The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

KENT HOP INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE.—The weather of the past week has still
continued very unfavourable to the bines, most of which
are still reluctant to shoot out their burrs into hop.
There appears to be much inequality, not only in diffe-
rent grounds, but even amongst the bines in the same
grounds. We have seen a branch of hops, some of which
were two'inches long, from the ground of Mr. Matthews,
of Farleigh, and other grounds may be seen where in
several acres it is difficult to find a hop. The mould is
rather on the increase. Yesterday was a fine day, con-
siderably warmer than the previous ones. The night
also appeared more genial, and as the moon changed last
night at half-past nine o'clock, a " run" of better weather
is anticipated.
BRENCLILEY.—Our hops are looking very unkindly.
The incessant rains combined with cold nights have so
much retarded their progress, that it is feared in many
grounds they will not grow out to perfection.
HORSMONDEN.—The hops, in the middle of the past
week, fared very bad, standing quite still from Tuesday
till Friday evening. Since that, the weather being
warmer, they have grown out in most grounds middling
well. Unless we have more sun, and less wind and rain,
a fair crap cannot be obtained.
MEREWORTII AND WATERINGBURY.—The hops are
generally spoken of as growing very slowly, in conse-
quence of. the cold nights and damp weather, and most
persons express themselves against a full crop. The
wet has done some damage to the burr, in the strong
grounds, by rotting the strig of the hop asunder. At
the annual hop dinner at the King's Head, Water-
ingbury, on 'Wednesday, the 11th instant, there were
between fortyg
r individualacnl
sd: e
rsfi fat
nyf
odr pitaheeretsoosrwns s,e
sweepstakes
aeoks
neensnt
naming
Inv
Bng4s
oi:ft consisting
dutylibyof
eachl iop
average of the. Statements was between 143,000L'and
144,000L—Maidstone Gazette.

LAUNCH OF THE TRAFALGAR.—CURIOUS
COINCIDENCE.—It is worthy of notice, that amongst the
persons on board the Trafalgar when that vessel was
recently launched at Woolwich, was a gentleman named
Chasteneuf, who has for a long time resided in Wool-
wich as a professor of the French language. This
gentleman, at an early period of life, entered into the
French naval service, and was at the battle of Trafalgar,
being then a midshipman on board a seventy-four,
named Le Duketroim. This vessel escaped after the ac-
tion, but was captured a few weeks afterwards, off Cape
Finisterre, by (we believe) Sir George Strong. Mon-
sieur Chasteneuf was taken prisoner, and subsequently
becoming naturalized, settled in England, where he has
since resided.
WELLINGTON FESTIVAL.—S 0 it seems the
tradesmen to whom large balances have been due for the
last two years for food and trappings for this mighty
affair, are being paid up their arrears. The publicans who
supplied the dinner were last week squared off ; and
as tar as Dover is concerned, 300/. more, or thereabouts,
will settle the whole concern. The cash so far has been
raised by the Committees in the respective ports after
a good deal of delay, and the disbursement of some-
thing " pretty considerable" in law expenses; but had
it not been for these forcible measures, the tradesmen
might have gone whistle for their accounts. The
arrears that have lain-over for this length of time, in-
cluding costs, amounted to 1,000/., 6301. of which fell
to the share of the Dover Committee. During the last
week a begging circular has been sent from door to -door
in Dover, calling on the inhabitants and visitors to come
forward with their mite, " to aid in liquidating the seri-
ous sum of 6301." What a compliment is this to the Noble
.Duke ! How high in his estimation must the Tories of
those parts stand, seeing that after inviting him to a ban-
quet they must go a begging to pay the piper. Had the
Dover Tories wanted 6,000/. to expend in bribery, it
could easily have been raised without an appeal to the
inhabitants; could they not have managed to have
scraped together GOO/. to pay this shabby score without
making a public exposure of themselves ! This transac-
tion altogether is a disgrace to the Cinque Ports, and we
sincerely regret that a man like the Duke of Wellington
should have been so insulted by these sycophants. lie
would have paid' the expenses ten times over rather than
have seen such exhibitions in Tory newspapers.
MORMONISAL—This new-(angled swindle will
we hope now receive its death-blow in this neighbour-
hood. We have just seen the wife of a small farmer who

MORNING SUN

sailed with her husband and six children last February
from Liverpool: They, and about 100 others, landed at
New Orleans, went several hundred miles up the country,
past St. Louis, and arrived safe at the " promised land,"
—the New Jerusalem—on the Ist of May last ;r. three;
week's residence was sufficient to let them into the
and they arrived safe back in the old country al

