The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

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JOURNALS. • MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of June 14.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was more business doing in West
India by grocers as well as refiners; 550 hi:cis were sold, but
at easier rates, making the decline since this day week Is per
cwt ; 57s to 58s 6d accepted for a parcel of strong grey St.
Kitts. The total purchases for the week are 1,650 hhds and
trcs. The market is well supplied with all qualities.
RETINED.—To-day there was rather more business trans-
acted in Refined goods for home consumption, but at lower
rates; brown Lumps selling at 75s to 75s 6d, and Standard
Lumps 76s to 76s 6d per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is
selling steadily at former rates ; Loaves are still wanted, and
prices remain firm.
MArnmus.--Holders have refrained from offering any at
auction, and the limited business transacted privately has
been upon rather lower terms.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon, of Bengal Sugar two parcels,
amounting to 3,697 bags were offered at auction and a part
only sold at rather lower rates ; fine white went at 63s to
63s 6d, good 61e to 61s 6d, middling 59s 6d to 60s 6d, mid
yellow 57s to 58s, and damps 56s to 62s 6d per cwt.
FORElGN.—lmporters of yellow Havannah Sugar have
been desirous to realise, but submitting to a reduction on
former rates of 6d to is per cwt has occasioned a considerable
business to be transacted ; of white some parcels have been
sold, but upon rather lower terms.
MOLASSES.—For West India the rates accepted are rather
under those of last Friday; low St. Kitts and St. Vincents
23s per cwt.
CocoA.—For British Plantation holders have refused to
further give way in price; Trinidad, fair grey at 42s to 435,
good 445, and good dark bole red 45s 6d to 47s 6d per cwt.
Foreign has been taken sparingly, and holders are more in-
clined to sell.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Leewards proof smokey
at 2s lid, 3 per cent over do 2s 2d, and 10 over 2s 2id,
proof of clean quality however cannot be purchased under
2s 2d. For Demerara 3a 3d taken for 37 over. Jamaica 30
to 32 per cent over proof 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 33 to 36 over 3s 5d
to 3s 7d, good 3s 8d to 3a 10d, fine 4s to 4s 6d, and
superior 4s 8d to 5s per gallon. Calcutta Rum of proof
strength, with certificate, is lid to 2s per gallon ;
there are several purchasers at Is lOid per gallon.
For Brandy prices rule as follows :—Cognac best brands of
the vintage of 1838—hhds at 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto, 1839,
hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id ; ditto, 1840, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss;
ditto, 1841, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s Ild ; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s 11d,
puns 4s 9d. mid and good middling qualities 3s to 4s 3d, and
low 2s 8d to 2s lid per gallon. Geneva for shipping at
Is 9d to is 10d, fine for home consumption has fetched 2s 4d
to 3s per gallon. At previous rates the market is firm for
English Corn Spirits.
SAGO.—Pearl, fine small at 255, middling greyish 18s to
19s 6d per cwt ; African Arrowroot lid to 3d ; fine West
India is 5d to Is 6d ; Bermuda 10d to is Id. This after-
noon Sago Flour taken in at 22s for good quality, being
;above the value ; there were buyers at 19s per cwt.
.t COFFEE.—The demand has been brisker for West India
-.Coffee this week, and the rates previously established have
,been supported. This afternoon the market was be!ter
supplied with Coffee adapted for home consumption. Ceylon
good ord went at 48s 6d to 495; real good ord 49s 6d to
50s; triage 13s to 15s; East India, fine old coloury Singapore-
Java at 39s to 40s, and Sumatra ord 26s : Mocha was taken
in—yellow Mysore sort at 70s ; triage sold at 28s 6d to 32s 6d ;
Padang fetched 32s for sound; Jamaica at 86s for mid, 78s
for low mid, 69s to 71s for fine and fine fine ord, 57s for good
ord, and 25s to 47s for triage; Dominica fetched 70s 6d for
low mid, 60s for fine ord, and 40s for triage.
