The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-23 00:00:00

EARTHENWARE TRADE.

The following has been received by a firm of the
highest respectability in the Staffordshire Potteries ;
and exhibits a remarkable procedure affecting that
branch of public industry.
(Extract of a Letter dated Gibraltar, March 3d, 1842.)
“The earthenware trade in Spain has been annihilated
by the new Spanish tariff, which raises the duties on foreign
ware, to an extent as to amount to utter prohibition ;
and we are induced to think for the purpose of pro-
tecting a manufactory recently opened at Seville, by Mr.
Pickman and others : nearly all the ware we used to
order from you, was for that market. Our sales to one
party, last year, were 2,000 L. Unless the tariff i s modi-
fied, or the exportation of ground flint and other mate-
rials from England, is prohibited, we may consider the
trade at an end. With the heavy exorbitant protective
duties, foreign ware cannot be introduced ; and tl.e
parties are enabled to import entire cargoes of mate-
. rials from England to produce their ware. Were the
exportation of these prohibited, we should have no-
thing to apprehend from that establishment. Whole
families from Staffordshire have been brought out."
[Mr. Pickman, and others, are, no doubt, Englishmen,
driven abroad by our standing sentence of banishment, on
ingenious men, alias, the bread-tax. France was half
ruined by the revocation of the Edict of Nantz—what will
be the fate of England, with a standing revocation of the
edict of the Almighty establishing free trade ? The
new income tax will contribute to the burdens and hasten
the expatriation of our people, while our pernicious ex-
ample of fostering industry by so-called protection,
which has existed unhappily in conjunction with
great progress in natural wealth, from totally dif-
ferent:causes, will encourage other nations to raise
their tariff to protect the manufactures which our
banished people will establish in them, and pro-
mote the national decay. Could we now, by any
magic, conjure up, and ring in the ears of our stolid
statesmen, the bitter and dreadful curses our ruined pos-
terit will certainly heap on their heads, we might hope
to frighten them into a sense of their enormous responsi-
bility% But they are securely mailed in self conceit, and
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and a Chinese code of restrictive, vexatious, and coercive
regulations.]—ED. Sun.

Lamarge, the keeper of a public-house at Agen, and
the three other Spaniards, Oline, Obiols, and Niltulomad, who
were concerned in the robbery of the mail between Agen and
Toulouse in the night of January 18, when the courier was
desperately wounded, as was stated at the time, were brought
to trial on the 9th inst. before the Court of Assizes for the
Lot-et-Garonne. The hearing lasted three days, at the end of
which the :wry pronounced the prisoners guilty of robbery with
an attempt to murder, and they were all condemned to death.
The Taulonnais gives the following letter from
Algiers, dated March 5 :—" Some time ago' a trading vessel
named the St. Charles, under the command of Captain Gra-
tien, sailed from Leghorn, with upwards of 50 emigrants, for
Algiers. Each passenger was to pay for his passage and food
the sum of 14f. Owing either to the incapacity of the cap-
tain or the boistrous state of the weather, the passage was
prolonged exceedingly. They put in at Tunis, Callee, and
Philippeville. At last, the captain, tired of feeding so many
mouths, seized on a moment when the passengars were all
below, and shut down the hatches. He gave, occasionally,
to the wretched crowd below, a few pieces of broken biscuit.
They remained thus for five days, and, at last, grown despe-
rate from hunger, and preferring any fate to a tedious death,
they determined to effect an opening in the side of the vessel in
order to sink her. Fortunately, when the captain discovered
that their intention was so desperate, he opened the hatches
and set them free. Vie vessel having arrived at Phillipeville,
the captain cast anchor at some distance from land, and went
on shore with the crew. The passengers were left behind, and
thirty-six hours elapsed before the captain returned, alleging,
as an excuse for his absence, that he had been attacked and
ill-treated by the Arabs. When, at length, the passengers
were landed, they made a deposition of the manner in which
they had been treated. The vessel was permitted to pursue
its course, and on its arrival at Algiers the captain was ar-
rested, and is to be tried for his conduct."
M. Cherubini, Member of the Institute, and lately

Director of the Conservatoire de Musique, died on Tuosday.
He was director of this establishment from its creation until
within a short time of his death. His remains have been em-
balmed by M. Gannal.
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