The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-17 00:00:00

FISH MARKET.

There was a great scarcity of good Fish to-day, and prices
of such descriptions were high. Turbot, ss. to 255. ; Soles,
10d. to 3s. per pair; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. each ; Salmon,
9d. to Is. 3d. per lb. In St. Peter's-alley, Cornhill, we saw
some fine salmon weighing 40 lbs each. Cod, 3s, and 4s. to
10s. for good. No great demand.
HOP MARKET.

Not much doing; indeed we may say that:there is nothing.
Prices cannot be quoted with any certainty. The picking
prcgresses satisfactorily, and the dutyis 155,000/. to 160,000/,

DRY SALTERY ICIARKET.

Brimstone continues to be very active at Marseilles, from
which place we have news to the 11th inst. During the pre-
vious week above 5,000 tons had been bought on speculation,
at fully former rates, and even higher. This fact may serve
as an answer to those who would represent the monopoly in
Sicily as being weakened, and not likely to last.
PROVISION MARKET.

The stocks of provisions are heavy, but the market is very
sluggish in every department—prices are without variation.

SPIRIT MARKET.

The high prices of Brandy continue to be the most promi-
nent matter in this market. For general runs of Cognac
4s. Bd. is asked: but is obtained in a few instances only.
Nothing fresh in any other kind of spirits.
TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. to-day, is b3s. on the spot and for delivery ; but
little doing. The stock of P. Y. C. is about 9,700 casks.
METAL MARKET. _ .

The only novelty in this department is the sale by private
contract of 100 tons of Spanish lead, reported to be under 181.,
but the exact price has not transpired.
COLONIAL MARKETS.

Nothing done to-day, and the sales advertised for the week
are not heavy at present. There appears to be a speculative
disposition towards spices. For to-morrow we have public
sales of Sugar, 1,000 boxes Cuba ; 412 Havannah ; 1,600 bags
Mauritius ; and 130 casks Barbadoes. Coffee--224 casks and
123 bags Cuba ; 2,000 Brazil ; 43 bales Mocha ; 100 bags
East India, 9d per lb. duty. Cocoa 60 barrels, 50 bags Tri-

nidad, Saltpetre 1,101 bags. Ginger, GO bags Malabar.
Cassia 300 chests, and some very small parcels of Nutmegs and
Mace; and 4,500 bags Bengal Rice.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, SEPT. 15,

Our supply of Wheat was small at this day's market from
the growers, and the fresh coasting arrivals also moderate; but
owing to the number of foreign samples offering, and fine wea-
ther, the trade rated dull throughout, at a reduction of Is. to
2s. per quarter, on last Saturday's prices. Oats, though in
moderate supply, scarcely maintained last week's rates. Rye
was in very limited request, though offered Is. to 2s. per quar-
ter cheaper. New Barley sold on rather lower terms, and old
samples could only be disposed of for grinding purposes.
Malt also was the turn lower, and the finest samples could
only support our quotations. In Beans and Pease we had little
alteration. Flour is exceedingly dull, and our millers having
made a further reduction in their prices, lower terms will have
to be submitted to next week.

Wheat, Northumberland
- Narfolk anti Suffolk
Berwick and Scotch
Foreign
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk
—Foreign

New. Old.
55.. 65s —s. s.l
61s. 665 -s.
575. tills
—s. —s. ---s. —s.
345. 284 —s. —s. I
—S. —S —S. —S.

Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 30;. n. 5....... —s. —a.
Grinding and Feeding 2os. 31s.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 55; 59; —s. —F.
Beans, Small —s. —5„.,,,, 40c 40s.
Tick —s. s 3O;. 41s
Pease, White 385. 425...... —s. —F.
-- Gray Ti's 40s —B. --s.
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 26;. 20s. —s- --s•
Feed
Foreign
Flour (per sack) 47s —, —s. —5,
s. 51e -s. --S.

MANCHESTER CORN MARKET, SEPT. 15.—The duty on
Wheat having at length reached the minimum point of Is.
per quarter, the whole of the stock of Foreign Wheat and
Flour hitherto in bond (equal to upwards of 1,000,000 of
quarters of Wheat) is now free upon the market. Contrary
to general expectation, however, and in the face not only of
this large supply but of very fine weather, considerable busi-
ness has been doing during the week among consumers
(whose stocks were reduced to a mere trifle), and prices of
Foreign Wheat, instead of declining, have advanced 2d. to
3d. per bushel on last Saturday's quotations. In the value of
other articles we do not observe any very particular altera-
tion, but for each there has been a fair inquiry. Sup-
plies of British produce, either old or new, continue light.
Considerable progress is now making in the harvest of the
later districts of the kingdom, and where thrashing has com-
menced the opinion that the yield of Wheat is defective seems
to be gaining ground. From Poulton• in-the- Fylde the ac-
counts are very unfavourable. An improved feeling was
manifest at both Liverpool and Wakefield yesterday, and at
both markets considerable business was done in Wheat at full
prices. W. have a good attendance at this day's market. A
fair business is doing in Wheat at about 3d. advance on fine
Foreign Wheat; in English there is little alteration. For
Flour there is a. moderate sale at last week's rates, and a con-
siderable quantity is offering. New Meal is scarce, and the
best qualities of old go off in retail quantities at our quota-
tions, Beans being rather cheaper. Malt continues flat, but
without alteration in value.

