The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

meat of the interests of her own people and
not of foreigners. She proposes the mutual
abolition of all transit duties and tolls between
the states composing the union. If she loses a
portion of her revenue by giving up her own
transit duties, she is largely compensated for the
loss by the great extension of her commercial
intercourse, and the consequent enrichment of
her own people. Our " free trade" economists
rendered our manufacturers less able to pay the
taxes to which they are subject, and swelled up
the necessary amount of the poor rates to save
from starvation those who lost their employ-
ment ; but Prussia proceeds in such a way as
will render her subjects better able to pay the
taxes to her treasury than they hitherto have
been. She makes it matter of express treaty,
that all sta es which shall derive advantage from
the " rreedom of trade" which she confers shall
reciprocate the advantage, while all others are
excluded. Now, as Great Britain is not one of
the states of' the union, the transit duties, tolls,
dec. of the German states, which are to he abo-
lished as between themselves and Prussia, will
continue to exist and to be exacted in all their
rigour, as far as her merchandise is concerned; and
by this means will Prussia monopolize the mar-
kets of those states which she has so craftily per-
suaded to enter into the commercial union. It
is difficult to believe the statement made in the
Prussian papers, that a negotiation is going on
in London with the view of rescinding our
commercial treaty with the free town of Frank-
fort, which treaty is an obstacle to the full com-
pletion of the Prusso-Hessian and Anti-English
commercial project. It' our Ministers lend
themselves to such a purpose, it will be the
finishing stroke of their foreign policy for the
abasement and overthrow of the commercial in-
fluence of England. The mystery which hangs
over the extraordinary mission of Lord Durham
to St. Petersburgh was not dissipated by Lord
Palmerston's " explanation"—if that could be
called an explanation in which nothing was ex-
plained. It seems it was for " general objects :"
but as every " general object" involves several
particulars, we should like to know what any of
those particulars were. It seems the mission
was eminently successful, and gave great satis-
faction to his Majesty's Ministers. N'Ve should
like to have some reason for showing that it
ought to give satisfaction to the country also.
It did not by its results better the condition of
the Poles, or oblige the Autocrat to pay respect
to the treaty of Vienna. The Poles have been
since that time worse treated than ever. It did
not lead to the settlement of the Belgic question.
That is as entangled a web of diplomacy as it
had been at any time since the Conference com-
menced their unintelligible labour. It has not
abated the rapacious ambition of the Czar for
the spoils of Turkey. What, then, has it done ?
Cost the nation a large sum of money, that is
certain.—Morning Herald.
The correspondent who has favoured us with
a long letter (not worth publication) on the
corn laws, and who argues that the true cure
for the distress of the agricultural interest is to
be found in the imposition of heavier duties
upon the importation of foreign corn, has as-
suredly looked at the subject in a very oblique
manner. The imposition of a heavier duty on
foreign corn than that which is now exacted,
would decidly injure, instead of benefiting, the
agricultural community. Its market is at home
—its prosperity, in all its branches, depends
upon that of the manufacturing and trading
portion of the community, and as any rise in
the price of the commodities consumed by it
would unquestionably cripple its exertions, by
abridging the demand for its labour, it is quite
evident that what the former wouldgain in one way
would be utterly lost in another. At present, in
fact, even with the low price which agri-
cultural produce bears, our manufacturers find a
difficulty in competing with foreigners in the
foreign market ; and what, we beg to ask, would
be their situation, were foreign corn so highly
taxed as to be excluded, and that of home growth
to be so enhanced in price as to raise the price
of our cottons and our cutlery ? If, already, we
find it difficult to effect any considerable dealings
with foreigners in these matters, what would be
our situation under increased prices ? Should
we not, thereby, give encouragement to the fo-
reign manufacturer, and exclude ourselves from
the foreign market ? Nay, should we not, even
in the long run, exclude ourselves from our own,
and tempt the smuggler to our coasts. Manu-
factures are made up of two things—the labour
bestowed, and the price of the article employed ;
and if either be enhanced to any extraordinary
extent, encouragement is thereby given to rivalry
—the workman gives way to the foreigner,
and the agricultural producer loses in pro-
portion to the fall of wages, and the smaller
number of hands that are employed. Nothing,
in fact, can be more foolish than to imagine
that corn laws can possibly benefit the farmer.
It may as well be said that tithes are a benefit to
him—that poor-rates are a benefit—that state
taxes are a benefit. They are, in fact, an Injury
to him, but a brief benefit to the landowner ;
while, rationally speaking, nothing can be more
truly injurious than a law which enhances the
price ofhuman subsistence. But what is still
more, and it is now on record, on the authority
of Mr. Jacobs, that were the havest to fail,

Ithere is not more corn in the countrythan would
suffice for one month's subsistence, and that the
requisite supply could not be procured from any
other quarter ! This is a startling fact, but
not more startling than true; and what is
the remedy ? Not the present system as-
suredly, which has produced this result—nor
the imposition of heavier duties on foreign
corn, which would only encourage foreign rivalry
—but a reduction of rents and taxes, and a
graduated scale of duty on foreign corn, which
would assure at all times to the foreign grower
a market at a known price. In the present
uncertain state of the law, the foreign grower
has no encouragement—he does not know whe-
ther his corn will, or will not, be receivable,
and the natural consequence is, that he grows
but little for the English market, and that
market, in case of a bad harvest, would he in-
adequate to supply the wants of the people.
‘Ve throw out these few hints for the benefit of

those who think that an increased duty on foreign
corn would not only stimulate agriculture, but
prove a national good ; and we might say much
more to the same point. The subject, however,
is too vast for a mere newspaper article, and we
shall therefore defer what we have further to say
upon it to another occasion. —Morning Ad.
vert iser.

A WEEK'S SPORT.--Mr. Fraser, of Lovat,
and Lord Carmarthen, are at present at Lovat's shooting
quarters at Killin—a wild and beautiful nook in Strath-
errick. Though the birds are this year very scarce in
the Strath, Lovat appears to have been highly successful.
On Monday, the 12th, be bagged 64 brace, on Tuesday
50, on Nirttinesday 50, Thursday be made a holiday, on
Friday be shot7o ; and as he was returning horns on
Saturday he killed a deer. This was really doing busi-
ness like a chief.—lnverneas Courier.