The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

. FRENCH PAPERS. .-
(From the Messaper des Chambreiatliqdnesday, Oct: )
PARIS, OCT. 7.—The qUestiona of foreign policy
appear to us so intimately -connected with the .in-
terests of nations, that wc,do not approach them
without a degree of secret apprehension; but what
we cannot understand is the eagerness of certain
French journals ttAnpel the English Cabinet to
make war. • -
Every day: they paint the disgrace of Old Eng-
land, and the weakness of its Ministry : it cannot,
say they, be rai,ed from this kind of debasement
except by the development and employment of its
force. •

It-is not for us to judge of cabinet questions, but
we ask the French journals if it is very patriotic, very
conformable to our interests, thus to provoke hosti-
lities on the part of Great Britain, and a sort of ge-
neral vonflagration? Will not our maritime._ com-
merce,: now so flourishing, and our manufactories, the
produce of which is so valuable, have any thing to sid-
fer, even supposing that we-were merely neutral in a
war in the Mediterranean ? Now why do our journals
continually represent this war as necessary for the
honour of Great Britain ? Why denounce a conduct
which is.prudent, and in every case which is favour-
able to us, as an act of meanness in the English Ca-
binet ? Is there any patriotism in exposing, for
mere personal questions, what constitutes the strength
and the riches of France ?
Let the English opposition attack a cabinet from
the principles of which it dissents. This is its part ;
but in France it is the cause of our own country
which we ought to have chiefly in view, and not
forget it for quarrels which do not concern us.
(From the Moniteur of Wedotsday.)
The official part contains a long report addressed
to the King by M. de St. Cricq, on the commercial
relations of France with other nations, or rather of
the system of laws in vigour in France for the pro-
tection of French manufactures and produce. The
following is the substance of this document :
" The:opinion of the country,unanimous with regard
to the rapid improvement which all the branches of
our industry have experiencod since 1814, appears
to be divided on the question whether our system
of duties has seconded or impeded the progress of
these improvements. •
" Some persons," says the reporter, " disapprove
of our prohibitions and protecting duties, which they
consider as the only cause of the analogous restric-
tions to which we are subjected by other states.
Other persons are alarmed at the chances of exten-
sive sale which some foreign goods might preserve
in the kingdom—some of them on account of their
superior quality, most of them on account of their
greater cheapness. These persons persevere in
claiming an almost total exclusion of every article to
which there is• any thing similar in the produce of
our soil and our manufactures.
" A third class, who come near to the principles
on which our- present commercial regulations are
founded, think an immutable theory, whatever it
may be, cannot advantageously direct interests so
variable and distinct from each other as those of the
industry of a great kingdom. They think that the
national labour, whether applied to agriculture or to
manufactures, ought not to be without defence
cgainst foreign rivalry—that its surest market is at.
home; hut that this market is not sufficient, and
that it needs some vent abroad ; they think, there-
fore, that a tariff affording general protection is in-
dispensable, hut that it is requisite in some cases to
widen as much as possible the basis of our foreign
and maritime commerce.
" Sire—ln describing this latter doctrine I have
developed that which,. according to my own per-
sonal conviction, is the most suited to the situation
of the agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of
France, as it has been made by the events of the
last 30 years. But to apply it with more advantage,
I find it necessary to invite a judgment on its obz
ject and its effects which may encourage me suc-
cessively to lay the results before the Chambers.—
Its examination is, besides, connected with that of
several special questions, the solution of which,
ardently wished for by the agriculturists, .the manu-
facturers, or the merchants, is proper to form a part
.of-the labours of the next Session. -Of this number
are,—l. The regulations concerning the importa-
tion of wool, and the bounty granted on the ex-
portation of woollen manufactures. 2. The appre-
ciation of the profits and losses resulting from the
sacrifices which our tariffs impose upon us for the
encouragement of our producers of iron, to all those
who make use of that metal. 3. The propriety of
maintaining, such as it now exists, or of confining
within. narrower limits, the almost exclusive prefer-
ence reserved for the sugars of our colonies for the
consumption of France, and even for its sales in fo-
reign countries, by the process of refilling. 4. The
utility- of modifying our corn laws, either in their
fundamental bases, or only in the manner of exe-
cuting them. 5. The possibility of enlarging the
faculty of transit, by extending it to the articles
which are prohibited, or at least to some -of them.
A serious controversy should also be terminated
as soon as possible,—l mean that Which has
existed for some years past between the capital and
some caller cities in the interior, which desire the
entrepot of colonial produce as favourable to the ge-
neral interests of commerce, at the same time that it
would be profitable to themselves; and the sea-
ports, which are averse to such an -establishment, as
contrary to.the same interests, and destructive of
their own prosperity in particular.
" Actuated by all these considerations, Sire, your
Majesty's Ministers have thought that it would be
advisable to form, under the Presidency of the Mi-
nister of Commerce, a commission consisting of
members of the Chambers, which should be charged
to examine, with the assistance of all inquiries, and
verifications of facts, especially of those which are
connected with the complaints of our wine-countries,
which are so lively, so often repeated, and so worthy
of attention, what is the commercial system the
most appropriate to the wants of France; and to
prepare. the solution of the principal questions which
it shall be judged proper to submit in the next ses-
sion to the deliberation of the legislative Chambers."
" The Report concludes by recommending 16
persons as members of the proposed commission, in
Ise his Majasty should approve of it. .These mem-

