The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-10 00:00:00

EVEN ING EDITION. t•ou1:1 be different from that which it now pre s'early the whole of the dilemma in which they :ved might have been avoided by prudent eondac'.—(Hear, hear.) Whilst he waived t.ifr, details, he begged the Right Hon. Gentle ► to give to the subject to which he was now pointing ecatilersCon. The House of Assembly .(1 a certain condition as essential to the resump heir functions, and the question was, what was it on ? Was that the repeal of the Prison Law ? Lear) The proposal before the House was their icgiilative functions, and in order to do must have some definite issue before the i knew whit they demanded as the condition r their legislative functions. Now they had 1 , -1 the repeal of the Prison Act, and unless Geutlemea could show they had, the case ,t La twat erially altered.—( Hear, bear.) GODSON protested agaitast the conclusion of 6t lion. Baronet, the Member for Davenport, of the Bill was to be considered as by arowing it to be laid on the table. The nl,er, the Under Secretary for the Colonies, th,f.t the House should be called on to sus- cue ofl_ crti invol alsT tra, ent.ertr,g tin I znA o! resurr e pend tne corest;tution of the Co'.nny, and he sympa with the Government that could he put in such a n ; but the fault lay with the Government, and 7,6 the Assembly of Jamaica.—(Hear, hear.) p ' , sing of the Prison Act, the Assembly en li.cneised with the understanding that they had ilerything required by the Government, but two after the. accounts had been received here, was hrought into the House of Lords, and dud on the `26th July it was read a House, and passed the third reading on kugest.—( Hear, hear.) Had Hon. Gen e,:evidered the effect of suspending the constitu- Lineica for five years ? Who was to raise the Wei the Governor and the twelve Legisla encillors appointed by himself, and three more ed by the Government at borne, to tax the unity to the amount of half a million ?—( Hear.) Vas that the no‘ition is which the Government would laee the island of Jamaica. and would they be sup (!yer.eil in to doing by the Liberal Members of the House ? Ulm Assembly of Jamaica bad acted in perfectly good And'we:re willing to prepare an Act with respect 0 the reputation of prisons. He felt bound to depre eate the course pursued by the Government with respe - ct ei! the measures relative to Jamaica. It was easy reremeet to pass Bills for the internal regn ant iien if they brought them forward at a Li of the Session, when hardly any were in attendance. He thought the twirled by the Government tyrannical in the !me, and with respect to the present Bill it was his itiun• upon the second reading to present a petition ii the iherchants and traders of Jamaica, praying to be aril at the bar aga i ns t it. I n conc l us i on h e mus t p ro t es t shiest it being considered that he admitted the prin pie of a Bill by which the island of Jamaica was to be xed to the extent of nearly Italia million. He trusted the second reading of the Bill they would have e cif many gentlemen on the other side of rnsvd, • ae House. Sir R. PEEL could not allow the present discussion a pvs w:thout making a few observations. He was ieiOisr the advocate of the House of Assembly at Ja e:Ai:la or her Majesty's Government. He thought the Elaine of what taken place was attributable partly to the House of Assembly, but in a much greater degree to the Impolitic course pursued by her Majesty's Govern enent.—( Hear, hear.) He deeply regretted that the Aeserably of Jamaica had not lent itself to the complete suceees of the groat experiments that had been made for tleelie l aines, slavery:. He thought that the people of England Ind .1 right to insist that the interests of the emancipated egre s!oseld be looked at—(Hear) —and that they ere e:::i•lel to require that no law should be passed ites Reuse of Assembly at variance with the spirit th which the Imperial Parliament had voted so large a :1 ror the abolition of slavery.—(Hear.) The people of _land ought to have some equivalent for the twenty foss they bad granted, and therefore it was that he net satisfied -,pith the course pursued by the House sionbly. But whet was the course proposed to led by the Right Hon. Gentleman ? Why , euld venture to say, fraught with most im secptences ; and while he could not defend ee Assembly, he felt bound to look at the ...enees or the remedy proposed. The Govern meet. did not come to that House to destroy the Con stitutien of Jamaica, but to suspend it. The Right Hot). Gentleman deplored the necessity for the Go -orient interfering, and had stated that they did so with _ . Now, he (Sir R. Peel) should have supposed, eking at the correspondence, that the Government ;lad that an opportu n ity h a d b een afforded them t petting an end to the House of Assembly : but when Merril , er of the Government told him that such was of their wish, be was bound to believe them.— , hear, hear.) Now the question with him as whether the Assembly of Jamaica had done mashing that jestified the Imperial Parliament sus penehng their Constitution—(Hear, hear)—and whe titer there was no other course to adopt than one so r. It was easy to point out the evils that had .4.0. n place, but it should also be remembered that Isere rFere also evils in an opposite direction.—(Hear, ear.) By the present Bill it was proposed to sus snd the popular form of Government in Jamaica, introduce in its stead a farm of Government the bead of which was to be a Governor appointed 5 ti.;; Crown, acd three salaried Commissioners from this :ountry, so that the people of Jamaica were to be sub ,acted to taxation according to the arbitrary decree of ;:::;vercor and three salaried Commissioners. Such a ,4irse might he n,cessary, but he trusted the House, :s . )fore it adopt e d it, wou ld we i g h we ll t h e consequences :t such an arbitrary proceeding.—(Hear, bear.) )!every being now abolished in the English : !,)nie4, the great object was to get, the United eettes to follow so excellent an example ; but could it .0 supposed that so desirable an end would be gained if !,.: imperial Parliament of England told the United ietes that it was only to be accomplished by abolishing 'ree form of government. Was there no other alter for the course pursued by the House of Assem e secrifieieg a popular form of Government, the r nstion of which was calculated to alarm every- Upon this subject the Right Honotfrable ''erred to the protest of the House of As ei-soey, al , : tii , a violent language used by its members. ;n hit opinion it would be a most dangerous precedent suspend a popular form of Government in conse eienee of the use of violent language—(Henr, bear) Letal the argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman, iiet these who used such language could not be safely ested, was ecrially dangerous. The only valid ground lett could 1)1 taken for the arbitrary course pointed out ise the Bill of the Right lion. Gentleman was, that the House et Assembly had denied the right of the Imperial '•):l:ei les ent to make regulations with respect to the prisons the co!ony, He meet he convinced that all remonstrance 1 il teen exhausted and every system of expostulation -reed to with the House of Assembly be induced to consent to the adoption of He must admit that the protest was -e e, perhaps, was more unwise, but that was es . eraus n i m t f or a b o li s hi ng a f ree f orm o f G overnment. W•til rea l ;' et to the Prisons' Bill, he was not satisfied eeth the manner in which the Assembly had acted, but 110 tleuebt, considering all the circumstances that . f:. - •I talznn plv:e, a little indulgence ought to have i r- -,,1 k ., 7.i.,nded to them. He was sorry that an i'. oopeet ie.,. :y hall not Been given t o th e A ssem bly o f - s..e. ,t: port that had been referred to. -e . As might have been called toge .earned of the consequences. The right of .ei Pelearnent might have been asserted—it ,ass bee), shown that they had it in their power troy the authority of the House of Assembly if d'l not retrace their steps. At all events they eubl net have been suffered to remain under the un session that the Parliament did not mean to interfere. Yliet was the language of the Colonial Secretary to he Hearse of Assembly, as communicated in his dis eoei, ;e the month of October, 1837 ? " I have his seeeadeuey's commands to lay before you the accom oeuyine doepateb, communicating his views of an ;.7.rev :d evsteni of pri - son discipline. The returns have ). - ei e eleodf for from the different parishes, and will be seion;tiod to the House. The present Act expires in 1840, and et that period it will devolve upon you to give your serious coneideration to it. Now he asked, wbether the Colonial Assembly, when receiving such a continuniatiou could entertain a supposition that they %ecru io be deprived of their legislative functions. Ceatein Pringle's Report, although showing many and west abuses did not substantiate the statements of the jorumittee, and had they been guided by true consti 'flout principle., they would not have adopted so lordinary an interference with a Representative -f Government. No communication on .ad been made to the agent for Ja nos to he Island itself. They passed the Thli in the latter end of July, sent it out to the Colony et once, and the House of Assembly very unwisely if,. his (Sir Robert Peel's) opinion, took the injudi own: eeetres of suspending their legislative functions. tut they did not suspend them altogether, for they •statel Chet they would pass all Acts relating to the • public credit of the Tel and among them, he cer i teiely understood to be included provision for the civil service of the Colony.—(Hear, hear.) Her Majesty' s 1 Gowen:inset did not give them an opportunity of doing ftist, end most prObably some of the seventeen Acts re ; t:e:red to in aggravation of their conduct, would have ' 1 , 1 '7 1 passed it an opportunity had been afforded them. : i liY lad not some little time been afforded the House fl Alls ernblY? IN hy had they not trusted to the in ! , 11 ' . 