The Sun. — London, England, 1828-11-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. When the bloated and abominable paper credit system of this country had produced, in the winter of 1825-1826 1 its natural fruits in a series of frightful bankruptcies, almost unexampled since the commercial convulsion at the outset of the war with France in 1703, the subject of 11. country bank-notes came under the serious con sideration of Parliament. The public lir . ind being pretty well made up as to the expediency o f diminishing the issues of the country bankers, „ n d as a means towards that desirable object, upon the propriety of bringing the 1/. notes to a definite and speedy end, .the banking interest of Scotland raised a hue and cry against any at tempt so monstrous as that of extending to their perfect system of currency the pruning knife which was about to be applied to .the rottenness of English credit. Whatever failures had ?c-- curred amongst us Southrons, the north was nocent of such ;—few or no bankruptcies Were known in thriving and happy Caledonia. The banks beyond the Tweed being all of unbounded opulence, and their commercial policy one which united the highest degree of liberality with the most impregnable sagacity and prudence, there was no credit given without ;mirk e.- curity, and no taint of unwarrantable speculation which called for a contraction of bank notes. The Scottish press teemed with the plairsibilities of illalagrowther and his partisans. It was a bari:Arous tyranny in the English Government to Impose on Scotland the wasteful necessity - of re sorting to a golden medium, when paper at a half penny per sheet would answer, because it answered every purpose of mercantile and domestic busi ness ; the people of England were worn out by so much pertinacity; the Minister alarmed by the close cohesion of the. Scotch Members with the Scotch banks ; and by otre means or another the point was carried, that the paper system of 'Scotland should stand untouched, while that of England Was to be searched and purified to the bottom. It now appears that if there were l ess inimerous fail ures o f S co t c h merchants or manu facturers than of English,, -in the fatal year of 1826, there was reason sufficient to account for it, not in the sounder bOttom of their commerce, but in the more abundant patchings and vamp. rags which it received front the unscrupulous indulgence of the banks. he paper, engines were set a-going—,:all hands:were at th e pumps to keep the leaky vessel: Aoat, until some lucky change of.wind, or cleaiin g up of the wea ther might enable her to get home in safety.— It answered 'for a (chile, htit no more than for a while : the breaking tip of affairs at Glasgow begins to show—Avhat was, indeed, known to many. Englishmen, but wrathfully contradicted by evety . Scotehman—th e prevalence or the dry . rot throughout the whole interior of the system. Whether it be the East Indies or the Wcst In dies; or South America, or any other given portion of the world, wherever the scene of the overtrading may have been laid, its existence and its . ruinons extravagance are no more question able than the vicious encouragement afforded to it by the banking interest of Scotland. We do not say that for such causes t h e Government should deprive the Scotch people generally of any portion of the blessing ef . that bank-paper with 'which the' boaSt of their whole commerce being identified ; but we see au additiona'. reason certainly for resistin g any further attempt, if the • T modesty of their banl;ing ascendancy should re peat-it, to obtain a currency for, Scotch paper throughout the north of England. —Times. The meeting last night at the London Ta vern, for the relief of the Spanish exiles, was numerously attended, when the cause of that ancting charity was pleaded by various indivi duals,. midi an earnestness and feeling, which, trust, would have,a corresponding influence tin the minds of all who were personally present, and will re-act upon the, public at large. As it was mentioned by one.gentlemen that his Grace the Duke' of Wellington had been striving to obtain an amnesty from Ferdinand in favour of these his unfortunate subjects, • that they might, under such an official promise of mercy, be in duced to leave England and return to Spain, we think it right to state at once, what, indeed, we have reason fur affirming,—that no Spaniard, with one grain of common sense would value such en " amnesty" at a single farthing. The Duke ot i Wellindton would not trust one of his hounds to' the guarantee of Ferdinand's word of honour; mhy, then, should his Grace profess to indem nify the poor Spanish patriots for the assistance which he -refuses them here, by a fictitious promise from a known perjurer, which would only expose them to be murdered wlthow. law s instead of being executed un derforms ? There is not a Spaniard who aoes not k now, that however he might be at first received in Spain, he would be liable • t Q kpernoion, charge 4:airae new crime within a week after iris setting foot on Spanish ground, and that, en the evidenc e of the friar or other impostor who sore again st hint, l ie knight be thrown into a dun geon one d ar k night, or : stabbed the night following. Such virtue is there in this . precious ." amnesty" So much prosed about ! . We should like to hear Wh et h er the Duke of Wellington would make hims e lf and the British G overnme nt responsible for ler. dinand's adherence to his word, and for the lives of thOse on whose behalf he is asserted to ne gotiatc ? If so, to what extent would his Grace and the British. Government be inclined to go, in enforcing such a guarantee against the persons of the Camarilla ? It is preposterous to distract the charitable feelings of the public by these tsles of amnesties, which are not worth the paper that contains them. The only present resource of the poor foreigners is in the humanity of Britons. With deep satisfaction we learned from a later report of the last night's proceedings than