The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

I'RE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE ill 1844.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.

W. Massingham' clock maker, King's Lynn.
W. Forty, horse dealer, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire.
W. Westfield, butcher, Randwick, Gloucestershire.
J. Tanton, farrier, Gough-street North, Gray's Inn-road.
R. Spillett. farmer, Lenham, Kent.
T. Peel, freight-collector, Liverpool.
E. Wilson, schoolmaster, Marylebone.
J. Overton, solioitor,-Tavistock-place.
Mahony,.cheetettionger, Union-street, Southwark. .
E. P. Walcam, Clifton, Bristol.
J. Bickle, licensed victualler, Bath.
C. Soovell, tailor, Walcot, Somersetshire.
E. M. Hague schoolmistress, Richmond, Surrey.
J. Davies,ledmonger, Kingsutton, Northamptonshire.
J. Tench, Birmingham.
T. Markey, dealer in provisions, Manchester.
R. Parker, ship-chandler, Gravesend.
J. W. Wright, Charsfield,jSuffolk.
H. Harris, sheet-Iron roller, Gothersly, Staffordshire.
J. W. Wood,: Birmingham.
J. Tarbotton, provision dealer, Knaresborough.
C. Copley, farmer's servant, olton, Yorkshire.
H. Hart, steel pen manufacturer, Napier-street, Hexton.
E. Bobbitt, house agent, London-street, St. Pancras.
T. Bodger, carpenter, Hatton- garden.
N. Daniell, dentist, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
W. Baker, currier, Bedford-row, East-street, Old Kent-road.
G. Roalfe, carpenter, Bishopsbourne, Kent.
W. Lewin, carter, Upper Thames-street, City.
S. Stephens, porkman, Blackfriars-road.
A. Bird, beerseller, Kidderminster.
J. Santer, sen., hop dealer, Devonshire-buildings, Dover-road.
J. Hennessey, Weedon Becke, Northamptonshire.
H. T. Archer, attorney, St. John-street, Adelphi.
J. Barnett, beer-seller, Twerton, Somersetshire.
J. Eyres, smith, Great Alie-street, Goodman's-fields.
T. Bethel, tailor, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road.
R. Baker, currier, Bedford-row, East-street, Old Kent-road.
E. Stallard, felimonger, Buriton, Hampshire.
J. T. Farnell, schoolmaster, Norwich.
G. F. S. Gillard, grocer, Commercial-road, Lambeth.
J. Menzies, South-bank, Regent's-park.
H. Benjamin, traveller, Little Alie-street, Goodman's-fields.
J. Prince, licensed victualler, Bath.
H. G. Basham, road contractor, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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T. Jeeves, bricklayer, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
H. F. C. Finnis, carver, Hanway-street, Oxford-street.
S. Yearsley, attorney, Leckhampton, Gloucestershire.
sJ. Colton, rope maker, West Retford, Nottinghamshire.
J. Brazendale, publican, Liverpool.
J. Ward, beer shopkeeper. Yorkshire.
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S. Glover, painter, Yorkshire.
M. Hughes, snuff dealer, Birmingham.
J. Smith, manager of a silk mill, Leek, Staffordshire.
H. B. Hall, engraver, College-street, Islington. •
J. Clark, Orsett, Essex.
R. Newbery, baker, Cambridge.
W. Wilson, farmer, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire.
J. Baldock, labourer, Brenchley, Kent.
C. Cole, attorney's clerk, Brunswick-street, Islington.
J. Froggett, trimming manufacturer, Phcenix-st., Spitalfields.
W. Peachey, sen., butcher, Tooley-street, Southwark.
E. Bathurst, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
J. W. Hutchins, stone mason, Ipswich.
T. Merritt, coach maker, Pump-row, City-road.
SECOND NOTICES.
G. Chamberlain, carpenter, Praed-street, Paddington, June
17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.

