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London, England, 1830-06-07 00:00:00

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THE KING'S HEALTH,

(From the Court Circular.)
The following Bulletins were issued on Saturday an,
yesterday :
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" Windsor Castle, June 5.

" The KING has been embarrassed considerably in his
respiration during the night, and his MAJESTY has bad
but little rest.

(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY.'
" Windsor Castle, June 6.
" The KING has been less embarrassed in his breath
ing, and his MAJESTY slept at intervals last night.
(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY.'

The Duke of CLARENCE arrived at the Castle abou
half-past twelve o'clock yesterday morning, and bad an in.
tent iew with his MAJESTY for some hours.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND also visited the KING yes-
terday.

Sir R. PEEL had an audience of his MAJESTY yester.
day, which lasted about an hour.

The utmost anxiety prevailed yesterday to see the Bul-
letin at St. James's Palace: the thmng was immense; so
much so, that the Palace could not be cleared till near an
hour after the usual time. It was calculated there were
at least 25,000 persons passed through the rooms.

Lord CLINTON and Sir W. HOUSTON were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.
On Saturday the Earl of FIFE and Colonel WnaTELEY
were the Lord and Groom.

Among the inquirers were Prince KosLorFsKY, the
SPEAKER of the llousE of COMMONS, the LORD CPIIEF
JUSTICE of ENGLAND, the MASTER of the ROLLS, the
RECORDER of LONDON, M. GRACIA FOLDER, Secretary to
the Colombian Embassy, Mr. Jam LUMLEY, of the Sici-
lian Embassy.
Ambassadors and Ministers.—Austrian, Spanish, Netherlands,
Bavarian, American, Prussian.
Charge D'Affaires.—Swedish, Brazilian.
Dukes.—Grafton, Leeds Buckingham.
Duchesses.—Dowager Leeds,
Buckingham.
Marquises.—Downshire, Salisbury, Camden.
Marchionesses.—Cornwallis, Dowager Salisbury, Tavistock.
Earls.—Somers, Eldon, Winchilsea, Fitzwilliam, Amherst,
Rosebery, Aboyne, Surrey, Harrington, Belfast.
Countesses.—Jersey, Harrowby, Belfast.
Viscounts.—St. Vincent, Gage, Villiers, Lake.
Bishops.—Durham, St. David's, Lichfield and Coventry.
Lords.—Farnham, Wallace, Rolle, Stanley, J. Fitzroy, Clifton,
A. Lennox.

Ladies.—Skelmerdale, Montford, E. Drake, Jane Peel, Mont-
fort, Whalley, J. Lennox, H. Ryder, Johnston, Sheffield, Keith,
Dowager Suffield, Shelley.
Right Honourable.—Sturges Bourne.
Honourable.—J. Spencer.
Judges.—Park, Bosanquet.
Count.—Woronzow.

Sirs.—E. Knatchbull, R. Wilson, C. Wetherell, W. Owen, R.
Hamilton, T. Drake, C. Flower, C. Aldis, E. Kynaston, F. Free-
ling, S. halley, F. Baker, A. Johnston, C. Carrington, J.
Shelley.
Alderman.—Winchester.
Messieurs.—Sadler, M.P., Branshy Cooper, M.P., H. Hope,
NT., Flower, Frost, Aldis, Wood, Edw. Foley, M.P., Pulman,
L ankes, H. Hoare, Heathcoate, M'Naghton, E. Gage, J. Praed.
Colonel.—Stanhope.
Mistresses.—Flower, Brent, Rochfort Grange, Boscawen, R.
Mitford, Heathcote.

Misses.—Bootle Wilbraham, Elphinston, Mash, H. Mash,
M'Donald, M. Barlow, F. Byng.

The Bishop of CHICHESTER offers up prayers daily with
his MAJESTY.
The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the Palace at
twelve o'clock on Saturday, and had an audience of the
KING.

BIRTH DAY OF TIIE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.

Saturday was the birth-day of the Duke of Comma-
LAND, when his Royal Highness completed his fifty-ninth
year. The members of the Royal Family came from their
respective residences to Kew, and congratulated his Royal
Highness on the auspicious event. About two o'clock the
Duchess of CLARENCE, the Duchess of.KExT, and the
Princess VICTORIA, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Duke and
Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and Prince LEOPOLD arrived.
A salute was fired from small cannon on Kew Green, on
the arrival of each of the Royal Family. The Prussian
Minister came from town to pay his respects to his Royal
Highness.
About two o'c'ock a grand dejeune was served to the
Royal party. The Royal Duke gave a substantial dinner
to one hundred and sixty poor men and women of the
neighbourhood, on Kew Green : after dinner rustic sports
commenced on the Green, and prizes were awarded to the
successful competitors in the different games.
The Royal Family left about five o'clock—their depar-
tures were announced by salutes from small cannon.
In the evening the houses of many of the inhabitants
were brilliantly illuminated in honour of the day; there
was also a display of fireworks.

