The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-02 00:00:00

[MO.RNING‘IIERAL.D.].

The Chancellor of the Exchequer brought for•
ward, last night, his Budget for the year. He
proposes -to provide for the deficiency in Ihe
same tnamwr as last year, by a loau of 1,?.,09. 0,6C0/.
of which P 2,500,000/. is to be taken from the
Sinking Fund of Great Britain, and s'.o.r ,QOOl.
from that of Ireland. The Sinking Fund ,was
but faintly defended, and may now be looked
upon, after all its pomp of calculation, as virtu-
ally abandoned. It may be asked, -why, after it
has ceased to he even a -moral engine to support
Credit, it should be kept up at ails, as- the Cxpence
of managing it is but so much added to the ex-
penditure of the country

[N w To,q.s.]
Yesterday evening the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer produced his financi•:ll Exposg.- Rumour
had already anticipated that it would be a highly
favourable one, and so strong Wat this persuasion,
that the Funds had gone on regularly increasing
for some wce-ks past. As the moinent,.however,
approached for its developement, anxiety be-
'came more marked, hopes and fears more in-
tense; and the fluctuations of yesterday, at the:
Stock Exchange, were greater than had been
known for a long time previous. Consols for
Account opened at 73, went up to Mt, fell again
to 76i-, and closed at 77. This Was to be-attri-
buted, ho sever, in part only, to the difference
of opinion :on the probable financial arrangements.
it was in some measure occasioned by the wish
of a certain 'set of speculators to realise the pro-
fit they had already made, "being two per cent.
this Account. These persons probably argued
that as the gain they had already. made AV:3 se-
cure, and the:effect which the -puslication of the
Budget • might produce was Uncertain, it would
be prudent to prefena certainty to an uncer-
tainty.. By this means a vast quantity of. Stock
was thrown on the market, and the buyers, of
course, took advantage of' the abundant supply
to reduce. the prices.

[filllTySli PRESS.]
The proceedings in the Court of King's Bench
yesterday were possessed of considerable interest.
Judgment was pronounced against Major Cart-
wright, George Edmunds, Charles Haddocks,
and Thomas J. I.Nooler, for the part they per-
formed at the last great Birmingham meeting', in
the farce of electing what was rather ludicrously
called'a Legislatorial Attorney" to the House
of Commons on behalf of the good people of
Birmingham.. There never was any cloaht, as
far as We could-understand, in the public mind
respecting the illegaiity, and we may indeed
add, the rank absurdity of such a proceeding,
and no attempt was ever mule by Sir Charles
Weds:,ley, the elected guardian 'of theinterests
of Birmingham, to give validity to the election.—
The country laughed at the proceeding, 'and it
was at the time generally conceived that the
Ministers of- the Crown would suffer the memory
of such an occurTenee to perish like that of the
vafido§ other follies that for a moment amuse the
thonghtless curiosity of the Multilacie,:but
have determined otherwise, and have placed it
among the records' of the empire, there to remain
es a memorial either of the imprudence of the
is di isl l* is accused, or of the tlsorganised State

[We stopped the Press yesterday to state the Verdicts which
had been passed on the criminal and absurd attempt to oh:route
a new Member on the Housoof Commons as the Representative
of Birmingham, and we this dray subjoin a fuller account of
the Proceedings.] -
Thedefendant, Charles illaddox, requested that a friend of
his might be perthitted to address the Court.
The CIIIEF JUSTICE.—This cannot be allowed.
The defendant then proceeded to make some remarks on the
mode of eelecting the Jury in his case., and denied that any in-
surrections had taken place from what he had done ; or that
. the conduct of himself, or any of these with whom he acted.
tended to create commotion: The defendant was interaroted
by the Court, whoogitl that they would nocsoiyerthe deiboanor
to tradtice either. the (*and' Jury or the witnsete.lrhp LJ
given evidence against him; and such-was his violence thzt the
Court was swivelled very frequently to notice the irreie-olaril
of'his conduct. . •
The•terrEr JUSTICE said, the Court had an imperative euty
to perform, which was to prevent the Constituted Author...el(*)
from being ; it was not for the defendant to add to his
offence, when he ought to be speakir.g in mitigation of that of-
fence of which he had been convicted.
Viben the defendant had concluded,
Mr. Mills rose, to the great astonishment of the Court, to
address•the Jueges • he'eaid he had received a letter frena
of the defendants (Lewis), who was not present
The CreirF JuSTicE.—Who ate you, Sir? We know ten, -
thing of you, nor can we hear you. We are not about to 'pass
judgment upon the person you allude to, and who is not yresent.
Mr. was with considerable trouble induced to sit down;
after he had thrown the whole Court into confusion.
Mr. DE ei mPar then proceeded to address the Court for Major
Cartwright, • disclaiming any participation in the opinions or
'offensive matter used by others in this case.
Woofer then addreseecl 'the Court at considerable length.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY observed, than. the chsect was rot co
much to inflict pain cn the defendants, as to protect the Putik.,
and convince the lower orders of soczety of the delusions the CA-
fendants bad practised. The Learned Judgo then pointed out-
the illegality of meeting without the King's writ, for the cleee.
tier. of any person. Such a proeeed,.ing was not to be traet-d
iz
any part of the history of the country. Nothing could be more
unconstitutional, and if the deluded perion* who were :told
theywere justitred in sending a Member to represent them P.
Parliament, without the forms of the Constitution, had ene--.
voueed to carry that .aoetrine into effect by fares, the coneo-
quezice must litoie been tumultuous mischievous, and tint;[ to
themselves. The Learned Judge Sitfally 'pronounced the jue;g-
!mut of Me Court.