The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-31 00:00:00

or Scots Fusilier Guards, now doing duty at the
Tower.

Orders have just been received to put into imme-
diate readiness two ceayict guards of the 99th Regi-
ment, consisting of about-60 Alen, for Van Diemen's
Land ; two transport ships have been already taken
up for the especial purpose of conveying to the penal
settlements those prisoners that have been sentenced
to transportation under the Special Commission ap-
pointed for the trial of the rioters in the manufactur-
ing and mining districts.
Orders have been received by the Commandant for
the removal of the East India Company from the
-Artillery Barracks at Brompton, as soon as possible.
The Company's depot will, as soon as circumstances
permit, occupy Warley-barracks, in Essex. It is ex-
pected the 11th Regiment, now at Weedon, will
occupy the barracks in future.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, OCT. 29.—Wind, this day at noon,Westerly
—variable and light.
DBAL, OCT. 28.—Wind N.W. moderate.—Arrd.
Albion, Quebec. Sailed Glenbervie, Hobart Town ;
Guineaman, Cape Mount; Ellen, Salsette, Jamaica;
Idare, Barbadoes. Arrived all the outward bound ex-
cept the Statira, Ralph, Bernal, Don Giovanni, John
and Margaret, Orbit, Oromvedo, Caledonia, Captain
Greene ; and Prince Albert.

COWES, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Wilson, Stoup, Montreal,
and sailed for Antwerp.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. her
Maesty's ship Kite, Africa.
ALMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Wind W. to N.W., fresh
breezes and squally.—Arrd. Gloster, Taganrog, with
loss of boats and bulwarks ; Unicorn, Liverpool for
Africa, with lass of jolly-boat, sails, bulwarks, &c.
PENZANCE, OCT. 27.—Arrd. Volunteer, Alexan•
dria, with fore-topmast sprung, &c.
BRISTOL, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Lotus, Simpson, Quebec.
PADSTOW, OCT. 27.—The George, from Liverpool
to Jersey, was driven ashore this morning at Port
Gavern, during a gale at N.N.W.; cargo discharging
in a damaged state.

OFF DOVER, OCT. 22.—Marianne, Hamburgh
for Bahia.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 28.—Wind N.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Nimrod, Manning, China, sailed from Macao
May 17, and St. Helena Sept. 8 ; Phoenix, King,
Antigua: Diamond, Porto Rico; Rochester, Wood-
house, New York, sailed Oct. 4 ; Symmetry, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Huron, Montreal. Arrd.
off, Huskisson, Africa. The Rocket, from the coast
of Africa, was condemned at St. Helena, previous to
the Bth ult., and the Amazon, from Calcutta, was
discharging there on the Bth ult., being leaky.
THE JUST INCOME-TAX.

I A CASE OF Two SISTEKS.—One, with a numerous
family, possesses three hundred pounds a year; the
other, from a series of misfortunes and losses, has
been left wholly dependent, is in bad health, inca-
pable of helping herself, and is cast upon the kindness
of her sister. Yet this comparatively narrow portion
is taxed equally with the splendid fortune of the mil-
lionaire, who scarcely knows that the tax-gatherer
has visited his mansion.

ANOTHER CASE.—A widow lady, with six children,
whom she has to maintain, clothe, educate, and start
in life, has an annuity of 2001. Yet out of this seven-
pence in the pound is subtracted—while no more is
taken from the wealthy maiden lady, who, in her re-
tired style of living, is unable to spend the amount of
her large dividends !
ANOTHER CASE.—A naval officer, whose half-pay
is under 2501. per year, has no other property or
source of income. Ile has, however, five children and
a wife in delicate health.

Mr. Goulburn will probably ask what business a
naval officer has with a sick wife and five children.
Heaven knows they are great cares, and the benevo-
lent Mr. Goulburn augments all the difficulties of
sustaining them.

THE PRICE Off' -BREAD IN THE
METROPOLIS.