DIRBY' SEPT. 14.—Our Corn Market was well attended,
and sales for Wheat were brisk. Sale of Oats, Beans, and
Barley were flat. Best Wheat, 665. to 68s. ; Oats, 21s. to
28s. ; Barley, 31s. to 355. ; Beans, 445. to 465.

THE GOLDEN SUN, AND THE► SOULT AND
WELLINGTON SUN.—We were favoured with copies of these
truly beautiful publications a post or two before any others
were received here ; and to show the high estimation in which
hey were held, we may state that we were importuned to part
with them at the ransom of five shillisgs each. —Ayr Observer.
Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby are enter-
taining a gay party at their romantic chateau, Drummond
Castle, in Perthshire. The visitants comprise many of the
young noblemen forming sporting parties on the moors. The
sparts of the field occupy the mornings ; cards, music, and a
dance in the evenings.

Lady Saltoun -will entettain a distinguished party at
Ness Castle, Inverness, this week. The party will chiefly
consist of the nobility and gentry attending the northern meet-
ing. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Earl March, and
a large circle, are invited. Lord Saltoun is the permanent
steward, and Lord Levet, Hon. William Fraser, Sir F. Mac-
kenzie, Sir Colin Mackenzie, Sir John Rose, Mr. R. Macleod,
M.P., Mr. F. Mackenzie, M.P., &c., are included in the list
of stewards. Owing to the great number of fashionables at
present in that part of Scotland, it is expected to be better at-
tended than for many meetings past.
Lord Cecil Gordon, son of the Marquis of Huntly
is returning home from Ind'a, having been appointed to a
Company in the 42d Regiment.
General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., the new Go-
vernor and Commandant at Woolwich, has arrived in Dublin,
on his way to Tipperary, to bring over his establishment to
this country. His Lordship had the honour of dining with the
Marquis of Normanby and his Staff at Dublin Castle on Mon-
day last.

Major Dickson has been appointed additional As-
sistant Adjutant-General to the troops serving in Canada, and
Lieut.-Col. Bazalgette has been appointed Major of Brigade
to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, K. C. 8., Lieutenant-
Governor of Nova Scotia.

Sir George Villiers, Ambassador at the Court of
Madrid, is expected to leave town in a few days for the
Spanish capital.
Lord Foley and the Misses Foley are still i❑ Port-
man-square, but are about to depart on a tour.
Mrs. and Miss Rothschild returned to their town
residence in Piccadilly yesterday, for a short time.
Mr. Conyers is entertaining a large t arty of sport-
ing gentlemen at Copt Hall, among whom are Lord De Lisle,
Lord Petro, Sir John Tyrell, Bart„ Mr. Bramston, 11. P.,
Mr. Abbott, and Mr. Hanbury.

- The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and suite
are expected at Stafford House to-morrow, on their was ti., the
Continent Their Graces ~i, ill visit the Queen acid the Du6ess
of Kent at Windsor Castle, ere Ow) depart for Paris.
Lord Crernorlte Ot4rned his majority on the nth
inst. The auspicious event was celcl,;;ted by public re-.
joicings on the extensive estates 0 the l'iible Lord at Castle
Dawson, in the County of Monaghan. Tee title of rut! young
Peer being Irish, he does not sit in the liguse of Lord.
•

CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH TI

ANSWERS.

