The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-07 00:00:00

TEI E SUN, LONDON. FRID A Y, MAY 7,18 a.

Major Todd was soon on his way to Ghirrisk. It appears
that the Persians amounted to 45,000 men, and that on
their arrival at Herat they coalesced with the troops of
Kamran Shah. and tra,ched on whir the avowed purpose
of attacking Candahar. A report is current that Yar
Mahomad, the Minister of Kamran, by whose counsels that
Prince has ever been governed, has usurped the supreme
power, and is committing the most horrible cruelties on
those who entertain views unfavourable to his pretensions.
The greatest excitement is caused by this Persian inva-
sion. Expresses have been sent to Shah Sooj .h and Sir
William AltN,igh:eo, who are both at Jellelabad, and it is
expected they will wake their appearance at Cahoot with-
out delay. Letten from Sbah Soojah have, it is believed,
been intercepted, which are full of intrigue, and do not
place the conduct of his Afghan Majesty in the most fa-
vourable light. The ex-chiefs are urging the people to
rise, join the Herattccs, and expel Shah Soojab, and some
of the tribes are already in arms. Depatches have been
transmitted to Cabool and Scinde for European regiments,
battering-guns, and all the troops which can be spared.
They seem to have reached Scindc, as the following forces
have been directed to keep in readiness to march beyond
the Bolan Pass :

rupee is now, the current rate. The Company's advances
on goods at 2s. per rupee are being freely availed of. On
China, 208 rs. per 100 dollars on Bengal. The last Go-
vernment sale of five lacks of rupees went at 88 rs. and 5
annas per 100 Company's rupees.
LATEST DATES. _From London, Feb. 4; from China,
Feb. 11, to Marital, per her Majesty's ship Larne.

PROMOTION OF CAPTAIN BROWN.—This highly deserv-
ing officer has been promoted to the brevet rank of M4jor,
as a reward for his gallant defence of the fortress of Khan.
An official notilicalion has been published, speaking in the
highest terms of Captain Brown and his detachment, and
directing that the word " Khan" shall be inscribed on,tbe
colours. and borne on the appointments of the sth Regi-
ment N. 1.

OVERLAND MAILS TWICE A MONTH.—It is believed hero
that the Government of India has determined to apply to
the Court of Directors for the transmission of the overland
packets twice a month. The benefits derivable from the
adoption of such an arrangement are so evident that any
observation %male be superfluous.
DANISH SETTLEMENTS.—The Government of Denmark
is about to dispose of is East India settlements, which it
is expected will, in consequence, fall into the hands of the
East India Company. They consist of Seramporc, in
Bengal, and Tranquebar in the southern Carnatic, and
are both small and unimportant colonies, the management
of which has latterly been very unprofitable and trouble-
some to the Danish Crown.
PURCHASE OF THE INDIA STEAMER —The India has
been bought by the Bengal Precursor Steam Company,
for 40,0001 , and will he nut on the Suez passage in June.

Ist Troop Horse Brigade ; 4th ditto ditto ; Wing Ist
Regiment Light Cavalry ; 31 Regiment Light Cavalry ;
3d Kissalah's Skinner's Horse ; 3fCompany Ist Ba!talion
Artillery ; C. Company M. Sappers and Miners ; H. M.
40th Rt giment ; H. M. 41st Right Wing ; 20th Regiment
N. I. ; 21st ditto ditto ; 25th ditto ditto.
Auchter Khan, it would appear, was on the road, en-
deavouriug to intercept Major Todd in his march to
Ghirisk, in which attempt, however, be was not succes-
ful, as the Major reached the place in safety on the 21st
of Februaty.
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The fortifications of Herat are in a miserable state, and
the city no doubt will be easily retaken on the first assaul..
The mere recovery of this place, however, is not the only
object for which the force is assembling ; Candahar is to
be defended, a numerous and formidable enemy to be
beaten back, and an extensive insurrection quelled.
An importar,t consideration here suggests itself ; it is
believed that Persian emissaries are even now on the hills
in disguise among the Murrces, Boojties, and other tribes
with whom they are intriguing for the purpose of urging
them to resist to the utmost the British power. It the
greater portion of our finces is vvLhdrawn from Scinde,
will not an irresistible opportunity present itself for these
turbulent tribes once mare to raise their standards and be.
come a troublesome enemy, thus rendering useless and of
no avail, all which has been done with the view of paci-
fication ?

