The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-04 00:00:00

avert ruin or occasion distress at their pleasure. A long unrevealed history of Bank secrets has been begun by these Directors, which we have no doubt is fully developed by the subsequent testimony, and by the official papers given I n th e report. We anticipate, therefore, from this in quiry, a full disclosure of " the art and mys tery" of manufacturing factitious p ros p er i t y, and real panics,—of enlarging and contracting the money credits of the nation,—of raising and lowering the interest of capital, and the price of the public secuntres,---of altering the value of all mortgages and fixed p ecun i ary engagements, —and of exciting or paralysing all the recent enterprises—whether agricultural, manufacturing, or commercial,—of the kingdom. During the whole of the year 1824 and the first half of the year 1825 the nation seemed to he seized with a frenzy of speculation ; colossal fortunes were supposed, or expected, to be made in a few days or hours,—British capital seemed to overflow into a thousand neglected channels of industry, and to fill up every avenue of gain,— joint-stock adventures, and unlimited funds to carry them on, were the order of the day,—our houses were to be built of joint-stock brick s — our tables to be supplied with joint stock fish, —our linen to be washed by Joint-stock steam, —our tea to be whitened with joint-stock milk, and our wives to be ornamented by joint-stock pearls. Nay, we were to be carried to the grave by joint-stock undertakers, and to be buried in a joint-stock cemetery. It will naturally be asked, was there any new mine of wealth disco vered in the kingdom to authorize such expec tations? Or, was there any new epidemic like the cholera, imported, to account for such a ge neral madness ? No ! the whole of this pros perity and adversity was an affair of the Bank engraver. It all depended upon the bank note, and when the Bank Directors drew the wire which moved the machinery, their own creation of artificial wealth disappeared with the rapidity and the crash of a scene in a pantomime touch ed by the wand of Harlequin It would ap pear, therefore, that the Bank Directors have had in their hands, not only the measure ofevery man's estate, and the means of enlarging or contracting every man's credit, but the very senses and intellect of the nation. They could excite in our merchants and manufacturers the Pyrrhic dance of speculation, or overwhelm them with the funereal music of despair, when ever they pleased. In 1816, in 1819, 1820 1821, and 1822, and in 1825, they pulled the strings so tight—they screwed the tourniquet b 0 unmercifully, that they nearly threw the nation into convulsions. By relaxing their hold in the intermediate periods, they produced in the patient a delirium of satisfac tion, or allowed him to enjoy an interval of com parative ease. They are still desirous of main taining the same empire over our interests, our enterprises, and ourresources. Will such a dark irresponsible tyranny be any longer endured ?—.. The evidence of Mr. Harman and Mr. Ward show plainly that the Bank neither understands its own interests nor that of the public. The Ditectors issued money on all sorts of specula tions, between the beginning of 1823 and the middle of 1825 ; and were not warned of their danger, by the disappearance of their cash, till, in November, 1825, they were reduced to about a million of gold coin; and, in December of that year, were obliged to resort to the disconti nued circulation of 11. notes. In their distress they had recourse to Government, and asked for another Bank Restriction Act, which would, if granted, have put the seal on the infamy of the establishment for ever. The following most ex traordinary avowals of Mr. Harman will never be forgotten, so long as there is a manufactory of paper credit in Threadneedle -street, or a Mint on Tower-hill,—s o long as the bubble schemes of 1824, and the panic of 1825, find a place in the commercial history of the country:— " Did any communication take place between the Bank and Government respecting an order in Council to restrain Payment in gold at that period, December, 1825 ?—Yes, it wax sugg.sted by the Bank. " What answer did his Majesty's Government give to that ?—They resisted it from first to last. " Did the Government suggest any other course in re fusing the suggestion of the Bank ?—No ; they left the Bank to act at its discretion, hoping the panic would subside; and it is to be observed, that though our treasure was so much reduced, even much more reduced as we ap proached the crisis, we were at that period receiving gold, because we strained every nerve to get gold from the con tinent. Bullion came in, and the .11int coined ; they worked doub!e tielcs—in short, they were at work night and day; we were perpetually receiving gold from abroad, and coin from the Hint. " Was there a period in December, 1825, during which the Bank contemplated the great probability of being en tirely exhausted of gold?—At the latter end of 1825, de cidedly. " Do you recollect the lowest quantity o f gold which the Bank possessed during any period of December, 1825 ? —No, I do not remember immediately, but it was mise. rably low. " Was it under the 1,300,0001. you have mentioned ? ...—Unquestionably. " It was stated by the late Mr. Huskisson to a Member of the House of Commons, that he, as a Member of the Administration at that time, suggested to the Bank, that if their gold was exhausted they should place a paper against their doors, stating that they had not gold to pay with, but might expect to have gold to recommence pay ment in a short period ; do you recollect such a suggestion? —There was such a suggestion. " What would, in your opinion, have been the conse quence of that paper placed against the doors of the Bank, without preparation to support commercial and finan cial credit ?—I hardly know how to contemplate it. " The Bank of England issued 11. notes at that period ; was that done to protect its remaining treasure?