The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

THE CURRENCY QUESTION LETTER NO. VIII. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TI MES. tu nn • —my last letter I endeavoured t o prove—yourer ous read ers must jdudge with what success—that it was e Thhle so to amend the Act of 1844, as to approximate to my ti, e 4 1 , 6 1° 1 a perfect currency, without annulling the charter of pr o an k of England, and without entirely getting rid of its 4 °l notes. In order that I might not be justly kteargeable with not making my meaning sufficiently clear and 11 10 ,1 1 . i gible, I laid before your readers two sketches—one Weed the actual position of the Bank of England, for the positl ending 18th October ; the other showing what its %IA the would have been at the same period, if the Government 6 e Bank had been in a position to have acted upon my tlgßestions I d - 1 st emonsi r ted i that letter, that, whereas, in o ne c a se, .4e . . tiabdities of the Bank were TWELVE MILLIONS in titek of the cash w ith w hi c h i t was prepare d to meet t h em ; etc " other case, the liabilities and the cash ne ar ly b a l ance d I. 4t h l i "ber • In one case, the cash in hand was equal to 19s lee e Pound on th e li a bili t i es, w i h out realising the private In the other case, the cash in hand was only :L . l to about 4s in the pound on the liabilities; therefore, its ;ZtY to meet them depended entirely on its realising rather e than three -fourths of its private securities. I asked my co it ants to ana l yse my figures, and disprove them if they p ' .„, I ask e d t h em care f u ll y to l oo k upon each o f the rni''4reß which I l a id b efore them in these sketches, that they I.F ut e xPl'e the cheat, if, in my "Presentment" of either, I nagn.- my own scheme into "a fair ltoaziori.ty;nlien in reality, it was no sucn two, , • .'"'Y Painted theirs as a barren moor, incapable of y'', 4li ng the t 4zal ( ) not, for a moment, supDlse that leBll money, and th e £14,475,000 o f treasut , t e t 1 n -e.), which I proposed to for the pa ) debt dne from the, Government to create the Bank, would always t()u otrv t° Conduct th e r apidl y i ncreas i ng commerce o f the the £60,000,000 of .es (also rent of L I , t h e NPpote that, stimulated as q that commerce would be intro d uction of a currency euivalent in amount to th r , taxation o rne Y to country --aeriving its value trom its sutil neeew • P a y all the taxes imposed upon th e p eo pl e , b y t h e curve ities of the state I say, I do not suppose that such a f ijt an ey, with commerce so stimulated, would of itself suf f ice and ~.,N a, ( l(f irlite period, to circulate the wealth it would increase 4 )- —ult iPir • or to sustain always, the immensely aug lted ,•' . . ' rionstrlai power with which it would arm us as a .011. ( Z h . t I antnot, therefore, open to the charge of asking for net. l e a 16 af" with " baited breath and whispering humble ita,i'„trhen I should boldly knock at the door of Parliament for " the w h o le loaf," which is the people's inalien , a ble t i ght 1 444 lam of opinion, that the agency of the Bank of Eng th 'bight be altogether dispensed with ; but, I cannot forget Ili: ,n days long past, it has often rendered good service to hylt-ountry—and especially during the suspension of specie it 1 , - "t°, when it was invested with the power (a power which that " " al'usc'd) of providing a paper currency for the nation, theiren4bled the industrious classes to live by " the sweat of ~ithbrov,—in comparative ease and comfort; and to pay, or e , oh . (43 difficulty, almost without feeling it, the enormous r: t o f taxation to which they were at that time subjected. or therefo re , willing that it should act as the agent igh,Le Government—say for a period of ten years—in 114neing the uew currency, and in distributinz it 1,1.. "14 the vari ous c h anne l s in which it is destined to flow. Ilan . C t 'it is only reasonable that time should be given to the ad apt ;',.1.1 up its affairs as a national institution, to de ter 1- C e " to the new state of things, in which no promissory IlittlidBu,°4!(l circulate as legal tenders, and in which none 1 / 46 f 1) e Issued (as Promises to pay in except such_ as °Ps t4IIY r epresented by the gold held against them. No, I 11 , 11 41 - 1 3 , 14 Y i ng the currency reformers false. lam advocating `M D , ''e course' but I have suggested a remedy for a present evil which, if successful—as I am sure it would . iierh"lucl ender it impossible ever to revert to the antiquated *sv -' of the bullionists ; but which, if not successful, would 4 4, 118 i n Possession of the means whereby we might easily b ligh e t - b 4 r steps, if it be within the range of possibility, that we A,, "Mpelled to do so. *to r ,; . ' r e , hedia, as I understand it, is neither a right way nor a a N l l,, Wa y) but a way between the two. If the projectors of er P° o l and Manchester railway had been content tlay "'Zii 4 fi e°4l toon tram-road, up hill and down dale, instead . of the . 4, 111 ,:tUt railway—that splendid triumph of . engineering til L kiiiT fa "'inh now connects the great seaport with the great ' n :, i in 'ing metropolis of Lancashire, then they would have ''tas,sd'LY accused of adopting a via media, a cross, between a atuised road and a railw - ay. ;Yin 4 ,, t c . 4 3 7 , °n the other hand, projected, in the first instance, r ailway from Liverpool to London, it is probable N kt .°4ld have failed in obtaining tho capital required for so Undertaking and the legislative powers, without Of th , ltich 1 ‘ could not have been accomplished. They did neither Y k l r e a -e a thi nga, but they did the right thing. They projected I tSk,',ame a line of railway between two towns of sufficient n otif, i ,nee to test it great utility, and prove its treat supe tt,a,t;:o the old fashioned s highway, as a medium for the %%„ i 4 ° 0 of both goods and passengers. Had they attempted l i l ' i :te B ' B, e4 t ,` however - confident they might . ha . vo been of ultimate N 4 wi t , n ey would have seared the capitalist and the legisla o the vastness of their en 4 erprise. re r tr, railw a y p r operty properly constructed is 80 ia . . national money. rightly .74,1 r " l Y ' :, °f c urrency As the Livelpool an" '' " i 4 :,, t , l i e,Pre . cu ' rsor of a in: :l l).y . sy ( s u ' i c .. in ow o' `'!° l, l in active operation, . N. .14 ,zilised countries, so the amend" adv ° " in if carried into coted my last, 2or °° Gated saw- flee perfection tteie -s% as -- a wondrous revolution n, et e Would realise, in its fullest ext e nt, m y id ea l o f 44 ,„ Il oo,_"' e noY, capabl e of sustaini n g, during the life of our c ontinually extending fabric of her commerce, s e Ntts 44° ?,ti'm-s , , of my sugges ti on wou ld f urn i s h us w i t h a olela would certainly possess, for many long y ears to l et , en„ t he qualities o f pe r f ec ti o n in m one y, namely, -"otT Bi gnifreancy—anyenieney—security, and, though k ft i fit ~e ast , CONVERTIBILITY. All th ese , excep t th e 14;44tsi”"Icl retain f r eer f o r e v er. Let the people o f thi s sjilo w politically free'r than eves "to chose the good de sthoi:lect the evil"—let them but once taste th e goo d ti I N ' B°l ' 4 o fruit of such a curroncy as this, and, vs o „ l _, 4 the principle involved in it s crea , t at had extend it se lf i n ever y di rec ti on unt il 4,,,lshi eh r tftey, not merely to represent all the St e 14 th e we have t o p a y, b u t a ll th e sa l ea bl e goods which i ts Nod l ' a t fail t o di scover ) t h at nat i ona l money requ i red for market at any g i ven time. L et us once discover (as h a tistt•h n t e ,,,.. 4 a ati t i ( a s not a joint stock company, however wra lthy, ~f ° , 1 ' ,4 1 Bank— a B an k set up b y t h e nation, wit h t h e f,emation'4 nation, and they will, with one voice, demand the pie %IA; e q t he great Monotary interests of the country thqia4r t otlY of a private company associated for the pur -4' 14 •I'lti tlal Probably the Bullionist would call it f wi th gain. Pis th "t nny capital at all ; and such it really would be,. 