has paid great attention to the improvements in progress; 'he is not a partisan either in politics or religion i-and we therefore quote with great satisfaction tbe following tribute to the good conduct of the people : " For the last nine years,:' says he, " I have been led, by the duties of my vocation, to visit all parts of Ire land, and have thus been enabled to form a tolerably corre-t opinion of the habitS of the peasantry in: the different districts ; and it is gratifying to be able to state that the drunkenness, squalor, and misery, which a few years since it was painful to witness, have now, in many instances, given way .to sobriety, cleanliness, and comfort. In my last two visits to Ireland I saw but one drunken person, and this, I regret to say, was one of .the softer sex ; whereas, on former occasions, I have seen hundreds; and where fightings at fairs and markets were common events, nothing of the kind now occurs." The next paragraph is little less gratifying : Another most important reformatidn in7the habits of the peasantry has developwd itself in the gradual adop tion of a better system of husbandry, whereby those sisiall farmers who were formerly scarcely able to pay their rents or to procure the common necessaries of life, are now enabled to satisfy all the just demands of their landlords, and procure for themselves and their families those comforts for which their newly acquired habits of temperance and industry have given, them a proper and wholesome relish. The better cultivation of the lands and the moral improvement of the people have proceeded pari passe." We have not space to notice all the topics embraced in this excellent letter, but we call the attention of the reader particularly to the 'remarks on " Inglis's Visit to Ireland." Many of the statements in that work, generally taken as gospel, have been incon testibly refuted by Mr. Simpson. One extract will suffice : " The Marquis of Waterford and the Beresford family come in for a share of the misrepresentation so unjustly dealt out by Inglis. Of my own knowledge, derived from personal observation 4 and corroborated by the testimony of many respectable individuals, I can aver that a more kind or more liberal landlord than the Marquis of Waterford does not exist. His lands are let at exceedingly moderate rents, and his disposition to wards his tenants is best evinced by the deep respect in which they litld him. I have the pleasure of an acquaintance with the Messr s . Malcolmson, the pro prietors of the cotton factory at Mayfield on this estate, which I was particularly invited . :to see, and it is curious that during that acquaintance I have never heard one word about the obstacles which the Beresford family threw in the way of their establishment, as alleged by In addition to the letter, in the pamphlet there is an appendix containing some useful original papers on the state of the country, and we therefore recom mend the small work to the attention of all those who take an interest in the welfare of the sister island. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meinengen, and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Gloucester also visited her Majesty and his Royal Highness yesterday afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace yesterday, and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttel ton, were taken an airing in the Gardens. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday morning. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Count Mentdorf, and attended by the Countess of Dunmore, Lord Hirers, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater, ho noured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. The Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Mein irgen, the Duchess Ida and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. The Duchess of Cambridge and. the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, and the Counts Mensdorf, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch with their c o mpany yesterday afternoon, at the dejeune given at Montagu Ho u s e. The Duke and Duchess of Cambri dge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attende d b y La dy Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, honour ed M iss Burdett C ou tt s w ith residenceth eir company i n s t o r a n t w Monday .atr e evening, at the Conce r t g i ven at h er Stratton -stree t . t The Duchesses of Saxe Meiningen and Saxe Weimar visited the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge. His Excellency Aly Effendi, the new Amba ssa d or from Con stantinople to this Court, arrived yesterday at