The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

Mr. BANXES considered the amendment as wholly inad.
missible.

nority, and through a similar perversity. The case
of the Irish and Scotch distillers has frequently been
brought under the notice of the Legislature and of
the community in general. It has been shown that
they are greatly injured by the mode in which
the duty is assessed, it being levied on the quantity
originally measured in the spirit receivers, or as it is
technically term " the worms-end." If the spirit be
retained for some time in bond there must necessarily
be a considerable diminution in quantity, arising from
leakage, soakage, evaporation, and other causes un-
necessary to mention ; the strength is also reduced,
so that a double loss is sustained by the distillers.
The improvement of quality would, however,
compensate for these losses, if the duty
were only charged on the quantity actually
brought into consumption, and the result would be,
that a much more wholesome, or, perhaps, we should
say, a less deleterious article would come into general
use. The distillers, however, naturally object to pay
duty on that which has been totally wasted, that they
should not only lose the cost of production, but also
a heavy charge per gallon on that which can never
be made available, and this objection is enhanced by
the fact that their foreign competitors are subjected to
no such disadvantage. No matter how long rum or
brandy, or any other foreign spirit may be kept in
the QUEEN'S stores, the importer will only have to
pay duty on the quantity contained in the vessels
when removed from bond, and will re-
ceive payment for every drop on which
he is charged to the revenue. Now the Scotch and
Irish distillers require no protection or other advan-
tage, but merely to be placed on a similar footing
with their rivals. All they seek is fair play—a clear
stage and no favour. The 4d. differential
or countervailing duty is not more than

sufficient compensation for the restrictions imposed
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on the home producers by other Excise regulations;
and we venture to assert that, if as free to carry on
their operations as the West Indian manufacturer,
they would gladly relinquish that difference.
There is, however, a twofold reason why
Sir CHARLES WOOD resists this reasonable demand.

.. .
First, it is a matter of justice and equity that the re-
quired concession should be made, and that is an
argument to which he will never yield so long as he
regulates the national finances. Secondly, the House
of
fe
Commons on two saveral occasions affirmed
the Pr and expediency of removing the "pro-
"ti to the foreigner, and the Bill that had been
introduced was
Only rejected by a slender majority of
" one" on the
question that the SPEAKER do leave the
chair. The mortification occasioned by the actual
and virtual defeats sunk deep into the heart of the
Bight Hon. Baronet, and increased his former
determination. No alternative then remained but
that the decision
althou of the House should be again
g h there
were no less
taken, and
than 318 Members present, the numbers were equal,
there being 159 votes on each side. The resolution
was therefore carried by the casting voice of the

SPEAKER.
We regret to observe that Lord JOHN Rug-
SELL attempted to neutralise that division by
trying to get another, when many of those who had
supported the resolution had left the House, while
the NI hipper-in had succeeded iz keeping the obedient
Pack together, to vote according to the will and plea-
sure of the dispenser of patrons ge. The demand of the
Scotch and Irish distillers, hos vever, is based on jus-
tice, and must ultimately prevail.;, and the sooner it is
granted with a
Government.g grace the De tter it will be for the good

Great was the rejoicing in the Protectionist comp,
when Mr. CAVENDISH CLIFFORD most unexpectedly
announced that he had
come to 211, determination not
to contest the representittion oit, "the Isle of Wight.