W. Swan, fisherman, Great Yarmouth, June 17, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee.
T. smith, gun-maker, High-Holborn; June 17, at half-
past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.
J. Luckett, coffee-housekeeper, Adam-street West, Bryan-
stone-square, June 17, at half -past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee.
A. Benjamin, dairyman, Gravel-lane, Hounsditch, June 17,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee.
T. Cornhill, coffee-house proprietor, Coleman-street, City,
June 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee.
J. Bond, tailor, Manchester, June 17, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. Fraser, official assignee.
G. Carreer, edge tool grinder, Sheffield, June 15, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
W. Ellerson, horse dealer, Eynesford, Kent, June 15, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
W. Barthram, livery stablekeeper, Raven-row, Mile-end,
June 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee.
R. A. Jefferiss, journeyman butcher, East-street, Walworth,
June 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee.
J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley, Kent, June 18, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
D. Henry, engraver, Leeds, June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assignee.
T. Cope, New Lenton, Nottinghamshire, June 15, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
W. Whiteley, scissors manufacturer, Sheffield, Jane 15,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official
assignee.
G. Davenport, saw dealer, Sheffield, June 15, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
J. Swinscoe, wood turner, West-bar, Yorkshire, June 15,
at eleven, at • the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as-
signee, Leeds.
T. Mason, tailor, Sheffield, June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Fearne, official assignee.
. J. Kerby, licensed victualler, Bristol, June 18, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee.
T. Hodgson, joiner, Otley, Yorkshire, 'June IS, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee.
L. Alman, musical instrument seller, Bristol, June 17, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official as-
signee.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price 'Current of June 11.:

SuGAn.-To7day grocers and refiners purchased West India
Sugar sparingly, and the limited business transacted was at
prices 6(.1. per cwt um.er those of Friday ; merchants are
still free sellers. The private purchases are only
300 hhds and trcs. Antigua, fine yellow sold at 64s
to 665, good mid 60s, and strong grey St. Kitt's 58s per cwt.
A public sale of 123 hhds of new Barbadoes Sugar went off
without spirit at prices is under those of the former sale for
low, and 6d per cwt for the better sorts ; fine yellow went at
64s to 665, good 62s to 63s 6d, mid 60s to 61s, and low
58s 6d to 59s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.-To-day the grocers operated with caution, and
prices are still on the decline for Refined Goods; Standard
Lumps selling at 76s 6d to 775, and brown grocery 75s 6d to
76s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is 25s 6d to 25s 9d per
cwt for first quality, and there is not much doing. Loaves
are wanted, 141bs at 29s to 29s 6d, 101bs 30s to 30$ 6d, and
61bs 335.
MAURITIUS.-By private contract several parcels have
been disposed of, but rather under former rates. This after-
noon the demand was limited for Bengal Sugar, and 4,495
bags at auction were only partly sold : Dobah sorts fetched
full rates, but all other kinds went 6d to is per cwt cheaper;
fine strong yellow Dobah fetched 67s to 71s, good 65s to 66s 6d,
damp 62s 6d to 695, good to fine sound white 63s to 64s 6d,
middling 61s 6d to 625, low 60s 6d, damp and crushed 60s to
645, damp brown 50s to 53s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.-To-day lower rates being accepted for yellow
Havannah Sugar, caused a considerable increase in the de-
mand ; three cargoes were sold at 19s 6d, and one at 20s per
cwt, all for a near port. There was no public sale.
MoLassEs.-West India at further reduced rates ; Deme-
rara at 23s to 245, and Trinidad 25s per cwt. Bengal Syrup
is dull of sale at 14s to 17s ; some parcels of Honey have been
sold upon easier terms.
COFFEE.-West India is at present not much wanted ;
importers are still inclined to sell, and have su;imitted to a
decline on former rates of Is to 2s per cwt. Mocha has been
in brisk demand privately, and full rates given. Ceylon has
been in much better demand, and prices have risen is per
cwt. The market for Foreign has a firm appearance, and the
demand is on the, increase.
