The Sun. — 1844-11-23 (London, England)

STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has today an article of some length upon what it is pleased to call Sir Robert Peel's anti• Brazilian policy. Now the policy in question is anti-Brazilian only in this, that it gives first a preference to our own colonial sugar, next in order a preference to sugar the product of free labour, in. whatever country grown. A British and anti-slavery policy (be they always united) it certainly is ; but in no respect is it antiErazilien more than it is anti- Cuban, or anti anything else. It is the Morning Chronicle that- compliments the Brazils by representing those countries as the embodied type of the accursed slave trade, the Brazils being also the special clients of. the League." The question of slavery apart, however, we have sufficient proof that nothing less than the sacrifice of our colonies will satisfy the rapacity of the Brazilian Government. Baron Langsdorff, the Envoy of the French Government, sent with a proposition for the renewal of the expiring commercial treaty between France and the Brazils—without any stipulation in favour of free labour produce—has fared no better than Mr. Ellis. The Brazilian Government will listen to nothing less than an ~absolute monopoly of the sugar trade ; and this monopoly M. Guizot is as little disposed to grant, to the destruction of the French colonies and to the ruin of the home manufacture from beetroot, as Sir Robert Peel to concede the sacrifice of all our tropical dependencies. The Brazils, therefore bid fair for a condition of commercial " isolation." This seems foolish of the part of the Government of Rio ; but, after all, that Government is, perhaps, not so much to blame for the folly. The freetraders of this country have been for years exaggerating the importance of the Brazil trade to our manufactures, and the power of the Brazilian Government to exclude our produce to a degree to persuade the Brazilians that they may dictate what terms they please to England, and as, it is plain from Baron Langsdorff's failure, to France also. The folly, however produced, of Brazilian isolation, can be cured only by a sharp lesson, and that lesson is in preparation. The achoohnaster will be soon abroad in the unwelcome garb of a smuggler, unwelcome we mean to the Government, but always too welcome to the people, and he will not be long in teaching the utter impossibility of withholding from the people what they want or desire, along a frontier of 7,000 or 8,000 miles at the very least. The Brazilians have the best imaginable means of knowing the impossibility of guarding, by any exppense of money, skill, and zeal, a coast of half the extent of their frontier; for they pursue their murderous trade of man-smugsling along the whole coast of western Africa, almost unmolested, notwithstanding all that England and prance can do to interrupt it. If, under the advice of our "Leaguers," they persist in their ridiculous scheme of isolation, they will soon have their practices a-etorted upon them, though in an infinitely husnanized form. In the article to which we refer, ?he Morning Chronicle modestly chums for the Whigs the credit of the srecess of the British arms ;a China, and the nequi-ition of the China trade. 'rill is somewhat more flan com.nonly audacious. -*Nina was the state of alihirs in China Nt hen the lvhigs wele .fhey had undoubtedly reated tt ouarrel with that country, in which, with ;heir usird ingenuity an:l good fortune, they managed to place illngland in the wrong in the first instance, end having got the country into thhi quarrel, they, :titer their fashion, secured a sufficient quantity of verses mid disgrac,.. Thai,- were di-missed just is the moment ‘sh,.n threatencd to it pthe tragedy of A i'ilienisten, vigil in nine. as lo teeetrel Asia, the Conservative 4 ,uvernmeut just reveriA d their mensuies and I,e condition of our afFalrs substituting h'onourgeniigenii firmness for trielw e ry 'and owrinicne— c friA.s for retreats or defeats— p'eac isursed hope :of its continuance, for disastrOunis Nacy despair. It is too early for the ehro 0:call upon the people to forget these wings. - • ; We are sorrylearn that, in some parishes in to Wilts currentpice of wages has been reduced to 7s. per w ' the tee-aSomsr4et County Gazette. ee,