The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the City article of yesterday's Timm it is stated that the Bank of England has listened to a project of • Captain R. F. Stockton, of the United States Navy, who, in a letter to the . Directors, dated the Rsth of August last, recommended the appointment of an agent, with authority, under such limitations and restrictions as they may see fit, to maize arrangements not Only for any claims they may have in the United States, but also to grant credits upon the Bank of England, to the extent of 2,000,0001. sterling, upon the deposit of such securities as they may instruct Wm to receive. The letter of Captain Stockton will be found in anr; ther column. The Directors, it is said, have ap pointed a gentleman of the name of Cowell to the mission, end he is to he attended by one of the principal clerks of the Bank of England. Captan Stockton's letter speaks for itself, and we shall presently notice it. Without wishing to throw the slightest doubt oo the purity of the motives by which that gentleman has been induced to advocate the extension of credit to the ;merchants of his country, we may observe that the speculations regarding public works in the United States, in which he is himself under stood to be deeply embarked, will not suffer by giving to American borrowers increased facilities in the money market of this country. However the question is not what Captain Stockton's motives may have been, but what are the reasons mged by him in favour of his project ? Captain Stockton warmly eu logizes the American merchants, among whom he says there has not been in these times of commercial dis tress a single instance of private turpitude,. or even the alightest dieposition not to pay up to the last farthing , . 'We are glad ..co heal so favourable a character of Ame rican me:chants ; and assuming it to be deserved, we view this disposition to perform their engagements as apt element of immense impottance in the resources of the country, in the welfare of which England has so sleep an interest. Without integrity, confidence, the life and soul of industry and enterprise, cannot exist. Commercial integrity is at once a proof of the existence of great progress in civilization, and a source of well-founded hope of still further prosperity. Cap tain Stockton tells us that the Americans arc of plain and frugal habits, with enterprise and in dustry untiring, and with the prospect of abun dant crops. All that they want is money and confidence ; and why, he asks, should they be withheld ? Ay, why, indeed ? But will they be withheld ? We have always understood that money, like everything else, seeks the best market, and if the Americans possess money's worth they will assuredly command money. We leave out of view the general considerations as to the ruin of the trade of both countries from the withholding of confidence, and the consequences to the labouring and enterprising classes of both countries, because trade is an aggre . gate of individual operations, and individuals conduct their operations with reference to what they suppose their interest. We are under no apprehension of any indispo,ition on the part of our merchants to embark in trade with America, or on the part of capitalists to support commercial enterprise. But Capt. Stock ton must know that as in the human frame over-feed ing leads to paralysis, so over-trading leads to gluts and depression of prices. When the belief gains ground that prices can fall no lower, the courage of purchasers revives, and confidence is restored. But there may be a glut of money as well as of other things ; and the people of England would do well to consider how far the system of cur rency of the United States is calculated to pro mote a state of things in that country which would warrant commercial confidence. Captain Stock ton himself certainly delivers opinions with respect to currency of a very questionable character ; and we fear, from the wild notions we have seen in several American publications, they are but too generally dif fused in the United States. " The available means of the American banks," says Captain Stockton, " cannot meet the emergencies of the times ; anti per mit me to say that it is by no means discreditable to them that they cannot, or that they have suspended specie payments. The Directors of the Bank of England know that there is not gold and silver enough in the world to support an entire metallic system. The suspension of specie payments by the American banks was, in my poor estimation, neither rash nor criminal ; it. was the foreseen and certain effect of legislative enactments. The banks are authorised by law to is sue notes to a much larger amount than their whole capital, without being compelled, or in truth enabled, because of its scarcity, to keep a corresponding amount of specie." Captain Stockton must allow us to tell him that this is pure and unadulterated nonsense. If there were only one-tenth part of the gold which now exists in the world, and if gold were ten times dearer than it is, this would not prove that there is too little gold in the world. It is of no con sequence to the world whether the quantity of gold which exchange s fo r t wen ty s hilli ngs o f s il ver be of the weight of our present sovereign, or one-tenth of that weight. All that the public are interested in, is that the standard be not arbitrary and liable to fluc tuate. Gold has been chosen as the medium by which all other commodities are measured in England, be cause its value is supposed to be less liable to fluctua tion than any other. Most nations make silver their circulating medium ! but it would be difficult to see what advantage they can derive from having to carry about a more cumbersome medium of exchange. The relative value of gold and silver is easily ascertainable by the exchange market, though it is nut so easy to tell in which metal the change may have actually taken place. There never can he too little gold and silv er in th e wor ld, b ut a part i cu l ar country may have too little gold and silver; and if America issues paper to an extent that renders its currency less valuable than that of countries in which the circulation consists of gold and silver, or paper convertible into gold and silver, it will assuredly have too little gold and silver. These metals w ill betake themselves to other countries ; and better evidence of exces sive circulation in America cannot be given th an t h e fact stated by Captain Stockt on , t h at American mer chants were obli g ed to submit to the " enormous and ruinous sacrifice of 21 per centum loss on exchange." It never can be too much borne in mind that all schemes for giving to a nation more money than it would have were it confined to a metallic currency are pure fraud. We have no hesitation in saying, that so long as the Americans entertain the notions of Captain Stockton respecting currency, it will be dangerous to repose confidence in them. The merchant who to day is worth a million of dollars may to-morrow be a beggar, if his property be at the mercy of every swindler who chooses to issue inconvertible paper. It. cannot he too