The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-23 00:00:00

EVENIN & EDITION.

prisoner was about ten men distant from Frost. They
halted there. They were coming to Newport.
The Magistrates then committed the prisoner for
high treason and sedition.

ARREST OF A CHARTIST RIOTER
IN CANTERBURY.

On Friday morning this city was thrown into a con-
I siderable state of excitement in consequence of the re-
ported arrest of one of the rioters in the late serious 1
outbreak at Newport, at the residence of the Rev. Wil-
., ham Davis, of Walling-street, minister of the Baptist
1 Chapel in King-street, in this city. From inquiry it ap-
pears that a constable of Newport, named Evans, having
I ascertained that William Davis, a young man who was
i concerned in the late Newport riots, had an uncle re-
siding in this city, be imagined that he might be coo-
-1 sealed there, and likewise imagining that Zephaniah
IWilliams, for whose apprehension a reward of one
! hundred pounds had been offered, might be with
1 him, lie arrived here on Thursday evening, bringing
I with him warrants for the apprehension of both
1 these individuals. After making a few inquiries, Evans
j went to the police station-house to procure information
1 and assistance, where he learnt from Superintendent
I Clements that Messrs. Benjamin and Thomas Flint,
I distillers, of this city, had been to the office during the
1 day for the purpose of seeing the Hue and Cf.y, from
I which circumstance, and the fact of these gentlemen
I being members of Mr. Davis'a chapel, it was inferred
• that one of the parties might be concealed in the
1 promises of those gentlemen. It was therefore deter-
. mined that if they were unsuccessful in their search at
the Rev. Mr. Davis'a house, they should proceed to
Messrs. Flint's and search their premises. On arriving
at the Rev. Gentleman's house, he had just returned
Mwith Mrs. Davis from chapel, and on Superintendent
i Clements stating the object of their visit, the officers
v. ere immediately admitted into the house, where they
I found one of the objects of their search, William Davis.
Mrs. Davis not entering with her husband, it was con-
j etured that she had gone to Flint's, for the purpose of
giving information to Zephaniah Williams as to what
f was going on, in order that he might make his escape.
Clement and Evans immediately proceded to Messrs.
Flints, leaving a policeman in charge with Davis and
his uncle. On arriving at Messrs. Flints, those gentle-
li men immediately admitted the officers, and afforded
them every facility in making the search, which proved
to be unsuccessful. The two prisoners, the Rev. Mr.
i Davis and his nephew, William Davis, were then con-
I veyed to the station-house. Yesterday morning they
I were taken before the Magistrates at the Guild-
! hall, when the younger Davis was charged with
1 committing high treason at the late Chartist riots at
Newport, and the Rev. Mr. Davis was charged with

the same offence, in concealing and secreting hi;nepbew.
The younger prisoner was then delivered into the cus-
tody of Evans, i❑ order to be conveyed to Newport, to
undergo his examination before the Magistrates of that
place. Evans left Canterbury by the Eagle London
coach on the same morning, taking the prisoner with
him. Bail was offered to any amount for the Rev. Mr.
Davis, which was refused by the Magistrates, who, ou
referring to the statutes, found that they had no power
to accept it. The Reverend Gentleman was therefore
remanded till Monday next in order to give time for a
communication with the Home Secretary.

ABUSES OF FRANKING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your Journal of the 18th instant, a violent
attack is made o❑ the Government for not abolishing.
Franking, at the same time that postage is to be re-
duced to fourpence per single letter.
I, too, am decidedly for abolishing what is commonly
called Franking, which is sending free the private cor-

respondenoe of the nobility and gentry ; but, like your
Correspondent, who signs himself " One of the People,"
I, too, am not only one of that number, but a warm
rierid of the poor and productive classes. Does your
Correspondent desire that petitions to Parliament and
Parliamentary papers shall be charged with postage in
future ? Surely ❑o friend to liberty—and, as a matter
of course, to the poor—would sanction such a charge.
But perhaps he is a Chartist, and resolved to petition
Parliament no more ; yet even Chartists do not refuse
to receive Parliamentary Bills, Returns, Reports, and
other public documents, although franked and sent free.

On the Government Parliament has devolved tho
delicate task of abolishing the abuse of franking, and
maiotaitaing its proper and legitimate objects. And this
can be no easy matter ; for in all the intercourse I have
bad with public men, who, like your Correspondent and
myself, are for abolishing franking, I have seldom seen
any two agree on how the democratic principle could be
maintained, and the aristocratic practice—that is, its
acknowledged abuse—be remedied. Along with Penny
Postage this desideratum must be attempted by Go-
vernment ; and as one of your readers and admirers
too, I beg to suggest to your Correspondent to enlighten
the Government and the public with his views for abo-
lishing the franking privilege. Does he mean that it
should be absolute and complete, to the exclusion of
petitions to and papers from Parliament ? If not this,
Low is it to he done ?
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ANTI-ABUSE OF FRANKING.

