The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

the House, at its rising, should adjourn until Monday
next.

Mr. COWPER presented several petitions from various
places r,gainst the violation of the Sabbath by Sunday
tradie.s.
TPA' SUGAR DUTIES CONTINUANCE BILL.
'She CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having
?Aso to move the order of the day for a Committee of the
*thole House on this Bill,
Lord G. BENTINCK rose and said—l take this op-
portunity of stating that I shall postpone the motion of
which I have given notice till Monday next, when the
sugar duties will be brought on.
The SPEAKER having left the chair, and the House
having resolved itself into Committee on the Bill, and
the clause as to the limititation of the period of the Bill,
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said he would move, as
an amendment, that the word " July" be substituted for
the word " September." The effect of this amendment
would be to make the temporary Bill an eleven months'
instead of a monthly Bill, and it would have effect until
July, 1847. His object' in moving this amendment was
not to obstruct the Government in any way, but to
facilitate their movements, and not to interfere in any
way with any permanent measures that they might
think fit to adopt. At the same time, if,
upon further reflection, her Majesty's Ministers should
think fit to defer till another session the permanent
settlement of the sugar ditties, it would give them an
opportunity of doing so, and he could assure the House
that it would be a great relief, and nothing more than
an act of justice and mercy to the merchants engaged in
`the sugar trade, if they should afford them this small
respite for the measures proposed by her Majesty's
Ministers.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The appre-
hension as to a famine in sugar was far more
visionary than the apprehended famine in corn.—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) He took the liberty of stating on
a former evening, that no lese than between 40,000 and
.50,000 tons of sugar were annually produced in the
IVT.auritius ; since that statement, the mail had
arrived from India, bringing intelligence that no
le,s than 60,000 ton might be expected to, be pro-
duced there in the present year, and 72,000
would probably be produced in the Cape of Good
Hope. The Noble Lord having said that it was not his
intention at present to enter at any length into the
subject of the sugar duties, concluded by moving the
amendment. He would propose to extend the period
named in the Bill, sth of September, 1846, to the sth
f July, 1847.
On the amendment being put,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that he did not intend, at that period, to go into the
general question of the sugar duties. He would merely
state that everybody, and every communication which
her Majesty's Government hail received upon the subject,
alt concurred in this,' that.. it was desirable that
the sugar question should be permanently settlement. He
was sure that all persons, whether they went further than
her Majesty's Government, or whether they did not go so
far upon this question still argued in representing the set-
tlement of the sugar question as an important consi-
deration. He did not believe that anybody, either in
the House or out of the House, believed that the
question of the sugar duties should be suffered to
stand upon the present basis. He thought that the
proposition of his Noble Friend the Member for Lynn
would defeat his own purpose. He could assure the
House that the Government intended to go on with the
measure they proposed, and he trusted that they would
be able soon to bring the question to a permanent
settlement.
Sir R. INGLTrs said he did not intend to go into the
general question of the policy of the present sugar
duties. He rr.ust say that in his opinion there was
nothing- in tlys proposition of the Noble Lord the Member
for Lynn v",nich would at all interfere with the ultimate
decision of Parliament, or with the proposition of the
Nehle Lord at the head of the Government. By
adepting the amendment of the Noble Lord, the
luuse would have time to deliberate upon the ques-
ti in, and the trade would be protected from the
sudden interference with the existing duties. The
proposition of his Noble Friend might do good in
this sense, but it could not do harm in the sense of her
Majesty's Ministers, if they had a triumphant majority,
which they anticipated, but with respect to which,
he believed, they were grossly deceiving them-
eelves ; his proposition could not vitiate that
triumph at all. And, besides, if they acceded to
it, they would have until Jislys next a similar
amount of revenue from the importation of sugar to
that which they had derived. since July last. No man
believed that the sugar duties- ought not to be con-
tinued as a source of ~revenue, and as the
proposition could not possiblpio harm, he should give
it his support.
Mr. LABOLICHERE repudiated the idea that the
Government were swayed at all by the expectation of
a triumphant majority on the measure brought
forward by the Noble Lord the First Lord of
the Treasury. All they wished was that
tse subject should be fairly discussed, and that a decision
should only be come to after mature deliberation ; and
therefore they had no wish to prejudge the question' but
if they passed a continuance Bill for a year instead of a
month, as proposed, the question would be left open, and
the greatest uncertainty and derangement to trade could
not fail to ensue. In fact, he believed nothing could be
snore fatal to the commerce of the country and to the
interests of the West Indian planters if an impression
was conveyed abroad that Parliament was disinclined to
enter, in the present session, into a serious consideration
of the duties, with a view to the final adjustment of those.
clut.ex. Any one who had watched the condition of the
country for the last five years, and the uncertainty in
width that commerce was placed by the unsettled con-
dition of those ditties, must be aware that no question
stood more in need of a permanent and final adjustment
than the sugar duties.—(Hear.) Then, again, the sub-
ject would be soon brought before the House by the
Noble Lord (J. Russell).
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
Bowe divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority against the amendment
THE WELLINGTON STATUE.

