The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-02 00:00:00

with respect to admitting sugar tainted with slavery.
Now he was going to let out a secret. There was a
secret correspondence going on between the Govern-
ment here and the Government of Brazil, and it was

to this effect.—(Hear, hear.) These statesmen some-
times wrote private letters of instruction to their
agents, which were not published till a hundred years
afterwards`.—(Laughter.) Now he would give them
one which would be published in about one hundred
years to come, passing between our Government and
the Government of Brazil. The present Ministry turned
out the late Administration on the question ofsugar, and
Lord Sandon grounded his argument on the allegation
that it was very impious to use slave-grown sugar.
Therefore inform the Brazilian Government that we
stand pledged in the article of sugar, and when we
bring on the budget we shall be obliged to tell the
people of England who are " gullible," that it would
be very improper to encourage slavery by taking Bra-
zilian sugar; but to convince the Brazilian Govern-
ment that we don't mean to do them any harm, we
will take their coffee at 2d. per pound less than we
did formerly ; and whereas fur out /of five of the
slaves in Brazil are employed in the coffee planta-
tions; and whereas three-fifths of all the exports from
Brazil are coffee and sugar, which are compara-
tively insignificant articles—(Laughter)—this will
convince them that we do not mean to inflict any
injury on the Brazilian planters, by refusing to take
their sugar. We are simply bound to do it by the
peculiarity of our position, after having tripped up
the heels of the 'Whigs.—(Great laughter.) That
was the dispatch which-would be published a hundred
years hence, as having been sent to their Envoy and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Brazil. Now, no
doubt they were honest, well meaning philanthropists
who were opposed to the admission of Brazilian
sugar, but philanthropy should always be guided
by reason ; and there was a class of men growing into
considerable notoriety in this country, who wanted to
subject them not to the dictates of enlightened bene-
volence, but to the control of pure fanaticism.—(Hear.)
Sugar was regarded as a conductor of morality,
coffee as a non-conductor. He remembered talking
to one of these very benevolent gentlemen upon this
subject, who had on a white muslin cravat. He (Mr.
Cobden) immediately said to him, " Before you say
another word, strip that slave-grown cotton from
your neck."—(Great laughter.) He replied that it
was not practicable, but this he (Mr. Cobden) de-
nied, for he knew a gentleman who had taken to
worsted stockings in the, summer, and would not allow
his garments to be put together with cotton thread.
What right had they to go over to Brazil and to fill
their ships with cotton, and then turn up the whites
of their eyes, and shed crocodile tears over the slaves ?
The thing was, in the first place, inconsistent, and in the
second, hypocritical. Did they say that he was an
advocate for the continuance of slavery because be
was an advocate of free trade ? No. He maintained
that one just and sound principle could never be at
war with another just and sound principle.—(Cheers.)
If they could show him that free trade was promotive
of slavery, he should hesitate between freedom of
trade and freedom of person. Nay, if - they could
show him that free trade would propitiate slavery he
would be prepared to abandon it. But he had al-
ways held a contrary opinion. He had always thought,
with all the greatest writers on the subject, that slave
labour was more costly than free labour : and that if
both were brought into fair competition, the latter
would supersede the former.—(Cheers.) He found
himself borne out in this by the Anti-Slavery Con-
vention, which sat in 1840. (The Honourable
Member then read a -resolution of the

convention in confirmation of his statement.) This
convention had, he continued, declared that slave
labour was more costly than free labour. It would
be a monstrous anomaly in the moral government of
the world if it were not.—(Cheers.) But if the
convention believed this, why did they wish to prevent
it from being proved ?—(Haar, hear.) He was
willing to believe that they were honest, and they
had proved themselves disinterested by; the labours
which they had gone through ; but he warned them
against being made the tools of designing men who
had an interest in upholding this monopoly of sugar,
and who were using the anti-slavery party to carry
out their selfish and iniquitous purpose.—(Hear,
hear.) Before he sat down there was one point
to which he particularly wished to advert.
Mr. Ricardo had spoken of the probability of an
election. He would tell them what the people must
do to carry out the principles of free trade. Sir
Robert Peel had, on a former occasion, advised his
party to register, and, by advice, following his they
at length succeeded in placing him in power. Now,
there; were a number of persons in this country who
were at that moment voluntarily disfranchised. There
were forty or fifty thousand persons in the metropolis
alone who were entitled to. vote who had not regis-
tered, and there were many thousands besides in
Manchester, Leeds, and other towns.—(Hear, hear.)
He ventured to say that, in the City of London,
there was hardly a single house rated at less than 101.
a year. How many of the inhabitants were there who
had not registered? Let all such persons remember that 1
at the next election the League meant to bring for-
ward four free traders.—(Great cheering.) In about
ten weeks the time would have elapsed for claiming
to vote. In order to have a vote for the next year a
person must have occupied a 101. house for a twelve-
month. Previous to the 31st of July, he must have
paid all the rates and taxes due up to the 6th of April,
and then he would be entitled to have his name re-
gistered on the- list of voters for the next year.—
(Hear, hear.) It ought also to be generally known
that by a late decision of the Court of Common Pleas,
every man who rented a room in a house, if that room
were a separate tenement, that is, if he had the key
of that room, and could go into it and out
of it when he pleased, he was entitled to
vote for that room. If his landlord paid the
rate that was a sufficient payment, provided his name
were put down along with the landlord's in the books
of the overseers. Now that decision alone had given
the landlords about 1,500 or 2,000 votes in the
City of London, besides many thousands in other
parts of the country.—(Hear, hear.) It was a sad
thing that so many persons should have no vote, sim-
ply because they would not take the trouble to regis-
ter. He hoped. that every individual who either
heard him, or read his remarks on that subject, would,
if entitled to do so, immediately register his name as
a voter. Even the non-electors might do something
by urging all who were entitled to vote to enrol their
names. It was by such means as these that they
would be prepared to meet their opponents in that
grand constitutional fight by which that question
must be decided; and if they were true to their prin-
ciples, they would not suffer another election to pass
by without sending a majority to Parliament who
were in favour of free trade.—(Great cheering.)
The meeting then dispersed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MESTER RACES-TUESDAY,

