The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

GENERAL REMARKS.

The market has been unusually quiet during the past
fortnight; but owing to the moderate receipts, prices
have been generally well sustained. Business with the
provinces is likely to be checked to some extent by the
re-appearance of cholera in an epidemic form in the
parish of St. Janiei, and its prevalence on the south-
side districts.

The weather has been unusually severe throughout
he island.

REVIEW OF DIARYETS.
[Unless specifically stated to the contrary, long, or
duty paid prices are always given, and are to be con-
sidered as wholesale prices. In filling small orders,
higher rates have to be paid.]
Butter—lrish continued to advance in value imme-
diately after our last issue, and 10id. to 11d., and sub-
sequently (for 50 firkins of the last receipt) 12d. was
obtained. The stock is light, and holders are firm, at
the last named rate. Halifax in tubs and kegs has
been place at 9d., and American, in kegs, at the same
figure.
__ _

-Oil—Cod has been selling freely at 2s. iid. per gallon.
A parcel of 20 casks lard has been placed at 4s. 3d. to
48. 6d.

Lard—ls rather inactive at Sd per lb.
Pork—Mess is held for 945. per barrel. Prime is
quiet. No sales have transpired beyond the usual retail
operations.

- Salmon—No. 1 has been moving freely at 725. per brl.
Hams—lrish are iu excessive supply, and difficult
of sale. Primo Lancashire are becoming scarce, and
are worth Sid. per lb. There are very few American
at market.

Soap—We have no operations of any moment to
report.

Candles—Are inactive at 6d. to 6id. per lb. 300
boxes Cooke's have changed hands at the last-nasnied
figure.

-Cheese—Double Gloucester of prime quality is wanted.
All the parcels by the last arrival from Liverpool were
worm-eaten.

Lumber—White pine is abundant and inactive. We
quote it at 725. to 765. per 1,000 feet.
Beef—A parcel of 50 barrels has been moved at 50s.
in bond. No other operations of any moment have oc-
curred.
Tongues—lrish pigs, in half barrels, are wanted.
Brandy—The stock is declining, but we have pat
hoard that prices have advanced.
Geneva—May be quoted at 7s. per case in bond.
Corn—United States is worth 7s. to Bs. per bag of
two bushels. The market is bare of South American.
Rum—Has been placed at 35. lid. to 3s. 3d. per
gallon, duty paid.
Sugar—Fair is very scarce, and would command 18s.
to 205.; dark and middling bring 14s. Gd. to 16s, 6d.
Some parcels of very dark have been sold at 108. to 13s.
per 1001bs.
Pimento—May be quoted at 3-1-d. per lb. The re-
ceipts are still on a moderate scale.
Coffee—There is not any at market.
Logwood is worth 365. per ton.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Colonial Bank-90 days, 31 per cent, premium.
IP 77 60 days, Iper cent. premium.
30 days, 1, per cent premium.
Of
Jamaica Bank-90 days, per cent. premium.
St fIP 60 days, 1 per cent. premium.
77 ,f 30 days, per cent. premium.
Merchants' Bills, 90 days, par.
ON NEW YORK.
Merohaata' Bills, 60 days, 1 per cent. premium.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE VOTE

BY BALLOT.

