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London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

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NEW LEAGUgn""`...-r()"
A new League, under the title ;...sithelmproved -\ 0
Currency League," has been ori d, in the me- .
tropolis, • and is holding its wee
.3c-': .eetings every ,•3/ 4'
kpite
Friday evening, at the Partheniu /id:. .ips, St. Mar- ':3.1/r4f
tin's-lane- The following petitiola, *arnmouslY.-,,,--
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agreed to at it's first meeting, and s.. V.-; ~• . • ted to..
the Lords by the Duke of Riehmond, lbeic°l34•4
mons by Lord Ashley, will supply a -toiirably accu-
rate account of the views taken by the new League:—
, "To the 'Honourable the CommoLis of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ir,..thind, in. Parlia-
ment assembled.
"The humble Petition of Members of the ' Im-
proved Currency League,'
and other 'persons in
public meeting assembled, at the },'arthenium
Rooms, in the City of Westminster,
" Showeth,—That it is the opinion of your pet, Wolters .
that the present system of inadequate gold, and iinettu-
nting and unsound paper currency, is rapidly pauver-
ising, deinoralising, and enslaving the people.
" That your petitioners believe that the part of limit-
ing
or Making all money subordinate to only one par-
ticular land very scarce description of property, auel. . .
that an article of foreign produce, and of_ uncertaini
supply, termed cow, andmaintaming for it a fixed sten--
da,rd of value, is in the highest degree impolitic, as well-.
as unjust. •
, . -..
" That its impolicy is shown by the oft-recurrinx
panics and stagnation in banking, mercantile, and E!gri.-
cultural affairs, whereby the banking, trading, agricul-
tural, and other • classes of society, are frequently
compelled to make ruinous sacrifices of their property,
and labour ; and that its injustice is apparent front the
fact that under it, as compared with the currency which
the country possessed from the years 1797 to 1819, and
when gold was left to find its natural level in value,
everything except money has become so much cheaper,
or, in other and synonymous terms, money itself so
much dearer, that it now requires, with the labour of
most classes of artisans at 2s. per day in place of 4s. per
day, calico at 4d. in place of at 9d. per yard, corn at 6a...
instead of at 10s. 6d. per bushel, and other articles, the
produce of home industry, in the same proportion, about:
double the quantity of labour, calico, corn, and other
necessaries of life, to provide for the taxation of the
country. _ •
"That, under the peculiar position of this country,
with a demand upon it of 50,000,000/. per year to pro-
vide for pensions, sinecures, annuities, and salaries, of
nominally unchanged and unchanging, but of thus really
increased and still increasing amount, almost another
50,000,000/. per year, or an additional 250 millions
of days of labour per year, or of about the same
increased proportion of calico, corn, and other
necessaries of life, have, since the year 1819,
thus silently and almost imperceptibly, but virtually and
actually, been obtained from the tax-payers of This
country; and that such an increase of its taxation 16
obviously sufficient to account for the difficulties of thew
country, the unprofitableness of trade, and the scarcity
of employment and low rate of wages for labour.
" That, as in addition to the foregoing, your petitioners
apprehend a still further decline in the value of the
labour and produce of this country, arising from a belief
that, notwithstanding the impolitic encouragement given
by this country to the owners of foreign gold mines, in
maintaining for gold the present fixed standard price of
3L 175.10 id. per ounce, and leaving all its banking And
trading establishments so completely dependent there-
upon—gold is an article that will not be increased itr
the same ratio as it is the natural tendency of the popu-
lation and powers of production of this great, and intel-
ligent, and scientific country to increase. They there-
fore feel their imperative duty, as tax-payers, and espe-
cially such of them as are occupied in productive industry,
to petition your Honourable House for a redress of these
grievances.
" In respect to the laws affecting the paper money of
the country, your petitioners believe that it would be
less impolitic in your Honourable House to enact that a
favoured company of bakers should be permitted to dole
out, at their own price or pleasure, all the bread that is
required within sixty-five miles of the metropolis, than
that any particular and irresponsible clars of her Ma-
jesty's subjects should possess a charter to supply all the
money within the same most important part of her
Majesty's dominions, inasmuch as the former (bread) is
only one necessary of life, and it is the latter (money)
that commands every necessary of life.
" Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable
House to take into your serious consideration the fol
liming proposals :—That in place .of basing the cur-
rency entirely upon a very 'scarce; uncertain; 'and fleet:-
ing foreign metal, you found it distinctly upon the
_available real or real and funded property of the coun-
try; and that, in lieu of one law for a portion of her Ma-
jesty's subjects; who are proprietors of the Bank of
England, a second and third for bankers in England and
Wales, and a still different one, allowing to bankers in
Scotland and Ireland a privilege that is denied to those
of England and Wales— that of issuing one pound notes,
you make one uniform law for the entire kingdom, and
the entire people. That your Honourable House ap-
point a board independent of the Government, but re-
sponsible to the Privy Council, Parliament, and the
country, in whom shall be vested the power and exclu-
sive right of issuing paper money, for the general good
of the country; and that such board be empowered to
make advances thereof to such persons as shall consent
to deposit double the amount of real or funded securities,
and pay an interest of two or two and a half per cent.
per annum interest thereupon. That such notes be for
sums of one pound and upwards and their total number
or amount such as shallbe found necessary to give the
heavily taxed producers and industrial classes of her
'.Majesty's loyal subjects, such an advance upon the pre-
sent low and unremunerating prices for their produce
and labour as your Honourable House may consider
their past and present hardships justly entitle them to
obtain. That such notes be at all times a legal tender
in discharge of taxes, and all other payments, but re-
deemable at the office of issue in either silver or gold at.
the market price of such metals, as from time to time
may be carefully computed by the state of the ex-
changes, &c., and published in the London Gazette.
