The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-04 00:00:00

Oite attention has been directed, by a paragraph in a
morning contemporary, to a letter which appeared in the
Courier of Thursday, on the subject of the " Unstamped
Press," and in which the writer enclosed an advertisement,
announcing the advent of a " Great Daily Journal." This
advertisement informs us, that it is " a positive fact" that
" upwards of 200,000 unstamped newspapers are sold in
this metropolis every week, in triumphant defiance of the
infamous taxes on knowledge." This may be true, and it
may be also true that 200,000 pockets are picked in this
metropolis every week in triumphant defiance of the infa-
mous Bth Commandment and the law of the land. But the
advertisement proceeds to inform the public, that " a So-
ciety of influential gentlemen, among whom are several
leading Members of Parliament, have determined to com-
mence, on the Ist of August next, the publication of a
newspaper," (unstamped,—in defiance of the infamous laws,_
of course),,"lo be called The Daily National Gazette."
This,
,we believe, to be a cool and deliberate falsehood.
It can no more be true that " influential. gentlemen"
and " leading Members of Parliament" have conspired to
violate the law in this matter, than it can be true that any.
persons moving in such a condition of life have leagued
themselves together for the purpose of establishing a joint-
stock company of burglars. There can be no doubt that,
" stimulated" (to use the language of the advertisement) by
the contemplation of successful villainy, many a faint-
hearted rogue has been wrought up to embark in some such
twit. very chivalrous enterprise as area-sneaking, or tugging
af the watch-chain of an old gentleman who does not wear
braces ; bet we do not helieve that the annals of the Old
Bailey (curious as they are) furnish any instance of such
stupidity and iinpudenee On the part of law-breakers, of
whatever grade, as the advertising the criminal projects they
were about to execute. Why, then, should we believe that
influential gentlemen" and " leading Members of Parlia-
ment" are more obtuse and bold than all the graduates of
Healey-in-the-Hole, and of all other seminaries of the like
kind ? if, however, we be-mistaken—if there really exists
such a society as the advertisement describes—we give the
members of it this friendly hint : let them be careful to con-
ceal their names, or the Attorney-General may prosecute
them for a conspiracy to violate the law. The names of the
printers, however, who are equally liable, are already given :
they are ".Cunningham and Salnion." Having disposed of
this part of the advertisement, we beg to call the attention
of our readers to another, part of it—to the explanation of
the mode in which this society of " gentlemen" and " mem-
bers of Parliament"' propose to fill their Daily National
Gazette. It is to be published two hours after the Times,
and, besides other things, is to steal the leading articles of
the Times, Herald, &c. In other words, as soon as our
impression, and that of our contemperaries, is published, all
the intelligence that we and they have obtained from va-
rious parts of the globe at an enormous expense, our Par-
liamentary reports, and our original articles, are to be
filched by tills society of "gentlemen" and sold for three-
pence ! Some thieves have lately broken into and robbed
the counting-houses of various journals. The Standard,
and the Globe, if we recollect rightly, have suffered
from these depredations ; but the burglars who carried
away a few hundreds of pounds by these means are
not more dishonest nor more dangerous to newspapers
than the society of "gentlemen" pirates under whose
auspices the contents of the " Daily National Gazette"
arc to be purloined. The advertisement states that the
editor is to be " a gentleman of high legal eminence." If
this be true, we suppose Jack-Ketch must be meant. In
the mean time, what is the Government about ? Will they
continue to suffer the law to be trampled upon, and the re-
venue defrauded with impunity ? Will they allow indivi-
duals and the public to be robbed without redress ? If
the law be bad, let it be repealed : but, if, white it exists,
the Government allow it to be " triumphantly defied," they
not only crouch before these who insultingly beard them,
but they do what is much worse—they offer a premium for
resistance to whatever law any set of men may find it con-
venient or profitable to break. Suppose that we and the
rest of the conductor; of the stamped press were to con-
spire and agree to publish without a stamp, how would
the Chancellor of the Exchequer find his budget next
year ?—rintes

