The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES. The American Papers contain, long after the date of the discussion (according to the common practice of American journalists) a full report of the debates on the Bill for extending the charters of the Columb'en banks to the 4th of July, 1842, in which several remarks the on principles and statements ol' the practice of these banks are contained. The common argument in favour of extension—namely, the distress which it would occasion—is met by Mr. Peterkin, who is a Prominent anti-bankist. This distress be denies, as the macs of the people owe the banks nothing, and the banks themselves would be the last to distress one smother. However, he considers the conduct of t hese banks to have been so grossly fraudulent, that, ev en if a partial distress were produced, it would be o verbalanced by the moral good to be effected by a Punishment so justly inflicted. These very banks had, within six years, three times suspended specie payments, depreciated their stock and notes , and at tills depreciation, at a discount of from 10 to 50 per c ent., the directors had repurchased them. Four gmes, said Mr. Peterkin, bad the " swindling doings" of th ese b an k s b een recogn i se d by Congress, and now t aey were again the object of sympathy with certain legislat ors . He said that during the Session of 1837-8 he examined into the condition of the Columbian bank s , and, though founding his views on ex parte statements of the banks themselves, he was then satisfied t h ey were a ro tten profligate concern, unable to Pay their liabilities, and imposing upon the public. The amendments submitted by Mr. Peterkin were, that th e president and directors of each of the banks should he liable for the bank debts, chat they should slot declare dividends while unable to pay their liabili ties in specie, and that justices of the peace should hare Jurisdiction in actions against the banks for sums less "so $lOO. Mr. Vanderssuel opposed the extension, on t he ground that Congress ought to set a better example to the states than to sanction open delinquency. He contrasted the position taken by banks and that taken 1 1 individuals, and pointed out the advantages so aejustly assumed by the former. Thus an honour able merchant during a period of ernbarrassmeat Would sacrifice the largest sums to preserve his credit, b ut b an k s s uspended payment directly it became a little inconvenient to make them. Mr. Vanderssuel, r egarding the measure as a deliberate sanction of abuse, ingeniously brings forward an opinion urged by those or th e opposite party, that it is the duty of Congress to reitulate the currency. The rechartering of banks, Whi c h arc daily in open violation of the law , which al though they cannot pay their liabilities, make dividends While in a state of suspension, would be a strange meth o d of regulating the currency. Mr. Steenrod, a nother opponent of the measure, saw in it nothing but agra n t of a privilege to the banks to hoard up the pre . "a metals in their coffers, and to issue valueless paPer„ Then the argument used by the Whigs e n the occasion of the Sub-Treasury Bill, that the measure introduced one currency for the Govern- Thent and another for the people, was introduced ' W ith g oo d effect, as it seemed singular that the a%lne parties who were so startled at the Government receivin g its dues in gold and silver, should be perfectly Willing to allow the banks to retain gold and silver, a nd d."al in paper. One of the most favourite a rgurnen ,- 4 in support of the banks is this prac tical advantage—the facilities they afford in the con struction of works. To meet this, the history of America from 1788 to 180 4 is cited. A t this p eriod banks were unknown in State legislation, commerce Was never greater, there was no inconvenience in the ' t ransportation of money from point to point, and the t credit of mer chants was far higher than that of t he bank s i n the present day. Another Member of the ouse of R e p res entatives finds his arguments against the extensinn in the history of these banks. An Act Was Passed in May, 1820, extending the charters of such of them as paid specie, and only so long as they should continue to pay specie, to June 1, 1822. In March, 1821 , they were extended to 1836 , and again to 18:38. On the expiration of their charters in this year, they Were again renewed to July 4, 1840, on condition of redeeming all their votes of $5 in specie, after August 1 , 1838, and resuming specie payments in full before isinuary 1, 1839. Now, as these are conditions prece dent, and have not been complied with, a request for further extension is regarded as an act of the greatest audacity. In 1821 there were 11 banks in the district of Columbia, the capital of which amounted to $5,214,641, and lour of these, the capitals of which amounted to $1,994,694, have failed. Without any exact basis for calculation, it is roughly computed that the peop!e, iiat the district lost by those four banks above $1,700,000 'in the shape of capital, circulation and deposit. The Capital of the other seven was originally $3,279,629. elf which they have severally purchased up $1,258,887, aid hold in pledge for debts $205,488 700., which lea.ves their actual capital less than one-third of that with which they first commenced operations. The speaker very properly dwelt on the bad practice of a ba n k buying in its capital, and advancing money on its ''avin. shares, Obviously vicious as is such a system, it 'tis known to exist even in London, where Directors some Joint-stack Banks have expre ssed a willin g ness to „ 14 '.. 1 ',e the shares of the institution as security, not e, • d " 31 aerirgr that this is but allowing the proprietors to p r aur haeCthe:r capital, and thus t 4 destro y the gua :tee which the prospectus of the institution offers to ' he public. t hose discussion' are importan t, as well for showing so me of the cogent reasons for w hich the extension of the Columbian b an k s was refused, as for the facts and ° Ptm°las that are elicited, which must be highly inte -1,4%4'g to all who watch the p ro g ress and practice of „, 4-I IE TWO HUSBANDS AND THE TWO WIVES. 1)11 . Matifal belongs to the National Guard of P aris, , 1 Navin44 avin g absented himself from th e g uard -house, w as called up before the Council of Disci p line of the 7 Le t .i s ion, to which he belongs , to ex p lain the motive such anti-military behaviour. Preside n "—Why, M. Matifal, did you leave your I)°st illegally for the space of six hours ? Matifal—Th:ough a very singular circumstance. I t 142 at the mairie the arrondissement, and at se ven in e evening, h av i n g mounted my guard, I said to my co mmanding ffi .! wish to go go away for an ho ur f or „ t , o Cer, the purpose of paying a few indispensable visits and leavin g some cards. President—He granted you art limn. Matifal—And I remained absent during six. But ist ", you shall see how it happen ed. I said to myself, l an hour there are generally sixty minutcss, so there is ° ttmQ to lose; and consequently went to fetch my wife, and though in uniform took a hack by the hour, in order (4 ) go quicker. President—Has this anything to do with the case ? Matifal—A great deal I can assure you. I first rordered the coachman to drive me and my wife to cousin, whose daughter had just been confined. 4 IY cousin deals in lamps ; he is a very enlightened lean. I expected to have merely to leave m y card ; but he was at home, and so I was obliged to go in, 42 I did not wish to pass for a bear. However, I s topped barely fire minutes, for my wife was waiting f or toe in the coach, and I knew that she must get im patient, as it is by no means an agreeable thing to be deft alone in a coach, as there is no means of talking, c coachman on his box being placed very awkwardly tor anything of that kind. President—But all this is no excuse for six hours' abson oe . 111..atifal—Stop a minute, I beseech you. I hurried dow n dressed in my uniform, with the exception of my grenadier's shako, which I ha d left in the coach, for tear I should frighte n the new-born baby. Wh e n in t ne street, I bawled out, " Where's my coach?" "" Her e , Sir," said the coachman ; " you are with a lady, ;Islet .y o u " I flatter myself that I am," rejoined I, and w ith one who is worth two any day." Allow me to tat'( you that Madame Matifal is fat enough, God knows. President—Pray come to the point. M i raifal—l then said to the coachman, " Drive as fast as you can pelt, my good fellow, to the Hotel du C o ro ir t*, in the rue St. Denis." There was an *pillitunin there who was buying large quan titicW of„' divers articles. My wife sells stays, and l ' l 3' motive for going with her was to help her in Settinmgood Price. We had already been in the "sell ..