The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1851.

MR. MUNTZ AND THE " TIMES."

The controversy between Mr. Muntz and the Tiaaw•s
has excited intvti ino-rest tbrough(att the country.
The Times article of the 27th, in reply to Mr. Mull' z's
letter, proves, we thick, very little. In one respect
it is an improvement on the former articles, it
abounds less in those peculiar " fl:►wers of rhetoric "
with which the uneducated part of the lower classes
of society are wont to supply the place of argument.
The Times may rest quite assured that the advocates
of a just and reasonable reform of the monetary sys-
tem will not be put down by low abuse.
We beg leave to call the attention of our readers
to a very able article which we have extracted
from The Sun, which leaves little that we think it
necessary to add on the subject. The Times, how-
ever, stands up manfully for the convertibility of the
ba►hk note. Let Mr. Mintz, it says, take fifty notes
of 1,0001. to the Bank, and he will obtain sovereigns
at the rate of :3/. 17a. 101(1. an ounce. Very true ;
but can the Times tell how long this may condone
the ease ? NVlen Sir Robert Peel brought fox-
ward the Bid of 1844, he admitted that the con-
vertibility of the bank note had basil endangered
at four sevrral periods—in 1825, 1832, 18?,7, and
1839. And how stood the case i❑ 1847, und,r
the " perfect" wasure of 1844? On the 28'h
October, 1847, according to the Bank return the
liabilities of the Bank amounted to 34,612,0911,
while its assets in gold and silver coin and bullion,
amounted altogether to 8,312,6911.—0 r rather less
than 53. in the pound. The deposits of the bankers
and' merchants amounted at the same time to
8,580 5091, and had they, as was talked of, with-
drawn these deposits, not one sixpence would have
remained to " convert" the paper of the Bank into
gold. But, further, by the Act of 1844, 7,865,445/.
of the gold and silver held by the Bank was locked
up in the " Issue Department," and could not be
touched ; while in the " Banking Department"
against the 20,318,175/. in the hands of the public
the Bank held only 447,246/. of gold and silver coin,
or about 51d. in the pound ! The truth is the Act
of 1844 is entirely a fair weather Act; as long as the
foreign exchanges happen to be in our favour, and
there is no demand for gold, the Bank pays away
sovereigns, but when the demand arises and the con•
vertibility of the note is tested, the system breaks
down, and after causing the ruin of thousands of
traders of undoubted respectability and solvency who
are then unable to convert their real wealth—their
merchandise, bills, or goods—into bank notes, bits of
" worthless paper," but which, being the only legal
tender, they must obtain or stop payment,—after
causing distress and entailing years of suffering on
hundreds of thousands of operatives and labourers,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer suspends the con-
vertibility of the bank note, and the panic ceases.
The Times speaks of these panics as an "occasional
hitch." We believe the sums already sacrificed in
these " hitches" amount to much more than the sum
total of the national debt, and all this has been drawn
from the productive classes, from the merchant, the
landowner, the farmer, the trader, and from the hard
work of the labourer and operative. The manufac-
turing districts of this country are only now recover-
ing from the effects of the "hitch" of 1847, and should
the existing money laws remain in force another
period of depression must arrive, the effects of which
will, we fear, be even more severe than any we have
yet experienced. With no feeling of disrespect to
the Times, we call its attention to these plain facts.—
Derbyshire Courier.

BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—The an-
nual meeting of the donors and subscribers to this charity
was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, last
evening ; Mr. John Sharp, president of the institution, in
the chair. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings,
stated that during the past year the society had been more
prosperous and flourishing than in any previous year of its
history. The charity had now been upwards of 22 years in
existence, and it had gradually risen in favour until it
was now one of the most important institutions of the kind
in the metropolis. His Royal Highness Prince Albert had
graciously condescended to become its patron, and had given
a handsome donation of twenty guineas. The minutes of
the last annual meeting having been read and confirmed, the
secretary then read the managing committee's report of the
operations of the society for the past year. This document
stated, in addition to the facts mentioned by the chairman,
that many new subscribers had been added to the charity
during the year, and that 1,3591. 15s. bad been realised from
subscriptions, a sum exceeding the amount raised in any
former year. The subscriptions and donations collected at
the last anniversary dinner amounted to 51S1. 13i. 6d. At
the last annual election ten additional pensioners were
' placed upon the list of recipients of the society's bounty.
300/. had been invested in the purchase of Three per Cent.
Consols during the past year, making the total amount of the
charity's funded property 12,0431. 7s. 7d. The treasurer's
report showed the receipts of the institution for the past year
to have been 2,559/. 12s. 3d., and the expenditure 1,687/.
10s. 4d., leaving a balance of 872/. Is. Ild. in the hands of
the bankers. The report, together with the statement of
accounts, were unanimously adopted. Several formal reso-
lutions for modifying the rules, regulating this extension of
relief from the funds of the charity, and for {be re-election
of officers, were next proposed and severally agreed to; and
after voting thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated.
In Overton, Tenn., the census taken found a lad) ,
named Stevens, whose age was 120 years. She was married
at the time of Braddock's defeat. lier youngest sou is a
smart lad of 70.

