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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1852

the adoption of Parliament. Now, these prin-
ciples had been definitely established, and which
would enable the country to meet the competition
which it would have to encounter in the future. The
result appeared to him then to be inevitable—that the
only principle on which the Government of the country
could act, was to cheapen the necessaries of life as much
as possible. (Cheers.) He found then, that in the
case of the very primest necessaries of life, that some of
them were subject to the very heaviest taxes in the
tariff—(hear)—and he must mention that that was an
arrangement totally inconsistent with, the new system.
(Cheers.) Honourable gentlemen opposite boasted of
having given cheap bread to the country. (Opposition
cheers.) Acting upon the principles, then, which he
had enunciated, the house would not be astonished to
hear that her Majesty's Government were prepared to
deal with the malt-tax. (Loud cheers from the Govern-
ment benches.) Herein was a prime necessary of life—
(ironical laugh from Opposition benches)—taxed in a
manner which greatly restricted industry. He would
not recommend the change which he was about to refer
to the hon. gentlemen opposite, upon any other plea
than that which they had themsefves always declared to
be the sovereign plea—the interest of the consumer.
(Hear, hear.) He believed, however, that if the
interest of the consumer alone were to be taken
into consideration, that that would be neither acting up
to the principles of unrestricted competition, neither
could it be said to be carrying into erect the
views which had triumphed at the late election.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He believed it was possible
while considering, in the first instance, the interests of
the consumer to benefit another class also. (Hear, hear.)
It certainly was for the interest of the consumer that the
malt tax should be dealt with, and in his opinion, if tho
tax was properly dealt with, no tax was calculated
to be more beneficial to agriculture. (Loud cries of
" Hear, hear.") The question of the malt tax, however,
had assumed a very different aspect since the repeal of
the corn laws. Indeed, it had been said by a very high
authority, that the moment they repealed the'corn laws
the repeal of the malt tax was inevitable, and he thought
there would be no great difficulty in demonstrating the
soundness of that opinion ; for when Ministers of State
were required to take every opportunity of improving
the cultivation of the soil, that he must grow as little
wheat as possible to retain restrictions upon the growth
of the next generous grain was preposterous. (Hear.)
But it was for the interest of agriculture that, in all
soils which have been diverted from the growth of barley
to that of wheat, should be restored to its original pur-
pose, because then the market for the production of the
soils which were eminently qualified to give us wheat
would be greatly improved. (Hear, hear.) ;Well then,
they had to consider, in the first place, how they should
deal with the case—in what manner, and to what degree
they should deal with the two objects
which they ought to have in view were those
of establishing industry, and reducing . the price
of the article consumed to the consumer, and they
could not obtain that object if they dealt with this case
in a small or limited degree. (Hear.) The existing duty
on malt was 2s. 7id. and 5 per cent. per bushel, and the
consumption was on the increase. In 1849 it was
38,935,000 bushels, in 1850 it reached to 40,744,000
bushels, and in 1851 it was 41,337,000 bushels ; but
there was no article of consumption which had increased
less than malt, which he attributed to the large amount of
taxation that was imposed upon it. (Hear, hear.) There
were some gentlemen, however, who entertained the
opinion that the decrease of this consumption of
malt, when compared with other articles of consumption,
was to be attributed to the circumstances of the taste of the
people having changed in favour of other sources of ex-
citement, but he was in a position to show that this posi-
tion could not be maintained. Well, then, under
these circumstances, Government thought it to be their
duty to recommend to the house that the malt tax should
be considerably diminished. (Hear, hear.) That they
should diminish it by one-half the amount of the present
duty. (Cheers.) The sum which they had to
deal with just exceeded 5,000,0001. as regarded
revenue, and they proposed that they should
diminish this duty exactly by one-half—(hear)—
that they should impose a uniform duty of ls. 2d. and 5
per cent. per bushel on the malt ; and Government pro-
posed that the restrictions which prevailed between malt
obtained from barley and malt obtained from what
Was called big and bracken—(cries of hear, hear)-
-They proposed also to do away with the malt drawback
in Scotland on the spirits raised from malt, that being a
change which they thought ought no longer to be post-
poned. Sir Henry Parnell, the chairman of a committee
appointed to inquire. into the excise, stated in a report
which' he' Submitted to the house, that if the corn laws
were repealed, he would recommend the reduction of
the duty on malt to one-half, and this came from
a.' gentleman who was very tender of the re-
venue, and who could not have anticipated the
circumstances which had since occurred The
same report also recommended the repeal of the
drawback on malt in Scotland. This had been done in
Ireland in 1842 without a murmur in accordance with the
recommendations of a committee on Irish spirits, and had
given general satisfaction, and he was sure the repeal of
repeal of the drawback in Scotland would give equal
satisfaction. They proposed, then, that on the 10th
of October next the malt tax should be repealed one-
half, that day having been fixed, after due deliberation,
at least inconvenient to the trade. They also proposed
on that day to take the whole stock of malt throughout
the country, and to allow a drawback to all holders of
it in proportion to the amount of duty abolished.
In submitting these propositions to the house
He now came to deal with one as popular, and one sub-
ject to much heavier taxation. He was about to recom-
mend to the house to deal with the tea duties. (Hear,
hear.) He knew the prejudices which existed among
a certain class of persons upon the subject of the
tea duties. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
LEFT SPEAKING.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, DEO. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, unto Charles Robert Mitchell Jackson, Esquire,
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at
Bombay. _ _

