The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-12 00:00:00

formed Parliaments, plunged this country into, let us n o t see our S tatesmen rea li ze the maxim, " Vitia dum vitant, stulti in contraria cur. runt,"and proclaim to all the world that England, ashamed of having formerly acted the part of a bully, is resolved for the future to try the advan tage of practising the self-denial of a coward , Morning Herald. There is no part of the evidence taken by the Bank Committee, in which the London and country bankers differ more, than in the mono poly of the Bank of England, Most of the London witnesses conceive that confusion would follow a free comp e titi on o f b an ki ng i n t h e me tropolis. The country bankers ag a in contend that they starer from the power which the Bank of England has ; and that without a free trade in banking, they must always suffer from it. Our readers are not probably aware of the improve.. ment which has taken place in banking in Eng land, under the 7th Geo. IV. by the establish ment of Joint Stock Banks in different parts of the country. Mr. Dyer, of the Joint Stock Bank of Manchester, one of the witnesses, de livered to the Committee the following list t— " Huddersfield Banking Company, established 1827 ; capital, 500,000/. ; and 20 per cent, called up—viz., 100,0001. Has a branch at Wak.ll id. "Bradford Banking Company, tstablished 1827; ca pital, 500,000/. ; not known how much called up. Has no branches. " Lancaster Banking; Company, established 11327 upnn a limited scale; its cash capital about 20,000/. Has three branches. " Norfolk and Norwich Banking Company, established 1827. His nine branches. Capital not known. " Bank of Manchester, established 1829 ; capital 2,000,000/. ; 15 per cent. called up—'viz. 300,0001. Has two branches, viz. at Stockport and Bolton. " Halifax Joint Steck Company, established in 1929, upon a small scale, its cash capital being little more than 15,0001. " Leicester Banking Company, established 1829, upon a limited scale ; capital not known ; has one branch. " Birmingham Banking Company, established 1829; its cash capital is 56,000/ Hag one branch. " Cumberland Union Banking Company, established 1829, upon a limited scale ; its cash capital is little more than 20 000/. It has seven branches. " Sturkey's Barkint Company. This was a priva'e Bank at Bristol, and took the name of a Joint Sock Bank after adding a few rartners. The partners are about ten in number. Have eleven branches, besides a house in London. " Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, opened in 1829. by issuing notes which state upon the face of them, Capital 5,000,0001. in 50,000 shares of 1001. each.'— Was nearly eighteen months without a Board of Direc• tors. No account of their proceedings has ever been pub lished, and their present paid-up capital is therefore un known. Nine branches open. " York City and County Banking Company, established 1830, in 5,000 shares of 1002. each, upon which 51. per shirr have been called up, making a cash capital of 25.0001. Has one branch. Bank of Liverpool, established in 1830 ; capital, 2,500.0001. in 25,000 shares of 1001. each, upon which 10/ per .hare have been called up, making a cash capital of 250,0004 ; and a further call of 125,0001.-375,000/. Whitehaven Banking Company, on a small scale, and no particulars known here. " Sheffield Banking Company, established in 1831, in 1,500 shares of 2001. each, upon which 401. per share Leave been called np, making a cash capital of 60,0001. " Darlington Banking Company, Darlington District Bank, Gloucester Banking Company, Knaresborough Banking Company, Plymouth and Devonport Banking Company, Stamford and Spalding Banking Company—all recently established, and no particulars known here." It appears from the evidence of Mr. Dyer, that the Manchester Joint Stock Company Bank does not issue cash notes, but paper, pay able at various distances of time ; one descrip tion, called hank post bills, is payable at seven days after date ; it issues drafts on its agents in London at 30, 60, and 90 days. Under the present monopoly of the Bank of England, the) cannot make their notes payable in London, but must draw on an agent. At an interview with Lord Althorp on the 9th April, 1832, by a joint deputation from the banks of Liverpool and Manchester, they submitted certain propo sitions to his Lordship for the regulation of Joint Stock Banks. It was proposed that they should conist of at least 100 proprietors, of whom 20 shall have paid up at least 1,000/. each ; that they should have a paid-up capital of at least 100,0001., and a subscribed capital of not less than 500,0001.; that they should exe cute a deed of settlement, stating the nutnber of proprietors, &c., before commencing business ; that they should have the power of making their notes and drafts, of whatever amount, pay able either at their respective localities, or in London, or in both places, but not elsewhere ; that all bankers here not conforming to the pro posed law, be held to be private banking houses, and that a specific charter or license shall be re quired in each particular case, in order that Go vernment may enforce the regulations necessary for giving full security to the public. The Joint Stock Banks are naturally afraid of injury to their credit, by the erection of sham Companies under the title ; and Mr. Dyer states, that there was an attempt to force a local circulation by a Joint Stock Bank, which nobody knew any thing about. The following charge is made against the Bank of England by Mr. Dyer : Why do you think it necessary to make any alteration with regard to the banking of Lancashire, where there is scarcely any local issue ?