The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1810.

the cause at Hull, and the spirit and splendour of which
the Tories, though they may attempt to sneer at, can-
not deny. The Reformers are cheered with the hope of
shortly seeing their respected Lord High Steward among
them, and then we hope plans of co-operation may be
formed which shall lead to the introduction of a second
Reform Member, and then the Tories may bid good-bye to
all their greatness. Their reign ends with the defeat of
their present Member.

The LORD MAYOR said that appearances very much
favoured the latter supposition, and asked the prisoner
how he obtained the little support which it was evident
he received? The prisoner said that he was a weaver,
able to work, but withput employment, that he had a wife
and seven children living, or rather starving, in the
neighbourhood of Spitalfields, but that he expected to
get something to do in a day or two.
The LORD MAvon—W. hy do you not apply to the
parish officers? The prisoner—My Lord, I might as
well apply to the parish stones. No body knows how
' a poor family are treated the moment they apply for
help. It's all rightif a man starves quietly, but he's
the greatest rascal in the world if he makes a noise
about it.
The LORD MAYOR said he supposed there was no
wish to prosecute the unfortunate man.
The complainant said that there Was not the least
disposition to do so, if the story told about the seven
children proved to be true.
The prisoner—lf you will send your officers with
me, your Lordship will soon learn whether I have
told the truth. If they find me out in a falsehood, send
me to prison.
The LORD MAYOR—You say you have seven chil-
dren ? The prisoner—l have seven, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR—AII dependent upon yon for
bread? The prisoner—All, my Lord, and all withou':

bread.
The Lora) MAYOR—I shall send an officer with you-,
and if he find your children, he shall leave you with them.
The officer then accompanied the prisoner, with di-
rections to report as to the statement of the weaver,
and-also to make inquiry of the returning officer of the
parish, in which the prisoner resided, on the subject.
A strapping -woman, who said that she got her liveli-
hood by her needle, was charged with having violently
assaulted and bitten two policemen. •
The defendant was seen staggering into a gin-shop
by a policeman, and the moment she entered she began
to blow up the man of the house far having refused to
make her more drunk. As she was determined to have
?in or revenge, the policeman prestimed to interfere,
whereupon she struck him most violently. He then
quietly put her down, and immediately received a dread-
ful bite on the back of the hand, a piece of which she
actually took out with her teeth. Another policeman
having come to his assistance, also received assurance
of the strength of her jaws by a bite as severe, and it
was with extreme difficulty they succeeded in taking
her to the station-house. They both described her as
more like a demon than a woman.

The LORD MAYOR (to the woman)—Why, these
poor men mily actually be seized with madness from
being bitten by such a fury. What have you to say for

yourself?
Defendant—l'm not used to drink, and I suppose
it was the gin that done it. I. can't think that I
went into the gin-shop, however, for I don't know such
places, as I stay at home quietly, and work at my
needle.

Several policemen said that the woman was one of
the most constant votaries of gin on the streets of the
City, where she plied every night.
Inspector Brake said that he had known her for some
time,and that she was able to (trick and fight like a man.
The defendant—Discharge me this once, my Lord,
and you shall never see my face again as long as you
live ; at any rate, as long as you are Lord Mayor.
The LORD MAYOR—No ; you must find bail. The
bite of such a desperate animal, must be worse than an
ordinary bite. You must be locked up till you procure
good bail.

Overseers' Liberals. 'Jones
PAILISIfES. made' sust. made suet. made sust.
Hillingdon
Harzfield 3 3 5 3 0 0
Northolt
Mayes
Great Greenford
Uxbridge lO 10 3 2 2 1 0
Ruislip .......... 6 6 3 1 2 i 1
Periwale ......
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0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ickenham 1 1 0 2 1 1 ' 1
1
West Drayton
Cowey
nc, revls:on of the lists for the
Total 33 I 31 30 16 13 I' 5
rural districts is now

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house,
The Revising. BArristers;vill hold revision of the lists for the rural districts is now
dLeuddgate-hill.
, upon which the Retorny.;rtsbehiravceoguaritnseidbias
majority of 52 over their onnonent3.
day and follov,ing days, at. the London 'Coffee-
, Southall, was delayed about a
side of that place. On inquirin,T, of
On coming up by the Great Western Railway from
West Drayton yesterday, the train, after stopping at
quarter of a mile this
one of the guards
the cause of the delay, we were treated by him with
great incivility. We deemed it our duty to the public
to make a representation of the circumstances to the
superior officer at Paddington, who gate Cie guard a
severe admonition. We merely notice this occurrence
to show our readers that insolence and incivility of pas-
s,T-ng-ers is not tolerated by the Directors of the Groat
Western Railway Company.
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MOVE I MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY EVENING.)

