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IMPORTANT TO FOREIGNERS.
(From the lioulogne Gazette.)
GRIEVE C. "LIDDY.
This is perhaps one of the most important cases for
• foreigners that ever came before the tribunal of France.
It shows to perfection the hardship of their position, and
• the robbery and plunder that may be committed, and for
which the unfortunate foreigner has no redress from the
French law. That our readers may perfectly understand
the whole case we shall give a summary as stated by the
counsel for the defendant at the trial.
Mr. C. R. Broughton died in Boulogne, 1832, be-
queathing all he possessed to Mrs. lucldy, and appointed
Messrs. Kirkham Fowell and Samuel. Heyward Budd,
two Englishmen, his executors. The defendant was then
in America; on returning to Europe he called upon the
executors for their accounts. These they refused him.
Fearful from this that everything was not right, he insti-
tuted inquiries, and after, in vain for three years, en-
• deavouring to get an account from them, he called upon
the Tribunal of Boulogne to compel them to give an
account and distribute, at least, the funds which they
• had obtained in France. The executors resisted this on
the plea that the Courts of France had no jurisdiction,
because the deceased, the plaintiff and the defendants
were all Fnglish. Tho Court by their decision in 1836
agreed to this, and sent the plaintiff for remedy to the
English Courts. Whilst the executors remained in
• France he had no remedy in England. In 1838,
however, he got a sort of account from them by which
they acknowledged to have received upwards of 6,000/,
but they refused to part with one penny of that so long
as a chancery suit existed, which had been com-
menced' against the deceased and was carried on by a
bill of revivor against Mr. Budd, who alone had proved
the will in England. He found, therefore, he was at
their mercy, as they might prolong the suit of chancery
till he was in the grave. He agreed then to their terms,
in one thing, that they should not meddle in
• any of the affairs of the estate, that they should hand
over to him all papers, and give him an irrevocable
Power of attorney to transact all the business of the
estate, to receive all- moneys due, and settle and com-
promise
to
mdiseall demands. Armed with this power he has-
syith England
and commenced a correspondence
Mr.
Grieve, the plaintiff in the action before the
r_ttuort.last week, and who was Trustee for the parties
ieetg in the chancery suit. After four years it was
inaouitseoiltetweett them that the suit should be compro•
_ ec..ft and 900/.
the
,payment of 2,375/ which was to be paid
mitres
fund in Court, consisting of 1201. a year long an-
interest due thereon, the defendant ex-
P.atett_ g to touch 600 L of that, and to be enabled imme-
nnlionelY t°
call
upon the executors either to pay the
Y Which they held, or to give security for it.
'well and Budd were partners in a bank in Boulogne ;
no sooner was the above compromise made, than Budd
separated himself from the firm, which shortly' after be-
came bankrupt. Fowell fled to England to escape his
creditors here; and his conduct there was the occasion of
the suit before the Tribunal last week. On arriving in
London he went to the attorney of Grieve, stated his
'dune, and his sorrow that the affair was not settled with
the executors, and offered, if the parties would agree,
tot only to hand them over the whole of the fund in
• Court, hut also to pay them eleven hundred pounds be-
Side% being seventeen hundred pounds more than they
• had previously agreed to take, the deed for which had
been already prepared and should have been then signed.
ithout informing Mr. Luddy of what was passing, the
offer of Fowell was accepted and reduced to writing,
Fowell still farther binding himself, that if the eleven
hundred pounds was not paid within a month, that all his
commercial establishment in France was liable for the debt,
• and that, he empowered Mr. Joseph Woollett to dispose
of it, and hold the funds accruing from it, for the benefit
tejliqr- Grieve to the extent of 1,1001., although he was
en * bankrupt, and knew that nothing in France be-
' enged to him. On this agreement, to which Mr. Budd
thewas Court of Chancery forthwith, and after this decree
iitutalined, the defendant, for the first time, knew the
ieaand disgraceful proceedings that had been car-
.evidently to injure him, for both Fowell and
ofudd•knew that they had made away with all the funds
the estate, and had nothing wherewith to pay the
1100/
CM the failure of Fowell, the defendant had applied to
vs, asthe assignee and had his claim allowed. But no sooner
ta dividend declared than the plaintiff Grieve ap-
ied to the Tribunal for the dividend of 6,000 francs—
in,„4„Shilling in the pound—to be paid over to him,
2::;essyeegnoonee, Ist, of the agreement with Fowell, ants,
e` the Decree in Chancery against Budd to pay
hundred pounds, not one farthing of which
•. uhad paid, although he had received upwards of 6,0001.
0 la. the defendant resisted, Ist, declaring the Court in-
reMpete to act, as all the parties were foreigners, and
i:i ad to them their former decision ; 2d, from the
thetti,_of the whole proceeding, which he proved by
2 31,,'ers of the attorney agreeing to take from him
th'avisg., and he had already received much more than
• egr. ; 3d, that Fowell had no right to make such an
eh -ement, as it was fraudulent ; 4th, that the decree in
in atieerY Was a dead letter, so far as he was concerned;
• tetidsePtelt as it was a decree against Samuel Heyward
onto who ought to pay the money he had agreed to pay,
lee
the 6,0001. he had received for the benefit of the
• ge t one farthing of which the defendant had never
d pen' and that the decree was not against the. defendant,
for t.hat therefore the Court had no right to consider it
Pl.4„elle moment ; sth, if the decree had any force in
• to „",,e; it was against Budd, and against him they ought
for
are the facts of the case, which were ably argued
for Jr. Martinet for the plaintiff, and by Mr. Carmier
tewtue defence. The judgment of the Court was as fol-
a fi' 11on which we shall, with all due deference, make
:v oPbservations next week :
rut:
Mrs. Luddy by the death of Mr. Broughton
ntitled to his property and proved on the bank-
the„Y of his executors for one hundred and forty-four
to C,.4°,(1 eight hundred and eleven francs, as being due
a (1' "IY the bankrupts, upon which she was entitled to
air exceeding 6 000 f.
aaie_
That Mr. Grieve,, a pretended creditor, placed a
!yndie. arret upon that dividend in the hands of the
alto ,Ic ; that the French tribunal is competent to take
that its Consideration the judgments of a foreign tribunal;
tleserieve produces such a judgment, but'not as ren-
deeid against Luddy, and this tribunal not being able to
• aftei,e between Luddy and Grieve, still is bound to look
Gri; the interest of both parties, and it therefore gives
tribjesix months to obtain the decision of an English
Ce," against Luddy, at the end of which time the
• be-4 i s to
d. considere be
,again applied to, when the expenses will

UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND
CAMBRIDGE.

PETITION FOR AN ADDRESS TO THE CROWN,
TO APPOINT A COMMISSION TO INQUIRE
INTO TILE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND
CAMBRIDGE.
To the lion. the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland,
in Parliament assembled,
. The Petition of the undersigned, being Inhabitants
of Manchester and its vicinity,
Humbly Showeth,—That by various acts of the Crown
and of the supreme Legislature, in different reigns, the
ancient Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have been
recognised as institutions whose ii'ell-being and wise
conduct are of high national importance.
That by reason of the privileges so long bestowed ex-
clusively upon them, they have been fostered into
schools for the rising generation of the English nobility
and gentry ; so that no British subject can be unaffected
by their good or bad management.
That by the testamentary acts of many generous
founders, every county in the realm, and all classes of
the community, have a contingent pecuniary interest in
those Universities, and in the colleges connected with
them.
That these institutions are in many points not so con-
ducted as the interests and wants of the nation, and the
equitable rights of individuals, demand.
That these Universit►es are not, and have long ceased
to be, the central seats of the highest sciences, moral,
political, or practical. That instead of leading the know-
ledge of the day, they linger behind it. !That studies
which are of eminent necessity to our future legislators
and rulers, are either not taught there at all, or are not
allowed their proportionate weight. That an artificial
preponderance is given to a few select branches, which
cannot, without blighting all the rest, be forced on all
students indiscriminately. That even in the privileged
studies of the Greek and Latin Classics these Universi-
ties show no superiority over foreign institutions, which
embrace more numerous sciences and which are possessed

THE WEST INDIA BODY.

