The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

_MORNING 1-IMITTON%

of Mardila and.the East- had- -....eirrrelv ttnything to hold
for in the plan as it at present ,stun The- thiti• 3,1.
Learned Member for. Dublin, who A: not then_iiilß
l
place, had recorded in favour
,of the ni,..trou4 11
gratiiving testimony of his concern for their avelfa',
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had given notice thse!
he intended to propose in Committee that the introda. _
Con of foreign sugar should be limited to free groiNf
sugar only. He (Mr. Gladstone) believed- that some °f
the Hon. and Learned Gentleinan's frii;ndi would liaL
the kindness to remind him that there-was one slight o,u,
jection to the_ proposal lie had Made, which "1
that it was contrary to the express and literal tell
of the Treaty of Brazil, which rendered it totalyi
impossible, without a direct violation of the natio°,
faith, to draw any distinction between the sugar of 911 f,
other country and that of the Brazils. If it were not 5
he (Mr. Gladstone) should, for one, be glad toshow
example of a willingness to recognise the principh"tco
had. been • justly and fairly laid -down, that eoitill,%.
had a beneficial effect in the production of comin
,t'ec;
and that monopoly is the parent, not only of &TO d
to the Consumer, but likewise of sloth- n,
inefficiency in the labourer.—(Hear.) He should so
however, be ready to make every possible .diStriftlii,:l,4;
tion between slave sugar and free sugar. He
that would be important in a moral point of view, anu It
i,".
would explain to the world that they did not' lay a pints'
bition on sugar because it was foreign but because it
slave grown. The Noble Lord the Secretary for otoe
Colonies had held out a hope of enterieg.
negotiations with the Government of the Brazils Ira
the suppression of the slave trade. But the Noble I)0
had taken the very worst course for attaill;
that end ; for the Noble Lord proposed to gl,,t
away all the benefits lie could offer, NViP.°--.
previously insisting on any corresponding concession
The Right Hon. Gentleman who last sat down saiit th
a similar measure to the present had been proposed, of
1829, by Mr. Grant. But the question then was one •
slave sugar against slave sugar. The present lo',
question between free labour and the slave trade'
(Cheers.) The reduction proposed in 1829 would bare
o
been a dead letter. The British producers were, at Ul,
time, able to sell sugar at ss. per cwt. below the forl..a
.
producers, and what in the world would it have n)
tered to them, if the protecting duty, which they did 'l°)
need, had been lowered by a few shillings ?—(Chee_Ates'
The slave trade was annually slaying its tens of thousa7,",
and hp asked the House to, pause °before it gave ters.t)
miseries of that trade still greater intensity.--(Cheei,- t
After all that this country had done—all the mono t3ee
had been paid, he rejoiced to say—(Laughter)---11,.,0".
suppression of the slave trade—he called on the utrot
not to agree to the proposition of the ,_Ministry,,
would make this country an object of laughter
It was of no avail to use physical force t put down"he
slave trade whilst we were stimulating that lust of
which we knew to be the satire. of the evil.—{Hr7;
hear.) It was well said by Mr. Turnbull, in hid exceoe
work upon _Cuba, that 200 per cent. was mronger ,h
physical force.—(Hear, hear.) The NO+ Lot'd °lt?
(Lord:John Russell) had adopted the argninentS aue
by General Taunton, in I$,N, in ftwour of the sta.')
trade.—(" No, no," front Lord J. Russell.) If not. te;
the Crcnerul was guilty of plagiarism by anticipati.°l}),,,,e
he used the very argument in favour of the 6`-,i
trade, which the Noble Lord now used in favour
the proposed encouragement of it,----(44 No, no," and cheel3,
General Taunton said, that if we gave tin the slave
advanta ey to America, who could carry it oa tO..s
Pheaply,—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lords argionTie
ourselves, we should not Jut an enl to it, hut give 9•11„,t1,
was, that if we did not take the idave produce of lel
it would go to other countries.—(Laughter, and "
But there `sari a name in the present Cobioe,t more —ie,
mately connected with the abolitica of the slave to`oi
He had understood that there was a man, the poweAr.4l
but unseen ally of Mr, Wilberforce, a man who 10'0
not to the present for his reward, whose 112,We',.ibi
Zachary Macaulay, and whose son was a Member e 4
present Cabinet, and he could tvot eonceireol
contrast more painful, if it were inciccel true, as then'
argued that the effect of this bicasaire, if carried,°l
be to stimulate the prndiagion of sugar in Cutoi,
Brazil, anti ttmt the eilkt must be to give an *tbittj°for
to the slave trade. He could no ki,ecattat 0(
such proceedings but on the gromd of a log of
principle—(Hear, hear)---for ho thought manY
those who voted for 141 measure would do so with doa,
ing 'ninth and Clll4llillg hearts. Cheers. The S°;7;
LA knew this measure had created dissension atiiis
his friends, that the commercial clasSes distoksted
legislation, and we (said the Hon. Menilofor. our ?co
are well assured that the British Hokw Comar...„nsig„
this occasion, in the eyes of Ow (Wakkiltry and of Euivi
will vindicate its ancient faloo,----(Loud cheers.) dye
Mr. GISTIORNitI then moved the adjournment of
Ciehate, whieh was agreed to. ad'
l'he other Orders of the Day were tAlay dispose,,_
and the House adjourned at a Quart to One o'CW—

