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40 11 A C K E T S.—GRAVESEND and LONDON, By way of the BLACKWALL RAILWAY. EIGHTPENCE THROUGHOUT. BOAT AND BAIL INCLUDED. From the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Morning, Seven, Half-past Nine, and Half-past Twelve; Afternoon, Two, Four, Six, and Seven. Brunswick Wharf, B!ackwall, Morning, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve; Aftcrneon, Three, Four, Six, and Half-past Seven. Sundays from Gravesend, Morning, Seven, and Half-past Nine ; Afternoon, Four, Six, and Seven. From Blackwall, Morning, Ten and Eleven ; Afternoon, Three, ox, and Half-past Seven. Front the Old Shade. Pier, above London-bridge, Daily at Nine. Star Office, Gravesend, May 17, 1844. NEW SPORTING NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., pest tivo., Y D E MAR S T O N; OR, A SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. Ily " CRAVEN." Henry Colbnrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. In 3 vols., post tivo., MR. D'ISRAELFS " CONINGSBY ; THE NEW GENERATION," IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Heorylburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY IS, Will be performel Dun zetti's (Vera, entitled D.iN POSQU ALE. Notif', Madime Grisi ; Ernesto, Signor Mario; Dr. Malatesta, Si air Fornasari ; and D in Pasquale, Signor Lablache. Between the acts of tho Opera the admired " La Gitana" by M.! Ic. cerito. To con , ,tile with the Grand B llet of ALMA. Alma, Madame Cerito. A ppl leg ions for Boxes, Stall; and Tickets to be made at the Boa. o,.vra.cAonnade. THEATRE. ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 'I'IIIS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W . Harrison; Count Ono soranzo, 11r. goilani; NiAira, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle. Alb,rt ,rei ; Francesca, Miss Romer. To conclude with the revivod Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE nEvoLr OF TIIE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, Silvain; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Millie. Lucile siraha ; Zel.ka, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, Madame Dre.s Ilexes 75., Second niCe 38. 6d.; Upper Circles of Boxes ss. R,con.l Price as.; Pit as , .;econd Pnce Middle Gallery Mk ; Second Price Is.; Upper (lailery Is., Second Price ficl. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER THIS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be perfmned (by desire) CAUGHT IN A TRAP. After which, a Niw Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Chines Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis Lexh, Mr. Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Hamby. Tobe followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.. vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton and Miss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. Orchestra Stalls, 55..; Boxes, !A. • Pit, ?s. ; Gallery, 'tis.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, ; Pit, 25.; Gallery Is. ; Upper GHCaI. allery, Doors opened at all.past Six, and the Performances eornme•,ce at Seven _ _ Pickers and - Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box. ottice, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX, THIS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Weibs; Don Hen riquez de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebollejo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La Caterina, Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Miss Grant. Tu be followed by a New Farce, called CU!' FOR PARTNERS. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man In Search of a Sensation. Monsieur Vase, Mr. Wright; Grosfer, Mr.. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugenie Prosper; Madame Pipou, Mrs. H. P. Grattan. THEATRE ROY L LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the yanagernent of Mrs. KEELEY. _.. .. "Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audinces THIS EVENING, MAY 17, Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entiVed THE THREE WIVES OF .1 A D RID. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Diddear, F. matthews, Emery, Wigan. Craven, Turner, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and M, Kecley. After which, will be produced a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. Fridcipal Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Younge, Mrs. Woolbge, Mrs. Usher, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Chaplin, Miss Grove, and Miss borte.ue. To be followed by . tri Apropos Bagatelle, called POLK AMANIA Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar; and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Gtaal Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha. rectos by Miss Woulgrr. Alias E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICES -OF A 01111:WION.—Balcony Foxes, 45.; Upper Poxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d.; Pit, P. Private Boxes on the Balcony Pier (holding eight persons). 'l'wo Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho'ding eight persons), One Guinea and a. Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. ASTLEY'S ROY Al. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. (i7and Atiraction. 11115 e.:VENING, MAY 17, Will be repeated toe Oct," 'cal Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLAA M I'HE CONQUEROR; or, the Battle of Hastings. With ad the ;elects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change 1.1 tin Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with sl.c. Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the H ndoo; o: the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open niglitiy at six o'clock, and the performances imminence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been re: obstructed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage-in tiager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. On Monday, May 20, M. Plege will re-appear, for the last week of his Engagement, and will take his Benefit on Friday, May i 4. DA 7IDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE 'PHIS EVEVING, MAY 17, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. Supported by Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes, R. Honner, Neville, Va.e, Mrs H. Vining, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. Lewis. Atter which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conclu.te with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, entitled WHITEFRIARS, In which the entire Company will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschoor, at the Box_ e:tice. from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. OPEN EVERY EVENING. VOith the astounding Wonders of the Extraordinary Being the =TREAT WIZARD OF IHE NORTH, and the ARAB MOTHERS, aged seven, nine, and twelve years of age, whose .assic Groupings, and Surprising Feats of Strength, are the theme fgenerel admiration ! A !rick worth Knowing! How to fill a Theatre by Magic! This is the Fourth Season of the Great Delusionist in London! He has conwleted the Thirtieth Night of his present Season ! His Miracles have been witnessed by upwa:ds of k lye Hundred Thou sand Spectato.s! Still his Magic Temple is nightly honoured with most brilliant and crowded audiences ; thus proving to the world the ecli sing superiority of his unparalleled Entertainments He nightly excites the astonishment of Hundreds, by his Scientific Experi ments ; the peculiar effect of which beggars description. His new Delusi ns, THE FLYING RINGS, and THE ENCHANTED HAT, are wonders which have no equal I ! ! And, Novelty being at present the rage the GREAT WIZARD intends MAKING A WITCH! Therefore, any Lady, desirous of appearing as the Great Witch, in conjunction with the Great Wizard, is informed, that the latter will be happy to initiate her in the Mysteries of his Art.—A French, German, or Italian Lady would he preferred. Boxes, 35.; Pit. Is. kl.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the theatre, and of all the Agents. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Doors open at ilalf.past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to TILE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most mavideent and extensive Collection of Histo -ical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed. Dy One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS. XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and. the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, In 1521. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington-, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine. pictures; &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected It, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to he seen by every use. The price of admis• sign is reduced to ONE SHILLING. The NAPOLEON 3[i.7 SECM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hari," Piecalilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—Sum OFFICE, MAY 17. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; llighest, 62; Noon, 47. BAROMETER, N.E. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is sually placed opposite 30, and rain at 23. 11`(11 WATER AT Losi)oN-munqE Morning ... 51 tninutes after 1 I Evening 7 minutes after 2. , 1 4 . c •.7 • !!... 44 . . i.," — t • 1" . —,` - " 2, - - 71.• r. m 444 YJ r«, ROIT ' SECOND EDITION. Cii,N*4 ate LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1844. