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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19; HAL

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JOHNSON, MAYOR.
A COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the
Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Tuesday, the 18th day of May, 1841.
Resolved, That all laws which, under the pretext of afford-
ing requisite protection to the aglicultural interests of this
kingdom, impose exorbitant or fluctuating duties on the impor-
tation of corn and other provisions, are injurious to commerce,
ruinous to the manufacturer, tend to the misery and degrada-
tion of the working cla ses, and are delusive as to the benefits
which they affect to confer, even on the agricultural classes
themselves.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF LORDS, Ma.!/ 18.
ROYAL ASSENTS.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to-day to
the Exchequer Bills (11,000,0000 Bill, Excise, Collec-
tion, and Management Bill, Slave Compensation Bill,
Lease and Release Bill, Banking Copartnerships" Bill,
Court of Exchequer (Ireland) Bill, Dublin Wide-streets
(No. 2) Bill, Sir Walter Scott's Monument Bill, Northern
and Eastern Railway-Bill, Manchester and Leeds Railway
Bill, West Durham Railway Bill, Liverpool Docks Bill,
Accrington Church Bill, Liverpool Gas Bill, Clifton Bridge
Bill, Plymouth and Exeter Road Bill, Plymouth Eastern
Roads Bill, Slough and Colnbrooke Road Bill, Coventry
and Warwick Road Bill, Harborough and Brampton
Road Bill, Winwick Rectory Bill, Bury (Sussex) Inclo-
sure Bill, Waningore Inclosure Bill, Eccleshall Inclosure
Bill, Uplyme Inclosure Bill, Gamlingay Inclosure Bill.
The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Clarendon, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Baron Hastings (Sir Jacob Astley) took the oaths, and
his seat.
Lord PORTMAN presented several petitions from
Bath, Norton-Phillips, Chippenham, and various other
places, against Church-rates and Ecclesiastical Courts.
The Earl of YABBOROUGII presented petitions
from the Isle of Wight and from a place in Worcester-
tershire, against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
The Earl of HARROWBY presented petitions from
Lancashire and Cheshire, for Church Extension, and
against Sunday traffic on canals.
Petitions for the abolition of the Metropolitan Bridge
Tolls were presented by Lord REDESDALE and Lord
WROTTESLEY.
Lord STRADBROKE presented a great number of
petitions against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented petitions
to the same effect from Wantage.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a similar petition
from Montrose.
The Marco& of BREAIAI BANE, in presenting a
petition in favour of the Ministerial propositions relat-
ing to the import duties on timber, sugar, and corn, said
that he entirely concurred in the prayer of the petition,
and he only regretted that Ministers had not sooner un-
dertaken to carry such sound and wise principles of
commercial policy into effect.
Petitions against the alteration of the Corn-laws, and
for the exclusion of Catholics from Parliament, were
presented by the Earl of Winchilsea.
On the motion of the Earl of DEVON the Criminal
Justice Quarter Sessions Bill was read a third time, and
ordered to be committed on Tuesday.
Earl FITZWILLIAM presented petitions from
the electors of the borough of Southwark, and from
the inhabitants of the parish of St. Saviour, in that
borough, praying their Lordships to accede to
the Government propositions as to the duties
on sugar, timber, and corn, until Parliament should
adopt the only just mode of taxation—a property tax.
The Noble Earl presented several other petitions in fa-
vour of the measures, from places in York and in the
Isle of Ely.
On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Frivolous
Suits Bill was read a third time and passed.
In reply to an observation from the' Earl of HAD-
DINGTON,
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that the Govan
and Polloc Railway Bill had been thrown out.
On the motion of Lord MELBOURNE, their Lord
ships then adjourned to Monday.

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year, but the rest of the paper plainly showed that this
must be misprint, and that it ought to have been that the
supply would be sufficient. He should not have noticed
this had not the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite made
that mis-statement the foundation of his argument last
evening. Under these circumstances he would ask
the Hon. Gentleman opposite if in the original document
the West India agents had not stated that there would
be an adequate supply of sugar during the next year ?
Mr. VERON SMITH said it certainly was a misprint,
which was, however, owing to no inadvertence on the
part of the Colonial-office. A similar return had been
printed for the House of Lords, which was correctly
printed, and as the printer had printed the return for
that House from the return ordered for the House of
Lords, it had not been sent to the Colonial-office for cor-
rection, and hence the error had arisen.=(Cheers.)
Sir CHARLES GREY had understood from the do-
cument printed for the use of the Members of that House
that the supply would not be adequate. At the same
time he must confess that from the context of the docu-
ment, the reading had appeared to him to be rather am-
biguous.—(" Hear," and laughter from the Opposition.)
It seemed to him upon reflection that the West India
agents might be speaking with reference only to the
West Indies. It was notorious that the supplies from
the West Indies would be sufficient.
In answer to a question put from Mr. Wal-
ter, we understood Lord JOHN RUSSELL to say
that the New Poor-law Bill would not come on for dis-
cussion to-morrow.
Lord MORPETII presented several petitions for the •
repeal of the Corn-laws.
Lord HOWICK presented a petition from Northum-
berland to the same effect.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from a place
near Whitehead praying for an alteration in the Corn-
laws ; also from Workington to the same effect.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented several petitions`
from Irelan, against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. HINDLEY' presented ten petitions from Ashton-
under-Lyne in favour of a 'repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. D'ISRAELI presented a petition from Maidstone
against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. B. WALL presented a petition from Guildford
in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws.

