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feudal splendour, and defying the voice of the people, they
commanded some respect as the uncompromising defenders of
their Order ; they have come in close contact with the " un-
washed artificers" whom they vauntingly despised, and, tossed
about from one side to the other, have betrayed a weakness
which prudence had rather concealed ; and dropping the mask
in their haste to barter honour for office, they have displayed
to the gaze of the multitude the hideous features of avarice
and hypocrisy.
But, Sir, it is not to the melancholy tergiversation of this
broken-down party that I wish to direct the reader's attention,
so much as to the healthy tone which pervades all classes of
society indiscriminately. Were it not for the immense strides
Liberty has recently made, the leaders of the grasping faction
would have no occasion to assume an honesty they cannot
compass ; it is because they discover in the masses more in-
tellect, a hearty desire to shake off all useless burdens, and an
immovable resolution to possess cheap Government, that they
are obliged to march under false colours, and speak up for
principles they abhor. Most independent men are agreed
upon the necessity of applying the knife to the unsound parts
of the Constitution, and, without quarrelling about names, the
majority of them are Reformers. Expose an abuse nowa-
days to an individual, and, if not a bloated alderman or blind
bigot, he will cry out, " Away with it ;" he may tell you the
operation must be performed by Conservative Patriots and not
Jacobinical Whigs, but he has acceded to the reasonableness
of your proposition, and the chief point is gained. The mo-
ment good principles have the ascendancy, 3 ou open the sluice
of improvement, and a pure current flows through the country,
beautifying its appearance, and fertilizing its soil. I look
with extreme interest on the abluent process to which Eng-
land is submitting, as tending ultimately, not. forsooth, to
eradicate all that is evil, but to introduce such an accumula-
tion of good as will render it in a great measure impotent.
To expect to see man deprived of his sting is to indulge in a
vain dream • the laws of human nature cannot be abrogated
by any regulations short of Divine ; but caution, and the culti-
vation of virtue by the upper ranks, and the constant instilling
of tolerant and just precepts in men's minds generally, may
parry the thrusts of the wicked, and at last strangle the hydra-
headed monster, Tyranny.
When, therefore, turning aside from any particular clan, I
throw my eyes over the whole surface, I see much to animate
us with courage and perseverance. There are, indeed, some
well-meaning persons who give themselves up to despondency,
and shrink before what they conceive insuperable difficulties ;
but if, instead of confining their ideas in one small path, they
suffered them to range freely over the entire face of society ;
if, throwing a bold retrospect on the past, they paused at
effects, and duly weighed the causes that produced them ; if
they were to get rid of the corrugating influence of party
spirit, and, leaving that narrow track, soar into the broad and
gentle and wise regions of philosophy, their conclusions, I
think, would be any thing but gloomy. Buoyed up by the
sight of that better spirit which prevails to so great an extent,
and encouraged by the " CONSENSUS BONORUM OMNIUM " on
almost all matters nearly allied to our prosperity as a nation,
they would behold the political and moral horizon both united,
and both visibly brightening, whilst the dawn of happier days,
seen in the distance, would cheer their drooping hearts. But
although Liberty must triumph in the end, Indolence will
retard its victory. Much has been done, but much also re-
mains undone ; we must be stirring, and not asleep ; we must
carry out the principles of CHARLES JAmss Fox, of revered
memory ; we must complete that fabric which the great and
good, who are at rest, sacrificed their lives and comforts to
found. To do this, we must buckle on our armour, and give
no quarter to the enemy, never remaining contented, nor
deeming our work finished, until we behold the unwieldy hulk
of Toryism shattered by our broadsides, and sinking into the
waves amid the loud huzzas of free Britons.

AIILO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As we are threatened with more nonsense about
" Currency," to the hindrance of public business, it will be
as well to upset a few of the fallacies usually created on the
subject.
You have adverted to the absurd scheme of Sir J. Sinclair
for issuing Exchequer Bills, but you have not noticed the
fundamental fallacy on which it is based, viz.—that the price
of produce depends on the amount of the circulating medium.
Now the fact is, the AMOUNT OF CIRCULATION DEPENDS ON THE
PRICE AND QUANTUM OF PRODUCE. This IS almost a self-evi-
dent proposition to those who have an atom of discernment.
If the quantity of goods should be great, the medium of ex-
change must be considerable in amount; if small, the me-
dium must be proportioned. No financial operation could
keep twenty millions circulating in the Isle of Man, nor any
jugglery enable us to transact all the business of the empire
with ten thousand pounds.
The currency babblers, then, have just taken cause for
effect l They find high prices and vast circulating medium
coincident, and fancy the former the result, instead of the
cause, of the latter.
If a loan were advanced to the landowners, it would produce
no effect on prices—if to the farmers, it might enable them to
hold back corn for a time, after which time, the market being
glutted, by the produce of the year, and the accumulation,
prices would fall lower than ever.
As to excess and deficiency, it is all moonshine. Slight
local derangements may arise, just as a private individual may
in one month be a little more flush or bare of cash than
in another ; but for any period worth notice, or over any
great portion of the community, the thing cannot exist.
Our currency being chiefly in paper, any surplus beyond the
immediate mercantile wants of the community, is, as fast as it
arises, returned, (i. e. paid in) to the Banks—any sudden ad-
ditional demand is forthwith supplied by bankers or private ca-
pitalists, if good security can be offered.
Another fallacy is the supposed dependence on Bank of
England notes Or gold—THE MAIN PART OF OUR CIRCULATING
MEDIUM IS MADE UP OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE, and if twenty
millions of Bank of England notes were annihilated to-mor-
row, a month hence the event would be unfelt; bills of ex-
change for smaller sums than the usual amounts would be put
in circulation, and fill up the vacuum.
In truth, bank notes, OF ANY KIND, ARE LITTLE MORE THAN
TILE SMALL CHANGE OF COMMERCE—a great convenience—no
more. I am, Sir, Ste.,
May 20, 1835. SENE X.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
WHITSUNTIDE, 1835.

now stand in the Order Book.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.-ORDERS OF THE DAT.
I. Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
2. County Coroners Bill—Second reading.
3. Seamen Enlistment Bill—Committee.

