The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-08 00:00:00

MARKET

HIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY.

Since this day se'nnight, up to Saturday evening, the
arrivals of all kinds of Grain, as well as Flour of home
peoducc, were on a very limited scale, even the time of
year considered. From Ireland and Scotland, the re-
ceipts were again very small, and from abroad we re-
ceived only 6,029 quarters of Wheat ; 3,967 quarters of
Barley ; 478 quarters of Beans ; 2,730 quarters of
Peas ; and 4,158 barrels of Flour ; being the smallest
importation in any one week during the whole of the
present year. Fresh up to-day, coastwise, the arrivals
of English Wheat from Kent were moderately good ;
those from Essex, Cambridgeshire, &c., small. By land
carriage very little Wheat came to hand from any
quarter. On the whole, the stands were rather scantily-
filled with samples of both red and white ; and
we have to report a steady, though not to say brisk, de-
mand for all descriptions, at prices fully equal to those
obtained on this day se'nnight, and at which a good
clearance was effected. The supply of Foreign Wheat
on show was good, but a large portion of it was of very
inferior quality. The best parcels commanded a steady
sale, at the extreme rates paid on Monday last ; but the
middling and inferior kinds were a slow inquiry, at
barely stationary prices. Superfine Malting Barley
sold freely, at full currencies. All other
kinds of Barley were dull, but not cheaper.
Notwithstanding the supply of Malt was small, that
article, especially the secondary qualities, was a slow
sale, and the quotations were with difficulty supported.
The best parcels of Oats, which were very scarce, com-
manded a ready sale, at extreme figures; and the value
of other kinds was well supported. Beans were in short
supply and moderate request, at last week's prices.
Boiling Peas were quite as dear; but other kinds were
somewhat neglected. Indian Corn and Meal were in
moderate request, and prices were well supported. Rye
Meal was a slow sale, but not cheaper. Town-made
Flour supported late rates. A good business was doing
in barrelled qualities, at our quotations.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier..
Red. .... •• • • 478 to 533 Oats— Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 55s 60s Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 21e
Norfolk and Lin- Potato • • 278 231
coin, Red... • • 46s 51s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White.... • • 628 57s 81ack....... 183 213
Irish, Red ••• • • • —s —8 Cork, White..... 218 24s
Ditto, White .. •. —s —s Scotch, Feed..... 26s 2•is
Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • —is s Beans—Tick . • 37s 468
New. ...... ••• • • • 32s 35s Pigeons •• . • 38s 45s
Barley—Grinding .. • • 258 30s Peas—Grey .... .•• • • . 443 47s
Malting . ........ 32s 33s Maple . ••• • • 44s 47s
Chevalier .... • 34s 35s White . ....• • ... 528 54r
Halt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .... • • 553 533
f01k... .. •• • . 62s 65s Flour—Town-made .•• 41s 4rs
Brown ... ... ••• • • 603 63s Suffolk ..... 368 4es
Kingston and Ware 62s 64s Stocktn & Norfolk 36s 403

SIVEITEINTE
The following is a statement of the imports of live
stock into London during the past week :
From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves.
* Rotterdam 457 ... 2,496 38 ... 110
Hamburgh
Harlingen
Nieu Diep ..... 63 ... 543
Tonningen
Total 962

•• ... ••

"...
•••

... 4,8-21 ... 38 ... 158
* Pigs, 16.
In the northern ports about 1,200 head of each kind of
stock have been landed from Holland and Germany ;
and, at Southampton, 10 Oxen from Portugal. The
quality of the above imports has been very inferior.
The supply of foreign stock here, to-day, was again
large, viz., 894 Oxen and Cows, 3,040 Sheep and Lambs,
and 68 Calves, the general quality of which, especially
that of the Dutch Sheep, was very inferior. With home-
fed Beasts we were fairly supplied, though the number
was less than that exhibited on this day week. As the
quality of this description of stock was by no means first-
rate, and the attendance of both town and country
buyers was comparatively large, the Beef trade was
somewhat active, at an advance on last week's quota-
tions of quite 2d per 81bs. The primest Scots sold freely,
at from 4s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs, and a total clearance
of the Bullock supply was effected without difficulty.
The droves from the northern grazing districts comprised
about 1,500 short horns ; from the eastern, western, and
midland districts, 900 Herefords, runts, Devons, Scots,
&c. ; from other parts of England, 750 of various breeds;
and, from Scotland, 190 horned and polled Scots. The
numbers of Sheep were about 2,000 less than those
offered on Monday last. On the whole, the Mutton
trade was firm, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond,
last week's currencies. The primest old Downs, which
were very scarce, readily produced from 4s lod to 5s
per Blbs, and very few of any breed were turned out un-
sold. Although the supply of Calves was good, the
Veal trade was firm, at Friday's advanced rates of 2d
per Blbs. There was a steady sale for Pigs, at very full
prices. Prime small Porkers produced from 5s to 5s
2d per 81bs.

