The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN C He fEALYNO . POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDERS. David 11 7/ Gilchrist, aged thirty-one, was indicted for steal tit . • 04 d post-letter, containingfclur orders for the payment the property Of JO seph Baker. It: appeared that the poisoner was a carpenter, had "ging •in Charles -street, VTestminster, and that he f•een requested by Joseph Baker, a corporal in the r 3 regiment of foot, w h o cou ld not wr it e , t o wr it e ' t o , in ( Baker's) father-in-I nw , requesting him to send 20/. f)rder t o procure his (Baker's) discharge. The pri sorLer wrote the letter, and added at the conclusion a re quest to th e fa her -to direct his answer to Cor. poral Baker, Mr. Butt's e atin g -h ouse , Ch a rles-street, W estminster. This latter portion of the letter the pri ,ner did not read to Baker- The letter was received Baker's father at Shrewsbury, and an answer, in •e using four Post-office orde rs for five pounds each, was returned, directed as reques.ted. Prisoner went to Butt's, an d asked for the letter, -which was delivered to him. The orders were taken to the Post-office and money re ceived, Baker on makir iueuiries discovered what had ‘ l4 4sec ureed, and theTrisor.e.7 was taken into custody near 1 dine. , he prosecution, '\hich was instituted by the Poste ►ce,.WRS 0011(1110.0(1. by the Attorney-General, Mr. de'pherd, and .Mr. Gurney. Mr. CLARKSON, fOr the prisoner, took various Objec lions to the iudietinent, and contended that there was no such thir ltner.fn order • 2 to the law as a Post-office money an,4 tb - .,t 'the •efoe it could not be considered r, ituporle se'zur . ity. There was nothing on the face of it a °ri "e l :-; any warr a nt or order whatever. It was merely 04 1• e?,(45t for the payment of money. ; and although the e e , ll.T ig of a requ es t f or the delivery of goods was kr yet the law did not recognise any such crime as ; lin c ,7a requ es t f or th e p a y men t of money. ' Ir• 611 EPIIERD contended that the document was ti i • e tlY and le ga ll y an or d er f or the payment of money vrithin the tneanin,,,wof the Act of Parliament. Mr.Mr au, nNEY followed on the same side. and —B aron GURNEY said he would consider the r.•ints, his Lordship also promised to consider another 1)foult raised by Mr. Clarkson, as to the sufficiency ag the proof of the handwriting of the Postmar, ter i i ,:rewsbu r y to t h e , or d ers . His Lordship sa id , .4, l d er er, that h e h a d ver y little doubt but th. at t h e . of .j h r were both warrants and orders within the . , mean i ng in ~.,!;‘'et, and that he felt sure they were, I w - sally speak " He had no doubt the offence '4as a larceny. 1: 4 • 1 ,, 1 .()I 'ld, however, consider all the poi"...tts that had been ' the Jury found the prisone , : Guilty. isat e e • e l•knisON moved in arre'l:Cof judgment, on the Ti on which he had ected to the indictment. e prisoner was then rezioved from the bar. NEW COURT. 4 4 : 411 Shanahan wr.s indicted for having assaulted m e r 3 Connor, a police officer, in the execution of his duty. • Bodki n and Y,•r. Chambers conducted the prose . ',II, and M r . Philli ps d e f e nd e d the prisoner. prosecutor stated that he was a policeman in the Devision of police, on duty at Deptfaed. On the 28th p e t P fo te r z ber last the witness was on 'auty at King-street; between nine and ten o'clock. He was passing 4 4 Q P I I : lbl ic - house, when a girl c ame out and said Att i ci " ; T l been ro bb e d o f a s i xpence , an d th e w itn e ss tak e :he`,. would point out the person he would %Lk nun 'into custody.. Whilst she was making th at elllplaint, the prisoner came out, and the girl said lv i .as the man. Witn ess sa id it wou ld be better for `° give up the money if h e h a d it, and he answered ~ d---d, you are as bad as the rest. The parties 114 went into the house again, and the witness went on :stre r:at. Soon afterwa-cds he met the prisoner in the - 4 )3 , i ,‘ , , arid he app ea r e d t o b e so b er . Th e w itne s s p a ssed :y ou ;nu, and h e sa id as h e passe d " Y ou b—y b— r al ,, s ant to t a k e me i nto custo d y f or a robbery." Wh at beb bold him to go borne quietly, and the prisoner made at witness, but he parried it off. The witness :maiz e att eni r• ted d r to take the prisoner by the collar, but he the witness by the lower part of the body, which Ati N e l ; h ial nar;st acute pain, the prisoner saying at the me m = at he would do for him. Another constable lak e ", LI P wkio took hold of the prisoner, and he was goi ng the st a ti on -h o u se . The prisoner as he was 44; 6 - alon g said he did not care what they for Dr. Drury would stand his friend, and, *11 11: C` ud not, Mr. O'Connell would. The witness was th exhau sted by the i ll-usage o f t h e pr i soner, an d f e l t ffeets of it f or two n i g ht s . of i Pi nuar•s—Who is Dr. Drury ? I have heard b'e other gentleman before. , 41 ' 05 3—He keeps a druggist's shop in St. Giles's. limurs—Oh, I would like to know who t 3 go to T h e Person gets into trouble.—(A laugh.) • .exana WitnesS then underwent a most Severe cross "cluete,lll4,,tion by Mr. Phillips, during which he con nuest• "Itaself in a very singular manner, answering the 21) p; ,v„ery impertinently, and frequently 'contradict ' J R -sea. Wri.t!)4ILLIPI3--What have you drank to-day ? --es s" - -I- do not want to answer your foolish _ _e st i on Wi — II--Answer the question. (I ta4k -Ue 'l suppose I may as well tell you ; I have ?gallon: irbe:. pIrILL/PS —Hare you drank a gallon ? • te„„,_ I' 111 • u ,, " you w i ll give it to me. , 0,,,,L:,-rundars here asked the Jury whether they \ '' i Ztit this w it ness was i n a fi t s t a t e t o b e b e l ieve d e ' e pere;eant ARABIN thought the case had better 1 , Z 11 ,! Person who took the prisoner to the station-house th en called, and corroborated the officer. k il ls being the ease, • -- „Plui.Lirs addressed the Jury for the defence, ti ning that the prisoner was not sober at the time, allilst proof of which was his supposing Mr. O'Con .t,!ualkl save him from a prosecution. -t etl Jury round the prisoner guilty, and he was sew n to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. '.4.ISOLVENT COURT.—THIS DAY. h e • IN RE THOMAS STOWELL. 111.1 4 i nsolve n t in this case was the well-known coin frpie,tlfr)riner whose name has already been so fre- M 3r before the public. Ittltil vo. tho e,, " n onnuFFE on bekalf of the insolvent applied to that he might be permitted to go out on bail f C on , th e 3d of January, thc.time appointed by the Chic .1/:ssioner. for his filing a new schedule: C P: l "i oppos - ed the application on the part an 1- 1+ L3t. Xliirt:as Loan Society, to which the 4 fter ve r l ",, wa3 - indebted in the sum of 801. An d en-`)4`"nr"„ over several items in the balance - sheet,. th at : 4 , iite.nting upon them, the Learned Counsel said At - 4 1 , 1 ,0ne of the sureties was present, and he trusted -(t Zcould be postponed for further consideration. ceta, o LAW said that this case had f C °4le s e : ; ` ° "ly heard at great length before Mr. Chie ;1 1 nticl i t w ier Reynolds and he did not feel himself • 4) , adjudicate Reynolds; the application without fur . !Sere, luprniation Upon the subject. He should, there lieati,,,„",'• it to stand over until such. ime as a column )7heC C hou ;d be made with the Chief Commissioner, edit,; ll°(l4 3's notice should be given to• the opposing of tb(!. acce t f bail. p mice o 110 I N , ------• t,,,eor g 7 _, - STREET....—(THIS DAY.) —l ' 4 el e -4 " 8 ° 7 1, a Very young lad, was placed at the li t , (l, :I'm Mr.. Twrfol - 11, on a charge of stealing a cloak f 42. •;,',Etridle3tielt, tneof Mr. Charles Walsh, o' i t lf. property .. . • It : 410011-stroet, Piccadilly. a lit•ti l)Pea t'od from the evidence that the prisoner e ha o d . lavi ng yeatcrday • at Mr. Walsh's, under pretence Stange'icitl4l4 ill i rsage to deliver frOm a gentleman in . o:2 -1e .servant who had opened the door went up 41154 (!n et 41 , ake inquiries on the subject, and during . h . e i r trid Atha tub e l Prisoner made away with the candlestick, pi?ak nhich had been hanging found`th hall. ''' 1)'11 " in the °43 4610 deposed to having the pro : il / 4 bee T?ousesi nof the prisoner, and the case hay -11 11'4 / 3 Mad: ° out, he was fully committed for trial. „. -... ____— ‘ ls : ' ki lt' LBO lio UGH-STREET, 0, 0, 1 , (THIS DAY.) , , the si `''r• Rardwick taking his seat on the Bench, Baker, tkr_lperintendent of the C division, attended, and ret . ,tvikti that the apprehension of Mr. Gundry, who, !- •ii ß „' retie recollected, has been so often brought to this )4 4 - '„,e, had been tiff..ctecl last night. Two assault war -1..,'; granted at this office, against Mr. Gundry, have E t : outstanding for the last three months, and the of -9 holding them could not succeed in capturing him, oe v - -iga they made use of various stratagems. Last et l i, t 6, -g, at seven o'clock, two police constables were des hst 7-etl from the station-house, in Vine-street,. to take I. ' IN if possible • and, after watching about th e 0 custody, po” ' tO r elbises until nearly twelve . o'clock, they came to lia:!eterraination of entering his apartments at all risks. 1 111 ,,g i , gained admission to the house, they cautiously t r lo c) en ce- ~ed to a passage adjoining ... Mr. G f u r n o d m ry t ; i s e b f e o d r : lbee 'i„ n ' i ld, by means of a window looking tdrnik7to the latter, they were in the act of gaining Gun.. giry , "',.` ) n, when they were overheard .by I threw bp thlvtle, seizing a pair of pistols and a the 1 e w indow, and got out :of it in sword,hissh h irt ce on . y to a Im ck e atia of an adjoining building, and from t en hich b he • v.o e a t. On to the top of a water-closet, on w The o Irandishing the sword, threatening to put . a bullet 1 4e t t il ally one of them that dared to follow him. ftt it ' s ta a 4 l2 instant ho discharged one of the pistols at the zit.