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRII:i7.-----There having been spre3d
many false reports about the new Administration, the Sul-
tan determined on publishing the following firman

" THE SULTAN'S FIRMAN.

"My faithful Vizir_lt having reached my Imperial
knowledge that certain persons, unable to comprehend
my intentions, have been spreading false reports that it is
in contemplation to operate a change in the present system
of internal and political administration, and as it is probable
that tbi3 proceeds solely from a desire to influence public
opinion by unfounded assertions, it has been deemed ne-
cessary that my determinations on this subject should,
with a certain degree of remonstrance, be again explained
to all. Ever since my accession to the Imperial Throne
my sole wish has been to secure the tranquillity and na-
tional prosperity of the entire population confided to me
by the Almighty. It was to attain these desirable ends
that a system of r, formed administration has been estab-
lished and executed.

It is even broadly reported that an attempt will be made
by the Persi ins and Heraitees, to dethrone Shah Soojah.
In whatever light the subj. et is I.( garded, no doubt can
exit that we are on the eve of an important struggle.

" In certain minor points, it is true, deficiences have
been found, but it was not pes,ible that everything could
be executed exactly as wished at the very outset of a new
regulation. Still, relying on the favour aid assistance of
the Most High, I am confident you and my other Ministers
will succeed i❑ introducing such beneficial modifications in
regard to the details of this important matter as may be
required to give strength and stability to the whole insti-
tutions. It being furthermore my constant anxiety to
sr-
cure and consolidate the amicable dispositions of the
friendly and allied Powers with whom my Government is
now in good fellowship, you will cause the present to be
read in the presence of all the Ministers of Ulf Govern-
ment, in order that they may spare no pains to attain the
end desired. Let this command be published."
The last advices from London received by the Ottoman
Government represent the question of the East as essen-
tially settled.
Rumours of more changes in the domestic adminlitra-
tion continue to circulate.

The ex- Ministers, Reschid Pacba, and Ahmed Fethi
Pacha, have been pensioned, the former at the rate of 30,000
piastres a month, the latter 25,000.
The surveillance of Kosrew Pacha has been revoked,
and this ancient functiouary is expected every day in the
capital.
General Jucbmus has bad a most distinguished recep-
tion by the Seraskier Pacha.
The Albanian troops, wtio created such disorders in
Syria, have been removed from the capital.
The troubles of Samos have terminated.
A treaty of commerce has been concluded between the
Poi to and the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The Magicienne has run up the Bosphorus and taken
her station opposite to Therapis. The French brig La
Fleche is also gone there.
The Persiat. fleet continues between Tophane and Or.
takuoy, and Tai:ir Pacha i 3 having all the ships put in
order so as to be ready for sea if required.
PERSIA.

The last acconnts from Trebisonde represent the diffi-
culties beween the Shah and Great Britain as still to be
in a fair way of settlement.
SDI YRNA.

The Austrian division, under the command of Admiral
Bandeira, arc arrived in the roads of Smyrna. The
French brig Alcibiade, and the English corvette Daphr.e,
are also in these roads. The Admiral was to take pratique
on the 20th inst.

