The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE AND SIR HENRY POTTINGEIL

I The Board of Directors of the Manchester Cham-
' ber of Commerce and Manufactures, at a recent meet-
ing, unanimously adopted a congratulatory address to
Sir Henry Pottinger, K.C.8., on his recent return to
this country, after his arduous labours as British
Plenipotentiary and Commander in China. Of this
address the following is a copy :
" TO SIR DENBY POTTINGER, BART., K.C.13., &C., &C.
" The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce and Manufactures at Manchester cannot per-
mit your return to your native country to take place,
without tendering to you their warmest congratula-
tions upon your safe arrival.
" They are moved to this expression of their high
regard by the lustre which surrounds your administra-
tion of the important commission which a confiding
country last entrusted to you ; a lustre which they
believe will not be transient, but accumulative; re-
ceiving increase year by year, as the great principle
by which the close of your severe labours in China is
brilliantly distinguished shall become more and more
internationally developed. It is not for them to
speak of military achievements, the supervision of
which formed the sterner portions of your duty. As
merchants, anxious for the diffusion of civilisation
and peace, they look with higher admiration upon
the wisdom by which your negotiations were go-
verned. Not content with opening new channels for
the commerce of your own country, you generously
and wisely secured the same advantages for
all tho world, leaving the issue to those be-
nign influences which cannot fail to attend upon
an unrestricted interchange of superfluities and
wants between nations. From the high prin-
ciple which actuated you in your negotia-
tions with the Chinese authorities, and from the
wisdom which they have themselves manifested in
the arrangement of their tariff of duties, has arisen an
irrefragable demonstration of how much the true in-
terests of the human race would be promoted, we-e
nations, who do not hesitate to boast of superior en-
lightenment as contrasted with the Chinese, to pursue
the same policy. Receiving on equal terms from all
nations those supplies which it is their interest to
attract, the Chinese see their markets stored with
merchandise from every country, whilst the demand
for return enables them to become the arbiters of the
prices at which they will purchase from others, or
dispose of their own. They do not seek to ascertain
what profit other nations derive from intercourse
with them: they are content to know that the inte-
rests of their own people are safely and permanently
promoted.

" Confident that the same results would follow the
adoption of the same wise principle by every other
nation, the Directors of this Chamber rejoice that,
under measures which you have directed, the world
may learn a practical moral lesson from China.
Nations, like individuals, may be ungrateful ; but
the gentlemen who now address you will be much
deceived if the terror which your name so lately
created in war merge not soon into blessings for the
benefits which your diplomacy has secured.
" Animated by these sentiments, the Directors of
this Chamber tender to you the tribute of their admi-
ration and gratitude ; and they fervently hope that
your health, which they fear has suffered from the
labours and anxieties that have beset you, may be
speedily restored, so that the talents which you pos-
sess may soon be called again to the service of your
country.—Manchester, Oct. 29, 1844."
To this address, which was duly forwarded to the
Gallant Commander, the Chamber of Commerce have
received the following reply :
" 49, Albemarle-street, London, Nov. 5, 1844.
" To the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com-

merce and Manufactures, Manchester.
" Gentlemen,—The address of congratulation on
my return to ngland which you have been so good
as to forward to me, has given me great pleasure,
and I beg you will accept my sincere acknowledg•
ments for it.
" It is most gratifying to me to know that you,
who are so deeply interested and so competent to
judge, have seen cause to form the flattering opinion
you have expressed as to the result of my commercial
arrangements with China ; and it is further peculiarly
satisfactory to me to learn from your address, that
you fully recognise and concur in the principles
which formed the groundwork of that portion of my
negotiations, which ended in the commercial regula-
tions and tariff.
"I trust that China will, in due time, reap the full
reward she so well merits for her liberality in the ar-
rangements; and that all other nations wishing to
participate in the trade with that vast and wonderful
empire, will take example by the moderation which,
hope I may say, England evinced through me, her
humble instrument, in these discussions, and in the
final settlement.

" Should it be so, I have not the least doubt but that,
at no very distant day, China will take her proper po-
sition amongst the civilised and enlightened nations of
the earth, and will be the first to acknowledge and
proclaim the advantages she has gained from the
changes that recent events must inevitably cause in
her whole social system and policy.
" I thank you, gentlemen, warmly for your good
wishes toward me personally ; and you may be as-
sured that, whenever my humble exertions can be of
use to my country, they shall be at her free disposal.
—I hare the honour to be, gentlemen, your very faith-
ful, humble servant,
" HENRY POTTINGER."