Yesterday a meeting of the Directors and Guar-
dians of the poor of St. Marylebone took place at the
workhouse, New-road, for the purpose of receiving
contracts for the supply of bread for distribution to
the out-door poor, in consequence of the total inability
of the workhouse bakers to keep up a supply commen-
surate with the increased demands upon the parish
for that article of consumption.
Mr. S. GRANGE having been called to the chair.
A Deputation of master-bakers resident in the
parish of St. Marylebone, waited upon the Board for
the purpose of soliciting them not to adopt the usual
system of contracting for the article of bread, but
prayed them to adopt a similar system to that in use
in St. Pancras, namely, that of issuing tickets to the
out-door poor, which were taken by bakers in various
parts of the parish in exchange for loaves, and who
received their accounts monthly from the Directors
of the poor.
The spokesman of the Deputation argued, that in
the event of the Board adopting the usual system of
contracting for bread, the contract might fall into the
hands of some extensive contractor out of the parish,
and thus a deep injury be inflicted on them, inasmuch
as many of the poor would otherwise become their
customers, but would be taken from them. They
therefore asked to be permitted to have it in turns to
make four or five hundred loaves per week each for
the use of the parish.
Mr. W. BYRE desired to know if the Deputation
were aware how many bakers there were residing in
the parish of Marylebone ? To which they replied in
the negative.
The Rev. E. SCoBELL—WouId it be worth while
to divide the quantity of bread required weekly to
supply the wants of the outdoor poor of this parish
amongst so many ? The Deputation replied in the
affirmative.

Mr. Busum,You have stated that the parish of
St. Pancras issue tickets to the outdoor poor. Pray
how is the price of bread regulated which you give
to them in exchange for those tickets ?
The DEPUTATION—The price of bread is always
regulated by the top price at which it is sold in the
metropolis.
Mr. BUSHELL—And pray what do call the top price
of bread in the metropolis at the present time ?
The DEPUTATION—The top price of bread at the
present time in London is Bd. per loaf, and whatever
the top price may be we can always afford to supply
it at 2d. per loaf under.
Mr. Busiim--Then you mean to say that if the
price of bread in London were to fall to 6d. a loaf, you
could supply it with a profit at 2d. a loaf cheaper ?
The DEPUTATION—CertainIy.
The Deputation having withdrawn,
Mr. BOTTER said he should offer his decided oppo-
Sition to the ticket system being introduced in Mary-
lebone upon the principle adopted in St. Pancras, or
any other, as he believed it would open the door to
many evils. If they were to adopt the suggestion of
the Deputation, of taking:their bread at 2d. per loaf
under the top price of Bd., the Board would be no
gainers, for in some parts of the metropolis very good
bread was selling at sd. the 4 lb. loaf.
Mr. Busiim. said unless the Board were prepared
to carry out the same principle with regard to
butcher s meat, cheesemongery, and all other con-
tracts, they could not accede to the proposal. The
statements made would open the eyes of the public to
the system pursued by the bakers, when it was seen
that they could, whatever the top price of bread
might be, sell it for 2d. per loaf, and get a profit by

-(Hear.)
After some further discussion it was moved, se-
conded, and unanimously adopted, " That the appli-
cation of the Deputation cannot be entertained, as it
is contrary to the principle of open competition for the
supply of all articles for the use of the poor in the
workhouse, to which the Board feel themselves bound
to adhere." _

