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coned rates, continue to pay the same annual SUM, Virh:6h is endor,ed on the official certiacatd of tenure (subject to reoli , sions granted in case of the destruction of the trees by drought or Aeod) until the flex', assess• meat is made, regardless of the new trees that may have been planted in the interval, or the old trees that may have died off. When the time fpr a new assessment ar rives, a fresh account of the trees is taken, those that have died since the former one being omitted, and those that have been newly planted being inserted, provided they have obtained the above stated dimensions, other wise they are free of charge. SECTION' If. Trenched or raised lands planted with the following eight sorts of fruit trees are subject to an annual assess ment. calculated on the trees grown on the lands, in the following manner, that is to say :- 1. Orange Trees. Five kinds (Som Kin wan, Som pluck bang. Som l'e- Darot, Sam Rao Sings), stem of 6 ngiu in circumfer ence, close to the ground, or from that sire and up• ward, pay 10 trees, 1 Nang. All other kinds of or.trize trees of the same size as the above, pay 15 trees, 1 fuang. 2. Jack-fruit Trees. Stem of 6 kam in circuteroce, at the height - of 2 sok from Cue ground, or from that size and up wards, pay per 15 trees, 1 fuang. 3. Bread-fruit Trees. Are assessed at the same rate as jack fruit trees. 4. Mak Fai Trees. Stem of 4 kam in circumference, at the height of 2 sok from the ground, or from that size and upwards, pay p er 12 trees, 1 fuang. - 5. Guava Trees. Stem of 2 kam in circumference, at the height of 1 ub from the around, or from that size and upwards, pay 12 trees, 1 fuang. 6. Saton Trees. Stem of 6 kam in circumference, at the height of 2 sok from the ground, or from that size and upwards, pay per 5 trees, 1 fuang. 7. Rambntan Trees. Stem of 4 kam in circumference at the height of 2 sok from the ground, or from that size and upwards, pay per 5 trees, 1 fuang. 8. Pine Apples. Pay per 1000 plant, 1 salting: 1 fuang. SECTION 111 The following six kinds of fruit trees, when planted in trenched or untrenchecl lands, or in any other manner than as planta , ;oas sulject to the long assessment de , cribed in S,ctl9o 1., are assessed annually at the undernentioned rates . Mangoes .. Tamarinds 1. fuang per tr , e. ▪ 1 do. per 2 trees. • 1 do. per 20 do. ▪ 1 do. per 50 roots. • 1 do. per 12 vines. 1 do. per 12 do. SECTION IV. Trenched or raised lands planted with annuals of all sorts, pay a land tax of one salung and one fuang per rai for each. er,,p. Custard apples Plantains Siri Vines (trained on pies) Pepper vines An annuai fee of three salunge and ono fuanv is also charged by tha nairowang Or local tax collec►,or) for each lot or holding of trenched land for which an official title or c•rtiticate of tenure 11`34 been taken our. When held under the long- mse4stnent and planted with the eight sorts of fruit-trees described in Section 1., the annual fee paid t , ) the nairowang for each lot or holPing of trenched lands for which an official title or certificate of tenure has been taken out, is two salungs. SECTION V. Untr , nclied or low lands, planted with annuals of all sorts, ply a land-tax of one salunz and one fuanz, per raj, for each crop. No land-tax is levied on these lands if left unculti vated. Sixty c rxries per tical are levied as expenses of test ing the quality of the silver on all sums paid as taxes under the long assessment. Taxes paid under the annual assessment are exempted from this charge. Lands having once paid a tax according to one or other of the above-mentioned rates are entirely free from all'other taxes and charges. (LS.) HARRY S. PA.RKES. (Signatures and seals of the five Royal Commissioners.) CUSTOM-HOUSE REGULATIONS. 1. A Custom-house is to be built at Bangkok, near to the anchorage, and officers must be in attendance there between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. The business of the Custom-house must be carried on between those hours. The tide-waiters, required to superintend the landing or shipment of goods, will remain in waiting for that pur pose, from daylight until dark. - 2. Subordinate Custom-house officers shall be ap pointed to each ship, their number shall not be limited, and they may remain on board the vessel or in brats alongside. The Custom-house officers appointed to the vessels outside the bar will have the option of residing on board the ships, or of accompanying the cargo-boats on their passage to and fro. _ _ 3. The landing, shipment, or transshipment of goods may be carried on only between sunrise and sunset. 4. AU cargo landed or shipped shall be examined and passed by the custom-house officers within 12 hours of daylight after the receipt of the custom-house of the proper application. The manner in which such applica tion and examination is to be made shall be settled by the Consul and the Superintendent of Customs. 5. Duties may be paid by British merchants in ticals, foreign corn, or bullion, the relative values of which will be settled by the Consul and the proper Si Ime. , e officer , . The Siamese will appoint whomsoever they may please t) receive payment of the duties. 6. The receiver of duties may take from the merchants 2 salungs per catty of eighty ticals for testing the money paid to him as duties, and for each stainpedreceipt given by him for duties be may charge 6 salungs. 7. Both the Superintendent of Customs and the British Consul shall be provided with sEaled weights and measures, which may be referred to in the event of any difference arising with the merchants as to the weight or dimensions of money or goods, (L.S.) HARRY S. PARKES. (Signatures and seals of the five Royal Commissioners.) TREATY OF 1856, REFERRED TO IN THE AGREEMENT OF MAY 13, 1856. The powerful Lor 3, who is in possession of every good, and every dignity, the God Baal), who dwells over every head in the city of the sacred and great kingdom of Si-a-yoo-tha.ya (titles of the King of Siam.) Incom prehensible to the head and brain, the sacred beauty of the royal palace, serene and infallible there (titles of the Wang-na, or second King of Siam), have bestowed their commands upon the beads of their Excellencies, the Ministers of high rank, belonging to the sacred and great kingdom of Si-a-yon-tha-ya. to assemble and frame a treaty with Captain Henry Burney, the English Envoy, on the part of the English Government, the Honourable East India Company, who govern the countries in India belonging to the English under the authority of the King and Parliament of England ; and the Right Hon. Lord Amherst, Governor of Bengal, and other Eng lish officers of high rank, have deputed Captain Burney, as an Envoy to represent them, and to frame a treaty with their Excellencies, the Minis ters of high rank belonging to the sacred and great kingdom of S:-a-yoo-tha-ya, in view that the Siamese and the English nation may become great and true friends, connected in . love and affection, with genuine candour and sincerity on both sides. The Sia mese and English frame two uniform copies of a treaty, in order that one copy may be placed in the kingdom of Siam-, and that it may become known throughout every great and small province subject to Siam, and in order that one copy may be placed iu Bengal, and that it may become known throughout every great and small Province subject to the English Government. Both copies of the treaty will be attested by the royal seal, by the seals of their excellenciew the ministersof high rank in the city of the sacred and great kingdom of Bi-a-yoo tha-ya, and by the seals of the Right Honourable Lord Amherst, Governor of Bengal, and of the other English officers of high rank. ARTICLE I. The English and Siamese engage in friendship, love, and affection with mutual truth, sincerity, and candour. The Siamese must not meditate or commit evil, so as to molest the English in any manner. The English must not meditate or commit evil, so as to molest the Siamese in any manner. The Siamese must not go anti molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary, belonging to the English,• in any country