The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and her Illus-
trious Consort enjoyed their accustomed morning
walk in the forenoon, in the new grounds of the
Home-park.
Teir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed air-
ings, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
In the afternoon, her Majesty and the Prince again
took pedestrian exercise in the Home-park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, arrived at the
Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
Lady Charlotte Dundas, will join the Royal dinner
circle at the Castle this evening. The company will
also include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, Lady Caroline Legge, the Earl and Countess
Bruce, Countess of Dunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks,
Hon. Miss Devereux, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C.
A. Murray, Admiral Sir Robert Otway, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Colonel Wyld, and Dr. Proetorius.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, left her residence,
Gloucester House, yesterday, on a visit, to her Ma-
jesty at Windsor Castle.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. it was at-
tended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber-
d.een, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of
Ripon, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.
The Council sat two hours.
Mr. Lord and Mr. Batten, from Leeds, had an in-
terview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Office
of the Board of Trade.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the De-
puty-Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.
His Excellency Edward Everett, the American
Minister, and the Russian Minister, transacted busi-
esterday at the Foreign-office.

ness

STATES-GENERAL of PRUSSIA.
The Prusian State Gazette publishes an ordon-
nance respecting, the mode of deliberation in the com-
mission of the States. The following are the rules or

articles :
" Art. 1. The Chief of the department or the pro-
vince, where the object of the deliberation exists must
conduct the deliberation as Royal commissary. He
is supported in his function by a Marshal, chosen from
the members by the King.
"Art. 2. The King will also choose the Secretaries.
" Art. 3. All communications to the Commission
come from the Government through the Home Min-
ister. The article mentions other forms.
" Art. 4. The Minister arranges the order of deli-
beration, if more than one proposition be presented.
"Art. 5. The members for each province will assist.
" Art. 6. A memoir on each question shall be pre-
sented to each member previous to the discussion, and
a project of the law, if such be proposed.
" Art. 7. The deliberation opens by a statement,
which the Chiefs of departments get prepared, con-
taining general considerations. But explanations may
be joined to the statement.
"Art. 8. Members are called on alphabetically to
give their opinion. Each can speak but once, and on
the question exclusively, else he will be called to order
by the Marshal. But the Chiefs of departments can
speak as often as they please.
" Art. 9. Orators can only address the Chief of
department, not the person they may wish to refute.
"Art. 10. A Chief of department is judge of whether
a summary of the discussion need be taken or not.
" Art. 11. There are times of free discussion, when
each member can speak as often as he pleases ; and the
Marshal points out who shall speak when two have
risen at the same time.

"Art. 12. The Marshal closes the debate when no
one demands to speak. He may also close the discus-
sion, unless three members should demand a vote as
to the continuance or not of the debate.
" Art. 13. After the debate, the Chief of depart-
ment puts the vote, and states it.
"Art. 14. No vote is necessary when there has
been no divergence of opinion.
" Art. 15. Votes are to be given alphabetically, but
different letters beginning at different times, in rotation.
" Art. 16. A summary of the deliberations and the
results will be drawn up. This summary, is to con-
tain, besides the statement of the discussion, 1. An
account of the different opinions (without entering
into the detail of the arguments of the several mem-
bers), as well as the observations made by the head of
the department, or by the employes present, either to
give explanations or to rectify errors. The names of
the orators to be inserted after the summary ; 2. The
questions upon which the Assembly shall have voted,
and that in positive terms ; 3. The result of the vote,
as well as the vote of each Committee.

---
"Art. 17. The 'summary is to be read over in the
next sitting for observation and assent.
" Art. 18. The summary is to be sent to the Minis-
ter of State.
" Art. 19. The final act shall not be published; but
the Home Minister closes the Assembly.
(Signed)
" PRINCE OF PRUSSIA,
DE BOZEN,
MUHLER,
DE 1100110 W,
DE NAGLER,
DE LADENBERG,
BOTHER, COUNT OF ALVENSLEBEN,
EICIMORN,
DE THILE,
DE SAVIGNI,
DE BULOW,
DE BODELSCHWINGH,
COUNT OF STOLBERG,
COUNT OF ARNIM."

