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250 Cft* 2,CaJrer* [Saturday,
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[The following appeared in our Second Ed...
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The second reading of the Australian Col...
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In the Arches Court, yesterday, Dr. Adda...
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In the French National Assembly, on Thur...
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The fine weather brought a large concour...
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, The Queen has offered to Mr. Robert Hu...
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250 Cft* 2,Cajrer* [Saturday,
250 Cft * 2 , CaJrer * [ Saturday ,
[The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...
[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . \ POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , June 1 .
The Second Reading Of The Australian Col...
The second reading of the Australian Colonies Government Bill was moved in the House of Lords last evening by Earl Grey , who explained the object of the present bill to be the provision of a free , regular , and constitutional government for the British dependencies in Australasia . Earl Grey went on to detail the prospective clauses of the measure designed to unite the several colonies at some future time into a federal state . This union will , however , be entirely voluntary on the part of the colonists . Free constitutions being once accorded to the colonists , he considered that no change should take place without their own consent .
Earl Fitzwiixiam approved of the principle of the measure as calculated to provide free institutions for future millions of our fellow-subjects , but objected to its form as imperfect , observing that it was not constitutions but constituent assemblies which would be furnished to the colonies . Lord Monteag 3 jE also criticised many of the details of the measure , which he hoped would be amended
. Earl Granvix-le supported the bill . He thought that the question of the electoral franchise ought to be left to the local Legislatures , who would be best able to settle the question satisfactorily . Lord Wodehouse was at a loss to know how the federal system was to be constructed , and if constructed , how it could work . Lord Stanley , although in favour of a single chamber at the outset of new legislative institutions for the colonies , thought the time had arrived when , from the increase of the population in New South Wales , it might be advisable to adopt the double chamber principle , but he was of opinion that Parliament should reserve to itself the right of imparting the power which two assemblies would give .
After a few words from Earl Grey in reply , the bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on the 10 th of June . The House of Commons occupied the whole of last evening in the discussion of the Slavery Question . Sir F . Buxton moved a resolution , that it is unjust and impolitic to expose the free grown sugar of the British colonies and possessions abroad to unrestricted competition with the sugar of foreign slave-trading countries . The question , he observed , was one ot great importance to the West India colonies , but of still greater importance to the interests of humanity ;
and he viewed the question as one of humanity and of high moral principle rather than of trade or as affecting the prosperity of our colonies . He traced the history of the alteration in the sugar duties from 1841 , when those on slave grown sugar had been reduced to a scale which it was then supposed would have enabled our colonial sugar to compete with its rival in the British market , to 1846 , when the measure was introduced against which he complained . Though the effects of that measure had been mitigated by the alteration in 1848 , whereby the colonists were granted a comparative respite , there was nocolonies
thing in the condition of our West India which warranted the supposition that when the differential duties were brought to a level the distress in the West Indies would not be as great as before . Those colonies were able to compete with America , the French colonies , and Surinam , but not with such countries as Cuba and Brazil , which could recruit their labouring population by the importation of fresh slaves , whom they could work like horses night and day . It was not the interest of the colonies , however , but that of humanity , which prompted his motion . If there was one principle had maintained than
which this country more another , at homo and abroad , it was this—that , having once abolished slavery in our own colonies , it endeavoured to do all that was incumbent upon a great and Christian nation to put it down in other countries ; and he hoped the time would never arrive when that groat principle was abandoned . He then recapitulated and obviated some of the objections to his motion . Cotton , it was said , Avaslikewisc raised by slave labour ; but our manufacturers are dependent upon that raw material . If slave-grown sugar were excluded here , it was argued that the same ; quantity would be sent to other countries . looked
But , in fact , the Cuba su ^ ar-growcrs upon this country as their chief market . Keininding the House of tin ! misery and destruction of life attending the slave trade , he urged that , if the slave-grown Migar of Cuba and Brazil were admitted , to free coinpetition with our own sugar we must make up our minds that we were promoting a system which produced as much misery jiiuI degradation as could exist in any human condition , and which was the worst enemy of civilization and of the diil ' iision of the ( Jospel in Africa . Mr . W . Kvan n seconded tho motion . Mr . Humk admitted that it was most unjust to subicct our colonies to an unrestricted competition
