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

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Ti) THE ET; ITO R. GE THE SUN.
;Z'tiit tho' a ht:, war have retieh'd Mark lane,
Anil grcat diseour,4gemt-nt to wogs in grain ?
Think nothing done (cries Hannibal) until .
The rogues in gold are cliasse'd treat Corn-hill,
'fill common sense and common justice meet,
And all be mine about Threadneedle street !
JuVEKAL
Sin,--The present times remind me of a children's.
Puppet show, exhibited at Paris thirty years ago.
The ..pokesinan \NW; stationed with certain lamps be
hind ao i)!lper :creen, and pulling dew!i
iii;usters iii chiaro- seitru. Taraz.w,
a mon ewnmandement a sack of corn—then a miller—
then a certain gentleman in black, Sc.c.—disparais!—
(Applause from the infantry.) Again—paraisse a
mon commandenzent a heap of gold—paraisse a 171011
commandment two dozen griffins, " bent on gold,'
sacking the heap—tigers—monsters, no end—disparais,
Boot--(Shouts and clapping of little hands.) Even
so, the minor humbug of corn her Majesty has pulled
dawn with a simple disparai s ! but to the grand
monopoly of gold let her say more imperatively— •
Disparais ! boo
Veins ff..mtomes (-:vanouissez-vows!
Is it not monstrous that our Sovereign, out of near
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 now
sees the reason. It is because the thirty millions, or •
thereabouts, payable to stockholders are paid in a
medium which, from its extreme scarcity, or penury,
and consequently its purchase power or moneys
worth, eats up army, navy, people, and monarchy
itself. The Royal Family is crushed between two
rocks : on one hand the incalculable, paradoxical,
hydrostatical pressure of stockholders' taxation ; on
the other, the sneers of purse- proud England at a
Court whose utmost economy can never relieve the
people's distress. But why are we talking about
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
repuliation— while bread-and-cheese market is .
shut, and weavers found dead at their looms?
Great Baring draws on great Rothschild, and viee •
versa, sending gold to America and Spain. Accordiog
to Lord Palmerston, 150 millions are now due to
England; according to the Times, Spain alone owes
us 70 millions. Lord Liverpool, perhaps in joke,
said the most precious country should have the most
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 wish
that every peasant should have his boiled fowl on
Sundays. The same gold is at once to be in every,
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 not name it to you, ye sweet powers,
It is the cause" in which poor Sidney—bled I
England is to be saturated with gold that General
Jackson' may get it. L'or anglais perpetually
drifting home because we work faster than we can
get paid in goods, is gone to supply the lacuna cause
by the American specie order of 183 G. The Unit -
States Bank being, like our joint-stock and country
banks, the friend of industry, and not, like our bank,
of England, the friend of usurers, Jackson in 1836
took away all the Government deposits, ref Used their
notes, veto-ed their charter, and wrote them do
in all the papers by his speech-pamphlets, avowedly
because the bank men had voted against him (Jaci4:
son). Such is "the dangerous hostility of profligate
power." To combat this bad principle, Mr. Cre°ll"
ncll said, " I divided the House 43 or 44 times in,
1838 against renewing the charter of the Bank ot
Ireland," which emulates that of England in coin::
paiguing against trade and industry. The GINERAL.s
military exploit was congenial to 'gory policy, which
attributed the panic of 1825 to English country
banks, whose circulation they demolished accordinglY;
(Sir P. Pole and Sir T. Esdaile, London banker
of most country banks, bein also cleverly dropped)_.
in spite of Mr. T. Attwood's g
intrepid remonstrance.
the " Letters of a Scotch Banker," 182 G. The slier
attempt was made in Scotland, but defeated by Si,r,
Walter Scott, in the "Letters of M. Malagrowther,
1828, backed by forty Scots, INIM.PP.
Now, in 1847, the rate of discount is 8 p e4roc etnhte.
According to M. Thiers (Times, Oct. 23, 18
Bank of France has kept to 4 per cent. during twenty
years. They were right. Mr. Page (Hardcastl
deposed before the Committee, 1840, " Die Ban
renews quarterly advances, not generally, but to in'
dividuals ;" and Mr. Norman, " Quarterly advances
are at lower rates than discounts." Note—There
advances are on approved bills only ! Can any of
your readers say whether they are to pay 8 per cent.
