The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clc )ck.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 31, 1851.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of D. Miguel
Mien, Marquis del Bayamo, as Consul-General in the
United Kingdom for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
DOWNING-STREET, Arum 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Stephen John
Hill, Dig., Brevet-Major in the army, to bo Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's
Forts and Settlements, and their dependencies, on the
• Gold Coast.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Samuel
Wensley Blackall, Esq., Major in the Royal Longford
Regiment of Militia, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the
Island of Dominica.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
The Right Hon. Henry John Moreton, commonly
called Lord Moreton, to he Deputy Lieutenant, March 25.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire.
Seymour Philippa Allen, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, March 19.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 25.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Gram-
shaw, of Leicester, in the county of Leicester, Gent., to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan-

eery.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S. OFFICE, FEB. 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing-room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the
ad of April next, at two o'clock.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Bernard Angle, licensed victualler, Moorfields.
BANKRUPTS.
George Thomas Minor, Inendraper, Mount-street,
Lambeth, to surrender April 10, at twelve, and May 15,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official
assignee, Coleman•street-buildings; Star and Gribble,
Lombard-street.
Rees Davis, draper, Tredegar, Monmouthshire April
15 and May 13, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Bevan, Bristol.
Edward Harratt and John Bland, builders, Hunting-
don April 15 and May 22, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street; Fox and Sewell, Old Broad-street; Hunnybun,

Huntingdon.
Ebenezer Thornton, ironmonger, Huddersfield, iron-
monger, April 11, and May 22, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds;
Fenton and Jolley, Huddersfield; Bond and Barwick,
Leeds.
Norwich, William Leopold Metcalfe,
Charles May,
Great Yarmouth, and Charles James Metcalfe, Roxton,
Bedfordshire, soap manufacturers, April 11, at two, and
01 y 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Nor-
ris, Allen, and Simpson, Bedford-row; Worship, Great
Yarmouth.
Thomas Lucas Clayton, milkman, Potteagrove, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire, April 9, at two, and May 9, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official as-
signee; Cobb, Downham-road, Lower-street.
Isaao Dewhurst and John Sawley Dewhurst, Cotton-
spkners, Skipton, Yorkshire, April 15, at eleven, and
May 5, at twelve, at the Lceds District Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Brown, Skipton; Bond and Bar-
wick, Leeds.
Jo`in Frederick Cole, victualler, Hampton Court,
April 10, at half-past one, and May 15, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Bas-
inghall-street; Wild, Rees. and Humphry, College-hill.
James Bury, jun., cotton waste dealer, Sneinton, Not-
tinghamshire, April 11, at ten, and May 9, at eleven, at
the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittle-
ston, official assignee, Nottingham; Browne, Notting-
ham.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amster tuit 11 15
Ditto, three months 11 16%
1-tetterdam ••• • • • •• 11 16
AntwerP ••••••• • •• • • • • 25 224
Brussels • • • • 25 22%
Ilaraburgh ••.. • • M.B. 13 6.74
Paris, 3 clayealght •••• 25 21,
Ditto. 3 months 25 22%
Marsellle3 .• •• •• •• •• 25 25
Frankforton Maine.... 119
Vivnna, effec. fi0...... 13 20
ricate, 13 '2O
retersburgh,Sll. Rble..
Mttritid •• ........ • • 50
Cadie ••• • •• •• 50

%NGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Leghorn...... •••• • • •• 30 50
Geitoa 25 50
Milan
Venice.....• • . ........
Naples .. ........ .... 41%
Palermo, per0z........ 125
Messina • ...... 125
Ltabon...• • • • • • • .• .... 53%
Oporto •••• • • • • • 53%
Rio Janeiro • • • • • • 29
Buenos Ayres .. • • ....
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia • •

PRICED OF BULLION, PEE OZ,
Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars .. •• 0 4 1144
Silver in bars ...... •• 0 5

Barcelona► •• • • •• •• -• ••

seviUo.. ... •. ..... ..