On Friday evening his Royal Highness the Duke of
GLOUCESTER honoured the French Plays with his pre-
sence, to see Mademoiselle IRMA perform in Le Mariage,
et Les Suites du Mariage du Raison, and Messrs. LA-
PORTE and Po/wit/am in Picaros et Diego.
A Cabinet Council was summoned by the Earl of ABER-
DEEN on Saturday evening, to be held at the Foreign
Office yesterday afternoon. It was attended by the LORD
CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earls Ros-
SLYN, BATHURST, and ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE,
Lord ELLawßonovou, Sir G. MURRAY, the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. HERRIES. Sir ROBERT
PEEL was absent, having left town in the morning to at-
tend his MAJawrir at Windsor. The Council broke up at
five o'clock.

Sir ROBERT PEEL entertained a select party to dinner
yesterday, at his residence in Privy Gardens.
The Duke of WFLLINGTON, on his return to town from
visiting his MAJESTY on Saturday afternoon, was visited
at Apsley House by Sir ROBERT PEEL and others of the
Cabinet Ministers.

Viscount MILTON, M.P., the Hon. W. DUNCOMBE,
M.P., and Mr. J. MARSHALL, M.P., three of the Mem-
bers for Yorkshire, had a conference with the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on Saturday, at the Treasury,
respecting the duty on tobacco.
A deputation of the West India planters and merchants,
headed by the Marquis of CHANnos, as Chairman of the
Committee, had by appointment a very long conference
with Mr. BERRIES, on Saturday, at the Office of the
Board of Trade. The deputation included the Earl of
HAREWOOD, Lord HOLLAND, Lord SEAFORD, and several
Agents for the Colonies.

The Austrian Ambassador and the Spanish Minister had
interviews on Saturday, with the Earl of ABEaDazx at
die Foreign Offieo.

DUKE OF CLARENCE AND HIS FAMILY.

His Royal Highness was united to the Princess ADE-
LAIDE LOUISA THERESA CAROLINE AMELIA, eldest
daughter of the late and sister of the reigning Duke of
SA XE MEININGEN, 11th July, 1818, when the Duke was
in his 53d year, and the Princess in her 26th. The issue
of this marriage was the Princess CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA,
born and (lied 27th March, 1819, and the Princess ELIZA-
BETH GEORCIANA ADELANDO, born 10th December,
1820, died 4th of March in the following year. The
Earl of ERROL, the Hon. JOHN ERSKINE KENNEDY
(second son of Earl Cassius), Mr. PHILIP SYDNEY (the
Member for Eye, and only son of Sir JAMES SYDNEY,
Batt.), and Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES Fox, of the 34th
Regiment of Foot, stand in the relation -of sons-in-law to
the illustrious Duke, having married the Misses ELIzA-
BETH, AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and MARY FITZCLARENCE,
his Royal Highness's daughters. Colonel FITZCLARENCE,
of the 7th Fusileers, married, in 1821, Lady AucusTA
BOYLE, daughter of the Earl of GLAsoow, and Colonel
GEORGE FITZCLARENCE, is son-iu-law to the Earl of
EGREMONT. Captain ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE, ItaN.
anti the Rev. AUGUSTUS FITZCLARENCE, Rector of Maple
Durham, are unmarried.

The following form of Prayer for the recovery
of our Most Gracious SomaIGN was read in all the
English and German Jewa' synagogues throughout the
United Kingdom on Saturday. (A copy of a form of
prayer, said to be used on the above occasion, has ap-
peared in some of the Sunday papers, which is incorrect
from the beginning to the end) :—" 0 King of kings,
whose eyes are ever regarding the ways of mankind,
through thee do princes rule and guide thy flock of ru-
sions : thou dost lead their hearts according to their de-
sire, and with thee alone ate their easualtits and destina-
tions. Incline thine ear, we beseech thee, to the voice
and cry of thy people of Israel, who in this small temple,
as before the seat of thy glory, supp,icate and pray for our
Lord the KING, whose sufferings are our affliction. 0 !
thou who with thy grace has hitherto supported his throne,
support bim now, we pray thee, on the bed of sickness
Send him aid from thy holy residence; strengthen his
spirit, and let thy comfort delight his soul. 0 ! waftover
him the light of thy countenance, and we shall be saved.
Strengthen the weak hand, fortify the' feeble kn..e, and
restore him to complete health. Prolong the KING'S
life; extend his years, and let thy mercy and truth guard
him even until hoary age, that the government rest upon
his shoulders, and the crown flourish upon him for ever-
more." The above prayer was composed by the Rev.
Soiouow HERSCHELL, Chief Rabbi.