SOCIETY or ANTIQUARIES.—Yesterday evening w at.
held the first meeting after the usual recess, and three new
fellows were elected—Messrs. Smee, Cole, and Boyd. Mr
Oinry, F.S.A., set a very good example in presenting the
three works of the English Historical Society which were
wanting to complete the set already in the library. He
also presented a drawing of a memorial stone existing in
North Wales, Dr. Meligain sent a bronze lamp of about the
Bth or 9th century, with the ordinary Christian symbols,
which attracted a good deal of attention, and was thought
by some members to be of the seventh century. Mr. George
Ticknor, of Boston, United States, the author of the " History
of Spanish Literatui e," at the instance of the writer of it, sent
a privately-printed volume relating to the history of his fa-
mily, which had represented the state in Congress for many
years. A paper was read from Captain Snob, director, to
the President, in continuation of his former communication
on the subject of horology and the very curious clock belong-
ing to the society, dated 1525, which had been presented by
King Sigismund of Poland to his Queen Bona. It also, by
permission of the Queen, gave an account of the remarkable
clock at Windsor. which had been presented to Anna Bo-
leyne by Henry VIII.
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DIABOLICAL ACT.—On Friday night last a most
diabolical act was committed at Coombe St. Nicholas, near
this town, but fortunately unattended with any fatal conse-
quence. It appears that about twelve o clock on the night
in que-tion some scoundrel contrived to throw down the
bar chimney of Gillard's Dragon Inn, in that village, a
canister of gunpowder, which, immediately on reaching the
fire, exploded with great noise. The force of the shock threw
the servant girl (who was the only person then in the room,
and at some distance from the tire) on the floor, burnt a
portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her in several
places, but we are happy to state not severely. Had the
wretch perpetrated the outrage a few minutes earlier, the
consequences would have been dreadful, as Mrs. Gillard, the
landlady, had been sitting by the tire with an infant in her
lap, and had only retired just as the mischief was done. We
trust the parties implicated in the affair will be speedily
discovered, and receive the sentence which justice demands.
—Sher borne Journal.

ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE
CRILDERN.—A meeting of the subscribers and friends of this
charity took place yesterday at the School, Westminster-
raad ; Mr. \V. F. Beadon, in the chair. The report stated
that there were five candidates to be elected in April next to
the vacancies which had occurred. There were at present
sixty-five children in the school, who were boarded, clothed,
and educated, and out of the six hundred who had been
educated in that inztitution, there was not a single instance
iu which they had not turned out to the perfect satisfaction
of their employers. The building committee's report spoke
most favourably of their prospects. They had lately suc-
ceeded in purchasing two acres of land on Wandsworth-com-
mon, close to the Clapham station, for the erection of a
suitable school. 'The price they had given for this land,
though large, could not be considered exorbitant, when they
considered the locality and other favourable circumstances.
It was the intention of the committee to build a house, com-
bining all the improvements of the modern times with the
comforts of the olden. The state of their funds was also
most favourable, and there was every prospect that this
charity would continue
.to flourish. The report was unani.
mously adopted, and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman,
the meeting separated.
AFFECTION AND CONFIDENCE OF SINGING BIRDS.
—These little creatures, if we would narrowly watch them,
possess the most singular attractions, exhibit the most
romantic attachment. Not a movement of their master or
their mistress escapes their observation. They may be
taught, easily taught, by affectionate care, to come out of
the cage, when called
.for, or to set on the finger and sing
when requested. A simple movement of the head, or ex-
pression of the eye, will accomplish this; whilst the reward
of a bit of hard-boiled egg, or a morsel of loaf sugar, will
speedily cement an intimacy terminable only by death—the
attachment of birds knows no other limit. I have verified
this, times out of number. I have rarely found, during a
long experience of twenty-five years, any great difficulty in
taming a bird, or, indeed, an animal of any kind. Instinct,
on some occasions very closely bordering on reason, un-
' erringly teaches the lower order of animals to discriminate
extraordinary familiarity, apart from
who are their friends, andwho are their enemies. This is
birds and other animals exhibit when
dale
in the presence of their masters or mistresses, on whose
lmfeosnrs,trwitibl
ileeh bsyo
mt hee
fingers I have known birds to sit and sing with the most
, perfect confidence.—William Kidd, in the Gardeners'
Chronicle.

