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Toned Yates,ontinue to pay the same annual sum, which is endorsed on the official certificate of tenure (subject to remissions grante.l in case of the destruction of the trees by drought or flood) until the next assess ment 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 for a new assessment ar rives, a fresh aeckiic r int of the trees is taken ' those that have lied since the former one being omitted, and those that have been newly planted being inserted, provided they have obtained the above dal 3d dimensions, other wise they are free of charge. SECTION 11. 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 (Sore gin wan, Sorn pluck bang, Sem l'e parot, Som Kao Sung,), stein of 6 ngiu ciroumnfer ence, close to the grou'id, or' from that size and up• wards, pay 10 trees, 1 faking. All other kinds of orange trees cf the same size as the above, pay 15 trees, 1 fuang. 2. Jack:fruit Trees. Stein of 6 kam in eircuinferenci‘, at the height of 2 sok from the ground, or from that size and upwards, 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 sin and upwards, ply p er 12 trees, 1 fuang. 5. Guava Trees. Stem of 2 karn in circumference, at the height of 1 nb from the ground, or from that size and upwards, pay 12 trees, I fuang, 6. Saton Trees. Stem of 6 kam in circumference, at the height of 2 sok from the ground, or from that siza and upwards, pay per 5 trees, 1 fuang. 7. Itambutan Trees. Stem of 4 kam in circumference at the height of 2 eok from the ground, or from that size and upwards, pay per 5 trees, 1 fuang. 8. Pine Apples. Pay per 1000 plants, 1 salung 1 fnang. SECTION 111, The following six kinds of fruit trees, when planted in trenched 'or untrenched lands, or in any other manner than as plantations subject to the long assessment described in Section 1., are assessed annually at the undermentioned rates . Mangoes 1 fuang per tree. Tamarinds Custard apples Plantains 1 do. per 50 roots. Siri Vines (trained on poles) 1 do. per 12 vines. Pepper vines SECTION IV. Trenched or raised lands planted with annuils of all sorts, pay a land tax of one salung and one fuang per rai fo:m each crop. An annual fee of three ealungs and one fuang is also charged by the nairowang (or local tax collector) for each lot or holding of trenched land for which an official title or certificate of tenure has been taken out. When held ender the long assessment and planted with the eight sorts of fruit-trees described in Section 1., the annual fee paid tl the nairowang for each lot or holding of trenched lands for which an official title or certificate of tenure has been taken out, is two salungs. SECTION V. Untrenched or low lands, planted with annuals of all sorts, pay a land-tax of one salting and one fnang per Pai, for each crop., No land-tax is levied on these lands if left unculti vated. Sixty cowries 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 baying once paid a tax according to one or other of the above-mentioned rates are entirely free from all other taxes and charges. (L.S.) HARRY S. PARSES. (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 meet 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 bats alongside. The C us t om -h ouse o ffi cers appo i nted to the vesses 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. All cargo landed or shipped shall be examined and passed by the custom-house officers within 12 hours of daylight after the receipt of the customhouse 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 Siamese officers. The Siamese will appoint whomsoever they may please is 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 stamped receipt given by him for duties he may charge 6 salungs. 7. Both the Superin tendent of Customs and the British Consul shall be provided with sealed weights and measures, which may be refei red 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 Lon), who is in possession of every good, and every dignity, the God Boodh, wile dwells over every head in the city of the sacred and great kingdom of Siet-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 Sia m ), h ave b es t owe d th e i r commands upon the heads of their Excellencies, the Ministers of high rank, belonging to the sacred and great kingdom of Si-a-yoo-tba-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 Eng.larel ; and the Right Hon. Lord Amherst, Governor of Bengal, and other En ;- heti officers e f high rank, have deputed Captain Burney, as an E !voy to ri , pre,ent them, and to frame a treaty with CI , it Excellencies, the Minis ters of high rank belonging to the sacred and great kingdom of Sc 1-yoo-tha-ya, in view that the Siamese and the Modish nation may become great ar.d true friends, c mnecte 1 in, love and affection, with genuine candour and sincerity on both aides. 