The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

DIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1845.

alder that (after allowing a liberal sum for the expense of manage-
ment) the revenue arising from the annual rental of offices let to
Railway Companies, the hire of the Public Hall and Committee-
rooms tbr general and private meetings, the annual subs,riptions
front members of the Club, and from the general goods depot and
warehouses, and otherwise, that a return equal to the most flourish-
ing undertaking of the present day will be realised on the capital
embarked. The result of the above survey and estimate will be
published in the course of a few days.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the Provisional Com-
mittee in the annexed form, to Messrs. Cook and Humphreys, soli-
citors, .No. 28, St. Swithin's-lane, London.
The following is the
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

The Railway Club-House, Chambers, and General Goods Depot
Company.

Gentlemen,—l request you will ',ilia me shares of 251.
each in the above Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any
less number that you may please to allot me; and I undertake to
pay the deposit, I/. 17s, 6d. per share on the same, and all future calls
thereon, and to sign the subscribers' agreement and Parliamentary
contract when required. . _

Name in full
Residence• • • • ..
Place of Business (if any) .
'

Trade or Profession .• :.-...
Usual Signature..

ReferenCe—
Name •• ..
Residence • • • ..
Trade or Profession
* Most of the Railway Companies are now under the greatest in-
convenience for want of suitable offices. The locating them together
under one roof would afford great accommodation to each other, as
well as to the Shareholders (similar to the numerous Public Societies
whose offices are in Exeter Hall.)

PUBLICATIONS.

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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER:—
I. The Viscountess's Vision of the Royal Ball. By Mrs. Gore—
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your Waltzing—Vl. The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trol-
lope—Vll. The Privateersman. By Captain Marryat, R.N.—VIII.
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Fleet, by a Peripatician. No. 6. The Turnkey's Daughter, con-
tinued-4. Life bath many Mysteries-5. Reviews of Rook*-6. The
First Grief-7. English Etymology—s. Symbolic Money, No. 2.-
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the Grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL,
Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, Miss Raintbrth.
To conclude with the Grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART-
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farrell ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ;
Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett.
After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled A
CABINET QUESTION. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ;
Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstono ;
Miss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by a New and Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
FALSE MR. POPE. Lacey, Mr. Hudson; Captain Breval, Mr.
Howe; Mr. Peter Redwing, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Breval, Miss P.
Horton ; Miss Jenny Gillett, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Lacey, Mrs.
Edwin Yarnold. _

To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson ;
Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. Holl ; Mrs. Montague,
Mrs. W. Clifford.

Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each,
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office
from Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, .4.DELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE,
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled CLARISSR; or, The
Merchant's Daughter. Martial, Mr. Webster ; John Cabot, Mr.
Munyard ; Barbillon, Mr. Wright ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Clarisse, Madame Celeste; Milanie, Miss Woolgar.

never advanced without universal ridicule, but in Ca-

POPE.

remnant of tha dark of

a test a poor frail, cr.
like the rest of mankind, is adored as the representauve
of ST. PETER, the multitude fall down before him as they
would before a divine being ; in Spain his power
is equally paramount—that country cannot be settled
without his will and his interests are consulted ; and
even in enlightened Germany, where Popery still pre-
vails, this foreign incubus embitters domestic life, and not
unfrequently excites the people to rise in open rebellion
against the State. Need we wonder then that this young
man RONGE, for he is only about 30 years of age, has
roused the people to a sense of their degradation by
exposing the secrets of the prison house ? " I abjure,"
he says, " the tyrannical power of the Roman hierarchy,
since it has introduced corruptions and framed enact-
ments calculated to undermine the spiritual and
temporal welfare of the community, and further
merely the power and riches of a privileged order
of priesthood, at the head of which is the
Bishop of ROME." For these and other plain truths
he was prosecuted in the superior spiritual courts,
denounced as a heretic, and among other charges were
two which show the despotic and degrading spirit
which, to its destruction, still animates the Church of
Rome. The one was that he " wore a short coat and
unbecoming long hair," and the other that he had
written an article on the " holy coat, of Treves,"
thereby tending to bring this sacred relict and th•
Church with it into contempt. Tie was consequently
excommunicated. Our readers probably know that this
" holy coat" has attracted a million of pilgrims, and
that it has healed the sick and performed miracles, if
credit is to be given to the priesthood; and that no
trifling sum has been brought into the coffers of the
Church through the delusions practised by Christian
ministers oa the ignorant and superstitious multitude.
Such a contemptible scheme in these days savours more
of madness than ecclesiastical policy ; and we, there-
fore, fondly hope that it is a proof that the whole fabric
is tottering to its fall, and that the day is approaching
when the superstitions of Rome, which our Puseyites so
zealously revere, will be numbered with the things
that were. We give, as a curiosity, the sentence of
excommunication pronounced on this heretic by his
bishop :

