The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-15 00:00:00

political reform was false and fraudulent. One of these prelates adhered to his engagements, and he died in exile at Gibraltar. The Patriarch found out, on the arrival of Don Miguel, that the Chatter was " a damnable heresy," and that all the Constitutionalists over the world were freemasons, atheists, and anarchists. A more violent inundation of phrenzy and fanaticism never overspread any land than that which cover ed Portugal immediately after. The pulpit became an instrument of mad political declama tion, and monks preached crusades, as in the time of the. Moors, without finding an enemy to combat, except in the prisons or on the scaffold. The occupation of Oporto by Don Pedro has revived all this fury, if, indeed, it had ever sub sided. The monks of one of the convents, in which his soldiers were lodged (it will be re membered), set fire to the building that they might burn the heretics alive, and thus exhibit to wondering Europe a new species of auto da fe. The pulpit " drum ecclesiastic" is again em ployed to sound the rappel of the faithful to arms; and we have before us a little pamphlet with the motto " toca o Clarinz ! Portuguezes,escu tai-o," which contains the most atrocious incen tives to the massacre and murder of every man suspected of constitutional opinions. The work is called Defeza de Pcrtztgal, and the author, who is a priest, proposes the Sicilian Vespers as a fit example for the Mignelites on the present occasion. " Some," says he, " remember with horror, others with pleasure, that slaughter which was executed with the sound of bells, and at the hour of vespers, in Sicily, on the 30th of March, 1282, in which a single Frenchman did not escape, whether military or peasant, whether mania or unmarried, whether clergyman or lay man, old or young. The women even had no privilege ; those who were pregnant being de stroyed with peculiar ewe, that the race of the French might not exist in Sicily." The brutal writer recommends the " Sicilian Vespers" to be followed against Don Pedro's partisans, and gloats particularly over the idea of murdering all the pregnant women. His filthy and horrible jests on the massacre of females in that state fill several pages of the pamphlet.* He insists upon the policy of letting none of them escape. He declares that every female belonging to a Con stitutional family must be a fury and prostitute, and therefore that, in addition to the abomina tion of their opinions, they deserve death on account of their passions and profligacy. He praises the declaration of a Spaniard who said, in 1826, " If the Revolutionists utter a cry, kill even their pregnant women, that we may finish at once the impious race." Such are the doctrines now preached from the pulpit, and published from the press, by the priestly sup porters of Don Miguel's government. We need say nothing of the two other classes alluded to who join in this cry, or at least who acquiesce in this violence. They are all led to defend the Usurper, because they believe that a Sove reign disposed to rule with liberal institutions might correct the abuses on which they thrive. But when we mention these classes as the ene mies of the Constitutional cause, let us not be understood as including in this description all the individuals of whom they are composed, or even as vauching for the loyal zeal of the majority towards the Usurper. Some of the chief no bility, and all the most enlightened members of that order, are in the ranks of legitimacy and freedom. Others, who have remained at home under the usurpation, have been so insulted and plundered by the intrusive Government, that they will hail with joy a change of system which they are too timid themselves to aid in forwarding ;—and a third party are only waiting to see whether the sword of the eldest or the youngest brother will weigh heaviest in the balance of their destinies. If' Don Pedro can maintain himself in Oporto during the wnver, and increase his army and his naval force at their present rate, be is sure of ultimate success. The very confession in the Lisbon Ga zelle, that guerilla parties are forming in his favour, and the acknowledged fact that supplies of pro visions are permitted to come from the country, show to demonstration the inability of the in terested partisans of the Usurper, whether lay or clerical, to crush the expedition, except by such an overwhelming military force as Miguel cannot raise or maintain.—Times. There can be no doubt that depreciation would be very agreeable to many persons, for a time at least. All whose debts exceed their credits would find great relief from it. What makes the idea of depreciation palateable with many persons, is the prospect it holds out of getting easily rid of a portion of the burden of the na tion d debt, and lowering taxes in general. Landlords whose rents have fallen, while their mortgages have remained stationary, would, no doubt, be extremely pleased to find that their estates on a sale would yield considerably more than the mortgages. Tenants on leases would be glad to find the rents which they cannot now pay in full would become once more easy. " Give a dog a bad name," says the Proverb, ;‘ and hang him." Call robbery depreciation, 0101 jt sounds less revolting to the ear. " Good words," says the Parson in Shakspeare. It is pleasing to be able to repay a hundred sovereigns with seventy-five, without being liable to the ac cusation of dishonesty. It is not, therefore, sur prising that there are many persons in the country who would be delighted with the re sources which depreciation holds out to them on such very easy terms. But surely these advocates of depreciation do not mean that there should be no limit to depreciation. After they have paid their own debts, they will, no doubt, be satisfied. But either