The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENII'cG, APRIL 22, 1870.

t hey are setting their recognised principles of action
at complete defiance. Such an instance we have
before us in the tariff of the United States. Our
Transatlantic kinsfolk boast not without reason of
setting the Old World the example of daring and
resolute progress. The time-worn prejudices, the
doubts, the precedents, the thousand and one de-
tabling influences which fetter older and more
complex Governments may not clog their chariot
wheels. They are free to put 1 rineiples into
prat ice, to developo " ideas" into systems in a
fashion which even the most enthusiastic French-
man cau hardly hope to realise. The "intelligent
foreigner," arriving on our globe from some remote
and unenlightened planet, might therefore very rea-
sonably ccuclucle that the people of the States
would be far in advance of Europeans in their com-
mercial as well as in their constitutional theories.
Strange to say, so far from this being the case, the
Americans are still resolutely clinging to those bonds
and restrictions which England at least has thrown
off long since, and which France and Germany are
rapidly surrendering. It is marvellous that a people
so intolerant of needless fetters, so fully convinced
that to grow and develope, to rise to its full height,
to extend to its full proportions, a nation must
politically be untrammelled and unrestrained, should
be so obstinately bent on keeping their trade
in leading strings, their commerce under strict
surveillance. What is so fatal to the political Con-
stitution can hardly be beneficial to the commercial
world, yet the United States cling to the doctrines of
paternal government and centralisation, instead of
carrying into their commercial -tbe principles
which have made them politically •great and free.
it was said of a celebrated statesman, that he
" Born for the universe narrowed his mind,"
and in the same way the great Republic
of the West, gifted with boundless natural wealt),
keeps her people poor ; blessel with an inexhaustible
field for the energies of her own population, and, of
half the wayfarers of the Old World as well, she sits
lamenting the depression of trade, the decay of
commerce, while keeping resolutely in her hand the
key whieh will open the door to national pros-
perity and plenty. America surely needs no ad-
ventitious aid. Iler products are too valuable, her re-
sources too vast for her to require an artificial m irket.
Europe cannot afford to dispense with the graeari,s
of the North-West, while the oils which play so
prominent part in molern manufacture, are
her almoA exclusive property. In iron and
coal she is rich, so rich that we can-
not yet estimate her wealth, while of co:ton
nothing need be said. flow is it that a people so
rich, so energetic, so ambitious, should be loudly
bewailing their commercial decadence ? Would it
not be as well, before the Tariff Bill is finally
passed, if the Washington legislators were to p Iris?
and find the answer?

I

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF STOLEN GOODS.

Last night, about seven o'clock, the neighbour-
hood of Drury-lane was thrown into a state of ex-
citement, some hundreds of persons having congre-
gated, by a rumour, which turned out to be true, that
the police were about to make an extensive seizure
of stolen goods from No. 130, Drury lace, which
Ilad been kept by a person named Treasure for a
number of years as an old curiosity and china,
shop. It appelr3 that Trcasui e and his wife
had Lad a quarrel during the day, and thi
.former struck the latter. The wife, det-,-.:rinned
to revenge herself, immediately want to B.)w-3 reel
Police-Wagon, and gave information which led to
the immediate apprehension of Treasure. The
police searched the prem'.ses, and d'scovere. d in the
cellar stolen property of con,Nerab7e value and
of all •descriptions, consisting of wearing apparel,
linen and woollen goods, watches, jewellery, &e.,
sufficient to fill seven cabs, some being the pro-
ceeds of robberies committed upwards of twenty
years since.