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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y l‘fAr 12. lB4l •

there were mines in Brazil. They are worked
by English companies and English capital. He violated
no confidence in referring to the Hon. Member for An-
trim (Mr. IRVINE), for he saw his name as Chairman of
an English company which obtained gold from the mines
in the Brazils, and supplied the capital ; but the gold on
which they made their profit was brought out of the mines
by the bones and sinews of slaves. Such a home truth
excited indignation against the Tory hypocrites, and will
cover them with shame. We must refer to our report for
a few more of the many capital hits which Sir GEORGE
GREY made ; all, we are aware, are not given, for, un-
fortunately ; the Right Hon. Baronet speaks with such
rapidity, though with such power, that his splendid
speech will be in a manner lost to the world.
He created quite a tumult in the House, which was con-
vulsed with different sentiments. He flurried the wordy
and solemn Mr. GOULBURN, he astonished the prim Lord
SANDON, he held up to eternal ridicule the shallow and
pert humanity-monger Mr. GLADSTONE, and he quite
overwhelmed the stolid Mr. IRVINE. Accordingly he no
sooner took his seat than three of these gentlemen rose to
explain. Lord SANDON was ashamed of what he had
implied, and was in haste to disavow it. Mr. GOUL-
BURN backed out, as he best could, of the do-nothing
policy of which he had been the sponsor, and Mr. GLAD-
STONE was silent and ashamed. Not so

Mr. IRVINE ; the unfortunate gentleman, smitten to the
core by the keen truth told of him in the face of the
world, stammered out in defence an apology. But,
like all men in his situation, he made the matter worse
for himself and his party. He said he did not know why
the Right Hon. Baronet singled hint out from amongst
many ; the poor conscience-stricken man implying that
he was surrounded by gentlemen, at that moment, and
every day of his life, who, like him, make a
profit out of the bones and sinews of slaves, and yet get
up a factious opposition to the Government, and are ready
to throw the country into confusion, lest the half-starved
people of England should consume a grain of slave-
grown sugar. A more complete and damning exposure
of drivelling, avaricious hypocrisy was never seen, and was
proper to be the crowning work of the evening. Honour,
great honour to the bold, manly, truth-telling Sir GEORGE
GREY ! Shame, eternal shame, to the monstrous hypo-
crites who refuse, on the plea of humanity, to al-
low the English to use slave-grown sugar, and who
revel in wealth, extorted from the bones and sinews of
slaves ! We expect that the speech of Sir G. GREY will
effect a revulsion in the feelings of the philanthropists,
and make them heartily ashamed of their new associates,
and of that hostility to the rights and liberties of their
own countrymen in which they are now unfortunately
engaged. The debate was adjourned, after Mr. IRVINE
had exposed himself and his party ; and at One o'Clock
the House adjourned.

The debate on the Sugar Duties is full of in-
struction for the people. Alarmed at the state
of the finances, and at the deterioration of trade,
the Ministers came down to Parliament with
propositions which they assert, and we certainly
believe, though we wish their schemes went
further, will relieve the pressure on the finances,
mitigate the distress of the people, and improve
trade. Those propositions include an alteration
of the Corn-laws, one of the most iniquitous
enactments that ever disgraced a Christian
country. To avoid, if possible, a discussion of that
law, the Tories will not allow the Ministers to go
into Committee, where their propositions can be
discussed in detail ; they oppose them at the
outset with a declaration that it is not fit and
proper to give relief to our suffering people,
-27,000,000, and extend our trade, lest so doing
might, perchance, injure the comparatively scanty
negro population, 800,000, of our West India
Islands. What is this but an avowal, an open
bare-faced avowal, on the part of the

