The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-16 00:00:00

PRICE OF IBUOAIt.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the Returns made in the week ending Oct. 12,
iv 25e. bid. per ewt., exclusive of the duties of customs
paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof Into
Great Britain.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVER-

POOL AND THE MORAY FRITH.

(From the Elvin Couricr.)

Our attention has been called by a corret
pondent to the inconvenience to which the iner
cantile part of the northern community are sub.
ject from the want of a regular communicatioi
between Liverpool and this part of the country.
Our readers will, for the most part, be aware
that for some time past a company of gentlemen
hare had several vessels trading' between the
Moray Frith and Liverpool. It is equally well
known that froth the few vessels in the employ
of such Company, together with .other collateral
circumstances, it has been hitherto impracticable
to procure • goods front.' Liverpool or -any of the
Adjacent manufacturing towns, within any rea-
sonable time from the transmission of the order.
It is consistent with our knowledge, that goods
ordered from Liverpool will sometimes not be
received in Banff, Elgin, Fortes, or Inverness,
by the usual medium of conveyance, until after
the lapse of three or four months from the time
the order reached Liverpool. • , •
We wish to guard against any Mire:ranee/4;mi
here. The blaMe of this most serious delay
does not attach to the Shipping Company to
whom we have referred. They have scarcely
met with bare justice in their attempts to esta-
blish a regular communication between Liverpool
and the Moray Frith. There. are many indivi-
duals who hold shares in the vessels trading be-
tween London and the Moray Frith, and there
have, very naturally no doubt, endeavoured—in
many cases with. too much success,---to divert as
much business as they possibly could from the
port of Liverpool to that of London ; in other
words, the goods that ought, legitimately to
' have been shipped at Liverpool fur this part of
the- country, have been sent, through their in-
fluence, for shipment to London.
The consequence is that our Liverpool
Trading Company have not met with the en-
couragement which one would have thought
them justified in anticipating. Hence of the
three vessels which they started they have been
compelled to withdraw one. And the lengthened
interval which elapses from .the dates of the sail-
ings of the other two, is to be ascribed to the
length of time it requires to collect a cargo. Even
when they do sail, they are scarcely half laden.
This statement will account for the high prices
the Company have been accused by merchants
generally, of charging for the articles received
per their vessels.
In plain terms, the Liverpool Shipping Com•
pony are at present plying their vessels between
that great commercial city and the Moray Frith,
at a very serious loss to themselves. And one
of the partners with whom we conversed on the
subject some time ago, mentioned to us, that
they were ready to withdraw their vessels imme-
diately on the establishment of a better or more
regular Medium of communication between these
two parts of the empire.
The only mode • of communication between
Liverpool anti the Moray Frith which would
meet the wishes of the mercantile community,
or those of the public generally, would be that
of a steam vessel. We know not a more safe
or lucrative undertaking in which some thousand
pounds might be-embarked, than that of plying a
steam vessel, say once a month, between the
- places in question.
The influence of those connected with the
London traders would in this case go for no-
thing. The despatch, and, to use a homely
phrase, clock-work regularity of a steam-vessel,
would not only inevitably secure the transmis-
sion of allgoods ordered from Livereool and
the places immediately adjacent, but it would
lead to a most material extension of the quantity
of business at present transacted between- that
place and the northern counties.
Nor is this all. As there are increased faci-
lities of communication opened up between
Manchester and Liverpool, by means of the
celebrated railway from the one place to the
other, and as there is the: immediate prospect of
forming another railway from Liverpool to Shef-
field,—the entire of the goods either.from Man-
chester, Sheffield, or any of the other mann*•
turing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the
neighbeitrintt counties, would invariably be or.
tiered %)ia Liverpool. At present, if you order
your articles from Manchester or Sheffield, they
have to reach you by the circuitous route of
London ; and hence- it is no uncommon thing
, to receive them full live or six mouths after you