the Turkish Embassy in Bryanston-square. - His Excellency is the bearer of a most magnificent sword, set with diamonds, as a present from his Imp er i a l M a j esty the Sultan to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. A Deputation from the Committee of the British and Fo reign School Society, consisting of Mr. Will iam Tooke, Mr. J. Beldam, Mr. John Vaizey, R ev. John B urnet, Mr. Robert Forster, Rev. Thomas Biriney, and the Hon. Se cre t ary , h a d an interview with Lord Wharnc liffe, the Lord President, yes terday, at the Colonial-office. Sir Charles ha d Sm . Colonial-offiee. The Postmaster-General had an intervi ew w i th the Chan• L cellor of the Exchequer yesterday a t hi s official residence in Downing-street. with o ruds interview Stanley y es t er d ay at t h e , M.P., an d Mr. Bate son, The Hanoverian Minister had an with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the Office of the Board of Trade. interviews lr . 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THIS EVENING, JUNE 15, _ _ - - The Performances will commence with UN ANUE AU SIX:EME ETAGF- Atter which'(Frst Timo), LE PERE TCRLUTUTU ; OU, LES SOU VENlRS.—Rigaude, Centenaire, (te Pere Turlututu), by Mon sirur Bouffe. To conclude with LE 6 AMII•T'DE PARIS —Joseph (Gamin de Paris), Monsieur Boulfe Boxes, ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphithedtre (or Gallery Stalls), 3s. ; Gallery, N. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Per formances commence at Half-past Seven. Applications for Boxes and Stalls for the remainder of the Season , to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Se! ruin's, 12, Regent-street ; Mr. Sarns's, St. James's-street; and at the Box-otriee of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectiblly informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDA_YS, AND THURSDAY?, GRAND EVENING FETES wll4e given, in which will be em. bodied all those popular Entertainments^tnat have given to this favou. rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in trod ictions, which render them more generally attractive. he MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Tune Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action, repre senting the Procession of the Papal Tropps, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Thz BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES MO SIC ALES selected( rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The I LIU MINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRANDOLA or ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnifieent int roductions that have called forth ac cimninations of delight anda tar ration on each evening of their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC ADE ef BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Piomenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." are tainted:with the same vice. T.helluty on sugar is only to be levied for a single year. That on timber in volves a prospective arrangement. Coffee, wine, spirits, wool, cotton, - cattle, butter, cheese; have all been sub jected to duties which cannot be permanently main t tined. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff will tend, therefore, to paralyze trade, by the uncertainty it will introduce into several great branches of business. It is, how ever, one of those laws which have:met the approbation of some writers, because they can be rassed—not be cause they are right and just,. Week after week is Sir ROBERT PEEL spoken of as the most sagacious of states men, because he proposes to Parliament only such mea sures as will meet the prejudices of his supporters. He has, on this principle, carried his Corn-law and his Income-tax, and he will carry his Tariff: The conse quences will be, continual famine, great discontent, and future changes, begetting, at present, mercantile uncer tainty, in his scheme of duties. Mr. GOULBURN, the night before ln,st, very kindly in formed the scaleless people, after They had lost from Bd. to 14d. on every sovereign in their possession, because they could not weigh it, that the majority of the sovereigns paid into the Bank were only deficient or 11 per cent., so that the loss on an average was only 3d. each. What good will that knowledge now do to those who have been inconvenienced and fleeced? It will only strengthen their conviction that they have been de frauded, and may contribute to nourish the ill will which certain classes entertain for each other. Mr. GOULBURN mentioned the small deficiency of the sovereigns as a justification of the proclamation, imply ing that the real loss