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fortnight ago. They had frequent communicatiom_
while on the banks of the Mississippi with the renowned
prophet, Joe Smith, and his brother impostors, who took
every means in their power to get hold of our informants'
money, by offering to sell them large plots of land, take
them into partnership, &c. &c., but the Gloucestershire
yeoman was proof against their wiles, and used his little
capital in bringing his family back again. What most
staggered the faith of the party was, that this great pro-
phet, Mr. Joseph Smith, could not show them the
" plates of gold" on which it was pretended the Book of
Mormon was written ; Jocy evaded the tjuestion by say
ing the angel merely showed them to him, and after he
had taken a fair copy, took them back again !—Cheitea-
ham Journal.

TORY GOVERNMENT:—In the Annual Rc-
gister for 1830, we have the following picture of the state
of things which prevailed over more than one-third of
Englan when the Tories went out of office, and handed
over the government of the empire to the Whig::, after
have been in power well nigh fifty years Night
after night new conflagrations were lighted up by bands
of incendiaries ; corn-stacks, barns, farm-buildings, and
live stock were indiscriminately consumed. Bolder
bands attacked mills and demolished machinery. All
protection for property seemed to be at an end. Bands
of rioters pillaged and destroyed during the day, and as
soon as night fell in, simultaneous conflagrations, start-
ing up in different quarters, spread over the country con-
sternation and dismay. The military force in the dis-
turbed districts was daily increased ; and prcelamations
were issued, offering rewards of 500/. for the apprehen-
sion and conviction of my person engaged in wilful
fire4aisings ; and a Special Commission was ordered to
proceed into the counties where the outrages were com-
mitted."

An editor of a newspaper in a rural district a
some importance, ventured to write an article on the
Corn-laws, and to suggest the propriety of snaking some
alteration in them, inasmuch as the present laws had
been tried and found wanting. lie had also the temerity
to say, that he thought a small fixed duty would have the
probable advantage of preventing the great fluctuations
in the prices, so ruinous to the farming tenantry, &.c.
This heretical article produced a most extraordinary sen-
sation. The landed proprietors met in consultation, and
determined on summary punishment ; and after many
abortive arguments it was at length decided that the
editor should be informed that unless he wrote an article
praising the present Corn-laws, and deprecating the doc-
trines advocated in his " alarming and wicited article"
of the past week, they would not only cease to take his
paper, but use their interest to deter their neighbours,
and induce them to follow -their advice and example.
This was conclusive ; the poor scribe wrote another ar-
ticle, praising the starvation laws as the most profound
monuments of human legislation • and thus he satisfied
his many masters, who declared that if he had not given
an antidote to neutralise the poison he had so iniudi-
cionsly spurted out, hewould have lost five hundred sub-
scribers Such is the conduct of the Corn-law mono-
polist:.

TAGLIONI AND THE DOG-STEALER.-Ma-
demoiselle Taglioni has a beautiful dog of King Charles's
breed, to which she is ;greatly attached. This pet was
stolen a few days after her late arrival in London. She
did not, of course, fail to put immediately an advertise-
ment into the newspapers, offeringa rewardof five pounds
to whomsoever should bring the dog back to her, at No.
10, Pall-mall. Next day a man called, and said
that the dog was found ; that it was in the pos-
session of a man living in the City, and that it
would be returned on payment of the afore7rlcl re-
ward. Taglioni gladly handed the five pounds to a
servant of the house, who followed the man, and re-
turned with a dog which was not Taglioni's. As the
animal had been delivered up to him in a distant street,
the servant said that he should be unable to discorer the
individual he had given the money to. Next day another
fellow called on Taglioni and declared that her real dog
was foimd. On this occasion Taglioni of course declined
parting with her money before she saw the dog. It was
produced, and proved to be her favourite. On her ask-
ing the reason why she had been made to pay for two
dogs, the thief coolly replied, that having observed that
on her way to the Opera House rehearsals she regularly
gave a shilling to an old man who swept a cruising, he
had concluded that so charitable and liberal a lady could
easily afford to pay for two dogs instead of one.2—Paris
Paper.