—Decid edly, and it worked wonders ; and it was by great good luck that we had the means of doing it, because one box containing a quantity of 1/. notes had been overlooked, and they were forthcoming at the lucky moment. " Had there been no foresight in the preparation of those 1/. notes ?—tione whatever, I solemnly declare. " Do you think that issuing the 11. notes saved the Bank ?—As far as my judgment goes, it saved the credit of the country." The opportune discovery and miracle-work ing power of the box of one-pound Bank -notes, would appear from this account to have been the sole protection of this great country from a con vulsion. By the evidence of Mr. Ward, and by the knowledge of facts which we have otherwise acquired, it is proved that the reduction of the 4 per Cents, to a stock of 3i- per Cent. was en tirely owing to the issues of the Bank. Thus, if the national creditor was cheated of 10s. out of every 41. which the Government owed him, it was by the same kind of Threadneedle-street jugglery which brought the nation " to within a few hours of barter," or to the brink of ruin, in December, 1825. We shall have other oppor tunities of recurring to this subject.— Times. A tournamfmt of an unusual character was held at Birmingham last week by two political champions, Mr. Thomas Attwood and Mr. Cobbett, on the subject of the monetary system. Our readers are acquainted with the origin of this dialectical conflict. Mr. Attwood and some of the Members of the Political Union had controverted the political economy of Mr. Cobbett, on the occasion of their recent Annual Meetin g ; the latter, thereupon, sent a challenge to his opponents to discuss the " Toney affair" at Birmingham on Tuesday last, the auditory to determine the merits of the logicians. The oral, instead of written mode of conducting the discussion was not likely to terminate in any satisfactory result ; and we must beg leave to impugn the political aptitude of the Jurymen by whom the merits of the respective disputants were " decided." The wide field of political science does not display , a subject of more ab struse and difficult inquiry than that of the prin ciples of a national currenty . ; and on no ques tion are the people less informed, or probably more misinforthed. Our systems of public debts and complicated taxation—the temporary benefi ' vial effects of an inconvertible paper currency, and the consequences of a return td convertibility from depreciated value to the ancient standard, have produced effects and begotten evils, for the remedy of which, e`xpe►fence is no guide, no nation ever having been placed in circumstances similar to our own. We should say, therefore, that in dependently of the natural difficulties of the sub ject, the Currency is not a legitimate subject of " agitation," anti that " a show of hands" is little calculated to lead us out of our present lahyrinth. Mr. Attwood is the well-known in defatigable advocate of an extensive paper cre dit ; and, "if needful," of a Bank Restriction Act, and a debasement of the standard. He contends, that an increased Value of the circu lating medium, through the operation of Peel's Bill, has doubled the fiscal burthens of the country—doubled the pressure of the Debt— destroyed profit—pauperised the working classes—and must ultimately ruin the nation. We confess that we cannot discover his exact specific in his published writings or speeches ; they have rather dealt in vivid descriptions of " distress and ruin," than in the suggestion of any defined or practical remedies. But we be lieve that he considers Paper Credit may be made a complete substitute for the precious metals, and that the standard my be reduced fifty or a hundred per cent. with impunity, and without injustice. Mr. Cobbett, on the other hand, traces all our national ills to the introduction of paper money, and, above all, to the consequences of the unconvertible currency vthich existed between 1797 and 1819—that fabric of credulity which Sir Philip Francis de scribed in 1810 as "a wonderful house of cards, of which the materials are light enough to ,be blown away, or to fall to pieces at any moment, but heavy enough to crush this kingdom in its fall." Mr. Cobbett treats the nation as a law yer does an insolvent; he would call a meeting of the public creditors, and declare that they must take a pro rata dividend on their respec tive debts, for that if the insolvent was not wound up, he would ultimately not pay a far thing in the pound. Now, although certainly the propositions of the two controversialists are in effect similar, Mr. Cobbett, if his scheme were necessary and practicable, propounds the most honest expedient. He would divide the loss " equitably," by law ; Mr. Attwood would post it all to the creditor inte rest. We will not, however, comment on the two plans ; if either be necessary or prac ticable, neither is likely yet to be espoused by Parliament or the people. ft will be time enough to consider the appropriation of the national assets when the country takes " the benefit of the Act." But we are far from regretting the publicity of discussion. We do not fear any consequences. We feel confident that the good sense of the people of this country will ultimately right public opinion ; that even the working classes will discriminate between the benefits of a wiser legislation on the subject of money, and another revolution in all existing contracts, and that we should first endeavour, by economy and an enlightened system of trade and commerce, to meet our public engagements (however cre ated), before we resort to the di'grace and cer tain confusion of any species of currency fraud, or any mode of sacrificing one class of society to another. In the meanwhile we trust that, in all the large manufacturing communities, intelli gent men will endeavour to communicate to the working claases just notions of their true interest, and, above all, to address to them such plain and expositary publications on the elementary princi ples of political science as will enable them to judge rightly, and to detect the fallacies of those who, after imposing on their own understand ings, seek to confound the intellect of their neighbours. To promise the people " plenty of money" is doubtless dealing in an easy, popular delusion ; but it will mislead them from confi dence in their own habits and industry, into a miserable, servile war, against property, till from good cities they will retrograde to the condi tion of our Saxon pirate ancestors, who, break ing into the Irish Treasury, found such a quan tity of money, " that every man had as much as could wish or desire, and they did not fall out on the partition, since there was so much for each man's share as he could conveniently carry away." We have always admitted the mistakes and injustice perpetrated by the Act of 1819-20 ; but we do not wish another class of men—the creditor interest—to suffer as the debtors have done. We have always advocated a more ex tended currency based on convertibility, the banking monopoly abolished, and the usury laws repealed ; but we do not desire a paper• mill erected on the ruins of the Mint.