The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

AFTER EASTER.

The following sketch may not prove altogether unin-
teresting of the principal business of public ioteres'
that, according to notice given, will be brought before
Parliament " alter Easter." There will be no cause
for complaint if one-fourth of that business is disposed
of before the " shooting season" comes on. Mr. Ewart
moves an address for opening Regent's Park to the
public ; and also for a Select Committee to consider
the best mode of appointing a Public Prosecut it in
England and Wales. Mr. Hume's Committee on Na-
tional Monuments and Works of Art is to be appointed.
Mr. Hawes moves for a Committee on the " promo-
tion of the Fine Arts in connection with the re•building
of the new Houses of Parliament." Mr. Grote
moves resolutions respecting the Land Fund and
Finances of New South Wales ; and Lord Charles
Fitzroy moves fur a Committee on the subject of the
lowan Islands. The Lord Advocate introdnccs Bids
for amending the law of Scotland as to infeftment,
heritable securities for debt, and for " amending the
criminal law of Scotland." The Solicitor-General moves
for a Committee to inquire as to expediency of " re-
moving the Courts of Law and Equity from Westminster
Hall to Lincoln's Inn." The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer brings forward the Budget ; and there are,
moreover, some 60 public Bids, for all of which days
have been appointed. Besides this tolerable accumulation
of business, there are nearly 30 notices for " after the
recess," but for which no particular days have been
fixed. Tnese include notices on the important subjects
of Life Assurance Companieg, and Companies for
granting annuities ; the reduction of the duty on Fire
Insurances ; the relations of this country with Texas
and Mexico ; newspaper stamp returns ; a 1311 to
abolish Church-rates ; Merchant Seamen's Fund ; a
Bill to regulate safety valves upon steam-boilers in
steam-vessels ; Transportation ; the variations in the
price of food on the wags s of labour ; the substitution
of affirmations in uof oaths ; the carriage of the
mails by raltvays in Scotland ; the duties of the Lord
Advocate of Scotland. &e. &c. This affords a tolerably
extensive list of business, for which the Parliament has
to prepare itself " after Elicit-T."

The prospect of an early importation of new
season teas from China has produced a serious depression
in. the 'clue t.f the article. This is an article of such
ge-
neral consumption throughout the United Kingdom, the
British
British colonies, and elsewhere, that the tollowing de-
tails, drawn from recent official returns, must be interest-
ing to the public. The stocks of teas in the port of Lon-
don on the Ist instant was 33,389 5401b5, weight. At the
sane date of 1840 it was 38,019,640, therefore showing a
decrease of 4,623,1001b5. The principal portion of the
st rek on the Ist instant consisted of 22,529,4401b5. of
Cungou and Puuchong, 3,943,6201b5. of Twankay,
1,626,3001b5. of Hvson, 1,121,0321b5. of Souchong,
843,0001b5. of Imperial and Gunpowder, and the re-
mainder of the other various breaks in request in the
country. The returns of the stock in the United King-
dom have not been received. They will, in all probability,
show that, including the quantities held in the port of
London, there are from 38,000,000.b5. to 39,000,0001b5.
in store against 40,000.0001b5. at the corresponding period
of 1840. In the quantity of tea upon which duty has
been paid in the first three first months of the pres,nt year,
as compared with the corresponding period of 1840, there
has been a material increase, for we find that, including
clearances for consumption, stores and exports,
8,518,1521b5. have been paid duty upon against
5,173,0641b5. in the same period of last year. The quan-
tity of East India Company's Congous remaining in stock
is now very reduced. The reduction in the value of this
choice quality of tea—usually called the consols of the
trade—comparing the present with the highest price paid
for the article last year, is over 120 per cent. It was
sold at 3a. 41. per lb. It is vow sold at Is. 411. Vv,,
e tl
trust that the holders of this article may
iYrts
bee
i enableeri,bo
meet the losses that must have accrued in the stocks they
many
depression not be.
have on hand. Fears are, hew
er
any of the smaller and I.ss weal, by holier.
enabled to bear the brunt of such a serious er,
will
the value of the article,—Observer.

