The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-04 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY,

This sessions commenced this morning at the Sessions
House, Newington- causeway, More Thomas Puckle,
E•q.. and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar
contained the names if fifty-three prisoners far trial.
The grand jury ha virg been sworn, were dismissed to
their duties.

The whole of the morning was occupied in appeals
from fined jurymen. One of them came so drunk that
he was compelled to be moved by force and conveyed to
the pulicc-station. Several gentlemen were afterwards
sworn in as magistrates of the county.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF GAMBLERS.—MOITis
Levy, wine-merchant, 23, Norfolk-street, Strand,
Charles Lucas, Charles Snowden, James Hutchinson,
Charles Hambleton, William Mallard, William Spurting,
William Jones, James Johnson, Simmons Maddox,
Charles Jones, Henry Johnson, John Jones, George
Hart, Thomas Jones, James Wood, Frederick Johnson,
James St trey, John Sitford, John My tton, John Jones,
Adolph Goldsmith, Moses Samuel, and James Townsend,
many cf whose names are assumed, were brought betore
Mr. Bingham, charged with having been found assembled
in a common gaining-house, No. 119, Jerinyn-street, for
an unlawful purpose. Townsend was also charged with
being the door-keeper.
Superir tendent Foxall, of the E division, stated that,
having reported to the Commissioners of Police that the
house situated at 119, Jermyn•street, was used as a
common gaming. house, he received authority from them
to visit the house. In compliance with that order he
proceeded to the house on Sunday morning, about a
quarter-past two o'clock, with several constables. On
arriving at the entrance ho knockei and rang, and at that
moment a signal of a loud cough was given outside
of the house, and something was then thrown
at the first•flour windows. Witness then gave orders
to force the front door with a sledge-hammer.
After two or three blows the door flew open, and he and
the constables went: in. In the passage he found an-
other door of iron, which they attempted to open, but it
defied their utmost efforts. They were &mut forcing
this door when some person from inside opened it.
They then made their way up to the first-floor room,
and there found the whole of the defendants, some of
whom were eating and drinking, :and others smoking.
He told them that be was a superintendent of the Me-
tropolitan Police, and they must consider themselves in
his custody fur being found in a common gaming-
house. Be then took all their names, and
sent them to the police - station in Vine-
street. Be subsequently searched the house, and
on the first floor room he found a table, which he con-
sidered to be a gaming table. There were three covers
on the table which appeared to be marked with dice.
He took possession of covers, which he now produced.
In the back room he fund a backgammon board and
some cards, with the address cf the " Strangers Club"
printed on them. The doors were of double iron, and
were fitted with massive bolts and bars, and had not the
iron door been of ened, it would no doubt have taken
them a quarter of an hour to force it.
Police-constable 309 A, proved seeing the defendant
Townsend open the door to gentlemen on several occa-
sions within the last week.
Mr. Clarkson (with Mr. Roberts) appeared for the
defendants, and addressed the magistrate at considerable
length, contending that the charge was altogether bad,
inasmuch as the police having given notice to the Com-
missioners and received their authority to enter the
house and seize everything in it, by breaking the
things in the house they had evidently exceeded their
authority.
Mr. BINGHAM said that was the point on which the
question tune 1, and he should take time to consider it.
He then directed the defendants to find one surety each
to appear on Monday next.

SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Bellchambers, the landlord of the Hampshire Hog,
Red-cross-street, Southwark, was charged with having
in his possession six pockets of hops, supposed to be
stolen, and a man named Reynolds was charged on sus-
picion cf having stolen them.
Police-constable Hunt, 82 M, said that on the previous
afternoon, from information he received, he went to
Bellchambers's shop, in Red-cross-street, whare he dis-
covered two pockets of hops i❑ the back premises. He
asked Bellchambers how the hops came there, when he
replied that he exchanged them for beer. Witness said
he believed them to be stolen, and unless he could give
a better account of them, he must take him to the station-
house. He then said he bought them of a person Lamed
Payne. Witness asked whether he had a receipt, when
he replied that he had, and produced a bill dated No-
vember, the particulars of which he did not see. Wit-
ness then again said that he believed he did not come
honestly by them; when he replied that they did not
belong to him, but to a stout man at the bar. At that

time, Reynolds (the party alluded to) came into the
parlour, when witness asked him from whom he had
purchased the hops ? He replied that "it was
Sunday, and no day to transact business." Witness
then told him he was a policeman, and unless he gave a
satisfaatory account of them he should take him to the
police-station. He took him to the station-house. Wit-
ness thea returned with Sergeant Berry to the beer-
shop, which they searched, and in a shed found four
more pockets of hops, when they took Bellchambers
into custody.
Mr. ATECKETT asked Hunt whether he bad ascer-
tained to whum the hops belonged ?
Hunt replied in the negative. A Mr. Greenfield, hop-
merchant, had taken the number and marks, and would
no doubt in the course of a few days find the owners.
He therrfjre wished for a remand.

