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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1844.

and 1838, the commitments in England and Wales
averaged about 22,000; in 1839, 24,000; in 1840,
27,487 ; in 1841, 27,760; in 1842, 31,309 ; and 1843,
29,501 ; thus rising so long as the pressure existed,
and then diminishing ; so that we were now becoming
a people among whom less crime was committed.
With these facts before them, how could any man
withstand this evidence, brought forward by persons
totally disinterested ? But beyond the preservation
of life, the diminution of crime, and the checking of
forced emigration, whence came the great effort now
making throughout the manufacturing districts to
ameliorate the physical condition of the working
classes—an effort which would have been altogether
impossible three years ago, when bankruptcy stared
almost every one in the face? These facts only
proved that they had been right in the beginning,
right all along, and right in the end, and that conse-
quently they were sure to triumph.—(Applause.)
But it should be remembered how many had been
swept away by the storm of destitution which had
passed over them, how many children have been
doomed to ignorance by the necessities of their
parents at that period, how many men had been
driven into unwilling pauperism, broken down in
spirit, thus inflicting a wide-spreading evil on so-
ciety, as it infected their children and their chil-
dren's children.—(Hear.) The past five years heing
thus full of instruction—perhaps more so than any
five years heretofore—he thought the public of Roch-
dale would be readily persuaded to give their cordial
co-operation to all that the League might do. The
chairman had complimented, not flattered the inha-
bitants, and he hoped they would still go with the
League in future. Great wealth existed in this town :
they were much of one opinion as to free trade ; and
under these circumstances he could not but hope that
what they might do in future would eclipse the past.
—(Applause.) The woollen trade was once the chief
trade of this town, employing thousands, and yielding
great wealth to the manufacturers. How was it that
that trade had not extended, that no more flannels
were made here than were made twenty-five years
ago, and that the workmen in that trade were the
worst paid? Assuredly from no other cause but our
blind restrictive legislation, by which our woollens
had been shut out of the American market. Had it
not been that another trade, cotton, had been intro-
duced here, which was almost entirely an export
trade, the town and district alone had been saved from
decay. The woollen manufactures were now almost
all going into the cotton trade. Why ? Not
because they liked it better, but there was
no field for them in their own trade, one-half
of which had teen cut off by the American
tariff. And yet there were men in this town who
would not lift a finger to remove that tariff, and the
corn-law which caused it.—(Applause.) Contemptible
fellows I Were all such as them the country would
soon be in a state of anarchy, were it not for those
who sought to lead the people into the right paths.
They had heard the direction about to be taken by
the League. They had been charged with sedition,
and with stimulating insurrection. Abandoning
everything which could countenance such a charge,
they would lay hold of that truly constitutional
weapon—the electoral franchise, and would lay claim
to the county representation—(Hear, bear)—and if
there were any truth in the opinion they had formed
as to the prevalence of free-trade principle, the bulk
of the middle and working classes would unite with
theni.—(Applause.) He was delighted to hear that
an outcry there would be in a few months when
they found the West Riding of Yorkshire and
North Cheshire were wrested from the monopolists.
Squire after squire, noodle after noodle—(Laughter)
—would rise to protest against the unconstitutional
proceedings of the League, and would call on the
Secretary of State to interfere.—(Hear, hear.) But
when those counties, the seats of the manufacturers,
were secured, and the system was extending to War-
wickshire and other large midland and southern
counties, the monopolists would take alarm, and
would surrender the question of free trade, in the
hope of preventing further progress in that direction;
but he hoped that, having once obtained possession
of a weapon so pcmerful, they would continue to use
it, and that if there were any other right on which
the working classes had set their minds, they would
not rest satisfied till they obtained it by the sure con-
stitutional means.—(Cheers.)
W. S. CRAWFORD, Esq., M.P. for the borough,
next addressed the meeting, and was received with
great and prolonged cheering.
GEORGE ASHWORTH, Esq., moved a vote of thanks
to the gentlemen who had addressed them ; which
was seconded by Mr. JOHN PETRIE, and carried by
acclamation.

The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the compliment; and
Mr. BRIGHT having explained some arrangements
for enabling parties in Rochdale, so inclined, to be-
come purchasers of qualifications to vote for the
county, the meeting separated.