had reached us' when the above remarks were penned, that the Lord Mayor lias been pleased to signify his in tention to comply with a requisition for a public meeting of th e c i ty, to further the objects of the charity,—an evidence of his Lordship's humane and liberal character for which we had bceu all along prepared, and for which the naked, the hungry, and heart broken, will bless him. That this-is not a party question we should not have thought it worth while to observe, but for the malignant spirit in %%nd] some miscreants, even of the publi c p r e ss , have thought fit so t o (le -s;cribe it. G o d f or bid, that violent aslnay b e th e political prepossessions of Elig l ishien, the duties of religion and mercy should ever find o h. :it acles in them. We deprecate and abhor so - t - de profan a ti on o f t h e sacre d name s in which tsc have implored our countrymen of all parties to raise the destitute stranger from untnerited sntrerin , and despair. If the inhuman being tsho Ira' endeavoured to check the overflow of English benevolence •on this occasion will be lieve no other testimony that it is not party, but "honest humanity which flies to the succour of hese unhappy foreigners, let him read that Mr. reel has stretched out his hand to help them, and that names the most illustrious for rani, 'iii this empire will, ere long, appiar, upon the ho noured list of th e i r benefaetors-, , -ibid. The case of Joseph Hunton, the Quaker, is a peculiar one. Putting aside.the general ques tion of the expediency or inexpediency of in flicting capital punishment the the crime of forgery, there are circumstances in : his case 'which, in our opinion, make it well worthy the merciful consideration of the Crown. It was admitted, on the part of the prosecution-, that there was, at the time when the House of Sir William Curtis akrd Ct. 'discounted the forged bills, a deed of assignment placed there by the firm of Dixon and Hunton, and' held by the prosecutors as a collateral security for any bills that might b e di scoun t e d, or tin y advances Made to the house of Dixon and Co. The prisoder on his trial made some remarks to the 0111-y on the hardship of his hiving 'been previously de nied the use of his books and papers, which, he said, would have enabled him to make an " avail able defence." What he meant by an available defence, under such eireumstan&.t, life 'cannot tell, unless he meant that he would have had it in his power to show that the 'Collateral security deposited in the house or sir William Curtis and . CO. *as sufficient to cover the da mage done by the forgeries, and consequently. that the prosecutors had not been defrauded. If the production of the papers that were withheld could have shown this, it was a very hard case indeed; and, we think, a gross act of injustice towards the prisoner that he was denied the use of them, the more so, inasmuch as Mr. Justice Park laid great stress upon the fact that . no evi dence had been giien by the prisoner to prove the tad dity of the assignment, and he toh.l, the Jury, therefore, to l a y it out o f the i r considera tion altogether. Now we are of opinion that, in the absence of positive proof, it Was as reason able for the Jury to presume the instrument in question Was a valid and good security, as that it Was not; indeed, this presinriptiOn Seems more reasonable than the other : for it is not likely a house 'of business like that Curtis, Robarts, and Co. would have taken an assignment as a collateral security for money to be advanced to another firm ; without previously submitting it to their legal advisers, and ascertaining that it was a valid instrument. The Jury was certainly of this opinion when they returned the verdict, in the first instante, as follows :—" We find the prisoner guilty of uttering the bill in question with the knowledge sit' its being forged, but that lie had no intention to defraud tize prosecutors.' This was - equivalent to a verdict of acquittal; but it did not seem "to please the Learned Judge, who sent them back to reconsider their verdict, and a second time they returned a verdict equi valent to " Not Guilty," by negativing the in tention to -defraud. They were, told by the Court they must give a Verdict in the terms, " Guilty or Not Guilty ;" when the Foreman pronounced the word " Guilty ;" but several of the Jury cried out, " No ! No I we are not satisfied.. It was after this that Mr. Justice Park, we presume tinder a fbrgetfulitess of the maxim of law which says that where the prisoner has no legal adviser " the Judge is of Counsel for the prisoner," informed the Jury that as there was no evidence to show the security in question was worth a farthing, they ought to disregard it totally.!' Then, and nut till then, came the verdict:Of " Guilty," accompanied by a`rccommendation to mercy ; and when the Court, inquired of the Jury on w.hat ground that recommendation was founded, they said, "in the first place, because the prisoner had given a 'security 16 the pro sectitor; whit held it at the time the forgery was. Committed; and, secondly, on account of his large family." Thus it is evident the Jury were by no means even then convinced that the se curity Was not a good one ; and it is not unlikely that, had there been Counsel to urge them as strongly in favour of' the assignment as the Court did against it, they might have adhered to their original intention of negativing the in tention to &fraud, without which' there could not hate been any crime. At all events, there is surely Inure in this - case to entitle the prisoner to the merciful consideration of the Crown than in'that of Savary, tried at Bristol, who is now a living instance of the mercy that blesses the pre rogative.—Morning Herald. We understand that the extent of the failures in Glasgow is very greatly exaggerated, As far as we can learn from well inferred persons eon. , fleeted with that part of' the country, the different houses which have either gone, or arc supposed from connection to be unable to stand, are not implicated for more than 500,000/. at the utmost. It is understood, too, that the South American returns have been for some time sufficiently pro ductive, and that the immediate cause of the suspension has been the East India Trade.