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London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

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257,505 31
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88,533 9
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28.275

675,811 17
151,845
1,302,098
1,377,354:
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105,778 16

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20.800

257,760 10
427 730
467.784
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152 467 25
202.000
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311,199.657 3

321,716,586 19

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DEATH FROM NEGLECT.--An inquest was held
before Mr. J. W. Cowley, OW of the coroners for Bucks, at
Shipton Lee, in that county, on the body of James Reed, a
middle-aged labourer, who bad, been.eMploy. ed on the Ayles-
bury railway, It appeared deceased rodged with a man named
William Harwood,
his decease he was taken ill. On Horwood
at Bierton, near Aylesbury, and that about
a week previous to
fiwto.dri3neg,
hh,e,diuditnioiLimpeoronvseultiinnahenanity medicalh,btitbeam
gentleman, decad,emoved the poor man from Bierton to Shipton Lees, his native
parish, a distance of 12 miles, in a common open cart, it rain-
ceindriey-
ilig the whole distance, and the deceased being at the same
time in a state of high, fever and insensibility. The conse-
quence was that be sur-ived only a few hours after his arrival
at Shipton Lee. A medical man was called in to attend him,
but the disease was too far advanced to render any professional
prudent.rernoval. The Coroner, in summing up, commented
aid of the least possible avail, and the medical man was of opi-
nion that his death was undoubtedly accelerated by the im-
very strongly on the brutal conduct of Ha-wood; and, although
there did not appear to be any WOO intention on his part to
hasten the pour man's death, it still became a most important
question whether, upon the evidence adduced, he was not
guilty of manslaughter. Putting it in the most favourable
light, he was grossly negligent in not calling in a medical man
before the removal. The Jury, after much hesitation, re-
turned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." At the
p
same time they begged to observe that they could not remove
from their minds a d„e impression that Horwood's conduct
was of the most revolting and disgusting nature, and that it
was very fortunate for him the evidence was not sufficiently
strong to warrant them in returning a verdict of manslaughter;
and they sincerely hoped that it would not only be a warning
to him, but to many others connected with great public works,
who werein the constant habit. of removing poor men to a
great distance in a state most unjustifiable.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held
last evening at Charing Cross Hospital on the body of a young
man named Edwards, whose death was noticed yesterday, as
having been occasioned by throwing himself from his bed-room
window into Adelaide-street, being at the time in a fit of de-
and the jury returned a verdict of
lirium, arising from illness. No additional facts were elicited,
"Temporary insanity."
The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday reiterates
its complaint of the ddatoriness of the Post-office Department.

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
TIMES.—It will be remembered that about two years ago
a project was started for the establishment of a Joint-Stock
Bank for India, which was not carried into effect in conse-
quence of the monetary crisis which followed. According to
a prospectus which has recently made its appearance, it would
seem the project is revived under the designation of the " Bank
of British Asia." In this document the want of banking
facilities in India is assumed without the enumeration of any
precise facts in proof, excepting those may be regarded in the
light which refer to the high rates of interest generally pre-
valent in that quarter of the world as elsewhere. But
high current rates for money may be referable to other
causes besides the actual scarcity of money, or the ab-
sence of banking facilities, as, for example, to instance
no other exception, they may be owing to the change-
able or unsafe value of property and securities of
any kind, from political or whatever other causes arising. The
rates of interest are high in many countries under different
circumstances, such as in Havannab, where they range from
10 to 25, and even 30 per cent. per annum ; yet it will not be
denied that there is perhaps scarcely a city in the world where
capital is more abundant. The rates of interest have been
also high, if now not so much so, in the United States, which
generally could not have been the effect of want of credit or
capital. In countries where the rate of profits is high, the
value of money, as of any other commercial instrument of ex-
change, will rise in proportion ; and on the contrary, as in
Holland, where both profits and interest are on a low scale.
But it may be collected from various passages of the pro-
spectus, that a species of commercial dealing also is con-
templated for the " Bank of Asia," at least such is the
sense in which such passages will be understood as those
where it is stated that the objects of the Bank, among others,
will be to " encourage by prudent liberality the export of
British and Irish cammodities, or to increase the use of
European manufactures, and to promote the growth and im-
portation of colonial productions," &c. ; the " difficulty and
delay in sales of goods" are to be obviated, and " any goods
or property held in security shall be collateral ;" from which
it would result that advances are intended to be made upon
commodities or goods, which would invest the bank at once
with the character of a commission establishment. One of
theAlelge 1/24e4roinoters is avowed to be the " circulation
of notes," or, in other words, the creation and extension of a
paper money circulation.
It is not exactly clear what advantages will be derived to
India from the introduction of what is called capital in such a
shape, fur this would imply that the intent was not to introduce
capital so much as to establish a system of trading upon credit,
and dispensing as far as possible with capital. It may be observed,
that if banks of discount and deposit, or the extension of
ti.cm, would be a convenience and means of security in India,
as they might be, the more regular coarse would be to feel
the way to such establishments from hence by previous inter-
cGuree or correspondence with capitalists in that country,
where such exist, both British and native; the latter more
especially, possessed of wealth adequate to enterprises of any
extent, and with local knowledge, the result of experience,
adequate to secure their success, which can only be acquired
by long experience on the spot, the absence of which in the
managers or parties interested in any speculation could never
be compensated, even by the command of a large mass of sub-
sctibed capital, which, spread over a wide field of operations
in a comparatively unknown country, would be more liable to
a variety of risks not foreseen, and therefore not provided

