The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-22 00:00:00

singled out upon the occasion) for publishing Mr.
Canning'; speech on Monday night ? Though in-
accuracies may, and, as reporters are now situated,
must occur occasionally in giving the Parliamentary
debates, the only wonder with half the world, we
believes is that they occur so seldom. Whenever
they do occur, and are pointed out, they are readily
arid anxiously set right. After this, surely, in the
manly straight-forward language of Lord Ellen-
borough, " it would be not only harsh, but unjust;
after Parliament have allowed the publicatioli of
their proceedings, to bring to the bar an unfortunate
individual, who had, ,Inere;y published that which
had been uttered." The generality of those who
condtict the Newspaper press are anxious to avoid
every misrepresentation and inaccuracy. Now that
the soi disant proclaimers of liberty are in power,
we well know that the Press has every thing to
fear. Of this we have had already sufficient indi-
cations; but we trust, that as long as the Press
maintains a due regard for truth and integrity, it
will find in public opinion that degree of support
which will maintain it effectually against the at-
tacks both of its open enemies and its false friends,—
Morning Herald.
A Morning Paper has published some obser-
vations upon the Bill now pending in Parlia-
ment, to amend the Laws of the Customs, tog.-
ther with a recommendation to the President of

the Board of Trade, that he should attend to
the suggestions therein contained. We find
that, in the opinion of the writer, " Me proposed
alteration is gratuitous, and that it does not ap-
pear to have been solicited by any of the trading
and manufacturing interests ; indeed, as far as
can be ascertained within the short time which
has been allowed, they were decidedly opposed
to it." Let us examine the question. A num-
ber of articles, it appears, fir a century and a
half have been subject to certain restrictions on
their importation into this country, and, in the
recent Act passed for the regulation of our com-
merce, it was deemed advisable to retain such
restriction upon some of them, known as the
enumerated articles. These restrictions are in
effect as follow, viz. :—that they should not be
imported unless " in British ships, or in ships of
the country of which such goods were the produce
--or in ships of the country from whence such
goods are imported,"—or, to place the matter in a
still clearer light, it shall not be lawful for vessels
belonging to the northern ports, to proceed to the
Mediterranean, and bring from thence, for con-
sumption in this kingdom, any of the articles men-
tioned in this list. With regard to some of these
goods, such as rosin, pitch, vinegar, sugar, pot-
ashes, arid salt, the Act is inoperative, as some
of them have ceased to be imported in any quan-
tity from Europe, and others are not imported at
all. It was, however, found, that the intention
of the Act was evaded in some degree, as
Swedish and other vessels had brought cargoes
of wool, barilla, sumach, &c. articles of consider-
able hulk, though not included in the list. It
was, therefore, deemed advisable to substitute the
following 13 articles for those above stated, viz. :
wool, shumac, madder, madder roots, barilla,
brimstone, oak bark, cork, oranges, lemons, lin-
seed, rapeseed, and cloverseed, for those above-
mentioned. In mentioning what we have done re-
latively to the northern vessels having imported
these articles, we would, by no means, have it sup-
posed that the instances have been many—on
the contrary ; but the proposed measure will
have the effect of removing the power now pos-
sessed by foreign nations to employ their ves-
sels in a trade that might be injurious to us, be-
fore it should have grown into sufficient magni-
tude to render its prohibition the just cause of com-
-liikiatt rirTiii.e-pdredTA- fart 8-tift
we thus deny to others. " But," says the writer
referred to, " it is well known that the habitual
course of trade in these thirteen articles (with the
exception of oak bark), is to import the same in
British ships. Where, hen, the necessity for the
alteration, affecting, as it would do, the enlightened
principles upon which our Commercial Code has
lately been revised ?" If this be a fact, the writer
at once supplies an answer to his own assertions;
for, if no portion of this trade is at present en-
joyed by foreigners, they can feel no regret at
their exclusion from it; and, if we are already in
the possession of it, surely it were somewhat
like idle clamour to assail that person who
should give rise to any measure, the ten-
dency of which would be to secure it to us. We
must not omit to notice that the oak bark
mentioned in the above statement, as principally
brought here in foreign vessels, is almost exclusively
imported from the Netherlands, between which
country and this kingdom no Treaty of Reciprocity
exists, and all goods coming from thence are charged
with an additional duty of one-fifth beyond that
which would be payable were they imported from
other places; so that, with regard to this article,
the " enlightened principles" which command the
admiration of this writer would, in no degree, be
trenched upon. Nor can it, we think, be considered
that undue restriction is placed upon these goods,
when they may be imported in "British ships, in
ships of the country of which such goods were the
produce, and in ships of the country from whence
such goods are imported." We subjoin a list of
these articles, with the official value of the imports
during the last three years. The amount is of that
magnitude as to render it desirable that the carrying
trade should be preserved to us, particularly when
their bulky nature is considered.—New Timex.

An ACCOUNT of the Ormuz. VALLJZ of the GOODS un•

der mentioned import
1828. I

Barilla
Brimstone

Bark of Oak
Cork

Lemons and Oranges
111,dder & Maddes Roots
Shumac
Seed—Linseed
Cloverseed
Rapeseed

`ed in the years 1824, 1825, and
1824. 1825. I 1826.

70,501
82,070
199,574
36,673
54,796
629,894
40,751
212,284
56,454
74,563
762,735

65,910
100,193
198,649
41,875

56,036
572,316
20,534
296,420
87,175

83,353
119,431
105,724
',33,247
69,172
330,391
16,586
229,160
42,132
75,915
478,341

61,078
1,436,606

Wool

FAMILY PROPENSITIES.--At the Petty Ses-
sion at Wellington, on the 16th inst., John Wilkins, of
Chaffcoombe, was committed to Wilton House of Correc-
tion, for trial, for utterin., base coin. He was tried and
convicted of a similar offence at the Bridgewater Sessions,
in July, 1821, and sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment. His daughter-in-law is now in the same prison,
for uttering base coin in Taunton, on the 2d inst. The
husband of this woman was discharged on the 16th ult.,
having been convicted of robbing a man of a gold ring, for
which he was sentenced to seven months' hard labour. Two
other sons are now in gaol at Dorchester, on a charge of
horse-stealing; and his wife, some time since, was searched
in Taunton, when a quantity of base coin, and several notes
of the late insolvent firm of " Brickdals and Co." were
found on her person.—Bath Paper.

UNPARALLELED AUDACITY.--Though it
is, or ought to be, known to all the world that to sound a
horn, or any other musical instrument, in the parish of
Marylebone, is an offence punishable by tine and imprison-
ment, the guard of a Dover coach, not having the fear of
the law before his eyes, actually had the assirance, a few
days since, to souad his key-bugle opposite the Court-
house in Oxford-street, and that while the parocial Parlia-
ment was in high debate. No sooner did the sound reach
their ears than consternation seized the whole Senate,
numbers rushed to the windows, and half a doyen beadles
were sent in pursuit of the offender, with orders to seize
the coach, horses, guard, driver, and passengers; but the
musical Jehu, getting scent of his pursuers, soon out-
stripped them all—the guard, in the mean while changing
his tune, as he passed along, to that of “Tantarara,
rogues all !"