The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-30 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
R. Tate, silversmith, Regent-street, Middlesex, Jan 2, at
one—T. Moger, cheesemonger, Holborn-hill, Dec. 31, at two
—W. Cole, printer, Crane-court, Fleet-street, Dec. 20, at
half-past twelve. _ _

In the Country.
E. Pownall and W. P. Hunt, solicitors, Ipswich, Suffolk,
Dec. 23, at eleven, at the Golden Lion Inn, Ipswich-4. Best,
victualler, Bilston, Staffordshire, Dec. 20, at twelve, at the
Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire—W. R. Carter,
ironmonger, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 20, at twelve, at the
Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—G. Peach,
woolstapler, Northampton, Dec. 23, at twelve, at the Goat Inn,
Northampton—P. Higson, cotton-spinner, Tyldesiey, Lanca-
shire, Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester—J. Britain, grocer, Ripon, Yorkshire, Dee. 23, at
twelve, at the office of Blanchard and Richardson, York—J.
Dawson, corn-dealer, Hanl, y, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, Dec. 23, at one, at the Albion Inn, Hanley—R. H.
Slagg, steel-manufacturer, Kilnhurst Steel-works, Swinton,
Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire, Dec. 20, at one, at the Town-
hall, Sheffield—S. and J. Martin, silversmiths, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, Dec. 27, at twelve, at the offices of Messrs.
Winterbotham, Cheltenham—H. Wilson, tailor, Wigan, Lan-
cashire, Dec. 20, at one, at the Swan Inn, Bolton-le-Moors,
Lancashire—G. Lansly, blacksmith, Ludgershall, Wiltshire;
Dec. 23, at three, at the Black Horse Inn, Salisbury,Wiltshire.
CERTIFICATES._ DEC. 20.
T. Bennett, J. Thornton, and J. Ridgway, cotton-spinners,
Hayfield, Glossop, Derbyshire—W. Williams, grocer, Brewer-
street, St. Pancras, Middlesex—R. Benson, newspaper agent,
Parliament-street, Westminster—R. Welsh, coach-builder,
Cartlett, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire—J. Taylor, stone-
merchant, Albion-wharf, Maiden-lane, King's-cross, Middlesex
—N. Phillips, cotton
-spinners, Stockport, Cheshire—J. Clark,
builder, Crooks, Sheffield, Yorkshire—J. Huddleston, builder,
Nottingham.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
S. Woodward and W. Dobson, hop-merchants, Worcester—
J. Smallwood, jun., and J. B. Burton, grocers, Queen's-
place, Kennington,. Surrey—E. Harper and C. Boot, manufac-

turers of German silver wares, Birmingham—H. Crowley and
J. Hyde, surgical instrument-makers, Sheffield—M. Myers and
R. Brown, hat-manufacturers, Bread-street, Cheapside, Lon-
don—J., J., and J. Newton, cotton-spinners, Lees Brook,
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire—E. King and M. Maud,
vvoolstapleis, Leeds—T. Warwicker and G. Johnson, saddlers,
Hornsey-road, Islington—S. Carpenter and T. Forster, India
rubber cloth-manufacturers, Cheapside, London—F. Smithson
and W. Reeves, brewers, Rothwell, near Leeds—T. Griffiths
and T. Griffiths, inn , booksellers, Ludlow, Shropshire—J. and
J. Beer, tailors, Bristol—T. Bache, T. Morris, and J. Herbert,
common carriers, London (as far as regards T. Bache)—M.
O'Connell and J. M'Kenna, merchants, Liverpool—J. Ains-
worth and .1. Hammond, silk-manufacturers, Macclesfield,
Cheshire—E. Jones and 11. B. George, architects—G. and R.
Johnston, stock-brokers, Manchester—Cameron and Violard,
silk -mercers, Edinburgh—G. Crichton and J. Fairley, mer-
chants, Glasgow.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAMES WILSON, surgeon, Glasgow, Dec. 2, and 23, at
two, at the Commercial Hotel, Glasgow.
SMALL and CO., musical-instrument-makers, Edinburgh,
Dec. 2, and 23, at two, at the Old Signet Hall, Royal Ex-
change, Edinburgh.
JOHN CANT, leather-merchant, Dundee, Dee. 5, and 23,
at one, at the British Hotel, Dundee.

LITERATURE.