—Morning Chronicle. His Majesty's Ministers are receiving warning from the various employers in whose service they have been. They have been, they declare, the best of all recorded servants ; they have re formed 'and economised and improved with a vengeance. They have fost ere d N at i ona l U n i ons , and patronised Whittle Harvey ; they have dif fused useful knowledge in the Newspapers ; and they have made Protocols so numerous that study is terrified by their bulk, and arithmetic puzzled by their sum. Our Exchequer, to be sure, is not in a palmy state ; but Lord Althorp confesses his errors with a modesty which makes error more interesting than accuracy could be ; and Lord Grey, it is true, has set some twelve or thirteen of his family to work for the good of the country at a few thousands per annum, but that is no more than fifty Prime Ministers have done before the dynasty of disinterestedness and Lord Grey ; and, finally, their places suit them exactly, and their liveries fit them to a nicety. " We won't argue the point with you, Gentlemen," quoth the people of Eng land, " but for all that you must go." Lord Althorp is the wisest of financiers : no man doubts it who has listened to the panegyrics of Parnell, and attended to the compliments of Hume. Lord Althorp has brought the glove trade, and the silk trade, and the ribbon trade into the most prosperous condition.' Lord Althorp has restored to the shipping interest its old spirit and energy, and revived, by judicious legislation, the drooping resources of our colo nies. Lord Althorp is a friend too to the British farmer, and surely by no quackery or fraud of his will the cause of our national agri culture be ever sacrificed. Yet Northampton shire declares that his Lordship must go. Mr. Robert Grant is a gentleman who has taken greater pains to obtain and retain an eligible situation than we could have supposed it pos sible for so indolent and religious a gentleman to take for any sublunary purpose. Having within the last fe* years turned down his glass at a public dinner because Reform in Parliament, the toast lie was called upon to ho nour, was unpalateable to his taste, he has re cently become, for the love of the multitude, as stout a Reformer as his neighbours, and has looked at the frailties of Mr. Canning through the glasses of Sir Francis Burdett. Then he is a prophet of the abolitionists, a patron of the negro, a denouncer of drivers, and a clamourer against cartwhips. Yet Norwich has made up its mind, and Mr. Robert Grant is to go. Where shall a constituency in witnt of a valet seek one of finer manners or smarter appearance that: our old acquaintance Lord Palmerston ? His smile is perfectly refreshing ; his bow has a fascination in it which is irresistible. He has been in the employment of so many and of such various masters that scarcely any work can come amiss to him ; and he has lately been so con stantly abroad that on the Continent his services would be invaluable. To be sure he brings but an indifferent character from the family he served some twenty years; but in these times it is an easy matter to get a capital place without any character at all. Yet Penrhyn will not hire Lord Palmerston; Lambeth will not hire Lord Pal merston ; his old master will not take back Lord Palmerston. We cannot tell whose livery he is to wear. And Lord John Russell too, the foster father of the Reform Act and the champion of the liberties of the nation, time correspondent of the Birmingham patriots and the slanderer of that illustrious order, of which if he were not a scion he would never have been strong enough for mischief nor conspicuous enough for reproof; Lord John Russell, the destroyer of potwolloping, the purifier of scot and lot, the extinguisher of Gatton, the liberator of Leeds ; Lord John Russell, in whose honour so many stones have been thrown and so many houses burned to their foundations—must he, too, ad vertise his merits, and appeal to his admiring countrymen with—" Wanted, a situation ?" For Devonshire will tell his Lordship in pretty in telligible language that there he is wanted no longer. Are all these dismissals and rejections demonstrations of the popularity of the Mini sters, and of the satisfaction with which the country regards their measures? A young lover writes in deed to the Spectator, begging that " Mr. Spec" will inform him whether he is to take it for a sign of special favour and encouragement that his mistress broke his head last night with her slipper. Equally convincing proofs of confidence and affection are the people daily presenting to the associated wisdom and integrity of the Ca binet.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. BARTHOLOMEW FAlR.—Yesterday Mr. Charles Pearson waited upon the LORD MAYOR, in his ca pacity of Chairman of the City Board of Health, to request that his Lordship would give directions to enforce those regulations respecting Bartholomew Fair, of which, although on ordinary occasions there might be some difference of opinion about the pro priety, every thinking individual must now admit the importance and necessity. He had no doubt that his Lordship's officers would receive the sup port of the respectable innkeepers who resided in the vicinity of the fair in enforcing all reasonable regulations at the present period. The LORD MAYOR said, that the public must be greatly indebted to the Board of Health for their interference, and that the suggestions of Mr. Pear son were most valuable, and should be attended to. His Lordship then gave instructions to Mr. Cope, the Marshal, to enforce the regulations most .trictly, and ordered that placards should be affixed in the vicinity containing an extract from the 3d of George IV., inflicting a penalty of 5/. upon ttle owner of any public-house which was not closed at 11 o'clock at night, and of dos. upon any customer who refused to quit a public-house at that hour upon being di rected so to do by the constables. A TEA PARTY.