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Dublin, praying the House of Commons to suspend the Standing Orders with respect to the Dublin and Cashel Railway Bill. A number of other petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. Slimy, Mr. Salim, Mr. Hasiivros, and Mr. O'BRIEN. The Ashton and Staleybridge Railway Bill was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announced • that on the 3d of June he would move that the House resolve itself into Committee on the Sugar . Duties Bill. ..Mr. Waal) gave notice that on Thursday week he would move that the House resolve itself into Com mittee, to take into consideration the Temporalitiea of the Irish Church. . In answer to a question from Mr. COLLETT, relative to. the Whitson holidays, Sill ROBER T PEEL said he should propose that the House should adjourn from Friday . week till the Thursday following. . ' On the motion of Mr. DUNCOMBE, a return was ordered of the money paid, or to be paid, to Govern ment' • Olort . -hand writers during the trial of Mr. O'CONNELL and others ; and also of the money paid • for notes taken at Conciliation Hall, between the Ist of August, 1843, and the present time. Sir C. NAPIER brought forward the present state of the Navy List, and pointed out the disadvantages to the service by retaining officers en service who were incapacitated by age or infirmities, while so many . young.officers hat nothing to do. The list, he said, showed there were only two Admirals under 70 years of age, twenty-five Rear-Admirals under 65, and fifteen under 60 years of age. He entered into length ened details r2speeting the state of the navy, for NtS/Y-Mit XcifttMthe report, and moved, " That it he ire , c ar % .; ~.. 6, te . the House, that,previous to the 1 0., . .., . irnates for 1844 and 184,5, a plan ..... • ; /9 . __lL,.,.tn_at\bb‘ Se_ v f ia . I, so . as to render the naval ser - „.....,,,„... ayidavat a view to reward old and de i, s_entnik'xiffic.ers.' - . i _sir„brraT ~.13,:after fhlYillEt §Drae compliments t • . . to Sir CHARLES NAPIER, said the Treasury had given this matter the fullest consideration, and if they hesi tated, it was not on account of the expense, but from a conviction that the measure, if adopted, would not produce the effect which the Hon. and Gallant Officer anticipated. That it would not clear the list of Cap tains ; that it would positively do no good whatever, except by enabling particular officers to exercise their discretion as to whether they would retire or not. After speeches from several naval officers the mo tion was rejected by a majority of forty-three, and the house adjourned at Ten o'clock. The rival candidates for South Lancashire have taken the field, and we have to congratulate the League on the homage that both pay to the principles of free trade. Mr. BROWN avows his conviction that " nothing can enable us to maintain our position among other nations but perfect freedom of trade," and therefore pledges himself to support that great cause, and to use every exertion to ensure its speedy success. Mr. ENTWISTLE reluctantly confesses that free trade is above all things desirable to the people of South Lancashire, but he refuses to promise any ad vocacy of its principles, declaring that other interests are to be consulted, and other considerations to be regarded. He cannot make up his mind to abolish monopolies just yet; he does not deny that the mono polies are unjust in themselves, and especially inju rious to the great bulk of the constituency he is am bitious of representing; but he tells the electors that he prefers other influences to their wants and wishes. It might almost be supposed that his address was de signed " a double debt to pay"—an offer of him self for the representation of South Lancashire, and an offer of his conscience to some state doctor capable of giving it a safe and profitable direction. There is a studied obscurity in Mr. ENTWISTLE'S declaration, which has too much the appearance' of paltering w ith principle ; like Mr. BARING, he is a free trader "in the abstract," and, like that same gen tleman, he leaves himself room for becoming a mono polist in the concrete. His reservation is so large that it can absorb the entire principle ; it is like the baptismal vow of the converted Indian, who professed that he adopted the conditions of admission into the Christian Church, with the discretion of obeying them according to circumstances. At a subsequent time, when reproached for some gross crime by his pastor, he declared that his discretional application of circumstances released him from two Christian obli gations, which were only his duty towards GOD, and his duty towards his neighbour. Archbishop WHATELEY very justly remarks that men boast most of the qualities they possess least ; Mr. ENTWISTLE having put forth his sentiments on the corn-laws, from which CEDlrus himself could not discover whether he intends to support total re peal, a fixed duty, or a sliding scale, informs his con stituents that he has been " explicit" on the subject. 'Why no Delphic oracle was ever involved in greater obscurity ; his exceptions and reservations go beyond the cautious prediction in poor ROBIN'S Almanac, if it does not rain, hail, or blow, freeze, or snow, and the sun shines out clear on Easter Sunday, it will bet a fine day." His freedom of trade is clogged with worse conditions than the freedom of the press, which FIGARO found in Madrid. Translated into plain English, his declaration means, "provided that it does not interfere with the monopoly of food, or the monopoly of sugar, or any vested interest, or any profitable abuse, or any absurdity, or any injustice which any monopolist may find it convenient to re tain, I am ready to support free trade." If the electors of South Lancashire are deceiied by so palpable a delusion, they deserve to be chro nicled in the history of gulls, as having a more capacious swallow than can be found in the whole range of ornithology. But we rather think that Mr. ENTWISTLE has taken a false gunge of their capacity; the men of Manchester have not forgotten that when he stood as a candidate for the representation of their city, he said, " I admit my own disposition to retain in a modified form the principle of a fluctuating duty;" in other words, he confessed himself a slippery advocate of a sliding scale. Now, the important point to be determined is, whether he has changed or not. Does he still adhere to slippery ways and sliding scales ?—or has he found a resting place in the fixed injustice of a fixed duty f—or has he made up his mind to the common sense and common jus tice of total and immediate repeal ? We wait .for some comment on his oracular response, for the ad dress which he puts forth belongs to that class of documents which Puzzle by their explanation, And darken by elucidation. Though Mr. ENTWISTLE'S reference to the question of free trade is obscure, the purpose thereof is potent; he merely wishes to furnish an excuse for venality or timidity to any free trader who may be bribed or intimidated, or brow-beaten into voting contrary to his conscience. No one can be deceived by his declarations but those who have a corrupt mo tive for wishing to be deceived. Such fustian can never pass for sound goods In the markets of Lanca. shire, unless there be a fraudulent purpose in the transaction. It is rather gratifying to find that both the candi dates for South Lancashire are commercial men, and that both make their chief appeal to the commercial and manufacturing interests. The northern mono polists have at length abandoned in despair the solu tion of the problem, which they long made the basis of county representation—" how many acres make a wiseacre ?" If commercial skill, enterprise, wealth, and extent of mercantile connexion are to have weight in the decision, Mr. BROWN is in most, if not all of these points, immeasurably superior to his rival. But, as we have before said, all such conside rations fade into insignificance when compared with the great question really in issue—free trade or monopoly. The difference between "free trade in the abstract and monopoly" is nothing. When the Barmecide gave an abstract dinner to the barber's brother, the poor fellow would have been starved had he not boxed the ears of the person who mocked him with such unsubstantial entertainment. If the electors of South Lancashire are induced, like Sun cinAc, to accept an abstraction, it is not unlikely that they will have to treat him 'as that disappointed man did the Barmecide. But we have good grounds for hoping better things, and we have no doubt that BROWN and reality will, as they ought to be, be pre ferred to ENTWISTLE and abstraction. There is not one question of fiscal reform upon which her MAJESTY'S Government have manifested more pertinacious obstinacy, and more perverse mis conception, than the proposed revision of the Sugar Duties. Of course the lately announced intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the duties on foreign sugars to a limited extent, does not at all affect the general policy which they are determined still to act upon in reference to the sugar duties' re venue in the aggregate. It has long been ascertained that sugar is one of the most wholesome, nutritious, and fattening condiments which is used by mankind. In the East it is asserted, and upon good authority, that in many regions the relative physical superiority of races would seem to be determined by the abun dance or scarcity of sugar—their use or their destitu tion of it. In proportion to numbers the population of the British islands are probably its largest consu mers; but this luxury, or necessary, like too many others, they are not permitted to enjoy, except under heavy and oppressive duties, which greatly diminish both the number of consumers and the amount of each individual's consumption. The inevitable result of our great experiment of 1834, whereby the whole. slave population of our sugar growing colonies in the western hemisphere were emancipated, has happened— diminished production. This diminution of a produee so essential not only to the comfort of social existence in this country, but to various processes essential to certain arts, and to the perfection of many commodi ties that are staple articles of our trade, is very imper fectly supplied by the equalization of the heretofore excessive duties on our East India grown sugar. In the first place, the continued droughts of the pro longed summer of India, and the harshness of the superficial soil consequent thereon, are elements very adverse to the capacity of raising sugar in any exten sive quantity, equal to that of the Antilles. In the second, the far inferior culture and husbandry of the East, as compared with the almost European processes and improvements adopted on sugar estates in the West Indies, are a drawback that largely counter balances the inferior expense of raising sugar in Ben gal. Finally, the excessive difference of the freight, as between two voyages of such utterly dispropor tionate duration, is a permanent element of preference in the markets of Europe for the sugars of the West Indies over those of the East Indies. We very lately directed attention to the interesting contents of a "Blue Book," issued by Parliament in the present session, on the subject of the " Emigra tion of native free labourers from India, China, and the 'Western Coast of Africa, to the British West Indies and the Mauritius." On that occasion we endea voured to explain the overwhelming necessity which existed for replacing the deficient amount of labour now furnished in those colonies by the emancipated black population, by means of adequate importations of voluntary immigrants of yellow and copper-coloured races, as being those who would be best qualified by physical constitution and temperament to endure the field labours of those tropical regions. It might have been hoped that the rapid and prodigious improvement effected in the condition of Hill Coolies, w! - .o had quitted the miserable and squalid poverty of their eastern homes—settled for some time in Mauritius, Demerara, &c.