The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-10 00:00:00

TRE SUN', LONDON, TIITIRSnAY. SEPTEMBER 10 1840

in announcing that a fleet of transports is about to convey
a Turkish force to the coast of Syria. Considerable
alarm and doubt exist on this subject in Paris. The
French have made up their minds to tolerate the block-
ade, even if put in force by the rigorous hand of Napier ;
but if to this be superadded a disembarkation in Syria,
they declare Mehemet released from his promise of not
passing the Taurus—they consider his doing so as likely,
and deem, therefore, war as getting still more within the
range of possibilities. Still all this is specu'a-
tion and conjecture. Though it be assumed in
Paris that Ibrahim will advance on Constan-
tinople, we are inclined to doubt this. In an arti-
cle which we have copied from the Maltese Times,
very weighty reasons are given for the opi-
nion that it ,A ould be absolute madness in Ibrahim to
advance on Constantinople. The Four Powers, how-
ea er, have, no doubt, in their arrangements, allowed for
such a contingency ; and, so long as they act honestly
in the spirit of their treaty, we cannot believe that the
French Government will so far forget itself as to
hazard a war for the sake of upholding a monster like
Mehemet Ali. Whatever selfish designs the French
may have on Egypt and Syria, still the Pacha is a sub-
ject of the Porte, and the French cannot take the part
of a rebellious subject for the sake of their own ag-
grandizement, without exciting a feeling of indigna-
tion against them throughout Europe. There is a
material difference between the vapouring of irre-
sponsible journalists, and the decision of a Govern-
ment ; and we will not believe in the possibility of
France committing the unspeakable folly (to say
nothing of wickedness) of embroiling Europe in war for
Mehemet Ali. It is affirmed in Paris that the Austrian
Government declares that it never contemplated a land-
ing of its own or of other troops in Syria. We attach
little credit to these reports, believing, as we do, that the
Austrian Government takes no step without carefully
weighing the consequences ; and it must have known,
when it became a party to the treaty, that Turkey can-
not be prevented from levying and making war on a re-
bellious vassal. Still, whatever our persuasion may be,
we must not shut our eyes to what is going on. The
French Government has concluded a contract for 20,000
horses at 850 francs a piece, which makes an immense
outlay, utterly useless, in case of peace. The dread of war
and the desire of peace are great as ever. But the
Minister seems to feel that beyond Syria for life the
Pacha can make no concession to the Four Powers, un-
less, indeed, that a successful insurrection of the Druses
drive Ibrahim from Syria ere the close of the autumn.
In that case the French might accept les faits accoin-
plis ; but should the Syrian insurrection fail, and more
stringent measures be resorted to, such as the employ-
ment of the troops of any of the Four Powers, then the
Chambers would be convoked, and the question of
peace or war would be decided by their vote. Much,
then must depend on the sucess of the attempt to create
an insurrection in Syria, in depriving the French of even
a pretext for interfering in behalf of the Pacha.
(From the Morning Herald.)

The movements of the Parisian operatives would ap-
pear to be much more serious than they were at first
apprehended to be. In France there has, for more than
fifty years, existed a body of men, who cling to the pro-
ject of what they style," social reform," and who regard
mere political changes as being in themselves absolutely
unimportant. The doctrines, which in this country
constitute " Owenism," or " Socialism," are, with slight
exceptions, the doctrines avowed by Robespierre, and
the " reformers" of his school. Robespierre, although
a great political " reformer," looked on all political
" reforms" as merely preludes to the great change
which he aimed at effecting in the relations that connect
the rich with the poor, the capitalist with the labourer.
Robespierre took part in the war against kings, nobles,
and priests ; but he regarded the war against shop-
keepers, money-owners. and contractors, as a war in
which it was far more necessary that " the people" should
engage. Robespierre triumphed' over the monarchy, the
nobility, and the priesthood of France. He fell before the
influence of the shopkeepers and the contractors. The
opinions entertained by Robespierre are, at this mo-
ment, the opinions of a formidable body of men in
France. The " Owenites," or "Socialists," in England
hold nearly the same doctiines as Robespierre did in
relation to the institution of property—although the
" Socialists" disclaim the use of force in the attempt
to attain their ends. In the United States, again,
doctrines nearly akin to those of Socialism are avowed
by the " workies" and the " locofocos." The French
revolution of 1830 called into dangerous activity the
sentiments which had animated Robespierre and his
party forty years before. The revolution of the " three
days" was a revolution' of which the object was the
subversion of monarchical and aristocratical power.
In effecting that revolution the middle classes and

