The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-20 00:00:00

HOLLAND AND HAMBURG MAILS, THE STEAM SHIPS conveying the }Limburg Mail, will leave the Custom House Stairs, /or Hamburg, every TUESDAY NIGHT, or early on WEDNESDAY MORNING, and every FRIDAY NIGHT, or early on SATURDAY MORNING. Those which convey the Holland Mail will leave the Custom House Stairs every WEDNESDAY and SATUR DAY MORNING, at Seven o'clock precisely. Berths taken, and every information given, at the Ge neral Stearn Navigation Company's Office, 69, Lombard street. giber 20, 1832. J. E. WALLIS, Clerk. r n n • LONDON, T HURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 20, 1832. We have great pleasure in announcing that the returns of the revenue for the financial quar ter, no , near expiring, are, up to the present time, in th e highest degree favourable. There is a mark e d improvement in many branches, par ticularly in the Customs. The latter may be attributed in a considerable degree to the favour able re su l t of the harvest, which has induced the holders of corn in bond to release it at even the Present high rate of duty, and bring it to market, rather th an hold on with the probability of a further d ec li ne of prices. Upwards of 100,0001. has been received for duties in this way during the last ten days. No f, urther accounts have been received from Brussels, eithe r at the Foreign Office, or at the Belgian Embassy. We may fairly conclude, therefore, that General CHASSE has not carried his threat of firin g upon A ntwerp i nto execut i on . A private letter from Brussels, in a Morning Paper, states, that his forbearance is owing to further concessions on the part of the Belgians. We sincerely trust there is no foundation for this statement, NV e alluded yesterday to a letter from St. pe tersburgh, in which it is stated that the mission of Lord DURIIANI has not been productive of a ny important result to the interests of this coun try. Another letter, which we have seen, states that the French Ambassador at the Russian court had held several conferences with the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs, and that an alliance b etwee n Russia and France was likely to be the consequence of the repeated negociations. Without pretending to know what may have b een the subject of the conferences between the trench Ambassador and the Russian Minister, ' a we may, we thi n k , safely take upon ourselves to a gree in th e op i nion recently expressed here by M. de NIA.REum, that the idea of an alliance between France and Russia, under existing cir cumstances, is an absurdity Nothing could ex cuse) and only one c i rc umstance palliate, such a course. Were the British Cabinet, by a cold route qui route peace policy, to abandon LOUIS PHILIPPE entirely to his own re sources in the conflict of principle in which he 4 alr ea d y engaged by diplomacy with the abso lute Powers of the continent, he might, perhaps, be led into the deplorable extreme of cultivating an alliance where he wanted moral or physical enurage to provoke hostility. Such a course, however inexcusable in a Monarch who owes h is crown to principles which are in direct op- Position to those of the Holy Alliance, would excite an indignation in the minds of the People of this country against our own Govern ment, calculated in some degree to blunt the an ger which would be otherwise felt towards 1 -01/I 8 PHILIPPE ; but we trust that there never will be so much madness or so much political profligacy in the British Cabinet, as to lead to an event of so disastrous a character to the cause of liberty, and that it will be always con sidered, that, however important it may be to obtain peace by slight and honourable conces sions, it never can be the interest of this country to purchase temporary security by the abandonment of the only ally upon whom we can reckon for support in the defence of our own free institutions. With respect. to the alleged good understand ing between the Russian Ministry and the French Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, it is ne cessary to remark, that previously to the mission of Lord Dunlliot there was shown by the Russian Court to the French Ambassador a coolness approaching to insult ; and that the ci vility lately evinced towards him has been ascribed to the interference of the British Envoy Extra ordinary. May not this contrast have occasioned the mistake of thoe who prognosticate a treaty of alliance between France and Russia ? and may not the fact upon which they build their prognostication of injury to this country prove the direct reverse of the prediction. There are few Parliamentary Candidates which the times have called forth, who have hesi tated to declare their sentiments upon the diffe rent great political questions which are likely to be discussed in the course of the next two or three years, unless they have wished to con ceal them. Electors may depend upon it, that no man would leave them in any doubt of his sentiments upon most of the subjects we refer to, except from the knowledge that they were opposed to the opinions of those whose suffrages he solicited. The consequence of con stituencies requiring, for the most part, a full declaration of their general views from untried men, has been, that shufflers have either entirely withdrawn from the field, or remain only with every probability of being beaten out of it. But of all explicit declarers of opinion, Col. STANHOPE, as Candidate for the Tower Ham lets, stands foremost, although his public life, perhaps, calls for professions less than that of any one of the multitudinous candidates of that new borough. It will be seen by the report in another part of our Paper, that the Gallant Colonel does not mince the matter, either as regards the law, the church, the army, the colonies, the corn laws, or free trade generally ; in all he ad vocates specific plans of Reform ; and although we may differ with him in some of his details, the general principle on which he proceeds is excellent. What he states with respect to taxes is particularly deserving of praise ; and if all were to act up to the spirit of fairness which he manifests, we should