The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

SUGAR DUTIES.

The House then went into Committee on the Sugar
Duties. A preliminary discussion arose as to whether a
motion of Mr. Bagshaw or that of Sir John Pakington
should have precedence, and it was ultimately decided
that Sir John Pakington should move his amendment first.

Sir J. PAKINGTON then rose to move the amend-
ment of which he had given notice, which was to the
effect that from the present time there should be a dif-
ferential duty of 10s. in favour of the produce of the
British colonies ; and he proposed to effect this, not by
raising the duty on foreign sugar, but by lowering it on
British. In making this motion, he thought be had
a right to complain of the statements that had been
made by the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment, who had stated that the course he (Sir J. Paking-
ton) was pursuing had caused embarrassment and delay.
—(Hear, hear.) He admitted that there had been
some embarrassment, but he thought the delay rested
with the Noble Lord himself.—( Hear, hear.)
The Noble Lord ought to have seen and known that it
would be impossible to discuss a subject like the pre-
sent without some considerable delay ; and as to the em-
barrassments, he believed them to have arisen frpm
the vacillation of the Government.—(Hear, hear.)
His plan would not increase the price to the consumer,
nor would it endanger the revenue, and he thought, as
it was essential to the welfare and prosperity of the
colonies, it ought to be readily adopted. But considera-
tions of revenue ought not to influence their minds upon
this subject, when it was borne in mind, that by in-
creasing the consumption of colonial sugar in this country
they were practically checking the horrors of the slave
trade, and he hoped the exaggerated accounts of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the loss, the adoption
of this plan would inflict upon the revenue, would not
deter Hon. Members from giving it their support.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
adoption of the plan would involve a loss of 960,0001.
Sir J. PAKINGTON contended that the loss would
fall very far short of that sum, but when they were
legislating for purposes of humanity, they ought not to be
indnenced by revenue considerations. He maintained
however, that the loss to the revenue which would result
trom the adoption of the plan would be 182,0001., as com-
pared with the year 1847, instead of 960,0001., as esti-
mated by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite. With
regard to what he proposed to do when his plan expired,
he must reuse to give any answer whatever. He can-
didly confessed that ho was not prepared to do so.
No man could pretend to predict as to what the duties on
sugar ought to be in the year 1854. He could assure
the Government that if they persevered in their line of
policy, they would ultimately drive the estates in the
colonies out of cultivation, and so give the producer of
slave-grown sugar an almost exclusive monopoly of the
British market. It was on those grounds that he
proposed the motion, and, if it were the pleasure
of the House to reject it, would be some satis-
faction to him to have put on record the
just and reasonable demands of the colonies, and all
responsibility, therefore, would devolve upon the Govern-
ment who had introduced the measure. The Hon.
Baronet concluded by proposing the motion substituting
10s. for 13s. as the duty on Muscovado sugar.

Mr. DRUMMONDsaid some Member had treated
this subject as a free-trade question, others as a
slave-trade question, and others had treated it solely
with reference to the West Indian planters; but no
one yet had given the slightest clue by which
they could unravel that great complexity. '1 he West
Indian interest had in the present debate, a great
advantage, because they had received the aid
of the consummate abilities, great exertions of
the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn.—(Hear, hear.)
The House was in this perplexity upon this question
that the Members on each side of it were afraid to
carry out their own principles.—(Hear, hear.) The
people of this country had broken three distinct bargains
with the West Indian proprietors. The West
Indians had a right to bring their whole produce to this
country duty free, and they ought to be satisfied with
nothing less.
Mr. V. SMITH denied that the people of this country
had broken their contracts with the West Indians.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
Six o'CLocx.

JULY STARES.
7 to 4 on Flying Dutchman
4 to 1 on Aquetos
4 to 1 agst any other
GOODWOOD STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Remembrance
12 to 1 agst Alpheia
13 to 1 agst Chanticleer
16 to 1 agst Reflection
LIVERPOOL CUP.
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to 1 agst Executor
15 to 1 agst Jovial
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15 to 1 agat Miss Lydia
ST. LEGER.
Betting the same as last week.

