The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-07 00:00:00

BRITISH AND IRISH GOODS EXPORTED.

1831 73,76,130 1832 -3ii,652;691 •
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF FOREIGN
MERCHANDIZE.
Exports. Imports.
18:11 S 5:35,786 44,815,39;
10,7'29,943 48,161,r61
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS FROM AND INTO IRELAND,

EXPORTS OP BRITISH ►VD IRISH PRODUCE.
Iq3l. 561),200
1633 510,953

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOODS.
Exports
14,651 lmports.
18S1
1,429,844 t
1832
• Real value. t Official value.

Our readers probably recollect that we lately
adverted to that invisible, intangible document
which all men in England perpetually quote,
and never can produce ; and by their ad libitum
quotations front which they can prove or refute
any position, from the extremes of Dionysian
tyranny to the excesses of the wildest democracy.
This phantasmagoric constitution, if it have any
one point undisputed, it is the doctrine of an equi-
librium, a united action, or a unanimity between
the KING, Lords, and Commons. In corporate
or plural bodies, a triplex or uneven number is
generally chosen to prevent the neutralizing ef-
fects of equal divisions ; in our Constitution the
very reverse notion has been adopted. That
three separate bodies, with opposite interests, ad-
verse educations, and with hostile habits, passsions,
and prejudices, should be cordial and unanimous,
habitually or even casually, is an absurdity more
revolting than ever entered the mind of a reeling
sot or expiring lunatic. This Constitution never
did exist in England and never could exist.
How has the very reverse practice been recon-
ciled to this ostensible theory, but by the Lords,
like the stork in the fable, swallowing all around
them? The sex and weakness of Queen ANN,
the peculiar situations of GEORGE the First and
Second, and the unfortunate natures of the two
successors, seemed almost a providential coinci-
dence to favour the usurpation of the Lords.
The individual Members of the House of Com-
mons were bribed, and bought and sold with a
coarse, unblushing publicity, of which the lowest
political jobber would now feel ashamed. The
Peers gradually bought up the boroughs with
their spoils from the taxes, and at last they
stuck their sycophants in the House, with as
much indifference and security as their wives
stuck pins in their pin-cushions, or as the parish
beadle put paupers and prostitutes in the stocks.
The task of reducing the Sovereign to a mere
cipher, a puppet, was of easy performance.
Hunting, punch-drinking, an ample supply of
titled courtesans, and English money poured
fraudulently and clandestinely among poor rela-
tions and dependents in Hanover, made the first
two GEORGES satisfied with the destruction of
kingly power. The Peers coalesced admirably
with GEORGE 111. They gratified his raging
thirst for gold ; they administered to his bigotry ;
they flattered all his prejudices, and sacrificed
the nation and every feeling of humanity to his
insatiable love of war. The power of the Cro n
was humbled to the dust, and when the KING
was insane, it was disposed of as the Peers
and their agents in the Commons thought fit.
The aristocracy did not condescend to treat with
GEORGE IV. His sensuality, and animal
selfishness, with his love of hording and expen-
sive babyisms, could be gratified out of the
pockets of the people, and to this the aristo-
cracy was indifferent. Latterly, if a few of their
own body wished to make the King a tool for
their personal objects, those in power set a
Bishop to work upon his imbecile superstition,
or Lord would terrify him with raw head
and bloody bones stories of radicalism, and by
working upon nerves, worn out by excesses, the
King was kept in the subjection of childhood.
Now that we have a Sovereign of vigorous intel-
lect, independent and patriotic, he is bearded,
and, as yet, triumphed over, by one half of the
aristocracy, though he is supported by the people
and by all the virtue and intellect of the Peerage.

