The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-26 00:00:00

PIIIII.XC OPINION.

We quote the following from the Herald, in re-
ference to the recent treaty between this country and
the United States :—" We have recently seen the
extradition treaty signed between Prussia and Russia.
It was conceived for a time that Prussia would not
sign that infamous bond, and shortly afterwards we
learn that that which we conceived to be beyond the
depth of the degradation of Prussia in face of the
power of Russia is now perpetrated by England in
face of the United States ! England has suffered her
Magistrates and her officers to be branded as felons
by the United States. By this treaty she converts
her Magistrates and her officers into that which the
United States have designated them. By this treaty
she is bound to surrender Sir Allan Macnab and
Captain Drew to be dealt with for piracy and arson,
seeing that the Courts of the United States have
judged such to be their crime."
The Chronicle says For the maintenance of
past additions to our population we have mainly been
dependent on foreign demand for our manufactures;
and as our population increases, so must we become
more and more dependent on the foreign market, un-
less some new mode of profitably employing our
people be discovered. The great difficulty with which
the Government of this country has now to contend
is, that of finding out a mode in which the vast num-
ber of mouths in the country may be filled. Until
some increased means of employment be given to the
people, it is idle to talk of other remedies. Want will
ever be demoralising and irritating the masses, and
impelling them into revolt against order and property."
The Times has the following observations The
produce of the work of a man's hands must, of course,
be divided between himself and those who, by the
possession of capital, or connexion, or land, or any
similar advantage, are enabled to give him the oppor-
tunity of using his work with effect. The workman
has his manual labour to dispose of; the millowner,
the landlord, the farmer, the capitalist, the merchant,
hold in their hands the conditions of making that
manual labour profitable. Each is necessary to the
other ; and there is such a thing of course—difficult
to find perhaps, but still existent—as a fair division of
the profits. That fair division the workman consi-
ders he has not secured. We do not speak' now of
manufacturing more than of agricultural countries.
In each, we fear, there is much of the same discon-
tent at work, though among the more keen and in-
structed mechanics it assumes a more definite and
pronounced shape than with the unanalyzing plough-
man."

The Post comments as follows on the question of
the Stade Duties The facts with respect to the
negotiation between Great Britain and Hanover are
few and simple. The mode in which this part of the
hereditary revenue of the King of Hanover has
hitherto been collected having been found inconvenient
to commerce, it was proposed, on the part of the
British Government, to King Ernest to accept one
uniform rate of toll, ad valorem, in lieu of the exist-
ing duties, which were different, and levied in a dif-
ferent manner, upon various articles. To the spirit
of this proposal his Majesty acceded frankly and cor-
dially, and it would long ago have been carried into
effect had not Lord Palmerston, losing sight of the
original object, which was to simplify the duties, and
render their collection less inconvenient, advanced a
new pretension, not heard of for centuries, calling on
the King of Hanover to surrender a large part of the
Stade revenue, which had been enjoyed by a long
succession of his predecessors on the Hanoverian
Throne, and never until then questioned by any Eng-
lish Minister. The proposal of Lord Palmerston was
deemed by the Hanoverian Government insolent as
well as unjust; and it may be regarded as perfectly
certain that no modification whatever of the Stade
duties would have taken place so long as the nego-
tiation for that purpose had to be conducted by his
Lordship."

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MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The second meeting of the Commissioners relative
to the Manchester Bank, took place on Friday in that
town. Several proofs were admitted, and the meet-
ing adjourned for choice of assignees. The bank, it
is said, has claims altogether to the amount of
180,000/. ; the debts due to the bankrupts are small.
The mills at Manchester are entirely at work, with
their full complement of hands: the number of the
turn-outs is now so reduced that they cannot effect
the least disturbance.

The house of Ehlers and Feuerhaerd, at Ham-
burgh, which suspended payment in March last, have
been declared bankrupts. The amount of their lia-
bilities is about- 70,0001., and the assets are stated to
be 6001., barely sufficient to pay the costs of the
commission.