The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

MERCANTILE MARINE BILL.

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d. en their nth= weld Vets be brought hewn to the
level of the deg cm foreign ham eager, that as that time
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May had had lame. He belled ler a illifseit dm*
its stesedea of the home M a &health ressivet ham
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eif pudgier, sager cultivedsa ha elide beams rmaseentive,
and fora time, at least, ft will meligne so." TIM inhibited
the mastitis& el Britt!' Oulthe ender the Mon se wish of
Is4l. It was at moose is a oratimeativelysiz.senditios.
At the M as Mae time, fat as Ise esehriages, m. "(mum
la British Guiana, with a soil noel le my he the wield,
wee ussodinely reduced. (Her, bow.) He led beard of
11 MO Of GO mean belinglagoongs thilop. which wee sot
wog le 4,4 bought mow, with steeliest
mothinery, sad was mid for 6,000 dol-
lar. That showed that la Edda Oulaaa they
did not anticipate pagmaist patemeitto trader the
act of 1848. He had a letter also from Mr. Alexander, a
member of the Society of Fslende, who was travelling to
the West lodise, which Immo means gave a glowing idea
of the preegmitr of the West laden. Mr. Alexander mid
" I de got lkedd the Immense* of excluding have-prim
mar Os Ism streagly now that I have sees • large potties
ear ma West India colonise. la some of them totals/
tbe depression is very serious, of all alum, sad I fear
shield very low prism orietiffee daring the mama year
there will he • ennsiderable dinsiaatma of saluvation. Al-
though every Christian meet rejoice in the cheap from
slavery to freedom, the sugar bill has In no antral
degree contributed to despoil that seaman of in legi-
timate benefits to all dames of the community." Let him
however say that be loped*, bones would shindy understand
bow considerable was the isenellt whisk the West Indies had
derived from the act of 1848 la the newsmen the greatest
stress was Mil en the seadition of the West lodise, sad it
was set forth that that onolition was in eseemasom of the
set ef 1848. and that these prophecies whisk were made la
1846 had bees fatiOni W the present sedition of tie West
Indies; whisemothe reuse feat wee, that the gement son
&dem of the West ladies was be eensequeees .1 the Mesh-
does made ha the seta 1846 by the act of 1646. The pre-
east protestlea under the act of 1846 would ham been 3e. •
ewt. up to the raid of Joly ; from July next it would have
boon Is. Bd., and in July 1851 it would have been entirely
equal ; whereas at the present time they had a protesting
duty of Os. 64. per ewe Therefore it was in coasequeme
of their having in 1849 yielded to the West Indies a certain
degree of protection in addition to what they had before,
that they were now, to use a vulgar expression,
enabled to keep their hinds above water. Now, as far as he
was informed, the exportatioa of machinery, and such like
mesas of extensive cultivation, were, except in pert/160ra
cues, tad to • very limited degree, not going on as they did
go on to the West Indies. And now let them turn for a
moment to the condition of Cuba. The exports of Inger
from Cube had increased from 145,000 tens, in 1840, to
270,000 teas in IMO. He thought it likely that the power
of exportation of sugar Nem Cuba was likely to Mayan
still further. It is use that the number of slaves in Cuba
altogether was diminished, but the production of coffee was
greatly diminishes, the export having been reduced from
24,000 tons to 10,000 tons; and Mr. Kennedy, who was em-
ployed by the government, end who we. living in Cuba,
wrote home word that 39,000 slaves had been transferred
from the cultivation of coffee to the cultivation of sugar. In
another letter he stated that • large number of slaves,
wk., had been employed in the making of railways, were
now employed in the cultivation of sugar. He would
not enter generally into the state of Bread, but there also
the quantity of sugar exported had been considers* in-
creased, and there also a very great degree of prosperity
erevaited among the planters. One thing, however, was
remarkable in the state of Brasil. Toe Emperor of Brasil,
in making cis speech to the Corte not long sines,
informed them that their agriculturists were in great
want on labourers, and recommended them to supply
that want of labour by some means, thereby showing that,
notwithstanding what we considered a great degree of
prosperity, they contemplated illumine their cultivation. If
it were the simple question of the colonic alone, considering
the many experiments we had made in the West Indies he
shout I have been divined to treat them with more tender-
news and to give them a greater length of time than bad
been allowed by that house; but, at the same time, be must
say that it was not on account of the West Indies, but on
mount of the great question of humanity which it involved
hat lee was induced to press this matter upon that house.
Per fiftyyears this country had considered that no effort
was too great, that no sacrifice was ill made to put down
the slays trade. In 1815 they gave instructions to the Duke
of Wellington, by which he went abroad and proposed that
• convention should be made of the different items of Eu-
rope by which they should prohibit the importation into
their respective dominions of c lonial produce from within
the territories of powers that refused to inter into that con-
vention. We were to prohibit even at that time slave-
grown produce from countries where the slave trade
was still carried on. He found that at that
time we gave • greet sum of money-300,0001., besides
remitting a debt of 400,0001. to Portugal, and 400,0001. to
Spain, to induce those countries to put down the slave trade.
It was quite unnecessary to remind the house that we gave
20 million in 1833, in order that 'livery might be 'yin-
guished in our own colonies. He thought every one would
acknowledge that i! there was one orineiple which this
country bad maintained during the present century,
at home and abroad, it was that having abolished the
slave trade and slavery in our own country,
we would do all that in us lay as a great
end Christian nation to put it down in foreign countries.
(Cheers) Ho hoped the time would never come when we
should give up that great principle. He remembered the
words Cr an American who unfortunately was himself a slave
owner, who, alluding to this subject, said, " I tremble for my
country when I remember that God is jut." He thought
we might tremble for our country if we should arrive at the
day when we pave up the great principle that
the slave trade was to be opposed by eve means that
was likely to be effectual. There were some objections cer-
tainly employed against any efforts by means of a duty to
repress and to keep back the slays trade in Cuba and Brazil.
He wee told that if they wished to keep out slave grown
articles, they should keep out not only sugar, but also
cotton and toba-co—(hear, hear)—and that while they in-
troduced cotton and tobacco, they tad no wish to keep
out sugar. Now, he saw no reason why he should
not oppose an evil that he could successfully oppose,
because there were other evils that it was impossible for him
to oppose. Bat he thought, if any one looked at the history
of our cotton trade with America, he would see that that
sou an temple rather to be avoided than followed. We
first introduced cotton from America at the beginning of
this century. At that time, unfortunately, we held slaves our-
selves, ind,tberefore, could not cusistently tell the Americans
we would not admit their slave grown cotton. And what was
the consequence? At this moment we were obliged to admit
it. We had a vast population dependent on • manufacture
which was curiae on with come, which was produced by
slaves, and slaves who, he was sorry to say, were in • state I
of great misery and degradation. Now, if fifty years ago
we had been in the same condition we are in now with re-
gard to sugar, had we then introduced cotton from some
other Mace and very little from America, had we made •
stand it the time arid said "we will admit free operas, but
will not admit slave grown cotton," would any one tel him
that by this time we should aot have had an ample supply
of cotton, not grown by miserable and ill-fed slaves,
but by freemen ? It was also said, that if we ex-
cluded slave-grown sugar from this country, the effect
would be that that sugar would go abroad, that foreign
free sugar would come to this country, and that
we should not thereby discourage slave-grown sugar. Now,
that argument was theoretically true but practically
film. Cuba and Brazil took a different view of
it. They considered it of the greatest peeeible im-
portance to them that this market should be
open tr them; and the day on which we, unfoetunately, as
we thought, admitted slave-growa near into this country,
was kept as a day of rejoicing in Cuba. The plan of the
right hon. gentleman opposite to keep out slave-grown sugar,
and to admit foreign tree mu, seemed to him a wise one,
and it was a great misfortune that it was not mom strongly
adhered to. He confessed that, for his part, he should far
prefer a return to that plan. He thought that the W, at
Indies had nothing to fear from free-grown sugar; he
thought that they had everything to fear from
due grown suzar. Bat if it were said that it was quits
impossible to return to that plan then he would rather keep
a differ Mid duty on all foreign sugars; Ito would rather,
instead of gradually decreasing, gradually increase the duty
en foreign augan. And sow let him ask the house for one
moment, to consider what was the condition of the slave
trade. Let the house reflect for a moment on what was the
effect deny measure that they took which clearly promoted**
slave trade on he coast of Attica. He did not mean to harrow
up their (milieu by descriptions of the horrors of the slave
trade in its different forms, bat let him beg the house for
one moment to amider the misery that was produced in
the case of every slave that was captured, the miseries pro-
duced by his original seizure. In each ease perhaps a whole
country was thrown into confusion and despair by the attack
of some hostile tribe. Let him beg of the house to rawest,
ber the destruction of life and the misery calmed by the
detention of the slaves in those horrible places which were
coiled betracoone. Let them remember that if they were
supplied by slave grown sugar, they were supplied by the
blood of those men who were carried across the
Atlantic In those awful prison-houses the slave ship
Then might be some difference of op;nion as to the misery
of slave ships at present compared with what it was fifty
years ago. He would avoid entering into that googlies,
but would simply call attention to Mr. Wilberforee's deurip •
don of a slave-ship, in 1807, fifteen years after the alcove
trade had been regulated by an act of parliament. His
statement was that no greater amount of misery could be in-
itiated on teems beings than was endured in a slave-ship on
the middle passage. The condition of these poor creatures
was probably no better now. On their arrival at Cabe no
description of human Rimy could be more desperate than
their condition. In some instances SOO slaves were shut
an on one estate without a single female ; and during crop '
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if, he the sake of supplying the people with cheap sugar,
they them to admit the slave-grown sugar of Cube and
a great
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th ofitl7at a mPetin t misery,heyand suf.
Wise that meld possibly be conceived in any human audi-
tion. (aw, ham.) In addition, the amelioration of Africa
by othffleatien or otherwise would be prevented. The slave

