The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-01 00:00:00

110 W TO GET ON IN THE WORLD. ~

Of all the ill-used sons of misfortune smitten down,;
by this -commercial panic, surely none can pretend'
to the' sympathies of the benevcilent-minded public
with so good a claim as our merchant citizen, Mr.
Michael Jamieson 1.1/I`Haflie. Mr. .M'Haffle is a
young man, and may be supposed to lack a little
experience of the ways of the wicked world. Ire bag
not altogether made himself master of the Ordi-
nary mode of conducting business. The old style
of adding penny to penny and pound to pound
did not exactly suit his peculiar disposition. Ss
was rather of an inventive turn, and could devise a
system of his own with less trouble than he could
acquire the routine of m:aorta trade. Business in
its customary aspect was too tedious and WI, -
roundabout. It was too slow. He could, out of
his prolific brain and fertile imagination, discern'
a short and easy method of doing business—a plain, -
straightforward, simple and comprehensive- plan
that required little trouble, and no great amount of
book-keeping. If a man's debts must be paid, and'
he has no money of his own, it stands to reason ,
that the next best thing to do is to pay with the
money of other people, and if everybodr did se, tt
could make little difference to the community, an,"
would come to nearly the same thing in the ends
besides being much more convenient to those evho
are not inctimbered with the root of all evil. The laig7;
covery of so simple a principle might have entitled
Mr. Michael Jamieion M‘flaffie to an honourable
place in the museum of commerce, had it not been
for the pressure of the commercial crisis, which',
tuffottunately, prevented the experimental trial of
the new system from arriving at complete ma-
turity. Money became dear, and an imaginal
profit of 2,8001., which constituted Mr. Millake2 •
whole available funds ou the 20th August, 1851,
persisted in disappearing. Cotton fell, and the -
available fund vanished. But now came the °Pell;
tion of the discovery. "I ordered 600 pieces of
goods from Heugh, Balfour, and Co., and handed -
them to Messrs. Colquhoun. Mr. Colquhoundrew
on me a bill for 3001. aglinst those goods which /1e
discounted, and handed me the prc.ceeds, which
applied in paying roast house, 1501; &c." "On
the sth Oct. 1 bought from Messrs. Beith an
Johnstone 1,000 pieces of jaconets; I handed s(ei
pieces to Godfrey Pattison and Co., and 500 piece"
to William Denhelm on same date. • I-owed moneys
to those parties," and not having the money I paid
them in the jaconets, because "I viewed -buying
jaconets, or any other goods, as a simple piece of
finance." • Very simple, no doubt, but, unfor-
tunately, not altogether successful. The *One"
might, perhaps, have been paid in long ells, tb°
long ells in Paisley shawls, and the Paisley shawl's
in a cargo of gridirons. So long as it is mil/
simple piece of finance" it can mere no an-
fereuce. Short and simple no doubt, and but fel
the crisis no one knows how long the thing might
go on. But the crisis comes, and the enterprisil
Ingenious, and inexperienced Mr. Michael WEle111,:,
discovers that there is a screw loose in the vaso-u,-,
nery of his admirable system. A house at the
coast—rent 1501. ; a house in town—cost of Wee',
body's money or somebody's jaconets—say 2,5001.;
a furnished establisment for a female " friendui
such " friends" as dooccasionallyhelp inexperieneea
young men to the bottom of the hill called ruin ;
with liabilities to the extent of 10,0001. to 20,00°14
and assets consisting of a little wine, a few cigarel
and a dog-cart ; these are the rather amusing an
instructive adjuncts of Mr. Michael M'Elaffie's
reer of two or three years of fast life on the lie°
system.

" Henceforth let all young men take heed
How in this conjuror's book they read."
—Glasgow Commonwealth.

Country Markets.

