The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-07 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. Major Buller, Rifle Brigade, on promotion, by Lieut.- Gee. Sir Andrew Barnard, K. C. B. Majel' N. Ralph Tomlinson, 18th Regiment, by his father, Rear-Admiral Tomlinson Major L. Bruce, Bengal Army, by Sir J.IC. Hobhouse, Bart. Major J. G. Burns, Bengal Army, by Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Bart. Lieut.-Colonel Fane, on his return from India, to return the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Bath, worn by his late father, General Sir Henry Fane, by General Lord Hill, G. C. B. Lieutenant. Colonel APKinnon, Grenadier Guards, by Colonel Lambert. Colonel Reid, 2.1 Life Guards, on promotion, by the Gold Stick in Waiting. .sieutenant-General Sir James Watson, on having received the honour of Knighthood, as a Knight Commander of the Bath, by General Lord Hill, G.C. 8., G. C. H. Major Henry Simmonds, 61st Regiment, en return from f oreign service, by Major-General Sir .John Gardiner, K. C. B. Lieut. Carr, Rifle Brigade, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Andrew Barnard Lieut. Geo. Duadas, Rifle Brigade, by the Earl of Rosebery Lieut. R. M. Power, 9th (or Queen's Royal Lancers), by Lieut. Col. the Eerl of Rosslyn Lieut. Walter, 29th Regiment, by Lieut.-Gen. Lord Strafford Lieut. Denis Pack, Royal Artillery, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., K. C. B. Lieut. Ward, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, by the Lieut. Marquis of Aylesbury Grange, Bengal Army, by Major-Gen. Lindsay Ensig n C. Woodright, by Major-Gen. Edward Walker Corn e t E. Arkwright, by Lteut.- Colonel the Earl of Ressly n Egerton, R.N., by Lieut.-General Sir Charles Egerton Lieut. stcourt, late of the Vanguard, on return from foreign service, by his father, Mr. Eetcourt Comm a nder Richardson, R. N , . , bv the Earl of Minto Captain Sir David Dunn, R. N., on appointment to the command of her Majesty's ship Vanguard ; Captain, the Hon. Henry Dawson Darner, R. N., Captain Purchas, R. N., Commander Colson Festing, on return horn foreign service; and Commander Bosanquet, by the Earl of Minto Mr. Thomas Heywood, High Sheriff for the county of Hereford, by the Marquis of Normanby Captain Albert Carey, by Major-General de Mesurier Captain the Hon. C. Grantham Scott, on his promotion, by Colonel Aitchinson Captain J. N. Fullerton, by Lieut.-Colonel the Earl of Rossiya Cornet 'Blackwood Read, by Colonel Brotherton Cornet Travers, by Colonel Brotherton Cornet Lee and Cornet Bill, by Colonel Brotherton is e ieut. T o tt en h am , on hi s m a rriage, by Viscount Hawarden Second Lieut. R. T. Lloyd, by the Adjutant-General Lieutenant Woodford, by Colonel Walton Lieut. Anetruther Thompson, by Lieut. Colonel the Earl of Rosslyn Lieutenant W. Warner, by Col. Wynyard, A. D.C. Captain Frederick Barlow, by Major-General Sir John Gardiner, K. C. B. The Hon. Charles Somers Cocks (Queen's Own) Wor , eestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, by Viscount Eastnor Lieutenant Robert Ferguson, 79th Highlanders, by the Adjutant -General Captain Allix, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by Col. Lambert Captain the Hon. R. Boyle, Coldstream Guards, on his return from Canada, by the Marquis of Normanby Captain Clegg, Rifle Brigade, by Colonel Reid, ed Life Guards Captain Irwin, 68th Regiment, by Lieutenant. Colonel Drake Captai n Mono, Rifle Brigade, on promotion, by Sir An drew Barnard, K. C. B. Lieut. Buckworth Powell, Grenadier Guards, on appoiet , !Ilene by Colonel Lambert Ldeute nant W. F. Hoey, 61st Regiment, on return from foreign service, by Major-Gen. Sir J. Gardiner, K. C B. Cornet Grindley, Bengal Cavalry, on his return from India, r , by Sir J. C. H o bh ouse , B ar t. "Ptain Shuttleworth, Royal Artillery, on promotion, by the Master-General of the Ordnance Captain W. Ley, Royal Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, by Lord Rolle The following Noblemen and Gentleman presented Ad dresses to the Queen : Sir Robert Price, Mr. Edward Foley and Mr. Hos kins, Memb ers f or th e coun ty o f Hereford—of Congratu tion, from the town of Ross in that county Mr. Thomas Heywood, High Sheriff of the county of Hereford, Lord Viscount Eastnor, Sir Robert Price, M.P., Mr. Edward Foley, M.P., and Mr. Hoskins, M. P. "of Congratulation, from the county of Hereford Sir Charles Lemon, Lord Eliot, and Mr. Pendarves— of Congratulation, from the county of Cornwall Lord Sondes, Mr. Isurroughes, M. P., and Mr. Wig pm Chute, M.P.—of Congratulation, from Norfolk Mr. Blennerhassett and Mr. Morgan John O'Connell—. of Congratulation, from the county of Kerry The Marquis of Lothian, accompanied by the Duke of Buccleuch and the Duke of Roxburgh—of Congratula tion, from the county of Roxburgh. Mr. Thomas Alderson Cooke, High Sheriff for the County of Northampton—(Addresses) from that county. Mr. Cooke was presented by Earl Fitxwilliam. Sir C. Knightley, Mr. Cartwright, M. P., and Mr. Maunsell, M.P., accompanied the Addresses. Earl of Rosebery—of Congratulation, from the Royal Highland School Society. Colonel Macalister, K. H., and Mr. William Tucker, Jrs of Coryt on — o f C o ngratulation, from the towns of te Z lOinster, Colyton, and Seaton, in South Devon, and A 7elve nei g hb our i ng par i s h es . C o l one l M aca li ster an d ". Tucker were presented by the Marquis of Normanby. The Bishop of Ely, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Cambridge, and the Rev. Dr. Maddy, Prebendary of Ely —of Congratulation, from the Bishop, and Dean, and Chapter of Ely. Mr. George Bankes—of Congratulation, from the Ma gistrates of the county of Dorset. Mr, G. P. Lloyd, High Sheriff of Merionethshire, and Mr. R. Wynne Williams, Under. Sheriff—of Congratu lation, from the county of Mcrioueth. Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Williams were presented by the Marquis of Normanby. Mr. Sandford and Mr. Arland—of Congratulation, from the town of Yeovil, Somersetsbire. Th e Duke of Argyll—from the county of Argyll, the r oyal burgh of Invcrary, and also a third Address, Th e High Sheriff of Carmartheeshire—From that " u ntY• The High Sheriff was presented by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. G. Rice Trevor, M.P. Mr. William Mills and Mr. James Hutchison, Members of the Common Council of Glasgow—from the city of G lasgow. Mr. Mills was presented by the Lord Provost of G lasgow. Mr. J o h n F ranc i s Sik es G oo d a y, T o wn Councillor of S udbury, the Rev. Thorpe William Fowke, Vicar of All c;Saints, Sudbury, with the Mayor of Sudbury—FromSud buryMr. Gooday and the Rev. Mr. Fowke were pre sented by the Marquis of Normanby. Earl Stanhope—From Oldham, Bradford, Lanark, Bridgeton, and Failsworth, praying for a dismissal of the Present Ministers, and for the appointment of others pos sessing the confidence of the people. I .„The Earl of Powis—Of Congratulation from the l " arid Burgesses of Montgomery ; also from the county of Nlonteomery. The Bishop of Chichester—Of Congratulation, from the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Chichester. Sir Thom as Maryon Wilson, Bart.—Of Congratulation, fromD eptford. the G overnors o f th e R o y a l K en t Di s p e n sar y a t s eeptford. Lord L ytt l eton—Of Congratu l at i on, f rom t h e N o bili ty, Gentry, Clergy, and others, of the county of Worcester. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland—Of Congratulation, from the Royal Western Yacht Club. The R ev . M r . C anon Fi s h er — o f C ongratu l at i on , f rom "le bean and Chapter of Salisbury. Mr. Villebois, High Sheriff of the county of Norfolk— OS rs Mwsongratulation. Mr. Villebois was pres en t e d by the arquis of Normanby. Mr. Llewellin, High Sheriff of the county of Pembroke —of Cong ra t u lation, fr om the co un ty o f P em b ro k e . Th e ; ‘, ",lels Sheriff was accompanied by Sir J. Owen, Bart., 0., and Mr. Philipps, of Williamston, and wes pre sented by Sir John Owen, Bart, Lord Lieutenant of the county. Hon. Henry Dunlop, Lord Provost of Glasgow—of Congratulation, from time Lord Provost. Magistrates, and Common Council of the City of Glasgow. Mr. William Spooner, Mayor of Sudbury—of Congra tulation. Mr. Spooner was presented by the Marquis of Normanby. Dr. Sigmond presented to her Majesty his Work on Ceylon Moss. Dr. Sigmond was presented by Earl Stanhope. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Nor manby, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and the Lord Chamberlain. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal Suite, returned to Buckingham Palace after the Levee, escorted by a party of Life Guards. The American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson had an 'lkedience of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Marl ereuesh House yesterday afternoon. His Serene High ness,, Prince Er nes t o f H esse Philipp s th a l, arr i ve d at Marl ;Trough H ouse y es t er d a y, on a v i s it t o h er M a j esty , f rom 'to Continent. Th e Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party last even- Lg, at Cambridge House. Her Majesty the Queen °'sager and the Noble Directors of the Concert of An cerit Music were among the company. The Duke and D uchess of Cambridge, her Majesty th - e. Queen Dowager, a " the remainder of the company afterwards went to the Performance of the Concert of Ancient Music, at the "allover-square Rooms. r , His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of S axe ' , bur g an d G ot h a did Mr. Heeler the honour to give him I Voel sitting yesterday, for the picture of the Royal Marriage, SCARCITY OF MONEY IN DUBLIN.