The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-15 00:00:00

PRICE sd.

REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF

NAPOLEON.

The following are the remarks of the Courrier Francais
in the Ministerial proposal to bring home to France the
remains of Napoleon :
.• In restoring the remains of N..poleon to France, the
last wish cf that great man is accomplished. The King
has charged his scn with the pious task. The Prince of
Joinville will receive from the hands of England the pre-
cious deposit. The old companions of the Emperor's
exile, Gourgaud, Bertrand, and Las Cases, will accom-
pany him. A million of francs, voted by the Chamber,
will raise up a tomb beneath the vaults of the Invalids
It was on the sth of May, the anniversary of his death,
that the French Government ordered its Ambassador at
London to claim the ashes of Napoleon. Ere !en days
had elapsed M. Thicr3 learned by an official despatch
frcm Lord Palmerston that England, without hesitating,
and with generous haste, was ready to meet the wish
of France. The Minister read th s despatch at the
tribune, and it does the greatest honour to the Go-
ernment which dictated it. The British Cabinet hopes
that the remains of that national hatred which se
long divided France and England may be buried in the
tomb of Napoleon. This noble wish shall not be disap-
pointed. England and France have the one destiny to
fulfil—no other than the advancement of civilization. Their
d'scord must henceforth be a calamity to Europe, and a
crime in whosoever would assume the responsibility of such
a breach. The Ministry may be prowl of this great act of
reparation. No previous Cabinet had the courage to make
this proposal to the King. No other, perhaps, could have
obtained it. Marshal Soult, Napoleon's Lieutenant, must
regret not having marked his administration by such an
act of devotian to the Emperor. We should be but just
in associatinglthe King's name with that of the Minister in
the public gratitude. If the Minister have the honour of
the idea, the King has the merit of sanctioning it. Any
other Prince, the aim of so many hostile plots and conspi-
racies, might have hesitated ; Louis Philippe saw but the
wish of France, and deemed, as the Ministerial allocation
expressed, that if aught could stand the comparison with
glory, it was liberty."

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY.

Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugat
in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that o'
foreign Sugars:— _ _

London, May 13, 1840.
The Gazette of this evening will quote the
average price of British Plantation Muscovado Per Cwt.
Sugar, exclusive of duty, at

The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 12th instant, ac-
cording to the returns made upon oath by the West
India Sugar Brokers, in conformity with the Act of Par-
liament, and on which quantity the above price is com-
puted, consisted of 685 hhds. and 27 trs.
The amount of duty paid on about 1,140 hhds of West
India Sugar, at the Custom-house of this port, from the
Ist to the 7th of May, both days inclusive, was
20,672/. Bs.

Foreign Sugars arc this week, quality for quality, 223.
per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugar—that is to se',
two hundred weight of Foreign Sugar may be bought
with the same amount of money which British consumers
are compelled to pay the West India proprietors for one—
there is not in .all the bonded warehouses of London
enough West India Sugar in the hands of the im-
porters to satisfy the usual demand for a fortnight;
this insufficiency is particularly felt just now, especially as
the fruit crops throughout the country promise an abur-
dance, a large proportion of which must necessarily perish,
unless Sugar be procured and added for its preservation.
We understand that numerous petitions for the admission
of foreign Sugar to home use arc in an active course of
preparation, and will be, as soon as practicable, presented
to both Ilo4ses of Parliament. What attention will be
paid to these representations remains to be seen ; but the
disastrous effect on the revenue of admitting foreign Sugars
is a matter of certainty.
The nation has given the %Vest India colonists a long
and impartial trial. Under the stimulus of most extrava-
gant encouragement the experiment has signally failed.
The defalcation in the crops of Sugar this year, as corn-
pared against the last, is estimated at 30,000 hhds. A
small part of this falling off may be attributed to the inju-
dicious manner in which the planters have treated their
labourers ; but the main cause will be found in the utter
exhaustion of the soil. The old plantations arc worn out,
and require not only a costly outlay for manure, which the
money means of the proprietors cannot supply ; but they
require also to lie fallow for several years, in order to re-
store them in some degree to their original state of ferti.
lity. If we examine the exportations from Jamaica for the
last twenty-five years, we shall find ample confirmation
of a gradual decay in her powers of production. Long
before the emancipation of the blacks occurred this de-
cline commenced, and it will be seen, by a reference to
the tables, that the quantity of sugar exported annually
decreased as much from 1610 to the first year of the ap-
Fentle:-.illp as it hu ,one since t'e.!it period to the present
moment. It must be evident to the planters that to pro-
ceed in their old mode of cultivation, with any hope of suc-
cess, is utterly out of the question—their case is summed
up in a few words—it will not pay. Had the duties on East
and West Indian produce been equalized twenty years age,
the East mi,e,ht have supplied the deficiency of the West; but
many years must elapse before our Indian possessions can
furnish a quantity of sugar and other produce adequate to
the home demand. The British people arc either to have
sugar, or they arc not; the question lies in a small compass ;
if they are to have sugar, it must be imported from
foreign colonies; if they are not, they must obtain
the sweet they require from indigenous roots, as the
French do; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer must be
content to sacrifice four millions of revenue, arising from
an article which admits of an easy and cheap collection
of a tax paid without grumbling, on a commodity which is
tco Lully to be smuggled. The population of the whole
of our %Vest India Colonies, including blacks with whites,
does not exceed a million and a half; and, for the main-
tenance of these, thirty millions of British born subjects
have been, and are to be, laid tattler a contribution which
in the aggregate would amount to a sum sufficient to sup.
port the one-and-a-half million, even in this expensive
country, in a state of indolence. But in naming a million
and a half, we give a broad case ; if we narrowed it to those
who really are the recipients of the indirect taxation in-
flicted on the industrious classes by the sugar monopoly,
we should have to expose three or four hundred persons,
who, from their high station, possess influence enough to
rob every consumer of a pound of sugar in this country
of two-pence.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE ROYAL
FA MILY.—The Voice Conductors invented by Mr. E. Solo-
mons have proved a soutce of great comfort to all persons
labouring under deafness, who were so fortunate as to adopt
their use. They arc the smallest instruments extant; and,
notwithstanding their diminutive size, no invention can com-
pete with them, as regards their powerful and efficacious pro-
perties. They fit into the cavity of the ears, remain stationary,
and cannot be perceived by the nearest bystander. The voice
of a distant speaker in church, theatre, or public assembly may
be heard with accurate distinctness. His Patent Spectacles
arc admirably adapted to preserve vision to extreme old age—
are superior to all others in modern use, b?ing lighter in con-
struction, soften the light to weak or inflamed eyes, so as to
enable persons using them to experience a great degree of ease,
reading, writing, drawing, &c., by day or candle-light. As a
proof of the high estimation they are held in, the Patentee has
been honoured by the patronage of the Royal Family, together
with the strong recommendations of the principal medical and
scientific authorities in Europe. It is absolutily necessary for
all persons wishing to obtain either of the above invaluable
assistants, to mark particularly that their disposal is exclusively
confined to Nos. 36, Old Bond-street, and I, Old Jewry
(City), Mr. E. S. being totally unconnected with parties of a
similar name.