(l cs.. He then ascended on to the roof of the C0 , 05 e, over two others, \ and when he found he (1%./.o;`' no further he sat down on. the thro„l l 'ed a large skylight of a tailor's work•roo _! parapet which m lii4.,;gle which he mustt 3 have fallen had ho overbalanced lick t ,, " " the height beinc , about sixty feet. The constables IN "'rred followed him,' and succeeded in securing him; the him back into his bed-room, he alarming toorseighbourhooti whilst they were forcing him over the d e the re houses,by screaming out " Thieves, mur- I% fire „ Mr 4 1,4 fr: AabIYICKE having communicated with some of ev er PI 148) the hearing of the case was ordered to stand or the preent. Sup, ,_____ ad 'IDR OE A GAOLER.—The person wh o fttiacrlllitrge of the gaol at Renfrew committed suic ide on rot, ~,,Y, Inorninz last by suspen4ing himself by the r u : with Which the bell connected with the building is: ts,.: The deceased, it is said, was drinking hard for' 114i,ovilt:t1:11,dnapyes previous, and suffering under th . e effects of rate habits, which at length, it is supposed, t4a .41-1 1 to the committal ' of the rash act that put as stuuzhis existenceGlsgow Courier. ci l i o brni DEATH IN THE STREET. —Last i ci g llr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner for. Westminster,t Lii eolifsali i nquest at the Grange Inn, Caroy-stiTe z e_ vijo eli Q 4 1 , 11 n, on the body of Joseph Renton, aged ll ' decea.ltdealy. It appeared from the evidence . thiltt n h c e i lia.d t e ' e ,"' was an h aelcuey-coachinan, out of evaPl°,Y,_,__'•a_ ti szn, ,•_terly laboured under a severe cough and riacti , „_ tx,,,.sA.?r whieli be had been an hospital out-patient. n V i n , I,ii,rra, left home, after`nY evening last he appeared better than usual, a saying that he was. going . to' a the was cosh coach-stand, Holborn. About eleven o'clock he he teirning home, when, opposite Southampton-stree : diet, ‘,l l , l i'vva as though shot. He was quite dead. Ver '''Led by the visitation of God." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1841. ADDRESS TO LORD MORPETH. On - Wednesday i'ast a meeting was held at Wakefield, in the Court-hous e of the borough, by the leading Re formers of the W 'est Riding, to take into consideration the propriety of moving an address of condolence to Lord Morpetb, on his defeat for the late .representatioo of Yorkshire ; • and also to vote some testimonial to the Noble Lord, to 'show to the country how his supporters appreciated his private virtues and public services. Among the principal supporters of Lord Morpeth, were Lord Storrthridge, the Earl of Scarborough, Lord Howard, Lord Milton, Mr. I). Gaskill (late M.P. for Wakefield), Mr. W-13 , asfield, Mr. J. W. Childert, M.P., Mr. J. Parksav, M.P., it F. L. Wood, Bart., Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., ?Ir. S. E. Yavasour, M.P., &c. After an eloquent speech by the Earl FITWILLIAM, who occupied the r,;hair, The Earl of F,CARBOROIJGH moved that an Address should be Prese'ated to his Lordship, expressive of their feelings towar Is their late Member. Lord STO CrRTON seconded the motion, which was unanimous -I ,y carried. it was then moved—" That the Address be accompa nied or, its presentation by some testimonial and esteem," whi'.:h was seconded and carried. A number of noble- Die n and gentlemen were then formed into a Committee to,'make arrangements for obtaining signatures to the AddieSs, and Sir F. WOOD moved that a subscription be entered into, and suggested that the address should be enclosed in a box of Yorkshire oak, and so presented to his Lord - ship. The time, place, and manner of presenting the address win be shortly settled by the Committee. After a vote of thanks had been made to Lord Fitz the meeting separated. mitte anlo SUDDEN DEATH.--Last night, as the Rev. Mr. Swain, Chaplain to the Earl of Haddington, was returning home from Derby on foot, he fell down, and suddenly expired. EFFECTS OF THE LATE HEAVY RAINS.— Yesterday afternoon the Ravensbourne was observed to rise with great rapidity. The sluices not being deemed sufficient to carry off the torrent, the flood-gates of the Kent water-works were opened ; but to no purpose, for in the course of an hour the river overflowed its banks, and upwards of 1,000 acres of pasture and garden grounds belonging to Mr. Wyatt, a market-gardener, were speedily under water. The path leading from Deptford to Lewisham was stopped by the flood, and a pleasure-boat was sailing about in the fields. The lower part of Lewisham was in a dreadful condition, the road for a considerable distance being completely inundated, and the houses on either side some depth in water. The tide in the Thames rose to a great height, being within two steps of the landing-place at Greenwich-pier, and it was apprehended that a recurrence of the scene which so lately presented itself would take place. Several of the old watermen prognosticate that an extraordinary high tide may be expected on Sunday evening next, with what truth remains to be seen. BERLIN, OCT. 22.—The King's journey to Munich appears to be put off till the beginning of November. The Queen will probably remain at Munich till after the 13th of November, which is her birthday, and then return to Berlin with the King, The Count of Nassau is expected to r . eturn from Holland in the course of next week. when SUDDEN DEATH ABOARD SHIP.-LESI evening an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, the Co roner, at the Masons' Arms, Watney-street, Commercial road, on the body of James Holland, a coal-whipper, aged 34. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday evening last the deceased had a quarrel with his wife, in the course of which he broke her arm with a stool. On Tuesday he was seized with a spitting of blood, but took no notice of it, thinking it was caused through swallowing some tobacco smoke. The follow ing morning he went to his work on board the Three Sons collier, of Sunderland, lying in the river off Rother hithe, and, whilst in the act of filling a basket with coal, at the same' time talking to a fellow-labourer, named Gurling, his head suddenly fell forward, and blood issued from his nose and mouth. He was laid on the deck, and Mr. Henry, a medical gentleman sent for, who, on his arrival, pronounced life to be quite extinct, the cause of death being suffocation from the rupture of a blood-vessel. Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God." DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE IN THE REGENT'S QUADRANT.—Last night, soon after nine o'clock, consi derable excitement was created in the Regent's-quadrant, by the following disgraceful outrage having been com mitted by some malicious delinquents on the persons of two elegantly-dressed females, residing in York square, Regent's-park. It appears that they were walking in company with two foreign gentlemen, when one of the females suddenly felt something burn her neck; she instantly applied her hand toiler neck, and found her boa quite wet, from which the ends of her fingers were also burnt. It was then immediately discovered that their mantles, boas, and dresses were burnt by some malicious wretches having thrown a quantity of oil of vitriol over them, which must, from the quantity, have been thrown from out of a syringe by some persons that had followed them, the destructive liquid having pene trated to their under dresses. Unfortunately the offend ers escaped detection:), SINGULAR PRESENTIMENT.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, Coroner for the county, at the Five Bells, Three Colt-street, Limehouse, on the body of Elizabeth Dugerd, aged 22. Mr. Richard Dugard, of No. 5, Upper John-.street, Commer cial-road, said, that the deceased was his sister, and re sided with his father and mother. The last time he saw her alive was on Wednesday evening, the 13th inst. She was then calm and collected, but had been subject to fits of temporary derangement from her birth, About a quarter-past 11 o'clock on that night she suddenly left her home by stealth, but was observed .to do so by him and his mother. The father immediately fol lowed her, but was unsuccessful in finding her. Every inquiry was made, but nothing more was heard of her until Monday morning last, when her body was found in the New-cut of the river Tea. By the Jury—She had left her home on several occasions, and after being away for several days would return home of her own accord. A fortnight before she was missing, being in a very excited state, she threatened to murder her mother, whom she struck. A medical certificate was procured to the effect that she ought to be placed under restraint, but, getting more calm, it was not acted 'on. To the very day she left her home she had threatened to destroy herself, and mentioned the exact spot where the body was found as the place where she should do it. Was positive she had not been crossed in love. James Staid, a lighterman, deposed to finding the deceased's body on Monday last, which was floating in thee New-cut of the river Lea, near Limehouse-bridge. There were no marks of violence upon it. Verdict—" Found drowned." A young couturiere, of the Faubourg du Temple, whose mind had been perVerted by reading novels, be came, two days ago, so excited by a slight altercation with a young man to whom she was attached, and about to be married, that she rushed from her house and threw herself into the Canal Saint Martin, in the presence of her mother and her intended. The young man plunged in to save her, but, being unable to swim, would have been drowned had not prompt assistance been rendered. The infatuated girl was afterwards taken out, but not till life was irrecoverably gone. AN INGENIOUS IMPOSTOR.—Of all the beg ging-letter impostors of whom I have heard, Peter Jones was unrivalled in the facility and success with which he could change his personal appearance. In the course of one day he could assume, and sustain with admirable effect, seven or eight different characters ; so that those who saw him, and were conversing with him, at ten in the morning, might have been in his company at twelve, and never had the slightest suspicion of the fact. He had a pair of huge artificial whiskers, which he put on and cast off just as he pleased ; and he had also a pair of moveable mustachio; which a Spanish Don would have looked on with envious eye. Of wigs, too, he had an abundant supply, embracing every variety of colour; while his wardrobe was so extensive, that you - would have thought he had purchased the entire contents of some Jew clothesman's shop in Holywell-street. By these means, coupled with great natural cleverness, he was able to assume so many different characters, and to appear so very unlike himself (if there be not an Irishism in the expression), that, though the Mendicity Society had at one time no fewer than three hundred cases of begging-letter impostures against him, and though its officers had repeatedly seen him in the police offices, they passed him day after day in the public streets without recognising him.