It will, we doubt not, be in the recollection of our
readers, that about,six or seven weeks ago we stated
that we had the best reason to believe that, notwith-
standing all Lord John Russell's previous hostility to
the ballot, he had then begun to waver on the subject,
and even to feel inclined to make secret voting a part
of the new Ministerial measure of Reform. We are
now enabled to state, in positive terms, that the Pre-
mier is prepared to acquiesce in the vote by ballot,
provided he can get his colleagues in the Cabinet to
concur with him. The ground on which the Noble
Lord reconciles his present readiness to agree to the
ballot with his previous decided
opposition to it, is
this—that while he still thinks it is unnecessary, in-
asmuch as a fair expression of the opinion of the
electoral body can be obtained without it, he does
not, on the other hand, see that it can do any harm,
and as the great bulk of the people are clamorous
for it, and deem it indispensable to the election of
proper persons to represent them in Parliament, he
does not think the Legislature can do wrong in ac-
ceding to their wishes.
But it is right we should add, that though the
Premier be favourable to the ballot, to this extent,
there is a strong party in his Ministry who are
thoroughly opposed to it. It is clear, therefore,
that the question, whether the Whig Cabinet are to
concede the ballot or not, depends entirely on the
people themselves. If it is to be wrung from the
hostile members of Lord John Russell's Ministry,
it can only be so by bringing popular opinion and
feeling to bear upon them. Let the necessary pres-
sure be applied without delay, and the thing :will
be done at once. The concession will be extorted
from the adverse members of the Whig Adminis-
tration.—Advertiser.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASE.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Cunningham na Lucy Neal
6 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson na Hardwick
6 to 1 aget Mr. Davenport na Peter Simple
7 to 1 agst Mr. G. Bourke's Carrig
WOLVERHAMPTON HURDLE STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Cunningham na Little Queen
7 to 1 agst Mr. Redputh's Ormsby
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
400 to 10 agst Mr. Pilling's High Sheriff—taken
CHESTER CUP.
45 to 1 agst Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder-50 to 1 taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Dawson's Mark Tapley—taken
and afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Wilkinson'a Neasham
DERBY.
18 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken to 20(U.
25 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Kingston—t to lOU
1,000 to 20 aget Mr. G. Arnold's Little Harry—taken
The betting was limited, and entirely without interest.
SALE OF MR. CAREW'S HUNTERS—YEirre..E.u.ruIOAOaYSs..
Guin23eBoaoos.
TMhaeatNerigWgearl
!!!!!
.......... 110
Sir Tatton
250 ;Woldsman ............ 105
Jack
.................... 1(9)?
225400 Graylinguunehurch .....
Hendon!
The Cardinal
185 Melbourne ............ 83
White Stockings
InTrhideaCylever One
Aristocrat l5O Brown Stout
The Sweep

