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HOW TO EVADE THE INCOME-TAX.—A certain
gentleman in a northern suburb of the metropolis has actually
blocked up every window in the back of his house, where there
were seven, by which he has so reduced the number of windows
that he has no window-tax to pay. The amount he will have
to pay for Income-tax is exactly what he has been paying for
window-tax, and he is determined not to pay both. He says
he will remain in darkness while the Income-tax oontinuee.
An English war steamer has:been cruising for these
two or three dap between Scheviningen and Kaledyk. It is
commanded by Capt Washington, who, with some of his officers,
has come on shore and visited Scheviningen.
Madame Heinefatter has had some differences with
the managers of the German operas at Covent Garden, and it is
said has seceded from the company. Madame Schodel took
Heinefetter's part of Valentine, in the Huguenots, for the first
time, last evening.

6. This being a tax upon income, and not upon the public
debt., I hold it to be equally unjust and impolitic to withhold
from foreigners such portions of the interest of thai debt as is
due to them by this country, and for the full payment of which
the faith of Parliament is pledged. In the case of British sub-
jects, the Legislature has the power to tax their incomes, from
whatever source arising, and thus when those incomes are de-
rived in the whole or in part from the interest of the public
debt, it has a right to claim a portion of that interest. But to
withhold from foreigners, whose incomes are beyond the con-
trol of the British Legislature, a portion of the interest due for
money actually lent by them to this country, on the faith of
Parliament, appears to me an act of sheer dishonesty. The
impolicy of such a proceeding appears to me equally great;
whether I consider the alarm which it may cause in the mind of
the foreign fundholder, lest on some future occasion of pressing
difficulty the whole may be confiscated ; or view the proceeding
as an example to other Governments for dealing with, and ap-
propriating to themselves, funds belonging to British subjects
in their hands.

111. Because I fear the financial difficulties, to meet which
it is alleged that the tax is imposed, will be aggravated by it.
The difficulties arising, as I believe, if not wholly, from the
depressed state of commerce and manufactures, which has now
prevailed for more than four years, it seems to follow as a matter
of course, that the best remedy would be to remove the bur-
dens which press most severely upon them. Experience shows
that the taking off of taxes does not of necessity diminish the
revenue by the amount of the duties repealed. And there. are
many taxes which weigh very heavily on the springs of industry,
more especially the duty on the importation of corn. Much
therefore might, I think, be done by relaxation of taxation :
much also by modification of certain deferential duties on foreign
and colonial produce, which, while they impose heavy duties on
the consumer, in no degree benefit the public revenue. But
the withering influence of this tax must increase the depression
of all the industrious classes, and aggravate the difficulties of
the country.
IV. Because I see reason to apprehend, that the object pro-
posed to be effected by this Bill will not be obtained. The
imposition of the Income-tax is justified on the ground of the
necessity of raising with certainty, within the year, a sum of
money sufficient to make good the existing deficiency of the
revenue. This tax may yield the estimated sum, but it can
hardly be expected that there will not be a compensating, and
probably nearly equal, falling off in some other quarter, so that
on the whole the proposed advantage will not be gained.
V. Because this tax, by aggravating the distress, will in-
crease the causes of the necessity now urged for its imposition,
and its continuance and re-enactment at the time it is now des-
tined to expire, will thus be rendered still more necessary.
Cause and effect will reciprocally act on each other, and all
hope of being rid of this impost, and of seeing the restoration
of commercial prosperity will be lost, and the first fatal step
will have been taken towards permanently undermining the
resources, and destroying the wealth and power of the country.
(Signed) RADNOR, (Signed) DUNCANNON,
ZETLAND, SOIIIERH ILL,
KINNAIRD, and GOSFORD,
ROSSIE, CANIPBC.LL,
MONTEAGLE, CLONCURRY,
of Brandon, CLARENDON.
And for all the reasons, except that which relates to
foreigners holding stock. ( Signed) DENM AN.

MORTALITY In the METROPOLIS
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending June 11, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—

Weekly
Average
l 535-9••40.1

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total.

