The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-09 00:00:00

one day turned against themselves. The Prediction
I has been fulfilled even sooner than we expected.
We now solemnly 'repeat the wairning not only to
the Silk Trade, but to a.li the various classes of the
people. The Silk Trade should, -with equal zeal
and sinceritv,oppose the application of thregeneral
principle to the concerns of other classes, as to their
own, and even to the case of their poor journey-
men, or they may depend upon it that the general
principle will .be sooner or later converted into
a weapon of destruction for themselies. In like
manner, all other classes of the
_people should re-
sist the application of the general principle to the
Silk Trade, with as much earnestness as each of
those classes would resist its application in their
own particular case, for they will otherwise
be successively brought by sections ufider its
withering operation. If they unite upon the
general question, their opposition must be irre-
sistible, if, on the other hand, they separately rely
upon the merits of their respective cases, they will
most assuredly be beaten in detail. It is not by
the particular merits, but by the general prin-
ciple, that all of them must stand or 'fall. This
position was avowedly taken by the CHA -
CELLOR of the ExcnLQUElt and the other
advocates of his theories, during the last Ses-
sion, -in the debates on the Spitalfields Acts; for
they
~.not only refused a Committee to inquire
into the particular merits of the case,—they re-
peatedly declared that they granted all those merits
—that they granted allthejacts stated in the Wea-
vers' alleg,ations,—but that those particular merits,
and those facts,—appalling as some of them were,
—in no way shook their resolution nor affected
their decision, because they were legislating ;Ton
a general principle which no particular facts, nor
any number of particular • facts, could . impugn !
—There can be no well-founded doubt as to
the immense advantages which the Silk Ma-
nufacture will experience during the ensuing
two .vears, from the repeal of the duties on the
raw material.- In all that Mr. HuFzcfssos has
said upon this part of the subject, we fully
concur.

In TUE SUN of the 3d instant, we expreSsed
our Conviction that. the Earl of Ltv.E►;root was
mistaken in his idea that no Coarse Linens were
exported from Ireland ; and we stated dial, ott►
the contrary, *considerable foreign orders for
coarse linens were executed i❑ the Sister Islant4
and that as those orders were conditional as to
price, the addition of a single half-penny per
yard would have the effoct of excluding coarse
Irish linens from the foreign markets. We now
find, from the Cork Mercantile Advertiser, re-
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and is one which, if persisted in, is likely to
be productive of incalculable injury." From an
advertisement in the same paper, it also appears,
that a numerous and respectable meeting of the
Mcnufncturers and Finishers of Coarse Linens
for Foreign Export, has been held in Cork,
(JULIUS BESNARD, Esc' in the Ch►air), at which
series of Resolutions was passed, expressing,
in the strongest possible terms, theappreh►ensions
of the meeting, and the certain ruin and total
extinction of their trade, %%Hat must inevitably
result from dim'nishit►g, " in any degree," the
present encouragement which it receives from the
Legislature. We shall insert the Resolutions
to-morrow.

. A file of Charleston Pal ers has arrived to the
6th February.

Don Manuel Jose Arca, who came to the United states Ist
year as a Commission.tr from St. Salvador, Spanish America,
is now President of the Republic of Guatemala, and is nego-
elating a treaty of alliance with Mexico.—(Charleston Courier.)