The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-25 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECTS OF THE BOUNTY.
Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar In Mincing.
lane, and comparing the same against the price of foreign sugars :
London, Ang. 24, 1838.
The Gazette this day quotes the average price of British Per cwt.
Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 3os. Sid.
Muscovado Sugars raised by free labour in the Manilla—
which are frequently bought by the Dutch to be refined,
and then to be reso!d in theltiver Thames—in compel'.
tion with British refined Sugars for exportation—may
be had at from 19s. to 225. per cwt„ being about Bs. SI
per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugars.
Refined Sugar, equal in quality to double refined (the mann-
facture of It costing ss. per cwt) has been sold this week
(free on board) at ......
Deducting shipping charges
which is ?id per cwt dearer only than the Muscovado
sugar from which it Is made, being a loss to the sugar re-
finer of 4s. 4d. per cwt., which the boonty on exportation
reimbursel
British treacle is scarcely worth Os, pet cwt. in the foreign markets. The
same has teen sold this week in London at, free of duty, 255. per cwt.,
being an excess of price paid by the British consumer of 16z. per
cwt., in other words 16z. per cwt. on treacle paid by the poor mass
towards Isrsur,sy, and not, as it is erroneously supposed, towards revenue.
British Plantation Coffee, through favouritism la the duty, commands
about 568. per cwt. more than Voivign Coffee of a similar qt:ality : thus
Jmnalcil coffee sold at 98s. per cwt. would, if the same had been the
produce of St. Domingo, have fetched 425. per cwt. only.

MOORS OF P.FfA4ES-SHIRE,',—We understand
110,4 io some part ot Peebles-shire the birds aro found to be
very wild and strong; in ethers the sport was good. 011
Monday one gentleman bagged 24 brace. Poaahi ~ must,
however, have been early at work fo-; grow were to be
seen in Edinburgh its tho early part of last week—'-ctriefal
nian kiercury. •

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The electors of Yarmouth have done themselves very
great honour by the result of the polling on Thursdae,
though we have some fears that in one respect it will not
be of so much advantage to them as could be wished. They
have returned Mr. Wilshere by a majority of 3I (sonic ac-
counts say 38) over Mr. Thomas Bring, who, as our
readers arc aware, went down to Yarineuth it, the full ten-
fidenee of being chosen Alsnlher fir the lesuough. 'We al-.
verted yesterday to the preceedings en Wedrisday, when
Mr. T. Baring and hie -friends severally addressed a large
body of the inhabitants, and anticipated nothing nut victory
over what they were pleased to call "at shadow ;" Mr. Wil-
shere not making his :appearance in person, but retiring to
the Continent, and leaving the matter wholly to his
friends. Those friends have done their duty manfully,
and, rather than have such a substance as Mr. T. Ba-
ring (notwithstanding, too, the substance he spent
upon the voters), preferred such a shadow as Mr.
Wilshere, their late Liberal representative, We own that
we did not give Yarmouth credit for so much honesty and
public spirit : we knew the corruption the Tories had in.
troduced into the place : we knew the manner in which
they had justified that corruption, and we were apprehen-
sive for the result. Mr. Baring boasted on Wednesday
that he meant to make his money fly in all direeons : the
two guineas to each of the voters in his favour he looked
upon as no bribery, and, having come to that conclusion, of
course he must as a consequence consider any other sum
he thought it right to give away for the -same
_purpose in
the same light. We wish him joy of his opinion, and of
the effect of it. If he hence expended no more than the
two guineas a head to his 702 supporters, the election will
have cost him about 1,5001. He has been fighting with
" a shadow," and has been beaten. Hereafter he may he
afraid of shalom:, and may exclaim,
Shadows to-day
Have struck more terror to the soul of Thomas, •
Than could the substance of ten thousand members,
and take a useful lesson for the future, by never showing his
face again in Yarmouth ; after his vaunting and sapouring
there he must in the end have cut a very ludicrous figure.
Yarmouth has nobly asserted its independence, and has now
happily got rid, not only of Mr. Mackworth Praed, who was
driven to Aylesbury at the last election, but of Mr. Thomas
Baring, who, having been discomfited last summer by Mr.
Wilshere in person, has now been forced to yield to his
shadow. How far the Member elect will be able to avail
himself of the generous confidence of the constituency of
Yarmouth is a different question, the decision of whieS
must depend upon the precise nature of- the understanding
come to before the Committee. Several versions of it are
in circulation, and perhaps none of them - correct : it
is lery possible that for some reason or - other Mr.
Wilshere may have pledged himself not to -sit ..for
Yarmouth ; but he could not pledge himself that the
voters should not return him if they thought fit to prefer
even the shadow of a Liberal to the substance of a Tory.
If he do not take his seat, the independent portion of the
borough will still be represented by Mr. Ruarbold, and, as
far as regards the success of tle principles of iteform, it
will be far better that Yarmouth should only have one vote,
and that on the right side, than two votes, one on the right
side and the other on the wrong, so as completely to neu-
tralize the opinions of the place. Mr. Wilshere may never
take his seat, but still be content to let his name remain on
the return, or he may again accept the Chiltern Hundreds,
if the letter of the compact he has entered into require it ;
but he cannot even then prevent the constituency of Yar-
mouth from once more making choice of him. Atall events,
one point seems quite clear—that Mr. 'l'. Baring must re-
linquish all hope of returning to or of being returned by the
borough of Yarmouth. He may button up his breeches-
pocket, and quietly walk away ; and it is possible that the
House of Commons and the- Court of Queen's Bench may
induce him to alter his declared opinion, that to pay voters
two guineas each for their suffrages is " no bribery."—
Mos ning elii onicle.

