The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-10 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1839

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)

HERALD.—The blustering elation by which the Go-
vernment organs have so much distinguished themselves
within the past few days, in consequence of the quarterly
returns for the public revenue having shown such a mighty
increase as compared with the like period last year, has in
effect turned out to be " the baseless fabric of a vision," in-
asmuch as we find that the Lords of the Treasury have been
compelled to announce through their Comptroller, Mr.
Higham, that the public expenditure for the past quarter
has exceeded the actual revenue ; in consequence, there-
fore, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund will have no-
thing to do until the sth of April, and then only if they
have the means.
This result has, however, been no matter of alarm, either
on the Stock Exchange, or amongst the monetary inte-
rests, because it has been fully anticipated by well-informed
parties.

The opinion is still on the increase that the Government
cannot go on during the present year without a loan, or
some contingent aid. But doubts arc entertained by some,
whether the present men in office possess sufficient of tInJ
confidence of the monocracy of the country to obtain a roan,
if wanted, on very easy terms ; in that case it is anticipated,
prctited Mc present partics remain in power, that they will
fall back upon the accumulations of the Savings Banks for
•t.heir temporary aid ; a project which no honest financier
would attempt, and which no House of Commons ought to
tolerate, inasmuch as it is fraught with mischief, whilst it
must tend to shake the confidence of the industrious contri-
butors in an institution which has hitherto been sanctified by
the impression that Savings banks were in a great degree the
best resource for the provident members of the industrial com-
munity, and that literally and essentially, under the law, they
were the poor man's banks. We, however, can scarcely
believe that any set of men pretending to be the advisers
of the British Crown, would dare to adopt such shutfi.n•;
me Ins of meeting the anticipated increase in the public ex-
pen- lit ore.
It m ►y he as well to state that the purchases which have
for some time past been made in the Three per Cent. Re-
duced Stook by the Government Commissioners, have been
made, for C.c., most part, for account of the savings banks,
and a portion for Government investments against grants
of Long Annuities. Considerable sums, however, have
lately been drawn from the savings banks and invested in
public Securities by depositors direct.

POST.—There %vas no materill, if any, change in the
value of the English Securities to-day. Consols for Money
closed at 92i to 4 ex-dividend, and 94i to -I for the open-
ing en the 16th inst. Exchequer Bills left off at 66 to
68s. premium, and Bank Stock at :103.

