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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We alluded a few days since to Lord
Worsley's notice of motion, which stands for to-morrow,
for a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to
inquire into the amount of fees paid on summary con-
victions within a given period ; and also, into the ap-
po!ntment, duties, and mode of remunerating clerks to
the justices in petty sessions. The returns obtained by
the Noble Lord last session, with a view to this inquiry,
are understood to be of a most astounding character, so
far as the heavy fees payable on summary convictions
for trifling offences are concerned. The provincial
journals every week record striking instances of the
oppressive operation of the existing system ; and
by so doing render considerable assistance to its
abolition, by directing the attention of the Legisla-
ture, and the public generally,' to its practical injustice.
The following instance—one of a vast series—will
§erve to show the magnitude of the evil which Lord
Worsley has applied himself to remove. At the Petty
Sessions held at Petworth on Saturday last, the Earl
of Winterton in the chair, Mary Daughtrey, the wife
of a labouring man living at Amberley, pleaded guilty
to doing wilful damage, to the amount of threepence,
to certain trees, the property of the Hon. R. Curzon,
of Parham. The defendant was ordered to pay the
amount of damage. This she—or rather her hus-
band—might have done without material inconvenience.
But the costs upon conviction were to be added to the
penalty, and these amounted to nineteen shillings
and sixpence ! The imprisonment of this labourer's
wife, as a personal infliction-for her husband's inability
to pay this heavy amount of costs, was twenty-one days!
What an accumulation of mischiefs are concentrated
within the abova simple narration of facts ! A labour-
ing man is deprived of the society of his wife, and his
humble home is rendered desolate—his children, if he
have any, are left without the fostering care of their
mother, and this for three weeks; not because the hus-
band and father of this now destitute family is unwiaing,
or unable, to satisfy the damage done by his wife in a
moment of thoughtlessness to the Hon. R. Curzon's shrubs,
to the extent of threepence, but because the costs conse-
quent upon conviction for this petty damage are seventy-
eight times the amount of fine inflicted by the Bench for the
offence. Thus far, the woman thus dealt with, and her
husband and family, are the immediate sufferers. There
are other consequences which necessarily result, in a
great variety of instances, from the visitation of heavy
costs upon summary convictions in such petty cases,
The party, whether man or woman, if previously well-
disposed, cannot be the tenant of a gaol for several days
or weeks, and the associate of such characters as are
usually found there, without danger to, if not positive
contamination of, their moral habits. The man or
woman who has been consigned to a county prison,
comes forth with the brand of conscious degradation
upon their brow. The self-respect—which is the best
incentive to and guardian of virtuel-has passed away,
perhaps never to return. A disinclination to employ
the man who has been in gaol is felt by those who
would otherwise employ him. He becomes destitute,
and is rendered reckless. Many a poor wretch has been
thus plunged into crime, and pursued a course of plunder,
until the gallows or the hulks has terminated his
career, who would have been preserved to society, but
for the sentence which—in default of paying an exor-
bitant amount of costs upon a summary conviction, for
which a fine of threepence; or sixpence, was deemed
a sufficient infliction—consigned him to a felon's
fate for a considerable period. We again re-
mind the parochial and county-rate payers that
this question is one which peculiarly presses
on their pecuniary interests. Let them estimate the
immediate and contingent burdens to which the exist-
ing system subjects the parochial and county-rates,
and they will at once perceive that to pay the clerks to
the justices in petty sessions by a fixed salary is, even
in a pecuniary point of view, to be preferred to the pre-
sent system of remunerating them for their services by
the always objectionable, and in the present instance op-
pressive mode of paying them by fees.
STANDARD.—Most of our readers will have read
with pain the report of the disgraceful case tried at the
Northampton Assizes, but the pain which the pe•
rusal of such a case naturally excites, will be found
to carry with it some consolation. The traveller
who blessed his good fortune when he discovered a
gibbet upon a shore believed to be desolate, had
good reason for his self-congratulation : he saw, by
whatever melancholy proof, that he had arrived in
the abode of men, and of men also who punished the
crimes that unhappily must arise wherever human so-
ciety exists. The person who occupies the most dis-
graceful positivu In the Northampton trial is a clergy-

(From the Times Money Market Article, Saturday.)
Mr. Goulburn's plan for the reduction of the Three:and-a-
Half per Cents., announced in the House of Commons last
night, has had the singular good fortune of encountering
little or nothing in the shape of objection in the City. There
were very many who anticipated that he would be tempted
to a less liberal course—that, through the desire of a larger
immediate saving, he would have adopted from some of his
predecessors, the bad principle of saddling posterity with a
larger amount of debt; or that, in his eagerness to make as
good a bargain as possible, he would have limited the term
of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock to five instead of
ten years. Both of these he has judiciously avoided, and
thus has been able to put forward a scheme of the success of
which no doubt is felt in any quarter. Political agitation in
any part of the world might, it is true, interpose difficulties ;
but as the time for giving notice of dissent, as regards this
country, is so extremely short, only extending over the next
fortnight, the risk on that score is very small indeed. Resi-
dents abroad, to whom a longer time for dissent is necessarily
allowed, constitute so small a proportion of the whole, that
they need hardly be; aken into the account.
'here is no circumstance connected with the project of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer that has given more satisfac-
tion than his intimation that it has not been thought neces-
sary to make any arrangement with the Bank to provide for
possible dissentients to a large amount. Unlike the last
Administration, who were perfectly helpless in financial
matters, because they never took their measures wisely, and
had no funds to support them, the Treasury have now a
large balance in hand, and need be dependent on no external
aid. At all times this is a most material power to possess,
but it is especially so at a period when the Bank is to be
called before the public to treat for a renewal of its exclusive
privileges.
As a practical commentary upon Mr. Goulburn's measure,
it may be stated that as he offers in exchange for the present
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and from October next, a
Stock bearing interest at 3i per cent. for ten years, and 3 per
cent. afterwards, with guarantee against further reduction fir
twenty years more, this may be considered the same as giving
3 per cent. at once, with guarantee for thirty years against
further reduction, and a bonus of per cent. for ten years.
Estimating, then, the rate of interest on Government Secu-
rities at 3 per cent., the present value of ss. per annum, for
ten'years; is 21. 2s. Bd., which is the equivalent in money
offered as a bonus; in addition to which must be considered
the value of the guarantee for thirty years, which cannot be
precisely calculated, though evidently worth something when
the' Three per Cent. Consols are at 98k.
To illustrate this matter further, a person who assents,
therefore, will receive 1001. in a Three per Cent. Stock, with
an annuity of 58. for ten years. Thus—
s. d.
His Consols are now worth
His Annuity