the operatives of Paris made common cause ; yet
eaeh class cherished very different hopes from the
issue of the struggle. The middle classes
meant simply to secure for themselves all the
power which they sought to wrest from the Monarch
and the aristocracy ; and the middle classes succeeded
in the attainment of their ends. They succeeded,
however, by the co-operation of the mechanics and
artizans of Paris, who, in truth, decided the struggle.
The allies of the middle classes in 1830 have, how-
ever, proved their deadly enemies ever since. The
labourers of Paris hoped to secure for themselves a
monopoly of political power by means of universal
suffrage. They have less influence now, perhaps, than
they possessed in the time of Charles the
Tenth. Wages are no better now than ten years
ago ; work is not more abundant : the power of
wealth, on the other hand, is far greater—greater by
the full extent of that diminution to which the mo-
narchical power has been subjected. These are not the
results for which the operatives of Paris fought behind
the barricades in 1830 ; these are not the results to
which the middle classes taught the operatives at that
time to look forward. The operatives, then, deceived
themselves ; and the middle classes, for their own
ends, connived at the deception. Since the " glorious
three days," the state of society in France has been
utterly rotten. Class has been arrayed against class,
with a bitterness scarcely known in 1792. A supple-
mental revolution of some sort is, sooner or later, ine-
vitable. In England, we have witnessed the same
thing on a smaller scale. Our revolution of 1832 in-
volved the tranfcrence of a large measure of political
power from the aristocracy to the middle classes ; and
our revolution of 183i2, like the French revolution of
1830, was brought about by a union between the middle
and the labouring classes. To secure the co-operation
of the labouring classes, the middle classes promised
what they never meant to perform : hence their
victory has not been unassociated with bitterness.
All that hatred of monarchy, and of aristocracy,
which a portion of the middle classes in this
country succeeded during the period of the Reform
Bill in exciting amongst the order of labourers, has
been, at length, transferred to the middle classes
themselves. The shop-keepers—the borough " ten-
pounders"—are, at this moment, hated by the labour-
ers throughout England with a hatred such as .was
never exhibited towards the Monarch or the nobility.
Verily, the deceivers of the people both in France and
England have their reward ! What the issue of the
present state of things in France may be, it is difficult
even to guess at. The extent of the combination
which prevails amongst the workmen is yet undeveloped
—their schemes arc yet unrevealed. Louis Philippe,
moreover, is a man of consummate ability—a man ad-
mirably fitted to turn all the resources at his disposal
to the best possible account in repressing insurrection.
But let Louis Philippe do what he may, he cannot
control the influence which the anti-property theory has
long exercised over the minds of the operatives of Paris.
That theory is destined, sooner or later, to embody
itself in action ; and the action must be revolutionary.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)

