The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Leinin-
gen, and attended by Lady Caroline Cocks, took an air-
ing yesterday afernoon in an open barouche and four.
Lord Alfred Paget attended her Majesty on horseback.
Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningen rode out on
horseback at the same time, attended by Colonel Wylde
and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince
Albert yesterday, and remained to lunch. Viscount
Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences, yesterday, of
her Majesty. The Princess Royal was taken an airing,
yesterday, in a barouche and four.
The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace, last
evening, included the Earl of Erroll, Earl of Morley,
Lord Portman, and the Right Hon. George Stevens
Byng.

Poltimore and the Hon. William Cowper have
succeeded the Earl of Listowel and Frederick Stovin, as
the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. Baxter by inspecting his
specimens of oil-coloured printing, representing the
closing scenes of the lamented Missionary, the Rev. John
Williams, which were presented by the Countess of
Mount Edgecombe.
The Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday,
from her residence on Blackheath. Her Royal High-
ness, attended by Lady Alicia Gordon, did Mr. Hayter
the honor to sit to him to be painted in the picture of
her Majesty's Marriage.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince and
Princess of Leiningen, and attended by Lady Anne
Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honored the
Italian Opera with her presence last evening. Baroness
Spaeth was in waiting on the Princess of Leiningen.
The Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Charlotte
Hudson and the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, took an airing
yesterday in an open pony-phaeton and four.
The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and
the Duke of Sussex, visited the Queen Dowager yesterday
at Marlborough House.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens,
left Cambridge House at seven o'clock yesterday morning
for Dover.

A deputation of the Flint Glass Manufacturers of the
United Kingdom, consisting of Mr. Scholefield, M.P.,
Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Oswald, M.P., Mr. Benjamin
Wood, M.P., Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., John Christy,
and Apsley Pellatt had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street, relative
to the Excise Duty upon Glass Manufacture.
Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd (late Colombian Engineers)
transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-office pre-
vious to resuming the duties of. her Majesty's Surveyor-
General of Crown Lands, and Engineer-in-Chief for
Mauritius.

The Spanish Minister and Mr. John Abel Smith had
interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Down-
ing-street.
The Earl of Belfast, Mr. Noel, and Mr. Kennedy, had
interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at
the Home-office.

Lord Lyttleton and Lieut.-Colonel Doherty had inter.
views yesterday with Lord. John Russell at the Colonial

office.

Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Thomas Attwood had an in-
terview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in Down.
ing-street.
Despatches from the Governor of Ceylon were re•
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.

TUESDAY.-$Ol. • for three yrs old, 6st 21b; four yrs, Bst ;
five yrs, Bst 711;; six yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. T.M.M. The
winner to be sold for 2001., &c.
Duke of Portland's Ramadan, 4 yrs Nat 0 1

Mr. Beresford's Audrey, 3 yrs
Mr. W. Ridsdale's Yaratilda, 3 yrs .
Duke of Bedford's Joujou, 3 yrs
Betting-2 to 1 agst Ramadan, and 2to 1 aglst Au rey
After the dead heat, 6to 4 on Ramadan, who won in a canter
501. ; for three yrs old colts, Sat 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. R.lll
Duke of Bedford's Taurida, by Taurus Robinson ]

0 2

Mr. Thornhill's St. Colomb •
Duke of Grafton's Nick .
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
Bradford's Vigilance, Lord Orford's Bettina, Colonel Peel's
Hawk's-eye, Colonel Anson's Witrh of Whorley Hill, and Mr.
Crockford's c. by Bentley, out of Emma.
Betting-6 to 5 agst Nick, sto 1 agst Hawk's-eye, and 5
to 1 agst Taurida. Won by a length.
Match, 100/.. h. ft.—Duke of Bedford's John O'Gaunt,
3 yrs, 7stslb, received 35 sous. forfeit from Lord Exeter's Bos-
phorus, 5 yrs, Bst. tOlb.

