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E DLTI ON. ETENING EDITIO4,; ENTY-ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, Trust-money, is ready to he LENT on approved Mort gage *of Land, for a term of Seventeen Years, at Three per Cent. Ay ply, only by letter, and alone, from Principals, to John Okward, 'Esq., Lansdowne-cre scent, Bith, one of the Tr &stem 11c --- E %V SPA PE R S ' ' —SUN COURIER, and STANDARD at Half Price the next day afte r pub lication, (lithe clean, and forwarded by the Morning Mails or the Twopenny Post, free after the first three miles. On credit, with releretice for payment in town, 16s. ; if paid in ad vance, 145.. Address to George Pollard and Son, 17, Duke-street, West Smithfif Ad, London; or to Mr. Judge, 87, All Saints-street, Hastin L i. Country agents supplied on the lowest terms. PLATE GLASS. M A INE BIRMINGHAM PLATE-GLASS AL COMPANY, beg most respectfully to inform the Trade generally, of their intention to OPEN their WARE HOUSE, No. 141, FLEET-STREET, onthe Ist JANUARY, 1840, with an extensive Stock of PLATE GLASS, to which *they invite their inspection, trusting that the quality of thcir asd the facilities given to the Trade, will insure them ;a share of their orders. No. 141, Fleet-street, London. HULL STEAMERS, from ST. KATHE RINE'S WHARF. CHANGE of DAYS and FARES from the Ist of January, 1840. The Public is respectfully informed, that one of the Humber Union Company's Steam Ships, Wilberforce, Vivid, or Water - Witch, will leave St. Katherine's Wharf, London, every Wednesday and Friday Morning, at Eiyht o'clock ; and Hull, on Tuesdays and Saturday Mornings at the same hour. Fares--Saloon and Bed, 17s. 6d. Fore Cabin, 7s. 6d. Every information may be obtained of H. D. Mauling, Agent, Hull; E. Abell, 41, Fish-street-hill; or J. Clippingdale, St. Katherine's Wharf, London. London, Dec. 30, 1839. TO BE WON, 3,333,760 FLORINS. Fr HE GREAT SALE, by SHARES, of the P ALACE of OBERMEDLING, situate t in Schon brunn (:our miles from Vienna, Austria), will take place irre vocabl.y.the llth of next January, 1840. by the authority and with,the guarantee of the Austrian Government. 7 11,is Sale, entitling the Shareholders to a Second Drawing, offers mere advantages than all other preceding ones. The Second Drawing will take place positively on the Ilth of March, 1840, and contain a quantity of Gold and Silver Goods (the property of Viscount Reviezkv ), which are taxed by tho Government at 850,000 florins. These goods are in the most fashionable style. ','Price for Share I/. ; Six Shares, 5/. ; Thirteen Shares, 10/. 1 iThe amount will be remitt e d i n B an k o f E n; land 1 1, 1 ,Vlratre'"" -- ' are paid, without fileHest deduction, a fortnight after tL7iTawing, and the Bulletin of all numbers sent to the Purchaser'. - Apply for Shares, Schemes, and ether particulars to the un aer-named Banking-house (principal Agents for this Sale, &nd who will forward them free of postage to London). HENRY BEER and CO., Bankers, Paris. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. EASTERN BRANCH.-5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe. Capital, 900,000/. EbtroyvEßED BY ACT Or PARLIAMENT. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE 'MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Col. Sir BurgesCarnac, C. S. Robert Hollond, Esq., M.P. JohnlF.lliotson, AI.D. F.R.S. George Lungley, Esq. H. Gordon, EN, John Rawson, Esq. !Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS, Dr. Olirthus Gregory, F.R. A. S. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. ACTUARY—W. S. B. 'Woolhouse, Esq., F.R. A. S. By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An nuities, founded by this Society, the moral' obligation of all classes of 'malting a provision for a family or for old age is largeq enhanced, by the immediate advantages secured to the Asswed themselves. Th,3 details of the principles of the Society, its improvement in the system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in favour of the Assured, its exteysive Tables, &c., will be found in its Prospectus, which may he obtained at the Offices of the Society, 26, Cornhill, London, or at any of its Branches throughout the Ccuotry. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE RATES Reduced 30 per Cent, per Annum Lower than any other Office. LIFE ANNUITY RATES, CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! !! FOR. EXAMPLE. For every 1002. deposited, this Association will grrnt the An nuity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing. From 60/. and upwards, in proportion. Age3oto 40to 45 to 50 to 55 to 60 to 65 to '7O to 75 to $0 48 Per ° IFS 10 I X P t er ° Ile ie I .£l , O 10 I 1 1 ? £l 5 ,er lo £2a er lY. rt s er Cont. Cent. Cent. Cent .. Cent Cent. I Cent. I Cent. Cent. LIFE ASSURANCE RATES. Age 20 to '25 to 341 to 35 to :IN to 40 to 45 to 50 n. p remiunt lf s. d.ff, s. d.l s. d. s s. 6.1£ 8. d. 1X s. II II 011 15 012 012 6 2(O 0 01215 01:5 5 0 'ran Company make no charges for intermediate ages under 50 years. FIRE INSURANCE RATES. Common insurance. s. d. Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous)... 1 0 per Cent. Hazardous Dnuhle Hazardous Farming Stock INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, _ . _ Opposite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London. South St. David's-street, Edinburgh; Ingram-street, Glasgow; And Sackville-street, Dublin. Empowered under the sevexal Acts of Parliament of 14th Geo. 111. c. 48; 22d Geo. 111. ; 53d Geo. 111. c. 141; 3d Geo. IV. c. 92; and Ist Vie. c. 10. G. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. COMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON, No. 3, MOORGATE-STREET, LOTHBURY. Capital 2,000,0001., in 2,000 Shares of 1,000/. each. DIRECTORS. Peorge Bulpett, Esq. G. B. Mathew, Esq., M. P. `rlward S Cayley, Esq., M. P. Edward Oxenford, Esq. 'Thos. Griunditch, Esq., M. P . J no. Ra msbotttom, Esq. ; M.P. Mark Gambier. Esq. George Rennie,.jun., Esq. John Harvey, Esq. John Shewell, Esq. Thomas Hawkes, Esq., M.P. John Taylor, Esq. Arthur T. Holroyd, Esq. R. Walker, Esq., M.P. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. MANAGER—Mr. Henry Sparkes, (late Banker at Exeter.) Sins-Marian xa—Nlr. Alfred R. Cutbill. SOLICITOR—SamueI Amory, Esq., 25, Throgmorton-street. The Directors, in giving notice of the opening of the Bank on the 16th of January next, beg to state that it is their inten tion to carry out the sound banking principles laid down in their prospectus, thus affording to the public the security of the Joint-stock system, combined with the advantages of private banking. Accounts of parties properly introduced will be received and kept on the plan generally adopted by London bankers. - Parties havinc , current accounts with this Bank will have the advantage of transferring any surplus balance to a deposit account, bearing interest ; and sums of money will be received on deposit from parties not keeping current accounts, at such rate of interest, and for such periods, as may be agreed upon, reference being had to the state of the money market ; and, if required, the acceptances or promissory notes of the Bank, at not less than six months' date, will be given to depositors (in lieu of receipts) for sums of not less than 1001. Arrangements have been made to ensure the strictest secrecy as to the accounts of individuals ; and the discount department will be conducted by the Managers, with a limited and confi dential Committee of the Direction. The Agency of Country and Foreign Banks will be under taken on such terms as may be agreed upon. Investments in, and Sales of British and Foreign Securities, Bullion, Specie, Etc., effected. Credits given andglemittances made to all parts of the world; Dividends received ; and every other description of Banking Business and Money Agency transacted. Due notice will be given of the period when the Branch atthe West-end will be opened. The Directors and Managers will be ready, at all times, to give information to their connexions, and any further particulars as to their mode of transacting business. No Christmas boxes or other gratuities will be allowed to be taken by any person connected with the Bank. (Signed) H. SPARKES, Manager. Dec. 20. HULL, YORKSHIRE. ESSRS. ;VIURRAY and TATTER SALL will SELL by AUCTION at the George Inn, Whitefriar-gate, Hull, on TUESDAY, the 4th of February next, All that very valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, known as BOREAS HILL, comprising a Mansion of old date, and 282 Acres of rich land, in a ring fence, in the Parish of Paull, eight iles from the Seaport and Market Town of Hull, only three om the Town of Hedon, and nine from- Pattrington. The Mansion is placed upon a gentle eminence, in the midst of well-grown Shrubberies and thriving Plantations, and sur rounded by 4, noble growth of Timber ; and at a convenient distance, is a Capital Farm House, with all suitable Outbuild ings and Offices, situated in the centre of the lands—and the entire property will be found to present attractions in the beauty of the surrounding scenery—its healthy and commanding situa tion, and the well-known richness of the land, well meriting attention, as offering an excellent opportunity whether for investment or occupation. Immediate possessio n nay be had. Printed particulars, with a Plan, may be had on application to Mr. D u nn, Solicitor, Hedon, near Hull • of Messrs. Tat tarsal', Hyd e -p ar k- corne r ; and O'f Messrs. Murray and Tatter sail, Land Agents and Auctioneers, 47, Parliament-street: °USES, &c., to be LET, by JACKSON _ and CO., in various situations, in the following Trades, and many others :—Tea, Coffee, Chap, and Eating Houses ; Houses. Public Beer Houses; Brewery; Bakers; Tobacco nist; Grocers', General Dealers; Green Grocers; Coal and POate Dealers; Oil, Colour, and Italian Business; Cow keepers, Dairy, and Milkwalks ; Private Houses; Lodging filuses, &e Particulars may be had the Offices of Messrs. Jackson and Co., Auctioneers, 26, Brvdges-street, Covent-garden. N.B. letters to be pad. AVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Wax Candles, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; extra fine Moulds, Wax Wicks, 71d. ; transparent Wax, ; ge nuine Sperm, is 9d. ; genuine Wax, 2s. Id. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 625. and 665. ; Windsor, Is. 4d. per packet ; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Old Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Camphor, 2s. ; Almond Soap, 2s. 6d. ; superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; genuine Sperm Oil, 9s. Od. per gallon. FA. Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established 'Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House. 'lO R EDGE'S HEAL-ALL, or celebrated Em brocation, has long been known throughout the Nest of England, as the most efficacioui Remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, 'Pains in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections, "fare_ A ch, Sprains and Bruises, Burns and Scalds, Spasms and Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken. It is likewise an infallible Cure far that dangerous dis. order the :Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to fail after a .ew hours' application. Observe—That none be Genuine unless the Stamp alixed to each bottle contains the name and address of Barclay and Sons, No. 95, Farringdon-street, who have purchased the Property in this Valuable article from the Executors of the Inventor, William Dredge, late of Wishford, Wilts. Retail price, Is. I kff d. and 2s. Oct ler bot ile; and sold retail, by all respectable Medicine Venders in Town and Country. i Cry,,fol/'' ~.;: 1 - , ~ it,F ) , / 1 :-.; ( ; A l 4. 7 1 ) ;; „$, r :•.l t , ! , 1.4 "t. 1:, I .:,, I :I, ‘., 1 \` I ' ) 7 , ' *'''. / '. ----..------ N o. 14.762. JOHN THOROGOOD h as b een con fi ne d in a the Common Gaol of Chelmsford F ince the 16th of Jannuary last, for not paying a Church- rate of ss. Gd. In consequence of his long confinement, his business has re ceived so much injury, that his friends propose a public sub scription, for the purpose of saving his affairs from utter ruin, and as a testimony to him and to the country that they sympa thize in his sufferings, and honour the principle of religious liberty, which is violated in his person. Subscriptions to be paid, in London, 'o Roger Lee, Esq., Treasurer, Clapham Common, and on his acnunt at Messrs. Rogers and Co., bankers, 29, Clement's-lane ; to Mr. Robert Besley, 15, Northampton-square ; and Mr. James Dinnis, 62, Pat ernoster-row. In the Countrv—Te John Copland, Esq., Chelmsford ; Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham ; Sheppard Ray, Esq., Ipswich; and Mr. John Childs, Bungay Messrs. Wells and Perry, Chelmsford - 0 Friends at Walt.hamstow 5 A 0 Roger Lee, Esq R. B. Sanderson, Esq. Joseph Sturge, Esq., Birmingham Charles Sturge, Esq., do. Messrs. Bowler and Sons Henry Waymouth, Esq., Bryanston-square 5 0 0 0. H. Smith, Esq . 