Resolved, That this Court, continuing to be impressed with
the magnitude of the evils flowing from the present state of the
Coen-laws, and fully convinced of the large remedy that would
be afforded by reducing the duty to a fixed amount, do again
petition both Houses of Parliament to substitute a moderate
fixed duty for the existing graduated scale.
WO ODTHORPE.
Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY the QUEEN

SOCI ALISM.
THE GRAND ANNUAL FESTIVAL, in Com-
memoration of the 70th BIRTH-DAY of ROBERT OWEN,
the Philanthropist, and of the SIXTH ANNUAL CON-
GRESS of the UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY SOCIETY
of RATIONAL RELIGIONISTS, will take place at High-
bury Barn Tavern, Islington, on WHIT TUESDAY, Ist June,
1841, on which occasion a PUBLIC DINNER, TEA, and
BALL, will be given under the management of the London
District Board. W. D. Saull, Esq., Chairman ; J. Brady,
Esq., Vice Chairman.
The following Ladies and Gentlemen will attend and address
the meeting :—Robert Owen, Mr. Finch, Mr. Rigby, Gover-
nor of the Queenwood Community, Hampshire, Messrs. Bu-
chanan, Rollick and Fleming, and Mesdames Chappellsmith
and Martin, and also Messrs. Lloyd Jones, J. N. Bailey, and
H. Jeffery, the London Missionaries.
Tickets for Dinner, Tea and Ball, ss. 6d. ; ditto for Tea
and Ball only 2s. 6d., to be had at the Social Institution John-
street, Tottenham-court-road ; ditto, 26, Mount-street, Lam-
beth ; ditto, 81, High-street, Whitechapel ; ditto, 6, Frederick
Place, Goswell-road, &c. &c.

DOWAGER,
Marchioness of Westminster, Lady Lucy North,
Countess of Clarendon, Lady Emily Drummond,
Countess of Verulam, Honourable Mrs. Percy,
Lady Georgiana Ryder, Honourable Lady Colville,
Lady Catherine Cavendish, and
Lady Wriothesley Russell, Mrs. Hodgson.
4 FANCY SALE of beautiful, useful, and
ornamental Articles, superb set of antique chairs, with
divers other carvings, and specimens of vertu, ancient and mo-
dern, will take place on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 21st and
22d of May, at Rickmansworth Lodge Gardens, Moor Park
(this heautiful spot having been kindly lent by the Marquis of
Westminster for the occasion), in aid of the Funds f r Building
a Church on Chorley Wood Common, in the parish of Rick-
mansworth.
The following ladies have kindly undertaken to preside at
stalls :
The Lady Lucy North, 24, Manchester-square, London.
The Hon. Mrs. Percy, Scott's-hill, Rickmansworth.
Mrs. Hodgson, Vicarage, Rickmansworth.
Mrs. North, Loudwater House, Rickmansworth. •
Mrs. Hayward, Loudwater House, Rickmansworth.
Mrs. Ihrnes, Chorley-wood House, Rickmansworth.-
Mrs. Fellows, Money-hill House, Rickmansworth.
Miss Thompson, Chorley-wood, Rickmansworth.
The Gardens are about eighteen miles from London, near
the London and Birmineam Railroad, and carriages, omni.
buses, coaches, and flys, will be at the stations to convey parties
to and from the Bazaar.
The Sale will begin each day at Twelve o'clock, and close
at Six.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, May 10,1841.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Society will he
held at their Office, Fleet-street, on SATURDAY, the sth
day of June next, at Twelve o'Clock at noon precisely, for the
purpose of 'declaring a DIVISION of the SURPLUS of the
Assurance Fund of the Society ; anti notice is hereby further
given that a Second Special Gee, cal Meeting will be held at
the like hour and place, on the following 'Saturday, the 12th
day of Ji.ne, for the purpose of confirming the Resolution
which shall have been agreed to at such first fleeting, in pur-
suance of the provisions contained in the Deed of Settlement ;
and notice is hereby further given, that any person who shall
have been assured by the Society for two whole years, may, on
the production of his policy, and of the last receipt for the
premium tht.reon, be present at such meetings.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Clock precisely, at
each of the said meetings.
By order of the Direetor3,
GEO. KIRKPATRICK, Actuary.

Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from Notting-
ham, signed by 10,000 persons, to the same effect. The
Hon. Gentleman also presented a similar petition from
Wolverhampton.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented a petition
from the West Riding of the county of York in favour
of a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Ainsworth
from Bolton ; Mr. Baines, from Dingwall, and a place in
Lancashire ; Mr. G. W. Wood, from a parish in York-
shire ; Mr. Walker, from Berry ; Mr. Greg, from
places in Lancashire ; and Mr. Fielding, from Oldham.
General JOHNSON presented a petition from Old-
ham for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
' ADJOURNED DEBATE.
The Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned
debate having been read,
Mr. SHIEL rose and said the department with which
he had the honour to be connected afforded him some
justification, perhaps, if he ventured to take part in a de-
bate which he felt had been protracted beyond the ordi-
nary period of their deliberations, but not a period in-
commensurate with the importance the incal-
culable importance—of the subject. He should be
prepared not to trespass at any inappropriate length
upon the indulgence of those by whom he was sur-
rounded, or the forbearance of those to whom he was
opposed. He should confine himself in a great measure
to the resolution before the House. He should not
follow the example of those who wandered away from it,
and indulged in discussions of a somewhat mys-
terious nature. He should in the first instance apply
himself to that branch of the question in
which England—virtuous and humane England—
felt a deep and most honourable concern.—(Hear,
hear.) If to the progress of the slave trade, by any
differential duties between foreign and colonial sugar,
an effectual impediment were to be imposed—if, not-
withstanding an exorbitant differential duty, •the
slave-trade were not successful to an extent which,
it had been justly observed by his Right Hon. Friend
the Member for the Tower Hamlets cast upon Chris-
tian Europe a deep stain—if to slave grown sugar
every port upon the Continent was not widely
and indiscriminately thrown open—if they were
not themselves the importers of slave-grown
produce—if. with slave produce in many forms, their
own markets were not literally glutted—if they
were not the importers, the refiners, and the ex-
porters of slave-grown sugar to the Continent, and
even to their own colonial possessions to an enormous
extent, then he was free to confess that with respect to
the propriety of making a reduction in the differential
duties it could not for a moment be supposed that, for the
interests of humanity, as well as for the protec-
tion of their own colonies, he should not be dis-
posed to entertain such a question.—(Hear, hear.)
But when he considered that in checking the progress
of the slave trade the differential duty had been utterly
without avail, when he found that the differential duty
was, without casting any, the slightest impediment, upon
that" most barbarous traffic—that it had the ' effect
of impairing the national resources of the country,
and, by enhancing the cost of some of the necessaries
of life, of imposing on the humbler classes of the
community a grievous change,—when he found that
that differential duty had not contributed to the advan-
tage of any one large portion of the community, with the
exception (they would forgive him for so saying) of some
benevolent monopolist—(Cheers from the Ministerial
benches)—whose sensibilities were not unprompted by
the pockets—(Laughter from the Ministerial Benches)—
and who, to the emotions of what he would venture to
call their interested philanthropy, found it a convenient
or easy course whenever a purpose, personal or
political, was to be promoted—when he took those various
considerations into account, he owned he was at a loss
to consider the sound motives that existed for giving
a continued sustainment to a system fraught with
multifarious evils, or of supporting the resolution
of the Noble Lord. His Hon. Friend the Member for
Finsbury (Mr. T. Duncombe) had spoken of the resolu-
tion of the Noble Lord in terms harsher than it
deserved. He said that the resolution was marked
by duplicity and hypocrisy. He (Mr. Sheil) could
not coincide with his Hon. Friend, in so far censuring
that resolution. But he. thought one might venture to
say that that resolution was conceived in a spirit of par-
tisanship. He (Mr. Sheil) could not refrain from ex-
pressing his surprise that the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Member for the Tower Hamlets (Dr. Lushington)
should have considered it consistent with his unaffected
abhorrence of slavery—if his abhorrence was unaffected
—(Ministerial cheers)—to give his support to the
Noble Lord's resolution. It did not require the forensic
and judicial sagacity of his Right Hon. Friend, for after
all it did not profess to contain any pledge against the in-
troduction of slave-grown sugar. It provided a ready re-
treat to the rear ; he should rather call them the
novel associates of his Right Honourable Friend
from the high ground of humanity which they
had so opportunely taken. And why ? The House
of Commons was not prepared—no, was not yet pre-
pared—(Ministerial cheers)—to sanction the introduc-
tion of slave-grown sugar, to give somewhat of ' an
intimation that under their (the Conservative's) happier
auspices—(Ministerial cheers)—through that prepara-
tory process, a more accommodating House of Commons
might be prevailed upon to pass a similar Bill, to that
objected to by the party opposite.—c Loud cheers.)
But again, if doubts could be entertained as to the
effect and the object of the resolution, those
doubts would be entirely removed by the speech,
the frank and candid speech, of the Noble Lord the
Member for North Lancashire, who had again and
again, with a studied reiteration, declared that
for the present a great experiment ought not to be
interfered with. But how little in accordance with
the resolution, so dexterously, so carefully—he
would not say craftily—framed was the frank, in-
genious, and in the cause of virtue, so ardent and
impassioned character of his (Mr, Sheil's) Right Hon.
Friend the Member for Tower Hamlets, who, if he were
resent, would surely forgive him (Mr. Sheil)
if he 'ventured to insinuate that in supporting
a resolution so couched he was almost as inconsistent as
certain incongruous sentimentalists, who would not allow
of the use of slave labour in a saccharine form, while
they in other ways promiscuously and unscrupulously
consumed it. He would pass from the resolution to
the great anomalies by which our commercial
system was distinguished. In the year 1840 we im-
ported upwards of twenty-eight millions pounds of cfffee,
and of that great quantity upwards of fourteen millions
pounds were the growth of slave labour. The
Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire
had observed that our colonial possessions were inade-
quate to the supply of coffee for the British market ; but
surely if the encouragement of slave labour was not to
depend on considerations of mercantile convenience
it was not from the pric,e-current their morality was to
be estimated.—(Hear.) When the duty on coffee—and
he begged the attention of the House to the fact-- when
the duty on coffee was Is. 7d. per lb., the colonies were
adequate to the supply of coffee for our consumption,
but so soon as the duty was reduced, the colonies were no
longer adequate for that purpose. It was worth while
to look into the details of the question of coffee.
In the year 1807 the duty was is. 7d. per lb., and the
quantity imported was 1,170,164 lbs., while the revenue
was only 161,245/. Now mark what followed. In the
year 1812 the duty was reduced to 7d. and the quantity
of coffee consumed rose to upwards of 8,000,0001b5. In
the year 1831 the duty was reduced to 6d., and the con-
sumption rose to 21,842,0001b5. For the year 1840 the
consumption rose to 28,000,7231b5., and the revenue
rose to to the sum of 922,000/.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
These facts appeared to him illustrative of many things.
The Noble Lord would remember that when the duty was
high the colonies were depressed, but the moment the duty
was reduced they became flourishing. Out of 28,000,000,
fourteen millions of pounds were the growth of the Brazils.
Now this was a great inconsistency, but really he
must say, that it was nothing when compared
with another, namely, the anomaly of our receiv-
ing, refining, and importing slave-grown sugar to
an enormous an
n
was imported upwards of 800,000 cwts. of
slave-frown sugar which was refined and ex-
pi.rted. Was any duty levied on it that it
might contriAute to the revamp of the country ? Not
a single sixpence was upon it. How absurd,
then, to exclude it from the home market when n duty