—and, at the expiration of their labour contracts, returned the possessors, for the first time in their lives, of little competencies in hard Spanish dol lars, to an extent calculated to allow of their passing the remainder of their lives, in their own country, in ease and comfort ;—it might have been expected that such examples would have encouraged a much larger application of the same experiment. But a senseless outcry, raised, at first, by a few interested West India planters and owners, who wished to have their proper ties exclusively well worked and attended to ; and subsequently kept up by that section of our country men at home who are ever compromising the true in terests of humanity by a pseudo philanthropy, the objects of which are as vague as its plans are unrea sonable—prevented this desirable consummation. It was thought that a design to entrap these poor fellows into slavery must lurk behind propositions for provid ing a liberal market for their unoccupied and ill-paid labour. As to the negroes in the free settlements and British possessions of Western Africa, the same sort of suspicion might be more natural ; but its operation was still harder and more vexatious on their interests. With the aid of steam navigation they could have been brought from the African coast to the West Indies in a voyage of one fortnight. Instead of starving at Sierra Leone, or deserting into the bush, and returning into the savage habits of their own or their ancestors' original condition, they might be now employed, in any number, at ample wages, secure of their freedom in the British possession of their residence, and at all times able to command a passage back to their native coasts. This policy of employing immigrant labour has been managed, hitherto, with such a degree of favouritism or imbecility on the part of the Colonial Government at home, or the local Governments abroad, that we believe we are correct in saying Mauritius has been allowed to import at various times 20,000 Coolie labourers,large drafts of whom have since gone home with their handsome earnings, and well pleased with their treatment in all respects, whilst less than 500 have been distributed throughout the whole of our West India possessions. We have now before us a paper (No. 250, H. C. of the present session), moved for by Sir Jonx REID, entitled, "Sugars, &c. An Account of the Imports into the United Kingdom of Sugar, Molasses, Rum, Coffee, and Cocoa, from the West Indies and British Guiana, distinguishing each Colony, from 1831 to 1843, both inclusive, and distinguishing each Year." The Mauritius, of course, is not included in this re turn, which embraces, as to sugar, Antigua, Bar badoes, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, Bahamas, Bermudas, Demerara, and Berbice. Now the diminished aggre• gate of the produce of all these possessions is quite startling, and more emphatically illustrates than any language of ours could do the vast importance of facilitating, instead of discouraging, the immigration into the West Indies of those classes of free labourers, whose services alone can restore the production of the islands, &c., to the scale at which it stood fourteen years ago. Last year the whole amount of our im ports of sugar from them was but 2,509,701 cwt. In 1841 (the lowest amount in the series of thirteen years here given) it was even 361,484 cwt. less (namely, 2,148,218). But in 1831 the amount was 4,103,800 cwt., or 1,955,582 cwt. greater than in 1841 ; or 1A94,099 cwt. greater than in last year, a difference of some 40 per cent. In 1834, the year in which the Act of Emancipation was discussed and carried in the British Parliament, the production rose from 3,646,205 cwt. in the preceding year, to 3,843,976. In the four years following, • to the date of the extinction of the probationary and apprenticeship terms, this amount declined to 3,520,676 cwt. in 1838 ; to 2,214,762 cwt. in 1840; to 2,148,218 in 1841 ; to 2,508,725 in 1842. No wonder, in this official statement of diminished supply, that so general an indignation has been excited against the Government for not admitting cheap foreign West India sugars, lest they should have been raised by slave labour ; for the effectual facilitation on their part, and that of the colonial authorities, of free immigrant labour, would have obviated the diffi culty, by doing away with all the necessity for the alternative they have thus distinctly refused to the British consumer. The recent announcement of the gratuitous exhi bition at the rooms in King-street, St. James's square, of the decorative works of art intended for the adornment of the two new Houses of Parliament, reminds us that we have not yet received any satisfac tory answer to our apprehensive inquiries, made a few months ago, about the intended omission of the statue of OLIVER CROMWELL from the sculptured series of the more renowned and victorious monarchs of Eng land. We need not repeat the grounds upon which we then urged the paramount claims of the Illustrious " PROTECTOR" to a most distinguished niche in any gallery that was to contain the effigies of those master spirits who, in past ages, have exalted the renown of their nation, and immortalised their own remem brance among men by the superiority of their intel lect, the grandeur of their policy, the grasp of their mental and physical energies, or the happy fortunes of their heroic intrepidity. In all these titles of Nature's Nobility, CROMWELL was, perhaps, supreme among the mighty competitors for fame of that remarkable age. At once the man and the master of the people —a profound statesman— an enlightened legislator —a consummate captain—he combined, and could, as if by absolute intuition (with out faltering or preparation) employ all the resources of subtlety and stratagem, or the most direct, bold, and simple ends, for the achievement of his purpose. An inherent native sagacity—whilst it amply sup plied the defects of an irregular and interrupted education—was that property of mind best fitted to direct his career through the tortuous mazes of all the practical business with which it was the chief occupation of his life to deal. If his oratory wanted perspicuity and elevation—if his religious opinions were deeply tinctured with mysticism or fanaticism— if his own personal integrity, of which he was so severe and exacting a judge in others, was sometimes warped out of its straight and onward path by the suggestions of self-aggrandisement, or the intoxica tion of ambition ; these were disparagements from the perfection of his character in no greater a degree than—perhaps not to so great an extent as-- 7 they were in the case of others, his contemporaries, whom it has been attempted to exalt above him. They were flaws and defects which charge, if you will, the escutcheon of his honours with a "band sinister ;" but the same heraldic "abatement" is perceptible in the bearings of some Royal houses which it has never been thought to disqualify for the smile proud rank, whence it is absolutely proposed in 1844, to extrude the great champion of a nation's liberties against the encroachments of a sordid and debasing tyranny. We have again to ask upon what pretence is it that this indignity is to be put upon the memory of the great vindicator of his country's name, authority, and power, at home and abroad ? Such a capital offence against the genius and pre possessions of the British people is so unaccountable, that we are sometimes disposed to think it can he attributable only to some defect of adequate ac quaintance with the authentic history of the seven teenth century—and its events and influences among our countrymen of that time—in the judges or Corn mittees to whom is delegated the task of selection and arrangement in reference to this series of British worthies, It is difficult to believe—what is yet con fidently asserted—that the principle of this invidious omission is affirmed to be—the fact that the PRO TECTOR was never inaugurated King by the ceremony of coronation. "We grant the fact; and what then? Such an accident in the case of CaomwELL—reign ing virtually, but uncrowned—supplies the most shallow and paltry plea which was ever suggested for any similar proceeding. It would not be more un gracious to say, were her MAJESTY disposed, like the Royalty of France, to construct a " hall of Mar shals," that his Royal Highness Prince ALBERT could have no title to a place among its portraits, for that he, who had never been a soldier, could not rank among Field-Marshals ! Goo knows—though the Selec Committee