The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-02 00:00:00

the Expenditure is stated at V 2,300,000, of which
22,000,000 of expenditure, six have been applied
iird extinction of the principal of the public debt.
which is now reduced to sixty-seven millMns. The
Public Debt of that country will tlntrefore soots
cease to exist. An enumeration bf a number of
canals and roads, surveyed At the expence of the
nation, is given; and Mr, ./.It..dams, after showing the
utility of spending the public money on such ob-
jects, goes on to observe, " that the appiopriations
for the repair and continuation of the Cumberland
Road—for the construction of various other roads,
for the removal of obstructions from the rivers and
liar;dours, for the erection of light-houses, beacons,
piers, and buoys, and for the completion of canals,
undertaken by individual Associations, but needing
the assistance of means and resources more compre-
hensive than individual enterprise can command,
may be considered rather as treasures laid up from
the contributions of the present ap, for the benefit
of posterity, than as unrequited applications of the
accruing revenue of the nation." From three to
four millions of the income of the nation have been
thus expended. It is a noble spectacle to see in
this manner the blessings of civilization rapidly dif-
fusing themselves. Already 7,000 towns and vil-
lages have the benefit of a regular post. Of 260
millions of acres acquired, only 10 miWons have yet
been granted, so that a long career of improvement
is open for the inhabitants of this great Republic.—
,lforning Chronicle.

11-le impositions :with regard to the prices charged
re* the carriage of parcels received from the country
in London are no longer made occasionally, and as
if by stealth, but form part of a system of very im-
pudent extortion. The sort of defence made by a
porter who was summoned before the Lord Mayor,
by Mr. Guillonneau, the notary public, for an over-
charge on the carriage of a pheasant from Norwich
to London, the other day, will serve as an example.
The regular charge, it appears, was one shilling, and
the porter exacted fourteen-pence; •and when called
on to account for so doing, at the Mansion-house,
he treated the matter with great sang froid, as the
report states, and said the charge was made. by the
coach proprietors, and, therefore, he was entitled to
receive it, as it was part of the entry in the ticket,
and no gentleman could grumble at having to pay
rourteee-pence fer the carriage of a pheasant a dis-
:ar.c.e of 113 miles. In this explanation, if so it
ran be called, the porter assumes two things—mw
e which was to be proved or disproved by the
way-bill, which, however, he declined to produce;
and the other goes to shove that any person who
does not submit to extortion without grumbling is
no gentleman—an aptitude to be fleeced with per-
fect good humour being, we suppose, the most ap-
proved test of gentility in the eyes of coach proprie-
tors and their porters. This argumention ad cap-
tandum, corning from such a quarter, is convincing
evidence of what advance the " march of intel-
lect" is making, and how fast it is outstripping
the "march of honesty." Now, Mr. Guillonneau,
not having the fear of being considered no gen-
tleman before his eyes, but submitting to be de-
graded, in the opinion of the porter of an inn,
to the level of a plain man of business, did
not only grumble at being overcharged, but re-
fused to take the porter's word for the entry in the
way-bill without seeing the document itself; or his
law, when he stated that neither lie nor his master
was bound to produce it. If, however, there had
been an entry to that effect in the way-bill, it would
only have removed the charge of extortion from the
porter to the coach proprietor, who, of course, has
no more right to charge a penny beyond what the
law, under which he contracts to carry parcels, al-
lows, than to purloin that sum, or• any other, from
the pocket of a passenger. If, indeed, there were
any doubt as to what sum was really chargeable on
the carriage of such a parcel from Norwich to Lon-
don, that would be matter of argument, and, perhaps,
of defence—but here was no such plea. The porter
relied, not upon what it was legal and just to charge,
but-upon what it was gentlemanly to pay. He knew
from experience that many people put up with such
paltry exactions, because the sum in each instance
seems too trifling to litigate, though amounting to a
considerable tax on the public, taking one year with
another. Mr. Guillonneat►, therefore, deserves the
more credit for coming forward to expose, and, if
possible, put an end to, this abuse. He said that
the saving of the twopence was not his object, but
it was on public grouted be had brought the matter
forward—for it was an invariable practice at all inns
to charge those extra twopences, and by this means,
at some of the large inns, a sum of 1,2001. a year
was made t. He was, therefore, anxious to expose
the system, that the public might he put en their
guard. The taxes which the people of this country
pay, and which are indispensable on account of the
debt, are quite enough, without the addition of other
taxes, levied by any class of persons, without consent
of Parliament.—Morning Herald.
Perhaps there is no article on the consumption of
which the general welfare of the country so much
depends as Cotton Wool, whether we consider it as
the chief source of employment to the numerous po-
pulation of some of our largest manufacturing towns,
or turn to the no less important object of providing
our merchants with a valuable commodity, whereby
they are enabled to carry on an advantageous traffic
in every quarter of the globe. It is our purpose,
therefore, now that the year has just closed, to offer
a few observations upon the state of trade as con-
nected with this article, during the last twelve
months. At the commencement of the last year
the importations both into Liverpool and London
were very light, and the stock, in consequence,
became much reduced : but from the middle of
March, until late in the season, the arrivals have
Wen on a more extensive scale than has ever before
been experienced, exceeding in amount those of
1826, by about 270,000 bales; and although the
year 1825 has always been considered one of extra-
ordinarily large importations, yet it falls short of the
quantity brought to this country in 1827 by more
than 50,000 bales. This increase has been almost
entirely confined to the descriptions imported from
die United States and Brazil; as from Egypt the
supply is less by considerably more than one-half
the quantity of the previous year, and in the other
sorts very little alteration has taken place. The prices
of the raw material rate about three farthings to a
penny per pound. These are lower than at the
commencement of the year, which perhaps has been
the chief cause of the extended demand. The con-
sumption at home, and exportation to the conti-
nental markets, have been on a scale correspond-
ing with the magnitude of the imports. The
deliveries have averaged about 63,000 bags month-
ly ; and; notwithstanding the large arrivals, there
is only a difference of about 70,000 bags be-
tween the stock on hand at the present time
and the corresponding period of 1826. It is
-ilot expected that we shall receive so large
quantity during the present year, as the accounts
.received from the United States represent the
crops as having partially suffered from the rains.--
There has been no complaint on the part of the ma-
nefacturers,
.of a limited demand for their goods
'during the past year; on the contrary, the orders
for piece goods and twist have been very extensive,
but the prices obtained for them have been barely
sufficient to remunerate them for the amount of their
capital employed. 'We shall conclude our remarks
by calling the attention of our readers to a " Com-
parative Statement of the Monthly Import of Cot-
ton," which will be found in the last page of our
Paper, and for which we are indebted to a commer-
cial friend at Liverpool, who has every opportunity
of furnishing it accurately; we can, therefore, confi-
dently present it to our readers, with the assurance
that they may rely on its correctness.—New Times.,

With equal shame and grief we have to record
the humiliating fact that the list of subacribers opened at
the Bank of 11e.srs. Hosuss and MoaceN, in this city,
for the relief of the Spanish Refugees—cannot boast of
more than threw names! The amount subscribed is on;::
seven pomade, —Hereford Independost.