DERBY.
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27 to 1 agst Honeycomb
30 to 1 agst Uriel
33 to 1 agst c out of Alice Hawthorn's dam
40 to 1 agst Saucy Dick
50 to 1 agst Aquetos

UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGEN CE.
OXFORD, JUNE 30.—A convocation was holden this
morning; when the proposed grant of an additional sum
of 1001. out of the University chest, in aid of a fund
for the extension of parochial burial-grounds in the city
of Oxford, upon the condition that the sum be paid
so soon as the third additional burial-ground
shall have been consecrated, met the ap-
proval of the House. The proposed grant also of
300/. towards the endowment of the new church at
Headington, when consecrated, met also with the ap-
proval of the house.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards, the
following degrees were conferred, viz.:—
Doctor of Civil Law—Rev. George Croke Rowden,
New College.
Doctor of Medicine, with License to Practise—Henry
Wentworth Acland, All souls College, and Lee's Lec-
turer in anatomy.

Bachelor of Civil Law—Granville Robert Henry
Somerset, Fellow of All Souls College.
Bachelor of Music—John Sewell, Magdalen Hall.
Masters of Arts—Rev. H. Nicholson Ellacombe,:Oriel
College; Rev. William Buckle, Oriel College; Rev.
Thos. Edward Powell, Oriel College; Rev. James Yal-
den Nevill, Oriel College; Rev. Arthur Henry Hosmar,
Oriel College; Rev. Thomas A. Vowles, St. Alban Hall;
Rev. Robert Emans Crawley, Magdalen Hall; Rev.
Robert Wilson, Magdalen Hall ; Rev. George Rose,
Magdalen Hall; Rev, William Francis Gray, Wadham
College; Rev. Henry Walford, Wadham College; Rev.
George Eveleigh Saunders, Fellow of Wadham College;
Rev. Edward Francis Gepp, Wadham College; John
Harrison Miller, Scholar of Wadham College; Rev.
George R. Mackarness, Merton College ; Montague
Francis Finch Osborne, Merton College ; Rev. James
Hughes, Fellow of Jesus College; Rev William John-
stone, Trinity College; Henry Rayer, Trinity College;
Rev. William Brown, Trinity College; Augustus Free-
man Boyse, Christ Church; Theophilus Jones, Brase-
nose College; Rev. Assheton, Pownall, Brasenose Col-
lege; Rev. J. Rush, Worcester College; Rev. John Lo-
vick Johnson, St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. Henry Edwin
Devey, Pembroke College; Rev. Edward Greatorex,
Pembroke College; Rev. Gilbert Francis White, Lincoln
College.
Bachelors of Arts—John Singleton Winder, scholar
of Oriel College; Samuel Hall Fearon, Taberdar of
Queen's College; Edward Fox, Fellow of New College;
Earl of Darnley, Christ Church, Grand Compounder;
William Whitton Allen, Trinity College ; Hon. C.
Spencer B. Hanbury, Brasenose College, Grand Com-
pounder; Thomas Henry Whittaker, Exeter College;
Ederard St. John Mildmay, Merton College; Rev.
Charles Spooner, Magdalen Hall ; Henry Eastfield
Bayly Exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College; Brown-
low Poulter, Fellow of New College ; John Deacon,
Oriel College; Thomas Barker, Queen's College.
This morning the Rev. Henry Bond Bowlby, 8.A.,
and Charles Douglas Ross, Scholars of Wadham Col-
lege, were elected Probationary Fellows of that Society;
and Messrs. William Bayard Dalby, Commoner of Bal-

' iol College, James Andrews, Commoner of Worcester
College, and Frederic Harrison, were elected Scholars of '
Wadhum College.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 30.—The Vice-Chancellor has ap-
pointed Saturday, July 1, for Richard Elwyn and Arthur
William Headlam, of Trinity College, and Monday next,
July 3. for Dominus Norris and Dominus Vaughan, of
Trinity College, to recite their prize essays.
The Vice-Chancellor has also appointed Tuesday next,
July 4. for George John Cayley, of Trinity College, to
recite his English Poem for the Chancellor's medal; for
Augustus Frederic Birch, of King's College, to recite his
Exercise for the Camden medal; for Charles Schreiber,
of Trinity College to recite his Greek Ode; for Wood-
thorpe Scholefield Collet, of Clare Hall, to recite his
Latin Ode; for Henry Carr Archdale Tayler, of Trinity
College, to recite his Epigrams for Sir William Browne's
medals; and for Edward Henry Perowne, of Corpus
Christi College, to recite his exercise for the Porson
prize. The prize for this last-mentioned exercise has
been lately adjudged.