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 3.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant the
Honourable Charles James Keith, from the 10th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Fairlie, who exchanges,
, Dec. 3.
10th Light Dragoons--Lieutenant Herbert James
Fairlie, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice the Honourable Charles James Keith, who ex-
changes, Dec. 3.
6th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Grant
deceased Web Captain, without purchase, vice Crowder,
Francis William Henry M`Ccleland
tobebLtioeul ig
Lieutenant,
ant, without purchase, vice Webb, Sept.
24 ; Gentleman Cadet Lewis Blyth Hole, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
M'Cleland, Dec. 3.
14th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Reginald Henry Gra-
ham,
'
Military College, to be Ensign,
Elwyn, superseded for being absent without leave,
ham from the Royal
Dec. 3.
17th Foot--Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Philip M`Pher-
son, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase,
vice Stoyte, appointed Inspecting Field .Officer of a Re-
cruiting District, Captain Oliver Paget Bourke to be
Major, without purchase, vice M 'Pherson, Lieutenant
vice Bourke, Ensign James Lawson to be Lieutenant,
withoutWililam A.
purAchrmases,troilg to be Captain, without purchase,
vice
Armstrong, Gentleman Cadet
Shadweil Henry Clarke, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lawson,
-Dec. 3.
42th Foot—Ensign Joshua Walter Bond to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Platt, who retires ; Ensign
Edward Le Marchant to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
wee Young, who retires, Dec. 3.
59th Foot—Staff Surgeon of the Second Class Alex-
ander Campbell to be Surgeon, vice Macpherson, ap-
pointed to the Staff, Dec. 3.

- 82nd Foot—Lieutenant John Lawrie to be Captain,
by purchase) vice Pardee, who retires ; Ensign John
Dalbiac Luard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Lawrie, Dec. 3.

85th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Aidb to be
Captain, by purchase; vice the Honourable John Edmund
Hovel
•Thurlow, who retires ; Ensign Lord John Henry
Taylour to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Aide,
Dec. 3.

97th Foot--Major-General Henry Adolphus Proctor,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir Henry
Frederick Bouverie, K.C.B , deceased, Nov. 29.
STAFF —Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoyte, from the
17th Foot, to be Inspecting Field Officer of a Recruiting
District, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Magenis, deceased,
Dec. 3. •

HOSPITAL STAPP.—Surgeon Eneas Macintosh Mac-
pherson, from the 59th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the
second class, vice Campbell, appointed to the 59th Foot ;
Asssistant Staff
to be Staff Surgeon of the second class, Dec. 3.
Surgeon, John Thomas Watson Bacot,
MEMOBANDA.—The Christian names of Captain Bur-
ton, on half-pay of the 37th Foot, are Joseph Netterville.
The alteration of the date of the Commission of Lieu-
tenant Robert William Benison, of the 99th Foot, Which
appeared in the Gazette of the 2nd of September, 1851,
had reference to the Regimental, and not to that Officer's
Army Date.

The Governor-General in Council has in like manner
to assure Major-General Godwin of the satisfaction with
which he has viewed the skill and judgment by which
the Major-General enabled the troops to obtain posses-
sion of an important post, without delay, and with but
little loss.

To Major Mayhew, Deputy Adjutant-Ceneral ; to
Major Allan, Deputy Quarter-Master General ; to Cap-
tain Smith, Interpreter ; to Captain Burne, Military-
Secretary; and Captain Chads, A.D.C., the Governor-
General in Council tenders his thanks.
Especially to Captain Christie and to Captain Welsh,
of her Majesty's 80th Regiment, for the gallant manner
in which they led their men to the attack, and to all the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the
force, the Governor-General in Council desires to give
assurance of his cordial approbation.
While thus congratulating the naval and military
forces on the first result of their advance, the Governor-
General in Council feels it to be due to the memory of an
old and gallant sailor, that he should add a public ex-
pression of the deep regret with which he has received
intimation of the death of his Excellency the Comman-
der-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships in the. Indian Seas.
Although Admiral Austen did not survive to witness
the successful conclusion of the operations in which he
had shared, the Governor-General in Council desires to
record his admiration of the staunch high spirit which,
notwithstanding his age and previous suffering, had led
the Rear-Admiral to take his part in the trying service
which has closed his career.