we must bear a constant depreciation, or we must, some day or other, think of recurring to a standard. The Elstern mythology rests on an elephant ; but on what dOeS the elephant rest ? When we come to think of a standard, adieu to the prosperity derived from a circulation susceptible of any re quired degree of expansion. We are told that from 1797 to 1816, during the existence of the paper system, " this county arrived at a height of prosperity unexampled in the annals of the world ; the population was employed—the na tion was a happy nation—and, without the agency of a single guine a , a ll the immense ope rations ofinternal commerce were carried on with safety and facility." The.:e were, no doubt, some material deductions from the general pros perity. Those who possessed rents on long leases saw their incomes greatly reduced. The annuitants crept from the first to the second floor, and from the second floor to the garret. To be sure, annuitants are for the most part the old and the feeble ; and we suppose they must therefore count for nothing. But as deprecia tion cannot go on for ever, we must at last come We shall quote one sentence, which the reader of Por tuguese may translate for himself :—‘ 6 Logo Jas Ves- Peras Sicilianas, se ellas lossem justas, nao devtin escapar 5$ malhadas, ou vell,a., on novas, ou tl.sembaracada., on gi avidas. e estas nao sti cm raz in de si me-tnas, cam ° pi!los ft,tos Je Miquidatle marcado• jilt no venire vom o fern•te da malltadire." t o some standard ; and then adieu to our pros perity. That standard, be it what it may, will once more subject us to the evils, to escape from which depreciation is now hailed. If we have a standard—be it gold, he it silver, or be it any thing else, it will seek the best market.-- When it can purchase less here than it can pur chase abroad, it will go abroad, and we shall have all the fluctuations of which so much is said. After all, therefore, we must look at the exchanges. The evidence of some of the wit nesses is rather amusing on this subject. Thus, for instance, Mr. Joseph Dyer, of the Joint Stock Bank of Manchester :—" In what mode do you think the exchanges can be rectified when they are against the country ?—I take it for panted that in all cases where the exchanges are against the country, there is a profit upon the exportation of gold ; if there appears to be a profit upon the exportation of gold, it is be cause there is not a sufficient demand for our manufactures. If there is a general confidence throughout the country in the paper circulation that then actually exists, there will be no run for gold, except for exportation. In this case, the same cause that led to the exportation of gold, viz. the cheap rate at which bills of exchange in London, from abroad, could be obtained, would afford a proportionate extra profit on our manu factures in foreign countries, and, of course, would lead to a greater demand for them and other merchi.ndize for exportation. This in creased amount of our exports, especially if it should happen (as most likely it would do) that our imports of merchandize were not in creased during the period of such run for gold for exportation, would speedily turn the balance of trade in our favour ; and to make the extra payments for such balance would cause the cur rent of gold to flow back upon us. The increased activity of trade, thus induced, might lead to a per manent increase of the aggregate amount of our cir culation, and to the consequent lowering of its value as a purchasing power, according to the influ ence of other causes, that might simultaneously act upon our trade. In case our currency should become thus expanded in its numerical amount, and thereby reduced in value as a purchasing power, the like effect would, ere long, inevitably follow with respect to the currency of all other countries with which we have commercial inter course ; and this would result from the para mount influence of the actual standard of value which shall happen to prevail in England over the like standard in other States. Upon the supposition, however, that the condition olother countries should be such as to prevent the extra demand for our goods, as has been supposed, and that the return of the gold exported could not be thus insured, it would be a far le's evil to allow the Exchanges still to fall until they did produce that effect, rather than spread dis tress through the kingdom among all of the pro ductive classes by a sudden and extensive con traction of the paper circulation. In short, the Bank of England is unfitted, even if the Direc tors were ever so much disposed, to exercise a proper controlling power over the amount of our circulation and the rate of exchanges, so as to keep either of them free from the ruinous fluc tuations before referred to. Banks, to effect these objects, must be confined to the circulation of paper—whether it consist in cash, notes, or bills of exchange—against paper or credits that will circulate against credits that will not cir culate. But the Bank of England is obliged to make large issues against stock, and on incon vertible securities ; or in other words, they do not supply the circulation for commerce by dis countinc, bills." Mr. Dyer does not seem to be aware that during the period while the exporta tion of our gold is expanding the currency of all other countries, no paper could circulate here i,vithout a restriction ; because the moment a note was issued, payment in specie would be demanded for it. The restriction might not, indeed, be permanent, and would not necessarily be permanent. Indeed the Batik of England, after 1797, gave notice that they were ready to pay in specie. Mr. Tooke states, " Taking 'he year 1798, when, after the Bank restriction, the exchanges turned very much in our favour, when the Bank treasure increased, the scale of the Bank treasure, which