The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

It appears from a Return laid before Parlia-
ment of Naval Promotions which have taken
place since the Ist of January of the present
year, that 86 Midshipmen have been promoted
to Lieutenants, 43 Lieutenants to be Com-
manders, 16 Commanders to be Post Captains.
It further appears, that certain persons have been
selected for promotion, who ought, if equal jus-
tice had prevailed at the Admiralty, to have con-
tinued some years longer where they were ; as,
for instance, what has the Hon. Frederick
William Grey done. to deserve the rank of
Commander in the Navy ? After having ob-
tained his Lieutenancy so short a time ago as in
1825, this is a very short probation for the
young Honourable ; but then his father, the Earl
of the same name, has done so much of late to
annoy the Ministers, that they must try to neu-
tralize and smooth down his Lordship, if pos-
sible : this is very mean in its motive, and in its
effects on the service most pernicious. There
are officers in the same list of promotion with
Master Frederick 'William Grey, who have been
Lieutenants for 20 years. There is no other
instance of such a favour being shown to a
sucking -Lieutenant throughout these 43 ap-
pointments, except in the case of one Mr. Richard
Freeman Rowley, who got his lieutenancy on the
17th of May, 1825. Who is Mr. Richard Freeman
Rowley? Is fie a minion of birth, or money, or
eaprice ? So, in the list of Commanders promoted
into Captains, we find that Commander Samuel
Thornton obtained his rank as such in April, 1825,
and is now converted into a Post Captain. Com-
mander Henry TtyaUl Martin—son, we presume, or
brother, to the Adniiral, who is a placeman—leas
been made Post-Captain, having remained a Com-
mander only since April, 1825. When these people
once get their nose into office, they make a snug
thing of it for all their connexions.—Tinzes.

We insert wholly the subjoined Act of Par-
liament, passed in the present Session, on ac-
count of its extreme singularity :
" A Bill (as amended by the Committee) to declare and
amend the Law relating to the Employment and Pay-
ment of able-bodied Labourers from the Poor-rate.

" Whereas a custom of depending on parochial employ-
ment and assistance is prevalent among able-bodied la-
bourers in many parishes, equally contrary to the spirit
and intention of the law, as it is inimical to the happiness
and independence of the working classes ; be it enacted,
therefore, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as-
sembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and
after the Ist day of January, 1831, if any able-bodied la-
bourer (not having more than four children dependent on
him for support) shall apply to the overseers of the poor
of any parish or place for parochial employment or assist-
ance, it shall be in the discretion of such overseers to grant
his request, or not, as they shall think right under all cir-
cumstances ; and if they think it expedient to refuse, no
Justice of the Peace shall have any authority in the case :
provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall
be construed to give a right to parochial assistance to any
person, or class of persons, which they did not before pos-
sess, or to lessen the right to necessary relief of the lame,
impotent, old, blind, or such other, being poor and not
able to work.; or to extend to the case of mechanics, arti-
sans, or manufacturers."

The Act, then; is not to come into operation
till the year 1831 ; and its object, however ludi-
crous and absurd, seems to be the prevention of
the procreation of children. Who could be the
propounder of this anomaly in legislation ? He
deserves that his fame should be diffused and
commemorated by one of those appellations
called nicknames. Let not any healthy able-
bodied labourer expect, should he marry to-
morrow, that he can entitle himself to parochial
relief in 1831 by the magnitude of his family ;
for unless his wife should happily bring him
twins, four children—the most that he can ho-
Tiestly expect by that &Ate—will be tound-ituniffs-
cient to substantleae hrti..elai►n, to aid,! Wilat

were it best, then, for such a man to dc•arig
present time ? Not to marry, or to marry ?
This would form an additional case to Rabelais'
logical discussion (pro and con,) on matrimony.

A most important Parliamentary Paper was
delivered yesterday—namely, an account of the
quantity, and of the official and declared value,
of the twenty principal articles of British, Irish,
Foreign, and Colonial produce or manufactures
exported_ from, and imported into the United
Kingdom, for the years ending sth January
182.5, 1826, and 1827. This is the first in-
stance of any Return of' Quantities as well as
values, and the public are greatly indebted to
Mr. Maberly for this very important improve-
ment, which we trust will be permanently adopt-
ed in our Annual Reports. On looking into
the Exports, we perceive a great falling off in
all our staple manufactures. We begin with
Cotton :

The number of yards exported in the year ending sth
31nuary, 1825, was £344,440,389
1826
1827