COLONIAL SOCIETY.
A meeting of the Members of the Colonial Society
took place yesterday, at the Society's House, 15, St.
James's square, to take into consideration the financ;al
measures lately proposed by her Msjesty'a Guvernment,
relative to colonial produce, and to decide upon the best
measures to be adopted with reference thereto.
At half-past two the chair was taken by the Earl of
Mountcashel, and at this time the large room was com-
pletely filled.
The Noble CHAIRMAN said it afforded him the greatest
pleasure to preside at so important and influential a meeting
as the present. He should briefly state to them the reasons
and objects of the present assemblage. The Colonial So-
ciety was established for the purpose of watching with
attention all measures and matters relating to the interests
of the colonies, and indeed if it were not for having some
such objects in view, it might he classed with many of the
various clubs with which the metropolis abounded. On the
present occasion it appeared to him that the Committee
would have been wanting in its duty to the mem-
bers and the colonies, if it had not called a
meeting to take into consideration the financial
measures respecting the duties on sugar and timber, as
proposed within the last few days. He would observe that
the Committee, in bringi.ig the matter before them, had
not forgotten one of their fundamental rules, namely, that
no party politics should be introduced into that Society.
They brought it forward without reference to any party
politics, but as a question intimately connected with the
welfare of the colonies. They brought it forward without
reference to who were the Ministers by whom the mea-
sure was proposed. Whoever they were, whether they were
Whig or Tory, he trusted they would always be found at
their post when the inter eats of the colonies were at stake.
Indeed, he hardly knew the political sentiments of the
gentlemen with whom he acted at their Board; and he
mentioned that to show that they were influenced by no
party feelings on the present occasion. The Committee
had prepared some resolutions, and a petition, which
would be submitted for their discussion and approval. He
trusted that, if it met their approbation, the petition
would go before the Legislature as containing the senti.
menu of the great body of colonial proprietors at present
in London; fur he was justified in saying that almost
every influential person connected with the colonies was
row enrolled as a member of their Society. He suggested
that the Secretary should read the requisition, calling the
meeting in the first instance.
The requisition having been read,
Mr. RIDGWAY referred the Chairman to the 27th rule,
which required 14 days' notice for calling any general or
special meeting. He was anxious the subject should be
discussed, and hoped the difficulty might be got over.
Capt. MATHEW, M. P., said the 40th rule was framed
to meet that objection. If the irregularity was noticed,
the question was to be put to the meeting, and decided by
them. He believed there never was a question on which
they had been more completely taken by surprise than
upon that brought forward by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, and unless they could take immediate notice of
matte ra so deeply affecting the welfare of the colonies,
their usefulness as a body would go fur nothing. He
therefore moved, that the Chairman do put it to the
meeting to legalise their proceedings.
Mr. RIDGWAY seconded the motion, :which was una-
nimously agreed to.
Captain MATIIEW then rose to move the first resolu-
tion. He thought it was framed in the very spirit of the
words of their Noble Chairman. He thought it was im-
portant that they should lay aside all partisan end party
politics on an occasion like the present.--( Hear, hear.)
At the meeting of the West India Proprietors, held on
Wednesday, the same opinions were eloquently expressed by
Mr. Burge. He was persuaded that their Society was
virtually of no benefit whatever if it did not come for.
ward on important occasions like the present, and declare
their sentiments with respect to measures which were cal-
culated to produce such ruinous consequences to the
colonies. He believed, if these colonies had been repre-
sented in the Imperial Parliament, such measures would
never have been brought forward. --( Hear.)
Major H. CADOGAN seconded the resolution. He did
not think the charge of being influenced by party or poli-
tical feelings could fairly attach to them on the present
occasion—the subject came fairly and legitimately before
them, and he trusted they would discuss it with temper
and discretion.

The resolution, the purport of which was that it was the
duty of the Colonial Society, consisting of upwards of one
thousand members, connected with every community
in the colonies, to take the earliest opportunity of consi-
sidering questions affecting the interest of the British
colonies, was then put from the chair, and carried una.
nimously.
The Earl of HAREWO?D moved the recond resolu-
tion. He denied that he was actuated by any party feel-
ings, because if the other party in the State was in power
to-morrow, and brought forward similar measures he
should give them the most decided opposition.-- Hear.
hear.) It appeared to him that they were calculated to
effect the total ruin of these colonies. The calculation,.
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared to bim, as
regarded the West Indies, founded upon a fallacy ver)
nearly approaching to a fraud. He was not so well quail.
fled to speak on the subject of the Canadas, but he viewed
the measure, as a whole, as one deeply affecting the ship-
ping interests of the country.—( Hear, hear.) Lie did
not think the increase of their exports, that was calcu
ted upon, was to betaken altogether as a benefit, for it
would lead to overtrading, and bring ruin upon thousands.
The Noble Earl concluded by moving' the resolution,
which was to the effect that the measures brought forward
by the Chanc,:llor of the Exchequer, in his Budget of
Friday night, were fraught with the most disastrous con-
sequences to the Canadas, and the East and West Indies.

