The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-02 00:00:00

SUGAR DUTIES.

Lord CL ARE rose to present the petition of which he
had given notice from the East India Company, pray
ing for an equalization a the duties on East and
West India Sugar. The N able Lord trusted that his Ma-
jesty's Ministers would take th e subject unto their most serious
consideration. In his opiniol 3, at the present time the position
of the East India Company cla 5 med the peculiar consideration of
the House, for since the pass ..fing of the last charter the whole
charges of the Government •of India were thrown upon the
resources of India. In concl tision, the Noble Lord begged to
ask the Noble Viscount whe t her it was the intention of his
Majesty's Government to intrc c luce any measure on the subject ?
Viscount MELBOURNE said that the subject was one
which required great considtm :ration and sound legislation._
( Hear, hear.) His Majesty) ; Ministers were as sensible
as the' Noble Lord could be a the importance of the measure.
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They intended to consider the • subject, and to introduce a mea-
sure which he trusted would b a satisfactory to all parties.
Lord SEAFORD did not think there was any surplus
sugar in the East Indies—ic.' the merchants were allowed
to send their sugar to this nu irket, they must import as much
from some other place, so • that the country would not be
benefited in any way while ; the West Indies would be much
damaged ; that would be an vasion of the law, but still it was
one which would take place. If there was any surplus sugar
then, if it was their Lordship ' pleasure, let them put the cul-
tivatcr of the East Indies on. the same footing as the cultiva-
tor in the West Indies. But a tno former time was it so import-
ant that the West Indies she u Id receive the succour and sup-
port of the mother country, n o iv when a vast and most benignant
experiment was in operat it at, most successfully he be-
lieved, so far as it had . hitherto gone, thanks to the
governors and the officers whose duty it was to carry
the new law into effect • hr it still the matter had not gone far
enough for one to make certain of the result. He would
leave the matter after these few words in the hands of the Go-
vernment,'and of the House, , to deal with it as they thought fit.
Lord E LE NBOROU •••GH, although he had attended to
the statement of the Noble "Viscount, was entirely ignorant of
what the intention of his M :s• jesty's Government was. His con-
striction of the Slave Ema it ipation Bill was, that it placed
the people of the East and West Indies on the same
footing. He believed that the assimilation of the duties on
articles of East and Vies India produce was no longer a
question of principle, but of time ; and the people of the
East Indies had, in his opi a ion, peculiar claims upon the con-
sideration of the British G o vernment. He trusted, therefore,
that the question would r e ceive a full and equitable consi-
deration.

The Marquis of NORT!" HAMPTON thought the question
was one upon which they- should proceed with great caution,
until they had ascertained. • what the result of the 'great expe-
riment would be which t 7as at present nuking in the West

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formilitv, and the convers a tion dropped.
• The ..I‘l.lrquis of LA N SDOWNE presented a pctithn
priying fa- the abolition d capital punishment.
The Marquis of NOR I 'HAMPTON, on the part of the
Duke of Richmond, may- 1 for certain returns connected with
the Post-office Inquiry.— -. Agreed to.
Their Lordships then a ijourned.

HO U.S E OF COMMONS.
The SPEP.KER took tI e chair shortly before four o'clock.

MEDW

kY NAVIGATION.

Oa the motion of Ni ir. HODGES the Committee on this
Bill obtained leave to re port on or before the 16th of June.
Lord STORMONT presented a petition from Norwich in
favour of the South Dui +tam Railtir~y.
LONDON AND CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY.
On the motion of Mr.. WARD, this Bill was read a second
time.