of fewer resources.
That by the existing arrangements the public profes-
sors are made comparatively useless. That the college
tutors are not likely to possess equal age and experi-
ence, nor to be so eminent, each in many branches, as
professors who have devoted themselves to one. That
the present usage of celibacy, enforced upon college
fellows, would be well exchanged for some other
mode of limiting the tenure of fellowships. That
the innovation of private tutors testifies to the inade-
quacy of the established and avowed system of instruc-
tion. That the additional expense which the private
tuition inflicts, is itself a serious evil. That artificial
restraints exist, which hinder the ablest and most active
minds in these Universities from introducing such im-
provements, as time and the advance of knowledge would
suggest. That their action is paralysed, by the use of
the Latin language in the University assemblies, by the
inability of those assemblies to originate any public mea-
sure, and by the want of all corporate organisation of the
public professors.
That the Institution of Faculties was intended to
secure for different studies their due attention, and has
had this effect in other universities; but that the power
gained by the colleges has overthrown this design.
That since the heads of houses are become the chief
University authority, their appointment should.no-,longer
be regarded as the private affair of their particular
college. That the necessity imposed on• most college
fellows to take holy orders, has had the effect of
securing that a decided majority of the resident acade-
micians shall be ecclesiastics. That to the undue pre-
ponderance of the clergy over the laity in university
legislation and in college administration, very many of
the evils here recounted may be traced. That the pre-
dominance of the clergy, and their employment as secu-
lar teachers, (whatever other advantages may be attri-
buted to this,) has not led to the successful cultivation
of scientific theology : a fact which is manifest in the
neglect of the Hebrew languge, of ecclesiastical history,
and of all. profound Biblical erudition, as well as in the
absence of examinations for the theological degrees.
That the natural expansion of these universities is
checked by the too complete monopoly which the exist-
ing colleges and halls possess. That by restoring to
every Master of Arts his ancient right to open an inde-
pendent hall as its principal, increased accommodation
would be advantageously gained. That in this way able
and popular men would find free course for their talents,
with more satisfaction to themselves, and benefit to the
university at large, than by the present system of pri-
vate tuition.
That the religious tests still existing in these Univer-
sities belong to a system of policy entirely obsolete at
the present day; having been imposed at a time when it
was in many ways made penal to be a Dissenter from
what was then the only religious system recognised by
the secular power: whereas at present, not only are
Christians of every name admitted into the national
councils, but several different churches, both Protestant
and Roman Catholic, are upheld by public authority in
the same British empire.
That the large and increasing body of persons who
are excluded from the National Universities, by reli-
gious reasons, are hereby treated as if they were not
possessed of full citizenship in the British nation; and
are prevented from cultivating many of the sympathies,
by which all parts of this great community ought to be
knit together.
That Masterships of Grammar Schools are, by the
foundation deeds or by custom, frequently limited to
those who have attained the Degree of Master of Arts
in one of the two Universities, Oxford and Cambridge ;
and that many able and deserving persons, being ex-
cluded from graduation in those Universities, are hereby
prevented from holding the masterships of such schools
and assisting in the education of youth.
That the advancement of professional men in Eng-
land is often retarded, whatever their merit in other re-
spects, if they have not had the advantage of residence
and a Degree at one of the ancient Universities.
That the Institution of the London University, how-
ever valuable in its own place, cannot supersede the
advantages to be gained by opening the ancient univer-
sities and their colleges to all her Majesty's subjects;
nor can it lessen the equitable rights of parties who
are at present precluded from admission by the re-
ligious tests.
That the intercourse of the youth of all religious de-
nominations in the same universities, would exceedingly
tend to soften the asperity of religious party; and while
on the one hand it increased the sincerity of religious
profession within these establishments, it would on the
.other diffuse a beneficial influence beyond their precincts,
in families and communities now cut off from them.
