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

THE MONSTER ABORTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sit,—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 ho 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
• beitynonymons with '4 a polind,". he forgets, that the
id coin he " pantonumically" held up, would,
about the close of the late war; have exchanged for one-
fourth part more silver thin it will now ' -
The truth is, • that gold obeys the same law .as that
which governs all other articles, it advances in price
under su increased demand—and sinks in price when
the ratio of demand to supply lessens. • .
Your ol)servations on the tomfoolery about silver are
mos. ju t—allow me to add a-postscript to them.
The flank is to be allowed to keep four millions
out of sixteen- in silver, but the noteholder is
is not to 1!e ,14prived of his right to demand payment in
Go ti 1:!--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
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 secJnd dividend, which, with the first, amounting
to BS. Bd. iu the potind, settles better than half the demands
upon the estate, which it is now confidently asserted will pay
full 20s. in.the pound.
. .Oa Saturday the annual Pitt. dinner was held in
Merchant 'Tailors'„ 1141, Threadneedle-street. About
130 noblemen, Members of Parliament, and other gentle-
in-n, sat 'down to dinner, the Right Hop. Lord Fever-
sham in the chair. Amongst the-company present were '
the Earls of Eldon and Dartmouth, Lords Farnham and
Kenyon, Sir It. Carr .Glynn, Sir John Chetwode, and
Sir John Crosse, Darts. ; the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, the
11, n. A. I)uncombe; Cot. Stewart Vyse, Major-General
Sondwith, St.jor Moore, Colonel Sibthorp, M,P,, A.
L'efroY,'Eq , NI.P., Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P„ Mr.
Round, M. 1)., Quent4f.Dick, Esq., M,P., Joseph Neeld,'
Et:q , M.P., G. W. J. 'lepton, Faq:, M.P., C.. M. Hullah,
Esq., the muster of the company, nearly all the wardeus,
as well as tho most leading Conservatives of the City of
London. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having
been drank, the toast of the evening, " The Immortal
Me:nory of the Hon, William Pitt," was given, and re-
ceived with the • greatest applause. Numerous other
toasts were drunk in the course of the evening, and the
company broke up, about eleven o'clock. •
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kaTRAORDINAIty 131F.TH.—vn the evening of Whit
Monday,.§usan HobbS, wife of Michael -Hobbs,. an indus-
trims labourer`of .Chtswielt, was delivered of four chil-
after its birth • the ether three were baptised the same
dren, two boys and
,two girls. One of the boys died soon
evening by the Rev.. Mr. -Bowerbank, .the vicar. The
second boy,:has- sinee-(liede-but the-two'
folloWlng,noqee
yeterday.. the mother.is doing well. The parents are.
girl's were living
`,:fi'A'r ThduStrtius i> o'ple.,..vitlia large family, even before
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1145 11410(101e addittoti, " -
tzixs to ttib different assessors appointed. tinder the hew In-.
tame Tax Act sth .aid 6th _Victoria, both in 't4, City of
London, and the parishes within the-hitV t 4 Puirialiv of this.
great tnetropolis :—" As tst cha aawsarnents made in the year
h►asii'bece7ifs:il'itvl -''o.es(l4plesar*.tf:74;;;Tlsshei!inicis of Stamps and
' tt342, up*/ rilliatitile4 A and TI, In respect to landsJenements,
&c., thoy are to remain in-fort e for three years, from the sth -
,of April in tbittyeari no rotnrn,id reqlirect to,be inade for the
Wh
present year
ell.nfii,,,arirtehbeesekoj omitteddutes ceptiu oafs ere 1=6,,
to be charged ih the as-
ex
sessinentt already made, or .where new buildings have since
-beea eVICtO2!

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