The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-04 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, APRIL I.—We have
have had rather less inquiry for foreign wools this week,
in consequence, we suppose, of the occurrence of the
Easter holidays.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL I.—We
have this week to report a continuance of the languid
demand for all kinds of English wool alluded to in our
last report. We do not quote any alteration from last
week's prices, though the same quotations are with dif-
ficulty maiaintained.
TRADE OF LEEDS.-At no time since the commence-
ment of the year has there been so little doing as was
the case on Saturday at our cloth halls ; on Tuesday
there was a little more done, but on the whole there is
not half the business doing whie,h is usually transacted
at this season. In this dull state of the demand, prices
are of course very far from being satisfactory. There
has been a little more business done in the warehouses
this week as compared with last, but the demand has
been principally for Tweeds and fancy goods. The fine
cloth trade still continues in the same dull state as it has
been during the last six or eight months.
HOLMFIRTH.—Trade still continues in a fearfully de-
pressed state. Many of the mills have not been half
employed during the last three months, and the circum-
stances of the working class have been gradually getting
worse. The condition of out-door workmen and arti-
zans is deplorably bad. The impetus which a many
hoped the spring trade would give to our manufacturing
operations has not been realised. Tradesmen cannot
divine what benefit they are to obtain by having the
burden of their taxation increased, and numbers are
looking to the future, not in buoyant hope, but fearful
alarm. Of Peel's odious income tax, but one opinion is
expressed, namely that it is a dernier resort to prop up
the landed and colonial monopolists.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—Our Piece trade
may fairly be quoted a little flatter, which is attributable
to the present time being between the seasons ; and the
German fairs being on, the merchants suspend their
operations till the result is known. There is a steady
business doing in yarn, and we believe there is no accu-
mulation in stocks. Prices without alteration. The de-
mand for wool still continues limited. The market is
fully supplied with all kinds requisite to meet the pre-
sent requirement of the spinners, who are acting very
carefully, buying only what is wanted for immediate
use. In prices there is a slight decline.—Leeds Mercury

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL I.—Nothing
done in our Sugar Market during the week. In Lon-
don, the prices have decined another Is., and of the
large quantity brought forward for sale the greater part
was withdrawn, principally for want of buyers, but also
to prevent further depression.—Bristol Mercury.
The works on the railroad along the Valley of the
Seine are going on through the whole line with the ut-
most activity, by men drawn from all parts of France,
and even from England. The tunnel at Venables is en-
tirely perforated, and the masonry of the vault is com-
menced. All the questions of expropriation of lands
are adjudged, and numerous additional portions of the
road will be undertaken in a few days. Many viaducts
over the Seine are in progress, and there is every reason
to expect that the road will be open even before the sti-
pulated time.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. 7-'444-4.
GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel's Budget of 1842
will constitute an epoch in the history of legisla-
tion. It has the unenviable quality of offending
all parties, and pleasing none. It is an ingeni-
ous piece of fiscal machinery for annoying every-
body and pleasing nobody. It is a chef d'cruvre
in its way, and its production will, most assu-
redly, immortalise its author. Brought forward
with pompous gravity, but with assumed
" alacrity and buoyancy of spirit " pro-
ducing in its propounder a solemn compla-
cency, as though it had been a grand dis-
covery in political science the House of
Commons heard it announced with an almost
sympathetic reverence, while a considerable
portion of the country received the intelligence
of the Premier's "grand secret" with an aston-
ishment which was mistaken for approbation.
