The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Amazing attraction. Signal euccess, and brilliant overflows.
Re-engagement of Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance
of " Poor Jack " has surpassed all former efibrts. The
Theatre firs soon after the doors are opened.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 18. '"'""°-"`"
Will be acted a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called
POOR JACK; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.
In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the
Company, will perform.
After which,
MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.
Harry Haulyard by Mr. I'. P. Cooke.
To conclude with
A DAY AFTER THE FAIR.

In which Mr. Buckingharn and Miss Martin sustain Six diffe-

rent Characters each.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW.
nuntV es after 10 1 Evening 5 minutes after 11.

LONDON:
THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1841.

The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
The Commons, after a protracted discussion,
in which Lord STANLEY took one side, and Sir
ROSLRT PEEL another, threw out the Stafford
and Rugby Railway Bill, by 154 to 94. The
side Lord STANLEY espoused was successful. We
regret the result, for, as far as our knowledge
goes, we believe • the railway would be of public
advantage.
A motion of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, to
--a Monmouth --add the Members for to the Com-
mittee on the Severn Navigation Bill, was lost
by 117 to 84.
The principal discussion which was expected
during the evening was on the Medical Refo
rm
B:11, of which Mr. HAWES moved the second
reading ; but after he and Mr. EWAnT had ad-
dressed the House, it was counted out. We re-
gret not the loss of the Bill, for we think the
members of the medical profession should
regulate themselves, like the tailors ; but we
regret to see Liberal Members of Parliament,
like Mr. HAWES and Mr. EWART, meddling
with what they do not comprehend; and bring-
ing, by such meddling, the cause of Liberalism
into undeserved contempt. The land is already
encumbered with bad laws, and the vocation of
Liberalism is not to add to the number, but to
strike them aNky, one after another, on every
opportunity.

The House rose a Quarter before Eight.

We see that the heads of houses at Oxford have
taken up the Puseyite heresy, and have spoken in
strong terms of the 90th number of the " Tracts
for the Times." They say of it, that " modes of
interpretation, such as are suggested in the
said Tracts, evading rather than explaining the
sense of the Thirty-nine Articles, and reconciling
subscription to them with the adoption of errors
which they were designed to counteract, defeat
the object, and are inconsistent with the
due observance of the statutes of the University ?''
That, therefore, is the amount of the offence of
Puseyisni, otherwise called Popery. It impugns
the mode of interpreting the Thirty-nine Articles,
and is not in conformity with the statutes of Ox-
ford.

The Puseyites may, however, find consolation.
The University has before now been accused of
being extremely lax in the subscription to these
Articles, requiring it as a matter more of form
tl.aq of conviction; and if Mr. NEWMAN only de-
viates from the practice of the University, his
heresy must be towards virtue. We condemn
Puseyism -as no better than Popery; but if its
only demerit be that it evades the Thirty-nine
Articles, and disregards the statutes of the Uni-
versity, the people at large will think it an

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honourable faith. We have seen nothing yet so
1` calculated to raise it in general estimation as the
censure of the University because it is a depar-
ture from the statutes of Oxford.
There is, however, one matter of great import-
ance connected with this 'heresy. It is said
that one Bishop at least has embraced it. . That
it has its seat at Oxford is unquestioned; and
, that those who teach it have also the formation
of the minds and theology of a large portion of the
junior clergy is undoubted. Being men of learn-
ing, piety, and zeal, they have great influence over
the young priests; and we, therefore, readily
believe that the heresy has already tainted a
great number of the clergy. The Church is not
only rent into faCtions, it is corrupted by heresy.
But while a large body of the priesthood have,
according to several Bishops, and according to
the heads of houses, fallen away from the true
orthodox Church, the clergy as a body, with all
the persons they can influence, are getting up
petitions to the Legislature for the extension'
of the Church. The Legislature and the public
will now, however, require to know whether
Puseyism is to be extended at the expense of the
the State, or the true orthodox faith. Is the
public money to be given, at the solicitation of
Oxford, to teach the errors which Oxford de-
nounces? Curiously enough, the very post
which brings us the anathema of the heads of
houses against Puseyism, brings us also a peti-
tion for Church Extension, agreed to at a Con-
vocation of the University of Oxford, holden on
Friday last. On the one hand, the University
denounces the errors of a large body of the
priesthood; and, on the other, it prays the State
to advance funds to propagate them over the
land.

