The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-30 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
TIMES.—The notice of the Bank of England yester-
day differs from the last of the kind in some important par-
ticulars, which require to be made known, and which must
have some influence on the state of the money-market.
The date is one week earlier than usual, and, instead of
being confined to bills of exchange, the accommodation is
now extended to Exchequer-bills, India Bonds, and " other
approved securities :" in other words, the sober system of
banking, into which a careful consideration of all their re-
sponsibility to the public, after a long struggle, brought
the Directors, is to be abandoned for that which experience
has shown to be the fruitful source of over-issues and panic,
with the train of disasters to the trading classes which ine-
vitably follows them. Nothing but a determination to
make business, at whatever sacrifice to the rest of the
community, could have dictated this step on the part of the
Directors, who have not only a bad principle to answer for,
but a selection, in point of time, as bad as could be chosen.
Our prudent and sagacious merchants are regarding at this
moment with much anxiety the state of the corn trade, and
look upon a large supply from abroad as inevitable, which
they know must be pa'd for almost wholly in gold, and this
is the time that a well-conducted bank should restrain its
issues, that they may meet the difficulty when it comes,
without drawing them in upon compulsion, to the distress
and injury of the commerce of the country. Such loans as
those proposed upon " approved securities" will be of no
advantage anywhere, as money can be raised upon them at
a lower rate in the Stock Exchange, where they will cause,
moreover, no increase in the issues, and they can only be
intended therefore, if they are acted upon at all, to eke
out a dividend, and to prevent further encroachments o❑
the " rest" or reserved balance of the Bank pi oprietors,
at the cost of the public.

CHRONICLE.—There has been considerable business
transacted to-day in Consols, and more than usual fluctua-
tions have occurred, arising out of the various views en-
tertained by the frequenters of the Stock Exchange as to
the consequence of the present state of affairs in Canada
and the East Indies. Consols for Money were marked at
93N and 9:2f, a difference of I per cent., and closed at 931
to I. The last price for the account was 93-1,- to 94, being
a difference in both of only f per cent. as compared with
the prices at the termination of business yesterday.
Foreign Securities, generally, were influenced by the
state of our market, but more especially Spanish and Por-
tuguese, although there was not much done in them.

There is scarcely any variation to notice in the quota.
tions of Shares.

1 HERALD.—The aggregate of the average price of
wheat, which governs the amount of duty on importation,
having been declared at 70s. 3d. per quarter, the duty on
foreign Wheat for the next week will only be 10s. Bd. per
quarter ; and it is anticipated, from the present state of the
markets and the prospects, that it will be reduced to Gs. Bcl.
per quarter, which will be only a remove of two stages from
the lowest amount of duty on the importation of foreign
wheat—namely, ls. per quarter. This circumstance has
tended to strengthen the opinion that we shall have a fur-
ther reduction in the continental exchanges.
The pressure for money, both on the Stock Exchange
and the Commercial Market, appears to have considerably
increased, and is becoming the object of much attention in
the monetary circles. This demand for money is, however,
supposed not to arise so much from actual scarcity as from
the desire of capitalists to hedge themselves from the con-
sequences of the influence of coming events upon the Money
Market. Another cause for this scarcity has arisen out of
the late demand for stock, which being borrowed at a very
low tentage, and now that the contago has been consider-
ably advanced, has caused much money stock to be thrown
upon the market, and a consequent reduction in the quo-
tations of Consols. It is also stated that one or two most
eminent capitalists have declined to make advances on any
description of stock whatever, under the present aspect
of our Colonial and Foreign political relations.

POST.—At the Stock Exchange, so great was the pres-
sure for money this morning that the difference between
the money price of Consols and that for the opening was
as much as a per cent., a circumstance quite unusual for a
very long time past. A pretty considerable amount of
stock was realised for account of the Scotch Banks, in an-
ticipation, we suppose, of an increased demand for money,
arising from a renewed importation of grain, of which there
seems to be so strong an indication.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1838.

MAItYLEBOIVE.

CUTTING AN I AIMING:— Yesterclay Charlotte Ken,p-
Loa, a woman of repulsive aspect, and Bofjanzin Payne.
one of the principal vocalists at the Marylebone Theatre,
were placed at the bar before Mr. Hoskins, the former
charged with having cut and wounded several persons with
a knife, and the latter with having endeavoured to rescue
her from the custody of the police.
Mr. Edmund Easy, a master baker, of No. 3'2, Maryle-
bone-lane, appeared upon a warrant obtained against him
by the first-named prisoner, charged with having forcibly
turned her out of the possession of a green-grocer's
shop, No. 37, William-street, Lisson-grove, of which he
is the landlord, and which gave rise to the outrage with
the knife.