ON OUR MONETARY SYSTEM, 4'c.
By T. Jormar.—London, Ridgway, 11339. '
Mr. Joplin is certainly one of the most indefa-
tigable writers on :the currency of the present day.
If he have paid much attention to other branches
of political economy, the fact is unknown to us,
but for twenty years he has continually written on
the monetary system. His present work relates to
pressures in the money market, their
petacnaooat:siu:eosedosita,thineeadrsnd a
plan to remedy them. We think it unnecessary to
notice his inquiries into the several pressures which
have taken place since 1819 ; they are somewhat
vividly and rather extensively remembered ; and we
shall therefore confine ourselves to Mr. Joplin's re-
medy. He proposes that after a certain day-
1. All the bank notes in the United Kingdom, whe-
ther issued by private or joint stock banks, including
those of the Banks of England and Ireland, shall be-
come the current money of the realm, the same as me-
tallic currency.
2. That parties holding them may receive cash for
them at the Bank of England, or may obtain, from any
of the banks by which they are issued, a draft, to be
termed a bullion bill*, upon the Bank of England for
the amount of them ; for which draft or bill, he may
either receive coin or Bank of England Notes, at his
option ; or he may present it to any other bank of issue
in the kingdom, and receive their notes for it.
3. That notes received in purchase of a bullion bill
shall be cancelled ; and that such bill, if not paid in
coin or bullion by the Bank of England, shall be paid by
a fresh issue cf notes, either by the Bank of England,
or by any other bank of issue in England, Ireland, or
Scotland, to which it may be presented.
4. That the Bank of England shall purchase all bul-
lion presented to it by a fresh issue of notes, or by a
receipt, which shall be an order upon an other bank in
England, Ireland, or Scotland, to which it shall be pre-
sented for payment, to be paid by a fresh issue of notes.
5. That each bank shall become indebted to the Go-
vernment for the amount of its circulation, and such
further amount as may be necessary for its till.
6. That a Board of Commissioners shall be esta-
blished in London, to settle and conduct the details of
the plan, on such conditions and with such powers as
Parliament shall determine.
With all due respect to this ingenious gentleman
we must at once enter our protest against this
scheme for converting promises to pay to the extent
of 30,000,0001. sterling, into actual money, thereby
giving 30,000,000/. to the bankers, who are now
indebted that sum to the public. The parties holding
these notes are to receive cash for them at the Bank
of England, or a bullion bill. Now, supposing
the Newcastle Joint Stock Bank to have issued such
notes to the amount of 1,000,0001. sterling, what
justice is there in giving the holders of them cash at
the Bank of England ? The Bank might send one
of its own clerks to London and get 100,000 sove-
reigns. It is, in fact, to be the debtor of the State to
the amount of its notes in circulation, but Mr. Joplin
proposes that the notes which are the record of its
debt, shall he cancelled, and if not cancelled,
being declared to be money, they would
be equivalent to a payment.. Mr. Joplin'-scheme
of converting, by Act of Parliament, all bank notes
into current money of the realm, is neither more
nor less than a scheme to give to the bankers who
,have issued notes about 30,000,000/. sterling. If
the proposition had been that the bank notes now
in circulation might be exchanged for " bullion
bills" to be issued by a national bank, such bank
notes to constitute a debt from the bank issuing
them to the nation, to be redeemed or paid within
some certain period, such as six, twelve, eighteen,
or twenty-four months, those bullion. bills to con-
stitute money, there might be justice in the propo-
sition ; but we apprehend the issuing bankers would
by no means be pleased to see national bullion bills
substituted for their promises to pay. Considering
the project of a national bank as the most feasible
one which the public are now likely to adopt, we
cannot approve of Mr. Joplin's plan to carry it
into execution, in a manner so advantageous to the
present issuers of notes as to convert their
30,000,0001. of debt into current money. Nor,
in considering the propo:,ition to make promises to
pay money, can we forget Burke's celebrated re-
mark, that paper was valuable on the Exchange
because it had no value in Westminster-hall ?
We must further state, that Alr. Joplin's notions
of a currency do not agree with ours. His aim
and object is to have " a paper currency that would
work precisely as if the currency were metallic."
This is to be effected by " the establishment of one
bank of issue for the three kingdoms, not al-
lowed to increase or diminish its circulation
except on an importation or exportation of the pre-
cious metals." It is plain that paper is substi-
tuted for bullion for two reasons, first, because
bullion cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities,
and secondly, because the use of it is cheaper than
bullion. If therefore we are only to have a paper
currency, varying precisely as a metallic currency,
one of the objects, that of abundance, for which
paper is introduced, will be lost, and only the
other, namely, the cheapness, obtained. But the
effect of substituting the cheap for the dear
commodity-50,000,0001. of paper notes, worth
intrinsically 1001. for 50,000,000/. sterling of gold
—is to set so much capital at liberty, to lay the foun-
dation for so much additional production, and to
create a demand for an increased quantity of money
to bring the commodities to market. The substi-
tution of paper for bullion begets therefore a want
of an increased circulation, and to limit the amount
of paper, as Mr. Joplin proposes, by the importa-
tion or exportation of precious metals, is to deprive
the paper substitute for metal of one of its great
advantages.
Mr. Joplin confounds two things th&t are dif-
ferent,
namely, value and quantity. Making paper
notes payable on demand in bullion is au excellent
means for preserving them at the same level cifillue
paperi
sn c i
os
m p always
re d
as the bullion ; but that is not equivalent to restri t-
int an
metallic
standardthe s
oa
fme value
iamountiao which
ibullion.ch
liable to be converted, has been aptly likened to
the imperial gallon deposited in the custody of the
t.Sopae
all the
of the
measures Houseof
capacityof
in t
h Commons,e
almost invariable standard, subject to none of the
bruisings and batterings of daily use, by which they
ntilsitihs is not the
may be, but which paper is at any and alnlitt:taioNm,euenlsd.,
corrected and reformed. But maintaining that as
the standard, so that the paper money shall be ex-
posed to no greater fluctuation in value than the
piTleae tceaexl
pf(ooirsne(didoe eitncolgiftes couldfewer
Ii
itieciatssuiaal easily i
°eh,
error,
o,s
rlit:ouwitt
ing one great purpose for which paper money is
employed, to limit its quantity by the importation
and exportation of the precious metals. No doubt
that would exercise some influence over the quan-
tity of money in circulation, were matters left per-
fectly free, but it is wrong to make that importation
or exportation, by law, the guide for the emission
or calling in of paper money.
We apprehend thattooneoircgorekatte purpose
use of money is, by most of the
speculators
on the currency, overlooked. Undoubtedlyi4 oneto
of its functions is,
already in existence, to which these specula-.
tors confine themselves ; but another
* The term bullion bill, appears to me to explain best the
character of the draft, but a bank post bill, or
name, which distinguished it from a common commercial
bill, will do as well. A name, however, is necessary for
clearness, and if not given, the public would Make the
distinction by adopting some name of their own.