Per Ribs. to sink the offal.
S. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 3 2 3 8 Second quallty ditto 4 0 4 2
•4econd quality .—3 10 4 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8
Prime large Oxen 4 2 4 6 Southdown blether 410 5 0
Prime Scots ..
Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs ...• •• 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves 2O 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs ..19 0 25 0
Inferior Sheep .. • 3 6 310 Lambs •••••• • • • • 0 0 0 0

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Sheep. Calves.
26,310 I 166
NEWGATE AND LEADENNALL.
Fair average supplies •f meat slaughtered in the
country have been received up to these markets during the
past week ; and those on offer, killed in the metropolis,
have been seasonably good, but of very middling quality.
Prime Beef has sold steadily, at full prices ; and Veal
has produced an advance of quite 2d per Blbs. All other
kinds of meat have met a very dull inquiry, on some-
what easier terms. Nearly 1,500 carcases of foreign
meat, in very inferior condition, have been on offer, and
partly disposed of at very low figures.

Roasts.
4,244

418

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Beet,lnferlor.• .. •• 2 6 2$ Mutton, inferior •• 3 4 3
- middling .... 210 3 2 middling.. 3$ 4 0
- prime large •• 3 2 3 4 prime .. •• 4 2 4 6
- prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, large.... •••• 3 10 4 6
3 i 4 8 small.. 4 8 3 2
Lamb. Os Od is Os Od.

BOROUGH HOP IYZARZET.
The total amount of Hop duty has been officially
declared as under :

a. d.

Rochester ...
Canterbury ...
Sussex ... ...
Worcester ...
Farnham . .
Small districts ...

... 98,757 6 1.
... 51 544 13 6.
... 54,968 10 5
... 1,442 5 0
... 6,957 4 9f
... 2,135 2 3

Total 215,805 2 21
The best new Hops are in fair request, at last week's
quotations. In all other kinds very little is doing.
Old and yearling Hops are nominal in value.
NEW HOPS—per cwt.

s. X. s.
Sussex Pockets 2 16 to 3 6
Weald of Kent do. ... 3 0 to 310
Mid and East Kent do. 3 3 to 5 5
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
The arrivals of Potatoes at the waterside continue on
a moderate scale ; but nearly 200 tons have come to
hand from Holland and Germany. The best qualities
are in good request, at full prices, but the middling
kinds are a slow sale.—York Regents, 90s to 120 s ;
ditto Shaws, 100 s to 105 s; Kent Regents, 100 s to 110 s;
ditto Shaves, 1003 to 105 s ; ditto Kidneys, 1053 to 110 s;
Essex Regents, 100 s to 110 s ; Cambridgeshire Regents,
90s to 1003 ; Dutch, 90s to 100 s,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8. 1847

MAGAZINES, &C. (CONTINUED).
DOUGLAS JERROLD.
The three chapters of the "Dreamer and the
Worker" continued in this number are very good—
indeed, whenever as in these chapters the Dreamer
and the Worker come into actual collision, the effect
is always excellent; but when the Dreamer appears
alone the interest is not kept up, and the story drags
heavily. " A Day i❑ the New Forest" is a well
written description of the sylvan beaaties of that dis-
graceful monument of the Norman Conquest. " No-
vember Clouds and Counsels," by Paul Bell, is, to
quote the words of the great Paul himself, " dull
enough, God wot." "And when I look over what I
have written," saith Paul, "it seems as if the fog had
got into my pen or my pen into the fog"---a proposi-
tion the truth of which we are by no means disposed
to controvert. But, if Paul Bell is dull, Silverpen is
admirable. " The Works" of John Ironshaft is the
best paper that has appeared in this magazine for
some months past. " The Carved Chests of the
Channel Islands," is an interesting description by Mr.
Hoskins of the old carved coffers of which every family
of "gentle blood" in the Channel Islands possesses
owe or more, and in which they keep their most pre-
cious archives. The antiquary will be much interested
by the earlier portion of this paper, and the lover of
romance will revel in the story of the " Carved Oak
Chest," with which the paper concludes. The poetry
of this magazine is always good, and this month is no
exception to the rule. The following, by E. L.
Chatterton, is not unworthy of the muse of Beranger
LINES

