The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS•

OlLS—Prices have declined 3d to 6d per cwt for Lin- I
heed Oil this week; there has;:however, been a large
business-transacted on the. sp'dt, and for forward delivery
at 23s 3d to 23s 6d for exportation. Rape 35s to 353
M is the value of Pale,. and -34 r-to 34s 6d for Brown.
For. Olive. Oil previous -
-rates are with difficulty
sustained. Gallipoli at, 431- to 431 10s. Spanish
411 to 424 and Barbary and`'Levant 391 to 401 per tun.
Cocoa Nut 26s to vs per cwt. Palm, fine quality at
26s to 265.6 d. In common descriptions of Fish Oils the
purchases lave been limitett_in all, sorts, and prices are
going down for Cod and Pale Seal, the former selling
at 321 lOs to 331, and'the latter at 341 to 35/. Southern
28/ to 331 per tun is, the valne' of low to fine quality.
Sperm Oil at auction 66 tuns of American were taken
in at 88/, the value of fine British is 881 to 901 per ten.
Of American Spermaceti,- 85 boxes at auction went, at
Is 2d per lb in bond. American Lard Oil is 401 to 41/
per tun.
TALLOVA—lmporters. Oibßuisian manifested firmness,
this week. New P: _Y. Candle at 40s 6d to 408 9d per
cwt. For, delivery up to 'the end...of the year several
purchases have been Made at 40s 3d to 40s 6d, and for,
the first three months of nidt,Year, some cOntractshave
been entered into at 41s fdi-,Titn:Eiry, and 41s 3d to 41s 6d
per cwt for February ahcl Match. 01' really fine Tallow
the supply is less than it Was lait 'season. With Aine-
rican and -New Soutii•Walesilie market is still well sup-
plied. Town Tallow at,4ls to 41's 6d per cwt nett cash..
This afternoon at public stile 56
.8 casks New South
Wales Tallow sold at 38s to 41.s'd ; 322 packages. of
South A7siaierican at 36s 3d to-3936d', and inferior 35s 3d
Lo
.36s percw-t.
_ _ _

SALTPETRE.—This afternoon rough was sought after;
and 214 bags of Ctilcuttii.a.t.piiblio'sale were sold at full
rates-8- per cent. reTractien mid dry grey fair chrystal
fetched 2;s to 25s 6d, and tarrefracted 24s to 2,1 s 6d
per cwt.'

• COMMISSION 'OP LUNACY.
A commission de lunatic°,
‘inquirenclo was opened
:yesterday at the Manor-houscSayern, Stoke New-
ington, before Mr. Commissioner Barlow and seven',
teen special jurors, ,to inquire into the state of mind
of Jane. Edwards, a: maiden ,lady, 'aged thirty-six;
daughterof the late wealthy :,.George Edwards;.Esq.;
;of the Hampstead-road, described' in the commission
as t‘ late of Clarendon-place; Maitia-hill, but now a'
'Northumberland House, a tyke Newington, spinster:'
Mr. Grfgory, of the firin of Gregory, Faulkner,
iend-Co44sppeared,iiS soliCittii irf support of the:catiT.
lesion, Which was tinopit;sed."
'
- The Learned Cdiamissionti explained the lawof
hunacy in the usual terinkland,: in the absence of
'founseron either side, state: thenature of the case ;
!frolik which, and 'die exidere 'adduced, it tippeared,
thiit'the ;upfortunait,e,44l ,44 in her infancy.. NIP
affected With convulsive Vs, .which had weakened, beali
inin'cl, but decided uniotindness had not manifested
't,Arf till 1825, wlien.slae-wai seventeen years of age,
*ben she was placed inßelbnal-green Asylum: • She
then lahnured under. the delusions that people:Nide'
continually breaking :,,into ,her tbom, and also-, that'
many people were conspiring fig,iinst her, and!-she;
'ultimately became. perfectly!' itahecile. . Afte'r
.11q,,,
Tether's death, in ~1-839rshe as -removed'l6 her;
uncle's,;.in Belgraveslintre; inriipon his d'eith, RI
4842; to another rt,lativest 3,14de-hill ; who,.
ing Min-died, she, in -SeptepifiletlB43, became .an iii,
ynate-Ofszthe above asy:lnm..jaPer father, at his,deatti;
left her_a hands Odie annuity, to secure which the
.. ,
comini,ssien had beensissiken, ,•:4 .i. i_
Mr. 460thony White„surgeact, of Yarliarnent,street,
'deposed TO the imbecility of her mind from October'
4,-1842. , ..':-:, .--
-Dr: Alexander SUtberiurtdvalea.stated that she 6ea
her father was still alive; affil- steNippeared incapable;
of understanding thdrvaltie dr tiinney, figures; 'or any:
subject, though it appearrthtgheiz',had been original)t
:well educated. She was.detiTed of unsound' WriCr:
Her chieVamuseniqii wq ea rib paper, h kepi,
...., 41 . ;6. . a
ja- d _
'illets, and other artici*,sti-iint. stgS: never askethfcr:
food or anything 'etie,, s4e. w.a3 attired in 7 deep
mourning.