NOVEL PROCEEDING.—On Sunday last the Rev.
Mr. Harper, the recently-appointed vicar of Selby, after the
usual morning service, took his place in the pulpit, and in-
formed the congregation that he should that day commence a
practice which he had long intended to pursue—that of
preaching a sermon, not of ins own composition, but written
by another person. His reasons-for pursuing such a course
were, first, that there were many sermons by some of the best
and ablest divines, which, in consequence of not being
weregem-
le renderedti
ine which
vliwas comparatively
o
ped by the writing
of so many sermons every week might be employed by
useless; anti se-
rc'ellnlydl37,atdh, at the
him in other useful matters connecting with the ministry.
The reverend gentleman then read from a printed book
„imon which he said he had heard preached with
l
great effect in the Cambridge University, The sermon
was on the subject of sin, and was evidently a produc-
tion of no common order in regard to merit.—Doncaster
Gazette.
SUIC,I DE 1W A CHILD. —On Wednesday ;t girl, only
twelve years of age, named Mary Ann Barnes, living with
her aunt at Ilartlebury, was playing about with another
girl, when she suddenly jumped into the Stour. It appears
that she had broken a sugar basin and eaten some of its t on-
teats that morning, and being fearful of the consequences (
the act, plunged into the river. It was two bouts beful
the body was got out. An inquest was held by Mr. Hughes
on Friday, and the jury found that she 'F Drowned h.-ma
without any apparent cause ;" a verdict apparently, as
these kinds of verdicts astlailY are, quite contrary to evi-
dence.-IVorcester Chronicle.

METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS

ACT AN]) THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

PARISH OF ST. JAMES'S WESTMINSTER.

Yesterday a special meeting of the board of vestry
was held in the Vestry-room of St. James's, West-
minster, the Rev. John Jackson, Rector, in the chair,
to receive the report of the committee upon a letter
from the Board of Health, requiring the vestry to
decide whether they would transfer to the board all
power over the present parochial burial-grounds,
upon being indemnified from all encumbrances attached
to those places of sepulture.

