The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

AN TI-CURN-LAW- ANTI-GOLD-

LAW.
TO TIIE EDITOR LT THE SUN.
What tho' a little war have ruaeli'd Mark hole,
And great diicour.gtinrnt to st.obs in grain ?
Tlibile nothing done (cries Hannibal) until
The rogues in gold ar, ehasse'd from Corn-hill,
'Till common sense and common justice meet,
Aud all be mine about Threadneedle street !
JUVENAL
SlR,—The present times remind me of a children's
puppet show, exhibited at Paris thirty years ago.
The spokesman was stationed with certain lamps be-
hind an oiled paper screen, raising and pulling down
his pasteboard monsters in chiaroscuro. Parausa
a mon commandement a sack of corn—then a miller—
then a certain gentleman in black, &c.—disparals!—,
(Applause from the infantry.) Again—parazsse a
mon commandement a heap of gold—paraisse a mon,,
commandement two dozen griffins, " bent on gold,
sacking the heap—tigers—monsters, no end—disparass,
800 !--(Shouts and clapping of little hands.) Eveen
so, the minor humbug of corn her Majesty has pulld
down with a simple disparais I but to the grand
monopoly of gold let her say more imperatively--
Disparais 1 boo 1
Vains fantornes d'etat, evanouissez-vows!
Is it not monstrous that our Sovereign, out of neat
fifty millions of taxation, should receive only half
million for expenses of her court and state, including
the judges ; while Spain, the poorest of nations, gives
its Monarch many times that sum ? Every one nog
sees the reason. It is because the thirty millions., or
thereabouts, payable to stockholders are paid In
medium which, from its extreme scarcity, or penurY:l
and consequently its purchase power or money
worth, eats up army, navy, people, and monarchy
itself. The Royal Family is crushed between
.two
rocks : on one hand the incalculable, paon
radoxical,
hydrostatical pressure of stockholders' taxation ;
the other, the sneers of purse-proud England at $
Court whose utmost economy can never relieve the
people's distress. But why are we talking a.bou!
standards, when a safe medium, a practical national
cash, is easy with any standard? Why sacrifice
market-money to money-market ? Why is money„
.market " glutted with temporary and secure loans',
involving no real business and return except
repudiation— while bread-and-cheese market 1,1„
shut, and weavers found dead at their looms!
Great Baring draws on great Rothschild, and v.zcs
versa, sending gold to America and Spain, According
to, Lord Palmerston, 150 millions are now due to
England; according to the Times, Spain alone o. wes
us 70 millions. Lord Liverpool, perhaps in PkeZ
said the most precious country should have the mos
precious standard; Lord Goderich, of parochial fame,
offers every poor man a bit of gold in his pocket.---:
grim parody on Henry IV., and his benevolent wisn
that every peasant should have his boiled fowl 0Y
0
Sundays. The same gold is at once to be in ever,
man's (or woman's) pocket, and in directors
griffin paws, and purchasing Lousyana bonds for

