The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

BRUSSELS.
DEc. 14.—The King has received a letter from the
Sultan in answer to the letters recalling Baron O'Sullivan
De Grass, and putting an end to his mission as Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Hieffiness.
DEC. 15.—The second regiment of infantry of the
line, with the staff, arrived here yesterday 137 the iron
railroad. The regiment consists of 2,000 raen, who are
quartered in the city. It is part of the tl.ird division which
is going to Luxemburg. Abmit 1,500 militia of the
class of 1837 have also arr;:ced at Brussels.
The Politique of Uege says, " We are assured that the
Governor of Maestricht has just ordered large quantities
of provision and forage to be laid in, and that news has
been received in that town that Venloo, Ruremond, 'and
Weirt will be shortly occupied by the Prussians. Hi*:iierto,
'
however, the Prussian army has made no movements, and
the greatest tranquility prevails on its frontier',. Neither
does it seem that Holland intends to streng9',en the garri-
son of Maestricht, which is still 5,0 P,;) c-ien."

DUTCH FUNDS.—AIIeT;RDAIst, Dec. 14.
Money. Bills.
kctual Debt, 2% ';•er Ce,:,i
Ditto, ditto 5 'per cen`.
A wort tiv,:..:tic, 4 ••=, percent. 91% 05
Ditto, ditto, 3Y4 per cent 7S4 78%
Cor..mercial Company, 4 ',:, per cent 174 175%
, .
_Mtn (Ir-32 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan lEt36, 4 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month ..,. 12 025,c,
Two months
BELGIAN I, UNDS—BaussELS, DEC. 15.
Actual Debt N per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 99
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9O
per Cent.... 65%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent ........ .
Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...—. .... ...... 136
NO.:Lona' Society
••. ....
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 15. ".Y.. 118
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, DEC. 7.
Five per Cents. Metalliques .................... ........ ..
FourFo 107%
per Cents... ......... .. .... .. .. . ............ . 100
Three per Cents.
... ..... ••••••••••, 81
Bank Shares .... .......................... . .................... 1511
--AllgemeineZeitung, Dec.l3.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BRetax, DEC. 10.
BM
t. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent.
... ......... .10 & Money. 3
Prussian English Lean, 1830, 4 per cent. 1021 i 1024
102%
ll.xchange on Landon, three months ... 6 21%
—Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 11.
—......_

Mr. Power has at length arrived in the Rarciusf
after a passage of nineteen days. The first half of the
journey they accomplished in six days. He will, therefor:e,
positively appear in the Irish Ambassador and the Irish.
Lion this evening.

CORN-LAW FALLA(
ANSWE

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(Continued from The Sun o it. 710,
324.—1 n order however, to prevent the ruinous consequences
that would necessarily result, from the unlimited admission of
foreign grain, the following resolutions, are submitted to the
consideration of those, who are anxious to maintain an oppo-
site system.
Resolved,-
1. That it is in the highest degree unjust, and even absurd
to expect, diet the rents and profits derived from British agri-
culture, shall be expended in the purchase of goods produced
from foreign materials, while the manufacturers of these goods,
resolve to encourage the consumption of foreign agricultural
produce, and insist on the repeal of those laws, which have
been enacted for the protection of domestic agriculture.—On
the Corn-laws. From the " Code of Agriculture." By the
Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart._.. Addenda, No. sr.
ANSWER.—it is "quite optional." The landlords may
spend their rents anywhere else, if they like. If they
would prefer shirts made of cotton grown in hot-houses, they
have the power of making the experiment. But if what is
in view is a threat to individual manufacturers, the answer
will be given when the threat is better defined.

