The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

EVENING IMITIoN. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TIIIIRSD•Y EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—Instead of raising the rates of discount, it will be seen that the Bank Directors have decided on limiting the circulation, by refusing to dis count paper having more than sixty-five (say two months) days to run, but still keeping the rate as formerly, at 5 per cent. The important measure thus adopted is approved of generally in the City, and looked upon as a much more searching and efficacious one than that of raising the rate to 6 per cent. The step now acted upon cannot fail to produce a powerful stringent effect, stopping speculation, and forcing down prices, so as to operate favourably upon the Foreign Exchanges. If the rate of discount at the Bank had been only in creased one per cent., and bills discounted as formerly at more than two months to run, speculators who ex pected to realise fifteen per cent. in a few mo nths, wou ld not have hesitated to pay the price ; b ut by limiting the running of discount paper to sixty-five days, the range of time becomes so seriously diminished, and the necessity of renewal so frequent and onerous, that much more consideration will be used be fore embarking in mercantile adventure. The immediate effect on the London Money Market will be to throw an immense deal of additional business to the discount brokers, who will negotiate sixty-five days' bills probably at five per cent. and + commission (equal to 6} per cent.), but will exact much higher terms for paper drawn at longer dates, or having a longer time to run. Operations con nected with the trade and commerce of our Indian empire and colonial dependencies will be severely cramped. Large amounts of paper, drawn from different quar ters of the world, now in transitu, will,meet with con siderable difficulty of negotiation, and some portion of of them perhaps returned, while all of them will be sub jucted to higher rates, according to their proximate po sition towards maturity. But, notwithstanding all these inconveniences, the measure cannot be condemned under existing circumstances ; and it has the advantage of not only being based on successful precedent, but it is in fact a return to the old rule of London business, whereby by bankers' bills were never drawn at more than sixty days, just because that was the rule of discount. by the Bank of England. The rule of relaxity, we believe, took place about nineteen or twenty year., ago, through the instrumentality of a leading bank ing firm, whose weight and authority have been long; feat and acknowledged. Regardless of the fear which actuated more timid men, that firm broke through the ancient principle of time, and, confident in their own strength and resources, the Bank parlour was com pelled to yie!ti to the innovation. The Directors have now retraced their steps, in order to assume the status (pc), and they have the strength of public opinion ge neraly in their favour. The Bank of France have aiwayi iaawed the same plan with success, and it is certainly a simpler and less startling measure of strn gency uian the advance of the rates of discount. The an::;,uocement, however, of the measure will be re c.:ived with some surprise throughout the country, and must touch ~vith severity upon various branches of our in!.:nd trade, nor will the continental trade escape its ef::., H ER ALD.—Aecording to private letters from Paris inorning, one of the caues which had led to the iinprovemmt in prices there on the preceding day was the circumstance of buying in a large bear aceount for a very extensive operator well known in this country, who having failed to covar his broker in the resulting against him, this proceeding in the n-u ti course wa, resorted to, and is called there "exe eutitg" an unlucky speculator. At the same moment another sp,eulator for the tail to a lazge amount com menced buyn,t7, io his accouat also, which necessarily ,;:;,Mt-.•(1 prices inateriaily. Toe opinion generally on Ow Paris 3 - Jurso was in favour of peace. rue notive of the li.mk referred to above created rnation in tie City, where nevertlich•ns so:r. e struigent course of action on the part 5 , 1 the Batik lwen looked far d•irine• some time past. CO. Llatil better advised, it would be improper to enrn to a hasty decision of the imperative reasons which may have urged this course on the Batik, which it is clear must have great difficulties to contend with in tee face either of an impel:due.; war, or of what is e.pavalent to it, of general report and i.dief Continent of Europe that such is the faut. The Bulk nee:awhile is endeavouring otherwise to stronetlien position by calling in its loans to a large extent. one very extensive firm in the discount line ties summons for repayment wtil, it is seide act to the (in tent of a refunding of advances to the amount of Ab,:ut one stt rlitlg. It is greatly to be regretted, aod ileleed it is felt to be a serious inconvenience that no 'mans are afforded by the Board of Customs, whin seems to be the proper authority, fur ascertaining in anything into a correct manner the real exports of gold cod s'aeer from the outports generally. At present no re turns are presenteJ or published but those of the port of London, whilst it is notorious that exports es as imports in consid,rahie quantities must be g,oing on at the ports of Liverpool. Bristol, and elsewbe!rc, hut above ail at the port of Dover, from whence the exports of gold, when exportieion is prefitab!e and in cer tain states of the foreign exchanges, must far exceed tnose of all other of the outpoies, including Lon don, takea together. Tee exports of gold and silver coin and bullion from the Custom-house here, Lis reported in the Trade List and copied into the daily journals, are exceedingly ineomplete material; in thee shape of information, or on which to ground ant oi - ,in;on, and it is from the convic . Lion that they wouhi lead ;o erroneous inferences rather then otherwise, or at be are valueless in the absence of more weighty and EA . :zit-tit data, that they are never given under this bead, although so readily accessible. It is high time, butts for the .cake of bankers and merchants, that this noto rious deficiency should be made good by those more especially in charge of the Customs department. As a guide to the couatry bulldog- interests it would be in valuable, tor it is impossible as the case stands that they !::113 possess any information by which to regulate their issues and business, in respect of the abundance or scarcity of the precious metals, excepting such as may be taenily made known to them by the curtailment of discouate, the advance of the rates of interest, or some other equally significant and extreme proceeding of the Bank of England, which gLnerally is not resorted to until the pressure in money affairs has already become of great gravity, whilst of its progress and causes those at a distance most nearly concerned are kept in com plete and most unfortunate ignorance. Spanish*Actives left off at 218, Portuguese New Five p'r Cents. 32, Brazil Stock at 74, and Dutch Two and-I-Half per Cents. at 48i. The Share Market was more active, but as the sellers predominated, prices all receded slightly. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROld THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. • (From the Times.) To those who have watched the progress and direc tion of the war frenzy among the desperadoes across the Channel (we gladly except the wiser and better part of the French nation), nothing can be more mani fest than that it has just as much to do with any ques tion at issue between the Porte and Mehemet Ali— ay, or between France and the Allied Powers, anis ine: out of or connected with the adjustment of such difference—as it has with the event of any speculative collision between a comet and a planet in our solar sys tem. Were both Mahometan Powers annihilated to morrow, the materials of violence on the part of a certain portion of the French people against some one or more of their neighbours—it scarcely matters against whom—would be not less abundant than they are at this moment, and the eagerness of the multi tude to employ them would be not a whit less furious. The French revolutionists are alike wearied of peace with Foreign States, and with inter nal: tranquillity, both which conditions of society have pressed upon them with the weight and irksomeness of handcuffs. almost ever since France was relieved from the army of occupation, some twenty years ago, or more. The two watchwords of those disturbers tre liberty and glory.