The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-13

| sKrTcHrs FRdN THE FOREIGN PAPERS REcEIY-
| ED AT THE UNION OFFICE BY THE LATE AR
RIVAL OF THE MAMMOTH STEAMER GREAT
BRITAIN.
THE NEW TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN ENG
LAND AND sIcILY.-Of this treaty, the London
Morning Post gives the following summary:
This treaty which has been presented to Parliament,
consists OF articles The first eight relate to the
advantages which the citizens of each country shall ENJOY
These are that they shall be subject TO the laws Of the
eouniry in which either may reside When duties not
levied at fixed rate, the Gd raiorea duty SHAH De
ed by the importer signing declaration entering MS
goods al the Of their value II the officer
considers this amount small he shall be at liberty 70
with an addition OF per cent la OF wrecks what Is
shall be truly accounted for by the agents OF Do'
governments after educng the expenses paid in recover.
ing the property Her Majesty gives up the privilege OF 10
per cent stipulated IN favor OF the trade OF her subjects
the convention Of se M sican MdIe, snss ea Sr
ain shall continue to enjoy reduction Of 10 per cent
the duties payable according to the customs as sha
than paid by the subjects OF other countries ~ =,
ian Majesty may grant similar svo5 70 Nspes on the
Goth OF April the Publications exchanged on the 2o'h oil
June and viii continue In force for ten years
j The great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bazaar was lately
held at Coyent Garden theatre; which, It appears,
has so mfred her Majesty, that she has Withdrawn
the light of her counenance from the establishment
II does not seem TO put the leaguers back much II we
may Judge by the following extract from Punch"
who does not permit even royalty to escape his anu
/ sing sarcasm:
Victoria our gracious Majesty has withdrawn her
from Coyent Garden theatre IL is doomed PAD
house Its character respectable mass Of bricks ana
gone in consequence of the naughty peo
pie eaguerswbo have held their revels
there Thus, the court fearing to catch treeade primer
pcs-a folks catch typhus from foul buldngsattends at
that unpouted temple and genius Dury Lane
dern hther the Brussels nighngales We trust that the
that the glitter of his spurs may, 4 possible cast still
brighter ustre the building in which his genius has al
ready lighted many blazes of triumph For the greater
glory Of the Lane the backer the shadow the Garden
The league "a great act" stirring giant with hun.
it has deiunc mass OF dead clay drained with
a lady's fam
All signal and soulsrikng is the visitation OF her
Majesys dspeasnre that dumb, dead play housetha
cold carcass OF tenement Covent Garden stll do
think insufficient to the punishment OF the crime of which
has guilty Any other bricks of any other building
would have felt the rcbuke like bricks and have tumbed
ruins, smttcn by the whir Of the
rage wheels they rolled towards triumphant Drury.
The exterior reiero figures would have blnshed deeper
red than yet Haunted in the inside saloons But
| no! There Is something strangely hardening in play
houses for bricks and statues become harder and
| harder still, exposed TO its indurating atmosphere.
Nevertheless would have the whole Of the theatre de-
moshed and carried away and to commemorate the defeat
Of the league and the triumph Of the cornlaws We would
the site turned up by the plough and then with
very best British wheat imposing spectacle might
be made of the ceremony Sure that teach
great moral lesson, the Duke Of Richmond farmers
have objection to throw the grain broad
cast. We picture hm--the homely, ont-speaking
Duke the starredandgarte Adam Of the so-dressed
Tor the occasion in smocklrock Of white satin with
ambercolored smals Of the web, few Young Eng
andcrs with oaten pipes and silver crooks, might also at
tend as shepherds.
Nsr would end here. We would have all the actors
and actresses who at any period OF their lives had formed
part of Covent Garden company sought out and pun
shed that the sins of the bricks might be visited upon
those who at time the other, had kept them
pany Mr. Charles Kemble has believe, interest in
Covent Garden Mr. Charles Kembles John is the
deputy licenser opays Let him he Immediately degraded
Hitherto the Covent Garden theatrical fund has received
annual subscription from her Maesys purse of fl00 OF
course this donation again be repeated Nos
would have the warning and punishment complete and
terrible II bricks and mortar be thus significantly
proved, why should men and women escapc2 Let equal
| magnanimity chastise all alike.