_UNGARIAN AND POLISH CONCERT AT THE HANO-
VER-SQUARE ROOMS. —W e
iu aid of the funds of
perceive that oat Tuesday next,
Miss Kate Hickson intends
Literary
feelings of sympathgiving a grand evening concert
the Hungarian committee and of the
Association of the Friends of Poland, under the
patronage of Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. Actuated hy the
profession to which she she has, by her kind and
andugeleonnegros,sity so characteristic of the
amiable exertions, secured the co-operation of many distin-
guished artists, ever ready to extend their assistance to the
unfortunate exiles. Miss Louisa Pyne, Mrs. Weiss, Miss
Pane, Miss Allain, Miss Poole, Mademoiselle Coulon, Mr.
Swift, Herr Stoffregen, Mr. Weiss, signor I'iatti, Mr. Orovz,
Mr. Ramenyi, Mr. Blagrove, and Mr. Charles Salamau,
have promised their powerful services on this interesting
occasion. We trust thrt the friends of freedom will also
second the noble efforts of Miss Kate Hickson, and thus
contribute to forward the object of so benevolent an tuider •
taking.
The arrival of 120,0001. gold from the United
States yesterday, and of nearly 400,0001. in gold and silver
by the West India packet, tended to strengthen both the
stock and share market. On the other hand, an exportwill
again take place to day by the Brazil steamer Severn, e but
it isT nhoet
Rexepvec.
Bted.
ItNoreebxbc:emd
A105.e,00 has
been
presented to
the perpetual curacy of Sheen, in the county of S
diocese of LichLeld i patron, A. J. B. top©, 9q., tanbr4 cid
°eel N.. UP.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
CHRONICLE.—We are always glad of any op-
portunity of removing a controversy out of the region
of personality. In our remarks upon the present state
of the beer trade, we have, of course, freely avaled
ourselves of the names of Barclay and Perkins, and
the other members of the great Dodecarchy ; but to
us they are mere names, and we only use them be-
cause they happen to represent and embody the facts
of which we complain, and because it is inconvenient
to describe living systems under algebraic symbols.
Still, it is well to remember that it is against a system,
rather than against individuals, that we are fighting.
And this consideration at once disposes of the ad cap-
tandum argument—which it surprised us to see urged
by a sensible correspondent—that the good use which
certain brewers are said to make of their money is
some justification for their exorbitant gains. Our
complaint is, that the trade is in an unhealthy, unjust
state—that the public pay more for their beer than
they ought to pay—and that they cannot, as matters
stand, help themselves, because, by a combination of
' influences, partly caused by legislation, and partly by
an accidental peculiarity of this particular business,
consumers cannot avail themselves of that legitimate
corrective of competition which the natural remedial
energies of commerce would otherwise supply. This
is the fact ; hence arise the brewers' extortionate
at the
,p,ryofietz;
bauntd a blyhow ohlaamriteanbtlaetbwey.eakarean;swieorakto
schools they support, and the churches and chapels
which they build"—as though it were not a prin-
ciple both
of religion and of common honesty to
prefer mercy to sacrifice, and ordinary justice
to extraordinary almsdeeds. Almsgiving, as
a private virtue, is
fair dealing and honesty whole trade. And this
leads us to the plea which is urged by other corre-
spondents, is
it is an unimpeachable mi7isestdeirmili uot.
spondents, that we cannotnoset-opffroaparilnyst the absence of
state of the beer trade a
in charging
political economy
that a tradesman is
doctrine, we have expresslyiust
price he can get. But so fa
doubt a tradesman may
charge what he can get , but a consumer
that it has a correlative. No admitted it—only we say
presupposes the other. Under ordinarye
fromf e xcetaeolplr Utr
oollbnea, becausel3
rg s thisent
may also do
what he can to reduce the char
these things regulate themselves whatever
The one liberty
,circumstances
brings the matter to a naturpinael.tilteißvoenul,t.
iff which neither
ibuuyaenryngoirvesnellcearsec,antbcnotm
competition
the
ctiohaallpypeimns.,
possible—which is our argument in pra
caseof the
beer trade—it is of no use to " reiterate a
principle,"
viz., that tradesmen may ask for their gooditics.will"
ever they please. The maxim may be very true.
but it does not apply. It is true when it receives
its natural complement, viz., the possibility of
competition ; that is, it is true sub muclo—it
it
true when the tradesman acts upon it at his
peril. But there is no peril to the brewer ; for
his charges are not in the face of competition, and his
business is virtually, though not formally, a protected
one. The cases of merchants, artists, labourers,
literary persons, are not parallel—simply because, in
all these instances, either competition is possible, or
there is the presence of those imponderable elements,
genius and the like, to which, as competition is im-
possible, the ordinary measure of value does not apply.
Admitting, then, that the privilege to make what
" what one can of one's own" is both morally and
economically defensible, we reply that it is so only as
regards ordinary productions where the trade is open,
and extraordinary ones where, as in the case of a poem
or a picture, rivalry is out of the question. Barclay
