The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTI4_IIVIBER 24, 1810.-

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)

CHRONICLE.—The late Mr. Hammersley hay-
ing no surviving partners, a suspension of the opera=
tions of the bank necessarily ensued upon his death;
until his executors or other representatives ate placed in
a position to assume the management of his affairs, This
stoppage of the payments of the house has given rise to
a feeling that a legal remedy should be provided to pre.
vent the same consequences hereafter in similar cases.
Some complaints are made that the firm should have
remained unaltered when there was only one surviving
partner. as the " London Directory " for 1840 gives it
as " Hammersleys and Co., 69, Pall-rnall." The
checks, we believe, were drawn in the same form ; but
when a London firm is once established, the usual prac-
tice in business is to keep up the softie name through ge-
nerations, amidst all conilicting changes of succession.
There were brothers of Mr. Hammersley in the firm,
we believe, who are now dead, but the name of the house
was continued, according to custom. At the death of the
last surviving partner, a difficulty thus occurs, and it is
said that the executors do not intend to continue the
bank. Under these circumstances, application to the
Court of Chancery will probably be requisite.
From the nature of the business of Mr. Hammers-
ley, his death has not been attended with great incon-
venience in the city, but as the firm had generally
"credit notes" to the amount of 150,000/ in circulation
on the continent, the return of that description of paper
for payment may lead to consider able difficulty if the
business of the house be not previously resumed.

TIMES.—Some unsteadiness and general flatness
which has been observed in the Consol market daring
to-day and yesterday is attributed to the state of the
fo..eign exchanges, which have again given way, as will
have been seen by the quotations ; and the circumstance
is the more remarkable, as, owing to the diminution of
the corn speculations and the fine harvest weather which
has prevailed, there had been a general expettalion of a
rise in the foreign exchanges. It is said that the Bank
Directors themselves are not a little surprised at the
course they have recently taken, and, if this state of
things continues, it seems next to impossible but that
they will be again driven by necessity to coosidor of some
new and stringent aneamares bearing upon the circulation.
This is a state of things respecting which the specula-
tors in public securities, from the recollections of the
last year or two, arc not a little nervous.
A product of India. the suleah fish, which abounds
in the rivers that intersect the Sunderbunds, as also in
the estuaries of Bengal, has attracted the attention of
a correspondent, who shows that it possesses a property
from which isinglass is manufactured under a monnptily
raised try the Chinese, and which has hither ,o escaped
the observation of European speculators. According to
the description afforded, the suleah attains a large size,
weighing in some cases I cwt. and upwards. It may
be taken all the year round, and large quantities of it
are brought up in boats to Calcutta, where it is cured.
and thence conveyed as an ankle a merchandise into
the inland provinces, where it is purchased for consump-
tion, chiefly by the poorer classes. The discovery that
this fish contained the property for the thanufatture
of isinglass was made in the following manner
purchaser gave his servant two that he had boUght
of a fisherman, and desired him to kin the best he
could with them. A subsequent examination of the
bladders was accidentally made. Tracy were found
to resemble dull amber, and were exeeedingly hard
and pellucid, bearing a striking resemblance to the
book isinglass of commerce. He had a dear
ut
one of them cut off and boiled in %tame clear tank
water, strained off and placed in a cool atmosphere,
and on the following morning it turned out as firm and
translucid an isinglass cake as he bad ever witee§tecit
Satisfied that his discovery was a whittle hbe, he sub-
mitted the further working nf it to an eminent chemist
at Calcutta, who, having cleansed it, by the help of a
Chinese shoemaker cut it into fine threads, and then it
appeared equal in every respect to the itchglaA in the
market. On further inquiry it Was ascertained that the
Chinese had a monopoly arising out of the suleah
fishery ; that, in fact, not one fish out of a thousand
that came into the market ever contained its bladder,
but that they were taken out by the fishermen as soon
as the fish were caught, and headed over to the Chinese
contractors. These bladders were shipped off to Macao,
where they were dressed and prepared for the Chinese
trade. It it supposed that to the Chinese this must
be a considerable source of profit.

