The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-14 00:00:00

v - 7 SPIRIT bl 7 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS- Having,,3lready zealously, and we trust effA satnallY, contended against the repeal of Mr. Peel's bill of 1819, against the consequent re enactment of a restriction bill, and against the contemplated depreciation of the currency which must necessarily be the result of such measures, and which are even anticipated and avowed by their heedless, interested, or ignorant partisans, we have no desire to say any thing further on the subject till we see an answer to our remarks from any quarter that knows the common use of terms in discussing such topics. The poor ad vocates of depreciation, through the Tory press, are at fault on the mere vocabulary of the sci ence, and therefore it would be as ridiculous to argue with them about our monetary system, as with a blind man about colours. The advan tages of a secure paper-currency we have never wished to deny or to depreciate. Every body feels the convenience of carrying a 100/. Bank of England note in his pocket, instead of an in cumbrance of upwards of 21h. of gold, Troy weight. Every body knows, at the same time, the ,greater facilities of transmitting paper from one district to another than gold, and the diminished chances of robbery or loss. No person who has been in foreign countries where silver is gene rally used as the current medium of exchange. can forget the trouble and labour of effecting large payments by metallic means. But these advantages, though great, are not the only, or the chief, blessings attending the substitution of a safe and convertible paper-currency for a cur rency exclusively of the precious metals in a country like this, where our exchangeable wealth. is so overflowing,—where our transactions are o numerous,—where our payments of labour are so immense,—and where paper credit and abridged modes of business are consequently so necessary or so useful. It is calculated, and gei]erally admitted, that the whole of our pre eent circulation, inchiding gold, silver, Bank of England notes, and country bank paper, is about or below 70,000,000/. Such a sum, by means of our more extensive credit, of our or . . ganized system of banking. and of our other contrivances for abridging commercial transac tions, is made to perform an extent of exc!iannes which the coin of all Europe would not perform on the old system. Mr. Rothschild truly stated, that, all the commercial transactions of the world were rettled and adjusted in London, and yet the whole amount of our currency in specie and bank-notes does not approach that of France, which has not one-tenth part of the commercial htesiness of England. '1 hat banks and bank notes are essential to the facilities foe this im mense business, nobody can deny ; though, as appears from :he daily transactions of the clear irig-house in London, the intervention of cur rency is not necessary to adjust transactions, the extent of which in one year could not be repre. stinted by all the precious metals existing in Europe, or dug from the mines since the disco ver:, of America. Nor are these the onh advantages of paper credit exhibited in the shape of Bank issues. The clearing-house business might even be effected without coin, to as grew an extent as it is at present without hank-notes. But the chief and the peculiar advantage of paper money, is the saving of the interest of the property invested in the precious metals as coin. nhich they displace. The poor creatures who talk in the Tory press about this saving, and who have adopted the language, without comprehend ing the meaning, of the political economists, abote a " cheap currency," tell us of the wonders whichi a small note circulation, and a general substitu- 1 tion of paper for gold, would produce. For their instruction, and for the benefit of the =mall portion of the public whom their errors might delude or mislead, we shall here explain the full amount of this saving. The small notes being withdrawn since 1826, sovereigns have necessarily filled up the chasm between the con venient quantity of 20s. or 2/. in silver, and a 51. hank-note. At the time when paper constituted the whole circulation, the notes below 5/. formed about a third, or a fourth, of the whole currency of the Bank of England. In the country the proportion of small notes was greater. But probably we shall be allowing a great deal too much when we say that the gold circulation at present amounts to the united circulation of the small notes of the Bank of England and of the country banks together, before the removal of the Restriction Act. Suppose, however, we say that 13,000,0001. (and we shall have no ob. jection to the admission of 20,000,000/.) of gold is now in circulation, and that by the substitution of paper-money, that sum of coin employed in this vitproductive operation might be diverted into the channels of productive industry. Let us calculate the result. It is plain, that the only possible advantage which could conceivably bt , gained by a people who were resolved to adhere to their metallic standard, by keeping up the value of their paper to that of the gold, which h " promised to pay," would be the saving of the interest on the coin displaced. If any other ad vantage could be gained, let any person who knows the meaning of words on the subject point it out. We shall take it for granted in the mean Lime that this is admitted. W hat follows ? Vy 7 by, that for the currency of this mighty nation, which enjoys more trade, and circulates more property within the year, than all Europe put together, we employ a quantity of specie which, if disposed of in another way, and supplied by paper, would save Somewhat more than half or three quarters of a million a year ! In othe; Words, by using what is called a '' dear" for " cheap currency," we make a sacrifice of a sum which we uselessly give to the Bank for trans acting business which could be transacted by other means for half the remuneration. Thus the greatest commercial nation in the world is to be ruined—it is to be disabled from paying its debts, or supporting its industrious classes— because it pays half a million a-year for a secure currency, instead of adopting a precarious and fluctuating paper circulation at that sacrifice ! ! The taxes of this nation amount to near 50,000,000/. ; we pay for our army and navy 14,000,000/. or 15,000,0001. annually for de fending us abroad, where no aggression