Sir DUNCAN M'DOUGAL seconded the resolution. As
regarded the Canadas be could speak from personal obser-
vation that the proposed measure was calculated to lead to
the separation of these colonies from the mother country..
The resolution v as carried unanimously.
Mr, MACKINNON, M. P., moved the next resolution. He
would repeat the observations of his two Noble Friends, who
preceded him, that he utterly di,claimed all idea of being
influenced by party politics. He believed that if they ef-
fected a dismemb rment of the c ,lonies, they would g )
far to effect a dismemberment of the British empire itse►t:
—( Hear.) These colonies, in a language which could
not be misunderstood, had declared that they considered
themselves an integral portion of the British empire.—
( Cheers.) All their legislation and proceedings of late
years had been influenced and actuated by such consider-
ations, and those who would view the colonies io any other

ti ey must see thbt the measure was one fraught with
greater ruin and di4asfer to that country and the colonies
than any he had ever known proposed.—( Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
It was to the effect that the Chancellor of the Excht•quer
having, in his Budget, announced his intention to bring
forward a motion on the Sugar Duties on Friday next, the
meeting deemed it its duty to take immediate steps to pro-
test against a measure which they believed would prove
ruinous to their East and West Indian possessions.
Mr. SEELY moved, and Mr. DOUGLAS seconded, the
adoption of a petition to both Houses of Parliament, em-
bodying the statements contained in the resolutions.
Thanks were then voted to the Earl of Mountcashel for
his conduct in the Chair, and the meeting broke up.

