The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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informed that the task - which he would impose
upon us can only be successfully accomplished by a
i
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their benevolent intentions in improving the Africap
race, surely they cannot more certainly and speedily ac-
complish this object, than by removing a portion of them
from the land of ignorance, superstition, and disorder, to
a country where they may learn industry, become Chris.
tians, and useful members of a civilized community.
There is only one argument advanced by the Society, in
reference to African emigration to Jamaica, in which
there is either plausibility or truth, viz., that the pro-
gress of civilization will be retarded, by ignorant Afri-
cans mixing with the natives. That an unlimited and
sudden influx of Africans would produce the result,
cannot be denied ; but it is neither desired, nor is it
requisite, that their introduction should be so numerous
as to produce this evil—an addition to the labouring
population is absolutely required to enable the proprietors
to continue the cultivation of their estates. But what-
ever trifling evil might result to the natives of this
country, it would be nothing compared with the good
that the great African family would derive from the
measure. It is not only those who emigrate here that
will be improved, but an intercourse between this colony
and Africa will be established, which will tend more to
the improvement of that unfortunate race than ail the
money that has been expended, and the lives tharhawe
been sacrificed in attempting to improve her sons in their
native land.

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

'The House of Commons was occupied last night
'with a discussion, the result of which cannot fail to
givk‘unmingled satisfaction to men of all parties. The
quesion in. consideration was, the propriety of erect-
ing nitlnuments, at the public expense, to the me-
mory otlaord EXMOUTH, Lord DE SAUMAREZ, and
Sir SIDNEY SMITH. Sir R. PEEL, who introduced
the question, spoke on it with infinite grace and feel-
ing, observing, " he did not think it would be neces-
sary to call upon the House for any considerable sum
of money in consequence of the vote ; the feeling of
honour and respect did not consist in elaborate work-
manship ; not in the expense to which the
public was put in erecting a splendid work
of art. No:; it was the inscription on the
monument that wrought the charm, and however
small the expense to the public, the effect in stimulat-
ing others was obtained, and in a more valuable
manner." These few and simple words contain the
whole pith and marrow of the question. Our naval
ands military heroes need no expensive, showy, ad
captandum monuments to keep alive the memory of
their deeds in arms ; a chaste and unassuming memorial
is all that is necessary for the purpose, for the magic
lies in the inscription, not in the splendid sculpturings
and ornamental decorations of the marble. The
most showy and elaborate monumental record
that could ever be erected in honour of Sir SIDNEY
SMITH, would never produce half the effect
that would be produced by the simple word " Acre"
inscribed on a plain, unostentatious column. We
pause beside a public monument, not so much to ad-
mire and wonder at the skill and ingenuity of the
artist, as to revive our recollections of the great man
in whose honour it has been erected. He it is who is
uppermost in our thoughts. A simple memorial,
therefore—not mean or niggardly, but in strict ac-
cordance with .good taste—is all that is needed to
keep fresh in the public mind the recollection of de-
parted greatness. Of the propriety of erecting such
memorials, and to a greater extent, than has yet been
done, there can be but one opinie,eThey have the im -
mediate effect of encouragliag desert ; of stimulating
generous ambition ; and. dottickening patriotic feelings
in the heart of the c:onr.nunity at large. What was
the.thought that's ~red the mind of NELSON, when
engaged in the ileadly conflict at Aboukir ? What,
the,words that 'escaped him, when the first broadside
was fired. 'it the enemy's fleet ? " A Peerage, or
Westr,,inr.iter Abbey !" This was the reflection that
sust.ainfid and braced his energies throughout that
P'Jrilc;us contest. He felt that, if it was his lot to fall,
his country would pay all due honour to his memory ;