—Because I think the supply of the circulation by the Bank of England subjects our trade to great and injurious fluctuations, owing to what is called a scarcity of money, arising from causes of which the public, who are deeply interested, in that quarter, can have no foreknowledge. The objections to the existing system are, that the Bank of England has a secret and despotic influence to control the destinies of our commerce, which we feel to be a most pernicious one ; and we feel strongly upon that point, that whatever law there may be relating to the currency of the country, it ought not to be left in the hands of that individual Company so to control the the interests of commerce; that the Bank of England has, by its expansion, and contraction of the circulation, induced an expansion, and contraction following close upon its footsteps, to a ruinous extent. I am fully con vinced that all the great periods of panic and disaster to our commerce are in a great measure to be attri• buted to that power which is exercised in secret, and which the public can have no knowledge of till it has become efficient as a power acting upon the inte rest of commerce ; and I believe that it has been mainly instrumental in producing the successive stimuli, first to stimulate the country Bankers to issue a greater amount of circulation, and by circulation I mein not merely local notes, but bills of exchange; and that this power has not only produced a great many instances of mischief, but is constantly doing it ; it is raising and lowering the value of money, without its value being at all altered by the commercial cr other circumstances of tie country ; and that such a power, which is constantly in action, has been devised for the interest of the Bank without any re gard to the interest of the public, in my bumble opinion at least ; and the fact of its always having turned out that the Bank of England secures itself, while the Country B,nkers cannot secure themselves, shows that the Country Bankers, upon whom we must necessarily depend, are rendered insecure in consequence of the overwhelming influence of the Bank of England ; and we say that a Company having such a vast influence, and exercising it in secret, is a d an g e rous Company, a nd that we can devise plans by which we can have a better circulation than what we have had hitherto, the present being in all respects the worst that can possibly be, because there is nothing of stability or steadiness about it." Mr. John B. Smith, another of the Directors of the Bank of Manchester, objected in like manner to the power possessed by the Bank of England over the monetary system of the coun try. The possession of this power has enabled them to expand and contract their circulation at will, and thus give to our currency a fluctua ting instead of a steady character, their opera tions being not only uncontroned, but conducted with a secrecy which even the Bank Proprietors 1 themselves are not allowed to penetrate: Some curious illustrations are given by Mr. Smith of i the disastrous effects produced by over-issues, and the difficulty of a country recovering from them. " In the year 1824 and the early part of 1825, many of the Lancashire Banks offered the strongest inducements to people to borrow money of then, it was so plentiful ; and this led to the building of mills, and the increasing of manufactures to an amazing extent. We are now labouring under the effects of that pernicious system ; mills and manufactories have been esta blished which ought not to have been esta blished; they were established, not because there was an increased demand for their produce but because the parties were doing well, and having an opportunity of borrowing money, thought that they would do better by increasing their manufactures." Mr. Smith after wards observes—" If the increase in inanufac• tures had been naturally caused by the invest ment of real capital, the production would have bee❑ gradual and profitable ; but being prema turely forced, it kept constantly a-head of the demand. The fall in the prices and wages of labour induced, from time to time, an increased demand ; but not sufficient to absorb the in creased production. Although the supply has been sometimes checked by mills being shut up, or working only a short time, or stopped in con sequence of combinations and quarrels with the workmen about reduction of wages, it has ex ceeded the demand ; and under this long course of unprofitable trade, the resources of the spin ners and manufacturers have been gradually wasting away. A friend, complaining of the state of trade, told me he was working his mill to a loss ; that, with all his management and economy, he was unable to make both ends meet, and asked my advice as to whether he should shut it up. I replied, that must depend upon the amount of his loss by working it. It ap peared on examination, that if he shut up his mill, his expenses of rent, taxes, interest on capital, and expense of keep ing the machinery in order, would amount to about 1,5001. per annum, but the loss by working it would be only 5001. per annum. I recommended, therefore, that he should continue to work it, on the ground that he would still be a gainer of 1,0001. per annum by doing so. True (said he) ; but you cannot fail to see that such gains must shortly bring men to ruin.' They have already brought many to ruin ; and so recently as between November and February last, about forty spinners failed. The consumption of cotton manufactures is, no doubt, constantly on the increase ; and it is not impro bable, had not the over-trading of 1824 and 1825 occurred, there might have been as large a production as at present, but it would have been brought about gradually and by suc cessive profitable investments of capital instead of the enormous loss of capital which has been caused by forcing the supply of means of artifi cial capital." There is in the Scotsman received yesterday, a very able article on the causes of the distress of the iron trade in Staffordshire, which is attributed, in like manner, to the ex travagant erections of works in 1824 and 1825, and the excessive supply produced by the over exertions of the struggling manufacturers. All are agreed that the conduct of the Bank of England was the cause of all the extra vagance of 1824 and 1825. But their miscon duct, we see, is still producing its disasterous effects throughout the country. When large sums are laid out in mills and other expensive works, these works are carried on at a loss, in the hopes of saving a wreck of the outlay. — Trade is thus prevented from recovering itself. The Bank of England, it thus appears, has been the cause of an extent of suffering through out the country to which no description can do justice. No one of the London Bankers at tempts to justify their madness in 1824 and 1825. It is, indeed, urged, by Mr. Samuel J. Lloyd and Mr. George Grote, that if the Bank had been subject to publicity, it durst not have so far departed from prudence as it did. But we must return to the subject.