325.-2. That those manufacturers, on inquiry, must be
convinced, that the home market is their best resource : That
the destruction of British agriculture, w ould be ruinous to
themselves ; and that a dependence on foreigners for their
food, is the most hazardous of all speculations. —ld.
A.—The manufacturers have penetrated the absurdity, of
being invited to make a bad market where they might have
a good, and then be thankful for their luck,
Wait till the manufacturers have got a tax on home-
grown corn, and see how learnedly they will talk to the
agriculturists, of the value of their home market, and the
ruin to themselves of destroying British manufactures. If
the manufacturers would be answered " Take what falls to
your share but do not tax other people,"—why not the
agriculturists ?

326.-3. That all shopkeepers, and dealers in manufactured
goods, be informed, that it is incumbent upon them, to point
out to the manufacturers with whom they deal, the ruinous
effects that would necessarily result, from the conduct they
propose to adopt : That if these manufacturers are successful
in their attempts to destroy British agriculture, it would ter-
minate in their own ruin ; and that the manufacturers of Great
Britain are never in so prosperous a state, as when its agricul-
ture flourishes.—ld.

A.—lf the shopkeepers and dealers are wise, they will
go over to the enemy in mass. Why are the shopkeepers to
desire to have the petty custom of the monopolists, instead
of the greater custom of a state of freedom ? As well tell
the old woman who sells gingerbread to the mail-coach at
starting, that she will be ruined by the introductio❑ of rail-
roads. Why should not she sell twice as much to the pas-
sengers that start upon the railroad ? It is to be feared
she would make a bad missionary.

327-4. That if any attempt is made, in the approaching
Parliament, to destroy, or even to diminish, the protection
which the agricultural interests of Great Britain and Ireland
now enjoy, the agricultural classes of the empire must unite,
iii counteracting it; and that petitions ought to be presented
to Parliament, from every parish in the united kingdom,
against any attempt to destroy, or materially to impair that
protection, which British agriculture ought to enjoy. —ld.
A.—See how the manufacturer, when the time comes,
will get up petitions from every parish in the united king-
dom, against any attempt to destroy, or materially to im-
pair that protection, which British manufactures ought to
enjoy in the shape of a tax on home-grown corn.

328. —And, 5. For the purpose of preventing the purchasing
of goods, manufactured by those who apply to Parliament for
enacting measures so ruinous to the general interests of the
empire, that those shopkeepers who promote so destructive a
system, shall no longer be dealt with by any friend to agricul-
ture.—ld.
A.—Threats of exclusive dealing, in general turn out
very useless. If both sides do their worst, the result is a
balance with plague, instead of a balance without. But it
is useful to know who it was that began.

329.—There is no thinking individual, who must not be
shocked at the idea, of a great country depending on foreign
nations for food, when by any exertions, and at any expense, it
can raise that food at home.—ld.
A.—lt cannot raise that food at home ;itis a contradic-
tion in terms. The object is always to squeeze a portion
of the community out of existence for want of food, and
then say the community has been fed. This squeezing, is
the thing to be shocked at.

330. —The only pretence for placing a nation in that hazar-
dous situation is, that the grain may be had cheaper. That
may occasionally be the case ; but dearly would that advantage
be obtained, if a country is entirely put in the power of foreign
nations, and of domestic dealers in, and importers of corn, -_ld.
A.—Why not be in the power of " domestic dealers in,
and importers of corn," as well as of the landlords ? The
domestic dealers and importers cannot increase the price of
corn if they would ; the landlords double it by Act of Par-
liament. And even if they could increase it, why should
not all the benefits arise from dear corn which the landlords
preach ?

But it is well to explode the vulgar error, that dealers
and importers can raise the price of corn. The importers
can raise it by not importing, which it may be supposed
is what the landlords want ; but by nothing else. If a
dealer withholds corn one day, he must sell it another ; and
in so withholding, he is unconsciously doing the service of
economizing the consumption according to the appearance
of supply. He is doing the office which the purser in a
starving vessel does, when he settles the day's rations ac-
cording to the supplies collected from the ships they meet,
and the probability of more. If he sometimes over-keeps
his corn, the best housewife sometimes does the same ; and
it is most certain that neither do it if they can help it.
The most ludicrous of all things, is to hear the landlords
crying out on the perils of monopoly. No man can mono—
polise, without an Act of Parliament.