In answer to a qualms from Mr. Ht:rr,
Sir 0. GREY mid it was his intention to proceed with
the Mercantile Marine Bill.
THE JEWS' AFFIRMATION BILL.

Mr. GOULBURN iuquirid ft it wu proposed to pro-
ceed with toe Jews Afiluselion Bill on Monday.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would fix a day.

ADJOURN/4EN I OF THE HOUSE.
Os the rutin that the house at It. rising do adjourn till
Monday,
Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on Monday he should
aek the noble lord at the head of the government to
fix • day for proceeding with the Boclesiasticel Commission
Bill. Last night the noble lord had said that the reason why
there should be a ditty *protruding" with the bill, was that it
had come down from the House of Lards ; and, in the begin-
ning of the session, he had given as a reason for delay, that
it was about to come before the House of Lords. Four years
they had bees trying to get a discussion of this question, and
they had not yet been able to do :o.
Sir G. GREY maid that what his noble friend really said
wee not that he wished to postpone the bill because it had
fume down from the House of Lords, but because there were
other tonsures he wished to paw in order that they might
go up to the Lords. His noble friend had said that a day
would be flied for proceeding with the bill.
EVICTIONS IN IRELAND.
Mr. P. SCROPE said that on a former occasion he had
asked the noble lord at the head of the government whether
he had taken the opinion of the law officers of the crown as
to the legality of the wholesale eviction of tenants in
Ireland, or if no', whether messianic would be taken to
cheek those evictions. The noble lord's answer was not
utisfactory, and he (Mr. P. Serope) begged to repeat
the question to the right hut. gentleman the Home
Secretary, sad to give notice that he should repeat the
question from week to week as long as the session buted,
and while the evictions continued.

Sir G. GREY said that as his ion. friend had now given
notion of his putting his gumption from time to time, he
would answer him on the next occasion, us he had not given
notice previously to making it now.
SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST-OFFICE.
Mr. FORSTER begged to eve notice to the right hon. gen.
deman the Chancellor of the Exchequer that on Monday he
would put • question to him in relstien to the opinion to
which the house came last night on the question of Sunday
labour in the Post-office. He thought their opinion had not
been fairly tested, as the subject had not been bully gone into,
and the division had been obtained by clamour in • thin
house.

The motion for adjournment of the house to Monday was
then agreed to.
STAMP DUTIES BILL.
Mr. MULLINOS wished to know from the Chancellor of
the Exchequer If the Staaap Duties Bill would be brought
on to night.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXIMEQUER said it
could not be brought on tonight or Monday, but he would
give full notice as to when it would be proceeded with.
SUGAR DUTIES AND THE SLAVE TRADE.
Sir E. N. BUXTON, In moving the resolution of which
he had given nodes—" that it is unjust and impolitic to ex.
pose the free-grown sugar of the British colonise and pos.
sesame abroad to anti strieted competition with the sugar of
foreign alavo trading countries," said it was with great dia.
donee and • great feeling of his own inefficiency that he
brought forward so great and important a question before
the House of Commons. Bat haling as he did that this
question was of great importance to our Weft India colonies,
and as it seemed to him of still greater importance to the
interests of humanity, he had ventured to throw himself on the
kindana of the house. It wee of course well remembered that
it was In 1841 that the first proposal was made by the whig
government of that day to Introduce slave grown sugar as
not aa equal duty, but at II duty which was at that time sup-
posed sufficient for it to compete with sugar from British
poessetions. The right hon. gentleman opposite (Sir R.
Peel) took a different course. Toe course that he took dur-
ing the time that he was in office was to reduce the duty en
free foreign sugar, but jealously to exclude the produce of
those countries which carried on the slave trade. In 1844
the duty en foreign was 34., sad on home sugar 245. per cwt.
Some further alterations were made, end in 1848 the
measure was introduced by her Majesty's present ministers
on their seceseim to *Moe, against which made his chief
conspisint. It was quits true that in 1848 an alteration was
made, the 1.14•1111.0 of 1846 was in 1101:03 degree altered, and
the immediate effect was certainly mitigated foe • time. He
thought no sue would deny that in 1849, et • time when a
noble lord, who was now no more, (the late Lord George
Bentinck) was chairman of the committee, that the
greatest damns. existed in the West Indies - and
her Majesty's ministers, who had previously declared
their Intention to adhere to the act of 1946, intro
dosed • measure by which the effect of that set wee
greatly mitigated, and the di...trona effete of it were
postponed. Now he oid not wish to say to the home that
at the present moment anything like the distress 'hate:Wed
in 1848 now existed in the West Indies. The fact was that the
act of 1848 had been very beneficial to the West Igulies, and
they were enjoying for a year or two a comparative respite
from their evils. But still theseamount. of great prosperity
were, I. his opinion, not tree. The fact was, that they
were just able to eet on. They were in a condition that
was jest satietwory ler the time, but he saw nothing in