•e`ntioute j i, and my wife had not said one word. " Qh, I'd I, unaceustomed to such silence, " she is reflectin the price she must ask th e g oddanz: &\ll 'on a den my wife said to me, "Do youA shall stkffer 'much when I have it drawn?" " What !" said I, did not. know that you vvers<! going - to have- anything drawn?" " Why, we are' -goin g to the dentists for me to have m y tooth nut — a rt.l't we r." To the dentist's," said I ; " what ar e y ou - talking about ? We are going, to sell your stays!" "How do you mean to sell my stays; I have got but one pair, which is three times my size, it is 'true-1" " Oh, pretty Pop," said I, " how ca n y ou sey so ; what a cracker you are telling me, who see it so often, and know so well that it is not a bit too big." " Hallo! there," said ray companion, " you surely are not my husband !" "What, said I," ;mite in a tremor, "are you not my wife? diet me sec," and I felt ii.er arm. " Alt ! good Heaven," " I thought I was with my wife." Lo ! I was with a grcat Pole, to whom 1 certainly had never promised any k,'ad of protection. " What," said I to the lady, " have j'ou not got my grenadier's s'usko ?" " I never sa w your 2 ,, hako ; I don't make use of those things, but I want my husband. \t' here is be ?" • President— We can easily see that this ocea‘iono some loss of time, but how did it occur ? Matifal—lt appea,-s that there were two hacks before my cousin's door, and by a singular circumstance each Was occupied by a national gag dsman and his wife. • 14ly comrade came out first, for he gbose his coach, • and, perhaps, his wife too. I, of course was obliged '., take his leavings. —(Here 'much laughter pre - vb. ;led.) I found the ravisher at home with Madame M. Altai ; he rga i ned me my shako and my wife, wb could not BliVevailed on to go to the dentist's. He claimed from me his wife, whom I returned in good condition, and a currant tart ; we found the latter in the coach, but it was not so well-looking as when bought, for, not knowing that it was in the coach, I had sat down on it. M. Matifal was acquitted, but as he went away he advised the Court and audience to beware bow they took hacks by the hour on account of the desa,gremens which they occasioned. THE LATE MR. JOHN BIBBY. The suspicions which are entertained by the relatives of the deceased, as well as by many other persons, that the death of Mr. Bibby was not altogether accidental, have been kept alive, if not strengthened, by some cir stances which have recently been brought to light. The offered reward of 500/. produced no effect, and it was conceived that the mystery which hung over the event would never be satisfactorily cleared up. Tit: Magistrates of the district, Charles Birch, Esq., John Formby, Esq., and the Rev. Miles Formby, have, how ever, been all along in possession of a piece of informa tion respecting the departure of an individual soon after Mr. Bibby's death, which, coupled with the fact of the watch not being found, tended to keep alive their suspi cions, and to urge them to usa all diligence in pursuing the inquiry. A few days since a mars (not the party above alluded to) was appreEnded by out of the rural police, and, after having twice undergone examination, he was remanded until yesterday, to afford time for the collection of additional evidence. The circumstance of Mr. Bibby being almost invariably in the habit of car rying home money on Friday night, for the payment of his brickmakers (although he missed doing so on the eight of his death), was known to many in the neigh bourhood, and especially to the brickmakers. The pri soner, it appears, was formerly ia the employ of the deceased as a brickmaker, and he was seen by a police man named Ratcliffe, on the morning of Saturday, the 18th ofJuly last (the day of the death of Mr. Bibby), stand ing on the brink of the pit where the body was found. This was about four o'clock. On seeing the police offi cer the man walked away at a rapid pace, followed by the officer, who also increased his speed, but the man continued in advance of him until he reached the farm yard near the spot, into which he entered and escaped before the policeman reached the place. The , officer had then no suspicion of any murder having been com mitted, but seeing a mar. in the field at that hour, he watched him as we have stated. It turns out, however, that a boy living at the farm-house was at the bed-room window, and saw both the men enter the yard, and has identified the prisoner as one of the individuals. It is also rumoured that another person, who was likewise in the service of the deceased as a brickmaker, has bee❑ absent from the neighbourhood since the event, and suspicion attached to him, but the police have not suc ceeded in apprehending him. At the examination on Thursday, Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that he should on Monday produce witnesses to prove an alibi. The person in custody on suspicion, the name of whom is James Cullen, was again brought up before the three County Magistrates above named, on the morning of yesterday. The examination which ensued lasted nearly seven hours, and the witnesses brought forward were principally those which Mr. Davenport had in tended to produce. Mr. Carson, the solicitor for the relatives of the deceased, himself called them, however, and conducted their examination in chief'. Henry Smith, a joiner, living at Seaforth, in Lither land, stated that on the morning of Friday, about, as nearly as he could guess, half-past five o'clock, he was proceeding to his work in the village of Litherland, when he met the prisoner between Linacre-lane and the Red Lion public-house. He had, however, met Cullen three or four times before, at about the same hour in the morning. About five minutes afterwards he met a police-officer, whom he believed to be Ratcliffe, but he could not be positive on that point. Ratcliffe himself stated that he had no recollection of having met Smith, and stated that no other policeman was en duty in Li therland until after six o'clock in the morning, when he went off duty and another officer came on. Betty Muihall, the wife of Patrick Mulhall, who works at Mr. Wareing's tannery, and lives in a cottage on the Litherland side of the tannery, stated that at the time of the death of Mr. Bibby, there lodged at her house James Cullen and his wife, Richard Mull hall and his wife, (who all slept in one room), and James Walker, Martin Cain, and a man from the county of Monaghan, whose name she did not know, who slept in another room. The witness and her husband slept in the back kitchen. On the night of Friday, the 17th of of July, all the lodgers went to bed before she and her husband went, (ten o'clock, and during the night she did not hear any person leaving the house, nor did she hear any voices or footsteps. She recollected hearing on the night of Saturday, the 18th of July, that the body of Mr. Bibby had been found in a pit. She thought that Mrs. Cullen sent her word of it, through a boy named Groves. She did not see Cullen go out on the morning of the Saturday ; he generally went to his work about four or five o'clock. She saw Cain come down between six and seven, and he went out with a man named Long Tom," who called for him. He came back be tween ten and eleven, paid his lodging-money, and left the house. She had only seen him on one occasion since, when he called in as he was going by, and told her that it was his intention to go to the harvest. Walker and the Monaghan man left on the same day. Walker came to his breakfast, as usual, at eight o'clock ; but he had left before the boy Groves brought the mes sage of Mr. Bibby's death. Patrick Mulhall generally corroborated the evidence of his wife, though there were some slight discrepancies between the evidence of the two. He stated that he was told of Mr. Bibby's death in his own house, about five o'clock on the Saturday evening. He himself roused Walker from bed on the morning of Saturday, July 18. Walker had never made any secret of his in tention to go to the harvest. It was his general prac. tice to do so. Richard Mulhall said that the fact of Mr. Bibby's body having been found in a pit was talked of in his brother's house at 12 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, July 18. He, his brother, and their wives, together with the boy, Groves, were in the house at the time. lie did not know who mentioned the circumstance, but he was positive that it was mentioned. He could not say whether he then heard that the body had been found ; but he heard that the body was to be earning home. [The body was not found until nearly two o'clock.] He was positive that the prisoner went to bed, in the same room with himself, on the night of Friday, the 17th. Cullen generally rose be fore him. He did not see or hear him leave the house on the Saturday morning. Cain went to bed before he (witness) did, and he heard him talking to Walker and the Monaghan man for about half an hour afterwards. The last time he saw Cain was about three weeks ago ; that was at his b ro th er 's house. Peter Pimblett, the contractor for the late Mr. Bibby, at his brickficlds, stated that Cullen had been employed by him as a temperer since the beginning of April, He, along with the other temperers of clay, was discharged on the Monday or Tuesday after Mr. Bibby's death. He usually paid the men at five o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday at Oldfield's beer-house. On Saturday, the 18th July, the prisoner was there waiting to be paid, along with the other men. The prisoner was remanded until eleven o'clock on Friday.