That the barriers at present kept up in these two
Universities are so opposed to the whole genius of our
age, as testified by the usage of similar learned esta-
blishments both in Great Britain and on the Continent,
that it is morally impossible for them to start for any
long time; while every year's delay is likely to render
their ultimate removal more necessary, yet more em-
harassing, froth the increase of party spirit and mutual
embitterment.
That the successive Acts in the progress of the Pro-
testant Reformation, which interfered with the disposal
of Academical property,—so far as they rested on any
just principle, and were therefore permitted to be per-
manent,—aimed to adjust the condition of the univer-
sities to the growth and changes of the times : and to
render them fit nurseries, not only for the liberal pro-
fessions, but also for your Honourable House itself :
accordingly, in consequence of the admission of all pro-
fessed Christians into her Majesty's Councils and into
both Houses of Parliament, the same reasons which for-
merly dictated the opening of Roman Catholic endow-
ments to Protestant Episcopalians, now apply, with equal
force, for admitting lay Christians of every name into
both the Universities, to compete on equal terms for all
honours attached to intellectual eminence.
That no sound principle can be found, upon which
the subscription to any religious test can be required in
connection with'giving or receiving literary or scientific
instruction.
'That to require a religious subscription from youths
who are about to begin their higher education, is pecu-
liarly vain and injurious ; inasmuch as it supposes them
to have already formed their judgment on arduous
questions, concerning which even their sires are by no
means agreed.
That the daily attendance enforced at the morning or
evening service of the Church, has not at all produced
the beneficial results which were intended: while in
proportion to the greater solemnity of the service, a yet
deeper evil of the same kind is in many colleges inflicted
by the compulsory attendance at the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper.
That the maintenance of all that lis high and holy in
Truth, depends on the spiritual qualities of its professors;
which qualities are likely to be called out in greatest
lustre, when they are not superseded by the possession
of political ascendancy.
That no sufficient check exists, nor without legislative '
alterations can exist, on the facilities afforded to young
men at the universities for running into debt, nor any
sure means by which a parent may gain timely know-
ledge that his son is so involving himself.
That many of these defects have been repeatedly sub-
mitted to both Houses of Parliament, and in consequence
partial attempts at revision and improvement have been
made by some of the colleges ; but the alterations have
been, and are likely in future to be, so trivial, that no
national advantage can be anticipated from them.
That the most important defects cannot be remedied
by the action of the universities from within ; inasmuch
as they are the result of public enactments, which were
devised with the express purpose of perpetuating the
present character of the universities.
That the laws, customs, and internal discipline of the
universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge were
revised by public Commissioners in the reigns of Henry
VIII., Edward VI., Mary; Elizabeth, and Charles I. :
in which visitations the most important and fundamental
alterations were made in every part of the university
and college system. Especially those prayers for the
dead, on which the college founders generally laid so
much stress, have been long since removed from the
college formularies, so as virtually to rescind their ex-
press regulations, and decisive measures having been
used to prevent college founders from laying a religions
yoke on the neck of the University. Moreover, in the
case of Queen's College, Cambridge, the necessity of
ordination for the presidency of a college has in a recent
instance been dispensed with; and the fellowships of St.
John's College, Cambridge, have been opened by Royal
letters patent to all natives of England and Wales.
That the subject is so large and various, and has re-
ceived so little attention from the supreme power since
the Revolution of 1688—during which time the greatest
social changes have taken place in England, with a vast
simultaneous development of political, historical, moral,
and material science, in the principal States of Europe;
that a full and searching visitation of these universities
and their colleges appears to your petitioners to be once
more urgently needed.
Your
.petitioners therefore pray your Honourable
House to address her Majesty, that she will begraciously
pleased to appoint a Commission, to inquire into all
matters relating to the statutes, revenues, trusts, pri-