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mush diminished, lars by edssittiag alave-gremsengar at us
equal duty with our own, we imposed ourselves reed eon-
tempt of foreign mime end to tbesharge, ef heist slave-
traders ourselves for the mike of getting sugar a penny a
pound chum. (Hear, beer.) He held that the NM who
bought the mg& produced *the slave was as bad se the
mast who bought the slave that .prodneed sugar ; Is
aural guilt there was no great diffarentee, (Hear, hear.), At
*ll events, it was a very ins admit bentenity to let free our
own slaves, and not only to eatemeute other_ people to keep
theirs, hut to buy mete. (Hear, beer.) lis hoped hes.
members it his side of *is house would beget the
kallealeatioes Into which they be led by free trade,
sad would retire to those h goalies, of morality which
they bed Sermerely 'Tired en saltiest, He hoped that
these who had been led away by the hen. member for Man-
°beau and ethers meted quit their leadership for ones, end
return to the good mune of opposing the introduction of
slavogrown sugar. (Hear.) No mu maid deny that the
effect of the am of 1846 had bass, and must be, greatly to
promote the slave-trade of the Brasile. The report of the
parliamentary ecnunittes on the edam trade, widish sat two
years, and of whist' he had the honour to be a member, de-
clared usaninuntsly—" That the admistioa of slave-grown
sugar for oonsturepticm in this muntre has toadied, by greatly
increasing the demand for that description of produce. so to
stimulate the African skive trade es to ruder soy effectual
check more difficult of attainment then at any former period."
The right hon. member for the Ileivenity of Oxford (Mr.
Gladstone) had said on a resent occasion—" If you really
meant to oppose the slam trade you should n have
passed the sat of 1848," and then was scarcely a member in
the house who bad not, at some time in hie parliamentary
Meer, declared most distinctly that the &destinies of slay..
grown eager would increase the slave trade, and that it was I
necusary on that account to keep it oat. He hoped that
hon. gentlemea opposite, who were in a Merest position
from the free traders, would not vote marmot this amine,
while sereeiag with it in their hearts. The right hon.
berated (Sir R. Peel) had is 1846 decimal most diatisetlf
and forcitsly his impruelen that the art of 1816
was llkely to increase the slave trade ; and though, from
motives of policy, he then refrained from opposleg
the government, those reasons had now paned
away, and he hoped the right honourable baronet
would be disposed to alter his vote. Ile appealed to the
country volt • great confidence, satisfied that the people
would willingly and gladly forego any advantage which they
might derive from cheap sugar, if the house would take upon
itself to maintain a high prisciple and declare, on the ground
of humanity and justice, tit it it was unjust to expose fee• -
labour sneer to a competition with slave-grown foreign sugar.
Would the house declare by their vote that night that they
were determined to take a course which would tend, by
keeping out slave-crown sugar, to reptass the slave trade.'
they would be backed by the opinion and the support of the
great majority of the people of England. (Hear, hear.) Ito
must say further, he thought a hi...int would rest upon this
country if they would have the courage to adopt that course.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. EVANS seconded the motion. Though a fres -
trader, he wished, for the a Ire of humanity, that the exist-
ing differential duties should not be reduced below their
present amount.
Mr. HUME said he folly agreed in the terms of this
motion—that it was unjust and impolitic to expose the free-
orown eager of the British colonies and possessions abroad to
unrestricted competition with the sugar of foreign slave.
trading countries. For many years he had felt that this was
unjust, and had urged the house to take measures for en-
abling our free labour I. the West Indies to compote with
slave labour elsewhere. (Hoer, hear.) He wan not or.e
who could be accused of inconsistency, for from the m meet
when emancipation wee proposed by Mr. Stanley in 1832. he
had always maintained the opinien which he now supported.
The colonies could not exist without labour; yet it had been
the po.icy of this country to compel them to compete with
slave labour, hut to refuse them that supply of labour by
which alone they could to compete. (Hear.) He hod the
authority of some individuals having great interest in the
West Indies to state broadly that they did not want pro•
Mellon. (Hear, hear.) They thought it unjust to throw en
the people of England an increased price for an article of so
much importance. Though having property in the West
Indite, thus: who had looked most correctly at the matter
did not thick, after what the government had done, and
after the secrifices that had hsen made, that England ought
to be longer suhjected to protection in their fescue. That
protection recently amounted to about four millions a year ;
and they were of opinion that no such tax was nrcessart•
and that that was not the way to out down the slave trade.
Could tree labour be fairly brought in'o competition, the'
pro tun would he cheaper than that of slave labour. There
was no other mode of potting an end to the slave trade ; the
whole united fleets of England, France, mot America, if
employed on the Arian coast, could not present the
smuggling of etas.* which cow prevail. I. Nothing could go
to the root of the evil but to mike the praline of tree''
labour cheaper than the produce et slave tabour; then
the slave trade would cease es a matter of course.
The hon. barcnet might have r.ferred to the report la't
year, containing an account of the horrors of the slave ships,
which were even worse than in the time of Mr. Wilberforce,
and the mortality was greater. Let the hon. baronet review
the eroestion on his own pri-ciple of t umanity, and r e whe-
ther the condlion of the slave had not been rendered worse
by our interference. No people could have acted on more
hon. principles than this nation had done; and yet in this,
the seventeenth year since emancipation, the export of slaves
from the coast of Africa was as great as ever. What then
wee to be done ? Al Mr. Canning had pointed out, 30 years
ago, the population of the colonies ought to have been pre-
pared for freedom by being trained to labour; but no-
thing of the kind had taken place. The following were the
resolutions prop std by Mr. Canning on the 16th of May,
1823 :

Thai It to expedient to adult effeettial and &Metre measure* for
meliorating the condition of the stare population to his Map ety'a
colonies.

itTSl,through a determined and persvverinft, but at the same time
judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, thin house
is forward to a pm/rewire Improvement in the character of the
slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in
those civil right. and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of
his Majesty's subjects.
That this house is anxious foe the accomplishment of this purpose,
at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-brume of
the clime themselves, wl'h the safety of the ententes, and with a
fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property.
Committees of both houses had sat on this quetion, in 11532,
and that of the Common. (of which Sir F. Buxton was
chairman) reported that they had only had time to examine
the parties in England in favour of emancipation, and re-
commended that the inquiry should be resumed in the nest
session, as to the heat means of carrying out emancipation,
by the exeminatton of witnesses from the colonies. In the nest
session Lord Stanley had at once proposed the enianeination.
He had;opposed it throughout, on the group'' that the com-
mittee had not completed their inquiry. The col mists were
evidently an anxious for emancipation as the people of Eng-
' lend, hut they did not wish to lee their property sacrificed.
The feeling of the house being against him (Mr. Hume) he
had ceased his opposition to the measure, merely protesting
sgsinat the haste with which it was sought to be carried.
What had bean the result ? The noble lord the Foreign
Secretary had been most energetic in his efforts to put down
the slave trade, by means of treaties with France
and other powers ; but notwithstanding all this, the trade
still flourished as much as ever ; end in the last three or (cur
years, he understood no fewer than 2.5,000 morals had been
sacrificed on the passage. The question recurred—were we
acting on a right principle? He maintained the negative;
for we refutsed to our colonies that supply of labour which
wes necessary to enable them to compete with slave coun-
tries. Thus we had not only failed to put down the slave-
trade, but had ruined our colonies,—the depreciation of pro-
perty could not be estimated at less than 100 millions ster-
ling. In Demerara estates wire duly going out of cultiva-
tion; the condition of the people was becoming worse;
schools were decreasing, and missionaries were leaving the
island. (Hear, hear.) In British Guiana the evidence be-
fore the committee of last year showed the deplorable state
to which the colonists were Mooed. The protection given
baring utterly failed to prods*, the advantages d • d, and
nothing but starvation and ruin havirg been the result, it
was natural to look to some other remedy for the evil.
The anti-slavery society were opposed to the only means
by which the slave-trade could be effectually stopped—the
introduction of African labour under proper guarantees and
protection. If they really desired to prevent the introduc-
tion of slaves into Cuba, and to put an end to the horrors of
the middle pangs, let them not stand in the way of the
only method by which that could be amiomplished. All he
asked for was that the labourers from Africa should be ap•
prenticed for two or three years. They would then be under
legal prothetion, and he had no tears that the bond
would be violated, for they had paid magistrates in the colo-
nies to protect them. The hon. member for Newcastle-
under-Lyne (Mr. Jackson), stated on a former occasion that
there would be no difficulty in obteinini emigrants from
the coast of Africa, because the chiefs would prefer consign-
ing them to the English to selling them to the Portuguese.
He did not see any injustice or cruelty in this. (Hear.)
The measure which he now called upon the govern-
ment to adopt was recommended in the report of
the committee of 1811, over which Lord Bandon presided.
It was proved before that committee that in 1841 no people
had so many comforts and enjoyments—that none were
more remarkable for sobriety. Having quoted from the
despatches iu proof of his psi ion, the honourable mem
bar asked, with these facts before them, was it
not evident that the condition of the African would be
greatly benefitted by his introdueion, under proper rules
and regulations, into their colonies? (Hear, hear.) Ile
calls d on the house to assist in bringing about such
a change, for the sake of the unhappy African
himself; for it was only by doing so, and not, as pro•
Keby the Anti-Slavery Sudety, by maintaining r. strict ire
tt, that they could amalisrate his condition and put an
end to the truffle in slaves. (HINT. bear.) If, therefore, the
bon. baronet consented to the addition of the words he (Mr.
Hume) proposed, he would support his resolution.
Mr. MANGLES seconded Mr. Home's motion, entirely
agreeing with him in his view of our true colonial policy.
Colonel THOMPSON saw nothing in the principle of
(rim-trade to prevent free-tradentroni supporting the motion
of Sir B. N. Buxton. But he had a distrust of apprentice
ship, of which he had seen much when he was governor of
Siena Leone in 1808-9-10. It was slavery under anotha
MOM