When, however, the ebullitions of surprise sub-
sided into tranquillity, and reason resumed its
functions—when, by examining its qualities and
analysing its elements—when, by viewing it in the
varied phases in Which personal interest, party
prejudice, and cool, impartial investigation
will always cause every great public mea-
sure to assume, its real character was
brought to light—its hollow pretensions, its
gross partiality, and its selfish and class-iuterest
tendency became manifest. Those who at first
praised the " boldness" and " profundity" of the
project became silent; indifference succeeded to
admiration ; and laudations subsided into silence ;
while in the far greater majority of instances the
first feelings of astonishment gave place to aver-
sion and detestation—quantum mutatus ab !
it is, indeed, a change. Even `the followers
of the Premier, with the Government Jour-
nals, the mere chequers of the party,
have the audacity to " blow" upon the
magnificent scheme cf their leader. When
such sad saucy knaves as the latter—albeit, not
over-nice--venture to cry " stinking fish" upon
the pet production of their master, it is not very
likely to prove palatable to the public. In fact,
Sir Robert Peel is somewhat in the predicament
of the Man and his Ass, of fabled celebrity,
who, whether lie rode or walked, or carried his
quadruped, tailed to give satisfaction to the
passers-by : at length, so says the fable, he be-
came so enraged at the unqualified disapproba-
tion he encountered, that he threw the poor
beast over the bridge, and thus ended the troubles
of both.

STANDARD.—When a nation or an indivi-
dual gets into debt, or finds that expenditure
greatly exceeds income, or both (which happens
to be our present unfortunate condition), two
courses are open—either to " put off the evil
day," with the certainty of its arrival sooner or
later in aggravated terror, or boldly to meet the
difficulty_ by such sacrifices as may be necessary.
There is no middle course. We may deceive.
ourselves, 'or (which more frequently happens)
pretend to deceive ourselves, by expedients for
dischargingdebts or demands,wi thou t paying any-
thing; and there never will be wanting persons
to help us with such expedients—as wise as
Lord John Russell's late budget, or the scheme
of Swift's philosopher. who proposed to extract
sunbeamsfromcncamiers. But the truth is, that
money due must be paid by money, in one shape
or the other, and money cannot be paid without
making sonic sacrifices. If, therefore the coun-
try is prepared to pay the debts incurred during
the last seven years of peace, arid to meet, with-
out incurring further debts, the augmented ex-
penditure rendered necessary by the Ministers
who have incurred these debts, the country must
be prepared to make sacrifices. Neither Sir
Robert Pee], nor any other Minister, can make
a deficient revenue an adequate revenue: "ex
nihilo nihil fit." This is a very plain proposition,
and any attempt to make it plainer would only
obscure its obvious truth. But this proposition is
admitted on all sides—all are agreed that the
country must make a sacrifice, and all are perfectly
contented that the country should make it; but,
somehow, every one has an excellent reason why
he and his class should be exempted from the neces-
sity of contributing to the offering. How isa States-
man to deal in such a case ? Is he to accept every
excuse offered, upon any grounds more or less
plawible, or upon no rational grounds at all? Is .
he to spare the annuitant because he thinks that
the proprietor of a perpetuity will be taxed too
little in proportion ? or to spare the landowner
and farmer, because other measures threaten to
fall heavily upon him ?—while all object to the
cruel necessity of being obliged to expose the
true condition of their affairs. The truth is, that
they do not like to pay. They liberally profess
their readiness to make a common sacrifice—but
their interpretation of a common sacrifice is a sa-
crifice which is to cost themselves nothing. Now,
if a Minister were to yield to these and like ob-
jectors, it is not difficult to say what would be the
fate of his expected revenue. And therefore,
in the circumstances supposed, a Minister has
but one course, and that is to look for revenue
to all who are able to contribute it, and who can
be made to contribute it, but to look no further.
Nor is there any practical injustice in this plain
course. The best test of any man's interest in
the common safety and the common prosperity
is his preiwnt command of money. Riches are
proverbially fugacious ; and whether their flight
be marked out by a certain date, or left to the
contingencies of fortune or of death, it comes to
pretty much the same thing in the end. As re-
gards taxation, it would be just as unreasonable
to tax wealth in prospect as to make alloWances
for prospective poverty.
