The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-17 00:00:00

HAMBURG AND GERMAN PAPERS.

GOTTENBURG. FEB. 1.—Extraordinary activity pre-
vails in the magazines of the Crown here. Materials
and effects are daily shipped for Marstrand. Colonel
d'Orchemont, who is now gone to Marstrand, is said to
have made hitus,lf fully acquainted with the stock of
ammunition, &c., in this city, and which he might per-
haps want for the fortress of Karlsten. It is said that
the sending away of this store will not be derided on dii
further orders, which is some comfort ; for, to judge by
the demands of the shippers for freight to Marstrand, one
might suppose that an enemy's fleet was before the place.

... . .
HAMBURG, FEB. 10.—In consequence of the frost
that we have had for some days, the channel of the Elbe
is full of drifting ice, so that ships can neither come up
the river nor leave our harbour to go to sea.
HANOVER, FEB. 6.—The two Chambers have agreed
on the budget of the War Department, and fixed it at
1,590,000 rii dollars from Ist July last year.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, FEB 11.-13 8% ; two months, 13 7U,
STOCKHOLM. FEB 4.—Two months, 11 42.
CHRISTIANIA. FEB. I.—Three months, 8 5 60.
BERLIN. FEB. B.—Three months, 6 249/.
ST. PETEESBURGH, JAN. 31.—Three months, 10%.
BREMEN, FEB. 7.—Two months, 604. 605.
—Hamburg Papers. Feb. 10.

HAMBURG, FEE. 1 1.--BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two o'cLOCK. —Our Stock Mirket was very animated
to-day, and prices improved. Business was done in almost
every description of public security.
Discount 24 to 2 per Cent. End of February.
Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent ...... ... 70
Anglo-Russian 9914
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 182 d 92}4
Ditto, ditto, 1831 924
Ditto, ditto, 1832.
Certificates 9314
Polish Bonds 125%
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1237
Ditto Metalliques 96 Yi
Ditto 4 per Cent.....
Spanish 3 per Cents.
Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and tons) 2B}y
Ditto 4 per Cent 43
Dutch *2 per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 92%
—Hamburg Reporter.

ST. PETERSBUIWII, JAN. 29.—The return of the po-
pulation of the empire for the year 1832 (which includes
only the inhabitants of the Greek religion) states the num-
ber of births to have been—
Males 992,663
Females 932,442

Total 1,925,105
DEATHS.

Males 615,956
Females

Total 1,210,647
Excess of births 714,458
Marriages
Pttersburgh Journal, Jan. 31.

Fen. I.—The late visit of the Emperor to Moscow
was for the purpose of directing measures to relieve the
distress in dome provinces. The Government has pur-
chased 800,000 chetwerts of corn in foreign countries,
which are expected as soon as the navigation opens.
Privy Councillor Prince Sergens Golitzen has, with
the Emperor's permission, cora uted ten great estates of
the government of Moscow into majors' or perpetual en-
tail, to be the property of the eldest male of the Prince's
family, which can neither be charged with debts nor suld.
This is the first example in this empire, and if imitated
by others, as it doubtless will bS, must be of very great
advantage to maßy illustriotrs families, add secure them
from ever falling into poverty and decay.—Prussian
State Gazette.

SOMETHING MARVELLOUS.—A sort of
Maria Martin story has recently been imported into Bury.
Thus the story runs :—Two men going home in a cart from
Bury market on Wednesday, about 7 o'clock in the morn
ing, observed a light gleaming from Pakenham.wood.
Prompted by curiosity, they made to the spot, and as they
approached the light saw a man engaged digging a grave.
The grave-digger ran off at their approach, leaving behind
him a great coat, his spade, and mattock. The parties
then returned to the cart, and proceeded on their journey.
They had advanced but a few yards before they came up
with a young woman going in the direction of the wood.
On being questioned, she stated that she was going to meet
a man there by appointment, hut for what purpose has
not transpired. —B ury Herald.
ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS.—
The fourth annual general meeting of this institution was
held on Tuesday last at the new office, 76, W'elbeck-street,
Cavendish-square, the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair. It
appeared, from the reports read to the meeting, that the
progress of this bank is of the most rapid and satisfactory
description : no less than 1,852 accounts have been
opened in the last year. 3,471 deposits' accounts re-
mained open on the 20th of November last; and upwards
of 45,0001. was then invested with the Commissioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt : this amount has since
risen to nearly 51,0001. The Dukes of Richmond and
Newcastle having kindly consented to allow their names
to be added to the list of trustees, the vacancies which had
occurred during the year were filled up by the appoint-
!tient of the two Noble Dukes and William Colborne
Towers, Esq. The other customary business of the day
having been transacted, the meeting broke up.

