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London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

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THE SUGAR
P ROTESTS AGAINST THE
Dissentient,-
1. Because, after the Legislature
tury, and the country above half a
the African slave-trade as the worst
prising almost all others, and as 0-
that ever afflicted the world, we cover ourselves with a dis-
grace never to be effaced by adopting a measure whose
avowed object is immediately and largely
to increase the
mass of sugar grown in the slave-trading countries, and
which can only be grown by an immediate and large im-
portation of Africans. Consequently, the avowed object of
the measure is the encouragement of the African slave-
trade, as much as murder, and not robbery alone, is the
avowed object of the felon who destroys his neighbour in
order that he may possess his property, by removing him
out of his way.
2. Because it is in vain to disguise from ourselves and
cover over the guilt of slave trading thus incurred, by
pretending that we do not directly offer any premium for
its encouragement. We as directly partake of that enormous
crime by knowingly and wilfully augmenting the amount of
the traffic which lays waste the villages of Africa, and de-
solates her coaste, as those do whom we brand with the
name of felons, and visit with the pains of felony, for only
letting to hire the ships employed in the traffic, although
they have no more direct participation in the Africanvoyage.
3. Because nothing can be more futile than the defence of
our conduct drawn from a reference to the importation which
is allowed of cotton and other articles, the growth of slave-
dealing countries. If that importation be an encouragement
of slave trading, it was criminal to permit it, and the fact of
our having once been guilty is no excuse for extending and
multiplying our offences. But the great bulk of such com-
merce is notoriously carried on with countries in which
slave tradingkhas long ceased to be practised. Moreover,
the chief branch of the importation, that of cotton, was
established nearly a quarter of a century before we our-
selves abolished the slave trade ; and there is the greatest
possible difference between refusing to give up a trade or a
practice of any kind already adopted, and entering for the
first time into a novel career of crimes not yet begun to be
perpetrated.
4. Because the question now under the consideration of
Parliament differs from every other part of the discus-
sion so long carried on respecting the slave trade and
slavery. In all former cases our offence was that we
delayed to abolish a criminal system already, and for
ages, established ; we only refused to do that which was
clearly right. But now we are doing that which is clearly
wrong ; and are for the first time beginning, rot continuing,
a slave trade. We are actively creating a slave trade which
does not now exist, and not passively suffering an existing
traffic to go on.

PRICE SD.

5. Because it is vain to expect that ether nations will shut
their eyes to the garb of hypocrisy in which this conduct of
ours clothes all our professions of zeal for the abolition.
When we urge them to join in putting down the execrable
traffic, they will point to our act encouraging it; and, re-
quired by us to abandon the gains which they derive from
conniving at the traffic, they will marvel at our boldness in
expecting such sacrifices from them when we all the while
are encouraging it ourselves for the avowed purposes of
cheapening a luxury that we relish, and adding a small sum
to the mass of our revenue.

6. Because it is altogether preposterous to cite in such a
debate the principles of political philosophy, and to call this
a sacrifice to the.doctrine of free trade. The highest autho-
rities have long ago proclaimed that in this measure there
are involved no considerations of commercial or financial
policy; but, as one of the late Ministers said, " the honour
of this country," as another asserted, " the credit and repu-
tation of this country," and as all impartial men who con-
sidered the subject have said, the creating or the prevent-
ing an amount of suffering among peaceful and unoffending
nations, so frightful to contemplate, that no calculator of
profit and loss can be hard-hearted enough to weigh against
it the largest amount of gain, whether commercial or finan-
cial, which could be conceived to result from our legis-
lation.

7. Because, finally, the hurrying through Parliament at
the very close of a long and laborious session, and in the
absence of nearly all its members, a measure of so desperate
a character, and which is connected with other measnres
seriously affecting our whole colonial policy, as well as the
trading interests of the mother country, betokens on the
part of its authors an impatience of delay and of full dis-
cussion, only to be explained by the supposition that the ex-
traordinary state of parties at the present moment offers
them the
_only chance of carrying their measures, which
would assuredly have been rejected, as they were five years
ago, as soon as those parties had resumed their wonted po-
sition. BROUGHAM.
Dissentient,—
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Because, beside all the other reasons of justice, humanity
and sound policy, which prohibit a measure so directly, so
inevitably tending to the encouragement of the slave trade
it is wholly intolerable, as it is altogether unprecedented, to
hurry through Parliament, at the very close of the session,
and after almost all its members have left town, such im-
portant measures, without the possibility of full discussion,
and without giving the mother country, or the colonies, any
notice of them—measures which at one blow alter the whole
commercial system of the country, and affect in the most
serious manner, and to the greatest extent, the manufac-
turing and trading community of the empire.
ASHB URTON,
BROUGHAM,
DENMAN,
S. OXON (Wilberforce).

AMERICAN TARIFFS OF 1842 AND
1846 COMPARED.
(From the Washington Union.)
A Comparison of the Rates of Duties upon some of the arti-
cles as actually paid under the Tariff of 1842, and to be
levied on the same by the Tariff to come into operation
December 1, 1846:

LUXURIIS.

1842.

