The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-27 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Devonshire, bound to Batavia,
sth ult., lat. 4 S. lon. 29 W., by the John, arrived at Fal-
mouth. Duke of Argyll, bound to Calcutta, Dec. b, lat. 1 N.,
lon. 88 E. ; Indefatigable, bound to Bourbon, 28th, lat. 16 S.,
lon. 74 E. ; Cambridge, Liverpool to Bombay, 4th ult., lat 3 S.,
lon. 22 E. ; Mountaineer, Hamburgh for Newfoundland, 19th,
41 miles W. of the Lizard, by the Seymour, arrived at Ply-
mouth. St. Oloff, Bahia to Stockholm, 4th ult., lat. 1 N.,
lon. 35 W., by the Rapid, arrived off Hastings. Sylvia, Sierra
Leone to Cork, 9th inst., lat. 57 N., lon. 16 W., by the
Alexander Liddle, arrived off Cork. Dutch ship, No. 2,468
(new code), Batavia to Amsterdam, Feb. 7, lat. 21 S., ion. 1
E. ; D.ligence, Batavia to Amsterdam, 26th, lat. 1 S., lon.
21 W. ; Union, Mauritius to Liverpool, 2d ult., lat. 2 T 4., lon.
23 W. ; Tom Cod, Bristol to Africa, Bth inst., lat. 49 N., lon.
11 W., by the Minerva, arrived at Falmouth. Skellefka,
Cottenburg to Boston, 6th, lat. 48 N., lon. 12 W. ; Dahlia,
London to Quebec, 20th, lat. 50 N. lon. 5 W., by the Joint
Cree, arrived at Scilly. Industrie, Tobasco to Havre, 9th
irst., at the entrance of the Channel ; Alfred, Bordeaux Ito
Valli raiso, Feb. 4, near the line, by the Jeune Cora, arrived at
Marsc.l!,•s. Seppings, bound to New Holland, Feb. 23, lat.
1 N., 1.,n. 19 W. ; Margaret and Jane, Cape to London, 27th,
lat. 1 N., lou. 20 W. ; Euxine, London to Bombay, 4th ult.,
lat. 3 N., lon. 21 W., by the Seymour, arrived at Plymouth.

MEETING Gl' THE TIMBER TRADE.—There is a
difference of opinion amongst those interested in this trade, as
to the time at which the new duties should come into effect.
The shipowners, builders, and others, whose great interest is
in the activity of trade, wish them to come into force immedi-
ately, whilst the members of the British and North American
Association, who are in general large holders of timber, and
who hare paid the high duties, wish for time to work off
their stocks. They asked for two years for this purpose, (we
suppose on the principle on which Sam Slick asked for a dollar
when he expected to get a quarter of one) and have got until
October. Those who are in favour of the immediate introduc-
tion of the new duties maintain that this will de the holders no
good, for nobody will buy under such circumstances, whilst the
delay will totally paralyze the trade with British North Ame-
rica, and, therefore, urge that the new duties should come into
operation at once.—Liverpool Times.
ALARMING ASSEMBLAGES IN LANCASHIRE.—
MEETING AND PROCESSION AT COLNE.—We understand
that on Monday last an immense body of unemployed weavers
and other operatives assembled together in the town of Colne,
and paraded the streets at various hours of the day. The
assemblage consisted, we are told, of several thousand
persons. The procession bore with it flags and banners, on
`'Bread of which were the words, Bread or blood !"
The military were in readiness to act, had riot oc-
curred, but it fortanately happened that the proceedings of
the multitude were rot marked by any disorder or tumult.
The object of the meeting was to show the number of un-
employed people in the town and neighbourhood, andthe dis-
tress and poverty which they were suffering. Some speeches
were made, but the purport of them our Correspondent has
not communicated. The inhabitants were thrown into great
alarm by this demonstration, but no injury was done
to person or property, and the assemblage broke up in the even
in,g in perfect order. Our informant states that another meeting
is expected to take place on Monday next, and that the magis-
terial authorities will be prepared to preserve the public peace.
The misery and wretchedness of the working-classes in the
district of Colne are absolutely appalling. Thousands of men
are reduced to starvation, and bordering on despair. What
the end of this alarming state of things will be it is dreadful to
contemplate.—Manchester Times.
Lord IVestern has, it is said, intimated to his
tenants that if they find themselves affected by the changes
brought about by the propo'ed ministerial measures, he will,
upon application, cancel their existing leases, and thus leave
them free to enter into fresh bargains under the new state of
things.
The Reparatcur of Lyons states that on the 13th
inst. the Jupiter struck on a bank of rock, almost level with
the water, near the confluence of the Isere. The shock was
severe, and a considerable quantity of water was made in a short
time, The captain, however, determined on proceeding to
Valence, not more than three miles distant. The Irenet had not
g further than Bourg, when she became water-logged, and,
after a short time, went down, in front of the hospital. The
passengers were landed in safety.
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original packages. N.B.—Export orders for all climates ex-
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A man of the name of Peeters, of Granshoren in
Belgium, was last week visiting kbrewery with one of the men,
when the latter, wishing to show his strength, held his visitor
over the vat, and, unfortunately, let him fall into the boiling
liquid. The other workmen with some difficulty got him nut,
but so dreadfully scalded, that no hopes were entertained of his
recovery.