Dear Sir,—ln your reply to our memorial you have not
shown how you could (unless trade were universally free)
either begin to work your system without immediate loss,
or continue to work it without ultimate ruin ; by ruin I
mean the destruction of all the funds embarked in the ex.
p. riment. Neither have you attempted to refute any one
of our arguments. You merely repeat your former asser-
tion, " that our misery is prolonged, if not caused, by
competition." Now, we believe and feel that competition
exists by a law of God, as certainly as the planets are k-pt
in their courses by another of his laws. We know not
what might happen if you or the landowners could
dethrone or destroy the Almighty, but we know too well
what happens when short-sighted men attempt to subvert
his laws, as our landowners have been doing for 18 years ;
and we fearlessly assert, that our miseries are not caused
or prolonged by competition, but, verily, by that ,uncom-
petitive system which you advocate, and which, for nearly
a quarter of a century, has been in full and fatal operation
here. If you will open your eyes, you will see the un-
holy consequences of that system all around you. It has
already, as you and your advocates acknowledge, con-
verted the steam-engine itself into a curse; but believe me,
Sir, there are other nations who will not only adopt the
steam-engine, but take good care that it shall not be a curse
to them. The agriculturists of England have no competi •
tors; and our competing cotton spinners are wretched,
because our wretched though uncompeting agriculturists,
ignorant of their true interests, have not yet learned to
kick the backsides of their oppressors, and teach them at
once common honesty and common sense. I know a
farmer who gained ss. net profit per acre by his farm in
1793, when his tent was 101. per acre, and the duty on
imported wheat 6d. per quarter. The produce of his
land sells for no more now than it did then (not quite so
much), but his rent is doubled, and his taxes are in-
creased ; consequently be loses at least ss. per acre by
farming, and has his family to keep out of his capital.
Yet be is one of those men whom sagacious Nimrod
delighteth to set astride on a military saddle, with two
horse-pistols in it ! What further proof can you require
of the evil tendency of the uncompetitive system than its
present consequences? And what are they ? National
robbery, national beggary, almost national despair. The
final result will too probably be national bankruptcy, the
gratuitous subversion of the state; or, perhaps, the subju-
gation of this country by a foreign Power,—if it be true,
as Machiavel asserted centuries ago, that no fully peopled
country can long maintain its independence, unless it
utterly untax its commercial capital, industry, and skill.
If you would know more particularly what have been,
and are, the blessed works of your uncompetitive system,
read a pamphlet by William Ibbotson, of this neighbour-
hood, farmer, entitled " Thoughts on the Corn Laws,"
proving that they impoverish farmers, by beggaring
tradesmen ; and, without raising the price of corn here,
lower it abroad !" and, of course, give our trade to
foreigners. Or inquire of Mr. Woollen, of Rivilin
near Sheffield, who will show you from his books, that in
1790 and 1793 lie got rather more for his flour than ha
now gets. If you then come to me, I will show you
that corn was then at the same price at Hull as at Ham-
burg, and that it is now one-third cheaper at Hamburg
than at Hull ! Hew can our farmers live, with double
rents, and manufacturing rivals at half price, destroying
their only customers? Unless the price of bread be
equalized throughout Europe, by a speedy and utter aboli-
tion of our corn laws, will not capital inevitably quit this
country, and go where bread is cheapest? You may
answer, that Mr. Fielden's mills will not take wing, and
fly across the Channel. True, they will nut, because
they cannot, but other capital can, and will, because it
must ; other mills will be erected elsewhere ; and Mr.
Fielden's mills, overgrown with moss and weeds, will
remain—magnificent, but mournful, monuments of the
wis.lom of land-jobbing legislation, and the uncampetiti,•
system in all its glory ! Give us free and fair competi-
tion, and we shall soon have neither poor-laws nor debt,
—neither tread-mills nor Trades' Unions,—roither
palaced beggars nor victims of palaced robbers. Ts it ntt
enough that the consequences of the blessed unco tetitive
system are already seen and felt to) plainly, in .he slow
silent agonies, the sunken eyes, the downcast looks, the
broken hearts, of British misery and unavailing toil ?
Would you have them written in blood and fire over every
foot of land between John o'Groat's and Penzance ? No,
we believe you would not ; we do not suspect you of such
cruelty. But we do suspect that you are the poet, avd
that the corn law rhymer is the proser. "nhappily for
you, the common sense of mankind has outgrown the
cradle, and all its lullabies. Write prose, write prose ;
any prose is better than bad blank verse. Your excellent
grandsire, perhaps, believed in Jack the Giant Killer ;
and, perhaps, the good old man has a descendant, whose
poetical ph losophy is even more romantic than the feats
of giant-killing Jack; but, depend upon it, Sir, the stern
eyes ar mod us, glaring with famine, and rage, and de-
spair, not to be tneekened by tales from the nursery,
or which the nursery would pity or despise. Do not
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like all your compositions, and those of all your advocates,
they want brevity. It is in vain, however, that you or
they tell us through a cloud of syllables how productive are
the powers of the soil, and what virtue there is in potatoes!
Our friends, the Whigs or Tories, with whom we do not
yet class you, have told us all that a thousand times, We
believe there is a spit it in potatoes, perhaps brandy; but,
would it pay for distillation ? The true meaning of the
advice you give us, whether you know your own meaning
or not, really is neither less nor more than that we should
voluntarily, and by agreement, come down to the lowea
food that will support life. The trades' unions, if they
are wise, will prevent this c itastrophe ; consequently, they
will not be wise if they follow your advice. There is
nothing at the end of your system but potatoes ; ths,s-
can be nothing else ; unless, by giving away our trade
foreigners, you can make chaff and chopped straw destrablck
articles of food for man in this country. You cannot&
for you shall not ! The Charles-street gang, whateve
they may think, and however they may try to hide their
I stratagems, will find no allies among their victims, except
such as Sampson found when he brought down the roof of
the temple on himself and his enemies.
I thank you for the two opportunities you bare given
me of striking two fresh blows at the sll-b<ggaring bread,.
tax. I hope you will' tumid) me with many more such
opportunities. Tap, tap, tap, will go, at lass, through
the heart of stone. Ido not think you are quite a Na-
poleon, but you will remember that there was a pet son so
called, and that on the 16th day of June, 1815, near a
village called Waterloo, he went whithersoever he was
ordered to go by a man immeasurably
_inferior ta.hicoself.
First be knocked his head against Hougomont, then he
knocked it against La Haye Sainte, and lastly, (and still
obeying the sergeant) he rushed madly up a slope, that he
might have the infinite satisfaction of scampering down
again, with a ringing in his ears not exactly like the kick
of a jacitass.