—Morning Chron. When we mentioned yesterday that the ma chinery of the Bank of England was not the only possible combination by which the requisite amount of secure currency could be supplied to the public, through the medium of a single establishment in the metropolis, we particularly guarded ourselves from expressing any decided opinion in favour of the alternative of a Govern ment commission which we described, and we were more particularly cautious against expressing any judgment in opposition to the power of several joint stock banks in the capital, to fulfil all the duties of banks of issue better than the Bank of England does on its present footing. In recommending one bank of issue, which would combine security, regularity, and economy, we did not necessarily allege that several banks would be dangerous, or that their rival pretensions would necessarily be the cause of fluctuations in the general currency of which each partook. We are indeed persuaded of the contrary, being convinced that, though the ex periment implies such a departure from esta blished habits and ideas as ought not to be hazarded on light grounds, or without an adequate trial of an improvement on the present system, yet that it would be ultimately safe and successful. The London bankers and London commercial men, who gave the only opi nions which we find in the evidence on this point, could not detach their minds from their usual habits of thought to consider it as a mat ter of impartial reasoning, and had too little acquaintance with its effects in other countries to correct their prejudices by the results of expe rience. Some of them, therefore, conceived that if there were several banks of issue in the metropolis, one of them would run against another to its own injury, to that of its rival, and to that of the public—that in running against its rival it would never perceive that it was running against itself—and that in issuing extrava gantly its notes, it would entirely forget the trifling circumstance, of which it would be reminded on the first day of clearing, that it must either prig vide coin or bullion, or good bills convertible into coin, to make up its over-issued balances. Combining such a system of metropolitan banks of issue with a deposit in Government securi ties to the full amount of their issues, and with a convertibility of their notes into gold, nothing could be more secure, or less likely to occasion ruinous fluctuations. Mr. Tooke, who was too well acquainted with general principles to take up the stupid objections of some other witnesses, introduced two cases which were by no means parallel, and argued from the admitted unity of the one, to the necessary unity of the other. " I do not find," said he, " any more reason for the establish ment of two motley banks for the coining of paper for the metropolis, than I should for the establishment of two or more mints for the coin ing of the metals. I conceive there is no possible advantage to be set against the possibl inconvenience?' If Mr. Tooke can make it out that the principles on which a credit cur• tency is managed, and the checks by which its excesses may be prevented or corrected, are as easy as affixing the King's head and the Royal arms to definite pieces of gold of the requisite weight and fineness when brought to the Mint, then the comparison would be just,—hilt we need not in this case point out the dissimilarity. Mr. Tooke afterwards admits that publicity alone can secure the good conduct of one body in the direction of the currency ; and how the same cause should not produce the same effect on several, especially when aided by a sharpened regard to public reputation and private interest, we are at a loss to conceive. But agreeing with this intelligent witness, that no great advantage would be gained, while " some possible in convenience" might be incurred by the esta blishment of several banks of issue in the me tropolis, we should be inclined to make a further trial of the present system of unity, under im proved circumstances, rather than hazard a change. Mr. Easthope, and several other wit nesses, hostile to the present Bank management, concur in this opinion. Mr. Easthope would even make trial of the Bank, on its present con stitution, as manager of the currency for some years more, with the single concession of the " publicity of its accounts." And the • late Lord Liverpool, though he intended to strip the corporation of its exclusive privileges, still seemed to contemplate its continued existence as " the great centre of banking and circulation." The following are the words of a leiter written by his Lordship to the Bank Directors, after the panic of 182.5 : _ . " With respect to the extension of the term of their ex clusive privileges in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, it is obvious, from what pas•ed before, that Parliament will never agree to it. Such privileges are out of fashion; and what expectation can the Bank entertain in present circumstances that their's will be renewed ? But there is no reason why the Bank should look at this consequence with dismay. They