The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-07 00:00:00

THE METHODIST.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—The Watchman newspaper has just declared in
favour of the monopolists and monopoly, which is what
was to be expected ever since Lord Sandon's hypocritical
motion. The reason is the Watchman must do the bid-
ding of Doctor Bunting, the Dictator Francia of Wes-
leyanism, though John Wesley, were he alive, would
be one of the last men to uphold the bread tax, and op-
press the poor; he was too clear-sighted not to see how
greatly want and starvation damage religion, and
he was not the man to damage religion for
any consideration on earth. I said the Watch-
man must do the bidding of Doctor Bunting,
and he has long been an instrument of Lord Sandon,
ever since his Lordship cajoled him in Liverpool, where
the Doctor, a strenuous !anti-slavery advocate, voted for
the then pro-slavery Lord Sandon, scandalising his
friends, and astonishing the whole anti-slavery body,
as well as all the Methodists. But while I talk
of the Doctor, I beg to ask where he got
his degree ?—not in England. The Colleges and the
Church he.adulates despise him as a Sectarian. He is
opposed to Republics and Republican America, without
a Church establishment, and vet he condescends to
accept a diploma from Republican America rather than
go without the title of Doctor, which, as a skilful and
able divine, I admit he is well entitled to, and it is cre-
ditable to the Republican College which sent him the
title. P. W.

FATHER MATHEW IN ENGLAND.—This dis.
tingnished apostle of temperance has accepted an invitation to
attend the opening• of the Roman Catholic cathedral of this
town, cn the 23d inst.. after whic•h he will dine with a large
party at the Town-hall.—Birmingham Journal.

THE BRIBED CHARTIST
LEADERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—You must have observed that the Chartis
leaders and lecturers are every where in motion, upset-
ting the free trade meetings wherever they can. IVht
pays their expenses? is a question asked every where. t.
observed at the Sheffield meeting on Monday, a man
named Bairstow, who was brought there from a distance.
He was accused of being hired, and he told the meeting
that he was paid by " the suffering working men." On
Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, I saw the same per-
son on the hustings, at the great open air meeting in this
town. He proposed to move an amendment, which was
written in a small book, which he showed to the Chair-
man; and I observed that it was condemnatory of the
Corn-law, but at the same time expressing a want of
confidence in the Whigs—there was nothing about the
Charter. The meeting would not allow him to speak.
Now, Sir, let me ask, through your paper, who are " the
suffering working men," that paid him for coming to
Manchester? Will he name the Society, Chairman, or
Secretary of working men who supplied him with the
money to come to Manchester, to try to overturn a meet-
ing called by 5,000 requisitionists, all working men, to pro-
test in favour of " the total, immediate, and uncondi-
tional repeal of the Corn-laws." Mr. Charles Wilkins,
the Tory barrister, who brought Nightingale to Walsall,
was at Bairstow's elbow on the platform; and it is known
that this gentleman cashed a check the day before, for
1501., drawn by the Duke of Buckingham on Jones and
Loyds' Bank.—l am, Sir, &c.
A WORKING CORN-LAW REPEALER.
Manchester, June 3, 1841.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sheffield, June 3, 1841.
SIR,—By inserting the following in your valuable
Journal you will much oblige, yours,
A CONSTANT READER.