very soon have no complaint to make with respect to inequality in the pressure of taxation. The Gallant Colonel says—" He would cut off all the assessed taxes, and would have a graduated property tax, by which the famishing labourer would be relieved from the killing weight that now hangs on him. But persons in his own condition should pay much, while the middling classes should have to pay less." Colonel STANHOPE'S plan for reducing our army by the establishment of a militia, we cannot approve of. In the first place, we are satisfied that a militia would be dearer,—that is, would occasion a larger sum of money to be drawn from the pockets of the people,—although not perhaps in the direct shape of army or militia estimates,—than a standing army. In the next place, it would be a most intolerable nuisance. The suspension of the militia ballot was one of the most acceptable boons the country had for a long time received. 'We do not say that the expenses of our army might not, by proper management of our Colonies, be reduced one half, but in a commercial country like this, the pursuits of the population cannot be conveniently changed every six months. In America, referred to by the Gallant Colonel, the mass of the population is engaged in agriculture, and times are chosen for militia training, which renders it as little inconvenient as possible. 'We could say much more in support of our position, as re gards England, but the question must be so plain to all engaged in commerce or manufac tures, whether as employers or employees, that we shall say no more upon it until Colonel STANHOPE, or some one else, stands forward in Parliament to support his side of the argu ment. A Canterbury Correspondent of the Times has this morning forwarded that Paper an ac count of the election of the Mayor of that an cient city, which is worthy of. notice, as display ing the unabated spirit in favour of Reform, which prevails there, and also as exhibiting a signal defeat of the trickery of the Tory faction. Public opinion was in favour of Alderman S. KINGSFORD, and as he had never passed the Chair, it was expected he would be one of the candidates put in nomination by the Court of Aldermen. Instead of this, two Tory Candi dates, Aldermen BROWNE and E. KINGSFORD, were put forward. This appears to have been contrary to some previous understanding with the liberal part of the Freemen, by far the ma jority, and they resolved, at all hazards, to de feat the plan formed against them. They dis liked both Candidates equally, but took care so to vote that they polled exactly ninety-two each. The consequence was, that neither was elected. This was on the 14th inst., the day prescribed by the Charter for electing the Mayor; but a provision existing for such an event as actually occurred, a fresh election was proceeded with, between the hours of 10 and 2 on the next day. Alderman BROWNE, seeing that the contest was hopless, retired, and Alderman S. KINGSFORD came forward. The number of votes in his favour was 607, whilst Alderman E. KINGSFORD had only fifteen, proving that the numbers he had had the day before were entirely to be attributed to the ex cellent management of the Reformers. Well have the men of Canterbury vindicated their in dependence ; and if the Reformers throughout the country would imitate their prudence and management, as well as their spirit, small indeed would, any where, be the chances in favour of those whose only trust is in cunning, treachery, and unconstitutional intimidation. We were beginning Co think that there was no man left so willing to say, " write me down an ass," as to propose secrecy in respect of the trans actions of the Bank. We were mistaken, for it appears by our report of the Bank Meet ing which took place to-day, that a gentleman, who elegantly declared he would not give his name to be shown up by " the b-y old Times," and, sagaciously, that the Press was the curse of the country, moved for the exclusion of the Reporters. The majority of the meeting, however, either thinking that nothing ought to be secret, or that this attempt would only lead to the publication of garbled reports, and other and moi e injurious consequences, decided against the !notion. The Great Unknown is certainly in error at present, but we do not despair of his conversion, since he really appears ashamed of himself. The French Papers of Tuesday inform us that the Duke of BrtusswrcK has been at length compelled to quit Paris. He resisted for some time, and attempted to evade the execution of the Minister's order, but at length the police found admittance to his abode, and having a chaise ready at the door, he was at once removed, without any violence being used. He will be conducted to the frontiers, and will probably take up his quarters for the present in Switzerland. By all accounts from the Cantons, it would ap pear as if the exiled Bourbons are contemplat ing some movements which will assure LOUIS PHILIPPE that the departure of CHARLES the Tenth from this country is not without a more political object than it is at present considered prudent to divulge. The news in these papers from the Peninsula is more cheering to the cause of Don PEDRO. Even the Court party begin to fear that MIGUEL will not be able to hold out ; while, on the other hand, JOSE MARIA'S brave guerillas con- tinue to increase in Andalusia, where some other chiefs have followed their example by raising the patriotic banner of independence. The letter of PARIGOT, President of the Royal Court of Poitiers, tendering his resigna tion rather than sign a decree ordering the arrest and committal of the Duchess DE BERRI is a sign of the times which Lours PHILIPPE can not fail to understand. If he hesitate any longer in capturing that misguided but heroic lady, he %vitt soon repent either the excess of his modera tion or culpable negligence. Brussels Papers to the 19th have been re ceived. It will be seen that nothing further has taken place between the Dutch and Belgians at Antwerp, except the interchange of notes of defiance. The Belgians have finished the works begun, and both parties now look at each other. The reception of the Duchess of ANGOU• LEME in Holland, where she is styled the Dau phiness, affords another proof, if any were wanting, what game the King of HOLLAND is playing. We shall be much surprised if the Allied Monarchs do not shortly make common cause in favour of the " exiled Legitimate." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, SEPT. 19.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Harmony, from Surinam. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Wind N.N.E —Arrived his Majesty's ships Vernon, Castor, and Donegal, from Cork ; and Georgiana, Thompson, from London, for New South Wales. Sailed the Cygnet, Rollo, for Swan River ; and Sylvia transport, for Bermuda. FALMOUTH, SEPT. IS.—Wind W. to N., fresh breezes and squally.—Sailed his Majesty's steamer Echo, for Oporto, having on hoard the Marquis Palmella. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Clutha, Cowan, from Montreal. WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Alexander, Cournan, from Miramichi. GREENOCK, SECT. 17.—Arrived the Unicorn, Wilson, from Jamaica; Ma's, Clipperton, from Charleston; Ta merlane, Black, from Quebec; and George, Dugdale, from Newfoundland. HULL, SEPT. 18.—Arrived the Newland, Tinger, from St. Petersburgh. GRAVESEND, Saer. 18.—Arrived the Woodford, Keene, Tulloch Castle, Rayer, and Emulous, Creighton, from Ja maica ; Asia, White, Joseph Story, Sedgworth, and Tho mas Wallace, Ford, from Quebec ; William Mitchell, Bell, from Jamaica ; Adventure, Wilson, from Cuba ; Eliza Killick, Vaugh, from St. Domingo, sailed the l 9th ; and Auriga, Chalmers, from Calcutta. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT, CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report, 1440—New Cases,29s—Deaths, 94 Recovered, 266—Remaining, 1375. Total Cases since the com mencement, 55,058—Deaths, 19,934. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS 'DAY AT ON r C,(pLocK, lank Stock ! P e ' _Cent. Red ' Per , ent.Con N Per C s ' 84 4 ti Ditto Bonds 7 8 pm. Ditto R ent South Sea Stock ,Iciwo eel shut Old Annuitie- shut 1 , " per Cent. 92y li IA ,New Ditto... ............. I ' l. Cent Ann. 17.26 .... —l3 per Cent. 10(x1 175118 ... tt4Per Cent. 18215 O T nk Long Ann. to expire !Ditto... pm. '''' n • I S 1860 l9 18 pm. i , shut 'Ditto Small Y e t. 10, :859 shut ; Ditto Commercial. ...... .. pm. -an . 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised — pro. ' la n. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account — April 5 leg() India for Account . — ------....._ ja ": 18 - 70-- PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS ' Austrian Bonds Pe t i tion Bonds —l F ,'' it tn Account 76i,-(t' :razilian Bonds Ditto Account 51.1-4N,ts; F' ' ller .'es Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 22Y.i ' Mil ian Bonds l6 Ditto Account — :olumbian Bonds ...... l l l4 Ditto Account — Ditto Ditto Bonds, 1924 ll5, Account — nitDah Bonds 7O to Account ......... .... Ireek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, 1 8 2 5 Ditto Account "e,xican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent D itto Account ' 1 7 1 4 ' le oholitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 44!; Ditto Account . Regency Scrip 4 dis Ditto Account 4 dis. Prussian Bonds 9O Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1522 lOO Russian Bonds, 182 9 IN)I4 Ditto Account ggli New Lnan 95 ISpanish Bonds, IS2I to A Ditto Accoun t Ditto Bonds, 1523 — 13 Ditto Account French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. Exchange —f —c. —3 per cent -- Exchange Dutch Scrip 437 i !,', j Ditto Account 43%% 3 F: inch Scrip ....... .......... 2 pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONY O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. A ngln Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO Be lanos Mining Company ..£l5O B razilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm ) £2O Ditto St. John Del !ley British Iron Mining Company £so Columbian Mining (iss, at 5/. pm.) 48'4 Fn • ' sh Mining Co.• ' gh Company 12)4 ~e neral Mining Association R T ,e4l dcl Monte Mining Co. ...,.. ..... "llerl Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 Ditto New Scrip o Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Pr otector Insurance Comp. A ustralian Co. Ca nada, Company l7 %Je n --...._ eral Steam Navigation Co. rrovincial Bank of Ireland 25 2 1 ,4 61‘ 2014 24 18 1714 314 414 £1 5 0 7 44 8 2SIA PRICKS OT IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 17. ..,_ B Allk Stock "Ilsols 3 ner cent ''''. Stock, 3% per cent. 91% National Ditto — Att 0, New 'Per Cent — Hibernian Bank nO!-(i G p o v. Deli. 34 percent --Provincial Ditto — 7ltal Canal Stock — . Royal Irish Mine — "'rand Canal Stock 21% Imperial Mine — C h i: Y Deb. 4 per cent — Mining Co. of Ireland litist Office Deh. 4n. c. ---- Commercial Buildings — ......._ HAILS. 4 Trived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburg 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Carthagena 1 Dublin 0 I 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 0 1 0 Lisbon 1 1 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 1 France 0 Sweden ..........____Guern •fi,J rsev.. 0 0 1 Waterford korn.HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evening... 0 minutes after 0. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " HAM BABA." °n Saturday next will be published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. ZOHRAB, THE HOSTAGE. By the Author of " Hajj i Baba." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Late Colburn and Bentley.) THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. They write from Aix-la-Chapelle that the cholera has broken out there, and ma the 11th there were fourteen cases, and seven deaths. THE FUNDS. Our opinion stated yesterday, that we did not believe that hostilities would take place between the Dutch and the Belgians, is confirmed this morning by private letters from Brussels ; and as long as the English and French ambassadors reside in that capital, there is no fear of an actual war taking place between the two parties. They have more weight and power than both the Dutch and Belgian armies combined together. In regard to the theatre of war in Portugal, we have no fresh official information as yet, but report says that accounts have been received from Lisbon of the 7th, by a merchant ship yesterday, and that Don Miguel's squadron had sailed on that day. Consols opened at the price at which they left off yester day, 844- t; at present they may be quoted 841 for the Account. Little doing. lIALF-PAST ONE. The Funds have been very heavy since the early part of the morning, when Consols were at 8441, since which they have receded to 8411 for the Account, and at present they are 8111. This decline has caused several reports to be put into circulation, such as that we are going to seed a fleet to the Scheldt, disturbances in Belgium, with other reports not worth stating. We hear that the Bank Meeting has broken up, and the usual dividend of 4 per cent, has been declared. It is positively stated that Don Miguel's fleet has sailed, to the number of six or seven ships of war, and the lighter ones have been left in the Tagus. The Dutch mail has not yet arrived. It is anxiously looked for. In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock is heavy, and has declined per cent. _ I❑ other Foreign Securities nothing doing. THREE 0' CL 0 C.K. . _ Consols 841 i for Account. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account 84 a i Greek - Brazilian Bonds 514 Mexican - Buenos Ayres... Peruvian .. ...... ••• Chilian Ditto.... Russian — Columbian 1824 -- Spanish BANK OF ENGLAND.-(THIS DAY.) MEETING OF PROPRIETORS. This day a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors was held at the B ink of England, for the purpose of deelarin2 a dividend, and for other busine.ss. John Hordey Palmer, Esq., in the Choir. _ A Proprietor, whose name could not be ascertained, K.gged, before the Court proceeded to business, to state that he saw several Reporters present; by whose authority they were present he did not know, but he moved that they be requested to withdraw.—(No, no.) Mr. NIXON seconded the motion.—(Cries of " Go on, go on.") The Proposer observed i❑ answer to those cries, that the Company had long suffered from the misrepresentations of the Press. This meeting was one of Bank Proprietors, and not Reporters of the Press. The CHAIRMAN interposed by reading the minutes of the last Court as the first step ; that done, and a vote of confirmation of then having been carried, The Proposer of the resolution proceeded, and stated that no other persons but Bulk Proprietors should be pre- S en t. H e submitted to the Counsel for the Corporation, wh o were present, whether any others could be allowed to attend. He persisted in his motion. Mr. SELWYN (King's Counsel) opposed the motion, on this simple ground,—that, up to the present time, and (luring the whole period that he had been a Proprietor of Rank Stock, no such motion had been made—in no in stance had the Gentlemen of the Press been desired to withdraw before, and on the present occasion it was ,igbly improper it should be made.—(Hear, hear.) He considered it for the advantage of the Corporation that every proceeding of theirs should be made as public as pos sible, and he ventured to affirm that they had gained much of public confidence by the publication of that voluminous report which had appeared in the public papers. He thought that at the present time the motion was most un gracious, and ought not to have been made.—(Hear.) Mr. FEARON moved, as an amendment to the motion, that all persons, not Proprietors, be excluded, exc. pt the Reporters for the Press.—(Hear.) Mr. BLACKBURN said it was highly inconvenient that the motion should have been made at the present moment. A time might arrive when it would, perhaps, be desirable to hold a Court in secret, hut that time was not the pre sent. He begged to move the previous question, by which the motion might be got rid of without giving a direct permission for the presence of Reporters. Mr. YOUNG seconded the amendment of Mr. Fearon, because he was convinced that great injury would result to the Corporation by the exclusion of Reporters. Mr. WEEDING (we believe) supported the motion for the previous question. Mr. FEARON consented to withdraw his amendment on the understanding that the motion for the previous question would cause the Reporters to remain. The motion and the amendment for the previous ques tion were put by the Chairman, when the latter was almost unanimously carried. [The Reporters asked the mover and seconder of the motion for excluding Reporters, for their names; the litter politely gave his, but the former said, " Oh, no! I don't want to be handed up by the b—y old Times; the Press has been the curse of this country."—We were consequently unable to obtain his name.] The CHAIRMAN then said, this was a Quarterly Gene ral Court appointed by the Charter, and a Half-ye,irly Gene ral Court according to the bye-laws, and they were called together to consider of a dividend. The Court of Directors were of opinion that a dividend of four per cent. be declared for the half year end• ing the 10th of October next. The Directors, not withstanding the voluminous mass of papers which had been produced, did not think it ❑ecessary to depart from the usual course, and it remained for the Proprietors to determine whether their interests would be promoted by any, and what, further disclosure of the details of the accounts If any proposition for a more detail; d ac count were made and carried, the Court of Directors were both ready and willing to furnish it.