TEA.—To-day several purchases were made in Tea, and
prices are firmer ; it is difficult to purchase common sound
Congou under 11d, and Twankay is 3d per lb for cash. The
trade generally are more inclined to do business, and mer-
chants less disposed to press sales.
RlCE.—Bengal Rice at lOs 9d to lls for middling white,
and lls 3d per cwt for good mid. Madras and Java of yel-
low quality at 8s to 9s per cwt. Patna at 13s to 16s. Caro-
line at 26s for first, 24s for second, and 21s per cwt for third
quality.
OILS.—For Olive Oil prices are still going down; Gallipoli
at 501, Spanish 471 to 484 and Barbary 46/ to 46110 s per tun.
Rape Oil firmer; pale 38s to 38s 6d, and brown 37s to 37s 6d
per cwt. Linseed Oil at 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt on the
spot. Palm, fine quality at 27s 6d to 28s per cwt. In Seal
Oil prices are firmer, pale at 331 lOs to 341. Cod at 331 to
331 10s. Sperm Oil at 73/ to 76l per tun for British. This
afternoon fine Cocoa Nut Oil taken in at 30s per cwt.
TALLOW.—Russian on the spot at an advance on former
rates of 6d; Petersburgh Yellow Candle at 40s 6d to 41s per
cwt. For delivery for the last three months of the year at
41s 6d to 42s per cwt. Town Tallow at 393 6d to 40s per cwt,
nett cash. American at stiffer rates. This afternoon Peters-
burgh Yellow Candle at 40s 9d to 41s on the spot, and 41s 9d
to 42s for the last three months of the year. Odessa Yellow
Candle partly sold at 40s; New South Wales 37s 9d to 40s
per cwt.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—Another heavy blow and great discourage-
ment for the Government of false pretence. If Pyrrhus
exclaimed, " Another such victory, and I am undone"
—what shall exclaim Goulburn and Gladstone, who
purchase defeat—aye, and signal defeat—at a mo-
ral cost too great, had it purchased victory ! " How
is the Queen's Government to be carried on ?"
may we ask his Grace of Wellington. Lord' Mel-
bourne resigned in 1839, because he had only a ma-
jority somewhat under 20 (if we remember) on a
West India question. May we ask what her Majesty's
present Ministers propose as their course of action,
when they find themselves in a minority of twenty on a
West India question ? In common with our London
readers, our eyes have lately repeated* fallen on gigan-
tic placards respecting " that mysterious person, Miles's
Boy." If Sir R. Peel passes submissively under the
Caudillo Forks placed for him by last night's division, we
shall no longer have any doubt where resides the real per-
sonal identity prefigured by that cognomen. We shall
henceforth be unable to think of the plausible Premier,
with any other addition than as " that mysterious
person, Miles's Boy." That is where all his
mysteries of statecraft appear to have landed
him. He has tried one mystery too many
the attempt to mystify suffering interests. For
the first we remonstrated—how much better to
have adopted an open policy. But an open policy
was not open to those who had so long followed a
tortuous course. The party in power had chosen to
place their quarrel with their opponents on the old anti-
slavery ground, which they accused those opponents
of deserting. Now the anti-slavery ground has not
been deserted ; it has been washed away. There is no
longer any sure footing upon it, for any man, or for any
party. Our slaves are emancipated ; our efforts against
foreign slavery fruitless. Common sense, to say no-
thing of common honesty, should have dissuaded the old
pro-slavery interest from taking up the old anti-
slavery cry. We have now seen the last agony of that
hollow confederacy and pretence. We have seen the in-
evitable end of successively seeking to pay with words
all parties. It is a currency which there is not much
scruple in issuing, while the public will receive it ; but
the joint issuers are not the parties most disposed to
receive it themselves. They know its value ; and it
was a most remarkable reckoning without his host, that
Sir Robert Peel should have imagined he could turn
against his constituent class-interests the very topics
they wera well enough pleased to hear him employ in'
their favour. The distinction between free and slave
labour is valid to keep out the latter ; but not to admit
the former. That is where he has made his mistake.