HERALD.—The only foreign arrivals are the
French papers of Monday, and from Monte Video to
the 6th of July. In one of the former is a succinct
and well-written account of the progress we have made
in steam communication with India. The article sets
forth the superior advantages of the route by Alexan-
dria, Suez, &c., and thence takes occasion to decide,
that for the safe transit being guaranteed to us, we are
endeavouring to overthrow the Paella of Egypt. The
writer of the article can understand but little of our
affairs, if he conclude that the Government
ever make the success of individual enterprise .a party
question. It is well known that the English have,
for the long series of fifteen years, been at variance
among themselves as to which is the preferable route
to Bombay ; through the Mediterranean or round the
Cape. And so far is the qnestion, at the present
time, from being decided, that a large steam-vessel,
belonging to a company holding the former opinion,
took her departure, to ply on the first-named station, I
but a short time since ; and that another will sail by
the latter route in a few ddys. If steam continue to
make those rapid strides, which it has since the first in-
troduction for commercial purposes, there is no reason
why shortly the voyage round the Cape should not be
performed in as short a time as is at present taken up
by the overland journey to Calcutta, and with far more
safety, and less personal inconvenience and danger, and
risk from political causes.

The Monte Video Papers are loud in their complaints
against the Government, for the non-provision of a
suitable police, and protection to the inhabitants. A
perfect anarchy prevailed and thefts and murders so
frequent, as to be taken as a matter of course, whi e the
authorities could, or would not, afford any redress.
Rivera, the President, was expected to return in a short
time, when it was to be hoped matters would be amended
Tne liberating army opposed to Rosas had met, but ac-
cordicg to the last accounts nothing decisive had oc-
curred, although an engagement might be expected daily
to take place.

