The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-07 00:00:00

Canada.

Mr. HUME elicited from the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, that the thirteen millions Exchequer Bills
does not enable the Chancellor to borrow more money,
but only to renew the loans he has already made.
The House then proceeded with the debate on the
Jamaica Suspension Bill. Mr. MACLEAN was the first
speaker, and spoke against the measure, as did Mr.
GROTE ; Sir EARDLEY WILMOT supported it. • Mr.
GROTE following other persons, spoke of the Bill as
a punishment. We cannot consider it in that
light ; at least it is not meant as a punishment to the
350,000 negroes, and we doubt if providing for the le-
gislation of Jamaica can be considered as a punishment
to the whites. In no. other way can it be a punish-
ment, than as it deprives men of power which they have
heretofore used for bad purposes ; and unless they have
•used their legislative power to gratify some of thei• own
passions at the expense of others, the suspension will
not be punishment at all. Mr. CLAY and Mr. WAR-
BURTON both spoke against Mr. GROTE. Mr. GALLY
KNIGHT and Mr. GOULBURN both spoke against the Bill.
Mr. O'CONNELL rallied Mr. GOULBURN about his advo-
cacy of popular rights, and said he expected soon to see
the Right Hon. Gentleman become a Chartist, whereat
one side of the House cried '• Oh!" and the other side
cheered. Mr. O'CONNELL argued, from the cruelties
committed by the planters at various periods,
that they were not to be trusted to pro-
vide by legislation for the colony. One argu-
tnent in favour of the Bill seems to have been
overlooked, viz., that it would save the time of our
Parliament, which is now called on, every Session to

interfere with Jamaica. Pass this Bill and the Commis-
sioners will do all its duty. As, according to this view,
the Parliament would be relieved. the Commissioners
probably should be Parliamentary rather than Royal.
If they were named in the Bill some of the objections
might be lessened,
Mr. GLADSTONE followed Mr. O'CONNELL and de-
fended the planters, he being of that race. The Prisons
Bill he thought was a most offensive, objectionable
Act, and contended that the conduct of the
Legislature of Jamaica was justified by that Bill.
He opposed the Bill because it was a penal
measure tending to bring legislation into discredit,
and destroy the confidence of the Colonists.
Sir S. LUSBINGTON wanted equal laws for Jamaica,
whereas there industry was now discouraged. The
British Parliament had never parted with the power of
legislating for Jamaica, and was bound to remedy the
evils.

At a late hour Lord STANLEY, in a speech that was
meant to be effective, replied to Sir S. LUSHINGTON.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL closed the debate ; and after

pointing out the gross neglect of the planters, and after
adverting to the abuse which had been heaped on the
Baptist Missionaries, to whom he ascribed the present
good behaviour of the negroes, and after an appeal to
those West Indians who had first agreed to the mea
sure, and then, for party purposes, meant to vote against
him, concluded by expressing a hope that the vote of
the House would convince them of their error.
The House divided, and the Ministers obtained a
majority of five. The numbers were 294 for
going into the Committee, and 289 against it ;
majority, 5. The Ministers have, on other occa-
sions, not deserved so well as on this, when they
were less efficiently supported. We have mo com-
plaint, however, to make of those conscientious gentle-
men who, like Mr. GROTE and Mr. HUBIE, thought it
their duty,ethough they differ from us, to vote against
the Ministers.

The Speaker of the House of Commons at the be-
ginning of public business last night, announced very
unexpectedly; his intention to resign the chair, and-
not to resume it after Whitsuntide. The Right
Honourable Gentleman assigned a growing convic-
tion that his strength no longer enabled him to dis•
charge, as heretofore, the duties of his high office,
as the reason of his resignation. He was im-
mediately complimented, though very briefly, by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who assured the Right
Hon. Gentleman, that he would carry with him
the respect, regard, and gratitude of the House.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, -having found it his painful
duty to oppose the Speaker on his first election, ex-
patiated at somewhat greater length on Mr.
Speaker's merits :
" I may perhaps be justified, (he said), in offering my
public testimony to the integrity and impartiality with
which you have discharged your duties in presiding over
the deliberations of this House—(Cheering)--and to de-
clare that I think, not only on account of the discharge of
your duties in the chair, but on account of your perse-
vering efforts to improve the conduct of private business,
thereby to raise the character of the House iri the estima-
tion of the country, you arc entitled to an expression of
public gratitude."—(Loud cheers from all sides of the
House.)

