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tire community, so as to sustain a high price for West
Indian sugar, the cultivation of the cane may be very pro-
fitable to the proprietary, and enable them to pay the enormous
wagos which alone can bribe the negroes to that species of oc-
cupation. What will be the consequences to the negroes ?
They will be drawn off from wholesomer and preferable modes
of life, more friendly to their advancement in civilization. The
articles which they import will rise in price, so as
to diminish their command over them. Protection always
taxes doubly, and the barter of taxation impoverishes the con-
sumers on both sides. They must pay more for manufactured
clothing because we pay more for protected sugar ; nor will
the cupidity of the negro, on which his demoralising
employers reckon to tempt him back to the cane-field, stop
there when once it has been sufficiently excited for that pur-
pose. It will extend to the women and children under his
control. The fact has not escaped the negro's false friends,
that the sugar of Cuba is only raised by male negro labour.
Such will not long be the case in our islands if this left-
handed friendship for negroes be successful. The heart-
' cheering progress which is making will be arrested. And
suppose, after all, the artificially-high wages should not
prevail as a sufficient temptation—or that the success
be only partial ; while yet the planters have an as-
sured monopoly of the British market what can or
must happen then ? The white population will struggle des-
perately to retain the advantages of its false position. If it
cannot do so by fair means, it will by foul. In the pleni-
tnde of its legislative influence, it will not, indeed, dare to
re-enact the institution of slavery, but it will be under such
inducements as ruling classes do not commonly resist to nul-
lify practically all that is substantial in emancipation, and in-
duce a system which may answer the purposes of slavery to
the monopolist cultivator. The system which does that can-
not fail of entailing some of the worst curses of slavery upon
the nominally free negro.
Again we ask the real friends of the negro to pause before
monopoly cajoles them into an unrighteous interference with
the prospects of those who 'are so largely indebted to their
Christian zeal for all these blessings and prospects. Let them
nut deface the work of their own hands. The injury to the
labouring classes here, the discouragement to the great tem-

Sir R. Peel and Mr. Hume from Lord John Russell, that our
sapient Government d:d not mean to ratify a treaty with the
Chinese, founded on the preliminaries entered into with Com-
missioner Elliot, upon whose proceedings they thought fit, but
a few months ago, to lavish such extravagant commendations.
Speculators have proverbially short memories, and every day's
experience serves to prove that they are regulated in their
dealings less by the recollections of the past, than by the anti-
ticipations of the future. The trade have been acting in
regard to tea upon a wiser principle than the
mere speculators. It appears that they have pretty gene-
rally kept out of the market the last few days. They remem-
ber the derangements in business, the falling off in the con-
sumption of the article, and the injurious effects of insolvencies,
bad debts, and losses arising to them from the high prices and
fluctuations of the past year. A few of the minor importers
have been tolerably industrious in their efforts to promote the
ferment, by ostensibly withdrawing their parcels from the
market ; but the more considerable houses have made known
their opinion of the advanced rates by advertising large public
sales for the present and ensuing week, and they no doubt
reckon upon the same good fortune that awaited them last
spring in getting out of stock at high figures on the eve of
fresh arrivals. Inquiries are made for the reasons of the
rene "fed advance and excitement, but none of a very legiti-
mate nature are to be obtained, The lightness of stocks in
dealers' hands, the refusal of importers to sell, and the insuffi-
ciency of the supply calculated upon, are among the more pre-
valent notions on which the buyers appear to found their trans-
actions. As to the scantiness of stocks, it is to be observed,
however, that there is *now twelve months' consumption on
hand in the United Kingdom, namely, 40,000,000 pounds.
There are, as we have said, declarations for large sales by im-
porters, and the affairs of China are, at all events, partially
settled. A truce has been agreed upon, and cannot be dis-
turbed by any act of our Government before August or Sep-
tember next, since Colonel Sir Henry Pottinger, the newly
appointed Envoy, did not, as it turns out, leave England
by the last mail ; so that the assertion made with re-
spect to the shortness of supply must he viewed with
more than ordinary distrust. One ship has already
come in ; three or four others are near at hand, and, although
Captain Elliot has been a bad diplomatist, he has hitherto con-
sidered the securing of the season's tea a paramount object
with reference as well to revenue as to the interests of com-
merce. Last year he was outlawed in China, and the English
community with him ; yet he put up with it all, and contrived
to send home the tea. This season he is elevated into a great
Plenipotentiary, backed by the presence and services of a fleet,
he is entertained by the Chinese Commissioner as a guest, and
has fought the authorities into a truce or treaty. Surely, then,
there is less reason to apprehend a deficiency of tea shipments
this year than there was last, when it is to be remembered,
they proved quite ample.