—(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG could not omit this opportunity of remind ing the Court of Proprietors of the great principle he had long advocated, viz. that of publicity, which he was con fident afforded the Proprietors the best security for their dividends, and was the best for the interests of the public. It was a duty incumbent on them to know the state of theif own affairs, and indeed it was so provided for by their Charter. He reminded the Court of the part he had taken, in order that they should never in future depart from that principle. With respect to the state of their issues, he contended that hitherto they had been only partialy disclosed, and that they had concealed the amount of their deposits. That concealment had cre ated great insecurity and injury to the community, because in instances when it was said only 19 or 20 millions were in circulation, there had been 27 and 28 millions, and even so high as 30 millions. It was to that ignorance of the state of the issues that great speculations had been entered into, to the injury of the country. An artificial abundance had been thereby cre ated, generating foreign loans, and ultimately the crisis of 1825 had beers produced. In the year 1823 he foretold such a crisis, and the event proved that he was correct. He hoped, therefore, in future there would be no attempt made to den) that deposits formed a part of the cir culating medium, and that those deposits were an evidence of over issue, and he cautioned the Company against such conduct as had been heretofore pursued. He was per fectly willing to admit that the mass of information which had been published showed nothing disereiitable towards the Directors, but it showed the advantages of publi city, and how such information could have been given by the Directors to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons which they refused to give to the Court of Pro prietors, he was at a loss to conceive. He thought that information, however, should not have been given without the previous authority of this Court, for he knew of no power of Parliament to compel them to give it, and to make such disclosures as they had made. The CHAIRMAN was sorry that the llon. Proprietor could so early have concluded that he meant to give the most distant concurrence in the publication of the evidence referred to.—(Hear.) He never sanctioned the pnblica• tion of his evidence before the Secret Committee. Mr. YOUNG did not charge the Hon. Governor with sanctioning the publication of his evidence, but with not at once protesting against its publieation. The Proposer of the first resolution said, the evidence given by the Directors, particularly by the Governor and Mr. Richards, reflected the highest honour upon them ; but there was a party not only in the Committee, but out of it, who had shown a determined hostility to the Bank of England ; it appeared that the Bank Company had uniformly preferred the public interest to their own private interest, but those who bad the rule of the country showed a manifest ignorance of the interests of the country. Mr. SELWYN concurred in the praise bestowed on the Governor and Directors for the evidence they gave before the Secret Committee ; they had upheld the interests of the Company by their straight-forward and manly con duct.—(Hear, hear.) If any men could stand higher in the estimation of this Court than they did before, it was those Gentlemen.—(Hear.) No man was more anxious to have a detailed statement of the affairs of the Bank laid before the Court than he (Mr. Selwyn) was, but he had always been overwhelmed by large majorities. The Governor and Directors never lent themselves to mystery and concealment, for the question rested with the Court of Proprietors, who always refused to vote for the informa tion, and consequently they only were to blame. He had been often left in a minority with his friend the late Mr. Grundy, whose spirit if it now hovered over this Courtwould be delighted at what had recently taken place.—(Laughter.) The Court of Directors were entitled to the highest credit, and if the coffers of the Bank could afford it, he would propose a statue in gold to be erected to each of them. —(Loud laughter.) He begged to put a question to the Governor, and he promised to be very abstemious, seeing that the Hon. Gentleman had already answered 926 ques tions befor e the Secret Committee.—(A laugh.) The ac counts just published were only made up to the 29th July last; but he took it for granted that the accounts had now been made up to the end of August. He wished to know whether the "rest" on the account in August fell short of or exceeded the "rest" on that of February ? GOVENROR--it exceeds. Mr. SELWYN expressed his satisfaction at that answer. A PROPRIETOR asked whether the capital of each pro prietor upon each share was still to be considered as of the value of tool. The GOVERNOR answered in the affirmative. Another PROPRIETOR asked whether the Court of Direc tors were still to be the tools of any Government, whether right or wrong, and whether the public should be conti nued to be misled as to the capital of the Company ; also, whether the Directors considered themselves justified in reducing the funded debt from 5 to 4 per cent., and from 44e per cent, to 4 per cent., merely at the solicitation of Government, and without the leave of the Proprietors. The Directors were merely the servants or tools of the Go vernment, and acted not for the advantage of the pro prietors of Bank Stock, but for the advantage of the Government. The GOVERNOR said it was a mistake to suppose the Directors were the tools of any Government, or that they had done more than they were warranted i❑ doing. —(Cries of " Hear, hear, hear.") The object of the 13" k was to employ their funds in the most legitimate way.—(Hear, bear.) The Hon. Proprieto was under a inistike it he supposed that Government had no means of accomplishing, its objects thin by the aid of the B nk. The large reduction in ,de in the funded deb. in 1829 was made without any ail or advances by the Bank. There were 135 millions reduced without any assistance whatever from the Bank. The same PROPRIETOR inquired, whether the Govern ment did not then apply to the Bank for assistance? The GOVERNOR—.No; it was entirely done upon their own account. A PROPRIETOR adverted to the discount department. And said he knew, of his own knowledge., that some ppr. sons in that department received bribes for recommending hills for discount. To a question respecting the nature of certain bills, The GOVERNOR said it was a practice with them not :o discount accommodation bills. Another PROPRIETOR said, after the assertion just made, if a proposition be made to investigate any charge against any of the servants of the Bank of receiving bribes, he , vould second it in order that it might be inquired into; but ;tire he was, that there was not a local bank but would call but far the aid of the Bank of England. Another PROPRIETOR (from the rapidity with which questions were asked, and the crowded state of the Court, in was impossible to obtain names) wished to know if the Directors meant to go on paying pensions to 193 persons, without consulting this Court. It seemed that they were merely called together at certain periods to concur in a dividend as recommended by the Court of Directors. A Puorairron stated, that as such a mass of inform ition had been given by the Court of Directors, it was only proper that this Court should express some opinion upon it.