PORTUG. .tL. •
- Fe By the Letda steamer, which arriv
VTlPing with the Malta and Peniania mails, we have re' pc
letters and Papers from Llsbo;, and Oporto to the 4th insr;, Dif•
Leeds left Gibraltar on 'ale 29th, Cadiz on the 30th of APri"
bon the 3d, and' 4010 and Vigo on the 4th inst. ~„ellsr ,
at Falmouth on -ejoil
LtsisqN4 MAY 3.---Consequent Upon the Duke de P 3.7. to O.
presicient of the Finance Committee, having represente" for
President of the Council, Minister at War, and pro I‘....°Pepor th
Marine, Conn% do Bomfim, that the annual expendit"'„nue
army, 0,1;100 oontos de reis (756,2501.) is snore than.the reted tore'_,
the *ate can possibly support, his Excellency has collsen mmittc's,
duce it to 2,800 contoa tie reis (641,6661. sterling), this C% pit
has it also in contemplation to propose an increase of lale,-Aitioe,
property' and articles of internal •consumption, with an addict
10 per Cent. on the decimas, and 20. per cent, on the sal s" the
. „o'
the civic public employes. By this plan its members are ,7'arly de.
impression that the country will be enabled to Meet the
flea of 2,600 contos de reis (395,833/. stet ling.)'' the °li't
" The new financial agent for London, alluded to ". °rge °
posilion Msg. is the Baron de Lagoa, who has the Pat.%
the Duke de Palmelia, and the Minister of Justice ; h" bc:coo'
the now conflicting state of things, his, appointment ma1;I 71
sidered as in embryo. The Nebie Baron proceeds to Ellg. 1 eel
this day's packet without having obtained any advantage that
learn for the bondholders of the Portuguese foreign loan. wee
Two criminals, M. J. Saldanha and M Estevao LoPe"' no,t
hung on Friday for the murder of J. E,tevao de Oliveira, 3 ioce
in respectable circumstances, near Lisbon, five years ag°! 65
tOe
which time the assassins have been in prison. M. E. LePe' vD'y Pi.
son of the murdered man, and was instigated to commit the act 30sf'
mother, who had long been criminally intimate with the °the'. , the
sin, and proposed to get rid of her husband that she might I'v,:eirif
more freely with her paramour, the inducement to the soo
to come in at once into part of his father's property. Lle.'4 the
only sixteen when he committed the crime. They waY'ai
father in the evening, when on his way from Lisbon to hi" c
try.house, when he was held by Saldanha, and stabbed hi
viiiie;
in eighteen places, which, however, did not prevent his sd". , Dot
till the morning, when he was found almost almost lifele''avord
able to depose to the fact of his son being the person who t„ soft;
him, The chief evidence against the prisoners was anothe, o'
The mother, there being a law which prevents the •
Women, will be transported for life. She had preViouslY c-poo t
her own father's death, by denouncing him as disaffected ° sub"
Miguel ; and he sunk under the persecution to which he W
jected in consequence of the denunciation,
The Trimculr to- p 6

