The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—lnquiry into the laws of money and the science
of exchange is not a mere ddletanti amusement :which a
man may take up and lay down just as he pleases.
The memorial quoted above shows that a barbarous
money system like the gold, as an instrument to carry
on our extended trade—a trade thrust upon us by the
necessities of an enormous population, who are beginning
to be dependent upon foreign commerce for all raw ma-
terials and food—is absurd and most injurious; and that
we must invent a scientific money if we wish such
commercial revulsions as we were witnesses to, in
this town, in the memorable October of 1847, not to
recur every three or four years, in what Mr. Jones Loyd
calls "an established cycle." We must set ourselves to
discover a sound monetary system, which, by facilitating
exchange, would render labour always available—would
supply the wants of our people—empty our shops and
warehouses—and would cause to disappear that frightful
destitution and misery, which seem such extrordinary
and unaccountable concomitants to our wonderfully ad-
vanced powers of production.
It is the WANT OF A SCIENTIFIC MONEY that shall
expand and adapt itself to our growing necessities, that
may be attributed that extraordinary spectacle which
must have struck the most thoughtless among us—a
spectacle presented to our eyes on any given day, in any
I,v,iven street, of men able to work, and willing to work,
h _wing no work to do, and in want of everything; and
the. se same streets containing rows of shops full of the
goor,'s wanted by these very men, and the proprietors list-
less be 'bind their counters, lamenting the lack of customers.
A will.lngness to produce, and an intense desire to con-
sume,
a, yet the healthy circulation stopped by enchant-
ment! Production divorced from consumption!! "Oh !
if the ins 'foible accursed nightmare, that is crushing
out the life us and our's, would take a shape—England
* * full of w ecilth—of multifarious produce, supply for
hum- n want a every kind; yet * * dying of inanition,
with unabareo‘ bounty the land of England • • waving
with ye-llow ha.evests—thick studded with workshops—
industrial implecti,ents—with fifteen millions of workers,
understood to he the strongest, the cunningest, and the
willineTst our earth ever had—with hunger, nakedness,
and misery for their reward," is owing to our present
barbarous gold mon,Ty, and to the want of a circulating
medium, which shall adjust itself, and increase with the
wealth which it is its peculiar function to circulate and
distribute.
What that scientific money shall be, I will examine
hereafter, and I eall upon your readers to help in so im-
portant an inquiry.
I can discover no principle, only clever expedient
in the letters of a London Banker.
The California discoveries demand instant exertion in
this investigation. PACTOL LIS.
Liverpool, Dec. 31, 1848.

IDOLATRY IN INDIA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUR.
have perused the letter of " An East India
Proprietor," which appeared in your paper of the 10th
inst., with much satisfaction, and shall be obliged if you
will indulge me with inserting the following remarks.
People who compare the rule of England in India with
its rule in other colonies, are apt to conclude that the
system works well, and therefore should remain undis-
turbed. In other words, that the present charter should
be renewed. It was not many days ago that a Member
of Parliament said to me " Give India to the Colonial-
office and it will be lost." The circumstances are totally
dissimilar. If India were by nature less rich than it is,
if its powers of production did not surpass those of any
country in the world, long ago it would have been a
desert. The East India Company have done their ut-
most to ruin the country, its population bas been thinned
by famine, and its revenues are well nigh exhausted;
they have changed and changed again, to find the means
of extorting more and more, till they have left but one
system, which an ordinary observer can recognise—a
system of universal poverty.
What have the East India Company done in the way
of education? what to advance the people in affairs of
government? Take Madras as an example. They have
given 5,0001. per annum to educate a country possessing
a population of twenty millions! they have established
a high school at Madras! but where will there be found
a school appointed by the Gov.irnment within the pro-
vinces?
Their Governments are composed of foreigners—not
a man of the country being permitted to take a share in
them; the only individuals can able of imparting the
knowledge essential for due government, and for the
welfare of the country, are wholly excluded! Would
this be so, if India were subject to the Colonial-office?
Is it so at the Cape of Good Hope? Is it so at Ceylon?
In which are the inhabitants or the country most fitted
by education and intellectual acquirements to be asso-
ciated with their governors?
The strength of the East India Company is the
ignorance of the people, and to maintain this has been
their constant endeavour. The East India Company
will tell you that their laws and administration of justice
have given security to life and property! " Solitudinem
faciunt, pacem appellant"—they have taken away the
incentive to theft, they have reduced the country to a
nation of paupers, and now pride themselves on the fact
that people do not steal! The calendars of the circuit
courts will show that during the past fifteen years (an
interval I speak ot from personal knowledge) the cases
in which property t a large amount has been the ques-
tion are rare indeed.
" An E ist India Proprietor" would do well to con-
' sider whether the interference of authority to establish
the Christian religion in India is not more likely to stir
up an opposition to its introduction than to aid its dis-
semination. Had the missionaries, as in former days,
been left to perform their own work, without the inter-
vention of secular authority, they would have done more
than has been accomplished.
I remain. Sir, your most obedient servant,
EAST INDIA PROPRIETOR SECUNDUS.
14th January, 1848.