Cotton twit, and yarn, however, have expe-
rienced an incrwse-33- millions of pounds in
the year ending 182.5, 32 millions 1826, and 42
millions 1827. So much for cotton.—Our
next manufacture, in point pf importance, is the
Woollen ; and here also there is a great fall-
ing off :
Woollens entered by the Piece, year ending Jan.:-
1825 £1,856,201
1826
1827
entered by the Yard :-
1825
1826
1827
Linen, in these three years, by the yard, are
sixty-three millions, fifty-two millions, and
thirty-nine millions. Our next staple is Hard-
wares and Cutlery ; and here the quantity in
cwts. is 214,237 and 219,909, and 192,702.
This branch seems to have suffered the least.
Leather, wrought -and unwrought, in pounds,
for the three years, 1,744,015, and 1,595,750,
and 1,261,245. In Eartiien4are, Glass,
Hats, and, in short, every branch there has been
a sensible decline. While our sapient Legisla-
tors of the House of Lords are bestirring them-
selves so lustily in keeping out foreign produce,
and looking with so much jealousy even on the
introJuctiou of foreign wool, foreign timber, and
foreign hides and tallow, they no doubt think it
beneath them to concern themselves with the
falling off in our foreign sales. We observe
Lord Lauderdale was greatly alarmed last night
at the number of ships from the Baltic stuck up
at Lloyd's. His Lordship has all his life been
an alarmist. It is well for the credit of his
Lordship, that few persons can boast of the ad-
vantage possessed by Mr. Huskisscn, of having
all the three score pamphlets in which he has
communicated his various 'nostrums for pro-
poting the prosperity or preventing the ruin of
the country. We, however, possess a few of
them ; and, among others, one written after
his beard was grizzled,—namely, in 1805,1
in which this profound political economist
gravely endeavours to fill the manufacturers ofl
Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Warwickshire, with ap-
prehension for the transference of their manufac-
tures to Ireland, in consequence of the Irish Union.
All this was to be effected by Irish absenteeisni, and
borrowing in England for the service of Irqland.l
And he arrived at his conclusion in this way :—ln

time of peace our usual exports to Germany did not
exceed 1,900,000/., but when we treated the Em-
peror with Imperial Loans and other advances, Ger-
many became inundated with our goods, receiving to
the value of eight millions annually. Now, as ab-
seenteeism saddles Ireland with two or three mil-
lions to noblemen resident in England, it followed
that Ireland would in like manner, pay in manufac-
tures, and .that Yorkshire and Lancashire would
change places with Munster and Connaught. His
Lordship was then all alarm for manufactures :
" Little doubt," he said, " can be entertained by
any man who reflects on the situation of this coun-
try, that it is our manufacturing industry which has
enabled us to support the unparalleled attacks made
of late years upon our resources." In those days,
he told us not to concern ourselves about agriculture
for " agricultural industry, when in a state of per-
fection, cannot be checked in a moment ;" but to
look carefullly after our manufactures, lest they
escape into Ireland. And yet this man is the oracle
of the House of Lords; the sage whose lectures are
greedily devoured by that branch of the collective
wisdom of the nation.—Morning Chronicle.

One of our contemporaries, whose magnani-
mous self-devotion to Mr. Canning is notorious,
is exceedingly angry with us for having stated
that a report was current, even among some of
his adherents, that there was stilla possibility of
the Right Hon. Gentleman's accepting the Go-
vernor-Generalship of India ; and, with a view
of throwing ridicule upon the idea, goes on to
assert that it is upon a par with our having noti-
fied the appointment of Lord Bathurst to the
Governorship of Jamaica. In somewhat milder
terms than Mr. Canning once employed towards
his present ally, Mr. Brougham, we must be per-
mitted to say that we never notified, or, to the
best of our knowledge, ever heard of any such
thing. Nor do we believe, much as a warmer
climate might suit the Right Hon. Gentleman's
warm temperament, that he is as yet re-destined
to become the Monarch of the East—an appoint-
ment, by the bye, by no means dishonourable to

any man. What we asserted, and what we
know to be true, is, that there are those even
among his political adherents, who- calculate
upon such an event as not at all improbable.—
What we believe is, that Mr. Canning cannot
maintain his present station in the Government,
either with credit to himself or advantage to the
country. We are not the foes of Mr. Canning.
We are aware of the weak as well as the splendid
points in his character. Had he remained where he
was, his conduct, barring his absurd Portuguese ex-
pedition, was the subject of our unqualified appro-
bation. But in aiming at a higher object, he has
overshot the mark; and as far as his Administration
has yet gone, it appears to us to be a failure. His
coalition with the hungry Whigs has, above all, dis-
gusted the independent part of the country. Our
own conjecture is, that these same Whigs will, in
return, seize the first opportunity of throwing their
new patron overboard; and that, having thus ob-
tained the Government, which, after all, they will
not be able to keep, it is not at all improbable that
Mr. Canning, mortified at the failure of his own
plans, and the ingratitude of his new allies, will be
glad to bury in a splendid retreat the mortification
which he must feel at his own indiscretion and the
ingratitude of his new and anomalous associates.—
Morning Herald.

