The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

Lopolsip MONDAY, DECEMBER 1p 1856.

bullion stored in the vaults at Threadneedle-street
have been considerably increased, while the active
circulation has been again largely diminished. ; Neuchatel sin Ally ar Ld definitively (as we have
The change, too, has been going on steadily, and seen) as his Pr inci"pa lity, speaking of his right to
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there is therefore every reason to suppose that the 'its allegiance as
incontestable," and " unques-
tide has at length turned, and that the drain of I tionable," and so -forth, and referring to his policy
bullion from our shores has been arrested.
hitherto, in re. teard to the whole question,
For these assertions we have indisputable as having been d listingeished by a " moderation"
"facts and figures." Within three weeks the
universally recog eised throughout Christendom—
notes unemployed, or, in other words, the sum pertly adds, " any case I will not consent that
available for the private business of the banking my forbearance should become an arm against my
department, have received an addition of more °WYI rights." Keening literally, of course, that
than one million and a quarter, or 43 per cent., whatever may be the view taken of this matter
by the rest of Europe, by the aggregate of
on the amount in hand at the beginning of last
the Great Po-viers, by Neuchatel itself, by
month. The augmentation of the reserve of notes
during the week ending the 7th ultimo was the deliberativecouncils of the entire Swiss
Confederation —— he (Ceeeenoe) is pot-valiantly
206,000/. ; on the 14th there was a further in-
resolved single-handed, and aided solely by the
crease of 456,380/. ; while en the 21st there was
the enormous amount of 611,2401. added to the sacred prestige of what he calls his rights, to
fling the gage of battle in the teeth of Christen-
previous increase, or nearly 1,275,000/. within
that brief period. dom.
On the 14th ultimo the stock of bullion was There is a rather amusing similarity discernible,
154,0151. higher than the preceding week, and by the way, just now, between the attitude assumed
the improvement up to the 21st was 213,4691., timultaneously by King CLICQUOT of Prussia—
or 367,4841. within a fortnight. Within three and King 80312 A of the Two Sicilies. The latter
weeks, also, the active circulation or notes in the defensively. The former aggressively. His
hands of the public have been reduced by nearly Majesty of NAPLES, not so very long ago—Don't
one million sterling in round numbers—the de- we all of us remember it vividly enough ? just,
crease on the 7th being 297,0001., on the 14th for all the world, as we might remember by a stitch
309,9501., and on the 21st 386,4501. There is in the side caught from laughing at either over-
even reason to suppose that the account to the muca, a better joke than usual in Punch, or some
28th will show decided progress in the same di- excruciating hit from the jestful pen or pencil of
rection, inasmuch as it was within that period the Ctarivari—his Majesty King BOMBA, not so
that the Bank was enabled to rescue a portion of very long ago, tickled the risibility of Europe by
the gold that arrived by the Australian ships a precisely similar fanfaronade. Talked of calling
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from the grasp of the Continental cormorants. out his armLe Spoke of drawing the sword.
But for all this there has been no relaxation in Hinted at f/iihe ter away the scabbard. The dread
the rate of interest ; 7 per cent. is still the mini- retaliation et rubel out in cei,e,era over Frauuo
and England, and for that matter over the whole
mum rate of discount by the Leviathan—a charge
that implies from Bto 12 per cent.-to the mer- of the rest of the Great Powers of the European
C
chants and manufacturers who have not discount Continent—the dread and awful retaliation of a
accounts with the Leviathan, and who must pro- War declared against "a world in arms" by that
cure money to meet their liabilities and pay wages most puissant potentate the King of the Two
at any cost, unless prepared to submit to absolute SICILIES. No wonder that after that—but very
ruin. What does such a rate of interest lead to ? little more has been heard of an Anglo-French
interference with the conduct of the Neapolitan
Bankers and brokers will rejoice at a state of
affairs that enhances their profits, always high, to Government. The consequences of such a rup-
extravagant amounts. They will utter joyous ture as the one alluded to by King Boan3A as not
pecans at the plethoric appearance of their purses by any means improbable, being altogether too
alling to be seriously entertained for another
The ancient cry, " Great is Diana of the Ephe- 21313
sians," will be re-echoed through Lombard-street five minutes. And now a congenial " Coz "
and its vicinity. of King BOXEA—King CLICQUOT to wit—What
But what is fun to them is death to the indus- saith he to the affrighted ears of Earope ? Why
trial classes, .from the highest to the lowest. The this—" As my people may be convinced that I
commercial and productive classes look to such cling to the recognition of my duties, and to the
r
rates with the most serious apprehensions, as in- reconciliation of my relations with Europe as the
volving considerable losses, if not absolute ruin, rule of my future actions, so am I perfectly con-
If there were no reasonable hope of speedy
vinced, if circumstances exacted it—{o dire fore-
