The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-10 00:00:00

COAL MAR

Adair's 295. Od.
Beaumont. . 9
Holywell 29 6
Killingworth 31 9
Liddell's 27 0
Newburn 29 6
Ord's Redhugh . 26 6
Pontop Windsor —. 27 6
Shipcote 77 0
Tanfield 31 6
Townley 27 9
\Villington
Wylani
Walls End Bell and Co. 33 6
WallsEndßewicke&Co. 33 9
Ditto Cramlington—..... 29 6
Ditto Hilda 31 0
Ditto Hotspur.* 30 9
Ditto Northumberland 31 0
Ditto Peareth 29 6
Ships at market, 8-t —Shit

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. 1 Barley. j Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to 0. s. to s. a. to a.
Abingdon „. 53 82 32 SS 21 32 42
Andover . 70 74 36 37 23 25 46
Birmingham ,---- 72 St 32 36 24 36 46
6ridport , . 56 74 32 39 26 31 54
Cirencester 59 76 30 36 23 26 44
Faringdon--- 54 86 36 40 26 38 46
Guildford 48 74 39 40 24 33 44
Henley 54 83 30 35 28 30 40
Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 60
Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34
Maidenhead ..
Oakingham 56 76 30 36 118 32 43
Reading 60 82 32 37 24 34 42
Salisbury 60 78 34 40 24 34 55
Southampton 54 78 37 40 24 32 48
Stroud 66 80 34 38 22 32 42
Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 51
Uxbridge 48 St 32 35 23 31 43
Wantage 50 '7B 20 37 22 30 42
Warminster —......... 48 78 32 39 26 38 54
Windsor 60 86 S 4 38 24 23 54
W0rce5ter......—...... 70 75 36 40 24 22 44
CHELTENHAM MARKET.—Sept, V.
Per Bushel. a. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d.
Wheat
Barley
Oats
Beans 4 9 5 6 Lauib 7
Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork ............ 6 71
Hay 3l. IN. to 31. 15s. per ton.

LEWES MARKET.7Sept. 8.

White Wheat (per quarter)....... £3 8 0 to £3 12 0

Red ditto - 3 8 0

3 10 0

Barley
Oats, New 1 2 0 9 0 0
Beans 1 17 0 0 0 0

Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand.

HULL MARKET.—Sept. S.

Since last Tuesday the weather has been very favourable
for securing the Wheats, a great proportion of which are
already housed. To-day we have a very large show, and
a reduction of full 103. per quarter from last week's prices
has been submitted to, at this decline, however, the prin-
cipal buyers came into the market freely, and considerable
business has been done ; the quality is exceedingly various,
and scarcely a sample free from sprout, and generally the
condition indifferent. One sample was offered ineffectually
at 40s. per quarter, while the prices paid on the better
qualities varied from 48s. to 545. per quarter; for Old
Wheat we consider our quotations perfectly nominal, not
having a single inquiry after them far the present, still
they were not pressed on the market, the holders feeling
confident they must soon be wanted to mix with the New.
Oat', Barley, and Beans, are in very little request, and
prices without alteration. Rapeseed and Linseed mail,-
tain late prices. No inquiry for any description of Grain
Barley,
nti e
jags
cnnds.
u.o.
t.u.. r quotations
161.2 6
.6::: a.L.y.i.b.l.ceicl.ne.scbwoon\n\s,dio(.ll.de.r7—ed:s....6o_2:B,..,:.i nominal.f,6v:..
Wheat, Old
Oats, Poland —.4 yns 2t.5.. ....Old ...... ... --s. —s. 265:
Small or Feed —s. 12s. 18s.
Foreign --s. 2os. 245.
Foreign
Beans 34s 365. 395. Foreign —s. 30s. 32a.
Pease, White —s.—a. 365. 38a
11a. 365. Grey
Tares —s. 30s. 325.
—s 345. 365. F0reign......... —s. 28s. 32.,
Rapeseed, in bond none.

1171 Ei,Sto
t4l A 3
,Imp.l)l,Uushl.l Butter, 160 z....... ...... 0. o.to 0. 9•
"
s. d. 8.4.
Wheat ' s d a d
Barley
Oats 4 4 4 6 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 0
It 9 3 S Beef, per lb.
Flour, Illb.
Oatmeal
Potatoes, cwt.
CA'rrLE.—The number of Cattle on the sands to-day
was 932, most of which were sold; the outcry about the
PriCets is louder than we ever heard it.

It KETS.—Sept.

THE LATE FAILURES.

(From the Times.)