Four__l 1 Four
Springs 'Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 136 183 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 133 147 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration . .
Okscases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kiclwys, &c. 4 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 7 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 10 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 2 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat 9B 99 104
01. d Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified 2 6 7
,
Deaths from all causes . 752
Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912
Population: Average Deaf les
enu. Weekly in
merated Deaths the
1641. 183:?-5-4e-1. Week.
West—Kensington, St. George --A----1
( Hanover-square ), Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye re.' Springs.
St. James 300,705 135 136 118
North--St. Mary-le•bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 141
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don West London, City of
l
London . . ...........373,805 188 179 148
East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel,
Bethnal Green,St.Gpoepo George
re 392 ',4W 206 190 154
S oisuh ntt.tGh—ecoSErtgase St; Stepney,asvoiouttihr,wSatr..ko),lßavere:
mond:ey, Newington. Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
Lithe, Greenwich .... ...... ...438,060 221 210 191

...__ - - -
Total ......... 1,870,!27 912 871 752
ckvelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington,
fdoeraltB3h s E3i,,1
It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the), Csitty. aLneodnLaridbeStiesromo.t
eaaml Woolwich. The population, as
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith
1839, 1840, and
the four years by
Idaeniyndg),tsotsn. i
P. SaA
Paul
.la DiaryDiary-le-bow,
iee
i;
(Deptford),
Stoke
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 i and in June 1841, was
118,84710,,7w2a75. obtainedT h The
weekly
. dividing average
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEISIPERATUNE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
June 11. June 18.
78° 82°
53 55
66 69
23. 1842.

Highest .....................

pLoa;iiyesL;;;.: .. .. .. ..................
General Register Office, June

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN--BRISTOL, JUNE 22.
Immense excitement has prevailed throughout this city since
Monday, in consequence of its being known that a party of
Irishmen had attacked some of the police on Sunday, and
beaten one of them in so brutal a manner that there was very
little prospect of his surviving the effects of the ill-treatment
he had h
dreocreeivoeeed
received. The
attention that medical skill could er
poor man was conveyed to the infirmary,
whore
de-
vise, unfortunately, however, without success ; as, after lin-
gering in intense agony until yesterday evening, he expired.
when From theour fraepctosret leftlicite, it appeared that. the injuries, from whichd upon the inquest, which was proceeding
the deceased met his death, were inflicted by a party of Irisb
their eireomradefrom furOm
men in an attempt to rescue a prisoner whom the deceased had
in charge. He was first knreked down by a brick thrown by
one of the party, aid then beaten, while on the ground, by six
orsereennapbelerdsotnhse, armedpalollieeto
save it
h bricks, until an accession of
force vio-
lence. Six Irishmen, all of whom are positively. identified as
having beep of the party who attacked the pair-tom-fp cuatady.
w

