The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-17 00:00:00

measures—even of improvement—leSt they shot+
excite the fears, and bring about the upbraidings
the multitude. Before we conclude, and as Wi
are on the sratject of France and Charles the Tenth
we would recommend the latter to gradually get 4(
of the vile, degrading, commerce-impeding passpoil
system—for, as we have often said, a man of Lon-
don will go to, and come from, Liverpool, and tran-
sact, perhaps, 'a mass of business, while a Paris mer-
chant would be dancingattendance on impudent clerks
to get permission to depart to Rouen, Havre, Lyons,
or Lisle. Charles the Tenth .Ought to know that
it is the perfect freedom that people in trade in Eng-
land enjoy, of going when and where they please,
that causes trade to flourish with us in the way it
does—and that laws made for the protection of
trade, .and Court exhibitions of manufactures, rather
do injury to than promote trade. Consequently,
we would recommend Charles the Tenth to adopt
the principle we have first named, and to get rid of
all the sesond-named fooleries. Again, we wonld
recommend him to allow perfect freedom of the
Press—and to mind it no more, so far as he him-
self, his family, and his Ministers, are concerned,
than he would have a wife, if he had one, listen to
the tittle-tattle, in respect of herself, on the part of
her servants. Our King only laughs at treasonable
words talked or put into print—Charles the Tenth
should do the same. It is better for subjects'
thoughts and ill-tempers to evaporate in talk and
print, than fOr Kings to bottle them up, and run' the
risk of the State bottle bursting.—lbis.
We were the first to mention that the crop of
Sugar in our West India possessions had partially
failed last year, and the account we have given in a
subsequent column, this day, of the comparative im-
portation during the years 1826 and 1827, will suf.
ciently prove the correctness of our information. It
would appear that from Jamaica, the most important
Island from which we draw our supplies, a deficiency
of more than 16,000 casks has occurred ; from An-
tigua, the importation during the last year has been
r wo-thirds less than in 1826; from Demerara alone
has there been any material increase, so that the
total deficiency amounts to about 19,000 casks in
the year 1827. The difference in the stock in the
West India Dock warehouses, at the beginning of
this month, and a similar period last year, is not
greater than 8,500 casks, and as the exports have
been somewhat less, it clearly shows a decline in the
consumption of this article, to the extent of about
11,000 casks. There can be no ddubt that the in-
creased supply of East India and Mauritius Sugars has
in some degree occasioned this falling off, but it is
equally clear that the measures likely to be brought for-
ward in the next Session of Parliament, whereby it is
proposed that Sugars, the produce of the Brazils
and Havanna'', shall be admitted at a very reduced
duty, have also had a tendency to depress the de-
mand. The prices of the raw West India Sugars
exhibit very little difference from what they were
twelve months since, when the natural effect of the
short supply should have been a considerable advance
as the only means of affording the (then not over-
paid) planter a return for his capital employed..
That the Revenue has suffered materially, in Conse-
quence of the uncertainty that prevails on this sub-
ject, is very apparent, and it is equally true that the
prospects of the West India proprietor are very
alarming; but as the object in view in admitting
Foreign Sugars, is, we believe, to assist the refining
Export Trade, which has latterly been declining_
the first may, and no doubt will, recover the effects
in the course of the present year, as it is expected
that duty will be paid on very large quantities
should the proposed measure pass into a law; but it
is somewhat to be lamented that a change so desi-
rable can only be brought about at the risk of invol-
ving an important class of the commercial people in
serious distress.—New Times.
We can positively state that the progress already
made in the formation of the new Ministry is such
that there is no doubt of its being entirely com-
pleted before the end of the present week. Lord
Melville, to whom an important station is assign-
ed, is expected in town this day from Seotland, and
by to-morrow, in all probability, the whole of the
new Cabinet will be assembled. The further pro-
rogation of Parliament was evidently a matter of
necessity, and shows the praiseworthy caution by
which the Duke of Wellington had been actuated.
This is a valuable earnest of what is to follow from
vigorous, discriminating, and united counsels ; and
we have no doubt the country will fully appreciate
the absence of that indecent haste which was the
prominent characteristic of the late Premier and his
followers. Of Lord Goderich we have always
spoken in terms of respect, neither have we un-
necessarily disparaged any of his Colleagues;
but we think they have much to answer
for—in holding the reins of Government up to
within a few days of the erecting of Parliament, and
then throwing all the labour of the Session on the
shoulders of those who, to say the least, had not the
slightest participation in their measures. If Lord
Goderich were incapable of taking the helm, he
should have candidly said so, and not " kept the
word of promise merely to the ear" while breaking
it "to the hope." He should not now, at the
eleventh hour, throw upon his successors the re-
sponsibility of those proceedings for which he and
his co-provisional Ministers are alone answerable
to the nation. He should not have coquetted be-
tween his Sovereign and the best interests of the
country—nor lent himself to the flirting adu-
lation of sycophantic Whigs. But unfortunately
he was beset by them. His awful situation
as Premier was made to sit lightly upon him
during the fair weather ; but when he comes
to the pinching point—when he looks to the account
which he has to render of his stewardship, he flies
from the helm, he deserts the ship, and leaves her
to sink or swim as chance may determine. This
conduct is not manly—it is not English—it is not
just; and yet such conduct has found Journalists
who have quite bedaubed it again with praise,
and made it the theme of lavish panegyric, It
must be obvious to the most careless observer,
that a Ministry coming into office upon the very
eve of the Meeting of Parliament would labour
under inconveniences,—nay, absolute difficulties,
with which it would be an arduous task to grapple
with entire success; and hence it is a measure of
wisdom that even another week is suffered to
pass before the different Members are called upon
to assemble. It is consolatory, to be sure, that
Mr. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Eldon,
and other influential Members of the new Cabinet,
have been for many years accustomed to the cares
and duties of office ; but nevertheless we should not
expect /of them toFput forth all their Herculean
powers, in order to contrast them .with the abortive
efforts of the soi-disant Liberals. That the Eldons
and the Wellingtons will labour religiously and assi-
duously for their country's good, need not now for
the first time be anticipated what they have
already done is proudly before the world—and
we are satisfied that their futu*a proceedings will
add to the lustre which their names have al-
ready so deservedly acquired. They will have
much to do—much more to undo : At home
and abroad they will have to exercise the greatest
vigilance ; and the more brilliant has been their
former career, the more narrowly and jealously will
their future course be regarded. However, they are
all men of talent—men of business—men of principle.
—They will not easily lend themselves to jobbers
in politics, who seek a charlatan reputation, which
is no sooner won than it is lost. They will have to
repair the 'injuries which their predecessors have in-
flicted on the vessel of the State—they will have to
take the place of those who, in the hour of danger,
fled like criminals from a post they should never have
enjoyed ; but all this they are fully competent to do
—and it is a blessing to the nation that they are able
and willing to assist her in the day of trial.---Morn-
ing Post.

The Kingstown steam vessel from Liverpool,
ha 4 moored at the Custom-Ifouse Quay of Newry; she is
the first vessel of the kind that has ever yet attempted to
approach the town, and her arrival this week was hailed
with loud cheering and congratulation,---Carkte Morn-
ing Post,