The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-27 00:00:00

' A e EVENING EDITION. UNDER THE SPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS 1 ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. MASTER BASSLE, of the age of only Thirteen Years, who attracted considerable notice in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin, purposes to display his wonderful PO A' ERS of MEMORY, and acquirements in th MNEMONIC ART (surpassing everything hitherto known, and which created great sensation at the late Philoso hical Meeting of the British Association, at Newcastle-upon- Tyne), in only one CON VERSAZIONE, to take place on FRIDAY, June 28, at Two o'Clock, at Willis's Rooms, King street, St. James's. Admittance, ICs. 6d. Young Persons under 14, ss. 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THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, June 27, By a splendid Band, composed of the most distinguished Instru mental Performers in the Metropolis, Selected and conduced by Mr. Godfrey. Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot insert the letter of a " Portuguese Jew" till he points ont Frociscly the Member who used the words he refers te, and the day on which they were used. 111 , :11 %VATEIt AT I.ONOJN BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning ,9 minute after 3. I Fvenin3 26 minutes after 3, tin ;4 7 r 3-• Zfle LONDON: THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1839. It is now generally understood that the CHA N CEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER intends to renew the odious monopoly of the Bank of Ireland. Had it been asserted this bold proposition was entertained by any other Minister or individual than Mr. SPRING RICE, we own we should have disbe lieved it. We think, however, Mr. SPRING RICE will experience more obstinate difficulty be ' fore he can strike so fatal a blow on the trade and commerce and prosperity of Ireland than he yet dreams of. He will find opposed to him every advo cate of free trade and disciple of AIN HUSKISSON ; the entire Joint Stock Banking interest, as 'Well as every one, both in and out of Parliament, interested in the improvement of Ireland. For our own part, we hate monopolies of all kinds, and especially Banking monopolies. We have the experience of Scotland, and of Ireland, upon which to test this opinion, and which justifies us in venturing to affirm that had the Banking Laws which prevail in both countries been reversed, Scot land would have experienced no small share of the misery and pauperism of Ireland, while the internal prosperity of Ireland would have had some chance of being on a par with the present condition of Scot land. Of the two how much greater are the natural advantages of Ireland But it is impossible to calcu late the spring, under every disadvantage, a nation is capable of taking when the efforts of its people are set free. The history of banking in Ireland, up to the esta blishment of the Provincial Bank in 1826, presents one continued series of disasters, while in Scotland since the establishment of the first Joint Stock Bank, at the latter end of the seventeenth century, scarce any Bank failure has occurred. In this respect what has been the experience of Ireland ? All the private Banks that existed in 1804, about 50 in number, with the exception of seven, and a few who withdrew from business, have failed. So much have these failures been ascribed to the existence of Bank monopoly, which interdicted the establishment of a safer system, and so much did the successive Governments of 1821, 1824, and 1826 feel the force of these facts, that on three occasions have they applied to the Bank of Ireland, even before the expiration of its charter, to surrender a portion of its monopoly, and enable them to place the banking system in Ireland in a situation to combat its constant monetary difficulties by the establish ment of Joint-stock Banks within fifty miles of Dublin. As regards the Bank of Ireland monopoly, this has been the deliberate conviction of both Government and Legislature of those days, founded on reports and evidence taken before Parliamentary Commit tees of 1804 and 1826, and amply confirmed by the evidence before the Committee of 1838. Yet, in the teeth of this, when the monopoly, after thirty years' duration, has expired, Mr. SPRING RICE has the consummate modesty to propose to reinstate the Bank of Ireland in all its revolting privileges. We have heard, indeed, he intends to reduce the rate of interest paid by the Government to the Bank on its capital, and which for the last 30 years has been one per cent. higher than money could have been ob tained from the public. This advanced rate of interest on a capital, between 1808 and 1821, of 2,500,0001., and since 1821 of 3,000,0001., is nearly equal to a public gratuity of 30,0001. per annum, amounting at simple interest to a sum of 900,0001. sacked by the Bank of Ireland within thirty years. We apprehend before Parliament will sanction any privilege being granted to the Bank of Ireland, it will rigidly examine into the utility of that institution—it will first be satisfied that the existing monopoly does not sit like an in cubus—restraining within the narrowest limits the energies and enterprise of that country—prohibiting the extensive introduction of capital into Ireland, throughout a variety of industrial inlets—of manu factures and general agricultural extension and im provement, simply because of the paucity, and, in proportion to the wants of the country, the weakness of its present monetary arrangaments. We doubt not the Legislature will pause before it again inflicts on Ireland that baneful monopoly which has destroyed the trade of its metropolis— made, with its listless unoccupied clerks, its Cus tom-house almost a mockery —suppress e d its ma nufactories—and produced that state of inactivity, with the best natural capabilities, that never fails to be remarked by every traveller that visits Ire land. It is not, then, surprising that the nation 1 should pant after the opportunity which the expired Charter eierds, • life and vigour for throwine yoke, or be animated off this i n t o l era bl e e, mated by th e d es i re to see the new our which a better state of chines b would infuse into every channel of productive indus try. Can the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pretend to say that the Bank o f Irelaed per forms one function of a nati ona l charact,.;r (the ; ;.pa , , o f divid en d s on stock held in Ireland can.. considered) that should entitle it to a mo grounds similar to those w hich m i g ht • h t b k\,,r , k I) , A' e-t- IL -.., \ _ , ' v -i yi4, rr.*xi= ~,,.. --6 N fairly influence the Legislature in giving a monopoly to the Bank o f E ng l an d ? Th e B an k o f E ng l an d I by reason of its position and monoply of metropoli tan paper circulation, is the main regulator of the currency. It has therefore the office imposed upon it of adjusting the issue of paper money of the country, so as to maintain it at a par value with the metallic circulation. This is the duty the Bank of England owes to the public, and for which it has obtained a monopoly as a Bank of issue in London, and within 65 miles of the metropolis. But the Bank of Ireland has no such obligation imposed upon it. The foreign exchanges have no sort of action upon it. It is no more a regulator of the circulating medium, by reason of adverse or favourable condition of exchange, than that of any other Bank of issue in Ireland. It offers no safe guard to the public in exchange for the insuffer able injury its existence as a monopoly and a scourge inflicts. We, therefore, call upon the people of Ire land who value the opportunity that may now be fairly secured, of placing their condition beyond the caprice and the unreasoning power of a long-endured monopoly, we call on the supporters of Joint Stock Banks throughout Great Britain—on the advocates of free trade, and the press—leaving out all party distinctions, to unite on this question; and to con vince Mr. SPRING RICE he cannot at this late period of the Session of Parliament (after allowing, as it were, the subject to slumber till his own conve nient opportunity), impose so palpable and destruc tive a job as that of bestowing a monopoly of bank ing on the Bank of Ireland. Enough Members did not attend last night to form a House of Commons; the Lords had ad• journed over till Thursday, and we therefore have no Parliamentary proceedings to report. There were very few Meuribers of the House of Commons present the night before, after Mr. WA RD