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REAL TURTLE SOUP.—The extravagant
cost, besides the difficulties arising out of the killing and
dressing of the live fishes, has circumscribed the use of this most
nutricious and delicious soup, whilst the quality has never reached
that perfection which it might have done, by reason of the im-
poverished and diseased state of the fishes from which it has been
made. So much so is this the case, that there is hardly one Turtle
used in this country that would not be rejected in a West Indian
market. The causes of this are so obvious as not to need repetition
here.

GUNTER'S TURTLE, preserved under patent at Honduras, from
fish just taken in their native waters, obviates every difficulty that
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incomparable superiority in fullness, firmness, and flavour of meat.
By the convenience of the 21b. package, which will keep fresh for any
length of time, and by the enormous reduction effected in the cost of
producing this soup, whilst it renders it as always la season. Each
21b. tin is calculated to make soup for sixteen persons, at a cost not
exceeding 18s. to 20s.
There are ample instructions attached for its preparation; and the
public are invited to try whether every obstacle to the general con-
sumption of the finest Turtle Soup be not removed.

*Wholesale Depot, st. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill, and Corbet-court,
Gracechurch-street. On retail with all oil and Italian warehousemen,
grocers, &c., in town and country.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, entitled
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrani ;
Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilahoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline,
Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies Miss Betts.
To conclude with the Grand Fairy Ballet of THE REVOLT OF
THE HAREM, in which Mdlle. Plunkett, Mdlle. Clara Webster,
Mdlle. O'Bryan, Mrs. W. Id. Payne, and Madame Guibilei will
aprr. e Box-offiee is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG YEA RTS. Colonel Rocket,
Mr. S rlckland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe' ; Tom Coke,
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
The Countess of I rirrpion, Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthori,
Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett.
After which, Mr, Charles Mathews' Burletta of HE WOULD
BE AN ACTOR. Motley, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dicky Darling,
Mr. Strickland; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Caulfield.
To oonclude with a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE
THIMBLE RIG. John Ginger, Mr. Buckstone, Sam Shindy,
Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Cliffbrd.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retun ed the whole of the Even-
ing), ss. each. First Price—Boxes, .e. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. •
Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at N,iie o'Clock—Boxes, Ss. -
2e. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, ed. Doors opened at Halt; past
Six, Performance commence at Seven.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. L T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
from Ten till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.

THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be repeated a New Dram; entitled I'HE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Court Henry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count
Vanilla, Mr. Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Crequet, %Ir. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
After which will be repeated VICTORI NE; or, I'll Sleep on It.
Alexandre, Mr. Hudson ; Michael, Mr. Seby, Victerine, Mrs.
Yates; Elise, Mrs. Fitzwilliain.

To c'oncludo with a New Eccentric Mythological Burlesque, called
TELEMACHUS; or, The Island of Calypso. Telemachus, Miss
Woolgar ; Calypso, Mr. Wright ; Mentor, Mr. P. Bedford ; Dinah,
Mr. Cowell.

Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr Pitt ; Loader of the
Rand, Mr. Mellon.—Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxed to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Ur. J. M. MADDOX.

THIS EVENING, NOVEMBEIT 23,
Will tie repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled THE CASTLE
OF AYMON; or, The Four Brothers. Baron de Beamanoir,
Mr. Walton ; Olivier, Mr. Allen; Allard, Mr. C Horn Jun. ;
Richard, Mr. Hime ; Renaud, Mr. klattacks; Ivon, Mr. Leffler;
Hemline, Mdlle. Helen Conde!! ; Gertrude, Mrs. Fosbroke.
To be followed by MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR.
To conclude with a New Grand Orieratil Ballet, called THE
ENCHANTED BELL. Azolin (an Hindoo Peasant), Al. Roussett ;
Talinira (the Sultan's Daughter), Mille. Caroline Boussett; Naire
(her Friend), Mdlle. Teresine; Ding Doug (the Genii of the Bell),
'Miss Marshall.

Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden,
Bachinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL

_Clete, Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 48. ; Pit, 9.5. ; Gallery, Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 28. C.d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce-
AitlM Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half-
Kist Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-oliice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham.
Private Boxes and Free Admissloas for the Season to be had at the
theatre.

HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPEkiA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be performed a New Comedietta, entitled WATCH A ND
WARD. The characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Kinloch, and A.
Wigan; Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To be followed by a New Farce, called A TRIP TO KISSIN GEN
Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Kin och, Stanton, Collier, Yamold,
Turner, Stoker, and Kegley, Mrs. Wigan and Mrs. Keeley.
Atter which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT' TO
MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Turner,
and Stoker, Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woolliage.
In the course of the Evening A DIVERTISSEMENT, in wl ich
%Wiles. Louise and Adele, of her Majesty's Theatre, will make their
appearance.
To conclude with THE SEVEN CASTLES OF THE PASSIONS
With entirely New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal
Charac:ers by Mr. Diddear, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mr. Gouriet, Mr.
raven, and Mr. Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige, lire
A. Wigan, Miss Turner, Mr .1 James, Miss Arden, Miss Grove, and
Mrs. Keeley.

PRICES- OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes, 4a.; Upper
dozes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2g. ;
Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the liAlcony Tier
voiding eight persons), Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Iler (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a_Half. Private
dozes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guireo,
The Box.dilice is open from Ten to Flour o'Clock, under the direct
i-,n of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. ROBERTS.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER es,
Will be repeated DougLs Jerrold's NELL GWYMNE.
Gwynne, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Orange Moll Mr. H. Hall.
After which, THE KNIGHT AND THE SPRITE, In which
Mr. H. Hall, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. Montgomerie, Mrs. C. Pope,
and Miss Bromley will perform.
To conclude with THE NEW FOOTMAN. Bobby Breakwindow,
Mr. Attwood.

Great attraction every Evening— quire Batty's Hounds meet This

Eieni lig, at
ASTLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race-Home and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
introducing unequalled Natimal Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and in the Circle by living Fo: and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epsom Races and other Sporting Featuree.
New Scenes of the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with a Favourite Afterpiece.
Acting and stage manager, Mr. W. IJ.Broadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
Mr. R. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will he repeated a New 1 )rama, entitled THE SEALED SEN-
TENCE, supported by Messrs. Hughes, N. T, Hicks, Vale, Johnson,
Morrison, Mrs. R. Bonner, Mrs. Lewis, &c.
After which, the Farce of THE TWO GREGORIES.
To conclude with the New Drama, entitled DON CESAR DE
BAZAN, supported by the entire Company.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 23,
Will be repented THE STRANGE INTRUDER, in which
Messrs. Seaman, Higgie, Herbert, and Miss Vincent will perform.
After which, A HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Lonisberg, Mr.
Higgie; Baroness, Mrs. W. West.
To conclude with THE WANDERING JEW, in which Messrs.
Seaman, Dale, Higgie, and the Misses Harcourt will appear.
Private family Boxes, £1 is. Od. and XI ils. (3d.

THE WEATHER—Sim OFFICE, Nov. 23.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40; Highest, 43; Noon, 42
BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, E.
Vora.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
reezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
mually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 38 minutes after 0 1 Evening ... 0 minutes after k

in the Register as it has recently done—reforms
which, at the next election, will illuminate Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL'S mind in a very effectual manner, and go
far to convert a majority against the Corn-laws in the
House of Commons, into a majority in their favour.
Mr. COBDEN gave his Rochdale hearers some sound
advice on this important subject of the Registration.
" Hitherto," he said, " we have been an Anti-Corn-
law League instructing the people, • and agitating
them about Free-trade ; now I really think we are
going to take my friend SHARMAN CRAWFORD'S busi-
ness out of his hands, and advocate an extension
of the suffrage. We want to persuade our fellow-
countrymen to. buy the property that will qualify
them to vote ; and I most sincerely wish that every
head of a family in this country was worth the money
necessary to buy that vote. But that is much easier
done than many people suppose. Another meridian
has dawned upon us within the last few months.
I We pledged ourselves some time ago to contest the
boroughs and try what we could do to gain them ;
but it never occurred to us that we could win
counties in this country. And yet with 252 county
Members in the House, and not six of them voting
for Free-trade, it has occurred' to us that unless:we
can make some change there, we shall not be likely
to get a majority in that House. Now, I believe the
counties may be won in many instances, as I have be-
fore said, much easier than the little pocket boroughs."
If the League, following the advice given some years
since by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the Conservatives,
sticks to its present determination of fighting the
battles of Free-trade in the Registration Courts, we
cannot for a single instant permit ourselves to doubt
of its success. It has a vast majority of the middle
classes in its favour, but unfortunately not a few
members of this class, however well disposed towards
the cause of Free-trade, are apt to be sluggish and
inactive in the discharge of their duties as electors,
and to neglect to qualify themselves at the proper
time and in the proper manner. Now, by the exer-
cise of a little tact and perseverance the League may
easily manage to rouse the dormant zeal of these
lethargic but well-intentioned folks, and will reap
the benefit of its exertions in a vast increase of the
numbers of its supporters at the next election.