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 pravince sulj ?et to Siam, and in order that one copy may be placed in 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 excellencies the ministessef high rank in the city of the sacred and great kingdom of 81-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 Siame must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seiz3, 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, territ , ry, or boundary, belonging to the Siamese, in any country subject to the Siamese. Tee Siamese shall settle every matter within the Siamese boundaries accordingt3 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 and injure such place or country, but first report the matter to the English, 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 S:amtse do anything that may offend the English, the English shall not go and injure such place or cquntry, 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 army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the English country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the Siamesc country must de Clare it. Should any English place or country, that is near a Siamese country, collect at any time an army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the Siamese r:ountry in quire the object of such force, the chief of the English country must declare it. In places and coun ' ti "TicLE 111. English, lying near hei i r es belonging ingto the Siamese and borders,ilx whether to the east, west, north, or south,if the English ent er t a i n a doubt as to any boundary that has not been ascertained, the chief on the side of the English must send a letter, with some men and people mhis frontier posts, to go peopl e e l r e chief, who shall and inquire from the nearest de pute some of his officers and from hie frontier posts togo with th 6 wen belonging to the 'sip chief, and point out mid settle the mutnal boundaries, may be ascertained on both sides in friendly manner. Ir so that they a Siamete chief entertain a doubt as to any that has not been ascertained, the chief on the sil e of n the Sia mese must send a lettei, with some men and peopleefr his frontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest oEng lish chief, who shall depute some of his officers and peopl e from his frontier posts, to go with th e men belonging to the Siamese chief, and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both shies in a friendly manner. ARTICLE IV. Should any Shame subject run and go and Jive within boundaries of the English the Siamese must not intrude, enter, seize, or take such person within the English boun daries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner; anal the English shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not. Should any English subject run 'and go and live with in the boundaries of the Siamese, the English must not in tin to, enter, seize, or take such person within the Siam ese bcuaderies, but must report and ask for him in the proper manner; and the Siamese shall be at liberty to deliver the wrty or not. ARTICLE V. The English and Siamese having concluded a treaty, estaidishink aisincere friendship between them, merchants subject to the English, and their ships, junks, and boats, my have intercourse and trade with any Siamese country, which has much merchandise, and the Siamese will aid anal protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with facility. Merchants subject to the Siamese, and their boats, junks, and ships, ma y have intercourse and trade with any English country, and the English will aid and pr,teet them, and permit them to buy 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 be ignorant of the customs, the Siamese or English officers must explain them. Siamese sub jects who visit an English country must conduct them sel (es according to the established laws of the English country, in every partioular. English' subjects who visit ' a Siamese country must conduct themselves according to the established laws of the Siamese country in every par ticular . THE SI) LO NOON, WEDNESDAY RVF NING, SEPTEMBER 24: 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 esa, 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 parsons in 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 os 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 still without inquiring and ascertaining whether the seller or buyer be of a good or bad ch iracter, 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, be can be made to pay, but if he do not possess any, or if he 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 mutually 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, arid 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 facility. 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 governor 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, Merdilong Sin gora, 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, Tenasserim, 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 Al. _ If an Englishman desire to transmit a letter to any 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 Calantan. English merchants and subjects shall have trade and intercourse in future with the same facility and freedom as they have heretofore bad, and the English shall not go and, molest, attack, or disturb those states upon any pretence whatevor. ARTICLE X rir. 