Mr. Solomon, who attended for the prisoners, courted
a full inquiry and asked for bail.
Mr. A'I3ECKETT consented to take bail, and remanded
the prisoner until Monday next.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCULEY HUNT

MEETING, 1850.

Acceptances for the Great Northamptonshire Stakes.
Yrs st lb Yrs at lb
Collingwood
Wanota
Flatcatcher 5 8 5 Mounseer
F'eruhill .. . 5 8 4 Tophana 5 6 13
Halo 6 8 2 Giselle a 6 12
Borneo 4 8 2 refits
Inheritress
Elthiron
Clermont 6 7 10 Rathmines
Sylvan
Ba►linsfad
Westow
Vesta
Belus
Claris!a
Iron Ead 6 7 2 %lahratta . . 4 5 11
Tarn Wadlin .. ... 4 7 2 Harriott
Grief
Abbot (.f Meaux... 4 7 0a by Lanercost, out

Glen Saddel
Osterley
Sunnyside
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1850.
Acceptances for the Newmarket Handicap.

of Concertina 3 412
Bastinado

Yrs st lb Yrs st lb
Surplice
W anota
Flatcatcher
Halo
Fernhill
Melton
Black Eagle
Sobraon
Saucy Dick 4 7 3 Beebee Bunnoo ... 4 6 3
Dulcet a 7 *Puffy
Woolwich
Herbert
Clarissa • .
Westow
Strongbow ...
Chantrey
I 3 5 1
Sunnysido
Rathmines -

Glenulvon
Vasa..
D, ceptive
Keratin
Kissaway

Be5S 3 5 1
lOsbaldeston
Bastinado
Hope

a' COUNTY MEETING,
,50.
SomerEetahire Staker.
Age at lb
Second Sight 4 7 2
Deceptive
Rad Doe 5 6 7
Seagull
Saucer la Coupe 4 6 6
Yard Arm
Black Doe
Puffy
thug
Windischgratz 3 5 7
Won't-you - come-
out-to-Night