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HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 18.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
Mr. DUGDALE presented several petitions from
Derbyshire, against any alteration of the Corn-laws.
Mr. GREENE presented several petitions against the
New Poor-law.
Sir J. TYRELL presented a number of petitions from
Essex, against a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. WALLACE presented petitions from Notting-
hamshire, Dorsetshire, and Cambridgeshire, against the
Poor-laws.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented petitions from Sal-
ford, Manchester, and Northamptonshire, praying for a
repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. STRUTT presented a petition from Derby com-
plaining of great distress, and praying for a repeal of
the Corn-laws ; also 13 petitions from agricultural villages
in the same county, praying for the adoption of the
measures of her Majesty's Ministers and for the abolition
of the Corn-laws.
Mr. MILES presented a petition from the county of
Somerset in favour of Church Extension. -
Mr. CLAY presented a petition from Bow in favour of
the Ministerial measure for the reduction of the duties
on sugar, timber, and corn.
Mr. ROUND presented a petition from a parish in
Essex against any alteration in the Corn-laws ; also
six petitions from parishes in the same county,
praying for Church Extension.
Mr. BEAMISH presented a petition from Cork,
against any alteration in the Timber Duties.
Mr. HAWES presented several petitions, praying for
the relief of all political offenders.
Mr. WILLIAM DUNCOMBE presented a petition
from York in favour of-Church Extension.
Sir R. BATESON presented two petitions from Down
against Church Patronage in Scotland.
Mr. PACKE presented a petition from Leicester
against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. BUSFIELD presented a petition from Bradford
in favour of the Ministerial.plan for the reduction of the
duties on sugar, timber, and corn.
Mr. BLAKEMORE presented a petition from Wells
in favour of Church Extension. -
Sir F. TRENCH presented a petition from Scar-
borough against any alterations in the Corn-laws.
Mr. DARBY presented several petitions praying for
Church Extension.
Lord HILLSBOROUGH presented a petition against
any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from New-
castle-upon-Tyne, against the payment of Ministers out
of poor-rates ; also a petition from Westminster in favour
of Medical Reform ; and two petitions from
.places in
Norfolk, praying for the release of political prisoners.
Mr. KEMBLE presented petitions from places in
Suffolk and Wilts against any flirther grant to the Col-
lege of Maynooth.
The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members, here
proceeded, in obedience to the summons of the Usher of
the Black Rod, to hear the Royal Assent given to seve-
ral Bills, for which see Lords' Report.
Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from a place in
Berkshire, praying for Church Extension.
Mr. B. WOOD presented a petition from a place in
Yorkshire against Church-rates, and the jurisdiction of
Ecclesiastical Courts.
Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition from Dundee
in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws.
A petition to the same effect was presented by Mr.
EWART, from a place in Lancashire.
Colonel CONOLLY presented a petition from a place
in the county 'Tyrone, praying for a repeal of the
Church Temporalities Bill, and the restoration of the
suppressed Archbishoprics and I3ishoprics in Ireland.
Also a petition from another place in the same county,
against any further grant to the college of Maynooth.
Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from a
place in Berkshire against the Corn-laws ; 'also another
• to the same effect from a place in Wiltshire.
Mr. HUME presented petitions from the inhabitants
of Hammersmith and Brentford, praying for a free trade
in corn, and in all articles of food. Also a petition from
Brentford in favour of the Government proposal for the
reduction of duties. Also a similar petition from the
workmen in a manufactory at Bolton.
Lord ARTHUR LENNOX presented petitions from
Suffolk in favour of Church Extension.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN postponed his motion on the
subject of railways for Ireland till Thursday next.
Mr. HINDLEY gave notice that on Thursday next
he should move for a return of the number of Barristers
appointed by the Judges within the last year for the re-
vision of the Lists of Parliamentary Voters in England
and Wales, with the date of their standing at the bar.
Mr. HUME moved for an abstract of the net revenue
of the Island of Jamaica for the years 1838, 1839, and
1840, with the manner in which it had been appropri-
ated. Also, a return of the population of the island
during the last century, distinguishing the black, white,
and coloured. The Hon. Member then gave notice, that
on the third reading of the County Coroners' Bill, he
should move that the mileage be reduced from 18d, to ls.