't e -e c of good sense operating upon them ? He (Sir lA' ,r 1) admitted they were wrong—he stood in the rattle r un -__ ear . . of _ . i i mt ilt ~ t"Pui . position condemning both parties, Llll4 same time 1 le must say that he could not jus t ,' ! i i,,- :a Y? s ___e_ ,. o e ndact' pursued by the House of Assembly. i' . 11 ;" !'c• • the grounds upon which, while he could not luitify the Colonial Assembly, le him to state that Ile by no meeusapproved of the course about to be pursued %. bv her Majesty's Government on the present occasion l'a e t le jle ht there were some extenuating circumstance ; • for the intemperate acts of the Colonial Legislature— lurt:nc Iwore d4-Ar f `.:itssry t Vfht ry SU n!1•; ret 4,re he cou!d .1401 tt worse, an , l t ::.; !~ inhject ,cca they were but acting in defence of the principles for which that House itself would contend, and they were smarting under the feelings of having a portion of their compensation withheld from them. He trusted the Government would try the paths of conciliation, and not come down to Parliament with such a proposition as the present, unless there existed an absolute neces sity for such a proceeding.—( Hear.) Dr. LUSHINGTON was too deeply interested in the welfare of the colony of Jamaica to permit the pre sent opportunity to pass without an observation. He regretted the necessity of the present measure, and he agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman that those who proposed to take such a course, and deprive the Colony of a constitution which it had enjoyed for two hundred years, ought to show good grounds and an imperative necessity for such a proceeding - , and that no other alter native remained for ensuring the welfare and happiness of the Colony. The question was what was to be done ? Did a necessity exist for the present mea sure? Had not the House of Assembly four times declared its legislative functions abolished? The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that they ought not to be provoked by insulting language, but they would recol lect that the language used was insulting to both sides of the House, and to both branches of the Legislature. The protest had not emanated on the instant of the abolition of the apprenticeship system, but had con tinued for six months, and he agreed with his Right Hon. Friend, that those who could dictate such a protest, were not likely to legislate for the benefit of the the Colony. He apprehended that the House of Assembly had come to the determination to exercise its legislative functions so long as the British Legislature reserved to itself the right of intefering on be half of the liberties of the emancipated negroes. Why had the measure to which the Right Hon. Baronet al luded so readily passed that House ? Because they believed it was a measure founded in right and justice, and which had been omitted by the Colonial legislation. The Housewould recollect the new stateof circumstances which took place in July 1838, and which rendered it imperatively necessary for the Government to take some steps. Up to 1840 there were certain Acts in force for the protection of the apprentices—the special justices were invested with certain powers and authority, but by the abolition of the apprenticeship that power ceased. It was necessary to legislate for the new state of things that then arose, so that the prisons and houses of cor rection should be put in a proper state of efficiency. He would not harrow up the feelings of the House by re peating the enormities that had been perpetrated in these dungeons, but he would suppose that the Govern ment at home had delayed to take steps for that pur pose, and that there had been any disturbance of even a temporary nature, what would be the consequence ? What would be the opinion of the people of England if the Government had for a single hour neglected to take the necessary steps to prevent so serious an evil ? (Hear, hear, hear.) If Lord Glenelg had refused to include Jamaica in the provisions of that Bill, he would have incurred a very heavy responsibility. It might be said that the Governor ought to have com municated the fact of the passing of the Act to the House of Assembly, perhaps it would have been better had he done so ; but he (Dr. L.) found that such was not usually the custom. He found on reference to Sir Lionel Smith's speech at the time of the passing of the Abolition Act that he did not notice the Act, but contented himself with saying that he re served to himself the opportunity of laying certain despatches of great importance on the table. He be lieved that it was not the manner of its promulgation, but the Bill itself, which was the real cause of offence. Now this Bill respecting prison discipline interfered as little with the privileges of the House of Assembly as was compatible with the necessity for keeping up one uniform system of prison discipline—it gave the Go vernor and Council very limited powers for this purpose, and the utmost penalty it empowered them to inflict was one of 20/. This was as slight an interference with the powers of the Assembly as possible.—( Hear, hear.) This Bill was made a pretext for opposition to a mea sure which was absolutely necessary. Let the Honour able Gentlemen opposite consider these circumstances and then state that there was no necessity for Legisla tive interference. In the first place it was absolutely necessary for the safety of the Island of Jamaica that some law should be passed regulating the relation of master and servant ; next some measure was necessary to prevent the occupation of ground by persons having no right or title to such occupation.—(Hear, hear.) These measures were most important for providing for the safety of the island, yet with regard to these two vital measures the House of Assembly had abdicated its functions, and the consequences which might ensue from this conduct are such as must create alarm in the mind of every attentive observer. It was impossible to road those papers and see the state of the Island, as depicted therein, without acknowledg ing the necessity for the interference of the Legislature. There was the militia question also, which it was of the utmost importance to the safety of the Island to have settled. It was important to show &i 3; the feelings of the House of Assembly with regard to these measures, which were for the benefit of the country, and next to show the necessity of adopting the present proposition, to obviate the evil consequences which might be appre hended. The House of Assembly, in answer to the speech of Sir Lionel Smith urging these measures on their consideration, say they are aware of the necessity , of those measures, and then they turn round imme diately after, and declare that they will not take them into their consideration until they know whether they are free and independent, or subject to the Parliament of Great Britain. The Right Hon. Gentleman oppo site did not comprehend the case of the House of As sembly, or of the people of Jamaica. Many years ago he (Dr. L.) had stated it as his opinion, that if all classes in the West Indies were placed on the same footing, the coloured population would adhere to the upper classes ; and so confident was he upon this subject, that, when applied 1 to in the year 1824 by the coloured population, he had made it a specific condition of his advocacy of their cause, that ifs uccessful, they should render their assist ance to place the black population on the same footing as themselves, and he also remonstrated with them on the cruel treatment of which they were said to be guilty to their slaves, and inculcated the necessity of their treating their slaves with humanity. The House of Assembly, when they came to this veto had not the confidence of the people of Jamaica. The House consisted entirely of these two classes, to the exclusion of the black population, who looked with fear to the House of Assembly. They did not consider the Assembly as their natural protectors, but they looked to the British Parliament for that protee tion—( Hear, hear)—which they believed would not be honestly extended towards them by their own House of Assembly. :He was convinced that when this measure should be fully discussed the conduct of the Govern ment would inaet with full and ample justification. Lord STANLEY hoped, for the sake of her Ma jesty's Government, and for the credit of the country, that if this Bill was passed the Government would be able to satisfy the House, the Parliament, and the country, of the existence of sonic overruling and imperious necessity for the adoption of these measures, such as it was not hi their power to contrail!, nor ever had been in their power, by the adoption of conciliatory measures, to pre vent. In the first place, they should consider whether these measures were called for as a matter of absolute necessity, and in the next place, if' her Majesty's Go vernment were notin sotnemeasure responsible—if some share of blame were not due to them , for their conduct with regard to the Legislature of Jamaica. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman who had just sat down had stated that the Legislature of Jamaica in June, 1838, had merely Contented itself with passing the Emancipation Act, and nothing more. Dr. LUSHINGTON explained. Lord STANLEY had no intention of misrepresent ing what had been stated, but he had understood the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to say that this measure had not been forced upon them. Now he (Lord Stan ley) contended that the Legislature of Jamaica had, by the interference of the British Parliament, been placed in a position of such great difficulty, and by the conduct: of the Government also, that they were necessitated, in the hope of obtain ing that repose which was so essential to the welfare of the Island, to pass, at once and unprepared, the Act of Emancipation. When the Hon. Gentleman said they were under no compulsion, he would call the attention of the House to one or two points not adverted to by his Hon. Friend. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said that the Governor had not referred to the Aboli tion Act in his speech. He (Lord Stanley) th oug ht it would have been better if he had done so, if he had in a conciliatory manner stated the extent of the interference of the British Parliament, and explained the necessity for such interference. But what did the Governor say ? Why, he said that he must again refer to the subject of the complete emancipation, and direct their attention to what had taken place in Parliament on the subject, when the Ministers were only able, by a bare majority, to pre vent a breach of faith as regarded the tenure of the Emancipation Act ; lie also directs their attention to the general agitation of the subject throughout the kingdom, these circumstances were sufficient to prove the compulsion under which the Assembly was placed. He ( Lord S.) complained that the Government did not inter fere until they were driven by clamour and pressure to recommend the abolition of the apprenticeship in August, 1838, and when they were so driven, it was the duty of the Government to have pointed out to the Colonial Legislatures the measures necessary to be adopted in consequence of it ; but the Government avoided doing this, and contented themselves with 'the passing of the Act of Abolition. O ne main object of the system of apprent iceship bad been to give time for making pre parations for the great measure of emancipation by the enactment of laws regulating the militia, and other laws applicable to the circumstances in which the colonies would then be placed, but they were forced to neglect all these measures when they were compelled to adopt the Abolition Act.—(Hear, hear.) It was one main argu ment with gentlemen on the other side, that such a determination had been manifested by the Legislature eets, as to of Jamaica to take no steps on these subj THE SUN, LONDON, WEDN_kISDAY, APRIL 10, 1839. render Parliamentary interference absolutely necessary, He doubted whether such was the case. He would grant that nothing could be more indecorous than ; the language used by the Assembly , but they I had been compelled by peculiar circumstances to pass a law to which they had a -,disinclination—eircum stances the most vexatious and irritating—and be cause they had given vent to that vexation and irrita tion, that was no reason for making such an assumption. The language of the Governor had been already stated ; and what reply did the House of Assembly make ? Why, they said that having now ful filled the designs of the British Government, they asked to be left to the enjoyment of that repose which was so necessary ; for the Governor con gratulated them on having accorded this boon, and they had every reason to believe that, having complied with the desires of the British Government, Parliament, and People, they should have been left quietly to regulate their international affairs, but scarcely had they retired to their homes, when another Act, more vexatious and irritating than any preceding one, is promulgated without any conciliatory explanation. Mr. LABOUCHERE—There was a conciliatory and explanatory despatch. Lord STANLEY was aware of that, but the Legis lature of Jamaica were not in posseSsion of that despatch. The Hon. Gentleman said it was unusual in the Governor's speech to mention any measures of the British Parliament, but it was also most unusual for the British Parliament to interfere with the privileges of the Colonial Legislature, and he thought that the fact of the Governor not having made any allusion of this sort on a former occasion, was no reason for his neglecting to do so in the present instance. He ought to have stated that there was no desireon the part of Parlia ment to interfere more than was necessary to secure that object for which the British people had paid so dearly, the effectual abolition of slavery. Considering the whole tenor of the despatch and the conduct pursued with regard to Jamaica for the last four years, he was of opinion that a soothing line of conduct had not been adopted,t. which was the most likely to allay any irritation existing ; but that instead the Government had taken a partizan view of every st ; bject, and had en tirely neglected to pay attention to the just views of the most liberal and best disposed planters. The selections made from the Reports of the stipendiary Magis trates prove this, for it was there shown that' every possible blame was thrown - upon the planter, while everything likely to tell in his favour was sup pressed. It was natural when such a system was pur sued by the Government that irritation should be the consequence. On the Ist of January the Governor, in answer to an address of the Baptist Ministers, laid great stress on the good conduct of the Apprentice population, and assured them that in no case had it bern wanting when it was secured by good treat. ment. This was the public declaration of the Governor in the presence of a portion of the population at that time suffering under great irritation; but chat was the language held by that same Governor within a week of this time, when writing to the Secretary of State? Yet on the Bth of the same month, Sir Lionel Smith stated that both parties were unreasonable ; for there was no law to regulate wages, nor rent, which were • both exorbitantly high. This was one among many instances in which Sir Lionel Smith had taken a par tizan view of the subject. The Assembly of Ja maica had not refused to provide for the public service, they had refused to legislate until the British Government had furnished some explanation for the interference of Parliament in the internal arrage ments of the Colony. It was not then too late for the Secretary of State to have explained to them the real intentions of her Majesty's Ministers with regard to the colony. But a system of vacillation and irresolution had been manifested at the Colonial-Office which ren dered it impossible for the Assembly to know what the intentions of the Government were. He (Lord Stan ley) must say, that be was by no means satisfied that the Government had been free from blame in this mat ter, or that there was any overwhelming necessity for the Bill now sought to be introduced. Lord J. RUSSELL said it had been unfairly repre sented that the Government had encouraged the agita tion for the termination of the apprenticeship system. But the fact was that the view taken by the Govern. ment was, that although it might be desirable that, if possible, the apprenticeship should terminate sooner than was originally contemplated, it would not be just to the Legislature of Jamaica, or to persons holding property there, that the apprenticeship should be put an end to by the Act of the British Parliament, and the Government had acquired great unpopularity by holding those views. —(Hear, hear.) Most certainly, therefore, they were not to blame, if irritation and pre judice had been excited against the planters. But the Act on which the Legislature of Jamaica based their protest was not that Apprenticeship Act, but the Act which was thought necessary to amend it in consequence of its having been grossly evaded by the planters ; and the House of Assembly had spoken of the un warrantable interference of the Imperial Legisla ture With the, duties of the Provincial Legisla ture, and of the falsehoods which bad been advanced in Parliament. Now, though he (Lord J. Russell) bad concurred in opposing the abolition of the apprenticeship by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, he had cordially agreed in the resolution which had passed the House last session, pledging the House to look to the future condition of the black population of the West Indian Colonies ; and he could not allow it to be supposed that because slavery had been nominally abolished, that therefore the Legislature of Jamaica were to be at liberty to pass any laws, or revive any obsolete laws, for the oppression of the negroes.—( Hear, hear.) Yet the House of Assembly contended that the Im- perial Parliament had no right to pass any laws affect ing the Colony, except for the regulation of its commerce with this country.—(Hear, bear.) Surely it never was the design of Parliament merely to spread the boast throughout the globe that slavery was abolished in the British Colonies, but that the negro population should enjoy all the blessings, and the pride, and independence of freedom.—(Cheers.) If he could be persuaded that the Jamaica Legislature had the intention to treat the negro population as equal to themselves in point of freedom, and not to attempt, by indirect moans, to retain that sway which had been abolished by the Imperial Parliament with so ample a compensation. God forbid there should be any endeavour to supersede the rights of the t 1 ssembly.—( Hear, hear, bear.) But if, as he at present was pursuaded, it was their inten- tion to prevent, as far as possible the measures of the Imperial Legislature from being carried into effect, it would be the duty of Parliament to interfere and en deavour to obviate the (Lingers and difficulties which must necessarily occur.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. LABOUC HERE briefly replied.: He observed . . that some Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite seemed desirous of putting the quarrel between the House of Assembly and the Government on a different footing from that which really existed, and that the real controversy was, whether the Imperial Parliament were to exercise the power of interfeiing in the internal arrangements of Jamaica in such a manner as might be requisite for the welfare of the Colony. Sir R. PEEL said he had been requested by some Gentleman connected with Jamaica to defend them in that House, but lie had positively declined giving any pledge on the snbject.