— Mr. Francis Smulke, a German doctor of physic, was summoned to answer the com plaint of Mr. Smith, a horse-dealer, who worked his way into the Justice-room on crutches. The horse-dealer having, about twelve months ago, received a kick in the shin from a donkey at Dixon's Repository, employed Doctor Smulke, who happened to be present, to cure the limb. The wound, however, although apparently a trifle, re sisted a great variety of internal as well as external applications, and at last became a constitutional sore. .t was not until it assumed this serious character that the horse-dealer discovered Doctor Smulke's practice to be almost confined to the treatment of the diseases of the inferior animals, and that the Doctor had prescribed for him as if his proper place was the stable. Without saying a word to the Doctor, he went for advice to a friend of his own. Doctor Smulke, finding that the horse-dealer had " taken his leg elsewhere," sent in a bill, the length of which was enough to aggravate any disease, and insisted upon present pay. The patient thought it his best plan to level one profession at another, and submitted the bill to a lawyer, who set about making a strong drawing-plaster of his own, with the cer tainty that it would operate somewhere. Things were in this position when the horse-dealer received an invitation to a tea-party at Mrs. Matthews's,near America-square, to which, as he had taken his leg out of medical hands for some days, he was enabled to go. The conver , ation naturally turned, as the Doctor was well known to most of the ladies and gentlemen present, on the difference between him and the horse-dealer, and the latter was just finish ing a portrait of the former, when in walked the Doctor, in time to hear that graceful appendage, " thieving quack," tacked to his name. The Doc tor took no notice of it ; on the contrary, he began to play with a kitten which had been frisking about the room, and said a few words about the cholera morbus, which he declared was sure to lay hold of " all nasty fellows vot has scurvy blood in their bodies." The horse-dealer took this compliment to himself, and said, looking round to the company, " I hope that as the Lord has sent us such a plague, he'll carry off what kills more people and robs 'em at the same time—all these here foreign quacks." A general laugh was with evident diffi culty suppressed at the delivery of this sentiment, and Mrs. Matthews endeavoured to give the con versation another turn, but a mischievous Jew, named Abraham Hart, who thought it a pity to drop so fertile a source of amusement, said, " Plesh my heart, Doctor, I hope it won't come upon people vot has sore limbs, for I hurt my leg three veeks ago, and it an't veil yet." " Three veek ! three veek !" said the Doctor, " let a me see—three veek is long time, too; now if it vas three month, you vould surely croak; you vould surely cock your toes." " Aye," said the horse-dealer, who sup ported his diseased limb upon a stool at some dis tance from the Doctor, " if you get a little help from some desperate old quack." While the com pany were enjoying this joke, the Doctor, who was balancing the kitten on his foot, suddenly gave pussy a fling, and down she came, with her sharp claws bang upon the edges of the poor horse-dealer's ulcer. -The unhappy man roared like a bull, and seizing the kitten, dashed it at the head of the Doc tor, who, with an experienced eye, avoided the fa vour in such a manner as to give the Jew behind him the full benefit of it. The cat stuck in Mr. Hart's beard, which was in th e l ast wee k o f i ts mourning, and endeavouring to mount, tore away the skin from his nose and mouth, while the Doctor made the best of his way out of the house. The learned German was now charged with the two assaults, The LORD MAYOR said, that although the doctor provoked the throwing of the cat, he was not in law responsible for the scratched face of Mr. Hart, who certainly received the compliment from the hands of Mr. Smith. The Doctor declared that he never meant any harm. He was playing with the cat, when she struck her talons into his instep, and in trying to get rid of her he tossed her unfortunately into con tact with Mr. Smith's person, but he was willing to cure the sore again.—(A laugh.) The Horse-dealer—Cure me ! l'd as soon thrust my leg in the fire as let you touch it. The Doctor=l don't vish for to touch it, Maisther Shmith, if it vas a sound limb, like other people's, it vould be veil, but it is bad—de stuff is bad, my Lor, de leg is bad, and de body is bad, and Maisther Shmith is bad fellow altogether my Lor. The Horse-dealer—My Lord, he prescribed for me a dozen pills as big as tennis balls. The horse I ride could scarce swallow them. The Doctor—Vell, veil, the ass vot your horse carried swallowed them.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR said the evidence had quite puzzled him; and told the horse-dealer, if he thought it worth his while to prosecute the matter further, to apply to the Sessions, which were about to sit. Mr. Hart—But, please you, my Lord, who is to pay me for my lost time ? I couldn't go to vork vile I had the marks of that ere little brute's scrapers upon me; and I gets my living in a public vay. The Doctor—Yea, my Lor, he gets his living upon de street, by crying " do, clo I" and de people vould say, ven dey look at his scratched face, " Ah, ha ! vy did you let de cat out of de bag."