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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY

wine. Voters also were abducted and cooped up at
Brighton . (1353-.)
" BULLLYING " AT LEWES.—As soon as a con-
tested election makes its appearance, it is the custom
at Lewes, for certain individuals to come to demand
what they tall being put on : that is, they are to do
something or nothing, and sometimes as " bullies " to
track some unwise, foolish voter, who is early led away;
the number of these is 70 or 80 on each side. Some
voters were much tormented by these bullies ; they
were not permitted to walk about the streets without
being tracked and hunted, and their toes trodden on,
and other annoyances, and to entice them into public
houses, and make them drunk.
TEA AND SUGAR PRESENTS.—OD the coming down
of the writ for an election to Lewes, it is usual for
the parties to present a gift, in the name of a lady, of
one pound of tea, to all the wives of the electors who
choose to accept it, and add some sugar to sweeten it.
This costs either party about 1301. each.—(lso6.)
PENRYN AND FALMOUTH.

STATED PRICES.-Mr. James Coppock, in giving
evidence respecting the elections in this borough,
stated that the bribery was done quite openly, and
that there were no contrivances for concealment; the
price being as well known among the electors as any
circumstance of the day.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.

Mr. F. SCOTT presented a petition from the
Presbyterian schoolmasters of Kelso, praying for an
increase of salary and better accommodation in their
houses.

which notices of motion had, precedence of orders, he
thought it was unfair to bring forward a proposition
of that sort without due notice. There were several
notices on the paper, and if the Government got the
business done at twelve, it was pretty certain there
would be no House at four. He himself had several
notices on the paper, and if he were prevented bring-
ing them forward to-morrow, he would bring them on
when the orders of the day should be proposed, so
that the Government would find the business ob-
structed.

Sir R. PEEL said, that fearing business might
prevent him from coming down to the House, he had
requested his Hon. Friend (Sir G. Clerk) to make
the proposition alluded to by the Hon. Member, and
he understood that his Hon. Friend had stated that
he woud not make the proposal unless he thought it
would meet with the general concurrence of the
House ; and he also understood that his Hon. Friend
had communicated with several Hon. Gentlemen op-
posite on the subject.
Mr. DIVETT had distinctly understood the Hon.
Gentleman to state that he would not press his pro-
position if there were any objection to it.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said there was a great
difference between the Right Honourable Baronet
himself bringing forward such a proposi-
tion at the time of public business when the
House was full, and his sending down the Secre-
tary to the Treasury at a quarter after four o'clock
to make it, while there were not twenty Members in
the House. When he (Mr. T. Duncombe) entered
the House at half after four o'clock there were only
two Members sitting on the Opposition side of the
House, and that he was told that the proposition had
been made. It was taking an unfair advantage to
bring forward such a proposition at such an hour.
Would the Right Hon. Baronet guarantee that there
should be a House at four o'clock. If he would not
such conduct was most unfair. _ .

Mr. BROTHERTON could see nothing unfair in
the proposition of the Government.
Sir R. PEEL said, at that period of the session
it had been customary for the House to sit at twelve
on motion days, towards the close of the session.
He could not of course guarantee that there should
be a House at four o'clock, but he would promise to
be in his place himself.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE—The Right Hon. Baronet
can' always guarantee a House if he likes.
Sir C. DOUGLAS felt some difficulty in post-
poning his Bill until he had heard the opinion of the
Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Sir J. GRAHAM had been anxious that the Bill
should be postponed, because he had hoped that
the matter might have been settled out of doors.
The principal difficulty had been with respect to Man-
chester and Birmingham, but at present the difficulty
had been in a great degree obviated ; and as far as
Birmingham was concerned there was no difficulty at
all, there being a general disposition to obey the
Charter. He should be inclined to say that the ques-
tion of compensation ought not to be decidqd in this
House, but be left to the decision of other authorities
and tribunals. On the whole he was prepared to sup-
port the arrangement that had been made, in order
to give every validity to the Charters.
Mr. M. PHILLIPS said the Bill would require
to be so totally altered to suit the views of the Right
Hon. Baronet that they might as well frame a new
one. He thought that any Government would be
entitled to the thanks of the community who should
close the breaches that had been created by the local
disputes. He would suggest that they should bring
in a general measure, embodying the views they had
expressed.
After some conversation, in which Mr. Aglionby,
Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Williams took part,
Sir JAMES URAHAM said that he would bring
in a Bill to give compensation to the Coroners who
held office under the Municipal Charters of Manches-
ter, Birmingham, and Bolton.
Sir C. DOUGLAS said that upon that understand-
ing he would move the postponement of the Order of
the Day for the Committee on the Bill till to-morrow.
The motion was then put and agreed to.
The further consideration of the report on the
Bankruptcy Law Amendment Bill was postponed till
Friday.
MINES AND COLLIERIES' BILL.