in question does not appear to be aware of the fact—that we do want a large and spirited infu sion of moral greatness and statesmanlike grandeur among the sculptured decorations of the New Houses, to outbalance what must appear, in the eyes of every foreigner, a most inordinate indulgence in the quaint fopperies of heraldic blazonry. To say nothing of interminable badges, infinitessimally multiplied guar terings ; Brobdignag stone roses to typify the pale and the blushing cognizances of York and Lancaster; and crowns royal, whose huge proportions are more frigid and formal than was required, we think, even by the most heavy of the German associations con negted with them; we have, on the river frontage— the Speaker's House and the base of the Record Tower—a swarming menagerie of lions and unicorns in ponderous übiquity, which we would exchange with joy for one graceful " milk-white" hart, like that which watches over the beautiful porch of West minster Hall, as if still awaiting his former mistress. We own that we have little faith in, and less respect for, the practical ability of these Commissioners to superintend the details of a great work, that hitherto is only likely to be ever " picturesque" and " deco rated" in virtue of the expectations founded on the Cartoons of last year, or the King-street Exhibition of this. Before we leave these "Public Works," let us express our regret at the ill-judged economy which is bung ling the pavement of that noble area around the Tra falgar column. Instead of being tesselated with small blocks of our British and Irish marbles, or exhibiting, in compartments, designs that might have been exe cuted in some of the harder of our many-coloured spars, or laid down in massive slabs of English and Scotch granite, it is floored with a vile asphaltum surface, in which there has been attempted some sort of radiated star. When we examined it, a few days since, the joints, or seams, were already so imperfect that the rain of two or three hours before was retained in them. The asphaltum itself is not even set upon an even plane. It should be at once removed. Madrid journals of the 9th have been received. The departure of the Royal Family for the baths of Caldas, in Catalonia, was fixed for the 20th, and it was expected that they would not return to the capital for six weeks. The Three per Cents. were done at 28Z, for cash, and 28Z at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 21i. The French Government have at last announced their intentions relative to abolition of slavery in the colonies, and we regret to find that the plan falls so far short of what was expected. It refers only to preparatory measures, without any allusion whatever to sthe period when emancipation shall take place. On Tuesday Admiral MACKAU introduced into the Chamber of Peers a Bill, the object of which was, he said, to ameliorate the condition of the negro slaves in the French colonies, and to prepare them for the eventual abolition of slavery. The Bill con tains five clauses. The first related to the food and comfort due by the masters to the slaves ; and the other four to punishments, duration of labour, the marriage of slaves, and their religious and elemen tary instructions, the savings of the slaves, and their right to purchase their freedom. Measures also were to be adopted to repress the cruelties committed on slaves, to modifyithe present courts of assize, and increase the number of magistrates. For these purposes the Government asked for a vote of 1,200,000 francs (48,0001.) The Government have also another important measure in view—namely, the improvement of the French harbours in the Me diterranean and the Channel. A Bill to that effect had been introduced into the Chamber of Deputies, and referred to a Select Committee. The sum re quired was 46,000,000 francs (1,800,0001.) The re port had been presented, and that sum is to be prin cipally employed in the enlargement of the ports of Marseilles and Havre. The Committee recommend the reduction of a million out of the sums to be laid out on the works at Maisellles, and on the canal be tween Bone to Martigues. The Committee also re commend to have six years fixed as the period for the completion of those works, in place of eight, as men tioned by the Bill, and suggests five as the period for finishing the fortifications of Havre. In reference to this subject the Prince de JoIN VILLE has just published a pamphlet which is making some noise at Paris. He distinctly states, notwith standing all we have heard to the contrary, that France is not in a fit state to contend with England at sea, chiefly for want of war -steamers. After calling the attention of the Government and the public to the state of the navy, the Royal author wish it to be clearly understood on th e. at llfhTavaepneaokinotfeEntnigon say:l of m e aking this note , which rely e co o n o s n e t c r r y a , te it d w en il t l i n re o l t y b t e o in th a e or even of na ti ona l r i va l r y ; b u t m nsiatarrna er td e : l wo y a - fss t tl t hinre' p illat o 'yr i oe n fnd t coa o lni u oin t inf,aoav b snyi y y:y' reference to what is occurring in foreign countries, what we ourselves ought to aim at and what we ought to avoid. If I talk of war, it is not by any means that I wish my country to exchange the benefits of peace for its ruinous hazards. My belief is simply this—that peace, to be dignified and durable, must always have the support of a force capable of making it respected. Taking, therefore, a state of war as the base of my reasoning, I shall pick out a case which will elucidate my thoughts, and I will suppose France obliged to defend herself against the most powerful of the maritime powers, that is, against England. Having stated this, and proceeding according to this plan, but always reasoning in the abstract and by way of hypothesis, I now enter into my subject. " The establishment of steam navigation has given France the means of re-establishing her decayed naval power under a new form, admirably adapted to the resources of the country and the genius of the nation. The establishment of a navy was hopeless at a time when the empire of the sea belonged te. the power _which could send the greatest number of sailors ti 1104. " The steam navy has changed the face of matters. It is new our military resources which will come to take the place of our impoverished naval establishments. We shall always have enough of officers and men for the duties left for a sailor to perform on board a steamer. The engine supplies the place of a hundred hands, and I have no occasion to say that we shall ever feel the want of money for the construction of steam-engines, nor of soldiers to fight when they shall be called on to support the honour of the country. With a steam navy, the boldest war of aggression on the ocean is permitted. We are sure of our movements, free in our.ac tions. Time, winds, or tides, give us no longer concern ; we can calculate to a day or an hour. In case of a continen tal war, the most unexpected diversions are possible. In a few hours armies can be transported from France into Italy, Holland, or Prussia. What was once done at Ancona witlia rapidity which was seconded by the winds, can now be done every day without their assistance, and almost against their influence, and with still greater rapidity. As I have already —said, these new resources suit us admirably, and the forms of war, thus modified, do not leave the chances as they were thirty years ago, between France and the enemies with which she may engage. It lea subject worthy of inquiry, to what point the progress of steam and its probable employment excites the attention of our neighbours. " These notes of alarm, uttered in the English Parliament, should call forth a similar sentiment in our Chambers and throughout the whole of France. Our line of conduct ought to be traced by the hands of our neighbours themselves; but that is riot the case. We cross our arms while England acts. We discuss theories, while she puts them in practice. She creates for herself, with activity, a formidable steam force, end reduces the number of her sailing ships, of which she has discovered the uselessness. We ought to have preceded her in that reform, or, at all events, to have followed her with ardour; but we have hardly six steamers capable of sustaining a comparison with the British navy. " It is melancholy to say it, but people deceive themselves, and have deceived the country by flattering words and erro aeons calculations. People have persuaded themselves, and have endeavoured to persuade the country, that it. is in pos session of a strong and respectable steam navy. Deplorable error ; source of a confidence still more deplorable ! "In case of war, the French navy would have two theatres of action, the Channel and the Mediterranean. England could,in a few hours, disembark troops on any part of the coast, and. could destroy Dunkirk, Boulogne, or llavre, before anything could be done to save them. Even in the roads of Brest, which were formerly safe, from the difficulty of the navigation, but which difficulty has now disappeared before steam power, the English flag might float. Thus, by the aid of steam, England is able to menace all our coasts on the Channel, and even to reign in the Mediterranean by cutting off all our communications with Algiers. She could, besides, effectually and closely blockade all our coasts, and that from this very day, if she likes. And to resist her you have but one resource, but one means—that which she uses against us—the establishment of a steam navy. "The naval force of France is not in a fit state to contend with England. England has 125 war steamers, of which 77 are . armed. She has besides a commercial steam navy which can supply her, in case of necessity, with 200 steamers capable of carrying. heavy cannon and troops. The French steam navy, on the other hand, only dates its origin from 1829, and hardly- received any increase till 1840. The danger was then perceived, and an attempt was made to increase the