The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

FREE TRADE.

The principles of free trade, so efficiently demonstrated
in the measures of Sir Robert Peel, have, we have many
reasons for believing, already found an echo on the Con-
tinent. The large mass of population embraced in the
Zollverein, or German Customs Union, are impatiently
awaiting the final accomplishment of those measures, in
order that they may demand a corresponding reduction
of the import duties which at present press so heavily on
many articles of consumption. They will not, after
England gives the example, continue to suffer under the
penalties of restrictive, or, as they are improperly called,
" protecting duties." The cloth and the cotton which
we can furnish at from 25 to 50 per cent. cheaper than
the native manufacturer must ere long find their way
into all the German markets. The good of the many
cannot be sacrificed to the benefit of the few. And the
mistaken policy by which some millions of people are
condemned to purchase an inferior article at an exorbitant
price will receive, even in its stronghold of the Zollverein,
a speedy condemnation.
The King of Prussia has taken the first stop in this
important affair. He has addressed a note to ail the
members of the Customs Union, impressing on them the
necessity of yielding to tho spirit of the age, and of re-
vising the tariff. It is true that the southern states of
the Union receive those advances with much coldness,
and that die influence of the capitalist-manufacturers is
fur the moment predominant. But those local interests
must give way before the principle of free trade; and if
the Prussian Government follow up this first step with
sufficient vigour, public opinion will triumph over a par-
tial and selfish opposition. The influence of England is
great, her moral power is the wonder of the world; but
never have their effects been more sensibly felt than in
the rapid adoption of the principles advocated by Sir R.
Peel, and supported by so great a majority of the House
of Commons, throughout an union of states where mo-
nopoly and protection apparently were most firmly esta-
blished.— Times.

THE SWELL MOB IN THE
PROVINCES.
The facilities which railways now afford are eagerly
taken advantage of by that very " industrious" class—
the "Swell Mob" of London. The members of this fra•
ternity take their usual perambulations in the various
fashionable parts of the metropolis, at certain periods of
the day, for the purpose of exercising their calling, and
in the evening are frequently to be found at some great
attraction in distant parts of the country. Of late the
eastern counties have been favoured with visits by these
candidates for transportation ; and it is not improbable
that when the projected lines of railway are completed.
even the northern parts of Lincolnshire, on certain oc-
casions, will not be forgotten by them. A few days ago,
a concert was given at Cambridge, and during the even-
ing several empty purses were picked up in the room,
the contents having entirely disappeared without the
owners' sanction. Several strangers were noticed in the
room, but their apparent respectability did not at the
time attract suspicion. Towards the latter end
of the same week General Tom Thumb visited
the town, and at the exhibition in the even-
ing the same strangers who had visited the
concert again made their appearance ; some
empty purses were here also picked up, and the un-
known parties were watched. They were soon disco-
vered hustling people in the room and attempting to
pick pockets; hree of them were immediately taken into
custody. On being searched money to some amount
was found upon each ; one had a gold watch and another
a Si. note of the Berkhamstead bank ; they represented
themselves to have come to Cambridge that afternoon
for the first time from London, and that they were soli-
citing orders in the tobacco trade. They gave addresses
in town. The day after their apprehension ft police
officer was dispatched to London to make inquiries re-
specting them, and from the information he obtained it
seemed evident that they were a part of the swell mob.
The names they gave were James Havvkins, William
Green, and William Butters, only Butters gave a correct
address (7, Francis-street, Newington) ; and on the
Cambridge constables going to that house to inquire for
him he was told by a female, who said she was his sister-
in.-law, that he had gone out of town, but she expected
him to return in the evening ; and upon the female
being asked what profession Butters was, she said
she did not know ; that he generally left home in
the morning, and did not return till the evening. On
the constable's return to Cambridge the magistrates con-
victed the three men as rogues and vagabonds, and sen-
tenced them to three months' imprisonment withfhard
labour. They gave notice of appeal against the convic-
tion, and were bailed out. The 51. note found upon
Green was advertised in the Hue and Cry, and it was
challenged by a person named Charles Bailey, of Berk-
hamstead, who it seemed had been robbed at a public-
house in the Strand of two 5/. notes, and that found
upon Green was one of them. Green was then taken
into custody on the charge of picking Mr. Bailey's
pocket, and on the 2d instant was tried at the Central
Criminal Court and acquitted ; a person having been
produced in Court, who swore that he had given Green
the 5/. note for a gold chain, and that he had received it
of a person in Smithfield-market for some pigs. On the
following Monday, Green, Hawkins, and Butters, sur-
rendered to their bail at Cambridge Quarter Sessions,
when the Court confirmed the conviction of the magis-
trates, and the appellants were sent back to the treadmill
to complete the term of imprisonment.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.—The Rev. and
Worshipful Chancellor Law, the Vice-Principal, has most
handsomely taken up his residence within the walls of the
College, in order personally to superintend the proposed ex-
tended system of collegiate medical and surgical education.
The Rev. Gentleman has offered to the resident students the
following muniticentl prizes, viz.:-501. to the student who
may carry off four medals ; 201. three medals ; 71. two medals ;
51. one medal. The Dean of the Faculty, William Sands 0:9'.;
Esq., has also gone into residence in order to assist the
CO in carryingout the.
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one one ounce, an additional
ounce above one ounce to be charged as an additional ounce.
The postage is to be levied by stamps or stamped covers, as
in England. Letters not pre-paid to be charged with a post-
age greater by one-half than the pre-paid rate. Newspapers
to pay one penny ; newspapers from abroad to pay one penny
by the inland post if not exceeding an ounce, and a half-
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.?
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. (.'.k.•
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The engage-
ments for the ensuing week exhibit a flattering promise
of sport, amounting to no less than twenty-three in
stakes and matches, with the certainty, from tlnk num-
ber of horses in preparation, that most of the proposed
handicaps and plates will fill. Seeing, therefore, that
the racing will combine variety with abundance, and
that the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway offer
every possible facility for a cheap and expeditious trip,
in the shape of daily special trains to and from Ches-
terford, and by well-horsed conveyances between that
station and the town, we may fairly anticipate that no
inconsiderable portion of the holiday makers will turn
their steps hitherward during the recess ; of the regular
frequenters of the meetings we look for a full muster.
The races standing for to-morrow are several in num-
ber, in addition to which there will be the usual intro-
ductory Stakes—that is, the Craven, the D.bf , and the
T.Y.C. handicaps. But there is no Riddleswortb, an
event that, for a long series of years, formed the most
exciting three-year-old race of the meeting ; fortunately
the hiatus created by its disappearance from the list is
filled up by the Newmarket Handicap, for which, ac-
cording to present calculations, there will be a field of
three or tour-and-twenty. The programme also in-
cludes a Port and a Claret Stakes—the latter, however,
looking very like a walk ever for Alarm—a good
Column ; and several other three-year-old stakes, all of
them liktly to come off. Most of the matches will also
produce rases.
The following horses have arrived area our last :
Duke of Richmond's Peasant
Lord G. Bentinck's Miss Elis
Lord G. Bentinck's Discord
Lord G. Bentinck's Blackbird
Lord G. Bentinck's Binnacle
Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of Conyngham
Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey
Mr. Copeland's Arthur
Mr. Goodwin's Dexterous
Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland
Sir G. Ifeathcote's c by Amato, out of Countess
Sir G. Heathcote's Altbar
Mr. Waller's Crown Prince
Mr. S. Herbert's Pet colt
Mr. S. Herbert's Ajax
Mr. Drinkald's Elemi
Mr. R. Clifton's Minus
Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren
Lord Chesterfield's Poor Soldier
Lord Chesterfield's Snake
Sir W. W. Wynn's Cymynion
Nothing has arrived from Dawson's or Lord Glasgow's
stable.