Rtmr, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDs.--Jainaica Rum rather
under former rates ; 3s 3d accepted for a parcel of 50 puns 30
to 31 per cent. overproof of fair quality. Demerara at 3s Id
to 3s 4d for 32 to 38 per cent. overproof -of strong quality.
Leewards, proof at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, and 5 to 6 per
cent. overpreof at 2s 40. 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, pus ss; ditto, 1841, hhds 5s Id, puns
4s Ild ; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s 11d, puns .4s 9d, mid and good
middling qualities 3s Od to 4s 3d, and low 2s 8d to 2s 11 d per
gallon. ii or Geneva prices are firmer ; sales for ship-
ping made at is 8d to Is 9d; fine in small parcels
is for home consumption has fetched 2s 2d to 3s.
English Corn Spirits cannot be quoted above lOs 2d
per gallon, cash. To-day, proof Leewards at 2s 2d to 2s 3d.
Jamaica of fine quality, in demand at 3s 10d to 4s 10d, but
other sorts are dull of sale, and rather cheaper; 3s Id to 3s 9d
is the value of 90 to 36 per cent overproof.
RICE.--Cleaned Rice is wanted ; Patna at 13s to 14s, good
and fine 158 to 17s, and Carolina 21s to 26s per cwt. This
afternoon Bengal Rice met with less attention, and 1,500 bags
at auction were all taken in at IN 6d to lls for mid white,
being rather under former rates.
CocoA.-British Plantation has met with little attention,
and prices are still on the decline. This afternoon there was
a fair business transacted privately in Ceylon Coffee at 49s
to 50s per cwt for good ordinary; there was no public sale.
Mocha is wanted, and some parcels were disposed of pri-
vately at stiffer rates; 90 bales at auction were, however,
taken in at 72s for middling mixed, being above the value;
of Trinidad 79 casks were offered and sold at easier rates,
good to fine ordinary at 53s 6d to 58s; 136 bags Costa Rico
were taken in at 58s for fine fine ordinary.
TILL-The trade are little in want of Tea at present, and
few purchases have been made privately in any description
for home consumption; the export demand has been limited,
and prices generally have a downward tendency. To-day
there was' more business transacted in the Tea market, and
prices have made a stand ; sales of common Congou for cash
made at 100 _to 11d, and Twankay ordinary Is 2d to is 3d
per lb.

INDIGO.—The quantity declared for public competition on
the 9th of next month has been increased to 14,161 chests ;
the market has still a dull appearance, and those parties that
are inclined to sell have been compelled to take prices 2d to
4d per lb. under those at the last quarterly sale. Spanish has
been little inquired for; and easier rates taken.

OiLs.—For'Palm Oil prices have made a stand : privately
several parcels sold at 27s 6d to 28s for fine : 306 casks at
auction went at 22s to 23s for low to fine. Cocoa Nut Oil 26s
to 30s per cwt is the value. The market is quiet for Olive
Oil, Gallipoli 501, Spanish 49/, and Barbary 471 to 481 per tun.
Linseed Oil at 25s 6d to 26s per cwt. Rape sells slowly at
38s for pals, and 37s per cwt for brown. For common Fish
Oils prices cannot generally be quoted lower; Cod Oil is 33/
to 33/ 5s ; Southern, 261 to 32/; pale Seal 331 to 33/ ss, and to
arrive 321 lOs per tun. Sperm at 72/ to 75/ per tun. This
afternoon Rape Oil pale at 36s 6d to 37s 6d per cwt. Lin-
seed Oil at 25s 9d per cwt on the spot.
TALLow.—Holders of Russian are not inclined to take
lower rates at present. On the spot the demand has been
only for small parcels at 40s to 40s 6d per cwt. for Peters-
burg Yellow Candle. For delivery there is an evident desire
to sell at to 40s 6d per cwt. for the last three months of the
year. Town Tallow, 38s 6d to 39s per cwt. nett cash.