'... -:-.,;,#;:-.144,4' :.
The lady was Introdus,std;Aier ;countenance was:
mild and pleasing, with 4ba hazel eyes, and she had
,evlden4 been pretty. ,She continually smiled at the-,
:Learned Commissioner'nqqttistitifisir'but her answers i'
were. chiefly " Yes,''.4lThiAmNitfl4ll"sbook ws handed'
her. to read, but shelleee'ryjuuttered indistinctly and
;unintelligibly. By i'equ . irPok a pen to write,
and first drawing otthiie *4lle:wrote in 'a gOod
neat hank the word)4"4 js.7-41111 Edwards," 'When
her mindUippeared*ivititrirnkshe joined to the
1
;latter ward " edsriasedcliittlyvas so continuing,
when the jury exprOlsfed,- rAttrelve't. satisfied, and ye,
turned a verdict, dear*: fire uiTtoundiiess of mind from ,
Oct. 1, 1842. .7' , ; 1.;,..,; ..4,:

I,LLOYri:S
- i.l-( EAST 41SItorli414111/ING.
Arrivals;-Madeira;--Soll4ll6.MAlViras, in the Donois,
sailed July 16, St. nikki.A,' Slifitp4.l4l- Arrow, 'Walker,
fi•ont •Zaty;lbar, in tke.,,Dsgaileii.''Aug. 3, St.:Holena
Sept: 29;; perald, Bciso,nfr-jostngappre, iu the Downs,.
sailed Aug, 1, St. .10c6.T17:,1gile, Small, from
I 'the Cape.Vf Good ITUre,:„Atitkllyviao, sailed Sept.
Ilele,the Oct. 7; Asian:, .4Xhittingharn, from
Claina; inithe Si. Helena
_Oct. I;
ff Torbay; "sail-d
iJuly 30, Pernambuco Oct. 15 ; Achilles, Vcale;lirom
.Sydney,9lETorbay, sOletality hilThinerlane, Watuzie,
' frgm Bevttl, at Liverpooli4erialedvjuly 14, St. Helena
Oct. 2; ;Pilgrim, liawliuskligpir-Bengal, at Liverpool,
ailed Juiie 13, St. Helena Sc.pl 26; Orient, Wales,lrom
pengal, in the Down#, sailgd Jvtiv 29, Mauritius Aug. 21,
St. Helenti'Sept.‘29.
Arrival at St. lieleinite-4Mna Sept. 30, ;from
'Bativiaitted sailed! Crett"eit to 4laniturgh ; Magnolia,
oyal, 3d, from west-coast-of 'aftica;•and saild to Liver-
!pool ; Ulward Bouitead',4rorii ''China, and sailed. 4th
to London ; Sylphide, 'frtitmiattavia,' and sailed 4th to
Freedom atittl,.JDautytt; 3d, from Ichaboe ;
!Antoinette Marie, 44,h, Batatis.and sailed to Rot-
ierdam ; ttOsanna, from ichaboe„ and sailed 6th to Cork;
gawk, fr`Oinichaboe,rd'aailett fah to Cork ; Gabrielle,.
from Bordeaux ; Marina, sth, from -Ichaboe and ;sailed
11 Bth to Brigfol ; Flora, sth, ftism Ichaboe, and sailed 6th
Ito Cork ; rib,: from Ichabtie, and
7thitl6 Clyde t; Emperor; Sth,.'from Manilla,, and
sailed to Antwerp ; Bouthsook, frau Bourbon,7;ittftl'
Sailed 7tlfitii Havre 'Manilla and- Maurititik
and sailed to London ; Caftield,;7sthi from Bengal, and
Sailed to 4..iyerpool irWintlser Castle, from Bombay, and
Sailed 6th'ip Liverpool;;
~John Graltsm, from CeYlon.,
passed to tendon ; Bencoolen, (Yet. 7, from Manillat and;
ailed Bth ~tp Cork ;. Indua from -Bourbon, and sailed
Bth to 'Marseilles ; 13,retag,ite;AotiiBourbon, and sailed ;
Bth to' St. 'lralo ; Prins IfeiArick,tlom Batavia, and,
Sailed Bth AmsterWunf tioreas Naylor, from coasts
of Africa, and sailed Bth to •; Brooksby,,-10kh,
from Manilla, and sai_leel2;j ondOn.; Eliza Scott and-
Eliza, front, coast of Africa l',ondfcherry from Poettli.-!,
cherry. -
ArrivalS in Table''''‘-BaY-?teltv'ard Robinson, Sept. 1,
from China- G. IL Harrison, 21st, from Singapore ;
:Hope, 'froat:Mauritiu4;*
Arrival at Hobart Attwood, July 9,
from London.