The veracity of the following remarkable in-
stance of longevity may be readily observed by any per-
son who chooses to consult the parish register of St.
Leonard, Shoreditch :—"Thomas Carn died the 28th of
January, 1588, at the astonishing age of 207 years. He
was born in the reign of Richard 11., 1381, and lived in
the reigns of twelve Kings and Queens ; namely, Rich-
ard 11., Henry IV., V., and VI., Edward IV. and V.,
Richard 111., Henry VII. and V111.,-Edward VI., Mary,
and Elizabeth.

SNUFFERS NOT EXTINGUISHERS.—in the
parish of D—, a small party of rural friends were en-
joying themselves one afternoon over a bowl of reeking
Glenlivet in the village inn. Daylight had failed to
" toom the stoup to friendship's growth," and as the
candle burned dimly with a gradually augmenting top,
it was discovered that the usual appliances ?ur remedying
the evil had been forgotten.: The bell was rung, and
the little girl who acted as waiter, ordered, in a face-
tious tone, to " bring ben a pair o' the auldest snuffers
she could find." "A pair o' the auldest snuffers," quoth
the lassie to herself, as she closed the door of the apart-
ment, in considerable perplexity and astonishment at
the demand. But
.woman's wit is generally "fa' ready,"
and she did not hesitate long in doubt. Aft€r a few
minutes passed in a hasty excursion through the village,
the girl returned, accompanied by two well-known se'o-
tuagenarians, whom sbe ushered into the presence of tfie
company as "the twa auldest snuffers that she kent of
in the haill parish 1" The burst of laughter with which
the announcement was received, in some measure discon-
certed the worthy pair of snuff-takers, who had been led
to believe that they were wanted to speak on some press-
ing business in the inn. An explanation, however, and
an invitation to join in the conviviality of the party,
speedilyeled to mutual feelings of merriment.—Corres-
pondent of the Ayr Observer.
AN AFFLICTED FAMILY.—It has seldom
fallen to our lot to record a more afflicting and melan-
choly case than we are about to present to our readers.
About two months since a fine young man, only seven-
teen years of age, son of Mr. Thomas Cardinal], reliev-
ing officer at Halsted, in this county, was taken with
malignant fever, and in three weeks died ; the father,
who had been ill for a short time previous, died just a
fortnight after the son was buried; another son, aged ten,
died with the same disorder as his brother. A widow is
now left totally unprovided for, with five children at
home, one of whom, the eldest son, it is feared, is fast
sinking, with that slow but fatal disease, consumption.—
Essex Herald.

Jupiter and a countryman were walking together
conversing with great freedom end familiarity, upon the
subject of heaven and earth. The countryman listened
with attention and acquiescence, while Jupiter strove
only to convince him ; but happening to hint a doubt,
Jupiter turned hastily round, and threatened him with
his thunder. " Ah, ha !" says the countryman, " 110 n•,
Jupiter, I know that you arc wrong ; you're always
wrong when you appeal to your thunder."
DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—PROPOSED EMIR
ORATION.—On Tuesday a meeting of the unemployed
operatives was held in the Philosophical Hall, Paisley,
Mr. William Morrison in the chair, to consider the ex-
pediency of emigrating to Port Philip or Sydney, free
passages having been offered to eligihle,
.Clyde
by
c
the bounty ships, to sail from the !)(1 in Sep-
tember and October, provided the parties can obtain
Resolutions
ofi adopted, to the
clothing for the voyage.
and throughout the country nufactures of Paisley,
effect that in the embarrassed state tie trade and
gene-
rally,=-
without a prospect of employment, it wait better
ehnedreentlaboonur
laabtouhro,meand
of the above-mentioned colonic where tEer. is
for the operatives
.to transferd their industry to one
dependent iR
better rewarded a great
of others ;—and that the meeting use every
to obtain free passages by the bounty ships on
the
exe
tcwiltbetrrtif.tOrrne the Ist of September, the period beyond which
demandl thibarn
certificates cannot be received. It was farther resolved,
that as the unfortunate operatives were not provided with
the clothing necessary for the conditions of emigration, an
appeal be made to her Majesty, to Lord Melbourne,
and the other Members of the Cabinet, as well as
the wealthy of the land in general, for pecuniary
assistance, in the hope that they will regard their
attempt to lift themselves from a state of poverty
and dependence to one in which they can earn an
honest subsistence, as praiseworthy and deserving of alp:
port. The lowest computation of the sum necessary for
the outfit of each person is 41. per head, and reckoning
the uumberfor each ship 250, it will require 1,0001. for
each vessel that sails. It is hoped that the cure of
these distressed but industrious men will meet with sym-
pathy in the hearts of their wealthy countrymen, as well
as in the high quarters to which they are about to
appeal.
_ _ _

