The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

IMPORT DUTIES.

On Tuesday the Town Council of Carlian adopted,
almost unanimously, a petition to the House of Com-
mons, for a revision of the Import Duties, of which the
following is an extract :

That the restrictions and prohibitions imposed by the
present laws of this country upon the trade and com-
merce of its inhabitants, and the operation of the tariff
of duties upon the imports of the United Kingdom, pre-
sent most serious obstacles, not merely to the extension,
but to the profitable maintenance of that trade with fo-
re4n countries, which is essential to our well-being as
a nation, iand the employment of our rapidly-increasing
population.

- That the evidence laid before the Committee ap-
pointed by your Honourable House to inquire into the
extent and operation of the Duties on Imports, has
clearly exhibited what the experience of every day con-
firms, that the system of protecting particular classes
and interests, by fiscal regulations, is most injurious to
the nation at large, and at best gives only a false secu-
rity to those who are unjustly favoured at the expense
of the rest of the community ; and that all duties
which are not required for the purposes of revenue,
and which by their amount either encourage the smug-
gler, or lessen the quantity necessary for consumption,
and.therebylnhance the price of the article, on which
they are imposed, are highly impolitic, most unjustly in-
terfer s with the comforts of the great body of the
peer and ought to be altered with as little delay as
pass :le.
Tat amongst the duties which operate most oppres-
sively on the great bulk of the people, are those im-
pl,sed upon articles necessary for the food of man,
manrot which amount to a total prohibition, and all
of which yield but little to the revenue compared to
the enhanced price which they give to the home pro-
ducer, beyond the value of the article in the market of
the world; and the duties on coffee, sugar, and other
articles, which have become almost necessaries of life—
upon timber, which comptis us to use the worst wood
in the world at the dearest price, and forego the use of
the finest which migbt be had at the cheapest—have
not only the effect of depriving our workmen of a suf-
ficient qiiantity of food and of those comforts which
may be enjoyed by the same class of men on the Con-
tineat, but of raising up rivals to our manufactures,
which are rapidly driving them from the most profitable
markets.

The petition was moved by Mr. Steel, and recom-
mended by an able speech.—Carlisle Journal.

RACING ORACLE.

We were right in our prognostications about Eringo.
No horse can be absolutely stationary during an eight
weeks' frost, unless there is money in the market to back
him. Launcelo►, if memory serves use, war reported to
have a curb or an enlarged hock about this time last
year, and he immediately rose from 22 to 14 to 1. It
is singular that curbs should be so popular at Tatter.
sail's, for evidently to this may we write) defect must
be attributed the rise of Eringo. This horse on Mon-
day, for a moment, resumed the position he occupied in
the Houghton Meeting, that of first favourite. A good
judge, living at Newmarket, writes that his action is si•
milar to that exhibited by the Dey of Algiers when in
training for the same great race—all powerful behind.
He will not, of course, run for all his engagements. The
Rosalie colt seems to stick at 14 to 1 : if he bad any
title to that price in November, he ought to be now at
10 to 1 taken. Coronation has a host of enemies, in
consequence of his very moderate performance with St.
Cloud, at Warwick, as if that could possibly be his form.
He is also kept back from. an idea that he will come
out at the Spring Meeting there on Wednesday,
being entered in the Trial Stakes, as well as the fol-
lowing Derby horses :—Hampton, St. Botolph, Protec-
tion, and The Star (not Morning Star). Three of
these have never been in the betting, but this does not
prove them to be good for nothing : we must again
refer to the Melody colt. Strange things happen in
racing., but we shall not believe, until we have seen it,
that Mr. Rawlinson, who we have reason to know has
backed his horse heavily for the Derby, will run him
for a miserable 100 pounds at Warwick. Marshal
Soult and Knight of the Whistle are making a good
race, their mutual friends are so powerful, and con-
sidered so influential, that the devil himself would be
bothered to say which will see ter, to one taken : certes
both will not ; certes, one will. Lord Albemarle's
horse Ralph, like the fox entering his hole, is reported
to go backwards ; not so his rider, who continuing his
straightforward course lights on his head, or other parts,
as the gods may determine ; the performance of Ralph
in the Criterion, however, was as honest as even his
noble owner could desire.

Joachim and Ermengardis each attained a higher
position : my recent remarks respecting these, and, in-
deed, several others, have been singularly fortunate.
When I see Galdor quoted at 40 to 1, I cannot help
remembering a certain horse called Prince Albert, a
favourite at 33 to 1 last winter, the latter was not worth
a groat ; I believe the former comes fiona the same
neighbourhood, but he has never been out.

,
The Derby betting is entirely uninfluenced by the
country mess. St. Botolph was beat easily ; never
backed, he of course never will be.

Great operations being usually reserved for the
Mondays, the proceedings at the corner yesterday were
devoid of interest, but in all cases confirmed the pre-
vious movements. The above remarks applying to
Monday, we may say that the first favourite appears
likely to reach the price I have marked out for him, and
that very shortly. Sir Gilbert is beating a retreat.;
the Morning Star an advance. It w.ll be as well to
remember the latter was backed to win a stake of mo-
ney at odds, averaging 25 to 1, last autumn. Some
party must stand money on him—query, who ? A new
outsider was mentior. ed—Mr. King's Hambleton ; a
finer colt has never been seen, but he is not in a Derby
stable.

Warwick Spring Meeting takes place on Wednesday.
March 12. JUDEX.
—Morning Post.

RAILROAD BETWEEN BAYONNE AND BOR-
DEAUX.—The project of a railroad direct from Bordeaux
to Bayonne is now under the consideration of the Minister
of Public Works. An offer has been made for the execu-
tion of it by M. J. E. Larrieu, a banker at Paris; Messrs.
Lucien Dartaud and Co., bankers of Bordeaux; and
Messrs. Escarrsguel, civil engineers of the same place
JUSTICE PATTESON.—The reason of the in-
troduction of three Judges' names into the commission for
the Midland Circuit is, that Lady Patteson, the wife of
one of them, is dangerously ill; and, in the event of her
demise, Mr. Justice Alderson (the Judge remaining in
London) would take the place of Mr. Justice Patteson
for the rest of the circuit.