The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-31 00:00:00

SMUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Some valuable evidence was given before the
Committee on " Manufactures, C(MlMerPe.
Shipping, on the scat," and orostwe's of the

:ilk manufacture and silk trade. That mn,ut-
facture and trade are proved to he in a state of
progressive improvement and of undenial)Te
nrosrrity. In order to establish this fact, we
,nay refer to the evidence of Mr. Williwn
Haynes, of Manchester, of Mr. James, of
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Cheapside, in London, and of one or two more
witnesses engaged in the trade, and well ac-
quainted with its details. Mr Haynes states
positively, that the " silk manufacture is a pro-
titablp trade, and rapidly increasing, and that his
observation applies to all kinds of silk goods ;"
'hat he has only known one failure in thit trade
in Manchester within the last nine years.
though where there were five manufacturers
•hen there are fifty now;" that the operatives are
fully employed, and that none of them apply
for parochial relief; that the stocks on hand are
sinlll, and that the consumption is greatly in-
creasing. Mr. James fully support; and corro-
borates the testimony of Mr. Haynes, from even
a more extensive experience. He likewise for-
cibly states the important fact that our silk
fabrics are improving in quality, as well as ex-
tending in quantity. In such circumstances, it
becomes of great importance to foster every pro-
ject, and to encourage every enterprise, which
promise to give us a greater command over
the raw material, or to extend its growth in
our own dominions. Hitherto, as appears from
the evidence of Mr. Larpetit, in the report on
trade and manufactures to which we have just
referred, nearly all the importations of raw silk
from India have taken place through the Com-
pany's ships ; and, of course, the whole of the
silk from China was theirs by their monopoly.
The quantity imported in 1832 amounted to
14,970 bales, of which only 1,482 bales, or
about one-tenth, were received from Beogal by
the private trade. Now that the Company is
prohibited from continuing their commercial
business, the whole of this important trade in
silk must be abandoned to private interest. We
mention these circumstances in reference to the
state of the silk trade, and to the markets for the
raw material, in order to introduce some valu-
able information on the culture of silk, and some
interesting statistical accounts of its European
growth, communicated by Mr. Felkin, of Tiver-
ton, in a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Grant,
the President of the Board of Control, extracts
froth which will be found in another column.—
Times.

Mr. Campbell Marjoribanks, the Chairman
of the East India Direction, has displayed no
inconsiderable portion of disinterestedness and
self-denial, in resigning a post which confers
upon its occupant so much distinction and pa-
tronage. It ►s, we believe, nearly as rare to find
such an abandonment of official honours among
the sovereigns of Leadenhall as among other
sovereigns, and probably the present worthy and
respected Chairman may thus run some chance
to be ranked with the Diocletians and Charles
V. of other days. The reasons which Mr.
Marjoribanks assigns for this important .step are
twofold, namely, the state of his health, and the
state of the Company's Charter. With the
former, of course, the public have- nothing to
do ; it is a matter entirely between the Hon.
Chairman and his physician, into which neither
the Court of Directors nor the body of the
Indian or British people have any right to in-
quire. If his letter of resignation, therefore,
had alluded to nothing else, it would not have
been a proper subject for a single critical remark;
but when the Hon. Chairman tells us further,
that among the motives for his premature retire-
ment is the difficulty or impossibility of proposing
from the chair measures to execute the new con-
tract between the East India Company and the na-
tion, while that chair is occupied by hirnself,or one
whose opinions were hostile to parts of the recent
arrangement, we may still bow to his self-df,ny-
ing decision, but we must dispute the cogency
of his political logic. There can be no con-
tradiction or incongruity in objecting to an ar-
rangement as impolitic while it is still under
discussion, and at last, when it has become the
law of the land, submitting to carry it into effect
with as much zeal and spirit as it had been
hailed originally with dissatisfaction. Betwee❑
the present period and the month of April next,
we are aware that laborious duties await the
President of the Court of flirectors,— ditties
which infirm health might prevent Mr. Marjori-
banks from fulfilling to his own satisfaction ; but
we see nothing in the sincere performance of
these duties at all calculated to affect his cha-
racter for honour or consistency, though he op-
posed the new arrangement by which they are
imposed ; while, on the other hand, in such
trying circumstances, that experience of afiliirs,
those habits of business, and that acquaintance
with the interests of the Company which origi-
ginally promoted him to the chair, would be
particularly valuable in enabling him to sug,,est
the means of safely terminating the commercial
transactions, and commencing or consolidating
the new political settlement of this most mighty
~f political corporations.

