The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-18 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESD4Y EVENING, JUNE 18, 1828.

it must be highly gratifying to this great com-
mercial nation to ascertain, that the apprentice
President and Vice-President of the Board of
Trade are to occupy the vacation in acquiring
some smattering of those subjects which it is
their part to explain and to illustrate in the
most en)ightened assembly on earth. We
are not sure whether the Hamiltonian system
might apply to their case, but certainly if it
could be rendered as efficacious in acquiring
some knowledge of the principles of trade, as it
is allowed to be in learning languages, we should
strongly recommend to those Right Honourable
individuals speedily to provide a tutor, who might
az:company them to some watering place, anti
there prepare them to upset, next Session, the
arguments of Mr, JIUSKISSON, and to expose
the fallacies of Mr. GRANT or Mr. BARING.

Mr. Coy RT EN AN' s comparing their unde-
niable readiness to receive new impressions.
to the (good
and bad, of course,) purity of blank
sheets of foolscaj paper, was it
Igenuous to the
last degree, and almost rivals the Premier'.; dis-
claimer of fitness for his office, even with en-
lightened colleagues, but which he now wields
single-handed. For really, t— with ih 1,
e exception
of Mr. NET„ we scarcely know a single states,
man in the Cabinet, I:or, though differing from
that Riight Hon, Ocßtlewil QI) one subject,
shall we ever do him the injustice to confound him
with the mob in whi4 we are sorry to see him.
ng, the proent condition of
Seriously speaki
the Treasury Benches is calculated to excite
the deepest alarm in the minds of all Engl
men. We have the Premieec own authority for
saying, that his undertaking the task is an act of
madness, (though from this opinion we certainly
dissented, when we supposed that he had inivvil,
lingly accepted the office in compliance with his
Sovereign's will, and as the nominal Head of

acknowledged Statesmen, not of creatures
to whom his word is law.) Our finances
are in the hands of this Field Marshal,
coupled with Mr. GOULBURN, whose ap-
pointment to the Chancellorship of the Ex-
chequer (we appeal to any one with a six months'
memory) was actually received with shouts of
incredulous laughter. Our foreign policy is under
the controul of an avowed disciple of Prince
METTERNICH. And now we find that the vital
interests of our Trade are entrusted to two men,
who make a boast of their ignorance, and ac-
tually tell us that they are going to school.

Up to the hour of going to press no French
Papers have been received. The motion of M.
LABBEY DE POMPIERES, for imposching the
late Ministry of M. VILLELE, seems to have
excited a great sensation in Paris; but there
is no chance of the thing being carried into
effect, or even seriously entertained by the Ma-
jority of the Chamber of Deputies. It is ob-
viously a day too late.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 11th, and
the Nnrenzburg Correspondent of the 10th,
contain the following, relative to commercial
Conventions between some German States :

THURINGEN, JUNE 6.

We can now give the following particulars derived from
good authority, relative to the commercial convention of
which we bad made frequent mention. The fundamental
stipulations of the convention agreed to by the States
below named, are:—

Ist. The contracting parties bind themselves for the du-
ration of the convention, which is fixed provisionally at
-3
years, not to accede to any convention already concluded,
or which may be hereafter concluded, between other Ger-
man States, fur the regulation of import and expert
duties, and commercial interests.
2d. In the territory of the contracting parties, there
shall be no transit duties in the passage of goods from
whatsoever countay they may come, or whatsoever may be
their destination.

31. Each Government is at liberty to impose duties
on consumption for its own country; but it is agreed
that the amount of them shall at all times be regulated by
the state of finances, and therefore never have for their
object the exclusion of foreign competition.
. .

4th. The Contracting Parties reserve to themselves
to open further negotiations so reciprocal freedom of com-
merce, &c.

A Writ for Electing a Burgess to serve in the
present Parliament, for the borough of Ware-
ham, in the county of Dorset, in the room of the
Right Hon. JOHN CALCRAFT, who has ac-
cepted the office of Paymaster• General of his
Majesty's Forces, was issued from the Crown.
office, yesterday.

Private letters from Halifax say that the tim
ber market and freights continued very low.

A Miramichi Paper states that Sir JAMES
KENIPT had received orders to repair imme-
diately to Canada, to inspect the new fortifica-
tions.

It would appear froal the following circular,
although Mr. BROUGHAM has declined the con-
test for Westmoreland, that another candidate is
likely to, put Lord LOWTHER to some trouble,
for the benefit of the Lieges !