MONT.:Y MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(FRIDAY EVENING.)

TlMES.—Complaints are made at the Stock Ex-
change of a considerable pressure for money, which, as
there appears to be no particular movement in general
business to account for it, has created rather an uneasy
feeling. The funds were not quite so firm, and the
quotations of Consols, as well as of the unfunded debt,
have given way, the former slightly.

POST.—The Consol Market remains undisturbed
at yesterday's quotations, namely, 90i to 90,i for Mo-
rley and for Account. Exchequer Bills were sold on
the less favourable terms of 7s. to ss. dis. Bank Stock
?I:.ift. off at 1781 to 179. A renewal shortly of purchases
of Stock by the Commissioners for Savings' Banks is an-
y tiei p, stted •
I T- Continental Exchanges were to-day altogether
more in .favour of this country.
I? ailurE, s, both in town and the country, have again
bean talked of, and we believe some eases of insolvency
in one or two t, f the larger cities have occurred ; but,
i from all we can ,'earn, they would appear to be of no im-
portance. At a time like the p:esent every little difii-
i culty that is heard of is apt to be magnified into some-
: thing of moment. The City correspondent of the
Globe says, in his usual off-hand style, " A morning
pi.per states that a banking establishment at Liverpool
) kiss suspended payment." If it be the Post that is here
alluded to, we have to reply that the scribe of the Globe
reads about as heedlessly as he writes. Our words
were, " A banking establishment at Liverpool is said to
:lava stopped payment." Had the rumour applied to a
Itr %ding firm of some standing, as it should have done,
iv,; might have been able to confirm it ; but it is inti-
' rna,, A to us from a well-informed quarter this evening
itliat .the report of a bank having failed at Liverpool is
prei,za, 'y "an entire mistake:'

I c H lONICLE.—The allusion made by a morning
papor, of ti le reported failure of a banking establishment
Liverpoc 1, 13, we are happy to say, without foundation.

1 HERA LP.—The Money Market here remains very
Inasy and steady, considering the late accounts which
iiiive been received of the adverse state of affairs from
,lit: United States. Coming events having cast their
s,, xdsows before, most unquestionably have lately tried
ti, L•trcngth of the commercial interests of this country ;
but a sti•ong hope or impression prevails that the gene-
ral prui.'enk. e of our merchants and monetary leaders
will enable ths'' several great interests of this country to
ride over the At. rm with which we have been threatened
from the United Stages. On the Continent there is,
according to the tenor of the general commercial ad-
vices, a strong prepondera in favour of British credit
as agaiust the mixed securita. Is of the United States,
which proves that, at present, Lind, we trust, for a long
time to come, British comrnerci..•l relations will remain
1 unimpaired in every part of the wo.-Id.
1
There hi'.s been rather more bus;ness doing in the
Continental Exchanges this afternox:. and in most in-
stances higher rates have been obtained.
i In the British Funds there have been no material al-
lteration to-day, but the quotations of yesterday have
, been but barely maintained.
t The exports of silver coin from the 14th to the 20th
i November, according to an official statement„ amount
1 to 249,86)1 ounces.

SUN.—The Foreign Exchanges closed at advanced I
ratan this at ,`.ernoon, which has given much satisfaction
io the City. Paris advanced to 25. 67i ; Hamburg to
13.101 ; Amisterdam to 12.4 ; and Antwerp to 12.344.
On the Royal. Exchange this afternoon there were no
additional failures talked of, and confidence appears
to have inereastid.
The intelligence received that the differences with
Persia have been settled., has given much satisfaction
to those immedial'ely interested in the prosperity of our
Etst Indian possessions.
The Stock Markets have not varied much this after-
noon. Consols for Money left oft at 91,q ; for the Ac-
count at 90i- Exchequer Bills t 7 discount; and
India Stock at 2.51 i for the Account. Bank Stock rose
to 179. f business
Spanish Stock fell, just before the close o , to
; and the Passive Bonds to 6.i. Portuguese, Bra-
zi"an, and Mexican Stocks did not vary in value this
afternoon. Russian Bonds were sold at 111 i .
The Great Western Railway Shares have been quoted
at 8 dis. ; the Brighton at 144 dis. ; the Midland Coun-
ties at 28 dis. ; and the North Midland Shares at 7}
discount.