—(Hear, hear.) They had as sured him, however, positively that by the term " public creditors," the House of Assembly meant all the de mands for the public service, and certainly he (Sir R. I'col) beliefed all public officers would represent them selves as " public creditors."—(Laughter.) The Bill was then ordered to be brought in. SHIPWRECKS OF TINIBER-VESSELS. Mr. G. PALMER moved for a Committee to in vestigate the causes of shipwrecks of timber-vessels. He made the motion with the concurrence of the President of the Board of Trade. It was the duty of the Legislature to provide to the utmost of their power for the comfort and protection of the commercial sailor—in fact the State ought to look to them as a parent to a child. There was very little real danger in a voyage between this country and Ame rica, yet the number of distressing wrecks which oc curred yearly was amazing. In 1834 there were four wrecks upon the coasts, I fships were totally lost at sea —in 1835 there were 15 ships on shore and 34 wrecks at sea—in 1836 there were twenty-twoonstiorecnc-1 four lost at sea—in 1837, seven on shore, and twenty three at sea; and in 1838, sixteen ships were on shore, and forty-five loss at sea. He would only give one instance, and that was one that occurred in De cember last. It was a timber-ship which was totally wrecked, four seamen were found dead, and one was cut up and hung as meat in a butcher's shop. 11 0 was anxious for inquiry in order that some regulations might be adopted to put an end to such misery. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON did not mean to offer any opposition to the motion, but it was a disputed question whether the deck loading of timber ships was dangerous or otherwise. Nir. WARBURTON suggested that the inquiry should be general, and not be confined to timber-ships. It was well-known that only old, worn•out ships were employed in that trade, and consequently they must expect there would be more wrecks. Mr. DARBY supported the motion, and thought it was properly confined to timber-ships, as they were old and left America at times when they were by no means safe. Mr. WHITE could assure the House that those ships engaged in the Amerioan trade from the port of Sunderland were not old, worn-out ones, but sound ships, and deck loading was considered to make them more sea-worthy. After a few words from Mr. BARNARD and Mr. PALMER, the motion was agreed to. RAILWAYS. _ Mr. FINCH moved for an account of the several amounts borrowed by the Railway Companies now before Parliament, in anticipation of calls, with the date at which the last call was made, and the amount paid up on each share.—Ordered. Mr. HARVEY moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, that her Majesty will be gra ciously pleased to direct an alphabetical list of the names of all persons through whose property the proposed line of railroad between the cities of Dublin and Cork and Limerick is intended to pass, to be made to this House; whether such property is held in fee, or by virtue of a lease for lives or for years, under any Corporation, sole or aggregate, lay or ecclesiastical ; distinguishing the name of each person who is a Member of either House of Parliament.—Agreed to. The Bankrupts Estates (Scotland) Bill, Compensa tion to Officers of the Court of Session, weut through Committee. The Report on the Mutiny, and Marine Mutiny Bills were brought up, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to-mot row. The Ecclesiastical Suspension Bill was read a third time and passed. The Consolidated Fund Bill (8,000,0000 was read a second time. GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA. Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in;13111 for making temporary provision for the Gove rnmen t o f J ama i ca , which was read a first time, and ordered to be reid a second time on the 19th of April. -- Tile House adjourned at Twenty-five Minutes past. Ten &Clock. SALE OF ARMS IN MONMOUTH. Copy of a letter written by the Secretary of State, and addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Monmouth : Sir,—Having been informed that persons have lately been going about the country, employed either as agents, or on their own account, in selling arms, not in the way of trade, but with some mischievous intent, I deem it right to call your attention to the subject, and I request you to recommend to any magistrates in the county of Monmouth, with whom you may think it eedings. e to confer to keep a watchf u l eye on suc h pro capprehend there cannot be a doubt that any persons combining to procure arms for the purpose of re sisting the laws, or for the purpose of committing any act which is deemed by law an offence, are liable to be prosecuted for a misdemeanour. It is, I conceive, equally clear, that any person selling arms, who advises and induces others to buy them for the purpose of re sisting the laws, is also &Ale to be prosecuted for a misdemeanour. Satisfactory- 1 ,..0f of such combination, or of such selling of arms, which of course will be .neces sary, would subject the parties to the penalties of the law. I beg further to observe, with regard to the use of arms, or training for the purpose of using arms, that if any persons secretly practise training or drilling to the use of arms, they are guilty of an offence under the provisions of the training act (GO George 111., c. 1), which enacts that all meetings for the purpose of training or drilling to the use of arms without lawful authority are prohibited. And every person who shall attend any such meeting for the purpose of training or drilling, or of being trained or drilled to the use of arms, shall be liable to transported and imprisoned. In case of any such training and drilling, the magistrates should take the most prompt and effective measures for the appre hension of the offenders. I shall be desirous of receiving from time to time, any information which you may he able to give as to the state of the county of Monmouth. It is likewise de sirable that magistrates should endeavour to procure de positions with respect to any seditious meetings in their neighbourhood, at which auy excitements to resist the laws may be addressed to the people. COPYRIGHT BILL. PETITION OF MR. W. S. LANDOR, TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND, &C. " That your petitioner would represent to your Honourable - House his strong persuasion that no pro perty is so entirely, and purely, and religiously a man's own as what comes to him immediately from God, without intervention or participation. It is the eternal gift of an eternal Being, and to interfere in any way with its benefits and blessings appears to your petitioner un becoming and unjust. _ " Your petitioner, therefore, humbly submits to your Honourable House that no Legislature has a right to confine its advantages to a thousand, or ten thousand years, or to give them away to any person or persons whatsoever, to the detriment of an author's heirs, after any number of ages. " And your petitioner offers the less reluctantly these observations to your Honourable House, since he him self proposes no advantages to his descendants from any of his literary works, all which he has consigned and left in perpetuity to the discretion of a learned friend." MALTA, MARCH, 24.—The ordonnance abolishing the Censorship has given rise to a good deal of argument in our journals, some of which, particularly the Mediterranee, consider that the benefit awarded is a very slight one, and that the liberty of the Press is a fallacy while it is subjected to so many trammels. The Queen Dowager has received the wife and the two daughters of the ex-Bey of Bengale, who is sojourning at Malta. Her Majesty sent her a special invitation, and his family was accompanied by Mr. Dixon. attired in the Arab costume. Her Majesty received the Bey's lady with great affability. Coffee was afterwards served by the ladies of her Majesty's suite, the gentlemen being all excluded, while the Tripo litaino family were present. Before they departed, the Queen Dowager placed;abeautiful gold chain on the neck of the Bey's lady, as a remembrance of the visit. On Wednes- day last the Queen Dowager laid the first stone of a Protes tant Church, with much ceremony. It is understood that her Majesty will embark the day after to-morrow on board the Hastings, and will touch at Cadiz and Lisboni on her way to England. The Gazette de Corfou, which has been received here, contains an account of the usual ceremonies which take place at the opening of the lonian Parliament by the Lord High Commissioner. The Commissioner made a long speech, in which he dwelt upon the measures which it was best to take to promote general education. Ile also al:uded to the steps which he had taken, in con cert with the English Minister at Athena, to obtain repara tion for the insults offered by the agents of the Greek Go vernment to various subjects of the lonian Islands. M. Altavilla Calichiopulo, the President of the Assembly, in reference to these insults, gave his opinion that they were only to be attributed to certain functionaries of the Govern ment, and not to any hostile disposition on the part of the nation. A BANQUET AT THE TUILERIES.