.Departures from Hobart `l Nevis, June 28,
to LaunceStim ; Eudortt, Tuly 10, to New Zealand.
Arrival at LauncestOn—Agsstiira; Volum, for London.
Arrivals 'at Sydney:—SaralWjaly 21, from Singapore ;
Star of China, 27th, rfront-N6w Zealand ; Lady Gray,
from Hobart Town ; Bluizdehl, from• London and Nur-
folk Island::

t. ,

THE PRICE4OF A JAW.
) (Prorfi'jound.)
One would think that •Plutus 'made most of Our,
,English laws, there are §6:fekof them that are not to
be mended with money, irlA4o, breaker can afford the
tirikering r This is, indeed, the true aristocracy of
;wealth, and makes a man With gold in his pocket feel
that he is iii-questiona,lhly'orm of the superior classes—
fac't, a chartered ruffian,- who• may knock down his
fellow-creatures like tine-pins, if he have ready 'cash
sufficient to.pay for the stlore. Blessed privilege of
wealth! ~Itow contemptuously mint the rich offender
*ye the pauper ruffian, who ~can I'm' more afford to
ienjoy the broken members of his •neighbours than he
'can afford keen peas. at TchilMmas ? Again and again
do Magistrates by their :ludgii4nts—call upon us to
marvel at the healing principle of gold—the never-
failing auAtez potabilc. of the, Rolice-offite.
The subjoined case, h6wever, applies, we presume,
to a penniless ruffian : .
" cLE*ILENWELL.7* George Combes was charged
with breaking the jaw ofark.unfortunate girl, named
Anne Gorman. P r, •
The poor girl was standing quietly in the Chalk-
road, when the prisoner told her to accompany him.;
She refused, upon whielitteilealt her such a 'blow
with his clenched fis-V-as broke her jaw,' and felled her
`to the ground, where she :11i# in,sen.sible for hay' an hour
She was then conveyed to suligeon.
, Mr. OWl3E—Wilt You
.poor creature,
somecomilOnsation for' tge grievous injury you,have
done her ?. Prisoner—l mon% ii:Ve.her a farthing.
I,‘ Mr. CiiitnE —Then you will piy,s4, or go to the
'reuse of 'Oorrection,for two Months.!' .
Some' snmpensation.': fon,* broken jaw ! George
Combes could not, or.,would.-not, pay for the artitle„:
and—we cordially hope—he.'is a prisoner for two
months, with the supplementarypunishment of hard'
labour. If,,however, he could have paid 51., he would:
have been free to break anOther jaw the next night on.
the same terms.' .
- The Magistrates say they have no discretion,um
these matters. If the ruffian Aave, money, justice
writes him a' receipt in full -dfall.deznands.
It is the. men who make thifse laws who are answer-
abli;'for their injustice. ; '
we,will suppose it eight ink the evening-.the'
p'l46,palaCe-yard. There goes Lord ---to his seat in
the'Comnions. A ruffian, thinking that he has a good'
quarrel with his Lorctehipls:jaw,"With his clendhed.
tst;hreaksit. Does his bdraship42the law-maker--•
hink the "fine of 51. a suffitiel4, punishment for "14_
atrocity ? think not; theii Lords are so„,sel.'
dom assat4ted : such doings' i•efierally fall upon 41n,
''.l.44ver Orders," and thfy.being made, of coarser clay,
Fitel—likeiPipkins—to;he p4Torwffen broken. Men
*ith iribiley can afford i& ~„. , .
I fkara t. pretty certain liatgr. Thomas Duncombe
inuatfreadAhe police 1ep0t.44 -And equally sure that
the Iniquity, of this- lawis vthei.ly•worthy of his-re-;
forming energy. Or where -%ls YoUng England'?
:Wherefore: does it not clartifion;the jaws of whati„
breedhes pocket, in its • Mfg 9,omplacency, calls
,
loam ordelt . f.---
.• •

THE. MIDDLE TOLSSBES.