ROYAL AS YLUM FOR DESTITUTE
FEMALES, MANOR HOUSE, CHELSEA.
The first public anniversary of this admirable Institetion
was celebrated at the London Coffee-house, on Wednes-
day, the Marquis of Normanby in the chair. The objects
of the Society are the reception and reformation of young
females who stand exposed to the fearful consequences of
vice and ignorance, and who may be enumerated under
the following heads:—The young offender who has been
convicted and imprisoned for her first offence ; those dis-
charged from service Lr dishonesty, but not prosecuted;
the ignorant and destitute, who, although not guilty of
crime, are incapable of obtaining their livelihood. Tee
Institution thus aims at assisting immense numbers of poor
creatures whose cases are not recognised in the regulations
of other establishments. Upwards of seventy gentlemen
sat down to dinner on the occasion.
After the formal public toasts were drank,
The Noble CHAIRMAN rose to propose success to the
Institution, which was he said a most promising specimen
on a small scale of what might be done hereafter upon a
most extensive plan. He had felt great satisfaction ie
visiting the asylum, and he viewed it as an institution
connected in no small degree with the subject of secondary
punishments, which engaged the atteetive consideration
of tho Execufve at the present moment.—( Hear, hear.)
That subject he begged to say was one on which the
public opinion seemed to be less fixed than upon any other
relating to the moral advantages of the community. It
was one upon which, under the circumstances in which he
was placed as a member of her Majesty's Government, it
would not become him to speak particularly. Whatever steps,
however, it might be deemed necessary to take as to secon-
dary punishments, a great deal must depend upon the means
taken to effect the subsequent reformation of offenders,
and the Royal Asylum appeared to him to supply the
means, by the salutary control and example which its sys-
tem exhibited, in rescuing females of tender age from
those who originated the crimes which made them the ob-
jects of the charity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. VILLIERS, M. P., proposed the health of the Noble
Chairman, who had, by countenancing it in his public ca-
pacity, rendered great service to the Institution. which
was a certain means of alleviating a vast sum of human
misery. The toast was drank enthusiastically.
The CHAIRMAN in returning thanks regretted that he
bad been prevented by very weighty engagements from
taking the chair last year, for he had heard much in pra'se
of the Institution frost a lady, whose virtues were well
known to the world. He meant Mrs. Fry —( Loud
cheers )—while he was the Governor of the sister country,
that excellent woman had rendered great assistance in es-
tablishing the female part of a large institution for the re-
formation of offenders, and when he was appointed to the
situation which he had now the honour to fill, tic was led by
her representations to visit the asylum, and he recommended
it to the patronage of her Majesty.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HILL, the Queen's Counsel, proposed—." The
Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London."
That great body had, he said, not only extended its patronage,
but its munificent bounty to the. Society by a vote of 200
guineas. It happened that before he sat down to
enjoy the present party, he had occupied himself in reading
an account of the City of London, in which it was said that
the Corporation in former days thought the only mode of
diminishing crime was to exercise punishment, and that no
more than a century ago tbat body called for the infliction
of more severe punishments then were then in use. The
experiment was tried, and the company he addressed were
now near the spot where the alteration was tested with
the most unrelenting severity. —( Load cries of " Hear.")
He would instance in particular one crime—that of forgery.
No one could say that the experiments to abate that
offence were not abundant, and what was the result ? That
forgeries increased as the punishments increased. At
last a better feeling came forth. The penalty was
mitigated, and the crime decreased. That was a
powerful argument in favour of merciful infliction.
While capital punishment awaited conviction, all
the Crown could do was to inflict that punishment
after conviction ; but how many escaped in consequence of
the awful severity of the sentence pronounced upon the de-
inquent ? Witnesses, prosecutors, and juries, all shrank
from the thought of a verdict which consigned a victim to
death, and would not do their duty even when impelled to
do it by the sanctity of an oath.—( Cheers.) It was now
known that death could not be inflicted except in cases of
the very deepest criminality, and secondary punishment,
..herefore, was become a subject of great importance. So
much being dependant upon a system of reformation, he
wished to see asylums like that which the company were
celebrating multiplied over the country, in aid of the plait
of secondary punishments in progress. He had visited
the Royal Asylum and seen the operation of the admirable
system of kindness united with firmness, which distill-
' guished the management..—(Cheers.) He ha I found
that numbers of those who were snatched from destruc-
tion by its me ins had become moat useful members of
society. By kindness, firmness, and perseverance, et ery
thing was capable of being accomplished upon the minds
of young persons. He wished that all who still were in
favour of severe punishments, were aware of the feelings
of a judge in passing sentence upon a youthful and ig-
norant fellow-creature, brought up perhaps under those
who derived a profit from the vices in which they in-
struc-ed him. He wished that they could feel as the
Judge felt, who knew that the only chance
for the poor boy was that be should be
brought to toe bar again and again, until condign punish-
ment finished his career.—( Cheers.) What then could
be more noble than the institution, the benefits of which
they assembled to perpetuate ? The Learned Gentleman
concluded an admirable speech, of which the above is but
a faint sketch, by propesing "the Lord Mayor and Cor-
poration of the City of London."
Alderman JOHN JOHNSON returned thanks. He bad
known the Institution for twenty years, and he had recently
visited it with Miss Neave, its excellent founder.—( Great
cheering,) The operations were admirably carried on by
a Committee of ladies, who would, he was convinced, with
the assistance of the Queen and the Noble Marquis, most
largely extend its utility. He begged leave to recommend
to the same patronage another institution of a similar
nature, which had been established for boys. He meant
the House of Correction in St. George's Fields.
The CHAIRMAN then more particularly alluded to Miss
Near° and the other ladies under whose constant superin-
tendence the Royal Asylum was conducted, and by whose
exertions it was likely to become an institution of vast
public utility.—(Loud cheers.) These ladies had visited
the gaols of the metropolis, and had come to the direction
of the Asylum with all the advantages of their philanthro-
pic experience. He considered it necessrry to state, that
whatever steps might be taken with regard to secondary
punishments, the imprisonment of criminals should never be
perpetual, therefore all those whose lives should be spared
by the clemency of the Sovereign or the law, would be open
to the benevolent exertions of individuals who, like these
ladies, originated and directed inst tutions to reform the
guilty.—(Cheers.) His Lordship begged to state that
the ladies were assisted in their great work of charity by
several gentlemen whom he saw around him ; he should
therefore propose the health of Mr. Charles Pearson and
the Committee of Management. —( Cheers. )
Mr. CHAItLF.S PEARSON returned thanks in a speech ad-
mirably adapted to the occasion, and stated that he was
particularly instructed by the ladies to impress upon the
company the necessity of obtaining a large amount of annual
subscriptions.
The health of the Ladies' Committee was then drank
with great enthusiasm, and
Mr. FRY returned thanks.
A list of subscriptions was then read. They amounted to
300/.
Several other toasts were drunk, and the evening's se,
tertainment was much enhanced by the comic effusions of
the celebrated Tom Hudson, and the very fine singing of
Messrs. Ransford, Robinson, &c.
The company did not separate till twelve o'clock.