BILL.

The consideration of the Lords' Amendments on
the Mines and Collieries' Bill was postponed till to-
morrow.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he could see no
reason to justify the proposal of the Government,
that the House should meet at twelve o'clock. It ap-
peared to him that the only motive for such a motion
was a desire to get rid of the House early in the even-
ing. He hoped that the proposal would not be perse-
vered in.

Sir R. PEEL said that he should not press the
motion if it were objected to; but he should move
the meeting of the House at twelve o'clock on Friday.
Mr. HAWES suggested that they should meet at
twelve o'clock on Friday, and that they should take
unoposed motions at twelve o'clock to-morrow.
Mr. V. SMITH asked whether, if the House met
at twelve o'clock on Friday, they should adjourn at
four.

Sir R. PEEL thought he did not propose that they
should adjourn at four. The Right Hon. Baronet
then gave notice that he would, on to-morrow, move
that the House should meet at twelve o'clock on
Friday.

EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1842.

rality, nor for their regard for ineum et teem ; but he was
happy to think that a great change had, of late years,
taken place in this respect, and that persons and pro-
perty were both much safer there than they had
been formerly ; a change, he had no doubt, which
the pastoral vigilance of his Grace and his clergy had
had no slight share in promoting. The Archbishop said
that he and his clergy had exerted themselves to the
utmost to raise the standard of morals in New South
Wales, and he was pleased to think that the Rev. Doctor
had received information of the marked change which
had been wrought in the colony. Dr. Shepherd re-
joined that he had not, as the Archbishop had supposed,
any information to that effect ; he had the proof from
his Grace's own hand, the brilliant ring ou whose finger
satisfied him that, had there not been a remarkable
change in the habits of the people of Botany Bay, he
could scarcely have succeeded in bringing away with him
so valuable an article. Dr. Polding and his Rev.
Brethren were, we need scarcely say, convulsed with
laughter at the Rev. Doctor's wit and humour.—Liverpool
Albion.

The,'New Bedford Bulletin says, during the em-
bargo of 1809 there were lying at the wharfs in that
town,_ decaying, 57 ships, 23 brigs, 28 schooners, and a
gun boat. These we count pretty hard times, but those
were decidedly harder, if any comfort is to be derived
from that.

A RECEIPT IN PART.—In the last Milton, N. C.
Chronicle, Edward A. Callaham gives the following sin-
gular notice. Callaham must be an honest fellow :
" June 21st, 1842.—Received from the Sheriff of Person
county, N. C., 30 lashes, in part of a debt due me from
the Commonwealth, for bigamy, to be paid in two other
annual instalments.

HUGE WHEAT.—We have just seen several stalks of
wheat, grown in a field belonging to Mr. Donald
Stewart, merchant, Dingwall, which, including the root,
reached the height of six feet six inches. The ears are
full and large, and a very large portion of the field is
nearly cf the same dimensions. Six of these stalks, two
of which are of the height stated, proceed from one root,
or grain, and they contain 200 pickles.—Ross Advertiser.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Aug. 2.

