The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-30 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY )

Thomas George, a coachman, in the service of Sir Andrew Leith
Hay, was charged with stealing a quantli.:- of hay, the property of Mr.
Elmore, and J. Knight with receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen.
Police Constable 7 V stated, that he met the prisoner Knight yester-
day evening, in Coley-lane, Fulham. He was driving a pony and cart,
i❑ which was a quantity of hay. Witness stopped him, and asked him
where he had got it from ? and he replied that he had purchased it for
three shillings of Sir Andrew Leith Hay's coachman. He then took
Knight to Sir Andrew's residence, where he also saw the coachman,
who admitted having sold the hay. Sir Andrew said the hay was not his
property, but belonged to Mr. Elmore, of Piccadilly, of whom he jobbed
his horses. He then took them both into custody.
The Foreman in Mr. Elmore's establishment attended, and identitled
the hay, which he valued at three shillings; the greater part, however, was
refuse —The prisoners admitted the offence, and were remanded.
James Heath, a notorious young thief, was committed upon a charge
of stealing a brass candlestick from the Two Chairmen public-house,
Warwick-street, Cowper-street, the property of Mr. Malcomb, landlord
of the above house.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JAN. 99.—Wind S. S.W., moderate.—Several light colliers
from the Westward passed during the day to the Northward. The
Deal Pilot Cotter sailed this afternoon for her station off Dungeness.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29. Wind S.S. W. to S.E , fine.—Arrived none.
Sailed for London the Hope, Perfect, Dove, J. W. Collingwood, Crite-
rion, Skeen, Emsworth, Hampshire, Bognor, Rydope, Chill, Content,
and William; and the Greenwood, for Sunderland.
PrAstourn, JAN. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Peace, Byron, and
Sprightly, Newton, from St. Michael's; Iris, Gamble, from Smy'sma ;
Remy and Louise, from St. Domingo; Adelaide, Lehaire, from, Bor-
deaux ; and her Majesty's ship Lynx, from Portsmouth. Sa',:ted the
Souvenir, Carter, and Two Sisters, Thomas, for London. TIP:: Breeze,
of and from Plymouth, Toxer, for St. Michael's, was spoken ma the 10th
instant, in lat. 47. long. 8. 40.. with loss of mainmast, and, bearing IV
for this port.

FALMOUTII, JAN. 28.—Wind S.E. to S., fresh gales,—Arrived the
Furth, Penton, from Seville, with loss of jibboon and sails split;
William Gray, Gray, from Oporto; Gateshead Bark., from Gergenti ;
Ramona (steamer), King, from a cruise. Arri:ved off, Colombian.
Pritchard, from Singapore, in a very leaky stat 2; Demerara Planter,
from Demerara; Cecilia, from Manilla.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 29.—Wind S E., moderate, thick weather.—Ar-
rived the Hardware, Williams, from Porto Cabello ; Mattallesal, Deen,
from New Orleans; John Dunlop, Setfietd, from Savanna.
COWES, JAN. 29.—Arriven the Fal:;on, Middlemist, from Madeira.
WIGHT, JAN. 29.—Arrived off; the Utien, from New York.
JERSEY, JAN. 27. Arrived the Pallas, Dolbell, from Newfoundland ;
Rolla, Selkiery, from Messina.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The John Bull, from Liverpool, for the
Mediterranean, out ten days, 16th Jan. off Cape St. Vincent's, by the
Gateshead Park, which vessel reports the arrival at Gergenti, on the
Ist Jan., of the bark Adrastus, from Marseilles. The brig Star, of
London, for Malta, and Mary Ann, of Leith, for Tobago, on the 19th
Jan., in lat. 46. 20. N. lon. W. 40. W., by the Turk. The American
ship Nili, of Portland, from the Havannah, for Havre; Norway, bark,
from Alicant, for Christiansand ; bark Colombian, of Liverpool, from
Singapore,f or London, in a very leaky state, by the Ramona (steamer).