—(Loud laughter.) The Lord Mayor then dismissed the case. An old Irishwoman, named Peggy Cokeray, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having attempted to defiaud a female in Cannon street. The officer stated, that the prisoner pretended to have found a " gold pin with an elegant diamond in it," and told a young woman whom she met, that as it was too grand for an ould body, she would sell it for a trifle. The girl was about to be a purchaser, when the officer took Mrs. Cokeray into custody. The elegant pin was not worth a halfpenny. The LORD MAYOR—I think 1 know Mrs. Coke ray. lam mistaken if she did not want to tell me my fortune some time ago. Mrs. Cokeray—Arrah, then, I am sure I could not tell any one's fortune, my dear. I'm nothing but a poor old Irishwoman, honey.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—You certainly are a fortune teller, Peggy, although I dare say you did not see by the lines of your hand that you would be brought before me for the purpose of being introduced to Bridewell. Mrs. Cokeray—Oh, Lord, sure you wouldn't send me to such a place, dear ! The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, I have serious thoughts of sending you there, Peggy. Mrs. Cokeray—Oh, then, I shall never see you again, Paddy Cokeray. Arrah, then, are we to be parted this way in our ould age, for nothing at all ? Och hone, don't send me there,jewel.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I'll try you this time; but if you are found in the city any more, I'll tell you your fortune, and you may depend upon the goodness of my judgment. Mrs. Cokeray—Why, then, sweet good luck to you, dear. You may take howid of me yourself if ever you find me in the same place again. Poor Paddy, I thought it was all up with us, but I'll see you again. The LORD MAYOR—Now, quit the city as fast as you can. Mrs. Cokeray —Yes, my jewel, I will; and good luck to you every day you see a paving stone.—She then made a low curtsey to the Lord Mayor, and, putting a quid of tobacco into her mouth, she departed amidst the laughter of the crowd. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Robert Bradley and Frederick Brown were brought before Mr. DYER yesterday, on suspicion of having been concerned with two young girls of the town in instigating a lad of about 14. years of age, son of Mr. Steel, jeweller, Oxford-street, to rob his father of a large quantity of jewellery. The girls and the son ate already in custody, and have undergone one examination, standing remanded to Wednesday. Policeman E, 80, went into a public-house on Sunday in Poland-street, and there saw the two prisoners in conversation together. Knowing that Bradley had formerly lived with Amelia Saunders, one of the females in custody, he suspected he might know something of the robbery, and as the prisoners were talking of the circumstance he listened to their conversation. He heard Bradley Say, "If they (the female prisoners) split, its a dunner' with me, for I shall get lagged," upon which he came forward and took them both into custody. On searching Bradley, two duplicates were found, one for a pair of valuable coral ear--rings, and the other for a gold split ring, both of which articles were suspected by Mr. Steel to be part of the property which his son hid been induced to plunder from him. Mr. DYER directed that Brown should be dis charged, and that Bradley should be brought up with the other prisoners on Wednesday next. MAR YLEB ONE- OFFICE. Yesterday the policeman D, 107, charged John Wilson, a newsvender, with selling the last number of the Poor titan's Guardian, in Paddington-street, that morning. Mr. RAWLLNSON asked the police constable, by whose direction he interfered with the province of persons now employed by the Board of Stamps for the purpose of taking up the sellers of all unstamped newspapers, and how he himself knew whether the paper was legal or not. Policeman D, 107, assured the magistrate that he acted on this occasion in consequence of the direc tions of the Commissioners. Mr. RAWLINSON, on hearing this, told the police constable that he had better go before the Stamp office solicitor, and ascertain from him whether the last publication of the Poor Man's Guardian was considered to be unlawful by him. John Truss, another illegal newsman, was charged by Robert Currie, who is employed by the Board of Stamps, and resides at No. 45, in Dean-street, Soho, with selling the Poor Man's Guardian in Newman-street ; but th:s charge, unlike such cases in general, gave occasion to a development of the system of the Stamp-office, in prosecuting all un stamped news. Mr. 11:twr.iNsoN (to Currie)— How do you prove to me that this is a newspaper at all ?—Currie here referred the magistrate to the head of Public News, adding that Truss had been committed from Marl borough-street-office, by Mr. Dyer, to the House of 'Correction. Mr. RAWLINSON--I hear, on these occasions, much noise made about the Six Acts, as if these proceedings were had under those Acts; and I even wrote to Mr. Hume to rectify his notions on this point. It may, therefore, be useful to state, that, instead of Lord Castlereagh's Six Acts, so called, this offence is provided for by an Act of the 16th of George 11., which provides for various duties on glass, &c., containing, in a narrow compass, more enactments than are usually found in lengthened Acts of Parliament. But ‘I by, Currie, do you bring nothing else here? Currie—There are some other works, as the Cosmopolite, and the Political Observer, the latter now being in a serious train of i nves tigation by the Board, whose— Mr. RAWLINSON — Do YOU not take up whom yo u choose, and what you choose ? Currie—No, your Worship, we don , t. These nu m b ers are i nspected at the Scamp-office first, as they come out, and af terwards we are instructed as to what are legal or not. Mr. RAWLINSON—I am relieved at hearing this, and glad of it ; for then it cannot be fairly said that it is left to yourselves to apprehend such offenders at will. Currie—So far from it, your Worship, we go daily to the Solicitor for Stamps, and receive our instructions to proceed from him. Mr. RAWLINSON—I am still apprehensive that the public do not understand these points, but are misled by what this Guardian calls, as I see, the " Six Acts of the odious Castlereagh," and impute to those Acts only the