The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

EXPORTS.

Teas.—Black—The past month has been, exceedingly
dull and inactive for all descriptions; the difference be-
tween prices offered and those required by the teamen
being much too wide to admit of any extensive business
taking place, while the recent unfavourable accounts
from home make it still more difficult to operate at pre-
sent.
Congous—But 4 chops have been sold at 14 to 19 taels
—l9 remaining.
Suuchong—Five chops sqd at 14 to l9i taels, leaving
34. _ _ .

Flowery Pekoe-500 packages sold at 24 to 41 tads,
for common to fine —9DO remain, chiefly of ordinary
quality.
Caper-1,000 boxes sold at 12 taels for common-
-4,000 unsold.
Plain Orange Pekoe—No sales.
Scented Teas—No sales reported in either kind.
Ning Yongs and Kukues-8,000 packages are said to
be sold, and the stock is estimated at near 20;000. Prices
have again given way--common to good. fair. 13 to 15
taels, superior being sold for 20 taels.
Anhoi-500 hall-chests sold; common to fair 11 to 12
taels—in market 2,000.

Country Greens—No arrivals to notice. Sales about
9,000 packages; quotations as follow:
Young Hysons—Sales about 4,000 packages at 18 to
superior 27 taels for common to superior,
35 taels, fine to extra fine 41 to 55 taels—Mock
to ne 28 to
say
90,000.
Hygon—Sales 1,500 packages; common to fair 23 to
28 taels; middling, 30 to 38 taels; fine to extra fine, 45
to 60 taels—stock, 18,000.
Twankay—No sales reported—stock about -3,000
packages.
Skin-2,000 to 3,000 packages sold at 13i to 151 taels
common to fair; good to fine, 18 to 22 taels. The com-
moner kinds are becoming scarce, and held firmly at
quotations—stock, 4,000 to 5,000 packages.
Gunpowder and Imperial—But 1,000 to 2,000 pack-
acres sold at previous rates—stock above 12,000.
°Canton Young Hyson and Gunpowder—We hear of
no transactions. A few catty boxes of new-made imperial
sold at 22 to 24 taels.

Cassia—Part of the new crop is in—worth 17 dolls.;
oil, 260 dolls.

Quicksilver-97 dolls.
Vermillion-49 dolls.
Anise Oil—Dolls. 135.
Rhubarb—Dolls. 30 35 45 48.
Raw Silk—Whit', No. 1, dolls. 305; and yellow, 295.
EXCHANGE AND BULLION.

On England, first-class bills, 4!. Bd. On India, Corn
patty's accepted, 224.
S)cee, 4 per cent. prem.; gold leaf, dolls. 22 75; Caro.
las dollars, par; Mexican, 3i per cent. die.

FREIGHTS.

To England, 11. 103. to 21. ss. To the United States,
dolls. 8.

SHANGHAE MARKET, APRIL 8.
IMPORTS.

Cottons—Long cloths show a decline of ss. upon last
month's quotations, being for greys weighing 5} to 6
catties. dulls. 2 to 2 25 ; 6i to 7 catties, dolls. 2 40 to 2
65 ;74t0 7f catties, dolls. 275t0 3 ; and whites, dolls.
2 to 2 30 for common, to dolls. 2 70 to 2 80 for best. The
sales reported are 45,000 pieces of grey and 10,000 pieces
of white; leaving in stock 170,000 pieces of the former
and 165,000 of the latter.

American Goods-30-yard drills, dolls. 2 60 to 2 65,
at which 5,500 pieces have been sold ; 40-yard goods
are worth dolls. 350 • stock, 20,000. The market
for jeans is firm at dolls. 3 ; stock, 5,000 pieces. For
sheetings, dolls. 2 10 for 30-yard, and dolls. 2 80 for
40-yard goods, are the quotations; sales of the former
3,000 pieces.

Woollens—The only sales reported are 1,500 pcs.
Spanish Stripes at 80e. to 1 doll.
Lead—Worth only dolls. 6 80.
Straits Produce—Sugar has declined; present quota-
tions dolls. 280 to 2 85 for current Canton sorts. In-
ferior, dolls. 2 60. Stock moderate.
Woods—Sandal—No sales, market nominal at dolls.
3 80 to 6 70 for Southsea Island, and 10 to 12 for Ma-
labar. Sapan dolls. 2 30 to 3, wanted. Ebony, dolls.
3 80. Cameron, doll. 1 50 to 1 60. Rattans scarce and
wanted at dolls. 4 for good Straits, inferior 3 50 to 3 60;
Banjarmassing, 4 50.
Pepper—Dolls. 8 60 to 9 for black, and 9 to 9 50 for
white.