WRITTEN ON SEEING A BEGGAR KNEELING ON THE
PAVEMENT TO SOLICIT ALMS.
Why kneels't thou there, thou abject slave?
Why crouch thus low, with looks so wan?
Stand up, erect! if thou wouldst crave
Assistance flipte thy fellow man.

The Almighty Framer of this earth,
In love, with plenty made it teem;
And thou wert heir, e'en from thy birth,
Of wealth more than thou dar'st to dream,

Yes! thou—poor, humble, simple fool,—
Art joint inheritor of earth,
And yet remains't the willing tool
Of those who wrong'd thee from thy birth,
Up, like a man! assert thy right,
Nor stoop so low to be down-trod;
Ask firmly, from the hand of might,
The portion given thee by thy God.
Be dazzled not by rank's false glare,
Nor awed by each high-sounding name;
Thou art a man 'mongst men,—thy share
Of Nature's gifts then boldly claim.

But never more with downcast eye,
And body bending to the sod,
Degrade thou thus humanity,
And kneel to man as to thy God.

MURRAY'S HOME and COLONIAL LIBRARY.
Nos. XL V XLIX , L., and LL— The River
Amazon—The Wayside Cross—Manners and Customs
of India—Gleig's Washington and New Orleans.
A passion seems to have taken hold of publishers
now-a-days for the production of serial libraries.
Fortunately for the people such is the case, for in lieu
of ephemeral broadsheets they are now supplied with
valuable works—works worthy of preservation on the
bookshelf, and accessible to the million, from their
remarkable cheapness. Of this character is the
library cf Mr. Bohn, of Mr. Bogue, of Mr. Burns,
and of Mr. Bentley. Mr. Murray emulates his en-
terprising contemporaries in the present reasonably-
priced and excellent publication. Month after month
the works are issued with the utmost regularity, and
their varied contents is a sufficient augury as to the
ultimate importance of the enterprise. Travels, bio-
graphies, histories, fictions, and journals, follow each
other with agreeable diversity, and render the Home
and Colonial Library as motley in character as it is
moderate in price, and neat in general arrangement.

SHARPE'S MODERN MAPS. Parts IX. and X.
These elaborate and cheap delineations of the globe
are continued with no abatement of excellence in any
one particular. They comprise maps of " Western
Russia from the Baltic to the Euxine," " Russia on
the Euxine," " Russia on the Caucasus," and " Russia
in Europe ;"—the vastness of the dominions of the
Autocrat, and the minuteness of the annotation pecu-
liar to this serial, necessitating such a piecemeal pub-
lication.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE
THIRTY YEARS' PEACE. Pte. VII.
A beautiful engraving of a very great man—Bo-
livar—adds this month to the attractions of the con-
tinuation of the " Pictorial Hisiory of England,"
edited by Charles Knight. No. VII. closes with the
death of old George 111., on the 29th of January,
1820. As far as the work has proceeded it appears
to us to be of extraordinary importance; the facts of
this memorable period of thirty years' peace are re-
corded with admirable simplicity and with still
more admirable impartiality. The work deserves
universal encouragement.

LE FOLLET.
The same elegant engravings of the fashions—
drawn with the utmost nicety and coloured with a
fastidious and even artistic brush—decorate this little
monthly feuilton. The publication is altogether with-
out a competitor.

THE ART-UNION MONTHLY JOURNAL.
For splendour and profusion of illustration the
Art- Union still commands applause. The number
for November is not one jot inferior to any of its
predecessors, and the engravings, whether on steel,
copper, or wood, are eminently worthy of commen-
dation. The frontispiece, being a plate copied from
a picture in the possession of S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A.,
is exquisite. Ariel's song, " Come unto these yellow
Sands" is the theme; R. Huskisson is the painter ;
T. A. Prior is the engraver; E. Brain is the printer.
They have all performed their offices in its produc-
tion admirably; and Mr. Huskisson, who is, we un-
derstand, a young artist, displays in the composition
very great promise, both in conception and execution.
Mrs. S. C. Hall's charming fairy tale of love, " Mid-
summer Eve," is brought to a conclusion. The
criticisms, essays, and miscellaneous intelligence which
make up the letter-press are, as usual, characterised by
much intelligence.