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships assembled shortly before Five o'clock
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given by Commission to the fol-
lowing Bills:
Consolidated Fund.
Passengers Act Amendment.
Commons Enclosure.
Appointment of a Vice-Chancellor.
The Lards Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl Grey.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
At Five the House resumed.
CEYLON.
Viscount TORRINGTON then rose to move for the
papers in relation to recent events in Ceylon, of which
he had given notice. He felt that he was bringing for-
ward this motion at a time when a strong prejudice ex-
isted against him, bat he should be able to prove,
from authentic documents, that in all that he had
done in Ceylon he had acted constitutionally; that
he had acted by the advice of his constitutional
advisers in the colony, and that those persons who before
the other House had given evidence against him had,
not only officials but merchants and others, testified
to him in Ceylon their approbation of his acts. Mr.
Baillie in the other House had given notice of a motion
of censure on him. He had maintained silence
under the numerous calumnies which had been
poured upon him, believing that when the mo-
tion should come on he would have an opportunity of
defending himself, but Mr. Baillie having thought pro-
per to postpone the motion to an indefinite period, he
had felt it his duty to at once draw their Lordships' at-
tention to the enhject. The accusations against him
might be denied under three heads—first, with regard
to the finances; second, with regard to the re-
bellion, its causes, and its suppression; and thirdly,
with regard to the personal allegations against him.
He was appointed Governor of Ceylon in February,
1847, and he arrived there on 28th May, 1847. He
found the revenue in a deplorable state; there was a
great deficiency, and he immediately proposed to the
Council measures for remedying such a state of things.
Those measures were adopted unanimously. The cin-
namon trade was labouring under difficulties,
and he recommended measures to relieve that
trade; those measures were successful, the revenue
"wavered its elasticity, and the cinnamon export trade
was largely increased. A Stamp Act was passed, and it
was found exceedingly beneficial to the island at large.
A large proportion of the revenue was devoted to the
improvement of the roads, that was a most important
tending eubject, a
to develop the resources of the island,
and it was unanimously resolved that each male in the
island, from fifteen to sixty, should devote six day's
labour, or it, value to the improvement of the roads.
These were the principal measures he had proposed, and
they had been unanimously approved of, But ho had
been found fault with for proposing the gun-tax, the
carrying-tax, and the shop-tax. Those taxes had been
proposed not for revenue purposes merely, t had been
discovered that there were at least 60,000
stand
arms in the country; and it was thought necessary as a
of
precautionary measure to have a registrationor
guns, and for that purpose the tax was imposed. thosei
regard to the carrying tax it was thought advisable ttho
ensure a responsibility oa the part of the carriers, and
with regard to the shop tax it was imposed to ensure a
knowledge of the revenue of traders. With regard to
the dog tax, those who had resided in Eastern
cities knew the nuisance which dogs were,
and how they increased in consequence of a dislike
on the part of the Orientals to take away animal life.
This tax bad been imposed to enable the officials to ex-
terminate these wretched dogs, wandering about without
an owner, as those persons who owned dogs would be,
in oonsequence, compelled to register them, to pre-
vent them from wandering abroad. That was the
51)10 object of the imposition of the dog-tax,
At the time he undertook the government of the colony
the finances were is a most lamentable state. The state
of the finances at that time is thus described by the
Auditor General of the colony :--",The year 1846 pre-
sents a lamentable falling eff, there having been in that
year an excess of expenditure over revenue amounting to
81,8011. 13s. 74d., which, though lessened by advances,
recovered drafts in transit, see., by the sum of
6,934/. 6s. 114 d., still leaves a net deficit on the year of
74,857/. 6s. 80. Deducting
3s.
balance of 129,4601. this amount from the
9.41. in hand on the Ist
of January, 1846, it will consequently appear
that on the let of January, 1847, the balance actually
in hand was reduced to the sum of 54,5921. 17s. lfd.
On his arrival in the island he issued ircular instruct-
inga a
all those in authority to maket to
everyreduce to the narrowest limit the expenditurerrangernen
their
respective departmente, and he introducethein
following
measures to relieve tho trade and to distribute more
justly the taxation of the colony:—The
• n 'u Petpurt duties
were abolished, except the duty u
cinnamon, which
was reduced by two-thirds, viz., from ls. to 4d.
the
pound; the import duties were equalised, differential
duties being abolished; generally the taxes to bore-
duced were to be estimated at 42,163/. As to the export
duties which were abolished, it was estimated that the
relief given to certain classes would be as follows:—To
the cinnamon growers, about 15,0001. per annum, esti-
mated upon the crop of 1847; to the coffee growers,
about 12,0001, per annum ; to the tobacco growers
of the northern districts, the cocoa-cut planters,
and native cultivators, about 3,0001. per annum.
The result of the economical measures which he had
adopted were to reduce the expenditure of the colony as
fol1ows:-1847, 53,4411. 10_7.; 1848, 15,2231.; 1849,
11,115/.—Total, 78,780/. Expenditure in 1849 less than
in 18.46. In the first nine months of 1850, as com-
pared with the same period in 1849, further re-
duction of 16,408/. was effected, exclusive of the road
department. Great efforts had been made to make
it appear that the financial and commercial ar-

rangements whic he had introduced had caused
the rebellion, yet it appeared from the evidence that
disturbances of a somewhat similar character had occurred
in 1842, and the disturbances of 1848 were attributable
Nsilu
to the same causes. The rebellion was hatched by the
chiefs and priests ho were jealous of the de-
cline' of their influ "d of their religion, and
who, therefore, endea red to keep up a con-
tinual state of agitation. The people were solely
excited by the headsmen and priests, the
people did not even know what were the new taxes im-
posed. Sir A. Oliphant in his evidence said,—" My im-
pression about the taxes is this, that none of the com-
mon people knew of their own knowledge by reading
what taxes were imposed, and that therefore no well
grounded discontent arose in their own minds against
the Government from knowing, and having read, and
being sure that it had imposed taxes upon them; but I
do not mean to say that the Korales and Aratchies who
drove the people together did not tell them any
stories they liked about the taxes. I have no doubt
that they made use of the taxes to excite the
people. It was in evidence that the people who came
to Kornegalle said, ' eighteen new taxes have been
imposed upon us, and we are come to pay them.'"
He had been accused of having proclaimed martial law
unnecessarily, at the outbreak of the rebellion, but on
point he would refer to the evidence of Colonel Bray-
-1 rooke, from whose examination, by Mr. Hume, he
would read the following extract:—" Could not the mobs
or the assemblages of people have been dispersed with
the aid of the existing military force, and quiet restored
as well without as with martial law ?—From what I row
know of the people, I think it is possible that it might
have been so; but we were under the impression, from
what we had heard of the whole beuntry, that we were
on the eve of a great rebellion; that being the case, I
think it was wise and judicious in Lord Torrington to
proclaim martial law; particularly as I know that, in
1817, it was generally believed, by the first military
authorities, that much mischief was done by Sir John
Brownrigg not having proclaimed martial law soon
enough. Ido not think he proclaimed it till February,
1818.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock.

The report on the Halesworth, Beccles, and Had-
discoe Railway Bill wss considered and agreed to.