The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION• SECOND EDITION• 1 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock 7 / 1 0}1 THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. ( From the Globe.) Lord Stanley's Bill for disfranchising a large portion of the Irish constituencies, will this evening be again intro duced to the House of Commons, in a Committee of the whose Houso. The courage, or rather reckless daring, of the Noble author of this now well-understood schema for acquiring by fraud what farce was found powerless to wrest from the Irish people, and the vaunted confidence of the Noble Lord's aiders and abetters in this design, have strangely cooled. The vote of Friday has caused a change to pass over the spirit of their dreams of approach ing triumphs—the preludes to place and plunder. The monster-measure has been deprived of much of its ori ginal potency for evil. It was formed to pounce upon, and seize, and mutilate, and eventally to destroy the freedom of the Irish people ; to bind them to the will of these who behold in their devotion to their country's interests, an efhetual barrier to their own resumption of the power , which they formerly possessed, and so terribly per ver t e d to purposes as aggrandizing to their own interests as they I were insulting. irritating, and injurious to the great body of the people. Tbc Bill is to-night doomed to undergo a similar operation to that of Friday last ; and thus onward, until it is reduced to an innocuous and misshapen mass—a memorial of its author's designs—a memento cf its party's disappointment. (From the Courier.) It will be remembered that Lord John Russell engaged that neither Ministers nor their supporters should offer any opposition to Lord Stanley's Registration Bill going into Committee to-night. If the matter de pended solely upon the Colonial Secretary, we should bo perfectly satisfied ; but who can answer for the good faith of the rabid " Tail," who do the bidding of O'Connell, or for the good faith of O'Connell him self, should an opportunity be given by a thin attend ance of Conservatives, for moving the committal of the Bill this day six months? We hope that no such op portunity will be given, for though the Bill is consider ably injured by the adoption of Lord Morpcth's amend ment, it is still calculated to put an end to the noto riously dishonest system of registration which reflects such disgrace upon Ireland as never visited any other country. The Chronicle of this morning, in a very la boured article, attempts to show that the constituency of Ireland is too small in proportion to its population ; but this disproportion, admitting it to exist, is no reason for suffering the operation of a system of which t'ae direct effect is in reality to diminish the real constituency by the intrusion of votes for which the qualifications have been ob ta:ncd by means of fraud and perjury. ( From the Standard.) Lord Stanley's Bill is to be committed this night, and if any faith can be reposed in the promises of Ministers, no opposition will be made to the commit cal. We have no faith, however, is the promises of Ministers : we will not affect to be courteous at the expense of truth and sincerity. We believe Lord John Russell capable of any degree c.f falsehood to compass even a very secondary party purpose. We do not forget his Lordship's Totncs speech; we do not forget the mean subserviency to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, vs ith hich he acted when Lord Stanley first proposed his Bill ; or the degrading bondage to the basest and the most dangerous individual in the empire, in which his Lordship and 1 is c &leagues have con sent, d to crawl, since they sold and signed away their free agency and their honour by " the compact of Lichfield House." Lord John Russell's pro mise will be understood by every rational man only as a w lining to expect a course of conduct exactly the oppo site to that for which it engages should the opportunity arise. Every Conservative Member of the House of Com mons must, therefore, be at his post if he does not wish to give to Ministers and their master another victory—a victory which would be mischievous in many ways. CONFESSION OF COURVOISIER The confession of Courvoisier, which we pu l vlished yes terday, contained allegations respecting the police which, as was obvious, called for close investigation on the part of the Commissioners. That inquiry has been made, and has resulted in the following contradiction to the parts im puting negligence to the police officers in their investiga tion of the circumstances connected with the murder of Lord William Russell. We are enabled to state that there is no truth what ever in these statements of the culprit. It might, perhaps, be sufficient, in order to prove that the confes sion in these parts is not entitled to the slightest credit, to state that since it was made, this wretched being has made two further confessions, in which he acknowledges that the statement in his first confession relating to Lord W. Russell's coming down stairs on the night of the murder, and all that then passed, is wholly untrue; and that as to the statement of his making the marks on the back door on the Monday night, he now ad mits it to be also false. We understand that a positive contradiction is given by the two workmen who were em ployed in the scullery, as well as by the police engaged in making the search there, to the statement of Courvoisier that he concealed the seals and ring upon the Friday in the places where they were subsequently found. As to the gloves, &c., and the places where they were afterwards found, it might be enough to observe that the extreme improbability of his being able to conceal them in those places is not the only answer to Courvoisier's false statements. The police and workmen positively state that he never could have reached, or got near to, the places where they were found. He was all the time in the custody of a very vigilant police constable, who never al lowed him to move beyond his immediate observation. His statement also that he kept the watch and seal in his pocket until Friday, is fully answered by the evidence of Inspector Tedinan, both before the Magistrates and on the trial, who swore that on Wednesday, the day after the murder, about 11 o'clock, he strictly searched the person of Courvoisier, whom he then suspected of the crime; that he made him turn inside out every one of his pockets, and unbutton his waistcoat and shirt, and that only two pocket handkerchiefs and a few shillings wore found upon him at that time. We need hardly point out also the extreme improbability of any one who had com mitted such a deed, and who admits that he afterwards concealed these articles in such places that it seems almost miraculous they were discovered; that he should have put property, such as a watch and seal with the arms of his Lordship upon it, into his pocket, and keep them there so long after the police were in the house; property so easily discovered, identified, and affording conclusive evi dence of guilt if found upon his person. The assertion as to the conversation, and what passed with one of the police about the locket, is likewise met by a distinct contradiction. If it could be conceived that any of the police put blood upon the gloves, and placed them where they were found, they would have had a different appearance. It would have been far easier, as well as more conclusive, to have made the marks of blood more like what would appear to have been caused by such a deed, had they been worn by the murderer at i ts perpetrat i on. It is also positively denied by all th e p o li ce, an d the servants (the on l y per sons who could have access to the linen in which they were found) that they knew nothing of these articles being so concealed. An observation to this effect was made by the Learned Chief Justice to the Jury, and is applicable likewise to the shirt-front and handkerchiefs found in the portmanteau of Courvoisier. It is dreadful to ref Let that an individual upon the verge of eternity, should, frcm any motives, have made a confes sion which appears to be totally false; and even contradic tory to his own subsequent confessions. This one is so in many material points. —Evening Paper. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WAR OFFICE, JUNE 26, 1840. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant J. H. Gray, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Keown, who exchanges, June 26. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant W. S. Greene from halp-pay 54th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice N. Armstrong, who retires upon half-pay, June 26. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant W. Arm strong, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captai n , w i t h out pur chase, vi ce R ow l ey, deceased, une 26. 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Capt. J. C. W. Vivian, from the 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice J. Tomlinson, who re tires upon half-pay Unattached, June 26. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. H. Keown, from the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Gray, who ex changes, June 26. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Assistant-Sur- geon G. Brown to be Battalion-Surgeon, vice Johnson, pro moted ; C. Nicoll, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brown, Jane 26. 20th Regiment of Foot—Capt. R. Doyne, from half-pay Un attached, to be Captain, vice Vivian, appointed to the 11th Light Dragoons •, :.Lieut. Lord AI. Kerr, to be Captain, in purchase, vice Doyne, who retires; Ensign H. W. Master man to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord 31. Kerr ; S. T. Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Master ton, June 26. 26th Foot.—C. H. Rhys, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Anderson, whose appointment has been cancelled, June 26. 28th Foot. —Lieut. T. Bunbury, from the 60th Fcot, to be Lieutenant, vice Love, who exchanges, June 26. 60th Foot—Lieutenant E. N. Love, from the 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant vice Bunbury, who exch anges , J une 26. 64th Foot—Ensign th e Hon. G. F. W. Yelverton, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Collinson, deceased, May 9; Gentleman C. A. Tisdall, from the Royal Military College, to 1 be Ensign, vice Yelverton, June 26. 72d Foot—Lieutenant J. T. Hope, to be Adjutant, vice Moylan, who resigns the Adjutancy only, June 26. 74 th—Lieut. It. Walsh to be Adjutant, vice Fraser, who resign s the Adjutancy only, June 26. 75th Foot—Capt. A. A. Browne, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice W. Sutton, who exchanges ; Lieut. W. Lucas, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires; Lucas hW. Goodwyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase., vice ucas ; C. Machen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Goodwyn, June 26. BREVET. C • • TL,s4:a.Anette,ari2n.B.:R. Doyne, of the 20th Foot, to be Major in the r A ir rm A A ssistant-Surgeon P. Nicolson, 51. D from the 13th Light Dragoon., to be Assistant -Surgeon the Forces, vice Balfour, appointed to the - Grenadier Gmards, June 26. 111F:310ItANDUM.