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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 16, 1842.

Gentleman near him, that tbis measure was not a violation of
the Declaratory Act. He admitted the right and the power of
Parliament to make such regulations as those proposed, but he
thought they ought not to have recourse to change without
there was a probability of benefiting a whole colony. He
thought that our Government should not set up a principle one
day and throw it down the next. He could wish them to act
on some system of principle.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said the Noble Lord had spoken
with great fairness. He stated very fairly that the objec-
tion that the Hoxourable and Learned Member for Bath—
that this measure was an interference with the Declaratory
Act—did not apply. The Noble Lord said, let them act on
a system. Now, if they were to act upon a system, they would
find, on investigation, there was a duty of mss. on flour into
Nova Scotia and into Prince Edward Island. That duty was
imposed not merely by a Colonial Act, but by an Imperial Act.
Now, acting on the recommendation of the Noble Lord, there
would be no difficulty in placing Canada on the same foot-
ing as the other North American colonies. He would
remind them, as they were to act upon principle, that
last year the Noble Lord had recommended the re-
duction on, the duties of butter and cheese imparted into
Canada from the United States. How could they retain the
duty on butter and cheese, and not impose it on flour. He (Sir
Robert Peel) must say, he was a little surprised at the senti-
ments of the Right Hon. Gentleman, when he said, " Don't
touch this subject, as it has been in existence for eleven years."
When I.e (Sir Robert Peel) contended that they should look
with great care at a precedent of 150 years standing, he was
met with loud cheers, combined with a sort of derision, which
implied that nothing could be more foolish than the arguments
used ; therefore, as far as the eleven years were concerned, he
thought even that argument failed; whether right or wrong, was
another question. He thought the whole argument on the other
side preponderated in tavour of a change. He hoped
they had shown that what had been said by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer was unfounded, and that they did
not meet in a violent passion to discuss the subject.
Several HON. GENTLEMEN here exclaimed, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Sir R. PEEL meant the late Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Noble Lord (Lord J. Russel!) had forgotten the advice of
the Right Hon. Gentleman ; but he (Sir It. Peel) hoped that
throughout the remainder of the session, nothing but good
temper would prevail in the discussion of matters which would
come before them.—( Hear.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE was not aware that there had been
any ill tempe: evinced on that side the House, for, certainly, it
was not a very exciting topic, and, if there had been any ill
temper displayed that evening, he should certainly despair of
hearing any discussion conducted calmly in that House.
After a few words from Mr. C. BULLER andAlr. S. O'Batex,
on the proposal for fixing the duty on unrefined sugar at 55.,
Mr. GLADSTONE wished to correct a mistake that hail
gone abroad upon this point. There was no intention to allow
the introduction of unrefined sugar into all West India Colonies
at a rate of ss. The old prohibitions will remain just as they
were. _ _ _ . .

On the proposal for making the duty on tea imported from
China into the United Kingdom, or British possessions,
Mr. LAI3OUCHERE said that he preferred the plan he had
proposed last year, on the suggestion of lord Sydenham.
After a few words from Mr. GLADSTONE in explanation,

Mr. COBDEN mentioned, as an instance of thit present
state of our law on the subject of sugar, that 14,097 cwt. of
slave-grown sugar had been sent out of this country to the
West Indies in the space of six months after it bad been reEned
in bond here.

Mr. M. MILNER GIBSON complained of a 10 per cent,
duty upon slave-grown sugar, refined in this country, and ex-
ported to the Colonies. He thought that such sugar should be
considered as if it were an article of British produce.
Mr. GLADSTONE stated that the provision he intro•
duced would leave the questionmuch in the same state in which
it stood at present. Slave-grown sugar could not be looked on
as an article of British produce, inasmuch as no such sugar was
grown in our possessions.
The resolutions were then agreed to, and the House re-
sumed. The Report was ordered to be brought up en Monday.
Mr. GLADSTONE, in reference to sugar coming into the
Colonies, said he copied the words of the existing Possessions
Act, so that the prohibition would remain precisely as it was
at present against importing foreign sugar into the Colonies.
He would allow the Colonies to import tea from the United
States or any other place on payment of a duty of 7 per cent.
ad v dorm

On the sugar item being proposed.
Air. COBDEN objected to the clause that would allow the
importation of slave-grown sugar refined into Canada, while
the poor people of this country could not use iL This was in-
consistent.

