The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 25, 1847.

We were ♦ery nrAcrately supplied with mqlt, ; never-

trade w.F. , , Park.ol,
mostly disposed ot, at late r.ttes ; but the middling and
inferior qualities were quite ls. per quarter cheaper.
Notwithstanding the quantity of Oats brought forward
was trifling, compared with that on show during many
preceding weeks, the Oat trade was in a sluggish
state, but we can report no alteration in value.
Beans, though the supply was small, moved
off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Super-
fine white Peas, which were scarce, commanded
full prices, but all other kinds were the turn lower. In
Indian Corn, Mval, and Rye Flour very few sales took
place. The Flour trade was heavy, and the quotations
had a downward tendency. The top price of the best
town made was 46s per 2801bs, and of foreign 27s per
1961b5.

CURRENCY PEE IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier.• .• .. 645 to 65s
Red. ........ 458 to 51s Oats—Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 535 98s Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 248
Norfolk and Lin- Potato .... 278 2ss
coin, Red..... 44s 48s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White.. •• .. 50s 52s Black. •• • ... 19s 22s
Irish, Red.. —•• .. —s —s Cork, White .•• .. 22s 27s
Ditto, White .... .. —s —5 Scotch, Feed. •• .. 22s 24s
Bye—Old .......... —s s Beans—Tick .•. • • .... 37s 46s
New. —•• • • ...... 34s 36s Pigeons . .• 465 45s
Barley—Grinding. •• .. 253 305 Peas—Grey .. •••• • • • • 44s 47s
Malting .•••• . . • • 323 34s Maple. ••••• • . • • • 443 478
Chevalier •• • • ... 36s 37s White .••••• • - • • . —s —8
Slalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 49s 538
folk ••• • • • ...... 60s 63s Flour—Town-mule ••• 41s 468
Brown ...... ..... 59s 62s Suffolk ..... ••• • • 36s Os
Kingston and Ware 63s 64s Stocktn & Norfolk 36s 408
SMITZEPIELD.

The following is a statement of the imports of foreign
stock into London, during the past week :
From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves.
Nieu Diep
* Rotterdam l6l ... 524
Harlingen
Antwerp — ...
Hamburgh
Hjerting
Tonningen