It is a pity that all the appointments are not
publicly announced ; we should then have that
from authority, which is now often only to be
picked up among the on dits of the day. We
have just heard, for instance, of sundry good
things obtained by the Whigs, and of others in
prospect, which we refrain at present from nam-
ing, for fear of mistake. Why will not the good
people at Brooks's publish a Gazette of their
own, or at least let us know in some authentic
shape or other what part of the plunder is falling
to their share ? Or is it some small remaininz

whivti-Xeeprllle matter secret 7
However, the truth will out ; and the public will
soon see how fond the bawlers for economy and
reform really are of the very abuses they profess
to loath.—/bid.

A Morning Paper, adverting to the discus-
sion which the W 00l Trade has undergone, and
to a petition that was presented to Parliament,
suggesting that a higher duty should be levied
than at present, and a drawback allowed if ex-
ported in a manufactured state, puts forth the
following enlightened remarks upon the subject ;
" We are decidedly inimical to drawbacks, bounties, or
any similar stumbling blocks or mystification in commer-
cial countries, for they are useless departures from simplicity,
and in almost all cases lead only to torment. We should,
therefore, 'recommend the petitioners, with regard to the
import of wool, to petition simply that a certain tax be
laid on its importation; we would recommend them to
propose threepence in the pound, and not sixpence, for
sixpence in the pound is too much. Sixpence in the pound
would comparatively amount to a prohibitory duty ; and
tbere is no article that we would prohibit. If we bad any
thing to do with these matters, we would admit every thing
from every nation, with as little difficulty as possible to the
merchant, shipowner, and captains, who entered our ports.
We would not mind from what nation ships came, nor
what description of goods they brought. We would do
away with all the nonsense as to such and such goods be-
ing brought only in British bottoms, or such and such goods
being brought only in slips belonging to countries, of which
the goods were the produce. We would tax all descriptions
of goods upon their entering into our ports, and that highly
rather than the contrary ; and we would tax goods at a
higher rate if brought in foreign vessels, than if brought in
our own: thus, for instance, we would tax wool three-
pence per Oa., which pays now, we believe, only id. or Id.
a lb. Cotton wool we would tax either 3d. or 6d. a lb. ;
it pays, we believe, only id. or Id. Silk we would tax
a. or 9d. ; at present it pays 3(1. From these three de-
script-Los o imports, we beru•ve thst a very' considerable
addition mfgla be made to the revenue. As to the grumb-
ling of manufacturers, we would not pay the least attention
to it—their represelatations we would disregard."
With respect to the 4rst of these articles, which
our contemporary would delight in visiting with
an advance of duty, we should have thought that
the circumstance of the quantity of wool, which
has been entered for home consumption, up to
the present time, being less, by one-half, than
the amount of that on which duty was paid in
the same period of 1825, would sufficiently prove
that a successful rivalry had been maintained
with this country, in the manufacture of woollen
goods, by foreign cations, which, together with
the diminished consumpkon of those manufac-
tures at home, induced by the late distresses,
would seem to render any advance in the prices
of the raw material peculiarly disadvantageous at
present, As to the articles of cotton and silk,
the former of which our contemporary seems
undetermined whether he would tax at the rate
of 50 or 100 per cent., we shall only extract one
or two paragraphs respecting them from this
Journal, at the commencement of. the present
year :

" During the last year (1820, 200,000 bales of cot-
ton have been imported into the port of Ifavre de Grace,
while, in the year previous, the amount imported did i►ot
exceed 100,000 bales, which accounts, in some degree, for
the falling off of the imports into this kingdom during the
last year. In fact, France is making rapid strides in the
cotton 11141W4ctnring branch of business, as is the Conti-
nent generally, and the ITnited States of America as well."

We exposed the fallacy of iiii;;;;;;;;;•at
the time ; but we quote it now, to prove the
absurdity of any one who entertains a belief in
the correctness of such a statement, wishing to
place a further advantage in the hands of fo-
reigners, by enhancing the price of this article to
our own manufacturers. With respect to silk—
in a letter from Lyons, which also appeared in
the columns of this paper, we find, that the

" French manufacturers are full of apprehension
at the rapid progress which Englishmen are
making in the manufacture of silk goods ;" and,
accordingly, our contemporary would relieve
them from their fear as speedily as possible, by
prudently increasing the duty to three times its
present amount ! After this, what a humble
opinion must such men as Messrs. Canning and
Huskisson entertain of their labours, when they find
their alterations characterised as " nonsense," by
so able an authority. Nor can any one, we think,
hesitate to admire that firmness of principle, which
teaches our contemporary so totally " to disregard
the representations of the grumbling manufacturers,"
as if they were so many vermin on the hop-bins,
against which our contemporary piques himself in
having carried on so successful a war of extermina-
tion.—New 7imes.