Tories, that they will seize any pretext,
however absurd, to prevent the borne-down and
crushed industrious classes from obtaining the
least relief? They refuse even to consider the
means of relieving them. All their sympathies
are with the blacks. They hate their suffering

countrymen with all the bitterness of conscious
oppressors, and they fear them equally. They
have no fear of the blacks, and they make bene-

citing them the pretext for grinding the people
of England.
Let the reader remark, too, the serpent-like
hypocrisy of the Opposition. The saintly Lord
SAN DON—the Puseyite Mr. GLA nsroxn—(we
know from Mr. NEwToN's late work in what
Jesuitical school he has studied)—object to the
Ministerial scheme, that the reduction of the
sugar duty will give the people little or no relief.
They expatiate on its being only a benefit of a
halfpenny in the pound, and that benefit they
;ay has disappeared while the discussion is going
on. They being so regardful of the people,
Ind the benefit so small, what should be their
•:onduct? Lower the duties still more. Reduce
the duty on West India sugar to los., and on
tbreignto 205., by which the consumption would

`►e surely doubled, and the revenue augmented
it least one-fourth. Do they propose such a
generous measure? Not they. They refuse to
give the people the little benefit the Ministers
propose to confer on them, and at the same time
complain of its smallness. If they proposed the

arge measures we have indicated, we should be
ieve iu their sincerity.

It is natural that bread taxers should 'take
common cause with sugar taxers, but we deeply
regret to see the professed lovers of liberty unit-
ing with them in their refusal to take the Minis-
ters' plan into consideration. They take un-
doubtedly a narrow view, and. forget in the par-
ticular case their general principles. At the
iame time they much over-estimate their power
Adler to do good or evil to the population of
Africa and the slaves of Cuba and the Brazils.
It is a preposterous supposition that to lower our
sugar duties a few shillings should influence the
fate of that vast population. Acts of Parliament
are often impotent even when they relate to
England ; their authors are grievously deceived
and disappointed; and is it to be supposed that
a law directly altering our import duties a few
shillings will indirectly have a mighty effect on
-davery and the slave trade? Sir FOWELL Bux-
roN and his schemes are examples of the power-
essness of Acts of Parliament; and it is quite
:luixotic to deny the smallest particle of benefit
(.) the people of England, on the supposition that

t may at some remote time provoke cruelty and
ause suffering in the Brazils.

All the evils of which Dr. LUSHINGTON coin-
dains exist with our prohibitory system. It has
Lot put an end to them. The foreign market is

open to the Brazilian and Cuba sugars, and will
continue to be open to them. Nay, we
refine their sugars for our colonial and
rhe foreign markets, and, according to Dr.
LUSHINGTON, encourage horrors, against which

lie protests. But neither he nor any other per-
-,on has brought the smallest tittle of evidence,
except their own fancies, to show that slavery will
be made more onerous, and the slave-trade in-
,:reased by lowering the price of sugar. On the
contrary, the high price kept up in our market
by the duty, and the hope of obtaining that,
stimulates slavery; and were the price of sugar
to be lowered by a general competition, it
would cease to be an inducement to extend sla-
very and the slave-trade. We look on the ob-
jections of the philanthropists to be as shallow as
those of the Tories are hypocritical. In one thing
they both agree. B tli utterly disreg,Tard the people
of England, and would pinch and starve them,
while they overflow with psuedo humanity for
the negro race.

The Sandwich Election was carried, we under-
stand, by ope bribery. The voters were bought,
or coerced, beforehand. There are 63 pilots
voters for the borough, and of these 62 voted for
Mr. LINDSAY. What an admirable foundation
does this esLblis!l for our representative system.
If after the I: ouse of Commons is packed by cor-
ruption the people should wholly disregard it,
who would be to blame, the bulk of the people
or the opulent classes, who poison the source of
legislation, and make it a public duty to stop it
up if it cannot be purified?

The Debate in the House of Commons on the
Corn-laws and Sugar Dl:ties is creating a great
sensation in Paris. All the Journals of Monday
have articles upon the subject, in which this
country is:l•eprened as on the eve
of a. ,vast
revolutiOn..• Thelit'(:;yernentsor the Chartigts are
regarded witi much Hyde attfilt49,ll..:PkthS, on