—The promotion of Ensign F. Mundell, of the 69th Foot, to a Lieutenancy in the Ist Wcst India Regi ment, and the appointment of Mr. IL V. Mundell, to the Ensi,gney in the 69th Foot, i n succession, as stated in Gazette of the 17th April, are cancelled. 19th ThJune,e surnis I3ewes,ame of thand e En n s ot Bowign appes.ointed to th e 45th Foot, on OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ju NE Royal Regiment of Artillery.--Second Captain F. Warde to be Capt a i n , v i ce A . W r i g h t, re t ire d on full p a y ; Fi rst Lieu tenant. J. E. D u p u i s t o b e S econ d Captain, vice Warde ; coed Lieutenant T. Knox to be First Lieutenant, vice Dupuis June 15 ; Second Captain W. B. Ingilby to be Captain, vice E: Sheppard, retired on half-pay; First Lieutenant J. Low to be Second Captain, vice Ingilbr ; Second Lieutenant C. W. Youngliusband to be First Lieutenant, vice Low, June 19. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Breconshire. P. P. Williams, Esq., to be Depty Lieutenant, June 19. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &t. —.— LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. Number Diridend CANALS. Price hirer, St 1,1,0651,;11.• 3. c. Commerc al. ( .101 sh. 63 n East and West lodic ... ........... Stcsl 103 8,203,31011. 60 5 . I, .ct . London Stock 70 Ditto iionits 10! 2.209 3/. 64. sd. Bristol 68,3 0 4/. 51. per cent. Dit to N otes, var i ous amounts 1.352.752 5 percent. St. K a th ar i ne Stock MI 500,000 11 per cent. Ditto Bends I) , 200,11C0 4 per cent. Di tto Bonds inc 10 years , ~.. Deptford Pier. 'Ol. sh. 01. rd 10 BP.IDGES. 1,1 - 00 los. ProurriersmAl 'Of. :ft. 02 7,231 S out h war k , Old .A v. 4031.06. Sd. sh. 2i 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Nir.v, of 71 r, cent....... ,501.5. h. 13 ,e,610 Waterloo s,ckno '2•2s. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 61. ...... 4:01. psi 001 5,600 19s. 3sl, Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40/. pd li: I 60,0001 5/. per cent. Pitt° Bends ,,, 5,848 17s Vanx hall ...... ..._,• A verage 701. 10s. :3(1. oh. 25 w ASSURANCE COMPAN:ES. 2,000 3/ 16s Albion , 00/. sh. 00/. NI 73 50,00 0 { 6 a r i c i %7: l 'l Alliancel3ritisn &Foreign lOU. sh. 111. pd 14? 50,010 13 per cent. Ditto, Mantic l6O/. sh. 5/. pd 2 4,1/n0 11. per sh. Atlas 501. Sh. ni. NI 15' 1,400 fah, 51. iitinningli am 1 ire "50/. sh. 55/. pd 167 i 2 0 ,Ce 0 4/. percent. Briti s h Fi re 2:0/. sh. 50/, pa 40 12,000 61 per rest. British Commercial ........ 50/ oh. 5/, pd 5i 5,008 5/. per rent. Cle r i ca l & M e d i .1 1 Life.. , IC('/.sh . . 2 / 1 1s prl It 4 000 2/ 15s County tow. oh. 10/. pd 421 20,630 ss. Engle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd .5f 2 ,,, r 5 per cent, i and 20, ti.s. Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 400 2,271 225. pet cent. European Lit., .................. 00/. sh. all pd 22 60,000 os. Ditto, New ..................... 201. sh. 2/. pd 1 i 1,030,0601, 61. per ct Globe Stock 104 20,100 31• Guardia. , 4 .0,0410 s. 6d. Hope , OJ. sh. 51. pd .5i 2,400 U. 7s. 6d, Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 1135 7,500 Os. Imperial Li le 100/. sh. 10/. pd 104 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine ... ..... -.100/. sh. Si. pc: 2-i 2,020 31 lOs Kent Fire 'W. sh. all pit 92 31. Ditto Life 101. pd 4)54 10,000 16s. Law Life 1141/. sh. 10/. pd :0 .5 Pm 10s, London, Fire 251. sh. 12/. 193. psi IN 3,900 Ills . London, Ship "5/. :Th. PJ. 10s. pil 19 4 1 ~1,,,,'410/. •.. ..... Min ' r y a Lis" 100/. sh. 510,00.14 National Loan Fin ' 01..55 pi 3 2r orm 's/. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/.10 '217 , 50,000 41. per rent. Vroteetor Floe `V/. oh. V. pd No fld In,o o o 1 per cent. Pr testant Dissenters ll 0/, sh, si, 00, 0 641 S I A s.l 9,5110 1/, Provident Lite IOC/. sh. 10/. NI IS .s. Rock Life nn/ oh. I!. pd 7 1.2201 5/ percent. Royal Exchange Stock_ 213 6,003 5 per cent University Life OlO/. s 5l. NI 51 50,001 4 per rent. United Kinedern Life lOOl. o h. h. Si. pd 71 JOINT STOCK 13ANE% 25,1:01 S per cent. A gric. and C, ins. of I relantl2s/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia lO/. oh. 401. I 135 in. , '" 10 per ce n t. B ank of Bit mincham 56 ! sh. 10/. p N d 1:14 63,0 0 0 10 per cent. Birrhingliain Bank 501, sh. IC/. psi 23 9, ;Iv, Cpc.r rent. London anti Westminster 1001. sh. 25/, pd 014 60:990 5/. London Joint Stock 501, sh. 101. pc! Ili .i,00 , 4 4 per cent. Lancaster ^5,4x;0100/. sh. 201. pa tilt . ........ Liverpool ... 100/ sh. 101. Ini 21: 50,000 7; percent, Manchester and Liver ] pnol District 5O/.sh. 15/ pd 111 i 2p,4007 per ceit. M anc h ester 100/. sh. 25/. rid 07 20,000 ... Provincial Bank of Irel an d 100/ . sh. 05/. p 4 4 4.: Sti,. Po h cr ic - t National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 174/. pd 171 10,001 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 1001. oh. 23i. pd •^.810,063 ...... .. Ditto New .. 'O/. oh. 101 pd 101 10,'4!3 Gloureotershire VI/. du 2i 6.000 lOp er cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 10/. 5/. ni rid l 9 0 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIF,S. 2,200 les Lod Bathritish 20/. sh. lii!. 012 ptl SCOO 1 401. sh. 10', pd 194 400 0 rt .: 471 , 5; e . 1 ( 1: 1 1 Ditto Provincial .........201. sh. 191 pi 25 0•28 5110 s Birmingham N. sh. .' s np 1' 2,250 ti/ IC, Bri g h ton _ 20 1 . sh. 11 730 3/ lOs Ditto, Nets 9 01. eh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 41+ per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sh. aI 1 rirl 9 4.000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....7.i!. 004/. pi 110 1,000 101. City of Londo ......... ..-.•100/. oh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New... .......... 1001. 51i.7.il . pd ISO • 4,!!,p1 3/.os. Equitable . ................................. no , . pel 06 in 2i ptl cent. Imperial • 5Ol. oh. 56q , no 5/, per cent. Isle 0/Thattet ............... 234 zh. 21/. p 4 /8 2,350 6/. per cant. Iridepencistit 30/. Th. all Ni 9,010 4/. pc r cent. Phrenix ....... .. ............... 5 1 /. sh. 39/. pd 132 N 1,000 4/. per cent. 11- ttcliff'....... , ... 1001. sh. 804 pd 1 3 4,000 South .M , tropolii ... n ... ......... ..' ,O l. sh. 19/. pd 17 9,01'0 4/. Pc cent. United General 501. sh. 47/. pa 225 24 0 51. rot cent. Warwick .. 400 5/. per cent, sai,„ f i ed 50/. ;h. 50 10,t 1 9 5/. sh. 22 9 1. We s t m i nster Chartere,, 8,060 12'; Ditto New 7i40 3 per tent Yarmouth ............ ........20/. o*, IP/. pi W ATER WORKS, 4,800 10s. Fiirminrehsm ` )s/. sh. 25/. NI 20 4,194 71. Fast Lentlon lOO/. sh. 1414 5,500 21.105. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4(1. sh. 60 1, 1 9,0 0 0 . 21. Kent 1017. sh. 44 372 lot. Liverpool {tootle 2201 sh. 327 1,500 21 lOs New River London Bridge Water Ann... ' 9 1 4 1 1 ,485 21 Ins Manchester and Salford -100/. sh. 57N 1,000 4 per cent. S out h L ou d on lOOl. sh. 1f',41 8,204 4i I. Weist Miild!coex Average 63/. 123.9 d. sh. 13301 1.060 ll Lts York Building Co. L see e Prop. 100/. s h, IRON RAILWAYS, 6,300 Birmingham and Derby lOO/. pd Ft 7 9,540 Birmingham and Gloucester.-- 801 pc/ 73 , 4 15.016 Bristol and Exeter lOO/. sh. .50 od 29 7,500 Cheltenham and G,Westcrn 100/. oh. 50/. 2.9 3.0011 Clarence 100/. sh. 101/ pd 25 6,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. 5/. pd an.cinis Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 2U, pd 1554 10,000 ...... ... Great North of England 100/. sh, C 5/. pd 5,14 10,0!3 14 per cost. Grand Junction lOO/. sh. 41 fad 010 2 ~o+o6 G reat Western WO/. sh.'6sl, pd 101 25 "05) Ditto New 50/ sh. 30'. pd •tial, 6,000 per cent. Gosport Junction 50/. sh. 25/. pi 33% 2,300 5 per cent. Hartlepool lOl4l. sh. 1001. pd 140 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 4000 o .cp h d . 6 3 e li 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and 5e1by........ 1 5,103 91 per cent. Livernoot & Manchester 101./.sh. 1001. p 4 195', 7.9418 94 per cent. Ditto Half Shares .501. p.l F 734 11,495 9 per cepa. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd CI 36.1 , 00 ...... ... Lend. n and Brighton 5 0 / . sh. :35/ pd 2 i 'iti 54,nn0 London and Blackwall 240/. sh. 01. pi 411, 20,000 1 per cent. London and Greenwich -00E. Oa. 212. pd ! 25.00-1 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. oh. 90/. pd 1 , 914 21,001 Ditto Quarter Shares 2Ol, sh. 5/. p.l 31 3 ( . 31,251 D.t 0 New Shares 3 //. sh 24/. lid 33, 00 ,„ ..... . 52 , 4 14(t,0/...... London and S. W estern Av. 38/, 17s. !hi. 58 1 ,4 0 London and Croydoni Av. 13/. 15s. Pd. 1 , 11 ' 4 i Ditto New Scrip.... 12's ... ...... 11,003 'Manchester and Leeds...loo/, oh, finl. pd 06% 11,000 .. 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701,01 i. 20/. 2474 Ditto Extension 7l. NI 5 10,1'00 Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 10 - / pd 99 15,000 ...... ... North Midland 100!. sh. Inn/ pd 11 , 1 Ditto New 30/. pd 31:44 5,1'6 Northent and Eastern....lool. sh. 30/. pd 2•2 28 tl , toon Preston and W yre 5O/. sh. 130/. pil 36 ,000 South Eastern and Dover 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ION. sh. 2€6 9,001 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501, pd 71 MINES. g,OOO Albion Copper 5/. s'• 04/. psi 12 4,000 11. ss. Alton l5/. oh. 12/. Ito- psi 10 10,000 .... Anglo M.exican,iss. 5/. pm.loo/. sh, a' 'i d 1 Ditto Subscription 25/. iiil 9 ' 2,000 Int, Bol.inos 18,000 1/. lee Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm 35/.sh. 001. pd 16 6,000 Maca u h as & Cocacs United 251. 5h.25/. pd /1,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2O/. sh. 141 pd 2 14000 Bolivar Copper Company 204311. Oftt, pd I 10,000 „....... Ditto Scrip lni'.• oh. 101. poi 0 20.000 .... ..... British 1r0n... ............... -5 0 1. sh. 50/ pd 52 6,000 ... ...... Brii.ish Copper 51 sh, 44!. pd 1% Gill :/z.srica 6 !/. pd 0 Candong , ... 7i/. pd 5 . . 10,000 Is C op i apo .... ... 2O/. sh, 13/. NI 10 9,500 ... Columbian, iss. 54 pm 55/. sh. 55/. pd 0 3 4 2,850 31. English • l4/. Cs. pd 3 20,000 6 ,15 , 5 .... y -.......100/. sh. 571/ sel (1 11 , 500 •••"'. • • Pollierou Consols , lO/. sh. 81. pd 4 Real del Monte, Unregistered ....... ..... 5 Ditto Loan N0te5........,. 150/. pd 160 30,000 United Mexican, ins. 2 prn. 40/, ;It. ail pd llt Dint. Scrip Ditto New 5cri..................................... 4' . p ......................... 5/ r 6 7 %; k West Cor ........ .. ........... 50/. sh 50/. 4 pd 36' LITER.I,RY INSTITUTIONS. 3,rinn ... ..... London, with Bronze Ticket ...75g0. ;h. 19 1, Louden University 100/ sh, all pd R _'Sop oo Bust 11• .............................. :.. 255. 1. 7 Kin C0i1ege........... .......100/. 19 MISCELLANF.OU ... ..... 10,000 I. Australian A ericul tural.loll 6.100 41, percent. British American I. 1' 'h L 281, P I 41 an d C. T II P 3 o3n ) II i i 10 8010,000 el per cent. Canada Company ......... 100/ :h 3 - )/ . 1 el ‘ , c. ,, ,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,la Loan '' ' -f- 'P- • 0 -, , t City Bonds, 4 per cent . ................... ... GeneralSteamNavi. ... 1r);......... 125 1 0 !.per c.cnt. Hudson's Bay 5t0ck......... .h. 11 1. I'll 25 ,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms ::...A . ,7::;:,7 ..... 234 . xi,. 19 8,000 .... ..... Caoutchotic Company ................ New Brunswick Land Cnnipany.