Some of the statements of this petition, consi-
dering whence they come, and considering the
prevalence of dissensions in the Church, are
very remarkable. At present the Church of
England is undoubtedly the richest Christian
Church in the world. The University of Oxford
has more funds at its command for teaching reli-
gion than any known University; and the result of
all these advantages possessed by the University
and the Church, according to the petition of the
Univiersity, is " that irreligion and ignorance, de-
moralisation and disunion, have very exten-
sively increased in England and Wales." In
spite, however, of all this irreligion, im-
morality, and demoralisation existing with our
enormous Church Establishment, the only re-
medy which the Convocation of Oxford can de-
vise is more Church, and of course more I'u-
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seyism.
The Convocation says, " The only safe, ade-
quate, and constitutional remedy for the growing
evil is the expansion of the National Church, in
full proportion to the spiritual wants of the whole
community." But what guarantee, let us ask,
can the Convocation give us that the expansion
of the Church will not increase the evil com-
plained of? It may multiply PuseyitesandPopery.
The want of religion exists in conjunction with a
well-endowed Church, and may be traced to that
as its cause. The same result was in fact pro-
duced in France before the Revolution, in Spain,
in Italy, and in Portugal. Germany and Scot-
land were saved from it by destroying the gigan-
tic Papal Church. The hollow pretences of the
priesthood, and their empty forms, disgust men
with what they call religion. Their greediness,
grasping after wealth in all possible ways, and
even appropriating to themselves the funds des-
tined for the poor, have, spread greediness
amongst the people. They have pandered
to the vices of the rich and the great, and
have scourged only the poor and the humble.

To their bad example, the salt of the earth
Laving lost its savour, may be traced the demo-

ralisation and corruption of which they com-
plain; and yet they would have the Legislature
expand the Church and increase the mischief.

Experience supplies no guarantee of success
from the theory they advocate, and they ought
to supply some proof of its goodness before they
have the boldness to make such applications.
The Convocation, however, tells the House of
Commons with great fervour, as if it had been
admitted to the council of the ALMIGHTY, and
was commissioned to bear His mandate to
princes and lawgivers, that it must comply with
the prayers of the Convocation, or the nation will
ba visited with anarchy. TORQUEMA DA, the Grand
Inquisitor, would scarcely use different language
from this,---

Your petitioners, therefore, with all humility, but with
the utmost earnestness, pray your Honourable House to direct
your early and most serious attention to Me spiritual destitu-
tion of England and Wales, in order to take the most prompt
and effectual measures for its relief, to secure the country, under
Divine Providence, from the fatal effects of vice, anarchy, and
irreligion, and seek His favour, by whom alone princes reign
and kingdoms are preserved.

If the House of Commons, therefoi.e, does not
endow more priests, the nation will be plunged
into anarchy. So these impudent men try to
threaten the Representatives of the nation
.• _ _

out of the public funds to enrich themselves.
Such proceedings, combined with the heresy
which prevails in the Church, supply much food
for reflection. Impudence and inutility seem
to go hand in hand. Like the landlords,
whom we can well spare, they have the im-
pudence to tell this great nation—the millions
of ingenious and skilful men, who
.sup-
ply each other's wants,- who form each an
indispensable part in a great natural system
of combination, by which the whole are sub-
sisted, which is not, in fact, confined to any poli-
tical boundaries, but extends across the Atlantic,
the cotton-grower of Carolina being as much
a part of it as the spinner of Manchester and the
weaver of Carlisle—these Puseyites and anti-
Puseyites, who cannot agree amongst themselves,
have the astounding impudence to tell the Legis-
lature, and to threaten it, that this wonderful
system, which no man ever contrived, though
men exercise it, will fall into vice, anarchy, and
irreligion, unless their wealth and numbers, al-
ready astoundingly great, be increased. Con-
sidering how little these men know of what is
good either for society or themselves, and con-
..