rose to bring forward his motion, though few persons who have looked at the debate will escape the con viction that it was on one of the most important subjects that the House of Commons • has been called on to discuss during the whole session. All the speakers admitted that it involved the future prosperity of our people, and might affect the future peace of our country. The character of past Administrations was assailed, and the present and future Administrations were emphatically warned against incurring a similar condem nation. Yet, as it was not a party ques tion, as it did not refer to keeping out the Tories, or t o keeping in the Whigs, the benches of the House of Commons were almost deserted, or just crowded enough to prevent the House being counted out. Looking at the importance of the question, and the able manner in which it was treated (for though we differ, as we shall presently explain, from Mr. WARD, we must state that. he brought great dili gence to his task, and lucidly explained his princi ples), we think the subject worthy of the reformed House of Commons. In the unreformed House, consisting mainly of the Jobbers and their friends, who were vehemently attacked, it would not have been tolerated. Look ing, however, at the small audience, and at the little interest this momentous question excited, it does no credit to the reformed House. The best interests of the people were discussed. The question was neither more nor less than how boundless regions of fertile land should be dis posed of, while all parties agree that civilization is much influenced by the manner in which land is appropriated ; and that mighty question, which may affect the prosperity hereafter of many great nations, which is now closely interwoven with the employment and happiness of the living generation, had no interest for above threescore Members of the House of Commons. Had it concerned the Court women, not a Member who could have crawled to the House, though he had paired and could not vote; but would have attended to hear the explanations. Some excuse may perhaps be found for them in the remoteness of the cure emigration offers for our present evils, and the pressing nature of those by Iwhich the country is assailed. Mr. WARD began his statement by referring to the present condition of the working classes, and affirmed that the whole of the agitation which has been directed against law and property during the last year has been caused by physical suffering. Chartism, he said, was a knife and fork, a bread and cheese question, and the evils of which the Chartists complained could not be remedied by means of political changes. Nay, while he admitted that it was impossible to convince people with empty stomachs, who work sixteen hours a day for a bare pittance, he strenuously insisted, that the destruction of our artificial system would only injure the working classes, who would be left, if they were to achieve what they have been strug gling for, to absolute starvation. He contended that the immediate and pressing evils of the country were social evils, beyond the power of legislation to cure. He defied the Chartists and their friends to produce one law, the removal of which would place the working population of this country in a healthy state. Now, such being Mr. WARD'S introduction, we find some excuse for the Members of the House of Commons absenting themselves from a debate, when they were told that the evils to which Mr. WARD called attention they had no power to cure ? But it is not true that there is no law by the removal of which the working population of the country may be placed in a healthy state. What does Mr. WARD say to the Corn-law ? Why did he vote for Mr. VILLIERS' motion if the re peal of that would not better the condition of the people ? What does he say to the Timber Duties, for the repeal of which Mr. VILLIERS is to move ? Would not the abolition of that law extend our trade with the North, and immediately give employment to our people ? What does he say to the Bank monopoly, which perpetually de ranges the whole course of trade, striking down employment at times, as a blight which passes over a field turns every standing ear of wheat to a heap of mildew ? 'What does he say to the law giving tithes to the priesthood for preaching bi gotry and strife, encouraging fanaticism and cupi dity ? Would not the abolition of that law, and giving the priesthood a moderate income, such as becomes the servants of CHRIST, improve the con dition of the people ? What does he say also to the law of primogeniture, which ties up land in a few hands, and makes, in fact, many wastes, or parks that are little better than wastes, in the midst of this crowded country ? What does he say, also, to a great variety of taxes on the poor man's tea, and sugar, and coffee, &c., which go to en rich monopolists like the West India planters, or to reward and pamper pensioned idleness and political corruption ? Mr. WARD is totally in error, when he says that there are no laws the removal of which would restore our working population to a healthy condition. The Statute Book is crowded with laws made by one class exclusively for their own ad vantage, and Mr. WARD does but minister to the ignorant conceit of that class, does but seek excuses, we ale afraid, for the culpability of the Le gislature of which he is a Member, does but lay a flattering unction to his own soul, does but delude himself and delude others, when he declares that the evils in the condition of the working classes oF this country are not caused by legislation, and are not to be removed by the abolition of bad laws. In this great principle, then, we differ totally from Mr. WARD ; and we object to his zeal in favour of emigration, that it tends to perpetuate evils at home, which ought to be remedied instead of being transplanted abroad. Mr. WARD say .4 Accounts from Alexandria of the sth inst. announce the commencement of hostilities in Syria. Some Syrian villages in the neighbourhood of Aintab have been occupied by the Ottoman troops ; in consequence of which Ibrahim Pacha was collecting his troops upon Antab and Aleppo. He had sent an officer to Hafiz Paella to demand explana tions concerning the movements of his troops." This despatch is given in a garbled form. The communication made to the Government stated that the Turkish army had occupied seventeen Syrian villages within the territory claimed by MEHEMET ALI, and that IBRAHIM PACHA had ordered 25,000 men to advance from Aleppo to regain pos session of them by force. This, it was expected, would lead to a general engagement. The following letter from Alexandria of a date one day later than LADY FLORA HASTINGS. — From Inquiries made at a late hour last night, we learn that this estimable and distinguished lady continues in a very dangerous state. Last night, about ei2rlit o'clock, as M r. O'Con nell was g o in g considerable'crowd, who cheered him Inos enthusiastically. along the Strand he was followed by a The lion, and Learned Gentleman, appeared much gra tified with the hearty plaudits with which he was greeted. The best conundrum that we have heard lately (says the New York Era), is this :—" If Mr. Cather wood's panorama should burn down, why would he be like an orphan ?—Because he would not have a pa-nor-a-ma." DETERMINED SUICIDE IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL,—On the sth inst. a man named Joseph Hayes, aged sixty years, living in Hope-town, Bethnal -green, attempted self- destruction by cutting his throat with a razor. He was conveyed to the London Hospital, where the case was considered as one of a serious description, and only faint hopes were entertained that the man would recover. He gradually grew better, but was far from bein g i n a fit condition to leave the hospital. Earl y y esterda y m orning• the unfortunate fellow was fou nd sus p ended b y th e neck to the sashline of one of the rooms in which he had b een placed. The nurses of the ward immedia tely raised an alarm, and the dece ased was cut down, but all efforts to restore animation were fruitless, as he h a d ev i dently been dead some time. a e t e n t be s l S UDDE N DEAT I I.