The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-13 00:00:00

NIGHT DILEMMA.

Characters by Mr. J. Neville, Mrs. H.
Hughes, Mrs. Hicks; and Miss Martin.

To conclude with
FREDERICK THE GREAT; OR, THE KING AND

THE DESERTER.
Frederick, Mr. Neville ; The Deserter, Mr. N. T. Hicks
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LONDON :
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1841.

The I oris adjourned over vest rday.
In the CommonS Mr. LINDSAY, the new Member fir
Sandwich took his seat. The p:titfons presented were
numerous, a great number of them relating to the Corn-
laws and the Import Duties.

Mr. MUNTZ altered his notice concerning the Earl of
CARDIGAN, to an Address for an inquiry into the Earl
of CARDIGAN'S conduct in the command of the 11 th
hussars.
The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. CROL-
maNDELEY, who declared that he should give his stre-
nuous opposition to the Government measure.
Lord Howicx directed the beginning of his speech
to the refutation of Dr. LusumaToN's opinions, and
;ontended that free labour sugar would be able to com-
.)ete with slave grown sugar. The planters would never
.;ucceed, while they leaned on the broken reed of pro-
;ection and monopoly. The new system required that
he landowners of the colonies should reside there ; and
under such a systeM he was persuaded that sugar could be
grown cheaper by free labour than by slave labour. If
such were the case, to abate monopoly and protection was
to encourage the growth icirr,cheap sugar in our own colo-
nies, and the first pound'okree grown sugar that would
be sold for less ." than slave-grown sugar would
.xtinguish slavery for ever. The Noble Lord also re.-
:'erred to Mr. GLADSTONE'S establishment at Demerara,
-tnd did not hesitate to give another severe blow to the
;ham humanity-monger, by remarking that on the
Gladstone estAte,' at Demerara, more sugar had
:seen made, and more human lives sacrificed,
than ever were known even in that colony so generally
.'atal to life. The Noble Lord male a sound and sensible
peech in favour of the Government plan.
Mr. C. WYNN spoke against it, and Mr. W. EVANS

;r it.
Lord WORSLEY, like Mr. HANDLEY, said he meant to
vote against it, because it was touching an outwork of the
Corn-law. It was giving a blow to protection, alias
plunder, and the Noble Lord sacrificed his political
principle to maintain his plunder.

Sir A. GRANT heard the Noble Lord's speech kith
_Teat satisfaction, and stood up for the honesty, integrity,
and fair dealing of the planteis.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, Sir J. REID, Mr. GISBORNE,
and cttiers,. filled up the evening. The debate was
brought to a close by Lord STANLEY, who made a heavy,
tiresome speech, full of repetitions and misstatements,
which his Right Honourable Friends behind him
,orrected as he went on. One or two good hits he made
towards the end, as he thought, when he demonstrated,
by reading a corn-market circular, that the people out
of doors were quite sure that the Tories would never

allow the measure to pass, and when taking up
the weapons which - had broken harmless at his
)IVTI feet in 1831, when hurled by the
Pories, he accused the Ministers of inscribing revolu-
tion on their banners, and seeking to enlist the masses
Igainst property. On his Lordship resuming his seat,
which he did amidst the tumultuous applause of his
Friends, the debate was again adjourned.

The people well understand the nature of the
present contest in Parliament, and those will fa-
tally deceive themselves who rely on either the

ignorance or the indifference of the people. The
owners of rent derived from land in England
and the West Indies, and the owners of profit
derived from capital embarked in shipping, cul-
tiveting Sugar, and' felling Canada timber, all of
which is much enhanced by taxation, and mis-
called property--the whole brood of mo-
nopolists, and the spawn of corruption, have
united to resist the very small abatement
of the taxes levied on industry for their
behoof, proposed by her MAJESTY'S Ministers.
The landowners unite with the ci-devant slave-
owners, the owners of rotten timber craft, colo-
nial societies and land companies, and jobbers of
all descriptions, to defeat the Ministers on a pro-
position which goes to reduce the price of sugar
about ls. Gd. per cwt. They complain of the
smallness of that relief, bur they resist it because
it is part of a system, and the reduction !
would be followed by a reduction or abolition of
thedutm
duties on a
boon
on agricultural
the people,
giving relief
to tenfold the sum. If it be Sc) small, and, at the
same
people, from what
motive other than the steady determination of all
these classes to maintain, at all hazards, their
odious and oppressive monopolies and taxes, do
they resist it? The bulk of the people are all
aware of the motive and the nature of the con-
test now begun.
At the head of all these monopolists and cor-
ruptionists is Sir ROBERT PEEL, and he proposes
to take the Government on. the principle of
maintaining entire their exactions. We beg
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