The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

_ . . .
The advocates of the bankers are striving
to persuade us that it is we who want
o b att
_their paper promises, as being so much
. .

better for us than gold sovereigns ; and that
it is not they who want to put ?f their OWII
promises, in return for which w•e must pay them

either gold coin or the value of it, the Irader in
his merchandise, the landholder in his acres.—
No, we must believe that it is all for our sakes,
for the good of the public, truly, that the small
bank note bill is to be repealed, and not for that
of the parties who make four or five per cent.
profit of that frail currency by which the King's
coin is to be superseded. We are in hopes that
if the Minister has not taken so wide a view of
this subject as might give us some pledge of his
adherence to principles, he will, nevertheless,
have so much regard to his own declarations, as
to afford us whatever benefit may result from the
firmness and consistency which are claimed for
him by his friends. With respect to the anti-
cipated measures of the bankers for forcing their
noxious paper upon society, there are some

which we -laugh at, - and others which we do not
quite comprehend. It is said that they are to
bully the House of Commons, by calling in all
the sums they have advanced on bond or mart-
gage to its members. In tha present state of the
money-market this scheme appears quite ludi-
crous. The bankers are not a race of men who
would lend their money to Members- 9f Parlia-
ment without something more than personal se-
curity ; and 'will' the excess of capital now un-
employed, it is probable that a difficulty would
occur in raising money on an assignment of good

security to pay off the loans, the discharge of
which the bankers threaten to require. The
spirit of such an experiment is, we supposci,
borrowed from certain Irish landlords, whose
practice has been to keep the arrear of rent in
terrorenz over the heads of the 40s. fieeholders ;
but we do not think the example one of a very
encouraging nature. The debtors in both cases
are too numerous a body, and too well protected
to be at the mercy of their creditors—they may
safely defy them to the field. For the second
part of the paper plot, viz. that which meditates
the overthrow of the Bank of England through
the expulsion of its notes, we cannot say that it
seems the most intelligible in its operation. But
this is a species of cannibal contest at which the
public may venture to look with composure ; for
whether the great shark devours the little ones,
or the latter worry him to death, the people may
have not much cause to trouble themselves about

the
etholics
Duke iunf
‘pvaerltliii7gdtaurn,,
_______
either issue.—Times.
SAGACITY IN A CAT.—A cat belonging to
a person named STANKLEY, who lives adjoining the Dun Instead
.of a law to emancipate the Roman
Cow, near Dunstan, has the habit of going out with the
children. It entered the house on one occasion lately wi▪ th-
out any of its usual company, and rubbed and mewed about
does •I i%titilsi liberalityainile
him honour, means to propose a general
SranxtEr's wife, went out and returned, and repeated
those muttons so long, that she, suspecting the animal had' measure to embrace all good subjects—that is,
some purpose in view, followed it out, and to her astoni▪
sh- to repeal all the laws that require oaths or de-
ment,r s too t 1
thatt l t a t
•preceded her to where she found her youngest child
it clarations res pectin l' ions tenets, as gre ig
neces-
sticking -fast in the mud and incapable of moving.—Aber-
de-
sary to qualify for offices civil or military,
deep Chronicle.
clarina man ca able of holding these who
THE RAT AND THE RATTLE-SNAKES.--- 0 every 3
swears allegiance to his 'Majesty, and is not con-
.
(From an American Paper).—We recently witnessed a
circumstance, which, we believe, is rather a singular one victed of a breach of _ the law inferring disqualifi-
er ting or taking away
in the history of the animal world. A rat was thrown into cation—the repeal not a_ec _. _
__
a box containing one hundred living rattle-snakes, for the what is now requisite for holding office in
purpose of showing the manner of attack by these reptiles. the church. It is supposed this must satisfy
When first thrown into the box he evidently excited consi- it ought, for surely they,
tl e Irish Catholics, as
derable displeasuie amongst the serpents, at the sight of I beput on
expect to a better
such an intruder. They, however, made no immediate cannot reasonablyi.
attack upon him, but put their heads rather boldly around footing than the po v . testant Dissenters from the
him, apparently for the purpose of examining his make and Established Cbuich .
—2 orntng Chronicle.
quality. The rat taking this impertinence in high dudgeon, risina that crim
It is not sag' 0 e should increase
soon began to play his part among his new comrades, by It-
is
their own mode of warfare, and biting every one in the.
country, even in places beyond the reach
I•
t le
that presumed to come within his reach. His usual aim of the contagion of vices of great towns, 'in
would be at the head and neck of the snakes, where he consequence of the extreme penury of a large
would fasten his teeth so firmly, that they would frequently
portion of the working classes, and the bad ad-
drag him the whole length of the box before he would let
ministration of the p
,go his hold. In this way he soon became master of thei,ePoor Laws. A case the other •
re-
field, and by merely turning his head towards them_totw.. ported day in a Buckinghamshire
b
snakes would retreat to the back ground for safety. 11 paper may
.serve as an illustration of the extent
the box
ever, to close the scene, after the rat had been In than to which misery is sometimes endured in this
four or five hours, one young snake, ofl°°-e ;attack, and country, and the little sympathy that it excites in
his companions, placed himself in a posture 0
by one effectual blow, put a period to the conquests of the the bosoms of those who are appointed by the
warrior rat. law as the delegaies of the national charity. A
1 holy accident on labour' b
with
In reference to the late melancholy .
the Ma man of 131edlow, named Brookes,
. attention to fol- 1• ‘ . b .
Lochlomond, a gentleman solicits our.,
own
words, with its wife, complained, at the Magistrates' Cham-
lowing hints. We give them
ci:t:t v
the public, and par- her at Aylesbury, that they, along with their
the fullest sense of their imp°
rltaati:d on the banks of Lodi°. five children, had been removed to the work-
tiewlarly to the proprietoer.stecctifin
steam navigation on that I louse and lodged in a room 0n1y.35 feet by
mond, and others
interested
he lamentable accident which lately ' b
magnificent Lal:e : 17, .which had six .
in it beds and 16 other in-
Locidomond, will, I hope, point out
happened at Tarhet on
Quays at the different landing mates, and that
these children .would be Ilit-
the propriety of erecting
of sleeping on the bare
'The steamers could then come alongside, der the cessity.-
and necessity'.
places, -.
d
hackipphe to the Select Vestry.
avoid the present dangerous .
mode of landing passengers. bricks ! They
.
tide, the Quays will not have to be carried having nothing to eat,. .and their bed had bein
As there is so
the Loch; consequently the expense would be a . far into taken for a debt they owed.
The Magistrates
trifle where larch, &c. is so very cheap; the threepen:es at n
expressed, their disapprobation' in strong terms of
present t charged upon each passenger, would be then morecheerfully paid, and, I should imagine, would amply repay the conduct pursued towards this poor man and
. .
the expense of erection. I trust that the entrance of Loch- , his wretched family, observing; at the same time,
lomond will again be opened by land from the Leven, for that, by such conduct, the poor are driven to
surely the respectable proprietors on the River Banks will acts of dishonesty. The Overseer was ordered
not consider the old footways trespass paths, when the
illow Brookes 4,-. a week, and to deduct 1,,
risks attending the shifting from small boats to the steamers to
can he s easily 4Y9ided,"6offl 06+sVie TfeC rasS.
i 6d. for revayment to the parish of a `llll4 Of