—On Mond a y a ft ern oon a w young woman staying at Windsor for the benefit of her he alth, got into the fiv e o ' c l oc k train of the p r oceed to town, accom panied by three friends. She ough station, in order to was in a ver y wea k state, but no immed iate danger wa s a pprehended. She sat in one positio n i n the carriage, and exc i te d no p ar ti cu l a r atten tion. Great Westernß h a o il had wa y h The train stepped at Hanwell for a short time previous Go starting. Her friends attempted to rouse her, but were horror-struck on finding that she was quite dead, and nearly cold. Her body was brought by the train to the Paddington station, and then placed in a hackney coach, and conveyed to the residence of her friends at Camberwell. Her name did not transpire. Such in stances of sudden death are of daily occurrence at this season of the year. Mr. Monckton Mikes, whose speech on the Ballot the House would not listen to on the 18th instant. has taken the usual revenge of such gentlemen, and printed the speech. He modestly informs the reader , however, it is only printed for the use of his constituents . It is an empty production, and if nothing better had been said against the Ballot than what Mr. Monckton Milnes has said, the arguments in its favour would have been unanswered and untouched. the evils our working classes suffer under are social, arising we presume from the peculiar relations which exist between man and man amongst us, and what does he propose to do ? Why, instead of remedying those evils, to perpetuate and extend them in all quarters of the world. We conceive Mr. WARD'S social philosophy to be erroneous,—and never did we read a debate which made us so sensible of the importance of legislators obtaining correct views of political economy. Mr. WARD'S whole speech turned on the one-sided, and there fore false, theory of Mr. MA L above, supplies the details omitted in the official announcement : "ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 6. " On the 4th instant the Pacha sent for the Consuls• General of England, Russia, France, and Austria, to corn municato to them a letter he had received from Ibrahim Pacha, in which he states that the Turkish army, commanded by Hafiz Pacha, had taken possession of several villages, and was only siz leagues from Mount Tab. This violation of territory and an attack of the Turkish cavalry on a picket of Egyp tian cavalry, was evidently a beginning of war, and his Highness wished to take the advice of those Consuls as to what he had to do, and communicate to them the instruc tions he was going to send to Ibrahim Pacha, which were, that it was agreed that the General-ia-Chief, Ibrahim Paella, was to evacuate several villages, to leave between the Turkish army and his own an open space, and then he was to ask for explanatio ns front Hafiz Pacha, of his conduct; and in case that these villages should become occupied by the Turkish troops, to consider this new aggression as a declaration of war, and to repuhe them by force. A written account of this conference a: as drawn up, and each of the Consuls sent a copy to their respective Governments. The Nile steamer, carrying these orders, left at three o'clock, p . m , O n the same day, at a b out five o'clock, an Egyptian steamer from Alexandretta, brought despatches from Ibrahim Pacha, dated Aleppo, 29th May, according to which the Turkish troops were only three leagues from Aintab. Hafiz Paella had distri buted gowns of honour to the elders of the villages, and published proclamations, calling the Syrians to revolt, furnishing them with arms and ammunition, and already ten or twelve villages had revolted against the Egyptian power. Ibrahim Pacha adds, that not being able to wait any longer for orders from his father, and to prevent the insurrection from spreading to Aleppo, he was marching immediately with seven regiments of cavalry and 140 pieces of cannon, to Telshair, where he has given orders to Soliman Pacha to meet him with an army. In consulting the European Cons - ,.15-General as to the line of conduct which he should pursue, the VICEROY was fulfilling, a written pledge which lie had previously given them, declaratory of his pacific intentions. We subjoin a copy of this document:— ‘, Note forwarded in the evening of the 16th of May to the Consuls-General of Russia, France, Austria, and England. We were amused at the impudence of Sir GEORGE CLERK on Monday last. To expect anything like principle from Sir GEORGE would be to evince a thorough unacquaintance with the structure of that gentleman's mind as well as with his political cha racter. He served an apprenticeship, and attained the rank of master, in the craft and mystery of jobbery under a system of government of which that science formed an essential part. So expert, indeed, did he prove himself in all the branches of his calling, that he was at last raised to the im portant post of Jobber-General for Scotland. It is needless to say what the man must be who is qualified to hold, and who, moreover, has actually for years held, this office. Suffice it to hint that scrupulousness of conscience cannot be numbered among the possessions of such a man. He must be far above all vulgar prejudices, and must not even shy at what would make other men's hair stand on end. Such a one is Sir GEORGE CLERK, and from his character it may easily be i►,ferred how sincere he is in his fears for the cause of or thodoxy in Scotland from the introduction into that country of the Government plan of education. Like the rest of his kidney who hate the light, for reasons of their own, he bates popular education of all sorts and kinds, because it tends to elevate the people in the scale of humanity, and, conse quently to render them less fit for being treated like beasts of burden, the only way in which, according to the true principles of Toryism, the working classes ought to be treated, or can be treated, if these classes are to he kept in what is called their proper place. He would, therefore, rather not see an efficient system of edu cation introduced into Scotland. He would infi nitely prefer going on with the ineffective system of parochial instruction—for education it can hardly be called—which exists in that part of the kingdom. When he asserts that this so-called national system " hasgiven the greatest satisfaction," and that, too, " because it is intimately connected and interwoven with the Established Church," he asserts that which every one acquainted with the matter knows to be a positive untruth. The pa rochial schools of Scotland are not held in that high degree of esteem by the people which it suits Sir GEORGE'S views to make it be thought they are ; and one reason of this is the very reason which he assigns for the "satisfaction" which they afford, namely, that they are interwoven with the religious system of a sect, and, consequently, partake of all the evils which a sectarian character cannot fail to give to education. But in addition to this inherent blemish in the constitution of these schools, they are, in the great majority of instances, conducted in a superficial manner, and on a plan by no means suited to the wants of the people, or, which is much the same thing, to the necessi ties of the times. Schools, like all other institutions to be useful must keep pace with the improvements of the age. The education which they are in tended to impart, cannot fail to re-act upon them selves, and if they do not adapt themselves to the progressive demand thus made upon them, they inevitably sink into contempt. This, we fear, has been, to a considerable extent, the case with the vaunted system of parochial educa tion in Scotland. In every locality Where sufficient means exist—in all towns of whatever size—schools embracing a more extensive range of education and more suitable to the ever-varying form of society, have been established, and are maintained, by vo luntary subscription. These flourish, while the parochial schools in the same places fall into decay. In the whole of the parish schools of Scotland there are about 64,000 scholars, while in all the others, of various' sorts, the number is three or four times as great. 'Would there, then, be any harm in infusing a little new vigour into the Scotch parochial system of education ? 