The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-21 00:00:00

must have been highly gratiffing to the Go-
vernor and the Directors, and we are confident
will be equally satisfactory to the public.—
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rorni?T' Post.

In offering the following remarks upon the
injurious effects of a renewal of the small-note
circulation, we think it can scarcely be necessary
to guard ourselves more than we have done
against any misunderstanding with respect to our
opinion of the measure of 1819. That measure
we are ready to acknowledge was faulty. In
point of time it was too rapid in its progress ; in
point of operation it was too narrow in its prin-
ciple. The opportunity was then afforded to the
Government to enter upon a capacious view of
the currency, to possess either a gold or a silver
circulating medium, and to place it upon a solid
foundation. That opportunity was lost, and
fifteen millions of gold was brought into the
country to act in the .place of the small notes
then in circulation. In stating that the ar-
rangement of 1819 was an unsatisfactory one,
at least the most was not made of the oppor-
tunity that was then presented for the establish-
ment of the currency upon an unexceptionable
basis. We do not cast blame upon the Govern-
ment of that day, because we know the difficul-
ties to which they were exposed, and the whole
of that discussion was carried on under an
excitement but little calculated for Parliament or
the Executive to arrive at just conclusions upon
the complicated subject. However, we are now
in the position which that measure left us in,
with 15,000,0001. of gold in circulation. Now,
with respect to an issue of small notes, we sup.
pose, of course, that it will be admitted that
the security being equal, the notes will soon force
the soveriegns out of circulation, or, in other words,
that a gold and paper circulation cannot con-
tinue together when the security is the same.
Then comes the question, what is to be done
with the gold ? So long as the balance of trade
is in favour of this country, a hogshead of sove-
reigns must be sold like a hogshead of sugar,
and the Bank could only disgorge itself of its
coin in foreign operations; for, so long as the
exchanges are in favour of England, it would be
as rational to look for water running up hill
as gold leaving the country in the regular mer-
cantile course of business. Under this view of

the question, it does appear quite quixotic
to expect that an issue of small notes would
produce an extension of the circulating medium,
inasmuch as it would drive the gold from the
performance of its present function. The
only true course to that end would be that
which is proposed by Mr. Attwood, to
cause such an inundation of small notes as
would necessarily compel the Bank to aban-
don all its just proportions with regard to
its means and its liabilities, by which
scheme prices would rapidly advance until the
cheap goods of the Continent were imported. to
such an extent as to turn the balance of trade
against this country, and, after having .run riot
in speculations more rash than those of 1825,
the nation would ultimately reach a Restriction
Act, with the commercial distress consequent
upon glutted markets abroad, and at home ware-
houses overloaded with unsaleable goods. We
have thus very concisely for the present offered
our opinion against the adoption of a measure
that is now extensively spoken of, in which opi-
nion we know that we are supported by nine-
teen-twentieths of the merchants of London,
and by a vast majority of the commercial body
throughout England, upon the mere business
part of the question, without reference to the ap-
palling fact of the immense increase of forgeries
that would follow a small-note circulation.—
Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

John Keene, the owner and driver of a dust cart,
was charged with having committed a most out-
rageous assault upon a gentleman named Hart.
The complainant stated, that as he was driving
his cabriolet down Finch-lane, on Thursday last, at
two o'clock, he saw that the way was completely
blcked up by the defendant's dust cart, which was
half full of rubbish, and after some inquiry, he found
the defendant in a vault near it, bringing up baskets
of dust. He requested that the defendant would
remove his cart in order that the cabriolet might
pass to Cornhill, to which a most insolent and pe-
remptory refusal was given. The complainant then
removed the cart out of the way himself; but the
dustman in a rage let fly at him, struck him violently
on the jaw, and -- his eyes for daring to touch
the proper y. The fellow was taken into custody
on the spot, but let go as the Lord Mayor had left
the chair at the Justice-room. The complainant de-
termined to follow the master up, and sacrificed his
convenience for the protection of others, from the
attacks of so brutal a fellow, by remaining in town
merely to have justice done. There were several
gentlemen present who attended to give evidence in
the case.
Alderman WILSON asked the defendant what he
had to say in exculpation ?—The dustman, in a
loud and independent tone of voice, said that he had
given the " gemman" a push, as well as his
eyes for daring to move his cart and horse, but after
he " gived the shove" he handed over the gemmen
his card as one gemman always done with another
—(A laugh)—but no attention was paid to his
card, barring pulling him afore a Magistrate, which
war'nt jest the way a card ought to be served.
• Mr. Alderman 'WILSON supposed he owed to
that observance of politeness upon the part of the
dustman that person's present appearance at the
Justice-room.
The dustman said he went further, for he was
blest if he didn't offer the gemman share of a glass
of brandy and water, if he would only consent to
apologise for putting hands upon the cart and horses
while he was a" filling on ern."
Alderman WILSON—Why did you strike the
complainant ?—Dustman—Strike! by George I
didn't do no sich a thing. It's all a gallows lie. But,
please your Worship, where's the use in keeping a
cart and horse-to carry these here loads of dirt and
keep away the cholera morbus, if a body's to have
'em pulled about by a fellow in this here kind of
way ?
Alderman WiesoN—l see by your conduct to-
day, that you must have acted in the most ruffian-
like manlier, and I shall send for another Magistrate
and decide the meter at once.
The defendant was ordered to stand aside, but lie
slipped off, and upon the arrival of Alderman Thorp
was not to be found.
The officers, who were immediately sent in quest
of him, found him, however, in a cellar, while his
cart and horse occupied the whole of the carriage
way, and they lugged him off to the Mansion-house.
Two gentlemen confirmed Mr. Hart's statement,
and declared that no language could be more abusive
than that used by the defendant.
The dustman was ready to swear, not only that
he had not used, but that lie did not know how to
use abusive language. He was, he said, a freeman
of the City, had served the King nine years, had a
wife and six children, followed the busitie,s of a dust
collector, with his own cart and horse, and wallet
capable of acting unlike a gemman.—(A laugh.)
But he had offered his card and a glass of brandy
and water, and what could a gemman do more, sup-
pose he did give another gemman a punch on the
head.—(Loud laughter.)
The comical ruffian was then told by the
sicigis-
trate, that lie was convicted in the penalty of