The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

flour will give a great impulse to the trade with the
United States this year, as it has done every year since
the repeal of the corn-laws. 'We now take everything
from the United States on the most liberal terms, ex-
cept the one article of tobacco ; and as the American
Treasury is overflowing with wealth, we may reasonably
expect that the commerce between the two countries
will be still further facilitated by a reduction of the
duties on British manufactures. There is no reason why
the trade between England and the United States should
not double itself in the next dozen years, supposing peace
to continue, of which it forms the best security.
Next to the United States, in the extent of its com-
merce with this country, is Germany—and Germany,
besides receiving credit for nearly eight millions worth
of goods sent into German ports, ought also to receive it
for a considerable part of the four millions worth of
goods sent to Holland, a large part of which find their
way up the Rhine into Germany. Probably ten mil-
lions would be nearer the amount of goods sent into
Germany than eight millions. Corn, timber, and wool
are the pricipal returns received by us from Germany ;
and as the demand for all these articles is rapidly in-
creasing in England—and as they are all received on
liberal terms—we may reasonably look for a great in-
crease of trade with that country.
There is, no doubt, a considerable trade with Holland
itself, but certainly not so great a trade as appears from
the returns, nor does it present the prospect of any great
increase.

The trade with Brazil, which is already large, will be
larger as the population increases. The soil is unsur-
passed in fertility, and numerous magnificent rivers fa-
cilitate intercourse with the interior. Such a country,
in the hands of the English or Americans, would pos-
sess five, if not ten, times the amount of trade which
Brazil now possesses.

The narrow commercial policy of France is now the
only obstacle to the doubling of the trade with England ;
and, though personal interest and popular prejudice may
sustain that policy for a few years longer, yet it must go
before long.

The extent of the trade of Turkey, Wallachia, and
Moldavia with England is very considerable, and to this
ought to be added the trade with the Turkish provinces
of Egypt and Syria. This is the natural result of the
very liberal commercial principles adopted by the Turk-
ish Government. 'lf the present difficulties should blow
over, this trade will increase, but a war would put an
end to it at once.

The commercial policy of Russia is, in every respe ct,
the very opposite of that of Turkey, and it the exports
of British goods to Russia have dwindled to a mere
trifle. The policy of Russia is to produce dear and bad
goods at home, rather than to buy cheap goods of supe-
rior quality abroad, and to take nothing from foreigners
except gold. This is precisely the policy which Spain
followed for three centuries, and under which she sank
from wealth to poverty. She received three-fourths of
the gold brought into Europe, and yet became poorer
every year from the benumbing influence of monopoly
and exclusion. Well-directed, profitable industry, is the
only true of wealth, and that can never exist under a
system of restrictions and protections, which destroys all
wholesome competition.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—Sept. 22.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)
ASSAULTING WITH VITRIOL.

Ebenezer Allen, 22, a miserable-looking object, pleaded
guilty to a charge of throwing a quantity of oil of vitriol
upon Robert Atkinson Kirby, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Sleigh, who was instructed to prosecute on the
part of the parish of Marylebone, stated that the offence
to which the prisoner had pleaded guilty was committed
under the following circumstances :—The prisoner bad
applied to the parish authorities for relief, but as he was
known as a person who would not work, the returning
officer refused to give him anything. He went away,
and it appeared that he then purchased the oil of vitriol,
and watched about the workhouse until the prosecutor
came out, when he went up to him and threw the vitriol
upon him, and it burned and injured him very severely.
The learned counsel added that the unfortunate prose-
cutor had had nothing to do with the refusal of relief to
the prisoner, and in fact, he had never spoken to him,
but there was no doubt that the prisoner had watched
about with the deliberate determination to do injury to
some person or other connezted with the parish.
Mr. Justice Crompton, in passing sentence, said the
prisoner had committed a very bad offence, and it was
not to be tolerated that, because relief was refused to a
person in the condition of the prisoner, he was to resort
to a diabolical act of this description. He might have
blinded the unfortunate prosecutor, or even have de-
stroyed his life, by throwing this deadly ingredient upon
him, and it was highly necessary for the sake of example,
that such an act should receive severe punishment. He
then sentenced the prisoner to be kept for four years in
penal servitude.