Bent
Si possis, recta, si non, quocunque mode, Rent!
Entirely omitting the element of money in their cal-
culations, they have sanctioned by default a scarcity
of money which immensely enhances our debts, and
most of us are two-thirds indebted. " The worth and
value of a thing," says Hudibras, "is just so much
as it will bring." lam not speaking of the value of
gold or silver, nor the value of principal sums in an-
nuities, for 3/. per annum is not more the value of 961.
at present, than 961. is 0f.31. per annum, but I speak
of the value both of 3/. and of 96/. in goods. Danarj
or denarii are denrees, viveri, anything which supports
life— general values. If I owe 401, having a horse
worth 301. and a pony worth 101., I must sell both to
pay the debt, but if the horse is worth 401, I sell the
horse and keep the pony. If a tray bearing four pounds
of sugar and one pound of tea is worth 65., and I owe
Os., I owe that tray, but if it is worth 125., I only owe
half the trayful. If a ton of iron is worth 91., and
the ironmaster owes 41. 10s., he owes half that ton ;
but if falls to 41. 10s., he must make and sell a whole
ton to pay the 91. A debt, called national, of 30
millions per annum, with wheat at 405., is twice as
large as the same 30 millions with 'wheat at 80s.
Diminished currency lowers prices, especially price
of labour, and increases the damage, pressure, loss,
and veritable cost of all debts, large or small, funded,
book, or bond, each and every pound of them. This
truth, awful, obvious, yet occult, hundreds of persons
are prepared to demonstrate, but cannot get a hear•
ing. Sometimes also they break down—whoever
speaks on these subjects should speak unanswerably.
A dash of the Minister's pen, a nod or innuendo from
him would increase the circulation much, and devote
it to the hire of labourers, but ultimately we must
have banks of discount everywhere, with 1/. notes for
England, and even ss. notes for Ireland. The only
obstacle is the canker of 17 millions gold and silver.
It is a proverb that our industry brings the gold here
Cor Anglais—jai pays mes Anglais; the latter is sel-
dom true as a universal affirmative. One of the wit-
nesses in blue folio said, "It is true, we are a credi-
tor country, but then ours is a country where large
sums are seeking foreign investment." The job-
bers are seeking it, but their scrip is soon got rid
of, and England is left with 150 millions owing her,
as stated by Lord Palmerston, eighty of which to
Spain. How much shall we get back from America
and Spai❑ ? English gold is as proverbial as
Oriental treasure, and for the same reason. When
this gold has been suffered to accumulate, some
scheme of great loan-firms, some engrossment and
forestalling of Baltic corn, takes it off. The Bunk
lends money for time-bargain► in loan-scrip or corn-
scrip, the borrower takes it in gold, and as the specie
wanes the securities, lodged by borrowers, wax. This
has been the invariable preliminary of each panic.
A.Z. N. M. Rothschild told the Committee of 1832,
" The directors are clever men, and know what the
gold is wanted for, but they never ask." Could afence
be better defined ? Then, after by their connivance
the gold •is gone—" Convey, the wise it call"—when
the steed is stolen, by themselves, they shut the
stable door, and refuse discounts except to the same
great houses, made great by absolute command of
the Bank—on the double pretence that the securities
(which they have increased) are already too high,
and that the gold (which they have conveyed) is
nearly exhausted. They first rob the house by col-
lusion with loan-dealers and corn-dealers, and then
set it on fire by getting up a panic which hurts every
one but the confederates. The great and ,wise
Alexander Baring spoke both publicly and privately
against the gold standard or legal tender : well he
knew the house-list could not be trusted with gold
o discretion. What I have said applies to the directory
only; ,the Bank stockholders are innocent people,
persuaded by their private bankers to take shares in
the great polypus of which they are penniless.branches.
And is it to retain in such hands the irresponsible
control of all labourers and their hire, that we agri-
culturalists are to have our debts trebled by rarity
and scarcity of money ?
If a brigade of Gerdes Mobiles arrived in plain
clothes while Sir T. Burgoyne happened to be dining
our, sacked our 17 millions treasure, scattered half a
million or so among our flash-fauxbourgs, and carried
the rest to Louis Napoleon, it would be far better for all :
the present temptation appears irresistible to loan-
dealers, and if by a non sequitur, far less preposterous
than that of refusing discounts after gold is conveyed,
the Government, in consequence of such Garde Mobile
affair, should discontinue paying dividends, the
misery and anguish would be infinitely less than has
attended contraction, because they would leave hope
alive and industry free. Most of the fundholders—
for instence the red Emperors—are mere speculators,
they might, very properly, be " confined" to Hudson's
Bay, and the remainder might be relieved by a
voluntary supply. I speak of stopping the dividends
as a monstrous absurdity, even in this age. Mr. D.
Salomons said, incidentally, in a railway pamphlet,
there were six ways of paying off the debt, in terest
and principal, with ease.
Such, Sir, is our feeling about political econo-
mists; they concealed from us that a fall of ten per
cent. in market price of the gross produce of a farm
is a fall of thirty per cent. on the Real property of that
farm. Secondly, they are wilfully blind to the truth
that all statistic combinations depend on the power of
money, or that which it will bring : this element of
money is not, like the atmosphere, unchangeable, but
may be modified as a chemist compounds or divides,
expands or compresses, the various fluids in his re-
ceiver. Charles Fox hated political economy, possibly
on this very ground, which did not weigh much with
me ; but since one Lankester, tried for burning ricks,
embodied in his defence that "it would make corn
dearer and raise wages," I was shaken. This is not
the way to raise wages. Lankester certainly " went
too far."—l have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,
AN AGRICULTURIST.

FIRE AT ST. GEORGE'S WORKHOUSE, BOROUGH.
—On Saturday, shortly after noon, considerable alarm
was canned amongst the poor inmates of Sr. George the
Martyr's Workhouse, Southwark, in consequence of a
cry being raised that the building was on fire. In the
space of a few minutes dense volumes of smoke poured
forth from the several windows in the casual ward, and
assumed such an alarming aspect that many persons
feared the whole building would have been destroyed.
The engine belonging to the workhouse was immediately
brought out and set to work, and several brigade et:-
gines, with that of the West of England Company, fol-
lowed. There being plenty of water obtained, the fire-
men, inmates of the workhouse, and the parish engines,
succeeded in getting the fire out, when it was ascertained
that the cause of so much alarm was the straw used for
the casual paupers' beds igniting, but from what agency
is unknown. Fortunately very little damage was done
by the fire, except the demolition of some windows.
The workhouse was insured for 10,0001. in the Sun Fire-
offit e. Late the same evening some alarm was caused
in Lambeth by a report being raised that the workhouse
belonging to that parish was on fire. The various en-
gines quickly started to the place, when the firemen
found that the cause of so much consternation was one
t f the chimneys of the poorhouse taking fire.

THE FIRE AND SUICIDE IN BERMONDSEY.—On
Saturday evening Mr. William Carter, the coroner for
East Surrey, held an inquiry of several hours' duration
at the Simon the Tanner tavern, Long-lane, Bermond-
sey, respecting the circumstances attending the death of
Samuel Smith, aged 33, who committed suicide at the
house of Mr. Headford, a general dealer, No. 163 in the
same thoroughtare. The jury returned a verdict "That
the deceased destroyed his life by inhaling the fumes of
charcoal, he being at the time in a state of mental dt-
rangement."