THE EAST INDIA CO3IPANY.—RESIGNATION
OF THE CHAIRMAN.
TO THE HON. THE COURT OF DIRECTORS.
" Gentlemen,—The state 01 iny health for some months
past has led me to contemplate the necessity of relinqui.•h-
iug the seat which, through your favour, I have the
honour to hold, fa. the third time, as Chairman of the
Court of Directors.

" So long as the affairs of the Eist India Company were
under the consideration of Paiharm-tit and of the Court of
Proprietors, I abstained from giving effect to tiiy own
wis,es, because I thought it po-s,hle that my resignation
of the chair during the progress of the negotiation mi4ht
be attended with inconvenience, it not with embarrass.
ment to the public service.

" That reason no longer exists, and it now becomes
the duty of the Chairs to submit to the consideration of
the Curt the several measures necessary for carrying into
operation the provisions of the new act In the course of
th arrangements much novel and important business
.nest be originated and brought forward as regards the
India and the home establishments.
" I have already recorded the opinions which I entertain
with reference to the general principles of the late agree-
ment between the public and the Company. I regret to
state that, after a deliberate reconsideration of the whole
subject, and an attentive perusal of the Act (since printed),
Ido not see any reason to al'er those opinions. It is
impossible, therefore, that I can hope to prumi e measures
connected with the future administration of Indian affairs
which shall be satisfactory to myself, still less can I under
such circumstances indulge the expectation that they
would prove more satisfactory to the Court. It is toe
these reasons, combined with the principal cause which has
fed to this communication, and which coutinu,s still more
treadcting upon
strongly
original
to
determination,
o n
thatthe ip propriety ertey!
resign
the chair, aid to retire into the body of the Court, Where
promote the intetests of the people of
I shall continue, so far as my health will r'rmiri to give
my best aid in support of any auras
.vhacta way appt•ar
oodhuvrii:tiunthteb tit
rln.'sllaa:vl:elh:liv-
"ln adopting this course 1 beg to assure the Cuur, that
appreciate the cotifidence which I aiave expe,
a ienced 3
honour 01 set ving them in oiw or other or c chairs, 1131
tithonadnti laelacnaotlinclouythttrheeedl relinquish e India
e Company.p e lell " 1 hlve '
tress
honour tothtohledi undertheir
hands.