--The Address in the Commons on the Royal
Speech will, it is reported, be moved, or seconded, by
Mr. M. Phillips, one of the Members for Manchester.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OP THE GANGES.—
Every thing is strange to him ; groves of palm-trees
meet his eye on every hand ; he sees the foot-prints of
the tiger upon the mud deposited. by the last high tide ;
jackalls meet him on his walk, and hardly move out of
his track ; and monkeys mimic the cries of dying inno-
cence iii the adjoining copse ; he sees the alligator bask-
ing upon the sand-bank like a log of wood; vultures
and adjutants flapping each other with their wings, as
they float by hun rafted on a ded&l-lindoo ; vampire-
bats skim silently through the evening air in search
of prey ; fire-flies glimmer and gyrate among the blos-
som-laden forest trees ; his car is -assailed and stun-
ned by the noise, the buzz, and'hhm, and hiss, and
clatter of ten thousand insects. Ihe native tomtom
sounds from the bazaar of a neighbouring village. The
houses are mere wigwams, shrouded, in most luxuriant
vegetation. The people are almost naked, or clothed in
muslin robes, with silver rings upon their ankles and
their arms, their fingers and their toes, and golden orna-
ments in their ears and their noses. lie is agreeably
surprised to find them so fair ; and more so to find
them more handsome and with more regular and finer-
turned features than his own countrymen ; graceful in
their gait, easy and polite in their' manners, and in their
intercourse highly polished and civilized ; speaking- an
unknown language, and yet making' themselves under-
stood ; kneeling in prayer along the highways, regard-
less of the turmoil around them, or pouring. out libations
. into the sacred stream.—Dr. Anosh's 4redical Advice
to the Indian Stranger.