bers are,-- .
" Baron Pasquier' Minister of State, Baron Por-
tal, the Duke de Fitzjames, Baron de Barante,
Count d'Argout, Count de Tournon, and Count de
Kergariou, peers of Frahce ; Gautier, Jacques Le-
febvre, De Berbis, Burnam', Pardessus, Duvergier
de Hauranne, and Oberkampf, members of the
Chamber of Deputies ; Baron de Vreville, Coun-
cillorof the State • David, Administrator of Customs;
Filleau. de St. Hilaire, Director of the Colonies in
the Marine Department ; Deffandis, Chief of the
Commercial Affairs in the Foreign Department.
" Psris, Oct. 5. (Signed) " ST. CRICQ.
(Approved) " CHARLES."
(From the Cpnstitutionnel.)
FRANKFORT, OCT. 3.—Yesterday evening a Ca-
binet courier from Vienna passed through our city
for London. The report presently spread that the
courier was the bearer of despatches_ respecting the
blockade of Varna. The Russians, it was stated.
had attempted two consecutive assaults without any
advantageous result, the besieged having repulsed
them with enormous loss. It is added, that in con-
sequence of these reverses, the siege was raised, and
that Ole Russian army is in full retreat upon Jeni-
bazar. Hussein Bey, leaving his encampment at
Shuanla, has greatly harrassed the rear of the re-
treating army.
Another report is current among our politicians,
which appears less authentic—namely, that a
divi-
sion
letter f the English. fleet occupies the Straits of the
Darduelles, . This report has its origin in a mer-
cantile
carrier) tteri:ly vessels
atedTri Trieste,
the lonian , whitherthenianlsles
nese.w s had
FRENCH Foxos.—,PARIS, OCT. B.—Five per Cents.
105 f. SOc. id-Three per Cents. 74f. 10c.; Bank Stock,
1,825 f.; Neapolitan Rentes, '79f. 25c.—Exchange on
London—One Month, 25f. 25c. paper or money ; Three
Months, 251. Isc, pari,„..Cours fiuthentique,

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, ISIS.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

The result of the Quarter's Revenue, though
below public anticipation, is yet decidedly fa-
vourable, the increase being 117,5561. The
chief decrease is in the Customs, which is
250,686/. below that of the Quarter of last year ;
but then it must be recollected that, in that
Quarter, the sum of 657,133/. was received .on
account of the Duties on Corn, and in the
present Quarter only the sum of 90,000/. on that
account. This sum being deducted from that
of last year, will leave a balance of 567,133/.
in favour of the present Quarter, minus the de-
crease of 250,686/., in the Customs alone. In
fact, the decrease in the Customs is more than
half the whole decrease in the Quarter. But
although the result of the whole is favourable, we
must not forget that there has been a decrease in
almost every other article of Revenue. In
Stamps; the deficiency is 9,166/., which might
have been made very productive by a more
liberal, and therefore more just system of taxa-
tion, but which those who ought to see into
these things, either neglect to scrutinise, or do not
comprehend the bearing of, when they do apply
themselves to. the subject. In the Post-Office
too--:another branch which, though well ma-
naged, is yet susceptible of improvement—there
is a trifling deficiency of 7,000/.—in the taxes,
that universal source of complaint and national
degradation, there is a decrease of 13,7671.; and
in Miscellaneous a deficit of 168,4241., rather a
startling sum ; but in this item is to be consi-
dered a sum of greater amount, being 170,0004,
which was repaid into the Exchequer for
the re-coinage of silver for the service of
Ireland, and which sum served to swell the
amount of the corresponding quarter for last
year. All these deficiencies amount to 449,0431.,
to counterbalance which there is the increase
of 566,599/. in the Excise, leaving a balance,
as we have stated above, of 117,556/. in favour
of the present Quarter. This result is no doubt
satisfactory—we may say highly satisfactory,
as showing the unimpaired resources of the
country, but these resources would become
still more productive, and, consequently, still
more satisfactory, if the Executive would adopt
a more liberal system of taxation. They
are at present only ambitious of realizing the
fable of the old woman with her golden eggs ;
but if they persevere in that short-sighted policy
they will defeat their own purpose, by eating up
the source of the golden eggs—the industry of,
the people. It is sheer madness for any Go-
vernment to hope for national prosperity, unless
they foster national objects of industry and en-
terprise. They may, indeed, pursue a system
offorced or exclusive prosperity, but it will only
last for a season to revert upon its victims with
accumulated evil—for if the doctrine laid
down by the Poet be correct, that all partial
evil is universal good, then partial good
must ultimately prove universal evil. It may be
said that the improvement in our Excise proves
the general comforts of the people, which we are
not disposed to deny, but then, if we take this
improvement as a standard of good, does
it not indirectly prove that the decrease in
the other necessaries of life, for taxes are un-
fortunately become necessary to Englishmen—is
so far prejudicial to national interest, and sub-
versive of individual comfort. We feel convinced,
if the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would
but look to these things, that he would not only
increase his own fame, but multiply, in a propor-