much inculcated, that that which mea sures all other commodities ought itself to be fixed. All plans for assisting commerce, as it is called, by making money plentiful through paper issues, are neither more nor less than robbery. With respect to the Bank of England, we trust it will not for get time lesson which was read to it on it s own errors by Mr. Jones Loyd, in his masterly pamphlet. We trust we no more hear Bank Directors, like Mr. Horseley Palmer, broaching the doctri that the body which has the management of '.'ne issues of the country has to look to nothing 'oeyond keeping its paper of the value of tlrpri:onus metals, It is very well io assist commerce w'on one's own resources, biA when a bank of tes tis corm /lures b . eprecia.tmg the currency, it vi o lates its dill a den. It may be true that the profits of proprie lora may be increased by assisting commerce by making 'money more pl ent if u l ; but in the lone run the innocent traders and manuractu rers o f the country will be the .sufrerers, Captain Stockton should read the account given by Adam Smith of the consequences to Scotland of the ()petitions of Douglas, Heron, and Co , who Acted ton his principles. tt The moment," he says, et vou destroy credit, and declare that nothing is valu- Able in a country but gold and silver, the notes come back to the bank for specie which they did not re present ; whilst the property which they took in ex change for them, and which they honestly and fairly represented, is made worthless, and will not be re ceived in payment." But who destroyed credit ? Time banks, to be sure, who issued notes which they could not concert. If the notes had not been in excess, they could not have been returned on the banks. Gold and silver were not declared to be alone valuable ; but the bank-notes were not valuable, and from 1110, smAliness of the stock of gold and silver thee metals were of an undue value, and o th er colt! • modifies unduly depreciated. Bta gold and silver would littake tbealNetves to America as the best mar ket, And in time other commodities and the precious metals would be of the t3r.TTW relative value as else where. Wh" denies that the consequences are meet calamitous, not merely io the country turtling tinder the derangement o f lt. l cire tt l a ti otii but to °dier tries also ? The Americans ceased to pretlnce and to consume, and the English itanufacturer found his market suddenly narrowed. But the chief oureg o f the evil IN the vicious monetary system a America. There were signs and leernings in abundance of what would hap_ nett lung before the crash came. At ne. the Beek of England, we repeats eve prOliounce no opi nion on its determination. All we say is, that we 6hould he sorry to think that the Directors hatened to Captain Stockton's project because they shared his economical piinciplese—Morning Chronicle. The Ministers who disgrace the Queen's service, and disgust the pride of all constitutional Englishmen, in answer to our reprOach that they have long been abandoned by the wealth, the birth, the intelligence, the moral influence, and whatever constitutes the soul of a civilised community, boast that they have never theless a " sine and certain majority" of Members of the House of Commons returned for Ireland, who will enable them to carry their measures, or, if not, to re tain their places in spite of the Conservative power. We bow to the dignity of such self-congratulation. When, however, certain of our Conservative allies make this same boast of an Irish Papist majority in default of an English one a reproach to Ministers, who, ' having avowedly forfeited the confidence of Great Britain, are not ashamed to fell back upon so unwor thy and so vile a substitute, they, (the Ministers), throe ; h their partisans of the Press, contrive to shift their mode of extenuation—refer the country to the lists of Members returned at the last election ; and, in a tone of snappish insolence, cry out—" What slan derers you are—what infamous liars—to call such an assemblage of brilliant names as these by the oppro bi epithet of Papists, when there are no less than 17 Protestants, out of a list of one-and -twenty I Men of fortune too, of high connexion—Whigs— nay, Courtiers. Who in the world ever heard of so foul a calumny ?" Now, this deserves a word of notice. If we charge the Melbourne Cabinet with keeping office in spite of the political, moral, and re ligious feeling of Great Britain, may we not safely appeal to the tremendous preponderance of county Members, not less than 135 out of 189, in support of such an accusation ? If, again, we charge them with having no set-off whatsoever against the declared hos tility of Great Britain but an Irish Papist majority, returned on the sole condition of voting " black white" for the overthrow of the Protestant Church and State in Ireland—is it a fair answer, or a down right and despicable quibble, to tell us, that of the Members constituting that Irish Papist majority, the greater number do not go to mass at all, but pass in their own persons for Protestants ? We say it is no answer, but a paltry shuffle. The grand, nay the only question is—on what interest, on what political professions, and pledged to what course of political and party measures, have the Ministerial partisans in Ireland offered themselves as candidates at the hustings, and by what interest and by what de scription of voters have they been returned ? If the parties returned to Parliament (we say nothing of the sort of tenure by which many of them hold their seats, or for how long or brief a period), but if they have pledged themselves to vote when opportunity offers for one and all of the O'Connell measures, which go under his nick-name of " Justice to Ireland," or if—waving kr a time the vote for such measures—they make common cause with Mr. Daniel O'Connell in trucking and bartering " Justice to Ireland"—that is to say making a sale of the country for an understood price, which price is the transfer to O'Connell, or his nomi nees and representatives, of the Government patronage, civil, military, political, and judicial, throughout Ire land ; and if, in consequence of such pledges, Mr. Daniel O'Connell has by his agents, the Popish priests, prevailed upon the electors, in spite of their landlords, to give their suffrages for the above parties, stipulating, that in consideration of the bargain alluded to, made for his own selfish benefit and profit, the said parties, being returned, shall vote as the Ministers require of them, it is clear that members so returned, and forming a majority of the Irish representation, are neither more nor less than a " Papist majority," whether individually they go to church or not, because they are sent into Parliament on the Popish interests, pledged as mercenaries to carry out the scheme of Popish warfare against our Church and State, the sworn tools and slaves" of a Popish master, not daring to move but as he bids them. None will deny that if Mr. Daniel O'Connell wants only tools to execute his purposes, the best possible tools that he can employ are by no means Papists, upon whom he might reckon as a thing of course ; but