—Lights and Shadows of London Life, by the Author of " The Great Metropolis." BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES.—On Wed nesday evening the half-yearly meeting of this Society, which is for the relief of persons educated at Christ's Hospital. their widows, and orphans, took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. From the Report, appearediatdt azlNt t,he t that somt al p c o a capital stock of the Society is 5,0501., and o no of applicants havean t s been liatl b r e e er ec 3 td 3 e l , as whom y unworthy. Out of those assisted were fifty-four widows with large families. The number of loans granted has been above' thirty, and the amount about 400/. The number of pensioners now on the book is thirteen, and t h e amount granted per annum to each male 121., and 10/. to each female. SUDDEN DEATII.—O n M on d a y morn i n g, an inquest wes'held at the Court-house, before John Black burn, Esq., on the body of John Harewood, a pensioner of the 15th regiment of foot. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased came to Leeds on Friday last to .reeeite his pension, the necessary documents for which hid been filled up at Wakefield. He went to the Excise office, and whilst there was suddenly taken ill, and was removed to the Infirmary, where he shortly after ex pired. lie is not known at Leeds, nor can any trace of his connections be discovered at Wakefield ; the only knowledge at present of him is derived from his pension papers. He appears about fift y years y of ork hC:a of r_ snrva age v Courant. VIENNA, ofCT. pnGriodc.e" Mil °se rmed payed his first visit to Prince lletternich to-day. BERLIN, OCT. 20.—1 t is positively affirmed a Convention, by which the Duchy of Brunswick f accedes to the German Customs Union on the 1 . ctive January, 1842, was signed yesterday by the respective Plenipotentiaries. .st p ' Plenipotentiaries. It is said that th e Convention by which Lippe Detmold accedes to the union was signed on the preceding day. • s • The Earl of Waldegrave and Captain Duff win be released next week. • .Lo RD ELIOT.—"It is expected that the Noble Lord's sprained ancle will be sufficiently strong in a few days to er.able him to move about. All things are going •on so smoothly with Mr. Lucas at the Chief Secretary's Office, that the absence of Lord Eliot does not cause the slightest inconvenience to public business.— Dublin Evening Packet. • Tuesday, the railway train, which left Glasgow at twelve o'clock for Greenock, when nearly opposite Dumbarton Castle, ran over an old woman, and killed her on the spot.--Ayr Observer. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS• (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—Now that some progress has been made in the investigation of the "Exchequer Bill" fraud, so as to disclose at least the general bearings of it, the astonish ment becomes universal in. the City at the loose system of business which has left even the possibility of so ex tensive a fraud, much more of its continuance during so long a period. In the minds of men at all accustomed to order and regularity, itnitiounts to a confession that no check or control existed over the issues from the Exchequer, and almost to furnish an excuse under such extraordinary temptation, if anything could lo so, for the delinquency which has been com , This is a truth so entirely past dispute g all parties in politics, that the only effort made is, by one side to fix the original blame upon the other. The belief, we fear, is, that how ever bad Mr. Spring Rice found the system when he entered upon office, it became infinitely worse under his negligent administration. If it does not now undergo a complete reform, it will be the most entire neglect of a due protection to the public that could possibly be committed. Any bank clerk accustomed to the checks which the forms of business at the Bank of England impose upon all issues, would in a few hours so organise the Exchequer Bill department, as to make fraud, or even irregularity, quite impossible. The two issues do, indeed, resemble each other in character much more than-would at a cursory view appear, for an Exchequer Bill passes from hand to hand almost as readily as. a Bank of England note, and is, in ordinary circum;- stances, almost as easily , converted into money. Surely the ridicule of all foreign nations, indepenclpntly of our own, must attach to the whole of this affair, it is perceived that a functionary like Lord sonteagle, called a " Controller " of the Exchequer whose utmost employment would be to attach his signa ture to the issues, and who receives for that purpose 2,0001. annually of the public money, performs all this work by deputies, who sign for him, not by order or procuration, which weldd transfer to them some portion of the responsibility, but who write his name, and en deavour to imitate as nearly as they can his real signa ture—that is, who commit forgeries by authority' ; and all this extending over a circulation of the unfunded debt, which has never been less than 20,000,0001. an nually, and has been heretofore very much greater. Thus the melancholy truth comes out, that sinecures are made for public men out of responsible duties, which they always neglect, to the infinite disadVantage and danger of the whole community. How much better and more honest,it would be to,create a pension at once, and take away the possibility of committing so flagrant a breach of trust, for it deserves no better name. Some people have been amusing themselves by a cal culation of the labours which would have devolved upon Lord Monteagle, supposing his signature to have been attached to all the issues, and this amounts to about 40 hours, on the following grounds :—Take the average amount of the bills at 5001. each, and there would be 40,000 of these in number, which requires only the sig nature of 1,000 within the hour, a number which would be greatly exceeded after a little practice. We have .met with one very good suggestion on this head to-day, which is, that, besides the signature of the Controller, there should be the counter-signature of the chief issuing clerk, but perhaps the better plan would be to have an office set apart for this purpose in the Bank of England, and placed under the general control of the establishment. Lord Monteagle makes so very awkward a figure in the business, that there was an impression in the city yesterday, that he had been summoned to attend the investigation at the Treasury, not in the most courteous manner, and that he had not been treated with much for bearance in the examination to which he was subjected.. The eagerness in the city to have something defi nitively i settled relative to the Exchequer Bill circu lation increases every hour, and it is impossible to collect one tithe of the inconvenience which is ex perienced through this delay, which is not the less certain because those engaged in the investigations happen not to be (ilk to say anything of a precise and satisfactory nature. Exchequer Bills have ever been the select asset of those city bankers who con sent to put up with small returns, in order to keep all their funds at ready disposal ; and were any alarm to arise just now, it, is impossible to say with what conse quences it might be attended. This is a great evil in itself, but is less than that arising from the doubt as to the extent to which the Government may consent to,be come liable for the fraudulent issues. One party who held 2,0001. in Exchequer Bills of doubtful character, was induced :esterday to sell them for 1,8001., the buyer consenting to abide the result of the investigation. Some annoyance has been felt, for which all due al lowance will be made, by the officers in the other de partments of the Exchequer Bill service, at some ambi guity in at first designating, that from which the great fraud originated. It is, therefore, proper to state die tinctly, that the delinquent department is the " Ex- Chequer-office," in which the bills are prepared, and which is under the control of Lord Monteagle, and not the " Exchequer Bill-office," which is that through which the bills are distributed into circulation, and which is under the control of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Great care seems to be used to prevent any public no tice being taken of parties who have become objects of suspicion at the Treasury, as having a share in these transactions, but there are several, nevertheless, who arc freely spoken of. as under the . observation of the police, though they may not actually have been placed under arrest. It will be recollected that for some years past large speculations in the foreign funds have been referred to as originating with a certain " club" at the west end of the town, but to the locality of which no clue was ever found. There is no doubt now that the forgers and traffickers in these false Exchequer Bills were in this case the real "club." .They did not, it seems, always settle the large differences against them in money, but met them with a deposit of "Exchequer Bills," which was,attended with miith less risk, and an sWered the snore purpose. What has been said about any interference in this matter by the Committee of ,the Stock Exchange amounts to very little. They had one interview by a de putathin with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who could only give them some general assurances on the subject, and they have since refrained from interference in a question with which as a body they do not con ceive that they have any direct concern. Some of the members of the Stock Exchange individually are likely, it is said, to be large sufferers by the fraudulent issues, and one instance is mentioned in which the amount is near 300,0001. Late in the afternoon it transpired that. Mr. Marshall, the cashier of the Bank of England, had returned from the Treasury, and that he was in