- 139
8 ... 15

Total 661 ... 2,571
* Pigs, 11. t 10. 25
At Hull, Newcastle, &c., about 1,600 head of each kind
of stock have been landed, chiefly from Hamburgh and
Rotterdam. In addition to the above-noticed out-port
arrivals, 160 head of Beasts were landed at South-
ampton on Saturday from Spain, in good condition.
The whole were on offer here, this morning, and were
disposed of at prices varying from 91. to 191. each. The
supply of Dutch and German stock was, comparatively
sp'aking, small, viz., about 200 Oxen and Cows, 900
Sheep, 30 Calves, and 20 Pigs. The quality was again
very interior, yet a fair clearance was effected at fully
last week's quotations. The disease in the Spanish
Merino Sheep, to which we alluded a short time since,
was scarcely perceptible to-day ; but we regret to learn
that it has extended itself in some of our large flock
districts. The Bullock droves from our various grazing
districts were again on the decrease, and of very in-
ferior quality. The attendance of buyers being good,
the Beef trade was somewhat brisk, at an advance in the
quotations paid on Monday last of from 2d to 4d per
8 lbs. The very primest Scots sold as high as 5s per
Blbs ; but the more general top currencies of Beef were
from 4s 8d to 4s 10d per Blbs, and at which nearly the
whole of the supply was cleared off. From the northern
grazing districts we received about 1,510 short horns ;
from the eastern, western, and midland counties, 700
Herefords, runts, Devons, Irish Beasts, &c. ; from other
parts of England, 700 of various breeds ; and from Scot-
land, 190 horned and polled Scots The numbers of
Sheep were somewhat larger than those exhibited on
this day se'nnight ; nevertheless the Mutton trade was
active, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last
week's figures. There was a very steady sale fur
Calves, the supply of which was small, and late rotes
were well supported. Prime small Porkers moved off
freely ; other Pigs slowly, at but little alteration in
prices. The supply was seasonably good.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to v. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts..... 3 4 310 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
Second quality ••• 4 0 4 2 Coarse-vroolled ditto 4 2 4 4
['rime large Oxen.. 4 4 4 6 Southdown Wether 4 6 4
Prime Scots 4 8 410 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Large Hogs 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto 4 6 4 8 Small Porkers •• .. 4 8 5 2
Suckling Calves —lB 0 28 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep . 3 8 4 0 Lambs •• . • ...... 0 0 0 0
SUPPLY AT M/...REET.
Beasts. I S`mel:t. I Calves. 1 Pigs.
3,629 25,080 106 1 355
rasIX7G.O.TE AND simaDrarmax.L.
Fair average supplies of country-killed Meat have
been received up to these markets during the past week,
but the quality has turned out very inferior. With meat
slaughtered in London, we have been tolerably well,
but not to say heavily supplied. Prime Beef; Mutton,
Veal, and Pork, have commanded a steady sale, at very
full prices. Otherwise the demand must be considered
heavy, at late rates. About I,sooi:head of foreign.
slaughtered in the metropolis, have been disposed of.
The quality has been wretchedly bad.
At per atone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
•• •• 2 6 2 3 Mutton, inferior 3 6 3 8
middling •••• 2 10 3 2 middling.. 310 4 2
priine large .. 3 2 3 4, prime .•.. 4 4 4 8
prime small .. 3 5 3 8 Pork, 1arge........ 4 0 4 8
Veal •• • •
Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH AND SPXTA.LPIELDS.
Fair average supplies of Potatoes, including about
100 tons from abroad, have arrived at the water side
during the past week. By railway the receipts have
been tolerably extensive. On the whole the demand is
somewhat inactive, on the following terms : York
Regents, 100 s to 110 s; ditto Shaws, 90s to 100 s ; Kent
Kidneys, 100 s to 105 s ; ditto Regents, 95s to 100 s ;
Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Regents, 90s to 100 s ;
ditto Shaves, 90s to 100 s ; Essex Whites, 100 s to 105 s;
ditto Reds, 95s to 100 s; Dutch, 85s to 903 per ton.j
DON.OUGII HOP rnaur.ET.
The Duty upon some of the minor districts has been
already declared at 7,7501 13s 101—the old being 4,244/
14s 4d, the new 3,1371 7s 10fid, and the additional five
cent 3681 lls 6d ; but, of course, this forms no crite-
rion of the total amount, and we regard this partial
issue as calculated to do very little service to the trade
generally. New Hops are still very dull, although, from
the present low prices, there appears rather more dispo-
sition to purchase, and the quotations are with difficulty
supported. Old Hops are amending ; duty 190,0001.
New Hops—Sussex Pockets, 3/ to 3l 6s; Weald of Kent
do, 31 lOs to 41; Mid and East Kent do, 41 to Si lOs
per cwt.

8 ... 185

were brought up several times, and received a
lezlient pllnlshment: r,,tcarl of transpor!-ati9n, were

Z:1; 1;1;_ir confirereent th:ln they re-
peated the offence. With every disposition to act
leniently the parties charged with the administration
of justice found it necessary to inflict severe punish-
ment, and by so doing they in many cases subjected
themselves to. public animadversion most unjustly,
because when they saw the same parties coming up
session after session charged with the same offence, it
became the duty of the Court to inflict more serious
punishment. The practice of picking pockets was
one carried on as a trade or profession by gangs who
went from place to place for the purpose of robbing
parties whom they suspected of being possessed of
money or other valuables. It was necessary to
punish severely so serious a crime. There was one
case of sending threatening letters. By an Act
passed in the last session that crime was made
punishable by the application of public flogging. The
act was a most dastardly one, and the alteration in
the Act with respect to it was a most salutary one.
There was one other charge against a person for
keeping in his house gunpowder and fireworks. The
keeping of that article beyond a certain quantity was
punishable, both by statute and common law, and if
the jury were satisfied that danger would result from
keeping such articles in such quantities as the pri-
soner was charged with it, would be their duty in
that case to return a true bill against the prisoner.
He would not detain them any longer, but dismiss
them at once to the discharge of their most im-
portant duties.

gether. The femalo prisoner acknowledged to him
that she hail taken the money. The num 5,1(1 he

knesv nothillg w}:atew,r of' t-7e 7:nattr.
Mr. YARDLEY said the evidence against Murphy
was not sufficiently strong, and he must be dis-
charged. The woman, Shee, he should commit to
take her trial for the felony.