will remain a chartered corporation tor carrying on the business of banking. In that character they will, we trust, always continue to be the sole bankers of the State ; and with these advantages, as long as they conduct their affairs wisely and prudently, they always must be the great centre of banking and circulation." The question, therefore, - among intelligent persons will lie, not between the Bank of Eng land and several joint stock banks of issue in the metropolis,—by which the State would save nothing, though it might lose nothirg,— but between the Bank of England and a national establishment for managing the currency of the country, and conducting the business of the Go vernment, by which, with equal or greater security for the circulation, a saving of more than half a million a-year might be effected for the public. In order to familiarize the minds of the nation to the latter scheme, we cannot too often advert to a part of Mr. H. Palmer's evidence, which has hitherto been overlooked, and which shows that the Governor of the Bank already considers its establishment as a department of the general Government. To the question, " What do you consider as the principle function which it is the duty of the Bank to perform ?" he replied, " To furnish the paper money with which the public act around them, and to be a place of safe deposit for the public money, or fin the money of individuals who prefer a public body, like the Bank, to private bankers. ' On this he was properly asked, " Are not these the functions of a Government rather than of a private Company ?" To which he modestly an swered, " That is for the Government to de termine." The next question was, " Then, the benefit to be conferred is merely the substi tution of a paper money for specie, and not the benefit arising from accommodation to the in dustrious classes ?" To which he replied, " I think the Bank cannot satisfactorily give that accommodation while their circulation is so employed by other establishments." But, by whatever body or bodies of men the currency is to be managed, whether by the Directors of the Bank of England, under Mr. H. Palmer's idea of a public board, managing for the private in terests of the Bank proprietors, or by a board of commissioners managing the public business for the public interest, or by several rival banks of great credit, entitled to the confidence of the public by the investment of their capital in pub lic securities, we must not listen to the least whisper of a departure from our present stand ard of value, or to any proposition for ex tending our paper circulation beyond its im mediate convertibility into gold. Neither Government, should the plan of a national bank be adopted, nor private banking esta blishments, should such establishments be per mitted to supply the currency, can give us any other security against fraud, uncertainty, depre ciation, fluctuation, and ruin, than the power of converting their notes into specie at the plea sure of the holder. Mr. Attwood, of Birming ham, (who has developed his ideas in the evi dence of the Bank Committee,) and others of his school, may rave as much as they like about their powers of making the nation rich by bits of stamped paper—released of course from all necessity of being tested in value by the coin which they profess to represent. Such bits of paper, however abundant, can never create wealth, and can have no other effect—so far as they depart from the existing standard—than to alter contracts, and to plunder one party for the benefit of another. They remind us of the Chinese definition of the same kind of trash given by M. Klaproth in a learned disquisition, in tended to prove that the children of the Celestial Empire knew how to fabricate this doubtful in strument of exchange before the Jews had been dispersed over the earth, and when our British ancestors Tsilye w s a m n o d r. e i r gK e thet il l na i p n rofo tht h(ein woods . paaspheo ' r : Mon gols,"itle t The Mon ey ) a e n " afterwards introduced it into Persia, where their assignats were called djau, or djatu,—a term evidently derived from the Chinese chhaou, composed of rin, metal, and shaou, few, sig. nifying the want of coined metal.' When it is pronounced chhaou, it means to take by force, to rob, or to seize upon the property of others.'" By this definition it appears that the Chinese must have had a very correct notion two thousand years ago of what is called in this civilized land of wealth, andtrade,:a n bank-notes, " an action on the currency," or paying old debts," or " national relief by bank engravers."— Times. A JUDGE'S MISTAKE.-011 Tuesday, a good deal of merriment was produced in the Nisi Prius Court, by Mr. Baron BOLLAND entering that Court, and sitting down in Mr. Justice PARKE'S seat, who had retired for a moment into his own room. His Lordship looked round with evident surprise at the unexpected appearance the Court presented. After a moment's pause his Lord ship said, " I believe I have got to the wrong end." His Lordship then retired, and at the same moment Mr. Justice PARKE entered the Court, who smiled at the mis take of his Learned Brother. Many persons have before this been lost in a Court of Law, without being able to find their way out so well as his Lordship did.—Leeds Mercury. FATAL TITHE RENCONTRE. CORONER'S INQUEST. (From the Cork Reporter of Saturday.) • MALLOW, FRIDAY NIG ElT.