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consult the convenience of the Court, and hest promote they might formerly be wrong ; but does the tying on forgery by wholesale, calculating on the not in all respects concur with the petitioners individuals whose avocations call them to become acces THE MARKETS.
saries in the system of extortion and oppression ; still they
the public interests. soundness of their doctrinal views form any jus- impunity which, under the law of blood, so we do not hesitate to say no body of English-
cannot but express its disgust and indignation that a sys-
tem so utterly at variance with justice and humanity COAL MARKET.-Oct. 30. 54;
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, tification of this system of blowing hot and cold many other offenders did not calculate upon in men need be ashamed. The Ministers who Per Ton. s. d. Per Ton.
..., 17 iv
"Your most obedient humble servant,
pledged themselves (if the associations are not should find individuals in any society ready to perpetuate Beaumont
Adair .www.r wows.... 16 0 Walls End Hotspur.— ,0 .
in the same breath as it were ? It is a farce to vain.—Morning Herald.
"C. MARJORIBANKS.IS 6 Walls End Killingworth id 0
" Upper Wimpole-street, Oct. 26." call that law which may be anything which the In our article yesterday respecting Russia, we misinformed as to the fact) that the house and these evils on their suffering fellow-men. Chester Main —................ 15 0 Walls End Newmarch.... IT
16 6 Ditto Northumberland." id 0
landowners of England, in their magisterial ca- confined our observations to two • points only of window taxes should be entirely repealed two
formation of the Metropolitan Associations are perfectly
"2. That it is the opinion of this meeting that the tElast Percy....-................—.
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Walls
aall Iss Enng graircientsh.r" I/ 9.
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pacity, choose it to be. The peasantry are the long essay of the writer in the Edinburgh years after the ratification of peace, might have
onal, and that the people possess the right of Ord's Redhugh ......-.....-. 16 0 Walls End Riddell's ...... ;1 0
30th of October, 1833, miscalculated the expenses Shipcotepto Wind50r............... 16 0 Walls End Hetton ........ Id 0
treated by them as so many asses. They must Review—namely, •
the importance of the preser- of the war, or the meeting at all times for adopting the best mode of obtain- Resolved unanimous)y,-15 0 Walls End Lyons.....*--'" 0
" That this Court has received with unfeigned concern obey their will, whatever it may be, and that will vation of Turks -y,in a political point of view, to fiscal resources of the country ; but it is obvious ing redress of grievances by all legal andpeaceable '
constitutional,
evils to the industrious classes,and burden " 1
means, 1anhe1d......-
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the communication of the cause which has led the Chair- all and,
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is made known to them by stripes. Can that Europe, commercially spea ing, to
man, Ca Abell Marjoribanks, Esq., to tender his resigns- who, every year since the conclusion of the war, a which they Willington y i s Butterknowl.... 0 0
England above all other countries—and the
lion of that office. be law under which a Magistrate may do what-
can, , n3o. longer
Tiit, sustain.under Wylam
gross folly of the English Cabinet—to speak of have been labouring to convince the people thatexisting circumstances, auctioneers, Miss Etnddßcrirckaentds
Co. 11,(7) 0
Walls
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" That this Court abstains from pressing upon that ever enters his head with perfect impunity ? If
brokers, appraisers, and others, are loudly called upon no W.E. Clarke and C 0......
gentleman the retention of the chair, and now accepts the Chairman of the Norfolk Sessions had dis- it in no worse terms—in refusing its aid to the the continuance of these taxes is an oppression 16 6W. E SodutT)l3duotrana. ,‘, 4,9 0
his resignation, in the confident hope that, when relieved missed these four men with a reprimand, and Sultan, and allowing Russia to reap all the
and an abuse. The latter, if they be men of longer to two ltehnede=:ird)f to this spy:ittnioefinomstit7,wlltott, Walls End Heat0n............ 19 0 Walls lls End Tees ......."..""
Walls End Hilda-,............ 18 3
from his arduous and responsible duties, increased as theY said to file d t f cl• •,, a van ages o a irect conquest, wit out laving
h 1 • honour and intearity are plainly bound by
from sympathy to their distressed neighbours and suffering Ships arrived since last market-day, 55.
b 'le overseer, you must not take advantaoe
have been by the proceedings in Parliament respecting the the literal meaning of their own oft repeated fellow-men, --0.----_
of your situation to hurt the feelings of these •
incurred any of its hazards, and but little of the have totally relinquished that branch of their COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING -fag',
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Company, his health will be both speedily and perma-
poor ignorant creatures, the sentence would have loss which generally accompanies such under- declarations, as tt cannot be pretended that tradi‘eli of
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one Hesse-
nently re-established; and Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. -- /
" This Court desires to assure Mr. Marjoribanks of the been received as a matter of course, and at- takings. The writer, however, who appears to any material change has taken place in theof the --Tot:
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sincere regard which it bears towards him, and that, al• treated no notice. Between such a course and be equally alive with ourselves to the danger of situation of the country since those declara- greatest proprietors of vans and carts for the re- Abingd0n.........-.... 62 81 31 43 22 30 '''. 0:
though deprived of his services in presiding over its deli- the - - --* $
Birmingham—... 56 58 30 40 16 22 0
berations, it reflects with much satisfaction that it will he industrious t
he had to choose ; and having chosen a punish- attempts to defend the conduct of his Majesty's not of the house and window taxes only, but of d I
and unjust on t classes of society that B!idport -................ 56 74 32 36 26 30 -'" # '
still continue to possess his long experience and valuable he pledged himself never again to allow any of his `:
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counsel, which have been devoted with so much advan- meat equivalent to the galleys, who is there who Ministers, taken the pains to show in what way almost every tax which contributes its share to
waggons, vans, &c., to be employed in removing Guildford .........-... 48 74 23 32 26 35 ---' 4
tags to the interests of the East India Company and to dare to say he did wrong ? We will not, at Russia may be coerced into a sense of what is due the aggregate revenue of the country, may
nods distrained upon for the house and window Hereford 64
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those of the people of India."— Times. all events, say- that he did wrong ; but we will to Turkey and the rest of Europe, in case that reasonably be demanded of them, unless they g •
• duties. 6B 32 34 22 28 ••••• 0.,,
Highworth ........... 62 80 32 42 28 34 -"*,,. 3,
We are glad to find that the case of the four say that it is a m ker oc yto pretend that in Eng- she should attempt to execute those nefarious are willing to come forward with a direct and This declaration was received with loud and re- Maidenhead .....-.. 56 68 34 44 22 30
Monmouth- ........ 66 68 32 36 24 28 --- #
labouring men tried at the Norfolk Sessions, land there is any law for the poor.— Morning plans of aggrandizement, to the oi e comp tn of argued l unequivocal confession that when they peated cheers, which lasted for some time. Reading .......-......... 40 66 22 36 14 26 ---_,