LONDON
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 27, 1842.

Mr. LABIA: THERE has placed the following notice on
the Paper of the House of Commons :—" In Committee
on the Tariff, to move that the duty on foreign sugar
be reduced to 30s. per cwt., and on colonial sugar to 20s.
per cwt.." We regard that as an excellent motion,
which, if carried, will make the tariff worth having.
At present, the duty on foreign sugar is 635. ; the re-
duction of that to 305., and of colonial sugar from 245.
to 205., will bring into the market a large additional
quantity of sugar, and lower the price very consider-
ably. It will extend our trade with the Brazils and
Cuba, and the a double benefit—both supplying the
people, at a cheap rate, with a wholesome article of
diet, and giving them employment by which they may
purchase it. To the lower and middle classes a reduc-
tion of the sugar duties would be a greater benefit than
the reduction of the timber duties ; and we do not see

how Sir ROBERT PEEL can consistently resist the
proposition.
Its effects on the revenue would be advantageous.
Supposing that some portion of our colonial sugar be
excluded from the market—though we do not believe that
a single hogshead less would be sold—tor every cwt. of
colonial sugar displaced by foreign sugar the revenue
would gain 65., the difference between the present duty
on colonial sugar and the duty on foreign sugar. All
the increased consumption, which would be very consi-
derable, as the supply of sugar is notoriously short,
would yield 30s. per cwt. to the State, and the con-
sumer would at the same time pay a much lower price
than at present. All parties, except a few West India
planters—and we doubt whether they would suffer much
—would be benefited by abating the enormous discri-
minating duty on sugar. Like loosening the barbarous
stays with which fashion cramps the forms of our young
tamales, making them at once deformed and weak, it
would confer on the community an unadulterated bless-
ing by permitting the operation. to a certain extent,
of the life and health-preserving action of nature.

The farmers, whose interests are so much assailed
by other parts of the tariff, would find a compensation
for some of their losses, by a largo reduction in the
price of sugar. They have fruit to preserve ; they can
make wine ; they can improve their cyder ; they can
cure meat more efficaciously ; they can feed their fami-
lies at a less cost if sugar be cheaper. As their mono-
polies are to be abated, justice requires that the mono-
polies of other classes, and especially the biggest and
worst of our monopolies, after the corn, the sugar mo-
nopoly, should be abated. The farmers should urge
their representatives, therefore, to support Mr. LABOU•
CIIERE'S resolution, and plainly tell them that they must
not sacrifice the substantial interests of the constitu-
encies to the mere purpose of gratifying the ambition of
Sir ROBERT PEEL.

We expect that Sir ROBERT PEEL will now discard
the fudge about encouraging slave-grown produce, and
will oppose Mr. LABOUCHERE'S motion on the
ground that the planters are at present in a bad
condition, and that to lower the discriminating
duty will ruin them altogether. But if they are dis-
tressed with the discriminating duty why should we
continue to harass the whole empire by an unjust tax,
which seems not to be of any benefit to the planters ?
We believe that the bounty is the cause of their distress.
It tempts them to make great exertions and submit to great
expenses, which they cannot afterwards recover, in
order to cultivate sugar. They bid, therefore, against
each other for the services of the negroes, and , make
it impossible to grow sugar except at a loss. lithe dis-
criminating duties were removed, the competition for
labourers in the sugar-growing colonies would slacken,
and very soon the planters would be able to cultivate
their estates on much easier terms. But whatever may
be their condition, they have been too long enriched by
taxes levied on the sugar consumed by the people of
England ; and though Mr. LABOUCHERE'S proposition
will not extinguish those taxes, it will lessen their
amount, and ought to receive general support.

In the days of our prosperity we gave the planters
:20,000,000/. for the emancipation of their slaves. It was
well for them that they got the money then, for certainly,
at no period since 1837, would the country have con-
sented to such a sacrifice. At present, we are too much
reduced to continue the annual payments which our
former exuberant generosity may encourage them to
expect. We must now be a little just to ourselves, and
if that should be the ruin of the planters, though we deny