The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

.:.+~- . Jam. .1,-4-IC II tart 091 re recocr laQuiro ;Clock , ' T 1 L Editor• Priggi" . , aptert 91 Lh Merle!. o ting. Dole, Efq'' Flitor. j treet' 9 ~.8 4'' o f On 1 P s ' erawiticb, •vS BURG° BOND S E viOLI P l i" et° IRG n ' 10' NiA oll ' of 0%1. rTioN"' rioN (P 3 ;TRl nt i NE , 1111 :S• -c will so'. ° l t' . 11) 0 FOST" al Cr 4j :psit cis 3E• eh .11 1 V e Ll 'm,- the r. 11°Ple ti Sand 'n ,othe° th , Y. a'rter •„, )ry 5 of 1° 31r, r oPI: 10' give au outline of What appears - to us to have' been the feelings which led to the outbreak. There were great general discontent and a conviction of possessing great power. We ex onerate no parties nor, classes from the charge of having caused those feelings. All parties, without designing it, have so wrought - for their own purposes as to contribute to this general discontent and generarconviction. Some have committed injustice ; others have held our Corn . laws. up to odium; others again have openly, and perhaps not improperly, fanned the xne of discontent. Journals of all kinds ~.'.,liave aided to bring about the result. Some have vilified the Poor-law ; others have condemned the Corn-law; others the new law for registration ; but all have contributed to generate discontent, in conjunction with a no tion of power. .Exonerating none, neither can we blame any, except that great and nume rous party which, constituting the majority of the ruling classes, has resolutely persisted in Maintaining, in defiance of remonstrance and warning, a great, though long established system of injustice. In making these observations, we have, we think, clearly defined the extent to which the Anti -Corn-law League has contributed—in corn ion, we admit, with ourselves—to excite an un easy state of mind, without, in the smallest de gree, wishing to p rovo ke a turn-out for wages. . have assisted in- generating discontent, and luttnaking man believe that he was more power ful than the work of his hands, or the idols that he Worships. In stating that, we are far from taking an apology for-either the League or our apves; on the contrary, it is honourable to the Teague. To set forth the evils of an institution, and place them distinctly before the people, is 'the legitim a t e an d proper way to procure its re i,()lrcu• Blame belongs not to us, or the League,, Out to those who frame and maintain the unjust iip ,,Vi r e are far (says the Liverpool Times, a journal with '• 'Yell we agree), from denying that recent discussions 11the subject of the Corn-laws have not had a mis iZevous effect on the peace of the country, and it is per - P I:Ns the designed tO to benefit a particular class at the ex t"se of th e co mmunity, that they sec one portion of the very in deadly opposition to another; and rouse the iczong Worst passions in the minds of all. This is itself additional reason for desiring the repeal of such a ". It would indeed be difficult to over-estimate the m ischief produced by discussions such as those which , ve lately occurred, in which the landlords on one hand ha ve been represented as tyrants, and the manufacturers on - the other, have been described as unprincipled Schem ers, str i v i ng, un d er th e pretence of humanity, to destroy the prosperity of the landed interest, and at the - " 441 e time to force down the wages of their own labourers. That is a just view of the influence which the League may haVe had; and, acknowledging , 44 influence to that extent, the League s h ould ueldly se t at defiance those calumniators t_lie seek to make the community believe * , '",at the Members of it, planned the turn "t3 which was chiefly directed against them !elves. We have never liPeen anxious to de fend the League, because that implies a conscious -- . I . l .tse of wrong. The League needs no defence. It has struggled nobly, manfully, patiently, at Peat expense of time and money, to obtain a Pet and righteous end. We 'do not copy an ar ticle which appears in the Anti-Bread-Tax Cir e4lar, though itis a complete vind i c atio n o f the ,vague, because all rational men praise and bless 4 8 exertions. Very soon it will find the best V indication in the price of corn, and the discon tent of the farmers. Already that price has fallen • 8° low that it has become profitable, it is said, to export wheat to Belgium. Already the farmers gin to be alarmed, and when they piteously implore, and the landlords ostentatiously grant, cZ 4IB , they most probably will before Christmas, a action of rent, the League will be completely Iludicated by its present opponents in the face of the whole world. The c o nduct of the Government in appointing an e xtraordinary Commission for the trial of the ope ratives apprehended during the late disturbances in the manufacturing districts, appears to us fraught with much danger. When it is borne in mind that t hese poor men underwent the severest privations b"fore turning out, in the hope of obtaining " fair day's wages for a fair day's work " "". that they excited universal surprise by t he extent to which they respected property—and that they were hardly guilty of a , single outrage not provoked by the wanton intermeddling of the police, it will be difficult to discover any rational ground for letting aside the ordinary forms of law in bringing mto trial. There was nothing whatever treason vre---hardly anything seditious in the turn out of • Int. operatives. They proposed to themselves no ,l'lolation of the laws for the protection of private PruPe_, rty or social order. They sought nothing :filinh the Constitution of the country, either in the lette r or the spirit, denies to all classes of British 'subjects. Any attempt, therefore, to wrest the or " -- ( Unary forms of law for the purpose of making '2.' 1 amples of them, will hereafter be followed by con ', 21 eq aences little foreseen by her MAJESTY'S Ministers. ' , •tt is quite clear that the people resisted the military and the police as little as they could help, consistently I , a With a regard to their own preservation. Had it been ''otherwise we should not have to record, day after (18 .3', the flight of tens of thousands of Englishmen uefere a handful of police. Our countrymen are no 'N 'towards, and were their object resistance to the au.- , tborities, Sir JAMES GRAHAM would have a very dif .t:"-Iferent tale to tell from what he has now to impart to the members of the Extraordinary Commission. Our people have all heard of the Barricades of Paris, and were they to propose such an example to themselves, they would not be found less brave, or less skilled in the modes of s ystematic defence and attack than their Gallic l'eighbours. But it was with monopoly, not with bludgeons and bayonets, that they sought to come into collision. If a Commission be appointed, the first criminals '• Who ought to be put upon their trial are the Mem bers of the Cabinet, and the PEEL majorities in Par liament. These comprise the worst class of offenders, the real originators of all the riots in the manufac turing districts. . We have received several additional letters re sPecting the violent conduct of the police, most of 1 % 4 )101 we are obliged, for the present, to postpone. They all agree on the main points, and are una . bunous as to the growing hostility of the community to this military force. As a proof of this feeling the charges for obstructing the police are rapidly on the increase, having been doubled in three years. Public meetings and public subscriptions for prose cuting the offenders are proposed, and in a short tun e we believe they will become so odious, and consequently so useless for preserving order that a law must be passed to break up the establishment or chang e the entire system. One Correspondent says, On witnessing an act of atrocity committed b y a constable, " I never was opposed to the Government before." Thousands are actuated by the same feeling, and should a serious crisis arise, Sir JAMES GRAHAM will find this numerous and ex- pensive body worse -even than a broken reed. English men are not yet so destitute of spirit as to submit, like Russian serfs or Egyptian fellahs, to blows for speaking or crying out against oppression; and woe to the Minister that attempts to reduce them to such a slavish condition. We perceive from the Edinburgh papers that the Commission of the General Assembly are to meet on Tuesday, for the purpose of addressing Her MAJESTY and Prince ALBERT, on the occasion of the Royal visit to the Northern Metropolis, and that the course pursued by that body when GEORGE the FOURTH visited Scotland, is cited as a precedent. The cases, however, are diametrically opposite. The General Assembly