--it; 0. BERKELEY gave his entire approve! to the re-
odation proposed by the hon. 'wisher for Booth Est:, but
ssid that it was incorrect to state that the sufferings of the
West India colonies were not now is great as ever ; and he
inwanesd cement extraordiney depreciation of property in
British Guiana and elsewhere. Th. meddling of ths Colo
nial-ofliee had done all It could to deprive British Guiana of
free labour, by forcing that colony to a distant mart for la
boursrs. But the feet was, the colonise could not, in their

(spit wreldhetilWaMitftlet a(spit 'Me
mad abie , afford
ita Allmanded was preerettma -11rellb=
siodustiey'ldayr dr tamer, by main ad Um log-
lb‘ denial •Vr• ttam sugar. Ile /Amiga the policy
slid* landil • aims abate Baader labour la tbe
PeetyMM, Jiad bemeht supr to maim erbidt ski ekes
worked ftekt Ittitte on the Sabbath. He saw ale at sees.
length * oar Intercourse with various barbarian slave-
telling as arca! that we were sot in tersest is af-
feedsg (be traffic; and be int hailed by nesert-
fug kb belief that the pretest system would Messiest* in the
lies of ear iatibiiire.
UNISON Matsmded tb,at, so &Mom the govensment
Whinftog bees medeetive of helm" to tie selowee, it
ire/hid meet • favourablacerturaing all the propaeeles
which lad been uttered it. Be want late statistics
to show sat Improvemeat the productive eoaditfoe of se-
veral eolowies, sad without desyag the existence of distress,
attributed ft sot to oar present polar, but to Odom Meal
stastai ettablished, tral4 to the bed ammegerent,
of colonial agriculturists. He also
=Sit theta ,of brie yams, beets a pest [peruse
IS Int_
_pliedastlen of shimegrowa sager, bat emerted that
shlefimiswase had arisen he= 1828 to 1840, which
"arm hithin we bad mhalttod the foreign eager, end that
the Weems 1n oar own production had proceeded in
at bait ea equal ratio. But, during the four years
since the legulatioo, our consumption of free-labour
sugar had/laoreased from 227,000 to 282,000 toes, wbile
that of slave-grown auger had decreased from 61 000 to
86.000 tons; and he described a similar proaw in record to
molasses and rem. The whole world prodaad 1,227,000 tons
of eager. Of this, 897,000 tone was prodom dby free labour,
sad but 680,000 tons by slave labour. let ear I.miteel market it
was Imputable, tine* we had screed to admit udoed Nagar,
and since the repeal of the morleatimt laws—it was impossi-
ble to draw any distinction ae to the origin of tee retitle.
The gradual depritenion of protection had bees smolt beet-
le:dal sat, sad any revered of that policy would be most
dangerous. Re predicted that, tong before 18-54, the 'Mo-
nies would be in Me same position as regarded sugar as they
▪ were in regard to ooffee. To vary our legislation would
be to annouoce the fai are of our own free-trade polier, and
would induce slave-holding nations to adhere, with even
greater earnestness, to the only system by which, in that
ease, they could possibly defend themselves. lie, therefore,
oposed the motion.
- Mr. B. 11.41TAHLEY rote to rapport the sootiest Amidst
general cries of " Divide ;" but on stating that he had th re
addressed the house for the first time, the hon. gentlemen
was bond with evident attention and interest. He had not
a steel, statistical table, and could quote no figures in sup-
port of his views upon the question, bat he should (Refine
himself to a simple reply to some of the observations which
had fallen from the speakers who hid preceded him in I
the debate, and be should do es as briefly as it was I
possible. The hon. gentlemen& oppuite (Mr. Wilson) at-
tempted to prove by a moat elaborate and careful calculation
that the growth of roger had greatly increased within the
last few ysers,uot only in the West Indies, but lean owe E est
Indian colonies too. Now, he (birStanley) wished at the out-
set to corroborate the statements that had been already ma le,
that the question now under consideration was not a prate c
tionht question, and he was anxious to say it was not in-
tended on that (his) aide of the house it should be so cowl
tiered. The question was sample enough as regarded the
West India colonies. Brion the motion would be etjcetcd,
the how. should none to the conclusion that free labour eou:d
suctudully compete with slave labour, and that was,
in his opinion, notwithstudiag the argument of the
bonourable gentlemen opposite, Impossible for them to do.
On the otter hand, if this country indirectly maintained
slavery by th, consumption of slave-grown produce, they
should confetti tt at the 20,000,0001. paid fur the enencipe
tion of the Owe, and the 50,000,0.101. expended in the sup
pression of shivery, was so much money literally teroen
away. It was a very difficult queetion to argue upoil gen- rel
grounds, but he would refer to a few facts to show the dis-
advantages to which, he was aware, that free labour was ex.
posed when in competition with slave labour. He should
first refer to a despatch of Colonel Rue in May, 1818, whea
govern .r of the island of Barbadoee. It wet distinctly stated
by Colonel need that the cost of molting sugar by hoe labour
in that island, was much greater than under the system of
slavery. Now he (Mr. Stanley) could speak with some con,
tidence upon that point, and he mat unhesitadegly eta'. d
that it there was one place more than another in which the
question as to free and slave labour could be fairly triad,
that place was the island of Baroadoes. The population was
as dense there as in China—wag. s were very low, almost as
low gin Ireland, or in any coast part of the world. They
did not exceed 81. a day, so that if free labour could
suo-
eesefully compete with slavery, it should be capable of tieing
so at Barbadoes. At all events, the trial of line labour was
es
fair as it could possibly bo, especially when the situstien
of Barbedees was compare with that of Jamaica, Trinidad,
or Galena. The last-mentioned col hy was an extensive
country conteining some thousands of equate miles, but its
population wee not half that of Berbodoet. Regular la-
bourers in the colonies were very few, because abundance,
for the purpose of a mere subsistence, could be obtained in
those climates by • ry little labour, and sometimes without
working f d it at all. Then there was little diffioulty in
purchasing land, and there were many other a:. ens open to
people who were disinclined to earn a fair day's lieges for a
heir day's work' in those distant regions. As to emigrant
labour it could never be obtained as cheap there as slave
labour, and if it ever became as cheap, the emigrants must
of necessity fall many degrees below the condition of
slavery. It was unreasonable to expect, therefore, that the
present commerce,' system of this couctry could succeed in
the supprueion of slavery, especially when it was recollect. d
that one Fueceseful voyage with slaves produced a prcfi
sufficient to'cover the expenses and losses of five failures.
The hon. gentleman referred concisely but ably to the con-
dition of our West India col miss at the period when the
slaves were emancipated, and argued that the compeneati:n
they otid by England to the planted and proprietors o'
slaves in our colonies in no respect compensated the various
other interests which were deeply affected and injured by the
various chimp" which had been since then effected
in our commercial law,. The ado:nits no doubt were
compensated by the payment of a sum of money, certainly
very large for the British nation to bestow, but it was as
nothing when compared with the hues Retained by all thee
connected with West Indian property. Immediately baoro
compensation was awarded to the planters and proprietors
of slaves in the West Indies persons were sent out to value
the property, and they estimated it at 43,000,0001. It aeon,
however, dwindled down, and ultimately became very
nearly worthless. The bon. gentleman called on the house
not to mock with any insulting sympathy those weeme in-
terests had been so much prejudiced, but to agree to the
resolution, which would be, at least, one step in the right
direction. (Cheers.)
Mr. HUTT complimented the hon. gentleman who had
just addressed the house upon the excellent speech he had
made. But notwithstanding the pleasure with which he
had listened to the honourabie gentleman, he was
not convinced by his arguments, and he should, there-
fere, vote against the motion of the honourable baronet.
He would contend most strongly that it was utterly im.
possible now to change the policy which had been pursued
with regard to the importation of sugar.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said he would give his cordial
support to the motion of his hen, friend; but he
also felt it to be his duty to indicate the course
he should pursue in the event of the motion bring
carried. He should in that event take an early op-
portunity of moving for a committee of the whole
house for the purpose of reconsidering the sugar duties of
1846. The present motion was in an incomplete shape, and
only pledged the house to an abstract resolution, but did not
indicate the manner in which the injustice which it com-
plained of was to he prevented. There were difficulties in
the way of reviving the distinction which had been made
by hts right hon friend the member for Tam-
worth between foreign free-grown, and foreign slave-grown
sugar, sod that difficulty was increased by the repeal of the
navigation laws. He should propose to carry out the object
of the motion by an alteration in the sugar duties, he would
not say now to what extent, but certainly they were not to
descend lower than the difference which existed between
foreign and colonial sugar. As tenet altering the policy
which had been pursued, it had been done already by the
present government in 1848, in consequence of the dewier*
of the colonies, and he believed that the government would
not venture to approach the equalisation of duties, even
in 1834. The hon. baronet then read as extract from
a pamphlet published within the last day or two by the
hon. member for Lynn, in which he spoke of the ruinous
state of British Guiana, the houses being dilapi-
dated, and the machinery in some cases taken away,
in others not. Ten estates, which from 1835 to 1844
cost in the aggregate 155,0001, had bees brought to the
hammer within the last three years, and sold for the aggre-
gate sum of 17,0001. One estate of SOO acres without any
encumbrance upon it had been sold for 601. And let him
all attention to another subject, the terrible effect they
were producing upon the creole population, who he feared
were rapidly degenerating into barbarism. In support of
this point the hon. baronet read an extract from the lest re-
port of the Wesleyan Missionary Surety, and a despatch
from Lord Grey in answer to a despatch from Governor
Meekly, in which his lordship laments the ruin that
had fallen upon the planters, and that the negro
population instead of making a great advance in civilisation,
as might have been hoped, they were as a body less amenable
thee they were to the restraints of religion and law, and as
subject es ever to the degrading superstitions which th• er
fathers brought with them from Africa. The hon. baronet
also cited in support of the earns the evidence of Dr. Lush•
ington before the antislavery committee, and then read an
extract from the speech of Mr. Gladstone in the debate on
the withdrawal of the slave trade squadron, to the effect
that if we wished to maintain a character for consistency
with the world we should repeal the act of
1846. The lad authority Its should quote was
that of the noble lord (Ltd J. Russell) himself
who in the same debate distinctly admitted that by the act
of 1846 we had placed our own colonies at a great disad-
vantage. He had heard with surprise and sorrow the noble
lord's appeal to the Almighty on that occasion, coming as it
did from the 011.1iltel• who had done more than any other
living man to stimulate the slave trade by passer( the act of
1846. We lavished our money in the maintenance of a
squadron on the coast of Africa. lie, on the other hand,
was for accomplishing the object by nfusing to seeded the
produce of slaves.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his
hon. blend had now redneed his motion to ex-
press an opinion that colonial saw should not be ex-
potted to unrestricted competition with that produced in
foreign slave trading countries. When the principle was to
be found that enabled his hon. friend-to drew the distinction
between thou slaves brought across the Atlantic and those
brought from Virginia to Caroline, and worked in sugar
plantations there, be was at a loss to know. His hon. friend
did not profess to deal with sugar produced by slave labour
in those countries which were not slave Reding. His hon.
friend said he who bought slave-crown sugar was as guilty
as he who bought the slave. Testa was not he who bought
alsve-grown maim as guilty as he who bought the sugar