subject to the English. The English must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary, belonging to th e Si amese, in any ennntry subject to the Siamese. TUe Siamese shall settle every matter within the Siamese boundaries anclrling ta their own will and customs. ARTICLE 11. Should any place or country subject to the English do anything that may offend the Siamese, the Siamese shall not go a , :d snch place or country, but first report the matter to the Eng who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the English, the English shall punish according to the fault. Should any place or country subject to the Siamese do anything that may offend the English, the English shall not go and injure such place or country, but first report to the Siamese, who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the Siamese, the Siamese shall punish according to the fault. Should any Siamese place or country, that is near an English country, collect at any time an array or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the English country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the Siamese' country must de Clare it. Should any English pace or country, that is . near a Siamese country, collect at any time an army or , a fleet of boat, if the chief of the Siamese country in quire the el j es t of such force, the chief of the English country must declare it. ARTICLE 111. Tn places and countries r belonging to the Siamese and English, lying near or resoumutual borders, whether to the east, west., north, thatth, if h the English entertain a doubt as to any boundary .__,, _af! not been ascertained, the chief on the side ofpetohpeleEirtilsh s tunt send a letter, with some moll and Siamese e f c r h o i ntier posts, to go i3 li f, who shall and inquire from the nearest de pute some of his of f icers and people frotmn English posts togo with the Lien belonging to the point out and settle the mutual bou ndiji‘m, m s n o ch t i h e a f i they d may be ascertained on both sides in friendly a Siamese chief entertain a doubt as to any boundarythatic. has not been ascert tined, the chief on the eide of th y e Si mese must send a letter, with some men and people froma hirrfrontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest E n 'jab chief, who shall depute some of his officers and p eop `f e . from his frontier posts, to go with the men belonging t o the Siamese chief, and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both sides in a friendly manner. ARTICLE IV. • . _ . Should any SiamemeaublearUn and go and live within boundaries of the English the Siamese must not intrude, enter, seiz,Y, or take such person within the English boun daries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner; and the English shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not. Should any Eegiish subject run and go and live with in the boundaries of the Siamese, the English must not in• trude, enter, seize, or take such person within the Siamese boundaries, but must report and ask for him in the proper manner; and the Siamese shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not. TILE SUN, LoNooN•9 WEDNESDAY Evirmwrwq SEPTEMITER 24f 1858. ARTICLE V. The English and Siamese having concluded a treaty, edablishing a sincere friendship between them, merchants subject to the English, anti their ships, junks, and boats, may have intercourse and trade with any Siamese country, which has much merchandise, and the Siamese will aid and protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with facility. Merchants subject to the Siamese, and their boats, junks, and ships, may have intercourse and trade with any English country, and the English will aid and protect them, and permit them to bay and sell with facility. The Siamese desiring to go to an English country, or the English desiring to go to a Siamese country, must conform to the customs of the place or country on either side ; should they ho ignorant of the customs, the Siamese or English officers must explain them. Siamese sub jects who visit an English country must conduct them selves according to the established laws of the English country, in every particular. English subjects who visit a Siamese country must conduct themselves according to the established laws of the Siamese country in every par ticular. ARTICLE VI. Merchants subject to the Siamese or English going to trade either in Bengal or any country subject to the Eng lish, or at Bangkok, or in any country subject to the Siam ese, must pay the duties upon commerce according to the customs of the place or country, on either side ; and such merchants and the inhabitants of the country shall be al lowed to buy and sell without the intervention of other persons i❑ such countries. Should a Siamese or English merchant have any complaint or suit, he must complain to the officers and governors on either side, and they will ex amine and settle the same, according to the established laws of the place or country on either side. If a Siamese or English merchant buy or sell without inquiring and ascertaining whether the seller or buyer be of a good or bad ch.racter, and if he meet with a bad man who takes the property and absconds, the rulers and officers must make search and produce the person of the absconder, and inves tigate the matter with sincerity. If the party possess money or property, ho can he made to pay, but if be do not possess any, or if be cannot be apprehended, it will be the merchant's own fault. ARTICLE VII. A merchant subject to the Siamese or English, going to trade in any English or Siamese country, and applying to build godowns or houses, or to buy or hire shops or houses in which to place his merchandise, the Siamese or English officers and rulers shall be at liberty to deny him permis sion to stay. If they permit him to stay, he shall land and take up his residence according to such terms as may be mutuallv.ageed on, and the Siamese or English officers and rulers will assist and take proper care of him, prevent ing the inhabitants of the country from oppressing him, and preventing him from oppressing the inhabitants of the country. Whenever a Siamese or English merchant or subject who has nothing to detain him, requests permission to leave the country and to embark with his property on board of any vessel, he shall be allowed to do so with ARTICLE VIII. If a merchant desire to go and trade in any place or country belonging to the English or Siamese, and his ship, boat, or junk meet with any injury whatever, the English or Siamese officers shall afford adequate assistance and protection. Should any vessel belonging to the Siamese or English be wrecked in any place or country, where the English or Siamese may collect any of the property be longing to such vessel, the English or Siamese officers shall make proper inquiry and cause the property to be restored to its owner, or in case of his death to his heir, and the owner or heir will give a proper remuneration to the per sons who may have collected the property. If any Siamese or English subject die in an English or Siamese country, whatever property he may leave shall be delivered to his heir. If the heir be not living in the same country and unable to come, and appoint a person by letter to receive the property, the whole of it shall be delivered to such person. ARTICLE IX. Merchants, subject to the English, desiring to come and trade in any Siamese country, with which it has not been the custom to have trade and intercourse, must first go and inquire of the gcvarnor of the country. Should any country have no merchandize, the governor shall inform the ship that has come to trade that there is none. Should any country have merchandize sufficient for a ship, the governor will allow her to come and trade. ARTICLE X. The English and Siamese mutually agree that there shall be an unrestricted trade between them in the English countries of Prince of Wales' Island, Malacca, and Singa pore, and the Siamese countries of Ligor, Nlerdileng Sin gore, Patani, Junkceylon, Queda, and other Siamese pro vinces. Asiatic merchants of the English countries not being Burmese, Peguers, or