The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1853.

great " clothes' depot" might be angry with the
offer of a handbill belonging to another, and his
Ducal MAJESTY of Tuscany is angry with the offer
of the Bible itself to his subjects ; it were rather
too much, however, to allege just cause of anger
in either case. If we are to be defended from
wanton provocation, we are also to be held bound
to control our own tempers. In short, some in-
dividuals have much need to enter into recogni-
zances not to get angry without cause, and thereby
endanger the peace, as others do to abstain from
wantonly irritating their neighbours. The hand-
bill offered to BRENNAN, we have not seen; but it
must have been bad indeed, to induce us to justify
departing from the short and easy method which
we have indicated as our own, and we suppose
that of all but over-heated religioniets.
It is wonderful what a stir the case has made
in Ireland. A Public Meeting was called to up-
hold the cause of SMITH and Protestant handbills.
A deputation was sent to the Lord-Lieutenant
praying him to order an official investigation.
The memorial was made a handbill for Charging
Mr. O'CALLAGHAN with " audaciously, daringly,
unconstitutionally, and bigotedly lending himself
to sustain the intolerance of a bigot, and to crush
the rights of British subjects." And Lord St.
GERMANS, very properly we think, refers them
to the Court of Queen's Bench, where any legal
error of the Magistrates can be rectified, and his
motives, if corrupt, duly inquired into. What the
memorialists will do next we know not. There is
heal enough on both sides to fight out the quarrel
while there is a legal opening for doing so ; in-
deed there appears to be no lack of SMITHS and
BRENNAN'S all over Ireland, of zealous Protestant
Missionaries and irritable Catholics.

MONEY MARKET

CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION.

AND

(THIS DAY.)

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn-
ing, at the usual hour, in the chambers of the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council.
Mr. Pulling, the barrister, and author of a work on
the "Laws and Usages of the City," was under examina-
tion the whole day. Like Mr. Acland, he divided his evi-
dence intobranches, but from the hour at which we are com-
pelled to go to press we can only touch upon the first head,
which treated of the City in an historical point of view.
It would appear, then, trom the statement of Mr. Pul-
ling, that before the Conquest, the Anglo-Saxon kings
were in the habit of consulting with the Body Politic of
the City upon the best means of governing the whole
country ; and at that period the City authorities exer-
cised a direct control over the Crown and Government
of England. Most of the Norman sovereigns treated
the city with the same respect ; and while William the
Conqueror directly confirmed all the usages and customs
which the city had previously enjoyed under the Saxons.
Many sovereigns during the wars of the Roses, or of
York and Lancaster, owed the acquisition or loss
of their Crowns to the immediate influence of the
corporation of London. From the time of William
the Conqueror to the reign of Richard the Second, all
the previous charters of the corporation were renewed
by the Crown and confirmed by Parliament, while the
9th chapter of Magna Ch,arta, in specific and unmis-
takeable terms, confirmed the usages, customs, and
privileges of the city of London. By these jprivileges
the City was made independent almost of the throne ;,cer-
tainly it made the corporation part of -the machinery of
the government of the whole nation, and the citizens, in
consideration of these privileges, were required to make
large and absolute grants to the Crown, and to contribute
a considerable proportion of the levies made upon
the entire country. These rights prevailed in the reign
of Henry VII., and even to amitigated degree in subse-
quent reigns ; but now the rights of the city, so far as
the Crown was concerned, were a mere shadow as com-

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
and 500 Surat were taken for export and on specu-
lation. The market closed firmly, but without
animation. Prices of American and Surat were
tight. Other kinds unchanged. The sales com-
prised 4,500 American, 100 Pernam and Maran-
ham at 62d., 200 Egyptian at bid. to 7d., and
1,000 Surat at 2Ad. 31d.ler lb. Railway 'shares
were dull.

