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from Papers by the last English Mail.

(From the European Times.) ENGLAND.—THE SUGAR DUTIES.

The question of the Sugar Duties is one of such vital importance to all mercantile men, that no excuse is ne- cessary for again reverting to the pending Government measure. e have already stated, the amendment first proposed by Sir John Pakington was only rejected by a

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commerce a mere weather speculation, and is most un- satisfactory to all those merchants who are interested in car of foreign sugars to arrive; and let the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer make what arrangements he may eventually, we fear that it may jead to great in- convenience, and, perhaps, serious complaints from the representatives of foreign powers.

With regard to the main question of the Sugar Duties, there is not a man in the House of Commons who de- ceives himself into the belief that the Government mea- sure, if it should be adopted, will be a final settlement of the whole question. For many years to come, the uncertainty which will hang over West India affairs

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Standard (another Conservative paper), looking more ‘coolly at the affair, sees nothing in it to rejoice over. itt saysi—

% * * ‘So far as a general detlaration of allegiance goes,

‘the document before us may be terméd a ‘loyal’ one;

bat when this loyalty comes to be embodied in thie form ‘ofa practical measure, thet the addressers are made to

‘declare their ‘ firm resolve’—first, to place their services

at her Majesty’s disposal; and then, in the exercise of this loyal devotion, to ‘ resi8t,’ by every means in their

wer, ‘all unlawful attempts to dissolve the Legislative ‘Union!’ This is precisely the amount of the county

must effect the prosperity of those colonies as well as Down pledge: it binds the parties to resist unlawful

majority of fifteeu, aad, perhaps, the divison list which) the Mauritius, and we deem a comprehensive settlement bas been since published exhibits more remarkable! of the question as remote as ever.

features than almost any within our recollection. By the side of Lord John Russell will be seen the names of Richard Cobden, Sir Robert Peel, and Sir James Graham; whilst, on the other hand, the minority con- tained the names of J. Pattison, Masterman, H. Goul-'

IRELAND.

{From the European Times.]

‘orn, E. Cardwell, SirThomas Birch, and Lord Lin- On the 4th, Patrick Gogarty was indicted for training |

and drilling, on the 16th April last, a number of persons —_ nee are Sa hae eas. ne to military movements, and eight ‘others were indicted ; ’ for being trained and drilled by the said Patrick Gogarty.

cation of the Peel party inthe House of Commons. Sir ' Robert Peel. said ve ie. Goulburn’s vote, that he emantl Mr. Baldwin, Q. C., having stated the case to the

ed there would be ne interruption of the affectionate re-

gard whch, during go many, ear, bad suited be ie jury, and concluded his avec by saying I tan sa wail shia ti the liticn! divelee ier’ Loaded y that it| that the detective force, or some other force, may put an oe found impossible to induce either the Protection-|°24 to a system which has now grown to such a height

Ing mar (as to cause the greatest terror to her Majesty’s subjects.

ist party to ‘ fraternise’ with Sir Robert Peel, or for the)y. i. not from a vulgar fear for my personal safety that

right hon. baronet to make any amende honorable to his|y express this wish, but from a nobler and better fear,

old friends, so as to harmonise upon any settled princi jest a collision in this country should take place, by

ple; and Mr. Goulburn’s convictions, upon the necessity Whi-h the innocent-and unoffending, as has been the

ae ae Shell Cie ail Re eeariaeaaat bie qicase in other countries, should be brought into jeopardy.’ the funiae ieithers of the party, as Mr. Car dwell an q| After half an hour’s deliberation the jury returned a ver- ‘wd Lincoln, were compelled to vote against their chief, dict of guilty against all the prisoners, with a recom-

together with Mr. Gladstone. Whether this will lead re onamee etapa oe Pam a |

to the permanant break-up of the Peel part remains to... when the Lord Chief Justice addressing him

beseen. Fora long time past the position of that party) : : 8

has been highly o b

separate existence was not very conducive to the inter the heaviest sentence which the law allows, and the

wird ee are wy fs } ‘ ‘sentence of the court therefore is, that you be transport- The contest has still been carried on respectiag the eq for 7 years,’

tructive, and we really think its,

measure of the Government. On the 30th ul. Mr.| English was then sentenced to two years’ imprison-

Bright made an attempt to pass a declaratory res/lution,| ment, and the remainder (about twelye in number) to to the effect that it was inexpedient to alter th Sugar twelve months’ incarceration each.