4 4 4 Pot ? management was concerned, as all the money it 14, ar e int o circulation would possess, not an intrinsic, but tO k„P',esentative value. So much I thought it right to ti l ,es(4 - li ss real currency reformers as your correspondent ‘oo l :itig k who may think that I may be diverted from lhr Whi„7 course I have chalked out for myself, by the % .44 1 Ite;ousaYour other correspondent, " Via Media," has I Nph i t itr 1 , IbY' path. „ f ; a l'e said nothing of the immense saving which S t it:"ected Government, if it possessed the power of tsi:'vi ae -tt otes to the Bank on national securities. It must Ikty t t b l t° every one that the interest thereon would cease t ed s• litstrlelidlile they were held by the Government. But I .71 4 ',., 41 . h - 11 11 1 4 d your readers that the annual interest, calcu %rt.% 1 1 , 7 per cent, on the £75,000,000 of money to be its„" 41M/eminent, would represent a sum of more than 4• I 'ePoi'L'IONS of Pounds—an important item in the k t st e th badget. she h k 1 05 t 111141 which the Government would remunerate the 4 itettil t cervices as an agent, as to the rate of interest which ,e 1 4 ,, th "ld pay to the Government on unsecured advances, 1 4 b" Maxi amount of such advances, alI these issasiCktters of ni ar u r m angement between the Government and , ease ,k f ort to Ni - ve s i,4 4 illustration of the great national advantages I I t i t t, 4 0 , 41 a real reformation of our monetary code, ,'L15e„ 41 00;4, 133 Y oext letter, that, under the bullion iystem, ,7, 4 • 4 lvhi g ,l'i° that the poor industrious man can add the hi s is is claimed from him by the tax collector to the 1 % 114 Lodustr or to the price of its products ; and, I es no Y lengthened argument to prove that unless Pes ti t tt , i s ° , 17' the whole system of our taxation is a monstrous N'eflith.ee"%e, otherwise, it must fall upon the industrious 113 4 ; Tiziously unequal pressure. All men who have i 1 : 1 ,1 1 !% 4 :43 , 8 0 1. 4 5 ° } ! e ° , 1_ the subject , . agree in thinking that—unless l e ,!tk et e g th e l '°_ ir . tunity can . add taxation to price —nothing „ tak a . g ardSillp of their case but the total repeal of all tl ) Pkch, ", and the imposition of a property tax, to be pelejr ro; ‘ , 2 4 _ l° ,elY on the rich, whose incomes do not depend : il lirt 4 ,l ) ,.' al or physical resources. Here I was about . to N e `qt [et somebody peering over my shoulder whispers, e4 Pti °tit YchUr standard of value I fancy I can hear 1 , / ilea2ttl toll . • 4 01,,en e ...ague making the same enquiry of Pitt,when tpcn t • I ,ale a . ets - r 'n Minister " announced his intention to adopt A el 4 eof restraining the Bank from paying its notes %F . % terrible crisis of 1797. (3 1 t ' there was no diff i culty i n adjusting the relative 0 l coi:"ltodities during the continuance of that re- I s h e et . t he il h ti ; Bati . k. so there would be none in doing so chefeh-i6Lcin Which , ' think, might be safely adopted in -Qi en On a future occasion th esti o ettep p a rliamentary set.. , t Pt 4 **" . `Ari' mo re fully, upon the consideration of the :keh, e 'ent , ts ' ) at is the true measure of value? Suffice it, for ,N 1 4k she my that as the Pound Sterling may now be ,s-•;ll:4„Pecri:4\icit:inifiatrotfhzraursore,ncy, being divisible into shillings, in the new order of things, the ,sat become tbe unit of tbe new curren.?y, N"kt "3' "1 into these minor denominations would pre t,t4te R , l , Gus inc onvenience arising from the crude notions 4 : 1 ,1 4 tth-Z111033' entertained respecting the real standard of o f k " , v, twenty shillings would make cnepatirt ot d. th.tet kei , cc one shilling •' The shillings and pence—not 11 4 41 4 ;1 1 41 1 . c l: 1 )11t for gener - al . convenience, and the protection .. 54, 04 'qt 11 % : 1 :,, 1 ch tir y in , s t forgesy—would possess the same intrinsic te. 4 it 9 - cm possess • and, however statesmen may v sat e d • , , 4 1% 4 , witn the question, What is a pound ? twenty Abe the prompt reply of every schoolboy, Yes, Tit I,' for all practical purposes, this definition of a Pound Will b( I sufficiently intelligible to the great masses of the 1)(0 . 0( I Liverpool, October 30, 1856 TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES Sir, —I am happy to see that you devote a column to the consideration of a question that vitally affects a commercial 'community. Mr. Wills fights a good fight, and deserves thanks for his able and clear defence of symbolical or paper money. In fact, the whole di,cuseion turns on convertibility. Are we to have a paper money. or are we merely tohave a certificate of gold, as is the present five pound note under Peel's bill ? - Then, how is the note to be worded ? It will never do for the note to "promise to pay" (gold) when we never mean it to be convertible. If we are to have a p, trade, it must be the creature of ai must run to the following effec London, Ist January, 1806 Unclip alt frlen, that this Note is legal tender for all Debts, Taxes, and Rates, to the amount of Valid( . )0, Out' gequer. Chief Clerk Sir RICULTUEAL STATISTICS TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. This singular and un tion was met, House of a f 'rulers had stated by one 01 that one or more to him, THE BEARD MOVEMENT TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES ENGLISH v. ITALIAN. MUSIC Musical directors must surely tie more than is char ed at tl as a gen p_e NEW PASSPORT REGULATIONS FOR RUSSIA. —Will you permit me to occupy a portion of your valuable j mrnal with a few remarks and suggestions on the subject of agricultural statistics, a matter which has engaged s large share of the attention of agriculturists, as well as of other men of note. I rejoiced, in - common with many, when the jocose Premier abandoned the bill on this subject, a measure at once so crude and so cruel, the chief argument for which was the ad vantage the farmers would derive, proposing, as did the President of the Board of Trade,* that on their returns of the estimate of their crops of grain being gathered to a head ; and they should be informed FIRST, of the deficiency in the crop 3, so that they might, by' hold'ng their corn ,instead of selling it, obtain all the additional price the tenant had don pest tor tnembei v •-••••••., • • ,• ••••• their convenience or opportunity for thrashing it, irrespective of the rise or fall of prices. In Earl Grey's own words, they had made fortunes by doing so, whilst others who had pursued an opposite course had been ruined. And this will strike every one (rovnisant of a farmer's calling) as the truth, To the farmer the straw is essential for fodder, and its value consists in its freshness. To thrash a large quantity at once—if he had the . power to do so, which he has not—would be to render the straw worthless for the purpose of feeding. He cannot unite the business of a corn speculator with his own, without dia. ordering his whole system. But I should be gind to le'irn what is proposed by the Agricultural Statistics Bill? and I know I shall be told that it is to ascertain the produce of the kingdom ; and suppose it attained, what benefit will accrue ? Suppose the deficiency of the crops, to the extent'of two, four, or six millions of quarters of bread corn—will the Government import as much ? No ! Why not ? The French Government do, and we ought, or the labours of the Agricultural Statistics Bill are of non-effect ! I hope I shall not be charged with a love of ignorarce, or of a desire to be without th knowledge of the quantity of grain produced in the country I think, with Mr. Disraeli, that we possess in - the Tith Commutation Act, and other paroc!)ial registries, a record, almost complete, of the acreage of the kingdom ; and, from the systematic routine of agriculture, a means of computing an estimate of the produce, not inferior to France or the United states of America, for I have yet to learn that either of those countries possess the manipulating investigation the Agricultural Statistics Bill (now before us) aspires to. Supposing, however, that a more precise knowledge of what we grow to be irequisite, I would suggest that the Comp. troller of Corn Returns, and his staff of three hundred inspectors, should cease from their labours, rendered