THE HAGUE, JAN. 13.—CONVOCATION OP THE
NEw CHAMBERS.--His Majesty has nominated
thirty-nine members, who are to compose the First
Chamber of the States-. General, out of a list of 130
candidates submitted to his Majesty. The names are
given at length in the Staatg Courant. The number
of members returned and confirmed for the various
provinces are as follows :—West Brabant, 5 ; Guel-
derland, 5 ; South Holland, 7 ; West Holland, 6 ;
Zealand, 2 ; Utrecht, 2 ; Friesland, 3 ; Overyssel,
2 ; Groningen, 2 ; Drenthe, 1 ; Limbourg, 3.
His Majesty has also issued the following royal
decree
" We, William 11., &c., &c.
Upon the report of our Minister of the Interior,
January 10, 1849, No. 133,
" Seeing Art. ; of the Provisional Electoral Law, we
have decreed, and do decree d
" Our Minister of the Interior is charged to convoke
the Chambers of the new First and Second Chambers of
the States. General for Tuesday, thel
ne3thwofLFe
Legislative
utairvye
next, on which day the opening of the
Session will take place.
" Our Minister of the Interior is charged with the
execution of the present decree, a copy of which shall
be sent for information to the First and Second Cham-
bers of the States-General, and inserted in the official
journal.
The Hague, Jan, 11, 1849.
4, The Minister of the Interior."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Henry Albert and Henry Howard were fully com-
mitted for trial, for robbing Messrs. Wood and Co.,
of Watling-street, warehousemen, of goods. The
following are the chief facts of the evidence heard for
the prosecution. The property missed from the pre-
mises is considerable, but the present cese, which re-
lates to the plunder of 180 yards of carpeting, will
give an idea of the system to which numbers of the
largest warehousemen in London have been subjected.
Francis Shaw stated that in February he bought
1661 yards of carpeting, the patterns of which were
produced, of a person who signed the name of Isaacs
to the invoice.
Isaacs stated that he received the goo& from his
employer, Mr. Judah Jacobs.
Judah Jacobs said he imagined the carpet referred
to in the invoice was sent from his house, and that he
might have bought it, but he could not exactly say
whether he did or not. He produced his journal, in
which was an entry of a sale to Shaw on that day,
which referred to some carpets purchased of Mr.
Rimes.
Edward Rimes, of 58, Mansell-street, general
dealer, said—l recollect selling two pieces of carpet-
ing on the 15th of February last, to Mr. Jacobs. It
consisted of 156 yards. I believe the patterns pro-
duced are those I sold, but I cannot swear they are
the identical patterns, but I should say they are. I
purchased them of the prisoner Howard. The pri-
soner Albert had nothing to do with the sale. After
I had purchased it of Howard, and sold it to Mr.
Jacobs, I found it was about ten yards short in mea-
sure. When Howard called for the balance of what
was due to him, I told him of the short measure, for
which I should deduct 10s. He called on me again
in the afternoon, in company with Albert, who was
then dressed as a porter, with a piece of canvass tied
round his waist as an apron. Howard said to me, in
Albert's presence, will you tell this party how many
yards you paid me for. Albert said to me I want to
speak to you ; will you come and have something to
drink ? I said, no, I never drink with any one. He
then said, will you take any more, meaning, would I
purchase any more carpet ? I said, certainly not, and
I am sorry I bought that. From that day I have
never seen Howard tid now. I paid 9/. for the carpet.
Cross-examined—I am positive Albert is the man
who came with Howard. lam a general dealer. I
have no shop.:.,, Lhave half a large house in Mansell-
street. I deal in anything. I had not known Howard
before, but I made inquiries about him. He was
brought to me by my. brother, who is, like myself, a
Howard gaveim, and I
wentme his
address. I wishedto
general
dealer. I did not take
was only young in business.
b e sure ll
aboutw
to his address, and
found he lived there. I had sold
the carpeting when the two prisoners came to me, fort
I told 'Toward it would
91. Bs. 6d. I wish to add t
me
be sold in the trade, and he said I might show it to
he was employed to
whoever I liked. He told
rehas
sell it by a party who was in difficulti
waouseman to
Mr. Samuel Thaokrah—W es..
Messrs. Wood and Co., who said that Albert was
under him in the same employment. Knew the
patterns, and believed they were from Messrs. Wood's
house. There were two pieces of the patterns pro-
duced missing. The house had only ascertained the
loss since they received information of the robbery.
Thomas Bradley (City police) took the two priso-
ners into custody. Howard said he knew nothing
about any carpets upon being apprehended, and de-
nied having any knowledge of Rimes. He objected]
to go to limes with the witness, but was compelled
to go, and was at once identified by Rimes as the
party who had sold the carpet to him. Subsequently
Howard said that if Mr. Wood would be lenient to
wards him he would tell him all about it. No pro-
mise of the kind was made to 11,,ward, who after-
wards handed a written statement to the clerk of Mr.
Hobler, the solicitor for the prosecutor. The paper
• was read. It stated that Howard met at the Lion,