—The excitement throughout the entire district during this day has been very alarming indeed. Motives of a very ob vious nature dictate to me the propriety of sup pressing the uncloaked and loudly-expressed expres sions of the people. Desperation, vengeancm, and recklessness seemed to mark their black dark countenances. They mustered thinly at the in quest, but the funerals of the victims were attended by vast crowds. Here, too, there was a settled down sullenness in the people; not a keen was heard as the cavalcades passed the open field where the inquest was being held, but there was a look of dark scorn—nor did the Magistrates omit to notice the circumstance. - The first witness examined was, Lieutenant Alexander William Grierson, of the 14th Infaryry—On the morning of Wednesday, the sth inst., be was sent, with a detachment of his re giment, to assist the Magistrates and the civil power in the valuation of the tithes of the parish of Walls town. He was accompanied from the Glebe House by Admiral Evans, George Bond Low, and Garrett Nagle, Esqrs., Magistrates of this county. On ap proaching the hill to the rear of the Rector's house, where a crowd of people was collected, he heard Admiral Evans order them to disperse, in the King's name. At that moment there were about 150 per sons present. On descending the hill he saw a party of policemen in the act of charging the crowd, who were about thirty yards distant from their bayonets. The witness then received directions from the Ma gistrates to follow the people, who repaired to the top of the adjoining hill. On the arrival of witness's party, Admiral Evans took off his hat, and, addressing the multitude, said " I am going to read the Riot Act." He (the Admiral) then took a paper out of his pocket, and read the contents of it to the people, " ordering them to disperse in the name of the King," which mandate was peremptorily refused to be complied with. The Admiral then assured them that if they did not instantly disperse, the military would be brought to bear upon them, or words to that effect. At this moment there was a general cry amongst the people of " No tithes, no tithes," and they re fused to stir an inch. At this time there were no stones thrown, or breach of the peace committed. The Admiral then ordered the party, consisting of thirty-one, to load; they did so; and, in compliance with the order of the Magistrate, he desired them, in a loud voice, to charge with ball cartridge, with a view of intimidating the people. The witness here cautioned his men, if he should be driven to the extremity by the Magistrates, to fire by sections. Mr. George Bond Low—From whom, Sir, did you receive such instructions? Witness—As well as I can recallecr,Sir,from you. Witness resumed—He heard Admiral Evans say to the people, " I'll go on my knees to entreat of you to go home, and allow the persons to proceed in valuing the parish." Many voices replied, " Yes, let us go away." On witness proceeding to the lower road, where the valuators were about esti mating a field, he saw them checked by the people. Then it was he saw the policeassume a charging po sition. The mob at this time had increased to about 200. Witness then entered the field with his men. The opposition given was so great, that the valu ators left the field. The mob was rapidly increasing, lining the sides of the road inside the ditches,— halloing—being generally armed with pitchforks, bludgeons, reaping -hooks, and stones in their hands. The violent and itn.ulting language of the mob at this moment, was such that the authorities halted. Here a boy from amongst the people neared the mi litary, when a policeman told him to keep off, on which three or four of the most determined of the peasantry, presented themselves with pitch forks in a charging position, and said, " Strike him —strike him (the boy) if you dare ; if you do, by G—d, we'll run you through." The people pressed on the three men; the Magistrates expos tulated, but ineffectually; the mob increased in daring, and Admiral Evans ordered the soldiers to present their guns to the " ready." Aga n they were warned to disperse in the name of the King. At this time 16 men of the 92d joined witness's party. General Annesley called witness and Lieu tenant Ormsby of the 92d aside, and told them to prepare to resist the mob, and ordered the latter officer to go to the bottom of the road and charge the people in the rear. Soon after witness saw the parry of the 92d charging the people up the hill with fixed bayonets. The police were making prisoners. S ones were now thrown in the direction of the po lice and Magistrates. Then the police fired; the Magistrates in the rear of witness's party called out, " Fire, fire, fire!" Witness never gave the word " fire ;" but, in consequence of the general call of the Magistrates, the party fired. As he believes, the 92d did not fire. His party did not fire in the air. When witness came to examine the muskets of his party, he found that nine or ten out of the thirty one did not fire at all ! and there was but one dis charge from the party. The lives of the Magistrates, he thinks, were considerably endangered. Several of the people said to his party, " We'll not harm you; but we wilt these Peelers." The greatest numb e r present was 800. The Rev. John Gavan, rector of the parish of Wallstown, on going into the field of one James Menke, saw a great number of people assembled, about 50, one of whom took off his hat and shouted to the others to " Hurry on, hurry on ;" that the police thereupon formed themselves into square, and after that proceeded into the public road, arid ad vanced. The crowds increased in hundreds, arid commenced shouting in a tumultuous manner—"No tithes—No church-rates No church—No minister." The Magistrates addressed the people, in the most forcible language that could be used, on the ab surdity of their proceedings, and on acting contrary to law. The people, after that, became more fu rious. About two hours were spent by the Magis trates in remonstrating with the people, but when such remonstrances had no effect, the Riot Act was read by General Barry, a Magistrate of the county. He read it in a loud and audible voice, anti accompa nied it with observations,—that if they did not dis perse in a quarter of an hourjthe military should be obliged to do their duty. This had no effect but to increase their violence. He saw several persons arrested and hand-cuffed before the firing, and also several rescued, and heard a general order