The CHAIRMAN said, if he understood rigl!tly the pur-
pose of the meeting, it soared far above all pa; rty interests
and purposes. Differences of opinion exists ad between
their respective bodies on many- political pain ts, but they
were all united in a feeling of sympathy w ith the dis-
tresses of the suffering multitudes throughout the coon-
try.—(Hear, hear.) The object of that met ling was to
confer together for the purpose of affording assistance to
those who had been sent to the metropolis as delegates
to represent the distress which existed in afferent parts
of the country, to aid them in their appli cations to the
Prime Minister and different Members of Parliament on
that subject. A general impression existed that those
who held the high places of the land had not manifested
sufficient sympathy with the distress of the people.
There was a general impression that the co uree of legis-
lation had been such, up to the present timer, eis rather to
aggravate and increase the sufferings of the: people than
to prevent and remove them. They must_ look to God
to direct the movements of the Legislature. As Christian
ministers, it was their duty, laying aside ev cry other con-
sideration, to endeavour to promote the best interests of
the distressed population. The delegates from the ma-
nufacturing districts would now state to the meeting the
condition of their own districts, and it would then be for
the meeting to determine what course should b e pursued.
The Rev. C. BAKER, of Stockport, said th e meeting
was probably aware that eight or ten individuals had
been deputed to visit London, to lay before her Majesty's
Ministers and the Members of both Houses .of Parlia-
ment some facts which had come under their own ob -
servation, as to the distress which now existed. They
came, feeling that they had a tale to tell which required
no adornment—that the only danger was that they
would understate the appalling scenes by which they bad
been surrounded.—(Hear, hear, hear.) TNey thought
that they perceived indications that Parliament was
about to be prorogued, though there was no appearance
of diminution, but rather of increase, in the sufferings
of their countrymen. When Parliament was last pro-
rogued, there was uncertainty about the future, and that
very uncertainty formed a ground of hope.—(Hear
hear.) At present there was no uncertainty. They
could not tell the people that if they waited a few moTiths
something would be done for their relief. There did not
appear to be the slightest hope of amelioration from the
measures which had been adopted by Parliament. The
poor-rates were increasing to a vast extent ; and the
ratepayers were becoming receivers, and dragging those
who were just above them into their own vortex. One
could almost calculate the day, and the hour of the day,
when the people of the town of Stockport, and other
places, would be involved in one common pauperism. As
ministers of the Gospel, they had much to do with the
distress of the country.—(Hear, hear.) The public
peace was in danger.—(Hear, hear.) The delegates
had told all the Members of Parliament with whom they
had conversed, that they were sitting upon a barrel of
gunpowder—it required but the application of a match,
and the explosion would inevitably take place. The pa-
tience of the people had worn well, but it was to be feared
that their endurance would soon be at an end. In the
various meetings which the delegates had held with Mem-
bers of Parliament, their chief object had been to bring
about the re-opening of the discussion on the Corn-laws
before the prorogation of Parliament, thoroughly per-
suaded that the only remedy for the distresses of the
people was to give them free, unfettered commerce with
all the nations of the world in all articles of food.—
(Cheers.) They had not been able to make any impres-
sion on the Government, but the discussion would, in a
few days, be re-opened by the opposite party in both
Houses of Parliament, and he trusted that what would be
elicited in that discussion would induce the Government
to pause before they dismissed the Members to their
respective homes.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. Rawsoer, from Manchester, and Mr. JAMES
LEES, from Saddleworth, addressed the meeting, and
made appalling statements of the distress existing in
their respective districts.
Mr. G. THoetrsoet said he had thought the numerous
visits which he had paid to different parts of the country
had made him intimately acquainted with the condition
of the unemployed operatives, and he felt that it was
utterly impossible for him to convey to the meeting any
thing like an adequate idea of their actual condition. He
fearlessly stated that there were at this moment mil-
lions who were in danger of perishing from absolute
hunger. He was persuaded that there was a daily
diminishing respect for the laws and constitution
of the country—a daily diminishing regard for the
rights of property—and a growing feeling of despair.
The savage in the wood, livin on bulbous roots, and
by trapping the beaver, was blessed, in comparison to
the thousands of poor creatures he (Mr. Thompson) had
seen in this country.—(Hear, hear.) He passed through
Stockport lately in a chaise, having to keep an engage-
ment in Staffordshire. He stopped there but a short
time, to change horses ; but Mr. Baker would confirm
him, when he said, that even a person stopping so short
a time, could see the desolated state of the town. He
could see that every second house was closed. The
