The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

THE SALT TRADE.

At a meeting of the Salt Chamber of Commerce, held
at North wich, on Saturday, the s:h of Juhe, it was pro-
posed by Henry Ashton, Esq., of Liverpool, and
seconded by George Ellens, Esq., of Druitwich, and un-
animously resolved—
" 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that the
late enactment of the Bengal Government reducing, at
only five days' notice, the rates at which they sell their
own salt, in a greater proportion than they have lowered
the duty on British and Foreign imported salt, has been
framed solely with the view of entirely excluding the
manufacture of this country from tne Indian market ;
and that such conduct on the part of the Bengal Go-
vernment, while it involves an admission of the severity
of their previous exactions, is utterly unworthy of the
local authorities.

" 2. That the East India Company are acting in direct
violation of their Charter, in continuing their manufac-
ture of salt, and trading in that article ; and that such
manufacture and trade cannot now be defended, either
on the score of the uncertainty of the British and
foreign supply, or the protection of the revenue.
" 3. That the Chairman of the Cheshire and Worces-
tershire Salt Chamber of Commerce be accordingly au-
thorised, on behalf of the salt trade of England, formally
and eneagetically to protest to the Imperial Parliament
of Great Britain; her Majesty's Board of Commissioners
for the Affairs of India ; and the Hon. the Court of
Directors of the East India Company, against the conti-
nuance of such manufacture and sale of salt ; On the
grounds of its inconsistency with the terms on which they
hold the government of India, the injury it inflicts upon
the natives of India, and the serious impediment it offers
to the trade and manufacture of this country.
" 4. That the sincerest thanks of the Salt Trade are
due to Lord Sandon, M.P.; Sir Denis Le Marchant,
M.P. ; Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P. ; Sir J. Packington,
M.P. ; Sir P. Egerton, M.P. ; the Hon. E. J. Stanley,
MP. ; William Brown, Esq., M.P. ; William Tatton
Egerton, Esq., M.P. ; William Ewart, Esq., M.P. ; John
Blackburn, Esq., M.P. ; J. Tollemache, Esq., M.P. ;
Cornwall Legh, Esq., M.P., for the support they have
given the salt trade, and that they be respectfully re-
quested to continue to afford the benefit of their co-
operation towards the total and immediate destruction
of the East India Company's salt monopoly.
" W. WORTHINGTON, Chairman."

LORD JOHN RTISSELL'S PAR-
LIAMENTARY ELECTORS' BILL.

This measure contains the following important pro-
visions :

Ist. That all poor-rates and assessed taxes due on the
sth January must be paid before the 10th July following,
to entitle any person to be registered, and that a personal
demand must be made within the time specified by the
authorized collector.

The presentl aw requires the rates and taxes due on
the 6th April, to be paid by 20th July.
2d. That no person shall be disqualified by reason of
not being rated, provided he have claimed to be rated
previous to the making of the second rate in the electoral
year, and that such claim may be served on the overseer
at his house, or by post, as provided by the Registration
Act.

By the Reform Act, as interpreted by the Judges of
Common Pleas, every claimant must repeat his claim to
be rated to every rate from which he is omitted.

3d. That the overseer shall rate such claimant on the
existing and all future rates, but that cccupiers so claim-
ing may deduct from the rent only so much as the
landlord may have previously compounded for.
4th. That every overseer who shall neglect to put
upon the rate the name of every claimant, or to keep his
name upon each tollowing rate during his occupation,
shall be liable to a penalty of 51.
Under the present law and practice, overseers omit the
names of claimants from all rates with impunity.
sth. That any collector who shall neglect to demand
the rates or taxes with the intent to enable any person
to be registered without paying the same, shall be liable
to a penalty of 201.
The H,

,ie _ .obart Town papers which have come to hand
reach to the 4th of February. They quote wheat 4s. to 4s.
Id. per bushel, with a steady market. The Launceston price
was 3s. 6d. to 4s. The value of flour in both places was the
same, viz. 101. per ton. Affairs in a political point of view
appear to have varied little since the previous advices. From
Portland Bay favourable accounts had been received of tho
commencement of the harvest, which, it was thought, would
prove abundant.

PORT OF BIDEFORD.—The Lords of the Treasury
having been pleased by their order, recently issued, to ap-
prove of Bideford as a port for the warehousing of tobacco
removed coastwise from the ports of importation for home
use, or for shipment as stores, upon proper premises being
provided, and the Commissioners of the Customs having ap-
proved of premises for the purpose, an order has been issued
to the principal officers of the revenue throughout the king-
dom to take measures for carrying their Lordships' order
into effect.

MANSLAUGNTER.—Yesterday an inquest was held
before Mr. William Baker, at the Black Horse, School-house-
lane, Ratcliff, on the body of Ann Ford, aged forty-six years,
who died on Sunday morning last from the effects of severe
injuries she received from a man named Henry Jones Bar-
rison, with whom she cohabited, on the night of Saturday,
the 15th of last month. The man is in custody, and was
remanded by Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames Police-court, on
Wednesday last, on a charge of assaalting and wounding the
deceased. Inspector Bilson deposed that, in pursuance of in-
structions from Mr. Ballantine, he took the prisoner Harrison
to the bedside of the dying woman, and in his presence she
made a statement, which he took down in writing. The
inspector then put in the declaration. It stated in effect that
Harrison came home drunk on the night of the 15th of May,
and beat and kicked her in a very brutal manner. The de-
claration was signed by the deceased. The Coroner said he
deeply regretted that the usual course had not been followed
on this occasion, and that Mr. Ballantine, the magistrate,
had not taken the evidence of the woman upon oath, in the
presence of Harrison, which he ought to have done. He did
not think he could receive the statement of the woman nowt
produced by the inspector as her dying declaration. Similar
evidence to that given before the magistrate having been
adduced, the Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter against Henry Jones Harrison."
MR. CHILDS, OF BUNGAY, ON SUNDAY TRAINS.—
Mr. John Childs, of Bungay, whose services in the cause of
religion and of religious liberty need no mention or lauda-
tion, says, in a letter to a friend in Edinburgh :—" I perceive
that the bigoted ( ?) directors of the Scottish railroads
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HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
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the captain of the Era steam-boat,
who
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coymesinteirtdeday morn
ing, near the stairs:at Blackfriars-bridge. The unfortunate
man had on only a shirt, belt, and a pair of stockings. To
accomplish his object of lf d
se - estruction he had tied round
his Heck a large paving- stone.
Advises from Riga to the 29th of May again report
the exchange less favourable for this country, the quOtatialt
being 39 9-16 d. to 391td. Grain had become firmer since
the arrival of the last mail, and the weather, which con-.
\tinued cold and harsh, was now looked to with some anx.l,t.sy
as regarded the growing crops. The number of ships armed
was 1,169, of which 98 had sailed.
The Berwick slaters and plasterers ha •struck fo
r
wages;
their average
weekly earnings, taking the year
through, being only 13s. 6d. a week.
GLASGOW COTTON MARKET, JUNE 4,1847.—1 n
the early part of the week there was a very large business
done in cotton, both by the trade and speculators, and an
advance of id. per lb. was obtained in American descriptions.
Since that the business has not been quite so large, but
holders are very firm.—National Adrertiser.
GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE.—During the past
week prices have slightly advanced from the very low rates
to which they had been reduced by the scarcity of money.
The last two days' prices have been nominally 65a. per ton,
f. o. b., for mixed Nos. As the makers have not come into.
the market, the quantity of iron that can be offered is but
limited; and as the deliveries exceed the production, there is
Tgood reason to expect a still farther rise in the
aptiotal 4deartifer•