EASTBOURNE.—The distress which too many
of our fishermen have been suffering is considerably al-
leviated by the success of the herring fishery. During
the last week thousands have been caught, and eagerly
bought up by the poorer inhabitants, as a winter store.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Times presumes greatly on the character which
it has established for itself, of being not only the most
unprincipled, but the most blackguard journal in Europe.
It enjoys this advantage from the notoriety of its base-
ness—that no person can possibly apply harsher terms to
it than have been applied a hundred times before ; men
of all parties and principles have by turns reprobated it
as the epitome of all that is most revolting—as the pan-
der to every low prejudice—as the enemy to every man
who endeavours to benefit his country or his kind—as
the betrayer of all who ever reposed confidence in it.
Those whom it for the time affects to serve know well
that if it be cowardly it is cruel, and that though they
now command its services, it may in a moment turn
round, and plunge its assassin knife in their backs. But
all this is as notorious as the sun at noon-day, and the
Times knows that what is notorious will not be long
listened to. For this reason, few care to expend indig-
nation on the utterly abandoned—the unequivocally
base. Junius admitted to Sir William Draper that it
was because he was not utterly abandoned, not lost to
all sense of shame, that he was selected for attack ; for
when men have settled into thorough profligacy, and
indifference to the world's opinion, reproach is of course
lost on them, an 3 even under a kick on the breech they
console themselves with the idea that no bones are
broken. And yet there is such an unusual measure of
effrontery in the indignation affected by the ruffianly
Journal in question, which from its commencement has
lived by bullying and libelling, that even those who
know the Times may be startled when they hear it
lamenting that a Morning Paper " has so far outraged
rvery law of decency, and every practice of civilized
society, that farther forbearance would be a gross insult to
our readers." We are charged with ruffianly brutality
by the Times. To the Times answer is unnecessary—it
cannot expect any. To our own readers we know that we
stand acquitted of any part of the charge brought against
us. But really so soon after the indecent attempts to
sow dissensions between the present Queen, the Duchess
of Kent, and the late King, the Times must presume
strangely on the forgetfulness of its readers to dare to
enter on such a subject. On the 19th of June, 1837,
when King William was suffering from his last illness,
the following base and cruel article appeared in the
Times :

" What intercourse, or whether any, has taken place
between the occupants of Windsor and of Kensington
Palace on this occasion, which appeals in a manner so
affecting to all the kindlier and better feelings of hu-
manity, the public are not informed. We have not heard
that the heiress-presumptive to the Crown, the neice, the
well-beloved niece of the stricken Monarch—from whom
she had but recently received a touching proof of his ge-
nerous and paternal affection, has been permitted to show
by the offer of even a momentary visit to the chamber of
grief that sense of grateful duty, or that desire for a
parent's blessing, or that anxiety for one word of parting
counsel, by which none who are acquainted with the cha-
racter of the Princess will doubt that she is deeply moved
and actuated.

