The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-30 00:00:00

TO ALL THE MANUFACTURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

My Countrymen,—Sleep no longer, be up and doing,
unless you mean to be ruined !

For the new American Morrill Prohibitory Tariff, united
to the wanton, cruel, usurious goldmongers' monopoly,
will greatly diminish your trades, and the only remedy you
have is the rectification of our wicked money laws, which
will stop the ravages of usury, and teach our American
cousins a lesson on moderation.

Why, this tariff will cause such a balance of trade against
us as would drain us of all our gold under our ridiculous
money laws.

Therefore instantly call upon Ministers for a gold, silver,
and paper token of internal 'circulation of a 12k per cent.
less than intrinsic value, equal to the amount of our yearlY
national income, which is about £400,000,000, and which
we have a right to use, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer
taxes it heavily; make these our sole legal tender payable
in taxes, and this will defend our land, trade, and labour
121 per cent.

This permanent measure of value (as ordered by the
honest Bullion Committee of 1810) of 20s. in the pound,
instead of our present single gold currency of only 4s. 6d.
in the pound, and which the See-Saw Cycle Swindle fre-
quently reduces to 3s. 6d. and 2s. fid., will so extend our
basis of taxation that it will act like the penny postage, and
a one per cent. tax will double our revenue.
Thus our land, trade, and labour will have a further re- _
lief of at least 121 per cent. more, making in all 25 per
cent., besides the profit the Exchequer will gain on the
12/- per cent, tokens. No trifle 111 Say 12f per cent. on
£266,000,000. Only, only, only £33,250,000, without the
one-third of paper tokens of £133,000,000, as our,
£400,000,000 of our national income should be one.third of
gold, one-third of silver, and one-third of notes, all conver-
tible into each other.

Thus our land, being relieved of 25 per cent. of taxes,
will grow one-quarter more corn, and trade and labour be
equally relieved. Let our cousins know that we are not so
dependent upon them either for corn or cotton as to sub-
mit to their heavy taxes quietly.

But these are the gambling sharks fostered under our
foolish money laws, who are not ruled by the balance of
trade. A goldmonger can export a million of sovereigns
and gain 3d. on each, say £12,500 for a morning's breakfast
—so up goes discount one per cent., down go profits and
wages one per cent., and up go taxes one per cent., and the
goidmonger laughs at it. But what right have these gam-
blers to gamble with the people's money ? Why the profits
of our foreign trade of exports are not above £20,000,000,
and our home profits are £100,000,000, so that the foreign
share is only a twentieth part; and is the twentieth child
of a family to be permitted to ruin the other nineteen eaild-
renfll 111 111

Let them trade with £20,000,000 sovereigns at market
prices, their share ; but they are not to gamble with our
£380,000,000 of home circulation, which ought to be onl9
of gold, silver, and paper tokens, that they cannot export
without burning their fingers off.

Why the four cent. extra discounts caused by this
gambling fraud cost us about £15,000,000, and lost to our
home trade.

Who but usurious goldmongers would have adopted
see-saw cycle swindle to ensure convertibility of bank notes,
when a permanent token measure of value would have been
effectual, and the yearly income of our nation our true
guide ? As, surely, a nation has a right to use its yearly
income I

The sliding scale in corn did not provide us with enough
corn, neither can this ridiculous sliding scale in gold pro-
vide us with enough money; it is a focus for gamblers and
must be abolished, or our nation will be revolutionized.
It is an ill wind, indeed, that blows nobody good I but
this American ill wind will so crush us, that our infamous
money laws must be abolished to enable us to cope with the
Americans, and this will confer a general blessing on our
nation,

I am, Englishmen, yours respectfully,
EDMUND TAUNTON.
A Hampshire Matt, born in 1785;
A Manchester Foreign Merchant of 1807;
A Foreign Commercial Judge of I 825;
A Member of the Chamber of Commerce ;
An Ardent Lover of Old England ;
A determined opposer and exposer of all violators
of our national measure of value—THE RUIN. 0?
OUR NATION.
10, Yew Tree-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
March 27th, 1861.

P.S.—Our sovereigns at market price are to be left for
our foreign trade. The new bronze tokens, gave us a per-
fect insight into the beneficial effects of tokens for our in-
ternal circulation as a remedy for panics, and give us full
wages, full franchise, cheap bread, a 1 per cent. tax only, a
double revenue, real free trade, and reduce our poor rates/
bankruptcies, and crimes full three-quarters.

