The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-22 00:00:00

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THE MONTHL
CONT.

$e published, 2s. tid., No. V. of
,Y
CHRONICLE.

1. Political Coalitions.
2. Animal Magnetism—(con-
eluded).
3. Ireland. :
4. Ocean Steamers.
London: Longr

!ENTS.

5. University Reform, by an
Oxford Professor.
6. Review of Literature.
7. Music and the Opera.
8. Notes of the Month.
1, Orme, and Co.

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LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1838.

It will be noticed with great pleasure by all the friends
of the negro, that the conduct of Barbadoes, St. Vincent's,
and St. Kitt's, in emancipating the apprentices on August
Ist, was justly praised in both Houses of Parliament last
night. There is no longer any doubt, therefore, on this
interesting subject, and no doubt whatever that the period
of complete emancipation in the West India Islands is
rapidly approaching. The public will learn with satisfac-
tion, too, from Lord GLENELG'S statement, that the Go-
vernor of Jamaica has brought the subject of complete
emancipation on August Ist before the Council, and the
Council acquiesced in his recommendation. Sir GEORGE
GREY completed the pleasing information, by adding that
the Legislature of Jamaica was convened for the sth of
this month, to take the subject into consideration ; and it
is the general opinion of all the influential men in Jamaica,
that to carry the emancipation completely into effect on
August Ist, will be conducive to the best interests of the
colony. This is really animating news for those who have
of late struggled in behalf of the Negroes ; and it confirms
fully the announcement we made some months ago, that
such would be the probable effect of Sir GEORGE STRICK-
LAND'S motion. Much praise, then, and much honour be
to those noble and persevering men who have, by the pub-
lic agitation of this question, convinced even the planters
that it is their interest, as it is the interest of all men, to be
kindly, humane, and just.

Nor will we on this occasion withhold from the Govern-
ment, and particularly from the Colonial department,
our well-merited approbation. We knew positively, and
in truth we stated at the time, that although Lord
GLENELG and Sir GEORGE GREY were compelled, by a
sense of public duty, to resist in Parliament the motions
of the friends of the Abolition, they have individually been
long and ardently attached to that cause, and have used
their individual and official influence to bring about, through
the instrumentality of the local legislatures, the consummation
which seems now happily approaching. The emancipation,
if accomplished by the local Legislatures, will be effected,
it is to be hoped, in the best manner, because it will spring
less from outward constraint, than from the conviction of
the planters. They will, therefore, take all the necessary
measures to make it safe and advalitageous both to them-
selves and the apprentices. For this beneficial result, the
public is much indebted to Lord GLENELG and Sir GEORGE
GREY.

But while such good news comes to us from the West
India Islands, we see nothing similar from the continent.
We hear of Hill Coolies being carried by Messrs. GLAD-
STONE and Co. to Demerara, but we hear nothing of the
Court of Policy taking measures to emancipate the ap-
prentices on August Ist. As Demerara will have in these
Hill Coolies a large supply of quasi free labourers, less ob-
jection must exist there than in the other colonies to ex-
tinguish at once the system of apprenticeship. Messrs.
GLADSTONE and Co., gentlemen who build churches and
process great piety, will be expected by the public to prove
by their acts the justice of their claims to superior holiness.
Lot them emancipate their apprentices, and then perhaps
the public will think that they do net mean to make slaves
of the Hill Coolies.

In answer to a question put by Mr. WALLACE in the
licuse of Commons last night, Mr. POULETT THOMSON
stated that Government intends not to bring the altera-
tion proposed in the Sugar Bounties into operation till the
Io'll of October next. Oil what pretext, we should like to
know, is even the imperfect measure proposed by the
Government to be so long postponed ? The plan-
ters and refiners, and indeed the whole commu-
nity, were officially informed last year that an alteration
in the bounties would be made this year. In February
last the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated the
notice, awl again when he brought on the Budget. The
Sugar Duties Act is an annual Act, and it expires on the
sth of next month. That, therefore, is the natural period
to which all the sugar refiners and dealers, must have
looked to see the new law come into operation ; and if they
are not prepared for it they, and not the public,
should suffer. They have had ample warning, and
it will be a grass injustice to the public not to carry imme-
diately into effect at least the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER'S proposed reduction of the bounty.
The consequence of course will be that the refiners will
put forth all their power, and will refine as much as possible
in the next three months. In that period they will work
almost exclusively for the foreign market, and the home
market being kept short, the public will have to pay
an additional price for refined sugar, as well as pay
the bounty on all which the refiners can make and
export. The demand for sugar for the refiners will,
of course increase, and the price of all sugars will be
raised to the public. It is a nice device to put a few hun-
dred thousand pounds into the pockets of the owners of
and dealers in sugar. It will add in reality to the tax
which the present system now levies on the public, in the
enhanced price of sue for the behoof of the planters ;
and it will take in the shape of bounty a very considerable
sum cut of the Exchequer. We should not, in fact, be
surprised if nearly as much sugar were refined in the next
three months as on an average is refined in the whole year;
and if the Exchequer, in its present state of impoverish-
ment, were required to pay upwards of 300,0001. bounty on
refined sugar exported.
The certain saving of bringing even the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER'S proposed alteration into operation on
the sth of July, instead of October 10, supposing half the
average quantity annually exported be refined in the next
three months, will be about 70,0001. If Mr. CLAY'S mo-
tion be carried the certain saving will be about three
times that sum. Now, as the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER has announced a considerable deficiency of the
revenue, and as an increase of expenditure is more certain
than an increase of the amount of taxes, it is wholly un-
justifiable in him to throw away 300,0001., or even 20,000/.
on the owners of sugar.
Mr. THOMPSON said he had seen the sugar refiners,
and the " Court Circular" informs us that a deputation of
those manufacturers and of the West India body had an
interview with him on Tuesday. We take it for granted,
therefore, that the arguments used at the interview induced
the President of the Board of Trade to consent to the
schema for levying at least an additional 70,0001.
on the public, to enrich the planters. We do not ask
what those arguments were ; they were probablyof a nature
not exactly suited to the public ear ; but Mr. THostsoN
and Mr. Rica will be required to state some valid reasons
for plundering the public to enrich the planters, and to show
that some specific injury to the national welfare will arise
from now abolishing or reducing a bounty which they have
shown to be unjust, and which expires by law on July
the • sth. We do not blame them for its present
existence, because they did not establish it ; and their's is
the merit of having demonstrated, by actual experiment,
that it is based in fraud ; but for them to continue it after
July sth will be to re-enact the injustice, and they alone
will be responsible for every shilling taken out of the pocket
of the public, whether directly by the bounty, or indirectly
by the enhanced price of sugar after July sth. What
with corn-laws, coal monopolies, sugar bounties, and other
similar schemes by which the different classes mutually
plunder each other, a far greater sum is, we believe, an-
nually raised by this indirect taxation than is required to
pay the interest of the national debt. Not a human being,

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