The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-24 00:00:00

SURGERY.

Pennell, John W. C. (Gold Medal)—Guy's Hospital.
Russell, James—King's College. 1,
Swayne, Joseph Griffiths—Guy's HospiW. 5
Dunn, John Travis—Guys Hospital.
Inman, Thomas—lPng's Cpllege.

MEDICINE. ,
Garrod, A. B. (Gold Afedal)--University College.
Swayne, J. G. (Gold Me-dal)—Guy's Hospital.
Johnson, George—King's College.
Dunn, ohn Travis----Guy's Hospital.
Inman, Thomas—King's College.
Pennel, John Wilson Croker—Guy's

, . MIDWIFERY.
Swvyne, J. G. (Gold Medal)—Guy's Hospital.

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.
FIRST DIVISION.
The names are arranged alphabetically.
*Miller, William Allen—King's-College.
Paley, William—London Hospital.
IQuain, Richard—University College.
Unwin, David—University College.

SECOND DIVISION..
Purvis, Prior—St. Thomas's Hospital.
EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.

MEDICINE.

Quain, Richard (Gold Medal)—University College.
A certificate of Special Proficiency in Medicine was
awarded to Dr. Miller. •
.1- A certificate of Special Proficiency in Medicine, and
a gold medal of the value of_ 51. for a Commentary on a
a case in Medicine, were awarded to Dr. Quain.

'THE DUKEUPRUTLAND.
(From the Leicester Journal.)
Stanton Woodhouse, Dec 20, 1842.
We beg to draw the attention of our readers to the
following most able and intelligent letter, received
from his Grace the Duke of Rutland, in explanation
of some observations which had fallen from him at the
late agricultural dinner in this town, and which have
been misconstrued by several of the leading London
newspapers. Any comments of our own are entirely
unnecessary :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEICESTER JOURNAL._, .
SIR am am anxious, through your instrumentality,
to correct a misrepresentation of part of one of my
addresses to the company assembled at the late anni-
versaty of the Leicestershire Agricultural Society,
which (unintentionally I am sure) has crept into some
of the London newspapers (I will especially mention
the Times, Morning Post, and Globe), and upon which
whole pages of fictitious arguments and inferences have
been based.
In alluding to the new corn-duties, I am reported
to have said, that "I had several letters in my pos-
session written by intelligent farmers, and showing
that even the present modified scale might be reduced
by some shillings a quarter." Now, what I did say,
or, at least, what I intended to say, and what I firmly
believe I was understood to say, by the numerous
company on that day assembled was, " that while
the measures now in operation were in progress
through Parliament, I had received several letters
from intelligent farmers, containing scales of duties
of their own, each of which was' 'several shillings a
quarter under the former duties ; which gave me the
impression that the growers themselves were prepared
for some alteration." This is widely different from
" several shillings per quarter lower than the present
modified scale."
I. prefer addressing this explanation to the press at
Leicester, because the reporters of that press were
present on the occasion, as well as many leading
agriculturists from all parts of 'the county, who no
doubt, will have a clear recollection of what who,
did
say on the point alluded to. With regard to any
intention on the part of the executive to reduce still
further the duties which protect agriculturat.produce,
.
of which intention my misrepresented expressions are
' said to have been " ominous," I can only assert
that I am as entirely_ ignorant as I am utterly
'neredulous of it. My object at the Leicester
Agricultural Meeting was to give all the in •
formation which I have been able to collect, for the
purpose of preventing and of allaying any unfounded
alarms. I stated my inability to give'an opinion as
to the results of the new tariff in these early days of
its operation, and I expressed an earnest hope that the
occupiers of land would continue to give employment '
and to afford protection and kindness to their labthiiers,
rather than- make any change in the condition of the
latter class, under circumstances of depression, which
I had every reason to hope would prove temporary
and fleeting. To these sentiments I most conscien-
tiously adhere, and I am convinced that those, at
least, who know me, will give me credit for an anxious
. disposition to share in all the difficulties which may.
1 e brought unexpectedly upon my tenantry, if I
,bould.be deceived as to the fleeting nature of that
defression.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your very
obedient humble s-rvant, RUTLAND.

PRICE OP-SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
LONDON, DEC. 26, 1842.
The, following average prices of Brown or Musco-
doss British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night :--- - -
West India 345.;104d. per cwt.
East India 3l 3}
Mauritius. No returns.
The average price of the two kinds, jointly computed,
exclusive of duty, is 335. lid. per cwt.
The actual weights of sugar sold on account of the
imaßrters, in the week ending the 20th inst., accord-
ing lb the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro-
kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and
on which weights the above prices are computed, con -
sisted of 15,250 cwt. West India, 14,592 cwt. East
India.