THE CURRENCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If you consider the cause of the currency
question would be served by the publication of the
tollowing letter by the father of the late Premier, it
would gratify some of your readers in this locality
by seeing it inserted in your valuable paper.
Grantham, Oct. am23S, C. M.
ir,
ay7o.ur obedient servant,

TO THE MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—Will you permit an
old man to address you on the subject of our cur-
rency ? I sat in Parliament thirty years, during
which time I frequently heard this important question
discussed by Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and other distinguished
characters. On the passing of the Bank Restriction
Act, I was entrusted by the merchants and citizens
of London to present their petition against the mea-
sure. Though my opinions were embodied in their
case, my best endeavours to serve them were not suc-
successful. Having been long and extensively en-
gaged in commercial dealings, I often witnessed a
national embarrassment arising from a defective and
impure currency, which resembled the pre-
sent stagnation in trade, and I lament to
observe that suffering and experience have failed, in
this instance, of producing their usual good effects.
In the enlarged scale of business carried on by this
country, embracing a great variety of pursuits, a
reliance on a metallic circulation ever did, and ever
will, fail us. Gold, though in itself massy, often
disappears in consequence of war or speculation—
nay, the breath of rumour itself is sufficient to
disperse it. Our domestic concerns are interrupted,
and confidence lost, for want of an
ample and ap-
proved medium of traffic.
I am no friend to an unrestrained issue of paper
money, and saw with concern, in the absence of a
due quantity of specie, notes admitted into circulation
issued by persons of respectability possessing pro-
perty, but evidently unable to meet a sudden and
large demand upon them. More than two years ago
I mentioned to a friend high in his Majesty's Coun-
cils my fears of the mischief likely to ensue if this
practice were not discontinued, accompanied with a
suggestion to confine future issues of paper money,
or tokens, to the the Bank of England, and other com-
petent bodies of men, who would give security in land,
the public funds, canals, buildings, or other tangible
property, amounting at least to half the value of their
bills or notes in circulation. My proposition was
not favoured with any notice, yet had it been
adopted I am of opinion that most of the panic and
distress now so severely felt in the nation would
have been avoided. If such an improvement in the
banking system could be made available gold would
become less requisite, and the country would be sup-
plied with a stationary medium of exchange originating
with ourselves.

Whilst directing the energies o
f the State in war,
Mr. Pitt evinced equal abilityin discovering, im-
proving, and applying ourinternal resources. The
war drained the country of At specie, and our ene-
mies entertained sanguine hopes that our ruin would
sooner be effected by want of pecuniary means, than
the want of courage, discipline, and conduct in our
armies. Mr. Pitt was more than a match for our
contingencies. With the aid of the Bank of Eng-
land and other opulent houses, the energies of Great
Britain were maintained in full activity, and the im-
portance and utility of paper money
introduced
clearly estab-
lished. Ingenious machines were into our
manufactures, and the encouragement and protection
afforded them, greatly increased the demand for our
goods both at home and abroad. Our superiority at
sea gain our merchants easy access to foreign
markets, and the wealth derived from trade and com-
merce (though to some persons it may appear para-
doxical) more than covered the whole expenses of the
war; when the Minister had recourse to loans they
were speedily raised by British capitalists, and the
increases of the public debt was due from ourselves to
ourselves, and resolved itself into a family account
without impairing the national property. Mr. Pitt,
having succeeded in securing peace. and independence
to the empire, whilst devoting his sole attention to
the affairs of the public, suffered his own to be very
much embarrassed. Many of his friends wished to
extricate him from his difficulties, and requested me
to learn from Mr. Rose in what way we could best
relieve him. His reply was—" Mr. Pitt is the most
unaccountable of men, and would prefer living in a
garret to being indebted to the bounty of his friends."
Though disappointed, the opinion I had long enter-
tained of this able Minister's high character was not
diminished.