FhfANOTPA7rnV ()Pi TIZE RUSSIAN
SERFS.

The Journal de St. Petersburg of the 7th of
March publishes the following rescript addressed
by the Emperor Alexander to his brother, lug
Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine
Nicolaieviteh :

" Imperial Highnen,—l have signed to-day the maul'
festo which concedes to the peasants of the nobles the right
of free cultivators, and I have sanctioned the general and
local arrangements as well as those concerning the peasant
and domestic serfs freed from the glebe—measures that had
been previously examined under your presidentship, in the
superior committee appointed to examine the question ,
the peasantry, and then submitted to the deliberations of
the Council of the Empire.
" On this very day, so memorable for Russia, the impulee
of my heart and the feeling of duty make me desirous of
expressing to you my most earnest and profound gratitude
for the exactitude, despatch, and perfect conformity with
my views and expectation with which this important affair
of State has been brought to a conclusion. Since the 15th
of July, 1857, the day on which you were called upon to
form part of the committee created for the projected reform,
you have incessantly taken the most active part in all stli
labours, and when, after the completion, in the month of
October, 1860, of the labours of the subordinate committees,
I convoked the superior committee for the examination of
the projects presented by them, I charged, through the
particular confidence I reposed in you, your Highness to
preside over that committee.

" You have fully justified that confidence. After having
attentively and deeply studied everything that bore on the
important and various questions necessarily raised by the
scrutiny of the measures already projected, or,of those that
might assist in the perfecting of them, in your ardent zeal
for the public good you have consecrated every day your
efforts, the whole of your time, to the labours of the supe-
rior committee. Also, thanks to you particularly, the de'
tailed examination in all its Darts of this vast work, the
correction and completion of the projects, the solution of all
the uncertainties that arose pending this work; lastly, the
drawing up of several new regulations have been finished
within the period defined by me.
" I invite your Highness to express ray sincere gratitude
to the members of the superior committee charged
with the
settlement of the question of the peasants for the proofs
they have given of indefatigable and meritorious activity.
I shall not forget the manner in which your Imperial High-
ness and all the members of the superior committee have
acted on this important occasion, and with myself all Russia
will preserve the remembrance of it beyond a doubt. The
future is known to God alone, and the final success of the
great work undertaken depends on His holy will, always
merciful. Nevertheless, from this time henceforth, we can
say to ourselves, with a tranquil conscience, that we have
employed for the completion of this work every moans in
our power, and we can hope humbly that Providence, who
protects our well-beloved country, will bless the accomplish-
ment of our designs, the purity of which is known to it.
"In sanctioning the projects relating to the emancipation
of the peasants and domestic serfs, also to the settlement of
their condition for the future, I have deemed it indispen-
sable to take measures at the same time for the organisation
of the entire rural' class upon general and uniform bases.
With this object I create a special committee under la
immediate direction, of which I name you a member to
according to you the presidency. I have the conviction
that, when acquainted with my views and wishes in thi4
matter, you will actively undertake, with your usual zee),
that nothing can diminish the labours of this fresh work,
so intimately connected with the one already terminated.
"I remain, ever your cordially affectionate and grateful,
" St. Petersburg, Feb. 10." "ALEXANDER.

It is reported that, owing to continued ill•healthP
Mr. W. Marshall, the Liberal member for East Cumber-
land, will shortly resign his seat.
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—BouImer, Northumber-
land, March 28th.—Last night the Hanoverian schooner
Hortensia struck on Boulmer North Steel during stormy
weather, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick with rain.
The life-boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
stationed at this place was launched as soon as practicable,
the tide being at the time very low. After the vessel
had been boarded, tbj master refused to leave her or to
allow his crew tr., do so. When the tide made again,
the ship droi:e further on the rocks. The sea being veil
heavy and signals of distress made for assistance, the
likAat was again launched after much difficulty, being
three times filled with heavy seas, which, however, she
rapidly self-ejected. After reaching the wreck the captain
again obstinately refused to leave his vessel, being drunk
at the time. He was soon afterwards washed overboard in
the round house and drowned. The lifeboat's crew,
throughout the stormy night, behaved most gallantly and
twice used their utmos& endeavours to save the. captain,
who perished solely through his own perverseness--hie
crew of four men having been brought safely ashore in tll6
lifeboat.