It has been often observed,
,iliatf,Ak4intddle class
is the strength' and glory of a nation:' 1V this
unfailing source to draw uponino great efforts can be
long sustained. An aristocracy may,,be--,splendid for
its wealth; 'and honourable for its 'generosity.; a pea-
Santry may be respectable for its splrit, and numbers,
hnd still more so for its "ddrifestic virtues. But
neither of them possesses the'Efamina of a good
Middle class for any great purpose, either of peace or
Of•war. -It brings to bear upon one another all the
great elements of social strength, industry, talent,'
wealth, public spirit, and public, opinion, in a far i
More efficient manner than any political effort of
the state ;, because in the most natural.wag:—by actual
combination : Where there are Wide intervals between
the clasies, energy and promptitude are,„, loat by dis-
tance of operation, by bad leverage; so to Speak, and
ill--direction of forces. When you have a good
middle 'class,- you have not far to fetch your mate-
rials, to communicate your intentions, to apply your
'impulses; There the state has notlo get at, the noble-
men, the nobleman to get at'his degendents ; spirit
has, not to- awaken industry, and :iiidn.stry to go
abont 'looking') for means, and 'means to waste for
want of, hands. The electric:girdle is a! ways com-
plete. Theinchistrious man is also enlightened and
Wealthy the,*ealthy man is also energetic "and able.
Go into:the Market-place and look around, and there
you hairein o'ne 'view all the element you want for
any great internal improvement or external under-
taking.' In this class you poaSess a storehouse and a
sohool; on -which you 'may depend fora'COnstant and
(ii.utble supply of politiCal in a_ an`d virtues. The
'Wats' has not to set to work as soon as it fOresees an
eii'geney; or conceives a desib, putting, all the scat-
itePett'pktt bl the social machine together, and dis-
Covering, did last Momerit, to its cost, that it is
'nOt'iSrePVCd, for.' that something' is missing, some
Jetta haegtip'ek! or some ' member has Shrunk since
he fast' grekt''tUrn-out of the nation. ' In such . a
predicanittit the results must always -he • precarious
and ithperfect. But with a large class,` either very
rich rtlrieie-ry poor, heither'incapable 'Of great efforts
nor abbVe'thein, 'always 'engaged in- extensive and
arduous designs, always augmenting . and 'concen-
tratinktbe'reSburces of the country, the statesman
bias thf6e paitiic.or'his work done to. his hand.' Even
if he 'gen, otht4i*worked. He has only to speak to a
teparrfed Peepie,;-and open a *ell filled magazine.
e are-aware of Jhe prejudices we offend by elevat-
'itig flilmiddle Class into the saviours of their country.
The'reare persona who would rather not 'lle saved at
11-t'han ineans.; at least in theory; for most
bklienitippear to' acquiesce very contentedly in the
hisioriCal fact; and to enjoy without Any reserve the
'numerous., benefits thence .-accruing.... But when-
Leifer 'diet Can' abstract themselves enough to mo-
rtal-Or-Asia' `forget enough to be Ungrateful, then
ihesi 'lciitiipiiently meditate on the- middle class
itividgitr, pushing; conceited, selfish, and
-iiisk4titil,'‘'.Vithilie'world for its god and money for
TitertalikiW iiitheut either the "dignity 'of-command or
khe grace of Hobedience ; neither lofty nor.dutiful ;
rermi'ed•-ilikn.,:fiom the beatifies of nature and the
perfeetion's --id,: art ;• a novelty on the past,
the future, intrusive, ' encroaching,
upstart; i:withont right or inheritance, with-
:cant fatherf.or:, mother, absoltitely, without place in
a perfect system, anti-aristocratical, anti-monar-
'ebical,'_anti4ctlesiastical, anti-everything;- excepting
'only+ its own odious self. If so 'great an absurdity ad-
initSof aggravation, it receives it- frourthe circum-
stance that.smost who so feel and. talk are them-
of the -middle class, And -Are • only removed
,;freiffthelwarehmise or the shop by one generation of
iparentage,Eor:perhaps by seven years' of school and
!c011e0e,..,0r-,'-eyeri not at all.. As -3Ve`bever yet heard
-an* serious project for dispensing withithia class, and
;showing hew-England was tocontinue England with-
and-not relapse to holes-in-the earth And painted
skiins,:,-such.sentiments as the above danot pretend to
:bea,Anything'.:else than a rebellion -of one's tastes
against an inevitable dispensation ; and, as such, have
'nuit ti.:,v-hry. religious or rational chaianter; 'However,
they.4arist -)and-continue. There are,-'and will be,
thousands who consider their inward revolting at the
'laldielclaaseL_ to he the niosbeialted and precious
part pf their:nature, and the most certain evidence of
thejssoul"kti9bility. Such at. prejudice, ridiculous as
it is, is .yet.,_injurious. Itestranges from paths of
public usefulness many who might do service in their
day.;; it diverts into the ideal many who might be
practical;,. and, though not .in active
principle, it furnishes the grounAwork -of.: dangerous
appeals,—appeals from the living, fresentio the dead
past, from realities to chimeras,fmn.l duties to dreams.