Act of 1846; but the Chancellor of the Excheqier hav-| ‘The Commission Court sat at eleven o’clock on the ing met the question, by bringing out opportun/y @ Sort 3q the Chief Justices of the Queen’s Bench and Com- of budget, which produced a very satisfact¢y. effect’ mon Pleas presiding. After the disposal of a few un- upon the House, only 35 could be found to join With| important cases, the foreman of the city grand jury

Mr. Bright in his extreme free trade view, and 302 came into court, and stated that the jury had found a

inembers having voted against him, the mofo" was re- trye bill against Thomas Devin Reilly, on a charge of.

jected by a majority of 266. Encouragedy the vote | illegal training and drilling. The traverser’s solicitor the preceding week, Sir Joha Pakingon renewed | then applied to the court for a copy of the indictment, the attack on Monday evening Jaet, by wviBg 4 TesO-'and the application was at once acceded to. At a ‘ution, imposing a differential duty of 10. Pet cwt. IM Jater period of the day the traverser was called to the favour of colonial sugar, which he proosed to effect bar and indicted by the clerk of the Crown, Mr. Alley, not by raising the duty on foreign suga but lowering pes having, on tne Ist of May last, at Belleview, in the ton colonial sugar, making the duty 4 the latter 10s. city of Dublin, attended a meeting of a nature dangerous ver cwt. Mr. Thomas Baring showe very distinctly |t the peace and security of her Majesty’s subjects and that the Government measure, althoug at first it left an) Government ; also for having then and. there practised apparent protection of about 7s. per wt., nevertheless | military exercises, movements, and evolutions; and, when foreign sugur was compared yth British colonial jastly, for having then and there trained and drilled sugar, there was a difference of +. 4d, per cwt. 1D certain persons, unknown, then and there assembled, in ‘wour of the former, which, dedaéd from the seven! military exercises, &c., without lawful authorithy for

jury, and witnesses having been examined for the pro- | ‘secution and defence, Chief Justice Dougherty charged |

‘said, ‘For the sake of example, for the salvation of| others, it is necessary that [ should pass upon you|

attempts to Repeal the Union, and it binds them to nothing else. * * * The Old Ireland Repealers toa man utterly repudiate the use of all ‘unlawful’ means for the accomplishment of their objects; and hence ithere is not an Old Repealer, nor a priest in all the county ‘Down, who could not, in zords at least, have stibscrib- .ed this notable declaration.

| *Againithe ‘ Young Ireland’ Repealers maintain that, ‘in the last extremity contemplated by their theory, even their own remedy of ‘ physical force’ becomes perfectly ‘lawful—aye, and constitutional teo; for these fellows assert that the constitution guarantees to them, in the ‘circumstances assumed, an ultimate right of self-redress, ‘after all other means hopelessly failed. It is, therefore, ‘demonstrable that, without any extraordinary stretch of ‘conscience, even ‘ Young Ireland’ could have fixed its ‘seal to the county Down, Declaratton. A fact stil] more ‘astonishing remains to be noticed, and this fact is, that John Mitchel himself, in the very height of his Irish ‘felony,’ could with perfect honesty, have subserbed ‘the aforesaid Declaration.

‘His Excellency remarks, in reply, that he attaches to the address ‘all the weight due to the sentiments +i contains, and so he may; for, in good sooth, it would puzzle the Delphic Oracle or the Witch of Endor herseti to tel] what are the exact sentiments contaiiied in a do- eument which, as we have shown, Repealers and anti- Repealers, and even John Mitchel himself, could sign with equal consistency, the only donbt being whether ‘John Mitchel! would, under any qualification, have made 'a profession of ‘allegiance’ to her Majesty. In every other respect he might, with entire consistency, have ‘been both a county Down Declarationist and a Pike- m * * * *

‘My Lord Clarendon must have been not only heartily ashamed of the affair, but considerably mortified into ‘the bargain. We can hatdly imagitie a more uneasy |situation than that of a hungry mortal, in county Down phraseolgy, finding his own ‘ mouth’ incontinent!¥ ‘filled with an etipty spoon,’’

PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

The following remarks, which contain many sound arguments in favour of repealing the union between ‘England and Ireland, are taken from a speech delivered

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by a gentleman named O’Reixxy, atalate meeting of the Protestant Repeal Assdciati¢n in Dublin, of which jhe is a member.