Protestants, whose name and reputed creed will help to throw dust in the eyes of credulous Englishmen, and to persuade them that " things cannot be so bad, nor the measures projected against our Protestant institutions so destructive, for see there are Protestants who support them." O'Con nell was cunning enough to comprehend the use that he might make of Protestant names for the accom plishtnent of anti-Protestant objects, and we find that he has used them pretty freely. He has discovered men who call themselves Protestants (that is, men who may he anything, not being regular Papists)—men who want nothing of religious Popery save the creed, but who, in respect of political Popery, are of the faith of whoever pays them, and these gentlemen " do the Agitator yeoman service." They take his wages, fight under his colour s , b o l s t er u p hi s i n fl uence, an d vote for his lieutenant in Downing-street through thick and thin. Thi s , th en , i s t h e d egra d at i on into which Lard Melbourne and Lord John Russell have plunged them selves—this is the abyss of lowliness into which they have fallen. They are as much automata as so many clockwork fig,ures wound up and directed at the maker's pleasure. They will bring in any Bills, or cushion any, as Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the Papist lawyer, Re pealer, Agitator, Whig vilifier, Whig bridle-holder, may whisper them. Ballot, sham suffrage, elective Peers, Priest-ridden Corporations, abolition of all sub sistence for Protestant Clergy, but a yearly allowance dependent on the vote of a House of Commons wherein the majority takes its cue from him ! each and all of these—the Melbourne Cals'set must bring forward if he commands them, At the present moment he thinks the snugger game is to wait for the further ripening of the mar. He therefore tells Lord M.ethourne openly—" Here, my old boy, you may take breath for one other Session. Let me have a few thousand more policemen, of the right sort—a bench of Magistrates of the right sort—some Clerks of a d i l , e d P j e u a d e ge eo s f the right sort —A ss i stant B arr i sters, ay, (e/1 of the right sort, d'ye see) ; and then, my honest Loch-it, I, your Peach'em, won't say et word about your pickings for the next twelvemonth." Such is the true picture of . that so-called Statesman and his Colle agues, whom Newsman from d ay to clay,, e hear of through the Court as fulfilling his portion of I the Irish rebel's bargain, under the bright eye of his and our honoured Sovereign, —Ti mes . The doom of those odious and iniquitous impost, known by the name of Church -rates, is sealed. Their extinction is as certain as if it had already taken place. What is more, that extinction will be speedily accom plished. We shall be much surprised if, before the close of the approaching Session, Church -rates be not a matter of history. Every day adds to the triumphs of the Dissenters in their warfare with these obnoxious and unjust taxes on men s pockets, and burdens on men's consciences. We alluded on Satur day, with feelings of no ordinary gratification, to the fact, that in the papers of the previous day there were accounts of no fewer than four such victories, which had been achieved by the Dissenters over the Church party in the course of the week. The very day on which we wrote was destined to witness another signal conquest of a similar kind. That triumph was gained by the Dissenters of Hackney. It only requires union and energy on the part of the friends of civil and religious liberty to achieve in all populous towns victories which shall equally redound to the glory of those who shall gain them. The friends of the Church are not en cumbered with common sense ; if they had a particle of that commodity in their composition, they would at once exemplify the old adage of making a virtue of ne- cessity, by declining_ any longer to enact Was Which nbt only otitrag-e tare ci.instiOces of a large iiidrtidti the Comilititiity, but the enr(jreteht or 11111 St in the iiitUre of things be impossible before many months have elapsed. His must, indeed, be an imperfect mental vision that does not clearly :'3O that the Church must by that time trust entirely tb the free=will off i eriti,gs hef Oirt itietlibcf9 fbf dlatei.;er sumseh tll be necessary to keep her fabrics in repair. Why not do it now,, while it could be done with somewhat of ft goad grade ? The only drawback lb the pleasure with which We have witnessed the re= cent noble efforts of Dissenters to rid thetbstilYes of the grievanee bf Church -rates, arises from a circum stance which occurred in the town of Plyinou.h.. It appears from a statement in titiO or the iolletlAls ot that plata, that immediately on defeating the Church, party in their attempts to iiiipdso. girt',, :teVetai of the Dislentett came forward, and contributed li berally towards a voluntary rate. None can more admire than we do the generosity of spirit which dictated this step ; but its justice, to say nothing of its prudence, is, to our minds, a very questionable matter. Need we remind our Dissenting friends of the well known maxim, that charity ought to begin at home ? We know we shall be met with the hackneyed answer that though charity ought to begin at home, it ought not to end there. We at once admit the justice of the observation as a general principle, but in this i case it does not apply. Christian charity, which s the charity spoken of, requires no man to bring his bene volence to bear on objects abroad, white anything re mains to be done at home. It is only when every legitimate claimant on our sympathies and assistance within our own immediate circle has had all the aid afforded him which it is in our power to im part, that we are to direct our attention to persons with whom we are not specially connected. Let the Dissenters of Plymouth who have been volun tarily contributing to a Church-rate there, test their conduct by the principle we have laid down. Are there no pastors in their own communion, whether they be long to the Independent or Baptist persuasion, whose salaries are barely sufficient to keep soul and body to gether? Are there not many of these Dissenting pas tors, of great moral worth, and whose whole lives are devoted to the work of the ministry, who are at this moment actually suffering the privation of some of the necessaries of life ? If the Dissenters of Plymouth know of no such instances, we, we are grieved to say, could mention many such. Are there not, again, many Dissenting chapels in all parts of the country, in a very uncomfortable and dilapidated state, merely because the congregations have not the means where with to make the necessary alterations and repairs ? Is it, then, we put it to the Dissenters of Plymouth, an enlightened charity, to contribute t o th e embellish ment of the splendid edifices of a pampered hierarchy, while the chapels of their own brethren in many parts of the land are in so uncomfortable a condition ; but above all, while numbers, both of Independent and Baptist pastors, alike distinguished for their piety and their devotion to their minist e ri a l l a b ours , h ave not wherewith to administer to their own families' wants ? We are sure the misdirected generosity of the Ply mouth Dissenters was purely the result of a want of consideration, and that no intelligent Dissenter in any other part of the country will follow their example.