CHIEF JUSTICE TINDAL.—The Lord Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas completes his fifteenth year of judicial
office to-day, and is consequently entitled to claim a full re-
tiring pension; but this learned and excellent judge has no
idea at present of resigning the office be has so long orna-
mented.

THE FIRST WHALER FROM HAMBURGH.—A Ham-
burgh correspondent writes on the 30th ult. :—" The first
whaler ever fitted out at this port has just sailed for the
South Polar Seas. She is called the Anseat, and measures
650 tons. The entire crew have engaged to abstain from all
spirituous liquors during the voyage, and to be content with
two rations of coffee a day. It appears that temperance is
much more necessary on board whalers than any other
ships ; it hating been proved by experience that nine -tenths
of the diseases and deaths on board the Danish and Swedish
whalers have been caused by the excessive use of spirituous
liquors."
At Stockingford, the other day, for a wager of a
shilling, a woman ate a peck of radishes, with a pound of
bread and butter, and ale ad libitum, in half an hour.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock.
The Bishop of SALISBURY presented petitions
against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of Gal-
loway, the Earl of Devon, and the Bishop 'of Exeter.,
The Bishop of EXETER postponed from Thursday
to Friday the second reading of the Brothels Suppres-
sion Bill.

PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES BILL.
In answer to a question from Mr. BOUVEJUE, re- 1
specting the Presbyterian Marriages Bill,
Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Bill was now in pro-
gress through the House of Lords ; and he had a com-
munication from the Lord Chancellor to the effect, that
the Bill would shortly arrive in this House.
Mr. GROGAN gave notice of his intention to bring
in a Bill to regulate the payment of Coroners in Ireland.

Mr. JAMES rose, and said that he hoped he might be
permitted to make a few observations on this ques-
tion ; first, because he did not often trouble the House ;
secondly, because there had not been a full discussion on
the second reading-; and, thirdly, because he was one
of those unfortunate beings called a West India planter,
not through any fault of his own, but because, some cen-
turies ago, an ancestor of his was encouraged by the Go-
vernment of that day to invest money in the purchase
of a West India estate in the Wand of Jamaica, and who
expected that future Governments would not legislate to
injure, much less to destroy the value of, their property.
He proposed, in the first place, to take the opportunity
of expressing his conviction that few Members of the
House were really acquainted with the exact facts of
the case, or with the unfortunate condition in which
the West Indian interests were now placed. He
thought he could best illustrate their condition by
his own situation, and that was peculiarly favour-
able as regarded the cultivation of West Indian
property, for he was not exactly in- the light of an
absentee proprietor, having a son residing in the country
who was acquainted with the business, and also an over-
seer, who had resided there several years, and was
thoroughly acquainted with the mode of cultivating
sugar. There were no mortgages on the property, and
lie had no occasion, as many had, to employ merchants
and pay them two-and-a-half per cent. He had only
to pay a commission broker. Now what was his
case ? Every pound of sugar he imported from Jamaica,
taking an average of three years, cost him 4d. in the
production and transport. What happened when it
arrived in this country? The Chancellor of the Exchequer
immediately put a tax of 3d. per lb. on it, thus making
•the price 7d. A great deal had been said about
the dearness of sugar, but all he had been able to
get for his sugar was 6%d. per lb., thus losing lb.
or 500/. on every 10' hogsheads of sugar. This was not
a very pleasant position to be in, with regard to pro-
perty' which, during the existence of slavery, was
worth 3,0001. a year, and, during the apprentice-
ship system, half that sum, and he had done
everything to diminish the cost of cultivation.
What was the cause of this mischievous state of things?
Was it not the existence of a tax of 3d. upon their staple
commodity, sugar ; and nearly a prohibitory tax
upon rum ? Let it not be forgotten that these
taxes were proposed by Mr. Pitt expressly as war
taxes. Any gentleman who would refer to the debates
of that day, would find that Mr. Pitt premised when
the sugar duties were imposed that they
should be the very first to be taken off
whenever peace was established ; and yet there
they were, nearly thirty years after the commencement
of the peace, and the taxes remained precisely the same.
