The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-07 00:00:00

THE MARKET S.-T 1116 BAY.)

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.
The're.was a great supply to this morning's market, but the trade
was dull at nearly last week's prices
w. o. to d.
Potat. es (cwt.\
Ca'ibages White (12) 0 0 0
Ditto Red .
Ditto Savoy
Endive 1 0 2 0
liadisli(litoido2) 1 6
Celery o 9 1 6
Carrots
,12ii..oclies) 4 6
4 6 0
jmilt,
Colewort, or Greens... 2 0 a
Onions 2 it
Turnip itoidishes
Leeks.
Pine Apples (lb.)
Melons (each)
Fur. grapes (per lb.).— 1 0 '2 6
English, Forced

g d.
Spinach (hall sieve)... ;; 0 S
Apples ..................... 1 4. 0
Pars .................. II
5 0
C•min n Plums ....... I 0 2 6
Cabbage Lettm cc 0 0 I
Mushrooms ............... 1 0 3 6
Mous, for pickling._ 6 4, 0
°
Sweet ranges(lom . 7 o 1..! 0
O
SevilleOrangcs.......a 0 10 0
5 0 10 0

Lcire•ns ...................
Walnuts .............. 0 6 2 0
Span. Cliemots (peck) 411 6 0
French ditto ............ :1 (1 , 4 0
Spanish t tazlenuts 0 6 0
lirazilian Nut 5.......... 0 4 0
Cos Lettuces (per score) 1 0 I
Filberts ...............

per Load of 36 Trusses. )
11,AND.

..._---- ----.
HAY MARKETS.-(A
CUMBE______
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay
plow Meadow Hay n 0 4
".Leful Old Ditto
`-'lnland Meadow and ltyt,grass Hay 4 5 410
Fine . ~ 315 310
Clover lia. - " ~.,...t. 1 8to4: 1 10 1 Wheat Straw
Oat Straw. .... • 112 113
SCI IT /1 F 1 ELD
Coarse heavy Lowlaod- meadow Hay ) 3 0 to .1:3 15
.it.,l:erany .., ...... 3 10
30 4 5
Use Meadow. Hay ....•....•...
Useful Old Ditto -
m flay 4 5 4 10
flue Upland Meadow and Bye Ern.
..„ s ~ ,
5 5
Clover flay extra line .....a 5 10 ...
Oat Straw . ........ .0.1 G" 11 10 i Whea •--„,r'w llO 114
11UNGERFOltl,

--- -
(;parse Meadow Hay ......... .£3 0 to .E 3 15
New Meadow llay
.. ... 315 0
Useful Old Ditty'
Fine UrIMO Meadow and Itye.gras, Hay ........... , ........ 4 5 410
Clover Hay ................ ..... ........................................ •l 1,1) 5 5
Oat Straw 1:1 6to .t. IS 1 Wheat Straw .......... 1 0 1 I'2
--r.m1,4•0

The Birminghanz Adveriiscr states that the
the number
al.
of lives lost by the explosion of hydrogen gas in co
pit at Westbromwich amounts to not less than fourteen,
and two others are dangerously injured.
•
DIFFUSION OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING
KNOWLEDGE.—" There is now a great deal more learn in
fo g
in the world than formerly," remarked Dr. Johnson,
" r
it is universally diffused." If such were the case in his
time, how much more so is it at the present i.rty, when the,
most valuable works arc presented to the public, )eautifullY
embellished, at one-fifth of their original cost I We have
now before us, published this morning, the Third Part,
price only one shilling, of the celebrated Memoirs of Nnpo-
loen by Count Las Cases (unquestionably the most inte-
resting and authentic of all the Napoleon Memoirs), co t
n-
f
taining one hundred and forty octavo pages, a portrai o
Lucien Bonaparte, and a view of St. Helena ; and, in
entertaining literature, the Fifth Part of Mr. Buliver'S
" Pelham," beautifully embellished, at the same cheap rate.
The " Disowned," by the same distinguished author, we
understand, is to form the next work in
numbers. the re-issue
Such
of
" Colburn's Novelists," in weekly shilling
undertakings as these are entitled to the hearty encourage
ment of the great body of English readers, who
,will now
have abundance of intellectual entertainment far the ap.
pro:aching winter evenings,