Notwithstanding an absence of speculative deal-
ings, and a limited demand for home use, colonial
produce has commanded firm rates. Still the
holders and importers refrain from pressing sales.
Coffee has been firm, and good ord native Ceylon
has advanced to 465. and 475. Sugar has been
steady. Cocoa has been heavy. In rice there• is
a moderate business doing. ' Tallow has slightly
recovered, and there is an advance in tea owing to
the news from China. Cotton has not varied
much. In iron there has been a steady rise.
There are no later arrivals to-day, and the poli-
tical advices from the Continent engross almost ex-
clusively public attention. A sailing ship, the
Plymouth Rock, has reached Callao from Melbourne
in 39 days. The dates are not later, but this is
another instance of what steam could accomplish
by the Panama route.
Lett's Diaries are now ready for the year 1854,
and to mercantile men, at home and abroad, they
must prove extremely valuable.
The English Stock market has been very firm
again, with a fair business doing, but chiefly in
connection with the settlement. A large jobber
has been declared unable to meet his liabilities,
whether from the fault of principals or engage-
ments of his own, we are unable to state, although
usually, the dealings of such parties are ex-
clusively in the " house," and as there have
been no other defaulters, it may be that his
own speculations are the cause. Consols have been
94k 1, and 94- -a for Transfer, and 941 g, and since
93'4 for Account. The New 31 per Cents. have been
done at 95 to 95g, and the 3 per Cents. at 921 to
93?. Exchequer Bills are 2s. to 55., and India
Bonds 2s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been very dull. Spa-
nish 3 per Cents. are 44i, and Portuguese 4 per
Cents. 41i. Russian 5 per Cents. have been quoted
112-i to 113. Dutch 21 per Cents. have been at
63Z.

One thing all parties may surely regard as
quite certain, that religious zeal will never cease
in the world. Missionaries every sect will have,
and in this country their endeavours to convert
must be protected by law. , The State here only
undertakes to protect to the Established Church
its revenues and dignities ; it gives free scope
to all kinds of Nonconformists to seduce the
faithful from her bosom, and even pays Popery
and Presbyterianism in Ireland for doing it. It
leaves the Churchman and the Dissenter to convert
each other if they can. Her MAJESTY is not only the
Defender of every man's faith from violent assault,
but also the protector of all fair attacks upon it.
It is, therefore, utterly impossible to put an end
to the efforts of earnest men, whether they be

pared with former ages. In fact, all that remained of
the former privileges, consisted of a few ceremonial
forms, such as taking precedence at a coronation,

on which occasions the Lord Mayor claimed
to be chief butler of the Sovereign, in the event
of there being a coronation banquet ; the right of pre-

seating petitions at the bar of the Commons, and of re-
ceiving communications on great State occasions on the
illness of a Sovereign or the birth of a Prince, direct
from the Prime Minister or the Home Secretary. The
Lord Mayor, by virtue of his office, was the only
unsworn Privy Councillor in the country, and
on the succession of the Sovereign the procla-
mation was recived by the Lord Mayor at Temple
Bar, and issued by him to the City in his civic capacity.
All these privileges, however, were insignificant, as com-
pared with those which the City enjoyed in bygone ages.
Mr. Pulling then proceeded to detail to the Commis-
sion the rights which the Corporation claimed and exer-
cised with reference to trade.

bigots, enthusiasts, and fanatics, or sober apostles

The Railway Share Market has been without any
material variation, and the business doing is limited.
French Shares have been dull.

of truth,[to convert their fellow-men. The Press,
in every mode, must always be a prime instru-
ment in the hands of such men ; it is the wont of
the country. It does, therefore, appear to us ex-
ceedingly undesirable to interfere more than is
abstlutely necessary in protecting the disciples of
any faith against the mere printed arguments,
and even warm attacks, of those of another faith.
While, of course, wishing most earnestly to see all
religious controversy conducted in a spirit be-
coming the gravity of the subject and the civilisa-
tion of the age, we yet, therefore, would have our
magistrates very chary of entertaining such cases.
They can rarely do more than give a triumph to
one party of religionists—a triumph, perhaps,
more dangerous to the peace than the irritating
proselytism they would like to repress.

The Gold Mine Shares are quieter. Waller
Mine have improved to I.
The Australian Joint-Stock Bank Shares are
rather lower.

The Land Companies' Shares have been de.
pressed.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From. the Official List.)
Business acme.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 933 2i 3i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 941
New 3j per Cent. Annuities 95 g 5 g
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5-1.6
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO ............
Ditto, under £lOOO 2 d
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£l000
2500 5 2 p
Ditto Small
- •
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 44

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN BE HOWLINGS.

This bankrupt was described as of Basing, Hunts,
miller, and to-day was appointed for his last examina-

The case was very peculiar, as it had been necessary
to enlarge protection from time to time in consequence
of the bankrupt after having made up his accounts fall-
ing into such a state of mental aberration that Messrs.
Robinson and Knowles, who had prepared the balance-
sheet, objecting to his signing, and subsequently it be-
came necessary to place him under confinement and
medical treatment, being now perfectly convalescent,
he swore to the truth of the accounts, and passed his
examination without opposition.