„, ) , P, ,(1 12 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversienary Int. 50c...101/. oh. too/ . , ci I L,' 2,03,3 5/. per cent. Ditto New 'OOl, ~h . 100/. pd 1.1.-i 4,000 10,000 n Os. Van the.,er.'s Laid.... 10 p 0/. sh. 171/ it pi 20,00 A LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICEs, JUNE 24, 1840, BANKS. trion,efiet 6/ , p. et. Bank ot Scotland —.834 6s Bd. sh. all rd i n ev) low. sh. all pd 1 4 2 ,000,0064 Si p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland 5 0 0 .01104 Bp. ct. Brinsh Linen Company-100/.sh. all p'l 2.2 0 _ , 500,0601. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1601. pd P 3 . 34 Mars. sp. ct . National lOO4 eh. 10/. pd 1 534 60 0 ,000/. 61- p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. pd 85 .".; 8 00,0004 6p. ct. Western of Scotland '?.001. sh 401. pd P -, 4 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 0511 . 0 005 h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union vo4 sh. U. pd 27., `4. 7,500 T. 500 61 p. c t. Hercules ... . .... .............1001. sh. 10/. pd 13/.lo'. 21 sp. t. Insurance C o. of aeo nand .101. sh. all pd !,41 ashou6 6p. ct. North pd 20 1 B °1 s p. et. Caledonirit an i .. 4sh Fire ....... 1200/00. . sh. 10/. sh. 10/. pd 18 1 / 4 . 13 3,000 6P. ct . Edinb urg h L ie 11140° 3i p. ct. W es t of Scotland ..... .. 1001. sh. 10/. pd 15% ...... ........ 10/. pd 7 4,818 ...,., MI SCELLANEOUS. Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10 5,400 6 Per Ditto Allocated, or/. sh. all p d 47 cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.2s/. sh. all pd 35 Carroll Iron Comeany ...2504 sh. all pd 44 2,000 th 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcrv......o/ pd 511' 30,000 3 per Cent. Edinburgh P Lzith Glass.2o4 sh. la pd 01.1 6.500 10 per cent. Edinburgh &at Gas ...254 sh. all pd 52 4.45 p 10 =, G • w Gas ...... 25/ shall pd 51 . , _ "Tho 71 ~ :1, ,„ u . . ,: ... . .... .. .. 20t shll pd 51 3,200 "isirise••• ..;_. 7' alkeith.Rai!wayLo4 sh 59 .. 000 , , .: . .4r.-.4.., Company ' SI. sh. poi 0. 81 1.., / '• - _...k , :---- nar r 7 pO, Dance took place at Ail. . roe , , . t.-. • which 550 instrumental, in a i - ocat , twill-8K vrn Et. f ,gged. Among the pieces mosires,.: 6 ono of David Penitent per to .TErn. d 6patri -vrrphon y, b ' Par _ Evel; , i l. a O/ .. . AT I'l .S of per oer Shares. Annum Paid. Share. 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldhain-Aterage97l.lBs.sh. 120 i,082 41. Ashby.de-le-Zotic h ......Ar'ziage 1151.5 h . '72 1,2110 Basingstoke lOOl.O. 5 1,005 5!. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. s/t. - 8,0601- 16th . 91 66. Birmingham, 1-16th share ......811. & 711. 2151 4 00') ......... Ditto and Liverpool .lunctlw2l. sh. 100 pd 20 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton .1001. sh. all pd - 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh . 101 500 411. Caventry 1001. sh. CIO 4,545 C roydon , - 2,0r,0% 51. Os. Dudley 1001.6h. 99 600 134. Derby 1601.5 h .. L 6 20,600 4 per cent. Danube tnd ,Is.ync 3,575% 41. Ellesai,:re and Chester... Average 1331.5 h. 10 231 621. Erewaso 1,24)7 301. Forth and Clyde ....Ac erage 4401.105. th. 615 11,8' 0 10 Grand ..,unction lue/. sh 149 2,6491 15s. Grand Union 1001. sh 240 1,500 . ....... Grand Surrey 1,000! V. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan .., 101 13 32596 ..... Grand Western 600 131,1'11, Id. Id. Glamorganthire, Aver. cost 17t.4. 135.4(1. 2201 749 194. Grantham 1 , 0/.sh. 203 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield kverage 571. 6,0 d. sii. 29 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 l 5 .329 11. ss. Rennet and Avon, Aver. 391. 16s. 111t1. sh . 261 2,897! 301. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 700 5451 1501. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 200 1 , 8 37 51. 105. Leicester an 4 Northampton Aver 431.103. 7iii. 2.400 10/, Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 199 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001, sh. 200 1;00 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 565 ~,OCO 11. 10s. Mace1e5t1e1d............. ........ 1001. sh. all pd 46 217 17/, Neat h 1001. sh. 325 2,400 41. Peak Forest Avcii.ge about Vkl.sh. 91 4,118 114. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 111 01419: 61. pc r cent, Rochdale Average au. sh. 951 500 8!. Shropshire /251.5 h. 138 800 9!. 10s. Somerset Ccal 3,060/. 41 percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 11 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5h. 650 500 16!. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 200 9!. Stourbridge ... 3,047 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Average 791.95. t'd. sh. :41 533 101. Swansea l(01.sh. 265 :t71.-.. , 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway At 35/. sh. 42 2,60015 h. 02/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, f share 100!. sh. 010 .149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Aver.l9l. ss. Bd. sh. 2 1,000:.b. 1 ,„, 1,6001;b, 5 `"" Warwick and Birmiagham ... lOO/.sh 261 9+50 15t. Warwick and Ila vim Mg. sh. 190 6,000 4/.os. Worcest cr and Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 101 5 . c ' OO 25s Wilts at .d Berk Areraee 07/. 10s. Sd. sh. 31 eco Os wp nev and Essington P's/. sh 74 .0 50 11, We; and Anl7l llO/. sh. 2:1 DOCKS. TIIE SUN, LON DON, FRIDAY - , JUNE 96, 1840. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. PIETRO ASCANIO TEALDI, merchant, Manchester. BENJAMIN BARKER SMARK, scrivener, illoniton, Devonshire, July 9, and August 7, at eleven, at the Old Lon don Inn, Exeter. Rhodes, Beevor, and Lane, Chancery-lane, London ; Flood and Mules, Honiton. SAMUEL TUCKER, builder, Exeter, July II and August 7, at twe've, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Keddell and Baker Fenchurch• street, London ; Stogdon, Southernhay, Exeter . CHARLES CLARKE, gun-maker, Cambridge, July 7 and August 7, at one, at the George Inn, Cambridge. Vin cent and Sherwood, King's Bench welk, Temple; Ashton, Cambridge ; Hodgson, Birmingham. ROBERT ALFRED PHELPS, ink-manufacturer, Pan cras-lane, Queen .street, Cheapside, July 6, at two, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, Basing hall-street, official assignee; Bodman, Queen-street, Cheapside. DANIEL SPENCER WILKINS, dealer in wines, Glou cester, July 6, and Aug. 7, at ten, at the Office of Mr. Edward Washhourn, Gloucester. White and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London ; IS'ashbourn, Gloucester. GEORGE 13 OTIIAMLEY, plumber and glazier, Sheffield' July 24 and August 7, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. Rodgers, King-street, Cheapsicie, London; Broadbent, Shef field. JAMES ROBERTS, horse dealer, Clareton, Yorkshire, July 6 and August 7, at twelve, at the Falcon Inn, Micklegate, Yorkshire. Blower and Wizard, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; llywes, Knaresborough. JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, carpenter, Boston, Lincoln shire, on July 3, and Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Peacock Inn, Boston. Hollway, Kenrick, and Harwood, Boston. JOHN SL ATTER, innholder, Witney, Oxfordshire, on July 3, and August 7, at ten, at the Golden Cross Inn, Oxford. Crouch, Southampton -buildings, London ; Westell, Witney. COURSE OP' EXCH. Amsterdam CY. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 51 Antwerp ....... ••••••• 12 5 Hamburg... M.B. 13 12 1 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 40 Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Alarseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine —l5Ol Petersburg, 3 Us 37i Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 7 Trieste, ditto lO 8 Madrid Cadiz :NUE.—(THIS DAY) Gibraltar ;. 43 Leghorn 3O 35 Genoa Milan Venice 47 Naples 4O, Palermo, per oz 122 Lisbon 541 Oporto 54 Rio Janeiro 2B Bahia Buenos Ayres Nevv York, 21 da)s'iiglit 46i Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin .£0 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 New Doubloons ......0 0 0 New Dollars ..... ....0 4 10), Silver in Bars ......... 0 5 111 Bilboa Barcelona Seville IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. A Clerk of the Cronn from Ireland delivered in a return of the election of the Earl of Lucan, as a represen tative Peer for Ireland, in the room of the Earl of En niskillen, deceased. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Universal Society of Rational Religionists, praying for a Commission to inquire into their doctrines. The Noble and Learned Lord also presented a petition from Aberdeen praying for a settlement of the Church Question in Scot land. CASE OF THE REV. MR. O'REILLY. The Marquis of WESTMEATH gave notice that on Thursday, the 2d of July, he should move for a return of the ❑ame of the party or parties to whom 50/. were stated to have beer, paid by the Rev. Mr. O'Reilly, a Roman Catholic priest in the county Cavan, for the compromise t:f an offence with which he was charged ; and also of the purposes to which the money was applied, and a copy of the discharge. Lord MELBOURNE said that the notice supposed the case that the money had been paid for the compromise oF an cffence. The Marquis of W E ST M E AT H took that for granted from the admission of the Noble Marquis at the head of the Home Department. The Noble Marquis then pre rented a petition from three gentlemen of the name of Smith, and a gentleman of the name of Sharpe, complain of the great tlela3s . in the Court of Chanccr- ESTATES IMPROVEMENT BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND rose to move the second reading of the Estates Improvement Bill. Its object was to allow persons having a life interest in estates to borrow money upon them for a certain number of years, for the purpose of applying it to the draining and improvement of the property. He thought it unnecessary to say more respecting it, than to express his belief that it would be found beneficial to the farmers, to agricultural labourers, and also the fertility of the soil. If the clauses should be deemed ,capable of improvement, he would be glad that they should receive it ; or if it should be thought expe dient to refer the Bill to a Select Committee, he should not have the least objection to it. The Marquis of WESTMEATH was glad to find the Bill would extend to Ireland, where it was much needed. If it were only intended to charge the estates for drainage on the surface, he thought it might be advan ageously carried much further. — The 'Earl of PORTM A N thought it would be impos sible their Lordships could allow this Bill to pass in its present shape, because it gavo te_natats for life of settled estates a power which it was not intended they should have by the person settling the estate, who, if he had thought a charge for such purposes desirable, would have himself charged the estate with it. The Earl of Iladdington, the Earl of Devon, and Lord Hatherton, supported the Bill. Lord ASHBURTON doubted if the Bill was necessary. The Duke of RICHMOND was about to move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee, when Lord ELLENAOROUGH said he did not see why that should be done. The Bill would then assuredly b a lest. The Duke of RICHMOND therefore withdroN that proposition. Bill read a second time. The Colonial Passengers Bill went through Committee, as did the Timber Duties Bill. Their Lordships adjourned before Six o'Clock. IIOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair this afternoon, at Four o' Clock. The Report of the Poor-l - aw Commissioners was brought up and laid on the table. Mr. FRES H FIE LD brought up the Report of the Committee on Battersby'a Divorce Bill. The Report was received, and the Bill read a third time, and passed. Mowbray's Estate Bill was read a second time. CLERKENIVELL IMPROVEMENT. On the motion of Mr. T. D UNCOMBE, the Clerken well Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. WEAVER CHURCHES BILL. Sir C. LEMON brought up the report of the Weaver Churches Bill, and moved certain amendments. Mr. E. J. STANLEY moved the amendments be read a second time that day 5:..; months.