is threatened ; and we grudge half a million a year to pay the expenses of a safe currency, and to g uard us from the calamities of a panic, of fluc tuating prices, and commercial confusion ! ! Ad mitting that it were possible to enjoy ail the advantages of a safe currency,with an exclusively paper system, supported in value by a teference to a bullion or ingot standard, as proposed by the late Mr. Risardo, it might be desirable to • save even this comparatively miserable sum, but we can never for a moment balance the most tri tliog chances of failure against the magnitude of th e object to be secured. The loss of interest on metallic property is trifling ; the hazards of a paper circulation without a metallic standard are incalculable, and have already brought this na tion to the brink of ruin. In making these ob servations we have regarded the exclasive paper money manufacturers, whom we are answering, merely as economists of the national resources, and not as advocates for a depreciation of the currency. - The latter project is not economy—it is simply plunder—as we have already proved.— Times. A good deal of sensation has been caused by the departure from Edinburgh of Charles the Tenth. At first it was believed that the Go vernment of this country had Yielded to the so licitations of Louis Philip, and signified to the ex-Monarch that his departure would be accept able ; but it is now known that the departure is quite voluntary. A very different cause has been stated to us, which we shall give as we received it. It is said that Louis Philip, having become more and more convinced of the preca riou,mess of the juste milieu position, has been at pains to impress upon the ex-Royal Family, that he accepted the Sovereignty as a trust for Henry the Fifth, and with a view to preserve his own fortune, and to preserve the country from the invasion of foreigners, which would have followed the conversion of France into a Re public. The Princess Adelaide is named as the channel of communication between Louis Philip and Charles the Tenth. It is said that the Ci tizen King makes a great merit with his pre decessor that he has taken no steps to arrest the Duchess of Berry, though nothing would be more easy than to discover her, and that the Carlists have been all through treated with great kindness and forbearance. It is on an understanding between the two branches of the Bourbon Family, it is said, that Charles the Tenth is now about to depart for the Continent. This is probably a calumny against Louis Pnilippe. It is quite clear, however, that his position is very insecure, and it is difficult to persuade oneself that a man of his penetration is not fully aware of the impossibility of governing France for any leuth of time on the present syN• tern. lie has no hold on the people, as is fully proved by the public Journals ; though for the sake of order, no countenance may be given to insurrectionary movements. It would not, there. fore, at allsorprise us, were he to compromise with the young Duke of Bordeaux, and thus endea vour to secure his fortune for his family, and secure the Monarchy, by rallying all the Carlists round the Throne. There certainly is a growing disposition in the French to believe that Louis Philippe has sold them to the Holly Alliance, and that they committed a great mistake when they did not rid themselves of the whole Bour bon family.—Morning Chronicle. We cannot reconcile, on any reasonable prin ciple of conduct, the ardour of the " good peo ple" of Edinburgh for Reform, civil liberty, and all that, with their tender solicitude :for the for tunes of the exiled Bourbons, and their almost inconsolable grief at the departure of those il lustrious victims of their own despotic ambition. It is unmanly to insult fallen greatness, and no generous mind could be capable of the act, even where the loss of power is the consequence and punishment of crime. But it is one thing to abstain from insulting a great delinquent in his adversity, :Ind another to pay him the tribute of sycophantic veneration ; for, if we may believe the Edinburgh Observer, those terms are not too strong to describe the sort of homage which the people of Edinburgh offer to Charles X. and his family. Whatever it may have cost the Bourbons to purchase " golden opinions " in Scotland, they certainly seem not to have laid out their money in vain. Many and great are the virtues which our Scottish brethren have discovered in the exiled Bourbons. If the peo ple of France, who do not possess the acuteness of the inhabitants of " Auld Reekie," could only have found out those virtues, they need not have left the Tuileries for the ancient palace of the banished Stuarts. A truly Christian rnuni- cence is one of the noble attributes of the Bourbon character which calls forth the warmest panegyric of the " Land o' Cakes."— But the widows and orphans who wept over the graves of the victims of the blood-stained policy of the fatal ordinances should not be called as Nitnesses on the occasion. At this very mo ment, too, Vtbile our Scottish " Liberals" are lavishing their praises upon Charles X. and his family, some of that family are stirring up the flames of civil war in France, reckless of the ca lamities of fire, and famine, and the sword, which their selfish ambition brings upon their tountry. It is quite ridiculous to tell us that the Duchess of Berry is pursuing her desperate career with. out the knowledge and consent of others of her family. He that ordered Marmont to " fire on the people in masses" may be very pious, but his piety is not connected with any Christian re pugnance to the shedding of human blood.— We say again we would not have even this fallen Monarch insulted in his misfortunes, but we (hill it would be in better taste if the Scottish patriots were not quite so ostentatious of their sympathy.