people were standing in the market-place, and there was
no one to hire them. He also visited Bolton, and he
was accompanied by a respected friend of his,
who was appointed to collect correct statistics
of that town. His friend said he would take
him to none of the suffering people but those that were
known to be deserving. He went fie- m house to house,
from cellar to cellar, and from one wretched hole to an-
other, and in the whole of their peregrinations they did
not find a single blanket. They only found anything in
the shape of food in two of the dwellings ; one was a
little bit of red meat at the bottom of a pot, and the other
a crust, the wretched fragment of a loaf, which had
dwindled down to what they saw of it. The people
would not touch it until the middle of the day,
that they might put off the cravings of hunger as long
as possible. They found many of them lying
on the sacking—beds there were none ; and he
said to them, " Why do you lie here?" Young girls
who a few months ago cheerfully rose in the morning
to go to the factories, were, with the father, mother,
grandfather, and sometimes grandmother, all starving
together, huddled up in one corner of the room. He
said to them, " Why do you lie here ?" and they an-
swered, " We are less afflicted with hunger when we
lie down." He could not depict the gratitude with
which they received the trifles left by the parties
who then visited them. In another house which he
visited he found a poor old man dying on a bed, upwards
of eighty years of age, and his wife, who looked like the
Witch of Endor, as he had seen her in pictures,
was crouched over a few expiring embers in a rude
grate, trying to mix a small quantity of treacle and
butter, to make a kind of toffy for sale, having scraped
together twopence for that purpose. She lifted up the
black covering which was upon her husband, and
there he was, stark naked. She then lifted. tip her own
clothes, in order to prove that she had no other
covering but the miserable cotton dress which covered
her skeleton. This was the state of Bolter', yet he did
not hear an expression of murmuring in one of them,
or any allusion of a reprehensible kind to obtain relief
He went to Wigan, and he had not been in the town five
minutes before the Coroner sent him some depositions
which ho had taken at an inquest held upon the ...y ofa
man who had died of absolute starvation. The doctors
had declared their belief that he had died of hunger, and
while he was reading these depositions a messenger came
from a neighbouring village, and said that a man had
just died of absolute hunger, for he was seen the day be-
fore gnawing the grass, scanty as it was, in the fields
around. He (Mr. Thompson) had been in Glasgow, and
he had many of the poor operatives at his meetings, who
came merely to beguile themselves into something like
forgetfulness. He was informed by a most respectable
and worthy, individual, that there was in that city
thousands dying of hunger ; many of the people were
patiently waiting for death. He had also visited Paisley—
of that they had heard enough. He had visited Hud-
dersfield also, and from information he derived from
various sources, public and private, he came to the con-
clusion that he was surrounded by a perishing popula-
tion. Some months ago there was hope in some quar-
ters that relief would be offered. For five dreary months,
during the winter, did they e::tertain this hope. Some of
them died with it. The grass was growing on the graves of
many who perished during that winter. They relied upon
Parliament giving them some relief. But what had been
done ? They bad got a Tariff and an Income-tax. They
would all admit the latter was no relief; and the former
he had looked over with a most impartial eye, and he
should have been glad to have discovered any symptoms
of relief, but he found none. Trifling articles were al-
lowed to come in on payment of a lower duty. What
they wanted was comprised in a word of three syllables—
Employment—(Hear)—the power and ability to pay. It
was not so much a question of price as a question of com-
petency to buy anything at all.—(Hear.) He did not speak
politically ; he spoke as a friend to humanity. They
were convened together for the purpose of looking the
distress in the land in the face, and to give such counsel
as they felt themselves competent to give. There was
no relief in the Parliamentary measure ; a remedy had
been applied in the shape of a Queen's Letter. Our
population was to be relieved by alms gathered at the
doors of our public sanctuaries. No, the progress of des-
titution was not to be checked by a Queen's
Letter. The means of living were daily wast-
ing away, and whatever bountiful donations
were dropped into the plates, when that letter was read,
it would not satisfy the wants of the population for three
days. What was to become then of our nation in a short
time when Parliament would rise ? They knew scarcely
any motive to induce Members of Parliament to remain
when the grouse were waiting to be shot on the moors.
--(Laughter.) They would go the sooner if they ex-
pected that it was the intention of the people to keep
them. They would get over the measures that were to
be passed—they would get their supplies and everything
necessary to their own views, and then they would disperse
over the country. The country would then be governed
by a Home Secretary, living next itO the Horse Guards.
They would adjourn In the puddle of August; thus would