— The first experiments which were made in the way of exportation of yarn to India were so successful, that fresh exportations to a consider able amount took place, which also yielded a large profit, we believe as much as 50 per cent. The consequence was, what always happens in such cases, great overtrading. The market of , 1 India was glutted with yarn, and the. anticipated profit turned. out in many cases a loss. The weakest no to the wall, and the richer weather the storm. ' here is nothing wonderful in this, nothin g which is not to be expected in a trad ing community like Ours. We know of no secret by which :overtrading can be prevented, or its effects guarded against. Profits cannot, i n a country where men are at liberty in their operations; be permanently higher in one branch of trade than others ; and when the temptation of more than ordinary gain induces men to rush into a fresh channel, the first effect i s an over flow. Things) however, soon find their level again. The effect is unav o id a bl e ; for it is im possible that a number o f individuals, each scheming for hinise li ; and concealing his Opera tions as much as possible from _others, sho u ld be able exactly to what the d emand produce only requires. Where many run, many m ust ' be dis tanced. It is not supposed that the failuresin to Lancashire, though Glasgow will extend Lan. cashire houses have been engaged in the same trade, and of course have had their share of l oss. But Manchetiter is an older place than Gi as _ gow, and its established houses richer and better able to support occasional reve rses. We have often been astonished at the loose way in which people talk of the mischief of • credit. Why do men toil in business but to make a Ibrtune ; and when they , have made a fortun e , th e y na t ura lly w i s h t o re tire, and to live on their capital. There are constutly found . numbers, possessed of activity and talents for business, who, if limited to their own capital, would be exceedingly hampered in their opera tions, and who, in order to extend their opera tions, avail themselves of the aid of the capi 7 talist, allowing him' such a share 'of the protit as capital yields in the market. Were the capi talist limited to the State Aanuitios, and the purchase of l an d, th e hi g h price of s t oc k and of laud wou ld grea tly lower his ret urns . When profits in trade are very low, he has the less i n d ucem e n t . to i nves t his money in that Way ; btit they Whist always be considerably higher than the return from the State Annuities or land, because no man would embark money in trade; 'Which is subject to casualties, who could not obtain more in that way than. from land or tho funds, rib Ats in trade are low in This country, but they must be considerably higher than the market rate of interest. Th e moment they approximate the market rate of in terest, capital is withdrawn to the saferinvestment; which immediately yields a diminished return. ,Whatis daily tittered about the mischief oecaSiontid by free trade . is superlative nonsense. Unfortu nately tit& 1; far from being sufficiently free. The productiveness of trade is measured by its im ports, and here our restrictive laws operate most mischievously. Trading cannot be beneficial only to one side. We cannot trade with a ptoi)le who have nothing to , sell in return. If, for instance, we trade With an agricultural 114 4 .'e, in return for our people, we c a n Only goods, agricultural produce, or the goods which have been obtained elsewhere for that produce. By interdicting the direct return for our goods, we only diminish our owh profits, and close markets against ourselves. When production does not keep place in the countries with which we trade with our Own, the consequence is di minished returns; and where there are no re strictions on population, direct tir indirect, the consequence of the diminished re t urns w ill b e felt . most severely the reduction of wages.. Wages 'lave fallen considerably in several places of late years, but the extent is, we believe, very much exaggerated. We are exceedingly sceptical as to many of the statements we see on this subject. Every wher e we see new b u ildi ngs ; t h e stock of Cattle is iLereasing, and the, quantity of food' ob tained from the soil' is constantly increasing. No man raises what will 'not be consumed ; and as there is a deMand for all this food, and there is no falling off i n the quantity of liquors consumed, and people are dressed as well as formerly, the fair inference is, that we are every year becoming richer, though not so rapidly as might be wished. • A nation toiling and moiling as we do cannot be in a desperate'condition, for what is wealth but the produce of labour? And though one branch of industry may be diseased, it is ridiculous to suppose that a whole nation can be toiling to no purpose. We hear of the diseased branch,, while those who are thriving hold their tongues, and there arc always a num ber of people in the world who love to believe the world going to rack and ruin. There has been lately agreat deal of discussion about the profits of the Silk Trade. It strikes us, that the wages of the silk-weavers must have been lowered from the influx of workmen from the cotton or some other trade, rather than foreign importation. If the wages of cotton weavers were higher than silk weavers, it is impossible that in MancheSter, Macclesfield, &c. the silk weavers should not be take themselves to cotton ; and again, if silk were higher than cotton, that cotton Weavers should not betake themselves to silk. Weavers can easily be drawn from one branch of trade to an other ; and we should suppose it impossible that much difference could long exist between the wages in two branches, Mr. HuskisSon has drawn on himself a good