The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-16 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE.

This market is rather quiet—but Philadelphia and Bal-
timore are active. It is estimated that over two hundred
thousand barrels have been purchased in those markets
during the last month, for coastwise and foreign shipment.
Prices here for Genessee are a little firmer, in conse-
quence of the small stock. Saks for home use have been
made today as high as $3,87:3- a barrel. There is a fair
Supply of southern descriptions, which sell at $15,12-1 up
to 85,50.
Within the
past month the operations in flour in this
cotry, in the aggregate, have been very great, and at
reduced prices. Heavy shipments are making throughout
the west to the Atlantic sea coast, and the majority of the
producers are using every exertion to push ferward their
supplies. It is
estimated
Cincinnati and that the receipts this year at
Other places on the Ohio will double what
they were last,

TEA TRAE.
Since the 'news of the troubles sin China there has been
some excitement among the tea merchants. Within the
past month loner qualities, such as Canton made teas,
have declined from three to four cents, a pound. Sales
arc now made of that description, at thirty-eight cents.
This is owing, probably, to the great quantity of all kinds
in market—there being no lees than ten cargoes unsold,
namely, the Navigator's, Trenton, Morea, Sabina, Albion,
Splendid, in port ; Girard, ditto, Canada, ditto, Florida,
and Oneidas, worth in the aggregate two million dollars,
and, perbars, two and a bait.

Large quantities have recently been shipped to Eng.
land, and the Oxford, which sailed this inorniug'
several hundred chests. More will go forward by the next
xt
packet.
This morning, an invoice per the Robert Fulton, was
offered ; terms six months. The sale was a fair one, and
passed off as follows :-
38 half-chests Y. Hyson, at 37k cents; 50 131 b. boxes
do. at 64c. ; 80 do. at 72c.; 49 do. at 61c. ; 23 do. at
Sic. ; 20 do at 49e. ; 13 hf. chests do. extra fine at 77c.
10 do. at 52c. 4 131 b boxes Imperial at 63c. per lb.
15 half chests Gunpowder at 614 c. per lb. 20 chests
Souchong Mohca from 38c. to 39c. per lb. ; 30 1316.
boxes at 30c. per lb. :9 bait chest!: Orange Pecco, at 371 b.
si9abcihenits next Week.Pouchong Ankoi 35c. ; 55 do. at 34c.
Per 81 do. extra fine at 38c.
The
;
,eargo of the Mc is to be offered this week, the

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in moving last night the ad-
journment for the holidays, stated the future course of
proceedings which he should propose. It is so sum-
marily stated in the Report that we refer to it.
In reply to Lord MAHON, Lord Jonx RUSSELL
said that the British Ambassador at Naples had been
instructed that in case the Neapolitan Government
should not give a satisfactory answer within a certain
time, he was to give directions to the Admiral com-
manding in the Mediterranean to detain all vessels
sailing under the Neapolitan flag. The purpose of
detaining these vessels was to insure reparation, and
when satisfaction was given the vessels would be re,
stored. No Order in Council for reprisals on Naples
has been issued.
Sir R. INGLIs called the attention of Lord J. Rus-
SELL to the distress in the Highlands, to relieve which
the Noble Lord is looking to emigration. Sir ROBERT
ought properly to have addressed his question to the
bread-taxing landlords, who will not allow the starving
Highlanders to have cheap food, and the remedy ought
to be to abolish the Corn-laws.

On the 30th of April Lord J. RUSSELL is to move
for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Reform Act ;
on the sth of May Sir WM. MOLESWORTH is to bring
the subject of emigration before the House ; and on
May 7th Sir R. INGLIS is to do the same for Church
Extension.

Mr. VILLIERS fixed his motion on the Corn-laws for
the 12th of May.
Sir T. FREMANTLE having been, in the course of
twenty-four hours, better informed concerning the Tot-
nes election, did not, as he threatened, bring forward
any motion on that mare's nest. _
The third reading of Lord SEATON'S Annuity Bill
was resisted by Mr. HUME and Mr. W Ann, but carried
by 77 to 17. We regret to see the Ministers moving
in Tory harness, and dragging Tory jobs to their
completion, while they are guided by Tory principles.
The Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill was read a
third time, after a show of opposition.

The Report on the Prisons Bill was received, after
Lord G. SOMERSET had pointd out that the gaolers
were the servants of the Sheriffs, while prison regula-
tions were made by the Magistrates, and after Mr.
WAYLEY had declared that no men were so incom-
petent as the Magistrates to make prison regulations.

On the motion Of Sir ROBERT H. INGLIS,
seconded by Lord JohN RUSSELL, the order
for the attendance of the Sheriff was dis-
charged, and Messrs. HOWARD, jun., and PEARCE
were discharged from custody. The Hon. Baronet
moved that the elder HOWARD be also discharged.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL resisted the motion, which was
lost by 42 to 22.