possession of some in formation likely to allay the ferment in the Public mind. This would seem, however, still to be incomplete, but as far as it goes is rather of a discouraging character, since it turns out, that of the bills sent into the Bank for the fund ing in the course of the week, nearly the whole are pro nounced to be forgeries, which proves clearly enough, what was hinted at yesterday, that the delinquents have had the sagacity to make a hit on this vulnerable • point. The best part of the information collected to-day refers to something like a certainty as to some classes of bills which are not forgeries. Thus it is said that not one forgery has been committed in' bills of lower amounts than 1,000 ; also that no forgery has been committed with bills numbered below 6,000, the parties having all selected the high numbers as well as the large amounts. This may afford a species of relief to persons who hold bills described above, but still it is now established clearly that there are forged bills in cir culation to a very large amount, the extent of which it is as yet impossible to estimate, and which are forgerieS. This remark applies, however, to the signature only ; the paper on which they are printed, and the type used, which are both peculiar in their kind, are the same as those issued by the Govern ment. This is a circumstance which may prove fortu nate to the holders, in fixing a liability upon the Trea sury ; in fact, the opinion rapidly gains ground to-day, that if resisted, the parties, if shown to be innocent holders, will have their legal remedy against the Go vernment. One artful expedient to which the conspira tors, as they unquestionably are, resorted, was that of using the imitations of bills which were deposited by the Government with the Bank of England, which, as they never get into general circulation, were a sort of protection against discovery. On application being made to day at the Bank, the numbers' held in de posit there have been obtained, and also of those bills which belong to the Bank of Ireland. We present 'Aem for convenience of reference in a tabular form as folio 'vs : HELD BY THE BANK of IRELAND. G R ANT OF 11,000,0001., DATED JUNE 16, 1841. 6,919, 7,553-633 of 1,0001. each. 3,102, 3202-100 of 5001. 1,015, 1,073-59 of 2001. 5,325, 5,381-157 of 100/. GRANT OF 10,751,550., DATED MARCH 15, 1841. 8,437, 8,633-197 of 1,000/. each, in the Bank of Ireland, BANK OF IRELAND. 8,634, 8694-61 of 1,000/. 1,969, 2,125-15 of 500/. 1,001, 1,058-1,058 of 2001. 4,010, 4,214-205 of 100‘. GRANT OF 11,000,0001., DATED MARCEL 15, 1841. HELD 'BY THE BANK OF IRELAND. 8,403, 4,560158 of 1,0001. 5,696, 4,704-9 of 100/. Of* the agave bills 25,0001. were Sold •by the Bank o: England on the 16th of October, 1841. 8,437 to 8,461-25 of 1,000/. It is only necessary to observe as a guide in the use of the above table, that all numbers duplicate of those sot forth, with the exception of the last 25, must be forgeries. An official 'communication has been made to-day from the Treasury to the Bank, that of 60,0001. Exchequer bills sent up to-day as the result of the funding opera tion, the whole are spurious, and have been impounded. Thus the materials upon which ,the investigation will have to work, are daily becomincr wider, and no one can foresee bow soon it can be •brouglat to an end. At a' meeting at the Stock Exchange Committee to day, a resolution was come to which may bo of some utility in preventing the exclusion of Exchequer Bills from circulation, which has been threatened by the late occurrences. This is, that no quotations of them shall take place in the official list, unless those under guaran tee, and thus, if the parties are good and responsible, something like a market is established for the article. This, however, must be limited, and cause much trouble, which ought not to have arisen. Those of the shareholders of% the United States Bank who are anxious to avail themselves of Mr. Jaudon's presence to get up a public meeting, should be aware that there is no time to lose, as it is generally under stood Mr. Jaudon will leave this country on the 4th No vember, which will fall on next Thursday. Our letters from Amsterdam state that the Govern ment is resorting to the sale of its landed property, and it seems to be generally considered that the Treasury will be a gainer by the proceeding; for, although such sales generally take place at low prices, still it is con ceived that land, particularly in Holland, is more pro- ductive in the hands of , private persons than in those of the Government. The reason-why lands are considered a peculiarly bad Government:Property in. Holland is, that the management of them has been a .pretext for giving places, and is therefore, e:,:cessively expensive. Besides, loans have been contracted on flu:salamis, with the sti pulation that the bonds should be taken in payment of the lands when sold, and therefore, when they are dis posed of, a .number of there bonds .will,he cancelled, with the additional advantage that , some money must find its way to the Treasury. POST.—Man .. . POST.—Many reports continue to be circulated relat in to this daring fraud. The amounts given out . ris those' said to be jeopardised vary from hour to hour, and we do not believe that there can be any possibility, for the present, of ascertaining the real sum with even a tolerable approach to accuracy. A great many persons moving in a respectable circle in the. City are impli cated in the affair, but to what : eitent, and under what circumstances, , must be equally , matter of. conjecture. Conversation now turns a good deal upon tie important question of liability. This, however, is one that we do not feel called upon to, enter into. The warrants issued for the delivery of merchandise require attention. They are very easy of imitation ; the printed form being entirely destitute of art, and the sig nature, in many. eases, .nothing more than a common lithographic representation of the ,autograph. The tea warrants are documents of this loose description, and should be immediately looked to. CHRONICLE. , ---The extent to which the fonds of Mr. Smith ..have been carried is now increased to 350,0001., about GO,OOOl. of which is in theliands of the Treasury,,so that the amount known to be outstanding is about 300,0001. But whether this sum represents the whole, or half, or what portion of the full extent -of fictitious paper in circulation, : or that may be put out, it is impossible for any man to tell. Such being the fact, if the Government have decide, :,on rejecting a part of the bills on the ground of forgery, it is difficult to fore see to what extent public confidence may be shaken in the value of all Exchequer Bills outstanding. There are various rumours afloat to-day regarding the connection formed. by Mr. SMith and his confederates for the execution of his plans, Which, if true, would render it imperatively necessary on the. Government to order in all bills tifti cir cnlatien. We abstain, however, from alluding partieu laAy to this and some other points until the decision of the Government is made 'public. HERALD.'--Some: amusement was afforded to con versational circles about the Stock-house by the con ceited twaddle of an ex-Ministerial Evening Print in its first ostentatiously leaded leaders of to-day and yester day, pretensions of exclusive information on this Exche quer Bill affair. It does so happen that not one solitary fact is stated in either one or the other of.the solemn drolle ries of this pragMatical scribe, which had not been culled from one or other of the Morning Papers, that is se far as they are facts. The only original matter consists in the man's blunders. Thus Bowman Smith is described as a clerk in the office of the Comptroller-General, in pompously-paraded contradiction to the statement that he was a clerk in the Exchequer Bill-office. The Court Calendar, which should be an authority, states, how ever, as given yesterday under this head, that he was issuing clerk" in the Bill - office. Again, a member of the Foreign Stock Exchange was indicated - who had vo luntarily surrendered to the,. Treasury 60,0001. of these spurious bills which were in his 'hands. The party in question did no such thing ; he took and lodged them in the Bank. Again, the party against whom a warrant was issued is not " connected ,with," that is a member of, the Foreign Stock-house, but a better-known-than trusted speculator out of it. So much. for the exclusive twaddle of this pretender to state secrets. SUN.—Considerable uneasiness prevailed in the City this afternoon in . coniequenee of the total suspension of business in Exchequer Bills, and the anxiety manifested upon the report that forged documents in imitation of these Goirernment Securities were in circulation, and that the holders of them would not ,be likely to obtain their redemption from the Government. The Funds declined in consequence of this state of things, and money is likely to become tighter. Consols for Money fell from 88+ g to 88k and 87i, at which they closed, and for Account they dropped to.BB* and 88. Exchequer Bills were done at Os. to 12s. premium, and India Bonds at 2s. premium. Bank Stock was higher, viz., 164, and India Stock im proved to 244. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 98 to 954 • and the Three per Cents. 