-There could not reasonably be desired a more glorious spectacle than that of the Hall of Diana, wherein were now seated six hundred of the proudest dames, and most beautiful damsels of the time ;—surely no inconsiderable link uniting the pride and beauty of the pc.st with that pride and beauty which are to come. Around the room were ranged the noblemen and gentlemen ; and, in their gorgeous dresses, am I wrong in likening the scene to a vast picture of silver in a golden frame ? Swiftly and noiselessly move round those tall servants in crimson livery ;—the services of solid silver, and sometimes, far better, of solid gold, shine in their kid-gloved hands. How respectable, and even venerable, do they often look in those grey hairs I em he ent p s e l rfor H m e sheiesmdsutytol ao H ti o e w ipa w to ell m -t a im oy ed w a i r s e he a s l ; l his he That veteran with the c h ampagne glass, how admirably m d does can read in those countenances what those hearts desire ; he has carefully studied human nature in one of its phases, namely when hungry. He knows very well that the wish for a slice of pate de foie gras is very d:fferent from a wish for a goblet of Johannisberg, and he seems to read that difference in your expressive face. At every change he brings with your silver plate a clean napkin ; and have a care, or like yonder lady, you may count seven napkins in your lap at the same moment. But hark, the music rises —it is from a band. You have now only to get nectar and ambrosia, and here will you have no unworthy image of a chosen banquet of all the choicest goddesses. In your dreamings. and imaginations there is nothing to bring you back to things earthly save, perchance, the voices of cer tain German barons behind you gsating in their native dialect.—Bentley's Miscellany. A Coroner's inquest was held last evening, before Mr. Wakley, at No. 18, York-street, Portman-square, on the body of Captain Brenton, late Secretary of the Chil dren's Friend Society, who died on Saturday last. On the evidence of Mr. Dodd, surgeon, of Portman-street, it appeared that ossification of the heart had taken place to a considerable extent, and quite suflicient to account for the deceased's death. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natu ral death." On Thu rs d a y n i g ht, a butcher of the name of Stouden, resident at Wadhurst, arrived at the Queen's Head Inn, B oroug h, an d gave hi s horse into the charge of a man in th e y ar d, w h om h e b e lieved to be the ostler. Next mor n i n g h e f oun d th a t th e ostler had never seen the horse, a n d t h a t a p erson answer i ng the description of the supposed os tl er , h a d b een seen riding it over London Bridg e , about half-past twelve o'clock. A WOMAN'S T O NGUE AND ITS EFFECTS. — . luly conscious of his own blamelessness, M r. Lon g infr concluded that, provided he could only get the first word with her, could not g e t t h e fi rs t wor d, a l t h ou gh he hadit on his lips the storm might be blown aside. But, alas 1 he as he entered th e d oor . M rs . L. a ttacked him before he came in sight : an d , i n a ll pro b a bili t y, such an oratorical display of all the deprecatory figure! of speec h —such dis paragements, an d con d emnat i ons , an d denunciations; such hatreds, and d es pi s i nga , an d con t e mpt, and upbraidings-7 were never before, throughout the whole r an g e of domestic disturbances, collected to ether within so brief a space of time.h having (1 g fact,ln en absuchable o an fo r a c r e ro i w n y a sleetsingle loef o pposing words syllable between th em , h e was at l ast com pelled, after the royal was rained upon the unlu c ky husband, and so sudden l y , that, without example of some o f our t oo closely besieged Em p erors and Kings, to make good his retreat at the rear of t h e premises.—C o li n Cli n k , i n B en tl e y's Miscellany. FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND N OTES.—Since our fair, a num b er of forge d notes , purporting to be of the Bank of E ng l an d , have b een put into circulation in this town and neighb our h oo d . O ne war, taken in payment at one of our banks last week, and another was presented at a bank on Monday, and rejected. The imitation is good, but clumsily executed; and the paper is thicker than that on which the Bank of England notes are printed._ Shrewsbury Chronicle. A PATRIARCHIAL PARTY. —On Tuesday last, eighte en o f t h e po o r men of Soutlim ins t er, upon 1 whose heads time had heavily laid his silvering hand, and whose united ages amounted to 1,310 years, were col lected together at the White Hart Inn, by the bene. valence of the Rev. Dr. Scott, who gave them an excel lent dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding. After this substantial meal the health of the worthy Doctor was I drank with all the earnestness of gratitude, and with all the heartiness with which age would permit the venerable party to raise the glad hurrah.—Essex Herald. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 6, 1839. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Cunning ham, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of St. Christopher. DOWNING-STREET, APRIL S. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Syric Sheri dan, Esq., to be Secretary and Clerk of the Council and Re membrancer of the Court of Exchequer in the Island of Bar badoes. WHITEHALL, APRIL 8. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Brown, Clerk, to the church and parish of Half Morton, in the presbytery of Langholm and county of Dumfries. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 8. ERRATUM in the "Gazette" of the 29th ultimo. The Christian names of Second Lieutenant Owen, Royal Engineers, are Henry Charles Cunlitfe, instead of Henry Charles only. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN TAYLOR, wharfinger, Albion Wharf, Maiden-lane, King'i-cross, Middlesex. JOHN HARTLEY BUTTERWORTH, victualler, Leadenhall-market, London. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM TAPP, victualler, Nelson-square, 1111cl:friars road, to surrender April 18, at half-past eleven, and May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Balcrtiptcy. Belcher, official assig nee ; Coote, Son, and Ashbee, Austinfriars. RICHARD FEILD, varnish-manufacturer, Plummer's row, Whitechapel, April 19, at two, and May 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copt hall-buildings ; Wood and Ellis, Corbet-court, Gracechureh street. JOHN JACKSON, scriviner, Upper Ranelagh-street, Pim lico, Middlesex, April 23, at one, and May 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Savage, Surrey-steet, Strand. SAMUEL CLARK, licensed victualler, Oxford-street, Mid dlesex, April 23, at two, and May 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchureh-lane ; Sawyer, Bow-lane, Cheapside. JOHN TOW, bath manufacturer, Harcourt-street, New road, Middlesex, April 17, at twelve, and May 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, B,singhall-street, offi cial assignee ; Nickinson, Coleman-street. THOMAS . OWSTON, merchant, York, April 23, and May 21, at eleven, at Lockwood's Hotel, York. Smithson end Co., Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; Smithson, Mahon. THOMAS PEARSON; jun., smith7Livlfcrol,_ April n.nd May 21, at imrc, s6-the ilWarendo'n-roans,Liverpool. Tay lor, Sharp, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London ; Worth ington, Liverpool. CHARLES WILL3IOTT, innkeeper, Shaftesbury, Dorset shire, April 22, and May 21, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Blandford Forum, Dorsetahire. Yenning and Naylor, Token ' house-yard, Lothbury, London ; Chitty, Shaftesbury. JOHN BIRD, druggist, Maryport, Cumberland, April 24, and May 21, at eleven, at the Senhouse Arms Inn, Maryport. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, Lon don ; Tyson, Maryport. JOHN VA RLEY, meal-dealer, Tatham, Lancashire, April 23, and May 21, at eleven, at the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, Lon don ; Romaine and Gregg, Kirby Lansdale. WILLIAM GUEST, linen-manufacturer, Barnsley, York shire, April 29, and May 21, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Shef field. Shepherd, Barnsley; Perkins, Gray's-inn-square, London. ROBERT KENNAN and SPENCER JONES, clothiers, Liverpool, April 22, and May 21, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Cuvelje, Skilbeck, and Hall, Southamp ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; Thompson, Liverpool. THOMAS COATES, coal-merchant, New Mahon, York shire, April 23, at twelve, and May 22, at one, at Lockwood's Hotel, York. Smithson and Mitton, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; Smithson, 'Walton. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Schofield, licenced victualler, High-street, Shoreditch, April 30, at eleven—P. I. Muston and 1. P. Barlow, commis sion merchants, Austin-friars, April 30, at half-past eleven — R. Henderson, glover, Tottenham-court-road, May 1, at two —J. W. Davis, draper, Hertford, May 1, at twelve—J. M'Diarmid, baker, New North-road, Islington, May 1, at one —T. Blanchard, broker, Lloyd's Coffee-house, May 2, at one— H. D. G. Truscott, upholsterer, York-road, Lambeth, May 2, at twelve. In the Country. N. Cavenagh, W. Browne, and H. Browne, bankers, Bath, May 1, at one, at the York House, Bath—J. Beardmore and J. W. Waterhouse, lace manufacturers, Chesterfield, Derby shire, April 30, at one, at the Castle Inn, Bakewell—H. La tham and R. Thomas, ironmongers. Chester, May 3, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Chester—W. Thompson, H. Leonard, and R. B. Dawes, factors, Aston, Warwickshire, May 3, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham—H. T. Newton, liquor merchant, Derby, May 1, at one, at the;New Inn, Derby— W. Braithwaite, Jun., common brewer, Middlewich, Cheshire, May 28, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—Aran 30. R. Clark, hotel keeper, Bognor, Sussex—T. J. Croggon, marble works, Belvedere-road, Lambeth—F. Strong and W. Barthold, merchants, Tower-street, City—J. Hawthorn, brass founder, Birmingham—J. Brown, merchant, Sheffield—J. Gra ham, draper, Manchester—J. Telford, leather factor, Star court, Bread-street, Chcapside—T. Beesly, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Brown and J. Chapman, bricklayers, Harrow—J, God dard and J. Butterworth, tailors, Leeds—R. Whittaker, D. Brown, W. Pattison, and J. Smith, hat manufacturers, New castle-under-Lyme—T. and D. Milner, cotton dealers, Man chester—H. Plumpton and R. Baker, tailors, Cheapside—H and M. Owen, fringe