The Governor-General in Council has been grateful for
his services, and laments his death.

C. ALLEN, Secretary to the Government of India.
BANKRUPTS.
Henry Capper, licensed vicualler, Gravesend.
Thomas Corby, builder, Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico,
Richard Coils, builder, Charlton.
Richard Eaton Noble, plumber.
John Edward Spicer, paper manufacturer, Chilworth
Guildford.

Patrick Cowan, brass-foEnder, Skinner-street, Snow•
hill.

Thomas Wheeler, yr., cattle dealer, Cirencester.
Richard Jones, hatter, Oswestry.
John Edward Spicer, paper manufacturer, Alto;
Hants.
Daniel Coe, Ardwick, Manchester, grocer.

COURSE OF EXC.
11 17
Ditto, three months.. 11 19%
Rotterdam ............ 11 18%
Antwerp . 25 423(
Brussels .......• . 25 423
Ham- urg .............. 13 6%

Paris... ..... 252.2%
Ditto, three months .. 25 4231
Marse.iles ............ 25 4231
Bourdeaux -
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 120

Vienna ................ 11 40
Trieste ................ 11 41
Petersburgh .......... 38
Madrid ........... ..... 49%
Cadiz ..... ..... ...... 50%
Barcelona .......• .• ..
Seville ................

IHANGE—THIS DAY.
Gibraltar .. , . ..
Leghorn 30 65
Genoa 25 b 0
Milan
Venice......... •••• • • •
Naples 41
Palermo .
Messina 121:
Lisbon . ..... ..... 53'
Rio Janeiro .... ...•
Blenos Ayre5..........
New York. 60 day's sight
Philadelphia ..
PRICES OF BULLION', PER oz.
Foreign Gold in Bara .£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New D011ar5....., 6
Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK.—The Rev. Daniel Donovan, Roman
Catholic priest of Webb-street, New Weston-street,
Bermondsey, was summoned before Mr. A'Beckeit, for
committing an assault on Mary Murphy, an Irish-
woman.
Mr. Watson, who attended on the part of the com-
plainant, said that she was recently confined of a child,
and that while she was still labouring under indisposi-
tion from that cause the defendant called at her place of
abode, in Palmer's-rents, Bermondsey, on Friday last,
and inquired of her whether she had had her infant bap-
tized by the Rev. Mr. Armstrong. She replied that she
had ; upon which the defendant told her that she had
sold her soul to the devil, and, lifting up his umbrella,
struck her a blow on the side of the head. He then
left the room, but returned in a short time afterwards,
and struck her three different times with the umbrella ;
and not satisfied with having given vent to his feelings
by such an attack on a poor defenceless woman, he
called the landlady, and, addressing her, asked her why
she did not turn the devils out of her house (mean-
ing the complainant and her child). He then went away,
and the result was that Mrs. Harrington, the landlady,
a Roman Catholic, fearful of the consequences if she suf-
fered her unfortunate lodgers to remain there, eventually
took the bed from under her, and she and her child were
compelled to sleep on the oor of the room, lie (Mr.
Watson) did not wish to distort or exaggerate the facts,
but he should prove that the conduct pursued by the de-
fendant on the occasion was as represented. The law,
the defendant ought to be made to know, would not
allow of his being suffered to use physical compulsion in
a case which he imagined was opposed to the doctines
which he promulgated ; and therefore, if the evidence
produced bore out the statement of facts, he trusted the
magistrate would have no hesitation in dealing with the
charge in such a manner as would prevent the defendant
in future from having recourse to such an unjustifiable
attack upon a poor woman. He then called
Mary Murphy, a young woman with an infant in her
arms, who, on being sworn, said that she now lives in
Palmer's-rents, Snow's-fields, Bermondsey, and that her
husband is a labourer. That on last Sunday three
weeks she gave birth to a child while lodging at the
house of a Mrs. Harrington, in Ebenezer-place,
Bermondsey. She knew the Rev. Mr. Dono-
van, the defendant, and he called upon her last
Friday while she was sitting up by the fire with her
child in her arms, and asked her if she was the woman
that the man fell upon by accident when drunk, and she
replied that she was. Ire then inquired if she had had
a child christened lately. She said that she had, and he
asked by whom, and she answered by the Rev. Mr.
Armstrong, the Protestant clergyman. The moment
she mentioned Mr. Armstrong's name, the defendant
struck her on the side of her head with an umbrella,
and exclaimed, " Don't you think you have sold your
soul to the devil I" She replied that she did not think
she had, upon which he walked out of the room. He
returned, however, in about three or four minutes, in a
passion.