contribute to the future production of commodities.
It is true that future production is based on past
production, or while men are producing they are
consuming what has already been created, but as
the future production is to be greater than the past,
as every year—as the rule—produces more than
the preceding year, there is a necessity for the in-
crease of money every year. Now this necessary
increase may be supplied by paper representing the
future production, while there may be a diminu-
tion of the bullion brought to market. All
genuine mercantile paper has, in fact, fu-
ture production for its basis, and correctly
represents the increasing want. But, this
very important function of money, by which it
aids future production, would be largely curtailed
were the principle of regulating the paper by the
quantity of bullion, imported and exported, brought
to market, carried into execution. This is an
objection on principle, not only to Mr. Joplin's
scheme, but to most of the schemes for regulating
the currency which we have seen, and we doubt
much whether any of them will be successful.

ALMANACKS FOR 1840.

BRITISH ALMANAC, AND COMPANION

FOR IS4O.
These twin publications still maintain their ori-
ginal character for variety of details, correct lists,
and useful and interesting information. There are
other Almanacs perhaps as good, none better ; but
the " British Almanac" has led the way in the
vast change which has taken place in the last
twelve years in these useful publications. Mr.
Knight has created a complete revolution in this
respect, and consequently must come in for a share
of the merit which now belongs to most of them.
The Almanac this year, in addition to the usual
tables and calendar, has a table for finding the time
of sun setting and rising in any part of the United
Kingdom, the height of high water at the London
Docks for the morning and afternoon of every day
in the year, and the Railroad Stations, with the
times of departure from London. The Companion
contains a number of original articles, among which
those on Public Health ; the History of the
Post-office, and the Railways of Great Britain are
deserving of especial notice. It may safely be pro-
nounced the most comprehensive and useful work
of the sort published in this country.

THE COMIC A LMANACK.
Tilt, London, 1839.

The Comic Almanack has been always a favour-
ite with us, and this year it is more smartly and
cleverly written, both in prose and verse, than it has
yet been. A tale illustrative of the popular amuse-
ments of each of the twelve months, under the title
of " Barber Cox, and the Cutting of his Comb,"
is introduced with happy effect, and will be
sure to be a favourite with the lovers of

light, humourous literature. The squat, vulgar
barber, in particular, is admirably hit off, and his
conversations are full of character. Nor does he
exhibit to less advantage in Cruikshank's illustra-
tions. George works out the author's idea in the
aptest spirit of drollery. Not a personal trait is
omitted. He is as close a comment on the text, as
Phiz's Nicholas Nickleby. What, for instance,
can be richer than the enriched Parvenu's self-
complacent chuckle when he enters for the first time
a fashionable ball-room ? He is not at all asto-

