The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-15 00:00:00

THE sUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1841.

duty ; this will require a consumption of about a million and
{. a quarter of hundred pounds weight of Brazilian and Cuba
sugar, to be for the first time consumed in the British
empireand also to be producedp/us the quantity now pro-
duced in the Brazils and Cuba ; but as all this sugar is
produced by slaves, sixty thousand tons of new sugar
will demand the labour of at least sixty thousand
new slaves ; and according to Sir T. .F . Bux-
ton's calculation, each slave costs three lives. This
part of the Ministerial project will cause yearly
the murder or • slavery of 240,000 human be-
ings now walking in life and liberty. Yes,_
if there be truth in arithmetic, there must be one hundred
and eighty thousand annual murders, and sixty thousand
new slaves, or there will be no seven hundred thousand
pounds from sugar. Again, the sixty thousand tons of
Brazilian and Cuba sugar must displace an equal quantity
of West and East Indian sugar, so that these colonies
must lose something more than two millions, or no seven hun-
dred thousand pounds will ever find its way into the Ex-
chequer. Ministers next hope for a gain of 400,000/., we
suppose in additiOn to the million gained last year
from the corn imports, by substituting their new scale
of duties for the Corn-laws ; but taking the average of
the different kinds of grain grown and consumed, we may,
in refereuce to that average, take an average duty of
Gs. 81 Now, to raise 1,400,000/. by an import duty of
Sd. on the quarter of grain, four millions two hundred
thousand quarters of British grain must be displaced. There-
fore, the British landowner and agriculturist must be
robbed of nearly ten millions sterling, or there will be no one
million four hundred thousand pounds of corn revenue.
Lastly, Ministers hope to obtain, by a shifting of the
timber duties, a revenue of 600,0001. We are not
in possession of the details of the project, but it is a sub-
stitution of Baltic timber, all, or nearly all, imported in
foreign vessels, for Canada timber, universally imported
in British vessels. The amount of the new importa-
tion from the Baltic must be considerable, to afford a
new revenue of 600,000/.—say 4 or 500,000 loads, dis-
placing so much Canada timber, and so much British
freight. Here, then, again, the Canadian and the ship-
ping interest must lose two or three millions, or there will
be no six hundred thousand pounds, obtained by the timber
duties. This is statesmanship !—this is economy ! Rob
the people of fourteen or fifteen millions, in order to
bring leSs than two millions into the'Exchequer.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Nottingham Review.)
The warp silk blond hands have made a faint attempt
to raise their wages, but it has failed. This is truly la-
mentable, as that fine body of artizans are great sufferers.
They should strike at the root of their distress—the
baneful restrictions on the importation of corn. The
making of figured plat nets still continues, and is extend-
ing ; though the Jacquard is as yet very sparingly ap-
applied • the workmen, not aware of its amazing powers,
prefer, for the present, the extra bar system. It is to
be regretted that the patentees (if as their advertisement
states, published some weeks since), mean to license that
they do not declare the terms.
We have been favoured with the sight of some ex-
quisite patterns sketched by Mr. Webster, drawing-
master of the Free Grammar School, for the ornament-
ing of glove backs, in the French style of ornament,
that is in coloured flowers ; nothing can be a greater
contrast than these designs with those which our
chevinerS have been so long in the habit of snaking,
and the adhering to which have in many instsnces
lost them their
,employment, as the light beauty and
flowing elegance of the finished drawing pattern upon
comparison would command a sale, when those orna-
mented by old system would be scarcely given away.
It is bs4 justice to Mr. Webster to say, that his de-
signs excel most of the French, we have seen, as they
are so light as to seem a sort of flying bouquet, the artist
having taken Nature as his guide, his teachers being
flowery banks, hedge-rows, and wild products of our
native fields. They have been, to the credit of
our hosiery manufacturers, bought up with avidity for
the purpose of being imitated by the cheviners, who,
it is hoped, will exert themselves to the utmost in com-
pleting them ; for this purpose, they must wholly
abandon the wale counting system, and insert their
needle-work in the same manner as though the pattern
was first printed or stamped on the glove ; this may
appear very difficult at first, but perseverance will soon
enable them to overcome it. The French chaviners
find little or no difficulty, and they ought not to des-
pair of doing what others can accomplish. The greater
part of the London tambourers, though working the most
difficult and complete patterns, have no stamp or guide
but the eye, but practice enables them to do it with ease
and fiteility. Even at the present time there are consi-
derable quantities done in Derbyshire upon the French
principle, and they must exert themselves or lose their
employment. The bobbin net trade in some dpartments
is very dull ; many of the hands, we are sorry to say,
only work short time. The traverse warp. branch has a
little recovered ; but the pusher branch is nearly ex-
tinct—all their hope is in the Jacquard, which is ex-
tremely expensive to apply-. We have been credibly
informed that the Jacquard is well at work at Cambray,
in France, upon a principle for which .the inventor has
obtained a patent ; it is applicable to the circular bolt
machine—several machines are building, but they are
much impeded in not being able to obtain implements
from England ; every attempt to establish the making of
good insides in France has hitherto failed.