In both Houses, he has been told that he shall
be King no longer, if he does not bow the
neck and worship the brazen image of Toryism,
which a faction has reared upon the pedestal of
infamy. Thus low has the kingly power been
reduced, and the most loyal people on earth wor-
ship the most absolute Aristocracy, under the mock
title of a mixed Government. But whether the
Reform Bill be carried or not, can the Flui-v of
Peers exist in its present slate, without an in-
fusion of public principle, and of the spirit of the
age? The Peers are hostile to the KING and
people, and the hostility seems to admit of no
compromise. The oh farce of the two Houses
meeting in the Painted Chamber to settle differ-
ences—that is, to sacrifice the people and divide
the spoil,—can be played no longer. The gentry
and people of England demand reduced taxes, ho-
nest expenditure, and clear accounts. The Aristo-
cracy scorn the ignorant impatience of taxation ;
they yell for place and pension, and they would set
up another PITT, a VANSITTART, or GOUL-
BURN, to get up accounts unintelligible and con-
venient for their objects. The people desire law,
cheap, expeditious, and certain, and they require
impartial judges. The Aristocracy worship
ELDON, and seek safety in party judges and the
chicanery of law courts. The people are unani-
mous fora revision of tithes, and a reform of
political and court episcopacy, whilst the Aris-
tocracy hold the apostacy of the bench of Bishops
as a part and parcel of the word of GoD. The
people cry out for cheap bread, and the humble re-
wa; ds of honest industry—the humane cry out
for mercy upon the perishing multitude. The
Aristocracy proclaim, Let the people perish, or
fly to the wilds of America, our rents shall not
be touched. These, and a thousand similar
differences exist between the English nation and
a Tory Aristocracy. Are these to be reconciled
in conferences in the Painted Chamber ? Can the
free spirit of England be tamed by a Camarilla
or Divan, or can the lion heart of our country
quail before satraps and mandarins ? It is of no
consequence whether the House of Peers do or
do not pass the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing
but the Bill. In either case the regenerate

Peerage of the last half century MU At be purified
!)), the creation of Peers equal to the crisis of the
ti3nes. Why does Lord GREY palter with us
in a double sense ? He knows the fate he is
bringing upon a patriot Sover€ign and a devoted
people.

We are happy to announce that, by the
Cholera returns this day, the disease is fast sub.
siding in the Metropolis.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE O' CLOCK.

Montreal papers to the 9th of March, and Quebec to the 4th
of March, have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. A New Brunswick paper reports, that in a secret
session of the Senate of the United States, the decision of the
King of the Netherlands on the subject, had been acknowledged
by the General Government, and that despatches to that effect
had been received by the American cutter Swiftsure, and for-
warded to head-quarters. For the last two days they had expe-
rienced very mild weather, with an occasional thaw.
In a speech of his Excellency Lord Aylmer, on the proroga-
tion of the Legislature, he states to the Assembly, that the
present session commenced under such favourable auspices, as to
inspire him with confident hopes of its termination in a manner
calculated to justify in the fullest extent the favourable antici.
potions of his Majesty's Government.

The despatches of Viscount Goderich of the 7th July last,
had been communicated to the House of Assembly, and their
contents not only were found to meet the various subjects of
complaint embodied in the petition of the House, and the con-
cessions on the part of the Crown such as to surpass the most
sanguine expectations of the people of Lower Canada, but it
was natural to expect therefore that the Civil List proposed for
adoption, as the only advantage sought for in return for their
liberal concessions, would have been met by the House in a
corresponding spirit. Their expectations have nevertheless been
disappointed, and under circumstances peculiarly discouraging,
for the Executive Government, on approaching the House of
Assembly with the proposal for a Civil List, had been met at
the very threshold of the door with a fiat denial ; therefore, he
now finds himself under the necessity of reserving the Bill of
Supply voted for the services of the current year, for the signi-
fication of his Majesty's pleasure.

MONTREAL, M►RCM I.—The grand triumphal entry
into this city of Messrs. Dovernay and Tracy, took place yester-
day afternoon. Never has it fallen to our lot to witness such a
miserable failure in ceremony, and for which preparations had
been making for a month previous.
From the American papers, a large piratical vessel of 28 guns,
and 230 men, has been captured and carried into Ascension by
his Majesty's ship Primrose, after an action of seven hours, in
which the pirates lost 101 men, and the Primrose 50 men.
A Jamaica mail has arrived : sailed on the 18th February from
Carthagena. A Malta mail sailed on the Bth March.
By the Jamaica mail we have received the Jamaica Courants
to the 18th Feb. from the paper of the 17th Feb.
The accounts from the North-side are not satisfactory; the
slaves are sullen and discontented, and appear to meditate
further acts of rebellion.

It was reported in town yesterday that the Baptist preachers
had taken counsel's opinion as to the best mode of compelling
the several parishes in the island, where the chapels had been
destroyed, to rebuild them. We think this quite premature.
Very alarming earthquakes were experienced in the parishes
of Westmorland, Hanover, and St. James's, Trelawny, and St.
Ann's, during the last week, and occasioned much destruction
of property. It is gratifying to state that the whole damage was
confined to those dens of sedition, the Baptist chapels, not one
of which are left.

A handsome address has been presented to Commodore Far-
qu.harson from the Magistrates and inhabitants of Montego
Bay, expressing their sentiments of pprobation of his good con-
duct and his officers.