they be away the whole of September, October, Novem-
ber, December, January, and in February they would
meet again. He did not wish to speak of the existing
Government disparingly. He did not wish to impugn
the motives of individuals of that Government, but he
did say that it was a terrible thing for the country to be
left to the government of a standing army during
the months he had named. He had great hope
in the interposition of Christian Ministers ; they
could do much for them, and he hoped they would
be worthy of it. He would just relate an
anecdote of a friend of his, who went down to Windsor,
accompanied by his lady and two friends. They went
into the Chapel Royal, to see I:er Majesty, and they re-
marked how care-wotin she looked. They wished to
have another view of her while she was walking in
the Slopes. Several soldiers, not under arms, but with
short canes, were walkingabout, acting as a sort of po-
lice to keep the people off. One of these soldiers, a very
intelligent man, got into conversation with the gentle-
man he referred to. The soldier said, referring to the
Queen, " Poor Lady, she has a great deal to worry
her." The gentleman replied that it was true
that she had, been subjected to attempts upon
her life, but she still lived in the affections
of her people. These were solitary acts of insane or
wicked men who attempted to do her harm, certainly.
" Ah," replied the soldier," but look at the condition of
the people, Sir, my opinion is that the young lady won't
die in this country." The gentleman in surprise asked
why. "Why, Sir," said the soldier, "the people wont bear
it mach longer, they will be uppermost by and bye."
This was the language of a soldier. He (Mr. Thompson)
did not mean to make any remark on it, or draw any
any inference from i;. In 1127 there was a celebrated
work written bearing the title of " Coin and Currency,"
and written by a very distinguished man. He (Mr.
Thompson) would have brought it had he thought of it.
Robed read it so often and commented upon it so frequently
that he knew it pretty well by heart. One passage was,
" Whenever this country presents the spectacle of mil-
lions supplicating for bread, then will the people sweep
away titles, pensions, and honours." That was the lan-
guage of the present Secretary of State for the Home
Department. The spectacle was presented—they were
only waiting for the fulfilment of the prophecy. Who
was it that was standing between the aristocracy on the
one hand and the starving population on the other ?
It was the gentlemen he saw around him.—(Hear,
hear.) He asked them now to interfere as they had
done before. He was the last man in the world to
ask the Christian Minister to pervert his sacred func-
tions for the purpose of party politics ; but he
asked them to do that which they desired themselves.
It was unnecessary for him to trespass longer on their
time. They had been assembled there that day in order
to give their counsel. They were required not to send
forth a Queen's Letter, but a pastoral, and he was sure
that the Christian ministers would do their duty.
Dr. SMITH next addressed the meeting. He felt that
they were like the prophet Jeremiah, when he sat down
with a number of the faithful to bear up against the
bitter lamentations of Judea. With respect to the
Queen's Letter, he thought such a remedy was like
a physician administering an opium pill to a pa-
tient who was suffering under a severe malady. It
would only relieve him for a short time, and then his
suffering would be greater. He considered that their
duty was to try by every means in their power to get rid
of the gigantic evil which afflicted the country. He con-
sidered that evil was caused by the people themselves in
sending such bad and heartless men to Parliament.
Dr. LEIFCHILD then addressed the meeting. He said
he thought that the Christian ministers calling a meet-
ing themselves might calculate to raise a prejudice against
them. He thought the better course to adopt would be
to call a meeting of all denominations. He thought the
statement which had been made that day ought to be
iepeated to a large public meeting, and made as public
as possible, for by this they wauld call the attention of
the Legislature to the subject.
Dr. CAMPBELL said he had just returned from Man-
chester and Bolton, and he could confirm what had been
stated respecting those two places. He thought they
ought to consider this as a preliminary meeting, and
call another on a large scale, so that the statements made
that day may go forth to the world. He felt convinced
that, if they called a public meeting, they would have
at least two or three thousand present.
Mr. DOUGLAS thought that some decisive measures
ought to be taken at once ; 'the people were starving,
and starving people would not long remain silent.
The Rev. Mr. OVERBURY had listened with great at-
tention to the statements which had been made, and he
was convinced that this country was approaching a great
and serious crisis in its history They heard accounts
from the North of England, but none from the West of
England. He lived in the west of England himself, and
he could assure the meeting that the distress was equal
there to any part of the country. He felt convinced it
was the result of class legislation, preferring a class to
the whole country.
Mr. BAKER said that the account of the state of the
West of England was given in the Statistic Report of
the Anti-Corn-law Conference.