Plymouth, Nov. 6, 1847.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen and
Prince Albert took their usual early walk.
The Prince of \Vales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena,
walked and rode out on ponies. In the afternoon, the
Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, drove in a pony cerriage to Frogmore
House.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Captain the Hon. A. 11. Gordon, enjoyed the sport of
shooting yesterday afternoon.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
this morning in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and of the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service in the pri-
vate chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L.
Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Rent also attended the service, the Baroness de
Speth attending on her Royal Highness.

His Excellency Suleiman Pacha, Ambassador from
the Sublime Porte, at Paris, arrived at the Turkish
Embassy, in Bryanstone-square, on Friday last, ac-
companied by his Secrete-ies, Remzi Effendi and
Mons. Antoine Fingher.
His Excellency purposes remaining a few weeks in
England.

General Rolt had an interview with Sir George
Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town on Saturday, for Hickleton Hall,
Yorkshire.

BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—Yesterday, a case of
some importance to licensed victuallers was heard before
the sitting magistrate, H. Martineau, Esq., Mayor, and
and J. James, Esq., at the public office. Amongst a
number of informations laid against parties by the in-
spector of weights and measures were three against
Thomas Blyth, of the Bull's Head, Prospect-row;
Joseph Bill, of the Dog and Partridge, Birchall-street;
and Thomas Creed, of the Black Horse, Ashted-row,
for having deficient eighth-of•a pint measures, being re •
spectively short by nine, eleven, and five drachms of the
proper contents. The case of Mr. Blyth was first gone
into, and after the information had been proved by the
inspector, Mr. Thomas Harding, who appeared to defend
Mr. Blyth, said the case was one of importance to the
licensed victuallers of Birmingham and the trade gene-
rally, as it involved the legality of a practice frequently
adopted in the town, that of having a measure for selling
fourpennyworth of brandy. It was provided by Act of
Parliament that it was illegal to sell by any measure other
than the aliquot part of a quart, when such aliquot part
was asked for by the purchaser, and the question was,
in the present case, whether a measure purporting to be
an aliquot part of a quart could be used. There was no
pretence on the part of the spirit dealers that the four-
pennyworth brandy measure was an eighth-part measure,
it was merely a matter of convenience between the
vendor and his customer. Mr. James said they had no
means of ascertaining that the public had justice done
to them unless the measures were stamped. Mr. Harding
said it would be for Mr. Way, the inspector, to prove
that they were used as eighth-part measures. The
magistrates, after consulting with their clerks for a short
time, dismissed the case.

SOLAR PHENOMENA.—Two large spots, visible in
N. dec., near the sun's western limb, one of them com-
posed of two ditto nearly united ; 2d, two large spots
two digits eastward of ditto, one of them composed of
two, and another of three, nearly united, with a smaller
one between them ; 3d, four spots in a row south of the
sun's centre, two of them further west, nearly united ;
4th, five spots two digits from the eastern climb, one of
them large, two of them eastward, nearly united, and
two smaller, nearly united ; the whole are thus spread
widely over the sun's disc.—North British Mail.