871 to 8 7. There was no feature in the Foreign Market worth notice. Spanish Active Bonds were done at 20i to 20+; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were heavy at 294 to 4 ; Brazil Stock was not so firm, having fluctuated from 56i. to 58; MeXican Bonds were at 24i to and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per. Cents. at 514 to Shares were generally 'dui], but the Brighton were brought to market rather extensively at a decline of about 21. per share, as all I . ofurther. i running on this Rail way will be suspended till it s thoroughly repaired. They were done at 131- to 154 discount. .Great Western Sh a res were at •104- to 11. the New at si, Birmingham Thirds at 19k, South Wester n at 124,and York and North Midland at 281 premium,. Blaekwall Shares were 19, Midland Counties 18, Manchester and Birmingham 12, and North Midland 34 discount. London and Weil 'Muster Bank Shares were 1 to 11 discount. SPAIN. (From the Madrid Papers of the 20th.) The Madrid Gazette of the 20th inst. contains severe. decrees of the Regent. Lieittenant-General Soane is appointed Commandant-General, ad, interim, of the Guard Royal exterior, vice 1 ieutettant-,0 eneral Torreparndo. Another orders that, " as it is important, under the ex traordinary circumstances in which the nation is placed, for the officers and sub-officers, and other individuals belonging to the divers corps "of the navy, to return to their respective ports, the Regent orders all those indi viduals now on furlough to return to their duties ; such as do not comply with this injunction to lose the pay at tached to their rank in the corps to which they respect ively belong." " MADRID, OM 18.7-The Regent, according to the opinion of hia,Ministers in Council. has decided that, in executing the blockade of; the Cantabrian coast, the fol lowing rules shall be observed : " Foreign vessels in the ports blockaded not to be comprised in article 1 of the decree, and to leave free. " 2 Foreign vessels, after the blockade has been de clared, sailing towards the ports blockaded, and ignorant of the same, to incur no penal responsibility, if not warn ed, and if even they have entered the said ports. "3. Those which have recei'Ved intimation not to enter said ports, but. may sail for another Spanish port ; but they are prohibited from landing contraband goods. " GAMBA. 7 ' El Cotimiercio of the 20th, publishes the following letter written 'by General Leon before the affair of the 7th, and addressed to the Regent : " To DON BALDoMERO ESPARTERO. " Excellency—Her Majesty the Queen Regent of the realm, Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon, having com manded me to . re-establish her authority, usurped and annihilated in consequence of events which respect for, you induces me to abstain from qualifying, and as honour and duty will not allow me to remain deaf to the voice of the August Princess, in whose name,- and under whose Government, we, aided by the nation, terminated the terrible struggle which had already lasted six years ; in order that you mistake not the motive which induces me to hold a sword I haVe ever employed in the service of my Sovereign and of my country, and not in that of any private ambition, I intimate to you that, obedient to her Majesty's commands, and to the welfare of the realm, I have communicated to all the chiefs 'Of the army that her Majesty being determined to recover the exer cise of her authority, has ordered me to assemble the army under her banner—the - banner of Castillian loy alty. In consequende, the loyal Basque provinces, and the Kingdoin of. Navarre, with all the troops therein garrisoned, and at whose head is General Don Leopold O'Donnell, have declared in favour of the legitimate au thority of the Queen ; and, as the chiefs of the other corps, occupying the other rovinces of .the Kingdom, have also listened to the ViiiVe of duty and honour, and are disposed to follow the loyal banner, this movement in the north will be seconded by the south and the east,' and the Government, issue of the Septet:Ober:revo lution, will soon experience the disenchantment of haV ing misinterpreted the sentiments of fidelity to its Sove reign and to the laws of the'country which animate the army and the Spanish nation. As this position must ne cessarily oppose me with the actual power you exercise in the kingdom before the fortune of arms decides a question already decided by Providence and justice, I ad dress myself to you by reminding you that we were friends and brethren in arms ; and, desirous of avoiding conflict which must take place, I would spare history an instance of sad severity, and the country a fresh effusion of Spanish blood.: May your Excellency consult you heart, and listen to, the voice of conscience before beginning a struggle in which right is not on the side of that cause at the head of which you are placed. Quit the post to which , rebellion elevated you, and which a false notion of] what you wrongly believe is exacted by public interest could alone have induced you to accept, midi shall esteem that a happy day when, in the name of her Ma jesty the - resignation of the revolutionary power you exercise, I shall be enabled to announce to hertlaroty that you contributed to repair, in, .a measure, the evil you have caused. May your Excellency in this present perceive the last proof of the friendship which united us, and the expression of my desire to find you still pos sessing the sentiments of a loyal Spaniard, which have over animated your friend and servant, "DIEGO DE LEON." The effect prOduced 'by the abOve letter on Espartero may be eas il y imagined, when it is known that he had recently sent a friend privately to Leon to warn him to 'awdditihnga freean agissfutr:tn.n3e,otobOartlehl-e have nothing to do with the Christina intrigues which lars from his own purse to keep him out of the way of tioine;ffect something serviceable for him temptation from the necessities to which his extrava had come to his lcnowleadngde gi s l h ao u np r ce t ed ly t . eo x bpeo sae bd Leon, le I am assured, laid his hand upon his heart, and replied, upon his' honour, that he was inno cent of any such intrigues. El Expectador, of the 20th, has the following account of the departure of Espartero for the Basque provinces': "On the. 19th, at ten in the morni ng , hi s High ness the Regent left this city, for the Basque pro vailnecelsn,tearccioorm, by a brilliant staff of the c o m p an y accompanied of b u y en t e h r e aL li i n n i a s g te e r . o of • the guides of Luchana, and by a body-guard of cavalry from all the different corps. Early in the morning an im mense crowd filled the street de Vittoria, the Prado, and a part of the Faubcarg: The . National. Guard lined the whole from the . fountain of Cibeles to opposite the gate of Chanibery. AL t h e naement the Illustrious Regent appeared, lie was greeted by the enthusiastic cries of the National Militia and of the, people, and the acclama tions continued all along his way. On passing before the coloura- of each battalion of the militia he stopped a few moments, recommending the citizens to riaintain tranquillity,'and guard;the young QOetriand her august sister whilst he ,was absent in thenorthern provinces, his sword drawn to baffle the phins of the insurgents. On this occasion the National Militia of Madsjd afforded an evident proof of its enthusiasm for theplegent of the realm in the tears which appeared--in the eyes of these heroes of so many fights." ' MADRID, OCT. 20.—The funds closed - last evening at 25 to 25* for cash, and 253 at sixty days ; and, though there was little doing, the market was firm. DINNER TO LORI) ROIVICK. ALNwIcK, TUESDAY NIGHT.—TiIiS afternoon a public dinner to Lord HOwick, in celebration of his Lordship's return for Sunderland, was given to him by the Liberal electors of North Northumberland. The dinner took place in the theatre, which is the largest room i n the town except the Duke's property, And it was served . frow the Star Inn. Prideaux John Selby, Esq.; of Twizell House, was in the chair. Ralph Cary, Esq., of Hedgely; John Clavering, Esq., of Calleby Castle ; George Dar ling, Esq., of Hetton House ; and J. S. I ) . Selby , Esq ., of - Cheswick - House, were in the vice chairs. In the room we observed the Hon. G. Grey, Rev. Mr. Head, and the following gentlemen, who nearly all acted as stewards :—William Baird, Esq., Thomas Bourne, Esq., Ralph Carr, Esq., John Carr, Esq., Edward Clavering, Esq., Matthew Culley, Esq., George Darling, Esq., Andrew Robert Fenwick, Esq., Ralph Fenwick, Esq., John Forster, Esq., Joseph Forster, Esq., Major-Gene ral John Grey,, of Morwick, George A. Grey, Esq., C. Bacon Grey, Esq., Joshua Hewitson, Esq., Sanderson Ilderton, Esq., Philip Nairn, Esq., John S. D. Selby, Esq., Prideaux Selby„Esq.. W. Strother. Esq., R. Taylor, Esq., Christopher Weallins, Esq., H. P. Burrell, Esq., Esc. After dinner several ladies entered the gallery, amongst whom were Lady Howick and Lady Georgiana Gray, who were received with loud applause. The CHAIRMAN gave in succession the following toasts:—" Her Majesty the Queen," "Prince Albert and the Princess Royal," " The Queen Dowager and the rest of .the Iloyal Family," and. " The Army and Navy." The CHAIRMAN then ..called for a bumper, and pro posed " The health of their noble guest," prefacing the toast with observations on the talent he had displayed in Parliament, and the strenuous exertions he had made for the general welfare of the country. Lord Howtat responded to the toast in a speech of masterly eloquence. After thanking the company for the honour done him by drinking his health, he re verted to the early days •of their acquaintance, and the many scenes which had since taken place, in all of which he had experienced from them the same kindness, generous confidence, and good-will. This circumstance suggested to his mind the reflection, that although they wore now met in a period of political ad versity, it was an 'adversity far less than that of 1326, when he first entered on the stage of pUblic affairs. It was 'true that in the last election the Liberal party were defeated, but could - they forget that in 182 G the ascen dancy of their opponents appeared so firmly established that they dared hardly venture on thinking to shake it? Such was the state of things in 1826, when he first came forward for Northumberland, that he was defeated. But what followed? • In the second Session in which he had the honour of being in,Parliament, the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts was effected ; in the following Session the disabilities of the Roman Catholics were re moved; and in two years more he came down to Nor thumberland, and without even the necessityof going to a poll was triumphantly returned as their Representative to support the great measure of Parliamentary Reform. He admitted the country had pronounced a verdict in opposition to the late Government. and although he was ready to admit that bribery and intimi dation had been extensively used by the Tories at the late election, yet, comparing its result with that of 1837, when the same means were used, he could not account for the change of circumstances which had taken place, without admitting that there must have been a very considerable change of public opinion. But although the recent decision of the country was against the late Government, still he was persuaded the princi ples they inculcated Were sound, and the system of po licy they advocated wise and good, and he had such reliance in the inherent' strength of truth and reason, that he was persuaded they must eventually triumph.