'Whether the Clergy have done their duty, or what they claim to be their duty, in the supervision of those schools, we will not take upon us to say ; but certainly these Reverend persons cannot point to their thriving state as a proof of their faithfulness. Let it be re membered, too, that an annual grant of the public money goes to the augmentation of the salaries of schoolmasters, and the right of the Government to look to the benefit derived from it to the people at large, may perhaps appear, to those who can think calmly on these matters, not quite so unreasonable as Sir GEORGE CLERK and his friends would wish to make it out. As to the charge which the Jobber-General makes against the Ministers, that they mean to establish Catholic schools in Scot land, we can only say that we are afraid it rests on no better foundation than the Non. Baronet's creative imagination. Would it were true ? " filo Viceroy pledges himself to M. Consul- General, &c., that in case the trocps of the Sultan, who crossed the Euphrates mar Bir, shall retire to the other side of the river, he will order his own army to execute a retrograde movement, and will recall his son Ibrahim Pacha to Damascus. Further, in the event of this pacific demon stration being followed by a similar retrograde movement on the part of the army of Fl. fie Pacha beyond Nlalatia, his Highness will enjoin the Generalissimo to return to Egypt. Moreover, his Highness the Viceroy adds of his own accord, that if the four great Powers consent to guarantee the continuation of •peace, and to interest themselves in obtaining the hereditary reversion of the government to his family, he will withdraw a portion of his troops from Syria, and be ready to conclude a definitive arrangement condu cive to the wants of the country and calculated to guaran teeits security." This includes the whole of the news from Turkey and Egypt. We are still disposed to believe that war between the SULTAN anti the VICEROY may be, and will be prevented for the present. Should the SULTAN'S illness prove mortal, important changes may be expected. This is not unlikely, as his distemper is said to arise from the agony of his mind, while brooding over the dismemberment of the empire during his reign, and the influence of a pro phetic dread that the glory of the Osmanlis is dimmed for ever. Letters from Tauris of the 20th of May an nounce that the Shah of PERSIA is still suffering from his old complaint—an inveterate war fever. He was then preparirT to establish a mil;tary camp at Sultanieh, as a preliminary step to the re-com mencing the siege of Herat. The same letters re port that the inhabitants of Bushire on the Persian Gulf, had risen against the English troops, and that great numbers were killed and wounded on both sides, before peace was restored. It is with pain we find ourselves obliged to recur from time to time to the jealousy of England, manifested not only by the French press but by the French Legislature. In the Paris journals of Tuesday, the whole of which we have received, we find the Report of the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies appointed to inquire into the expediency of granting an extraordinary credit of ten millions of francs (400,0001.) for increasing the French fleet in the Levant. The Report, which is drawn up with much ability, and a considerable display of his torical information, recommends the grant as necessary to counteract the ambitious designs of Russia and—wonder of wonders—Great Britain! Lord PALMERSTON may well stare when he reads this passage in the Report, and truly it looks ominous when it is remembered that the fleets of England and France arc charged to co operate as mediators and umpires in a quarrel not their own. After contributing to the dismemberment' of the Turkish empire by the seizure of Algiers, Constantino, and the extent of a no-inconsiderable kingdom in Africa, it requires some assurance on the part of French deputies, to propose measures for counteracting the ag , gressive designs of England ! The Journal des Debra:, too, which can philosophically descant upon the benefit which France would derive from the occupation of Alexandria, repeats the language of the Report with -all the•gravity of an exponent of Court oracles. No good, but much mischief may result from such groundless and ill-timed intimations. There is little domestic news in the French papers. The following paragraph from the Presse—a Ministerial paper—of Tuesday is only of importance : " Au infernal project has just been defeated. the admi nistration of the Opera was informed yesterday (Sunday) evening, that the theatre was to be set on fire that night, and that it had been concerted to profit by the confusion which such a disaster would occasion to take possession of the Hotel de Ville, at the moment when the authorities should be occupied at the scene of the fire." Great preparations are making at Toulon to fit out the vessels destined for active service in the Levant. The Corvette left the harbour on the 20th, to serve as an advice-boat to Admiral LALANDE. She carried despatches for the French Consul at Tunis. The Constitution/2d states, on the authority of a Contemporary, that M. Louts AUGUSTE BLANQUE is at present in London. BOURSE.—PAais, TUESDAY, JUNE 25. HALF-PAST THREE.—There has been a very fair quan tity of business to-day. For the Account the Three per Cents, opened at 79f. 15c., rose to 791, 35c., and closed at 79f. 20c., which is better than yesterday by sc. The Five per Cents. opened at 1111. 25 c., an d c l osed at 111 f. 30c., also a rise ()We. For Money the Three per Cents. are unaltered, and the Five per Cents. 10e. better. The Bank of France Shares have declined sf. The Laffitte Bank 1,000 shares are 71. 50c. better ; those of 5,000 f. have not been quoted. The Belgian Three per Cents. for the Account, 721. 10c. The Spanish Acti ve h as not varied from 191. The Neapolitan bonds have improved 25c. The Roman have declined 2 per cent. Not much business generally in Railway Shares. The Versailles Right Bank are 5f., and the Versailles Left Bank 121. 60c., and the Havre 2f. 60c. lower. The St. Germain, not quoted for money, are, for the Account, 645. irst Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents 4% per Cents lO6 ... 106 ... 106 .. 106 . 4 per Cents lOl 60 ... 101 60 ... 101 60 101 60 3 per Cents 79 15 ... 79 25 ... 79 15 ... 79 20 Bank of r ranee Laffitte Bank I.ooof. 1080 ...107:0 ...1080 —.lOBO Highly important intelligence has been received from the East. By letters from Constantinople of the 7th inst, we learn that the Turkish fleet, con sisting of thirty-five sail, of which eight are ships of the line, and eleven frigates, with 6,000 men on board, had received orders to sail with the first fa vourable wind to the coast of Syria, where the men, with a large additional reinforcement from Galipoli, are to be landed to co-operate with the army of HAFIZ PACHA. The SULTAN, though seriously ill of dyspepsia, which threatens his life in the event of any unusual excitement, has resolved that nothing shall deter him from attempting the subjugation of his vassal. That nothing might be left undone to rouse the religious zeal of the Turks, his Highness submitted the question to the decision of the Doctors of the Mo hammedan law, who, after the most careful consul tation of the Koran, unanimously declared the re duction of the VICEROY to be a sacred and obliga tory duty. They ground this duty upon the usurpation of MEHEMET AL[ of sacred rights appertaining to the holy office of Caliph and Chief Imaum of the Faithful, and of the Government of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the birth place and tomb of the prophet, to the interruption of the pilgrimages of good Mussulmans. In fact war appeared so imminent that the Ambassadors of England and France at the Porte sent instructions to the respective Admirals of the British and French fleets in the Mediterranean, to interpose to prevent hostilities between the Turkish and Egyp tan fleets, with a discretionary power to employ force, if necessary. But this is not all. By accounts from Alexan dria, received by the French Government on Satur day, but for some unexplained, and to us inexpli cable reason, not published till Monday night, it appears that hostilities have actually commenced between the armies of the SULTAN and the VICE ROY. The following is the official announcement in the Moniteur:— Belgian Bank 790 ... 790 ... 790 :..566 Coupons Spanish Ac ive IN ... 10Y,;, ... 19 , -., ... J9h; Nea, olitan Raman - RAILWAY SHARES. " '" •• a• .... Versailles, R. B F6S . 665 ... 665 661 L.B. 152 57 ... 152 50 ... 140 ... 142 50 Havr 960 ... 960 ... 960 ... 960 Orleans Strasburg to Bale 3OO ... 300 300 ... 