THENEW COUNIYTot---....._,_.„,„_._..............
HE CURRENCY:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. THE ESSENTIAL ERROR OF " PEELI".:
SlR,—Having frequently of late observed letters in BILL " POINTED OUT, AND A PROMPT
your columns upon matters connected with the
AND EFFIClENT REMEDY
New County Courts, I have ventured to trouble you
(The following paper has been
p elated for private
numbers of persons are compelled to endure in con-
with some remarks upon the unjust treatment which
distribution, .it .contains man y very valuable sugges-
tions :)
sequence of the short-sightedness with which the
The Currency Act of 1819, so well known as
"Peel's Bill," is founded upon the supposition "that it
Act has been framed.
Southport, the town in which I reside (a popular, is essential for money to possess intrinsic value." This
and, indeed, a populous, watering-place on the coast is assumed to be an incontrovertible axiom by Mr.
of Lancashire), although it has for some years been Huskisson in a pamphlet which he published at that
a place of considerable importance, has a great part time—Mr lithkisson's argument is supposed to have
of its public affairs (with the exception of its local ' converted the present Sir Robert Peel to the same
government) transacted at Ormskirk, a small but opinion. The assumption had popular prejudice in
ancient town, nine miles distant. At this town the its favour, and thus it was acted upon as a funda-
court for a large district, including Southport, is mental principle in what was then supposed to be the
held, and the deputy-clerk resides, practising there as final settlement of the currency question in this
an attorney on his own account, and having a kingdom. But, however true the axiom may be when
partner residing here who shares in the Southport applied to the money used between different nations,
business. At the Southport office causes be there is the'clearest evidence to prove that it is not
entered for trial, but when decided it is at then ption essential for money to possess intrinsic value when
of the deputy's deputy whether the debt and costs, used as a legal circulating medium within any indi-
or instalments, as the case may be, are paid here, or virtual nation. This will be apparent for the following
the unfortunate creditor ordered.to proceed to Orms- reasons :
kirk, it may be, to pay 2s. Gd., losing, perhaps, a Ist. That as all trade between different nations is
day's work, and being put to the expense of eighteen conducted on the principle of barter, without regard
miles traveliing. This is not all. I know of to the legal value attached to the money of each state,
one case in which an individual received an order so it„,-is obvious that the money used in such foreign
of payment at one o'clock on the day in which at
four o'clock he was obliged to be nine miles transactions is only valuable so far as it possesses in-
distant (Ormskirk), having tendered the amount at
2d. That as all dealings within any
given State are
town, which was refused by the semi-official
what is called " The County Court-office" in this
transacted in the legal money of such State, without
I have regard to its intrinsic value, so it is obviously not
named. He arrived in Ormskirk just in time, and essential that money for these legal purposes should
was there informed that the money might have been, possess intrinsic value.
and payments frequently were made at Southport, 3d. That Mr. Huskisson failed to distinguish this
but it evidently appears optional. Now, why should difference between international money and legal or
this be the case ? In addition to the expense and in- conventional money, when, in 1819, he assumed it to
convenience of attending the trial, why should per- be an indisputable maxim that
,"it is the essence of
sons be further inconvenienced by being compelled to money to possess intrinsic value." And it is believed
make their payments at Ormskirk ?
There is another feature in the Act to which I
that Sir Robert Peel committed a fatal error when
(acting upon Mr. Huskisson's instructions) he made
cannot avoid using the term abominable—l allude to
this maxim the basis of his celebrated Bill of 1819. the imprisonment of the unfortunates, and the treat-
meat they undergo. It seems to me that our law- 4th. That in opposition to the principle assumed
makers who concocted the Act laboured under the in Mr. Huskisson's maxim, the experience of this notion that all persons who refused nation shows that legal tender bank notes and Ex-
payment of sums chequer bills may possess the essential attribute of
under 20/. were rogues and vagabonds, and ought to legal money without possessing intrinsic value.
be treated as such; or that if a person was so wicked
sth. That the only attribute essential to legal or
as to be unfortunate, the sooner he is consigned to conventional money is that the State authority be
prison, and his family to the workhouse, the better. attached to it, so as to render it the medium of a legal
If this was not the cause of the clause it will most discharge of all taxes, rents, dividends, and other
certainly have the eect. When a batch of prisoners credit engagement; within the realm ; and though
cent thy neighbourhood arrive at Kirkdaie gaol, they that authority may be, and is attached to a piece of
are immediately stripped, cropped, and bathed ; they metal when duly coined, it may (as before observed)
are then clothed in prison garb, and have to pick be equally given to a piece of paper when duly signed.
oakum, without being allowed to speak to their un- 6th. That it is an error which must be fatal to the
for
companions. It may easily be imagined well-being of any nation to allow credit engements
that, amongst what I have called ~ a batch," there to exist to an almost unlimited extent, and ate the same
are persons of the moat dissipated character, there time to restrict the legal fulfilment of those engage-
are poor but honest individuals, and there are persons ments to specific pieces of coined gold, unless it could
of refined manners and keen sensibility, who have be shown that those specific pieces of coined gold can
been determined to resist some case of imposition. be called into existence to an equal extent with those
Is it reasonable that persons of such various disposi- credit engagements, which all past experience shows
tions should be thus treated, and thus compelled to is not possible ; although many nations, once great,
herd together? Is it right that honest and indus- have been ruined in the attempt to do it.
trioUs persons should be at the mercy of unfeeling 7th. That all the pecuniary difficulties which this
been intended that a
creditors or pettifogging lawyers ? Could it have
nation has experienced since the termination of the
under ten
should be creditable person,
felon rson, who owes French war, and especially those difficulties which
scoundrel, who owes hundreds, is treated with 204 treated as a , h
reswhilst a are now experienced, may, it is believed, be fairly
pect, traced to our vain attempts to make some hundreds
and chooses his apartment like a gentleman ?
of millions of credit engagements, representing all I have said that the effect of the imprisonment
sorts of commodities, solely redeemable in a few mil-
clause would be the ruin of families, and their con- lions of bank notes or. gold sovereigns; and those
signment to the workhouse. The orders for paytnent bank notes themselves, immediately redeemable solely
in pieces of stamped gold of specific weight, of which
are not always made in accordance with the means of
the defendants. Persons frequently find it impossible there are now little more than eight millions in the
to make their payments regularly ; in default they Bank coffers ; and an Act of Parliament being in
are sent to prison for perhaps twenty or thirty days, operation which virtually prevents even those eight
and their circumstances have in the meantime become millions from being made use of at those times when
worse. The imprisonment they undergo does not they are most wanted by the public.
satisfy any portion of the debt, so that they may be Bth. That the impracticability of the present
repeatedly sent back again ; and what else but ruin system has now become so manifest as to demand an
can be the consequence ?If they could not pay when immediate remedy, and it übtless desirable that
thelf went how are they to pay on their return, when such remedy should interfere d
aso little as possible with
their employment is perhaps lost, and.tbeie homes ne- existing institutions and customs.
cessarily deserted ? There may be idle, worthless In furtherance of this object it is suggested,—
characters, whose cases have been taken for the First, That the Bank of England
be authorised to
standard of the rest; but it is not right that ninety- issue bank notes to the amount of the half year's
nine innocent persons should suffer rather than one national revenue, say 25,000,0002
that is guilty should escape.
Secondly, That the directors of the Bank be re-
The plaintiffs are also aggrieved. A p
for wa nor servant-
girl, who had summoned her master quired to pay bank notes on demand in the legal gold
amounting to 155., was compelled to go to Ormskirk ges, or silver coin of the realm, as was the case in 1797,
b
to receive the amount, the case having been with- efore the Bank Restriction Act of that year was
passed.
drawn. I could multiply cases and arguments toßut past experience shows, that in times of war or
intended to be—" An Act for the more easyfamineopera- price attached to them as our legal money. This
statute-book ; but lam afraid that I have encroached was the case in 1795, when it appears by the evi-
too much upon your valuable space. deuce of the late Mr. Abraham Newland, the Bank was
Yours, &c., F. W. ROBINSON
obliged to buy gold as a metal at 4/. Bs. per oz., and Southport, Nov. 2, 1847. to part with it as a coin at the rate of 3/. 17s. 10d.
per oz. It is manifestly unjust and inexpedient to
require the Bank, under such circumstances, to part
with gold and silver in coin, at the mint price; which,
when melted, may be immediately sold to her again
as metal, at a much higher price, compelling her at
such times so to contract her issues as seriously to
cripple the internal circulation of the nation; it is
therefore suggested,—
Thirdly, That whenever, from any temporary
causes, the price of gold or silver, as metals, shall
exceed the price attached to them as coins, at such
times the directors shall be allowed to pay bank
notes, in specie, at the same price as that at which
they may be compelled to buy it. And to prevent
the possibility of the Bank trading in specie to the in-
convenience of the public, that it shall be imperative
upon the directors, at such times to offer for gold or
silver precisely the same price as that at which they
are ready to part with them.
In addition to these suggestions, it may be desir-
able to stipulate that there should be some restriction
as to the proportionate amount of silver coin to be
tendered in any one payment; for instance, in all
payments of 101. and upwards, the receiving party
might be legally authorised to object to the receipt of
silver coin for more than one-fifth of the whole pay-
ment. And in all payments of silver for 25/. and
upwards, ingots, duly assayed and stamped by the
Mint, at the rate of ss. 2d. per oz., might be adopted
as money, and they would. probably be found very
useful for foreign payments.
Any additional profit accruing to the Bank of
England from the adoption of these suggestions,
might be made a matter of commutation between that
establishment and the Government; so that, after the
Bank was fairly remunerated for the cost and respon-
sibility of managing this branch of our monetary_
system, the surplus profit might be applied in aid of
the national revenue.
Oct. 7, 1847.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
beg leave to observe that the paragraph in
your money article of yesterday, referring to a house
of navy agency in this town, is entirely destitute of
foundation, there being no such house here or in the
neighbouring towns; and it has excited a strong feel-
ing of surprise and disapprobation, that a statement
of such mischievous import should have been circu-
',ated without being duly authenticated.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
A NAVY AGENT.