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Number of Houses—Shcep--Cattle—}lorses—Population, &c. Latest news from Port Phillip—Western Australia—New South Wales—Shipping Tntelligence of all the Colonies in Australasia—Prices of Provisions, &c.—Price, Fivepence, stamped. rAidi,itiv g o . (intft-ti1 , . 0 , A ( d e iphi, and .014 by all news agents. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S. SHIELDS, DEC. 28.—Sailed the Fourteen, Armstrong, for the Cape of Good Hope. WATERFORD, DEC. 26.—Sailed the Isaac and Eliza beth, Minden, for Newfoundland. The John Cullam, M‘ Vi ear, from Poole to Liverpool, has been towed into the har bour from the Salters., dismasted. YouottAL. DEC. 25.—Arrived the Jaina, Woods, from St John'r, New Brunswick. CORK, DEC. 26.—Arrived the Hector, Crisp, from Smyrna. Sailed the Amazon, • Bellord, for St. John's New Brunswick ; New City of York, Johnson, Barbadoes. ABERDEEN, DEC. 26.—Arrived the Robert M' William, Edwards, from Quebec : Amity, Dempster, Dalhousie. Hum., DEC. 29.—The Cane Grove, from Stockton to London, has put in here with stern stove, having been run into by a collier, on the 25th inst., off the Deeps. LONDONDERRY, DEc. 26.—The Superior, Lindall, from Riga to Newry, struck on a bank on entering the Lough on the 20th inst., and is coming up to discharge, cargo being damaged. KINGSTOWN, DEc. 27.—The Blanche, Smith, from Dub lin to Southampton, has been run on the beach, being in a sinking state, and is discharging. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL —The Foxhound, from Yar. mouth to Venice, 21st inst., lat. 50, long. 6, by the Jane, Stratford, arrived in the River ; Elbe, Beazley, Alexan dria to Liverpool, 19th ult., off Malta; Arkwright, Dane trail, Liverpool to Sidney, New South Wales, 16th ult., lat. 4 N., long►. 29 W. ; Royal Mine, Seawright, Liverpool to Jamaica, 29th ult., lat. 21, long. 30; Paquetbot des Mers du Sud, Bordeaux to Valparaiso, 25th Oct., lat. 10 N., long 35 W. The following was yesterday morning posted at Lloyd's : Extract of a letter from the Agent at Constantinople, dated 9th December:— The Protector, which was ashore at Tenedos, is arrived, and I have had arrangements made for having her hove down. We have had some severe gales, and several foreign vessels have been wrecked in the Black Sea, but no Eng lish ships are spoken of. It is generally reported that the Monarch (steamer) has been wrecked with 200 passengers on board, and bound for Treb:zond;; the agents to the vessel being in holidays I have not been able to ascertain the fact in that quarter, but am happy to find, that the Turkish authorities have rlO advice of the loss, which I think conclusive of the untruth of the report. _ _ To WM. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Lloyd's. THE STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—An excellently timed and warmly-persuasive Sermon was preached for this Society on Christmas Day evening, at the Chapel in Gray's Inn-lane, by the Rev. T. Mor timer, 8.D., after which a collection was made amoun. ting to 411. 10s. This really " Samaritan" Society— a very minister of good at all seasons, but winter especially—seeks out the most pitiful cases of human misery, with no distinction of creed or nation. The funds are, however, wholly inadequate to the increase of distressing cases and their full relief, whilst patro nage could not be better bestowed. The number of cases relieved in the past year was 7,000 ; income not quite 3,0001. A paragraph having appeared in some of the newspapers regarding the will of the late Miss Innes, of Stow, we arc authorised to state that the fortune left by her is very greatly exaggerated, and that no person has any right to any part of her fortune, except her legal heir and executor. Patronised .by their Majesties the, King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and: Rosa, her Grace the Dowager-Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Dukes of Devonshire and Manchester. In addition to the above distinguished patronace to the newly-invented Spectacle Lenses and Invisible Opera tive Voice Conductor, the Messrs . S. an d B . S o l umons , optici an s and aurists, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly, and 96, Cheapside, feel great pl easure to statethat their va l u able inventions have also gained the sanction and unqualified approbation of above four hundred of the principal members of the medical p ro f ess i on ; as a l so of nu merous i n dividuals of high disti nct i on , w h o h ave been g rea tly benefited by their use. Immediately these improved Spectacle Lenses arc placed before extreme imperfect vision, it is at once brought b ac k to i ts na t u r a l and o r i g i na l state, every object become s c l ear a nd dis tinct, an d the most minute particle is seen, either by clay or candlelight, with ease and distinctness. Their Voice Conductor, by which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, are not the least per ceptible, nor more uncomfortable, th an h av i ng a piec e of w oo l i n its place, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albe marle-strect, and 96, Cheapside. No travellers nor agents are employed. . Dr. Hastings has obtained the answer of her Majesty's Attorney-General to the case submitted to him, and that Learned Gentleman is of opinion that it is only Town Councillors, and not Aldermen, who are 'liable to be fined for refusing to Serve the office of Mayor. The Doctor will, in consequence, have the 501. returned. —Worcester Journal. MANCHESTER MANIFESTO AGAINST THE BANK OF ENGLAND. December 12, 1839. Report of the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Manchester, on the Effects of the, Administration of the Bank of England upon the Commercial and Manufacturing Interests of the Country. • The Board think it, expedient, before proceeiling to a consideration of effects of the recent policy of the Bank of England upon the manufacturing and trading interests, of the