The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-10 00:00:00

HOP MARKET.

Except in the fine descriptions of Hops there is very little
doing. We do not quote any material alteration in prices.
There is no great quantity at market.
. PROVISION MARKET.

The stocks of provisions generally are heavy. A very
steady business is doing, and prices are all firm, but up to the
time we went to press were not varied in a single instance.
BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKE C.

Not much doing in any description. The supplies mode-
rate, and the quality suffered on account of the damp weather.
Prices unaltered.

TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. is 58s. 6d. to-day, which is rather higher. There
is not much doing.
COLONIAL MARKET.
There is nothing doing to- day by public sale in this
Market, and but very little by private contract. We expect no
revival in busines until after the close of the year. We have
but very little business advertized for the week ; and for to-
morrow we have for public sale 950 casks Barbadoes Sugar,
3,700 bags Mauritius Sugar, 56 casks and 190 bags British
Plantation Coffee, 1,950 bags Java Rice, 20 casks and 7 chests
Nutmugs, and 5 casks Mace. The imports are heavy to-day.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, DEC. 8.
Our farmers brought a very large supply of Wheat to this
day's Market, and we had also a fair arrival from the coast,
which caused the trade to rule dull at similar rates to Satur.
day last. Barley, though in good supply, met a ready sale at
an advance of Is. per quarter. For Rye also we experienced
a good demand, and prices must again be quoted 3s. to 4s.
per quarter higher. Malt of the best quality brought 2s. per
quarter more money. Oats, being in large supply from the
interior, met a limited sale at late prices. In the value of
Beans or Pease we can note no alteration, Flour was in fair
request at our quotations.

_
New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland 6ls. 81s 72,... R 2.
Norfolk and Suffolk 76s. 845.... .. 78, St,.
. Berwick and Scotch 7ls. 78s —s. —s.
Foreign
Rye, Neff slk and Suffolk
Foreign
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and SutP4lk 394. 43s
---- Grinding and Feeding 33s. 375.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 6O , 64s --s. --s.
Beans, Small —B. —5....... 475. 50s.
-- Tick —s. —s. 4ss 495.
Pease, White 4SB. sns. .... --S. —4.
-- Gray
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe -265. 29s 2Bs. 31s.
-- Foreign - .

Flour (per sack) 6os. 645. —s. —s.

LLOYD'S -HIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

DEAL, DEC. 9.—Wind N. by E., moderate breezes.—
Arrived, and proceeded for the River, the Isabella, Dunning,
from Batavi'. Passed by the Lord Lowther, Yates,' from
London to Madras ; Eleanor, Clark, and William Broderick,
Edmund, for Leghorn ; Mary, for Naples ; Gazelle, for
Africa; Ruth, Rundall, for Sierra Leone; Black River
Packet, Wright, for Jamaica. Arrived, and proceeded for the
River, the Catherine, Kemp, f om Miramichi.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 9.—Wind N N. E. to E.N. E., fine.—
Arrived the Aries, Bell, from Quebec ; St. Olaf; Olson,
from Stockholm. Sailed the Euphrates, Buckham, for the
Cape and Bombay ; Tullocb Castle, Briggs, for Jamaica ;
West Indian, M'Artbur, for St. Vincent's ; William Glen
Anderson, Clering, for Sierra Leone; John, for Yougbal ;
Norden, for Lisbon ; her Majesty's brig Racer, for Quebec.
Passed by the Lord Lowther, Yates, for Madras and Bengal.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 9.—Wind E., light breezes.—Arrived
the John Scott, Robinson, from Monte Video ; Walter Scott,
Robinson, from Honduras ; Robert Bruce, from St. John's,
New Brunswick; Eliza and Jane, Brown, from Cadiz; and
Clarisse, from Rochelle. The Glasgow steamer, from Dun-
dalk, is aground near the Rock Channel. The Tyrian, Cun-
ningham, for Rio Janeiro, which sailed the Ist instant, has put
back. Arrived off port the Johnstone, from Demerara.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Alert, Lloyd, Youghal.
SHEERNESS, DEC. 9.—Arrived off port the Hope, and
Athlone, from Dantzic.
STANGA TE CREEK, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Dundee Mer-
chant, from Mogadore.
COWES, DEC. 9.—Wind N.E.— Arrived the Black River
Packet, Wright, from London for Jamaica—put in for pas-
sengers. Sailed the Donna Maria,:Bowen, for Rio Janeiro ;
Eliza, M'Cayen, for Bridport ; and Le Cleteratuer, for
Havre de Grace.
CLYDE, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Champion, from Bay Cha-
leur ; and Mary Ann, M'Anin, from Tobago.
TORBAY, DEC, B.—Arrived the Isabella, Weley, from
London, and sailed for Lisbon. Sailed the Marquis of Chan-
dos, Keyes-, for Demerara.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind N. to N. N.E., fresh breezes.
DEc. 8 --Wind N. N.E. to N.E., ditto.—Arrived the Magnet
packet, from the West Indies—sailed from St. Thomas's the
11th ult. Sailed the Ranger packet, for Madeira and Brazil;
Nautilus, Procter, for Demerara; James, M'Queen, for St.
Kitt's ; Jane May, May, for St. Vincent's ; Comet, Robe, for
Port-au-Prince ; Aurora, Hughes, for Figueira; Donna Ma.
ria, Wreberg, for Surinam; Saucy Jack, Thompson, for Corfu.
ABERDEEN, Doc. B.—Arrived the Janet, Welch, from
Pillau ; and Patriot, Denorn, from Riga.
HULL, DEC. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Maria,
Moller, from Cadiz ; and Evenwood, from St. Petersburgb.
DUBLIN, DEC. B.—Arrived the George Aunie, Griffiths,
from Quebec ; Hibernia, from ditto ; Dolphin, Roach, from
Pugwash. Sailed Garrone, Richardson, Barbadoes.
WATERFORD, DEC. 7..—Sailed the Herain, Gibson, for
Lisbon ; St. Leone, Andrews, for St. Übe's.