— Morning Advertiser. Whatever may be said on one side or the other of particular acts of the present Ministry, it should never be forgotton by the people of England that the inscrip tion on their banner, under which they go forth to battle against the glorious Constitution of 1688 is " a heavy blow and great discouragement to Protestant ism." This cannot be said to be the invention of an enemy, for the words of this anti-national—this alien motto of the so-called Whig Cabinet, are the vety words spoken by Lord Melbourne in the House of Peers, as characteristic of a line of policy which he was pressing, with solicitations and menaces, the House of Lords to adopt. The " heavy blow" to Protestant ism was to be part and parcel of the consideration for O'Connell's support, arising out of the compact of Lichfield House. The apostate Whigs, apostate from the principles and faith of the Whigs who assisted in framing the Protestant settlement, by virtue of which the family of Brunswick is seated on the Throne of these realms—the apostate Whigs, we say, having ratified for the most selfish purposes that disgraceful compact with the enemy of our nation and reli gion, would have made the Peers of England accomplices in the great crime of inflicting a mortal wound upon Protestantism, and sub verting the principles which constitute the very foundation of the throne itself. Need we say that, if Protestantism be severed from the throne, there are nearer heirs in Europe to the Crown of England, not being Protestants, than the descendants of the Elec tress Sophia of Hanover, to whom it was limited (and may that limitation be perpetual I) by the Pro testant Act of Settlement. But who arc they who have admitted their intention of inflicting, if they can, a heavy blow and great discouragement upon that Pro testantism on which the throne is settled ? The Pro testant advisers—the constitutional Ministers—the sworn Privy Councillors of the Protestant Crown. These men have their own Popish advisers in Ireland, who wonderfully well assist in the great object of in flicting " the heavy blow and great discouragement on Protestantism." The recent elections exhibited their system working in all its viaour. There were seen the meek and pi ous p r i ests (Lard Plunket's much calumniated body of men) marching at the head of the " columns of the faith" to hustings, or launching the thunderbolts of temporal ruin and eternal damnation from the desecrated altars at the heads of any of their flock who dated to evorcise the freedom of election and vote against the O'Connell-Mulgrave nominee. There were seen the ragged, drunken, fanatic bed,v-atiauls or the holy ch urc h m ili tant , earn i ng absolution 'for all their other sins by mutilating, maiming, and, in some in stances, murdering the Protestant electors, and so " carrying out" the Ministerial polity in its most literal sense by the infliction of" heavy" blows upon " Pro testantism," denounced as it has been, no: only from the Popish altars, but from the Treasuryßenches. Need we wonder at the alarm which has been spread among the ranks of the Ministerialists on both sides of the Irish Channel, at the prospect of effectual assistance being afforded by the English Protestants to their Irish bred,ren, by means of the subscription now going on to enable them to recover those seats in Parliament which, through the working of an organised system of intimidation, fraud, and violence, have been most foully usurped ? The priestly and lay agitators who have instigated an ignorant and excitable populae, and the populace who have carried their doctrines into practical effect, call themselves " the Queen's friends I" Yes, the conspirators . against the Protestant religion, and British conne c ti on , ca ll t h emse l ves t h e friends of the Queen, who is by the Constitution at the head of the Protestant Church, of which they would represent her Majesty as the secret enemy. Can the youthful Queen of England—the descendant of an illustrious line of Protestant Princes --wh o has sworn to preserve the Protestant Church inviolate—be more cruelly defamed than by the praises of such persons ? We are sure she never deserved such praises, and trust she never will.— Morning Herald. We have seen it stated by several of our Contem poraries that the English prisoners lately captured at the Church of Andoam have been shot under the Durango decree. We will in the first place candidly say that we are without positive information on the subject ; but we are, at the same time, inclined, from several circumstances, to believe, that an event so much to be deplored has not taken place. We know that some weeks since, the French Legion having become extinct, the English reduced to a skeleton, and the Portuguese on the point of marching back to its own country—in short, the Spanish soil being freed from the hated presence of the stranger in arms —Don Carlos resolved on suspending the Durango decree, and our only alarm on the present occasion is, that, owing to the difficulty of communicating through an enemy's country, that determination has not been wade known to the commanders of the unfortunate province s i n t i me to save t h e he of our unfortunate countrymen. The Duray , - published with the hope of pr , - decree was went commenced in _ -venting th e re cruit- Belgium ; and it ha .. t oand, in Fran ce , an d in cause the Ba peen partially acted u p on , be seeing P '" l ue people were roused to desperation on - nand of strangers wresting from them the tilt .. ditional liberties of their country, and because wher ever; the roreigh IteiNiciri was Fteen; mordet i devr.station, and fire-raising were the consequences. t:;ow; that inOe excesses have ceased, with the destruction of the bands that practised them, the temper of the Basques is sub dued; and the Spanish Monarch is at liberty to listen W the feelings of humanity Which those who know Well are aware ace ilifiefeili nature: We hope that the desperate conduct of the troops under dericial O'Donnell in his late advance on Andoain, by which so many houses were burned and ruin entailed on so many families, will not excite the people again, and that the Carlist General will not be compelled to yield to the clamour for revenge. It is to be lamented that the Le- Rion has born stained, either by direct perpetration of these exeeses, df by a=dpertititisr with the Spaniards Who comniitted them, and it will be still more to be deplufed if the ling General O'Donnell to shoot all the prisoners taken at Irun be carried liaid e:1601- tion, Some of our Contemporaries have contrasted the lenity of the Christinos to dime prisoners with the barbarity said now to be executed against the dap hared at Andoain ; but surely our friends must have overlooked a memorial which we published the other day from those very prisoners, representing that they are treated in the most infamous manner—immured in dungeons twelve feet under ground, with a limited supply of air and light, and with barely as much t•irse food as is necessary to sustain nature. Really we must be just, and the Christinos are not to be suffered to exercise all sorts of cruelty on the poor creatures who fall into their power, while the Carlists are assailed for anything in the shape of reprisal.