—Morning Herald. One great difficulty by which the Bank ques tion is surrounded is the flippancy with which a portion of the periodical Press allude to a change in the present financial system of the country. Innovation is their polar star, theoretical projects the atmosphere that they breathe most freely in, and they would fain persuade their readers that it is as easy for a great empire to jump from one monetary scheme to another as it is for a man to shovel his small change from one end of his purse to the other. If the British nation were now commencing its political career this abstract treatment of the question might not be out of place, but in the consideration of it now we have to deal with 800 millions of public debt, an annual expentiiture commensurate with that debt, and all the varied ramifications of embarrassment arising out of these two great objects, and many others of deep importance. For the last century this country has been proceeding rapidly to a highly complicated state of society ; for the last forty years she has been proceeding at the rate of .500-horse power ; and the last two years in producing events that have had a direct ten dency to render complex in a tenfold degree the political, commercial, and financial affairs of this empire, have unfortunately opened to us fresh point for reflection, and new objects of embar rassment, in every public question. A Govern ment has been in existence during that period that has lived and moved and had its being by promoting popular excitement, and setting the brute force of the rabble against the property and intelligence of the country. The Bank of Eng land, like Church property, and every other pro• minent public object, has come under the clamour of the mob, and been bandied about as a nuisance, a thing that ought to be destroyed as interfering with the rights of the people, and only ser viceable to tax-eaters and boroughmongers. How far the new representative scheme will work well for the permanent benefit of the country it would be out of place here to inquire. We have too often given our opinion upon it to force it into this discussion ; but if that scheme should prove the panacea that its warmest advo cates anticipate, none of them, we think, %lib deny that it has produced an irritation in its prc 1 gress to maturity that it will take a lung time abate. The bonds of society have been shako physical force has exhibited its power, an every circumstance connected with this schetx has tended to dijoint the relations of our NT empire. If . we look at commercial affairs vi find every branch of them oppressed and over borne. Great changes previous to the lal political excitement had taken place in 0 laws and regulations concerning them, au all the events of the last two years have Ins the effect of shaking confidence and destro3 ing enterprise, which may truly be calle the lungs of trade. The finances, under th management of the present Cabinet, if not in course of permanent decay, are under sevwe tem porary derangement, and their situation i creating serious anxiety in the mind of ever individual capable of thinking upon the subject T h is, then, is a short but a true statement of th present position of the Briti,h Empire, and w would ask if it be an encouraging one for an tgreat change in her monetary system? NV e regan he Bank question more as one of time than an thing else. We do not mean to say, we neve have said, that at all events, and under all cir cumstances, the Bank is to proceed to the ens of time with its exclusive privileges ; all w mean to maintain is, that the Bank has conducto itself with great propriety, and its operations hali been attended with extensive national advantag and that at this crisis the country would Li, placed in extreme jeopardy by any sudden and ex tensive alteration in the position of that establish meat. The year 1819 was a period whenthe oppoii tunity was afforded to Parliament of placing tF currency upon the best possible footing. Th opportunity, in its fullest extent, was lost, an it is a question whether, putting all other cons derations aide, the circulation be in a positiof for any violent transirion ~, nhout serious na tional danger being incurred. To pursue this part of the subject, however, is not our object a would lead us into an extensive and delicate course of inquiry, and therefore we shall c10 , ,e these general remarks, p re p arator y to our more detailed statement in a day or two, winch will hear especially upon the management of the Bank as proved before the Committee of the flouse of Commons, by merely asserting that if the country weather the present storm, and her leading inte rests revive from the pressure of the present ex, citement, that the currency will be every year approaching a more satisfactory point, which will materially facilitate any future changes in its regulation.—Morning Post. `SOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT- SEPT. 13. John Warr, late of GreajWolston, near Newport Pag. nell, a farmer, was opposed by Mr. COOKS for a Mr. Stor4 ton, and supported by Mr. WOODROFFE. The insolvent made his first appearance before the Com.i mission,rs in July last, when it appeared that the whole of his special balance sheet was fabricated i❑ falsehood, and he was consequently remanded to file a new one, with which be now made his second appearance. • His opposing creditor was his father-in-law, who had sued him fr.r board and lodging during his courtship, and obtained a verdict, but no money. The COURT, after observing that thi , was the roost de plorable instance of deliberate perjury in their recollection, adjcurned the case till Wednesday next, for the production of the insolvent's brother. OLD BAILEY-SEPT. 13. Ann Nicholls, a servant, aged 55, was indicted for wilml and corrupt perjury. Mis. Kenrick, the wile of a livery-stable-keeper in Foley-street, instituted, in 1831, a suit for a divorce against her husband in the Eccle,iastical Court, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. Mr. Kenrick resisted it, and adduced, among other witness e s for that purpose, the prisoner, who deposed that, towards the latter end of 1830, certainly not so early as November, but, as sbe thou 4 ht, after Christmas in that year, she saw Mrs. Ken rick come alone to the house of Mr. Elder (a horse dealer), about five o'clock. She and Mr. Oder dined together in the nursery, which adjoins Mr. Elder's bed room. From the parlour, underneath the bed-room, one can hear what passes in it. The witness then went on to describe certain noises and breathings, which assured her that cliatinal intercourse took place. The witness also swore that she went up soon after, and saw certain ap pearances which left no doubt as to the fact. She swore, moreover, she went up stairs on another occasion, and, finding the door aj tr, she looked through the key-bole,— the b-d was opposite the door—and on it she saw the par s, in a conlition conclusive as to the fact of the adultety. This was on a Saturday. The depositions to this eff,ct having been proved and put in, Mr. ADOLPH us, who with Mr. C. PHILLIPS conducted pl Aintiff's case, called Mrs. Elen Kenrick, a well•shaped lady, of middle size, with lather high complexion, and fashionably dressed.