EXTENT OF THE SUGAR TAX.—In the year
from April, 1840, to April, 1841, the people of Britain
paid (in addition to the duty) the almost incredible sum
of 6,290,9591. above the price at which sugar might have
been bought even in London, and above the price at
which it is bought in all the other markets of the world !
As this may seem beyond belief, we shall give proof of
the fact. The quantity of sugar retained for home con-
sumption in the year 1840 was 3,594,834 cats., or
402,621,408 lbs. Ina circular issued by the Brazilian Asso-
ciation of Liverpool, signed " Chas. Saunders, Chairman,"
(and abundantly confirmed by the prices-current of the
day), it is stated that the average price of Brazil sugar,
in bond, from April 1840 to April 1841, has been less than
lid. per lb., whilst that of West India, also in bond, has
been 6:fd. per lb.' It appears, then, that West India sugar
was clearer than Brazil sugar by 34d. per lb. Now mul-
tiply the consumption of the year 1840, namely.
402,621,4081b5., by 34d., and the result is 6,290,9591.,
as the sum which the people of the United Kingdom
paid in that one year, beyond the price for which they
might have bought Brazil sugar ! Of this enormous
sum, 5,379,846/. went into the pockets of the West
India planters alone, as the quantity of British Plantation
Sugar consumed in 1840 was 3,074,198 cwts., out of a
total consumption of 3,594,834 cwts. Thus the tax paid
by the people to the West Indians, purely for protection,
is at least 5,000,0001. sterling per anuum, in addition to
the tax of 4,449,070/. paid as customs-duty to the Go-
vermaient ! At this rate, the English people, who paid
the West India planters 20,000,0001. for that which has
turned out to be no sacrifice on their part, are paying the
20,000,0001. over again every four years ! Is not this
intolerable ?"—Leeds Mercury. _ _

THE PRESENT RACE OF HUMANITY-MON-
GERS.—Many persons, who owe all they possess to slavery
and the slave trade, have dared to make, and to persist
in this monstrous experiment on the gullibility of the
people of England. 'fake our own Gladstones as an ex-
ample. Mr. Gladstone the elder was in his time the
staunch clemipion of slavery. He maintained that there
was nothing in it contrary to Christianity—thatits exist-
ence was euthorised and acknowledged by the Holy Scrip-
tures—tin, : the slaves in the West India colonies were
kindly tre :ted ; and in one of his letters on the subject,
if we mist Ate not, he even went "so far as to palliate, if
not, to defend, the custom of branding the names or ini-
tials of the owners in the flesh of human beings ! This
he did on the ground that the operation was performed
with great care, and with a silver tool—not with a red-
hot branding instrument of any base metal. Mr. Glad- .
stone; too, was the prime mover in the Hill Cooly traffic,
the proved atrocities of which were not a whit less appal-
ling
than the horrors of the middle passage ; and he is
now, we believe, engaged in the cultivation of sugar in the
East Indies, the labour of which is performed by men in
a condition but one degree removed from absolute sla-
very. From such sources Mr. Gladstone the elder has
derived the greater part of his enormous wealth, and yet
we have Mr. Gladstone the younger standing up in his
place_ in the House of Commons, and declaring before
Parliament and the world, that he has the utmost horror
of slavery, and that on the ground of humanity alone he
refuses his assent to the proposition of her Majesty's
Government. The same ground has been taken by all
the speakers on the same side. Its shallow hypocrisy
was admirably exposed by Sir George Grey on Tuesday
night, and that in a manner which drew forth some can-
did and not less curious admissions from Mr. Irving, one.
of the new sect of humanity-mongers. Mr. Irving, it
will be seen, more than hints that some of the active
members of 'the Anti-Slavery Society, are themselves
working negro slaves in the mines of Brazil, and perhaps
this revelation, coupled with other facts of the like na-
ture, will have the effect of opening the eyes of the
honest, consistent, and conscientious members of that
body to the gross fraud and delusion, towards the perpe-
tration of which some of them seem disposed to lend
their aid.—Liverpool Mercury.
THE SPIRIT IN THE WALL.—The Spirit
in the Wall was first heard in March 1554, soon after the
accession of Queen Mary, in a house without Alders-
gate, and was certainly a Protestant spirit ; the tenor of
its exclamations and prophecies, as Strype acknowledges,
being " against the Prince of Spain, and the Queen's
' matching with him, and against auricular confes-
sion, the mass, and other Popish worship newly in-
' troduced." In fact, so far as it went, the affair was as
exact a parallel to that of the Maid of Kent as well
could be. By her dark utterances, " the people of the
whole city," says Stow, " were wonderfully molested,
for that all men might hear the voice, but not see her
person." The sounds were supposed to come from
nothing less than an angel. It turned out that Croft,
,6 a wench about the age of eighteen," made them
with a peculiar kind of whistle, which she had got
from one Drakes ' • among her other confederates were se-
veral parish clerks ; but the plot was nipped in the bud,
before it had time to attract any higher patronage orcoun-
tenance. On Sunday, the 15th of July, she was brought
out at Paul's Cross, and placed upon a scaffold erected for
the purpose on the usual spot, where she stood all the
time of the sermon, and made open confession of the de-
ception she had been guilty of. Strype relates that " she
wept,bitterly, and kneeled down, and asked God mercy
and the Queen, and bade all people beware of false teach-
ing; and said that promises were made her that she
should have many good things given her, as though that
had been the cause that induced her to this deceit."
Neither she herself, nor any of her accomplices, was put
to death ; but one of them, a weaver, who lived in
Golden-land, was a few days after set on the Pillory—
C. Kniglti's Loudon,
ALARMING DECLINE IN WOOLLEN Ex-
roars.-The quantity of cloths exported last year was
215,746 pieces; now the export the year previous was 392,854
i piece; ; showing a falling off of 177,108 pieces, or '45 per
I cent. ! This is a striking proof of the extreme depression
' under which the Yorkshire trade hay been and is still labour-
e er• coy.gg. —Le'eds M
. • , . -

PRICES OF UANAL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &C.

