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

THE GOULBUBNS, THE GLAD-
STONES, AND DEAR SUGAR.

Mr. William Gladstone is a clever young man—a free
trader in words, hnd a good monopolist in practice. Mr.
Henry Goulburn is neither a young man nor a clever
one—the only subject he looks straight at is monopoly.
The last is a great West India proprietor—the first the
son of a still greater. The one is Chancellor of Sir R.
Peel's Exchequer, and the other the virtual President of
Sir R. Peel's Board of Trade. Out of the 20,000,0001.
paid for slaves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
pocketed about 60,0001., and the father of the virtual
President, 90,0001., or the Goulburn and Gladstone
families between them, 15000/. !

These are the principal spokesmen on the rather im-
portant question, whether the people of Great Britain
and Ireland are to have cheap or dear sugar, and in their
wisdom and disinterestedness they have pronounced in
favour of the latter. The reader shall see of what
" perilous stuff" these monopolists in office have deli-
vered themselves.

The story of the sugar trade is easily told. It turns
out that sugar is more cheaply manufactured with the
stimulus of a cart-whip than with the inducement of
wages, and hence, ever siaccythe emancipation, the price
of making it has increased, and the supply diminished.
The East Indies, or rather the British province of Bengal,
for to this the production of sugar for our market is by
law confined, has been called in to assist, but producing
less than the paltry island of Mauritius, this resource
has been wholly inadequate. The result is that the
sugar, which may be had at Hamburgh or Bremen, or
" under lock " in the London and Liverpool warehouses,
costs the British consumer 405., or cent. per cent. more.
The export has of course ceased, and the revenue has of
course declined. No one'ventures to dispute these facts,
and, indeed, being chronicled in the public Gazette, they
are indisputable.
Now, the quantity of lugar consumed in 1841 was
above 200,000 tons, .or better than 4,000,000 cwts., on
which the monopoly charge of 20s. the cwt. makes four
millions sterling. Here.'s. a sum equal to what Sir R.
Peel calculates on receiving from the Income tax, Irish
stamps, Irish whiskey, and coal duty ; and if, under a
free trade, every farthing of it were levied as a sugar
duty, the whole might go into the public Treasury, and
the supply of sugar be larger and cheaper than it is now,
But what says our great sugar manufacturer and
small Chancellor of the' Exchequer to this state of
things ? Why, that the price of sugar is " not exces-
sive." The poor EngliShman is called upon to pay
a shilling for what might be got, and what all
other people do actually get, for a sixpence, and his
great consolation is the. assurance of a West India
proprietor that the extra charge of 100 per cent. is
" not excessive." It would do Mr. Goulburn ser-
vice, as a statesman, to set up a grocer's shop for a
few months, and see what his customers would say
of his prudence or his honesty when, boasting all the
while of moderate prices, he attempted to sell for a
shilling what was intrinsically worth but a sixpence, and
what all respectable tradesmen were actually selling at
that sum. Moderate and modest as Mr. Labouchere is,
almost to a fault, even he was provoked to tell Mr.
Goulburn that in this he spoke more as a West India
Proprietor than as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
And now for the virtual President. of the Board of

Trade. The proposal of Mr. Labouchere, he says,
would hardly save a penny a pound in sugar, so that
there was no reason to expect from it " any great or
sudden relief to the consumer." This is thoughtless
and blundering. Mr. Gladstone's own statement of the
consumption of last year was 200,003 tons, and this
year he estimates that it will be much higher. Let us
call it, then, 200,010. This will make 448,022,400
pounds on each of which there would be a penny saved,
and this would amount to 1,866,7601., or a national
saving which is much nearer to two than to one million
sterling. Every 20s. thus saved would buy a hundred
weight of Cuba or Porto Rico sugar, equal in average
quality to our Muscovado, the result of which would be
to multiply our consumption of a necessary of life by
an amount aporoaching to-near one-half more than our
present penurious supply.
This is perhaps not so "great and sudden a relief"
as might be given to the people, but it is notwithstanding
something very respectable ; and, to be plain, in value
and efficiency, of itself, far exceeds the united amount of
all Sir R. Peel's Tariff cheeseparings put together.
So much, then, for our hack Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and our tyro PreSident of the Board of Trade.
The upshot of the debate- is that " the duties on sugar
be continued for one year," that is, that the monopoly
shall last at least one year more. Thus, while Sir R.
Peel takes Four .Millionsfout of the pockets of the people
to bolster up monopolies', in general, the West Indians,
headed by two of their own number in office, help them-
selves to Four Millions more to bolster up the particular
monopoly in which they are personally interested. This
is legislating with a vengeance for a suffering people ;
but if the suffering people submit to the plunder, they
are scarcely to be coMmisserated.—Examiner.

