The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-18 00:00:00

BO W-STREET.-(TH IS DAY.)

JUVENILE DEPRIVITY.—A wicked-looking little
urchin, named Robert Barnes, only ten years old,
was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a silver
guard-chain and gilt brooch, the property of Eliza
Daw, his mother.

Mr. Twyroup—remanded the prisoner for "a week,
for the attendance of his father, and further informa-
tion as to what had become of the stolen property.
THE. INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS.—James Crafer,
a " boardman," was charged with carrying an infla-
matory placard, for the purpose of exhibiting it, with
intent to commit a breach of the peace, in Cam-
den-passage, St. Mary, Islington.
Police constable Thomas 'Walker, N 88, proVed the
charge.
The prisoner told the same tale as to his employers,
&e., as the men examined yesterday (vide our yester-
day's report), - expressed his sorrow, and his determi-
nation not to offend again.
Mr. TWYFORDsaid if these things were not checked
early, they were likely soon to put an end to good
government. . The worthy Magistrate then bound the
prisoner in his own recognizances in the sum of 201.
to keep the peace for two months.
Inspector Harris, of the R division, obtained seven
summonses against tradesmen in that district for ex-
hibiting the aforesaid placards, and Inspector Thatcher,
of the U division, obtained two against most respect-
able tradesmen in the Lower-road, Islington, for the
same offence.

We had hoped that the timely
.notice we gave yes-
terday of the course which the Magistrates were
adopting would have rendered such vexatious pro-
ceedings unnecessary.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The letters received from Manchester this morning
state that the town and the surrounding districts were
perfectly quiet, and that the workmen showed' every
disposition to return to their employment, It is
now said that they never willingly struck, but
did so purely from compulsion, and that
they appear to have discovered that their acts
will end but in their own loss, if nothing more serious
arise than the non-payment of wages for the period
the mills have been stopped. BUt it is feared that
trade, even in the few days during which the outbreak
has lasted, has received too severe a shock to allow it
to attain its late position for some time to come, and
that many masters who have long been working
without profit, rather than wholly discharge-heir
hands, will hesitate now to resume, until it • can be
done with the certainty of remuneration. If such
should unfortunately prove to be the case, the distress
among the operatives must of necessity be great..
.Meanwhile business here is completely at a stand
in consequence, with scarcely anything doing either in
the produce or money markets. Consols remain at 94.
for Money, and 91i. for the Account; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 92i- ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 1004; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
100 1001; Bank Stock, 170 ; India Stock, 249
250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem.
Business in Foreign Securities consists of a small
transaction in the Two•and-a-Half per Cent. Dutch
Bonds at 52-; and the Five per Cents at 102.-
The quotation for Mexican is 344 34k.
But little has been done in Shares; the market,
however, is firm. Great *Western have beer* sold at
88*; Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 47k, ex. div. ;
South Western, 63; South Eastern Scrip, 61; and
Brighton, 33k.
Great exertions are again being made to reduce
time speculations in Spanish and some other worthless
bonds. It had been expected that the evidence
adduced on the cases of the holders of
the forged Exchequer bills would have been
sufficient to have deterred the parties from such
operations. The whole of the money thus raised
is incontestibly proved to have been employed in
these speculations, to the ruin of all engaged in
them except the principal operator. Even at
this present moment the Committee of the
Stock Exchange are engaged debating upon the
expulsion of certain parties who were instru-
mental in circulating the forged documents, but they
' would be more profitably employed in weeding the
official lists, by means of which a degree of currency
is given to these speculative Bonds. Spanish Four
per Cents. have been driven up to 21k; and the Three
' per Cents. to 20k.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western - to
London anc Brighton ...... .. 50 .. 331... to
London and Birmingham 90
Ditto Shares
Ditto New .............. 2 ...... 31 to
London and South Western 41% ... 63 ...... to
South Eastern and Dower.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 16.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 991 ' Grand Canal Stock
'Ditto Reduced
per cent...
Ditto New 1830.
3i per Cent. Debs. — I Royal Canal Stock

FLUSHING, Au°. 13.—According to private letters,
his Majesty's frigate the Ryn, commanded Icy Prince
Henry, has left St. Petersburgh to return to this port.—
The Minister of Finance has given notice that the amount
of Treasury Bonds, issued up to the Ist of this month,
was 4,717,100 florins.—We hear that the second.book
of the Penal Code is in the press, and will shortly be
distributed among the Members of the States General.

INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Tuesday week, . shortly
bt fore midnight, a fire was discovered on some farm
buildings at Bersted, the property of Mr. Thos. Wisdom.
'The whole was burnt down, and we are sorry to add that
three calves which had the preceding evening been locked
up
in a hovel, fell victims to the flames. There is no
doubt that the fire was the work of an incendiary, and a
:reward has accordingly been offered for the detection of
•the criminal.—Brighton Guardian.

ALARIVIING SrATE OF
THE COUNMY.

LA TEST PARTICULAR S.
MANCHESTER.
TUESDAY EVENING, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—I have.
before mentioned that the procession and meeting ta...
celebrate Hunt's monument were prohibited.by. thei!
authorities. It would certainly have ,-been a foctis7:
for the exhibition of very excited feelings ' • but the
Connnittee wisely bowed to the decision of the autho- '
rities, which, on this occasion, were expressed in no
equivocal terms. Bills were accordingly posted round
the town, stating,, that in consequence of the very un-
expected excitement of the town of Manchester and. .
its vicinity, occasioned by the "turn-out for an ad-. ,
vance of wages," they had desired that the procession
and meeting in Mr. Scholefield's premises, as an-
nounced
in former bills for this day, should .not take
place, lest it should give an opportunity to increase
that excitement, "the odium and consequences of
which had been attempted to be fixed on the Chartist
body." The meeting was announced to take place
after the tea, at five o'clock ; but a long time was •
spent in deliberation, as to whether any speeches
should be allowed or no. After some delay, on the
motion of the Rev. Mr. Jackson, a Chartist preacher
Mr. Murray, was called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
meeting, said that he had two or three requests to
make. He hoped that persons would abstain from
smoking, that they would hear every speaker
patiently, and that, if any sort of interruption took
place from without, they would every one keep firmly
and steadily in their seats. He had an interview with •
Sir Charles Shaw, who stated that if the meeting was
conducted peaceably there should be no interruption.
Amidst every confusion he would remain at his post,
but he expected nothing but unanimity on that highly '
memorable day, the 16th of August. As a member •
of the Committee he could say that everything con-
nected with the monument was going on very satis-
factorily, although, in the present excitement and,
confusion of the town, it had been found impossible
to carry o'ut fully their views that day. He should
limit each speaker to ten minutes, so that the busi-,
ness of the meeting being over, they might proceed to
the dancing which was another portion of the enter- •
tainments.
Mr. COOPER proposed the first sentiment—" The
people, the source of all legitimate power." This was
a that which the Legislature could not deny, and yet,..
whilst foreigners called us the richest and most power-
ful nation in the world, he hesitated not to say that
we were the most degraded. Statistical facts elicited
by the House of Commons had shown that we were
daily becoming more miserable and degraded, and we
were so because that power was never in the hands of
the people. It was only in the barbarian state that
people were happy, and ever since they had emerged
from that they had been in poverty and misery. We
were called barbarians 1800 years ago, before Julius
Cwsar, but men had then no wants which they could
not readily supply, whilst civilisation had called into
existence 10,000 wants which could not be supplied
to the majority. There had been many classes having
sway, but now there was another class, that of the
people, who told men that they had power, and that
.power they should be put in possession of.— (Tremend-
ous cheers.) Until the people held that power no
good could result, and when they had obtained it
they could then pronounce universal freedom through
all the earth.
Mr. DICKSON, in supporting the sentiment, said
that it was often used by the tyrannical few,
in their carousals, those tyrannical few: whom
the people could crush with one sneeze of their nos-
trils. For a nation to be free it was only necessary
that they willed it, and they would be free notwith-
standing the dazzling sword or glittering sabre which
now paraded their streets. , He could acknowledge no
rights mar privileges that others, had *high .he him7s
self should not. also. enjoy. The GOd of nature de- •
creed that all men should be' free, and these 'were tha•
ebjects which they who were called " mad Chartists"
had in view. They had learned a lesson since the
working classes of Lancashire had abstained from
work, and on Saturday night the shopkeepers cried
out most lustily, wishing that the people would re-
turn to their employment. He would tell them that
the working classes had a property as worthy of pro-
tection as the capitalist's gold, or landlord's domain.
The man who would not come forward deserved to be
a slave, and treated with every execration. He called
upon the people to declare that if capital had its
rights, labour should have no less ; that if the inani-
mate machine has protectiOn, those who make that
machinery should also be protected. If the Govern-
ment of the country was in the hands of the people,
he felt sure it could not be worse than it was now.