— Mur ning Post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFP S CO URT-W RIONERDAr. WILKSON V. FISHER. This was an action to recover the sum of 101. lent, and the sum of 51. 17s. for three casks of pickled ship beef, and a flat of tongues. Mr. PAYNE was for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. JONES for the defendant. The transaction was rather odd, by Mr. Payne's account. The beef and tongues were sent to the defendants, who keep an oil and Italian warehouse in January, 18:36, with a regular bill of parcels, under which was a letter by the plaintiff to this effect. " I have sent you as above, and hope they will realize the price. I have sent you some tongues as a sample, if you could sell them, they arc Russia tongues, and some people like them. They are rather old, or they would be worth 2s. a piece. Yours, J. Wilkson. P. S. The low parts of Wapping are the places for the sale of such fine meat. They must be soaked in water 24 hours before boiling." The defendant kept the goods till July, 1837, and then sent them, with all the advantages of antiquity about them, to the house of the plaintiff, whose wife refused to receive them. The conse quence was they had the benefit of the open air until they were conveyed by the police to the station-house, where they were to be seen and smelt at that moment. As for the 101. which was lent, it was lent in June, 1836, and an I 0 U was received by the plaintiff with promise of pay ment in a week. The document was forthcoming. It was objected on the part of the defendant that the 0 U, being a promissory note, required a stamp. Mr. PAYNE could prove the debt without the help of a stamp, or the honest acknowledgment of the defendant. He then called the plaintiff's son, who proved that the amount of the borrowed money, and of the price of the goods, had been repeatedly demanded by the plaintiff, and promised by the defendant. Mr. JONES, for the defendant, contended that the goods were merely sent to the defendant to be sold on commis sion ; that Jew and Gentile had been tried as customers, but, after an ineffectual struggle, during the long interval described, they would not "go down." As a matter of course they were returned to the plaintiff, and the defend ant claimed of that gentleman, as a set-off, a sum of four pounds for a year and a half's rent for the three cases of beef, at three halfpence a week, and for the flat of tongues at a penny a week. The defendant examined the goods about a month after they came in, and found them in such a " regular pickle" that nobody would bid for, them. He also swore that the plaintiff was in the habit of sending goods to the defendant to be sold on commission. Mr. PAYNE—What goods were sent on commission be fore the goods in question f Witness—None that I know of.—(Laughter.) Mr. PAYNE—What good after ? Witness—None that I know of.--(Laughter.) Another witness said, that soon after the goods arrived at the defendant's shop a captain of a ship came to pur chase, but when the case was opened he said, upon getting hold of the scent, that even his crew would not be able to touch the contents ; that chloride of lime was stowed away in the cask to sweeten it ; and that now, after that and another year's keep, the most laudable exertions were made to dispose of the wittles, but nobody would " stand it" at any price. . . . The policeman said that the goods were so very bad that he was most anxious to be deprived of them in some way or other. He had examined them at the station-house. Sergeant ARABIN-It may well be called a post mortem examination.—(A laugh.) Mr. Payne—lt was more than that—it was a post mor tificationent examination—(Laughter)—for the meat was kept till it was literally unfit fur use. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. The policeman declared that the very dogs turned up their noses at the tongues which the defendant had used such praiseworthy industry to get rid of. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. Biddy Wallis and Kitty Bryan, a brace of " Erin's fair daughters," brawny and bony she porters, came before Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. Ilau, on an assault warrant. Black eyes and scratched faces on both sides indicated the prow ess of the combatants, and the good will with which it had been exercised was pretty equally balanced. Your Wutchip, said the complainant Kitty Bryan, be fore Pm put to bed wid me thirteen childre I had a fallin out wid Kitty, and bekasc I'd a heavy time 'ov it she ex posed me shamefully. Last wake I come home, lit me bit of fire, biled me bit of bacon ; and after ating me bit of dinner I wint out wid me husband and one child, two ttitindis Ohl, in me arms, to buy mescif a new pair of shoes. C Ir. HAMBERS—Corne to the assault as soon as you can. Kitty —Wait awhile, your Bonner, an' be at it. Well, as me and me husband were goin down the street we met Pat Welch, and stopped to have a drain, and a spathe about Ireland. Biddy Wallis come up, and says she, Kitty says says she, you're talking ov me. No Biddy, says I, divel a word about the like ov ye ; go on Biddy Wallis to your own friends, by which manes, as I'm on me oath, I allow she was bastely drunk. Me soul to the divil, says Biddy, if I go till I've had me satisfaction ; wid that she spit in my face, and I spit in her's. Biddy then made a strike at me, and I wint to pacify me childre, as they began to screech, and Biddy followed me, clapping her hands, as if she was the best woman. Sartinly when I seen that, I axed will annybody hould me child, and after Pat Welch tuck it Biddy legbailed from me. Mr. CHAMBERS—What did she do ? Kitty—Legshailed away into ould Bryan's shop, Plate yer bonnet-, she's al. ways at me to take a fight ; and I can't go out of me how@ for a pail of water, or a ha'purth of milk, or a pint of beer, or a drop of gin,:or any other thing, sich as a bit of fish or a pound of pratees, or a— Mr. CHAMBERS—Come to the assault. Kitty-I'm at it, plate your wutchip. I wint wid me hit of fruite to me stand, and Biddy came and exposed me. I vvould'nt take a fight, so I made Off home, and then Biddy jumped in me shallow, and danced on me frttit be; kale she could'nt get meself and me childre to dance on. Mr. CHAMBERS—What did your basket contain ? Kitty—Eightecnpennorth of as fine Kerry pippins as ever came out of the market. Mr. CHAMBERS—Where did you get that black eve from ? Kitty—l'll tell no lie about it. I tuk a fight with Biddy in at Bryan's after she danced like a jackass on me fruite. Pat Welch, who was called on behalf of the complainant, after giving his version of the affair, admitted that Biddy and Kitty both gave their children away, tuk off their caps and shawls, and wiut and took a comfortable fight together, Kitty—llid'a you hear me blacggarding Billy Wallis ? Pat Welch—No, be me oath, I did not. Kitty—Then you're a false swearing perjured, tundering ould thief. Mr. CHAMBERS.