—(Hear.) One thing was certain, and that was, that the fears of those who imagined that danger would arise from the publication of the affairs of the Bank wer' proved to be groundless, for the Bank bad attained addi tional security from the publication of their affairs. Ile begged to read the opinion of the Committee re specting their affairs,—a Committee formed, it should he remembered, of men of different political opinions,— in support of his assertion. The Commiteee stated in their repot t " of the ample means of the Bank of England to meet all its engagements, and of the high credit which it has always possessed, and which it continues to deserve, no man who reads the evidence taken before this Committee can for a moment doubt." He could not see on what better footing it could be rested than the united voice of the Members of the House of Commons that were on the Committee. He trusted that the present Governor would now unburthen himself of the petition that had been agreed to, praying Parlia ment to renew the Company's Charter, atid would bAdly and fearlessly present it to the Legislature, relying on the conduct that had been pursued by the Bulk for the acquiescence of Parliament to the request. He thought that the Bank deserved well of its country for what it had done, and the support it had given it in the mainte nance and increase of its prosperity. The Honourable Propri, tor concluded by giving his cordial support to the motion. Mr. BLACKBURN said, that as the matter of the report had been slightly alluded to, be should trespass 'Moray on the attention of the Proprietors with a few observations. It appeared to him that the report had gone too far in the disclosures which it made, and that, one day or other, that information which the Court of Directors had so ineau fously given, would become a matter fur the serious inves tigation of the Clurt of Proprietors. As the present meeting was principally for the purpose of declaring a dividend— Several Proprietors here caller! out " It's o❑ general affairs." Mr. BLACKBURN was aware of that. It appeared to him that the concealment which Ministers kept up as to their intentions with reference to the Charter, was dealing very hardly with the Corporation.—(Hear, hear, hear.) With respect to the disclosures in the report, he must again repeat that more information had b en given than was necessary or discreet, and Ministers had acted most basely with the Directors in calling upon them for such disclosures. The Hon. Proprietor then proceeded to draw an analogy between the London and Country bankers, when cries of " Question, question," resounded from all parts of the room. A PROPRIETOR observed, that it was impossible for the business of the meeting to be properly or profitably con ducted if irrelevant matter was allowed to be introduced. The GovERNOR thought the observations of the Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Blackburn) quite irrelevant. He would put the question of dividend to the meeting, and after that was carried or negatived, the Hon. Proprietor could make any motion he thought proper. Mr. BLacKauax considered that be was taking an ex- ceedingly proper course, and the observations he had made were strictly applicab'e to the question of dividend.— (Laughter.) The question with him was, whether the disclosures that had been made might not have the effect of disabling the Company from making so large a dividend next quarter.—The Hon. Proprietor again launched out into questions totally irrelevant, and the cries of " Ques tion, question," become louder than ever. The GOVERNOR trusted that the Honourable Pro prietor would confine hi, observations to the question of the dividends. _ After some further observations, the Honourable Pro- ' prietor gave way, and The GOVERNOR, after putting the question, declared it to be the opinion of the Court that a dividend of four per Cent. should be paid on the stock of the Company for the half-year ending on the 10th of October. Mr. YOUNG said he could not allow the present meeting to separate without calling for some remarks relative to the general affairs of the Bank. After every thing connected with it bad been laid in such a detailed manner before the public, it would be most incorrect for the Court to separate without giving some opinion on that subject. However much he might he charged with inconsistency, he could not but think the giving to the public information relative to the concerns of the Bank in the way it hail been was calculated to produce serious injury to the Bank and also to the public, unless some reason was assigned for the situation in which the Bank then stood. He should, therefore, propose the following resolution for the consideration of the meeting :—" That viewing the state of the accounts of the Bank, the risks and losses to which it had been su! , jected, and the fluctuations which bad taken place in its issues, have been principally occasioned by political causes, legislative interference, in assisting Go- vernment in the plan of reducing the Four and Three and a Half per Cents., and in the return to cash payments in the place of the 1/. and 21. notes." A PROPRIETOR seconded the motion. Mr. SELWYN thought at present the Court had not before it sufficient information to enab!e it to arrive at a proper conclusion with reference to the propositisn of the Hon. Proprietor, who, in his (Mr. S.'s) opinion, bad taken by far too narrow a view of so important a question, when he says that all the distress