—(Loud cries of " Why ? why ?") The Hon. Member, however, remained silent, and strangers were ordered to withdraw. No divi sion, however, took place, and on our re-admission to the gallery we found Mr. J. JERVIS on his logs. H 3 said it was quite cer tain that if the public had been awaro of the ob ject of the Bill, or if the investigation before the Committee had been publicly reported and circu lated, great opposition would have been made to the measure. This was not a mere private Bill ; the principle involved in it was most important. The ques tion was whether that which had for years contributed 1,500/. a-year to the county-rates of Chester, and relieved the rate -payer of that county to that amount, of whatever religion such ratepayers might be, should now be devoted to the erection of churches exclusively for the use of mem bers of the Establishment. This was the first instance in which it had been attempted to endow churches out of the county-rates. Hon. Members on the other side might be anxious to adopt t h at principle to a man, and might perhaps engage others to assist them in this instance who would not like to have th e same principle applied to their own counties which it was now sought to apply to the county of Chester. I n th e C ommittee this had bcen . treated entirely as a party question. The majority of that Committee was composed of Conservative Aleml bers—to a man they had all advocated the building of these churches, and had on all occasions voted together ; so that the purpose of that Committee was not so much a discussion of the question as the carrying out of th e w ill of the majority. Owing, however, to the accidental ab sence of two of these Members he had succeeded in in troducing a clause which it was now sought to str i ke out, and Hon. Me m b ers oppos i te relied on the earlier and more regular attendance of those Members who were desirous of building churches out of the county-rates to enable them to carry this into effect. Ho trusted that all thos e w h o objected to su c h a pr i nc i p l e wou ld vote in favour of the amendment. of' the Mr. 'WILBRAHAM opposed the bringing up report ; and he did so because he did not think that money should be raised on a whole county for the purpose of givin g additional church accommodation to a particular district, lie looked upon such a principle as a dangerous one, and as interfering with the rights of property. Mr. THORNE LY was not only opposed to the mea sure but had a strong feeling against the whole system of taxation followed by the trustees; and he hoped the county would soon be released from it. Mr. II UII E asked whether those Gentlemen who were favourable to the measure would support the principle that county-r3te3 formed a proper fund for the building of churches ?_( Hear, hear.) That was the real principle then at issue. Mr. TATTON EGERTON said that the money in question could not be considered as a country-rate. The lion. Member for Kilkenny was therefore mistaken on that point. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. GEORGE THOMAS DAY, coal merchant, Cheater-wharf, Pimlico. BANKRUPTS. JOHN ROBINS and CHARLES WILLIAMS, carriers, London-wall, to surrender July 14, and August 7, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Old Jewry, official assignee ; Hopkinson, Red Lion-square. 'WILLIAM FREDERICK COWPER, mercer, Oldham, July Is, and August 7, at three, at the Commissioners' rooms, Manchester. Baxter!, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. RICHARD FERRIS, JAMES HENRY BUTLEY, and JOHM BUTLEY, merchants, Liverpool ; July 10, and Au gust 7, at two ; at the Clarenden-rooms, Liverpool. Brittan, Bristol ; Howard, Liverpool ; Davidson, Bread-street, Cheap side, London. TRAVIS RHODES, iron -founder, Shaw, near Lanca shire; July 13, and August 7, at ten; at the Commissioners'- rooms, St. James's-square, Yanchester. Sale and Worthing ton, Manchester ; Baxter, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. EDWARD HART HART, Glass Manufacturer, Gates head, Durham, July 26, at eleven, and August 7, at one, at Bankrupt Commission-Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Meg gieon, Pringle, and Manisty, King's-road, London; Donkin, Stable, and Armstrong, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. JOHN HELLEWELL CARTER and CHARLES LAW. RENCE, machine-makers, Huddersfield, July 10, and August 7, at eleven, at the White Swan Inn, Huddersfield. Lever, King's-road, Bedford-row, London; Barker and England, Huddersfield. Mr. El UNIE—I will venture to ask, Sir, whether this is not a highway robbery ?—( Much laughter.) Mr. R. PALMER said that the funds were not a county-rate, as was manifest from the purposes to which they were devoted. Mr. WARBURTON said that if this Bill were carried into a law, every dock, railway, and other public Com pany might be called upon to contribute to similar pur poses cut of its surplus income.—( Hear, hear.) Lord SANDON said that the principle had already been admitted by the Legislature, in the case of a Mining, Ccmpany, that where a larg,e population was col lected in one district, by means of such a Company, the latter was bound to provide for the religious instruction of that population out of its surplus income.—(Tory cheers ) Sir C. GREY (who spoke amidst great interruption from the Tory benches) supported the amendment. He hoped the Church of England would not continue to pro ceed upon the engrossing principle supported by the pro moters of this Bill. If so, the Church itself would be most seriously damaged.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. E W ART objected to this measure, not only upon principle, but for the same reasons as had been stated by his Learned Friend who had just sat down. He objected to the measure, because it was injurious to the Church it self, as it would set against it a large number of the mem bers of the community. I' also awakened in the minds of members of the Church itself considerable doubts and dis cord, and many of them felt that they could not assent to the Act because it was a direct tax and injury to th e country generally. General JOHNSON objected to the measure. Mr. HOB HO USE said that the question in the present else was whether the funds intended for the Weaver churches were to he devoted to an entirely different pur pose. He would venture to say, if the present Bill passed that the worst consequences would result ; he, there fore, called upon the House to meet the Bill with the most determined opposition.—( Cries of " Hear.") He recollected that a Bill was introduced into the House for a purpose somewhat analagous to the present. The fund was left for the budding of a brid ge over the r i ver Dee. That fund produced an enormous surplus; arid it was not known in what manner the superflaous money should be applied. Under these circumstance's the trustees came to Parliament, and applied for power to appropriate the funds to the establishment of schools, for the object of building the bridge aver the river Dee was to promote civilization of the Highlands. That was a most excellent purpose, and strictly analogous to the intention of the origiaal donor. But Parliament did not allow that Bill to pass. The trusts were held so sacred, that it was thought they ought not to be violated, and although every one confessed the purpose was excellent, yet that Bill was rejected upon the prin ciple on which - he hoped the House would reject the pre sent Bill.—( Cheers.) The rate-payers of Chester h-d a right to the whole of the surplus funds if there were any. They ought to be applied by the Magistrates in Quarter Sessions to certain specified purposes, and to no other pur ' nose whatever. lie objected to the application of the fund 'for the purposes of Church building. The fund ought to be devoted, in the first place, to the purposes ofnavigation ; and it. the second place, to the rcliefof the rate-payers of Chester. It was proved that there were 18 Churches along the line o f the river, a distance of only 23 miles, and that the po pulation was fluctuating, and contained a great many as senters. For the sake of the great principle, he trusted they would give their determined opposition to the Bill in all its stages. Mr. A. YATES said the indecent interruption s given during the debate by the Hon. Members opposite would show the country what motives actuated them in coming down in such numbers—they would judge whether it was to support pure religion, or whether it was not because money was to be spent, and they wanted the patronage.— ( On, oh.) lion. Gentl!rr ea ought to remember that the Bill would tax the salt and coal trade upon the Weaver upwards of 10 per cent., and that for no useful or neces sary purpose. [raners were then ordered to withdraw. The House divided, when there appeared_ For the amendments Against them 157 Majority in favour of the amendments 70 On the motion of Mr. WILBR A HAM the evidence taken before the Committee was ordered to be printed. On the question that the amendment be read a second time. This afternoon there was a steady demand for Coffee for home use; 833 bags Ceylon at public sale sold at 79s to 82a for ordinary to good ordinary quality, being full price ; 46 casks 11 1 barrels and bags B. P. were offered, and chiefly disposed of at and after the sales at former rates ; Berbice fine fine ordinary and low middling fetched 1005 to 103 s per cwt. RlCE.—There has been no revival in the demand for Bengal, and the operations by private contract have again been limited, but the merchants have refused to submit to lower rates t at public sale 900 bags went at steady prices, goad fine clean white sold at 123.6 d. to 13s. good but dusty I Is. 6i. to 12s, low middling mixed 145 privately some small parcels of fine bold white have been disposed of at I3s to I3s 6d per cwt. Java is held for late rates, but only a limited demand has existed by private treaty ; none has been offored at auction. Carolina sells well for home use at 36s for new, and 34s for old quality. 11IoLassas. —West India improved Is per cwt; fine Antigua at 41s a 425; Barbadces 43s to 44s ; Demerara good 395 per cwt ; Deminica 38s 6d to 39s per cwt. COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) s xrrivcd s me last r, a•F:et-day, 34 s. d Adair's - l7 £ 3ell, iiol.siiii & Co. Hartley 19 £' Cluster Carr's fiartlcy Eerz,i's Main Towel oy "Eanlield Moor 2l 6 Willingtnu ...‘d i Wylali \Valls End Brown's Walls End Co,fortli .... 29 3 Walls End Hotspur - \Valls End Killingworth Walls End ti or hu -- . Ueda d 19 Walls End Westgate.., lli 3 Walls End Belmont '0 6 6511 .1•WAVN1V2221.