But the West India interest, and the parties directly or
indirectly connected with it, could have had no power to
effect the Ministerial rout last night witnessed, but for
the fact that the same tortuous course which now dis-
gusts those parties (because it now goes against them) is
equally disgusting to all liberal minds.
STANDARD.—The West Indian interest, by the
aid of the Whigs, free traders, and some discontented
Conservatives, last night succeeded in obtaining a
triumph over the Ministers. The triumph will be, how-
ever, of short duration, and it is most fortunate for the
West Indian portion of the victors that it will be so.
We have for twenty years closely watched the pro-
ceedings of the parties who have in this country
undertaken the management of West Indian affairs,
and we may say with perfect truth that we
have not known them to take one important
step which was not stupid, and fatal to their own inte-
rests, as well as being impolitic and unjust. Last night's
proceeding seems to prove that their character is un-
changeable. Formerly they hoped to be able to per-
petuate slavery, and consequently made no provision, by
educating, elevating, and promoting the increase ofithe
negro race, to secure a labouring population when slavery
should be at an end. The effect of that insolent neglect
of the feeling of England accelerated the Emancipation
Act by many years, and the want of the labouring popu-
lation, which the planters failed to provide, it is
which has ruined the West Indies. These are truths to
which we challenge an answer from any one. Since the
passing of the Emancipation Act, instead of remedying
their past neglect, they have been, in truth, negotiating
for a smuggled slave trade, while they have calculated
upon the perpetuity of the protection they have so long
enjoyed. The Government will not indulge them in
the smuggled slave trade, and hence, their present
alliance with the Whigs. As to the more or less of pro.
tection, it is a question which can hardly affect the in-
terests of the planters beyond one year at most. Their
late slaves are their present masters ; the cul-
tivators of the soil in the West Indies receive six
times as much as the cultivators of the soil in Eng-
land ; improve their trade, and they will receive
seven or eight times as much. This, how-
ever, is the way to diminish, not to increase, the
number of labourers, in a population finite and already
inadequate. The man who, with all the advantages of a
tropical climate congenial to his constitution and habits,
receives as much in wages as six or seven English
labourers, will not long labour at all. A very little
more of capital distributed among the West Indian
labourers will ex'mpt them from the necessity of hiring
their labour to any one, and then what will become
Of the planters? We feel very sensibly for the
many excellent persons who have been ruined by
the gross mismanagement of their affairs, and it is for
the sake of the few who have been able to fight off utter
rum to the present time that we speak thus plainly.
England will not endure a slave trade, how ingeniously
soever disguised, and without a slave trade, or a total
change of system, there is no hope for the West Indies;
but a change of system cannot be effected without with-
drawing the management of the affairs of the colenies
from those who have so grossly mismanaged them
hitherto.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

OitUßtoTbeotFrue, QUEEN'Smigh
SMITH AND WIFE V. THE REV. E. PAGET.
3/ Ir. Platt and Mr. Miller were counsel for the plain-
ffs, and Mr. Wortley and Sir John Bayley for the
defendant.
This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for a libel, published by the defendant, of and
concerning the female plaintiff:
Mr. PLATT stated that he had the honour of appear-
inr for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who were compelled to
qarca.e ,linliist:,asseehbaerfaeorteerthelfsorsmthitehpeuarfroiseedoofnclaeavreinryg
considerable establishment, as a milliner and dress-
maker, in Hanover-square, where she was well known
and respected. The defendant, he regretted to say, was
a clergyman, and the nephew of the Marquis of Angle-
sey, and he was now called upon to answer before a
jury for the publication of a false and malicious libel,
one of no ordinary kind. It was particularly pointed
to the business and calling of the plaintiff,
and was calculated to do her very serious injury. It
seemed, whether for the purpose of pandering to some
morbid feeling, or from higher motives, the Rev. Gen-
tleman employed himself in publishing a book, entitled
" The Pageant." He would not discuss the merits of
the book; he would only call their attention to the
general outline of it, for the purpose of showing them
what had been introduced into the preface, that they
might see the mischievous tendency of that publication.