against.

CH RONICLE.—Thrre is still much more business than
usual going on in Spanish Securities, and various rumours con-
tinue current as to the cause of the recent rise ; but we have
not been able to learn an)thing authentic on the subject, and
refrain, therefore, from giving publicity to what may, perhaps,
have no foundation. From the extensive purchases which
have been made by some of the leading hankers, it would, how-
ever, appear that there is something on the lapis.
We continue without any arrivals of moment besides the
usual daily mails, and the wind. being in the east, there
is a probability of our being for some days without anything
further.

POST—The only circumstance of the least interest which

:ranspired during the day in this part of the town related to
he corn averages, and the receipts at the Treasury far the
current quarter. It WAS reported that upon the making up of
the public accounts on the 10:h instant, an improvement of
more or less amount would be the almost certain result, as
compared with the returns f,r. the corresponding quarter of
last year, and that such will be the case is hardly to be
.ques-
tioned, as fortunately there has, within the period specified,
been a gu,ater, degree of activity in every branch of our national
industry than for many months preceding. With respect to the
corn averages, it appears that the price of wheat for the week
ended the 28th of last month, was Vs.lld., and for the six weeks
terminating on the same day, 68s. 7d. per quarter. The
duty is consequently declared to be now 16s. Bd. per quarter.
As prices ar,, still rattier upon the advance than otherwise in
Mark-lane, it is highly probEble that the importations from the
corn growing countries in the north of Europe may be perse-
vered in for some time longer, and, should any considerable
e,ll tutity be cleared at or about the high rate of duty this day
established, Mr. S. Rice may congratulate himself upon so
important and so seasonable an accession _of revenue with
which to cover in some measure the deficiencies of the Bud.
get. However sever,Ay the heavily-taxed farmer or land
proprietor may suffer from the competition of the foreign
corn grower, whose commodity is, comparatively speaking,
free from all fiscal imposts, a windfall of this nature, com-
ing as it does at a moment of embarrassment, will be very
sure to be welcomed by the. Right Honourable Gentle-
man and his colleagues with a smiling countenance. It
has bean shown by the late Corn Exchange Reports, that the
price of wheat is gradually though slowly rising in the Lon-
don market, and this in the face of the most gratifying ac-
counts from all parts of the country, as well as from the Con-
tinent, regarding the crops ; but as such a *state of things
must be the mere effect of speculation, it can scarcely fail but
that the parties engaged in the traffic will, as we have ven-
tured to anticipate, find themselves saddled in the end with
vary serious, if not absolutely ruinous, losses. The impression
of well informed persons seems still to be that the crops of
wheat will turn out to be at least an excellent average both in
England and on the Continent, while barley and some other
articles of grain are uncommonly abundant. From the United
States and the British American Colonies the accounts of the
harvest arc not less encouraging than those received from other
quarters. .
The Belgian papers mention tlvit some considerable loss
has been sustained by the gamblers in Spanish Bends at Brus-
sels and at -Antwerp by a fabricated report of the Carlist city
of Estella having fallen into the hands of Espartero. The
Bonds in question are altogether a disreputable thing to have
any concern in, and we confess we sympathise but little with
those individuals, either in Belgium or elsewhere, who have
suffered by the desperate game they have so long been playing
in them. The holders here are said to be placing their chief
reliance once more on an accommodation being effected be-
tween the usurping Government and Don Carlos.