Mr. Watson—When he came back, did he say any-
thing to the landlady ?
Complainant--He struck me three times with the
umbrella, in the landlady's presence, and said to her,
" Why don't you -send these devils out of your house ?"
The landlady at first said nothing in reply, but when he
repeated the question, she then said that she would
make her and her child quit the house. The defendant
then asked her (the complainant) if any ladies had called
upon her since her confinement, and she said "Yes,"
and he then inquired if they had brought her anything,
and upon her replying in the affirmative, he asked her
if she thought she was doing her soul good by accepting
charity from them, they being Protestants. She said
that she was glad and thankful for the assistance she
received ; and he then advised her not to take any more
from them, and left the room.
Mr. Watson—Now tell us what the woman Harring-
ton did on the occasion ?
Mr. A'Beckett stopped the complainant, and said
that, as it was admitted the defendant was not present
at the time, there was no occasion for introducing matter
not strictly applicable to the case as it affected her.
The complainant was then cross-examined by Mr.
Salomons, on behalf of the defendant, and in reply to
the questions she said that she was a married woman,
but that she had not the certificate of her marriage. She
was married at Pembroke, in Wales. She had relief
from the defendant the third day after her confinement.
He gave her a shilling. She had also relief from the
nuns belonging to the convent in Bermondsey.
Mr. Salomons : Of what religion are you ?—Com.
plainant said she was a Roman Catholic before her mar.
riage, but that since that event she had become a con-
vert to the Protestant faith.
Mr. Salomons asked her if she knew the different be-
tween the two religions ?
Mr. A'Beckett said that putting such questions would
only puzzle the woman, and that he had better only ask
her those having reference to the alleged assault.
Cross-examination continued—Will swear that she did
not exclaim, in the hearing of any persons, that she
would pitch the Rev. Mr. Armstrong to the seventeen
devils. (Laughter.) She recollected the defendant
having asked her where the father of her child was, and
when she told him that she did not know, his then say-
ing that he did not believe her. He also said that she
would be cursed for ever. Mrs. Harrington, the land-
lady, and another lodger were present when the de-
fendant assaulted her, and therefore she had not com-
plained to them, as they witnessed the transaction. Her
husband did not fetch the defendant to Ler. She did
not sing a song immediately after the departure of the
defendant cn the day he assaulted her.
Mr. Watson having signified that that was his case,
Mr. Salomons said the fact was that the complainant
had practised a good deal of cunning fraud under the
guise of religion. She was Catholic and Protestant, just
as it suited her to obtain what she required. She first
received relief from Mr. Donovan and some lady nuns at
Bermondsey, and afterwards imposed upon the Rev.
Mr. Armstrong, by informing him that she had become

Major-General Godwin, which report the capture and
occupation of the city of Prome, after some resistance,
and with comparatively trifling loss.
The steam squadron and the boats of her Majesty's
ships, conveying the troops upon the Irrawaddy, an-
chored off Prome on the 9th of October. A fire from
the shore was silenced by the fire of the steamers and of
the boats. The troops having been landed, drove th•
enemy, some three or four thousand strong, from the
suburbs ; and on subsequently advancing to the great
pagoda and to the heights beyond, they found the posi-
tion wholly abandoned by the Burman force.
The Governor-General in Council desires to express in
the strongest terms his obligations to Commodore Lam-
bert, for the care, the energy, and unwearied zeal which
he has shown in directing the naval preparations for ad-
vance, and which have conduced so largely to the early
and successful renewal of operations in the field.
His lordship in council begs to offer his thanks to
Captain Loch, and to Commander Shadwell, for their
conduct of the service on the river ; and to Commander
Rice, for his direction of the body of seamen upon shore.
His thanks are also due to Commander Campbell, of
the Indian navy, whose merit has been acknowledged by
the Commodore.

The Governor-General in Council has viewed with
high approbation the services of the officers and men,
who, upon this occasion and for several months past,
have been employed in boats upon the river, subjected
to severe exposure, and engaged in harassing duties,
which they have performed with the utmost alacrity and
cheerfulness, and with conspicuous advantage to the
public service.

To the officers, seamen, and marines of her Majesty's
ships, of the Indian navy, and of the Bengal marine,
who have been serving upon the Irrawaddo, and to
Commander Tarleton, who long commanded them, the
Governor-General in Council is desirous of offering his
hearty thanks.