The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Devon and Somerset staghounds will meet on Friday, at
Helebridge, near Dulverton--at eleven.
The Cheltenham staghounds on Friday, at Cubberly• Gate
—at eleven.

The York and Ainsty hounds Thursday, at Linton ; Satur-
day, at Whixley—at half-past ten.
The Earl of Harewood's hounds on Wednesday, at Hook
Moor ; Friday, at Walton—at half-past ten.
The Cleveland hounds Wednesday, at HazElgrove ; Friday,
at Ginsborough Park—at ten.
The Sinnington hounds Friday, at Tylas—at half-past nine.
The EdJlethorpe hounds Wednesday, at Castle Howard Inn ;
Friday, at North Grimston—at half-past ten.
The Earl of Yarborough's hounds Wednesday, at Hendale
Lodge; Friday, at Redbourn Hall—at eleven.
The Wigton harriers Wednesday, at Wiza Bridge ; Friday,
at Caldbeck—at eight.
Mr. Ramsay's harriers Wednesday, at Kinmaries ; Friday,
at Raims of Aisiie—at half-past ten.
The Lancaster Union harriers Friday, at Warton—at ten.
The United (Shropshire) hounds Saturday, at Longville
Hill—at eight.
Mr. Bulteel's hounds Friday, at Bideford Bridge—at half-
past ten.
The M. H. Friday, at Chiselborne Down.
Mr. Musters's hounds Wednesday, at Stragglethorpe Cross
Roads ; Friday, at the Brick-kiln, Selston Common—at half-
past ten.
The Heythrop hounds Friday, at Bradwell Grove ; Satur-
day, at Boulter's Barn.
The F. B. H. Thursday, at the Helston Kennel.
The Charborough hounds Thursday, at Woodbridge.
Colonel G. Wyndham's hounds Wednesday, at Eastdean
Wood ; Friday, at Coster's Mill—at half-past eleven.
The Brookside harriers on Thursday, at Telscombe Tye—at
half-past ten.
The Brighton harriers Wednesday, at the Race-course ;
Friday, at the Dyke—at eleven.
The East Su-sex hounds Thursday, at Beddingham Hill ;
Saturday, at Poyning Common—at a quarter to eleven.
The Nelmes hounds Saturday, at Laindon Hills—at ten.
The Northumberland and North Durham hounds, Wednes-
day, at Woodend ; Friday, at Akeld ; Saturday, at Pawston—
at half-past ten.

THE LATE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—At the
Cambridge Borough Session; on Monday, true bills
were found by the grand jury against Samuel Long, for
bribing George Smith, and attempting to bribe William
Marsh, to vote for the Hon. Manners Sutton at the
late election for that borough. The proceedings have
been removed by certiorari into the Court of Queen'se
Bench.—Cambridge Advertiser.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE DUKE OF BRUNSBRUNS-
WICK.—OnFriday evening, about six o'clock, as. his
Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick was drising
along Oxford-street, in his cabriolet, accompanied by a
friend, the horse, which was a very high•spirited one,
suddenly became unmanageable, and, galloping off,
dashed with great force against a street cab at the cor-
ner of Orchard•street. The latter vehicle was nearly
shattered to pieces, and the driver much bruised. Toe
Duke and his companion were by the violence of the
concussion thrown from their seats to the ground, the
cabriolet having been upset and damaged ; but fortu-
nately neither of them received any serious injury.
Several persons narrowly escaped being run over.
DUELLING.—The Inspector-General of the
Constabulary (Ireland) has been commanded to sioalify
to the Force his Excellency's determination to punish,
with immediate dismissal from the Establishment, any
officer who shat give or accept, or be concerned, either
dire ctly or indirectly, in glsin:i or accepting a challenge
to fight a duel upon any pretext, or under any provoca-
tion whatsoever.

.31a.RKLI CITY NE E.

