The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

fetirb WZittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE RUSSIAN LOAN. (THIS DAY.) A large public meeting, called in consequence of Mr. Cobden's letter to the secretary of the Peace Society, was held this day at the London Tavern, to consider the proposal recently issued for negotiating a loan'for the Russian Government in this country. The gallery, the platform, and the body cf the large room of the tavern was crowded long before one o'clock, the hour at which the meeting was appointed to take place. Among those on the platform we observed Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Charles Gilpin, the Rev. Mr. Burnet, and the Rev. Mr. Richards. The appearance of \lr. Cobden was the signal for a loud burst of applause. Mr. Charles Gelpin, of the Peace Society, was unanimously elected to take the chair on the motion of the Rev. Mr. Richards, seconded by Mr. Morley. He said they were there that day to express their opinion upon the morale of the lean asked by the Emperor of ail the Russias, of five-and-a- half millions of money, and which, he re gretted to say, had been accepted by a house of high standing in the City.—(Hear, hear.) They were there to protest against raising money under false pretences—(Loud cheers)—which he held to be as base in an Emperor as in a begging-letter impostor. —(Loud cheering.) They were there to ask the capitalists of this country, whether they were pre pared to advance resources for the evil designs of a despot, whose savage hordes had just returned from the desolated plains of Hungary.—(Cheers.) They were not quite of the opinion ef the writers in the Times. —(This allusion was met with loud shouts of execration.) Every capitalist, small or great, who advanced any portion of this loan would to some extent b 3 responsible for the morality which it sanctioned.—(Cheers.) After making reference to the accusation, that the present movement was at variance with the free-trade doctrine, he ad vised capitalists to have better security than was offered at present, if they risked their money in such a loan. At may rate, time would show whether the prediction of Messrs. Baring— (A loud groan for the " Barings")—who guaranteed its security, or the prediction of his Hon. Friend Mr. Cobden, would be verified in the case of Russia.— (Cheers.) Mr. Gilpin concluded by calling upon the Secretary to read the following letter of apology from Lord Dudley Stuart : " 34, St. James's-place, Jan. 17, 1850. "Dear Mr. Cobden,—l perceive by the papers that a public meeting on the subject of the Russian loan, called at your instance, is to be held at the London Tavern to-morrow. When, a few months ago, you gave the signal for a similar meeting with reference to the Austrian loan, I hastened to answer the sum mons, and I should do so now were I not confined to my room by severe indisposition. ",On the former occasion, I denounced the Austrian loan as illegal, and though the correspondent of the Times, at Vienna, immediately afterwards attempted to confute me, I so completely demolished his reason ing by the citation f facts and figures in a letter also published in the Times, that my antagonist has never ventured a word in rejoinder. Ido not know that the Russian loan is obnoxious to the same charge, except that in a country where no law really exists but the sole will of the Sovereign, no act of the Go vernment can be held as strictly legal, or be looked upon as based on any firmer foundation than that Sovereign's caprice. " The present loan is asked fur by Russia for the ostensible purpose if completing a railway. It is, no doubt, calculated that the object put forward will dis arm the scruples of capitalists belonging to the peace party in this country; bas his conscience must be little sensitive, and his penetration blunt indeed, who can he so deceived. Can any man doubt that the real destination of the loan is to cover the deficit occasioned by the recent iniquitous intervention of Russia in Hungary and her present no less unjust in terventien in Turkey ? Are the friends of peace, are any true Englishmen prepared to supply with the sinews of war the power of all others the most likely to disturb general peace—the only one from whose policy there is any danger of England being forced into war ? Does any one seriously apprehend a rupture with France, Prussia, Austria, or 'any other European power, or even with the - United States ? No ! but it is notorious that only the other day the haughty and inhuman demands of Russia f,r the extradition of Kossuth and his brave ilungArinn and Polish foil° vers I,ft, us no alternative but to prepare for immediate bostil!tieF, or to permit the destruc - ion of Turkish independencf - , so nee. ssary to the security of Europe, so essential to the commer cial interests c f this country. b?`, therefore, those who are desirous of promoting anarchy, prolonging convulsions, and encouraging war, or who are in ditlarent to such results, and those onlr, sub scribe to the Russian loan. Twat loan may be negotiated ; but at any rate this meeting, which you have called, %i ill have the effect of displaying, in its true light, the conduct of those whose cupidity is not proof against the temptation of 41 per cent. "I am, dear Mr. Cobden, yours sincerely, (Signed) " DUDLEY COUTT3 STUART. _ _ _ itichard . Coblen, Esq., 11. P." Mr. COBDEN then stood forward to address the meeting, and wss received with vociferous cheering, which lasted for some moments. When order had been restored he spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, I have the honour to propose to you the first resolution, which I will read : " That the Government of Russia having proposed to ia;se in this country a loan of five millions and a half sterling, pr , festiedly f r the purpose of completing a railroad from St. Petcrsburgh t Moscow, but rel.lly to rephnish the imperial exchequer, exhausted by the expenses cf the war in Hungary, this meeting is of opinion that to lend money to the Emperor of Russia for such an object would vimaly be to sanc tion the deeds of vi.l-nce and blood committed by him in Hungary, and t famish him with the temptation and ttae nak wis for carrying on future schemes of aggression and conquest." —(Cheers.) I congratulate the Peace Society and the friends c.f . peace in this country, that the Emperor of Russia has been obliged—unconsciously we musk, as a matter of courtesy, suppose—to affix his name to a document which is not true, in order to obtain a loan of five millions and a half in this country. I say the document which is signed by the Emperor of Russia ccntains an untruth—(Hear, hear)—and I know it to be untrue, and it is known to everybody at St. Petersburgh to be untrue.—(Cheers.) But I accept that untruth as the highest tribute that could be pos sibly paid to the moral power of the Peace party in this country.—(CheerF, and some disturbance occa sioned by the crowded state of the room.) I was saving thet the pretence put forth by the Emperor of Russia, that he wants this money to complete a railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburgh, is unfounded in truth. I was in St. 'Petersburgh two years ago'; at th.,t time the rolling sock of that railway was all finished ; one hundred locomotives were ready ; I travelled with them en that part of the line. Thou sands of waggons and carriages were ready, and I am told the iron is en the ground and paid for. It is the embankment that is not finished e and looking at the martial disposition of the Emperor, and to his baring so little regard to the social interests of the people of his country, I don't think the railroad will be completed for ten years to come.—(Hear, hear.) He will spend his money like a great overgrown colossal baby on his soldiers rather than on those substantial improvements which could really alone add to the power, the happiness, and the civilization of his country.—(Cheers.) But why need I argue this matter ? Nobody believes the money is wanted for a railroad. Everybody assumes the contrary but the Russians. But I will convict them from their own ukases. They want the money in six months. Who ever heard of five million sterling being wanted for a railroad in six months ?—(Loud cheers) Some of you here, unhappily, have had experience in rail way calls.—(Laughter.) But did you ever know them come from any board of directors so thick and fast as they come from the Emperor of Russia ? (Laughter.) 201. must be paid two (lays after the allotment ; 10/. must be paid on the 15th of March, 101. on the 15th of April, 101. on the 15th of _Nay, 101. on the 15th of June, and the remainder on the 15th ofJuly next—(Laughter.) Railway calls for one railway at the rate of nearly a milliOn a month ! And, mind you, in a country where up to March no work can be done on an embankment— (Cheeo—and correquently this stoney is wa n t e d f or the purpose of b. ing expended in an embankment ' 'in the months of April, May, :Tune, and July. O h, I pity the mendicant Cza , , v.'ho is ohliesed to c ome to ?Itch a story.—(Cheers.) Is' it not humi liating ? (ltenewed c h ee r s .) Arid then, after putting forward this pretence, that the money is wanted for a railroad, after beginning his Imperial ukre-e, by saying it was not the truth—l presume he did not know it—(Laughter)—he winds up at last, as if doubting be would not be believed, by promising us five per cent , and that the accounts of the sums derived from this loar, and to be applied to this line of railroad, will be kept as formerly from all other state revenues and expenditure.