So much for. the voyage from :Liverpool to
the Moray Frith. The next point which de-
moans our attention is, whether she would be
sufficiently inden on her 'return to Liverpool.
We are abundantly satisfied she would. First
of all, there are at present frequent shipments of
grain for Liverpool, making from the ports of
this and neighbouring countries. These would
be more frequent but for the circumstance 91
the tediousness and uncertainty of the ,voyage
rendering it very doubtful to our corn-dealers
when high prices occur, whether they will con-
tinue until the grain be exposed in the Liver-
pool market. In those cases, 'howeveri- where
grain is shipped in a steam vessel, the' corn-
dealer can almost calculate to an hour as to the
time of its arrival, and consequently can run
little or no hazard front fluctuations in the prices.
But grain would only be a part of our ex-
portation to England, in the event of such corn'
munication between the Moray Frith and Liver-.
pool. Cattle, sheep, &c., would be sent to the -
southern markets, m great abundance, But
perhaps the staple branch of business iii nut
intercourse with Liverpool, would be the con-
veying passengers from our northern coasta..;---
Te greater part, We should suppose, of the
passengers who now go from Inverness, Nairn,
Forres, Elgin, Banff, Ste. &c., to London by
moans of the Aberdeen steam-vessels, would
avail themselves of such vessel. By landing at
Liverpool they would, to be sure, have a short
distance to go by land carriage ; but this would
only be an agreeable diversification in the jotn-'
ney. This route to London would be no, ntore
expense than the usual one of all the way by sea ,
from Aberdeen ; for every one knows that
" coaching it" in England is " dog cheap." Yn
the majority of cases, indeed, we hold the ex-
penses tf the one journey would be more mode-
-rate than those of the other. For thoSe belong-

ing to Inverness, Forms, Elgin, Banff, ike.Ovho
sail from Aberdeen have a land journey to per.
form of considerable distance, and by no 'means
one of the cheapest, whereaS in tlie •suppOSed
Case they would all embark at the nearest sea-
port, as the vessel would call at every one in the
Frith. But should the number of passengers,
after all, that would embark for Liverpool, be
insufficient, others could be taken for Glasgow,
&c., and landed at Rothsay.
There is one very great advantage which the
northern community would possess in the ever 4,
of such a 'communication as we are suggeitjOg
between this quarter and Liverpool, being esta-
blished. Wo refer to that of having, in the per,
son of Mr. 111,Andrew, a gentleman from,,lslitm,.:
of the highest respectability, an agent in whom
they could confide, who would take charge, of
the shipments from the north to Liverpool, and
dispose of them to the best advantage, and at' the
same time would receive and see duly shipped
any goods which might be ordered to be sent
from any other part of England via LiverpoOl.
The advantages, in fine, which the northern
community would derive from the establishment
of such a. means of communication, are beyond
computation ; and if no steps are taken in this
part of the country for the accomplishment of so
desirable an object, we have little doubt that
some of the enterprising inhabitants of Liverpool`
will at no distant day undertake the work front
no other consideration than that of its being ai
lucrative investment of capital.

HAYMARKRT THEATRE.--Last ht thiS
theatre closed for the season. It was also the occasion of
Miss PArost's benefit, end the hence was well filled.

THE HEIRESS OP BRUGES, fly THE Au-
vuoc or " Ilion-Wars and lir-Way.."--" A love
story, of most romantic interest, is here Ably wrought into
the stirring history of tie most energetic struggle ever
made against bigotry and tyranny—that of the Low
Countries against their Spanish oppressor.. Many of the
character. are especially well drawn, the heroine is a very
sweet creature; and her father with his proud humility,
yet seerst consciousness of wealth sod power, is an excel-
lent and tree picture—wbase air of reality seems to vouch
for its being A likeness. The hero himself is, what the
term implies, the principal actor in his own pages, mut
there are few readers who will not be carried *long by the
fortunes of the brave de Ilassenveldt."....Literary Ger.'

The following adventure ie related. by : the
Rev. Mr. Hennas in Isle ." Travels in Ureeto 4ad Al-
bania Mr. P.sitxta and myself were most vitheinently
abused, on. day as we descended from the Acropolis, by,
three Turkish bate for daring to look at them. We cer-
tainly were attracted by nothing but their strange appear-
ance ; for they were so muffled up from head to foot in
long white robes, with bandages covering the face anti
showing nothing but the eyes, that they looked exactly
like a trio of Egyption mummies going out to take the
air. These ladies, however, are net so stptiounish when
out of (desecration, as I afterwards diecovered. capyieg
inscriptions one afternoon in the coati of Losieri whilst
that worthy Don was enjoying his siesta, I heard A gentle
knocking at the outer gates, which baying:opened I saw
with surprise about twelve or fifteen Turkish ladies covered
with white monde, from bead to foot, listing let, them
in, they made me understand by signs that the object of
their visit was to see a fine elock with musical chimes that
Lord Er,orta had presented to the city of Athena, ea If to
recal the despoiler of the Parthenon every hour to reuiem.
bronco. They followed me slowly and silently to the tem.
a laugh; they then threw back their long veils as if by a
but had
preconcerted soberne to surprise ins by that blase of beauty
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which radiated from their large black eyeo ; I certainly
never beheld so glorious a sight. I may have seen hand-
somer women thin any individual *mon them, but never
did I see such a conibinetios of beauties, such beaming
eyes and silken lashes, or such dueling complexions : they
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