The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Jlll. 20.

LAMBETH.--Clusrler Lyon, a middle-aged man,
who has for some time carried en the business of a green-
grocer in the Old Kent-road, was placed at the bar on a
charge of murder in having caused the death of bis
wife, Jane, by kicking her in the groin with his hob-
nailed boots, and causing such serious injuries that she
died of haemorrhage.
The first witness called was George Leonard, a painter,
who deposed that he knew the prisoner and his deceased
wife from living opposite to them for some time. On the
evening before, at about 5 o'clock, when returning home,
he saw the deceased, Mrs. Lyon, hurried across the foot
pavement, as if she bad been forced out of the door of her
husband's house with great violence, but she did not fall.
He did not see who it was that pushed her out, as he was
not in a position to do so, but the instant she was pushed
out the door was closed. The deceased returned to the
doer, and commenced to knock for admittance ; but
finding that the door was not opened to her, she came
over to his (witness's) house, in a very weak and ex-
hausted state, and sat on the door step. 1 quantity of
blood which he (witness) observed to flow from the lower
part of her person, after she had been forced from the
house of her husband, still poured from her, and by this
time, from the quantity which he had observed on the
road, he should have thought she had lost at least two
quarts. The prisoner at the time opened his door, and
calling out to the deceased, said, " You are drunk." She
repliPd, " I am not drunk, look at the blood ;" and he
said it was not blood, lt mor. iiirA water.
Mr. Norton—How far was the prisoner from his wife
at that time ?

Witness—About ten yards. The prisoner then went
inside his house and shut the door, and witness sent his
nephew for a policeman, he himself being engaged at
the time in supporting the deceased. A policeman
came, and, seeing the state of the deceased, he crossed
over and went into the house of the prisoner, and soon
after the constable and prisoner came across the street.
The prisoner, addressing his wife, said, " Will you
come in ?" and she said, "No, you are my murderer ;
you have murdered me." The prisoner made no
reply to this, but went back to his house again.
He returned after shutting up his house, ond,
again addressing the deceased, said, " My dear Jane,
will you now come in ?" and she said, " No." The pri-
soner took her in his arms, and carried her across the
road to his house. At about 10 o'clock the witness went
to the prisoner's house, and he then found the deceased
just breathing her last, and in fact he saw her die. The
prisoner was not present at that time, as he had been
removed by the police to the station-house.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Norton, the witness
said that he had known the deceased a long time in her
business, and had never observed her the worse for
liquor, nor had she any signs of liquor on the evening
before. The prisoner also appeared sober.
Police-constable Wells, 271 P, corroborated much of
what had been said by last witness.
Sergeant Mann, 25 P, said he was on duty at the sta-
tion-house, and took down the charge against the priso-
ner. In reply to it, he said that drink was the cause of
it ; that his wife went out to purchase a bonnet, and
came home the worse for drink.

The witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the
prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon
and other witnesses.

QUERIES ON MONEY, BY BISHOP
BERKELEY.

Now that the Bank Charter, and with it our
whole monetary system as established by Sir Robert
Peel's Bill, is likely to undergo scrutiny and reTi-
sion, the following queries, by so profound a
thinker as Bishop Berkeley, may suggest some
definite ideas on the nature and use of legal tender
or money.

Whether the use and nature of money, which all men
so eagerly pursue, be yet sufficiently understood or con-
sidered by all ?

Whether the four elements, and man's labour there:in,
be not the true source of wealth ?

Whether money be not only so far useful as it stirreth
up industry, enabling men mutually to participate in the
fruits of each other's labour 9

Whether mosey is to be considered as having an sis-
trinsic value, or as being a commodity, a 'standard, or a
pledge, as is ♦ariously suggested by writers / And whe-
ther the true idea of money, as such, be not altogether
that of a ticket or counter ?

hether the term livre, pound sterling, crown, &c.,
are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of
such proportion ? And whether gold, silver, or paper,
are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and
transferring thereof ?
Whether the denominations being retained, although
the bullion were gone, things night not nevertheless be
rated, bought and sold, industry promoted, and a circu-
lation of commerce maintained?

