The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-23

increase ly,GS
ly of the present compared with the last year. the
sugar trade has not been in better state for several
years; and see, from last Fridays Gazette that
the price of British plantation sugar is now Is. %
per cwt. higher than il this time last year. not
withstanding an increased importation Of fifty per
cent So far, the relaxation of the sugar duties has
certainly done no harm TO the West and East India
planters, who have now every prospect Of enjoying
the double advantages of large crops and good
prices Part of the credit of this favorable state of
things is due to the reduction of the extravagant du-
ty on British plantation sugar. made during the
present session, but of it to the general pros
perity of the country, which gives the laborng
classes the power OF purchasing Injuries which are
beyond their reach in bad times. II is also worthy
of notice, that the timber trade, which said to
have been ruined by the relaxation Of the protecting
duties, has seldom been in better state than it is
at present The prosperous state Of most branches
OF manufactures causes a greatly-increased demand
for it, for the erection Of mills, cottages, and dwell
ling houses, and renders prices fully remunerang.
Liverpool Times.
FREE TRADE THE CAUSE OF PEAcE.-The parallel
ism or coincidence Of economical truth with practi-
cal Christianity, is especially manifest in the tenden-
cy Of commercial freedom to the preservation of the
peace of the world. The cause Of free trade is the
cause of peace. The international morality of mo-
nopoly is jealousy, suspicion and selfisoation Sin
dependence of foreigners" for fear Of war; recpro-
cal infection of injuries provocative of war. Its
peace is, at the BEST that earned peace which is
sort Of war; Free trade seeks that mutual depend
cnce Of nation on nation, which creates and cements
interests and habits incompatible with war We'll
says the secretary of the board of trader The great
er the commercial relations between nations the
more disastrous would be the consequences of war
which would interrupt their reciprocity of interests
in proportion as this commercial and reciprocal in
terest has been of long standing and of great extent
the greater would be the securities for the mainte
nance of peace" And again: "A war of material
N more DrOnerIv aneakino IF m "a,
jures-that is, war of custom-houses or fiscal
forts, with their garrisons of revenue officers and
servants has long been declared and carried on be-
tween most European nations. This warfare of in
terests, INJURIES has not ceased with the wars of
bloodshed; and, if we may expect security
against a recurrence of The calamtes attendant on
and consequent to, the latter il will be in DESTROY
ing the elements of the formerin short, by the cx-
tension of free trade between all nations ID Mac
gregor's Commercial Statistics) We earnestly COM
mend these thoughts to the consideration of the
Christian public Of Great Britain. New "securties
for the maintenance Of peace" are Just now the
worlds great want 1t is painful rehection--cir-
cumstances have arisen, and may arise again, to
render it an alarming and fearful one-that we have
neglected to take such securities our dealings with
those two countries, our peaceful relations with
which are OF the first moment, both TO our own ma
tonal veal and to the general interests of cvlza-
ton and humanity. No nations of the earth offer
more inviting natural facilities to commerce con-
States; yet with none is commerce more shack
led and obstructed by artificial restrctions--with
none have we more harassing and irritating diplo-
matte ENVIRONMENTS. That we still have trade
enough with the United States to render war a ire
mendous calamity to them to ourselves, is, in the
present temper of large portion of their people,
our chief safeguard against being dragged into
wholesale and organized fratricide about some mise
rable Oregon or Texas question, which, were that
trade what it might be according the obvious ar
rangements of nature and Providence, would imme-
dately sink into insignificant harmlessness We
have societies for the promotion Of permanent and
universal peace; but the efficient peace society
were the wide brotherhood Of nations knit together
~ the benehcent reciprocities of wants mutually re-
heVeu by superfiuites mutually exchanged. These
are negouators capable Of conducting to prompt
ana honorable termination the anpriest dipiomatic
quairc' 'hat ever menaced the peace of the world.
| British Quarterly Repe,c.
IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE TaRrr or Russ..-
The London League" Of the 2sth ul,. saws. aTbe
Russian government has Just issued n uk,so ,,k;no
off the prohibition from many articles Of ,,srcbanss
disc, and fixing the duties, on psvmen, 81 ,.,h;sh
they may now be admitted Those duties are cen'
orally high. They apply principally TO bronzes
marbles, clocks and watches, fine hardware, mer'
Gerry, silks, engravings, richly bound books. music
and other articles of luxury. Hitherto the oloap,
nous seeds, cables, and hempen ropes and other
vegetable matters grown and manufactured in Rus
STA, have been burdencd with very heavy export
duties; which, by the new tariff, are entirely Ia
ken off,"
Some five thousand carpenters of the city of Paris
have been on strike for higher wages, for more
than a month past. The "London Times" of the
9th June says: "The strike of the journeymen
carpenters of Paris had produced much inconye-