nished at finding himself there. Not he ! He
feels that he is there by right. He stands
on the justice of the case. He is in full
possession of cash—has a magnificent gold
watch-chain with a bunch of seals as big as a
Dutch cabbage, dangling half-way down to his
knees ;—what more fit and proper, then, than that
one thus lavishly endowed, should shine a bright:star
in the galaxy of fashion ? The evident surprise
of the gay folks about him, appears to occasion hint
no other feeling than that of a lofty pity for their
inability to appreciate his golden worth. Never
was vulgar, simpering self-sufficiency more feli-
citously pourtrayed than in Cruikshanks' de-
lineations of this newly-enriched barber. What
gusto in his dance at Christmas, with a fat lady
whose nose turns up like a fish-hook ! Not a
single movement of his limbs but seems the direct
inspiration of St. Vitus. We say nothing of his
luxuriant black hair, which goes floating away at
the back of his head, like the smoke of a steam-
boat, but how expressive and unsophisticated the
enjoyment depicted in his fat, fubsy phiz ! Of time,
tune, and propriety of attitude, he has clearly
not the slightest notion. The essence of good
dancing he conceives to consist in alertness and a
parade of muscular energy; and accordingly he goes
perspiring along the mazes of the dance, like a
prize-ox in the dog-days. The remaining Illustra-
tions, especially the astrological sketch, evince all
that grotesque, fantastic humour in which Cruik-
shank surpasses all the artists of his day.

ENGLISH BIJOU ALMANACK.
,Schloss, London, 1839.
By the aid of a magnifying glass of no inconsi-
derable power, we have been enabled to examine
the contents of this Lilliputian Almanack, which is
one of the greatest curiosities we know of. Con-
ceive a volume—for so, we suppose, it must be
called—no bigger than an ogre's thumb-nail, yet
containing portraits of Moore, Mrs. Hall, Shee, and
others, together with poems by Lover, and a com-
plete Calendar for the ensuing year ! Why, it
almost realizes the old fable about the Iliad in a
nutshell ! Mr. Lover is the editor of this little
fairy production, whose merits, we fear, must be
taken on trust by short-sighted people, for to them
its portraits and its poetry will be nearly equally
invisible.

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

HANOVER, Nov. 22.—As soon as the King has re-
turned from his hunting party, and the Prussian Princes,
who are expected to-morrow, have left us, the new draft
of the Constitution, proposed by the Committee, will be
laid before his Majesty. After it has been examined
we may expect a decision respecting the convocation of
the Estates. It is believed that a very modified right
of co-operation in the legislation given to the Estates,
will be the only point in which some concession may
expected from the King. The Finances present immense
difficulties. The re-establishment of the state of things
in 1819, without any alteration, is quite incompatible
with the interest of the King. The present deputies,
if they remain alone in the Chamber, will not agree to
modifications without trembling, because the entire influ-
ence of the Estates depended on this point, and the re-
sponsibility to the country, if an error is committed, is
very great. We should then have an absolute Monarchy
wihout a representative Constitution.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. I2.—The last Diet made a pro-
posal to the Government for the general establishment
of popular schools. All the Bishops and Consistories
received orders to give their opinions on the subject, and
Bishop Tegrer, the eminent poet, with his Consistory,
sent in an opinion, from which the following passages are
quoted :—The Consistory is of opinion that the educa-
tion of the working classes should be essentially religious.
Other knowledge may not only be dispensed with, but
often be considered as injurious. Half knowledge con-
verts the peasant into a reader of newspapers, a county
politician, which is the worst that a peasant can become.
In the Diet, that half knowledge tends to make the
peasant a grumbler and a malcontent. It is melan-
choly see in the Diet how the Swedish peasant is
altered, who, in the days of his glory, looked upon it
as his destination to love and to honour God and the
King. The newspaper is his Bible, and talking politics
his favourite occupation.
NuaEmcuao, Nov. 18.—By his Majesty's coin-
mind, the Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung is no longer to
be forwarded by the Royal Bavarian post-offices.—
Hamburg Papers, Nov. 2(1.

HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 26.
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Mr. Gurdon's appointment is the Recordership
o f Bury St. Edmunds, and not of Ipswich, as stated
yesterday by mistake.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

(From the Gazeti? of yesterday.)
CROWN-OFFICE, Nov. 26, 1839.
Her Majesty has been pleased to command the issu-
ing of the following Commissions :—Victoria, by the
Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our
well-beloved and faithful councillor Charles Christopher
Lord Cottenham, Chancellor of that part of our United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great
Britain ; our most dear cousin an 'I councillor Henry
Marquis of Lansdowne, President of our Council ; our
well-beloved and faithful Councillor John William Lord
Duneannon, Keeper of our Privy Seal ; our most dear
cousins George Duke of Marlborough ; George Gran-
ville, Duke of Sutherland ; Montagu Earl of Abingdon;
our most dear cousins and councillors George Earl of
Macclesfield ; Charles Earl Talbot ; our most dear
cousins John Earl Somers ; Thomas E Ducie ; our
well-beloved and faithful George William Lord Lyttle-
ton : William Eitzhardinge Lord Segrave ; our beloved
and faithful Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq. ; our well-
beloved and faithful councillors Sir Nicolas Conyng-
ham Tindal, Knight, Chief Justice of our Court of
Common Pleas ; Sir James Parke, Knight, one of the
Barons of our Court of Exchequer ; our beloved and
faithful Sir John Williams, Knight, one of the Justices
assigned to hold pleas before us ; Ebenezer Ludlow,
Sergeant-at-Law ; John Bellamy, Esq. ; William
Henry Bellamy ; Charles Bellamy ; and Richard Alfred
Goodman, gentlemen ; greeting : Know ye that we
have assigned you, and any two of you (of whom one
of you, the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Sir
James Parke, Sir John Williams, and Ebenezer Lud-
low, we will shall be one), our Justices to inquire more
fully the truth, by the oath of good and lawful men of
our county of Monmouth, and by other ways, means,
and methods by which you shall or may better know
(as well within liberties as without) by whom the truth
of the matter may be the better known and inquired
into, of all treasons, misprisions of treason, insurrections,
rebellions, counterfeitings, clippings, washings, false
coinings, and other falsities of the money of Great
Britain and other kingdoms or dominions whatso-
ever, and of all murders, felonies, manslaughters,
killings, burglaries, rapes of women, unlawful meetings
and conventicles, unlawful uttering of words, assemblies,
misprisions, confederacies, false allegations, tresspasses,
riots, routs, retentions, escapes, contempts, falsities, negli-
gencies, concealments, maintenances, oppressions, cham-
parties, deceits, and all other evil doings, offences, and
injuries, whatsoever, and also the accessaries to them,
within the county aforesaid (as well within liberties as
without) by whomsoever and in what manner soever
done, committed, or perpetrated, and by whom or to
whom, when, how, and after what manner, and of all
other articles and circumstances concerning the premises,
and every of them, in any manner whatsover ; and the
said treasons and other the premises, according to the
laws and customs of England, for this time to hear and
determine. And, therefore, we command you, that at a
certain day and place, or at certain days and places,
which you, or any two of you (of whorn one• of you,
the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Sir James
Parke, Sir John Williams, and Ebenezer Ludlow, we will
shall be one), shall appoint for this purpose, you make
diligent inquiries about the premises, and hear
and determine all and singular the premises, and do and
fulfil them in the aforesaid form, doing therein what to
justice appertains, according to the laws and customs
of England, saving to us the amerciaments and other
things from thence to us accruing ; and we command,
by the tenor of these presents, our Sheriff of our
county of Monmouth aforesaid, that at such day and
place, or days and places, which you, or two of you (of
whom one of you, the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham
Tindal, Sir James Parke, Sir John Williams, and Ebe-
nezer Ludlow, we will shall be one), shall make known
to him, he cause to come before you, or two of you (of
whom one of you, the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham
Tindal, Sir James Parke, Sir John Williams, and
Ebenezer Ludlow, we will shall be one), so many and
such good and lawful men of his bailiwick (as well within
liberties as without), by whom the truth of the premises
may be better known and inquired into.
In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters
to be made patent.--Witness ourself, at West-
minster, the nineteenth day of November, in the
third year of our reign. EDMUNDS.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of
the Faith, to our well-beloved and faithful councillor,
Charles Christopher Lord Cottenham, Chancellor of
that part of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland call Great Britain ; our most dear cousin and
councillor Henry Marquis of Lansdowne, President of
our Council ; our well-beloved and and faithful coun-
cillor John William Lord Duncannon, keeper of our
Privy Seal ; our most dear cousins George Duke of
Marlborough ; George Granville Duke of Sutherland ;
Montagu, Earl of Abingdon ; our most dear cousins and
councillors George Earl of Macclesfield ; Charles Earl
Talbot ; our most dear cousins John Earl Somers ;
Thomas Earl Duck ; our well-b eloved and faithful
George William Lord Lyttleton ; William Fitzhardinge j
Lord Segrave ; our beloved and faithful Capel Han_
bury Leigh, Esq. ; our well-beloved and faithful
councillors Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knight,
Chief Justice of our Court of Common Pleas S,ir James
Parke, Knight, one of the Barons of our Court of Ex-
chequer ; our beloved and faithful Sir John Williams,
Knight, one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas be•
fore us ; Ebenezer Ludlow, Sergeant-at-law ; John
Bellamy, Esq. ; William Henry Bellamy ; Charles
Bellamy ; and Richard Alfred Goodman, gentlemen ;
greeting : Know ye that we have constituted you, and
any two or more of you, of whom one of you (the said
Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Sir James Parke, Sir
John Williams, and Ebenezer Ludlow, we will shall be
one), our Justices to deliver our gaol of our county of
Monmouth, of the prisoners therein being and detained,
or who shall be therein detained before the eleventh
day of January next ; and, therefore, we com-
mand you, that at a certain day, or at cer-
tain days, which you or any two or more of
you (of whom one of you, the said Sir Nicolas
Conyngham Tyndal, Sir James Parke, Sir John
Williams, and Ebenezer Ludlow, we will shall be one),
shall appoint for this purpr,se, you meet at Monmouth,
to deliver that gaol, do;.ng therein what to justice ap-
pertains, according to the laws and customs of England,
saving to us the amerciarnents and other things to us
from thence, accruing ; and we command, by the tenor
of thole presents, our Sheriff of our county of Mon-
mouth, that at a certain day, or at certain days, which
you, or any two or more of you (of whom one of you,
the said Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Sir James
Parke, Sir John Williams, and Ebenezer Ludlow, we
will shall be one), shall acquaint him with, he cause all
the prisoners of the same gaol, and their attachments
before you, or any two or more of you (of whom one of
you, the said Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Sir
James Parke, Sir John Williams, and Ebenezer Ludlow,
we will shall be one), there to cone.
Ia witness whereof, we have caused these our letters
to be made patent.—Witness ourself,, at West-
minster, the nineteeth day of November, in the
third year of our reign. EDMUNDS.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN STEVENSON'S-
EQUARE,MANCHESTER.-A bout one o'clock on Thursday
morning it was discovered that the shop of Mr. Kearsley,
joiner and builder, situate in Spear-street, Stevenson's-
square, was in flames. Owing to some delay, it was
near two o'clock before the engines were got to work,
and the building in which the fire originated was then
completely enveloped in flames. From the combusti-
ble nature of the materials it was found impossible
to save any part of the building ; the flames also
extended to an adjoining cottage occupied by a
reed-maker, named Lyons, who, with his wife and
three children, bad a very narrow escape ; the whole
of his furniture was destroyed. Several houses on the
opposite side of Spear-street, which is not more than
six or eight yards wide, caught fire, but none of them
were injured materially. The greatest danger was on
the opposite side of Mr. Kearsley's shop, contiguous to
which was an extensive wood-yard. A great portion
of the wood was got out, but it was with the utmost
difficulty that Mr. Rose, the active superintendent of
our fire police, could prevent the whole from becoming
a mass of flame. The flames were got under control
in little more than an hour ; but it is still necessary for
9m building
engine to remain on the spot to play on the smoul-
dering embers, Mr. Kearsley's stock was only insured
after On the Sunday evening first the discovery
least 2,0001. The value
of r
the 00 .
; his loss lcoveredibea
byt insurance.