MEN OF ENGLAND, —A general election is at hand,
and it is the line of conduct which you pursue at this
momentous crisis that must determine the destiny of
yourselves and your children's children. We have been
advised by agents of the Tories (under the name of
Chartists) to return at the next election Chartists if we
can, but, where we cannot, we must send Tories ; that
is to say, we must either return men (which they know
we cannot) who will give us every item of our demand,
or accept for our representatives those who will give us
nothing, and rob us into the bargair.. But, I ask, because
we cannot have men who will give us the Charter, are we
to despise the advocates for household suffrage and free
trade, or the opponents of religious tyranny ? Yes ; ac-
cording to the organ of the Tory Chartists, we are to
press to our bosoms men who tell us we are ignorant,
and not fit for the franchise ; we are to adopt as our
representatives those who admire Church. rates, Tithes,
Easter Dues—men who love taxation, monopoly, and
war, and hate the idea of the people having cheap food,
cheap government, and equal rights. We are to smile
upon and cajole the men who would, had they been in
power, have hung Frost, Williams, and Jones, and sent
the Lovetts, Collinses, and Vincents to Botany Bay ;
but perhaps those who are their paid tools might have
staid at home. And will the working men of England
follow this advice ? will they be the dupes of men who
denounce Hume, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Place, and Mr.
Roebuck as turncoats, and who have slandered and abused
Lovett, Collins, Burns, and a host of real patriots, for
daring to think for themselves. No ; take not the ad
vice of men who are paid to barter your freedom, but
choose those men for your representatives whose princi-
ples and opinions approach nearest those of your own.
I remain yours,
A real Chartist and staunch Corn-law Repealer,
and an admirer of Hume, Colonel Thompson,
Roebuck, Collins, Mr. Place, Duncombe, Lovett,
Leader, Burns, and not the Tory clique who
are gulling the people at the Northern Star
Office, Leeds.