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 ani provisions, such as cattle, buffaloes, poultry, fish, •,:rddy, 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 months 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 Qneda, 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 Queda, that they will not attack or disturb it, nor permit the former 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 iu some other country, and not at Prince of Wales' Island or Frye, or in Perak, Salengore, or any Burmese country. If the 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 expert duty upon paddy and rice in Queda. The Eng li-11 will not prevent any Siamese, Chinese, or other A. , i tics 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 j CI of Perak shall govern his country according to his own S iould 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 Emicl down to Perak, with friendly intentions forty (40) or fifty (50) men, whether Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatic suc-j. , ots of Siam, or if the Rajah of Perak desire to send any of his ministers or officers to seek Chao Phya of Ligar, the English shall not forbid them. The Siamese or English shall not send any force to go and molest, attac':, or disturb Perak. Toe English will not allow Vie State of Salengore to 'attack or disturb Perak, and the Siamese shall not go and attack cr disturb Saleng tre. The arrangements stipulated in these two last articles respecting Perak and Queda, Chao Phya of Ligor shall execute as soon as he returns kerne from Bangkok. The 14 articles of this treaty let the great and subordi nate Siamese and English officers, together with every gr , at and small province, heat, receive, and obey without I cll. Their excellencies the ministers of high rank at B sngkok, and Captain Henry Burney, whom the Right lion. Lord Amherst, Governor of Bengal, deputed as an envoy to represent his lordship, framed this treaty toge ther in the presence of Prince Krom Moan 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 hill languages, was concluded.on Tuesday, the first day of the seventh decreasing 'peon, 1188, year dog 8, according to the Siamese aara, corresponding with the twentieth day of June, 1826, of the European wra. Both copies of the treaty are sealed and attested by their Excellencies the ministers, and by Captain Henry Burney. One copy Captain %enry Burney will take for the ratification of the Governor of Bengal ; and one copy, hearing the royal seal, Chao Phya of Ligor will take and place at Queda. Captain Barney app i pints to return to Prince cf Wales' Island in seven months, in the second moon of the year dog 8, and to exchange the ratifications of this treaty with Phra Phak-di-Boii-rak, at Queda. Tie Siamese and English shall form a friendship that shall b 3 perpetuated, that shall know no end or interruption as long as Heaven and Earth endure. ...... ~, (A_ literal translation from the Siamese.) • , (Signed) H. BURNEY, Captain, (Kin ; Envoy to the Court of Siam. . () of Bin.m's (Signed) AMHERST. (L.S.) Seal.) . Ratified by tha Right Honourable the Governor-Gene rhl, in camp at Agra, this seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. By command of the Governor-General, (Signed) A. STIRLING, Secretary to Government, In attendance on the Governor-Galeria. COIIMER.CIAL AGREEMENT ANNEXED TO TUE '.CREN'CY OF -1826. TLir Excelle►icies the Ministers and Captain Henry Barney having settled a treaty of friendship, consisting of fourteen articles, now frame the following agreement with respect to English vessels .dosiring to come and 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, rust conform to the established laws of Siam in every partrcular. Merchants coming to Bangkok are pro. hibited from purchasing paddy or rice for the purpose of exporting the same as merchandise; and if they import fire-arms shot, or gunpowder, they are prohibited from sellingthem 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 rico, 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 comi n g to trade s h a ll p a y a t once th e w hole of the duties a nd charges consolidated according to the breadth of the vessel. If the vessel bring au import cargo, she ehall be charged sevente en hundred (1,700) ticals for each Siamese fathom in breadth. If tho vessel bring no important cargo, she shall be charged fifteen hundred (1,500) ticals for each Siamese fathom i n breadth. No import, export, or other duty shall be levied upon the buyers or sellers from or to English subjects. ARTICLE 11. Merchant vessels, the propertyof English subjects, ar riving off the bar, must first anchor and stop there, and the commander of tho vessel must despatch a perso❑ 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 t'ne mouth of the river, who 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 tho 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 merchants will be allowed to buy and sell according to the first article of this agreement. Should a yeas el, upon receiving an export cargo, find that she can not cross the bar with the whole, and that she must hire carp o boats to take down a portion of the cargo, the officers of the customs and chokeys shall not charge any fort her duty upon such cargo boats. ARTICLE V. "henever a vessel or cargo boat completes her lading, the corn mander of the vessel must go and ask Chao Phya Phra Kht lug . for a port clearance, and if there be no cause for date ntion, Chao Phya Phra Khlang shall deliver the port clea4ance without delay. When the vessel upon her de pa:t tire 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 gm 10, shot, and powder, and take her departure. ARTICLE VI. - Merchants being subjects of the English Government, wh ether Europeans or Asiatics, the commanders, officers, lase:ars, 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 men+, 