sidering the present quarrels amongst them-
selves, which ought to teach them humility, this
petition of the Convocation of the University of
Oxford is as great a piece of impudence as ever
fell under our notice. If Mr. NEWMAN, who by
his letter seems imbued with the humble spirit
of a Christian, could teach the Convocation a

little modesty, he would confer a great benefit on
its members and on society.

A. Correspondent has suggested that in the
comparison we yesterday drew between the du-
ties levied on corn at home and the Colonies, we
did injustice to our cause. We took the price of
corn at New York and the price of wheat in
England as the basis of ou.rnestimate of the rela-
Etivueglaamuodu;nhtuotfliteheoudguhtty
either the price of flour inlhethe
the
oColonieslo
the
wahni
cdh i.n
tine.nt,virwleiei
nearer 30s. than 20s. the barreeehslt,ii
wheat on the Con
cent. lower than here
sgpraovnadteentthies cdoirffreercet,nacnedwheisy says, to have taken
n is o
ara ntt
estimate
lewould
price epa
geol
per
Co re-
pointed out
case to that
more than we stated,
from f2O to 30 per cent., making the
amount, unfavourable to
England.
our attention is again called to
sbteelrideavye ou.r r
the
assigned
subject we wtielasthall beg leave to give a prominent
vision duties in the Colonies,
for reducing the pro
•to ask our readers if these
place to the reasons, Mr. LABOUCHERE
and, at the same time,
reasons do not apply
with at least equal force to
England :
i
" He now came to a far more important clasp e
Nest
specific duties laid upon had before
particular articles. As he _
v e s t of
Indies—thedu t s—a
elm.; far more affecting the interests of h
stated the duties imposed at present upon beef, pork, shingles,
and foreign articles of that description amounted to a duty
varying from 20 to 40 per rent. ad valorem; in many in.
stances it was 40 per cent. When they con-ider that some of
these articles were the food of the colony; that others such as
staves, were absolutely necessary to conduct their only mann-
failure, that of sugar; they must ace that these duties were
perfectly immoderate and oppressive, especially if they consi-
dered that steps are now being taken for placing these colonies
on a footing with the East Indies. As he had upon a former
occasion urged upon the House the propriety of doing justice
to the East Indies by doing away with the duties which were
injurious to them, so now he felt bound to urge upon the
House the propriety of putting the West Indies upon a more
liberal footing with regard to the supply of provisions. Ho
proposed, therefore, to reduce all these duties very much ; at
the same time, he did not deal with them in the same way as
he would have done if he had been imposing them for the first
time ; he would in such a case have proposed them much
lower, but as they had already been established, he thought it
was their duty to be cautious of the interests now engaged.
He proposed then to reduce the duty upon all those articles to

from 12 to 15 per cent. ad valorem.
As fish constituted the principal supply of food for the Negro
population, it was in the highest degree unjust to limit that
supply to one sinote, and frequently a very narrow market."

Is not wheat-corn the staple food of our people?
Is there no reason in the growing skill of fo-
reign countries for placing our country on a foot-
ing with the manufacturing countries of the Conti-
nent ? Is there not in the present starving condi-
tion of our people an all-sufficient reason for
placing them on a more liberal footing with regard
to the supply ofprovisions? And is it not, to use the
language of Mr. LABOUCHERE, "in the highest
degree unjust to limit their supply to one
single, and frequently a very narrow, market ?"
We are at a loss to conceive how any gentleman
who urges these reasons for, making a Cabinet
measure of some petty alterations in colonial
duties, can refuse to make a Cabinet measure of
the repeal of the Corn-laws and the timber
duties. We cannot understand how Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE, if such be his opinions, can, with any
peace, or with any satisfaction to his own con-
science, consent to remain a member of a Cabi-
net which proposes no similar measure to redress
the much greater wrongs of the people of England.
Either the Cabinet should not have allowed Mr.
LABOUCHERE to bring forward his measure rela-
tive to the Colonies, or it must, as we believe
and hope it will, propose measures founded on
the same principles, but more extensive and
sweeping, for the suffering people of England.