The Vestry-clerk read the report, which recom-
mended the transfer of those burial-grounds to the
Board of Health, upon the parish being indemnified.
Mr. Lewre moved, and Mr. GREEN seconded the
reception of the report.
Mr. NELSON moved the adoption of the repe,rte aid
said that he hoped that at once and fur ever, the dis-
gueting and dangerous practice of broyieg the dead
not only in cities and towns in open grtiVeurds,
would be discontinued, hut that, also, the vaults under
churches would be cheed.—(Hear, hear.) Through
the labours and exposures ot Altrrd Walks r,
the Board of Ilealth ordered, in 18,;9, the closure
of metropolitan burial grounds end vaults; but
the Commissioners under the Interments Act,
instead of supporting the Board of Health,
allowed grounds that were closed to be re-
opened ; and hence at that very time twenty- flee
and thirty bodies were buried in deep gray se with
scarcely any earth between them, and but little co-
vering the surface.— (Shame.) It was further sr-
raeged that the compensation to be paid would be
calculated according to the preceding five years, re-
ceipts ; so that the deep grave system was closely
followed to enhance the value of the ground. And
some owners of burial-grounds offered sepulture at a
reduced rate to increase their trade in death and their
own revenue.—(Hear, hear.) Was that the course
that should be pursued ?—(No, no.) If grave-yards
were closed in 1849, what inconvenience would arise
from their being closed now? The Vestry-Clerk of
St. Andrew's, Holborn, acknowledged that the
churchyard was re-opened to maintain their right for
compensation. Were the people to be sacrificed to
that paltry, unworthy object ?—(No, no.) Mr. Nelson
enumerated the several over-crowded churchyards,
vaults, and grave-yards,in the metropolis, and called
upon the parish of St. James to lead the van in put-
ting down those nuisances, which were as disgraceful
to the country as they were destructive of morality
and life.
Mr. Churchwarden GEBSEN seconded the meson.
He felt that jobbery was in all matters which Govern-
ment took in hand. He had hoped that the Interinnts
Act would have enabled the city and liberties of
Westminster to have their own burial-ground, but
instead of that the Act included the cities of London
and Westminster and the borough of Southwark; so
that the clause might as well have designated the
division as including the two cities, the county of
Middlesex, and the county of Surrey.—(Hear, hear.)
He also complained that Government gave the power
over burial-grounds to a corporate body, instead of
allowing the several parishes to provide their own
burial places. But (continued Mr. Geesen) what
confidence could the people have in a Govepiment that
in its appointments threw overboard George Alfred
Walker—(Hear, hear)—who sacrificed purse, person,
and profession during twelve years, while he exposed
the abomination and proved its fatal effects ?—(Hear,
hear.) Why were not his suggestions acted upon ?
(Hear' hear.) Why was not he called to the councils
of the Board of Health ?—(Hear, hear.) Because he
was too honest and was beyond purchase.—(Hear,
hear.) What had Government done ? Nothing.
Instead of purchasing ground, they allowed private
speculators to anticipate and forestall them. He
trusted that the parish of Sc. James would act for
itself by purchasing its burial-ground, and placing it
under the control of an efficient conicuil tee.—(llear,
hear.) And he also hoped that Mr. Walker right
himself before the-public by disavowing the Interments
Bill, which gave general, and he might add, unquali-
fied dissatisfaction.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. G. A. WALKER felt highly flattered by the
kindness with which his name had been mentioned
by the preceding speakers. He assured the vestry
that, far from being a party to the Bill, the labour of
his life was dedicated more to the production of facts
than of a remedy. As far back as 1839 he thus
wrote in his " Gatherings from Graveyards :"—" I
am, nevertheless, so fully convinced of the necessity
for legislative interference to destroy the present dan-
gerous system of inhumation, that I hesitate not to
express my opinion that the Government of' the
country will ultimately be driven to the adoption of
means for enforcing the prohibition of interments in
the vicinity of the living."—(bears hear.) That pre-
diction was fulfilled in 1850. In many respects the
Bill is objectionable; but the whole matter was in a
nut-shell—cheap land and a cheaper mode of transit.
But although common land could be cheaply and
easily procured near London, GOO/. and 7001. an
acre had been paid for cemeterial ground.—(Hear.)
Mr. Geesen asked him to throw out some suggestions.
He (Air. Walker) had already done so, and printed
those suggestions, which he forwarded to every Mem-
ber of Parliament, every editor, and every corporate
body of the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) lied Govern-
ment acted upon those suggestions they night at leant
have treated for, if they would not purchase, land. As
Woking-common was spoken of, he might state that
he understood that the South-Western Reilway Com-
pany were willing to convey dead bodies for less than
sixpence a body, which removed all difficulty on that
head. He had intended to lay before them that day
a series of facts in a concentrated form ; but those
facts he would defer to another time. Lie hoped that
the active and intelligent members of their board
would lose no time in promptly and efficiently acting
upon any measures calculated to put down intramural
burials. They should remember that they were on
the eve of the great national Exhibition (which he
trusted would be brilliant and successful), and that it
was a remarkable fact that such an over animalisa-