—" French liberty," which met , :3 the absence or impotence of law—" French glor;•," which imports the unbridled exercise of rapine and e ,- pression over every other people. At present the di,- turbance in the east of Europe, and in the contiguou; parts of Asia and Africa, is the accident which ha; served to accompany rather than occasion this frightful tempest from north to south of France. But the description given of the reigning malady by those most familiar with its symptoms leads to no such expectation, as that if the Turkish question were ever so formally settled, or ever so favourably for the ostensible views of France, the agitated Mind of that country would subside into tranquillity, and leave surrounding States without cause of anxiety and alarm. If a sense of injustice or disparagement to France, in:- volved in the Turkish questiou, and limited to that question, were the real motive to all the priroxysms of rage that we have witnessed, the expression of the current feeling would point specifically to that one subject, and be satisfied without travelling beyond it. But is it so We do not precisely concur with M. Thiers in his assimilation of the present treaty between the Powers of Europe, to which France was earnestly invited to accede, for the enforcement of a principle, too, which she had confessedly recognized and approved of—in his assimilation, we say, of such a treaty to a coalition of the same Powers half a century ago for purposes avowedly of resistance to French schemes of universal agrression—zve see, once more, on the part of the Allied Governments, no such resemblance, although the subtlety of Mr. Tillers, in ex tracting the fancied likeness, might raise odd suspicions that there did exist, on the side of France at least, seine sort of conscious analogy between the cases, so fat as she was concerned. But sure we are, that there :s in the apparent state of France every conceivable fea ture of the closest analogy between the France of 1790 and her of 1840, with reference to the passions which have wrought within her, and overflowed upon other countries at both those periods, separated by an interval of almost two entire generations. Turn first to the annals of French history, as presented by Alison, 13 . 1 Thiers himself, and by a thousand contemporary records. riiien take notice of the following passages from the gra phic page of the Journal des Debuts of last Monday, and abswer us, were we not right in asserting, that the ques tion of the East is but a hollow pretext for violence in every quarter ; that there is indeed a faction at work, which win force both King and Chambers into forcign war, into " universal war,' on pain of death ; but that t is not so much a war factiau, as a levelling and revo- ,utionary faction, which seeks the whirlwind of univer• sal war abroad as an instrument only for the overthrow of ,all domestic institutions, of King and Chambers, and law, and constitutional liberty. Read but the Journal des Dcbals, an organ of enlightened opinion (we wish there were many sash) in Paris—a Paper with which the King of the French need not disdain to acknowledge a community of sentiment, and you will there lied it asked, with every mark of astonish ment at the convulsive fury of the democratic Journals, whether there are still in France " either !awe, or charter, or monarchy, or government of any description, or are we at this instant under the full :eves' of anarchy ?" You will see it rellirmed by that, the rust of French journals, that " there is on every side the most Furilus excitement to insurrection, the most incredible outbreak of unbridlcd pas,ions ; that already whoever is suspected of being favourable to peace is de nounced as a traitor, a coward, an enemy to France ; and twit they are the journals of the Ministers them selves which circulate this shameful scandal. As for the laws ?—they arc openly set at deft nee. The char ter ?—the Ministerial democrats declare their contempt fir it. The Crown they insult without measure or re morse. Toe Chambers they threaten, and show them in perspective the vengeance of the people. On all sides the independence of the Legislature is attacks& Tile revolutionary faction seeaks as the universal master. No roan is permitted to have an opinion of his He who is not for irtnnsdiate war—universal war—is a partisan of foreign Powers. :Filui by vio- ' knee of speech do they prepare for violence of action. Ocr long experience shows us the meaning of such symptoms, and we should have reproached ourselves with a failure of our duty had we not given warning of them to the King's Government and to France." Were we not justified, then, we ask once more, in appealing to public opinion, and demanding what cares a re volutionary band like this for the right or wrong, the just or unjust, in an Eastern, or any foreign question ? .All the world sees that they dream not of reasoning upon it. They declaim, they de nounce, they abuse, they slander, they threaten, they arm, they wilt have war, war abroad, for th-e sake of revolution at home, the overturn of all forms of constitution but one, and that one the recognized des potism of democracy. It is not what the King of the French may wish or do that we distrust—he is a man of honour, and a bold man ; nor is it the Chambers, for they have a stake in the public welfare, and are friends POST,—The Bank has heret o f or e been in the habit by necessity to order and to pea.ee : but e it is the faction of discounting three months' hills, in common with a bove re ferred to, from whom we hope for nothing, who others of a shorter d a t e , and the above notice is, there- have no interest in peace or order, and who may, though fere, one of very considerable importance to the country. God forfend it, prove too strong for king and Chambers We had prepared our readers for the adoption, on —a faction, the daily mouthpieces of whose violence are the part of the Dir ec t ors , o f somew h a t de c i s iv e reca- the same Newspapers, two of which are averred to be sures in the event o f th e drain on th e i r bullion under the direct influence and control of the very coffers continuing, which appears t o be the case. Minister with whom the Allied Governments are actu- We bear that several of our commercial firms are ally negotiating a peace in Europe, and at whose feet exporting gold to the C on ti nent upon an extensive the British Cabinet is deprecating the displeasure of the scale, chiefly on speculation ; but, independently of 'Paris revolutionists. the large amounts that are disappearing in this ( F rom t h e M orn i ng Chronicle.) way, there are parties in France who have em- Not onl did France first propose to associate Aug ployed their moneys in England for some years past i n trig, Prussia, a L a, ly _ ton Y nd Ru ith herself and England, but perfect confidence of its security, who, in consequence we are told that ~ Lord Palmerston of the great political excitement which exists at the was less disposed in France to brine about this general concurrence present time, deem it prudent to withdraw them. of h' the Five Powers ; t and it is s only with the liveliest These wirldrawals cannot but operate with an incon- " reflect when comparing thatjsiriod with the present venient pressure upon the bullion reserves of the Bulk " ' one, that the Frgipli CIA, recalls to mind that it was of England, and accordingly toe step taken to-day for more especi4gilpon France that the English Cabinet the limitation of credit is admitted, even by commer- considered that i t ought to re% in order to insure Me cial men in general, to be a very salutary and proper safety of the Turkish empire." 13ut the French had one. The only doubt seems to be whether the Direc- . than the • the in other views tnc securing in dependence of Tur tois would not have acted still better had they carne key. iii. ~ Ali L Key. atenemet was to be p rotected coute qui to the resolution of suspending for a period their dig- coute. The mode in which he obtr tined possession of counts altogether, and this some weeks ago. Extraor dinary times and circumstances justify extraordinary the Turkish fleet can never be eel ough reprobated. " The British Cabinet proposed to force the Turk expedients, and no person can reasonably complain of the s tand now ma d e aga i ns t th e demand ish fleet out of the hat ads of Mehemet Ali. France refused its assent to' this." Then " the upor k our chief monetary institution for the small amount of treasure of whi c h s h e r e ma i ns i n possession, difference of opinion between the views of France ' of " end those England manifested , I tself more and more. It 4 no t i n t h e contract i on o f di scounts a l one that Lord Palmerston declared that, a ccording to him, the the Bank Directors are arming themselves • •rst the effects of the political crisis. From all accounts agaL they Viceroy ought to receive the here saitary possession of Sor this, he ought have called in a million of money which had been .Egypt, but that, as a compensation borrowed of them I . discounting . • in Lam- to abandon immediately the Holy (riffles, the island of renewable intervals firmm . bard-street, renew Cendia, the district of Adana, and t be whole of Syria." of sixty day,, . l 'he This opinion his Lordship, however, Afterwards mo same to be paid Op in the course of a week from the (~ , far leave les i t lieli the Pacha present tim e . lam so as to to e eaenae. Parn;es sengag e d in foreiee lo r als jabbing and other .. 1 . lie of Acre without the fortress.. The French spurious pursuits requiring fibers! Governenent, no doubt, thought ad !WI managed cannot fail to be vitally affected by suppliesof'''aPit'''' in tho Brnk policy. Until the po Atm l horizon shad from approvine y l t . e a alteration made with great adroitness in bringing ire Russia to , the rescue against afgland. Russia was " fir have awls-lied a more satisfactory having credits in England will co t appearance, inu f ‘ o reign ers the eagerness of Powers to interfere in the cues flan of the East," the Western to ca, .or specie rernittancte, but we shall hear nothin g "'Fire Emperor," said M. de Nesseloodc on the 6ti, Au projects in embryo. .gust, 1839, "in no way despairs 0.. tc e safety or the ..