MORNING SUN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—After an election which the Tories
one and all assure us was a deliberate verdict of the
country against the Whig Ministry, against the free-
trade budget, and in favour of Conservative principles,
what possible objection can they have to commit them-
selves, by a debate and division, to the cause which, ac-
cording to their version of the matter, has just obtained
a signal triumph ? If it be true that a decided majority
of the nation prefer the measures and policy of Sir Robert
Peel to those of Lord John Russell, what possible harm
can result from a proceeding, the only effect of which
can be to place these measures and policy on a clear,
definite, and unmistakeable footing. And yet, that
very serious detriment to their cause is apprehended
by the Tories from anything which compels them to
speak out and unmask, is apparent from the anger they
feel at the idea of any allusion in the Speech from the
Throne to the great questions of commercial and finan-
cial policy, which from henceforth must constitute the
broad line of distinction between the two great parties.
It is ridiculous to affect astonishment that Ministers
should think of adopting. such a course. It is perfectly
apparent to every man of common sense that the con-
duct of Sir Robert Peel has left no other alternative.
To use his own favourite simile, is not the patient
entitled to demand from the new physician whom he
proposes to call in, some general statement of the
practice he intends to pursue ? That no such state-
ment was before the country at the late election is
apparent enough from this fact, that upon the vital
and all-important question of the Corn-laws one-
half of the Conservative party openly profess their hope
and expectation that Sir Robert Peel intends to do some-
thing ; the other half that he intends to do nothing. Is
the country, in the present critical aspect of the com-
mercial world and of the harvest, to be left in this state
of uncertainty until February, or whenever it suits Sir
R. Peel to make up his mind ? Not upon the present
advisers of the Crown will such a responsibility rest.
They, at least, have made up their minds ; they, at least,
have no motive for concealment. They have no wish to
prolong their official existence—no wish to avoid the ob-
vious consequence of the late election—no wish to try a
second dissolution, or any of the absurd coups d'etat
which are so ridiculously imputed to them. But this
they do wish, that the interests of the country should not
be sacrificed to the juggle which was played of at the last
election.
POST.—We find in the Globe of last night what we
suppose we must regard as an authoritative intimation,
that the questions raised in the last Parliament by the
Ministerial budget will be raised once more in the pre-
sent Parliament by her Majesty's Speech on the opening,
of the session. Such an intimation was scarcely re-
quired. In the position which Ministers have thought
fit to assume, no other course was open to them. They
have assumed that position with a full consciousness
of all its inconveniences, and all its disloyalty, and all its
ignominy and shame. And they are not mee, when
matters of such slight importance as injury to the State
and to the Sovereign alone are conceived, to shrink
from the maintenance of their position. Mr.
Baring's budget, rejected by Parliament, rejected
by the people at a general election, taken for
the express and avowed purpose of collecting the na-
tional sentiment in respect to that Budget, is now, it
seems, to be—consecrated ? Alas, no ! but exposed to
more certain destruction and exaggerated ignominy by
being re-echoed at the dictation of disloyal and perfi-
dious Ministers from the Royal lips of the youthful
Majesty of England. We need not ask the people of
England—we need not ask the Members of the New
House of Commons—whether Queen Victoria will have
been placed in her rightful position of dignity and honour
when her present Ministers shall have presented her to
the British public as the successor in debate, the corps
rk reserve, the rear-guard of Mr. Baring, the defeated
Whig-Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose schemes of
finance Parliament and the whole British Empire have
already rejected with scorn and indignation. Upon this
subject there can only be one opinion.
ADVERTISER.—The wealth of the English clergy
is among the secret things that belong to the Church, for
notwithstanding that we have various Parliamentary re-
turns, and reports of Royal Commissions, the public is
• almost as much in the dark as to the real amount of the
Ecclesiastical revenues, as they are of those of the Celes-
tial Empire. The great bulk of the Church's reve-
nues is drawn from tithes ; but there are, in addi-
tion, many other sources from which it derives its
wealth. The Church is in almost exclusive possession of
the revenues of charitable foundations. The clergy hold
the professorships, fellowships, tutorships, and mas-
terships of the Universities and public schools. Immense
landed property is attached to the several sees, cathe-
drals, and collegiate churches. The clergy have also a
very considerable income from glebe lands, surplice fees,
preacherships in the Royal chapels, lectureships, town
assessments, Easter offerings, rents of pews in the new
churches, stipends of chapels of ease, chaplainships in the
army and navy, as also to embassies, corporate bodies,
and commercial companies ; church-rates, marriage,
christening, and burial fees ; besides which they
monopolise nearly all profitable offices in public institu-
tions, as trustees, librarians, secretaries, and so forth.
It is no doubt within the recollection of our readers,
that in consequence of the various statements that
had for some years been current, relative to the in-
come of the beneficed clergy-, and the strong feeling
ultimately created in the public mind, as to the inordinate
amount of that income, whether as compared with the
incomes of other professional classes, or with the services
rendered by its possessors, an ecclesiastical commission
was created in 1831, the ostensible object of which was
to institute "a full and correct inquiry respecting the
revenues and patronage belonging to the several archi-
episcopal and episcopal sees in England and Wales, and
to all cathedral and collegate churches, and to all eccle-
siastical benefices, &c., with or without cure of souls,
and the patrons thereof ;" but the real object of which
was to make out a case for the beneficed clergy, by a
series of the most atrocious frauds, including the sup-
pression of truth, and the mis-statement of facts, ever
yet brought under public notice and reprobation.
GLOBE.—The incoming Government is in a cleft
stick. It cannot go on in the old track ; and cannot
strike into any new path, without demolishing the slid-
ing scale, and adopting a moderate fixed duty. If by
any jugglery, in the shape of a loan, or any similar ex-
psellent for meeting the exigency, the proximate Pre-
mier endeavour to obviate the necessity of grappling
with the monster-evil, the parent of the numerous pro-
geny of woes which are stalking through/he land, spread-
ing distress and disaffection among the people—the event
will be &audio. with yet more effectual destruction to
the monopoly thus sought to be continued. At the pre-
sej moment the country would be content with the fixed
di4es on importation contained in the propositions of the
present Government. If the evils inflicted by the pre-
sent scale be allowed to continue, the nation, roused as it
is into action by the continually accumulating mischiefs
and miseries it inflicts, will rise in its demands, like the
bearer of' the Sybiline books, and finally take as large a
draught of justice and retribution as their position shall
enable them to command.
STANDARD.—The Globe of last evening confirms
the general impression that Ministers intend that the
Speech from the Throne on the opening of Parliament
shall raise the question of the Budget. It all but avows
the fact, that the measures which have already been
rejected by the Parliament and the country are
to be reproduced in her Majesty's Speech. The
Queen will not, we are told, change her advisers
on the verdict of the late House of Commons,
but on the decision of that which is about to,
meet. Having taken the sense of Parliament on their
measures they repudiate its verdict, because they profess
to disbelieve that it is in accordance with the sense of
the nation. They dissolve, with the intimation that if
the country should ratify the opinion of the House of
Commons they will retire. Their appeal to the people
is answered by a majority of from eighty to ninety
against them ; but, instead of fulfilling their
promise, they propose to refer the issue a second
time to the decision of Parliament ; and the
..leveennini
of such
of a co
theurse is thus vindicated by
.the
Organ Government :-" Sue,ing minis.
tern to be on their trial before ppc
country, and
that the first jury has been objected to, is the condemna-
tion to be passed before the verdict is taken ?" The
cases are by no means 'Analogous. Ministers, having
admitted the comp•Aency- of the jury by which they
have been tried, have been found guilty. They have
appealed to the
.people as a court of cassation, for the
reversal of the judgment, and have had it confirmed
in a manner which can admit of no mistake. The
declarations of the jurors are before them, but, unable
to deny their conviction of the offences imputed to them,
the, pretend an unwillingness to submit themselves to
their verdict until they have ascertained the exact
slumber by whom their appeal has been rejected. They
cannot, forsooth, be legally cognizant of their position
until it has been formally announced to them by the
tribuestl whose opinion they have already rejected !
COURIER.—When the late Parliament had shown
by repeated decisions that it had withdrawn its coral-
,
'ilence from the Melbourne Ministry, they advised her
Majesty to appeal to the sense of her people, artfully
impressing her Majesty's mind with the ;lotion
*that the
effixt of that appeal would be
sentence passed upon them ; t tlie reversing of the
when they read in the
election returns a tee eible 'confirmation
audacious sltof that verdict,
her
they then had ',"ne
Mtsty 13:; representing, her as anxiousya disloyalty
to libel
and if
Yvt annul, that appeal, and retain as Ministers those
whose measures and policy the nation has so decisively
and significantly condemned. There is in this attempt
of itself sufficient to disgust the loyal and sober-think-
ing portion of the community; but its inherent offensive-
ness is greatly enhanced by the air of impertinent famili-
arity with which the organs of the discarded and doomed
MirAstry presume to speak of her Majesty's feelings and
-wishes, and of the manner in which she is likely to
act towards her future Cabinet. To prejudice her Ma-
jesty's character, as a constitutional Sovereign, in the
estimation of her people—to place her in a position
of antagonism with her Parliament, would appear to
be the sole end and aim of their present factious
proceedings. It is for this purpose, their con-
fidants tell us, that her Majesty's Speech from the
throne will be degraded to the level and perverted to
the purpose of an Anti-Corn-law manifesto, and that it
will be made the vehicle of opinions and principles
which the House of Commons, as representing the na-
tional mint, must necessarily condemn, which every
man in the community, and the natian itself, has al-
ready repudiated and condemned. We will not ask what
ca n Justisfy, because it is altogether unjustifiable, but
we may ask what can palliate such a violation of the
t 0.414.1 and so gross an abuse of the facilities of the respon-
atblK -advisers of the Crown, as the supposition involves.
Yerediztet
.ethweourludm\ovurong conviction, did we affect to
chargesdis-
c them with the in-
tentiott, of making
raising a discussion oenQtren's Speech an occasion for
anduf oi ft s thereby
future
incalculably increasing tlLe°r?l4
adjustment, as well as Placing her Nplaesti in the un-
seemly dilemma of being apparently ojose to thatss-
sem of policy, upon which will be founded her futire ad.