304 Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 18th instant have been received. The Gazette of that date contains no news, I , ith the exception of an-official dispatch from ESPARTERO, announcing his occupatio n of Amurrio, Larrimbe, Sarucho, Iseria, and Respaldiza, by which h e compelled the Carlists to evacuate Balmaseda. - This is an important movement, and if followed up may lead to the retreat of the Carlists from Durango and Estella. Accounts from St. Sebastian of the ?oth state that the French squadron on the Spanish coast has com pelled the Carlists to evacuate Bermeo, firing upon their works wherever within range of the ships' guns. THE SUN, LONDON, TnURS DAY, JUNE 27, 1830 BLENKIN V. ASHCOMB. Ditto Bonds, 1825 — Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account — Ditto, 6 per Cent 26 Ditto Account Neapolitan — PRICES OF SHARES THI, COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) This was an action to recover compensation for the breach of an agreement entered into by the defendant, who had contracted to purchase the plaintiff's business of surgeon, &c., and to take the assignment of au appren tice's indentures. The latter part of the agreement de fendant declined to execute, and the plaintiff had thereby been obliged to pay 301. premium to another master, and incur other expense. The Jury found a verdict for plaintiff—damages 531. HILMORE V. SANDERS. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated the case to the jury. The plaintiff was lessee of a house in Bruton-street, which he had taken of General Hopkins, fur seven years, from 1828 to 1835. Of that lease defendart subsequently took an assignment ; but as this assignment would not discharge the € riginal lessee from the lessor, ecFendant agreed, on a bond for 2,0001., to bear the plaintiff free and harmless from all costs, damages, &c., which might, by any default be incurred. The last half years' rent being in arraar, an acticn was brought to recover it by Ge• neril Hopkins, against Mr. Hilmore, who by the advice of Mr. Sanders, raised a question on the case, aheiher the obligation was to pay a half year's or a quar ter's rent only. The Court of Queen's Bench decided against Mr. Hilmore, and defendant paid th , 3 half year's rent. But he had not paid the coats; and the present action was to recover the amount of 461. taxed costs, and 19/ the plaintiff's own costs, which he had paid his so licitor. Mr. GURNEY was for the defendant, and said he could raise no point for the defence, except the solicitor for Mr. Hi!more had stated that the expense would not amount to nore than 12/. or 151. This however, was quite negatived by that gentleman, and the Jury found for the plaintiff. ELLIOT V. WIGGIN. This was an action to recover damages for injury done to the furniture of a house in Wimple-street, which had been let by plaintiff to defendant upon a covenant to return possession with all articles, either of fixtures or furniture, undamaged, save by the usual wear and tear, or by fire. The plaintiff alleged the damage to amount to a very large sum. The defendant admitted only to the extent of 151. The case was of such a description, involving a hun dred or two minute pirticulars of the various articles in the house, his LORDSHIP directed a reference, as each par ticular would be obstinately contested. This was agreed to by the Counsel on both sides (Messrs. ERLE and RICHARDS). MARSHALL V. ROBSON. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated this, which was rather a " queer," case. The plaintiff was a tradesman in the City ; the defendant was the proprietor of that important work, " Robson's Directory," and doubtless had a high sense of the dignity attaching to intercourse with great narnes.—(Laughter.) Both parties happened to have been together in an omnibus, and on getting out, plaintiff asked defendant fur an account he owed. Defendant upon this flew into a passion, and as plaintiff followed him, threatened to give him into custody f.ir obstructing him, which he accordingly proceeded to do, the policeman being very reluctant to receive the charge, and only con senting so to do upon defendant's agreeing to assume the whole responsibility. Plaintiff was then taken to the sta tion-house, but the charge was instantly dismissed. The action was to recover damages for this trespass. The defendant's plea was that he did not authorise it. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS was for the defendant, and submitted that it was not a case, at all events, calling for heavy damages. Vie Jury retired, and were in consultation when our reporter left. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, T WEL VE O' CL 0 CK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The Cot ton ma , ket continues in a very depressed state. The sales are scarcely 1,000 12..,g5, at barely yesterday's prices. Arrivals this morning—French and Ostend mails ; ship letters from Pernambuco, Jamaica, Newfoundland, and south Australia. We have received the Launceston Paper of March 7. ( From the above Parer.) . . . We gave among our Sydney extracts last week a report of alit fell from Sir George Gipps at his late opening of an Extraordinary Session of the Legislative Council, in reference to the further imposition upon the colony of expenses in the convict establishment, hitherto defrayed by the Mother Country. From that report one thing is very cl;:ar—the Home Government arc resolved to make the Austr .lian Colonies feel the supremacy of the Mother Country. The representations of the Legislature and of their Governors are treated with contemptuous disregard, and it will now of course become a question with the colo nists, whether the transportation system,as its expenses are now to be defrayed, will be such as they will find it to their interest any longer to encourage. We look forward with some anxiety to the proceedings of the Sydney Council. The late arrivals have brought a very considerable ac cession of capital to the colony, and the settlers being most of them men of energy and skill, we trust they will soon experience the advantages of the climate and pastures of South Australia.—South Australian News. Up to the present hour the information received from the East, that hostilities had taken place between the Turks and Egyptians has not had any effect on the Bri tish funds; indeed, the various information received on the subject is still of a citradictory description; a skir mish may have taken place, but we still expect that the interference of the European powers will prevent anything of a decisive nature, which would cause tho peace of Europe to be disturbed. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 93,11 for the opening, with little doing asyet. The papers received by the overland express do not bring much news of importance from our armies in India; it appears that Sir \V. Cotton with his division of the army of the Indus has overcome the great difficulty he ex perienced on his march to the Bolan pass. Exchequer Bills maintain the price of 23 27 ; Bank Stock 188 190 ; India 253 255. In the Foreign Market the prices as yet are nominal and may be quoted as they left off. Spanish Active, 184 ir; Portuguese, 334 34i ; Three per Cents. 20+,1 ; - Colombian, 3li 32; Brazilian 76i 77i ; Mexican, 25i 2E3; Belgian 1014 l 021; Dutch Two.and•a- Half per Cents., 551 i ; Five per Cents. 1021 A. We do not hear as yet of the arrival of the Great Western steamer from New Yolk. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON„ O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 190 5604 I India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. Ditto Bonds l6 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons 35 2 per Cent 9)'4 Old Annuities Ditto Red........ 99% New Ditto New 331 per Cent New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 28 25 oni. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 5-16 Ditto Small 2.7 30 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 14 1-16 3-16 Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ... .. pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 18S0 — India Stock for Account ... 256 Jan . 5. 1870 — Consos for Account 9314% PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY AT ONL O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds —l Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Acres Bonds — Ditt o , 3 p er C en t . Ditto Account Chi hail Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds —) Ditto Account — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Columbian Bonds, 1824 ...31% 2 1 4' Spanish Bonds 18N 19 14 Ditto Account .32 1 4 , Ditto Account. ... IS% 19%%' Danish Bonds Ditto Account —' Def. rred B, Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. 4 per cent. -- 3 pee cent. —f. —c. --- Exchange. —l. —c. Dutch, 2X, per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per cent Ditto Account ...... __— DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Great North of England Railway Company.... 33 201 2 ' Great Western Railway Company 65 71 7';14 Brighton Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company 137 , 4 Ditto 4 Shares 5 23% London and Southampton ...... 