" WILLXI73I,

DISASTROUS FIRE AT A
LLERTON.-
morning the premises of Mr.
Allertori, took fire, and, before James On Sunday
the
Lowther, Pittville,
e flames could be sub-
dued, a considerable amount of property, including two
valuable horses, were totally destroyed. The alarm of
fire reached the station about half-past
pas.t three,
fi imme-
diately upon which the engines, with the r
ofe brigade,
were dispatched from Liverpool, under thedirection
thea
rn, two
Mr. Howitt. On his arrival he found that the
cottages, and several houses were on fire, and
dwell-
ing-house of Mr. Lowther was in the most imminent
danger. Fortunately, a plentiful supply of water es
procured from a neighbouring pond, and poured upon
tho flames, which were raging with great violence, in
consequence of a heavy gale blowing at the time. By
the greatest exertions on the part of the fire brigade, the
fire was eventually got under control, but not until a
barn, two cottages, and an outhouse were destroyed, with
all they contained. There were a number of horses in
one of the stables, but such was the rapidity with which
the flaes extended, that the whole of them could not be
rescuedm. Two of the animals were burnt to death.
Some of the people had a narrow escape, and one female
was obliged to make a hasty retreat almost in a state of
nudity. Mr. Lowther's house narrowly escaped being
destroyed. He was insured in the Royal Life Assurance
Company, but his loss, which at present cannot be cor-
rectly estimated, will it is feared, be very considerable.—
Liverpool Mercury.
-MONSTER COD.—There was brought ashore, by a
crew of Buckie fishermen, on Wednesday last, a
mo,aster cod, measuring in length 42 inches, in girth
304 inches, and weighing 391bs. It was presented to a
fish curer, as a Christmas present. —North British Daily
.111a2