deal of the objurgation which he has experienced by the mode in which he recommended free trade. According to him we could safely open our ports to the foreign ma nufacturer, because we could produce every thing cheaper than foreigners. He ought to have said, we ought to open our ports whether we produce cheaper or, dearer, because the advan. .tage of a free trade is in exchanging what cal be, Keduced cheaper in one country for some. thing that can be produced che a p e r i n another, He confirmed by his inconsistent language Fo. reign Governments in their absurd doctrines o: exclusion ; because they at once said, we sha, not open our ports to importation till, like the English, we cm manufacture cheaper than other nations. He fostered the stupid prejudice that nations ought to be all sellers and not buyers. —He ought to have distinctly said, importation ought to be free, whether the foreigner main. facture cheaper or dearer than we do, subjecting him merely to the duties imposed on ourselves. —Morning Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. One Mr. Hemsley, a gentlemanly sort of person, was brought .before Mr. Alderman FAREImo/41ER, yesterday, charged with having broken the King's peace, by. giving Mr. Cannon, another gentlemanly sort of person, a very ungentlemanly thump on the head with an umbrella, .vithout the consent of the said Mr. Cannon being first had and obtained. It appeared by the deposition of Mr. Cannon, that between the hours of eight and nine in the evening of Saturday last, as he was crossing Newgate street, soberly picking his way through the mud, at a place where the pavetnent has been taken up for the repair of the gas pipes, he heard some person behind him say—" Here's a precious daisy-cutter ? I'll make him go along a little faster !" and, at the same instant, he, Mr. Cannon, received a thump on the head with an umbrella, which thump was so earnestly applied, that it knocked his hat down over his eyes so as to.completely extinguish his vision. With all convenient speed, however, he pushed his hat • up again, and, turning round, he plainly saw that the blow had been inflicted by the defendant, Mr. Helmsley, for there he stood laughing close behind him, arm-in-arm with "another gentlem a n." Both of them were entire strangers to Mr. Cannon, and he, .instead of firing away at them, as he very, justly might have done, very civilly informed Mr. Hemsley that it was his intention to give him in charge to the watch. " Very well, my boy (replied Mr. H.), come along, lam quite at your. service ;" and there upon he and his friend the " other gentleman" passed on, .followed by Mr. Cannon, -wistv hoped- to meet with a watchman to whom he might give Mr. Hemsley in charge; and after following them about for some time he succeeded in so doing ; though not till after Mi. Hemsley had repeatedly asked—" What does this blackguard mean by fol lowing us about ?"—lt appeared further that after Mr. Cannon had charged Mr. Hemsley, Mr. Hems ley charged 'Mr. Cannon not to be " rash" with him; fc- that he, Mr, Iletnseley, had been " dining out;"--meaning thereby, we resume, that when " gentlemen" dine out they are apt to drink more than they do when they dine at home; and that if diners-out should go astray, " The drink is more in fault than they." At least, this seemed to be- Mr. Cannon's view of the matter; for, said he, " when I understood he Lad been dining out, I offered him every opportunity of making an apology; bet be would not, and there fore Flat him in charge." And you are - willing to accept an apology notv I suppose said the Magistrate—moved, probably, by the subdued d emeanour of Mr. Hetrisky ; who, now that the fuMes of the out-dinner %vine had evaporated, seemed to beanything but a striker. Mr. Cannon said he was luite willing to accept a hereupon, Hemsley, t urn i ng his e; apology .eslgent 1y n 1 1) 1 7. towards Mr. Cannon, as he stood towering above him in the witness-box, in a softly murmuring voice said—" Not conscious of having struck this gentleman, but, if. / did , I am very sorry." am peefec . , satisfied," said Mr. Cannon; and theredpon lflr. Hemsley was discharged, haiing i upon the plea of dining out, given perfect satisfac tion for a "daisy•cutter, a blackguard, a blow," with a "not conscious, an if, and a very sorry." Truly, there is much license, if not virtue. in :out-dinner drinkings 1 Thtte Were some two or three and tl,iity, Other persons charged with diSOrde4 doin, , i.s, Chiefly Con sequent upon various modificatitins of but-drinking— some with dinner, and some without ; but the case. above stated was the only gentlemanly case among them: BOW-STREEt. tes6aiday Aviaham Belasco, a fellow who was once a prize-fighter; was brought up on a warrant, charging him with having violently assaulted Joseph Josephs, a young Jew, and his wife. The complainant i§ a Young man of l 3 oro yeah of age. Both parties have been frequently at this office, and have quite disgusted the Magistrates. Sir R. BIRNIE, on perceiving them before him, exclaimed, " When will this have an end ?" " ton mak say So, indeed," replied the young husband; lam perpetually tormented by my ene mies. Mr. Belasco, your Worship, always behaves in the most disgraceful manner towards me, and I am compelled to pia up with many indignities. On Saturday night, Without assigning any reason what ever, he held up his fist at me, and threatened, in (he most violent language, to do for me. My poor wife, moreover, could not escape his violence, and, indeed, he did lay hands upon her, and tore her bonnet to tatters. Sir RICHARD—Pray, do you reside in the same house as Mr. Jacobs did ? Belasco—Yes, your Worship, he does, and con ' tinues the same business. Sir RICHARD—I did not ask you, Sir. Josephs--I do live in the same house, but I fol low my trade now.