" To the young, of any rank, humble or exalted, there
is no spectacle more fraught with wholesome admonition
than a death-bed. To the future wearer of an earthly
crown there is no lesson so awful as the sure mortality of
him who is on the point of surrendering it into the hand
which gave it; nor any impression likely to be so indelible
as that conveyed by the messenger of death to the royal
witness of that act of final arid solemn abdication.
" But further, we have not heard that se much as one
message of kind or dutiful inquiry after the King's health
has been sent, at any period of his Majesty's illness, from
the powers' at Kensington, to the afflicted household of
Windsor Castle. Whether this was dictated by a becom-
ing spirit on their part of regard for those laws of decorum
and propriety which ought to regulate the proceedings of
civilized life, and any marked deviation from which towards
the King of England might be ascribed by the public, not
initiated in factious motives, alike to the innocent and guilty
members of the Royal family, we leave to be determined
by others. If the fact be in accordance with the above hy-
pothesis, it must be considered by every right-minded
person as most indecent and revolting. For the rest, it is
positively asserted that not the Princess Victoria, but an
older personage sent off on Wednesday last a messenger to
Lord Durham, being them on his way to England, the pur-
port of the missive having reference to the formation of a
Kent- Coburg Ministry."
But this was only one of a series of foul libels,
written with the view of running down the Duchess of
Kent, and exciting in the various members of the Royal
Family the worst feelings towards each other. On
the 23d of March, 1837, the Times charged the Duch-
ess of Kent with an attempt to sacrifice her daughter's
happiness, by forcing an improper marriage on her ;
and obser►ed " that her Royal Highness is so little
cognizant of her own station in this country, and its in-
cidents, as to entertain the preposterous ambition to
play a great part in politics, and to become a species
of imaginary Queen-Mother or Regent, after her
daughter's maturity, and before his present Majesty's
demise." The same course was pursued in subsequent
numbers of the Times, particularly on the 14th of April,
when it wound up an indictment against the Duchess
of Kent with the following base attack :
" Even the death of a domestic servant, while the
corpse remains unburied, hallows the mansion of death in
most civilized countries against the intrusion of gay and
heartless dissipation; but here, while the King's child
perishes under the Royal roof, others of his Majesty's rela-
tives (inmates, through his indulgence, of the same habi-
tation) are advised to hold in contempt the unspeakable
sufferings of a wretched widower and his orphans, and
to offer to a humane father the most inhuman insult. Can
the Court Circular have spoken truth, we again ask? If
so, the Duchess of Kent's advisers owe an unpayable re-
paration to the goodly name of their Royal Mistress, inas-
much as whatever light such conduct may appear in to
those who are capable of the higher and better class of
feelings, the entire coarse world—even they who have a
soul for nothing beyond outsides—must be shocked by the
gross bad taste and callousness to all common decorum
which the counsellors of the Duchess of Kent have be-
trayed on this remarkable occasion. Every right-minded
person must now anticipate us in the question—ls this fit
training for her who will be one day at the head of Eng lisb
manners? Is this the mode in which the Duchess of
Kent has been advised to manifest her respect and defe-
rence for King William ?"
Thus did this wicked print labour to sow dissension
in the Royal Family—to hold up the mother to the
daughter as utterly unworthy of her confidence and
affection—to hold up both to the King as not only un-
grateful for his liberality and kindness, but lost to all
decency in their conduct to him when stricken with
disease. But are these the only branches of the
Royal Family slandered by the Times? The King of
Hanover has not, in his gratitude for recent services,
forgotten that to the Time: in particular he owes a re-
putation for much more than can be fairly laid to his
charge. Bad enough we know he is ; but he is not so
bad as the Times represented him. As a Sovereign, he
seems destined to be the scourge of his people, and this
country has no small reason to rejoice in the fair prospect
which it has that he will ❑ever ascend the Throne of
Great Britain. But the Times libelled him as a man—
foully libelled him
" Indignation and contempt are words of strong mean-
ing—disgust and abhorrence are stronger still—but we
will venture to affirm that a new phraseology must be dis-
covered before one-half the force scornful execration
which the above string of iascalities towards an esteemed
and well-beloved Princess—a *oral, earnest, amiable,
religious, generous, and charitable woman—will excite
throughout the whole community of honest Englishmen
before many hours have elapsed."
Our readers will ask, is this a quotation from some
contemporary paper of the date of the libels against
the Duchess of Kent and the Queen, to which we
have drawn attention .? No ; but it is a successful
parody of some of the invectives which the occasion
drew forth. We are sorry to see Queen Adelaide in
such foul hands. To those who really regard the Queen
Dowager, and deeply regret the attempts of the Tories
to revive forgotten recollections, and to fill the people
with jealousy and suspicion of her Majesty, the advo-
cacy of the Times must be inexpressibly revolting.
The abuse of the worthless is less to be dreaded than
their praise. We dread the effects of the eulogies of
the Times on those whose knowledge of the character
of Queen Adelaide cannot serve as a preservative against
the taint which praise from such a quarter may com-
municate. In the old legends a saint was ❑ever in
greater alarm than when the devil took to commending
him for his virtues.

(From the Times.)
The character of this Government, illustrated by its
acts, is a painful and humiliating, but not an unprofit-
able, study. When mean minds resort to studied and
systematic artifices, their work is flimsy, confused, and
incongruous : when they act on the unreflecting propul-
sions of pure instinct, it is a regular and uniform whole.
We have been struck by such observation, on reading
Lord Normanby's letter, marked " private," to Mr.
Phillipps, late Mayor of Newport, in the Times of
yoterday. It will be remarked, that in that letter the
Howe Secretary alludes to the services of Mr. Phil.
lipps, aid states the distinction of knighthood by which
the Queeo had designed to show her sense of them—
services, not at all exaggerated when the Secretary of
State describes them as " admirable," nor in the slight-
est degree overpaid by the meditated honour of knight-
hood. In the same letter, the Melbourne Secretary for
the Home Department (now, it is said, in transitu to
the Woods and Forests, being fit for nothing better)
designates the insurrection in Newport as a " daring
outbreak" against the lives and properties of her Ma-
jesty's subjects. Now, can our readers have forgotten
the namby-pamby, milk and water terms, in which this
same Lord Normanby, not many days before, spoke of
the " outrage," which in the subsequent OOP he paints
sojustly as a daring outbreak against life and property ?
and how he strove to underrate and disparage those
same exertions of the Mayor and Magistrates, as hav-
ing in a " great measure," &c., which in the last " pri-
vate"
Majesty's
e'leter he exalts as " admirable," and rewards by
documents? favour? WThhaet
firstwa s thewss dates
soon
aftero f
contrasted
attack by the Chartists, when it was manifestly the
ni s
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as
a 1 game
well
as
of
b
t makeot:brave and
loyal
light o f the
exertions
b y
danger,
which they were both brought to an end. The second
letter was dated—when On the 13th inst., many days
after the first, but only a few hours after the appear-