And when the ken. mesalwe for Dororshir
Husks ed elsweegtown sup, and of alaviedt-e-w,175 ad,,
pared his
(ek C. Wood's) Comprehension. *1;,;•:,,
'IMO • his hes. Mead would feel thee
guilty.' of 1d
Bat the principles which the' ku.„,—"' 2._`l • lemma opposite had supported the motions r
Mead were totally at • •'• b
vita those 11, Mend hlssuilhad leid doves. Weeat his ho
laid down wu to exclude the sugar of cubs▪ "4
Ated-Ite should have best prepared to a a
airiest beton, and, indeed, had barn 'Hurtled -
that by the eihniesies et frie labour steer fZti-.171,
newel owls" they Just as certainly, though a
ercieuragedthepeoduatiea of drere.grown nerani
admieted it tote this oeuntry direct But
iippoirite bad mimed him the trouble of aeßwiwath- • hue
err he threw aver Mat dioniaction altuether.
had aelearge eggiut the present government ik haw
ll "wee
hampered thefteelves by deciaretlen, when —.71164
that it weeimpouible to malstals the dieriee-oe
friend said it was impossible te make tha • •
and be proposed, *bevel, r•e, to pu all font:
on the sage foot:ng. The object nt tie
gentleman aid of thou who were
with him was after all protentiee ;to re;.-; the 1.4 t
colonial auger to the consumer la thin en nor 0-,`„"
hear.) That he was not prepared ho el
hoped that louse was sot prepared tn do
Inland (Hr. Wilacio) had stated the terretiti which eta
seater is this country bad derived jr„. the itics
ed hate within . fat fc♦
tcei the statement which T*
tt
this country wee aoser ~h44
tie
:::n srnpudti;binsitia:pgtaiileoi.fB44ansuofti lioguaa rat
wurig:emsP?2o6i rut:
it s
lammed to 300 toes. That benefit had been ate; 4
*quietest. In consequence of the decreased price' "
If the motion was carrird they:
sunned is diaeouregiog slate
injare the consumer toe considerable deg:to. Tee.
thou per head in 1840 was 19 lbs. ; in the Lett te'c---ut
171bs; in 1849, erten the lint nueseure el
e.rried, it was 201bs. per head ;In 11i47, fint y
the second measure ofrelanatlon, it woe •
,ao4
Tens
24111 e. That was an increase of newer
Those who took an interest in the will.lniee of is,
classes of our popahstion would, lit was
that they had derived so cous;derable a hen,
that policy. (Hear, btu.) There was • ;
behind, and he fully admitted the• it yes a
very arrest impoetaisoe, and that was, whet was.4o,
it would produce upon the West ld'ies eireaveler
believed with the hon. member for Seesibur.., that
unfortunate course for the West ledisni
the passing of this measure, could net be der
admitted the statements that had been made ~•
distress fa those adonis*. No urea ci4
than he did with that distress, or ass i¢ .
to afford them such r• lief as he nee,.
conduct,' to the interests of the where
lived that in eansequenee of the act of 1.,16,
exerted themselves to a degree that mativ the
capable ot, end had eteapened their pro- stele, Tr
:ion of the East Indies. of the Maniitiu.. at•! e; •
Indir s, had been considerably feereased in ~r
last two years. All these facts were .I.e ~
there could be no dispete shoo. i..r.;..
gentleman the member for Dirtutoire.
the quantity of sugar of the different co,
year., aid the best test ef the podia
was the importations into this countiy,... :
m -is would reter to that return to, s .•
it 1848 aid 1849 there was an ine • .1
tity imported from Antigua, from s
Jamaica, from Br. Vincent, ae•i
From the whole of the West 1.. •
was from 2,791,000 cwt. to 2,810,000 cw
men seemed to say that that had faller nit
the existing year. It was impossible to ;• . :he
sent moment; but from the last despicen t.
qeantity was 9,336 cwt. in the first quart. r
7,900 cat. in the tint quarter of 1819, th,uah t
tion of one year a. compared with arena-e•
he much depended on the weather. 11..
had observed that all the 'figment ease.
the committi e4l thIS prLdn;tt t:tel - -
and said that Ceylon would be a desert ~
clac:ion of c-Mec, and the Mauritius r u.,
hon. friend showed that these
but his hon. frieno did not, as the h :3,
supposed, omit the West Indies, because
paring toe three yetis before 1846 with
quo., there was an increased
Wes: India colonies; the quantity 01.3 ._.
that three years, and 148,001 t-
yam subsequent to the passing et t'
Taking rather a longer serifs of ye ra—
years,
and comparing thrill with the pr, 1 • • .
ha found that from moat of the colonies t'
▪ iccreene of imperavioe. From . r
the average icoportatim in the din .
177,000 cat. ; r.ow it was 180,000 ewe 1 r I -
the former period it was 290,000 es ;
402,C00 cwt. From Derbies (as was u.
crease had been from 282,000 cwt. to
Kitt'. from 89,090 ewe to 107,000 ewe;
66,000 to 57,000 owe. In all these colonies
annual importation of the last five years cousi.
ceeded the annual average of the nine •,
ceding 1939. The one was the setae in.
An average importation of t22,0f..0 cwt.
come 572.000 cwt. In Jamaica the lamas: had '•
602,000 cat. to 665.000 cat. In the Materefu
cat. had become 907,000 cwt. Taking it e seer•
our colonies, the aaaaa etc annual impertatien
years bad been 5,000,000 cwt., as comecre 1 war.
cwt. in the preceding five rut. Hon. geia:e•re
its beine utterly im,ineible to do now what w .
time o: slavery; but he begged et:end-it.
eonclesive stetemerd An account hao •,
annual aggregate amount of sugar imp etr .
colonies in the six years ending 1834, !he
slavery, and the annual average of the s,it.e . •
six years ending 1849. Of course, tacit e
ge•ther, there was a considerable • • ;
Lion was, whet could be done by :a •
whether it was possible for it to coca :
slave labour. In three of the colenies,
important ones, the average son,, .1 import,
the last six years exceeded whet it was cn the het 51
of slavery. From Antigua, the ae‘rize imp,
in the six years earring 1834 wee 171 e.. 0 eat
last six years, with free labour, it hat
From Bsrbadoes, where it WAS s:a- d •.
able for free labour to compete with
nerd average produce for the slit yiar•
343,000 cwt. In the last six years it ea
In the island of Trinidad, with a ',hue c.
and uncultivated soil, where the neer
pelted to labour by the want of the 111:•43.
the annual average prolnce le the las c, y
been 310,000 cwt. In the last six
Taus, with a I:wer price for their , r
diminished cost of production in the re. r•
three Wanes had been able to on
quantity of sugar in the last six L.
six years of unrestricted and untnitiest.
hon. friend (Mr. Wilson) had sheen
of colonial sugar had increased white t. .•
had fallen off. As the house was now L. ••
hon. friend spoke, he would restate the ,c: ,•A
son which his hoe, friend had made; r ...•, a.-
extent a question of statistics. It was tr
consumption of foreign sugar had fallen
it had increase! fomershat in the hegi of
The entry of 1849 had bees ma:. riall•..:! „I I.y
ordinary entry of IS4S, when 15,6'0'0116 re ill:,
week : therefore the year 184:1 acrard r o I*.ie s•Ji
But taking whole years, as his bun. tri.r. I hid .17.
be seen that in the last four years. ending 1..1
been a gradual increase in the (attars c f it'.
falling eft in the entries of foreign. t.t..... 17.
ending in July, 1847, the colocial so: er.:.
227,000 tons; foreign, 61,000 tons. In t 0-
July, IhlS, the colonial had increased t..
foreign had decreased to 39,000 tons. In the n
colonial had increased to 2.31,000 ton-. Ist.,
also increased, owing to the circuniece.,s he
'limed, to 49,000 tons ; but in the last
1849, the entry of colonial sugar had 111..,0•
tons, while that of foreign sugar had .
tons. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, toting th.•
and not two or three particular nuntEst..,...•
act of 1946 had been io operation, whsn it er s e.,
COUT74llll2filt was given to slave.grown etre ,r, an.
vernment bad forfeited all claim I,) hr 01.5.
possessed of the feelings of honor::-p. t
Gumption. of colonial sugar had
227,000 to 292,000 tons; while that of
had fallen off from 61,000 to ;i0.7C0 hoses. , th,
His belief, therefore, was that freo !shout a 0u'..1 •
slave labour (hesr)—that it was as ch,..r, sr..t
cheaper. A dispatch from Governor Rei I. tow e t,,
had been quoted by as hon. gentleman ote..:s.te. A•
freedom required to be nursed by pride, c n, se—,
would be necessary for six years longer. hot
ought to have read two paragraphs more, he
have found that the opinion of the govern r a .0 t. I
(trent from that which he had re preic
added—" How lone that time shill b • I ca:o.•. •
there be no protection the cultivation of e. , .
given up; it will dwindle in all the Wit...Wsl.l 1.•
cept Barbados." (Hear, hear.) Thee, •5tu....:,
be the result to the other isisiels, the e.oe
an
ork
t
prepared
dthtaot
saflouni!,.
ptic inhr
..pa
his
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field
ny:dy
oi
tge. even
extract oot f
ani
‘en.,:teroshomesoclaaub:
It.h,uriuerar.epiaal
fpw.gomririetottanpetmiacfloattrodiv,roieewfultirieclah,
sabeileoutaiudibartl:tadpertuhnfßaiooeaitrtlber
great obstructions to the in!t0.1..e:i•,.1
into the colonies. What were those rtatent4?
thepiaerfee
ladies.sci )atulvyrs ee
sutrulienedhitiicAhdhe,nrigtot..hoan:
bthoen.hgoensentiewmoanuldwube
and the slave trade, but in effect it w ,I.h„„
ll'ir, sir g.
tteiTO duty against foreign sugar. ( • e .
uses
•
(elihtlestrars'at.ionhete:th7arimatese.ubtiaresitabo)7oof
the house would net supporlenatttteiwainnegnabflititChleliitwolairleil:7r:l:.l7l°l:at:reij.:,l:::l,
intended as a dierour.e.nwiv •
....,
in to cheek that enterprise by hai,lititt
chest that the delusive system 0: prat
uom
stored. (Ileac, hear.) Ile admitted that g•
reet cultivation theth
at
wproductions
o ko il
na
land, , he sugar
ttrhudateshl :th
ee
Iteitt
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y f.r the Wrat ladies. a wiser whit
sitisaw. al el that great alteration. for IM
• msalet • sow is the ether b.ses. eating se
• t, r : ual w admisistratios. had so tralttneltd.
trio dotage *a the aware* that
• I Slit ita., of the water aneroid to Mile
At Jr y is *iodisation the muss ef the
• was oats stwatesd the smoothy and
T.. r the! they had the asestramee

