The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-26 00:00:00

COLONIVS.

THE TRADE OF THE CANAMIS.

30.—The American Newspapers halie
lately announced the arrival of some portions of Timber from
Lake Champlain in the Hudson, by the Canal which has lately,
been cut from Whitehall, at the So*thern extremity of tlr
Lake to the Hudson River near Fort Edward ; and the same
Papers also state, that the naysgation of the Hudson will shortly
be improved so as to admit of sloops proceeding up to the
mouth of the Canal.

When these works and the great Canal and its branches can.
- nesting the. Hudson with Lakes Brie and Ontario will be entire-
ly complete, a period, which, according to eVery probability and
the positive statements of the American Authorities, will not
exceed two years froth the present time,
_the wishes of Sir Isaac
Coffin and his friends will be completed. Canada, nor Great
Britain, will no longer be troubled with Anierlean produce and
the returns passing by the St. Lawrence in British shipping. -It
is even possible that in so far as the trade between the Canadas
and Great Britain is concerned, it may be said to be sunk to the
bottom of the seas.
twe do hot think that the United States will make any di a..
tinction between the produce of the Canadas and that of the
United States. We dare say that they will gladly see it put on.
board Of American ships, or the ships of any other nation, to be.
transported to any part of the world where it can find a market;
and that returns will by cheerfully fbrwarded by. the Champlain
and Eric ',Canals On paying the common fare:
We do believe, that unless something is done speedily, to re-
move the indecement of higher prices of produce and equally
low prices of imported merehandize and of the'substitutes of
American manufaCtures, that this will be the course t!-at
the trade of the Canadas will take in a very few . years.— .
The cost of transport from all the settled parts of Upper
Canada, to New York, by the Great Canal, ivill be little more
than the cost of transport to Quebec, and the cost of the trare.
pOrt of the returns will probably be something less. well
known that notwithstanding the -duties w'ench the American
Government levies on certaindescriptions of impertedmerchan-
disc, particularly such as are of British manufacture, goods
ernrally sell as cheap, (if not clieaper).. 'at New York as at
itenec and Montreal. This the American merchant is proba-
b y enabled to do by the profits which -he makes on his (nit:.
ward cargoes, sent to any foreign market which may happen to
be the most advantageous hers also forced to the best managemerit, and to be satisfied with the lowest possible profit, by ie
very extended and active competition. The United States also
now manufacture a variety. of cheap articles, suited to their own
consumption, which are equally adapted to the Canadas.
The hake Champlain Canal, and the improvements of the
Hudsen,which We understand will be completed this season,will
afford nearly as great • facilities to Lower Canada. We ques-
tion if the best market for the wheat of the River Chambly is
not now at New York, to which' it may be exported from St.
John's at very little more cost than from the Bason of Chairibly
to Quebec, where there is no demand for it. The St. Law,
rence, the River Chambly; with the contemplated improve,
molts in its navigation, Lake Champlain- and the Iluds•an,
would form an uninterrupted navigable•communication between
every part of Lower Canada and New York. .
It may seem strange, incredib, that the bount 'of nature.
the finest navigable river in the Wolerld, should be rendered use-
less as an outlet to the sea, by works of art and artificial regula-
tions ; but whoever will consider by what law trade is naturally
regulated, the course which. we have supposed the trade of the
Canadas will take, under the permanency of the existing Legis-
lative regulations of Great Britain, is neither fanciful nor far -
distant.

The only thing wonderful about it, is to see twe maritime
rivals co-operating in the same result.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, OCT. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Put back the John,
King ; Fame, Harrison ; Rising Star, Scott ; and Angerstion,
Ilenshelwood. Came down from the River the Marquess of
Huntly, Reed, for Jamaica; and George the Third, Popple_
well, for Madeira and ditto. Arrived and remain the George
and Ann, Postgate, from Petersburgh for Lisbon; and Vries_
land, Brent, from Bilbao. The latter has sailed for the River.
PORTsmouTit, OCT. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived his
Majesty's ships Morsey, from Bermuda; and Camelion, from
a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship Active for Gibraltar, with
the Earl of Chatham and suite.

HARWICH, OCT.-25.--Arrived the Princess Charlottz•
packet, with a umil, from Cuxhaven.
FAaIsGATE, OCT. 25.—An anchor and cable have bees on shore belonging to the Garnet Franklin; Woller.
A chain cable and iron-stocked anchor, with new buoy and
rope, have also been brought here.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind W.--Arrived the Sicily,
Cupper and Polperra Russell, from 9ibraltar. Tle Nord-
ster, Kemper, from Bilbao for London, which was ti wed in
here on the 10th inst. with loss of rudder, &c., is Lk.w re-
paired. The Jonge Jun, Vriezeman, from Nantes to Ant-
werp, which put in here on the 30th of August, has been tudy
repaired, and will take on board her cargo.

GREENOCK, OCT. 21.—0 n the 6th Soptetnber, the brig
Earl of Dalhousie, of Greenock, Scott, master, from Fort-‘vil-
ham, with passengers, went ashore in thick weather upon the
Island of Anticosti, about twenty miles from the east end of it,
and became a total wreck. Part of the passengers had been
previously landed at Cape Breton, and the remainder (about
l 4) were on shore where the brig was wrecked ' • but as the
Cesar passed Anticosti, coming down, Capt. Scott had arrived
at the island, with two schooners from Quebec, to take up the
passengers. No lives were lost.

A leiter from Dover, dated October 24,' says—" It blew a
gale of wind, attended with squalls of rain, all day yesterday,
so that the vessels from Prance were obliged to run for Mar -
gate, where they landed their passengers. At night a boat was
put off from the Lively Excise cutter, Capt. Lilburn, in chase
of a smuggling boat, nearly abreast of Eastware Bay, Polk-
stone, when by a sudden squall, and a violent swell of the sea,
she was upset, and the whole of the crew, except a boy, consist-
ing of Williams, Humphreys, Pain, Stavely, and Tyrrell,
belonging to this town, were unfortunately drowned. The
three former have left wives and families. The smuggler was
ultimately taken by blockade."