perance movement so widely extending, and the pernicious
effect on manufacturing employment : these are all certain ;
but the injury to the freed negroes is certain also. And for
what (except by the sordid and designing) will both in-
juries have been inflicted? From a just, but undis-
cerning abhorence of slavery in Brazil, where its termination
will be rendered much more probable by the amicable relations
with this country, arising out of a comparatively unrestricted
commercial intercourse. We put the question on the narrowest
ground, as relating only to negroes and negro slavery. It is,
really, part of a great commercial renovation, in which, when
effected, slaves and freemen, blacks and whites, our own
countrymen and foreigners, will find ample occasion fnr re-
joicing, as a most important benefit for humanity itself•
GLOBE.—The Provincial Journals which have reached

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 11.
IN RE HASTINGS BARONY.
Their Lordships sat in a Committee of Privileges to-
day, for the purpose of proceeding with the further con-
sideration of the claims to this Barony. The arguments
in this case having concluded.
The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that he would give
judgment on Thursday.

us during the last week, and especially those of Saturday
and yesterday, are full of most convincing proofs of the
joy with which the movement of Ministers, in order to
effect an extension of trade with foreign countries, by a
relaxation of the laws by which it has been restricted, has
been nailed by the great mass of the people. The usual
modes of expressing satisfaction with a measure before
the Legislature, and a determination to afford its authors
all the aid which it can derive from public meetings and
petitions in its favour, have been taken. In the course of
the present week we shall see, not merely the table, but
the floor, of the House of Commons covered with petitions
for the adoption',of theplan to relieve our declining commerce
and to supply our suffering manufacturing population with
the means of obtaining bread by their labour which the
Government has announced, and which the parties in-
terested in monopolies have combined to defeat. The
powerful interests identified with the monopolies
with which the proposed change in our commercial sys-
tem will interfere are, of course, uniting their energies
to destroy this last hope of the miserable masses,
compelled to purchase the essential articles of human
food at a price which forbids their obtaining them in
quantities sufficient for their support ; while that very
system of prohibitory duties excludes the products of
their labour from foreign markets, and thus leaves them
but half employed ; or compelled to tax their powers of
labour to an extent beyond the limits of endurance for
wages below what will procure a sufficiency of food. This
has of late been, to a fearfully increasing extent, the
condition of tens of thousands of our suffering country-
men. Their hope is in that Being whose " tender mer-
cies are over all his works," but whose benevolent pur-
poses are accomplished by human agency. In the hour
of their extremity amelioration and ultimate remedy are
placed before us in the comprehensive scheme of the
Government. The scheme attacks the monopolies in
which the commercial distresses of the country had
their origin. The parties interested in these monopolies
trust in their wealth and influence to counteract the pur-
pose of the Ministers. The Tories, whose political sys-
tem is opposed to change, and who hope to obtain office
by the aid of a few members who have supported the
general policy of the Government, but will vote against
their plan of finance, either because they are personally
interested in the maintenance of monopoly, or are under
the influence of a philanthropy which mistakes its aims,
are elate with joy at the prospect of obtaining the ob-
ject of their hopes. They will succeed, if prompt and
determined demonstrations of popular support be not
afforded from every part of the kingdom.
STANDARD.—Mr. Grote's reasoning proceeded alto-
gether upon the necessity of free trade to the interests
of the consumers, throwing on one side all moral and
patriotic considerations. It may be permitted to us, who
have been from the first opposed to the doctrines of the
school of Mr. Huskisson, who, however, never went so
far as the present Ministers (with his pro Corn-law
speeches), to remind our elder readers that we many
years ago demonstrated the fallacy of the free
trade doctrines, by showing that, carried to their ,
full extent, they must lead to the trade in blood—must
completely extinguish every quality which goes to con-
stitute a patriot or a Christian. We were laughed at for the
extravagance of such a deduction, and told that the moral
principle and the spirit of innate patriotism would always
present insuperable barriers—and so they will, we trust,
as regards the British nation. But it is plain that
Whig-Radical Ministers and philosophical Radicals—
the persons who laughed at our folly—reject such
restraints now ; and now it is our turn to smile. It
is not, however, on moral grounds only that free
trade ought to be an objeet of suspicion to prudent
men. Free trade gives the reins to a spirit of
gambling which, like all gambling, ruins millions
in the sw.xession of its fluctuations, and rarely
fails to ruin a nation which indulges in it in the end.
We hear a great deal of the impolicy of the Corn-laws,
causing an excess of cultivation, and in some years a re-
dundant supply ; but no one thinks it necessary to
speak of the impolicy of encouraging over-manufac-
turers. Yet the mischief of over-manufacturing is the
greater, as for once that the demand for grain has failed,
the demand for manufactures has failed a dozen times ;
while the multitudes thrown out of employ by what is
called a stagnation of trade, is tenfold greater than the
number thrown out of employ by a too abundant harvest.
Now, if such evil is unavoidable even under the present
system, what bounds can we fix to the constantly recurring
calamities that must be anticipated from an absolutely
free trade ?