Making lOO 12 8
To compare this with the case of a dissentient to the con-
version, the latter will receive 100/. in money, with which
he can buy 101/. 10s. 6d. in Three per Cent. Consols, the
value of 'Which is, of course, 100/. only ;
and the gain in
money by assenting is, therefore, 12s. Bd. per cent. at present
prices, without reference to the value of the guarantee for
thirty years.
As the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 stand in a
somewhat different position, the terms of the original con-
tract with Government requiring that they should be paid
off in sums of 500,0001. at a time, and that upon six months'`
notice previously given, ' a
different market value will pro-
bably be created for that Stock. The extent of the advan-
tages which it possesses over the other descriptions of Three-
and- a-Half-per Cent. Stock consists in the longer period in
which the 11 per cent. may be received, but at the expira-
tion of the ten years fixed for the duration of the Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents., or probably much earlier, all will be
in the same situation. A broker of experience has stated to
us that the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 may be
worth under these circumstances about 1 per cent. more than
the others. It is not easy to comprehend exactly the mode
by which a reduction of 500,000/. at a time, and by a notice
of six months for each, is to be effected. If one notice is to
expire before a new one is given, the whole operation, as the
stock is 10,000,0001., will extend over ten years; but means
may probably be found of accelerating the process without
any breach of the original contract.
The proposal of Mr. Goulburn to equalise the amount of
dividends payable in each quarter of the year is one which
has also given entire satisfaction, and will have consequences,
apart from the present question of a mere reduction of in-
terest, full of future benefit to the country. If there should
be, in connexion with this arrangement, a sound and judi-
cious course pursued in regard to the privileges of the Bank
of England—a question which must closely follow this now
under consideration—the term" panic" may fall into disuse
and be forgotten, and the trade of the country subside into a
permanently safe and healthy state.
It is understood that notices of dissent may be given, as
in all former cases, at the chief cashier's office at the Bank,
but no official intimation of it has up to this time been made.

MONEY IVIA.RKET and CITY NEWS.
TIM ES.—The remittances from Mexico by the Forth on
account of the dividend amount to 90,500 dolls. from Vera
Cruz, and 40,000 dolls. from Tampico, making together
130,500 dolls. This is the largest amount hitherto sent at
i
one time, and shows an mprovmrint in the receipts at the
Custom-houses. Messrs. Lizardi, pursuance of the pro-
mise made some time ago to the Spanish American Commit-
tee, have formally announced. that they are prepared to pay
the remaining half of the dividend due last October. The
accounts to the Committee further state, that a balance of
193,000 dolls. remains still to be paid to the dividend fund in
Mexico by the merchants.
The United Mexican Mining Company have received re-
mittances amounting to 11,000 dolls., and also an intimation
that the contract with the Sardaneta family is renewed for
eight years. This has improved the value of their shares to
4,1 to Real del Monte, unregistered, are flatter at sto
A dividend of four-and-a-half per cent. has been declared
for the half-year on the shares of the Sheffield and Rother-
ham Company, the balance of profits divisible among the
sh areh olders bein g 3,694/. 6s. 7d., the receipts having amounted
to 8,9381. 13s. 9d., and the expenditure to 5,2411. 7s. 2d. The
jobbing of the Directors in this Company creates rather an
angry feeling between themselves and the shareholders, the
latter of whom do not hesitate to speak out boldly on the
subject.
At the meeting of the Dublin and
.Drogheda Railway, the
announcement was made that the line will be opened for
traffic next May. The works are proceeding rapidly to com-
pletion, and from the tenor of the Report and speeches made,
it appears low fares and superior accommodation are the in-
ducements which the Directors hold out to secure the patron-
age of the public.
The Report of M. Mallet, the Inspector-General of Public
Works in France, has just appeared on the subject of the At-
mospheric Railway, and. it strongly recommends the French
Government to select a line to adopt the system and fully test
the practical utility of the invention. Concluding his inquiry
on the subject, he says—
" I am, doubtless, far from having carried conviction into
the minds of my readers that the atmospheric system can be
applied to lines whatever their length. The question is not
yet in so advanced a state, but it is sufficient that the suc-
cess of the application of it to such cases appears probable to
render the system worthy of peculiar atteution on the part pf