The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

FREE EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH

WALES AND THE CAPE OFIGOOD HOPE.
We have much pleasure in intimating that govern-
ment feels itself in a condition to resume the system of
granting free passages to agricultural labourers, shepherds,
and female domestic and farm servants of good character, to
some of the colonies, and that a beginning is to be made with
those we have named above, Emigration to New South
Wales has been suspended since Use year 1844, and the de-
mand for labour has become most urgent, and wages have
Featly increased. The Cape of Good Hope never has en-
joyedi the advantage of a regular supply of free passagelabourers.
A free passage, with provisions and medical attendance for
the voyage, will be provided for each labourers as are
selected Application must be made (post-paid) to Stephen
Walcott, Esq., secretary to the Board of Emigration, No.
9, Park street, Westminster. A form of application will be
procured from him, which most be filled up by tho in-
tending emigrant. If any false statements are made, or
false signatures adhibited, the delinquent forfeits his de.
posit and all claim to a free passage. Applicants
ars not to consider that a free passage will be granted them
until they receive intimation from the commissioners. They
are not to make preparations for departure or leave their
employment until the secretary gives them notice to pay
their deposit. If they fail to attend on receiving this warn-
ing, they have no claim on the commissioners. No fee or
gratuity is to be paid, on any pretence, to any agent or
officer of the commumoners.
The following are the regulations to be observed in the
selection of labourers, and the conditions on which the pu-
ma is understood to be accepted:
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A CATECHISM OF THE CURRENCY.
BY MR. Tawas Bowox.

Question. What is a Bank of Ragland note ?
Answer. A promise, on the part of the governor and com-
pany of the Bank of England, to pay a gentleman of that
name of Marshall, or the bearer, on demand when he de-
mands it, a certain quantity of the precious metals.
Q. What h a country bank note ?—A. The country note,
like that of the Back of England, ostensibly promisee to pay
the bearer a certain sum of money on demand ; but Sir Ro-
bert Peel, by means of the " Panic Detector " (a powerful
lens, the property of Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd), discovered in
the country note an almost invisible saving claim. Until
then it was not generally known that the private mark of
all country notes is the words—" Don't you with you may
get it ?" engraved many thousand times over, across the pro-
mos to pay in the body of the note, bat in characters too
minute to catch the naked eye.
Q. What is currency ?—A. Bank of England and country
notes, gold and silver coin, and bullion.
Q. Do no other elements enter into the composition of
currency ?—A. None whatever.
Q. What are deposits with banken I—A. Moneys lent by
the public to the banks, and immediately re'lent by the
banks to the public. Practically speaking, they are as great
a fiction as the National Debt.

Q. Then the national debt is not, as many suppose, a great
fact ?—A. i mean that the ability of the banks to repay
their deposits, if demanded, in money, is just u great u the
ability of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay off the
funded debt to-morrow.
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Q. Deposits. then, are not currency I—A. Clearly not.
The late Mr. Page certainly told the committee on Banks of
Issue that they could not deposit a ghost ; but it ia a remark-
able fact that that gentlemen very shortly afterwards became
a ghost himself. This eireinsetance, although slight in itself,
is generally considered to have settled the point.
Q. Have net bills of exchange, as well as deposits, been
reckoned as currency by some writers?—A. They have, and
with just as much reason.
Q. Are not immense quantities of commodities. in some of
the great manufacturing counties of England—Lancashire,
for instance—circulated exclusively by means of bills of ex-
change ?—A. There are; and unfortunately there is no law
to prevent it.
Q. Why prevent it ?—A. Oa the same principle that you
put down coining. If you declare by act of parliament that
your currency consists of certain elements only, it is obviously
an infringement and a contempt of that set to circulate any-
thing else as such.
Q. But if parties are willing to take a bill of exchange in
payment, why interfere ?—A. Became the evil will spread.
There are in this country men who actually advocate a cir-
culation of Birmingham buttons, or something of that sort,
, in lieu of sovereigns. Adopt such • circulation, and you
immediately lower the standard of value, turn the exchanges
against us, drain the country of its last guinea, and degrade
us to a nation of mere button-holders.
Q. What are the fundamental principles on which a mixed
currency should be regulated ?—A. Those upon which the
act 7 & 8 Vitt, cap. 32, was based, viz., that that portion
of its quantity which mambas of notes be at all times imme-
diately convertible iota coin or bullion at the will of the
holder; that its total quantity be made to fluctitee in
amount, exactly as if it were composed entirely of metallic
money ; and, lastly, that the issuers of notes be guided in
their operations exclusively by the foreign exchanges.