What makes a wealthy people Whether mines of
gold and silver are capable of doing this ? And whether
the aegroes, amidst the gold sands of Africa, are not
poor and destitute ?
Whether there be any ►irtue in gold or silver other
than as they set people to work, or create industry ?
Whether power to command the industry of Others be
not real wealth ? And whether money he net, in truth,
tickets or tokens for con►eying or recording such power,
and whether it be of great consequence what materials
the tickets are made of ?

Whether to promote, transfer, and secure this com-
merce, and this property in human labour, or, in other
worts, this power, be not the sole means of enriching a
people • and. how far this may be done independently of
gold and silver ? _ _

Whether a fertile land, and the industry of its inhabi-
tants, would not prove inexhaustible funds of real
wealth, be the counters for conveying and recording
thereof what you will—paper, gold, or silver
Whether the opinion of men, and their industry con-
sequent thereon, be not the true wealth of Holland, and
not the silver supposed to be deposited in the bank of
Amsterdam ?

Whether, in order to undgrstand the true nature of
wealth and commerce, it would not be right to consider
a ship's crew cast upon a desert island, and by degrees
forming themselves to business and civil life, while in-
dustry begot credit, and credit moved to industry ?
Whether such men would not all set themselves to
work? Whether they would not subsist by the mutual
participation of each other's industry ? Whether, when
one man had in this way procured more than he could
consume, he would not exchange his superfluities to sup-
ply his wants ? Whether this must not produce credit ?
Whether, to facilitate these conveyances, to record and
circulate this credit, they would not aeon agree on cer-
tain tallies, tokens, tickets, or counters ?
Whether it be net agreed that paper hath, in many
respects, the advantage above coin, as being of more
despatch in payment; more easily transferred, pre-
served, and recovered when lost ?

Whether the sure way to supply people with tools and
materials, and to set them to work, be not a free circu-
lation of money, whether silver or paper ?
Whether the great evils attending paper money, in
the British plantations of America, have not sprung
from over-rating their lands, and issuing paper without
discretion, and from the legislators breaking their
own rules in their own favour, thus sacrificing the pub-
lic to their private advantage ? And whether a little
sense and honesty might not easily prevent all such in-
conveniences?

Whether there are not to be seen in America, fair
towns, wherein the people are lodged, fed, and clothed,
without a beggar in their streets, although there be not
one single grain of gold and silver current among, them.
Whether a discovery of the richest gold mina that ever
was in the heart of this kingdom would be a real advan-
tage to us ? _ _ _

Whether, therefore, a national bank* would not be
more beneficial than even a mine of gold ?
Whether counters be not referred to other things,
which, so long as they keep pace and proportion with
counters, it must be owned the counters are useful ; but
whether beyond that, to covet or Talus counters be not
direct folly ?
Whether we are sufficiently sensible of the peculiar
security there is in having a bank that consists of land
and paper, one of which cannot be exported, and the
other is in no danger of being exported ?
Whether money could ever be wanting to the de-
mands of industry if we had national bank ?
Whether paper doth not, by its stamp and signature,
acquire a local value, and become as precious and scarce
as gold t And whether it be not too much fitter to cir-
culate large sums and therefore preferable to gold ?
Extracted front Bishop Berkeley's Querist.
Whether it is not a first function of Government to
provide the subject with a money in which to pay taxes,
seeing paying taxes in anything but money is illegal ?
that
Whether Exchequer Bills, if brought down in amount
to ten pound, five pound, or oven one pound debenture
notes, would not make an unexceptionable paper money ?
Whether the mere announcement on the face of the
note, that it is legal to tender for debts and taxes, is not
enough to endow such paper with the functions of money,
the stamp with the signature of a Government official
authenticating it as a legalised issue ?
Whether our colonies do not suffer from want of legal
tender, to save them from a condition of barter ? And
whether the settler ought net to kayo advances on his
harvest, as yet unreaped, that he may live in the mean-
time ! And whether he ought, as in the case of the
Canadas, to be left to the mercy of the usurer I
If a country abounds in raw material, in timber, in
stone, brick, clay, and lime, and, moreover, in skilful and 11
industrious workmen, need it be stopped in its progress
of wealth by want of money should not the Govern-
ment provide the shade w—money, to keep pace with
the substance—wealth.