country, to take it brief review of the events which;preeeded and hav'e.i.ceomPanie , l the present commercial reverses. , W and manufactures the end of 1835, ell branches of trade 'and manufactures were in a state bf..pro•perity. which they had continued, almost; w ithout interruption, to enjoy for ieveral years. In the. course of that year, the Bank 01 England, by throwing a large amount of money, hela for thie.Eastlndia.Cornpany, and ads need o n ' a c cou nt 61 tire Vest India Loan, into the niarket at a very'l6w: rate of ipterest, aqd hy the facilities thereby affol-ded' to tine London bill brokeis and others, for diserMting: enormous sums of American acceptance's, and bills re: issued by the Joint. stock Banks, laid the foundaftenToF that excessive stinullus to trade and speculationivhicli'. - prevailed in the succeeding year. , Early in 1836, the. mania for speculation in Sh ares, and the formation .of innutherable JointStoek gssncial tions gave warning to all those who had a reenreetiori of 1825,that the trading world was hastening towards „ ' sieges pierlilar„; 449,4 f/ it). iose of, tbat .. atia,rhart', .1110 market rate, of, interest .in tbe prey Pi'r hit; • ' . 4.goriow"Atcg per cgnL and even LC Itikki ,a k . aneoi owe'r i but 'ln ILllY . l . B36f't he tan i n ere asel . its rate from 4 to 43- per cent. This advance in the value of money occurred too late. The fever of speculation had been infused into the system of the entire commercial world, and its effects were manifesting themselves with peculiar violence in America, when President Jackson, by the issuing of his famous specie circular, calling on the pur chasers of the public lands for payment in gold or ,ilver, at length arrested the progress of the speculators. The news of this proceeding, on the part of the American Executive, arrivin g here simulta neous ly w ith a demand for specie fo r th e United States, the Bank Directors now gave notice to certain large Ame rican houses, that their acceptances would no longer be discounted as heretofore. Advice to this effect seas transmitted by these houses to their connec tions abroad ; and a copy of one of the letters having found its way into the newspapers, was made public in Europe by the return of the next packet.' The Bank of England advanced the rate of interest to five per cent. in August, and about the same time rejected all bills drawn or endorsed by joint-stock banks of issue ; and also refused bills drawn upon the Anglo-American houses. The embarrassments of the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland, and of the Northern and Central Bank of England, were publicly announced in the November following, which, coupled with the ru moured difficulties of the great American firms, led to a general discredit both in this cbuntryo and throughout the li holo commercial world. Towards the close of 1836, the stock of bullion in the bank had fallen to little more than four millions ; whilst, at the same time, it was indebted to the world upwards of thirty millions for its circulation and depo sits. The Directors now determined to check the drain upon their coffers, and to increase their stock of bullion on hand. It has been stated, upon the authority of the Bank Directory, in a memorandum presented to the Committee of the House of Commons in 1832, that " a supply of gold can be procured from abroad only by reduced prices of commodities ;" in other words, at the expence of the manufacturing and mercantile interests ; and the object in advancing the rate of inte rest, in two months, from four to five per cent., to which we have alluded, was undoubtedly with the view to depreciate the value of commodities 25 per cent. This step, on the part of the Bank Directors. " caused," to quote the language of Mr. Ilorsley Palmer, in his' pamphlet, " a moral apprehension in all prudent minds that there was mischief abroad, and created an effect far more powerful than the actual advance in the value of money." In other words, it caused a panic. The trading community, upon whom the slightest re• strictive movement on the part of the Bank of England operates with electrical effect, seized with alarm, were now eager to sell off their stocks, to save themselves, as far as possible, from the effects of the impending full of prices. Thus the aject of the Bank was at tained. In the spring and summer of 1837, the prices of alj commodities, towards which speculation had at all been attracted, fell to the lowest point to which they had been known to recede for a great number of years. Similar consequences were immediately felt through out the whole commercial world. Our merchants ir stantly transmitted orders to their agents abroad to dispose of their stocks, and, in lieu of the shipment of produce to a falling market, to remit the amount in specie or billqof exchange. As very few bills upon England could be purchased at places from which shipments to this country had partially or wholly ceased, their price, or the rate of exchange, consequ e ntly rose until it exc e eded the cost o f freight, interest, arid insurance upon the transport of rpecie to England ; and in this way was realised the object of the Bank Directors, for we find that, in 1837, unusual quantities of bullion were imported from almost every quarter of the globe. The losses thus incurred by British merchants, upon their outstanding capitals, were in many cases ruinous. In some instances, where trading with distant markets, large engagements had been en tered into by their agents, before the news of the revulsion reached them. In China, purchases of tea and silk were made, after the prices of those articles had fallen in this market 30, 40, or 50 per cent., and before the disastrous intelligence reached that remote quarter of the globe. Throughout the year 1837, the Bank of England continued, at the cost of these heavy sacrifices to our merchants, to augment the amount of its bullion, as tile following official returns of the stock of specie in its vaults will show :- 1837 June £4,750,000 December • 8,172,000 183$ January Whilst the stock of bullion still fell short of a third of the liabilities, a proportion which the Directors them selves in their memorandum embodying the principles upon which the Charter was renewed, presented to the Committee of the House of Commons, in 1832, do. Glared ought always to be preserved, they, in direct sio lence of their own principles, embarked in the mercantile speculation of exporting large amounts of bullion to America. Simultaneously with this extraordininary end unprecedented step the Bank offered loans on deposit of securities at three and a half per cent. (March 1, 18:38) ; and, from this time. may be dated another short career of depreciation, during which credit was cheap, money abundant, and, as a natural consequence, prices of corn• moieties agar a rose.