SUN.—The state of the Foreign Exchatigt, and the
expectation (almost hoorly, are believe) of some important
news from the East, has kept the Funds in a vacillatitift
and weak condition throughout the day, the market
closing heavily as follows :—Conso!s, 88 to 884 ditto
Aczount, 88h- to 88+; Exchequer alis, 13i. to Bs.
prem. ; India Bonds, 6s. to ds; prem. ; and the Nes
Three-and -a-Half per Cents., 974- to 974-.
In Foreign Stocks we have haft tttuch the same fea-
tures as in our own FOttati Vii. depression and unsteadi-
ness, especially th Spanish. The Actives dosed at
22k- to ;NA 1 l'ortugnse New Five per Cents at 32i ;
C"ml3lan SI; per Cents. at 224 ; Mexican Six per
Cents. at 2'l ; Belgian Bonds at 971; and French
J .
rive per Cents, at 105 t. The.
Shares were all a shade lower than yesterday.
Mr. Hammersley's bank, it appears, is to be wound
up, but there will be assets enough to meet all en.
gagements.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAFERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Timor.)
We do not assert; we do tot believe; that there must
be war. We exclaim, as all our neighbours do, " God
forbid r But still, according to the deductions of hu-
man experience and reason, we should like to have a
rational conjecture furnished to us as to the " where-
fore" of the vast preparations made by France—pre-
parations not of a defensive character, nor with
mere defensive objects, for na one Frenchman has
yet exposed himself to ridicule by so much as
affecting to believe that any Power in Europe (and
England least of all) contemplated unprovoked warfare
in the shape of any maritime or territorial aggression
against the French people or their Government : at all
events, the armaments of France is the Mediterranean
can have no pacific purpose. But, perhaps, people are
dreaming all this while ; perhaps the papers lie ; per-
haps the French ordinances and official reports, and
statements from all their maritime depots, are fabri-
cated. Of that our readers must judge for themselves.
But if the ordinances, reports, and intelligence be au.
thenticsa-lf conscripts be raised by thousands—if sea-
men be entered wherever they cto he found—if ships of
the line be fitted for sea by scores—and if Sir Robert
Stopford, with just nine sail, some of them 72's, at his
disposal, and no more; be actually at this moment out-
numbered both Is to ships, and still more strikingly as
to Men, by the french squadrons—why, then it can be
no treason to say that it is the anticipators of a sudden
outbreak of war who see clearly, and they who still
flatter themselves with hopes of continued peace that
arts the dreamers ; rfierecilier that, so tat' as Can be
judged from appearances, among the dreamers are
Queen Victoria's Ministers themselves, on whom the
duties of watchfulness, preparation, and provision for
war ought to press with more weight than upon all the
rest of the cbtfittillnity. To=morrow or heist day we
may look a little into the real state of their preparations,
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Certain Tory journals are keeping up a continuous
cry ter interference with tail*a}i Matt fiettlenti and tale-
tion Uptall railway passengers. It really seems as If
they desired the often predicted, but still delayed testa;
ration, to be a conjoint one of ÜbrisefVativei mid &Lich:.
men, the triumph of Toryism and turnpikes—an old
Weller arid Wellington dynasty. Every one to his
taste; Pritlsh tinheettientlblrYitieltidea the right
of preferring the consumption of eight hours iiisledd b!
three in the same length of journey ; a fare of thirty
shillings to one of twenty ; and a mode of conveyance
where the smallest tomperetire clone of accident is
hbt less than as twenty to one. It alio indittdeS
right of stickling for a system which chiefly ac-
commodates the wealthier classes to one which uni-
formly quadruples the number of travellers the
moment it it C3tabllshech to to Vet;
Verted ig hot impossible. Nor is It iititia:
turally associated with a heartfelt hostility to other im-
provements, such as the penny postage for instance ;
the hostility beibt het the least fatiCorolla tot the ad-
titittcti fact that it was a valuable boon to the poor; and
a great benefit to the interests Uf efiterptite,
stietite; and literality. individuals have a right, we
fepeat, to such antipathies ; and journalists have a legal
right to minister thereto, if they think such a line of
business will answer. Whatever they obtain kheteby,
" the la* allows it; Atid the hotiii aivaids its" the
moral right is another question. Bad taste in the Vre-
ferenee of an object; is no excuse for the employment
tri bad means in its Plirsisit, We gave, last Tues-
day week, from the Railway Times, a list of all the
accidents, both by railway travelling and by stage-
mach tlavizllingt fthilzli hall beeii fenitited *Orin
ik irhll Space of time. Reckoning by the lowest
possible estimate of the amount of railway tra-
velling, and allowing the highest posssiblc amount
of coach travelling,. it *as then for each coach
Attideht §bVeti fallvt* Accidents *an fequited
to equalize the risk. The number of coach acci-
dents in the list was nine ; but instead of sixty-
three railway accidents, there were only four. The
inference was very obvious, and the returns and calcu-
lations since brought out evince that the comparative
safety of railways was greatly understated. The
Times of Monday last takes up the list of railway
accidents ; augments it by extending the space over a
month ; swells it to the number of nine accidents,
two of which it was obliged to contradict the next
day, one having been previously contradicted in its
own columns ; passes over the coach accidents in pro-
found silence ; challenges " any one in the railway in-
terest to disprove" what it had already in part re-
canted ; declaims on the "frightful catalogue," and the
" mercenary speculators ;" ascribes some good to " the
intervention of Providence," but promises its own
intervention to correct the " wickedness" and " guilt"
of the several proprietaries. On this hint, the
Standard speaks. It copies the. Times' list of
" frightful" accidents, notwithstanding the contradictions
which the Times itself had published during the inter-
val. It. is as forgetful as the Thies itself of its pre-
vious contradiction. It repeats the Times' abuse of en-
gine-drivers, reducing their wages from the 7s. a day al-
lowed by the liberality of that Journal, to 255. or 20s.
a week. And it contends (for the argument has no
other intelligible tendency) that no person should be al-
lowed to drive an engine for the first time who has not
driven one many times before. In such a chorus, the
treble pipe of the Herald could not be wanting. It
chants most dolefully the dirge of deserted villages.
The spectacles of our venerable Contemporary are dim
with tears for a tlepopulated land. " Hamlets and vil-
lages have been rendered desolate by the progress of
locomotion by steam." We are not sure whether the
writer means that the villages themselves have been car-
ried off, or only the inhabitants crushed, by the loco-
motive engines.