In the mean time, we would suggest that the Lord Cham
hersn should for at least an hour day walk Bow street
bearing paper lantern ont Of the circular
that announced the royal visit TO Drury Lane with
scrption underneath showing these awful words: Beae
Of an anti-corn iaw houseP
In late number of Hunts Merchants Maya
zine, found article intended to bolster up the
tariff of 1912, from the pen of no other than Mr..
Hudson, federal representative in Congress from
Massachusetts,. To sustain the position that man
is protected by being roundly taxed, he must needs
| undertake to laud the ''cornaws" of England, of
which Goblet wrote, some years since, as follows
CopBErr CoRN.LAws--The following is from IA
Letter the King from the people of England by
the late William Goblet, and published in 1880:
1--WE complain that bill has been passed., and has
nopoly that necessary OF life shutting food while il
ii asserted by those who made the law that there
too many mouths compelling manufacturers to buy their
bread dear and TO sell their goods labor cheap sacri
heng all the rest Of the community 70 The greednes Of the
ways unjust in principle always at with the rights of
nature and the dictates OF have within the last M
years become teniold than ormerly for
tha. to pecgnay penalties or short Imprisonment for an
corporal punishment and transportation hey ond the
for seven these too at the sole discretion Of the
eaSr Of be Of b aD Sn e ha az e
working people having been by the weight Of the taxes
the neeessares ofe reduced to state Of pauperism laws
next made prevent them from obtaining parochial
relief as heretofore; complain that within these twelve
ofvestres the hands all the
to enable those landowners to set at defiance the
OF the magistrates to relief to be giyen
plain that consequence Of these taxes this monopoly
corn and the seventies the working people, ofwhch
land once the best fed clad and the
world have become the most miserable and degraded to be
found on the face Of the earth those unhappy Ireland only
excepted
! We find republished in the London League of the
10Th ut the following extract from an American
! periodical, which exempifes how much certain
American manufacturing capitalists require protec-
ton from foreign competition. The more light shed
upon this subject, the more glazing appears this
| shameless system of plundering the mass of Amer
lean citizens, so that from IL to 40 per cent. per
annum may be realized on capital thus invested.
PnocREss' OF INVENTION III AMEReA.-Hosiery is
made IN the United States with astonishing apdity by the
aid OF the power weaving loom, American invention
which has not yet been Introduced into England. While
in the latter country il full days work to kntby hand
ahaf per week, will make by the power loom twenty
pairs in the same time piece twenty inches
reducing the expense Of manufacturing this article
tenth oil the former method by the hundoom Horseshoe
furnish similar proof ofhe bearing of the progress of in
vention An improved kind OF horseshoe made at Troy
New ork for some time past Is sold at the price
only five cents pound ready prepared used in
shoeing the animals Alta factory, recently erected, fifty
tons oil these are now turned out per day The progress
made in the United States in the manufacture of pins with
IN few years is truly astonishing mandatory near
Derby Connecticut has conrvance for sticking pins
paper which quite marvellous 1t takes England sixty
females TO stick in one day by sunlight ninety packs
ssng OF 800 400 pins The operation performed in
America in the same time, by Her sole occu.
patton to pour them gallon at the time into hopper
from whence they out all neatly arranged in papers
The mechanism by which the labor OF fifty persons is
daily saved yet remains mystery all but the inventor;
and no person but the single who it. I'M.
on any pretext whatever allowed the roo
where 1t operates.--.fmerfcdn Mechanics Magazine
! we find the following remarks upon field sports
as they are now conducted in England, in the "Mark
Lane Express" The amusement has sadly degen-
Grated over the water
Formerly game was only protected sufficiently that
sportsman might with good dogs beat for game and IL he
conid insure from ten to twenty shots was
ceient sport But now it quite contrary game