—The is extracted from the Dublin Mercantile Advertiser:— Within our experience, which includes some of the severest Panics on record money was never more difficult to be obtained for ordinary purposes of accommodation in Dublin than at the r t . " i n t moment. The Bank of Ireland, which is the great i Q - g 4 'ator of the price of money in Dublin, has contracted its 11 , -- ues to an extent totally unparalleled. Part,es connected ith banks, or otherwise dealing in money, are refused all ac e"'nfoclation by the Bank of IrelAnd, which declines t o dis e:irt the best commercial bills, or the most eminent bankers' or senaents. The Directors will not discount, even at five et,o t Tnt., good bills, w i t h th e co ll a t era l s ecurity of government • ; nor will they lend mo ne y, a s has been usual on emer- Per el €' s , on government stock, the borrower paying 5 per cent. scre w interest ! For such an extreme application of the ir r , ,w we b e li eve t h ere h as b een no parallel since the B an k o f Ran el and obtain e d i ts c h arter . Thi s con d uct on the part o f t h e of Ireland is the more extraordinary and inexplicable, (L u nt it is considered that money is abundant, beyond preco ' for several years, in the English market." On Saturday morning, J. M'Lusky, fireman to e of the locomotive engines running east from Arklesten th 7M , I, fell off the carriage, and having got en t ang l e d amongst wheels, he was filled on the spot. LITERATURE. HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS. VOL. 3. Bentley, London, 1840. The present volume of these letters embraces a period of six years, from 1753 to 1759. Wal pole's chief correspondents during this period ap pear to have been Sir Horace Mann and Mr. Richard Bentley, a relative of the famous Master of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and to these gentlemen he de tails, in the lively, gossiping manner peculiar to:him, all the small-talk, &c., of the day. One of his cleverest letters is that wherein he gives a descrip tion of his pet-castle, Strawberry-hill, which Burke, it may be remembered, made on one occasion the object of his most caustic ridicule. His account of the dinner-party at Garrick's, too, and of that adroit actor's flattery, is replete with arch, quiet sarcasm, and prove how thoroughly aris tocratic Walpole was in all his tastes and habits. He actually seems to think it necessary to apologise for having condescended to dine with a player— and that player Garrick !—and hints pretty broadly that he did so, in the hope of benefiting his neigh bour, Mrs. Clive, the celebrated comic actress. The volume is embellished with several portraits of distinguished characters. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. PART VII. Hayward and Moore, London, 1840. This Part contains the account of Gullivcr's residence among the Houyhnhnms—one the most diverting chapters in his Travels ; and is illustrated with several characteristic wood-engravings, and pertinent, explanatory notes from the pen of Dr. Taylor. POEMS OF SCHILLER EXPLAINED. Black and Armstrong, London, 1840. A useful, unpretending little volume, wherein the Poems of Schiller are explained, especially as re gards:his historical and other allusions. The author is a gentleman named Bach. ROBINSON CRUSOE. Ti, as, London, 1840. This work is here brought to a close, and, in ad dition to three hundred engravings with which it is embellished, it contains a memoir of the author and a brief criticism on his genius, by Douglas Jerrold, who has executed his task with much ability. BRITISH MAGAZINE. Rivington, London, 1840. A monthly register of religious and ecclesiastical information, parochial history, documents respect ing the sate of the poor, progress of education, Sze., on all which matters it is very minute and copious in its details. The most readable article in the Number before us is that entitled " Events of the Month." PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE. PART XIX. Knight, London, 1840. In this Part we hare the entire play of " All's Well that Ends Well," embellished, as usual, with numerous spirited plates, executed in the best style of art ; and accompanied by brief explanatory notes—to say nothing of a " Supplementary Notice," wherein Johnson's estimate of the cha racter of Parolles is somewhat roughly handled. Among the notes we find a quotation from the preface to Leigh Hunt's " Legend of Florence," wherein that gentleman, alluding to Shakspeare's rhythm, observes, " high above all dramatists, Shakspeare has almost sanctified a ten-syllable regu larity of structure, scarcely ever varied by a syllable." Now it happens, curiously enough, that in the very page to which this note is attached, we find, within the short compass of ten lines, not less than three lines which, from their loose, irregular, and faulty construction. completely give the lie to Mr. Hunt's dogmatic assertion ! The truth is, this gentleman's theory of a " ten syllable regularity of structure" has very little force or meaning as applied to the rhythm of Shakspeare. REFLECTIONS ON RECENT PRESSURE ON THE MONEY MARKET, AND THE MEANS SUGGESTED TO PREVENT FUTURE MONETARY DIFFICULTIES. B, DAVID SALOMONS, Esq. Mr. Salomons seems determined to obtain in fluence over the Legislature by his writings, if he cannot make his voice be heard in the House of Commons. His pamphlet on the Corn-las won him much reputation, and it may be at once con cluded that he is better acquainted with money than with corn, and will gain even more credit by his present than by his former pamphlet. We are, however, compelled to admit, whatever excel lence there may be in the heart of the dwelling, that to us he seems to have stumbled at the threshold. He says, " It appears to be a sound and judicious rule, that the circulation of the country should be governed by the state of foreign exchanges." If by the circulation of the country Mr. Salomons understands the metallic money in use, the assertion that it ought to be regulated by the foreign exchanges—the means of bringing in and carrying out gold—no person will dispute. The proposed rule is in truth only the expression of a fact, and the two propositions of the sentence we have quoted are identical, only one is put forth in the oracular shape of a rule or principle. If by the circulation of the country be meant the paper which serves to supply the place of metallic money, as well as this latter species of money, then nothing can be more absurd than the assertion that the sending abroad and bringing home foreign gold, ought to regulate our circulation. The paper is credit ; what relation is:there between the foreign exchanges and credit, that one should regulate the other ? The foreign exchanges concern only one small part of the multifarious operations of trade, the business of the bullion importer, 'and we see no wisdom in making that the rule for all the rest. Again, if under the idea of circulation, the Bank of England alone be thought of, as its paper circu lation ought to be regulated by the gold in its coffers, and as that is mainly regulated by the course of the exchanges, it is a good rule to say that the foreign exchanges ought to regulate the circu lation. Undoubtedly it ought to regulate the issues of the Bank of England ; but the paper cir culation of the Bank is only a small part of the whole, and the whole ought not to be regulated by that of the Bank of England. Such general statements made without discrimination, indicate in Mr. Salomons a mind little trained to the exhaus tive and inductive processes of reasoning. We can hardly venture to specify the purpose of Mr. Salomon's pamphlet, if purpose he have had beyond gaining additional notoriety for himself. He says, indeed,— His object has been to bring a few facts which have come within the scope of his personal observation, under the notice of the public. As an observer of passing events and occasionally engaged in banking operations, he has had many opportunities of studying the rates of exchange and the fluctuations of the money market. He has, there fore, ventured at this season to present his views, not with the expectation of being able to controvert opinions al ready promulgated, and which arc supported by a course of reasoning he cannot hope to equal ; nevertbeles-, with an earnest desire to arrest judgment until all the bearings of the new doctrines shall have been considered, and their applicability to existing circumstances fully investigated. With this object he has brought together a num ber of statements, most of which are familiar to the public, and, as far as we can discover, throw no new light on the late monetary convulsions, nor provide means to avoid such convulsions in future. He blames country banks a little, joint stock more, and the Bank of England on the whole, we think, most of all. One circumstance which he mentions to account for the plentifulness of gold in 1838 and its scarcity in 1839 is novel to us for the bearings he ascribes to it, hut we are inclined to think he much overrates it. Here it is— Whilst the measures adopted by the Bank were inducing the