with foreign slave-importing countries , but he considered that if we gave our colonists a free supply or labour , thpy would be able to compete with Cuba , Brazil , and every other country . The moment that free-labour produce could be made cheaper than slave-labour produce the latter would cease , and to that end the efforts of the House should be directed . By carrying negroes from Africa to the West Indies , where they might be employed as apprentices , and this ect mi be
subsequently as free-labourers , obj ght effected . He concluded by moving as an amendment , the addition of the following words : — " That at the same time the British Government interposes difficulties that prevent the colonies from procuring a , sufficient supply of free labourers from Africa and other places , that might enable those colonies to compete in the production of sugar with the foreign slave-holding and slave-trading countries . "
Mr . Mangles opposed Sir E . Buxton ' s motion . Colonel Thompson never thought of going on Freetrade principles when a question of morality was involved . He was governor of Sierra Leone in the years 1808 , 1809 , and 1810 , and he could say from his experience and observation that the apprenticeship system was a complete delusion . Mr . G . Berkeley denied that the condition of the West Indies was bettered by the act of 1848 . He described the deplorable state of British Guiana , giving an instance of one estate , which a few years ago produced £ 10 , 000 per annum , and which was sold a few months ago for £ 2000 . Mr . Wilson insisted that all the predictions made in 1846 of the evil results that would follow the policy
then adopted had been utterly falsified , and he referred to a variety of returns and calculations to prove that in Ceylon , the Mauritius , and the West Indies , the cultivation of sugar had greatly increased , and that the produce of all , for the present year , would be greater still . The production in all the British possessions had increased twenty per cent , since 1846 , outstripping the increase in Cuba or Brazil . He could not question the late distress in the
sugargrowing colonies , but he emphatically denied that that had been caused by the withdrawal of protection . It had been caused by the vicious systems that had grown up in the sugar estates . l ) uring the last three years , our consumption of free-labour British sugar had increased , whereas our consumption of slave-labour sugar had decreased ; thus showing that , despite of declining protective duties , our colonial sugars obtained the advantage of our greatlyincreased consumption .
Mr . Stanley , in a maiden speech , of very great promise , contended , from the experience they had had in some of the colonies , that Mr . Hume ' s proposition would not be attended with success in countries where the people could live without working at all , and who , therefore , would not work , even if industriously inclined , without being well paid . Free labour they might give in abundance to the colonies , but cheap labour never . He assured the House that from Canada to Jamaica , from the St . Lawrence to Essequibo , there was but one growing feeling pervading all classes—a feeling that there was a waning attachment on the part of the mother country towards her colonies .
Mr . Hutt opposed the motion . Sir J . Pakington supported the motion , yet he did not think it went far enough , inasmuch as it did not declare how far free-labour sugar was to be piotected . S :. r Charles Wood hoped the House would take into its consideration the interests of the consumer , and refrain from checking the active spirit of enterprise which was springing up in the West Indies , by inducing them to look for aid to protective duties , instead of relying upon their own exertions .
Mr . Gladstone declared that the crisis of distress in the West Indies had grown more acute from year to year , and had been rendered more dangerous by every successive measure of legislation , beginning with the act for emancipating the slave population . To the artificially-produced scarcity of labour , the net of 181 ( 5 , reducing the- protective duties , added a fresh element of distress to the half-ruined colonists . There were no signs of rallying from that stroke ; and , although he did not look to protective duties to secure permanent prosperity for the West Indies , he wished to have the removal of protection arrested for a while , and time allowed to the colonial landlords and the British capitalists to combine , in preparation for the novel state of things .
Lord Pai , mkkstox opposed the motion , confident that protection never had benefited the West Indies , nor could do so ; and looked for a better result from tho improvements in cultivation under the stimulus of unrestricted commerce , The competition which the West Indies complained of arose not merely from Cuba , but from the East , from Mauritius , and other countries employing free labour . Sir E . UrxTON briefly replied , and the House divided . For tho motion , 234 ; against , 27 < 3 : majority , 11 . The House adjourned at two o ' clock .
The Dublin Freeman of yesterday reports an important tenant-right meeting held on Thursda y at Navan , which the Repeal organ recognises as an early step towards the reconciliation of the north and south . The numbers present are set down at 10 , 000 tenant farmers , Protestant as well as Roman Catholic . In the province of Connaught the Roman Catholic Clergy are at length moving , and had a meeting at W estport , County Mayo , early in the week , where the speakers were nearly all priests . Preparations are in progress for holding a monster demonstration in Belfast on the 12 th of June . The general conference" will take place in Dublin about the same time .
In The Arches Court, Yesterday, Dr. Adda...