—ls the wife of Thomas Kenrick; married him when she was the widow of a clergyman in Warwickshire, Mr. Yates. In consequence of some differences, they separated. Knows Mr. Elder. Was introduced to him after her marriage by Mr. Kenrick. Was married 9th of May 1829. It is certainly true that she dined on a Saturday with Mr. El der, but itwas in November. The cause of her ping to him, was to a-k Mr. Elder to try to get from Mr. Kenrick some clothes and money for her. He said, he would think of it, if she called again. Did call in one or two days. Did not 'main the first time 10 minutes. The second time she caned was in the afternoo.i. Believes she dined here with him, in a room above stairs, called the nursery. The servant in waiting was the prisoner. Nothing whatever improper passed between Mr. Elder and witness. Cross-examined by Mr. 11,muti—Iler age is 30 yuar ., flad been a wid•wv for five months when she married Mr. Kenrick ; was acquainted Is ith him a long time before,— during her first husband's Mgt him at Brighton, when she had been a widow about a month or six weeks. I-he said lie was a widower, but witness thinks he was not. Does not know his age; he never wou'd tell her.— (Langhter.) Vasa great deal older than herself. Mr. BODKIN-111 engage you found that out.—(Loud laughter, which the Recorder checked at once.) Mi. Yates, her first husband, was 29 years of age when tc died. Her son will be S next February. Her first marriage took place iu August, 1824. Did call twice in one week on Mr. Elder, and dined there one of those days. Was aware that her husband was jealous of Mr. Elder. Ile was jealous of every body. The night she dined she :lid not leave Mr. Elder's house till l 0 o'clodi. It was ‘alf-past 6 when she went there. They dined on cold :neat and pickles. Had no wine, as she thinks. Mr. lienrick carried her before Sir R. Birnie to procure a se paration. That was the day on which she called on Elder. IlTituess was here again asked whether her son was born after her marriage with Mr. Yates. She paused for a long time, and hesitated to answer the question. After some objections it was shaped thus,— When was the child horn ? Witness—ln February. I suppose it was in 1825. Was it in 1625 ? Witness -1 thought Mr. Kenrick would have spared me this (weeping). After some time witness at length ackn9wledged the child was not barn in 1825.. Aft, r some further hesitation, witness acknowledged he child wa, horn in 1523. Re-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—Both her husband"; knew of the fact before her marriage wick them. Joseph Elder—ls a horse-dealer in Grantham-place, Park-lane. Mrs. Kenrick dined with him some day, about the middle of October, he thinks ; is positive it was be -4.-ore Christmas, 1829. The witness then negatived the allegations of the prisoner as to criminal intercourse, or personal familiarities. Has been a bankrupt. Obtained his certificate in March. Is sure Mrs. Kenrick dined hut once with him. Has never been in trouble —never crimi nally charged. Was at Marlborough -street office, on a charge made by a brother horse dealer against bim. The Magistrate took bail and the matter to be accommodated. James H. Hill, assistant to Mr. Beasley, architect— E xim i ne l Mr. Elder's house. Desired a man to call out in the bed-room, while witness was in the parlour under neath ; heard the sound, but no more ; any breathing could not be heard. Witness than produced a model of the bed room, and swore it was morally impossible to see the bed through the key-hole, and the more the door w as opene d , the greater would be the impossibility. Mr. Beasley confirmed the preceding witness's testimony. The officer who apprehended the prisoner told her it was for perjury in Mr. Kenrick's case. She then declared, that the only untruth s:e was gui!ty of was in saying it was thrOugh the key-hole she saw what happened, awl that her re ison for this was, because she. did not wish her master to know how she had seen him. She also said Mr. Kenrick bad promised her 201., but bad not given it to her. Mr. BODKIN addressed the Jury for the prioner. The RECORDER. then charged the Jury, who returned in about two hours with a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence deferred. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday James Jesse Beresford, who keeps a little newsvender's stall at thecorner of Lombard -court, in Fleet street, was brought before Mr. Alderman IVAITumAN, charged with cutting his wife's throat. James Hayes, a patrol of St. Dunstan's, stated, that on the previous evening, as he %Tie on duty in Fleet-street, a woman came up to him, and said that Mr. Beresford had just cut his wire's throat. On his way towards Beresford's slurp he met the wife, walking with another woman to a surgeon's. The blood was flowing profusely from a severe wound under her right ear. After the bleeding had been stayed, and she had been sent off to the hospital, he pro ceeded to the house, where he found Beresford in a state of intoxication. On questioning him about tie affair, he said he was quite unconscious of having done any such thing. There being no further evidcnce, the Alderman re manded him for a few days, till his wife should be suffi ciently recover, d to attend and state the circumstances. Fore AND EASY.- George Hitchman, a middle-aged into of shabby genteel appearance, was charged with rid ing about in a cab, with " two ladies," from place to place, and then refusing to pay the fare, five shillings. ‘Vhen the cabman asked him for his money, he said in a supercilious way, " I've got no small change about me, but I'll write you a cheque if you like." It appeared that Mr. Hitchman is an old offender. A short time since he went into the King's Arnie, Holiaarn, at eleven at night, and said he had just left a tavern, where he was putting up, on account of having some words with the landlord, and lie had come away in such a hurry that he had on'y got his slippers on. It afterwards transpired that he had come out of the House of Correction. He lived with Mr. Bull four days, and then it turned out he had no money, in cons, quence of which he was taken before a Magistrate, and committed to prison, where he wrote a blustering let ter to the landlord, stating th it if he was not rel-ased, he would indict summary punishment on him when he came out.