EXTENSION OF THE MORNING MAlLS.—Thirteen
additional towns have been added to the list of mails dis-
patched daily from the General Police-office, by com-
mand of the Postmaster-General. Subjoined is a list of
them, copied from the " notice" issued yesterday :
Bolton, Bury St. Edmund's, Chesterfield, Cockermouth,
Dunmow, Grantham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray,
Newmarket, Northallerton, Pw lheli, Ripon, and Thirsk.
It may be well to remind newvenders, merchants, and
others, residing in the metropolis, that according to the
most recent postal arrangements with reference to morn-
ing mails, the official order as to the hours of posting by
the day-bags from London is as follows :—" Newspapers
are received at the various receiving-houses throughout
the metropolis in time for dispatch by morning mails to
all the places upon the list, including the whole of Scot-
land and Ireland, until seven A.M. Letters are in time
until eight A.N. At the branch offices in Cavendish-
street, Charing-cross, and Blackman-street, Southwark,
for newspapers until half-past seven A.M., and for letters
until eight A.M. Newspapers may be posted at Lom-
bard-street and the General Post-office for the same
conveyance until a quarter before eight A.M., and letters
until half-past eight A.M." It may also be as well to
state that for newspapers, by the morning dispatch, there
is no " late fee," as is the case with the dispatch of the
evening mails.

TIIE TIMBER, WOOL, AND GUANO TRADES.—It:is
said that the above trades are the only ones in which
large sums of money have not been lost by importers
during the present year; and it is a fact worthy of notice,
that in two out of three of these trades the protective
system has been in whole, or in part, abandoned during
the last four years. It will be remembered that one of
Sir Robert Peel's earliest measures was to diminish the
amount of protection on colonial timber, and that it was
most confidently predicted at the time that the colonists
would be ruined by the change. The result has shown
that this was a false prophecy, for the timber trade has
never been in a more healthy or prosperous state. This
is partly the result of the breaking up of a system of
speculation and over-trading, but still more of the re-
vival of trade and commerce. People have once more
begun to build houses, mills, warehouses, and ships, and
the result has been to create a brisk demand for timber,
and to show that commercial and manufacturing pros
perity are of infinitely more value to the timber trade
than all the protecting duties that ever were invented.
Another trade which has prospered, either in conse-
quence or in spite of the repeal of the protective duties,
is that in sheep's wool. The repeal of the duty of id. a
pound on foreign wool has not only been followed by
great briskness in the demand for that kind of wool, but
also by equal briskness in the demand for colonial and Bri-
tish wools, to which the duty served as a sort of protection.
They have seldom sold better than during the present
year, and although it would be too much to say that this
is owing to the change in the duties, yet it is clear that
the change has had no injurious effect upon the wool-
growers, whilst it has greatly benefited the manufac-
turers and all dependent upon them. The import of
colonial wool, which twenty years ago was a mere
nothing, has now reached the large amount of 70,000
bales from Australia alone.—Liverpool Times.
AQUATICS.-lICBTy Clasper has accepted the chal-
lenge of Coombes, the London waterman, to row from
Tyne bridge five miles up the river, the cockney staking
100/. to SOL of the Northumbrian. Clasper gives 101. to
Coombes to cover the expense of his journey to New-
castle. It is to be a skiff-race. 'We understand that,
Clasper has put his signature to the articles of agree-
ment, and that they are sent to London. The match
may therefore be considered as good as made.—Tyne
Mercury.

CALLS TO THE BAR.—LINCOLN'S INN, Nov. 19.—
The undermentioned members of this honourable Society
having kept the full number of terms, they were, in the
customary manner, called to the degree of Barrister-at-
Law:—Mr. John Sayres, of Wadharn College, Oxford,
the second son of John Sayres, of North Stokes, in the
county of Sussex, Esq. ; Mr. Edward Stirling Dickson,
of the Old-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, the eldest son of
Admiral Edward Stirling Dickson, of Paris ; Mr. Hugh
loss, of Edinburgh, and of Chancery-lane, in the county
of Middlesex, the eldest son of Colonel Hugh Boss, of
Edinburgh aforesaid ; Mr. William Benson, of Queen's
College, Cambridge, the second son of Robert Benson,of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. ; Mr.
George Charles Appleby, of Magdalen College, Oxford,
the only on of the Rev. George Appleby, of Barton-
upon-Humber ; Mr. Nicholas Darnell. of New College,
Oxford, the second son of the Rev. William Nicholas
Darnell, of Stanhope, in the county of Durham ; and
Mr. Samuel Edward Moberly, of Christ Church, Oxford,
the youngest son of Joseph Maberley, of King's-road,
Bedford-row, Attorney-at-Law.
We understand that a matrimonial alliance is on
the tapis between the sister of a Noble Earl possessing
huge estates in the county of Sussex and connected with
the most illustrious of the British aristocracy, and a
member of a noble family iu Norfolk, as highly clistin•
' guished for its virtues as fur its great antiquity.