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LONDON
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1842.

The Sugar Duties, having received the assent of the
House of Commons, will become the law of the land.
The Lords dare not alter a Money Bill ; and whatever
. iniquities it may perpetrate, they must give it their
sanction. That circumstance reveals a very dishonour-
able
be responsible for our laws, and over money laws they
have no voice. In general, men of sense and spirit will not
take the responsibility of measures they are not allowed to
guide, so it bas come about that the two maxims, "the
King can do no, wrong", and " the Ministers are re-
sponsible for the acts of the Government," intended
to secure impunity for Royalty, have denuded it
of its power. Our Kings could latterly obtain
no Ministers who did not insist on guiding the
measures for which they might answer with
their heads, and thus the responsible Ministers
have become, in fact the Sovereigns of the country. In
relation to the Commons, the Lords take a different view,
and humbly affix their sanction to all the Money Bills
sent up by that House, which they must not alter, what-
ever enormities they may ordain.
The Sugar Duties Bill, when it goes up to the Lords,
as go up it will, is a case in point. It will ordain that
on all sugar, not being refined, a prohibitory duty of
3s. per cwt. shall be levied. We say, emphatically,
prohibitory, for, with one single exception, in the year
1840,—when that duty was, we believe, paid on a very
small quantity,—on no sugar has that duty ever been
paid. The plain and palpable design of such
a law is to prohibit the importation, 'into England, and
of coarse the consumption of sugar. Our wise House
of Commons has wished to keep down the consumption
ofothat article, and in consequence to stifle all the trade
-which would arise from purchasing and importing sugar,
and all the enjoyment which might arise from its use.
To this most mischievous object the boasting and proud
British Peers are obliged, by the power of the House of
commons, to lend the sanction of their exalted charac-
ters. Under the name of a tax they are compelled to
give their sanction to one of the most injurious prohi-
bitory laws that was ever enacted.
'But there is an exception to this prohibition. If
the sugar bo the growth of any British plantation
in America, or within the limits of the East
India Company's charter, then tho duty shall be
245. per cwt. The House of Commons relaxes the pro-
hibition, therefore, in favour of the growers of sugar in
our colonies, but levies on their produce, a duty—which
the consumer of sugar pays—of 245. per cwt. for the use
of the State. The House will permit the importation and
consumption of sugar on the Payment of 245. per cwt.
provided that sugar be grown in some of the dominions
or dependencies of the British Crown.
Sir R. PEEL, Mr. GLADSTONE, and the Other pre-
tended friends of humanity, haw defended the continu-
ance of the prohibition because it was a check to slavery
and the slave trade, but it was enacted, while our on n
colonies, whence sugar may be imported on the payment
of 245., were slave holders and were carrying on the
slave trade. The spirit and intention of Cie law, there-
fore, whatever by a change of circumstances may be its
supposed present Operation, were not to discourage sla-
very, hut to put an end to all trade in sugar between
England and countries not under the dominion of Eng-
land.
It is usual to estimate the effects of the law, and we
have ourselves heretofore gone on that principle, by
taking the difference between the price of foreign sugar
in bond, and the price of sugar grown in
the British dominions, multiplying that difference
• by the whole quantity actually consumed, and then stating
that the quotient is the sum lost to the public.
Thus, ' assuming the annual consumption to be
4,000,000 cwts., the price of British sugar in bond to be
255., and the price of foreign sugar to be 455., the loss to
the public will be 4,000,000/. a year. The sum varies
every year with the price of sugair, and the quantity con-
sumed; but that is a rough estimate of the annual loss to
the people by the discriminating or differential duty.
But whenever we see that this is a prohibitory law in-
tended, too, to be prohibitory, we are immediately made
sensible that this annual loss, great though it be, is only _
__________ a small portion of the loss actually caused by the law. - ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASE; OF THE EAR,
To what extent the consumption of sugar would go DEAN-STREET, SOUO-SQUARE.—At the twenty-sixth annual
*ere there no such barbarous prohibitory law, it is im- General Meeting of theea Governors and friends of this Insti-
?,Za
alppeßaigri:rdiess the Duke
possible to say. Sugar is, in truth, the chief component otltiPam, hberlidd:en K. G.s,' In the Chair,
patienttisiats hadin since
itsen
upwauds of 12,700
nutritious part of all farinaceous food Cit is the basis of establishment in 1816,
all spiritous liquors, for the conversion of boric into cured or relieved. A handsome piece of plate was presented
malt 4 its the
into sugar • and its anti-
its by his Royal Highness to Mr. Curtis, the surgeon of the insti-
tution. which was voted to him at the last annual meeting as a
acidifying and antiseptic powers make '•
it an admir- token of the high opinion entertained by the friends of the
able preservative, so that a small portion of it will con- instiution of the services which had been rendered to it by thate
vert a large portion of other matter: into wholesome gentleman. As a proof of its utility, it may be meAtioned
food. It may unhesitatingly be said therefore to be as that 152 poor patients at tent.!ed at
itheneDsisspocnnsoaury(7n Thcsday
,1 Ter,vl 1.; •s. article of food as wheat itself ; and wlaittit aAvfitseirt talitehrnltaiunt hinistio_al Hu frhe,
andhinsperceter
his wells
Wheilwe-yi ..t:ieber that the increase of population is known acoustic 'chair and-his rare4g anatomical preparationse of
- cal" iinp".; i,!SPI- the -W4P.t -Qr- ("Kiss.ille..imagination is the
ear.
The Grand Council of Argau in Switzerland, in
lost iffsatOnapaim to form an idea of the vast extent t
whiohstigai. . ht have been imported and consUmedo the session which has just clewd, rejected' a proposition for
gngand, had Were been no such prohibition. We have to 50. ' '
411:
in the sale of the property of the convents by
l
a majority of 100