—WeII, Mrs. Wallis, what have you to say ? Biddy—She told tales that I'd got two husbands, when I never had none but what belonged to me own lawful husband, Bekase she did that same I sartainly wint down on me knees and coursed a course on her, by which manes she said she'd have me life ; and she came wid her bounce to me, and brought her sister, and the pair of them hate me. CIIIIMBER, on inquiry, having found that this cha reteriitic Irish mode of fighting two upon one had take❑ place in the present instance, dismissed the complaint. QUEEN-SQUARE. A diminutive fishmonger, named Wedderburn, who had been strangely inoculated by the green-eyed monster, yes terday preferred divers charges against his wife, a very gen teel and pretty-looking woman of eighteen. The substance of the complaint was that the complainant grew outrageously jealous some months since, and in the first fit gave his wife a sound slap on the face , for which she brought him before the magh!trute at this office in I March last. From that time the fishmonger !!a , t been " nursina his wrath to keep it warm," and, ultimately, ilia= ing arranged ottrA mind that his wife was the worst woman in creation, he padlocked the door, in order to keep her out. The wife, who felt innocent, wail ttut to be got rid of so easily, and on his return borne he found that his " Worsd half" had obtained admission, and, having lit a fire, was comfortably seated by it. According to the husband's statement the wife then, before his brother and sister, and a few aldfki relations and friends, took up a knife, and made a stab at him. One of the friends was called, and he proved that, at the time she pointed the knife, he was two or three yards off, and in such excitement that she immediately afterwards fell down in hysterics. The wife entreated the Magistrates to hear any evi dence he had, and declared there was not the least cause for her husband's jealousy. She defied him .or any other person to produce anything derogatory to her respectability. She admitted having taken the knife up, but denied having pdiatt.d it to her husband. Her intention was to have stabbed hersdr. Mr. CONANT said he eculd not call upon the young worimn to find bail under such circumstances. The " demon" still held tight hold of her husband, and the latter pushed hard for a conviction Mr. CONANT consulted with Mr. GREGOItY, and dis charged the wife. MARY LEBONE. Yesterday, Charles Bignio..e alias Smith, was placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, charged on re-examination with robbing Hannah Fair, a young Irishwoman, servant to Mrs. Harrison, of No. 33, Foley-place, of 20 sovereigns. The prisoner, who denied the robbery, was fully com mitted to Newgate for trial. TronSHIP-STREET. NEW MODE OF BEGGTN6.—Yesterday Jeremiah Joy, wearing a cast-off jacket of a private of the Spanish Legion, was placed at the bar before Mr. Grove, charged with having solicited charity by representing to the populace the mode of punishment on the tread Mill pursued at the House of Correction. Daniells, an of attached to the Mendicity Society, said that he and his brother officer Chapman, in their pro gress to apprehend sturdy beggars, came up to the priso ner, who had collected a crowd of several persons, in whose presence he was describing the way in which prisoners at the treadmill in the House of Correction were employed during the time of their imprisonment. He represented the attitudes of the prisoners by raising his hands and step ping with his feet, to the great delight of his audience, and in a measure to his own profit, since many, believing that he was one of the unfortunate sufferers who had returned from Spain, had compassion upon his misfortunes and sup plied him with money. Mr. GROVE I have no doubt that he has been frequently a performer at the treadmill, so that he was a very efficient person to describe its operations. The officer said it was the truth. The prisoner had been committed once from Marylebone and twice from Marlbo rough-street. Mr. GROVE—How long is it since you were last in prison ? The prisoner said he only left the House of Correction that day. Mr. GROVE—Where did you get that coat on your back ? Prisoner—lt was given me by a person who has served in Spain. Mr. GROVE told the prisoner that he was evidently an imposter, and that by wearing the coat of one of the Spanish Legion be was endeavouring to move the feelings of the public, who viewed him as one of those unkrtunate men who had been in Spain. He told the prisoner if he was brought there again he should be sent to prison for three months, and if a third time for 12 months. The prisoner was sent for one month to the House of Correction. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Ann Marlin, a young female, living servant with Mr. James Hodgson, an elderly gentleman afflicted with deafness, was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with robbing her master of 951. The prisoner was remanded. THAMES OFFICE. ROBBING A SAlLOR.—Yesterday Mary Ann Peterson was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE for re-examination with Rosina Sweeney, who has made her appearance before the Bench not less than one hundred times during the last eight years, on a charge of robbing John Thompson, a man of-war's man, of 32 sovereigns, a 5/. note, a silver watch and appendages, a pair of trousers, a shoe, and other pro perty and moneys. The prosecutor was on Monday last paid off at Somerset House, and received upwards of 40/., with which he sallied out on a cruise, and found his way to that depot of crimps, prostitutes, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, vagrants, thieves, and swindlers, Shadwell, where so many land-sharks are always on the look out to ease mariners of their hard earned wages. John Thompson, with that improvidence so characteristic of sailors, began treating every person he met, and displayed his " shiners." Soon after sunset he found his way to the Coach and Horses, in the High-street, where he fell in with Peterson, commonly known by the soubriquet of the " beauty," from her bloated face and large features. Thompson was by this time, to use his own words, " pretty much by the board." Mr. BALLANTINE—That is, you were very drunk. Thompson admitted that he carried more sail than bal last, and notwithstandidg Mr. Clifford, the landlord of the Coach and Horses, very kindly recommended to him to go home and keep out of harm's way, he preferred the company of the " beauty," and went home with her to her lodgings in that horrible sink of iniquity, Twine -court, where sailors are taken in and done for with a vengeance. Thompson turned into bed, and soon afterwards Rosina Sweeney made her appearance, on which Peterson left the house for the purpose of getting some beer. The sailor soon fell asleep, and did not awake until the next morning, when he found himself alone, and all that re mained of his property was his jacket, hat, and one shoe. The whole of his money and his watch had disappeared, and, on raising an alarm, a policeman lent him a pair of trousers, to Blake a decent appearance in the streets. Mr. BALLANTINE naked the sailor when he last saw his money safe ? The sailor—When I fell in with that good lady (pointing to the prisoner) I gave her some money in house, to get some grog with. Timothy Casey, a policeman, said lie went to Peterson's room on hearing of the robbery, and found in it a foreign silver coin, which Thompson identified. The sailor—That's mine, your Honour, I'll swear. George William Graves, a policeman, on Tuesday after noon, saw the prisoner Sweeny in Shadwell very drunk and very noisy. Ile fetched the prosecutor, who identified her as one of the persons who hid entered the room. lie searched her apartments, and found another foreign coin, which Thompson owned. The Sailor—All right, your Honour, that's mine. Mary Lee, a young woman, stated, that on Monday night, about ten o'clock, she met one of the " ladies." Mr. BALLANTINE—Which of them—Miss Sweeney ? (A lau.sh.) Witness—Yes, Sir, that good lady, Miss. Sweeney.