COURIER—WeII, the Easter recess is just
over; the Ides of March are passed; the thun-
ders of the Opposition have swept over the
country; but, alas! how puny the echo which
they have awakened ; the last resource of despe-
rate factiousness has been tried in the hope of
lashing the country into the requisite degree of
convulsive excitement, and what is the result ?
Where are the strong. and formidable manifesta-
tions of hostility to Sir Robert Peel's financial
measures, to his income tax, or his tariff revision,
which we were told the country only wanted an op-
portunity to exhibit? Where are the county,where
the city public meetings, that were to have been
held, and before the combined expression of
whose opinions the Minister was to have quailed?
Echo answers where. With the exception of a
few scattered and half-suppressed murmurs of
discontent among the more unreasonable of our
agricultural friends, and an occasional grumble
amongst the parties who fancy their interests
will be injuriously affected by the proposed re-
duction of duties, the country has maintained
the most profound silence on the subject, and if
ever it were allowable to construe silence into
consent, it is in the case of a proposition for im-
posing a new tax. A little grumblingin such a
case were pardonable ; no one likes to have his
patriotism subjected to such a test; and with the
prevalence of this dislike to anything in the
shape of fresh imposts, the wonder is, not that
tile ward of Farringdon Within or Farringdon
Without should have met and resolved against
an income tax—not that the Berkshire or Lin-
colnshire thrillers should have deprecated any
reduction of duty on foreign corn—not that the
glove manufacturers of Yeovil should have re-
monstrated against any alteration of the duties
on gloves—or that the great coal proprietors of
Northumberland , and Durham should have
sought interviews with the' Members of the Go-
vernment in the hope of being able to avert the
proposed enhancement of duty on exported coal.

TILE SPANISH GENERAL MAROTO.—The famous
General. Maroto has got into a " little war," from which
he is not likely to escape with credit. lie and three
friends were shooting some leagues from Madrid, a few
days since upon a couple of estates, without leave of the
proprietors. A young gamekeeper warned them off, and
was commanded by the General to hold his tongue. The
young fellow was as proud and independent as the Gene-
ral, and would not succumb in the fulfilment of his duty.
Maroto then abused him as a Carlist, and declared that
the country around was Carlist, and that that was the
reason he was annoyed in shooting over it. Words be-
came 'high and warm ; the gamekeeper stood upon his
right. The stronger party threatened to shoot him, rnd
Maroto drew a pistol. The lad seized his own gun, and
prepured to defend himself. Maroto's friends seized and
held it, and discharged it in the struggle. One of them
made a desperate stab at him with a knife, which cut
open his thigh from hip to knee. The wounded man
filed as well as he was able to his heuse, and Maroto pur-
sued him with the pistol to the door. The alcalde of the
district has instituted a cause against the General, who
'(having a strong faith in the influence of money) sent to
the wounded lad's flither to offer him 100 dollars to let
the matter rest. The father and son alike refused the
money, anti preferred to " let the law take its course."
Spanish law is proverbially slow, and clients to hasten it
often take eases like this into their own hands.
EX TRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OP WATCHES IN
CRUTCHED-FRIARS.—BetweeD eleven and twelve o'clock
yesterday (Friday), as a man named Brown, a cork-
cutter, was passing along Crutched-friars, he saw
a parcel lying in the gutter, which, on being opened,
was found to contain fifty. three Geneva silver watches.
Brown lost no time in conveying the property to the
station-house in Tower-street, and delivered it to In-
spector Bradley, who sent a description of the watches
to each of the station-houses, and then took them to the
head office in Basinghall-street. There is every reason
to believe that the wrapper had been a pocket to a great
coat. and fallen off, as there are several stitches in it.
s
At a late hour on the previous evening a foreign steam-
boat arrived at London-bridge Wharf, and there is rea-
son to suppose the property had been smuggled. The
whole
officer,
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seized by a Custom-
houserests this extraor-
dinary
affair.