—Liperpool Times of Aug. 18. SIR WALTERM ENT. sCOTT's NON (Abridged from the Edinburgh Courant.) LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE. Oa Saturday, the 15th, the foundation-stone of the proposed monument to Sir Walter Scott, was laid in Prince's-street Gardens, opposite to St. David's-street. The ceremony was , most imposing and solemn ; and on no former occasion do we ever remeiniJer to have wit nessed so vast a concourse of people. It was a grati fying and a wonderful spectacle—all classes vying with each other in expressing their sympathy in this grand national object, and in joining in one harmonious tri bute to the memory of the illustrious dead. Few, in deed, among all our greatest names, ever combined so many attractive qualities as Sir Walter Scott. It war: not merely the fame of high genius that re commend6d him to his countrymen—it was his social qualitieg, his warm affections, and those national predilections by which he was enabled to pourtray to the life the Scottish character in all its varieties, and ti!'embalm in his immortal works the peculiar manners aid dialect of his native country, now fast disappearing befo l re the progress of modern improvement. Hence we scarcely know a single name so universally popular as that of Sir Walter—of which the countless multi tudes which, from an early hour, thronged the streets on the day appointed for laying the foundation-stone of his monument, offered a most gratifying proof. The day was observed throughout the city as a general holiday ; the shops in the principal streets were shut ; and in those where the procesciot) was to pass, all the situations from which a view could be obtained were occupied from an early hour. Not only the windows, but the house tops, both in the North and Sou th Brid g es, and in Prince's-street, as w ell as the T ron Church, the Register ( - Mice, the Theatre, and other public buildings, were occupied by trowds of s pectators. The Masonic procession was direekgi t o assemble in the square of the College, and f o that point a large concourse of the populace was directiad 3 hut ,9ViiP.F; to the admirable rde rarrangementswas o the civil Rua pre served.military The attedance c(f t' i l ' e fi.ctrous lodges of masons was more numerous on tilts than cYi .ocogt former eecasion, comprising, not only the various fcdge,s iu fowl), ; but rep i resen t a tives from the lodges in the m os t rercote 4lstri,Cts .of ...,cotland,. forming a procession more nume rous than any ,otherwe have witnessed of late years. Soon after two o'elcck, the Masonic procession, con sisting of upwards of 2,009 members, began to move from the College, along the South and North Bridgea, preceded by the band of the 2d Dragoon Guards, and farming an imposing array. The procession was closed by a detachment of dragoons. . They arrived i n Prince's-street, where the foundation-stone was to be THE SUN, LONDON, WEDN.ESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1840. laid, about three o'clock. A gallery was here erected for the accommodation of spectators, and of those who, composed the procession, which was filled with a fashionable assemblage, and was also occupied by a civic procession, which had assembled in the build ings of the Royal Institution, consisting of the Sub committee of the Scott monument, the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, the Magistrates of Canon gate, of Portsburgh, and the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Leith. There were also present the Earl of Rothes, the Earl of Stair, Lord Belhaven, Lord Cockburn, Sir David Kinloch, the Solicitor- General, Sir J. Robinson, Sir H. Jardine, Thomas Thomson, Esq., William Clerk, Esq., Professors Wilson, Graham, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Fletcher, of Dunans, Mr. Anderson, of Meredun, W. Allan; Esq., P.R.S.A., J. Steel, Esq., sculptor of the statue for the monument, R. Cadall, Esq., Adam Black, Esqr., and J. T. Gordon, Esq., . Advocate. The civic procession was marshalled by Mr. W. Anderson, Marchmont herald, assisted by Mr. R. Hamilton, Kin tyre pursuivant. These different processions having arrived on the ground, and taken up their positions, the band of the :29th Regiment played the Queen's anthem, which was followed by a Royal salute of twenty-ore guns from a battery 'stationed on the opposite bank, in front of the wall at the hack of the Bank of Scotland. The effect of the artillery, which was very judiciously pladed among the wooded ground, was grand and striking. Perhaps no city abounds so much as Edin burgh in fine positions for displaying crowds of specta tors. The view from Prince's-street of the vast and picturesque masses of building in the old town, with the spectators clustered on the windows, balconies, and other elevated points of the high buildings ; the gardens below with the groups wandering through the groundi —the wooden and rising ground opposite site,-,ularly beautiful and romantic, with the Castle to the right— the military works crowning the rock, and the rich ve getation mingling with the rocky scenery beneath— formed an assemblage of striking objects, and gave a peculiar interest and animation to the scene. A prayer was then offered up by the Grand Chaplain, after which two engraved plates were placed in the cavity of the stone, ono containing - the names of the office-bearers of the Grand Lodge, and the other bearing the following inscription : " THIS GRAVEN PLATE, Deposited in the Base of a Votive Building On the 15th day of August, in the year of Christ, 1840, And never likely to see the light again, Till all the surrounding structures are crumbled to dust By the decay of Time, or by Human or Elemental violence, May then testify to a distant posterity that y His Countryman began on that day Tu raise an Effigy and Architectural Monument TO THE MEMORY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. ; Whose admirable Writings were then allov.ed To have given more delight, and suggested better feeling To a larger Class of Readers in every rank of Society, Than those of any other Author, with the exception of Shakspeare alone, And which were therefore thought likely to be remembered Long after this Act of Gratitude On the part of the first generation of his Admirers should be forgotten. 11 was born at Edinburgh, 15th August, 1771 ; And died at Abbotsford, 21st September, 1832. The foundation of the Monument was laid by the Right Hon. Sir JAMES FORREST of Comiston, Bart., Lord Provost of Edinburgh, And Grand-Master Mason of Scotland, The Sub-Committee in charge of the Work bz4ing The Right Hon. Sir William Rae of St. Catherine's, Bart. ; Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainball, Bart; Dr. Thomas Hope, Professor of Chemistry ; George Forbes, Esq., Treasurer ; Thomas Thompson, Esq., Advocate; And William Burn, Esq., Architect. With the aid and advice of The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melville. James Skene, Esq., of Rubislaw, Secretary. GEORGE M. KEMP, Architect. JOHN STEELL, Sculptor. IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF TIIE REIGN OF VICTORIA THE FIRST. A glass jar was also deposited in the cavity of the stone, the contents of which were as follow Al manack of 1840. 2. Six newspapers, namely, the "6 Edinburgh Evening Courant," the '6 Caledonian Mer cury," the " Edinburgh Advertiser," " Scotsman," " Edinburgh Observer," and " Witness." 3. The fol lowing coins :—a Doubly Sovereign of George IV., a Sovereign of Victoria, a Half Sovereign of ditto, Crown of George IV., Half Crown of William IV., a Shidirg, Sixpence, Great, 3d., 2d., and Id. Silver Pieces—and a Penny, Halfpenny, and Farthing in copper. 4. Copies of Inscription Plates. 5. Plan of the City and County or Edinburgh. 6. Medal struck for the occasion. 7. List of names of Auxiliary Subscribers. ' The usual masonic ceremonies having been gone through, the Lord Provost, as Grand-Master Mason, proceeded w:th all due honour to lay the stone, amidst the cheers of the assembled crowd, and the lively strains of the band of the 29th Regiment. His Lord ship used, on this occasion, a silver trowel, which was presented to him in the University, by the members of St. Mary's Lodge, the most ancient Lodge in Edin burgh, bearing a handsome inscription. Ho then re turned to his place, and addressed Sir William Rae and the other gentlemen of the Scott Committee. Sir WILLIAM RAE, in the name of the Committee, acknowledged the address, and, among other things, stated that the funds collected amounted to 9,5001., and that the poor as well as the rich had contributed their subscriptions to honour the memory of Scott. In one b district, the Cow,rate, it appeared that forty subscrip tions only realized 31. 75., thus showing the strong feel ing in the very humblest ranks to contribute their mite towards the testimonial to their distinguished countryman. The monument is to be of Gothic architecture, ISO feet high, and will cost 12,000/. At the conclusion the band commenced playing " Rule Britannia," and another salute of seven guns from the battery concluded the ceremony, after which the crowd began to disperse. PUNTER v. LORD GRANTLEY. We have been requested to give insertion to the following communications respecting this law suit, and as we contributed to give circulation to the article in the Times on the subject, we have the less hesitation in complying with the request. We may at the same time add that the object of the writer would have been more easily attained by a simple statement of facts without " railing accusa tions :" TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir—l am well aware it consists not with the inElli bility too frequently assumed by newspaper scribes to confess a fault, and, therefore, did not expect that the writer in your Journal would even borro w the garb of such a virtue ; but since he has thought proper to en hance his offence by his remarks on my letter, I must once more briefly trespass on your " invariable practice of giving every man the opportunity of vindi cating himself." On the " substantial merits of the ease" my defence of Lord Grantley is more particularly grounded, and in my letter of the 10th instant I plainly stated " that from the evidence offered on behalf of Lord Grantley, the Learned Judge (Lord Abinger) did not see how the jury could conic to any other conclusion . than that his. Lor.iship's title had been sufficiently proved." What, then, does the unscrupulous critic of my letter mean when, with unblushing hardihood, and in defiance of the truth, he asserts, in the face of the public, that " Lord Abinger plainly intimated his opinion—not , that the defendant had e stablished his title, which for I, the moral justificatio n of the defendant was the necessary \point, but that the plaintiff had failed," &e. If this I be not a deliberate attempt to misrepresent a very important fact to the prejudice of Lord Grantley, I will at once admit that " huma nit y has been more fortunate \in its defender than has the Noble Lord, over whore conduct in this matter I have attempted to place only the shield of truth. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 1 JOSEPH HOCKLEY. Guildford, Aug. 15, 1840. The following are the " short and simple facts o the case" as stated by Mr. Hockley, and commu. nicated to the same Journal : In the year 1795 the late Lord Grantley purchased the cottage and garden in question at a public auction in the village of Wohersh, and placed the father and mother of Punter, the plaintiff, to reside therein rent free. From that period down to the time of his death, which happened in the year 1822, his Lordship visited the cottage at intervals, directed all necessary repairs, and treated it in every respect as his own. Punter, the father of the plaintiff, died in the late Lord GrantleN's lifetime, and his widow continued to occupy the pre mises by the favour of the late, and, after his death, the present Lord Grantley, till six or seven years ago, when her second son, John Punter, the plaintiff, came at night to the cottage, threatened violence, and drove his mother and her family out into the fields. lie then took possession of the cottage, set the benefactor of his father and mother at defiance, and ii;ever spffered Mrs. Punter (who died about three years ago, at 4 a y. g p i p i i e n a . l e dUtpoona • ll* , tfiG, pm . ' r-'rantley, after repeated appacatioul to the "i g hbouring cottage) to s without de effect, there plaintiff oßtieffn Bench of p N o i s a s g e i stL , ciunpo , f t ) t,' r,;,entlemen of all parties and shades of opinion, who, after 'it careful ia. ves ti g ation of the circum stances on each side, issued their warrant under a recent Act of Parliament, of which tlin"wiiter ,i./.) yR9r pa p e r evidently know s no thing, directing the Constabe; of Wonersli to expel Punter from the cottage, and deliver possession to Lord Grantley. They did so, and Lord Grantley has since pulled down the cottage. This is the head and front of his Lordship's offence ; and who, under similar cir cumstances, would riot have done the same? In s'imming up the evidence on the trial, Lord Abinger, who, on all hands, must be admitted to he a most able as well as an upright Judge, distinctly told the Jury that the plaintiff's title had been disproved by his own witnesses, and - that the verdict on that issue must be for Lord Grantley ; and from the evidence offered on be half of Lord Grantley, he did not see how they could come to any other conclusion than that his Lordship's title had been sufficiently proved. The Jury, however, in their inscrutable wisdom, arrived at a different result, and found a verdict for the plaintiff en all the issues, with 250/. damages ! And this Jury has been lauded in no your journal a n r y n e a r l d verdict contrary n n t o r b a l r y y t law,discharging theircontrary t o d evidence, ntlf Learned Judge who presided at the trial—if an obsti nate perseverence in error when pointed out, be symp tomatic of a " noble discharge of duty," then, indeed, the writer in your paper are entitled the J ury to s o al e i n t l b o e gi sev by l honour he intended to confer upon them. ASSIZE IN MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WAn;vicx, Acc. 17. Josiah Lilly, aged 17, was charged on the Coroner's in quisition with the murder of Harriet Wright, aged 19. On the morning of the 7th of May last, between three thed to b o t d h y e Dog and four o'clock a boatm an , w h o was on th e Birmingham ca nal, perceived a man' s h a t l y i ng un d er a b r idge, called Walmer-bridge, and on approaching the same, and look ing about, he saw a bonnet and cap floating on the water, when he went and got a boathook, and succeeded in bring incof the deceased, Duckp which public-house. b i e was -h ouse. Inquiries being made into the circumstance, it was soon sub sequently to the b c ; r n r k ie ascertained that the prisoner and deceased had been upon terms of intimacy with each other, and that she was last seen alive in young Lilly's company the evening before. It seems th at upo n th e b o dy being seen by a policeman, he immediately identified it as being a person well known to him, and he proceeded to her father's, and, upon learning certain mat ters front him lie proceeded to the place of abode of Lilly, he being at his father's house. The policeman on going into the prisoner's bed-roam at half past five in the morning, said he was come to arrest him for the mur der of the girl, without mentioning any name, whereupon Lilly said, " What, is s h e d ee p , ' The policeman said she was dead, when Lilly rejoined, " If I am hanged for her I shall cie innocent." While the prisoner was dress ing the policeman showed him the hat, and asked if it was his? He replied that it was, and that it had been knocked off his head the night before its Steelhouse-lane. The prisoner was then taken to the station-house, but was subsequently removed to the public-house where the body lay. Upon entering the room the father of deceased said to Lilly, "You villain, you have done for my daughter at last," to which Lilly made no reply; but having his back to the deceased, one of the police said, " Why don't you look at her ?" to which he replied, " Oh, I have seen enough of her." He, however, was to all appearancelinuch affected. Ann Alitchell, an acquaintance of deceased, proved that she met Wright and the prisoner in company together in Cleveland-street. Deceased spoke to witness, and then tilloweci and overtook the prisoner, and they walked away Is the direction to the canal. A policeman who was on duty near the canal, deposed to seeing them in company together, and, to his seeming, they appeared to be quarrelling. Deceased was asking the prisoner to give her back ber bonnet and shawl, which it appeared he had been taken up for stealing, but the deceased not appearing against him, he was liberated on that very morning. Prisoner said he'a bonnet her for what she had done that morning. It also appeared from other witnesses that moans were heard as if coming from some person in the water—that they lasted only a short time, and noises being frequent in that neighbourhood, little atttention was excited by the circumstance. A person also resembling the prisoner was met much about the same time running from the canal, and without a bat. The prisoner had given two different accounts about his hat—first that it had been knocked off by a person in passing ; the second account beiug that the deceased herself had taken it, and that as they were walking by the canal she threatened to drown herself, and that he ran away and left her. The whole was a case of eircumstantial evidence. The prisoner denied his being guilty of the crime alleged, and a letter was put in, written only a we e k b e f ore the oc currence in question, from the prisoner to the deceased, and which was couched in the mo t affectionate terms. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. (Nisi Prius Court.) JARMAN V. TOONE. This was an action for false imprisonment. Mr. Jarman was formerly the proprietor of the Claren don Hotel at Leamington, but falling into difl:ulties had assigned over his effects for the benefit of his creditors, the defendant being one of the trustees under that assignment. The business of the hotel it was resolved should be car ried on for the benefit of the creditors, and that Jarman should have the management, which he had held till with in the last year. On the morning of the 6th May lust it was discovered that the cash-box at the hotel had been broken open, and 99/. taken out, and Mr. Toone, being informed of the same, immediately gave directions for the arrest of Jarman, who was carried before the sitting Magistrates, when Mr. Toone, being askui for his evi dence, said he had none, but only his suspicion from Jar man having robbed the house before. This, however, was only some little matter as to Jarman's oven account books, when there first arose some discussion bAween himself and the trustees. The Magistrate said, if that was the case, h.: (Toone) had no more right to arrest Mr. Jarman than he had to arrest any oae of them. The Learned Counsel for the defendant spoke only in miti , ation of damages. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 100/. POLICE' IN TELL IGEN, E. MANSION-HOUSE. A man 'named William Jones, was brought before Alderman Pirie, who sat for the Lord Mayor, charged , With having attempted to pass bad money. The prisoner, who is an elderly man, went into :the Lamb and Flag public-house, and called for some beer, hi payment for which he offered a counterfeit half crown. The boy at the bar told him the money was bad, and the prisoner threw down another half-crown and demanded change.. The boy observed that the se cond half-crown was also base coin, and told the pri soner so, who said that he had a shilling if that would be preferred, and offered one. The boy per ceiving that the prisoner had several other half-crowns to his band, desired him to show them, and the prisoner having refused, said, " Oh then 1 shall call a police man." The person, immediately upon hearing the • threat, took to his heels, and being closely pursued, flung a handful of half-crowns up a gateway. The boy collared him, and he was secured by a policeman, and conveyed to the station-house, Alderman PIRIE—WeII, prlsoner, you scent to be a wholesale dealer. What have you to say ? Prisoner —I am a hard-working man employed at the docks, and I know nothing about bad money. In fact, vour Worship, I don't know the difference between good and bad silver. Alderman PIRIE—We shall see whether you are not an old acquaintance of the Solicitor to the Mint. Prisoner—Never heard of such a person. Remanded. A gentleman applied to the Alderman for advice what to do under the following circumstances :—He bad, as he passed along the street, seen in a boot maker's shop boots which were marked as " warranted waterproof." He entered the shop, and asked the shop abnedgatno his to shop man, who he believed was the proprietor, whether he would warrant that the boots were waterproof. Having received assurances that they were warranted, he p a id the price demanded, which was '283. When the boots were brought home he put them into rater, w hi c h equally good. surprise an if:aoiurnd"tPhearitmetnhte'y admit the element in the most liberal manner ima ginable.