steam power by the establishment of trans-Atlantic steam-packets, but that project has failed from mismanagement. ` i In all our harbours splendid manufactories are con structed, of imposing architecture, and enclosed in mag nificent dockyards. These manufactories are intended to supply the materials and wants of a navy which is yet in its infancy ; but as these great establishments cannot be left unemployed, and as all the steam navy which we possess is employed at Toulon, where alone steamers exist which require repair, what was to be done with all those establishments which had been built in the harbours of the Atlantic ? They have been employed for the construction of engines, instead of leaving that branch of manufacture as an encouragement to private enterprise and ladustry. We had Indret.before, and its costly productions. But must we still add to these expensive establishments? Is it right to employ the money which has been set aside for the increase and improvement of the fleet to the construction of buildings, the utility of which is far from being clearly de monstrated? We have always shown too much anxiety to increase the immovable dead-weight of our marine, to the prejudice of that portion of the force which alone is active and efficacious. It would be well to try a contrary system, and I am convinced that it would be easy to find the means of arming a real steam fleet, and of encouraging a useful branch of industry, if we were to employ the private manu factures of the country to supply those beautiful and excel lent machines which it is so well able to make. " If I drew here a real picture of our steam navy—if I said that in the whole number of forty-three vessels, of which our whole floating steam navy consists, there were not six which could stand a comparison With the English steamers, I should not be believed ; yet I should only have affirmed a simple truth. The greater number of our steamers belong to that class of vessels which were good in 1830, when they were built, but which at the present-day are certainly far inferior to those which the progress of art has enabled others to con struct: These ships, too, having been continually employed in the Mediterranean, have already become prematurely old. They are no longer fit for the service of Algiers, or for those political missions in which, however, we are forced to employ them, for want of better. The officers in command of them blush to see themselves so weak and impotent—l will not say as compared with the English only, but as compared with the Russians, the Americans, the Dutch, and the Neapolitans, all of whom have better ships than we have." He goes on then to show the part which the different por tions of the naval force ought to take in defence of the State. " The steam power would be employed to guard the coasts of the kingdom, and to keep up a surveillance on the coasts of Great Britain, and to guard and to protect the conquests of France in the Mediterranean. Sailing ships would, at the same time, be used on distant stations; but in that case it would be necessary to employ more ships on those stations than are employed at present. At the present time France had only forty-gun frigates, with a crew of 300 men, on sta tions where England and America had fifty-gun ships with crews of 500." On each station there ought to be two or three frigates under the command of an admiral, " instead of the small vessels now employed, which were to our diplomatic agents a source of insult, and which, in the very first brush of a war would be destroyed by the first hostile frigate that happened to fall-in with them," The PRINCE closes his remarks, by stating that the power and dignity of the country can only be sup ported by a strong steam navy. The pamphlet, al together, is very creditable to his Royal Highness. It lets out some secrets, it is true; but the sentiments expressed are frank and honest, and the statements will awaken the attention of France to the truth. The KING is said to have been opposed to the publi cation, but this is not probable. A wish on his part would be equal to a command; and, besides, the impartial and able view taken of the question, only does honour to the author and the Royal Family. The following telegraphic dispatches were received by the French Government on Wednesday : " PERPIGNAN, MAY 13. " An English war steamer. coming. from Malta, brought, the day before yesterday, to Barcelona, the news of the settle ment of the differences which had existed between the Bey of Tunis and the King of Sardinia." " BAYONNE, MAY 14. " Intelligence from Spain announces that the two Queens and the Infanta will leave Madrid on the 20th for the. baths of Caldas, in Catalonia. These personages will pass through Valencia ; and General Narvaez is, it said, the only Minister who will accompany their Majesties." THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents 122 15 .. 122 25 .. 122 20 122 25 Three per Cents.•••• 84 40 .. 84 50 .. 84 40 .. 84 50 Bank of France—..... Belgian Fives, 1831.. 1840 •••••••• 1051 .. 106 .. 1051 .. 106 1842 •••• •• 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 108/ Spanish Active •• •• •• ••• • • • 331 .. 331 • • 331 .. 33/ Threes ....... ..... 361 .. 361 .. 361 .. 361 Passive ••• 61 .. 61 .. 61 .. 61 Neapolitan • • 102 30 .. 102 30 .. 102 30 .. 102 30 Roman, cx div • .... •• 0. • • 1041 •• 1041 .. 1041 1041 , RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. 8............. 375 .. 375 .. 370 .. 370 L 8.. ..... 246 25 . • 247 50 . • 246 25 .. 247 50 Rouen .................•.. 980 .. 985 980 .. 985 Rouen to Havre. • ..... • • ... 740 .. 740 .. 740 .. 740 Orleans Strasburg to Bale ..... 273 75 • • 275 .. 272 50 . • 273 75 Avignon to Marseilles • • • 760 • • 760 • 760 .. 760 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Vera' . 370 .. 375 370 .. 375 L. 8.•• •• •• 245 .. 247 50 .. 245 .. 247 50 Rouen • • Rouen to Havre ....... •.. -. 740 .• 747 50 .. 740 .. 747 50 Orleans ..•.•.••..........• 987 50 .. 997 50 .• 987 50 .. 997 50 itrasbar gto Bale .• •• .• • 272 50 .• 273 75 .. 272 50 • • 273'75 Avignon to Maraelllea.. • ... 765 .• 765 .. 765 .. .765 THIS DAY'S NEWS. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, and with a disposition on the part of holders to sell. Prices, however, were not decidedly lower. Sales, 2,500 bags. Shares were worse, especially Birmingham.. Caledonian, ; Eastern Counties, 126 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 666 ; Great Western, Fifths, 214 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 38 ; Brighton, 44i ; South- Western, 85} ; Manchester and Birmingham, 58 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 221 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. Is. 6d. ; South- Eastern, New, 126 ; Trent Valley, 106. It is very much questioned in the City whether the altera tions that are contemplated, with regard to the savings' banks, are on the whole advisable. At the same time, it is not at all conceded that the reduction in the rate of interest allowed to depositors will have any permanent ill effects, as with reference to the grand ' amount now, or recently placed in those most useful establishments. The deputation:from the principal savings -banks' managers, which had an interview the day before yesterday with Sir Robert Peel, relative to the suggested changes, were received cour teously and heard patiently, but we are given to understand that the plans of the Government, as brought before the . House of Commons, will in their essence not be departed from. The sooner all doubt is put an end to as to the alterations in the system the better. The policy of having loan funds attached to the savings banks, is one requiring attentive consideration, and may be adverted to on another occasion. The following extract from the Toronto Patriot, confirms some previous remarks made under this head a short time ago : " By letters received, vid Boston, by the last mail from England, we are exceedingly happy to observe a strong con viction amongst well-informed people, that, the Canada Corn Bill has been of essential service to this colony, and that the effects will be seen this year, and still more hereafter, in the settlement of men of capital in the province for agricultural purposes. Large deposits of money were being made for transmission to Canada, by parties who are now on their way, out, yid New York." The Commercial Markets keep heavy. The Government contract for 100,000 gallons of Rum—half East, half West India produce—was taken yesterday; they were firm at 2a id the gallon. The Commissioners took 30,000/. Consols this morning at 99k, which had the effect of rendering the market firm. This is the price, at the present writing, both for money and time. A shadow f improvement is noticed in some of the other Stocks as well as in the Unfunded Debt. Bank Stock is quoted at 192 ; India Stock at 286 ; Exchequer Bills at 70s. premium ; and the:New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1021. Spanish Active Bonds are on the decline, having been quoted at a fall to 23k, and the Threes to 24,1 A. Both are about i per cent. higher now. For Portuguese Converted the market is heavy, at 46. Dutch Stock remains much the same as yesterday. Belgians have advanced to 1031. No bargains have been effected in the other Foreign Bonds this morning. The principal alterations in the Railway Share Market this day have been a Ilse in the Bristol and Exeter to 12 pre mium, in the Great Western to 46 premium, in the London and Brighton to 4j die., in the Manchester and Leeds to 36 premium, and is the North Midland to 9 discount. The Bristol and Gloucester, and a few of the other Shares, have gone back a shade. London and Westminster Bank Shares have improved to 7 premium., ' BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock l9l 192 _ . --....— ..,.. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 t9l4Z 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3% per Cent. Annuities l°2 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l 2► '.7. 