The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-05 00:00:00

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UNITED SILli
Within the past two years there has been a coroPleite,
revolution in our foreign export trade. We are no,' epas
porting articles of food in immense quantities to "1.-„.
Britain;. and the foreign demand for our staples liolo",
crea.sieg so rapidly that we can hardly supply it• rk,
cket ships are crowr4ed full of 11,er, grain, beef, 13)",
elle: se, &c. Cotton at present appears to be a set:oo3i
a:le itr shipment, and is taken prineipaily by transient.vesse's. Two-thirds of the aggrei:ate va:ue of our,:ril
ports, in former years, have been in the great souther,
staple; the planters of. the south have bean almost (S,
cht,ively benefited by the increase in our export tra
Is it was confined to the productions of their section
ogee,
the country. Our exports are now drawn from evel,
section of the Union: the wheat and corn of the we',
the productions of our northern dairies, are as rinP"rtfo
to the people of Great Britain at this time as- the are
e!
cotton, has been heretofore. The United S'iet!,l
are destined to occupy a position among
nations of the world second to none. We have furniOe
the raw material to clothe the people of every eciontrilj:
and we are rapidly becoming the granary of the w°l.,/,',
the com Men
sod the principal source of supply for food to feed the
most powerful and wealthy nation in existence. El;',E,
have been made to cultivate cotton in the East
but they have failed, and the manufacturers of Grsi,
Britain are compelled to consume that grown tb
country by slave labour. Ottr breadstuffs are becotoill
necessary to the existence of the operatives of lb'',
kingdom, and they will be compelled to admit them or,
the most favourable footing. Considering the iratOse,
extent of soil within our limits, our agricultural Pr./
ductions are very few, which can be attributed 09;
entirely to the want of markets. The population of
States is so limited that our surplus products are Willi;
ally large ; but with an external demand so large as the
opening of the ports of Great Britain would give us,„,o
growth of the principal grains would be immense. 1.0
western States alone would supply any deficiency in the
harvests of Europe, and nothing would enrich tbosl
States so much or so rapidly as an active demand for. j,
the breadstuffs they could produce. Our principal star:,
productions are so necessary to the nations of Eur°ri
_,, that they must have them. They must be fed Iwo
clothed, and in a few years we shall have to supply 'be
with the raw material for these purposes more eaten'
sively than we ever yet have, and our position, as a Pr,
'':
ducing and exporting country, is therefore every Ye",,
becoming vastly important.—American paper.

SUSPICIOUS CASE of POISON'S°
AT BROMLEY.
It may be within the recollection of the public, theill/
about eighteen months ago a young woman, tain.,l
Harslet Monkton, was found poisoned by prussic ale
at Bromley, under such circumstances as to leave hllej
doubt that she had been murdered. As so long a Per'to
has elapsed since the occurrence, it may 'not be amiss
briefly bring to the recollection of the r,ublic the eiretlll;
differentf this stool{mysteriou affir. It appeared, upon
inquiries that
jury, that the deceased was a 'young woman of resPeej
Pl_-ace upon the coronit,
able connexions in the neig,'abourhood of Bromley,
at the period in quest,',on she had come down fr°
London to see her friends
to going to a :
for a short period, peeparatl,
iaatam as governess in a familitioi
Arundel, in S'assex. She left her mother's house 10 '0
.Nrening in good health and spirits, and nothing En°o
was heaLed of her until she was feund dead in a privity
the of a Dissenting chapel at the back of the Bigo
st.:tet, Bromley. At first not the slightest suspicion °to
entertained that there had been any foul play, but f 0
circumstances that subsequently transpired, the coroneto
jury deemed it requisite that an adjournment Oleo
take place, in order that the surgeons who were o'4o
in might have an opportunity of making a post MO" 0
examination. This was accordingly done, when it To
discovered that the deceased was very far advance,' be
pregnancy, and that her death was occasioned
administration of a large dose of prussic acid. ber
It appeared quite clear, from the medical and 0t d
testimony, that it was almost impossible for the deceniv
to have herself administered the large quantity of dead
poison that was found on her stomach, and the infere°_..
was that it was given to her, and, from the evidenc;j
probably in the chap 1, where it was supposed she hdlr
gone to meet her seducer, and that afterwards the hnto
had been removed wh .re it was found, with a view'
,d
lead to the idea that the unhappy young woman
destroyed herself, or had died in a lit. One circurnstnii he
of great suspicion, however, arose in the mind of `r
Coroner's jury, which was the absence of any weapon,
instrument likely to produce death, or any vessel ca,e
lated to contain poison, and this chiefly occasioned,lbe
,
adjournment which led to the discovery above alludna:B
After two or three adjournments of the inquiry, V 1 R.i3O
no very material additional evidence was adduced,
Commissioners of Police employed Mr. Pearce, who 0:11;
at the head of the detective force, to prosecute the
quiry, and several meetings of the jury took place,
no fresh evidence calculated to throw any light upon
mysterious mysterious transaction was brought forward, and
length the matter seemed to have entirely dropped.
• The jury, or rather a considerable majority 01100
members, who felt a very strong impression that a Oda
foul crime had been committed, were determined,
ever, that the matter should be brought to F,ome issio
and they made repeated and pressing applicrotions r
Coroner to continue the inquiry. The Coroner, °lac
ever, refused to call the jury together to conclude uo,
inquiry ; and after repeated applications a. memorial Pd
within the last few days, been sent to tlae Secretary n
State, requesting him to interfere to compel the Coron,eo
to perform what the jury consider to be his duty. 4:0
answer was received on Friday from Sir James Gral3o
to the effect that the necessary steps will be taken t0h11,.0
a full inquiry into the circumstances of the case, and t'nj
no further delay shall take place ; and it is underst J
that a communication has been sant to the Coroner.,
such a character as will compel him to commence thee'
quiry.