On the motion that the order of the day for going
into Committee of Supply be read,
Mr. C. BERKELEY said that he could assure the
House that in bringing forward the motion of which he
had given notice, he should follow the example of his
Noble Friend with regard to the brevity of his
observations. He was sorry that the subject had
not been taken up by a Member more influen-
tial than be was, but , considering the im-
portance of the subject to the public at large, he had
no hesitation in bringing it under the consideration of
the House, A number of individuals, with the most
praiseworthy intentions, had subscribed large sums for
the purpose of erecting a testimonial to th Duke of
Wellington. A site was required, and the gentlemen of
the Committee, without consulting the majority of the
suescribers, had decided upon placing it upon the arch at
the Op of Constitution-hill. Several remonstrances were
addressed to Lord Melbourne, but without any good effect.
Now he knew that his Noble Friend opposite would tell
him that his motion was too late, but the papers on
which it was founded were not moved for by the Mem-
h.-r for Oxford ti:l June 29, and they were not in the
hands of Members till the 11th July. Now he was not
roing to follow the example of his Noble Friend whom
ho saw behind him.—(Loud laughter.) It was impos-
sible to imagine anything more inartistical or in worse
tasts, and he would trouble the House with a state-
ment of Mr. Declines Burton's opinion on the subject.
(The Hon. Member here read some extracts to the effect
that the arch presented an appearance far too meagre
for the design, and was exceedingly inappropriate.)
All the architects that had given their opinions on the
subject bad expressed themselves in the strongest terms
against the proposal. There happened to be one of the
most distinguished foreigners in this country
Ls ely —an Italian gentleman—and he was . per-
& !tly astonished at the monstrous proposition,
aid concluded by saying, that if the plan was carried
our, the statue and the arch would inosl assuredly fall.---

(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. Berkeley) must say- that he
gave the Noble Lord, the First Commissioner of the
Woods and Forests, very great credit for doing his best
in this matter. The letter he had written ought to have

considerable weight w:th the House, and the letter of
hi* predecessor in office was equally good. He would
not trouble the House by reading the Noble Lord's
letter ; bat Lard Canning said in his com-
munication to the Committe?, that whilst
in the name of her Majesty he was quite
prepared to permit the placing of the statue on the arch,
he at the same time considered it his duty to state that
her Majesty's Government hoped that the Committee
would act in compliance with the•many remonstrances
which had been presented to them against the proposal,
by desisting from placing the statue on the arch, and
that every eminent architect and artist who had
been consulted on the subject decidedly condemned the
proposal to erect a statue of so colossal a size as was
4ntendfd t 3 be placed on the arch.—(hear.) In answer
to that communication of Lord Canning the Duke

of Rutland said that the Committee had refused to re.