CARTER C. SIR W. H. PALMER.
The arguments in this appeal were resumed, Mr.
Tierney was addressing their Lordships for the respon-
dent when their Lordships rose.

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 11.

ZYRES V. TOYLKINS.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover da.
Tnages against the defendant, for having slanderously imputed
to him that he had been guilty of a felony. The facts of the
case were briefly as follows :—The defendant, Tomkins, in 183/5,
let a shed to the plaintiff, who was a carpenter, at a rent of
Si. per annum, and the terms of the agreement were, that
Eyres should put the shed in thorough repair. In the course
of the repairs the plaintiff removed a quantity of lead, which
he sold—the removal took place in open day, and with the
knowledge of the defendant's wife, who lent Ayres a truck for
the purpose. After a lapse of two or three years the parties
had some disagreement, and the defendant charged plaintiff
with having stolen the lead from his premises. The charge
was made in the public street, and afterwards at a tav rn in
the neighbourhood, which both parties wore in the habit of
frequenting. The defendant p'eaded a justification.
Mr. Platt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Jervis for the
defendant.

Several witnesses were examined. who proved the facts of
the case as stated by the Learned Counsel. It was also shown
that an ill-feeling existed between the plaintiff and defendant.
Lord DENMAN, in summing up the case to the Jury, said,
it could not be denied that the slanderous words had been used
by the plaintiff on several occasions, and perhaps there might
have beeh some doubt that the defendant meant to impute a
felony, the whole transaction being known in the neighbour.
hood, but he had chosen to put a ju•tification on the record,
alleging that the plaintiff had committed a felony, and that he
should prove it. Now it was clear that there was not the least
pretence for imputing a felony to the plaintiff, and it would be
or the Jury to say, under all the circumstances, what damages
the plaintiff was entitled to.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 40s.
THE QUEEN V' HOLT AND OTHERS.
This was an indictment preferred against the defend-
ant by a Polish gentlemen named Wall. The substance
of the charge was that the defendant Holt, who was said
to be an attorney's clerk, had conspired with another per-
son to obtain money from the prosecutor under false
pretences ; he having represented that a writ had been
sued out against the prosecutor, and that he had de-
manded and obtained a sum of money from him, to
prevent his being arrested.
After a lengthened investigation of several hours, the
Jury acquitted the defendants.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 11.
TRIAL AT BAR.
rannocx v. FORRESTER.
This case, which occupied the whole of yesterday, was re-
sumed this morning. The plaintiff having waived the ques-
atm of right, aomitting that as copyholder he has no mann to
the royalties, and could not bar the Lord of the Manor en-
tering on the land and sinking shafts, the only question that
remained was that of compensation.
After hearing plaintiff's Counsel in reply, the LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury found for the defendants on
the remaining issues.