--,The Alderman committed fi;rn for a month. MARLB OR O U GH-STREET. Mrs. Betsey Brown, a young laundress, possessing a pair of roguish eye , and a set of pleasing features, charged her lawful spouse, Peter Brown, with having given her a sound thrashing on the last night of Bartholomew fair. From what came out in evidence it appeared, when the parties wet e first marri,d no couple could he more loving; hut,. a short time ago, a stalwart Life Guardsman, one Jo' n Ellis, made his appearance in the character of "first cousin" to Mrs. Brown, and soon established himself in the family, on a footing which appe ,red to Mr. Brown more free than welcome. For some months matters went on in this way, Mrs. Brown occasionally abs,nting her self without assigning any satisfactory reason, and always evincing a remarkable anxiety to walk to the Horse Guards, in order to inquire after her " first cousin'," wel fare. From certain rumours, which became rite in the neighbourhood of Dufour -court, Mr. Brown began to have some misgivings, and his suspicions were by no means lulled on tititling that his wife was in the habit of corre sponding with her first cousin," one of whose letters was to the following purport:— " My deer creeter,—U can't have no hi,leer how dis_ pinted I were in not havin yure sweat company wen you called last nice at the o:d place, as I was mounting gard and on lute. Oh my deer Betty, my hart is nobody but yourn, and I shall have no pi ece , till I see y ore sweet f ace. _ . I have had no bear this two drys, except a drink I got from Tom, and I know how it will pain your tender hart to no i have been reduced to my extremeties for want of sitch a common necessary. Come at 7 o'clock, and be shure to say you are gone to look after some washing, for I woul I not have that brute no any thing, and if he was only ded, we would live in piece and appiness to the end of eternity. My deer, your faithful, JOHN —. " Noty Bena.—l an► quite out of bakker, and your husband Peter told me he'd just bought a pound of pigtail." It did nut transpire whether or no Mr. Brown missed any of his pigtail, but the next night being the last of " Bartlemy Fair" he missed his wife till 12 o'clock, when she made her appearance quite intoxicated. On being questioned, she admitted she had met " Cousin John," and had gone with him to the fair, which avowal so provoked Peter that be turned her out of the room, and bestowed on her a good thrashing. Mrs. Brown pr,,testtd to the Magistrate, that since her cousin John had visited her, Mr. Brown Ind got some odd things in Lis head, but she vowed their intimacy had never exceeded the bounds of innocent friendship. Mr. Brown, with a dismal look, declared, that his peace had been poisoned ever since John had taken up with Isis wife, but even now he was ready to f.rgive her if she would give him up, and promise to stick to lain as he would stick to her. Mr. DYER said, this was a very fair off r, and a+ no prudent woman would wish to continue an acquaintance under such circumstances, he should recommend her to accept the proposal, and shake hands with her husband. . - Airs. Brown exclaimed against the hardship of being obliged to give up the company of one's relations ;" hut at length swirl she had co obicrion to promise her husband that nothing beyond what had already pas.,ed should pass ag io between her and her coNsin John. Hands were then joined, and Mrs. Brown, who looked sulky or. the !natter, as soon as she left the office, went off with great expedition in an opposite direction. MAR YL EB ONE. Yesterday John Lee, the driver of one of the Padding ton omnibuses, was brought before ;Mr. flaviruNsoN, on the followin4 charge : On Monday evening, as John Church, the conductor of on e of Mr. Shillibeet's omnibuses, was about to band two Quaker ladies into his vehicle, the prisoner Lee drove against him with such violence that his pole went through the door of his omnibus, and it was with great difficulty that Church w:s enabled to extricate the two ladies from their perilous situation ; bad they got into the vehicle before the concussion took place, they certainly would have lost their lives. The driver and conductor of Mr. Shilii beer's emnit,us both declared that Lee's conduct, on many form e r occasions, had been both wanton and malicious. Mr. RAwrassos—Win.-t, did be do it intentionally ? Witness—Yes, certainly. Mr.RAWLINSON—I expect these outrageous p rocee d. trigs will not be put an end to till murder is co , : mitted. In all cases that are brought before me I am determined to try wheth er the laws or you knights of the whip are the strongest. I understand, Mr. Sbillibeer, that there .he a number of ruffians employed to drive on the road. Is that s.O 9 Mr. Sltillil,evr—lt is, your Wm s!dp, and it is done merely to oppre,s and annoy we. The prisoner, indeed, i 4 one of diem, and not a regular co lama!). Mr. RAWLINSON—W,II, in that case I am glad of his acquaintance. (Addressing Lee) I shall fine you ss. for the damage done to Mr. Shillibeer's minibus, and shall require you to pay the expense of the warrant, and enter into your own recognizance in 501., and find two house keepers in 251. each, for your good behaviour fur the time to come ; and at the same time let me observe, that I have come to the determination of dealing in a similar manner with all your infamous colleague , , and perhaps by that weans we may in time succeed in binding you all down on the road, and protect the lives of his Majesty's subjects, which I am sure are not safe at present. Lee was then locked up. A charge was next preferred by the new police against t h e drivers of the Paddington omnibuses 4,52'1• and 4,579, for furious driving. The prisoners, in their defence, abused each other in a violnt 'trainer._ Th e worthy Matiistr ite ordered both to enter into their own recog&itnces in 50/. club, and two sureties in 251. each. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Samuel Workman, John Grant, anti Chas. Hudson, three young men, were brought before Ciptain ItICITBELL and Mr. BALLANTINE. charged with assaulting Thomas Woodcock, a fisherman, the master of the youth Kennedy, now under sentence of death in Newgate for the murder of Mr. Wilkinson on the river, and assembling with a riotous mob to burn the ef f igies of Woodcock and his wife. It appeared that the Thames Police having received in formation that it was the intention of the ptiioners and others to burn Woodcock and his wife in effigy, Evans, the chief officer, and other surveyors and constables of the establishment, were despatched to Fore-street, Lambeth, the abode of the complainants, to prevent their carrying their intentions into effect. The officers found a multi tude of peopleassembled, with every di spos i t i on to create a riot, t, and do some injury to Woodco c k an d hi s w if e, w h o had become very unpopular since the committal of the murderers. The mob were dispersed, the effigies, with a 'gallows and some fireworks found in an empty room lately occupied by Workman, were seized and destroyed, and the prisoners, against whom warrants had been granted for assaulting. Woodcock and his wife, were apprehended Captain RICHBELL said, it was through Woodcock's neglect of hii apprentice that he had become a thief and a murderer. All the parties were pretty specimens of the Lambeth fishermen, who were nothing less than thieves, and could not subsist by fishing. Mr. BALLANTINE said, 'the very name of a Lambeth fisherman was synonymous with that of thief. The Magistrates then discharged Workman, on his pro mise not to go near Woodcock again, and fined Grant and Hudson 4,0 i. each, in default, to a month's imprisonment. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Henry Parrott, a watchmaker, residing it Walworth, was brought before Mr. Cli A MBERS and Mr. WEDGWOOD, charged with unlawfully disposing of a num. her of watches, plate, and articles of jewellery, intrustec to him to repair. _ _ The Magistrates selected two cases of unlawfully pawn ing, out of the number against the prisoner, and fined him 51. in each case, besides the value of the watches, and in default of payment he was committed for two months to hard labour for each separate offence. THE IRON TRADE. A deputation of the Iron Trade of Staffordshire lately presented a memorial to his Majesty's Minis ters, upon the distressed state of that class of manu facturers, and the causes which had produced it. The statements ;ire, that ever since the panic of 1825, with very slight intermissions, a continually increas ing depression has taken place in the prices of pig iron and bar iron. Pig iron has fallen from 81. to 3/. per ton, and bar iron from 151. to under Si. per ton. The iron masters have reduced their work men's wages, improved their working, and practised all manner of economy; nevertheless, the prices of the produce have fallen below the range of the fixed charges and expenses which the law compels them to discharge, viz. rents, royalties, contracts, and uther engagements. The profits of their trades have ceased ; and in many cases a positive loss attends them. They have long hesitated about abandoning their works, and allowing their workmen to be thrown upon the parishes. The Memorialists state, that the great cause which has produced this depression is, " the attempt to render the rents, taxes, royalties, and the other va rious engagements and obligations of the country convertible by law, into gold at 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce." The remedy which they propose, is "the speedy establishment of some just, adequate, and efficient currency, which may properly support the trade and commerce of the country, and preserve a remunerating level of prices." It is impossible not to sympathize deeply with the sufferings of these manuf,cturers : but the cause and remedy of their distress appears to us to be very different from those pointed out. Tables are ap pended to the Memorial, from which we extract the following information : " Previous to the speculative years of 1824 and 1825, the total number of furnaces in Nast or open.- tion M England and Wales, was 185. " In 1823, the price of Pig Iron, per ton, was 3/. 13s. 6d. In .Linuary, 1825, in consequence of the commercial mania, it rose to 8/. 55., and the number of furnaces in blast then increased to 2G0." Although the prices began immediately to fall, the number of blast furnaces continued to increase, so that in 1828 the number was 278. The fail of prices continued progressive through 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832, till the price for August 1832 is reported to be 21. 17s. 6d. per ton for pig iron. Nevertheless, the number of furnaces in blast in 1831 was 252. The quantities of iron made were the following :- 1822. 1825. 1828. 1830. 1831. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. 469,500 61E 1 ,200_ 703,100 678,400 53 ~600 If we suppose the efficient demand for iron to be the same in 1832 as it was in 1823 before - the mania, the quantity produced ought to be the same, in which case the prices would be equal in both years. But although there is no reason to believe in any great increase of efficient demand, the quan tity produced has been increased in the proportions above stated, or nearly 20 per cent. The inevita ble consequence must be a ruinous fall of prices. It is a common maxim with manufacturers, that as prices fall they ought to extend their trade, in order to compensate, by an increased number of transactions, for the smallness of. the profit on each. We know many instances in which this maxim has been carried into practical effect ; yet it is most senseless in principle, and ruinous in its conse quences. One cause of a fall in the price of any commodity, is an excess of the supply over the de mand.—lf the producers extend the supply, they inevitably diminish the rate of profit; so that, in stead of reaping the same total gain from an enlarged trade, the ) extinguish every chance of getting a ny prc.fit at all. A fall of price is the natural intima tion that the supply is excessive; and every reason able man ought to contract his trade till he find a re-action ensuo. The iron trade affords a convincing exposition of the soundness of these principles. The great cause of the severe distress is to be traced to the exces sive increase of blast furnaces produced by the high profits of 1825. The moment the prices began to fall, the iron-masters ought to have extinguished a portion of their fur i paces ; but in place of doing so, they continued to increase them up to 1828. The consequence was, a continued and rapidly increasing depression of prices. If they would bring down the ot n lhfs u elt2 mbe it3ale,v iseci r of furnaces rtiutabirgsrseeue.lofybtt. to ,lb.alltloefoy in op tkethialaferot. prices would to the uldspeedil lmit of speedily attain r a on r_e n m i a e sts dy in sh a o n ul a d lte p r u a r t s io u t e i the same system of increasing the supply beyond the demand, they would ultimately be ruined, although shillings were by law declared to be equivalent to pounds in the discharge of rents and contract debts. In Scotland, the great iron companies, such as those of Carron, Shotts, and Devon, carry on the trade of founders in addition to that of producers of pig iron; and in consequence have suffered, we be lieve, much less than the English and Welsh com paid( s. We are convinced that prosperity will rc visit i c to o t t i n e rn o o f e ie n s i they within the n b i r i i t t s ig o the th the dem supply an d o ! ' their —Scotsman. IDENTIFYING AN A ss.