Colombian, Portuguese, and most other descriptions of
stock were rather more favourably quoted in the Foreign
Market. There was, however, nothing new from the Con-
tinent, or from ally other part of the world to influence
prices. The Five per Cent. Dutch Bands were last
marked._ 102 to 1 ; T.vo-enif;a-Half per Cent. ditto 54e to
; 13razdian 77i to 8 ; Mexican 241 to ; Columbian
28 to * ; Five per Cent. .Portuguese 328 to 338 ; and
Active Spaiii;ll, with the overdue dividend Coupons,
178 to 8.
The only new feature observable in the-Share Market
was an advance which took place in the course of the after-
noon in the value of Great Western Railway. A meeting
of the shareholders was held during the day at the London
Tavern for the purpose of taking into consideration the
statements of Mr. Wood and the other scientific gentlemen
appointed to examine, and to report upon, the merits of
this great undertaking, the result of which was expected to
be favourable to the chief engineer, Mr. Brunel, and the
Board of Directors. A ballot would, however, be taken.
After the meeting broke up, the shares rose in the market
to 13 to 14 prem., and we understood that scarcely any
quantity was to be obtained, even at those prices. London
and Brighton were done at 31 to 3 dis., London and Black-
wall at 14 to dis., London and Croydon at 7i to 7 dis.,
and Nora). Midland at 3i to 4 prem. per share.
The damage done to the shipping by the late terrific
gales as reported from different parts of the country, has
necessarily caused much anxiety in the city, more particu-
larly at Lloyd's. The extent of the loss has been variously
estimated, but some are of opinion, from all that has trans-
pired, that it can, in the aggregate,be but little short of half
a million. The American packets which have suffered so
severely are supposed to be covered by time policies princi-
pally in the United States, but the goods on board of them
have, we believe, been ensured almost entitaly in London and
Liverpool, and the amount, we are sorry to hear, is very
heavy. The Pennsylvania had a full and extremely valuable
cargo, none of which will be saved. No letter was received
from the Lloyd's agent at Liverpool by either delivery
to-day, and the fate of the St. Andrew, which sailed
for New York subseqUently to the Pennsylvania is in the
meanwhile undetermined. There is no reason whatever
to conclude that she is lost. The Orford, which arrived
from that port but three days ago, and which has bean
dismasted, with six feet of water in her hold, had not time
to discharge her cargo. This will, therefore, it is appre-
hended, turn out a very bad case. The Cambridge, which
was loaded, and on the point of sailing for New York,
was insured here yesterday evening at a very high rate of
premium (35 guineas per cent.) ; but this vessel with her
valuable cargo seems to have escaped the effects of the
gale through the excellent seamanship of her Commander,
who was on board, and his crew. It has been stated
that Captain Burseley offered one thousand pounds for
the use of a steam-vessel to tow the Cambridge out, as,
from her situation, it was feared that she might ground
and break her back on the ebbing of the tide. The
less of the Brighton, from Bombay, will be very heavy. A
gentleman who had taken his passage by the Pennsylvania,
and had actually gone on board, but who, from sonic cause
or other, had changed his intention and returned to town,
gives the following as the list of passengers who did sail
with Captain Smyth ; namely, Messrs. Parsons, Thomson,
and Douglas, of New York ; and Mr. Souter, of Cartha-
gena, New Granada.
For the satisfaction of our readers, we subjoin a list of
vessels, every one of which were ready to put to sea for
different parts of the world, but which had for several days
been detained in the docks at Liverpool by contrary winds.
They were all loaded and cleared, and it is gratifying to
know that 'so much valuable property is safe :
Cambridge, for New York Enterprise—ditto
Liverpool—Boston I Duan—Batavia
Minstrel—Philadelphia Black Swan—C. of G. Hope
Algonquin—ditto Marmion—Canton
Mathew Bell—Charlekon May Flower—Lisbon
Fanny—ditto Superior—ditto
Ruby—Savannah Ann Paley—ditto
Queen Victoria—ditto Lynx—ditto
Majestic—New Orleans Mary—ditto
Chas. Humberton—ditto Cordelia—ditto
North Britain—ditto Hardware—ditto
Russia--ditto Wave—ditto
Helena—ditto Active—ditto
Wakefield—St. John's, N. B. Oporto—Oporto
Clio—liallifax, N. S. Swift—Gibraltar
John Scott—Rio de Janeiro Monkey—ditto
Messenger—ditto C. Columbus—ditto
Priscilla—ditto Vestal--Barcelona
Chalco—Monte Video Lavinia—Bilboa
Lucretia—ditto Princess Victoria—Malta
Cabotia—Bahia Judith—Messina
Guiana—ditto Clementine—Naples
Chilton—Maranham Grecian—Trieste
Calieta—Honduras Mary Ann—Genoa
Sisters—Trinidad Favourite—ditto
Little Catherine—Demerara Idontein—ditto

Garrow—ditto Challenger—Constantinople
Josephine—Barbadoes Eleven—ditto
J,,s. Wheeler—ditto Brenda—ditto

Arethusa—ditto

Science—ditto

Ocean Queen—Jamaica I Intrepid--Leghorn

Emtrald—fiavannah Huddersfieldi-Africa
Harvest Home—St. Thomas's Stanley—ditto
Lapwing—ditto 'Phomas Dempsey—ditto
Eliza Killeo—ditto Damon—Jersey

Venus—Valparaiso Speedy—Gijon
John Scott—ditto Edward & Maria—St. Valcry
Winscales_Sierra Leone La Clarisse—Rochellc
Amelia—M3deira fielligene— Havre

Crusader—Bombay Actit—Ostend
Broad Oak—ditto St. Antoines—Ant%lcrp

Barbara—ditto
Thalia—Calcutta

Martin Johann—Amsterdam
,Hellichina—Rotterdarn

Yesterday, about half-past twelve o'clock, a fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. H. Husk, chemical dis-
tiller, situate in Lower Foie-street, Lambeth. The parish
engine was first on the spot, and was speedily fol!owed by
an engine of the London Fire Establishment from the
Water 100-road stiktion, and several others, when the flames
were soon got under. The tin; arose in consequence of
the overflowing of the boiler, which
contained
liquid of a
very inflammable nature, and which
coming in contact
with the fire was soon in a state of confla.,Aration. A per-.
tion of the premises with the machinery connected with the
boiler was entirely destroyed, and the amount of damage is
about 150/.

