The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-11

gard to copper GRE, with respect to which the
slaves employed in the mines of Cuba are as
great sufferers as any that employed on the worst
suonr estates in that country; and yet, SO far
from having proceeded on this consistent plan of
the anti-slavery committee, we have, of late
years, diminished the duties on the admission of
copper ore, and totally abrogated the duties on
cotton WOOL (Cheers.) Such, then, is the first
instance to show that your policy, if it were to
proceed on an exceptional rule, is incomplete
and unsatisfactory, even to those who most
strongly maintain it. But you have not been
able to maintain 1t even on that ground
You have not been able to say we will aid.
NIT sugar only from our own colonies and
possessions in which we have enacted
obliged, the late ministry has been obliged by the
necessity OF the case, by the insufficient supply
which comes from our own colonies, to admit
the sugars Of other countries to our markets. The
problem. You have had to decide what was the
state ofsocety in those particular countries, what
was the state of society in Java for instance, and
whether the obligation TO cultivate sugar in that
cas- edid not amount TO state OF slavery. You have
to consider also, what was the state OF society in
Manila, and you have also exposed yourselves to
the decision, according to the interests ofthe Dutch
Commercial Company, At one time disposed to
TO withhold it; but, besides this, you are obliged
by the principles ofyour law and your treaties, TO
admit other countries which have treaties with
you, providing that their produce shall be rccev-
ed on the terms of the most favored nation, into
competition with the free labor states. You could
not do otherwise. You may say that no great
quantity Of sugar will be admitted in that case
but your principle is utterly thrown down when
you admit certain slave states to send their sugar
here your principle is at an end. But in order to
do this you have been obliged to take another
method,-you have been obliged to refuse to
Spain the privilege, which you claimed under
| treaty, to send you her produce the footing of
| the most favored nation. (Cheers) You have
been obliged to do so on grounds which, think,
are not very honorable to great country like this.
| (Cheers)
| The New SUGAR DUTrEs.-Lord John Russell
laid before the House of Com nous, on Tuesday,
the 10th, the ministerial proposition relative 10
the duties to be hereafter posed on the importa-
ton of sugar. The duty colonial sugar of
las. is to continue as heretofore. The duty Of
23s. 4d., which is now charged on foreign free
labor sugar, is now to be reduced to Els, and that
Is to apply equally 10 all foreign sugars, without
dstincton of growth; and it is to undergo gradual
reduction every year for five years, and hem be i'm
ported the same duty as that Of colonial growth.
Not only equalization proposed, but the
rate of dug l winch all foregu sugars are to be
admitted Is ones educed 10 Ais with 4 PROV.
sion for the grade sxtincton OF all protecuon on
| rh, 9Th oil in y, 1901.
The following the scale Of duties as proposed,
with the decline contemplated by the ministers:
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