THE LIBRARY AT Touu.s.—There is a pub-
lie library, consisting of thirty thousand volumes, at
Tours ; and I have frequently heard the advanced state
of. the public mind in France attributed to the exist-
ence of such in most of the provincial towns. Now,
as the old monastic authors of these thousand volumes
—the pillage of the monasteries, certainly—poor men,
did not write with any intention of producing the total
demoralization that is now uncivilizing the country,
which, with fatal fatuity, proudly points to the spread-
ing cancer as the proof of its progress, I think it but
fair to their memory to let it be understood how much
they have, in Tours at least, had to do with it. Be
it known, then, that all the influence which these
thirty thousand tomes have exercised on the public
mind in Tours, has been accomplished in the space of
two hours per week, as they are most safely and inno-
cently sleeping on their shelves, under lock and key,
during the remainder of their lives.—Trollope's Summer
in Western France.

GRAND BALL AT THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.
—On-Monday Baroness Brunow, the lady of his Excellency the
Russian Minister, gave a splendid ball at Ashburnham House
to upwards of 400 of the leading nobility and gentry in town.
The fete was on a scale of unusual splendour, and may be con-
sidered one of the most delightful entertaioments of the season.
His Royal Hignness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Major Stephens, arrived at half-past eleven, and was received
in the vestibule by his Excellency. His Royal Highness re-
tired at ten minutes to one.
NEW SPECIES OF CLOVER.—As an addition
to our spring food, a new species of clover has lately
been introduced from Italy into the. agriculture of this
country. It is called " trifolium incarnatuna," and bears
a beautiful head of bright and red flowers, resembling
sainfoin in colour. It requires a good soil, and the mode
of cultivating it hitherto pursued has been, to plough up
a wheat stubble immediately after harvest, and so the
seed at the rate of eight pounds an acre. It produces a
large burden, which comes to use at the commencement
of the following May, a period when such a supply of
green food must be of incalculable value, and which will
admit of ttuvips following in succession.—lpswich Ex-
press.
MORE " CHURCII-RATE " VICTIMS
Wednesday last citations from the Court of "Charles James,
by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of London, were served
.upon seven inhabitants of Hackney, at the suit of the Church.
wardens, for the recovery of " divers sums of money" levied
on
tbe- said inhabitants for the support of the Established Church!

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MORNING EDITION.

NEGRO EMANCIPATION.

The intense interest felt in the negro emanci-
pation question through the United States ren-
ders the opinion of its observant philanthropists
well deserving of attention from British Aboli-
tionists. The part taken by the eloquent Dr.
Charming is well known. From a tract, by him,
entitled Emancipation," published at Boston,
U.S., in November last, we take the following
remarks, occasioned by Mr. J. Gurney's " Let-'
ters" '

"V 4 hat matters it that the staples of the West Indies are
diminished ? Do the people there starve? Are they driven
by want to robbery? Has the negro passed from the hands
of the overseer into those of the hangman? We learn from
Mr. Gurney that the prophecies of ruin to the West Indies
are fulfilled chiefly in regard to the prisons. These are
in some places falling to decay, and everywhere have fewer
inmates. And what makes this result more striking is, that
since emancipation, many offences formerly punished sum-
marily by the master on the plantation, now fall under the
cognizance of the Magistrate, and are, of course, punishable by
imprisonment. Do the freed slaves want clothing ? Do rags
form the standard of emancipation ? We hear not only of
decent apparel, but are told that regro vanity, bardlysurpassed
by that of the white dandy, suffers nothing for want of de-
coration or fashionable attire. There is not a sign that the
people fare the worst for freedom. Enough is produced
to give subsistence to an improved and cheerful population ;
and what more can we desire ? In our sympathy with
the rich proprietor, shall we complain of a change which
has secured to every matt his rights, and to thou-
sands, once trodden under foot, the comforts of life and the
means of intellectual and moral progress ? Is it nothing that
the old unfurnished hut of the slave is in many spots giving
place to the comfortable cottage ? Is it nothing that in these
cottages marriage is an indissoluble tie ?—that the mother
presses her child to her heart as indeed her own? Is it nothing
that churches are springing up, not from the donations of the
opulent, but from the hard earnings of the religious poor 1
What if a few owners of suaar estates export less than for-
merly ? Are the many alwags to be sacrificed to the few ?
Suppose the luxuries of the splendid mansion to be retrenched.
Is it no compensation that the comforts of the labourer's
hut are increased? Emancipation was resisted on the ground
that the slave, if restored to his rights, would fall into
idleness and vagrancy, and even relapse into barbarism. Bet
the emancipated negro discovers no indifference to the comforts
of civilized life. He has wants various enough to keep him
in action. His standard of living has risen. He desires a
better lodging, dress, and food. He has begun, too, to thirst
for accumulation. As Mr. Gurney says, "he understands his
interests as well as a Yankee." He is more likely to fall into
the civilized man's cupidity than into the sloth and filth of
savage: Is it an offset for all these benefits that the Custom-
house reports a diminution of the staples of slavery ?
" What a country most needs is, not an increase of its ex.-
ports, but the well-being of all classes of its population, and
especially of the most numerous class ; and these things are not
one and the same. It is a striking fact, that while the exports
of the emancipated islands have decreased, the imports are
greater than before. In Jamaica, duriug slavery, the industry
of the labourers was given chiefly to a staple, which was sent to
absentee proprietors, who expended the proceeds very much in
a luxurious lite in England. At present not a little of this in-
dustry is employed on articles of subsistence and comfort for the
working class and their families ; and, at the same lime, such
an amount of labour is sold by this class to the planter, and so
fast are they acquiring a taste for better modes of living, that
they need and can pay for great impoi is from the mother coun-
try. Surely,' when we see the fruits of industry diffusing
themselves more and more through the mass of the community,
finding their way to the very hovel, and raising the multitude
of men to new civilization and self-respect, we cannot grieve
much, even though it should appear that on the whole the
amount of exports or even of products is decreased."