TlMES.—According to a decree of the Congress of
New Granada in 1835, Portobello and Panama were
to be declared free ports for 20 years, so soon as a com-
munication should be opened between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, from one of those places to the other,
either by canal or by railroad. As these enterprises, so
often announced, and for which special privileges were
conceded to various companies and individuals, have
never been carried into effect, nor even commenced,
another decree was passed in May last, importing that
until the realization of the project referred to, the port
of Panama is to possess for four years the following pri-
vileges :—All national and foreign vessels of friendly
and neutral States arc to be exempted from payment of
any duties of anchorage, tonnage, or other duties usually
received on their entry and anchorage. The agri-
cultural produce of the Rtrpublies of the Ecuador,
Peru, Mexico, and Central America, the impor-
tation of which is permitted into New Granada, are
not to be subject to any duties of import, excise, or
roads. Gold in the shape of dust, paste, or manufac-
tured, and silver in bars, pigs, or manufactured, are
not to he liable to any export duty, provided they are the
produce of the Isthmus, or imported from abroad. Na-
tional and foreign vessels which enter the port of Pa-
❑ama may proceed to take in fresh water and provisions
at the island of Taboga, for which the necessary pre-
cautions will be adopted at the Custom House. Por-
tobello is declared a port of entrepot for all national and
foreign merchandise, according to the regulations esta-
blished by the decree of April 4, 1836. The port of
Buenaventura, on ;he coast of the Pacific, is declared
a free port for the space of forty years, with the right
of free entry and departure of national and foreign
vessels of every class, without payment of any import
dues, or of any other charge of whatever kind. No
exception is made except for the vessels of nations at
war with New Granada. This privilege extends only
to the port and inhabitants of Buenaventura ; all the
merchandise exported for other parts of the republic
thence, by sea or by land, are to be subject to the pay-
ment of the national dues.
It will be observed that for some time past the Go-
vernment of New Grenada have been wisely rendering
their commercial legislation more liberal. The present
measures seem much better adapted to realize the great
and desirable enterprise of a canal or railroad commu-
nication across the Isthmus by national enterprise at
home, than by trusting to the sp.:culations of capitalists
abroad. These commercial privileges will serve to
attract commerce, and therefore introduce anti increase
capital in the country itself, which in the natural course
of things must lead to its application to this and all
other sorts of internal and beneficial improvement.
Senor Fortique, it is stated, has recently arrived here
as Commissioner from Venezuela, to co-operate with
Senores Gual and Mosquera, the Commissioners for
New Granada and Quito, in the division and arrange-
ment of the Colombian debt. These Governments at
present appear to mean well towards the English cre-
ditors, but the parties interested will do well not to be
over sanguine as to the result.

CHRONICLE (SATURDAY).—The Gazelle or last
night not having contained the looked for monthly re-
turn of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of Eng
land, fears were entertained this morning that the omis-
sion was occasioned by a serious diminution in the
amount of bullion held by the Bank, and Bank Stock
fell two per cent. The better informed, however, at-
tributed its non-appearance to mistake, or accidental
delay, on the part of the Treasury, which proved to he
the case, and accordingly in the course of the
day the usual official abstract was published
in a supplement. Be this return it appears that toe
averatae circulation has been reduced by the sum of
348,0001., the deposits have decreased by 1,047,000/.,
the securities are diminished 997,0001., and the bul-
lion, from 2,816,000/., has fallen to 2,52.5,000/., while
the surplus profits have increased from 3,011,000/.
to 3,118,0001. Considering the heavy claims which
the Bank has had lately to meet in payment of the di-
vidends, the amount of bullion in the Bank coffers is
greater than many people expected, and the contraction
in the circulation of less extent than was generally sup-
posed. But, at the same time, the position of its affairs
is widely different from the principle on which Lord
Althorp stated, in May, 1833, that the concerns of the
Bank of England were to be managed—namely, that the
proper proportion of bullion to be kept in its coffers was
one third of its liabilities ; and, although the average
amount of the circulation does not show a very serious col-,
traction since the former return,yet the refusal ofdiscoun's
has pressed severely oil the trading interests in London.
We formerly observed that, having f. equently o'ajected to
the conduct of the Bank parlour for enlarging the circu-
lation beyond proper hunts, we are not disposed to inter-
fere with them on account of such proceedings as they
may find it necessary to adopt for the purpose of pre-
serving the circulating medium at its true value, while
they duly fulfil their obligation to the public in that
respect. We have accordingly abstained from animad-
verting on their refusal to discount the paper of joint-
stock banks of issue, drawn on their London bankers ;
and it ought not to be overlooked that one cause which
has influenced the Bank in now limiting their discounts
has been the improvident bargains which they have made
with certain country banks of issue, with whom they hare
opened large discount accounts, and who now operate
upon them to the utmost extent, thus compelling the
Bank Directors to apply the pressure at one end, and in-
ducing them to contemplate, it is said, a notice of shorten-
ing the time for which they will receive paper for dis-
count. It is, indeed, almost impossible to expect that
the Bank will be able to avoid a further contraction of
the circulation in the continued *unfavourable state of
the Exchanges ; and we fear they may be compelled
even also to take measures for the purpose of forcing
sales and lowering prices, with the view of stopping the
additional drain which will be occasioned to. procure us
fresh supplies of corn from abroad. Money, however,
was decidedly easier to-day on the Stock Exchange
than it has been for some time past ; and, although
still held tight at the old rates in Lombard-street, some
very slight shade of difference was here also perceptible.
The depression which we have noticed in Bank Stock
was nevertheless general on almost all securities ; but
before the close of business the Consol market rallied,
and an improvement also took place in some of the
Foreign Stocks, but the business done was very limited.