--(A considered.d alarm, he b a c ginable.—(A laugh.) His father-in law happened to order a pair of waterproof boots on the same day from the scale shop, and they proved to be An appeal was therefore made to the bootmaker, who seemed to be quite prepared for expostulation, and instead of apologizing, or offering to make reparation, treated the purchasers with contempt. Alderman PIRIE---I have no doubt the Court of Requests would order the repayment of the money, if the facts were proved. I think the case is very like a fraud, however, and that we had better investigate it here. Let one of the officers go to this waterproof bootmakcr, and tell him to come to the justice-room, and if he refuses, let a summons be served upon him to attend on Saturday. _____ MARYLEBONE. POLICE CONSTABLE -John Cap- CoNVICTION CF A Magistrate, gone into by order of the Police Com l'Awirn.n answer charge of misconduct pre- Ral6:liaDso,n,:vatsobrought before ' the sittin g leered against him by M • _Kensett, one of the Board of Guardians and Vestrymen of the parish of St. Marylebone. about eleven o'clock, as I was Kensett resides at 66 Mortimer -street, : (Who . , o ,, ortimer-strcet, Ca- Me.being sworn, said On Saturday vendish-square) , °n I n .i T st i h o e n e c r a a s . e s interfered,d and in the course of night, the i ester-place N, • passing down Gloucester - place, , New - road, road, I perceived ,f the way, a tall man beating a short a struggle which N:asinstant, enso f e she screamed out and ac cused the tali man havingoAbon assaulted her, which o or n .e t . he oAppowsilean I Hieve he did. •t a (It z.:n persons had at this per i o d assembled, 17 amongst . whom was t h e defendant, who was d es i re d both 1- the female and the sh or t man t o take the tall one into custody, but he replied, i. No, you don't know whom an d y?U are charging," A seemed to treat the matter with derision. This induced me to speak, and I then told him that be ought to take the person into cus tody for two reasons, namey , that the woman an d man were ready to charge t heir assailant , and that i t was moreover his duty to put down such a disturbance at t h at t i me of night. I knew . nothing about it, and desired He answered that tilo to go about olli i ,_ hnaP ., , :,s 9 . ! mentioned that I had witnessed an assan", and sto,tter remarking to him' that the man and woman " cm , c!1 have been very ill used ! -..., pd hint to ta ke the . wn . ?l° .; nt the parties to the otatiott.: th_ the b.._ r tnioht ho properly house, in order that ~ in ns ti, rated. I then crossed over to the side I came from, and bad no sooner done no, than Lord Lake came to his indoor ' ha' hi s 'night dress, , and called u p on tha W police to goal the 4istnrbance. 'I ' had , ' walked on so far as . the first lamp post in CrawfOrd-strbet, a distance of six t y or eighty yards, when he ca me la se 4ond time to his viitidow, and sprung a watchman's rattle, reiterating his injunction to quell the riot, . when *defendant ran after Me, leaving the mob, which had much increased, behind, and seized one of my arms, which he pinched violently, exclaiming, " Now I've got you, and I'll lock you up." He then called another constable to his aid, by whom my other arm was grasped, and, as they were dragging me through the crowd along Crawford street, I requested to bo permitted to speak to a friend, Mr. Mills, with the view of taking him to come and i bail me, if necessary ; but the de fendant refused,' and giving me a push, said some thing about a rescue being my object. I was taken on to the Harcourt-street station-house, when defendant threst me forcibly in at the entrance door, and addressing himself to another constable there, said, " Keep all those who are outside from coming in." I told him he was a brutal scoundrel, and that his reason for refusing to let any one in was that he might have the story all his own way. He placed me at the bar, saying to the inspecting sergeant then present, " A man and a woman have been fighting in Gloucester-place, and this man (pointing to me) has been in terrupting me in the execution of my they ; he has called me many blackguard names, and a gentleman from a two pair of stairs window desired me to take him into custody. 'flir Inspector (Mr. Tedman), to whom I explained the matter, told me I was at liberty to go, as there was no charge upon which he could detain me. I then left the place and went home. By Mr. R.AWLINSON—When I crossed over last, I had done with the matter, and was going away. Mr. Wetherington corroborated the complainant's state ment. Mary Richardson, sister of the last witness, corroborated her brother's statement. Mr. RAWLINSON defendant)—This is a serious charge for you to answer. What have you to say to it? The defendant said that there was a row, twelve or fourteen persons all speaking at once—that he was in sulted by Mr. Kensett, who grabbled him by the collar, and that Lord Lake, seeing defendant overpowered, sprung his rattle, and called on him to do li;s duty. Lanagan and Rose, the former 95 *and the latter 124 of the D division, were called by the defendant. Rose, in alluding to " complainant," was desired to point him out if be could, and after looking round for some little time, fixed upon Lord Montford, who sat on the bench with Mr. Rawlinson, as the person. Lord Lake said that when he threw up his windol.v and sprung his rattle, not being able to sleep for the distur bance, it appeared to him that the policeman seemed to be hustled by the crowd. Ile (Lord Lake) called upon the constable to do his duty, but did not tell him who to take. Mr. RAWLINSON—The case has been very properly brought forward by Mr. Kensett, and it is quite clear that justice has been defeated by the constable. It was in his power to fine the defendant 101., but he should inflict a penalty of half that amount ; and in default of payment he (defendant) would be imprisoned for one month. The Magistrate also remarked that he did not consider the defendant to be a fit person to remain any longer in the force. ACCIDENT ON -THE RIVER.- THE LATE GALES. On Monday evening Messrs. Taylor and Warren, who carry on the business of ship-chandlers in Little Hermi tage-street, Wapping, and a tradesman, named Stead man, set out in a small dingy only ten feet long with a foresail, mainsail, and topsail, sufficient for a large skiff, all up. At an early hour yesterday morning the master of the Dragon, a steam towing-vessel, found a boat turned bottom upwards under his paddle-box in Blackwall-reach. It proved to be the one in which the three persons above named left , Wapping on Monday evening. The sails were in the boat, which had evidently been capsized. No tidings of her passengers could be obtained, and their relatives and friends concluded they were drowned. But in the afternoon, while their friends and relatives were mourning their supposed loss,aud their neighbours lamenting the sad occurrence, the missing persons drove into Wapping, in a cab, and gave the following account of the accident which had befallen them They were returning home in the boat about one o'clock in the morning, and on coming through Limehouse-reach with the call hoisted, a sudden gust of wind capsized the boat, which turned over, and they were carried by the tide under a tier of vessels. They e4rue up again, and the boat separating from them, they were drifted towards another tier of foreign vessels, and, on reaching it, clung to the mooring -chains, and called cut loudly for help. In this perilous situation, with the wind blowing a stiff gale, they remained for some time, when their cries were heard by a master of a Swedish vessel, who aroused his crew, and the people in the water were taken on board, and received every attention from the foreigners, with whom they remained for several hours. Their es cape was a most miraculous one,' and it is extraordinary how the dingy lived in the water so long as it did, for it is one of the most _unsafe things ever seen in the river. Yesterday morning, about half-past one o'clock, a Thames police galley, containing George Judge, an in spector, and his boat's crew, were going down the river, and in passing the Victualling-yard at Deptford observed the sentinel walking backwards and forwards on the wharf. The wind was blowing a perfect hurricane at the time, and the boat had not proceeded above 80 yards below the Victualling-yard, when the police heard a splash in the water, and on turning reund, saw the head of the sentinel, who bad been blown off the wharf, appearing just above the surface of the water. Happily he was saved. Yesterday morning the tide ebbed so low, in conse quence of the southerly winds which have prevailed during the last three days, that the navigation above bridge, ex cept for very small boats, was entirely stopped for some time. A number of men and boys were enabled to walk across the river between Blackfriars and Waterloo-bridges, and the stream was diminished to mere a brook. The tide was never known to recede so low before. Below bridge the stiiainere were unable to land and embark their passen gers at some Of the piers for want of water; and they were taken to and from' the vessels in small boats. • The night of Monday was a very stormy one, and much damage was done to the boats and barges in all parts of the river. Yesterday the wind blew a hurricane, and fre quent collisions took place in the afternoon between steamers and vessels coming up the river. Yesterday afternoon, off London-bridge, the Royal George, Margate steamer, was Corning into the Adelaide wharf to land her passengers, when in swinging round to get alongside the pi e r, h ea d d own , t h e rop fastened to the buoy I.r the p ur p ose o f s l ac k en i ng t h e vesse l i nto t h e position required, broke, aad the vessel being then right athwart the tide, which was running up fast, was driven towards the bridge, and every one expected