The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

muse give tim7, m^nny, ancl ir.fltrnee fn r+tain retiree
and above all, they must make common cause with all
the other great producing interests. Bad money laws
have injured the merchant, the trader, the manufacturer,
the landowner, and the farmer. The poor operative, and
the day labourer have again and again suffered all that
humanity can endure from privation and misery.
Let the landed aristocracy of England stand forward,
not to fight for their class interests, but to contend for
the general weal. What has immortalized the Barons
of the great charter, and the Great Charter itself?
It is this. They asserted the rights and liberties, and
assured the property and interests of all classes of
their fellow-countrymen. " The Barons," says Sir
James Mackintosh, " showed no indifference to the in-
ferior classes; for in their articles they require a Parlia-
mentary consent to the tallages of London and all other
towns, as much as to the aid and scutages which fall upon
themselves." That charter provided for the welfare of
noble, merchant, free-man, and serf. "We shall sell, delay,
or deny justice to none." The Barons were strong in
right, and strong in right will that body again be when
they stand forth to rescue all the industrious classes of
the community from a system which is the common
enemy of all. JOHN TWELLS.
Perlethorpe, Notts.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, Feb. 11.)
Suoaa.—To-day there was more disposition evinced
to operate in West India Sugar ; importers are also
firmer, and obtained rates fully equal to those of Friday
for both grocery and refining qualities; of Barbadees 169
hhds 19 trcs were sold at full prices, fine yellow realizing
43s 6d to 445, aad common to good 40s 6d to 435. The
total purchases were 620 hhda and trcs. At auction 48
hhds 12 trcs 47 brls St. Kitts were sold at 38s 6d to
403 6d for ord and good mid yellow, and at 37s to 39s
for washed.

REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were operated in
with caution for home trade purposes, and prices are
rather lower, ruling at 48s 6d to 49s for brown lumps.
The market for crushed Sugar has a dull tone, with free
sellers at former rates.
MAHRITIIIS.—This afternoon the biddings were brisker
at a public sale of 2,473 bags, and full rates were ob-
tained, fine yellow selling at 41s to 425, other sorts 37s
to 40s, and good to fine brown 35s 6d to 363 6d.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was more
in demand, and realized last week's rates ; at auction
3,999 bags were mostly disposed of—good to fine grainy
yellow went at 41s to 44s 6d, mid 38s 6d to 40s, good
white Benares 43s 6d to 445, mid and good mid 41s 6d
to 42s 6d. Of Madras 1,213 bags were, however, only
in part sold at the former value—low mid soft yellow
went at 30s to 335, and good to fine 34s to 38s.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of
Foreign Sugar, and privately the business concluded
was small for all purposes, but holders refused to sell
under the rates of last week.
MOLASSES.—Since our last report, operations have
been upon a limited scale in all sorts, still lower rates
are not accepted, supply being small. The value of
West India is from 15s to 17s for low to fine; Cuba and
Porto Rico 15s to 17s, Mauritius and Bengal 12s to 14a
per cwt.
COCOA.—In consequence of easier rates having been
acceded to for foreign, operations have been upon a more
extended scale by private treaty; Guayaquil at 325, Bahia
and Para 30s to 30s 6d per cwt. British Plantation is
not cheaper, the supply being yet small, but dealers have
operated with caution; Trinidad at from 48s to 503, and
Grenada 43s to 48s per cwt.
COFFEE.—To-day rather lower rates being accepted
for Native Ceylon Coffee, occasioned a fair business to be
concluded by private treaty. At auction 1,733 bags
were chiefly sold at 47s to 47s 6d for good ordinary; a
part was taken in at 50s for superior quality. Of Plan-
tation several parcels sold privately at toll terms. Costa
Rica is wanted, and 150 bags realized 51s to 52s .6d for
good and fine ordinary.
TEA.—Although Congou is offering rather under pre-
vious rates dealers operate with reluctance. The value
of common and good ord is lid to 1 lid, medium is to
Is Oid, and better sorts is ld to Is 9d per lb. The
lower kinds are now least in request. Fur Green the
market has a dull appearance. Scented and Pekoe Teas
can be obtained rather under previous terms, and few
buyers are to be met with. Of 12,000 pkgs offered at
auction on Wednesday, only 2,000 found buyers.
RICE.—For the hest white descriptions of East India,
a good demand exists fur :cleaning purposes, and full
rates are paid. All other sorts are, however operated
in with caution by shippers and home dealers, although
offered rather under previous terms. At auction
4,762 bags Madras all sold at 9s 6d to 10s per cwt
for good clean white Bengal grain; but of
6,604 bags pinky not above half found buyers
at from 7s 6d to 9s for low to good; of 1,800
bags Bengal a part sold at 10a to Ils 6cl for mid to
fine white. By private treaty there are sellers of Cargo
and Pearl Barley at 8s per cwt, but few buyers are to
be met with. Of cleaned Patna large parcels have
been sold at lis to 18s for low to fine ; and there
is a fair business doing in town dressed Carolina at
20s to 265; and American at 18s to 19s per cwt. In
Sago sales are upon a more extended scale at 19s to 21s
for small Pearl; and Sago Flour at 14s 6d to las. Ta-
pioca has been dealt in with more freedom at 4d to sd,
but for Arrowroot the demand has been limited. Bar-
badoes is to la 6d, other sorts of West India 3d to 10d,
and East India at 2d to 4d.