(Continued from The Sun of Wednesday.) ,
20.—The colonial system is ANSWER.—The principle,
founded upon the principle, again, of the Morning Cho-
that our own industry, whether nide making his own shoes,
at home or abroad, is to obtain either in his own bureau, or
a decided preference over that
of other nations.—Blackwood's
struck out from a cornet ot n"
Edinburgh Magazine for Sept. in a colonial establishnteiot.
office.
18.38. Article The Reciprocity
and Colonial Systems.
21.—The reciprocity sys- A.—What is founded but
ciple, is founded on the prin- this principle, is not
ciple, that the great thing to " reciprocity" system, „
be considered is, where the the system of " free-trade:
commodities. which we re-
quire can be purchased cheap- fou
cat; that if they can be got ataimed et'
But the principle n
ended
a lower rate from other States on something else.
The reciprocity sy.stern
whatever the system fou ue:ri
than our own trans-marine
ever
hesitation what- on it, is this. A rides
c'e
ever should be felt in prefer- B's omnibus for sis Pen
ing the cheap merchant in the same distance that
foreign States. —ld. who is a hackney-eoac,._r
man, would convey him WI,
half-a-crown. ``What ,fibto
ly," cries a citizen of the old school, " to encourage 11
take money out of C's pocket, when it is evident that
gain to A is balanced by loss to C, and the public in
tit .
aggregate has no interest in the matter." " Stop," 5a31.0f
" I laid out the two shillings with D for an extra Pin" to
wine, which 1 guess was as good for trade when given
D as to C, and my stomach tells me I am better by e_
actly the pint of wine." Here then was the blunder of 1.1!:
ancient citizen ; he forgot that after a balance to trade is
the aggregate in all other quarters, the trader A who
the consumer, is to gain two shillings' worth or lose it.. nt
" But there is a weighty point behind," cries the onelen
citizen ; " the omnibus is altogether a French cotter,
the owner lives at Boulogne, and for every ride you taleif;
you pay to him." Says A, " That makes no difference ; tcF,
Boulogne man must be paid, either with English ge,O.;
or with foreign goods (silver and gold included), vr":,
have been bought with English goods ; and I guess t,
a4",,'
E the maker of those English goods, is as much oblige°,7e
me to the amount of sixpence, as would have been,ht"t
owner of the omnibus if he had lived in Holborn. IN `:,,,at
you want, I see, is to persuade me to go without mY

of wine."
22.—The vital point which A.—A great truth, b,i,31191;
separates these two systems is, ever it came there. Ler
whether the ruling powers in vital question is, whet
the dominant state be the pro- the producers who standl.°
ducers or the consumers.—ld.
the place of the haelcaere
coachman C, are to tc4l'd
away the pints of wine from A, it being further underste°,
that they at the same time take away trade to an -.0.
smount from the vintner D, and to the amount of the er
maining sixpence either from the English omnibus owieut
B, er the English trader E who supplies the goods ta
directly or indirectly go to Boulogne, if the ontaiblisde
French. In other words, the question is, whether trgtb,
shall be so conducted as to make the troder 'who is a
consumer, lose his pint of wine at every turn; /rrithll,°nte
the smallest gain to the rest of trade in the agrf;r`„l: e
thereby, and for the sole chance, therefore, of v:nat 5-111
trades may pick from one another in the scramble. ir
23.—The producers, whe- A.—Everybody is f°hrfte
tiler of grain, of butcher meat, bind everybody,- and t"-citio
of manutextures, or of shipping,into
ing the pint of wine besides
great maintain that the sea at every turn pc' ip-
great object of Government • to
The corn-grower is ad
should be to give encourage-
ment to your own industry, crease the price of correouce
and prevent the rivalry or levy the differenoo ho is
competition of Foreign States from the consumer,
from encroaching upon or in. the manufacturer, and
juring your domestic farmers over again in the sheF-derg
and manufacturers.—ld. loss of businessto the tome
with whom the conserni
would have laid out that value if he had had it left. Ana
the manufacturer is to increase the price of enanufactuwer
goods, and levy the difference, once from the corn-r ;lop
who is the consumer, and once more in the shape ° nr
to the traders with whom the consumer would haste to
pended it, as before. And noodles from both sides run&
meet together, and call this " mutual proteetionii
" encouraging your own industry ;" themselves, al :4.0c1
while, composing the consumers who are to lose. Of
Governments are to be called on to support this sYs"
0m
carrying on trade at the greatest possible aggregate loss'
or,
24. Under this system, A.—Secure to the freo
and by these ideas, the corn- sting chronicle the bel'ote
mercial policy of the country
of his own trade and al e
has been conducted for 170
factures cind consunwObia
years before 1820. The ob- by forcing bins tom akehull
of legislation, in all its n when he
rhoe'er
banches, was to secure to own shoes,
get them cheaper by duo
their own subjects the benefit
of their own trade and manu- change of his own pre
factures and consumption, and out of doors.