that her funnel and masts would be carried away, and the passengers on deck sacrificed, but fortunately ,the vessel was too long to pass through the arch, and she floated lengthways until she reached the bridge, when her further progress was stopped, the bow of the ves sel touching the pier or wall of the arch close to the stairs, and her stern driving against the projecting part of the other pier. The engines were set in motion to keep the vessel athwart the arch, and prevent the tide bringing her round and forcing her through the arch stern foremost, which would have brought down the funnel and mast, and made a total wreck of the ship. At length warps were thrown out and made fast to the buoy, and the vessel was brought round in a north-east position towards the wharf. In swinging the bowsprit caught the post of the gas-lamp on the wharf, and brought it all down, with part of the iron railing, which fell with a tremendous crash. The dumb-barges lying alongside the wharf, the chains of which had been cased, were next set adrift, and they floated alongside the Royal George until she was secured in a proper berth with her head down at the lower wharf. Not a single passenger was injured, and they were all landed in safety, after a detention of three-quarters of an hour. The Royal George must have sustained considera ble damage. The Duchess of Kent and the Albion soon afterwards arrived, and landed upwards of 500 passengers, who said they had experienced very rough weather in the passage from Ramsgate and Ipswich. PROPOSED MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS. TO THE MEDITERRANEAN. 19th Regiment, to Malta, and the 38th Regiment, to Corfu, to replace the two Regiments which were with drawn to augment the troops in Canada. 42d Regiment, to relieve 59th at Corfu. 79th Regiment, to relieve 33d at Gibraltar. 88th Regiment, to relieve 47th at Malta. 97th Regiment, to relieve 2d Battalion of the 60th at Corfu. Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade to relieve 92d at Malta. TO THE WEST INDIES. 33d Regiment, from Gibraltar. 47th Regiment, from Malta. 59th Regiment, from Corfu. 92.c1 Regiment, from Malta. TO JAMAICA. 2d Battalion of 60th, from Corfu, to relieve the 68th. TO AMERICA, 14th,.70th, 74th, and 89th Regiments, from the West Indies. 64th and 68th Regiments, from Jamaica. 64th Regiment is to relieve the 23d at Nova Scotia, which relieves the 6Gth in Canada. 24th, 32i, 34th, 65th, 66th, and 73d Regiments are to come home from America. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE OXFORD RACES.-TUESDAY. The Oxfordshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared, &c. Two miles. Mr. Lowndes nd The Currier, 4 yrs Mr. Collins's gr g Isaac, aged Mr. J. Vane nd Arthur, aged Lord Macclesfield nd Zethus, aged .. Mr. Rawlinson's Chilson, 4 yrs Lord Camoys nd Jenny Jones, 4 yrs 6 Won easy. A Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 30 sovs added by the Fund, for two yrs old, 7st ; and three, 9st 41b ; Allies allowed 31b. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation, 2 yrs Mr. Etwall's Pelerine, 2 yrs .~„ Mr. I. Day's fby Nimrod, out of Busk, 3 yrs 3 . Captain Williamson ' s Affection, 2 yrs Won by a head. The County Plate of 501., given by the County Members ; three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst 4lb : five, Bst 12lb ; six and aged, 9st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two-mile heats. Mr. Rawlinson's b c Chilson, 4 yrs ..„,,...... 0 0 1 Mr. Wortley's cby Longwaist, 4 yrs , 0 fell Mr. Samwell's b g The Knight, 4 yrs 3 0 dr Mr. I. Day's b g Aethus, aged ... 4 dr After the first dead heat, owing to the carelessness of the per son who had the care of the rope at the bottom of the lines, in neglecting to remove it when tho horses had started, Longwaist fell Micl foAed pier nis jockey, P. Conolly, who now lies o TI o i the a r very:aangerots state at his lodgings in Oxford. two, Chit - son and The Knight, leaped over the line. _ . REPRESENTATION OF CANTERBIIRY.--,-k,prt: Albert Conyngham has issued an address to the elector Canicibury (dated the day following the prorogation o Parliament), announcing that it is his intention, in conse, quence of ill health, to resign lis scat at the commence ment of neat Session. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSIJR- ANTE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. Ikt.. LONI)ON, TUESDAY, AUG. 18. Number Dividend Mice of per CANALS. ncr Shares. Annum. Paid. Shire 1,716 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldhari...Avcrage97/.lBs.sh. 116 /,082 41. Asliby.da-le-Zouch .....Avarage 1151.5 h. 71 1,260 Basingstoke 1001. sh. 5 1,005 W. Brecknock and Abcrgav enny' l5O/. sh. 8,0001.16 th .91 Os. Birmingham, 1-16th share ...AL & 711. 2153 4.000 Ditto & Liverpool Junct.lß9l. sh.loo pd SO 600 51. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. all pd 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. sh. 101 500 411. Caventry .... . .. 1001 . sh. 6'70 4.545 Croydon. Avera g -7 3 .1/.2a.10d. sh . 2,060; Si. Os. Dud1ey............................ ........ 100/.sh. 98 600 131. Derby lool.sh . 1: , 7 20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne - 411.135. 4d.pd 29 3,575; 41. Eliesmereand Chester Average 1331.811. 03 231 621 Ercwasn" 1001. an. 750 1,297 301. Forth i.xict Clyde.... Average 4401.165. th. 615 11,680 10 Grand Junction 1001. sh 141 2.149 i 255. Grand Onion lool.Bh, 243 1,500 ......... Grand 5urrey.........,.., 1001. sh. 24 1,006/ 41. percent . Ditto (optional) n..... ... .. lOOl. 63 3,t .96 ... ... 1001. .. Grand Western 600 131.12 x. Rd. Glamorgansli ire, Avcr . cost 172/.133.4d. 230% 749 10/. Grantham l5O/• sh. 203 __ _ 6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571.65. tid. an. 29 100 2 1 .12 S 1i . ss. Kennet and Avon, Av. 301.185. 10d. sir. 27% 2,8071 :30/. Leeds and Liverpool lOO/. sh. 700 545: 154/. Leicester 140/. sh. 150 1,897 5/. Os, Leicester & Northampton Aver 5•31.105. 75 2.400 101. Monmouthshire lOO/.sh. IN 150 01. Melton Mowbray - •.... .... 1001. ch. 200 WO Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh, 565 :3,00 I/. 10s. 51 accies field lOOl. an. ali pd 46 , 247 171. Needs 2,400 44. Peak Forest Average about 781. oh. 91 2101 8 12s. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.165.5.d. sh. et ts S,OOO 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 85.1.5 h. 95% 500 Si, Shropshire ..1115/.sh. LSO' SOO 10/.os. Somerset Coal 3,000/. 41 percent Ditto Loc k Fund Stock 1 721.105. sh. 11 700 401. Staffbrd and Worcester, 1401.5 h. 050 500 161, Shrewsbury 300 91. Stourbridge).......-..- _ 1451.5 h. 396 3,647 21 . Os. Stratford -on-Avon sever.... 791.05 . . 00 tel. sh. 41 533 16/. Swansea Swansea/. sh. 265 3.78 2 Is, 15s, Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 42 2,600 k so. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. COO . 8,14 J i,oo(ish.l 181. Warwick add B l emingbam ...... 100Lsh: 257 I,oooksh.S . 950 151 Warwick and isapssn 1001. sh. 186 7,000 41 ,-. W3rCeStC,L" & Birmingham - Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 65 6,1'0: 1 25., Wilts and Berks Average ay. 10s. Bd. sh. 30 .91 6.. NV y 'ley and Essington 1251. sh '74 _ • 1 ' .6 ... . . ... W:sneecn . ..... .... .......... ....- . --. ......5...... sh. 5 0 5015 Is. %Vey and Asun 110:. sn. 29 DOCK% 2 • 1.5 " & Sp C. Commerc al R3OI. sh. 66 1.065k5h. . East and West India ......5t0ck 10014 1,238,310:/. 60s. p.c t. London . ..... .....Stock 65% Ditto Bonds ... lOl 2,.09 31.65. sd. Bristol Average 1471.95. sh. 74 68,321/. W. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO3 352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 99 1 / 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds - lOl 1 011.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years •••••• Deptford Pier 'Ol. sh. 201. pd 10 • BRIDGES. 1,000 10s. Haminer.miti• 50!. sh. 22 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 03!. 2s. SO. sh. 21i 1,100 1/. 153. Ditto, Now, of 7S per cent. 50/. sh. 13 a,OOO Waterloo IOU!. sh. 3 5,0a0 225. Od, Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 60/. pd 20% 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4Ol. pd /Ve ;0,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 5..2s Vauxhall .......,.Average 70/. 103. 3d. sh 23 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 13/10s, Albion 5OO/, sh. WI. pd 73 50,000 rart cent.. Alliance Britisk &Foreignlooa sh. 111. pd 14% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine IGO!. sh. lie pd 5% 4,000 ill. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 54 pd 1.1" 1,20045 h. 5/. Birmingham tire.. .501. sh. 551. pd 1073 20,000 4!. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 2,000 61. per cent. British Commercial '10!. sk. 5/. pd 5% 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical & Medial Life, ICOL sh. 2/ lOs pd 4% 4,000 2/ 155 County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 42% 20,004 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. 51. pd 5% n' '''' " c 5 per 30/ bs Eel Economic Litt WOOL sh. 2501. pd 406 I and 2,2.71 225. percent. European Lite 9.01 sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 21, pd 1% 1,000,000/. 6/.per ct Globe Stock 121 20,000 51. Guar..' ian `O,OOO s. tki.. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 5% 2,400 51. 75. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 1115 7,500 9s. Imperial Lila 'OO/. sll. 10/. pd 10% 13,459 51. percent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. oh. 8!. pd 2= 1 1 ( 2,020 sr lOs Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 :3/. Ditto Life 501.1x1 65 10,000 his. Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. ixi :30 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/ sh. 12/. 10s. pd 191, 3,1100 10s. London, Ship ........;251 sh. II!. 10s. pd 1*, 2 000,000/. ... ..... Minerva life lOU sh. 100,000/. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Ilto 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 217 s 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fr s 'U. sh. 2/. pd lOs 04 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1001, sh. Si. pd 5 31 2.500 1/. erovident Lite lOOl. sh. 10/. p 0 18 .10,000 ss. Rock Life .0/. sin 1/. pd 49,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 200 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite 100/. sh. 5/. sal 5 1 4 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 7Si JOINT STOCK BANKS, 25,000 8 per cent. Agrie. and Com. of I reland2s/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 Australasia 40/. sh. 40!. pd 62 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bit mingham '4'l. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 23 1 6 111,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 25/. pd 2414 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 1234 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 201. pd 30 25,000 Liverpool lOOl sh. 10/. pd 21% 50,000 %percent. Manchester and Liver peel Districti 50/. sh. 15/ pd 101- s s 20,000 7 per ceet. Manchester lOO6 sh. 25/. pd 27 20,000 Provincial Sank eflrelandlool.sh. 251. psi 44% I'o,eoo s•er i est. National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1741. pd IS 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng.loo/. sh. 351. pd 361,4 111,006 ...... ... Ditto New... 10/. sh. 10/. pd 10% 10,00(1 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 30 6,000 lOper cent. 'Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 I6s Od Bath 20/. sh. 16/. pd 22 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 16/. pd Isl. Landercent. • .0/. sh. 111. pd 25 5,000 a s 1 Ditto Provincial n . 6s. 928 51 lOs Birmingham 501. sh. 96 1 4 1,250 21 (is Bristol ...... 201 sh. 26 2,250 31 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 11 750 3! lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 19/. pd 9 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton Gen Oral 2O/. sh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated a -75/. 694/.pd 110 1,000 101. City of Loudon 100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 Gt. , Ditto, New 100/. sh. 75/. pd 110 4,000 3/.os. Equitable .. 50/. pd 20 10,000 2, 1 per cent. Imperial s6'l. sh. 56 1 /,_ 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet '2s/. sh. 20/, psi 18 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent '3O/. ah. all pd 50 9,000 41. per cent. Phcsnix 5O/. sh. 59/. sal 34 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 10(1!, sh. 80/. pd ill 4,000 South Metropolitan 50/. sh. 19/. pd 17 9,000 4/. per cent. United General 501. sh. 47/. p 4 8334 ' 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent. Waks.fi aid 9,000 1, Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New ........ a-a-SU. sh. 10/. pd 11 760 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 10s. Birmingham .5/. sh. 25/. pd 21 1,434 71. East London 100/. sh. 107 5,500 2/, ss. Grand Junction Average 41/. las. Id. sh. CO 2,000 t?/. Kent 1 00/. sh. 44 372 let. Liverpool Bootle ."01. sh. 316 1,500 2 /10s Ne e Myer London Bridge WaterA nu_ 1 9j{, 6,486 2/ lOs Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 117 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOO/. sh. 10431 8,294 441. West Middlesex Average 631;125. 9d. sh. 101 1.360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1004 sh, 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby ..... ION pd S 0 9,531 ..«..... Birmingham and Gloucester SW pd 7311 15,900 Bristol and Exeter 100/. oh. 50 pd 27% 7,503 Cheltenham and G. Western 100/. sh. 551. 0 9 3,0014 Clarence 1006 sh. 100/. pd 25 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sh. W. pd 110.000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 211. pd 1331 10,000 Great North of England 100/. sh. C5l. pd 5330 10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. oh. all pd 2.m0 2 . 4000 25,000 Ditto New 50/. oh. 401. pd 4914 6,000 per cent. Gosport Junction,.. 50/. sh. 301. pd 36% 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. oh. 1004 pd 140SZ 8,000 Hull and Selby .501. oh. 451. pd 40 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds atal Selby .. 100 sh, 6VA 5,100 91 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(1.sh. lOW. pd 192 7,968 94 per cent. Ditto Half Shares .SOL pd 6714 11,495 9i per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares... 251. pd 45 1 % 36,000 ae ..... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 351 pd 2514 '24,000 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ~:201.04. 201. pd S 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90!. 141 108 25,00) Ditto Quarter Shares -MI.. sh, ht. pd 26 LondonlD it oNa and dw S. Shares w e lom AA 9 : 2 .. /. 3Bl3L sh i :. 11 2 75 1: : u p u d d . 4614 0i6 31,250 :36,000 33,000 ...... r w ard ri Le P- ed -j 5...100/. sh. %IL pd 101 m llit c t h o es N te e 13,000 " I'2 .1,000 Ditto Half Shares 5`.4. 251. lid AN 0,000 Ditto Extension 7l lal 4 1 4 0,000 ... ...... Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. WO/ pd eas 5,000 North Midland 1001. sh. 100/ pd 85t „„. ..... Ditto New 49 40/. pa 4. 5,128 Northern and Eastern.... 601. sh 301. pd 22 '2,600 Preston and Wyre 5O/. ass 301. pd 36 :8,000 South Eastern and Dover . 23/. pd 63y 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. oh. 75 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 70 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/, it'). 11/. pil 12 4,000 11. ss. Alten 154. 41i. 12/. Itl pd 10 10,000 ~.. • Anglo blexicall g iss t 5/. pm.loo/. sh. al .ucl 1g Ditto Subscriptitin • 0 .51. pu I 9 ,000 VII. BOlanag ~....r 150/. sh all pa 35 co o:* ii. itl bressilianlmp. iss. 51. pm...35/.41. Wit pd 19 6 , 000 ..... „... Macaubas & Cocaes United 2.`4.5 . 0.25/. pd 11,00 Ditto St. John Del Rey „.201, sh, 14/. pd 1% ICI,OOO Bolivar Copper Compa'ny, 20!. sh. 20!. pd 1 ',OOO .... ..... Ditto Scrip..... 104 sh. 101. pi 2 20,000 4;14211 iron ......501. oh. 554. pd 52y4 .0 , 0 ~..._, firi..isn Copper 5/. sh, 4y. pd 1% C its Ai: mica ~, 61/. pd 0 Candonga....., ‘‘‘, 7l. Pd 5 10,000 1 , CoPialm • ••••••wq. .... .20/.6h, 134 pd 10% 7,500 ... Colombian, isa. bi. pm. ...55/. sh. 55!. pd 01, 2,850 3/. English 141.14/. Cs. pd 0 20,000 General MiningAssoclation2o/ 5b.194 pd 1% 6,155 „.,,,,.. Mexican Company lOO/, sh. 57y. poi 6 3,000 Polberou Consols . .., 101. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte. Unrogistcred.... ' ... .. . .. . . 474 Ditto LOMA Notes.... ..... ‘,.'.. .... 150/.pd 160 30,000 Unitocl Mexican, iss. 2 pin. 404 sli, all pd 3M DWG Scrip. 4 Ditto New Scrip 51 pj 611 West Cork 5Ol. ad 501. rd 38 LITERARY 17NSTIIIITI,(1t14S, 1,000 London, with, PAwe Tloir'et sh. 15 1500 Lor.don'Uniicrsity lO6l, oh. all pa 7 790 ing' College lOW. 19 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,00 15s. Australian Agricultural,,loo/. sh. 28/, pd 4i 6,000 41. per cent. British American lend Company 23/. rd 10 10,000 61. per cent. Canada iibmpany • ..... ...IGO/. sh. 30/. pd 24 10,000 51.1:64 COO. , Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 20,000 U. fa. Oeneral Steam Navigation 154 sh. 141. pd 26 101. per tent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 1/. London COl - 0. Saie Rooms.... Av. 75/. all l9 8 000 , ~ ely. ,ritnswlck Land Comm:: y...t. 0/ pd 1:2 2,754 51. per cent. Riveralsnary Int. 50c...1001, sh. 1001. pd 133 2,1.43 51. pg,.: wilt. Ditto New 1001. sh. 1001. pd 117 4,000 .0,000 Os. Van Diemen's Land.... 100/. sh. Inf. pd 21 ----- LIST of SCOT7'ISH COMPANIES' PRICES, AUG. 8, 1840. BANKS. ,000,000/. 6 p. ct. ROL , I 11 -h Linen Company-10U sh. all pd is:P.3 5n0,0001. 8 P. CC. - r. '' Commerce-; 5OOl. sh.l 001. pd 179 500,0001. 1 . P. 4 ~ 10C/. sh. 10/. pd 14 580,00 0 t. b p . et, r,..tion - .., . ,siyopoi. 8/, p. et. ); auk oc,lstc,souttlai,.a.d.,id...B3/, gsiogodeshhliiipdpd 1660 ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/, pd 8.11,4 50 0 ,000 1 . t Y• I L ct , weifern of Scotland —.2001. sh 40/. pd 73% t;00,0001. u p. C u E nton. COMPANIES. pd 13/. Ss. 20/. sh. /. pd 27s.Cd. 260. 0 0. 6 , 7 4 pP: ct. Hercules SZ B Uc ar cit u tt U its l Nb es 100/. sh. 104 7,A00 5 p a. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 9 1 / 2 , 10# 0 0 ‘ 9 00 e.. et. North, Erit:5h......... 2OOl. sh. 101. pd 17% 59, 8 1;,, ct. Caledocwn trre 1:401. sh. 10/. pd 21 1,8,,,0 0 Bp, ct. I,l9nburgh Life ..... ? lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 1574 -,-. 31 p, ;t, V West at Scotland ..... .. .............. 10/. pd 100,0uu MISCELLANEOUS. 401 , 1 .... ..... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10 Ditto Allocated'. ..... . ...... .96/. sh. all pd 47 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck Water.2s/. sh, all pd 35 , oBsh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Fo undcry 50/ sh 481. pd 51 t om° . 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Gtass 201. sh. 16!. pd C • 4. 500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... —. 9 5/. sh. all pd 50 Glasgow Gas ................ .15/. eh. all pd 51 4, 4kg 450 7 1 1 0 Leith Coal Gas per e ce en ut t.. 1,200 .......... Edinburgh and Dalkeith Ilais.way 50/. sh 59 2;100 5 uer cent. Equitable Loan Company .51.5h.0d 9 .. 81 ,„...............-- R I` _YDE, SIE OF WIGHT, AUG. 17.