The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-23 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE.

A woman who keeps a house of bad repute in Vinegar.
lane, Shadwell, and is known as Mother Nash, was charged
with stabbing, with intent to murder, Henry Carlisle, the
man with whom she cohabited. The prosecutor is now in
the London Hospital in a slate of great danger. The
wound inflicted by the woman proceeds in a slanting di-
rection under the shoulder, and great doubts are enter-
tained of saving him. This opinicn having been commu-
nicated by the surgeon, the woman, who treated the case
with great indifference, was remanded until the man's fate
be known.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—On Friday, at the
Woolwich Petty Sessions, Mr. Bland, an extensive cheese-
monger of the town, was fined 15s. for furious driving,
16s. for cruelty to his horse, and ss. for being drunk, at
the instance of several residents of Woolwich. The de-
fendant's conduct was represented as most brutal, the flesh
of the horse actually hanging in strips from the severe
lashing it had received. Bland was so violent while in
custody that it was found necessary to place a constable in
the cell with him. Ho was also ordered to pay the costs,
amounting to 1/. Go.
THE HARVEST.-The accounts from the
country continue to supply matter not merely of appre-
hension but for considerable alarm. It were useless to
copy these calamitous accounts, for they all speak but
one language—the common language of despair and de-
spondency. Thousands of acres in the north are under
water, and the produce of the fields is in progress of con-
version into dung : whilst it is found that in many districts
1 where the harvest began earlier, and the corn has been
housed, the continued wet weather has occasioned it to
swell and burst open in the pod, when the grain, not being
ripe, has perished. Our agricultural reports from Scot-
land and Ireland are worse even than those from our own
provinces. In Ireland, we are informed, that not a sixth
of the crops have been gathered in, even in their damaged
and decaying state. It is needless to add—that not a
grain of any kind has been sent to England. We trust
in God that the season of suffering and misery that we see
in perspective for the people of this country will be attended
with at least one good effect : we fervently hope that the
mental darkness of those misguided men, who uphold the
Corn-laws, will be enlightened ; that they will see the
wickedness of their ways, and turn from them; that
landlords and farmers, at length perceiving the folly as
well as the iniquity of prohibiting our people from purchas-
ing their bread at the best and cheapest market, will cease
to interpose their crude conceits, and to thwart the bene-
ficent designs and behests of the All-wise Superintendent
of the universe.

EXTRAORDINARY CLUSTER OF FISH.—
Yesterday an exhibition of an extraordinary clump of fish
called " barnacles," amounting to between thirty and
forty thousand, took ;dace at the Talbot Inn, Borough.
They were picked up on Thursday week by a fisherman
between Folkstone and Dover, on a piece of fir of about
12 feet long; but the fish were all at one end. They
were purchased by Mr. Barnes, fishmonger, of Ilastings,
by whom they have been shown at Chatham, Maidstone,
and other towns. The piece of wood is supposed to have
belonged to the wreck of the Royal George, from the fact
of part of it being quite black from gunpowder. The fish
are fed every half hour with salt and water.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening an in-
quest was held before Mr. Payne, in the board-room of St.
13artholomcw's Hospital, on the body of Samuel Dew, aged
155. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was
in the employment of Mr. Davis, builder, Jerusalem-court,
Clerkenwell, and was at work on Tuesday last construct-
ing a shed at the back of the house, No. 47, St. John's-
square, and while in the act of cutting off the " eaves" of
the rafters, the ladder on which deceased was standing
slipped on one side, and shook the deceased off, who fell
with great violence on his head, a depth of fourteen feet.
He was picked up in an insensible state and conveyed to the
above hospital, where, on examination, it was found he had
received a severe fracture on the left side of the skull and
compression of the brain on the right. He never spoke
after the accident, and died on Wednesday evening at nine
o'clock. Verdict, " Accidental death."
CENTRALIZATION.--Mr. D'lsraeli is not a
very popular man, but he uttered not only a very popular
but a very sagacious doctrine, in the House of Commons,
when he warned the Legislature against the adoption of the
despotic system of centralization. The risible M. P.'s all
laughed when he referred to the attack on the ancient
Dogberrys, but they forgot that the venerable fraternity,
unseemly though they be, are an important part of the
Constitution. The time had certainly arrived, not for their
destruction as so many Mamelukes or Janissaries, but for
their improvement, and the whole question of national
liberty was involved in the inquiry, " By whom are they to
be improved? by the Home Office, in London, or by their
own respective town councils ?" That town councils are
as competent as the Government to establish and maintain
an efficient police our own town furnishes an example, an
example which it could not have afforded but for the Muni-
cipal Act. Birmingham had no Town Council, at least
not in action, and the consequence was, outrages provoking
all the fears of incipient insurrection.
.Manchester was
saved from, probably, more serious consequence's by the
timely adoption of the Liverpool system of
police ; and,
therefore, the fact is established, that centralization is not
necessary to security for life, for law, and for property.__
Liverpool Albion.

FINANCIAL STATE OF NAPLES.

NAPLES, AUG, 29.-A few hasty details on the finan-
cial state of this country may not be devoid of interest,
though to enter the minutice of various Administrations,
would be of little interest to the reader, to whom a
resume of this kind of information is generally sufficient.
The budget is 28,000,000 ducats. This budget, al-
though it never varies according to its numerical expres-
sion, amounts in reality to 30,000,000 and more, many
receipts not being officially entered. A Commission,
called the general consulta, prepares and presents the
budget.

The King's civil list is 1,000,000 ducats, but, in ad-
dition to this, his Majesty receives the surplus of all the
private budgets of the Ministers.

The Princes of the Blood also enjoy a civil list, the
amount of which, as expressed by figures, is said to be
very moderate. In certain cases, however, this sum is
increased, as, for instance, when a Prince or Princess
of the Blood marries, the state grants a dowry of
100,000 piasters, and further the annual taxes are a
little increased pro liac vice.
Every 60 years the taxes are regulated anew.
The interest of the public debt amounts to 5,000,000
ducats.

This debt consists in the Consolidated Rentes (Five
per Cent.) on the grand livre, the Sicilian loan of
2,000,0001. sterling, and a floating debt represented by
Treasury certificates, the amount of which is unknown.
The Army and Navy together cost 8,000,000 ducats
per annum. _ _

There is also the debt due to America, about which
some arrangements have been made, but it never comes
in question. The Government settles it at its conve-
nience, and diminishes it annually by the payment of a
sum, the amount of which cannot he fixed. The
Stamp and Registry Duties are a great source of wealth
to the Revenue ; for, although these are but moderate,
their annual amount is 600,000 ducats. This fact is
alone sufficient to give an idea of the multitude of
little transactions which take place between individuals.