The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-01 00:00:00

which seem only to occur to confound the vanity
of all human reasoning.

Resting ourselves upon the broad basis of prin-
ciple, we have, we trust, satisfactorily shown not
only that no advantage could be derived to the
public, in a pecuniary point of view, from be-
coming a trader, even with a monopoly, but
that the result must ultimately be an aggravated
repetition of all the confusion and ruin which
has hitherto attended every interference with the
natural course of commerce. If so, and if we
have before us, as in the case of Scotland, a
tried example of freedom in banking as well as
in other trades, with proofs of the immense ad-
vantages which have attended that freedom, why
should we hesitate in at once opening to our-
selves those same advantages, by following the
practice from which they have flowed ?

We perceive by the following note in the
present number of the New Monthly Magazhie,
that Mr. BULWER was rather premature in his
announcement respecting the Reduction of Duty
on Newspapers. An announcement which was
received by the Town " with feelings of the
highest gratification, as being the determination
of Ministers, after the assembling of Parliament,
to take off the whole of the Stamp Duty on
Newspapers, and which account was copied
into The Sun of Monday from the Town of
Sunday :

We had prepared an article on the stamp and adver-
tisement duties, but a desire for further information on the
subject, induces us to delay for the present its appearance.
Meanwhile a part of the article (unfortunately copied from
an incorrected sheet) having appeared in the Town news•
paper, and our remarks having received from that journal
an unmerited importance, and a sort of official air, we
beg to state, that they can only be considered the result of
our own hopes or expectations, and must not be ascribed
to any authorized statement of Ministers, or any definite
knowledge of the intention of the Cabinet (before which,
indeed, we believe the question his not yet been brought)."
We had some idea at the time, from our own
information on the subject, that there was some
mistake ; but we hesitate, from motives of deli-
cacy towards Mr. BULWER, from entering more
at large on a subject, which must soon engross
the attention of Parliament.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.)

FROM LLO Y D'S.

DEAL, JAN. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and remains
the Eliza, Dixon, from Sumatra.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Wind S.S.E.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived off
port the Juno, Nicol, from Ancona. Sailed his Majesty's
ships Revenge and Comus, for the westward.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Ar-
rived the Two Sisters, Hay don, from St. Michael's.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Forester, for the Coast of Africa.
CowEs, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Swan, Andrews, from
Singapore.
STANDGATE CREEK, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Milford,
Taylor, from Mogadore.
DOVER, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Lord of the Isles,
Baines, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. Arrived
off port the Elizabeth, Craigie, from Singapore, sailed
the 3d of September ; and Frances, Kerkens, from
Mauritius.

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Loyalist, Han-
son, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
POOLE, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Isabella, Hatchard,
from Lisbon, sailed the 29th October, bound to New-
foundland.

DARTMOUTH, JAN. 80.—Arrived the Heed, Norquoy,
from Sierra Leone, towed in with damage. Off port the
Ann, Gray, from Honduras.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Joanna, M'Kellar,
from Bengal ; Clyde, Thompion, from Maranham ; Ven-
ture, Cunningoarn, from Laguira; Lunenhurg, from
Haiifax; Bashaw, from Savannah ; New Jane, from
Smyrna ; and Emma, from Buenos Ayres. Off port the
Memnon, from Bengal ; and Princess Victoria, ditto, J.
and H. Cumming, from St. John's, N.B.
HOLYHEAD, JAN. 30.—Arrived off port the Parker,
from Demerara.

BREST, JAR. 26.—A French brig, name unknown,
from Bayonne to London, with skins, was lost on the Isle
de Sein, 24th inst.—crew saved.

The Amity, Peterbridge, of Yarmouth, was on the
rock, near Gun Point, Padstow, on Wednesday.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).