The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-06 00:00:00

TOWN.IIALL.

A woman Wa brought before Sir JOHN PERRINO
by one of the police, for being disorderly. It ap-
peared that the girl wits picked up by the policeman,
and happening to have a silver watch in her bosom,
the constable naturally considered that she had not
come honestly by it. Having been put into the wit"
news box, he was about entering into an explanation,
when a brandy-faced Jack tar took the case out of
his hands, With a roll of his quid and a hitch of
his trousers, Jack stated the case to he as this. He
met that there girl (the prisoner), and they sailed in
company into a port hard by, where they shipped
tiglitish allowance of grog ; but while they were
stowing it aboard, a bum-boat chap run athwart, and
thinking him a jolly fellow, for he swallowed a rare
sight of grog, he lent him 2/, upon a silver watch,
d'ye see, as he pied his eye, and said he was oo
lee shore; here jack gave another twist of the
" Imekey," and shook is head us if he was afraid
of a tear. " I've known what it was to be hard.up
myself, and my timbers are shook, and when I found
them creaking, I says to Poll, " take care o' that
'ere, for I'm blow'd if I hav'nt lost the key of my
locker;' she did take care of it, God-bless her, and
here am Ito say so.. " Poor Jack having given this
explanation, he and his brandy face, together with
P.ll (there being nothing further against her) were
dismissed, and arm-in-arm they toddled to an inn,
where Jack made a present of the watch .to his
dozy, got most comfortably fuddled, and staggered
off to find a steam vessel to " run after" his ship, by
that time at Gravesend. lie it remarked that the
watch was " Liverpool runner," worth about 155.:

Worcester Grand Musical Festival takes
!Lice on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 'Sept.

14th, lath, anti 16th, antler the patronage of the KING.
The Duchess of Kmwr, the Princess VICTORIA, Prince

Lsorotn, and a large assemblage of the Nobility and
Gentry, will be present.
DESTRUCTiVE FlRE.—Between seven and
eight o'clock last night a fire of a very alarming kind
broke out in the large workshops of Mr. VAtur, a earpen-
ter;of Little Guildford-street, Borough, which, from the
nature ef-tbe material*, burnt with amazing fury and ra-
pidity, and in a very little time the whole of the car-
penters' shops and timberyard belonging to Mr. VAIL%
were reduced to a heap of ruins. The tire next commu-
nicated to an' adjoining house, let out in different tene-
Meets to industrious, hardworking individuals, which,
with tbeirlittle furniture, .has shared the same fate with
Mr. VAILIeII valuable property. The premises of Mr.
pvigiNv, the bat-block-maker and hardwood turner,
has been considerably damaged, as well as three or four
houses in Guildford-court, but by the great exertions of
the firemen, with the different Assuranee.otlice engines,
and a good supply of water, the fire was prevented from
proceeding farther. It is said that no part of the property
consumed was insured. We could not ascertain bow the
fire originated, but it was got completely under before
ten o'clock. It is gratifying to add that no personal acci-
dent took place on this occasion.