ft is then
,with very great pleesnre- that we find
tile use,thvecessity, and the righAtulnesk of a middle
class, and an
.Unbroken gradation, of middle classes,
‘a.,fvoCare'd'bY men likely to cOmmand. attention, and
rectliwn4ecly arguments, wtich, cepnot- be denied.'
Minds use, with Oliers...rigttfulness will
have more weight. For th-e.bene-fit
,oft.lie former
use extract a very important .passage,' as scents to
from Mr.Treinenheere,'s,,e,.c.p.cdingly, interesting
rt•port- 9n the state of the Popul4tirt. the mining
" Another result of the titwk • sfysteinii.liiet less in-
jurinns, thoagh• not so directly -appreitiahle, 'is, that by
!checking the, growth of a middle' clas'ilt reduces the
'aitiOinit-and'effect of those civilizing infhienees which
descend upon. the labouring. elltssl•s 'from the various
gradatiotia'of . society above thtctit, i:11! -large sum of
2,00,000/. -a-year, part of the wages paid by,-the principal
w4.os•having stores as abovementioned,. --has been al-
.reaqy.show Ii not .to be expended, in these stores.. The
'growth, therefore, of the class of retail:dealers in those
neighbourhoods has been considerable„,as is :proved by
th:ease of Cuatbridge, where>there six at present 134
'shops and-three inns, besides-sixa shops, at Dandyvan
kept by,persons belonging to the-wcirlts, who deal in the
:same kind of articles that are 'arkld at the' Dundyvan
istore:• IC instated 'that eight years' ago' there were only.
Coatbridge. • .The un-
-duuhtedly great ; but it must norte bi-erlooked that
:the.Profits of --the 50,0001 a-year 2estitnatid -to be ex-
;pended.fit the stores of the enunrcrifedziverks Would,
tin.d.er.:ether circumstances, havgbeen so•much added to
itlwhich supplies. the .well.-being,. and, „wealth of
Mllee-Clais Of retail dealers. It ivrcaild have.,promoted pro
vane° their advance towards thettnicidle.ranlis of society,
land therefore towards filling that_xoicf 1114- existence of
;whichis Mie 'of the fertile sources-olevil-Wdistricts new
ft:tivi'rapidlypeepled."
the• oh! story, some -will' sa3,:i''Who wants to
multiply small shopkeepers ? enough
already • 'ond...4l'k:every corner. • W *it a state
leome4o o£' Which retailers of- 5.1417' acid cheese are
Itl*lsfalomitiant Citizens ? Well; willurn coals, and
}are glad tii!Warin our hands and. OA dar dinners by
1,-their aid:' Coals' involve sinUdiFitnteri,"-.smudgy
!pitmen involve smug shopkeepers„and_whatis more,
'if• we ha-ve any bowels of •lif-t.ratitude
for the said pitman, lying 'palAr side for
live-long days; 'and picking labdritinstrat -the walls
of- his dungeon, in utter darkilegi,i•*:• in deadly
vapours, more 'than a hundie4; !ratititile*low the
cheerful realths of day, we trittqc.i'Ad--te think
that he has' a chance some daY nr'!idiVl3kfore age
surprises' himi at his toil, of sfineTl4.*riglit, clad
and!;Clean, behind a counter,- -thijitY7B4.3:ll34),light of
day and the sight of fellow-men. TbOniddlAclasses,
we maintain, have an heredistafelit6tV,Ce ngland,
froth which-- they have too genelttll4lti ousted.