9. HulfMerehant Seamen's Fund Bill—Committee.

10. Capital Punishments Bill—Committee.
11. Prisoners Counsel Bill—Second reading.
12. Sale of Bread Bill—Committee.

FRIDAY, JUNE S.—ORDEK OF THE DAY.
Dissenters' Marriages Bill—Committee.
Durham Court of Pleas Bill—Second reading.
Offences against the Person Bill—Second reading.
Western Australia Bill—Second reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1835.

4. North American Association Bill—Second reading.
5. Moor's Divorce Bill—Committee ; Counsel and \‘ itnesses.

8. Inns, Alehouses, and Vieluallingyouses

17. Annual Indemnity Bill—Third reading.
IS. Foreign Enlistment Repeal Bill—Report.
19. Supply—Committee.
20. Cruelty to Animals Bill—Further consideration of Report.
21. Vestries Act Amendment Bill—Second reading.
22. Ways and Means—Committee.
23. Instruments of Sasine (Scotland) Bill—Second reading.
24. Postage Duties—Report thereupon.

2. Kerry Election Petition—Ditto at a quarter after three.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

NOTICES of MOTIONS and ORDERS of the DAY, which

6. Entailed Estates (Scotland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
7. Roman Catholic Marriages Bill—Committee.

13. Manure Toll Exemption Bill—Further consideration of Report.
14. Bribery at Elections Bill—Second reading.
15. Civil Bill Courts Bill--Second reading.
16. Clerk of the Crown to attend.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Sir Charles Burrell—To move for Papers relating to the dis-
dissal from office of Mr. James Walker, the late Crown Agent

in Berbice.
2. Mr. Mackinnon,—Committee to inquire into the state of the
Roads under the Turnpike Trusts in England and Wales.
3. Lord Viscount Castlereagh,—Petition from the High Sheriff of
the County Down, signed in behalf of a meeting held last Oc-
tober.
4. Dr. Bowring,—Correspondence between his majesty Consul at
Tripoli and the British Government.
5. Mr. Buckingham, —To move the abolition of Impressment for
the Navy.
6. The Lord Advocate,—Bill to explain " An Act to amend the
Representation of the People of Scotland."
7. Sir Michael Shaw Stewart,—To report that the Standing Or-
ders have not been complied with in the case of the Glasgow
Waterworks Bill.
8. Mr. A. G. Spiers,—Petition from West District of Stirling-
shire, complaining of the Sheriff.
9. Mr. Sharman Crawford,—Return of Royal Bounty to Presby-
terian and Dissenting Congregations in Dublin since 1815.
10. Mr. Sharman Crawford,—Return of Lunatic, Asylums built in
Ireland under Ac:s of George IV.
11. Mr. Wilks,—Select Committee on Charities in England and

Wales.
12. Mr. Wakley,—To call the attention of the House to the incon-
venience of the present mode of entering names on the public
list for the presentation of petitions.
13. Mr. NVakley,—Petitions praying the House to address the
Crown for ;he recall of the Dorsetshire Labourers.
14. Mr. A. Johnston,—Address for Copies of Communications
from the parishioners of Kirkmichael, Ayrshire.
THURSDAY, JUNE 11.—NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Sharman Crawford,—Bill to amend the Grand Juries in

Ireland Act.
2. Mr. Harvey,—Select Committee on Public Charities in Eng-
land and Wales.
3. Sir Samuel Whalley,—Resolution respecting the Repeal of the
Window Tax.
4. Colonel Sibthorp,—Select Committee, to inquire into the juris-
diction of the Local Testamentary Courts.
5. Sir William Rae,—That the petitions relative to the building
and endowing places of worship connected with the Established
Church of Scotland be referred to a Select Committee.
6. Mr. Winthrop Praed,—Copies :of Communications between the
India Board and the East India Company, relative to the re-
vocation of the appointment of Lord Heytesbury as Governor-
General of India.
7. Mr. Stewart Mackenzie,—Select Committee on the state of
Education in Scotland.
8. Mr. Henry Lytton Bulger,—Petition in favour of the introduc-
tion of a Legislative Assembly in New South Wales.
9. Lord Granville Somerset,—Address in pursuance of Resolutions
of Committee on Re-building Houses of Parliament.
10. Mr. Sharman Crawford,—Reports of riotous proceedings at
Ballykelly, County Londonderry.
11. Mr. Wyse,—Committee relative to Diocesan and Royal Schools
in Ireland, with a view to extending their utility.
12. Colonel Sibthorp,—Select Committee on Ecclesiastical and
Consistorial Courts in England and \Vales.
ORDERS OF TILE DAY.
I. Bolton Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at three.

1. Mr. Robinson,—Select Committee to consider the expediency
of a Revision and Commutation of Taxes.
2. Colonel Sibthorp,—To move a reduction on all Official Salaries
excedding 8001. per annum.
3. Mr. Baring,—Miscellaneous Estimate* in Committee of Supply).
4. Mr. Ewart—on the Vote for Education in the Estimates, to
submit to the House the propriety of encouraging the forma-
tion of Public Libraries in towns, open to all classes of the
community.
5. Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood,—To move that such part of the Esti-
mates as relates to the Office of the Privy Council for Trade
be referred to a Select Committee.
MONDAY, JUNE 15.—ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Stafford Disfranchisement Bill—Second reading.
2. Municipal Corporations Bill—Second reading.