The Bev. Mr. CARLYLE then proposed the following
resolution: "That this meeting is deeply affected with the
statements which have now been made of the distress pre-
vailing throughout the manufacturing districts of the
country,and expresse its thanks to the gentlemen who have
visited this metropolis, on this benevolent mission, for
their kindness in attending this meeting, and for the in-
formation they have conveyed ; that a provisional com-
mittee be now formed for the purpose of co-operating
with those members of the churches and congregations
in this metropolis who may be willing to unite on the
subject, to convene a public meeting on the distress now
prevalent in this country, the said meeting to be held, if
possible, next week, and that the deputation from the north
be requested to attend it, with a view to some public move-
ment taking place, for the purpose of impressing upon
the Legislature before the close of flip present session, the
necessity of some immediate step for averting the cala-
mities impending in the country."
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The origin and policy of the war in Affgha-
nistan was brought befure the House of Commons last
night, pursuant to notice, by Mr. H. J. Baillie, who
moved for the production of certain correspondence of
the Governor-General of India—firstly, with the late Sir
A. Burnes, during the mission of the latter to Caubul
in 1837 and 1838 ; and, secondly, with the President
of the India Board, and with the Secret Committee of
the East India Company, touching the expedition to
Affghanistan. Under this form an attack was made

upon Lord Auckland and the late Government. The
debate derives its importance from the deep interest
which is felt in this country respecting the causes and
consequences of a war which commenced with successes
that added new glories to our arms, and was supposed
to have terminated in strengthening our relations with
the native powers in India ; but which has disap-
pointed hopes reasonably cherished, and been attended
in its renewal by reverses and disasters that have had
few parallels in our history. These disasters seemed to
promise success to an attack on the Government
which directed the expedition to be undertaken. With
what success the debate will show. Seldom have reckless
partisans met with so signal a defeat. The originator
of the discussion would fain have avoided the division
which was to exhibit the utter absence of sympathy felt
by the House with the opinions ho expressed, and the
statements by which he sought to confirm them. The
Hon. Member professed to seek information he as-
sumed the papers he moved for would afford ; but
launched assertions and arguments, as though the facts
were established, and the condemnation he pronounced
was justified by incontrovertible evidence. The points
the Hon. Member endeavoured to establish, by the
lengthy speech with which he prefaced his motion,
were, that the occupation of Affghanistan was a great
political mistake—an opinion which he considered was
generally entertained by all parties in the coeurtry ; and
that the disasters which had befallen us had also inspired
a general sentiment, that it would be well if the British
troops were permitted to evacuate the country without
greatly lowering the national Character by further de-
feats. The Hon. Member, however, admitted that there
was no alternative but to prosecute the war with vigour,
as the only means of maintaining our honour and repu-
tation, and thus to preserve our Indian empire.
STANDARD.—In the House of Commons last night
Mr. O'Connell reported from the Belfast Inquiry Com-
mittee a request that the parties interested should be
allowed to appoint agents, to be paid of course by the
public. Mr. Shaw supported the application, but Sir
Robert Peel thought it better to leave the matter to the
discretion of the Committee, which might inform itself of
the proper course by reference to such precedents as those
of the Stafford and Yarmouth Committees. The appli-
cation was in consequence withdrawn. Sir R. Peel's
seasonable interposition has, we suspect, arrested a very
pretty current of jobs, flowing not only from Belfast,
but from all the other places that have given occasion
for inquiries. It would be an extremely convenient thing
to have the opportunity of paying handsomely from the
Treasury a favourite solicitor, and bringing to London,
at the public cost, a few scores of friends and ppr-
tisans in the character of witnesses—and this, too,
an-
der circumstances that would not permit an Ihn
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( From the London New Price Current of June 24.)
SUGAR.—lmporters of British Plantation Sugar have
evinced firmness, and have obtained fully previous rates for all
descriptions. To-day the West India Sugar market presented
a tranquil appearance; the grocers purchased sparingly, and
the refiners were less disposed to operate. Importers were not
so firm, and in some cases the prices accepted were 6d per cwt
under those of yesterday. The total sales for the week have
been only 1,300 hhds and tierces.
REFINED.—Prices have been firm for Refined Goods this
week, and a good demand has prevailed.
To-day the groeers purchased less freely of Refined Goods,
but the supply being small, Standard lumps sere not to be pur-
chaced under 82s 6d per cwt. Crushed in bond has been selling
at the low rates of 26s 3d to 26s Gd per cwt; upon those terms,
however, many parties are disposed to buy.
ItlAuarrius.—The rates previously established have been
fully supported this week for all qualities, and the trade have
been free purchasers. This afternoon there was less demand,
and holders were not so firm ; privately few purchases were
made, and 403 bags at auction went 6d per cwt. under former
rates ; fine brown fetched 60s, mid yellow 61s to 635, and fine
bright 67s per cwt. ; 8,000 bags are declared for sale on Tuesday.
EAST INDIA.— Of all descriptions of white Bengal Sugar,
the advanced rates of last week have been fully sustained; fine
white at 69s 6d to 70s, good 68s to 695, mid 67s to 67s 6d, low
65s 6d to 66s 6,1, good and fine yellow 64s to 66s 6d, damp
62s 6d to 68s Gd, and mid damp brown 50s to 50s Gd per cwt.
Manilla at an advance of 6d per cwt. Siam privately at 18s 6d
for low white.