In another part of our Journal will be found
the. Report of a meeting held at Salford for the
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revision of the tariff. Like the meeting at Liver-
pool, it was attended by both Whigs and Tories,
and the resolutions were passed unanimously.
The Ministers are sure of their own friends
throughout the country, and when they see their
opponents coming forward to petition for the re-
vision of the tariff, they will surely take heart,
and, after Easter, propose a large and liberal
measure.

The whole of the letters and papers brought
by the Colombia, indicate on the part of the
Americans a desire rather to provoke than to
shun a conflict with this country. Among the
most far-sighted transatlantic statesmen, the
impression is said to be general that the seeds of
war are sown, and that a contest sooner or later
is inevitable. It is rather from the tenor of the
articles in the American papers, and the speeches
in Congress, than from any positive statement of
the fact, that we learn that the affair of the Caro-
line is but a pretext for covering what the Ameri-
cans regard as a far deeper grievance—the efforts
of our Government to secure the freedom of the
coloured race. The seizure by British vessels of
American slavers, on the coast of Africa, and the
correspondence between Mr. Fox and the United
States Government relative to the Amistad, have
contributed more to the war fever of the States
than would the burning of ten piratical steamers
in the very harbour of New York. The New
President, General HARRISON, is prepared to go
all lengths to maintain slavery in the Southern
States. At a recent visi to Petersburgh, this
distinguished specimen of perfect Republicanism
absolutely treated the rumour of his being an
Abolitionist as a calumny so foul as to require
from him a reference to the history of his life in
repudiation of it !
But general as is the present excitement, it is
impossible that the Government of the United
States can be blind to the dreadful consequences
of a deadly struggle with this country. For

whenever there is a war between England and
America the struggle will indeed be deadly. It
will be a war on our parts against the very prin-
ciples of the United States' nationality—against
the very existence of slavery throughout the
New World. The very object of the war would

sanctify it in the eyes of every man, woman, and
child in the British dominions. We might be
beaten, but assuredly we would break up the
Federal Government, and put an end to the
Union. That we would be victorious in such a
war is, however,the confident opinion of nineteen-
twentieths of the people of England.Thefollowing
remarks, which we find in an article in the Times
of yesterday, accord so entirely with our views,
and appear to us so well worthy of the serious
attention of our transatlantic neighbours, that
we quote them here :
Devoutly deprecating as we do the possible contingencies of
a war with the United States, less on account of its immediate
or remote consequences to Britain than of the irreparable evils
it must inflict upon civilization and humanity at large, it is ne-
cessary, nevertheless, to contemplate these contingencies in a
provident and reasonable spirit. We would, consequently, re-
mind our transatlantic rivals, that, should those extremities
occur which they are so gratuitously endeavouring to pro-
yoke, they must find themselves at a disadvantage with this
country heretofore unknown to them in any previous contest.
When the memorable insurrection began, which ended
in their national independence, it was based upon
the existence of certain undeniable grievances that
engaged the sympathies of a very considerable por-
tio.s of our home popula•ion. Both in Parliament and out of
doors there was a large section of their then fellow-subjects,
who, if they did not positively approve of the rebellion, ap-
proved still less the political maltreatment which was said to
have enkindled it ; and the two-fold consequence of that se-
rious dfference of opinion in England as to the reasonable-
ne•s of the dispute, was, in the first place, a corresponding
confidence on the part of the insurgent Colonists with
respect to the justice of their cause; and secondly,
such a proportionable want of vigour and public sup-
port in the military movements of the British Ministry
of that day, as tended in no small degree to render them in-
effectual. On the present occasion matters are in a very dif-
ferent state. If ever a people were cordially united, both as to
the justice of their cause, and the firmness of their determination
_ _