in 1822 was a loyal, peaceful, and legal Ecclesiastical Court, merciful and forgiving towards their weaker brethren, obedient to the law, and anxious for the promotion of pure morality, and true religion. The Assembly of 1842 is egre giously defective in all these Christian virtues. Their unfeeling conduct towards their unoffending brethren, their numerous depositions of useful and venerable clergymen, and the unseemly strife which they excited in every Kirk Session, Presbytery, and Synod, are known to all, and we need not, therefore, Comment on them. But as regards the QUEEN, there h one part of their conduct whi c h can not be passed . over without some mark of disapproval, and wh!ch - will ---- require - the - serious — consideration of her MAJESTY'S advisers. They have re sisted. the' law, they threaten still to resist it, and while they remain impenitent and disobedient, we cannot see how they can be admitted into the pre sence of the First Magistrate, the especial guardian of the law. Any. ceremony of the kind would be an insult to her MAJESTY and an encouragement to evil doers, and we therefore confidently trust, when they wait on Sir JAMES GRAHAM, that he will bow them civilly out, and decline under present circumstances any address from a body so dangerous to the peace of the community. The dearth of important political news in the . French journals continues. Instead of proceeding to Switzerland and Prussia, M. THEIRS left Paris on Wednesday for Boulogne to examine the site of the Camp of NAPOLEON. The ex-Minister is engaged in writing his History of the Empire, which is to form ten volumes of a continuation of his History of the French Revolution. As M. THEIRS, when Minister for Foreign Affairs, had ready access to a number of important State papers never yet communicated _to the public, his new work will possess European in terest, provided that he only employ the most ordi nary industry, and honesty in the use of his materials. The French journals are still occupied with M. THIERS' speech and vote upoh the Regency question. It is clear that his friends do not know what to think about him. He has supplied them with no clue to his proceedings. For our own part, we believe that M. Thrums has made his own terms with the KING. At present he is not prepared to take office, as he wants to finish his History, which is already pur chased, but that he will have accomplished at the meeting of the Chambers in January. In the interim Many difficulties to his resumption of office will be quietly removed. In the fortifications of Paris he will find abundant grounds for abandoning his war like policy ; for what nation can be supposed fool hardy enough to provoke a hostile collision with an empire, whose capital is kept in order by the constant sight of the muzzles of 2,000 pieces of cannon ? The Duke DE NEMOURS, who was so unpopular during the lifetime of his brother the late Duke of ORLEANS, is quite a favourite with the people of Stras burg, where his Royal Highness is at present. Nothing so improves the temper, and so mollifies the speech, as the being a candidate for regal honours. , The accounts from Strasburg concur in describing the reception of his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours as most enthusiastic, and in stating that his unassuming demeanour dignified deeanohr produced the most favourableimpression upon all classes. A supplement of the Alsace of the 22d instant states that a telegraphic despatch, announcing the passing of the Regency Bill by the Chamber of Deputies, was communicated to his Royal Highness whilst he was dining with the autho ri:ties. " The young Prince," says the Alsace, "re cOived the news with modest dignity and affecting simplicity. He said—' If my dearest wishes should be accomplished, France will not have occasion for a Regent. But if God should one day call upon me to assume that difficult post, I wiil neglect nothing to show myself worthy of the con fidence of the country, and of the duties which are im posed upon me by the vote of the Chamber." A letter from Strasburg of the 21st, in the Debais, gives the following as the reply of the Prince to a General Officer, who had spoken to him of the new position in which the death of the Duke of Orleans has placed him. " My. dear General, I can never hop to replace my poor bro ther, who was so superior to me in all things ; but I will do my best. Every one has qualities peculiar to himself, and it will be by acting according to my own character, and to what Heaven wills that I should be, that I will endeavour to fulfil what is expected from me. It is al ready much to have right feelings, and the desire to do good. This is what will always be found in me." M. Casimir Perier, Charge d'Affaires of France at the Court of St. Petersburgh, arrived at Havre on Monday from that city, in the Amsterdam steamer. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 119 60... 119 65... 119 55... 119 65 3 per Cents 7$ 75... 78 75... 78 70... 78 75. Bank of France 3250 -.3250 ...3250 .. 3250 Laffitto Bank I,ooof 1030 -1030 ...1030- ...1030 5,000 f 5042 50...5045 ....5042 50...5045 Belgian Bank 770 770 770 ... 770 Belgian Fives lO2/ ... 102/ ... 102/ ... 102/ 1840 lO2/ ... 1021 ... 102/ ... 1021 Spanish Active 2ll ... 22/ ... 211 ... 211 Passive Neapolitan lO5 90... 105 90... 105 90... 105 90 Roman RAILWAY SHARES Versailles, R.B ...... 287 50... 287 50... 285 ... 285 L. 8.... 5 .91 25... 91 25... 91 25... 91 25 Rouen Orleans. 562 50... 562 50... 562 50... 562 50 Strasburg to Bale 2OO ... 200 ... 200 ... 200 BELGIAN FUNDS.-BausseLs, Ave. 24. .. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , s2' Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ . ... Loan of Thirty Millions, Four - per Cent 9l . ' -- -- Three per Cent...... , --Thirty-seven mini ns, ditt0......." • 70% ------- ow ..100% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent . Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. 86 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ...... 77 National Society . .. • Exchange on London (short) -Brussels Papers, Aug 14. HAMBUROH BORSEN HALLE. Ave. 23. Hills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1652 16.8 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB4 1094 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 103% Inscription, Ist series lO3 - Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 9th Series 99 974 Ditto in Certificates 97% 974 New 4 per Cent. (1840) 894 89% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ......... Ditto - 5 per Cent. - . Polish Bonds , - New Tickets. lO9 ' - Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent: .: '' ...; 80% ~ 60% Spanish, New spn Cents..:, ' ''^ - ...... "" IS i. . -- • .--!. EXCHANGES ON LON DOl O . HAMEURGH, Atro. '.'3 -13 9%, Two months I+ 74. tierocsroui, Apo. 16.-Seventy-five days, 12 15. VIENNA. AVG. 16.-Three months. 9. 42. ' PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-Bitaxtrr, Avo. 28. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bonds; 1830, s per cent. 1i,2 7 4 102% Exchange on London ... - 6 43% Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 21. THE LORD MAYOR'S DISAPPOINTMENT.—The Lord Mayor, laudably desirous of ensuring the Queen's safety during her voyage down the Thames, on her way to Scotland, made her an offer, the other day, through the Home Secretary, of his august pro tection, as " Conservator of the River," which offer her Majesty has been most graciously pleased to decline. We are not surprised at this, for there really is not the slightest occasion for the services of that formidable flo tilla, the City State barges. Are not the veteran warriors of Tilbury Fort, ready at hand to protect her Ma jesty, in case of the Royal yacht being unexpectedly attacked by an anonymous enemy ? Are not the Mayor and Corporation of Gravesend loyal to the back-bone, and would they not, in the event of danger, turn the bathing-machines into floating-bat teries ; arm all the Specials ; and lay in an extra stock of parish-beadles ? We grant that the heroic crews of the City barges, with the Lord Mayor as Commodore, would be of wonderful assistance to the Royal yacht — should it by any chance come into collision with a Thames pirate squadron, lying concealed, perhaps, among the bull-rushes on the Essex shore ; but we do not anticipate any such calamity ; and are of opinion, that his Lordship's offer of protection, as " Conservator of the River," however, well meant, was perfectly superfluous, and was, therefore, wisely declined by her Majesty. Meantime, we feel we cannot too highly applaud the Lord Mayor's amiable solicitude for the Royal safety. One mighty Poten tate is naturally interested in the welfare of another ; and his Lordship well knew that if the Queen had been escorted down the Thames. by th 6 State barges, with his. broad pennant as Commodore flying at the stern, just two yards off his dining room, she might have defied all obstruction and danger during the fresh-water portion of her voyage, no matter how terrific an aspect they might have as sumed; for the City barges, manned by their hardy and intrepid crew of Aldermen, would have swept the river as triumphantly as ever Nelson swept the Channel ! THE LATE DOCTOR MAGINN.