Q. But did not the act in question authorise the Bank of
England to issue a certain amount of notes against securi-
ties simply, over and above its issues against coin and bul-
lion ?—A. It did ; fourteen millions.
Q. Is not this clause apparently at variance with your
axiom, that all the notes of the Bank shall be convertible
into coin or bullion, abeolutely ?—A. No ; because the notes
are convertible into something better, via., a share of the na-
tional debt. Coin and bullion often get heavily diminished
in amount ; our national debt, never. Coin, moreover, may
be stolen, beyond the hope of recovery ; but no one is likely
to run away with the national debt.
Q. Why were the issues of the Bank of England against
securities limited specifically to fourteen millions, moreplan
to any other amount, less or more ?—A. No one exactly
knows, except, perhaps, Sir Robert himself ; and he is not
of a communicative disposition. It is confidently expected,
however, that he will allude to the matter in his will, if not
before ; whilst many believe, that if the working of the mea-
sure bring the whigs, who don't understand it, into difficul-
ties, which it is certain to do, he will consent to tell them all
about it, on condition of his being " celled in."
Q. Your second proposition was—that a mixed currency
should he made to fluctuate in amount, exactly as if it were
composed entirely of metallic money. How does the act
provide for this?—A. Very simply and very effectually. For
every 51, in gold that flows into the Bank of England, you
issue • 61. note ; for every 51. in gold that flows out of the
Bank, you cancel a note, and so on.
Q. Bat would not the effect in either case be • fluctuation
to the extent of ten pounds and not five, as would be the
ease were the currency purely metallic T—A. Undoubtedly
so, if you apply the vulgar rules of arithmetic to each a
question. But it is a well-known axiom in the higher de-
partments of finance, that two and two don't make four ;
but rather the contrary. Lord Monteegle found this out
when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, as also did his
successor, Mr. Baring.
Q. To come to your final proposition : what are the foreign
exchanges ?—A. The foreign exchanges, or, rather, the In-
strument known by that name, is, perhaps, the most won-
derful invention of modern times. It is, in fact, the baro-
meter of currency. By mechanism, of surprineg ingenuity,
it shows at a glance, at any hour of the day, the exact
amount of money required at that moment in every
county in England, Scotland, and Ireland, distinguishing
the cities from the towns, the towns from the villages, notes
from gold, and gold from silver.
Q. How tong has this instrument been in me?—A. Only
of late years. In fact its capacities only became publicly
known and recognised early in May, 1844, when Sir Robert
Peel took it down to the house personally, and exhibited its
action to the astonished Commons. He showed to convic-
tion, that as surely as the metallic column of the barometer
rose to " fair," so:surely the monetary horizon cleared ; and
that when it fell to " stemmy," the monetary horizon as cer-
tainly lowered and grew bleak.
Q. Then, previous to this date, the money-market was
without any melt guide ?—A. No ; the mischief was that
it had logia such. Previewdy to the discovery of the
Greet tan Indicator ev town and county in
Englandi i
set up is own t barometer, and re-
gulated its immetery peceedibm by this lead instrument,
with as little selmeoce to the NehmielMn Indicator as if it
had beloopped to weather pienet, mg with no more reaped
he In pataleatt of Melee el neemad than If he had bees
the ma is the mem. Mb me what the country issuers
colemely declared to be ediejg fo moist abjection to local
ustimoses and was; so that it was no unusual circum-
stance hr the country barometers In a body to set fair at the
very moment that the Bank of England instilment biter-
kneed hal weather.
Q. Night met this, however, have arisen hem natural sad
legitimatemermes, ads as the occurrence of him gal
roost days, qmelemdsys, and the like, all ef ohle=
have WINNE middles' in the amulet of onsoloy eheahlieu
afloat at anteha periods I—A. huh MS lillematially the
ems. The waralay Innen did Ed eta te some that
Q.
they reguldell W the fags&
Wall OsetM banlmo beim ileaslia tlmmil,Xthue we
limited the apply
_esuelny mem to lobe mein memeres
to restrict the dreamed Om fona_ se •—web es puNia
so
fairs, oliskieg_meshate,memeMit
so forth ?—A. Certainly mt. Alm pea emeres:ggstt
esespem es short coutmems, you omagolltir leave the domed
for vistaed. te lad its own level.