“He said the address to Lord Clarendon declared

that since the Union Ireland had increased and had beer: |increasing in prosperity, and his reply to that was, ‘ She certainly has.’ The apology he would make for the

shillings, would leave, at the mos favourable view of) gq doing. The clerk of the Crown then called on the aristocracy was pure ignorance. They were the wors!

‘he matter, but 4s. 8d. per cwt. ethe real protection. | traverser to plead to the above indictment, when his

\ccordingly, until the Governent proposed some solictor requested of the court that Mr. Reilly should|C&¥

scheme which was likely to me with more general | not be called on to plead until the following day, onthe

concurrence, he should supporti€ recommendation of ground that ke had but just then obtaitied a copy of the ‘be committee as now dormallyembodied in Sir Johr indictment. The court granted the application. On Pakington’s resolution. Upon division, however, this the following day. July 4, ir, Reilly, pleded not guilty. scheme did not meet with suclpprobation as the previ-| Advices from Dundalk state, that Mr. Richard Bax- 103 vague negative tothe meaiteof the Government,the tor, proprietor and editor of the Dundalk Patriot, is to be sumbers being for the ainestnent 108, against it 231, prosecuted for seditious writings in his journal. He ~0 it was rejeeted by a major of G2. On the division has received a preliminary notice from Government to| veing declared, it then beca® evident that no resoltt- that effect, and most probably he will be confined én, non of any kind could be yssed by the committee of, informations immediately, the a&sizeS being so close at ‘he whole House, so as toe reported before the oth) hand. instant. The intentions / Ministers to levy the new

“cale of duties on and aft = ee aeaaie _ {From the Dublin “ Nation.” j

Teustrated. As by the ac . the duty o gn ee eS 3

cnn aa see Sth ida, mo-altetmitive presented| CONFIDENCE IN LORD CLARENDON,.

tself but to allow allt! sugar which by auspicious, . A monster loyal address from the county Down, sign- winds, reaches our portvefore the mew resolutions are ed by 33,000 persons, including, no doubt, a great reported to come in unt the reduced scale of duties,| many Wellingtons, Downshires, and Snookses, has been whilst the less fortuna cargoes which do not arrive, presented to Lord Clarendon, and that right hon. and

educated class of the community ; but the same apology

ld not be made for Lord Clarendon, for he was tov educated a man not to know that since the Union, Ire- land had been sinking lower and lower, until she was reduced to such a State, her people was going to dos- truction. (Hear, hear.) From the invasion of Hen-y Ii. to the reign of Henry VII., this coufitry had an in- dependant parliament, but during the. reign of the latter, a gagging act was passed, called Poyning’s law, dépriving the Irish parliament of all power except that of passing money grants to the King of England. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, O'Neill, after a bloody strugg¢le, was overcome by strat em, and his province added to the British crown, and then British govern- ment, having muzzled the parliament and subjugated

‘the island resolved to rob our people. Accordingly, in

the reign of James I. attempts were made to destroy the woollen trade of Ireland, which was then in a most flourishing and prosferous condition,and ultimately inthe reigh of William IIf.,a law was passed which had the effect of annihilating that business, he Irish people,

till the meaaure of thedovernment comes into force, most polite nobleman hag returned his marked thanks

who had previouSly been happy and prosperous, be-

will have Is. Gd. per c- additional duty imposed upon for the honor of their patronag2, The anti-Irish press came impoverished and discontented, in which state they

thera, : , . i This uncertain mo/ of legislation is altogether un-|of Ulster and the local papers generally were in great}

isings * jubilate’ at this wonderous affair. ‘The Banner |continued till the year ’®2, when the Protestants of Ire-

land demanded from England a free legislature and free

ree dented within tT lony experience. It makes! wlee preparing a requiem for Repeal, But the Derry|trade. That demand was acceded to, not on account

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