The Times continues to labour in its profligate and
unpatriotic vocation of doing everything in its power,
by pure inventions and gross misrepresentations, to
increase the embarrassments with which the Foreign
Administration of the country is, unhappily, encom-
passed. After cataloguing the various powers with
which England is at variance, and creating quarrels
where none exist, the Times proceeds to ascribe all
our difficulties to the alleged imbecility or culpable
negligence of Ministers. Of course the inference which
the Times deduces from all this is, that there ought to
be an immediate transfer of the reins of Government
from the hands of the present Administration
to those of her Majesty's Opposition. To reason
with the Times, or to expect that Journal to re-
nounce an error when convictej of it, were just as foolish
an undertaking as it would have been to have engaged
in the hopeless enterprise of reclaiming Ferdinand
Mendez Pinto from his habits of systematic and
supreme falsehood when that gentleman was in
the zenith of his glory. The Times is incurably con-
firmed in its profligacy, and, like all practised criminals,
perpetrates its deliberate delinquencies without a blush.
Nor is this all. Let no one credit the mendacities of '
the Times, when that journal asserts or insinuates, that
we are unprepared for war. Though every thing has
been done by Lord Palmerston, which could be done,
consistently with national interests and the national
honour, to avoid hostilities with the Powers which
have been for some time so eagerly seeking a ground
I of quarrel with us, the Noble Lord has been saga.
cious enough to anticipate such a contingency, and hers
made all the requisite preparations for any emer-
gency that may occur. Do not the latest advices from
China clearly prove, that a powerful expedition has
been promptly fitted out in the East Indies, for the
purpose of treating the " celestial" gentry to a taste of
the logic which proceeds from the cannon's mouth—
the only species of logic which, it would appear, they
Are capable of comprehending ? In the case of Me-
hemet
Ali, azah it will, it we be not grievously mis-
taken, be found, Cie the lapse of one little month, that
there has been no remissness, no indecision, no want of
activity either at the Foreign or the Admiralty Office.
It were, perhaps, going too far to say, that the Times
should the whole of the Pacha's fleet be
shivered to pieces at the first onset of our ships—be
convinced that Lord Palmerston has not been all the
while asleep at his post ; but if there be no reason to
hope for a change of opinion on the part of the Times
on this point, there is at least some ground to expect

that we may be able forthwith to proselytise Me
Ali to our views. Here we may observe, by way of
parenthesis, that the Jove of Puddledock, with its pro-
verbial consistency in its inconsistencies—we hope there
is no Irishism in the expression—after having belaboured
Ministers for making no preparations at ail for war is
the East, actually proceeds to hurl his thunderbolts at
their heads because Captain Napier has, before the
expiration of the time allowed Mehemet Ali to de-
cide on the ultimatum of the Four Powers, seized a
number of his vessels. How the Gallant Officer con-
trived to capture these vessels without any preparations
for war having been made by this country, is a trifling
difficulty which we leave the Times to explain ; but we
beg to inform our Contemporary that Captain Napier
has been guilty of no precipitancy, nor of any infraction
of the spirit or terms of the Treaty of London in cap-
turing the Pacha's vessels, inasmuch as it was done by
the Sultan's commands, he being determined to punish
his rebel subjects, and not by the authority of the Eng-
lish Government. The remarks we have made in vin-
dication of Lord Palmerst2ti supersede the necessity of
any reply to the references to his Lordship contained in
the letter of our private correspondent in Alexandria.
Both the Emperor of China and Mehemet Ali, and
any other power that may be disposed to provoke us to
hostilities, will, we say again, soon discover to their
cost, that though we may not, like our noisy neigh-
bours in France, have been blustering and vapouring
about the extent of our preparations for war, we are
sufficiently prepared for any emergency, be what it may,
which can possibly occur.

NIONE Y MARKET and CITY NEWS

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(WEDESDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—The news from Egypt and India,
politically, have not been looked upon favourably in the
City, and certainly do not afford as yet any features of
a very encouraging character to support the value of
the public securities. Although the last published ac-
counts in the Morning Papers represent the emeutes at
Paris as being suppressed, the next advices from that
quarter are anxiously expected.
The public still remain holders of stock, but they
have not appeared much as buyers upon the fall, and
the Bull party has become considerably weaker. Several
heavy sales for money have been made by large capi-
talists lately, and some influential speculators for the
rise are known to be getting out of stock, but the
small bona fide holders do not appear to have been
shaken in their confidence that peace will be main-
tained.