CENTRAL CRIMENAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
James Armstrong, labourer, 18, was indicted for having
feloniously stolen one watch, two seals, two keys, and some
money, the property of Mr. William Neale, of Windsor.
It appeared that the prisoner had been employed by the
prosecutor as a labourer, and, on the day in question, the pro-
secutor had gone to church, and, on his return, found that
his room door had been broken open, and the articles named
in the indictment gone. A pawnbroker proved that the pri-
soner had attempted to pledge a watch, but from questions
he put to the prisoner, he thought it his duty to detain the
watch, which had since been ascertained to belong to the
prosecutor.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Henry Weston, 25, was indicted for feloniously stealing
several silver spoons and forks, one fish slice, and a coat, value
51., the property of Mr. James Mitchell, his master.
The prisoner was a servant to Mr. Mitchell, and had taken
advantage of his absence, and committed the robbery of which
ho stood charged. After having pledged the articles, he wrote 1
a letter to Mr. Mitchell, asking his forgiveness, as he had been
led astray by bad company.
The Jury at once found the prisoner guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to twelve months imprisonment, with hard labour.
Jane White, 36, was indicted for stealing a quantity of
kerseymere, and several articles of plate, the property of
her master, William Henry Woodall.
The prosecutor, it appeared, is a woollen-draper, car-
rying on business in Bishopsgate Without, and the pri-
soner had been in his service for fifteen months at the
time the robbery was discovered. On the 21st of April
the prisoner went out, and in consequence of her not re-
turning suspicion was excited, and the prosecutor had
her box opened, and the first thing he saw was a piece of
kerseymere, containing 17 yards ; and on a further
search he found a number of duplicates referring to other
cloth, and also to different articles of plate.
Several pawnbrokers were examined, who produced a
quantity of property that had been pawned at different
times by the prisoner ; and it appeared evident that
during the time she had been in the prosecutor's service
she had been carrying on a systematic plan of robbery.
The prisoner who said nothing in her defence, was
found guilty.
The RECORDER asked her whether she had anything
to urge in mitigation of her offence ?
She made no answer.
The Learned JUDGE said that the prisoner had been
convicted of plundering her master of a quantity of
valuable property, and there was not a single circum-
stance of mitigation in the case. She was well provided
for and had no wants to supply, and she had repaid the
kindness of her master by robbing him the whole time
she had been in his service. The Court was bound
under these circumstances to make an example, and the
sentence therefore was that she be transported for seven
years.
The whole of the property was ordered to be given up
to the prosecutor.
Charles Hawkins, aged 30, a drayman, was indicted
for stealing a watch and other articles, the property of
Thomas Davis.
Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor deposed that he was a beer-shop
keeper, and carried on business at Camberwell. The
prisoner was in the habit of coming to his house with
beer. On the 9th of April, he went to the house of a
relative, and when he returned at night hishwife, upon
his going to bed, gave him some gin and brier, and he
soon afterwards fellasleep, andwhen he awoke about two
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
o'clock, he found that his wife was gone, and upon
In anticipation of an early dissolution of Parliament, some
sales were made to-day, and a slight decline took place. in the searching the house he missed a gold and silver watch,
English funds.a quantity of gold and silver money, and other property,
There is little doing in the Corn Market. The price of to his wife
to the value of 801. He had been married
Danttic wheat as present may be quoted from 345. to gas , and about five months at this time.
the freight and other charges of delivery in bond about 6s. Cross-examined—He had got a
Therefore, exclusive of the factor's commission and other ex- property back. Had reason to believe that his wife was
penses of sale to the consumer, it would cost, with a proposed most to blame in the transaction, but he had, neverthe-
duty of Bs., full 50s. per quarter ;and if we make allowances for less,her back, and she was now living with him.
all items, it cannot be stated at less than 535. for prime Dante
taken
le Edward Ball deposed that on Good Friday the pri-
g ; but when the fixed duty of Bs. comes into operation,
we must expect a rise in price in the Baltic ports before soner told him he should want his horse and cart to re-
vueitwould be till
move his sister's boxes, but that
the certainty of a steady demand from this country shall have
accommodated the supply to it ; so that in every probability
• •o'clock at night, as his sister could not
get away before.
the result of the Ministerial measure pill be to give a Market Witness drove with him to Camberwell, and he waited
price of about 545. Hamburgh wheat is at present quoted for him at a public-house until half-past one o'clock in
345. to 38s. at that port ; freight and charges 4s. Baltic the morning, when the prisoner beckoned to him and
red, 335. to 365. ; freight and charges 6s. told him to stop opposite the prosecutor's house, and Le
The recal of Captain Elliott, and the possibility of the re- then brought out some boxes and other thing.,, tie, newal of hostilities with the Chinese, has given great anima- them in the cart, and told him to be as quiet en - -,1 put
tion to the Tea Market, in which a rise of 33 per cent. was Witness then drew off to the corner of '' .., he could.
realised to day on the prices of Is. 6d., which was the average shortly afterwards theprisoner - Ltie street, and
before the non-confirmation of the treaty with Keshen became p
prosecutor came u ands
p go ..rid the wife of the
At one period to-day the price touched 2s , but some known. A
drove them to the C' into the cart, and he
of the knowing ones having slipped away at that. figure, prices
church-street, and --... of in Grace-
start - ,rner a court ce
way again to Is. 10id. This, however, is a considerable
•
gave •which was the quotation on the arrival of the Placedm ' • the luggage was taken out and
start on ls. 6d.,
prisoner a- " -. public-house, and he left the
last overland mail.
The
T The English funds did not close so well by i per prii .
-sor. -ost the woman there and went away.
pos •
er told h'
im that he from
this evening as on Saturday, yet there was apparently
" tier " d
beeuntt.very little stock tlntown upon the market. The f„e,g,. ,an that he would pay him in the morning.
with certain exceptions, become a " dead 'tit. Cross-examined—He had never been paid for this job.
scurities have,
The landlord of the 8• b hip public-house, Talbot-court,
by their re'
ter." The public have suffered so severely their'
ti r ...
in such investments, and the Governm'snts issuing p oved that the •-. his house and aske'
confidence
, ....: prisoner came to
he could
them, that they are no loniser to be tempter.: into the market.
AV, -oe accommodated with a bed that --- --, 'I.
The home stocks are assisted by this more cautious policy, for ; vvacoming from the - - „ight, as hi
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where there is money to lay out, the latter are, almost as 1, ito 5
._
_. country.
wnd would not be up
matter of course, resorted to, espcially during a perky, - town until late. ylritnP—
for him, and about
---.., sat up.
stagnation in share property, such as is found to exi ' of two o'clock. lie
and
with a female, ,
present moment. " they
• , ...6 at the
b"- -..uie to the house
agnt several boxes with them. The prisoner
The operations of the TealWarket 284RIP'
and.they
and the female occupied the same bed-room,
what reckless appearance. Prices ha-
....sd to-4y tt some- breakfasted together in the and the goods_
were
vanced no less than 6d. per lb. (--.
oket
arl %sliming," yawn) sine. - .e, tgum the whole, ad. afterwards taken away by a porter to the steam-pa,
s 4TM' is equal to 30 per cent. wharf The prisoner 'd the bill that was incurred.
pal .
_:-...vt0 pureniala ire .11nd%! by
.._