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.•••2..4 Dad Nee Mae for diem by Na sad by
orcuoutsaus of the INN admitted.
to I wee a Nutter for congratulation teat
ta.e.,:s sod the disposition which then
sob's lord had descended to his
tr. I. necbt address:id them. (Cheers.)
bed been a period whet, by seizing the
•• •c• rise important cuseepaeneen sight have
se • ,o entrod.cterin of labour from abroad_
,r„ gine, trt a immense hamlet sight
et the ans:l.st tact. But then had
• ..ca a tin this c. unity to do this. sad the coo.
t• at pirisaatent w. s seer obelisk for the arid-
, • *Lich bad remind. Then ease the
•••• • sad upon th:s point he disponi, see eras
saine-sees of the Chaseeffor of the
He ell at: br.i.ve that right heswarahk
CS own ugorsecte. The right his.
foro,t tr..% that had beta an eat
as A 144. In ISIS tbe prima of celental
„Indere.) from to 14a , sad the effect of
t • thew of l‘ti see only sow observable.
. to:: it was to th• seariment of this
: ~.retie of :_b or wet due. He did am
r r c. old be a perinea. at mire of the evils
1. bad been sint,:ted by the right boa.
-river for 1 ataworth chit the case of toe West
...s t treued as an .xzeotion tram the le-
. I.nevale. If it could be shown that a
;:oTaU.-3 ef VreteriAl would act as a care for
a tslr. Gladstone) should be pre-
.ee a rue is Is Savior. But be could
:TC11.)11 es a ewe for those evils.
t nor ...man had refe7sd to Berbadoes; bat
see a cre•cat of Iduttador, as there there
t as also a redundant population.
p 1 s 1 :bet 6.tioe, to the effect that if
i.. 1.106 with the committee to meat
_r toad so:mies, that nliet shook be
so :a tradable to the platers, who were
: awes priori:: ally referred to. (Hear,
. •sry w,i io say than there had been an
.:..:a a ...ft :ft the West looks; bat let
..s e. Cuss-lees and Antigua seat Ia the
▪ eruccipasoa 28 900 tam of war per
• • hr., last Tun they seat 83,200 teas
•r e 'L..: they were producing mere than
• . n.. t Hear, hear.) la Jamaica frogs
• the avenge wag 68,000 tote ter
1 MI6 From the year 1147 to
. •.• at liberality of the legislature
.4.y. the importation, hatted of being
.. • 1.),r se 4%1410 tons. (Hem, hear )
• e ,be ma to which he found no'
!Lint Lon. 'endgame the Chczi-
e .7, . L.. 1 to which he begged to solicit
:t ... lie wished m ask, was the
• ? (Hear, bear.) Was it a
• r• ..one, or for the whole negro pope'.
.4.t. i (Hear, hear.) It was with
lecitstioas referred to in the condi-
, produced. no doubt, by the
• astsl.t.oa ; because they were not
tr.. reduction la mine, but eke the
of the market had bad the effect of die-
abaci impeded the edemas of the negro is
.1 Litt:nation. Is the years of apprenticeship,
-atom of the planters to show a decrease la the
col afro I: wee said on the opp site ride, "
as exports of these colonies, ow which the
epeeded, Lad undergone slate differeace, bat thee
.r toe plaster should aot make them forget the
• popeilettoa, fee they should observe that tee la-
the soles bad andergon• as iacrease greater
e decrease Ia the *epees." He trestaried so submit
• interest of that populatien should be the prtacipal
Lite house in legislating foe thou colonies. la the
years of slev.ry the capsrts I. vele. from this
to the West Indies ansmated to 2,575,0001. In the
,•• cleppreaticsahip between 1836 asel 1639, both
they row frost that to 3,450,0001. Is the four
• • I•teat to the abolitloa of the sweeties ay stea—
l."' 1643 to 1818, they fell to 2,657,0081; is 1847
. wan 249,0001. ; end to 1843, the last year is
e. ware given, the @agora did sot emceed
a..r ) That was a wet important sad dims.
• ......I:ca•ed the seeesaity of further measur.s for
(Hear.) la 1648 they wen he
...4e the hope that thins would be done I.
• psolustios, and it would be aseolesa
t. .• modeenaggested foe accomplishing
.fe of lbw lead, W system of irrigation,
. • roads and the coestructioa of lines of
• it of, whilst ia Guiana it was proposed
:t.re ...3e13 be restored with a vie* to pro-
- ...r. of the ma. The colonies were depot-
that hied, and the promotion of theta
.• cp,,..rtusity for interfering with the strong
.sec e.. 1 adoding seats at litue risk, to bursars
:•.en. I Hsu, bear.) The =le laid
.4.enesites use, that lISVOMIIet ander-
.:„.....ty, end make puts of moray, which
•es lie platen MEM Wm- (Rau.) But
tat what had bees dose I—nothing. Nerve of
o- et ranked tato fleet, beesture
uadertakee the responsibility, but, an the
.m..t ad fresh guereutees from the eolenial
. pecod of gnat commercial embarrass
tear They Lad told the West Indies that
~1 ME a permasera care far them, but that
:.ett protection for a certain number of yeah
r...e.sures were trial ; but these measures had
e.. 1 they thee stood in the same position
. ~amines. (Hear, hear.) lie (Mr. Glad-
slot the money of the country ought
employed in administering to the
•ce p.tater as well as in enabling
...end Lis mourns so as to cheapen
of sugar. (Hear, hear.) With ie-
.-alit. 411 of the planter in the Vest ladies, he
c to recollect that increase c f production was
bad sot bees brought on them. (Hear,
••,,ct bad Men given by Governor Light of a
• •;ene vrach, dewing the period of darer', meld
r . •• and shelve the system of appro.-
r,l. w 4),4A1 , but which in 1848 was die
• • .40 prviisrar foe 2.0001. (Hear, hear.)
• G.veraree Light, faestiously,
r-! a l the works en the estate, had what he
.• auto of maple( ride. (i• Hear, hear,"
• r la the planters had a claim on
aria tousideied that the house wee the
• meter which they laboured. (Hear,
• a.: eppeal to them on eccount of the plea-
, 11. I.llt I lot such terms of head protection as
iff,rded sufficient time for the operation
1 -1.! notation Mat might holey/reduced...l,am.)
• 0..4 rn,ra on !obeli°, the negro, whom they
.4 ...) It.al the &deuces which he had ;maw
•L- ••r att.c:tr and happier auspices. (Hear, hew.)
r•,•ct ha appeal made cm behalf of a people
• •:•mlorous, . people who bad rapidly ad •
.tetr ttneer itoi.lati,m, but who were sow
.r.der the opt rat,on of mere.reeent mos-