38/. :7s. 9d. 44 anchester and Leeds Railway Company 5O 60 HALF PAST ONE. The Dutch Mail has arrived with papers of the 26th inst, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 25th. Two and-a Half per Cents 541; Five per Cents, 101. The above papers do not contain any political news of importance. Money can be obtained in the British Mar ket at a very easy rate on good securities from day to day, but for any lengthened time, such as a month or three weeks, a high premium is demanded. A report prevails that the Bank Directors are going to add another per cent. on their discounts, making it 6 per cent. ; they will be justified in this measure to counteract the late document issued by the United States' Bank to assist in the monopoly of cotton. We are again entirely indebted to the activity of the agency of Mr. Waghorn for the overland arrivals this morning from India. Consols continue buoyant. and have rather improved since the morning, may be quoted at present 934 for the opening ; Reduced, 924. Exchequer Bills, 28; Bank Stock, 190 1894. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active in the morning reached 19k, at present 191; P or t uguese, 341 ; Three per Cents., 20,1 ; Colombian, 323 ; Mexican, 261 ; 771 ; Dutch T wo - an d -a- H alf per Cents., 551-; Fve per Cents., 102 k 103. THE CHARTISTS IN THE METROPOLIS.-- A meeting of the Chartists was held on Monday evening on Stepney -green. They were addressed by Messrs. Hartwell, Moore, Spencer, and a Polish colonel, who stated he had lost the grant allowed to him by the Govern ment, in consequence of his advocating Chartist principles. A resolution was unanimously passed to apply to Lord John Russell to grant them ten thousand stand of arms for the protection of life and property in the Tower hamlets. NATIONAL GALLERY.—The number of per sons who viiited this Institution was, in 1836, 125,747, in 1837, 113,937, and in 1838, 397,649. The number of students in 1538 was in oil colours 40, in water colours, chalk, &c., 60. —Parliamentary Papers.—By the same return we see that the number of persons visiting the Tower has increased from 30,005, when the price was 2s. to 40,701 since the price was reduced to Is. The sum received in ten months, under the old system, was 9501. 165., under the new, 1,8711. I Is. The repetition of Handel's Oratorio, Joshua, on Friday, will conclude the performances of the Sacred Harmonic Society for the present season. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A respectable but not numerour meeting was held yesterday in the Freemasons' Hall, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of adoptinc , immediate measu res f or Ch urc h extens i on. Lord Sandon' took the chair, supported by Lord Ashley, Lord Ingestric, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Hardy, the Rev. Hugh Al• Neill, and a numerous body of the clergy, who had it all their own way. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended June 21, 1539, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England, and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 6Bs. ld. Oats B a rle y / 89 . d . I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE 5E WEEKS Wheat......... Os. R PRECEDING. td. 1 Oats Barley 3U. 10 d. 1 Rye DCTiES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat 131*fld. Oats ...... 7s. f^d.l Beans ...... Ils. 01, Barley 4s, DN I. Rye MARKETS. -(THIS DAY•) • Turbot, ss. good, Ua and G t r E a d ß e F b O r i R s k D ; 11 p I r e R s K steadyE T . Crimped, to Supplies S a l mon, Is. 6 d . to Is. 10 d . per lb. ; .. • CITY FISII MARKET. u a Beef, 77i ; idd S : o tt l oo e s BBl , 1, d i d ? d ; . to Mutton,4s. p e 7 r o l b.. to; s Lobsters, ld.;v ea l l, s . Bd t o . (i t:3° 1 . 0 8 9 ; 6 e } d d lp . ;. li PPe e T s u k g r l o b b ' o o d t , , a s u s d . 2 v‘ o • a s s . the s Soles 9d. to t o p prices s 6 i d n . o much r as p aliars;t to Lobsters, 10d. t o 4s. each; Good Salmon, I s . 6d. per ib. ; Whitings, 4d. t o Bd.; Haddocks, 6d. to Is . ; Mackarel, 6d. to 10d. The supplies good '' , AaY MA nd downwards. H ay, 7 0s. to 82s. and 86s. ; Cl o ver, 80s. to 100 s. emltaKndET InSo.dera ; prices tend and 110 s. ; Straw, 365. to 425. per load. THE COLONIAL QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OFTHE SUN. SIR,—In your remarks of this morning, upon the Co lonial Law Debate, of Tuesday last, there is one point with regard to which I am most anxious that my views should not be misunderstood ; and if, in the course of my argument upon the advantages of coloniza tion, I used words at all calculated to convey :the impression that, by promoting emigration, we might ex empt ourselves from the necessity of dealing with other questions which hamper the progress of our population at home, you will, I hope, obliga me by allowing me, through the mediu n of 3 our Journal, at once to set myself right. I never contemplated anything of the kind. The "social evil" of which I spoke was simply the pressure of population upon the field of employment for labour, to which I think that most of the anomalies of our economical position as a country, may be traced ; and whether we increase the field of employment by the repeal of the Corn laws, or by Coloniz ition, or by both (and both will not be too much), I think that we shall only do what self-interest, as well as public duty, require. With regard to the Corn-laws you will, perhaps, permit me to remind you that I denounced them in the debate upon Mr. Villiers' motion, to which you refer, not merely as most pernicious to the country, but as a monument of the intense selfishness of that " Class Legislation" which you most justly denounce. lam just as little disposed to bol -ter and cocker up, by the aid of Timber Duties, an un sound colonial trade ; but I believe that in colonization conducted upon sound principles, we may find new mar kets—a new field of employment for our capital and labour, and consequently a vast addition to our national happiness and prosperity. Tue importance of the subject must plead as my apology for troubling ysu with these remarks; by inserting which you will greatly oblige, Sir, your very obedient servant, H. G. WARD. 34, St. James's. place, Thursday. OVERLAND FROM INDIA. We are again enabled, through the exertions of Nir. Waghorn, to announce the arrival of an overland dispatch received this morning (forty-five days later) from India. By the above conveyance we have received Bombay papers to the 9th of May, Calcutta to the latter end of April. (From the above papers.) " We have at length the gratification of announcing the safe arrival of Sir W. Cotton, K. C. 8., with the leading division of the army of the Indus, one march beyond the Bolan pass on the 18th of March. The right wing of the 48th regiment, then left at Shikarporc,and three companies under Major Thomas, of that regiment, with Captain Wheler's troop of the 2d Cavalry, were sent on to exa mine the pass, marching the whole of the night, and part of the day of the 16th. " The party entered the mouth of the pass a quarter before six o'clock, when it was nearly dark, and our Cor respondent says he hopes he shall never have such ano ther trip; it was over large stones, and on each side rocks about 100 feet high ; they were obliged to leave a party with each of the camels that broke down, consequently several tents were left behind."