The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-24 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT NORWICH.

(FROM A CORRESPOND T.)
NORWICH, Auo,. 2l.—This day, precisely at twelve
o'clock, John Randalsorne was executed for the murder
of his wife, on the bridge of the Castle-11.11. An im-
mense concourse of persons were present to witness the
awful scene, and notwithstanding all remonstrances
hundreds of women and children of all ages were spec-
tators also.

TN wretched culprit appeared to be sinking from
mentel or physical exhaustion, and was obliged to be
supported by two attendants on the scaffold even until
the drop fell. The executioner was very quick and ski,
All is his arrangements, and the poor wretch was speedily
swinging in the air a livid corpse. A. thrill of horror,
toil partly suppressed exclamation, accompanied by a
ttirt, pervaded the whole multitude when the drop fell.
Thus perished in the prime of life the unhappy man,
the justly convicted murderer of a defenceless wife.
Whatever may be the general effects produced on the
minds of spectators at public executions, it is ncly jus-
tice to state that upon this awful occasion the multitude
conducted themselves in a very quiet, orderly manner,
a:id there appeared to me to be much less of levity of
manner than is generally witnessed.
It is not yet publicly known that he has made any
confessicn.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(SATURDAY EVENING.)
TlMES.—Great curiosity is felt in the city with
respect to the publication of the evidence taken by the
Select Committee on Banking. Various conjectures
are made, and various projects are rumoured about, as
to what system of currency will most probably be
adopted. Among others the followieig is said to have
been recommended, and has excited some attention.
The Bank of England is to be the sole body in the
United Kingdom which can issue promissory notes
payable to the bearer on demand. This arrangement
would, of course, include the suppression of all other
banks of issue, unless indeed, other institutions were
allowed under the control of the Bank of England,
which might have the power of issuing notes. With the
existing banks there is to be no further interference,
but thoy would conduct their banking business as
usual, with tine sole exception of issuing notes payable
on demand, other than those of the monopolizing body.
For keeping out the circulation of the bank notes the
existing bankers are to be allowed a commission of 15s.
per cent. ; that is to say, if the interest charged by the
bank were four per eent. the private institutions would
have to pay W. .ss. per cent. for the amount they circu-
lated. This plan is said to have been introduced to the
Committee by Mr. Norman, the Bank Director, and is
therefore presumed to be one of which the Bank Di-
rectors generally approve ; but other sections of the
banking interest throughout the country, among whom
ome hints of this nature have been circulated, are up
in arms about it, and meditate a very strenuous opposi-
tiol. Most people will doubt the fitness of the Bank
Directors, alter the specimens given of their manage-
ment for many years past, to undertake so important a
ust, and there Etre clearly many other circumstances
to be considered before this measure, or any measure
resernblkg it, can be brought into operation.

POST.—The stock Markets laboured under great
depression again to-day, Consols being at one time
quoted as low as 89i for the Account. They seem to
still affected principally by political causes, but we
rather think some uneasiness is felt by our capitalists i❑
consequence of a rumoured defalcation in the revenue.
It is said that the public accounts exhibit, so far as the
quarter has proceeded, but a very meagre appearance
compared with those applicable to the corresponding pe-
riod of last year, allowance being made for the increase
lately established by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in
the duties and taxes. The duty on foreign wheat is
already reduced to Gs. Bd. per quarter, and it is ex-
pected to go still lower, in the event of which the stocks
on hand will be cleared for consumptio❑ ; but the
Treasury will not benefit by this to an extent worth no-
twing. A4nong the items named in which the threat-
ened falling off is expected to be conspicuous, that of
hop duty is regarded as the most formidable. The sum
usually derived from this branch of the revenue has
not, if we recollect rightly, been much under a quarter
of a million for many years past. This year, however,
it is estimated at theinsignificant amount of from twenty
to twenty-five thousand pounds only, and heavy wagers
have been staked upon the event, The anticipation of
a. deficit so—considerable in the receipts of the current
quarter is founded, no doubt, in a great measure, on the
knowledge which exists that there has been of late a
good deal of stagnation in many of the leading depart-
ments of our commerce. The quotations rallied mate-
rially towards the close of bnsiness.

HERALD `—The private letters from Paris notice
the .momentary failure of a very large *peculator and
-epitalist on the Bourse there, whose differences amounted
to the enormous sum of 150,0001. Every claim upon
hi.e was subsequently and honourably met, but such an
event serves to show to what an inconceivable extent
stock gStnbling is carried on there. It is pehaps not
improbable that the stoppage was intentional, as
tending, if the same rules in such matters obtain on the
Paris Bourse as in the Stock Exchange here, to facili-
tate the liquidation of his accounts by establishing one
uniform price, viz. that of the moment, at which the
differences airing and receivable must be settled. For
instance as he was an operator for the rise, and was
th,refore a purchaser of stock in much larger quan-
tities than he could take and pay for, he would on or
before the day of settlement hive been forced to
become a considerable seller, that is, to throw vast
amonats of time and money stock on the market, where
pacer were already declining, and with such heavy
sales must naturally have given way still more ; a state
of things bad enough for the unlucky speculator, but
generally rendered sill worse by the speculators for the
fail, who perceiving the nature of the operations going
on press down the market still lower with other sales
so as on the liquidation of accounts so to have de-
pressed prices as to enhance their own profits by all
the difference between the purchasing and selling
prices of the embarrassed loser. The fortunate ar-
rangement Of the large account of this speculator,
teeth some others, besides defaults, which created strong
appreheneiens for the issue of the settlement of the
account to be gone through this week in Paris, had
considerably allayed the uneasiness before prevalent,
at el it was considered that it might be got through with-
out any particular difficulties more than the transfer of
fortunes from one class of stock-jobbers to another.