The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

STATE OF TIPADE.

MANCHESTEB.—Theiv was no change in the market
yesterday ; the demand continued quite as inanimate as
ever, and the gradually increasing stocks of the spinners
and manufacturers compelled many persons to sell at
prices involving the most ruinous sacrifices. Nor does
there'seem to be the slightest prospect of improvement,
from a great diminution of produce, and that diminution
is' now rapidly taking place. We understand, that most
of the spinners at Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, and Lan-
caster, have commenced, or are about commencing, to
work four days per eek only, and there is some expecta-
tion that a similar 'measure will shortly be adopted at
'Preston, in which case we believe it will become quite
general throughout the district.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MOKDA.Y', MAX 17.
The market has been of a very discouraging nature
day; the demand being very limited, and prices-uncom-
monly low. The wool market has been quite as bad as
the piece market, with little -change in priees.. The
woollen and cotton trade in this town are both growing
worse, and several of the cotton factories are working
only lour. days a week. The poor-rates are fast in-
creasing, and the overseers find daily a greater difficulty
in'colleCting thern;—Manchester Guardian.

MURDER ON BOARD AN .ENGLISH VESSEL.
—So far back as the evening of Wednesday, the 6th of
January last, while the schooner Lorina Thompson, of
Liverpool, Captain Bettes, was in the port of Algiers, a
quarrel arose between one of the seamen named Elias
Enough, a native of Jersey, and the cook, an Irishman,
named John Rein, during which the latter, as is alleged,
seized a large ham-knife, and plunged it into the chest of
the seaman, which penetrated to the back bone. The
seaman died in a few .hours "afterwards, and Reid • was
immediately secured, and. put in irons by order of the
BritiSir Consul, who issued strict orders to the Captain
Holyloch, arrived on Satur-,
of the Lorina Thompson to have him conveyed to Eng-
land. The vessel sailed for the Clyde, and,' after -per-
otflieCaptain Richardson of
prisoner' was trans-
will be detained until in-
structionst:l.ohal:Y aeaidnforming
brhociaenitilasßair-pheraoe°llrlineitne( receivedi)tlNVtthlest fir'triell.:a‘e.nhrillgeetenh e Secretary of State as,to,
his ultimate disposal. If the usual custom is followed,
Reid, We believe, will be brought to trial before the
i(o
of
England. The prisoner
and the depositions and poit
n
been sent along With the
vessel:
MORTALITY.;--ever, . within the memory of
s:6ru about
tre,ti ,of
e.. thex2o t n
the grave during that period,
the oldest inhabitant, have thereh been so many deaths in the
parish of,Kirkbeatsajl.LrjLoyot_ a space, as in- the interval
froai.the beginning to tl.te f the present month ; 21 per•
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Leeds Votes. .
"}4t--liinschipaavlilnyg:ensinstein°7l4:"t.°l43 years o:
Prince Felix Bacebitelliool*- hutband. of the
I)tineest sis.frr ctia4 st 134-
4 riztia, where be baCiva A 9.17 :F.vif.wytaifi iolooiked.
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SUBSTITUTE•

FOR LNDIRECT

TAXATION.
TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.,

DIY LORD,—WiII you excuse the. liberty I take in sug-
gesting to you a very short way of closing the protracted
discussion on our general commercial policy.
I would most respectfully recomni end, that you at once
propose to the House of Commons to raise the entire
amount of the revenue from a duty on inhabited
houses of 5/. rental and upwards. Tax neither land
nor cordmercial manufactures ; but let the farmers pro-
duce for us corn, beef, butter, potatoes, &c., and ex-
change them with our manufacturers for clothing, and
every other possible description of articles comprised in
the utile et duke of life.
GIVE us AN UNFETTERED COMMERCE WITH ALL THE
WORLD.—Convert our Custom-houses and Excise-offices
into national schools, and such of their officers as cannot
be employed as tax-gatherers, let them become school-
masters.

On this plan we should find abundant employment •for
• our labouring population, and scope for the en-
terprising energies and capital of our merchant-
princes. The landowners would get a higher rent
for their land than they can obtain under the present
system of miscalled protection—the farmers would
receive a higher price for their productions from
the improved wages. of the labourers. The iron
works, and other duty-fostered manufactures in
France, Continental Europe, and America, would vanish
into airy nothing, and leave only wreck behind before
our superior means of production.
Commercial treaties would become waste paper, and
there would.be an end to all smuggling.
The bonds of peace would be closely and everlastingly
connected by that surest of all ties, reciprocity of inte-
rests. We . should soon cease to witness the disgusting
anomaly of slavery existing in its most hideous forms; in a
country boasting of the superior liberty of. its constitu-
tion, and enlarged freedom of its establishments; and man
wOuld- speedily bc taught to recognise; in its fullest ac-
ceptation, the universal brotherhood of man.
The party distinctions of Whig,. Tory, Radical, and
Chartist would cease to be known, and the combined ta-
lent of each would be found united for the, common weal
-.-_-their motto, " Party is the madness of many, for
the gain of a few." .
I belong not to that class of politicians, who are eter-
nally blaming Ministers for not going faster a-head. I
think.. that they have always been m advance of the
people ;: and having at, length succeeded in awakening
their apathetic souls, and arousing their dormant energies,
may God crown their efforts for human amelioration with
complete success, and commerce, civilisation, and Chris-
tianity be found traversing together the utmost bounds of
the earth, and diffusing their blessings over all mankind.-
I have the honour to remain, with great respect; your
Lordship's very humble and obedient Servant,
JOSEPH JOHNSON; of Liverpool.
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill,
London. May 19, 1841. •