The recent attempt of a Contemporary Journal to vindi-
cate the foreign policy of the Government, and to discredit the
statements-of Lord Lyndhurst on presenting the Glasgow
and Bristol petitions to the Mouse of Lords, is too striking-
an illustration of the character of that policy to admit of our
passing it by without remark. The Noble Lord is accused
of " a readiness-to become the unprincipled catspaw of rt
little knot of factious intriguers ;" ••of having taken for his
brief a petition concocted by a discarded public servant :''
and " of hating pledged himself to statements therein con-
tained, which, if not • uncoloured falsehoods, were very
gross perversions of the truth." On examining an account
• of the proceedings at the public dinner given by the
commercial community of Glasgow to Mr. Urquhart,
published by authority of the Committee of Manage-
ment, it appears that that gentleman having been re-
quested by the merchants to draw up a representation of
the restrictions and grievances. with which the trade of
this country has to contend, distinctly declined any par-
tic!pation in such a step, conceiving that the effect of the
expression of their own convictions might thereby be di-
minished. This must have been known to her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who taker
this indirect mode of insulting the leading merchants, manu-
facturers, bankers, and shipowners of Scotland, comprising
men of every shade of political opinion and mercantile in-
terest. Lord Lyndhurst is described as having been solely
actuated by " party," and indeed " by very little party
eiews.". We find that Mr. Urquhart's acceptance of the
i:Ritation to a public dinner was ccupled with the stipule.-
flea that the proceedings should " not adMit of any
party politics. Without venturing to reply to the
facts reelecting the diminution of our foreign ex-
ports and our internal trade, entirely derived by Lord
Lyndhurst from the returns presented to 'Parliament,
Lord Palmerston; passing over the German Customs
League, coetinues :—" From Prussia the Noble and
Learned Advocate of the Glasgow gourmands passes to
Cracow and Poland." " Cracoe," says the Principal Se-
cretary of State, "is very small, and in a commercial
point of view, a very insignificant town." Cracow, in the
enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to it by the European
Powers, becomes the most important commercial empo-
rium on the Continent. Of its former population some idea
may be formed from the historical record of 193,000 of its
inhabitants having been destroyed by the plague in 1652.
Situated on one of the noblest rivers of Europe, it
possesses mines of zinc, silver, coal, salt, and marble.
Entitled to freedom of commerce and direct intercourse
by steam navigation with all the world, it offers, within
170 miles of its frontier, a direct communication with
the Black Sea, the Baltic, and the Adriatic, and its
prosperity and increase in population, public schools, and
the arts, since the Polish revolution of 1830, are described
by an eminent European writer on statistics to have been
unrivalled by any other city in the world. Lord Palmer-
ston next proceeds to ask how the Noble Lord " can ex-
pect to have a trade with Poland when he refuses to take
her corn ?" Does our refusal to take the corn of the
United States prevent our trade with America ? His
Lordship then inquires who is to blame for the subversion
of Polish nationality ? " Clearly those," says his Lordship,
" whO at Vienna in 1815 allowed a nominal kingdOm
of Poland to be for ever annexed to the Crown of
Russia." His Lordship omits the remainder of the sen-
teuee in the treaty---" by its constitution ;" and then
ingenuously inquires, niter ham ing sanctioned the overthrow
of that Constitution, " how could it be expected that.
the Ministers of 1832 could accomplish her resur-
rection ?" Passing on to Algiers, his Lordship states, that
even if our commerce had dwindled to nothing since its
incorporation with France, still would " the fault have
been with Lord Lyndhurst and his colleagues, who in 1830
allowed the French to go and conquer Algiers, without
having taken any measures to regulate her subsequent con-
duct." " The Tory Government permitted the expedition
to sail, without having got any treaty from France, and it
is they who are responsible for all the consequences." The
Lord Palmerston of the Government of 1827 was a party
to a treaty, whereby France pledged her faith to seek no
territorial aggrandizement or commercial advantages front
the results of that treaty, and the Tory Government in
1830 took every additional diplomatic measure which could
be taken to secure the rights of England. What further
treaty was required than the existing treaty of the Gth of
July ? Alluding to the blockade of Mexico and Buenos
Ayres, " If any country," says his Lordship, " is inte-
terested in upholding the rights of blockade, that country
is England." We only accused his Lordship of having re-
ooguised those blockades before they had been approved of
or even been known by the Government of France. The loss
of our trade with Circassia is attributed to the conduct of'
Lord Aberdeen in 1829. Must we again remind his Lord-
ship that the imaginary regulations interdicting our com-
merce with Circassia, which to this hour have received no
other official stamp than their production to Parliament by a
British Secretary of State, are dated the 21st of October,
1831,a year after Lord relinerston's accession to the Foreign-
eis stnaotremdoutos
oh ffis
re: ?i 0 Ourreas e
dt raatd e a
than with Turkey." The interest of money in Greece
stillreecemosirt
CceralpBid32an
'`v`itrht:teGr
being 30 per cent. per annum, and England, France, and
illaiodu,ltduhreinv i
during the
thniecrseaamseed
at a
very rapid and enormous rate, in comparison with
2,000,000/. stetling, it can hardly matter of surprise
Russia having guaranteed an expenditurebea thatin
country of
,the trade
that our trade in NRluocrseliat
of Turkey, ;rem which
been allowed to extract an indemnity of nearly twice
that amount. It is matter of regret that his Lordship
should not have dwelt on that particular portion of our
trade with Greece, Wheccm the whole of its national proe
perte red TcYeu,tkes have been transferred from the British
merchants to the Russian exchequer. In putting together '
these few eettearke, our only object has been to suable the
plelic to judge how far the merchants of Glasgow, Liver-
pool, and Bristol, are guilty -of the charge of "Aaving put.