was so little that it might be easily borne, and that the people were partly to blame for having exaggerated the evil, and suffered themselves to be imposed on. Does he not see that the less the sovereigns are depreciated the less any proclamation whatever was required, and the more the Government is to blame for having issued it ? We never heard any complaints of the gold coinage: The sovereigns passed freely, and their value was unquestioned. No man weighed them, or was made sensible that they were de preciated. No person, therefore, can find any good reason whatever for issuing the proclamation, and the Government is generally and loudly accused of having wantonly or ignorantly caused loss and trouble to the bull: of the people. The House of Commons finished the tariff last night, and, tedious as the discussions may have appeared to the public, we believe there is no example of a popular deliberative assembly having got through a new scheme for regulating all the customs' duties of the empire so rapidly. The motion to issue a new writ for Belfast last night, caused a complete exposure of another of those disgraceful compromises 'by which the representation of the people his been bartered for corrupt pecuniary considerations. Mr. O'CONNELL proved that an or ganised system of bribery had prevailed at Belfast, and, to avoid the consequences of that, money was paid to keep back the evidence, and the seat was vacated. The exposure was so complete that Sir ROBERT PEEL, who had probably not made up his mind what course he should take before he had heard Mr. O'CoNNELL's statements, voted against issuing the writ, and at once granted Mr. O'CONNELL a Committee to inquire whether a corrupt compromise had taken place or not. Other compromises, we believe, equally disgraceful, have been entered into to serve the purpose of a party, in which the views, feelings, and wishes of the candidates have been sacrificed, as well as the interest of the electors. But we hope as the House of Commons has begun the inquiry, it will carry it out, and not leave one case of corrupt compromise uninvestigated or unbranded. BRITAIN AND HER WEST INDIA COLONIES. The decrease which has taken place in the produce of sugar and coffee in these colonies is a strong ground for eur advocating the admission of foreign coffee and sugar, and ought ere this to hare induced the Government to have adopted the liberal course, so strongly recommended by all the merchants who appearod before the Commit- . tee ort Customs and Imports in 1840, and which may be said to have laid the foundation for the alterations which have been made in the Tariff by Sir Robert Peel ; and it must be deeply regretted by every friend of humanity that all the great and important articles of food and of colonial produce have been excluded by the Right Hon. Baronet from his reform, whilst the population of these kingdoms are suffering the greatest privations from the monopolies and protection retained in the new Tariff. , But the return of the produce just laid before Parlia•• ment must speak for itself : • Official Value of Cotton and Wool, and Cotton and Woollen Goods, imported into the United Kingdom, and exported therefrom, in the year ending Jan. 5, 1842.—From the Annual Finance Account. IMPORTS. Cotton Uanufactures, India £194,287 Ditto ditto Europe 150,382 Wool, Cotton, ' Ditto, Sheep's. 56,179,6411b5. . . Woollen Manufactures T0ta1.... EXPORTS. £17,958,381 Cotton Manufactures Ditto Yarn 10,960,499 Sheep's Wool, 8,471,2351bs 270,340 Other sorts, Woollen and Worstod Yarn Woollen Manufactures 6,308,207 Total £76,669,896 Abstract of a Return of the Imports into the United king dom of Sugar, Molasses„ Coffee, &c., from the West In dies and British Guiana, from years 1831 to 1841 (both in clusive), from P. P. 292 of 1842. Rum. Coffee. Cocoa. Gallons.*l lbs. lbs. 7,844,157,20,030,802 1,491,947 4,713,809 24,673,920 618,215 5,109,975 19,008,375 2,125,656 1 5,112,40022,081,490 1,360,225 5,452,307 14,855,470 1 • 439,447 4,868,168'18,903,426 1,612,304 4,418,349 15,577,8881,487,145 4,641,210 1 17,586,655 2,149,637 4,021,82011,485,675 1 959,641 3,780,979;12,797,039,2,374,301 2,770,1611 9,927,689 2,920,248 The effect of the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies, or the amount of produce of those colonies, are shown in a strong contrast by the above table, and gives the contradiction in emphatic terms to the asser tions of the advocates for emancipation, and their reso lutions at public meetings, that more produce would be obtained from free labour than slave labour. The pto. duce of sugar has decr e a s ed from 4,103,800 cw t, in tau. to 2,151,217 cwt. in 1842 ; rum has deereased 4 : , co 7,844,137 gallons in 1831, t o 2 / 770,1 6 1 ga ll on _ , in 1841 coffee has deceased from 20,030,80211 r.