.40 ...amnia brig of war, Commander Coffin, leaves • go
England. On her arrival there two Courts.martial will blooe
held, both the First and Second Lieutenants having been ibr,ceoe
time under close arrest for alleged insubordination. A enti°l-eraecl'
took place in the river last Monday,in which this brig wag c°';',. COY,
A mere vessel, the Miranda (English) omitted to salt."
rpandea Coffin's Rag, which is usually done by lowering the telS 'llO
sails. I believe the Captain of the merchantman had booto the
h
he would pass without saluting ; and pass he certainly did' voicri
moment after a blank shot was tired a him from the brig. 0 bit
m
not ing attention to, a ball was forthwith sent thrott, and
Mainsail, when he thought proper to lower his topgallant I,V viDt.
was making off; but this would not do for Commander Cowl";
sent a boat after him, which fired at him again, and compel j10,e041
to return and sail twice round the Trinculo, when he was
to proceed. stP
"The guerillas in the Algarve still continue their wanton ties
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predatory incur.ions, and their numbers daily au'ment bi n-01/19
sertions-of privates from various regiments of The line stario7
that quarter, upon, it Is said, the plea of being in arrears °lt,'
A gang had ig approached Odemira on the 21st ult., the I.laand
Gerard* of that neighbourhood, to the number of 52, mounteo wit°
ell) foot, dividing into three sections, sallied forth, and fell in de'
them at the farm of Ameixiaes, killing three, among thenit'lieth
serter from the 25th battalion of infantry, and wounding ° ore'
who, nevertheless, managed to escape to the woods. Soin
hicl
arms, three horses, a quantity of tobacco, and other objects, „,-
they had just previously purloined, fell into the hands of lb"

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" From the ineffectual fiscalization of the excise.office °
boo
city, a large rittaxiiity of pipes, containing only water, 110 e ,110°
cleared out for Oporto, and on their. passage filled with
bandy il•oin vessels cruising aside for this purpose, therebi -lair'
fitg a ready introduction into this country for contraband s( Se.
Her Majesty the Queen will give to.morrow, at the Palace ° el
JC
cessidades, a grand dinner to the Spanish Envoy Doris Orli tile
Aguilar, towhich cards of invitation have been issued

diplomatique corps. 'fel'
" Exchange upon London at 30 days' sight, 531. per raj v,'''
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TROLLOPE S " SUMMER IN WES.J,,o,
F stc E." —Agreeable as were the author's forenee ei‘•
Limes, A Summer in Brittany," they are greatly
cb
celled in the present work. While passing over 51105
attractive ground as the scene of the English cenclui; of
in France, the field of the heroic adventures of.
Arc, the theatre of the desperate struggles of tile'ea'
guenots at La Rochelle, and of the Royalists of La ere
des the land of cognac and claret—and the soil w
flourished a whole host of historical characters' 1,0
author seems to have been stimulated to exercise allrc;
talents as a tourist, and, as the reader will acknowleub
with a very happy result. At one time we find Onto%
sipping about the antiquities of the old provincial te,
at another making clear an obscure pa of ili6,'°o/
here he lingers with Richard Cur de Lion at Chalice,
there he stays with Margaret of Anjou at DarnPuo,e-
After a while we find him describing mines,
toriea, prisons, Druidical remains, cathedrals, and rood;
fields, with the spirit of one born in their neighbour° use'
and these are delightfully relieved by a fund of 01040
ment in the anecdotes, adventures, legends, and re,ltciee
that accompany them. Indeed, information is so Welts 1?t,
with entertainment throughout these pages, that 0,0
book of travels the " Summer in Western Fri/
proves one of the mdst agreeable works ever w,ritten.rig,
FATAL STEAM EXPLOSION ON THE 111Vrge
—Shortly before six yesterday morning a large ballast toe'
worked by steam, used for cleansing and removing °Psi the
tions in the Thames, was destroyed by the bursting
boiler, and one of the workmen killed. The following a' hof,
particula s :—The barge was moored off Dicken's coal ttto
Upper Ground-street, tilickfriars, and about five o'clock
men commended work. They had not been long en!ple
x when the boiler of the engine burst with a tremendous pots
sion, similar ti) a report of artillery. and scattered fraggaiere
of the machinery to a considerable distance around• le to
were three men on board, only two of whom were al
essel
escape, which they did by jumping into an adjoining ~.010
before the engine and barge, with its ponderous maculdeng
sunk. The report was heard at a considerable distance gter
the banks of the river, a.. 11 speedily attracted several `id jot
men and lightermen to the spot. It was then ascertained the
a man, named 3,111 Constable, had not been seen sine
explosion, and as he must have sunk with the barge' 'hrpe .
which lay an immense mass of iron, and which mu:bailee
been rem-ved before he could be rescued, there wain°
all:Deo.
of.ersea‘iancgtihkeilmy. Up
to a ate hour in the ino• ning Severs
u engaged i,. removmg porticnks of the whollY
but a considerable time must elapse htfore Chat can be lir-
accomplished. The barge was under the direction of •
Schooley..