The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

No ° change in market. Sales about 5,000 bales.
week's sales consisted of 31,360 bales, in-
Aluth.ng 4,370 on speculation and 5,670 for export.
Tl4l export, 7,127 bales. Quotations : Middling
eans 271, ; do. Mobile, 261; do. Upland, 261.
43`lcrlated fair Egyptian, 261 ; Surat, 12.23 Z.
Av
eeles imports, 16,224. Stock, 231,360.

ri
14teT STUDENT-STATESMAN.—The friends of the
the Sir Cornewall Lewis are actively engaged in collecting
t, scattered writings of that eminent scholar and adminis-
Igor,

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Closing
chart Railways Paid. Price. Bnainess done
100 StLawrenc, all 59 el
Sk Bom.,Baroda&•Cent Ind 100 103 101 IC4
Gu. 5 per cent.
20 Do. New
20 Do. D. Shares
.eOl Buffalo and Lase Huron all 51 5i
10 Do. Preference .... all 74 81
too Buffalo,BrantotGodria 100
5 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1871
100 Do. do. July 1, 187:- 100
100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100
Ulcutta.s 8. Eastn. (Li n 100 100 102
st Cape Town t Dock Scrii 100 101 103
stock Eastn. Bengal go. sp. 100 105 106
sleek East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1(4 105 104 1
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 # 1 P
20 Do. do. H do.
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 191 201 191
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all
100 Do. Co. deferred- all 56 50
100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonds all 60 64
100 Do. do. defer: ed all 50 53
100 Do. 3d I', ef. stock all 49 52
100 Do. do. deferred all 38 i 2
100 Do. 4th I'ref. stook all 26 28
100 Do. do. deferred all 22 i 5
stock Gt.lncliarenln.gua.sp.c 100 1031 lo4t 1041 31 4
20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2
20 Do. January, 1882 .. 8 12 1
stock Gt. South.of India(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 104
201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 91 10
201 Do. New .. . . 18 11 1015 71
100 Do. 6 P.C. '73 with't opt. all 92 94
100 Do. 51 p. D. do. '77-8.... all 85 87
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 p 10
stock Madras. guar., sp. a.
stock Do. 4f p. o. Extension 100 96 03
stock Dc. 44 d 0........ 100 92 06
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 --
stock Melb.Corp. dp. o. Bnds. 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay all 58 60
100 Do. 7p. c. &lortg. Bds all
20 Newßrunswick dr Cande
Class A and B all 3 5
N.lll•C'da6 pc Ist f bds 100 82 M
stock Scinde ••.• •••• •• (100 102 103
stock Do. Delhi d.a 100 1021 1031 102/
20 Do. do z 2 ip
at Do. Punjisub all 1021 103 j
Do. Do. , 100
s'ock Do. Indus. St. Flo. k• 100
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
—lt an.tlov.Bp.c.Ja &J ul)
1577-Si 100 101 103
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 99 101
Do. dp. c.Mar. do sept. 100 102 IC4
Do. p. c. Jan.&July. 10C 89 01
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 89 91
Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,1877 100 100 1(8
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 108 110
Do. 1890 100 110 112
Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 103 108 109
Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 113
,Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108
'Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 130 tcB 110
IN.B.Gov. 6 p.o.J a.&Jul3 100 ,01 103
Do. 6p. o.A p. & Oct. 100
- s.w. ( 5 p 14.. it 100 Q 9 100
- Do. sp. c.,18/i to 187 f 100 99 101
Do. d0.,1888 &upwch 100 99 160
—, ;New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 ' 108 110
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105
,Queensland Gcv. 6p. 0. 100
- .S. Aus (16p.e.1678.& up.. 100 10, 111
Via Gov. 6 p,o. Ja.,i6July 100
- Do. lo 6 p.o. AndkOut.. 100 110 111