The proceedings at a recent meeting of Road Trus-
tees, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the
Peace for the county of Edinburgh, convened for the
consideration, among other business, of Sir JAMES
GIBSON CRAIG'S " Resolutions" touching the Scotch
banking system, were of unusual interest and im-
portance. The "Resolutions," which have already
been before our readers, embodied the powerful case
of the people of Scotland against the extinction
of their one-pound, or small note circulation ; and
the not less powerful case of the Scottish banking in-
terest, against the introduction into that country of
the gold " standard of value," as it is called, which
Sir R. PEEL has been permitted to set up, by statute,
in this. The principal speakers at the Edinburgh
county meeting were the Viscount MELVILLE, the
Earl of ROSEBERY, the Lord DUNFERMLINE (for.
merly the Right Hon. Mr. ABERCROMBY), and Sir
J. G. CRAIG. On the original motion for the adop-
tion of the report embodying the "Resolutions" in
question, Mr. TYTLER, of Woodhouselee, moved an
amendment that it was expedient for the meeting
to defer the expression of any opinion on the subjects
of their discussion until the intentions of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers thereupon should have been made
known. Fifteen hands were held up against, and
fifteen in favour of the original motion ; which was
finally affirmed by the casting vote of the Chairman,
Sir JOHN HOPE, Bart.
The various speeches delivered at the meeting
appear to have ranged over all the principal grounds
on which the general question of a currency, its na-
ture, relations, and management—must be considered ;
although, of course, the chief topic enlarged upon
was the tendency of any proposition for depriving
Scotland of her present small bank-note circulation.
As some of those speeches involved the most frequent
and specious fallacies advocated by the bullionist dis-
ciples of Sir R. PEEL, whilst others were remarkable
for the perspicuity and force with which they illus-
trated the argument in favour of retaining—for
Scotland—her present paper currency—we venture
to crave attention for the remarks we propose to offer
upon them.
It will be recollected, that after a vast deal of re•
monstrance, agitation, and debate, at public and
other meetings throughout Scotland, and a memorable
pamphleteering warfare, in which Sir WALTER SCOTT
took an active and most useful lead, under the signa-
ture of " Alalagrowther " Scotland was rescued
from the operation of the general principles and the
particular measures that had been brought forward
by the present Sir It. PEEL in 1819 for the re•
organisation of our monetary system. Again, when
Sir ROBERT submitted, in the course of last session,
what he calls "the complement" of his legislation in
1819, he wens reluctantly compelled to postpone its
application to Scotland; for we will do him the jus-
tice to declare that he fairly and distinctly intimated
his purpose to bring her also within its scope in the
now ensuing year. We are, therefore, unable to see
the ground of Mr. TYTLER'S and Lord MELVILLE'S
hypothesis, that the intentions of the Premier on
this point are not yet sufficiently known. We warned
the banking interest, and the whole people of Scot-
land, at the time, when remarking on the fatal
supineness with which the parties who represented
them in Parliament, looked on at the visitation of the
Bank Charter Renewal Bill on the people of the
other portion of the United Kingdom—that their own
turn of suffering would, assuredly, come next, unless
they then, and at once, vigorously combined with
the English opponents of the measure in arresting its
further progress. We repeat, with regret, that,
generally speaking, the gentlemen connected with
Scotland held aloof. They saw that the Right Hon.
-raisianbout to consume the monetary
g"--in the legal phraseology of
country—wastßhaerironet'sfire
resources of England (and, eventually, of Ireland),
but they reflected that it was still a twelvemonth's
journey for this statutable conflagration from West-
minster to Edinburgh; so, on the night of the main
division, they went home quietly to their beds, some
of them without even the effort of contributing the
scanty buckets of their individual votes to the

miserable minority which represented the whole
force of extinction that could be brought even
to attempt to play upon the " devouring element "
—as the Bank Charter Bill might well be called
with reference to what it is, assuredly, even now
consuming. But we return to the Edinburgh county