to Prosecute it to a favourable issue, it is the people of Great Bri-
tain in their existing dispute with America. A false sense of
honour we cart afford I o dispense with. Our appetite for military
glory, if ever it had a place in British policy, has been long
since satiated to the full. But the paramount neceisity of pre-
serving our dependencies from lawless aggression, and of pro-
tecting the life of a British subject who has dime his country
good service in that particular, can never be permitted, con-
sistently with our national honour, to give place to any other
considerations whatever, even though war, with all its calami-
ties should be the inevitable consequence. Perhaps the Ame-
ricans will breathe a little, and think of this.

This is wholeso:ne counsel. The Americans will
act wisely in weighing it carefully. Some among
them affect to believe that if they hang Mr.
M'LEon England will not go to war. They are
mistaken. England will make war, and in
making it the Government will have the cordial
sympathy and support of all parties and factions
in this country. There ought to be no mistake
on this head, as otherwise the citizens of New
York might take it into their heads that they
might hang a British subject with impunity. We
warn them not to indulge in the cherishing of
such a delusion. It is folly.even to dream of it.

But we have strong hopes that peace may still
be preserved. When the Americans come to
reflect on all the losses they would sustain, and
the little gain even victory- would bring them—
a result hardly possible—we have little doubt

that they will see the wisdom of avoiding a hos-
tile collision with this country. The quarrel at
present is entirely of their own seeking. They
have not yet placed themselves in any position

from which they cannot retreat with honour. As

the Federal Government has yet expressed no
opinion respecting Mr. M'LEon's case, the giving
him up cannot be regarded as concessions wrung
from the fears of the United States. It is there-

fore competent to the Executive to, declare that
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there exists no right to detain Mr. SPLEop, and
thus voluntarily set him at liberty.
We have received with the American Journals
the Report of the United States Commissioners,
respecting the Boundary Line, which will
be found in another column.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday
hAanAvdrdcoviibie,:esenfrormeceived,
L'Orient,butf theyh contain no news of
the Bth. The—Vgauunbafnri
engine of 450-horse.
political importance.
an du
At hker tHwQoutrans
publishes a letter from lta?
que, ij 0 -
apot:4
,caw: at
frigate, was
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will
atebsaeeml
afieultrnto,ectdhh;hidipinci snwht :twill:
sasott
one
eaes
vr
obt that au;
harbour
aoh
nne;
The
packets are to be of 450-horse power.
Reggio, in Calabria, was
2•2t1 ult. The shocks were
de Lyon of the 13th inst.
Italy of the 4th, stating that the city of
cairlry destroyed by an eat thquake on
Alarine was converted into
rtly aLtoNmarieles....
a n:iianiEnrsmt number, tslot3sam sheetaged ofas theto
heap of ruins • most of the
houses were thrown down,
Palace of the Governor, the
paintings
he altogether uninhabitable • t
other public build-
Tribunal, the Prison, the ,theßarr
inhabitants had sought
Cathedi al, five other churches
tisyear's aladwoortkhs of . art,
inns,r eg e werepartl
aty
dy epd;anailiveaorkouSst. Augustine, the
The annual exhibition at the
were presented, of which 1,800 were refused admission.er objects
jury of examiners have, however, reported, that
opened on the 15th inst. ;_ 4,000_
The
ex-
hibition will be very superior to that of last year.
Intelligence from Madrid comes down to the 7th inst. The
retirement from office of M. Gamboa was attributed to the
low state of the Treasury.
Some German journals return to what they have already •
said
relatively to pretended advertisements, which they state to have
been published by some French authorities on the left bank of
the Rhine, at Lauterburg. For instance, to invite Bavarian
soldiers to desert. We again meet the assertion of these jour-
nals with the most absolute denial of their truth.- We will add
that the Bavarian officer of the Gendarmes, on whose authority
the false statement was spread, has been dismissed by the 13a-

varian Government. It has been discovered that his report
was made for the purpose of favouring [some stock jobbing
scheme.