With such testimonies to his merits, given by
those who are continually in the habit of transact-
ing business with him, and who are far
better acquainted with his virtues than we
are, our feeble note of praise, were we to raise
it, would only be lost in such a triumphant chorus.
We think the Speaker has been very honest and
very consistent, and that he has exerted himself to
save the time of the House and preserve order in the
debates ; but we cannot compliment him on hav-
ing opened wide the door to petitions, or on having
exhibited any peculiar readiness in listening to the
complaints of the people. His integrity is un-
doubted, but it has scarcely sufficed to make him
popular.
The Right Hon. JAMES ABERCROMBY was
born in the year 1776, and being now in the 63rd
year of his age, has arrived at a time of life when
perhaps retirement becomes a duty. It is thirty-
two years since he first sat in the House of Com-
mons for Midhurst, and in four Parliaments he
represented the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S borough
of Calne. Since the Reform Act was passed the
Right Hon. Gentleman has sat for Edinburgh.
During the whole time he has been in Parliament
he has been an active and highly trusted Member
of the Whig party, and was united with them in
office in Lord MELBOURNE'S short Administration
in 1834. He was chosen Speaker in opposition to
Viscount CANTERBURY, in the Parliament called
by Sir R. PEEL at the beginning of 1835, and
has, therefore, filled his high office only in two
Parliaments, and for four years. He is already en-
titled to a pension as Chief Baron of the Court of
Exchequer in Scotland, when that Court was
abolished, which is in abeyance during his Speaker-
ship, but will revive on his giving up the Chair.
Conjecture is busy in selecting a successor to the
Right Honourable Gentleman. We have heard
Mr. SPRING RICE, Mr.LEFEVRE, Sir G. CLERK,
Sir J. GRAHAM, and Sir G. GREY mentioned.

The Bishop of LONDON, on Friday evening,
gave a specimen of the assistance a Liberal Go-
vernment may expect from the Church in any really
useful scheme of education. This pious Prelate, in
his eagerness to denounce general education, mistook
the mere skeleton proposed by the Privy Council to
teach masters for a well formed, compact, general
system, excluding everything in the shape of religious
instruction ; and with a dogmatism peculiar to him-
self, asserted that any system that was to comprise
all Dissenters, would lead only to the wildest lati-
tudinarianism. He conjured up some monstrous
irreligious plan, which he knew well neither Mr.
WYSE, nor Lord BROUGHAM, nor Lord LANS-
DOWNE, nor any other human being ever dreamt
of, and sent that forth to the people of England
as the plan of the Government to aim a heavy blow
at the Church, and strike at the root of the religion
of the country. He was soon set right, but
all the friends of education may take this
as an omen of the future, and rest con-
vinced that every scheme, except one brought
forward by the Bishops and founded on the peculiar
tenets of the Church will be denounced from the
Episcopal Bench and from the pulpit, as the work
of Catholics, Dissenters, and Atheists. Lord
BROUGHAM may, therefore, prepare himself for
the task which he so nobly offered to undertake.
It is a glorious task, and one for which he of ail
men is most peculiarly fitted to relieve the lower
classes from their present load of ignorance, and to
commence by leading the people• of England in

their resistance, not to the Establishment, hut to the
corruptions of the Establishment, to the exclusive,
selfish, and arrogant pretensions of such men as the
Bishop of- LONDON, who " bind heavy burdens
and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's
shoulders, but they themselves will not move' them
with one of their fingers." The Church, as a
body, has winked at—nay encouraged, the igno-

rance of the people, and when at last roused by the
exertions of the disinterested and the humane, it
presents every obstacle, and announces that there
shall be no general system of education which
does not recognise the principle that Episcopacy
is the best of all religions, and that unless a Bishop
has 20,0001. a-year and immense patronage,
unless Church-rates be continued, Catholics and
Dissenters be treated as aliens, the religious people
of England will relapse into " indifference, general-
ism, and perhaps something worse." This is the
great enemy with whom Lord BROUGHAM has
to contend, for he may rest assured, that while
the power of this exclusive hierarchy remains un-
impaired, he will labour in the sacred cause in
vain. With such a hierarchy, and such a House
of Lords, we ask Lord JOHN RUSSELL how he
can rationally, and in reasonable time, anticipate
that improvement which is his only remedy for
finality.