Police Constable Healy saw the prisoner nourishing a
knife, a crowd of persons co-operating with the woman, who
cut right and left. He himself did not escape unscathed.
The knife, covered with blood, was produced.
Payne's statement was to the effect that, hearing a dis-
turbance, he ran to assist the constable, when the female
prisoner with one blow laid his lip open with the knife,
with the second she nearly severed his ear from his head,
and a third cut had almost taken off the top of his finger.
He was covered with blood from the wounds dealt by the
prisoner, who fought like a perfect fury. He was imme-
diately set at liberty.
A young man named Stanley also deposed to having
been stabbed in the hand by the prisoner.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that her husband was
in Whitecross-street Prison, and Mr. Easy, the landlord,
taking advantage of this circumstance, had on the previous
day turned her family, consisting of four small children,
out of the house, while she was gone to this office to ob-
tain the warrant against him for an assault committed upon
her on Monday.
Mr. Easy, in answer to the charge, denied that he had
used any harshness to the prisoner. He had received no
rent for the house the last fifteen months, and he had tried
his utmost endeavours to get the prisoner's husband out of
prison. In return for this kindness she on Monday flew
at him like a tigress, and bit the top of his finger nearly
off, and in making other attacks she fell to the ground,
and then charged him with assaulting her. He now thought
it time to get rid of her, which he had done in the gentlest
way possible.

Mr. HOSKINS said that though Mr. Easy might not have
obtained possession in the strictly legal way, nothing could
justify the prisoner in the ferocious use she had made of
the knife. She was therefore locked up in default of bail,
and her children were taken to the workhouse.
The warrant against Mr. Easy was dismissed.

QUEEN.SQUARE.
DARING ROBBERY.—William Thomas was finally exa-
mined upon a charge of assaulting and robbing en elderly
man named Samuel How, in the King's Arms public-house,
Orchard-street, Westminster.

Mr. North, a builder, in Wood-street, Westminster,
stated that he employed the prosecutor, who bore an excel-
lent character. Witness paid him his wages, amounting to
305., on Saturday night.

At the first examination of the prisoner, neither the land-
lord of the house nor his servant appeared, though they
had been desired to do so by the police. A summons was
accordingly issued, compelling their attendance yesterday.
The prisoner,_ who denied having taken the money, was
committed to Newgate for trial.

Mr. GREGORIE also held Mary Lee, the servant girl, to
bail for the a,sault upon the prosecutor. He the❑ desired
the landlord to stand forward, and observed that he might
rest satisfied that a house like his, which he had recently
learned was a common resort for thieves, should be made
the subject of inquiry in another quarter.

NITROUS OXIDE, OR LAUGHING GAS.—The
extraordinary powers of this gas were last week exemplified
at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the persons of some of the
students. The gas was pressed out of a gasometer into a
bladder provided with a pipe and cock. The question
then was who would try it ; for, although all desired to see
its effects, no one wised to be the first to feel them. At
length the gentleman who prepared it put the pipe into his
mouth, and closing his nostrils, inhaled a cordial out of the
bladder. No mountain dew was ever so potent. In an in-
stant he was twirling round the yard like a dervish in an en-
thusiasm, and laughing as obstreperously as if the spirit of
all Joe Miller's jokes had been discharged upon him at once.
The sight was irresistible upon the circle. Grave professors,
merry students, and apprehensive spectators, burst into a
general cachinnation, laughing at the man in the middle,
and at the odd faces they respectively made, until the
venerable halls resounded, and even the grim skeletons
seemed once more shaking their sides in sympathetic
glee. When this brief fit was over (for the effect of the
gas soon terminates), a muscular young fellow stepped for-
ward to be helped to the second bumper. A copious
draught was accordingly squeezed out of the bladder into
his mouth. In an instanthis face was as burnished as a new
copper kettle, and off he darted, overturning, men and
tables with equal impetuosity, until he made his way into
one of the amphitheatres, where he commenced the ex-
ordium of a Pindaric speech, and stopped, looking quite
bashful as he was commencing the third sentence. The
next volunteer entertained the honourable company with a
galopade in the style of a dray-horse about the court-yard.
Upon a succession of demonstrators it acted differently, ay-
ccrding to their tempers and constitutions ; but one steady
looking student swallowed double as much as any other,
and still he remained as indifferent as the bladder from
which he had imbibed it. Nitrous oxide is the compound
containing the smallest quantity of oxygen. It was disco-
vered by Dr. Priestley in 1772, and by him denominated
" dephlogisticated air." It consists of one volume of
oxygen and two of azote, and is produced by heating nitrate
of ammonia in a glass retort. Most substances burn in
it with far greater energy than in the atmosphere. Sir
Humphrey Davy discovered its intoxicating qualities in
1799. It is colourless, sweetish, and of slightly agreeable
odour.