•
SOCIETY,
STATISTICAL R s
"V.P., in the Chair.
li4tenatit-Celonel ykes,
trib„,,. subject for the eyeningF.
wasof the Influence of Emploay:
4141'410a towards. a knowledge . "entitled " A Third Con-
fined to the disease known,
44114 °Pon health, by Dr. Guy." On this occasion the t
14 oa of the members was. conountry,
as pulmonary caonnd
ku;l3...,lttu.natelytoo well in this c
dead, ,
year in England
liraiL'ut Malady occurring in every 6
°ll The number of deaths from this dreaded
and
orb, '3 la in the round numbers 3 ,000
at all ages, and one
--nalth of the mortality for cases,allth
In 1„8 being rather less than
occurring above fifteen
yeitril than six of the total deaths
nand found, the result of great
less
geet (4age. Dr. Guy classed 1 p'astients under threeheads
141)0!:3:, tradesmen, and artisans,
the tradesmen. holdin place
la th`4f, that the per centage proportion of deaths was far lan
nit, ' gentry than in the artisans,
"is it possible to
the rltiediate place. Dr. Guyinquires,
eniest4dssinen and the artisans
would be a great stretch o
)4
,anees as the gentry?" It inie same favourable cir-f
essential element—
tit,:u• great ameliorations time is anla !ilation to suppose that it . could be done at onee,
habits—time for the
wid; for the reformation of bad
of hours of
t6nalling of streets, the enlargin
14b, ructing of workshops, the
shorteningf the more abundant
s, the re-
st, nr, for drainage and ventilation,
• 1:114y ,
for the more abundant
Cr, for public baths, for the increase of open
('fhonse
spa, % wat for public baths,
il bits of intemperance
wiirs, for exercise and recreation. a .
will a desire for
• Pure suddenly grow into disease,
nor
case of temperance,
go ia an‘ be created in a day. As in the
hithitt of ventilation, the example must be set by the
d
ected to sprea
tiGielasses, before the contagion canbbe
be content to endure
,the sti,49wer• So long as the rich shall
of assembly, wh9-
- ,tber -,,lrig,. atmosphere of crowded places
ected to remain
Ind4"uc or private, the poor may be
lexpe and to submit
with lent to the foul air of their works
mr'• of their
piat:slit a murmur to the manifold inconveniencestbe
lapse of years,
• that the residence. It is only, then, after
• ' • tradesman and artisan can be ex .
meted t emu:talon of the
fearful
their present
rneet,ti.° be SO improved as to reduce
low level of the more for-
andrdt'a trona consumption to the
be done at once. Some
'''Oviaie—,, ses• Much, however, may
the ventilation of houses
aet ;Ott •
least may be made for
of hours of labour.
-ne's,,ll_, c'e-luu.Pn. and for the shortening
)olis alone, many
li„-"uran:Ision would save, in the
notmetroi
a matter of conjec-
;,',re ~ I lives every year. This is .
1 ts of demonstra-
' -,, a° let, ..t.n ate merely, but at mi .
f llowed the
tea 41, v—"l 1- • ting discussion o -
,-dink „f.e,r3r spirited and interesting .
which was very nu
-"eine; paper, and the meeting,
-, separated at a late hour.
40111111tatf'----This morning,Ca t.
May 22, the lady of p • IL'suodes l'dding, of Sydenham, Kent, of a son.
GRAwa thiCnTeits AND' CREDITORS—LORD
BE°
'hich has
• bt,ea.--Tl"'
„,.,, Bill introduced by Lord Brougham, -ii
sections.
...t, is l•-`11, asecondt. contains only fourteen
_e_
~_ entitled A
time,
facilitating arrangements b
:leen bet n Act. for , ,
that
`lt is
-"bent 'tors and Creditors. ie ' n eamble declares
pr ,
li
micable modes
,of are. that trust deeds, and other a
should
betat'`gnient between debtors and their creditors
. ta_
.ilitate
A;P:',u the
---cl, and that better means should be
provided for
of the
k same into effect." After the pllaslurTable to
Set-his - suall be lawful for any debtor who is
debtor not
gCC,N.ag e m e n t with his creditors,
such
in
"tribe, "'qer, with the concurrence of one-thirdapeti.
tie„,•,,,..!tntl value of his creditors, who shall sign
lettclitioning the Chief Judge of the Court of
Bankruptcy,
tirotn . forth all
to be
his debts, Property, &c., and praying pro-
pesZetsd from imprisonment, and he shall
thirdsshall
eontientto pay the creditors, to which one
rivate the
triode of A. commissioner is to examine in po. _ a
se-
tem contracting the debts, and then to app lrft
Ineetin • - • • may preside,
.and
the real, A at which an official assignee
• tioue..
The
adopted to be reported to the
commis-
at the
second [he first meeting to be called by notice, and
• the area certain number of creditors must agree to acceptof
• . siteh"b‘ungerrient proposed, the resolution or agreement
nd
velee."eeting not to be valid unless one-third in numbeea r
by _ of all the creditors were present either in person o
aaccula autliorised agent. The resolution is to be conlirpetdo,
test' ... terl,Pnrary protection afforded. The propert
is
werteita_ trustee without any deed, as fully as i.f suchtrusteeta_e
- Name i.. 14 .ass!gnee in bankruptcy. Examinations may k
been
n_. Lit 18 suspected a full disclosure has not
_
4 4.77::14118teeS to b freed on performance of their duties, and
sh.,?l,•tificate" to beegranted to the petitioning debtor, which.
1,44_11A v: the same effect as a certificate of conformity in
• kid mr_l't ,Y, The Court of Bankruptcy is to make rules
keaszguiations to carry the Act into operation.. This
Lem c:tt..Nvill Probably he considered at the same time as
tender the
Bill, but the Bills clash considerably, and
q0‘,...._ e law of debtor and creditor very perplexing. A
the S."`aa:sZtbweasure is expected to be brought forward on
ge,eltl j".
additio workmen are busily employed in making
1,,je11,
‘.n)a and alterations at the Royal Observatory, Green-
, • the .l' r the purpose of facilitating the scientific labours of
Astronomer ' The ,th• .„. Royal.
Linia, 0 - 1P -Louise, Captain C. M`Cabe, arrived. at
:severe n the th of February, with loss of boats, &c., in a
Welt gale I)ff the Falkland Ishuld—pas3engers and crew all