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SPIRIT OE' THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Among notable schemes broached at the East
Suffolk Airicultural Meeting, it was coolly proposed
by a Mr. Twiss to coin the sovereign at two-thirds of
its present value, " so that the ounce of gold should
make pax sovereigns, as it ought to do."' The mani-
fest cl.everness of this expedient seems to have excited
the pa-..titular attention of this agricultural assembly.
Ingo-Lions as this projected change may be, however,
it wist- be allowed that, at any rate, there is no no-
Ye.ty in it ; and its frequent trial and as constant failure
rshow that this species of (locus poems, like all other
Currency tricks, not only does not answer the purpose
of those who resort to it, but tends to injure, in a par-
ticular manner, the very parties who imagine they are
most certain of acquiring prosperity by its medium..
•Denreciating- the Currency, in some shape or of,'ner,
ims been the philosopher's stone of a `'',ass r
"political alchemists in all periods. We find, as
early as the reign of Henry Ili,, the people
complaining of the pressure of taxation and the
dearth of money—" It was thought good to
change the old money 'arid make it baser." "By
which means, h0wcv,..„,,, we are told, " the grievance
was increased, instead of being redressed." Previously
to this time, site pound weight of silver and the pound
sterling were identical ; but by this contrivance says
the historian, the people scarce received 20s. for 30s.
In. the reivii of Henry IV., " the great scarcity of
money was again made the pretext for lowering the
value of the coinage. The previous sterling value of
the ntetals had been fixed at 1/. ss. for the pound of
silver, and 151. for that of gold. But now, silver was
idcclared to make 'l/. 10s., and gold 161. 13s. 4d.; so.
-that," says Taylor, from whom we, quote, " the pre-
cious metals were not only enhanced, but the it relative
value was again altered. Silver was enhanced one-
fifth, or 20 per cent., and gold little more than one-
tenth ;" by these means we find, however, that a tem-
porary prosperity was induced.
" But," observes our author, " as increased
pi fees and
increased wages (when unrestrained by law, naturally fol-
lowed in the train of consequences, a further increase
of the mercantile value of gold an., silver ; so when the
King had reaped the first fr.:;its of a diminution of the
coin, and he, as well as otters, had enjoyed the privilege
of paying off his
.debts with a less quantity of the precious
metals than that in which they had been contracted ; then
the old evil of great scarcity of money within the realm
of England, and other mischiefs and causes,' gradually re-
turned, and called for a repetition of the process."
In the fourth year of Edward IV., gold and silver
were both enhanced 25 per cent., " which was in
effect (says Taylor) to tell every one who owed 1001.
to take his bill quickly, and write down four-score :"
and in the next year the gold coinage was still fur-
ther deteriorated. Henry VIII. pursued the same
system to an inordinate extent ; and the small shil-
ling of his successor, induced Bishop Latimer (wish-
ing to reprove the covetousness of the Court) to ob-
serve sarcastically, in a sermon before the King,
• " We have now a pretty little shilling indeed, a very
pretty one ; I have but one, I think, in my purse,
and the last day I had put it away almost for an old
groat ; and so I trove some will take them." The
good Bishop's admonitions appear, however, to have
bad hut an indifferent effect upon those to whom they
-were addiessed ; for we find soon afterwards the dete-
rioration of the coinage was so diligently prosecuted 4.
that on one occasion a clear profit of 160,000/...,cas
gained by the Government upon one issue ; '2.od this
public robbery was perpetrated for the .81.Leged pur-
pose " of paying the debt of the realm, of defending
the country, and of amending the 41Din." But mark
the consequences—
" After the first reduction :;pave mentieoned, an appre-
hension currently prevailed, chat another would soon fol-
low, for which cause peor,:ce refused to brinc, provisions to
the markets, choosing rather to keep them than run the risk
of being cheated out of the value of the money which they
might receive in e.xehange for them, in consequence of which
a great scarcity was presently felt..'
For this new evil a remedy was sought in a procl2„.
'nation from the King, " stating that these elects
arose from false and untrue rumours which were spread
by certain lewd persons who of their Own light heads
(was this meant for a pun?) had imagined that be-
cause the King had somewhat %bated the value of his
coin, he should therefore more abate it ;" and then
proceeding to award heavy penalties of fine and impri-
sonment to all those who should be found spreading
such abominable reports of his Majesty's intentions.
" About a month after this," we are told, " the second
'reduction was made." Now it is worthy of remark
that in all these changes the greatest loss is said to
Lave fallen upon the " lower orders," " the richer sort
of PoPle having a knowledge of these changes before-
hand." Nor did the landholders find that it answered
any permanent purpose. Our author quotes an obser-
vation of Sir Dudley North—