light were not the friends of the best interests of the country.
The great object should be to form markets for the consump-
tion of their borne manufactures, but it appeared to him that
the resolutions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were
calculated to strike a death-blow at the integrity of their
colonial possessions, while they at the same time would
stimulate a traffic in slave labour, which it had been their
object fur half a century to put an end to. He would re-
mind the meeting of the resolutions of the House of Com-
mons on the subject of slavery, and the noble exertions
they bad made to put an end to it for ever; but now, as
it appeared to him, these resoluti ins of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer would at the same time retard the civiliv-
tion and improvement of the negroes, while it would
greatly depreciate the value of property in the West
Indies.—( Hear, bear.) Independently of that it would
shut up the markets, which were at present open to them
in the West Indies, because it would be idle to say that if
these measures were passed the colonies could any longer be
the valuable customers they had been for British produce. It
was a mockery for that Government and country, which had
in a voice of thunder denounced sla 'e traffic, and had
spent such enormous sums in endeavouring to put it down,
now to come forward with resolutions the direct object of
which would be to promote and encourage the
consumption of sugar the produce of slave la-
bour. If it was said (and he knew the argu-
ment was a very popular onr, and one which would be
resorted in the House of Commons), that the effect of
these resolutions would be to enable the poor man to ob.
tam sugar at a lower price, he would refer them to the
vast continent of India where sugar t s an enormous amount
could be cultivated. Last year they had received no len
than 60,000 tons from Bengal, and in the present year, if
the calculations were to be relied upon, the quantity would
be upwards of 250,000 tons.—( Hear, hear.) He com-
plained of the proposed measure also as being a gross
breach of faith to the West Indian planters, and the re-
sult would be that not only would the civilization and
improvement of the emancipated negroes be retarded for
an indefinite period of time, but they would produce the
utter ruin and downfal of the planters.—( Loud cheers.)
He thought under the circumstances they were called upon --
as colonists and Englishmen, to protest against measures BOMBAY, MARCH 31. News have reached
which were fraught with ruin to the East and %Vest India Bombay of a combination of the Persians and Herathees
colonial and shipping interests. It would appear by are to oust our Kiog, Sha Sujah, from Affghanistan. The
solution of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society that• British Mission has been sent away from Herat, and ar-
they took the very same view et the subject, and that those rived at Candahar ; and Prince Kumram claims the throne
parties who were formerly opposed to the West Indies now
aoTnfid,hisi by his. ancestors
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being
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wouldtsttsoe country,no of an
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doubt;
that
the
joined and fraternised with them in demanding the present
measures.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN seconded the resolution. sepoys have shown a disinclination to meettheto h
Afghanse
Teis Country was identified with the West India more than aird Beeloehees without Europeans. They appear
almos‘ any
a any other of her colonies. They had been fur two waiting in Scinde for the Governor-General's orders,
centuries her firmallies and customers, and afforded an and while they are doing so, the country above the Ghat,
almost unexhaustable sa;TIY
of the great staple articles of where there are no Europeans nearer than Cabul, may
The British dopula• be lest. It is reported that a wing of the l'ith are to
-e
consumption in the motri::* (11) mir. • urger quantity of articles go to Scinde, but they can do nothing at Bombay without
tien of these islands consume) .. ---. ot her colonies.-_ the sanction of the Governor-General.
of British produce than any other bad lately of EXECUTION IN FRANCE.—The Courrier of
(Hear, hear,) The British Government . _lition of Blois mentions the execution of a young man, named Gouin,
fatted a most important change in the social co.-
"re