___. Paine provided that the Powers cif i surope de but N SU.—There was an appeare.nce of • ' uneasmess in leave it in repose, and do not by choir untimely eeita the Stock Market all day, and money Stock wa s • pres se d non compromise its tranquillity in thei,- t lesire to sr ore somewhat ireely. from quarters,. . too, whenc e to the F, eich , there w,w, it." " Besides" said .M. de Nesselrode previously 'nothing offering, viz., the private and joint- Ambassador at the commencement of Aug ust , -183 " a sock banner. Tois beton; pay ay among the speculators little more or a to or t. - en little less of Syria given in Consols, there were sales also upon their account, t o from the Pore affects us but little." F ranee thought .he mike good the h•thvices arising from past operatioe s• had already rea;;zed the object for -which .ore thr, , , a 'e:k: cause os tne unsettled snits, or the quotati,l ns ipu•self on Bessie area;nst England. F a , g l, [ld V . 93 1.3,!Cil nil! sufficiently evident towards the afternoon, when thoroughly disinterected. From first to i..'"t it the Barztz Directors issued t h e i r notices respecting the vaned to secure the ;ndependenets an,/ integra . tY "' resolution tiny had come to to discount for the present Turkey. believing that it could not fall to pieces w i th" no Linger dated bills than those' at two months, and out eatinling t'h e most fearful calamities •on E ur op. which, by compelli n g man y part i es t o f e ll b ac k upen i Lot France was not d;sinsereste,i. Sfir : had the theit' oyst , resources, will have the effect of inert ree iedependence of T ur k e y it. i her rnerath ; hut , her object. the 'lemma for tnea ,.y i n the City, and of tissoriene : etearty was to mi l e, up a; th e espsn s : of Tu. rieey a et,ite thlit)yaress Pleine y out of the Bank, as interest 00 •;„;in i he Les., nominally subject to t; to Porte, but air rea ii':soteo'nl!hte As rewards the Consol settlement, it l bty a dependency of France. She , vas Willi ers t o evert ,if hs'tter than had been anticipated I an! tb: , herself to check the marchof '- s . " . ' Ibra hen on Constanti hem, of er n • S• one failure of nmenitude For i;nined: •to ; m i le , bee use ;diet would bring aP • , meeran anal) , to unit vender this stuck declined • • - • - e ' from 87-k to 86:i L i and Ide : capital ; but beyond this she had • ' evernber from 8 in , Sqsll to go. Lord , . 7 1 to 86- 3 . i • the market ' • •l os , o e. .t ; Palmerston perseverance, and his . t - 'l , tt d tj;.-5 , concoue. ate,. Stock 4 , e . , a. ~ rl 1 rate . orwar ?ro , e ,v., end leni e n'.,,,, dropped from 165 to 164 - , ~,, , ,,, , ( :ing. ,, h o wever, produced result s which the French • E ee b„ or e s .sk was depressed to 244,1 ; t o : Government did not anticipate. S:. , 7 4 . hr from obtain;lne bills were steady at two of the Three P 0.., ~E , rs to the further ,reineine, and lodia Bends Nes- 'litre:.-aced-.:-H a lf and a - .e ! e ~. . -- -a- Af at 103. to 145. discount. ince of her prespc's tor eeerapeizing • Mehemet Ali, a ' " „ • Per Cents declined to common aceore 4 task place betiveen .Et igland, Austria, 06 _„. 0u ,,, o e , and the, ttcducei, le . . - • ' e uree per Cents. to Prussie, and Russia. Engle:id, actor di eg,. to the Rhos'- 65e, ti , Zi• ing of M. 'niers, has been coesistent el iroughout. 0.~:r.. 2 1,5 (From the Morning Herald.) If M. Thiers, in his reply to Lord Palmerston's diplomatic epistle on the Eastern question, bad dealt in hard names instead of hard arguments, he might have described our Foreign Secretary as belonging to that class of persons who are proverbially said to be gifted with " short memories," and who can, therefore, conve- niently forget facts when they find it troublesome to I grapple with them in controversy. Let us come to ' particulars. Lord Palmerston asserted that France had assented to a principle in the beginning of the negotia tions of the Powers on the Eastern question from which she subsequently departed. M. Thiers denies it. Lord Palmerston had asserted that France pos sessed a desire to preserve the integrity and inde pendence of the Ottoman Empire, and afterwards pro posed to violate that integrity which Lit had affected to be anxious to defend. (These are not the words, but this is a concise interpretation of a very prolix and laboured statement of Lord Palmerston to the same effect.) M. Theirs denies it. Lord Palmer ston had asserted that the Four Powers had made considerable and repeated sacrifices of their views to those of France. M. Theirs denies it. Lord Palmerston bad asserted that the Four Powers at last offered France an ultimatum based upon a former proposal of her own Ambassador, M. Sebastiani. M. Thiers denies it. Lord Palmerston had asserted that the Four Powers did not ratify the treaty of the Isth July until that ultimatum had been refused. M. Thiers denies it. Lord Palmerston had asserted that the Four Powers have reason to be surprised at the manner in which France has received that treaty, her former de clarations having given them reason to expect that she would have given to that treaty more than a passive assent—at least her moral support. M. Thiers denies it. As to the first and second of these assertions and denials, they concern rather a dispute about the meaning of words, than issues taken upon matters of fact. Before any specific propositions were submit ted by any of the Powers respecting the territories under the sway of Mehemet Ali, France, as well as the other Powers, expressed her desire to protect the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire. At that time it was dreaded that the use which Ibrahim Pacha would have made of his successes in Syria against the late Sultan, who was the aggressor, would have been such as to have afforded Russia a pretext for occupying Constantinople. M. Thies declares that " no one was at that time disposed to con sider that the integrity of the Ottoman empire con sisted in Me limit which might separate the possess sions (f the Sultan and the Viceroy in Syria, but that every one considered it to consist in these two facts—the preventing Ibrahim from menacing the capi tal, and depriving the Russians of a pretext for coming to its succour." In short, when France, at first, pro posed that all the Five Powers should take part in the settlement of the Eastern question, she wished to save Constantinople from one or both of two great dangers, then apparently imminent—its capture by Ibrahim, or, what would have been much worse, its exclusive "pro- tection" ly Russia. In the view which M. Thiers Cake: , of the dangerous character of Russian protection to Turkey, more especially when exclusive, we perfectly concur. The protection of the rattlesnake to the fasci nated bird that drops into its distended jaws could not be more fatal. (From the Morning Post.) It cannot be too frequently proclaimed by the press o, this country that the universal sense of the nation is against the settlement of the Turco-Egyptian question by means of European war. If there must be war, the responsibility will rest with France, or with the predc minating party in France. The British nation is willing to do everything that is reasonable in respect to the re presentations of France, without being urged thereto by lemonstrations of war ; and what she does not deem reasonable, on threats of war, nor war itself, will force her to do. Is it possible that France can dream of coercing Great Britain into any line of policy or specific measure by warlike means ? The idea is absurd, and 111 Groat Britain regards it with calm scorn. Wherefore, then, the mad cry of certain of the French for war ? It is to gratify malignant passion. It is a blind, inconsiderate fury, instigated by knaves and operating upon fools. The miss of the French war party, or revolutionary party—for they are the same —;hough possessed of knowledge within a limited sphere, and endowed with a certa;ri dexterity and adroitness in small talk and small affairs, are, with re spect to political philosophy and the real state of other nations, as ignorant as hogs and as fierce as ravening wolves. Meanwhile- the British look calmly on, pro. testing against war as utterly irrational and uncalled for by existing circumstances. But let not the French war party deceive themselves by the supposition that, because we are averse from commencing war when we deem it needless, we should lack the determined spirit to carry it on if it became n ecessary. If war be forced upon us, and upon Earope, France and Europe will again sea what a calm nation can do when the cause for energetic action has arisen. Let •Frauce -, remember. that the storm- does not burst the less destructively -because of the- c.l-In which precedes it. One word more. Let. revolutionary France remember what it may be found necessary to co with a nation which shall show itself the unreclaimable ' pest of civilised Europe. If there be a nation in Europe ' which shall show, after repeated trials, that the exist ence of ins power is incompatible with the existence of European peace, a method may be taken with that na tion which self-preservation will justify, and which power will not be wituting to accomplish. The family interest which in 1814 and 1815 prevented such a punishment