in 1797, as indicated by the scale, was 182, rose, in 1798, to 1,200 ; and when this increase of treasure was sufficient to induce the Bank Directors to give notice to Government that they were ready to pay in spe cie, the whole amount of the issues of the Bank, including one pound notes, was at that time 12,850,0001." Restriction and depreciation are not necessarily, therefore, synonymous. We can conceive the possibility of periodical restric tions, and returns to payments ou the improve ments of the exchanges brought about in the regular course of trade. But it must be ad mitted that the discretionary power of regulating the issues not subjectto convertibility on demand, which must be lodged somewhere, is a dangerous power. Mr. Mer, however, does not seem to have calculated on the possibility of a restriction in the interval between the flux and reflux. Upon being asked with respect to the Bank of Manchester, " if they did issue their notes, would they attend to the exchanges ?" he an swered, " they would be bound to attend to the having a sufficient supply of gold as the basis of their issues, undoubtedly, which would itself ' force a question upon them as to where the °old was to come from ; and this answer proves that Mr. Dyer would just leave us, with respect to the exchanges, where we now are. We apprehend that the, good sense of the country will resist all attempts to throw us once more upon the treacherous resource of large is sues of inconvertible paper. What regula lions may be necessary to relieve banking from the thraldom under which it labours, from the monopoly of the Bank of England, is quite a distinct question from that of depreciation. It may be that sufficient allowance has not been made for time falling-off in the produce of the mines, and for the additional value given to the currency of Europe by the withdrawal from it of the necessary supplies of metals for England. There is, we know, no fixed standard. Since the discovery of the American mines, till lately, a process of depreciation has been going on. Should more productive mines be discovered, and better processes for disengaging the ores from the foreign substances with which they are mixed, there would again be a depreciation, But these depreciations and appreciations have their limits, and are quite distinct from the at tempts which have been coolly proposed to us, to depreciate systematically the best standard which can be obtained. As names are of some influence in the world, it might be advisable in all honest men to substitute uniformly time word robbery for a depreciation of this sort.—Morn ina- Chronicle. Public attention was drawn, in the course of yesterday, to intelligence from Jamaica, respect ing certain resolutions which a body of planters in the northern division of that important island had passed ; and which, we are bound to say, for daring illegality and monstrous injustice) have never been exceeded by any act, however offensive or unreasonable, on the records Of co lonial violence. It is well-known that the sec tarian missionaries, who have gone forth from this country to preach Christianity to the West India negroes, have been for many years objects of extreme jealousy to what is termed " the West India interest ;" and that no instance of insubordination or outrage has ever occurred throughout those colonies since the abolition of the slave trade, whence prompt occasion was not taken to charge the guilt of it upon the unfortu nate missionaries. In Demerara, not many years since, a preacher was tried by court-martial for an alleged participation in, or promotion of, the rebellion of the blacks; and, if we remember right, the poor man's life fell a sacrifice to the severity with which he was treated in pri son. In the late insurrection of Jamaica some missionaries were subjected to trial under si milar charges, but, notwithstanding the clamour raised against them, and the excitement then pre vailing in the island, no misconduct was sub stantiated against any one of them,—not one conviction could be obtained, however ardently it was wished for, and diligently sought. Th e bitterness, however, which has been cherished against these sectarians has been apparently strengthened by the bad success of its under takings ; and the planters composing " the colonial union of the north-side parishes" of Jamaica have signalized the impotency of their preceding attempts against the missionaries, by the resolutions to which we have already alluded, and which will be found in this day's paper. It is possible that some of the Baptist missionaries, may be men indifferently educated,—some, possibly, not of the highest prudence,—and that on one or two occasions the language em ployed by them for religious instruction or exhortation may, as is not infrequent here in England (ay, and in the Established Church, moreover), have been ignorantly perverted by their haP-taught hearers to temporal and mis chievous meanings. But that does not make men incendiaries or rebels. Rebels and incen diaries may be punished by law. Why have not the missionaries been so punished ? It is plain that if they could have been fairly exposed to any legal penalty, the planters would never, in theirdespo ation, have adopted as one of their reso lutions, a pledge "to expelthe sectarians and other incendiaries from the island." Why, the men are raving mad ! What power in the United Kingdom, or in any colony under the crown of Britain, can lawfully expel the meanest human being from its territory, when he has committed no crime acknowledged by the law of England ? But what despot, known to Europe or Asia, has, in modern times, so sinned against the human race, as to banish a man because of the peculiar sect of Christianity of which he was a member ? The Grand Turk —nay, old Ali Pacha himself, the monster of Joannina—would have spat upon the Janissary who proposed it. Expel all sectarians from Jamaica ! Try it, gen tlemen ; but prepare for atrial of strenght, the next moment, with the people and reformed Parliament of England, and see who will first be " expelled" —the missionaries or their hate ful persecutors. The truth must be told. These planters will not suffer their slaves to emerge, by the avenue of knowledge of any description, from the level of beasts, to which a long course of degrading treatment has reduced them. If men be once educated, or even shown the road to education, however imperfect, they will no longer endure the condition of quadrupeds. The Jamaica planters are well aware of this. Their resolutions are worthy of their system, but the Attorney-General has commenced the lesson of law, which remains to be completed by the Government and Parliament of Great Britain.