I am, dear Sir, yours very truly,

kBENEER 'ELLIOTT.
• Steill, publisher, London,

On Friday morning, between nine and ten
o'clock, a young woman, named Sarah Atkir.ion, servant
in the family of Mr. Benjamin Crackles, of Grafton-
street, Fitzroy-square, in clearing out a wardrobe press,
which had for many years been in disuse, threw a number
of pieces of paper, which she found crumpled up together,
behind the fire; one of these, it seems, contained, un.
known to any of the family, a large quantity of gun-
powder, which in a few minutes exploded with a tre-
mendous report, shaking the house to its very foundation.
The other of the inmates immediately rushed up stairs, to
ascertain what had occurred, and on entering the room
(the back room on the second floor) where the accident
transpired, they found it so densely filled with smoke
that they were for some time unable to distinguish any
object before them, th? floor was covered with flakes
of burning soot, which had been blown down the
chimney, the fire grate was also in pieces, the whole o
the plastering of the ceiling shaken down, and the window
sash, with the greater portion of the frame, torn from its
fastenings, and hurled into the farther part of the back
area, smashing every pane of glass. The servant girl was
found lying at some distance from the fire-place in a state i
of insensibility, with her clothes burning in sparks n
many places. Surgical assistance was procured for her,
when it was discovered that she had sustained very severe
and dangerous injury,
her left arm being broken, as it is
mpposed, by the fall, and one side of her person, from the
waist upwards, most dreadfully scorched; her ee lashes
mostand the greater portion of the hair on the front of her
head are completely singed off, and fears are entertained
that her sight isi materially affected, it not entirely de.
stroyed.

,15.

to week;

cription.

,ts being
• export,
ices than

ee taken
Alaran-
and the
4-11.

Orleans,
; 1,340
0 10.1. ;
; 20
Common

per lb,

:otton to-
to 5,000
!culation.
the day.