In the golden age of the old EfigllifigsritleMAn there'
was a -rising class above the lalitOer,ltril step above
step to the highest station. This We have *peatedly
asserted, and believe there which
more abundant and conclusloo.44-can be
adduced. There is hardly a• trille:.W4We, in the'
memory of man, there were 'net ftes more
holdings than there are now, and consequently many
opportunities for the poor man -te:esdaPe from that
poverty which England calls eel-Ix-Re! fievery sur-
face of the fields, the traces of 'anCientlibniesteads,
roads, and. hedgerows, declare the -*Se historical
faet.,-; The statement in the folloWing- extract from
Lord Willoughby D'Eresby's very excellent and sug-
gestive. , letter, which we published on Tuesday,
would be found confirmed wherever the inquiry was
made:—
•." The occtipation of three acres of paStutemeuld give
hint' that' great necessary of life, a suppl Y-or ntlk for his
family; which-he can very rarely buy, and afthe same
time afford him a profitable invcstwent -fot money,
by.the purchase -of a cow and sheep,- which 'would pro-
duce hun as many pounds yearly :as hAeould.get shil-
lings in;tho savings' bank. It weuld!, censequently en-
able him to accumulate the capital necessary to stock a•
small faini. r cannot refrain, from adding:two very sig-1
nificant facts :for the benefit of thOse,who talk of the im-
possibilitY•Tof thelahourer's purchasini,a ce*;—l have
seen the plan of a parish of the data of 17,17, in which
every cottage had' an allotment of pasture.. At some
subsequent periods all these
,were taken- away and let
With the large! firths. Ten years ago they vrere restored,
and: there in the parish 33 laboare-is -who; pur-
:6,44, cow?. for themselves as scion as .tha allotments
!were granted. •
;11.'heile„,twp....pasAages, from,different quarters, con-
stitute v,erty„ltufficient case • for the practical benefit
and successional right of an unbroken .gradation of
.middle
,If; however, they have been banished
from thme country to the town, and made thereby more
deinocratic,:,whoso- fault is it? Not their own.—

I THE Cestoms.-,--It was stated, a shOrt time
that an additional landing surveyor had, been stationed
at the Lond,op (Dock_ ,s besides the two regular officers,
60t-if• tifthe • gtetif' increase of business, in' that large
ekahlisbaerit;44l4iita since been also deterinined by the
board to place an additional officer of the smile standing,
;at giatilt: Katlialine Docks, where the 'zaniness has also
of iat4l,inarea§ect To a very greattextent, tinie,of the
one latipimsnrytydr originally and till now placed on
theiots.l494 ~being; almost entirely occupied in super-
ititeminiThegilnigkeri of vessels. from Leghorn which
,dtsbileile! gime cargoes there, it, being, consequently
:.inVeztdibreforllitajo devote as much attention to the
'othiti-pai=titne.Of -the docks as the want's orthe-, public
hand the necessities of the case require. Besides, being
;ftgrotr=a7d vantage To the mercantile world,- as affording
thena-_,Fadditional.means of dispaiehing their business,
*greater; !legr*lif .security is also afforded to their
ggetts rand ther,Srepue, I a measure ' strouglrfrecom-
A 1941.4 ;444111 ,11%41$ TopOri of the "Wane loquipv
;Col ;cabs. .r4g.l

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAL
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The subject of the stamp on receipts is one
which engages some attention among the trading inte-
rests in the City, and a suggestion has been made by an
intelligent member of that interest, following the prin-
ciple of the universal penny postage, to tax all receipts
for sums above 51. at ld. only, and make it compulsory •
to give stamped receipts in all cases, which he thinks
would produce a revenue of 1,000,000 L, while 'the tax
yields at the present time a sum less than 200,0001. The
party referred to, with whose respectability we are ac-
quainted, has furnished a long written statement in .
elucidation of his plan, the leading points of which will ,
be sufficient to render it intelligible to the public.
He proposes that the paper to be used shall be issued,
stamp d, as heretofore, by the Government, which is to
print on the same paper a form of receipt, besides which,
he would allow all acknowledgments of the receipt of
money, written on paper which bears the Post-office
stamp, as evidence of passing through the Post-office, to
be considered legal receipts. All other paper to be used ,
for invoices, accounts-current, &c., to be found by per-
sons requiring it, and to be presented for stamping at the
Stamp-office. He proposes, also, that all bankers' cheques
should have the penny stamp attached to them, which
will make them legal vouchers, instead of being the
means commonly in use, as they now are, of evading .
the tax altogether.
The calculation of the amount likely to be raised by •
such a tax seems a startling one, but the writer adverts
to data which. bear Lim out in concluding such a result
to be at least probable ; and he points out one moral
advantage from his plan, in its inducing better habits of
business in taking vouchers for all Payments—a practice..
which may prevent litigation and disputes, which now'
constantly occur through the neglect Of such a precau-
tion. It is something also, on that side of the question,'
to get rid of a law, the infringement of which is of daily
and hourly recurrence.
We have proposed only now to offer an outline of the
plan; and leave it to- make what impression it-may upon
the public. • • • .