ON THE TRADE BETWEEN
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
(From an article, dated St. Petersburgh, in the Allge-
?twine Zeitung.)
This trade is based on a mere interchange of the re-
spective national productions. On the part of the
Chinese, it consists chiefly in the barter of tea for va-
rious kinds of Russian produce and manufactured arti-
cles. In the regular course the traffic commences be-
tween the dealers of the two nations in January, and
concludes in March, during which period the Russians
obtain about 80,000 chests of different sorts of tea,
about one-half of which is destined for the annual July
fair of Nishni-Novogorod, and the remainder is conveyed
toMoscow, and other towns of the in terior.This barterforms
one of the principal branches of Russian industry, and has
a very beneficial influence on other commercial operations.
The traffic is always active and flourishing, for there is
constantly a great demand for the tea imported by the
way of Kiachta, and many Russian products not much
in request in the home market, are disposed of in large
quantities to the Chinese. The transport of the re-
spective articles is very difficult, and, in consequence
of the great distance they are conveyed, a long period
must necessarily elapse before they reach their destina-
tion. The transport gives employment on the Russian
side to the population of 5,000 versts of country,
for such is the extent of the distance between
Perm, the most eastern town of European Russia,
and Kiachta, the extreme eastern point of Asiatic
Russia. To this population the trade affords not
only a sufficient subsistence, but even a considerable
surplus gain. Tahe Russian manufactures chiefly in re-
quest by the Chinese are woollen stuffs and cloths, suck
as ladies cloths, Dutch camlets, &c. The manufactory
of the Counsellor Alexandrov, in Moscow, produces these
crticles in the quality and form best suited to the fantas-
tic taste of the Chinese. Next in order may be men-
ticti,Nd Rubnikov and Son, the brothers Babkin, and Dob-
rohto‘
--Maikov, also of Moscow, as the most success-
ful man ufacturers for the Chinese market. They have
distinguis lied themselves by the strange forms and fashion
they give to the art!eles, the produce in pieces of from 25 to
40 arshins, of di;f9rent prices according to the qua-
lity. Last year _to,ooo of Russian cloth were sent to
Kiachta. The o: her goods in' request are plush, stuffs,
leather wares, particularly the favo'grite leather of Casan,
and peltry, more particularly the lambskins of the
Ukraine. All these articles are exchang
:Qd for tea; large
capitals are therefore employed in carrying
this trade.
The value of the Russian merchandize sent last year to
Kiachta exceeded 24,000,000 rubles. The quanti.tv of
tea im,ported amounted to 80,000 chests, of which 35,06,1
were of the finest sorts, the remaining 45,000 being
of inferior quality. There are about thirty different
species of tea. Of the green, which is distinguished
from all the others in form and taste, only from 100
to 200 chests are imported. There is a very remark-
able kind called tile tea, the leaf of which resembles
a tile in form, and has also much solidity. It is pre-
pared in quite a different manner from common tea,
being stewed with milk, butter, salt, and herbs, and
served up as a dish. It is accordingly rather an article
of food than a beverage. The Russians do not use it
themselves, but sell it to the Armenians and Tartars,
who distribute it to the Caucasian provinces and Eastern
Siberia. The Calmucks, Kirgheses, and Burats con-
sume the greater part of it. Besides tea the Chinese
bring other articles to Kiachta, the chief of which are
satin, crape, pipes, toys, cakes of ink, and colours ; but
the value of these does not amount altogether to 30,000
rubles banco.
Before the Russians, the greater number of whom
remain only a short time at Kiachta, offer to bar-
ter they n'ieet and draw up in common a price cur-
rent, to wi'xich they strictly adhere. It say them
much trouble in their dealings. The Chinese
appear far more eager to get off their tea than
the Russians are to exchange their manufactures. The
former have seldom anything left at the close of the
market, wherill.s the Russians often hold back consider-
able stocks. After the Russo-American Company, which
has a great sha Iv in this trade, the most considerable
Russian importor s of tea are the Kolessovs, Lobkovs, and
five other mer ea.-Mile houses in Moscow, Bassin in
Kiachta, and Milda-ednikov in Irkutsk. The great ad-
vantages of this trade, not only to the Russian mer-
chants engaged in it, but to the inhabitants of the inter-
mediate route of transport, was rendered strikingly evi-
dent by the failure of the harvest and consequent dearth
in 1838-9. The employment then afforded by ,!-his traffic
proved a great r elief to the poor people of those dis-
tricts. It may, therefore, be looked upon as the most
beneficial branch of Russian commerce ; bnt more con-,
siderable funds are required for its development than
have hitherto been at the command of our merchants.
The little town of Kiachta, on the river of the same
name, distant only, three versts from the Chinese village
Maimadshin, is two and a half versts in circumference.
All the wants of -the inhabitants of Kiachta are sup-
plied by their tri 'de, and the town ranks as a free
port. In order, however, to prevent every kind of smug-
gling, the strictest vigilance is observed day and night
by the officers of the Customs, and nothing imported
or exported escapes inspection. As stations for mer-
cantile deposits m ust I have market-places and ware-
houses, and as those of Kiachta are decayed, and
have not sufficient,: space for great stores of goods,
an elegant new- market-place is about to be con-
structed, for the expense of which 1,072,000 rubles
are destined, in accordance with the architect's esti-
mate. The merch ants are also building a church, which,
though not yet finished, has cost 400,000 rubles. The
houses, which are entirely of wood, are large and spa-
cious within, and have a handsome appearance. During
the period of barter in the winter months the surplus
population cannot, be accommodated without difficulty,
and lodgings are therefore very dear. The ordinary re-
sident population does not exceed 400 of both sexes.
Kiachta has fourteen merchants of the first guild, but
only seven of then/ have fixed residences in the place.
The others who I.( .side in European Russia, employ fac-
tors, and only visit Kiachta occasionally. A school for
instruction in the Chinese language was established in
1835. The young men taught in it will be employed as
interpreters. In 1840 the first seven were dismissed,
having completed their studies. The number at present
in the college is fourteen.

It should not be forgotten that the vote of the
House of Commons, which led immediately to the cele-
brated dissolution that swept the boroughmongers from.
the face of the land, followed upon a Tory majority of
one ! on the mod on of General Gascoyne, who then—
remarkable too—si.t. for the last time for the borough of
Liverpool ! What thinks Lord Sandon ?
HOW THE TORIES GET PROPERTY.--.The
Marquis of Salisbury, it appears, rents the " Lammas
Lands," belong: ng to the parish of St. Martin in the
Fields, at V. 10 3. per annum, although his own rental
from them is 1.0,000/. a year ! The parish is, how-
ever, on the 100k-out to obtain a more equitable ar-
rangement.

It will he seen from the list of the majority
on the late division that the Tories had the indecency
to compel Mr. Du tileld, the Member for Abingdon, to
come to the vote 14:ithin a few days after the death of. his
amiable daughter, who was on the point of mamage
when snatched awAy from her bereaved parent.