The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-17 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND.
We have here a print of the Great Seal of England, en-
graved by Freebairn,.with Bates' patent anaglyptograph,
and appropriately dedicated to the Lord Chancellor. There
is infinite spirit in this engraving, which, of its kind, is
one of the most masterly we have seen for a long time.
The figure of the horse, on which the Queen sits with
such
with the
graceandanqautioemt
ydiogfnittyh,asthaonwismaa
,perfect acquaint-
ance •and the limbs
are rounded, and swell out so boldly, that one can
scarcely believe that they are drawn on a flat surface of
card-paper. There is another engraN in.., in which her
Majesty is represented as sitting on her 'throne with the
emblems of Sovereignty in her hand, and Justice hold-
ing the seals, and the sword of Mercy on one side of her,
and Religion with the cross and the Bible on the other.
This is, if possible, superior to its fellow print, and
does great credit to Mr. Freebairn's skill and high
finish of execution.

The Hon.
Charles Gore, recently appointed a
bedobpserrevmerie .
R
Commisssoner of Woods and Works, has been the Private
Secretary of Lerd John Russell for nine years, during the
first four of which—whilst Lord John was
Paymaster of
the Forces—Mr. Gore received no remuneration whatever
—Your feather- ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.
courage has evaporated, and Lord John has renewed his
finality declaration. Let us now show them the begin-
ning of the end; let us hold town and district meetings in
the several localities, and back the Convention. In fact, .
Premier has dared to say that your
we are nearly prepared for Universal Suffrage. Let us i
have it.—Northern Shy,
for his sperlvciAceLs.s OF
i

:e gentleman who met with the accident in
Hyde Park, a few evenings since, was Mr. Ireland Black_
borne, M. P. for Warrington. It appears that the horse
reared and fell backwards so violently that Mr. Blackburne's
lee; was broken. We are glad to learn the Hon. Member is as
W;1. as can be apected.
The Canterbury Tories have been amusing
themselves and deceiving the public with assertions that
Lord Albert Conyngham will not be proposed on the Li.
beral interest, as Member for that city, in the event of a
general election. We are enabled not only to give a posi-
tive contradiction to this statement, but to add that he will
be associated with a gentleman whose return will relieve
the city from the odium of a neutralised representation.

LETRENDY CASE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF SESSION.

(From the Edinburgh Courant of Saturday. )
Yesterday the Ccurt met again on this case, pursuant
to adjournment on Wednesday. From an early hour the
Court was crawded to excess, and every door and avenue
was blocked up by people anxious to hear the sentence.
The ministers entered the Court about a quarter before
eleven, and took their places at the bar. They were
again accompanied by Dr. Dickson, Dr. Gordon, and Dr.
Makellar, of Pencaitland. As Dr. Gordon and Dr. Ma.
kellar entered, a suppressed hiss ran through the Court ;
the same symptom of disapprobation was repeated when
Dr. Gordon followed, which was answered by applause and
cries of same. •
Their Lordships entered soon afterwards, and rook their
seats on the bench. They were all present, with the ex.:
ception of Lord Glenlee, who has been indisposed for some
time.

The LORD PRESIDENT then addressed the partres and
said—Gentlemen, when you were last before the Court,
I read over to you the interlocutor which the Court had
pronounced in your case, on the complaint of Mr. Clark,
and I then asked if you had anything to say, either thy
yourselves or your Counsel, in explanation or vindication
of your conduct; and accordingly, on that occasion, ti.e
Rev. Michael Stirling, in name of himself and of his bre-
thren in the Presbytery, gave in a written statement to
the Court of what they had to say ; and the Rev. Andrew
Kessen also made a statement on his part. Those state-
ments and the whole circumstances of the case the Court
have bad under their most anxious and deliberate consi-
deration, and I think may add, their indulgent considera-
tion : and they have come to the resolution of pronounc-
ing judgment in the case, and they have directed use to
pronounce the same. You will, therefore, now attend to
the judgment of the Court.