"That the country entlemen are commonly full of one
profound mistake, which' is, that if a great deal of money be
made, they must of course have a share of it, such being
a supposed consequence of what they call plenty of money.
So little do men fellow the truth of things in their delibe-
rations, but shallow unthought prejudices carry them away
by shoals."

It. must be perfectly evident that by whomsoever or
whenever it be attempted, a depreciation of the Cur-
rency is a mere species of legerdemain, which, like
any other sort of cheatcry, may for the moment enrich
an individual or a class at the expense of the whole,
but is totally inefficient for any good or national pur-
pose ; and even to those who do profit by it on the
onset, it is like an unnatural stimulus, the exciting,
influence of which is followed by corresponding ex-
haustion, and leads to the necessity for an ever-re-
returning and ever-increasing repetition, till the system
being corrupted to the core, sinks under the accu-
mulated exhaustion which no further stimulus can
effective:y combat. But this sort of political al-
chemy, -which our Currency doctors would foist up-
on the public, is not likely to become dangerous in
an age which has experienced its fallacy, and
in which the very Statesmen who are most looked
up to by its unreflecting dupes, have taken so
prominent a part in the endeavour, now fortunately
successrul, to return to a sound and practicable sys-
tem.—Morning Chronicle.
Fresh light breaks in upon the unfortunate position
of the. King's Ministers, and on the evil character of
their measures, with every attempt made to defend
them. Their oroans of the daily press have at length
begun to drop the mask, and instead of affecting to
justify the monstrous conspiracy of Papists and place-
-men against the Church of Ireland, on,the ground of
its being their intention to add " stability" to the Pro-
testant establishment, by depriving it of the funds from
which it has heretofore been subsisted, they now assert,
so far as can be-done by implication, that it is right and
politic in the King's IMinisters to meditate the abolition
of the established ehurch of Ireland. Every arzume-:,.,,
without exception, which they employ upon this Ott, oet
goes to reprobate the establishment of an; one ftligion,
and to recommend that system of w:'oiO4 tic United
States present the only exampl:„-known to the history
or traditions of civiiizA in-,r ' 'We have at present no
further' business with .-.:„.- question between an esta-
blished church an,' the voluntary principle than to
notice the fact t. 'rat it has become. confessedly etc ques-
tion, and tt;,sl only one as regards the ttettment for
which t}7.e friends of the union between Church and
State, and that other, thong- h less sacred union between
'Great Britain and Ireland, must prepare themselves.
We always said it was so, and we were stubbornly 1
contradicted ; nor does the open though late adhesion
of the Ministerial newspapers to our construction of
their masters'olicy a':i
P d one particle to our conviction
of its truth.• • However gratifying it may be to observe
that the transit.i.cm from hypocricv to impudence be-
- speaks some improvement in moral principle, still
the fact is;, ti' a nature -which ought to be made known
and explained, and dwelt upon throughout the
who:e kingdom, that the advocates and organs of the
Whig-Radical. Ministers have at last acknowledged
the utter falsehood of the, protestations made in Par-
3iament by Lord. John Russell and other Ministers,
who solemnly declared that the grand object of their
Irish measures was to strengthen Protestantism, and
to give perpetuity to the Church. This is now pro- I
claimed to be pure " gammon :" one gentleman sees
no reason, in nature why the Protestant religion should
by the State be allowed any preference over the Popish ;
another echoes him in the afternoon, and gravely as-
sures us, that for the State to make choice of any one
religion as thie, creates diScontent amongst those of its
to