consider their design, and they insisted upon carrying
their_ monstrous proposition into effect.—(Hear, hear.)
Well, then, he (Mr. Berkeley) considered that
.'4.13e House were called upon to interfere
ln this matter.—(Hear, hear.) The arch on the top of
a;onstitution- hill afforded a thoroughfare to one of the most
roweled parts in the metropolis, and itwas also one of the
intrances t the palace of the Sovereign of this country.
;It'hat arch was also built at the public expense, and the
:louse of Commons had a right to say that such an in-
:-rterence was attempted to he made with the arch as
area not to be permitted. He should, therefore, propose
That an humble address be presented to her Majesty
;raying that her Majesty will withdraw her consent to
;lace the statue of the Duke of Wellington upon the arch
;1 the top of Constitution-hill."—(Hear, hear.)
BAILEY, in rising to second the motion of
Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Cheltenham,
d sn with the greatest pleasure, because he had
welt intenthd to bring forward such a mo-
tor), but he had delayed doing so until
prtain letters were laid upon the table of the House.
,10 must say that the proposition of the subscribers to
'le statue was most monstrous.—(Hear and laughter.)
'That be wished to impress upon the attention of the
%"ouso was, that they were about to erect a
kunoment in honour of the greatest hero th7s country
-ai over produced, being manufactured of imperishable
• :aterials, and ho believed h would form the
reatest colossal statue in the world. It was calculated
yet to come, not only as a
a remain for ages and ages
; onument of the great man it was intended to represent,
!at as s menu ...Put of the knowledge and taste of the fine
,t 43 • xisting amongst the people of this-couiury in the
),0 in which they lived, and it was, therefore, highly de-
;cable that the monument should be. made as perfect
po;sibly could be. --(Cries of Hear, hear.")
awing, as the Corumittee did, the opinion of distin-
ahed petionages, and the opinions of scientific men,
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re Ye('
teV ell how (p t. t,r,j - (le to he
hst
• in :he suepre,eion of the slave trade. He knew Ito
great powet• had tAin ~.wey• from our cratzef b,,vt,,,,
he thought that sorts statement f?hotild be made I;
had been the succes.a:a of our cruizers in eonPuteti
with those of France. Ile would also wish to ;,
what was to be the policy of the present Ilard with
g.ir,l to the employment of the officers, because, durJ;
the late cruiee, it had been found necessary to rent°o,
from the dock= yard a superintendent whose express...lo,
structions were *never to sleep out of the dock-nit
When the admirals complained of the fact, they fentli,of
necessary to send to the Mediterranean station to rob, !ie.
its admiral. Did they intend to employ admiaals and la
admirals to command their flt ets, or did the} Oe
A 9
they not thiek thorn competent. to such cowman,-
fir,
wi,hed also to knew what were their intentions wee.,
regard to the present relotkaiens with regard to the... 4
nage of specie, and was it to he allowed to continue ,tea'
its its present. fat:eine'? lie 'would proceed to call the
eery
tion of the House to the complaireeztf the class of efne;to
called paymasters and pursers. The premises M, beeu
realised. r half-pay to those officers held nut had nch f
They were divided into three doses 0
stir
45., and ss. per day. -.The pursers had
reniered parts of their sea emoluments for the beePosi.
of their brother officers on half- pay, and it wits cote
dered that, in consequence of that surrender theY„t.ree
entitled to an additional shilling per day. They 6:trid
dered 16,000/. annually, and the Government, se eLlsses
matters, that over 4,000/. per annum remain 0, tor
in their hands. Their arrangements were. 0150‘"4011
trived that many of the' oldest officers were IcePh-dtto,
upon the lowest list of half.pay. He thought t',4110
attention of the House and Government should before
to this serious grievanc', for upwards of 100,„,°,„,- the
of 30 and 40 years' service, had been taken glower
high class of pay, and removed entirely to theices/9
grade, and he had no doubt that such injustice wee • I
felt b them. b„I1P
y iral DUNDAS said what the Hon. Mew
stated should have his best consideration. dole°
Sir G. COCKBURN explained the cirnnw_,L;ltle'
under which the late Admiralty Board had aefeurt, the
tion to the officers whose case had been stated 10 der
Gallant Member, and informed tne House thstt,„olo
the circumstances, they could not have acted et'
in the matter than they had done. ooleis
After a few words from Captain Harris, gr. '•••
and Lord Wo, sley, • ,e .nea;
Captain PECHELL asked whether the tn;:erif'?.;
intended to pursue the previous policy of
ci uiz-rs on the coast of Africa, and whether they'
to keep up their present compliment of ehips•
Mr. WARD, in reply, was inaudible in tintga-erf*
The vote was then agreed to.
The following votes were then agreed to.
v-
of
129,714/. for salaries of the officers of the
the Admiralty. ,iitti
9,011. for salaries of' officers in the Genaaal
01
is°
, 140,1151 for salaries orofficers in scientific depart
in the 'navy. h 06°'
The following votes were then agreed to, Wit- °,a ettei
cussiont-23,9021. to defray the expenses of ne;oe,°,
blishments abroad; 752,427/. for the paymentas".„bliP'
, artificers, labourers, &c.. employed in the naval e'',,agcsi
ments at home ; 43,720/ for the payment of th,,e„
of the artificers, labourers, &c., employed in t" to
establishments abroad. lie soy
Aft r a few words from Captain PECHELL,„ so
of 436.426/, for the expense of the naval stores,
agreed to. o'lo
126.8101. for the new works in the naval e'v o.t,j
ments at home was then agreed to, after a fe`b, 1,05
from Captain HARRIS and Captain PECLI ELL, We CO?,
:he hoped the case of th- half pay effic -rs.
had nut been properly attended to, would be ta-e
coesid,ration by the Governawrit. f
21,273/. was then agre.ed to for the purpose °. road'
ing the expenses of the medical astablishmentS st) ,
71,075/. for miscellaneous naval services It- 4
agreed to, without di,cussion. GO*
After a few words from Captain Pechell, Sir o,
Cockburn, Sir Charles Napier, and Admiral Deltri
486,322/., for the pensions of military Offi't
agreed to • -
156,548/. for civil pensions.
166.626/. for transports.
92.859/. for convicts. s
woe
544,587/., to defray the expense of :he p.O--reoin
was then agreed to, after a few observetions "
C. NAPIER. ,been
4
44,420/. 6s. 101 (being.the last vote) to deft 4 lbiras
of the naval expenditure over the last roil.'
porisg
agreed to.
The House then resumed, the ChairraB2.ol:slo
progress, and the report was ordered to be "h"
on Monday next.
COMMONS' INCLOSURE BILL' bielt I*l
'Lord MORPETH brought up a clause '
been agreed to.
The Bill was read a third time and pasied.
POOR REMOVAL BILL. „
ed.
This Bill was postponed until Monday neltr
The other orders of the day were then 101-
and the House adjourned at a Quarter past One
•