useless and unnecessary as they have been by and since the abrogation of the Corn Laws. (Is it not a farce to have so many pages of figures, as are exhibited in the Gazelle every six weeks, stating " The weekly returns of the quantities and pricea of British corn, as received from the Inqpntors and Officers of Excise, in the following towns and cities of England and ,Wales, from which the prices that govern DUTY are calculated conformably to the Act 5 of Vic. cap. 14. Board of Trade Corn Department, and signed HENRY FENTON huts, Comptroller of Corn Returns ;") and that, instead thereof, the comptroller be empowered to require from the local inspectors of corn, returns, in the 290 towns and cities where they are now located, returns of all the grain that is sold, as well as bought, and that these returns should be only from the farmer, or producer, thus confining the report to British grain, and the returns front the farmer to the proximate buyer, which must be the meaning of the act, and not, as it has been perverted, to require a return of all the British grain a miller or merchant may buy ; thus obtaining a return of grain bought and returned a dozen times over. For a farmer to make a weekly return to the inspector of the quantity, price, and buyers, name of what hesells, would be neither inconvenient nor invidious ; whilst the buyer, making also a return of what he buys, and of whom, would, in my opinion, give an inevitably correct account of the produce of the kingdom.—Yours. &c., JOHN BERKtEY. * Vide President of the Board of Trade's speech, on the introduction of the bill in the House of Lords. Sir,—The reintroduction of the beard is visibly pro gressing. This is commendable, and lam glad to see it; and were its physical utility only better understood, I am sure all who value health would at once adopt it. Toe moustache, particularly, is of incalculable value to those in whom there is a tendency to consumption and asthma; and to those who suffer from soro throat, and such like, the beard is nature's own remedy. Cold, dreary November, is rapidly approaching, so let me advise my friends just to give it a trial for one winter. ity CLIVLUIIIII/Ull6ll custom—wmca prevents us general _appearance ; an , l many who would gladly wear the me hope better things of our princely merchants and others—let them try the experiment personally, and then see if they don't like it. I am sure there is neither he hearing of Lord THE TIPPERARY BANK —a release w rhyme nor reason in cutting off our natural respirators, and then fly to the druggist to be supplied with an arti= ficial one 1 Formerly, when it was the custom to wear the beard, diseases of_ the lungs and chest. were not near so fearfully rife as they are now. How is that ? Why, let reason answer. Cannot you, Mr. Editor, induce your readers to do something in this way ? M.D. October 30, 1850. be singularly ignorant of the real musical tastes of most, audiences. Why is it that everybody, w•ho can afford to e Si. George's Hall .;;.jurrhy Evening Concerts, is supposed to be of such and who official manager has SERIOUS AFFRA.Y IN SPITALFIE LDS, LONDON chapel. RE-APPEARANCE OF MR. SPURGEOY " The tumult of my thoughts Doth but enlarge my woe ; My spirit vanquishes—my heart I itals which have been lately introduced are er than the isolated selected songs which erseded ; but who can deny that even they row to ;ions when niatli the sole staple of an evening's entertainment ! Why, then, not divide the programme — give the first part tolian music, and devote the remainder of the evening to genuine English songs?— songs, which, like the " John Anderson, my Jenny Lind, would come home to each one in the ence, and make every pulse beat. Tickets would not t),,, any the less in demand were such to be male the case, and time would show if the public, in this matt r. w- to not of the same mind as, sir, your most obedient serva,,t, MEDIUM. Is - deBolate - and low." assembled here this day with mixed feelings of joy and sou° —jay that we meet each other again, and sorrow for those wh The following ukase relative to the entry into Russia of foreign foremen, workmen, &c., has just been published at St. Petersburg :—ln virtue of the ukase of his Majesty the Emperor, the Senate has received the report of the Minister of the Interior of July 21 of this year, relative to the imperial ordonnance published in a ukase of the senate, dated Sept. 9, 1847, concerning the formalities to be observed in regard to the entry within the limits of the empire of foreign workmen and apprentices engaged by Russian manufacturers and tradespeople. According to this ordonnance Russian manufadturers and tradesmen are to be responsible for the persons engaged by them, and must present a special police authorisation for the admission of these foreigners into Russia. His Majesty has now been pleased to order as follows : —Henceforward the Russian embassies, legations, and consulates are authorised to deliver, as they may deem necessary, and without demanding a preliminary permis sion of the Russian authorities, to all foreigners without distinction, certificates and passports of entry within the limits of the empire, with the following exceptions : 1 Persons whose entry into Russia is specially prohi bited by the government _ _ _ _ 2. Persons - with regard to whom Russian embassies, legations, or consulates, possess definite information of an unsatisfactory character. 3. Gipsies, organ players, hawkers of drugs and statuettes, and vagrants generally. "As in virtue of these new arrangements respecting passports, the measure of general safety required by the ukase of the Senate of Oct. 21, 1847, relative to the entry'of foreign foremen and workmen (by the terms of which our manufacturers and tradesmen were to bo answerable for the foreigners whom they employ, and were bound to present in order to obtain their entry a police certificate) become useless—the Minister of the Interior refers the matter to the Senate, in order that they may take the necessary steps to abolish the said measures." THE PAUPER CHILDREN OF ST. PANCRAB.—EXTRAOR. DINARY DISCOVERY.—A circumstance has just transpired in connection with the recent removal of the pauper children of St. Pancras to the schools of the Whitechapel Union, which is not only calculated to teach the Poor-law Board to look at home before they venture to interfere with the affairs of other, but which is also likely to cause the speedy recall of the St. Pancras children from the Poor-law control. At the weekly meeting of the St. Pancras directors, Mr. Churchwarden :Streeten pre sented the agreement between the directors of St. Pancras and the guardians of Whitechapel Union for the signature of the former board with reference to the keep of the St. Pancras children at Forest Gate, and Mr. Cooper objected on the grounds first, that the agreement was undated, and therefore that it would be for twelve months from the date of signature, and not from the date when the children were sent, and that it compelled S. Pancras to pay for 150 children, whether they had that number in the schools or not. Mr. Champ, however, made a still more impor tant objection. It would be remembered that the Poor law board had sent Dr. Bence Jones to St. Pancras, and he made a great outcry that the children had only 450 cubic feet of air each to breathe in St. Pancras dormitories. (Hear.) He had been to the Whitechapel schools, where the St. Pancras children now were, and, instead of 450 cubic feet of air each, on measuring, the dormitories, he found that they now had but 250 cubic feet of air each to breathe, or but little more than half the amount. More over, under the windows, there wa:3 the most pestiferous cesspool he had ever smelt. Mr. Dyke asked wild would venture, after f...e.ch a statement, to sign the agreement ? and moved that it be deferred till a committee had reported, Mr. Stockton seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. NORTHERN TIMES LLIVERPOOt, TUESI Referring to the present prospects of the Tipperary Bank aff tiro, the Leinster Express, which has always shown itself well informed on the subject, says : " The case