—(Laughter.) Alderson ' a patrol, here stepped f o r war d, an d assured Sir Richard that he did keep on the house in its former manner, and that Mrs. Jacobs was con stantly parading the public streets with her ladies. One gentleman had been nearly killed in her house, and he had gone there for the purpose of taking her into custody. Mrs. Jacobs (in great warintli)- 7 And why did you not ? It was your duty, if- I had done such things. 'Alderson—Because the parties did not wish to be exposed, Sir. RICHARD—WeII, well; I shall not hear any more about the matter. I only wish that some of St. Martin's people were here, and I would endea vour to put some stop to these goings on. You may, if you choose, exhibit articles of peace at the Sessions. The parties had no sooner cleared out than Mrs. Josephs was charged an a suspended assault warrant with threatening to do some bodily harm to an unfor tunate girl. The charge was fully proved against the woman, arid such language and exposures of infamy trans- pired, that Sir Richard ordered that, when any of the St. Martin's authorities came, they should immedi ately speak to him. Mrs. Jacobs vas held to bail ; and her husband, whose fingers were adorned with handsome gold rings, retired to seek it for h er . I n t h e course o f t h e day she was bailed out. Mr. Richard Gurney, the gentleman who, at the last general election, was one of the candidates for the borough of Tregony, and who subsequently ap peared at this office as a party implicated in a case of duelling, in which a Mr. Christie was also con cerned, appeared before Sir R. BIRNIE yesterday on a warrant charging him with having assaulted a Mr. Parlett, who, we believe, is a grocer in the city. Mr. Gurney was brought to the office by a city constable ; and from the appearance of Levy and Hemp, two sheriff's officers, who followed the parties into the justice-room, it was evident, the in case of the prisoner's discharge, it was intended to take him on a civil process. Mr. Parlett stated, that on the 17th of October last he met the defendant at a house in the City , road, where he called him (the complainant) an old villain, his eyes three times, and, finally, shook his fist% his face. Mr. Gurney, in reply to the charge, assured the Magistrate that there was no truth whatever .in it, and that the present proceeding was nothing more than a scheme to draw him into Middlesex for the purpose of having him arrested for a debt of 5,0001. .Sir R. BIRNIE—You mean to deny, then, that you acted in the manner described by the com plainant.. Mr. Gurney assured the Magistrate, upon his honour as a gentleman, .that he neither shook his fist in the complainant's face, nor used the language ascribed to him. Sir R. BIRNIE asked the complainant if he had any witness present who could p rove t h e assau l t any complainant called a person named Alexander Stephen, who asserted that he was present on the occasion spoken of, and that the defendant acted towards Mr. Parlett as that person had described in his evidence. Mr. Gurney again most solemnly assured the Ma gistrate that he had neither acted nor spoken as described. The whole proceeding was a base con spiracy to entrap him. The fact was, that Mr. Par lett had undertaken, for a pecuniary compensation, to obtain a warrant against him (Mr. Gurney) for the purpose of having him entrapped into Middlesex, where a warrant was out against him for the sum of 5,9101., at the suit of a Mr. Bozant►. Mr. Parlett, in answer to a question of Sir R. BIRNIE, acknowledged that Mr. Bozang had pro mised to reward him, if he succeeded in causing Mr. Gurney's arrest. Sir R. BIRNIE expressed his indignation at such a proceeding, observing, that it was too bad to make the office a cat's-paw for the purpose of decoying a person into Middlesex to have hint arrested. Mr. Gurney declared that Mr. Parlett told him the night before, that if he (Mr. Gurney) would give him 1,0001., he would prevent him from being arrested at the suit of Mr. Bozang. Mr. Parlett denied this. After a long discussion, Sir R. BIRNIE decided that Mr. Gurney should find bail for the assault; and now let me see (observed the chief Magistrate, look ing towards. the sheriff's officers) if any man dare take my prisoner into custody until he finds bail for this assault. Mr. Green, Mr. Gurney's solicitor, thanked the llagistrate for his decision. Mr. Gurney was then removed in custody, to the evident mortification of the sheriff's officers. Determined, however not to lose their man, they came forward soon after to offer themselves as Mr. Gurney's bail. Sir R. BIRNIE, although evidently surprised, asked them the usual questions as to qualifications, &c., accepted their recognizance, and ordered the bail to be entered in the usual way. The office messenger, however, returned in a few moments to say that Mr. Gurney objected to be bailed by the sheriff's officers. Let him come .forArard himself and say so, said the magistrate, and Mr. Gurney, Mr. Parlett, and the sheriff's officers entered the office again. Mr. Parlett then stated that, he,had no feeling of a nitnosity towards Mr. Gurney, and was willing to forego the charge. In that case, said the magistrate, Mr. Gurney is discharged. Mr. Gurney then withdrew, and the moment he left this office he was arrested for 5,910/, at the suit of Mr. Bozang, and carried to a sponging -house. We understand that the arrest, and the circum stances out of which it originated, are likely to•be come the subject of an appeal to the Court of King's Bench. 