Facts and conversations were introduced into it with a
view of laying before its readers the sufferings of young
females employed in these occupations. No one could
view their condition without feelings of compassion; but
he would beg to ask the jury what calling there was in
which there were not sufferings arising from labour?
How many . were there in his own profession coin •
plained of the labour they underwent ? How many
who had arrived at the highest honours who
dropped almost into the grave?—the bodily powers
were worn out by the working of the mind: There
was no trade or profession in which there was not
great labour and risk to health, and it was not to be denied
that in the business of a milliner in this great town
those employed. in it had to submit to considerable
hardship, and if there was a proper case to be laid before
the jury and the public, in which a charge could be made
against any individual of the mode in which the trade
was carried on, he should not complain of the charge
being
made ; but that was not the case here—the estab-
lishment over which his client presided was not only
most extensive, but carried on in the most humane
manner. If he could go into the question, he had per-
sons here who could state to them the mode in which
the establishment was conducted, for this action was
brought for the purpose of challenging inquiry, to show
that it was an infamous calumny. In the preface
of the book it would seem to have been published
for the purpose he had mentioned, which, after
relating a slip-slop story. ended with a desecration of
the Scriptures. There was nothing so disgusting as
this cant, which, after giving a story as prefaced by the
introduction, in which the defendant pretended that lie
had received from a correspondent, in whom he could
confide, information, which he gave, but was grossly
libellous, and then ended with a quotation from the
Scriptures. The clergyman, whose duty it was to
preach charity, should at least practise it. In the pro.
face it was stated that the writer would not Mention any-
thing for which he had not the warrant of good autho
rity, either from the Parliamentary report, or from in-
formation obtained from private sources; and he then
stated that he had received information from a lady that
she had seen a young woman who was apprenticed in
the establishment of Mr. and Mrs. G., in B— S—.
The premium was 40/., and there were seventy appren-
tices. The meat was contracted for in Newgate market,
and was so bad that they could not eat it. The bread was
so sour that it disagreed with them. Beer they had none.
The tea was as poor as possible. Each of the apprentices
was forced to pay 3d. a week to the housemaid, who
had no other wages, and did not therefore take much
care of their rooms. For three weeks they were only
allowed to lie down on their wretched flock beds for two
hours without undressing. At last one poor girl, who
had often complained of illness, left the room, and in
the course of the evening she died, and Mr. G. after-
wards hushed up the matter by giving her friends 200/.
The apprentices worked in a room at the top of the
house with a glass roof; that in summer they were al-
most burnt up, and in the winter were almost frozen
with cold. All this, it would be said, was bad enough;
but there was a Mrs. S—, of H— S—, who had eighty
apprentices in her establishment, and who treated them
a little than Mr. and Mrs. G. Did they not
think that when any one ventured to publish such a
charge against an individual he should have ascertained
whether it was true or false? In common fairness he
/night to have done so ; but he had done nothing of the
kind. The plaintiffs had desired this gentleman to let them
know who his correspondent was, as he had stated that in
this correspondent he had the highest confidence, but he
would not give up the name of the party, and, therefore,
it was to be surmised there was no such in existence, but
that it was all produced by the Rev. Gentleman himself.
What was Mr. Smith to have done, knowing the utter
falsehood of the imputation ? He could do no more
than challenge him to the proof. If an action were
brought against a person for publishing a libel for the
purpose of recovering damages, the defendant, if he
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rit state upon BENCH,th e ..Tune
record 15.