COURIER.—The Ministerial trumpet has now been
sounded through the length and breadth of the land for
one good week with as much of soul-stirring effect as a
penny whistle. The people will not march through Co-
ventry to such a puny rappel, and under the Ministerial
banner. And yet the Chronicle does manage to achieve
and record its one or two glories. As, for instance,
to-day it commemorates an heroic epistle from Messrs.
G. L. Jackson and Son, ship-owners, of the appropri-
ately classic region of Water-lane, in which those
worthy persons take leave to dissent from the course of
the great body of the shipping interest, which
has so energetically thrown itself into the breach
against the destructive assault on all interests by
the Government. Messrs. Jackson, in consequence,
request their names to be erased from the books of the
Shipowners' Society, which, for anything we know, may
p'eril the existence or lead to the dissolution of that
powerful body, as it may be taken for granted, although
we may chance to be ignorant of the fact, that the great
names of Jackson, like those of Baring, are a sort of
convertible terms for comprehending all that mighty
mercantile marine, whose flag proudly waves on every
sea and on every coast, " from Indus to the Pole." To
this renowned letter from Water-lane moreover is ap-
pended a post-scriptum, in which, like that of a fair lady,,
lies all the sting or marrow of the missive. Further,
moreover, to grace the show and swell the progress of
triumphant free-trade revolution throughout the coun-
try, the Chronicle has hit upon the happy expedient of
dividing the reported proceedings of such meetings,
public or hole and corner, as may be held, into two
separate portions, of which the first is given one day
and the latter part another. By this economical pro-
vision a small stock of agitation may always be kept in
hand to be doled out, but not wasted, in succession.
Accordingly, to-day we have the lengthy second part
of a Liverpool gathering, the first of remittance having
been duly honoured yesterday, in which, oddly enough,
the only man or speaker who figures
at the meeting,
who is the whole meeting, and nothing but the meetin
is g
(save one), a person of the euphonious name of Corden,
believed to be an Alderman of that name, not even a Li-
verpool but a Manchester man. This, again, is a thrifty
way of getting up a makeshift of popular demonstrations.

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