A pullic and •nnmerous meeting of tie inhabitants
of Lees, near Oidtaio, I:4iled by the Constable, on a
requisition of the principal inhabitants, was held at the
Swan Inn, on Wednesday, the 7th of April instant. A
number of spirited resolutions were pissed in favour
of the general principles embodied in the Report. on
Import Duties ;
Mr. G. LAS, TON, Constable, in the Choir.
PETER SEVILLE, E3q., spoke of the very great in)•
portance of a total revision and amendment of the
commercial tariff, inasmuch as they
were at present
founded on wrong principles, and were inflicting a
serious injury on al classes of the community, especially
those connected with trade end commerce ; and he
hesitated not to say, that, to their operation, much of
the evils so severely felt by manufacturers and work-
men, were mainly to be attributed.

Mr. W. NtcHoLs-:oN depict?d the withering effects
produced by excessive taxation, and forcibly pointed cut
that the oppressive amount of import duties fell the
most heavily on the middle and working classes, and
was destroying the energies and prosperity of the coun-
try. He said he felt persuaded under our present sy,tern
we were fast sinking down to the condition of the Irish
people, it therefore behoved every lover of his country to
raise his voice against the longer continuance of such
a sy:tem of monopoly, especially against the Provision
and Corn-laws, which he described as laws enacted for the
henert of one class, at the expense and injury of the
other. Some great change must be effected, or the
manufacturing population would be totally and irre-
trievably ruined.
Mr. A. OGDEN showed why protecting duties
yielded so little to the revenue, by supposing a case ;
viz., that if only one quarter of grain were imported
into this country, at a duty of ten shillings, that it
would hare the effect of raising the whole quantity of
grain on hand to a corresponding amount ; aad, taking
the quantity consumed at fifty millions of quart ire, it
would be a tax on the consumer of twenty-flee million
pounds annually, on grain ,lane ; the revenue, in such
a case, receiving only ten sl,iilir,vs on the one quarter
imported.

Mr. J. SHAW, an op: rativc, ably combated the
notion GI the Chartists, that a re,:cal of the Provision
and Corn-law taxes would reduce the price of labour.
He showed, very clearly, that the price of labour de-
pended wholly and solely on supply and demand, and
that the repeal of any tax left
_that innacy. in the hands cif
the people, and, consequently, :taw them al increased
means of procuriog more of the manufactures of the
country, thereby increasing the demand for labour, and
increasing its price.

Mr. MOSES CHAPMAN said t':.e Provision and Corn-.
laws had deranged our currency, and would continue lo
do so ; that that derangement had ruined thousands of
honest and industrious manufacturers and their artisans.
He advised every rnaa wishing well re) his wife, his child-
ren, and his country, to petition, ag tats, and petition
agai❑ and again, till the evli was put down ; for himself
he would never cease to cry cut aga.-ast so fligrant art
injustice.