The Board then entered upon the tenders for the
supply of bread. They were thirteen in number, and
their respective prices as follows :—Tender No. 1, per
loaf of 41bs., sd. and of a penny; No. 2,51 d. ; No.
3, sd. ; No. 4,12 s. Bd. per 1121b5., equal per loaf to
54-d. and a fraction ; No. 5, 544.; No. 6, 50.; No.
7, 50.; No. 8,6 d. ; No. 9, sd. and 3-7ths ; No. 10,
6d. ; No. 11, 511; No. 12, 58d. ; and No. 13, 50.
The Board accepted the lowest tender, No. 5, at sid.
the 41b. loaf.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has been gra-
ciously pleased to present to the Sanatorium 201., as
an expression of her approbation of the objects of that
benevolent and highly useful institution.
It is with sincere sorrow that we some time since
heard of an occurrence in the highest circles, that has
plunged into poignant grief some of the most exalted
personages in the realm. Far be it from us to ex-
' cuse vice, especially amid that class who, from the ad-
vantages of education, should be .made more responsi-
ble than humbler individuals ; but the levities, nay the
crimes of youth, should not be visited with the punish-
' ment that would attend the matured vices of age. He
who has done the wrong is willing, at all hazards, to
make the only reparation in his power—but a harsh,
cruel, and crime-causing law, forbids it. This fact, if it
does not wholly extenuate the offence, naturally arouses
sympathy. He may not marry where he loves. Law can
restrain him from the one, but what power shall control
him in the other ? Human hearts know nothing of
Acts of Parliament. How is the misery that so many
parties now endure to be alleviated ? There is but one
course for the lover to follow, and that is the example
set him by one of his Noble relatives ; and, as the con-
stitution forbids to marry by the political law of Eng-
land, to marry by the revealed law of God. Great
Heaven ! what an enormous amount of agony has that
execrable enactment of George the Third's caused. It
has plunged those into vice that were really the vo-
taries of virtue, and forced the people to palliate an
apparent crime, because they knew it was an en forced
one. An important question may be one day asked in
Holland, but ere that day arrives, we sincerely trust
the wisdom and policy of our country. will settle a still
more momentops one in Great 13ntean.—Stinday Times.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The memorial signed by the Jury
engaged in the investigation of the circumstances
attending the death of Charles Beale is confir-
matory of the opinion which has been expressed,
that the case to which the inquiry immediately
referred is not a solitary instance of the fatal ef-
fects that have resulted from the system adopted
in Northleach prison. The language of the me-
morial asserts the belief of those by whom it is
signed that the treatment adopted in the House
of Correction has been " in many cases attended
with the loss of life, and in most of them with
loss ofhealth." A statement that is not lightly put
forth, but is fbunded on facts that came under the
observation of the Jury at the recent inquest. In
the letter of the foreman, which accompanies the
memorial alluded to, it is alleged that the dete-
rioration of health in some cases, and premature
death in others, have arisen from " damp cells,
scanty fcor.l, and over work," all of wllich are
evils that a decent degree of proper feeling
among those who have had the control of the
prison would have prompted them to , remedy.
It is not as if the mortality and sickness had
been occasioned by causes connected with the
unhealthiness of the site, or any other circum-
stance that it might have been difficult to detect
or provide against; but here it is evident that
life has been sacrificed, and health destroyed,
by the grossest neglect of the commonest
duties of humanity. It appears from the state-
ment of the Jury that there is reason to believe
many deaths have been occasioned by the system
pursued in Northleach prison ; and it follows,
therefore, as a matter of course, that offences to
which the law has appended certain minor pun-
ishments have been visited frequently with the
penalty of death, when committed within the
jurisdiction of some of the Gloucestershire Ma-
gistrates. It must be startling to some of those
ultra-philanthropistswho cannot bear the removal
of even a murderer by the hangman's hand,
when they read the memorial to which we have
referred, and in which it is distinctly stated that
in many cases loss of life has been the conse-
quence of the Northleach system of prison disci-
pline. It is also the opinion of the memorialists
that the other gaols in Gloucestershire have been
the scenes of similar atrocities to those committed
at Northleach, and an inquiry is therefore suggest-
ed into the whole of the county prisons. Such an
inquiry must be extended to the whole of the
prisons throughout the kingdom; for there can
be no doubt, from the correspondence inserted
in the public journals, that the entire system of
prison discipline requires a general and thorough
revision. We are too apt to judge of secondary
punishments by their immediate rather than
their ultimate effects; and a maximum of work,
as well as a minimum of food, which may not be
insupportable or insufficient for an individual
during a short period of incarceration, may be
undermining his health and strength, leav-
ing him to suffer a combination of misery
when there is an end to the period of his legal
punishment. That the [memorialists were not in
error when they attributed mismanagement to
the other prisons of the county, is proved by a
statement made on Thursday at the meeting of
the Cheltenham Board -of Guardians. A man
who had previously worked for his livelihood
was sent into Gloucester Gaol, where the system
pursued at Northleach, of turning the prisoners
hot and perspiring from the treadmill into cold
damp cells, is also prevalent. Since his release,
himself and his family have become a burden to
the parish. If economy be one of the reasons
for insufficient food in the gaols, it defeats its
own object when it incapacitates a man from
earning his bread after his release, and thus
throws himself; and all who depend upon him, as
a burden on the public pocket.
STAN DARD.—The millowners' conspiracy,
which has assumed the titlp of " The Great
League," had on Thursday a meeting at head-
quarters described by its organs as one of the
largest and most enthusiastic meetings of the
League that has been held in Manchester since the
commencement of the agitation. We should be
ungrateful to refuse our thankful acknowledg-
ments for this display offered so seasonably in
this dullest of dull seasons, when a sober and
vigilant Government has left us almost without a
topic; the greatest possible affliction to us
newspaper people, condemned as we are to il-
lustrate the truth of Lord Bacon's observation
—the easiest times to live in are the most diffi-
cult to write about. The League exhibition
does not command our gratitude, however, solely
on the ground of supplying topics—it is in itself
an extremely lively and diverting piece—we sup-
pose we must not call it a farce. The performers
on the occasion were Mr. Walker, Dr. Bowring,
Mr. George Thompson, and Mr. Richard Cobden.
Mr. Walker's speech was the most tame, or the
least irrational (to speak strictly), as, according
to the laws of the drama, a first scene speech
ought to be, and, in conformity to these laws,
it gave an outline of the state of the parties
in the drama, and an intimation of the plot.
The business of the meeting was to collect
money, neither more nor less, and Mr. Walker
explained, as follows, that money is wanted for
domestic .use no less than for foreign enterprise.
Even Lancashire itself is, it seems, in the dark-
ness of contentment, notwithstanding its liberal
share of the 2,000 lectures and 5,000,000 of tracts.
Dr. Bowring followed Mr. Walker. Dr. Bow-
wring is a clever, and a we}l.disposed man—but,
as often happens to such men, he has wholly
mistaken his vocation. Dr. Bowring, as well as
the other speakers, affected to treat Sir Robert
Peel's amended Corn Bill and Tariff as conces-
sions to. " the League ;" but if so why not treat
the reduction of the scale in 1827 as a concession
also? From the nature of things laws regu-
lating imports and exports must demand frequent
revision, and such revision cannot be called con-
cessions, except they abandon a principle or
make very violent changes. It is the cry of all
the free traders, that Sir R. Peel is carrying out
the plans of the late Ministers; but this cry
has just this much foundation, that as the
late Ministers were for revolutionising every
thing, whoever modifies anything must so far
proceed in their track; though, as we have often
before said, the mean may be really more exposed
to the extreme, which in line it follows, than the
two extremes are opposed between themselves.
Just as the man who walks half a circle is farther
from the starting point than he who completes
the circumference. Mr. George Thompson fol-
lowed Dr. Bowring, and informed the meeting
that he is about to depart for, India in the train
of Dwarganauth Tagore, we suppose to lecture
about the Corn-laws, as these and the parochial
affairs of Clerkenwen have constituted the only
subject.of this person's life's studies. Mr. Thomp.
son is surely qualified to teach the natives of In-
dia that there is a bombast in the west to mock
the inflations of Oriental oratory. Mr. Cobden
denied that any part of the missing 85,0001. of
the great League fund went to defray the ex-
pense of his election for Stockport. Where then
did it go ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