meeting.
The speech of Lord MELVILLE, much as it is to be
commended for its general good sense and modera-
tion, will scarcely escape the censure of those who
may carefully peruse it. It was a trimming speech
the object of which
.seemed to be to avert, by post-
ponement, a collision between the principles of cur-
rency (to the general soundness of which he testified)
embodied in Sir GIBSON CRAIG'S "Resolutions," and
the incompatible, but inevitable, tendency of those
on which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measures are based.
To talk of the country's not knowing what monetary
measures applicable to Scotland are in contempla-
tion of Government, is not to deal in earnest with the
fact, or with the question. It is, but attempting a
compromise between present expediency—founded,
we fear, on some political prepossessions—and perma-
nent principles, that must affect the most vital inte- '
rests of the empire. On the engrossing matter of the
small bank-notes, his Lordship said, " He was not in 1
the secrets of Government ;" yet "he did not hesitate

to say he did not believe they intended to meddle
with the subject ;" and yet, again, "at all events, he
did not think such a measure called for." Substantial
reasons, these, after the significant hint, too, of the
Premier, last session, for postponing the consideration
of the "Resolutions" upon which he was called to
vote ! But his Lordship, on a great economic State
question, hag the vision of a Cyclops. He has but one
eye to look through. He can see Scotland, only, as
she stands before him. His bounded horizon does not
comprehend England. A bank-note currency, he
argues, " is a system to which the Scottish
people are accustomed." (Have not the Eng-
lish bieen used to it, in a far more extensive
degree ?) " Gold might be more solid and preferable
on the whole; but, so long as the people (of Scotland)
preferred this system (bank-notes) themselves, he
thought that Parliament would do very wrong to
compel the abolition of one-pound bank notes"— II
qw,id Scotland. And wherefore not quoad England ?
But he approves of the gold standard for England—
NA, hither because gold is more " solid " here, and the
pople more "soft," than in the north, he does not tell
We must take leave to dispute some important

items in the statistics of his Lordship's speech (which,
on a balance of its arguments, really vindicated the
" Resolutions" it was delivered against). His Lordship
assumes the gold circulation of England to be
23,000,0001., exclusive of what is in the Bank. Take
this Bank store in round numbers at 14,000,0001.,
and Lord MELVILLE'S credulity must have exagge-
rated this enormous aggregate of 37,000,0001., we
venture to tell him, by nearly one-half. (We take
this amount of Bank bullion from last week's returns.
At another time we shall contrast the point it has
thus gradually decreased to with the maximum amount
of seventeen or eighteen millions which it touched at
the passing of the Bill of last session.) Lord MELVILLE
wisely, yet surely inconsistently with his own pre-
mises of satisfaction at the system of gold currency
now established in England, states that notwithstanding
the vast aggregate of our gold circulation, drains had
occurred upon the Bank of England, and might occur
again, which would again leave her coffers almost
empty.

" We may," continued his Lordship, " have drains
from short harvests—we may have drains from foreign
speculations, no matter whether wise or unwise—people
come demanding money, and they will have it. We may
have drains for foreign wars and subsidies, and from
various causes, but the greatest danger is from short
harvests. It was the duty of a wise Government, then,
to see that the circulation of this kingdom was in such a
state, that when any emergency shall occur, we shall be
able to supply the deficiency caused by the outpouring
of the coin of the kingdom. He wished to know what
Scotland was to do in such a case ? Could she furnish
her quota ?"

Will his Lordship be so kind as to point out what
England " is to do in such a case ;" how she is to
furnish her quota ?" What golden currency that
ever yet existed in any empire of the ancient or
modern world, would suffice to answer the demands
which !a domestic panic or a foreign war would in-
stantly produce for gold, in exchange for the millions,
multiplied by hundreds, not by scores, of British
securities represented in convertible paper ? How
does his Lordship suppose that the possible " de-
ficiency" he speaks of "isto be supplied ?" A case
occurs, no matter what, to create a run for gold.
The Bank, in contemplation of the probable extent it

may run to, contracts its issues; and the security Sir
R. PEEL leaves to all the operations of the immense
mass of represented property, or property struggling
for development into capital, is the balanced amount
of convertible Bank paper, and of—in fact, for this is
the ultimate resolution of his bullion problem—Bank
bullion. The enterprise of mercantile speculation
animating the energy of ready capital, is to be brought
up certainly, though at some uncertain moment, when
its action shall have exceeded the limited revolutions
and obstructed movements of Sir ROBERT'S double-
balance-gold-and-paper engine. Talk of a " standard
of value 1" He has only succeeded—and but too well
—in devising a standard of limitation.
But we must postpone our further notice of the
Edinburgh county meeting till a future opportunity.