— (Laughter.) Why, he wants if possible to open a door for even the most scrupulous of Quakers to sub scribe to his loan.—(Laughter.) It was not only sot wanted for war, but it, wws entirely to con.. struct a railroad ; and in proof that it was wanted for a railroad he will render accounts.—(Laughter.) I can only say it is what he never did before.—(Re newed laughter.) I have been subjected to the re iterated charge that I am not consistent weh my principles of free trade when I come here to denounce this loan. It is said to me, "We want you to allow us to lend our money in the dearest market and borrow it in the cheapest ; why should we not have free trade in money ?" I have no ob jection to people wasting their money if they like ; but I claim the right as a Free-trader in this country to meet in a public assembly like this, and try and warn the unwary from being deceived by those money mongers in the city of London, who will try to palm on us their bad security if they can.—(Cheers.) I am not going to attempt to coerce or dictate to them ; we have done our duty in giving our advice, and probably by and by , those who do not follow that advice now will essh they had done so. That is their business, and not mine. It has been asked me this morning by a leading journal, whether I oppose this loan on the ground of its immorality or on the ground of its being unsafe ? Why, I answer, on both grounds.—(Leud cheers.) In my opinion what soever is immoral is unsafe.—(Renewed cheers.) But apart altogether from its inherent immorality and insecurity, I stand here as a citizen of this country and of the world to denounce the whole character of this transaction as being injurious to the best interests of society.—(Cheers.) Now, I will take first of all the politico economic view of the question, for it has been supposed that on this question I am particularly weak in that di rection.—(Laughter.) Now, I stand on one of the strongest grounds in stating that Adam Smith, and all the great political economists, are against the very principle cf these loans. What is this money wanted for ? It is to be wasted, it is to go to pay the expense of maintaining a stand ing army, or the expenses of the atrocious war in Hungary.—(Groans.) This sum is so much capital abstracted from England and handed over to an other country to be wasted, thereby abstracting from this country the means by which its own population are to be employed, and by which they live. I say that every loan to be granted by this country to a foreign government to be expended in keeping up armaments, or carrying on wars with other countries, that is as much capital wasted.or destroyed, for all the purposes of repro duction, as if the money was carried out into the middle of the Atlantic and sunk in the ocean.—(Loud cheers.) I make no distinction whether the interest be fair or not; for if the interest be paid on this loan by the Emperor of Russia, it is not paid out of the pockets of the party to whom it is lent, it is not paid by the capital itself being iavested in reproductive employment, but it is extracted from the wretchedness, the labour and the industry of his population for the interest of capital which has not only not been employed reproductively, but in ob structing industry, in devastating fair and fertile Wide, and in depressing freedom, which is the great source of wealth.—(Loucl'and long-continued cheers.) I say I stand here as a political economist, and I de nounce every such transaction:as this being injurious to the interests of every class in this country, injurious alike to the highest and to the lowest, for it stops employment, impedes industry, and draws away from this country the very source of profitable la bour; and therefore it must injure everybody, more or less, in this country, from the Government itself down to the humblest mechanic or farm-labourer. — (Cheers.) But I stand here also to denounce this loan as a politician, as a member of society, and as a tax payer.—(Hear, hear.) For what is the object of this loan ? It is to enable the Emperor of Russia to maintain an-enormous standing army ; and what is the consequence ? Why, that every country in Europe is obliged to keep up an enormous armament also.—(Hear, hear.) What is the statement of France ? Why they are obliged to keep 500 ; 000 armed men because Russia keeps 800,000 ; and we arel here in ilogland accustomed to cite the hostile position of Russia as a reason why we keep our enormous fleet. I should not be surprised if, in the very next session, when I bring forward a motion asking to reduce our armament, if you find, what I have before found, the very example of the Rus-.ian fleet cited why we cannot reduce our navy. What has been the recent position of Russia towards this country? Have we not had our fleets stationed in the Mediter ranean at an enormous expense to this country? Have we not had a fleet sailing in the Dardanelles, in consequence of the talk of an offensive engagement of Russia against Tut key ? B-it it is the acknowledged policy of this country to endeavour to defend Turkey against all foreign powers. There is no foreign poser that menaces the integrity of Turkey but Pens=ia ; and the common talk everywhere now is that in the very next spring Russia meditates an hos tile attack on Turkey on the Danube. You will then have to defend Turkey against Russia ; and you will be fighting Russia, who will ho fighting you with the moneys borrowed from this country.—(Cheers.) We read in the history of Holt ind, that on one occasion, when a town was bombard: d, its merchants sold saltpetre to the enemy to manufacture gunpowder with, to be used against themselves. 1 don't stand up for such a transaction ; but it may be that England may not stand better in the page of hio tory in 1850 when it is found ready and willing to endorse the desperate wickedness of Russia by lending her the means of continuing her career of violence which she has hitherto maintained. I say, there fore, that - , apart from the abstract morality, 1, as a tax-payer and a politician, with the rest of you, have a right to meet and protest against a transaction like this from whatever quarter it may coins. But I denounce the morality of this loan. We have a snug dactrine half hinted, half expressed, and not very confidently asserted; but we have heard that doctrine broached that you must not question what a man does with his own.— (Laughter.) You must only ask how much per cent. you can get ; if you can get 5/. per cent. in stead cf four that is quite sufficient to sanctify the transaction.—(Laughter.) That is the doctrine I hear put f a - th in the name of the citizens of London. I can only say the Emperor of Russia has given them credit for a much higher standard of morality than they possess. He was afraid to come before them and avow whet he wanted the money for. He was advised by his counsel to tell a fib—(Laughter)—to allow the citizens of London to swallow the gilded pill, when he stated that money was wanted for a railroad.— (Laughter.) Now, what is the money wanted for? Simply and solely to make up the arrear caused by the Hungarian war.—(hear, hear.) lam not much in Ithe habit of boasting at public meetings, but if I were a boaster, I should exult on this occasion that the assertion I made in this room in June or July last, and which was subjected to so much sarcasm from friends and from foes—l say I should feel some exultation, at all events, that this poverty stricken Czar has been obliged to come, and most re luctantly, to verity every word I said. Now, what becomes of the two millions that we were told the Emperor of Russia was going to advance to the Austrians ? Now what becomes of the 500,000/. which he was going to advance to the Pope ? (Laughter.) Where is that half million which he was generously to bestow on the Grand Duke of Tuscany ? He ought to pay his scribes well in Western Europe to tell such lies for him, seeing that they are subject to this rough refutation of all they say in his behalf at the hands of the poor Czar himself.—(Loud cheers and a cry of" The Tinzes,"and " Will any gentleman produce and burn it ?") 111 had employed to write up to wealth and power the man who, six months afterwards, was obliged to come before the citizens of London and sign his name to such a humiliating document as that ukase, I should feel I had been hardly used, and I should expect to be exceedingly well paid for the lies I had told.—(Cheere.) I stand here to utter the very words I have twice used on this platform, that the Russian Government in matters of finance for years has been the most gigantic political imposture in Europe.—(Cheers.) That is the word I used before, and I used it as Ido every word I use in public, advisedly and with due reflection, and I come here to repeat it.—(Cheers.) What was this money wanted for ? For the purposes of the vise ambition and bloody designs of a man who has the will and all the tastes of Peter the Great wrapped up in all the livery of Louis ithe Fourteenth, but without the genius of the one or the wealth of the other -. (Loud cheers) — and who wants to play a part in Europe, forgetting he is in the middle of the nineteenth cen tury instead of the seventeenth, and utterly wanting not merely the appreciation of what can enable him to p l a y a part in history now, but wanting a l so th e means to pursue the tastes he possesses.