CHRONICLE.—The English Funds opened this
morning with considerable firmness, Consols for the
Account being quoted at 871 buyers, at which quota-
tion they remained for some time, alternately buyers
and sellers. Some sales, however, having been effected
by the Bank broker in New Three and a Half per Cents.,
combined with an appearance that the forthcoming
settlement would turn out a Bull account, produced
a gradual decline in prices to 84 to 871, at which
they closed.
By the Hamburg mail which arrived this morning,
the Exchange is quoted the same, but gold has again
declined one mark, which circumstance mtly be looked
upon as somewhat favourable to the state of the Ex-
changes.
By advices from Lisbon of the sth instant, we learn
that the proposals of the Finance Minister of Portugal
ro:ative to the foreign debt have been referred to a
Committee in the Senate, whose report was to be pre-
sented to the Chamber almost immediately after the
sailing of the packet. The report would contain the
unanimous approval of the proposals of the Government,
and after it was disposed of the Cortes would be . pro-
rogued. We are gratified to learn by the most recent
advices that the Queen of Portugal was considered
out of danger.
The report of the Select Committee of the House
of Commons appointed to inquire into the several
duties levied on imports into the United Kingdom,
as just been published. The Committee state that

the evidence adduced before them was of the most
valuable character ; and that, as they could
not do justice to it without entering upon
a complete analysis, they would confine themselves to
a report of the general impressions which it had pro-
duced upon their minds, being persuaded that it must
create a strong conviction that important changes are
required in the legislation of our Custom-house. The
Committee most justly say that the tariff often aims at
incompatible ends, the duties being sometimes meant
to be productive- of revenue, and also to operate for
protective objects ; hence they sometimes act to the
entire exclusion of foreign produce, and in so far pre-
vent the receipt of revenue by allowing that primary
object of fiscal regulation to be thwarted by an attempt
to protect a variety of particular interests at the ex-
pense of the revenue, and of our commercial intercourse
with other countries. The Report states that " the
schedule to the Act 3 and 4 William IV., c. 56, for-
consolidating the Custom duties enumerates no fewer
than 1,150 different rates of duty chargeable on im-
ported ai tidies, all other commodities paying duty
as enumerated." The evidence of Mr. Porter, of the
Board of Trade, gives the whole Custom revenues re

eeived in the United Kingdom, for the year ending Ja-

nuary 1840, at 22,962,6104, of which seventeen arti-
cles, producing above 100,0001. each, gave 941 per
cent, or - • - - - - - £21,700,630

Twenty-nine articles produced 3 9-10ths,

- 898,661

These forty-six producing 98 `2-sths pc r
cent., or - - - - - 22,399,291
All other articles, amounting to 144,
produced 1 3-sths per cent., or - 363,319

Showing that 190 articles, exclusive of
about 80,000/, collected upon 531
other articles, and excluding 147
articles upon which an excess of
drawback of 5,3981. was allowed,
produced the total revenue of - X 22,962,610
The whole is contained in 8 schedules of 862 articles.
The Committee observe that the effect of prohibi-
tory duties, while they are wholly unproductive to the
revenue, is to impose an indirect tax on the consumer.
On articles of food alone it is averred, according to the
testimony laid before the Committee, that the amount
taken from the consumer exceeds the amount of all the
other taxes which are levied by the Government. It is
gratifying that the Committee found a conviction grow-
ing up among those connected with some of the most
important branches of our manufactures that the effect
of the protective system was not on the whole beneficial
to the protected ; while the real amount levied on
the plea of protection does not exceed half a million
sterling ; and several- of the witnesses expressed
the utmost readiness that -the tariff should be
abolished, to make room for a mote liberal sys-
tem of commercial policy. The Committee add, that
while on the one hand there is reason to believe that
the liberalizing of the tariffs of Great Britain would
lead to similar favourable changes in the tariffs of
other nations, so it is seriously to be apprehended that
a persistance in our illiberal and exolusive policy will
bring with it increased imposts on, if not prohibitions
against, the products of British labour being admitted
to other countries. The Committee observe that the
interests of the public revenue have not been the pri-
mary consideration in levying the import duties.
Sometimes competing foreign produce is excluded, and
in -others . checked by high differential duties levied for
the protection of British Colonial interests ; and •in
conclusion, they'recommend that the whole system of
differential duties and restrictions should be recon-
sidered, and a change effected to a more liberal and
equitable state of things, saving existing interests as
much as possible in the transaction.

POST.—The stock markets were firmer to-day,
owing principally to the more favourable quotations re-
ceived from Paris, the late rise at the Bourse, which is
reported to be about 2 per cent., furnishing grounds for
the hope this the Eastern question is beginning to be
viewed in the French capital with more sobriety and
good sense thin it has been, and that war may after all
be averted. The bargains concluded in the after part
of the day were at rates a fraction lower than those
current at the commencement of business. It seems to
be generally considered, that should the French nation
push matters to extremes, the Bank of England must
of necessity have recourse to decisive measures in order
to prevent the drain of gold from their cellars, which
would be the natural and inevitable consequence of
such a proceeding. Hence the continued instability of
prices.