POREIGN ,INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the National of Sept. 3.)
PARIS, SEPT. 2.
" To-day bodies of journeymen printers have been
to the offices of several Journals which are printed
by machinery, and demanded that those Journals
should be printed with the ordinary press, in Order
to employ a greater number of bands. The Journal
des Debugs, as well as the Courrier, cannot appear
to-morrow, being hindered by this circumstance.
The Constitulionnel entered into a parley with
the deputies of the „journeymen, and was
obliged to promise not to employ its mechanical
press after to-day. On this condition it will be able
to appear to-day.
" This is not the first time that workmen attribute
to machinery the want of work by which they
suffer. At all times it has been very difficult to
make them understand that for one machine which
they destroy they cause 20,ateliers to be shut up,
because their riotous proceedings spread alarm
among the masters. For or 20 days' work which
they may gain on the.one hand by the suppression of
one or two machines, they will lose 200 on the other
by the blow struck against public security.
" The journeyman printers desire, they say, only
to obtain from the King an ordinance against the
use of machinery. Have they already forgotten that
they took arms only a month ago to repulse the or-
dinances of Charles X. against the Press, and that
in the Constitution which they have so gloriously
defended, the King cannot make a law without the
concurrence of the Chamber ?
" The journeymen printers in their executions to-
day have proceeded with much temper. Do they
think that their conduct is therefore the less repre-
hensible ? Does violence cease to be violence be-
cause it is exercised with civility? We exhort the
printers of Paris to reflect maturely on their con-
duct. They are heard to say to the proprietors of
printing offices, You are rich, you have money, and
we want bread.' Can any one, then, keep up a
printing-office, and without considerable advances of
money ? The proprietor of such an office has the
expences of the rat establishment, of rent, appara-
tus, lighting, which always continue even if he has
,no work. He pays his workmen every evening or
every Saturday for work which he will not be paid
for in less Ethan nine mbnths or a year, besides run-
ning the risk of not being paid at all. He must ne-
cessarily be in good circumstances to expose himself
to losses which would ruin him and dishonour him
at once. Those, therefore, who say to the journey-
men printers, You are poor, and your masters are
rich,' are ignorant, and bad citizens. They would
do better to employ their influence to persuade their
comrades, that the more order there is, the more
work there is for the workmen, and that the less
security there is for the masters, the greater will be
the number of the establishments that will be closed.
" Perhaps there was some appearance of founda-
tion for the demands of the journeymen printers as
for as the Royal printing-office was concerned, where
the order to restore the mechanical presses had been
given prematurely, without doubt, after events the
effect of which has been to stop or to delay several
speculations of printers or booksellers; but a bare
remonstrance of the workmen would have been suffi-
cient to get this order revoked, and it is to be la-
mented that they did not content themselves with
this. Undoubtedly it is honourable to ask for work,
but he who asks for it with threats is liable to be
considered as loving disorder more than work."
(From the Journal du Commerce of Friday.)
" PARIS, SEPT. 2.
" A courier, who left Naples on the 24th of
August, has arrived at Paris, and states that that
capital was perfectly tranquil at the time he left it.
" The delay of the measures to be taken to avert
the commercial crisis, and the rigidity of the Bank,
bear their fruits. Two houses have stopped pay-
ment to-day, and one of theth in particular is under
this hard necessity with good bills to the amount of
400,000 francs in hand, which it found it impos-
sible to negociate. The number of bills protested
yesterday is immense, and we know one huissier
who alone had 160. This distress among the mer-
chants of the second and third class calls for more
promptness and energy in the relief which it seems
intended to give them.
(From the. Gazette de Prance dated Saturday.)
" EXCHANGE OF PARIS, SEPT. 2.
" When the events of which Belgium has lately
been the theatre became known, it was easy to fore-
see that Prussia would not behold with indifference
the serious disorders which have been committed by
is population hitherto tranquil and faithful. It is
affirmed to-day that all the troops of that nation
begin to make demonstrations towards the frontier,
and though these movements do not in any manner
threaten France, they are calculated without any
doubt to excite uneasiness in men's minds respect-
ing the consequences which may result from them;
accordingly, all the funds have been heavy, and have
lost part of the ground which they gained yesterday."
FIiENCIf FUNDS......PARIS, SEPT. 9, Filre per Cents.,
102 f. 10If. 90e. (30c, 70c. 60c. 65e, 80c. 102 f. 101 f.
90c. 1021. 1011. 90e. 85c. 80c. 75c. 102 f. 10If. 90c.
102 f. 102 f. 20e. 10c. 15c. 102 f. 20c, 80c. 850. 80c.
40c.; Four and a Half per Cents., 98f. 40c. ; Four per
Cents., 722 72f. sc. 72f. 71f. 05e. 72f. Me. 72r. 20c,
25c. 95c. 40c. 45c. 40c. ; Bank Stock, 1,750., 1,780.;
Rentes do Naples, 09f. 75c. 80c. 90c. '7Ol. 691. 95c.
70f.; Rent,* d'Espagne, 20 19i ; Royal Spanish
Loan, 4.9 48i ; Reutes Perpetuelie d'Espagne, 43 42
42 421 42 42k; liaytian Loan, 9901. 8701. Exchange
on London, one month, 25f, 10c.; three months, 251.
20c.- Cours Authentique.