That the amount required for the relief of the poor in
1836 and 1837 was 2,6281. ; in 1841 and 1842, 7,1201.
That since 1836 more than half the master spinners
have failcd ; twenty-nine farms, including forty partners,
are in this list ; the machinery of seventeen large mills
has been sold by auction, and that of four mills by pri-
vate contract ; eight firms have effected a composition
ith their creditors.

That there are now standing untenanted not less than
3,000 dwelling-houses, besides mills, warehouses, and
public. houses.

That in one township alone, viz., Heaton Norris, there
are 3,500 houses, out of which there are untenanted
about 700 ; there are also nearly 800 compounded for,
and 1,000 excused from paying rates on the ground or
their being too poor, so that the burden of paying the
rates falls on no more Than 1,000 persons, many of these
persons being in as bud, and in some instances a worse
condition than the paupers themselves.
That in February last, there was collected within a few
weeks, by some generous and humane individuals, the
sum of 5,0001. for the relief of the suffering poor.
That in the week ending 19th February, 1841, the
number of families relieved was 3,473 ; the number of
individuals, 14,424 ; the average income per head being
9d. 9-10ths.

That owing to the loss of wages consequent upon the
stopping of mills, the reduction in the rate of wages by
lost time, by reduced number of hands, and the other
causes, the total loss to the inhabitants of the borough is
5,4831. per week.
The cottage and messuage property has depreciated in
value, in some instances, as much as 130 per cent., and
the average may be fltirly taken at 75 percent.
That there are now walking the streets, for want of
employment, no less • than 5,000 persons, who are suffer-
ing the extreme of human misery and privations of the
most alarming nature ; therefore we, your memorialists,
respectfully call your attention to these facts, and trust
that steps will be immediately taken to relieve the un-
paralleled distress existing in this borough, and your
memorialists will, as in duty bound, pray, &c.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 3.—The average price of wheat last
week was 23f. 71c., and that of rye, 13f 44c.
The Pukes of Orleans arid Nemours are expected to-
day. A special train was despatched this morning to
meet the Princes at Mons, where they, are expected at
an early hour. Their Royal Highnesses will pass a few
days at the Palace of Lacken, and will return to France
by way of Luxemburg, where .they will. have an inter-
view with his •Majesty, King William 11., of the: Nether-
lands.

APELDOO3I, MAY 11.—On the arrival of his Majesty
the King at the Leo yesterday morning, the Count and
Countess of Nassau were o❑ the steps•of the Palace to
receive him. 'The meeting of the. two Princes was very
cirdial, and the King, after having embraced his father,
gave his hand to the Countess to conduct her into the
Palace. At breakfast, the King sat between the Count
and Countess. About half•past ono, his Majesty set
out to return to the Hague, after taking an affectionate
leave, and accompanied to his carriage by the Count and
Countess.