STAMP DUTIES ASSIMILATION (IRELAND)

The Stamp Duties Assimilation (Ireland) Bill went
through Committee, and the Report was agreed to ;
third reading on Thursday.
Lord LONDONDERRY presented a petition from
the Rev. R. Sulez, late English chaplain at Lisbon, com-
plaining of having been improperly removed from his
situation, to which he had been appointed in 1819.

BOLTON POLICE BILL.
The Bolton Police Bill went through Committee.
SL AVE- TRADE.

Lord BROUGHAM then rose to submit the proposi-
tion on the subject of slavery, of which he had given
notice. He said halt' a century had now elapsed since
Parliament, acting, not for this country alone, but for the
world, had held up to the indignation of mankind that
execrable traffic which for three hundred years had
been the scourge of Africa and the disgrace of Christian
Europe. To that righteous act Parliament was coun-
selled lay all the genius of the age, unstained by the
virtue, and animated by the pious zeal" of the time. To
that period succeeded a length of time, for which Par-
liament alone was to blame. Though denounced, the
enormity was protected ; and after being universally
condemned, it continued to flourish and to increase.
But at length its sentence was recorded by Parliament,
and the enormity was prohibited and declared illegal.
It was determined that crime should not be called trade,
but that those who were engaged in it should be punished,
as criminals of a far more venial character had been
punished. How was it, then, that at this moment, thirty
years after that great consummation, he was again there
to complain of the slave trade, and ask for new laws to
put it down ? Laws, not against foreign nations, over
whom they had little or no control, but subjects known to
the Crown and the law ; and who failed in their
duty both to the law and to the Crown. He
would proceed to demonstrate that he was not bring-
ing vague unsubstantial accusations. He should show
their Lordships that, by the aid of British speculation,
by the accession of British agents, and by the employ-
ment of British capital, it was in a great part owing that
the slave trade was still perpetrated in those foreign
settlements. He would go at once to show what the
proofs were as to whence the capital came to carry on
this traffic. Their Lordships knew that in Cuba—he
said they knew it, because it appeared, by the papers
which had been returned to their House—it appeared in
the correspondence of the Ministers of the Crown, end
he, therefore, said they knew that in Cuba and Brazil—
which were the great wrong-doers—the increase of the
trade—he spoke of Cuba now—there was proof that
between the years 1827 and 1831 the increase of trade
had been fourfold, and that there had been a correspond-
ing increase in the importation of slaves. In those four
years there were imported 32,000 slaves from Africa,
besides 91,000, the annual average to fill up the blanks
caused by the deaths exceeding the births, making in
the four years 123,000 at the least, according to the
official returns of the authorities in Cuba themselves,
making a yearly average of 30,000. In Havannah in
the last two years 142 vessels delivered their cargoes of
human beings, and the returns gave for these two years
50,000 a year, and the price had increased from 601.
to 801. a head. Thus it was seen that not less than four
millions a year were expended in this traffic in Cuba
alone, whereas the whole exports of Cuba amounted
only to three millions annually. This showed that the
capital for carrying on the slave trade with that island
was not furnished by the island itself. If they went to
the Brazils they would find the accounts the same. At
Rio in the three years, ending 1839, 144 ships de-
livered 217,000 slaves, being no less than an
average of 70,000 slaves yearly, at a cost of
801. per head, which is the price there. Five mil-
lions and a half sterling was, therefore, the yearly
expense of slave importation into Brazil. It was need-
less to ask whether Cuba or Brazil could furnish these
millions ; it was certain that they must have foreign as-
sistance, and looking round to the quarter from whence
it must come, it was painful to be obliged to confess
that from this country alone could it come. He should
show their Lordships, by specific evidence, that there
was no escape from that conviction. He would not rely
upon the fact that it was impossible that those who en-
tered into speculations in those foreign settlements must
know whence their supply of negroes • was derived.
In the Senate at Rio it was declared that
the law for preventing the importation had fallen
into disuse, and a petition was presented from
the Provincial Assembly of Bahia, and another
Province, urging the Senate to repeal—not the law pre-
venting the slave trade, for the law had fallen into dis-