LONDON, FRIDAY, NIAY 14.
Number Divides d Price
of per CANALS. tier
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average 07/.lBs. sh. 110
1,482 41. Ashby .de..lc-Zouch ..... AVV-rage 1151.5 h. 72
1, 60 Basingstoke 1001.611. 5
1.040 4'. P.recknock and Abcrgavenny lsol.sh. 33
0,00.) 1.16t11. 101 Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....631. & 711. 200
I,COO Ditto & Liverpool Juitct.l9';f. sh. 100 p', 25
690 N. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/. sh. all p I -
400 Si. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001:sit. 101
300 321. Coventry, 1001. sh. 600
Crile
oyddo; 0,
... ...... - Average 311.25.1101. h.
.:h. -
2,0570
51.
Os. Di 94
600 131. Derby lool.sh. 12U
20,0 0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 41/.135. 4 cl.pd :3
3.5154 4' Ellesn,reand Chester AVer2g 0 133;.da. 81
231 62/ Erowasn
1,297 3'l. Forth and Clydv....Average 4.01. 16F. A. &O
11,000 Si. Grand junction - ..... 1091. s a 12 s
2,0194 255. Grand Union lool.sh 26
1.500 ... Grand Surrey Mash. 15
1,0/ 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) Lo.an lOOl.
'236 Grand Western
600 131.125. 56. Glanvirgan:hire, Aver, cost- 1721.135.4 d. 2Z.0
745 Ht. Grant'avA lsol.sh. 2074
6,213 21. Os . Huddersfield Average U/1. tis.tid. sit 27
160
2.% 52,3 1/.1,:5. Kennet 2nd Avon, Av. 39/.188.104. sh 213{
11,6991 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d 2; %
2,8974 set. Leeds and Liverpool loo/. sh 750
5451 • 111. Leicester 1401. it 156
1,807 51.46, Leicester & NortMampton A ver 6131.500 73
2,0.9 10/ Monmouthshire lOOl.Bll 200
230 101. Melton Mowbray lOO/. sh. 21.::,
con 254 Mersey and Irwell ICOI. sh. 555
3,019 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh, all pd. 343 i
247 171. Neat h 1001.612. 325
2,400 51. Peak Forest k vc,h,ge. about 78/.sh. 73%
21,418 Os. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.163.8d. sh. 9%
5,609 51. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 06
500 81. Shropshire ../251. sh. 137
8119 101. Os. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 180
3,600!. 41 p.-r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh.. 11%
700 311. Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 603
500 .51: Shrewsbury....,.. 1251. sh. 280
3'o 11 i 3tourbridge - ..... 1451.5h. 396
3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon A fer.... 79/. 9s. tsd. sh. 35
533 12f/ Swansea lool.sh. 265
3.762 2!. 108. Severn and Wvc ar.d Railway Av. 351. sh. 45
2,600+ oh, 321. 10e. Trent and Mersey, f share lOOl. sh. 5.,0
8,149
1,0005h.1 ,„1,
Warwick and B.rmiv.gham ...... 1001.3 h • 240
I,ooo}xl, ' "
980 13 . Warwick and isapiln. 1001. sh. 163
7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av. 761.81. sh. 55
5,000 325. Wilts and Becks Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 2J
800 6., Wp la v and Esslngton 1251. sh '74
.a 1 ..... ... Wisneacn . .- :35.:. sh. au
nos 1.. Wey and Amu. 1101. so. 2239
DOCKS, i