We are glad to perceive, from the proceedings of the
House of Commons on Thursday night, or rather on Friday
morning, that Mr. Hume moved for, and obtained leave to
bring in a Bill, which was afterwards brought in and read a
first time, for the repeal of so much of the Act of the 25th
of George 11. as restrains the amusements of music and
" dancing" within twenty miles round London. Tho pro-
posed Bill, we gather from an able article in The Sun,
was received in the most gratifying manner, and ushered
in by an by an able. speech by its Honourable Mover—
and we earnestly trust that these- favourable omens
may be taken as unquestiouable harbingers of the
success of a measure which is calculated to increase the
enjoyments of the people, without trenching upon the
interests or comforts of those who may be said
not to be of, or belong to the people. It would be idle to
descant for an instant upon the unconstitutional and tyran-
nical enormity of the present law. It was passed in the
reign of George 11., but for a period of three years only
7-the measure, even at that time, not one of the most con-
stitutional in the history of the country, being an experi-
ment. upon the patience of the peoplea strong feeler whe-
ther they might:not bo. , made to submit to even greater
enormities. They did submit ; and their submission ought
to be a lesson to them now, and in all time to come, that
to submit to injustice in any instance is to pave the way
for a long reign of bondage, and that to resist arbitrary
and unconstitutional. attempts upon their liberties is
the first dictate of political wisdom. Who at the
period in question could have dreamed that an Act
which was deemed, even by its authors, to be un-
constitutional—which was only an experiment—and which
was passed for political purposes, should have continued to
the present day—nay, have even waited for a restoratiorL
of the constitution, for the mere introduction of a mea-
sure to upset it ? Such, hoWever, is the fact; and it is
even now questionable whether Mr. Hume's Bill, after
having received the assent of the Commons, will receive
that of the Lords, who, though somewhat more accommo-
dating than in the time of Charles 11., are still as anxious
to reserve to themselves exclusive enjoyments. Under such
circumstances, the duty of the people is plain—and that is,
to use all constitutional means for procuring the redress of
a grievance, and an exclusion from harmless—nay, useful
amusement—which does not exist in any other quarter of
the world.—Morning Advertiser.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

)EN MARKET.
is morning's market, but the trade

:es.:—

s. d. to s d.
Spinach (half-sieve) 0 6 0 8
Apples 2 0 5 0
Gooseberries 1 6 2 6
Green Pease 0 9 1 6
Cabbage Lettuces 0 6 1 0
Onions 1 U 2 0
Sweet Oranges (1.00)
Seville Oranges I/ 0 16 C
Lemi,ns
Asparagus
French Beals 0 9 1 0
Span. Chesnuts (peck) 4 0 6 0
French ditto
Spanish 1 paz!enuts 4 U 6 0
Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0
Font:rapes ,per lb.) d 8 2 0
English, Forced . 3 0 8 0
Pine Apples (lb.)
New Potatoes 0 01 0 2
Cherries ..........
ALAND.

CU MBE
Coarse heavy Lowland [leadow Hay XI 0 to £4 5
New Meadow Hay 2 13 4 0
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay
Oat Straw ,t 1 18 to ..€2 '2 1 Wheat Strar, 2 ti '2 5

smrrH FIELD
Coar,e heavy Lowland Meadow Hay 1 3 15 to £4 U
New Meadow Hay
Mielld Old ! Sao 4 10 1 11
Fine Upland Me.alow andltye-grass Hay
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Clover Hay extra ti ....„+ 515'' . Generally ~ ... 1 0 5.t0
Oat Straw".... L IS ~-. 2 0 ; Wheat Straw

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Coarse Meadow tray__ .....
New Ale..dow hay .
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Ale,daiw gras.s Hay
Clover Hay.
,:at Straw

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to 4 15
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(Front the New Loudon Price (.arrest of last night.)
SUGAR.—There` his been a good de:nand fur West India
Museovades all the week, at gradually stiffening prices. The
estimated purchases are 3,400 hhds. and trs. The Market is
again decidedly higher; the brown 61, the fine Is., than on
this day.week. Refined goods c:ntinue so scarce that parcels
ate contracted for„deliverallle a month hene—fire Crashed
at 335., and the contracts are now refused ;if that price.
This afternoon another parcel seized at the Custom Honse
for Out passing the standard fineness has been restored; the
standard fineness has been raised, which makes such difficulty
as to parcels far shipping passing it.
MAURITIUS.—There are no arrivals or public sales to report,
a few purchases by private contract are reported at rather
higher prices.
The importations up to the 30th ult., are nearly th.: ~c 11,.: as
list year ; the stock is 7,000 bags less.
, EAST INDIA.—In consequence of the rapid rive in Fu:'eign