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 differende te-
txvt.en 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 mike it still more difficult to operate at pre-

sent.
Congous—But 4 chops have been sold at 14 to 19 tads
—l9 remaining.
Souchong—five chops sold at 14 to 191- tads, leaving
34.
Flowery Pekoc-500 packages sold at 24 to 41 taels,
for common to fine-900 remain, chiefly of ordinary
quality.
Caper-1,000 boxes sold at 12 tads for common-
-4,000 unsold.
Plain Orange Pekoe—No sales.
Scented Teas—No sales reported in either kind.
Nirg Yongs and Kokues-8,000 packages aro said to
be solo, and the stock is estimated at near 20,000. Prices
have again given way—common to good fair 13 to 15
tack, superior being sold for 20 taels.
Ankoi-500 half-chests sold; common to fair 11 to 12
tails—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
27 tads for common to superior, superior to fine 28 to
35 tads, fine to extra fine 41 to 55 teals—stock say
90,000.
Ilyson—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 131 to 153- filth
common to fair; good to fine, 18 to 22 tads. 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-
ages sold at previous rates—stock above 12,000.
Canton Young Hyson and Gunpowder—We hear of
no transactions. A few catty boxes of new•madc imperial
sold at 22 to 24 tads.
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—White, No. 1, dolls. 305; and yellow, 295.
EXCHANGE AND BULLION.
Oa England, first-class bills, 4s. Bd. On India, Corn•
pang's accepted, 224.
bycee, 4 per cent. prem.; gold leaf, dolls. 22 75; Caro-
lus dollars, par; Mexican, 3.1 per cent. dis.
FREIGHTS.
To England, 11. 10s. to 21. ss. To the United States,
dolls. 8.

SHANGIIQE MARKET, APRIL 8.
IMPORTS.

Cottons—Long cloths show a decline of ss. upon last
month's quotations, being for greys weighing 53 to 6
catties, dolls. 2 to 2 25 ; 61 to 7 catties, dolls. 2 40 to 2
65 ; 771 to 7i catties, dolls. 2 75 to 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 i❑ 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-) and goods, are the quotations; sales of the former
3,000 pieces.
Woollens—The only sales reported are 1,500 pea.
Spanish Stripes at 80c. 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. Camazon, 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—Dulls. 8 60 to 9 for black, and 9 to 9 50 for
white.

Saltpetre—Dolls. 7 to S.
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. Woosung, dolls. 144.
Gold 209 dolls.

FREIGHTS.
To England, 21. 10s. to 31.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
IsF,FORM 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 long as he
continued among the undistinguished herd 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-
ment 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 li.afraria,
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 ? Our ancestors
ha'sl a vision of such a possibility, when the balance
of power was in their mouths. That phrase meant
the preservation of such a state of equal justice, as
should check 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 de fight
at liberty, and half the nations of the universe rook
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 ? Simply
because man is a robber animal, 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
law and the ro-
placed on its beginning. the
which we born serfs
must of the Anglo-Saxon policy
There will be no sers
must pay for in hard
till
._end,
till one of those fierce retribu-
tionsand ought not to be, .
of which history is a continuous example,
brings the avenger to us in kind. Meanwhile the
taxgatherer plies his little scourge, in earnest ofte
other.

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