Madrid journals, of the 15th, announce the con-
viction and sentence on General PRIM and the other
prisoners. Previous accounts stated that the process
was brought to a conclusion on the evening of the
14th at nine o'clock, and that the Court was cleared.
The members, it appears, had no little difficulty in
agreeing on the judgment and sentence, for they sat
all night, and only a little before six in the morning
the sentence was pronounced. By this PRIM is con-
demned to six years' imprisonment in a fortress, but
was to retain his rank and decorations. His fellow-
prisoners had been condemned, some to two, and
others to three years' imprisonment, on similar
terms. The Supreme Military Tribunal was ulti-
mately to decide on the fate of the prisoners, and
point out the places of their imprisonment. The
discussions on the Reform Bill were continued, and
occasional amendments made, which, of course, were
rejected. The public take no interest whatever in
the affair.

The Bourse was closed on the 15th, being the feast
Of ST. EUGENIUS.

The Paris papers contain little interesting to the
English reader. The Moniteur officially announces
the convocation of the Chambers for Thursday, the
26th of December, as previously stated in The Sun.
The Journal des Debats has an article on electric
telegraphs, and urges the Government, as a matter
of economy as well as State convenience, to establish
them on all the new lines of railway. " The present
defective system," it says, " costs the State 500 francs
per mile, so that a vast saving might easily be
effected. The same journal contains a letter from
its Madrid correspondent, giving details of the pro-
ceedings which took place on the 14th, at the trial
of General PRIM ; but they add nothing to the
previous intelligence. The writer denounces the un-
fair mode of trial, and says " the precipitation with
which the affair has been proceeded with and judged,
the want of proper formality, and the indifference of
the public, have confirmed me in my first impression.
Judicial proceedings, above all, demand reform in
Spain. An oral defence, public examinations, more
respect for the judges, more liberty to the advocates,
are the most urgent and useful ameliorations."
These papers contain no further particulars respecting
the movements of ZURBANO, and merely publish the
extract from the Phare de Bayonne, which has
already appeared in this journal. As far as can be
ascertained from the various accounts, the affair has
been much magnified, and probably will end in smoke.
The following are miscellaneous extracts:—

" A Berlin letter of the 15th states that the King o
Prussia has accepted from the King of Hanover an invi.
tation to a grand hunt, which is to take place in the forest
of Gcerde.

We read in a German journal :

" A secret agitation is at work, and will soon explode,
in accordance with the plans prepared in Greece. Con-
siderable sums have been sent to the frontier provinces,
and as much as sever al hundred thousand drachmas have
been spoken of. In Epirus and Thessaly a considerable
sum of money has been collected. The reduction of the
Greek army favours this project, for many brave officers
have been thrown on their own resources, and they turn
their eyes to the frontiers of Turkey.'
The Augsburg Gazette states that the Porte, after
having promised M. de Bourqueney to have the Domi-
nican convent at Mossul re-established, has sent word to
Sheriff Pacha to have the house rebuilt, such as it was,
that is, a storey and a half high, but to go no further.
The Porte has also formally forbidden the Rajas to pur-
chase the land round the Catholic churches whether at
Mossul or in other places, in order to give it afterwards to
the churches, as that would place it under the protection
of France. Such a measure,' remarks the above jour-
❑al, is evidently hostile to the interests of Catholicism
in the East as well as to France. Mde Bourqueney took
his departure without having settled this difficulty.' "

THE BOURSE-7TmuasDAy, Nov. 21.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY,
(Sittings in Banco.)
TAI QUEEN V. JENKIN JONES.

