The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-03 00:00:00

THE MONSTER ABORTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Your article of Tuesday, on Peel's giant hum-
bug is admirable ! but you were a little hard upon the
unlucky Premier, in requiring of him a clear definition
in reply to the question, " What is a pound ?"—How
can you expect a man to define that of which he has not
the slightest conception !
His obvious blunder, is, the fancy, that there is an
unchanging standard, and that gold is such a standard !
Every man of clear intellect is aware, that no invariable
standard does, or can exist.

While this profound person talks of a sovereign as
being synonymous with " a pound," he forgets, that the
identical coin he " pantomimically " held up, would,
about the close of the late war, have exchanged for one-
fourth part more silver than it will now !
The truth is, that gold obeys the same law as that
which governs all other articles, it advances in price
under an increased demand—and sinks in price when
the ratio of demand to supply lessens.
Your observations on the tomfoolery about silver are
most just—allow me to add a postscript to them.
The Bank is to be allowed to keep four millions
out of sixteen in silver, but the noteholder is
is not to be deprived of his right to demand payment in
gold ! Good !—if gold is more valuable, in propor-
tion, than silver in the market (for example, if an ounce
will fetch four pounds in silver), it is about as obvious
as the profound commercial ignorance of the Prime
Minister of Great Britain that not one single ounce of
silver will leave the Bank cellars, and that the sixteen
millions of the Company will, in effect, be reduced to
twelve !! ! Yours, always,

COMMON SENSE.

DUDLEY OLD BANK.--The creditors of this bank
received a dividend of 55., in the pound on Wednesday last.
This is the second dividend, which, with the first, amounting
to 6s. Bd. in the pound, settles better than half the demands
upon the estate, which it is now confidently asserted will pay
full 20s. in the pound.
On Saturday the annual Pitt dinner was held in
Merchant Tailors' Hall, Threadneedle-street. About
130 noblemen, Members of Parliament, and other gentle-
men, sat down to dinner, the Right Hon. Lord Fever-
sham in the chair. Amongst the company present were
the Earls of Eldon and Dartmouth, Lords Farnham and
Kenyon,' Sir R. Carr Glynn, Sir John Chetwode, and
Sir John Crosse, Barts. ; the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, the
Hon. A. Duncombe, Col. Stewart Vyse, Major-General
Sandwith, Major Moore, Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., A.
Lefroy, Esq., M.P., Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P., Mr.
Round, M.l'., Quentin Dick, Esq., M.P., Joseph Neeld,
Esq., M.P., G. W. J. Repton, Esq., M.P., C. M. Mullah,
Esq., the master of the company, nearly all the wardens,
as well as the most leading Conservatives of the City of
London. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having
been drunk, the toast of the evening, " The Immortal
Memory of the Hon. William Pitt," was given, and re-
ceived with the greatest applause. Numerous other
toasts were drunk in the cosine of the evening, and the
company broke up about eleven o'clock.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On the evening of Whit
Monday, Susan Hobbs, wife of Michael Hobbs, an indus-
trious labourer of Chiswick, was delivered of four chil-
dren, two boys and two girls. One of the boys died soon
after its birth ; the other three were baptised the same
evening by the Rev. Mr. Bowerbank, the vicar. The
second boy has since died, but the two girls were living
yesterday. The mother is doing well. The parents are
thispo formidable
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has been issued by order of the Commissioners of Stamps and
Taxes to the different assessors appointed under the new In-
ddi people, with a large family, even before
INCOME-TAX ASSESSMENTS.—The following notice
oorna Tax Act sth and 6th Victoria, both in the City of
London, and the parishes within the bills of mortality of this
great metropolis :—" As to the assessments made in the year
1842, under schedules A and B, in respect to lands,'
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