The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

AFTER. EASTER.

Tne following sketch may not prove altogether unin-
teresting of the principal business of public interest
that, according to notice given, will be brought before
Parliament " after Easter." There will be no cause
for complaint if one-fourth of that business is disposed
of before the " shooting season" comes on. Mr. Ewart
moves an address for opening Regent's Park to the
public ; and also for a Select Committee to consider
the best mode of appointing a Public Prosecutor in
England and Wales. Mr. Hume's Committee on Na-
tional Monuments and Works of Art is to be appointed.
Mr. Hawes move; for a Committee on the " promo-
tion of the Fine Arts in connection with the re-building
of the new Houses of Parliament." Mr. Grote
moves resolutions respecting the Land Fund and
Finances of New South Wales ; and Lord Charles
Fitzroy moves for a Committee on the subject of the
lonian Islands. The Lord Advocate introdnces Bills
for amending the law of Scotland as to infeftment,
heritable securities for debt, and for " amending the
criminal law of Scotland." The Solicitor-General moves
for a Committee to inquire as to expediency of" re-
moving the Courts of Law and Equity from Westminster
Hall to Lincoln's Inn." The Chancellor of tho Ex-
chequer brings forward the Budget ; and there are,
moreover, some 60 public Bills, for all of which days
have been appointed. Besides this tolerable accumulation
of business, there are nearly 30 notices for " after the
recess," but for which no particular days have been
fixed. These include notices on the important subjects
of Life Assurance Companies, and Companies for
granting annuities ; the reduction of the duty on Fire
Insurances ; the relations of this country with Texas
and Mexico ; newspaper stamp returns ; a all to
abolish Church-rates ; Merchant Seamen's Fund ; a
Bill to regulate safety valves upon steam-boilers in
steam-vessels ; Transportation ; the variations in the
price of food on the wages of labour ; the substitution
of affirmations in
.lieu of oaths ; the carriage of the
mails by railways in Scotland ; the duties of the Lord
Advocate of Scotland, &c. &c. This affords a tolerably
extensive list of business, for which the Parliament has
to prepare itself " after Easter."

The prospect of an early importation of new
season teas from China has produced a serious depression
in the value of the article. This is an article of such ge-
neral consumption throughout the United Kingdom, the
British colonies, and elsewhere, that the following de-
tails, drawn from recent official returns, must be interest-
ing to the public. The stocks of teas in the port of Lon-
don on the Ist instant was 33,389,5401b5. weight. At the
same data of 1840 it was 38,012,640, therefore showing a
decrease of 4,623,1001135. The principal portion of the
at'ck ou the Ist instant consisted of 22,52944011 m of
Congou and Pouchong, 3,943,620110. of Twankay,
1,826,3001b5. of Hyson, 1,121,0321bs of Souchong-
,
843,0001b5. of Imperial and Gunpowder, and the re
mainder of the other various breaks in request in the
country. The returns of the stock in the United King-
dom have not been received. They will, in all probability,
show that, including the quantities held in the port of
London, there are from 38,000,0001b5. to 39,000,00011)s.
in store against 40,000,0001b5. at the corresponding period
of 1540. In the quantity of tea upon which duty has
been paid in the first thre.l first months of the present year,
as compared with the corresponding period of 1840, there
has been a material increase, fur we find that, including
clearances for consumption, stores and exports,
6,518,1521b5, have been paid duty upon
stockagainst
this
5,173,0641b5. in the same period of last year. The
quan-
tity of East India Company's Congous remaining in
is now very reduced. The reduction in the value of
choice quality of tea—usually called the consols of the
trade—comparing, the present with the highest price paid
for the article last year, is over 120 per cent. It was
c
sold at 35. 4d. per lb. It is row sold
trust that the holders of this article ma
meet the losses that must have acer
base on band. Fears are, be wever
toauy of the smaller and less wealth
enabled to bear the brunt of such at a
Is. 443. We
y be enable I to
ued in the stocks they
entertained, that
a y alders will not be
serious depression in
the value of the article,..oburver