The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-05 00:00:00

TRADE.

About this season of the year many strangers
visit Dumfries, as a sort of centre from which
they may diverge in various directions—some
bent on a trip to the English Lakes, the Isle of
-Man% or the Mountains of Wicklow—some
bound for Glasgow and the Western Islands—
some for Moffat, or, peradventure, Gillsland ;
some for Dublin or Belfast, Portpatrick ;
not a few who, provided they locomote, see
new sights, scenery, and feces, and repair the
tear and wear occasioned by continued applica-
tion, care little comparatively for Tourists'
Guides, and continue to move forward or back-
ward, faster or slower, just as whim or fortune
may direct. The city of Carlisle is a still
greater thoroughfare of the same kind ; and at
both places, it is curious, nay instructive, to
Scan, even cursorily, the multifarious passengers
that load the coaches and steam-vessels, as they
arrive and depart ; to mark the relative interest
or indifference with which they survey new ob
jects ; the familiarity of some and the stiffness
of others, who wrap themselves closely in the
mantle of taciturnity, and seem to care more
for a segar than all the Isien and women in the
world ; and above all, to glean from some casual
expression, %%tither they have come, whither
they are using—what they have been, what they
are, area are -likely to remain to the end of the
clr.pter.
But these remarks, into which we have been
drawn somewhat unconsciously, have little or no
connection with the important affairs of trade
and commerce, of which, on first lifting the pen,
we meant to say a very few words. Among
other strangers that visited us lately we had an
opportunity of conversing with a gentleman who
is intimately acquainted with the state of mat-
ters in England ; and more particularly in Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire.. The account he gave
of the briskness of trade, in all its departments,
proved in the highest degree cheering to all
who heard him, save one individual, who hinted
that the " sourt was merely temporary, and that
re-actir,n would f'ollow at no distant date." This,
the other distinctly denied, for reasons which
he assigned, unless, as he confessed, our coun-
trymen spoiled all by again giving way to the
mania of over-trading. Of Yorkshire and Lan-
cashire he said, emphatically, that trade had not
been so good for the last seven years ; that all
who are willing to work are fully employed at
fair wages, and that the events every day gave
promise of still farther improvement.
Earl Grey, on a late occasion, said emphati-
cally, " trade and every thing is going on well,"
and so far from doubting the accuracy of the
fact, we devoutly believe, that the present, as re-
gards the revenue and many other matters, will
prove in the end one of the most prosperous
seasons that has stimulated and rewarded the en-
terprise of our countrymen, for a longer period
than it would be pleasant to reckon. In Liver-
pool an immense amount of business has been
done, and, as the phrase goes, is still doing, or
being done ; the same remark applies to all our
great emporiums, with the exception of London,
which is suffering partially from the prosperity
of the out ports; and although many seamen
are out of employment, the most probable cause
assigned for a state of things so distressing, is
the uncertainty which still exists as to the final
and practical arrangement of the East India,
\Vest India, and some other questions. But what
man, it may be asked, can point to the period
since our difficulties commenced, when every
class has been alike prosperous, seeing that you
cannot advance a single step, even in the way of
improvement, but at the risk of treading on
the sore heel" of some one or other, of the great
interests of the country ? It is but too true that
many thousands of our countrymen are still toil-
ing far below what has been aptly enough called
the table-land of comfort, as is sufficiently proved
by the increasing tide of emigration ; and all we
mean to assert is, that our present course, con-
dition, and prospects, are upward and onward,
not backward and downward. We have talked
of the East India and West India questions ;
but thesestumblingblocks bid fair to be removed
at no distant date ; and we confess we are ro-
mantic enough to believe, that from the moment
monopoly is forced to relax its hold, a new and
better era will dawn on the weary destinies of
Britain.

The Judges, we observe, on nearly all the cir-
cuits, are congratulating the Juries on the
marked and cheering diminution of crimes,
whether of greater or lesser magnitude—from
which consolotary fact we infer, to adopt the
plainest language possible, that the people have
now more to eat. Hunger, as has been often
said, will break through stone walls ; and law-
less and lamentable as the deeds were which
disgraced the country at no remote period,
it may now be confessed, without indelicacy or
danger, that they arose mainly from the mal-
administration of the English Poor Laws, and
the dreadfully degraded state of the agricultural
labourers. It was certainly fearful that any class
of men should be so insane as to destroy the
very elements of human subsistence ; but the
peasantry were misled, deeply misled, at a time
when the chief conspirators knew that hunger
has no patience—politicians, if we may call
them so, who again and again hailed as a victory
what other men would have turned from with
the. most . intense feelings of moral
loathing.--
Dumfries Courier:" -

Don PEDRO has generously settled on Col.
Coma's widow the pension of a Brigadier General, dur-
ing her and her children's He, and promised a coininiasion
to her sou, a fine youth of 15 years of age.

GIIOSTS.-Ghosts commonly appear in the
same dress they wore when living, though they are some-
times clothed all in white; but that is chiefly the church.
yard gi.osts, who have no particular business, hut scent
to appear pro bono publico, or to scare drunke❑ rustics
from tumbling over their graves. Dragging chains is not
the fashion of English ghosts, chains and black vestments
being chiefly the accoutrements of foreign spectres, seen in
arbitrary governments. Dead or alive, English spirits are
free.— Grose. _

EELS.—Sumo time since, Mr. KERR, of
Giffenmill, in the parish of Beith, took his gun in his
hand, and stept up to the mill-dam, in the expectation of
falling in with a wild duck; hut on his arrival at the
dam, game of different species attracted his notice. He
observed a great number of eels disporting close to each
other at the pl ice where the dam discharges itself into
the mill lead : be took aim, fired, and killed fourteen of
the supple gentry, at one shot, and next morning his ser-
vant killed twelve in the same place by another shot. Se-
veral of them measured upwards of a yard in length.
They were from 4 to 6 inches below the surface of the
water when the shots were fired.-- Glasgow Courier.
At Louvain, a few days ago, a M. B---
having gone to the Maisie With a Mademoiselle B
for the celebration of their marriage, accompanied by their '
respective friends, was surprised at finding a mob at the
door, who hooted and hissed him. The cause of this
unusual proceeding was soon elucidated by the discovery
that four young women, who had borne children to the
bridegroom, bad come to endeavour to prevent the mar-
riage. The preceding meetings of the gay Lothatio wiTh
one of the fair frail ones would seem to have been in the
dark, for upon the party coming out after the ceremony
she gave a violent blow on the face to one of the witnesses,
mistaking him fur the object of her vengeance,—
'tunes Mmengen