and Perkins or their advocates must be prepared to
show, either that, as a fact, anybody with capital,
can, under the licensing system, safely compete with
them ; or else that their beer, like the " Paradise
Lost," has qualities which are not to be represented
by the usual standard of value. Again, it is said that
the brewers are the best judges whether they ought
to sell at fixed, or at fluctuating prices. Possibly; we
say nothing about the brewers' powers of judgment ;
but we take leave to observe that the public is the
best judge whether it will buy at fixed or
fluctuating prices. Beer and bread are the two
chief commodities in universal use of which it
can be said that the amount, and therefore the
value, of their raw material is contingent on the
accidents of the seasons ; and when it is asked why
the principles which regulate the trade in the one
should be totally and diametrically opposite to those
which are applied to the other—why the selling price
of manufactured wheat should follow one rule, and
the price of manufactured barley obey a flatly con-
trary one—it is no answer to say that the brewers
are the best judges. For their own interest they no
doubt are ; but what we want is, to get the consumer
to look to his interest ; and we may safely assure
ourselves that—his attention once fairly roused—he
will require good evidence before believing that be is
benefited by an abnormal, exceptional, anomalous,
and utterly unbusinesslike mode of trading. Having
said thus much in answer to one of our critics, " A
Constant Subscriber"—who at least writes like a
gentleman and a politician—we turn to " A Brewer,"
whose letter will be found in another column. We
could not desire to have our view of brewery econo-
mics better illustrated than by what "A Brewer"
himself suggests—the analogy of our own business.
It is quite true, as he states, that paper is cheaper
than it was, owing partly to improvements in the
manufacture, and partly to the fiscal reductions of
1836 ; but it is also true that we give the public
twice as much paper, and twice as much news, for
their money, as we did in those days when the daily
journal was only a single sheet. That is to say—
in language which may perhaps be more in-
telligible to our correspondent—we have doubled
the dimensions of our barrel ; and when
the public is very thirsty, or our wort doubly
attractive, we broach gratis a supplementary cask.
But perhaps some inquisitive reader may rejoin,
" How about the stamp ? The duty on newspapers
has been reduced from 4d. to ld. ; but you have only
reduced your price from 7d. to 5d." We only wish
the brewers could answer our queries half as well as
we can meet this. In the first place, the fact is that,
of this 33. difference, a considerable portion was only
nominal ; for, under the old system, the Stamp-office
always allowed a discount of 20 per cent.—thus re-
ducing the actual duty to "rather under Sid." (see
M'Culloch). Such was the price which, prior to
1836, we paid for one part of our raw material, viz ,
the licence to publish. In that year, this tax of
"rather under 2kd." was reduced to Id.—thereby
relieving. the newspaper business to the extent of
" rather under" Siid.; and forthwith all the daily
papers came down from 7d. to sd.—that is to say, we
gave the public 2d., and kept to ourselves the indi-
visible bonus of " rather under" one farthing. But
let the reader consider what we have to do with this
accidental extra profit of" rather under" one farthing.
Think of the enormous additional expenses in our
manufacture since 1836. We need but name the
gradual, and now definitive and absolute, adoption of
the double sheet—the increased outlay on foreign
correspondence in the different capitals of Europe—
the necessity of meeting the public demand for a
vastly larger amount and a better quality of original
writing—and the increased and increasing cost of
news itself; occasioned by railway expenses and tele-
graphic dispatches. What, then, is the result? Will
the emphatic "Brewer" stand to his challepngeese?ntHderae
are our books—here is our proof of larger measures
and better beer. We have shown both how the price
of our chief raw material, viz., news, and our other
can expenses,
comparel have of
the daily
late
newspaper
a paedry aonfc etdn. Everybodyre
and its predecessor in 1836 ? Can the porter of 1836
and the porter of 1851 bear a similar investigation ?
Will
sa histrandee'hiatestit'rebt3ieditetdinhe;
e"h An
have
e Brewer"sho
wr: sihno w n
ours,i
howpublic when his raw material has been cheapened?
The very thing which we want the brewers to do, we
have ourselves done. We have given the public,
either in reduced price or in increased measure, more
than the fullest benefit of
every reduction that has
.
been made in the cost price of our commodity
One of the brewers' advocates told us something.ty
about his clients losin ls. on ever
tss,h,eeywsilelll.giveln exchange for this
g y barrel of beer
pape,. margin of profit—so
them the demonstrable a
faenthat,so
very narrow is a news r
supplement
impudent fable,
very close-hauled is our
would involve a positive loss on every copy sold,
of our ordinary paper,
i. ent—and
C. without supplem this, too, indepen-
dentlywere not its cost defrayed by advertisements. The
cost price of every copy
.. lid.
Paper ••• •• •
printing—is :
1
Stamp • • ,
.. 1
Aofgethnecyexopef
nnesewsomfan