from being inflicted exists no longer. An incorrigibly wicked nation may accomplish its destiny sooner than politicians could have calculated upon. No one of common sensibility could refrain from lamenting over the obliteration of a once great and gallant nation from the catalogue of European States ; but, when nothing else will suffice, the last and mast painful re medy must be resorted to. Let France remember her previous escapes, and beware. Turn we now from these general reflections to some further con siderations respecting the last official expose of ' France upon the Eastern question, namely, the lately-published letter of M. Thiers. ' An English Ministerial journal has indulged in some congratula tions of the age we live in, founded upon the cir cumstance of those appeals " to the world" which have been made by the British and French Ministers in their general details of the negotiations upon the Turco-Egyptian question. These appeals to public opinion are described as being a happy alteration from the mode of managing such affairs in former times. Be it so. If, however, the verdict of public opinion upon the cases submitted to the public is to be of any value at all, it must be founded upon some true statement. It can be of no use that the public should form an opinion upon a statement which contains im portant errors. We therefore think that it is very essential to the public to learn whether the account which Lord Palmerston has given of the negotiations upon the Eastern question, or that which M. Thiers has given, be the true one. They cannot both be true, for they are contradictory. We have already given our opinion, and some of the reasons for that opinion, that Lord Palmerston's statement is rather to be relied upon than that of M. Thiers. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Much as has been written on the merits of the ques tion now pending between the French and English Ca binets, they are as yet so imperfectly understood, and their thorough appreciation is so essential to a just, sa tisfactory, and permanent settlement of a dispute in volving the dearest interests of the civilised world, that our readers can need no apology for the continuance of our endeavours to place the subject before them in a light so clear, as to prevent, to the utmost of our power, all possibility of mistake or misconception. To this end, it is in the first instance necessary to clear away the in cendiary materials with which many of the French, and some of the English, journals attempt to overlay it. On the promulgation of the treaty of London, an outcry was raised throughout France that the other European powers had conspired against her honour and interests ; and, without stopping for one moment to ascertain the truth of the imputation or the cause of war, the whole kingdom from its centre to its confines, resounded with the dreadful note of preparation. As facts were unfolded, however, it was found, and even the Constitutinnnel—the most bellicose of the French Journals—now confesses that France had no just cause of complaint. Unfortunately, before this discovery was made, the martial zeal of that portion of the French people, to whom " war is a trade," was awakened, and can not easily belulled to repose until it has found a subject on which to exhaust itself. This is an awkward dilemma into which France has been led by the selfish stock jobbing propensities of her Premier, who speculated in the feel ings of the French people as he did in the Three per Cents.. and now labours with Machiavellian subtlety to balance his account by reconciling his loss in the estimation of France with his profits on the Bourse. France, thus infuriated by factious and fictitious in centives, madly girded on her armeur, and now being ready to strike, looks round to inquireforthe ag c a a i s n u s s t Belli ; and receiving no satisfactory reply from her Minister, is more likely to turn her indignation her oxia Government than against those to whom it ould have insidiously directed her hostility. Every party, and oven segment of a party, in France now de sirous of war, seeks rather the promotion of some domestic change than the vindication of any insult or wrong supposed to be designed by Foreign Poweri. As the Capitols, whose own Voice is still loud for war, ob serves :—'• Here we have LegitimistJ, Republicans, and Buonapartists, all shouting for war, and under the same pretext, as the maintenance of national dignity, and vet they arc all as much disagreed iu their plans, and are in their principles as much opposed to each other 33 it they were going to war with themselves, and not v iah what they affect to call a common enemy." If Francg sill only direct her wrath against the " coin• mon enemy,' there ii little or no da nger t o the peace of Europe, though the 'riders Cabinet is certain of extinction. Itis within , and not without, her frontiers that France Las her deadliest fa ; and M. Thicrs was conscious of the fact Vi h n ho directed the fortification of Paris. TAE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. MO. (From the Globe.) The Journal des Debats raises a zry of alarm" at the system of intimidation which is organising by the party of war and revolution, in order " to oppress public opinion, and force out of the hands of the legitimate representatives of the country the decision of the greatest question which can agitate a free people— the question of peace or war." The National, on the other hand, inserts an article by Lamen nais, which certainly has all the tendencies denounced by the Debats. There is no such thorough firebrand as your fanatic priest, who has transferred his fanati cism from the service of religion to that of politics. There is no being in the world so regardless of truth in facts —while affecting devotion to truth in principle. Always accustomed to rail and rhapsodise, he carries his rhapsodies and his railing with the utmost facility to the cause of political passions from that of devotional exalta tion. We shall not be at all surprised to see more such priests as the ex-Abbe Lamennais in Protestant as in Catholic countries. The Abbe John Ball was their worthy prototype. The spirit of the times offers a sort of demand for them. Sedition is learning a make-believe way of saying its prayers. The Devil and the Charter are supplying themselves with Chaplains ; and M. La mennais and others are announcing th e discovery simul taneously, that the " five points" comprehend all the es sentials of Christian doctrine. That this secularised sham devotion can ever become ascendant, we do not believe—because it cannot combine really with Chris- tianity. But we give its inventors credit for seeing the value of that combination. It cannot be realised ; be cause the principles of religious faith, hope, and charity, cannot be made to harmonise with envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. The religion of pace will not lend itself to the ends of social and political discord. M. Lamennais, as be goes on at present, must sink to the level of the Rev. Mr. Stephens. (From the Courier.) The Paris papers of Tuesday have arrived. The lloniteur Parisien contains a bulletin which forms a brief recapitulation of all the news received from the East by the French Government. It will be found among Our extracts, under the usual head. The papers continua their warlike speculations, to which they en deavour to give an air of authenticity by collecting •arious statements respecting the preparations at the dockyards. The Siecle, by way of improving upon these manifestations, dresses up a flourishing account of the state of the French fleet in the Mediterranean,con trasting it with the English fleet, which it asserts is much weaker, the French carrying, as it states, 1,400 guns, while the English cannot muster more than 1,000 guns. The object of the Siecle in making this compa rison is to show that if hostilities were to take place, the French fleet could take up such a position as would enable it to command the whole trade of the Mediterranean. French temperament, ardent and vi vacious as it is, cannot always keep at full stretch, and accordingly we perceive in the last arrival a considerable abatement in its intensity. If, however, there be a diminution in the rancour of the me tropolitan journals, they seem disposed to make up for it by a plentiful supply of alarming ru mours and food for agitation. In another part of the Courier will be found same specimens of the materials used for the purpose of what is familiarly called " keep ing up the steam." In almost every town of France there appear to be individuals disposed to pander to the worst feelings of the multitude, and stimulate them to violence, for which the " Marseillaise" is one of the signals. Tue .Debats, which forms a remarkable exception to some of the other Journals, from its moderation at present, is, nevertheless, . very apprehensive that the war cry may lead to the worst consequences. It seems, however, to be less fearful of the interruption of peace than of the renewal of the revolutionary horrors of the Reign of Terror. Various calculations are made as to the effective force of the army, which, by some journals, is estimated at not more than 180,000 men, although, it must be remarked, that if the late conscription be, taken into the account, the force will comprise 350,000 men. ( From tile