The Sun. — 1821-05-24 (London, England)

MORNING- CHRONICLE.] •• " Happily," says a Ministerial Morning Paper, " the wild • mountainous Districts with which Spain abounds, furnish-a refuge to Loyalty.— The brave Spanish Vendeans will not submit to the bloody yore of their tyrants. They resist, and they will conquer. The blood .of the murdered Vinuessa will not in vain cry for vengeanCe to the generous Spanish Nation."—This wonderful sensibility on the part of those who boast of .the policy of the slaughter at Manchester is singular enough, no doubt. The authors of the dreadful carnage at Cadiz remain yet unpunished; but what is the wanton and treacherous butchery of the people ? The death of dsupporter of 'the Inquisition is however a very different matter. This, of course, is more than enough to justify a civil war, and all the evils which follow in its train. —The brave Spanish Vendeans under the auspices of Church, and with the good Wishes of this Journalist, have not hesitated to resist the • existing Government, but we,hope they will not conquer." We never expected that the numerous bodies, who by the abuses on which they fattened, kept Spain in such a wretched• state, would yield witiout a struggle. We trust, however, that those whom they can succeed in deluding, will form but a small proportion of the population. Spain, we fear, will have. to purchase the good of regeneration at the expence of much suffering. But. is it for those who have been praying for disturbances, and looking anxiously' forward to foreign invasion as likely to lead. to them, to hold the langnage they now hold with regard to Spain ? We must never forget that every thing in Spain was going on peaceably till the Holy Alliance began to act. We know, therefore, on whose head to lay all the evils which have taken, and may yet take place.  . , [BRITISH PRESS,] • All anxiety in the mercantile world respecting the Timber Trade is now at an end, for the Bill, to regulate the Duties upon Foreign and Colonial Timber was read a third time last night in the House of Lords and passed. Upon this subject the Ministers had a very difficult game to play, and in our opinion they escaped from the difficulties in a manner sufficiently creditable ,to themselvesand advantarreous to the conflicting interests of the Canadas, of merchants connected with the Northern Trade, and' of the consumers in general. We admit that the measure militates in principle against the theory of a tree trade and of obtaining the ,necessities of consurription at the nearest market, but we cannot lose sight of the great claims which our Colonies have upon the parent country for protection and encouragement.; and considering that the trade of those Colonies is confined by our partial laws to ourselvesalone, we should regard it as highly unjust to place them in the light of foreign nations, and. enforce against them the utmost strictness of a theory which we have already violated with respect to them by the restraints previously imposed upon their commerce. If it be really desirable to admit foreign nations, rivals or enemies, ‘to a free competition in our markets with any of our Colonies, such a proposition must ever in justice go hand in hand with a resolution of throwing open the 'trade of such Colony to the world. With respect to the relative merits of the Baltic and Canadian, timbers, very conflicting evidence has' been given before, the Committees; but this is a fact not to be disputed, that since Parliament encouraged the importation of Canadian Tithber, by imposing a heavy duty upon the Timber of the Baltic,, the price of the, Baltic Timber has actually fallen 'one-third in our markets, so that the duty, instead of operating necessarily, as Lord Lauderdale represented it, as a premium for purchasing inferior Timber, has in point of fact made the Baltic Timber More attainable than it was before, if the consumers thought it preferable in use to the Timber from the ColonieS. Being upon this subject we cannot avoid making one further remark. There are in our opinion some considerations worthy of a statesman's attention -beyond the views of policy merely commercial. .The affectionate attachment of our Colonies ought not to he sacrificed to the pursuit of any ingenious theory, or to the attainment of some pecuniary advantages, should they 'be even more unequivocal in their natare,than those which might be anticipated from the doubtful policy of preferring the Timber of the North of Europe to that of our American fellow-subjects.  [