Evere since the passing of the new Bank Act, Inge` •
nuity seems to have been at work to devise methods by
which the country bankers may escape the legal provi-
sions. A day or two ago,we noticed two plans which the
Bankers' Circular advanced for the benefit of those whose
interest it represents, and to-day our attention has been
called to another scheme which looks' very practicable,`;
though it is perhaps less ingenious than tbe others. The-
11th section of the Act only forbids the bankers to issue
notes on bills payable to bearer on demand beyond a
certain extent, and if any instrument can be contrived
that will answer the purpose of circulation, and not come
within this description, it seems that the statute may be
evaded. The new scheme proposes that a firm of bankers
shall sign a note payable at sight or on demand, at
the banking-house, to the order of one of the partners
or one of the clerks, and that the payee shall endorse
the note in blank. Such a document is not, it appears,
according to repeated decisions on the Stamp Act, a "note
payable to bearer," and yet it can be transferred by de-
livery only, andsimposes just as much liability on the
banker as the note such • as-the statute contemplates.
Here, then, we, have an instrument against which the
law is probably powerless. .
One view remains to be taken of all these expedients'
In the opinion of nearly all the disinterested persons le
the City who have spoken upon the new Banking fb;,,e9
it has been considered:a very judicious measure, &WI
because it checks excess in circulation, and theiefora
tends to repress reckless speculation. One class of per'
sons, however, find that it does not accord with their 011
individual interests; and therefore, though there can be no
doubt whatever as to the spirit and meaning of the law,
all sorts of schemes are recommended to evade the-letter
of the statute. Everybody who is aware of the exist-
ence of the Act, is also aware that its object is to plece,
the circulation of the country within defined limits ; an°
those gentlemen who avail themselves of the varioaa
stratagems we have described, will place themselves le,
no very enviable situation, with regard to the country al
large, who will consider a public benefit of more coose's
quence than an individual interest. Suppose these plags 4
succeed for a time, it is scarcely possible that they eel: •
produce any, lasting benefit to the parties who adopt;
them. If they are carried on to any important extent'
they will probably be checked by some supplemental:
statute that will render the provisions- of the existingt,
law more stringent and defined. A great and impotteli,..
principle is contended for, and either that must 'l'l
sacrificed, or these small contrivances must, in-the long,
run, be crushed.
• SUN.—The Funds close firmly, Console being.looi
for Money and Time. The New Three-and-a-Quarto
per Cents. were 102* -I. Bank and India Stock were 0°
same as in the morning •
The Foreign Investments did not improve much UPI
the quotations of the early part of the day. Spanish
Five per Cents. were 24 to 24k; the Three per Cents"
35 to 35-t; Portuguese Converted, 55i to 541; Mexiclll3'.
36 to 364; Chilian Deferred; 53; and Brazilian, 146/61,
851. Russian were 1194.
The Railway Shares have been rather drooping Oil'
afternoon, but the sales were of no magnitude.
•
ADVERTISEMENT. --ANOTHER EXTRAORDIN-a
CURE OF ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS !—Patri
Casey, residing at No. 1, Compton-place' Brunswick-
square, had suffered from a chronic asthma for more then
three years. This poor Man was so great a sufferer that
he: did not dare go to bed for fear of the phlegm cholio'
him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon .
table for half an hour lest he should be suffocated ;
nevertheless, this person is now labouring from morn's
to' night, sleeps as well as ever he did in his life, and'
fact, is completely cured by the use of 'Holloway's rburs;
sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at 244, Strand (wl.lO-
advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectab
vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world.
COMMERCIAL LITERATURE. —An advertiseraen
appeared the other day for a clerk, who was wanted at.
Lloyd's, where he would receive a hundred a year, and!!
was added that editing Lloyd's List would be a part of lita.s
duties. Lloyd ought to be ashamed of himself to paf blo,
editor so shabbily. It is true the List does not require,,,
very imaginative mind, or a very fertile fancy ; but tuf
editor of such an important paper must be- cognijael
commerce, immersed in the mysteries of mustard, th
roughly ground in pepper, and, in fact, a walking Pr,j6ete
current. The man to edit Lloyd's List should be able
see which waythe wind blows without the aid of a weathers
cock, and to discriminate at a glance between the vari°l,lo
degrees of fresh, squally, and moderate. The no
sciences of breeze-ology, wind-ology, and tide-oleCs.
should all be at his fingers' ends.. He should be 00
constant look out for bits of vessels washed 950'2
and, as Hamlet knew " a hawk from a hand seVa
the editor of Lloyd's List should be able to distingtlis,"de
figure-head from a marling-spike. No blacking-19°:
washed up by the tide should elude his editoral
lance ; for some of the most interesting articles in Liter
List have been written on the subject of bits of ps' '
discovered corked up in a former recipient of Pi.
and Martin's jettest of all jets that ever were manO'de
tured. Such should be the mind that ought to Preslo.
over the putting together of Lloyd's List ; and if our Coto'
temporary don't, strike for an advance, he is a traiteo„
the press, a villain to himself, and a wretch to his
wily !—Punch.