J 3.
DUTCH FUNDS,—ANISTPROArif, _UNK
sill
Money. g.
Actual Dell, 2% per Cant
ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amon t tivndic,4% per cent P3 W !:,
*
)51 54 152*
Commercial Company. 4%, per cent
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 77 77
Ditto (1635 and 18371 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. l:9 ...9!4
Exchange on London, One month l'2 12"4
Two months ......
Hamburgh, One month 35 8
Two months 35 t.O
Dutch Papers, June 4.
LIELGIAN k UNDS—BRwsELB, JUNE 3.
Actual Delit,2% per Cent.
--------------- 3 per Ccnt. —
--.---- Thirty..ven------ •*' 7234
........._,.___(14411) lo3la
Loan of City. iv 32 01 per Cent 1,3
Society ot Cornmsrce, 4%per Cent Bank of Belgium.
5 pc r Cent...." . 7d
..... e.g
E x c National
hng eon i eLtoYn7l.; ... (sh nil) .... .
—Brussels Papers, June 3.....

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUFH, JUNE 4.—The Pique, 36, Captain
Forbes, arrived yesterday-, in '25 days from Barbadoes,
where she left the Tweed, 20, Rover, 16, and Flamer
steam vessel. The Pique had remarkably fine weather
during the voyage.
The Crocodile troop-ship, Mr.. Bison, Commander,
sailed on Tuesday for Dublin, to embark part of the 52d
Regiment, and a party of Artillery for the West Indies.
She has also a quantity of naval stores from this Dock-
yard for the Dockyard at Halifax.
The beautiful frigate Winchester,. Captain Charles
Eden, carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon.
Jocelyn Percy, about to proceed tc the Cape, sailed out
of harbour on Thursday.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Paulson, sailed yesterday, to
protect the Sussex fisheries.
The Java, steam transport, was this day to embark, at.
Cork, the 20th Regiment for Bermuda.
The Dee, steam frigate, has been commissioned at
Sheerness, and will be removed to Woolwich to be fitted
for sea. The Geyser, steam frigate, is now ready for sea.
The Columbia, steamer, is fitting for sea.
The Athenian, freight-ship, arrived at Spithead yes-
terday, to take on board 500 tons of bread for the Chi-
nese expedition.
The Excellent, gunnery ship, was paid off on Thurs-
day, and re-commissioned by Captain Sir Thomas Hast-
ings ; all the officers were also re-appointed, and the men
re-entered.
The Black Eagle has been oriered to Ostend, to take
on board the King and Queen of the Belgians, and
convey them to this country on their annual visit to her
Majesty.
The Hon. Rear-Admiral Bouverie struck his flag at
sun-set yesterday, having gone on ten days' leave.
The Lord Ellenborough, Indiaman, sailed on Thurs-
day for the East Indies, full of passengers.
The Toronto, New York packet, arrived on Wednes-
day from the River, and sailed again for New York.
The Equestrian, freighted with provisions for the
squadron and troops in China, sailed.from Spithead on
Sunday, and was followed by the Lord Lowther, with a
similar cargo, on Tuesday.
The Volcano steam-vessel, Lieut. Featherstone, sailed
on Wednesday to look for a shoal.
The Montreal packet from New York, arrived here
on Tuesday, after a fine passage of 20 days, and after
landing her passengers, proceeded to the River.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Satellite, Albatross, Nautilus, Volcano and
Echo (steamers), Adventure (naval transport).
At Spithead—Winchester, Pique.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 2.—The Rhadamanthus steamer,
Mr. T. Laen, Master, arrived on Thursday last from the
eastward, and sailed again on Saturday for New York,
with a special messenger, who arrived express' from
London, charged with despatches for our Minister
in the United States, and so urgent were the orders,
that hands were employed the most part of the night in
getting an additional quantity of coals on board the Rha-
damanthus. Sailed the Adventure transport, with stores
for Deptford Victualling-yard ; and Camel, lighter, with
caulkers, to caulk the Superb, 80, building at Pem-
broke.—The Weazle, 10, Corn. W. Edmonstone, arrived
on Friday from the Mediterranean, and sailed the 31st
for Chatham, to be paid off ; Cummins, the seaman,
who murdered a boy on board the Cambridge, is on
board her, under sentence of death, but whether that
sentence wil be carried into effect, a short time will de-
termine. Arrived the Spider, schooner, 10, Lieut. R. E.
Pym, last from Portsmouth, under orderafor South Ame-
rica.—The Alban steamer, Mr. J. King, Master, sailed
on Saturday, with supernumeraries, to be put on board
the Indus, in the Tagus, for conveyance to Malta ; also
sailed tne Netly tender, with provisions for the Spy, at
Bristol, and the Lucifer steamer, at Liverpool ; arrived
the Diligence transport, Martin, master, with stores
from Pembroke. The Pigeon packet, 4, Lieut. Thomas
James, commander, was paid off on Tuesday.—ln Har-
bour—Caledonia, San Josef, Philomel, Diligence trans-
port.—ln the Sound—Malabar, Spider.
APPOlNTMENTS.—Lieutenants—Gerard Napier, to
the Madagascar ; H. Courteney, to the Isis ; D. P. Du-
maresq, to the Winchester ; George Harper, from the
Royal Naval College, to be first of the Talbot.
Second Master—Edward H. Garwood, to the ../Etna.
Surgeon—C. R. Kennear, to the Albatross.
Assistant Surgeons—Dr. Hugh Gamble, to the Satel-
lite ; C. C. Easton, to the "Etna.
Chaplain—A. . Fraser, to the ,Aigle.
Mate—C. D. Vansittart, to the Winchester.
Midshipman—A. Chetham and Hon. H. Cochrane, to
the St. Vincent.
Clerk-in-Charge—H. S. Dyet, to the "Etna.
Volunteer First Class—W. Scovell, to the Satellite.
Coast Guard—Lieut. D. R. B. Mapleton, W. Southey,
G. W. Wilkinson, . and A. Kennedy, to be Lieutenants
in command of Coast Guard Stations.
Removals—Lieuts. Allan Wall, R.N., from Dunree
Fort to Gunn's Island ; J. Robinson, from Pennant to
Sand End ; R. J. Woolver, from Shoreham tc Romney;
C. Butler, from Coast Guard to the /Etna.

