The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-12 00:00:00

UIVIOIIr-HALL.

Daniel Good, a timber-dealer and wharfinger, was
charged with uttering a forged bill for 1631. 13s. 9d.,
purporting to be the acceptance of Evans, Brothers,
and Co., merchants, of Three Cranes, Thames-street.
Mr. Clarkson, on the part 'of the prosecution, gave
the outline of the case, and called Mr. G. D. Gordon,
who stated that he was building some houses in the
neighbourhood of the Kent-road, and that his buitdc.r.
being in difficulties, he took a quantity of timber of
him. A portion of this timber the prisoner, through
the medium of a Mr. Alexander, employed by com-
plainant on the occasion, offered to purchase for.
1591. 18s. Gd., and in payment tendered a bill for
163/. 13s. 9d., purporting to be accepted by D. Beck-
ham, whom he described as one of the partners in
the above firm ; he represented himself at the same
time to be acting for a person named Stephen Stevens.
Complainant having ascertained the respectability of
'the firm alluded to, accordingly took the bill,
giving his own at two months, for the difference to
be deducted from the amount, and the price of the
timber. Subsequently to the transaction, inquiries
were made at Messrs. Evans, Brothers, and Co., to
ascertain the genuineness of the bill before taking it
to be discounted, when they at once pronounced it to
be a forgery. Upon this discovery complainant went
to the Queen's Bench, where the prisoner was con-
fined, and having informed him of the fact, he ex-

pressen his surprise, saying, that if the bill was as re-
presented, it should be set all to rights in 24 hours.
Complainant at another interview with the prisoner,
called upon him to restore him back his timber, offer-
ing at the same time to resign possession of the bill,
but this proposition not having been acceded to, he,
therefore, was compelled to adopt the present proceed-
ings against him.
On behalf of the accused it was contended, that it

would be shown that the acceptor of the bill belonged
to the firm upon which he had drawn, and that it
would be duly honoured when it became due.
It having been stated that some important witnesses
were not in attendance, the further hearing of the
charge was postponed until a future day, and in the
meantime the accused was taken back to the Queen's
Bench Prison, of which he has been ah inmate for
some time.

LONDON :
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1842.

.We showed, on Saturday, that agriculture
cannot possibly employ an increasing population.
We showed, that the more knowledge is brought
to bear on it, the fewer hands are required to
obtain equal quantities of food. We remarked,
too, that employment of fewer and fewer hands
in agriculture had been in progress from the
beginning of civilization. We may add, that
every person acquainted with the subject knows
that thrashing-mills, moved by water, and vari-
ous • other contrivances for diminishing labour,
arc in use in Scotland—that fewer hands, in pro-
portion, are employed in agriculture there than
in England—and that English farmers, to be
able to compete with Scotch farmers, must adopt
their methods, which will make still fewer
hands be required in England to produce the
raw material of our food.

Some persons may run away with the notion
that more land may be brought into cultivation,

and that thereby more hands may be employed ;
but in the present condition of society, nothing
of the kind will, or can be done, on an extensive
6cale, except it. be profitable fur the capitalist,
after paying all charges. Now at present, with
the mere show of one good harvest, the price of
Ivheat is down to a mere remunerative price.
TO cultivate land that has never yet been

I,lt)ughed, except it be the parks or.the nobility,
will cost more than to cultivate the land at

present under the plough. But when the price
pl. corn does not more than pay that cost, when
-it iyonly necessary to have two or three successive
liarve,:its to involve the farmer in distress, when
improvements going forward tend
1:to 'inCrease the supply and lower the price, it
.teems to tbs- clear that the first and indispensable
-'condition'' to bringing more land under cultiVa-
with., a profit, and employing an increased
• umber of hands in agriculture, is to increase the
• utralre' r of the customers of the agriculturists. In
iithert words, to make it profitable to bring waste
:;41idinto Cultivation, the commercial and mann-
pOpulation of the empire must increase.
'e•
fts" agriculture can find any additional ern-
Altttntrfor our increasing population, there-
'-'llure-rele Manufacturing population must be ern-
-. ,ploYe4 as augmented. We need not, to confirm
thi4-view,-remind our readers of the great exten-
sion of agriculture in consequence of the increase
of the manufacturing population; but we will be
. bold. to say, that this has done more to improve
and extend agriculture than all the Acts of Par-
liament that ever-voere
made, and than all the
agricultural societies"
that ever existed. All
other stimuli to production united, are as no-
thing compared to an increasing demand.
All these are plain matters of
fact, and we
might suppose that the statesmen
and public
writers of England, knowing, as they must, the
tendency of populationto increase, and that the
condition of society is only healthy wheno
lation call find room to increase, should have
Pll-
been filled with unsreakable gratitude to athe
Giver of all Good, for bestowing on Englaud, by
her manufacturing skill, the means of providiu,
'mployment for an ever increasing number of
!people. We might suppose, had not facts con-
, 'Pieced us of the contrary, that our statesmen
iiOnTd 'embrace every opportunity to extend ma-
...,
.Mi4cturing industry; that far from laying obsta-
tz.ks of any kind in its path, they would be as

tar.a.ul as a mother with her infant who is just
bcg,hming to walk, to remove every one out of
its way. We might suppose that the landowners
in particular should be exceedingly desirous of
promoting and extending a species of industry
which at once increases the number of their cus-
. touters, and finds profitable employment fi,r the
surplus hands on their estates, and when we find
public writers and statesmen, and find landown-
,,
..ers in particular, endeavouring to check the in-
.crease-of manufactures, their folly seems to us to
_amount to.absolute fatuity. As these men, how-
rer,,for the national sins,: areefiflowed with
I tical power, and as their interest Lis, in this re;
bound tip
:c.With_ the-fictional good,.
it is very desirable tooiiviute-dieurthifin.