flow of bullion towards this country, an event happened at home which must have had considerable influence on the exchanges. This new occurrence was the coronation of her Majesty during 'the year 1838. The number of British families resident abroad is very great, whilst the many noble and opulent travellers moving on the Continent in all directions dispose of considerable sums drawn from this country which, in the aggregate, mny be supposed to exert some influence on the exchanges. The accession of her Majesty to the throne turned the tide of British travel lers towards home, and a general immigration from abroad took place. The subsequent coronation invited hither a very great number of distinguished foreigners from all parts of the world. All the foreign powers showed their respect to the youthful Queen, and their kindly feelings towards the people of this country by accrediting noble men of the highest rank to be present at that interesting ceremony. Not alone was it unnecessary to make the re mittances usual to provide for the ordinary demands of British absentees, but an universal current set towards this country by the number of illustrious visitors who flocked hither to witness the coronation of Queen Victoria. A vast Population was as sembled in London; and all these cir cumstances combined could riot fel! to have a marked influ ence on the treasure of the Bank of England: The eireulatien must have been in a wretched condition if her Majesty's coronation sufficed to de range it. Mr. Salomons seems on the whole friendly to local banks, though he betrays no symptom of a knowledge of the principles on which they arc su perior to all others, and on which all general and national banks must be comparatively mischievous. In the favour of local banks, and in opposition to the Bank of England, he makes the following per tinent observations, which we quote in order to show to what lengths the principle of the Govern ment interfering to regulate credit-currency must go to be successful, if that be possible. It must not only take measures to prevent any private banker from issuing an undue quantity of paper, not only must it also limit the issue of bills, but it must fur ther limit the number of bankers, and take on itself to prescribe, as is done in some towns of Germany, the number of tradesmen who shall be established within a given circuit. Mr. Salomons says-- But if the abuse of credit is the principal cause of that commercial disturbance, which, affecting the rate of ex change, deranges the circulation and defies the power of the Bank of England, a limitation should also be put on the creation of banking establishments, which arc the prime movers in the extension of credit, being the sources from whence all over-trading might he supposed to emanate. It is to be presumed that no one would contemplate an in terference so objectionable as to meddle with the employ ment of capital, limiting by law the circulation of commer cial credit or prohibiting the formation of either private or joint-stock banks. Yet if it be true, that the action of the country banks be the cause of the difficulty experienced by the Bank of England in their endeavour to regulate the circulation according to the rates of exchange, the mere depriving the country banks of the right of issue of notes payable on demand would appear an unavailing and insuffi cient measure. In taking leave of Mr. Salomons, let us venture to recommend him to study elementary works on the principles of political economy, before he writes more pamphlets. He will then be better able to appreciate the national value of the facts which fall within the limited circle of his own trade. MURDER OF LORD WM. RUSSELL. THE INQUEST. The Jury assembled at six o'clock yesterday evening at the City of Norwich Arms, Norfolk-street, within a few doors of the residence of the late lamented Noble. man. The room was densely crowded with persons who were anxious to hear the details of this calamitous event, that has produced the greatest excitement and sympathy throughout the metropolis. Among those present we observed the Hon. Fox Manic, Mr. E. J. Stanley, of the Treasury, Mr. Fitzstcphen French, M.P., and a solicitor, whose name we did not learn, but who stated that he attended on behalf of the relatives of the decased. Mr. Higgs, the Deputy-Coroner for Westminster, having taken his seat, the Jury were immediately sworn, the foreman being the Right Hon. G. R. Daw son. The Coroner and Jury then proceeded to view the body, and on their return the following witnesses were sworn and examined Henry Elsgood, surgeon, corner of Park-street and Brook-street—l never attended the deceased profes• sionally. I was sent for at half-past seven this morning, and saw the body in a bed with a cloth over the face. He was lying on his back. He was in his night-dress, and was lying partially inclined to the right side. He appeared to have been dead three or four hours. The body was perfectly cold ; it was covered up with the bed-clothes. I examined the body and found a wound extending from the shoulder on the left side round to the trachea. It was about seven inches in length, and about four or five inches deep near the shoulder, dividing the vessels and the trachea. The wound must have caused immediate death. It appeared to have been inflicted by a knife, or some very sharp instrument. There was no wound on any other part of the body. A Juror—There was a wound on the thumb. By a Juror.—l saw no wound in the thumb. Another Juror—The ball of the right thumb is cut off. To the Coroner.—The wound must have been in flicted by a razor, or some very sharp instrument ; there were no jagged edges. There was very little blood on the bed. I saw finger marks on the sheets and on the pillow. The carotid, external, and jugular arte ries were divided. There did not appear to have been any blood spurted out. There was no blood upon the hands of the deceased, but there was a great deal on the body and in the bed. The finger marks might have been caused by the policeman in raising the body. I have carefully examined the body, and saw no other wounds. I think it impossible that the wound could have been inflicted by the deceased himself. The napkin which I saw over the face could not have been placed there by himself. By a Juror—ln such a case the razor must have been found on the bed. He could not after such a wound have placed a cloth over his face. &o razor, or any other sharp instrument was found in the bed. Witneis never saw a cut so extensive inflicted by the party himself. In his opinion the party who inflicted the wound must have had his hand covered with blood. Mr. J. Nussey, Cleveland-row, had attended the de ceased as a medical man for several years. Had heard the deposition of the last witness, and upon what he observed upon his artrival this morning, he thought it correct. Observed that the ball of deceased's right thumb was cut off and hanging to it. Had examined the bed and room with Mr. Elsgood, for the purpose of seeing if there was any sharp instrnmen t there, and found none. Was quite satisfied that it was totally impossible he could have done the deed himself. The fact of the towel being over his face, the depth of the wound, and the situation of it, showed it to be im possible that the deceased could have inflicted the wound himself. I also infer that from the position of the wound itself. It was not a wound which would be inflicted by a person attempting to cut his own throat, inasmuch as it deviated from the throat, there being an incision in the middle between the neck and the shoulder commencing at the clavicle and extending down towards the skull. The gash was so wide that I could put all my fingers into it. It extended from the cervical ver tebrae to the other side of the throat. Such a wound could not have been inflicted by any person upon himself. The deceased was a little deaf, but in perfect possession of his faculties. I had not seen the deceased the last three weeks, but I have been in the habit of seeing the deceased frequently, both professionally and otherwise. He was not in a state of health to require a medical man—indeed it was only yesterday he was boasting how well he was. The deceased had been out of town during the recess. I account for the wound in the thumb by the instrument which inflicted the main wound catching it. S irah Mancel—l was housemaid to the late Lord W. Russell, and got up this morning about half-past six. Ido not generally get up so soon. I went down stairs about a quarter before seven. I went first into the back-drawing-room, and there 1 saw his Lordship's papers, and his writing-desk broken open. His glass and other articles were lying on the carpet and hearth-rug. Then I went down stairs, and saw several things behind the front-door. They were his Lordship's cloak, his opera glass ; the cook's silver thimble they had taken out of a work-box in the kitchen, and several small silver things tied up in a cloth. I don't know the name of all the things, but there was his pen cil-case and tooth-pick. Then I opened the front (lin ing-room door, and there I saw all the knives, several silver candlesticks, and other silver things, and the drawers open ; they were not broken, but pulled open. These things were on the floor. I immediately went up stairs to my fellow-servant the cook. She was in bed. She slept in the same room with