and sentenced, three of them to eighteen months' Chronicle. which it is well known that she has, since the against every tax in succession they were con- One of the Members said that the goods of Mr. 5a1i5bury............... 44 53 26 30 20 24 50 p
er
southampton ...... 54 58 33 40 28 32 ""'
imprisonment and hard labour, and one to a days of Catherine, of most absolute and ambi- tending, not for what they believed to be a Andergon, of Brook-street which had been seized Stroud ....-...,-......... 64 78 37 38 22 32 --• )
There have been great efforts made of late, by Tewkesbury ....... 65 74 30 42 30 38 •-''
year's imprisoment and hard labour, to which tious memory, bent all her endeavours. practicable relief to the people, but for place and upon for King's taxes, and were taken to Lloyd's
Uxbridge .............. 48 74 26 34 20 26 ••• pl,
certain party in the metropolis, to impress the
we called attention on Tuesday last, has drawn a ~ Turkey has everything to fear from Russia," says he, pelf to themselves. Let them explicitly confess rooms, still remained there, as no purchasers could wantage . ,58 80 27 32 17 23 „,34 st
üblic mind with the notion that the abolition be found. Warminster ........ 46 5.9 26 30 20 25 u. P.
from most of our Contemporaries an expression P "and everything to gain from this country and the more this, and their conduct, if not honourable or Windsor 59 - 21 ti
of the punishment of death for forgery has led to liberal portion of Europe. Our object, as well as our in- Several other Members addressed the Chair; and Worcester--,-. 50 5-7 30 3-2 24 &I
of strong and indignant animadversion. The consistent, will, at least, be intelligible. It is .........,".
an increase of the crime. No charge of forgery te.rest, is to confer on her the mutual benefits of comtner-after a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting LEWES MARKET.-0et.29.
Times, after detailing the leading circumstances notorious, however th , at the present Adminis- White Wheat (per quarter).......- X 2 12 0t042 18 ,!'
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We are glad to find that the case of the four
labouring men tried at the Norfolk Sessions,
and sentenced, three of them to eighteen months'
imprisonment and hard labour, and one to a
year's imprisoment and hard labour, to which
we called attention on Tuesday last, has drawn
from most of our Contemporaries an expression
of strong and indignant animadversion. The
Times, after detailing the leading circumstances
of the case, observes—" Now, the legal guilt
of these unfortunate men, in striving to gain by
forcible means or menaces, the co-operation of
others in their own effort to procure work at
better wages we should be the last to deny ; at
the same time it will be recollected that the
prisoners did not inflict on any man the slightest
bodily harm ; nor can it be forgotten how many
extenuating circumstances in the case of these
poor offenders ought to have entered into the
consideration of the magistrates ; although the
sentence was one which we are sure could only
have been justified in the minds of the people of
England, had the formal breach of the law been
attended on the part of the individuals found
guilty by the grossest moral aggravations. But
see what the present labourers of England have
been brought to. The magistrates and farmers
have, between them, with the assistance of the
law of settlement, reduced the daily labourer to
a condition of the vilest bondage. They have
coalesced in half the parishes of England to fix
a maximum upon the poor man's wages, that
what is cribbed from the labourer may be added
to the rent of the squire, and the farmer nothing
the worse for it. The farmer and overseer
being in many instances the same person,
he has the means of enforcing upon the
daily labourer this threat, which the trial
we have referred to will doubtless exem-
plify to our readers,—" Either work for
wages insufficient to support you, or you
shall have no parish relief." Nay, a hard and
pinching overseer, it would seem, may refuse the
labourers both wages and parish allowance with
impunity; and then, when the wretches join
together to force the justice which they cannot
otherwise hope for, he may come into Court as
a witness against them, and with a favouring
bench of squires may entail on them a punish.
ment little, if at all inferior to the galleys." This
case forms an admirable commentary on the
doctrine that the people of England enjoy the
blessing of living under equal laws ! In the first
place, a punishment, " little if at all inferior to
the galleys," is inflicted on men for what we
verily believe they themselves thought no crime,
and were led to by the course pursued for a num-
ber of years by the very Magistrates who are
now punishing them. In the various pamphlets
published by the Rev. Mr. Brereton, of Little
Massingham, in Norfolk, only seven and eight
years ago, mention is made of numerous cases of
this description, in which the hostility of the
Magistrates is directed against the Overseers.
At that time, these four men would have been
pitied by the Magistrates, and the Overseer
would have been loaded with abuse. But the
Magistrates have changed their opinion with re-
spect to the proper mode of managing the poor ;
and the fruits of this change appear in a sen•
tence infinitely more severe than that which
is usually inflicted on the man who de-
prives his fellow creature of his life. It
is not yet three years since the Magis•
trates of Kent acquitted labourers who riotously
assembled for the purpose of breaking machinery
and committing other acts of violence, in order
to intimidate their employers. This laid the
foundation of the servile war which became more
than a match for the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert Peel ; for the latter stated, in the
House of Commons, that the Government were
unable to protect the farmers. Have we for-
gotten the mandate issued by Sir Jacob Astley
and some other Magistrates of this very county
of Norfolk at that time, recommending to
farmers to destroy their machinery, in order to
pacify the labourers ? While incendiarism and
destruction were ravaging the southern counties,
Mr. Senior published three lectures on the rate
of wages, with a preface, dated 3d of December,
1830, in which this very connexion between
the conduct of the Magistrates and the riots, is
forcibly pointed out. " Is not," says Mr.
Senior, " the labourers' right to good wages
re-echoed from all parts of the country ?
Is he not told, Dwell in the land, a,41
verily thou shalt be fed ? ' Does riot the
Hon. Member, who has affixed this motto to
his work, assume that the fund, out of which
the labourer is to be fed, is practically inex-
haustible ? And can words more strongly
imply that his sufferings arise from the injustice
of his superiors ? Have not even magistrates
and landlords recommended the destruction,
or what is the same both in principle and effect,
the disuse of the very machines, of which the
object is to render labour more efficient in the
production " of the articles consumed by the
Jabourer—in the production of that very fund,
on the extent of which, compared with the
number to be maintained, the amount of wages
depends? And is there any real digerence
between this conduct and the burning of a rick-
yard ? Threshing machines are the presen,
objects of hostility, ploughs will be the next ;
spades will then be found to diminish employ-
went ; and when it has been made penal to
give advantage to labour by any tool or instru-
ment whatever, the last step must be to prohibit
This is ng under
the use of the right hand."
a Government of law 1 We see one day. the
men who administer what is amusingly called
law, one day encouraging the labourers to
commit violent aggressions on property', and
the next sentencing them to what is equiva-
lent to the galleys, for an offence of the same
genus, no doubt, but so kilt as to bear no
comparison, in point of guilt, with that which
was openly recommended. The magistrates
of Norfolk may abstractedly be now right
in their theory of political economy, and