CORK, DEC. 7.—Arrived the Isabella, Meredith, from
Quebec ' • Hercules steamer, from London ; Judith and
Esther, Moran, from Jamaica.
&too, DEC. 7.—Arrived the Queen Victoria, Rosie, from
Quebec ; Oliveira, Oliveira, from St. Übe's.
BELFAST, DEe, 7.—Arrived the Eleanor, Simpson, from
Miramicbi ;;Kingston, Cargill, from Quebec ; Horatio, Irving,
from ditto ; John and Robert, from ditto ; Neptune, John-
stone, from St. John's, N. B. ; Margaret, Balfour, ditto.
HARWICH, DEC. 8. —The Isabella of Sunderland, Thomp-
son, bound to London, got on shore on the Sbipwash Sand
this morning, but was assisted off and proceeded.

LIFE OF WASIIINGTON.—We are requested to
state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has
this day published " The Life of Washington, with his
Diaries and Speeches, and various Miscellaneous Papers
relating to his habits and opinions," by Jared Sparks, 2 vols.
Bvo., with portraits, price 245. Mr. Colburn has also just
published Dr. Vaughan's " Protectorate of Oliver Crom-
well, illustrated in a series of letters between the distin-
guished men of the period, now first published from the
originals, with notes, and an Introduction on the Character
of Cromwell and of his Times." 2 vols. Bvo., with portraits.
Agents—For Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin-
burgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin.

THE LIFE OF CHARLES MA THEWS, COMEDIAN.
—We are requested to state that Mr. Bentley, of New
Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty,
has this day published " Memoirs of Charles Mathews,
Comedian," by Mrs. Mathews ; including his Correspond-
ence, and an Account of his Early Days, written by him-
self ; embellished with portraits and numerous other illus-
trations. The work may now be had of all Booksellers,
and at all the Libraries.

The Observer has recently been enlarged one-fourth.
The price continues at five-pence. The extensive publica-
tion of the Observer commences at five o'clock every Sunday
morning. An edition best italapted for country and foreign
circulation is published on Monday afternoon. The Observer,
for original news, has no equal. The Journal of Sunday,
Dec. 2, contained three folio columns of Canada late I-
gence, that of Dec. 9, had upwards of five columns of news
from and relative to the Canadas.

CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH TH

ANSWERS.