I when' he used to go to look for a job, the prisoner
GOLD ONLY AN UNFIT INSTRU-
MENT FOR SO GREAT A TRADE AS ENG-- Albs a
br who asked him to sell a piece of carpet for
LAND'S. h that he took the carpet to Mr. Himes, who
" The present condition of trade, mannfacturesi., and b' eight it of him, and told him to mention to the
commerce is deplorable. Produce of every description h
'party who
d, at a shilling a yard; that though hadhe sent it that he was open to take all he
is only saleable in small quantities, and at an enormous liked to send,
sacrifice. Bills of Exchange and the most valuable acted thus he was as innocent as one of his babes;
sePurias are inconvertible into cash, even It that Albert was the man who employed him to sell
great depreciation except in the most in t- the goods, but where Albert got them he could not
significant amounts. Foreign orders for produce an d tell, or he would not be in such an awful situation.
goods cannot be executed, for want of the customar3r The paper concluded with praying for mercy.
facilities for disposal of bills drawn against them. Con- Mr. Henry Wood said—My warehouse is in Wat-
fidence is all but annihilated, and the currency of the ling- street, and goes to the back into and forms the
country is in a great measure withdrawn and hoarded." whole of Red Lion-court, in which court my count-
-Liverpool Memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury in
ing-house is situate. Goods which have been sold
October, 1847. were taken out in Red Lion-court, but there is an
outlet in Watling-street which cannot be seen from
the counting-house. Albert has been in my employ-
ment about a year and a quarter, as porter, and he
had charge of the warehouse in Watling-street from
twelve to one o'clock, during the time the other
porter, who usually had the charge, went to dinner.
I have seen the patterns produced—they are our pat-
terns. Our wholesale price would be 2s. 4d. a yard
for each piece. I never saw Howard on my premises.
The two pieces consisted of 185 yards, and were
worth upwards of 201.
The depositions were signed by Alderman Law-
rence, who sat for the Lord Mayor, and the prisoners
were sent to Newgate for trial.
Samuel Gll,sson, a porter in the employment of
Messrs. Brown and Sharp, of Watling-street, was
brought up under the following circumstances, and
charged with having conspired with another man, not
yet apprehended, to rob his employers.
A policeman who watched the neighbourhood of
late, so prolific in robberies, as he was going his
rounds at a quarter past thr6e o'clock yesterday
morning, saw the prisoner slam the door of the pro-
secutor's warehouse, at the corner of Bread-street,
and asked him where he was going at so unseason-
able an hour. The reply was "to Dover," and the
prisoner, on being further questioned, said he intended
to call at a coffee-shop in the neighbourhood, and
stay there till five o'clock, at which hour he would
take a cab for the Dover Railroad ; that he was go-
ing upon his own, and not the firm's business; and
that the servants in the house knew of his departure,
although his employers were not aware of it. He
had with him two bundles, one slung before the other
behind, containing, as he represented, kis own
clothes. The policeman, not believing the statement,
took the prisoner to the station-house, and gave im-
mediate notice of what had occurred to those who
were on the premises.
Mr. F. T. Tyars, of the house of Brown, Sharp,
and Co., said they had no notice of the intention of
the prisoner, who was in their employment, to leave
their service ; but they had since his apprehension as-
certained that another person, who was in their em-
ployment, had absconded, and was deficient in his
accounts. The bundles found in the prisoner's posses-
sion contained his own property, in the witness's
opinion ; but he was deficient in his petty cash
accounts.

The prisoner said, the clerk to whom Mr. Tyars
had alluded had prevailed upon him to consent to go
out of the country, and that they were to have met at
half-past five o'clock that morning, at St. Pancras
Church, and from thence to have gone by the Bir-
mingham Railroad to Liverpool. He did not think
that the clerk had gone to Liverpool, as their meeting
had been prevented.
The prisoner was remanded, and orders were issued
for the apprehension of the clerk.
We are requested to announce the receipt of the
following sums :—From the Inquest of Walbrook
Ward, 21. 4s, 6d.; from J. Campbell, Esq., 3/. ; from
James Barnes, Esq., .51., for the poor-box ; and 1/.
from J. W., for Felix Laycock.
GUILDHALL.
A young man, named Frederick Jaques, living at
49, Aflerton-street, Hoxton, was charged with being
on Blackfriars-bridge, with intent to destroy himself.
When placed at the bar, the prisoner, who appeared
in great distress of mind, burst out crying, and con-
tinued sobbing while the witnesses gave their evidence.
Henry Capsey, of No. 7, Addle-hill, Doctors'-
commons, said that about a quarter past nine o'clock
he was passing over Blackfriars-bridge, when his
wife called his attention to the prisoner, who was
stooping down in one of the recesses, with his hat off.
Witness passed on, and looked round, when he ob-
served him with his foot on the parapet; upon seeing
which, he ran back, and found him in a very excited
state, with a cord round his neck, to the other end of
which a large brick-bat was attached. He at once
took out his knife, and cut the rope from his neck ;
and on asking him why ho could contemplate so rash
an act, he burst into tears, and said, " Oh, don't ask
me." He then gave the prisoner into custody.
Robert Kennedy, 837, deposed to taking the pri-
soner into custody, and on searching him 'found a
pocketbook, containing the following letter to his
wife :