Mr. WILMOT HORTON, the brother-in-law
of the Earl of KEICMARE, will not offer himself as a can-
didate for the representation of Kerry at the next election.
One of the brothers of the Earl of KENMARE Will offer
himself as a candidate on that occasion.-- Tralee Mercury.

BANKERS' " CLEARING-HOUSE."

(From the Morning Herald.)

In commenting upon Sir Robert Peel's speech on the
motion of Sir James Mackintosh for abolishing the penalty
of death for forgery, we accused the Right Hon. &ere-
tary of ignorance or deception in alluding to the immen,c
quantity of business transacted by the London bankers at
the clearing house, and arguing upon it as if the drafts
negotiated there were cashed Over the counter, and were
liable to forgery. We denied the facts, with the exception
of the amount of business transacted, and we now give
the details :

The operations of " the clearing-house" will be best
illustrated by an example. Suppose a London merchant
or a stock-broker in the course of the day to take in
payment drafts drawn upon several London bankers,
and knowing, (as he must know,) from whom they all
come, and not doubting (for, if doubt arise, he either
refuses the draft, or else sends it to be cashed)—not
doubting there are funds to meet these drafts respectively,
lie does not present one of them to be cashed, but, in
common with all houses of any magnitude, " crosses" the
face of each draft with the name of his own banker, to
whom he then hands them. The immediate effect of
this simple expedient of " crossing" is, for ever, to pre-
vent the draft in question from being cashed at the
bankers' counters ; they can now be negotiated nowhere
but at the clearing-house (whither they are sent in the
afternoon), by no one but by bankers known to each other,
and by no means but by records, which preserve an ac-
count of every draft. All this is accomplished in so per-
fect a manner, that, if any one of the drafts should happen
to be dishonoured, it would forthwith be returned to the
party who had first " crossed" and handed it to his own
banker. Such detail is A, B, C, to men of business ; but
we write now for the information of another class, and will
anon endeavour to explain the process of the clearing-
house, where, as truly enough stated by Sir Robert Peel,
drafts to the amount of two or three millions per day are
negotiated ; but then he omitted to add (and, indeed, it
would haVe neutralized his argument) that this negotiation
takes place by means which, as we shall presently see, do
absolutely secure the London bankers from the very possi-
bility of loss by the forgery of drafts. The reason is
simply this :—A London banker does not cash the
" crossed" drafts handed in by his customer (the mer-
chant or the stock-broker cited above), but merely posts
the amount to the credit of that customer; and if after-
ward any such draft should turn out to be a, forgery, or
drawn without funds, it would be charged, by the same
banker, to the debit of that customer. The banker's
customer, therefore, and not the banker, is the man who
has to secure himself apinst the risk of forgery, as it re-
gards drafts which have to pass the clearing-house; and
this he does, as we have already shown, by almost instinc-
tive prudence before " crossing" the draft.
But, to return to the clearing-house. It is situated in
Lombard-street, and is an office at which each large
banking firm has an agent or principal clei k, who is, vir-
tually, its receiver-general and paymaster-general, as it
regards all the drafts passing through the clearing-house.
But, in the discharge of these important functions, be—
unlike the cashier—neither receives, nor pays in, money :
neither does he pay any thing " to bearer," or, in other
language, to unknown persons. His operations at this
office are confined to the simple registration (in his
" clearing-sheet" and books) of all the drafts, whether
for or again- t the banking firm which he acts ; and,
having completed this, he settles the day's transactions in
less than half an hour, by paying or receiving the dif-
ference.

Now, after all, perhaps the question may be asked—
Suppose a forged draft to get into the clearing-house, how
is it to be detected? Really, you might as well talk of
catching birds by putting salt upon their tails, as of in-
juring the London bankers in this quarter. Let the an-
swer be given, as nearly as we recollect, in the words of
a gentleman many years connected with the clearing-house:
he replied, " A man must be an idiot to attempt a forgery
there. In the course of my experience, I cannot recol-
lect a single instance of a forged draft." The reason of it
is plain, as alreadishown, and we will not longer detain
our readers by dwelling on advantages so well understood
in practice. -The clearinghouse, as it regards drafts, is a
place of safety for the London bankers. Well would it be
for their country connections had they the same security !
There is not a practical banker in London who cannot at-
test the truth of these statements: Why, then, we ask,
has not the Home-Secretary been made acquainted with
them ? Is it not deplorable that he should be left in such
ignorance of facts closely connected with the subject on
which he was attempting to legislate? Who has been his
informant? Is such ignorance pardonable in a Minister
of the Crown ?

