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

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LONDON
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1842.

* Including Overproof.

The only reason assigned by the Government for re-
sisting Lord Howicx's proposal to reduce the differen.
~..,-
OOIETY OF TRUE HIGOLANDERS.—We perceive
tial duty on foreign coffee, was, that negotiations are Z,
that the annual shinny match and dinner of the Society of True
pending with Brazil, and our Government might have an Highlanders will take place to-morrow, at the Copenhagen
advantage in concluding thern; ifit did not now concede House and Fields. It is expected that there will be a very full
the reduction of duty on Brazilian coffee. Precisely the meeting, andi several persons of influence connected with the
tairliatin4ocatledtythne.iifl
appearintentioinn otlebilin sante argument was used by Si(' ?<)IIZIRT PEEL, when Highlands
The members ofghlapordeseconst:
Dr. BOWRINO proposed to reduce the duty on French tome. The games will commence eleven o'clock and con-
silks and French wines. The high differential duty is tinue till five o'clock, when dinner will be on the table. We
kept on, according to this theory, to annoy the French feel convinced that all lovers of the truly national game of
will avail themselves of this opportunity
th
and the Brazilians, and is hereafter to be abolished to shinnyj ity of a day's en-
oyment, which this admirable Soci t
bribe them to assent to the propositions submitted to Titii MAxtEuVRING MOeT)I'IER. S leicinliev7 yetalrie them by Sir ROBERT PEEL. On this principle, Custom- piquant and promising title of a new novel, which, as we un-
house duties are levied, not because they are necessary derstand, is on the point of making its ance from the
'Aline!, a lraoilvyeawhehaslfalready,ilni her admirable
for the Government, or serviceable to our own people, " History of a
but from considering the circumstances of France and fertile aptopic as that which
1
z has long well
been aaa
tl i
ofi
ne de a
the
Brazil. With all deference to Sir ROBERT PEEL, and and the ridicule of the high society of our day. Those pests of
the two Houses of Parliament, we venture to assert that English English aristocraticcbef life “Manceuvring Mothers," have never
yetovel wnritiears have hithert
theore
obe we
notrol do i
anpt tthoe i.r,
st raureectoilioeucrsir
ns. i
nOs
lur the affairs of England are not so ably managed as to
warrant them in taking on themselves the responsibility while they " lashed the crimes." This is false delicacy as well
of legislating for other countries.
as false morality, and we have reason to believe that the, writer
who has in this instance grappled with this vice ha.' not fallen
The advocates of this somewhat absurd, though cus- into a similar error. " Ilfano3uvring Mothers" are the last
tomary proceeding, may say that they continue these persons in the world to be tender with—they are the modern
duties in the hope of extorting some advantage from lieltl)chhs wdho sacrifice their own offspring to the demons of
France, for our linen yarns, or from Brazil for our wea
Alt. Julesm
deltiloanlliette ha vin •
'tying annetnne ago employed
woollens. But why are the consumers of coffee or N, Bagieu, an agent de change, in making time bargain; for
wines now to be taxed to procure a prospective advan- him in the funds, at the close of which he remained debtor
tape to the manufacturers of these two articles ? 'When
and this sum not being paid
to the stockbroker for differences to the amount of 26,000 E,
this theory is analysed it is resolved into the old scheme ac-
tion for the payment of it in, M. Bagieu brought an the Tribunal de Commerce,
of taxing one portion of our own people to benefit some and judgment was given for the plaintiff. Against
this an
other. It is a remnant of the bounty system. Let us, appeal was laid in the Cour Royale, which quashed it, on
say Mr. GLADSTONE and Sit ROBERT P&EI4, tax all the ground of
Tthneeillcegality of the transactions out of which the
who drink coffee and wine, and by and by we shall law officers of the Crlorwcunalswtallioceinsstrtatrtaer
ad the notice of
againstthe
confer on those who spin linen-yarn and make woollen both parties before the Correctional Tribunal,p founded on
on
cloth a great increase of employment and wealth. Our several express laws, declaring all bargains in the public funds
political-economy teachers proved to us that all such
tllri futureaoditote. and not attended wiithhac!mal deposits, to be
schemes were a misdirection of the national capital, a in them. The cmagse
penaltieswasll
e arupdononalTwhurso
dinayanyanwdisare engagedg
t
waste of the national resources, an usurpation of indi- great length by the Avocat du Roi on the one hand, and the
vidual rights, and an advantage conferred on one branch dec counselare _ forot the
,accused parties on the other. The Tribunaleac
of the community at the expense of another. When of
title
Idovbs, hanAdisedneteVnicleedttetheanfdortl.erßtagieu guiltyaiotyf
of
bsroof.h,
science repudiates such a scheme, is it sufficient to TualiQ and the latter of 5,000 f., and jointly to pay
to all the
Parliament adopt it that it is now recommended by costs of the prosecution ! This judgment has created the
gliding GLADSTONE and lat3kil* PIEEL ?
greatest sensation amongst the stock-brokers.
.c distressing. circumstance involving two families
One very se:ons consequence of the prospective in the no, them division of this county in the deepest affiiction,
reduction of duties contingent on something which the has, we are informed, occurred within the last few days!: _ Au_
diplomatists of France and the Brazils may hereafter individual of the medical profession has, it
.is . stated, ty4tte V
. left his home, his wife, and fatally, 40, 15 15 5/1111nsed has
agree to, was pointed out 4 Mr. HAWES. It leaves taken with him a lady: alAat 23 I___,eo." a a'', of .tespeclable
the duties practically unsettled, gmj deranges, pro connexions and coulivierabig peßwa. ittraaions. The lady,
tank?, the dealings of me_mt.......- '
They cannot carry on 4,,i,ppearl, passessod i,4(40.1. i". we funds, in her own right,
—.ants.
their tren.--"
W will " - ' .appears,
she sold out 6 h!`: dabs before. Her brother, who pur,
.......,LLons with safety. .. e ~,,,.... void to say
sued the parties, overtook them, but was unable to persuade hii
Ithat nearly all the dutie4 i-Taliriff, as now proposed, sister to return with higt.— Essen Hered.

THE SUGAR I)

L 1 TIEA.

The other evening Mr. Mark Philips presented, in the
House of Commons, a petition for the equalisation of the
duties on foreign and colonial sugar, from the Manches-
ter Chamber of Commerce. The petition is one replete
with so much valuable information on this enormous
monopoly, that we need offer no apology: to our readers
for placing it on record in our columns :
To. the Honourable the Commons of the United King-
dom, in Parliament assembled, &c.
The petition of the Directors of the Chamber of Corn-
meree and Manufactures at Manchester
Humbly showeth,—That your petitioners approach
your Honourable House with deep complaint against the
system under which the import duty upon sugar has been
long and still continues to be regulated ; a system which
inflicts gross injustice upon consumers, whilst it is
fraught with most appalling evils to commerce.
That the effects thus shortly stated become painfully
manifest on a slight consideration of the results v. 1411
have followed the course of legislation in reference to
sugar, to which your petitioners respectfully take leave
to draw the attention of your Honourable House.
That, for the statements now placed before your Ho.
nourable House, your petitioners have had refei•ence only
to documents placed by authority before Parliament,
from which it appears, first, that at the stated decennial
years the following were the