'.1500 81 1 3p. c. Commerc.al lOOl. sh. 63%
1.06515 h.
5 per sent. East and West India ....Stock 99
3,238,310,1. :51 p.ct. London Stock 70
Ditto Bonds
2,209 31. 6s. sd. Bristol everege 14'1.95. sh. 75
118,3241. Si. percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
1,152,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock :97
500,0e0 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford I'ier .... .01. sh. 201. pd 10
BRIDGES. -
1,1600 1!. Hammersmith Me sl. 21
1,231 ,
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7e per cent.. 50/. sh. 16
.4000
5,000 112 s. 011. Ditto, Old Annuities of 01 201. ti,4 21
5,000 19e. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18%
50,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,848 26s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sb 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/10s Albion 5031. sh. 50/. pd 72
5',000 {dt,e,r, cent,}Allianceßritish &Foreignloo4sh. 111. pd 13%
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. oh. 5/. pd 5
23 000 11. per sir. Atlas 5O:. sh. 51. pd 143'
1,4.0015 h, 5/. Birmingham lire.. 2504 sh, 551, pd 10734
20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 5(1/. pd 40
12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 51e
5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsle 2/10s pd 4311
4,000 3! Os County lOOl. sh. 101. pd V'
20,000 Is. Eagle
200 f 5 per cent.
and 3;a „,,,3 Economic Lite 10001. sh. 250/. pd 406
2,271 222. per cent. European Lb e `'o/. Th. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 21. pd I%
,000,0001. 61. per ct Globe Stock lIS
21,000 51. Guardian
3,1,000 4s. Od. Hope
2,400 51. 12,. 60. Impend Fire eOO/. sh. 50/. pd 133
7,500 Os. Imperial Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10
13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100!. sh. 81. pd 29
2,0e0 31 lOs Kent Fire 5O/.811. all pd 92
34 Ditto Life 5O/. eel loi
10,000 10s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 3034
5,00 U 10s, London, Fire 25/, sh. 12/. 10s. pd 1831
3,900 10s, L,MtleD, Ship "51. sh. I'2l. 10s. pd 1834
1.0(10,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh.
5 e 1,0004
30,01ii1 5/. per cent Palladium lite 511!. sh. 24 pd 21 65
50N0 5!. per cent. Protector lef : 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 18s ed
10,000 4 per cent Protestant leisseniers .... Bele sh. 5/. pd -5%
.4500 11. Provident Luc 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20
200,1(6 3s. Cd. Rock Leib
5!),2'201 5/. per cent, Royal Exchaiige Stork 190
6,609 5 per cent. University Lite 1001. sh. M. lid 514
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100 e sh. 51. pd 714
JOINT STOCK BANless,
05.000 Agric. and Coin nf I relarnl2sl. sh. 10/. pd
10,1100 6 per cent. AUStr3l2.i3 401. sh. 40/, pd 5e34
10,006 10 percent. Bank of Sim Ingham 506, De. to& pd 134..
1,0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 506, sh. 10/. pd le
33,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001 eh. 00!, pd 22
60,000 54 London Joint Steck 501. sh. 101. pd 13
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO/. oh. in/. 10 NO
05,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 1231. pd 1:;34
50,000 72 percent Manchester and Liver ] 501.5 h. IS/ pd 10%
pool Distress
20,000 7 ner,,,t. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd
20,000 Bpe cent. Provinciel Bank of I relandloo/. sh. 05/. pd 42
10,s00 0 er . cut National Bane of Ireland 50/. sh. 1711. pd le%
(0,000 6 per cent National Prov;..cial Eng.loo4 sh. 354 psi 35(1,
10,006 Ditto New 101. sle 10/ pd 103
5000
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd Is
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 I6s ltd Bath 204 sh. 161. pd 22
5,000 British 40!. oh. 16/. pd 18e,
5000 /51'"cent'l Ditto Provincial 001. sh. 191. pd 25
Land Els. 6s.
WS 51 lOs Birmingham 50/. sh. 96
1,250 2/ Os Bristol
2,e50 2! lOs Brighton 001. sh. 13%
7/50 3/ 101 Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 1/. pd 9
2,471 4} per cent. Brighton General WI. sh. all pd 9
4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. 1011. pd lON
1,000 10.4 Cite of London.. ....... JODI. ;h. all pd 195
1,600 CI. Ditto, New lOOl. sh. 751. pd 150
4.000 3/.os. Equitable
10,1<00 21. per cent. Imperial 501. sit 104
800 51. per cent. Isle nt Thanet 25/. sh. 204 pd le%
1,350 64 per cont. Independent 304 sh. all r, 49
0,000 41. per cent. Elicenix 514 sh. 39/. pd 53%
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 100!. sh. 804 pd 00
eel(' Seutli Sletropoiitan ...... 3Ol. sh. 191. pd 16
0,000 51. per coot. United General 504 sh. 471: pd 30
.. elO 51. per cent. Warwick 5O/. oh. 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield 25/, sh. '22
11,0(0 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000 I9s. Ditto New . 511. oh, 1114 pd 11%
etlo 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O/. oh. 18/. pd
WATER WORKS
ion 31s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 21
1,4:3 7/. East London 100/. sh. 164
5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. les. 40. sh. 61
5,0110 21. Kent 100/. sh. 4634
972 IN. Liverpool Bootle *XL sh. See
1,500 2 /I('s New River Loedon Bridge Water Ann... 40
0,456 '2l 10s Mtnchester and Salford. ...... ,lOO/. sh. 55
1,01)0 e per cant. South London Mash. 104%
8,224 43!. West Middlesex Average 631.128.9 d. sh. 92
1.360 ll 14s York Building 1,0. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,330 Birmingham and Derby 100/ pd 694
9,500 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester If 0/. pd 19%
15,100 ... ..... Bristol and Exeter 100!. sh. 60 pd 371 e
7,500 ... ...... Cheltenham& G. Western 1004 sh. 62e/. 3034
3,000 Clarence 100/. sh. 100/ pd 30
8,000
50,0001 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 23!. pd 9
10,00(1 Great North of England 1004 sh. 90/. p 0 7 i
10,918 14 percept. Grand Junction lOOl. eh, all pd 209
2,,000 ..... .... Great Western 1001. oh. 054 pd 94
25,000 Ditto New 50!. sh. 10e pd PR%
3,000 per cent Gosport Junction 50!. sh. 404 pd 47
2000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. ob. 1004 pd 145
6,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 504 1.).1 45
2,100 44per cent. Leeds and .Selby 100 sn. 65
5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 1001. sh. 1004 pd ley
7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 p 3 90
11,195 10 per cesit. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45
36,1100 London and Brighton 501. sh. 501, pd 463(1
94,000
smog 3 per cent. London and Greenwich...ooe sic 001. pd 811
eve° 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90!, pd 159
25,003 Ditto Quarter Shares -.254 sh. 5!. pd e 336
31,250 Dit o New Shares 324 sh. 324 pd 513
30,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 36/, 17s. 9d. 571.
15s.
33,C00 ...... ... London and Croydon Av. 13/.
/
Ditto New Scrip... ild. 1311
13%
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. oh. 70/, pd fei
1.3,600 .. Ditto Half Shares 5O!. 25/. pd 27
10,000
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2%
10000 Midland Counties .... : . ...lOU/. sh. 100/, pd 88
15,000 . ...... .. North Midland ... ...... 1.01. eh. Pr/ Pd 75%
Ditto New 404 pd 3536
5,128 ...... ... Northern and Eastern...looe sh. 50/. pd 28
e6Ol/ Preston and Wyre 5O!. sh. iine pd 36
58,000 South Eastern and Dover l3l. pd 15
1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO4 sh. 275
0,000
MOO
MINES.
8,000 ......
4,000 11.55. Alters 151. sh 121. It kpd 10
10,000 ........ Angto efexicaness. 5/. pm.lool. sh al 'pd lee
Ditto Subscription - 05/. pu 1%
2,00(1 1511. Boleros lsoe oh all pd 35
10,000 11. lOs Brariliatilmp.iss. 51. pin 25/. sh. 20/. pd 5
6,000
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Hey ...'2Ol. sh. 141. pd 2
15,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. see 201 pd 1
10,000 tow a Ditto Scrip
20,000 British Iron „wt. sh. 60/. pd
,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 4k!. pd 1 ei,
Cote Retiree 6l/. pd 6%
Candonga....... 7O. pd 5
10,000 1 1 Copiapo
8,500 ... Colombian, iss. 51. pin 55e sh. 55/. pd flee
2,850 31. English
20,000
6,155 Mexican Company lOO/. see en/ pd . 6
I.iiNoll Pothcroit Consols lO/. sb. U!. pd 4
11,600 Real clef Monte, Unrugistered
Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 100
30,000 united Mexican, ass. 2 pin. 40!. sh. all pd 2te ,
Dive Scrip 3%
Ditto New Scrip
SLsi.ronze ...75g5. sh. 16
5/ pd 4
West Cork
•Als..a...lioari 5O/. sh 501. pd 38
I:Nci it:tes;
jrl..
.. Ticketl.loo.; SO. .
.s. .
hs.
............. pp dd z 7,
1,000
1,500
700 ... LlVLorEnidleenß, Ywlltlsl,
... . .... e ........ engs. sh. 6
Sale
. 1.1. .0. ........................... is si cl, . 3119
Bing' Cellege ... 1
153.
lAI
uu Londontj,,,s stipzripl:i:.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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in.
a.Li.Aiv.
.Li.ige. .
19%
10, V.,
afo,Sn.titi:: ... .............. ..... .4. • • 254
6, T.O 1. per cent. British American Land Company 313 pd ,„
80%
821(00),10:1:00 11:111/leertcscc.e'''''ntt.. GCC:eit:lsrlalg;S::::::::4l::cla.r.v.cii.graa..tt.i.:olls. is.:: .101:i.. pd 12()°4%/i'
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pd 107
in" ....... New Brunswick Land.C.---......1241' Pd 12
London Corn. 'S
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 14.