„. i n 1931 to 9,927,689 lbs. in 1841, whilst cocoa ;a s nearly doubled in quantity. It was the duty of the Ctoverntnent to have adopted some measure for , ply of free l a b our on the emancipation taking as urgently called for by the planters, but nothing whatever was done in aiding that object whilst the anti-slavery advocates and Com mittee hare used their most strenuous efforts to prevent tilq free labour from Africa or from the United States being sent to the British Colonies. And, hence the pre sent state of those Colonies. x.N '2l- 4 • 1 " r" S:4lO ri titz LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1842. * Including Overproof. The only reason assigned by the Government for re sisting Lord Howicx's proposal to reduce the differen. ~..,- OOIETY OF TRUE H IGOLANDERS .—W e p erce i ve tial duty on foreign coffee, was, that negotiations are Z , that the annual shinny match and di nner o f th e S oc i ety o f T rue pending with Brazil, and our Government mi g ht h ave an Highlanders will take place to-morrow, at the Copenhagen advantage in concluding thern; ifit did not now concede House and Fields. It is expected that there will be a very full the reduction of duty on Brazilian coffee. Precisely the meeting, and i several persons of influence connected with the tairliatin4ocatledtythne.iifl appearintentioinn o t l e b i l i n sante argument was used by Si( ' ?<)IIZIRT PEEL, when Hig hl a nd s The members of ghlapordeseconst: Dr. BOWRINO proposed to reduce the duty on French tome. The games will commence eleven o'clock and con silks and French wines. The high differential duty is tinue till five o'clock, when dinner will be on the table. We kept on, according to this theory, to annoy the French feel convinced that all lovers of the truly national game of will avail th emse l ves o f this opportunity th and the Brazilians, and is hereafter to be aboli s h e d to shinny j ity of a day's en oyment, w hi c h thi s a d m i ra b le Soci t bribe them to assent to the propositions submitt e d to Titii MAxtEuVRING MO e T ) I ' IER. S l e ic in li ev 7 ye t a l r ie them by Sir ROBERT PEEL. On this principle, Custom- piquant and promising title of a new novel, which, as we un house duties are levied, not because they are necessary derstand, is on the point of making its ance from the 'Ali n e! , a l r a o il v y ea wh e has lf already, i ln i her admirable for the Government, or serviceable to our own people, " History of a but from considering the circumstances of France and fertile a p topic as that which 1 z has long well been aa a t l i o fi n e d e a the Brazil. With all deference to Sir ROBERT PEEL, and and the ridicule of the high society of our day. Those pests of the two Houses of Parliament, we venture to assert that English English aristocraticcbef life “Manceuvring Mothers," have never yet ovel w n rit i e a rs have hithert theore obe w e n o t r o l d o i a n pt t t h o e i . r , s t r a u r e e c t o i l i o e u c rs ir ns . i n O s l ur the affairs of England are not so a bly manage d as to warrant them in taking on themselves the responsibility while they " l as h e d th e cr i mes ." Thi s is false delicacy as well of legislating for other co un t r i es . as false mo ra lity, an d we h ave reason to b e l ieve that the, writer who has in this instance grappled with this vice ha.' not fallen The advocates of this somewhat absurd, though cus- into a similar error. " Ilfano3uvring Mothers" are the last tomary proceeding, may say that they continue these persons in the world to be tender with—they are the modern duties in the hope of extorting some advantage from lielt l )c h hs w d ho sacrifice their own offspring t o t h e d emons of France, for our linen yarns, or from B raz il f or our wea Al t . Jules m de lti l oan lliette ha vin • 'tying annetnne ago employed woollens. But why are the consumers of coffee or N, Bagieu, an agent de change, in making time bargain; for wines now to be taxed to procure a prospective advan- him in the funds, at the close of which he remained debtor tape to the manufacturers of these two articles ? 