The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-08 00:00:00

tory for its experiments in Government on a
larger scale than has yet taken place. But we
shall not live to see the result." We have at-
tributed to space and numbers, what we ought
to have attributed to ignorance, and debasement,
and poverty, which, as long as human nature is
human nature, will be taken advantage of.—
Morning Chronicle.
The account of the state of the public
finances, as given in the American President's
Message to Congress, which we publish to-day,
forms a striking contrast to our own. It will
be seen that the balance in the Treasury on Ja-
nuary 1, 1829, was 5,972,455 dollars ; that the
receipts of the current year were 24,602,230 dol-
lars ; the expenditure 26,164,595, leaving a
balance in the Treasury on January 1, 1830, of
4,410,070 dollars. It also appears that the ex-
penditure for 1829 included a payment on
account of the public debt of 12,405,205 dol-
lars, reducing the debt of the Government to
48,565,406 dollars, including seven millions of
Five per Cent. Stock subscribed to the Bank of
the United States. Under this aspect of affairs,
well may the First Magistrate of this great Re-
public address the people, over whose interests
it is his duty, and ought to be his pride, care-
fully and unremittingly to watch, in language
such as the following :—" This state of the
finances exhibits the resources of the nation
in an aspect highly flattering to its in-
dustry, and auspicious of the ability of
Government, in a very short time, to ex-
tinguish the public debt. When this shall be
done, our population will be relieved from a
considerable portion of its present burdens ; and
will find not only new motives to patriotic affec-
tion, but additional means for the display of in-
dividual enterprise. The fiscal power of the
States will also be increased, and may be more
extensively exerted in favour of education and
other public objects ; while ample means will re-
main in the Federal Government to promote the
general weal, in all the modes permitted to its
authority. Thus we see that the American
President is far from considering the public
debt as a " blessing," like some of our more
enlightened" legislators, that he congratulates
the country on its anticipated extinction. There
is no such prospect as the annihilation of her
debt for England ; it remains, and will long re-
main, a monument of the prodigal folly of the
most calculating nation in the world—the price
of the laurels of some sanguinary struggles and
the bauble of military glory. There never was
a nation that paid more dearly than England has
done for Quixotic interference in the affairs of
other people. 'We hope she has not laid out
so much money without purchasing some wis-
dom.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M kNSION-HOUSE.

, A middle-aged person of highly respectable ap-
pearance was charged with having maliciously de-
stroyed a silk cloak, the property of a girl of the
town, of the name of Ann Blifield.
The prosecutrix stated, that a little after nine
o'clock on the preceding night, herself and her ecen-
nae.ne_iere met by the prisoner who walked and
talked with them, and asked them to take ':;:!17!..."7-;
They accompanied him to the Bengal Arms, in
White Lion-court, near the East India House,
where he gave them some wine. The prisoner,
after they had left the bar of that house, put his arm
round her waist once or twice, a familiarity which
she resented, and desired he would not repeat.—
When they had gone a small distance from the
house she smelt something fiery, and on turning
round she perceived that a 191 e was rapidly extend-
ing at the back of her silk cloak. The prisoner put
his band upon it, and said, " Why, it is vitriol."—
He went and washed his bend in the kennel. She
was greatly agitated, and at first suspected that the
mischief had been done by two waiters, who stood
near the public-house. They went back and charged
them with having committed the injury; they freely
gave up themselves to be examined, and nothing ap-
peared to excite suspicions against them. On going
into the bar, however, she found on the floor, just
where she had stood, same drops of a liquid, as if it
had fallen down behind her or had been spilt from n
phial. She considered that the mischief could not
have been done before she went to the bar of the
public-house, for, had it been, her companion must
have observed it. No one was present with them
but the prisoner, and no one else, except the two
waiters, was near them between the time of their
leaving the house and the discovery.
The prosecutrix's companion corroborated her
statement.
The LORD MAYOR could not, on the evidence be-
fore him, divest himself of the belief that the pri-
soner had committed the injury. He therefore sen-
tenced him to pay a penalty of 21. 10s., which was
a moderate estimate of the value of the cloak de-
stroyed.
The Captain instantly paid the fine, which his
Lordship directed should be given to the girl who
had sustained the injury.
The Giptain then protested in the most solemn
manner now, when he could get nothing by a de-
nial, that he was entirely innocent.
The prevailing opinion in the Justice-room was
entirely in favour of the Captain's innocence.