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 jut isdiction of it, and punish the offender. If the offence be homicide, and the officers, upon investi nation, 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 cha.nt, he shall be fined. If he be of a lower rank, he shall be whipped or imprisoned, according to the estab lish& I laws of Siam. The Governor of Bengal will pro hibit English subjects, desiring to come and trade at Bangkok, from speaking disrespectfully or offensively to or of the great officers in Siam. If any person at Bangkok oppress any English subject he shall be 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. (A. literal translation from the Siamese) (Signed) H. BURNEY, Captain, Envoy to the Court of Siam. (King of Siam's (Signed Seal.) AMHERST. (L.S.) Ratified by the Right Honourable the Governor -Gene ral, in camp, at Agra, this seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenfy-seven. By command of the Governor-General. (Signed) A. STIRLING, Secretary to Government, In attendance on the Governor-General rf -, RATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING L 0 T E. Followed by Burlesque of PIZARRO. To conclude with A BALLET DIVERTIS 4EMENT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES JUAN. THIS EVENING, MUSIC H \TH CHARMS. After whim PIZ.S.RRO. Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. THEATRE ROYAL, II AvMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Ruckstons, THIS EVENI7 , 7O, AS YOU LIKE IT. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, LEND ME FIDE SHILLINGS. To conclude with THE SPA.NIAII SERJEA.NT. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles Dillon, THIS EVENING, TIE LPFIEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. After which, the New Burlesque, founded on the Winter's Tale, supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss Wool Miss H. Gordon, Mrs. B. White, Miss If. Wilton, Miss Rosina Wright, Messrs. Toole, Calhaem, Barrett, and Brough. stalls. ss. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. Is. Commenceat 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office oden fatly from It till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPIII. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster, Directress, Madame Celesta. TILTS EVENT24I - % IRELAITh AS IT lA. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOII7% To conclude with IRISIi ASSURANCE AND YANKEE MODEM-. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Kr. Win. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Eighth Week ! Shakspere's RICHARD TIM THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. " Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow 1" &c. Crowde 1 audiences testify the effect of novelty and the influence of the favourable opinion of the press. After which, The SCENE; in the CIRCLE. To conclude with BOMBASTES FURIOSO. 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Sun Office, 112, Strand. 1-;:o gy p t.) 4 , 4. t e Atilt, poN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1856 There is a respectable—a very respectable— party in the United States who have hitherto abstained from political action. They have only worshipped the Almighty Dollar, and, being per fectly easy in pecuniary affairs, have allowed matters to take their course, rather than involve themselves in the turmoil and annoyance insepar able from party disputes. Those are not only the most wealthy, but also the best-educated and most thinking class of the population ; with the single exception above alluded to are model citizens. They pay their contributions to the national treasury with exemplary regularity. They can do so without the sacrifice of a single com fort or even luxury. They are, generally speak ing, moral and religious men, who would not personally commit any glaring impropriety, and who hold themselves aloof from matters that have brought discredit on the entire Republic. The time has, however, arrived when they must shake off this pleasing apathy, or permit themselves to be held morally responsible for the fearful evils that have arisen from their abdica- tion of the functions of civism. The more ener getic and restless Southerna—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 pleasure, the movements of PIERCE, MARCY, DAVIS, and CASHING. 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 ; and 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 Southerns 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 Auglo-Saxon determination, " pro aris et fosis," 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 Republican 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 en, 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, BIICIANAN should be the new President, and should he persevere in the course on which FRANKLIN 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 Southerns 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 such key we are disposed to unlock the mystery of Sir JAMES 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— 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 hale 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 he mead 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 to 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 we 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 worthy of favour able consideration—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 conduces more than anything else to the prosperity of a nation ; but it may be more than doubted that the prosperity of a free Russia would in any way be injurious to us. With freedom comes civilisation —with civilisation more numerous wants ; and one country, it is beli eve d, will always have a superiority in the p ro d uct i on o f some s tapl e 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 MONTES 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 wisdom." 