The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1860,

We insert in another part of The Sun a report
of a meeting of paper manufacturers, held yester-
day at the King's Arms, New Palace-yard. It
was indeed a most influential meeting, composed of
the principal paper manufacturers of this country.
The public will recollect that from the first we
denounced the treaty of commerce as being exceed-
ingly partial in most of its items, but positively
destructive in many others. It was a treaty all
for the benefit of France, and chiefly all for the
detriment of England. The frank and unsuspect-
ing generosity of Mr. COBDEN was met by the
cunning politeness of the best-mannered men in
creation. England gave or conceded all—France
conceded nothing, but affected to give much. The
prohibition on certain articles was rescinded, but
heavy countervailing duties were substituted
to the tune of 30 per cent. and upwards.
Nor was this all, our iron and coal were
allowed to go into France free of any charge, while
their silks and other articles were admitted-into
this country free. This was all reciprocity on one
side with a will, and on the other with a ven-
geance ! Then, as to the question of rags ;—much
credit was taken the other evening in the House of
Commons, on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S announcing
that the Emperor NAPOLEON bad taken off the
prohibition against the exportation of rags, but
not one word about the duty of 100 per cent. being
substituted on the exportation of common, and
some 50 or GO per cent. being Laid on that of fine
rags. The purpose was to raise a cheer in favour
of Imperial liberality—and then to make us pay
for our whistk. It was a clover dodge. Now the
manoeuvre was a complete piece of thimble-rig-
ging, for the supposed free exportation of rags
was to be at the price of nearly three /Of-pence on
the pound of rags, or ten pounds per ton! And
this was the boasted boon to our paper
manufacturers in lieu of eur taking of the penny
per pound on the importation of French paper!
Never was there a grosser illustration of how to
hoodwink your ncighbcur.
At Ulm meeting yesterday Nr. WRIGLEY put the
whole question in a clear and cc,rnprchem-dve light;
as he did. in his excellent letter which we inserted

the other day, and another yesterday. Mr. WRIG-
LEY is o ate of the largest manufacturers, if riot the
largest, and he is as liberal as intelligent. He was
a thorouv;ll free-trader, he said, but he meant free
trade base (1 aponjust nciples. He had no objection
to free trade in paper upon the same principles
as were applied to other trades, but, as there was
no rule without exception, so he thought ilia paper
trade wa s peculiar. There was no similarity or ana-
logy set' ween the raw material of paper and the raw
material of any other manufacture. In the case of
all other articles of manufacture and consumption,