10 SEPTEMBER 1842, Page 9

The City article of the Morning Chronicle has a strange

story- " The strength of Sir Robert Peel's Government in the confidence and affections of the City people will be seen from the following fact. A gentle- man having occasion to sign his name at the Bank of England in the book kept for the Dividends, observed the words written, Curse Sir Robert Peel and all his crew.' The party who observed this extraordinary expression of feeling against the Income-tax, pointed it out to the clerk, and said he was surprised that such practices were tolerated, as they defaced the books : the answer was, that they could not prevent it, for there were dozens of the same kind made every day.'"