* The Board have now to refer to certain circumstances. growing naturally out of this state of things, which more particularly affect the interests of the cotton trade. Toe Bank of the United States, with other large American chartered banking companies, taking advantage of the embarrassments of the great Anglo-American houses, had become the channels for shipping the cotton crop of 1837-8. In this way, Mr. Biddle stated, in his latter to Mr. Adams, "he gave facilities for shipping from fifteen to twenty millions of dollars of cotton, and placed his own confidential agent in Liverpool." The expectation of a short crop of cotton, in 1838-9, occur ring simultaneously with the efforts making by the Bank of England to expand the currency, tempted the Bank of the United States and other American Banks to lend their credit in aid of certain speculations in cotton wool : a scheme that has succeeded to such an extent as to inflict upon the spinners and manufacturers of the country an unprecedented amount of loss and suffering. It is important to remark that the funds for carrying on this gigantic scheme of monopoly were furnished, princi pally, from Great Britain. From no other source, indeed, could the necessary a:nount have been supplied. he low rate of interest which, in consequence of the ex pansive policy of the Bank of England, prevailed during s An artificial expansion of the currency is scarcely less injurious than its contraction to the menfacturer and spin ner, who, far from desiring a rise of prices, are interested in a cheap, and, above all, a uniform supply of the raw material upon which their capital and skill are employed. The cheaper the rate at which their commodities can be afforded, the larger will be their consumption, and the greater must be the demand for the profitable labour of their artizans. Any artificial enhancement of prices, by attracting to the raw material a class of monied speculators, whose capital may be transferred at will from one invest ment to another, places in a most disadvantageous position the manufacturer or spinner, three fourths of whose capital is sunk in the erection of mills and ma nufactories, the dwellings of workpeople, or the con struction of machinery, all of which arc rendered un• productive and valueless the moment that a regular supply of the raw material is cut off, or that its excessive cost puts an end to the sale of the manufactured articles. Hence, whilst the monied capitalist, taking advantage of the rise in prices consequent upon the depreciation of the currency by the Bank of England in 1838, could sell off his cottons, silks, the manufacturing capitalist, neces sarily at all times a purchaser, but never a seller of the raw material, was incurring heavy losses, owing to the artificial enhancement of price having prevented him from disposing of his productions at a profit. Such are the exigencies of the manufacturer's position, that he has been compelled to enrich the monied speculators, by continuing to consume the raw material at a loss, the heavy sacrifices which he has thus incurred being preferable to the ruin which mu at result to himself and his dependants from the total cessation of production. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NOVEL, " THE SPITFIRE." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 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Mr. Edward Thomas, do., (2d Subscription)..... 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 10 'lt PRICE sd. 1838 and the spring .of this year, ranging as it did tioni two-and-a-half to four per cent., threw the mo ney market of London into the hands of the American' speculators, who, by tempting our capitalists with every variety of bank shares, state bonds, railway stock, and other public securities,. paying generally six per cent. Per annum, suceeeled in raising loans to an extent A7liich has hee.n var'ausly. estimated at from five to ten millions sterling. By means of funds thus obtained, the price of cotton has been unnaturally sustained up to the present day, in the face of an enormous decline in the price of the manufactured article ; and, had it not been for a deficient corn harvest in this country, and the consequent - contraction of our circulation; there is no reasonto4loubt that the sam e sy s t e m of loans and cre-, ri:ts.woulEthave been repeated, • until the ruin of our spinners and manufacturers had exhausted the fund 'limn which the monopoly derived its profit. In the mantis of August of last year, the prevalence of: wet weather led to the general belief that - the har i;est would prove deficient,: and that a large importation ofcorn would be the resnit. _ The public papers of the • (lay announced, that the foreign exchanges had fallen, in ecintequonee of the demand for bills to remit to the pontinentinlpayment .for grain ; and the funds also de clin froths the same cause. In the beginning of Sep tentber,. dinaverage price of wheat in this market had reacheilllai a.quarter, and the duty had fallen to Is. It teas ;sew foreseen by, every experienced and intelli gent:Mindtliat a large amount of gold Would be required to /jay for. foreign corn during the succeeding spring. Under anatural:systern of trade, no such sudden drain liirsitecieliould occur, in payment for corn, any more 't 4 461.1 ad. : to Arise la / exchange for tea, Cotton, or 4i ,'._ At 40: prfient Corn4aw,,however, imposes a i r4 i Alt - '1) . o titi've — itul); - iip - on foreign grain, until - corn of borne growth reaches a certain high price, and then admits it at a low duty, the trade in that article becomes an ex. ception to the ordinary rules of commerce, and all such sudden and extraordinary purchases are necessarily paid for with bullion. Notwithstanding that it must be supposed that the Directors of the Bank were cognizant of the