Tlie reported curtailment of the honours of Commis-
sioner Lia has given some confidence to the expecta-
tion that the Chinese expedition will be the means of
bringing about a speedy renewal of our intercourse with
the Celestial empire.

Our Indian contemporaries appear doubtful whether
the opium trade will be legalised by means of the ex-
pedition or not. They incline to think that it has
been left an " open question," to be dealt with accord-
ing to circumstances—either to remain a sort of demi-
legal, half-and-half legitimate, half-smuggling trade, if
the Chinese showed adecided wish for the maintenance
of the status quo in that respect, or to be placed on a
proper commercial basis as a fair article of trade, if
that measure can be accomplished. The preponder-
ance of opinion in the Indian press, however, is that
it will be left just where it was five years ago, forbid-
den as a capital offence by the Chinese law, but ac-
tually countenanced and encouraged by the Chinese
authorities. This is not likely. The facts just
stated, that the trade in opium, although nomi-
nally contraband, was actually encouraged by the
Chinese Government, furnished the leaders of the ex.
pedition, and those who will have to deal with the
Chinese on the part of Great Britain, with power-
ful grounds for insisting that the past anoma-
lous state of things shall cease, and that the trade in
opium shall be placed on a fair and legal footing. There
is no doubt entertained that the powerful fleet which
was expected to reach China in the month of June
would speedily demolish the Bogue forts, and that the
land force would also do their work with celerity. But
those who knew the Chinese character best, anticipate
considerable delay and evasion in the subsequent nego-
tiations, and think it may be necessary to make the truth
known by a demonstration on Pekin. It is also con-
sidered doubtful by some whether, when the trade is
re-opened, a stock of any adequate amount of tea
will be found to buy from in Canton ; but this,
we believe, proceeds from neglecting to consider
the commercial character and cunning of the people.
When a trade again exists, the Chinese will soon
find means to supply the demand. The con-
temptuous silence with which the Viceroy of Canton
treats the petition of the American merchants for leave
to open their holds is highly characteristic, but the do-
cument itself is important, as showing that they would
implicitly observe the blockade, if, indeed, any doubts
remained on that point. It is manifest that there will
be an average importation of tea, and that, with the
stock now in hand in this country, we have no reason
to anticipate any deficiency in that article before the
next shipping season. The proscriptive edict of the trade
with the Americans has been winked at by Governor
Lin, and we observe that the opium sales of the Corn-
pany's territories have gone off briskly, and at a high
figure.

HERALD.—Now let any man read the list of prices
(of stock) here quoted, and consult the official list besides,
which will be found below, and calmly contemplate the
wreck of property therein exhibited. The unfortunate
people who have invested temporarily or permanently
are despoiled already to the amount probably of some
millions, for it must be borne in mind that however
comparatively harmless may be the damage to the
rich capitalist, who invests his money in securities
by way of assuring an annual and durable interest,
or what he may esteem a fair chance of it, the case
is far otherwise with a mass of persons who lodge their
spare moneys in funded and share funds from day to
day only as it were, and in order to derive something
in the shape of a return interest until they are wanted
for other purposes, such as more extended employ-
ment according to season in their own trade,
or the payment of bills falling due. Those
in this unlucky position are of course cut to pieces
on the sudden by a reverse of values impossible to
foresee. The mischief, however, is not confined to a
tall in values only, which might be retrieved by more
fortunate or prudent operations on other occasions,
but results in a total prostration of all values, by the
absence of a market and the almost impossibility
of converting the security article into hard cash
in the hour of utmost need. For, as before ob-
served in respect of railway shares, the quotations
are not more than nominal, and could not be re-
alised to any extent by holders whose necessities
should force them to attempt sales. Bankers neither
in town or country will any longer accommodate in
credit account on the faith of securities of this class,
but, as is well known, are on the contrary calling in
their credits on all hands and compelling customers
either to redeem and withdraw the sort of delcrederes
so lodged, or to reinforce them with others of a more
tangible and marketable description. This restriction
everywhere of banking facilities is of course the natural
consequence of the embroiled state of political affairs,
that is of foreign relations, which renders the eventuality
of a general war so probable that no man of common
precaution could fail to perceive the expediency of
placing his house in order and being prepared for the
worst.