BENEFITS OF LiOXIMERCIAL RECIPROCITY. --At that it was well founded, and if he proved it to be so, he
Paris, in the best appointed houses, and at dinners, could defeat the action. A party could not succeed in
which for costly materials and admirable art in their an action for libel, if the defendant could prove that that
preparation could not be surpassed, the effect is always which he had written was true. An action was the only I
considerably lessened, and by a mode the most mortify- mode in which a party maligned could challenge the
ing—by the mere circumstance that every ono at a proof of the aspersion, and the law did not allow
Preach dinner is served on a cold plate. The reason of a Person to recover damages if the defendant came
Custom, or rather a necessity, which one would think a forwardi boldly and proved the truth of. the arti-
nation so celebrated for its gastronomical taste would F.e he had published. Before the present action was
repel, is really, it is believed, that the ordinary French broughtiialetter was written by the plaintiff's attorney,
porcelain is so very far inferior that it cannot endure the stating tnhe was instructed on behalf of a lady, whose
namebe
preparatory heat for dinner. 'The common white pot- ,
i applicable, S,
and to whom the initials were
tery, fur example, which is generally used, and always aapyine,
stating
rweicilouetsht the defendant to favour him with
found at the cal-64, will not bear vicinage to a brisk kit- I
book was. ifo answer being mentioned in his
chen fire for half an hour. Now, if we only had that . returned to this application,
•it was repeated, trusting, as a clergyman treaty of commerce with France is hich had been so , and a gentle-
man he would not hesitate to state whether Mrs. s—, of
often on the point of completion, the fabrics of our noel- u___: ,-..___
0 meant Airs. Smith, of Ha
railed potteries, in exchange fur their capital wines, 11
11'e would furnish him with nwiT.square, and to
request t the name and
would be found throughout France. The dinners of
of the lady who furnished him
with the inforina-
both nations would be improved; the English would gain
tion. He (Mr. I latt) shouldhave thought, that if the
a delightful beverage; and the French, for the first time '
' Reverend Gentleman had not meant Mrs. Smith, he would
ia their lives, would dine off hot plates. An unanswera- !
t at once have said that it did not allude to Mrs.
ble instance of the advantages of commercial • •
reciprocity.
—Comingsby, or the New Generation., Smith, but, on the contrary, he had written a ,
character. I letter of a most shuffling t was
HoP INTELLIGENCE.-...CANTERBURY Th l-
about this part have greatly improved • h•the e iops this :—" In reply to your note, just received,
genial weather of thepast_with warm and ~..., ~, sa
y with every desire to meet your wishes,
week.. The colour looks better, , ~.1 uv,, '" ' person alluded
and the vermin is not on cannot give up the name of the
from West Kent on the increase. General accounts 1
are so many streets in
healthy aPeak of a decrease
of fly and lice, and the to as my correspondent. There
um—Kentish Observer. I London commencing with the initial ,II and so many

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTIf, JUNE 12.—The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-
Commander W. Tringham, is awaiting sailing orders in the
harbour; she was last from Guernsey, whither she had been
dispatched with troops.
The Prince George transport, Lieutenant E. Ward, agent,
which came into harbour on Saturday, is taking in victual-
ling stores at the Royal Clarence-yard, with which she will
proceed to Deptford.
The Emerald, tender to the St. Vincent, Second Master
Samuel Beggs, and the Echo steam-tug, returned from Ply-
mouth, the former on Monday, and the latter on Sunday.
The Echo had had a most hazardous and unpleas'ant voyage
down, and great blame is attributed to the authorities, who
ordered such a vessel on so important a service as that of
conveying 150 valuable seamen hence to Plymouth, whereby
their lives were endangered. The Echo is not fit for a rough
sea, and plunged so violently as to be compelled to put into
Torbay on Thursday, consequently she did not, make Ply-
mouth until Friday evening, some time after the Emerald,
which had encountered the gale, and beat down with ease.
The authorities at Plymouth expressed their surprise at such
a vessel as the Echo being trusted on such a voyage.
The Cornwall freight-ship (late a transport under the
agency of Lieutenant A. B. Howe) arrived on Monday from
Tong-Kong, with a detachment of the 55th Regiment on
board. She is at Spithead awaiting orders to disembark her
troops and cargo.