Q. Them the mem*, as it effected the country broken,
was net, as NM have fancied, hustamsuot to an emelment
to memel ell ead lied eshe to go by mom-time at Green-
wish, saw the of kez= abuts the govern-
ment impseisee a sleek astray ?—A.
Clocks see set money. Them a striking difference be-
twixt an oiobt-eq dook Led • iL Me.
Q. Then Phe use of the ell country instruments was
abolished 1-4. As a metier el course. Their indications
for twelve maths were meted down b/a clerk in the
Treecmy,searmal up, the total divided thirteen, and
the male gam be • friction the amount of country notes
that was whelk and salutary for the monetary Maniac.
tons of pervissial Ragland in all-time coming.
Q. The eat of 1844, in a modified shape, was ultimately
extended to Soothed T—A. It was.
Q. On what grounds ?—A. In Iteglaad here our wealth,
for thirty yeah at least, hod had its basis laid on solid gold ; but
in Scotland, a couple driers ago, you might have travelled
for a week, and not a single sovereign touched your palm.
Nothing in fiction is more ludicrous or incredible than the
delusions which have prevailed in that country, for more
than • century beck, on the subject of currency. It is an
undoubted fact, that the inhabitants, up to a recent date,
would have preferred the stanch of a filthy 11. rag to the
ring of genuine gold.
Q. How do yon account for the preference ?—A. Very
simply. The wretched counterfeits which have peered cur- I
rent as money in Scotland for a century and a half, have
enabled its inhabitants enormously to increase the wealth
of the country. By means of this so-callod currency of
theirs, vast lakes have been rendered navigable, harbours
deepened, canals cut, WWI opened. Dundee, Aberdeen,
andf other places, from mere fishing stations, have ex-
panded into large ports, crowded with shipping, and swarm-
ing with busy populations. Vessels from Scottish ports are
met with in every sea. Edinburgh, from a labyruoth of
narrow streets and filthy lanes, has become a city of palaces.
In a word, a half-populated, semi-barbarous waste has
been converted into • highly-cultivated, thickly-populated
toeuntvy, of vast industrial energies and widely-extended
commerce.
Q. Then why subvert a system of currency under which
the country had so visibly and remarkably prospered ?
A. Because the bads of the whole was a mockery, a delu-
sion, and a snare.
Q. Had any Scottish banks failed ?—A. None to speak of.
Q. Were any failures likely or apprehended?—A. None.
0. Why then interfere ?—A. The case was this : —Paper
is • perishable material. Scotch currency was paper—filthy
paper—and nothing besides. Therefore the Scotch currency
was perishable. We had only to suppose, then, such an or-

Marry eise es the people of Scotland some day
going In. their banks, and demanding gold for thew
alms us a case which not only justified, but
mama seism, the interference of the legislature. For,
=Mt aimed was in a single day, and not a soya-
Mg k. and where would Scotland have been the
mast astairs
Cl. The nit was the intended to Inland I—A. It was.
Lint llegkend--that cottony (I. von the forcible expression
of a late Isinkear of Wakefield), was "curved with 20s.
none ." The eagle-glance of Sir Robert saw, therefore,
that if Indeed was allowed to remain is peesendon of a cur-
rency similar to that of Scotland, Ire would, In aU
human probability, follow the delusive taps* of that
country, and became, at no remote period, on eke itriawtti of
mendacious promises to pay, as wealthy, cultimeed,
gent, and free, as she is now poor, desolate, friorant, and
oppressed.
Q. Ts piss from the provisions of the act, so far as they
applied to individual interests, what were the objects em-
braced in the more general scope of the measure I—A. They
are thus stated in the memorable words of Sir Robert Peel :
—a To isstpirejust confidence in the medium of exchange— ,1
to put a check. ors improvident speculations—and to insure,'
so far as legislation can insure, the just reward of industry_
and the legitimate profit of commercial enterprise, condeseted
with integrity and controlled by provident calculation."
Q. Are there not, however, those who allege that the ia-
herent tendency of the masers is to aggravate to exam
those very evils which it was the boast of Its promoters it
would counteract and allay ? A. There are ; and their
argument is this : that the manure, whet bullion is flowing
in, by foreleg notes out, whether wanted or not, renders
money over abundant, forces down the rate of interest, and
fosters the wildest speculations • whereas, it must be obvious
to any man of common understanding that, by rendering
money worth only ii per cent or so, you check speculation,
by rendering the object of all speculation, money, not worth
the having.