who had been condemned for the murder of a female farming-
the
servant at the last Assizes. -
An immense mass of people were
I
the population of the West Indies, and new they vbs.
about to bring forward a measure which would put an end i , -an early hour in attendance at the place of execution.
to the cult Vadat) of sugar in the West Indies, a trade in ' troti• lire was ready at seven o'clock, butof the
en accident oe-
I Every tie.. ' erolonged the mental agony
ineeumprhtt The
which at the present moment there was upwards of one
He curled ehice , ..ing the knife of te guillotine, hundred millions of capital ereployed,-.( Hear, hear.)
executioner, in ta., ' fall to make it act freely', broke ro
al
l'i s a-
wes really at a loss to know how to characterise such a I
hag it up and letting 1,. ,
ette and thus prevented the ma-
proceeding ; but it appeared to him to be fraught with ,t,
ie of stood called the hi- '-ient rendered it necessary to
much mischief and injury to Great Britain herself as to IChienee fro working. The ace,
ne was repaired; but for
the colonies. The tide of emigration had been rapidly
ant to act,
1 put.
off them execution untliel thaceems'.aeL'
and steadily setting in towards these colonies, but it would ! a length of time no carpenter would con, and the
now be checked. There was a constantly increasing and Procureur du Rot was obliged to issue three s:
mmonses before
near,
twelv
steady exportation of ,British produce to the amount I any one would come forward. At length, at .
of five millions sterling to these colonies, the o'clock, the repairs were finished, and in five minutes te: unfit'''.e
greatest pertion of which would now be lost, Agai,, tunate man ceased to exist.
let them look at the supply of sugar for the last few years. 1 ANECDOTE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT*-7
It never had been more uniform in price, c,r more certain A few years alter the war, Frederick, whilespeaking to
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and steady in the amount of the supply. These facts ' some officers on the parade of Potsdam, observed
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were cf the utmost importance, viewing the question as ' Colonel of the Guards, well known for his excellent d id..e
one of revenue. He found that for the last twenty-five posi,ion, but slovenly style of dress, and bluatyringeme ote
years the average supply of sugar from the West Indies of uttering what ever was nearest his heart, Colonel d
bad been 180,000 tons, and taking that as the supply for be attired in a new and splendid uniform. "A. le ,"
the present year, it would produce, at 243. per cwt., said the King, " what is going on to,
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4,320,0001. The Mauritius he would take at 30,000 have got your holyd.y stut °n ?" ‘„,.,. sma, "1)
tons, producing 180,000 f. From Bengal 62,000 tons nay, indeed," replied the officer; ".i-e• Majesty is
were coming home, and that along with that which would not, perhaps, aware that we expecto teertvdictogr of Zerndor fl
be procured, from Ceylon and Madras, would at the lowest this morning." e The victor f Z ) f or 1" said Fre-
estimate amount to 100,000 tons, g.ving 2,400,000,. stet. , derick, coldly; " I thouNe eht
dleehad geaeinedeleethilt, wase,,battletiotef
ling, and that would give a total of eight millions to the Zorndorff myself ?" "
revenue, as being the sum likely to be obtained if no change answer of the unfortunate Colonel ; " but your Majesty
took place. It the proposed measure was carried there knows how great a share of the victorythe public ascribe
would he a reduction of at least 150,000 tons in the pre. to General Ziedlitz." Tile King turned his back on the
Mice of the colonies, and even at the duty of 36,, per speaker, and refused even to 5, C the victor of Zorndorff
cwt., the falling off in the revenue would be considerable. I when he did arrive —Prom Fraser's Mapzzinefor May.
It appeared to him that the question was ore which deeply ' VOLTAIRE.---W hen the English and French
affected them, whatber they were colonists or not. . Cu- were diluting as to their respective ribhts to certain territories
nada, wina Was calculated to bc.icomMthe iiaria-i'y of Eng,. ...in America, Voltaire happily remarked that- they were quite
land would be deeply affected by the proposed alteration , agreed upon one point, viz., that the natives had no right at
in the Corn-laws, and in that, whatever way they turned, 1 all to the land in question.