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 and graze . too little" will meet with 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, wilt 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 bablo contingency in 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 restric' ion 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 mast 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 ROUSE.--(This Day.) A. quarterly general court of proprietors of the East India Csmpany 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 cf his petition, and restored to him his pension. (Hear, hear.) ila (Mr. Jones) thon referred to his notice of mot ion he had given relative to the cost of the dinners of the curt of directcrs. When he gave that notice he was under the impression that the dinners cost 4,0001. 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 CHAIRMAN 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 season 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 1 millions; and again, in 1842, when the E•;st 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 the 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 Nawab of Surat, in the name and in the behalf of the East India Company, without first con sulting the proprietors of East India stock, was uncon• stitational, unprecedented, and an illegal assumption of authority on the part of the Court of Directors." After the transaction of some other business the court 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, hi:s 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 he attributed to the fact that, in consequence of the recent laying out of extensive new thoroughfares, the demolitioa of old houses may have been more rapil and frequent than the erection of new houses, and whether the equilibrium would soon be restored or not. The fo!lowing figures, 'derived from official sources, answer this twofold question. The demolitions effected in Paris by the Pref:-"cture o: 'he Seine have heen.:— Iu 1552, fur 250 houses, with reimburse ment to the ex-proprietors... 27,319,210 f. In 1353, for 515 houses, similarly expro priated In 1851, for 299 houses, bought on ex propriation In 1855, for 320 houses expropriated In 1355, for 181 houses expropriated 1,565 126,211,559 t. The expropriations projected for the year 1857 will not amount to more than 100 houses. The new constructions and the enlargements of old edifices, 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... 638 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 35,600,000 712,000,000 These figures prove : 1. That the number of the demolitions, already con siilcrably reduced in 1856, will be yet more so in 1857. 2. That the number and ♦alue 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 cource 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 quarters whe, e they were made, and e , Tu., , iaily by the increase of the population in Paris. The last census, that of 1856, shows, in fact, that in the course of the postfive y e a rs this population was increased by 121,071 souls, that is to say, by mere than 1 10th ; but the 712 millions of constructions realised during the sane five years are ample for supplying this twofold de. wand. Doubtless, in these new edifices, the allotment of rent for the .small lodgings has not been immediately made ; by the Emperor's orde:, to supply this default consider. able advances have been allowed for the building of workmen's lodgings. 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, 943 of which are now tenanted, and 827 are being coin plet:d. Similar assietance has been offeeed to every per son budding a new house, and to every landlord of an old house who way be willing to partition out the stories into small lodgings. Thee encouragements, and in par ticulae 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 pi ice of the small lodging e We must likewise observe that the building works, which in 1850 amounted to only 22,000,000 f. in 1851 to 26,000,000f.11ia 1852 to 28,000,000 f., have risen in the last five years so high (without including the public monuments) al to give a value of 250,000,0001. If the Ne),000,000f, of demolitions effected during that period have in any way contributed to the rise of rents, the 712,000,000 f. of new edifices, with all the accompanying accessory expenses, have procured for the working classes an amount of work, and, in consequence, a rile of wages that may well serve to compensate the expense entailed by this monetary inconvenience. In fine, it is undoubted that the number of new con• sttuctions far surpasses that of houses demolished, and that which invariably happens in trade will also befal rent. The ascertained glut of any ware naturally pro-, duces A fall of its price. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, TIIESD iY. 