tion, or crowding of millions together, was generally
attended by the most deplorable results, producing
pestilence and death.—(Hear, hear.) It was a
terrible reflexion that within a century five
million of dead bodies had been buried in
our lanes, streets, thoroughfares, under our houses,
and our churches and chapels, where the living were
congregated to worship their God.—(A voice—" And
under the very room where we are.") That was a
sad reflection on their professing themselves to be
Christians.—(Hear, hear.) He would not impute
blame to the Board of Health, for he believed they
meant well. But there was a power behind them
which would, ere long, make the people speak out.
He hoped that power would not put them on their
mettle.—(Hear, hear.) He also found fault with the
attempt of Government to interfere unfairly, as he
thought, with the trade of the undertaker. They
might as well make coffin plates as coffins.—(Hear,
hear.) Although they could not drive the plough-
share over whole blocks of houses, in which men,
women, and children vegetated, more like fungi than
that of human beings, yet they could prevent the de-
posit of so many tons of dead corpses, which were
heaped and stacked in pits like bricks without the
usual interposition of mortar, not a handful of earth
between them.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") Mr.
Walker concluded with a brief description of his pro-
posed plans and operations for wholly removing the
depositaries of the dead from among the living.
Dr. LANCASTER highly eulogised Mr. Walker and
his labours. He advocated local self-government as
regarded burials, and c'eclared that if Government did
not instantly and unconditionally suppress burials in
or near cities, towns, and human habitations, that they
would ineur deep and everlasting disgrace ; and he
further expressed his conviction that Government was
bound to acknowledge in a proper and substantial
form the services of Mr. Walker, who had first ex-
posed
,the enormities of intra-mural sepulture.
Several other gentlemen having similarly expressed
themselves, and the motion having been carried,
Mr. NELSON rose, and as one of the deputation
explained the result of their interview with the Com-
missioners of Sewers, for the purpose of inducing
them to withdraw the special rate proposed by them
for the new sewers that were being formed in the
parish, which interview was anything but satisfac-
tory. He stated that although the parish paid in
twenty-two years 565,0001. sewers rates, that there
were in it 666 houses without drainage. In White-
chapel thirty-six courts and thirteen streets were
without sewers; and in St. Giles's nothing for
years had been done to the sewers until last month.
Church-lane, Carver-street, and St. George's-street,
in that parish, were also without sewers, and yet
sewers were built in Victoria-street, where the houses
were not finished.
Mr. GEESEN—Mr. Peto, M.P., I believe is inte-
rested in that street.—(A. laugh.)
Mr. NELSON exposed the abuses of the Sewers'
Commissioners, under which one-halt the sum laid
out in improvements were expended in its manage-
ment. If Government (said Mr. Nelson) were really
serious in their anxiety to promote sanitary measures,
they should abolish the present dilettanti mode of act-
ing followed by the Commissioners of Sewers. They
should give them local Acts, similar to those con-
tained in the Scotch Bili, brought forwardtast t-es-
sion ; they should give them a new Building Ac:;
they should give them an abundant supply of water,
repeal the window-tax, and abolish the duty on soap.
—(Hear.) In conclusion he expressed his convic-
tion that the Commissioners of Sewers had not the
power to impose thu special rate.
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MANCIIESTER, JAN. 9.—STATE OF TRADE,—_
There is no change in the market since Thursday last.
Business is quiet, but prices are very firm. Inquiries are still
being made for tho yarns suited for India, but are yet scarce
and clear.

THE NEW YEAR.
(From the Derbyshire Courier.)
We cannot allow the occasion of the publication of
our first number for the year 1851 to pass, without
returning our best thanks to our friends and sub•
scribers for the very encouraging support which we
have received during the past year. Our circulation
during that period has been much larger than that of
any previous year since the commencement of the
Courier, in 1828. This is the best possible evidence
that our labours have been appreciated by the public.
And in thus speaking we accord to our friends,
equally with ourselves, their fair share of approbation.
The great English moralist has said justly that

" We who live to please must please to live."
The venality of the public press is frequently re-
marked on, but let the public ask themselves
what do they do to encourage a manly, inde-
pendent tone of feeling in thcee who provide
them with information and tender their sugges-
tions on passing events. is, however, our
that the g?uwitg intelligence of the time is dmily
seeking, from the public press, -ornething more than
an echo of the opinions or prejudices of parties or
classes. Acting on this belief, it hes been our en-
deavour to edvucate Truth rather than Party, and the
general welfare than the advantage of any section of
the community. it has been our sincere wish to lead
our readers to the consideration of what we believed
to be a just and right view of public affairs, rather
than by holding in the beaten track of public opi-
nion and flattering preconceived notions, to secure
support. The result has shown that we were not
mistaken, and that the public is prepared to record its
approbation to the journalist who honestly, boldly,
and independently makes the promotion of the general
weal his first object.'
it is unnecessary for us to particularise the line
taken by the Courier on the general or local topics
which have been recently brought under discussion.
According to the Nonconformist and the member of
the Romish Church that liberty of conscience, and
those rights of citizenship which are man's unalien-
able birthright, we have thought it our duty when
the subjects of church-rates and Papal aggression
were brought before us, to uphold what appeared to
us the just demands of the English Church, and to re-
sist the unjust, unwise, and tyrannical usurpation of
the Church of Rome.