Standard.) The more violent of the Paris journals are at present labouring with much industry to justify the favourable opinion of the good sense and justice of the higher and middle classes of Frenchmen, which we have more than one professed to hold. So little support do the war faction anticipate from the Chamber of Deputies that the National does not scruple to characterise that • body as " a sink of corruption, meanness, and servilit:, ;" and more than one of the Journals, believed upon good roue 1s to act under the influence of M. Thiers, have intimated a '..issalution as necessary to 'obtain a Chamber" more sensitive of the honour, more devoted . to the interests of France." On the other side, the Journal des Debats complains, with reason, of the unconstitutional means employed to coerce the Chamber by- terrorism, and adds, that " for every two persons excited to enthusiasm by the war cry, two hun dred are filled with alarm." The alarmed cannot be they who have nothing to lose, though poverty is a most efficient preparative for enthusiasm. Allowing, therefore, thmt. the proportions suggested by the Jour- nal des Debats are somewhat exaggerated; still it - . is difficult to doubt that all Frenchmen who have (kay o thing are opposed to war, and the Chamber of Depu ties represents the proprietary classes. As to a disso lution of the Chamber in the present temper of the • rabble, Louis Philippe cannot think of permitting it ; F the consent to such a measure would be the surren der of his crown, not improbably of his life, and the lives of his family. All the primary election end elections in colleges would be beset by a banditti dictating the representatives, on pain of death to the electors should they fail to obey the command. The Convention of 1793 was a mild and moderate body compared with what would be the Thiers Chamber of 1841. But though terrorism in•detail will be obviated by refusinga dissolution, it seems that an attempt will be made to intimidate the Chamber in gross. The late treasonable movement of the National Guard of Paris proves that something of the kind is in contemplation, and for this reason we couid wish very sincerely that the promised fortifications of Paris were already in existence. How ever, Louis Philippe is a brave as well as a wise man. If he wants the genealogical title of his immediate pre decessors—Charles, and the last two Kings Louis— he far excels them in the qualities by which thrones are preserved—prudence, courage, promptitude, and decision. STEAM VESSELS AS MEN-OF-WAR.—The numerous steamers which trade between the port of Lon don and various places could be made available fur the purposes of war at a very short n ot i ce , an d if on ly one third of the steam-ships belonging to the river Thames were to be armed and provided with ammunition in the event of hostilities, a powerful fleet could be sent against vvice t a h b is l the enemy, while their captains and crews, from their know ledge of the English, Dutch, and French coasts, the . a n d T h h a e v Admiraltyeheen recentlyhav e had Chan nel, Sa watoteunldtiobne e very drawn serviceable. to their making inquiries into the condition of the steam-vessels and their capabilities for war, from which it appears that the various companies, without any interruption to their general trade, could provide fifty steam-vessels of from 200 to 1,200 tons burden, which, in three weeks, could be converted into men-of-war. The General Steam Naviga tion Company have the largest fleet of steamers of any trading community in Europe, amounting in all to 40 sail, and among them are many splendid vessels, including the Monarch, equal to any steam-ship in her Majesty's service, the Clarence,Giraffe, Ocean, Neptune, Britannia, Countess of Lonsdale, Attwood, Soho, and others, which could easily be converted into war-steamers, and make a very formid able display. We believe the General Steam Navigation Company have intimated to the Government that they could provide them with a dozen large steam-ships on an emergency ; and from this it will be seen that the port of London alone, independent of Liverpool, Hull, Glasgow, and other places, could furnish steam-vessels sufficient for the navy, if Great Britain should be called upon to defend herself against foreign aggressions. CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Earl of Powis has subscribed 100/., and Sir Offiy Bateman, Bart., 1001., towards the erection of a chapel of case, with 280 free sittings, at Cherbury, near Powis Castle, Shropshire. It is rumoured that the Rev. H. Taylor, B. C.L., of Step ney, his Lordship's domestic chaplain, is to be the minister. FREDERICK THE GREAT AND VOLTAIRE. —Some time ago a watch set round with small diamonds, which was presented by Frederick the Great to Voltaire, and had become the property of M. Lakanal, a member of the French Academy, was stolen from that gentleman by two persons who had called upon him on a false pretext. One of these men, named Nathan, is an old thief, who is now under sentence of imprisonment for life, but who would never say what he had done with the watch of M. Lakaual. The police, however, asc ertained that it h ad been sold to a d ea l er amed Weller for 451., and this per son, on being questioned, declarer] that be had sold it to an actress of one of the Paris theatres. The lady, on being applied to, acknowledeed having purchased the watch, but stated that in :moment of pecuniary em. barrassment she had pledged it at the Montde Piet e . This proves to h a v e b een t h e fact , and this souvenir of two of the greatest men in Europe has been restored to the legitimate owner. DOG-STEALING.—A wholesale system of dog stealing has been for some time carried on, and large profits realised, by a gang of villains who ship the animate off to Holland, and by that means e lude detection. It appears that in Holland and other parts of the high prices, and the demand for hem has been tur ned to good account by the Whitechapel fancier; and persons connected with the foreign steamers. On Sunday morning, in conse quence of information, Mr. Fogg• an i nspector of the Thames Police, went on board the Batavier, Dutch s,:eam ship, as she was about to leave the river for Rotterdam, and was accompanied by a gentleman who had lost a dspaniel which h e va l ue d at twciitY and which he suspected was on beard. All the people on board denied any knowledge of dealine in that way ; but Fogg, on mak ing search, discoveree four ananiels of a valuable br e ed in a chest belongin g t o the for z eien pilot on bo trd, which ho said he had purch ase d o f a stranger- who had brought them on board. On searching a cask, head up, on deck, three more spaniels were found, five in the engine' room, and two in a trunk, which were on l y di Feo vered by the whining of the animals within. The gentleman who accompani ed Fogg could not di scover the dog he lir' d lost' &nee then Fogg has searched another steam-veaselt and found the dog belonging to the gentleman w ho A ccompanied him on board the Batavier, and many others, which had no doubt been stolen. In order to prevent detection the dog_ scalers never bring the animals on board the etcamers Until within three or four hours of their departure. LAT.ES:O'NEWS FROM AMERICA ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA STEAMER. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 15.—The Britannia Mail Steamer, Captain Woodruff, arrived at Liverpool this morning precisely at half-past two, having had a passage of 13i days fro n Boston, and 11 days from Halifax. She sailed from Boston at a quarter past one, p.m., of the Ist, and from Halifax at 11 o'clock, p.m., of the 3d inst. ; and brings American news extending over the unusually long period of 23 days. The Great We . stern reached New York on the 28th ult., after a passage of 15 days, and the British Queen arrived out in about l 5 days. These splendid pas sages, have tended to increase the already sufficiently established confidence in trans-Atlantic steam naviga tion. The Britannia performed the distance from Bos ton to Halifax in 45i hours. We have received advices on the Boundary Ques tion, which state that serious differences in regard to this matter are likely to be brought forward immedi ately on the termination of the Presidential election. The HOP. Mr. Cushing, a Member of Congress, is to take a leading part in opposing the claims of the British Government, and this gentleman has commenced his labours by publishing declamations against Messrs. Fea therstonhaugh and Mudge, and also by misrepresenting the conduct of the Hudson Bay Company. The commercial intelligence is of an improving cha racter, and the warlike aspect of affairs in Europe has not had any great influence on monetary and trading transactions. The speculating community of New York are feasting on the probability of great gains to be obtained by means of a war between the Allied Powers and France, which they expect will open a large and profitable carrying trade, and also furnish a good and ready market for tt - e sale of American produce. Freights for French ports had risen very consider ably in consequence of the warlike aspect of affairs, and the Exchange on France has risen to sf. 15c., and was much in demand by French mercantile houses even at this increased rate. The insurance companies have also raised their premium 1 2 per cent. on French pro , pony shipped in American vessels bound to any port in France. From Canada we learn that the Governor is con siderably better, and that every disposition exists to carry out in an effectual manner the union or the two provinces. Texas is become quiet, at least for a time, and there is no intalligance of importance from thence. The British Queen was to leave New York for Portsmouth and London at noon, on the Ist instant. She had 80 passengers, a large freight, and about 200,000 dollars in specie. The Britannia brings 60 passengers and a great number of letters. The attention of the whole country was absorbed in the election of a President. General Harrison, accord ing to appearances, would be the successful candidate, in which event the whole policy of the country would be changed relative to the currency and commerce. The crops of all kinds were from 10 to 20 per cent. larger than they were in the previous year. The Florida war was apparently no nearer termina tion. Almost every mail brought the account of a man or a woman murdered, and sometimes three or four at a time. New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, and the other southern cities, that suffer altnos.t every season with yellow fever, had escaped this year with very little sick ness of any kin 1. The Oregan territory in the north-west, to which this cou:►try lays claim, was likely to be another fruit ful source of disagreement. The union of the Canadas seems to be generally acceptable to the people, so far as we can judge from the tone of the press. There is no great degree of asperity exhibited now on either side of the line. The Upper Canada papers have a small ebullition of wrath at Brother Jonathan occasion ally for some folly or other, but the feeling soon sub sides and does not now, as formerly, run into malevo lence. The approaching election, in a portion of Lower Canada, is the topic of much discussion in the pipers, and many of the candidates to the Colonial Assembly are canvassing their respective districts with much assiduity. The crops are represented to be un usually fine all over the provinces. Adviccs from Vera Cruz are up to the 28th of Au4ust, and from the capital to the 17th. The civil war in the capital was at an end, at least for the time being. It is difficult to get at the precise results of the s:rug,gle in Mexico. Our accounts have principally come through the organs of the Central party, and they of course deprecate the advantages gained by their opponents ; but it is not to be concealed that the Federalists have acquired a position that renders them extremely formidable. It is generally believed that Urrca tvilt retire to the province of Tamaulipas ; and it is easy to foresee that the strife is merely put off, provided the Federalists fiud some sympathy among the people. In fact, according to the terms of the Con vention, the insurgent forces are not to be dispersed, but are to march to a place to be appointed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Centralists.. FANNY ELSSLER AND THE BUNKER HILL MONU mENT.-The Boston Courier pubitshes a correspondence between Fanny Elssler and President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, by which it appears the danseuse makes known her intentions to give the Association the sum of 1,000 dollar, " or her profes sional services, at the discretion of the President and Cominitteee." NEW YORK MARKET. (From the New York American of Wednesday evening, Sept. 30.) RATE OF SALES OF STOCK TIIIS DAY 50 Shares Farmers' Trust 77 275 North American Truss 25 —U. S. States Bank 2,500 &As. Illinois Bonds Bl —c 11,000 Indiana Bonds 25 Phenix Bank B6 20 Illinois Bank 65 30 Bank of Commerce lOO 75 Delaware and Hudson 25 Dry Dock Bank 59 —thw 20 Mechanics' Bank. Assoc. 76 200 Harlem Railroad 25 Canton Co. 50 Paterson R R 3B s 6 mos 20 Williamsburg Ins 150 Stonington Railroad SALE OF STOCKS AT PHILADELPHIA. September 29, 1840. 300 dollars State Fives, 1853 1,589 do. 35 State Fives, 1864 3000 do. Draft on New Orleans Second Board. 3,000 do. Draft on New York at sight lO3 do. United States Bank, s 10, flat 63 NEW YORK _MARKETS. 7 SEpT. 30. There has been a fair business doing generally, and the prices of imported goods are such as to give encou ragement for new orders. These, to some extent, will go out by the steamers. Ashes—The demand fer export is not active. Some small lots of pots have brought 5,25, and pearls for consumption. Quercitron. Bark is in demand for export at 35 dlrs. The supplies short. Coffee—There is less doing in this market, but holders, encouraged by the small stock, remain firm at quotations, 101 e. to Hie. for Brazil ; 1 le. for La gu ayra ; Biz. to 94c. for St. Domingo. th-ugs— Nothing done. Hemp—Clean Russia is held firmly at 245 dirs. six months ; sales of outshot have been made at 225 dlrs. ; Sisal at 130 dlrs. ; Italian 220 dirs. Naval Stores—North County Turpentine has been sold at 2 dlrs. Sales Tar, 1 dlr. 75c. Oils—The demand for Whale is not large. The stork is, however, small. The stock of English Lin seed is small, and an advance is asked by some holders. Sales of pure American at 78c. to 80c. Provisions—There is a fair demand for pork at for mer rates. In Beef there is less doing. Rica—The market is heavy ; sales for export at 3 dirs. 75c. Salt—ln Liverpool there has been little doing. Whalebone—Sales for export, 19i cash. Tobacco—The stock of Kentucky leaf in the market is about 5,000 hhds, and is in better demand, and an advance of to cents. has been established. (From the New York Herald, Oct. 1.) Wednesday, Sept. 30, 6 P.M. In the Foreign Bill Market, there is more activity than for the last packet, and prices have somewhat im proved. The rate on London is 8 to 81, or 4.80 to 4.82 dollars the pound sterling ; on France, 5.171 to 5. 181 dollars ; on Amsterdam, 40 ; Hamburgh, 361 ; Bremen, 77i to 78. These rates are an improvement of I to 13 per cent. since the last steam-packet. The in creased demand arises chiefly from the increased con fidence of the importers. This will temporarily raise the rates previous to the bills drawn against the new crop. The present rates on France make specie the best remittance now, by ne Orly 1 per cent. The Havre packet will take out from 200,000 to 250,000 dollars in specie, and the steamer nearly as much more, making a shipment of 500,000 dollars. The ship Natches, from Valparaiso yesterday, brought 70,000 dollars in specie. The Stock Market was rather heavy, some descrip tions declined, and others improved ; North American Trust and Bank fell off 4 per cent. ; United States Rink -. 1 - per cent.; Stonington Sales of hills on Baltimore were made at 1 ; 2 discount on PhiWel phi:', 3 t ie. 31 discount. Darin;,* tae past few weeks a marked improvement has taken place in the prices of most public securities. JACKSONVILLE, SEPT, B.—On Saturday the 30th, the Express rider, between Pi!aka and Fort Kin_, was shot in the wrist, when about eight miles from the former place. There were five Indians. A scout was sent in pursuit, but the trod leading towards the Ocia webs, became indistinct., and the scout returned. On Monthly, the 31st, a sick soldier, under an es cort of 10 men, was being conveyed from Fort Traver to Micanopv, who were fired upon by the Indians. Three of the escort were killed upon the spot ; the rest, with the invalid, escaped unhurt. The sick man citirin ! , , : the conflict, '7! ;7 - who came up to the back pait o Lin; waggoi,, which wounded him severely. They burned the waggon and one mule. The Indiana were in considerable force. On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 2d, Hillary Parsons, a young man of about 18, was shot by a party of Indians, about seven miles from Black Creek, on the Newnansville-road. Upon the first fire of the Indians, he was perforated by five balls. He had been hunting in company with his stepfather, a Mr. Tucker. and returning, when their dog ran towards a branch, and commenced a furious barking. Parsons went to ascertain the cause, when the Indians, numbering about fifteen, rose from their concealment, and fired upon him, After shooting him they mangled his body in a horrid manner. Tucker escaped. ST. AUGUSTINE, SEPT. 4.—A private of 2d Dra goons, who was taken by the Indians some time since, when the corn fields were destroyed, escaped, and has returned to the post at Fort Reed. He was one of the guard left with the horses, his compa nion being killed, and himself tied to a tree, after being a prisoner seven days, to be sh ot. Their. guns missed fire•several times, when the party was alarmed by the near approach cf Lieutenant Lawton, 2d Dragoons, on a scout. The Indians fleeing, lest him bound, and after some difficulty he succeeded in getting free from his cords. For fourteen days he had been wandering about, and his mind is said to be destroyed, as well as the suffering endured having reduced him to a mere skeleton. On Sunday, the 23d ult., a small party of mechanics left the depot at Pilatka in a small boat. On returning they met wii,h a heavy head wind, and having no oars on board, they fell down to post No. 10, an abandoned garrison, for the purpose of following the river's course home. The distance being 22 miles, and very cir cuitous, they struck an old trail leading for Black Creek. This they abandoned and were lost. After wandering about for five days without food, they found their way back to No. 10, where, in an exhausted stare, they hailed the steamboat Cincinnati, which boat conveyed them to Pilatka.