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might be levied.—(Hear, hear.) And not only was
no duty levied, but all the expense incidental
to the bonded system was incurred. This was a great
contradiction, to which he imagined it would be difficult
to find a greater.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the
Noble Lord the Member for South Lancashire (Lord
F. Egerton), with all his powerful imagination, would
be unable to reconcile it. Perhaps the Hon. Member
for • Newcastle and the Noble Lord the Member for
North Lancashire, would volunteer a defence of
this monopoly. The admirable perspicacity of the
Noble Lord, the Member for North Lancashire,
had attempted to do so, under the influence of feelings
of partizanship, from which none of them were
exempt, and of which his last speech afforded
a remarkable instance.—(Hear, hear, hear.> Many
of these topics had been treated so ably by
those who preceded him, that he felt he was
relieved from the difficulty of attempting to follow
the Noble Lord, but there was one point to which
he would take the liberiy of adverting— (Hear,
hear)— because it was a question of fact, on
which, though he might shrink from argument, he
might, perhaps, venture to follow the Noble Lord. The
Noble Lord had adverted to a communication which he had
held with Mr. Huskisson, and he (Mr. Sheil) confessed
that he had heard the statement which the Noble Lord
had made respecting the opinions of his illustrious prede-
cessor, if not his master, with some degree of surprise.
Mr. Huskisson made two remarkable speeches in March
1830,and he foundin them language which he had not heard
in the many quotations which had been lately made
from the speeches of that illustrious man—(Hear, hear)
—and he quoted this language, not for the purpose
solely of influencing the House; but that the pub-
lic might know what were the real opinions of that man
Who stood in the foremost ground amongst the philoso-
phers of his day. The first passage was to be found in p. 541
of Hansard's Debates. He was describing the difficulties of
the country at the dine he said, " It is the greatest- folly to
shut our ey4irf,' difficulties, which, if taken in time,
may be overcome, but which by procrastination cannot be
evaded for a long dme."—(Cheers.) " This is the
greatest manufacturing and commercial nation in the
world. The raw material of our soil which we export
is next to nothing. In fact, we do not raise
sufficient for the support of oifr 'own population
without the assistance of other nations."—(Loud cheers.)
" The Corn-laws, however necessary in the present state
of the country are a burthen—(Leud cheers)—they
press upon the manufacturing producers, and
exclude them from the markets of other parts
of the world, and limit their supply of
food ; and I consider Sugar as, well as corn an ar-
ticle of food."( Cheers.) These (said Mr. Sheil)
were the words of Mr. Huskisson. In p. 576 of the same
volume he said that if the relief required by the industrious
classes were afforded them they would be disposed to
take more of the produce of the soil. But there
was a remark more important still which he made on
the 25th of March, on the motion of Mr. Poulett Thom-
son it would be found in page 555 of Hansard. He said
on that occasion that it was always his conviction that
the Corn-laws 'now in existence could not much longer
be upheld—(Cheering)—consistently with bearing the
present taxation and increasing the national prosperity
and maintaining public content —(Cheers.) Neither
had he (Mr. Huskisson), any doubt that they could be
altered without injury to the • landed interest,
but with great increase to the comforts of the people.
Compare these opinions with the representations made by
his distinguished pupil a few nights ago!—(Hear, hear.)
These were the opinions of Mr. Huskisson in 1830,
when he left the party with which the Noble Lord,
his disciple, was now united. He would pass now to
the claims of the West Indians. In a speech made on
the 11th of February last, in the island of Trinidad, by
a gentleman who held a high position (Mr. Bensley), that
gentleman, at a meeting of agriculturists, after speaking
of the right of the West Indians to be disenthralled from
all restrictions upon their trade, said he would hail with
pleasure the day when every monopoly and restriction
could, advantageously for the rest of the public, be
done away; that now that emancipation had been effected,
the agriculturists of Trinidad would be able to compete
with those of any part of the world. He (Mr. Sheil)
saw many West Indians on the other side of
the House. His chief complaint against them
was that they did not fairly state their
hardships. Their case was that we had emancipated the
slaves in 1833, and a part of the compensation was a
continuance of the duties. The case against them was this,
"We effected a ransom, the very thought of which dazzles
their imagination,and we elaim a receipt in full."—(Cheers.)
But the Noble Lord who brought in the Bill has de-
clared that he did not state it as any part of his
contract that the duties should be continued.
He had watched the speech of the Noble Lord, who
had stated himself to have been the organ of the
Whig Government . in. carrying the great measure of
slave emancipation, and no sentence had he uttered, in
no part of his speech could the slightest intimation be
found, that he had considered the continuance of the
monopoly as a part of the contract.—(Loud cheers.)
The Honourable Member for Newark had said it was.
Now whose authority were they to take ?—(Cheers.)
The Hon. Member for Newark had told them, with his
usual frankness, that the people of England, since
1833, had paid ten millions to the est Indians in con-
sequence of the monopoly.—(Che.) The Noble Lord
the Member for North Lancashire had not adverted to
that.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord had thought when
he first proposed the measure of emancipation that a
loan of fifteen millions would be a sufficientremuneration

