The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

EXPORTS.

Sugar has brought from 225. to 30s. per I,ooolbs.
Rutn—The very small quantity at market has caused
an advance in the price of this article. It may now be
quoted at 4s. Id. to 4s. 3d. per gallon, at which rates it
is taken as fast as it is supplied.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

Planters' Bank-90 days, par; 60 days, per cent.
prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem.; sight, 1/ per cent.
prem.
Jamaica Bank-90 days, par; 60 days, / per cent.
prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent prem.
Colonial Bank-60 days, per cent. prem.; 30 days, 1
per cent. prem.

The following is a list of the Tay's passengers:—
Mr. Escomdon and family, Mr. Lestapis, Danish
Consul, and servant, and Mr. Mitchell, R.N., from Vera
Cruz ; Mr. Soden and Mr. Grebow, from Havannah;
Mr. F. Marriott and Mr. Calvet, from Chagres; Mr.
Glenara, from Santa Martha; Mr. Castella, from St.
Jago de Cuba; Lieutenant Jarvis, 38th Regiment, and
Mrs. Jarvis, Captain Cowan, and Captain Howell, 2d
West India Regiment, from Jamaica; Mr. Cameron,
Mr. Harthill, and Mr. Schroeder, from Demerara; Mr.
Armour, from Trinidad; Mr. Shiel and family, from
Montserrat; Mr. Koscinski, died on board, from Gua-
daloupe; Mr. Hay, from Nevis; Mr. Broomfield, from
St. Thomas's; Mr. Macarthy, Captain and Mrs. Wulff,
Rt.)) al Engineers, and Master Beaseley and servant,
from Nassau; the Rev. Mr. Cambpell, chaplain, from her
Majesty's dockyard, Bermuda; five invalided seamen
_ _

(tour from her Majesty's ship Endymion, one from
Imaum); eighteen distressed British subjects, from
llavannah; Mr. Murray, chief engineer, and Mr.
Stevens, second ditto, from the royal mail steam•packet,
Reindeer.

The mails of the Tay were in charge of Lieutenant
Brand, Admiralty agent, and were dispatched to
town by the one o'clock train this morning.

STATE OF IRELAND.