is simply this. The official manager has carefully scrutinised all the sources whence proceeds may be available, and he states it to be his decided opinion that, even with a compromise; he could not be able to realise more than X 190,000, or about 63 in the pound, in addition to the 2 already paid, and 2s more which he expects to derive from the property of John Sadleir ; and in order to effect this he must be empowered to treat with the English share ho'ders who dispute their liability. The prudence of thus dealing with them is obvious from the fact that they have been releassd from all obligation by the decision of the ned on the appeal now pending - Wore the Lord Chane4llor, and may be still further verified by the House nese shareholders, previous to the decision in vvtlL4, uaa offered £40,000 for an acquittance, but since would not give ball that sum. Then a; to the great bulk of the liabilities which must cons e q uen tly come upon the Irish contributories, it is certain that £350,00 could never b 3 screwed ont of the thirty persons who com with the exception O. f .V4ll nr thrpo individuals, will be found - to be humble shopkeepers, nomi nal tratsferee=, or gentlemen whose estates are already in the Ilcumbered Estates Court. Then as to the property of those persons who have commenced suits against individual 1 likely to fare still worse; for the lready taken steps to make any pro longing to these shareholders available for the benefit of the creditors at large, before any execution can take Waco in mselience of a private suit. It these state me its be true, and we see no reason for eoubting their correctness, it is evident that the official manager has the details of a most complex case in something like a clear condition for arriving at an estimate of its real merits ; and we think it nr,thible tin mil - Ili tee of eng uiry will consider it the interest of the creditors to come to a compromise as the best means of securing any further dividend." On S tturday night, at a late hour, there was a quarrel and fight in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, amongst some of the disbanded soldiers of the -Anglo-German Legion. An Englishman named Henry Mole, of No. 2, Crown Court, Spitalfields, interfered, with the intention of preventing mis chief, when one of the Germans, who was intoxicated, cut him with a knife, inflicting a terrible gash, extending from the top to the bottom of the face, Mole fell weltering in his blood, and directly afterwards a young police constable, named Josiah Warner, No. 33 H, who has only been in the force a few weeks, came up, ar►d wade an attempt to arrest the assailant T' tie tierman immediately stabbed the constable on the left side of the breast, and then inflicted another wound on his thigh. The policeman exclaimed that he was murdered, and fell. • Several bystanders and three or four police constables made a rush on the German so ldi er , an d a f ter a severe strugg l e he was secured and conveyed :o the Chapel Yard station, in Spitalflelds, The wounded_ men were conveyed in cabs to the London Hospital, where their wounds were dressed Inwctor Weakford, of the R division, went to the hospital on Sunday morning to enquire after the p ttients i and upon going to the bed side of Warner found him in a very weak condition. The inspector put a question to the constable, which he answered in a faint tone, when the house surgeon forbade all further conversation, and pronounced the constable to be in a most precarious condition. On making enquiries at the hospital on Sunday evening, it was ascertained that both men were in a very dangerous state, and very little hopes are entertained of the police constable surviving. he has lost a great quantity of blood. His boot was 'full, and there was a large pool of blood in the street where he fell. The weapon with which the wounds were inflicted was a long dagger knife, opening and 'shutting with a spring . The name of the Germ a n who inflicted the wounds is LewisTheiss. Ho is a little man, and would have been no match for either of his suffering victims if he had not been armed with a knife. There are great numbers of the Lnglo-German Legion, lately disbanded, moving about White chapel and Spitalftelds. They have given the police a good deal of trouble, and their conduct is anything but what it ought to be. • THE SURREY GARDENS CATASTROPHE On Sunday afternoon Mr. Spurgeon, pursuant to notice privately, circulated among his congregation, resumed the occupancy of his own pulpit in Park street Chapel, Southwark. A great many persons were admitted by tickets before the every nook and corner, as well in the body of the chapel as in the galleries, was densely crowded by an eager auditory. Mr. He appeared quite recovered from his recent indis position. He looked serious, but there was nothing extra ordinary in his countenance beyond that impulsive expression which seems to.he the leading characteristic of his features• The service commenced with a short prayer, after which Mr. Spurgeon gave out one of Watts' hymns, in which it was declared by some that the verso depicted the preacher's own state of mind : rho hymn sung, Mr, Spurgeon read and expounded a psalm, Ind then invited his mills w the first allusion was made to the ter- rible eata , trophe of Sunday week. After invoking a blessing upon hi; fl)ck, the preacher proceed e d a s follows —We are have suffered bereavements. Thanks to thy name ! Thanks to thy name ! Thy servant feared he should not have addressed this congregation again. But thou has brought him from the fiery furnance, and not even a smell of fire has passed upon him. Thou past moreover• given thy servant strength, and he desires now to confirm those great promises of free grace which the gospel affords. Thow kuowest, 0 God ! our feelings of sorrow. We must not open the sluices of our woe. Oh God ! comfort those who are lingering in pain :Lod suffering, and cheer those who have been bereaved. Let blessing rest upon them—even the blessing of the covenant of trace and of this world. And now, Lord bless thy people. We have loved one another, we have rejoiced in each other's )ye, we have wept together in sorrow. Thou has welded us together, one in doctrine, one in practice, and one in holy Oh that it may be said of each that he is bound up in the bundle of life. Oh Lord, we thank thee for all the slander, calumny, and malice with which thou hast allowed tho enemy to honour us, and grant that we never give them cause to blaspheme with reason." Mr. Spurgeon concluded with a personal reference to the various classes of his hearers, calling upon despisers to tremble, scoffers to weep, and bidding all true penitents rejoice. A psalm was now sung, after which Mr. Spurgeon spoke as follows, in reference to the melancholy occasion above referred to :—" Now, my dear friends, I almost regret that I should have occupied the pulpit this morning, because I feel totally unable to preach to your prat- I had thought during the relaxation I have had since that terrible catastrophe that I was thoroughly recovered ; but upon coming back again to the samo spot, and addressirg you from this place, I experience the same painful feelings which well nigh prostrated roe before. you will, therefore, I am sure, my kind friends, excuse me if I make no allusion, or :carcely any, to that subject. Indee 1, I feel that I could not preach upon a ' subject at all allied to it. I should he overwhelmed by the torrent of my feelings if I recurred to that dreadful scene, iu which it was my lot to stand. God will overrule that event for good. It might not have arisen so much from the malice of men as from some simply wicked intention to disturb the congregation. I cannot entertain for a moment the thought that there was any intention to murder those fellow -creatures, whose lives were sacrificed on that melancholy occasion. God forgive the instigators of that horrid scene. They have my forgiveness from the depths of my soul. It shall not, however, stop us ; I shall preach there again yet—(suppressed sounds of approval—and God shall give us souls. Satan's empire shall tremble yet more and more. God