—(Cheers.) What is the object of the loan ? To make up the deficiencies and to pay the debts incurred by the Emperor of Russia in his wanton attack and outrages upon the liberties cf Hungary.—([Tear.) I said before here that the expenses of that oppressive war have not been paid. I will tell you why they were not. The Russian army was moved from the interior of the country to the borders of Hungary ; but owing to the Government of Hungary not having any money in its military chest, they had not the means of paying for the transit of their army from St. Petersburgh to the confines of Hungary. How did the Government manage to effect their pur pose ? The Government sent out directions to the farmers and landlords along the whole line of march, ord er i ng them to depos i t at certa i n p l aces of the route certain quantities of provisions and other things necessary for the forage of the troops. Upon a given day the parties were to repair to the Trea sury at C ronstadt, where on satisfactory being given that they had supplied the corn- moclitiee, they would receive Treasury receipts in exchange, Which were to be pa4dg Avail- i able for the payment of taxes. A t the appointed time these receipts came in—they had been anticipated before the arrival of the tax-day—and as the Government had not the necessary means for car rying on the affairs of the country it issued 3,000,0001. of Treasury notes, accompanied by an ukase avowing that these notes were issued for the payment of the expenses of the Hungarian war. Now, gentlemen, you will at once see the character of the proceedings of Russia, and how they were brought about. They obtained provisions for the troops dispatched to crash the liberties of Hungary from the agriculturists in the course of their march, depending upon raising sufficient money to enable them to discharge their claims as well as all ()there incidental to that disgrace ful war. And they have come to England: far a loan —(Hear)—and I say that this money now about to be raised in London is so much money used for cutting the throats of those unoffending men in Hungary, for the devastation of villages, and for the outraging of women.—(Hear, hear.) Aye, and as much so as though the money were lent before ever a soldier marched into Hungary. And I say in the case of Russia, as I formerly said from this platform with respect to Austria, that it matters not whe'her the money is obtained a little after or not. The operations in the case of Hurgary were based upon calculations as to the amount of money that thus may be had on loan in England.—(Hear, hear.) They calculate in such proceedings upon the future, and therefore I say it is by the aid of English capital that these barbarous cruelties are inflicted. These are the purposes, and not for those of a railroad, for which the money is wanted. And are we to be told that because the money will pay 5 per cent., that therefore we are not to inquire into the object for which the money is lent ? Why I can only say, if the doctrine is to hold good that a man may make the most profit he can out of his money, there was a worthy man much injured the other day, who was sen tenced to 12 months' impriscnment with hard labour, for having been the owner of a number of infamous houses which returned him a profit of 20 per cent.— (Hear ' hear, and laughter.) I think that man should console himself on the treadmill that he is justified by the new code of mo rals I hear repeatedly advanced in this country. But, gentlemen, the immorality of such a loan as this is not the only ground I have to advance, and upon which I rely for the means of preventing this money from being obtained. I think more is to be done by appealing to the self-interest of persons who may be dispcsed to take any share in this loan, and of the risk they run by doing so. Who are they going to lend it to ? To an Irresponsible despot, who never publishes any account of his income or expenditure.— (Hear, hear.) You may look through the Gotha Almanack, which contains the receipts and the expen diture: of the nations .of the continent, but you will find no mention of the finances of Russia. I did so, thinking I might find some of the sources of the income and the !nature of the expenditure of Russia, with the view of becoming better acquainted than I am with her resources. There is more or less information with respect to almost every state, but with respect to Russia we read—" We are altogether unable to furnish any particulars with respect to the income, expenditure, and resources of Russia."—(Hear, hear.) Now that sort of investment is considered good by some gentlemen, because it is 1,000 miles off. Sup pose a person came to borrow money, who gave no report of hiss means—would he succeed ? (No, no.) How would you like to invest money in a railway which made no report to the shareholders ? You have your meetings every six months ; you have auditors, and yet, though you ex ercise the utmost surveillance over the management of railway companies, yet Government audit is de manded in addition; and by a strange inconsistency, the gentlemen who are prepared to aid the Emperor of Russia in borrowing money, though he renders no account at all, one is also an advocate of Government audit in railways.—(Cheers.) That is my first ob jection, that we do not know what is done with the money —we know, certainly that it is wasted in an exterminating war. My next objection is that you are lending money to a Sovereign whose throne stands upon the most combustible elements of any in all Europe. (Hear, hear.) It is nek I think, improper when the Em peror of Russia comes and invites the citizens of London to lend him money to say something of the condition of the Emperor. He is the only Ras peror in the world that rules over white slaves. He has the proud distinction of ruling over 26,000,000 of male serfs, who are bought and sold with the land.—(Cries of " Shame!") Well, now, do you think that a very safe state of society in the present age ?—(Hear, hear.) Freedom (pro ceeded the Hon. Gentlemen) had extended to the south and to the west—it had extended with such rapid strides that it had advanced up to the confines of Russia—and did they think it likely, in these days, that it would stop short at Russia ?—(Hear, hear.) They could not anticipate any other result than that the serfs of Russia, being men, would prefer freedom to slavery, and, being ten to one as compared with their masters, could there be any doubt that they would do in Russia what had been done in every country in Europe— namely, assert their freedom ?—(11-ar, hear.) What security would they then have for the repayment of the loan, beforemany years had passed away ? There never existed in any country a body of serfs who did not achieve their emancipation when other nations were by means of revolution effecting on a large scale many important changes. What could they say in such a case? for they had lent their money to maintain for a longer time despotism and the overawing of the serf. He should say they would repudiate such a loan, made for such a purpose.—(Loud cheers.) Let them bear in mind that this system of civilized states lending money to more barbarous Governments was the way to perpetuate slavery, and to uphold tyranny.—(Hear, hear.) By doing so they made Governments depend upon foreign aid instead of de pending upon their people for the supply of the requisite resources for the government of a state. Let them go back to the time of the Plantagenets, when the people of England were gaining liberty step by step. How did the people secure the liberties which they demanded ? By the necessities and embarass merits of their King—one King being obliged to grant the franchise, in order to raise money, and another, who was obliged to pawn the jewels in his crown, was compelled to grant certain rights to the people. In this way were the liberties of the people wrung from their kings, namely, through their pecuniary necessities. But if one of their ancient kings could have borrowed 5,000,000 of money from a foreign state, as Russia wished, did they think the liberties of the people would have been given ? (Hear, hear.) Did they think that the masses in Eastern Europe were ignorant of this; and had they not a perfect right to ask what right we had to lend money to an irresponsible despot to perpetuate their serfdom and slavery. But. there was another difficulty which he wished those who were willing to lend money to Russia to bear in mind. Though they there represented public opinion cut of doors, they might not be strong enough to prevent the actual lending of the money ; but let them who did so well understand, that the tax payers of this country would be no parties to the collection of their: debts.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Hitherto there had been a sort of vague notion, that if a foreign Government failed in paying its debts that the Government was forced to interfere to enforce payment; but he was glad to perceive that Lord Palmerston, in some cor respondence which had recently taken place, stated that, though he objected to interfere in the special case brought before him " by force of arm.,", yet he reserved) to himself the power to do so in cases that he might think deserving of such an interference.