—(Laughter.) She was in a puhlie-house very tipsy. I saw her with gold, silver, and coppers in her apron, and I remarked it to a friend. Next morning I heard of the robbery. There was six or seven sovereigns in her apron. Thomas Soanes, shopman to Mr. Upsell, pawnbroker, produced a pair of trowsers, which he said were pawned at his master's shop by two young women. The sailor identified his trowscrs. Mr. BALLANTINE asked the pawnbroker's shopman if he could identify either of the prisoners ? Soaves said he could not ratignise the parties again. 11Ir, BALLANTINr—YOU make no inquiries. Did you not observe the persons who 2: .''ought the pledge to yo ur house ? Soailes—No, Sir, not at all. Mr. Bau,asriNtt said that made a p;.:vnbroker a re caiter of stolen goods, Surely when sue', an ari,,tle was offered in pledge by two loose women the toy fact nugtn, to indUce a spirit of the trousers have not been pledged many hours, and you gity yan should not know either of the parties again, and that you asked no (*along; The most vigilant system of police cannot stand up against this mode of receiving stolen property. The witness—A great many sailors send these women with property to our shop, and I took in the trousers as a matter of course. Mr. BALLANTINE—It is very easy for ingenious IWO to find an excuse for an irregularity, and this is a very gross one. If I was to lose my watch it would find its way to the pawnbroker's as a ►natter of course. The magistrate then asked if the note had been traced? The policeman said it had not. Casey said the navy agent who paid the sailor had pro mised he would stop the note. Mr. BALLANTINE—Very well, let the case stand over for a week, when I shall commit these women for trial, and take care that all the facts connected with the robbery of this stupid fellow, who is not fit to have the care of money, are diligently inquired into. The prisoners, who said the: sailor gave them somc money, were then remanded. The Emperor of Austria has, at an expense of 20,000/.. collected in one building the archives of Venice, and of the different Governments which have succeeded each other in that city. This remarkable and valuable col lection has not, however, been turned to much account by any of the modern writers on Venetian history. It is said that for some years past fiorsemonger lane gaol was never so full of prisoners for debt as it is at, present. The Governor has, in consequence, been o bliged to cause a supply of beds and bedding to be furnished in two of the strong rooms of the gaol, for the purpose. of sleeping sixteen or eighteen persons. CORONER'S INQUES SUICIDE—INFAMOUS ' IM PUT ATlON.—Ycsterday Dm' noon ;In inquisition was held at the Pied Bull, High-street, lii ngton, on the body of Mr. Abraham Solornons, aged 26, who drowned himself in the Regent's Canal, under circum' stances of a peculiar nature. James Gill, a policeman of the N division, deposed that about aix o'clock on Saturday morning last , h e was on duty near the Regent's Canal in Islington-fields , when he "is informed that the body of a man Was floating in the Carla?' near Thornhill-bridge. Witness, with assistance , g ot the body out. It aeared to have been in the wa ter five or six days, and was dressed respectably. There were no marks of violence on the body. Mr. John - Hassell, auctioneer, deposed that the deco" was his brother-in-law, and by business a tailor. The un fortunate young man had been in a low state of mind since the death of his wife, about a month back. Since then he had neglected his business, and was much distressed. Snw him last alive on Sunday week at witness' house, when his mind MIS in a state of great distraction, owing to an anon).- mous letter being sent to Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, accus ing him (deceased) of causing the death of his wife by Oar; vation. 'Witness had no doubt that the deceased d rown" himself in a state of derangement, brought on by the occ u. cation. The CORONER—I recollect receiving the anonymous letter in question, and, on inquiries being made, there BP: peared no foundation whatever for the accusation contained therein. The writer of the said letter must be an unprin cipled character, and ought to be scouted from so ciety. ~ In answer to questions from the jury. Mr. Hassell saiu that the deceased had always behaved affectionately to his wife. Other evidence was beard as to deceased's state of mind , when the jury, regretting they could not discover the writer of the letter, returned a verdict of" Temporary derange' meet." On Saturday the Rev. Thomas Skipworth, of Bel ton Rectory, near Epworth, Lincolnshire, took his gun into the garden, to shoot at some birds, and on his return' ing into his study, where he always keeps it, he placed b gun on the but end on the floor. It immediately want a and the contents passed very near his head ; he It O concussion of the air from the discharge of the gun. The contents went through the ceiling of the room , bu t the Rev' Gentleman is not hurt.—Lincoln Gazette. A mason, of Crediton, eloped the other day withr°3r 3 owl female, leaving a wife and two children to shift fo r en° themselves. He has since written to the mothe r of his love, stating that he has been married to her in Bristol and that, as there has been a thorough attachment between them for years, he intends to make her a regular good bus' band. He apologizes, also, for their " rudeness" in b (jit. ing away so suddenly.