MEMOIR OF MAJOR-GENERAL
G. POLLOCK, C.B.
This gallant officer, whose excellent arrangements in
conducting an immense Mass of stores, provisions, and
bag gage through the' Khyber Pass, without the loss of a
single beast of burden, have excited an admiration only
equalled by the cool and determined valour with Which
that formidable barrier was formed, notwithstanding the
desperate manner was defended, is a Colonel in
the Bengal Artillery. lle received his military educa-
tion at the Royal Academy, Woolwich, and proceeded
to India in 1803. Almost immediately after his arrival
he was sent, with five • ether young officers, to join the
artillery under General Lake, wit() was then about to
open the campaign against the most active and enter-
prising of the Mahratta chieftains, Jeswunt ROll Holcar;
and it may afford some idea of the arduous nature of
Indian warfare, if we remark, en passant, that in
the short period of four months the subject of this
article was the only individual, of the male party
just mentioned, who remained fit for duty— three
of them having been killed and two disabled.
At the battle of Deig,. which took place soon after
Lieutenant Pollock joined, he attracted the favourable
' notice of his superiors by the spirited and judicious
manner in which he directed the fire of the brigade of
guns entrusted to his charge. At the siege and capture
of Deig, and the leis fortunate attack on I3hurtpore, he
was equally distinguished. by the steady, gallant, and
cheerful performance of his duty, wl.ich, from the poverty
of Artillery officers, and the arduous naturo of the ser-
vice, was extremely severe. On the breaking up of the
grand army, as it was called, Lieutenant Pollock accom-
panied the guns attached . to Colonel Bowie's force, em-
ployed in reducing and settling the country around
Goltud. The waste of life.attending all these operations
was such that Lieutenant Pollock, by mere right of
seniority, attained the .rank of Captain (Captain
Lieutenant in this regiment).before he had been three
years in the service, and such had been his general
good conduct, that Lord Lake appointed hint to
one of the first vacancies which occurred in
the Artillery Regimental staff, and subsequent Com-
manders-in-Chief nominated him successively to the
situations of Adjittant and Quartermaster, Brigade Major,
and finally A.sistant-Adjutant of Artillery, in which
latter position he had a considerable share in re-model-
ling the Bengal Ordnance department, and placing it on
its present excellent footing, though his strenuous
endeavours to procure a mere effective employment
of officers (the want of which has ever, and particularly
at the late unfortunate catastrophe in Affghanistan, been
so severely felt), proved unsuccessful. Soon after obtain-
ing the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, which was not until
May, 1824, Colonel Pollock was nominated to the com-
mand of the Bengal Artillery, serving in Ava with Sir
Archibald Campbell's army, and was actively employed
during the whole •of the memoriable campaign,
which enabled that General to dictate his own
terms of peace almost . at the gates of Aetna-
poorah. 'Throughout ; these operations the steady
and efficient manner in which Colonel Pollock
superintended the executive duties of his department,
under circumstances of a very trying description, was
the theme of universal approbation ; and he not only re-
ceived the repeated thUnks of the Commander-in-Chief,
as well as of the Government of India, but was honoured
by his Sovereign with,;the decoration of a Companion of
the Bath. In 1834 he obtained his regimental Colonelcy,
having previously been promoted to the army rank of
Colonel by the Indian, brevet of 1829, which led to his
being included in thegeneral brevet in 1838 as Major-
General. At this period he,_had the command of the fort
and district of Agra, btit:it may serve to show the esti-
mation in which he was held by the whole service, when
it is stated that on every occasion when the formation of a
field force was spoken of, General Pollock was invariably
reported to be the indiiidual likely to command it, so that
his recent nomination as General of the British Forces
on the West of the Indus—a post for which he has
shown himself so admirably well qualified—may almost
be said to have been made by public acclamation. To
the foregoing it may be added, that General Pollock is a
good Conservative, and the. younger brother of Sir Fre-
derick Pollock, her- Majes y's Attorney-General._.
United Service Gazette.
[The last paragraph is shocking bad. What has the
xcing of the Khyber Pass to do with Conservatism ?
Does the Editor of this:Journal really think that he
pleases the Army and Navy by alluding to politics, when
it is well known that the brave defenders of the country,
whatever may be their private views, only think of doing
their duty, and care not one straw when they are called to
act whether Melbourne or Peel is in power ? Nelson
was at constant war with Tory Governments, and Sir
Charles Napier, who with his brave fleet swept along the
Syrian coast like a hurricane, is an " extreme Radical."
We believe Sir Robert Stopferd is a Conservative, Lord
Chatham, who commanded the Scheldt expedition, was
a Tory, and we believe General IV hitelocke was a Tory.
We mention these facts for the instruction of our Con-
temporary.]

FIRE IN SHIRE-LAKE.—At a few minutes after
ten o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the premises occu-
pied by Mr. Thompson, maehine-ruler, 16, Shire-lane,
femple•bsr. From the inflammable nature of the materials
contained in Mr. Thompson's premises, the flames spread with
fearful rapidity, and the greatest alarm prevailed in the
ighbourhood. The difficulty of bringing the engines to bear
on the flames was greatly increased by the confined nature of
the neighbourhood, and notwithstanding an immense quantity
of water was thrown on the building, the fire continued to
burn with increased violence until the whole factory was
destroyed.
The murderer, John Cumming., the seaman of the
Hastings, who murdered the second-class buy at Malta, and
who was under sentence of death by a Court-martial, has been
brought to London, frcm her Majesty's brig Weazie, by a war-
rant from the Marshalsea. The murderer was conveyed in a
post-chaise by two Marthalsea officers.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.—III Africa a discovery
has been made, not far from Doussissi, of an ancient bridge,
spanning by a single arch the 'stream of the Oncd-Herbiba,
which is giving rise to many speculations. It is in perfect
.preservation ; and a comparison of the cement used in its
construction with that found in the ruins of Hippona, is said
to suggest as autiquity of not lean than thirteen or fourteen
gentuliti.