•.....,_ . _ _.... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. c (1. Walls End Haswell Walls End Hetton W. E. Braddyll's Hetton Walls End Lambton Walls End Pemberton ‘Valls End Stewart's Walls End Hartlepool '22 0 lValls End Kelloe . .2d 9 i'ennant'sillartlepool ...... Wail:. End Seymour Tees 2O 3 Walls End Tee.i 2l 0 Cowpen l9 0 Ilartley .... Llangcnncch Coal ...... Newton Main 1 Walls End Do.vonshite l9 6 _HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNIS 25. SUGAR DUTIES BILL. Mr. E WART (in continuation of our ccond Edition) proceeded to observe—Mr. M'Culloeh had made the same remark, yet notwithstending this great diminution of consumption, the population was still going on in creasing, to the extent of 15 per cent. He now pro ceethd to show that the revenue would be materially be nefited by a reduction of duty, thus confirming the state. !mlts made by every theoretical writer on this subject, and every practical reasoner with whom he had had en op portunity of conversing on it. He found that proposition most ably put forward by Mr. aleCulloch in the first edi tion of his " Commercial Dictionary," and he had again confirmed it in the appendix to that admirable work, lately published. Now, in common with that gentleman, and every one who had weitten upon the subject, he maintained that if they reduced the duty they would increase the con. sumption, and of course the revenue. Suppose they were to reduce the duty on foreign sugar from 65a. to 345., take the consumption at what it was ten years ago, 200,000 tons, tilts the increase in the population at 15 per cent., the increased consumption might be reasonably taken at 30;000 tons, which would have yielded to the revenue no less a sum than one million sterling, lie had taken his supposed reduction only upon foreign sugar, but he was strongly in f avour o f a re d uct i on of duty upon West India sugar also ; however he was not quite sure that in so short a time the revenue would come round so as to supply the deficiency necessarily made at first; no doubt, in time the revenue would come round from a large reduc tion in the duty upon sugar, both foreign and Colonial; no question the revenue would be extended; but these were not the lialeyon days of the Exchequer, and he would not then force upon his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchr quer a course which necessarily would involve him in temporary eTibarrassments—would necessarily add to the =harassments of the Right lion. Gentleman. But lie thought if the Right lion. Gentleman would go into the subject with any practical man, he would find that a reasonable reduction of the duty must be at tended with an increase of revenue. Suppose that under the influence of the present high prices of sugar, the po pulation were gradually to disuse it, and substitute some other article in its place, what then must become of the revenue during the interval in which they were being brought again into its use? It would take a lung time, and the loss to the revenue would be enormous, and would be most cxtonsivcly felt in the Exchequer. Such being the state. of the sugar market, it was natural to turn round and ask whence was the supply to come from to make up that deficiency. It could not be expected to come front the Mauritius, which had already attained its maximum— nor from Bengal—for although lie was happy to say that in consequence of the reduction of the duty on East India sugar, the supply from that quarter had increased, yet it was not sufficient to make up for the deficiency, nor could it become so on account of the deficiency of capital, and other impedirnents,which were not likely to be removed. At the time that the duty on East India sugar was re duced, there was a hope that the duties on all foreign this country and Brazil, th a t cou ld not b e d one. T he i sgs, t u w a a r s ftohe produceu nd,that of f free lab i neonseqiiel% wouldof t be reduced. hetreatyhet But wee n treaty with Brazil was concluded in 1827, and had been agreed to last for fifteen years ; therefore it would not ex pire before the year 1843. This difficulty then arose,— how could they allow sugar to be introduced, the produce of free labour, without at the same time allowing of the introduction of slave-labour sugar from the Brazils ? While the present treaty existed, be would admit that that was impossible ; and the question then arose, whether the Chanc e llor of the Exchequer would, during the next four years,sufrer the sugar-market to .remain in the position in which ,it now stood, or whether he would take steps t) en courage. additional importation. When the four years should be expired, even if it should be wished to admit free-labour sugar at a lower rate of duty than Brazil sugar, yet they would even then, perhaps, meet Kith insuperable difficulties. The expert of our manufactures to Brazil amounted at this time to several millions annually, and it would be scarcely prudent in any Government to make any change of du ies which might interfere with sued a vital part of our commerce MARKET INTELLIGENCE as that with the Brazils. Therefore, he thought that even (From the London New Price Current of June 26. after the expiratio n o f th e f our years, if they admitted ) TEA. —The market h as b een very quiet for Free Trade admit sugarbour s t u h g e a r produceat a lowerof slave-labourrate of duty,in they the Brazils, muse s a o t Tea of all sorts this week, and some parties who have the same reduced rate. After having considered the sub been compelled to se'l for cash, have submitted to a re- ject most attentively, he saw no means to get over the diffi duction on former rates of Id to 2d per lb, and have ac- eulty but by a reduction of the duties on sugar generally, cepted Is lOd to Is lld for common Congou, and la lld and he should therefore move for such a reduction. He for ord Twankay; even at these rates the trade bought was aware that it might be objected to this general reduc with much caution, the principal holders, however, refused tion that it would give a great ingress to the slave-labour to sell at any thing like these prices. The speculative sugar of Brazil and Cuba, with free-labour sugar; but lie market has been quiet, and prices yesterday morning de- must confess that such was the confidence in the power of dined to Is 10:1 for , cash, and Is 114:1 a i s lid for the production of free labour that he was not afraid of prompts ; since then, however, buyers have com e forward free-labour sugar coming into competition with that of with more f re edom, and prices have rallied to is 11 for slave labour sugar in any part of the world. He had cash, and 2s a2s Old with prompts. Th e deliveri es last last year laid before the House a statement of the quan week were large, amounting to 385,500 lbs. For auction tity of free-labour sugar grown in Siam, Manilla, China, cn the 2d July 6,000 pkgs, and for the 13th 10,200 pkgs and Java, which amounted to 5,600 tons. lie believed it are declared. had since greatly increased, and it was now successfully com- The market was very quiet to-day for Free Trade Tea, Feting with the slave produce of the continent of Europe. the limited business done was exclusively for cash •; corn- But the sugar from the countries he had mentioned was mon Congou was, however, not t o h e h a d under not only extended in quantity, but had been greatly im- Is 100, and Twankay Is I Id. In Company's Congou proved in quality. For his part, be had that confi there was little doing ; sellers for cash at Is ltd deuce in the labour of freemen compared with that of slaves per lb. At public sale 60 chests Souchong, 36 which gave hint an assurance that wherever the markets chests Twankay, 300 boxes Young Hyson, 100 boxes were open to the producers of both, the free labour would Caper, 108 chests Twankay Skin, 104 ,i_chests Imperial, drive the other out of the market. That was not merely 50 -chests Gunpowder, bankrupt's effects, were sold at his own opinion, but it was one which was daily gaining public sale, for cash on Saturday week :—lmperial went ground. It had been laid down as a maxim by the society at 2s 4.. ad a2s 4i-d a2s 7d; Gunpowd er 2 s 91-d a 2a lld ; established in Cuba, and conversant with slavery in all its Young Hyson 2s I lad a3s ; Caper 2s Old a2sl d ; Twan- forms, that the labour of one freemen was equivalent to kay kin Is bad a Is 7,- s td ; Souchong Is I lid a 2s ; that of two slaves. That was but a confirmation of the doe- T..vankay IS I lid a Is II i, trine of Homer —he would not quote the original Greek— SUGAR.--.We have again to report a rising market for all (A laugh)---" that the day that made a man a slave took descriptions of Raw Sugar admissable for home consump- half his work away," He found. also, that Mr, Turnbull, tion, and with an increasing demand : both Grocers and in his account of his recent visit to Porto Rico, stated that Refiners have been eager buyers of both brown and yellow the free labour there was quite equal to all that was re sorts of B r itish Plantation this week, and each successive quired. Although he should be anxious on the present day all on show has been bought up with avidity, but the occasion to give a benefit to the rate of duties on free la supply having been short has operated against buying ; the boor over slave l a b our, h e did so as a matter of feeling. paid are low grey quality are2s6d to3aabove those of last Friday ; He would certainly do s o if h e h a d i t in his power; but he prices B e r bi c P e of at 735, and nearly fine should say, taking an enlarged view of the subject, that he yellow Jamaica and Antigua at 78s to 793. did not look to the final success in abolishing slavery to To-day all offering was readily bought up at a further any other ultimate cause than the extension of commerce, advance of 2s per cwt, brown sorts selling at 75s a 763, and with it the extension of the enlightenment of the middling and good yellow 76s 6(.1 a 795, fine 80s a 81s 6:1 world. He did not believe that the slave trade was to be per cwt, and at the close of the market nothing of brown put down by gun-boats on the western coast of Africa, or quality was to be had under 75s per can. by the war of duties. Commerce, ho believed, would be At public sale 100 hhds New Barbadoes sold with spirit the real emancipator and the real abolitionist of slavery. at an advance on the rates of the last auction of 3s a4s per If by some happy combination a regular trade sprung up cwt, mid quality went at 79s Gd to 80s 6d, good 813 to upon the coast of Af r i ca , so th a t i ns t ea d o f export i ng the 81s 6i per cwt. sons of Africa to other countries, they would be beneficially Rs:Hem—To-day prices are higher for all articles, employed in their own country, that high rate of duty on and the trade anxious to buy, but fe w goods are to be bad; foreign sugar would st:fle that trade. If the price of at the close of the market, standard lumps were 100 s to sugar rose much higher the Right lion. Gentleman would 10,1 s; Hambro Loaves and Mittlers good and fine 103 s to 'be obliged to take slave-grown sugar . for consumption at troS ; brown L um p s aa s to 995, Treacle 40s 6d to 445. the duty of 635. per cwt. It was urge d b y t h e a d vocates Bastards 69 s t o 72 5; Pi eces 73 . -to 7 8a. of the present system that they ought to continue the pre , alaveertus.