CANINE SAGACIT Y.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
In Caroline-street, in the parish of St. Mary,
Lambeth, may be seen a fine specimen of the " sheep-
dog," whose sagacious powers have long attracted the
attention of the whole neighbourhood. He makes a
daily practice of parading the street, on either side, at
the several meal hours, and placing himself in front
of the windows of the houses, solicits charity (al-
though well fed by his master) at the hands of the
inmates, who fail not to supply him with "uncon-
sidered trifles," for which he return 3 thanks by a loud
bark. The stately manner with which he peram-
bulates, first on one side and then on the other, and
the correctness of the hour he waits on his numerous
benefactors, is truly surprising ; and those who may
chance not to possess a time-piece to denote the period
for dinner, or fail to hear the bells ring at the neigh-
bouring potteries for the departure of the workmen,
have only to look out at their doors, and they will as
punctually find the sagacious creature begging from
window to window for about the space of five
minutes.
This valuable animal is the property of Mr. Pep-
loe, coach builder, residing in the street before-
mentioned, and prides himself not a little by possess-
ing such a faithful and extraordinary creature, with
powers not generally found in the sheep-dog.
He takes his station at a regular hour in the coach-
yard towards evening and by his watchfulness during
the night is instrumental in protecting the valuable
property on the premises from the numerous attacks
of thieves, who, in defiance of the police, have so
long infested the district. He is well known by the
name of " Bob," and is a ;complete pet with the chil-
dren in the locality, many of whom indulge them-
selves by having a ride on his glossy back, and with
which he appears much pleased, wagging his stumpy
tail in token of approbation.