descendants of Euro peans, shall be allowed to trade freely overland and by means of the rivers. Asiatic merchants, not being Burmese, Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, de sirous to enter into and trade with the Siamese dominions from the countries of Mergui, Tavoy, Teuasserim, and Ye, which are now subject to the English, will be allowed to do so freely, overland and by water, upon the English furnish ing them with proper certificates. But merchants are for bidden to bring opium, which is positively a contraband article in the territories of Siam ; and should a merchant introduce any, the Governors shall seize, burn, and de stroy the whole of it. ARTICLE Xl. If an Englishman desire to transmit a letter to bny per son in a Siamese or other country, such person only, and no other, shall open and look into the letter. If a Siamese desire to transmit a letter to any person in an English or other country, such person only, and no other, shall open and look into the letter. ARTICLE XII. Siam shall not go and obstruct or interrupt commerce in the states of Tringano and Calantau. English merchants and subjects shall have trade and intercourse in future with the same facility and freedom as they have heretofore had, and the Engliah shall not go and molest, attack, or disturb those states upon any pretence whatever. ARTICLE XIII. The Siamese engage to the English that the Siamese shall remain in Queda and take proper care of that coun try, and of its people; the inhabitants of Prince of Wales' Island and of Queda shall have trade and intercourse as heretofore ; the Siamese shall levy no duty upon stock and provisions, such as cattle, buffaloes, poultry, fish, paddy, and rice, which the inhabitants of Prince of Wales' Island or ships there may have occasion to purchase in Queda; and the Siamese shall not farm the mouths of rivers or any streams in Queda, but shall levy fair and proper import and export duties._ The Siamese further engage, that when Chao Phya of Ligor returns from Bangkok, he shall release the slaves, personal servants, family, and kindred belonging to the former Governor of Queda, and permit them to go and live wherever they please. The English engage to the Siamese, that the English do not desire to take possession of Qu eda, that they will not attack or disturb it, nor permit the ormer Governor of Queda, or any of his followers, to attack, dis turb, or injure in any manner the territory of Queda, or any other territory subject to Siam. The English engage that they will make arrangements for the former Governor of Queda to go and live in some other country, and not at Prince of Wales' Island or Prye, or in Perak, Salengore, or any Burmese country. If toe English do not let the former Governor of Queda go and live in some other country, as here engaged, the Siamese may continue to levy an export duty upon paddy and rice in Queda. The Eng lish will not prevent any Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatics at Prince of Wales' Island from going to reside in Queda if they desire it. ARTICLE XIV. The Siamese and English mutually engage that the Ra jah of Perak shall govern his country according to his own will. Should he desire to send the gold and silver flowers to Siam as heretofore, the English will not prevent him doing as he may desire. If Chao Phya of Ligor desire to send down to Perak, with friendly intentions forty (40) or fifty (50) men, whether Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatic subjects of Siam, or if the Rajah of Perak desire to send any of his ministers or officers to seek Chao Phya of Ligor, the English shall not forbid them. The Siamese or English shall not send xny force to go and molest, attack, or disturb Perak. Toe English will not allow the State of Salengore to attack or disturb Perak, and the Siamese shall not go and attack or disturb Salengore. The arrangements stipulated in these two last articles respecting Perak and Queda, Chao Phya of Li g or shall execute as soon as he retu r ns h ome f rom B ang k o k . The 14 articles of this treaty let the great and subordi nate Siamese and English officers, together with every groat and small province, hear, receive, and obey without fail. Their excellencies the mi - nistns of high rank at Bangkok, and Captain Henry Burney, whom the Right Hon. Lord Amherst Governor of Bengal, deputed as an envoy to represent his lordship, framed this treaty toge ther in the presence of Prince Krom Menu Soorin Thir aksa, in the city of the sacred and great Kingdom of Si-a yoo-tha-ya. The treaty, written in the Siamese, Malayan, and Eng lish languages, was con c lud e d on Tuesday, the first day of the seventh decreasing moon, 1188, year (leg 8, according to the Siamese pica:, corresponding with the twentieth day of June, 1826, of the European a3ra. Both copies of the treaty are sealed and attested by their Excellencies the ministers, anal 'by Captain Henry Burney. One copy Captain Henry Burney will take for the ratification of the Governor of Bengal ; and one copy, bearing the royal seal, Chao Pliya of Ligor will take and place at Queda. Captain Burney appoints to return to Prince of Wales' Island in seven mouths, in the second moon of the year 'log 8, and to exchange the ratifications of this treaty with Phra Phak-di.Bori-rak, at Queda. The Siamese and English shall form a friendship that shill be perpetuated, that shall know no end or interruption as lor.g as Heaven and Earth endure. (A. literal translation from the Siamese.) (Siznel) H. BURNEY, Captain, Envoy to the Court of Siam. (King of Siam's (Si gned) AMHERST. (L.S4 Seal.) Ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor-Gene ral, in camp at Agra, this seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred an•l twanty-seven. By command of the Governor-General, (Signed) A. STIRLING, • Secretary to Government, In attendance on the Governor-General. COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT ANNEXED TO THE TREATY OF 1826. Their Excellencies the Miniiters and Captain Henry Burney having settlel a treaty of friendship, consisting of fourteen articles, now fraine the folloling agreement with respect to English vessels desiring to c ome an d trade in the city of the sacred and great kingdom of Si_a-yoo-tha-ya, (Bangkok.) ARTICLE I Vessels belonging to the English Government, whether Europeans or Asiatics, desiring to come and trade at Bangkok, must conform to the established laws of Siam in every particular. Merchants coming to Bangkok are pro. hibited from purchasing paddy or rice for the purpose of exporting the samo as merchandise; and if they import fire-arms, shot, or gunpowder, they are prohibited from selling them to any party but the government. Should the Government not require such fire-arms, shot, or gun powder, the merchants must re-export the whole of them. With exception to such warlike stores, and paddy and rice, merchants subjects of the English, and merchants at Bangkok may buy and sell without the intervention of any other person, and with freedom and facility. Merchants coming to trade shall pay at once the whole of the duties and charges consolidated according to the breadth of the vessel. If the vessel bring an import cargo, she shall be charged seventeen hundred (1,700) ticals for each Siamese fathom in breadth. If the vessel bring no important cargo, she shall be charged fifteen hundred (1,500) ticals for each Siamese fathom in breadth. No itnpert, export, or other duty shall be levied upon the buyers or sellers from or to Eoglish subjects. AT TICLE Merchant vessels, the property of English subjects, ar riving off the bar, must first anchor and stop there, and the commander of the vessel must despatch a person with an account of the cargo, and a return of the people, guns, shot, and powder, on board the vessel, for the information of the Governor, at the mouth of the river, wbo will send a pilot and interpreter to convey the established regula tions to the commander of the vessel. "Upon the pilot bringing the vessel over the bar, she must anchor and stop below the chokey, which the interpreter will point out. ARTICLE 111. The proper officers will go on board the vessel and ex amine her thoroughly; and after the guns, shot, and pow der have been removed and deposited at Paknam (port at the mouth of the Menam), the Governor of Paknam will permit the vessel to pass up to Bangkok. • ARTICLE IV. Upon the vessel's arriving at Bangkok, the officers of the customs will go on board and examine her, open the hold, and take account of whatever cargo may be on board, and after the breadth of the vessel has been measured and ascertained, the inerchants will be all ,wel to buy and sell according to the first article of this agreement. Should a vessel, upon receiving an export cargo, find that she can not cioss the bar with the whole, and that she must hire cargo boats to take down a portion of the cargo, the officers of the customs and chokeys shall not charge any farther duty upon such cargo boats. ARTICLE V. 