TOBACCO.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treileill
having had under their consideration a memorial 11.;11
an eminent house, importers of tobacco, praying that
gy
leaf tobacco, or tobacco in an unmanufactured state,o"l
be allowed to be imported from the United States 0
America into this country, in packages of the $511:„,
weight in which the same description can be legally
ported from the place of its growth; the CommissionfA
of the Customs have received a letter from Mr. Card
well, one of the secretaries to the Lords of the Trease,Ji
stating that he has been commanded by their Lords%
to authorise.the Board to give directions for a corcel
ante with the request, and that he was further authorisb—,
to direct that the requisite alteration may be made in,l
law in the next Customs' Amendment Act, for allowle,f,
tobacco, the produce of Mexico, South America, or tut,
islands of St. Domingo and Cuba, to be imported Why
the United Kingdom in bales containing 801bs. weigh,
each from any place from which it may be legally iira
ported for home use. He was likewise further desirto
to authorise them, pending the alteration of the law, 0
give directions for the admission of the said tt bacco, in
packages of the size proposed, as recommended by theo
Their Lordships having also had under their consideril.
tion a memorial from another party- interested in t"
growth of tobacco at Trinidad, praying that tobacco,
produce of that island, may be allowed to be importer.
into this country in packages of the same size as tho.l
sanctioned for tobacco the produce of South America ar''
St. Domingo, a further communication has been rt'
ceived from Mr. Cardwell, stating that he has been cot"'
mantled by their Lordships to authorise the Beard e
give directions for a compliance with the request in )3!g
matter as in the other alluded to. These several pi/
leges, :vhich have been repeatedly prayed for $ll
granted in special instances, in regard to the importutie:,,
of tobacco, in anticipation of the alteration of the RP"
have been made general and communicated to the re'
venue officers of the various departments in Lon don,o
at the outports throughout the kingdom, for their infor
Illation and future government in the matter. The strict
provisions of the law with respect to the importr,tion
tobacco, except in packages of large size and r„eight,
in order to prevent the smuggling of the artir;le, to which
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considerable likelihood attaches, owing to ',he heavy rate
of duty leviable thereon. Tobacco con)
legally imported, being the produce e:f the islands
menu
ti died, in South America, except in packages of a certsd
7 I not hitherto be
aofptrhoepodritffircnualfb•
to relax then trict provisions
acr' it is deemed necessa%
in
the law in that particulo'
descrip ion, as well as weight,
from the place of growth toof removing the tobacce
the port of shipment, unless
in light-weighted and Phi
able description, it havirg to be carried on the backs
camels anti other be tievs of burden across an extensive
pc(a)cnkseacigues;;
tract of .iesart inland country to the port of embarkation
for stipment to its destination.

WELLS,
J Ali. I.—A sloop, munk in about tbrieB.,
fathoms, with topmast struck, was passed about six
mild
frem the land N.N.W. of this port, by the Robert and Catlw
rine, arrived here. The W. S. R. of Boston, which was 0
shore at Brancaster, has been got off with little damsgl
after throwing part of her cargo overboard. —ll rorfoi
chronicle.