By the arrival at Havre of the packet-ship, Duchess
of Orleans, from America, we have received a file of
New York papers to the 17th ult , being nine days
Eater than the last arrivals from the United States.
The news received is very satisfactory. On the 14th
the Great W stern Steamer safely arrived at Neat
York, with 109 passengers. After experiencing, in
the words of the New York Morning Herald, for
twent4-two days, " squalls, head-winds, heavy seas,
thunder and lightning, and every obstacle that
wind and water could creat.a." The very cordial recep-
tion which the Acts of the 'Federal Government recom-
ending the adoption of a pacific policy with England
in the settlement of the Boundary question bad met
with from the Government and Press of this country,
gave great satisfaction to the people of the United
States. They were delighted to learn that all parties
here prized their friendship so highly, and are more
than ever resolved to maintain pacific relations between
the two countries. There were still some burnings on
the frontier, but the United States' authorities were
doing all in ,their power to put a stop to such outrages.
There is nothing stirring in the way of politics in the
States. The aspect of affairs in the commercial world
is generally favourable.
(From the IVew York Morning Herald of the I 7th.)

APPREHENSION of FOUR CHART-
ISTS AT ASHTON. t;
CALLED OUT.

AsHTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.
The apprehension of the four men has caused consid..rable
excitement amongst the Chartist party, and it is right to add
that those parties who usually act as leaders of the people, did
their best to preserve the peace.
The prisoners were brought up before David Harrison, Jas.
Juwett, Abel Buckley, Rev. J. S. 11. Evans, John Chatham,
James Lord, and William Wright, Esqrs.
The two constables of Newton deposed to having seen the pri-
soners, Samuel and John Bardsley, Cox, and Wards, with a
number of others, drilling in a field near Ashton. It was also
stated that pikes and bullets were found in John Bardsley's and
Cox's residence.
The prisoners having been placed in the lockup, one of
Messrs. Broweley and Newton s omnibuses was sent for, in
order to convey the prisoners to the New Bailey in Salford,
but the crowd becoming very viciferous, and using threatening
language towards the constables, an express was sent off to
Colonel Wemyss, the Commanding Officer of the district, for
the assistance of the military. Colonel Wemyss accordingly
promptly set out for Ashton, accompanied by 2 of the Oh
Carabtneers, under the command of an officer, and the remain ier
of the troop, together with another troop of Carabineers, \v'th
a piece of ordnance and a nompany of foot soldiers froth
the Regent-road Baracks hollowed. The first division
of the cavalry, headed by the Gallant Colonel marched
into the market-place, where the people had asseio-.
bled in groat numbers. Colonel Wemyss comtnencid
addressing them, and told them that it would be much better
for them to preserve the peace. The soldiers were very o°-
willing to be called upon to act against their fellow-country-
men, but. if it were necessary. they would be compelled
"
do so. If the people expected to obtain what they supPos
to be their rights, or any thing else, by brute force, the)
- were very much mistaken, fqr they would find the law too
strong for them. Several of the people asked the Gallant
Colonel what he thought about the New Poor• law, and i-
right to add that the Gallant Colonel's replies were received in I
very proper spirit, if they did not even happen to coincide with
the views :f the people.
In the meantime unexceptionable bail having been ten-,
dered to the Magistrates, they dispensed with the 24 hours
notice, and the prisoners were set at liberty, to the great so'
tisfaction of their friends. To such a height had the feelings
of the people been raise,l, at one time when they saw the nt°'
nibus in the yard of the police (Ace, that they threatened to
pull it to pieces, and Gatley, the constable of Stal,ybriciel;
thought it was prudent to send the carriage back to the coa'

proprietors.
About three o'clock the military quitted the town, and tle
Magistrates being satisfied that nothing further would hapVe,'l'e
broke up their own meeting—having previously caused thhe
Queen's proclamation against training to be posted on t
galls.
In the evening a meeting of the inhabitants of Asbtn.n,
Andershaw, &c., took place in Cock-lane, Andershawf DU'

Mark Eastwood being in the chair.
Resolutions declaratory nf the confidence of the meeting in
the Convention were passed unanimously, and speeches niode
Mr. Aitken, of Ashton ; Rev. W. V. Jackson; of. Alanchester'
Messrs. Higgins, Fenton, &c. not
It has been stated that th... party who were drilling are
recognized by the Ashton Radicals as belonging to the bodi. ,
There has been a considerable reinforcement of ruilital'
drafted into Manchester within the last few days, and there sr'
expectations that their numbers will be speedily increased.

CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCIF
Arrivals this morning—French mail; ship letters To
Demerara , Philadelphia, Charleston, and the Mauritius.
Lavaapoot. COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. We have T°
change to note in the Cotton Market. The sales to-4131

are I, 50 0 bags, at Friday's quotations. the
SMYRNA, APRIL 20.—We this moment learn that
English tariff was signed on the 25th of November, A
ile
14.
Inconsequence of which, we are in hopes soon to !W
it here.
In former times the vote of the House of Comm)
'would have affectei the British Funds, but it has not been
the case with the present.

THE FUNDS. at,
Consols continue at the prices they closed 40
931 Money, Account 938 buyers. Exchequer
42; Bonds, 44 46; Bank Stock, 196197; in

Stock, 255 f 2561.
The Foreign Market is also inactive. Spanish Active;
14 20k, as they closed; Portuguese, 36/ ; Three
Cents., 221; Belgian. 1011 102; Brazilian, 7811;,,,re
lombian, 311; Mexican, 251; Dutch Two-and-a- a"
Cents., 56/ ; Five per Cents , 102/ 103. New
•The Duchess of Orleans, Havre packet, from
York, has arrived off Plymouth. being the packet era
16th ult. ; as yet we do not bear of any papers or lett
having been landed from her. •
iiICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE
Yank Stock l9tili 6 Y., India Stock .....................
.6 po:
3 per Cent. Red.......... Ditto Bonds.. ............ 44
3 per Cent. Cons. 9314 yy 4 South Sea Stock ................
3., per Cent WO Old Annuities ..................
Ditto Red. 99Vi 100 New Ditto . ....................
New per Cent lOl% 1 3 per Cent. Annuities,
.1)
42
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpi re Ditto 500 40„ pro.
Jan. 5, 1060 14% 9-IC, Ditto Small .............. 'au ""
Oct. 10, 1859.......... 14% ..-16% Ditto Commercial...... or.
Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised ......
Jan. 5, ISSO Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5. 1880 lndia Stock for Account
Jan. 5. 1870 I - Consols for Account.... g 5,
HALF-PAST OZ
( From the Sydney papers, arrived yesterday.
2ntintieS
STATE of TRADE —The trade of this Colony e-n--
co
steady, and almost all articles of a staple descriptio 111:t,
moods a ready market at paying prices.
There
vortan
however, much money stirring, and alt sales of iat
• ' -rsion
sve effected at long credit, under th°
more Pie"-
that shot tly the neeeful ~will we wili no
tiful." The wool season and improved price Two
doubt vindicate the gencro,,ity of niercharitS• .le
Tobacco, Sugar, Spirits, and indeed every material artic.
fully maintains its price. Bills in England as usual at this
time are scarce, and command a premium, but the very
wordproximate wool season, will, no doubt substitute the "r"
discount for premium. fo
Letters- have reached Sydney, stating that a party.
armed bushrangers are scouring the Wellington nistrlctt'
robbing the out-stations and ill-using those who refuse 0,
succour them. Bushranging is said to be on the inerease
The Governor, it is reported, has written home to advise thati_
two ships with emigrants shall be forwarded to port Ph
tilife'
for though the inhabitants are but few, the property
in
interior is ver great. stern
Accounts have been received that the Great We by
steamer arrived at New York on the 14th ult., colne,o
the Havre packet off Plymouth. The information toh4-
brought had a favourable effect. Stooks rose from ~,
per cent., and the Maine question was Considered t?yed
finished. This information is by private letters feces
this morning from the above ship. A 91'
In the early part of the morning Consols reachedmay
since which they receded to 931, at which price thefno,
be quoted at present ; Money, 93/ ; Exchequer
Ip
40 42 ; India Bonds, 44 46 ' • Bank Stock, 1961; 40
the Foreign Market—Spanish Active, 20 ; Deferrik"
(1010110-
Portuguese lovver;3sl; Three per Cents., 21i• ;„-If pee
bian, 31 ; Belgian, 102 ; .Dutch Two-and-a-rig" Ist
Cents., 561 1; Five per Cents., 1021 i. No sweet°
yet of the arrival of the Great Western,