provement they would abandon business, which boding of disasters in posse !]—that the Prussian
they carry on without profit. Their anxieties and people would prove their fidelity and devotedness
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labours are all for the benefit of others. Theo the honour of my Crown with an energy that
moneyocracy appropriate the legitimate fruits of will brave all risks." Assuredly if King BOKBA'S
their exertions. " vos non vobis, fortis cratra attitude bore a certain similarity, the other day, to
boves." They bear the yoke, but enjoy not the the little mannikin XIT, sparring, with a squeak
returns. They are indeed worse off than the of defiance, at the hugeous forms of GOG and
oxen, who are lodged and fed at the expense of MAGOG—the attitude just assumed by King
their taskmasters, while they must live from their CLICQUOT is hardly, in many respects, one, jot less
own resources, no matter how they can be obtained. ridiculous. The reality of the matter in regard
Under such circumstances can we feel surprised at to this Swiss affair about Neuchatel being simply
the commercial frauds which have recently excited this—that the band of insurgents, now
the surprise and indignation of the community ? about to be placed upon their trial for
The victims are first plundered in due form of high treason during the course of this present
law, and then they endeavour by craft and fraud month of December, will, beyond all doubt and
to spoil the Egyptians, and to win back by any as a thing of course, be found guilty and formally
means the money they have lost. We do not, of condemned for lize majesty against the Federal
course, intend to apologise for the delinquents. Government ; and being so found guilty and con-
Nothing can justify or even extenuate such demned, will doubtless, equally as a matter of
conduct ; but there can be no better mode course, be thereupon contemptuously set free—
of insuring commercial rectitude than by the sentence pronounced upon them having duly
allowing mercantile enterprise and activity satisfied and vindicated the outraged rights, the
to reap its legitimate rewards. It would scarcely "incontrovertible" and "unquestionable" bove-
be advisable for the moneyocracy to destroy the reign Rights of the Helvetic Confederation !
That, we take it, is pretty much about what his
goose which has been producing golden eggs on
MAJESTY of Prussia will get by his motion. That,
very slender encouragement. The usurer, who
ventures little and produces nothing, should be as the cant phrase runs, is pretty nearly "about
contented to see the creators of the national the size of it !" And much good may it do him
wealth retain for their own use a portion of the —this grandiose result of this portentous rhoelce
profits realised by their indefatigable exertions. montade.
The foundation of all this enormous grievance)
the teterrima causa mali, is obvious to all who
take the trouble of looking beyond the surface. A
brief investigation into the different values of
temporary and permanent investments will satisfy
any person of ordinary comprehension that it is
not capital, but currency, that is required. On
Saturday last Consols for the 4th December closed
with firmness at 941 to while for the New Ac-
count, on the Bth January, sales were effected at
95 to Deducting the dividend payable on that
day, 11. 10s., this will leave the rate of interest
which the public are contented to receive, at
something less than 31. 45., or 3 1-sth per cent.
At the same time, the Bank minimum, on unex-
ceptionable securities, having short periods to run
before arriving at maturity (they will touch or
oven look at no others), is 7 per cent. ! The
Times, the recognised organ of the bullionists,
tells us that we are the wealthiest nation in the
world—that there is no lack of capital for any
legitimate purpose ! It graphically depicts
the frightful inconvenience of a high
rate of interest for money, which it truly
declares to be " a great national disaster,"
and yet it advocates the law that produces that
untoward state of affairs ! There is, iu fact, a
superabundance of wealth ; all that is required is
that there should be an adequate measure and re-
presentative—or that a due proportion thereof
should bo converted into the convenient and ne-
cessary form of a circulating medium sufficient for
the national exigences, and thus supplying the
very life-blood to industry. It is the rumours
and unnecessary contraction of that circulating me-
dium that occasions all the evils which the Times
so feelingly deplores! Why then should we starve
in the midst of plenty, and endure cold and hun-
ger, because the cloth merchant cannot measure
his wares with a golden yard—or the corn-dealer
supply weights of the precious metals. Other less
costly substitutes are provided, and notes, gua-
ranteed by the nation, and receivable in payment
of taxation, would be better for all domestic pur-
poses than gold. They should, however, be
really national notes of small and convenient de-
nominations, issued by a department responsible
to Parliament for the discreet discharge of the
important trust confided to its hands. As our
esteemed correspondent, C. W. S. (to whose ad-
mirable letter, in this day's impression, we ear-
nestly invite attention) says, "The sooner the
Bank of England
ceases to be a Corporation, car-
ried on for the profit or loss of private persons,
and becomes a Government institution, with notes
issued on Government securities, the better !"