FOREIGN.—At 28s to 30s for good quality, but for inferior old
sorts the market is quiet, and former prices save been readily ac-
cepted; low and mid soft 22s 6d to 26s per cwt. Yellowl-lavannati
and fine quality at 19s to 20s, and 200 boxes low to mid quality
at 175 6d; very soft brown went at 16s per cyst. For Brazil
higher rates were required ; Bahia, good strong grey 17s, mid
rather soft 16s to 16s 6d, ord 14s to 15s 6d; Rio, good white at
225, good mid 20s 6d, low mid 19s to 20s, very soft 18s rid to
19s, fine dry yellow 17s 6d to 183, and good 163 6d to 17s
per cwt.

MOLASSES.—For fine descriptions of West India there are
several purchasers, and stiff rates would be paid, but few par-
cels are to be met with. Foreign Molasses at 7s to 7s 6d per
cwt. Fine Honey is wanted, and is scarce.
TEA.—The market for Tea has presented a very healthy
appearance since our last report; prices have further advanced
v2d per lb. The demand has been active all the week hr
black tea. Congou has been disposed of at the following rates :
sound common at Is 8d to Is 814 d, good common Is 81,14 d to is
9d, but mid and mid blackish leaf Is 9V.d to Is 10d, good
blksh leaf strong Is 10.1 d to is Il,td, fine and Pekoe flavour
2s to 2s 6d per lb; common to mid kinds continue to lie
the most wanted. A good business has been transacted in
green sorts: Twankay of common quality has realised Is 7d,
mid 100 to is Bd, good and fine Is 9d to Is 11 d. 'Company's
Congou has advanced Is 9d to Is 91d per lb : importers hive
refrained from offering any at auction, and none is declared.
To-day the trade were anxious to purchase Tea, but the
small quantity available tended to check business, and buyers
were compelled to pay Is Sid to Is 9id for common and good
sound Common Congou, and I s 9id for Company's Congou, cash.
COFFEE.—The Market for British Plantation Coffee has
presented a healthy appearance since our last report ; a good
demand has prevailed for all clean descriptions to supply the
wants of both town and country dealers, and the prices paid
have been fully equal to those of last week. This afternoon a
good demand existed for all descriptions of Coffee for home
consumption, and holders were firm; 362 bags Ceylon
at auction went at an advance on the rates paid
by private contract of 6(1 per cwt ; good ord mixed pale fetched
76s 6d, fine ordinary colory 77s to 78s ; 179 casks 50 barrels
&c. British Plantation were all sold at very full rates. Jamaica,
good middling fetched 132 s to 132 s 6d; middling, Ills to 124 s ;
low middling, 108 s to 109 s 6d ; fine fine ordinary, 98s 6d ;
good ordinary, 65s to 735. Berbice, middling 110 s to Ills.
796 bags Dutch Company's Java fetched 43s to 49s for good
and fine ordinary, being the full value.
COCOA.—This afternoon 372 bags and brls Trinidad were
offered at public sale; a part only found buyers, but holders
