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London, England, 1839-11-09 00:00:00

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IT or. the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FR On 7.'HE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Furtht 1r arrests have taken place at Newport. Our
correspond ant has supplied us with an unstamped
publication: , called the " IVestcrit Vindicator, edited
and conska ted for Henry Vincent, now a resident in
Monmouth gaol," which has reached its thirty-eighth
weekly tart nber, and is said to be the chief medium of
communios tion among the Chartists throughout the
west of Ei s gland and Wales. In an extract from this
paper, in
the letter of our correspondent, there is a
sort oft Z 1 of indictment drawn up against the Whigs,
and it is cations to observe how much there is in com-
mon bet% Peen the Chartists and the Tories. The
writer in I e Western Vindicator has as great a horror
of " the e stablishment of rural police," as some of
our Tory Contemporaries have. The prevention of
disorder is • wise precaution is not to their taste.
One thing, however, transpires which we do not
like. Notl dng could be more wise than the care taken
by the Go vernment never to outrun public opinion in
their pro ce edings against the Chartists, by the adoption
of procee slings which might savour of persecution, and
enlist syr apathy in their favour. So far so good. But.
it would appear that the same wisdom has not been dis-
played in %he treatment of the Chartists under sentence
in gaol. in fact, it appears from the extract, that the
harsh trt at merit of Henry Vincent in gaol had power-
fully exci tee t the Welshmen, and facilitated the projects
i
of the ns24 •ators to this foolish rise. There is in this
country a g reat hatred of whatever seems to savour of
persecution ; and we trust care will be taken by those
in possession of authority that the power committed to
subordinates be not abused in the case even of the hum•
blest individual. If the charge be groundless, the know-
ledge that it is so will bo productive of much good.
(From the Morning Post.)
We this day continue our narrative of the proceed-
ings consecrt tent on the late distressing events at New-
port. In at ldition to Frost and Waters, Aust has also
been comnrit ted on a charge of sedition and treason ;
and, when ti le letter of our correspondent came away,
Partridge, t he printer, was under examination before
the Magistr ates. Some particulars of the conduct and
(temcanour of the two first prisoners, since their com-
mittal to thi gaol of Monmouth, as well as of the pre-
cautions tak en by the authorities of that town, will be
found in tb e letter of a correspondent on the spot.
What way have been the immediate causes of
the outbreak—what the ultimate designs of the
insurgents— and whether the combination have been as
extensive and as well organised as report has stated—
are questions that, with our present information, it
would be pry !mature to discuss. But one point is per-
fectly clear.: faith cannot be placed in the insinuations
of the Ministerial newspapers, that the disturbances
had their ori;in in pecuniary distress. It wig be found
distinctly stn ted in our letter from Newport, that in
that district " trade is prosperous, and the miners and
colliers all earn from twenty-five to fifty shillings a
week." This important circumstance must not be lost
sight of by those who are anxious to form a correct
opinion on. the subject.

(From the Times.)
The insurrection. of South Wales has been what is
called a " jaw-bre,sker " to Lord Melbourne and his col-
leagues. It is p alpably and notoriously their own work ;
and the country, let them make what grimaces they
please, will :number it among the blessings of their
Liberal Administration. Will they deny that the thing
which bears the name of " movement" owes its crigin to
themselves exclusively ? Will they deny that the whole
United Kingdom has become one vast magazine of
fretful dem ocracs; since they undertook to bully and beat
down the other branches of the Legislature, by force of
the House of Commons alone ? Can the Ministers deny,
that if politir.;al conflict and animosity have over-
grown the,: *kingdom within the last seven years—
one half of men's time being wasted in attend-
ance on, civic or political electicns, .and their
though'.s withdrawn from family interests and wel-
fare to the promotion of one or more merely
facf:tous ends—it is the fruitful genius of Whig-Radical
arnbition we are to thank for such a revolution in the
popular character of England ? Are there not suffi-
cient materials in the case of this wretched offender,
Frost, to establish the charge against the Melbourne
Administration, that to wage successful war upon Con-
servative principles they have brought anarchy into the
field, reckless of its recoil upon their own political ex-
istence ? From the time when " honest" Lord Althorp,
then a Minister of the Crown, received addresses from
and wrote encouraging answers to the boisterous confe-
derates of Birmingham, leagued together undisguisedly,
that they might intimidate the Parliament, lawless tur-
bulence from that hour has overspread the land—
existing institutions, of whatever kind, have been
openly assailed and put upon their defence against
every wild innovator that smote them, the onus
being laid, not upon the Revolutionist to justify his ap-
petite for change, but upon the ancient law and order
of society to palliate on its behalf the crime of self-pro-
tection. The Rornish disturbers of the peace of Ireland,
and avowed enemies of the British Crown and people,
have been robed in judicial ermine by tha Melbourne
Cabinet—the most offensive among them been sworn
Privy Councillors to the Queen, and others placed high
among the functionaries of the Executive Government,
because these latter had each of them seats in the
House of Commons, and backed up the most flagitious
jobs of Ministers by their votes. The anarchists of
England, of lower pretensions than their Irish aI -
lie s, have been turned into local Justices, and
pampered with sundry sorts of offices yielding
pay, because they could command votes in bo-
rough towns and do dirty work for the friends of
Ministers in their respective districts. Mr. John Frost
has for many years been a linen-draper at Newport, in
Monmouthshire. For twenty years or more he has
professed himself a furious Radical, and during the Re-
form Bill fever, and up to a late period, supported the
Whig-Radical Government, by which, in return, he
was mawkishly fondled and caressed. Some fourteen
or fifteen years ago this exemplary personage was tried
for grossly libelling Mr. Prothero, the present spirited
Mayor of Newport, or his brother, was found guilty,
and amerced in damages, or heavily fined, after, we be-
lieve, a reprehension for his conduct from the Bench.
Being unable to pay the fines or damages, he was sent
to gaol, where he remained some months.