me on the front attic. That room is over Lord William's room. I asked the cook if she had heard anything, and she said she had not. I generally waka about the same hour but I do not always require to get up so soon. I told her all the silver was about. She said go to the man, meaning the valet. There were three servants sleeping in the house, the cook, the valet, and myself. There were no other persons except his Lordship sleeping in the house. The valet's name is Francis ; he is a Swiss. I called the valet, and found him in his own room, which was next our's, dressed except his coat. I asked him what he was doing to the silver that it was all about? and he said he had been doing nothing to it. We then went down to the pantry, and found all the drawers open. He said some one has been robbing us. He went up the staircase again, when I said, for God's sake go and see where his Lordship is. He went and opened the shutters, and I went after him, and there I saw his Lordship lying on the bed, dead. We easily got into his Lord ship's bed-room, because lie never locked the door. When I saw his Lordship murdered and his throat cut, 1 ran out of the room, and told my fellow-servants that some one had murdered his Lordship. When I came down stairs, I went out, over the way, to No. 23, rang the bell, and fetched the butler to assist us. He came over, and then went out for a policeman. The policeman came di rectly. When I first went into the soon), I saw his Lordship lying on the bed, and I saw also blood on the pillow. The curtains of his Lordship' s bed room were never drawn, because they were new. The curtains of the bed near the door were drawn, but the deceased never had them closed. At the foot of the bed, on the side next the window, I did not see any cloth. I saw his head and one side of his face. I did not see any cloth over it. I did not see a miniature on the bed. I believe his head was on the nearest pillow to the window, which he always slept on. No one disturbed the pillows till the police came. The man-servant, during this time, was in the dining -room. i went up with the police man alone. When I went in the first time, the man servant went in with me. He appeared THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1840. very much concerned. Ido not know whether or not the street door was fastened when I went to bed. I weet to bed about 10. His Lordship dined at home about 7, and went to bed about 1-2 or half past. When I gut do vn stairs the man-servant was up and dressed except his coat. I am generally up first. When I went down I knocked at his door, and he answered. It is his place to fasten the front door. The door is usually bolted, chained, and double locked. There is a latch. I believe the key is hanging in the pantry. There is a door forced open, but I did not go further than the dining-room. The strect•door was not fasteacd but by only one lock. I had the care of the napkins an I the linen. There was a dirty napkin, that his Lord ship used at dinner, which 11 , 2. s found in the pan try. I don't know what property is missing. I have resided with his Lordship nearly three years. The lock of the street-door is, I believe, a common one—a common latch-key would open it. There was nothing but the latch on in the morning. I did not see his Lordship's watch when I went into the room ; from what I hate heard since I understand it is gone. When I went afterwards into the room, I saw that all the rings his Lordship was in the habit of wearing on his fingers were gone. They usually lay upon a little table in the room. I believe a great deal of property has been taken away. There was a miniature on the bed. His Lordship used to keep that miniature at the bottom of his dressing•caec. I did not see his dressing -ease this morning. I do not know whether his Lordship kept razors in the dressing -ease. He had four razors in a little mahogany box, which lay near the dressing-case. He was in the habit of shaving himself. I do not know whether the door was fastened that night or not. I heard the cook say when she came in that the man fastened the street door after her. The cook came in before ten o'clock. I knew the valet was in the house after I went to bed. His Lordship was in the back drawing room, and rung his bell ; and as I was going up stairs to bed, I met the man upon the stairs. He was on good terms with his master. He was only five weeks in his service. He was not a man of a gloomy tem per. He did not speak English very well. never heard that he and his master had any quarrel. I had no reason to believe but that his Lordship was per fectly satisfied with him. The valet was not about to leave. He seemed satisfied with his place. The valet had a visitor last night—a man who took tea with him. The visitor was an Englishman. 1 never saw him but once before, I don't know him—he lef;, about halt-past five, or a quarter to six o'clock. He had been at the house once before. When he left about half-past five or quarter before six o'clock, the valet went with him as for as his Lordship's stables. I understood that he was a servant, but had been out of place, as the valet told me, for twelve months. 1 think he was at his Lordship's house about a fortnight since along with the valet. No person but the butler over the way was sent for, with the excep tion of the police, till Mr. William Russell sent for the late valet. I have seen the place that was broken open. Any person could easily get in through the back area. Ido not know whether the deceased had received any money lately from the Bank, or whether he had much in the House. As I said before, his Lordship was at home early to dinner, and did not go out afterwards. By a Juror.—When the man-servant went down stairs he said, " We have been robbed," and when he went up to his Lordship's bed-room he said, "Dear me, his Lordship's murdered." They had taken the cook's work-box out of a cupboard, and placed it on a table ; she has not missed any thing but the thimble. The CORONER here said that he was not aware that any suspicion attached to any particular person, but, at the same time, it might he as well to hear the evidence of the police before the valet was examined. John Tedman, Inspector of the D division was then ' sworn and examined. He said, about a quarter past seven this morning, a gentleman's servant called at the station-house, and I proceeded to Lord William Rus sell's residence. I first examined the bottom part of the house. I found the valet sitting in a littl e room adjoining the kitchen. The two women servants were close by in the passage. I asked them which way it was likely a person could get into the house. One of the women, I think her name is Arnold, showed me the door which leads to the area at the back of the house. There were some bruises and marks on the door and door-posts. It was difficult to say whether they were done inside or out. The marks were at if an effort had been made to open the door with some blunt instrument. A part of the bolt was lying down inside the door on the floor. 'rho bottom bolt was apparently not fastened at all. It was a very temporary fastening, and a good push would almost knock th e b o l t off. I then looked round the walls of the area, but could not see the slightest merles of any person having come in that way. I examined the walls at the back of the stables and the yard, and there was not the slightest scratch upon either of them or marks of any kind. I then requested the servants to accompany me up stairs and show me where the body lay. We all went to the room, where I found the bed curtains about half drawn. One of the shutters of the window was broken. I opened them, removed the cloth from the head of the deceased. I pulled down the clothes of the bed a short distance when I found a great quantity of blood in the middle of the bed. The blood was running from a large gash in the throat, which was apparently from ear to ear. I asked the servants if a medical man had been sent for, and when I was told that there had not, I said they had better go for one. The gentleman who usually attended the deceased soon arrived. On the bed I found a miniature of a lady, a small box, and a purse. There was no money in the purse. Shortly afterwards Mr. Commissioner Mayne came, and requested the doctor to exa mine the body more closely, and upon doing so he saw that the thumb of the right hand was cut. There was a great quantity of property in the room-- some disturbed and some not ; five gold rings in a box, three gold-topped canes ; a quantity of silver ornaments. All the articles in the dressing-case are silver, and arc there now. I asked the man to assist me, and he fell back in a chair, and said, " This is a shocking job ; shall lose my place and character." I examined every room in the house. In the bottom of the house I found the drawers in every room partly open, and the papers disturbed. In the front parlour there were some silver and plated articles laid on the floor. In the entrance hall, behind the door, there was a large new cloth cloak nicely packed up, a small box lying on the top of it, and in a bundle close by there was a silver dish cover, an opera-glass, gold mounted, a gold pencil-case, a toothpick, and a silver thimsle. I asked the man servant how he found the door, and lie said he found the chain down and bolt drawn. He said he bad fastened it by the latch. The key