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If in the single item of sport the meeting as yet has ex-
hibited nothing very remarkable, the general indications are
highly encouraging. More horses are now in the town for
the Cup than have been seen here on any former occasion ; and
unless any breaks-down should arise from the hardness of
the ground, we may look for at least 25 at the post. That
they will be started without great difficulty, or. fairly under
weigh, that they will get round so narrow and awkward a
course without accident or disappointment, is more to be desired
than expected. We are glad to find that in adopting the
flag system, the clerk of the course has taken one step to-
wards preventing the " untoward " proceedings that excited
so much dissatisfaction and prejudice last year. The ar-
rivals up to the present time are unusually numerous; and
from the crowd that a moderate list attracted to the course
this afternoon, there cannot be a doubt that the Cup or
" grand " day will be a bumper. The only feature of any
interest in the racing to-day was the defeat of
Fanny Eden, one of the favourites for the . Oaks.
She made a wretched exhibition, and, we take it
for granted, will not see Epsom. The two-year
old stakes brought a field, average in number, but of a very
indifferent quality. We need not look amongst them for a
Derby or Oaks favourite. The sport in other respects ex-
cited no interest whatever. The first race came off at a little
after three o'clock, the last a few minutes-before seven—a dis
regard of one of the cardinal virtues of the Turf; punctuality,
that might have been serviceable to the proprietors of the
drinking booths, but was anything but agreeable wise in
the habit of attending Newmarket, Liverpool, Goor, al
Ascot. The Trial Stakes not having filled, the racing com-
menced with • •
and fillies Bst. (Ten Subs.)
Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, h
..(Holmes) 1
for colts Bst 41b,
Mr. Mostyn's Brunel ...... •••• ..•..........
2
Sir R. Bulkeley's Coal Black Bosi_r _
ost
's Lady ,
aDriried 31bs over), Alice
and
L
following l
nstoTrdhe W foew er
Mr rice's Missy. *c
all the running to the last turn, where Coal
alsoFsatnaurtyed
:-1
(
11ilssy made
Black hose took it up, and -went on with it to the distance.
Brunel cia 1 llenged her there, and won easy by a length.
Fanny Eden was beaten early.
Match-49 sovs. Mile and a half.—Mr. Smith's Tubal-
cain, Bst (Copeland), beat Mr. Collett's Rory O'More, 9st,
cleverly.
Two-yrs-old H
Stakes
Bst of ss. ea
-a-ch ; colts Bst 51b, and fillies
2 25
Ib. ov
alfmile.
Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch (Oates) I
Mr. Smith's Alice Gray
2
The . following also started :—Lord Westminster's Ann
Page, Mr. Bennett's Violet, Mr. Skerratt's Tottenham, Lord
Stanley's Psalm-singer, Mr. Fowler's Witch, and Mr. J.
Shepherd's Alaric. A remarkably fine race etween all but
Violet and Witch, the Lancashire Witchwinning b
only by
half a neck, Psalm-Singer a head from the second, and so
closely run in that the judge could not place a third.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. Heats, 1 mile-

and-a• half. • ---
Mr. Dawson's Daft `Fatty, 4 yrs (Lye) 4 1 1
Mr. Spead's Walton,. 3 yrs
Mr. Wilson's bc by Hampton, dby Comus, 3 yrs 3 dis
Sir R. Pigott's fby Dr. Faustus, 3 yrs 3 dr
.Won cleverly.
BETTING UP TO TWELVE O'CLOCK ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
TILE cur. _ _

S to 1 agst Kenrs two—t.
7 to 1 agst Red Deer
7 to 1 agst Pagan-
-7 to 1 agst Bramble
14 to 1 agst Cattonite
15 to. 1 agst :Nutwitli
18 to 1 agst Freedom
• IN 5
to 2 agar Ratan-L:taken
7 to 2 agst

.
20 to 1 agst Alice Havrthorn
20 to 1 agst Everton
20 to 1 agst Rowland
20 to 1 agst Jamie Forest
22 to 1 agst Pharaoh
25 to 1 agst Xanthus
25 to 1 agst Greenfinch.
11 to 1 agst Leander:--laken
30 W 1 asst E. of the Gipsies.