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1844.

vileges, and to the general conditicin as regards educa-
tion, learning, and religion, of the Universities of Ox-
ford and Cambridge, and their colleges, especially with
regard to all matters herein brought before your
Honourable House, with full power to enable such Com-
mission efficiently to perform its important services.
And your Petitioners, &c.

SUGAR AND COFFEE DUTIES.

Yesterday, pursuant to public advertisement, a general
meeting of planters, merchants, and others interested in the
British West India colonies, took place at Willis's Rooms,
King-street, St. James's, to consider the propriety of peti-
tioning the Legislature against any alteration in the duties
on sugar, coffee, and cocoa, which should not embrace a re-
duction of the duties on similar produce from the British
possessions."
Viscount Combermere was called on to preside. The Earl
of Harewood, Viscount St. Vincent, Lord Saltoun, Lord Reay,
Sir W. Codrington, Bart., M.P., Sir A. L. Hay, M.P., Sir A.
Grant, I'. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Sir W. W. Dalling, Bart.,
Sir John Rae Reid, Sir R. C. Dallas, Sir Alexander
Crichton, Colonel Lindsay, M P., Sir R. Houston, Bart., Mr.
John Stewart, M.P., Mr. R. Bernal, M.P., Mr. J. B. East,
M.P., :Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. J. A. Mackinnon,
M.P.,Mr. J. Irving, M.P., Mr. Neil Malcom, Mr. Barge,
Mr. libbert, Mr. Carrington, Mr. Kynaston, Mr. Maxwell
Alexander, and a number of other influential West India
proprietors were present.
The Noble CHAIRMAN observed that the meeting had
been convened in consequence of the determination of her
Majesty's Government to make such an alteration of the
duties on sugar, &c., as would, unless a strenuous effort
were made on the part of the West India proprietary
to resist it, involve the whole of them in utter ruin. A
variety of representations had been made to her Majesty's
Ministers upon the subject, but without success, and the only
course now open to them was an appeal to the Legislature.—
(Hear.) The resolutions it was intended to propose, were as
mild .as under all the circumstances they could be expected to
be, and exhibited forcibly the injuries which had been in-
flicted on the West India body of proprietors since the aboli-
tion of slavery.—(Hear.) All they now sought for was pro-
tection, and they had a right to demand that, if the duties on
the sugar of foreign colonial produce were .to be reduced,
the duties on British colonial sugar should be reduced also.
The Noble Lord concluded by hoping that the representations
which would be made that day would induce her Majesty's
Government to take the matter into their earnest and serious
consideration.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of IlmtEwoon proposed the first resolution. He
felt the greatest reliance on her Majesty's Government;!still
he was convinced that if their proposed measure were carried
out it would tend much to the injury of the British colonies.
(Hear.) He possessed an estate in Jamaica, upon which his
grandfather had expended from 11,0001. to 12,0001. in hard
cash, and which had generally yielded no return. Indeed,
since slavery had been abolished, he had felt it necessary to
lay the land in fallow, and give up entirely the cultivation of
the estate.—(Hear.) Prior to the abolition of slavery there
were 400 slaves on that estate, but now there was net a
quarter of that number of labourers. He hoped the Goyern-
ment would see the necessity ()faltering their opinions.
Sir EDWARD HYDE EAST seconded the resolution, and
contended that if the project of Ministers were carried, it
would not only destroy the West India colonies, but tend
greatly to depreciate our commercial and State navy.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Lord SALTOUN proposed the second resolution. He was
received with applause. He thanked the meeting for the
warmth with which they had received him on his return to
England. He had had very little to do with the West India
colonies in his own person, but he had ample opportunities
of knowing the claim which the West India colonists had
upon the kind feelings of the mother country, and he could
not shut his eyes to the fact that great injury would result
to the British colonies if the proposition of the Government
were carried out.—(Hear, hear.) It was not only the West
India proprietary body that had to be looked to ; they must
bear in mind the vast amount of money wholly arising from
West India property, upon which widows and fatherless
children were dependent.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. CARINGTON, in seconding the resolution, showed that
it was by legislation on the part of the mother country, and
through no act of their own, that the British West India
islands were reduced to their present position. He repudiated
the idea that the colonies themselves had established slavery,
and declared that, although his property, by its abolition, had
dwindled from thousands to hundreds, he would sooner that
it dwindled to nothing than return to that most inhuman
and debasing system.—(Cheers.) If the present Government
were determined to carry out certain dogmas of political
economy, such as cheap sugar, &c., for the mere sake of po-
pularity here, they had no right to do so at the expense of the
British colonists.
The motion was carried.
Lord BEAT moved the third resolution.

