The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-07 00:00:00

fur the deficiency on the present quarter, and none
in the world why it should not have occurred.
Turning from a comparison of the corresponding
quarters of 1832 and 1833, to that of those years,
the result is most sa►isfactory—rhe increase being
no I,.ss than 546,1691. ! What a choke-throat to
the Tories, who have during the last two years been
prophesying the decrease of the revenue under a
Whig Government, and holding forth their financial
arrangements as only fit to be compared with the
gambols of Don Quixote, or the solemn reveries of
his langhable squire, the Governor of Barrataria
As the state of the Revenue for the quarters and
years'just mentioned become known in the city, ape-
culation in Government securities became active,
and numerous investments were made. As a na-
tural consequence of the increased demand, Stocks
rose, and some of our Sunday contemporaries have
been foolish enough to draw two inferences from the
fact, neither of which are very correct. The first is,
'hat money is abundant; the second, that the
country has more of it than it can employ in mer-
cantile and manufacturing interests. The very
reverse is the fact. When commerce is pros-
perous and capital can be profitably employed
in it, it never finds its way into the Stocks,
except for short periods, which, in consequence,
exh.bit but an indifferent price—when, on the other
hand, commerce is either comparatively unproduc-
tive, or its profits h,tzardous, the floating and inde-
pendent capital of the country is invariably directed
in the channel of Government securities, in which,
, although the rate of profit upon it be not high, it is
deemed to be certain. Tne rise in the price of
Storks is, in con:equence, no certain criterion of the
profitable state of trade, but rather a cogent surmise
that it is less profitable, and the profit upon it less
certain than that on Government securities. There
are so many tricks, however, employed on the Stock
Exchange, that we would not willingly draw an
unfavourable augury as to the state of the profits on
trade at the present moment, from the rise which
took place onlSaturday in the Government securities.
. —Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.

William Wilkins was examined again, charged
with stealing a pair of pistols and other articles,
the property of Henry Lister ; and John Frederick
Lumley, upon a charge of receiving the said pis-
tols, knowing them to have been stolen. The par-
ties severally'had been employed as officers by Don
Pedro, and were to have returned to England by
the same vessel. The prosecutor, however, lost his
passage, and when the vessel reached England
Wilkins took to his own home the luggage belong-
ing to the complainant. The ques ion the Magi-
strate had to decide was, whether he did this in-
tending to steal the property, or whether he intended
to take charge of it for Mr. Lister.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, after hearing a mass of
confl;cting statements, and the observations of Mr.
rower for the prisoners, and of a solicitor on the
other side, came to the conclusion thus there was
no ground for the imputation against Mr. Lumley,
whom he immediately discharged ; and his opinion
upon the conduct of the other prisoner was such
that upon giving tip possession of all the property
he should discharge him also.
An officer accompanied Wilkins home to Peck-
ham, to see this part of the decision carried into
effect forthwith.

ROBBERY BY PORTERS AT SALES.—Sartirday
three porters, named Johnson, Pearce, and Jones,
were charged with stealing seven dozen brushes,
value about 21.

The prisoners had been employed at a large sale
of brushes by Mr. Mason at a wharf in Thames-
street. After the sale was over they were stopped
in the act of carrying off the brushes.
Johnson said the brushes were a few overplus
ones which had not been put into any lot, and such
were generally considered the perquisite of the
porters.
Mr. Mason said he knew of no such custom. The
men were paid ss. 6d. a day for their attendance,
and that was ample compensation. He had traced
that four Vs had been each deprived of a dozen,
and the remainder of the seven dozen now produced
had probably been stolen from other lots which had
been cleared away by the purchasers.—Remanded.