BRITISH MINES.
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 lid
ubllord Amalgamated --3 A6l
' ()even G. Com,. (Tavist ) 1 670 680
East Bassett (Mogan) 30 65 70
last Clogau Gold Ltd
East Caradon ...... 1.14.2 29 30 32 31 3
last Carn Brea... 3.4.0 61 7
Russel (Tavistk.)l 8.0.0 41 1
IGam.&St.Aubyu(Gwen.) 581 10 11
'Great South Tolgus 175 4 41
!G. Wheal Vor (llelston; 40 ' 2.1 24
;Grenville
illerc.d's-Foot . 8.12 85 37
El ingston Downs 4.18.0 41 4/
Lady Bertha
Ilargaret (tiny Lelant 9k 17 19
—blarke Valley..
4 Nlyncly Iron Ore (Lim ; 21 11 Ic:
New Setun l9l 8)
295
—• North Downs lt 1
N. Wll'l Basset(lllogan 3.1.0 2 21
North Wheal Crotty .. 2.6.9 5 54
Consols (St. Blaze),
Orovidence(UnyLelnt.) 10.6.7 44 40
!South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 440 160
,S. Carn Brea (Illogan)..
- le.Wheal Iran. (Illog,an, 18.18.9 25 60
;Stray Park 30.17.6 29 31
I ramar Silv,Sz Lead 51in
- in Crolt 9 11 201
West Basset (Mogan) ll 11 12
W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 21 23
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Mogan) 21 190 210
Wheal Buller(Redruth)l 10 871 94
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)i 2.0.6 38 40
WhealLudcott I 3.0.8 21 3
Mary Ann is:den ); 8 134 11i
Wheal 3eton 5Bl 175 ISS
'Wheal Trelawaey (Lis.)! 7 2/ 2
I Wheal Union 3.17 2l 2t

PREFERENCE SHARES.

North Staffordshire, 225.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg., lei
Bannaulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent.,
itto (all), 21
Turin and Savona, 3}

FOREIGN MITES.

Cape Copper, Um., 8i
Yuclanaluutana of S. Australia 21
DOCKS.

London, 72

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Anglo Austrian, 5k
Bank of Egypt, 28
Brazilian and Portuguese, lien., 8 71
Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China,
Ditto, new, issued at £lO pm, 311
East London, lira., 8
English and Swedish, Urn.. 71
Imperial Bank (lira.), 2911 9
Imperial Ottoman, 18/
Land Mortgage Bank of India, Bin., 31
London and Brazilian 581
London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 511
London Chartered Bank of Australia, 281
London and County, 581
London and South African, 271
Metrop. and Prov. Bank (Um.), 231

MISCELLANEOUS.

Crystal Palace,•3lk
Discount Corporation, limited, 10a
Egyptian Commercial and Trading, 11m., 44
Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 71
Hudson's Bay, 181 6
International Financial Society, 12g k
Joint•stock Discount, lim., of 6
London and Caledonian Marine, lira., 32
London Provincial Marine, 3k
National Discount. Company,
Nerbudda Coal and Iron, 51
Ocean Marine (Insurance). 19
Oriental Inland Steam, lim , 21 k
Royal Mail Steam, 81

MADAME SOLMS DE RATAZZI has just been robbed
at Turin of a shawl worth 20,000 f.
PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—The ship Maid of Judah,
700 tons, Captain James Scott, belonging to Messrs,
George nompsen, jun., end Co„ of Leadenhall-street,
bound for 1,,,mi0n, has arrived off this port. She brings on
freight 3,203 ounces of gold, valued at £12,000, and her
cargo includes 1,874 bales of wool, 9,500 salted hides, 10,000
horns, 11 tons of bones, and 3 tons of hoofs, valued at
£60,000. The Maid of Judah left Port Phillip November
14, rounded Cape flora December 19, and crossed the Line
January 27. Oa the passage she experienced remarkably
flue weather. In latitude 49 S., and from longitude 111 to
1.15 'W., a number of small icebergs were passed. In con-
sequence of light easterly winds, the ship was three days in
sight of Cape Horn, and through balling winds the coast
of Brazil was seen for several days.

Memorial to the Duke of Newcastle.

To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G,, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary for the Colonies.

Your memorialists regard with the utmost alarm the pas-
sage through the Legislature of New Zealand of a bill con-
fiscating all the lands of rebellious natives, and authorising
the Government to take possession of the lands of loyal
natives upon the payment of compensation. As a part of
the same scheme, a bill bas been passed empowering the
Colonial Government to raise a loan of £3,000,000 sterling,
to be repaid by the sale of the confiscated territory.
Your memorialists believe that, for its sweeping and in-
discriminate character, this measure stands without a paral
lel in the history of modern legislation ; that if it be en-
forced it will inflict an indelible blot upon the British name;
and that, in the language of au honourable gentleman who
opposed it, "its inevitable effect will be to drive the natives
of the north island into a state of hopeless despair and
rebellion."