and difficulty with which they bad been surrounded for the last eight and thirty years had arisen from political causes. It was notorious that breaches of trust had in a great measure led to breaches committed by those who had moved in the highest sphere, and who, under the cloak of a high character and apparent honesty, had committed acts of the most flagrant description, the consequence of whose acts the Bank was bound to make good. The GOVERNOR then put the resolution to the Court for its approval, when Mr. LLOYD rose. He was in hopes that at a meeting like the present, and at such a period of the Court of Proprietors, something like a discussion lead ing to the expression of the opinion of the Court on the conduct of the Governor and Directors would have been entered into ; such not having been the case, he felt himself called upon to bring it before the attention of the Court; and in so doing, he trusted that he should not be considered as taking the part of any one, but as acting to tally independent towards the Directors in the exercise of his own opinion, in what he thought was their just due. It was impossible to read the evidence given by those Di rectors who had been examined, without coming to the conclusion that they had long studied the duties that ap pertained to them in their twofold capacity as servants of the proprietors and of the public. With respect to the system they had now adopted, it was no doubt a matter re quiring great deliberation, but no person could doubt, looking at the state of the public mind, but that the evidence given by the Directors had been the means of removing very erroneous opinions from men's minds, which had been formed with respect to the conduct of the Bank, and had raised it much in the public estimation. Amongst the reflecting portion of the community it was now allowed, that its affairs were conducted with great attention and liberality, and with every attention to the betnhse, interests ipeeteniiccooiiamni ltdlayhudo conduct tv: ti t oen l hr i fg e eti p iil sdrinei thoughteicse).oirrnsei Actewht Directors rix e After ‘hriweteishlei expression onngbhpublicationeaoedfn couldtatihce itr reond:oapns t ohs:eaiupt,t,ti opinion rt h b:l,o a yta t ne l t, e day. He considered that it was the duty of some well. known Proprietor to come forward with a motion of thanks. The CHAIRMAN had already sufficiently answered the charge which had been brought against him of being in strumental in the publication of the disclosures made to the Secret Committee—he had distinctly stated that neither directly nor indirectly was he a party to it. That the publication of those disclosures could not possibly produce mischief appeared to him as clear as the sun at n day ; on the contrary, he thought it would form thF; of a sy:tcm h.et, ~„. ,tary systein of the on a ben lootio ! 4, tnd rendtr it more stk...l:e than it hal evtr teen before. It would produce that uroniiritv so ouch to he desired b,tween the Propri-tors and the Direc t,rs, and in his opinion it was calculated to introduce a 'ight and proper understanding between the Bank and the oublic, and would produce more confidence in the ,stallehtnent, than it bad ever eojoyed at any . _ !srtner period. He had thought it right thus far to express his individual opinion, because he considered the -aurse the hest that cou'd be adopted. lie would tot trespass farther upon the time of the meeting than nerely to express his satisfaction that the Directors lad aced in such a manly and straightforward nanner, and his hype that some one more able than himself would bring the matter under the notice of the .neeting.—(Applause.) Mr. YOUNG—It was stated as an objection to his mo tion, that the Court were not yet sufficiently acquainted virb the great mass of evidence which they now had in their hands ; of course if this was the opinion of the Court, he would bow to it; but as the previous question had been moved, he felt himself bound to offer a few more ob ,ervations to the meeting. TLe speaker was interrupted with loud cries of " Ques tion, question." The Governor then put the previous question, which was carried by a large majority. Mr. LLOYD was again called for. He rose and said, that after the lengthened observations which he had lefore indulged in he would move his resolution, only egretting that it had not fallen into the hands of a snore able man. He then moved, " that the Court of Proprietors leclare their confidence in the Court of Directors, and 'heir approbation of their conduct, and the manner in which they bad supported and upheld the character of the Bank in the evidence given by them before the Se cret Committee of the House of Commons." Mr. BLACKBURN wi*hed to say a kw words More that motion we' put. Ho consider, d the time had not yet arrived for such a motion. He thought there ought to be a ;rest deal more discussion, and the PrPprietors ought to he pat in po•sesEion of much more information, before they could entertain it. Mr. YouNa said the proposition appeared to him to vo:ve such an approval of the conduct of the Court of Directors, as he for one could not at all agree with. A Pitorateroa suggested that the motion only inclwied their explanations to Parliament, and did not at all extend to their general conduct. Mr. YOUNG could not even join in the motion limited as it would be by that explanation, fur the nature of the evidence was calculated to effect treat evil, and should not. have been given till after a previous disclosure to that Court. The disclosures had done an iitunense deal cif harm, and it would take the whole vigilance of the prt prietors, as well as the Legislature, to produce such a charter as might have been got without them. Mr. WINTER. was one who at the last meeting was de cidedly opposed to the publication of the accounts. He confessed that when he heard the Chairman reading over the heads of the voluminous mass of accounts which were now on the table, he trembled for the consequences, which, he conceived, were likely to follow the publication of them to the world. That such conse- quences bad not followed these publications, he attributed entirely to the manner in which the Directors had support ed the character of the Corporation, when under examina . tion before the Committee ; therefore he for one would most earnestly support the motion. Mr. SELWYN wished to ask one question of the Chair— man, which was a very short one. Since the publication o f these documents had there been any drain upon the Treasury of the Bank ? _ The tiovrittNott there bad been no ex'ra demand for gold. .None whatever. Mr. BLACKBURN said that be believed that Lord Alrhorp had made no promise of Feet ecy after the Investigation by the Committee, but merely during its continuance. This he knew as well as a private individual could.