—Savaxinah Georgian, Sept. 12. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, OCT. 15. IN THE MATTER. OF THOMAS GOULD. The bankrupt in this case was a wholesale stay maker, carrying on business in Cheapside, and, pre vious to the issuing of a fiat of bankruptcy, on the 20th of May last, against him, had absconded, after putting into circulation a vast number of bills of ex change, many of which were stated to be forgeries. At the last dividend meeting, bills to the amoent of 14,000/. were proved. Yesterday being appointed for the adjourned meeting. the first claim sought to be proved was one for 3501., of John Dixon, the bankrupt's son-in-law, which rested upon an acceptance of the bankrupt's, given to the claimant as a marriage portion. The Solicitor to the fiat opposed the claim, because there was no proof of consideration, neither was there any proof beyond the acceptance, save a written me morandum by the bankrupt, the validity of which, in consequence of his absence, was rendered diflioult of proof to the assignees. Mr. Commissioner FONELANQUE said he should defer his decision until the next meeting. A sum of 501. wase:claimed by Thomas William Wood, the bankrupt's son, for wages, and entercd. Mr. Russel appeared to prove a claim of 1,4094 11s., on the part of the Liverpool and Manchester Join: Stock Bank. Five bills of exchange had been discounted by the bank, in two of which a person named Pasmore was the drawer, and the bankrupt the acceptor ; and the remaining three were drawn by the bankrupt, and endorsed by Pasmore. It was sworn to by Pasmore in his examination, that the bankrupt was indebted to him in the sum for which the bills were drawn, and therefore, Mr. Stirling said, that this claim should be entered on the bankrupt's estate alone. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE observed that he should postpone the consideration of this claim until the next dividend meeting, whe❑ Mr. Pasmore could be ex amined in the meantime. The last claim disposed of was one for 451., for law costs incurred with the Imperial Bank. The Learned COMMISSIONER then adjourned the further consideration of the case to Thursday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,. MANSION-HOUSE. Thomas Larrard alias Hobson, shopman to Mr. Massey, watchmaker of Birchin-lane, was brought up for final examination, upon the charge of having plun dered his employer of several watches. Mr. Massey stated that the prisoner had been in his employment about thirti en or fourteen months. Be tween eight and nine in the evening of Friday the 18th, and Saturday the 19th of last month, the shop in Birchin-lane was entered, and property, consisting of a chronometer, watches, and jewellery, to the value of 701. or 801. stolen. Witness suspected that the prisoner was concerned in the robbery, and communicated his suspi cion to Inspector M.4Lean, with directions to have him watched. On the 26th September the prisoner was taken into custody, witness having missed a gold watch which he had given to the prisoner to repair, and which had never been returned. Upon that occasion the prisoner blustered a great deal, but the inspector found upon his person two watches, and the duplicate of a third, and and witness identified one of them as his property. Witness had mentioned, upon engaging the prisoner, thit his last shopinan had robbed him, and had been detected, and expressly enjoined the prisoner not to take a watch or any thins else off the premises upon any pretence whatever. After the search, the prisoner refused to give his address, but witness, the inspector, and a constable having ascertained it, went thither, and saw a woman who said that she was his wife, and with apparent candour helped them to search the premises. She opened all the drawers without hesitation, except one, and in that one, of which she said her husband had the key, they found a pocket-book containing twenty or twenty-five duplicates. Upon further search they found thirty or forty more duplicates of watches, and other articles. Amongst them were the duplicates of three watches which witness identified as his property. . . Inspector Maclean confirmed Mr. Massey's testi mony. Witness also found, on the prisoner's pre:nises, 54 pairs of gold watch-hands, which were claimed by the prosecutor, who likewise identified a watchmaker's tool, which was made by himself, Edward Crone (policeman No. 468), watched the pri.,oner from his master's premises to two pawnbrokers' shops, and from thence to his lodgings, in Collier -street, Pcn!oncillc. Three pawnbrokers produced three watches, which were identitied as the property of the prosecutor, and the duplicates of whist' had been found on the priso ner's premises. The prisoner was committed for trial. A poor women named Abbott appeared with an in fant in her arms before the Lord Mayor, for the pur pose of being passed to her parish, St. Martins-in-the fields. Mr. Smart, the Vestry Clerk of St. Botolph,Bishops gate, applied personally for the order of removal in this case, which, he said, was one of no ordinary description. The husband of the female before his Lordship had been an honest and industrious, but unfortunate man, who, having been refused out of door relief for his distressed family, after having received two quartern loaves of bread per week for about a month from the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, preferred the alternative of self-destruction to that of taking his family into the workhouse. The unhappy man, whose name wrongly appeared in the newspapers as Hubbard, flung himielf out of the window, after having declared that he could not endure the sight of his family in a workhouse, and the wile was wholly unprotected. He (Mr. Smart) had written a letter of which the following is a copy, to the Overseers of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, but no notice bad been taken of it : St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. To THE OVERSEERS OF ST. MARTINS'S-IN-THE FIELDS. "GENTLEMEN--I regret having occasion to address you under very painful circumstances. You probably may have observed, through the medium of the news papers, that a man recently residing in this parish has destroyed himself in consequence of extreme dem itu ti.n. The circumstances, as stated to me, are as fol low :—About twelve months since Edward Hubbard (the proper name is Abbot), the unfortunate person referred to, was, with his wife and thri e children, passed from the parish of Bethnal-green to the pa rish of St. Martin's-in-the.fields, upon which occasion the workhouse was offered, but the man's necessities being only of a temporary nature, and he being an industrious mechanic, with an unpauperised mind, de.. dined that offer, and requested temporary out-door assistance, which was refused him, since which period the family have endured the most extreme privations, till at length starvation actually presenting itself, he de stroyed himself'. " I present this case to your consideration. The fa mily reside at No. 5, Skinner-street, Bishopagate. . . " I am, &c. _ “ T. L. SMART, V.C. " 25, Sun-street, Oct. 12, 1340. Mr. Bocker, the Rel:eving Overseer of Bishops gate, said thnt the unfortunate man who had destroyed him self had commenced business prosperously with property to the amount of 300/., but fell a victim to his good na tore in giving credit to rople who never thought of pay ing him, and had been a very industrous holiest man. It might be said of him that he was really the child of misfortune, and no doubt was entertained that he had completely lost his reason before he destroyed himself, for he was much attached to his family. The LORD MAYOR said that the circums tances were greatly to be deplored, and directed that the order of removal should be irnmAiately made out. BOW-STREET. ONE OF THE QUEEN'S LATE SUITORS IN DISTRESS. --A young man, of genteel shabby appearance, n:nned Field Charies Woolett, was yesterdly brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing one apple from a package of fruit in C o vent-Garden market. 