TIMES.—The letters of this morning from Man-
chester are much occupied with the recent failure, al-
ready adverted to, of Mr. Henry Forth, commission
agent for the sale of manufactured goods, and the pro-
bable consequences to which it may lead. A meeting
of his creditors had been summoned by circular for the
15th inst., but so little was known in the meantime of
the extent of his liabilities, that they are variously set
down at from 90,0001. to 350,0001. His business in
that line was one of the largest in Manchester, and the
trade of the place is said to have been so much disturbed
by the event, that confidence was generally shaken and
few transactions entered into. Some further failures are
s ated to have taken place yesterday. Some steps of a ra-
ther unusual kind in banking affairs have been resorted to
by the Commercial Bank of Manchester to enable them
to continue business, one of which is a proposition to
those who had deposits with them previous to the sus-
pension, to allow them to be retained on payment of
interest at the rate of ti per cent. per annum. They were
also offering the same extra rate of interest for addi-
tional loans, to enable them to avoid for the present
bringing to market any of their securities in cotton-
mills and machinery, which could not fail, in the exist-
ing state of affairs, to prove utterly ruinous.
A correspondent calls attention to the cotton shrub
of Bourbon Island, as suitable for cultivation in Bengal
and Orissa, if not in other provinces of India. The
advantages proposed by the use of this cotton is, that
it is of a finer quality, and much longer in the
fibre, than that producedfrom the Bengal plant. An
experiment was made on the shrub by a gentleman
residing at Balasore, who having obtained a large
quantity of the seed, tried it on a tract of land which
he considered favourable. Having been sown about
a fortnight before the commencement of the perio-
dical rains, the germs came up in about six weeks, and
flourished luxuriantly during the first year. In the
second year it had the appearance of a ramous shrub.
It should be remarked that the shrub is not an rin-
nual, like the Bengal plant, but a perennial, which
does not begin to bear fruit till it has been sown for
three years. The seeds on which the experiment was
made were found to be fruitful in the third. year, the
crop was abundant, the pods full, but unfortunately
this produce was damaged through being saturated with
wet, the rains not having ceased. The samples, how-
ever, that were saved proved equal, it is said, to any of
the specimens of the shrub produced in the island itself.
Further experiment was prevented by the illness of the
party that made the trials, but still some plants are to
be seen in private gardens in India,
where they are
presorved as curiosities. These yield plentifully, and it
is said that the native gardeners collect the pods, and
sell the cotton in the bazaars for a higher price than
can be obtained for Bengal cotton.

POST.—The Committee of Spanish bondholders
Were in attendance to-day at Mr. Thornton's offices,
for the purpose of receiving the Count de Lara, accord-
ing to appointment. Late in the afternoon, however,
a note was despatched to the Chairman, intimating
that the Count had been seized with sudden indis-
position, in consequence of which he would be pre-
vented from leaving home. The intention was, we
believe, to submit to the Count de Lara a mode of
settlement of the claims of the bondholders upon a
comprehensive and liberal basis, every reasonable
allowance being made for the unfortunate condition
of the Spanish Exchequer. We are told that
the Count has felt some annoyance at the re-
marks indulged in by the Journals in reference to Isis
mission to the British capital. We are, however, quite
sure that nothing personally offensive to himself has
been contemplated. We may state, indeed, that the
Count is perfectly unknown to the moneyed interest of
this country, and that, as a matter of common courtesy.
credit has been given him for the most patriotic, and
(as regards the situation of the distressed creditors of
his nation) humane motives also. We arc still un-
able to offer anything like an official explanation of
the Count's project. We can scarcely regret, but for
the melancholy a,.iuse, that a little delay should occur
in the development of it, as a short residence in
England is requisite to the Count de Lara, in order to
give him a just conception of the injury that has been
inflicted on individuals and families through the non-
performance by the Spanish Government of its various
foreign engagements.