.t .7t.

1.. WI •

LitSION said that it had seldom fallen to
a de..ivo conducted, on the one side at
I,o•'•ne iitousistetity or a greater ferias of
'•turr..) His hoe. friend who had into
it I. (Lard Palmerston) un-
W& the grounds of humanity, and as •
r.l of the slave trade. But scarcely
~e fritad's arduments fatten on their
crLste took another turn, and It
vs ad ever since simply on the
••• 1.• o which he believed his hon.
ray u, ado,eate. (Hear, hear.) He h•-
..) tus: tL only *sample of consistency
• s ef that debtt•wa tlie cuansteney
• d•tidayt d by an Lon. member who had
th• lost tea*, and who had proved
P.' nue whine eloquence they
• • right Lon. 'gentleman who
dieria an example of inconsistency
of his (Lmd Palentritou'e)
Ir tiait it was quite impossible to
1..*•1• gentleman meant to vote.
e free- fader. declared himirell
•••• mes'ior ler South limes, the
e' a permanent character, dicier
'.a and unjust to impure free
mpstitim 05 t.ival terms with
I"•• •••. underitquo the right boa.
..'
t"... Impend entirely to throw away

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*so plasiplos boo troth of ha had boos St ate-
tam odwisolo—Ommittar).—aultsgrt of w
es Aga maul the pp at al groatlasaT.
All he shod num that a Nob shoo *said losviStaoonis
osholos. Bat if that wore his why as e
= pooftwalsa (Um. howellit" ko ((Loaf
use veto he she troths of Ilette•r-
Mg* kind.
Ist
we he • Looshwer.) Zs woo not Ise proses
be sf ha
leg
as we inium* NM or he a *at so say ti e!
ed
Vend& to Wet .It woaa
Wow Ia hod thus lath
diMossa sad solar It woo wet hvgalloodoa mouldrime. their pesoposhp4orat ba=na easilensoo—(leaOter
the oppwitisa a of oaistva**—
(abeensatistwal &rates )1 Vrattaa admits. to W-
ager, and so:at/rho whisk asatiallils. aloe afforded.
(Crime of " Ob. oh." haw tho,somoi=l. frost
the sataiotorisl boashos,) Itio hew.
hot the oashsioa of doto-growa sopa kaa7Wlo24
market o,bll gat as mid to tho days tsado. his
Isss. Moat answer& to the prow*. eat kireign tree-
growa new latosioseil 104 sale osaatsy tee home twa-
tataiptios ? (Sm. bus,.) It le had. he =vat know
that it la ad Assad/ gooseisd the asseast slavoirowa wager
imported. It was issileet. the osotpothisa with slays-groa
sr whisk rest iledes had to fear, bit the mope
of aor wpm and it was the low price of the Lahr,
that was. rabbi tie West laella Islands._ (Hear ham.)
Uhe weehedhe posted the Wait Indies he smug net only
submit Oslossad Brasil, but mast also oboe oat the produce
of free bees, evilest whisk the moral sad religious Ala e-
tics maiden' be treed, It was ataathat that it you were
to shut eat eleurgrawa sager from the Hagfish market the
vans would be tiled by free seder grows eliewltue, end the
slaveseeera produce would Merely ebeageplams sad be as
sore of a market as ever. But 011ie haws had listiseed to
glowing ef his hon. bleed the member for Westbury, tki y
men have ono that dam the repeal of the navigation laws
such a coarse was utterly untenable, end that say attempt
at exclmion seat otterly tail through the operatioa of
Ostia's. It was sot by sochmill. swear of sae hied or of
another that they could hope to pat down the
slave trade, the object whisk he koew his ho-
nourable aired was untioaa er assemplish. Neither
would the Afrisan Kaaba& be sliest. bat that, in OM'
junction with other measaees,seeh.astwatini with the miles
growers, weak*, ha te.oted, is the end prove effectual.
West was Use state of the slave trade at the reseal rao-
mut ? There were 1,600 miles south of the line which
were entirely free trom the trade ; and of 2,000 miles on
the north, there were only 420 where it still existed, sad
eves there be treated it would soon be pot • stop to. (Haar.)
He hat ship that day received • dispatch from Sierra Loons
is which be was assured that during the last quarter sot one
ship had left that coast wi h slaves. Meer, lieu. Tbere
was about 1,100 mike of coast where the slave trade still
existed, but it was chimerical to hope by measures like the
present to 'oppress it. That object must be effected by ether
means, and. putting the higher considerations of in gality
aad philanthropy out of ,he question, there was so object
more calcolited to advisee ;he mere temporal and commercial
intrrens of this country. However, confining tunnel'
solely to the notion of his bon. friend, he mo-
w sled that it would not put down the slave trade ;
while, on the nietrery, it would inflict a great Injury on the
oonsueur of sugar in this country. It would. if smerieful,
hold oat to the West Indians delusive hopes, Imbuing them
perhaps to relax is their industry and enterprise, end, there.
fore, both es the prou-ids of principle and of a xpcdiency, he
should give it his decided opposition- It we. iukutheient for
the porous of humanity, it would re establish the exploded
principle of protection, and would inflict • fs'sl injury on
the country for whose or/4W benefit it was intended.
(Hear, hear.)
Sir E. N. BUXTON replied. Let than recollect that
while they sent out • fi-ist to put down the save trade on
the one hand, they on the other head escooraged slavery
by admitting slave•grown produce lute this country. That
was one of the inconsistencies which his motion was intended
to remove. (Cries of " Divide.")
The house divided.