GREECE.—The actual inhabitants of Greece are,
at the present moment, more heavily taxed and more dis-
contented than when under the dominion of the Turks.
Among the misleaders of mankind in this matter, and him-
self a sufferer by his own inexperience, was the great poet
Lord Byron. It appears invidious to diminish, by the
statement of actual facts, the interest which his works have
given to the East ; for, perhaps, a stronger one is hardly
elicited even by the perusal of the ancient writers, than by
the exquisite portraitures of " Childe Harold," and his de-
lightful Turkish Tales ; but prejudice must yield to truth ;
had he occupied himself only in writing, he would probably
have lived lonstor to amuse and instruct the world. It is
said that he took into his service, soon after arriving in
Greece, a band of Arnauts or Suliots, on whose shores he
had been some years before shipwrecked, and from whose
tribes he had received hospitality ; and that these creatures
took his money, abused his kindness, and menaced him when
he resisted their unjust demands ; and that their intimida-
tion elicited the fatal symptoms of the disease which caused
his death. He perished with the conviction of having been
duped, and with the misery of knowing that the instruments
of the revolution he had aided were worthless and migrate
ful. It is to this day doubted by many whether the Greeks
will eventually form a united empire, or whether faction
will not destroy what the combined powers of Europe have
been labouring to bring together and consolidate.—The
Shores of the Mediterranean, by Frank Hall Standish, Esq.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT DUNDEE.—About
half-past ten o'clock on Saturday forenoon a melancholy
and fatal accident occurred at the extensive power-loom
factory presently erected at the Dens, by which two work-
men lost their lives, and two others were dreadfully in-
jured. The circumstances under which the accident took
place are as follow :—lt appears that a range of arches
were in progress of erection, two of which were completed.
The arch immediately adjacent to these two was building,
and about three-fourths completed. In the absence of the
foreman of the masons, David Livie, wright, gave orders,
a short time before the accident took place, for the re-
moval of the wooden supports from the two completed
arches, which was done, against the opinion of some of
the other workmen. In consequence of this rash removal,
the pressure of these arches on the one partially completed
became in a short time so great as to force down the
abutment or separating wall, and on this happening the
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Livie, who had given the order for the premature removal
of the wooden supports, was also crushed to death. He
was under one of the finished arches at the moment of
their falling. A portion of the mason work had fallen on
him and stunned him, when a brother workman, perceiving
his danger, sprung forward and seized him by the arm, to
pull him out ; but his feet being entangled among the
stones, and the man perceiving that the rest of the arch
was falling on Livie, relaxed his grasp, and barely escaped
being killed himself. This was a bold action, and deserves
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SHIPWRECKS IN PLYMOUTH

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PLYMOUTH, NOY. 28, 1838.—Plymouth is now suffer-
ing from one of the heaviest gales which has occurred for
many years. It has blown hard from East and South-East
for several days, and a great number of vessels bound up
Channel have taken shelter in the Sound. On Sunday the
gale commenced, and many of the ships ran up into
Hamoaze and Catwater for more secur, shelter. A, long
as the wind continued easterly, but little danger w,s ap-
prehended ; but this morning it. veered round to South-
West, and has blown with terrific violence all day, bringing
in a very heavy rolling sea. About nine o'clock the
schooner Commerce attempted to cross the Sound, and
missed stays just under the citadel. Her anchors were
immediately thrown out, and she brought up close to the
rocks. For about three hours she rode out the gale, but
as the wind and sea rose with the tide she began to drag
and at noon she struck, and was immediately thrown on her
bpam-ends ; the crew were rescued by ropes thrown from
the rocks above, but a little boy who was amongst the
spectators was unfortunately blown from a rock into the
sea, and perished. The vessel went to pieces in two hours,
and-her spars are scattered along the shore in every direc-
tion. She was in ballast.

About two o'clock P.M., the French brigantine Co/osso,
Capt. P. F. Blanchett, from Dunkirk, bound to Bordeaux,
put into this port for shelter. The Captain, who had
never been in Plymouth before, attempted to bring up
between Drake's Island and the Floe, but his anchors
would not hold, and in a few minutes she drove upon th e
rocks at the Mill Bay Quarries, within ten yards of the
quay, where the men were at work. The mate jumped from
the vessel on to a rock, but before he could reach the
shore a heavy sea..-swept him away, and he was
drowned before any assistance could be rendered, the
brig fell over on her broadside, and the Captain and craw
were driven to the tops, from whence they were taken by
a boat from the revenue cutter Harpy, the crew of which
put out at the imminent risk of their lives, and succeeded in
the most gallant manner in reaching the wreck. Her cargo,
consisting of oil, coffee, and linen, has been coming ashore
all the afternoon, and it is supposed she will be beaten to
pieces by the morning ; she is a fine copper-bottomed ves-
sel, and it is a melancholy sight to see the progress of de-
struction, and the shore strewed with barrels, bales, and
boxes, broken spars and timbers, and parts of the rigging.
A vessel in Bovisand Bay, has cut away her foremast, and
great fears are entertained of much further damage if the
gale continues unabated through the night. A boat con-
taining two watermen and a gentleman, was swamped off
the Dockyard this morning, and all were drowned. The
Ihconstant, which arrived with Lord Durham, yesterday
morning, at two o'clock, lies near the Breakwater, and is
riding the gale out well. His Lordship has not yet landed,
owing to the heavy sea running in the Sound, nor will it be
possible whilst the weather continues as it is.