for firing by the Magistrates ; before that order was given he saw stones thrown in the direction of the Magistrates and military, and in a few minutes after he heard a general order to fire, and saw one man dead afterwards. Cannot say how often the Riot Act was that day read. Heard General Annesley and Admiral Evans frequently desire the people to disperse in the name of the King, and they did not do so. About three hours elapsed from the time he left his own glebe until the firing commenced. The people continued fol lowing witness and his party from the time they left Blake's field, and their conduct was most furious and violent. Saw a printed paper in General Barry's hand, which he (General Barry) declared to be the Riot Act. Heard the Riot Act read three times that day. CORONER— Could the military disperse the people without the effusion of human blood ? Witness— I don't think they could. If you ceased the valuation, would not the people have dispersed ?--I think they would, and that the military and police were drawn off. Was it possible for the police and military parties to have made prisoners without the sacrifice of human life ?—I don't think it was. Witness —Swears positively he did not at any time collar any of the people or offer any violence whatever, before or after the firing. Henry Gavan, son to the Rev. John Chvan, gave evidence to the same effect as his tither. Beth were c ress-examined by the Rev. Mr. Toomey, the parish priest,but without eliciting any contradiction. The Court was adjourned to the following day. ARREST OF CAPTAIN JAMES LUDLOW STAWELL, CANDIDATE FOR KosALE.—This popular gentle man was arrested at innoshannon yesterday, for hav ing attended at some anti-tithe meetings. The ar rest was made by the Chief of Police; and so far as courtesy could be coupled with such a proceed ing, Capt. Stawell had nothing to complain of. He will give bail at the Court of Sessions at Bandon, on Monday, and has already sent off to secure the services of Mr. O'Connell in his defence, at the ap proaching assizes.—Cork Reporter of Saturday. ARREST OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR, ESQ , CAN DIDATE FOR THE COUNTY.—Feargiis O'Connor, Esq., candidate for the county, was also arrested this day, for having attended seven meetings of a like character, in this county. The necessary bail, we believe, was at once entered into:—./bid. PARISH OF WALLSTOWN.—The flock of the Rev. Mr. Gavan, in the parish of Wallstown, which has just got such a bloody notorie y, consists of one Protestant, exclusive of the Rev. Pastor's family, and there is no church in it ! POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A young man, named Thomas Attree, of respect able appearance, was brought up, charged with having attempted to extort money from Joseph Pearsal, a person in the service of the East India Gnnpany. The case excited much interest. The prosecutor stated, that on Wednesday, the 29th or 30th of August, as he was going along Cornbill, to deliver letters, he met the prisoner, whom he knew by sight from having observed him frequently passing and repassing the East India House. After he had delivered the letters, the pri soner continued to accompany him, and, in Chiswell street, said that he wanted a few shillings, but the prosecutor said he had no money, upon which the prisoner called out " hoy " to a man 011 the °pp,- site side of the way, who immediately crossed over. The prisoner then said, in indecent words, that the prosecutor had done something to him. The other man then said to the prosecutor, " You had better give him 55." The prosecutor borrowed .ss. at a public-house, and gave them to the prisoner, whose companion said that he also must have 55.; but the prisoner said he should let him htive half-a-crown, or he would call at the India-house, and serve the prosecutor the same as the Rev. Mr. D Lyle. The prisoner, on another day, called at the India-house, and was at once given in charge to a policeman. Mr. Wooler—Why did you not give the pri soner in charge when he first demanded the ss. ? Prosecutor—l did riot. I acknowledge I did wrong in making the acquaintance, but I was sorry to see a respectable young man in such distress. The LORD MAYOR—I shall expect that the pri soner will bring forward persons to give him a good character. By that I shall be directed in my con duct on the occasion. G UILDHALL. John Ward, a person of gentlemanly demeanour, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday, charged with having, in league with a person named Farquharson, cheated Mr. Currie, a tradesman in Regent-street, out of an acceptance for 500/. ; and, in confederacy with a Mrs. Bayley, of another bill for 1001. Mr. Lyster, the barrister, attended o►n behalf of the complainant, and briefly stated the charge. Sir PETER LAURIE asked who the prisoner was. Mr. Currie had known him some time. He was introduced to him along with Mr. Gurney, the steam-coach builder, and was sent by him to superin tend the starting of one of those vehicles in Scotland. Sir PETER LAURIE asked if complainant was a shareholder in some company. Mr. Currie said " No ;" but he was in fact the proprietor of the Lord of the Isles steam-coach now in Scotland, and which ought to be plying between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Sr PETER apprehended it was more unfortunate .hat he was so, than that he had been defrauded of hese two bills. Mr. Currie had a different opinion of his specula tion. It had miscarried only because it had been mismanaged. Mr. Currie repeated that he sent the prisoner to Scotland to start the coach, and after spending a good deal of money there, he returned, and introduced Farquharson to him as a large land holder in the north, who would lend him 1,000/. to carry on the adventure. Farquharson (or Sir Thomas Farquharson, of Breda, as he styled him self) showed him some letters to prove that he was really a man of property, and complainant unsus