— (Applause.) If they looked at the circumstances of the late election, they would see that the verdict pronounced by the country was rather against the Government as at that time composed, than the principle of the measures they brought forward, or their general line of policy. — (Applause.) But whatever may be the hands to which the reins of power are committed, if, as he believed, the public opinion was in favour of commercial reform, their triumph was assured ; for if the new Government should resist them their practical adoption may be delayed, but cannot long be prevented, and in the end they will be too strong for any Government.—(Loud applause.) On the other hand, lie could not expect the present Govern ment would carry into effect Liberal principles —(Hear.) He could not forget that there were included in the Mi nistry men who were the most active and determined, even of their own party, in resisting every. one of those measures of reform and improvement to which he (Lord Howick) attached the greatest value. His Lordship then adverted to the Duke of Wellington, of whom he spoke as an able general, but a very indifferent statesman ; and to Sir Robert Peel, of whom he remarked, that he was more celebrated for his skill in debate, and his Par liamentary tactics, than for the wisdom of his conduct. In his conduct lie had shown far more dexterity in ap plying the maxim—" sufficient for the day is the evil thereof," and in evading the immediate difficulties of his position, than the higher power of taking a large and comprehensive view of the affairs and situation of his country, and adapting his measures to promote its true and permanent interests.—(Applause.) His appeared not to be a mind of that high order to lead public sentiment, and impress his own opinion upon the age ; on the contrary, from the outset of his career he had always been found lagging behind the general progress of opinion.—(Loud cheers.) In illustration of this remark he alluded to his conduct with reference to the Test and Corporation Acts, the proposed disfran chisement of'East Retford, and the removal of the Ca tholic disabilities. Such being the case, he could not be lieve Sir R. Peel would at once put off the cloak he had so long worn. The composition of the Ministry was, to his mind, any thing but satisfactory, and their conduct during the short period they had been in office had justi fied his worst anticipations. His Lordship then alluded to the measure with respect to Mr. Scarlett, which he distinctly designated as a job, done to conciliate a politi cal partisan, and what made the whole transaction more repulsive, that partisan was a Judge—a nobleman who held one of the very highest situations on the judicial bench.—(Loud applause.) But though he (Lord Howielz) was by no means favourable to the present Mi nistry, he was very far from desiring their immediate overthrow. H. thought already much good had resulted from their being . placed in office, especially in dis pelling the delusion respecting the new Poor-law. He then averted to the extraordinary silence of Sir James Graham when the Tories made this measure a stalking horse, especially as it was well-known Sir James Gra ham was one of the Cabinet by which it was proposed, and one of its stanchest supporters ; but now, in his capacity of Home Secretary, he was compelled to declare that ho adhered to the principle of that measure.—(Ap plause.) In the same manner, with reference to finance, the Tories had hitherto had the easy task of find ing fault ; now it appeared they had no measures of their own to propose. He charged the Tories with having caused the necessity for increasing the naval and military establishments by their perpetual attacks both in Par liament and through the press, and then objecting to the measures proposed by Government for defraying the ex penses.—(Applause.) If the minds of the present Minis try were not made up as to the principle of their mea sure when they opposed the Government, that opposition must have been of a personal and factious nature. He could not conceive it possible they would adopt the mea sures of their opponents, and if they did not, they must either increase the debt, in time of peace, or an addition to taxation, both of which he held would be unjustifiable before they tried the other means of supplying the defi ciency of revenue which had been proposed.—(Ap . planse.) His Lordship then urged the necessity Of the people concentrating their energies on this one great question of Commercial Reform, and concluded an ex cellent speech by proposing " The Electors of the Northern Division of Northumberland."—(Applause.) J. CARR, Esq., then proposed " The health of Earl Grey, the father of reform,' which was drank with the most rapturous enthusiasm, and responded to in suitable terms by Lord Howick. Mr. DARLING proposed " The magistrates of Nor thumberland," which was acknowledged by the Chairman. Mr. DostiLnsox gave " The Liberal doctors of Sun derland," stating they had distinguished themselves throughout the empire by returning the Noble Lord who was that evening their g uest. --(Applause.) Lord HOWICK, in returning thanks, said he embraced that opportunity of expressing the indignation with which he had seen a petition presented against his re turn—(Loud cheers) —in which those from whom it ema nated, not content with preferring against him a charge which they knew was utterly groundless, threw asper sions on their fellow-townsmen, accusing them of bribery and corruption. But the real fault of the electors of Sunderland in the eyes of the Tories was, that they were proof against the arts of corruption.—(Loud cheers.) The petition might put him to expense and inconve nience ; he supposed that was its design. It could have no other object, and those who presented it little knew him if they supposed he should yield his seat under the influence of such a threat.—(Tremendous cheers.) ili e Lordship then proposed " The health of the Chairman," which was suitably acknowledged by Mr. Selby. The healths of "The Countess Grey, Lady rlowick, the Mayor and Corporations of Berwick and Morpeth," c w u e l r t e u Mr. or n ef next at; : ee l s od i pt g p u fed i Irr E l hiii, ' L e nnsatii n mlete Dd. principles i nlel. aafsg : soy : psoe s ropareorsdf then reelei v e g trr a ea v dd e ea ' n ‘ T aa h bu e lde sse Cause)eecchioniflnAl sup portgr thei s'nenddleitrio..Mt Donlonhr e: sliding Riddle, rents o s f e l F a Felton, t f o s a t n ry a , m t a i and at the h la e te d r e 3 e c n i l that he knew, from his habits of weekly communication with the farmers at their markets, that'at least nine tenths of them are against the Corn-laws, as they at pre sent exist.—(Loud applause.) -Many of them stated that the vaunted sliding scale of Sir 'Robert Peel played into the hands of jugglers to cheat the farmers, at the very time when they expect to reap the fruits of their in dustry. After advocating the Ballot, Mr. Donkin called their attention to the course now pursuing in the registry for Northumberland. Every farmer on the Duke of Northumberland's estate who had two or three sons, was compelled to register those sons as joint occupiers. — (Hisses, and shouts of " Shame.") In which way could they guard against such unconstitutional stretches of power, unless by giving a system of voting in which every man could record his real .opinions ?—(APPlausVnd the .several other toasts were afterwards given, company separated about half-past nine o'clock. _ _ M Dumont, Chef du Bureau des Beaux-Arts, in the Office of the Minister of the Interior, has been put on the retired list, and has been succeeded by T. F. de Mercey, a landscape-painter of merit, and author of se veral works on the fine arts. FOOT RACE.—On Thursday last, a foot race took place in Caygil-walk, between two young men of the names of Parker and Whitworth. The distance was 100 yards, and the latt er was declared to win by a shoulder ! Thus the winner saved his crown by putting his shoulder out.—York Courant. Colonel Tickell, C. 8., and family arrived at the Adelaide Note], London -bridge, yesterday, from Paris. THE EXitEGENT OF SPAIN. LAST LETTER OF K. OLOZAGA, ADDRESSED TO TILE PRI VATE SECRETARY OF QUEEN CHRISTINA DIIINOZ. Your communication of yesterdai, which I shall hasten to transmit to my Government,' contains two distinct parts. The one relative to the audience which her Ma jesty Queen Christina condescended to grant me on the 10th inst., and the communication to which it gave rise. The other touching the opinion emitted by her Majesty on the rebellion atranipeluna, on its causes and pretexts. On the first point, though your Lordship taxes my memory With infidelity, on account of the less or more exactness with which I remembered the words of her Majesty, and though you explain the sense of those words after several days have passed, during which so many grave and important events have occurred, I re ceive with great satisfaction the reiterated assurance of her Majesty that she neither fostered nor excited the melancholy circumstances in which our unfortu- nate country is again placed. Her Majesty thus con firms not only what she condescended to declare to me at the time, but even goes further - than what, in accom plishing my mission, I could have asked or known ; for I thought it 'neither necessary nor prudent to seek to as certain the provocations or excitations which might have beeii made to the chiefs of the rebels, and I contented myself with learning from her Majesty that she had not granted them either the appointment or the authority which in their proclamations they pretended to have received. After this a party man may advise her Majesty, more or less prudently, to bestow praise on the enthusiasm and devotedness of those chiefs ; but for an official of Government, it is enough for him to hare ascertained the contradiction which exists between their language and their writings, with those of the august person in whose name they act, and by whom they say they were specially authorised. Unfortunate men 1 How dearly have some of them atoned for the motive (whatever it be) which led them into so criminal an enterprise ! And how dearly is Spain paying for it, weeping over the loss of some of her most valiant sons ! God grant that the losses already known be the only ones, and that a facile triumph, inspir ing the conquerors with clemency and the conquered with sincere repentance, may' permit our unhappy coun try to strengthen and to maintain, without fresh struggles, those institutions so dearly bought, and with them her prosperity and repose ! Till then, animated as I am with these sentiments, I think I am not bound to explain why I shall not answer to all that has been said about threats, outrages, per fidious tricks, barbarous persecutions, and so forth ; nor to what, ' in dereliction from truth and reason, has been added to cause the excitement of passions which it is so important to allay: Nor do I think it necessary to answer to your Lord ship on what yoh choose to call my irreverential ex pressions. Your Lordship abstains from pointing out to me tare obnoxious words. Indeed I do not think it ,an easy task for any one to find such in the severe but moderate terms, in the firm but dignified language, which, if my wish does not deceive me, I employed in the communications referred to. This answer must suffice you likewise as to whet in your communications you say respecting mine. If really they appear strange, they never can be so much so as the situation which, by no fault on my part, gave them birth. What is stated on the events of Barcelona and Valen cia, on the origin of the present Government of Spain, on the lawfulness of its measures, on the accomplish ment of the treaty of Bergara, and other similar subjects which I shall not repeat, constitutes in my opinion a new manifesto of her Majesty the Queen-Mother. If so, I know not how it can be properly transmitted by a private secretary ; but this I know, that if after the people and the army of Spain giving recent proofs of their loyalty and devotion, the manifesto required any other answer, the honour of making it would not devolve upon me. The Government, the Cortes, the Spanish nation in short, would decide on what is most becoming to their interests and dignity. Finally, I beg to declare to your Lordship, that should the communication to which this is an answer not be the last, I can receive none in future through yon. After having requested of you the other day not to omit my quality of representative of the Spanish Government, I received your last merely because your Lordship in scribed my quality on the direction, though you sup pressed it in the body of the despatch. I shall abstain from stigmatizing the means employed, but you must not be surprised if they do not succeed a second time. SALUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA. Paris, Oct. 25. _ The Gazette de France says:— " M. Olozaga Went this day to St. Cloud to demand the expulsion of Christina, founding his request on the manner in which Don Carlos is treated at Bourges. The Council is divided in opinion on the ultimate use of the army assembling on the Spantsh frontier. It was at first intended to make a military demonstration against Es partero, but M. Guizot is for remaining neuter, and waiting for provocations from the Dictator, which, how ever, he says will not be made." - DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, OCT. 26.—SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL.—A paper was received from Hen drick Jacobs at Amsterdam, stating that he had disco vered the secret of directing the course of air-balloons ; that the weather being favourable, it is possible to reach India in a fortnight ; that he had offered to sell the se cret of the atmospheric citadelle (as ho calls it) to King William 1., but without success ; that he now thought that he had the choice of selling his invention in France, but prefers offering it to this Assembly. The President proposed that this paper, though it could not he classed with ordinary petitions, should be referred to the Committee of Petitions. This was agreed to. TRIESTE, Oct. 18.—(From the Lloyd Austriaco.)— The latest accounts from Syria, of the state of the coun try, are very favourable ; tranquillity is perfectly re-es tablished everywhere ; commerce becomes daily more ac tive, and many goods which used to be sent from Con stantinople to Trebisond, by caravans, now to ke up the much shorter and most sate route, by way of Betrout. It is hoped that that the regular steam' navigation from Constantinople to Syria will soon be extended to Latakia. This would greatly promote the conveyance of go oda and passengers from Adana, Tarsus, Antioch, Aleppo, Diar bekir, and Mossul ; and besides the Persian caravans to Aleppo and Constantinople would gain more than 200 miles.—liamburgh Borsenhallc, Oct. 23. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsTERDAm, ocr. 26. Nene'. Bills. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Ain't t Syndic, 4W, per cent VOX 91 Ditto, ditto, 3;;, per cent 753q 76 Commercial Company, 4h per cent 15 4 ,4 154% Ditto (1655 and 1d37) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 9734 Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Two months ..... 12 Hamburgh, One month 35 75 Two months ...... 35 fio Dutch Papers, Oct. 27. BELDIAN k U NDS—ltatissaLt, oar. f:7. Actual Debt, 2 1 ,4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per 101 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3per Cent. 71 3 4 (1340) le!. Loan of City, P:32,4 per Cent 93 Society ef Commerce, 4;;per Cent 93 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. .......... :2 National Society. ....... ...................... Exchange on London (short) ....... 11 95 —Brussels Papers, Oct. 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vinsin, Oct'. 20 five per Cods. Metalliques • lO6 FOli r per Cents. ••••••o•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000000000 98% Three per Cents. ................ .............. .... ....... Bank Shares •••••,•••••••• ....... ••••••..••••••• ....Aligerneine Zrgiting. Oct. 24. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, 0cT.23. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. •••..... ............ ••••••••••••• 107 .... Bank Shares 1535 1545 Anglo-Itussian Loan lO6 WI Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, IstSc:iss. lete Russian 5 per Cant. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... 9Sk4 93 Ditto in Certificates ......... .. • ................ ........ 97 , ii 975¢ New 4 per Cent. (1340) ..... ...... ..... .. ....... ....... O'er 5.5%, Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent BO Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Ponds ,... 149 .... New Picket Anglo..oanish Loan, 3 per Cen . 75% 75% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cynt...... , 1 :;4 102Ns SFJniste, New 5 per Ccnts. lsy, PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--13saux. OcT. 23. Bills. Money, St. Schulcl. Sch., 4l v per cent. lii Jaiq Prussian Engllsh Loan, 113;10, 4 per cent 102 101,, li:itchange on Landon, three months 6 1114 —Prussian State Gazette. Oct. Zl. Thirty.zezvcn , BELGIUM. The Moniteur Beige of to-day, publishes a Royal re solution for the re-organisation of the Royal Academy of Antwerp. This decree is divided into :three chapters ; ' viz., Chapter I. the organisation of the Administration of the Academy. Chapter IL—lnstructions. Chapter 111. — Of the Academy as an Institution for the encouragement and improyement of the fine Arts. The Franchimontois announces (what might already be presumed) that the object of the deputation from Stavelot. which was lately admitted to an audience of the King, was to protest against the projected acces sion of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, to the Belgium tariff of customs, which accession would be a fatal blow to the tanneries of Stavelot. - The Royal foundry at Liege has completed the order for 400 pieces of cannon of divers calibre, which was given by Bavaria. We have had occasion to admire the precision and excellent execution of those which are not sent away. It seems that the Bavarian Government has repeatedly testified its satisfaction to. Lieut.-Colonel Frederiex, the director of the foundry. This consider ' able order having been successfully executed, cannot fail to confirm the well-merited reputation which this im portant establishment enjoys in foreign. countries. Our learned . countrymen, M. Blondeau, member of the Institute of France, and senior of the School of Law at Paris, who was lately appointed a Knight of the Order of Leopold, has just arrived from England and Scotland, ' whither he was sent by the French GoVerninekt to visit the institutions for teaching jurisprudence. .• VIENNA, OCT. Ph—Count de Samburg, the Sardinian ArnbassadorExtraordinary, went yesterday in state to Court, to ask in form the hand of tho Arch duchess Adelaide, for his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sardinia: The marriage will not take place till the beginning of neat year. Count Mandleslop, the Wurternburg Ambassador, had an audience of his Ma jesty to-day, to present his credentials. Lord Ward, we are sorry to hear, is still confined to his room from indisposition, at his seat, Himley Hall ; but we are glad to learn that his Lordship's health is im -1 rovirg Worcester Journal. EVENING SUN MESMERISM. - A Ve-have received from a tradesman of the very highest respi a ctability. the following letter, for the statements in whiaa we are able to vouch, to a great extent, from our own lciowledge of the case, and of the persons connected with fit. %\re withhold the name and address of our Corr eponclent, solely that we may not subject him and his family to the annoyance of the idly curious. But we have no objection to satisfy any, inquirer who., will give a reasonable cause for the curiosity : TO 771 E EDITOR OF THE SUN. Siu—Having seen tkeimpartial rena7k;iinNiesmer istn in some newspapers, on the one hand, and the fu rious and what I eofi§iBer malignant attack on Dr. EL liotfon in the othet's l :--while the names of the writers of those paragrgAi;"ivill be buried in oblivion the name of Elotson ,wilt. 4 l.le revered by after ages—gratitude to th a t gentiCtian obliges me to put you in possession of una eniable facts, which cannot be disputed. On the 10th of November, 1838, my daughter, aged 1. - ) years and 10 months, fainted away three times in the afternoon—cause unknown. At twelve o'clock the same night lost her senses, which" came again at inter vals for an hour, sometimes two hours. Mr. Whitey su -gem), attended her, and that eminent physician, Dr. Spurgeon was called in, and to whom I feel grateful for their kind endeavours from the 10th November, 1833, to the , 19th of January, 1839. She had taken upwards of cigbLen (keen bottles of medicine (besides leeches, blis ters, &e.., being applied), when she positively refused to take any more. Dr. Spurgeon then wrote a note for me to get a keeperess from Finch's Asylum at Kensing ton. I preferred having two nurses, night and day, in stead of a keeperess. Her fits, which were of the most violent description, increased from that time an the Ist of February, she having gad seventy in the twenty-four hours before I had the good fortune to see Dr. Elliot son, who was attending a youth under the same treat ment, and who was restored by the same means. O. the 26th of December the fright occasioned by a board falling on the floor over her head caused her to become totally insane. On the Ist of February folluwing I ap plied to Dr. Elliotson, after seeing the youth before mentioned. I stated the furious delirium my daughter luboured under, besides her having had seventy most terrific fits in twenty-four hours,—and I believe no pa tients with fits are admitted into an asylum. He at tended for three afternoons, with Dr. Wood, and endea voured to throw her into a state of mesmerism, but could not succeed ; when he observed to Dr. Wood, °' This poor creature has not a lucid interval ; I fear we shall not succeed ;" but the neat afternoon, to my great surprise, he got her into a mesmeric state. He cb served that thousands would not believe this. I spec at to any parent, what must his feelings be when an affec tionate child had been bereft of reason for above two months, yotpcould, by holding her hand or touchily' soy part or her body, talk with her reasonably ? What would the Nobles of the land give, if an only son or daughter were snatched from the grave as my daughter has been ? And I have no doubt that many 'young creatures have been, and are, in private asylums, who could be restored by this means. But then the Faculty have set their faces against it, and to such en extent have they carried their animosity, and such is the in fluence they hold over society in most instances, tiiat the public mind is poisoned. I cannot account for this, un less it is owing to there being little medicine wonted, for my daughter, in the mesmeric state, prescribed for herself, and Dr. Elliotson implicitly ordered to be ad ministered' what was mentioned. There was no privacy used. I admitted any respectable person to see the system of restoring a lost child to her disconsolate pa rents. This was my only object. The Doctors never required to be alone, but explained to all present. I have the names of many Lades and Noblemen who came to see their treatment, but not having their per mission I withhold the same, to avoid giving offence. I have seen several individuals turn pale as death, and walk out of the room, at the sight of one fit only. Many people observing my house, W and supposed some thing serious must be the matter, from the piercing cries caused by the agonies of the horrible fits. As to her predictions in her mesmeric state, mentioning the time she should come to her senses, six weeks before it did occur, stating the hour and minute, how many fits would leave her each week, and the exact time, every thing she stated proved correct to the letter. She would take many pieces of ,music under her arm in tke middle of the night, the lights being all extinguished, and come down stairs, throw them on the table, select the piece she wanted, sit down, play on the piano' and sing it perfectly correct, write verses, and thread a needle in an instant, and mend her gown, in total dark ness ; in short, the extraordinary scenes that occurred,. no one would believe unless they saw or heatd them per sonally. 1, therefore, make every allowance for the incredulity of the public and the ribaldry with which some of the newspapers are treating Dr. Elliotson's great exertions to restore the unfortunate beings labour ing under epilepsy, and other dreadful nervous diseases. His gratuitous and unwearied attentions by day and night for four months—his anxiety to save my daeghter under her unparalleled affliction, and thereby prove to the community that many direful diseases were curable by his system—demand my most grateful thanks. Eis being called on by some of the public journals to give proofs and facts of the benefit derived, is my only reason for wishing this case to be made public. Tuanks be to Providence, my daughter was perfectly restored to her senses, and has not had a fit since May, 1839, and now enjoys a good state of health, but is totally uncon scious of ever being delirious, or of baying had fits. Could an institution be established on the plan of the Ore vide-street Hospital, supported by voluntary sub scriptions, for the admission of persons aillicted with fits or serious nervous diseases, I have tfo doubt it would do more to establish the benefits . arisisig Ann Mesmerism than all that can be said or written on the subject. AN ENEMY TO SLANDIR. 9, Bedford-street. INTERESTING CASE. In our publication of the 6th ult. it was simply stated, "Among the numerous interesting facts recorded in the census returns for Scotland, public attention is respectfully directed to the following note, under the head Kirkpatrick of Irongray :—' Slept in a barn, a soldier's widow of a Highland regiment, whose husband and ten sons fell in battle.' " This note was entered in the official return, upon the testimony of others, by Mr. J. Carnochan, the schoolmaster of the parish, who ,had not teen seen the old woman. But he obtained a personal interview on the Gth current ; and in the pre sence of two respectable witnesses (Mr. James Mont gomeric and his son, farmers, Peartree), compiled from her own lips a little narrative, which we would fain hope the Member for the Stewartry will kindly bring under the notice of the War.offree, or some other department of Government :—" Ann Fairlie, daughter of Richard Fairlie, blacksmith, Newcastle, was married, at the ago of 15, to Alexander M'Donald, pipe-major of the 42d Regiment. Immeiiately after her marriage she went with her husband to the West Indies, where silo had six sons. Was with Sir R. Abercrombie in Egypt, where her husband fell on the battle-field :at this time she had eight sans and one daughter. Returned home with the regiment, and was married again at Edinburgh to John Cunningham, paymaster-serreant of the same regiment. Was at Dunkirk with the, Duke of Yore, where one of her sons fell ; was in Spain with Sir .T. Moore, where three of her sons fell at Corunna ; wa s t or tf , Duke o e hsuoennrd ssd,odied sud o tf f e dl niFdanroad fn Wellington, cthyeepr; h ut husband hs a e n f , ie la e: wasbal g V a a n al i t n v. e , r o i l nuo recoveredon Wat e rloo, where e p c a i i ; n ao w nf t o i t h t t v i hi o l ge r after the regiment returned to England, Had one son and five daughters by her second husband. Another son fell in America (she thinks South America); her last son (pipe-major of the 42d) died near MaLebester about 22 years ago. • Since this last calamity betel b," she has w an d ere d a b out b egg i ng, c hi e fl y in Dumfries shire and Galloway. Her daughters all died in foreign countries and at sea. She is now 85 years of age. , may add that she h as t rave ll e d occas i ona lly in ibis Par' s " for more th a n 12 years , l o d g i ng always at t he same houses, where she is not an unwelcome guest , and um; formly gives the same account of her' trAvers. t h a is c , t ° s ry o ' f to" Further, it appears that she is subject ; a nervous excitement, which is nothing uw e f kindled while narrating her adventures to me er as ey she 4xpa. into heroism, or softened into melaneho Y' tiated on the triumphs of the tartans, o; battle. • herselfh is fall of her husband and sons on tb d o bewailed the keeps very a remarkably bale old woman, that s he bad accompanied clean and tidy. It appears e until the death of the 12d Regiment from her b ra ller g first husband). but, her last son (the yousgesti - es where her husband and she talks chiefly of the P ac but an imperfect recollec. sons fell, ands eems to.avl achievements of the Black twrioantcho.f, Duonotbeers hCourier. 1 numerous meeting of the donors and yesterday CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.....: Freemasons Tavern, for the purpose of ,`, , e e t,l o l ß d u s te o h f c rs' the Charitab le Society. The Institution h e .0 h Chair i.r W w a s s s ree and men two women as additional pen sioners on taken at two o c t ' ' lock, when the ballot commenced, whi c h names of the closed at four, when the . . successful candi dates were announced. The Institution vas founded i n 18:28, for affording relief to decayed and distressed mem bersheldß uatrCtilheEßls' of the trade, their widows, and children. • The electing three amount of pension payable to the men is 211., and to the women 151. 15s. per annum. Thank s being voted to the Chairman, the meeting adjourned. Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset has sub scribed the handsome sum of 50/., for the relief 'of the Paisley operatives. Lon' M'Kenzie and the Hon. Mr. WlCenzie and family left the Adelaide Hotel, London-bridge,- yesterday, for the Isle of Wight. HANOVER, OCT. 21 . --Persons generally well informed say that the Assembly. of the Estates will not bit convoked before the German Diet has promulgatt-d its resolution respecting the Contingents and the Mili tary establishments of the several States of the Confe deration. On the ground of a decision of the Diet, it is thought that the Second Chamber might belled for a considerable increase of the military establisMient. I' ll .: ` ds) •elie r i tq°" , tilj 0.• 4(1.; ' re",,t3 1 - Pd Oct'