The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-15 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectiblly
informed that
ON MONDAYS, TUESDA_YS, AND THURSDAY?,
GRAND EVENING FETES wll4e given, in which will be em.
bodied all those popular Entertainments^tnat have given to this favou.
rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in-
trod ictions, which render them more generally attractive.
he MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im-
portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds.
Feeding Tune Five o'clock.
The Colossal VIEW OF BOME has been repainted, and in some
instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action, repre-
senting the Procession of the Papal Tropps, Guards, and Roman
Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo.
Thz BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con-
ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES
MO SIC ALES selected( rom the noblest works of the great Masters.
The I LIU MINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE,
and the GIRANDOLA or ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous
Spectacles and magnifieent int roductions that have called forth ac-
cimninations of delight anda tar ration on each evening of their ex-
hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour,
the CASC ADE ef BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height.
The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening
Fetes, with the Piomenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's,
Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays,
and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling.

All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character,
or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from
the Columns of "The Sun."

are tainted:with the same vice. T.helluty on sugar is
only to be levied for a single year. That on timber in-
volves a prospective arrangement. Coffee, wine, spirits,
wool, cotton,- cattle, butter, cheese; have all been sub-
jected to duties which cannot be permanently main-
t tined. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff will tend, therefore,
to paralyze trade, by the uncertainty it will introduce
into several great branches of business. It is, how-
ever, one of those laws which have:met the approbation
of some writers, because they can be rassed—not be-
cause they are right and just,. Week after week is Sir
ROBERT PEEL spoken of as the most sagacious of states-
men, because he proposes to Parliament only such mea-
sures as will meet the prejudices of his supporters. He
has, on this principle, carried his Corn-law and his
Income-tax, and he will carry his Tariff: The conse-
quences will be, continual famine, great discontent, and
future changes, begetting, at present, mercantile uncer-
tainty, in his scheme of duties.

Mr. GOULBURN, the night before ln,st, very kindly in-
formed the scaleless people, after They had lost from Bd.
to 14d. on every sovereign in their possession, because
they could not weigh it, that the majority of the
sovereigns paid into the Bank were only deficient or
11 per cent., so that the loss on an average was only 3d.
each. What good will that knowledge now do to those
who have been inconvenienced and fleeced? It will only
strengthen their conviction that they have been de-
frauded, and may contribute to nourish the ill will
which certain classes entertain for each other.

Mr. GOULBURN mentioned the small deficiency of the
sovereigns as a justification of the proclamation, imply-
ing that the real loss was so little that it might be easily
borne, and that the people were partly to blame for
having exaggerated the evil, and suffered themselves to
be imposed on. Does he not see that the less the
sovereigns are depreciated the less any proclamation
whatever was required, and the more the Government
is to blame for having issued it ? We never heard any
complaints of the gold coinage: The sovereigns passed
freely, and their value was unquestioned. No man
weighed them, or was made sensible that they were de-
preciated. No person, therefore, can find any good
reason whatever for issuing the proclamation, and the
Government is generally and loudly accused of having
wantonly or ignorantly caused loss and trouble to the
bull: of the people.

The House of Commons finished the tariff last night,
and, tedious as the discussions may have appeared to the
public, we believe there is no example of a popular
deliberative assembly having got through a new scheme
for regulating all the customs' duties of the empire so
rapidly.

The motion to issue a new writ for Belfast last
night, caused a complete exposure of another of those
disgraceful compromises 'by which the representation
of the people his been bartered for corrupt pecuniary
considerations. Mr. O'CONNELL proved that an or-
ganised system of bribery had prevailed at Belfast, and,
to avoid the consequences of that, money was paid to
keep back the evidence, and the seat was vacated. The
exposure was so complete that Sir ROBERT PEEL, who
had probably not made up his mind what course he
should take before he had heard Mr. O'CoNNELL's
statements, voted against issuing the writ, and at once
granted Mr. O'CONNELL a Committee to inquire whether
a corrupt compromise had taken place or not. Other
compromises, we believe, equally disgraceful, have been
entered into to serve the purpose of a party, in which
the views, feelings, and wishes of the candidates have
been sacrificed, as well as the interest of the electors.
But we hope as the House of Commons has begun the
inquiry, it will carry it out, and not leave one case of
corrupt compromise uninvestigated or unbranded.

BRITAIN AND HER WEST INDIA
COLONIES.

The decrease which has taken place in the produce of
sugar and coffee in these colonies is a strong ground for
eur advocating the admission of foreign coffee and sugar,
and ought ere this to hare induced the Government to
have adopted the liberal course, so strongly recommended
by all the merchants who appearod before the Commit-.
tee ort Customs and Imports in 1840, and which may be
said to have laid the foundation for the alterations which
have been made in the Tariff by Sir Robert Peel ; and
it must be deeply regretted by every friend of humanity
that all the great and important articles of food and of
colonial produce have been excluded by the Right Hon.
Baronet from his reform, whilst the population of these
kingdoms are suffering the greatest privations from the
monopolies and protection retained in the new Tariff. ,
But the return of the produce just laid before Parlia••
ment must speak for itself : •
Official Value of Cotton and Wool, and Cotton and
Woollen Goods, imported into the United Kingdom,
and exported therefrom, in the year ending Jan. 5,
1842.—From the Annual Finance Account.
IMPORTS.
Cotton Uanufactures, India £194,287
Ditto ditto Europe 150,382
Wool, Cotton,
' Ditto, Sheep's. 56,179,6411b5. . .
Woollen Manufactures

T0ta1....
EXPORTS.

£17,958,381

Cotton Manufactures
Ditto Yarn 10,960,499
Sheep's Wool, 8,471,2351bs 270,340
Other sorts,

Woollen and Worstod Yarn
Woollen Manufactures 6,308,207

Total £76,669,896
Abstract of a Return of the Imports into the United king-
dom of Sugar, Molasses„ Coffee, &c., from the West In-
dies and British Guiana, from years 1831 to 1841 (both in-
clusive), from P. P. 292 of 1842.

Rum. Coffee. Cocoa.

Gallons.*l lbs. lbs.
7,844,157,20,030,802 1,491,947
4,713,809 24,673,920 618,215
5,109,975 19,008,375 2,125,656
15,112,40022,081,490 1,360,225
5,452,307 14,855,4701 • 439,447
4,868,168'18,903,426 1,612,304
4,418,349 15,577,8881,487,145
4,641,210117,586,655 2,149,637
4,021,82011,485,6751 959,641
3,780,979;12,797,039,2,374,301
2,770,1611 9,927,689 2,920,248

The effect of the emancipation of slaves in the British
West Indies, or the amount of produce of those colonies,
are shown in a strong contrast by the above table, and
gives the contradiction in emphatic terms to the asser-
tions of the advocates for emancipation, and their reso-
lutions at public meetings, that more produce would be
obtained from free labour than slave labour. The pto.
duce of sugar has decreased from 4,103,800 cwt, in tau.
to 2,151,217 cwt. in 1842 ; rum has deereased 4: ,
co
7,844,137 gallons in 1831, to 2/770,161 gallon_, in 1841 coffee has deceased from 20,030,80211 r.„. in 1931 to
9,927,689 lbs. in 1841, whilst cocoa ;as nearly doubled in
quantity. It was the duty of the Ctoverntnent to have
adopted some measure for, ply of free labour on
the emancipation taking as urgently called for by
the planters, but nothing whatever was done in aiding
that object whilst the anti-slavery advocates and Com-
mittee hare used their most strenuous efforts to prevent
tilq free labour from Africa or from the United States
being sent to the British Colonies. And, hence the pre-
sent state of those Colonies.