SPURIOUS SILVER COINAGE.

(From the Times.)

What was stated by Mr. Herries, in the House
of Commons on Friday night, confirms in its material
points the account given in this paper of an investigation
at the' Mint relative to a surreptitious coinage of silver.
The inquiry, it is admitted, has been carrying on for a
considerable time past, on information of the existence of
such spurious coin, and it is also admitted that there was
a considerable excess of silver in circulation. The im-
pression of Mr. Herries appears to be, after an examina-

tion at the Mint of some of the coin believed to be spu-
rious, that the information was untrue, and that the whole
was founded on a mistaken notion ; but the reasons as-
signed by him for that opinion have not by any means
produced in the city the conviction that he is right.
The original story rests on the supposition that
standard silver, of precisely the same quality as that
used at the Mint, was employed in the fabrica-
tion of such spurious coin, and the inability, therefore,
of the Mint Officers to detect any difference in it
proves nothing at all to the purpose. Such an ex-
cess as that described in the silver circulation, is a
far more convincing argument on , the other side of the
question ; and it is a fact which no one doubts who has
access to what is going on at the Bank of England, that
great inconvenience was felt there from the surplus of
silver brought in, and that the Directors pressed the mat-
ter on the attention of Government, urging as their motive
that such excess must have had its origin from some other
source than that of the Mint. It is affirmed, indeed, that
the accumulation at cne time had become so great se to
leave no other mode of obviating the inconvenience but by
melting the coin back into bars, and that this was ac-
tually done to a great extent; but this information is not
perhaps so much to be depended on as that relative to the
other points of this very curious inquiry. As a choice of
difficulties, it might perhaps have been resorted to. The
raising of the question has undoubtedly effected this good,
—that it has drawn public attention to the false and dan-
gerous position in which the country is placed with respect
to the silver coinage, and it is the hope, we believe, of
all intelligent and practical merchants, that it may lead to
some useful reform with respect to the currency.

The Lady HENRIETTA ANTONIA HER-
BERT, the Countess of Pow's, died yesterday morning,
about seven o'clock, at Walcot Park, the seat of the Earl
of Powis, Lord Lieutenant of this county, after a long
illness.. Her Ladyship was the daughter and heiress of
HENRY ARTHUR, Earl of Pow's, whose title became ex-
tinct at his decease in 1801. Het Ladyship was married
in 1784.—Shrewsbury Chronicle of Wednesday.
MUSICAL NOVELTY.-MICHAEL BOA 1.-
We were invited to witness on Friday last, at the Egyp-
tian-hall, Piccadilly, a private display of the performance
of a musical wonder, MicuAEr. Boar, who recently ar-
rived in London from the Continent, after haying appeared
before many Sovereigns, &c, &c. This performer is a
native of Mayence, and he has, by dint of labour and
dexterity, attained a degree of perfection in an art scarcely
worthy of his pains--that of producing, by the mechani-
cal movement of his mouth and hands, something in the
nature of what is familiarly called chin-chopping, a
sound very similar to that of castanets, but partaking
rather more of •tone. The volume of the sound is not
very remarkable, but the execution upon it is wonderful,
and the musical skill displayed is considerable. M. Boar
came forward attended by a lady (his wife) with a guitar,
and a gentleman with a violin aBOAT himself also carried
a guitar. The performance commenced with a pretty air
on the three instruments, at the end of which, AM. Boar
having laid aside his guitar, and wetted his mouth and
fingers, accompanied the two other instruments on his
mouth-hand-organ (as we must call it, till we are fa-
voured with the Professor's own. word for it) In the man-
ner already described-,producing a forte and piano—
executing the most rapid and difficult passages of some
foreign airs with singular facility and precision ; running
up and down his scale, and marking even half notes with
distinctness. The effect was novel and surprising ; but
thea and hands,
peculiar movements of the performer's bead, t ounte-
nee,
threw an air of the ludicrous over the
exhibition, which rendered it amusing as well as curious.
When this piece was finished, the lady sang agreeably to
n
the guitars and violin, while her husband recovered his
breath for another display ; and in this order the perform-
ance continued till its close. The audience, comprising
some distinguished professional musicians, applauded cor-
dially. The public exhibition commences this day.