The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

DISSENTIENT.

5. Because the prosperity of a great manufacturing
and commercial nation depends, in a great measure,.
upon foreign trade and access to foreign markets. The
multitude of restrictions iind prohibitions with which our
tariff is encumbered, threw great obstacles in the way of
trade, without any corresponding advantage to the reve-
nue,. and the system of excluding foreign produce has
already had a most pr,e,judical effect in inducing those
countries to encourage . native manufactures, and to re-
taliate by corresponding wstrictions upon British mer-
chandise. In the present state of our relations with
other powers, it appears impocsible to persist longer in
this restrictive system, without imminent danger of
losing some of our best markets.,
Lastly, Because we think it oin' of the first duties of a
Government to impose no unnecess,firy burdens upon the
industrious classes. A system which excludes or im-
poses high duties on foreign produce, K'r the sake of pro-
tecting particular interests, violates this obligation on the
one hand, by impeding the free course of industry, and,
on the other, by enhancing artificially the cost of sub-
sistence.
Under present circumstances, the maintenance of this
system involves, in addition to those indirect burdens,
the necessity of imposing a large amount of direct taxes
to make good a deficiency in the revenue, which would
not exist, if all the articles of consumption and iner-
chandise were admitted into our ports at moderate duces.

LITERATURE.
'SIR H. CAVEiVDISITS DEBATES. Part IV

Longman, London, 1841.
The present Part of this curious and useful
work contains the debates of the House of Corn-
mthoen
ss,esassionrepoofrlte7. Burke,d7oby Sir H. Coafvceonudrisseh: during
figures
prominently among the speakers, but his=
speeches are seldom giVen but in outline, which
is to be regretted, for no man ever expressed
himself more eloquently or instructively on an
matters connected with legislation. We find nisi)
several of Lord North's speeches; but in vain w e
look for that wit and sprightliness for which
Wraxall and other of his contemporaries have
,assured us he was remarkable; nothing can be
dujer than the tone of his remarks, or more tho—
roug4.l37 practical and business-like than their
stibstanCe. Judging from the specimens of his,
oratory before us, we should say that Lord North
had no more, of the wag in his nature than Lord
Althorp, whom no one was ever yet hardy
enough to accue of a joke. Among the debates
is that mernorablt one on the Remonstrance of
the City of London* Jo the King, calling fbr the
Dissolution of Parliirment and the Removal of
Evil Ministers ; in the .course of which we find a
spirited speech by Alch4inan Beckford, which
Sir H. Cavendish has
given very fully. and which
proves him to have been a man of more elo-
quence and political sagacity t,ian the world has
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BRIGHTON, AUG. 30.---THE PENNY POSI•
AGE.—Last week, the extraordinary • number of 26,460
letters were delivered in Brighton in the seven days,
which; according to the returns taken by the Post-
master, is the largest number ever delivered in that
town. It is generally acknowledged that Brighton was
never so f'ull as at the present time.
THE BRITISH QUEEN.--7This fine vessel,
which, as our readers know, has been purchased by the
Belgian
Government, is so nearly ready for sea that sho
will, it is expected, sail for Antwerp to-morrow. She is
intencltd to ply between Antwerp and New York,
calling off Cowes or Southampton, going and returning.
By this means she will, it is anticipated, carry not only
passengers to and from the Continent, but English pas-
sengers also. She is under the command of Mr. Keane,
' 77(,l a ecrnrcisFion in the: Bel7inn service.
~:/,‘"vit of Monday.
The Mormons, says the Nova Scotian, have
armed and organized, iu some parts of the Union, for purposes
of defence.

1. Because we are adverse in principle to all restraints
upon 'commerce. We consider that public prosperity is
beg promoted by leaving the national industry to flow in
its nataral free current ; and we think that practical
measures . should be adopted to bring our commercial
legislation buck to a straight and simple course of wis-
dom, instead of continuing a system of artificial and in-
jurious restriction.
2. Because we think that the great principle of leav-
ing commerce unfettered, applies more peculiarly, and
on the highest ground of justice, to the trade in those
articles which constitute the sustenance of the people.
The experience of a quarter of a century has proved that
the Corn-laws passed subsequently to the year 1815 have
neither produced the plenty, the cheapness, the steadi-
ness of price, nor any of the other benefits anticipated
by the advocates of those laws ; while, on the other
hand, all the evil consequences predicted at the time by
those opposed to monopoly have been realised.
3. Because the practical effect of the variable' scale of
duties has been to introduce a system of speculative job-
bing and of fictitious sales, for the purpose of raising the
averages, in order to enter corn at the minimum duties-
it is impossible, under this system, to ascertain whether
sales are real or fictitious, and it is well known that dur-
ing the last two years the averages have been raised by
bringing for sale, into the principal markets of the king-
dom, only the best qualities of corn, and that the inftrior
grain has been withheld from those markets until the•
high average price reduced the duties to minimum rates.
4. Because the inevitable effect of a system which
' prevents a regular trade in corn is to derange the course
of commerce, whenever the accidents of the seasons oc-
casion a deficiency in the harvest. The fall of the fo-
reign exchanges and exports of bullion, consequent on a.
sudden demand for large quantities of corn from coun
tries with whom our restrictive laws preclude interchange
in ordinary years, have already, on more than one occa-
eicrn-brotight tho banking iliiititUtiOllS of the country to
the verge of bankruptcy, and occasioned general com-
mercial distress.