FATAL ACCIDENT AT LEITH.
On Tuesday afternoon the Tolbooth Wynd, Leith
was the scene of a dreadful accident, involving the
loss of two lives, occasioned by the fall of an old
tenement, three stories high, which it is said has for
some time been in a rather tottering and dangerous
condition. It was rented by an individual, who let
it out in the way of temporary lodgings, principally
to people belonging to the island of rkney, who
generally put up there when they came to Leith;
and at the time when it fell (five o'clock afternoon),
it is believed there were twelve persons, some say only
eleven, within. Six of these had just arrived in the
forenoon from America, five of them sailors, and the
other a joiner, who had, after an absence of twenty-
four years in New York, come to spend the remainder
of his days in his native island. The sailors and the
joiner were sitting together conversing in one of the
rooms, and were just noticing that some of the
plaster was falling from the roof, when the walls of
their room fell in, and the whole house came down
with a tremendous crash, burying them in the ruins,
along with other two, some say three, who were in a
separate apartment. Crowds from all quarters instantly
rushed to the spot, and the greatest excitement pre-
vailed when the cause of the sudden crash was seen.
On approaching the, scene, the groans and cries of
those buried in the ruins were distinctly heard. Mea-
sures were immediately and with the greatest promp-
titude adopted for their relief; and after some time—
about three-quarters of an hour—they succeeded in
bringing out all those who were known with cer-
tainty to have been within the tenement at the time
of its falling—two of them, we are sorry to say, quite
dead, and the others very seriously injured. One of
the two killed was the joiner just returned in the fore-
noon from America. The survivors were ex tern ally much
bruised and internally more or less injured. They were
all immediately conveyed to the Leith Dispensary,where
the most prompt and praiseworthy attention was paid
to them by the excellent resident surgeon, Mr. Jack-
son, and also by Drs. Coldstream and Bruce. Of the
twelve who were in the tenement when it fell, three
persons, two women and a man, made a very narrow
and miraculous escape. They had been sitting for
some time in the 'same apartment with the sailors, and
had retired to take tea in another room at the other
end of the building, just about two or three minutes
before the catastrophe happened. Part of the floor of
the room to which they had retired was, strange to
say, left standing, while the rest fell, and they stood
on it, in no small terror, till they were taken down
from their perilous position by means of ladders.
Great excitement prevails in Leith in consequence of
this accident, some, we understand, alleging that the
building ought to have been taken down, as unsafe,
years ago. It is said by some that there is still an-
other man in the ruins; others, however, assert that
the man referred to left some minutes before. The
authorities have given orders thoroughly to search the
ruins, in order to extricate him if he be there. The
search was going on at one o clock thin morning when
we left.--Edinburgh Witness.

THE WEATHER.—In the beginning of the last
week, the weather was of a most boisterous descrip-
tion. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
the wind blew tempestuously, veering between N.
and N.E., accompanied by a fall of snow, so heavy,
that in a short time after its commencement, its depth
was about nine inches, on the open fields. The loss
of property, in some parts, has been immense ; but
we are happy to say, that although numerous vessels
have been wrecked, few lives have been lost. The
steamers that ply to this port were detained past
their usual time, but received no damage—it being
principally on the east coast of England that the effect
of the storms have been most severely felt.—lnverness
Courier of *Wednesday.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.-011
Thursday a deputation from the Common Council of the
City of London, consisting of the Coal, Corn, and Fi-
nance Committee, visited, by appointment, the New
Normal School of the Societ-y, recently erected in the
Borough-road. oa os
tuogisp
hn-roeacdt.
theT hbeuildin g, immediate
towards
which
ob jee t of
ficent sum of one thousand pounds was voted by the
' Court. The deputation expressedtheth emvuinsii- t
their very high gra-
tification at all the arrangements.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1842.

•
PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
LONDON, Nov. 5, 1842.
The following average prices of Brown or Musco-
vado British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night :
East India 3ss. 91-d. per cwt.
Mauritius 32 5
West India 33 41
WELLs.—The same is the case with respect to Wells.
The total average price of the three descriptions is
355. id. per cwt.

The actual weights of Sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the Ist inst., accord-
ing to 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 33,660 cwt. West India, 8,431 cwt. East
India, and 1,072 cwt. Mauritius.