anent than .they are •in England; and as no I
aristocracy can hencetbrth resist the will of the
masses when unanimously expressed, the soberest
men in France are convinced that nothing but a
prompt surrender on the part of the Tories can
save the country. The Presse, the organ .of
Count MOLE, a moderate constitutional states-
man, writes as follows of the struggle now car-
rying on in the British Parliament, and by the
British people in Great Britain and Ireland :
It is impossible to mistake the matter, a 'social revolution is
about to take place in England. She had hitherto escaped such
an event, because the Nobility always directed the rolitat al revo-
lutions which have been accomplished, and because they took
care to occupy the national mind with questions ex-
clusively constitutional. But now the hour of serious
reforms is striking. The struggle commences on both
sides with unexampled animosity, and there is no possibility
of avoiding a solution of the question. This internal
position of England merits the serious attention of those
statesmen who direct European monarchies. They can nnw
comprehend how much they would mistake their interests if
they thought of forming a durable alliance with England.
That country can offer them no guarantee of stability, for
henceforward she is delivered up to all the chances, all the
shocks of a revolution. In the higher regions of the Govern-
ment what do we behold? Two parties carrying on a ran-
corous war with forces nearly balanced—one exercising all its
ingenuity to contrive snares into which its rival may fail—
the ether avenging its fall by conjuring up a popular tempest,
which may carry away with it even more than the fortunes
of the Aristocracy. On both sides we see violence, passion,
blindness, imprudence, and above, in an elevated sphere,
where it would be so necessary to have a strong hand to up-
hold the Monarchy shaken by this furious agitation, is
placed a young woman without experience, a stranger
to every great idea of politics, and interfering in the
struggle with all the whims of her caprice. What support,
we ask, can be given by a Government so constituted and so
directed? None whatever. It can only communicate the ma-
lady with which it is attacked—a malady contagious in the
highest degree. And certainly we cannot reckon on the wis-
dom of the country to drive away the petits in which the Go-
vernment is placed. The English character has an admi-able
quality—that of respecting tradition, even in the abuses it
may hand down. It is to this quality that it owed its repose,
when we changed ail at once our form of government, our man-
ner of living, with all the attributes and elements of our na-
tionality. But if the English character is patient, if it sup-
ports the yoke long before it rises to fling it off, it is only the
mo:e intractable when once roused.
PITT arrested the progress of Reform in Eng-
land by the sword and the halter; GREY saved
the Aristocracy and prevented revolution by
granting the Reform Bill. The masses are more
powerful and nearly as dissatisfied now as they
were during the Administrations of PITT and
GREY, and it rests with the Government and the
Aristocracy what fruits their dissatisfaction may
bring forth. Hempen remedies for political
grievances would now but aggravate them. The
language of the Courier Francais, though not
so offensive in its tone as that of the Presse, is
entirely to the same effect :
" The Ministry have compreherded their situation too
late—personal danger was necessary to suggest to them a sen-
timent of the perils in which England is placed. It is to
prolong their existence that they h ve proposed a vast com-
mercial reform, of which the change in the Corn-laws is
only the principal point. This proves, by an additional
instance, that little causes often produce great effects. We
cannot say whether this proposition of reform will enable
the Ministry to get over their difficulties, but we feel con-
vinced that even should they be obliged to yield, the agita-
tion now raised will not be stopped. The actual crisis is
the commencement of a great struggle between the interests
of the aristocracy and those of the democracy. It is in vain
that England is the most aristocratical country in the
world. There, as elsewhere, privilege must yield to com-
mon sense.

The Temps attributes our present disorganized
social state to the vacillation of the Whigs. We
regret to be obliged to admit that there is by
far too much truth in the following description of
their general policy, cordially as we support
their present endeavours to obtain for the work-
ing man a cheap loaf, and a well sweetened cup
of tea or coffee :

Is the country tranquil, does the opposition grant a truce, at
once the Wigs become Tories. On the contrary, is the coun-
try agitated, they resume the offensive, put themselves at the
head of the people, and march to the destruction of aristocra-
tical privileges—quite ready, at the came time. to stop shi,rt,
and cheat their allies of the fruits o f the war, if their adversa-
ries concede to them some personal advantage. This tleph r-
see,saw system has been the tactics of the Whigs ever since
their acceession to power.

