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amongst which we may particularise that entitled " His-
' " Mythology explained by History," and
We shall look with . great

toric Doubts

" Cycles of 'Civ

nteiest for the next number.

Village Tales from the Black Forest. London : .loseph

Cundall

, 12, Old Bo

-street

This is a

ittle vo

amP,

rative of

peasant and vilhige life in the neighbourhood of the Bleck
forest, translated from the German of Berthold Auer-
bach, by Mrs. Taylor. They ought to be read exten-
sively, not only for their simple beauty, but for the
excellent sentiment and moral which they convey. We
trust Mrs. Taylor will favor us with a further series.

A Manual of Map Making, and Mechanical Geography.
By Alexander Jamieson, LL.D. London, Edinburgh,
and Dublin : A. Fuliarton and Co.
A very useful work, containing all that is necessary to
be known by the stud.nt of this interesting science.

SECOND EDITIOIV.

Standard-office, .'
even o'clock.

[We are indebted to Mr. Aylward for early copies
of the second edition of the Globe and Standard,
and to Mr. Pearson for a third edition of the Sun,
and subsequently a fourth edition of the Sun from
Mr. Aylward, (by an express train,) from which
conjointly we obtain the following.]

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Lord J. Rc SSELL rose and stated his views and propo-
especting the sugar duties. The noble lord said, if

the pres

nt government had col

suited their own inte-

rest, they would not, at this advanced period of the
session have proposed any alteration of the sugar duties,
but they considered that they had a pubbc duty to per-

es considerable evils at present existed ; and he was
bout to state to the committee the reasons for the
plan he should propose for a permanent settlement of
these duties. It was a general opinion for years past,
that the duties on sugar were enormous, and required
alteration, and revision. The noble lord then took a re-
view of the average price and duty on colonial and foreign
sugars during the last four years; and read a number of
extracts from the works of Mr. M'Culloch and others,
which consisted entirely of figures. He considered the
estimate of the quantity of sugar in bond to amount to
forty thousand tons, and that the importation next year

from the West Indies and other colonies in all probability
would amount to two hundred and thirty thousand tons,
,hilst the estimates give a consumption of 252,000 tons,
nOO tons ; the question, therefore,
iency to be made up. (Hear.)
le should propose the admission of other foreign sugars
afro this country on certain terms, so as to allow the peo-
to buy in the cheapest market. (Hear.) He was

a deficiency of ~

how was this deft

-are that muc

said about the encouragement

of slavery by admitting sugars the growth of slave labour,
but none of those arguments were used in respect to the
importation of cotton, &c., the growth of slave labour. The
noble lord then read extracts from several publications on
thesubject of the sugar duties, and other import duties. If
lingland were to say to the United States, they would
not take their cotton wool the produce of slave labour, it
would be an act of insaity—(hear,)—and most detiriuken-
tal to the beat interests of this country. The same re-
• mark would apply to forbidding the importation of cop-
per and other ores raised by slaves. It would be injurious
to all nations who had treaties with this country. He
admitted that there were reasons forbidding immediate
equalisation of the duties. The West India body most

justly urged the great change produced by the emancipa-
tion of their slaves, and the losses they had sustained in
e, and the interferference of this country to
lining a supply of free labour, against
his immediate equalisation , and these reasons were entitled
•o great consideration

eoneequenc

revent their o

; there were likewise financial rea-
He should,

Dns against any sudden and abrupt chang

therefore, propose a complete withdrawal of the present
prohibitory duty on slave labour sugar, and then a very
slight alteration from year to year until the duties should
be equalised. He would propose at once to reduce
the duty on all foreign Muscovado sugar to 21s per
ewt., to be diminished from sth July, 1847, to sth July,
1818, to 205., from sth July, 1848, to 18s. 6[l. ;
from 1849 to 175., from 1850 to 15a. 6d., and that from
the sth July, 1851, the duty on all sugars, foreign and
eolonial should be 14s. The reduction of a clay ed and

refined sugar would be in a similar proportion, and
would be diminished likewize from year to year. The
West Indians complained greatly of the interference
of the government in preventing the immigration of Hill
Coolies

Now he proposed that the Coolies should have
ermission to emigrate on certain conditions. He also
proposed to diminish the present differential duty on
rum from is. 6d. to Is. The West Indians also asked
that no molasses should be permitted to be used in brewe-
ries or distilleries free of duty, but there were such practical
difficulties in the way that he could not comply with it.
He also proposed to enable the colonists to procure the
provisions and timber in the cheapest market, and to do
away with differential duties in favour of British produce
imported into the colonies. According to the statement
of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was every
probability of a financial deficiency in the year 1847-,18,
and it was, therefore, extremely desirable to increase the

ncome of the country, more especially if it be
one without increasing the burdens of the people.

with regard to the supply, not more than from

8,000 to 10,000 tons of the foreign sugar now in bond
would be admissible on account of the navigation
laws. Taking the whole revenue to be

!ording to his plan, during the next year

at £4,200,000, being £123,309 more tha'i the rev

which would arise under the present system, and which
would at once turn the apprehended deficiency into a sur-
plus. If the proposed duties should pass in committee,

be should propose to make the settlement a permanent
one by introducing a bill making the duties permanent,
and would propose some other source of revenue to be
made the subject of an annual vote instead of the
sugar duties, so as not to depart from the great
constitutional principle of making a great part of the re-
venue dependant upon an annual vote of the House.
The noble lord concluded by proposing a resolution for
the temporary continuance of the present duties for one

nonth, at the same time laying on the table the resolution
chick he should propose for the permanent settlement of
to which, if the house should agree, her Ma-
ht be their term of
ed the affairs of the na-

e question,

?.sty's Ministers, however short ir,ig

0, would not have adminis

tion in rain

Mr. GOULBURN would not go into the discussion until
he had considered the plan proposed. The Right llon.
Gentleman having put some questions as to the details of

the plan,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he did not propose to
alter the navigation laws at all.
Lord GEORGE BLNTINCK would support the motion
for a temporary renewal of the duties; but the protec-
tionist party would not support any measure for taking
away from the East and West ludia interests the protec-
tion which they at present enjoyed.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S.—YEsTERDAY

GOODWOOD STAKES.
7 to 1 agst The Hero.
7 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (taken')
8 to 1 agst Camera Obscura.
12 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger.
25 to 1 agst Newcourt.
25 to 1 agst Giantess.
25 to 1 agst Morello Filly.
25 to 1 agst Petitioner.
25 to 1 agst Akbar.
30 to 1 agst Druid.

GOODWOOD CUP
5 to 1 agst Grimston.