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 par 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 EVENIND. 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 Walewskt thought it necessary to exchange one more commu nication with the Emperor before despatching it. A. Cabinet courier will arrive hero 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. e. End of Month, 4} per Cents (id) ... 91 70 —l. —o. 3 per Cents 69 40 69 65 New Loan 69 30 Bank Shares 4,100 Homan Credit hiobilier 1,635 ILustrian Belgian Five 5..,..... Spanish Threes Piedmontese(s) 9O 50 Home Debt .. 39 KLILWAYS-YOB CAM. fr. c. fr. c Orleans ......... ...... 1,335 Western 927 59 Northern - Strasburg byons Mediterranean 1,790 Grand Central 655 Lyons Geneva — Teste Cette .. 712 50 Austrian Corn. B4O RUSSIA. . The principl network of the Russian railways has ceen 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. 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 ; Teneriffe, Sept. 6 ; Madeira, 13th. The quotations of produce and exchanges in the Brazils xary so little since those by the Tamar, given in The Sum 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 wai 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 bags of very inferior qualify of new sugar bad 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 virulnt 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 exist - d, 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. Tho island of Porto Santo was also suffering severely, 90 deaths having taken place in a week, out of 1,800 inhabitants. PORTUGAL AND THE BRAZILS. sourFILIMPTON, w EDNESDAY MORNING. Sultan has just arrived, with the Peninsular mails. She left Lisbon on the 19th. The steamer Duke of Wellington, carrying the flag of Admiral Dundas, had arrived at Lisbon. The gunboatb 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 cpeu a credit of GOO contos, to be applied in promoting colonisation, and for other public ser f 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 sanc tioned; 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 27i. 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 53g . to k. The choera 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 COLCHESTER.—A meeting of the corporation and principal inhabitants of this borough was held at the Town-hall, Colchester, on Friday, forth© purpose of hear in.' an explanation from Sir S. M. Peto, with reference to a proposed extension of the Tilbury and Southend line to that town. The proposed line would give the district another line o 1 railway communication wiAt the metropolis, and give an independent I p in e e t f o ro e m nte irreairinitioatoth somelcioevtvaeii.tioft to Lndoof the proposed line, which would encourage the trade Sir lin of the port and secure a material reduction of the pas senger and goods rates. It i 4 stated that the exten sion will branch off the Tilbury line at Southend, take in Maldori, 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 Tmeany, Parma, ar.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, l is t punishment await them for having served England ! The English Ministers at Parma and Florence have pro tested against these arbitrary prcceeding9, THE BOY AL BRITISH BANS.. 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 maul 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 bands ofjustice ? 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 Tewkesbury, took 70,0001.; Mr. John Gwynne, another Director, took 14,0001.; John IVPUregor, Esq., M.P. for Glasgow, took 7,3621. ; Mr. Cameron, the secretary, took 30,0001. ; Mr, Mullins, the solicitor, took 7,0001. ; one of the auditors took 2,0001. Thus we find the Di rectors, who were answerable for the conduct of the company's affairs—the secretary, who was it 4 hired servant and agent, bound by every tie of duty to disclose to his employers all secrets prejudicial to their intere=ts—and, last of all, as ont° of the Auditors, whose express business it W act as a check upon the others—ail as if in a spiracy together to defraud the customers, and the great bulk of the shareholders who were not in" eluded in the list of Directors. We have thus pax' ticularised sums which collectively amount to up- . wards of 130,0001., wrongfully abstracted for their own private purposes from the funds of the cOn l- ‘ pally by the very persons in whose probity and in- , tegrity the company had absolutely confided.' These transactions were tainted with every circum 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 Mr. Cameron, the secretary, kept in his waistcoat pocket, and it was in this book that the real tram actions of the company were entered. The portly lelgers 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 addressed ad populism ; the other, ad clerum. The poor spirited creature who paid in his 1001., and drew' out his driblets of 101. and 201. as his occasion% might require, was noted in the more imposing but faithless records. The nian of more matured finan 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 had the amplest and most excellent securities been deposited to cover the loan, no Director could in honour have negotiated a•loan in his own behalf unless all incidents connected with it had been open and clear as the sun at noonday. It has not yet appeared that such securities are forth coming. On the contrary, in the case of gr. Cameron m it is expressly stated that the sea" rities which he deposited with himself alO not available to cover one-tenth of the loan 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 ironic' not have slunk down secretly to the back parlour of their own establishment, and engaged in a game of hocus-pocus with their own secretary at the ex pense of their clients. This we say upon the KlP 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 y e t that the public can acquiesce in this milder view of the case. Have the loans been repaid ? Are the se curities sufficient to cover the default ? Even so, 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 head. 