„
of the awful conspiracy of the Chartists, and the tearful
catastrophe at Newport, we understand that Mr. R.
Jones, the Independent minister at Sirhowy iron works,
delivered a most
x. 3
powerfull —lB.
discourseA frteelratitvheetosetrhme
sermon
nechae-
sion from Isaiah
expelled every member of his church, male and female,
that he. knew to have had any connexion with these
outlaws.-21ferthyr Guardian.
BICESTER : SINGULAR TEXT.--On Monday
evening last, a preacher in a Wesleyan Chapel, not a
hundred miles from Upper Heyford, thus addressed
his congregation :—” All who are for the devil, stand
up!" Not one arose. " All who are for the Lord
stand up !" Up started every man, woman, and child
in the chapel ; from which circumstance the Rev. Gen.
tleman took occasion to deliver a fervent address on the
necessity imposed on his hearers to make their lives
correspond with the profession so publicly made.-ox-
ford Chronicle.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Chronicle.)
A clever and well-informed correspondent, who as-
sumes the signature of " Detector," has sariAed us,
from the instances he has specified, that the impudent
attempt of some of the Tory journals, to fasten a charge
of profligacy on her Majesty's Court, might easily be
punished by exposures n 'fief' woul_d compel numbers cf
tile fashionable Tories to hide their heads for shame.
It may be true, as our cerrespondent pointedly ob-
serves, that " personal abuse, as at present exercised,
is very smpudent, and vulgar impudence totally unop-
posed because very impudent ;" and it is hardly in the
nature of things, that a war against. private character
should be long carried on without leading to severe
retaliation ; but when we reflect on the con-
sequences, both to society and to numerous
private
' ' families, of dragging into public view the
vices of individuals, we would rather leave to the
lianoverians the monopoly of the laurels to be reaped
in such a strife, than degrade ourselves to their level by
embarking in it. " The first daring allusions to profli-
gacy in her Majesty's Court," says "Detector," " I be-
lieve, originated in the Times. The dirt naturally was
thrown torn the foulest puddle ;" but has not the base-
ness of the attempt done more injury to the Tories than
to their opponents ? ' The stains on the character of
some of: the men, who, if the Tories were to come
into office to-morrow, must act leading parts, are so
foul, affording evidence, not merely of turpitude, but
of meanness and dishonour, that the base warfaCe
in which the Tory Journals have engaged onl)
adds to the disgust of the public. In truth, the
greatest indignation has been generally expressed by
the respectable portion of the Press, throughout the
country, at the scandalous conduct to which we have
alluded. The Scotsman, a Journal, which, from its
commencement to the present day, has never deviated
an instant from' --trti 'honourable and straightforward
course, and has been conspicuous for its respect for all
the charities and decencies of life, observes, with refer-
ence to the notice taken by the Times of some articles
in the Chronicle respecting Queen Adelaide, " With
unparalleled effrontery the Times assumes a tone of
high indignation, and professes to repel the attack with
a ' scornful execration ;': while, in the same breath, the
brazen bully throws out iniinuations against his young
Sovereign, which could only apply to the, most worth-
less of her sex! There is nothing in the whole his-
tory of party more scandalous and revolting than the at-
tempt so unblushingly made to blacken Queen Victoria's
character, by fixing the stigma of profligacy on her. Court.
If the charge came from men of austere virtue or
gloomy fanaticism, we might pity the darkness and
error in which it originated ; but coming as it does from
those who, not many years ago, were the fawning cour-
tiers and noisy eulogists of a Monarch of notoriously lax
morals, we turn with disgust from its mingled baseness
and hypocrisy." Sir Robert Peel cannot disassociate
himself from the foul proceedings of his party. From
one end of the country to the other the Tories have
exhibited themselves as utterly reckless in their indul-
gence of calumny. They have had recourse to all Man-
ner of dishonourable expedients to further their cause, i
courting aid from the lowest prejudices, and stooping to
the dirtiest machinations. The conduct of the Tories
has indeed afforded evidence of a deep-seated immorality
and want of principle, from which the national character
cannot escape uninjured in the estimation of the world.
The disgrace of this must attach to the leadiflg states-
men
of the party ; •and, however respectable Sir Robert
Peel may be in his private life, he will assuredly silf.a.
from the tactics with which he is associated.
(From the-gni/67.7ring Post.)
Among, the evidences of dignified self-possession and
calm confidence in the excellence of their position,
which Whig-Radical politicians display At the present
moment, we request the attention of our readers to the
following extract from a Ministerial Journal of yes-
terday :

