The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-18 00:00:00

FREE TRADE-SHIPPING INTEREST.

(From the Scots Times.)
Notwithstanding the many proofs to the con-
trary which the experience of every year is affording
to our Conservative brethren, they still rais, the
insane cry that the liberal measures of Mr. Huskis-
son, in 1827, have ruined the shipping interest of
Britain, and thrown the carrying trade into the
hands of foreigners. It matters not to them that
vast numbers of new vessels are still building in our
dock-yards—they actuaqy believe, or at least over-
book, the monstrous and incredible consequence,
that rather than relinquish ship-building, ship-
owners will court loss and ruin. It matters not to
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position...t seaports
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admit
neither argument nor fact, but always recur to their
thrice refuted assertion. Thus one of them, who
shall be nameless, had the hardihood t'other day to
give an account, ostensibly from Gore's Liverpool
Advertiser, of the number of ships that entered
Liverpool from European ports in the List month,
by which it is made to appear that only 25 British
vessels were reported, whilst there were 55 foreign.
Nobody who knows any thing of the trade of Li-
verpool could be' gulled by such a statement, and
accordingly the fair statement of the commerce at
Liverpool during the last month, thus appears in the
Liverpool ?Times :
" 'rue ou:noer of vessels which entered Liverpool and
Runcorn, from August 25 to September 24, was 986,
burden 151,899 tons. Of those which entered Liver-
pool, 775 were British, and 107 foreign."
If it be said that Liverpool is not a proper ex-
ample, the prosperity of the port being exceedingly
rapid, and its commerce fast rivalling that of London,
we answer that all the ship owners of the country
have not moved to Liverpool, and that at all events
it is a fair specimen of the commerce of the country.
We do not enter into the question of the shipping
of a particular port—it is the shipping of Britain,
compared with that of the world, that we speak of,
and whatever port or ports our ships may enter, it
is enough for our argument, that they preponderate,
and in a still greater ratio since Mr. Huskisson's
views were adopted. But let us take the example
of a port in the opposite condition from that of Li-
verpool. Hull presents an instance in point, and
fortunately we are enabled to quote from a Parlia-
mentary document just printed. Throwing 1827
out of view, we give a Table of Vessels entering
the port of Hull in the last five years:—

BRITISIT. FOREIGN.
Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons.
1828 881 ... 156,925
1829 ... 883 ... 165,790
1830 897 163,617
1831 ... 974 187,361
1832 ... 762 ... 140,788
Tnis Table speaks for itself—our Conservative
friends cannot contradict the evidence of figures.
Thus, in 1828 the tonnage of Foreign vessels
amounted to less than three-eighth parts of the
tonnage of British—in 1829 it fell to about a third
part—in 1830, in 1831, and in 1832, it regularly
continued to decline, until in the latter year it was
I•ttle more than one-fourth part. This is a calcula-
tion which every reader may make for himself—it
seems to us to set the question at rest.
It will not be denied that the merchants of
Hull have every reason to look sharply after their
own interests, and to revive, if possible, the declining
.rode of their port. We naiglir, theref ire, expect-
from the press of that town a luMentation over the
ell', cis of free trade, if to such a source the declen-
tin should be traced. But-so fat from fitidini2 any
rionsence of this sort, we iii,rero quire the revrr-e,
and the conduct of the Hull prt-•s should shut ti•e
mouth% we think, of Coo-er,srive growlers over
the whole k,,,g410m, and bring them to aelon.o.ledge
tie wisdom ttf the policy introduced by Nlr.
Iluskisson. What, then, says the most inde-
pendent newspaper in Hull ? While reluctantly
admitting the condttion of the port, and pointing
out the causes of its decline, it never dreams of
adducing the Free Trade, ur reciprocity system, as
one of these causes. On the contrary, it tells i•s
readers with equal candour and truth, trial a" glance
at the document will exhibit the grotan•dess natu a
of that complaint so dear to the despisers of p•
rival economy, that the system upheld by Mr.
Iliskisson has given employment to foreigners to
the exclusion of our own people. On the con•iarf,
we find that in the years 1809, 10 arid I I, beto•e
the cord reciprocity' was heard of, the foreign ton-
nage entered inwards at Hull far exceeded that of
our own country; and indeed, in 1810, it nearly
tripled British tonnage."

It is stated, on the authority of a Lisbon let-
ter received by the last peke-, that at the last Court day,
when Donna Maria was seated upon a throne to receive
the company, Don Pedro insisted that his own spouse
should sit by her side. This step, it is slid, excited so
much general disgust, that some persons who had arrived
at the Palace in order to be presented instantly withdrew.
—Morning Post.

On Friday last the Rev. Henry Collison,
A.M., was instituted to the Rectories of East Bilney and
Beetley, in the county of N4rf ilk, on the presentation of
William Cillison, E,q., of East Bilney, aforesaid.

BRIGHTON, OCT. 16.—For some days
active preparations have been in progress at the Pavilion
for the reception of the Court, who are expected to honour
this town with their presence either on the 26th or 28th
of this month. The inhabitants intend to welcome their
Majesties' arrival by a brilliant di‘plty of fireworks on the
Sreyne, immediately facing the Pavilion.

The new steam-ship Monarch started from
Blackwall on Siturday evening last, and made the passage
to Edinburgh in the unprecedented abort time of 40 hours.

The following ships have been ordered to be
built in Chat ham Deck-yard:—The Goliath, SO guns;
Cumberland, 70 guns; and Active, 36 guns.

The report of the intention of Ministers to
send out additional troops to the West Indies was re-
peated last night in the military circles of the Service
Clubs.

STEAM CARRIAGES.—A Meeting of the
Subscribers to Heaton's Steam Carriage Company was
held on Monday last at the Union Tavern, when a Com-
mittee of fifteen shareholders was appointed for the en-
suing year. According to the prospectus originally
issued, 2,000 shares at 10/. each were all that it was in-
tended to dispose of ; hut in less than twenty-four hours
no fewer than 3,000 were eagerly purchased. Messrs.
Heaton are now preparing machinery for four engine!, and
al:: Company calculate on commencing to run them in the
month of ninth next, on some short line of road in this
Abourhood.—Birmingham Gazette.

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fine thoughts are overlooked, and a Thousand valuable
and
philosophical truth, are thrust aside and forgotten; in'"Ti
of delight and instruction, and serious truth, we obtain
nothing more than the gratification of our curiudity.
Though this work be a fashionable novel par excellence,
it i• so far from being formal and superficial, that it is one
of the moat philosophical and deeply •thinking fictions that
we have ever read, not even excepting tho:e ut the illus.
mous Goethe; and the thoughts are maremareso living by
the drapery, the scenery, vie eloquence of the Work, that
we are scarcely aware of [hot: profundity till Eli y have:settled theinselvesioto our minds in the form of serious
and weighty truths.