The Rev. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, another Chartist
preacher, who next rose, having just come into the
room, said he had arrived to explain his conduct, and
the reasons why he had not been present earlier, but
he had been surrounded by particular and special cir-
cumstances. The monument already stands ten yards..
high, and tells strongly of. the bloody deeds enacted
on the day of which this was the - anniversary. His
house had been besieged by friends the whole of the
day, anxious to see the column of liberty. The
Committee six weeks ago had little thought that such
circumstances would have happened to baffle their
wishes; but with a view of preserving the peace and
lives of the town they had reluctantly set aside their
feelings. He had told the Magistrates that they
would meet quietly and peaceably over the graves of
the dead, but he was told that it would be illegal
and should be dispersed. On the part of Feargus
O'Connor he had to inform them that he was then
engaged in deliberation with those men whom they
had chosen as their representatives on important
national business. He, along with Dr. 111‘Douall
and the executive, were then in deliberation as to
steps which might guide them for weeks to come.
Let them stoop to conquerthis has been one of their
days, but our day is yet to come, and when it comes it
will be with a vengeance. "Remember," said the
speaker, " the 16th of August, with its tears, wounds,
and death; but after sorrow comes pleasure."
Mr. COOPER proposed a vote of thanks to Hunt's
Committee for, by their politic steps, preventing the
people being abused, and making another 16th of
August.
Mr. Scholefield was about leaving the room, when
a voice from the middle called out to warn him to
take care and go secretly, for
.the hell-hounds would
watch him ; which caution the Rev. Gentleman said
he would adopt.
Mr. BROXBY responded to the next sentiment,
"The memory of Hunt and of the illustrious dead."
Mr. Ross proposed " The National Executive, and
may all their deliberations tend to promote the welfare
and happiness of this great empire.' He said that that
day had been by their oppressors the signal for mas-
sacre—for another Peterloo .mas3acre—but for the
sobriety of the people bad consequences would have
ensued. He would not say resist their oppressors, but
bide their time. He recommended them Peaceably
to adhere to the law. The eyes of all Europe were
upon them, and to-morrow's sun might disclose what
they knew not.
1 The Rev. 'WILLIAM JACKSON proposed the next
sentiment—" The amiable but exiled Frost, and his
compatriots, Williams and Jones, and may th 7
speedily be. restored to their country and friends. '
These virtuous patriots were now pining in chains in
a foreign land, being slowly murdered, and it was
that day intended to send out more victims. He was
glad to hear that glorious cry, that the workpeople
had resolved to work no more until the chains of
tyranny were broken asunder. They had one glo-
rious object in view, the Charter, and nothing but the
Charter. When the Charter was the law of the land,
then would these virtuous pariots come home, but not
till then, and the first act of the Government would
be to send out a man-of-war to fetch them hack to
their country. To show their feelings of affection
towards these virtuous men, by pressing more closely
the Charter, let them never cease agitation till the
Charter was established all over the world. Let their
motto be the Charter, and nothing else. Down with
Whiggism ! Down with Toryism ! Down with
tyranny ! And freedom for the world.
The next toast was "The democratic Press," in
which a Mr. DICKSON abused in no measured terms,
the whole except their own organ. The reporters, it
appeared, were specially invited to the most promi-
nent situation on the platform only to be signalised
and abused, and then to be left to the mercy of the
meeting. They were, amongst other epithets, cha-
racterised "spies in disguise," and myself and others
present were glad to make our escape with whole
bones, leaving the company to enjoy the remaining
festivities of the evening. About 600 or 700 persons
were present, nearly half of whom were females, who
equally applauded with the men the inflammatory lan-
guage of the evening.
WEDNESDAY :MORNING, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.—I am
happy to say that the town remains perfectly tran-
quil. The day which was most feared is over, and
people are getting more confidence. In some of the
bleaching and dyeing establishments the hands have
returned to work without impediment.. Thousands
of hands more are ready to do the same, and are only
waiting the opportunity to release themselves from
the trammels in which they have been placed. Busi-
ness is recovering confidence.
'This desirable change I attribute to the decision of
the Magistrates, seconded, as they have been, so nobly
by the inhabitants enrolling themselves as special
constables. A meeting of delegates, at which about
3CO persons were present, was held yesterday after-
noon at the Hall of Science, Campfield, which drew
a concourse of people. The Alderman of the ward
promptly attended, accompanied by a strong civil force,
and dispersed them. Another is announced for this
morning at Tib-street, but I cannot vet ascertain the
result. The demonstrations of force at the Town-hall
are as strong as ever, and the Magistrates intend to
show that the law will and can be enforced.