was inside. The latch kept the door to. I have since searched the whole of the ser vant's rooms, and found in the valet's box this purse, containing a 51. note, marked, and six sovereigns. (The purse, note, and sovereigns were then produced.) I asked the valet where he got the note from ? He said he gave five sovereigns to Lord W. Russell for it some time ago. There is one thing I omitted : when I was up stairs examining the body, I asked the valet if Lord William Russell used to keep much money about him ? He said he saw a 51. note and a 10/. note with him yeeterday. He said they should be in their usual pl ace , in a small box at the head of the bed. The valet looked in the box, and said " No, it's gone, and also his gold watch." I also saw in the bed-room a dress ing -case, which had been broken open from behind, and some of the rings taken out. The valet said some had been taken. He appeared very much concerned during the day, and has been frequently drinking water. He is about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. I saw no marks of blood on any of the servants, or on any of the furniture or linen. I searched very care , fully to try and find any instrument with which the wound might have been inflicted ; we had the water closets taken up by the direction of Mr. Commissioner Mayne, but found nothing. My opinion is, that the marks on the back door were done from the inside. Anybody wanting to force it might have done it with a good push, without violence. The marks appear to have been rcetntly made. I examined all the gutters in the back part of the premises, on to where a new coach factory is building, but could see no marks 1 whatever. By a Juror—The valet told me that some of the rings were gone, but he did not tell me how many. I believe Mr Beresford, the inspector, took a list from the valet of the articles he thought were lost. Th e street-door, was in that situation that any person could let themselves in with a latch key. By another Juror—ls it not your duty, when you re ceive information that a party is murdered, instantly, upon entering the house, to go to the room where the body is lying ? Witne:fs—lt certainly is ; but as I saw some of the servants below, I thought it better to make inquiry, but that did not occupy me more than a minute or two. Mr. Beresford, an inspector of the C division was next calied in and eXamined. He said, from the in formation I received at the Vining -street station, of there having been a murder in Norfolk street, I went this morning to the house of Lord William Russell, where I found the last witness. This was shortly after eight o'clock, I went with th e last witness up stairs into the room where the body was lying. I have heard the evidence of the last witness, and it is correct in all its parts. I went par. titularly to the back of the house, but could net trace the marks of any person having obtained an entrance that way. I then went up stairs, and took a list from the valet of the articles stolen. The dressing-case up stairs was broken open, but nothing gone. The list of articles is—two plain gold rings ; one ditto, set with turquoise ; one gold repeating watch, with three g o ld seals—one of stone, with the Russell arms on. After wards, he told me there were three pins, but he could not give me any description of them ; but that they were stones, and one was a blue stone. This was all there was missing at that time. Then from his own pantry the articles of plate used at dinner the night before were gone—five table -spoon!, three dessert ditto, four silver forks, and two tea-spoons. I searched all the three servants boxes, and found in the valet's box a m iddling-sized chisel. I fitted it to the marks in his own pantry, and it had every appear ance of fitting exactly. The chisel goes into the marks exactly. By a Juror--Were not those drawers under his care? —They were. Then what necessity was there for using a chisel to force them open ?—There might be various reasons why they should not be opened with the key in the or dinary way. Although the drawers were opened, the locks were still shot. I have examined the back door where the marks of violence appeared, and I am quite certain that these marks of violence were not the means by which the door had been opened. There were marks of a blunt instrument, but some of these were in the in side, evidently after the door had been opened. The marks have been recently made. I infer that the marks were made after the door was opened, because some of the marks were pushed out from the inside : and where the marks are on the door-post, there are no corres ponding marks on the door where it touches the post. I cannot come to any other conclusion than that the marks were made when the door was open. The socket of the top bolt was forced off. The bottom bolt is so much decayed and rusted that I do not think it was fastened at all. The socket of the top bolt was lying on the floor with two nails. I examined the bolt, and some instrument appears to have been put in to force if off. The instrument was black, for it left a mark on the door. In my opinion the socket of the bolt was forced off when the door was open. Mr. Pearce and myself searched for any instrument which might have made these marks, and we found the pantry poker actually bent and recently broken. The marks where the socket of the bolt was broken off were marked with black. In fitting the marks, where the point of the poker was offered it certainly fitted the marks on the door and the post. I believe Mr. Pearce, the Inspector, has got charge of the chisel. There are other scratches on the poker, as if it had been used in some violent way. Mr. Pearce, the Inspector of the A. division, corro borated the evidence of the last witness in every parti cular as to the state of the doors, the chisel marks upon them, and the state of the poker. Mary Hannell was next called. She said—l was cook to the deceased. The first thing I heard of what had taken place was this morning, from the housemaid, who, after going down stairs, came up again to me, and asked if I knew that all was in confusion down stairs. stairs ? Upon my saying that I did not, she went and called the valet—they both went down stairs together, and shortly afterwards the housemaid screamed out for her to come down. I went down as soon as I was dressed, and on the stairs I met them both coming up. They told me that his Lordship was killed. I then went into the dining-room and found it in confusion, and afterwards went to the front door to see the state it was in. We did nothing further until after the police came. 'lle police went up stairs. The other servant went first, and the housemaid and I went to the foot of the bed after the police came and saw him lying. I did not go close to him. I then came down stairs with the police. There was a silver thimble of mine taken out of the workbox in the kitchen. I left it in the workbox last ❑ight in the kitchen. It was found this morning tied up in a dinner napkin, at the front door, with other things. I slept all night without waking. There was nothing of value in my box. I went to bed from ten to half-past, a little after the other maid, leaving up the valet and his Lordship. I did not hear either of them go to bed. I heard nothing in the night. I went out a little before nine last even ing, and returned a little before ten. A young man, a friend of the valet's, was at tea in the house last even ing. The valet let me in. Ido not know the young man. The valet has lived with his Lordship five weeks. He fastened 'the front door. I have been in his Lord ship's service two years and eight months. lam not aware that the valet ever drinks. His Lordship was a very kind master. His Lordship's late valet has been in town to-day. I saw no one last night, from the time I went out to the time I returned. I called on a friend named Austin in Chapel-place, but no one was at ome. The valet went to fetch a pint of porter or me after supper last night. The valet fastened the street-door after I came in. I believe he went up tbearCa steps when he fetched the porter. He fastened the front door with bolts and chains in the usual way. The valet was always the last in bed. His Lordship burnt a rushlight. A common iron candlestick was found in his Lordship's room. I do not know how it came there ; his Lordship was not in the habit of taking such a candlestick there. A person in the room said that he had taken it up there in the morning. Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, his Lordship's valet, was then introduced into the inquest-room. He is a young man, apparently of between 25 and 26 years of age ; his figure is rather slight, and the expression of his c ountenance rather downcast, but 11:s appearance by no means betokens anything like ferocity, his com plexion is dark, and the expression of his features on the whole rather pleasing than otherwise. He seemed labour ing under intense anxiety, and gave his evidence in Eng lish, which la❑guage he speaks with a slight foreign ac cent, and by no means fluently. The CORONER having asked him if he had any statement to make, he replied—" No, I have not. I know nothing but what w© learned this morning." Then, in answer to the Coroner, witness said—" Last night his Lordship came home from his club, gave me a letter to take to the post-office ; that was about 20 minutes to six, and before dinner. His Lordship went out for a little while after that, and returned about half-past six to dress for dinner. He sent me to the stable with a letter to the groom, far him to take to the post-office. His Lordship dined at home, and staid at home all the evening. The servants went to bed between ten and eleven. I fastened the door after the cook came in, I did not unfasten the door afterwards, or go out. The housemaid went to bed first, and the cook afterwards. About ten minutes before twelve Lord William rung his bell to undress. I went up to his bedroom and helped to undress him as usual. I saw nothing unusual in his manner—he was the same as usual. I came down stairs again, waiting:to hear him ring his bell to have his bed warmed. He generally washed after he undressed, and then he had his bed warmed. When Lord William rung his bell again it was about a quarter past twelve. Lord William generally used to leave a rushlight to burn all night in his room, and I got it ready. He asked for his candlestick and a book, and I left him a .ighted candle. Shortly afterwards I went to bed, and heard nothing during the night, until the housemaid came in the morning, and knocked at the door. I began to dress then, and about five minutes afterwards, when I was putting on my waistcoat, the housemaid knocked ut the door again, and asked what was the mat ter with Lord William last night. I said, nothing more than usual. She said everything was upset in the dining-room, and the plate was all about the room. When I came down and saw the drawing-room in that state, I went into the pantry and found the plate gone rem there. I had a friend visited me at 3 o'clock. I cannot say exactly where he lives, but I believe it is somewhere in South-street. His name is Henry Carr, and when I lived with Mr. Fector, he was coachman there. We lived together at Mr. Fector's about two years. He came to see me between 3 and 5 o'clock. He took tea, and went away shortly after 6 o'clock. I went with him as far as the stables. I do not know exactly where he lives, but it is somewhere, I believe, in South street. I think he is to be found at. the Royal Ex change, Adam's Mews. I went into the room this morning, and saw the body of Lord William. It had a cloth over the head, and there was a cut from the throat to the shoulders. lam sure I did not go out last night, and the doors were bolted when I went to bed. I believe the police officers searched my box. I was present during the search. They found a chisel in one box, and some money in the other. I have had the chisel about four years. I use it in cutting wood, as I am fond of making things." CORONER—It is my duty to caution you as to what you say. . Witoess—l always had charge of the plate. Juryman—Did you go last night to fetch the cook some beer ? Witness—l did not. I forget ; I did go and fetch her some beer. I locked the front door after she came Juryman—Did you go out of the front door to fetch he beer ? Witness—Yes. Oh, no ; I did not. I went out of the area-door, I recollect now. I bolted and locked the area-door after I came in, and put the key in the kitchen. I recollect nothing more. His Lordship did not keep much money in the house. He had a 10/. and a 5/. note a few days ago. I have not seen them these three days. Ido not think he kept much money in the house. I have lived with him about five weeks. The 51. note found in my box I received mere than a week since from his Lordship. I gave him change for it—four sovereigns, and the rest shillings. I did not write on the back of it. I can write. The property missing consists of three or four gold pins, a gold watch, five table-spoons, three des sert spoons, four large forks, two small tea spoons, and salt spoon. Henry Carr has been about three mcnths out of a situation. Ile was not in reduced circumstances: Be fore that he had a place at Mrs. Green's for four months. I left my last place the day before I came to Lord Wm. Russell's. The witness was then asked to sign his name to the depositions, and if he had any objection to write that of Lord Canterbury, when he immediately wrote it, having inquired how it was spelled. We under stand the note found in the valet's purse had his Lordship's name indorsed. The CORONER said, he thought it fair to state to the Jury, that he had that day seen Mr. Fector, the witness's last master, with whom he had lived three years, and who gave him an excellent character. The ConoNER then inquired whether it was the wish of the Jury that the proceedings should be adjourned, or whether they had made up their minds to return a verdict then ? Mr. Dawson, the Foreman, said he did not see the least occasion for adjournment. Ile for one was prepared to say that the deceased had been murdered, but as there was no evidence as to who the person or persons were, the verdict must be that he was murdered by some person or persons unknown. It would be keeping alive a vast deal of excitement in the public rrind, by adjourning from day to day, while it would deprive the family of the deceased of the satisfaction which a verdict would give them. If there was any doubt upon his mind that the deceased had not been murdered, he should have no objection to delay ; but returning a verdict now, would not frustrate the ends of justice, whereas adjourning would be only casting suspicion upon individuals, when the matter might be more properly left in the hands of the Police for investigation. lie hoped that the perpetrators of the horrid deed would be ultimately discovered, but lie for one was now prepared to record that verdict. The other Jurors expressed themselves of the same opinion, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown," was then recorded. The proceedings did not terminate till past ten o'clock. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIM E S.—The ctficialaverageretu;n of the crculation of the country joirt-stock and private banks, between the 28th of December and the 28th of March last, is given in the Gazeitc of last night, at 10 . 823,244/, of which 6 893,012/. forms the circulation of the private, and 3,940,232/. the circulation of the joint-stock banks. On referring to former returns of the same kind it will be seen that this is the lowest, as a total sum, since October, 1837, but that the proportion of the issues of the joint stock to those of the private banks has increased by about 150,000/. There has been, consequently, no redundancy of the circul 'lion derived from that source, though in sinuations of that kind have been freely expressed in quarters supposed to derive information from the Bank of England, and where everything is greedily caught at which may tend to shift the blame, if any, upon other shoulders, of the present excitement and speculative tendency of the Money-market. Yet the Bank issues, the Directors being for the present upon their good be haviour, are also small, and hence there will be a difficulty with most people in comprehending how the present abun dance of money arises. But trade is crippled, and wants less than usual ; much additional capital has been brought into employment by the late high value of money ; and, finally, the same quantity of circulation will go further than it did, through the greater facilities of communica tion by railways and other means. These may not be all the causes, but they arc undoubtedly in operation, and nearly sufficient of themselves to aciuunt for the present state of things. The material feature is the stagnation of trade, for if that continues, the exchangeg may go more against us, and the Bank be exposed to another drain of treasure. By the advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 429 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. I Oid. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.71, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.5 L it follows that gold is 0.90 per cent. dearer at Hamburgh than in London. The prennum on gold at Paris is 8 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 31. I7s. loid. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.35, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.221, it fol lows that gold is 0.50 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. POST.