Toryism is the same throughout—from beginning to
end, trom top to bottom. It grasps at everything ; lets go
nothing ; skulks, evades, fawns, insults ; and covets at
once the credit of the confessor and the gains of the pick-
pocket. It is an unsightly fungus on the trunk of huma-
nity---a noisome ulcer on the British character."
Were Tories to adventure upon a strain of eloquence
so rapturous as this, it would be at once attributed to
" desperation"—nothing else could be supposed capable
of elevating them to such choice sublimities of indigna-
tion. But as the passage is Whig-Radical and Ministe-
rial, a different estimate must be formed of it—particu-
larly at Downing-street. It must be held to be mode-.
rate, mild, considerate ; written by some one under the
" inspiration" (as the author of The Sea Captain would
say) of a very nice sense of justice, and a profound
conviction of the sacredness of truth. It moat be
assumed that the party which holds such language tie
highly justified, as well by its own practice irs by its
lofty and undeviating principles of propriety, in de-
nouncing the after-dinner vehemence of Mr. Bradshaw
and Mr. Roby, and in consigning all gentlemen in the
gross, and officers of the army in particular, to the
most dismal realms of infamy and disgrace if, being pre-
sent where violent political language is used, they do
not instantly interfere to rebuke it. The utterers of
the above-quoted language being Whig-Radiotals, it
must be held to be precisely what it should be, in feel-
ing and in spirit. Military officers who read it aloud
with approbation—we specially recommend it to the ad-
miration of Lord Hill—must be considered singularly
loyal and soundly discreet; and if there be any such
thing as a clergyman of taste so refined as to appreciate
the beauties of the passage, he must hare immediate
patronage, as a remarkable instance of sober judgment
am', delicate propriety amongst a body of men 'not apt
to hold Whig-Radical views upon such matters
As humble labourers in the Tory cause it might
be supposed that we should have something to say, in
opposition to the passage we have had the lionour.to
quote. But we candidly confess that such a passage
seems to us rather beyond the reach, or out of the line,
of any direct process of adverse logic which we could
use. Such eloquence as we have quoted is unagrer-
able by argument. Its literary beauty is, hoviever, Open
to examination, and, as we have no jealousy in that re-
spect, we cannot but congratulate the Ministerialists on
the glowing quality of the rhetoric which they em-
ploy. The vulgar excellency of clearness and mile-
rency is not indeed aimed at (apparently) in the above
extract ; but the vivacity and variety of ideas are con-
spicuous. " Toryism is the same throughout." It
is not one thing now, and now another, but " the
same." Very well, what next ? It is "an un-
sightly fungus." Good again ;—and what does
this Toryism—that is, " this fungus"—what does
it do ? Why, "it grasps at every thing—lets go
nothing—skulks, evades, fawns, insults, covets," and so
on. Great is the genius which maihes a " fungus" do
all this, and yet as Toryism is the same throughout—
once a fungus and always a fungus,—it must be the said
fungus" which does all these queer things. The
" fungus" is said to be an ulcer as well—a pretty idea,
wad not, we believe, altogether tinchirurgical. Ulcerated
fungi we think we have heard of (though we are not
very certain), but they have 'this peculiarity, that they
are not sore. This abundantly exemplifies their analogy
with Toryism, which somehow or other, with all the
defects and unsightliness that the Whig-Radicals find
in it, seems to be neither pained nor irritated, but quite
the contrary. But what does this Toryism, i. e. this
" fungus"—what does ie covet ? Why, "it covets at
once the credit of the confessor and the gains of the
pickpocket." This is a charming figure of opposition,
or antithesis, intended, we suppose, to stimulate the
fancy in the endeavour to find out where the oppo-
sition lies. We own that we have not yet ourselves
found out what the credit of the confessor" meat ;
nor is it to be supposed that we should know, so
much about there matters as Ministerial gentlemen
who are so deeply in the confidence of the Romanists.
As to coveting the gains of pickpockets, we suppose
this is only another way of saying, what the Whig-
Radicals have -so often said before, that all the Tories
want is to obtain those emoluments of which they (the
Whig-Radicals) are now in possession. But tempting
as are the beauties of this one passage of mild, consi-
derate Ministerialisru, which so abhors all violence of
speech, we must not confine ourselves exclusively to it.
Here is another cluster of philosophical and rhetorical
charms

