The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-20 00:00:00

rBRITISIi PRE19..1

The debate on Friday evening, in the House
of Lords, on the state of the Currency, was car-
ried on with considerable interest ; but, except
in what fell from Lord Liverpool, nothing passed
during the discussion which threw much light
on this interesting subject. In truth, it
is a subject which does not admit of much
assistance from the illustration of abstract
principles. The mass of individual interests
which make up the concerns of a great com-
mercial nation are not of a nature to bend to
the rules of theory, or to be governed by the
closetted meditations of the political Economist.
We have all along admitted that, taken in the
abstract, their principles may be correct enough,
hut, like many other notions that anay be philo-
sophically true, the practical application of them
may produce effects exactly the reverse of what
beforehand was expected from them. The present
Crisis is not the one fitted for experiments, more
especially for any experiments on a grand scale,
which of necessity compel those who would try
them to depart from experience. It may be that
the beaten track is not the best track ; but still
where,as in the present case, any wide and sudden
deviation from it may put everything to the hazard,
we hold that measure to be the most prudent which
puts least to the risk. It has been said—and we
believe it—that the commercial distress in which
the country is at present involved is, to a ascertain
degree, temporary ; but this we likewise believe,
that if any improvident measure by way of remedy
is introduced in the interval,- it may have the
etkct of rendering that distress permanent, by
intercepting all those resources by means of w1,7...11
it might ultimately have been surmounted. That
the paper currency of the country has been of
late years increased far beyond the amount re-
quired by tbe legitimate demands of trade, is
a fact which all must admit. That this exorbi-
tant increase of paper had exactly the same
effect in raising prices as an influx of gold and
silver to the same anwunt would have had, is like-
wise a fact which cannot be doubted ; nod is has
moreover this particular evil, that it makes this
rise of prices local, and the effect is' therefore
more exclusively and deeply felt.

The follow*, coincidence of births has taken place in the'
fancily of Mr._ John Edwards, of St. Alary's, Rochester. He
has three children, each born on a Christmas.day, viz. :—Ryan
Edwards Christmas-day. 1822 ; Charles Edwards, Christmas
day, 1823; and Sarah Edwards, Christmas-day, 18`24; two
were born at the same hour of the day, and the other within one
hour of the same time.

Per Quarter.
Ainwick

Andover

Arundel
Ashborne

Aylesbury
Banbury

Basingstoke
Bath
Blandford
Bridgewater
Bridport
Bristol

Bury St. Edmund's
Cambridge ...
Canterbury
Carlisle

Chard
Chelmsford
Chesterfield
Colchester
Daventry
Derby
Devizes
Doncaster
Dorchester
Exeter
Eye
Gloucester
Guildford
Henley
Hezbam
Horitcastle
Hull •
Hungerford
Huntingdon
Ipswich
Leeds

Lewes
Leicestet
Lincoln
Loughborough
Louth
Lynn..
Maidstone
Market Harborough
Morpetlt
Newbury
Newcastle
Newport (Isle of Wight)
Not tliamptou
Not tinghtim
Norwich
Plymnut
Reading
Rome),
Salisbury
sandwich
Sheffield _

Shepton Mallet
Sherborme
Stamford
Sunderland

Swansea
Taunton

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26 30
25 31
27 30
14 29
24 32

14 25
10 26
124 30

121 281

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21 47
25 29
21 43
24 29
19 93
20 25
71 SO
22 2.1
21 96
23 30
20 27i

122 251

26 29
- 27
20 32
22 26
20 28
'23 32
42 28
23 28
22 28
21 45

24 281
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25 S 2
21 28
26 8^
23 28

94 29
26 30
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