—We regret to learn that this eminent scholar and consistent politician has left his widow and children in a state of great pecu niary embarrassment. Under. these circumstances, we trust that the Tory party will see the propriety of coming forward, and making some provision for his family, if only to testify that they are not without feelings of common gratitude towards a man whose pen was ever at their service, and who exhibited more zeal, ability, and perseverance as a partizan, than al most any Tory writer of the day. By his contribu tions to Blackwood's and Fraser's Magazines, to the Quarterly Review, to the Standard, and several other party periodicals, Doctor Maginn proved himself a " tower of strength" to the Tories ; and boldly stood by them, through evil and through good report, cheer ing them in the days of their despondency, when even the most sanguine of the squad, alarmed by the general enthusiasm for Reform, began to entertain se rious doubts whether they would ever again be able to muster a hundred votes in Parliament. For our own part, while we repudiate Doctor Maginn's political views, we cannot but respect the manliness and consistency with which he supported them. As a literary man, he is not less deserving of ad miration. He was a ripe and ready scholar, a good linguist, endowed with a vivid and pro lific fancy, and full toll overflowing of that riotous, mercurial, extravagant humour, which we admire so much in Rabel a i s . At times, he could be sternly— bitterly sarcastic ; no man more so ; but generally speaking, the leading quality of his humour was bon hommie. A more invincibly good-natured wag than Sir Morgan O'Doherty, never set the multitudinous readers of Blackwood grinning from ear to ear. In his private capacity, .the Doctor was social, warm- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING-, AUGUST__27, 1842. hearted; thoughtless, and ever ready - to assist destitute literary men, and indeed all 'who applied to him for pecuniary aid. Considering the hectic, feverish life he led—the necessary consequence of Vs vocation as an author—his flow of spirits was remarkable; and it is greatly to his credit that he has left behind him many sincere friends,' and not one enemy. Another large failure in the corn speculation trade took place yesterday. The party's name is Richmond, a Quaker. The exact amount is not yet ascertained. LAW BOOKS FOR NEW ZEALAND.—According to the Parliamentary Paper, No. 583, there were pur chased and supplied to the Government of New Zea land, in 1840, 3 copies cf " Plunket's Australian Ma gistrate," 1 copy of " Archbold's Practice," 4 vols. of " Blackstone's Commentaries," 2 sets of " Black tore's Commentaries," 1 set of "Burn's Jus tice," 2 of " Archbold's Pleading and Evidence," and I of " Abbott on Shipping ;" also " Burn's Justice," complete in 5 vols., price 101.;1 set of the " Statutes at Large," in 22 vols., and 1 set of Acts of Parlia ment, from Magna Charta to the 2d of Victoria. For a new colony, of which the Governor is a Commander of the Navy, that seems to us a very ample supply of law books. Their cost, it is true, was only 1411., but then law books will not do much toward:, clearing the wilderness and bring an unbroken soil into cultivation. It was not with such tools that the early settlers esta blished the present United States. The Wakefield scheme of colonization is stigmatised as a mistake, because it attempts to give the peculiarities of so ciety, formed by the necessities of a narrow space, to a society which has space at its command. But what is that to the pedantry of ruling a new society by Abbot on Shipping," or " Archbold's Practice, ' or the " Statutes at Large ?" Captain Hobson bids fair to have as many litigants as subjects, and the colony to be a snore agreeable place for barristers than farmers. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. , CITI, FRIDAY EVENING. The prices of the Funds exhibited a further im provement at the close of the market than at three o'clock. The causes then assigned will be sufficient to account for this ; and although some disappoint ment may arise from the absence of internal business, which causes such an abundance of money, yet the absence of speculation in foreign bonds will afford a counterpoise. If the money be required for any special purpose it is here, and can be easily obtained without creating any considerable alteration in the prices of the stocks. Consols left off at 921 for Money, and 92/ for the Account ; Bank Stock, 167 169 ; India Stock, 251 '252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. The prices of the securities were—Belgian 101- 102 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 52152+; the Five per Cents., 102 102+; Danish, 83 84 ; and Brazilian,6s/ 66. The quotation of Mexican declined to 34+ 341, although it has not been mentioned in the official lists to-day. The Share Market has improved to a trifling ex tent—London and Birmingham being 182 184; Birmingham and Gloucester, 40 42 ; Great Western, 85/ 864• ; the Half Shares, 66 66/ ; South West ern, 624 63} ; North Midland, 57 59 ; the New Shares, 28 29; Eastern Counties, 9 ; Black wall, 81 8f; Northern and Eastern, 38139 ; and Brighton, 33/ 33f per share. Te Exchanges were again all better to-day—Am sterdam being 12 6+ ; Rotterdam, 12 6k- ; Antwerp, 12 4/ 12 44 ; Hamburgh, 13 12, 13 121; Frankfort, 1501 151/, and Paris, 25f. 80c., 25f. 82/c. The large amount bills -offering on these several countries must lead to the conclusion that an increase in the export trade is going on. It is generally the case that at this season of the year a drain takes place upon the Bank of England for gold, and a corresponding decline in the rates on foreign countries. Now, however, the contrary has to be noticed, and if it be, as it is generally attributed, to the late relaxation in the Corn-laws it becomes a serious question as to how much might: be affected if a total alteration in them should take place. It may here be mentioned that another and an extensive failure has occurred in the Corn-market to -day. he Sun of Last Night.) The firmness of the funds noticed last night has increased to-day, and prices are again higher; Consols being 921 921 for Money, and 92+ 92+ for the Ac count ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931 ; Three and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 100+; New Three and a-Half per Cents., 100 i ; Bank Stock, 167 168+; India Stock, 250, 1 5. 251+ ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 49 . 52 ; New, 51 53 prem. The Foreign Securities are rather better, conse quent upon the improvement of our Stocks. :Dutch Five per Cents., 102 102/ ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521528 ; Danish, 841 84+, have been in cluded in the transactions of the morning. Mexican Bonds arc not quoted in the official lists to-day. The depression which appeared in the Share Market yesterday has somewhat subsided, although business has been limited. London and Birmingham have been sold at 182 ; Thirds, 594; - New Thirds, 304 ; South Western, 63; Brighton, 334; Blackwall, 84; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49 ; and Bristol and Exeter, 44. Spanish are the only Bonds quoted to-day ; the Five per Cents. 204, and the Three per Cents. 20, a small bargain having been made in each. The decision of the American President on_ the Tariff, though expected, has caused much gloom to be thrown over American affairs here. The degree of uncertainty in all mercantile transactions con nected with that country, forbids any consignments, it not being known what duties will be collected, since all that are now paid are so under protest, it being contended that no power exists for levying any at all. This proceeding of Mr. Tyler is unfortunate also for the holders of the various State bonds, as tending still further to depress trade, from the revival of which they can alone expect relief,•and still more unfortunate for the Federal Government itself, as the new loan about to be attempted to be negotiated here is to be provided for out of the Customs revenues. - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 25.