The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-23 00:00:00

1,I) BAILEY,

his being the last clay of the 'Sessions the
prat:ceded to pass the following
sentoncer,ti—u
Thorous Joseph .Iflann, Joseph
Ptigb Thompson, John 'Williams, Henr lason, John
I larrg, John •Priin it it, 'Anton A bratiains, John "Fox, Wrn
Brett., John Dale, Jahn I.lromley,'John,.Flcitoming, George
Price, „rutin Jones, ,Tlinmas Shears, Cfatlierine' Shaw, .%Irtrlr
itegan„ John Jones„ Thos. Payne, Wm. Cox, Win. Affection,
Wm. Itois','J arr IS; 01.4ige'Kelly,.John Roberts. limit
Mem Mink; (I)i Wrry.t rikrns,V2) Wm. Harris, MHz.° Morgan,
Thoulas. Edmund Lintlerwoo4, Wnt. Etiwardillitria
Thomas Miry'Welsh; John Fern, .Ca Brine
ollins, Thonius Thous, G6trrge 'Jrinirs;
Thowies •'lll-aryn,t, Win. Nation, Ann Jackson, Win.
Baylis;, Albion Lotlge,, John Parker, 'Won Wheatley, Mary
141`.11.1Jon—To he trip ported for seven ve'tirti.
(corgi =Wm." Xerritrge, tfoini. Frederick Shiite, Wm. frarris,
ThoMitli l'hornas Andrews, hrithaiu Maks, nnti
ylltary Ann Ilevis--Fourteen years transportation,.
James F"artrnintr, Tirrn.-Shoplierti, Thomas Ittihric—Trans-
`portation for life. I°. ' • •
'Proclamation of silence having been made, the Recorder pro-,
eeedect to pas.Sr..IiTA:SCE: of DEATH on tlio following pri.
Boners :-,fosOh Jones, :Qin Gardiner, Joseph Cosiuei Thos..
Hose, James, Beceroft; lout Richard toe stealing in sit
dirahn,..house; \Arm. I)aris, .Janus tirren, Jahn Thnovanni
olias Oilliains, for litirghiry. Thomas' llurley, Cro privately'
stealing ; 'John Jones And John !fermi, fie robbery on tbe,,"
h'ingio.highway ; and 1134iti. :Spencer, for sheep toteafing.

%MING' IN A Sciceccu TIIe.,ATRE 4--A curious
circumstance occurred at the Theatre Royal,
glasgow, last Saturday night.. About ten o'clock
a young gentleman came into the pit, foll Owed
by a little w bite terrier' dog. All war tole-
.rably quiet at the COMMetteerlletit of the after,
piece, but in a few minutes a rat took the liberty
of popping up his head throug'n one of the
many holes in they floor ;- the, „dog noticed it,
seized• it, and dispatched it, with very little':
noise ; Another was. served _ in the none way
shortly after the first, and inaa little time A thitil
-was caught, which, after a good deal of
Was also finished, to the great amusement of the
greater portion of the audience.

• AN Kuritkric OftA.Toa—At a late convivial
meeting; held in Welsh Hampton, near Ellesmere,
in this county, a noted orator of the former place,
in delivering one of his speeches, struck the table
with such violence that he broke his arrn.
(Shrewsbury Chronicle.)

tAnATrrunt.--- late property lottery, a
barber of Dresden obtained' the greatest prize.
When he took pOßSCssion of his new chateau, the
grateful winner invited all his old customers to
breakfast, after which ho insisted on shaving
them all in his drawing-room.

It
annuls AND 1 URDEALDS AT ..OTDERTIANie-.--
After a long and tedious investigation before
tin Magistrates at Rotherham, the supposed gang
of. robbers and murderers, lately apprch""l"
in that neighbourhood, have been (Ikt:barged.
George Matthewman, the boy on whose evidence
the men Wert' apprehended, having at length de.
dared that the whole of his statelbent was`ftilse,
and fabricated for the purpose of obtaining a re
ward, which he understood be mould be entitled
to, on estahlkhing the serious charges against the
meu.

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Extracts fi•®m the Morning Papers, Feb. 23, 1826.