operation of our Corn-laws, still the conduct pursued by them, in November of last year, in offering to make ad vances, repayable in January, at 3_l per cent., not only tity.m Exchequer bills and approved securities, but, con trary to custom, including India bonds and stock, was marked.by a total disregard of the consequences to be expected from such an imprudent course. The addi tional supply of paper money thus thrown upon the market, and the consequent rise in the prices of com modities, speedily produced the effects which under the circumstances might have been expected, viz., a de cline in the foreign exchanges, and an export of bullion. The commercial cr i s i s i n France and Belgium, aug mented the, demand for specie on the Continent ; and a diminution in the stock of bullion in the Bank took place, during the months of January and February of the present year. Yet, in the face of these critical and warning circumstances, the Bank Directors, on the 28th of February, 1839, again offered loans upon all kinds of securities, includ . ng, as in the preceding November, stock and India bonds, at the low rate of 3:i per cent., to be repaid on the 23d of April fol lowing ! The average stock of bullion, which on the Bth of January, amounted to 9,336,0001., had fallen, on the 2d of April, to 7,073,000/., being a diminution of 2,263,0001.; yet it is important to remark, that the amount of bank notes in circulation had, in the meantime, increased, from 18,201,000/. on January Sth, to 18,371,000/. on the 2d April ; whilst the securities had, in the same time, augmented from 21,980,000/. to 22,987,0001.; thus demonstrating the fact, that instead of acting up to the principle laid down by themselves, of remaining passive under this drain upon their bullion, the Directors had actually re-issued in exchange for securities, their notes, as fast, and, in deed, faster than they had been returned to them for gold ; thus wholly deranging that proportion which the specie in their vaults ought, by their own declaration, to bear to their liabilities. The demand for gold for exportation continuing, not withstanding that the Bank Directors had suddenly raised the rate of interest to 51. per cent., it was, on the 20th of June, advanced to per cent., and on the Ist of August fixed at the unprecedented rate of 6 per cent. In July the Directors made proposals for the s►le of the dead weight, but the manner in which the tenders were refused raised a doubt whether they really desired to dispose of any part of it ; a supposi tion that has been since strengthened by the fact, that, notwithstanding that a continuation of the drain for gold has led the Bank to incur the dis credit of borrowing two millions from the Bank of France, no further attempts have been made to find purchasers for this annuity. Instead of replenishing, their exhausted coffers by the sale of the dead weight, or of their other Government securities, the Bank Di rectors have curtailed their loans upon commercial se curities, and thus thrown the whole of the pressure upon the trading interests. The effects of this partial policy are strikingly manifested in the circumstance that Ex chequer bills bearing three per cent. interest, have been at par, and three per cent. Consols at upwards of 90, whilst discounts on the very best commercial paper have ranged from six to seven per cent. The injustice of thus sacrificing exclusively the commercial class, is ag gravated by the circumstance that a very small portion only of the advances of the Bank are made upon bills of exchange ; a fact that may be ascertained by a refe rence to its balance sheet, presented to the Committee of the House of Commons in 183, in which, out of an aggregate of assets amounting to upwards of forty-four millions, not three millions were commercial bills and notes discounted, the remainder consisting of the per manent debt due from Government dead weight annuity, Exchequer bills, stock, mortgages, and other similar investments. The last publication of the state of the affairs of the Bank in November, announced that its average stock of bullion had fallen to 2,545,0001. ; but, down to the present time, its operations have produced scarcely, any influence upon the Foreign Exchanges, and they have had but little effect upon the price of cotton wool, notwithstanding that it is know❑ that much of the stock at Liverpool is held, , under advances, at high and artificial prices. To the latter circumstance may undoubtedly :be attributed the restricted Euro pean demand which, for a time, prevailed for our manufactures and yarns ; the merchants of the Con tinent cautiously abstaining from purchasing, in the expectation that the price of the raw material would fall to its natural level. That the measures of the Bank have not had the effect hitherto of putting an end to the speculation in cotton, notwithstanding the suspension .of the United States' Bank, with which it originated, may be accounted for by the circumstance already alluded to, viz., that the funds, 5y means of which the scheme was sucessfully accomplished, were raised upon State bonds and other securities, having one or more years to run ; by which means the curtailment or recal of the credit was, for a certain time, placed beyond the control of the Bank ; a state of things alto gether dissimilar from that of 1836, when speculations were fostered by a system of open credit, which were no sooner checked, by the refusal of the Bank of Eng land to discount the acceptances of the great Anglo- American houses, than the prices of cotto❑ fell .almost instantaneously 30 to 50 per cent. Having thus taken a review of the principal events illustrating the course pursued by the Bank of Eng land from 1835 down to the present time, the Board are desirous of directing the attention of the members to the losses which these forced contractions and ex pansions of the currency inflict upon 'the manufacturing and mercantile community ; an evil, the magnitude of which has not been sufficiently appreciated by those who have investigated the questions of banking and cur rency. Without attempting anything like an accurate estimate of the amount of the sacrifices incurred, suffi cient proof may be adduced to show the extent of the pecuniary loss and the still more serious nature of the moral mischief inflicted upon the