Mr. MACKINN9N, M.P., seconded the motion. The British
Government had given the colonists 17 millions by way of
compensation, when it was proved, in 1832, that the value of
their property was 140 millions; therefore to say the former
sum was compensation was absurd. He contended that the
Ministry had no right to earn popularity at home by taking
money out of the pockets of the West India colonists.—
(Hear, hear.) The duty and freight of sugar of West India
produce did not amount to less than 335. per hundred weight,
and add to that 278. for the cost of production, it amounted
to nearly 60s. Now, we could purchase Manilla sugar for
17e. per cwt. in bond, and adding a duty of 345., made Ms.—
thus underselling the West India proprietor by Bs. or 9s. per
cwt. in the market. If the Government were really desirous
of giving the public cheap sugar, why did they not reduce
the duty on West India grown sugar to 205., and keep fo-
reign sugar at 345. ?—(Hear.)
Viscount ST. VINCENT moved the fourth resolution.

Sir ALEXANDER GRANT, in seconding the proposition, ad-
verted to the loss the planters had suffered from the term of
apprenticeship having been abridged. Abolition of slavery
reduced the annual importation from the West India islands
and British Guyana from between four and five million hun-
dred weight of sugar annually, to three million five hundred
and twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-six hundred
weights ; and, in 1841, when the apprenticeship was abo-
lished, the importation fell to 2,148,218 cwts. The loss upon
this, including the eight out of the twelve:years' apprentice-
ship, which the colonists had lost, amounted to upwards of
fourteen millions sterling.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore de-
nounced the present attempt still further to take money out
of their pockets.—(Hear.)
This resolution was adopted.
Sir W. Codrington, Sir A. Leith Hay, Sir IR. Dallas, Mr.
J. Stewart, M.P., Sir John Rae Reid, Mr. P. M. Stewart,
M.P., Mr. J. Smith, M.P., and other gentlemen addressed
the meeting, and the remainder of the resolutions, fifteen in
number, were agreed to, as was.also a petition to the,,Legis-
lature founded on them.

