The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

31s, and considered cheap. Berbice taken in at 70s for low
middling.
TEA.—The rates previously established are fully sustained
for Tea; indeed, for the better qualities of Green buyers have I
been compelled to .pay a small advance, the supply being
scanty. Congou, common for cash has fetched is to is Id,
and good common is idto is Id. Twankay, is 2d to is 3d
per lb for common. ilyson, Young llyson, Imperial and
Gunpowder have met with ready purchasers at stiff rates.
In Pouchong prices do not give way. Flowery Pekoe is
dull of sale, but in Orange Pekoe, a fair business has been
transacted. . To-day there was ess demand for Tea of

all sorts.
RlCE.—This afternoon Bengal Rice sold at very full rates ;
good middling white fetched Ils to Ils 6d, fine bold clean
pearly 12s, very small dusty 9s 6d to 10s, sea damaged, first,
second, and third class 9s 6d to ifs per cwt. Carolina, good
quality went at 14s to 15s, and mid 13s to 13s 6d per cwt.
Rum, RE.ANDY, A-XI) HOLLANDS.—The principal feature in
the Ruin market has been the Government contract for
100,000 gallons, half East and half West India, the whole of
which has been taken by Messrs. Ruck, Son, and Fenwick at
2s old per gallon proof strength, being under present
market rates, and id lower than the last contract. For
Jamaica no decline in prices has taken place at present.
Leewards are held for previous rates ; Demerara has been
less in request, but former prices are supported. Calcutta
Rum at is lOid to is Ild, proof, with certificate. Brandy
upon the following terms :—Cognac, best brands of the vint-
age of 1838, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s sd; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s sd,
puns 5s 3d; ditto 1840, hhds fis 3d, puns 5s ld ; ditto 1841,
hints 5s 2d, puns ss; ditto 1842, hhds 53 Id, puns 4s lld ;
middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and inferior 2s 8d to
3s per gallon. Geneva, for exportation, at is 8d to Is 9d;
fine for home consumption 2s to 3s per gallon. English Corn
Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon cash. To-day proof Leewards 2s
2d, Calcutta proof is 10d, Demerara strong 3s to 3s 3d,
Jamaica 2G to 28 per cent overproof 3s 2d to 35 4(1,
30 to 32
over 3s 5d to 3s 6d, 34 to 36, 3s 8d to 3s 9d, good to fine 3s
10d to 4s 6d, and very superior 4s 9d to 58 per gallon.
Brandy little better than nominal.
INDtGo.—Merchants remain firm, and former rates are sus-
tained ; the quality that will be offered at the approaching
sale is expected to be very large. Spanish is held with firm-
ness and is wanted.
On s.—Southern Oil fine quality at 291 lOs to 301, good 281
to 281155, and middling 271 to 27/ lOs per tun, but for all
other sorts of common Fish Oil prices on the decline ; pale Seal
at 33/, and Cod 33/10s to 34/ per tun. Sperm Oil has brought
previous rates, prime British at 751 to 76/, and inferior 731 to
741 per tun. Linseed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s 6d per cwt. Cocoa
Nut Oil at 29s 6d to 30s 6d per cwt. Palm Oil 24s to 255,
and low quality 23s per cwt. Rape Oil at 39s for pale, and
38s per cwt for brown. African Ground Nut Oil 34/ lOs to
35/ per tun.
TALLOW.—On the spot P. T. Candle at 40s to 40s 6d per
cwt : for delivery 41a 3d to 41s 6d is the value for the last
three months of the year. South American Tallow at 348 6d
to 38s 9d, and inferior 32s per cwt ; New South Wales 35s 6d
to 38s 6d. Town Tallow at 395 to 39s 6d per cwt, nett cash.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Ally 21.

Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Lord MELVILLE presented a petition from Peeble-
shire against any alteration in the mode of assessing
Roman Catholics to the poor.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the county of Ayr, praying for protection to agriculture.
Earl FITZWILLIAM wished to know if the peti-
tioners prayed for further protection, or enly a con-
tinuance of the present protection.
The Duke of RICHMOND—The petition only prays
for a continuance of the present protection; but I have
no doubt that the petitioners agree with me in thinking
that we could do very well with a little more.
Earl MINTO gave notice of his intention to put a
question to her Majesty's Government, after the recess,
as to whether they intended to propose any other mea-
sure for increasing the salaries of schoolmasters in Scot-

land.
Several petitions were presented in favour of the
Leeds and Bradford Railway.
Earl FORTESCUE moved for certain papers relating
to the dismissal of Mr. Gray from the magistracy in

