The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-14 00:00:00

amount of that between England and the United States,
and yet France is within sight of England, with
30,000,000 or 34,000,000 of people, and the United
States are 3,000 miles off, with half that amount of
population ; and, notwithstanding the progress which
may be expected in some branches of manufactures in
America, there is no reason to doubt that this inter-
course will continue, and, perhaps, be increased by
the rapid increase of population in America. While
the United States continue to import British commo-
dities, it is evidently the interest of England that those
her customers should increase both in the numbers
and in the ability to buy and consume her products.
On the other hand, every intelligent person in America
sees, not only the evils which would ensue from any in-
terruption of the harmony existing between the two
countries, but the embarrassments also which must be
felt in America, whenever any disasters occur sufficient
to derange the general prosperous course of trade and
business in England. The intimate relations of com-
merce subsisting between the two countries, the well-
known laws of trade and exchange, and the important
fact, that both countries use, to a great extent, a re-
presentative paper currency, necessarily cause any great
embarrassment which may be felt in one to be extended
to the other. Your Grace was quite right, I think, in
your observations on the subject of corn—America is
indebted to England is various ways, and is likely to
remain so, while the interest of money remains so much
lower in the latter country than the former.

" We have this year a most abundant wheat crop ;
and if England should have occasion to import corn or
flour, both countries would be benefited by her taking
her supply from us. We should be paying so much of
our debt, and she would be receiving her supply with-
out the necessity of sending abroad specie. And it is
undoubtedly true that the short crop in England last
year, leading to so heavy an export of gold and siver
to the Continent, most seriously affected commerce and
business in the United States, as well as in England.
Let us hope, my dear Duke, that between two
Christian nations, speaking the same language, derived
from the same origin, enjoying the same liberty, and
connected by these mutual ties of interest, nothing may
ever exist but peace and harmony, and the noble rival-
ship of accomplishing most for the general improvement
and happiness of mankind.

" Allow me to close this letter with an invitation,
which, if given some wears ago, would have passed for
mere compliment, and that is, that you will come and
see me. You are fond of excursions by sea. Eighteen
or nineteen days will take you from Belvoir Castle to the
Falls of Niagara, and you may see much of America this
side of the Alleghany, and something of what is beyond,
and return to England in a period hardly longer than
an ordinary recess of Parliament. Nature has done
much in America, which is worthy to attract your no-
tice. Man, I hope, has done something ; and, at any
rate, you and your connections and friends would be
sure of receiving that respectful and hearty welcome to
which your character, and your hospitality to others, so
well entitle you.

" I have the honour to be, my dear Duke, very faith
fully yours,

cDAN. WEBSTER."

Here is a proof that the supply of food for our
people, instead of being limited by our own soil,
might with great advantage be drawn from the
whole continent of North America. The world
might be made willingly tributary to our skill, and
the stupid greedy landlords will not allow it. More-
over, it is made manifest that the Corn-laws, by
preventing tlie.importation of corn from America,
prevent the Americans from paying our country
their debts, derange our currency, and their cur-
rency, and involve the whole commercial world in

confusion, while they doom thousands of our own

people to starvation.

The Ashton-under-Line Conservatives have had
another meeting, and have added insult to dis-
loyalty. Mr. ROBY was not present, at least his
loyal strains were not heard, but his place was well
supplied by Mr. L. RICHMOND, who denounced
as false and calumnious the construction put, by all
impartial men on Mr. ROBY'S words, " virgin in-
nocence was banished from the Palace," and laid it
down as an indisputable fact, that it was impossible
Conservatives could be disloyal, as " they imbibed
loyalty with the milk from their mother's breasts."
If they were disloyal„"exclaimed the logical orator,
how could they respond to the loyal toast " Our
glorious Constitution in Church and State ?" Of
course this man knows nothing about the civil war
between CHARLES I. and his Parliament, and
never heard of subjects, while professing the utmost
veneration for the Sovereign, carrying arms against
him. An address was got up, abounding in ex-
pressions of most sincere and devoted attachment
to her MAJESTY, but containing not one word
of regret for the abominable language used by
Mr. ROBY. On the contrary, justifying it, and
thereby condemning Lord BILL for asserting the
honour and dignity of her MAJESTY. The words
speak for themselves :—" We feel ourselves bound,
in duty to your MAJESTY, to declare that the alle-
gations which have been made against us, of having
countenanced language disrespectful and insulting
towards your MA JESTY, are wholly unfounded and
calumnious."

The French Journals of Thursday have just
been received (half-past one o'clock P.M.), having
been detained by the stormy state of the weather in
the Channel. In Paris the English mail of Tues-
day was in arrear for the same reason. The fol-
lowing letter from Tunis, which the Paris Journals
quote from the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 9th,
received by express, contains the latest news from
Africa :

TUNIS, Nov. 12.—For some days past public curio-
sity has been strongly excited. The Bey has just re-
ceived an embassy from Abd-el-Kader, the ostensible
object of which—but which is said to be a veil for
some secret intrigue—is to offer him a present, con-
sisting of six very fine horses, a pair of pistols, and a
yatagan adorned with diamonds, some lion and panther
skins, and dates. This event, which is the more worthy
of attention, as the Bey had hitherto never had any in-
tercourse with the Emir, gives rise to many conjectures.
Persons who pretend to be well informed draw infe-
rences from it, and build up a thou:and "suppositions ;
some say that Abd-el-Kader, being on the point of
breaking with France, is endeavouring to draw the Bev
into a coalition against us, or at least to secure for
himself a secret support ; others pretend that the Emir
wishes to conclude a commercial treaty with the rie-
gency, in order to procure, by way of Tunis, all the
European goods that he wants, and especially arms,
which he used to obtain by way of Morocco, but which
have now cemed to reach him by order of the Emperor,
with whom he has quarrelled. Lastly, some persons,
founding the r opinion on the route taken by the
embassy (which, instead of crossing the terri-
tory of Constantine to the south of the French
possessions, and taking the direct road to Keff, has
went by the Great Desert, and has entered the regency
by way of Torigourithe and the province of Djezid),
affirm that it comes from Ain Madi, that Abd-el Kader
and his generals are still besieging that place, and that
the objects of the embassy is to ask for ammunition of
which the besieging army is wholly destitute, and to in-
duce the Bey to give orders to the Tunisian Arabs of
the Great Desert to join the troops of the Erner to
hasten the surrender of that important place, against
which all his efforts for these 15 months have failed.
All these conjectures are corroborated by the mys-
tery in which the Tunisian Governmerst seeks to
involve this embassy. Its agents have made a report
that it is sent by the Emperor of Morocco : the Envoys
themselves are desired to say they arc M.orequese, but
several betray the part which they are desired
to act by
accent and by their Algerine dialect, which it is so easy
to recognise.

Another letter from Tunis, of the 16th, says that an
active contraband trade in gunpowder has been carried
on for some months past at Souze, Monester, La Midee,
and Sflax. All this powder is sent to A.bd-el-Fader by
way of Kirrouan Djezid to the Great Desert.
The Presse says' Marshal Valle has been discharged
to-day from his post, and succeeded by General Trezel.
We are assured that the Royal ordinance will appear
to-morrow in the Moniteur."
The Moniteur of this morning contains no'ordinance.
—Le Commerce.

Twenty-eight letters, it is said, have been seized at
the residence of a person who has acknowledged them
to be from Louis Bonaparte. The Prince speaks with
great freedom both of persons and things for the cop-
respondence is in cyphers.
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facts respecting which he is interrogated.
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nated and made public. It appears that the Ministry
decline taking any part in the preliminary investigation,
leaving the direction of it to the police and the bar,
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