—An undue importance seems to us to have been attached to the opinions expresFed by the late Mr. Rothschild on monetary questions. The general sagacity of the individual is undeniable, but, if there be any truth in what we hear, he now and then made great mistakes in his financial schemes, and was, in consequence, exposed to heavy, though partial, losses. Of the extreme fallacy of the evidence he gave before the Bank Committee in 1832, with regard to the influence of foreign loans on the exchanges, there can be no doubt. Mr. Rothschild stated, as a matter within his own experience, that when loans were negotiated, they gave rise, in fact, only to a change from one stock into another. "If loans are made," said that gentleman, "most of the capitalists who hold funded stock, in general change one stock when they take others ; so that is only a change of property. For the last four or five years I have found that when a new loan is made, most capitalists only changed one property against another, and very little property is wanted from this country." According to Mr. Rothschild's doctrine, a so-called fo reign loan is not in reality a foreign loan at all, but a mere transfer or interchange of funds among ourselves, and the foreigner gets nothing by it but the nominal debt, and the dividends to pay. Out of the Three per Cent. Portu guese loan of 1834, raised by Mr. Rothschild himself for six millions, it would appear, upon the principle here laid down, that Portugal acquired little or nothing beyond the odium arising from the non-performance of her engage ments towards the bondholders. Who, then, got the mo ney I Did the capitalists contrive to retain it among themselves ? Mr. Rothschild's evidence is so thoroughly preposterous that we cannot dwell upon it with any degree of patience. A morning contemporary has the following announce ment on the subject of the pending Bank investigation : " There is some stir, it appears, among the pri vate country bankers, in connexion with this inquiry, caused by their having received notices from the Office of Stamps and Taxes to render weekly returns of their issues for the last seven years. Against the right of calling for such returns niany of them have protested, but have agreed nevertheless to furnish them, being desirous of giving all the assistance in their power to the inquiry now going on. It is affirmed in some quarters, though rather rashly, as it would seem, in so early a period of the investigation, that a majority of the committee are in favour of a single bank, or source of the issue of notes, for the whole of the United King dom. Even the suspicion, however, of such a bias on their part, has sufficed to put the Scotch Banks on the alert, and it is affirmed that the whole of them, with the exception of the Royal Bank of Scotland, are prepared to resist any measure of that kind. The principal officer of that institution, it is said, is now in London, and prepared to advocate before the Committee the policy of a single source of issue. The others can only regard it as a destruction to that system under which they have thriven, and taxed the industry of the country for so many years, and they are attempting consequently, not only to support their own case, but to impugn beforehand the testimony of the manager of the Royal Bank, by alleging interested motives and a desire to secure for his bank the agency in Scotland for the notes so issued and cir culated." This announcement does not seem to correspond very well with what our Contemporary stated a few days since, as to the immense impression made on the minds of the Committee by Messrs. Smith and Cobden. By the way, we learn, through a private channel, that these two frothy gentlemen in reality cut as poor a figure as did the Man chester deputation of 1832. Our Contemporary mentions further, that among the witnesses now under examination, or likely to be so shortly, is Mr. Richard Page. who, under the signature of " Daniel liardeastle," has put forth more fearless, inde pendent, and sound writing on that difficult question (banking) than any man of the present day, and it is a credit to the Committee, so far as that circumstance goes, to have called for his testimony." Mr. Page is undoubtedly a very clever man. The book to which we lately directed attention affords ample proof of that ; but it cannot be denied that his well-known Bank antipathies amount to a positive, and apparently incurable, mania. Mr. Page, if we are correctly informed, is the same eccentric individual who came to the Stock Exchange some years ago, and offered to sell the notes of the Bank of England at a discount—a proceeding that has been a subject of merriment in the Alley ever since HER AL D.—By an arrival at Havre, accounts have been received from New York to the 9th ult. The Bill, authorising the issue of small notes by the banks of Pennsylvania, bad been passed by the Senate. Some excitement prevailed in the Stock and Share Market, and prices had generally advanced. This was attributed to the news from Connecticut, where the elections had gone very decisively against the Administration, so that the party in opposition were sanguine about the defeat of Mr. Van Buren at the approaching election for the Presi dency, and the success of General Harrison, who is pitted against him. This, it was hoped, would lead to the cats. blisisment of a national bank, and a legalized federal issue of paper money. In bills of exchange on England nothing was done, and therefore no quotations of rates a re g i ven . A letter from Galveston is quoted, to the effect that Mexico had agreed to acknowledge the independence of Texas; a fact, however, which can hardly be reconciled with the tenour of previous accounts. The failure in the regular arrival and delivery of the overland mail has been the subject of remark in the city, and the merchants are a good deal annoyed by the non. receipt of their despatches, after the heavy expense sub mitted to for the sake of greater promptitude and exact ness. In reference to the particular despatches consigned to the care of Mr. Waghorn, that gentleman has issued the following notice : " Mr. Waghorn is sorry to announce that, by supposed mismanagement at Marseilles, he has received his packet No. 2 only, with his own letters from India and Egypt ; that marked No. 3, containing letters express for the prin cipal London houses, is not yet come to hand, as expected." There is clearly either misconduct or mismanagement somewhere, which, no doubt, with his usual indefatigable industry, he will spare no means or expense to trace. The singularity of the case is that one packet should be re ceived and not the other. There seems no conceivable reason why one could be despatched and not the other, nor indeed why one party should be able exclusively to obtain and to get packages of papers and correspondence by the overland mail forwarded from Marseilles, and not others who are subject to so large an expense for an object of such consequence. The fault will probably be found to rest with some of the subordinate authorities of that port, who may possibly happen not to be inaccessible to bribery/. S U N.— Our attention has been called to the 'educed stocks of British Plantation Sugar now in the port of London, estimated, in fact, as we have been informed, though we are somewhat credulous on the subject, as low as two months' consumption. So bad were the last accounts from Jamaica, that the owners of estates, re sident in this country, are loth t o expen d t h e l east i sum on their mprovement, where it can absolutely or at all be dispensed with. As regards the experiment of free labour, we are further teld but very few survive out of a number of respectable English farmer's sons sent out to superintend the cultivation of the plantations en the new system of ploughing the land. We trust that this import an t an d urgent subject w ill ear l y enga ge the attention of ou r L eg i s l ature. S omet hi ng must evidently be done for our West India Possessions in the way of emigration, or th e i r p ros p er ity will be inevitably crushed. The funds closed firmly this afternoon at as ' li ,, ht advance. C onso l s f or M one y at 98i buyers, time 90i to • Exchequer Bills were firm at 28+, and the N e w Th ree - an d- a -Half per Cents. at and for 9 India Stock was 2.50 to I. The Foreign Securities were very dull. Spanish EVENING EDITION. Bonds rallied a little after the news from th:l seat of war, respecting the better appearance of the Christin e cause, was made known this afternoon. The Active Bonds rallied from 2Si- to 28i ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. dom.(' heavily at 35± ; Colombian Booths receded to :25. The Railway Shares left off' at a slight rally. The Brighton obtained GI ; the Manchester and Birming ham 7: 1 , ; the Midland Counties 44 ; and the Binning_ ham and Derby 10 discount. The Great Western were at 19 ; the Birmingham and London at 741, ; and the South Western at 124 premium. Provincial Bank of England shares were at 1 premium. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Times.) The ass er ti on that the present Administration is negli. gent of the interests of religion is so often repeated, that to many persons it it ould seem to be merely an imputation arising in the heat of party conflict. But instances do sometimes occur of such gr i evous neglect and forgetfulness of the most st important objects, that one cannot but fc.ar that religion has . but few su p po , ters in the Cabinet. In proof of this, it is impossibl e to adduce a stronger and more striking ex:mple than the treatment of the Protest ant Church at Naples. The British residents in that city have for many years past made great efforts to obtai n a place of worship of adequate size for the numerous British visitors and res dents. They subscribed liberally, and still further pledged themselves by way of loan, hiSping that with the assistance of the surplus and accumulatin g fund of the cemetery they' should obtain th e i r pra i seworthy ob. ject without making any application for assistance from her Majesty's Government. They have, h owever, bad the greatest difficulties to contend with, both from the bigotry and intolerance of the Archbisllon, the faithlessness and opposition of the local Government, and the lukewarmness of the British authorities, which have been almost insur mountable ; and the support and protection of her Majesty's Government have been refused and withdrawn at the very time r\ hen its energetic interference