Q. Has not the railway mania of 1845 been instanced by
the opponents of the measure as a proof of its inefficacy to
prevent improvident speculation?—A. It has; but it has
yet to be shown in what pert of his speech Sir Robert m-
ulled, that that mania would not come, or, that even the
powibility of its coming once entered his thoughts.
Q. What is the argument used by such persons as to the
action of the measure in the contrary direction ?—A. This ;
that the measure, when gold is leaving us, unduly restricts
the circulation of the country, renders money scarce and dis-
counts impossible, forces down the prices of ell commodities
and property, and thus compels the country to pay forty or
fiftyfold for every million in gold that learnt the coffers of
the Bank,

Q. And the present severe pressure upon the Money
Market is quoted, is it not, in support of this view of the
question ?—A. It is; but the pledge distinctly given was,
that the measure would prevent the recurrence of the mix.
mites of 1825, 1836, and 1839; and these only. The cala-
mities of 1847 are not even alluded to, in the most distant
manner, in any part of Sir Robert's two great speeches upon
the question.
Q. The object of the measure, then, was not, as alleged by
its detractors, to put down speculation in the abstract?—A.
Undoubtedly not: it was framed t. put down those specu-
lations which, so to speak, were without the law. It was
felt to be monstrous and intolerable, that, in the middle of
the nineteenth century, such calamities as those of '25, '36,
and '39, should again be inflicted upon the country, unless
by act of parliament.
Q. What is the estimated cost to the community of a
genuine money-panic under the new law ?—A. Some two
hundred millions, less or more, according to its severity ; a
mere bagatelle, compared with what the act of 1819 cost.
Q. And what would have been the probable condition of
England at this moment had not the act of 1844 passed ?
A. In all probability one of perfect monetary quiet and
commercial ease. The specie now in the coffers of the
Scotch and Irish banks would have been gang in the vaults
,of the Bank of England. The English country banks,
' instead of draining, as they have done, the central bank to
the extent of three or four millions, to supply the vacuum
occasioned by the restriction put upon their own issues,
would have followed the old plan of regulating their issues
by what they ludicrously styled " the legitimate wants of
trade." The bullion in the Bank, consequently,would have
been nearer fifteen millions than it is now near ten ; money
would have been cheap, and discounts easy; the home trade
would hare been brisk, our exports enormous, and our gains
proportionate ; and thus things would have gone on. The
tide of gold would have run in its natural course—stopped
and flowed back again as usual ; our profits would have
enabled us to meet our railway calls ; and thus the country
would have drifted safely over the rocks, and shoals, and
shallows of the time, without once fancying that danger was
at hand, or experiencing the slightest twinge of panic.
Q. And would not all this have been preferable to the
severe ordeal through which the largest interests of the coun-
try are now writhing and struggling for very life ?—A. In-
dubitably not. What was the currency theory set up for,
and made the law of the land, if the country was never to
experience practically that such a law exist ?
Q. Is it not better, when we can, to beat up channel with
all sails set, and reach port with no damage done, either to
hull or cargo, than, in apprehension of imaginary norms
and dangers, to cut masts and rigging away, cast guns and
cargo overboard, and get to port under jury masts in tow of
a Russian frigate ?—A. Grant this doctrine, and you at once
abandon what is perhaps the most remarkable feature of the
great measure of 1844: I mean, its lofty moral scope and
tendency ; for, mark its operation : By introducing. for the
first time, into monetary science the principle of counter-
irritation, it fosters speculation till it dies of surfeit (its only
cum), and corrects calamity by stark ruin; it invigorates
our commerce by infusing into our commercial system the
liveliest elements of distrust and apprehension ; it encou-
rages our merchants to more daring feats of enterprise,
by upsetting the results of all ordinary calculation and mere
common foresight ; it stimulates them to habits of prudence
and wile economy, by denuding them periodically of vast
sums of their plethonc wealth ; to thousands of struggling
and needy tradesmen it constantly holds forth the solitary
terrors of the Gazette; whilst to millions of that improvi-
dent and reckless clam, the "workers" of England, it
imparts the wholesome lemons of penury and distress ; to
all it teaches the uses of adversity,—and at this hour we
exhibit to civilised and astonished Europe an example of
aturdy endurance of a self-inflicted yoke that England may
safely challenge the world to equal or to inaltate.—Bunker's
Maga:ins.

THE ELECTIONS.
COBH (COUNTY).