—On Monday week a donkey was ordered by the Rev. Dr. DONNE, Deputy Mayor of o,westry, to appear before him to be identified, in a dispute, by its original owner, from whom " Robin" had been absent upwards of two years, and had passed through divers hands. With some little difficulty in as cending the steps, the officers ushered " Robin" into the presence of the Reverend a L nd io N l V ,s or: s h s) ip ; fu b l u Doctor otheteoraniLathres Town Clerk's office, who, it is presumed, expected a second miraculous speeeh (like BA A dumbness was plentifully made up by his old mistres., who, whilst hugging her old favourite round the neck before the deelaied there was a mark over the eye with a ,hewer which she poked him with once for trampling over the taturs.— Shrewsbury Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—Among the numerous suicides that take place in England, a suicide committed from an apprehension of being buried alive will be admitted to be a singularity. Ws.are not aware f such a whimsical motive having in any former case di rected the hand even of the insane. In the following instance, it sectns to have been the only cause of the uu• happy hypochondriac's rashness. LETITIA GRANT, a ged 56, killd herself nn Monday. JAM ES COSTER, her nephew, who gave evidence of the fact before the Coro ner, said, " his aunt was naturally a very timid woman, and always expressed her alarm at the least infection.— Last week she contilained of a howel cotnplaiut ; which, despite all opinions to the contrary, she insisted was an attack of the cholera morbus. She recov , red ; hut so fearful was she of the disease, that every morning she fu migated the room with preventatives of various descrip tions. On Monday she fanci , al she hail anther attack, and wished to be removed to the Cholera Hospital; and requested, if she should fall a victim to the malady, th at she mi g ht be Wel, lest the medical men should be de ceived, and that she should te interred alive. He called in medical aid to convince he r there wer e n o grounds for her fears, yet still she wou ld declare sh e had the com plaint. In the afternoon , about t hree o'clock, he heard a noise in her sitting-room , a nd upon running up he fou n d horrid manner, quite d ea d, wit !. the ula lady on the floor weltering in her blood, with l ier yltAte .sy I Bide."..—Brighton Gazette. t i l l" :er a a t z u 3 u r t w in ith w a in i ost ,d committed THE MARKETS SOUTHALL M A 11K ET.—Sept. This day's supply w.is tolerably good throughout, but the at tendance of buyers was numerous, particularly from London. The trade was rather dull throughout, at the following prices per stone of 81h. to sink the oflals:— Beef --. 21. 10d. to 4s. Od 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Mutton 3 0 46 I Pork Lamb ............ 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutton, and Lamb, 2d. Pet stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; prices of Pork sta. tionary. Beasts, 273; Sheep and Lambs, 3,603; Calves, 80; Pigs, 50. A considerable numbe r o f t h e Sheep an Lambs, but not many Beasts, Calves, and Pigs, left the market unsold. LEWES ill ARKET.—Sept. 11. 3s. Ott. to 4s. Ott. I Veal Mutton .„---. 3 8 4i Oct to 4s. 4d. 0 0 O. 0 unb 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Supply good, and trade rather dull. RUMFORD MA RKET.—Sept. 12. • e. d. to s. d. .1. s. d. Beef... . 210 3 101 Veal Mutton 3 2 4 4 Pork .... • a 8 3 0 Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 21;s ; Quarter old Pigsl2s.to 18s. each Supply moderately good, and trade dull. COUNTRY C , .1t1•1 MARKETS DUIcING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. ! Beans. ----- ----------------- -----.... Per ()water. S. to s. s. s. 8. to 8. 8. to A. Blanditird —......— 59 35 22 42 Brigg ~ 52 63 36 40 19 22 31 35 Cambridge.- f 56 29 21 33 Chard -- . 56 62 30 36 18 22 36 42 Huntingdon— 58 67 28 39 18 22 31 34 Long Sutton !56 64 17 22 32 ?5 Louth !5O 55 27 32 19 20 32 34 Lynn ,! 56 61 28 32 22 28 34 35 ! Newark —....., 58 64 33 40 18 24 36 39 Nottingham Peterborough —..... 56 63 32 36 19 25 33 33 Plymouth —.... 150 64 30 34 20 23 Pontefract Sleaford ! i 65 70 36 38 22 .28 i 4l 4 3 Uppingliain --.. 5B 65 32 40 20 24 34) 40 Wisbech--.....--.... !54 59 26 30 14 18 32 36 Wheat, Norfolk and SuEEDS C ffblk, 60 ORN MAlb. RKET.—Sept. 11. 1 ---- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' 3 os to '3ss ' • 4 Yorkshire and Lincolnshi re ----- Grinding B eans Oats, Potatoe 235. to 28s. : 4 —Alealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 11;4d. to 13d. per st. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 164:. to 244. Ms. to 85s. of 1 525. to fag. 3 '32g to 3.55. 0 als. to 365. a 21s. to 235. '''i 33s to 41s. to ..... ... . g. 1 1 ;4d. to 1341. pei 30s. to 3lg. per k ~ —l. to —l. per t.I V E ItEtt 0 t.. CORN It: XCH AN G E —Sept. 11. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 6 710 -- Red 7 4 7 10 Foreign 9 0 , 9 4 OATs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 9 210 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 38 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 4 0 4 3 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 40 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 31 -- , 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 4B 0 50 0 ----. Irish OATMEAL, English a nd I r i s h , per 2401bs 2l 0 26 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. Itvc, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Sept. 10. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal: Qrs. Qrs. Q rs. Foreign, Brls. I I rash, d t c. Scks. L oa d s . 12,605 , 2,808 33 0 4,162 1,115 HINT TO TEA -MAKERS. —Put a small quantity of carbonate of soda into the. pot along with the tea, and this, by softening the water, will accelerate the infusion amazingly. Should the water be hard, it will increase the strength of your tea at least one half,—Me chanics' Mrrgrszine. KESWICK.