The CHANCELLOR having taken his seat on the Wool-
sack,
The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a second time.
Lord. SONDES presented a petition from Kent and
Norfeld, praying for Church Extension ; also praying
for .the exclusion of Catholics from Parliament ; and
against any grant to the Colley of Maynooth. Also
one praying for the abolition of Tolls on Bridges over
the Thames. • •

Il me sage from the Commons brought up several
Private ./Bills.

Lord SALTOUN presented a petition from Black-
friars-road praying for the removal of the Tolls on Wa-
terloo and the other Bridges.
The Duke of ARGYLL and the. Marquis of DOWN-
SHIRE presented numerous petitions against lay pa-
tronage in the Church of Scotland.
The Marquis of DO WNSHIRE presented a petition
against railway travelling on, and for the better observ-
ance of, Sunday.

The 'Frivoloilus Suits Prevention Bill went through
Committee with amendments.
The Bankruptcy Partnership Bill went through Com-
mittee.

The Dublin Wide Streets Bill, the Arms (Ireland), and
the Slave Compensation Bill, were severally read a third
time and passed.
Lord DUNCANNON laid the Minutes of the Com-
mittee of the Privy Council on Education for 1840 and
1841 on the table of the House.

Earl RADNOR presented numerous petitions from
congregations of Protestant Dissenters in various parts
of the country against Church-rates. The Noble Earl
_then moved for a return of all wheat and wheat flour
imported from Ireland from 1820 to 1840.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested that as several
important returns relative to wheat and other grains
were made to the House last year, it would be most im-
portant to have them all continued up to the present time.
The motion was agreed to, as were several other re-
turns relative to the importation of foreign grain.
The School Sites Conveyance Bill was read a third
time, several verbal amendments were made, and the Bill
passed.

The Earl of lIADDINGTON presented a petition
from a parish in Oxford in favour of the Corn-laws.