arrogating to him self a "right" to an extension
of his sover eigutr over Neuchatel—talking of

His convivial Majesty Ring e zct:rrodiayta, tallied,
in his Speech from the Throne on on
of—
"nay Principality of Neuchatel !" His Imperial
Majesty the Escrsnon OF ALL THE RIISSIAS
might just precisely as well talk of—his Princi-
palities of Moldo-Wallachia ! Yet the man who
speaks thus of what is notoriously to all the rest
of the world one of the Cantons of Switzerland
_babbles, almost in the same breath, about his
solicitude to preserve, in unison with the rest of
the great powers of Europe, the maintenance of
the present rather dubious tranquillity Hid
Majesty, while thus flagrantly and insolently

Talk of Prussia's Rights of Sovereignty over
Neuchatel ! Rather perilous babbling this
on the part of King FREDERICK WILLIAM •
IV., - suggestive as these insolent preten-
sions are of the emptiness of certain other
and rather larger territorial claims of sovereignty
on the part of the Prussian Crown ! Recalling
to mind, in fact, the unnatural relation in which
France and Prussia have been standing in refer-
ence to each other ever since the bungling botch-
work made of the map of Europe in 1815—when
the Rhenish provinces, were by a monstrous act of
folly and injustice, awarded to the Royal House of
BRANDENEURGH, in defiance of that obvious geo-
graphical necessity which constitutes the Rhine in
one direction the natural boundary of France.
Let King CLICQUOT forcibly drag before the
world the great and complicated question
as to what are really and truly the ter-
ritorial rights of sovereignty belonging
to the Prussian Crown and as certainly
as a detected thief is liable when hauled into a
court of justice to have his plunder torn out of
his clutches—at one single stroke of a pen,
at one single flash of a sword those
beautiful Rhenish Provinces, from Tre ves
to Cleves, will be raft for over from the grasp of
Prussian domination, and restored to France as
part and parcel of tho Imperial dominions of the
third NAPOLEON. So that by reason of the fool-
hardy pretensions of King CLICQUOT, not only
will Neuchatel be retained as an integral portion
of Switzerland, but, sooner than might otherwise
have been practicable, France may be enabled to
reassert her sovereign rights over Cologne and
Aix-la Chapelle.

We read of Austrian and Neapolitan trials by
interested judges, of convictions of innocent men,
and of barbarous sentences relentlessly carried out,
as a matter of course ; and we hold up our hands
with great self-complacency, as if England were
al together exempt from the abominations of Naples.
If we mistake not, however, there is one section
of our laws, and one department of their adminis-
tration, which for their iniquity and the atrocities
of their administration can hardly be surpassed in
Naples or Milan. The game is not so high, and
the punishments necessarily not so protracted, but
the animus of laws and judges in both cases is
equally vindictive and relentless ; we may add
that the results in the manufacture of criminals,
ultimately of ticket-of-leave men, and then of
victims for the gallows, can be surpassed in no
country in Europe. Our readers may have guessed
that we refer to the game laws and the country
magistrates. In no other part of our code, and
in no other class of judges is there now left the
same malignant effort to victimise an offender.
In no other department of justice are judges
tainted with suspicion tolerated ; indeed no judge
allows himself to incur suspicion by trying a case
in which he has a presumable and obvious bias.
To the gime laws is left the infamy of being in
direct opposition to the convictions of all but
game preservers, and of the game preservers mak-
ing themselves both judge and jury, in trying,
convicting, and fixing the penalty of every
offender brought before them.

The Bank Returns for the week ending the
21st instant, so far as the corporation itself i 3
concerned, are of a peculiarly favourable charac-
ter. The reserve of notes and
_the amount of

A little while back we had a cue to report of a

THE SUN, LONIYON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1856

respectable young farmer'sent to gaol for "poaching

on his father's land." That seemed bad enough ;

but on Saturday we gave a case from the Norfolk
News, with all particulars, of two :labouring men,

JOHN LOADS and WILLIAM HAGION, being sen-

,enced by some Norfolk Magistrates to one

month's imprisonment "for trespassing on their
own land !! !" Let the magistrates' names be
well remembered—one was; a Lord—Lord .HAST-

INGS j one a clergyman—the Rev. J.. IL &AMU ;

she two others were Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr.