SUN.—The Stock market, owing to the accounts from
the Paris Bourse, was in a very excited state this morn-
ing, has since assumed a better appearance, and this
afternoon erery thing closed better, or nearly the same
as yesterday. The speculators seemed inclined to get
in at the low prices, but some of them are yet look-
ing for a further decline. Consols left off at 87i to
for money, and 88i to 4 for time ; Exchequer Bills
at 12 to 10 prem ; India Bends at S discount, and
the New 31 per Cents. at 961 to
The Foreign Stocks have given rise to a good deal of
speculative business, and in Spanish Bonds particularly
there has been a great deal doing. The Active
Stock fluctuated from 224 to 211, a fall of 21 per
cent. on the highest quotation of yesterday, in conse-
quence of the disorganised state of affairs at Madrid,
they closed at a rally to 22 ; Portuguese New 5 per
Cents. declined 1 per cent., or from 324 to 314 to
3U. The Three per Cents. were at 21 to 211.
Colombian Stock dropped from 224 to 20), but left
off at 22 for the Account ; Mexican Bonds of 1825
were at 241 to 241 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents, ranged from 491 to 50a. The market, like that
for our own Funds, was unsettled and highly sensitive.
In one or two lines of railway sales were made
freely to-day at a further loss. Great Western Shares
brought only 10 to 12 premium ; New, 11 to 21
prem. ; Brighton, 121 to 111 dis. ; Blackwall, 2.4- to
14 dis. ; Birmingham, 65 prem. ; South Western, 11i
to 12 prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, '2B prem.;
South Eastern, 18 dis. ; and Eastern Counties, 14 dis.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

It will be recollected that some months ago complaints
were made to the Lord Mayor personally and by letter
against a man who called himself Alexander Frazer, and
advertised in the Aberdeen and other Scotch journals
that he was deputed to lend certain sums of money to
poor residents of Scotland, from what he designated the
Douglas Loan, requiring at the same time that certifi-
cates of character should be sent to the advertiser, and
that these, if satisfactory, should be followed up by the
price of the stamps necessary to be affixed to the securi-
ties for the return of the loan. The Lord Mayor having
ascertained that Mr. Frazer's object was to raise the
wind by obtaining the money for the stamps, took public
notice of the fraudulent scheme of " the Douglas Loan"
at the Mansion-house, and checked its prosperity as soon
as he could by exposure. It happened, however, that
Frazer had directed that his Scotch applicants should
address him at No. 64, Goswell-road, London, a re-
spectable ale and coffee-house, and the consequences to
the owner of the house have been extremely injurious,
according to the statement of the poor man.
Witchureh, the proprietor of the house, No. 64, Gos-
well-road, waited upon the Lord Mayor a few days ago,
at the request of his Lordship, who had received valu-
able assistance from him in the course of the search
after Mr. Frazer, for the purpose of ascertaining whether
he had sustained serious injury, from the circumstance
of the swindler having had letters addressed to the
house.

His LORDSHIP took occasion to mention that Wit-
church was for many years the driver of the first
Brighton coach that started, and was much respected
by the highest people who resorted to that place.
Witchurch said that his customers to the house in
Goswell-road fell off in consequence of the unfortunate
fact that a person whom he never knew had called oc-
casionally at the house, and caused letters to be directed
to it. The moment he (Witchurch) suspected that
Mr. Frazer's intentions were suspicious, he, as the Lord
Mayor well knew, not only refused to take in any snore
letters, but conveyed several which had been perempto-
rily left at the house to his Lordship. The business
of the concern, however, notwithstanding his Lordship's
acknowledgment of his (%Vhitchurch's) endeavours to
assist in bringing Frazer to justice, declined most
alarmingly, and an execution was at length put
into the house, and he must have been ruined,
if it had not been for the humanity of Mr.
Holmes, the High Bailiff of Southwark, who supplied
him with the means of defraying the amount of the de-
wand. The lingering illness of his wife during the
continuance of his difficulties, and the demands of a
family of three children, made his conflict with misfor-
tune, at his advanced period of life, almost insup-
portable,