'When and this sum not bei ng p a id to the stockbroker for diff erences to the amount of 26,000 E, this theory is analysed it is resolved into the old sc h eme ac tion for the payment of it in, M. Bagieu brought an the Tribunal de Commerce, of taxing one portion of our own people to ben e fit some and judgment was given for the plaintiff. Against this an other. It is a remnant of the bounty system. Let us, appeal was laid in the Cour Royale, which quashed it, on say Mr. GLADSTONE and Sit ROBERT P&EI4, tax all the ground of T th n e e ill c egality of the transactions out of which the who drink coffee and wine, and by and by we shall law officers of the Crlorwcunalswtallioceins st r ta tr t a e r a d the notice of againstthe confer on those who spin linen-yarn and make woollen both parties before the Correctional Tribunal, p founded on on cloth a great increase of employment and wealth. Our several express laws, declaring all bargains in the public funds political-economy teachers proved to us that all such tllri future aodi t o te . and not attended w i ith h ac!mal deposits, to be schemes were a misdirection of the national capital, a in them. The c m a g se penalties wasll e ar up d on on al T w hurs o d in ay any an w d is ar e engaged g t waste of the national resources, an usurpation of indi- great length by the Avocat du Roi on the one hand, and the vidual rights, and an advantage conferred on one branch dec counsel are _ for ot the , accused parties on the other. The Tribunal eac of the community at the expense of another. When of t i tle I d ov b s, h an A d i se d n e te V n i c le ed tte the an f d or tl. er ß t agieu guiltyaiotyf of b s r oof. h , science repudiates such a scheme, is it sufficient to TualiQ and the latter of 5,000 f., and jointly to pay to all the Parliament adopt it that it is now recommended by costs of the prosecution ! This judgment has created the gliding GLADSTONE and l at3k il* P IEEL ? greatest se nsa ti on amongst the stock-brokers. .c distressing. circumstance involving two families One very se:ons consequence of the prospective in the no, them division of this county in the deepest affiiction, reduction of duties contingent on something which the has, we are informed, occurred within the last few days !: _ Au_ diplomatists of France and the Brazils may hereafter individual of the medical profession has, it . is . stated , ty4tte V . le ft his home, his wife, and fatally, 4 0, 15 15 5 / 1111 nsed has agree to, was pointed out 4 Mr. HAWES. It leaves taken with him a lady: alAat 23 I___,e o ." a a'', of . tespeclable the duties practically unsettled, gmj deranges, pro connexions and coulivierabig peßwa. ittraaions. The lady, tank?, the dealings of m e _ m t.......- ' They cannot carry on 4 ,,i,ppearl, passessod i,4(40.1. i". we funds, in her own right, —.ants. their tren.- - " W will " - ' .appears, she sold out 6 h!`: dabs before. Her brother, who pur, .......,LLons with safety. .. e ~,,,.... void to say sued the parties, overtook them, but was unable to persuade hii I that nearly all the dutie4 i-Taliriff, as now proposed, sister to return with higt.— Essen Hered. THE SUGAR I) L 1 TIEA. The other evening Mr. Mark Philips presented, in the House of Commons, a petition for the equalisation of the duties on foreign and colonial sugar, from the Manches ter Chamber of Commerce. The petition is one replete with so much valuable information on this enormous monopoly, that we need offer no apology: to our readers for placing it on record in our columns : To . the Honourable the Commons of the United King dom, in Parliament assembled, &c. The petition of the Directors of the Chamber of Corn meree and Manufactures at Manchester Humbly showeth,—That your petitioners approach your Honourable House with deep complaint against the system under which the import duty upon sugar has been long and still continues to be regulated ; a system which inflicts gross injustice upon consumers, whilst it is fraught with most appalling evils to commerce. That the effects thus shortly stated become painfully manifest on a slight consideration of the results v. 1411 have followed the course of legislation in reference to sugar, to which your petitioners respectfully take leave to draw the attention of your Honourable House. That, for the statements now placed before your Ho. nourable House, your petitioners have had refei•ence only to documents placed by authority before Parliament, from which it appears, first, that at the stated decennial years the following were the Years. I Sugar. (Molasses. Cwt. Cwt.. 1631 4,103,800 323,306 183 4 3,773,456553,663 1833 3,646,205 686,794 1834 13,843,976;650,366 1835... 1836 3,601,7911 526,335 1837 3,606,775 , 575,657 1838 3.529.675i 638,007 1839.-- 2,824,372 474,307 1840 !2,214,764 424,141 2,151,217 430,221 IMPORTS OF SUGAR AND RATES OF DUTY, West E. Indiesl 11 Rate's of IMO' , Indies. and Mau. Foreign. I Total. , Year. .ri t ins. 1.1 E Par. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt Cwt Crttr Cwt. Cwt. ----1- 1820 3,7 9,453 It 2,990 4,•209,676 , u7s. 1830 3,913,t69 779,479 223,857 4,91fi,003 : 24e. 1340 9,214,764 1,027,4:17 L 777,244 4,03,915 245. 37 g, 1 . - 0 0 .245. /225. That your petitieners beg, in the first place, to reinat k the vast diminution which has taken place between the years 1830 and 1840, in the production of the West Indies, amounting to no less a quantity than 1,698,505 cwt. in the latter compared with a year ten years anteeedent, although, during the whole period the West Indies enjoyed an undisturbed advantage of 395. per cwt. in duty over foreign sugar. That, in the opinion of your petitioners, the smallneics of the increase in the production of the East Indies and Mauritius, is butlittle less remarkable than the diniinu don of that of the West Indies, being only 248,354 cwt. From the 25th July, 1825, the sugar of the Mauritius has been Placed upon the same rate of duty as the Wcst Indian. The import of Mauritius sugar was, in 1830, 485,710 cwt.; in 1840, 545,007 cwt. ; showing an increase of only 59,297 cwt. in ten years, under all the Aran ! tages of monopoly. That as regards East India sugar, from the year IOW), ' to the sth July, 1830, the duty upon it was 375. per cwt., being lOs. percwt. more than the duty on the sugar of the West Indies. The import of East India sugar, in 189:3 , was 145,995 cwt.; in 1830,213,494 ; but it fell off tity during the five succeeding years, the avetar .,e 'f rom 1830 to 1835 .being only 107,943 cwt. per year.. o n t h i , 13th August, 1836, the duty was reduced 'to the same e rate as the West Indian ; a n d t h e following eh have resulted. The imports were, in 18-S6, 171,758 cw - t _ ; in 1837, 302,945 cwt.; in 1838, 474,100 cwt.; in 1839, 587,142 cwt.; and in 1840, 498,730 cwt.; giving reason to fear, as indicated lay the figures of the three last Years, that India, like the West Indies and th e M aurit i us, i s resting upon her share of the monopoly, and that the interests of consumers will not be considered so long as the present system endures. The table of imports shows, that the total import of sugar in 1840 is less by upwards of 20 per cant. than it was ten years previously, and by 5 per cent. than it bad been tiVenty years before, although the population had maintained a large and steady increase. The reproaches cast upon the present s y s t em o f mn nopolies have not been adopted by your petitioners with out careful study, induced. by the deep distress which. surrounds them ; and they again appeal to the official documents before your Honourable House in confirma tion of their truth, as indicated by the article of sugar. The following table exhibits the home consumption at the stated periods : population Total Con - ':Brat. on Gaz. Aver.'Aver. o f B ra . . sumption. .. Muscavado. Bru. and Ye]. , , ;; i s. d. s. d. 1820 2,901,864 . 1 21,193,458 36 2 0 0 1830 3,722,044 ! 24,304,799 24 11 18 11 1831 3,781,011 ' 23 ' 8 : 17 11 1832 3,655,534 27 8 21 5 1833 3,651,804 I 29 8 22 5 1834 3,741,579 29 5 23 . 3 1835 3,836,562 . 33 5 27 5 1836 3,488,399 40 10 27 11 1837 3,954,810 34 7 21 3 1838 3,909,665 33 8 2l 3 1839 3,825,589 circa 39 2 22 1 1840 3,594,832 27,000,000 49 1 2l 6 This table indicates at what a cost to consumers this baneful monopoly is preserved. In 1830, with a popu lation of 24,304.799 souls, the consumption of sugar waft 3,722,044 cwt., the average' Gazette price of Muscovado being 245. l Id. per cwt. In 1840, with a population seeding 27,000,000, the consumption had fallta to 3,594,832 cwt.. but the average Gazette price had risen to 495. ld. per cwt. Referring to the prices of Brazilian sugar during the eleven pears from 1830 to 1840, extracted from a papct laid before your Honourable House, it is seen how grievous is the monopoly which your petitioners depre cate. Without allusion to previous years, the price paid for colonial sugar over and above that at which Brazilian sugar was sold in our ports amounted, on the diminished consumption of 1840, to the sum of 4,957,873 L for th at year alone, besides the duty, which amounted in that year to 4,449,070 L That your petitioners humbly submit to your Honour able House, that, besides th e i n j ury i n fli cted upon con sumers by the present system, in the undue enhancement of prices, anti the abridgment of the comforts of the people, other evils are inseparably connected with it, both in the purchase for import and the sale for export, 614 seen in the following table:— EXPORTS OF SCQAR. Year. Jaw. I Refined. 