As to secular affairs, we have every reason to be
satisfied with the prominent part we have taken in
attempting to direct public attention to the important
question of monetary reform. We do not regard that
subject as one of mere philosophical inquiry, but as
involving in its practical effects the best interests of
all classes—high and low—of the community. If it
were merely an abstract question we should leave
it to the investigation and research of learned and
scientific men. It is because we believe it to be in-
timately connected both with the preservation of the
noblest institutions of the nation, and with the wel-
fare and happiness of the great masses of the people,
that we so earnestly advocate this question. In doing
so we have attempted to render a difficult subject
plain and intelligible to all thinking men of ordinary
capacity—and this, we think, not without a consider-
able measure of success.

We need not further remind our friends of the
exertions which we have made to lay before them re-
ports of various public meetings during the past year,
to an extent equalled by not many of our provincial
contemporaries; nor of the amount of original corre-
spondence on many interesting and important topics
which, by the kindness of our friends, has appeared in
our columns. We shall continue to do all in our
power to support the character which, we are happy
to think, the Courier has obtained.

Finally, we beg leave with sentiments of grateful
acknowledgment, to wish to our friends in this county
and in the various parts of the country to which our
labours extend, a very happy new year.

BEER-POTS.--IMPORTANT /17 V MENTION.

Yesterday an invention, deserving of the serious
attention of licensed victuallers, was brought under
the notice of Mr. Paynter, at Wandsworth Police-
court.

It is a generally known fact that the licensed vic-
tuallers of London and its suburbs are sufferers to a
ruinous extent by the wholesale plunder of their
pewter pots, and that the facility of the disposal of
the metal, either in its manufactured or fused state, is
a matter of no difficulty. Not a week passes but a
case of pot-stealing arises, and the statements made
in some instances of their losses by licensed victuallers
would be deemed hyperbolical if facts did not bear
them out ; and as a proof of the extent to which this
system of plunder is carried, it may be stated that on
one occasion a licensed victualler of Westminster
proved that in one month he was robbed of eleven
dozen of pots.

To remedy or, in fact, to annihilate this great evil,
has been the earnest desire of the police magistrates,
and various have been the suggestions thrown out by
them, even to not lending out their pewter pots ; but
the licensed victuallers are convinced that it would be,
in a measure, the ruin of their trade.

It is twelvemonths since Mr. Paynter, after com-
mitting a man for stealing at one time no less than
twelve pots, belonging to different licensed victuallers,
all of which had been cut up and flattened, said to the
prosecutors present that there many very clever men
who, if the licensed victuallers united and offered a
reward of 1001. for a measure that could not be cut
and doubled up, like the present pewter measure, and
were otherwise difficult to destroy, he had no doubt
they would speedily obtain what they wanted, and the
evil would entirely cease.
Yesterday Mr. Samuel Stocker, of Arthur-street,
New Oxford-street, hydraulic engineer and beer-
engine manufacturer, waited upon Mr. Paynter, and
addressing that gentleman, stated that in consequence
of his noticing two reports of cases of stealing li-
censed- victuallers' pots, under the head of " Wands-
worth," in the Morning Advertiser, twelve months
since, he had determined on renewing some experi-
ments he had tried some four years since in manu-
facturing a pewter pot or measure for licensed vic-
tuallers, which, whilst retaining all the properties of
the article in use, should be so made as to be in-
capable of being cut, bruised, or flattened ; and what
was still more important, unavailable for melting, and
consequently valueless to the thief. Mr. Stocker
continued his observations respecting his invention,
explaining the process of manufacture, and concluded
by producing samples of pots or measures he had ma-
nufactured and patented. They were certainly to all
appearance superior in style and durability to the
present measures, and will, according to the inventor's
account, be much cheaper. Mr. Stocker said the
worthy magistrate had by his remarks induced him
to persevere, and he had therefore done himself the
honour of exhibiting to his Worship, in the first in-
stance, the fruits of his invention, although not alto..
getter in a perfected state.

- Mr. Poynter expressed himself highly gratified,
observing it was only on the previous , day he saw
some pots exposed at a door, which brought to his
recellection how desirable it would be that something
similar to what he had suggested should be brought
out, little thinking that he should see the very thing
that day. He thought it a very great benefit to the
licensed victuallers, and the sooner such an invention
was adopted the better for the morals of the people.
The licensed victuallers would then escape any chance
of fine for their pots being deficient in measure, and
crime would be much lessened.—Advertiser.