'the following letter, which unfolds a deep-laid system of swindling in 'the bill trede, was reeeived a few days ago by Sir R. Milne " Sir,—Referring to the enclosed letter, I deem it but an act of justice to the public to place the ttritera titi. der your obgervatien. a I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " Kirkwall:house; near Aberdeen. , "J. KNOWLES. Sir it. Bliiiie, police, Loildn" The letter referred to was a printed eircUiai., put porting to come from the house of " Charles Forbes and Co. ' factors and commission agents, 16, Sutton street, ' St. George's east." It was directed to " Me3srs. Crombie, Knowles, and Co., cloth menu factitrer., Cotliel Mills; Aberdeenshire," and was headed " COmniercial Information: and ittipUrtant Assistance." The letter then went on to state,that in Consequence of the want of mutual accommoda tion,, men in business were frequently obliged to sub tO heavy pecuiiiaty losses. To obviate this in convenience Messrs. Fdrbes and Co; begged to an nounce, that they were in the habit of proctiiitig good and bOnafide London bills for any time, ac cepted by houses of long-established and known re spectability; that.their connexions were most ex tensive and fesPeetablei and that they )were , well acquainted with inland and foreign bills: After enumerating the many advantages to be derived from a system of mutual accommodation, the letter proceeds thus,—" Any communication to promote your interest ; .acrd every information required, will' be given to those parties who may feel interested in addressing us. At the same time our friends may rely, with the most,perfect confidence, on our keep ing sacred every transaction in our usual confidential Manner. We would also recommend them to keep in the same'way, and not to Mention any transaction or correspondence upon the subject." 'Another, part of the letter states, that " tvhen the quantity of bills required is very considerable, saleable goods, at a fair market price, will be taken for our commission."— Further on tke injunction to secrecy is again re peated. " It is particularly requested that this cir cular may not be shown, unless to a confidential and . respectable friend, whose object it is likely to serve, as it is not multiplicity of business we want, but re• spectability, and in the safe, quiet, mercantile way which our friends have now for 13 years approved of." The following were the terms proposed for the proffered accommodation When parties apply for bills, .5 per cent. (or 51. in every 1001.) must be remitted. in the first instance. (Signed) • " CHARLES FORBES and Co." This letter, was accompanied by a lithographic circular, stating that the respectability of the party to whom it was addressed " having been mentioned to us by one of our travellers, we beg leave, as requested, to for Ward to you our circular. We should have no objection to remit you the amount required at any convenient time in bills of ex change, if they will answer your purpose. If you d ec id e upon iis method, please send us a remittance in half notes in the first instance, payable in London, the remainder when we remit the bills of exchange. We have done con siderable business confidentially in your neighbourhood for many years, and shall At all times be happy to correspond with you also. " We are, gentlemen, yours, &c. " CHARLES FORBES and Co." Upon receiving these conununications, Sir R. Birnie lost no time in sending Stephens, the office messenger, to No. 16, - Sutton-street, St. George's, to reconnoitre the premises, and ascertain, if possible, who Messrs. Charles Forbes and Co. actually were. Stephens, in . the first instance, applied to diff erent tradespeOple in the neighbourhood, but could ascer tain nothing satisfactory respecting the inmates of No. 16, Sutton4treet . . At last, however, he fortu nately lighted upon a barber ' who, with p rover bi a l garrulity, communicated a ll he knew, by which it appeared that the suspicions of Stephens, respecting the doubtful charact ers o f F or b es and Co. were tolerably well founded. The barber had no hesita tion itt pronouncing them swindlers, who were in the daily habit of receiving goods from the country and elsewhere, which they neither acknowledged nor paid for. A very few days before he told the officer that 2001. worth of cloth had been forwarded to 16, Sutton-street, from Yorkshire, by way of commission, on a remittance in bills. Stephens, upon this information, proceeded at once to the house, which is only o ne story hi g h, an d conta i ns but lout roorns. A large brass plate on the door announced the name of " Forbes," and having knocked, the door Was answered by a woman, who said that Mr. Forbes was not at home, and she did not know when he would be. His managing clerk, however, was just gone to dinner, and would soon return to answer any questions. " Can I leave a note for Mr. Forbes ?" asked Stephens, in the hope of being asked into the counting-house. The woman,• however, said she had orders from Mr. Forbes not to admit any strangers in the absence of himself or his managing clerk. With this information Stephens returned to Bow-street, stating to the Magistrate his firm belief that the parties were no other than swindlers. Under this conviction, Sir Richard Birnie has written to Sir Charles Forbes to apprise him of the firm that are trading, it is presumed, on the credit of his name. A young lad, newly rigged out as a sailor in holy day trim, with a flashy riband, to which was sus pended a pair of huge seals, advanced to the bench where Sir R. BIRNIE was seated, and, without any comment or observation, took a new half-crown from his pocket and placed it on the Chief Magistrate's desk. " What is this for, my good lad ?" asked Sir R. BIRNIE, in evident surprise. " Three years ago, Sir," said the lad, in. a strong Scotch accent, " I came to your honour for relief; you lent me half•a crown, and I have come to pay it back." Upon my word," said the Magistrate, "you are an honest fellow. I remember you now. Where have you been ?" "In a collier, your honour; but I ha'nt been to Lunnun since, or I would have paid you sooner." " Keep the half-crown, my lad," said the Magis trate, " it was given as a gift, and not a loan ; and if you should want relief again, which I hope you never will, come to me, and you shall have another." The lad took back the money, although with some reluctance, and making a sailor's how, left the office. Aberdeen Berwick-- -- M 70 45 M Coldstream :36 53 Cupar --.... 70 80 nundee ---.-- 75 Elgin .M.,,,,,,,,,, 6S 71 Inverness-- 52 60 Kelso ---,—... 48 53 Kirkaldy— 54 86 Perth ---- 60 76 irr The size of the ml 1 28 37 ai 20 27 28 39 42 22 26 23 L' , 6 28 30 31 40 25 30 wire va Oats. 21 2 IS 21 20 22 24 31 27 21 22 •21 23 18 21• 21 26 17 20 es throug 22 2 8 26 29 27 90 23 24 20:.31 lo ut the eau ntrl ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS.—Y esterd a y HALL, the Secretary to this Company, sent to the Police-office, requesting the aid of the Police, to q ° ,. : ,,rd 4 riotous operations of an immense crowd of Irish who had assailed the entrances of the Docks. The .L'" trates directed such measures as will in future pre veo i occurrence of so violent an outrage. oti At Stamford fair on Saturd a y l as t, the of store sheep was uncommonly large; yet high r 're were asked, and many were driven away unsold'_. ' 10 show of h orses was no t so l arge as usua l ; they svil.ifig# cipally of an i n f er i or d escr i pt i on , an d very little btiolti was transacted in them. At the beast fair oo 14° 1 , there was an immense number of cattle, more tW i cali been seat at St. Simon and Jude fair for years; f de g were sold before noon, when the holders of the° r id' obliged to give way, and ask reduced prices, notwit hl ing which, many hundreds of them remained uto °id late hour in the day.— County Chronicle. " BIRTHS. of it On the 17th instant, of a still-horn sou, the loos e ; Rev. Thomas Fuller, of Eaton-place, Belgrave-sgrlo . On the 16th instant, at Gilston-park, Hats, w e of 11. G. Ward, Esq. of a daughter. On Sunday the 16th instant, the wife of r Bennett, of No. 63, Middle-street, Brighton, 8 06 ' 4" a daughter. The lad , th S. - ' of Crosby-squ to of of a daughter. rusepl lomons, MARRIED. tt St. Mar L,l os 3larylebonc, "1 _ it, ii.. „. .Ityri, iv, •yts. - ..,.. Rev. John Henry Fludyer, Cobbett Derby, jun. "' 1 ;( 11 Caroline Louisa, youngest daughter ofSir Samuel Brude Fludyer, Bart. e' iesbiret On the 13th iteitatu On the ltsth instant, at Grappenhall, Chi • 11' Lowndes, of St. Bennet's place, Gracechurch-street,ll, o f merchant, to Marianne, daughter of the late Dlr. Sk i Warrington, L3neaNhire. At Kendal, Mr. John Greenwood, to Miss Dian_ , b Fatter. The united ages of .this.amorousiswaiti aP7OO titiraulcinea, are dose upon the patriarchal number too hundred and forty y ears ! he b e i ng 79 iseatlY, ' last approaching three-score years. - - • DIED. • ee l !' On the 17th i ns t an t, a t his resideticC in SYthteY7_, e P . City-road, Lieut enan t-C o l one l John Duff, late of O r 34 1 ' East Company's service; id the, 77th yeir or 1 , , 1 , 1 >f : 4l° PRIM ran a and PUi ' Ll " tiHEE; by lCl 4 irkit4 ...Herr at o - SCI 4 0 MC'S, 1 1X , STRAND, LONDON. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a gentleman of the name of Bend, re siding at Clapham, attended before the sitting Ma gistrate, Mr. CHAMBERS, for the purpose of com plaining of an inaccurate report which appeared in the Times of Saturday last, and which was of a na ture calculated to injure him in the estimation of his friends, as well as those who read the account. Mr. Bond then handed the nines to the Magi strate, and pointed out the ease alluded to, which stated that the former gentleman appeared to answer a summons preferred against him by the honorary secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for ill-treating a horse. The _ - --- report went on to state that, on a certain d a y, en on subsequent Mr. Bond (the defendant) admitted ha v i ng b eaten hi s h h a e ( r i s d e , r e a p n p d e t d h a d t o i: v c c odaesaed and ee of ill-us age t ; w: an i ma l examina tion it was discovered that a blood-v esse l o f th e that although several persons umstance, and notwithstanding hr h ea e pd a o r r t :i ‘ tt % nh •a ce s snE r ed u de p st t cl u irei r b e ce d idi , which p ro d uce d d eat h. Th e v, the defendant admitted that he had repeatedly struck the horse, yet the • Magistrate dismissed the case, contrary to the provisions of the Act. Mr. Bond then proceeded to state, that his having admitted that he had struck the horse, or had fu riously driven him, as described in the report, was totally false. On the day the horse died he (Mr. B.) had ridden him from Clapham to Streatham and back again, a distance of six miles in all, at a i egidar pace. When near his residence the horse made a sudden ' " bolt," and on tightening in the reins the animal. almost instantaneously dropped down dead. As he was anxious to ascertain the cause of the animal' s death, he had it examined by a veterinary su rgeon , The w applicant pronounced th thate n d e it s died c l: i a b d ed t o of the Magistrate thea lit of a p o pl exy . injurious tendency of sueh a report, scarcely a word . of which was true, and which had been cepkd into other papers, and - circulated very generally over the country, to his prejudice. Mr. CHAMBERS perfectly recollected the case, and on reading the report alluded to could not help ob serving that it was a gross perversion . of the' truth. When the summons Was put before me, said . the Magistrate, and Mr. Gompertz, - the honorary so. cretary, complained of alleged cruelty, which he admitted he had not witnessed, I desired 111 ' t ' dente might 'be addueed before me, in ° I bear out his Statement; and to • convict;.' alleged cruelty was proven. No w itnegs o ), oo ever, were. in attendance to substantiate on e l a that Which had been described by the lionorei' a tary, anal o(6i:rude dismissed the case. Wit r 3 i to Mr. Bohd having ndthitted before struck and beat the horse, added Mr. C'i there is no truth in the charge, that gentler: ing distinctly contradicted the assertion. gistrate then remarked that the Times lw' probability, Copied the injurious report, fr ol) , , ,d other paper, and that when the editor viac that it was a gross perversion of the truth, fl' t ; do the individual injured the justice to ins (l tradiction of the offensive matter. Mr. Bond then withdrew. LONDON MARKETS( PRICE OF.BREAD. i f s t. o l o ,1:11e. highest price of Bread in the Metropolis 0,4 41b. LOA There are others who sell from M i d. o' l ' z' that price. PRICE OF REEDS.—;-Not. 17. New English Red Clever Seed (per Cwt.) 4W. 50s. f r rF Old Ditto Ditto . 