That your memorialists have not exaggerated the scope
and object of the bill is proved by the following extract from
the Colonial Treasurer's speech, delivered on the secoLd
reading of the Loan Bill—

" If we take the total area of laud in the rebel districts,
it will be found that it amounts to eight and a half million
acres, and we have obtained information from persons
well acquainted with the districts and the quality
of the land, that one half of it will be available for
settlement; therefore we have for settlement 4,250,000 acres.
If ws deduct from that the quantity required for the loca-
tion of European settlers and natives, there will be a balance
of 3,000,000 for sales, reserves, and for the preservation of
the territory of those loyal natives who may not be desirous
of disposing of their lands. I said there was a balance of
3,000,000 of acres, and supposing we set apart 500,000
acres for roads and reserves, and 1,000,000 for land that
may be retained by the loyal natives, it will still leave
1,500,0 h for sale. Of course it would not be desirable,
if it were even possible, to dispose of this land at once;
but by bringing it into the market judiciously,
it appears to us that 1,500,000 acres economically
dealt with and properly sold, will realise, at the very
least £2 per acre, and £3,000,000 will be obtained at the
time these arrangements are completed."
It is but too obvious from this explanatory statement, as
well as from the terms of the bill itself, that nothing short
of the absolute confiscation of all the lands owned by the
rebel tribes is contemplated by the New- Zealand Govern-
ment, and that this policy has received the deliberate sanc-
tion of the General Assembly.
Your memorialists would remark that no kind of grace
is offered to natives who may be willing at once to lay down
their arms ; that there is no attempt to define the various
degrees of guilt, and to apportion the punishment equit-
ably; and that there is a total absence of that clemency
which ought ever to be exhibited by a civilized nation in
its dealings with a subject recs.
There is grave reason to fear that the Confiscation Bill
will have an effect the very opposite of that which its sup-
porters anticipate. The many thoUsands of natives whom
it will render homeless wanderers, will scarcely allow them-
selves to be driven forth without an effort to avert their
doom; and against the estimated proceeds of the sale
of confiscated territory must be set the probable cost
of another war, into which it is more than likely many
now loyal tribes will be drawn, from a natural feeling
of sympathy with their outcast brethren. In express.
ing their fear that a policy of confiscation will lead to
the indefinite prolongati'n of hostilities, and the ultimate
extermination of the whole of the Maori race in-
habiting the north island, your memorialists do but echo the
opinion of men of high position in both houses of the New
Zealand Assembly,

Your memorialists protest against that portion of the bill
which empowers the Government to take the lands of loyal
natives (even upon the principle of compensation) as being
contrary to the express terms of the treaty of Wei.
tangi, whereby " the Queen of England confirms
and guarantees to the Chiefs and tribes of New
Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals
thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of
their /ands and estates, forests, fisheries, and properties,
which they may collectively or individually possess, su long
as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their
possession." Loyal natives having been guilty of no offence
against the law, any att3mpt to forcibly deprive them of
their lands is manitestly a violation of the treaty, and an
act of usurpation.
Your memorialists would remark, as an additional rea-
son why lenity should bo shown to the natives, that
while they have been guilty of acts of war, which
none of their friends desire to justify or palliate, there
has been much in the conduct of the colonists and in
the acts of the Colonial Government towards them, especi-
ally in connection with the late unfortunate land war in
Taranaki, to excite the alarm aad arouse the passions of a
suspicious and semi-civilised people. The natives, more.
over, are entirely unrepresented in the New• Zealand
Legislature ; and although the treaty of Waitangi nomi-
nally invested them with all the rights of British
subjects they have been practically treated as a separate and
an alien race.

In conclusion, your memorialis's humbly pray your
Grace to advise her Majesty to withhold the royal assent
from the bill confiscating the native lands in the disturbed
districts of New Zealand.
Signed on behalf of the Committee of the
Aborigines' Protection Society,
SAMUEL GURNEY, M.P., President.
R. N. FOWLER, Treasurer.
F. W. CRESSON, Secretary.
London, Feb. 17, 1864.