out England and Wales for the present parochial assessment.
He did not propose to go into the question of assessing per-
sonal property.
Captain HARRIS, in seconding the motion, explained Lord
MALMESBURY'S plan for the equalization of the poor-rate.
Mr. BAms opposed the plan as one calculated to do away
with local self-government, and to confound ill-regulated
with well-administered parishes.
The motion was then withdrawn.
Lord NAAS moved that the House do forthwith resolve
itself into a Committee to consider the present mode of levy-
ing the duty on home-made spirits in bond.
Mr. J. WiLsoN opposed the motion, arguing that the ques-
tioi. had been settled in 1848 by a Parliamentary Committee,
which decided that peculiar considerations, not applicable to
colonial and foreign spirits, affected the home
Mr.
Mr. made GRo_
The motion was supported by Mn REystoLns,
GAN, Mr. Hsmez, Colonel DiTNNE, Mr. NAPIER, a, Mr. M.
ALEXANDER HASTIE ; and opposed by Mr. CARTER, Mr.
R rcl
EXCHE-
QUER.
.insoEßsr, Sir G. CLERIC, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE.
Lo rd J
the
duty o.
nR
sucssolLt.hf. sat idd
Ihrei
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ds
regarding m n oti toi reducet
as a
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revenue,
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it
was t
fair notto agtiavxe
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Irietho
and Scotch spirits over English.
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argumentr. Dis saidaitgAaEinLeitamotion the prosperity ofin the spirit
dn founded rit trade was no
The House having divided, the ,numbers were equal-159
aSnroEAthenrEdßivaiecicoonrdiinngthteo ucsoamge.,
defeat, the
on either side
opportunity;whereuponfothre
to afford an
mir tee, gave the casketindgwvhoteethienr,faaftvoeurrthoifsthfoeumrthotion.
Mr RoEnum as
Noble Lord intended to continue in office? For the sake of
his own character as a constitutional politician the Noble
Lord should resign.
Lord J. RUSSELL thanked the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man for his good intention, but considered that he was him-
self quite capable of taking care of his personal character.
His conduct at the commencement of the session proved that
he was not greedy of office, and he could not but remember,
that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had then advised him
not to retire from office too hastily, but taremember that the
cause of free trade was in his bands.
The House then went into Committee; but after an at-
tempt to take another division upon the resolution, the
Chairman was ordered to report progress and ask leave to sit
again.
Mr. E. ELLICE, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill for
appointing Commissioners to inquire into the existence of
bribery in the borough of St. Alban's, gave the House a short
history of the revelations which had been made before the
Election Committee of the condition of that borough and its
constituency.
Mr. COBDEN moved, as an amendment to the motion, to
add the words "and of bribery, treating, and corruption in
the Falkirk district of burghs," in support of which he read
accounts of alleged disorders and malpractices at the last and
preceding elections, which had commenced at Airdrie in
1841, and had extended their demoralising influence to the
other burghs.
Mr. BAIRD denied that he had been concerned in the
transactions alluded to by the Hon. Member for the West
Riding.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL recommended that the two
cases should not be mixed up together.
Mr. ROEBUCK supported Mr. COBDEN'S amendment, and
warned Mr. BAIRD that out of regard to his own character he
should seek an opportunity of exculpating himself:
Mr. &Licit objected to the Falkirk case being engrafted
on that of St. Alban's.

Mr HTThIE recommended Mr. COBDEN to withdraw the
amendment.

Lord J. Russxm could not say that there ought not to be
some inquiry into the transactions stated by Mr. COBDEN ;
but he could not agree that the two cases should be tried by
the same Committee.

After some remarks by Mr. FEESTIFIELD, Mr. LOCKHART,
and Mr. H. BERKELEY,
.dr. COBDEN withdrew his amendment.
The remaining business having been disposed of, the House
adjourned at 25 minutes to Two o'clock.

, There are some Fersons who cannot be taught)
who will derive no salutary lesson from experience,
who think that what they miscall " firmness," but
which, by the great majority of persons competent to
form an opinion on the subject, is regarded as
" dogged and mulish obstinacy," is the chief quali-
fication of a public man. Sir CHARLES WOOD is
apparently influenced by this idea, and so far as he
is concerned we are neither surprised nor grieved at
the result. We have long given up the case of the
Right Hon. Gentleman as utterly hopeless, and feel that
no reasonable expectation of fiscal improvements can
be entertained so long as he remains at the head of
the financial department of the Government. But we
confess that we eannot behold without regret the
fatuity of some of his colleagues, from whom we
might have looked for better things, in suffering
themselves to be dragged through the mire by their
evil genius. If Lord JOHN RUSSELL chose to cast his
shield over the discomfited financier, be must naturally
expect that he himself will receive some of the many
shafts aimed at his protege, one of which may at last
have a fatal effect. Thus, on the question of the renewal
of the income-tax, he not only spoke but voted in
favour of the " conclusion" at which his incompetent
coadjutor had arrived. Although he witnessed the
storm of indignation which the " PRECIOUS BUDGET"
excited in the country, and knew, or ought to have
known, that it was occasioned by the renewal of the
income-tax without change or modification, and the
re-enactment of Schedule D with all its atrocious
inequalities, be made no effort at conciliation, he
offered nothing that could be put forward as a compro-
mise or an instalment of justice. The natural result was
the defeat which he sustained on Friday evening, when
the amendment of the Honourable Gentleman the
Member for Montrose was carried by a majority of
14—a majority which would have been quadrupled
but for the shameless defection of some of the Libera.
Members (!).
Last night the Ministers were again left in a m