The Hon. Baronet also moved that. STOCKDALE be
discharged, but this motion was negatived without a di-

vls on.
At Seven o'Clock the House adjourned till the 29th
of April.

If the eighteenth century was appropriately
styled the age of cant, the nineteenth may be fairly
entitled the age of humbug. In Parliament hum-
bug is the order of the day with the Tories.
There are the humbug Church-law, and Corn-law,
and Anti-Irish Corporation factions, who make a
Babel of the House of Commons ; but the crown-
ing absurdity of the Session is the China humbug.
Members of Patliament who all their lives have
appeared magnanimously indifferent to the spread of
drunkenness in moral England—who by bad laws
first reduced the working classes to a state of des-
titution so hopeless as to drive them to the, gin-
shop, to seek in a poisonous and demoralising
stimulant a momentary forgetfulness of their
wretchedness—have all at once taken alarm at the
idea of exposing the people of China to the com-
paratively venial offence of inhaling the tranquilizing
fumes of opium. The squalid misery to be found
in almost every fifth street and alley in London, in
consequence of an insatiable craving for gig,
brought on in nine cases 'Out- of teri'liy
and the highly artificial state of society among us
is not to be met with in the most depraved city in
China, not even in Canton ; and yet when do we
hear the Tories express so much as a wish for the
eradication of so crying, so obvious, and heart-
rending a spectacle ? The Tories are for a free
trade in nothing but morality, and so much of it
is exported that none is kept for home consump-
tion. The anxiety about the opium smokers in
China is so great that not a thought can be spared
about the amelioration of the *retched 'condition
of the gin victims of Drury-lane, St. Giles's,
Seven Dials, and Tothill Fields in the very vicinity
of the House of Commons. Nay, not a few of the
rigidly righteous of this class of politicians dine
sumptuously, and after priming, themselves with a
bottle or so of wine, and a beaker or two of brandy
if smuggled, so much the better chance for its being
genuine—hurry " down to the House " to denounce
all intoxicating stimulants, such as opium, as
ruinous to a nation's morals, and all traffickers in
such a drug as poisoners for gain. The humbug
of the denunciation is expected to " tell" out of
doors among the zealots who are too dull-brained
to be able to distinguish between the tricks of fac-
tion and the disinterested conscientious duties
dictated by a high sense of moral obligation.
As a rich specimen of the humbug on the China
question, it is only necessary to point attention to
a notice of a motion given by Mr. G. PALMER in
the House of Commons on Tuesday evening,
which is fixed for the 30th inst. The Hon.
Gentleman is then to move that the refusal of the
Emperor of CHINA to pay-for the opium illegally
seized by the High Commissioner LIN, is not to
be considered a justification for declaring war
against China. Who, except Mr. PALMER ever
supposed that it would ? We are not going to
war with China about a refusal to pay for any num-
ber of chests of opium, or for opium at all ; but for
insults of the most wanton and atrocious description
offered to the person of the representative of our
Most Gracious SOVEREIGN, and to a whole com-
munity of British merchants at Canton. The price
of the opium illegally seized will certainly be de-
manded, but the mere payment for it will not con-
tent us. The opium debt is but as a feather in the
scale with a millstone.

But if the motion is thus in itself as empty as it
is contemptible, the object of the Gentleman who
has given notice that he will bring it forward, at a
time when it can only serve to convince our ene-
mies in Central Asia that they have sympathisers
in the House of Commons, is not the less deserv-
ing of the severest censure. The British squadron
sent against China is expected to appear off that
coast early in May, and on the 30th of April, Mr.
G. PALMER proposes that the House of Com-
mons should resolve what the officer in command
should regard as a peaceful indication on the part
of the Chinese Government,- namely, a peremptory
refusal to pay for the illegally seized opium. Were
the House to stultify itself by the adoption of such
a ridiculous resolution, it might be dispatched over-
land in time enough to meet the triumphant expe-
dition at Bengal on its return from Canton ; and
thus give our victorious troops a foretaste of Par-
liamentary gratitude under Tory auspices. A
copy of it, too, might be sent at the same time to
THARAWADDEE to encourage him in his zealous
efforts for the expulsion of all British subjects from
Burmah, and for leaguing with the ether discon-
tented Princes of India for the total eradication
of the British Power in Asia. THARAWADDEE
literature, and
i 3 not unacquainted with our language and i
to send him a copy of Mr. G..PALMEn's proposed
resolution, with a
etantiwnogulcd be
ommentoairlylyuproenquitisbitye
the Morning Herald, the Post, and the Times,
to encourage him to, throw our next Envoy to his