CHELMSFORD—Nov. 27.
Our market to-day was firmer, best sorts of wheel
being from is to 2s per quarter dearer than last week;
inferior, is dearer. Barleys also rose is. Everything e„...
firm at last week's prices.
Wheat, white, old, per s.
qr. 53
new 44
red, old 41
new 44

8. I 0. A.
56 I
Oats, per qr 24 30
56 Peas, Partridge 41 44
99 White 38 40
49 Boiling 4O 440 Dun 40 CA
42 I
Beans, Tiak .40 43
33 Harrow ticks 41 45
77 I Mazagan 37 41
79 Ditto, new 37 40

Barley ---
33
Chevalier 35
Grinding 30
Malt 73
Chevalier 75

Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, Am,
in the port of London, from the following pi
Nov. 22 to Nov. 28, both inclusive.

receive]
)rte, fi on

14, 4 4 4
ca 0
4.1 ce 1
P2l °
Colchester 4O 25; 360'
(
Harwichwich ' 25 .—) 400
Leigh - 17 j
---
Sialdon 1 308( 109( 366 79.

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2 g
a

51
'- 220

25 -
,-2 6ro

COLCHESTER— Nov. 28.
Not a large supply of wheat, and the trade brisker for
all descriptions at an advance of is to 2s per qr. Good
malting barley in demand, at 2s to 4s more money. Bea"
and peas the turn against the buyer.
Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 52s tog; ;
red, 46s to 525; barley, 38s to 44s ; oats, 26s to 28s ; bent,#
tda,zagan, 36s to 40s; middle and small, 42s to 48s; PeLi
white, 403 to 46s ; grey, 40s to 445.

KIRKCALDY—Nov. 28.
We bad a fair supply of barley, but small of wheat and
oats. Sales ready for all sorts, and all fine parcels werels
per qr. higher.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans..
First sBs Od I 33s Od ( 260 ocl Os o'l
0 1
Second
Third 32s, Od I 22s 0,1 188 Od I Os Oa

COAL MAItICEZ—NOY. 30.
Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market
s. (1., Wallsend, &o. •
Bebside's Hartley 17 6 s 11
Bell's Primrose
13
E 1
iexuognb , s
1 Tau Howard's West Hartley f'ramwe pllg,ate ............18 0
17 3 Whitworth ................
Netherton l6 •
18 9
North Percy Hartley _l5 6
1153
60
Nl lff.
1.. y. .0
Russell's Hettonl
.
Haswell Gas l4 06 61
raufield Moor
Wylam
Morpeth West Hartley 16 9 Sbincliffe .. . l7 6
West Riding Hartley...l7 0 South Durham .....17 a
rouutthh
HKeetlltooeu .
............................1 1 9 8
Ward's West Hartley _
6
ilartlepool Hetton ......•13 _
Wallsend, &c Cassop .18 9
Gibson l7 6 Wharncliffo 17 0
18 a
Uosforth l7 0 Eden Main
Haswell 19 9

Ships at market, 80 ; sold, 66

Thu IRISH VICEROYALTY.—It is stated with seeming
confidence in the Dublin Evening Mail that a bill is ia
oftnivehre.
opfretphaeraLtoiornd—Liiefuntootnaancetyuaolfly p
Irerieaptiadr.sd—for the abolition. •
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Scottish Hospital, established under Royal charter in
1665 for the relief of aged and infirm natives of Scotland,
dined together at the London Tavern. The room was
very elegantly decorated by various Scottish banners
and shields, the effect of which was much enhanced by
the new buds light on the sun principle introduced
lately introduced into the roam. The chair was an-
nounced to be taken by Lord Panmure ; but, his lord-
ship being unable to attend, it was filled by Mr. Moffat,
M.P., who was supported by about 140 friends of the
institution. The subscriptions of the evening were an•
nounced to about 4001.

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astounding Remedies for Bad Legs.—Extract of a letter
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four months I was in a London hospital, and turned out
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BIRTHS.
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On tho 28th ult., at 1, Tiatuilton-place, the Lady Char*
lotte Bankeg.
On the 29th nit., at 15, Sussex-square,
Hyde-park, the
wife of Colonel Archibald Little, of H.M's 9th Lancers.

OF A DAUGHTER;
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