The Sylvia, 6, surveying-vessel, and tender to the Sea-
flower, Commander N. Robilliard, sailed on Sunday evening
with supernumeraries for Plymouth, whence she will return
to her station at Jersey. The Commander. and crew of the
Sylvia received a severe reprimand from Captain Rowley, the
flag captain, by order of the Commander-in-Chief for their
presumed connivance in the attempted smuggling of some
tobacco last week, and for which two of the crew, named
Rook and Payne were arraigned before the borough' magis-
trates of Portsmouth yesterday, but escaped punishment in
consequence of the disreputable evidence given by a Coast-
guard commissioned boatman, named Toby, who admitted
having given one of the prisoners brandy whilst in his cus-
tody, and then swore he made a confession of the smuggling.
The following men of war were thus distributed in China
on the 25th of February :—At Kong-Kong, the Agincourt,
72, Captain H. W. Bruce, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cockrane. Commander-in-Chief; Qastor, 36, Captain C. Gra-
ham ; Samarang, 26, surveying-ship, Captain Sir E. Belcher;
Minden, 20, hospital-ship, Captain M. Quin; and Alligator
troop- ship, 26, Alaster Commander J. King; the Driver
steam-sloop, Commander C. 0. Hayes. At Whampoa, the
Childers. 16, Commander G. G. Wellesley, taking in specie
fur England. At Chusan, the Cambrian, 36, Commodore
Henry D. Chads ; Plover, surveying-ship, Captain R. Col-
linson ; Young Ilebe, surveying- ship, Lieutenant Commander
T. Bate. At Ningpo, the Pelican, 16, Commander P. Jus-
tice. At Shanghai, the Wolf, 18, Commander A. Vyner,
At Amoy, the Serpent, 16, Commander W. Nevin ; Wol-
verine, 16, Commander 11. G. Morris; and the Vixen steam-
vessel, Commander G. Gitfard.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, is daily looked
for at Spithead. She left Gibraltar on thesth inst.
The Pantaloon, 10, is being rapidly proceeded with for
re-commission, to compete with the new class 12-gun brig
squadron ; as also the Waterwitch, now building by Mr.
White, of Cowes, which is reported ready for launching on
Saturday next, when she will be sent here to be rigged.
The Sydenham steam. frigate, Lieutenant-Cominander R.
D. B. Mapleton, passed through Spithead, on her way to
her destination, this evening.
The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander John Hay, went
without the harbour this afternoon to try her engines, after
having had their defects made good; she is rapidly complet-
ing her complement of hands, and will be ready for sea in a
few days.
The Wanderer, 16, Commander G.. Seymour, was a
Simon's Bay on the 10th of April last, froM Penang, en route
to England, with a freight of 1,500,000 of specie. She left
the Thunderbolt sloop, Commander G. N. Broke, at the former
place on the 13th of April.
The Alban steam transport, Lieutenant-Commander J.
Jeayes, has proceeded from Cork to the Shannon, with stores
and provisions for the squadron; also the Hamoaze, from
Devouport for the same purpose.
Mt. Philip Thornton, late a shipwright in Devonport dock-
yard, is appointed draughtsman in this dockyard.

SUN,

persons whose nam.4;commence with 8, that I can't feel
that the public is furnished with the slightest clue to
the party alluded to . As however, your note seems to
imply, and I most el .eeply regret it, that some respectable
lady has been ma .de uneasy, and as I :trust I need
scarcely say my re marks were not directedagainst indi-
viduals, but agains t a system, I beg to assure you I shall
be most happy, lin a second edition, to withdraw the
initials altogether ; but I must decline saying
who was or was at 't alluded to by them." In his
book, he (Mr. _Platt), - found this passage.:—
" I would much rather you would spit at me
than throw dust in my eyes. I can see little difference
between equivocation and dovvnright lying.". He (Mr.
Platt) could go along with him in that observation; and
he should like to have had a little truth here. He pub-
lished his book, but he• did not dare to come forward. It
was not one of those caves in which there would be any
difficulty in proving the case, if true, because he might
have called all these eighty young ladies. It was plain
the whole was a foul fabrication; manufactured for the
purpose of oppressing an individual carrying on a re-
spectable establishment, merely to gratify some feeling
of this Rev. Gentleman. He therefore called upon the
jury to give such damages as would be a lesson to this
gentleman not to publish that the truth of which he could
not establish.