pectingly gave him his acceptance for 500/. to be discounted, He, however, never received the pro ceeds, and on inquiring after him, he found he had given him a false address. Sir PETER asked the prisoner how long he had known Farquharson ? Prisoner replied a long whilt. Sir PETER asked if he had ever passed by the name of Davis ? Prisoner said not to his know ledge. Did not know what Farquharson had been. Was not in company with him at Garraway's on Monday. Sir PETER asked the prisoner what he had been ? Prisoner said, that twenty years ago he was a purser in the Royal George East Indiman. Sir PETER asked how he had lived since? Pri soner answered, " On steam." Mr. Lyster explained the second charge—that the prisoner had introduced a Mrs. Bayley to Mr. Currie, as a person who could discount a 1001. bill, and that the proceeds of this had not been forth coming. If the Magistrate did not commit the pri soner for assisting in these frauds, justice would not be done to an honest tradesman. Prisoner replied, his conduct throughout had been perfectly honourable. He introduced Farquharson as a person who had been in difficulties, but had expectances of property in Scotland, leaving Mr. Currie to look into his papers and letters to satisfy himself whether he was able to assist him. The project itself was a good one, as the running of the steam-coach to Birmingham, about a month ago, had proved. Prisoner had the patent right to run loco motive carriages on common roads through Scot land, for which he was to pay the patentees 15,0001. as soon as he should realize so much by the pro- ject. Not having money to set the thing agoing, he agreed with Mr. Currie to give him a third of the profits, upon making the necessary advances, and prisoner was sent down to Scotland with a car riage to make the experiment. From the defective ness of the machine time was lost, and Mr. Currie discontinued his remittances. From his vacillation the attempt had failed. Mr. Currie had rendered him an account for 1,6001., but he was only fairly chargeable, as he was informed by the engineer at Glasgow, with about 700/. Sir PETER asked if he would give up the bills ? —Prisoner said, " No." He conceived he had a claim to them. The bills recited on the face of them that he (Currie), the acceptor, had " received value" from him (the prisoner), who was the drawer. And besides, Mr. Currie was a holder of his acceptances to the amount of 600/. Prisoner had as much right to protect himself as Mr. Currie had to protect himself. He had one of Mr. Cur rie's letters at home which would place their trans actions in a clear light. Sir PETER LAURIE, to give him an opportunity of producing that letter, remanded him till the next day. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday an Irishman, who gave his name Thomas Costello, was charged by Currie, the Stamp office agent, with offering the Poor Man's Guar dian for sale at a public-house. Currie went into the tap-room of the Quebec Arms, at the corner of Bryanston-street and Que ththasatytthe offering c b a e i c le -s d tre f e o t r , w so i m m e re b s e e e v r e r ; a l s o s o o n l d i a e f r ty s oe rn w i 8 t e wht r , hh e eei espiyhtreit prisoner C n yo g no‘e , svrto a er t ias i l d ott came in, holding a bundle of the Poor Man's Guar dian, the numbers of which he offered for sale. pray, Currie, alteration is contem plated, bought one of them, , is fo y r o w ur hich he paid a penny. He then seized the rest as illegal. that's system e e t i o s e b l y e —I really c tb ur in ri k e, to o t w he ch s a o r l g d e ie d r Mr. RAWLINsoN persistedtpotP h hfal : er t elbhdorair.sferßa publicationSt s hAi o reNi i n i.vi 1 offenceLu?itN why sp eNa r T sh i o ie u n ld hesitate to sign the certificate you have handed to me for swearing 20s. into your pocket, till I hear further from the Stamp office. And now, Costello, what say you to the present charge ? Cost ello had no other employment. Mr. RAWLINSON—That does not excuse you at all. —Committed for one month. LAMBETH- STREET. Among the persons who applied to the Magis• trates, Messrs. WALKER and HARDWICK, for paro chial relief, was a tall elderly female. It appeared, that some years since her husband, who was a Turkey merchant, died, leaving her in the possession of immense wealth, with carriages, servants, &c., and a town and country residence. After his demise, she unfortunately gave her hand to a person who had been for many years previously a clerk in her husband's counting-house, and he, of course, took the whole management of her affairs. Immediately after their union, her second husband began to ;ridulge in extreme extravagance. He took a hunting-box in Essex, purchased a pack of hounds, and kept his stud of hunters, and launched forth into such lavish expenditure, that in u very few years he squandered away her ample fortune. This, however, was not all. He at the same time seduced her d.ughter,an amiable young woman, with whom he has since lived, and has a family by her. Such was the unlimited confidence which she placed in hi r husband, that she scarcely preserved an atom of propel!), from the wreck, arid what little she had preserved was since expended, and, being reduced to the utmost state of destitution, she was compelled to apply to the officers of St. George's-in-the-East for relief, which they at the time afforded her, but latterly they withheld all allowance. The overseer of St. George's admitted that the case of the applicant was one deserving much com miseration. The officers of the parish, after reliev ing her for some time, had the husband, who has a large family by her daughter, and who obtained a living as a commission-agent on the Corn-Exchange, taken before their Worships on a warrant, and lie la as committed to prison for three months, for neg lecting to maintain his wife, which time he served out in the House of Correction. Since that period the parish officers discovered the legal settlement of he appl cant to be in the parish of Bethnal-green, as her husband had rented a house there subsequent to his leaving that in Sr. George's. All they had to do, therefore, was to pass her in the usual way, and in the interim he would take care that her pre sent necessities should be attended to. The unfortunate woman, who shed tears during her application, then left the office. HATT ON- GARDEN. Yesterday Robert Owen, Esq., lecturer, and one of the governors of the institution of the intelligent and well-disposed of the industrious classes, Grays inn -road, King's-cross, was summoned to this office by the commissioners of the Battle-bridge estate, Si. Pancras, to show cause why he refused to pay 481. 