The present panic and distress in the country have
been declared by high authority to proceed from
" overtrading" and " wild speculation." Infant
nations and establishments are liable to miscarry from
want of experience and solidity. Trading and spe-
culation being natives of this island, and parents of
our wealth and independence, are surely exempt from
such an imputation. The same authority has de•
dared that " gold and paper money are incompatible
with each other, and cannot exist together:' The
population and trade of the empire having much in-
creased, a proportionate increase in the medium of
circulation is called for, and when gold is found in-
sufficient recourse must be had to paper, which, if im-
proved on the principle already suggested, the two
substances would be found in the same market with-
out disunion.

Anxious to see our situation ameliorated, I trust
the currency may be mended without changing or
impairing the national character, which measure, if
resorted to, would resemble the policy of diverting
from its course a powerful river that has long given
felicity and happiness to a large district, merely be-
cause from excessive rains it had sometimes exceeded
its natural limits, and produced partial injury.
I am, my Lords and Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
ROBERT PEEL.
Drayton Manor, March 8, 1826.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--In your " Bow-street Report." my name is
associated with that of Humphreys who was on
Thursday last remanded on a charge Of stealing some
paintings from my employers, the Messrs. Acker-
mann, 96, Strand.

As such report may leave an unfavourable impres-
sion on the minds of the public, I beg you will do me
the favour to give publicity to the circumstance
that the only evidence against me (if such it be
called)j was the unfounded, improbable, and villanous
assertion of Humphreys, that I had employed him to
dispose of the paintings.
My employers and the magistrate had sufficient
discrimination to entirely exonerate me from the
charge, and placed it on Humphreys, at whose lodg-
ings some prints were found, and who is remanded ;
whilst I have been re-admitted to my former position
in the respected house of Messrs. Ackermann and Co.
Soliciting your early notice, I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Oct. 23, 1847.
JAMES ROCHE.

SIRS I have been much
.ter, has
iv.o:ebOriFstieT,./itbEe
bSaUrrNis
pleased at reading in your
been making among the overseers and vestry-clerks
journalTOtheTilliaEvocEDMl:
of different parishes as to their charges for the regis-
tration of voters. So far I consider he has done his
duty manfully ; but unless the same laudable, praise-
worthy exertions are rigidly enforced by the public
auditors of unions and parishes, all Mr. M`Christie's
exertions will amount to nothing, for NN hat he has the
power to do is merely lopping off a few of the
branches of corruption, which will sprout out again
in different directions with greater vigour, under
different heads of expenditure, Which the parish func-
tionaries before alluded to know especial well how to
cultivate, unless the public auditors arouse themselves
from the excessive lethargy they have been labouring
under from their first appointments, and lay the axe
manfully to the root of parish corruption, which they
have the authority to do if they have the will and
nerve. I have informed those who are high in official
power, over and
over again, that the board of guar-
dians of which I have the honour to be a member is
considerably tainted with the feasting fever which
leads to other irregularities. lam convinced from
many years experience that the absence of the clerks
of boards from their duties, together with parish
feasting, are the forerunners of the greater part of
parochial irregularities and unnecessary charges,
which form a very considerable item in their annual
expenditure. If the public auditors were to seriously
reflect on the duties they were appointed to perform,
and act strictly up to them, they would be a useful
body, and entitled to the thanks of the public, but as
they have hitherto acted they are worse than useless.
By passing accounts as they do, is giving sanction to,
and increasing the very evils which they were ap-
pointed to correct.
A GUARDIAN OP THE POOR.
Oct. 25, 1847.