arid the thought--so congenial with a gene-
'rous nature—kept all mean, personal appre-
hension at eras length, and took even the sting
from death. There is a noble spifit of emulation
among our naval and military men tat cannot be too
warmly encouraged. Goo .knows we do not assess
their services at too high a valuation, or encumber
them with superfluous wealth ! Sitting quietly at.our
ease by our own hearths, and engrossed with'Siumwn
tranquil pursuits, we think little of the toili!fhatli
.-undergo--the anxious vigils that they keep-Lthe va-
rious hazards that they brave, while in active em-
ploymeig ; and the very least we can do, is to let slip no
Favourable opportunity—such as that presented laSt
nigh'-‘2:--of testifying that we are by no means ungrate-
ful for their strenuous labours in our behalf. Let us duly j
reward them when living, and honour themwhen '144
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,:tead, ever remembering that it is to them owe
our- 701;:x ", • :on:of the Address is named ;it con-.
the pe. o:In matters of this sort, there. •%17-
tan—there must be- Igeelin: W bel-h€l 64;•
: inquiry into the disputed elections,in,
three Conservatives. pro-
adopted. The fourth Secret
Whig or Tory, the illustrious 'sp)dlt brsaifor •
• - iieozoeisaree' e. -
c, the,lath-r
are of no party. The House regarded this matter h 9-41 tire ys. 11111orlfi„Ceases at eighteen.
its proper light last night, and long may it ie:spOile 7...7.=:31Dijaa, • _
.. , .
such feelings as those expep.,;,a by
moment of the King's death, if
Long may it keep prominently in, -vie*rthe evedixlitirrOakistiirarA a minor, the Prince nearest the
ency of bestowing monumental imnourS 6fAhoirezt4-0,k4V.74110D :41Z,--
. inieyaen, 4.ab lished order of succeSsion, as
defenders of our hearths and ; Oharter of Ib3o, if he be twen e
sagacious as it is generoui,i and shin44.:l4lC4lo4g4litzl,resig rtrfiliettubeeo' meg 'invested' With, the Regency
of war ever again sweep over the face of -Etivopecand!
other NAPOLEONS argse to threaten our: existerkpeliti fulland • •of th
:Tile3--t entire exercise e
nation, we may erinfidently expect that--rel)litrg otit: ' • •
the belongs
Our grateful '-'ee/so-nition of their -serviceS-o' iitoyal- authority, in the name of King,: to
NELSONS an,:t I:EsfELLINGTONS arise to coriyinel; Abe Regent.
such conquercirs, that our sailors and Soldiers are 'Article' 4.—The 12th Article of the Charter, and
what the a, were at Trafalgar and Waterloo !
all the legislative dispositions protecting the person
and constitutional rights of the King, are applicable
to the Regent.
Article 5.--The Regent makes oath, in presence of
the Chambers, to be faithful to the King of the
French, to obey the Charter and the established laws
of the kingdom, and to act in every other respect in
the sole view of the interest and happiness and of the
glory of the French people. Should the Chambers
not be sitting, then the Regent is bound to convene
them within three months.
Article 6.=-The guardianship and tutorship of the
young King belongs to the Queen, or to the Princess
his mother whilst unmarried, and in the event of the
demise of the Queen, or Princess, or both, to the
nearest female branch on the father's side not married.

We have thus endeavoured to :do justice to the
views of one of the most sensible, as well as one of
the most respectable organs of the West India body
of planters. We have no doubt whatever that his
arguments will meet with the attention of the Anti-
Slavery Society, to whose notice we especially recom-
mend them. It cannot be the interest of any party
in the country to do injustice to our colonies, how-
ever much their past conduct may justify us in re-
ceiving their complaints with many limitations.

The French Journals of Monday have all been re-
ceived, and an express from Paris, in another column,
communicates the substance of those of Tuesday.
Their contents are of much local, but no European
importance. The Regency Bill, it will be seen, is
so framed as carefully to exclude females from that
high office ; and yet it was under the sway of fe-
male Regents that the councils of France were di-
rected by a RICHELIEU and a MAZARINE.

The .111.oniteur of the Bth, publishes in its official part,
a notice that his Majesty has received letters of condo-
lence from the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar and the
Duke of Brunswick.