THE GHOST OF JUVENAL-STREET.—For
some time past, more especially for the last ten days,
much annoyance has been occasioned to the inhabitants
of Juvenal-street, and the neighbourhood, owing to the
immense crowds of persons who nightly assemble there
in consequence of a rumour that " some phantom of the
other world" is in the habit of paying his or her (for the
sex is doubtful) nocturnal visits to the 'house of a re-
spectable gentleman residing at No. 2, Juvenal-street.
Several respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood
have assured us that most unusual noises are frequently
heard in the house alluded to, although they smile at the
idea of these noises being occasioned by supernatural
agencies. A lady residing near, a person of education,
and not likely to have her fancy led astray by a belief in
supernatural beings, told us that the nuisance occasioned
by the ringing of bells in the house, without apparently
anything to account for seutin them in motion, became
so great, not only to the inhabitants of the house, but to
the neighbours, that it was deemed necessary to take
them all down, and they remain unhung at the present
time. This unusual occurrence commenced about three
months ago. After the bells were taken down, a greater
nuisance occurred, owing to an unusal and unaccount-
able noise being heard at intervals in the house, occa-
sioned by the sudden and simultaneous bursting open
and banging to of the doors of the different rooms. No
later than yesterday at noon, so great was the noise
thus occasioned, that it might have been heard a hun
dred yards off, and the vibration was such as to cause
the house to shake to such a degree as to attract the at-
tention of the police-officers (who have for some time
been appointed to parade before the house), and persons
in the street. These statements we had confirmed by
several of the neighbours, and they may be depended
upon as facts, let what will occasion the effects named.
The police and others have investigated the matter, but
no clue has yet been obtained to account for the unusual
occurrence.—Liverpool Journal.

The survey of the western provinces of India
seems to have been nearly completed, and the definition
of agricultural rights and boundaries, which was in-
cluded, in the, work, has proved of great benefit in re-
moving a fruitful source of litigation, as well as violence,
and has, in consequence, greatly enhanced the value of
landed property. The extension of this survey to tha
Benares district appears to have been a recent enlarge-
ment of the original plan. After the portion of the
Azinghur district, which is beyond Benares, had been
surveyed, and the revenue had been settled, the collec-
tor proposed to the Government that they should con-
tinue the survey to Pergunnah of Secunderpore, not to
make a new settlement of the revenue, but to obtain a
clear definition of rights and boundaries. The desired
survey was effected, and the benefits that resulted were
so obvious, that the western provinces solicited an ex-
tension of the plan to the whole of Benares. Lord
Auckland readily sanctioned the scheme, which, after a
few interruptions, arising from the disapproval of parties
at home, and the loss of some money, has been allowed
to proceed, and is expected shortly to be completed.
VACCINATION.—A Bill has been introduced

into the Commons to amend an " Act to extend the practice
of Vaccination." No express provision having been made in
that Act to defray the expenses of carrying the same into exe-
cution, the Bill authorises the Guardians to defray these out of
the poor-rate, and at the same time declares that the vaccina-
tion or the surgical or medical assistance incident to vaccination
of any person resident in any union or parish, shall not be cun-
sidered parochial relief.

