The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-25 00:00:00

TELLERS.

Attwood, AL—Whitehaven
Sinclair, G.—Caithness-shire

The issuing of the Hertford writs has been further
postponed—.namely, till May 2.
GALWAY ELECTION COMMITTEE.—The following are
the names of the reduced list:—R. N. Shawe, Esq.,
P. H. Howard, Esq., J. Neeld, Esq., H. W. Tancred,
Esq., R. Ingham, Esq., R. Godson, Esq., J. Grattan,
Esq T. H. Davies, Esq., Lord Stormont, Lard C. J.
Fox Russell, J. Martin, Esq. (Tewksbury.)
LETTERS PATENT BILL COMMITTEE. —Mr. Leonard,
Mr. Poulett Thomson, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Soli-
citor-General, Mr. Godson, Lord Lumley, Lord Viscount
Oxmaatown, Lord Viscount Duncannon, Lord Viscount
Howick, Mr. Robert Grant, Mr. Hume, Mr. Warburton,
Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Hill, Mr. Jervis, Mr. Rotch, Mr.
Aglionby. Mr. Pollock, the Lord Advocate, Mr. George
Vernon, Mr. Handley, Mr. William Gladstone (Newark),
Mr. Heathcote (Tiverton), Mr. Strutt, General Fergu-
son, Mr. Robert Ferguson, Mr. Edward Romilly, Mr,
Hughes Hughes, Mr. Pease, Mr. Maui ice O'Connell, Mr.
Lynch, Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, Mr. William Roche, Mr.
P'oillpotts, Sir Gorge Cayley, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Lloyd,
Mr. Hyett, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Strickland. Five to be
the quorum.
HIGHWAYS BILL COMMUTE E. —Mr. Shaw Lefevre,
Mr. Nicolson Calvert, Mr. Buller, Mr. Bonham Carter,
Sir John Wrottesley, Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Shirley, Mr.
Benett, Mr. Loch, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Ayshford
Sandford, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Hodges, Sir Os-
swalcl Mosley, Sir Eardley Wilmot, Mr. Tooke, Lord
Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Stanley (Cumberland), Mr.
William Bankes, Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Godson, Mr. Potter,
Lord Viscount Lowther, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Curteis,
Mr. Bulteel, Lord Henniker, Mr. Gore Langton. Five
to be the quorum.
METROPOLITAN POLlCE.—Select Committee " to in-
, quire into the state of the Police of the Metropolis out of
the Metropolitan Districts, and the state of crime therein."
Mr. Esteourt, Mr. Lamb, Lord Viscount Lowther, Sir
Robert Inglis, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Nicolson Cal-
vert, Mr. Byng, Mr. Denison (Surrey), Mr. Robert Gor-
don, Colonel Wood, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Charles
Ross, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Hardinge, Mr. William
Brougham, Lord Hotham, Lord George Lennox, Mr.
Bonham Cuter, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Colonel Davies, Lord
Fordwich, Mr. Hall Dare, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr.
Hawes, Mr. Sergeant Spankie, Mr. Attorney- General,
Mr. Clay, Captain pandas, Lord Viscount Howick, Mr.
Hume, Lord Villiers, Lord Granville Somerset. Power
to send for persons, papers, and records. Five to be the
quorum.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

THE ARMY.

Abstract of a Return of Commissions in the Army which
have been purchased, and the pay cancelled, up to the
Ist of April, 1833.

I Annual Amount Amount of
Number' of Purchase Money
Ranks, of each' Half-pay, &c., paid for
Rank, 1 cancelled. each Rank.
—.---------
Major... ................ 1 1 z£2.00 0 0 .£1,200 0 0
Capto:os . ............. ...
18 '2,357 10 0 16,873 6 8
Captain-Lieutenant 1 54 15 0 330 0 0
Lieutenants .......... 378 27,177 7 6 189,273 8 0
Second Lieutenants 10 ML 0 0 3,400 0 0
Ensigns .58 13,429 19 0 88,598 11 4
Comets .. ............ 2:l 1,703 6 8 10,730 0 0
Adjutants 8 565 15 0 3,000 0 0
paymasters l4 1,73315 0 12,020 0 0
Quartermasters
Chaplain
Assistant Dep Pay-
master General 1 136 17 6 1,100 0 0
Del, Judge Advocate 1 365 0 0 1,600 0 0
physician
Staff' Surgeons 8 1,022 0 0 4,710 0 0
Surgeons
Assistant Surgeons B2 5,830 17 6 2,211 11 8
A path eca • les
Hospital Assist ,nts ll 401 10 0 1,155 16 8
Veterinary Surgeon 1 100 7 6 678 0 0

Total ~

The average age of the sellers has been 38i }ears; the
average annuity 681. 119. 2d. ; the value of which, ac-
cording to the Go,ernment tables, is, at the present price
of the funds, 1,1301. 10s,
The average commuted sum given to each officer has
been 4361. 9s. 7,1.

The difference, 6941. 03. .51, is the average profit to
the public from the measure on each commission purchased.
War-office, April 16. EDWARD ELLICE.