THE MANCHESTER MONUMENT TO THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

It is with unfeigned pleasure that we have to
announce the decision of the judges appointed to
make choice of the model for the statue of Wel-
lington, about to be erected in Manchester at a
cost of 7,0001. A large number of models con-
tributed by the collective sculptural talent of the
country—and many of which are of unusual excel-
lence was examined on Friday last, in the
Royal Manchester Institution, by the Earl of
Ellesmere, the Earl of Wilton, and the Bishop of
Manchester, who were deputed by the subscribers
to make the important selection—when their
unanimous choice fell on the model prepared by
Matthew Noble, Esq., of Bruton-street, London.
The artist's intention in this design, which we
were privileged to see previous to its transmission
to Manchester, has been to represent England's
illustrious Duke in his civil as well as in his military
capacity, by personifying those salient qualities
and results through which he attained so high a
position in life, and influenced the destinies of so
many nations, and by illustrating the chief crown-
ing events in his public career, through which he
will be best known to posterity. The qualities of
Valour and Wisdom are represented by figures of
Mars and Minerva, accompanied by Peace and
Victory—these are seated round the pedestal,
upon which are introduced bas-reliefs, repre-
senting the battles of Assaye and Waterloo,
the Congress of Vienna, and the Duke receiv-
ing the thanks of the House of Commons on
the memorable occasion in the year 1815. On
the summit of the pedestal is a colossal bronze
statue of the soldier-statesman himself, modelled
from the popular bust for which the Duke sat to
Mr. Noble, a short time before his death. The
identity of the face and figure are perfect, and
the drapery—that almost insurmountable " diffi-
culty" with the sculptors—is treated with a clas-
sical grand simplicity, which, while it elevates the
mere portrait into a production of high art, de-
tracts in no measure from the Well-known charac-
teristics of the subject. Mr. Noble has designed
to give an idea of the moment when the Duke
stood erect and calm after having uttered the fol-
lowing declaration in the House of Lords :—" I
am one of those who have probably passed a
longer period of my life in war than most men,
and principally in civil war; and I must say this,
that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever,
even one month of civil war in the country to
which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in
order to do it." The readers of The Sun, remem-
bering Mr. Noble's liberality in connection with
the monument to Thomas Hood, whose resting-
place in Kensal Green Cemetery will shortly be
adorned with a memorial of exquisite taste from
that gentleman's hand, will be gratified to learn
that he has received this magnificent commission,
which is the more honourable to the young and
highly-distinguished artist from the fact of his
having won it in the fair field of competition with
the most eminent professors of his now flourishing
art.

Ditto 4 per Cent 41
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cont. £ St ll2l 13
4Ditto 41 per Cent 9BA
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 911;
_
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 44/ 5 41
Dividends on the above:payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2 per Cent. 12 Guil 631
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ...
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols 94i I
Ditto December Account 94 i

CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held
yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sie James Graham, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William
Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. The Duke
of Argyll and the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived
in town yesterday morning from Windsor Castle, in
order to attend the Council.
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ships in Great Britain.
TICKET OF LEAVE CONVICTS.—Twenty-eight of the
convicts serving out their periods of transportation at
Woolwich, to which they were sentenced for offences
against the laws of this country, have received tickets of
leave, or free licenses, to reside in any place they chose
in this kingdom, and follow their callings, or any kind
of industry for which they may be fitted—twenty from
the Defence convict-hulk at the Royal Arsenal, and
eight from the Warrior hulk at the Dockyard. Thirty-
nine convicts have been sent to Woolwich, to make up
for the vacancies owing to the liberation of the twenty-
eight convicts, and other causes.
ROBBERY or NOTES AND WATCHES.—lnformation
has been received at the various metropolitan and city
police stations, of a daring Frolubnbkereytt, N
whicoh.
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Chester-
square, on the premises of Mrs. .
square, by the burglars breaking open the area door of
Parapets, broke open the attic window, an
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an empty house a few doors off, when theyd
commenced
packing up every valuable article. .
fivegot dpiosutunrdbnedo,tebau, tthteheynnsmucbceereda succeeded iwnhiteahlonarge away nine
13,517 ; two gold watches, one made by M`Cabe, No.
6,304, the other by Joli, of Brussels, No. 930, besides a
purse containing 14 sovereigns, and ther property with
which they succeeded in getting clear off. The police
are engaged in investigating the robbery. A reward
has been offered for the apprehension of the thieves.