( From the Morning Herald.)
The Morning Chronicle contained yesterday a violent
invective against the Society Ar the Protection of Agri-
culture, on the ground (as our Contemporary alleges)
that the Secretary to that Society has recently address-
ed a circular to the clergymen of the Established
Church, in which that gentleman calls on them to resist,
the Anti-law
thea
but
scarcelyL assumingeaguket statemento vt oWfheot
that hw doe
in their various parishes, the efforts of the emissaries of
knowcor-
rect
accurate,owr
statementth eno t Chronicle
Secretary happent
beo
btt
to
the Society for the Protection of Agriculture might
b?tter discharge his duty, than by calling on
clergymen of the Established Church to aid in
counteracting a movement, which
proposes the sub-
Version of the Established Church, as one of its
objects. The Chronicle rails, of course, at the love
slittwn by the clergymen of the Estaliivhe.l Church for
their " temporalities' ; and adds.—. It mly be worldly-
wise in the Society in question to endeavour to make
the clergy their tools 1 but worse friends the Church
cannot possibly have, than those who endeavour to
embark the clergy in the most unchristian work of dis-
geminating their otlioug doctrines, by holding out to
them the bait of self interest. What an ides—the
Gospel of Christ labouring to support
a teachers
monopoly of the
by
which their flocks are starved, to fill the
pockets of the high and mighty of the land, because,
forsooth, the monopoly will also benefit them. !.
The monopoly" which the clergy of the Est 1-
bliseecl Church art pp to support, is a ‘.‘.mono-
poly' of which the class of labourers, above al:- other
Flaises, derives the benefit. It is a " monopoly" of the
uusititsS of growing bread for their fellow,countrymen ;
and if landuwners as well as labourers derive benefit
from that " monopoly," the reason is simply this--that
Ir. all things, the interests of the owners of the soil are
identified with the interests of the class of labourers.
The class of labourers, let it always be borne in mind,
are the great consumers of agricultural produce ; and
the prosperity of landowners and of farmers must
always depend on the prosperity of the great body
of their customers. To represent the landowners of
the kingdom as the "natural enemies" of the labourers
is one of those impudent fictions, by the aid of which the
emissaries of the Anti-Corn. law League conduct their ope-
rations against all the settled institutions of the country.

fully and completely,(lirmthteholl:l°:t:ing Post.)
in theTh
ni..nowhjeecmteawnhitchliie ita
of the Whigs, does not shrink fr3m admitting very
The morning organ of the Government, and oracle
t an t l y
the professed
con.
party has utterly failed
to ente•tai
lidcm Anil approbation of the great mass of the popu-
lation. The admission of the Morning Clar,nieie
is in the following terms ;--.. It is in vain to think of
blinking the raot that the werlo9s clPfel bare peer.
b jhe ici st
ofc o acquiringn s
alienated to a fearful degree troth t.ll • other rainii Gt
entire ; The lod upon
.their minds HR been almost
entirely lost. i heir t-iiiiiltitlnt..,l3 111 tlts o,,teftitilent has
dwindled OS thr: negative feeling bf deeming then) not 80
t3Ad a the tdries; anti stiiiietirties it gink,ti, byloyr that.'
Nc think this statement is hot tar Iran- ME ittith
and we charge the Whig !cadets and journalists with
having h
,--e"! 1.)? the teltishtieSs and dishonesty of
their poi neat Conduct, the
.ptinnipal adthots Of this
qreat thisejiA We sank the princitid,lo antligts,, te-
'Cause We du not mean to assert that ris ory Ucii,eftl:
11'')t in Church and state vial eiladtly rhat it aught
to niak•4 bkieit! OttriNo ths fuiii i4orih4 iit Itit qiileiyee,
previously to 11031.. Its great fault was being tens
careful than it °tight to live been of the superio-
tent,ll iit Ili, htiiill4i-iod6asitli PBOith'is;;"‘ We
Could easily enurherate many excuses for this omission
of proper care; but) after taking them all into account,
we still itlitw, anti,
similar neglect, ledge, that the Tvy govornmepo 0 01¢ !rist half con.
tory 'Were blaitte,iblr nil**, 9f ,IPPII !WWI of train-
,g, O. regulation, 0„4 of acouragement of goal can-
duct, as every wise Government of the working masses
:hould look to. But the Whigs are chargeable not only
with a
measures to injure the minds and public morals of the
lower classes, and consequently to make them ungo-
vernable and unhappy. White the Whigs were in op-
position, they constantly ' ' d and abetted those
led, but with having taken active
°nevi trai4R
popular agitators and decla,itaer. ; ',,ik.o inflamed the people
with monstrous exaggeratio4s c ir,dovimright lies. They
encouraged the inculcatioa, ui son >the lower classes of
political principles which, ape 1 vholly incompatible with
.. .
aV reguig go vcrigooq!, of a p Vpulgus a4tion, having

diversities of interests, of rank, of education, and of
property. They did this, knowing very well the bad-
ness and the falsehood of these principles, but they
only looked to their effect in overthrowing the existing
Government, and then they hoped to control the storm
they had raised.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)