331. When once it is ascertained that we must depend on
foreign nations For food, the price abroad necessarily rises. In..
deed, that~rycircumstance is one of the arguments used in
favour of ;mportation, and our making purchases abroad. It is
said t...at foreign manufacturers can under.soll us, because they
have cheaper food; but it is contended, that if the price of
fr,od is raised by our purchasing their grain, they will be less
able to contend with our manufacturers, and the rivalship
would be carried on more on a footing of equality. What then
becomes of the arguments, in favour of the expectation of pro—
curing cheap food from foreign countries, when it is naaira—
tained, that, in the result, corn will become as dear abroad as
at home ?—ld.
A.—There is no end of the see-saw of the interested.
It has been explained over and over, that corn in ether
countries must rise according to tl:ie proportion whien the
British demand bears to their viliole production ; which can
never raise prices abroad to the present British, because
at the present British there would be no demand at all.
We, therefore, shall have the benefit of the difference.

332.—1 n case of war, it is evident, that there can be no
certainty of our obtaining the necessary supplies, and above
all, at the places where a supply is wanted. How could
London be regularly fed, more especially in time of war, and
since the invention of steam navigation, if it depended upon
the Baltic for its provisions, and if the ports of Belgium were
in the possession of a hostile power ? In time of war also,
the grain we should import, would be loaded with the burdens
of additional freight and insurance. Could London then be
supplied as cheaply from foreign parts, as from Kent, Norfolk
or Suffolk ?—ld.
A.—Why do not we supply London with coals by land
carriage, lest at one time the communication by sea should
be cut off by foreigners Simply because it is time enough
to begin when the necessity ba:, arrived. London could no
more exist without coals ti. an without corn.

333.—1 n short, tb,:re are such multiplied risks, connected
with the propc,sell plan of depending on importation, and so
many powerful objections can be urged against it, that none
but persons having a direct interest in its establishment, would
ever 'think of urging it; and a nation which would suffer so
dangerous a system to be pursued, would well deserve all the
calamities that must necessarily result from its adoption.—ld.
A.—" In short, there are such multiplied certainties of
loss and misery, from the plan of prohibiting foreign com-
merce and confining a people to breed on a limited quantity
of food, that none but persons having a direct interest in its
establishment, would ever think of urging it ; and a nation
which suffers such a dangerous system to be pursued, well
deserves all the calamities that result from its adoption.,

334.--Domestic agriculture, therefore, ought to be pro-
tected, as the real source of public as well as private prospe-
rity ; and the only sure foundation of all those blessings
which, under the guidance of a gracious power, can either
e►.nrich or ennoble a country.—ld.
A.—Corn in flower-pots on the tops of houses, is domestic
agriculture. But it is by no means " the only sure foun-
dation," if other corn is to be artificially kept out.
[To BE CONTINUED.]

A buxom widow, residing in Park-street, Bradford,
being persuaded by the fascinating keeper of a beer-shop
in Pitt-lane to exchange her weeds for the silken bands
of wedlock, repaired to Shipley church one day last week,
to unite her lot with that of the publican. Owing to some
mistake they could not then be married ; but after a day
or two had elapsed they again went to Shipley, and the
clergyman commenced the ceremony, but he had not pro-
ceeded far before the widow's son entered the church, and
immediately forbade the marriage, stating as his reason that
they both resided in Bradford, whereas in the publication
of the bans they were stated to reside in Shipley ; he de-
clared it was a most unlikely match, and he would, if pos-
sible, prevent it. The clergyman declared the objection
to be fatal, and refused to complete the ceremony. They
returned to Bradford deeply mortified, determining to
complete their happiness at some distant place ; but cir-
cumstances have since caused the publican to, alter his
mind, and he now declares he will have her at no price.--
Halifax Express.