—Western Times. By the death of Mr. R. S. Stevens, the appointment of organist to the Charterhouse and the office of Profeso,o of Gresham College have become vacant. The former i r in the gift of the Governors, who are the Archbishops o f Canterbury and York, the Duke of Wellington, the Mar e l lis d, of Camden, Lords Grey, Winchilsea, and Westmorelreant Sir R. Peel, and the Rev. Dr. Fisher, the Master, So' i ` je Professorship is in the gift of the Gresham Com who are twelve in number, of whom the Lord Mayor 1 one. The Committee of the City of London High 56°9 s are said to take great interest in this appointment, a nd it ' 0 understood that each of the candidates will be required t deliver a probationary lecture. Yesterday morning the upper part of the %Yea /er a Arms, Bell-court, Milton-street, Finsbury, was discover.; on fire by a labouring man passing the premises. lid aroused the inmates, and the premises being situated in 7 . densely inhabited court, the inhabitants were much alarmoi w oke", The parish engine was soon on the spot, and ably by police and watchmen, but before its arrival the whole of Othe the stock, building, and furniture, were in a blaze. tadengines arrived, and, notwithstanding their exertions, mitn unable to save the contents of the house ; but they prev enig, the extension of the fire to a tallow-chandler's and baker 5 adjoining, which have escaped with a slight damage fr°lll , water. The cause of the fire is unknown. A report yin spread that three persons were buried in the rains, bus ed ther ! was nothing to corroborate it. The premises are ins 10 the Sun. - A few evenings ago two ladies passing throe° f the streets of Paris stopped before a shop to allow on ef them to look at her watch. This was observed by som e ° the predatory tribe, who followed the ladies until thetio came into a lonely street. Here an attempt was made . rob them, but their screams brought some people to thel. e assistance, and the robbers fled. One of them mig ht bal d been taken, but being in the uniform of the National GO' the good people of that part of Paris doubted whether theywere authorised to arrest the representatives of pubic Jr.( Yesterday morning the large engines at the eng' ne i house near Chalk . Farm commenced working the tra ins carriages on the London and Birmingham Railroad fr ° ;i. Euston-grove to the engine - house, a distance of upwar 4 , one mile, by large ropes, which wind up the heavy 0 6 '1 from the engine-house to Euston-grove in three minutes s° a half. The ropes run on large wheels strongly a ffi xed ill the ground. On the 10th of October the lin e of works will be opened to Tring, a further distance of eight mile° and a half. Yesterday afternoon a cabriolet, containing t''"' ° gentlemen, passed along the Newington-road. On re aching the corner of `Vest-street the horse shied at a m an carryi.n! a large placard, and, swerving to the one side, ran such , with the force against a cart which was passing at the time force that the cab wheel was wrenched off, and one of tn _ dbow: gentlemen thrown out and his arm broken below th e The horse then started off, dragging the cab after him, IT: kicking and plunging most furiously, the gentleman in 1 1 0 restr7 th vehicle still holding the reins and endeavouring to the animal, which at length ran the cab against a po st , w f ts , such violence that the body was separated from the s" a tbe with which then orse gallopped off. The gentleman 10 o f cab was severelshaken by the collision, and bad thrlos his teeth knocked out, but otherwise escaped un hurt. progr,ss of the horse was arrested at the turnpike . Tl:e fair sex have always a strong claim on °ur so d miration and gallantry ; we prize their lovely ferlllse,sa beautiful countenances, and are proud to witn ess ou r science rendered subservient to enhance the charms 1 1. du . countrywomen, and invest th em w ith a permanency of ration which shall defy the inroad s of time or °t o of whilit the reign of loveliness shines out in a conservatl°oar personal attraction, amidst roseate and delectable c ith , plexions, the bloom of south and the purity of h e n b a t Some ladies of our acquaintance, determined to e_r t el with pimples, blotches, and sa ll owness , h a ve lately s a es it " Frampton's Pill of H ea th" w ith grea t succes s ' ; i on of combines the renovati on o f h ea l t h w ith the preierys t jo to Leauty. We cannot res i s t i mp l or i ng our female tricot' adopt also the same excellent auxilliary. Giles SCULLER'S WAGER.—The match betwee-- °l and Webb, both watcrman belonging to the stairs at GretQ with, was rowed yesterday from the Halfway ibuu s n for ea "' facing Greenwi c h Hospital. They were scull and s e , an d three-quarters of an tour, when Giles drew a-b maintained it throughout. It was a hard wager- scot ch SWIMMING FEAT.—On Tuesday e vening . a 'J oe of gentleman named Gairns swam under water the dista s ider - A Aver " n o g at 160 feet without coming to the surface. able wager depended on the result. The affair came mr , h greater the Metropolitan Baths, near Westminster Gairns expressed his willingness to perform a ro ue 3(tt i o g dist ince if the length of the bath would allow it. was three to one against him. BS. SECOND-HAND SILVER INrceAT,„ Guinclo A variety of some dozens may be selected from , 1;1'1 14 Guineas each each ; some rather more modern, Two and a . each. eat b' 'I ree Guineas CO and • • .n assoi tment quite equal to new, 11 tee'. • ( 1.• whole have been carefull examined, and are warran N 33, Seca' SAVORY Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. hand Watches purchased n exchange. Bridge. , rfo:allthi e.ty _ - -- .818 THS• nal a ' win, of a daughter -7----i.OnwfilllP:7l.o:l",:nt:stt.,,,atinGr(o;lovuee-liilile,r_la.inabee,rwcll, Mrs. Edv• O n 11 ? e .2,lith inst . at. •cet Brurswick- wife of J . Steni,a, , L , •, , Jul , ( -st, , , , i . f 1 - •= rut, Lisi.„ o f 0f• A , .. of chu g ladY e o n the _sth i • x oro-sace.,. a , Lsq., of a I 1 ' On the 9 ; • 1 -it - 1 inst., at Blackheath, 1 1,,, ;3::, of Esq., of a son. ---- _.....--------- - On the " ' ' land, of WaIsaII, MARRIED. )oungest daughter of lt, Gorey, square, the •-end-roa, 4, to Louisa, • "tlll"st., Mr. John Storey, surgeon, Customs, El' On the 25th inst at St. Peter's, Walworth, Mr. C , h_a , t,:st 9 f the late J dot l P , ohn Leath, Esq., of Surrey-square. 'll Le a On , Staffordshire,.. to Susan Letitia, eldest ia.„ , the 26th inst., at St. Michael Royal, College-hi , vis o,er Robert Laing. Esq., second son of Joseph L3ing, Esq' ate C. North Shields, to Charlotte Sophia, eldest dati ' gi °lller 01 ibe IC. Coleman, Esq., of Maidstone, surgeon. , ~,o wn e On the 19th inst., at Fordham, Essex, the Rev. Henry %ages Esq., of 1i 11.".1 - daughter Rector ofofFtahrenliej,,.Sit‘treL,oatdo, lOlecettaoeriao/vlooolier Irene, Y" ~..., ----------- DIED. g e nii On the 18th inst., Mrs. Esther Samuels, wife of M r ' ii i ri es s, Samuels, of Leman-street, Goodman's-fields, after a severe. , . ~ all in the 56th year of her age, much respected and lamented'', who knew her.. d 6 4 ' On the 25th inst., at Camden-to, Mrs. Lyford, age i a 31°r‘ On the 25th inst. , a t Ham-park,wn Croydon, age d 70, Day rice_, Esq., of Corohill. . i Godg l '' On the 25th inst., at Bayswater, Miss Lucy Burt, .9. et t li l i l ,e e ,f2 l t6 .l ht t eh h 2i,,ll host., st. house, Chelsea. 1 hr ;PO' co o O lo i r t : 1 a att BattalionNreenniocsfient, igi.Gteoe6,7Girhar l ai, ti tcs i l e gii H m, i o tes n z,i . t , Ead,rne a u n 7 ( 7. t 0 6 youngest daughter of Mr. W. H. Callcott, aged 1 months. -•_-_-_- _.- London: Printed and Published bilqUl3.l./0 YOUNG' vat', 112, Strand, at The Sun. O ffi ce, No. 112, Strand, in til e " of Middlesex.—Thursday, September 28, 1837. EirTily Stuar 9 TIM SUN, LO_NDON, THURSDAY, SEPTVINIBL I ii 2.3, 1 ;31.