EXTENSIVE SYSTEMOF PLUNDER..—Yesterday
Thomas French, a tniddle..aired man, was brought before
at the NThames Police-office, on a charge
of
flrsießa
alhlllangatingre, great
of mines and brandies from the
quantity
St. Ki:therin's Dock. The Superintendent of the Dock
police having stated the inculpatory facts on which the
charge was grounded, Sir J. Hall, on the part of the St. Ka-
therine's Dock Company, applied for a remand. Mr. Ballan-
fne—What do you charge him with ? Sir John Hall—
With felony, most certainly. The 'misdemeanour is made
out, according to the Act of Parliament, for he had the
brandy unlawfully in his possession ; but we shall prove a
series of felonies against him, I have no doubt. Mr. Rd-
ltintine—l shall certainly commit the prisoner for re-exami-
nation, for this is a case which demands a searching in-
quiry. The investigation excited a good deal of interest.

THE COAL TRADE.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor, upon entering the Justice-
room, said that he was obliged to avail himself of the oppor-
tunity his situation as Chief Magistrate supplied him with,
to answer a great many respectable persons connected with the
coal trade, who had written to him on the subject. " I have,"
said his Lordship, " been favoured with a great variety of
correspondence, some of which strongly approves of the
course I have determined to follow up; and some condemn
that course, as well as the observations I have made on the
subject as Chief Magistrate. One of those gentlemen who
oppose my views has, in a spit it of candour and fairness,
countered the arguments of defence of the system which 1
have denounced, and I shall take. an early opportunity of re-
plying to him in detail. Others who defend the combination
amuse themselves by general abuse of the spirit with which
I have taken up the question, while great numbers who sieve
the matter as I do, encourage me to a still more vigorous
attack upon the existing monopoly. I assure all parties that
lem not asleep on the subject. I have been in frequent
communication with coal-merchants of high respectability,
who have expressed the most fervent wish to see the mono-
poly crushed, and to be permitted to purchase the commodity
without being compelled to go to thy factors. These coal.
merchants have stated to me that they consider it a very great
hardship that they cannot deal in the article without the
useless and cumbersome and expensive intervention of the
factor. They say that they sustain great injury in this way.
They are in the habit of entering into contracts to bring and
deliver coals by a certain time, but they are compelled by
the factors to wait for their turns, and by such detention as
often takes place they frequently lose the sale. They are
then obliged to apply to the factors to sell for them, and
the factor disposes of them as he pleases. They cannot he!p,
they say, yielding to the arrangements fur feeding the
market, because, if they were to attempt to violat., them,
their ships would have no business to go to Newcastle at all.
Now, can any one doubt that such a system ought not to be
destroyed ? The newspapers of the North are attacking me
with all their spleen and violence, and the parties send me the
articles in the expectation, I suppose, that I am to be deterred
by their trash from adhering to my determination to oppose
the monopoly. They will find themselves disappointed. The
virulence of their attacks only convinces me the more that I
knew where the shoe pinches. It is proper that I should men-
tion that I have received from Mr. Hume the evidence and
reports of two Committees of the [louse of Commons, and
oiler pipers relative to the trade. The Committee recom-
mend that a 13i11 should be brought in to abolish the monopoly
which the evidence plainly proved to exist. They thought
that no man's trade should be interfered with ; that everybi:dy
should be at liberty to sell his coals when and where he
pleased, and to demand any price he pleased ; but they also
thought that coal-merchants should not be allowed to combine
to prevent other's of the trade from selling when and where and
at what price they pleased, and Mr. Hume proposed a Bill
against combinations of the kind, as is the case with woikm-n.
who are very properly interdicted from an injurious course r f
a precisely similar character. I cannot see why on earth a
coal- merchant is to be prevented from selling' his commodity to
ths public at the price that suits his purpose. I know multi-
tudes who long fur the opportunity of doing so, arid all tlia, I
can do shad be done to enable them to carry so great a public
oi,ject into effect. But I shall by-and-by more completely
expose the systein. I have to return my thanks to Sir John
flail for an important communication on the subject ; and I
also thank other gentlemen for many suggestions. If the ob-
ject I have in view caunot be obtained through the medium of
the Government, it can be accomplished by the public them-
selves; and I am convinced that the public will support me
in the effort to put an end for ever to a combination, certainly
the most injurious to the public interests that ever was entered
into.