There have been great efforts made of late, by
a certain party in the metropolis, to impress the
public mind with the notion that the abolition
of the punishment of death for forgery has led to
an increase of the crime. No charge of forgery
undergoes an investigation at the Mansion-house
that observations to the same effect are not
thrown out ; and, indeed, to hear those talk upon
the subject who have been the systematic oppo-
nents
of the reform of the most sanguinary
criminal code in the civilized world, one might
be induced to think that, while the death de-
nouncing laws against forgery were in existence,
the crime was comparatively rare—that the in-
genuity
of the concoctors of false bills was
paralyzed, and that the genius of commercial
credit reposed in full security under the protect-
ing shade of what Lord Coke calls the " accursed
tree," unvexed by alarms of fabricated paper, and
undisturbed by persecuting visions of the forger's
pen ! How far such a supposition would be
from the truth all are aware who recollect that it
was the utter inefficacy of the capital law to
repress the crime of forgery, or even to prevent
its increase, which led to the change which has
taken place, and which substitutes a law that
can be acted upon for one that could not—a
law which subjects the convicted forger to the
degrading punishment of transportation for life,
which is a civil death—preceded by a term of
hard labour in some prison at home, for a pe-
riod, varying according to the circumstances of
the case, from one year to four. We need
hardly say that forgers are a class of persons
very frequently of respectable connexions, who
hate labour exceedingly, and whose aversion to
industrious habits generally leads to the com-
mission of the offence. A mode of punishment,
therefore, in which hard labour is an ingredient
must have something very different from an
encouraging effect upon such persons, more
especially as they know that where there is
proof of the charge, the obtaining a conviction,
which under the sanguinary law was almost
impracticable of late years, is now reduced al-
most to a certainty, for the humane feelingsl
and moral compunctions of juries are no longer
opposed to the enforcement of the law. That
prosecutions for forgery would increase for some
time after the abolition of the capital punish-
ment we not only calculated upon, but we used
it as one of the arguments for that abolition.
While the old law was in existence, the
number of forgers prosecuted bore a very
small proportion indeed to those who were not
prosecuted. Then it was that a banker told the
Legislature he knew himself of 40 instances of
the crime in which, though the offenders were
detected, no prosecution followed. Another
banker said he knew innumerable instances of
the same sort. Thus, while the gallows was the
supposed protection of the counting-house, its
impotent terrors were laughed at by far the
greater number of the traffickers in written
fraud, to whose crimes the savage law of exter-
mination—the law that confounded an offence
of deceit and circumvention with crimes of vio-
lence and blood—operated as a complete bill of
indemnity ; nor even at a former time, when it
was more generally carried into execution, had
it the effect desired. Those who recollect the
horrible immolations of five, six, or seven human
beings at a time, that used to take place in front
of Newgate on prosecutious of the Bank of
England for the forgery of one-pound notes,
also know that the forgeries of those notes, ra-
pidly increased, as rick-burning does, under the
sanguinary law, until juries, disgusted with the
work of unavailing slaughter, put an end to
those disgusting and demoralising scenes by
refusing to convict. As if to assist those
who are labouring in the " hallowed" work
of endeavouring to bring into disrepute a
salutary reform of an .important branch of our
Criminal Code, the following paragraph ap-
peared in a Morning paper of Tuesday :—" The
number of forged bills of exchange lately in cir-
culation has been productive of severe losses to
the commercial interest, and injurious, to a
certain extent, to mercantile credit, especially in
cases where all tbe names on the bills were not
perfectly known. Further discoveries of the
same kind have, it is said, been made this
morning ; and that one house, believed to be
sufficiently strong, however, to bear the loss,
has had bills lodged in its possession, as secu-
rities, to the amount of 20,0001., the whole of
which are forgeries." We can state, upon the
authority of two eminent bill-brokers, that the
whole of this statement is, to say the least of it,
gross exaggeration. But we need only refer to
the testimony of the same Journal, in its publi-
cation of yesterday, to show upon what ground-
less rumours or idle inventions such alarming
announcements are sometimes made. It still
asserts, indeed, that the prevalence of forged
bills is unfortunately true, but with re-
gard to the house in question it re-
tracts its statement in the following words :
—" We are assured that the house re-
ferred to yesterday, as holding large deposits of
forged bills of exchange (viz. 20,0001. worth),
has not, at this moment, any such in its posses-
sion. Some of that description may have passed
through its hands formerly, but they were all
withdrawn previous to arriving at maturity, and
the firm cannot, therefore, have been subjected
to any losses on that score." We know the
house alluded to, and we have read the fable of
" the three black crows," which illustrates very
well the slender origin and monstrous growth of
this frightful tale of the 20,0001. worth of forged
deposits. If some bills of " that description"
have passed through -she house in question
formerly, it is only what happened to every
other house when the law was capital, for the
penalty of death did not terrify such men as
Fauntleroy and the Rev. Peter Fenn from car-