effects of the summary Act passed in the 16th year of the reign of George 11. Currie now claimed his certificate of conviction in the present case; and John Truss, who had been once before sent to prison for the same offence, was consigned for another month to the House of Cor rection. LAMBETH-STREET. Anne Wilkins, a genteel and goo&looking young female, was brought before the Aiagistrates upon the following charge : Sergeant Christian stated, that between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday morning information was given to hitt) that a female had been to different gin-shops in Whitechapel, who had robbed her father of 1001., and had then but 151. of the money left, Which she frequently exhibited, and was in a fair way of losing also. He, in consequence, made inquiries touching the matter, and traced the prisoner to a brothel of the lowest description in Wentworth -street, where she had entered but a short time before. On ques tioning her, she acknowledged that three weeks before she eloped with a private soldier, who be longed to a recruiting party at the time in Cam bridge, from the house of her father, an opulent farmer, residing at Denny Abbey, about seven miles from Cambridge, taking with her 1001. in cash, and that all she had left of that sum was 151., which she handed to him. The prisoner, who continued to weep bitterly, acknowledged that what the constable had stated was true, and in reply to the questions of the Ma gistrates said, that some months since she became ac quainted with a private soldier, who belonged to a recruiting party at Cambridge, who told her his name was Robert Smith, and said he belonged to the Foot Guards. Having ascertained from her where she lived, he was in the habit of visiting her constantly, but her friends, discovering their attach ment, locked her up, and forbade her all further correspondence or connection with him. The soldier, notwithstanding, continued to come to the front of the house every night, so that she had an op portunity of speaking to him from her chamber win dow, and she at length made up her mind, as he was coming up to London, to elope with him. Sl:e accordingly prepared herself with a change of dress, and 1001. in cash, on Wednesday three weeks, and came to town with Smith. On their arrival he took lodgings for her in Westminster, and continued to visit her regularly every day until Wednesday last, when she discovered that he lived with another female, and she accordingly left him. She added, that there was no blame whatever attributable to the soldier, for that he neither encouraged her to take the money, nor come from home, and that she was willing herself to take the consequences, and entreated the Magistrates to allow her to go home to her friends. Mr. WALKER asked to whom the 1001. she had taken with her belonged, or what she had done with the remainder ?—The prisoner replied, that 281. of it were her own, having made it by the sale of poultry, &c., and the remaining 72/. was her father', and said she had spent 8.5/. of it on herself, the soldier, and his friends, since she left her home. Mr. WALKER asked if the soldier had promised her marriage ?—The prisoner said, he did, but not immediately. Christian here remarked, that since he took the prisoner he had sert a person to make inquir;es about the soldier, but was unable to find him out. It was certain, however, that he did not belong to the Guards, as there was no recruiting party be longing to any of the household regiments recruit ing at Cambridge at the time the prisoner spoke of. Besides, the prisoner said his facings were buff or yellow, which was not the case in the Guards. The prisoner, who continued to sob and cry aloud, again entreated the Magistrate would allow her to go home, but Mr. Walker ordered her to be de tained until Thursday next, and that in the mean time her friends should be apprised of her situation. UNION-HALL. TILE FIREMAN'S DOG.-At the request of the Magistrate, Tyke, the fireman's dog, was exhibited at this office on Saturday, and other peculiarities of this extraordinary animal related by firemen in attendance. There is nothing at all particular in the appearance of the dog; he is a rough-looking small animal, of the terrier breed, and seems to be in excellent condition, no doubt from the care taken of him by the firemen belonging to the different companies. Tyke fell into the hands of Stanton, a foreman of one of the fire-offices, in a remarkable way. About nine years ago two persons brought the dog to the stairs at l3lackfriars, to drown him, in consequence of his having the mange. Stanton spoke to the parties, and had the dog given up to him, and he succeeded in curing him. Since that period Tyke, as if grateful for the preservation of his life, has remained constantly with those persons belong ing to his preserver's avocation ; and although old, he is as fond as ever of being at fires. There was some difficulty experienced in bringing him to the office, as he does not much relish going any distance from where the firemen are usually to be found, except in case of attending with them at a confla gration, and then distance is of no consequence to him. There was stratagem obliged to be used. A fireman commenced running, Tyke, accustomed to follow on such occasions, set out after him, but this person having slackened his pace on the way, the sagacious animal, knowing there was no fire, turned back, and he was obliged to be carried to the office. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday t he attention of the Magistrates, Messrs. BALLANTINE and BRODERIP, was occupied for several hours in investigating a charge of assault preferred be a German sailor, named Henry Larnders, against William Mitchell, a plasterer and stenciller, under the following extraordinary circumstances : • It appeared from the evidence of the German, confirmed by other witnesses, that a few weeks ago, having become possessed of some property, he con• verted it into ready money, and entered into part nership with a man named Wilson, a harness-maker, to open a green-grocer's and chandler's shop in Upper John•street, Back-lane, St. George's in the East. In the course of a short time, he found that Wilson paid more attention to his (the German's) wife than decorum warranted, and he frequently complained of this, but without causing any change in the behaviour of his wife, and he thought the best thing he could do, would be to go to sea again, and accordingly procured a ship. On Saturday night the prisoner .2alled at the house and said he was a Thames police officer, and had come to turn witness out of the house, for nothing belonged to him, and nothing he should have. Wilson and witness's wife encouraged him to take possession, but he refused to go away, and the prisoner re mainedsonouenvt eeorrfsinat i iht i de i er hftheeheroehudhas.odeu no no iasblt business i nf g epe h sr N t sev . sateshn N eacrie e e: x ooa t fpn dr d lev a ss y eil nso t otv i r i edi e ,du‘rvi p i hiT i n tigo w t a h n i d s r t e i i t n u e r . n e d W ‘ 7 l i ,i t t n h e s o s n % e v e t o n t t h i n o ho a o rc s e h . o f policeman,Tahey opened the shutter above the door, and demanded admit tance, when the prisoner flourished a knife, and said he would cut his -- ears off if lie attempted to enter. Ile was about to open the door, in defiance of this threat, on which the prisoner struck him a dreadful blow in the face, and lie was in an instant covered with blood. The blow was followed up by others, and he was severely beaten. The policeman then interfered, and took the prisoner into custody. His wife and Wilson had since retained possession of everything. Mr. BRODERIP particularly inquired of the officer if any intimacy existed bet ween Wilson and the German's wife. was,th a a W nd ilso it n and the wife of Larnders ha d em p lo y ed the prisoner to we T ll h k e no p ‘, o v l n ice t m o represent himself as a T hames- p oli ce - officer, in order evidence, said atnhe sa n i e d ig t h h b at ou t r h h e o r o e d to mfrirg.hTiteßnoptlEleßlGp,eramfiaenr. h to e a l r e i a n v g e o t t h h e e r h o u se. this was a most infamous transaction, and it was evident there was a conspiracy between Wilson, the prisoner, and Larnders' wife, to defraud the foreigner of his wife and property. Hs convicted the prisoner in the full penalty of 6/., and, in default, to twc months' imprisonment. Mr. BALLANTINE said, that in addition to ti' sentence passed by his Colleague, the prisoner mus find bail, himself in 401. and two sureties of 204 each, to keep the peace for 12 months. Edwards, a policeman, No. 43, K, stated, tha Larnders had attempted suicide that morning, ant produced a pistol, a quantity of gunpowder, ant some shot, which he found upon him. The Ger. man had loaded the pistol, presented it at his breast and fired it ; but at the moment he drew the trigger a person, who suspected his intention, seized hi• arm, and the ball glanced by the side of his coat arid passed off in another direction. Mr. BitdtiEntt , asked the German why h e at , tempted such a rash act tirnders replied, that on Saturday night h e odd Wilson come out of his wife's room, after she h a d gone to bed, with nothing on but his shit-, and t his had so preyed on his mind, that he determined to make away with himself. The wife and her paramour (Wilson), who were in waiting, were then ordered to be brought into tl e office, and Mr. BALLANTINE censured her coo. duct in severe terms. The woman answered in a flippant minner, that Wilson had never entered her room at all, Mr. BRODERIP had no doubt that she had carried on an improper intimacy with Wilson, and that both were engaged in a vile conspiracy to cheat the husband of his property. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREA. The highest price of Bread in the Metro D polis is 93rcl. for the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I)6d. btlose that price. PRICE OF SES.-Sept. 3. New English Red Clover Se e d (p E er D Cwt.) -s. 525. fine -s. 8% Dimlld Ditto Di ...-............ ---s. -s. fine -8. ...SI -.....-........--.. 525. 68s fine -s. 903. - .....,........--- -s. -s. fine -s. - -0 . New White Clover. . - - . .. 525. 82s. fine -s. 925. Old Ditto Ditt0..........,,.... .... -s. -s. fine -s. --s. New Trefoil ........ 31d Ditto ............ ..-............ -s. -s. fine -s --so Rib Grass ....... -.. English Carraway Seed..--.-- . -s. -s. 60s. fine 645. Foreign Ditto Coriander WNW *MN.. 0 ..... •.W '0 .......W.0.0 111,. - a. -s. fine 255. 30s. St. Foin (per Quarter)........-. -s. -s. fine -3. '720. Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding • . -s. 40s. tine -s. 445. Ditto, for crushing - . 365. 40s. -s. fine 90s. Canary Seed, New - . -s. -s. 85s fine 925. "ate Old -s. -s. -s. tine --s• White Mustard 5eed.,...-(per 8u5he1)..... -a. Bs. 10s.• fine ..... 4 . Brown Ditto .. -s. 18s. 21s. finc. -..5. eds, Rounds -s. -s. fis. fine 125. Red Ditto -s. -a. Bs. tine 128. Cares, Old -a. ss. 6d. fine 6s. Ditto New -s. -a. fine -s. -- 1 . Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 231. 26/. .-.. Foreign 20!. 24i._ cew Foreign Ditto. Old Ditto - Turni: Green am PRICES OF HOPS.—Sept. 3. Kent Pockets .51 Os. 61. Oa. to 7!. Os. Sofsex Ditto -- 41 15i. 5/. ss. to 5•. 12s. Frsex Ditto . ...... 41. J. 51. O. to 51. 105. Farnham Ditto, Fine 71. Oa. 91. Os. to 01 Os. Seconds .............. 01. Os. 51. Os to 71 Os. v....0wn• 2l. IN. 41..03 to 51. 12s. . 41. Os. 41. Bs. to 41. 12i. 01. Os 01. Os. to 0/. Os Old Duty laid at 140,000/. Kent Bag: Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE 01' Rtpe Oil. brown 6s. Refined 6 Linseed Oil 25 CI Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per t0n...., 11 6 5 5 WM I FECHAPEL HAY AltKET.—Sept. 1 Hay 60s. Od. to 84s. Od. t 10ver...-. 70. Od. to 115,. Od. 30; Od. to 34 , na PIC I Ch. OF t'Ul AI I, —Sept. 3. 21. 10s. to 3i. ss. per ton. HER. Per lb. d. to ti• English Horse Hides... 12 14 Spanish Ditto ............. 14 16 Per dozen. - Calf Skins... 36 to 411 b. 15 19 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 2A Ditto 70 to 80Ib. 18 !AL Small Seals. Greenland 16 111 Large ditto l2 19 RAW HIDES. rer Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone s. d. to 64 3es t Heifers & Steers 2 4 2 8 Ordinary 0 0 1 lli(l,llings. 110 2 0 Market 6 ()each., SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Os. Od. to Os. Od. I Lambs Is. 6d. to 25.0 5hear1ing5...........18. 