is with us. Who shall be against us? Under the circumstances I have mentioned I have chosen for my text a highly comforting and consoling passage of the Scriptures, and one which alone enables me to appear here before you this morning, and which has brought comfort and consolation to my still oppressed spirit. It is selected from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, chap. ii., v. 9, 10, 11 :—' Where fore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' I shall not attempt to preach to you upon this text. I will merely make a few remarks which occur to me upon it. I have not been able to study, but I thought a few words from me this morning would he acceptable to you; and I trust to your warm hearts to excuse them." Mr. Spurgeon gave an eloquent exposition of the text, and rivetted the attention of his hearers for more than half an hour. The discourse was almost entirely free from the strange metaphors which have rendered this gentleman's preaching so notorious, and probably many who came to be amused may have gone away disappointed. A great crowd awaited Mr. Spurgeon's departure from the chapel, and many eager admirers ran after his carriage to grasp the hand which he extended from the window of his brougham. DISENDOWMENT OF ALL SECTS IN IRELAND.-It is announced that the agitation in support of Mr. Mi4ll's motion, having in view this object, is to be recommenced by a public meeting, con vened b y t h e Lib era tion of Religion So c i e ty, t o be held at th e L ondon Tavern , Bi s hop?gate-st ree t, on th e evening of Th ursday, the 6t h o f N o vemb e r. The Board o f C ustoms h av e issued notices t o a ll the outports, ief orra i ng Custom-house officers and receivers of wrecks that fl oats were thrown overboard by P r i nce Napo leon in his voya2,e to the North Sea, and ordering that if any of them are pi c k e d up theyare to be sent to Count de Per signy, in London, %s it]] a statement of the time and place at wLi At they al e found. THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF COSIPETITION AND THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS. FRACAS ON THE HULL EXCHANGE. It was anticipated that the proposal of Government to throw open,all great improvement works to public coal petition would meet with general approval, and be rogarded as a step- in the right dir!ction, towards administrative r-` •nd the public generally con- ratnlated the authorities for adopting so wide and liberal a course. Some of our British architects, however, cannot bear that the whiskered and moustached foreigner should be permitted to hive a chance. They are very indignant at what they term a breach of their privileges ; while another portion of English architects complan that the time given for the preparation of designs is not sufficien ly long, and a deputation from the Institute of British Architects is about to wait upon Sir B. Hall, to ask for an extension of the time. Most people, however, will consider that six months is quite long enough; nothing like that period was given for the preparation of designs for the Houses of Parliament, and yet there was no lack of designs. The real secret appears to be this. There are some dozen of architects who to their credit compete for everything. These have got their hands full, and they wish to be tree before they tackle the grew - , work in question ; but this is scarcely a sufficient reason to induce the Government to extend the tithe. Besiles, it is of the utmost importance that the plan that will be adopted should be decided on whilst Parliament is sitting, because it will be necessary to get powers during the next session of Parliament to carry out the. work with out further delay. The plans will be ex!libite I for two months, and then the committee to be appointed will when we narrow the council to a shop or c takeable signs of ar dollen who are I have to make their selection, which cannot be done in a day. From the extraordinary demand for th.; specifica tions, a large number of plans may be expected. More than twelve hundred copies of the specifications hive been issue.), besides those that have been translated by . our consuls on the Continent. It is understood that already some of our first architects have been hard at work, and that their drawings are in a great state of forwardness. The King of Sardinia left Genoa on the morning of the 26th ult., for the royal villa of Polenzl. At Neufchatel, a few persons slightly cumpromiied, hava heeu released on b iil, bit eighteen or twenty are still in close confinement, although treated with humanity. Baron del Asilo, the Danish representmtive at Madri l, is seriously ill, and fears are entertained for his life. M. Bravo Murillo, formerly presid nt of the eiuned, who had arrived from Paris, is also seriously ill. " THE NEW SAFETY INKSTAND, we can bear personal whiles to, secures to all classes one which will keep the ink always clean and good, will prevent that accumulation of °xi:le which spoils the finest writing, and de trovs the best pen by means of this inkstand, too, the amount of ink taken up by the pen can be easily regulated."— Portsmouth Ti,lltB and Naval Gazette.—Sold by all Book sellers. Price 4s 3s, and is 6d.—Advt. AND DEATHS IN LINDIN.--"The returns continue to show that London h at present in a very healthy condi tion. The total number of deaths registered in the week that ended on Saturday is 960, being 133 less than would have occurred if the average rate of mortalty had prevailed. Last week the births of 818 bays, and 868 girls, in all 1,716 children were registered in London. In the ten correspond ing weeks of the years 1546-55 the average number was 1,437. • REVISION OF THE BIBLE.—At a general meeting of the members of Sion College, in other words, the beneficed clergy of the city and archdeaconry of London, to be held on the 19:h of January next, the following q•testion is to undergo discussion—" Is a revision of the authorised ver sion of the Bible desirable." The subject is to be intro duced by the Rev. William M'Call, M.A, Incumbent of St. Mary's Church, St. George's-in-the-East, and is expected to excite great interest, more particularly as the matter will very shortly afterwards be brought before parlianzint. A COUNTY DEBT.—A statement has just been made public, showing the sums of money that have been borrowed for the purposes of the county of Surrey, together with the amounts still owing. The following are the items :—For zreatest li with personal encounter on the part of sever Ruts were REFORM OF THE LONDON WATCIT MANUFACTURT An event took place lately which has given rise to a great deal of conversation in the town, and is not unlikely , to furniA employment for the gentlemen of the long robe, As our readers well know, the present is a period of municipal excitement, and the ordinary interest enacting to the elections is this year further increased by the fact that several gentlemen retire from the aldermanic bench. We tio s not perfectly well known y that 'a' very active intrigue has been for some weeks on foot, in order to secure the election of sundry purple gownsmen to the scarlet robes of the higher func• tionaries, and that this intrigue has given considerable offence to many burgesses, who have no desire to see the dignities of the corporation disposed of in this fashion. Only last Monday evening, at the Market place ward meeting, this intrigue for.the aldermanship was pretty well canvassed and condemned in unam biguous terms. Amongst the speakers on that occasion was Mr. William Young, who expressed himself to the effect that to be made an alderman was "an honour, no doubt, but there were other things which should he attended to; he did not think that lie should himself vote for any particular gentlemen becoming an alderman ; ho believed that one half of the candidates intended, if elected, to vote for certain gen tlemen becoming aldermen, but he hoped they would not 1, something like six feet tern of late mayors, sheriffs, and aldermen had been Tcese remarks were received with unmis md gave great offence to the gen to have been hinted at. Of the ty alluded to by Mr. Young, we do not