" January 11, 1849.

"My dear Wife,—l take up my pen to address a
few lines to you for the last time, as to the state of
my mind, for my heart is broken to think of my pre-
sent condition, and that when I left you had only a
small portion of dry bread, which is all we have to eat
the whole day ; and after working the whole week,
all day and half the nights, the both of us, only to
earn enough to pay the rent. Do you think I can
sit by you and see you starve ? No, I cannot ; it
would drive me mad, my dear. I have been on the
wide world now eighteen years, and never stained my
character only by this horrid deed. lam now driven
to perish by my distressed circumstances. Steal I
will not, starve I cannot, and employment I cannot
get ; so, my dear Mary, I hope you will not fret, but
pray for my soul, that it may be saved, and pray for
God to assist you through all the trials of this world.
Be upright, honest, and just to all. Pray go to your
father for protection, I know that he will see that no
harm come to you. Serve him day and night, and God
will reward you. I tried to sell the ticket for my
boots, but in vain, so I cannot bear it any longer.
Pray for my soul to be saved.
" So no more from your affectionate and broken-
hearted husband, " F. JAQUES.
" P.S. By the time you receive this your wretched
husband will be no more.

" To Mrs. M. A. Jaques, 49, Allerton-street
East, Horton New Town."

Alderman HOOPER asked the prisoner what he had
to say ?—He replied he was a cheesemonger by trade,
but had latterly set up an eel-pie. house, which had
proved a disastrous speculation, for he lost upwards of
401. in a short time, and became so reduced that he
could hardly procure a crust of bread for his wife,
and, not being able to see her starve, it had driven
him almost mad, and that induced him to act as he
had done.

It was here intimated that the prisoner's wife was
outside the court, upon which the Alderman ordered
her to be called in, when on seeing Jaques she burst into
a fit of crying, and for a length of time was unable to
answer any of the questions put to her.
Alderman HOOPER asked the prisoner how long he
had the eel-pie shop ? Jaques replied, about four
months.

Alderman Hoormt—And how long have you been
married to this young woman ? Jaques—One month
and three days.
Alderman HOOPER—OnIy one month ! Why did
you marry her when you were losing money ?
Jaques—At that time I was not going down, and I
did it as, about three years ago, I gained her affec-
tions, and wished to act honourable towards her. I
might have let the business, had not the landlord
turned me out suddenly.
Alderman Hoopmt—To say the least of it, you
acted very indiscreetly in marrying when you were
on the brink of ruin.
Jaques—But I repeat, I was not so then.
In answer to questions put by the Alderman, the
wife said that she had a mother and father living at
Whitechapel, and although they were not very
friendly towards her husband, still her mother said
she might marry if she liked. Her husband and
self were in furnished lodgings, for which they paid
3s. 6d. per week, and the first week would be due
on Tuesday (this day). She hoped the Alderman
would forgive the prisoner, and she would take him
home with her ?
Alderman HOOPER said he should not. The wife
had better go to her parents, and inform them of
what had occurred, and he should detain her husband
for a couple of days, when he would have the benefit
of seeing the surgeon of the Compter infirmary, who
would report as to bis state of mind, and also the
chaplain, who would converse with him on the' enor-
mity of rushing unbidden into the presence of his
Maker.