01. to Is. Bd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, perstoneotslb. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters).--,....25. PRICE OF TALLOV town Tallow 46d. Od. Yellow 435. Od. White 43s. Od. Soap Ditto 42g. Od, Melted 365. Od. Ditto Od. rail:Lb W. Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 21 Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing 12 14 16 18 Ditto, light Clop Hides, light 12 131 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 13 151 Ditto l4 16 , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 625. OA! Mottled •••• • •••• WOVV.V.MiII 70s• 74.4. Od. Graves ........ ...... 14s• _. Good Dregs ....--.....--.. ss. vo' PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :-•• Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen--. 95. tSd. , KET.—Sept. 3. Per Ton. a d' Walls End '2O ° Bells Primrose.-- 16 Lambton's Primrose.— 19 . 1 , Walls End Helton f, Walls End Lamhton 21 W. E. Russell's Hetton... 21 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.-- 19 ," Walls End Stewart's...". 2 1 "A Walls End Adelaide 19 n' a Walls End Butter Knowl 19 a ' WWallaWalllW. ls E E E sn n n od d d u tCCileneeprldeuol Durham.,., 19 21 1 1 9 9: 66 '0' Cowiien 20 Walls End Elgin 20 0 Netherton 18 6 New Flockton, Milne, 0 and C 0....... IS 0 Silkstone Field and C 0.,. IS Silkstone Wilson 19 6 0 Warde's Llanelly—.—. '2O Greenwich Hospital—...— 17 Primrose small 14 Ice last market-day, 85. COAL MA Per Ton. s. d. Adair's 18 3 Bensham Blain,._ l7 0 Charlotte Felling Main lB 0 dolywell l'ontop Windsor Is 0 St. Lawrence Main 19 0 lantick! 18 6 l'ownley ---- 18 0 West Hartley 20 0 AVylam ----- 18 6 Walls End Bell & Brown 19 3 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 9.0 6 Ditto Iturraton 18 9 Wall , End Callerton -- 18 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0.,.,,.,,. 19 0 Walls End Gosforth 20 6 Walls End Heaton.„--.. 19 9 Walls End Flotspur.--- 19 0 Walls End Hilda ---- 19 3 Ditto Killingworth —.. 19 6 Walls End N ewimirch—_ 19 0 Ditto Northumberland 19 9 Ditto Perkins and Co-- 19 Walls End Riddell's —.— 19 9 Ships arrived sin SINGULAR SUICIDE OF AN . OLD LADY! . An inquest was yesterday held at the Blue Posts, King' street, Golden-square, on the body of Mrs. FRANCO 111ArttER, aged 63, the wife of Mr. J. MATHER, an el' tensive builder in the above street. The son of the de ceased said that she had been much g r i eve d on accou nt °, the illness of her husband, then at M arga t e . Sh e c aul' scarcely be prevailed upon to take the smallest sustenance , On Sunday morning, he left her very dejected ; on hi s return at dincer, she sat down with the rest of the fau3iii' but after swallowing one or two pieces of meat, the de:, ceased appeared as if s h e was c h oa ki ng . Sh e t h en d r ans . a tumbler of beer, which was in a moment afterward ° ejected from her stomach, and she sunk back insensible' Dr. LEA was sent for, and it then appeared, that she had in the course of the day taken half a pint of turpentine , sulphuric acid, and olive oil, prepared in equal proportions as a liniment for the gout ; which accounted for be t sudden illness. This was r e m ove d by means o f t h e stoma ch pump, but the deceased died in a short time. Dr. said at the post mortem examination there was nothing is the appearance of the stomach to indicate that it had be e° acted upon by the poison. On the contrary, the heart' intestines, and liver had the appearances observed in 1 3 ! 1 71 sons who die of the prevailing epidemic. Verdict--Th e from taking a deleterious liquid when in an un soun d OW , of mind. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. at Darlington.place, St. John's.wood, the 1 01 of John Daly, Esq., of a son. ,aotrtthweioAsfanor-house, Westbourne-green, P IP. On the 3d inst. at Park-place, Paddington.green, Mrs. Steve o ' of a son. John Braithwaite, Btthhreacil2tshdt‘innasistttel in Hailey.street, the wife of William MacDir e ' Esq., surgeon, s t i i i i r e g 3 eo h n t , uoift.aadtaßuwgrohctkeze: 'Hal Halls On the Ist inst. at esten .0( ge, Thames Ditton, the is`!)' of Francis Worsley, Esq., of a daughter. f On the 31st ult. the lady of J. D. Alexander, Esq., M.P., ° daughter. t he On the 29th ult. at Gifford's Hall, in the county of Suffolk,' lady of Patrick Mannock, Esq. of a son. h 0 theor Cunninghamlst inst. atClhAtaig, Church, Marylebone, Mr. PIO Blackburn, Esq., of a son, Surrey, Th the lady of JO' MARRIED. e 9 St. John's-wood, to Miss lO U S P k oO el r t 'e o ll n% of Muswell-hill. DIED. On the 29th ult. at Ibsteek Rec tory, Leicestershire, Charl ° ef V o s, relict of General G eorge Warde, late of Woodland Castle, ,`,"ell morganshire, in th e 76 t h year of her age. She was the "rd daughter of the Right Rev. Spencer Madan, D.D., late .'; O 6 Bishop of Peterborough, by the Lady Charlotte his wife , sister of the first Marquis Cornwallis. r rh TO On the Ist inst. at Ramsgate, after a few days' illness, .. - j e rP Oldham, Esq., of Are-lane, Brixton, and Barge-yard, BUCX bury. g r On the 2d inst. at Brompton, aged 46, Harriet, wife of Daniel Ball, of Greenwich. „„tir• On the '2d inst. at Hackney, aged 56, Mr. John Olding P' e pt, On the 2,1 inst. in the 85th year of his age, Mr. James 1 33 2 . 0 t, of Warren str ee t, C am d en -t own , many y ears an inhabitant 0 Martin's-lane. Gip' On the 3d inst. in Queen-square, Westminster, Thomas son, Esq., banker, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 72. „ ii in On the 28th ult. of cholera, Mr. Charles Day SimPs Speldhurst-street, Burton-creseent, 29 years in the Seere'V ry Office, Somerset-house. g o O a o u t , tile Ptlc h h u a l m t. , aagiedid 27, Ann, ti 0 6 61 daughterthe On the "sth ult at Boulogne, the Rev. John Fisher, A rchdes' On the 3d inst. after a lingering illness, at Pinksworth_ - , r ves Hamersmith, Ann, the wife of Mr. W. P. Doughty, °I lt Strand. , isif 3 ' On the 30th ult. in the dock-yard at Sheerness, toe daughter of Captain Andrew King, C.B. ____.,,,oe PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO Y OUNG,AT -11 SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.