ministration. But their knavish tricks will be frus-
trated, as the good sense and constitutional spirit of the
people will teach them to distinguish accurately between
the framers and the deliverer of the Royal Speech, and to
reflect, whatever be its contents, that in reality it can
only be considered as the expression of the sentiments
and opinions of its concoctors.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
POST.—An apprehension is expressed by our con-
temporaries lest the importation of grain should be con-
tinued to an extent that might once more have the effect
of distressing the Bank for gold. It is by some assumed
that the quantity to be expected is a million quarters,
which, at the average price of 50s. a quarter, would
stand the country in the sum of two millions and a half
sterling. By others it is considered, in consequence of
the constant rains we have had, that nearly two million
quarters will have to be imported, and that orders for
something like that quantity have been sent to the Con-
tinent. It is known by the average returns published of
the liabilities and assets of the Bank that the amount of
specie at this time in the coffers of the corporation
cannot exceed six millions, and the most prudent
management on the part of the Directors is at so critical
a moment declared therefore to be imperatively called for,
impressed with the conviction that every quarter of
wheat imported must be paid for in hard cash, and this
within so short a period, that is to say immediately
upon the termination of the continental harvests, that,
without a most circumspect and provident Administra-
tion, the coffers of the Bank must inevitably be drained
of their last sovereign before the end of the year.
Opinions coming from writers so enlightened, and so
well affected towards the institutions of the country,
namely, writers whose views are identified with the
masterly financial policy of the present Government,
are doubtless entitled to the most respectful atten-
tion. They feel that the Bank of England cannot
reasonably expect, after the offence given by Lord
Palmerston to the Thiers section of the French nation,
to obtain any further temporary metallic accommo-
dation from the Bank of France. They think they
have reason to fear,. too, that the supplies of gold and
silver from the mines of the western world will, from
some unexplained cause or another, be just now less
abundant than they have been; nor do we know that any
well-grounded argument can be opposed to the general
force of their conclusions. The Russian, Prussian, Aus-
trian, Belgian, Dutch, Neapolitan, and other loans have
given occasion in former years for the transmission to
this country of considerable sums of money for the pay-
ment of the Dividend Coupons falling periodically- due.
`Whether these remittances are about to be suspended,
as those which should come with equal regularity from
Spain, Portugal, and the Spanish American States have
been, or not, we are unable positively to say, but
we rather think not. If, however, the infor-
mation we receive from some of the more eminent
foreign banking-houses in the City is to be be-
lieved, the capitalists of the Continent are, at the
present time, investing considerable sums of money
in the solvent Securities circulating in the London
market. This, admitting the fact to be as stated, will
tend to diminish the acknowledged responsibilities of the
Bank of England. To receive payment for the cargoes
of wheat sent to the British ports, in good and valid
foreign Bonds, is at once a safe and convenient mode of
exchange to resort to on the part of the shippers. The
continued demand for railway material for continental
purposes, seems also calculated to relieve, to a certain ex-
tent, the anticipated pressure upon our stores of bullion ;
and to the exportation of the coarser articles in question,
it is not impossible that some amount may be added in the
shape of coals, hardware, Manchester goods, &c. Of the
latter, indeed, our Contemporaries themselves allow that a
quantity has gone to the Continent of late on consignment,
and, though on consignment it be, the effect of such ex-
portations will be the same, so far as the Bank is con-
cerned, as if the property were shipped to order. Of
the feelings by which the directors of the Bank of France
are actuated towards the Bank of England, we have no
precise means of ascertaining. It is not usual, however,
for political misunderstandings between Minister and
Minister to enter very deeply into the arrangements of
purely commercial bodies ; so that, were the Bank
of England greatly distressed for a million or
two of gold, we do not think it altogether impos-
sible that the Bank of France might be disposed,
and even glad to advance it on the unquestionable
guarantee of the dead weight annuity or Exchequer
Bills. But assuming that there should be any
demur on the part of the Bank of France, it is
to be recollected that there are other banks on the Con-
tinent abounding in treasure, even to an inconvenient
excess, with which a drawing account might be opened.
Some of these banks may become candidates for the
preference. An interest of three or four per cent. on
their usually inactive reserves of metal would add an
acceptable amount to their ordinary profits ; and upon
the whole, taking things in the least encouraging point of
view, we do not think there is any just cause for abso-
lute despondency. The state of the weather is happily
improving, and, from all accounts, little or no wheat has
been laid ; nor should we be justified in saying that the
difficulties with which the Bank is threatened are, to
our minds, anything like so imminent as those difficulties
have been represented to be.