—A slight improvement is perceptible in the Share mar ket to-day. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and London and Birminghams, are in good demand. The follow ing sales have been reported :—Great Western, 864; London and Birmingham, 182; Ditto, Quarters, 48; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH, FUNDS. Bank Stack 3 per Cent. Red. ....,... 921 3 per Cent. Con. 92i 3i per Cent. Red... 1011 Now 3i per Cent... ...... 1001 N.ns L per Cent. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 12i India Stock 251 pm Ditto Bonds ••• Ditto Old Annuities ... 90 Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d. 49 pm Ditto 5001...... 51 pm Ditto Small 49 pm Bank Stock for Acct — India Stock for 0pg.... Consols for Acct....... 92/ FUNDS. Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bondi... — Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos A yres6 per cent. 'Russian, 5 pei cent ..... tAilian, 6 per cent —i Ditto, Metallic ..... - .... Colombian. 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred..., . Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —a. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f C. Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 percent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 521 Peruvian, 18'25,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 102 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ........• ... .. 44 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• ... 491 Great Western Railway (65 paid) B5l Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid).. Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ... ... 8 London and Brighton (50 paid)... .., 34 London and Blackwall ( paid) ..... ...... 8/ London arid Birmingham (90) ........•..... 182 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) .. ......... ... London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 631 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. 1 Amsterdam CF. 12 ai Gibraltar 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 9 Genoa , 25 95 Antwerp l2 71 Milan . ..... .... 3l Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per os 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon 521 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine... 1511 Bahia Fetersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effec. A. 3 M 957 'Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 59 (PRICES OF BULLION, PER 05. Madrid Cadiz Bilb ao ... 36 !New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville WHEAT MUCH CHEAPER THAN FLOUR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sill,—You generally open the columns of your valuable paper to exposing gross humbug, from what ever quarter it may proceed. It is universally known and admitted, that in the last fortnight, wheat of all sorts has fallen in value 6s. per quarter imperial ; and still at the same time the Leeds Mercury, in its quotation of the Wakefield Corn Market, has not quoted any positive decline. Is it the avowed object of the party who furnishes the list of prices to deceive the public as to the real state of the market? The result is, that in this district, particularly in this borough, flour is ss. per sack higher than the relative value of wheat, and the poor are deprived of the blessing of cheap bread. Your insertion of this will oblige Wakefield, Aug. 25. A CONSTANT READER. [The Leeds Mercury, no doubt., gives the market prices as furnished by . accredited parties; and can have no interest, except m furnishing correct returns. As our Correspondent is well acquainted with the trade, he would have conferred a favour by explain ing what many people regard as inexplicable—the high price of flour as comp ar ed with wheat, for this anomaly is not confined to Wakefield.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 20 added. Three quarters of a mile. (3 Subs.) Mr. Griffiths na, Valetta, 2 yrs, 75t.,... (Whitehouse) I Mr. I. Day's Blazer, 3 yrs, 9st 2 Won easy. The Herefordshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added. Twice round. (14 Subs., 10 paid.). Mr. I. Day's Viola, 4 yrs, 7st (Arthur) 1 Mr. T. Wilkes' Dr. Allen, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b 2 Mr. Gough's AimweN, aged, Bst 3 Mr. Morris's Fat Jack, aged, Bst 21b 4 Fat Jack the favourite. Won by a head, after a fine race. The hunters' Stakes (handicap) of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 2ft only if declared, with 50 added. Heats, twice round. (15 Subs.) Mr. Robinson's Finality, aged, list 41b Mr. Tollett's The Tiger, aged, 12st Mr. Hillick's Henley, 5 yrs, 12st Mr. Davis's Pickwick, 5 yrs, lOst 111 b 2 dr Two others started. Won in a, canter. Sweentakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Heats, one mile and a half. (4 Subs.) Mr. Gough's Fausta, 4 yrs, Bst 21b.....(D0dg50n) 1 1 Mr. I. Day's Viola , 4 yr s, Bs t 41 b 4 2 yrs, 9st 941) 1 6 Y, 6 yrs, Bst 10Ib .. 3 dr Mr.lllr. ( L I s o r y t e k s q a y s , S s i , s r t l e l t e • t c o o F lr\s e ra r oi n nr e, easy. y. The Farmers' Plate of 50/. Heats, twice round. Mr. Hall's Safety, 5 yrs, list llb (Turner) 3 1 1 10st 51b..... 1 2 3 llst 191 b..... 2 3 2 C ll r . i‘ la oi s l v k k i i i n o s u ' s s e l ,s i r e y ll a i g n a g r t7, 4 a 3 g .r e s d ; Won in a canter. NORTHAMPTON RACES —THURSDAY. The Northamptonshire Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. eac.h The winner to be sold for 500/., 84c. Twice round. (13 Subs.) 1 Mr. Collins' Rochester, 3 yrs ..... The Free Handicap did not fill. WARE RACES.—ThuRsDAy. The Ware Park Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added, twice round and a distance, were won by Mr. Casidy's bl F by Jerry, out of Revelry, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Casidy, jun.), beating the Miller's Maid, aged, 9st 11b, and Charlatan, aged, 9st nib. The Ladies' Plate, twice round and a distance, was won by Mr. Rig-gins' Charlatan, 6 yrs, 9st 111 b, beating Gorsebush, aged, 9st 111 b, and Agnes, 5 yrs, Bst n The Tally-ho Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added, twice round and a distance, over four hurdles, were won by Mr. W. Hudson's Ware Lassie, aged, 12st, beating Mr. N. Cobham's Cannon-ball, aged, 12st, Mischief, aged, 12st, and Cadland, aged, 13st. _ _ — The Town Stakes of 2 sous. each, and a purse added, twice round and a distance, were won by Mr. Hudson's Ware Lassie, 6 yrs., lOst Mb, beating Harlequin, 6 yrs 10st, and two others. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vitt)ltt 44) pintail. " Who runs ntay read." FOREIGN. The discussion in the Paris journals of the Oppo- . sition relative to the recent vote of M. Thiers, con tinues to be the main feature in their original columns. Those which have been alike remarkable for their hostility to the - ex-Minister, and to the pre sent Cabinet, persist in regarding the difference be tween M. Thiers and M. Odilon Barrot as indicative of a breaking up of the coalition between M. Thiers and the Left of the Chamber, whilst on the contrary the journals which have supported that coalition are evidently endeavouring to prevent a general rupture. ./The news of the blockade of San Juan de Nica ragua by the English has furnished the Presse and the National with a pretext for nearly two columns of comment on what these journals call the spirit of encroachment of the English Government. We do not find anything, however, in what they say on the present occasion worthy of extract. The remarks are in an unfriendly spirit, and evince determination to.' attribute all the proceedings of England to wrong , Motives. We find the following in the Akhbar of Algiers of the 15th inst. :—" The sickness has become frightful. Cerebral fever is especially prevalent, and is almost always mortal. No locality is spared. At Dely Ibrahim, a village which was celebrated for its salu brity, there is great mortality. The cause of this is the intense heat, and probably there will be many more victims before the beginning of autumn. Our troops have suffered much, but fortunately no precau tions are • spared against this scourge, which every summer makes of Algeria a frightful charnel-house. A Transylvanian journal gives a disastrous account of the fire at Beresk. This journal says :—" In less than one hour 272 houses and 434 farm-buildings were reduced to ashes, with all their contents, and 18 persons Ntrercturnt - to death." IVe • • •••• horn •••• . Prom Constantinople that Sir Stratford Canning had succeeded in obtaining redress for the Albanian disorders in the lonian Islands. A Turkish flotilla will unite with the Thiglish ships on that :station to capture the marauders. The Russians have suffered in their late encounters With the Circassians. Eight pieces of artillery had been captured from General Grabbe's camp, but were retaken, except two pieces, with a loss, however, of 1,600 Russians, and 60 officers. This attack on the Russian camp was made on the 13th of June. Nothing new from Persia. Diplomacy was striving to heal the differences, but the. Porte was bent, on war, and refused all concessions. The Russian Mi nister had intimated to the Porte, that it would not allow the Shah to be dethroned, as Russia had gua ranteed the present settlement in Persia. MONEY-ItaDE-COMIKERCE. The Marquis of Downshire is at present employ ing not less than 1,200 labourers in draining and other public works in Ireland. LAW AND POLICE, Three revolting murders have within the last fort night been, committed in Ireland, viz., of Thomas Long at Limerick, stoned to death ; of a woodranger, named Home'', in Clare ; and of a man named Mercer, in Tyrone. Captain Philip Partridge, of the brig Yarrow, of Liverpool, was brought up for re-examination at the Thames police on Thursday, charged with the wilful murder of three Spanish sailors, between Benin, on the coast of Africa, and the Island of Teneriffe, in the latter part of last year. The investigation was postponed for a week, and the prisoner sent back to Clerkenwell prison. The case will be ultimately sent before a Jury. Dennis Clements, a seafaring man, aged 68, was tried at the Old Bailey, on Thursday, harged with the wilful murder of Bridget Clethents, alias Holloway. The prisoner was found - guilty - of manslaughter, and sentenced to two years' hard labour at the Maidstone House of Correction. LITERARY AND scxEurrxrxc. The lightnings of the present season have been de scribed by M. Arago to consist of four distinct kinds. 1. The• striped, or zig-zag lightning; which developcs itself with great rapidity; 2, the sheet lightning, which covers a large surface of clouds; 3, the globular lightning, in which the electric fluid seems to be con densed,.and the motion of which is slow ; and 4, the phosphoric flash, which hangs for some time on the edges of the clouds. THEATRICAL. Rachel has just ,concluded a series of successful performances at Brussels : Fanny Ellsler is shortly expected in Paris : Rubini, after concluding his Lon don engagement, betakes himself to the English pro vinces to give concerts. SPORTING. The Marquis of Westminster is about to retire from the turf altogether. After the Doncaster rrce meeting his splendid racing stud will be reduced, and part of his horses sent to Eaton Hall for sale. _ _ A field day of excellent rifle-shooting was held on Thursday at the Brecknock Arms Tavern, Camden road, when Mr. Catherwood won the principal silver medal. The Society of which it is composed was first established in 1808 by the King of Hanover, then Duke of Cumberland, himself a first-rate rifle shot. Two rowing matches took place on Thursday at Isle worth, both on the same reach of water. The first was in honour of the marriage of Lord Prudhoe, which took place that morning; and the second for a new wherry and other prizes given by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, of whom the above Noble Lord is brother. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Thursday Lord Prudhoe, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, was married at St. George's, Hano ver-square, to Lady Eleanor Grosvenor, eldest daugh ter of Earl Grosvenor. The Archbishop of York officiated. At the same time, and at the same church, Lord Parker, eldest son of the Earl of Macclesfield, was married to Lady Mary Frances Grosvenor, second daughter of Earl - Grosvenor. Prince Leichtenstein is daily expected to arrive in this country from Vienna. Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili left Mivart's Hotel on Thursday for Alton-Towers, Staffordshire. Lord Rivers arrived in London on Thursday from Ant werp. The Duke of Wellington left town on Thursday, on a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert at 'Windsor Castle. The Dowager Lady Rendlesham and the Hon. Misses Thelluson have joined the circle at Wynyard Park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has gone down to Wynyard, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, in order to be pre sent at the festivities to be given in celebration of Lord Seabanis attaining his majority. MISCELLANEOUS. The tomb of Sir John Ilanbury, buried in Han bury church, Staffordshire, 531 years ago, was re cently opened there ; on removal of the alabaster slab and effigy, only dust and decayed bones were found. The English cholera is raging very extensively about London at present, and is produced in most instances by an over-indulgence in fruit. For the last 50 years fruit has not been remembered to be so plentiful in the metropolitan markets as at present. The Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum held their half-yearly meeting at the London Tavern on Thurs day ; the Report read was very favourable. Amongst the numerous Arabic inscriptions with which the walls of the Alhambra, at Grenada, are covered, is the, following, round the margin of the fountain in the Court of Lions :—" Blessed is he who gave the Imam Mahommed a mansion which in beauty exceeds all other mansions." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—This morning abopt seven o'clock her 11.1ajesty's private band, and the band of the 2d Life Guards, perforMed a serenade on the South terrace of the Castle, in honour of Prince Albert's birthday. At half-past one o'clock her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield and the Earl of Denbigh; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by her Lady in Waiting; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, arrived at the Castle to pay congratulatory visits on the auspicious event. The illustrious party remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Queen Dowager and suite, and the Duchess of Gloucester left at three o'clock. Iler Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kcnt, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, after wards left the Castle in a pony phaeton and four, and drove through the street to the Great Park, at tended by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Mary Howard, 'Viscount and Viscountess Canning, and the rest of the visitors, and also the whole of the Royal Suite in pony phaetons. The Earl ofJersey arrived on a visit. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Lord Charles Wellesley, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Major-General and Ladv Isabella Wemyss, and Mr. George Edward and the * Hon. Mrs. Anson, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. Both bawls will be in attendance at the Castle. The whole of the visitors are expected to leave to morrow. The town is generally illuminated, and a splendid display of fireworks under the superintendence of Mr. Fenwick, will take place at nine o'clock upon the Round Tower. Her Majesty and the Prince took their early walk in the Home Park. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out; both morning and afternoon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, left Bushey House, Bushey Park, yesterday morning, to pay a visit of congratulation to her Majesty and her illus trious Consort, on the auspicious return of Prince Albert's natal day. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at his residence in St. James's Palace, on Thursday night, from the north. Yesterday his Royal Highness went to Kew. Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday morn ing from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-office in the after noon. Sir James afterwards left town on his return to Windsor Cattle. The Agent for Jamaica, and Mr. Marryatt, had an terview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colo- nial-office. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Thornton, Deputy-Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Rev. Dr. Polding had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Ripon left town on Thursday for Lea mington, Warwickshire. PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTHDAY. THE ILLUMINATIONS. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birth day of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, most of the tradesmen to the Household, and other patriotic individuals, testified their loyalty and re spect by illuminating in the usual manner. The illuminations, though by no means so numerous as of late, were still plentiful enough. The following are amongst the most attractive Tan TIIEATRES.—Her Majesty's Theatre ex hibited a gorgeous illumination. It consisted of the letters P. A. in amber-coloured lamps of large dimen sions, encircled by laurel wreaths, and surmounted by a splendid coronet of variegated lamps. The Haymarket.—A plain star of variegated lamps in the centre, with the letters P. A. in amber. BOND-STREET.--Mitchell, publisher, No. 33, ex hibited an elegant radiating gas star of the order of the Bath, with the initials P. A. in its centre. Bishop, goldsmith, No. 170.—P. A. in amber-co loured lamps, with a lozenge star in the centre, sur mounted by a projecting crown, and supported by a gun in variegated lamps. Storr and Mortimer, jewellers, No. 156.—A very elegant gas crown of large dimensions. Delcroix, perfumer, No. 158.—The initials P. A. in amber-coloured lamps, with a projecting crown of amber and purple lamps in the centre. PICCADILLY.—Robson and Co., house decorators. —The initials, P. A., in elegant gas, with a star in the centre. REGENT-.STREET.—Ponsonby and Son, plate-glass warehouse.—This house presented one blaze of light, the whole of the balconies being illuminated with gas. THE HArmAasEr.—Brecknell, Turner, and Son, tallow-chandlers.—A most magnificent single gas star of immense dimensions. This was decidedly the most beautiful " star of the night," and attracted universal admiration. PANTON-STREET.—Garrard, silversmith.—The ini tials P. A. in amber, with a projecting crown in the centre in variegated lamps. ST. JAMES'S-STREET. The Guard's Club House.— This illumination was decidedly the most magnificent of the night, and attracted the greatest number of spectators. It comprised two splendid stars of the Order of the Bath in gas, beneath which was the orb or mound in green, purple, and amber-coloured lamps, and on each side the letters P. A. in jets of gas ; the whole being surmounted by a magnificent crown. Crockford's Club House.—A splendid projecting crown in variegated lamps, with the Star of the Or der of the Garter formed in gas jets. Beneath this were the letters P. A., encircled with splendid wreaths, composed of green, red, and amber-coloured lamps. This display also attracted a large concourse of *sons. PALL-MALL.—Messrs. Graves and Company, the print-sellers, exhibited a splendid Brunswick star, with the letters P. A. in the centre. None of the public offices throughout the metropo lis were illuminated, neither did we observe any of the Club-houses, save those - which we have already men tioned. The streets at the West-end were crowded with respectable-looking persons ; indeed, the neighbour hood of St. Jamees-street, Bond-street, and PiCCD dilly presented the appearance of a fair. Several bands ' paraded the streets, playing the National Anthem, and the utmost order and good feeling seemed to animate the sight-seekers, who thronged the streets until a late hour. THE QUEEN IN THE HIGHLANDS The last Sovereign that visited the Highlands of Scotland was also a Queen—the beautiful and un fortunate Mary Queen of Scots. The Royal journey was made about the same time of the year as that proposed by Queen Victoria; but Mary rode on horse back. Roads there were none • and no wheeled car riage was seen north of Perth before 1715. Charles the Second, when in Scotland, during the Common wealth, was crowned at Scone, on New Year's day, 1651 ; but while the sceptre was held by the more vigorous and able hand of Cromwell, Charles is scarcely entitled to the honours of monarchy ; and he does not seem to have made any perambulation of our Highland district. The Scottish Queen left Stirling on the 18th of August (old style) in the year 1562, and took nine days in travelling to Aberdeen. The ac commodations could not have been very princely, for the two secretaries—Randolph and Maitland—who accompanied Mary, had to sleep together in the same bed ! From Aberdeen the Queen proceeded to Inverness, and the room then occupied as her parlour is now the counting-room or office of Mr. Ferguson, wine-merchant. The house has since been completely modernised in appearance—the old turnpike-stair and, projecting balcony, with the capacious kitchen, are removed. Mary got but a stormy re ception here. The Marquis of Huntly was all paramount, and he was in arms against the Crown. The Castle of Inverness was taken by storm, and the Governor put to death. The Queen was of an intrepid spirit—she had not then tasted deep of adversity ; and Randolph writes that, when the Lords and others at Inverness came to her in the morning, after the watch, she wished she had been a man "to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk the causeway (rough enough our causeway was then, and long afterwards, though often darned) with a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broad-sword !" Queen Victoria visits the North in happier times ; but if danger were near, she would be as little inclined to quail as her predecessor. Her journey will be one continued triumph. If a parallel were drawn between the state of Scotland at Mary's journey, and as it is now, with its com merce, its means of communication, its arts and ' luxuries, it would be seen how much may b e d one by industry and public spirit, supported by freedom, in surmounting the difficulties of a rugged soil and northern climate. We wish that Queen Victoria had resolved on penetrating as far north as Queen Mary ; but this may be done at some future period. At all events (as we consider the whole of the High lands to be within our_ beat), we shall attend the Royal, movements, and chronicle them faithfully and fully for our readers.—lnverness Courier. THE STAMP DUTIES in IRELAND. A Table of the Stamp Duties in Ireland, payable under the sth and 6th Victoria, c. 82, and other Acts. By Hugh Tilsley, Esq., of the Stamp and Tar• offlee, London. Published by' Stevens and Norton, Bell yard, Lincoln's Inn; and Millikin, Dublin. A real benefit is conferred on Ireland by this com- pilation • indeed we do not see how professional men, and others, having to do with stamps in Ireland, can possibly carry on their business without it. By the recent Act the public are told to use the same stamps in Ireland as in England, but they are not informed what those stamps are, nor are they. even referred to the Acts of Parliament granting them ; so that Nvithout some such guide as that now afforded them, they must have been left to find their way in the ark, as they best could. This book furnishes all that can be desired : it is Complete in itself; it not only contains a list, in alphabetical order, of all the duties now payable, but references to the various Acts in England, as well as in Ireland, (for it seems that some duties are left as before) imposing them. The late Act also imports into Ireland some of the English law too, but in this instance it kindly refers to the Acts ; they relate to legacy duties, sea policies, and appraisenaents, and are given in this publication, as well as the assimilating Act itself; so that, to ob tain this book, is to procure all the information that can be required. Professional men, merchants, and otheri, should immediately possess themselves of it. The highest recommendation that can be bestowed upon it is to refer to the source from whence it comes. EXCHEQUER BILLS .FRAUD. REPORT. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. (Continued from The Sun of Thursday.) In January, 1841, Mr. John Mollett, merchant and agent for the house of Steiglitz, at St. Peters burgh, laid out 13,0001., the moneys of that house, by lending the same to Mr. Simonds, a broker in the Russian trade, at 5,1 1 per cent. per annum for a fort night, secured by a deposit of thirteen instruments, purporting to be Exchequer bills for 1,000/. each, which loan was afterwards from time to time conti nued at 5 per cent., but in other respects on the same terms. These instruments had been received by Mr. Si monds from Mr. De Berckem, the former acting as broker for the latter in this transaction, and receiving a difference of interest at the rate of half per cent. per annum by way of commission ; and the fact that the money was borrowed for Mr. De Berckem was communicated to Mr. Monett at the time, and Mr. Mollett ultimately adopted Mr. De Berckem as the party responsible to him for repayment. Previous to this transaction Mr. Mollett had frequent dealings with Mr. Simonds, and was personally acquainted with Mr. De Berckem, but had had no dealings with the latter. Mr. Simonds also was personally ac quainted with Mr. De Berckem, but there had been no previous dealings between them. In April and May 1841, Mr, Mollett obtained advances of money in his own name from Messrs, Currie and Co., bankers, amoiniting altogether to the sum of 13,0001.; and the advances were at 44- and 5 per cent., subject to a recal on one day's notice by either party, and were secured by a deposit in his own name, of the same bills which had been received through Mr. Simonds froin Mr. De Berth. Of these advances, 9,0001 . was in the June follov7lfig paid off; Mr. Mollett at the same time obtaining a new ad vance from Mr. Henry Currie on his separate account of 6,0001. at 5 f per cent., subject to recal as above stated ; and for his security leaving in deposit with the firm six of the instruments above mentioned—so that ten bills then remained on deposit with Messrs. Currie and Co. on the joint and several account. On the 7th June, 1941 (tbe period for the June exchanges of Exchequer bills being then arrived), Mr. Mollett retired two of the ten bills, and replaced them by Nos. 8,445 and 8,446 (part of those now in question), and afterwards, on the 24th June following, retired the other eight and replaced them by Nos. 7,057-7,064 (the remainder of those now in ques tion) ; the numbers thus delivered in lieu of the for mer ones having been received for the purpose by Mr. Mollett for Mr. Simonds, and by Mr. Simonds from Mr. De Berekem. The 24th of June, on which the last substitution took place, was after the period al lowed for the exchange of June bills at the Paymas ter's office ; and it appears that, before that period had elapsed, an inquiry had been made by Messrs. Currie and Co. of Mr. Mollett whether they should them selves send up the bills, and upon this inquiry being transmitted to Mr. De Berckem through Mr. Simonds the proposal had been declined by Mr. De Berckem ; in consequence of which, Mr. Simonds had informed Mr. Mollett that it was not necessary to send the bills up, who had returned an answer to the same effect to Messrs. Currie and Co. But upon the exa mination of the several parties (to which we refer), we are satisfied that these circumstances excited no suspicion at the time, in the minds of Messrs. Currie and Co., or of Mr. Mollett, or of Mr. Simonds. On the 24th October, 1841, Messrs. Currie and Co. applied to Mr. Mollett for repayment, when he re quested them to sell the bills in their hands. Mr. Adam Hilton, their broker, accordingly sold by their direction five of the bills (Nos. 7,058-7,062) to Mr. Isaac Hensley, of the Stock Exchange, and five of them (Nos. 7,057, 7,063, 7,064, 8,445, 8,446), to William Scott and Son, of the Stock Exchange ; all parties being at the time aware that rumours had begun to prevail that there were Exchequer bills impro perly in circulation, but the purchasers relying on the respectability of Messrs. Currie and Co., as a sufficient guarantee of the bills in question. The bills pur chased by Mr. Hensley remained in his hands until the public discovery cif the fraud, when the same being found not to coincide with the counterfoils, he claimed and received back from Messrs. Currie and Co., the amount of the purchase money, 5,8601.175. 6d. The bills purchased by W. Scott and Son, were re sold by them to other parties, four of them to James Capel, as broker to Messrs Coutts and Co., and the other to Messrs. Thomas and Co. ; and these also being found not to coincide with the counterfoils, were re turned by the purchasers in succession, upon Messrs. Currie and Co., who have consequently refunded to W. Scott and Son the amount of the,purchase money, 5,1041. 6s. 3d. Under these circumstances Messrs. Currie and Co., and Mr. Henry Currie become respectively claimants on the whole of the bills in question. CASE IV. No. 8,283. (1 Bill.) Claimant.—Divid Neves 'Henriques, Esq. Series of Holders.—D. N. Henriques, Harry Torn kins, F. T. De Berckem, William Mariner, E. Ra polio. D. N. Henriques, Esq., formerly a merchant in Jamaica, but of late resident in England, wishing to invest 1,0001. for a temporary purpose in the purchase of an Exchequer-bill, communicated this on the 21st of April, 1841, to Mr. Harry Tomkins (referred to in Case I.), whom he had been in the habit of em ploying as his stockbroker. Mr. Tomkins in formed him that the premium was then 15s. per cent., and this being higher than suited the object of Mr. Henriques, he declined making the purchase. Mr. Tomkins then stated that he thought Mr. Henriques could accomplish all he desired, by lending out the money on an Exchequer bill for a month, with power to call it in at the expiration of that period at one day's notice, and said that he would himself take the loan on those terms, paying interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. To tins sugges tion Mr. Henriques acceded, and, in pursuance of it, handed over to him on the same day the sum of 1,0001., receiving from him on the other hand a deposit of the bill in question which remained in the hands of Mr. Henriques until the public discovery of the fraud. This bill had been originally , deposited with Mr. Tomkins by Mr. De Berckem, in . the course of the transactions between those parties described in Case 1, and is comprised in the accounts of these transactions, set forth at pp. 292 and 356. It was afterwards de posited by Mr. Tomkins with Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Co., bankers, being one of a considerable number of instruments purporting to be Exchequer bills, on which he from time to time procured loans from them in his own name, but on behalf of Mr. De Berckem (an account of which loans will be found in the evi dence of Mr. Dobson, p. 76), and it was redeemed from that bank by Mr. Tomkins, for the purpose of the de posit with Mr. Henriques above-mentioned. CASE V. No. 7,102. (1 Bill.) Claimant.—Mr. Thomas Boys. Series of Holders.—Thomas Boys, William Dob son, harry Tomkins, F. T. De Bercketn, Mariner, E. Rapallo. Mr. Thomas Boys, clerk in the house of Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., having 1,000/. disengaged, applied to 'William Dobson, chief cashier in the house of Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Co., for his advice as to its employment for a short period.. Mr. Dobson said, that he had recently lent the same amount on the security of an Exchequer bill, and that he had ho doubt he could procure a borrower of Mr. Boys's money on similar security, at the interest of 4 per cent. per annum. Mr. Boys acceded to this proposal, and in pursuance of it he soon afterwards, viz. 14th October, 1841, handed orer to Mr. Dobson the 1,000/., and re ceived from him the bill in question as a security for the repayment of that sum, with interest at four per cent., the money to be repaid at one day's notice by either of the parties. The bill remained in Mr. Boys's hands until the public discovery of the forgeries. The name of the borrower was not stated by Mr. Dobootil but he had in fact made the loan to Mr. M...... 0 =..........m. Tomkins (referred to in Case I.), with v .'hom he was well acquainted ; and Mr. Tomkins had bca'rel wed the money in his own name, but on account of Mr. d e Berckem, obtaining a deposit of the bill I - 0. - n the latter, in the course of those transactions with him that are stated in Case I.—(See the accounts set i 'brth at pp. 292 and 356.) CASE VI. Nos. 7,067, 7,069, 7,071, 7,097, 8,411, 8,463 (6 Bills. ) 3 ___. Ncs. 8,304-8,306.... • • Total 9 Claimants.—Messrs. It. and W. Ilichens and larriFoll. Series of Holders as to first set.—R. and W. lichens and Harrison, E. L. Morgan, William and James Morgan, E. Rapallo. Series of Holders as to second set.—R. and W. lichens and Harrison, J. Wray Scott, F. T. De Berckem, William Mariner, E. Rapallo. Robert lichens, William lichens, and Frederick Harrison, under the firm of R. and W. lichens and Harrison, carried on long prior and up to the time of the public discovery of the fraud in October last, the business of stotkbrokers and money dealers, their _ _ . transactions in the latter line being extremely exten sive, and involving loans, during the year 1841, to an average amount of three millions a month, or 100,0001. a day. The latter branch of business they have, how ever, since been compelled to discontinue, owing to the difficulties in which they have been involved as holders of the nine bills now in question, and as nego ciators in manner hereafter mentioned of 43 others comprised in the schedule to the Act of Parliamen f. As to the first set of bills the facts are these : Mossrs. R. and Win. 'lichens and Harrison had been in the habit, for several years prior to May, 1841, viz., from 1835 downwards, of lending large sums of money to Mr. E. L. Morgan (mentioned in Case I.) on the deposit partly of Exchequer bills, partly of stock ; and upon all these occasions, as well as on those occurring from May to October, 1841, as hereinafter mentioned, the money was borrowed by him in his own name, but on behalf of the firm of Messrs. Wm. and James Morgan, to whom he ac cordingly handed it over, and from whom he received on every occasion such securities as were given in deposit upon the several loans.