Amid the clangor of party strife, in which Parlia-
ment was too much engaged, and the public attention
too much occupied, during the late Session, there were
several measures of great public utility matured and
quietly placed on the statute-book, from which the
present and future generations will derive extensive
and progressive advantage, Among these laws will be
found an Act for the extension of vaccination. To
appreciate the value of this sanatory law, it is neces-
sary to advert to the still extensive ravages of the loath-
some and frequently fatal malady it is designed
to check, and, if properly administered, to even-
tually extirpate from the country ; and also to the
satisfactory proofs of the efficacy of vaccination to
effect the destruction, in its fatal character, of a disease
which has been aptly designated the " English plague."
Many years have not passed away since its appearance
in a village or country town produced general conster-
nation. The subjects of the disease were removed to
" pest houses," built at a distance from the usual
abodes of the inhabitants : while those who had not
passed through the frightful ordeal of the malady sought
safety in flight from the scene of the visitation. Eve',
after inoculation was introduced and became general,
as a precaution against the disease in its " natural"
3ttite, the deaths by small-pox, as the yearly
hills of mortality proved, averaged the amount of
those occasioned by the aggregate of the other mala-
dies to which flesh is heir. What rendered the situation
of the population yet more deplorable, was the fact, that
the prudential means resorted to for mitigating the dan-
gers of the disease to the individual, exposed the
neighbourhood to the horrors of having it introduced in
its natural form. The new and improved system of re•
gistration has been the means of supplying intormation
as to the extent, notwithstanding the introduction of
vaceinaffoe, to which the population of this country
is yet exposed by the frightful devastations of small-
ritit in if§ natural form ; to the valuable statistics of the
registration rettiftil, we have no doubt, the public is in-
debted for the recent legislative interference, in the
fttrre of the Act before us. The registration of deaths
during dip fibs ruts and a half ending Dec. 31, 1839,
shows that no les; flint, 90,000 persons in England
and Wales alone, died of srivdl-pox—giving an average
If upwards of 12,000 in each year.
(From the Standard.)
The Paris pdPele of Monday contain no news of
importance. The assertioth of the National, that
after deducting the army in Africa, France is unable
tti bring 00,000 regular troops into the field ; that
lief axtiller~ is dismounted and deficient in horses ;
that her cavalry is lattietriabl7 deficient, and her whole
army in a very disorganised state', have afforded an
eldtise to the Constitutionnel and Courrkr Francais to
resume their accustomed tone of gasconade. The former
affirnaa that the Vreneh Government have called forth all
the rcsollfddS *Ma the law has placed at their dis-
posal, and that by the month of November France
will have 490,000 men under arms, a number which she
earl double whenever any necessity shall arise. To
admit of this increase to the effective force, the number
of Ittfatttft regiments will be increased from 88 to 100.
In addition to this famidalele force, 10 battalions of
riflemen are in course of organitation an the Tyrolese
plilti, which number can be increased to 30 should it
be desirable, It further adds that suttelent horses
hale been pufehased to bring 1,600 pieces of artil-
lery into the field: The Courrier Francais is stuffed
with its usual swagger about the superior resources
of France. We attach very little credit to the state-
ments of either of these Ministerial hacks, whilst we
feel nothing but contempt for their silly and insolent
gasconade. If France were as strong as these serviles
would have us believe, she should make less parade of
her preparations and her prowess. "4 Much cry and
little wool" is a proverb which appears to apply with
peculiar force to the recent bluster of the French press.
The Debats, which humours the hobby of Louis Phi-
lippe, professes not to care for the numerical superiority
of the British navy, seeing that France has every pros-
pect of thrashing us, even at sea, whenever she may
take it into her head so to do. The Debats has cer-
tainly no precedent on which to found its gasconade.
Perhaps it thinks that in war, as well as at rouge et noir,
when the cards have turned up the same colour tea or a
dozen times, there is a reasonable excuse for betting on
the losing side.