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some suggestions in the columns of a Contemporary,
regarding the formation of a metropolitan Chamber
of Commerce, to be governed by a Committee, to su-
perintend the general interests of trade, and form the
accredited organ of communication with the Execu-
tive. A Chamber of Commerce is to be found in
almost every town of importance throughout the
United Kingdom. London is the exception. It
stands almost alone in its glory, without a legitimate
organization of the great mercantile interests to afford
the individual members of those interests the benefit
of concentrated united action. London is behind
the provinces in many things ; and one of its worst
instances of lagging behind is in the want of a well-
constituted Chamber of Commerce. There are many
powerful arguments in favour of such a society of
merchants, and none of a public nature that occur to
us at present against its adoption. The leading mer-
chants have a club of their own, at which they meet
occasionally, and talk over their common interests;
and there are special coffee-houses, frequented more
particularly by merchants engaged in particular
branches of commerce. We have the Baltic Coffee-
house, the New England, the Jamaica, and the Jeru-
salem; all cases in point. But these places of ren-
dezious do not supersede in any way the expediencyh
The
of forming a Chamber of Commerce, by.a general
amalgamation of the mercantile communflotyr .
stirringT
present time is particularly well. chosen
in the matter. The Committee appointed at the re-
cent meeting for carrying into effect the resolutions
regarding the earlier hours for 'Change, and other
matters connected therewith, is, in fact, a nucleus al.
ready made, and only requiring due extension and
proper materials to become the foundation of the pro-
posed
institution. The appointment of that Com-
mittee proves, in fact, the want of a duly constituted
Chamber of Commerce, whose Committee of Manage-
ment would possess adequate power and authority to
enforce such rules and regulations as might from time
isabiteledftoor establish the
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regularity, as well as better dispatch, not only in the
manner of conducting business upon 'Change, but,
where it is much more wanted, namely, in the pro-
duce markets—and in such matters as the recent defal-
cations in coffee and the Custom-house frauds.
TlMES.—Owing to the supineness of those par-
o to protect the public against
such frauds, trade lotteries, like that of the London
Friendly Union, are multiplying all over the metro-
polis. One of these "distributions," as they are 1120-