About 1,600 cwt. of very dark unsound Sugar
have been sold in the same week at from 225. to 275.
per cwt., which having been classed in the returns as
.East India, unfairly depresses the average priceof that
-kind of Sugars, as well as the total average price.
Foreign Sugars, quality for quality, with the ave-
rage Of West India Sugar, may be bought for 17s. 6d.
per cwt., they are consequently 18s. 3d. per cwt.
cheaper. The total sales for the week in Mincing-
lane were 43,163 cwt., taking the sales at the outports
to be together the same as the London market ; the
consumers bought 86,000 cwt. of Sugar at 355. 9d.
per cwt., amounting in round numbers to 152,0001.
sterling ; they might have bought the same weight,
86,000 cwt. of foreign Sugar at 17s. 6d. per cwt.,
amounting to 75,250/. sterling ; they have, therefore,
given the monopolists, over and above the real value
of their Sugar, 76,7501.—pretty well for one week.
On the 9th September last, under the head "Price
of Sugar," we stated that by throwing out of sugar
cultivation the worn-out soils in the West Indies, the
rich and good yielding plantations might be culti-
vated at a proper rate of wages; and that, in the
aggregate, more sugar would be imported into this
country from the West Indies by such an arrange-
ment, than by the system now in practice, of apply-
ing labour to exhausted soils. That the wages of the
blacks would, in consequence of the adoption of the
proposed mode, be reduced to such an amount as
would compel them to work continuously, in lieu
of alternate days ; and that the proprietors, provided
they resided on their respective estates and looked
after their own affairs, as they ought to do, would
be enabled to undersell, at ex-duty price, the sugar
produced by their foreign competitors through the
means of slavery, in any market in the world,
thereby effectually driving slave labour from
the field. Great Britain has, therefore, cheap and
easy means in her own hands of annihilating the slave
trade by rendering it unprofitable to those who carry
it on. While this great truth is apparent, she may
send fleets. to intercept the traders; she may burn
barracoons, and make other violent demonstrations if
she please to• submit to the costs of so doing, and of
the chance of embroiling herself in a war; she may
have one set of Ministers, who stimulate by their in-
structions the energies of her sailers on the African
coast, and another set who counter-order the direc-
tions of their predecessors, and thereby damp those
energies. She may do this, and a great deal more,
but she will signally fail to impress either the nations
of Europe or the United States with the belief that
she seriously intends merely to suppress the traffic ;
they will place no more reliance on her declarations
than we (the English) do on the assurances of the Go-
vernments of Cuba and the Brazils that they are in-
tent on abolishing slavery: We naturally perceive
that a few policemen, judiciously stationed in
Cuba and the Brazils would, at a small cost,
prevent the landing of the slaves from the slave
traders' ships, or, at all events, the sale of the un-
happy victims afterwards. We therefore arrive at the
conclusion that these Governments turn a willing ear
to their supposed interests, and fling humanity to the
winds. So they, the nations of Europe and the
United States, have a right fairly to conclude that
Great Britain, possessing as she does the means of
exterminating the slave trade at little cost, whenever
she chooses, is not honest in her views, or that, if
she really,intends to stop the traffic, she has also some
ulterior object to attain valuable to her commerce, in
proportion to the pains she takes, and the expense she
is at, in displaying her opposition. These nations
have also remarked that, throughout the contest in
this country about slavery, the people invariably took
the lead ; the people compelled a powerful interested
aristocracy into the grand measure of emancipa-
tiong o th
; the people loosened
thhem
slave holders, and drove t fprom f
che-
e
rished practices, sanctioned by time and cus-
tom. To the people, and to them alone, the
negroes in the British possessions are indebted for
tthoepilracfreedom ; all the
upheGoonyteirinembeon of their liberationnot of the day did was
as was thought would arrest the realization of the
people's wishes—an amount more than the worth of
the fee simple of all the West India Islands put toge-
ther, as they were then, and are now managed. Con-
trary, however, to expectation, the money was cheer-
fully paid, and the great and glorious day for general
emancipation appointed. Foreign nations witnessed
these proceedings; they remarked the unwillingness
of certain influential parties to come into the measure ;
they now behold those very parties
in power ; with
them they must treat when any great question is
under consideration. Are they wrong, then, when
the subject of slavery is the qaestion, in distrusting
the sincerity of these men ? Can blame attach to a
foreign Minister who refuses to enter into treaties
containing conditions which, in operation, would cer-
tainly detract from the dignity of the nation lie repre-
sents, and, probably, interrupt her legitimate com-
merce. Are the Governments of France and the
United States wrong in resisting such a humiliating
measure, as the proposed right of search—especially,
knowing, as they both know, that the degrading pro-
ceeding is unnecessary to secure the professed object ?
That Great Britain holds the cards in her own hands
—that she can so play them, if she please, that slavery
will be speedily annihilated. Slave produce is bought
on account of its cheapness, not because it is slave
produce. Let Great Britain manage her West India
possessions, as common sense dictates she should do,
and free-labour produce will become the cheapest, to
the certain exclusion of slave-raised sugar from all
the markets in the world.