1 Total as Raw. 1820 400,423 1830 311,461 1840 229,512 1 646,245 607,550 1393,354 1,499,09 1,344,345 From 25th June_, 1839, to sth July, 1840. Oa comparing this table with the table of imports, it will be observed, that the exports in the years 1820 and 1830 greatly exceeded the quantity of foreign sugar im ported, and consequently that the difference was made up of colonial sugar. In 1840, however, the circum stances are changed ; the advance of the Gazette average from 245. lid. in 1830, to 495. Id. in 1840, left no Dial sugar for exportation ; but, on the contrary, a docu ment presented to your Honourable House, in May, 1841, shows that 2,316 cwt. of foreign sugar paid the consump tion duty of 635. per cwt. in that year, The column of refined sugar experted indicates the downward progress of the reilnityg trade. In 1820,. the export of manufactured sugar was 646,245 cwt. ; during the year from the 24th J'ane, 1839, to sth July, 1840, it had fallen to 123,33 J cwt. The quantity of raw sugar exported in lo - . 7 -0 was 400,423 cwt. ; in 1940, only 229,51 This valuable commerce with the Conti- Heat `:::Europe has not been lost to our sugar refiners and to our shipping, because less sugar is wanted there, but because their produce and manufactures have pro.- cured supplies through other and cheaper channels. Your petitioners would here respectfully ask, all this deprivation of comforts, enhancement of price, and loss of trade inflicted upon the people of this countr.) ? Official documents show the following comparison be tween the whole of the West Indies and one foreign State, Brazil, in the export of Britiah cotton, linen, and woollen manufactures. TO THE WEST INDIES. ' Cotton. Linen. Woollen. Total. 1831 639,326 350,578 75,963 1,065,867 183 4 639,445 307,558 92,903 1,069,906. 1833 705,096 323,578 102,105 1,130.7.7.1, 1834 769,795 334,995 102,308 1,207,008 1835 1,035,861 370,144 114,288 1,520,293 1836 1,060,780 405,046 139,952 1,605,778 1837 931,328 374,813 125,702 1,431,843 1838 9 93,293 352,470 95,412 1,441,165 1839 1,351.983 349,827 84,856 1,786,66 r, 1840 1,234,6871 332,011 1 90,116 i 1 ,656. 1 : 0 44 -- TO BRAZIL. Cotton. Linen. I Woollen, 1831 702,335 117,374 8.5,340 1832 1,314,765 187,787 5110,163 1833 1,668.656 189,656 274,569 1834 1,489,379 183,718 268,325 1835 1,501,689 157,304 330,.699 1836 1 ,7f,3,605 195,921 379;703 1837 1,014,485 122;699 _182,579 18:n 11,659,152 167,545 : 228,932 1839 i 1,588,310 214,289 247,869 1840 1.525,037 235,416 307,955 Total 903,049 1,712,715 2,132;881 1.941,422 1 ,997,692 2,339.249 1 ,319.703 2,055.629 2,050,468 2,068,408 That your petitioners, having shown the injuriouS ten dency of our legislation with respect to one article, sugar, implore your Honourable House to consider bow much the people are oppressed, deprived of employment, and hurried through distress into crime, by A* ojr-stem' of monopolies, when applied to all th, articles of fwd. Your petitioners would joyfully contribute to all the exi, geucies of the State, if their proportion were justly kid impartially levied ; but so long as the people are c.ora, polled to pay in enhanced prices, independent .uf thityo;; an amount exceeding the whole revenue of the Stati, fi;k; the sole benefit of monopolists, the complaints of theint., jured will be raised until redress be obtained. Yo u r o e . titioners have of late heard much of the necessity of destroying slave labour, and in this sentiment thc.y warmly concur ; but they cannot admit the application which has been made of the argument, in reference to discriminating duties. They cannot admit the justice of applying the objection to a few articles, whilst. the great staple of cotton is silently passed by. If cotton be admitted for consumption, the objection made to other commodities, on the ground of slave labour, is un • e te v n e t i i i b tu le a . lly sYolpuireperset(e slave iltioners labour—and belieN-e,thatfrteheey are labc;urcwoinll_ vinced that a system than hasten that of monopolies will retard ra th er happy result which your petitioners would hail ;with joy ; but monopolies may transfer, and actnall . s, are at this momeat transferrinrg the mattufao aires of this to other countries, forcing daily the emigra tion of skilled artisans from our shores, pauperising our people, and destroying the hopes of a better future by concentrating a manufacturing competition which we shall be unable to withstand. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, th a t all au gars, colonial and foreign, may be admitted for consump tion in this country at the same, rate of duty. In a few days, M ADAME 1) ' Wh kA Y'S DIARY, VOLUME IV. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Co'.burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.