Lord PETRE, on Tuesday, in the House of
Lords, took the oath prescribed, by the 10th Geo. IV.,
to be taken by Peers professing the Roman Catholic religion.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

After a protracted discussion of three nights,
:he currency question has at last been decided in
;he only way consistent wi.h common sense and

common honesty—namely, by the rejection of the
original motion, and the adoption of Lord Al-
thorp's resolution. We regard this decision,
taken in connexion with the immense majority
by which it was carried, and the signal defeat
which it gives to the currency revolutionists, as
one of the most important occurrences which has
ever taken place in a legislative assembly, and
hail it as the Most secure pledge of confidence in
a reformed Parliament. By it the honour of
the country, and the faith of the Government,
have been sustained inviolate. By it property
has been protected against fraudulent transfers
through the medium of a legislative juggle. By
it the obligation of existing contracts has been
guaranteed, and the unsuspecting creditor se-
cured against being plundered for the benefit of
his dishonest debtor. By it the activity of in-
dustry will be prninoted, from the certainty
which it affords of reaping the undiminished
fruits of its exertions, and of enjoying the full
benefit of its accumulations. By it the national
creditor is relieved from the fear of confiscation, the

industrious labourer from the danger of exchang-
ing his scanty wages for high-priced commo-
dities ; and all classes of the community from
arbitrary and capricious changes of their fortunes
or income at the discretion of the irresponsible
demon of the banking system, whose operations
are as mysterious as " the pestilence that walketh
in► darkness," and as irresistible as a convulsion
of nature. By it we are enabled to live under
the dominion of the common law, which entitles

us to the King's coin in satisfaction of our lawful
pecuniary claims, and which erects a barrier
against the usurpation of the King's prerogative
by the pickpockets and swindlers whose gains
depend upon the debasement of the standard.
The Conservatives last year endeavoured to alarm
the nation against reform by predictions of its
disorganizing consequences ; the reformed House
of Commons has answered the prophetic calumny
by recording a triumphant vote against the im-
posters of paper currency, and the enemies of
national integrity. The first night's debate was
quite sufficient to settle the question in the opi-
nion of the House, and to quiet the apprehen-
sions of the country. The obvious inconsistency
between propositions to increase the quantity of
the currency without depreciating its value—the
utter contradiction between professions of regard
_ _

for national faith and projects for debasing the na-
tional currency,—the affectation of a power to
effect equitable adjustment by schemes of almost
unveiled plunder, struck every member who
could understand the meaning of words, or who
had devoted the slightest attention to financial
topics. The clear and direct reasoning of
Lord Althorp, and the more elaborate,

though not more convincing, arguments and
statements of Mr. Poulett Thomson, set the
matter at rest ; and had a vote been called for
on Monday night, the House would have de-
cided exactly as it has done after twelve or
fifteen hours of further speaking. On Tuesday
night the Hon. Mover seemed desirous to shift
his ground and to abandon the currency part of
his motion, in order to obtain a Committee on
the assumed " distress," which before he had
ascribed exclusively to the currency. The speech
of Sir Robert Peel ought alone to have pro-
cured the rejection of the original motion. We '
have no space to describe the proceedings of last
night,when some excellent speeches were delivered
on the side of national honour and public faith.
Thecurrency people have made so poor a figure in
the whole of this discussion that our pity must
protect theta from any expression of displeasure of
indignation. It might appear like " slaying the
slain" to attack the arguments or to demolish
the reasoning of the Hon. Mover, or his friends,
who must by this time feel the most poignant
regret at having renewed a discussion on which
they have met with such a signal discomfiture.
We cannot, however, refrain from making a few
remarks. On looking at our report, we find
that the Hon. Member for Whitehaven traversed

all the great interests of the country—agricul-
tural, shipping, manufacturing, and mercantile,
and found them all labouring under distress.

Ie assumed that there was no distress ti

1819 ; he forgot the numerous failures of banks
which had occurred before we had a bank re-
striction, or during the palmy days of that bene-
ficent act, and he ascribed the whole mischief to
Peel's Bill. If the value of land had been
lowered,—if the property of the landlord had
been, according to him, threatened with confis-
cation,—or if the farmer was obliged to pay his
rent out of his capital, instead of his profits,—
the whole of the evil was owing to Peel's Bill.
If he looked at the report of the commis-
sioners for inquiring into the operation
of the poor laws, and found agricultural pro-
perty diminishing, he there again fbund Peel's
Bill. But this Bill was not in existence till

long after the enormous pressure of mal-admi-
nistered relief to the poor and been experienced.
That was a matter of no consequence ; Peel's
Bill was capable of bearing the whole charge.
But the same Act, whose operation was general,
could not be the cause of suffering in one part
of the country, while in another it secured com-
fort ; it could not increase pauperism in Sussex,
while it only extended relief to the poor of
Cumberland. That was no obstacle to the
Hon. Member's conclusion; Peel's Bill, ac-
cording to his style of reasoning, had only
chosen to take this capricious and partial mode
of displaying its effects. In crossing the Chan-
nel to Ireland, he found that the IVhitefeet and
the Terry Alts—the volunteer associations, and
the repeal agitators—were all the monstrous
brood of the same Bill, though their au-
thentic ancestry might be traced back to
the time of the Plantagenets. Nay, what
is more, in going to France he likewise
found distress ; and if he could have found
a paper currency, or a change in the circu-
lation, would, of course, have ascribed it to
Peel's Bill. Our shipping, our manufactures,
our commerce, were all suffering from the same
cause. Now, it is easy to say, and probably
easy to prove, that the restoration of our
standard in 1819 occasioned a greater change
in the value of our currency than was at the time
contemplated by the Legislature—that it lowered
the prices of commodities, and increased the
pressure of taxes to a greater extent than was
anticipated ; but what is the remedy ? Not,
surely, to recommence the same course of mo-
netary revolution. We have had 14 years of
our restored standard. By the ostentatious
statements of the currency politicians them-
selves, prices have fallen to an extent that has
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been ruinous to one class of the community ;
wtoourull
was confiscated formerly, are creditors to be
plundered now—the parties at the two periods
not being identical—so as to make the plunder
of the latter compensate for the confiscation