In the Arches Court , yesterday , Dr . Addams , for the Bishop of Exeter , applied for further time before making a return to the monition of the court in the Gorham matter , as the Bishop was desirous of obtaining counsel ' s opinion whether , after the decision of the Courts of Queen Bench and Common Pleas , an application for prohibition should be made to the Court of Exchequer . " The case was allowed to stand over to next court day , the Bishop ' s proctor undertaking to make a return to the monition , if no proceedings could be taken in the Exchequer Court . An aggregate meeting of Wesleyan reformers was held at Exeter-hall on Thursday night , when Messrs .
Dunn , Chipchase , Coulton , Harrison , and others of the dismissed preachers , having addressed the meeting in denunciation of the tyranny and oppression of the Conference , resolutions were carried that the acts of expulsion were acts of unmitigated despotism , against which the people should protest , and treat them as altogether null and void ; denying the power of the Conference to interfere in the lo ' cat affairs of any circuit ; tendering sympathy to the late victims , and pledging their adhesion to them in the noble stand which they have made against ecclpsiastical despotism . It was also resolved that the meeting , convinced of the necessity of reform in the Wesleyan connexion , assist in raising a fund of £ 2000 for carrying on the reform movement .
The Reverend Win . Dodsworth , perpetual curate of Christchurch , St . Pancras , has resigned his incumbency , with the intention of joiningthe Catholic Church . — Catholic Mag . —It is positively stated by friends of the parties that Mr . H . AV . Wilberforce , brother of the Bishop of Oxford , and Mr . Allies , late chaplain to the Bishop of London , have come to a similar determination . — Standard .
In The French National Assembly, On Thur...
In the French National Assembly , on Thursd ay * the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 th , and 8 th clauses of the Electoral Reform Bill were passed . The Frankfort Congress has adjourned for a short time . The Warsaw papers of the 28 th ultimo announce the arrival in the Polish capital of the Czar . The Darmstadt Chamber of Representatives have unanimously rejected the bill to impose a stamp duty on newspapers .
In the Assembly of Hesse-Cassel , on the 24 th ultimo , a series of resolutions was moved to the effect that it was opposed to the honour of the country that a person accused of forgery should continue to act as a minister , more particularly as the minister of justice , and that Herr Hassenpflug ( thePrime Minister ) ought no longer to remain in a position which disgraced the whole country . The proposals were discussed in a long and violent debate , and were ultimately referred to a committee .
The Fine Weather Brought A Large Concour...
The fine weather brought a large concourse of people to Epsom yesterday ; the numbers clustered down the sides of the running ground , and the vehicles on the hill exceeding by thirty per cent , the best Oaks day on record . There was also a tolerable sprinkling of rank and fashion , but the betting was slow , and the field wretched . The racing , as on the Derby day , commenced with a handicap plate , but for which the sport , apart from the Oaks , would have been anything but up to the mark . This over , the jockeys , fifteen in number , weighed for the Oaks . The Oak Stakes , of 50 sovs . each , h . ft . ; for 3-yr-old fillies , 8 st . 71 b . each ; the second to receive 100 sovs . out of the stakes , and the winner to pay 100 sovs . towards the expenses , and 30 sovs . to the judge . One mile and a half 128 subs . «
. .... ... Betting . — % to 1 against Eliza Middleton , 11 to 2 against Probity , 6 to 1 against Rhedycina , 6 to I against Tiff , S to 1 against Exotic filly , 12 to 1 against Kathleen , 12 to 1 against Clelia , 20 to 1 against Estalette , and M to 1 against Countess . _ Probity took the lead at starting , followed by litt . Cora , Estafette , the Exotic filly , and Gillyflower , and Eliza Middleton lying up with them , with Sister to Pillage , llhedyoina , and Countess in their wake . Ihere was no change in the front division until they got to the T . Y C . post ; here Probity was deprived of the lead by Tiff , who went on with it to the road , where the latter was joined by Countess , Kathleen , and Estafette , Countess immediately after taking up the running , lthedvcina , who had gradually improved her position inside ais
after making the turn , joined her horses me - tance , went up and defeated Countess opposite the stand , and won with the greatest ease by a length , Kathleen catching Countess close upon the post , and beating her for the second money by a head , Estatette , fourth , ana Gillyflower , filth . Hun in 2 min . 56 sec .
, The Queen Has Offered To Mr. Robert Hu...
The Queen has offered to Mr . Robert Hunt , aged scventv-seven , brother of Leigh Hunt , a nomination as one of * the Poor Brethren of the Charter-house , wmen that gentleman has accepted .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 8, 1850, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08061850/page/10/
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