40s. 4&. A. if New Foreign Us. 59s 0,... ,5 .0 Old Ditto New White Clover Ms. 78s. t ric ,,q , Old Ditto 70s. New Trefoil 10s. 28s. fiffl Old Ditto Ss. 160. le,..Ak Rib Grass ..„. ~.,... or, English Carraway 5eed—................--. —s. 3lis. 'W.' O F Foreign Ditto ...... —s. —s. ••••• : ,.4. 0 C0riander.—......................—..... ..—.. —s. 18s. J Mgt St. Foin (per Quarter),--. —s. —a. 40t 3(6., Rye Grass Pacey Ditto .--- .. 3os. 5025. flO„ ~.4, ,/, Linseed, for feeding -------........... —5. 38s. O' Op Ditto, for ctushing........ .--..-- —s. 30s. 3o' g':/•, , Canary Seed, New - • ....... _ s. 535. pc pc .,4 Ditto-Old .*............* —s• —s. -'- Fite White Mustard Seed.--(per Bushel)—....ss. tii. fis. ‘," iio,o Brown Ditto.. --- ........................ ..-s. Bs. 1. - * fisc,,, Turnip Seeds, R0und5......... .........—..—... —5. Bs. #" plc, Green and Red Ditto ... .. .....s, Sg. 0 5 ' #1 4 4 , , Tares ' 01d.... Ditto New...,.. —. —5. —ifiy.o , Raise Seed, English, fine (per:Last) 211. 24/.......... Fore , ......... - 0 4 ' PRICES OF HOPS.—Nov. 17. ~ 6 1 te. Kent P0cket5„*......................—....... 11. 4s. 4/. 18s. , ---3/. 1Bs. U. 4s. - -s, 01 Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto Farnham. Ditto, Fine—. • Seconds 41..105. 5/. Ss. to 70' ...we* 01. • 03. 81. OS. to 3r, 14s. 44 Ws. V" ¢ , 31.:I0s. 31. Ire. to .$!, 4/. 4s. 41. 16s. t° / Old Duty laid at £165,000. . Sussex D r itte Essex Ditto. PRICE OF OIL. i l5 i / Rape Oil, brown ...—......—.. 10/. O. Refined ..,.. 10 0 Linseed Oil —....... -... --.....................-- , ^ l . 0, Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per th ousan d ..,.........,..- 4 , / Rape CAke, per ton . _. ...............w....''' • 1 10 , WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Isov• ~,15 , Hay ................ 60s. Od. t 0.955. Od. 1 (lover SOS. 0.12/ Straw 30s Od. to 365. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Nov. 17. Marsh Champions---......... 3/. 15s. to 4/. Os. Pery Oxnohles and Shaves --.. 2!. 10s. to 3!. 10s. (lit . PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Butts---50 to 561 b... 20 21 Ditt0•«.....60 to 661 b.... 22 23 Dressing 15 174 Fine Coach Hides 181 21 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 16 IS to 501 b. 18 20 Ditto •2O 211 LEATHER. 4 0'1 Per lb. 17 Tanned Horse Hides' 51 Spanish Ditto • Per dozen. io Calf Skinr..36 to 40 1 ' 0. Ditto 50 to 701..11 f;, Ditto to Soll'' Small Seals,'Greetilaij' RAW Per Stone. s. d. to S. d. Best Heifors & Steers 3 0 3 4 8 210 COAL MAR Burden 375. Od. Heaton 39 9 Hebburn Main 38 6 Holywell .34 6 Killingivorth 3S 6 PontopWindsor—,....„... 32 6 Shipeote. SO 0 Tanfield ..... T. 3 6 Willington Wylam 34 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 39 0 Ditto Bewieke and L 0... 40 9 Ditto Hilda . 37 3 Ditto Northumberland 38 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. a 6 Ships at market, 31—Shit [IDES. Per Stone.. 5. • 'o' tp Ordinary 2 6 44 / Market ET.—Nov. 17. .5 2 26 Walls End Nevintarc"' $ ' J E Ditto 4 1 6 Ditto Russell's Ditto Walker 4 , 6 Walls F.tid 1-letton.--0, 41 y Walls End Lambton , ' Walls End Stewart's , 53 6 Ditto Simpson----'5, ,„ 51 Cinders E Llangelinech Coal r Warde's Llanelly q 1 6 Walls End Nutt..... , ", Tantleld Trader. l i ps sold, .20--Unsold. IRISH MA: SCO' Wheat. ['CH ri Barley. ,RKET RKET Beat Is. - 6 0 9 s 4 0 ... ,114,: ° f th e Ita iAuti •••Lid it quid hie • DUBLIN MARKET NOTE-Fan:l*v, Nov. 1 4 ;„ fi 1 ., . 1 ' l ' From _To . A "' . r Rice 2,484 wileat,per - barrel 20 stone 34 0 47 0 'y id 514 Bele 16 stone 14 0 22 0 ‘ ,. 2 1 ' : 0 4 ir k 2,150 Barley.-------.. 16 stone 13 0 24 o ; I , . '' . "'l 5,3697,5 Oatmeal,,,,.CFlourt. -----. 1 9 1 stone oT'e 1 6 4 , 0 ° ` 3, 1 1. 0 0 .r fl6 ' '.; Itist p 2,201 Oats., _,.......... 14 stone 12 0 20 0 '' 1 "'MSC. Sold to Bakers only. 3,161 Cwt. Flour .....--. 18 A 32 .0. ~, ~ die a 12,9331 . Firsts, -.. from 30i• i1 d:...."10' . i • tf ~/ Average price of Wheat and Flour 6&,. 4d. per sac'lgs. , A Receipts of Flour, ands, from 18s. 03. v-' 0; I . Kr Sales of Do. ' ' k' l,„ PRICE OF BREAD. . ....),- ru/1 I Quartcrn Loaf, ' -5 ' 975 tilds,--. ' '.-.... from 6s. Od. W.. ' runic 41b. soz. 10• Nd. 1 Half-quartern; 21b, 20, Coln „, Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, v- -ge i - , .e Pl t, per barrel per barrel per barrel 24. Is. " II 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. -,.--.-. ---- it itS., c‘tlen s. d.as.d. s. d. as. d. s.d. ts.d. s. d. as. d. s. A .• ...i,; . 1 t I t Cork .-- 30 0--33 0 18.0-20 610 0-15 9 22'6.47 ,„.`' 14.' ~. Limerick 35 0-40 0 106-20 010 4--I3 0 16 , 6-25 I .', 0.4 „,.- 11 Waterford 35 0-38 0 18 0-21 0 12 0-14 0 23 0.-25 I . I ' 4 ', 0....'d ~ ,`ElOr t . Cloinnol ..- 35 0-40 0 14 0-21 0 12 8-14 0 IS 0-25 , 'a 0. , y 'lt l A . Carlow- 29 6-31 912 0-19 0130-0 0 20 6-21 ' 1"...- -- e t "• ------ ----_,----- -.. 4 IA Beef, Mutton, Pork, But . ~ 41 7 per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. ~1 ' lis art 7 _ 7 i. d,. ' : r , , ( . a . il. a d s. d. as.d.s. d. s. d. s. el. 0 0 ..0 :fit th C0rk.,,,,,, 4 -5 4 - 6 29 0-33 070 0 71 0 64 0 „,..4 , 0',1 ghat 1, Limerick- 3; -5 i - 5 34 0-35 0178 0740 6S v 0- i ,; " Waterford 4 -5 5- 6 31 0-38 6179 076 0- 0 ;73 0 I - " , ..0r Clonmel -3i-54 - 5 32 0-34 0172 065 060 0,„ 0 •!' It .., Carlow- 1 -51 0 - 0 00- 0 0181 082 072 0 t'' g_ '' till' - "Ill b, KILKENNY MARKET, Nov. 11. -But ter, . „ -- 0,, to he-A • , p t-vci per cwt. ; Bacon Pigs, 30s. to 345, p e r ditto; ,110 , i , 4 tilt p 365. to 38s. per barrel; Barley ; 18s. to 20s. ; Oat* 0 0 Pa l 13s. ; Flour, 16s. to ':)0s. per bag; Beef and 111 0 t W 6, 111 ton to sid. per lb. ; Potatoes, Od. to 3d. per stone; A I Is. 2d. per cwt. Ivith i Kent Re. Ten E Autat: first p Cornn tient ration 4inis Anott pot Pti 't, MINE A Jol PRO RIGI on FE Ap WAR Pig% . 2 total Jul c arts, Fait, IEN Th e A SE %nu n , t atrae T RAP lilll . l Tral 4 4 iS ing Tw 81: Trio] , Th, voit,i YRA.? k g tb N.. 4 011: ; • 4 1 su hai e r 'qi ', t erabh write tt lr fol 'AIL" it i nv Nc ATM, Sul I N I i