HERA LD.—By the recent advices from our West Indian
settlements we find that, in consequence of the perfect eman-
cipation of the negroes, the demand for silver coin of all de-
nominations had so vastly increased that the planters were put
to the greatest inconvenience in order to obtain small coins
wherewith to pay the wages of their now free servants, and
that it has, in consequence, been contemplated by some firms
in the West India trade here to send out tokens, or checks,
the denomination of the different amounts of the colonial
currency, which, on, the credit' of the estate from whence
they were to be issued to the negrcics, would pass current
with the tradesmen with whom they dealt, and would be
redeemed by the attorneys of the estate when they arrived
at a sufficient amount to be liquidated in bank currency.
There are, however, some very strong objections to the
adoption of this mode of supplying the deficiencies in the
local currency of the different islands ; in fact, the plan
is on a par with the " 7ommy ticket" system of the Staf-
fordshire and Lancashire manufacturers a f, w years ago,
and equally open to the same abuses, if not more so. 13t,t
our clear-sighted Whig Ministry are more to blame than tIL_,
plant: rs, who thus have conti.mplated to create an adjusting
currency, for which they ought to have previously provided ;
since it is well known that the point was strongly pressed upon
them many months since. At the eleventh hour, we under-
stand, Government have resolved upon taking some steps to
remedy this great inconvenience, and at this time we believe
coins suitable to the colonial currency are preparing at the
Mint, but this act of justice to the Colonists was not thought
of until after strong remonstrances froiii the West Ulan body
bad been made. _ _

~A
few
cia},;kgo we noticed bow much the promotion of in-
ternal navigation and railroads throughout the •United States
had advanced the commerce of that country. In reference to
this important improvement in the march of internal com-
merce, and in support still further of what we then advanced,
we draw the attention of.our commercial readers to the follow-
ing extract from the Pittsburg Paper, a Pennsylvanian journal,
received by the last at rival, which fully explains the advan-
tages that have been obtained for the commerce of the United
States by a perseverance in extending internal canal naviga-
tion and rail-road communication

The steatn. boat Hudson has arrived here with a full
cargo of tobacco, destined for the Philadelphia market, which
she received at Nashville, and at Cairo, Tennessee, 90 miles
above Nashville, on the Cumberland river. The tobacco is
now going forward by canal. The freight hither from• Nash.
vile, ow this shipment, is eight dollars per hogshead ; as hogs!.
heads from the Cumberland river generally average about
fourteen hundred pounds each, the cost per hundred pounds to
this point is 57 cents. The expense here will be about 75
cents. per hogshead, or say six cents. per 1001bs., and the
freight hence, by canal, 87 cents., making the total cost to
Philadelphia from Nashville one dollar and fifty cents. per
hundred pounds. Let it be borne in mind that, owing to the
embarrassments of trade, and a diminished transportation of
goods westward, freight on the article, and indeed on all pro-
duce hence to Philadelphia, is 40 per cent. higher now than
heretofore. Tobaeco, which could be delivered in Philadel-
phia last year for 62 cents., pays a freight this year of 87 cents.,
notwithstanding a liberal reduction of tolls; the freight from
Nashville too is higher than may hereafter be demanded ; yet,
under all these disadvantages we see important shipments of
tobacco have been made from the head of navigation on the
Cumberland to Philadelphia, by way of the Ohio river, Pitts-
burg, and the Pennsylvania canals."
It is generally understood that the present quarter's revenue
will exhibit very considerable improvement, not only in consez
quence of the late payments for duty on the importation of
foreign corn, but from an increase in the excise duties. T
favourable circumstances, so far as an extension in the public
mblie
revenue is considered, has, however, bad but little_
pressure for
oTII
upon our public securities. There is still a P
money out of doors, and in the For, ign n r
Exchanges, it is worth from 3 to 4 per cent, from day to day.
on Stock
the