-
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS ...
Bank Steak
3 per t ent. Red 1900 India Stack .............•.•••""p 46
(19Y, -Ditto Bonds
.„
3 per Cent. Cciis.
3N, per Cent. Red ion Ditto New Annuities .......... in
New 3% per Cent 101% ,Ex. Bills, 1,0001 Zi ..... 44 el
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 ....... . ............ pol
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5004.... ............„..
Jan. 186 ft
...., ,
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
___

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Asturian, 5 per cent 107.:, Portuguese! Rends, sper gent' 51
lizlgian, 5 per cent lt)7i I Ditto. New Ditto ...............
Brazilian Lands 'Prussian 5 per cent......'
••
• eert •
,

Buenos Ayr s, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent —
ColombAan, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1624
Danish, 3 per cent 75%
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 pet et —
Mexican, 5 per cent.

Russian Bonds, 5 per cer.
Ditto, Metallic.. ..............
;Spanish, 5 per cent ..........•"
(Ditto, Consolidated........
French, 5 per cent...-.. .••
Exchange .....................
French, :3 per cent ..........
0.0

, .
Ditto, tt per cent., 1825
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent —

Dutch, 2 per cent. ....... •••.:p
Ditto, 5 per cent......

SliA. 10iI
Eastern Countiori Railway
Great Western Railway
%
London and Brighton Railway...
London and Blackwall Raiiwiy
161
London and Birmingham Railway llo‘
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 14%
Manchester and Birmingham Railway

RES-

A Cabinet Council sat to-day at the F°re'V
office at half-past twelve o'clock. e re'
U h
LTOR-EX-OSSIBUS WAGS.—It Will "" to
membered that the accession of the Emporor Nicholatiol
the Russian throne was signalized by an act of extra le.
cruelty and unnecessary bloodshed, and that Pestel, viYst,
jeff, Bestuzeff and others, who made an unsuccessful is;i•
tc.mpt at proclaiming as Emperor the elder brother °' last.
cholas, were hung and quartered. On Saturday digit
among the elite of the beau monde who came to paY s.there
respects to the Grand Duke of Russia, at Mivart's',,;•ong
arrived three gentlemen in a carriage, apparently P
r° oa
of rank and of fortune, and, in common with othe DI
being shown the visiting book. put down their names. /0,„
the evening the aide-de-camp who had to read to the big
perial Duke the list of his illustrious visitors, found, t(a;cs
utter dismay and astonishment, amongst others, the %ion
of Pestel, lejeff, and Bestuzeff, written all in stgeAe-iitto
one atter another ; but astonishment soon change" the
something akin to terror when, on closer inspeein°
Duke found the names to have" been written Wit°, "i3Oa-
reddish fluid, which, in the first moment, his heat" ithe
ginatioo misto,k for something still more symbolical 0'
fit st act of h;e father's reign.

Just published, to be had Gratis,
NEW MUSIC.—A Quantityof MUSICAL !!'sale,
playing upwards of 400 Airs, Overtures, &c., being ierAjoics.
Lis: of the music is now published , also the prices of the ' Alsl
Boxes. The List can be sent by post, as a single letter•soor-
be had gratis, from T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith,n Door'
smith, Watchmakei- &c., 47, Coinhill, London (Se"
from Gracechurch-street ). •

—SI
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EACH.—Some floe horizontal flat :,old Waistcoat ‘'''a-crids,
_
jewelled in four holes, silver dials, hand to mark the Eccor,
o c
and double-back to the cases, warranted to perform
Guineas
reetly, Niue Guineas each ; or with gold dials, Ten Gu
each.

A. B. SAOY and SONS,
Watchmakers, No. 9, CorV Rnhill, London, opposa• the 13gnk

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On the; ih inst., Fanny, the wife of Willia, Esq.,
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