to the West India interests, he who was now contending ih;
the monopoly ought not to be destroyed—(Cheers.)
But in a fit of unexampled generosity, a generosity, too,
be it observed, at the expense of the people—{Cheers and
laughter)—he had all at once converted the loan of fifteeen

millions into gift of twenty millions—(Cheers)—and
that without rhyme or reason.—(Cheers.) Perhaps he
was right in doing so, but he had not said one word
about the monopoly being continued as part of the contract.
The Hon. Member for Newark had fairly admitted that,
since 1833, the West Indians had received ten millions in

consequence of the monopoly, but he (Mr. Sheil) could
show that they had received a great deal more. He had
asked his Hon: Friend Mr. M‘Gregor if the Hon. Member
for Newark was right in his calculation, and Mr. M'Gre-
gor had said he was not, and that the West Indians had
received a great deal more, and, at his request, Mr.
M'Gregor had drawn up a table, from which it
appeared that the West Indians had received
19,243,4651. instead of ten millions, in consequence of the
monopoly.—(Hear, hear, from Sir A. Grant.) The Hon.
Member for Cambridge cried " Hear, hear," and appeared
surprised at the amount of benefit which had been con-

fer;ed on the West Indians. He was evidently not aware
of it. But the Hon Member for Newark knew better

—(Hear, and cheers)—and if he stated ten millions as a

profit derived from the monopoly, what reason
was there why • the Board of Trade should not

EVEN I

go further ? Thy the Board of Trade had-sshown;
that the ten millions ought to have been twenty.
They had as much right do so as the Noble Lord had
to convert a loan of fifteen millions into a gift of twenty.
He would read the table to the House if they wished it,
although he was aware that, abhorring as they did all vul-
gar things, they abhorred that vulgar thing arithmetic
the most of any.—(Cheers and laughter.) In 1834 the
quantity of sugar consumed was 4,154,4111b5., which at
6s. 2d., which was the premiums given to the West In-
dians, amounted to 1,280,9431. In 1840 the quantity
amounted 3,764,7101b5, whieh, with the differential duty
of 11. Is. 7d. gave to the West Indians an advantage of
5,192,0001.—(Cheer5.) Now the Hon. Member for New-
ark might be wrong, or the Board of Trade might be
wrong, but when that Hon. Member admitted that they
had received ten millions, he ought not to be so incre-
dulous when he (Mr. Shell) produced his figures in sup-
port of the calculations of the Board of Trade. Sup-
posing a continuance of the monopoly was part of the
contract—he was glad to see his Hon. Friend the Mem-