EXTRAORDINARY

CHARGE OF

FELONY AND FORGERY.

Mr. Rhodes, solicitor, Davies-street, Berkeley-square,
caused Mr. Campbell, a medical man, No. 23, Wilton-place,
to be brought befure Mr. D)er, Mr. Conant, and Mr. Cum-
;,t Marlborough-street; yesterday, on the following
charge :7.-

M. Rhodes, some time ago, missed from his office a nmp
of a Berkshire parish, and having reason to suspect it had been
purloined by the defendant, he applied for and obtained a
van-ant to search the suspecte4 party's house. The map has
found, as also were a number of copies of title-deeds re-
lating to a large property in Berkshire, which Mr. Rhodes
caused the officer to take possession of, and to produce to the
Magistrates.

Mr. Rhodt s having explained the circumstances under
which the stolen map had been found, said that he had made a
discovery that the defendant was in league with a clerk named
Butcher, ra in his office, and through his instruentalit, be had
obtained possession of the deeds of the estate of Mr;Palmer,
of Mime Park, Berkshire, which he had caused to be copied
by a law stationer, for the purpose of concocting one of the
blackest cases of fraud ever attempted. The copies of the
deeds in question had been made with the view of extorting
money from the present possessor of the estates, and notice
had already been sent round to Mr. Palmer, to the effect that
his property was in jeopardy: _

. -
The defendant said he had dune nothing except in the fur-
therance of the irterest of his friend, a Mr. Cook, who laid
claim to the estatcs.

Mr. Dyer asked who Mr. Cuok was?

Mr. Rhodes replied he was a mere puppet, put forward by
the defendant. He would show to the Bench the clumsy man-
ner in which a document bad been forged by the pretended
claimants of the property.- A deed was produced, purporting
to bear the date of 1779, in which a provision regarding wi-
dows' dowers appeared, which was founded on an Act relating
to fines and recoveries passed only two years ago.
Mr. Dyer said it was a singular detection. It was the same
as proving a will to be a forgery by showing that, though pur-
porting to be made twenty years back, it had been drawn up
according to the provisions of the Act passed last Session.
Mr. Rhodes said he charged Mr. Campbell with feloniously
receiving or stealing the plan which the °nicer had produced.
Mr. Campbell asserted that no felony had been intended.
There was no attempt to evade the ends of justice, nor was it
taken for any improper purpose._

. . Mr. Dyer—But you denied that you had the map?
Mr. Campbell—l did so.
Mr. Rhodes—Yon also gave me the most solemn assurance
that a gentleman could make that it was not in your possession.
It has been stolen within 18 months or two years.
Mr. Dyer—The course of proceeding is quite clear. Some-
body comes hei e and swears that he believes a map or plan of
Mr. Palmer's estate, which has been stolen, is concealed in
Mr. Campbell's house. A search-warrant is grouted in the
ordinary way,' and when the officer goes to execute it, he is
told the map is not there.
Mr. Rhodes—Not only this estate, but there are fifty others
laid claim to in the same fraudulent way.
Mr. Campbell—Not fifty—only three others.
Mr. Rhodes—The Grand Jury have already found a true
bill against Mr. Campbell and Butcher. The case, however,
is even stronger if it is one of felony.
Mr. Campbell—l have no objection to give up all further
proceedings against Mr. Palmer on behalf of Mr. Cook. As
far as Mr. Palmer is concerned, lam sure Mr. Cook will give
up all title to the property rather than get me into trouWe.
He has brought actions of ejectment, and Lord Tenterden,
when he tried one case, said if he could prove possession of
even a piece of land as big as his hand he was sure of a verdict.
Mr. Rhodes—To all this I have a complete answer—the
forged deed. This is the blackest case ever concocted by
mortal man. _

Mr. Dyer ultimately said he should require Mr. Campbell
to find two sureties of 1001. each, and hiMself in 2001.
Mr. Campbell said he could not conveniently provide more
than one surety.
Mr. Dyer replied, if this surety was a person of undeniable
respectability, he bad no objection to take him in the double sum.
Mr. Campbell said he was in large practice, and he would
pledge his honour to appear at any future time.
Mr. Rhodes said, I am satisfied, from the smallness of the
bail, that this case ia beaten.—The case for the present closed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