(From the Courier.)
Recent occurrences, to which any more particular al-
lusion is unnecessary, have brought the practice of
duelling again prominently before the public. A few
remarks bearing upon a general view of the subject may,
therefore, be neither unseasonable nor uninteresting at
the present moment. We confess we entertain a very
strong repugnance to the practice, and consider an ap-
peal to what are (in derision, we presume), termed the
" laws of honour," and a resort to pistols, as the most
irrational, absurd, and unsatisfactory mode for seeking
sitisfaction, or determining disputes, that ever the per-
verse ingenuity of man devised. We look upon it as a
remnant of feudal barbarism, the prevalence, nay, the
toleration of which reflects deep disgrace on any civilized
or Christian community. It was only suited to those
ages when the profane and impious notion prevailed
that by some special interference of Divine Power
single combat would be made the means of vindicating
innocence, or of detecting and punishing guilt. Ex-
perience and the advance of knowledge have shown
how utterly groundless and degrading to the Majesty
of H?aven such a supposition was. We shudder at
the recollection of the numerous instances in which
an adherence to the so-called code of honour, has
had the effect of adding homicide to profligacy, and
of forcing the seducer (who was generally a practised
shot) to become the murderer of the husband or the
brother of his victim. Latterly we rejoice to perceive
duelling has fallen into deserved desuetude, with gen-
reen, being chiefly confined to the broken down jockey,
the ex-frequenter of the gaming table, or those who,
plying other equally disreputable pursuits, fancy that
they can gain notoriety and distinction by aping what
were long considered the characteristic vices of the
higher classes of society, and by having recourse to so
fashionable a mode of settling their disputes, as is pre-
scribed by the laws of honour. But the few recent in-
stances in which men of high rank and undoubted cour-
age were, through a false and perverted sense of honour,
induced to appear in the character of duellists, will, we
much fear, have the effect of reviving the barbarous
custom, by throwing around it the prestige of fashion,
aryl thus blinding the vain, the over sensitive, and the
foolish to its enormous criminality.

A REPUBLICAN'S REMARKS ON THE ENG-
LISH REGENCY BILL—The working of the monarchical
principle, as illustrated in the case of Great Britain,
at this moment, is curious enough, A young lieutenant of
Austrian Hussars, by the Regency Bill, and in virtue of
his marriage with the Queen, may become the sovereign,
for years, in Great Britain ; and one of the foremost na-
tions of the earth agrees quietly to submit to the govern-
ment of this foreign youth. It is certainly a great expe-
riment at this period of free inquiry and general agita-
tion, although of pro•ound peace, thus to give the
sceptre into trust, where no associations exit to invest
1-- trustee with any of those illusions, or prestiges, which,
cases
.have served to sanction such vicarious
in other like '
royalty. In the corn:.'gencY looked to by the Regency Bill,
.‘
~f the Queen's dying lu birth to an heir to the crown,
the. Sovereign for eighteen
Prince Albert will virtually whole power of the
%ears and in the pospggion of the vet he is to
Monarch, though only called gegen! y ank. A con:
Englishmen but an attplaintande of y tidy
corning whose habits or principiel they Can knot* al ye.
little or nothing. To us on this side of tli” htfa'rttid, who,
inheriting the English tongue and blood, Jot* fo • out
mother land with interest, the spectacle thus presented it
almost incomprehensible. The experience of half a cen-
tury of self government under elective rulers renders
this appointment of a young stranger to be King for
a term of years over the British empire almost ludi-
crous ; and it is with difficulty that &rave and
gray-bearded men can comprehend the acquiescence of
age, experience, eminent public service, and approved
patriotism, in setting up over them and above them this
beardless foreigner. If the case shall arise, which we hope
may not, for proving the monarchical principle. as illus-
trated in this Regency Act, we deem it not improbable.
that commotion and violence may be found ; that what, in
bygone ages, might be safely and naturally resorted to,
Can hardly control the passions or satisfy the judgments of
this more excited, more questioning, and more innovating
ereit. It is connected with the great question now di-
viding opinions throughout Europe, that struggle of oppo-
site and irrec,,milcable prineiplcs, the monarchical and the
I.democratic theory of govj.romenti and it is presenting the
YcAtion for monarchy in one .
:.tsi weakest forms.—New
ork American.
fittAl4lYt PofATOE STARC.7.—A great
•.
revolution is gt.4l:hit 6'll in Ore distilling Irs.4e, the
recent discovery that poigtog Isotif or stateh is capable, by.
dtte fermentation, of yielding a vor arrd weU4asted
spit+. gurne, specimens have lately been set:Mitt:Gl ft; the
st tit theteharits, which even the most experienced antotlg
them nate. tgafeds been able to distinguish from French
brandy, for even the tt'Ut,' climate flavogr of Cognac has
imitated by certain chemical composi-
tions, wiilA Ih knglist refiners have been enabled to add
'o the spirit from I;olatfie lta'reli. 'three distilleries for
the produa!on of this kind of fitEirth brandy have recently
hen erected in the metropolis, and tow of Ittiest are al-
ready in activity. One gentleman has imported ON less
than 1,000 tons of potatoe starch within the last three
Months from Franco and the Island of Jersey for this
purooso ; and it is said that the dealers in this commodity
ar,,, only a!,prehensive that tile prospect of a war with
Franc:, will put a sudden and speedy termination to this
novel sort of traffic. The Excise laws at present prevent
the manufacture of starch from potatoes in Great Britain
and Ireland ; but it is generally supposed by those most
interested that in the next Scssion of Parliament these
will be altered so as to permit the manufacture upon a very
large scale.— Scotch Reformers Guzette.
LiE FRENC E-I HARVEST.—AII the returns
fio.n the departments, as to the harvest of the present
Year, justify a conclusion that the produce is one of the
finest that has been known for a long time, and that in a
few months the price oficorn willite considerably reduced
in all Liao inar!cets,.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday, a member—ofthe—sWell mob, elegantly
dressed, and sporting a pair of mustachios and an lin-
purial, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
Wow), charged with ztealing a gold pencil-case and a
valuable diamond ring, from the shop of Mr. John
Bradley, a jeweller, residing at No. 3, Great Russell-
street, Bedford•square.
The prosecutor stated that on last Monday week a
gentleman who had given an order to have two diamond
rings prepared after a particular fashion, came into the
shop, and while examining them the prisoner also walked
in, and asked to look at a gold pencil .case ? Several
were shown him, but he said none of them pleased him,
and left the shop rather hurriedly. The prosecutor
never suspected any thin•D to be wroag until the gen-
tleman who came in fast observed that one of the ar-
ticles was missing. Nothing further was heard about
the matter until Saturday, when he saw an advertise-
ment, stating that such articles had been stopped, and
the person who offered them for pawn taken into cus-
tody. He identified the articles as those stolen, and
the prisoner as the person who came into his shop on
the evening named.