—Times. H the great question now at issue in regard to the propriety or not of renewing the charter of the Bank of England, which expires in the en suing year, was one which involved no other considerations than what appertain to the prin ciples and practice of banking, it might readily have been answered, and the question set at rest ; hut the evidence on the subject taken by the Parliamentary Committee of last Session, now before the public, is blended with considerations of how Far or not the conduct of the Bank of England, by the alternate expansion and con traction of their issues, have affected the Ex changes, and thereby been instrumental in oc casioning those fluctuations in the value of com modities which have successively produced such disastrous results since 1815. The principle and purpose of banking is simple enough, and in England, in particular, there is less to create a difficulty in its practice, inasmuch as there is a uniformity in its moneys of account, and in all its operations, beyond what prevails in any other country in the world. Why, then, it may be asked, such seeming perplexity ? The cause is, that it was not the question of banking which required consideration, but those circumstances which have rendered banking, in common with all the other interests of the empire (we use the term empire to embrace the colonial possessions), a source of perplexity and embarrassment. ‘Ve have previously shown that, as far as the Bank of England is concerned, the question may be compressed into a nut-shell ; the only point for . consideration being, not who shall circulate, but who shall fabricate the notes to be circulated. That a uniform circulating medium is preferable to a varied one cannot for a moment be doubted; the only question then is, who shall coin or fa bricate the notes ; that is a privilege which in volves a palpable absurdity to grant to any man or set of men. Let the Government secure for the benefit of the public all the advantage of the coinage or fabrication of that portion of the cir culating medium which serves as a substitute for metallic money ; that being done, the Bank of England may remain the centre of circulation, and retain the agency of the national accounts, and left to its own conduct for large a share of general business as it can obtain. A few minor points of privilege which the Bank of Eng land has heretofore enjoyed may be easily recon ciled. Having said this, in regard to the simple question of the Bank of England, we will now proceed to show the fallacy and absurdity of all the answers given to the questions relating to the exchanges, in regard to which a con struction of ulfilvourableness universally pre vails, where the converse is the fact. Before, however, we enter further into the question, we will explain the nature of the transactions in ex change:. In some places, such as Paris, Ham burg, the quotations of exc h ange are i n t h e moneys sof the respective places, while in others, such as St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, &c., the quotations are in English money : that is, in the first case, current money of the country is given For English money, and in the other case Eng lish money is received for the current money ; hence the terms high and low are reversed ; that is, if a high rate of exchange on Paris or Ham burg is . favourable, in St. Petersburg and Rio Janeiro it must be unfilvourable, as will be seen as we proceed in our illustration. In Hamburg, previous to 1828, the money of exchange was the Flemish shilling and grote ; but as the money of account was in marks, shillings, and pence in 1828, it was also made the moneys of ex change, 12 pence ls., and 16s. one mark ; marks, as near as may be for our purpose, 11. sterling. Now suppose A in England to have taken or sem any given value of produce, say 5001. to Germany, with the view of ob taining a profitable return therefor, what are the means whereby he effects this? In the first place, the products must be sold for the current money of the country, which we will suppose is done to the amount of 7,000 marks, and when that amount is received, the party who has sold comes upon the Hamburg Exchange to seek for a bill on London ;—then it is, and not till then, that the profit or loss of his operation must be determined. If, on inquiring the rate of exchange for a bill on Lon don, he should be asked 15 marks, he at that rate would only obtain 4661. 13s. 4d., a loss on his operation of 331. 6s. Bd., in addi tion to the expense of time and labour. If he should obtain it at the rate of 14, he gets just 500/. ; and in proportion as he can obtain it lower than 14, in that proportion will be the benefit of the seller of the English products : on the other hand, if the same value of products be taken or sent to Rio Janeiro, and there sold for the current money of the country, which is reis, 1,000 of which is expressed milreis, and which is also the money of account and ex change. Suppose, then, the products to be sold for 4,000 milreis, the party who has sold them proceeds to inquire for a bill upon London. If he should he offered only 25d. for his milreis, he would get only 4061. 