The Rev. Mr. Mortais addressed the meeting in a
beautiful and powerful speech—He said he was no poli-
tician, but he felt it to be his duty, as a minister of the
Gospel, to come forward on this occ.;!cion, :Ind lift up his
voice aoinst the ev.l and oppressor, of the commercial,
tariff, which was ruining the cool t,y. He fad at obe..lse
Providence had giv ea to every country its naturd meld pe-
culiar production, thus makieg one clime dependent on
another, and it was the interest of each tq suit ar.d to
purchase at the best market, and ttue to increase the
comfort and prosperity of all. lie observed, that one
tariff, by inflicting punishment on either States, had intletea
a tremendous mischief on ourselves, and that it we were
once to liberalise our tariff, other Shlt2s would. Le corn-
pelted to do the same. if the Coreslaws were repealed,
he bad nn doubt the trade of the cour.i:y might be ex-
tende I almost to a' indefinite extent, and the Liessiegs
of pe ice, of knowledge, and of comfort txteudee
through the habitable globe.
Mr. ELLIOTT denounced the injustice of laws made
for the purpose of interfering with and raising the price
of every man's food. He said, great as is the injustice
of the Corn-1 aws, they are not the oily laws on our
S•alute-book for meking provisions dear ; fiere are
other laws which forbid (cod from being brought free
into this country, commonly called Provision-laws,
end he read to tee meeting a long list of heavy duties,,
imposed for the advantage of the agriculturists, and the
c insequ.:nt injury and ruin of the consumers. He eon-
eluded by observing, trade is become profitless, our
mann'atturers are becoming bankrupts, our work-people
paupers and beggars, property of all kinds sinking is
value, nettling but one universal wreak presents it-
self'. He thereore moved the petition to l'arliament,
for a total and immediate reveal of the Corn and Pro-
vision I.r,es, end a thorough and just revision of the com-
merciA tariffgeaerally, which was passed unanimously..
A GENTLEMAN'
at one corner of the room observed,
the he would not oppose the resolutions, for they had
his entire concurrence ; and he wished to have added a.
rider to the reselution, but, for the sike of unanimity,
he wooff forbear, lie confessed he had no expectation
from the ::resent House of Commons, their general in-
ateentam, ,peaKit,g of lion as a bo iy, to the wants of
the people, convinced them that nothing could be ex-
pected from them sufficiently la-ge and comprehensive
to meet the dreadful state of tee country. The Re-
form 811 must be reformed ; that House neide to he
what it was not—a fag-simile of the public mind. If any
one doubte 1 his asse lion, he would poit.t ooly to one:
fact. Had v:e riot, for tin! last three years, been sink-
ing deeper and deeper in distress and ruin, so that the
commercial commuuly were bankrupts, or on the point
of it ?—and yet what measures had been adopted to
stay the evil ? Ha had been an observer of the doing&
of the House of Commons for a lung period ; but it
was his opiaion that he had never known, nut even the
old borouehmoogering House of Commons, less dis-
posed to do anything really effective to benefit the peo-
ple at large.

A vote of thanki was pased to the C;iairman for his
able conduct in the chair.

EGYPT.—(From our own Correspondw.it.)--
Alexandria, March 23, 1341.—Tue Ofientd. ste;.mt.r
reached here on tae 17th inst., with London news to tug
4th inst., and yesterday the Frrneh G„verntnent ate drier
arrived with Ltters to the sth inst. His HighLICSS re-
tunied here from Cairo on the 15th inst., quite well, lew-
lug Ihr thin Pacha in god health. It is expected that
Cairo will be fortified, but I doubt it much. lam daily
expecting the arrival of the amended &man from Col -
statitino; 1,, yielding to the objections which the P.tcha
made. Tttl this does take place, httie progress cart be
mace in the contemplated Governznent ihiprovements. Oa
the 3 I inst., Colorel Napier sailed from here for Bcyrout,
in one of the Pacha's corvettes, having en bard the Syrian
chiefs. The Acheron, French Gov( ramelit steamer,
arrived here on the 15 h ins ant, %tith Count Chabot on
board, sent to replaciy M. Cot helot. Th, r,t was a sale of
ten thousand caLtars of cotton on the 9,h instant, which
brought 1411 dollars : it was chkfly bAignA fur the Trieste
and .ilarseilles markets; and sooting of ter. tnousand
more on the 17th inst.. which brought 14 23-100 dollars
per cantir. It is esiimated the Government have about
70,0,20 cantars more to receive front ,he counts y. There
is great activity here with shipping grain for various parts
of the Levanr. The Acheron steamer reached here front
Syria yesterday : she brings athic.,:s from Beyrout to the
10th instant, but nothing of any interest. Bu,,incss, how-
ever, continued to thrive. We have hal during this
month 67 cases of plague; but I consider it on the do.
chne. The exchanges are-701r Londou, at three months ;
Mirseillos, 5 35 ; Trieste, 1251; Leghorn, 1')5?,-.
Brilish Queen.