SPICES.—To-day at public auction 31 bgs of Pimento
sold at 44d to 4d for ord, and at 5d for mid; 16 bgs
Madras Ginger at 35s for sound; but 200 bgs pod
Pepper were withdrawn.
Sprarrs.—Leeward Island is held for is 8d to is 9d
proof., the supply continuing small; at the same time
there are few buyers. East India has been in good re-
quest, in consequence of is 6d to is bid being accepted.
We quote plain and mid quality 30s to 33s per cent over
proof at 2s 8d to 3s, good to fine 33 to 38 over 3s 2d to 4s6d
but only limited transactions have taken place. There con-
tinues to be a good demand for Demerara from
2s 6d to 2s 10d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof. Brandy
—Cognac, best brands of the vintage' of 1850, at
4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto, 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto,
4s 9d to 4s 11d, and inferior sorts 3. to 3s 4d. Geneva
is is 7d to is Bd, fine is 9d to 2s. British made Spirit
is yet 9s 8d to 9s 9d, and Gin 8s 3d for 22 per cent
under proof.

IriniGo.—The quantity declared for sale was 11,683
chts in the A, and 4,730 iu the B catalogue; total 16,413
chts; of which 2,247 have not been printed, leaving the
quantity to be brought forward 14,166 chts. During
the progress of the sale 427 chts have beer.
withdrawn. 1,180 chts (including 427 withdrawn) have
passed the sale this day. There was but a small attend-
ance of either home or foreign buyers, and the orders
generally appear to be very limited.
COCHINEAL.—On the part of holders there is more
firmness, and none has been submitted to public sale
since this day week. Privately a fair business has been
concluded; Honduras, silvers 3s 6d to 4s, black 3s 8d to
4s 8d; Mexican, silvers 3s 5d to 3s 7d, black 3s 8d to 3s
10d, and Teneriffe 3s 7d to 4s 4d per lb. For auction
the quantity declared is small.
TALLOW.—An active demand has been experienced for
Russian on the spot, with much firmness on the part of
holders. For fine new Yellow Candle the rates obtained
have been 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. Several contracts
were entered into for delivery in the next two months
at 37s ed to 38s for new. The rates demanded are
39a to 39s 3d for last three months of the year,
but little desire is at present evinced to operate. Town
melted is still quoted at 37s net cash. In other sorts of
Tallow larger purchases have been made, and at firm
rates. At auction 1,250 casks Australian were nearly
all sold at from 33s 9d to 37s 9d; 400 pkgs South Ame-
rican 355 6d to 38s; 800 casks wrecked Petersburgh
Yellow Candle 36s 3d to 37s 3d per cwt. For public
sale 1,400 pkgs are declared.
Ort.s.—This afternoon at auction 93 cks Cocoa Nut
Oil from Tahiti were sold at 25s to 27s 6d per cwt. Of
120 tuns Sperm Oil a small party only sold at 851 to 851
103 per tun for first sort.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.—We are glad to find
,hat the extensive alterations and improvements which have
for some time been in progress at the New Strand Theatre,
being now completed, this pretty " cabinet" will be opened
early next month by Mr. Copeland, of the Theatres Royal
and Amphitheatre, Liverpool, who has become the lessee,
Among other important improvements, a new gallery stair-
case has been erected, the entrance to which is in Surrey-
street. This will be a valuable " godsend" to the " deities?'
The company will be most talented and select, and the per-
formances of a very novel and striking character.
THE LATE FATAL COLLISIONS IN THE FIRTH OF
CLYDE.—GLASGOW, SnIMAY EVENING.—It has now been
definitively ascertained that the craw of the Laurel, which
vessel was ran down by the Thistle steamer on Tuesday
night, numbered fifteen souls. There was also a gentleman
passenger—thus making sixteen in all who have perished by
this unhappy catastrophe, after having braved all the win-
ter storms of the Atlantic, and when within three hours'
sail of the close of their voyage. A dressing-case, belong-
ing to the passenger containing the miniature of a lady, has
been cast ashore. The name of this gentleman is believed
to be Bradford, from Demerara. The name of the captain
of the Laurel is Livingstone, not Dalrymple, as formerly
reported. Little of the wreck has been cast ashore since
Thursday, and none of the bodies, in consequence of the
wind having changed, and being likely to surge them down
the channel. In the opinion of nautical men, who have seen
the wreck of the Laurel's stern, the frightful onset of the
steamer must have cut the brig quite open, and gone right
over her, sending her to the bottom almost instantaneously.
It is presumed that the Laurel had been lying to at the time,
waiting for the morning light to run up to Greenock. The
name of the captain of the Eleanor, run down on the same
night by the Vanguard steamer, was Kewley, a respectable
As the night was wild he had not retired to
at the cabin fire with his clothes on
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lanterns to attract attention. As no tidings have been
heard of I.er along the coast, she has undoubtedly gone down,
and the three men have perished. The Eleanor was 10,5
tons, and belonged to Whitehaven. The survivors admit
that they put the helm to " starboard" instead of to " port,"
according to the Admiralty regulations; and thus the vessel
and lives were lost by their own negligence, for the Van-
guard was seen ten minutes before she came down upon
them. The sheriffs' authorities at Glasgow are making an
investigation into the catastrophe of the Laurel, but, as yet,
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ever learn more.
The Lyons paper states that, during the whole of
Sunday last, the rain fell in torrents, which, added to the
snow which had melted on the mountains, had caused the
Rhone to rise considerably. The Saone has also risen in
such a manner as to cause considerable anxiety. At St.
Etienne, the waters of the Furens had swollen so much that
all the shops in that part of the town, which suffered so
much in July, 1849, had been closed, and the property re-
moved. Detachments of dragoons have been stationed along
the banks, both above and below the town, in order to render
assistance where necessary. The Chavanelet, which is usu-
ally nothing more than a small stream, overflowed its banks,
and washed down three houses. No lives were lost.