Wines—Champagne ...
Burgundy ...
Madeira ...
Carpets—Wilton carpets
Turkey ...
Glass—Polished plate, 22 in. by 14 in.
Gloves—Gentlemen's real kid
Ladies'
Gentlemen's real French buck
Braces—lndia rubber, coating 17 each and
above ...
Paper—Billet-doux, or fancy note •••
Gilt ...
Pastes—Balsams, cosmetics, and perfumes...
Silks—Pocket-handkerchiefs made from fine
Silk velvets ••• ••• •••
- Brocade silks for dresses ...
Flannels—Archer's unshrinking, costing 60e.
Silk and wool flannels, costing 1
dol. the square yard
Hair curled for mattresses ••• •••
Chocolate ... ;.•
Sardines, and other fish prepared in oil ...
Furniture of cedar wood, satin wood, &c.
Gems—Pearls and precious stones when set
Imitations thereof
Cameos and imitations thereof, and on
mosaic ...
Jewellery—Composed.of gold, silver, orplatina 20
ARTICLES OF GENERAL USE, &C.
Wines—Sicily Madeira (low-priced) •••
Spices —Pimento
Ginger
Cassia ••• ••• ••• •••
Carpeting—Treble ingrain ...
Ingrain ... ••• •••
Iron—Bar or bolt ... ..•
Nail or spike rods ••• ••• •••
Cut or wrought iron spikes
Hoop iron ..•
Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges ...
Iron chains other than chain cables ...
Wrought for ships, locomotives, and
steam-engines
Smoothing-irons, hatters' and tailors'
pressing ditto ... ..• •••
Wood screws ...
Glass—Plain, moulded, or pressed tumblers
Gloves—Yellow sheep, called Hoxamtan
(waggoners' and reaping gloves) ...
Imitation buck
Women's imitation kid •• •••
Braces—lndia rubber, costing sf. or 93c. the
dozen ••
Paper—Medium, foolscap, .&c.
Sugar, commonly called brown sugar •••
Vinegar
Salt ...
Cloths of wool Broadcloths, cassimeres,
coatings, and padding ...
Low flannels, bockings, and baizes •••
Silks—Calcutta and other silk pocket-hand-
kerchiefs, costing in India 2 dolls. 50c.
for the piece of 7, and weighing 8 oz. ...
Ditto, costing 3 dolls. 75c., and weighing
Black gros de Naples, or taffeta silk, for
dresses, weighing 1 ca. to the yard, and
Pins—Calledßlack c os t icnrgapi neps
OE,
wlnoigwdl aopnrrdimc oeirdx Fe
dr.a.pn. cnes 3
Velvets—Cotton ••• ••• ••• •••
Skirtings—Costing 614 c. per yard ...
Cotton prints, or calicoes, costing 12c. the
running yard ••• ••• ••• •••
Mousseline de laine Cotton worsted, 24
inches wide, costing 12c.
Cotton and worsted Orleans and alpaca cloth,
costing 18c. the square yard ...
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Linseed oil ...
Cables and cordage, tarred ..
Unmanufactured hemp
Wool, coarse, unmanufactured
Chain cables ...
Anchors ...
Anvils ...

HA SWELL COLLIERY.—CARELESSNESS OF PITNEN.--.
The fearful accident which occurred some months ago in
Haswell Colliery, in the county of Durham, cannot be for-
gotten. The following statement, extracted from a letter
written by Mr. J. Scott, of the Haswell Colliery-office, ex-
plains the origin of some of those casualties which are con-
tinually occurring in the mining districts, and which involve
the destruction of so many human beings. " A few days
ago," writes Mr. Scott, " while a boy was brushing with hay
the tram plates in one of those districts of the pit called the
broken or pillar working, a lucifer match, which had by
some means got amongst the hay, struck fire, and in an in-
stant all was in a blaze. Fortunately the fire was speedily
got under, or the consequences must have been tremendous.
There were at this time, in this district of the pit, great
numbers of men and lads working with the Davy lamps, and
had not the air of the pit been singularly pure, the fate of
these poor fellows might have been but the repitition of a too
oft told tale. Being in the pit at the time of the occurrence,
I instituted every inquiry, and on the following day it was
renewed by Mr. Forster, but we got no trace of the defaulter."
Such an occurrence goes far to prove that, however well ar-
ranged and scientific the plans for ventilation may be, so
long as the recklessness of the miner continues accidents
will occur. _ _

DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Friday afternoon Mr.
W. Baker, jun., held an inquest at the London Hospital on
the body of Mary Anne Rotheram, aged eight years, the
daughter of a labouring man residing in Split's-terrace, St.
George's-in-the-East. t appeared in evidence that on the
11th of March last the deceased was standing on the fender

in the kitchen, reaching for a candlestick, when her clothes
caught fire. The names rapidly spread, and she was soon
in:one mass of fire. Her screams brought the assistance of
liar mother and sister, who with great difficulty extinguished
the'flames. She was admitted in the above hospital on the
same day, where she lingered until Thursday morning, when
she expired. Verdict, " Accidental death."
CAMBERWELL FAlR.—This annual pleasure fair will
commence to-morrow (Tuesday) on the Green, notwithstand-
ing great exertions made by the inhabitants for its sup-
pression.