and remonstrance have been most essentially required. (From the Morning Advertiser.) It is a habit but too common to regard the law as an instrument of v e ng eance rat h er th an o f re f o rmation, and while so regarded all punishments lose their best effect upon the culprit and the community. As soon as the law is regarded as an instrument of vengeance, its efficacy as an agent of reformation is altogether destroye I. The great object of the law s h ou ld b e t h e prevent i on cf crime; it should have nothing whatever to do with vengeance. It should visit the off en di ng mem b ers o f society with Its in. fictions as reluctantly, arm with as much forbearance, ns au affectionate par en t world chastise an offending child. By this means it would obtain the affection and reverence of the people ; whereas, by pandering to vindictive pas. sions, it becomes the subject of retaliation and abhorrence. Under the present system of transportation the reforms. Lion of the offender is scarcely to be expected. In many instances the severity of the punishment aggravates the demoralization of the individual, and in many others the leniency with which the law surrenders transports in as signment to private individuals prevents their example from operating with any beneficial effect upon society. (From the Morning Chronicle.) While Lcrd Stanley is attempting to convey all the evils of the English registration (with many aggravations) to Ireland, Lord John Russell is proposing to correct those evils. The claimant having once made out his right, be proposes to protect him for a time from the repetition of refuted objections. Can any true friend of representation maintain that he ought to be subjected to such repe tition ? instead of 174 revising barristers, deciding in different places on almost as many different princi ples, Lord John Russell proposes to entrust the whole decision to a small and fixed number, say fifteen, who, by dividing the country into districts, to be visited in succession, will approach much nearer to uniformity ; to which a fin tiler approxi. mation would be made by three of their number sitting as a court of appeal on questions of law. Can any true friend of representation object to this provision for uni. formity ? And yet there is no want of charity in predict ing that to the security, the simplicity, and the uniformity thus guaranteed, the Tories w ill object; for the opposite qualities in registration machinery are the qualities which they will wage battle to establish in Ireland. There is one good in Lord John Russell's Bill that has already ex cited their ire. iie proposes to withdraw the power of a partisan tax-collector to jockey a qualified householder out of his vote. This trick has been frequently practised. (From the Morning Post.) The O'Connellite Ministerial Paper of yesterday pub lishes with much pomposity a long list of names which, it seems, was appended to a requisition for an " Ulster pro vincial meeting" against Lord Stanley's Bill. It would be an interesting thing to learn how many of these persons had not near relatives hanged or banished for rebellion in the year '9B, or in very imminent peril of those serious accidents. We are of opinion that if the hereditarily seditious were excluded from the list, the remaining number would be very small indeed. But these heredi tary rebels aro the fast and only friends of the present Government in Ireland. Nor is there any inconsistency in this, although it shows but little sympathy with that manliness which has been, in other times, the grace of bold-faced rebellion. The Presbyterian haters of Church and monarchy in the north of Ireland support the present Government, because they believe it to be practically, if not theoretically, hostile to the principles of eeclesiastioal authority and monarchical Government. They recognize in the Melbourne Administration, and especially in the Irish branch of it, the most formidable enemies of Church and Throne that have appeared in this country for centuries. (From the Morning Herald.) The contraband traffic in opium is not less injurious to the interests of humanity and morals than the slave trade. This the members of the Anti-Opium Society must sel mit. Now, let us only suppose that before the British slave trade was put down by law, au anti-slave trade so ciety had existed, which scrupulously abstained from ex pressing any opinion on the acts or omissions of Govern ment in regard to that abominable traffic, ss hat could the truly Christian public have thought of it? If it proved by its " scrupulous avoidance " of expressing an opinion upon the acts or omissions of Government touching the slave trade, that it had no •' political bias," it would surely prove as clearly that it had no e-y high or active moral sense, and though its cautious silence might do credit to its prudence, it would not manifest ally very ardent or gene rous sympathy on behalf of the afflictions of suffering hu manity. It is of little use to oppose vicious principles in the abstract, if we tamely assent or submit to them when reduced to practice. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, MAY 3.—Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Orange arrived at Stutgard on the 27th of April. His Majesty the King of \Vurtemberg. wishing to surprise them, went to Heilbronn to meet them, and after stopping a few hours there, returned with them to Stutgard. When their Rol a! Highnesses arrived at Heilbronn they met the Princess Mary of Wurtembcrg, her Royal High ness's suite, and her husband, Count Niepperg. The reigning Duke of Nassau arrived at Stutgard on the 21st, on a visit to the Royal Family. The Government, believing that the Chamber had resolved to reject the budget, has to day sent tho Minister of Finance to the Central Section, when he delivered the following note :—" An assurance is given on the part of the King, that if by the passing the pre sent project of law relative to the budget such an oppor tunity is given for it, there shall be laid before the States General, on occasion of the discussion of the Budget for 1841, a complete view of all the financial concernsof the State without any exception of all the disbursements and revenue, as they may he calculated with due regard to every possible retrenchment and improvement, with the prospect that the revenue shall cover the expenditure without the necessity of having recourse in future to loans." This note has been communicated to-day by M. Van Geunep to the Central Section. Being asked in this section whether to their guarantee for the future was to he added, that of the responsibility of the Minis ters, without which all other guarantees appear insuffi cient. He replied that be was entirely uuinfornaed on that head, and the more so as be bad accepted the financial department on the express understanding that he should have nothing to do with the alteration of the fundamental law. M. Van Gcuncp further observed, that his character as a member of the First Chamber, forbade him speak on that subject with the Central Section of the Second Chamber. We hear that the Second Chamber will meet on Wednesday, when it is expected that the Central Section will make its report on the budget for the year. It is affirmed that many members having received the above positive declaration of the Government, are induced to accept the budget for this year.—Dutch Papers, May 5. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 25.—1 n the night of the 22d, the ice coming ,down the river forced the Isaac's bridge from its position, and laid on the bank of Wes sile-Ostrow. The Neva, both above and below the bridge, was nearly free from ice the day before. Before ten o'clock on the 23d, the Commander of the fortress had gone to the winter palace, which was the more agreeable to the public, as the communication below the two banks has hardly sustained any inter ruption. FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, APRIL Nicholas will 28.—Letters from St. Petersburgh state that the Emperor accompany. leave St. Petersburgh on the 22d May,and Majesty will then return the Empress to Warsaw. His M g to us S t. t_. PAeiti:res,hneuirfielt,zaenitdunnogt. come t i o es Getm any till Au nistaussE ............... 5 1 . 73 Loan of Thirty Millions, , ! . per Cj .ei r , . 7 74 4 R d , t t k e G i 2 . 1 4: per tj t4 p C: j e r Cent. . ..... per t 110 tNational Society ol ai f fß Cf ß l L mS3 , c2 s r'e4 p e e r r 49 C r. e P n e t ir' .. C .. e . n .. t . ..... 88 Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, May 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VieNNA, APRIL 27 five per Cents. Mctalliques Noir per cents Three per Cents. Bank Shares .......... .................. ..... 1834 Zeitung. May 2 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, MAIII. - Money. St. Sehuld. Sch., 4 '9 per cent. 1044 102% Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent am% 102% Exchange on London, three months— 6 1';1i —Prussian State Gazette, May DISCOVERY OF MONEY.—A few days after the death of the late John Gibson, Esq., of this town, who died on the 19th of April last, his relatives discovered concealed in some old books that had been kept for some years in a cup board of a sitting-room, bank-notes, many of them of Mg. value each, and gold, to the amount altogether of nearly, if tiot • titte, 4,oool.—.lpswich Journal.