manufacturing and trading world. It may be estimated, that, in the production of the five great manufactures of cottons, woollens, linens, and hardwares, capital, fixedt and floating, is employed, amounting to a hundred millions sterling. The rates of depreciation, caused by the late panic upon all those great articles of production, may be ga thered, without difficulty, from the prices current of the spring and summer of 1837. Tney fell in price variously, from 20 to 50 per cent. To estimate the amount of loss upon these manufac tures, they must also be followed into the hands of the wholesale and retail dealers, whose losses, upon stock, consequent upon the operations of the Bank of England on the currency, are incurred simultaneously with those of the first prolucers. Scarcely one of these escaped in 1837, without the sacrifice of the whole of the ordinary profits of the year's trade, and many lost by the fall in the value of their stock the whole of their capital also. In proof of the latter fact, it may he stated that 1,939 fiats in bankruptcy were issued in 1837, the average of the four previous years amounting to 1,266 only ; whil s t a proportionate increase occurred in the number of pri vate compositions. At a moderate computation, from twenty to thirty millions of capital may be estimated to be employed by the wholesale and retail traders engaged in the distribution of the five great manufacturers enumerated above. It has been shown how the policy of the Bank of Eng land effects the foreign trader, by compelling him to • f The value of fixed capital, such as buildings, ma chinery, &c., engaged in cotton-spinning, or in manufac turing, has undergone a depreciation, taken at the present time, as compared with 1836, of at least f. om 30 to 40 pct. Cent. import, at heaTy sacrifices, the bullion required to reple nish its exhausted coffers. Of all 41:' *duce, and manufactures consirrned in foreign countries, the greatest portion is sent abriat by British capitalists. Nearly the whole of our exportxto India and China, at lease seven -eighths of the amount shipped to South A erica, and a third of the Ix- ports to the ContinOof Europe, with:the rhole Of our colonial trade, are forwarded by British merchants. From thirty to forty militOns of British capital is pro bably employed in the foreign commerce of the country. The amounts of British capital thus enumerated are as follows : _ _ _ Etinployed in the production of the five great articles of cotton, woollen, silk, linen, and hardware In the wholesale and retail distribution of ditto In the whole of the foreign counmeree of 25,000,000 the country 35,000,000 £160,000,000 Without embracing the less prominent branches of our domestic manufactures, including the trade in Is thousand articles of daily consumption, and omitting the traffic in agricultural productions, all of which were moic or less affected by the revulsion of pric4ii ; refe ranee has here been made to a capital of 160 millions:, upon which we may trace a tangible loss,' railing from 23 to 50 per cent. by the depreciation of value in the spring and summer of 1837. This saorifiee of forty millions, at the least, and which constitutes a - fraction on y of the losses simultaneously sustained by the entire' co mercial world was incurred in order that the Bank of i 41and might regain possession of six or seven mil. liolis at specie, which it had previously fOreed out Of the cotintry-by the undue expansion of:the currency. f(t.bas4en shown that the Bank \ne.itloner found it self ,in r aaife position, than it recorotn et - I. in 1838, a systeni of 'expansion, and exported part : 0e5, 1 2 s t uck of gold. Prices of the great staples before- enit s ,,ritted consequent)advanced during the year 11368 ,an "art of-the year 1 8 3,p, ? ' , until, as we have seen; the rent: policy was resume d, the motion of the screw was re-, versed, and, dosoiti' to the present moment, prices have again fallen, ~ .ns.," i f to 30 per cent.; thus inflicting upon ttie Ore. i , <.',' r,. :.tr in ' iintr anufactar Inficreit'i - lept ''''.' • ; - 'i'' .?•-: ..,-.' . - - • .--.sw.s, By these forced expansions and contractions of the currency, during the last three years, some of the most prudent and wealthy of our merchants and manufactu rers have incurred that ruin which, in a more wholesome and natural state of the circulating medium, could befal only the reckless adventurer or gambler. Under such a state of things as has been described, calculations tinsel upon the most enlarged experience, afraid no se curity against loss and failure. The trader learns th.e fate of his undertaking, not in the markets of the world, as influenced by the law of supply and demand, but in the acts of twenty-six irresponsible individuals conduct ing a joint-stock banking association in the City of London. But the heavy pecuniary losses incurred by our capi talists constitute a minor evil wnen compared with the moral and social injuries inflicted upon the labouring classes by the fluctuations in the currency. The Board have directed their best attention to this part of the subject ; the effects produced upon the condition of the great mass of the people, by the operations of the Bank of England, having hitherto been almost entirely overlooked. The late panic, by causing a diminution of our exports in 1837, as compared with the previous year, to the extent of ten millions, and by curtailing proportionally the amount of our home trade, was accompanied by a corresponding cessation of the demand for labour. In the spring and summer of that year, vast numbers of the working classes, in all the large towns, were suddenly deprived of employment, and thrown upon their own feeble resources for the subsistence of Lheir families. Their first resort would naturally be to their own re served funds ; and, in examining the reports of the va rious Srvings' Banks in the manufacturing districts it has been found, in Manchester, Leede, Birmingham, Sheffield, Stockport, Huddersfield, Blackburn, Boltoo, and every other place to which the Board have directed, their inquiries, that, although the labouring classes form but a small proportion of the depositors, the amount of money drawn from those institutions in 1837 exceeded considerably the sums lodged with them in that year. The next and only resource of the working classes, when