The large steamer which was seen on thll 10th
of April in lat. 13 north, lon. 23 west, steering north-west, is
supposed to have been the Earl of Hardwicke, arrived in the
Downs from Calcutta, which vessel is fitted up. as a steamer,
but usually uses canvas. She would have been in this track.
SOURCE OF THE WEALTH OF THE PRIEST-
HOOD AND THE ARISTOCRACY.—(From a Correspond-
dent.)—Another source of plunder should not be forgot-
ten, namely, the various funds left by our pious ancestors
for the education of the poor. The Tories contrived in
numerous cases to get possession of these funds and ap-
ply them to electioneering purposes, or as sinecures for
active parliamentary canvassers in their interest. The
Commission on Public Charities brought many infamous
acts of this kind to light, and there are many interesting
facts named in Lord Brougham's letter to the late Sir
Samuel Romilly, published in the "Pamphleteer" for
1817 or 1818, and in his speech in the House of Com-
mons, 29th June, 1820, published in the 16th volume of
the "Pamphleteer."
A very Babel has been created in both Houses
of the Legislature by the word of fear pronounced by
Lord John Russell ; and if there be among the Free
Trade agitators any men who know what they would be
at, and possess courage and energy to put it in act, they
may say of our legislators as Cromwell said of the Scots
at Dunbar, " The Lord hath delivered them into my
hand."—Spectator.
Ass-To RYlSM.—People-are poor because the
corn is taxed. The landlords tax the corn for their own
benefit. Therefore—The landlords work the poor like
beasts of burden. Again :—They who tax the poor,
and make beasts of burden of them for their own benefit,
must be selfish brutes indeed. The landlords do this :
therefore, the landlords are selfish brutes indeed.
ing Paper. —Even-
DELICATE APPETITE.—The Lady Beatrix,
says the legend, was a great gourmette in her way.
She was, as people often profess themselves to bet
" fond of children." She liked them newly born, and
dressed simply—on the gridiron ; and she had a cook
whose broiled babes were chef d'oeuvres of the then infant
not so plentiful as new-laid eggs ;an
art of cookery. But new-born infandtstbareeladfoyrtoufnaTtealhy
" checic on po-
pulation."
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pmuolnatti'son.da"ilyUdigieorneacoetedcaseisona
3., 4f a fine boyiaclt only
child to be had for love or mone
the cook's wife became the motheriH s coredit„ his
wanted half an hour to dinner.
and cook, gg in
his bosom, between the father
. the edge of his
perhaps, his characterd
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she:ynleticreai:ea.i.
professionally,initsenlimdobuss.he stood feeling
th , and casting a side
glance,
long knife
withH el ohk,es
from time to time, at the gri •
ture triumphed over art, and the cook yielded to the fa-
ther. Dashing his white cap from his brow, he rushed
into the presence of his hungry mistress, and spoke to
her so eloquently of the impropriety of indulging, as
she did, in the pleasures of the table, that she not only,
with noble self-denial, renounced for the future the fa-
vourite luxury to which she was so partial, but deter-
mined
to expiate her past dinners by
walking barefoot on
thorns from Talmont to Fonte ll T 1 '
ne e.— rol ope s Summer
in Western France.

Progress is the nature of man in society, and
men will not willingly submit to unnatural restraints upon
their advancement.--A Tory Advocate of Corn-laws and
other monopolies.

A moat brutal case occurred last week,- between
Worcester and Hereford, in the night time. A fothale
passenger in a waggon was suddenly missed, but in
sh9r,t, time returned. In the interval, she had delivered
herself of a child, which she left by the roadside to pe-
rish. Some hours afterwards 'another waggon passed,
anal the waggoner's dog having observed the poor babe,
which was still alive, stood over it whining and barking
till it attracted the attention of the man. The man
No ! the brute ! For the unfeeling wretch, less humane
than his dog, left the naked infant to perish. He passed
several cottages, yet gave no alarm nor mentioned the
circumstance he came to a turnpike-gate ; and thq
toll-collector, with kindred brutality, made no effort to
save the pOor child's life.. The dead body was picked up
by a publican on the following morning. The mother has
been apprehended and committed for trial.