—This afternoon the trade came forward sent high rate of duty until the West Indies had recovered with increased freedom, a n d 7,050 bags at public sale all from their present embarrassed position. Ho should like sold at a further advance o f 2 s , making the rise for the to know how long Hon. Gentlemen would be obliged to week 4s per cwt, good and fine yellow went at 78s a 795, wait for such an event. It was inconsistent with justice low to good middling 753 6d a 77s Gd, good to fine brown to propose such an arrangement, after having t _ paid . the 733 a 753, middling 71s a 725, ve ry ord black 63s a 67s planters twenty millions, and after paying hishem an trn per cwt, mouse sum in the shape of drawback. fi h t o r properoof f competition. oe own mm .pi part lie e r t a i t t i l o o u n n s : ff r West Indian interests. He wouldgive, first, d • has been an increased demand, and all the parcels offer- on,, a reduction ing EAST iNDIA . —For Bengal for borne consumption th ere was willing to afford every means for the extension of the e h; of duty; secondly, he would afford every n w to the ing for sale by private treaty have and, Monopoly y iv , as the bane of commerce, and if he were called up at advanced prices. At public ag s a a h l i e found eager buyers, 2s a2s fed above former rates, g taking care that it was conducted under r h g •• ' b e 3 e 16 l o b: s mea n t s h of idl increasing ho w oul d a cultivationfford the siy facilities ben e p operaut °reties ; ay commercial monopoly acted 6 fi d n , e ge w e b d it m e id f d e l t i e n h g ed 763 79 t a n t 7 0 63 8 6 0 ti 5 : he w community he would state it was in those extraordinary fluctuations of price which were al wi grey and yellow, 74s 6d to 755; washed and damp 6 7 5 2 6 s ways the offspring of monopoly. Ster,diness of price was to 78s 6d ; low and m:ddling damp brown, 60s toq _ lle ' very low washed, 59s to 59s tid per cwt. Manilla, _ _Java, l e w good 745 7 6 7 d s t t n o 7fi e sd B tsc: : most upe detrim enta llyto sho yellow, at 233 6d to 24s ; middling, 22s 6d per cwt. _J , 9 4s a 6d the soul of good grey at 25s to 25s 6d, and damaged 24s to commerce. Fluctuation was the greatest per cat. Siam at 23s 6d. to 25s 6d. enemy of commerce, and always accompanied monopoly. This afternoon 204 bags Bengal at auction sold readily It had accompanied the West Indian as it had 78s 6d pantedall accorn. at prices Is higher : low and middling white fetched other monopolies. He wished Hon. Members to 803, and yellow 77s to 78s per cwt. would look at a mercantile' chart recently published by FOREIGN- - -ThiS afternoon 2,617 baskets J ava at auction Mr. Walker. O ne o f hi s c h arts adorned the wall of a all sold, b ut at rather lower rate's, l ow brown realized 20s Committee-room of the House of Commons. That gen to 21s, middling grey 23s 6d to. 24s 6d per cwt. tletnen said that in all those articles which possessed a mo- Rest BRAND Y AND HoLLANDs:.--There has been a good nopoly of fluctuation, price was constant, but of those ar demand for Lee war d Island Roger this weak , a nd p ri ces tidies in which the tr a d e was open steady prices had p re . have improved id to Id per gallon ; 280 puns have been trailed. This was true of the sugar interest as of every other. disposed of, p roo f s at 33 7ad a 3e. .Bd, 3 per cent over 3 s U ut monopolies like this were most detrimental not only to Sid a3s 91, .5 to 18 over 3 5 /Od a 43 6d, 20 to 30 over commerce but society itself. In the commencement of 4s ad a 55 2d, 32 to 40 over fine- squalitY 53 6d a 53 91. what he advanced to the House, he had shown how the Jamaica has been in fair request, and prices are rather present high prices of sugar operated on the poor—and if higher, the sales are 160 puns, 30 to 36 per cent e ver t h er were a time when they were called on to re over at 6s and 6s 4d, st ronger os 5d and 6s 61, duce the d u ty on suc h art i c l es as sugar , co ff ee, and cocoa, arid favourite marks 6s 7d a6s 8d; of the latter kind the it was the present, when society was changing from in supplY is very small. The arrivals in Ave been light since temperance to temperance. (Those who had read the this d continues in a dull admirable speeches of that distinguished financier, M r . aY week.—The Brandy market state, and: for Cognac, first Huskisson, would recollect that he stated in 1829, that prices are again rather lower . 1 brands of the vint age o f 1836, 5s 2d a ss . 4d has been ac- o f the poor consumers of coffee in this country, only two cetped in puns and lihds-1837, 5s a 5 , 5 20. 1-483 8, 4s 10d ' thirds could afford to use sugar with it. Such was the a lower 55-18 , 4s 6d a 4 s ea . G eneva for export is r at h er resu l t o f the high price of sugar in h i s t i me, but if he hod ; sal39es have been made at Is Dia als 1 id.,....The happily lived to this day, he would have bad reason to think demand for Briti s h C orn Sp i rits has been i`iarsited at 19 s Id, 'the p resent state o f t hi ngs unfortunately worse —in th e fi rst me.—There has been an improved demand for all ph-ace from the rise in the price of sugar ; and in the second clean descriptions of British Plantation, fi ' r home con- pi nt '. beca use now poor consumers consumed articles which sumption this week ; the merchants having displayed more required more sugar th a n they did in the time of Mr. Hus firmness, and the rates previously establie ,oed have been kisson. This was a fortunate change in society and in s upported; un c l ean sorts arc still howev' . 3 . neglected, but comm erce . He would take that opportunity of s t at i ng a prices have suffered no further depressio , 1 o f moment, they fact that must i , ,,, - . , interesting to every friend of civiliza are however rather lower than 'on this dw eed," ‘ tion, namely, that r ho amber of coffee-lames frequente4 ‘, Mr. CHOLMONDELE Y rose to object to the clause providi ng that the e x p enses i ncurre d b y the opposerof the Bill should be paid by the promoters of it. If such a principle was to be established, he would ask whether the present was the case in which it was to be begun. It was for the House to consider whether it would entertain so extraordinary a proposition that in any case the expense of the opposers of the Bill should be paid by the pro moters of it.--(llear, hear.) If the House agreed to this clause, which he could not conceive, they would do they would deliberately affirm a principle that had hitherto never been recognised, and to establish a precedent that had been hitherto utterly unthought of. He begged to move, that the House disagree with the amendment. Mr. J. JE RVIS said, that as the amendment of which his Hon. Friend complained had been intro duced by himself. Probably the House would accord to him its indulgence while he made a few observatioes. In the first place he thought he had some reason to complain of the course which the Hon. Gent. had adopted. I was not usual he believed to make such motion on bringing up the Report. In private business, the course was to bring up clauses or to move amendments on the third reading of the Bill, and it was the ordinary course in the House and out of the House, when—one Honourable Member in tended to move an amendment, to give notice of it No notice had been given of the motion that had just been made. That was a very good reason 'for his pressing on the lion. Member to nejourn the discussion to another evening. He thought. having regard to the public bus'. ness before the House that night, it was impossible a full liscussion of the Bill could take place within reasonable time. (LEFT SPEAKING.) by the poor had increased, within the last few years, from 181 to about 2,000. Those coffee-houses were frequented to a vast extent by poor artizens and working men; and it was on their behalf he called far a reduction of those duties. Many of these coffee-houses were frequented by upwards of 1 ; 500 persons in one day. They were the, re. sorts not only of temperance, but of intellect, for the fre quenters of them had an opportunity of improving their minds by a perusal of the literary periodicals and journels of the day. Such a change in the habits of the people was a most interesting one. It had created a greater demand for sugar than had ever before been known ; and yet, not withstanding this tendency they had shown to abstain from the use of spirituous liquors, and subetitu' e in their phice tea, coffee, and cocoa, they refused to lower the duty upon sugar, the consumption of v. filch was closely connected with the consumption of all these different articles. He had now shown that the demand for sugar was increased in con sequence of this change in the habits of the people, yet the consumption of it was diminished in consequence of a di minished importation. The stock in hand was also totally inadequate to supply the demand, and he asked from what sources could they expect to supply the deficiency ? But be felt that this was only one part of the great question which involved the consideration of increasing the revenue by di minishing the duties upon the importation of articles gene rally, and thus cheapening them to the population. The benefit of this would be three-fold, first, it would secure a better and cheaper article to the consumer; secondly, by increasing consumption it would increase the revenue; and thirdly, it would extend commerce—( Hear, bear, hem but he felt that that question rather belonged to the subject which, in addit'on to the many benefits he had already con ferred on the country, his Hon. Friend the Member for Kilkenny, had recently taken up, who had obtained a Committee to consider the whole question of the Import Duties, and he doubted not the ultimate results of the la bours of that Committee would be of immense advantage to the country. The present question came in the same ca tegory as the questions before that Committee. This ques tion was most important as connected t with the question of our foreign trade, and notwithstanding the too domestic wishes of some IIOV. Members of that House, he felt and believed that the givingevery facility to the extensionof our foreign trade was essential not only to the vitality, but even to the existence of the commerce of this country ; arid oa that, he believed, depended the prosperity, the power, and the glory of Great Britain. After thanking the Commit tee for the attention with which they had listened to him, the Hon. Member concluded by moving that the duty on the importation of foreign sugar be reduced front 645. to 345. per cwt. Mr. THORNELY seconded the motion, as he was cons ineed that the time was now arrived when, both as re garded the consumption of the country and the benefit of the revenue, the prohibitory duty on the importation of foreign sugar ought to be removed. The duty paid ma nually on the importation of sugar for home consumption amounted to 4,600,0001., with a duty of 245. per cent., and as colonial sugar was now 245. per cent. dearer than foreign sugar, this: country was paying 4,600,0001. additional, in consequence of the prohibition of foreign sugar. There had been a stsong feeling against the Corn-laws during the last two years, but then at least they had the