Earl PITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from the
bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of Edinburgh
praying for free trade in the necessaries of life.—
(Hear.) One to the same effect from Forfar ;
twenty from places in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The
Noble Earl said as some Noble Lords objected to inci-
dental discussions on this quegtion, he would give notice,
without subscribing to the doctrine, that probably
he would present a petition from the Corporation
of Manchester,' on which occasion he would take the li-
berty of discussing, the question upon some points, more
particularly respecting its relation with its foreign trade.
• LAW OF MARRIAGE.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
bankers. merchants, and others, of Leeds, complaining
of that portion of the new marriage laws which prohibits
the marriage of a sister-in-law. The laws of the land on
this subject, they thought ought not to go further than
the law of God ; also from Manchester, Birmingham,
Bath, Bristol, Leicester, Macclesfield, Hereford, and
numerous. other places ; also fuom the Dissenting
Clergy of Leicester and Macclesfield, to the same effect.
He also presented petitions from the solicitors of all the
before-named places. He had given notice of his inten-
tion to bring the question under their Lordship's atten-
tion in the hope of inducing them to modify the ex-
isting law, and upon his success depended the happiness
of many of their countrymen and countrywomen, so that
he deeply felt all the responsibility he had undertaken.
The Noble Lord went at considerable length into the
history of the marriage laws, as instituted in the time of
Henry the Eighth, which he said bore internal evidence
of having been passed for his own unworthy purposes,
and to suit his own ease at various times.
All the petitioners wanted was, that where there was no
consanguinity marriage should not be prohibited—where
the relationship was by marriage they thought that no
prohibition. If he • could only remove the prejudice
against the marriage to a deceased wife's sister, then the
Noble Lord would have no difficulty in conceding all the
rest that was asked. Who, he asked their Lordships,
who was the most likely to make a good friend of chil-
dren left without the most tender parent, than the sister
of their own mother. In his opinion, the state of society
would be maintained in a more pure state by allowing a
man to marry she who is must likely to reside in his house,
and take care of his children after his wife's death. The
Act of 1835 made marriages absolutely void which were
contracted within the prohibited degrees. But even now
such marriages did take place, for the parties had only to
go abroad to some place where the marriage was legal,
and he believed it would stand good in England. lie
would not disturb the present laws unless the cases to be.
affected were numerous. Their Lordships would be as-
tonished to find that in Manchester alone there had been
91, and had more time been given, his informant said he
would have been able to add at least 500 more.
• Earl FITZWILLIAM—Since when ?

Lord WHARNCLIFFE could not say, but a consider-
able number were since 1839, and thatwas only one place.
Many persons had gone abroad and got married who
were within the prohibited degree ; they returned, and
were received in society in the same manner as if they
had done nothing wrong, or against the usages of society.
That proved they had not carried the feeling of the
people along with them. This country was the only one
in which the law was so stringent. On the Continent,
and in America, the prohibited degrees were not near so
close as ours. In America the state of society was very
healthy, yet second marriages with a deceased wife',
sister was very common, and they had the authority of
some of the most eminent men in that country, that it
worked well, and its tendency was towards morality. All
they asked for was inquiry upon the subject, and he
would then pledge himself to prove that there were • not
only hundreds but thousands of such cases.' He was
prepared with a Bill on the subject, but would not offer it
to their notice until he saw how the proposition was
received.

The Bishop of LONDON said he fully believed that
if the laws of the Church were overturned it would
prove a heavey blow to morality. He said the parties
who had married illegally, or were prepared to do so,
had engaged solicitors to make inquiries, and collect
evidence upon the point. That accounted for the
number of petitions. The marriage of a deceased wife's
sister was prohibited by the canon law, almost from the
time of the apostles. He was quite sure that a very
large majority of the clergy held that these prohibitions
were necessary and supportable on scriptural grounds,
He called upon their Lordships, before they took another
downward step, too many of which had been taken
during the last two years with respect to marriage,
steps which had materially affected the morals of the
country. He was not about to enter into a discussion
of the New Marriage Act, but he would say, that upon
an inquiry it would be found, that the greater portion
of the marriages within the prohibited degree had taken
place under that Act. He was persuaded that the pro-
hibitory system had been the safeguard of domestic
society in this country. If they were tb alter the pro-
hibition it would be impossible for a deceased wife's
sister to give her maternal care to her sister's orphan
children without at the same time obtaining a promise
of marriage. Besides, he feared that this was sought as
merely the first step for the removal of prohibition. He
did not think the people of this country would look coolly
upon any meddling with the law which would make it
legal for en uncle to marry his neice. The evils of it
would be too great, for then it would be impossible for
any uncle t ) adopt his mice and treat her as a daughter.
For all these reasons he was disposed to say that the mar-
riage laws should remain as they now stood. He
trusted, therefore, their Lordships would not consent to
repeal that which had been the law of the Church
almost from its formation.
The question then dropped.

Several petitions were resented which were lost in
the noise of Members leaving the House.—Adjourned.

• HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 14.
The SPEAKER took his seat at the usual time.
GLASGOW AND DUNDYVAN RAILWAY BILL.
_ _ _

➢lr. PRAED brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the Glasgow and Dundyvan Railway Bill.
They reported that the preamble had not been proved to
their satisfaction.

Mr. CRISTOPHER said the Hon. Member for Glasgow
had a motion to make for the recommittal of the Bill.
Before the motion watt made, he begged leave to present
a petition from Sir John Maxwell, of Polloc, against
the motion ; he also grayed, if the House should re- '
commit the Bill, he might be heard by his counsel and
agents against certain clauses.
Mr. DENNISTOUN, in pursuance of the notice
he had given, moved that the Bill be recommit-
ted, and that the Committee have leave to pro-
ceed on Monday next. The Committee had been
unanimously of opinion that the railway would
prove of vast benefit to 'the inhabitants Of Glasgow,
—merely a majority were of opinion that certain clauses
ought to be introduced ; and being on the preamble,
which Would have settled the whole question, they were.
of opinion that they could not postpone it for the purpose
of introducing them. It - turned out that they hail
been in error in that - opinion. (Bear.) They
had the power of postponing the preamble, and that
being the cage, he believed a large• Majority of the Coin-
mittee would no* proceed with the Bill, if his motion
were-agreed to. •
Mr. PRAED said he had never given any: opinion on
the Bill, nor did he intend to do so.
Mr. WALLACE said the Parliamentary rule was
strict that in no case should Bills be recommitted Oniess
some special reasons were given to constitute an excep-
tion. The fullest opportunity was afforded to the pro-
moters in Committee to establish their case.