'Whenever a vessel or cargo boat complete s her lading, the commander of the vessel must go and ask Chao Phya Phra Khlaug for a port clearance, and if there be no cause for detention, Chao Phya Phra Khlang shall deliver the port clearance without delay. When the vessel upon her de parture arrives at Paknam, she must anchor, and stop at the usual chokey, and after the proper officers have gone on board and examined her, the vessel may receive her guns, shot, and powder, and take her departure. ARTICLE VI. Merchants being subjects of the English Government, whether Europeans or Asiatics, the commanders, officers, lascars, and the whole of the crew of vessels, must conform to the established laws of Siam and to the stipulations of this treaty, in every particular. If merchants of every class do not observe the articles of this treaty, and oppress the inhabitants of the country, become thieves or bad mon, kill men, speak offensively of, or treat disrespectfully, any great or subordinate officers of the country, and the case become important in any way whatever, the proper officers shall take jurisdiction of it, and punish the offender. If the offence be homicide, and the officers, upon investi gation, see that it proceeded from evil intention, they shall punish with death. If it be any other offence, and the party be the commander or officer of a vessel, or a mer chant, he shall be fined. If he be of a lower rank, he shall be whipped or imprisoned, according to the estab lished laws of Siam. The Governor of Bengal will pro hibit English subjects, desiring to come and trade at Bangkok, from speakinc , disrespectfully or offensively to or of the great officers in Siam. If any person at Bangkok oppress any English subject he shall bo punished accord. ing to his offence in the same manner. The six articles of this agreement, let the officers at Bangkok, and merchants subject to the English, fulfil and obey in every particular. (k. literal translation from the Siamese) (Signed) H. BURNEY, Captain, Envoy to the Court of Siam. (King of Siam's (Signed AMHERST. (L.S.) Seal.) Ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor -Gene ral, in camp, at Agra, this seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twee fy-seven. By command of the Governor-General. (Signed) A. STIRLING, Secretary to Government, In attendance on the Governor-General TIIb&TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, sir. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING L 0 V E. Followed by Burksque of PI.Z.IRRO. To conclude with A BILLET DIVERTIS:EMENT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Crider the Manazernant Ur. CUAIU TIIIi EvENING, MUSIC II VTU CHARMS. After whicn, PIZARRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Flvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL, RAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Bnekatons, THIS EVENING, AS YOU LIKE IT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, LEND ME FIDE SHILLINGS. To conzlude with Tlfl SPANI3II SERJEANT. LYCEUM' TrIEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Chines Dillon, TUTS EVENING, BELPETEGOR. Tlelphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Ma:kline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. 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Sun Office, 112, Strand. r - " 1, r _stl -Viao ) „r , 4. 41 4 • , .411 "" c4Sk LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1856 IThere is a respectable—a very respectable— party in the United.. States wha have hitherto abstained from political action. They have only worshipped the Alniighty Darlar, and, being per fectly easy in pecuniary affairs, have allowed matters to take tlaei-: course, rather than involve themselves in th 3 tarmoil and annoyance insepar able from party dig, flites. These are not only the most wealthy, bn t also the best-e?Aucated and most thinking, clan s of the p3prO, a tion ; with the single exception above altuded to are model citizens. They pay their contributions to the national treasury —with ()zero plary regularity. They can do so with( sit the sat ir ifi oo of a single com fort or even l ux airy. Ti le) , are, generally speak ing, m ora l an d . zeligi ous men, w ho would not personally con'Amit, ar.y glaring impropriety, and who hold themselves Aloof from matters that have brought di aredit cu the en ti re R e public. The time haF, hoi, 7ev er, arrived when they must - shake off this p le; Ling apathy, or permit themselves to be held n io / ally responsible for the fearful evils th a t h ave ,ar, isen from their abdica. tion of th e f unct i ons of eh ism. The more ener getic and restl ess S outherns. —every man of whom engages all his resources and enters heart and soul into the contest—have acquired a lead in all public affairs. They hold the Executive Govern ment in leading strings, and can control, at their will and pleas ire, the movements of PIERCE, MARCY, Davis, and Cu SH ENG. They have achieved their position simply because they had but one object, at which they steadily arrived. The exten sion of " the Domestic Institution " was the Alpha and Omega of their political creed. Every candidate for Congress should swallow that pledge, at all events ; awl many of the Northern States, in which there were pro slavery electors, selected representatives who, on that great point, were opposed to the great body of their constituents. Hence the Southern triumphs in the Senate, and the large and im posing party which appeared in the House of Representatives. Indeed, considering the actual circumstances of the case, it is only surprising that the Northerns should so far have succeeded as to elect Mr. BANKS to the Speaker's chair, and subsequently to tack the Kansas rider to the Army Appropriation Bill. When, without pre vious organisation, they could accomplish so much, we can easily credit the latent strength, which only required to be properly put forth to insure a triumph far more brilliant and decisive than has hitherto entered into the conception of either party. As yet the Soutberns have had the best of the contest. But, as we have repeatedly ex plained, that is owing solely to their organisation and strategy. They have succeeded in Congress, because they have put forward a stringent test at the hustings. They have succeeded in Kansas, because, while one side were bona fide immigrants, looking solely to achieving a suitable settlement for themselves and families, their opponents went solely for the purposes of fighting and plunder, and carried with them some degree of discipline. The Northerns fought with true Anglo-Saxon determination, " pro aris et focis," but it was merely isolated efforts, which could not withstand the combined attacks of brigands, perfectly reck less as to the means to which they resorted, and sustained by the Federal troops whenever their aid was required. It would, however, be ridiculous to say that a paltry skirmish, in which some few hundreds only were engaged, should be decisive in such a contest. The Northerns and " the respectable party" have received a painful but salutary lesson, sufficient to excite their energies, but not materially to reduce their strength. There is no fatal blow—it is merely a wholesome stimulant, that will arouse them from the slumbers in which they