The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-13 00:00:00

DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SU RREY THEATRE.

Continuation of the Nautical Draz aas, is consequence of the
immense overflows attracted by the heart .stirring acting of
Mr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknow. ledged Sailer on the Stage.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 13,

Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called
BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided
success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. I tughes ; Hugh Laneret,
Mr. N. T. flicks; Herrick Evenden, 11 tr. J. Webster; Blanche
Heriot, Alm R. Honner.
After which, MY POLL AND M Y PARTNER JOE.
Harry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe ',rifler, Mr. R. Honner;
Mary Mavbud, Mrs. R. Honner.

Ti) conclude with Leman Rede's ipular piece, called
WEALTH AND WANT, and THE VILLAGE POLI-
TICIANS, in which Mr. R. Honner and 1 entire Company
will appear.

.131aCes and private Boxes to be had of Mr.. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

fIIGLI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
lung 4 minutes after 81 Evening
em.vogn.emesnrsmasrmee.

will be by their mutual interests, and when every
merchant's counting-house, and every manufacturer's
office, become the centre of a system of diplomacy,
' which shall bind men in peace, in spite of all the ef-
, forts of statesmen to embroil them in war.
• 1 On this our Contemporary remarks :
' Now here, as it seems to us, is the difficulty. If
distinct countries stood to each other in the same re-
lation that two counties of the same country bear to
each other—if by creating, not one "country of shop-
keepers," but fifty—in short, by making the world
one commercial system—if by this process commerce
• can be made to swallow up everything else, so that
men can speak of nothing, dream of nothing, think
of nothing, and act upon nothing, excepting only
pounds, shillings, and pence—if this is possible, then
Mr. Cobden's Utopia may also possibly be realised,
but not till then.
It is singular to remark the different ways in which
different classes of men seize upon, different common
principles as the one connecting link which is to bind
men and nations together in unity. We need not,
of course, remind our readers of the connecting point
which Christianity affords ; nor can any one fail to
remember the schemes of statesmen and lawyers for
universal and uniform codes of laws, or of scholars
for a universal language ; but it is singular that the
very love of gain should thus be viewed in the same
light, and be put for iard at length as the only infal-
lible bond of unity. .
Our Contemporary's description of trade pro-
ceeds on the notion, that the merchant creates
it, instead of being the mere instrument for carry-
ing it on. He supposes that it' springs ex-
clusively from an avaricious desire to get pounds,
shillings, and pence; whereas it is based on the
want of fbod, and want of clothing, both of which
wants are satisfied by trade. The commerce be-
tween nations is only an extension of the trade
between town and country, and this again is
only the perfection of that primitive barter
which springs from division of labour, without
which each man must supply all his own wants,
' and remain for ever a worm-grubbing- savage.
As traffic extends men use it to gain riches, as
the lawyer, or the physician, or scientific
chemist uses his art to obtain wealth and dis-
tinction ; but it would be treating the vast ac-
quisitions of a BROUGHAM, a BAILIE, or a DAVY,
with unworthy contempt to ascribe them to a
vulgar love of gain, or to suppose that all the
members of their distinguished professions
thought of nothing, dreamed of nothing, and
acted on nothing, except only pounds, shillings,