A letter from Toulon says, that four ships of the line were to
be got ready to convey four more regiments to Africa.
We learn in fact by a telegraphic despatch, that the Scipion
sailed for Algiers on the 12th of March.
PARIS, MARCH 15.—We have received the following letter :
" Toulon, March 11.
"The detachments eantoned in the environs of Toulon,
have received orders to go immediately to Africa. The Scipion
will take 536 men of the 53d of the line, 314 of the 3d of light
infantry, 95 of the 24th of the line, and eight officers. The
day after to-morrow the Didon frigate will take on board 137
of .the :_'.d and 10th regiments of artillery, 344 of 55th of the
line, 101 of the 17th of light infantry, and eight officers.
Numerous fresh troops are expected in the environs of Toulon.
General Galbois and General Schramm left Marseilles on the
10th for Paris."—Le Constitutionnel.
130 URSE„—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 15.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
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3 per Cents 77 15
.. 77 20 ... 77 ~. 77
Bank of trance ..... 319',1 —.3190 ...3175 ...3180
Littitte Bank I,ooof. Si' IMO ...LOGO ...106C
5000 f. Shares 5160 ...5160 ...515u
Belgian /Sank
••• 88' 50 88' 50 88, 50

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Ne I.ewr Cents
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101%101% ... 1011 ... 10154 ... mi.%
Loan ... 1 1%
.. 10.% ... 1(11%
,panish Acnve 24%
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Passive SA ... 5 ... 5% ... b7i
102 15 ... 102 20 ... !92 15 ... 102 t.:O
Roman . 102 102 . 102 ... lie

RAILW

St Germain
Verbailles.R. 11

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717 50 717 50 ... 717 50 ... 717 50
397 50 397 50 392 50 ... 3'5
..... 311 25 ... 311 25 31' 31.?, 1c5.6 75 ... 488 75 ... 487 50 1.,

Orleans ..

Mu'batmen to Thant' , 420
Str,sburg to Bale 2to

... 4101 ... 420
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... 4L SO
... 920
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The Corn-law Meeting at Manchester, which
was appointed for this day, has been postponed
till to-morrow, in consequence of the room in
which it was to be held having been previously
engaged for this day.
ERRATUM.—The sum of 200,000/. was yester-
day erroneously printed in a leading article for
700,0001., as the permanent charge which pur-
chasing slave emancipation has entailed on the
industry of the people.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

%ATV," WEDNESDAS EVENING.
After all, and now the news by the Colombia steamer
has come to hand, the public mind in the City is scarcely
more satisfied than it was previously; since, although the
general tenor of the accounts is acknotvleJged to be more
favourable, there is, in point of fact, nothing very eenclu-
sive in them. The Funds, however, improved about per
cent upon them ; Consols for money touching 88i and
for the Account 881 to 1; Exchequer Bills were still at
ds. to Bs. premium, and India Bonds at 16=. discount.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were a shade bet-
ter, viz. 96i to -I.
The United States Bankshares have been heavy to-day.
Tee Foreign Market was moie buoyant, but there were
not any extensive operations entered into. Spanish Ac-
tive bon Is ranged from 22i to 231, being a shade better.
Ihe Deferred Stock realised Ili; Portuguese New Five
per Cents. touched 301 to j., for the Account ; the Three
per Cents, were steady at 181 ; Mexican bonds of 1837
rose from 27/ to 281; and 29 ; ,Colombian bonds cf 1824
went up from 221 to 221 and 23 ; but Peruvians were
only worth 16f ; Belgian bonds did not realise more than
99/ to 100; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were
steady at 501.
The Share Market was dull.—Great Western Railway
shares brought 23 to 1; the New, 10 to 11# ; the
South Western, 161; and the Manchester and Leads
New, 1 prem. • Brighton Shares were 7/- to 61; Man-
chester and Birmingham 15 ; and South Eastern, 16-1,
discount.

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