The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-01 00:00:00

AMERICAN FINANCES.

The New York General Advertiser gives the following
statement relative to the operation of the Sinking Fund up
to the year IMO, and strongly reeornmetuls the provisions
of the Act relating to that fund, passed by Congress in the
year 1817, to be strictly attended to.

FEN. 17•

IMPORTANT FINANCIAL DOCUMENT.
We give this evening the report of the Committee of Ways sod
Means, to whom cons referred the annual ReporE of the Secretary
of me Treasury. It is an able and important document, from tits
pen, as it is understood. of Mr. Ill'hane, Chairman of the Con-
odttee, embracing " a clear and full, but concise, statement of the
anticipated operation of the Sinking Fuud till the year 1839, ensile
shows, in the moat satististtory manner, that the while ore& Sat
por Cents., amounting to 311.300,000 dollars, will be paid of by the
' Ist of January, 11129, provided a reasonable economy be observed
in the public expenses. and also provided the wise provisions of the
Sinking, Fund Act of 1817 be adhered to." It will not, however,
be a very welcome document to the Secretary of the Treasury.
whose Retort, it will be recollected, we only praised for the ability
with which i: wax written, while we condemned its leading doe-
trims'. The Committee has shown that the Secretary has imitated
Mr. Crawford so far as to fall into several mistakes. They have
shown, on his data, that the Secretary " has undet.estimatul,the
operation of the Sinking Fund, in the present and the nest yeas,
only 6.1;43,196 dollars ! by entirely overlooking an important pro-
vision in the Sinking Fund Act of IEII7 ; they have also showy',
that the scheme of borrowing, proposed by the Secretary, is net
only useless, but that it would postpone the payment of the public
debt, and cause a loss to the Government of 481,924 dollars. The
Committee of Ways and Means has also decidedly condemned his
plan of placing the stockholders, who exchanged stock wise the
law of the last Session, upon an equality with the subscribers to a
new loan, to be hereafter made, if carried into effect." , inns tigi
latter point, although those subecribers have no positive ground of
complaint, still we should rather Incline to the policy,. nap, else
equity, of adopting the suggestion of the Seerstlfq. rt whist
heads than oars must determine the maim.
. .

The Secretary of the Treasury has made a long, end, it is said.
sery.able report of gteos intone y sistemnOsstag wag; yd.**
expedienty*or exumding the time within Which gOtidi ',re-
exported, with benefit of drawback, from one to two years. The
Secretary is of *pinion that the measure suggested would be de.
cidedly beneficial to commerce, without being prejudicial to
the revenue. This is the sum of the report, on the general prin.
ciple.

.141ARYLEBONE OFPICB POLICE REPORT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Stn—A statement having appeared in most of the newspapers of
a transaction which took place in my house on Monday last, in
which the facts are, as I am informed. and have no doubt, greatly
exaggerated, I trust you will do me the justice to insert the follow.
ing statement :-
-That, although I have had constant complaints from the young
men in my employ of the very violent and, indeed, outrageous
conduct of my apprentice, William Dennis Kean, towards them ;
and although, during the whole period of his apprenticeship, his
behaviour towards me has been marked wttb'distespect anti dirt).
bedienee. lam far from approving of the conduct which 'reported
to have betn pursued against him upon the occasion in question
of which 1 was nut acquainted until the afternoon of Monday. gs
it may be imagined, from the report, that I have authorised MI
assistants to inflict pznional chastisement upon this young man for
neglect of his duty as an apprentice, I beg leave to state that this
is by no means the case ; but I admit, that upon some of the re.
peered occasions of complaint of his insolent and violent coniloct, I
may have said that it was impossible fur me to interfere in thee•
disputes, and that. the only course to pursue would be to chastise
the youth for his insolence.
In the event of the threatened prosecution of the young men pro.
ceeding to trial, I sin confident a very different complexion will tie
' put upon the case, twin that which the ex pact: statement of my
apprentice has shown. '

An early insertion will oblige.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
GEO. CROFT.
_ _ _

63, Oxford-street, March 31.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

I have little doubt but that you will have many replies to the
letter of Mr. Niqiitlaw, contained iu your paper of this day. If yon
think the few following remarks worthy a place in your Well cos.
ducted journal, please to give them publicity, if not, attribute than
to no improper motive on the part of the writer, and bard theq•.
The advance of medical science all mankind is equally interested
in. and we are too apt to believe that which we desire, in nothing
more so than in the promised effects of medicine; hence the wide
field for dishonourable practice on the part of medical men. by
abusing the feelings and confidence of their patients. I haws
nothing of Mr. Whitlow, except from the newspapers, and a smolt
pamphlet or two on the subject of treating scropliulous diseases at
Margate, and I most !solemnly disclaim all wish to utter what may
be thought injurious to him, bat he must permit me to ask.a
' question or two on what he himself states. " The medicines; I had
,„irpinister-d were -powerful absorbents,* and thereby occattioned.
considerable quantity of these mercurial preparations (corm-iv.
sublimate and red precipitate) to be taken into the system T; a
consequence was. as I have affirmed, that the patients were riot
tar from losing their lives." May I ask Mr. Whitlow, in tle
name of, I hope, an honourable profession, if be has diseove•el
any specific to eerie absorption from the surface, and if so, whot
that medicine be ? Assuming Mr. IVhitlaw to possess this know-
ledge (with the other means of curing scrophula), he must he a
proud man, but he cannot be a jusenne, unities he impel: to his
medical brethren, for the use of his fellow creatures, whose hoppi-
ness he states he has so much at heart, those secrets which lie al• tie
new holds. Ile cannot object to it on the *core of losing a due
remuneration ; for when the country at large shall have the opportt,
nits, of experiencing such benefit, what suffering individual silo!d
not rather apply to head. quarters than to an out-post—to the master,
rather than the disciple ? His more reasonable grounds would be.
tear of being inundated with claimants for his attention. If Mr.
11'hitlaw were to remove every scrophulous disease and taint front
every individual in London so infected, I fear little benefit yroott:
accrue to the inhabitants of Caithnesshire. or any other remote part
of the country, unless he would condescend to make his brethren
his agents for exerci,:iig those feelings of humanity sod kiatlnina
towards the natives ci Great Britain, which prompted him to kiss
the United States.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

EDICUS.
• The printer, I conclude, not being medical, is the emote ✓.'
what I take w bee slight error. We term that an absorbent whiea
of itself absorbs, be it a medicine or vessel. 111 r. W.'s medicine
could not of itself hare absorbed the mercurial preparations.
March 30:h.

'tomsEv, March 28.—Our fair yeaterday, which was
plentifully supplied with live and dead steel, was unusually well
attended, and there was rather an uncrpected briskness in thaaeftle
and eiveve marts. Of cheese the quantity pitched was consular-
able ; and skim produced learn Sliw. to 301. i half creed 411 s. to
good white Somerset, 675. twat.; fee North 1.% dishiest PO
tine r d tnmerset the demand was greater than the supply. Thd
dhow of horses was good, and numerous *ales wereelrowd.
horned cattle 4 the uumber was short. and awn driven ill wan,
rough ; but the sheep in quantity and quality exceeded those of
several preceding fairs, and sold at advanced prices. Indeed, taken
altogether, the average of bushiest, particularly by tbalimaksapd.a,
riga spuds bodes shoo bad been asdialpated, ink geworalig speak.
tug, we had what is tamed a good 4r.

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