suppose a single f our readers will be ignorant after he has taken a walk tcgth of Silver street. Mr. Young's sarcasm was not at all table to the parties inter e sted, ai it added to the emu- what excited condition of those who take an active part in the pending contest. It happened that Mr. Councillor Abbey, Mr, Councillor Brown, Mr Thornhill, a candidate for East Scut. coates Ward, and Mr. Young, the proposer of Mr. Clarke, one of the candidate!! for Market place Ward, met in converaatiart on municipal matters ja the Market place. Here it was the unpleasantneis, to be succeeded by a personal encounter, commenced. We may state that Mr. Abbey and Mr. Brown are supposed to be two of the aldermen in expectancy. During the conversation, aldermanic ambition came up, when Mr. Young remaiked that be would vote for no man who was himself canvassing for an aldermanship. Mr. Brown (of Brown, Atkinson, and Co., the second partner of which firm is ono of the candidates for Lowgate ward), sup, posing, we presume, that the allusion, was intended for him, and perhaps feeling open to the reproof of Air„ Young, sharply responded ; adding that his position and wercantilo reputation was fully equal to that of Mr. Young, We do not know that the latter had made any insinuation on this head, but further altercation passed, (hiring which Mr. Brown, are informed, flatly told Mr. Young that he was " the in Hull." For an expression so indiscreet to say the least of it, the g.ntlernan addressed called upon the other to retract, or he would punish him. Seeing that matters were very likely to proceed to further unpleasantness, Mr. Abbey took Mr. Brown by the arm and led him away, hoping by this means to prevent a breach of the peace. The parties sepa rated, but the angry feeling which had naturally been engendered did not subside between this period and the after. noon. Between three and four o'clock, some of the parties casually met again on 'Change, and here the quarrel which had begun in the Market place was brought —not to a conclusion—. but to a crisis. Mr. Young, smarting under the imputation which had been so offensively east upon him, accosted Mr. Brown, and demanded from him a retraction of the charge previously male in the Market-place. This, we are given to understand, Mr. Brown distinctly refused to do, repeating it, with other irritating expressions. It seems that he had eq other fear, if he had any remembrance of what Mr. Young had threatened when the remal•k was first applied to him. The latter, upon the refusal being given, at mice touched Mr. Brown upon the shoulder, and at the same time somewhat disarranged his hat, telling him that he was by that act to consider himself dis, graced. This was a signal for further proceedings. The by. sanders separated, and amidst much noise and clamour caused by the explosion, Mr. Brown squared himself as if for a set•tn e This was too much for the ire of his opponent patiently to submit to. • Mr. Young raised his arm, and being a powerful man, fhored his adversary one blow in the face. We believe that Mr. Mown was considerably bruised, bearing tha conspicuous mark, which is typical of, and too often associated '• eve. The greatest excitement ^ ,, nsiderable exertion men, there is reason to believe tlku wider. However, the evmbat ! ed, and business brought to a speedy Here the matter stands at present.—.ffull Paper, Last Monday evening an important and crowded meeting was held in the Clerkenwell Temperance Hall, in the heart of the London watchmaking districts, to hear a statement from Mr. John Bennett, the well known watchmaker, of 65, Cheapside, of his views on the present position and, prospects of this important English manufacture, and the urgent and immediate necessity of adopting means to meet the present competition with the watch manufacturers of Switzerland. Mr. Bennett's advocacy, both on commercial and social grounds, of the introduction of female labour into the trade with which his name is so closely and widely identified, has produced considerable excitement throughout the watch districts of Clerkenwell, both among employer a and employed, and has been met by both, as was to be ez e peeled, with that amount of adverse feeling for which all advocates of change of any kind mast be prepared. The means advocated by Mr. Bennett are so important in their character and results, that we rejoice to find by the sub joined report of the meeting in the Morning Advertiser, that the feeling of the audience went with the lecturer in his advocacy of the employment of women. " After an elaborate description of ancient and modern time-pieces, Mr, Bennett proceeded to observe, that for years the condition and miseries of the women of our working population had forced themselves upon our admitted, that and capitalists . It was generally tte that whilst the condition of our worki ng men, in too I.—arm: cases, was deplorable in the extreme, still they would dn i n cA S e bear comparison with the degradation hi.s " and rY of e Song theg b of sister S s hirtin toil. de When Hoo feed, ," hen e , the wrongs o f t hi s e llin.; important class of our femP.le population, he touched a chord in the national bead that at once ushered into existence numerotn institutions to alleviate their distress and elevate their condition. But whilst public and private charity could deal with this gigantic social evil in numerous individual cases, it was incompetent to fully grapple with the emergency. With the true genius of practicai Christianity, food and shelter had been given to the afflicted, and trifling assistance to the more de serving unfortunate, and thus our wealthier classes had substantially evidenced their goodwill to their humbler brothers and sisters; but still the discerning philanthropist had seen the little utility of all this. Whilst he could not withheld his tribute of praise to such spontaneous and cheerful - liberality, he saw that, so long as nearly every remunerative employment was engrossed by men only, so long must the wretchedness and slavery of women remain what it is. Where is the remedy ? Mrs. Chisholm, backed by numbers of our nobility and gentry, boldly launched hen laudable scheme of female emigration ; but the love of home and kindred put an effectual harder to the very extensive development of this admirable scheme, Tha question still kept pre3siug itself home to the intelligent mind, Is there no employment for female labour on British, soil ? for, until this can ba discovered, our best efforts see comparatively useless. Political economy at once pointed to its laws of demand and supply of labour, and indicated the increased demand of female labour as the true solution of this important social question. Mr. Bennett asks, if female labour is so extensively employed in other coun tries in the more scientific departments of skilled labour.. why may ups England avail herself of the same agency P Nine-tenths of the compositor's work in America is delta by female hands. In the great Bible Society's web ' , lishment in New York the whole of the bookbinding le done by women. In the north of Germany, large name bers of the clerks in even the bulks and largest nommer.. cial houses are females ; and even in Paris female labour is much more in request in these department; than in our own country. Mr. Bennett boldly Proposes the em ployment of his countrywomen in the making of watches; and certainly his long and very extensive experience as : a London watchmaker entirle him to be heard on a gum tion upon which he is so competent to give an opinion„• In recent travels in Switzerland, the lecturer had found is peculiarly that this trade had deeply rooted m i a t k se i l n f g , and was fast spreading, but that it trusted chiefly to female labour for its further development. Watch an English manufacture--itsghraesatheistEtknedra_itslo.icsohbveeireninegsetnkauenitdmxodaimne; provorents have boon the work of industry. An English watch not our nglish women be employed u T p h o e n n, of a time.heeper ; and SO it is still. a why should which their sisters in Switzerland prove themselves so eminently adapted, and thus provide n to a large eatent a elevate il e oe m nv e ,a d t a y e nt f ahe o r io t r h p e ecno d n i s do t ui r tt e i s a s t 17: e s and d f w our labouring f ema l e poput a a y - , e h n a e n fi n t e m a w n tr n e ( r ? they m Working watchmakers have no need to fear the introduction of feznale labou r , as t h e large demand that necessarily would ensue, when watches were materially cheapened in price, would doubtless more than compensate any loss they might temporarily sustain. , • ` A vote of thanks was most cordially given at the close of this very intertesting lecture." MEDICAL ReFOß3l.