The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-11 00:00:00

mice to the Porte as will amount to the value of
a large slice of the dismembered territories of
her ally,. And that slice, if it be not paid
in money—as it cannot be—she will have
i►i kind: When Russia drew off from the Lon-
don Conference, and her two despotic allies
along with her, under whoseinfhience they act,
.our Government played the game of France, by
enabling that country to try with what. facility it
could reduce Belgium into the state of a pro-
vince—an experiment which succeeded' to the
satisfaction of the Cabinet of the' Tuileries, while
all the advantage obtained by England was the
crippling of her commerce, which the silly and
impolitic embargo suspended for seven months ;
at the end of which we were obliged to return to
a renewal of our relations with the Dutch King,
without obtaining his adhesion to the treaty of
November," or placing affairs on any better foot-
ing than they were before the embargo was laid
on ! Such is the vigour, such the dignity of
our foreign policy—a policy of truckle and com-
promise to which brave and ill-f►ted Poland fell
a victim—offered as a burnt-offering to the
' arrogance of the Autocrat, though even the
Government of Castlereagh thought it necessary

to raise that nation as the. western rampart to
his ambition. The Treasury Journals, which
practised such repeated deceptions on the public
with regard to the settlement of the Belgic ques-
tion, and which, during the administration of
Casimir Perier, positively announced the imme-
diate disarmament of the European Powers—
those very Journals are now endeavouring to
persuade the public that Russia has no designs
of aggrandisement in the. East. Surely those
oracles could not speak otherwise if they gave
their responses under Russian inspiration.—
Morning Herald.
The resolution for apprenticing the negro
slaves for a 'term of years was discussed last
night in the House of -Commons. Mr. Buxton
cited a number of cases of liberated slaves who,
by the stimulus of wages, had performed more
labour than so many slaves would have per-
formed. And he complained of Mr. Hume's
having, in alluding to the experiments regarding
free negro labour in Trinidad, confined himself
to the reports up to 1825. Since that period,
the free negroes had been placed under Captain
Gibbs, and the experiment had completely suc-
ceeded. He contended that the negroes were
fond of luxuries, and in proof, referred to the
negro balls in the West Indies, and the taste for
'•finery of the tigresses.. The confidence ex-
pressed by Mr. Buxton was not shared by most
of the Members who spoke on the subject. It
must be admitted that -there is much force in
what some of the witnesses have stated ; but
still the problem, whether sugar can be raised
by free labour, has not been solved in such a way
as to exclude all doubts. However, it is ad-
mitted on all hand,,- that something mush be
done—that matters have gone too far to allow
of any retrogression.
,There are diffleulties
which ever way we turn. And if there be danger
in immediate emancipation, there must be prodi-
gious difficulty in managing the apprenticed ne-
groes by means of Magisterial authority alone. The
'division gave a very large majority in favour of the
resolution-324 to 42. In moving the fourth
resolution, providing compensation to those
whose property would be injured by the measure,
Mr. Stanley observed, " that every one con-
nected with West India property, wi flout any
exception whatever, stated that the sum of 15
millions would. be inadequate to the loss they
must suffer, and that if that sum alone was
granted, they should feel bound to abstain froth
giving their concurrence or assistance in carrying
on those mercantile transactions on which the
vety existence of the West India colonies de-
pended. On the other hand, the West India
body had given them assurance, that if this
country, in consideration of the property in-
volved, of the object in view, of the sacrifice
that must be made to attain it, would consent
to vote to the proprietors a sum of twenty mil-
lions, that great interest, whose importance every
one must acknowledge, would lend their full
concurrence and cordial co-operation, not only.
here, but in the West Indies." He concluded
with moving that his Majesty be empowered to
grant the 20 millions. There is certainly a
great leap from the loan of 15 millions first
proposed, to a grant of. 20 millions. But
having reached a grant of 15 millions, it would
be unwise to hazard the success of -the scheme
by refusing the other five millions. It has been
undeAstood for some days, that the grant would
be twenty millions ; but the proposition having
come for the first time before the House, this
was deemed a good reason for calling for an
adjournment of the debate.—Morn. Chronicle.
Mr. Benett's motion for the re-appointment
of a Committee to inquire into the proceedings
at elections, prior to that of last •year, in-the bo-
rough of Liverpool, stands for this evening. A
similar notice was among the dropped orders of
last week. We are glad that delay should af-
fbrd further opportunity for deliberation upon
this question, because we are convinced the
more it is considered the less inclined will Par-
liament be to interfere. Disappointed in their
attempt to prove bribery during the last election,
the Radicals of Liverpool seek by this measure
to open the proceedings of every former contest,
with the ultimate view of disfranchising the old
freemen, and giving greater influence to the ten-
pound voters. The result of their success would
be to transfer the representation of the great
mercantile town of Liverpool to any desperate
revolutionists whom the mob may chance
to take by the hand, and to deliver the impor-
tant interests of this emporium of commerce to
the care of reckless demagogues as its repre-
sentatives, instead of intrusting them to gentle-
men of education, who have a large stake in
the country, and who possess the ability and
inclination to promote the real advantage of their
constituents. During the progress of the Re-
form Bill the ten-pound franchise in huge towns
was particularly objected to, and in Liverpool it
is felt as a peculiar grievance ; for by the opera-
tion of that clause in the borough in question,
immense power is placed in the hands of the
lowest portion of the constituency. So great is
the power conferred by the Reform Bill upon
this class of voters that, should the old freemen
be disfranchised, there will positively be no
counteraction whatever to the dominion of the
rabble at any future eleetion.—Morning.