This most unexpected announcement took the Free-
traders of the island completely by surpr:sc, and the
Protectionists, believing there was no time to Kek for
another Free-trade candidate, and that, consequently,
their man would enjoy a quiet walk over, raised high
the song of triumph—soon, however, to be changed
into a song of lamentation, for the very day after Mr.
CAVENDISH CLIFFORD had announced his resig-
nation, an address was published from Mr. DAWES,
soliciting the suffrages of the Isle of Wight
constituency as a Protestant, a Liberal, a Free-
trader, and a Reformer, and containing this ominous
sentence--" It is my firm intention to go to the
Poll." We rejoice that such is the intention of
Mr. DAWES, and we doubt not for one moment of
his success. He is the man of all others best suited
to represent effectively any constituency in the House
of Commons. His address, which appears in another
column, contains such a profession of political faith
as entitles him to the energetic support of every one
who really holds truly Liberal principles. He is a
large landholder, but is an advocate of free-trade
policy, because he is convinced that its adoption has
increased the comforts of the working classes, has dis-
armed the disaffected, and probably saved the country
from confusion and ruin. As a remedy for agricultural
distress, he recommends the re-adjustment of rents,
a recommendation which the landlords are in justice
bound to adopt, seeing that the total rental of the
kingdom in 1850 exceeded, as shown by the pro-
perty-tax returns, the total rental of the kingdom in
1815 by 3,000,0001., while it is obvious that not one
single acre of land has been added in the meanwhile
to the superficies of the island ; with a reduction of
rents to the amount of 3,000,0001. annually we
should not hear much of agricultural distress.
Mr. DAWES is a determined upholder of the civil and
religious rights of the community against sacerdotal
usurpation, whether the usurper be Papist or
Puseyite, and he pledges himself to support a
measure for placing conventual establishments
under salutary regulations, and for regulating
bequests devised for charitable and religious purposes ;
in other words, he will do his best to prevent
heiresses being imprisoned for the purposes of plun-
der, or parents bullied on their death-beds into dis-
inheriting their children, while at the same time he;
in common with every other real Protestant, would
allow to " the Church of Rome the same amount of
religious liberty, and the same means for its propaga-
tion as are enjoyed by other religious denominations."
To yield to them more than this would be unjust to
all other religionists and a flagrant violation of the
principle of religious equality, without which
religious liberty cannot exist. On the question
of the suffrage, the opinions of Mr. DAWES are
such as to fully entitle him to the support of the Li-
beral electors of the Isle of Wight, while from his
declaration that his canvass shall be carried on in a
spirit of fairness and candour, we take it fur granted
that should he be returned Mr. DAWES will be found
supporting the motion of which Mr. HENRY BERKE-
LEY has given notice fir the ballot. A more desirable
candidate than Mr. DAWES could not have solicited
the suffrages of the Isle of Wight constituency, and
we have no doubt but that the electors of the Roya
Island will at the same time confer honour on them.

selves and on Mr. DAWES by returning him as their
representative to Parliament.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur says—" The Minister of the Interior
has received dispatches announcing that the anniversary
of the 4th of May was celebrated in the departments in
the midst of complete calm. The rumour of an insur-
rection having broken out at Lyons on Sunday, which
was spread at the Bourse yesterday as a culpable ma-
nosuvre, has not the least foundation. A telegraphic
dispatch, sent from Lyons yesterday morning, states
that that town then enjoyed perfect tranquillity."
M. DE LAMARTINE has published in the Pays an arti-
cle which occupies one side of the paper, urging the im-
mediate repeal of the Electoral Law of May, 1850.
The National, in a notice of the check recently re-
ceived by the English Ministry, expresses its surprise
and regret that the Liberals of the House of Commons
should have compromised their honour and their inte-
rests by playing the game of the Tories.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN publishes an article in the
Presse in which he accuses General CHANGARNIER of
having, in March, 1848, offered M. LEDRU ROLLIN to
invade England with 12,000 men, and proclaim a re-
public.
The Paris correspondent of the Indipendance of
Brussels, writing on Sunday, says:—" The affair of the
conversation between General CHANGARNIER and M.
DE PRESIGNY is not terminated. lam assured that M.
DE PRESIGNT is disposed to cause to be printed let-
ters written by a third party, who represented himself
as an intermediary invested with the confidence of the
General, and being able to speak in his name. The let-
ters, lam told, are twelve in number. If the fact be
real, it will only prove one thing, namely, that M. DE
PRESIGNY, who long had friendly relations with the
General, very ill appreciated his character, which is to
cold, reserved, and prudent., that a prince of the Orleans
family justly said of him, 'lf the General thought
that his hat had divined what he thinks, ho would
burn it.' "
Monday being the anniversary of the death of the
Emperor NAPOLEON, a religious service was performed
iu the church of the Hotel des Invalides. The PRESI-
DENT of the Republic, the VICE•PRESIDENT, the EX-
KING of Westphalia, and several other members of the
BostapaßTE family, were present. The congregation
was very numerous. Several of the generals and other
officers of the empire attended, as did also Marshal NAR-
VAEZ, The railings of the column of the Place Ven-
dome were on this, as on former occasions, covered with
funeral wreaths, brought thither chi‘:fly by old officers
and soldiers of the empire.
Two reports were presented to the Assembly. The
first recommended the rejection of a proposition of M.
Mica for a General Exhibition in Paris. The second
opposed a proposition of M. HOWYN-DE-TRANCHERE
for the formation of a Committee to follow the opera-
tions of the Agronomical Institute of Versailles.
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M. PIERIE
PRADIE laid on the table the following proposition:—
" The President of the Republic and the Ministers shall
be impeached if they do not dissolve, according to the law,
the committees and re-unions which ostensibly have for their
object to promote the election to the Presidency of the Re-
public of a candidate who cannot be consti utionally elevated
to that dignity. They shall also be guilty of high treason
if they do not enforce against the distributor of lists, of pro-
fessions of faith, or writings of every description having the
same object, the laws intended for the repression of such
acts."