COZENS-HARDY, but the latter gentleman, much

to his credit in such company, refused to concur
in the conviction. A lord, a clergyman, and we

suppose a decent country squire, concur to send
two honest persons to prison, and it appears, by
the logic of agricultural wages, their wives to

everywhere by all peoples. But the country he
fought for, the country whose freedom he
perished in achieving needs a vindication
that none can confute, and he that runs
may read. This will be afforded by the
WALL ACE Monument, and in this point of
view, the projectors have our cordial approval.
It is too late ; at all events it would be unwise
to stir up the question of nationality in a manner
calculated to be offensive to Englishmen. It was
for liberty, and not slaughter, WALLACE fought,
and they would dishonour instead of consecra,,,ing
his memory, who associated with a test,',nioniai
anything to which Englishmen of the r;resont day
could reasonably object. He is D'.J Englishman
who does not admire and honwn WALLACE, he is
true S o t
oc
thef Aot carry with the mo-
nument
pra
zriot to Abbey Ciaig the
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hearty respect of a na;
ra a
Scottishw h
would
cion whose own liberties
have been won from potentates like EDWARD, who
was his foe. We do not say this because we be-
lieve absorption to be necessary to the union of
the two countries. Far from it. But simply to
guard against a danger which it were well to have
averted. Let Scotland be alwP,,ys Scotland, glory-
ing in her traditions, and proud, as she has a
right to be, of her posi.',ion -
; but may the day
never dawn when England and Scotland cannot
reciprocate admirat'hon of each other's worthies—
men whose deed,,, truly rendered, were not for
one people cr. one generation merely, but for all
People auf.a for all time.

the workhouse, for trespassing on Common
Rights undeniably belonging to the tenements in
which they dwelt. Unmoved, supposing them to
be legally right, by the obviously natural grounds
for the offence, unmoved by zhe poverty of their
victims, unmoved by public opinion around them ;
unmoved by the sufferings entailed through the
temporary widowhood and orphanhood of the
families, these English, not Neapolitan, judges
had not a drachm of mercy for the consolation of
the immediate and the indirect sufferers. The
line and the expenses, the whole of them, or a
month's imprisonment, was the alternative ! Too
poor to pay, the victims of a lord, a parson, and
a squire, are dragged off to a mouth's imprison-
mint, with hard labour ; and all for trespassing
on their own land !

Game was the inspiring spirit of this outrageous
injustice. The land, about one hundred and
twenty acres, belonged as a common right to the
oottalva% and to some others of the 4puted tres-i
passers. They went to it to catch rabbits—not
very noble game we used to think in our sporting
experience ; but the right of shooting over the
common had been let by the trustees, with
what right does not appear, to a gentleman, we
suppose we are to call him, of the name of
BARKER. Mr. HARDY thought the trustees had
no power to let the sporting over the common ;
but even if they had, seeing that the men had
undoubted right to cut furze or turf on it, might
they not be forgiven for seeking such a poor man's
game as rabbits also, on their own. territory ?
How were they to comprehend that any gentle-
man could object to their getting for once a Sun-
day meat pie off their own common ? and how
could three mortal gentlemen be found to send
four poor men to prison for such a shadow of an
offence !

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BIM

For ourselves we cannot deny a rather special
fondness for rural sports, but we cannot blind our-
selves to the disgrace entailed on field sports by
such barbarous austerities as these. A London
Stipendiary Magistrate, had he thought the law
against the men, would have told them so, have
warned them, and have taken any course rather
than send them to the treadmill in such flagrant
violation of common sense and justice ; but these
country Justices of the Peace seem not only to
think they have the law in their own hands, but
to twist it to the most disgraceful cruelties wher-
ever game is concerned. It is questionable whe-
ther they would punish much more serious offences
with half the severity. We do not suppose that
these gentlemen were worse than their class, but
their whole class are utterly unfit to try gave-law
cases. Their rancour against any poor fellow
who has ever touched a hare, partridge, pheasant,
or even a rabbit or a snipe, is so intense, that pre-
judice insures conviction, and spite a sentence
which tite Central Criminal Court would blush at.
' The game laws and their administration must
be altered. They are the curse of the rural dis-
tricts. They tempt to an artilmal crime, for no
man thinks killing a wild animal a crime, how-
ever unlucky the results may be. They then
train to crime by sending the victim to an appren-
ticeship in the gaol, or by torturing him with a fine,
which perhaps starves him into poaching again, or
at least arouses him to get vengeance iu some way
for the felt injustice. The families of the men are
then demoralised by the workhouse, and even
the magistrates do not escape ; they, too, are de-
moralised by their own gross injustice on the judg-
ment seat. It is characteristic of the temper of
such judges that, according to the Norfolk News,
the " Lord" of the company has threatened the
Editor of that journal with the horsewhip if he
comments on his verdict 1 A compliment which
the Editor appreciates too highly not to be in-
spired by it to a full exposure of the case.
We are happy to observe that a subscription is
on foot amongst the men, and most properly. Also
that the other cottagers refuse to give up taking
the rabbits, and dare the Honourable Bench, and
gentleman to whom the trustees have let the poor
man's property, to do their worst.