(Continued from The Sun of Friday.)
309.—The territorj belonging to a nation is its "capital
stock," on which it necessa:ilydepends for its prosperity and
subsistence; —On the Corn .1..,Zu1e. From the " Code ofi47-irulture. ." By the Right Hon. t;." John Sinclair, Bart.
Addenda, EC.
ANSWER.—The capabilities for mataufactur).7.l. for the
purpose of foreign trade, are equally part of the na.
ion's
" capital stock," and the nation depends just ns much eZ
them for its prosperity and subsistence. A nation with
these capabilities might be prosperous and well subsbted,
though all the surface of the soil were turned into the sands
et' Lhe &sect ; and much more prosperous and well subsisted,
than in the case i7ere the soil was cultivated and the foreign
trade restrained.

310.—and the" agricultural ci7..""ses," and those depending
upon them, are, properly speaking, "The nation," being 410
only individuals in it, who have a perplanent interest in its
prosperity.—ld.
A.—Here then is the point of contest. The agricul-
turists deny the claim of any but themselves to be the na-
tion, and act accordingly. Their reason, bec'tuse none but
themselves have a permanent interest in its prorrity. As
if Mr. Fielden's interest was not as permanent as do Duke
of Norfolk's. He can no more run away with his cotton
mills, than the other with his acres. He may sell them,
and set up for himself in a foreign land with the money ;
and so may the landowner.

311.—The importance of these classes is not sufficiently
known or appreciated ; but it evidently appears, from the table'
above inserted, that when collected, they are greatly superior,
in regard both to the number, and the ♦alue of their produc-
tions, to those less essential classes, who presume to despise
them. —ld. _ _

A.—What evidently appears is, that they are as
6.300,000 in 18,480,000 ; or as one in three. But the
question is, not what proportion they bear to the other
classes, which have been depressed and trodden down, but
what they would bear under a state of justice. There would
he no use in arguing that there are two thieves on a road
for one honest traveller, and therefore the thieves should
have their way. The question is, what the proportion would
be if every man could hold his own.
On the point too, of their being " essential," the naked
truth is the same. We should be vastly better without
them and with commercial liberty, than we are with them
and without the other. They occupy precisely the same posi-
tion as the nuisances before described upon the road. They
may have capabilities for being nseful citizens if society was:
strong enough to drive them into the road of justice. But
as they are, they are a simple loss and mischief, which
society must only put down when it can.

312.—A nation cannot subsist without the productions of
the soil, but it can abundantly prosper, without those manu-
factures, to the existence of which, theoretical writers ab-
surdly attribute so much importance.-Id.
A.—A nation cannot subsist without the productions of
some soil, but a manfucturing nation would abundantly
prosper by the removal of its agricultural monopolists, evert
though the soil they claim were turned into desert sand
before they left it.

313. —The people of this country were happy and powerful
before the cotton trade was introduced among them ; and if
the cotton weavers cannot exist, without the importation of fo-
reign grain, why should the agricultural classes in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland be reduced to beggary on their account ?—ld.
A.—The idea that the agricultural classes are to be re-
duced to beggary unless allowed to rob the manufacturing,
is a mere hallucination. As population and trade increase,
more food is wanted than can be furnished by the home-
growers without robbing to make up the price. But there
is no invasion of their honest gains ; all that is asked, is to
keep them from the dishonest. If the agricultural classes
in Great Britain and Ireland cannot be content with honest
gains like other men, why are the other classes to submit
to robbery on their account ?

314.-Why should, not only millions of acres be condemned
to perpetual barrenness, but immense tracts already improved,
be laid waste, to gratify their wishes ?—ld.
A.—The acres condemned to barrenness, are those
which cannot be cultivated without robbing other people to
pay. The tracts which arc to be laid waste, are those
which have already been cultivated on the stf.ength of such
a robbery.

315.—1 n the reign of William the Conqueror, an e;.ctensive
tract was rendered desolate, that he might enjoy the plea:ures
of the chase. No circumstance mentioned in the English in..s-
tory is so loudly reprobated. Yet it is now proposed, to lay
waste millions of acres, and to reduce to poverty thousands of
the most valuable subjects of the empire, under the pretence,.
that a number of weavers in cotton cannot otherwise be sup-
plied with cheap food. —ld.
A.— Upon the reason, that weavers in cotton and the
community at large, must be robbed of a shilling for every
sixpence that goes to pay the others. The equalization of
a king's pleasures with a nation's bread, is an extraordinary
instance how little the best man is to be trusted for morals,.
sense, or law, in his own cause.