A Correspondent, who signs himself " Peter
Playfair," has written us a clever and very
long letter, which, for the sake of " fair play,"
tie publish.

The subject of tLis letter is too important not
to force its,-Zupon the attention of every man in
the immunity, but in the treatment of it there
was no occasion for our correspondent to misre-
present our meaning in his remarks on one of
our late articles.

We never imputed the distress of the manu-
facturing world of England, though he says we
did, "to the taxes," as its principal cause.
There was another source of misery which lay
much deeper, and overlaid the nation more ex-
tensively even than the taxes ; and if reference be
made to our article of the 2d instant, every
reader may satisfy himself upon that point,
namely, the inevitable downfall of the.t manu-
facturing and commercial monopoly, by which
an immense manufacturing and commercial po-
pulation has been called into action—we might
have said into being,—and supported for veass,
and fed with the hope of unchangeable markets
and of never-failing prices. While the action
has, from irresistible causes, relaxed, the markets
have been stocked with foreign competitors, the
prices have fallen, and the support been cut
away from under the feet of the disappointed and
half-paid workmen. This we broadly stated to be
the disease of our system,—of a s,stem in its
nature artificial, forced, subjected to vicissitudes
partly inherent in itself, partly produced by ex-
ternal pressure ; and we added, what most men
will allow, that the evil was aggravated (not en-
gendered) by an immense and undiminished
weight of taxes, more disproportioned than they
had ever been to the resources of the country
and the capacities of the people. But we like-
wise added, what Mr. Playfair has curiously dis-
torted—" that England must contract her ma-
nufacturing theatre, and become less absolutely
an instrument of mechanical production." Yes,
we did use these words ; but, in doing so, did
we state the proposition as containing a cure for
the present diseases ? On the contrary, it was
but the development—the consequence and il-
lustration of their nature : we said, not that it
must be adopted as a remedy, but that " it must
and would take place," as an effect, whether we
might call for it or deprecate it,—whether we
alight strive to hasten or avert it.
Our correspondent, after imputing to us as
the nostrum of our choice, that which we con-
templated no otherwise than as a result of the
public malady, goes on fluently to charge us with
preaching up the " doctrine of the Luddites,"
" Destroy," quoth Mr. Playfair, " a certain por-
tion of the intelligence, the capital, and the in-
habitants, that the fruits of industry may be
diminished, and consequently that the remaining
portion of inhabitants, who may survive the
smash, may be able to exist a few years longer,"
&c. Now, really, this is no just representation
of our sentiments. We need but repeat, as the
plain meaning of our article, that neither the
capital nor the intelligence (which is also capi-
tal) of our manufacturers would henceforth, in
all human probability, be able to send forth so
much of the fruits of manufacturing industry,
because they will not be able to force against an
universal competition an equal sale of those
fruits, and to provide an equal support for the
industrious hands which produce them, as when
there was no competition,
With Peter Playfair's applause of Mr. Pitt at
one moment, for " encouraging activity in com-
merce and manufactures," and his reprobation
of him at another, for " encouraging the lords
of the soil" by a corn monopoly, of which (we
agree with our correspondent in asserting) the
effect must be to deaden the manufacturing and
commercial power, it is no business of ours to
dispute ; but in pursuance of our former opi-
nion, we affirm that such an enormous portion
of the people of this country have been—
whether wisely or ignorantly is another
question—thrown into the manufacturing sys-
tem, as to render Great Britain generally
more dependent upon precarious tastes and
fashions, among foreigners, and more exposed,
at the same time, to foreign rivalry in the grati-
fication of such uncertain indulgences, than she
ever was, before the last fifteen years—than any
other kingdom has been in the history of the
world, or than the public tranquillity and safety
would appear to a reflecting mind to permit. If
we be asked for a remedy, we are not so flip-
pantly primed and prepared as some of our
neighbours appear to be. How far the retracing
of our footsteps out of the manufacturing waste
which threatens ere long to be forced upon us,
may bring about a final amelioration of this evil,
without creating others almost as deplorable, we
shall not venture to pronounce. Even an open-
ing of the corn-law monopoly, which on high
principles of justice and humanity we would
join our correspondent in earnestly demanding
from the aristocracy of England, might, by re-
ducing prices and wages, but tend to a further
accumulation of manufacturing bulk, and a pro-
gressive pressure of hands upon employment,
which Mr. Playfair, copying Mr. Malthus, de-
nominates a pressure of population against food.
Still we are ready to join our countrymen in the
cry for bread, and leave the rest to Providence.
It seems quite monstrous that the trade in human
sustenance should be that trade wherein, of all
others, there is the least approach to freedom.