use—but to repeal that part of the law which gave free-
dom to the newly-it:sported slave. The ground on which
they asked for the repeal was that the law occasioned
unavoidable immorality, because it was impossible to ob-
serve it, and the citizens were compelled to violate it
under the eyes of its administrators. Those Assemblies
called upon the Senate to legalise piracy, and to give
them full license to carry on the slave trade. It might
be supposed that he was wrong in accusing English mer-
chants and capitalists of employing their wealth in this
traffic ; but there was not only the general probability,
from the enterprises in which they were engaged in those
foreign settlements, but he had direct evidence of the
fact. On the 14th July, 1838, the Commissioners wrote to
Lord Palmerston—that is, the English Commissioner
settled at Rio—that various undertakings which re-
quired the employment of slavers were concerted in this
country, and were every day multiplying. But it was
not upon any such vague statement as that that his case
depended. He would refer to the case of a vessel under
Russian colours, which was seized and brought into
Sierra Leone, where it was released by the authorities, on
the ground that there was no jurisdiction ; but he could
show that there was jurisdiction. However, she was re-
leased, and being released she was sold; she was pur-
chased by a merchant in this city, who has been a natu-
ralized subject of this country for twenty years.
Who was she purchased for ? A Spaniard, a notorious
slave trader ; by whose capital he cared not.—(Hear.)
She was then sent forth or her voyage of depredation ;
she touched at Cadiz, and afterwards she was seized on
the coast of Africa, with papers on board which made it
certain that she was there, and there only, for the pur-
poses of the slave trade.—(Hear.) There she was seized
and condemned, for aiding and abettiog that trade. At
the time that she was seized her master was on board ;
he stated that she had nothing to do with the slave
trade, but that statement was not believed. Another
brig, from Liverpool to Bahia, went out with a crew of
English sailors. She professed she went out for the
Brazils, but afterwards she was fitted out for any port.
The crew considered their articles broken, as they had
to come back to an European port. But nesy persons
were taken on board, and those persons took the ship
over to the slave coast ; the charterer being a notorious
slave dealer, the consignee a notorious slave dealer, and
the port the most notorious slave port on the coast.
There she arrived with abundant evidence on board of
what her cargo was, and she was convicted, as the
other ship had been, for slave dealing. Much about
the same time a gallant officer stopped a vessel on her
voyage to Brazil. Whether she came from Africa or
another port to Brazil did not appear clearly from the
account; she might have been a coasting vessel. But
it did appear that she was going with a cargo of
between seventy and eighty, slaves, and was bound to a
plantation belonging to an Englishman settled in Brazil.
He would only mention one more case which came be-
fore the Privy Council, in which it appeared that the
vessel which had been condemned had been past all
doubt engaged in slave trading. And one very remark.
able circumstance came out on that trial. It appeared
that the person who fitted out the vessel, and who was as
noted a slave trader as any of those to whom he had
already referred, obtained a certificate from about 26 or
30 merchant houSes in Brazil, to the great probity and
high honour of that individual—a man as well known to
be a slave trader as it was known what his name was in
Rio Janeiro ! Among those names it did so happen—
and he grieved that it was so—that one-half of the num-
ber were mercantile firms of British subjects. Some of
those firms were known to be engaged in the slave- trade' •
and of those who bad signed the certificate vouching for
the honour of a man engaged in what the laws of the
country denounced as piracy—of those engaged in traffic
in Rio who gave him a character for probity and honour,
three different firms had lost amongst them 12,0001. ster-
ling by the recent capture of vessels engaged in the
slave trade. Their Lordships would now observe the
language of commendation with which the Brazilian au-
thorities reciprocally eulogised our merchants in return
fur their certificates. A journal known to be under the
patronage of a celebrated Brazilian Minister, not now in
office, had the following passage :—" We declare that
we have a great respect for the English merchants in
Rio, not only for their conduct in our internal concerns,
but principally for the wayi n which they contri-
bute to the ransom' of captive blacks in Africa •,
whether by ordering goods fit to be employed
in this work of humanity ; whether, by lending