5 g Ditto 30 Y e ars, Expire sth Jan. 1660. India Stock Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account 99%%48 Exchequer Bills, IV. I %d. 1,000/. 5001 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Portuguese Bonds. 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 4S Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 24% 23% 24 Ditto for the Account ..... ...--..—... Ditto Passive Bonds. ..—... ......... ............ Ditto Deferred 13%341 Ditto Three 25 _per Cent. Ditto for ;the Account 3S W -34%% 35 Dutch 2% per Cents 60% Dutch 5 per Cents MN 31i% New Loan 1837. 5 per Cents. 99% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bristol and Exeter 7O B 2 Bristol and Gloucester 3O 48% Caledonian Dublin and Cashel ....., ......... ....... 2% 4% to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered SI. tis. Rd. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 66 to Great North of England IOO Great Western Ditto % Shares Ditto Fifths..'...... Hull and Selby 5O to DU o 1 4 Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5 .... ..... 7%%... to London and Birmingham. lOO 224 225% to 2 6 Ditto New Thirds 2 3B to Ditto M Share. London and Brighton SO 44N London and Greenwich London and South Western 4l % ...... 811 87%... to 87 London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds 7O lO6 to: — Ditto % Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 North British North Midland Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover 3 2% 38% . ..... to Ditto New Thames and Medway Yarmouth and Norwich York and North'ldidland ..... .... 50 Ditto % Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Paris and Orleans ........... ...... 20 3 8%3,11 to Paris and Rouen 2O .... ..... 3814% ... to - JOINT STOCK RANKS. London and Westminster 2O MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 16.—There has been but little business done in our market to-day, and prices, with some few exceptions, are lower. Bolton and Preston, 30 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 109 ; London and South-Western, 86i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 574 56} ; Ditto, Quarter, 5h 5 prem. ;_ Paris and Strasburgl,l Trent Valley, 91; Preston and Wyre, 21; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6 3-16.. The Journal du Havre says:—" General 13oyer, ex-President of Hayti, arrived here this morning (Tuesday), en oute for Southampton, when he proceeds by the 'first packet to Jamaica. He has been preparing for some time past for this voyage, by making remittances to Jamaica, the object of his going thither being the recovery of his health. The countenance of the General bears evident traces of suf fering, which may have been caused both by mental aniiety and the effect of the climate." . MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. During the present week rather an extensive supply of English Wheat has been received up to our market, owing to which the demand for that article was heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. In Foreign Wheats, both for and in bond, exceedingly little was doing, at late rates. On account. of the large imports of Foreign Barley, the trade with that article was heavy, and the currencies had a downward ten dency. The Malt trade was in a sluggish state. In Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour, next to nothing doing. English. 1ri5h.............. Wheat 7,4 0 qrs. Foreign 26,490 ARRIVALS. Earley. Oats. Flour 490 qrs. 3,590 qrs. 4,700,acks 215 30,120 30,270 1,7011 dalt, 5,100 qrs. SIYZITIIFIELII. Although the supilT(TfleLt;Tv7sgood, there was ac - de cided improvement in the demand for that description of stock, at, in some instances an advance in prices, the best Scots realising 3s 10d per 811). From. Scotland, we received about 200 horned and polled Scots. The Mutton trade was, on the whole, arm, at very full rates. In Lambs, the supply of which was moderate, a limited business was doing, yet prices were supported. From the Isle of Wight about 170 came fresh to hand. In Pigs very little was doing, at late rates. Mitch Cows sold at from 161 to 1915 s each. Per Blbs. to sink the offal s d. to a. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second qualityditto... Second quality ditto 2 8 210 Coarse-wor:llcd ditto.. Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 6 Southdown Wethers Prime Scots, &c. I arge coarse Calves 3 4 4 2 Large Hogs 3 2 810 Prime small ditto Suckling Calves, eath 18 0 28 0 Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 21 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep, I Calves. I Pigs. 814 260 43 0 Iv 3CVTGATE B AND JLEALIENRAI.3... We had a yery inactive demand, on the following terms : At per stone, by the Carcase a. d. toe. d.i is. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior ..... 2 4 2 6 .-- middling ..... prune large ...... 2 8 210 prime 3 0 3 4 prime small ...... 3 0 3 4' Pork, large 2 6 3 2 Veal ..................... 3 4 4 6 —small 3 8 4 2 Lamb, 4a 10d to 5s 101 BOROUGH ZIOP MARXMT. s. d. to s. ii. 36 3 2 34 3 6 2 6 3 Et In consequence of the reports from the Hop plantations being confirmatory of a general attack of fly, to a much greater extent than is usual at this period of the year, the demand has very much improved, and the quotations have advanced from 8s to 10s per cwt. The factors have now scarcely any Hops on offer. The stock on hand has not been known so small since 1817. C0L02:71.a1.. SUGAR. '-=-The marli.eif;Wiiisllllantation has been very dull this week, and indeed the same may he said of that for most other descriptions, as there is a disinclination to do business until the Customs' Duties Bill has passed. The sales of the week, excluding to-day, are about 500 hhds and trcs, at lower rates, as supplies are coming forward. URITIUS AND BENGAL-11,186 bags of the former partly found buyers, but at a decline of is to 2s compare& with last week, mid to fine yellow realising 60s to 65s 6d, and brown 52s 6d to 58s; of the latter, 7,583 bags were partly sold at 58s to 62s 6d fir yellow and at 52s 6d to 54s for brown. RFFlNED.—Standard lumps have been at 78s to 78s 6d. FOREIGN.-284 cases 7 brls Maroim were taken in at 22s to 24s for mid to good white, and 38 brls Bahia at 18s. COFFER.—The market has been rather dull. At auction 1,642 tags Costa Rica have been taken in above their value, fine ord at 59s to 60s. Ceylon has had rather a better sale, and 603 bags sold at 86s to 88s 641 for Plantation kinds, at 94s 6d for pea berry, and at 52s to 53s for common to good ord, being somewhat dearer. Mocha has been taken pri vately at 735, but 464 bags by auction only partly sold at 82s to 85s for good mid yellow, and at 71s 6d t o 72s 6d for fine ord, being lower. COCOA.—The demand is limited and prices are Lower; 592 bags 743 brls Trinidad mostly sold at 42s to 48s 6d for ord to good red. RlCE.—There have been no public sales ; but privately there has been some business doing. SALTPETRE.-2,592 bags Calcutta only partly sold .at 23s to 24s 6d for 186 to si per cent. refraction, which is a little cheaper. RUM.—There has been more demand, owing to the Go vernment contract advertised. Proof Leewards, 2s 2d ; Cal cutta proof, Is lid. SrlcEs.—There has not been much doing publicly, but pri vately the demand is fair for Pepper, Pimento, and Ginger. CorroN.—At auction 4,139 bags East India, American, &c., were nearly all taken in, the market being depressed.. Surat was bought in at 3id to 3441 per lb. TEA.—The market has been brisker for all sorts. Congou Is Okl to is Id for common to good common. Green is ad vancing. _ _ , TALL - ow.—P.Y.C. is dull at about 40s 64 to 40s 9d per cwt. on the spot. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 17.—Wind, strong northerly breeze, with rain, DEAL, MAY 1 6.—Wired E., light.—Sld. Mona, Launceston ; Annandale, west coast of Africa ; Blessing, Quebec. DARTMOUTH, MAY 16.—Arrd. Sir Hans, Odessa, for Bre men, cargo heated. SM. George, Sutton, Plymouth and Labrador. OFF PLYMOUTH, MAY 16.—Camilla, Havannah, for Stettin ; William Harris, Hamburgh, for St. John's, New Brunswick; Manchester, Antwerp, for New York. OFF FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—Adelia, New York, for Bremen ; Eliza, Sierra Leone, and sailed for Portsmouth; Mary Stod dart, M'Neal, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Oscar, Steed, Benin (May 17); Alice, Barbadoes ; Bolton Abbey, Savannah. Off, Nimrod, Ambassador, Jeremiah Garrett, and Aberdeen. Sld. George Armstrong, Calcutta; Lady Flora Hastings and Phalanx, Mauritius ; Lord Palmer ston, Columbia River ; Bella Portena, Buenos Ayres ; Fling Fish, Rio; Village Girl, Santa Martha; Themis, New Y ork ; John Nunn, Quebec; Safeguard, Montreal; Othello, How duras. OFF CORK, MAY 14.—Blake, Fraser, Ichobce. DEAL, MAY 16.—Arrd. tledora, Havannah, for Hamburgh. FRESERBURGII, .111AY 13 —The Eliza, of Kirkcudbright, in coming through the Pentland Frith, got in the rocks and became leaky, crew (except one man) drowned. NEWPORT, MAY 15.—S1d. Alice Haviland Philadelphia. BRISTOL, MAY 1 6.—Arrd. Feliza, Pike, 'Trinidad: Sld. Zoe, Cape of Good Hope; Indian, Montreal. WEXFORD, MAY I s.—The Roscius, Collins, from Liverpool to New York, got on Arklow Bank, but was assisted off yesterday, and proceeded. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY-(THIS DAY.) The Fifth Anniveriary Meeting of this Society took place in Exeter-hall this morning. It having been announced for several days previous to the meeting that Lord Brougham would take the chair, intense interest was excited, and the hall was densely crowded. At eleven o'clock the members of the Committee entered the room, and took their seats amidst loud plaudits. On the platform we observed Sir George Stephen, John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Samuel Gurney, Esq., J. Sturge, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. J. Bur net, the Rev. Dr. Jen.kyn. the Rev. J. Carlisle, G. W. Alex-. ander, Esq., and many other distinguished advocates of the cause. _ . . _ _ - 111;. J. STURGE said, in the absence of Lord Brougham, I beg to move that Samuel Gurney, Esq., be requested to take the chair. G. W. ALEXANDER seconded the motion, The announcement involved in this motion was received with evident disappointment. The motion itself was car ried unanimously. Mr. SOMME, the Secretary of the Society, said he had a communication to make to the meeting, in the shape of:an extract from a letter of Lord Brougham to the Committee of the British and . Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. It was as fellows : " TO THE ANTI-SLAVERY COMMITTEE, " Privy Council, May 16,184-1, " Gentlemen,—l feel truly concerned to state that I shall be unable to have the satisfaction of meeting our friends to-morrow. I had, as you are aware, been reluctant to break through my general rule against attending public meetings. But having, in consideration of my ancient con nection with the Anti-Slavery question, overcome that reluc tance, I felt gratified with the prospect of once more find ing myself among our abolition friends, and I had received the thanks of our venerable. Thomas Clarkson. But the con stitution of this Court renders it impossible to find the re quisite number of judges for to-morrow, when important causes come on to be heard, insomuch that we are obliged to ask the attendance of an unprofessional member of the Judicial Committee. My being here, therefore, to preside over the business is necessary to prevent public inconve nience and detriment to parties. " Believe me, your faithful servant, " BROUGHAM." The reading of this letter was followed by hisses from the body of the room. The CHAIRMAN said he was sure he should receive the kind sympathy of all present in occupying the chair, instead of a Nobleman of such brilliant talents as the Noble Lord whose company they had had reason to expect on that occa sion. —(Cheers.) As he did not possess the brilliant eloquence of that Noble Lord, they would :not expect him to detain them more than a few minutes; but still it was due to the meeting that he should state why he had been w llhig to undertake a duty for which he did not feel himself to be com petent, and which was of so high a character. When he reviewed the short history of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society, and observed the very useful character of its operations, whether they related to the spreading of sound, true, and unanswerable information on the subject of slavery in different quarters of the globe, or to the protection which the Society had always given to the black population in our own colonies, which population, without that protection, would again have been deeply oppressed; when he con sidered, again, the Society's watchful care over all the laws and operations of the English Government, in reference to the slave-trade, and its great services in furnishing the Government, at all times, with in formation, and. using all its influence that that information might be well applied ; when he considered, again, the great activity of the Society in spreading information on this subject in other countries, whose colonies still kept so large a portion of their people in a state of slavery; when lie con sidered all this, it did appear to him that the British and Foreign Anti-Slavdy Society had fulfilled, with great judg ment and energy, its duty to the public in reference to this Matter, and that he would nOtbe justified in refusing any such assistance as might be in his power to render to the cause by taking the chaii.,--(Cheers.) Their business on that oc casion, he apprehended, was to receive from the Committee an account of their proceedings during the past year. Many present, he doubted not, had read that. well-conducted periodi cal the Anti-Slavery _Reporter. Those who had done so must be well aware that the Committee had been anxiously occu pied during the past year, and he had no doubt they Would receive high satisfaction from the report which was about to be read. Mr. J. STURGE said he need not 'offer any apology for reading a letter to the meeting; when he stated that it came from Thomas Clarkson.—(Cheers.) Though he was now in his 85th year, and had devoted 60 years of his life to the great cause which they were that day met to promote, he had shown in the last year so much energy in working for it, 'that '. he thotight it barely possible that he might be present on that occasion. Having written to him on this subject, however, two or three weeks ago, he had received a reply, stating that.he must never expect to see him again at a public meeting. He had, however, written a letter, and although it related to only one point, it showed the devotion of Lis mind to the cause. He ventured to say, that Mr. Clark son had not written less than 100 letters to eminent men on this subject during the past year. He then read the follow ing letter : " TO JOSEPH STURGE. " My dear Friend, 7 -I can truly say, in answer to your letter, it is withgrief that I am again hindered, by the infir mities of old age, and the painful diseases often consequent upon these, from attending your meeting, which is to be held on the 17th instant. You may easily conceive, knowing, as you do, my entire devotion, during a long life, to the sacred cause, which it is the object of your meeting to promote, that nothirig would haVe given the more pleasure than to have attended it, and:to have seen so many friends, whose hearts haVe long Beaten in unison with my own on this great subject "It is yery pleasing to me, on reviewing the occurrence: • - - t:.' of the past year, to be able to state, en a through Yl ed igto audience, an event which I consider to hale t;` nlicstl d gain to our cause. I allude to the defeat of the Op, t of the American shareholders under the 10th articlee 6 treaty lately made at Washington between our Gov.riTlie and the President of the United States. It seas er u r4 me, on reading the treaty, that it was intended to Des,a_wee,, cable to the refugee slaves, as well as to the white poo _ e l; s t who might have fled from justice there. Hence, Tel,osog reason to fear that the American planters wou ld take af of t he of it to go into Canada, and search for and claim sue" _ to re fugitive slaves as might be found, and thus get theraf e to slavery; and this was afterwards found t h e e , Now who were these poor fugitives from nut2- 0 slavery? They consisted, originally, 91. about persons; who escaped at different times. Some of tbe they fled, were pursued, by bloodhounds, akr - bsoi' pieces; others were taken alive and cau l 00 ,0' and subjected to cruel torture, even to death ; and ring their journey of many hundred miles, perished bybat fatigue, and diseases contracted in their way, so their des3' more than twelve thousand, or one half, reach ed the nation. These settled themselves, by permission of 1 1t vernment, in Canada, where they have erec ted villagisceof tivated the land, built schools for their childre n, and 001; worship for themselves and families, and cow hide i g t selves upon the whole in such an exemplary tnannbert'i, tbel have gained the esteem of the inhabitants amongw"°lBote°l lived. It was to be feared then that the American P ,6 , 0 ,0' (and so it turned out) would, under the tre at Y. ll, , l Q Brim tinned, claim these fugitives by charging them 1 01. hav e fictitious, and thus that all their industry w°ll.trisio been lost, their villages broken up, their land left des ° ;, h ear themselves taken back to a cruel slavery. Ido O t t , rya ber time during all my anxiety, for now nearly ' o f pe° l on this subject, when I felt so much and such coutinnoof for the fate of the poor people now described. I w i lt e l/ the tortures to which they Would have been exPos 3 " . up to their enraged masters. wile s t ',I was brooding over these melancholy presages, trot' more minute examination of the 10th article of 0°,404 my mind began to be relieved. It seemed to me, e n !;gl ll ' over those articles which related to the mode of res x t ld / gior gitivecriminals, that they were so worded, as to 8 , ° , 1 ° thing like a safeguard to the liberty of the intenoe' s These victims were happily to be examined before tile s. dr, magistrate, in conformity with British law, before „o .oll ', livery to the demand of the American Government. It; hio depended upon what sort of instructions her Majest4vestr e tens would give to the Governors of Canada and the I • dies, as to the interpretation of certain words in the n, to_lfg make it more or less favourable to the unhappY P e ' hef 7;# claimed. There is great reason 'to believe that t 00 1) 1, formed this part of their office in a spirit highlY l l. se t to themselves ; for since the ratification of the trea fie tipei fugitive slaves from •Florida escaped to Nassau' by charged with murder. These were soon followtheis proper back. authority Tlieir ofcas tehewias Marshal of the United States, with orders to dal ° 111. fibirriengthtebemhog 01 a lan im d, al an ed d ia t t h e e llevvi rf de rld erliv4 o being such as British law required, they were uet sll ,, t iii t I hope and believe that all such cases will teria,', ll- tao same manner ; not that I desire the really gui o 'f r oro punishment, but that slaves who simply run awe) el to '0 masters, should not be charged with fictitious crin',.,„g casion their surrender. I cannot therefore help own, this defeat of the object of. the Washington Treatloilir considered as one of the most important occurrences, to our cause, in the past year. e e e tl9 " But I fear I have trespassed too much upon , 111 ,00„a your audience, I will therefore only add, that I a° i i s isc,":„;i wish that the intended meeting may prove highlYs3 to yourself as well as highly, advantageous to our cause. —Yours, affectionately, "THOMAS CL A 115 ' 5 " Playford Hall, near Ipswich, May 14, 1844:' ,gt r"tr d, He would now say one word with respect to the . o °, zealous co-operator in the good work for mil l i - eea awe / who was now removed from works to re wards.._,„'Alleto last met they had lost his valued friend 'Winn" - to,ri (Cheers.) It was far from his intention to atteterviov any eulogium on William Allen, a man who in a „ - hils; h l the sufferings . of his fellow-creatures, looked 111'°" be ro 're only as the instrument of God. He was now w it io : praise or condemnation of mankind could not affe ct i le° sf merely now alluded to the circumstance of therotooi, death, in order to express a hope that they lirolq e d is t j e imitate the zeal with which their friend had to " d forb t ,, i o cause of suffering humanity, but also the love s . i n ante which he showed towards those who differe° " "1 htsiilo• in opinion, as to the best means to be adopted for ooli their great object. In that respect their frie nd ' 1 ,) Allen, was a bright example.