6s. Bd., but if offered 30d., he would get 5001., and so in pro. portion as he could obtain hat a higher rate than 30d., in that proportion would be his benefit. Yet, in every instance in which the subject of exchanges has been adverted to throughout the whole mass of evidence, whenever the rates have been favourable to the English producer, they have, without a single exception, been pro nounced against us and uqfitvourable. This perversion seems to arise from some delusive notion about gold ; the mistake, absurdity, and ruinous tendency of which we shall feel it to be our duty from time to time to expose. That • a perversion so fatal to the best interests of the empire, and despite of the fatal results which have been experienced, should have so long prevailed, is a subject of painful reflection. That bloated money-dealers or haberdashers should be ignorant of the great principles which influence the destinies, and minister to the interests and well-being of communi• ties, or that the conceits and pedantries of doctrinaires, should expose them to ridicule and contempt, in presuming to treat of such subjects, need not surprise ; but that among a nation of philosopers, in the strictest sense of that term—that among a people so pregnant in resource and developement as the English have proved themselves to be, so much delusion should prevail in regard to the best means of maintaining a dye equilibrium in society, may be set down as one of those inexplicabilities which has hitherto defied all the force of reason and common sense to explain. We trust, however, that the spell will soon be broken. In resuming the subject we shall show to demonstration the cause of the contraction of the currency, and that it followed, instead of preceding, the commence ment of that progressive diminution of profits and wages, attested by Mr. G. C. Glynn, vide evidence, which has led to such extensive misery and privation among all the productive and trading classes of the country, that the contrac tion of the currency is, in fact, an effect, and not the cause, of the prevailing derangements. ' —Morning Herald. We have said before, and we :gay again, that if we have not other grounds of reliance on the non-interference of Spain in the affairs of Por tugal, than the promises of the Spanish Govern. ment, we lean upon a broken reed. Nobody will deny that the cause of Don Miguel is natu rally regarded by Ferdinand as his own. Both are perjured destroyers of Constitutions which they had sworn to observe—both are as cruel and vindictive as they are perfidious. It is only a child or a fool that would place any reliance upon the most solemn promises of either, where their own bad passions and self-interest suggest more advantage from the violation of their en gagements than their observance. The recently discovered treachery of the Spanish Consul at Oporto was an event to be expected by every man with a grain of common sense, who knew any thing of the composition and cha racter of the Court of Spain. The only thing remarkable about it is, that it had not ' been detected before. The traiterous cor respondence must have been carried on for some time, aid it showed no great sagacity in the Constitutional am horities of Oporto not to have made an earlier discovery of this signal proof of the good faith with which Ferdinand acts upon his promises of non-intervention. This circumstance, coupled with the advanced move ment of the head-quarters of the Spanish army of observation from Salamanca to Ciudad Ro drigo, should put our Government on the alert, if it intends to act fairly—so that if Ferdinand attempts to " break in the ring" of the comba tants, he may be cudgelled out again with as little delay as possible, and without any of the ceremony of conferences or the idle prattle of ' protocols. '1 he affront put upon England by the deliberate murder of Mr. Boyd, a British subject, in cold blood, without even the forma lity of a trial, was so quietly passed over by our liberal Government, that it is not surprising if Ferdinand be impressed with the same notion as the Autocrat of Russia, and thinks England is easily managed by being at one time grossly insulted, at another as grossly cajoled. It is time to teach him another lesson, which he may recollect whenever he thinks of the Constitutional Charter of Poi tugul.—Morning Herald. We shall have many opportunities of discus sing the currency question, which we shall prefer doing at length, after we have closed our remarks for the present upon that more immediately con nected with the renewal of the Bank Charter ; but we cannot now avoid observing that it is really of very little consequence whether coin is value or the representative of value. To have a secure currency the country must have the representative of value in circulation. That ob ject we have now obtained, although not pro bably by the best means. Th e a d vocates f or au inundation of small notes are fighting shadows w hen they are bewildering themselves about value and the representative of value. The very essence of their project is to separate currency from value, for when they talk about an extended and a secure currency it is mere verbiage. If they mean any thing, they one and all wish to say what Mr. Attwood, with all his errors, has very manfully declared, that he wishes for such an influx of small notes as will lead to a Re striction Act. We cannot even thus slightly advert to this suhject without repeating our opi nion that no one circumstance in the present position of this nation would lead more rapidly to a revolution than a return to a small-note circulation.