MORNING EDITION
SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERPAY.
TIMES.—It amuses us much to find ourselves accused of a
" profligate and unblushing abandonment of principle," be-
cause we will not help the Ministerial prints to get up a "great
crisis" for the purpose of keeping their masters in office. It is
stated, and with perfect truth, that in numerous articles, of
recent as well as of remoter date, we have remonstrated with
Ministers for not carryince out with more consistency and
rigour " the able policy of Mr. Huskisson ;" that we have
said, " the good sense of the House of Commons and the coun-
try" would support a Government which acted in the spirit of
that poliey ; that we have appealed to experience as furnishing
" repeated proofs that the grand interests of our commerce
would not be converted by the principal Members of the
Opposition into weapons of offence ;" that we have re-
commended an "extension of the bases of taxation by en-
larging and relieving the class of consumers ," and a more ex-
act and equitable adjustment of protective duties, as the most
advantageous methods of providing for the exigencies of the
public service; and that we have urged the reduction of the
duties upon colonial produce. Undoubtedly, we have ad-
vanced all these positions, and, much as it may disappoint the
crisis-mongers to hear us say so, we wholly deny that we have
ever retracted or abandoned any of them; we see no reason for
abandoning them, and we shall not abandon them till further
enlightened upon the subject. Where, then, is our incon-
sistency ? Does approbation of Mr. Huskinson's principles of
necessity convict us to be the supporters of every mea-
sure which Mr. F. T. Baring may profess to found upon
them ? Does an equitable adjustment of protective duties,
does the repeal of onerous and unprofitable restrictions, in-
volve the sweeping immolation of every protected interest,
without regard to the collateral considerations of philanthropy,
policy, or justice ? Does a demand for a reduction of the duties
upon colonial produce imply partiality for a tariff which ac-
tually raises some of those duties, while it lowers those upon
foreign produce of the same description ? Does a convic-
tion that " the grand interests of our commerce will never
be converted by the Opposition into weapons of offence"
preclude us from feeling and expressing indignation
when we see them so abused by a profligate and desperate
Ministry ? Does a recommendation of measures which
the good sense of the House of Commons and the
country would support, pledge us to measures intended
to " stir society to its foundation," and array contending
classes against each other with deadly feelings of animosity and
bitterness ? We laugh the foolish fallacy to scorn. The
genuine principles of Mr. Huskisson, which we have ever ad-
vocated as just, comprehensive, and liberal, are held as much
by the Conservative Statesmen who repudiate the Baring Bud-
get, as by the Whigs who fabricated that rash and revolution-
ary measure. Mr. Huskisson was no Whig, but a Tory ; Sir
Robert Peel was his colleague in office ; and, as Mr. Herries
informed the country in the recent debate upon colonial duties,
" Sir Robert Peel and every other colleague of Mr. Huskisson
gave their cordial concurrence in all those measures which Mr.
Huskisson, in concert with them, proposed." He added (and the
accuracy of the statement was admitted by Lord John Rus-
sell himself), that it was the principle of Mr. Huskisson "to
relieve our commerce from all those shackles that could pos-
sibly be dispensed with, but to preserve those duties, which
were requisite for protection." "If that," continued Mr.
Herries, " were the case, the only object on both sides of the
House must be to discover the point at which protection
ought to be maintained the object of all parties was
to reduce protection to the lowest point. If the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) 'proceeded upon that princi-
ple, and he trusted he would, he might be assured of re-
ceiving as hearty support from that (the Opposition) side of
the House as from the other, as nothing could be more in
conformity with those who trod in the steps of
Mr. Huskisson." This was our warrant for say-
ing that the interests of commerce would never be converted
by the Opposition into weapons of offence, and we have no
doubt the Opposition will ever remain faithful to these views.
It is the Ministry which has deserted them, by throwing over-
board the principle of effectual protection altogether. But
the leading grounds on which we have felt it our duty to pro-
test against the Ministerial budget are, like that budget itself,
political, and not commercial. For the first time in the history
of this country, a Government without a majority in
either House of Parliament, without a party in the
nation, on the day after a critical defeat, when
constitutional precedents pointed out resignation as
the only possible course, came down to Parlia-
ment with a measure of finance, involving momentous changes,
compromising vast interests, and calculated to excite a most vio-
lent conflict of opinion. This they did, with a deficiency in the
revenue of 2,500,0001. to be provided for, and with their eyes
open to the certainty that such a proposition could never be
carried, without a revolutionary agitation. In any other
days, Statesmen who dared to adopt so desperate a course,
would, even in the judgment of those who assented to their
financial views, have been deemed worthy of impeachment.
A Minister who does not possess the confidence of the House
of Commons has no right to meddle with the revenue questions
till he has exchanged the Treasury for the Opposition benches.

