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

COMMERCIAL POSITION OF TO

UNITED STATES.
let 6
Within the past two years there has been a con3P %.
revolution in our foreign export trade. We are now e
porting articles of food in immense quantities to Grey
Britain; and the foreign demand for our staples isn
pace -t iar
creasing so rapidly that we can hardly supply it.
pact ships are crowded full of flour, grain, beef; riff
cheese, &c. Cotton at present appears to be a seconliso
article for shipment, and is taken principally by transle
vessels. Two-thirds of the aggregate value of our eo
r
ports, in former years, have been in the great souther,
o
staple; the planters of the south have been almost
elu:ively benefited by the increase in our export tvWroe
as it was confined to the productions of their section
ti
the country. Our exports are now drawn from efe4s,
section of the Union: the wheat and coin of the '''e;ol
the productions of our northern dairies, are as impnrtt
to the peoi.le of Great Britain at this time as the gies,
staple, cotton, has been heretofore. The United 61_,,s i,l
are destined to occupy a position among the comnier',d
nations of the world second to none. We have furnis,,,vg,
the raw material to clothe the people of every cotill,
and we are rapidly becoming the granary of the sOrtbe
and the principal source of supply for food to feed:rp
most powerful and wealthy nation in existence. Eijuo
have been made to cultivate cotton iu the East Inul.o
but they have failed, and the manufacturers of arth-ji
Britain are compelled to consume that grown in %
country by slave labour. Our breadstuffs are beconts
necessary to the existence of the operatives oft'op
kingdom, and they will be compelled to admit them "Poe
the most favourable footing. Considering the irapiera.
extent of soil within our limits, our agricultural,..,rol
ductions are very few, which can be attributed Biro
entirely to tho want of markets. The population 01
States is so limited that our surplus a products are ally
ally large ; but with an external demand so large as the
opening of the ports of Great Britain would give now
growth of the principal grains would be immense. lb.
western States alone would supply any deficiency
harvests of Europe, and nothing would tnrich tb
States so much or so rapidly a?, an active demand for je
the breadstuffs they could produce. Our principal silo
productions are so necessary to the nations of Eirgral
that they must have them. They must be fen,-0
clothed, and in a few years we shall have to supply o„ii,
with the raw material for these purposes more env
sively than we ever yet have, and our position, as II Poo
ducing and exporting country, is therefore every
becoming vastly important.—American paper.

TOBACCO.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trefistifloo
having had under their consideration a memorial 11.0
an eminent house, importers of tobacco, praying that
leaf tobacco, or tobacco in an unmanufactured statetlpd
be allowed to be imported from the United State!,‘
America 'into this country, in paekages of the
weight in which the same description can be legally
ported from the place of its growth; the Commission:a,
of the Customs have received a letter from Mr. Cti
wed, one of the secretaries to the Lords of Tiens,,°ro
;;0
stating that he has been commanded by their Lordsl
to authorise the Board to give directions for a eon?)
!ince with the request, and that he was further authoristy
to direct that the requisite alteration may be made in.i
law in the next Customs' Amendment Act, for allool,ohs
tobacco, the produce of Mexico, South America, or ;0
islands of St. Domingo and Cuba, to be imported 1,111
the United Kingdom in bales containing 80Ibs. wet,
each from any place from which it may be legally ld
ported for home use. He was likewise further desiro
to authorise them, pending the alteration of the 10' p
give directions for the admission of the said ti bacco,
packages of the size proposed, as recommended by tbrte
Their Lordships having also had under their conejuethi
tion a memorial from another party interested in by
growth of tobacco at Trinidad, praying that tebacco,
produce of that island, may be allowed to be inlVtrtd
odi
into this country in packages of the same size as Li' ;I:
sanctioned for tobacco the produce of South America I
St. Domingo, a further communieation has been rd
ceived from Mr. Cardwell, stating that he has been Co
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manded by their Lordships to authorise the 80n1.140
give directions for a compliance with the request in "0
matter as in the other alluded to. These several Pry"
leges, which have been repeatedly prayed for rOO
granted in special instances, in regard to the imports yo,
of tobacco, in anticipation of the alteration of the Ore,
have been made general and communicated to the d
venue officers of the various departments in London, :or
at the outports throughout the kingdom, for their ifit.d
'nation and future government in the matter. The Ol d
provisions of the law with respect to the importation
tobacco, except in packages of large size and weigh
in order to prevent the smuggling of the article, to W';te
considerable likelihood attaches, owing to the heavy the
of duty leviable thereon. 'Tobacco could not hithert°o,
legally imported, being the produce of the islands 13),:i0
tuned, io South America, except in packages of a cent 11
description, as well as weight, and it is deemed neeesig
to relax the strict provisions of the law in that partinil„co
its consequence of the difficulty of removing the tobgeo
from the place of growth to the port of shipment, i'
in packages of a proportionably light-weighted anq.,,'of
able description, it having to be carried on the bees-are
camels and other beasts of burden across an extens!oa
tract of desert inlr,nd country to the port of embarlattl
for shipment to its destination.

WELLS, JAN. I.—A sloop, sunk in about thr e°
ire'
fathoms, with topmast struck, was passed about six 131,0,
from the land N.N.W. of this port, by the Robert and Cat 00
rine, arrived here. The W. b. R., of Boston, which 1050,
shore at Brancaster, has been got off with little dalo,/k
after throwing part of her cargo overboard.—serf
Chronicle.

BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst., at Edinburgh, the if of Captain P-srt?
son, late of the 4th Light Dragoons, of a son.
On the 28th ult., at Croydon, Surrey, Mrs. John .Arib°
Emberson, of a son.
On the 28th ult., the lady of Walter Meller, Esq., Of
ton Villas, Maida-vale, of a son.
On the 29th ult., in Upper Seymour-street West, /4i+
Stephen Denison, of a daughter.
On the 31st ult., at Kennington, Mrs. Teevan, of a so /;:ef
On the Ist inst., at Vincent-square, the wife of the
William Jephson, of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Caledonian-place, Clifton, the ladf
Major Anderson, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
viole°
On the Ist inst., at Hackt horn,Gervaise Tottenham -
Sibthorp, Esq., to Louisa, third daughter of Robert Cole
Esq., of Hackthorn and Harrington, Lincoln.
On the Ist inst., at Sevenoaks, James Edward
Waite, Esq., M.R.C.S., to Eleanor Rosa, second daugbt''
the Rev. William Presgrave, A M.

• . DIED.
On the 30th ult., Mr. Dill Baker, of Oxford-street. lr
On the 31st ult., in High-street, z.lusanna,youngest daub
ter of the late Mr. W. A. Hawkins. 1%
On the Ist inst., at Old Chapel-row, Kentish-L(W°'
Thane, Esq., aged 64.
Massey'
of
On the 2d inst., John Gibbs, only son of John
Brunswick-place, Regent's-park, Eq., aged 26.
On the 2d inst., in Sussex-place, Kent-road, 111°9°
Willey, Esq., purser, R.N.
On the 2d inst., at Olney, Bucks, Hugh Maltby, FA
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Middlesex, Monday, January 5, 1846.