94 93:k 100 EVENING EDITION. ~ .ritchniati, stated that rai uigtits hau Se.ctl Cu, awl 6:isep" kg about the market, and, thinking that he did so of merely for shelter, he took no particular notice him until the night previous, when , observing him take an apple from one of the packages, he des ired he would replace it, which he refused to do, and. on taking him into custody. his language was so inco herent, and his conduct so very violent, that he conclude d he must be of unsound mod. The defendant said that he had take n the apple to induce the officer to bring him before a Mag istrate, ia hopes of obtaining some relict; as he was reducetl to a most dep:orable state of destitution. Mr. TWYFORD asked ,what line of busin ess he had been brought up to ? The defendant replied that he had been a linendraper's assistant for some years, but was out of employment for a considerable time. Mr. Twi-Fuesp—lt strikes me that I have saw P a before. Have you ever been charged will an ofeace on any former occasion ? Defendant—Yes, Sir, I wa s examined before you and another Magistra te at the Home-office fur insulting her Majesty , by riding uP the carriage Findow while she was titling an ait io g Hyde Park. Mr. TW(FORD—I now recollect that you were; but you got rid of that charge. Defendant—l assure you, Sir, that eircurnstaacie has been my ruin ; ,dtlicugh I have several respectab friends, none of them will do anything for me. „ „„ u Mr. TwyFoßD—Who entered into sureties tor r when you were charged before? Defendant --I wa d held to bail in 4001., but was subsequently d ischarg n e d upon memorializing the Marquis of Normanbk,,acks from that time all my friends have turned their e' upon me. Mr.TvvvFoap—You told me on the former occasi°D that you had an uncle in very good circumstances. d Defendant—Yes, be is residing at Birmingham, an is possessed of considerable property. this Mr. TWYFORD—How long have you been in destitute condition ? Defendant—About fift e en mon ths; and it often happens that I am three weeks Witho ut 3 meal of victuals. Mr. TWIFORD—Then you have no means of st/P -port whatever? Defendant—None in the w orld. f Mr. TWYFORD—DO you find yourself ea pabla filling a situation in your business if one was pr eseo l ve to you ? Defendant—Yes, Sir • Iha filled som e ° the best situat;ons in the trade. Mr. TWYFORD—When did your father die? qt fendant—After suffering from tic doloreux twenty years, he died two years back, when I 11— I prison. Mr TWYFORD—Your case is one of utter clest;int:; Lion, and as it does not appear that any of your relati:co, living were bound to support you, I have m a de I n " be inquiries for the purpose of seeing if any tiling ca done for you. Defendant—l have four uncles residing in to wn ' 13 , 1 % of whom keeps a establishment for Italian coreinn in Hatton-garden. 1. tac o have TWYFORD—Your friends, perhaps, thin have been sufficiently punished ? Defendant --4 reason to feel that they ought to think so. Mr. TWYFORD—Who last supplied you svit- -f „ ° ,,, ° 1 Defendant (bursting into tears)—A person to w , s - °t ° e ' was known, and whom I met by chance,gav° - e or In ° , bread and cheese. No one can be in a worse deplorable condition than I ant, and have b een for length of time. to Mr. Burnaby observed that if a letter was writtn a y the defendant's uncle in Hutton-garden, he might P some attention to it. 1 st? Mr. TWYFORD—When did you see your annie": to Defendant—l went to his house yesterday clothes inquire if a person who had promised me few 0° had left them for me. but I wav disa o inted• , Mr. TWYFOR—I shadiseliare: P OU or the demeanour, princ D cipally on the grounds tha f t Yo° co to witted the offence for the purpose of being tak e° l ot custody, and not for a worse motive : but I w °°l l. s eed feel myself justified in stopping the usual course P i n t hat in such case, as your friends reside in tow`''" iY •ou you say, and indeed it appears to be the cas e, that ) are in want of l l cd, relief Defendant— have not the least prospect 0 - r from any quarter. ford' Mr. TWYFORD—The only assistance I Can: li n t he you is to give you a trifle from the poor-box, it"dica. hope that you will avoid being placed is such a pre went in future. The defendant having been handed a half-crown,i e e v S ; pressed his gratitude for the indulgence, an d with r THE MARKETS ~ COUNTRY MARKETS. __----; Pt" ~,,..• -- T . Wheat. • Barley. Oats. I Be , ' ----- " ........... . ........----- t'er Quarter., s. to s. s. s. js. to s. .. to ~5 6 ' 44 o Bath ....... ~...; 60 73 30 4C `..5 3:; 50 .„ .... .... Blandrord —. 58 64 33 35 —. 23 4 6 a. ....„ 0 Bridport ....—. 68 "" rn 46 40 Chard —,............1 56 65 20 3644 ,_-,' 31 Gloucester 168 72 32 41 26 38 52 " Exe•er ,lO 70 27 34 21 28 j4O 46 44. Guildford 6B 91 132 37 39 be 46 50 42 fil Newbury ts3 73 41 4L 25 33 50 :, :,9, Reading ~ 14$ 78 P 2 42 21 55 33 3 5. / :Salisbury ,50 07 28 35 23 std 42, 30 i "...- •":. Shtrborne !t,O 68 p 2 40 `.!4, 30 40 44 '',.. 3. Snepton Mallet 55 68 30 42 21 28 40 62 4% ... Uxbridge -- 37 43 :23 39 -- ..' Warminster._ 44 70 29 33 31 35 ,51 54 .... 0 # Winchester 64 76 -' •. feovil ' 55 68 30 40 2 4 34 ,40 46 LEEDS CORN NI A RKET.—Oet. IS. 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suftblk, 60ib. 6j. York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. !;:it-ley, Norfolk and Sullitlk .. 375. t° 7tiii. 4 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ''4 3 . t . ;4s. ~,g Grinding 3..5. ,‘, SOS. ? Beans Oats, l'otatoe 26u t„ ° er stoil --Mealinit, For. —d. to—ii. Fog. PI to 1334 4 ;,,:',,er los Abelling 303. LU 3 . t 1 DEVIZES CORN MARKET. d. !il 0 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. g:, oto og 0' /irst Wheat... 33 0 to :34 0 Oats... ............... ,:,' 0 10 1 Second ..... 2sird darley 3O 0 42 0 Bread (per ga11.)..• ' ... FIRES, SUPPOSED BY INCENDIA RIE SA Iit tie after two o'clock on Sunday mornin . a fire broke ° Foy one of the bleaching-rooms at Mr Crogmpton's „, the' worth-bridge, near Bolton, and on . an alarm being gl y ' - ,illet two engines at the works, and that at Prestolee ;col ga tes k t o together with Barnes's ' engine from Moses's ga promptly on the spot, and b bv half-past four otiacor fire was subdued. Sergeant Moony and the coun t , n o' stabulary force at F arnwort h were o f gre at service .latolopt tooting the property at the works. To the saten l9 . o 0 08 of Mr. Crompton and others, a fire . again broke out. I ht at of the bleaching -rooms in the mills on Mon da y nig ite; lla t' nine . o'clock, and owing to the building being lie , G. diately adjoining others containing great cla aliti of 11° inhabitants, paper, great . fears were entertained for the saeti whole mill. The news soon spread to Bolton , .e cipo 9l at liberty, were immediate) yon their way i n groto but who at that hour of the night were Pr la bers,. accomi anied by the town engines and fire ale o lles)t owing , o the distance from the town (about thre,ei before the fire had very fortunately been extinguishe but it I° ' their arrival. The damage is not fully known , „ n rietort The P r ii e en t/ ) , 8 supposed it will amount to about 1,0001. h3ve • fortunately, is insured. That thse fires what strengthens the supposition is the work of some incendiaries there can be little do ti 'g t o of hands (about thirty being dischargea turday last) have left the mills in consequence ef a must wife d. to accede to a reduction of wa es. Something boil tote bane been inserted into some of the g he;s of rags togs, which has caused them to smoulder until ty burst out into a flame.—Manchester Chronick• .9 ,72 ,7 1,191 = 1 .1.4 , FT.21.1161,1) THE NEW FO 11 . T kBLE AL `Tree and of a small Snuff Box can be ;laced on the dressii.4_ orer and set to ring at any hot; that . may 11 -e required. Price Guineas. fact that. son sit, T. COX SAVORY, f Hof Watchmaker, &c., 47, Cornhiil, London (S e ven P° 4:l/ f Gracechurch-street) , f S i n N.B.—A Pamhlet, containing a List of Prices 0 , sti, Spoons and Forks, Silver Plate Plated Goods, Nirs,c_footo Clocks, &e., may be had gratis, or will be for warded ' l post-paid application. TABLE CANDLESTICKS, sU periar i ; - st ickg , - for durability, equal in appearance. Table es"'" e b - es, 4 1 . 6. inches high, ..7s. per pair • 9 inches high, 93.; 10 inches, per pair; ditto, with rich ' shell mountings, 9 inch e°, l, - ;ed C I"; per pair , snuffer trays, with shell mountings an d cP I ' 3 " tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which these o°° silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oztnra's vet. grate. BIRTHS. fey. ster' On the 12th inst., a t Clift on , the lady of th e mi Ai t ling, of a son. f pre— On the 14th inst., in Russell-square, the latlY ° . erg 0( Pileher, Esq. th i , of a son. v Covve l On the 14nst., at North Brixton, Nfrs• a con. ___------"--- e l P rte i MARRIED. ani On the 13th inst., at Kemsey, Worcester, Nathoouse °I Esq., only son of the late Hon. the Speake r of th e i o ce gh e Assembly, Barbadoes, to Arabella Chavasse Millard, e ; ise y , i, adopted daughter of Mrs. Ingleclew, Bank Hous e, l iy•abo rl On the 14th inst., at Hillingdon, John Parker of . i r gt 4" Esq., to Ann, youngest daughter of the late .ilg erce f 0 0 of Uxbridge. ~,to 7 On the 14th inst., at Brede, Sussex, Mr. John Eli" v or ol 9e /' Rye, second son of Mr. Simeon Elkington , off , 5 1eith' Surrey, to Marian, eldest daughter of Mr. Henryxi' o f Brook Lodge, Brede. i .i v fs t l'' to 'On the 15th inst , at Aldenha , Henry Bart''' liert' o f Mounteagle, Ross-shire, North mritain Henry 13L7 5 ' 4 ' sop, Elizabeth Helen, second daughter of J. F. Yin ing, Hiltield, Herts. DIRD. On the 2(1 inst., at his residen e,i Tredegar fln t i l n e e the 6 3 5 Middlesex, after a sh or t illness, Jol'iCGib s on. Esq'' year of his age. Windsor C 3411 On Langford 13th inst., in the Lower Ward, or Bon Charles. Esq., formerly Captain in the 5 Lang loruY Dragoons, and only surviving son of the late Dr• Canon of Windsor, daughte r Barton, n th: f l== th e fi l l , e . st da u P er fin el ' aer of 3 f r ' On the 13th lust , at C:la t' ze a n n woo i d a l , road. S` ,ll ‘ 2 l Eoex , 11:1% __, o kot el .6 I oilier:ill, of Clapham . , eldest :on of the late. Dr. y Of Jamaica. W' • bed' , Eliza On the 14th inst., in Beau o nt-strest , the late P. Janvrin,Es ,of Jersey, aged 54. , ~.1,, Jan et ' g O n the 15th inst., tv q :Park Village, Regent s-r_: ,nood le 'r falgar-phicer wife of J. Campbell, Esq., of Southall, and elites" dr , A r g l daughter of Kirkman Finley, Esq., of Castle Tovra A l shire. 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