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" In consequence of your answer of the 30th of last month
received on the Ist instant, in which you acknowledge your-
self to be the author of the article on the holy coat of Treves,
which appeared without your signature in the Fatherland
newspaper, and will not recant, in accordance with my de-
cree of the 29th of October last, and in conformity and by
virtue of the canon law and its provisions, I am painfully
compelled to visit with degradation and excommunication
the author of the alleged ecclesiastical offences contained in
the said articles. I further require you without delay to
deliver up your letters of orders. As you have refused to
appear according to summons, and thereby deprived me of
the much-desired opportunity of bestowing my fatherly and
affectionate advice, in the hope of removing your erroneous
and anti-church views in general, and such especially as re-
late to the worship of relics and the holy coat, to the painful
sentence I have been compelled to pass, it remains only for
me to join my fervent prayer that God's grace may guide
you to a right understanding of the Catholic faith, and lead
you to distinguish between a true and false veneration for
relics ; to the latter of which alone you appear to have con-
fined your attention."

The accounts of the probable product of the harvest
becomes, as every day unfolds its probabilities, more and
more unsatisfactory. The quantity, except only as to a
few favoured districts, is reported from Mark-lane as
much below the ordinary average. The quality is still
more generally deteriorated. The want of sunny weather,
it is said, has left the grain so soft that it was difficult
to thresh, and is now found to yield a flour neither in
bulk nor character of an average sort. Of the unusually
large proportion which is still uncarried, and even uncut,
so much has been laid by heavy rains and boisterous
winds, that it is deemed scarcely worth while to leave a
margin for this proportion of the crops in calculating the
aggregate yield of the season. The infusion of a large
supply of stored wheats, both foreign and home grown,
into the market has, for the present, somewhat checked
the tendency to advance in the price of bread paid by
the consumer in the metropolis and the southern coun-
ties. But the general conviction has already operated
to bring in large supplies of foreign corn, by way of sup-
plementing a scarcity which can hardly be spoken of
any longer as " anticipated" only, but of which the de-
velopment is already commenced. With painful soli-
citude we are compelled to ask—supposing these fears
to be verified, according to the impressions of the
framers of the Mark-lane Circular, by the concurring
effect of the returns hitherto sent in with those which
have yet to be made—that is to say, by the same de-
plorable report of a defective aggregate—what must be
the consequences to this country ? That influence which
we have so repeatedly deprecated, as the inevitable
legacy bequeath« d to the empire by the Parliaments
which passed Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Monetary Bills, is
already active, and its presence is attested by indications
that admit of no mistake. The efflux of gold, occasioned
by importations of foreign corn, which payment is no
longer taken for in British manufactures, has
begun. What is to stop this ebbing tide ? The
law of reaction is infinitely weaker and more un-
certain in the relations of money and corn, so far
as supply and demand are concerned, than in any other
branch of trade or commerce. It does not at all follow—
(but the fatal crotchet of the bullionists is to assume
always this proposition)—that, so soon as the deficiency
of the supply of grain is adjusted, the gold will flow back
into the coffers of the Bank. On the contrary, the per-
versity of oar monetary legislation in 1819, in 1826, and
again, in 1828, for which Sir R. PEEL, the present Earl
of RIPON, and the Duke of WELLINGTON will long be
held severally responsible to the country, has entailed
upon the nation a perpetual and fatal drain on the
metallic currency they dreamed that they were