g. Turkey ha; everything to fear from Russia," says he,
"and everything to gain from this country and the more
liberal portion of Europe. Our object, as well as our in-
terest, is to confer on her the mutual benefits of commer-
cial intercourse, and to aid her in the recovery of her
strength, and the reformation of her corrupt and oppressive
Government; in short, to prevent her absorption by Russia.
If she will accept these benefits and this aid—well; but
if not, then it becomes our duty to search for other allies,
and to construct other barriers to the fifth-monarchy
dreams of the Emperor Nicholas and his semi-barbarian
nobles.

not in all respects concur with the petitioners
we do not hesitate to say no body of English-
men need be ashamed. The Ministers who
pledged themselves (if the associations are not
misinformed as to the fact) that the house and
window taxes should be entirely repealed two
years after the ratification of peace, might have
miscalculated die expenses of the war, or the
fiscal resources of the country ; but it is obvious
that no such apology can be made for those
who, every year since the conclusion of the war,
have been labouring to convince the people that
the continuance of these taxes is an oppression
and an abuse. The latter, if they be men of
honour and integrity, are plainly bound by
the literal meaning of their own oft repeated
declarations, as it cannot be pretended that
any material change has taken place in the
situation of the country since those declara-
tions were made. And the repeal, therefore,
not of the house and window taxes only, but of
almost every tax which contributes its share to
the aggregate revenue of the country, may
reasonably be demanded of them, unless they
are willing to come forward with a direct and
unequivocal confession that when they argued
against every tax in succession they were con-
tending, not for what they believed to be a
practicable relief to the people, but for place and
pelf to themselves. Let them explicitly confess
this, and their conduct, if not honourable or
consistent, will, at least, be intelligible. It is
notorious, however, that the present Adminis-
tration have rendered the house and window
taxes, of which, until they were in place, they
were the declared enemies, more galling and
oppressive than they ever were before. There
is no part of the country in which the system
of surcharges has not been established by them
in its utmost rigour ; and the cases are not few,
in which candidates in their interest have ob-
tained seats in Parliament by declaiming against
those taxes; and assessors in their interest, a
few weeks after the seat of their candidate has
been secured, have, by means of surcharges,
rendered the burden upon the inhabitants more
grievous than ever. The machinery of hypo-
crisy and fraud has, in this particular, been ex-
hibited in the most odious perfection. But it is
not merely in aggravating the pecuniary pressure
of these taxes that the present Administration
have signalized their dishonesty and their con-
tempt of the people. Pledged as men of
honour and integrity to the repeal of these
taxes, they, nevertheless, contrived, by means
of the Bill which they nickname their Bill of
Reform, to blend them with the new constitu-
ion which they presumed to force upon the
ountry.—Morning Post.