benefit of a sliding scale, and both Hsusee had recently signified their approbation of this ; but there was not even a sliding scale of sugar duties, and the prohibition con tinued although the price had increased 300 per cent. and the supply afforded by the colonies was totally in adequate to the demand. In 1829 Mr. Charles Grant had proposed that the duties on British plantation sugar should he reduced to 20s. and East India sugar to 235. And on Foreign sugar to 28s. This had only been lost by a majority of 38 votes. Surely then the motion of his Hon. Friend was .worthy of consideration. A distinction had been attempted to be drawn between free labour sugar and slave labour sugar, but those who drew these distinctions should consider the whole matter, and pro hibit every thing the produce of slave labour. They should begin by prohibiting the importation of cotton wool from the United States, and the Brazils, and by so doing they would at once throw a million and a half of cur own artizens out of employment. They should then prohibit the importation of tobacco, au article which produced a revenue of three millions and a half annually. But Foreign sugar was at this moment refined in bond, and exported to the different British colonies, and to the West Indian colonies as well as the others, so that the West India colonists actually purchased Foreign sugar for their own consumption, so as to enable them to send the whole of the crops to England, and thus obtain the monopoly price for the whole they produced. Our merchants carried on a large trade with the Brazils, and they must take slave labour sugar in exchange, and if they were not permitted to import it into this country, they would send it to Ilamburgh or Rotterdam. He thought the House of Commons ought to confer this boon upon the people ; they had during this session voted increased estimates and in creased taxation, and unless some boon of this sort was conferred upon the people it would be the mast dis couraging session he had ever witnessed since he had had the honour of a seat in that House. Mr. L ABOUCHE RE admitted the great importance of the question itself at all times, whether considered as a financial, commercial, or colonial question, and he was free to admit that at the present moment there did exist circumstances which rendered it natural and proper that the House should now seriously consider the question, and for himself he must say that although lie was not prepared to recommend the Committee to come to the conclusion recommended by his Hon. Friend, yet he rejoiced that the consideration of thi.; subject had been brought before the House and the country. He believed there- were many mistaken ideas prevalent with regard to this question. Ho would not deny that a state of things had taken place with regard to the sugar trade worthy of the gravest considera tion—a great revolution had, in feet, taken place in that trade. Until recently our own colonial possessions had produced more than sufficient for the supply of the markets of this country, and the surplus was refined and ex ported. But in consequence of the changes which had recently taken place in the West Indies—(hear)—the supply from those colonies had ceased to be sufficient to meet the wants of this country ; formerly although they possessed a monopoly of the market in name, they did not possess it in reality, because the surplus, being exported to foreign markets, the price in those markets, of souse, in a great measure, regulated the price in this country ; but now they possessed not nominally, but really the monopoly of the English market, and the result was, that at this mo ment the price of sugar was raised to an unexampled ex tent. It had not been so high since 1814, and when they considered the difference in the valuo of money in 1814 and 1840, he might assume that the actual price of sugar at this moment was unexampled. Next, he would admit, that the supply during the present year had been unusually short—that the distress in the sugar trade was consequently very great, and the privations endured by the consumer considerable, and that the stock in hand was shorter than it had ever before been known to be in the sugar trade, and had the question of the sugar trade and the sugar duties been one simply of a reduction of duty, he would admit that an abundant case had been made out for a reduction of the duty. But was this question of such a simple nature? He had listened attentively to all the . petitions on the subject of the reduction of the duty, more particularly to the petition presented by his Hon. Friend tho Nlember for Sheffield. They did not pray for the indiscriminate admission of all foreign sugar, they asked for the introduction of free labour sugar alone, to the ex clusion of slave labour sugar. It was important that these petitioners, and the country generally', should understand that Parliament could not grant the prayer of these peti tions without the violation of the mo•t solemn eneage ments mitered into between this country and the United States and this country and the Brazils. And he hoped they would understand that the motion of his Hon. Friend was for the admission of foreign sugar without distinction of free labour or slave labour. It should be recollected that they were now only legislating for one year, and none could say but that the effect of the resolution must be to produce a great increase In the importation of foreign sugar, and all must admit that the greater part of that in crease must come from the Brazils. The Brazils possessed a fertile soil, and had every facility for sending their pro duce here, and the question really was whether the House would consent to give such a stimulus to slave labour in the Brazils as must he given by permitting an unlimited power of importation of sugar into this country.— (Cheers.) Although as had been observed by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, the Legislature of this country had not been always consistent with regard to the encouragement of free labour; yet with regard to this question, he did not think the House would consent to give such a direct encouragement to slave labour.—(Hear.) As to coffee, our own colonies had never possessed the exclusive supply of this country as they had with respect to sugar. The question, however, was whether they should this year give a greater stimulus to the cultivation of sugar in the slave colonies. He was not prepared, without entering into abstract principles, to recommend that course on the present occasion. There certainly was a short supply of sugar; the deficiency, however, was from the West India colonies. That deficiency too, it was to be hoped, would not be continuous, as it had arisen from causes which would not apply to succeeding years—from drought, for instance. Be that as it may the people of this country required that the emancipation experiment should be fairly tried, and that it would not consider was the case if, at a moment when the colonies were struggling for existence, the floodgates should be opened to foreign sugar. ;Ur. HUME said the vote of the other night against the importation of Coolies shut the door against the in gress of free labour in the colonies, and the vote of the present night (if against the motion) would shut the door against the ingress of foreign sugar, so that on the one band colonial sugar was diminished in production, and on the other the country was precluded from pur chasing any but colonial sugar.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He should support the motion of his lion. Friend, be lieving that it would not do more than the West India planters would admit, and at the same time reduce the price of sugar to the capacity of poor consumers to purchase.—( Hear.) Mr. HA WE S said he should support the motion of the Hon. Member for Wigan, and he held he was consistent in doing so, notwithstanding that he had opposed the Co lonia' Passengers' Bill. All the arguments of the Right lion. Gentlemen were in favour of reducing the duty, but he said don't make the alteration now, let the population of England be a little longer denied one of the necessities of life in order to see whether the West India proprie tors will net be able hereafter to supply them. Was there any weight in this argument of a future produce ? lie was prepared to show it was altogether visionary. The quantity entered for home consumption in 1838 wa53,000,369 cwt., and in 1839 2,000,790 cwt., being a deficiency of about half a million. He was informed on good authority there was every reason to expect the importation of next scar would even fall short of this, and thus there would be on the known and conjectural importation a diminution of not less than a million ; and was there any gentlemen in that House who would state there was any possibility of their obtaining- the simply of this deficiency from the West Indies ? lie knew he had little chance of success after the speech that had been made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, which would be well supported by Gentlemen who always supported special interests in that liouse,( Hear, hear)—. for a Minister had nothing to do in that House to obtain support than to announce that it was his attention to sup. port some exclusive Mtorest...—(Hear,4l9 If the pre. EVEN ING EDITION. sent disposition of political power was always to be in f t" vt ur of prohibitory interests, they wou ld find u't'' mately the consumer to be the strongest ; if the}" pursued their system, they would find their Constit u ' tien was nothing but a sh ee t o f p a p er , w i t h out a partici , ci f of respect or protection from the people in the day e trial. —( Hear, hear.) Sir STEPHEN LUSHINGTON was the represen tative of 400,000 persons who were consumers of thus article. His lion. Friend ( Nir. Hawes) seemed to as sume that he was the representative of the opinions 013 ' consumers, but in this he (Dr. Lushington) did not a gree wilt him. He also represented, in fait ordeion, the wh° l f, community of Great Britain, end h e b e li eve d thas these as vs , ' as his own immediate constituents, even proposed to sacrifice their own personal convenience to carry out the great prin ciple for which they had voted twenty millions of . money; What was the proposition of the lien. Member for Wig s ": He knew that he could not i n t ro d uce f ore i gn su gar, c" 1 ~.` with respect to the Brazilian treaty, h e did not th ins ," any man would counsel its vi o l a ti on . Il e s h ou ld be gia, u : to admit other sugar, if he co u ld d o i t u t the au mission of slave-grown sugar. Then the simple questio.7 was, were circumstances such th a t th e y oug ht to ads" slave-grown sugar ?—( Hear, hear.) Ile had listened to all the arguments of the lion. Member for 'Wigan, and r e did not mean to deny the tr o th o f man y o f them. believed the diminution of price occasioned an increased consumption; but looking to the question in all its point!, and to the present position of the country in relation to it , the question was, whether they ought at once, wi se : emancipation had taken place— so f ar as they knew of its effects—for a single t we l ve mon ths, in de spair of its effects, in utter despair that free l'b eu c i would be able to compete with slave labour, from a reg ard r to the interests of the people of this country, to abandon the great experiment ?