The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This dO.

LONDON, Dec. 18 .—Wind this day at noon—North'
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and dull weather, with °'
dense fog.
BRISTOL, Dec. 17.—Wind W.—Arrived—Lord LondeS-
borough, from Mauritius. -
LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 17—Ilion, from Mauritius; Blue Jacket;
from St. Michael's ' • Main, from Quebec ; Princess Royal'
from Marseilles ; Bertha, from Iquique • Regina, from
Antigua; Lord John Rvssell, steamer, 'from Dunkirk'
Medora, steamer, from Valentia.
Arrived, Dec. 18—Forth, steamer, from Hamburg; 1C
mandie, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Fyepcord, steamer., fr°7.
Rotterdam ; Dolphin, steamer, from Antwerp ;
steamer, from Delfzyl.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, Dec. 17.—Venetia, screw steamer, for 0p....rtr..,
Baltic, for Cardiff ; Charente, screw steamer, for. -1!1,:d,
seilles—all from London! Marian, ship, from Trull'
for London.

M. VICTOR HUGO, we regret to learn, suffers
severely at this moment from a malady of the eyes, which
prevents him from reading or writing.
THE " ARGOSY."--Of the new sixpenny magazillef
we believe Messrs. Sampson Low and Co. sold upwards o

20,000 copies on the day of publication.
THE LATE KING OF THE BELGIANS A BRITISII
OFFICER.—The late King of the Belgians Was 01
senior officer of the British army, having been made a 131 k-f
marshal in 1816. He had for some years the colonelel
the sth Dragoon Guards, a regiment specially named, aftert
his first wife, " The Princess Charlotte of Wales's;" hn-
this he resigned, together with all pecuniary advantage;
connected with his military position. His death will „°.;
course cause no promotions or changes in the service. 1.1-
senior officer of the army now is Sir Edward Blakeeel'
and he, with Lord Gough and his Royal Highness the
°
Duke of Cambridge, constitute the field marshals of th.
British army.—Army and Nary Gazette.
THE MANUFACTURES OF THE WESTERN STATES`
New England wants a high tariff to protect her wcr':
shops against the competition of all other worksheP;
Pennsylvania wants a high tariff to protect her furnacea
against the competition of all other furnaces. The rally:A t
companies want a high tariff because it is fashionable f°
all high tariff men to desire that those who have to IP/
shall be compelled to pay high prices to those who 11°8'e
1
to sell. Everybody who has anything to sell wants at° r 1,5
high enough to shut out the competition of all other solle-ci,
in the same market, so that a monopoly may be eni°l,e,t
And it is a remarkable but not surprising coincidence r.
every man who wants a high tariff also wants a low
rency. A debauched currency is the parent of speculati°o
extravagance, and spendthriftiness. Men do not infets
money in farms, houses, mills, and other improirerae%t
which permanently enrich the State, when they know ,10
a thousand dollars thus expended will yield only 111-1
profit that can be gained in speculation, in railway ellej,o
in Government stocks, and other evidences of debt w.";,,
are " protected " against payment by the tariff which 610
pension has put upon specie. The enormous profits
fart
realised by the few speculators go to enrich the other fop
monopolists who are in like manner "protected "9 ,Do
tariff, which the Government has placed upon ell nos
would be competitors in the same market. Of c° reo
the Government must have a revenue, a -
revenue, and this must be raised in part by tariffs 10 upon
portations. Therefore the tariff should be adjusted 14nno
a revenue basis, and not a protective basis, for the rale
tariff will, as its name implies, produce revenue, wlstoo
protective tariff will produce only protection. Wesotie
Atla.,oo
manufacturers must meet the competition of the
States, which is far more "oppressive," to use the it'll:0
of the hour, than any possible competition with 13.1.1911:iPrest
countries. The only effectual protective tariff for the 'phis
would be one erected on the crest of the Alleghaniee•
is, of course, impossible, and would be unwise if Pcssolvt
for it would compel the ninety-nine consumers of Tool
factured goods to pay two prices for every Pr° igllt
article they might buy, that the one manufacturer rcoof
become rich out of the excess paid for his product either
and above what they are really worth. Therefore liver 0
the:Western manufacturer nor the Western conet° lot
k to shat
interested in keeping up a tariff dyke at New or—
out foreign goods. The producers and consureer".ni
two great classes who neither speculate nor celt,-,05
monopoly—the people who are not protecteP from P tdoeo
their debts or their taxes—are left to pay also theiatore
and the enormous profits which the protected aPectioe-izet.4*
and manufacturers are enabled to put in their own Pad 03°
What the great West, and the great South, ° at!
great centre of the Republic want, and will denial:not le
free labor, free trade, and a sound curn;ncy—labcrg rV't
re
free to command the highest price in an oPec.
wherein monopolists shall not be "protected " gOO i°
laws or peon regulations; trade that is free topu__„rneellr
the lowest and sell in the highest market that or a or
petition among buyers and sellers shall prase blO 0,4/
rency based upon the actual value of some tanglls fryo
• ,ble et.
and not liable to the fluctuations insepal‘
anotli
paper promises, redeemable only in Ole covetu
Under the healthful operation of these three, 01101 its pre:
will quickly start into a growth unexampled in ',1,,0pear,,,
vious history. The waste places of war will eTia'oresr
and the whole land will gleam with the
of abundance. The poor will become rich, wit'_l,,,ea 0`,.,
though possibly no longer revelling gold.e,oe ;be ria!e
in 44 prote.isofs:,
hundred-per-cents, will not become poorer.
,ueaciersto
tories—those much desired but too often rels:tinie,
sources of a nation's wealth—will come use their jofa°tic,ll
will enjoy, all the more vigorous life beta ~hei
jels
was not forced in a " protective " hothouse. 0
spring up as a vigorous tree, acclimated to th
v:u `
,reporeto
nature and the unrestricted industry of man ha
for them. And in no other way can they ever r
attain a vigorous maturity or healthful fe
Tribune.