—(Loud cheers.) Ar g, Mr. &ODLE then came forward to read the sessile was extremely long, and from which we take the , '" 0 extracts : • ti t° o o • " In presenting the fifth annual report of the So l at o e , supporters and friends, the Committee would calvefore in the first place, to the present state of the African s_eflarool " The powers which stand before the civilized. _efhoi eminent in guilt for the part they have taken in this traffic of late years; are Spain, Portugal, and Brand ``oo they acted in conformity with their own law s ' 4 0 ce b a ys treaty stipulations, the slave-trade would long - S n itl of disappeared. But deaf alike to the calls of hum ling 111, honour they have shamelessly persisted, in Peo m . o ,llft o own territories, or supplying others with slaves. 'l 3 . e d 00 .3 01 ,. reckless of consequences, allows the traffic to be ear rl ie t o to means of enriching her treasury, of keeping the Creo _ e rt .„; tion of her colonies in check, and of rewarding th,,,: e p resc o ", of her changing governments for their services. 1° f the 0 ;i 1 Captain-General of Cuba is an avowed partizan c o t o trade,, and is represented as uninfluenced by tu n dr estio• ho and remonstrances of the resident population, w- , o ff further increase of the African race, as an eleraen" . . o ness and decay, rather than of strength and prosr e e tol es d " Portugal is chiefly devoted to the conveyauced $1;;, from Africa to the Spanish colonies and Brazil; an t ni ercso parently reluctant to forego this employmen t for torto tile marine, as they are to discontinue the ginr,,,Y is , t o Brazil is now the largest slave-importing eo llilt :00 5 ; 6 1' world ; and, it is believed, that during the last two b ee n number of unfortunate Africans introduced has Atte" mense. Cofvfoc” "At the last anniversary of the Society, the .tit had the gratification of announcing the import ' that slavery had been abolished in British P", i ; millions that were there enslaved are now ler' the act of the Governor in council, which secures thst end, having received the sanction of the Court of W i tfai t o Directors and of the British Government. Henceforth toe the duty, and should be the aim, of the Society t o g hi !es the emancipated slaves are free, in fact, ag well t ag The same general remarks apply to Malacca, has o f Penang, and Province Wellesley. In Ceylon slave'infotlll wholly been abolished, and the Committee are Ti , t , that slaves still remain in bondage at St. Helen a% c occi , Mr. O'Connell here entered the room and were n'elo( with loud cheers, which lasted fur some time. 1 ,,,m effe 4 few hisses mingled with the cheers, which ,had W ort' re, proloindthe alause. ' to° Th ng e SECRETAR p Y p , before he proceeded with the . re o f' , to minded the audience that they were a ttending„;ith slavery meeting.—(Cheers.) He then proceed by , t he report. b, • " At Hong-Kong, slavery, if not actually Per ni s , r c,l) e authorities, is found to exist. It cannot, bows i ts 1 0 ',4 • 0 posed that the British Government, when the ', ll- t hing molly : known, will allow of its continuance. M o d. ,0 8 injurious to our influence in China could be ionag l . olts'dlo GM be! " The Committee have 'also learned that at , for inmates of the houses of the Moorish residents 1113004ie slaves, and sometimes sent thence to the Coast 01 ; t he sale. To these points, the anxious attention 0 ' l h ot mittee has been directed. of o° o 3 in " The Committee have further become awl/stile f t ' o ore that British vessels are sometimes employed l a ces e ls Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea in transporting .3„, one port to another for sale. Of course they lost t, Xlo, io ta laying the fact before her Majesty's Governmen oiciestiite feel persuaded, Brit institute the most rigid i n ?, con s abuses of the sh flag, and apply the necess°l at' tional remedy. em i gre as de ° to "The Committee have watched the progre - :. i t tri O3 . from the British settlements on the coast 0. re por" fe , West Indies with the greatest care, and have to . G ° . e 5, whilst on the one hand they rejoice that the Brin t l ie s to t . ho ment have resisted the solicitations of the West 11 in ial i el ga tend the range whence the supply of labourerscrota b ° de r drawn, beyond these settlements, lest it should a't` rec ie, Powers a plea for covertly carrying on a slav_essions the pretext of supplying the colonies and P° ss ,. , fb l o o 0 free labourers; they deeply regret, on the othoropecO, have given way on a vital point, that of a due 1) a t s o f the sexes. the s Io% t " The removal of the prohibition laid on vas t pi / Indian labourers to Mauritius, has led to a 'l, c eon lv e 0 6 ; these people into the island. fin market has bee t , so, ted ; and probably the further troduction worn e of •oel pended in whole or in part, except in the case „ t pri to t be fsinailiee. Such an utter disregard of the b . " - e ra il l tie' which should govern the introduction of labonrouttee' British colonies, is, in the judgment of the C °l33 serving of the severest reprobation." et , o The report then referred to the general Pt°sl) nabs Society in the various countries of the world. t n rie r iel " An event of great importance, though not tits t_ itt ,e . with the Society, merits a record in its re port the a' Pedro de Zulueta, junior, for aiding and abettingand jar . .l coo l• 1 . 0, trade. A true bill having been found by the gIA was tried at the Old Bailey, and barely escaPet: he sup the petty jury having acquitted him contrarY t° the at' iH c et up of the learned judge, who presiued 'over t he e is d facts brought to light y this trial prove clear r , Li ge 1. to which the traffickers in human flesh A nd ti;J or iol , ; ( - :, 1 this country resort in the prosecution of their , ye sl,„,ol inhuman deeds. To the courage, talent, a s a this esl ;t lsc to George Stephens, the public are indebted fo wee de e , In testimony of the importance which the Co 0 2 e s .„ sc, to the criminal proceedings against Zulueta, uttuutheuttts'or the anti-slavery cause, they have published f',7 ol , e i in s .#o le ; count of the trial, accompanied by suc h addt ( , ) •, the 0 1 1", 0 0 0 throws light upon the more obscure part . the att', This publication is earnestly recommeodedl°_,pl of the friends of Africa, throughout the countr,i tt▪ ivZtso . , He (the Secretary) thought he would be con s;n d t he i r„ sure of the meeting if he did not continue to re, '„ on el ° , of the report at length. He would, thereto veto / reading the conclusion of the report I— the e insh Ot -11/ o' " The nature of the evil to be overcome 7:„ „aseerg,„oo of the human race-coupled as it is W it h terate habits, engendered by centuries of r o v i . sti per ci l e y s i r e ; 1 0 the pride and prejudice of caste, arisinge the st ion!„i s • condition ; the lust of gain, stimulated o u . ori na; power, which wealth confers ; and the IoN e qie u tflos t f 010 dear to the oppressors of mankind, presenet,_t_tacies,lllllo ble, though, happily, not insurmountable_ 01 ..tito / ID ra g complishment of the great object which Y e nr_r y e t, l'_',, c oes?!., , pists, in this and, other lands, have in r ot 7 110 hl e ep oi the righteohsness of their cause, cheered to b ike 11% C t ' is a° and by present appearances, and trustrg when the_ bon sing, they confidently anticipate the le iaillions of o,f the oppressor shall be broken, and the e rO 0 1 1 , race who now sigh in bondage, shall b tr e a v _ Rno ial stateelot' are .!/, Mr. G. W. ALEXANDER then read the of the by which it appeared that the expend!tur' ere est in ' a fo Pr cls lis amounted to 2,170/., and the liabilities w en ., e The Bishop of NOINICII was then c all e d I'P l c the first resolution, and was receive.d e to him eeting ei „, 0 0 0 said, that it was at some inconvemenc had to be a t t 011 0 ^,,, attended that morning, for he ub he co uld n° ie t , another place at twelve o'clock, ü b t being Pre se r s s in e y , ' an opportunity to pass by mitl can se. I t of s s9ci ssed goodwill and wishes towards.theoe best feedings „eoeri cause that connected itself with I erson whor boy and vibrated in the hearts of every p l nglis la re t British feelings. There was not an though! there e lo in s e e 60 whose heart was not with him, d a they we re Z e r s e wa s i leacq who were absent in body, ye d ' t that room: — (Heat' h eir Of all the causes ever argue mas the Pre,s. e , ll ,,f - (Ile nr ' c ioti° ° ' worthy of public patronage rt Or . p 010..- , ts f o On It was not conne,cted with p y aChristianity W a l d chris ll ' t hee But to go beyond that, it had , it h wit h asp it had Christianity in its progrenss....7 a cbears•Lt ,t l a 4 o ivg for its object from begincing to c , f r asu re to he P re ' - c ie hY nh n feelings, it gave him • grea-Id conclu aßers 0t he would re sP e- as n on Having said these few words,. There we , - • h he `. - k is '- the resolution he had before him. ails t with wol e tia ‘" would enter at large into the de an -sio • rtis to shon 0 p upa' conversant. He was there and that n .I_llo promote the cause freedomotanti-slavell'' u f the 11° tor freedom in every shape ; the , social —(Cheers.) o d e d the freedom political and soci • ~,,„de e pt s oco The Rey, Joni lire:atm of Abet TAE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1844.