TYrP7RT AL PARLIAYIFNT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 11.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his cent on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Lord ABINGER presented a petition from the county
of Surrey against the Papal aggression. He thought the
Government ought to put the existing laws into force
before bringing forward any measure in Parliament.
He complained of the inefficieney of the Govern-
ment measure, more particularly of that portion of it
which prevented these bishops from administering to
property left to the Roman Catholic Church, a provi-
sion which might be easily evaded. He thought that
some measure ought to be adopted to put a stop to the
great Roman Catholic conspiracy by preventing the
monastic orders from exercising any power. In
Poland a Roman Catholic ministry had, after the Re-
formation, been enabled by their episcopal and mo-
nastic organization to oppress and persecute the ma-
jority, which majority consisted of members of the Greek
and Lutheran Churches. They had gone on until a civil
war broke out, and then the Roman Catholics ap-
pealed to foreign powers for assistance; and the re-
sult had been the destruction of the free king..
dom of Poland, and the partition of the country;
and if by a culpable neglect the Roman Catholics were
enabled to carry out their ambitious designs in this
country who could say what might be the result? Should
the Roman Catholics be enabled to return some hundred
Members to the House of Commons what would not be
their power as a balancing body acting always
together. They might command the majority.
It was said that Roman Catholic priests
were poor; but great conspiracies had from their very
secresy great power. Let them remember that at the
Reformation two-thirds of the property of the kingdom
was in the hands of the Roman Catholics, and yet by
energy the Reformation was carried. The Roman Ca-
tholic priests were endeavouring to induce girls pos-
sessed of property to become nuns, and thus they sought
to possess themselves of the property of the kingdom.
They had seen at their bar a counsel pleading that a
nunnery was entitled to property which under ordinary
circumstances would have been the property of the nun,
bat which the father had declared should not be the
property of any of his children who should become mem-
bers of a religious order. Several other instances had
occurred lately in which the Roman Catholic priests had
endeavoured to deprive persons of their property. They
had subjected persons of their religion to macerations
until their minds should be reduced completely under
the power of the priests. In one case in which the
Jesuits had prosecuted for the recovery of property they
lied given 10,0001. to compromise the case. What must
have been the dark features of that case which the
Jesuits would wish to keep from the public eye,
(ven by the payment of 10,0001.1 In another
case a Roman Catholic priest had expended 4,0001.
of trust money, and had refused to give any
account. In monasteries persons were kept
in imprisonment. They had inspectors of prisons and
of lunatic asylums, and they ought to have inspectors of
nunneries and monasteries, to prevent unfortunate per-
sms from being confined in those places who might
desire to be set at liberty. They required a vigorous
police over monasteries, nunneries, and monks. By the
Emancipation Act they were to have registers of
nuns and monks; no such register had been
kept, nor had any registrars been appointed.
Jesuits were prohibited from entering England, and yet
they swarmed. He thought that personal property
should be included in the statute of murimain, which,
prevents the Roman Catholic religion from being en-
dowed. The intrusion of priests ink) our houses for the
abduction of our daughters, of our wives, and of the ob-
taining of death-bed legacies, by working on the fears of
the dying, should be prevented. Tho Noble Lord at the
bed of the Government had, by what he had already
done, excited the undying enmity of many implacable
enemies, and he hoped he would carry out the work he
had begun.