CUOILNING cstitomcmj
Mr. E. Ellice briugs the subject of the Silk
Trade before the House to-night. We are sorry
to observe that the distress in that trade is greatly
on the increase. In Spitalfields, Manchester,
Macclesfield,. Congleton, Norwich, &c. numbers
of workmen are without employment ; and, un-
fortunately, matters do not yet seem to be at the
worst. in addition to the other causes of distress
the silk manufacturers entertain a great dread of
the consequences of foreign competition, and they
have persuaded the public in general that the re.
moved of the restrictions will produce a wonder-
ful effect on prices ; so that shopkeepers are
afraid to keep a stock of goods, which they may
be forced to sell nt a loss ; and consumers are
unwilling to buy now, in the hope that they may
soon be able to buy on better terms. We are
persuaded the apprehensions are, in a great de-
gree, groundless ; hut, as they are seriously en-
tertained, we cannot expeat the manufacturers will
hazard much till the period of competition arrives.
Before, however, the present Session is suffered to
pass, we maintain that the silk manufacturers are
justified in claiming from Ministers every pos-
sible facility that can be granted in the shape of
reduced duties. And as the whole trade can re-
ceive but a certain amount of protection, we en-
treat of Ministers not to suffer themselves to be
blinded by a partiality for any one particular
branch of it ; but that they will strictly appor-
tion to each its equitable share of the protection,
and no more. ‘V ithout such distribution, they
will do infinite mischief.—We have been induced
to throw out these hints its consequence of some
information whirls has reached us, that an unwil.
lingness is understood to have been expressed in
a high quarter, to reduce, any further, the pre.
sent enormous protection to the English Throw.
sters. We have before offered an opinion on
this point, and it is further strengthened by re.
ilectioni, that they are not entitled to anything
like the present amount. Throwsters are by no
means essenSiel to the continuance or existence
of this trade. Let them think of this, and lower
their pretensions accordingly,

[AIOII,NI NO POST.]
It is amusing to see the eagerness with which
theorists of all descriptions lay hold of passing
occurrences, whenever they are of n nature to
excite general attention, for the purpose of
making converts to their oe n peculiar doctrines.
The philosophers of politics and trade do not
disdain to turn against the practical nn when-
ever they think they have en opportunity of do-
ing so., the weapons which are supposed to be.
long peculiarly to the latter ; but they seldom
wield them with any great skill, vigour or effect.
At the present moment, the advocates of a
repeal of the Usury Laws, as well us the ad-
vocates of a free trade in foreign corn, are
pluming themselves ho the udvautuges which
they suppose their respective Grummet& to
derive from the recent convulsion of the coos-
mercial world. Upon this subject we have
a word to say to each of these classes of philoso.
phers. It is quite true, that during the great
dititress for money, persons were forced to effect
sates, of property at a loss, or to raise money by
loan, at a rate in either case so far exceeding the
legal rate of interest, that the latter wits for the
mignent lost sight of, and indeed practically alio-
Halted. It may also be said, that the wide differ-
erste between the legal rate and that fluctuating
rate which the varyiug force of cirenmstances
established from day to day, aggravated the pres-
sure, by narrowing or giving a very circumscribed
los:ably to the Money Market, WP doubt, how-
ever, whether the latter circumstance did aggro).
vote the pressure; for if the locality was circum-
scribed, the concentration was rendered more
perfect ; the borrowers and lenders were
brought together in a more limited arena,
where the wants of one class and the means of the
other could be more accurately as well as more
promptly measured and adjusted. For the exi-
gencies of K momentary crisis, then, we might
possibly doubt whether the system which narrows
the lecality of the Money Market, by confining
it to the region where, no matter by w hat meanie
the dealers have practically freed themselves
from the fetters of the Usury Laws, is not the
best and most convenient system that could exist.'
Noorgcment, Indeed, can be worth much, in favour
of whichever side of the question it may be sup.
posed to operate, that is deduced from the cir-
curnstances of such a crisis as is just passed.
It is the business of Government to prevent
the recurrence of such convulsions, and not to
legislate with a view to their existence, as if
they were the natural and ordinary condition of
society. This proposition brings us at once into
contract with the advocates for a free trade in
corn, who contend stoutly that the existing re.
strictions have contributed to produce the convul-
sitm, and that a free trade would have at) ob•
vious tendency to prevent its recurrence. Their
argument is simply. this, that a high price of corn
reduces the general rate of profit and of interest,
and consequently renders men mere protu to in.
ordinate and hazardous speculations. Is this
consequence quite clear ? is it so very obvious
that a low rate of profit, or in other words, a slow
accumulation of copital, promotes the growth or
impels to the excesses of the speculative spirit ?
We confess that we phould have thought
the reverse of this to be the truth. Wp can
perceive how a rate of profit rapidly declin-
ing in consequence of a very quick acrunnt-
lotion of capital may give an unnatural and
miichievous impulse to speculation. Rape.
(ion should have opened our eyes to this
natural sequence of cause and elect, if
experience and observation (for who can doubt
that the recent circumstances present en instance
of it), had not forced it upon our conviction.—
But the Corn Laws, so far as they have operated
at all, unless indeed effkt upon the rate of profit
and accumulation of capital is grossly miscast-
ceived by every body, must have operated, not to
assist, hut to counteract the mischief. We

have no disposition certainty to extol the value I
tither of the Usury or Corn Laws, in conse-
quence of the tendencies we have .ascribed to
them, so far as those tendencies may have operated
in the recent and extraordinary circumstances of
the country. Their value is to he computed with
reference 'exclusively to the effects they produce
upon the community, in its natural, and whole-
some, and ordinary state. Recent experience is
in some degree to be suSpected, merely because
it is recent. In matters of such importance as
those under consideration, we can proceed with
safety to decision, not by judging.of effects from
temporary and unnatural causes, but by being go-
verned by the evidence of our senses, the dictates
of reason, and the test of long and instructive ex,
perience.