XECUTION OF JOHN SELF, THE
MURDERER OF JEMIMA STIMPSON.
(From the Norwich Times, Aug. 14.)
Public justice has been executed this day, in accord-
ance with the laws of nature as well as of every civilised
community, on the perpetrator of the atrocious murder
of a young and unoffending girl. We have heard some
declare that such was the ignorance and stupidity of the
criminal, that he was hardly an object of punishment,
and his confession proves him to have been less conscious
of the horrible degree of his guilt than most murderers.
After he had taken unwarrantable liberties with the girl,
he was extremely concerned lest she should report his
conduct, and it was to avoid the shame and consequences
of this exposure that he destroyed his unfortunate victim.
HIS CONDUCT IN PRISON.
From the time of his conviction, Self was unceasingly
attended by the ministers of religion, by the chaplain of
the Castle, and the curate. Their admonitions and exhor-
tations drew the confession from him, which has been
already published, and perhaps prematurely,—for, how-
ever public curiosity may be gratified, the particulars of
a confession ought not to be madeknown till after the ex-
ecution of a criminal. His confession is very important, the
evidence of his guilt being circumstantial and presump-
tive, and, though sufficiently conclusive to convict him,
not clear and decisive. His conduct was indicative of
penitence to the last. He was duly impressed with the
enormity of the crime he had committed, and manifested
a desire to make his peace with that Judge before whom
he would shortly appear.
At an early hour numbers began to assemble on the
Castle-hill, among whom were many persons from Heth-
ersett, Wymondham, and the adjacent country. The
hill being covered with stock, the confusion was very
great, and for some time there was a total suspension of
business. As usual at such public exhibitions, all sorts
of abandoned characters collected opposite the Castle.
gate, and showed that they enjoyed the spectacle rather
than being awed by it. All seemed to join, however, in
execration of the criminal.
The parents and friends of Self have visited him dur-
ing the week, to whom he is said to have expressed great
penitence and contrition. It is hardly necessary to state
that his honest parents are very deeply distressed
through the heavy guilt of their wretched son. It is not
usual previous to an execution in Norwich to trouble
the criminal with many questions. No person is al-
lowed to speak to him except the officers of justice, and
they only what is absolutely necessary.
THE EXECUTION.
Precisely as the clock struck 12 the murderer emerged
from the prison door, accompanied by the chaplain and the
usual officers. He had an officer on each side, but did not
seer to require any support, but walked to the drop, a dis-
" Lance of about 30 yards, with a firm step and demeanour.
When he mounted the drop he had a person holding each
arm, the chaplain and governor of the gaol being also on the
scaffold. The instant he mounted, the executioner turned
the prisoner's back to the multitude, and put the cap over
his eyes. The murderer appeared to stand very firm. The
rope was quickly adjusted, and the fall seemed to us to be
unusually long ; the drop fell, and, to all appearance, he
died without a struggle. The multitude made no de-
monstration of excited feelings, but conducted them-
selves with a decorum we have seldom witnessed. 'The
execution was conducted with rapidity. How the pri-
soner had spent the night previous to his execution we
could not ascertain
nor with what fortitude he awaited
his end. After eleven o'clock the crowd greatly in-
creased, but did not equal that of last year.
The scaffold was erected near the top of the bridge,
the sarao as last year. Formerly it was placed against
the lodge. 31any were of opinion that an execution
ought not to take place on a market day, as it interrupted
business ; and the dealers looked on callously till the
awful punishment was completed, and then resumed their
business with increased activity. Mr. Gidney's large
room was completely filled with gentlemen, who wit-
nessed the execution, without expressing the least com-
miseration for the criminal.
When the prisoner was brought out, all was breathless
silence. The hill was covered with a dense multitude of
human beings, all looking eagerly towards thea jufasttaed, a
cold tremor in-
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seemedf
to run through
justice, and, when ropethe
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crowd, and a
feeling that the wretched man deserved his fate. Thus
ended the career of John Self, who, previous to the crime
for which he suffered, had borne a comparatively good
character.