They had heard a great deal about the 20,000,0001.
He had more than once said, that although
a very munificent gift, it was but a small compensation
to the West Indian planters for the loss which they sus-
tained. He would like to know how gentlemen in that
House would feel, if after their property had been ruined
by the repeal of the corn-laws, the Hon. Member for
Stockport should rise and propose to give them
2s. 6d. in the pound as compensation ? They
took from -them their slaves, and up to that time
they threw every possible impediment in the
way of their availing themselves of free labour.
They had been asked, why, if they lost by their estates,
they did not abandon their cultivation ? They
had not abandoned the cultivation up to
that time,Lbecause they relied upon the justice and
the sympathy of the Members of that House, and
he would fain hope that they did not altogether rely
upon a broken reed. He did not hesitate to say, that
many of the proprietors in Jamaica had been 'treated
more cruelly than the slaves had ever been treated.
' The slaves had always had a supply of good and
wholesome food, whilst, by the legislation of that House,'
proprietors were rendered destitute. Did any one believe.
that if they were as powerful as the landed interest such
measures would be proposed as were then under conside-
ration ? He was sorry to see the great discouragement
which had been given to their interest by the change of
opinion on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet at the
head of the Government. As to the opposition of
the Honourable Member for Dumfries, he did -not con-
sider it very formidable • for he brought forward-
such wild, extravagant, and ultra views on all sorts
of subjects, that he really did not think any
rational person could coincide in his views.—(Hear,
hear.) He regretted the course pursued by his Noble
Friend the Member for the City of London. What he
chiefly complained of in his Noble Friend was, that he
did not come forward at the same time to propose the
repeal of the Emancipation Act. If they were to
have slave labour sugar admitted into this
country, let that Act be repealed. To give an advantage
to slave countries which was not possessed by their own.
colonies, did appear to him to be a course of
legislation which was calculated to make them the
laughing-stock of every nation in the world.
If they really wished to benefit the people of England,
it could only be effected justly in one way;
that was by diminishing 'the costs of production in
their own colonies, and gradually reducing the tax.
Let them only have plenty of free labour, reduce the
tax on colonial sugar from 245. to 12s. •, by that means
they would do ample justice to the West Indians, and confer
an important benefit on the people of 'England, whilst
at the same time they would suffer noloss, but would ob-
tain a gain on the revenue by the largely increased
consumption that would take place. He would not say
anything more, for he had almost given up: the case as
hopeless.
Mr. EWART said his Hon. Friend had charged him
with asserting rash propositions; lie tholight his' Hon.
Friend ought to recollect that these propositions had been
made year after year. He maintained that the commerce
and manufactures of the people of this country were
affected by the discriminating defies which his Hon.
Friend had attempted to defend. His Hon. Friend there-
fore came into court not as plaintiff, but as defendant.
He (Mr. Ewart) certainly could net understand the
conduct of those Hon. Members whom he considered to
be represented by the Hon. Geutleman who had last
addressed the House (Mr. James). Were they, then,
actually coming down to that House to protect and
uphold the system of monopoly ? There was, however,
a want of, skill as well as a degree, of partiality in the
conduct of this class of Members • who now came down
to make common cause withAhe monopolists. The Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. James) had-made an attack on the
Right Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir' R. Peel), which it
would have been better to refrain from. It was easy to
rake up speeches delivered over a course of many years,
and to cavil at them ; but for his (Mr. Ewart's)
part, he thought it the duty of a Prime Minister
to watch opinion as it advanced, and to endeavour to
keep pace with it, and glad was he to find that,
however slowly, the Right Honourable Baronet
was disposed to move onwards. The question how-
ever, now before the House was, whether
one part of our colonies was to be benefited at the
expense of the general well-being of the country. Such
a system would be, in fact, ultimately injurious to the
planters theinselvee. No worse policy could be pursued than
that of retaining those differential disties. Throw open the
sugar trade, and the general commerce f the country
would be Increased to an almost illimitable extent.