ST. PANCItAS.

Yesterday another meeting of the inhabitant house-
holders and other rate-payers of the parish of St.
Pancras, was held at the Marquis Wellesley, Cromer-
street, Brunswick-square.
A local committee for the north-east district of
the parish was appointed, to co-operate with the
other local committees in the parish, preparatory to
the consolidation of the associations, when a co-ope-
ration will take place by the parochial committee
with the committees of other parishes for the ac-
complishment of their object. The association re-
solved not to be dissolved until the repeal of the as-
sessed taxes has been obtained.

LEWES MARKET.—Oct, 29. 0
White Wheat (per quarter)—,...— X 2 12 0 to 42 IS
Red ditto ..- 2 8 0 2 12 " :ii
8ar1ey—...—....—. ....... 110 0 111 g
Oats, New - . 018 6 1 1 „
Pease ..... 1 19 0 2 0 ",
Oil Cake, New--..—..—........,—., 12 0 0 per thou_t..,•o"
CHELTENHAM 1%1

Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.
Wheat 6 0 7 0
Barley 3 6 4 0
Oats 2 6 3 6
Beans, 5 0 5 6
Pease 5 0 7 0
Hay 3l. lOs

" These are apparent : they are to be found in a confe-
deration of the Danube ; the re-establishment of the
ancient kingdom of the Artnenias ; and the extension of
Greece—Egypt and Persia, in the meanwhile, being con-
ciliated by an accession of territory, and by the rounding
of their frontiers."

A shorter method is thus pointed out, not for
the first time, for we have mentioned it repeatedly,
though we have only had laughter and scorn for
our pains :
" It is essential that the tone and interference of Rus-
sia should be abated ; she is the head and front of the
absolute party, and with her it becomes us therefore to
deal. Now is the time, when Italy, Germany, and
Poland are in a 'state which counsels prudence to those
who would wish to continue to rule them. Let then the
signal of the ascendancy of a liberal policy be hoisted in
Turkey, where it has been most endangered. Let the
protecting intervention of Russia be withdrawn from the
shores of the Bosphorus as verily in deed as in word. Let
her not be permitted to forestall the rest of Europe, and
to make a province of Turkey by the specious wording of
a treaty; but let the advantages of commerce and of na-
vigation, which she would appropriate to herself, be
thrown open to the world at large; and let the liberal
reforms which the Sultan Mahmoud has commenced, find
agents more fit to carry them into effect than the Empe-
ror Nicholas.