The defendant in this case was brought up for judg-
ment. He had been a clerk in the Poor-law Commis-
sioners' office for several years. About twelve months
since he procured the appointment of secretary to an
insurance company, and through his recommendation a
person named Charles Boisson was taken upon trial at
the Poor-law Office, Boisson having given defendant 1501.
for the situation. After the period of his trial was ex-
pired, the appointment of Charles Boisson was not
confirmed, whereupon he complained that he had been
defrauded by defendant. An investigation took place ;
a prosecution was ordered by the Government, and the
defendant pleaded guilty, and was now brought up for
judgment.
Several affidavits were put in and read, both on the
part of the prosecution and on the part of defendant.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose to speak in aggra-
vation of punishment. The offence with which the de-
fendant was oharged was one of very grave importance.
This case was considered of such mischievous con-
sequence to the public that the late Attorney-General,
who had exercised his powers at least as mildly as any
of his predecessors, felt it his duty to file an ex officio
information, to which defendant had pleaded guilty.
There were no circumstances of mitigation in the case.
The defendant was in communication with a person
named Marshall, who was now dead. A person named
Boisson was anxious to get a Government situation of 801.
a-year. Marshall offered to procure it for him for 2001.
Boisson, who was a needy man, offered 1001, and it was
eventually agreed that he should give 150/. Marshall
then directed him to go to the Poor-law Commissioners'
office, and ask for Mr. Jones, and say he had been sent
by Mr. Angus, who was connected with a morning
paper. He did so—the defendant took him into the
Poor-law office, and there could be no doubt but that
Jones thought he had interest sufficient to procure him
then a permanent appointment. Jones still continued a
short time in the office. Boisson had not been there a
fortnight before he was pressed for the money, and told
that he should lose his situation unless the money was
paid. Boisson, who was in great poverty, was com-
pelled to raise the money by borrowing it of a Mr.
Hutton, and paid that money over to Jones.
Shortly after Jones left, and on an account
being called for of the names of the clerks to be returned
to the Treasury, the name of Boisson was found there.
The Commissioners inquired into the circumstances of
his appointment ; Boisson was dismissed. He insisted
that the money should be returned, and the law officers
of the Crown ordered a prosecution. At that time Mar-
shall, who was included in the prosecution, was living,
and the defendant pleaded guilty ; and now that Mar-
shall was dead, the defendant, who, in Marshall's life-
time, had pleaded guilty, now came forward and in his
affidavit stated that Marshall alone had made the bar-
gain—that Marshall alone had received the benefit of the
money—and that Marshall had lent him (Jones) 1001.
This statement was clearly contrary to his plea of
guilty, and he called upon the Court to pass an exem-
plary sentence upon him.
Mr. JEavis then addressed the Court in mitigation of
punishment, :and regretted that the Solicitor-General
should have thought it necessary to impute falsehood to
Jones. He had pleaded guilty, as he had stated, to the
Commissioners in the lifetime of Marshall, for the pur-
pose :of avoiding !publicity, and he had during the
lifetime of Marshall made to the Commissioners an
ample statement of all the circumstances of the case.
He had repaid the money ; and he produced affi-
davits from persons high in authority in the office,
from which it appeared that during seven years he had
been a most useful servant to the public, and that his
quitting the office was considered a serious loss. That
publicity which he so much dreaded had taken place.
He would lose the confidential situation he now held, and
he trusted the Court would consider that a sufficient
punishment for his offence.
Their Lordships having consulted together,
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS proceeded to pass the judg-
ment of the Court upon the defendant. The Court had
heard the arguments urged in mitigation, and they
would have been very glad if they could have con-
sidered this case as any other but of a very
serious nature. If he really had authority to
recommend, he abused the trust reposed in him,
and deprived the public of the benefit of compe-
tition, for his own personal advantage. If he had not
authority, and it appeared that he had not, then the
fraud was quite as great. If Marshall alone had been
the person who had made the corrupt bargain, and if
the defendant had nothing to do with it, then that
would have been an ample answer to the indictment.
But the fact of his pleading guilty during the life-
time of Marshall proved that Marshal was act-
ing merely as his agent. The Court regretted
to hear that there was a family and an aged

relative dependent upon his exertions, but it could be
matter of regret only. Under the circumstances, the
Court felt bound to pass a severe sentence upon him.
The sentence of the Court was, that he should be im-
prisoned in the Queen's Prison for one year.
The defendant was then removed in custody.
THE QUEEN V. BARNARD GREGORY.

Mr. Serjeant TALYOURD said that in this case his
Learned Friend who appeared for the defendant had
handed to him certain affidavits, which were anything
but satisfactory, and that therefore he should wish to
have them read.