A Contemporary treats these observations of
the French Press with derision. We, on the
contrary, deem them worthy of serious attention.
The Aristocracy, above all, will do well to ponder
dweply upon them, and to inquire among the
working classes how far such sentiments find an
echo in the hearts of the oppressed and starving
millions. A little stone cast from a great height,
makes a wide circle in smooth water. Where
the buildings are combustible, and the wind
favourable, a spark is enough to consume
a city. When the mass of the working
classes are once deeply imbued with a
sense of wrongs, which only an entire change
in the administration of the country can
abolish, they are us easily ruffled as the surface
of a pool by a pebble, as readily ignited by the
fire of all-subverting revolution, as an Oriental
city by the spark from the pipe of some uncon-
scious wayside smoker. If we except Revolu-
tions in Palaces, in which it was a struggle
which wolf should ravage the sheepfold, there
never was a revolution where extreme oppres-
sion had not prepared the people for it. Our
Aristocracy ought to think of this in time. They
ought to look abroad in the worll, and catch at
every echo of the public voice. They should also
know that the very indigent, like certain wild
animals, have but one cry—that of despair and
vengeance, and that when it is heard, alt conces-
sion comes too lale.

There is no domestic news of any interest in
the Paris Journals of Tuesday. The sittings of
the Court of Peers during the trial of DARMES
Will be secret. -

The weather was very stormy at Boulogne on
Monday. The packet boats were delayed one
tide in consequence, and two fishermen were
drowned in attempting to enter the harbour. Time
English brewery at Capecure was burned down,
but no lives were lost. The whole of the pro-
perty is insured.

The following paragraphs include the only
gains of in telligeace strewed over these papei s:—
The accounts of the growing harvest are most satisfact( ry
from every part of France.
'I he session Lt. the Chamber of Deputies will be soon over.
The remaining clauses of the liudpt will be disposed of in a
few days, and, by the Ist of June, the Chamber will be pro-
rogued.

A
meeting of American citizens, resident in Paris, was held
on Monday last, General Cass (the American Minister) in the
Chair. His Excellency pronounced a glowing eulogiuin on
the late General Harrison. upon which resolutions were founded
which received the unanimous anent of the assembly.
The Auysburgh Gazette publishes a letter, dated Rome,
.9th ult., staing that on the preceding day his Exceilency
Cardinal Cap'ccini had set out for Civita Vecchia, and will
prod-ed to Ho:land to arrange matters between the Dutch
Catholics and the Papal Government.
Lord Brougham, after a residence of eight days at Naples had
returned to Rome.

The same journal contains letters from Monastir, in Mace-
donia, dated Aprils, unanimously complaining of the oppression
to which the Christian population of that province is exposed.
Several travellers who arrived from the quarantine ground at
Alerinezza saw the insurgents in the districts between Sofia
and Philippopoli, and said that the voice of the revolters was
re-echoed throue.hout Thessaly.
The Suabian Mercury of the ith inst. states that the French
Government had consented to set I Carlos at liberty at the
request of the Austrian Government.
It is affirmed that a vessel, loaded, in the port of Marseille',
has been seized by a, creditor of the brothers Manontchi, wim
were expelled fro.n Algiers by Marshal Vallee, and to wnem
the cargo belonged, that this seizure having shown that tlo.
cargo consisted of gunpowder, &c., and arms, destined for
Tenez, the local authority had confiscated it; that a retercnce
was made to the Minister, who is said to have sent orders by a
telegraphic despatch to take off the embargo, and suffer the
ship, with its cargo, to proceed to its destination.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 10.
prat Highest Lowest I.ast
Price Price. Price. Price
trench 5 per Cents .......... 114 45 ..„ ,14 45 1 !4, 40 ... 11.4 40
44, per Cents kg 75 1141 75 1.3 75 75
4 per 99 30 30 :.. psi 30 0 3,1
3 per cents 79 40 ,9 40 ... ,9 30 ... 19 'A
dank 01 r fence: ....... 3200
Laltitte bank 40001. shares 1,,,5
...IWO —llB3 ...1190
5,q0111. Shares 5157 50 5e "445, 8
7 5° "*5,1507 50
zelgian Bank ... ..... 795 ••• bu"
• HMO ...1040
5 per Cents.
101 4 ... 101% .. 1014
Spanish 3APecurvCene...4....":"...7 '?.:41,6-•.......:71")
534.
Neapolitan lo4'' 10 ... 'O4 10
...... •
102 ... 101% ...109.