—(Loud cries of question.) The motion was then put and agreed to with o❑ly two dis,entients. The GONICHNOR said it was nosy Isis duty to express the great satisfactio❑ with which the Directors bad re ceived the confidence and approbation of the Proprietors. They had on the late occasion endeavoured to uphold the character of the Corporation to the utmost of their power, and well were they rewarded for merely doing their duty ; for the present motion was to them a most sincere gratification. He could not omit returning his personal thanks to the Honourab!e Proprietor for the handsome manner in which he had spoken of his own conduct, coming from such a quarter, where talent and enlarged views were combined it was doubly ;ratifying. For himself and the Directors he begged to return their most sincere thanks to the Court. It [night by some be supposed that the motion which was first made for the exclusion of Reporters had been by the instructio❑ and approval of the Directors. He had only to say that it was entirely without their knowledge, they had no wish to conceal any thing which the Court of Porprietors thought ought , o be made public, and had not the slightest objection to the presence of the agents of the Press. The Court then adjourned. REFORM ALMS-HOUSES. A publie meeting, for the purpose of promoting the erection of a considerable number of Alms-houses for the reception of distressed inhabitant householders, as a means of permanently recording the triumph of the great mea sure of Reform, took place this day at two o'clock, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the Right lion. the Lord Mayor in the Chair. The meeting, though not so numerously attended as was expected, was composed of highly respectable individuals. The LORD Mas-ort, in opening the business of the day, stated that he had received a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, calling upon bins to convene the pre sent meeting. He was always anxious to meet the wishes of his fellow-citizens, but never was he more so than on the present occasion. Those who had been most zealous and active in the cause of Rsform were now anxious to celebrate its triumph in a manner honourable to them selves and beneficial to others, and he was of opinion that this could not be done more effectually than by providing a receptacle for those citizens who had been reduced from prosperity and comfort to distress and destitu tion. He assured himself that the deficiency in numbeas which presented itself would be supplied by the zeal, activity, and benevolence of those who composed the meetiag. Mr. WESTON was left proposing the first resolution. DONCASTER RACES-(YESTERDAY), BY EXPRESS. The Foal Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. Three•year old colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bat. 41h. Mile and a half. Five Subscribers. Mr. Houldswortb's Trident Four-year-old Stakes of 50 Fors. each, 20 ft., with 25 added by the Corporation. St. Leger Course. Three Subscriber.. Lord Cleveland's Liverpool The Selling Stakes of 10 sovs, each, with 20 sovs. aided for the first, and 10 for the second, by the Corporation. Three-year-olds, fist. 121 b. ; four, Sit. ; five, Sat. 10th. ; six and aged, 9it. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs. if demanded, &c. St. Leger Course. Three Subscribers. Lord Sligo's Westport 1 Mr. Kirby's Dinah 2 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, 1 1 Pease, 375. Pd. For the Week ended Sept. 14, nix, made up from the . Returns Beans— 365. 61 of the Inspectors in the different Cities and' J owns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat.-- 58s. Od. Oats 193. 9;14 Beans—....— 365. sd. Barley --.345. 4d.! Rye 33s lid I 38s. Id. IMPERIAL ♦GGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Oats 8ar1ey...... h r let= 336°:.. ..• DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Sd. Oats 16s. %LI 15s. 6d. Barley --12 s. 4d. Rye --. 16s. gd.Pease-- 14s. Od. HAY M A RKETS.—; At per Load ot 30 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £9. 15 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 'l 15 3 15 Useful Old Ditto. 3 0 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 5 Clover Hay 4 0 5 5 Oat Straw £1 12 to £1 14 I Wheat straw ... 114 116 Supply moderately good, trade rather dull, and prices stationary SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay ................. ............ .......... :3 0 310 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and itye.grass Hay 4 0 4 Clover Hay (extra fine)...6 6... Generally r )at Straw ... £lhitoXl 14 I Wheat Straw Supply rather limited, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted. A respectable Correspondent says,—" Vote by Ballot is becoming very popular in this county (Somerset), from the indiscreet manner in which many o f the landholders are compelling their tenants to vote con. Crary to their judgments.—lt is in contemplation to Dorn a subscription in the eastern division of the county, feu• the purpose of indemnifying those persons who may 1. turned out of their estates for voting conscientiously a tie ensuing election."—Cheltenhurn Gazette, BEST AND CHEAPEST TRANSLATION. In Two Vols., post Bvo., with a Portrait of the General, I.A FAYETTE, LOUIS PHILIPPE, an d the REVOLUTION of 1830 ; or, HISTORY of the EVENTS and the MEN of JULY. By B. SARRANS, Junior, Aide-de-C am p to Lafayett e until the 26th of December, 1830, the day of the General's dismissal. London: Published by Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange.