The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-09 00:00:00

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Returns just printed of `,7t3 quantities of sugar,coll,e,
and other colonial and foreign produce imported into
the United in °lBB9, toi",;ethe, with
the duties on, the prices of .th same,
furnish a few items of intelligence of general interest,
Were were imported of " all sorts " of unrefined
sugars, 11,033,653 cwts. ; and of this quantity
10,717,931 cwts. were retained for actual consumption
in the United Kingdom. In the same year the total,of
refined.sugar and sugar candy imported was 1,0680)4e
cwt.,. of which nearly the whole was retained.
for home consumption. The rate of duty
varied from lls. 3d. to Bs. on the four classes
into which unrefined sugar are divided, while on re-
fined sugar or s war candy it was 12s. The net revenue
from duties on sugar of all sorts amounted to
£5,388,652. The average prices varied from 7s.
7d. to £1 ls. 4d. per cwt., " exclusive of duty."
During the same year there were 4,750,184 gallons of
rum imported, of which all except 48 gallons was
the produce of British possessions. There were also
imported in 1869 483,570,528 lbs. of cotton, of which
335,428,912 lbs. were from the Bombay Presidency,
the remainder being distributed amongst no less
than 13 British West Indian settlements and British
Guiana which sent-2,048,592 lbs., the two other Indian
Presidencies, which sent, Bengal 50,259,328 lbs., and
Madras 94,094,336 lbs., and auritius, Ceylon, and.
the Straits Settlements. Of coffee there was .an
aggregate of 123,820,547 lbs. of cocoa, 6,742,7921b5.

SUPERSTITION IN THE UPPER CLASSES.
A correspondent points out that the upper ten
thousand are by no Means entirely exempt
from the hind of superstition generally supposed
to be confined to labourers and their belongings,
in out-of-the-way country districts. In illustration
of this we are told that in the Times of Thursday,
April 21, there were sixty-two advertisements
of marriages, and on the following day not
one. The same strange illustration of upper class
superstition, we are told, may be noticed, though
perhaps not to quite the same extent, every week„
Certainly while so absurd au objection to being
married on a Friday actuates the class whose adver-.
tisements fill the " ladies column" of the Times, it is
lar from fair to charge superstition exclusively
against the Devonshire or Dorsetshire labourers,
whose education is generally nil. .

CARDINAL ANTONELLI AND M. DARU.
The Univers publishes the reply of Cardinal
Antonelli to the dispatch sent by M. Darn to Rome,
on the 20th of February. The note of the Roman
Secretary of State is of great length, and. displays the
skill which one might expect from this celebrated
diplomatist. The Cardinal expresses his surprise
that the publication of the Canons of the Syllabus
by the Augsburg Gazette should have produced so
profound an impression on the ench Government
as to induce it to change its opportune policy with,
respect to the Council. He declares that these
canons only consecrate the old maxims, and the fun-
damental principles of the Church which have been,
approved by preceding general Councils. He uses
many arguments to shew that none of the doc-
trines in the Syllabus attribute to the Roman Church
direct control over civil powers, but that they
...refer:taa-totally different state of-things, and relate
to the right of religious authority to judge of the
morality and justice of all acts in their relation to
natural and divine laws. In conclusion, the Cardinal
expresses a hope that the French Government will
be satisfied with this explanation, and will not persist
in its request for previous information respecting the
questions to be deliberated in the Council.

THE PLOTTERS IN ENGLAND.

Some facts bearing upon the doings of the French
refugees in London have transpired. At a recent Repub-
lican gathering in the English capital, M. Flourens was
asked whether he really had any connection with the con-
spiracy against the Emperor's life, alleged to have been
discovered in Paris. M. Flourens replied, " Dear fellow
citizens,—The situation just now is too serious. I can
say nothing of wliat is being done in Paris. I have not the
right to do so, and you will understand the reserve which
is incumbent upon me. With my finger on my lips lam
compelled to be silent. But patience and courage, the
triumph will be ours." The audience applauded, and
the unlucky questioner--a Frenchman—was greeted with
cries of `• Mouchard!" " A la Porte !" upon which hint
he deemed it prudent to act, and retired from the hall.—
Another fact rests on the authority of the Gaulois's Lon-
don correspondent. This writer states that on Wednes-
day the French Ambassador made a formal demand to
the British Minister for Foreign Affairs that a criminal
prosecution should be commenced against M. Gustave
Flourens, but that the reply of the Minister was, " Your
proofs first. Establish a prima facie case, and then we shall
see."—At the public meeting which was held in London on
Friday evening "in reference to the present state of
affairs in France," Mr. Bradlaugh introduced MM.
Flourens and Le Lubez. The chair was taken by M. Le
Lubez, who stased that the meeting had been called at a
short notice to speak the truth in reference to the alleged
" plot." In proof of how delusive are the statements
sent forth, he might refer to the misrepresentation
that he was president of the International Working.
Men's Association, which he had been obliged to contra-
dict. He knew many members of that body, and was
satisfied none would ever seek or desire to carry out their
purpose by means of assassination. Mr. C. Bradlaugh
having delivered an address, M. Flourens spoke in French
at some length. He said the present masters of France
were the real plotters. He knew of no other plot, and
that had existed for twenty years, and he believed
the right must ultimately triumph, and the longer
it was kept down the more terrible must be
the vengeance it would take upon the plotters.
Some portion of the London press was calling
for his expulsion from our shores, but he had no
intention of abusing our hospitality by plotting assassina-
tion. The only force he wished to use was that of the
brain, the tongue, and the pen, and these he should con-
tinue to direct against the trumpery despotism of France.
Mr. Cooper, of the late Reform League, then proposed a
resolution protesting against the tone adopted by the
press of England in relation to the alleged conspiracy in
Paris, and the right of asylum to political refugees. Mr,
Austin Holyoake seconded it, and . then M. Tibaldi, who
came in somewhat late, was introduced to the
meeting as one of the Emperor's victims, having
suffered thirteen years' imprisonment, five of which were
spent in solitary confinement. Speaking in French he
thanked his English brethren for the sympathy they had
manifested towards himself, and protested against the
bandit who now ruled France. He had fought iu the
army of the Republic; of Italy, and thus given a guarantee
of his sincerity in the cause of right and justice. His con-
stant cry should be " Vive la labert6 !' The resolution
was carried by acclamation ; and, after giving cheers for
those who voted against the Emperor and singing the
" Marseillaise," the meeting separated. A collection was
made at the doors to defray the expenses.

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