establishing ; and an incurable disorganization of
the general circulating medium of the country, with
which, in an evil hour, they betook themselves to tam-
pering. In 1843-44 Sir ROBERT having, as BURNS
has sung, " tried his 'prentice hand" on the banking
system, achieved his master effort by the " complement"
Bill of 1845 for mutilating and hampering all the banks
of issue, and mystifying the Bank of England by taking
its construction to pieces, and recomposing it after the
motley fashion of its present restricted " double action."
This last very whimsical contrivance, on its first exposi-
tion to Parliament, disturbed the gravity of every man
who had a practical acquaintance with the Money
Market, and the functions to be performed, by what
we shall call (to distinguish it from the incalcu-
lable mass of property in the three kingdoms which
it leaves without any power, even, of commutation into
money) the representative capital of the empire. By
those who comprehended the theory of money, and had
reduced its principles to the strictness of definition, the
plan was viewed with profound astonishment and alarm.
The reckless Premier attempted to be jocular on the
remonstrances urged by the ATTWOODS, the CAVLEYS,
the SPOONERS, the TAYLORS, and other authorities on
the important question of currency and bank-
ing. He turned a deaf ear to the doubts
of Lord ASHBURTON, and attempted to brow-
beat Mr. NEWDEGATE out of his incipient con-
victions that there was considerably less than " absolute
wisdom" in the project which,with his usual dexterity at
appropriating the suggestions of other men's minds, he
had elaborated from the doctrines of HORNER, HUSKIS.
SON, Lord LIVERPOOL, &c., and jumbled together in his
pet invention for " checking excessive speculation," and
maintaining the " banking system on a sound and respon-
sible footing." The Banker's Magazine and Mr. Bun
GESS have long since disposed of the mistakesand
failures involved in the latter. The railway scrip mar-
ket, the frenzy of share-gambling, the brawling of Ca-
pel-court extra fores, the daily appeals to magisterial
interference and protection to put down acts of violence
and outrage committed in the public streets, under
the fierce excitement of this excessive speculation,
which has started up as if with the express purpose
of holding up to ridicule the predictions of the Premier,
have furnished a memorable and instructive commentary
on the latter. A Mr. WETENRALL spits at and cuffs a
stock share-broker in a crowded throughfare of the City
at noon day; and a Mr. BLoxom declaims, with a little o
PEEL'S own elixir in his hand (apurse of gold sovereigns)
on the value of railway shares and schemes in terms o:

such vituperative and scandalous force, that a policeman's
sense of propriety and decency is absolutely scandalised
by them. From symptoms like these one might infer
that the currency opinions and speculative preventa-
tives of Sir ROBERT were not so absolutely infal-
lible as he clearly supposed them to be when he
uttered his philippics against the " Gemini" and
the Birmingham school ; or when, more recently, he

undertook to " snub" Mr. NEWDEGATE. But here is a

practical fact—a " golden" token of his own Mint—an

axiom of his own doctrine, his own proclamation—

which, week after week, is bringing out the fearful de

monstration that `• the Currency Reform, commenced in
1819, and which received its complement in 1845," is—

as we have never ceased to declare it would prove to be

—a destructive delusion. All the efforts of the Bank
parlour cannot run up the " score" of the " store" of

gold bullion. Week by week it has a tendency to become
" small by degrees and beautifully less." At Paris, at

Hamburgh, at Bremen, it is reported, every seventh day,

higher than in London.

The London Gazette,

every seventh day, reports the " gold coin and

bullion" in the :‘ Issue Department" in declining

quantity. On Friday, the 26th, we find it stated at no

more than 12,863,507/ The maximum, in the short

interval which has elapsed since the publication of these

weekly accounts, was upwards of 16,000,0001 Three

million 3, only, of quarters of foreign corn in:!

►rted wil,