" That your petitioners believe that the enactment of a
measure of this kind by your Honourable House, would
greatly tend to emancipate the industry of this great
mercantile country alike from undue subjection to the
influence of foreign gold and hostile foreign tariffs.
They believe also that it would, in a corresponding
manner, restore the monetary laws, and finances, and
trade, and agriculture, and labour of the country to a
healthy and satisfactory state. Your petitioners there-
fore risk your Honourable House to pass it into law ;
and, as in duty bound, will ever pray. • ,
Signed on behalf of the meeting,
" MARTIN NUNN, Chairman."

MR. LEVER'S NEW WORK, ILLUSTRATED
CRUIKSIIANK.—The numerous admirers of " The Confes-
sions of Harry Lorrequer," " Charles O'Malley," " Our
Mess," &c., will be delighted to hear that Mr. Colbum, of
Great Marlborough-street, announces a new work from Mr.
Lever's pen for immediate publication. " Arthur O'Leary ;
his Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands," is the title
of this new production, which will doubtless be eagerly
looked for by all who have derived amusement from Mr.
Leyer's former works. Great additional attraction will be
given to " Arthur O'Leary," from the fact of its being illus-
trated by the celebrated George Cruikshank, whose pencil
can hardly fail of finding a host of congenial subjects in the
dashing sketches of " Harry Lorrequer."
THE WOOD PAVEMENT IN CHEAPSIDE.—SEWERSI
COURT, GumpirALL.—The Paving Committee, in their re-
port, having recommended that the paving of Cheapside should
be forthwith commenced, orders have been given to Mr.
Stevens to complete the street with wood, according to Per-
ring's safety system, of which a specimen was laid down
last year, westward of Bow Church tower, in Cheapside, the
work to commence this day (Monday). The policemen on
duty in Cheapside have kept an account of the number of
accidents which have occurred to horses during the recent
alternation of rainy and frosty weather, upon the stone pave-
ment, and upon Perring's, Rankin's, and Carey's wood pave-
ments respectively ; and it is expected that the City Com-
missioner will forwith furnish a correct return to the City,
authorities. We regret to be obliged to state that the Com-
missioners of Sewers seemed to have adopted a resolute
fancy for the filth and puddle of their streets, which are in
several places impassable to any other individuals.
CANTERBURY. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.-011
Tuesday last a large rat was seen running from the forage
store in the Cavalry barrack-yard, Canterbury, which was
seized and killed by a one-year lamb of the Southdown breed,
the property-of Mr. R. Wall, who keeps the Canteen. The lamb
is a most docile creature, and has been brought up in the
house. The ewe dying at the time it was dropped, it has
been the companion of a litter of Newfoundland dogs from
that time. Dover Chronicle.
Miss Worsley Holmes, who is understood to be
affianced to Lord Alexander George Russell, of the Rifle
Brigade, ninth surviving son of the late and brother to the
present Duke of Bedford, is sister to the Hon. Mrs. A'Court
Holmes, of Westover House, Isle of Wight, and daughter and
co-heiress of the late Sir Howard Worsley Holmes.
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—The following intelli-
gence appears in the Journal de Havre :—" The Ajax whaler
has arrived, bringing news from the Sandwich Islands three
months later than that previously received by the Elizabeth.
We have already announced that Vice-Admiral Thomas,
after having re-established King liamehameha in his rights
of sovereignty, had concluded a convention in 1843, by
which enormous privileges were given to British subjects.
Since then the state of things has not changed, and, though
disavowing the act of Lord Paulet, the English Admiral has
abstained from repairing any of the complaints occasioned t*
French interests, and particularly to our consul, M. du Dolt.
M. du Doit had refused to exhibit his powers to the
English commission, instituted by Lord Paulet to re-
place the Sandwich Governor, and on his refusal, that 'com-
mission, after having announced that it did not recognise the
French Consul, put seals on the house and papers of M. du
Doit. This state of affairs remains the same, and Admiral
Thomas has respected it, under pretence of leaving all the
responsibility upon its author. The Ajax left Ilonalulu on
the 31st of October, without seeing the Reine Blanche, which
must at that time have been on its way from Otaheite to the
Sandwich Islands. Captain Leteller gives a melancholy ac-
count of the state of our fishermen in those seas, and says that
they are in great need of protection. It is to be observed, that
it is at the moment when Admiral Dupetit Thouars, infermed
of this state of things, goes to the Sandwich Islands to sup-
port the interest of France, that the expedition is leaving our
port which carries the order for his recal."
LONGEVITY.—The oldest man in France, and
perhaps in Europe, M. Noel de Guorsonniere, living at Mont-
matre, near Paris, completed his 116th year on the 29th ult.,
and is in the enjoyment of the most perfect health. A few
days ago another centenarian, whose longevity is not less
remarkable, died at Charolles, in the department of Saone
and Loire. M. V. M. Ducercle, who had accomplished his
114th year, was carried off on the 12th of February last, by
an attack of apoplexy. He was a corresponding member of
the Academies of Chalons-sur-Marne, Caen, and Macon, and
has left a 'great number of manuscrips, and about 2eggeschtrosonni-,
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joenantlpieucfeorrenliee,rwphroosi -tr ear, has not
a single grey hair, and enjoys most robus h I
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Robert Johnson, Einsqr.e,voenntehefolr6hthavoifDecember, in company
the servants when they were begging been refused relief by