The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-06 00:00:00

feast.

[NEW TIMES.]
We have more than once bad occasion to no-
tice the two Newspapers set up, by the Mecha-
nics, the Artizans, or (to speak more elegantly)
the Operatives. They are both filled with vile
trash ; and as might have been expected, they
deal in the most disgusting abuse of each other.
One of th:ln almost insinuates what ought not to
be listened to but in a Court of Justice. The other,
with a just indignation, repels this base malignity,
but what does he say next ? With cold-blooded se-
riousness, be actually suggests that poor persons,
who cannot maintain their children, should be
allowed to strangle them as soon as born! Or if this
should be thought too harsh a proceeding, that
the parents should at least be permitted to sell
their children ! Th.se are your patrons of the
poor—your friends of the human race ! Some-
what comically the author of this execrable stuff
talks, a few lines lower down, of " staking his
literary reputation." The stake, to be sure, is
too small, to contend about ; but the point on
which it is ventured is, if possible, still more
insignificant : it relates to the philosophy of a
tailor who has scribbled sonic observations
on Mr. Huskisson's speech. This Knight of
the Shears, we understand, is also a sage of
the Pmtlophonic school. lie, or one of his dis-
ciples, was lately expatiating on the utility of
slaughtering all the infants that might be born
between- this and the year 1830. " The only
objection," said the orator, " that I can see to
the plan is, that it might produce, in many in-
stances, a milk-fever among the mothers." " Not
at all," replied one of his auditors drily, " the
calves of the country might bp employed to draw
off the superfluous fluid, and
,you would no doubt
lend your assistance with the rest."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The depression of the Money-Market seems
fast wearing away ; the atmosphere of the Stock
Exchange, which has foronany days past been
so gloomy, has again brightened, and the " busy
hum" of speculation is nearly as audible as ever.
This proves that the causes which created that
depretsion were, in their nature temporary.—
Among other causes has been assigned that of
the Bank restricting suddenly the amount of
its discounts. We, however, doubt if the late
depression arose out of any such operation. We
are inclined to refer it—although not excltr-
sively—to a very different origin. The ex-
pected remittances from the continent have not
arrived, in many instances; with the regularity
that was expected. Great mercantile houses have
consequently been, many of them, embarrassed
for the moment, to meet the engagements to
which those remittances have been'appropriated.
This must, of necessity, have created a tempo.
rary embarrassment, and thrown the parties upon
resources which would tend to create, if not a
scarcity of money, at least, that pressure for
immediate accommodation, which, in its, effect,
is equivalent. As the foreign remittances arrive
the face of things improves, the elasticity
being restored by the removal of the pressure.
This we think sufficient of itself to account
for the recent fluctuations, without having
recourse to any athey solution. That the ext.
gency we have adverted to might bring more bills
to the Bank to be discounted than might appear
to the Directors to be legitimate mercantile pa-
per, we can readily conceive; but that the Bank,
either now or at any time, would limit its issues
to an amount less than the public occasions re-
quirk!, is what no man who reflects at all can be-
lieve ; on the other hand, it is clear that the
Directors would soon increase their issues to a
ruinous excess if they measured their accommo-
dation by the demand, without due regard to the
solidity of the parties applying for it.