—The Medical Times and Gazetts announces that the beads of all the medical corporations o England, Scotland, and Ireland, h ave at last agreed upon the t er ms of a new Medical Refo rm Bi ll. The proposals for the bill ore given at length in our medical cotemporary ; and it is to be hoped that this aifficult question may be at l e ngth settled t o th and the advant age of the nublie. e t 4 atisfaction of the medical profession, REsmNAlioN Or MR. AARON PLATT.—We are informed that Mr, Baron Platt has resigned his seat as a Baron of th 90117 i of Exchequer. Mr. Watson, Q.C., is spoken of as litely to become the new judge. Issued under the Act 12, Victoria I! 15, by her Maj sty's Exchequer -ZONE. (Signed) Chancellor of the Ex •7 for that able and practical statesman has made Bullionistn tolerable by floating it with fourteen millions of inconvertible paper (the government debt to the Bank) ; whereas, if we were to have a change in the hands of the Whigs and• the Manchester School, we might lose even these fourteen millions. The Morning Post, Lord Palmerston's organ, says, we must have a change of currency, so that this discussion cannot * SOMETHING AKIN TO IT. AN IMPItOMP CALL IT, IF YOU WILL, A RODOMONTADE. Goi.D! What art thou, thou loved one? Surely thou art more lovely than Eve—stronger than iron—more during than the earth itself, which shall be dissolved with fervent heat, from the which thou shalt come forth purified from all that now disfigures thy fair proportions—thine ineffable integrity —thy native primeval worth ! GOLD ! What art thou ? Art thou a substance, thou loved one? Some look on thee as our wealth aad riches, which take to themselves wings, and fly away. Art thou, then, a spirit? that, gossamer-like, thou glidest away with such fairy—like swiftness through inextricable mazes, in the midst of which, so soon, thou art lost to sight? If so, thou art a spirit of solid parts—so weighty in thy constitution, that the ponderous world itself is counterbalanced by thee —so rich in intrinsic worth that thou canet buy up the earth and all that is ther e in. Ab ! surely, thou art like Mother Eve—men will jeopardise and pawn their souls for thee, thou ensnaring magnet, with thy North and South Poles ! GOLD ! What art thou, thou loved one ? Be thou of Ophir or Golconda ! —be thou of California or Australia ! —at t thou not inexplicably an all-pervading, substantial spirit, circling the round world with thine irresistable, fascinating embrace, and enshrined in the hearts of all the civilised portions thereof? GOLD ! what art thou, thou loved one ? And art thou, then, an all-pervading spirit, with corporeal parts that can be touched and handled ?—a sort of tangible thing both of earth and heaven ?—for though thou hast the appearance of solidity, yet thy movements aro so fairy like, and thy freaks so captious, that thou eludest the grasp of the most expert, and the iron hold of the most stalworth ; so that we have no sooner made thee our own by a perpetual compact, and plighted our troth, than away thou art off to thy gambols, irrecoverably lost, thou faithless one GOLD ! What art thou, thou loved one ? Shall I tell of thy charms ? What art thou, thou dear one ? Shall I count thy cost ? All men are ensnared with thy marvellous And thy cost ! and thy cost ! Oh ! thou canet surely not be worth the price that is so often paid for thee—be thou ever so fair, and thy garments ever so graceful— be thy breath ever go fragrant, and thy voice ever so me lodious ! luring attractions GOLD ! What art thou, thou loved one? Art thou not a AO fieltlA I bine, thonoil thnn by oc 011 th;nna to nli •Inesrk 5 Is not thy worth a fiction ? though thy existence be a re tlity ! Art thou not nicknamed Currency to the shame of thy real title? And do not thy false honours conceal from short- sighted mortals thine imperishable worth ? GOLD ! What art thou, thou loved one ? Surely with all thy merit, and in all thy majesty, thou cans't not moisten the minister peace to the troubled conscience —thou cans't not restore health to the body or• joy to the heart whose affections have born blighted—oh ! thou most potent of all human things ! how powerless thou art in thy brightest array, if, alone, thou be called upon in thy single self sufficiency to administer to any of the manifold ills common thstt mayest truly be as a handmaid of love, hou, thou lov'd one ? Art thou not a 1,1 not what thou ieem'st to good deeds limited t of 1111 art, after all, more sinned against than thyself ~i;ty, a' thy native simplicity. GOLD ! GOLD ! I love thee still, though thou be the bane of social life in thy compound thetamprphosis. Who can say where thy vagaries began ? Who can say where they will terminate ? GOLD ! What art art thou, thou lov'd one ? Art thou— as some will have it—only an excrescence—drawn from the bowels of the earth by greedy men for the moncyocracy of society ? though abbettor of evil ! though promoter of good ! GOLD ! Thou lov'd one, what art thou ? Thou most Wog . - cal leader of society, with thy all persuasive talents, thy unsound arguments, thy alluring flowing rhetoric, thy baneful doctrines, and thy all•searchiug influence? 'fell me, in a word, what thou art ? and I will tell thee why I love thee, thou tangible impersonation ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—An excess and a scarcity—an undue expansion, and an unnatural collapse—in our currency, produce serious conse quences to our commercial and manufacturing interests. Unfortunately, our Parliamentary enactments with the Bank of England do not place that establishment in a position to meet a pressure for money, or to put her reserves into circula tion ; in respect to either, she is wholly left to her own dis cretion. The Bank, by Act of Parliament, has to buy in, at a fixed pr ice, all her bullion, and her issue of notes is also fixed, and limited to lier own Reserves and the indebtedness of our Government to her. The natural consequence of such a position is clearly that of raising or lowering her discounts, or, in other words, to extend to, or contract, her engagements as cu cumstances compel her. The root df all our currency evils take their rise here. Government ought to be the national security to the nation, and not a company like the Bank of England. The capability of the Bank of England alone is not equal to the require ments of the country, and that establishment requires assist ance if she is still to continue the regulation of our monetary system. Our Government must come to her help before we can look for a steady money market. Government must not only continue to the Bank her issue according to present arrange ments, but she must pledge herself to the Bank for the issue of—say twenty or thirty millions more. The security thus given to the value of the Bank of England notes would satisfy the public, and ensure them a free circulation throughout the country. Bank of England notes would represent national property, and become as valid as any document from under the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Government would, of course, make their own conditions as to any participation in their guaranteed notes with the Bank upon the profits resulting from such issues. By this plan, gold would meet our exchanges and balance of trade abroad—bank notes would meet all demands at home—and we should not be subject to the application, every now and then, of the screw, upsetting all agreements and engagements previously entered into. Among your many correspondents on money matters, and the various schemes put forth to amend the currency laws, perhaps, Mr. Editor, you will kindly find a corner for this plain statement.