Sin,—The Times, in allusion to the letter of Mr.
Muntz, says that it will not discuss the propriety of a
temporary extension of an inconvertible paper currency
until some one has produced a Bank note expressed in
otner terms Irian promise to pay on ouniaiin aLo
sum of five pounds," which will be acceptable to the
people. The Times asserts, in fact, that a Bank of
England note will only pass current as long as it is
believed that it will be converted into gold on demand.
That this assertion is false is, happily, not merely a
matter of opinion : experience has made it a certainty.
In one of those extremely clever and unanswerable
articles which have appeared in your paper on this sub-
ject, articles which entitle you to the thanks of the mer
chants and manufscturers of England, indeed of the
trading community generally, you state that, in 1825,
when there were only a few hundred thousand pounds of
bullion in the coffers of the Bank of England, and when
there were 19,748,000 notes (of course inconvertible)
passing current, Lord .A,,hiJu, ton, a financier of no mean
repute, and one whose experience, I imagine, was quite
equal to that of the writer for the Times, recommended
a further issue of inconvertible notes to the extent of
4,731,000, what was the result ? It must have been ge-
nerally known that these 24,479,000 could not be
converted into gold by the Bank. of England on demand,
and yet,lcontrary to the assertion of the Times, they were
willingly accepted by the people, the crisis was tided
over, trade resumed its regular course, and gold in
abundance soon filled the coffers of the Bank of Eng-
( land.

Since the establishment of free trade the commerce
not only of Great Britain, but of the world, has taken
gigantic proportions. With the increase of commerce
there should, of course, be an increase of the circulating
medium by the aid of which that commerce is carried
on. It is obvious that if 50,000,000 of circulating me-
dium are required for 20,000,000 of people trading to
the extent of 200,000,000, that the 50,000,000 are not
enough for 30,000,000 of people trading to the extent
of 300,000,000. Either the circulating medium was
too abundant in the former case, or it is too contracted
in the latter—l need not say that it will not do to de-
pend upon an event so fortuitous and uncertain as the
discovery of gold in Australia and California. These
discoveries were certainly most a propos. Without those
discoveries in the midst of plenty, we should, with the
exception of a few holders of bullion, be all starving in
the streets—but as it cannot be expected that the dis-
covery of gold should keep pace with the increase of the
trade of the world, the time has arrived for the Govern-
ment of this country to consider it part of its duty to see
that there is alway3a circulating medium in the country
of some sort or another to tarry on the operations of trade.
Whilst the balance of trade in favour of England is
something like 40,000,000, if there is a scarcity of gold
in England, it must be that we have something more
valuable to us in its place ; the scarcity of gold can only
be temporary, and a temporary remedy should be im-
mediately supplied. Let the foreigner buy every cove-
r -ign we have as long as it is profitable for us to sell,
but there is no reason why the circulating medium of
the country should be so much less. A. temporary sup-
ply of bank notes should be issued for domestic purposes,
which would enable the merchants and manufacturers to
get their perfectly good bills disc muted, and obtain a
•ircnlating medium to answer every purpose, without
paying from 7 to 121 per cent. for it.
The Times persists in valuing the circulating medium

paper only according to the quantity of circulaing

Jeer, jibe at, deprecate, or regret it who may,
the lion-hearted patriot of Scotland --- " the WAL-
LACE wight"—is to have a monument. There is
no mistake about it—the meeting at E linburgh
on Friday last settled the matter. The Abbey
Craig, Stirling, is predestined to honour. What-
ever consecration it may have received it must
now bo regarded as the site of a temple, we trust
a worthy one, of national gratitude for patriotic
prowess, successful in its aim, if cut short by the
axe of the executioner. The projectors of • the
testimonial have gone too far to recede with credit;
and if they could the Scottish people ought not
to let them. It is too late for that, and the me-
mory of the man deserves all the honour they can
render it.