Total ... •.• 3id•
--leaving us just one penny three farthings out of
our
fivepence, wherewith to pay all the expenses of
management,.reportirg, expressing, telegraphs, lite-
rary composition, domestic and foreign correspond-
ence, rates, and taxes—not forgetting the tax levied
by the Twelve Ty rants on our beer. It is only
necessary to add that the experiment of lowering the
pike of a daily newspaper has been tried by others
as well as ourselves—and that, in every instance,
experience proved it to he utterly impracticable.
We su:pect that " A Brewer " will get small thanks
from his friends for his unlucky reference to the trade
of newspaper producing. At any rate, the public
may judge whether our preaching and practice are
so very discordant ; and we may safely challenge the
brewers of London to make out such a financial
statements
able
lel toi that which the daily press of the me-
tropolis i

THE NEW PRUSSIAN LOAN.—Advices from Berli
mention that the new Prussian loan for a sum equal to
about 2,250,0001. was expected to be brought out forthwith.
It is understood that the stock will bear 4i per cent, in-
terest, and be issued at 991, with the certainty of not being
paid off for five years. The Seehandlung Commercial So-
ciety will take half the amount, and the other ha livvill be for
the pablio,

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14 4, T' ip!
SUN OickloE, Seven o'Clock.

WOLVERHAAIP'FON
RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(Continued from our Third Edition.)
Hurdle Race.

The Dreg ...
Peter ... ...
Little Queen ...

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DEATH OF PROFESSOR DUNBAR.
We have to announce to-day the death of ono whose
name, we believe, is familiar to most of the Greekscho of
this country, Mr. George Dunbar, Professor of
Literature in the University of Edinburgh. The melan-
choly event took place on baturday morning at his resi-
dence, Rose-park, Trinity. The natural decay attend-
ing ome
even an otherwise green old age has been for
yeara aggravated by a virulent internal malady, wshich
at. the commencement of the present session compelled
him to abandon his academic duties, and the functions of
the chair have, accordingly, been mice very ably dis-
charged by Mr. Kirkpatrick, from o,sford. The serious
apprehensions then entertained for him were, within the
a series of spasmodic
last few days, fully confirmed by .
attack,,, the violence of which ultimately proved fatal.—
caledonian Mercury.

posT_OFFICE ORDER.
LETTERS FOR CADIZ AND VIGO.
some mi,apprehellBioll appearing to exist relative to
the regulations in force for sending letters to Cadiz and
Vigo, it is necessary to give notice that Letters ad-
dressed to those ports are forwarded by the Peninsular
Packet &min Southammon unless specially directed to
be sent " via France, and that they are liable to the
Packet Rate of 29.2 d. the half ounce, &c., and not to
the rates of postage chargeable upon letters addressed
to other parrs of the kingdom of Spain, the corre-
spondence of which, as a rule, is sent 'yid France."
The postage upon all letters for Spain must be paid
in- advance.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(T HIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 4, 1851.
-The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
John Auguitus Lloyd, Esq., to be her Majasty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of
Bolivia.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire.
Lancashire Hussars—Francis Arthur Farrell, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Dopping Buchanan
D'Arcy, resigned, Nov. 28.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 3.
The Lord Chancellor 'has appointed Joseph Dodds,
of Stockton-upon-Tees, in the county palatine of Dur-
ham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the Iligh
Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 5.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Benjamin Hadley
Sanders, of Bra msgrove, in the county of Worcester.
Gent. to be a Master Extraordinaryin the High Court
of Chancery.