A MAN KILLED. NVITH A CANDLE.—An
inquest was held at Ckwer, on Friday last, on toe body
ot a man named CHARLES IJORNE, who was unfortu-
nately killed the tame morning in the following thought-
less nainif r :—lt appeared in evidence - that the poor
fellow hail been engaged the previous evening as an extra
waior at the Cavalry Barracks, and had returned I ome
early in the nintting.with a friend, with whom he was
laughing and j king, awl, as he walked down the yard
at the back of his boos,, the other loaded a gun with
powder and. put into
.half a.rustilight, and fired with the
int. ntion-of covering him with grease. The pour man
instantly dropped dos% n, anti died in less than two lours
.fterwards, the candle having passed through his LIG' eys.
He has lest a wiT and five small children destitt.t-, and
was well IsnOWO as a very obliging individual.

EAST INDIA HOUSE MEETING.

(Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.)
Mr. RIGBY seconded the motion, although he was of
opinion that a guarantee fund should have been secured
of sufficient magnitude to secure their dividend in per-
petuity.
Mr. FIELDER expressed his opinion that the fund now
proposed would not answer. Under the new plan. the
people of India would be taxed ; but he was convinced
that even that won't] not answer without they retained the
China trade. The truth appeared to be, that Ministers
.were so overborne by the landed interest, by the manufac-
turing interest, and the colonial interest, that they could
:not act as they wished. But that was no rea-ton why the
Company should he compelled to give up their property,
without receiving good and reasonable security for it.
Mr. WEEDING hoped the Court would come to an one-
nimous vote on this occasion. He thought that the con-
duct pursued by the- Directors was most honourable to
their discretion ; and that, under all the circumstances,
they had procured satisfactory conditions from Ministers.
Many of the points contained in the resolution of the 3d 01
May had been conceded.
Mr. TIANKEY, though he would rather have bad a guS-
rantee fund of 3,000,0001. than of 2.000,000/., was yet
content to take the latter. Their great and leading obj'tc
ought to be the good of India; and by the -plan now pro-
posed, the government of that country would be extended
twenty years, which, he conceived, would be a great bless-
ing to the people.
Sir C. Foaaes opposed the entire plan, as being unjust
towards the Company, and most oppressive to the people
of India ; it went to impose a burden on the people of
India which they ought not, and which be hoped they
would not, bear.
Dr. GILCHRIST argued in 'avour of allowing the Com-
pany to carry on the China trade so long as their ships
were seaworthy.
Mr. CARRUTHERS supported the motion, and con-
tended that the 630,0001. annuity could not be considered
a tax on the people of India ; it was merely the sub-
stitution of the Bengal debt, which was to be purchased,
for a debt that would be payable in this country. •
Ciptain GowAN said, as he had on a former occasion
argued that the Company's property in consols, to the
amount of 980,000/., would form a •uficient guarantee
fund, he could not now, of course, object to the larger
fund that was proposed. With respect to a system of pub-
licity, lie considered it a far more important point. By
publicity alone they hope to guard against abuses in
the government of India, and be hoped that the Court
of Directors would still persist in endeavouring to attain
that object.
Mr. M'GmE, after passing a high eulogium on the
Court of Directors, declared that be would most cordially
give his vote for the resolution.
Mr. TWINING expressed his deep regret that the Com-
mittee were about to give up al commerce, and par-
ticu'arly that branch which was connected with China,
which had been prosecuted with so much benefit to the
Company, with so much service to the public revenue',
and, he believed, with so much advantage to the country

at large.
Alter some observations from Mr. LOWNDES, the reso-
lution was carriel by a large majoiity, and the Court

adjourned.