--Morning Post. IRELAND. -DUBLIN, SEPT. 12. (From the Times Correspondent.) A furious a.taek was last Sunday made on the Rev. Nich. H. Mandeville, the Protestant curate of Kilbeacon parish, in the diocese of Ossory, as he was riding from Carrick-on-Suir to Mullinavat, to officiate as usual. Near Rochestown he was met by a party of countrymen, who furiously attacked him, pelting him with stones, one of which knocked his horse down, after which the party ran away, fearful, perhaps, of being observed and identified by a police party, whose station was not far from the spot. This circumstance, it is thought, also pre vented them from firing at Mr. Mandeville, who ob served pistols in their possession. The Rev. Gen tleman fell with his horse, but fortunately escaped unhurt. Last Friday night seven stacks of wheat, the pro perty of James Meaney, a farmer, residing at Cat rigin, in the parish of Roar, county of Kilkenny, were set on fire and totally consumed. He had been previously served with a threatening notice to give up his farm to his brother. WHITEFEET OCTRAGE.—On Wednesday night a large party of Whitefeet attacked the house of Mr. Allen, near Mountgarre , -bridge, county of Kil kenny, within four miles of Ross. These marau ders, on being refused admittance, fired several shots in through the windows of the house, to the great terror of the family inside, who expected every mo ment to be their last, such was the fury of the as sailants and the rapidity of the firing. Eighteen bullets were found next morning in Mr. Allen's bed room ; an infant child narrowly escaped death, as the pillow from which the child had been taken was perforated with two balls in an instant after. Mr. Allen, we understand, had been served a short time before with a Ri.ckite notice, to give up a farm of 40 acres, adjoining his own, which he had taken about seven years ago, and from which a defaulting tenant had been evicted. His non-compliance with this mandate was the sole cause of the outrage on Mr. Allen's house.—Wateiford Mail. The Limerick Chronicle, adverting to the Walls town affair, says—" At half-past 8 o'clock the country all around the fatal place of action was lighted up with fires, which shortly extended in all d'rections, and burned most vividly for two hours, and shots were fired. What the object was cannot be known. It was most likely to give intelligence of the affray, or a signal to congregate the people at the Effin anti-tithe meet.ng which was to be held on the following day." THE SWELL MOB ON THE HIGH SEAS. Last week a party of gentlemen and tradesmen, residing in Blandford-stree', Manchester-square, and the neighbourhood, formed a determination of mak ing an excursion for a few days to Margate, and be ing all friends of public liberty, they thought they could not show a more hearty disposition to the cause than by embarking on board a vessel, the name of which is calculated to inspire Reformers with veneration and respect. With this view, they em barked last Monday morning on board the King William the Fourth, on their intended voyage, and about 3 o'clock in the afternoon arrived within sight of the wished-for haven, without experiencing any other accident than those arising from sea-sickness, &c. As the proprietor of the Tivoli Gardens had been catering in London for a reinforcement of no velties for the natives and visitors of Margate, he had actually put on board, and consigned to the care of the captain of the vessel, two rare curiosities in the persons of the celebrated Michael Boai, the musical chin-chopper, and the great German slffieur. The sight of Margate having raised the spirits of the whole of the passengers to a fit of enthusiasm, they began for the first time to take notice of these celebrated artists, and with one accord requested Michael to oblige them with a specimen of his pro fessional ski. I, but that gentleman, true to his en gagement with the liberal proprietor of the Tivoli, would not do any thing which might be calcu lated to lessen the attraction of his art ; but riot so the siffieur, who commenced his imi tations of all manner of birds to so much perfection, that the company got ravished with delight. They actually danced, capered, and en cored in such a way, as if Orpheus had forsaken the shades and embarked among them on a professional excursion. This strange scene continued until they landed on Margate Pier ; arid, after bidding their fellow-passengers 0 Good bye !" our Marylebone friends adjourned to a tavern, where they ate a good dinner, and were enjoying themselves with the greatest hilarity over a sparkling glass of wine, when Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, in Crawford -street, who was one of the party, happening to put his hand into his breeches•pocket, exclaimed, "My God ! I have lost my purse with twelve sovereigns." No sooner were these ominous words uttered, than by a simultaneous movement all the party applied their hands to their pockets, when a dozen of voices ex claimed at the same moment,'` I have been robbed, too !" The merry jest was now put aside, and a council of war was held to discover how this unac countable abstraction could have happened ; but it was not till the party sallied forth into the town, that they were informed that a gang of the " swell mob" had taken their passage on board the William the Fourth; and while the passengers were so won derfully amused with the performance of the Ger man Siffleur, they had managed to ease them of their cash. What booty the " mob" came off with, was not exactly ascertained ; but the party from Marylebone, in b dancing accounts, found them selves minus about 96/. ; and Mr. Jones declared lie never parted with money on worse security ; and after cursing the swell mob, and all exotic per formers, the sufferers lost no time in returning to the metropolis, firmly persuaded that " There is no place like home." MARKET INTELLIGENCE . LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.