Sidney -Smith.
" It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,
Let me net name it to you, ye sweet powers,
It is the cause" in which poor Sidney—bled ,
England is to be saturated with gold that Generlp
i
Jackson may get it. L'or anglais perpetuabf
drifting home because we work faster than we c:
get paid in goods, is gone to supply the lacuna caused
by the American specie order of 1836. The 1-TnitetrY
ct
States Bank being, like our joint-stock and con
banks, the friend of industry, and not, like our ba36
nk,
of England, the friend of usurers, Jackson in 18
took away all the Government deposits, refused the
notes, veto-ed their charter, and wrote them dew
in all the papers by his speech-pamphlets, avo(vreig
because the bank men had voted against him
son). Such is "the dangerous hostility of profligate'
power." To combat this bad principle, Mr. O'Cor;
es in
nell said, " I divided the House 43 or 44 tins of
ot
1838 against renewing the charter of the Bank
Ireland," which emulates that of England in ealirs
paigning against trade and industry. The Goot
whichs,
military exploit was congenial to Tory policy,
attributed the panic of 1825 to English countrl
banks, whose circulation they demolished accordinglY,
(Sir P. Pule and Sir T. Esdaile, London bankers
of most country banks, being also cleverly droppe;
in spite of Mr. T. Attwood's intrepid remonstrate;
the " Letters of a Scotch Banker," 1826. The 5512ir
attempt was made in Scotland, but defeated by
Walter Scott, in the "Letters of M. Malagrowthert
1828, backed by forty Scots, MM.PP.
Now, in 1847, the rate of discount is 81840) cent'
According to M. Thiers (Times, Oct. 23, the
Bank of France has kept to 4 per cent. during twenty
years. They were right. Mr. Page (Hardcastle2
deposed before the Committee, 1840, " The Baul‘
renews quarterly advances, not generally, but tonces
dividuals ;" and Mr. Norman, " Quarterly adva
are at lower rates than discounts." Can any
advances are on approved bills only ! Can BO' °
your readers say whether they are to pay 8 per cen e
t.
now ? Or could Sir Robert be thinking of thong
particular particular quarterlies when he complained not long
ago "of the Bank maintaining an arbitrary Prefet
rence for such bills ?" Besides, if the bankers nie
needs step over the way, and ask charity four 6010
a year, what is become of those balances retained 1:„„4
centuries without interest ? Suppose inspectors app
pointed for joint-stock banks (which almost in °l,'
mory of man were liable to a premunire, under 6a-
Geo. I.) to overhaul their renewed bills, their past
due and all their misdemeanours—suppose, fr°l
sudden change of Ministry, the same inspectors WI
to ransack the Bank of England on the setae
principle, they would report " Wrong side--no,.
effects—we find this establishment has branches abou:
Temple-bar, and even as far as Bond-street—w'°
find many repudiation bills, man,. securities date
from the Duke of York and Mrs.
ch, Clarke. Mes •
Hammersley's branch was set up at that epo
pay debtsl
well known, not to invest capital, but to
an
for, as Sir R. Peel said, 20th May, 1844,
•Dee
entire secrecy is necessary, absolutely; in all trail.:
actions relating to money. • . I have no objection
to the transfer and sale of banks.' There are..
_r
means for the public to know whether any etni'v,o
branches are in a better state, and if so, no reaso.
suppose they would gratuitously bring therns_eive,.
into a better state. The whole concern would pot
pay ss. in the pound—it would be well to purn.r
sceptre in commission, or appoint the two enviers
official assignees." Some such report they could e
in the case suose, elp king.
Here, toiling on dah patch ma
of clay-farm, I contem
-
plate all this with a sort of anguish—
" Till half a patriot, half a coward grown,
I fly from petty tyrants to the throne"-- r
trembling lest the malformation of our
of sfier
tern should bring a dangerous flush of pooranger to
Majesty's brow, and make her the enemY des' else
People. It is so difficult to set music to
one might compare Queen Victoria's cwhi°lrdheo;odovr.
some melody on the pastoral hautboy, wrhohse
t _,lhoeser
drawn cantabile silences for a moment
tenants of the orchestra, and the unison of
sww_et.,
every vibration generates a piercing,
ness too beautiful to last. 'The voice of lin. 2 of
d sirs
hope, of youth, begins to evoke the sobs an
memory—
E trarne un suon the flebile concento
Par d'utnani sospiri e di singulti...
perfec
inee
of
Strana armoniA, di canto c di querelc.
The ad agio ends—begins the crescendo eruences,
tato—ere long discords predominate, baulk cadences,
chromatic or superfluous chords suspend
amid a chopping sea of sounds. Double, douhe
con"
and trouble. Music submits to Fate, and the
of
of
cert ends for a time in the crude irnbrog
general tattoo. que.s_tsiris:
thec
And all these calamities, a currency
You, Sir, are one of the few that know it is just so.
Loyalty cannot co-exist with falling
labourers defrauded of hire, of keep. Mattl?lesTreot
wood, a high authority, has asked, " What 1.5,-rothiag
priee!,_ A tt.
by alternations of prosperity and distress ? low, or
more than a high or low rate of money, a id that
high rate of commodities." If people
tare kill
royalty is essential to their well-being, theY Nvivig the
turally believe it so to their ill-being--" 1.
plutocracy be in a hurry to undeceive them.
I have the honour to be Sce falsll.
C. AO

SUSPICIOUS DEATH Or A SAILOR.-- On '-"--1:1
ca rcloY
fes"
evening, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the LontlV, 30
pital, on view of the body of Charles VVillard, a'f-ii sv
years of age, whose death took place under the '°",„s-(70:1
irnegsuispicious circumatances:—lt appeared the deeeh-ov
ship,turied to this country a few days ago, in $ inhearevient
from Quebec. On Thursday morning last ,;It 61,
tol captain's for his money, amounting to sw-apiea
whiceh was paid him. He was at the time seeez", with
by a female, one of the class of the " unfortunates,' g
whom he was drinking the greater part 0f the 10.rontioni_.
In the afternoon he was led by some women 1 in $
house,fian No. 34, New Gravel-lane, being aPPtel3tlYfrota
Cher©
dininsensible. He was soon after removed ere
a cab to the London Hospital. dean he
dthieedn employed to recover him, but without effel' an
that institution about two hours after ins " e
sion. The Coroner, under the circumstances ef the nli° '
directe..d that a post mortem examination of the 13°431'
f the
and, if necessary, an analysis of the content° °
stomachAd
should take place; when the intleirY Was
,
journed for that purpose to Wednesday, next. been it"
However valuable this document might a"i ince
the time of capture, the period which has eisPse" •fis for-
tmhen., will render it probably of no service,
seen
if correct, of which, however, we ha:: at
erie-esdenill
nusnothing in the London journals, will have striolf sr.
theOF
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THE HERRING FISHERIES Th --- n
t Mr.•
lifts Ot been
for many years so prolific a season."— for these fisheries° 1/5.
the present, on this coast. Our markets have been 1 :143
the
glutted for some weeks back ; and so Ple?„tinfufor a
i fi, sh that they have been retailed as low as ;"'"liih-
:lo,f2:. 7:1,1„ 1,,, ,fronloci zi, ~00.1 substitute 'or id;at
and proivty of
priced butcher's meat during the season,
salting
are availing themselves of the oPPeittlillyitor.
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