TALE or A SHIRT.—A "navvy" was apprehended
at Lincoln the other day on a charge of stealing from a
poor man a shirt, but the owner refused to prosecute.
It appeared that the two parties were in a public• house
together the other day, when one offered to the other a
shirt which ho had to sell. After the regular beating
down of price the shirt was bought for one shilling, and
the seller left the room. Shortly afterwards the pur-
chaser discovered that he had bought his own shirt,
which the pretended owner had cleverly abstracted from
his bundle and had sold to him.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
SEIZURE FOR RATES ON A RAILWAY.—On Wed-
nesday morning a novel scene took place at the Chelms-
ford Railway station—nothing less than the officers of
justice marching upon the line, warrant in hand, and
clutching with the strong arm of the law a first class
carriage in payment of the sum of 311 due for poor-rates
to the parish of Margarettino,. It seems the directors
imagined themselves aggrieved by the weight the over-
seers laid upon them, and commenced an appeal at the
last quarter Session, when it was thought the question
was in a train for decision, but they suddenly stopped
short and abandoned it. Still the cash was not forth-
coming ; nothing was therefore left for it but a little
compulsion. As the trains, however, made no stoppage
in Margaretting, but went whizzing and snorting, and
whistling on, as much as to say—" wo wish you may get
it," and as cuttings and embankments and drains and
bridges are not very saleable commodities, it was found
necessary to put the law in motion in the neighbouring
parish of Chelmsford. Accordingly a warrant was
issued, signed by Capt. Skinner, chairman of the bench;
the carriage, once laid hold of, was committed to the
safe keeping of a strong lock, the worthy
na
holding the key, and when last we heard of it certain
officials of the company were hovering round, endeavour.
ing by legal conjurations and mystic parchments to
bring it from the house of bondage to the freedom of the
e curious and interesting
rail.—LOCA/TteltnGsfoßrdEDC'sh.r_onsico/em.
on the Serpentine
piwerehammock
1 nt mo tried
ot eeskt lasttbhee d
pi week
novel
river,ov e experiments
isio.yrdt e
0.
°v‘o'rersin andattrcsl!eo buoyancy
noel vc(),fr a
yet of importance to neut. 1 p y
simple construction,
ps, and intended for lea
- eople
of the pnserva-
and passengers in shy
tion of lives at sea in cases shipwreck. Captain
Stevens and his so,n,tharned several gentlemen connected
into which the hammock-mattresses vv themselves into the carter,
with naval matters
They got hold of them
were also thrown.
themselves upon the' and found no difficulty in placing
and dry by their assistance for. a considerable time. The
oo place early in the morning to avoid a
crowd, but they were nevertheless witnessed by many
scientific persons and others.
LARGE SWEDE.—Last week, Mr. Hugh Bullen farmer, Ince Blundell, took from his field a Swede turnip,
which weighed 271 b. after the roots and tops had been
k taken away.—.11f, anc4ester Courier.