manufacturers, Wigmore-street, Caven square—.J. and R. Rhodes, joiners, Undercliffe, Yorkshire— J. Cookes and J. 011ivier, Pall Mall—E. E. Beckingham and H. Hughes, corn merchants, Newport, Monmouthshire—H. U. Chapman, W. H. Cornforth, and R. Willis, commission mer chants, Liverpool (so far as regards W. H. Cornforth)--A. Young and R. Elsdale, surgeons, Gosberton, Lincolnshire— G. Croft and J. B. Whitfield, brewers, Kingston-upon-Hull— W. Brooks, J. R. Reddish, S. Brooks, and W. Bickharn, calico printers, Manchester (so far as regards W. andS. Brooks) —R. Ryley and G. C. Dawe, publishers, Regent-street— T. Heyden, Sen., T. Heydon, Jun., and C. Handley, attor nies, Warwick (so far as regards 'l'. Heydon, Jun. )—J. Broad bent and J. Wilson, fancy manufacturers, Kirkheaton, York shire—J. Cotton, S. Underhill, and J. Redfern, japanners, Birmingham—W. Ling and E. Goodwin, grocers, Ipswich— J. Bennett and T. Bowman, maltster, Tuxfords, Nottingham— L. Clapham and H. Walton, cattle dealers, Lawkland, Yorkshire POLICE INTELL IGEN(' MANSION-HOUSE. A sailor was brought before the 1,01:1) MAYori chargid with having refued to pay for the hire of a boat from the Tower-stairs to Rotherhithe. Nash, the Waterman, of Towcr-steps, stated that the sailor directed him to row after a steamer that was going. down the river. Witness pulled away as far as Rother hithe, but could not reach the vessel. He then rowed back, but the sailor refused to pay him six which he considered to be his fare, which occupied his time nearly three hours, without offerivg any remuncrati(,n at At last Jack pulled out eighteenpenee for his accommo dation, and as he could not pay the whole demand, was given into the custody of an officer. The LORD MAYOR—HOW do you make out the charge of six shillings. Nash—l charge for distance and the loss of my time. The LORD MAYOR—By your own regulations, you can not charge for both. You must choose one of the two. Nash—l - am entitled to six shillings for the job. The LORD MAYOR—Don't talk nonsense. If you charge for time, your job is sixpence an hour. Nash—lt's very hard I should he treated in this man ner. I shall charge for distance then. A policeman stated that several of the boatmen at the ' stairs assured him that they would willingly have taken the defendant for eighteen pence. _ The Loan AlAYon said, it was evident that the chject was to impose upon the sailor. The distance to Rother hithe entitled the waterman to!eighteen pence, and the dis tance back to the same amount. The se:',man therefore is to pay three shillings. A Jew crimp, who was half drunk-, and who eyed the sailor as if the latter had money about him, seemed to be very much annoyed too. The policeman stated that the crimp had fixed his affec tions upon a 51. note, which the sailor ha , l in his posses. sion, and had been tempted by so dalicious a bait to follow Jack even into the Mansion llow3c. The crimp denied that he had a sneaking regard for the note, and loudly asserted the independence of his spirit, and his great regard for sailors in general. The Lotto MAYOR.—WeII, whether you were after the 5/. or not I shall take care that you shan't get it. The crimp (in a very loud voice).—l shall defend my self in the presence of fifty Lord Mayors; Aye, in the presence of the Queen herself. I'm as peci:,.!s_rnanig any of you • • vhe LORD MATOR.-But yiu shan't have the poor fel low. 5/. note, and you must not interfere with the business of this office. Let him be removed, aud call the next case. The crimp in retiring bellowed about the liberties of an Englishman; and when he reached tilt cuter room, cried that he did'ut care a d---n fur all the Lord Alayors on earth or in hell. The LORD MAYOR —Let him be locked up in the cage. it will cool his anger and add to the security of the 5/. note. The gaoler immediately obeyed his Lordship's order, and the cage soon softened down the ferocity of the crimp to a tone of mild supplication, which drew shouts of laughter from the crowd it, the outer apartment. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. JAMES ANDERSON, bookseller, Edinburgh, April 11 and May 26, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house Edinburgh. CAPTURE OF THE SLAVER FLOR DE LOANDO. From Lieutenant Armitage, who, as then first mate of her Majesty's ship Rover, was put in charge of the captured slaver the Flor de Loando in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, we have learned some further particu lars relating to the proceedings in the case of that vessel, and to slavery and the slave-trade in the Brazils generally. The Flor de Loando was captured on the 11th of April, 1838, with 289 slaves on board, the miserable remnant of 400 with whom she sailed from the coast of Africa. She was taken into Rio, where, of course, it was a matter of the most urgent necessity, if the lives of the Africans were to be regarded, that they should be immediately removed from their confined and unwholesome situation. But this could not be allowed till the vessel was condemned, and it was not allowed for a single hour ; so that these liberated (!) negroes were still confined to the pestiferous slave-ship, and doomed to a prolongation of the sufferings of the voyage. For what length of time do our readers imagine? Why, such of them as live continue there to the present hour ! Vexatious delays, not without suspicion of bribery, were interposed (as was believed, by the Brazilian minister) to prevent the condemnation of the ship at Rio. At length it was determined that she must be tried and condemned at Sierra Leone ; the voyage was begun, and nothing but the springing of a leak prevented the wretched remnant of her cargo from having to endure a second passage across the Atlantic in a slave-ship. The crew are then sent to England, under charge of Lieutenant Armitage. on their way to Sierra Leone. A writ of habeas corpus is issued for them, at the in stance of the Portuguese or some other ambassador, a flaw is found in the proceedings, and the wretches are glad enough to escape! Lieutenant Armitage is now to take his papers to Sierra Leone, that the ship may be condemned. When this has been done, he will have to go again to the Brazils, and then such of the Africans as shall be alive may be liberated !—the probability being that not one will have survived. Up to the 16th of September, when Lieutenant Armitage left Rio, 11l had died since the capture, out of 400 leaving only 169, and these in a deplorable condition. Such is the effect of British endeavours to put down the slave-trade ! It is thus we aggravate the suffer ins we profess our desire to cure, and become a laughing-stock to the wretches whose crimes we are trying to suppress. If the Flor de Loando bad not been taken by a British cruizer, but had landed her cargo undisturbed, half of them might have been saved ; the interposition of British humanity completes the murder of the whole. The .Rover and her prize in the harbour of Rio have been the standing jest of the Brazilians for nearly a twelve month past. This case certainly ought to be noticed in Parliament, and we hope some member of the Legislature will speedily move for the production of the papers which relate to it. At Havannah there is a British hulk, to which ' the Africans from captured slavers are removed pend ing tne trial of the vessels ; and another should oto vinusly be stationed at Rio. We have reason to think that the Foreign-office wou ld d o it s d u t y i n t hi s matter ; i but there s a deep sleep at the Admiralty. Perhaps a gentle hint from my Lord Brougham, or some other member of the Imperial Parliament, may awaken them. We have been much gratified to learn that Mr. Ouseley, the British Ambassador to the Brazils, has acted a faithful part in this melancholy business, as have also some of the British residents at Rio, among whom the names of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Tross are to be mentioned with particular honour. Lieutenant Armi tage assures us that the bulk of the Brazilian po pulation are deeply averse to slavery and the slave trade ; the party by which they are promoted and carried on being the ‘• high Portuguese party," not great in number, but large in capital and wealth. He adds, that the British merchants, with few exceptions (although they often deny it), supply the slavers with the goods which they carry to Africa for the purchase of slaves : and that the works of the British Mining Companies are now being wrought by slaves. The last is a very serious item, and we call the attention of the shareholders of the . Brazilian Mining Companies to it, When these Companies were formed, it was fully understood that slaves were not to be employed ; but slaves are now employed, and em ployed, not only by English capital, but by English ladies and gentlemen to dig their gold I Well may the Brazilians scoff at English abhorrence of slavery ! British Emancipator. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of last Evening.) SUGAR.—The British Plantation market was extremely quiet last week, grocers as well as refiners purchasing with extreme caution, and although importers submitted to a reduction on previous rats of is per cwr, it did not tempt buyers to take more than 460 hhds and tierces. The deliveries since our last are again less than they were in the corresponding period of last year, and the surplus in the comparative stocks has increased, yet prices are 4s to 63 higher than they were last year at this period. There have been no arrivals since our last, but supplies from Jamaica of the new crop may be shortly expected. A large proportion of the stock is held by speculators. The Hope packet has arrived from the West Indies confirming the accounts previously come to hand, of the good conduct of the Negroes on the estates where they have been well treated, and receive a fair remu neration for their labour. The Gazette average price is now 40s 81d, in 1838 it was 34301 d, and in 1837 33s Oid. The stock of West India Sugar is now 15,598 hhds and trs, being 6,958 more than last year. The stock of Mau ritius is now 103,188 bags, which is 31,833 more than last year. The delivery of West India last week was 1,136 hhds and trs, which is 710 less than last year. The de livery of Mauritius was 6,067 bags, being 4,743 less than the corresponding week of last year. REFINED.