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.
On Saturday, the first match for the season, by the boats
of this Club, was appointed to come off, and, as usual, the
Royal Sovereign steamer was in attendance at the Ade-
laide-wharf, London-bridge, at one o'clock in the morn-
ing, to convey the Commodore (Mr. Harrison), the
umpires, members of the Club, and company, &c., to view
the struggle. The Royal Sovereign left her station
about half-past ten, and went down the river to Ham-
mersmith, having on board a numerous party of ladies
and gentlemen, a band of music, and all the appliances
for an agreeable day. On arriving at Greenwich the
prizes, three in number, viz., a silver tea service, a silver
salver, and a silver chased claret jug, were taken on
shore, to afford Admiral the Hon. Sir R. Stopford, Go-
vernor of the Hospital, and Vice-Patron of the Club, an
opportunity of seeing them. Sir R. Stopford expressed
his gratification on seeing them, and the Commodore and
his party immediately returned with them on board the
steamer, and gave orders for preparations to be made to
commence the match. The wind was at the time in the
west, but there was hardly breath enough to keep the
sails from flapping against the masts and the rigging ;
and though the day was beautifully fine, it was most un-
fit for testing the sailing powers of the yachts entered to
start.

The start took place, on firing the signal gun, at ten
minutes before twelve, and the Mary took the lead, fol-
lowed by the Phantom, Rival, Mystery, Spray, Lady
Louise, Brilliant, and Sea Nymph. It was expected
that the wind would freshen as the vessels got down the
river, but this expectation was completely dissipated.
When the match arrived in Woolwich Reach, the wind
fell, and it was a dead calm, the vessels merely floated
with the tide ; and it was foreseen that the match would
not be brought to an issue that day—one of the regula-
tions of the Club requiring that the flag-boat or buoy at
Coal-house-point, about two miles below Gravesend,
should be rounded by five o'clock, or the match sailed
over again. The wind freshened for a short time about
four o'clock, but at five the yachts ware only as low as
Erith, and, in consequence„ the steamer was put about,
and she and the eight yachts made the best of their way
back to Greenwich, off which they arrived about half-
past seven o'clock. Such was the state of the wind, that
it is difficult to say what were the powers of sailing of
any of the yachts engaged. The match will be stultd
for, it was understood, in the course of a fortnight.

