The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-21 00:00:00

TABLE OF EXEMPTIONS.

Coin, bullion, and diamonds.
Horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, and all other live stock.
Hay and straw,
Tallow and raw hides.
Salt.
Rice.
Corn and grain, unground.
Biscuit or bread.
Meal or flour, except wheat flour.
Fresh mcat. -
Fresh fish.

Fruit and vegetables, fresh.
Carriages of travellers.
Wood and lumber.
Cotton wool.
Hemp, flax, and tow.
Drugs.
Gums and resins.
Tortoiseshell.
Herrings, taken and cured by the inhabitants of the
Isle of Man, and imported from thence.
The articles for the use of the British fisheries in Ame-
rica, proposed to be exempted in the 3d resolution
above set forth ; subject, nevertheless, to the condi-
tions therein expressed.
All goods imported from the United Kingdom, after
having there paid the duties of consumption, and im-
ported from thence without drawback.
With power to her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy
Council, by any order or, orders in council, to add to the
list of exemptions any of the articles lwreinbeforo pro-
posed to be charged, as unenumerated articles, with the
ad valorem duty ('4 per cent."

MEMOIR OF SIR LIONEL SMITH,
HAUT., G.C.8., LATE GOVERNOR OF THE

MAURITIUS.

The father of Sir Lionel Smith was Benjamin Smith, Esq.,
of Hampshire, and the subject of this memoir was born at the
beginning of October, in the year 1776. At the early age of
seventeen he entered the army, and was appointed to an en-
signcy in the March of 1795. His earlier services were per-
formed principally in the East and West Indies, during which
time he rose through the successive grades of Lieutenant,
Captain, Major, and Lieut.-Colonel, having highly distin-
guished himself in the former country as Brigadier-General,
in actions against the Peishwa, under the administration of the
Marquis of Hastings. In 1809 and 1810 he commanded an'
expedition to the Persian Gulf against the Pirates; and in
1819 was created a Major-General for his bravery in the cavalry
action at Ashla, where he was severely wounded by a sabre-cut
on his head. His Indian services will not easily be forgotten.
But that which, perhaps, brought him more publicly before
the, world than even his military achievements was the civil
office which he tilled in 1836, as Governor of Jamaica ; and
as the circumstances which he had to control were difficult,
and his conduct upon the occasion was matter of much note
and observation, we shall notice the conspicuous part which
he acted, and the state of the colony at the time of his entry
into office.

SIR LIONEL'S PREDECESSOR, THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO.—
Jamaica, during the latter part of 1835, was the scene of re-
peated and vexatious disputes between the Executive and Le-
gislature, although these disputes regarded particular legislative
measures, and not any proposed alterations in the existing con-
stitution. The principal of these measures was what was
termed "the Act in Aid"—that is. an Act to make provision
for carrying the Abolition Act into effect--and a Bill fur
strergthening and regulating the police, which was rendered
necessary by the same great change. The Colonial Legisla-
ture had passed both of these measures, but only for a limited
time; while the Marquis of Sligo, who was then a the head of
the Government, was desirols that they should endure for the
whole period of the apprenticeships.
Lord Sligo accordingly, thus at issue with the Legis'ature,
determined to persevere in his purpose ; the Legislature of the
island was no less resolute in Assembly. As Governor. he re-
fiped to pass the Bill as amended by the Council. The House
of Assembly voted this a breach of privilege : a prorogation
ensued, and then a new Session, at which the House addressed
itself to the Kin.'% Affairs having come to this crisis, the
Marquis of Sligo found the situation of Governor far from
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In the same month that his predecessor left it, Sir Lionel
Smith, the Governor of Barhadoes, arrived at the island„and
succeeded in his place, the British Parliament, in the mean
time, having passed the Bill for reviving and continuing the
act in aid of the Colonial legislature.
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