The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-13 00:00:00

"TO TIIE ♦ISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

" MY LORD,—We, the undersigned British merchants con-
nected with China, cannot but view with the greatest alarm
and apprehension the probable effect of the expression of any
public opinions with respect to the justice and policy of the
measures understood to be taken by her Majesty's Government
to obtain redress for the insults and injuries inflicted on British
subjects by the Chinese Government, and for the future pro-
tection of the legal trade with that country. We disclaim all
pretensions of dictating to the Chinese the mode in which the
British trade with China shall be carried on; but we cannot
refrain from expressing our deliberate opinion that unless the
measures of the Government be followed up with firmness and
energy, the trade with China can no longer be conducted with
security to life and property, or with credit or advantage to the
British nation.

" We have the honour to be, your Lordship's most obedient
humble servants, (Signed)
G. G. De Larpent, Chairman Lyall, Brothers, and Co.
of the East India and China Walkinshaw and Co.
Association Gardiner, Urquhart, and Co.

J. Horsley Palmer John Hine
J. Mackillop W. J. Hall and Co.
Briggs, Thorburn, Acramin, Alexander Matheson
and Co. James W. Smith

Gladstanes, Kerr, and Co. Walkinshaw, Skinner, and Co.
Alexander George Milne and Magniac, Smiths, and Co.
Co. Dallas and Coles

Small, Colquhoun, and Co. Wm. Drayner
John S. Rigge, of the firm of Hunter, Gouger, and Co.
Sanderson, Frys, Fox, & Co. C. S. Cover
H. H. Lincl‘ay Robert Eglinton and Co.
Gregson and Co. Scott, Bell, and Co.
Daniel Dickinson and Co. John Brightman
Crawford, Colvin, and Co. C. R. Read and Co.
Larkins and Co.

" London, April 9, 1840."
The first locomotive engine on the line of the
Eastern Counties Railway reached Brentwood on Tuesday last,
and we learn there is every fair probability of the Company
being enabled in about six weeks to open the line from thence
to Shoreditch.

" NOW'S THE DAY AND NOW'S THE HOUR."
_Who does not see that until the Corn-laws are repealed, the
great question of wages can never be settled in England ?—that
erance and want of
gluts must alternate with scarcities ?—gluts of orders with gluts
of goods?—that the feasts of to-day must be followed by the
famine of to-morrow ?—msolance by humiliation, humiliation
? and that,
mwti
ht te
ahbeseni netee :onf a steady demand far
p
forethought oi insolence?—and
rolnueghcte
resultinggoods, the conflicts and heartburnings of the employers and the
employed must continue ? But how long will such a state of
things yet last? Can we compete for ever with un-bread-taxed
rivals ? No! capital will go where it will pay ; skill will
follow capital; and our manufactories will at length stop,
simultaneously, and for ever ! The immense camp of
London will then be without pay ; the immense camp of Glas-
gow will be without pay; the immense camp of the West Hid..
ing of Yorkshire will be without pay, and almost within shout
of a still more multitudinous camp—that of Lancashire--
without pay ! And all this may happen ; and, if the Co-,-„.l"a.‘:_s
remain much longer on the Statute-book, will Iniven,
hops in one and the same week, day, or holy! If t am caill::(1
upon to produce from history a record of similar catastrophes, I
shall answer, that history can furnish no recor,l of a similar
state state of things. The British Government is the only one that
ever legislated against the bread of th 9, people, by impeding the
exchange of manufactured goods for food, at the very moment
when such exchange aught to have been facilitated by all possi-
hle
or conceivable means.—Ebeitezer Elliot.
SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PRGSPERITY I !—ollr
readers' will recollect that in 'Ole discussion on Mr. Villiers's
motion last year, the V,iglkt Honourable Baronet then entlea-
i voured to that thetrade and manufactures of the country
two rn:OE,t prosperous. Now it so happens, that at Radcliffe.
Eridge, near Ary, B thou is a cotton mill, the property of Sir Ito-
: bort Peers brother, and strange to say that m a fortnight after
the speech was delivered, it was literally stopped, and the ma-
chinery has remained idle to this day !—Aottingkant Review.