" 14th June; 1839.
" Having resumed consideration of the petiticm and com-
plaint at the instance of the Rev. Thomas Clark, with con-
currence of her Majesty's Advocate, and the statement read
to the Court, and subscribed in their presence, and lodged
by the Rev. Michael Stirling, minister of Cargill, for him-
self, and as representing the maj,,rity of the Presbytery of
Dunkeld, and the statement read to the Court, and lodged
by the Rev. Andrew Kessen, respondents, and seeing
that no satisfactory explanation, or any expression of
contrition, or acknowledgment of error, in having- ad-
mitted to the pastoral charge of the united parishes of
Lethendy and Kinloch a presentee whose title thereto,
in respect of his presentation, was under discussion in this
Court, and had not been sustained, and against which
proceeding interdict had been granted, is contained in the
above statements, in regard to the branches of interdict and
contempt of the authority of this Court, of which the said
respondents have severally been found guilt.), the Lords
find that the said respondents have justly subjected them-
selves to punishment, as parties bound to give implicit
obedience to the law of the land, and to set a proper ex-
ample to the people at large; but in respect that this is
the first time that an interdict of this Court, under such
circumstances, has been disobeyed, find it unnecessary in
order to vindicate the authority of the law, and to deter
others from similar conduct in the time to come, to pro.
nounce any higher punishment than that the said respon-
dents should receive from the Lord President the solemn
censure of this Court, which he is hereby authorised to
pronounce, and that the respondents thereafter be dis-
missed from the bar; and appoint this judgment to be
entered in the Books of Sederunt : Further, find the
whole of the said respondents, conjunctly and severally,
liable to the complainer in the expenses of this complaint,
and appoint an account to be put in and audited accord-
ingly; and in respect of the very proper and becoming
answers on the part of the Rev. Henry Henderson, and
the Rev. Thomas Nelson, and Mr. David Stocks, elder,
on whom the complaint had also been served, assoilzie
them simpliciter from the whole conclusions of the com-
plaint, find the complainer liable to them in expenses, of
which appoint an account to be given in and audited in
common.form, but find the complainer entitled to relief
thereof from the other respondents, and allow the amount
of these expenses to be included in, and form part of the
account to be given in by him against them, and decerns."

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

TIME S.—The re-action in the foreign exchanges which
has taken place this week has renewed the unpleasant anti-
cipations which prevailed a short time back, and which had
begun to dissipate, under a sort of reliance that the last ad-
vance in the rate of interest by the Bank of England
would set everything right—that is, that it would check
speculation, reduce prices, give a stimulus to our export
trade, and turn the current of the precious metals, now
flowing out of the country at a rate which fills the
Bank parlour with dismay, and creates in the strongest
and most prudent capitalists a dread of the result.
Abuse and recrimination abound in the leading city
circles. The joint-stock banks of issue are "at issue"
with the Threadneedle-street-Bank, each throwing the
blame on the other, and the mercantile interest accusing
both of bringing on the mischief with which they are
threatened. The origin of all this, fortunately, may be
made clear and intelligible to the humblest capacity. The
deficiency of the harvest, even in the latter part of the
autumn, had been placed beyond all doubt ; and it fel-
lowed, of course, that there must be a large importation of
foreign grain, to be paid for in some other value, in goods,
in produce, or in bullion. No hope could present itself to
the " regulators of the currency" of saving the stock of
bullion from the threatened drain but by making money
dear, or goods and produce cheap, so that they might
{become worth taking in preference to gold by foreign
nations. The "regulators of the currency" did exactly the
contrary ; they increased the futilities of money in Decem-
ber last : the consequence was, that the cotton speculation
at Liverpool, which might have been nipped in the bud,
went on with new vigour, and this and other staple articles
of our manufacturing industry became so dear, that +lie
only thing worth taking from us was our gold, which has
since set outwards in a continued stream, which, at pre-
sent, no hope exists of stopping. Who the " regulators
of the currency" are is a point much disputed here ; the
Bank Directors certainly would, if they could, waive all
claim to it at this moment.

The only consolation arising out of thin general diNniet
is, that the events which have produced it occur at a time
when Parliament is sitting, and its attention earnestly
directed to the subject, so that the delinquents may be
called to a summary account and visited hereafter with the
punishment they have merited, by the transfer of the trust
to abler and honester hands.