NEW LINE OP TELEGRAPH FROM LONDON
TO DOVER.—A new line of telegraph from Dover to Loa_
don is now in rapid progress. A telegraph is erecting
fop the purpose on the top of the shot-manufactory, at
Topping's Wharf, in Tooley-street, Southwark, which
will be the London terminus. Another station on Forest
Hill, Peckham Rye, is nearly completed ; others on ele-
vated spots throughout the line, at Knockholt Beeches,
Wrotham, Blue Bell-hill, Chatham, Isle of Sheppy,
Whitstable, Herne Bay, Minster, Broadstairs, Deal, and
Dover, will be finished in a short time, and in about two
months the whole line from Dover to London will be in
active operation. The code of signals to be used are
those of Lieutenant Barnard Watson, R.N., and this te-
legraph will be similar to that established between Holy-
head and London, which has been working upwards of
fourteen years. The establishment of such a line of com-
munication will be of the greatest advantage to the mer-
cantile world.

VAUXHALL GARDENS.—NearIy 7,000 per-
sons paid for admission to the Gardens on Thursday, to
.the great annoyance, as it would appear, of the
waiters. One of them has sent us a letter complaining
that he lost one pound rn the occasion, owing to
the strict and severe rules of the purveyors to the
visitors. Everything, he says, must be paid for before
taken from the bar, and where there is a call for more
bread or beer, or wine, and he runs to fetch it, the cold
fowls or the guests are flown, but the money is not re-
turned. •