now? Or could Sir Robert be thinking of these
particular quarterlies when he complained not long
ago "of the Bank maintaining an arbitrary prefe-
rence for .such bills ?" Besides, if the bankers must
needs step over the way, and ask charity four times
a year, what is become of those balances retained for
centuries without interest ? Suppose inspectors ar
pointed for joint-stock banks (which almost in Getli
mory of man were liable to a premunire,
Geo. I.) to overhaul their renewed bills, their past
due bills, and all their misdemeanours—suppose,sfrhs _
sudden change of Ministry, the same inspec_toer
samde
under
to ransack the Bank of England on h
"cle—ne
principle, 'they would report " Wrong t
To ffeemc tpsl—e
Temple-bar,
find n
dth establishmentiesven
as far
ahas s
v obnrdanschsre;sestabout
findfrom many repudiation
okeof
York bainllds,
Mrs.man ys
Clarke.ecur
sd.satrte;
Hammersley's branch was set up at that epoch,
well known, not to invest capital, but to pay debts;
for, as Sir R. Peel said, 20th May,
11 t 9"
absolutely, in a ran.
entire secrecy is necessary, ... • objection
I have no
actions relating to money. • • 1844, Deep and
to the transfer and sale of banksil'
means for the public to know w._
reason to
branches are in a better state, and if so, no
e.ve_
would not
into a better state. The whole concern
t the
ethTerheare
be well to pu
suppose they would gratuitously bring thews 5
pay ss. in the pound—it would Premiers
hey/could not,
official assignees." Some such report t
sceptre in commission, or appoint the two
in the case supposed, help making. , aroethne;
plate all this with a sort of anguish—
" Till half a patriot, half a coward pone,,
Here, toiling on a patch of clayfarm I contem-
I fly from petty tyrants to the throne"—
trembling
anger to ter
tern should bring a dangerous flushhe
enemyf
of poor
trembling lest the malfiffmation of ouro .roonetary sys"
Majesty's brow, and make her t
ia's childhood to
one might compare Queen v
People. It is so difficult to sFr%clitiours
I hautboy, whose long'
some melody on the pastorfaor
moment the other
drawn cantabile silences
andic to else
the unison of whose
tenants of the orchestra,t a
The voice of home, of
ness too beautiful to last.of
• to evoke the sobs and sighs
piercing, perfect sweet-
every vibration genera es
hope, of youth, begins
memory—
Par d'utnani sospiri e di singuiti...
Strana arinoni.l di canto e di quercle.
E trarne un suon che flebile concento
The ad agio ends—begins the crescendo airtdeneets,
tato—ere long discords predominate, baulkhc d
e listen
toil
amid a chopping sea of sound..
chromatic or superfluous chords
is)uosupt,eined,
the Con'
cent trouble. Music submits to Fate,. and
cert ends for a time in the crude imbroglio
of a
general tattoo. uestion ?
And all these calamities, a currency q .ust so,
You, Sir, are one of the few that know it. iessa
dtoub a--
e.
Loyalty cannot co-exist with pr.icra,a
labourers defrauded of hire, of keep. Matthias
wood, a high authority, has asked, Nothillg
by alternations of prosperity and distress ? or
low
more than a high or low rate of money, a
told that
high rate of commodities." If people are
.„ 00..
royalty is essential to their well-being, they the
turally believe it so to their ill-being----nor vviii 6
" What is me•-eb
plutocracy be in a hurry to undeceive them.
I have the honour to be, &C
ARGENT,
a C.

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SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A SAlLOR.—tfil oa.tirdoY
evening, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London 0°350-
Otal, on view of the body of Charles Willard, aheut
years of age, whose death took place under the follow,'
deceased
ing suspicious circumstances:—lt appeared the de
returned to this country a few days ago, in a were" ,t
ship, from Quebec. On Thursday morning last be wel,
to the captain's for his money, amounting to abou%
which was paid him. He was at the time acconnri.vah
by a female, one of the class of the " unfortunates,' with
oreing'
whom he was drinking the greater part of the mint
In the afternoon he was led by some women ;°,., 0,
house, No. 34, New Gravel-lane, being apparentlY '-,,,,,
fit, and insensible. He was soon after removed fr°";
there in a cab to the London Hospital. Mee" Wahl.
then employed to recover him, but without effect, 4;1- °
died in that institution about two hours after his °lll--
sion. The Coroner, under the circumstances of thecaSer
directed that a post morton examination of the 110'
and, if necessary, an analysis of the contents of td.
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the usual channel. The bird i' in the possession of Mr'
,T. Gooch, Gorleston. The papers' remain in the heads
of Mr. W
TT. Sothern.—Norfolit News.
Tx
E --ERRING FISIIERIES.—There has
for many years so prolific a season for those fisheries a,
the present, on this coast. Our markets have ll:ec)ent CO
glutted for some. weeks back ; and so ft for a
the fish
that they have been retailed as low as 12 1 ~...
shilling. This has afforded a good substitute for Tot
priced butcher's meat during the season, and Pr°ll e f
people are availing themselves -of the opportunityteor.
salting down and smoking large supplies for the win
—Dover Chronicle. plentiful are