—Last week, among other visitors of distinction, this delightful place was honoured by the presence of the Earl of STAMFORD and of General GAS.' COIGNE, the former Member for Liverpool. They arrived in the early part of the week, and left on Saturday morn-. ink , . On Wednesday arrived the LORD CHANCELLOR and the Right Hon. POSVLETT THOMPSON, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Lord BRI`UGHAM'S stay was ex tremely short, so as scarcely to allow any of the good people of Keswick an opportunity of seeing hits.— White haven Herald. On Saturday last an extraordinary scene was exhibi!ed in Wisbech Market-place. Notice had been given by hand-bill of the intended sale of four sheep, which had been seized for tithes from Mr. BLAND, whose off er o f per acre, instead of 5.. Gil., for grass land, had been rejected by the Vicar, the Rev. JOHN FARDCLL, son in-law of the Bishop of ELY. Toe novelty of the occur rence on this side of St. George's Channel drew a greet number of persons to the spot, and no sooner were the sheep put up by the auctioneer than a general bellowing or bleating was set up by most of the spent dors. The auctioneer persevered for a long time in offering the sheep, but to no purpose—no one would bill a single farthing, and he was at length obliged to retire, leaving the sheep in the charge of a constable until the collector of tithes could de termine what was to be done with them. In the evening they were returned to Mr, BLAND'S field, upon what con ditions our informant has not been able to 'earth—J/11 7 V Post. MEMOIRS OF LAFAYETTE.---" The part Which r -AFAYETTE took in the Revolution of 1789, hag long been matter of public history ; but an accurate ac" count of his connexion with that of 1830 was wanting, and has been ably supplied by M. SARRANS. Tne long life of LAFAYKTTE...-his services to the American Repub. , . lic._.his open and dauntless opposition to arbitrary poixer---• the consistency of his political principles—his high and noble character in private life, and the confidence felt in his integrity, not only by his own nation, but by e very disciple of freedom throughout the civilized world—render him one of the most interesting characters of the present times."—Athenaeum. (An English translation is about to make its appearance). WHALE KILLED IN THE SOLWAY.—On Friday last, during the receding of the tide, which, as is pretty generally known, ebbs and flows with remarkable rapidity along the Solway sands, a large bottle-nosed whale was observed, by a seaman of the name of &Ara, flours' dering about in what is called the Carse-gut, within the Carse Bay, in the parish of Kitkbean. Having armed himself merely with a common salmon Hester, BLAIR he roically advanced to the assault alone and unassisted, an°, having stolen qui et ly f o r war d unt il h e got w i t hi n reac h of the monster—being then waist-deep in water—he struck out at its head with all his force. The Hester, however, rebounded harmlessly oil' the huge cranium— .' It just play'd dirl on the bane And did nae mair." • Watching his opportunity, however, BLAIK succeeded, at the next es , ay, in plunging his weapon into a softer parts somewhere about the region of the jugular. The agony of the animal w.s immediately evinced by the most tre.• menticut plunging and snorting, and BLAIR finding it in vain to attempt holding him with his slender weapon, contrived to extricate it, and a second time struck him almost in the same spot. Torrents of blood gushed out at both the wounds, anti the monster soon became tl ° weak and stupilied, that instead of making towards the sea, he ran the farther into shallow water. By this time some of the inhabitants of the Carse, who had descried the conflict, hurried to the scene of action, and as the victim was now completely exhausted, loops of roPe l . were cast round his carc ase , an d h e was soon high and dry on the beach. He was found to measure no 104 than nineteen feet in len,g , h and eleven in girth, anti the value of the blubber is estimated at 101. —no bad morn ing's work for a single pair of bands. We believe this is the first instance on record of one individual engaginS with success in single combat a nineteen -feet whale is his native element, and after the fashion we have de scribed. Some of the " cannie" bodies of the Carse, understand, who came in at the death and assisted to " street: the corp," were for claiming a share of the pre' seeds of the capture, but this BLAIx stoutly and most righteously resisted, telling them that it was " his oi o ' and nitric o' his swelters," but that he would certainly no t them " journeymen's wa g es," a decision in wh icl " grudge after some demurring, they were constrained to acquiesce' Dumfries Journal. • li,q., of a daughter. On the 11th ii i t. is a i C ain g bir r iell-grove, the lady of the I les'. • i,1;.1t, s t o, l ) i ic, l a n ti s hu t. en t r. t i, t : S ef t : 111 a r Henry elin, of a son. 1 I ig li b it t i l l( r )eb y belt On the 1131) inst. in Torrington -square, the lady of R °- inst. at St. 3 B lA ri ß de ß 's lE Cl D lu . rch, Mr. Eakins, to )li° l ' I a; ;; 1 1 e i t 1 1:i m i 11 t3i (sillies, sij' o olita':U:)per S tainfo , d-street,. to Isabella, eldest daughter of •J' e4:l4 Prestwich, Esq., of the Lawn, South Lambeth. v,i l the I:3th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, M r. t•eii y's, Lninbeth, Russell Scott, , -- - ,;1 3 Kingston, Jamaica. . ilor only daughtererl ti se- of i j i . :i r i e n :Bin,llllP3itiorls., Morris, On the 13th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, J. J. "' to m wood, Esq., of Queen's-s9uare, Bloomsbury, to Frances AY I ",,. daughter of the late N. 1 aylor, Esq., of the island of Alaigu' DIED. ... t in wi O ck n .s t , l l l u e ar l e 2t . h inst. Mrs. Samuel Naines, of Judd-street, Bruns' the 10th o f J u l y l as t, a t th e A rsena l a t Ki ngs t o n, T r. i it island of Jamaica, John Read, Esq., Ordnance StorekeeP e the 47th year of his age. 1 ,0 , On tile Sill inst. after a few hours' illness, John Mx .' Esq., of Lloyd's, in his 612,1 year. , r , i ,ciP On the 10th inst. at Ipswich, at an advanced age, Mrs. 1 NVatiel. On ke the d 10111 inst. in Bridge-row, Pimlico, John Sayer, 3'1"1"' aged tilt Helen Eliza, the wife of William Boxill Esq., late of I.larn On the 12th inst. in Upper Berkeley-street, Porttnaii_Jfio:f.' P;INTED AND PUBLISHED BY M U It DO YOUNGO4 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.