The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

Our Trade with the Confederate States,

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

" Manhattan," that humorous writer in the Herald, says
that independence would give to London the great trade of
the South, while re-union would again enrich New York
with it, and that to become the factors of the South is one
of the richest commercial prizes. England as well as New
York may lose, and Paris, with Havre, may gain what we
ought to have had, and which was freely and frankly
offered by the South, which the cowardice of Earl Russell
refused, but the statesmanship of the Emperor of the
French is likely to obtain.

The Northerns exclude our manufactures by a tariff of 40
to 50 per cent., endeavouring to starve and keep idle our
operatives, though Messrs. Cobden and Bright tell these
men they are their friends. The Northerns exclude our
shipping, though Mr. Bancroft, their Minister, promised
reciprocity when our Navigation Laws were repealed,
opening our coasting, colonial, and inter-colonial ti ade to
them. The Southerns, on the contrary, offered us free
ports, free coasts, free rivers, and free trade; but as we
have unjustly repelled them, refusing recognition their due,
we cannot wonder if they favour the first of living states-
men—the Emperor of the French.

Why should Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, and others
of the Cabinet, yield to the " Cowering of Earl Russell to
the North, and his pandering to the Brights and Cobdens,"
as stated by a correspondent of yours ? Looking on the
Emperor of the French, Lord Palmerston, and Jeff, Davis
as the greatest Statesmen of the day, the English people
wish to see them and their peoples allies and friends. How
Messrs. Bright and Cobden, as free traders, can support the
North is strange I

MERCATOR,

Fanning in the Prairie States and England.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Duke of Argyll having referred in glowing terms to
the description of the Prairies by Mr. Trollope, showing
it was the El Dorado of farmers, before endorsing it his
grace should have read the practical remarks of Professor
Johnston and Mr. W. Chambers, on their tour through
British America and tha States, the latter gentleman pre-
ferring New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for capitalist
farmers.

To farmers desirous of changing a certainty for an
uncertainty, we would merely state as facts that all the
farmers or landowners of Illinois, lowa, Indiana, and the
prairie States are poorer in 1863 than they were in 1856 ;
that most of their farms or estates are mortgaged; and that
the price they obtain at their doors for their produce pays
little more than the labour, as proved by the rates current
in 1861, 1862, and this year, viz., 4s. to Ss, per quarter for
Indian corn, 15s. to 17s. for wheat, 11d. per lb. for beef, and
2d. per lb. for pork, with wages at ss. to 6s, per day. Any
farmer will know that such prices will not pay a man
who farms his own land here, and thatit would be better
to pay rent and get 20s. per quarter for oats, 355. to 40s.
for wheat, sd. to 6d. for beef, and sd. for pork. Hitherto
western farmers paid no Federal though they did ,State
taxes ; hereafter they will have to pay heavier Federal
taxes than we pay. The prairies in. Illinois are also very
subject to fever and ague, their produce great, but that
will cease as the land becomes worn out, as the lands on
the Atlantic coast have already been from overcropping
without manure.
We would advise our farmers to read Professor Johnston
and W. Chambers' (see his "American Tour" in Cham-
bers's Journal) as well as Trollope, before deciding.

TRAVELLER

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

•
The following proclamation and documents con-
nected with the cession of the lonian Islands have
been published in the Official Gazette at Corfu :
,6 Henry Knight Storks—On the part of his Excellency
Sir Henry K eight Storks, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight
Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a
Major-General in her Mjesty's army, and her Majesty's
Lord High Commissioner in and for the United States of
the lonian Islands, &c.
" His Excellency the Lord High Com Missioner is pleased
to publish for general information the following proclama-
tion by her Majesty in Council dissolving the present Par-
liament of these States, which is consequently dissolved
from the present date.

" The Lord High Commissioner has received her Ma-
jesty's commands to call the solemn attention of the lonian
people to the reasons which have induced her Majesty to
dissolve the twelfth Parliament of the lonian States. Her
Majesty, the protecting Sovereign, has declared her readi-
ness to consent to the union of the lonian Islands with
Greece, and it is with a view to consult in the most formal
and authentic manner the wishes of the inhabitants of the
lonian Islands as to their future destiny that her Majesty
is pleased to dissolve the present Parliament.
" The lonian people will fully appreciate the responsibi-
lity which rests on them in choosing their representatives.
They are called upon to decide by this choice on the
momentous question now submitted to them, and the only
wish of her Majesty is that they may be guided to a wise
decision, by which their happiness and prosperity may be
secured on a solid foundation.

" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St George,
Corfu, this day of August, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" H. DRVMMOND WomT, Secretary to the
" Lord High Commissioner." •

" At the Court of Windsor, the 11th day of
June, 1863.
" Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty ; Lord
President, Earl Russell; Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Milner
Gibson.

" Whereas, by the constitutional chart of the United
States of the lonian Islands, it is among other things pro-
vided that the power of dissolving the Parliament of the
said United States on any special emergency shall be solely
vested in her Majesty by an Order in Council; and whereas
there hath this day bet•n laid before her Majesty in Coun-
cil, the draught of a Proclamation to be promulgated in the
said States for the dissolution of the said Parliament (a
copy whereof is hereunder written)—her Majesty is there-
fore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council,
to approve the said Proclamation, and to order, and in pur-
suance, and in the exercise of the authority so reserved to
her Majesty as aforesaid, it is hereby ordered, that the said
Proclamation shall be promulgated by his Excellency Sir
Henry Kni gut Storks, Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St.
George, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in and fox
those islands, and that upon and from and after such pro-
mulgation thereof the said Parliament shall be dissolved
accordingly.

"And the Most Noble the Duke of Newcastle, one of
her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.

" ARTHUR HELPS."

" PROCLAMATION.

"Whereas, we have thought fit, by and with the advice
of our Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the
power in us in that behalf vested by the constitutional
chart of the United States of the lonian Islands, to dissolve
the present Parliament of the said islands ; we do for that
end publish this our Royal proclamation, and do hereby
dissolve the said Parliament accordingly.

" Given at our Court at 'Windsor, the 11th day of June
.8632 in the 27th year of our reign.

" God save the Queen."

" NOTIFICATION.

" The Lord High Commissioner publi-hes for general in,
formation the following instructions addressed to the resi-
dents of his Excellency.

" Given at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George,
Corfu, this 6th day of August, 1863.
" By his Excellency's command,
" 11. DRUMMOND WOLFF,
" Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner."

" Palace, Corfu, Aug. 6.

" Sir,—You will receive by this mail a copy of the pro-
clamation, publishing an order by her Majesty in Council,
dissohing the 12th Parliament.
" The Lord High Commissioner desires me on this occa-
sion to call your earnest attention to the instructions con-
tained in my circular letter of Dec. 7, 1861.

" You are carefully to abstain from any interference,
direct or indirect, in favour of or against any candidates,
either before or during the forthcoming general election,
and you will also give strict orders in the same sense to the
employes in the different departments placed by the Consti•
tution under the special control of the Lord High Commis-
sioner, further informing them that any infringement of
his Excellency's injunctions on this point will be attended
with instant dismissal from the public service.
" The foregoing instructions are not intended to restrict
any public employe from the free exercise of the elective
franchise ; but the Lord High Commissioner on this occa-
sion is determined to uphold the principle on which he has
hitherto acted, of securing the choice of the people from all
coercion on the pat tof the Executive.—l have the honour
to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" H. DRUMMOND WOLFF,
Secretary to the Lord High Commissioner."

GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER OF ROYAL ARCH
MASONS FOR SCOTLAND AND THE COLONIES.—A special
meeting of this body was held in St. Mark's Hall on Wed-
nesday afternoon, when Companion Sir Arch. Alison, Bart.,
Brother Grand Master of Glasgow, was installed First
Grand Principal Z. The oath de jideli and ceremonial were
impressively administered, and as he took his seat upon the
throne the plaudits of the Companions were loud and en-
thusiastic.—Aorth British Jlait.

STREET Muslc.—We have received a letter from
G. E,, complaining of the annoyance caused by street
musicians, in which the writer rather facetiously describes
the miseries he has to endure from their performances, and
which he considers aggravated at present in consequence
of the Aboextoe of the best bands in the country,