The mother of the widow of Edmonds, the chief mate of
the Earl Moira, which was found water-logged at sea, and on
board of which the bodies of some of the crew were found,
together with part of the body of a boy, which had been cut to
pieces, no doubt, to sustain the unfortunate men, applied to
the LORD MAYOR for advice.
She was now, with her children, actually in a state of
starvation, having had no more than half a quartern loaf since
Friday. The people of the house, too, in which she lodged,
being poor, had threatened to turn her out on account of ar-
rears of rent ; so that her condition, with the child at her
breast, which had no milk, was wretched in the extreme.
The LORD MAYOR—Has application been made to the
owners ? The applicant said that she had not received a
fr.rthing, and that the last of fourteen pounds of coals which
she had purchased had been burned.

The LORD MAYOR and Alderman PIkIE directed Brand,
the Marsha Nan, to visit the poor woman, and supply her with
necessaries, observing at the same time that the case was one
that could not be allowed to wait for an indolent or whimsical
humanity.
A gentleman requested the Lord Mayor's attention to the
case of an impostor who was raising money about town by
fraudulently getting subscriptions by means of an old sub-
scription list.
The Lonn MAYOR said that he was every day making new
diseo%eries of the genius of the clever fellows of the metropolis
who lived by their wits. So boundless was the inventive
faculty as regarded schemes fur picking people's pockets that
if a man happened to be able to evade one stratagem he was
almost sure to be caught by another. The plan just exposed
was one that was calculated to lull suspicion completely, and
be did not know how to protect the public against it except
through the instrumentality of the Press. A notice of some
geological and philosophical map-work had been left for him
with one of bis servant., and he found that another had been
transmitted to the Lady Mayoress, but a book of subscriptions
would never conjure the money out of the pockets of either
of them. _

A cab.drtver, the owner of No. 4,690, was brought before
the Loin Mwvore, charged with having in a state of drunken-
ness driven his cab through the most populous streets on the
preceding night, to the great hazard of the lives of the people.
The cab was broken by coming in contact with other vehicles,
and was taken to the green-yard by the officers, who carried
the driver to the station-house.
The cabman said that a customer had given him a little too
much brandy, but he Ilas the only sufferer himself, for the cab
which was knocked to pieces was his own.
The LORD MAYOR fined him 55., which, with the expenses
were paid.

MARYLEBONE.
TATTOOING BY MEDICAL STUDENTS.—Yesterday two pup:1s
of a surgeon in the Edgware-road, appeared before the Magi
trates, on a warrant, to answer the following charge, pte!err,:d
against them by G. Weak, a boy between eleven and twel,e
years oF age :
It appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday afternoon
last complainant went, as was his custom, for orders for
bottles, when a thought suddenly came across the minds of
the defendants that there would be no great difficulty in
marking him- (complainant) in such a way as to leave 1:0
doubt with regard to his friends mistaking him for a thorough-
bred native of New Zealand. After some little con-ultation
they determined upon carrying their project into executi,m,
and accordingly Gill in, one of the lads, held complainant
tightly down in a chair while Godwin, the other culprit; im-
printed on his cheeks with caustic the initial letters of his
name. flaying performed this exploit, Callan wound up the
matter by ‘• starring" him on the ear and rose, after which be
got up, and made the best of his way home.
The defendants made compensation in the sum of 51., and
the alf.ir was thus settled.

MA RLB OR( ILIG Ft - STREET.
Helen Farrar, a young woman of dashing appearance, was
brought before Mr. Dyer, charged with swindling.
The prisoner, on Tuesday, went into the shop of an artificial
flower-maker, named Webb, and represented herself to be Lady
Like, of No, 9, Portman-square. She selected a quantity of
flower.crnaments. The prisoner contrived to avert the atten -
titan of the person who wmited upon her, and she secreted some
wreaths and flowers. The prisoner went away; and imme-
diately proceeded to the shop of Mr. 011ivere, music-seller,
Burlington Arcade, and asked to see some new music. She
handed the flowers to the person who attended upon her, with
a request to have them put in paper. Having succeeded in
withdrawing attention from herself, she stole three pieces of
music, and then left the shop. The music having been missed
the prisoner was followed, and she was found in the shop o'
a jewelkr in the Quadrant, on whom she was about to practise
the same fraud. She was remanded till Fiiday.