COMMITTAL OF PRINCE ALBERT.—In the alpha-
betical calendar of the prisoners now under committal
for terms of imprisonment in Reading Gaol, is the
following singular entry:—" Prince Albert, convicted
Esq., for breaking windows in the
übyniJoonhwn
eliigrkhgous'se, Maidenhead; two calendar months'
bard labour." The man's name is, of course, Albert
Prince.
Araocrous !—A most atrocious and horrible offence
has been committed at the Ferry Side, by an excavator,
named William Currie, who is charged with having com-
mitted a felonious assault on a child not more than three-
and-a-half years of age, to whom the humaa demon has
communicated a loathsome disease. lie is about five
feet four inches in height, light hair and complexion, no
whiskers, and has a scar on the left cheek.—Carmarthen
Journal

A NEW CRIME.—A dentist, named Laine, but
passing by the name of Aims do Nevers, was on Satur-
day brought to trial before the Court of Assizes of the
sSaerltes, on
on thtweochyaorgug
charge of
women,havin having cnoammmiedttEedyacoriinmtihnealaansd-
Henriette, whilst they were in a state of insensibility,
caused by the inhalation of the vapour of ether. From
the nature of the details which had to be entered into,
the trial took place with closed doors; but it transpired
that the young women, who had gone to the prisoner's
place of business in the Passage Vdro-Dwodhaatt to have
teeth drawn, had been persuaded by him to inhale the vapour of ether, onhenetnithsetafrgtoer,mowaanhskdisenahtol,wilahitnoigwtewould'however, t hperyevsealli:
complained of.
1 them from suffering pain; and when he had thrown
Ohdthei
ndeemnof
the girls declared, that uts
committedot the
p ar
esvoemn tri otl
though a the
she knew well what was passing time
totally unable to offer an around her, she was moment the offence was COy resistance, and that at the
scions, and remained so for
rernitted she became uncon-
advocate said that the prisonersonie time. The prisoner's
was guilty, and the Learned totally
denied that he
effects produced by
the nation were such that it inhalation of ether on the imagi-
might have taken their was very probable that the girls
t own hallucinations for facts. It,
however appeared that one .of the girls, on her return
honle• had her dress in disorder, her hair dishevelled,
and was greatly •
agitated.
. The jury declared thepri-
soner aailty, and thinks,th Court d
con emned him to six years'
hard labour at the b t widthout exposure on the
Pillory. It also orderedthe
lsoydn
tzorsbaonfk the prisoner's
bankruptcy, his arrest having
one of the girls, who is under age, a sumruoPft7,sotoofp. pay
damages. On leaving the Court the prisoner cried
vehemently, " You have condemned an innocent man !
It
was to obtain money that Mademoiselle Hyacinthe
prosecuted me ! lam innocent ! I declare it with my
hands raised to God!"—Galiqnani's Messenger.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, NOV. S.—The grocers
have shown rather more disposition to purchase, and a.
fair amount of business has been done, since our last,
chiefly in Barbadoes, at from 375. to 48s. per ordinary
good middling qualities. Nothing doing in rum or
molasses.—Bristol Mercury.
GUY FAWIeES RIOTS.—The riots which Us' 511 y
recur on this anniversary took place in several pins of
the country, The most remarkable, however seem to
be some which occurred in Lewes. On Tuesday, 170
special constables were sworn in as a precaution, and 80
of the metropolitan police went down, Bonfires and
tarbarrels were burnt as usual, and several
acts of vio-
lence took place. Eight persons were arrested and com-
mitted by the magistrates for further examination.