The affairs of the Commercial Bank of England are,
we hear, in a gradual state of settlement. The loud
complaints made by parties intimately connected with
it, as to others who were alleged to have exercised a
wrong discretion in refusing them further advances,
would have been more just had a prompter liquidation
of the bank's accounts proved the steps then taken to
have proceeded from an error in judgment. As it is,
the inferior class of traders who, in the small towns
where their branches were located, had opened ac-
counts, and had been tempted to do so by advances,
are now severely suffering. In some cases the advances
have been made upon security of the shares, which are
become an almost unmarketable commodity, or, if
at all saleable, must be parted with at an enormous
loss. This species of advance will be the last to be
called in for the most part, and no just estimate of
the Company's affairs can be formed until such ac•
counts are adjusted. It is to be feared that money
has thus been lent to parties who have no securities to
offer besides, and in all such cases, the loss will have
to be borne by the solvent shareholders. A practical
illustration is thus afforded of the bdd policy of any
joint-stock bank makit:g advances upon its own shares,
Inr, when such facilities are afforded, many persons of
inferior means are induced to embark far beyond their
powers in speculations which experience proves are but
too, hazardous.
A rumour has reached us of the intention of two of
the former managers of this concern uniting for the
purpose of carrying on a sort of bill-broking business in
Manchester, and of rendering assistance to what are
supposed to be eligible hoUies who had accounts at the
joint-stock bank; and it is further given out that a
London banking-house has proffered its aid. The pro-
ject is, in the abstract, feasible enough, and promises
tuccecs, but it may be doubted, after what has taken
place, whether the connection in question is worth pre-
servation.

SUN.— The circumstance of the price of Stock com-
log over 2 per cent. higher from Paris had a favourable
effect upon our own Funds, but we apprehend that, in-
dependent of the purchases of the Bears, to make up
their accounts by Wednesday next, prices would not
have been so well maintained. There is very little
doubt but that the additional per centage levied upon
all taxes in the last Session of Parliament will, when in
full operation, be sufficient to- bring up the revenue of
the country to a par with the ordinary expenditure ;
but whether it will also .cover the extraordinary outlay,
occasioned by the vi.xations Eastern question, is not
quite so certain. The. prospect of a new loan, or the
funding of Exchequer Bills, in the present state of the
country, is certainly not a very pleasant one ; but we are
satisfied that honest and impartial men will have the justice
to allow that these are oircumstancesover•which no Go-
vernment could exercise a control. Consols opened at
Kra to 4, for Money, and at 871 to for Wednesday,
but as the Bears became gradually supplied the Market
nave way a little, and the closing value for both was
8711 to I. - Exchequer Bills were marked 2 premium to
par, and India Bonds 12s. discount, being each a trifle
Netter. India Stock was steady at 2441, and Bank
Stock at 166 to 1661. The New Three-and-tpliall per
Cents, rose to 97, but closed at 96g. When the divi-
dends are paid there will perhaps be an increased de-
mand for stock.

Two afternoons since a woman, in an advanced
state of pregnancy, entered an omnibus in the Rue St.
Denis. ' By the. motion of the carriage her accouchernent
was ,brought on. The conducteur, with much presence of
mind, stopped the vehicle, desired all the other passengers
to alight, and sending for a midwife, the vehicle was con-
verted into a lying-in room, where afine baby was b:ou,glit
into the world, and was afterwards
conveyed, with its
mother, to her own home, where they are both as well as
can be expected.
After ten years' silence the swan of Italy, Ros-
sini, has at length- roused from his Blushers, and is at
present occupied- in a r. lig/lutist
composition, a solemn.,
march, which is to be playedat the funeral procession of
Napoleon's remains.
Two PILOTS DROWNED.---Tw°
Pilots, named
Hanlon and Edye, natives of Cawsand, were drowned on
LARGE SALMON.—On Saturday last John
returning from a Russian ship, which they had piloted out Morgan, when an lino in the river Wye, near Bredwar-
of the S ;end. After leaving the ship, they became intoxi. dine bridge. hooked a very fine salmon, which, although
cated, and in attempting to land at bast is Morgan advanced in years, ~nd has but one hand, he
men immediately
swamped, and both Cawsand, the
sunk. They were j succeeded in drawing to terra firma with all safety. The
married, .and have left wives and thirteen children,— fish was in very fair condition for the time of }ear, ar.d
Devonport Independent. ' weighed 261 pounds.—Hereford 7'intes.

Spanish Bonds left off heavily at 21:-4, Portuguese
New at 31i, Colombian Six per Cents, at 21-1, and
French Five per Cents. at 105.
Shares were rather lower than on Saturday, but
scarcely a bargain was effected. The Great Western
Railway Shares were at 16, the Birmingham at 70 to
72, and the South Western at 13* premium. The
New North Midland Shares obtained 1, and the
4.istern Counties declined to 131 discount.