The Earl of HARR° W BY presented several petitions
against the Papal aggression.

-Lord WODEIIdifSE presented several petitions to
he same effect.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid certain returns
on the table.

COUNTY COURTS BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he should move
the second reading of this Bill pro forms on Thursday,
in order to introduce certain alterations in it.
RAILWAYS IN NORTH AMERICA.
Lord MONTEAGLE, pursuant to notice, presented
a petition from New Brunswick, praying that facilities
should be given for the construction of railways in
British North America.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb 11.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr.,HATCHELL, the new Attorney-General for Ire.
land, took the oaths and his seat for Windsor.
PRIVATE BILLS.

The following Bills were then read a second time and
ordered to be committed:— .
Appleby, Kendal, Kirkby Stephen, and Market Brough
Turnpike Road.
Bangor and Caernarvon Railway.
Birkenhead Docks (Further Powers to Birkenhead Dock
Company, lee.)
Bristol and Exeter Railway.
Cheltenham and Gloucester District Turnpike Road.
Cheltenham and Painawick Road.
Dee Standard Restoration.
Dewsbury Gas.
Downham Market, &c., Drainage.
East London Waterworks.
Eastern Union Railway.
Great Central Gas Consumers Company.
Great Southern and Western Railway.
Great Malvern Improvement, Police, Sewers, Waterworks
Gas, and Markets.
Halesworth, Beccles, and Haddiscoe Railway.
Harwich Improvement, Quays, and Pier.
Hartlepool Pier and Port (Consolidation of Acts, &c.)
Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway.
Holyhead Railway or Tramway.
Itchen Bridge and Roads.
Laird's Patent.
Leicester Waterworks.
Leicester Sewerage.
Liverpool Docks (Amendment of Acts, &e.)
Midland Railway (Regulation and Increase of Capital, &c.)
Midland Railway (Extension of Time, &c.)
Winthrop and Levens Turnpike Road.
Newark-upon-Trent Improvement and Market.
North and South-Western Junction Railway.
North Shields Quays and Improvements.
Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Price's Patent Candle Company.
Reading Waterworks.
Reading Cemetery Company.
Regent's Canal Company.
Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin).
Scarborough Gas.
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield,
and Goole Railway.
South Devon Railway (No. 1).
South Devon Railway (No. 2).
Sunderland Improvement.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Trinity College (Dublin).
Waveney Valley Railway.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Branch to West
Durham Railway, &c.)
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Abandonment of
part of Bishop Auckland Branch, &c.)
Sir J. Y. BULLER preseeted petitions from several
places in Devonshire complaining of agricultural distress.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented several petitions from
Lancashire praying for a repeal of the window-tax.
Lord C. MANNERS presented two petitions from
Leicestershire, one against the Papal aggression, and
the other praying for the repeal of the malt. t ax.
Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition from a place
in Cambridgeshire praying for the establishment of
county financial boards.
Lord HOTHAM presented petitions from the East
Riding of Yorkshire complaining of agricultural distress,
and praying the House to take steps to remove it.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition to the same effect
from Worcestershire.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from Kent
against the Papal aggression.
Mr. BOOKER presented a petition from Glamorgan-
shire complaining of agricultural distress.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from St.
Michael's, Dublin, against the Government measure for
resisting the Papal aggression; a petition from Ros-
common praying for a new and equal valuation under
the poor-law; a petition from the letter-press printers
of Dublin praying for the total repeal of the duty on
paper; and a petition to the same effect from the pub-
lishers and stationers of Dublin.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from Lin-
colnshire complaining of agricultural distress.
Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from St.
James's, Westminster, praying for the repeal of the
window-tax.
Mr. D'EYNCOURT presented a petition to the same
effect from Lambeth.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a similar petition from
Marylebone.
Mr. HUME presented a large number of petitions
from various places praying for the repeal of the taxes
on knowledge.
Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented petitions from
several places in Dorsetshire complaining of the opera-
tion of free trade. The petitioners stated that they
were subject to highway rates, poor rates, and all the
other obligations to which land was liable, and that
they enjoyed none of the benefits of free trade ; and,
therefore, petitioned that they might be exempt from
the disadvantages of which those who enjoyed its
benefits were ignorant.
Mr. Herries, Lord March, and several other Members
presented petitions to the same effect.
Sir R. INGLIS presented several petitions to enforce
measures against the Papal aggression.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Alderman Humphery, and
Lord Duncan presented petitions from several places
against the window tax.
CEYLON.
Mr. lIU.ME gave notice that ho should on this dy
oratight hrittg the affairs of Ceylon before the House.
PUSEYISM IN THE CU URCH.
Sir B. HALL wive notice that, on Friday next, he
would ask whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to introduce a measure this session, to pre-
y( nt the introducti-41 of Roman Catholic forms into the
Established Church; and, alb°, that it was his intention
to call the attention of the House to certain representa-
tions made, and to the memorial presented to the Bishop
of London, by the inhabitants of Marylebone, core-
eßrormtaceni2itliirt Li.otemßLhitcp.the Church, and
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THE CUSTOMS.'
Mr. MACGREGOR postponed his motion for an in.
quiry into the appointment of a solicitor to the Customs
until this day f,rrnight.
THE MARBLE ARCEL
Colonel SIBTHORP asked the Noble Lord, the Com.
missioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, whether he
could state to the House what further time would be re-