Medium gold ; but I do not see why the value of the
former should depend so much upon the quantity of the
latter. I consider a metallic circulating medium as a
very clumsy contrivance. It was necessary, in former
periods of the world, when printing was not invented,
and not one person in a million could read or write, and
a bank note or a bill would have been a perfectly in-
comprehensible document, and consequently useless.
Then the circulating medium must have been something
that the ignoramus could see and weigh ; but in a coun-
try like England, where everybody, even the most
illiterate, is acquainted with the nature of a bank note
or bill, in a country like England where -all nations
by glancing at the trade returns can see the
state of weal 'h and prosperity where the Queen
is loved, and a successor to the throne is
secured—where the institutions of the country are
cherished from the highest to the lowest, and a general
feeling of security prevails, a paper circulating medium
is much more convenient for domestic purposes, and
quite as highly valued as bullion ; and if the Times, after
being reminded ut what to,k place in 1825, still asserts
that the Bank of England cannot circulate its notes ex-
cept on the understanding that they are convertible
into gold on demand, then, I say, the sooner the Bank
of England ceases to be a corporation carried on for the
profit or loss of private persons, and becomes a Govern-
ment institution, with notes issued on Government secu•
rity, the better. I maintain, sir, that the establishment
of tree trade increases tra to and population on the con-
tinent as well as in England to such an extent that
causes like the present must be of constant recurrence.
A disposition ou the part of continental countries to
realise—that is to say, to convert their property, what-
ever it may be, whether Government securities, or wines
or silks, raw and manufactured, into gold at any sacri-
fice, which disposition to realise is brought about by
some want of security in their Governments, causes a
y
who require a proper supply of circulating
idnrca,i)
voefngold t
ap
nr odfi traebilne
etuos tthei s
merchantseountry, bauntd ei xtremel
manufac-
turers,
medium to meet their bills and pay their operatives.
As A.s the trade and population of the continent
creases the power of absorbingd
tion some day will leave us without a_
discountsoveri,„ will not
country. Increasing the Bank. ratef
nol enable us to make
keep the gold in the country; it willh only
nent dread revolu-
a oetter bargain. If people t e con
of the world also increases, so. that a retadee.oyfa rieunvOtlhue-
tion and loss of property; if they cannot realise. at. one.
thfeelrl.
50
on
pleBr4B.e,e;at.w, shileke,awuhseichthies
French people were afraid to keep it in the country.
These remarks, I think, will bear out your opinion,
that it becomes the duty of the Government to keep an
as price
c convertible
atvheer
eye upon the circulating medium of the country ; and it
ytibwleillaastgoalndo,
the gold is abstracted below a certain point, to supply its
place with a substitute without delay.—Yours, &c.,
C. W. S.

It is all very Well to say—Scotland itself is
WALLACE'S best monument. Doubtless it is, if
the Scottish people are grateful, for it is part and
parcel of a patriot's aims to have the liberty and
prosperity of the country he strives for illuminated
and guarded by every generous sentiment that
ennobles humanity. Scotland is now fairly chal-
lenged to show she still appreciates and is grateful
for the labour and the sufferings of the hero who
spent his life's blood to rescue her from thraldom,
and there can be but one answer. Scotland, it
is granted, is free and prosperous. Not a breeze
that stirs the lazy mist of her mountains, or
ripples the surface of her beautiful lakes, bears on
it the wail of the oppressed. Industry plies its
busy hand in sure and certain hope of remunera-
tion, and the voice of conscience suggests no tes-
timony to be sealed with blood. Holyrood, it is true,
is no longer the seat of Royal authority, and a Scot-
tish Parliament is a thing of the past. But where
WALLACZ fought, and KNox fulminated, is every-
where to be witnessed the guerdon which nerved
either to the struggle iu which it is glorious even
to be overcome, and fail of the great reward.
The stranger, notwithstanding. will look in vain
throughout. broad Scotland for a monument to
her great patriot deliverer, and the noble pea-
sants, who under his leadership set an example,
which all freemen must admire, and not a few
have imitated. Are freedom and prosperity only
to be had at the cost of ingratitude ? This is a
question he is disposed to ask, and the question
which now needs to be satisfactorily responded to.
WALLACZ may need no monument, his name is
the brightest in Scottish history, and his story
has but to be known to cause him to be honoured

MR. MORRIS ANORE'S ARREST AT

BERLIN.