The Chamber of Deputies will meet to-day 'to proceed
to the nomination of its four secretaries and its two
questors. Being thus definitively constituted, it will
meet to-morrow (Tuesday), for the bureaux to pro-
ceed to the nomination of the Committee for preparing
the draught of an address to the King, in answer to the
speech from the Throne. If this operation should be
terminated early, the Ministry will present on the same
day the project of law on the .Regency.—Constitutionnel.
Letters from the frontier, published in the Phare des
Pyrenees of the sth, say that Don Francisco was to
arrive at St. Sebastian on the 4th, in the evening. San
Miguel, Captain-General of the Biscayan provinces, had
set out fpom St. Sebastian to meet him.

The new Ministerial Journal, the Iberia, contradicts
the reports of a change in the Ministry. That paper
affirms that the Cabinet is engaged in the consideration
of means to improve the state of the finances.
According to the Barcelona Journals there were vague
reports in that city of a new plot of the Moderate party
in favour of Queen Christina. The first is that the
commanders of the corps of the garrison have called
their officers together, and reminded them of their oath
of fidelity to the existing Constitution. Fifteen officers,
known for their attachment to Queen Christina, have
been sent away from Barcelona to Saragossa.—Le Com-
merce, Aug. 8.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUG. 8.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 118 70... 118 70... 118 65... 118 70
4 per Cents. lOl 60... 101 60... 101 60... 101 60
3 per Cents 78 20... 78 20... 78 15... 78 20
Bank of France 3220 —.3220 ...3220 .. 3220
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5050 —.5050 —.5050 —.5050
Belgian Fives lon ... 10:4 ... 102 i ... 102 i
1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 1024 ... 104
Dutch 2i per Cents s2k ... 52... 52k ... 52k
Spanish Active .. 22 ... 22 22 ... 22
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES
St. Germain .:.....• 835 ... 835 ... 835 ...
Versailles, R. B .. 295 ... 295 ... 295 ...
LB 92 50... 92 50... 90 ... 90
Rmicn
Orleans. 555 ... 555 ... 555... 553 75
Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75
AUSTRIAN FUNl)3.—Artetota, JULY 30
firep,r cents.bletalliques ..............•. 1084
Foil. per ....... .. t ...................
• ; ). threep.r cents.
• ZharCs ..... ...... 1615
•
ibirral,•• Si -tin,

gArMgs: FROM PARIS

BY the West India mail, arrived this
.inorning, we
have received the copy of a letter addressed by Mr.
PATERSON, a resident Jamaica planter, to the British
tnd Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, on the important
subject of the introduction of free labourers from
Africa into that colony. Before the passing of the
Emancipation Act, Mr. PATERSON was himself a
slave-owner; but he entirely approves of that measure,
and asserts, that it has been productive of the greatest
good to ';tie coloured race. Ile says that since their
emanci potion a great portion of the labourers have
purch 4,sed small pieces of land, upon which they have
ereci.Pd huts, and where they bestow most of their
lal-,our. They have not been driven to this by bad
h.ovs or reduced wages, but from what Mr. PATERSON
es-lls a natural and laudable desire on their parts to be-
-,:oine proprietors of the soil. As the most industrious
and useful are the most frugal, the best labourers
are those of whose services the planters are soonest
deprived. Hence it is that such a want of workmen
is now felt in the colony. He contends, therefore,
that the colony must go to ruin, unless the emigra-
tion of African labourers to Jamaica is generally
enc.ouraged. He maintains that the objects of the
Anti-Slavery Society he promoted by such
emigration. He asserts that it is not necessary
to have recourse to any system of kidnapping,
to induce the Africans to settle as labourers
in the 'West Indies—that thousands of them are in
Constant readiness to seek employme4t there, and that
the idea that 'they would or could be treated as slaves
is ridiculous.- We have not ourselves been under any
such impression as that the planters would now treat
free labourers from Africa as slaves. Theis free
coloured brethren would not long allow them to re-
main ignorant of the relation in which they stood to
their employers. As regards the way in which the
interests of the planters will be affected by the pre-
vention of emigration, Mr. PATERSON says
Labour cannot be procured by the agriculturist when
required, and unless this be remedied, cultivation will
on an extended scale cease, and capital will be with-
drawn from the colony. Enterprise and skill will follow.
Aloney will cease to circulate, and a taste for luxuries
will no longer be imbibed by the labourers. They will
be content to live in nakedness, and to feed on ground
provisions. Religion and education will cease to be
disseminated, as neither the island treasurer nor the
labourers will possess the means of contributing to
their support. The great staple commodities that
require capital will not be cultivated, and per-
sons of intelligence and influence now following
agricultural pursuits, and who are in constant com-
munication with the labouring classes, will quit the
colony ! Where then will you find the stimulus to in-
dustry, so much required to make the negro what he
ought to be, and what he is capable of being made;? By
attempting, therefore, to prevent the labourers from
coming to the colonies, you check the improvement of
the emancipated slaves—you prevent that portion of
Africans who would emigrate from enjoying the bless-
ings of freedom, civilization, and Christian knowledge—
you bring poverty on the colonial proprietary—you
make desolate the now fertile cane-fields. The roads
will become invisible, and the costly works a heap of
ruins.