To his opinions the Absolutist or the Republican has
an unquestionable right, and to their peaceful expression ,
And if he bears with dignity the injurious consequences to
himself of what society deems his erroneous opinions he is
entitled to respect. But not so those who basely Ate-
rate ; who employ the means of falsehood for the en s of
faction ; who put on the mask of hypocrisy, and kindle the
hell-fire of bigotry; who have crawled the most servilely
as they now bully the most ferociously ; and who, when
they ought like honest men to bear the burden of their
blunders, in whatever privations it may impose, wriggle,
and quibble, and equivocate, while affecting to look big,
and exhibit a Janus head of knave and martyr."
What amiable toleration in the opening of this pas-
sage ! The Absolutist or ;Le Republican has an un-
questionable right to his opinions. This is " libe-
rality." But a Constitutionalist—a Torv—he is wor-
thy of no such favour—hoe is a 6. fungus"—an " ulcer;"
and though his opinions be supported by a majority of
British Members in the House of Commons, and by a
yet larger majority of the House of Lords, that makes
him all the worse and more odious. Is he not, there-
fore, the more dangerous? It is a pity, however, that
in this view of pli,losophv the Whig Radicals have
but
borrowed
Ireland. These worthy people are said
of a i leaf from the old book of the ultra-
Protestants
to have inscribed upon the gates of Bandon, in the
county of C0,..k, the following prohibitory and permis-
sive notification :

" Good people all, Jew, Turk, or Athist,
I\lay enter here, but not a Papist."
It is evident that from this example the Whig-Radi-
cals have derived their notion of Absolutists and Re-
publicans being far more tolerable than Tories, espe-
cially if they bear with dignity the prejudices of society
regarding them. There is, however, one orris sioe. in
the above passage which rather surprises us. Why
were not those clean-thonghted personages, the: " So-
cialists," introduced, as well as Absolutists and I Lepulyli-
cans Surely a class, whose head and lea ,der the
nice and delicate-minded Lord Melbourne is do-

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