onirea for the erection of the marble arch et Cumber-
etei.,?,eite, and wee,her lie coeid assure Lll6 iLLUIC that
I the 4,0561. voted by Parliament last cession would be
. sufficient to cover the whole expense of placing it in that
position where it was never expected to be placed, and
where it would greatly inconvenience the public ?
Lord SEYMOUR replied that the erection of
the arch would be completed by the Ist of May, and
that the estimate would not be exceeded.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Mr. ADDERLEY asked the Under-Secretary of
State for the Colonies, whether he intended to lay on
the table of the House the correspondence which
had passed between himself and the Governor of
the Cape, subsequently to the receipt in that
colony of the Orders in Council, empowering the go-
vernor and his legislative council to frame a representa-
tive constitution ; and whether a petition had been
transmitted to her Majesty from the inhabitants of Cape
Town and other places in South Africa, praying her
Majesty's sanction to the heads of a constitution em-
bodied in that petition.
Mr. HAWES said that the correspondence in question
would be laid before the House as soon as possible, but
at present it would be highly inconvenient. With re-
gard to the petition, he might say that it was only on
Saturday that they it been received.
CEYLON COMMISSION.
Mr. BAILLIE rose to ask the Under-Secretary of the
Colonies, if it was the intention of the Government to op-
pose the motion of which notice had been given, that
the evidence taken by the Ceylon Committee should be
,printed; whether it was the intention of the Government
to lay upon the table of the House the report of the
Royal Commission which was sent to Ceylon in conse-
quence of an address from the House of Commons in the
last session of Parliament, as well as the evidence taken
before the Commissioners.
Mr. HAWES said that it was impossible to lay before
the House the papers which the Hon.Mmber asked for, as
a court-martial was speedily to be held on Captain Wat-
son, and it would be unfair to publish these papers
beforehand.
Mr. BAILLIE said, in consequence of this refusal, he
should be obliged to ask the Speaker two questions—
the first of which was, whether the papers iu question,
having once been laid before a Select Committee of the
House, they were not henceforward in possession of the
House, and if it was not therefore a breackof privilege to
withhold them afterwards from the House. The second
question was whether, as a Member who had been
charged with bringing forward false documents, it was
not in his (Mr. Baillie's) power to demand the produc-
tion of those doeements for his own justification?—(Hear.)
The SPEAKER said, that with regard to the first
question, it depended entirely on the mode in which the
papers in question had been laid before the Committee.
If they had been produced in a formal manner, and en-
tered regularly in the minutes, they were certainly in the
possession of the House, and it was a breach of privilege
for any Governmental department to withhold them; but
if they had not been laid formally before the Committee,
the Governmental department in which they were could
produce them or not at their own discretion. With
regard to the second question, it was Dot a question of
privilege, but one to be decided by a motion Or th• House.
TEE LATE EXPLOSION ON THE CLYDE.
In answer to a question from Mr. MUNTZ,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that as yet no inquiries
had been made as to the late explosion on the Clyde,
but a report would be presented to the Beard of Trade !
in a few days, when they would be better able to judge
of the nature of the cause of the accident.