316.—1 f the measure of protecting averages be objected to,
the following plan, which seems to me not liable to any ma-
terial objection, may be adopted. —ld.
A.—The question will be, whether to the community at
large it seems " not liable to any material objection." But
attention to the plan.

:M.—Let some public institution, (like the Board of
Trade), be authorised, as soon as the harvest is completed, to
make every possible inquiry into the state of the crops.—ld.
A.—Why trnuble a public Institution ? Does not every-
body know from the prices, what the state of the crops is
conceived to be ? By what art, is some public Institution to
conic to a better judgment ?

318. —lf the board has ascertained, that there is likely to be
a deficiency, let it then advertise the amount required to be
imported, and its desire to receive offers, fur granting licenses
to furnish grain to that extent, either by those who have corn
already warehoused, or those who will undertake to bring from
foreign parts, the quantity required. Those who offer the
highest duties to be preferred, by which any risk of partiality
will be prevented. Where the offers are the same, proportionate
deductions to be made from each. —ld.

. _
A.—What is to be meant by a " deficiency ?" If untaxed
foreign grain can be sold in the market with a profit, thL5 is
proof of a " deficiency," and the amount required to be im-
ported, is the amount that anybody will import. But the
" deficiency" intended is something else ; it mew a " defi-
ciency" too great to be borne without danger to the mono-
polists at home. Why shall we not have a Board of Trade,
to determine when home-grown corn may be permitted in
the market? What a host of troubles men plunge into.
when they undertake to conduct trade at the sword's point !

319. —This plan would be attended with the following im-
portant advantages :-
1. A larger quantity would not be imported, than would be
requisite for the supply of the country, though it would be ad-
visable rather to exceed, than to be under the mark.—ld.
A.—lt is most certain there would not be a larger. And
it is equally certain there would be a less. The duty offered
would be the exact measure of the deficiency which is to-
create the price by which the duty can be afforded to be paid.

320.-2. The demand being kept within fixed bounds, the
importing merchants would not be induced, to raise the price
abroad, to that immoderate amount, which must be the neces-
sary consequence of unlimited speculation. Their profits oc-
casionally 'night not be so great, but, on the other hand, they
would run no risk of loss.--/d.

A.—How are the merchants to raise the price abroad
to an immoderate extent, by bringing home only what can
be sold with a profit ? and it is certain they will not do
more. All pretences on the part of the landed interest, to
p.reserve merchants from the dangers of their own incau-
tion, belong to those portions of the dark ages, which
busied themselves in teaching their grandmothers how to
eat eggs.

321.—The duty on the grain to be consumed, would be in-
sured to the Exchequer, before the corn could be brought into
the British markets ;—ld.

A.—lt is to be feared it is so under the present plan
There seems in this little that is new.

But one observation may be made in passing. The end
is approachinc, of the time, when the nation could be im-
poverished and ruined, and the fact of certain monies being
taken out of the pockets of the community and transferred
to the Exchequer, be referred to as a set-off.
3!2.—and, The agriculture of the country would thus re-
ceive a certain, and consequently a most essential protection ;
and there would be no risk, by exciting a rage for speculation,
that grain of inferior quality, unfit for human sustenance,
would be introduced into our markets. .

There never was any -plan -of law that seems to
unite so many important advantages. —ld.
A.—Agriculture is to be protected, but there is to be no
deficiency. As noted in the outset, the two things are a
contradiction in terms.

323.—1 t is now generally believed, that as soon as the new
Parliament assembles, a great exertion will be made, on the
part of the manufacturing interest, to get the corn laws alto-
gether abolished, and to put an ond, even to that scanty pro-
tection which the landed and farming interests now enjoy.
There never was such infatuation ; for it can be proved, that
these ungrateful manufacturers, chiefly depend, for the sale of
their goods, on the home market ; and that it is from the pur-
chase of their fabrics, by British subjects, that their prosperity
chiefly arises. It is, in a very inferior degreis indeed, that they
are benefited by foreign demand. —ld.
A.—They depend on the home market for getting two
bushels of corn where they might have got three. Their
prosperity is of that kind, which is made by selling to
British subjects at home under an unjust law, for less than
they could sell abroad. They are not benefited by foreign
demand, because foreign commerce is prohibited by law.
The ungrateful monsters have a full consciousness of all
their obligations.

[TO BE CONTINUED.)