no masitifttetures-at present existed. , To those eiirkete
the eyes of evefy British statettuan ought to be turned,
and, above all, to the great and expanding empire of the
Brazils.—(Loud cheers.) fle was astonished that any
man speaking the language of their commercial policy,
should contest such principles. He slid not think the
Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool before his consti-
tuents wouli use such language. He did not think that
the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool would venture
to ineinuate that the renewal of the treaty with the Brazils
on favourable terme was a matter of-no aceount.—(Heer)
--"-orlf he did, god if from the hustings he looked down at
the harbour of the noble city which
,he had the ho-
nour of representing, the numberless sails which winged
their Way to that part of the western world, would show
the fallacy of his assertions.—(Loud cheers.) Was it
net plain that if the Parliament of England was unpre- -•
pared to take the produce of the Brazils, the Parliament
of the Brazils would be unprepared to take the produce
of England ; and, independently of these considerations,
without reference to the slave trade, was it not obvious'
that they might be able to accomplish Much more by ne-
gotiation and treaty than by any fiscal regulation ?
Events proved that the experiment made for the sup-
pression of the slave trade had hitherto been worthless
or unworthy ; and lie hoped he might be permitted to
say, that when England stood forward as the champion of
humanity, it was not from Custom-house regulations that
her arms ought to he supplied.---(Hear, hear.) Despite
their financial regulations, the slave trade was still in-
famously prosperous—despite their differential duties,
that monstrous system still consumed its victims, and
there was scarcely a recess on the slave coast in which
barges engaged in that atrocious commerce did not lie in
wait for captives ; and even on that ocean which English-
men were accustomed to regard as their own--even ors
that ocean, not inaptly called their " home upon the
deep," bow many a slave traversed to the scenes of his
captivity. Why, then, with that painful experience be-
fore them of the utter futility of all the expedients to
which they had resorted, not call upon the people of
England to put down that mighty evil by the only effi-
cacious means which could be adopted ? They had heard
Hon. Members expatiating on the advantages of colonial
interest, and discussing duties of 635., 325., or 245., while
they propounded resolutions for sustaining a system of mo -
nopoly by which, and they knew it, the slave-trade had not
been put down, but by which the revenues of the coun-
try were impaired, by which the fiscal difficulties of every
Ministry, whether Whin. or Tory, had increased—by
which the price of one of the necessaries of life—by
which industry was affected and the employment of the
people curtailed—by which the continuance of our com-
mercial relations with the rest of the world was endan-
gered, and by which a field of boundless enterprise WAS
closed to the British people.--(Loud cheers.)
Mr. HERRIES said that considering that the discus-
sion of the present question had lasted for so long. a
period that even the House itself was not more wearied
of its continuance than the country at laree—(Hear, hear,
from the Opposition side of the House)—which looked
fer something more from the House than long protracted
debates—which looked fur decisions rather than ex-
tended conversations ; he therefore would not on the
present occasion have troubled the House, if he had not
thought it necessary to make a few observations on the
course he was about to adopt.. He seldom asked for the
indulgence of the House, and when he did, he endea-
voured to occupy. its attention as short a time aspossible.
There was another reason why he thought it necessary
to shorten his observations as much as possible, and that
was the admirable manner in which the Noble Lord, the
Member for North Lancashire (Lord Stanley) had em-
braced in his speech almost every point which had beers
advanced on the other side, and replied to each of those
points in a manner that defied all the arguments of Hon.
Gentlemen opposite. There were, however, some points
to which his Noble Friend did not advert, and to which
he (Mr. 'lorries) wished to draw the attention of the
House, and those points related to the. origin as well as
the nature of the present question. The origin of that
question was our present financial emergencies ; and
it was for Honourable Members in the first place
to examine into those emergencies which required
the application of such remedies as were pro-
posed, and next to see how far those remedies were
calculated to effect the object for which they were in-
tended. The reason given by the Government for the
proposal of those measures was, that the public finances
were in a most deplorable condition. It was admitted.
that after five years of increasing embarrassment they
had at length got to a dead-lock.--(Hear, hear.) The
Chancellor of the Exchequer had been reminded, in the
course of that debate, that, in adverting to the prin-
ciples of Mr. Huskisson, he had forgotten to observe that
that Right Hon. Gentleman always maintained the ne-
cessity of keeping our finances in order and maintaining
a surplus revenue. The Hon. Gentleman opposite had
almost challenged a comparison between his own admi-
nistration and that of any preceding Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and had treated it as a matter of absurdity,
that any other Chancellor of the Exchequer could
have acted different to himself. But it was an im-
portant fact, that this administration was the first
in history which in a time of peace had suffered
a continued deficiency to exist in the finance of
this country.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He was astonished
that the Hon. Gentleman had not shrunk from the retro-
spect. In time of .war there were extraordinary con-
tingencies to be met, but the deficiency in this instance
was widely different from any which had existed under
any former administration ? He (Mr. Herries) would.
call the attention of the House to the history of our
finances .at antecedent periods. Between the years
1816 and 1828, when that subject was brought under
the consideration of the Finance Committee, it appeared
that the surplus arising from the - public monies and
applied to the reduction of the public debt, in
those twelve years was 3,190,000/. In the three
years which followed, 1828, 1829, and 1830, when the
finances were under the administration of his Hon. Friend
the Member for Cambridge,, there was a surplus of ten
millions. Under the administration of Earl Spencer arid
of Lord Monteagle there was a surplus of 6,700,0001.—
(Hear, hear,) That carried them up to the commence-
ment of the present administration. He would mention
that, in one year, when there had been a slight
deficiency, Lord Althorp greatly deplored the
circumstance, and provided for it in the subsequent
year. Theno came a time of commercial difficulty, and
he must say without an apology.—(Hear, hear.) There
was a deficiency of some millions under the present ad-
ministration. The greatest shifts had in consequence
been resorted to, and amongst other things the Savings'
Banks had been encroached upon--(Hear, hear)—with
the simple statement, that as the power was possessed,
though evidently not intended to be exercised, the Hon.
Gentleman would use it. The blame rested not with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 'but with the whole Go-
vernment. He charged that Government with most unjust
and flagrant administration of the finances ; the result of
it was a great national calamity. The cause of the defi-
ciency must be obvious to every one. It was the result
of a system of compromise, of attempts to obtain that
support without which the Government could not exist.
For example, a deficiency of 1,700,0001. was entirely
owing to the alteration in the Post-office.---(Hear.)
But for that measure there would have been scarcely
any deficiency.—(Hear, hear.) To meet these difficul-
ties they were called upon to go into Committee on three
measures • and these measures were •proposed 'upon
two grounds, first as measures of finance ; and secondly.
as introducing some new and beneficial principle in com-
mercial policy. With respect to the alteration in sugar
and corn, undoubtedly the principle was that they should
admit into the consumption of this eountry, a certain por-
tion of the produce of other countriea, so as to displace a.
part of the native produce used for hene consumption.
Timber and sugar, at least, were singuisrly ill chosen
for the reduction. The Noble Lord oppoeite had ac-
knowledged that he had received an intimation from the
Governor of Canada, stating that the measure would em- •
barress him in settling the Canadian Gol'erriment. If
that were so, it was a sufficient reason for rejecting
it. 'But. the question they were called upon then to
decide was that of sugar.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
The objection taken, and properly taken, as to going'
into Committee at all, appeared to him of such import-'
ante, that he, for one, was convinced of the validity. of
the objection, and was prepared to give a vote against
going into Committee. The objection on principle was
this, that they were about to make a change of those
duties, whereby they would either do nothing, or admit:
into the •consumption of this country the produce of
another. He thought, if the present proposition was
carried into effect, it would put to' hazard the great ex-
periments which had been set on foot in the emancipa
tion of the slaves. Upon this point the House laadabtlee-
ceived so much testimony from those who were s
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and pressing upon the House some of the m
grounds which made it the duty
of the
any measure
House to abstain from adopting thrimefrtaoilelnfrteotrulfionsrcttao‘tiihtniligese:
description of the one now
state of the case with respect to the test India
slaves'Colo-
was
? Why air
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nics and the emancipation of t
those who were best able to speak upon
all the documents and reports, together with the
amlloestondeeueririlesd- inintetrhesiedthiant
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made was working sac-
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was said that it was a matter of doubt at present
whether that free labour established in the colonies of
ccoesusiiivtreyji, had that
ai
this country would be enabled to prophdthueicsceha sufficient
quantity of !he staple articles of those colonies for
the consumption of the country. That was the whole
question.---TeehariLdWbheeenn hme.ll,eonokuedpoton
would
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beyond alt
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subject,ara c ter and
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t,ific,ifi.oula,aemitills'edtteihy°letnihioritss 'fu-obttumthilexperimenttdeoysctaolshn
pe s pending, they might expect
wouldwas be realised, and that there
would be a successful termination of all their endeavours-
A gentleman who had visited these colonies lately had
given testimony upon this subject. That testimony had
been adverted to by the Hon. Member for the Tower
Hamlets, and, as he considered it well worthy the atten-
tion of the House, he would read it. The Right Hon.
Gentleman then read the opinion of Mr. Gurney, which
was favourable to the maintenance of prohibitory duties
on foreign grown sugar, while, at theiganie time, he ad-
mitted that the high prices of that' commodity was
a great detriment to the people of this country.
The Right Hon. Gentleman also read the opinion
of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, which was to the -same
effect. These were the fundamental grounds of objec-
tion upon which lie felt disposed to object to this mea-
sure. He thought the proposition that had emanated
from her Majesty's Ministers was ill placed at a time
like the preset when they had such prospects in the
West Indian conlonies. He thought that the chalice of
the noble experiment, to which he had alluded: being
successful, was a sufficient ground to induce the Houle
to pause before it sanctioned going into Committee upon
the propositions that had been submitted to, if by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Cherwell:sr of the
Excbequer bawl said that it was pi-el-Able that the West
Wiz; coloniert cotultry would Rodute mory thn