" But if Russia be obstinately proud, and resolve to
make a stand at Constantinople, than a vigorous appli-
cation of force may prevent a prolonged and general war.
We have already pointed out the methods by which she
and her Turkish ally may be coerced. And we have
small doubt that the damming up the Baltic and the
Black Sea with our fleets, the destruction of her navy,
and the annihilation of her commerce, which would be
the easy and not expensive result of one campaign, would
bring her to reason ; and the more so, as the first shot
fired in the contest, would signalize the restoration of the
kingdom of Poland.
" These are harsh courses, to which, as we have before
said, we have no wish that Russia should compel us to
resort. We prefer seeing Turkey, and Egypt, and Greece,
march peaceably, and side by side on the road to social
amendment."

1A RKET.—Oct. 29. ,
ij.
Per lb. d. t°
Beef 6l .
Mutton
Veal
Pork
Lamb 0
to Si. 15s. Od. per ton ,":
RKETS.—Oct. 23, S. t
s. d• 0
Butter, 16oz. 0 0n
Eggs, 22 .. . ..... o_ 42 9p>,
0 Ja
Beef, per score •S ~
91
91
Mutton, per lb 0
'Veal 04
,Qaartern Loaf 0 0 i

Aye—" it is essential that the tone and inter•
ference of Russia should be abated ;" but al-
though " now is the time when Italy, Germany,
and Poland counsel prudence to those who
would wish to continue to rule them," there
was a better time, which is past and gone, and
which may not again return. That time was
the period of Poland's insurrection for her
deliverance from Russian tyranny, and when a
Whig Ministry was cowardly enough not only
to allow the infraction of a solemn treaty, but to
refrain from doing that which would, in all
probability, have restored Poland to much of her
former independence and territory—namely,
sending one fleet into the Baltic, and another
into the Black Sea, to block up her ports and
destroy her commerce. Nothing more, it is al-
lowed by the author of the article, is necessary
to prevent her from carrying into effect her am-
bitious designs on Turkey; and if so, how much
more easily might she not have been coerced in
the case of Poland, where innate bravery, and
a love of national independence, combined to
muster thousands ready to shed the last drop
of their blood in any war which had the sacri-
fice of Russia for its object. A golden oppor-
tunity, which may never return in the same
fovourable guise, was then lost by the Grey
Administration, not only of immortalizing itself
by a great act of justice to an oppressed people,
but of humbling the pride of Russia, and of
extending the power and influence of England
over the continent of Europe ; but let us not
despair of better days and better actions. The
author of the article holds out strong promises
of a new era with regard to Russia, and in the
hope that it may be realized, we say amen to
all past errors on this subject.
" Would the continental powers listen to us, we might
be tempted to whisper in their ears that there is lass dan-
ger in this dreaded liberality, than in the encroaching
intimacy of their despotic neighbour, who, by the exten
t,ion of her territories, gradually tightens the coil she has
formed around not the least vulnerable part of their domi"
nions. They would probably scorn our suggestions, and
retort upon ourselves and upon France the patienco with
which we have borne the tone of authority which this
remote and least interested power has assumed in the ne-
gotiations of the South ; while she has haughtily pre-
cluded us from any interference with her infractions of
the treaty of Vienna in the North : they might point to
Constantinople, and ask us, where was the influence
which England once possessed with her, so styled, ancient
ally ! In reply, we would tell them, that this country fully
appreciates the blessings of peace, and of her own high
station in Europe, and that, therefore, she entertains a
wise repugnance to committing the happiness of millions
to the tender mercies of the sword. For the integrity of
her own dominions she doss not entertain the shadow of a
shade of fear ; neither has she any base and foolish thought
of purchasing peace at the price of submission, which
never yet insured it. Therefore, whenever Russia shall
make it appear that the faith of treaties, or the hooour
and independence of this country, are compromised by an
acquiescence in her arrogant pretensions, from that hour
she will be made to feel the power of Bri,ain, even to the
very core of her huge empire."--Morning Advertiser.
The meetings and associations in the me-
tropolis to enforce the repeal of the house and
window duties, seem to have derived an increase
of activity and strength from the military array,
and the menacing Proclamation, by which his
Majesty's Ministers have idly thought to put
an end to the efforts of a deluded and insulted
people. We refer to the evidence which our
columns afford that the people do not trust the
present Ministers, and are determined to be no
longer cajoled and defrauded by them ; above
all, we refer, as an important part of this evi-
dence, to the petition to his Majesty, which
was yesterday placed in the hands of Lord
Melbourne by the delegates of the associations
for procuring the repeal of the assessed taxes.
It is a document of which, although we do