- Between 13th May and 14th October (bat': inclu sive) Messrs. R. and W. Hichens and Harrison wade advances to E. L. Morgan to the aggregate amouni: of 59,5001., at such dates, and for such periods, and at such rates of interest as set forth in the account p. 246 ; and received from him by way of security from time to time,. deposits of sixty instruments, as there also set forth, purporting to be Exche quer bills (viz. fifty-nine for 1,0001. each, and one purporting to be an Exchequer bill for 5001.) twelve of which were afterwards taken away, and twelve others substituted by Mr. E. L. Morgan at the June ex change of 1841. Of the sixty bills thus left with them in deposit (after allowing for the substitutions), ten were redeemed by Mr. E. L. Morgan, forty-three were negociated by Messrs. R. and W. Hitchens and Harrison to other parties, one (being the bill for 5001. which was ascertained to be good) was sold on the discovery of the fraud, and the other six (being the first set of bills now in question) remained at that period in their own hands. As to the second set of bills the facts are as follows : On the 21st of October, 1841, and before the dis covery of the fraud, Messrs. R. and W. Hitchens and Harrison advanced to Mr. J. Wray Scott (with whom they had some previous dealings of the same kind) 3,0001. at the interest of five per cent. until the 26th of October following ; and received from him a de posit of three instruments purporting to be Exchequer bills, being the second set of bills, now in question, which remained in their hands at the time of the pub- lie discovery of the fraud. Mr. Scott (who was a stockbroker, and member of the Stock Exchange) received these bills on the same 21st of October from F. T. De Berckem, for whom he had been in the habit since November, 1839, of pro curing money on loan, secured by deposits of Ex chequer bills (or instruments purporting to be such), the nature of the dealings between these parties (which was according to the usual course of business) being as follows, that Mr. Scott borrowed the money in his own name (without mention of Mr. De Berckem) depositing for that purpose the bills which he had previously received from Mr. De Berckem ; while, on the other hand, he charged Mr. de Berckem as on a loan from himself, Mr. Scott, secured by a deposit of the same bills, but with a difference of interest in his own favour at the rate of half per cent. per annum. It was in the course of these transactions that Mr. Scott received from Mr. De Berckem the second set of bills now in question. (See Scott's Account A, p. 154 ; Scott's Account, Table 11., p. 359 ; F. T. De Berckem's Account, Table 1., p. 358.) In respect of this second set of bills, Messrs. and W. Hitchens and Harrison have received from Mr. Scott reimbursement to the extent of 600/. CASE VII. No. 7,073. (1 Bill.) Claimant—Henry Maynard, Esq. Series of Holders—Henry Maynard, William and James Morgan, E. Rapallo. Mr. Maynard, who is in mercantile business, having 1,0001. which he wished to lay out at interest, applied on the subject to Mr. J. W. Cook (mentioned in Case I.), with whom he had been personally acquainted for twenty-four or twenty-five years, and whoN he had before employed to lend out money for him on se curity. He placed the above-mentioned sum in Mr. Cook's hands on the 14th of September, 1841, with a request to obtain for him five per cent. interest, on such security as Mr. Cook might think fit, with power to the lender to recal the loan at three days' notice. Mr. Cook accepted this commission, and on the same 14th September, and before the public discovery of the fraud, placed the money with his employers, Messrs. William and James Morgan, by way of loan to them from Mr. Maynard upon the terms above mentioned, and about the 28th October following (being after the public discovery of the fraud), made an entry in his books, by consent of his employers, appropriating the bill in question to Mr. Maynard's account, as a security for such loan ; and delivered it over shortly afterwards to Mr. Maynard upon the application of the latter to ascertain what had been. done With his mone..-; Mr. Cook at the same time ex pressing to Mr. Maynard an apprehension that the bill in question was one of those on which there was considerable doubt. The bill at the time of such ap propriation had been lying in the hands of Mr. Cook since the 21st of October then last (when the fraud was still undiscovered), among other similar hills de posited by Ilapallo with Messrs. W. and J. Morgan, for the purpose of raising money upon them, and which Mr. Cook, as their clerk, had in his possession accordingly. _ CASE VIII. Nos. 7,072, 7,074, 7,075, 7,083-7,085,7,087-7,091, 8,437-8,439, 8,440, 8,441. (16 Bills.) Claimant—Mr. Lewis Levy. Series of Holders—Lewis Levy, F. T. De Berckem, Wm. Mariner, E. Rapallo. (To be continued.) THE STADE DUTIES.—A document on the subject of the Stade duties has been published, prepared, we believe, by NI. de Flack, a member of the Privy Council of King Ernest, and intended to defend the claims of the King of Hanover to the right of exacting the Stade Du ties. The English Government has, it is understood, consented, under all the peculiar circumstances attending this case, to recognize an ad valorem Stade duty of one eighth per cent., instead of the one-sixteenth per cent. sti pulat64l for in the treaty of the year 1691 between Sweden, to which power Stade then belonged, and Hamburgh. The 'peculiar and delicate position of Hanover in the commercial policy of. Germany—a de sire not to add to the many inducements for that king dom to join the Zoll Verein, and the obvious useful ness there is to England in a strict friendship with Ha nover as a counter agency to that League, have doubtless • had their due weight in inducing the British Government to accept these terms. Besides, it must not be overlooked that the concessions which Hanover granted to England in 1736 are revocab le. and that pressure on the Hano verian Government for reduction to the letter of the treaty of 1691 might have produced a revocation of those concessions. At all events, the reduction granted and accepted will be a great relief to British shipping in the Elbe, and is to be regarded as a proof of the perfectly good understanding which exists between England and Hanover.—Morning Herald. The master spinners and manufacturers, who reside in the very midst of their men, employ generally several hundred, and sometimes more than a thousand hands each. Any disputes upon the subject of a reduction of wages between the employer and employed rouses the feelings of this body of operatives, and lays them open to the instant control of the Trades ' U n ion There is consequently nothing which . Committees and dreads more intensely than a strike Le c political tor3, sgita ownerto r s. upon the subject of wages. Nobody knows where it will end, or what may be the,. consequences. In 1829, when the last great turn out took place at Staleybridge and its neighbourhood, the contest lasted twelve weeks, during which one of the mas ters, a member of a most respectable family, met his death at the hands of an assassin. Now, sup posing that the story were . tes true as it is notoriously false, that, under such circumstance as these, mill• owners did risk all the consequences of a strike to effect the repeal of the Corn-law, it would furnish the strongest possible truth of their despe rate state, and .of their earnest conviction cf the true remedy. But will anybody, not blinded by party i prejudice, for ore moment believe that the mill-owners of Staleybridge district w cold rush into all the dangers of a strike (to say nothing of the loss ofl9l. every hour, ac cording to Air. Horner, that the machinery of a large mill stands idle) for the purpose of forwarding the Anti- Corn-law agitation, without having made one provision befbre or after the turn-out, to convert the agitation to the desired account ? Are these " cunning Leaguers" of Staleybridge suddenly struck with madness, that they should provoke a conflict with an exasperated popula tion, 90 per cent. of whom are operatives surrounding their own homes, for no other purpose than to be sworn in as special constables to put down the disaffected cur4-Qpts ?-4114-Zircad-tax Circular. 184 2 • fee l ousb r were [ren t ffhig env in ce, [lig.' r,ortl it ioo I►es e 4 1 ' gili SU