OP
•
LORD BROUGHAM AND.
A_
NESE WITNESS. •
In the vast
theology
of Lord Brougham's fttil",-,.,AeOryed
in
now
Cthuinrnesseout that he is practically and deel3`) 010' t
rpeotuwaerricathblise L'Y and as knowledse 010
lot weelr,,,,b, o€'s,
casion was a divorceofhecase ;e
uois_
as s feAli•
Brougham's pastoral
vant, wild a witnea'S In chargethe'ea.,ew: and the Way-, wie
th gs
jest o! his h'!rtations was an oath, which --;„%restt rd
declined to take. The occurrence was higblY '-„tf
„,'°ol
as ILustrating not only the extent tbe
Brougham's attainments, but also the w", Ass j •
the oath in judicial forms. No sooner bibitelki
witness produced, than Lord Brougham es. 01.5ef
laudable anxiety that the solemn ceremapfore
be observed in all its integrity ; he "inclei ceiPe„,,gb
it was not required of her to break her sailitglw;ro
she gave her evidence ?" Of course it WO' sat* si
the. British public, especially one's maid-seer-of.ce
•
t o forgetful of the awful fact, the' breskingel,te
and saucers is,- in Chinese, nothing else but st-0 herd,
and that wholesale crash which is so terrible ~/iIP-of
wifely ears, is in truth a volley of oaths. Irliejetsllsol
h_oArever, raised a question anterior to the. sec'
he oath ; was reluctant to be 000,4
su
time, on the plea that .her .gods would be '44-,llo`,,eif
with her The Noble Lord proved cleit_e.,e'
this new difficulty ; proclaiming, by-the-by lie (0
allegiance for British peers ! Trll her: 1, 06.: 45
to the iat,rpreter, " that her gods will punts"( reortie
not her, if anything wrong is dune ;" and he, tier '045
Ttlt her that no calamity can befit' --oror
%ill consent to be sworn." At length, her, Oho
were appropriately vanquished by the threen;itteeor
she persisted in rutu,ing. she should be evilig-refesi;ol
prison. The recour-e to that hint dis-loses
lias% t 4
able similarity in the reliL2ions opinions et --tiPP:tll
England; for in this country it is custerneribrefil'fi•
come religious Fcruples to taking the veto I'Y five 'ee. 0
imprisnom,,nt: Kowft.n was duly qualifi, dto gbevt
pf
deuce by overcoming the attraction ,Jf coltesionorthelbe
the particles of the saucer—we trope it ,vveLfore tie/
's China"—and the next day she was brought tell AO
peers, Lord Brougham (It sired the interpreter t.,o6ltrA
that now she his been sworn, if she does out act trig
truth her gds will punish her." Toe interPr,j 11.'00
made her acquainted with the Noble and Learewbo
reintirk.—Lord Brougham—Now ask her, ~,preior
her gods ?" In reply, she said, through the le";rell,„0
that the chief was Bur 'dah..—Lord Brougham', he 01-0
that Buddah will punish her most severely.iL 514300
not speak the truth ; and that she will be punts i
in this world if she does not speak the trubgi
being explained, she replied in Chinese, I vo:': off
the truth." Lord Brougham had fully gain d c-5
.(1
in forcing the witness to give a satisfactory g 3.1"
the truth of her evidence.—Spectutor.