Thanks having been awarded to the Noble Chairman, the
meeting separated.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Queen
yesterday. Her Majesty arrived at Buckingham Palace
at two o'clock, attended by the Countess of Sheffield,
Lady in Waiting. Her Majesty remained to lunch with
the Queen and Prince Albert, and afterwards returned
to Marlborough House.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, were taken their usual airings yesterday
in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in tho royal
gardens yesterday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes-
terday evening included the Bishop of London and Mrs.
Blemfield, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis of
Northampton, the Marquis of Granby, Viscount Mel-
bourne, and Lord and Lady Beauvale.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended at the
Palace during dinner.
The Viscountess Canning has succeeded the Countess
of Mount Edgecumbe as the Lady in Waiting on the
Queen • and Lord Byron and Colonel Drummond have
succeeded Viscount Hawarden and Sir Frederick Stovin
as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday,
at Cambridge-house.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Colquhoun, M.P., Mr.
Srnollett, M.P., Mr. Home Drummond, M.P., Lord Jas..
Stuart, M.P., Mr. Alexander Oswald, M.P., Mr. Gibson
Craig, M.P., Mr. Buckley, MX., and Mr. liastie, M.P.,
accompanying Mr. John Wilson, Mr. John Bannatyne,
Mr. Andrew Bannatyne, and Mr. William Dunlop, as a
deputation from the Glasgow Bank, had an interview
with Sir Robert Peel, at his official residence in Downing-
street, yesterday.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a,
meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop
Of Bangor, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Bishop of llereford, the Bishop of Lichfield,
the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop
of Ripon, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salis-
bury, the Bishop of Worcester, the Lord President of
the Council, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Besborough,
the Earl of Harrowby, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse,
and the Dean of Westminster.

His Excellency the Ottoman Ambassador transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Saltoun had an interview with Lord Stanley yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
and Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had in-
terviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.

THE DANISH CLAIMS.—Mr. Christie is to move,
an Tuesday the 4th of June, that on the day following the
House will resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House,
to consider of au address to her Majesty on the subject of the
Danish Claims.

PEEL'S NEW MONETARY SCHEME.—The leading
London journals have hailed the new monetary project with
acclamation—eminent private bankers have given it their
concurrence—and the economists regard it as a bold step
towards the realization of their principles. At this we are
not much surprised. The English, having never enjoyed the
advantages of a safe paper currency, are not unwilling that
it should be held severely in check ; and the dread they have
of panics from over-speculation, and loss from the failure of
unsound banks, has blinded them to the greater danger of a
constant and steady decline in commercial greatness, from a
despotic carrying out of the principles of Peel's Bill of 1819.
That any of our Scottish journalists should take the same
one-sided view, is to us, however, a matter of some astonish-
ment. They know that paper issues can be rendered per-
fectly safe, and a very little reflection should satisfy them
that, if there he any truth at all in the alleged influence on
prices of contractions and expansions of the currency, a sys-
tem which provides a fixed amount of money to measure the
value of a constantly-increasing quantity of goods, must
produce a constant sinking of prices—a reduction of profits—
and, consequently, manufacturing and commercial distress.
It is strange, too, that they should not perceive the real effect
of Sir Robert Peel's proposal, which is neither more nor less
than to give Government the virtual control of the whole
issues of the country—a power which few Ministries ought to
be invested with.—Aberdeen Herald.

THE CITABGE Or MURDER AND ROBBERY AT
StrAbwm.L.—Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, a jury was
empannelled before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the Town of
Whitby, Wapping-wall, to investigate the circumstances
attending the death of Mr. Luke Williams, landlord of the
Chequers public-house, in the same street, who is alleged to
have died from injuries inflicted on him by a man named
Bragger, under circumstances already described in this
journal. The jury having been sworn, proceeded to the
late residence of the deceased for the purpose of viewing the
body. On their return to the inquest-room a statement of
the circumstances, as already described before the police
magistrate, was laid before them, and, at the suggestion of
the coroner, the inquiry was at once adjourned until Thurs--.
day next, in order to allow time for a post modem examiza-
ticon to be wade.