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, hard' ever, will think twice before incurring a sentenc e whichl 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 0 vindication of justice would operate as entire so curity, but , at least it would help us, and should be tried. For the fate of persons who may have been guilty of such acts there can be no kind Of commiseration. The highway robber, the burglar, the pickpocket, have been cradled in crime ; they have been educated in crime ; they have graduate d in crime. To crime they have beon either driven by pinching want ; or, more probably, they form part of the regular criminal population, and from the first moment their fingers could close upon anything they have been instructed to abstract the property of others. For such wretched Pariahs of civilisation some pity may be felt ; but there is none for men who have received a moral and reli gious education, who are in a good position in lifel who are in nine cases out of ten distinguishedt by peculiar sharpness and ability, and who yet turn all these advanta ges t o th e furtherance ° , their criminal designs. If there is one class 01 persons more than another whom society for its own security should keep under lock and key, it is just such men as the offending directors and managers of the Tipperary and British Banks. It is difficult for the non-legal mind to under stand how a definition of fraud can be so limited as to exclude the case of the director or manager of a joint-stock bank who diverts to his own use 30,0001. of the funds belonging to the concern,' who does this secretly, and who deposits in place of the money a packet or two of worthless paper. Had there been no entry of the transaction between Mr. Cameron and the Royal British Bank in any of the company's books we Pl?' - - gime that this would have been a palpa b l e case of robbing the till, without modification. The difference between this case and that of Mr. Cameron is, we suppose, that he noted the transaction in a little book, the contents of which Ts ere kept entirely secret from all persons save those who were equally interested with himself in keeping such secrets from the knowledge of the great body of the shareholders. Cannot a criminal proceeding be founded upon such facts as these ? Surely the acquiescence or assent of the directors, his fellow-conspirators in the fraud, cannot ex onerate him from liability ? The point is one, of course, for the consideration of those who have devoted their especial attention to such subjects, and we can only hope that the ingenuity of our criminal lawyers may be successfully exerted in the prosecution of so abominable a crime. Nor does the case press less heavily upon the fraudulent di rectors. They have " borrowed" on their own authority the money of the company cn insufficient security, or no security at all, without causing any notice of the tr ansac ti on t o b e entered upon the public books. The evasion of the little book with the little lock amounts to much the same thing as though Mr. Cameron bad made the entries in his own pocket-book, and carried this about in the re cesses of his coat for his own private and exclusive information. At any rate, if there be no law which will touch such misdeeds, the sooner the law is altered to meet the necessities of the case the better for society at large.—Times. MARYET NEW ray.) CORN EXCHANGE. We had only a moderate show of English wheat in to day's market. Selected samples, which were very scarce, were mostly disposed of at full prices ; but inferior kinds ruled heavy, with the turn in favour of buyers. The imports of foreign wheat continue on a limited scale for the time of year. Most descriptious changed hands slowly, at about Monday's ctitrOncy. The barley trade ruled heavy, at the late fall in prices. Molt was dull, but not cheaper. The supply of oats was very moderate, and the oat trade ruled steady, at full quotations. Beans and peas were firm, but country flour was rather cheaper. AttaiVALS Tilts wan. Wheat. I Barley. I Malt. I Oats. p,onr. E .. 1,393 160 2,060 1 70 I 970, irisil 870 Foreign 1 I 6,7 0 I 2,880 4,970 f 4,670 brls. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is heavily supplied with new hops in which a steady business is doing, at from 56s to 95s per cwt. Old hops are very dull. WHITECHAPEL. The demand generally ruled steady, as f o ll ows e from 2s 10,1 to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4(0 pork, 3a 6d to 5s Od per 81b by the carcase Th , firml: Were 12,00 tion, bid. Egyp to 5!( quiet, day. A t( advice lug ti meat railw: cessio Eociet anion; Mobil Stiegi eighty cent. 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