Mr. OSWALD said, having voted against the preamble,
and seeing no reason for altering his opinion, he should
vote against the recommittal.
Mr. ESTCOURT said that four 'days Were given to the
Council in favour of the preamble of the and the
Committee were unanimous in the decision to which, they'
. came. It was perfectly true that there were two or thre
instances upon the Jotirnal in which the rule"had been de-
parted from, but there had, in this case, been no reasons.
stated why the House should depart from the ordinary.
course.
Mr: GILLON said the preamble had been - rejected,
upon the ground that there had.not been sufficient notice.
He believed the Committee had no right, in fact, to take
that subject 'into -consideration. But beSicles thiS the
Committee were led to suppose that they could not post-
pone'the'preamble of the Bill, which-was-riot the fact
otherwise they would have gone into. the con-
sideration of the clauses. He 'would state; on be-
half of the promoters of the Bill, that they
.were prepared to insert clauses, which • would in-
duce all the members of the Committee to vote for the
Bill. He thought it would be a very great hardship to
the promoters, if upon these grounds the House should
refuse to rvatunait the Bill,
Mr. GREEN said, after listening four days, during
which all the parties hlbowl heard, to the arguinent

-in favour of the Bill, it appeared to him to be a very
strong act on the part of the House to recommit it.
Mr. BROTHERTON said that mistake should not
be visited upon the promoters. The Committee were
told by the Clerk that they had no power to postpone
the preamble. To prevent the Bill from being recom-
mitted, that they might rectify the mistake, he did
think would be a very great hardship.
Mr. LOCKHART said the House would act with its
usual discretion if it refused to recommit the Bill upon
the opinions which had been urged against the motion.
Nearly every Member on the Committee had risen in his
place and stated that he had acted under a misconcep-
tion of their powers, and he believed would now support
the Bill.

Lord .1": STUART understood that several 'clauses,
without theintroductiOn of which he would not support
the Bill, could not be introduced because of the want of
notice.. He, therefore, could not support the present
Motion. -
Colonel SALWEY must, as one of the selected Mem-
bers, set the Hon. Member for Salford right upon the
subject. The Committee had sat most patiently listen-
ing to evidence for four days, and they divided five to
two against the preamble. They had the assistance of
able Counsel both for and against the Bill, they there-
fore did not act under any misconception at all. Se-
lected Members would be put in a most awkward posi-
tion if their judgment were to be appealed from to that
House.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
House divided, when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it 7O
Majority against the motion —3o
On the motion of Lord SANDON, the Lords' amend-
ments to the Liverpool Docks Bill were considered and
agreed to.

Mr. BROTIIERTON presented several petitions from
Lancashire and Cheshire, praying for a repeal of the
Corn-laws ; and petitions from Baptist congregations,
praying that they might be allowed to make affirmations
instead of taking oaths.
Mr. BAINES presented a number of petitions in fa-
vour of the plan of her Majesty's Ministers for relieving
th:t public burthens of the people. One of the petitions
complained that in consequence of the high price of food,
and the difficulty of providing proper clothing for their
children, they were unable to send them to school, to ob-
tain the necessary education, and they prayed that the
Corn laws might be repealed.
Mr. TURNER presented petitions from Blackburn,
signed by 6,700 inhabitants ; from chorley, signed by
3,000 ; and from several other places, praying a repeal of
the Corn-laws.

Lord WORSLEY presented petitions from places in
Lincolnshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. BAILEY presented a petition from Inverness, to
the same effect.

Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition to the same
effect, from a place in Sussex.
Sir G. STRICKLAND presented twenty petitions
from Bradford, and other places in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, for the abolition of the Corn-laws, and a re-
duction of the import duties.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Denbigh in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, and a petition from Kidder-
minster, to the same effect.

Major AGLIONBY presented two petitions from
places in Cumberland, and twelve petitions from the
metropolis to the same effect.

Mr. LABOIJCIIERE presented a petition from the
Cliamber of Commerce of Manchester, in favour of the
abolition of the Corn-laws, and for the alteration in the

Similar petitions were also presented by Mr. Oswald,
from Glasgow ; Mr. M. Philips, from Lancashire
Si: Matthew Wood, from a parish in London ; Mr.
B. Wood, from Southwark ; and Mr. Ainsworth, from
Bolton.

Colonel SALWEY presented petitions for the total
and entire abolition of the Corn-laws from 1,632 me-
chanics, miners, and workmen employed in the iron and
coal works at Colebrook-dale, Horsehay, Dawley, Light-
moor, Salop ; and from the inhabitants of Mabley, in the
same county.
Mr. BLACKETT presented a petition in favour of
the three propositions of Ministers for the reduction of
Sugar, Timber, and Corn .Duties ; but the names of the
petitioners were not heard in the gallery.
Mr. MACAULAY presented petitions from the Town
Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh, in
favour of the proposed alteration of the differential and
prohibition duties.
Mr. GILLON presented similar petitions from places
in Lancashire.
General SHARP moved for retarns connected with
General and Field-officers, promoted, and on half-pay.
Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice, that on the 27th of
May he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for im-
proving the navigation of harbours in the County Kerry.
Mr.FOX MAULE moved the first reading of the
Rill brought down from the Lords—a Bill for removing
doubts as to the liability of Peers in Parliament to pu-
nishment in cases of felony.
The Bill was read a first time.