19s. 2d., alleged to be due at Midsummer for paving and lighting. The collector had made application to Mr. Owen fot the money for paving and lighting, and, being refused, he made the circumstance known to the commissioners, under whose directions the present proceedings were insti'uted. Mr. Seijeant SELLON asked the defendant what he had to say why he should not pay the money ? Mr. Owen—l have to say that the charge is altogether unjust and unfair. The building which was complained against was so situated that it was surrounded by other houses. There were certainly pavement and lamps connected with it; but the commissioners had never laid down a single square of stone, nor had they lighted a lamp in the internal part of the building. The collector said that they had made their de mand according to the law, and it made no matter whether the commissioners paved or lighted the interior or not ; part of the outside near the en-• trances had been paved. Mr. Owen.—lf you proceed further I shall claim extmption upon another ground : the building is employed entirely for charitable purposes. Mr. Serjeant SELLON—Is it supported by sat scription? Mr. Owen said it was to give employment to those who had no work, for the easy and certain exchange of all the useful and valuable products of indu,try, that a fair remuneration for labour and talent may be readily obtained without unnecessary waste of time, and without moral degradation. Mr. SAjeant SELLON—Can you point out any clause in the Act of Parliament that renders you exempt from the paving and lighting rate ? Mr. Owen—Certainly not, as an inhabitant householder; • but, according to agreement, the building alluded to will not be tenanted until next January. I assure your Worship that the paving and lighting at the interior is not a public thoroughfare, and the Com' missioners had nothing to do with it. Mr. LAING thought the Commissioners were right in their demand. Mr. Owen—l don't think so ; they have never spent a farthing upon the premises. Mr. Serjeant SELLON —I must order you to pal the money notwithstanding. If the Commissioners did not light and pave the place according to laws then you ought to have proceeded against them for not performing their duty. Mr. Owen (to the collector)—You know it is unjust ? The collector said, that Mr. Owen could attend the board, if he thought proper, on the 27th inst. Mr. Serjeant SELLON ordered the money to be paid in one month. Mr. Owen requested to know of Mr. Serjeant SELLON, what mode he was to pursue if the Commis" sioners were found to be acting unjustly towards him' Mr. Serjeant SELLON said, if the Commissioner s did not attend to their duty, they were bl ame able and there was a remedy against them ; but he oLr served, that there was plenty of time, within this and a month, for Mr. Owen to consult with the parish board upon the subject. UNION-HALL. DON PEDRO'S 6AIISI.AIiiONGTHE EMBRYO JEAN D'ARC.—Yesterday, a s touts comely young woman, named Mary Jones, W 0 brought up under the following circumstances :-•-• On Monday, about one hundred recruits for Don Pedro's army not being able to obtain quarters t, the public-houses in Rotherhithe, were compelles: to bivouac in an open piece of ground in the nei g h bourhood, and having an advance of pay, they coo' soled themselves for their bad quarters with obtain' ing a good supply of bre ad and cheese an d ale. SA° unusu al a scene soon collected spectators, al l " amongst them was Mary Jones, who, after partalc' ing of the rat i o ns, became exceed ingly warm in 00: cause of Don Pedro. She said she should like f 0 sail with " the attachment," and " have a rap at Don Mijewel." Like Jean d'Arc, she would go for t :; plentifully with ale , which wonderfully increasht to the battle, and " lead the whole on the trooP, s .;i wictoiy." The troops were delighted, and P' her kept roaring out, in the beig - 1 with Mijewel." The noise she made caused g b , whom she could not : b yD e 't a o r since theM h a e gi h s police to take her to the station. Don Pedro for ever, and dovito of f e her e a ar r r d yi t o , s u wa r ix , di: a a r i l to d i or s tel h ,p e , now entertained no objection to going out" to r° r ; tingale" and having " a touch at Dun Mijewel;, a t Magistrates, t been t h in st ilo :: don. She thought she would do better in " (1-4 tingale" than here. nk The MAGISTRATES said she might get -- II cheaper, and d'scharged her with au admonitioth , She left th e office, saying, she should go and 6e ' whether the recruits were off. BIRTHS. °I On the 10th inst. Mrs. Charles Rawlinson, Doughty-s tree'' a son. On the 9th inst. at Minesteed Lodge, Lady Catharine Buc of a daughter. MARRIED. • s.lO , .wint.- On the 1 lth inst. at St. James's Church, James ••.,cori, Braille, Esq. ' of St. James's-square, to„Frances Ameliar,. 'D erP daughter of the late 011yett Woodhouse, Esq., Advocat e ' u of Bombay. lED. Esq' On the 10th inst. in Bryanst D on-square, Tully Higgins, ._, s ag e, On the 10th inst. at Chelmsford in thelOth year of nj ego' William Meggy, Esq , joint proprietor of the Glielinsior" nicle for upwards of 40 years. , r 10- - PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN G, SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.