A Montpellier journal says that the railroad train
which left that station in the evening of the 26th ult., had
reached within sight of Cctte when the axlettee of the hind-
wheels of the four-wheel engine, the Rosinc, by which it was
drawn, brake and diverged from the rail, which it damaged.
It made its way along the ground to a distance of between
60 and 70 yards before it stopped. The waggons were thus
far kept in motion, but neither of them wert off the rails.
They were not in any degree injured, and the passengers did
not sustain any other inconvenience than ha►ing a short dis-
tance to walk into Cette. Upon this the journal remarks that
it is the third accident of the same kind which has happened
within the present' year without producing any serious con-
sequences, and adduces it as a proof that the safety of pas-
sengers is not put to any risk when the trains are drawn by only
one locomotive.
CHARD CANAL.—We last week stated that the
navigation from Creech to the Chard basin was opened on
Tuesday se'nnight. Nothing of form or public ceremony was
observed on the occasion ; nevertheless the event must be
viewed as important, since it will prove extensively beneficial to
the towns of Chard, Crewkerne, Axminster, Beaminster,
Honiton, Colyton, Lyme, and the circumjacent villages, by
affording them increased facilities of traffic with Bridgwater,
Bristol, Gloucester, Liverpool, and all the ports on that coast.
—Sherborne Journal.

The annual distribution of medals, given by the
King to the adult pupils of the communal schools of design in
l'aris, took place on Sunday last, at twelve, in the large school-
room of the Halle aux Draps.—M. Boulay (de la Meurthe),
in the absence of the Prefect of the Seine, took the chair.—
These schools, which are intended solely for the working
classes, were founded and directed by M. and Madame Charles,
and are three in number, containing 800 pupils. A. great
number of persons were present at the distribution, and the
proceedings were enlivened by the music of a military band.
l'he Chairman and M. Charles addressed the assembly, and
the whole passed off with great order avid effect.
CUSTOMS, IMPORTS, AND DELIVERI ES.—SEMP.
WEEKLY REPORT.—The following statement of the imports
and deliveries for tho half week ending the 2d inst., is corn-
piled from official sources: —The imports were—Jupiter, from
Copenhagen, general merchandise ; Foam, Macao,
chests, 100 cases ginger, &c.; Itlaidstono' Calcutta, 3,300
bags sugar, 2,000 bags rice, &c. ; Ludwig, Edward,teKa 4
on,iogtsio-
berg, 1,185 qrs. wheat ; Union of Stettin, 31,308 staves,
16,747 plates of speller ; Champion, Cadiz, 238 pipes,329
111)(13,115 *-casks wine ; Young, Dixon, fir timber ; Druid's
Fame, Odessa; 2,000 qvs. wheat; True Briton, Madras, 249
chests indigo, 1,500 bags rice, 500 bales cotton ; Catharine,
Jamaica, 259 tres., coffee, 27 brls. ; Shepherdess, Cadiz, 66
butts, 127 hhds„ and 72 *-cask wine. The deliveries from
the warehouses were—Coffee, 32,823 lbs; sugar, 5,515 chests:
3,365 gallons, Madeira, 729 gallons, and
tobacco, 62,283 lbs.; spirits, 4,704 gallons; wine, Cape, 1,419
gallons, French,
Marsala, 3,141 gallons, Port 4,155 gallons, Rhenish 542 gal-
lons, Spanish 13,630 gallons ; silk, raw, 1,9571b5., and drawn
1,167 lbs. The deliveries from the East India Docks were—
Coffee, 47,290 lbs ; sugar, 13,416 chests; silk, East India,
9,006 lbs, and China, raw, 9,528 lbs. ; tea, 216,498 lbs. The
deliveries from the West India warehouses were—Coffee,
19,243 lbs. ; sugar, 14,584 lbs. ; and spirits, 4,202 lbs.
The Earl of Ranfurly arrived in London this morn-
ing from Ostend by the General Steam Navigation Company's
British steam-ship, Sir Edward Banks. His Lordship left
Ostend at a quarter past seven last evening, and landed at
London Bridge-wharf a quarter before nine, the passage having
been performed in thirteen hours and a half, notwithstanding
being obliged to go only half speed for want of daylight.
THE GLASGOW BANK ROBBERY.—It is generally
believed that, since his conviction, Smith has made a full con-
fet,ion of the manner in which the money abstracted froth the
Bank was appropriated. It would be improper, at present, to
allude further to the rumours that are afloat on this subject ;
but it is to be hoped that a clue has been obtained by which
at least a portion of the money will be recovered. It seems
altogether improbable that Smith could, in so short a ,time,
have spent the large sum of 10,000,., and the inference there- .
fore is; that a part- of. it has been invested in some ;Ay or
other.— Glasgow Argus.

'1 he Constituent Assembly of Geneva has adopted,
says the Federal of that city, the new project of Constitution,
and in a few days it will be submitted to the people of the canton
for their approbation!