Saltpetre—Dolls. 7 to 8.
Opium—Malwa, dolls. 485 to dolls. 490; Patna, dolls,
528.

EXPORTS.

Teas—Nothing doing until the arrival of the new
crop. _ _

Raw Silk-600 bales, chiefly No, 3 Tsatlee, have been
purchased at dolls. 350 to dolls. 390.

EXCHANGES AND BULLION.

On London 4 9 to 4 10. Company's paper nominal
Government Sycee, dolls. 145 20. Wuosung, dolls. 144
Guld 209 dolls.

FREIGHTS.
To England, 21. 103. to 31.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Thursday the 12th, the House of Com-
mons renewed its sittings. The question of Supply
brought up the old subject of naval preparations. It.
is quite right there should be evidence of opposition ;
for otherwise the sea itself might not be able to con-
tain the fleets which should be builded. But, with
this reservation, the question must always to a certain
extent be left with those who are responsible. It is
wonderful how a man's intellect is sharpened by that
one word of responsibility, and how a multitude of
things become visible to his mental optics, which
would have utterly escaped him as lung as be
continued among the undistinguished held of irre-
sponsible.
But after all, there are points which are apt to
escape the responsible ; and partly perhaps through
the very intensity of the attention they apply to their
responsibility. A volunteer friend of the Govern.
meat stood up on Thursday, to comfort the public by
the assurance that the naval power of Great Britain,
actual or available, was greater than that of the rest
of the world combined. This may be very comfort-
able, so far as concerns this year's City feasts and
the next's. But it has this defect, that it cannot act
for ever. No man can doubt, that unless some great
alteration takes place in the rates of progress,
America within the life of some now living, will
have a greater population, and with it in all pro-
bability greater wealth and greater naval force, than
England. And though it may be true that a philo-
sopher would be unable to state any good reason why
America should turn this force into the channel of
hostility, yet so true it is that in every country of the
world, our own included, the natural-born rogues
and bullies are the enormous numerical and potential
majority, that it would be as vain to expect that
America should not make a violent use of her power
in this direction when she has it, as that England
should not abuse power in Asia or in liafraria,
France in Algeria, or America in Mexico or the
Indians' land. England is not in advance of this
state of civilization and morals; she robs and mur-
ders where she safely can, and avows it in Parlia-
ment under the title of the Anglo-Saxon principle.
Why then should it be expected of America ?
Hence, with this threatening object among others
rising in the horizon, what is to become of the power
of Great Britain to resist the naval force of all the
world, if only a few of the possible combinations
should take place ? Suppose, for instance, an under-
standing between America and Russia to press some
hostile demand in concert, and this to be aided by a
discovery of old debts due to France and one or two
of the minor naval powers. The result is, that it is
clear a period must come, and in the lifetime of some
now living, when the boasted naval superiority
of England will be found to be a bubble. Sir
Robert Peel had the magnanimity to sound the
note of preparation long ago. What then is the re-
source to which it would be possible to apply .)
There is one, but too romantic, too remote, to allow
the expectation that any but a visionary should look
at it till it is left behind ; and that is, to make it the
interest of somebody to preserve the existing state of
things. And the way to do that, is to make some•
body our friends. Who is there now, from whom
any such office could be expected ?
had a vision of such a possibility, Our ancestor:
of power was in their mouths, T hen h
hwat phrase
of
i
the preserVation of such a state of equal
justice, as
shouldcheck the movements of the stronger against the
weaker. In the present time, it is only necessary to
be weaker, to find somebody that shall devour. Who
then, at this moment, would stand up for England?
Her colonies would rise with a school-boy's delight
at liberty, and halt the nations of the universe look
with glee upon the humbling of her pride. What
is the necessity, for a nation to be proud, or so conduct
itself as to make others glory in its fall ? Sitnpl3
because man is a robber aroud, and abstinence from
robbery is like the absence of the goitre, which pro-
voked the ridicule of the Alpine mountaineers at
church assembled.
On Friday three hundred thousand pounds, being
the advanced guard of nobody knows what to follow,
was voted with a shadow of resistance and without a
division, for the expenses of the Kafir war. The two
pillars of human society, are that injustice shall be
followed up when begun, and that no check shall be
placed on its beginning. This is the law and the pro-
phets, of the Anglo-Saxon policy which we born serfs
must
pay for in hard cash. There will be no end,
and ought not to be, till one of those fierce retribu-
tioes of which history is a continuous example,
beluga the avenger to us in kind. Meanwhile the
taxgatherer plies his little scourge, in earnest of the
ocher.

I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, Jim 16, 1851.