ber for Beverley,— who was an East India Director, in
his place—(Laughter)----supposing a continuance of the
monopoly was part of the contract, what would the
East Indians say ?—(Cheers.) When the equalization of
the duties on East and West India sugar was under dis-
cussion, he recollected the eloquence of his Hon.
Friend. It was then stated that the West India sugar
was the produce of slave-labour, while the East India
sugar was the produce of dates. He recollected the
scorn with which his Hon. Friend the Member for
Beverley treated the proposition. But now that they
had got the privileges themselves, now that they were
embraced in the monopoly, they turned round and formed
a confederacy with the West India proprietors, and expa-
tiated upon maintaining colonial produce. They thought
little of the enormous sacrifice he had proved to them
had taken place.—(Hear.) The resolutions spoke of
sacrifices, and the resolution of the Noble Lord, the
Member for Liverpool, spoke of sacrifices also. When
the recruiting of the revenue was the subject to be con-
sidered, then it was that endeavours were made to keep
up iii position, such conduct would be a proceeding far
greater than reducing the price upon sugar, by which
means it would be brought into consumption, and
thereby increase the revenue. If, from a reduction
of the duty on coffee, such consequences followed
as he had adverted to, did it not follow that the

reduction on sugar, which was an ingredient so
much used in coffee, the same results would follow.
And mark ! independently of the great advantages they
conferred upon the great mass of community, they, in
the first place, cheapened one of the first necessaries of
life, and in the next place, it was obvious that if they
took more of the produce of other countries, other coun-
tries would take more of the produce of theirs. Thus
the manufactures of the country had extended, and to
that extent the operatives must be relieved.—(Cheers.)
He had heard with great pain the description given by
his Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury of the state
of the operatives of the country. To their sufferings
Hon. Members opposite were everywhere, he hoped, at
the hustings, lie was sure, most deeply alive,—(Hear,
and a laugh)—but when the means of alleviation—the
obvious means of alleviation—were offered to them—
(Loud cheers)—they sacrificed the interests of those
classes for whom so much commiseration was expressed,
and he was willing to believe that if they continued to
adhere to their new system of commercial policy,
consequences the most. disastrous and serious must
be entailed upon that country.—(Hear, and cheers.)
They were met upon the Continent by prohibitory tariffs,
and no wonder. All their discoveries in machinery, the
finest, the most vast, and the most powerful, of which th
were once in the exclusive enjoyment, were now known e:
to, and in operation by, their foreign competitors.
present propoki.tion opened to them Aviv markets whet,
.