The Woodside and Hoylake Road Bill was read a se-
cond time.
The Vaccination Bill was read a second time.
ADJOURNED DEBATE.
On the Order of the Day for resuming the Adjourned
Debate being read,

Mr. V. E. 'GLADSTONE said that it was with great
reluctance he' felt it necessary to request the attention of
the House for a few moments on their return to the impor-
tent business which stood forthis evening, in order that he
might call their notice to 'a matter of personal interest.
The personal discussion to which he re;erred related not
t ) himself but to his father, whom he was bound most.
dearly to love, and with whom he considered it the
highest. honour. to be connected. In -the debate. of the
preceding evening, the -Noble Lord the Member for
Northumberland had thought fit, in the discharge
of his Parliamentary duty, to throw out sonic
imputations, and make an attack upon his father.
—(Hear, tear.) Before he proceeded further, he
could say, although it was difficult to answer fur
oae's feelings on such an occasion, he trusted that while '
hewould fairly state the ground of complaint, which he
thought the House would consider a fair subject of com-
plaint againSt the Noble Lord, he should endeavour to
do so without saying anything offensive. The Noble
Lord said he would not follow the example of the lion.
Member for Newark, by imputing low and degrading
motives to individuals. The House would give him
credit for never having unnecessarily wearied it with
personal explanations, which appeared to him to be a great
waste of public time, and he would rather trust to the
good sense of the House and the country, to vindicate
him from such imputations. He denied that he had
imputed low and degrading motives to the promoters of
the measure. The Noble Lord observed that it was im-
possible to forget the part which the lion. Member fur
Newark had undertakeei in the debates of 1833, on the sub-
ject of the abolition of slavery.—(Hear.) He challenged
the Noble Lord to state to what he referr id. Did the Noble
Lord mean to impute to him, that he had said any-
thing opposed to the great measure of emancipation ?
The Noble Lord could state no such thing. The most
material portion of the Noble Lord's speech was what
follows :—" It was impossible, also, to forget who
was, before that time, the owner of the Bran-
den-hoop estate in Demerara. It was clearly
shown," the Noble Lord proceeds, " that the
rate of over-working and mortality on that estate
was remarkably • high even for Demerara, where,
unfortunately, both those evils prevailed in an eminent
degree. In three or four years an enormous quantity of
sugar was produced on the estate, and the number of
slaves who died was no less than eighty-one, being one-
seventh of the whole number. Now, he asked the House
whether so grave a charge as that should be made, unless
the Noble Lord was prepared to substantiate it. The
charge was that the great mortality. was produced
on • the estate by the over-production of sugar,
and this the Noble said was clearly shown. He
(Mr. Gladstone) denied that it was ever shown
at all. The- Noble Lord, after he had made
allegationan to this effect, gave notice of a motion in
1833 fee a return, which would exhibit a return of the
mortal:Ay on the estate. He (Mr. Gladstone) in his
place, said he should object to the production of such a
retum as that, because there was a great deal
of ether evidence which was absolutely necessary
to set the matter in its true light. Upon that the Noble
Lord then at the head of the Government rose in his
place and recommended the Noble Lord to withdraw his
motion. He did withdraw it, and thereby abandoned
the investigation. Now, undoubtedly there had been a
great mortality on the estate. But at that period
there was a great mortality through ,the whole colony
of Demerara. Nor could anything be more natural. It
was not the course of the slave trade to introduce entire
±itmilies into the colonies, but adults only who were fit
for labour. The consequence was, that twenty years
after there was a great mortality. Airing the short
time that he (Mr. (Iladstone) was in the Colonial-offiee,
a document was prepared, by the protector of slaves in
Demerara, stating that looking to the state of the popu-
lation, and considering the circumstances under which it.
was imported, it was evident that there must be a conside-
rable mortality in the population for many years to come.
But the whole ...force of the Noble Lord's accusation
rested upon this, that he connected the fact *of the poPu-
.lation with the production of an enormous quantity of
sugar. He (Mr. Gladstone) met this by a simple and
unequivocal denial. He denied that there was any pro-
ductle,n
.of sugar that could by the Noble Lord or any
other person properly be called enorreous. He -could
`show hyreturns from other estates.that it was a common
occurreace that 40 or 50 per cent. more sugar was pro-
' duce d from them than on that estate. This matter depended,
upon. the 'Noble • Lord's own imagination. At this dis-
. tancet,of time he could not recur to the facts, but he be-
hove d that there were 560 persons in the first instance,
and that the quantity produced was about 680 hogs-
lietttl •a year. He said, that taking into consideration
what the Noble Lord would seem to have forgotten,
considering •the means and fitcilities it possessed,
the, production of sugar on the estate was below
hich might have been expected. Unless the Noble
'Lord .• could prove to the contrary, the House
would believe the accusation made was not made on good
grounds. But if these things were true, he askedloiorlditiyd
the NOble Lord show the connection between the m
o de -
of thepopulatimi and the production, vthich was not enonn-
oils, but under all the circumstances of
the
case
a
rate production considered with respect to timecapacity
of the-ktate ? He did not know what the Noble Lord
having nothing but the record before him, but he
did complain of the- Noble Lord making any such wen •
dsaidtiennotin relyth t
e much. 'Phissttplace'n grounds on which he
was not the first time
this statement had been made ; it was made in the year
1833. lie (Mr. Gladstone) then complained of the Noble
Lord's making an attack on the feelings of MeMbers
of that House, without any intimation that • he
was about to make such an attack ; and the
Noble Lord replied that he could assure the Hon.
membee, moaning himself (Mr. Gladstone), that if' he
aeyuld have conceived that the statement he (Ler 1
Howick) bad made -tdd have been considered by hint