refused to submit to lower rates; fine red fetched 40s to 435,
mid to good 36s to 395, and common 34s to 35s per cwt, being
former prices.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HoLnanrs.—The market has been
in a quiet state for West India Rum this week. Jamaica has
sustained the former value, but Leewards may be purchased on
easier terms, and 2s 2d to 2s 21d is the value of proof.
Calcutta Rum is 64d to 2s 7d, subject to the high,
and at Is 8d to Is. 11d at the low duty. in
Brandy the market is far from active; Cognac first brands
of the vintage of 1837, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1838, hhds ss,
puns 4s 10d ; 1839, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d ; 1840, hhda
3s I Id, puns 3s 9d; 1841, hhds 3s 10d, puns 3s 8d per gallon.
Geneva Is lid to 2s. British Corn Spirits at lOs cash.
Rtes.—There has been only a limited demand for Bengal
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only partly sold at lOs 6d for good middling white; privately
fine bold white has realised I Is, good middling and good
10s 6d to 10s 9d, low to mid 9s to lOs 3d, and yellow 8s to 9s
per cwt. Low white at 9s, and middling 9s 6d to 10s per
cwt. Carolina fine sort at 30s, second do 28s, and inferior
26s per cwt.

TALLow.—Previous rates have been sustained for Russian
Tallow, although the stock is large, lind the supply of home
produce good; 48s 3d fur small parcels of P. Y. Candle, a large
quantity however could be purchased at 4Ss per cwt. For deli.
very buyers at 49s 3d for the last three months of the year, and
for January, Februsq, and March next, 49s 9d to 50s. South
American Tallow at 42s 6d to 47s for low to fine quality. Town
Tallow at 46s nett cash.

This afternoon P. Y. Candle met with a dull sale at 48s to
48s 3d en the spot. Of South American 212 pipes 99 casks
and 4 hhds at public sale went at 41s to 47s for low to fine
quality. A large quantity of South American Tallow hy ar.
rived at Liverpool.
OlLs.—For Southern Oil prices have advanced lOs per tun ;
fine pale quality fetched 32115 s to 331 155, good 321 to 321 10s,
mid 31/ to 31/ 103, common dark 291 5s to 301 10s, and black,
28/ 103 per tun. Cod Oil at 311 lOs to 32/ per tun. Pala Seal
at 37/ lOs to 38/, yellow and straw colour at 32/ lOs to 36/, and
brown 31/ to 32/ per tun. For arrival there are several buyers
of new pale Seal Oil, and 341 would be paid for large parcels,
but there are no sellers under 34/ 10s. Sperm at 791 to 801 for
fine British. Linseed Oil at 32s 3d to 32s 6d per cwt. Rape,
brown at 45s 6d to 465, and pale 46s 3d to 46s 6d per cwt.
Gallipoli at 59/ to 591 10s, Spanish 541 to 541 10s, and Bar-
bary 521 to 53/ per tun. Palm, first sort at 32/ to 321105, infe-
rior and mid 30/ to 31/ lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 40s to
40s 6d for the best.
This afternoon Sperm Oil good quality at 781 to 79/ for first
sort.