We really cannot gratify the most sanguine part of
the public with the faintest intimation of an improve-
ment in the prospects of Ireland. That country still
shows what Falstaff calls a sort of alacrity at sinking.
The most consolatory reflection that one can possibly
entertain is, that in this instance one is pretty sure to
know the worst. No class in that island ever hides its
grief. A whole cluster of western isles might be depo.
pulatcd without the British public being aware of the
casualty. In Ireland, on the contrary, we are sure to
have ample, not to say redundant, notice of the danger.
Could all classes only agree in their story, we might be
thankful fur the warning. Unhappily, however, every
class is proclaiming its own grievances, and endeavour-
ing to save itself in a general calamity. Such a cala-
mity there is, and common sense, as well as common
feeling, suggests that all should divide the burden, and
everybody make up his mind to be somewhat the worse
for it. England is doing its part nobly, and is likely to
suffer, nay, it already suffers, in consequence.
Would that the exertions and sacrifices of
the State met with a like return. For the in-
struction of Ireland herself, and of all the nations
of the earth, it may be as well just to men-
tion what the Imperial Government is doing. At a few
weeks' notice, it is employing and feeding, according to
the last published account, 273,000 men, with the daily
addition of thousands to the list. The payment of a
quarter of a million a month from the Treasury is found
insufficient. That, of course, is not to be wondered at.
The most moderate computation of 273,000, whether
lounging about at ls. a day, or doing task-work to bring
in something more, together with the expense of sur-
veying, measuring, overlooking, paying, implements,
carts, wheelbarrows, &c., runs up to a sum we are afraid
to mention. All this is done from the ordinary resources
of the Treasury, and the ordinary Government staff.
The public works, the relief labourers—all the persons,
places, and things relating to the operation, are to be
selected at once. It is no exaggeration to say, that a
more gigantic task was never undertaken. Cmsar
thought himself a very fine fellow because in three or
four weeks he inside a dyke and a wall sixteen feet
high and nineteen miles long to keep the Hel-
vetians from molesting the province; and Napo-
leon had probably some misgivings that he was
trenching upon the superhuman when he attempted to
march half a million men across Europe and establish
them in the midst of a Muscovite winter. But for a
work of peace to be done with the exactest regard not
merely to justice but to equity, and even more delicate
considerations, we think the task thrown upon the Go-
vernment in Ireland may safely challenge comparison
with any human achievement. Here was an act of
charity, a social reform, a thousand local improvements
atad engineering undertakings to be done out of hand,
while the people declared themselves dying for hunger.
That a work like this should really be well done, it is
absolutely insane to expect, and impudent to demand.
It would be just as unreasonable as to dream that Na-
poleon's half million, on the above occasion, should
march from Paris to Moscow, and back again, with no
more inconvenience to their persons and their wardrobes
than if they were performing a few dusty evolutions
in the plain of St, Denis or the Champ de Mars.
What our Government has had to do in a hurry
is a work that would exceed the most deliberate fore-
thought and the best prepared means. It is a work of
salvage. Human millions are to be saved any how. It
must be done roughly. But who are we really to thank
for all this? They who have set their faces like a flint
for these many years against a good poor-law—they
who have constantly and expressly declared that it was
better the people should certainly perish, than that
there should be the least risk of the rent being so al-
lowed up in rates—they who have always maintained
that the right of mendicancy was a sufficient poor-law
for Ireland—they who have seen with complacency
myriads of poor destitute creatures, aged, widowed,
orphaned, fed by precarious collections made up of
handfuls of meal and single potatoes from the doors of
those who were almost as poor as themselves—they who
even now, with a millstone of debt being actually tied to
their necks, with a population arming itself almost en
masse, and manipulated in bands by the only, though
desperate, remedy attempted, still, true to their instinct,
struggle and protest against a good poor-law.
Yet we arc told that there is a want of sympathy
on this side of the Channel, as well as a want of intel-
ligence, a want of discrimination, and so forth. The true
want is the wretched deficiency of local agents, local in-
stitutions, local aid of every kind to the Government.
The reality of sympathy, we should think, is sufficientli
shown by the readiness with which the British public
acquiesces in a drain upon the Treasury which, besides
that it will for some years offer a serious impedi,neni to
any of those fiscal reductions which the commerce of
England requires, and the industry of England deserv,i.s,
operates at this moment most seriously, not to say air-
astrously, on the money-market of England. Every
tradesman who finds that he is obliged to limit his
operations, to reduce his orders, to dismiss his workmen,
to turn his investments into cash, because he cannot get
assistance on the usual terms, has partly to thank that
long train of Irish misgovernment, which has ended in
throwing three or four millions at once on the Imperial
Treasury. So much for the proof of our sympathy—a
proof of a very substantial character. As for the want
of perfect success in the application of our relief, it is
enough to say, as we have said, that it is above the power
of man. It is impossible to find a commissariat fur
8,000,000 at a moments notice.—Tines.

TUE ESQUIDIAUX.—The young stranger, yclept
Kookie Ekie, brought here (Kirkaldy) some weeks ago
by one of the whale ships of this port, has, since his
sojournin this town, not only become an object of
attraction to the commuity, but has been taken under
the special patronage of the gentry, who have bestowed
on him every kindness and attention. They have
metamorphosed his condition of life, from that of a ruda
denizen of nature's wilderness, to a smart looking sprig
of gentility, by having dressed him in a new suit of
fashionable clothes. His savage dress of seal skin he
only resumes when invited to visit any of the baronial
seats in the neighbourhood, such as Raith, Dysart,
Whinge, Wemyss Castle, &c., where he has shown
with what dexterity he can use the bow and the spear,
and, when convenient, manage his canoe, which imple-
ments he always takes with him on such occasions. He
seems a lad about 14 or 15 years of age, stout made,
broad features, dark sharp eyes, jet black glossy hair,
with a little tinge of sallow in his comple.xion, and
seems quite at home. As he is apt to learn, it is to be
hoped that the experienced teacher under whose tuition
he is placed will use every endeavour to pour instruc-
tion into his untutored mind. We also are informed
that Captain Kinnear, with whom be is domiciled,
pledged himself to his parents to take him home on his
return to the country neat spring.—,Fje Herald.