• -
HAILWAI SHAKES.
Versailles. 240 ...:28 75 ... :'34 75
H. ts ........... 240
:.63 VA) 115 "' 31;5
leuen 4# 0 460 ... 4 0 ... 460
,90 4,0 ... ,90 490

*****
itemiburg to Bate ............... L 33

•••
.., c3r ... 235

2:35

We have Madrid Papers of the 3d inst., but
they bring not a word of news. The debate on
the Regency
question was continuing. The
Fives were at 27 and 271 for cash.

By the arrival of the Great Liverpool, Captain
CODRINGTON, R. N., Commander, at Ports-
mouth, we have received a file of the Malta
Times, to the 25th of April inclusive. Maltese
Journals of the same date reached us on Monday.

The German Paper received this morning
being the subjoined ii,telligence fruiu the dis,
Prue, ilices Etti opil,ah Turk e„rs • •
FROM TUE TIIRICAtI: FitewriEßsy Aral', 6—New txp,i7esait.,
-front Belgrade, up to this day, euntim, aie,

surrection that is broken in Bulgaria. In thwe districts which
are known to have risen the state of things does not seem to
be altered ; but accounts from diferent quarters agree that the
in,urreetion continues to spread. Truly frightful stories • are
told of the immediate cause of the insusrection at Lesscoveza.
The arrogance of the Musselmen Rhich shows itself in people
of all classes, especially since the success obtained in Syria by
the Allies of the Porte, is said to have gone so far. that :or the
most trifling reasons Christians have been conducted to the
place of execution and publicly beheaded. This is said
to have been the case with several distinguished Christian inha-
bitants of Lesseoveza ; and to increase the indignation to the
highest pitch, the Passion-week was chosen for this sanguin-
ary deed. It is no wonder if dispair, inspired by religious
fanaticism, broke through all bounds. Respecting the mis,ing
mail from Constantinople of the 13th or 14th of April, we
have received certain intelligence, that the magistmtes:of
Scharkoi, between Nissa and Sophia, stopped the courier on
his way, as they had heard of the troubles that had broken out,
and that the courier immediately turned back to Serwia, pro-
bably to take the road to the Danube, so that we may perhaps
receive that mail by way of Bucharest.
FROM THE RUSSIAN Ficovrtr as, APRIL 06.—Tliere is a
report of serious excesses having broken out in the Govern-
ment of Moscow, in consequence of the scarcity of provision
occasioned by a succession of bad harvests.—Allgemerne Zei-
lung, May 6.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT

Michael Sullivan, 33, was indicted for cutting a.,,d wounding
George Fox, with intent to murder him.
George Fox deposed, that on the 12th March last he had a
warrant to distrain the goods of the prisoner for rent, and had
proceeded to his house, in Cooper's-row, Rosemary-lane, for
that purpose. The prisoner came to the door with an axe in
his hand, and on the witness attempting to go into the house,
he struck him on the forehead w►th it.

'I he Jury returned a verdict for a common assault. Sen-
tence defer, ed.

Mary Ann Bradshau., 46, was convicted of stealing abank-
note, value 51., and 27 sovereigns, the property of John Buck-
ham, in the dwelling-house of William Bradshaw, the husband
of the prisoner.
The LEARNED JunGE, in passing sentence, said he believed
it to be the first offence of the prisoner, and that shs had b; en
led astray by strong temptation. He should, therefore, make
her sentence lighter than it otherwise wouldhave been. That
sentence would be, tlas- she be imprisoned for nine calendar
months, the last week in solitary confinement. .

THE MARK ETS.--(T HIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English grain since Monday have been small,
and of Irish Oats fair. The trade still in a stagnant state;
Mondays prices were demanded, but the buyers appeared
quite indisposed to purchase. The flour trade extremely heavy.