SECOND,
THE MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF G-Er6she I::
BY HORACE WALPOLE—Edited mY t pet" 11
Lord Holland, just published for the first time its theuisitllo,
form, in three volumes, will be a most acceptabilriter,to
to all libraries. Known as the son of the tau`.abl,es:u ''' -P
age produced (Sir Robert Walpole), and havrlP. t perifne
nearest friends and relatives members at differen. ,p 1
either of the Government or of the Opposition, 'l' ;istall,',o
sible to imagine an individual more favourably circli.nd rre
than Horace Walpole to record the stirring scenes 7in dt
events which made the reign of George the Sec°,'"), try
markable. But to these advantages must be addeu .p. 5, l'oo
in pourtraying the characteristics of his contempore,ireti„er
a vivacity in describing the scenes in which they Pt a-, ofr„j
conspicuously, in which he is without a rival. In 'tigiliiie,
work can the reader hope to become so thoroughly lulled(
with the features of such statesmen as Sir Robert „,„'elbs,::;
Bohnproke, Pulteney, John Duke of Bpeondfsestoor.d:.l::ol.,doi../ti,
the lownshends, the Grenville!, Chatham Fostgen" AL',/,'
other great names that ad, otririedughthtehCe3a,bi and the— Ife" i
or of Chesterfield, George Selwyn, &c.—politi litoPtiosTroblS
who seemed to care much more for the reP5 ono'
titan the tame of Seaator4 I
pretensions to, both character..
ont h:coltsvtsh - . f Si''
, ion ° 111
contribute not a lotttlell:
Walter q xt /moth the hiaug;_l-stoacellq,:ii,
statue in Edinburgh is to t.„91"0;p0n5
much splendour, to
~ which a procession of rre'

BIRTHS „bleit
Orr the 18th inst., at Dublin, the. lady of A. „t
iler!
Captain in the 59th Regiment, of a dauibter. G2'l°
On the 21st inst., the lady of the Rev- ;
Minister of St. Mark's, Horselydown, of a daugh.,...Le".
On the 22i1 inst., at Chipping Ongar, Esses, .rfs.
Baker, of a son.
On the 211 inst., at Bowden Hall, Gloucestershire'
Hutchinson Swiny, of s son, still-born.
On the 23d n
at Cardiff, South Wales. teh lammed
Major Ftaneklyn, 37th Regiment, of :t daughter.
.et,
On the `24thinst , Mrs. W a !lord, of Cliarlette-str—
lord-square, of a sou.

—_—__
MARRIED. ~, 05,.. bfr, .0.
.. j
At St. George's, lltinsg4te, Constantine Geotb- , asap
of Lipner Clanton, to Sos mint Elizabeth, young"'
Shs97'
of the late .J. I'. Leigh, Esq ,01 Clanton. '
gorf.aprioll.;
On the 21st inst. , at ,;:ighton, the R"V.
M.A., of Arley Chanel, Cheshire. to 1%1,rg, W' G
ret ris,i /it'
er
mond, youngest daughter of the Rev. Philip .4e
of Marden, Kent.