destly termed, has just taken place in the heart of th
City. The nominal value of the goods " distributed"
was 1,250/. ; the number of tickets 9,000, at 2s. ed.
each; the prizes—one of 15/. value, three of 101.,
eight of 51., twelve of 41., twenty of 31., 100 of 11.,
150 of 10s., 1,000 of 55., 2,000 of 35., 5,681 of ls.
The articles, Sheffield and Birmingham ware, of
which the prizes consisted, are stated to have been of
the most inferior kind, probably not worth one-third
of the value affixed to them ; and assuming, therefore,
that the lottery was fairly drawn (a very questionable
point) the gain to the projectors must have been
about 8001., while at least 8,000 of the tickets must
have been returned to the dupes by whom they hay
been purchased, in the shape of sixpenny or fourpenn
articles, of no use. The civic authorities, apparently
do not deem these matters within their province, but
the Government does possess the means, and ou6h.t to
possess the inclination, to check practices which injure
the honest tradesman, encourage 'a vicious spirit of
gambling-in the weak and thoughtless, and enrich the
designing knave. A Correspondent who has re-
quested that public attention may be again directed
to this subject says, that four other such lotteries are
now in progress in different parts of the City.
POST.—Letters from Berlin mention that it is
proposed. by the Government there to defray the cost
of the railroads projected for the various parts of the
Prussian dominions by an issue of
paper money to
cover the entire amount. The sum that will be re-
quired for the purpose is estimated at about 80000000
Prussian thalers. No particulars are given of, the
probable character of the paper issue in question, but
it will, it is assumed, consist of Treasury notes, and
therefore be limitpd to a local circulation.