-The Sugar Market has been steady all the week, but there is some appearance of a heaviness is the price ; the estimated purchases are 3,000 hhds and trs. The Refined Market has been dull all the week, and pur chases arc again reported at a further reduction of 6d.— This a'ternoon this market continues in a very depressed state, and low Lumps have again been sold upon lower terms, some sales having been reported at 625. 6 1 . a 635. for small parcels ; there are, however, very few offering in the market, and purchases could not be made to any extent at those rates; stn ill Lumps are more plentiful, and have also been sold cheaper ; of the fine qualities, entitled to the bounty on double refined, there is the most plentiful supply, and the quotations ate 6.1. a Is. per cwt. lower than last week. EAST INDIA SUGAR.--In East India Sugars no sales were reported ; very few parcels are offering in the Market. MAURITIUS SUGAit.-There are purchases of Mauritius Sugar by private et ntract at rather lower prices. The only public sale was on Tuesday, 500 bags ord. quail.) , and fir exportation only sold Is. lower, 18s. 61. a 20u. 6d. FOREIGN SucAa.—Foreign Sugars remain neglected ; the only descriptions inquired after are yellow, but the prices offered are very low, and which the importers have refined ; a few strong brown Willis sold at 224. a 225. 6d., being former prices. A few Para Muscovades 18s. 6d. a 205., the latter rather lower. COFFEE.—The demand for Coffee has been entirely confined to the home trade ; the prices of British Planta tion Coffee were in cons , quence maintained. Foreign is at nominal quotations; the exporters would not offer, as the Continental Markets continue declining. East India is Is. a 2s. lower : about 2,700 bags were offered at public sale, Ceylon good ord., 52s 6,1. a 535. ; good ord. brown Sumatra, 50s. 6d. a 525. 6(1. This day's public sale of Coffee 271 casks , 1-1. brls. 30 b Ts British Plantation, chiefly Jamaica, sold heavily, the ord. and rank at a decline of h. 6d. a 2s. ; good Coffee sold at nearly former prices. 617 bags Ceylon, nearly a half sold, 535. a 54' being at previous rates. RuM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The lower q" ties of Leeward,. are more inquired after, and the prid are more firm; no proofs now offer at Is, 7d. Brandt higher, the best 1831 in !aids. sold at 4s. Id. In Ged l there is no alteration. TA LLow.—The accounts f, om Russia of large purchel have rather an unfavourable effect ; the price is about lower. Inisat Paovistosrs.—Since Monday we have heal arrival of about 3,000 ca.ks of Foreign Butter, 10,V firkins of Irish Butter, and 1 300 bales of Bacon. improvement in price in some particular deseription el Batter we then noticed has been in some partial instad supported, but the cheesemongers in general are only P r chasing to supply their immediate wants, being convine that the stock here must considerably increase before lag the make being unprecedented this season, the quantitY, present held in Ireland by the farmers being untastis large, anl s one speculative operators (p irticularly in Ca' holding a stock just now little short of 30,000 firkin' pt ices are nominally as last stated. Singed Bacon, as as Bale and Tierce Middles, also Bladder Lard, slowly at our last quotations, but for fine small Limeri l Hams there is a good deal of inquiry. In Beet and Pa the business doing is still limited at our last quoted prit! Cocoa.—The late advance, particularly in Bri."' Planta'ion Cocoa, is fully maintained ; yesterday the pil e were acain a shade higher. The late reduction of del i forcing C mos into consumption ; the d e liveri e s from warehouses are large. SALTPETRE.—By public sale 4,227 bags Saltpetre 941 freely 335. 6d. a 355. 6d. SPlCES.—Spices continue dull. At public sale fr / small bags mid. heavy Pepper sold 3.}(1. a 3/1. This 4 ' 6 560 bags Black Pepper sold at former prices 341. a 31 . 1. bags Pimento sold rather lower, good qu day 5 ast COTTON.-The Cotton Market has been brisk, the 01 vance of the prices lately is about I. per lb. The chases this week consist of 400 Bengal, good fair 41, good Stl. ; 4,350 Surats, ord. q 1., good fair 51d, ; 1,9 Madras, good fair 50., goo , ' 51'. ; 60 Pernama, B a fair 91d.; 100 Bowed, fair 41. ; 40 West India, good 84 Istmoo.—Assort t nent o f 2,060 c h es t s Company '°,l digo, eeclared tor sale on th e 2J o f October, by the D' India Company. 45 chests ord. to good consuming litiea, valued at last sale's price., 2s. 9J. to 3s. 6.1; chests good consuming to mid. shipping do. 3s. 6.1. 4 0 ',' 1,075 chests mid. t i good shipping do. 4s. to 4s. 6J ; chests gool to fine do. do. 4s. 6J. to ss; 40 chests yet fine shipping do. ss. and upwards. In the Market the is little alteration ; the fine Indigo in the next sale is PO in quantity. PRICE OF SUGAR. nOti The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, Corot from the Returns made in the week ending the 11th Sept., 1532, is 275. sid. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of to Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon On the Import s thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OF HOPS.—Sept. 14. Kim t Pockets. *4l 155. 6s. 64. to Sussex Ditto Fssex Ditto.. 4!. 12s. 5!. 0;. to 141 chain Ditto. Fine*, 71. 01. 91. Os. to Seconds 01. Os. 51, Os to RoMPONIMPM.W.MAII 41. 4s. 51. 5s to 5. 41. Os. 41. Si. to 01. Os. 01. Os. to Old Duty laid at 140,0001. Kent Liags— Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto., 6'. 151. 6'. 51. 1 a,,, 0 51. S 4. . D . N 03 PRICE OF 01L. z „, 0 Rtpe Oil, brown Os. Refined jU 24 0 11 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKEL—Sept. 1 3 pi lay 28,. Od. to 324. Od. Ware,..,.. PRICE OF POTATOES,—Sept 14. 103. to 3/. 108. per tofu I' ttl CES W. l.k.A 1 IlEtt. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. Hutto, English ................ 15 21 English Horse Hides.. Ditto, F0reign............. 14 18 Sii.lnish I)itto .............. Dressing Ihdes--...... 12 15 Per dozen. Ditto ..... 14 17 Calf Skins.. SO to 41lb. Ditto, light .. —.....— Ditto ........... 50 to 7111 h. Clop Aides, 1ig ht...,.. 12 1:31 Ditto —....... 70 to 8111 b. Ditto 1,0 to 451 b. 13 15a Small Seals, Greenland Ditto. ---... 14 16 Large ditto _ _ _ A. n. 4 1t r.i 14 14 17 16 16 r rtW . Per Stone. s. d. t o H IDES s. d. I Per Stone. S A tO Nest Heifers & Steers 2 4 2 8 j Ordinary 10 2 0 Market 6 O___:,./0" SHEEP SKINS. 04 Short Wool O. 011. t Os. Od. I Lambs Is. M. to Shearlings—......-Is. Oa. to 18.8 d. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot Slb. FAI 'rico of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 112 lb. ~,,,,I3 Fowl Tallow . ..., 48s. Od. Yellow 50ap................. 1 4,( Yellow Russia 455. Od. Mottled ..—..—............ ' 74 4 1l • White..,..,...,........--.... 455. Od. White............—.....-•••••• 44. t Soap Ditto tis. Od. Graves , ~....•x•' s , , t Melted Stuff 365. Od. Good Dregs —...........--* Ditto Rough 2ls. Od. _/ PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the r e t a il s h ops , i s as follo , 0 : 1 01 Candles, per doz. 7s. (kl. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per dozen.--»•x' - KE'l.—Sept. 14 Per Tor.. a 0 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Walker Lambton's 0 Walls End Hetton Walls End Lambton W. E. Russell's Hetton , " Walls End Stewart'i... , " et) Walls End Adelaide. , '' Walls End Cleveland. , " 0 ' Walls End Gordon-a , ' 19 W. E. South Durham , 0 Walls End Tees gl Cowpen , Hartley 0 l.langennech Netherton Main New Flockton, Milne, 1 8, and Silkstone Field and Co."' 11 Thorpe's Gawber Hall , 0 Walls End Selby last market-day, 61 COAL MA Per Ton. s. d. k dales 18 6 Bensham Main 17 3 Holywell 19 6 Pontop Windsor 17 6 St. Lawrence Main 19 0 18 9 rownley 18 0 West Hartley 20 6 Wylam 18 3 Walls End Callerton 17 9 Ditto Bewicke and C 0... 20 9 Ditto Blake ----... 19 0 Ditto Burraton 19 3 Walls End Carr and Co. 18 9 Walls End Gosfortlt .-. 20 3 Walls End Heaton-. 19 9 Walls End H0t5pur........ 19 u Walls End Hilda 19 3 Ditto Killingworth 19 6 Walls End Newbiggen 17 0 Walls End Newniarcn........ 19 6 Ditto Northumberland . 19 0 Ships arrived sines COUN FRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Bes Per Quarter. Ashburn 62 66 22 27 38 0 Basingstoke .......... 52 64 26 35 20 04 40 0 Bath .48 f 2 28 40 22 no 39 Bridgewater 154 70 26 29 22 26 z" ; Bristol 54 60 36 38 16 20 Chesterfield 58 64 21 2 6 36 4 Derby 62 67 30 al 24 26 1, 0 , Devizes 52 63 29 35 18 26 a',„ Doncaster._ 4B 65 28 44 17 25 Dorchester 54 75 30 38 27 24 D' Exeter. 66 68 34 36 18 20 Gloucester . . 52 64 34 36 19 22 ' Uungerford 46 68 25 35 18 26 34 Leicester 63 39 23 Newbury... Bomsey 56 62 30 38 23 27 Shaftesbury 56 37 27 "'"„ t Shepton Mallet .. 56 63 32 39 20 26 „ t o . ' " Sherborne—. 54 62 30 36 22 26 - I ', Taunton 58 72 -- 35 35 20 ' Yeovil Per Bushel. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. Shrewsbury 9 0 9 0 5 0 6 0 5 0 6 0 0 ° An inquest was held at Bourn iw EDWARDS, Gent., Coroner, on the 10th inst. on th! o g of JONATHAN PHILLIPS, aged about three years o iof the children of Mr. JOSEPH PHILLIPS, of Bourn Fen), mho met with his death on Sunday in the follef extraordinary manner. The hind wheel of 0 "e fro PHILLIrs's waggons had been rai.ed a few inclle 3 j the ground by a prop, for the purpose of taking v"..jp wheel, and was left In that state, the linch-pin being ? out. The deceased and same ot h e r c hil dren were Plsoit by the side of the waggon and making the wheel re / which, soon slipping off the axle, fell upon the abed fortunate child, and in a moment crushed him to The father heard the screams of the other childre e :; wa s the first to take up his offspring f ro m un de „,. wheel. but only in tim e to witness the expiring g!'" his beloved chi ld, who d ied before he could be cur t lf/ the house.--Verdit.t, " Accidental death."—Linc• BIRTHS. ff . On the 11th inst. at Walmer, near Deal, the latlY ° f a Bri e he 13tdgs Esq o .. On th inst. son. Mrs. S. George Gardom, of Hun , '" Brunswick.square, of a sort' tg DIED. P On the 14th inst. at Lee, Kent, Mr. Richard Hoar"' Gracechurch-street, aged 62 years. 0 IJI 0 On the 1 lth inst. suddenly, at Otterington-hall, d e allerton, Charlotte, the wife of Captain Boss, R.N. of f plexy, aged 56. She was the third daughter of Sir Jars Ore' man, Bart., of Ormsby-hall, and niece of the first EA eci How ick. rap id 611 On the 6th inst. at Lausanne, en Suisse, of a o, after having given birth to a daughter on the th °' / Islr/ Louise Lady Hesketh, the wife of Sir Thomas Hesketh, el Ruflbrd-hall, in the county of Lancaster,,ory_, On the 12th inst. at Cheltenham, aged 47, Mrs. Reynolds, widow of the late Joseph Jones Reynolds, l'- Dili ventry. On the 13th inst. at Gosport, Ann, wife of Matt Esq., late of his Majesty's Customs, London, aged p tL i, c e On the lath inst. Charles Joseph De Foust, of Lambeth, Esq. r J On the 14th inst. at Greenwich, in his 9.5 th ye a a Aft. Wattle Sutton, surgeon, late of Guernsey, only son Sutton, surgeon. a nd Se On the 14th inst. in Marchmont-street, after a long illness, Mr. Robert Rockell, aged 36. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOU , - SUN OFFICE, 11 4 2, STRAND, LONDON. BrunswicK-square, of a son: MARRIED. On the 11th inst. at Norwich, James William Earle Ape Old Broad-street, to C at h er i ne , secon d d aug ht e r 01 ii John Taylor, of Norwich. soP t o On the 13th inst. a t St . P ancras Ch urc h, Thomas f Esq., of Camden-ho use , Ch at h am , to M rs . Knight, 0; crescent. On the 14th inst. in St. Mary's Church, Bryansto"." Cordelia Frederica White, the only daughter of heal: neral White, to the Rev. Robert Allen Scott.