The unsatisfactory state of banking aff-iirs is bringing
forward in the mean time, other competitors for public
favour, and projects for reform of the system. The roost
prominent of these is the " Commercial Ba►ik of Londuii,"

which has been organising for some time past, and will be
brought into operation it is expected withoutfurther delay.
If the Bank of England is to be deprived of its double
function of a bank of issue and deposit, and retain but the
former, as the only means of maintaining a proper con-
trol over the circulation, something resembling it in
credit must be organized, so as to give to the public equal
security under the change. Which of the banks is to ac-
quire this distinction it will necessarily take much time to
determine.

FLANDERS AND DU'T'CH MAILS

BRUSSELS, JUNE 12.—The average price of wheat last
week was 2M. 89c., and of Rye 12f. 82e. per hectolitre.
Importation, therefore, continues free of duty, ar,d expor-
tation prohibited.
An English merchantman arrived yesterday at Antwerp
from Bat Ma. It is the first direct arrival since the revo-
lution. It was at Flushing, from which port it sailed for
Antwerp as soon as the exchange of the ratification was
known.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 14. —The King is expected at Brussels
to day from his country seat, Ardenne.
The Staats Courant, the official journal of the Cabinet
of the Hague, announces the ratification of the treaty, and
the Journal de la Haile, in its number of Thursday, the
13th of June, places the news from Belgium under the
head of Belgique. Hitherto they have always been in.
eluded with those from Holland under the bead of " Pays
Bas."

Pernambuco, who has just arrived from Venloo, affirms
that the evacuation of that place is to be effected on the
15th. The garrison of Venloo will be composed of the
18th Dutch regiment of infantry and a battalion of artli-
lery. A regiment of Dutch hussars and a company of
Marechaussee will be cantoned in Limburg.
VIENNA, JUNE S.—Letters from Trieste say that the
accounts from the Levant, brought by the last steam-boat,
state that the Turkish troops had taken up a more ad-
vanced position 1)0,ond the Euphrates, but that there had
not been any collision with the Egyptians. It is also said
that a considerable Russian fleet is near the Bosphorus,
and that Russian agents are very actively employed in
hiring merchantmen in all the ports of the Black Sea,
whence it is inferred that a body of Russian troops may
perhaps be landed on the Turkish coast.
The journal of the Lloyd Austriaco has the following
letter, dated Alexandria, slay 16---" Letters from Aleppo
of the 6th, and from Beirout of the 13th of this month,
state that the Turkish army had advanced on the
3d in a body, as far as Narib. Swarms of Kourds
and Nomade Arabs had joined it. Ibrahim is
concentrating his army in and about Aleppo.
35,000 infantry, five regiments of cavalry, and two regi-
ments of artillery, were already assembled there on the
6th. Another regiment of the line and two regiments of
guards were expected there on the same day. The fron•
tier of Mount Taurus is strongly fortified, and defended
by five regiments and a great body of irregular cavalry.
The discipline and appearance of the Egyptian army is
said to be admirable, and its subsistence amply provided
for. Soliman Pacha issued on the 13th the following
circular to the Consuls:—" As the Turkish army has in-
terrupted the communication with the provinces on this
side of the Euphrates, the Egyptian government is obliged
to use reprisals, and most strictly to prohibit the merchants
of all nations in Syria from having any dealings with the
Turks." While the warlike attitude of both armies
threatens every moment a sanguinary conflict, hopes of
peace are again entertained here, chiefly in consequence
of the decided language of the Consuls. General of Russia
and Amnia.

The lately•mentioned dispatches from Vienna and St.
Pctersburgh, brought by the Prince Metternich, induced
the Consuls to repair immediately to Chibin in Lower
Egypt, to confer with Mehemet Ali. They were just
setting out, when they were informed by Bogcz Bcy, that
the Viceroy was on his way to Alexandria, where he ar-
rived on the 12th, in the morning, and was received with
a salute of artillery. Immediately` after 11;s arrival
conferences began between him and the Consuls, i t conse-
quence of which Mehemet Ali is said to have plsitisie'y
declared, tlicugh with great reluctance, that 4S aeon as the
Turkish army should return to its former p, fi'ollat Ma-
latlia, he would withdraw the Egyptian army from the
frontiers into the Pachalik of Damascus, and recal Ibrahim
Pacha to Egypt.
THE HAGUF, JUNE 10.--The herring fleet fitted out
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II this year in North and South Holland, consists of 120
vessels, of which 79 are from Vlaardingen alone.
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