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Moreover he wished them to understand, that they bad sufficient power to prevent them making a Prime Minister a bumbailiff.—(Laughter.) The Peace party would be found a powerful obstacle to such a course, and most assuredly there were men in that room who would live to see the time when not one farthing of this loan would be paid.—(Hear.) In deed he believed the universal feeling of the country would result in the loss of the money—(Loud cheers) —not from any ill will to the unfortunate persons who would hold the bonds, but from the belief that such a retribution would be a righteous one, and that it might operate as a warning to prevent similar transactions for the future.—(Hear, hear.) A change had come over the public mind with respect to these loans, :and nobody now would justify them on the ground of political economy, consistency, morality, and indeed were indefensible in public opi nion.—(llear, hear.) This had been the work of six months, whereas they had but begun their work.— (l fear, hear) And when it was once known in foreign countries that no more loans could be had from England the interest would cease to be paid—repudiation would be the order of the day.—(Hear, hear.) Ile would undertake to show that since 1815 the Go vernments of the continent, in the aggregate, had borrowed more money than they had paid in peopleinte rtiohdtinto rt h h toe a droetbcheeeeiryn. receive lendingmoney out of one rest to their creditors.—(H e ar, he ar .) I n f ac t, th e g op oi u l ct l l k i e b eft l e ii Ia small ß h t p e r o . r ) t i o n T n in e m i n o t e n r e e y s . t lenders, speculator=, and brokers were not, how - ever, the parties who would suffer in such a state of things. These parties subscribed to a loan contracted by a large house, in order that they might distribute it among their customers and clients, making a profit of it. Indeed, he would ven ture to say that not 5 per cent. of the loan would be subscribed by Monday next by parties who in tended to hold the loan as a permanent investment. After showing that the loan was not by any means man would wish to p an rov i i n d v e e f s o t r me h n is t, ch w i h ld e r r e e n b , y th a e ny Hon. Gentleman pro ceeded to canvass the value of the loans previously contracted for by the Messrs. Baring—for instance, the SplAnisb, the Goode, and the l'Qrtu guese loans, He had constantly letters of THE complaint from suffering individuals, who had un fortunately invested their money in these and other loans. Tnose who investigated the value of such loans, and pointed it out, did, he believed, society good service. —(Hear, hear.) All he had previously stated with respect to Russia had been fully verified. They must, however, take nothing for granted with respect to Russia, as its Govern ment was a systematic fraud, and a lying misrepresentation. The money waiting to be loaned in this country would be in great part devoted to promoting the system of espionage that was pursued by Russia in bribing employes at Constantinople, and the press of Germany, and of France.—(Several voices, " And in England. The Times—burn it.") They could not believe that the press of England was bribed.—(Renewed cries of the " Times.") To be sure some of the newspapers had done the work of despotism right well—(Loud cheers)—and now they seemed disposed to play the part of vampires or ghoul.. No, they were worse. No name had yet been found for that indescribable monster that preyed upon those who had fallen from lef y places, and were begging their bread in want. How should he desciihe the wretches who were base enough to traduce the characters of these men ? lie spoke of ghouls and vampires ; they preyed upon the carcases of the material body. They had no monster akin to the character of him who lived by destroying the character of a fallen foe (Pro longed cheering.) That was the way the money would be spent. The Hor.Gentleman then defended the Russian people from the charge of being warlike,saying that such was the dread of the people to join the army or the navy, that when a man was taken by the con scription he left his town in a procession headed by the priest, es if they were all going to a funeral, and he mentioned the fact of a man who being declared by the surgeon as unfit to serve, ran out of the house where he had been stripped for examination, in a state of nudity, such was his deliri ous joy at being liberated. Neither were they ag gressive people. They loved their country, and were contented to stay in it, and though, like all serf-, they were petty thieves, and indulged in the vice of drunkenness, yet they had a great regard for human life, and crimes of deep dye did not prevail. By re fusing loans of this kind they would teach foreign Governments to promote the welfare of their people and to govern them through their affections rather than their fears. He exhorted those who thought of investing their money in this loan to bear in mind that the family to which the Czar belonged was not a long-lived one—(Hear, hear) —and that his son was utterly unfit to cope with the difficulties of the Government. They would place their money on a volcano, and they might rise one morning and find this great empire rent asunder, and one scene of devastation springing from the influence of despotism, cruelty, oppression.—(The Hon. Gentle man concluded a speech of more than an hour's duration amidst much applause.) Considerable merriment was created at the conclu sion of Mr. Cobden's speech by a burly individual in the meeting calling out, " Send the Emperor of Russia a Reform Almanack, and let him see that we have enough to pay without c ontributing to his loans." Mr. J. B. SMITH, M.Pa for Stirling Burghs, said he most cordially united in the expressions contained in the resolution, which he begged to second. He entirely agreed in the assertion, that every one who contributed a portion to the proposed loan shared in the crime of which it was to be the result. Mr. Muer, supported the resolution. After the able speech of Mr. Cobden, which was so convincing, because so full of fact?, he almost despaired of being able to gain the attention of the meeting to that aspect of the subject which was more especially moral. He would not cast any unnecessary imputation upon those classes who negotiated the loan, and who regarded themselves only as traders in money ; for he believed they had at' all times admitted the truth of the axiom, that money, like water, must find its level ; that they thought they wholly got rid of all sense of personal responsibility in money transactions, and regarded the application of all moral considerations to engage ments of a pecuniary nature as totally inapplicable. The maxims which passed current on the Ex change were divested of the smallest degree of morality, and were thought to enable them to perform the most nefarious deeds without being sensible of the pernicious consequences which resulted from them to the world. The system of war loans led to the destruction both of the body and soul of mankind, and the present loan was an at tempt to perpetuate the supremacy of will of one man over all the inhabitants of Russia—amounting, in fact, to the destruction of all the faculties which God had given us, and the conversion of man from a thinking, independent being, into a mere machine to be employed for the basest purposes, and to accom plish the objects t f the worst of despots.—(Loud cheers.) The right of assembling to discuss matters of this nature had been questioned, but if that thing, that journal which, being without con science and without heart, would as soon slander the character of one man as bespatter with praise that of another, falsified the real state of things, and did not enforce the principles of morality, they surely were justified in speaking to their countrymen on such occasions as the present. Tne leading journal had declared the truth of the maxim that' property had its duties as well as righte, and he maintained that this applied to capitalists as well as to landed proprietors. He concluded by expressing his confident belief that the time would come when transactions, private as well as public, would be held to he subject to high moral considerations. The resolution was then put and carried, amidst loud cheers. Mr. JOSEPH STOWE, of Birmingham, in proposing the next resolution, briefly addressed the meeting, saying that he had come all the way from Birming ham this morning, in order to be present, and assert ing his eelief, with reference to the security of the loan, that the thrones of Austria and Russia were not worth seven years' purchase.—(Cheers.) The resc lution he moved was as follows ; " That in the opinion of this meeting loans for war purposes and for the maintenance of :Wading armies are unsound in principle and injurious to the interests of nations." The Rev. Mr. BUBicET seconded it in one of his amusing but pointed speeches, asking the meeting to make a loan to the Emperor of Russia, not of money, but of their watchfulness and vigilance to his nefa rious proceedings, which would do more good not only to him but to the world, than any amount of capital. The resolution having been supported by the Rev. Mr. RICHARDS, was put and carried. Mr. NIITCHELL, who was announced as the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, expressed his great satisfac tion, as a Jew, that no Jewish capitalist had come forward to advance any portion of the loan. lie believed it was in consequence of the determined expression of opinion, at the last meeting on the subject of *the Austrian loan, that they had come to the determination to wash their hands of this villanous transaction.