IN VISIBLE LETTERS.-Rowland and Son
have adopted a label with designs which surpass in minuteness
and execution any steel plate impression we have ever seen.
On one side is an excellent likeness of the Queen, about the
size of the head on the 'adhesive post-office stamp, with a
variety of figures, amoog others Britann a, and a great variety
of lace-work of the must minute and beautiful texture. The
head of the Queen is a good likeness and well executed. The
whole throws Mulready's designs on the envelopes into the:deep-
est shade. But the most extraordinary part of the design is
on the reverse where, in a spate of four inches by tinee, the
words " Rowland's Macassar Oil " are repeated about fifteen
hundred times, or in the proportion of 2,500 letters in each
inch: To the naked eye, unless the sight is very good, the
rows of letters appear like a straight line, but with a glass of
small magnifying power they can be seen roo,t distinctly.
SQUlNTlNG.—Thisdisfiguremel t is now rendel ed
curable by a sitrp'e opet ttion on the muscles of the eye, ur.at-
t ended with danger to tt..at organ—a discovery made by Profes-
so, Dieffenbach. of Berlin, who has successfully treated a num-
ter of cases. The Medical Gazette, of the 17th April, gives a
description of use same operation recently performed in this
country, for the first time. with decided success, by a Dr. A.
Franz, an experienced oculist, pupil of the above em:nent Pro-
fessor, and author of " A 'Treatise on the Eye."
It appears by a return to an order of the House
of Cemmons that the total quantity of lead and lead ore im-
1 orted into the United Kingdom in the year ending January,
1840, was 6,439 tons, 1 cwt. 2.51 b., on which a net duty of
2171. 13s. Id. was received. The total amount of British l d
and lead ore exported in the same year was 12,991 tons, 3 C 7%
lqr. 111 b. Besides this, 3,736 tons, 7 cwt. 3 qrs.
tons) of foreign-
I- 11b. If
e'gn pig lead, and a small quantity (under 2
white lead were exported.
THE FonTY-FIFTII.--BreVet-MajO Stack s
Company of this distinguished corps, which did
„,jo; service in
repelling the attack of the Chartists on the 4th
ot November,
marched from this town for Chepstow early on Monday morn-
ing, to be stationed there until further orders As the- troops
passed in front of the Weste-ate .
(thei scene of the fatal affray)
they gave three astounding cheers,
thesich roused the dreamers
from their visions. Their quarters atpoor-house here
occupied the same morning by Captain Stowell 's Company from
Llanidloes, whence the military, are for the present withdrawn.
'On Thursday Brevet-Major Stack's Company marched from
Chepstow for Pontypool, where it is to be joined by the Gre-
nadier Company of Capt. M'lntyre which left Newport yes-
terday. On Saturday both ComPani'es are to depart for Aber-
-1 gavatry, and thence proceed to 'Brecon,
TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS BY POST.
—The following notice has just been issued by the Post-office
authorities :—" In consequence of numerous complaints having
lately been made respecting the exchange and loss of news•
papers passing through the post, and which is mainly attribu-
table to the insecure manner in which they are inclosed in the
covers, parties forwarding papers arc recommended to write the
name and address on the printed part of the paper itself, as
well as on the cover, •Ahich will, in a great measure, remedy
the evil, and tend to ensure their safe delivery. It must, how-
, ever, be distinctly understood that nothing more is allowed to
be written on the paper than the address of the party for whom
i it is intended, as otherwise it will become subject to treble
postage. ;