Air. GLADSTONE said our possessions had not sugar
to send these colonies, and he merely proposed to leave them
the privilege they had had for years.
The Turnpike Roads' Bill, and the Railways' Bill (second
reading) were postponed to Monday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
llouse adjourned at Half-past Ten.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.
(From the rotes and Proceedings of the Howe of Commons.)
THURSDAY, •ritit 14.

PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC PETITIONS.
Motion made, and Question put, " That every Member of-
fering to present a Petition to the House, not being a Petition
for a Private Bill, or relating to a Private Bill before the
House, do confine himself to a statement of the parties from
whom it comes, of the number of signatures attached to it,
and of the material allegations contained in it, and to the read-
ing of the prayer of such Petition :"—The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 268.

Ilinde, J. Hodgton—Neweastle-
upon-Tyne
Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed
Hogg, James Weir—Beverley
Holdsworth, J.—Wake field
Holmes, Hon. W.—lsle of Wight
Houldsworth, T.—Nottingbamsh.
Howard, Hon. J.—Malmsbury
Howard, Lord—Shaftesbury
Howard, Hon. E. G.—Morpeth
Howick, Viscount—Sunderland
Hutt, W.—Gateshead
Irton, Samuel—Cumberland
Irving, John—Antrim Co.
Jackson, Mr. &h.—Dublin Unl
versity
James. William—Cumberland
James, Sir W. C.—Hull
Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk
Johnson, W. O.—Belfast
Johnstone, A —Renfrew, &c.
J hnstone, Sir J.—Scarborough
Johnstone, J. II —Dumfriesshire
Jones, T.—Londonderry Co.
Kirk, Peter—Carrickfergus
Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent
Knight H. G.—Nottinghamshire
Labouclicre, Right lion. Henry—
Taunton
Lambton, H.—North Durham
Langston, J. H.—Oxford
Law, Hon. C. E.— Cambridg eVni v.
Legh, G. C.—North Cheshire •
Leicester, Lord—Bodmin
Lemon, Sir C.—Lewes
Lincoln, Earl of—Northarepton-
shire South
Lindsay, H. H.—Sandwich
Loch, James—Kirkwall
Lockhart, Wildam—Lanarkshire
Lowther, Colonel—lVestroorelant
Lyall, G.—London
Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.—
Worcestershire West.
Macaulay, 'l,' B —Edinburgh
Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress.shire
Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire
M'Oeachy, F.—Honiton
• Maher, John—Wexford Co.
Mahon, Viscount— Hertford
Morgan,
Manners, Lord J.—Newark
Marsham, Lord—West Kent
Martin, John—Tewkesbury
Martyn, C. C.—Southampton
Master, Colonel—Cirencester
Niasterman, J.—London
Miles, Philip W, Sk: biter —Bristol
Miles, William—Somersetshire
Mittritii, T. A.—Bridport
Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh.
Morris, D.—Carroeyttith
'orison, William—Kinross-shire
O.—Monmouthshire
m,,tidy, E. M.—South Derbyshire
Murray, C. S.—Bucks
Napier, Sir Charles—Marylebene
Sethi, Joseph—Chippenliont
Neck!, John—criehiates
Ncville lt,—Wilidsof ~ • •
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Nteholll, JCatilift '1 ,
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Norceysr-Vor4.oxfOrdslilre"'-' =--
O'Brien, A.—N.Northamptonshir
O'Brien, W. S.—Lburriek to.
°roc: W .a.lititeidald-s.pon-Tyne
Owely, ir John-"Pombroke ..:*
Packe, C; \V.—Leicester, South
,Paget:Trederick—Beatimaris
Pakington, J. S.—Droitwieh
Palmerston, Vizeount—Titerton
Peel, Itt lion. sir 12.—.Tamworti
Pendarves, E. 1V,,,W. COrtiwall
Philips, Matit=MittlbliiStot
Pitret, Sir Bobett—ilridgnorth
Polhill, Frederick—Bedford
Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon
Praed, W. T.—st. Ives
Price, Richard—New Radnor
Pringle, Alexatider-,Zielkirkshlre
Protheroe, lidwerd.—kletifaX
: Pusey, Philip--Berkshire
Reside, M,—Waterford CRY
Rojo, Sir John Ilat-‘,4levrit
Rice, EdwooPwr,,....Daver
Roilestell, tol.—S. Noltlngham
Ts....ina, Charles Gray--i,.ssez, /4,
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lneppard, Th'otnai—Froine
•Shitioy. E...—Murultrarl,
Slbthrity, COlohei=-I.trithln
SM`oltett ik.—thiiibartonshire
Sbinerset, Lord G.—Monmouthsh
Sotheron, I'. H.—Desires
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Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire
Stanley, W.O.—Anglesey
Stanstield,W, rt, C.— liiirldersfield
.4twitt,ii, '.V. P;_strond
heckart, lohly—:LyMitigton
Strutt, Edward—Derby
Stuart, kind d..--isyt
Stuarts V illii?rs,—% iterf ordCo.
Skittn, C. M.—Cambridge
Thesiger, F.—Woodstock
Thornhill, G.—Huntingdonshire
Tren:t, Sir F,--Scarborough
Trotter, John—West Surrey
Turner, EEdmund—Truro
Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essen
Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk
Verner, rc..v:i'aiirliilatilen....—sG..._Auricd,cagfoarhdsCuotibik
Earle—Grantham
NNllaedlid,yllilaGli:iyin,no
Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgenorth
Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Lenca.
shire
Wood, Charlcs—Halifax
Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon
Wood, Colonel T.—Middlesex
Wortley, Lord—Lincolnshire
Wortley, lion. S.—W. Yorkshire
W. B.—Northallerton
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Sussex •
Young, Jon Co.
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t'Court, Captain—Tamworth
Acton, Colonel—Wicklow Co.
ArLire, Lord—Glamorganshire
Ainsworth, P.—Bolton
Allis, J. P.—Cambridgeshire
Antrobus Edmund—Surrey
Arbuthnot. General—Kincardine-
shire
A rkwright, George—Leominster
Bagot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire ,
Bailey, Joseph—Worcester
Baillie, H. D.—Honiton
Baird, W.—Falkirk, &c.
Baldwin, Charles Bari y—Totnes
Baring, \V. B.—Thetford
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich
Barrington, Lord—Burksh.re
Baskerville, T. B.—Herefordshire
Bell, H.—S. Northumberland
Be, estord, Captain—Athlone
Bereslord, Major—Harwich
Bernard, Vise.—Bandon Bridge
Blackburne, Ireland—Warrington
Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford
Blakemore, Richard—Wells
Bodkin, W. H.—Rochester
Bolden), Henry G.— Chippenham
Bottleld, Bcriah—Ludlow
Brareston, I'. W.—Essex South
Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire
Brotherton, J.—Salford
Browne, W. D.—Kerry
Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough
Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire
Buckley. E.—Newcastle-on-Tyne
Charles—Liskeard
Boller. Edward—Star'bre
Bunbury, H. -Carlow
Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham
Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk
Busfeild, William—Bradford
Campbell, Sir H.—Berwickshire
Campbell, A.—Argyllshire
Cartwright, Wm. IL—South Nor-;
thamptonshire
Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Henley
Chelsea, Lord—Reading
Chetwede, Sir .T.—Buckingham
Cholmonocley, Hon. H.—Monr.,l
gomery
Chute, W. L W.—West Norfolk
(lay, Sir Wm.—TOwer Hamlets
Clayton, IL—Aylesbury
Clemente, Visc.—Leitrim co.
Clerk. Sir G.—Stamford
Clive, R. H. - South Shropshire
Cochrane, A.—Thidport
Cockburn Sir G. orge
Colebrooke, Sir T. E.—Taunten
Colville, C.—South Derby
Courtenay, Lord—S. DevOnshire
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Cowper, Hon. W. r.—Hertford
Craig, W. G.—Edinburgh
Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester
Currie, Itaikes—Northampton
Dalrymple, Capt.— Wigtonshire
Darner, Hon o.—Portarlington
Dawnay, Hon. H.—Rutland
Denison, E. 11.—West Yorkshire
Dickiti6.o3l,cl•H;—WeSt•Somerset,
Dodd, G.—Maidstone
Douglaa,..Sir /4„—Liempooi
Douglas, J.-8 —Rochester
Drummond, H. H.—Perthshire
Dugdalc, W. S.—Warwickshire ;
Duncan, G.—Dundee •
Dundas, Frederick—Orkney
Dundas,David—Sutherlandehlre
Dundas, lion. J. C.—Richmond
Du Pre, George--Bucks
East, James huller— Winchester
Eastholie, Sir J.—Lcicestsr
Egerton, W. Tattoo—Cheshire
Egerton, Sir P.—South Cheshire
Egerton, Lord F. L—Lancashire
Ellice, Sight Hon, F.,-CoVentry
Lord—EastEllice, ,
W. jEvans, arc:BEliot, dmi..— 8t
Cornwall Andrew's
Farnham, F. B —.l:lNiKNl—Da..:l(jak.r,etrrbxihehcniloearDbosmrltideecrrijobsusynn
bre: I
FFcrrand, W.
Fitzroy,
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Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. MP.
Fitzroy,
Fleming, John—Hampo,••
Follett. Sir W.—l,- N,e
Forbes. W.— ' --eter
Fores'
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onctei, M:= tit Its-tintiWed
Frekluti, itirligeonithott
Milnes-IVenlock
Gladstone, W. E.,-40.1:0%:•k-on.
Trent ,
Gortlevil F_ rd I..—FOrfabhire
(0-,',le, M.—Barnstaple
Gore, Ormsby—Salop
Gore, W. R. 0 —Sligo Co, .
Goring, H. D.—New Sherehant
Goulburn. Itlght Ron. ti..—Cam-
bridge Lroivthit y
Graham, Right lion. Sir J., ft, 13
—Dorchester
Granger, T. ,C.—burh:lm
P.—Wigae
Greene, T. o.—Lancashire
Grey, Sir George—Des-unport
Grimsdil ch, 'l'.—Macclesticld
Grimston, Vise —Hertfordshire
Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil
Hale, R.:B.—Gloucestershire
Hamilton, Charles J. B.— Ayles.
bury
Hamilton. W.—Newport, Isle 01
Wight
Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone
Harcourt, G. 0. V.—Oxfordshira
Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir H.—
Launceston
Hardy, 0.,--13radfOrd
Hatton, CapL—Weaftirti Co.
Hawes. 8.--,.isaintieth
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Hill, Lord A. H. C.--Evesham
Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire

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'7yeomne
Mark—Mayo Co.
Blake, liartin J.—Galway
Blake, Sir Valentine—Galway
Blewitt, Reginald—Monmouth
Bowring, Dr.—Bolton
Bridgman, Hewitt—Ennis
Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co.
Chapman, B.—Westmeath
Cobden, It.—Stockport
Crawford, S.—Rochdale
Curteis H. B.—Bye
Denistoun, J.—Glasgow
Duncombe, T. S —Finsbury
',wart, William—Dumfries
Ferguson, Colonel—Kirkaldy
ielden, John—Oldham
Jervis, J.— Chester
Leader, J. Temple—Westminster
Marsiand, Henry—Stockport
Mostyn, E, M. L,.—Flintshire
Murphy, F. a—Cork
isorreys, Sir Denham—Mallow
O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare

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immel—Cork Co.
I c'conpvil. Maurice—Tulee
O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry
,
uonn—Kilketilif
Pechell, Captain—Brighton
Plutnridge, t aptain—Penryn
Powell, C.—Limerick Co.
Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor
Roche, E. B.—Cork Co.
Roebuck, J. A.—Bath
Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth
Somers, J. P.—Sligo
Strickland, S:r G.—Preston
tancred, 11. W.—Banbury
Thornely,Thos.—Wolrerhampton
Wakley, 'Thomas—Finsbury
Wason, Rigby—Ipswich
Watson, VV. ll.—Kinsale
Wawn, J. T.—South Shields
Wilde, Sir Thomas— Worcester
Williams, William—Coventry

TELLERS.
Aglionby, IL A.—Cockermouth
Wallace, Reliert—Greenock

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City of Edinburgh steamer, in the unfortuvate shipwreck of
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