DETENTION OF TUE OVERLAND MAIL.-011 Satur-
day notice was issued and affixed at the General Post-
office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,. that the Overland Mail,
vii/ Marseilles, for In China, Egypt, and the Medi-
terranean, was detained. Letters, &c., will be in time
this evening.
his . He
DEATH OF SIR HENRY BROMLEY lIINRICR.
We have to record the demise of this gentleman, who
exaprirloewd, in onthtehel9fitifity sixthinstan y ge
t, atear his
ofresidenace near Grewas
Marlow, at
formerly known as holding the post of Lieutenant in
the corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, and was knighted
in 1831,

THE _MONETARY PRESSURE
.PETITION TO Ii ER MAJESTY.

_ -
A palilie nl,:..ting of the bunkers' merchants, and
traders of Liverpool is about to be held, for the pur-
pose of adoptinc, the following petition to the Queen,
in the event of Ministers persisting in their refusal to
do something for the relief of the country. The Mayor
is to preside at the meeting :
" TO MEE, MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
" The humble petition of the undersigned bankers,
merchants, traders, and others, inhabitants of Li•
verpool.

" Sboweth —That your petitioners humbly beg to
represent to your Majesty the ruin with which the
commerce, manufactures, and industry of the country
are threatened—trade is paralysed, manufactures to
a great extent stopped, and the labouring classes
thrown out of employment.
" Your petitioners have in vain wished the assist-
ance of your Majesty's Ministers to restore confidence
and allay the universal alarm which prevails, and they
now venture to approach the throne with full confi-
dence in your Majesty's solicitude for the welfare of
your people, and praying that your Majesty will be
graciously pleased to summon the Legislature to meet
for the purpose of deliberating on the alarming con-
dition of the country, and devising measures for re-
storing confidence.
" Your petitioners feel assured that unless remedial
measurer be speedily adopted, the social condition of
your Majesty's subjects will be impaired to such
an extent as to jeopardise the national credit, and
lead to scenes of unheard-of calamity and disorganiza-
tion.

" The revenue of the country for customs, excise,
and income-tax is threatened with serious diminu-
tion.

" The ruin of those classes on which the labour of
the country depends must inevitably lead to lawless
means of obtaining that food which can no longer be
procured by honest industry, necessitating the ser-
vice of the military force to repress the excesses of a
mass of people driven to desperation by impending
want. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."
The intended meeting, which will be held in a day
or two is looked forward to with the deepest interest
in Liverpool.

COURT
WINDSOR, SUNDAY. --
Albc-rt took their accustomet.

and the Prince of Wales, Prince
Royal, and the Princess Alice wa.
ponies. The Princess Helena was tak
~.The unfavourable state of the weather

noon prevented her Majesty and the Roya,
from leaving the Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Ear.
Countess of NI restmoreland, and the Right Hon.
Robert and Lady Peel arrived yesterday afternoon on
a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl
and Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. Sir Ro=
bert and Lady Peel, and Miss L. Dawson Darner.
The band of the royal regiment of Horse Guards
was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's pri-
vate band afterwards attended.
Mr. H. Cole submitted to Prince Albert, on Satur-
day, various designs and models, by Messrs. Bell,
Horsley, Redgrave, and Townsend, executing for
Tamnerly's art manufactures.
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert
walked in the pleasure grounds.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
The Queen and Prinoe Albert, her Majesty's visi-
tors, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service in the
private chapel of the Castle. The lion. and Rev. C.
Leslie Courtenay officiated.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
town on Saturday, on a visit to her Royai Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence in Rich-
mond Park.

A deputation of the principal bankers of the city
of London, headed by Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an
interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downing•street. Baron Roths-
child, M.P., had also an interview with his Lordship
on Saturday.
The Earl of Cawdor and Mr. Bodkin had inter-
views with Sir George Grey on Friday at the Home-
office.

Mr. Brooke had an interview with Earl Grey, on
Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Ellis had an interview, on Saturday, with Sir
George Grey, at the Home-office.
A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. There were present Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Camp-
bell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Right lion. T. B. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours.
Viscount Palmerston let town after the meeting.