About 2,000 cwt. of very dark unsound sugars have
been sold at 18s. per cwt. in the same week ; these
having--been classed in the returns as East India,
unfairly depress the average price of that kind of
sugar, as well as the total average price. The total
sales of British sugars for the above quoted week in
Mincing-lane were 29,842 cwt. Assuming that the.
sales of sugar out of LondOn by importers, were to ,
the satfie extent as the weight sold in it,. the con-
supers bought 59,684 cwt. of sugar at 335. •per cwt.,
amounting in round numbers to 98,480/. ; they might
have bought 59,684 cwt. of Foreign sugar at 18s. per
cwt., amounting to 53,7161., exhibiting a difference
of 44,764/. ; that is to say, the nation, by buying
foreign instead of the monopoly sugar, would have
saved that amount, which, added to 375,9781. (see
The Sun of Dec. 17) gives 420,7421., the precise ',value
of the sugar monopoly to the sugar producers, and the
cost thereof to the public for eight consecutive weeks.
800,0001 are annually taken out of the taxes of the
country to pay the interest on the twenty millions
given to the West Indians as compensation for liberat-
ing their slaves; there are no justifiable means of reduc-
ing that charge ; 800,0001. a year must for ever be.paid
by the mother country on account of those colonists.
' One would suppose that that sum would abundantly
satisfy. the claims of the West Indians upon the na-
tional purse, -without any endeavour on their part to
devise schemes by which they would obtain more; yet
the rumour to which we alluded last week, of a large
reduction in the duty on British sugars, assumes
more and more a substantial form ; the chance of such.
an event is openly spoken of, and moreover it will be
seen by the Jamaica papers that the House of Assem-
bly has had the Same subject under discussion, during
which a reductkul of duty from 255. to 155. per cent.
on British sugars was freely alluded to as likely to oc- '
cur. One of the speakers went the length of showing,
by calculation, that under a differential duty of
153. per cwt.—that is the difference between 30s. per
cwt, on fereign, and Iss. per cwt. on British sugars—
the West Indians would at all times obtain a price.of
375. per cwt. for .their sugar. The member's calcu-
lation was this :—" For a series of years," said he,
" the average price of foreign sugar has been 19s.
per cwt. in London ; when that class of sugar is
admitted to British use, its price will rise to 225. per!
cwt., which being added to 305., the contemplated'
amount of duty, would oblige the British consumers
to pay 525. per cwt. for all the sugar used in the
United Kingdotn;", from that price the British con-
sumers would have to deduct a duty-only.Of 155.. per
cwt., leaving them 375. per cwt. as the •ex- duty price
with which he argues the Jamaica planters ought to
be satisfied. In round numbers there are four mil-
lions cwt. of British sugars iinpor,tecl 'annually. Sup-
posing the Government here threw 'off 10s. per cwt.
from the present duty, the immediate and certain loss
to the revenue would be two millions ayear, in the event
of such a serious loss, Sir Robert Peel, however he
may fed disposed, would be unable, from the crippled
state of the finances of the country, to rescind the ob-
noxious Income-tax. The nation will not be long in
determining whether it will yield quiet submission to
the inquisitorial vexations and evils of the Income-tax
for the sake. of a reduction. in the duty on British
sugars for the benefit of the sugar-growers, or whethir
it will get rid of the obnoxious Income-tax, and con-
tinue to pay the duty on British sugars, as heretofore,
for 'the sake of revenue. The reduction of the duty
on foreign sugars -to the parity with that imposed on
British sugars, is--the reduction wanted. That would .
destroy a monopoly which has robbed the country
for ages.

BRITISH AMERICAN ASSOCIA.
TION.

A public meeting was held yesterday at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the Report of a
Committee of disinterested gentlemen, appointed to
investigate the affairs of this Association. The chair
was taken at one o'clock. The Report:stated that
the Committee had come to a resolution of inviting
Sir John Pirie, Bart., John Walter, Esq., M.P.,..and
several other gentlemen, to join the Committee of In-
quiry. Sinee that period, the Committee had met
from day to day, and had had before them the whole
of the books and documents connected'with the forma-
tion of the Association. The. Committee had submit-
ted the whole of the executive officers to a strict viva
voce examination, and they (the Committee) had come
to the resolution that the whole of the charges which
had been brought against the Association, founded on
recent proceedings at the Mansion-house, _were un-
founded in truth, and unsustained by evidence, and that,
the conduct of the Alderman, then the Chief Magis-
trate of the City of London, in writing the letter to
the Duke of Argyll, which had led to the withdrawal
of his Grace, and other influential Noblemen, for the
present, from the list of the friends and-supporters of
the Association, was entirely unauthorised and pre-
mature. IThe Committee had instituted the most
searching inquiry into every circumstance con-
nected with the deportation. of the emigrants in
the brig Barbadoes to Prince Edward's Island,
and they fully exonerated the Association from the
charges preferred against it in connexion with that
\:;essel at the Mansion-house; and most particularly by
the Press. They noted the fact that the single emi-
grant family which went out by that vessel, shipped
by the Association, voluntarily preferred sailing in
her; when apprised of the delay to which they would
be subjected. The Committee, at the same time, were
decidedly of opinion, that the lateness of the depar-
ture of the vessel, as a precedent, was to be condemned.
The Report then went onto state, that Captain Fret-
well had expressed the utmost confidence of safely
accomplishing his destination on this occasion, as he
had seen the waters open and free from ice so late as
New Year's-day, and that they (the Committee) had
conclusive evidence as to the state of the stores from
the Government agent, and a letter from Captain
Fretwell, dated at a distance of 700 miles on the
voyage, in which he said he had supplied the wants of
the ship Caroline, bound to Liverpool. The Com-
mittee had fully investigated the accounts of the Asso-
ciation, and had found that the principal officers had
received no remuneration. The Report concluded by
recommending that the steps taken towards procuring
a charter be persevered in, and that the full number of
Commissioners provided by the constitution be im-
mediately made up and established in office.