4,0110 j,
STRANGE SCENE.—On Friday last, a most SA6'. vat
scene took place at St. Peters, near this town• the•
some time, cracks and rents have been observed its
walls of various houses in this vicinity, and espeeiiii scl- -
those near the docks. On Friday, however, as the I.
lord of the Ship Inn was at breakfast, several squeleo- t
glass gave way with a crackling noise, and an 01 the
or sinking took place in the house. Ns,
followed by a 'sinking of some other houses,. and '3,,es
decks. Some walls tell, and the whole had the art,P-oel
ance of an earthquake on a small scale. No Per'we'
hurts were sustained, but the damage is great, and so r
k o
of the houses are closed. The cause is a Orin .ety
" creep" in the older workings of Friar Goose Celli as
(on the opposite bank), which extend under the river '3
this spot.—Tyne Mercury.

BIRTHS. ,
On the 4th ult., at Pernambuco, in the empire of Dr°il
the wife of George Francis Fox, Esq., of a son tla
' r co
At Bruges, the lady of John Stephen Dwyer, 0
Connell, county of Limeriek, Esq., of a daughter. ilitto
On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's, Sussex, Mrs. H. Treir
of.a, sou. Throe) t.
Oa the 13th inst., at Colonel Romer's, St. Heliers, ..--• •
the Countess du Pontavice de Hensley, of a son and helr'srrs..
On the 16th inst., at Inchbrakie, Perthshire, the Non. w
Grxme, of a daughter. .
wife of
On the 17th inst., at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, the
the Rev. Thomas England, of a son. •
of ll'
On the 20th inst., at the Grove, Highgate, the lady
Nisbet, Esq., of a son. Saller'
On the 19th inst., in Burton-crescent, Mrs. W. H.
of a son. I 1111.5.
On the 19th inst., at Grove-road, North Brixton,
Frederick Wix, of a n still-born. 000
On the 19th insts.,o ri at Ipswich, Mrs. Thomas v'e
Browne, of a daughter. f W'
On the 20th inst., at Clapham New Park, the lad)* °
T. West, Esq., of a daughter. • • n, the.
On the 20th inst., at. St. John's-park, I-Ceutah.tow
lady of George Shearwood, Esq., of a son.
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MARRIED.
On the 19th inst., at the Church or the 1101 Y —ari
Brompton, MicicUes?x, the Rev. P. C. Nicholson, t°
of tbei
daughter of Isaiah Linwood Verity, Eaq., late Major
92On'the 1d Highla9th nder
inst., at St. Mary' Islington, Bir•
Tuit, of Colet-place, Commeicials:road, to Vail
daughter of the late Mr. R. Dickens, of Judd-stre
Pancras. ouisoo
On the 19thinst., at Alphington, Devon, ThomagA &ugh-
Sanders, of Exeter, Esq., to Mary Elizabeth, scou-
ter ofJoseph Buckley, of Alphingten, Esq. IclaeP
On the 20th of June last, at St. Philip's Church., nielis
Mr. Richard James Hunt, late of London, to MlL's
Baker, of Princes-street, Sydney, New South

DIED. f his ige'
At the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, in the 15thyeacir °v. Gleig,
Hugh Percy De Bathe, fifth son of the Rev- ""
Chaplain-General to her Majesty's Forces. Tiolives*
On the 10th inst., at Blackwell, Halifax, M' Anna Eli°,
On the 12th inst., at Weston-super-Mare,
widow of the late Captain Lamb, of Leal:nip/pi' Brightott
On the 15th inst., in Sussex-square, Kemp- (I'vrn'
Madame. Lefaudeux, aged 71. n Tionlies'
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On the 19th inst., at Ashley Cottage Ws., „,,..irn ry- ci.
Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Campbell, 'Esq,, 01,4',...1.,:eral '
On the 19th inst., at Chaney, the Ira'
John, aged 82. , s Wirabosil'
On the 19th inst., Richard Fowlkes, 90°' ".
Esq., of Finchley, aged 32. itt T. filen. at
On the 20th inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, --,.1:;;„&ton, - ,
On the 20th inst., at Liverpool-terrace,
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the wife of Charles Wilkinson M.D. . a lc, EE '
On the 21st inst., in Wimpol Esci e
-street, AdamAdam,-,xellan,
On the 21st inst., Esther, the wife of Thomas
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of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.

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