No measure, except that of the repeal of the corn-laws,
would do so much good, as placing the sugar trade
on a proper foundation. What he (Mr. Ewart) wished
to see done was this—to reduce the duty to what it was
before the war, to what it was, for example, in the year
1790. Then the duty levied on sugar was 12s. 4d. per cwt.
Unless they reduced the duties upon sugar so low as to
increase the consumption among the labouring classes,
they would do nothing. The real consumers of all
commodities were the labouring classes. He would re-
mind the Chancellor of the Exchequer that it had been
shown before the Select Committee that nineteen-
twentieths of the tobacco consumed in the country
was consumed by the labouring classes—(Hear,
hear)—and he would venture to say, that the
consumption of tea and coffee was in the same propor-
tion. Unless they could bring the price of sugar down
to fourpence per pound, they would do nothing.
The rich consumed from 601 b. to 701 b. of sugar per head
per annum, and the poor only 71b. The rich amounted
to 5,000,000, the poor to 23,000,000 ; thus, the
power of' consumption of 23,000,000 persons re-
mained undeveloped. A great quantity of sugar
wee formerly consumed in Ireland, but at present,
owing to the high duty, the consumption in Ireland had
diminished to art average of 71b. per head per annum, in-
stead of an average of 2 lib. per head per annum, as was
the case in England. In consequence of the
high duty, adulteration took place to a very great
extent, and the peer man, who consumed the muscovado
sugar, suffered exclusively from those adulterations, for
the rich man consumed only refined sugar. With regard
to the West Indian interests, the more honest course
would be to let them know the worst at once.—(Hear.)
The false support on which they had heretofore leant
could not last more than a few years, and his Hon.
Friend would find that out. It would be better
for the West India interest to come to a
wise compromise in time, for it was beyond all
doubt that the present false system could not last,
and his Hon. Friend had proved it was injurious
to the West India interest itself. They were in a false
position, out of which it was their wish to extricate
them. It was a remarkable circumstance; that
the foreign trade had increased in a much
greater proportion than the colonial trade. Let them
look to the case of Bristol and Liverpool. The former
was dependent on a colonial trade, and had not ad-
vanced, while Liverpool, which had extended its trade to
all parts of the world, had made rapid advances. It
was the same with regard to Havre and Bordeaux, the
latter of which depended on the old colonial system.
He had certainly once introduced to the House a pro-
oosal for extending the cultivation of free labour sugar,
ut it was rather to agitate the question than
with any idea of its adoption. For his own part,
he regarded commerce as the great emancipator.
He maintained that the real way to bring this question
to an issue, was to throw open the markets to the pro-
duce of the world, and allow free labour and slave
labour produce to come at once boldly into conflict in
the market of this country. This would be the conclu-
sion to which they would have to come at last. He be-
lieved, too, that the•planters-themselves would be bene-
fited by this. He admitted that they had been injured
by the legislation of this country, which had restricted.
their commerce, and he wished to see that system of legis-
lation abolished. If the colonies were to be an integral
portion of this country, the colonists ought to be treated
as the inhabitants of this country were treated. His Hon.
Friend had complained of a deficiency of labour in the
West Indies. Why, let the trade be thrown open to the
world, and this evil would soon remedy itself. The
energies of our colonies would never be developed, un-
less they were subjected to full and fair competition.
He wished to bring this subject to some definite point, and
to ascertain, by a division, whether the House was will-
ing to equalise the duty on foreign and colonial sugar,
or not. If he did not succeed in inducing the House to
abolish the differential duty, then he would propose, as
an amendment to the motion of the Hon. Member for
Bristol, that these differential duties should expire at the
end of a year. By equalising the duties they might