The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

hut just that in the country from which COLUMIUT6
departed for the discovery of a new world, and ton
sequently for the incalculable extension of commerce :

it is but just that in that favoured country the
Columbus of Free-trade should be welcomed with en-
thusiasm. As the greatest of navigators enlarged the
opportunities for international mercantile transactions,
so has the Hon. Member for Stockport opened to his
trading countrymen a new world for their commer-
cial enterprise; he has removed the barriers of pre-
judice with which the industry and ingenuity of his
fellow-citizens had been hitherto restrained and
hampered; and, more than this, he has divulged to
other countries the secret of enlarging the capacities,
of diminishing the corporeal privations, of abating the
social miseries, and of insuring the universal peace
and goodfellowship of mankind. His benevolent
policy has been more than patriotic, it has been cos-
mopolite. We have a sufficient testimony of this fact
in the eagerness with which his appearance
in other lands is welcomed, in the sympathy
with which his sentiments are responded to, in the
spontaneous gratulations with which he is loaded by
strangers, and strangers who are actually ignorant
of his language.
There is a deeper truthfulness in the indication of
the spirit of this civilised and advancing age afforded
by these !public entertainments to an English calico-
printer, and member of the British Parliament,
than is visible superficially. The truth avouched
at Paris, at Bordeaux, at Madrid, at Seville, at Cadiz,
that society is progressively attaining a moral eleva-
tion greater and more universal than it has ever
known before, is avouched, not so much by the giving
certain banquets, as by the enthusiasm there evinced,
not so much by the cordiality of the reception afforded
to a foreigner, as by the community of feeling mani-
fested among men who have been hitherto
separated from each other, and who are even
at the period of their meeting unacquainted with the
dialects in which they severally converse. It is
known that the immortal LIEDNITZ was engaged
during a considerable portion of his wonderful and
noble life in endeavouring to invent an universal
language. Had the philosopher sought his
materials in the elementary principles of
political economy, instead of in the elementary
principles of grammar, we think his aspirations
would have had a better chance of being realised.
lie would most speedily have disseminated an uni-
versal language throughout the world by advocating
and carrying into operation the system of free trade.
Already this effect is, to a considerable extent, pro-
, duced. Those who have lisped as children in the so-
norous tongue of LOPEZ DE VEGA, are on the advocacy of
the beneficent doctrines of free trade, enabled to com-
mune with one, who, as N% ORDSWORTII has nobly
sung, speaks to them "the language SHAKSPERE
spake." They are enabled to commune with their
English guest, but their communion is that of the
heart.

The merchants of Cadiz, loyal subjects of the
Bourbon dynasty as they are, coupled with the toast,
OTo QUEEN ISABELLA I" the toast "To QUEEN
VICTORIA I" the toast, "To RICHARD COB-
DEN I" There 'is a Marquis amongst those who
are desirous of honouring the English merchant and
statesman ; there is a Count ; there are men distin-
guished by the antiquity of their blood, and others
for their peculiar intelligence ; there is the editor of a
newspaper ; there are traders and private citizens—
almost every class had its representative 'in the
Casino. And what was the nature of the
sentiment coupled with the name of Mr. COBDEN ?
It was this—" May Heaven prolong his life, so as to
enable him to behold the complete triumph of his
sound doctrines throughout Europe as he has already
done in England !" When we listen to such an
aspiration as this coming from the lips of a Spaniard,
and responded to by the acclamations of a large body
of the most influential of his fellow-countrymen,
we believe we have substantial reasons for congratu-
lating the vast and increasing multitude of free-
traders. Those who croaked so lugubriously over the
prospective downfal of the system of affording eman-
cipation to commerce, will, we conjecture, feel
some amazement at the readiness with which
other nations are inoculated with the principles of
that admirable system.
As we have already reported in The Sun the pro-
ceedings at this interesting banquet in Cadiz, it would
be superfluous to comment in any measure upon the
simple, eloquent, appropriate, and graceful re-
marks uttered thereat by the champion of free
trade. It would have been almost sufficient for
him to have pronounced that assurance that
"he had seen many trades perish beneath the
destructive shadow of protection, but none, on the
contrary, fail to be invigorated by the salubrious
breezes of freedom ;" it would have been almost suffi-
cient fur him to have referred to that one year in
which Cadiz was blessed with a free port,
and during which it " enjoyed extraordinary pros-
perity ;" but the Hon. Member for Stockport
could not forego the opportunity which the occasion
presented to him for enlarging upon the advantages
conferred upon a commercial country by the removal
of the detriments of intolerable imposts. Never was
sickness of body the cause of so much and such use.
ful activity of mind. Mr. COBDEN is proving him-
self to be a philanthropist not merely in theory, but
in practice.

The Suabian Mercury, of the 22d, states that a
German merchant had arrived at Frankfort from
Cracow, where he had been some time established,
and does not intend to return to it, as he fears, from
the spirit of the people, that all German residents will
be in danger of losing their lives.
The Frankfort journals of the 21st state that the
Bourse of that city has recovered from the panic
caused by the news of the suppression of the inde-
pendence of Cracow.
The German Journal of Frankfort states that the
last decree, relative to the peasantry in Russian Po
land, has produced a sad impression. A Polish gen-
tleman near Warsaw, named WOLICKI, has been
murdered by his serfs.
The marriage in person of the Duke and Duchess
DE BORDEAUX took place at Bruck, in Styria, on
the 16th. The royal couple made a present of
1,000 francs to the church, and gave 2,500 francs to
the poor.

The King of BAVARIA, in consideration of the pre-
sent high prices of provisions, has made an increase
of 20 per cent. upon the salaries of all persons em
ployed under the Government, and of the performers
and other persons engaged at the Court theatre of
Munich.

The POPE has appointed Consuls for the principal
ports of Turkey, and his HOLINESS is about to send
an Ambassador to Constantinople to nEgotiate a
treaty for the purpose of securing to the Christian
subjects of the SULTAN the free exercise of their re-
ligion.

Madrid papers of the 19th have been received.
General FLORES arrived at Santander on the 11th,
and was to sail
in the course of a few days with
his expedition against the Ecuador Republic. The
seizure of the Glenelg and the two steamers in the
Thames will probably, however, delay the departure
of the expedition.

The 19th being the QUEEN'S fête day the Madrid
Bolsa was closed.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday,
in all of which the conduct to be pursued by England
and France, in regard to the affair of Cracow, is the
subject of comment.
The Journal des Davis is on the whole well
pleased with the tone adopted by the English press,
and expresses a hope that Lord PALMERSTON may
yet be induced to join M. GUIZOT in a protest against
the usurpation of the three Northern Powers. This
is a matter of immense importance to M. GUIZOT
personally, for it is currently reported in the salons
of Paris, that in the event of England persisting in
her resolution of protesting singly,
an immediate
change in the French Ministry will be the con-
sequence. This will perhaps account for the
energetic manner in which the French Ministerial
organ urges the necessity of a joint protest notwith-
standing its knowledge of the fact that Lord PAL..
MERSTON has already refused to make a joint protest,
and has, on behalf of England singly, already pro-
tested.
On the question of the renewal of the
English alliance we find the following
in the Constitutionnel, It is the bill of