—Delhi Gazette, April 24. Native accounts just received from Surat state that the Commodore has succeeded in apprehending three of the pirates who lately plundered the trading boats off Tinapore. It appears there is a regular gang of these ruffians located somewhere about Mazagon, and that they haste spies in every part of the harbour, and are ale ays ready to pro- ceed after boats with valuable cargoes. Feernoor Shah, the eldest son of Shah Soojah, has arrived here with Colonel Wade, and was by the last ac c mints within a few toss of Unbur Khan, a son of Dust Mahommed, who was at the head of 12,000 horse and 10,000 infantry. Comeer Khan, a son of the Sirdar of this country, is said to be at Ghoorcan with 15,000 kujurs, the tribe to which the Royal family of Persia belongs, en route to oppose Shah Sooj :h. ( From the Calcutta Papers of April 20.) We learn from the Courier, that the Bishop of Calcutta proposes to erect a new Cathedral, by dedicating the lac of rupees, placed by the will of the Begum Sumroo at his Lordship's disposal. The meeting of the Steam Navigation Committee, and of those favourable to the scheme of perpetuating the in tercourse with England, via Red Sea and Egypt, was held at the Town Hall on the 15th, and very numerously attended, there being not less than 300 people present on the occasion. Hearty co-operation with the London Company, and increased number of shares to meet the general view, were the principal objects of the assembly. The resolutions were carried with marked unanimity. SUMMARY OF NEWS. —Dost Mahommed has not been induced to oppose the progress of our army ; but it is whispered in high quarters that he is possibly playing a deeper game than we can perhaps give him credit for—that he is drawing our army onwards in full assurance of sup plies failing, cattle dying, troaps starving, and ultimately being obliged to retreat, under the burden of all these disadvantageous circumstances—then, it is said, he will show himself, and harrass a retreat that must commence under the most discouraging aspect—with the full weight of his power, and at a time when we shall be utterly in capable to resist him. We cannot coincide in the proba bility of this, nor do we see a reason why such supplies as depend on transport should fail, so long as the country in the rear is open. Colonel Benson's arrival does not ap pear to have confirmed the expectations of those who be lieved that his visit was purely political, and carried with it the seeds of immediate action against Burmah ; not a word has transpired indicative of such a resolution. It is said that a serious misunderstanding exists between the Raja of Sattara, and his younger brother, and that the latter has thrown himself on the Bombay Government. MONEY MARKET, H ARU- OFFICE, APRIL 20TH.— The week closes without any alteration in our Money Market, and business genere.lly appears very quiet. The Bill Market continues the same. We have no re , port of sales, saving private bills to a small extent. Bank Bills, 2s. ; her Majesty's Treasury Bills, 2s. ; private Bills under credit, 2s. 2d. RATES OF DISCOUNTS. —Approved private Bills and Notes not having more than three months to run, discount 6 per cent. per annum ; Government and Salary Bills, 4 per cent. ; Loans not exceeding three months on deposit of Company's paper, at 5 per cent; on Metals, Indigo, and Opium, 5 s per cent ; and on other goods, per cent. In Indigo the market continues to exhibit a decline in prices, and little or nothing doing. Cotton market firm, and considerable transactions reported at an advance on last week's prices. Opium market much depressed, and the result of the second sale looked for with much anxiety. In Silk piece-goods considerable transactions reported on good and middling qualities; the finer descriptions conti nue scarce. THE 94711 REGIMENT. —We feel pleasure in announcing that her Majesty's ship Jupiter anchored in the Cannanore Roads on the 21st instant, having on board her Majesty's 94th Regiment destined for that station. This enables the remaining wing of her Majesty's 57th Regiment to commence its movement towards Trinchinopoly, and it is now on its march.—From Madras Daily Advertiser, April 27, 1839. THE HUGH LYNDSA Y. —The Hugh Lyndsay, F. P. Webbe, Esq., Commander, left for Suez yesterday even ing after seven o'clock, conveying 10,519 covers, and having the following passengers on board : Brigadier H. Roberts, C. 8., Bengal Cavalry; Lieut.- Col. 11. B. Smith, Bth Regt. Madras Light Cavalry ; J. Fergusson, Esq., of Calcutta; M. Dussumier ; W. Gis• borne, Esq., Ceylon Civil Service ; Capt. Murray, her Majesty's 16th Foot ; Lieut. Burgh ; and R. T. Barra, Esq: _ _ As deck passengers—Mr. Gibson, George Ashburner, Esq. ; Captain E. W. Harris, Indian Navy ; F. Burdet, Esq., G. Henderson, Esq , A. C. White, Esq., Habie Woo!ah Moonsey, and Vasroy, native servants.—From Bombay Times, April 17th, 1839. The cholera was very prevalent at Bellary, especially in the garrison. Captain Hand, of the Bombay Grenadiers, was bar barously murdered by Belochces on the 21st March. The ship Severn. after having encountered a severe gale off the Isle of France, arrived safe at Madras. Lieutenant Grace, of her Majesty's 39th Regiment, died at Bellary on the 26:h April. Lieutenant Lysaght, of the 18th Madras, N. 1., died at Mukted on the 14th April. Captain Halpin of her Majesty's 49th Regiment was drowned at Dinapore on the 21st March. Captain Henry of the new Bombay vessel Marianna fell overb ard and was drowned. From Kruchee accounts are very distressing. Cholera has, it seems, broken out among the troops there with great severity, and its ravages are peculiarly felt• in her Majesty's 40th regiment. We regret to learn that Colonel Powell, late of that corps and afterwards in the 6th Regiment, has fallen a victim to the epidemic ; another officer of the 40th Regiment was so ill that he was not expected to recover. The Belochees were, it would appear, betaking themselves to the maraud ing system upon a very general and extensive scale, and many attempts had been made to waylay and cut off any officers or men who might be straggling from head quar ters. Lieut. Clarke, of the Bombay Grenadiers, escaped with difficulty, after being severely wounded by a match lock bullet. In fact, from all that we can learn the Belochees are abroad in every direction, and it will require all the attention and vigilance of our force to keep the country in a state of tranquillity ; but the duties of this, as we term it, police service, ought to be shared in by the troops of both armies, and not confined to one, when there are labours of a more exciting nature to be per formed in a country hitherto unknown to the enterprise of a British army.—Madras Daily Advertiser, April 12. The Hugh Lindsay was obliged to put back to Bombay, after having proceeded 800 miles on her passage ; her mail, with a few extra letters, was brought by the Berenice. Major James R. Haig, of the 34th Madras, N. 1., and acting Adjutant-General of the Army, died on the Ist 'Lieutenant Douglas, of the Madras Engineers, is also dead. Lieutenant Bligh, of her Majesty's 39th Regiment, died at Bellary on the 22d March. The membets of the Naval and Military Com mission sat yesterday at the Treasury upwards of four hours. Among those present were the Duke of Welling ton, Duke of Richmond, Lord Hill, Earl of Minto, Via count Howiek, Sir James Kempt, Sir Henry Harding°, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Charles Adam, and Sir George Cockburn. _EVENING EDITION. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY. The trig! of the prisoners charged with being concerned in the above robbery was resumed this morning, shortly after ten o'clock. The first %vitness called was Henry Solomons, the ap prover, who was brought up in custody. Having been sworn, he was examined by Mr. CLARKSCN.—Witness is a goldsmith r and -efiner , at 58, i n ' th e S tran d ; h e h as also another shop in Coventry- street. Mr. Robinson re-examined. The Learned JUDGE admitted the objection taken to the line of argument pursued yesterday, The notes produced he receivea on the 14th April ; he gave them up. I7th May, to Moss. at the New Inn, Old Bailey ; none of the prisoners were present. They are the same he received ; the I 0 U was amongst them. He was in his own house when these things came into his possession ; Moss was present. The notes and the I 0 U wero all delivered at ore time, and by one party. Henry Solomon recalled.—Has known tile prisoner Emanuel Moses for eight or nine years, and the prisoner Alice Abrahams for some few years. \Vas at his shop in the Strand on Easter Tuesday la!t. Has a son named Isaac, and a daughter Mary. On that day the prisoner I Moses came to his house, and said he wanted to speak to witness. After some few minutes he intimated a wish to be private, and walked to the end of the shop. Witness then went up stairs into his sitting room, accompanied by Moses. \Vitness's daughter Mary was in the room, when they caine in she walked out ; prisoner _ then asked witness if he would purchase some gold dust, and what be would give per oz. for it? Witness sail he would give from 31. to 31. 