—( Hear, hear.) H e was prepared to say there was not a shad o w of grou a d f or th a t expectatio n. l He had taken pains, and if th e C omm itt e e would do , t hint the honour to listen, he would show the actual state o' the case as compared with 1832 and th e y ea r antecedent 0 the passing of the Emancipation Act. lie would comPl the quantity of sug ar th en unsorted into this country, an that at the end of January 1840, and he would show t he deficiency and account for it by i rroving that it was owing to accidental circumstances. Ho h a d reduced these quan tities to hundred-weights, because hogsheads varied in their quantity, s ome ti mes f rom 12 c ,7t. to 22 c t: at , The total import for Briti s h Pl an t a ti on , durt . ,?"4 th e 3 1, c , ( 1 ending the sth of J an u ar y 1833, was 3 , 784 , 244 Civ:‘• ; for the year 1840, 2,822,872 ; b e i ng a dintinutio:.l ° British plantation sugar of 961,372 ewes. He would a" dertake to account for that diminution. From the M au i ritius there had be e n an i ncrease , f rom 1 833 t o 184 0, . ° d 4,471 ; and from the West Indies there had been an en' crease of 88,238 ; making an increase of sixfold. 1 he total amount of sugar i m p or t e d i n 1833 wa s 4,366 . ' ( " ) t 0 s . cats , and the total am oun t i n 1840 was 3 954,383 c' The total decrease in the very year of the einan ci P P tion, as comp a r e d with th e ear before emancipatiott, 'Ling 431,617 cats., o r one -t e y nth, during the first y ea r of freedom.—( Hear, hear, hear.) The Right Hon• a" , ocs Learned Gentleman th en re f erre d to a var i e ty of d mews, official as well a s o th ers , to s h ow t h at the diiniutli tion might be attributed t o drought and other acci denta l calamities, and said—Thi s i s a question of the d ee n c ! v . d s importance. If you introdu c e f ore i gn su gar into t i : country, the inevitable e ff ec t o f so d o i ng w ill be 10 dc, stroy and utterly annihil a t e a ll h opes o f a s'ice es o s/o to termination of the slave-trade. Nu. se your . use colonies—try wheth er or no t t h ose co l on i es w ill no t prod ‘t an adequate supply. If y ou l e t i n f ore i gn suga r, breah r3 7 your treaties with f o rei gn p owers —( Cheers.) Wi t " o r your cruizers —( H e ar, h ear .) S acr ifi ce no more of yo money..—(Hear, hear.) That hour that foreign foga_ r „ admitted into comp e titi on w i t h t h e sugar t h a t is grown g, tree labour in our own c o l on i es — t h at very h o ur seals ', if , fate of Africa—(Cheers)—that very hour Lamps slave r, ' a Cuba, in the Brazils, in Martinique, in Guadeloupe , every other colony in w hi c h s l avery prevails.—(Ch ce g . o ) f It will not only p ro p slavery, but it will add to the evi vii i that trade, whi c h I a d m i t is being carried on. I t nc t add to guilt, and cr i me , an d m i scon d uct, to an e xtent a t i magnitude I can no t con t emp l ate w i t h out h orror , fear' Lin t he disgust.—(Hear, hear.) Wher e i s my H o n- Fri3n," „. a s Member fur Lambeth?—( H ear an d l aug h ter , Mr. h a lo being absent.) D oes h e b e li eve t h e peop l e of Eng.:o will consent to it ? Is that his judgmen t opinion of the people of England—( Hear, he n c ? after five-and-thirty long years of labour in this "' l ' s; We have heard complaints of the high price of sog i a oi , and you have a few petitions. Compare those petitions with the thousands and thousands of petitions w u " r were laid on your table from year to year, in fav° utter the adoption of that principle which would be uttoLia. destroyed and exterminated if you listened to the c o blooded doctrines of some of those who are pure eon, mists.—( Hear, hear.) l am a great po li t i ca l econornis', but never will I a d vocate economy to t h e sacrifice 0' I other principles d e ar t o th e h eart o f man. —( Cheer ),' ob i ° remember well the words of the father of my y Friend opposite, ( Lord Sandon,) when i t was a l .t e g to that it would be a grea t sacr ifi ce to G rea t Briton' give up the s l ave - tra d e , an d t h at i t was a nurse r y for our seamen (a greater falsehood was never uttered); that it produced millions of pounds to this country, an d , ar t augmenting the resources of all her colonies. The to of Harrowby s a id, an d the expression will do honour h his name long after h e i s gone , " I dare Cot weigiil ° i against blond."--( Hear, hear, hear.) The Right - lie n s and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to say hc i Z, r aware of the difficulties that attended this question. JP` t - , they had tried all the means that. God had givea then 1, - work out the great principle of obtaining a useful article at a low price, it would be time enough to let loose t" - flood-gates of misery upon Africa.—(Cheers.) No ° l n t living could d en y th a t that would inevit a bly be-the Ws of this measure. li e h a d h ear d i t stated all that er as wanted was a perfectly free competition,•and that they ought to deal with sugar precisely as they had d ea with cotton. Deeply as he (Sir S. Lushington, regretted that the lower classes of this coun,,trl should be compelled to pay the present high price " 7 0 , sugar—sorry as he was for his constituents—the .bug refiners of this country, whom ho was then acting ju °p position to, and there were many among them wile weer c i his best friends, yet h e was , i n hi s consc i ence , COnifile that the true interests of this nation were to perseve re that line of humane con d uct i t h a d a d opte d un til the . should come when the course of events should point out that a deviation front it was absolutely necessary...l (Cheers.) He was cer t a i n a l so, t h at if a f a i r appeal made to the people of this country, the great majority them would be found to deprecate nothing on earth much as the adoption of a measure certainly tending to t „ perpetuation of slav er y, an d sure to aggravate the m ser ' of the slave trade.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. A. CHAPMAN would do all in his power to OP port the mer can til e an d s hi pp i ng i nterest o f the noontry• but he felt bound to oppose the amendment of the Ho" ; Member for Wi gan , w h en h e was conv i nce d its effect would beto destroy the treaties that had been entered into' Mr. OCONNELL said he ne ve r g did ave a vote with a firmer convicti on o f its propriety than ho on the present occasion, against the amen chu F ns of his Hon. Friend the Member for Wigan, as his op ini° of that amend men t was t h at i t di d not go far enough. is. (Hear, hear.) He was glad that the subject had been d cussed thus early, b ecause the people would now he a ble to decide bet ween h av i ng d ear sugar or slavery.—( Hear. ) Everybody must have foreseen that sugar would becorne dearer up on th e s l aves b e i ng emancipated, b ut they had now the prospect of that dearness being changed to shear . ness by free l a bo u r. H o b e li eve d t h at a ll t h at wa s flea s sary was that the people should understand the question as it really existed. Lesson s o f po li t i cal economy were on', to be preached to them, b ecause w h en the emanc ipation °` the negroes took place political economy was set at clet: tlince. The people of E ng l an d had already made their choice, and he would v e nt ure to say that no man would , bold enough to call a meet i ng on this subject. — ( H ear. t The experiment of emancipation ought to be worked 0 s well; there ought to be an anxiety on the part of the Go vernment to assist th e pl anters with as much free labour as . possible—the Government ought daily and nightly to el seder how they could best effect that ; but then, on other hand, the planters ought to assist the Goverronc" Hear.) The planters in Guiana had shown a readiness to do that, but he w as sorry to say that was not the ease in Jamaica. In G u i ana they were getting free labour fr ,e North America, an d h e w i s h e d to see such the case Ja i l rnaica. He m us t th ere f ore protest against t h e p rcs!r n motion, and all h e d es i re d was t h at the present quell"' should he understood by the people. Mr. VILLIERS supported the amendment of the 11 " ; Member for Wi gan , w i t h a fi rm conviction t h at he was correct, as was th e H on . M em b er f or D ublin, i n the couj"; he had thought r i g ht t o a d opt. T he simple principle t"ef'd had that night to decide upon, was whether they t "— sacrifice the wh o l e commun i ty f or a part of it. Was e Ives . ; to be no sympathy f or t h e peop l e of this country ? they to endure the miseries they had done for Sear;:, an was no considerati on t o b e ta k en of them ?—( Hear. hear' ) Was no one to b e th oug h t o f b ut the negro.—( 4eB; hear.) Th o3e w h o a d vocate d the abolition of s l a ve ,.., were not to overlook the interests of the people of this country. He contend e d t h at w h en a proposition was made to reduce the duty on a necessary article of consumP t ' e7 ; it was worthy of th e conie s -.scion of the H o u se , an d unles s ,'" could be shown that a g- eater evil would b e the resul t, they were bo un d to adieet it. The lion. Member for Dublin had said th a t t h e p ropos i t i on of the Hon. Membe r for Wigan had not gone far enough. .Now in his ( 31r ; Villiers') opinion th e H on . M em b er for Dublin had °- gone far enough himself, for to carry out his own princi ple he ought to have brought forward a motion to do aw a Y f with the duty on t o b acco an d ot h er articles, the produce ": slave labour.—( Hear, hear.) The proposition 0 1 hi © lion. Friend th e M em b er f or :Wi gan, being to re d uce the duty on an article of home consumption, ought to M eet with the support of every Liberal Member in that Hous e ' and such being his opinion it should have his support. Mr. NV. H. GLADSTONE said that several courses might be taken by lion. Members, all of which wou ld be intelligible and consistent. The course adopted by the Hon. and Learn e d M em b er f or Dublin, the Right Ile"' the Member f or th e T ower Hamlets, and the Hon. M e mber • for Kilkenny, were of that character, but that pursued by the Members for Lambeth, Wigan, and 'Wolverhampt on ' were utterly irreconcileable. They professed to be the ardent friends of freedom and the enemies of slavery i n every form, and as such he would ask them if they we re prepared to stake the issue of thi s question upon the fact whether it would or not, if carried, extend the slave trade ? He denied the statement of the Hon. Member for Lambeth that the present was a West Indian planter's question—( Hear, hear)---it was as much an East Indian question as a West Indian one.—(Hear,) Upon the ar guments so powerfully urged by the Learned Member for the Tower Hamlets be (Mr. Gladstone) should vote against the amendment. Mr. HAWES begged slav e to say that he wi s h e d no t to en courageproduce, nor did he believe that this would be the result of the amendment. Mr. GLADSTONE spoke not of motives, but of effects. Mr. ENVART replied, and said he did not wish to divide ; but Mr. HUME said he did not see why there should not bo a division. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and tho Coal• mit*, divided, whena there &FFrearod—i I