THE :MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
BEDFORD.—The Liberal
cause has triumphed here,
In every instance the Reformers have been successful
BRIDPORT.—Four Liberals and two Tories.
DuvoNeouT.—The elections here have terminated
in the return of eleven Tories and one Liberal.
EDINBURGII.—The result of the municipal elec-
tions has been " a heavy blowards
and
dd
gainedonly
great dis-
couragement" to the Non-Intrusion party, who
were beaten in four of the \\T
in one. 'The wards in which they lost were the first,
third, fourth, and fifth. Fourteen members were re-
turned for the five wards, including three of the retir-
ing Councillors—Messrs. Alacaulay (Liberal), John-
ston Urquhart (Tory). The
ack ""s7 and Steward), two
Is on-Intrusionists (Messrs.
eleven (N
noen; I
membersn trs i oni scto),
consist
andist 0 f
two Tories (Messrs.
M
Marci f
ga hrtl, a n t
ose t
thetrd N White,
n.ii seven Liberals who are
opposed
and
Non—Messrs. Murray,
,sv
Campbell, Cruickshanks, Duncan,
and Miller. The last gentleman may be aac,
o i
tr
con-
sidered somewhat doubtful on this question, from hav-
ing been returned mainly through the influence of
the Non-Intrusion party, although he is a Dissenter
and a Radical. The eleven old Councillors who re-
tired to make room for the eleven new members, con-
sisted of four Liberals who were decidedly opposed to
the Non-Intrusionists (Messrs. Richardson, Thomson,
Black, and Renton), five avowed Non-Intrusionists
(Messrs. Lothian, Melville, Tait, Russell, and Dr.
Macaulay), one who was practicall
a tool in their
hands, although not professinx, their creed (Mr.
Doud), and one Tory (Mr. Hunter). Hence the
gain to the Liberal party, and the loss to the
veryNon-
thegOret' keeping in.view
Side to the other is
eilhqn
that
raule saticoohntiwls, toost,eo
cnhaa sar r bideeiave
infsri
oonm.
EVESHAM.--Four Liberal candidates have been re-
turned in this town.
EXETER.—The annual 'election
for
lors has terminated in the return of all the" Tory can-
didates.
LEICESTER.—EIeven Liberals and three Tories have
been returned.
GLASGOW.—Liberal majority 4. Town Council-
GUILDFORD.—Four successful candidates were
brought forward under the auspices the of
tive Club.
HASTINGS.—East Ward : One Liberal and three
Tories returned, instead of two Liberals and twe
Tories, who retired. West Ward : Two Liberals re-
elected wi hout opposition, making three Liberals and
three Tories returned.
LANcAsTEn.—Four Tories and two Liberals have
been returned.
MUSSELBURGII.—Three Tories and one Liberal
have been elected.
NOTTINGHAM.—The elections in the seven wards of
this town have terminated in the return of nine Tories
and five Complete Suffragists. The latter were en-
tirely on the purity principle, while the Tories offered
sums varying from 1/. to 2/. per vote. There is a great
majority of Liberals in the Council.
PAISLEY.—The election has terminated in the re-
turn of Reformers for all the wards. The Tories who
came to the poll were all defeated. None hut "free
trade and Reform candidates" have now the slightest
chance in this town.
SHREWSBURY.--Tories were elected in all the wards.
SUNDERLAND.—Eight Liberals and six Tories re-
tired, and have been replaced by nine Liberals and
five Tories.
TEWRESDURY.—The Councillors elected ' are all
staunch Reformers.
WALSALL.--TWO Liberals elected and four Tories.
WAuwica.—The Tories have been successful in
this town.