The tory candidates having withdrawn, at 12 o'clock on
Saturday the high sheriff of Cork opened the court of elec-
tion, when Mr. D. Clanchy' , J.P., a banker, proposed, and
Mr. Eugene ICCarthy, lA'. seconded the nomination of
Mr. E. B. Roche. The Rev. Mr. Doheny moved and Mr.
Garrett Bury seemsdad the nomination of Dr. Power. Both
were then declared duly sleeted.

CARDIGAN (COUNTY).
On Saturday the election for this county took place in
Cardigan Town-hall. There was a numerous attendance of
'lactate. The High Sheriff, Mr. M. Davies, presided, and
briefly h&ednad the proceedings .—Mr. W. 0. Brig-
stoke proposed Colonel Powell ai a fit and proper per-
son to represent the electors in parliament. He would
act ocean say greet portion of their time in descant-
tog' ea the eapabilities of the gallant colonel, but
he wield rather let his long-tried services speak for them-
selves, flatilag sesetted that their past experience of their
umber birlag any long years would carry to their minds
a Wears seavietlea et his fitness for the office than any
&heats eulogy is whisk begeold indulge.—Capt. Lloyd, of
Deleheidd. eseaded the seadsteties, feeling assured that the
demean albs sioatEasold moths mere efficiently represented.
—The High Ilherldr laving &dead Col Powell duly
sleeted., Colead Powell roluremid thanks. He declared his
enatianed regard fie the Petimtant constitution of this
senatry. To represent that toasty had been the qgkbition
°this life. It had leen his study to consult the int Men of
the electors, end he Weald nee continue to do so, acting se
he had hitherto done, assispiesdenUy, and reseeding to the
dictates of his enweisaes. The gallant colonel was than
chaired round the town wits the usual forms.
NORFOLK (WEST).
The official declaration by the High Sheriff took place
yesterday, at fiwaffitam. The concourse of persons was
greater than on the nomination day. The windows were
tilled with ladies, the appearance of many of whose dresses
bespoke that they had travelled some distance in the rain.
The whip first took their position, and were quicklyige fol-
lowed by the oseservatives, headed by Messrs. and
L'Estrange. Kr. Coke WU not present. After mewl
cheers and counter cheers had somewhat subsided, the
under-eheriff came forward and stated the numben palled by
each candidate to he as follows :—Begge,3,ll3 ; Coke, 3,062;
Hamond, 2,936 ; L'Estrange, 2,676. He consequently
declared Mr. Beggs and the Hon. E. K. Coke duly elected
to serve in the next parliament for the western division of
Norfolk.
NV. Becton, Esq., expressed himself most grateful for the
honour conferred upon him. He had come forward as a
point of duty, feeling that the conservatives of West Norfolk
ought to have their due weight in the representation in the
new Howe of Commons. The result of the election, how-
ever, showed that his proposition before its commencement
ought to have been acceded to. He had proposed that they
should send one and one ; and had that been the case a great
deal of angry feeling would have been spared, and a great
deal of wasteful expenditure of money prevented. All the
money that had been expended had been drunk and swilled
away, Ile was sorry they had not returned Mr. L'Estrange,
to record his vote on constitutional points in the House of
Commons. Unfortunately Mr. L'Estrenee wee not suffi-
ciently well known to thorn. (A voice : " We know him too
well.") He deserved well of them ; and if, on a future
occasion, they should be made to fight again, he (Mr. B.)
had no doubt that two conservatives would be sent to parlia-
ment by West Norfolk. At any rate (said Mr. Bagge) "we
shall not flinch from the battle. '
Mr. ANTHON T HA MONO wan greeted with loud cheers, Pie%
of " Coke," and great uproar. After attempting for some
time to obtain a hearing without effect Mr. Hamond
seated himself, and expressed his determination of sitting
them out. If beaten in argument he would give way, but
he would not be put down by noise. (Cheers.) He had a
letter from Mr. Coke, which he would reed to them in a few
minutes. He came in the most peaceful frame of mind to
tell them that he was glad to see the county of Norfolk fight
so good.hurnoured and spirited a contest. He did not grudge
Mr. Biggs his return. No ; and be would tell them why.
(The uproar here became so great that Mr. Beggs had to in-
terfere twice or thrice before Mr. Hsmond could proceed.)
He congratulated his friends on baring achieved so glorious
a triumph. They had triumphed against a most outrageous
registration ; they had fought the contest boldly, fairly,
honestly, and coolly. Mr. Coke wan not there, but
he did hope that he should have been strutted
a patient hearing in his 4chalf. You wished Mr. Bagge's