ADVERTISER.—The West India interest, which defied
Pitt at the height of his power, and defeated his attempt to
abolish the slave trade, now threaten to obstruct the greatest
scheme of Reform that has ever been offered to the people,
by means of an unnatural allianse with the friends of neg,ro
emancipation. The plea which they have found potent enough
to reconcile these extremes, and to augment their party,
which could not muster a dozen votes on what they considered
the vital question, of the equalization of the rum duties, by
the formidable addition of the abolitionists, has been the en-
couragement of slavery, which the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's measure is alleged to involve. It would provoke a sar-
donic smile to hear of these professions, were it not for the
melancholy reflection, that whenever the mantle of philanthropy
is ostentatiously thrown over any proceeding, we are sure to find
an interested motive lurking beneath. The common sense of the
country will be upon its guard against the exaggerated humanity
of those who, in order that a few monopolists may tax the people
five millions annually, under the pretext of benefiting thenegro,
would, like Old Foulon, condemn the people " to eat grass."
These are the parties whom the Tories now count upon for de-
feating the Ministry—men whom the Times the other day held
up to the contempt of the country as " self-perfumed cox-
combs.' who overlooked the privations of our own people, to
fix their affections upon " negro cherubs." In the first place,
let us analyse this West India interest, which assumes to
itself an identity with the fate and fortune of our colonial
population, and imposes upon the nation its opinions as
representing those of the negroes. The very first act of
emancipation proved the great regard which this handful of
monopolists really felt for the resident inhabitants of the West
Indies. By the powerful and central interests of this body,
who could have acted with such force upon the Government
of the day, they managed that the whole of the twenty mil-
lions went into their own pockets as mortgagees, while the
entire risk and loss of the experiment were shifted upon the
shoulders of the resident proprietors and inhabitants of the
colonies. According to the strict letter of the law these rights
claimed a priority, but in equity they should have borne a pro-
portion of the risk ; and the compensation should have been di-
vided between the planter and mortgagee in the proportion
of their separate interests in the estate, valuing it at its
full amount. What claim they can now have to levy a
tax of five millions upon the consumers of their produce, it is
as difficult to perceive as would be a parallel on by the pro-
prietors of the islands and coasts of Scotland for compensation
for their kelp. The high prices which have followed eman-
cipation have more than compensated all the mortgagees, so
that few of those capitalists have any investments in the West
Indies, or any ties except those of the estates. That portion
which consists of bona fide proprietors are in the situation of
our English non-resident landlords living upon the rents paid
by monopolist prices. But the vast body of peasantry protest
to a man against the system. They cannot be brought to
count the welfare of the West Indies by the number of
hogsheads of sugar exported, nor to conceive that their salva-
tion depends upon working a stated number of cane-holes per
clay. They find other means of subsistence which make them
. happier, and the humane and enlightened sentiments expressed
by Lord John Russell, in his despatch to Governor Light, of
Demerara, that an advance in civilization and Christianity was
an object of far higher import to her Majesty's government
than any quantity of produce raised by a system of forced la-
bour, fmd a deep and grateful echo in their breasts.
Dr. Lushing,ton may depend upon it that what-
ever relaxes the forced cultivation of sugar in our
colonies will serve as an additional spur to the moral
improvement of the population. The body calling themselves
the West India interest are not an unanimous body. Different
islands have different interests. There is a party in the West
Indies, composed of the whole black population, and a portion
of the white, who will rejoice at a system of perfect free
trade. At a meeting of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad
last February. the Hon. William Burnley, in the chair, the
most unbounded reliance on their own resources, through the
superiority of free labour was expressed; calls were made upon
the Government to proceed with carrying out the principle of free