and pence.
Mr. COBDEN'S main proposition is, that were
trade as free between countries under different
Governments as it is between the different
counties of England which are under one Go-
vernment, it would be as difficult, or impos.
Bible, for those different Governments to fo-
ment or make wars between the two countries,
as it is for any men to foment war between
Kent and Lancashire. There was a time when
the inhabitants or those counties were as much
strangers to each otlar as the inhabitants Cf
Lancashire and the State of New York. Now
they are so united that it seems an l'itapo2sibility
to suppose them in a state of hostility. What
has amalgamated them ? Continual free inter-
course, the uninterrupted passage of goods and
persons from Kent to Lancashire, and front Lan-
cashire to Kent. One wants hops and wheat, the
other cottons; that has begotten a mutual and
reciprocal interest; they serve and help each
other, through the instrumentality of the London
merchant and the Liverpool ship-owner ; they
form one brotherhood, which would continue
to trade together and live in harmony, whatever
form of government Great Britain might possess.
Now there is at present much more direct
communication between Liverpool and the city
of New York than between Liverpool and Kent.
Already there exists between these two ci-
ties a reciprocal and mutual interest, to interrupt
which by war would be. like tearing a man limb
from limb. As neither New York nor Liverpool
constitutes the whole United States, nor the
whole United Kingdom, (it is possible for the
Government to plunge into war and inflict that
great injury on those two cities; but if the greater
part of England and the greater part of the
United States were as closely connected as these
two cities, war between those countries would be
as impossible as war between Kent and Lancashire.
Mr. COBDEN says that free trade would produce
such a connexion—is he right or wrong ?
In spite of a law which operates almost to
exclude the agricultural produce of the
Northern and Western States of the Union
from England, and in spite of a tariff ivhich
burdens all our manufactures with new duties
oil their arrival in America, there exists a
traffic between the two countries which in
value, imports and exports together, is not
less than 20,000,000/. per year. In the great
towns of Sheffield, Manchester, Bolton, Glas-
gow, Leeds, there are great multitudes of men
hungering for the food which is plentiful in the
North and Western States of America, and they
earnestly desire to be employed in making
knives, axes, ginghams, counterpanes, muslins,
woollens, &c., which the owners of that food are
anxious to procure. In the Northern and West-
ern States of America there is a vast and a grow-
ing population, which is as desirous to grow food
for the starving multitudes of our towns, as they
are to make clothing and tools for their Ameri-
can customers. In the one country there is an
immense town population with a great capacity
to increase if they could obtain food, eager to ex-
change their produce with the vast and increas-
ing agricultural population of the other. In the
one there is a continually increasing number of
bellies to be filled, and in the other a continually
increasing number of backs to be clothed. Now,
if such a vast trade has grown up between these

people, based on these wants, in spite of the
jealousies of their Governments, and the absurd
and even cruel restrictions we have mentioned,
is it chimerical, is it Utopian to believe that
were those restrictions abolished the trade would
be almost immediately doubled, and such vast
interests would speedily and mutually connect
the town population of England with the agri-
cultural population of the United States, that
hostility between them would be as impossible
as hostility between the inhabitants of the town
of Liverpool and of the meadows of Cheshire ?
We look on Mr. COBDEN'S supposition to be as
true as it is cheering,for the prospect it holds
out to those who will hereafter have the wisdom
to realize it.

To gentlemen who have never known want,
and who have engaged in no other labour than
such as tended to improve their minds and re-
line their taste, who being, by the providence of

their ancestors, endowed with the means of sub-

sistence, and who only study, even if they study
at all, to obtain the refinements and enjoyments

of life, this reference to filling bellies and

clothing backs, as the basis of all trade, will seem,
we are afraid, vulgar; and they will, probably,

fly off to their customary phraseblogy, and
speak of national interests and the sublime
truths of religion and science as the proper
(*.Elides for statesmen. Let us plead for the
common wants of our common nature. Let us

to be, the first and chief aim
sub-
sistence is, or ought. .
that the warrior should
respectfully remind them that to ensure
ly to protect the husbandman,
draw his sword on
h*
Id plead but to defend
itis
of all social institutions,
and the lawyer should
security
rights. To give .
one great - end and
provides fur ourwants, is the
remind
to industry, while
wants of man,
those who impugn the natural
aim of all political contrivances. Let us
that those vulgar wants must
be gratified, and
that it is only when they are gratified that
to gratifythem, leisure and refinement come. Let us add, that
them, the clever toil of the husband-
man, the wonderful ingenuity of the manufitc-
. turer, the bravery of the seaman, and the skill
of the artist, are all called into being, and that
in exercising their various arts they adorn and
ennoble human nature. Let us further add,
that it is by supplying.
are made mutually mutual wants that men
dependent, and taught
mutual respect and mutual kindness. The trader
which is based on supplying men with food and
clothing, is one great source of civilization and
moral improvement.

Our Conteniporaries have looked at the Bishop
of LONDON'S Charge, to see bow it bears on
puseyism—we have looked at it to see what
hope it brings to the suffering peopte.
We are

Qs\fe le ,
~.,,r'rirtz"A ‘.. i
~,
4 s' .: ,c-tiAtir•
,; ltl/41,
I 10 -
• ' : .4F, ~ - """'" rE' R o t'\ --Ads