Tile LORD MAYOR said that nothing would give
him greater pleasure than to commence a subscription
for a man whose character was so good, and whose in-
dustrious efforts had sustained so injurious a check
from such a cause. He was convinced that his exam-
p:e would be followed by the surrounding gentlemen
whom Witchurch was in the habit of driving to and
from Brighton so many years ago ; at all events the ex-
periment must be tried.

Witchurch left the Justice-rrom most grateful for his
Llrdship's contribution and kind expressions towards
hi in.

THE NEW POLICE ACT.

IMPORTANT iTO LANDLORDS AND
TENANTS.

On Tuesday considerable interest was manifested to
hear the decision in a case of considerable importance
to landlords and tenants, at the Kensington Po!ice-
office, which is the first which had occurred of the
kind since the passing of the new Police Act.
Daniel Moriarty was brought before Mr. Pilkington,
the sitting Magistrate, charged on the Police-sheet,
with removing his goods from No. 11, Brook-green-
place, Hammersmith, with intent of evading payment
of his rent, and Edward Line, a carman, was also
charged with aiding and abetting him in the same.
Proof having been adduced,

Mr. Pilkington, on a perusal of the clause of the
Act under which the defendants were taken into cus-
tody (673), which run as follows—" And be it enacted
that it shall he lawful for any constable to stop and de-
tain, until due inquiry can be made, all carts and car-
riages which he shall find employed in removing the
furniture of any house or lodging between the hours of
eight in the evening and six in the following morning, or
whenever the constable shall hate good grounds for be-
lieving that such removal is made for the purpose of
evading the payment of rent"—was of opinion that he
had no power to inflict a penalty, the intention of the
Act being only the detention of the goods until the land-
lord co•ald be informed thereof, who then could distrain
on them.

The defendants were consequently discharged on the
agent making the distraint.

THE LATE BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

Yesterday, the Lord Mayor received the following
letter from D. W. Harvey, Esq., Commissioner of the
City Police. His Lordship considered the communica-
tion strongly symptomatic of the total suppression of
the nuisance

City Police-office, Guildhall, Sept. 8, 1840.
" MY LORD,-It gives me the greatest satisfaction
to be able to communicate to your Lordship the tran-
quil character which pervaded Bartholomew Fair from
the proclamation to its close, notwithstanding the dis-
appointment occasioned to the frequenters of such
scenes from the curtailment of its duration in the num-
bers of days and the hours of each day.
."fhough the singular absence of offences may be at-
tributed in a considerable degree to the activity and vi-
gilance of the police, whose cxamplary conduct I feel it
only Just to attest, yet much, or more, may be assigned
to the cheering influence of moral improvement in the
sentiments and character of the people. In confirma-
tion of these views, I have to state that throughout the
three days only six cases were brought to the station-
house of the Smithfield divison, four of which were
discharged upon hearing before the Magistrate ; one
other, for attempting to pick a pocket, was sentenced
to seven days' imprisonment, and, the sixth, a charge
for uttering a bad shilling, remains for further bearing.
" It is due to the persons who hired grounds for
booths and stalls, and also to the numerous publicans,
to state that they most readily conformed to the regu-
lations of the Alarkets' Committee, and that at an early
hour on the Sunday moraing not a vestige of Bartholo-
mew Fair was to be seen.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
(Signed) "D. W. HARVEY."

A new trial is to be applied for in the case of
Hearne v. Stowell.—Liverpool Courier.