HERALD.—The accounts from the manufacturing
districts are very unfavourable, particularly in Lauer,-
shire, and there is no doubt but that the existing tight-
ness of the Money Market will compel the manufactu-
rers to work short time, if not, in many instances, to
stop their mills. It must be expected, therefore, that.
American produce will not advance at present in our
markets.

The Money Market here at present is in a very pecu-
liar position, and the necessary great caution of the
bankers and leading bill-brokers presses very severely
upon parties requiring oommercial discounts, which can,
not be obtained generaliy under 7 per cent. per annum.
Indeed, those clases of the commercial districts who
usu illy rely upon their discounts to meet their pay-
ments must for a time struggle with considerable diffi-
culties, and among moneyed and commercial men there
prevails a degree of anxiety more easy to be understood
by practical parties than described.
It is true that the late difficulties of Mr. Jandon, as
agent for the United States' Bank, have been con-
quered, since we understand that Messrs. Overend,
Gurney, and Co., negoziated the loan of 800,0001., to
which we have before referred, at the rate we then
stated—viz., 921. for every 100/. bond at 6 per cent.
par annum, redeemable, one moi ..ty in fifteen months,
nd the other in thirty months. These new securities
have, to some extent, found their way into the market
at a premium of 2 a 3 upon the contract price. Messrs.
Denison and Co. act as trustees of the holders of these
bonds, and Pennsylvanian, Mississipi, and other Ameri.
can Stocks have been lodged with that firm as security.
Many persons consider this to be a secure and most
satisfactory arrangement, others, who are persons of
much experience think differently, and view the arrange-
; ment as merely the procrastination of a debt that for a
long period will hang, incubus like, over our Money
Market.
Advices from Holland state that a negotiation for a
loan of the like amount, and on something of the
same terms, is on foot with the opulent house of
Messrs. Hope and Co., of Atnsterdam. All these
arrangements may produce a favourable movement in
the Money Market of New York and Philadelphia,
and possibly in sonic degree mitigate the effect of the
unfavourable news carried out by the Liverpool.
The facilities which have been given to fraud by
joint-stock and country banks selling bill stamps with
a printed form to strangers, as illustrated in the Herald
police reports of Saturday, has deservedly met with much
reprehension in all our commercial circles. It is not
any justification to the Birmingham Borough Bank that
it has been customary so to do ; but we know it is not
the practice with many respectable country bankers
to accommodate any one but their own customers with
the blank forms of bills having appended to them the
title of their firms, or the names of the London corre-
spondents. The practice of giving such forms to
strangers opens the door to frauds of every kind ; it
fosters a false system of bill credit, of which any vaga-
bond may avail himself while it exists ; but we trust
for the honour of the banking interests of this country,
that we shall hear that this, vicious practice has been
wholly abolished.
We have learned from good authority that the Bank
parlour have as. yet established no new rule referring
to bills drawn at longer dates than twenty-one days
after date, issued or endorsed by banks of issue ; but
we believe that instructions were forwarded to all the
Bank of England branches in the north of England to
enforce that rule rather more rigidly. This caused the
remonstrance from the joint-stock hanks of Liverpool
and other places. But to this subject we must return
at some other time.

POST.—Our Contemporary of the Times introduces
into his columns c:.Satttrday some letters exculpatory of
the conduct of the joint-stock banks in the country.
They are prefaced with the remark, that " as the Bank
(of England) Directors have their organs for attack in