have hitherto indulged. The first fruits of the seeds thus sown will be the success of the Republicin candidates in the several States, and of Colonel FREMONT for the Presidency. When that great desideratum has been accomplished, and when a proper administration is inaugurated, so that fair play may be relied on, there will no longer be a • Kansas difficulty. The convulsive efforts of the Planters will fail, because the ma jesty of the law will be fully vindicated, and armed buccaneers, who respect neither life nor property, will receive the punishment they so richly merit. All that the Northerns require is a clear stage and no favour. That they will re ceive under the FREMONT Government. If, how ever, unfortunately, BUCHANAN should be the new President, and should he persevere in the course on which Fasrmnix PIERCE so un wisely, and, we may add, so wickedly entered, a dissolution of the Union will become inevitable, the crisis will be precipitated, and the Soutberns left to meet the fate which they have provoked by a long continuance in a path alike repugnant to the laws of GOD and man, and which must prevent the slightest sympathy being entertained for any sufferings they now may have to endure. Your disappointed statesman, issuing from the rural retirement of his domains, is always anxious to impress upon you the superiority of the charms of agriculture over those of power. To believe him, statecraft is not a pursuit to be envied ; and a communion with Nature is sufficient to restore to child-like innocence and primeval tastes the least scrupulous politician. Doubtless there is some sincerity in the expression of such a convic tion. That communion with Nature which the jaded Secretary of State finds in the cultivation of his estate must be allowed some influence even over so unpromising a subject ; but, after all, they will not be far wrong • who ascribe the appa rent "change mainly to the philosophy of the fox. "The grapes are sour." It is with some inch key we are disposed to unlock the mystery of Sir jamßs GRAHAM'S re cently-expressed preference for the employment of agriculture, and that the more readily because his profession of faith and love is somewhat over coloured. It—the employment of agriculture— is, he tells us, "the most honourable he has been engaged in"—this, by the way, considering his career as a politician, we are not disposed to dis pute ; it—for five-and-thirty years " has most occupied his thoughts, and at all times has most accorded with his affections and feelings." , This is a leetle too strong, since he has not been chained to office, but has always had it in his power to forsake the field of politics and give_ indulgence to his individual preferences. The thought occurs to us—does be mean hereby to account for the shortcomings and lapses from political virtue which have characterised his official career ? If so, we may confidentially inform him he will be disappointed if he expects such an apology Lo succeed. An individual, it is true, with such strong preferences for the profession of an agri culturist would make but an indifferent states ,man, as he has been . ; but who can credit him with the possession of them ? For our part wo are unable to do so. Setting this portion of his remarks aside, there is, much in his speech at the East Cumberland Agricultural Society's Meeting woaby of favour able cotsideration—excluding, by -the way, his remarkable expression of reluctance, on selfish grounds, to witness the freedom of the Russian people. It is quite true freedom conducci more than anything el.so to the prosperity of a nation; but it t il ay be more than doubted that the prosperity, of a free Russia would in any way be inkarious to us: With freedom comes civilisation —with civilisation more numerous wants ; and one country, it is believed, will always have a superiority in the production of some staple over its neighbours, so as to insure an interchange of commodities to the advantage of both. The re marks Of the Right Hon. Baronet on leases and a few other kindred topics are conceived in a more liberal spirit. The sentiment of MONTEI3- QUIEU, " that the produce of land depends less on the fertility of the soil than on the freedom of the cultivator," meets with a ready endorsement.. The observation he describes as one " denoting great and profound wi3do n." Accordingly we find Sir J. GRAHAM urging the propriety of grant ing leases, and that, too, for a long period. Un fortunately to this recommendation he tacks; the gratuitous and more than questionable assertion, that it is our boast in this Country, "we do enjoy to the greatest extent a fair division of the land." His opinion that " we plough too much an 4 sraze too little" will meet wick a readier and much more general acceptance. We agree with him on this head, and see in the high prices for flesh meat obtaining among us a strong reason for doing so, over and above the better adaptation of much of our land for grazing purposes than for cereal growth. Agriculturists, we are persuaded, will come to see this before long, as also the pro fitable nature of flax cultivation in those localities where soil is to be found appropriate for the pur pose, and flax manufactories may profitably be established, or are not too far distant, an impro bable contingency iu these railroad times. The application of the principle of limited liability to the construction of such mills is, we think, judiciously suggested, the principle, in our opinion, being peculiarly applicable to them. The danger of devoting too great a breadth of soil to the cultivation of potatoes Sir JAMES particularly in sists on, and not, we believe, unjustifiably. Whether, however, such danger warrants the restriction of tenants in this species of cultivation, in the terms of their leases, is another question, and one which will admit of doubt, at least where the tenant is intelligent. But we must now leave Sir JAMES in Cumberland, where it must be con fessed he figures to more advantage, and may be more safely confided in, than when an influential member of the ever-notorious ABERDEEN Govern ment. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—(This Day.) A quarterly general court of proprietcrs of the East India Company was held this morning at the India House, Leadenhall•street ; Colonel Sykes, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. Mr. JONES, in addressing the court, said he had been requested by the Rajah of Coorg to tender his thanks to the court of directors for having acceded to the prayer of his petition, and restored to him his pension. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Jones) then referred to his notice of motion he had given relative to the cost of the dinners of the court of directors. When he gave that notice he was under the impression that the dinners cost 4,000/, a year, but he had since been informed that he was in error in that respect. There were no precise returns of their cost; from their being so mixed up with other mat ters it was impossible to come to a satisfactory conclu sion on the subject. He, therefore, withdrew the motion of which he had given notice, and moved that a return should be laid before the court, showing the whole of the refectory expenses of the court of directors. Mr. REMINGTON seconded the motion. The CHAIMIAN said there was no objection to the re turn. He had no doubt that the proprietors would see that it was to their interest as well as to the interest of the Court of Directors that these entertainments should take place. Mr. LEwIN thought that when the company was a commercial company it was very well that these City habits should be observed, but now the company was in a totally different position. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. LEWIN then moved the following resolution : "That the seizure of the territories of Oude is one of the worst examples of Indian spoliation, and an act of the basest ingratitude towards the family of a native prince, who, in a Reason of extremity (1815), when the rule of the East Indian Company was wavering, its treasures exhausted, and the Government of India un able to bring money to oppose the Maharatta confederacy, opened his coffers with a loan of 2i millions sterling, on the bare receipt of the Governor-General, Lord Hast ings; and, subsequently, in 1825, under a similar exigency, assisted the East India Company with a fur ther loan of 13, millions ; and again, in 1842, when the East India Company was in want of funds to enable it to carry on the Affghanistan war, assisted the Go vernment of India with a further loan to relieve the pressure on the Indian Treasury." The hon. proprietor entered at great length into the state of India at the periods alluded to, and contended that the conduct of the directors in the seizure of Oude could not be defended, neither morally nor politically. A PROPRIETOR complained that sufficient notice had not been given of the motion, and that the Court ought not to entertain it. Mr. LEWIN said he should have no objection to postpone its further consideration till tip next quar terly court. After some discussion the motion was negatived, as was also the following motion, proposed by the same gentleman : "That in addressing a petition to the House of Lords, in the case of the Na,cvab of Surat, in the name and in the behalf of the East India Company, without first con suiting the proprietors of East India stock, was uncon stitutional, unprecedented, and an illegal assumption of authority on the part of the Court of Directors." After the transaction of some other business the cont adjourned. HOUSE RENTS AND WAGES AT PARIS. In the Moniteur of yesterday the following ar ticle is published, with the typographical distinc tions which it is usual to reserve for topics of special importance : The rise in house rents, which has been aggravated during the last four years by the dearness of provisions, has caused among the population of Paris sufferings that have awakened all the solicitude of the Emperor. His Majesty has caused a detailed report to be pre sented to him on this state of things. He especially wished to know if this increased price for dwelling was to be attributed to the fact that, in consequence of the recent laying out of extensive new thoroughfares, the demolition of old houses may have been more rapid and frequent than the erection of new houses, and whether the equilibrium would soon be restored or not. The following figures, (derived from official sources, answer this twofold question. The demolitions effected in Paris by the Prefecture of the Seine have been : In 1852, for 250 houses, with reimburse ment to the ex-proprietors 27,319,210 f. I❑ 1853, for 515 houses, similarly expro priated ' 24,756,221 In 1854, for 299 houses, bought on ex propriation In 1855, for 320 houses expropriated in 1856, for 181 houses expropriated 1,565 126,211,559 f. The expropriations projected for the year 1857 wil not amount to more than 100 houses. The new constructions and the enlargements of old ediffces, raised again and valued by the general direction of the direct contributions, have been : To the Of a rentable And of a saleable number of value of value of In 1852... 633 1,400,000 28,000,000 f. In 1853...1,095 4,700,000 94,000,000 In 1854...1,205 1,000,000 140,000,000 In 1855...1,614 10,000,000 200,000,000 In 1856...2,000 12,500,000 250,000,000 Total 6,552 35,600,000 712,000,00 e ThesA figures prove : 1. That the number of the demolitions, already con siderahly reduced in 185 G, will ba yet more so in 1857. 2, That the number and value of the reconstruction has much surpassed the number and value of the demo litions. This double proportion, so rapidly decreasing for the demolitions, so amply progressive for the reconstructions will of course re-assure men's minds, and cannot fail to exert an effective influence on the prices of dwellings. The rise of rent has been favoured by the monetary em barrassment which the demolitions occasioned to the in habitants of the quat ters where they were made, and especially by the increase of the population in Paris. The last census, that of 1856, shows, in fact, that in the course of the past five years this population was increased by 121,071 souls, that is to say, by more than 1-10th ; ''but the 712 millions of constructions realised during the aatne five years are ample for supplying this twofold de mand. Doubtless, in these new edifices, the allotment of rent for the email lodgings has not been immediately made ; by the Emperor's order, to supply this default consider able advances have been allowed for the building of work en's lodc, , ingS. In these special enterprises, the report gives 364 lodgings for single men, 1,171 sets of rooms for families; amounting in all to 1,775 lodgings, 948 of which are now tenanted, and 827 are being com pleted. Similar assistance has been offered to every per- NOZI building a new house, and to every landlord of an old house who may be willing to partition out the stories into small lodgings. These encouragemente, and in par ticular the enormous quantity of new habitations that are from the present time—or that shortly will be— ready for letting, cannot fail to produce a prompt and salutary reaction on the price of the small lodging. We must likewise observe that the building works, which in 1850 amounted to only 22,000,000 f. in 1851 to 26,000,000 f., in 1852 to 23,000,000 f., have risen in the last five years so high (without including the public monuments) as to give a value of 250,000,000 f. If the 126,000,000 f. of demolitions effected during that period have in' ariy way contributed to the rise of rents, the 712,000,000 f. of now edifices, with all the accompanying accessory expense , , have procured for the working classes an amount of work, and, iu consequence, a rise of wages t'•.rat may well serve to compensate the expense entailed by this monetary iEconvenience. In fine, it is undoubted that the number of new con structions far suroasles that of houses demolished, and that which invariably happens in trade will also belal rent. The ascertained glut of any ware naturally pro• duces a fall of its price. LATEST EWS. VIENNA, TUESDAY. The Emperor has left _for Hungary. M. de Bulow, charged with a special mission from Den- mark, has arrived here. General de Martini, Austrian ambassador at the court of the Two Sicilies, left to-day for Naples. The Bourse is very agitated, in consequence of the affairs of Naples, and of the Bank having raised its rate of discount to 5 per cent. England and Austria support Turkey in the affair relative to the Isle of Serpents and Bolgrad. On this question France will pursue a more re served policy. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The 'ultimatum addressed to the King of Naples, and which was supposed to have left on Sunday, has not yet gone. It is said that Count Walewski thought it necessary to exchange one more commu nication with the Emperor before despatching it. A Cabinet courier will arrive here to-morrow morn ing morning from England, bearing, it is believed, the ultimatum of the English Government, which, with that of France, will at once go on to Naples. The Princesse de Chambord is said to be enceinte. The news comes from Vienna, and from a source generally trustworthy. If it be correct, we shall of course hear no more of that vexed question, the fusion of the two branches of the House of Bourbon. BOURSE, Sept. 23.—Considerable agitation has again prevailed in the market, and Securities have been declining rapidly. It is apprehended that the Bank of France will be forced to increase its rate of discount in consequence of the bad situation of the German money markets. The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. R. End of Month. per Cents (xd) ... 91 70 —f • —o. 3 . ier Cents 69 40 New Loan 69 30 69 65 Bank Shares 4,100 Roman Credit Mobilier 1,635 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s) 9O 50 Home Debt ......,.. 39 RAILWA 713-1/0B CASH. fr. c. fr. 0 Orleans 1,335 Western 927 50 Northern - Strasburg Lyons ~.....1,321 New Ditto Ntediterranean 1,790 Grand Central 655 Lyons Geneva — Teste — Cott° 712 50 Austrian C0na.., 1 .,.. 