—This favourite place of resort is now crowded with families of distinction. Several houses, hitherto unoccupied during the winter, have been taken for that season, as well as for the stunmer 'months. Yesterday our vicar, the Rev. W. Spencer Phillips, gave notice at St. Thomas's that in con sequence of the number of persons who each Sunday were unable to obtain admission into the church in the morning, there would be a third service in the evening at six o'clock. The subscription for a new church is proceeding rapidly and successfully. EVENING EDITION. SPIRIT of thi JOURNAL (isosi THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe.) Tile fallacy of insisting upon the satisfactory po sition of the Tory party, whilst its leaders awe openly and avowedly at issue on every practical question o government, is too ridiculous to be kept up, even by the journals which first boldly broached and labori ously amplified the novel and amusing discovery. A new tack is now to he tried, in the hope that a more favourable gale may spring up from another quarter. If the Tory party in ParliaMent be divided—if a schism, fatal to the hopes of both sections of the Conservatives, has occurred, de -1 monstrative of the heterogeneous elements. of which that party is composed—still there is encouragement. The Government, it is asserted, has not progressed in public confidence : the measures it has carried during the past Session have been so mutilated by their oppo nents, or were passed by majorities so small, as to mani fest the extreme difficulty through which, thus feebly supported even in the House of Commons, they are able to conduct the business of the country. This somewhat evivocal mode of cheering the spirits of the Opposition is to be tried. The faded prospect; and defeated hopes of regaining 'office—which they Were assured again and again was within their grasp, and,. in fact, was to be absolutely forced upon them, ,nalgre the coyness of Sir Robert Peel, and his modest associates —all fade like the rainbow, while they were gazing with impatient delight on the beauteous hues ! They are now, it seems, to be consoled by the empty assurance, that though the dissensions of their leaders render it im possible for them to assume the reins, they can yet, by carrying out their threatened obstructive policy:, prevent the mac ine of pvernment from ntaving onward smoothly and satisfactorily to those whose business it is to guide its progress ; and thus they may caOate disap pointment and dissatisfaction among those for whose be nefit it exists, although they cannot serve themselves. (From the Standard.) The new position in which the a rrotestant inhabit ants of the principal towns of Ireland are' placed by the Municipal Corporations Act calls for a course , pf conduct the most circumspect and revolute. .:Men may differ as to the line to be taken, but all must agree in acknowledging 'the"; necessitT that it be taken cautiously, so as to ..offOld an opening for future improvement, and that, once taken, it be not hastily abandon l ed.. The Protestants of Ireland have been advised,• - :and• from a quatter entitled to respect and confidence,' to cx't thotn. selves to secure an influence in the new corporations. With all respect for those - . who- have offered thi s . advice, we must advise the clactly opposite course —advise that the Protestant freemen of 'the' presont Corporations, and the Protestant inhabitants of the In corporated towns generally; as well as all other Pro testants organise thenzselves by themselues, for all political I. , gitimate purposes, but ghat the shun, r as they would avoid contamination and rut all con nection with the new Corporations. " Tou . zh not, taste not, handle not," is the admonition ‘Ne d i c t, : we offer, under the solemn sense of duty, and with- the deepest conviction of the importance of th' a quest i on for consideration. What - can the Protestants expect to gain by meddling with" the new Pe,pisla conven tions? This very Bill has rendered Yot ever impos ' sible the co-operation of any class of. Protestants, except the scoundrel pre-Papist class, with R ornan iot s . There was once a hopeand while i.t was a ratioiat hope we adhered to hope thrit the well-disposed, Ramanists might in time be brought to act with Pro teaants for the . common goOd : thiS Municipal Bill has finally extinguished that hope, by placing well-disposed Itomanists, as well as Protestants, under the hoofs: of toe priest-led - rabble. • - - (From the courier.) Tnc Cironicic stul raves about Church-rates rued the cobble:--tnartyr John Thorogood, whose case, riatur.illy brings to its recollection the history r,f Jonathan Wild, another martyr to a contunaccioi l s defiance of the laws of England. With respect to the contests on the subject of Church-rates at Roehdr i .le, our Contempo rary intorms its readers that " the public disgust is still fresh and strong at the gross immoralities occasioned by the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, in the parish of Rochdalii, for the sake of obtaining a Church-rate triumph." Ttleu, " fr?sli add strong" as is the " public disgust," he pro. cecds to distort the facts of the case, in the folle,wi ng terms ---'• All the reports of the late contest 'agree in ferniahir ' r the particulars of a horrible seen , of strife, brinery, fraud, violence, and (in the result) of most questionable legality. The victory of whi',:h the Courch's talse friends and Judas apostles bos:st is, that by the rector's prolonging the poll an ho'.4r beyond the time fixed fur its termination, a colourable majority has lien obtained for the rate, instead the majority againg, it which existed at the regular, and, it wilt probably be found, the legal, close of the poll.' The strife originated with the party whose vio:ent hostility to the Established Church continually leads them to resist the laws of their country : and tis to the alleged fraud and bribery, it is quite evide,nt that it either was committed during the contes', it can be charged upon none but those who seek to deprive the • Church of her legal dues. As to the. imputed illenAlity the \ proceedings,we have no doubt that he un derstands the law of the case quite as well as his accusers, not excluding even the writer of the foregoing asper sions on his character, and that of the uNglit majority. MIDDLESEX COU RT OF RE- QUESTS. THE " POSITIVE CASE."--A little dogged-looking old man, and a baker, " tall and magisterial," attended at the green , haized table, in order to have the following weizhty matter adjudicated upon. The little old man said that he went into the baker's shop for a twopenny loaf, in payrqpnt for witiph he g ave a shilling to the defendant, who returned him change for sixpence only. CommissioNEß—Are you positive that it was a Ail ling you gave him ? Old Man—Quite positive. COMMISSIONER—What makes you so posit,iv e . Old Man—Because before I got to the. baker's, I felt in my pocket for sixpence, and coul , :frit fine one ; so I took out a shilling, and carried it in my hand a matter of twenty yards befbre I Went into the shop. COMMISSIONER (to the defemlnnt)--And you deny that he gave you a shilling ? The Bake---I'll swear that what he gave me was a sixpence; The Old Malt—And I will swear that it was a bhillin.g The Baker (passionately)—What ! Do yogi think L have been in trade for 15 years, and don't know a si.s pence from a shilling ? The Old Man—And do you think you can persuade me out of my own eye-sight. I tell you I had the shil ling in my hand, and looked at it, and saw it as plaia as this shilling (piling out one, and throwing it on die green liaised table). COMMISSIONER (to the baker)—The plaintiff, you see, is quite pesitive in this matter. The Baker (warmly)—lt is quite impossible that I can be mistaken, for I took particular notice of the sixpence. The Old Mon—The shilling, the shilling ! swear it was a shilling. The COMMISSIONER (to the plaintiff)—Hae ':he goodness to be quiet. You (to the defendant) say you took particular notice of the piece of coin. V l / 4 7 1,1at in duced you to do so ? The Baker—l did so, in consequence of two or three cases, which occurred about a month since, of persons coming into the shop and giving me sixpences and shillings, and then declaring they gave me half crowns. CommxssioN;n—But do you think this poor man would lose his. time, and take a false oath, for sixpence ? The Barer—l cannot say that he would—but he's a very ':;ostinatc, rositive old man, as everybody in the 7. , i'ighbourhood knows ; and besides, I could take twenty oaths, and most conscientiously too, that what he gave me was a sixpence. _ '' What !" exclaimed the plaintiff, gettigg red in the facc--" What! the neighbourhood say that I'M a po sitive, obstinate old man. What! this from You, who have often tried to persuade me that bread just from the oven was a day old" COMMISSIONER —We cannot allow any sqliabbl;.ng here about old or new bread. " :---And") continued the old man, turning towards the jury, "wanted to Make me believe he had sold all his rolls, when I saw him the moment before cover the cloth over three that were smoking ! I, a positive, ob stinate old man !" The COMMISSIONER here cut the matter short, by summing up the case to the jury, who gave a nerditt for the plaintiff. . The Baker—You arc certainly wrong, gentlemen. I am positive it was a sixpence. The Old Man—And I'm positive it was a shilling. " 1 think," said the COMMTAkONER, turning round to the jury, "that we may call this 'the positive case:" COURSE OF EXCEL! Amsterdam CF. 12 44 Ditto," sight Rotterdam 9 U 32 5 Antwerp ....... Hamburg... ...... M. B l3 11 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 35 Ditto, 3 months 25 60 Marseilles ... 25 60 Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine —l49* Petersburg, 3 Us 374 Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 4 Trieste, ditto lO 6 Madrid 3 64 , Cadiz 364 Bilboa Barcelona 364 _ _ .NGE, YESTERDAY. Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 20 Genoa Milan Venice 47 36i evil!e Naples 4O) Palermo, per oz 1221 Lisbon 54 Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres ..... New York, 21 dayslliglit 46i Philadelphia PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0 , Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9. New Doubloont 00 13 New' Dollars 0 4. 103 Silver in Bars 0 5 Ili The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot returned to Apr ley Hous e : on Monday, from a visit to his , 'von, Colonel Arbuthnot, commanding the 7.2 d Mblenders, at Ports mouth.