Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-12-17

FaEE TaApE-Senator Woodbury., having been
applied TO by theee Trade Association of this city
TO deliver Lect.e here on Free Trade has returned
favorable answ', but says IT will be impossible 10
comply until aft, the close Of the present session
Of Congress. II good omen that gentleman SO
influential with h party as Mr.. Woodbury. avows
himself in favor f @arehousng system. AT the
close of his reply 1.-THE invitation of the Committee he
says: -
1.-THE hone is ar.ntly cherished, that e1ertons like
yours will irumphn dlffusing the principles OF Tree
trade widely. The, principles do not imply the ex.
pmpl:on Of trade frn equal and pfoportionate Ina
bty with other tsiDess TO contribute towards the
support in rrugalnanner, of public order, security,
and law, and discrge faithfully all constitutional
public debts. But t,y do, and ought to, war against
lnsidions unequal, unnecessary burdens either at
home abroad, anto strive, in season and out OF
sc son. break all shackles freedom of enter
p.ise-freedom of oc,pation-and freedom of opinion
which are the remn,s Of obsolete systems and more
fitted to darker ages I'm the middle Of the nineteenth
century. All snie fac ties, by warehousng and other
wise, should be gim 10 commercial intercourse
throughout the world The friends of excise, anita
yonis to this, far usrgards tariff, would find in
return 10 duties, iornd judciously, with view to
revenue alone, not onyanre fiscal prosperity and pub
lie harmony among all great interests and sections
Of the Union, bnt at the ane moment as incidental "A
liberal and equal protecpn to manufactures no less
than agriculture and commerce.
CONSTITUTIONAL would go ther through it'd popularity
and steadiness to ensuraermanen prosperity to ALL
and sustain even that mnacturing industry, appro-
pirate to our climate INTERPRETATIONS and skill, than
the vaciations and uncshinties Of the highest aid
from party legislaton.-.NH Patriot
The New York Express marks that the late effort
of Mr. Robinson 10 sell Vt of the Federal Loan in
England YET continues to IN topic of remark in some
of The London papers. ThLnndon Shipping Gazette
and the Times complain thahe American press repre-.
sent the British capitalists abeng unable 10 take the
loan, whereas, they aegde only reason II was not
taken, wss the bad faith some OF the American
States They continue TO esrate that until the honor
OF all the American States fotected no British
CO oita! will be trusted in nlerlca. The neglect OF
Pennsylvania to pay the nest on her bonds, is pnr.
tcularly commented upon; al in many quarters there
is said 10 be severe dist,eas inonsefuence. The Lon
don Times says:
at is understood tha, oof the late applications
from the U. S. the negot;aor as distinctly told by q
London capitalist, that so lonee such State as Penn.
syvania could neglect to provo for the payment Of its
dividends it would be PREREQUISITES to attempt to
raise money either for State or ederal Government.-
The public opinion Of Engianca to the condition Of
American credit cannot be keptoo clearly before the
eyes of the citizens of the U. 81
GES. CA.s, who returned hoe in the Columba,
few hours before his departure fn Paris, had audi
ence Of Louis Philippe TO takeeave The King, in
the kndest terms expressed his Sret at the departure
Of the General. and assured him bal during the whole
period Of his Official residence iaPars, the relations
between them had been such sgve constant salts.
faction to his Majesty MIR. Ledyd, the son n.aw Of
Gen. Cass, remains in Paris as thcharge d. Affares
On the day previous TO the departf Of the General
dinner was given to him by about hundred American
residents in Paris.
At Cincinnati on the Sd inst ,thextrems sastatiens