FROM THE EVENING PATERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Courier.)
it would be well for the future interests of this coun-
try, if the suspension of specie payments by the Ame-
rican Banks were to lead to an inquiry into our whole
system of currency as respects our internal commerce,
and as respects also our monetary relations with America
and with other states. What fact can be more extraor-
dinary, and more disgraceful to the knowledge of this
advanced age of the world, than the fact which is now
before us ; that two nations, among the first, if not
themselves the first of civilized states, should have the
means of producing wealth to an almost unlimited extent;
that they should have within themselves the power of
creating all products, except those depending on the sea-
sons, that can minister to the wants or to the luxuries of
mankind, in the most boundless profusion ; nay, more,
that they actually do create those products ; and that the
very abundance of the mechanical productions of the two
countries should lead to embarrassments, difficulties, and

privations among all classes engaged in the pursuits
of industry 1 But this is not all. Fixing our attention
on the condition of Great Britain, we find that this
country is pre-eminent in its capabilities of production ;
and that at the same time, among all the civilised na-
tions of the earth, its inhabitants are in the mass,
without exception, the most exposed to the vicissi-
tudes of want, of comforts, clothes, shelter, fuel, and
food. That there must be something wrong in the go-
verning power which fails to remedy the inconsistency
of overflowing abundance and extremity of want existing
in the same country and at the same time, seems, on the
mere stating of the fact, too clear to need the aid of ar-
gument. The remedy for this state of things may give
rise to a difference of opinion ; but at any rate tnere can
be no difference of opinion as to the fact. In seeking for
the remedy, we think it may be useful to lay before our
readers some remarkable facts relating to the question, and
to offer a few observations on their bearing and tendency.
The first fact that strikes our attention is this : that
the embarrassed state of the currency in England and
America which has led to the present suspension of
specie payments in the latter country is not a novelty in
either country ; on the contrary, that it has occurred
frequently before in both countries ; and that it may be
traced to the same causes. We will first take the money
crisis of 1797 ; we will take the opportunity to state,
by the way, that Mr. M'Culloch, whose authority is
considered of some weight by many, and whose re-
searches and statistical statements are acknowledged
to be valuable by all, attributes the money crisis of
1797, not to over-issues of Bank paper, but to poli-
cal causes ; however, for our present purpose, it is suf-
ficient to state that in 1797 there was a money crisis.
In 1821-2 there was another money crisis ; another
in 18'13, another in 1837. and again another at this
present time in 1839. Every one of thesreihemdoneayt
crises, it is to be observed, w
the time, more or less, to overproduction and over-
trading, or, in other words, to too
produced by the product-creatingin
endeavouring to dis-
seminateemp powermuch of the country,
_o
and too much industry 1
these products 3tTi:absurdity of a throughout the community.
Passing by, for the moment,
duction of things which nineteen-twentieths of the
commu-
nity being embarrassed and impoverished by its excess of
pro
the want
ewcaonntunofunl toy
cnoenafir nearly in
oura astttaetnetoiofnrteobetlhlie imonfrmome.
will
diate causes of the money crises which weh:ni%o•
wasnu-
enu-
merated.
u
In 1797, the Bank of England, as
pay it'S notes in gold ; at the same time that the
demand
to
dof the public for it's notes was rapidly increas-
ing in proportion as the wealth producing power of the
country required an increase of money to represent it.
Mr. Pitt saw at once the simple remedy ; he argued, if
gold cannot be procured wherewith to represent or to
carry on the monetary transactions of the country, re-
course must be had to some other sort of money ; if the
nation will be content with bank notes, why should not