For the motion 231
Against it 273-11

POLICE AND IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS
(SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill woo read a third tine, and Mr. eIEOLLITT pro-
posal the following dame :

Aed b- it muted, that if at the evoiralon of one yeor from the
time of the prim of this act, the onsabitaut• of any burgh co pope.
to. plum shah mese or saglect to adapt the provisions or this act In
whole artspet. mad an order eitallthenator be remind by the pro.
curate dem4 the hopector of the paw, air other responiba aka of
the district or parish within which the mole may be situated, fore the
Central Beard of llealth or other competent authority, directing the
elmessieg sad parifpng of, and the resent of aularieee *urban to
health thole facts burgh or maims plam,• it shall be competent for
the ehertfLos the apph d oitioaway erns inhabitants or other permit
rata to the nhef of the poor wtthia the said district or pariah, and,
after etch invortigatiou as be may deem pow, to mark out, ,ledne,
sod specify a boundery fw wets burgh or populous place, within the
limits of which fly^ whole expellees asensary tar carrying into effect
the deeming rad purifybee, sad the removal of naleasoes, es ekes.
sold, gall be emiliend; wed the atersai4 anew. shall te
.trawl
within ouch boundary, and slid: be levied from the same clas. of
panne :4 are aseeemble for the relief and mainteemace of the poor
of the cit•triet or parish within which such burgh or populous place
dull be eitnated.

Tit; ii;;;Twoo brought no sad greed to.
SUPPLY.—GRANT PPLY.-0 RANT TO MAYNOOTH.
_ . .

Om Waging up the rcport of supply,
Mr. FORBES objected to the now grant of 18,0961. for
the college of dlaymontls, and moved the reduction of 1,2441.
fa the purples of soaking the Tote 16,8621.

Ms. PLUMPTRE understood that the 30,0601. which
had been voted wee kits ly to be very far exceeded, and wr old
mimosa to 60,0006, sad the. the intention was to et the
amount of the sum by dribblets year after year. This sum
was proposed to be added as MO of these dribblets. He did
set understand why 60,0001. wee not enough for the vete
for repairs for the old college.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
an explanetioa of this vets ►ad been given every year.
The right hoe. gentleman said he lied no raisin to *zoom
that nay gnastien would have arises on the subject, or he
should not have brought it forward at that late hour of the
Right. (Load cries of " Divide.")
The hones then divided, when there appeared—
Pee the vote
Mika It
Lord J. CHICHESTER complained that owing to the
strings of one of the belle having been broken bon membas
bad not all received He ususl intimation previous to the
division. (Laughter.) 11, wisher' to know whether there
world be any opportunity of rectifying the error. (Renewed
limehter ) He hoped at all events that the evil would be
prevented in future. (Hear, boar.)
The Atte of Parliament Abbreviation Bill was thea reed
a third tins*.

_ .... _
The following members we►e added to the select commit-
tee on Petty &s one (Ireland) Bill: lord Claud Hamilton,
Mr. Orme, Mr. Nepi.r. Mr. Maser* O'Connell, Sir Henry
Winston Barron, and Mr. M'Cullagb.
NUN motion of Lord SEYMOUR, leave was given to
being is a bill to confirm certain provisional orders of the
Oeseral Beard of Health.

CHURCH RATES.
Mr. TRELAWNY orpd upon the government the se
emeity of allowing him some day to int:odium the question
of church razes, observii.g that the dimentsrs, generally,
would sot be witirded if the maim passed away without
the gaieties beta. dummied.
The house this adiourned at 2 o'clock.

House OP LOIDIL—The following bills were re-
specially from the standing order committee, and
revs given to proceed with the bills :—Forth and Clyde
Nevi/acids ; York and North Midland Railway; Waterford
sod Limerick Railway ; London and Blackwell Railway ;
Balton Inipmvament ; Mancheeterßectory Division; Water
ford sad Killion:I Railway ;

(han kit alubt's Gasette.)

LORD CHAMBEILLAIN.B-OMCI, MAY 27.—Notiee
Is hereby Riven that her Majesty hold a levee at Bt.
Jesnes's Palace, on Wednesday, the 3rd of July next, at
two o'clock.

RD BERLARe9-017ICE, MAT 27.—Notice
is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold drawing-rooms
at St. Jantes'ePaleos, on the following days at two o'clock :
Thursday, 20th Jane neat ; Tuesday, 9th July neat. The
Knights of the several orders are to appear in their collars,
at the drawing-room, on the 20ilt June neat, it being a collar-
slat"
WRITETIALL, MAT 31.—The following addressee
of eongratslativa to the Queen, on the occasion of the birth
of another Prince, having been :readmitted to the Right Hon.
the Secretary of State for the Home Department for presenta-
tion, were pre -mated accordingly to her Majesty, who was
pleased to receive the same very graciously: To the Queen's
moat excellent Majesty We, the vestrymen of the parish of
St. Meryleboes, beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty
with our aiocere and heartfelt conkratulations on the birth of
another prince. Any circumstance which can add to your
Majesty's happinres affords the highest gratification to your
Majesty's loyei subjects, and we pray that your Majesty and
your royal Consort may long be spared to live in the hearts
of a faithful end devoted beople, and in the continued en-
joyment of that domestic bliss which the Almighty hes, in
his geodetie, been pleased to vouchsafe to you.—Signal on
behalf of the vestry of Saint Marylebone, .101111 Hunts
Bray, DD., Chairmen.
And the following on the same subject : From the Mayor,
Aldermen, and bure.ree of the borough of Wakefield;
transmitted by the Earl of Celiac—From the Ministers
and Elders of the Church of Scotland of the Synod of
Lothian and Tweeddale ; transmitted by the Rev. James
Bell, Moderator.
FoREION-OYPICE, MAY 31.—The Queou hie been
graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. William Stafford
Jarningham, now Paid Attache to her Majesty's Legation
at the Hague, to be Secretary to her Majesty's ligation at
Rio do Janeiro.
WinTsnAu., MAY 31.—The Queen has been
pleased to present the Rev. Thomas Gamier, M.A., to the
Rectory of Trinity Church. St. Marylebone, ia the threw
of London, and county of Middlesex, the same being void by
the resignation of the Very Rev. Gilbert Silica, now Dean
of Bristol.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or Batuteataa.—.l. H. B. Winkles, Gent., to be Cornet in
tie Mengetford Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.
(A/MMlB4loff SIONZD BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
ne OLoccasyzaeittaz.—Litut. B. Hobeon be Copies
in the Royal Olosentershire Regiment of Hamar Yee.

Salary.
COMMINRION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
AYAIMBIIIII.-.C. V. Hamilton, Gast., to be (*Dials la
go *ism Beisat's Royal Regiment ot Amble* Millis.

MS PLASM SVENING. JUNE 1, MO.

rpreoo.
• ndia OUTGOING
The Weft I kaikatia Detterkl/211avaassh
at inalAte. Now azaktdieg
AIM hr lisasin. et. Jus.dlwllletreste74 011444
Mi. end Panora be..de wilds evade&
TM mils din Maude. the Das" and berm Apes, will
41entede nit es the el Jose 4.
The arab Int Lisboa. and OlbeeNve will b. ..d.
up at Jane 7.
Tar orb tree British North AZlerilli sad the Ilaited
dome will s
v. 4 be made op es the eveabLeictannesla
The mallllannWee, te the
°gift" 144* Hees-ILes& U.. will be made n; tare
seeming el Jane 7.

AT LOUD= mom
Too Day— . 116.
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