—(Applause.) A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and after three cheers for Cobden, and a similar arated. number of groans for the Barings, the meeting se- BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Aecount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of January, 1850. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. • X. Notes issued.• •• •• •• 3C,075,685 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities ..., 2,984,900 Gold coin arid bullion 15,798,608 Silver bullion 277,077 X 30,075,6 85 X 30,075,615 jir. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 17th day of January, 1850. BANKING DEPAZTHEN T. Proprietor s' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest • -••• . • . .. 3,19 Public deposits • (in eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) .. 5,974,800 Other deposits ...... 11,241,118 Seven day and other bills •. • ••• • • .•.. 1,156,409 i rGovernment necuri. tlii(inclVingDead Weight Annuity).. 14,296,554 Other• securities •• 10.099,051 Notes ••••••• • • "• • • 10,990,185 Gold and silver coin.. 73,,,358 £36,124,148 X 36,124,145 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier, 1859. Dated the 17th day of January, COURSE OF EXCH k ,NGE.—(THIS DAY.) Lr.gborn •• •••••••••••• 30 SO Genoa .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 26 25 Milan .• • • •• •• . • Ka • • . • • • • • • • • • • • 40n Falermo,peroz•—• •• •• 121 Messina .• . • • • • • • • • • • • iv Lisbon.... • • .......... /port° • • • • • • • • • • •• •• •• 6314 gio Janeiro • • ........ ituenos Ayres ........ Sew York,2ldays'slght l'hiladelphla •• • • • • • • PRICES OF BULLION. PER CZ. Foreign Gold In bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .• u 0 0 Spanish Doubinons .. 0 0 New Oollars •• • 0 4 loq Silverlx bars . 0 4 1148 Amster lam •.. •• • • 12 2 I)ltt9, at sight ...... 12 0 !WM rdarn .... •... • • 12 24 Antwerp • • 25 65 liamburgh • M.B. 13 11 4 &Lona ••• • • ••••• • • • • • -- Paris. 3 dayesight • • 25 42% Ditto, 3 months .... 25 65 blarseilles ••.. •• • •• • . 25 65 . 25 65 Frankfort on Mains., e , 121% Peter abuse', Sil. lible.• 37% Berlin • • .. • • ...... • • • • Vienna, effec. flo ••.. •• 11 24 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 24 Madrid ••.. • • ........ 49% Cadiz •• l• •• • • •• • • •• •• 49% Bilbao.. • • • • , Barcelona • • • • ........ Sevilla.. . .... •••••• offi[ceAr,D:-TissisnEtlkihEers:u];haA.rmly:i,:tuatt:sn,nnt of Dragoons cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Pills. This in a letter to Mr. John Straatman, of Bois-le-Duc, wholesale agent for Holland, that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured him of Rheu inatism, which appeared to him incurable; as neither sea bath ing, vapour baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure reme dies, did him any good, and the treatment of the doctors, after several months' trial, was without success. At this juncture he commenced taking these Pills, and rubbing the Ointment into the affected parts twice a day, which effectually cured him. Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Estab lishment, 244, Strand, London. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. E.—Sld. Tay steamer. West Indies. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind Karer, D§ 'hews Apex, fcg. ALtworp. LONDON (THIS EVE GAZETTE. ING.) WHITEHALL, JAN. 16, 1850. The Queen has been plea.ed to present the Rev. William James Poole to the Rectory of AberiTraw, in the county of Anglesey and diocese of Bangor, the some being void by the death of the Rev. Hugh Wynne Joner. WHI I EHALL, JAN. 18. The Queen has been pie-Aiwa to nominate the Rev. Stewart William Hatma t) the Perpetual Curacy of St. James's Chapel, in the l arish Lf St. Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, void by the death of Archdeacon Jennings. WAR- OFFICE, JAN. 18. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Edward Henry Howard, Gent., t, be Cornet and Suh-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton, promwed, Jan. 18. Ist Di apron Guards—Sir Thomas Gresley, Bart., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thomson, promoted, Jan. 18. 2d Dragoon Guards—James O'Hara, Gent., to be Corner, by purchast, vice Godfrey, promoted, Jun. 18. ith Dragoon Guards—John William Wetherall, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Goff, promoted, Jan. 18. Ist Dragoons—Walter John Coney, Gent., t) be Corm t, by purchase, vice Ainslie, proint)tel, Jae. 18. 6.h Dregouns—Licutei ant Corlers Tower to bo Captain, by purchase, vice Dori, who retires; Lieutenant Ertinuna D'Arcy Hunt, from 9tli Light Dragoons, to be Lieutcnar t, vice I owcr, Jan. 18. • 9th Ligiit agoons—Cornet Alfred Eastaeld Wilkin son, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hunt, appointed to the COI Dragoons, Jar. 18. I s t Itigiment of Foot—Lieutenant Richard John Edward Rred, from 62d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Minchin, who exchanges; Stephenson Simon Bristowe, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, Jan. 18. 4:1 Foot—Henry Kirwan Robinson, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, - vice Purvis, who retires, Jan. 18. sth Foot—Henry Edward King, Gent., t.) be second Lieutenant, by put chase, vice Ross, promoted, Jan. 18. 9th Foot—Baldwin John Pollexten Bastard, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Skinner, promoted, Jan. 18. 17th Foot—William Parry Wit iams, Gen.., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barthorp, promote], Jan. 18. 24th Foot—Lieutenant George Frederick Berry to be Captain, without purchase, vice Grant, deceased ; En sign Frederik William Adam Parsons to be Lieute nant, vice Berry, Oct. 20, 1849. 26th Foot—Richard Chute, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Wallace, promoted in 7th Foot, Jan. 18. 28th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Steevens to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Lees, who retires; Ensign Frederick Dickinson Bourne to be Lieutenant, by pur ' chase, vice Steevens, Jan. 18. • 33d Foot—Buxton Martin Keerick, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, Jun. 18. 36th Fout—Rowland Bateman, Gent., to . be Ensign, by purchase, Jan. 18. 40th Foot—Charles Henry Hall, Gent., to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Pennelather, promoted, Jan. 18. 51st Foot—Robert Coke Glover, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Callaghan, promoted, Jan. 18. 57th Foot—Arthur Maxwell Earle, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Kenny, promoted, Jan. 18. 58th Foot—Sidi oy Withington, Gent., to t o Ensign, by purchase, vice Cooper, promoted, Jan. 18. 60th Foot—Tristram Squire Richardson, Gent., tl be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Freer, pro moted, Jan. 18. 62d Foc.t—Lieuter ant James White Minchin, from Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Reed, who exchanges, J a-. 18. 63d Foot—Ensign Charles Le Mesurier Carey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Tice Walmsley-, who retires, Jan. 18. 65th Foot—Francis Fisher Hamilton, Gent., t 3 be Ensign, by purchase, vice Williams, who retires, Jan. 18. 86th Fout—William Winniett, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bond, appointed to 49th Foot, Jau. 18. Rifle Brigade—The Hon. Geort.,e Barrington Legge to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Knight, Jan. 18. 3:1 West India Regiment—Arthur Richard Thomp son, Cent. to to Ensign without purchase, vice Hardy, promoted, Jan. 18. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment— Thomas Tayler, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rake, promoted, Ja.P. 18. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of the County of York. William Rutson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Jan. 11. Commission by tle Lord Lieutenant of tho County of (f Somerset. 2d Somersetß giment of Militia—William Pinney, Esq , M.P., to be Colonel, vice Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart., deceased, Jan. 1. WHITEHALL, JAN. 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Brodribb Randal!, of the town and county of the town cf . South ampton Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High South ampton, cf Chancery. The Lord Chancellor Las also appointed Joseph Knight, of NewcaetlL-under-Lyme in the county of Stirtford, Gent., tr be a Master ixtraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Joseph Fox, timber merchant, Nutt :-street, Bethnal green. Francis Teale, brewer, Leyton, Essex. BANKRUPTS. Edward Dixon, oilman, Gravesend, to surrender Jar. 24, at halt-post one, and Feb. 28, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Eankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghull-3tre , t; Wilkinson, Gurney, and Stevens, Nicholas lane, Lombard-street. Samuel Sutton, hardwaremqn, Old Bailey, Jan. 25, at &even, and F. b. 2S, at La'f-past &even, at the Court of Bankruptc). Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Peddel/, Cheapsitir. Gtorge Stone, grocer, Colchester, Jar. 30, at etc, and March 1, at tneltc, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stantfvld, official assignee; Ab3ll, Colchester; Bull, El) -place, Luc:don. Nelson John Holloway, clock manuf kcturer, Minoties, Ja". 26, at I,a'f-pact twelve, and March 2, at eleven, st the Court Or Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Messrs. Linklaters, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house. John Sewell Gowing, bookseller, Swaff hair, Norfolk, Jan 26, and Feb. 23, at lira-past eleven, at the Cuurt of I3ankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall street; Stretton, Southampton-buildingw,Cliancery-lane; Drake, Derehana. Charles Wood, butcher, Ditchliug, Sussex, Feb. 1, at two, and March 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, Official assignee, Abchurch-!ane; Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-row; Auckland, Suss x. Benjamin Jefferies, boat builder, Worcester, Jan. 24 and Feb. 26, at tvt e!ve. at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official- assigner, Birmingham; Belford and Pideock, Worcester; Smith and Juir e=, Birmingham. Jesse Ilitton and Jonathan Fisher, silk manufacturt rs, Feleshill, Warwickshire, J,D. 29, and Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Binning! a.n District Court. Valle„ efficial assignee, Birmingham; Jackson, Coventry; Motteram, Knight, and Emme•, Birmingham. Edward Brattan, cabinetmaker, Northwich, Chester, Jan. 28, at twelve, and Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Liver pool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Holland and Grt en , Northwich. John Edwards, manufacturer, Holt Town, Manchester, Feb. 1 and 28, at eleven, at the Manchester. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Claye, Welsh, and Claye, Manchester. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending January 15, 1850, is 265. 4d. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Jan. 18.) SUGAB.—Tc-day there was a deercaie in the demand for West India Sugar for all purpose;, and the small quantity of only 179 bhds, &e. found buyers ; still holders to make any general concession in the value. For the wet k the purer aces are 1,450 hhds and tierces, whilst the market closes with a quiet aspect. REFINED.—Te - day Refined Sugar was in less demand for home trade purposes, still in the value little varia tion took place; brown Lumps are 508 to 519, and fair grocery 51s 6d to 52s per cwt. Crushed Sugar is less wanted, and sos to 30s 6d is the value of fine. MAtrarrius.—This afternoon the quantity of Maurit'us Sugar offered at public sale was large, and amounted to 10,800 bags 20 casks, st;11 the ehitf part sold, and generally at full rates, but biddings were rather languid; fine yellow wet t at trcm 40s 6d to 41s 6d, low to good 37s to 40s, fair to fine brown 35s to 36s 6d, low 30s, and grey from 36s Gd to 40s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was not so much in demand, and former rates vs ere not generally supportel. At public sale 6,280 bags, however, were mostly sold ; white Benares at 40s to 435, damp and washed 38s to 41s 6d, low to middling soft yellow 33s 6d to 36s 6d, and brown 28s 6d to 33s per cwt. FOREIGN.—There has not been much business con cludA at the Continental madras this week, but holders are firm in all their dealings, and only offer moderate parcels. At public sale 470 hhds 129 brls of Porto Rico were nearly all disposed of—good and fine yellow at 40s 6d to 42s 6d, low to minding 38s to 40s 6d, mid dling to fine brown 36s to 37s 6d. 472 chests, 1,322 bags, 54 boxes, 122 brls of Brazil were nearly all taken in lather above the value-I.)w to fine white Maceio from 42s 6 , 1, yellow 37a 6d to 38s 6d; Pernambuco ordinary brown 35s 6. ) , good and fine yellow 39s to 40s ter cwt. 165 chests, 54 boxes, and 122 bar rels Bahia were also bought in, white at 52s to 42s Gd, yellow :::8s fid to 39s 6d, brown 36s Gd to 38s ; 9,445 begs fair and good greyish yellow 40s to 41s 6d ; but 992 chest. yellow Ilavannab, in baud, were sold at 19s 6d to 22s 6d fir middling to good; whilst 397 !Ads 297 barrels Porto Rico ee e taken iu at 19s to 21s 6d for :ow to good yellow. MOLASSES.—There is much fit mness in the market for nest Ran); 15s to 18s may be rediefe l the value of low to fire per cwt. East India Molass( s have t eel dik pozsed of at 143 6:1 to 15s, but few parcels are submitted for inspection. ()sing to the supply of Honey being very seat t 7, holders tire Lot incli: ed to tell under an ne vaned price. COFFEE.—Fur public eornrctirict r , at present, the quarit:ty f;Coreti deelat f r next wee k is only 60 casks 300 Itags P:a.itati s en Ceylon, smi 139 bales 111 , :eha, but severa pare; Cittle e will be aim. unced To•day there was no public sale ( f Coffee, and by pri vate treaty operations are of little moment by slippers or home-dealers. The nearest value o! Native Ceylon is 635 6d to 645 per cwt,but these rates cannot oe obtained for large parcelS. COCOA.—Liolders of We: t India have little dispos 7 A;on t) get rid of their stocks; and a good demand exists by private treaty at tie quotations recently insisted upon, they have entirely ref: ained from offering any at public sale 014 week. Twadiul red fetched 433 it) 50e, siad grey 4 .2s 0 443 per cwt. There are it any buyers of Fore'gn, arld former terms are well k pt up. At auction 570 bags G nayaquil fund buyers at 35s per ctvt; and this price wi Ii hardly induce holders to make sales. TEA. —The disposition t') make purchases in ordinary miedling:Congeu ;; htis further increased, and large trans act: one have taken place during the we , h, .accompanied by a,farther rise in pricer. For good au rl fine sorts there has. been an active sale, and higher terms are obtained. From the lowest point there has been an advance f , f nearly 3'l per lb on ordinary sorts, but the rise on the better kinds has not been ld per lb. The value of ordinary and good ordinary is 10: 4 1 1 to 1 Ild,rniddling kinds is to is 3id, and hotter sorts is 33 to is 100. For Souchong a good de mand exists at from 11d to is 10i, and tine at 2s to 2s 63, but inferior sorts are must in request. Green has been largely dealt in, whilst the upward movement con tinues, so that the rise is now 21 to 4d on inferior and middling, and Id to lid on good and fine kinds. Scentid Teas continue tr meet with much attention, and a farther advauce is obtained. To-day there was less passing in tle Ti a matkt t, r tin holders asked full previous rates fir Black and Green. DICE.—To-dAy the dulness in the Eist India Rice marke , , increa -vd, and as public sale 329 pockets of Bengal realized Si 61 for ordinary yaowish whit , , and damaged 4 t.) 7s 6d per cwt; these arc rather lower rates. SPICES.—To-day much inquiry existed after black Pepper, and further advanced rate are paid. At auction 230 bags clean Java rnlited 41 to 42-cl per lb. Of Bengal Ginger 1,062 pkts went at 223 to 22s 6d per ervt fur fair export sort, thf:se ara higher ratep. knurr.—Since our laq t'n , re has been a very large business dot e in Curraats at full prices. Yesterday and rt-gay the demand has been very brisk, and all the Currants offei el were brought up, partly fir the home trade, and the remainder for shipping. Many of the importers have withdrawn their sampler, and re fuse to E e I . at our quotations. In Valencia Raisins there is very little business doing, but prices f.ir goid sound parce:s are very firm at 48s. In other desetiptions of Fruit there is nothing doing worth notice. SALT PETRE.—Te-day there was a good demand, and at auction 706 bags of Calcut'a went at stiff rates re • fraction 6 per cc•nt went at 28s ; ditto 27s 6d, 94 ditto 26s 6d t, 275, and ,damaged 245 6d to 25s 6d per cwt. INDIGO.—The quantity of East India declared for sale on the 12th of next month is now 10,550 chts, still holders displayed firmness, and at former terms a good business has been concluded. As compared with the last sale tf,e advance is from 2d to 4d per ft. Of Spanish the quantity sold exceeds that of the firmer week, and stiffer rates are paid. SPIRITS.—There are several buyers of Jamaica RUM at fully last week's rates, but holders insisting upon an advance of Id to 2d per gallon caused the sales made to be of We moment. Demerara has te,n sought after, but as high rates are asked only 100 puns have been sold at 2a Id to 2s 4d for 32 t ) 42 per cent over proof. Leeward Island is wanted, and 350 puns have been sold at is 5 , 1 to is 51d proof, with small parcels ef fine brown at is V, there are many buyers rather tinders these rates. For Bum the tendencies of prices is upwards. There is yet much firmness in thn Brandy market, and a good sale exists. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1848 realiz-d 4s 8d to 4s 10d. TALLOW.—To-day at auction 1,490 pkgs South Ame rican Tallow mostly sold at 33s 6d to 38s; 250 casks Sidney 37s t 39s 3d; 400 casks old P. Y. C. 86s 9d to 38s 6,1; 80 casks Soap Tallow 33s 9d to 353 3d; 140 casks Eat India 33, to 38s 6d OiLs.--To-. ay at auction 100 hhds of fine Cochin Cocoa Nut Oil were taken in at 365, and 50 eks Ceylon at 338 6d to 338 9J per cwt. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday, January, 15, 1850, William Cubitt, Esq., President, in the chair, the paper read was, "An Account of the Blackfriars Landing-pier," by Mr. F. Lawrence. This pier commences on the Middle sex side of the river, to the east of Blackfriars-bridge, at Chatham-place, and continues parallel to the bridge, and at a distance of forty feet from it, for a length of 185 feet. The body of the pier (exclusive of the head) is supported on four piers, two of which consist of a single row, and two of a double row of piling, f rming three spans of fifty feet each, and having about eight fret headway under them at high-water. The floating barge, or dumby, on which the passengers land, is one hundred long and twenty-five feet wide, rising and falling with the tide, in grooves at each end, formed by piles and pro tected by dolphins. The connexion between the dumby and the pier is by a moveable stage eight feet wide and fifty feet long, secured to the pier head, at one end by a einge joint, and the other end similarly connected to a flight of steps, on wheels, which moved on a tramway fixed to the deck of the barge. Thh principal portion of the timber used in its con struction was fir ; but the whole, whether of fir or oak, was impregnated by Payne's process, those portions below high-water mark being further pro tected by a coating of Stockholm tar. The whole of the cast and wrought iron work was galvanized. The Corporation of London had observed the ne cessity for an improved landing place, so early as 1841, but it was not until a fatal accident occurred in 1844, that any decided steps were taken in the matter; then Aiessrli. Walker and Barges received instructions to prepare a design, which was approved, and the pier was commenced in March, 1845, and completed in October of the same year, under the superintendence of Mr. Hewett, M. last. C.E. Tne total cost was about 4,0001. The nextpaper read was a " Description of a Timber Bridge, erected over the River Ouse, on the line of the Lynn and Ely Railway," by Mr. J. S. Valentine, M. Inst. C. E. The total length of this bridge was four hundred and fifty feet, divided into eleven bar, ten of thirty span each, and one over the river of one hundred and twenty feet span on the square, and one hundred and twenty. one feet six inches on the skew. This river opening consisted of three laminated timber bows, resting upon stone piers, the material for which was procured from the New Leeds Quarries. The dimen sions of the bows were, length of chord, one hundred and twenty-one feet six inches; versed sins, fourteen feet two inches ; and their depth, three feet eight inches ; the width of the outer bows was two feet two :fiches, that of the centre bow two feet nine inches. They were formed of fifteen layers of three-inch deals abutting upon a cast iron plate, bolted to the tie-beams, which consisted of two whole timbers scarfed and bolted together. Each tie-beam was suspended from the bows by thirteen wrought-iron rods, two inches an diameter, and between these diagonal struts were fitted. Transverse joists, notched on to the tie beams, extended across the whole width of the bridge, and on these the rail-bearers were laid, the intervening spaces being filled with three-inch deals, laid longitudinally. The works were commenced in the autumn of 1846, and completed in October, 1847; the total cost of the superstructure being about 3,7441. When tested, by placing three locomotive engines on each line of rails, the total deflection was only three eighths of an inch. The paper announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, Jan. 22, was No. 819. "On the Periodical Alternations and Progressive Permanent Depression of the Chalk water Level under London," by the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck. DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, THIIRSDAT.—TeIeg: a -Ale in structions a ere this morning received from the Colonial office by Captain Smith, the Admiralty-Surer intendent cf the mail r acket., ti delay fir 24 hours the departure a t'le Royal mail steamer Tay, Captain G. M. Chapmar, appointed t) leave to-day with the usual West India and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant Percival, R.N. The cause of this unexpected detention has not transpired here, although it bas been rumoured that the Tay is to carry out Government dispatches for Nicaragua, and that a Cabinet Council called for tc-day (Thursday) has some connexion with the matter. The Tay will thertfore leave t)-morrow (Friday.) She has 75 passengers, amongst whom are Count de Ratti Menton, Consul of the French Republic for Panama; the Prime arid Princess Beauvear, fur Madeira; Sir Robert Throckmorton and daughter, for Madeira; Captain Lovitt, for Jamaica; Ensign Leigh, for Demera'a; Lieutetaat llama), Lieutenant Lake, and Ensigns Swann and Shifter, for Barbadoes, &c The Tay has a full cargo for the various ports, a small quantity of quicksilver, and specie value 3,478/., fir Chagres, 2,6851. fir Grey Town, 3,500/. for St. Thomas 9601. for Carthagena, and 840/. f.n. Santa Martha—tct tl, 11,463/. sterling. The route of this steamer is via Ma deira, Barbadoes, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, Hayti, Ja maica, and Carthagena to the Isthmus of Panama. The next West India and Mexican mails due on the 22d instant, will in all probability be brought by the Great Western, which vessel will receive them at Permude from the Thames, the latter ship having been in the Gulf c f 11( xico. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Jupiter, Captain F. Meehon, sailed this r.f,ernoon with the usual Sawfish and Portu guese mails. The next mails from Vigo, Oporto, Lis bon, Cadiz, end Gibraltar, due on the 24th, will b, brought by the Montrose, Captain Bowen. The Indus, Captain J. Soy, is to leave on Sunday, the 20th, with the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails, and the Ripon, Ca , , tain B. Moresby, I. N., will be due on the 26th, with the next homeward mails from the same quarters. SUDDT , N DRAT!' FROM DRINKING ARDENT SPIRITS. —Yesterday, Mr. law Carter held an it quest at the Bear and Ragged Staff, Upper Ground-street, Blarkftiars-raad, respecting the death cif Edward Fox, aged thirty- five years, a genera dealer lately carrying on buriness in Shoe-lane, Fleet-street. Alighterman named John Joyce, stited that on Monday night last the de ceased had been drinking ruin-and-water at the bar of the above-nttr el hozeic., and ruhsrquently he pro_ cc 'ded jet t the rlz h,tir, a here he had a quartern of rl,red, among several persons. The ( 4, ? • ceased then tossed f at - lather quartet f gin, a hich ba p ar . N tr. a 'cords ensued, when the decease d said, " I will drink the a hole quart. , r n if;' and b „ . fore they ac, to him (the &lea , . d) he seizad th measure and swallowed the whole if its contents. Saon aftermards his 11(0,1 suttee:ly droppea, and several of the customers iti the room thiriki», the dccol.ccd . n'as only " d ea d d rtin k , " rlseed hi m en t ha floor, supposing he would get sober after a little step; but when they were about to depait they disco% er,c that the man was Tiite dead. The jury returned a ver dict to the effect " ',That the deceaae I died from excessive drinking of ardent spirits." PRICES OF MARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANT OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official LisL rUBLISUED EVEItY TUESDAY AND 12TDAT EVE DIG. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. JOINT-STOCX BAZZIES. Name of Company. Dividend per Amount of Share. AJinum. Price. ,tustralasia .......... B ritsh N orth American (1,710 n C ,amiercial of London CToni ai.. ........... Gloucestershire lonian .............. Londe and Westminstr Ditto London Joint-Stock ... Provincial of Irelan4 Ditto, New......... National of Iroland Nat. Provncial of En. MUG, New. South Australia Union of Australia Union of London Union of Madrid 31. per cent. 54. per Celli,. 71. par cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 15/per cent. 41. per cent. 61. per cant. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51 per cent. 61. rer cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. ra'S UILEIZTC C Name of Company. Albion .............. Alliance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine." AtlaA ........• British Commercial .. Cleriel,Med.& Gen.l,ife County .............. Cr own • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eagle .. • • • • European Life ••• • • • General •••• • • • • •• •• •• GJardi an • • •• . •• • • • • Imperial Fire • • • • • • • • Imperial Life ........ Indemnity Marine • • • • Law Fire Law Life Legal and General Life Licensed Victuallers .. London Fire ........ London Ship ........ Med. & Gen. Life National Lean Fund.. National Life.... Palladium Lite Pelican L'atenix Pi °teeter Life— Provident Life • lock L ife • • • lZoyal Exchange Sun Fire ........... Ditto Lilo ... • . United Kin,;dom U Rivetsal Life Vittoria Life .• Dividend per Annum. 31. lOs 7114s6d&bs 61. per cent. 130.6d.prsh. 7s. per share spr ct.& bs. 31. 14s. , 6a. !4 per cent. 61. per cent. 51. 121, per ccnt. 12s. 11. sh. & bs. Name of Company. East and West East Country London .... . Ditto 80nd5........ St. Katharine ........ Ditto, Scrip Ditto 80nd5........ Southampton •• ...... Name of Company. Charing-cross. • .. . . • . Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. . Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. Waterloo ............ Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall .... • • • kv. Name of Company. East London.. • • • • • • • • Grand Junction • • •• Lambeth •. •• •• .. •• V. per exit. 31. 105. 5/. per cnt. New ltivr Lndn Bulge 1 21. 10s. Vauxhall ...... •• •—• 1 51. per cnt. West Middlesex . . . 161. Os. pr cnt. GAS-MIGHT AND CO, Dividend per Name of Company. Annum. 11. Bs. 51. per cent. 101. 925. pr share 50s. pr share 3i. per cont. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. /. per ct. 7s. 6d. 31. 12s. czort.a.x.s. . i ' I il Dividend Per Pric ot 1 e.' I Names of , - Dividend Names of ,• . Price. Companies. I 1 , d per 1 Companies. A lAnnuen. .i. z . . Annum .1 v 3 , ' ........... -----,-- ' / ' -- Ashtn Oldhl 971 71. 113 Macclesfield.. 100 21. 10s. ,„,° Barnsley •• • • !160 121. 180 Neatk ...... 100, 161. 3 : 3 - arknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 1001 201. 1 ; 0 Birmingham 35 41. 83 Peak Forest. 78 31. 185. is Coventry.. •. 100, 251. 210 Regent's •• .. 33 11. 2s. Lot / Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 65 41. 0 ,- F.llsnare&Chs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.108. 1 ... " . . Ercwash ... 100 321. - Do.Lk I'd St 12161. P. c• 4 03 klrand iunctn 100 51. St Stffrd&Worc 140 , 281. __ 30 Shrewsbury.. Grand Surrey 100 21. Grand Unioa . 100 11. 10s. 24 Stourbridgy.. - Severn and/ 1 125 I 15/ ' 360 1145 i 201. Grantham .. 150 -•-• Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% Wye Rail. j • ;:eeds&LiTrp 100 301. - Warwick& 1 63 Leicester .•. 140 61. 63% Ilirming. 1 100 41 ' :.eicstr &N . th 83 4/. 45 Warsvick& 26 1 V. 05. 43 Lou ghhoroxh 142 701. 650 Napton..l 100 31 - Nionmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &/ 4/ 78 3/. aftitgemryslalloo - - Birming. j 9 afeltnMwbrylloo - - Wilt s & Brks - 141. ...TONOP Z.E57'. OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES Dividend Amount _ pall - Name of Company. per of Paid. - Annum. Share. ....... --- - X s. d. X P. 4 188 Bank Bank of Scotland lritish Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 x!, 414 ;aledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . Cl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 q Ilyclesdale Bank •-• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 44 commercial Bank .astern Bank .. ... •• • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 .6g Eclinb.k. Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 u;3st Exchange Bnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 _.... tale of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 70 0 15i National . National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 ',, Vorthof Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 .... North British Bank • • - - - 1 0 'Loyal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 1 00 0 0 90 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 76 Western Bank.... •• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 g Aber leen Fire and Life 7341. pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 .... B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 0 156 d British Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 21 ,Jaledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 .0 . Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 Q i 11 8 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 " .20 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 . 5 .64 East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 '-- Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 ...- Eiercules Insurance Cc. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ....- [mar. Co. of Scetlnd• • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ,/, 1 04 Life Assoc. of Scotland Cl. p er cen t . 10 0 0 1 00 '. 6/1. Mercantile Life National Fire and Life 5/. p er cen t. 10 0 0 1 0 0 24 North British Incur. .• 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 .... North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 I 0 ° _ -.- Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 u ~.. Scot. Mas. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 2 31.0! Scottish Union Insrnce. 6%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 ,°, 27 1 i Standard Life ...... • . SI. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 ''' 145 0 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 2: ... ........! MISCELLANEOUS. *----''''' Dividend Amount I ri de . Name of Company. per of Paid. Annum. Share. ..../.. ------- --- X. s. d. IX. O. d ' 0 Auction 3fart.. ••• • • • 27. ss. 50 0 0 - 16 0 A u stralian Agrieultnrl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 ...• Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4e. 10 0 0 10 0 SI ,. ..... Ditto, Miff Shares.. - - 2 10 u .v 23 Canada ... • • .... •• •• GI. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 .... . Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - 91 Pity Navigation .... - - - ~, 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 v 109., Equitable Reverslenry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 60 Gen.SteamNavigatlon 11. Si. 15 0 0 14 0 0 •••• London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 . Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 n 5 41 ' Penlnslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, SO 0 0 9 11 P .1 , Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 : ••"' Royal Mail Steam.... 6! 18..4. p. c 100 0 0 60 0 „ •••: South Australian ... • . 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 :,' ' Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 v_..../.., British •• •• •!•••••• •• Ditto frovincial.... Brighton •• • • •• •• . • .. City of London ...... Continental Consolidat. Equitahle- • • • •....... Imperial ............ Ineependeat ......... Do., Pail. Preference Phoenix. . •• •• rtatcllfr ..... .. • • •• • • United General .. • • •• Westminster Chartered Ditto, New......... £ s. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 A s. d. 100 0 0 M COMPANIMS. Amount of ' Share. Z. a. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 100 0 0 () 0 50 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. A. j. d. 1$ • 0 20 0 0 ISO • 0 31 5 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 2 10 0 49 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 46g, 8h BIRTHS. 1 0' On the 16th inst., at 65, Brook-street, Hanover-Ociti` the wife of Charles S - okes Esq., of a son. ' ol° On the 12th inst., at Clay-farm, Eltham, Mrs- —4lO Slade, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Plas Mad oc , Ruabon, Denbig ms the wife of G. 11. Whalley, Esq., o f a daughter. f th e " At Richmond, Surrey, o n th e 13th i ns t., the wife of Rev. A. M. W. Christoph er , late P • •ucipa 1 of the gi lt m College at Calcutta, of a son. of Is On the 14th inst., the wife of David D. Keane , daughter. On the 13th inst-, a t th e Vi carage , Market Win , ' f Wilts, the wife of the Rev. M. W. Mavow, of A s°ll p . ,11Ort On the 15th in s t., a t Y on i ngs b ur y, Hens, Mrs: - a daughter. of reef On the 15th i ns t, i n Pa r k-s q uare, the wre L auri the q. OA On l9th inst., at Clifton-cottage, Lower Tu lse wife of Charles Watsor, jun., Esq., of a son. DIED. Be l ll4ll At Rvde, Isle of Wight, on the 10th lost , - 5 1 r°' for Esq . ' • Idle, eldest daughter of the late Patrick Dloresont inerly of Forty-hil', Enfield, Middlesex. . b I;.ent'A On the 11th inst., Mrs. Jane Bailey, of Woolwic or!. On the 12th inst., at Houghton-house, Curnherlao"ied, ot 7', Hodgson, Esq., for upwards of 30 years c „ th e lie pe , ce. On the 13th inst., at Wisheaeb, aged 91, Ann, relief 0 • ate Oglethorpe Wainman,q., .D. m $ 411"431 On the ;gtli inst., at Great Marlow, Bucks , arne , , aged 69. At otit On the 15th inst., at Fresbf or d, near Bath , Mir/ of W. Gee, Esq., of Fresliford. radon I Printed and Publirbed by MURD° 1r() , 1 1 .'1 r. 112, :!.:trbi; Prints, (1123ce , -. 4,y • At to' .N 1.04 ''''trand• •hs Proeinct ho yvV-§, rt the w " Atiddleux, Friday, January 18, 1850. 11. 16s. 10s. 10s. 12s.per share 4!. t 1. per ct. 151. per cent. 8/. per cent. 51. per cent. p. sh. & ba, 5/. per cent. 11. sa. & ba. ss. per teat. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. 41. per cent. 10% pr cnt. Si. per cnt. s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 5 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 All paid. 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 lb 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 4 0 0 9 0 e 4 0 0 i ~. A i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 too o o 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 h 0 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 Paid Z s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 !/YEPBNI3ES. Amount of Share. raid # s. 41. 65 0 0 50 0 0 Z. a. d. 6000 40 0 0 rad. 2000 100 o 0 Docnn. Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. 61. pr cent. 20s. per oh. 51. pr cont. 41. per cont. 4 per cent. 4341. pr cent. 21. per cent. X s. d. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 BRIDGES Dividend per Annum. Amount of Share. 355. per cent. 11. 4s. Od. 11. Is. Od. VV*II.T 231-' Dividend i per 1 Annum. X. s. d. 632 12 $ 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 VRIES Amount of Share. 's"' 14 14 THE Sil N, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, ___J ANUAR Paid. Paid. t•n C Fs 122 21 05. 5% 203 205 21 117% Price