810 RUSSIA. The principl network of the Russian railways has teen definitively conceded to a company formed of the capitalists of various countries, among whom figure the heads of the French Credit Mobilier, and Messrs. Hottinguer, Baring, Hope and Stie glitz. The concession is for eighty-five years, and a minimum interest of five per cent. is guaranteed to the shareholders by the Russian Government. SOUTH AMERICA. LISBON SEPT. 19 . LISBON, The Portuguese steamer Dom Pedro 11. reached this port on the 16th, with 204 passengers, who had free pratique. Her dates are :—Rio de Ja.' neiro, Aug. 20 ; Bahia, 25th ; Pernambuco, 27th ; Tenerife, Sept. 6 ; Madeira, 13th. The quotations of produce and exchanges in the Brazils vary so little since those by the Tamar, given in The Sun of the Bth inst., that it is un necessary to repeat them. At Rio de Janeiro no additional news is reported from the River Plate. After the departure of the Tamar, business had been checked by holidays and rainy weather, so that no coffee sales of importance had taken place, while the stock was increasing daily by arrivals ; and should purchasers hold back a decline was anticipated. At Bahia the weather had become fine. Freights for Liverpool id., and 30s. ballast ; London 40s. Tonnage scarce, several of the last arrivals having been chartered for the Mauritius. Great progress in the prosperity of the province was anticipated from the energy of the new Presi dent. A large ball had been given upon the retire ment of his predecessor, M. Moncorvo, at which 1,200 of the elite of the city attended. The town and province were healthy. At Pernambuco a few b;.gs of very inferior quality of new sugar had come to market, and been sold at 2,600 to 2,700 reis, notwithstanding the last un favourable news from Europe. The French steamer Franc-Comtois, from Havre, had arrived on the 25th. The passengers by that vessel, as by the Laia 111. from Lisbon, had. to perform six days' quarantine, in consequence of the cholera at this port and Madeira. At St. Vincent the Dom Pedro 11. found great difficulty in coaling, the greater part of the inhabi tants having either abandoned the island or died from a virulent epidemic of cholera, attributable to the heavy rains which set in shortly after the Tamar's dates, no rain of consequence having fallen in the island for the last seven years. After two days' detention the Dom Pedro was coaled by some Spaniards, who had been wrecked, and did the work upon condition of being brought on to Lis bon, the coals being supplied by the English ship Birmingham, which had put in leaky. It appears probable that the English packets will now have to depend in a great measure upon their own crews for coaling at St. Vincent. At Madeira cholera still existed, but less fatally in the interior, and at Funchal it had entirely ex hausted itself, in consequence of which a solemn Te Deum had been celebrated on the 7th instant. It was calculated that about 6,000 people, or one third of the inhabitants of the islands, had fallen victims to the disease. The island of Porto Santo was also suffering severely, 96 deaths having taken place in a week, out of 1,800 inhabitants. PORTUGAL AND THE BRAZILS. SOUTHAMPTON, W . . EDNESDAY MORNING. The Sultan has just arrived, with the Peninsular mails. She left Lisbon on the 19th. The steamer Duke of Wellington, carrying the flat , of Admiral Dundas, had arrived at Lisbon. The gunboats Osprey and Wanderer had also arrived. They were bound for the South. The Cressy had also arrived at Lisbon, in search of the Admiral, _ The cholera is disappearing rapidly. The day for the formal opening of the railway by the King has been postponed. We have news from Brazils by the Sultan up to the 20th of August. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill authorising the Govern ment to epeu a oredit of 600 contos, to be applied in promoting colonisation, and for other public ser vices. A bill had also been passed to regulate the strength of the naval forces, and another establish ing international copyright between Portugal and Brazil was under discussion. The additional articles of the bill of the Maria Railway and the Amazonas Company were san:l - ; but the chamber, at the suggestion of the prime minister, had resolved to frame a new project. to prevent its being embarrassed in its progress through the Senate. Exchange at Rio 27 to 271. At Pernambuco business was dull. There had been no sugar shipped since the Tamar left. The Brazil steamer Tyne arrived at St. Vincent on the 21st ult. Exchange at Lisbon was quoted at 53 1 to I . The cholera is raging fiercely at St. Vincent. The medical men had fallen victims, and the in habitants were left without assistance. The dead bodies were left unburied in the streets. The ac• counts from Madeira were favourable. The Earl of Derby is much better in health, but the noble earl has been obliged to forego a series of visits in the north he intended to make with the countess and Lady Emma Stanley. EXTENSION OF THE TILBURY AND SOUTHEND RAIL WAY TO C OLCHES TER. --A meeting of the corporation and principal inhabitants of this borough was held at the Town-hall, Colchester, on Friday, for the purpose of hear ing an explanation from Sir S. M. Peto, with reference to a propsed extension of the Tilbury and Southend line to that town. The proposed line would give the distriet another line of railway communication with the metropolis, and give an independent line from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to London. Sir M. Peto entered into some details of the proposed line, which would encourage the trade o f the port and secure a material reduction of the pas senger and goods rates. It is stated that the exten sion will branch off the Tilbury line at Southend, take in Maldon, and then come on to Colchester. THE ANGLO-ITALIAN LEGION.—Four non-commis sioned officers and twenty-nine private soldiers of the Anglo Italian Legion recently sent from Malta, on their arrival at their homes in Tuscany, Parma, a.r.d the Austro-Italian states, have been at once committed to the states prisons'. The Lombards were sent under mi• litary escort to Mantua, to be tried by court-martial for taking service under a "foreign ". power. The Legion. aries now in Piedmont will be compelled to remain there, lest punishment await them for having served England ! The English Ministers at Parma and Florence have pro tested against these arbitrary proceedings. TER iwr.tz 11.01.1 t. If a wretched shopboy filches a few shillings out of his master's till for the purpose of tryinghis luck at the Derby he may be proceeded against in a cri minal court and severely punished. If a gentleman who occupies a distinguished position in the com mercial world, who writes M.P. after his name, and who is probably- a magistrate in his own county steals the property of his clients by wholesale in the character of Director of a joint-stock company, he may snap his fingers at the unfortunate persons whom he has so foully defrauded, and in too maDY instances reduced to ruin. Cannot a remedy be de vised for this state of things ? We hear it asked on every side are there no means of consigning the offending Directors of the Royal British Bank to the hands of justice ? In the annals of commercial fraud we have never heard or read of more outra geous acts of rascality than they have perpetrated against the customers and shareholders of the Bank. It is not worse to forge,—it is not more criminal in every sense, save a legal one, to take the bonds of a customer and pledge them without his knowledge, than it is for Directors to abstract money by thousands and tens of thousands from the joint stock for their own private purposes. Yet who are the men who have recently done this , We re-copy the names which we published yester day, for in the absence of any direct action of the law publicity may avail somewhat. Humphrey Brown, Esq., M.P. for Tewke s b ur y, t oo k 70,000/.; Mr. John Gwynne, another Director, took 14,00 N.; John M‘Gregor, Esq., M.P. for Glasgow, took 7,362/. ; Mr. Cameron, the secretary, took 30,000 L ; Mr. Mullins, the solicitor, took 7,0001. ; one of the auditors took 2,0001. Thus we find the Di rectors, who wereanswerable for the conduct of tlse company's affairs—the secretary, who was its