--The grocers have purchased very cautiously of all descriptions, although the refiners have submitted to a redution on former rate; of is, Lumps equal to the standard having been sold at 78s a 783 63, and rather under at 77s a 77s 6d. For export we are still without orders for British Crushed and the price is uncertain ; Crushed made from Manilla is not to be purchased under 365. 101 b. Ham burgh Loaves, have been sold at 48s. Treacle is held firmly, common at 29s a 293 6d and patent and the best old make at 30s a 323, and although the article has not been much sought after, still a fair demand has prevailed. Pieces have been taken sparingly. Bastards have met with a dull sale, and a few small parcels have been sold on easier terms. Dutch Crushed Sugar is less wanted and cheaper, the purchases since our last have been only 30 casks at 35a per cwt. MAT IRITIUS.—This description has participated in the dullness which has prevailed in other sorts admissible for home consumption ; by private contract nothing has been done, and 6,307 bags 194 barrels at auction went is under former rates, all however found buyers, the former of good brown quality at 61s 6d, low middling yellow 625, middling 62s 6d to 635, good middling 63s 6.1 to 643, good 64s 6d to 65s Gd; the latter fetched 63; 63 to 65; 63 for middling to good yellow. This afternoon there was an increased disinclination to buy, and of 7,029 bags at public sale not above 100 were sold, the remainder were taken in at prices above what the trade were inclined to pay, good to fine yellow at 65s a 675, good mid 633 63 a 64s 6d, mid 62s 6d a 63s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been taken sparingly by the grocers, and prices must again be reduced lid per cat ; at at auction 1,678 bags were only partly sold, fine white at 68; to 695, good 66; to 67s 6d, middling 655, low middling greyish 633 63 to 619. No arrivals since this day week, but some are near at hand. Manilla is still in demand by the refiners, and some parcels have been sold by private contract at late rates. In Siam some business has been done, good to fine white at 31s to 325, low to good mid dling 283 to 30s per cwt. A public sale of 3,000 baskets Java will take place to-morrow. This afternoon 588 bags Manilla, and 1,791 bags 300 chests Bengal were offered at public sale ; the former were taken in at full prices, low to fine fine brown at 23s to 246 6d one lot 255, washed 22s 6d, damps 23s to 24; ; the latter were only partly sold is to is 6d under previous rates, in chests fine strong white at 68s to 693, mid to good mid G 39 6d to 65; 63, in bags good to fine white 66s to 683, ra ther inferior 643 6d to 65s Gd, good brown and yellow 58s to 63s per cwt. FOREIGN.—Fur white descriptions there are still few buyers, but the stock being light causes holders to demand fell prices ; yellow Ilevaenah is wanted, but the <bort supply and the high rates required have prevented business of moment; Brown Bahia continues in good request, and 23; 6d has been paid for 100 chests. This afternoon 50 chests Bahia at auction were taken in at high prices, mid sofa greyish white at 283 6d, low mid 26; Gd, soft yellow 239 to 245, good soft brocsn 225. Moeessns.—ln West India the purchases by private con tract have been trifling, but lower prices have not gene rally been accepted; the supply is still short, particularly of con.m m descriptions ; at auction 46 cesks Bengal of very ordinary derk quality sold at 25s ; 93 casks Mauritius Sugar and Molasses fetched 35; 63 a 36; per cwt. This afternoon 51 puns 43 bids Grenada and St. Kitts at public isle, imported from Leith, sold at 30s 6d to 313 rather cheaper. 200 bags Demerara are declared for Thursday. COCOA.—The private purchases have been limited in British Plantation, but no further reduction in prices has been submitted to; none has been offered at auction. In Foreign a few sales have bees made at the quotations. RICE.—In the middle part of last week there was only a limited demand for East India for exportation, and the home trade purchased sparingly ; at public sale 6,200 bags Bengal were offered, only 3,200 of which found buyers at 63 under farmer rates; low mid white sold at 14s a 149 6d, mid 159 to 15; 63, good 163, the remainder was taken in at 15; for mid quality ; on Friday, however, there was rather more billstess doing, ard 1,600 bags at auction sold rather above previous rates, good mid to fine white brought 153 63 to 16; 6'.1, low dusty and broken 12s. Carolina has sold slowly for borne use, at the prices quoted. This afternoon 78 bags Bengal at public sale, for ex portation only, sold at 15; 6cl a 16s for good bold white. TEA.—The demand has been very limited at the public sale since our last, and the principal part passed auction has again been bought in above its value, the ordinary kinds are the most difficult of sale, and the supply, consist ing mostly of those descriptions, prices have given way Icl per lb as compared with January, but good bl ac k an d green Teas which have be en. the most in request have maintained previous rates. Of common Congou suitable for this market nothing has been sold under 1 lid, and Twankay is 23 per lb. This afternoon there 'was a better demand from the Trade for most descriptions, and the principal part passed the sale was sold at previous prices. Norma—The quarterly sale of East India commenced to-day in the presence of a large attendance of the trade; the quantity brought forward amounted to 5,009 chests, 2,160 of which consisted of old goods, bought in and with drawn from former sales. 800 chests have passed the Sale. Tateow.—The weather continuing very cold has oc casioned a good demand from the trade, chiefly from the Town inciters, and since our last prices have undergone little variation, P. Y. C. on the spot selling at 48; 63 to 183 93 per cwt for first quality. Ores —There has been rather a better trade in common Fish Oils, and both Cod and pale Seal have brought their l'ormer value; however a slight depression in South Sea aas taken place ; 270 tuns of the latter description sold by the hammer at 241 103 to 261 15s per tun, according to luelity. Linseed Oil remains at 27s per cwt, and the market is very heavy. SALTPETRE.—Rough has been in good request by pri vate contract for exportation, several parcels have also ueen taken by the home trade, and rather higher prices Lave again been obtained, 263 a 28s 64 has been paid for 3rd and good Calcutta, and it is difficult now to purchase . anything of ord quality in th e market under 26 3 6a d er cwt. • ,vo lt o e: b , r ß i, n k a t e io n m e, an A c r forl-110,LomLAeND:o.n-TuFor ntioßouams well as has f.ocri exportation ; Lewards have been the most in request, and lave commanded an advance of Id ; Jamaica has main tained to over previous r a a t t e 3 s s ; 2 o i f d the a3 former ,m 6 ,1 0 3 0 s puns 4fi s w t c o r were s o ot 33 41d a 3s 53, 4s a 4.3 63, 27 to 29 over 3A 83 a 3; 9d, 20 to 26 over a 5 t 10 5 1 : 13, 33 a , t 33 2; t 2 o d 3s a 9 to 12 over 3s Gel a 35 7d, 13 to 16 over Ida Sc;f the latter the Sales 43 83 a 4s 101, 30 to 37 over 4s 1 ; over old for black war 53 4d a • • e iv p at r e ice co to nt l r O ac s t 6d. sales are 150 F s u s n o s 32 Geneva e ;n s es 3d. The sale for British Corn Spirits is still limited; SPICES.-- and the distillersriie h d a e v o e , r a e o d d uc b e y d t p h r P e pper has been chocked by the announcement of 7,809 EVENING EDITION. bats for auction to.(lay • prices, however, remain firm, and b- en Lid t,?r sete:al parcels of ord Sumatra, iiiiporer will not sell under aq-d : at public sale, 700 bags Malabar were principally sold at 4id for half heavy 133 bags white fetched Is to Is 20. Nutmegs are not much wanted for home use, and for export there are he orders at present: at auction 5 casks, for the latter purpose only, were taken in at 3s 7d to 3s Sd. Cloves are held feu• higher prices, but the demand has been ; and 3S hags crd at public sale, were bought in at is 21d per lb. Etst India Ginger k rather cheaper ; a part only of 4,000 bags at auction found buyers, good mid quality at 203 to 21s, better was taken in at 21s 6d, and nearly the whole of 845 bags of very ord norm eaten Malabar at I6s to 17s : \Vest India as last quoted. Pimento is held for 41 to 44d• The high rates required for Cassia Lignea, together with the shmt supply, have prevented much business, fine thin descriptions are held for GSs to 68s 6d. IRISH MARKETS. nur,TAN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ENDING APRIL 5- (From To 119 VVll2at,per barrol ‘.2il stone 34 I 42 6 0 Bur , . l6 sttme — 0 u t 0 llsrley 111 0.4 , o Flour, pct. cv,t ... t! Et:Jute — 0 0 0 Oar,, , 1---... 8 stone 6 0 Fold to 811: , ..5rs only. 1(1,231 Cwt. r . 1,7 , 3ir Aver.,;: •, - ire of WI text and Flout 65, 4.1. per $t Firsts c ~,, Rec;ipts of Flour, 11,71:1 ) sc Fi „ ondi from 19s. 00. from 22, 00. lSales of Do. 19,003 ' . Thirds ... f 104 0.1 ... corn . . A v.ralre. :9 0 .25 • 15 2 9! 4 0 31. Oa. :113. ;o 123 031. YRICE or BREAD. Quarter,' Loaf '04.1 Half Quartern 54. CORK MA 11K ETS.—April 6 Wheat (pm' 205t.)13: 6,1. to:Us. Old Ozts (per 14st.) ...Hs. 04. to 14. IA 1, oaclcy (per 166t.)19 0 22 0 'Flour (per cal )...1G 0 54 9 . Oatnic. , al ;per cwt 1 l2s. (Id. to 16,-. 6d. Beef, 4,1. to 7d.—Mutton, sd. to 6 , l.—Veal, 4d. to 6d. Perk, 40. to sd.—rresh Butter, 10d. to Ild, per lb. PRICE OF ntrrrart. Ta the Merchants. Te the Coun t! ! First Quality. 9ils 704 Sccoud el 77 Third Fourth Filth ,.. ..... ..... ........ 5 47 Sixth CLONMELL MARKETS,—Ap I iI 6. Per Cwt. S. 51....... V Si oto 90 0 Hides rair)....40. 