The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-02 00:00:00

servile war. That servile war took ',place in the
very winter following the session of Parliament
in which the Duke of [Wellington had proved,
as satisfactorily as the Whigs and the Edinburgh
Review now do, that all the interests of the
country were prospering ! While this blindness
on the part of our rulers continues nothing will
be done for the improvement of the condition of
the labouring population. We would disabuse
the Ministers of the impressions made by their
cringing, fawning, and deceitful flatterers, that
they may become wise before it is too late, and
avert from the country the consequences of the
misery and discontent of large masses of the
people. The case at the Norfolk Sessions ex-
hibits a state of distress which, we are sorry to
say, is too generally characteristic of the condition
of the peasantry of England. It is a doctrine
of some political economists that poor laws
ought to he done away with, and the poor
left to live or starve as they could. We
believe that if the country were governed
wisely the necessity for poor laws would
he confined to the aged, blind, and sick, the
healthy and able-bodied labourer would have
sufficient employment to enable him to dispense
with parochial relief—but it is too much to re-
quire that those who are deprived of the.means
of earning their bread by a had system of go-
vernment shall be left to perish. Until Govern-
ment protects the interests of the many in pre-
ference to that of the few, we must choose be-
tween a system that gives adequate relief to the
poor or one that drives them to desperation.
Ireland is an example from which we learn how
much more expensive and difficult it is to govern
a pauper population without poor-laws than with
them. If in this country the over- eers take
lessons from the political economists of the school
of MacCulloch and Miss Martineau—if they
only contrive how they can screw down the poor
to a starvation allowance while the circumstances
of the country puts well-paid employment out
of their reach, they may, even with the nominal
relief of the poor laws, reduce this country to
the wretched condition of Ireland, and revive
the horrors of the days of Wat Tyler and Jack
Cade.—Morning Herald.
The public attention will naturally at the pre-
sent moment be directed to the official statement
of the financial situation of Holland, which has
been laid beiore the States-General by the
Minister of the King of the Netherlands. This
document, which will be found in another part
of our paper, is chiefly interesting as it serves to
show how foolish and unprincipled arc the at-
tempts which have of late been prosecuted with
so much malignant industry by the organs of the
British Ministry to represent the financial affairs
of the Dutch Government as in a course of
progressive dilapidation, in order, if possible, to
impair the public credit of a State the prudence
and integrity of which have always been pre-
eminent. This official statement establishes the
important fact that the expenditure of the
Government of the King of the Nether-
lands, notwithstanding the costly efforts it
has been compelled to make in order to
be constantly in readiness to assert and main-
tain its rights—notwithstanding the posture
into which it has been forced of resistance to the
unjust and unreasonable wishes of the most
powerful Monarchies of Europe—is at this mo-
ment actually less than it was in the year 1815,
when Holland was the cherished ally, the object
of well-founded gratitude and esteem, to all the
great European States, with the single exception
of France. But this is not all. The present
expenditure of Holland is shown to consist, to
the extent of one fourth of its aggregate amount,
of charges which will entirely cease whenever
the renewal of her ordinary relations with the
other European States shall be brought about.
In the meanwhile, her resources, dependent on
the habitual industry of her subjects, and fostered
by a degree of domestic concord, in which she
has no rival among the European nations, are
wholly unimpaired, notwithstanding the severe
calamities she has suffered, and the dangers to
which she yet remains exposed.—Morning Post.

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON MARKETS.

(From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.)
SUGAR.—We mentioned on Friday last a general re-
duction of 6(1. to Is. per cwt. in Muscovades: the fall
has since been fu ly confirmed, and during the present
week the currency has been still declining ; the Market is
very heavy ; the estimated sales for the whole week are
only 2,000 blids. and trcs., at a further decline of 61 to
Is. per cwt. The holders of Refined hive evinced more
mness this week ; 325. is freely offered for double Refined
Crashed, but the holders are wore firm at 335. ; a few
large Lumps of the best manufacture have sold at 645. 641.
This afternoon there is very little alteration in the prices
of Refined, and the quantity of goods offering continues
very small, particularly of the low descriptions ; for the
fine ,orts for export (entitled to the bounty on double-
rfined) there has been more inquiry, and some sales were
made at the quotations ; some of the Refiners are not quite
so eager to effect sales.

MAURITIUS Suiamt.—The two public sales of Mauii.
tit's, 2,075 tags, sold considerably under the last sale, but
fully as high as the Market prices by pi ivate contract, and
rather higher than West India Sugars; very ord. brown
sold 475. 6d. a 48s. 6d., good to fine strong hrog n 535.
a 54, 6'. , low soft to mid, i,right grocery yellow 54.5. 6d.
a 575. By aale this day :0.7 hags Mauritius, which
were sold ar 48a. a 5-Ls., rather lower.

EAST INDIA SUGAR.-The Est India sale on Wednes-
day, 7,134 bags Bengal, sold 4s. lower than the sale of
21st of August, but at Is. higher than the general valua-
tions or the prices by private contract; to good
white 23a. 6 a 295. 6d. In other East Indi S.ugars
no sa!e• are reported ; there is some inquiry for Siam and
Manilla Sugars, fur a parcel of the ;atter pod colon:- 23e.
b-en refos,d.

FOKEIG N SC GA RS. —Foreio Sugars are this week ls.ed.
a 2s. 1 making the reduction the same as West India
Sugars, say about bs. below the late highest prices; the
dAles are fair yillow Havannah 255. a 261. for 200 boxes;
by public ask 460 mixes fair mid. strength, low yellow
235. 6d., mid. 21s. a 245. 6d., and good greyish yellow
255. ; 200 chests brown Bahia off the coast were 8010,
deliver ible at Hamburg at 20s. 6,1.
SPICKS.—At public sales 1,403 bags of Pepper were
offered, of which only a part sold at previous prices, ord.
half heavy 3id., good half heavy 4id., very heavy at sd.
Plinento sold id. lower, old, at 44-d. a 41d., mid, to
fine 41d. a 4iil.

Extensive sales of Pepper, consisting of 5,200 bags
mid. and good Milabar, and about 900 bags ord. and good
Straits, have taken place this day, at a further decline of
a id., making a decline of 30 per cent. from the late
Alarket point ; for the former there was at unusual com-
petition at 31:d. a 4d. per lb., at which the whole was
sold, ord. stalky Straits 3al. a 34:1., and 3-id. good hall
heavy.---3,021 bags Bengal and Malabar Ginger went off
well at 345. a 335.-215 chests Cassia were offered,
being chiefly ord., coarse, and foxy, part sold 775. a 795.;
the remainder bought in at 858.-24 bales Cinnamon
withdrawn.

COCIIINEAL.—The demand continues very mad date;
good silvers are now offering at 71. Stl. a Is. 6d. per lb.,
being about 2s. under the price a few weeks ago.
LAC DYE.—At public sale yesterday 41 chests fair
quality sold with some spirit at Is. 3d. a Is. 4d. per lb.,
being an advance of Id. to 2d., and altogether there was
more disposition to buy.
MC:E.—Rice is very heavy, 1,010 bags good white
Bengal at public sale, all taken in at 14 . a 15s. This
day by public sale 896 bags East Jollat Rice, bold good
white Bengal sold 14s. a 14s. 6d., being 6d. a Is. lower,
and good Patna kind 16s. 6d. a 179.
COTTON.—The busitie‘s done in Cott in during the past
month hat been extremely limited, and at irregular ai,d
lower prices ; our present quotations are little tnure than
nomin .1. By public sale this day 1,400 bales of Surat•,
about 900 of which were sold, chiefly of good qualit;