—Yours, &c., PAPER AND GOLD. October 30, 1850. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES, Sir,—On receiving a double number of your paper last Tuesday, I looked at once for your heading, " The Cur rency Questipn," hoping to see another letter from "J. W.," or, at least, one from " Cornelius," instead of which I found only a " Currency Reformer," and "Nepos." I fear the two first-named gentlemen have written themselves out, or that they were only humbugging us. Now, having promised to wait patiently for "J. w.,5,, plans, I think I have a right to complain if he won't go on with his work. When he has done, perhaps I may begin to build on his foundation, if his superstructure should turn out to be nothing better than " wood, hay, or st übbla." - ---- - I see no improvepent in monetary matters. Even your bullionist purrency Reformer" of Tuesday, says that " our present system pf currency is very defective, and does frcquently produce roost disastrous results." Will none ,of your correspondents show us a remedy ? What. if the Bank of England were to double its capital X28,0G0,000 instead of , l4,000,000?—Yours truly, $ LLow_Hill, Oct. 28, 1856. GLIINBA GOLD. AY . the Lunatic Asylum, £47,000, at 5 per cent.—re £12,200; for the New Prison, £140,000, at 5 per ce at 4 per cent.— , at " repai,i t £27,500 ; for the police, £6,500, repaid, £1.100; for the militia, £lO,OOO, a per cent , and £15,000, at 4 : 1 per eent. —repaid, £1,166 133 4d ; total amount borrowed, 218,500 ; total amount repaid, £41.966 13s 4d. Bilance due by the county, September 29, 1856: for the Lunatic Asylum, £34,800 ; New Pcism, £112,500 ; police, £5,400 militia, £23,833 63 6s Bd. ROASTING A CHILD !-A young femal residing at Plouneves du Faou (France), was enciente, not withstanding which a man married her, after giving her -a , narnei Morvan it was born Three months after the child was horn, and, in spite of his promise, the man manifested great loathing for it, and abused the mother. One day the woman went out, leaving the child in its cradle, with no one in the house except the man. On her return she found the child lying dead, and medioal men being oalled in, they declared that, from marks on its body, it was evident that the little creature had been placei on the hot bricks of the fireplace; and had been actually roasted to death ! When the woman accused him with having murdered the child, he merely said, " Why did you not stop to take care of it ?" MORE TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.—Upwards of eighty beneficed clergymen, in the diocese of St. David's, have memlialised Bishop Connop Thirlwall against the theological teaching of the Reverend Rowland Williams, the professor of divinity in Lampeter College. The protest is specifically directed against the teaching contained in the professor's sermons, published under the title of ' R itional Godlines," the tendencies of which were pointed out about a year ago in the Quarterly Review, and have since occa sioned much discussion. The temonstrants allege that the college has lost just have its students in consequence of the heretical teaching of the professor, whose, doctrines, they _ have filled them with alarm —doctrines which they Conceive are fraught with the most serious consequences to the interests of the college and the welfare of the church in the principality. The bishop has not yet expressed an opinion on the subject. . A DELIBERATE'SUICIDE.—A New Orleans paper contains a letter from the pen of an American doctor (Bengnot) who resides in Paris, giving particulars of the suicide of another American doctor (Valetti). The latter was dying of con. sumption, andetermined to hasten his death, in order that ha might not spend the small means left him, which he destined for his relations. Ile informed Bangnot of his resolution ; remonstrances were urged in vain, and all he could be got to promise was the delay of a week in his design. "A week, that's a long time to wait," he said. At the end of that time he sent for Bangnot to bid him farewell. The poison, a preparation of strychnine, made by Dr. Valetti himself, was all ready. Dr. Bengnot argued and entreated with the inflexible patient for four hours, but in vain. It was nearly midnight when he left the room. Valetti bade him an affectionate farewell, telling him to come back the next morning, and locked the door on his friend. At day-break Dr. Bengnot was on the ground, and the door was forced open. The body of the suicide was found in his bed, He was quite dead. _ DEATH OF THB E t RL 'OF SCARBOROUGH.—We have to record the death of the Right Hon. John Earl of Scar borough, which took place at his seat, Saadbeck•park, near Tickhill, Yorkshire, on Wednesday last The deceased nobleman was the eighth Earl of Scarborough, and the lineal representative of a family which traces its pedigree to a period onsiderably anterior to the Norman conquest. He was born at Eiwinstowe, on the 18th of July, 1788, and succeeded as the eighth earl on the 21st of Febuary; 1835, his father having ben killed by a fall , from a horse. Prior to his accession, the deceased noble man represented the county of Nottingham in the House of CAnmons, having been elected by that con stituency in the years 1826, 1830, 1831. and 1852. In 1839 he was appointed lord lieutenant of the county of Nottingham, in the room of the late Duke of Newcastle, who was summarily removed for having written an offensive letter to the Lord Chancellor Cottenhan. SOOll after the death of the seventh earl, some litigation took place relative to the estates at Sandbeek and Rufford, which had pre viously been held by the peer and the heir apparent to the title respectively. The suit ended in favour of the deceased earl, who rewarded his advocate, Sir W. Follett, with a North 3,000 guineas. At the close of this suit the late earl cut off the entail of the estates. Eiohard Lumley Saville, Esq., of Tiokhill Castle, is nosy the Earl of Scarborough, but in whom the estates are vested has not yet transpired. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—MISTAKEN IDENTITY.-,MUCh amusement has been created in Manchester by an error into which a great number of the inhabitants of the town seem to have fallen by mistaking a clergyman and hiltwo sons for the Prince of Wales and his brother attendey their tutor. It appears that some time ago a rumour was set on foot that his royal highness intended to pay a visit to the principal sights in Manchester, but that he wished to pass incognito. This rumour had no foundation in fact, but it caused the Manchester people to be on thelook out for this promised visit. Now it so happened that a clergy. man named the Rev. Wm. Bri i dgman Simpson was on a visit with his two sons at a friend's house in Manchester, and on Monday and Tuesday last these gentlemen, accom panied by some friends, inspected several of the large manufactories in the town. First they visited Mr. Nasmyth's works at Patricroft, afterwards they went to the Oxford-road Twist Company, and finally they visited the: Mechanics' Institution Exhibition, at which last place they paid for tickets of admission like other people, and at the two factories they were admitted with the usual note of introduction. During the day it was rumoured and extensively believed, that this was the royal party. The greatest respect and attention was paid by the officials at the different places, and the crowd of idlers, fully impressed with their having obtained a view of royalty, made every loyal demonstration in their P • ower It may be added th a t one of the Manchester journals fell into the trap, and believing in the real pre sence of the royal family, published an article, in which a variet3 of sayings and doings of these lads were quoted to show that they incognito. It was even htd beeuunable to maintain their asserted that on seeing certain pictures which were formerly hung in the Queen's Palace, they made observations as to the particular roam in which the pictures had been placed. service of plat P r 4. t•for I, f or ils'"