hired servant and agent, bound by every tie of duty to disclose to his employers all secrets prejudicial to their interests—and, last of all, one of the Auditors, whose express business it was to act as a check upon the others—all as if in a con spiracy together to defraud the customers, and the great bulk of the shareholders who were not in cluded in the list of Directors. We have thus par" ticularised sums which collectively - amount to ur wards of 130,0001., wrongfully abstracted for their own private purposes from the funds of the com pany by the very persons in whose probity and in tegrity the company had absolutely confided. These transactions were tainted with every circunis stance of fraud. They do not appear to have been entered in the regular books which were open to public inspection. There was a little safe, and little book locked with a little key which Xl' Cameron, the secretary, kept in his waistcoat pocket, and it was in this book that the real trans actions of the company were entered. The portly ledgers and day-books were but a blind to this little volume, which really contained the last words of the oracle. One set of documents was addresse d, ad populum ; the other, ad clerum. The poor'. spirited creature who paid in his 1001., and drew out his driblets of 101. and 201. as his occasions. might require, was noted in the more imposing but faithless records. The man of more matured final''' . cial genius who drew out 10,0001. without having deposited a halfpenny obtained the honours of the, little volume with the little lock. These transactions, we say, were tainted with the grossest fraud. They were secret. Even h ad the amplest and most excellent securities bee n deposited to cover the loan, no Director could i ie n honour have negotiated a lean in his own beha il unless all incidents connected with it had been open and clear as the sun at noonday. It hag not yet appeared that such securities are forth-= coming. On the contrary, in the case of gr' Cameron, it is expressly stated that the secu rities which he deposited with himself lo are not available to cover one-tenth of the an which he incurred. Obviously enough, unless the present directors had hoped to obtain a loan upon better terms than could have been obtained else where at the market-price of the day, they would not have slunk down secretly to the back parlour of their own establishment, and engaged in a gee of hocus-pocus with their own secretary at the ex' pense of their clients. This we say upon the OP' position that they did actually deposit securities of real value, and in some degree approximating to the amount of the loan incurred,--in other words, that the fraud was in the rate, not in the whole matter. It does not, however, appear as yet that the public can acquiesce in this milder view of the case. Have the loans been repaid t Are the se' curities sufficient to cover the default f Even sot the conduct of the borrowers would have been wholly inexcusable, but, as it is, it is much to be feared that the ordinary shareholders and deposi tors will incur a most serious loss under this bead. The credit of the joint-stock banks has been shrewdly shaken by the recent revelations in the cases of the Tipperary and Royal British Banks, and, unless something be done which will make future directors hesitate before engaging in frau dulent dealings with the funds intrusted to their charge, the public will most justly withdraw their confidence from such institutions. Directors, hoWs ever, will think twice before incurring a sentence which would consign them to penal servitude for the term of their natural lives, or, at any rate, for a long period of years. We do not say that such vindication of justice would operate as entire se: curity, but at least it would help us, and should be tried. For the fate of persons who may hal e s . been guilty of such acts there can be no kind 01 com miseration. The highway robber, the burga r, the pickpocket, have been cradled in crime ; th e y d have been educated in crime ; they have gradu ated iu crime. To crime they have been either driven by pinching want ; or, more probably, they for m part of the regular criminal population, and fr° lll ., the first moment their fingers could close uP e 's anything they have been instructed to abstract the property of others. For such wretched Pari ah e of civilisation some pity may be felt ; but t he !. is none for men who have received a moral and rer gious education, who are in a good position in life, who are in nine cases out of ten distingui shed by peculiar sharpness and ability, and wh o Ye , turn all these advantages to the furtherance their criminal designs. If there is one class persons more than another whom society for lr o own security should keep under lock and key , it i d just such men as the offending directors an managers of the Tipperary and British Banks- It is difficult for the non-legal mind to underi stand how a definition of fraud can be so limit e r as to exclude the case of the director or manager of a joint-stock bank who diverts to his own 12 % 30,0001. of the funds belonging to the concer n, '" who does this secretly, and who deposits is PI of the money a packet or two of worthless PaP.':, Had there been no entry of the transac tion m' between Mr. • Cameron and the Royal Br itish Bank in any of the company's books we P h il e sume that this would have been a pal P ew case of robbing the without modificatogli The difference between this case and that he Mr. Cameron is, we suppose, T." that he noted ( transaction in a little book, the contents 0 which were kept entirely secret from a ll persoli save those who were equally interested with hinisess in keeping such secrets from the knowledge of t"", great body of the shareholders. Cannot a Cr! proceeding be founded upon such facts as these I Surely the acquiescence or assent of the directors, his f e llow-conspirators in the fraud, cannot elc; on erate him from liability The point is one, 01 course, for the consideration of those who hav e devoted their especial attention to such subject* land we can only hope that the ingenuity of our criminal lawyers may be successfully exerted in the prosecution of so abominable a crime. Nor doe the case press less heavily upon the fraudulent di' recto: s. They have " borrowed" on their own authority the money of the company on insufficient security, or no security at all, without causing any notice of the transaction to be entered upon the, public books. The evasion of the little book with the little lock amounts to much the same thing ee though Mr. Cameron bad made the entries in hi° own pocket-book, and carried - this about in the re ; cesses of his coat for his own private and exclusiv, information. At any rate, if there be no - law ',hie,' will touch such misdeeds, the sooner the law?. altered to meet the necessities of the ca se the better for society at large.—Times. m i tsKET NEWS.—(This Day.) r; I ORN EXCHANGE. We had only a m oderate show of English wheat in i° day's market. Select qd samples, which were very scarc e, were mostly disposed 0 _ at full prices ; but inferior kill ruled heavy, with the turn: in favour of buyers. The imports of foreign N'wheat continue on a iiraiteil scale for the time of year. Most descriptions chang e ' hands slowly, at about Monday'' currency. The barley trade ruled heavy, a t the late fall in price , * Malt was dull, but not cheaper. The supply of oats was very moderate, and the oat trag° ruled steady, at full quotations. Beans and peas were firm, but country flour was rather cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. I Oats. I ir,otlr• English .. 1,390 160 2,060 I TO 97 0 Irish .. 870 —6lo ~ Foreign I I 6,7 0 2,830 .. 4,970 trig. BOROUGH HOP. in hiel l Our market is heavily supplied with new hops a steady business is doing, at from 56s to 95s per owt. hops are very dull. WHITECHAPEL. The demand generally ruled steady, as follows :—Beefy from 2s 10(.1 to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; vea l, 4d to 4s 4d . ; pork, 3s 6d to 5s Od per 81b by the carol° 1 t , q CE R in no' pr( an 4 of ( Bei cen In por vio lar r, Ind' lad To. - tol