The affidavits, having been handed in, were read by
the officer, The first was the affidavit of Mr. Lewis, the
attorney for the defendant, in which was set forth a
medical certificate as to the unsatisfactory state of the
defendant's health, signed by Dr. Ay-re, Dr. Hume
Wetherhead, and Sir James Anderson. That cer-
tificate had been signed in the deponent's pre-
sence, but the physician had refused to make
an affidavit, :as being contrary to the usual custom
of the profession. The deponent stated that he held an
office on the Midland Circuit, to the duties of which he
should have to attend at the approaching assizes, and

that, therefore, he should not be enabled to prepare de-
ponent's defence to go to trial on the 29th. The affi-
davit of deponent himself was then read as to the state
of his health. He also prayed that judgment might be
postponed on the indictment to which he had pleaded
guilty, because on the trial of the other indictments facts
would come out which might materially influence the
judgment of the Court. In opposition to the application
there were read the affidavits of the Duke of Brunswick,
the prosecutor, and his attorney. The affidavit of the
latter stated that he had inquired of various medical men
who had visited defendant in Newgate, more particularly
of Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon to the gaol, as to the state
of defendant's heklth, and that the reply was, that
although he was thinner, he was in as good a state of
health as when he was first committed to prison.
Mr. PLATT submitted to the Court that this was not
a case of conflicting testimony. On the one hand, they
had only the loose affidavit of an attorney, setting forth
that he had made inquiries of different persons ; while,
on the other, they had the formal certificate of
the medical men who had examined the defend-
ant. Ho took it that their Lordships would not
try an issue upon minute points as to the
state of this man's health, when he pleaded want of
health as a ground for postponement of the trial. If
there were any doubt upon the subject they would give
him the benefit of that doubt. It also appeared that by
the rules of the prison he was not permitted to have ac-
cess to his private papers, which were necessary for him
to prepare his defence, and that he was anxious to dis-
cover the address of persons who were material wit-
nesses. His attorney also, to whom he entrusted the
whole conduct of his defence, was an officer of the Mid-
land Circuit, and must depart to attend to the duties of
that circuit. He thought, therefore, that he had made
out a case which would induce their Lordships to post-
pone both the trial and its judgment. He was under
recognizances to appear to receive the judgment of the
Court, so that the only effect of granting the application
would be to postpone the trial so as to give him a fair
and legitimate opportunity for preparing his defence.
He, therefore, applied for the postponement of the judg-
ment until next term, and also for the postponement of
the trial.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD rose to reply, but was in-
terrupted by
Lord DENMAN, who said, I am disposed to think that
there has been no case made out which requires the
Court to do anything. If the medical men had made an
affidavit, that possibly might have afforded some ground
for asking for delay ; but they have abstained from
doing so. I wish that medical men should know that
their certificate is really nothing. If they wish to come
before the Court, they must come before it as other per-
sons do, on affidavit, and this they have not done in the
present case. What appears to me might be a satisfac-
tory arrangement, Brother Talfourd, if you are inclined
to accede to it, is, that the trial should be post-
poned, but that the judgment should not be postponed.
If persons conduct themselves in the manner in which
this defendant has conducted himself they cannot get rid
of the consequences of their conduct in this manner, but
must suffer the punishment which they have brought
upon themselves.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD—The prosecutor in this
case leaves himself entirely in the hands of the Court.
It was then arranged that the defendant should be
brought up for judgment on Monday on the indictment
to which he had pleaded guilty, and that the trial of the
other indictment should be postponed until the sitting
after next term.

The Duke of Brunswick was in Court, and sat in the
Queen's Counsel seat, next to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR, &C., OF DOVER.

Mr. WHATELY applied for a mandamus directed to the
Mayor and Corporation of Dover commanding them to
insert the name of John Mills :on the burgess list of
the borough, he having been rejected on the ground
that he had not paid certain poor rates. There were
several objections to the validity of these rates, though
if even the rates were good, he would contend that the
non-payment of them (lid not operate as a disqualifica-
tion. The first objection to the rates was that the Town
Council did not order the overseer to make the rates.
The second objection was that the rate of 1842 was re-
trospective. There were various other objections be-
sides against the validity of the rate.—Rule granted.
The Learned Gentleman then said that there were
24 other cases of a similar description in which he was
instructed to move for rules.—Application granted.
Mr. PEACOCK said he was instructed to move for
15 rules of a similar nature.—Application granted.

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