Signed at the Palace of Neuilly,
the 9th August, 1842.

Her Majesty is expected to arrive in town on Friday
morning from Windsor Castle, to close the present ses-
sion of Parliament in state in person.
A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon at the Fo-
reign-office, Downing-street, at half-past two o'clock.
Most of the Ministers attended.

MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The business in our Funds to-day has been extensive,
and to the exclusion of it in other securities. The market
has been extremely firm, and prices appear to have an
upward tendency. Consols have been done at 92+, but
are now 92k 92f for Money, and 92+ for the Account.
Three per Cents. Reduced 921 94;__Three-and-a-Hall:
per Cents. Reduced, 101+ 1011 ; New Three- and-e,
Half per Cents. 1001 1001; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India
Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 50 52 ; May,
48 51 prem.
The transactions in Foreign Securities have been—
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 ; Danish, 83 ;
and Brazilian, 65 ; the quotation for Mexican is 351 for
Money.
The Share Market has been quite neglected, but two
bargains have been publicly made—one in Blackwall at
9 ; the other in Birmingham and Derby at 42 per stare.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILLWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Derby IOO
London and Blackwall ...... 16i 9

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National oflreland l7i lsi to 15
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 9.—Although
he Market is still inactive, there is no material change
in prices to remark upon. The prices are as follow :
Bristol and Exeter, 41i 414 and 41i. ; Liverpool and
Manchester, 176 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 271 ;
Londo,n and South Western, 62i ; Eastern Counties
(New), 81. 7s. 11d.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock .170 (India Stock 250 pm
3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 92/1 !Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons 9l 'Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent. Red 101 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... lan Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 48 pm
New 5 per Cen'. — Ditto 5001...... 48 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 48 pm
Jan. 1860 ...... Bank Stock for A cct ...
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2i Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent —i Ditto, New Ditto 334
Brazilian Bonds... 66 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Bueno s Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, pee cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Meta11ic...........
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 1824 2li Ditto, Deferred.... ..
Danish, 3 per cent B3 French, 5 per cent. —f.—c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexicar, 5 per cent 3si French, 3 per cent. —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent sli
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. = Ditto, 5 per cent.

And with respect to the interests of the now free
coloured race, he previously observes :
The introduction of labourers into this colony, will
produce the most beneficial effects to the natives; indeed,
upon this depends whether they will advance in civilisa-
tion, or whether they will retrograde in all improvement,
and, in a half or whole century, be no better than their
ancestors were when brought here as slaves.
Mr. PATEasoN further contends, that the natives
of Africa would be benefited by such emigration of
labouren4. With every wish to do justice to. the re-
presentative ;)f the opinions of a large class- of :Our
femvi,;_ittakjects, who writes with so much ino4ra7
• tion airilgood temper, we can only make room for an
extract,, exhibiting his views upon this point :,
Ifyoui Society ,bisin. cerein following.out consistently