The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-02 00:00:00

duties now charged on beer and British spirits,'
the additional consumption would require a
greater quantity of grain than could by uny pos-
sibility be imported from the Continent, and the
quantity of British labour which would be re-
quisite to pay for the Foreign Grain imported,
would give beneficial employment to many who
are now living in idleness on the labour of
their neighbours. Not only would a vast
proportion of the Poor's Rates, now charged
to the industrious, for the maintenance of

the unproductive classes, be saved, but an in-
creased consumption of British agricultural
produce would be the consequence of the ad-
ditional employment, which the manufacturing
labourers would receive, by supplying the na-
tions with articles of home production in payment
for the corn which would be imported from them.
The sum of money, paid by Great Britain for
foreign grain, would revolve many times round
the wheel of commerce, would, in its progress,
dispense benefits to thousands of families, and
and would eventually settle in England, as the
source from whence it had orignally flowed.

TURNPIKES.

TABLE OP THE LENGTH OP ROAD, INCOME, AND
EXPENDITURE OF THE SEVERAL TURNPIKE

TRUSTS IN ENGLAND.
Counties. Miles.

Bedford . .
Berks - -
Bucks -
Cambridge -
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland -
Derby - -
Devonshire -
Dorsetshire -
Durham
Essex - -
Gloucester -
Hants -
Herefordshire -
Herts

Huntingdonshire
Kent - -
Lancashire -
Leicester
Lincoln
Middlesex -
Monmouth -
Norfolk
Northampton -
Northumberland
Nottingham -
Oxford
Rutland - -
Salop -
Sotnersetshire -
Staffordshire -
Suffolk - -
Surrey - -
Sussex - -
Warwick
Westmorland -
Worcester
Wiltshire
Yorkshire

146
610
640
445
537
157
315
271
358
499
301
342
18
930
758
627
279
281
616
460
284
768
588
- 1,426

41;6
19,705
42,645
29,110
9,591
44,206
32,218
20,446
6,091
42,328
28296
80,182

Expenditure.
1:17,993
- 15,082
- 14,998
- 14,754
- 15,354
7,792
6,153
- 17,952
- 29,603
- 10,357
. 15,660
. 23,655
. 31,494
- 26,992
- 12,630
- 24,551
- 10,073
- 62.784
. 80,574
- 19.556
. 22,752
. 86,050
7,110
7,090
- 25,450
- 13,372
10,887
10,930

Wales .
Scotland

18,329
2,591
3,611

1,047,409
37,672
129,635

20,4115
37,845
26,820
8,815
42,066
43,6611
16,559
6,163
41,57.1
27,119
99,650

1,002,194
41,1111
152,820

Great Britain 24,51 .E 1,214,710 £1,196,925
The average income per mile in Great Britain is 49/. 10s.
40. (or, in French money, 1,237 f. 94e.) and the whole income
exceeds the expenditure by 17591/.

THE DouuTrut. FitANK.—Some time ago, a
Member of Parliament, well known in the convi-
vial circles, applied to the Post-office to know
why some of his franks had been charged. The
answer was, " We did not believe them to be
yours, the hand-writing is not the same." " Why,
there is a little difference, I grant ; hut the real
truth is, I had made rather free with the bottle
when I wrote them." " Then, Sir, will you be
so good in future as to write drunk when you
frank in that state."

MANUFACTURE OF PAPEII.—The quantity of
paper of the first class which paid duty (3d. per
HO in 1823, 38,927.7381b5. ditto, ditto, second
class (duty 11. d.) 11,74005-gibs.
Information was yesterday sent to Read, jun.
of Batton-Garden Office, that a young man,
acting as a general agent, has absconded with

475/. the property of Mr. EDWARD Gitioos, late
of the Black Horse public-house, Mile-End.
CONTEMPT OF COURT.—In the last American
papers we had the following amusing story told
with great gravity :—" Several articles have late-
ly appeared in the National Intelligencer, and
some other papers, purporting to give a history
of certain late transactions of Judge Brecken-
ridge, in Florida, and hi vvhicii the Judge has
alternately been censured and defended. The
difficulty arose from this Circumstance :—A para-
graph was published in a Florida paper reflecting
upon the Court. The Editor of that paper gave
up Mr. Steele as the author; and as both Mr.
Steele and the Editor were members of the bar,
the Judge ordered a rule to show cause why they
should not be suspended from the bar. It ap-
pears, from the history of the affair given by the
Judge, that in making his defence, Mr. Steele
offered a most gross insult to the Court, by saying
in a rude and violent manner toe bye-stander "The
Judge of this Court is my enemy ; he is the friend
of my accuser ; I have affidavits to prove it." Thus
(says the Judge) leaving me no alternative but to
quit the bench, or commit him to prison. He was
instantly committed for three hours, and would
have been committed for a longer time, but that
he might thereby have been furnished with an
excuse for abandoning his defence, from the very
serious charges made against him. He was sent
for before the time had expired, but positively
refused to accompany the officer. lie was, in
consequence, permitted to remain until the Court
was about to adjourn. He was
again sent for,
in order that he might be discharged, with a sa-
lutary admonition. When he came into Court
his conduct was rude and insulting ; he had a
segar in his mouth, a stick in his hand, a pistol in
his waistcoat pocket, and appeared to be in a
state of inebriety. 4 You have sent for me, Sir ;
here I am, Sir;' was the manner in which he
addressed himself to the Court. He was mildly
admonished, and fined fifty dollars for his iude-
corous deportment. With these facts before us,
we cannot but marvel how any person could be
found who would step forth as the friend and
apologist of the offender, much Jess cast reflec-
tions against a Judge who bad with so much
mildness and forbearance exercised the power
necessary to preserve the dignity of the Bench
against such repeated and wanton insults."