The prisoner, who said nothing in hi= defence, was
fully committed for trial.

HATTON-GARDEN.

SINGULAR CASE.—Yeitenhy Mrs. Mary Ann Bar-
ton, of No 79, Connau4lit-tcrrace, Ethrowar—road,
and Mary IVintlon, appeared b,fore Mr. Co nbe,
ander thr following circumstances :
Mr. Flower, the Solicitor, of Hatton garden, at-
tended for the defendants. It will be recollected that
on Wednesday night last the defendants were found
drunk and disorderly at the end of H tit() gig .1 d et),
when they were taken into custody, and, on their road
to the station house, a gold watch fell from the person
of Barton, and, on being searched, another enamelled
gold watch was found in her possession, which she
claimed as her own, but neither of the defendants could
account for the possession of the watch which fell from
Barton, and both watches were detained until inquiries
were made, and the defendants were ordered to be in
attendance yesterday, when they appeared, Mrs. Barton
being accompanied by her father.
Archer, 150 G, stated that he had made inquiries,
and ascertained that Mrs. Barton and her companion re-
sided at 79, Corwaught•terrace, and were highly respect.
able. She kept the house, and had servants. The en-
amelled watch was her own property, hut he had traced
the other watch to belong to Mr. Smith, a Jamaica mer-
chant, residing at No. 36, Hatton-garden.

Mr. Charles Smith was called forward and sworn.
He identified the gold watch now produced as being his
property.

Mr. COMBE inquired under what circumstances he
lost it ? Mr. Smith replied that he was in the habit of
carrying his watch in his waistcoat pocket without a
guard-chain. On Wednesday night last he was pro-
ceeding to his residence in Hatton-garden, when he saw
the defendants in custody of the police-constable, and
on their way to the station-house Mrs. Barton resisted,
and was entreating the policemae to let her and her
friend go. Witness, conceiving the defendants to be
respectable persons interfered, and requested the con-
stable not to take them, and Mrs. Barton clung to him,
and his watch was no doubt dragged from his pocket,
but certainly not with the intention to steal it. Archer
said that Mr. Smith did interfere, and the moment he
left the spot the watch fell on the ground. Mr. Smith
was anxious to release Mrs. Barton from his (Archer's)
custody.
Mr. COMBE—Was Mr. Smith sober ? Mr. Smith—
As sober as I am now.

Mr. Flower here said that the defendants were re-
spectable, and quite incapable of committing theft.
Mr. COMBE said, that after this explanation, he was
satisfied, and he discharged the defendants, who quitted
the Court with their friends.