trade, and a firm and ardent conviction was entertained of their
ultimately surpassing not only all the slave colonies and the
Brazils, but even India herself, in the cheap production of
sugar. A comparison was drawn of the probable resourcea of
the valley of the Ganges, upon which the East Indians rely
for supplying the whole world, if necessary, and those of the
island of Trinidad :—" In the province of Benares, the most
favourable to the growth of sugar in the valley of the Ganges,
tha cultivator takes off only a plant cane, and never attempts to
ratoon ; and then an interval of three or four years elapses, be-
fore the same :and can again be planted in canes. No sugar
crop can at any time be produced but by an artificial system of
irrigation, where the fertilizing element is not supplied without
labour from a public reservoir, into which some mighty stream
has poured its fluid treasure, but from wells in each field
whence it is drawn by oxen, and not unfrequently by manual
labour. It is impossible, gentlemen, for India, under these
circumstances, to compete with us whose fields are regularly
fertilised by the showers of heaven, and produce annually crop
• after crop without replanting, so that although forty years have
elapsed since the capture of the colony, we have still to find.
. otit in some districts when their productive powers will be ex-
}twisted. Against this competition they can never stand, even
if labour were really cheap in India ; for you may set it down
as an axiom. (excepting only the complex and artificial state
of the population
in Great Britain), that wherever labour is
low in price, it is bad and ultimately dear."
CHRONICLE--Were the West Indio within petitioning
distance of the House of Commons during the pending dis-
cussions on the Sugar Duties, there can be little doubt on which
side of the question the emancipated negroes would appeal to
the Legislature. Their interests are obviously and distinctly
opposed to the views advocated by Dr. Lushington and the
iOn this instance falsely called) Anti-Slavery Committee.
The petition lately presented from Antigua (having been got
IV in anticipation) by the Learned Doctor, was not a negroes'
petition. He appeared, on his own account we hope for the
first time and the last, in the character of the planters' ad-
v'neate instead of that of the negroes' friend. A sugar
140nopoly is not less injurious in its tendency towards ,
freed negroes than , towards the English labourer. The
Planters who aim at an artificial sugar monopoly, and whom the
abolitionists of this country are invited to support in that claim,
are themselves importers of slave sugar. The sugar comes
here from Brazil or Cuba, is refined in bond, and then goes out,
the cheap purchase and relished enjoyment of these new clients
of Dr. Lushington and the Anti-
Slavery Committee. They
Gant on this consistent traffic while selling us their own coarser
Troduct at a price enhanced by the prOtective duty. This
the system
means of the which some parties hope to uphold by
Perverted moral power of the antis Slavery people of this country. Let the boni4 Aboli-
tiontists look well at what is ;loin in their names. Can
submi to be juggled into the toils of this sordid hypo-
andcrisy? The planters are paid ; what have
freed their slavets,
they consume slave sngar; the 2,kbolitionists o
do with them but to hold them to their b If imported
sugar be cheaper for the whites in tahreVes. t Indies, it is
cheaper for the blacks also. And the negros, generally speak-
ing, would rather buy it than cultivate it.y hate the
cane-field; they live well without its horrible toil. It was
Worse to them than the worst evils of our factory ystera-
Their women and children laboured there, under the lashs- No
and useful
the women, no longer degraded and polluted, are happy
in their home duties and enjoyments; and the chi dren are at
School. The work of mental and moral improvement is ro..
gressin,g. Their habitations nre no longer wretched hovels,
hot decent houses. The effects of a better quality of food
produce its natural result on their appearance. And in cloth-,
stilt, they are beeoming fastidious and comparatively costly.
They eau afford it. The general condition of the nezro popu..
lation is such as may well be an object of astonishment and
envy to the working classes of this country. In the name
of humanity, let the professed Abolitionists pause before they lend themselves to the interruption of this blessed progressfor
the Welk of the sugar- monopolists. -The speculation of the
Vizalters, and of their friends here, is that by' injur-
ing tip ioouring dam it home, and Win the. en.