deprived of employment, is the parochial poor fund. But in directing inquiries into the amount of paijsh re lief afforded in 1837, as compared with the prev;ous years, the Board found that the adoption of the Nevi Poor-law Act, about that time, and the consequent or ganization of parishes into unions, prevented them from instituting such comparisons. In the Report of the Poor law Commissioners, dated 17th July, 1837, are, how ever, recorded some statements of facts which exhibit in a strong light the nature of the evil. The Commis sioners begin by stating that they were deterred from making an earlier Report, because of " the sudden change which took place in the manufacturing districts by tLe cessation of the usual employment, which made them desirous of presenting such information as they might be I able to collect as to the working of the system under the adverse circumstances to which it became so suddenly exposed." The Report states, that in " the greater part of the important manufacturing counties of Stafford, Notting ham, and Leicester, a cessation in time demand for la bour took place in 1837, more sudden in :ts approach, and more extensive in its operations, than has been known on any previous occasion. In many places, owing to the insuflicieocy of the workhouse accom modation, they were obliged to suspend the order pro hibiting out-of-door relief to the able-bodied." In Nottingham, " after providing for nearly 700 per sons in the workhouse, a subscription of 4,0001. was en tered into by the principal inhabitants of the town ; and the unemployed operatives were set to work in con structing a road through some property belonging to the Corporation." The Report contains similar accounts of the state of the working classes in Coventry, Foleshill, Nuneaton, Mansfield, and other places ; appended is a Report from Dr. Kay, upon the condition of the Spitalfields wearers, in which he states, that " out of 4,000 looms, one-third are altogether disused, and that certain of the remaining looms are only partially employed." And Mr. Mug geridge, the emigration agent, in a similar Report from Manchester, dated July, 1837, says :—" The entire trade of the district was all at once paralysed, and dis trust suspended for a season althost all commercial ope- rations." The Board have inspected the various Reports of the charitable bodies of the time, for further facts illustra tive of the effects of the panic upon the condition of the working classes. In Birmingham large subscriptions were raise,l, to relieve the distress of the almost unpre cedented numbers of unemployed workpeople. Shef field was divided into districts, and upwards of 1.5,000 persons were at one time supported by charity. The Committee of the Distress Fund stated, in a public ap— peal, that " in hundreds of families children were crying fur food to parents unable to give it ; and, in others, sickness, arising from the want of the necessaries of life, threatens, without a speedy relief, to bring the suf ferings of the wretched individuals to a close." The eighth annual Report of the Liverpool District Visiting Society, for the year 1837, states that `` During the four preceding years,. the average number of cases re lieved by the 13:iard was 2,892, at a cost in provisions of 557/. 4s. 2d. ; whereas, during the past year, the num ber was 9,902 at the cost of 1,3381. Is. 2d." And by a table of the number of inmates of the Liverpocl Asylum for the Houseless Poor, it has been found that 13,781 persons were admitted in 1837, whilst the highest number relieved in any one of the three preceding years amounted only to 10,559. The Leeds Church of England District Visiting Society, in their annual Report to the Ist of October, 1837, begins with lamenting the commercial embarrassments, " and the consequent privations of the poorer classes." Scotland was the first, as usual, to feel the effects of a pecuniary crisis. A public meeting was held in G:as gow,ori the 19th May, 1837, to use a subscription for the relief of the distress of the working classes. Upwards of 8,0001. was placed at the disposal of the Committee. At one time about 18,500 persons were fed from the I soup kitchen, of whom upwards of 3,800 were adtilts. Large bodies of operatives wet e, at the same time. thrown out of employment, and rendered destitute, in -I Dundee and other large towns of Scotland. In Paisley, t a public meeting was held on the 1 Ith April, 1837, to raise a subscription, and in June it was calculated that 20,000 persons were unemployed ; and at Strathaveo, Airdrie, Pollockshaws, and other towns and villages in the west of Scotland, destitution and disease prevailed to an alarming degree. Nor did Ireland escape her share of the common calamity. The Committee of the Dublin Mendicity Association, in their report for 1837, state that "they have struggled through a year of most unparalleled difll culties, and that within the recollection of the oldest in t habitant, there has seldom or ever occurred a period when out-door employment was so much restricted." And the 27th Report of the Belfast House of Industry, dated the 16th March, 1837, dwells upon the urgent and numerous claims of the poor " among whom th'4.. depression of trade, arising from a panic in the money market, has produced much distress." It is natural that disease and crime should follow in I the train of so much suffering and privation, and accord ingly the Reports of the several medical charities, and the records of our prisons, bear testimony to the fear ful injuries icflicte'l, by the money crisis of 1836-7, upon the health and morals of the people. In the general hospital of Birmingham, the number of patients relieved • bore the unprecedented disproportion of 7,468 cases in 1837, to 5,849 in the previous year. The Report of tai' Leeds General Infirmary, for 1837, states, that 1,508 patients were admitted in that year, whilst the number for 1836 amounted to 1,343. In the Report of Ole ' Committee of the Glasgow Towns' Hospital, it stated, that the expenditure for 1837 reached to 13,325/. 6s. 11d. whilst the highest amount given for any one previous year is 10,4381.95. 2d. The in crease in the number of claimants at the Manchester ; Infirmary, in 1837, as compared with the pre cedin g year, amounted to 2,755 ; and the annual Report states. ,11\nck ?)f#ll. ' I L '="