0 - Yo ~z : .r.' I.lew Butter Oatmeal 12 0 12 3 Bacon Pip • we 44. - :‘ , _,......... Rendered Lard • * . 52-0 21We - ' - glI • -- I I .", • Per Bag, t . ifoUr, Seeinitl - 0 44 0 1 Fl , :tir Thirds. 0 31 6 • —Household.- , • 42 0; --- F0urth5......9.2 9 -- Per Eaßarle rrel. 11mcecil '4l( 0— 01 y .. .13 Bore S 4 10 0 C oats Per wheat.. • .• 1 8 110 I tone. Tallow (rough) 4 • - • Jars -itih LKY eat :put barrer3i. Kl Ol to :AENN MARKETS. ed, Beef , arley l4 0 10 I M ut t on o 0 6 (per 1b....... Os. s ed. to Os. 54 ixas 8 6 9 0 Pork Hour ',per 1.0 ,5 0 44 0 Veal 0 5 1 6 Buttcr(per cwt.)...90 0 52 0 fresh Butter 0 0 ° 16 Bacon Pigs 1 0 1 2 Pot a t oes ( per st. ) • 2 1 S 40 0 41 0 S a l t I)itto 0 S 0 16 Coals 1 P • lb 6 IP 36 ROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—O R Monday a meeting of the friends and supporters of the Protestant Association was held at the Lower Room, Exeter-hall, for the purpose of proposing a petition to Parliament, praLieg that the clause in the Act introduced last Session of l'er liarnert for the better ordering of prisons, enabling " Popish chaplains to be appointed in all prisons contain ing upwards of fifty Catholics," such chaplains to be pai d by the State. should not be passed into a law. W. Blackstone, Esq., M. P., in the chair. Tha chairman and the Revel end Dr. Croly were the principal speakers. Resolutions to the above effect were unanimously ngreed to. There were about one hundred persons present. A NEW ERA IN AGRICULTURE._" A new era in Agriculture" is a pompous and somewhat startling en' nouncement, yet such is the heading of a paragraph which we fled staring us in the face in every newspaper in the kingdom. All the o ld-f as hi one d not i ons, and all the m usty experience which has been gathering and increasing eve r , since the writing of the Geor g i cs — a ll t h e tum b re l s , and harrows, and half-finished steam-ploughs, and the Core laws, we, suppose, elan- with them, are to be swept clear away, and tile the farmer is to begin the world aril' Quite a new cra ! What a beautiful world we shall ma" of it Really the cow-cabbages that required rath er a lengthy ladder to en a bl e a man to pick the caterpillars off the bottom cleaves, were mere dwarfs to this clover! ‘• It must be sown in April" too—the first day of that month, we presume; and in a b ou t thi rty d ays you ma y send out your men to f ago ti ng c l over —f or o f course i t i s cut t down iiith a good st o ut axe —laying out the thin": stalks for hurdl es or n i ce French bean sticks. Our 004 fear is that a few fields will grow such immense iquan tities that till the f arm w ill h ave to b e turned i nto a stack yard. What excellent co v ert, t oo , it wou ld f orm in cas e of war. Only think of a regiment of dragoons or three thousand Chartist pikemen being concealed in a clover lay of three weeks growth, ready to sally out and Olt: towns and hen -roost s We hope some Essex farmer ", - been fortunate en oug h to secure at least one grain of ti„.' new era clover.—Essex Herald. • ---- On Monday afternoon, as the Ipswichi i°l/ coach was coming through Sh o t es h am to Norwich , the r horses by some means became frightened, and started ei at a tremendous pace. The coac h man , w h o is a T e e steady man, used every possible m eans t o b r i ng them ea ie , controul ; in the midst, however, of his exer tions, O r' tb i s l e broke, and lie was precipitated u p on th e w h ee l er s ; . r a we en state he was carried for some distance, h an ging be the the horses, and ultimately fell between them UP? be T h ere meanwhile Two passengers who were o n t h e o utside ' meanwhile got off the coach and esca p e d un h ur t. was still a lady inside. The horses coatinued their courSO through Newton toll- ga t e , over Hartford Brid g es, 1111 d were stopped near the top of the hill, where the coach was run against the bank. The lady was discovered lying in sensiLle on the road, somewhere between Shotesham and the toil-gate, by Mr. Long, of Duneton, who assisted in conveying her to a cottage near, and immediately sent og for Mr. Merry, of Shotesham, and Mr. D a l r y mp l e . The lady is Miss Kertsey, of this city, and we regret to state, that at the time we write she lies in a very precarious state, The coachman, to whom we hear, no blame is attributable , was severs ly bruised.—Norwich Mercury. TRADITION EXTRAORDINARY.—Thert 25 now living in the vicinity of Aberdeen, a gentleman wbo can boast personal acquaintance with an individual who had seen and conversed with another who had actually been present at the battle of Flodden Field. Marvellous as this may appear, it is not the less true. The gen tleman t° whom we allude w as p ersona ll y acquainted with the cele brated Peter Garden of Auchterless, who died in 1775, a t the reputed age of 131, although there is reason to believe that he was several years older. Peter in his yo suite days was servant to Gard e n o f T roup, w h om h e accompsowu one journey through the north of England, where be sa w and conversed with the famous Henry Jenkins, who died to 1670. at the age of 169. Jenkins was born in 1501, aa ° was of course I 2 years of age at the battle of Flodden Field ; and on that memorable occasion he bore arrows to an English nobleman, w h om h e serve d i n t h e ca pacitY of p,ge. Our reason for thinking that Peter Garden was older than he is reported to have been is this : —There arc still living individuals who knew Peter, and to whom be used to boast that he had served under Montrose, and bee° present at the fight of Fyyie. He used to say he was th e n a "gey luun," and page to Ogilvie of Forglen. He had a vivid recollection of the encounter and personal appearance of Montrose. The battle of Fysie was fought in the yea r 1644 ; and, supposi ng th a t P eter was t h en b etw een ly and 12 3 ears of age, he must have been at least 141' years old when he died.—Aberdeen Journal, April 6, 1839. One morning at the beginning of the week, a S a Caen paper states, a man was observed asleep on the Ildg e orthe roof of a lofty h ouse a t t h e corner o f the Place Fontelle, in that town, and in such a position that t he slightest movement m ust have precipitated him to the ground with the cer t a i nty of being killed. The persons who saw him were at a loss how to get at him, and a aim" 1 nev.sweeper was applied to, but be declined the under' taking as too d angerous . A t l ength a servant m ounted with a rope, and with great address slung it over tbs man's body, and d rew hi m i nto a place of safety without a waking him. Whs n rouse d to his senses the man declared that he had been at work on the roof as a tiler, but bay'' goon up in a state o f i n t ox i cat i on, h a d f a ll en as l ee p, an must have rolled insensibly to the edge of the roof, th et a he mad been h'ndered from falling only by a water pipes an by his foot having caught against the angle of a chiinneyfic A GRAVE DIGGER'S WIFE.—A Seib:ip w, resides at a country pl ace , w ithi n t h e soun d o f B ur ton bell! , having been labouring hard at his vocation until rather 17 in the evening, entered his house evid en tly mu ch fatigue d ' when he w as a dd resse d b y hi s wife as follows William, William, how tired yo u are to-night.were : as you, I would, when not o th erways employed, insi r `t . e ., few graves, t o b e rea dy you k now, o f different sizes, fro children to grown-up persons, instead of having to O " yourself in thi s wa y ; f or peop l e never t hi n k o f ordering you to make a grave while just th' time they want Halifax Express. HORIZONTAL FLAT WATCH— ' with accurately finished jewelled movements, warranted, arl offered in silver c ases , pr i ce Fi ve G u i neas eac h ; or, in g °i cases, price Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Jewell e r, a n d Sil versm i t h, 47, Cornhill, Loncloll (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchanges • BIRTHS. Wards On the Bth inst., at Gilston Park, the lady of 11- G. Esq., M.P., of a aughter. On the Bth inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, th. Counter: Henri de Cigala, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Chatham, the lady of Captain Sandharg' Royal Engineers, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Loughall, near Armagh, Lady g irl Hewitt, of a son, still-born. On the sth inst., in Orchard-street, Portman-square' M rs ' Matthew Clark, of Valthamstow, Essex, of a son. s' On the 7th inst., the lady of the Rev. F. Maurice, of yolY Hospital, of a daughter, still-born. William On the Bth inst., in 13ryanston-square, the lady of Long, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. fi e On the 9th inst., at Sr. Pancras New Church, by the Charles Luxmoore, of Eton College, Captain Lethbridge , 0 ' ' f Royal Artillery, Woolwich, to Caroline, youngest daub the late Thomas Cadell, Esq., of Upper Charlotte-street, Fitz roy- square. r the On the 9th inst., by special license, at the Chapel 0 . squ are, Charter House, John Frederick Pike, Esq of Bedford . , _ s iw London, and Ramridge, Hants, to Dorothea Fisher, 0 1 Abbey, Suffolk, eldeit daughter of the late BishojtoLt_i l t------ )uj, hter. 0. meo o yir n iict t li l; , e e I)2 7 9 t D l t l h. i , r u is Ni t tp .. ic , ,a in la. to C f h ni a la r l ia l Tini olt;t b e;s;t:::eet, Bloomsbury, Alexander Brand, Esq., aged 83. At Neuwied, du Germany, Cha ' r ' les g , the t a he ed n s e 9 v . Stein, Messenger of the House of Commons, in consequence °' a blow f • loin a stone whilst at play, which fractured his head, aged 12. of sir On the 9th inst., Harriet Sarah Albinia, only child Charles Douglas, M. P., aged two years and a half. .onFly,d‘scoanrdoGf ritaviel.s., of ,67(tr - ,c-n-AteeeszusgaßZetstassaltwismaiscumam a London : P r i n t e d and Published by MURDO YOUNG , la No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Offico. No. 112, Straw'', the county of Aliddlescs.—Wednesday, April 10, 183 P. :.,,~-~