No people verify a saying of Bonaparte's more
than the French. " From the sublime to the ridiculous there
is but a step." The Lower Chamber having discussed all
the great questions of European politics in the debates on
the Address with much eloquence and ability, have been
occupied for some days in settling a little matter of do-
mestic economy—the cut of a deputy's coat. Some will
have no peculiar dress ; others will have a badge that they
may be recognised by their constituents; and others will have
the old half-court, half-police dress worn in the reigns of
Louis XVIII. and Charles X. ; and such a difference. of
opinion prevails, that the discussions on their settlements in
Africa, or the proposed subsidy to Spain, appear in comparison.
as trifles. We do many foolish things in this country, but
such puerilities as these have long ago disappeared, and
what is listened to with gravity in France would be met hero
with universal derision. Dean Swift was right when, in sati-
rical jest, he described the mighty passions excited in, the
human mind, even by disputes about eating an egg.
A new species of paper currency appears by the
American papers to have been springing up, if not generally
in the Union, in New York at least. This currency consists
of " certified checks," or checks " accepted" on presentation
at the banks, which, after such certified acceptance, pass cur-
rent from hand to hand. The holder by whom the check is
presented has the option of receiving the amount in bank bills
or notes, which of course, until the resumption of specie pay-
ments takes place, will be regarded as of no more solid value
than the certified check, being in effect no better than the
exchange of one piece of paper for another, with, so far as
the bank is concerned, the same names as security. In the case
of the check, however, there would be the additional security
of the drawer and endorsers. To such an extent had the use
of this sort of paper obtained in New York, that, it is stated,
" a great portion of the daily transactions among the banks have
been conducted on certified checks." It was calculated
that the daly amount of business represented by these checks,
was equal to 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 of dollars, and so con';e-
nient were they said to be found, that it was thought wat un-
likely, with some "improvements" upon them, they might
come to constitute a more permanent portion of the, commer-
cial currency of the city of New York. The har.iks there, it
has been shown by their monthly statements, ha,a been curtail-
ing for some time past the issues of their totea, as also had
been the case in other parts of the United States, but it
would see peViey must be materially
counteractedm to the whole or any sobiprtuhdeenctiiraclualaltii; of
consi-
derable extent of other paper in lieu of that withdrawn. It
appears that money lava been getting exeedingly scarce
through the withdrawal or diminution of the rote currency,
and to this wits attributed the increase or substitution of the
" certified checks" which, it is stated, now circulated proba-
bly to as " great an extent" as bank notes.
Considerable alarm has been created amongst our
mercantile circles connected with the African trade, by the
statements which have been put forth, announcing that a great
number of the white population had been murdered by the
b'acks, who had revolted at Cape Coast Castle. The ac-
counts have been much exaggerated, but to a great extent
we are enabled, we regret, to confirm them, by a letter, froin
which we extract the following summary ; arid as the letter
states thst the British Government are somewhat impVicated,
and that our settlements on that coast may be harzarded, it
deserves the immediate attention, of the Colonial Office. The
accounts reach to the 16th of November last, and state that
the affair took place at Elmina, in the Dutch territory, but
near to the British settlement. It appears that the Dutch
Governor of Elmina, Tonneboeyer, and six other European
efileera of the Dutch settlement, fell a sacrifice to the barba-
rity of the natives, over whom the Dutch Government have
ruled 150 years. Altogether, 40 white soldiers, 60 labour-
ers, and a 0 recruits from Batavia, besides several unarmed in-
dividuals, with the exception of three or four raade prisoners,
were slaughtered, and the blacks exhibited parts of the bodies
at the market of Tacorary. This act of dreadful revenge is
said to have arisen out of some old disputes between the na-
tives and the whites, and the infliction of a tine of 40 ounces of
gold dust upon Bonsoe, the chief of Ahanta, a district on the
coast between Axim and Sacomidee, b:; the former Dutch
Governor, Last. 'rho late Tonne2aoeyer was much blamed
for his rashness 11i this affair, the chief Bonsoe and his aid-
herenta bad, it was said, resolved to throw themselves upon
British protection, Trade was quite suspended, and the let-
ter adds, that unless the deaths of the whites arc revenged,
Cape Coast will no longer be tenable by the two European
parties. Mr. J. Hook has been appointed Governor and Com-
mander of Gambia by our Government.