15s. per cz. Moses then said he had a quantity of it. Witness refused to take more than 30 cr. until he had trizd it. Witness agreed to give 3/. per oz. for it; prisoner said Very well, I will send my daughter Ailsey with it is half-an-hour; before he went away he said, Remember, I don't know you, nor you don't know me. He then went away ; about half-an-hour after his daughter, the prisoner Abrahams, came into the shop, and said, I have brought what my father spoke to you about. His workshop is at the back of the front shop ; he there keeps the materials for melting ; she wsiken towards the workshop, and he followed her 1 there are furnaCes there ; he put a crucible in the fire, and she produces some lumps of gold from her bosom and from her porker.; witness put them into the crucible as she gave them to hits , witness to ld her she had brought more than he bad told her ther to send , and made some observations when she produce. a bunch 1 .. of keys, and said there was nothing to fear ; it ssas all locked up sa f e , an d oug ht t o b e a ll me lted that day ; as. et' it was melted, witness poured it off into two skillets, and took it into the front shop ; she followed him, and he weighed it there; it weighed 110 oz. to the best of his recollection ; he said that he found it much more than he had anticipated, and was very much alarmed about it. She took hold of his hand and swore a Hebrew oath that she would never divulge witness had melted it. After this had passed, witness gave her a memorandum of the weight and price 603. per oz., the amount it came to, and the monies paid over to her ; he then paid her 330/. in notes and sovereigns. She went away with an understanding to bring more. She returned in about half an hour, bring ing some more gold dust. Witness melted that also, in the same way, weighed it and gave a memorandum for it on the same paper as the former one. Witness did net pay her, but told her he must send into the City for monel9 and she said she might as well go and fetch some more. She went away. During her absence lie re-melted some of the gold with sonic silver gilt-lace, and made a bar of it, and gave it to his son Isaac, and gave him directions to take it to Cook and Johnson's, the refiners, in Hatton-gard en ' Whilst his son was gone, Mrs. Abrah a ms came back with some more gold. Witness melted it, and gave her all account of its weight in the same way as before, and on the same paper. She came five or six times with g old. She waited for the return of witness' s s on i n the drawing' room, up stairs. Whilst she was waiting f or him there h er , mother, Mrs. Moses, came up stairs, and s a id her husba nd had sent her to see why Ailsey stopp e d, an d that he was uneasy. Witness said he h a d sen t into th e c ity for money , and she seemed satisfied a nd wen t awa y. Witness's s on brought 400/. in bank notes and so vere i gns , and ie the presence of Mrs. Abrahams s aid h e h a d got a check Pe ril Messrs. Johnson, on Williams, Deacon s an d Labouche fe, the bankers, and that he had got from th em a 3001. n ote, and a 100/. note, and that he w en t t o th e B a nk of Eng land and changed them for small notes and sovereigns. Witness gave the money to Mrs. Abrahams, as he 1) 1 0_ re ceived them from his son, and p u t d own t h e am ount upon t"" memorandum. There appeared upon the memorandum the state of the account between them, which left witness debtor to them between 2,000/. and 3,0001. Witness gave her an I 0 U, which was afterwards returned to him, and btl gave her another, which, when he had given, be destroyed the first. There was a portion of th e gold which did not not come into the account. Th ere were som e small bits of gold which Mrs. Abrahams produced from a small bag hi her pocket ; she gave that to witness's servant, Dean, to melt, and said he was not to say anything to her father about it. Dean melted it and witness weighed it it weighed between 4 and 5 ez., and he paid her 13/. for it, which was not put down in the account. Said she got that out of the shaking out of the bag. The next morning he re-melted it; Dean assisted him; he put some Russian cop per coin with it, but he had previously re-melted one of the bars with about 70 oz. of silver. He did this to disguise it and to prevent detection. He sent two of those bars to Messrs. Bolt, in Cheapside, by his son Selim. On Se lirn's return he gave witness eleven 100/. notes and 100 sovereigns. Mrs. Abrahams came in soon after Selim's return. Witness gave her six 100/. notes and 100 sovS. ; siut the payment down upon the memorandum—that re duced his debt to 1.800/. cs,d some He then destroyed the first I 0 U, and gave her the paper now produced—(this was the paper referred to by Moss and Robinson ; it was, " I 0 U 1,8071.-11. S.") His son Selim was present to the best of his recollec tion ; he was about to destroy the memorandum whet she begged him not to do so, as her father would be angry, and he returned it to her. A portion of it got torn off ; there was a balance due to latn from Bult which he has notlet received. Has had dealings with Bales house for som e y ears. He had previously sent the same, Irish and Scotc h : notes, and some foreign coin to the amount of 1401. or 1501• He was endeavouring to get money at that time for th e purpose of raying Mrs. Abrahams. Messrs. Bult in the course of the day made him some communication on the subject. After having settled with Mrs. Abrahams, be was not in a condition to return Butt's money. B el , 5 bought at the rate of 31. 17s. 9d. per standard oz. W't• ness made a good profit on it. Mrs. Abrahams did not call for some days after, when she said her father was very anxious for more money ; when he said that there was 3 great stir made about it, and he could not part with ali t Y more money or sell another ounce of gold at prese fn.qt and desired her not to call there for some time, as b e very uneasy about it. Witness also received a communi cation on the subject from Cook and Johnson. He gent his young man Dean, to them on the Friday. Witness was after this summoned to give an a ccount of this : he mat ter, at Lambeth-street ; he attended there o n 6th, with his attorney Mr. Plumptre. He was CPI", tioned by Mr. Clarkson, and after giving some answers , witness declined to answer any further 9 the Magistrate let him go. Before he went to the Mngg e trates ha sent his son Isaac to the prisoner Mosee. : nd brought back a message. He gave his son Sella ence Dean some directions about the money. In conseq of these directions he brought back six of the 1001. notes, of and 701. in Si. notes—the self-same notes. He g ot r ut them as well es he could. On Easter Tuesday he sent of for money to various places. He sent among others oi e itestior! Woolf, in Regent-street. His servant brought him 12 id in notes and sover e ig n s, af ter b e i ng sen t th e re. He p ad some of these notes to Mrs. Abrahams. Ott the follesvieg Wednesday he returned,by the check produced, the tno e Y he had borrowed of Woolf. Cross-examined by Mr, Sergeant BourAs.--He was present in the other Court about six months ago, some stolen plate ; he was told t h en t h at h e oug ht to have been in the dock. Witn ess sa id h e wou ld ex plain the cir cumstances. about Mr. BOMPAS—Oh ! certainly. A dealer named Robins, well known in the trade, came to his shop one morning, and produced some plate ; he asked witness 9s. 6d. per oz. ; he offered 9s. per oz. ; be would not take it, and he was going away. He sent for him back and offered him 9s. 3d. for it. He would not take that ; and being some articles which he wanted, he gave him the 9s. 6d. per oz. Some days after a young man told him that the plate had been stolen by a young man a traveller of Mr. Lias. The parties he had bought it of immediately sent information to Robins ; he went to Lias and told him that he had bought it, and sold it to Solomons. • Cross-examination continued—He was giving evidence in the other Court, and was told by the judge he was a lucky one not to be placed in the dock. He did not, to the best of his recollection, ask the Judge for the plate — he asked to whom it was to be given up. The Judge had previously said in that cause there was no imputation upon him. It was in the midst of confusion that the observation reflecting on him fell from the Judge, and it was the general impression that the observations were not intended to apply to him. After that, Mr. Lawrence paid him back the amount at the rate of 9s. 6d. per oz. He wa s in the witness box when the Judge made the observation. It e about a quarter before twelve, when Mrs. Abraham on the 2d of April. He was ala r m e d because b old f u h n a t he had get into it, and suspected thi s wa s the g t was lost. She went away to bring more after this, b u t he did not desire her to bring him any more. She did net take an oath from him that he would not divulge it. He believed it was gold that was stolen, and sti ll went on receiving it. He has not been out of a state of agitation Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS--WhY since. did you not give her back the gold when you suspected it was stolen ? The gold shone too brilliantly, perhaps? Witness-4 found I was in it. The trial was proceeding when we Went to press.