tisnia,
ti:teirsk,
jidialeQts,dup
teUt,
oreA,
~wKsa
ega:anilsi
air,
drab garment:,
rtCy:Oaos
rifLi
.1
legOeol.:ti ,
ohtß.a: Sr:
mahogany
h.);:(t
gtwllbaaeno_)::
the
bedpost,ihti
eAt epdl,
al ~irin.l:vei%ao,_
cs';
man supplied with seven primitive cDlours, being one for
every thy in the week ? Verily, drab is plain, and slate is
neat, and olive is sad, and chocolate is boner, and puve is
grave, and white is pure, arid pepper-and-salt is season-
fr.ct blue, red, green, and yellow, ese..ipt that ihe world
might be beautiful as well a; good? WhY vise
ttabbbhbei):!,,,.desdts—ss.b,?rl'illi,i)..' then, wa' the refractory light allowed to rc-
di I nature paint and enamel the uviverse with
bilooootd,
tor cNl,,ely,thweyhywownalsil all bare all the bright and gay colours ; ay, and f,st colours to
boar‘,...eti washed
III: do
i:i out
et at
stehlef cg,rittlL
po;ei of all those prismatical tinti,, iastead of a plain
stone colour, like the arch of a bridge? If the rainbow's
i n go irl: i tiff) htii,heby e„d•cercektisciln ot.uutt,
hinueti);esvmereiiic,:hoiistiels,,,:ornulo.i.
: s she (Leh, on hirdP, beasts,
sotmheenatimes many colours a,, once, like
flowers, and
aatnudrefisli:evis;ll
the peacock ; or changeable, like the cante.eon ; or suecee_
tein'etsd?Y
red, and then purple? Surely there be o• jects fir orna_
sivo, like the bl.-ekberries. which are first green, and then
~bich seem to have butt:elle:s growing out of their
nament, aa well as things for u-e—or wherefore the gay
birds and butterflies—nay, nby the crested humming...
sapphires, rubies, Why the precious stones, top,z.,s, „e_
Trietrald '
diamond,
at once? Then, puin, there is woman, l: v l ts
man, with her tea itching blul,e.uenylsesw,
Primrose," muttered the voice behind the c
and red lips, and her yellow hair......"
~.. is Hester
with
the
eriailte .. Why
shtaedads she
ef
gtio'osseebbilirureieesfa'niCiktell these che.:ks
lips
red-streaked
cahpeprlori,,e,sinisn%etaedadoforfu s
olive;s. e tt7 n,fls
thread instead of flaxen sti•, and those ip'a like the ripe
puce. _ Aud why
;an,d that hai-,
dl:ukthe
she not
cokur, or laig•
blush, ( f a
instead of that
leac'-colour, _
lively crimson ? Why, I
say, haili nature paintA all these.
beautiful of jeets and lovely creatures in such la r tints, but
for the delight of tie sense of vision? Why else had 1
these how windows iii me head ?" ‘. Thee bad better shut
them," said the voice.— Thomas Rood's Filend in Need;
New Monthly for Aurii.
A man in the employ of Mr. Oliver, of Aythrop,
Roothing, hat week hav'ng inctutiously left his master's
stable door insecurely fastened, three horses therein ob_
rained access to a antity of wheat upon the barn floor
undressed, and partook of so much of it as to cause the
death of one of them valued at 301. ; the others, 'which
suff,red much, have since recovered.—Esser Herrld.
RAILROADS FOR IRELAND.-At length this
sui,je?cc is taken up in glad cattiest, a number of Eng.
li•Ii capitali,ts have come f ',ward with the necessary funds,
and they are to be socw..ed by the Government in a certain
per en.age on their outlay. We understalid that the
Moisrs. Baling stand at the bead of the list,— Waterford
Chronicle.