Ireland.
Earl BROWNLOW presented petitions in favour o
the Leeds and Bradford Railway.
Lord BROUGHAM deprecated the practice which
had grown up this year of laying down a single line of
rails on railways, similar to the Leeds and Bradford,
and Lancaster and Carlisle Railways.
Several other Noble Lords expressed a similar opinion.
Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table of the House a
Bill to amend the laws relating to imprisonment for debt.
FRENCH INTERFERENCE AT TUNIS.
Lord BEAUMONT then rose, pursuant to notice, to
move for copies of the correspondence which had taken
place between her Majesty's Government and the Bri-
tish Consul at Tunis, on the subject of a trial of a
Maltese subject for the crime of murder. His object in
submitting this motion to their Lordships was to
show that a most unwarrantable interference had
been shown by the French at Tunis, and
to show that by that interference the treaty
which had been entered into between the Sublime Porte,
this country, and the Dey of Tunis, had been violated.
If such interference as that which had been shown by
the French in this case was to be tolerated by this
country, he felt that our trade along the Barbary coast
would soon be at an end. He thought that this was a
case which the Foreign-office ought to take up;
and it was in the hope of producing this
effect that he had brought forward this motion.
Who were the persons who claimed in this manner the ,
protection of the British flag—were they respectable
British merchants ? Very few of them. Were they the
descendants of British residents ? Very few of them.
They were the very dross of the people—persons who
perhaps had, on one or two occasions, acted as interpre-
ters; or who had obtained their protection, and
who made use of it to commit with impunity
robberies and murders of the most atrocious cha-
racter? He trusted the Noble Earl would devise some
means of putting an end to such a disgraceful state of
things. He was sorry to see from the Maltese papers
that the inhabitants of Malta had taken up the cause of
the guilty man, and had presented an address to the
French Consul, praising him for his interference,
and blaming Sir Thomas Reade for abandoning
the murderer to justice. He could understand
how the Maltese might have a fellow-feeling for a coun-
tryman, but they ought to have been actuated by a
feeling of horror and disgust for the murderer. The
Noble Lord concluded by moving that an humble
address be presented to her Majesty for extracts from
the correspondence between the Foreign office and Sir
Thomas Reade, Consul at Tunis, respecting the trial of
the Maltese Xulbet, and the interference of the French
Consul-General Monsieur de Lagan.
Lord ABERDEEN said that the difficulties con-
nected with the jurisdiction of the Levant were
very great indeed, and no man knew them better
than the Noble Lord opposite. He (Lord
Aberdeen) had himself introduced a Bill which
had become the law of the land, and which he
thought would apply a remedy which would remove those
difficulties. He had no objection to lay the correspon-
dence which the Noble Lord moved for on the table
of the House. The case to which those papers referred
was that of a cold-blooded murder executed in broad
day ; and the course which had been pursued by her
Majesty's Government in this matter was consistent with
existing treaties, and was under the sanction of the
highest legal authority. With respect to the conduct of
certain functionaries at Tunis in this proceeding, it did
not in the slightest degree affect the decision
and the conduct of the Government ; but he did not
think it a proper subject of discussion in that House.
It was more suited fur the interference of Go-
vernment, by whom due notice had been taken of
the conduct to which the Noble Lord had referred ;
but although the Government had no wish to protect
crimes committed by British subjects, they were by no
means indifferent to the rights of the Christians
in the East ; and he wished to take that op-
portunity of stating to their Lordships that
Government had lately succeeded with the
Porte in preventing the revival 'of an obsolete
practice by. which Christians who had embraced Mo-
hammedanism and returned to Christianity were
put to death. The papers connected with that
transaction having been moved for in the House of
Commons, he now, by her Majesty's command, laid them
on the table of their Lordships, and the other papers to
which the Noble Lord had referred should be prepared
immediately, and also laid on the table of the House.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE inquired of Lord Campbc:l
whether lie thought it probable that his Noble and
Learned Friend (Lord Cottenhatn) would postpone the
Abolition of Imprisonment for Debts Bill?
Lord CAMPBELL said he had no authority for say-
ing that his Noble and Learned Friend would postpone
it ; he thought it highly probable that he would not ac-
cede to any such proposal.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF ,COMMONS, May 21.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
PARLIAMENTARY MISTAKE. •
Mr. ESTCOURT moved that the Bill, intituled "An
Act to rectify a mistake as to the proceedings in the
Eastern Counties Railway Bill and the Eastern Counties
Railway (Brandon and Peterborough . Extension),
Bill," shall be read the second time, be com-
mitted, engrossed, and read' the third time this
day. The object of .the Bill was to rectify a
mistake - which had occurred in the House of Lords,
whereby one Bill had been substituted for another in
the last Royal Commissima Bill which had only passed
the House of Commons having been inserted in the
Commissien.
After a few words from Mr. LABOUCHERE, the
Bill went through the various stages, and was passed.
The Report on the South-Eastern Railway was further
considered, and ordered to be engrossed.
On the motion of Mr. •M. PHILIPS the Manchester
Police Bill was read a third time.
Mr. I3OYD presented several petitions from Coleraine
and various other places in the north of Ireland against
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Colonel CONOLLY presented petitions from- Milford
and other places against the Dissenters Chapel. Bill •
also a petition from the distillers of Ba 11Ys haTlnn
plaining that the present duty on spiritsincreased illicit
distillation, and praying
fur a. reduction of the duty.
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relating to Presbyterian
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marriages.
Mr.: IiURST. presented a. petition from 'Horsham, in
favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Mr. VESEY presented a petition from the Queen's
County, against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill ; also
petition from Kilkenny, prqing that' the standing order
might be suspended, so as to allow the Dublin and Cashel
Railwa,Y Bill to pass this session.
Sir NV. BARRON presented a petition to the same

effect.
Lord IiENDLESHAM presented a petition, from a
tiYesle an congregation iu ~unsex,
against the Dissenters'
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