The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-13 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

THE COAL TRADE.
Ne.wcastle.oponzryne, March 11.
ichequer
Mr. Envron—Judging from what took piaci.
(Mr. lirsicissort, in the
absence of the Chancellor of the r
last,i n
it
Sill; /4f: DutiesP rnient on Monday evening
having in a main
degree submitted to the. forcible renreient;tions of both the
Silk Dealers and the Silk Weavers) A
) I feel confident that the
plain language of truth has only to be used to induce his Ma-
Jesty's Gavernment to extend evetY c
Consistent with the national
welfare. I therefore think the coal-owners of the North acted
with great wisdom in at oncc sending off a deputation to confer
with the Minister on his projected new scale of Duties upon the
admission of coals ilito th As
-etr°Polis. As the respectable indi vi-
extremel v well-qualified to
dmakeual s everyc o m
p representationopsrion;etrinsm sil
are;
.1,5 t Majesty's Government on
the vital question (to the North) of the coal-trade, it would be
supererogatory in any one. to attempt to anticipate the argu-
ments which no doubt !Jill be submitted by the individuals
alluded to with great weight and force in the proper quarter.
But, at the same time, Mr. Editor, as you hare so persever-
ingly, and so laudably, exerterted -yourself in unfolding the
bearings of the Minister's new financial scheme, as detailed to
the Commons House of Parliament, on the 23d ult. (and in
which, by-the-bye, you have had the concurrence of nearly
all the leading Journals of the day,) it is, methinks, only
befitting that TilE Styx should have a preference in being
made the vehicle of any strictures which practical men
are desirious should meet the public eye. But for the
actual mission to London, on the part of the Coal Owners,
I should hare deemed it my duty to submit many important
facts connected with that great northern branch of industry,
the Coal-trade, which could. not have failed to open the eyes of
i
the Minister, and induce hum to pause ere he gave a bounty to
Inland Coals in the Britishi Metropolis. For such, unques-
tionably, is the fact, when t is considered that the Forest of
Dean Coals (in Gloucestershire), coals fully equal to the second
best of the Tyne or the Wear, may, by the line of the Thames
and Severn Canal, be delivered in London at thirty-four
shillings and eight pence per chaldron, under the new regulation
of Is. per ton ditty, instead of 10s. as heretofore; while the
Newcastle Coals could not, to allow the Ship-owner the
customary average freight of 12 or 13 shillings per clialdron, be
afforded in London, under about 40s. fld. To talk of the pro-
prietors of Coal mines abating the difference ofprice, Twelve
Shillings per clialdron, to the Ship-owner, to place him
on an equal footing in London with the vender of inland
Coals, is too preposterous and absurd to be entertained by any
reasonable mind for a single moment. And yet there are indi-
viduals among that respectable class of men, the Ship-owners,
who clamour in this kind of way, and who are expert enough
to get up Petitions against what they are pleased to designate
to a future opportunity all that I have to offer on this head.
the Conspiracy of the Coal-owners ! I must, however, reserve

• • •

FUNERAL OF THE MARQUIS OF TITCHFIELD.
This morning the remains of this much-re-
spected Nobleman,' late the eldest son of the Duke of PORT-
LAND, and nephew of the Right Hon. GEORGE CANNING,
our Minister for Foreign Affairs, were removed from St.
James's-square, for interment at Marylebone church, in the
same vault as that of his lamented grandfather. The mourn-
ful procession consisted of a hearse and six horses, followed by
three mourning coaches-and-six, containing his nearest relations,
among whom were four of the deceased's uncles, including the
Right Hon. Gentleman above mentioned, and two of his con-
fidential servants. The cavalcade, on leaving St. James's-
square, was joined by a numerous train of Noblemen and
Gentleman's carriages, which proceeded, with the utmost so-
lemnity, through Charles-street, the Quadrant, into Regent-
street, Portland-place, and along the New-road to Marylebone
church, where the interment took place, in the presence of an
immense number of spectators.

A letter from Perpignan states, that on the
night of the 27th ult. the Narbonne diligence
was overturned by a wolf having ran through be-
tween the legs of the horses, which frightened
them, so as to produce the accident in question.
Nobody was hurt.