The speculators at the Bourse appear to have re-
covered from the panic of Monday, and public securi-
ties improved in price. The Five per Cents. opened
at 90t, 50c., and closed at 90f. 60c. The Three per
Cents. closed at 561, 40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
820 f. ; Havre, 252 f. 50e. ; Great Northern, 477 f. 50c.;
Avignon, 2101. Basle, 1431. 75c.; Bordeaux, 4031. 75c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 367 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes,
276 f. 25c.

SUBINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934 —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 174—East Indian, 15%—Luxembourg,
—Northern of France, 15—Paris and Rouen, 24%—Rouen
and Havre, 10—West Flanders, 31/g.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the Ist have arrived.
Their contents are without interest.
MADRID BOLSA., MAY I.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 35a for time; the Four per Cents. at 14k;
the Fivo per Cents. at 16; tho Debt without Interest
at 6 7-16; and the Coupons at 831,-.

THE SHARE MARKETS

ERITISR RAILWAYS.

Railways.

Aberdeen.. .. • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Junelon
Belfast and County Down
Binning, Womerhamp.,
and Stour Valley
Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh
June late 331. 6s. Bd..

Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,
501. & 251. Consolidated
Do., do., 20/. ..
Bristol and Exeter..
Caledonian • • • • • •
Chester and Holyhead ..
Direct Lond. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Junct.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee, Perth, and Aber-
deen Junction .. • •
Do., New ..
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.) •. ••
Do. (181. E. & 11.) • .
Eastern Counties ..
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares ..
Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
East Lancashire ..
Do. New quarters ..
Edinburgh and GlasgoW
Edin ~ Perth, and Dundee
Exeter and Exmouth ..
Glasgow and South-West,
Do. do. G. D. & C. stee.k
Great Northern ..
Do. halves, A, deferred

. .
Do. halves, B, 6 per ct.
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland
Great Western .. ..
Do. New, 171. ..
Lancaster and Carlisle ..

Do. thirds • • •• ..
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fifths .. • • •
Do. West Riding Union
Leeds and Think • - • •
Liverpool, Crosby, aid
Southport
London and Blackwall • •

Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .. ..
London and N.-Western
Do. do. new quarters .
Do. fifths .. • .
Do. 101. sh., M. &IS (c)
London and S.-Western .
Do. new 501.
Do. new 401. ..
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock ..
Manchester, Sheffield, &
Lincolnshire
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union

Midland ..
Do. 501. shares ..
Do. Birming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle..
Do. quarter shares ..
Newmarket ..
Newport, Abergavenny,
and llereford
Newry and Enniskillen..
Newry, Warrenpoint, &
Rostrevor
Norfolk
Do. New 20/. shares..
Northern Counties Union
North British..
North Staffordshire ..
North-Western ..
North & Sth.-West.June.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Scottish Central ..
Scottish Midland
Do. new ..
Shrews. & Birm., Masi A
Do. Class B
Chrews. & Hereford., Old
Do., do., New ..
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves
Do. Oswestry
Do. New.. ..
Shropshire Union

Do., A, B, C, & D, fhlly
paid up at per cent . •
South Deven
South-Eastern
South Wales.. .. • •
south Yorksh. and River
Shell., Roth., and Goole,
South Division
Stockton and Hartlepool
Swansea & Loaghor, &c.
raw Vale Extension
Thames Haven Dock and
Railway
vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick,
Waterford, Wex., Wick.
and Dublin ..
West Cornwall
West London ~
Whitenaven and Furness
York, Newcastle, & Ber-
wick ..
Ditto and Newcasth
Extension ..
Ditto G.N.E. purchase
York and North Midland,

Nomlial Prices.

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