. -
to shut out, as much as pos-
sible, the competition of fo-
reign States. —ld.
, •
25.—T0 cement and secure A.
--The oavlgtati
too
this immense dominion, two Laws were an attempt by
principles were early adopted strengthen the country a°
and steadily acted upan by b • • The
the British Government. The
. they were worth.
at the
first of these was to maintain, .
fact, tb trf
by the utmost exertion of the buying sailors at me" t y
jumped the
COn
I,
national resources, a great and
powerful navy * * [and se- naval power of
~'oly o,
condly, the Government] by a multiplying the sailor ;roe;
steady system of policy err- but on multiplying 1"0. Pavel
does not depend., 2:liro-Alt
deavoured to give our own ral wealth by wbie". d 011.
seamen an advantage over war must be ealors by
those of foreign nations in the Hence, to increase st,li'wealth
supply of the home market. a loss to the genera' baying
It was on this principle that of the counery, was the
the celebrated Navigation without to
" the mustard. tie°
Laws of England were found.
ed, the leading objects of
of —.stare -
quantity ,..-
which were to secure to ourob'
own ships and seamen exclu- expense of beef, tbr, .
beef," or a disprOPl at ere
sively the trade with our co- The account ofew., Lay°
lonies, and between our col°. jects of the Naviga I vier de.'
vies and foreign States, and to is good. The " lie"' valley
give greater advantages to ties" spoken °d
4r.e juatiog
our own sailors than those of tally called diserlra
other nations enjoyed, by im- duties.
posing a heavier duty on goods
3 04'
brought in foreign vessels
nu 12 tO
than in those which were built in our own harbon,rs' faille 6,',0
gated by our own seamen. And also, in manY ill„s"-fareers '
allow smaller drawbacks upon articles exported L'"
than those exported in British ships.—ld. a great
26.—Whatever objections ' ll that 133
may be stated on theory to demonstrated Was; ovier
this system, there can be no British wealth an :fil it,s
.
question that experience had 3 . •te ot '" ssi
hart risen in spite
demonstrated its practical ex- the Bret' aifb
British naval and colonial
pedience, as it had raised the for " spreading e or° bio
race and languag 'obi° •t
powers in no very long period,
from inconsiderable begin. globe," small thanks tbe ea, tot
nings, to an unparalleled state if this was done at ortions'
every quarter of theirs for I'
of grandeur and power, and pense of a diepreP a bar
laid the foundation for the in- quantity of
evitable spread of the British :
piness at home.
race and language through
every quarter of the habitable
,r
globe. —ld.
ci
•ty
Ivo d
27. —The reciprocity sys. I.—Th° " lte ode
oaf° she
tern is founded upon principles .s aaairt c
~, a
diametrically the reverse of system i s. trade , tbe
these. The principle on with the " free J.., %liar rip'
which it rests is, that, how- the " free trade" The is
ever advantageous such a re- " reciprocity;
free trade 1/
strictive system might have ciple on which
_doe-
_se
been when other nations chose politic, has uo dep_u_cebou.e
wealth to
to submit to it, it necessarily whether other nattuoyi; any
became detrimental as soon as to retaliate or leaving '9.
foreign States resolved to as-
Inc" e than our is ‘,.lc•
sort their independence, and r faces' i froer°
noses on our fore .o,.ke,
threatened us with measures
of retaliation ; and that the pendent upon,_ the
city,,o
moment the resolution to adopt choosing to
„eurecipro:eit
such measures was seriously What the
will
be see
entertained and acted upon by system was, wifollor.4'
other States, there was no from what next
alternative but to embrace a
.„ the e°°.
genuine fair reciprocity sys-
tem, or to submit to see ourselves excluded from 0.
mores of the greater part of the civilized world.
_oa 0:
28.—Mr. Porter, in his A. This is a beg' „ roc'•
late valuable statistical publi, count of what tas or Is'
cation (" Progress of tht; Na_ r city" system /1 rebll43-
tion"), thus explains the Reci. llt i°s
a little peddlil:ghe prin-
procity Acts, (4 Geo. Iv. c.
on sensible
77, and 5 Geo, IV, e. 1. ) lion, founded, no. a g
'Die of not do' n" Avast ,
" These Acts authorised his el. own a" „.11 aB.
Majeaty, by Order in Council, thing for ourb
ewl saes '
11, $ t erp,
to permit the importation and
exportation of goods in foreign another.
• b t rig' a ' aken‘
vessels, on payment of the in the rig id be '
coul
d
when duties as were chargeable haps all that c
unless somenuetdYit
and
'ti
when imported in British yes- at the time. hoover,
countries as should not levy
ads, in favour of all such The great point', Oaf/
t 0,,,, to
discriminatinm duties upon.syste..tea
goods imported into tho: coml.- the reciprocity,._., tho sr
tries in British
, ':essels ; and be mistaken for
further, to :avy open the yes. of free trade.
eels • r
A such countries, when
vegse's'
frequenting British ports, the
on British fru by
same tonnage.duties as are chargeable
in this place, is at
o the C" Jp°ll
A power was, on the iler hand, given .I al dudes 1. 0
these Acts of Parliament, to impose additorst
any cc
,Larrioy,
goods [in foreign ships] ar.d shipping sgelnef the., eir',P pl.
velich oho 11,1 levy higher duties in the case
co
_t„
Jo; ,
engin"
nu nt of Briti,li vessels in the trade with tease u"
a elorit'Aig e- aceS•
Va.-J. From that moment it A.---/- r-,. seine-
r-- ast:Cill
was easy to foretell the aban- mation—wL