The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-19 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

We havf received the Paris-Papers of Wed-
nesday. The Ministerial Journals boast, and
we hope and believe that they boast justly, of
the progress made by France in internal improve-
ments and general prosperity since the peace. It
is the interest of every nation, and especially of
Great Britain, as the wealthiest and most com-
mercial of nations, that. the whole world, and
every part of it, in particular, should thrive and
flourish. The richer all other people may be,
' the more they will contribute to the growth of
our capital. We read, therefore, without repin-
ing, the declaration, that " industry has for se-
veral years in France been receiving an ex-
tension which becomes daily more ant more
important. Roads are opened in all parts
of the kingdom ; canals are dug, bridges
built, manufactories erected, mines of coal and
metals are opened ; and France is covered with
more commodious and more elegant dwellings ;
the number of which built annually for five and
six years is tenfold that of any period for more
than a century before." It is by results such as
these that the blessings of peace become palpable
to all countries, and that in these days the longer
it continues the more powerful are the interests
concerned in prolonging it. The genuine princi-
ples of commercial intercourse between nations
begin to be understood and admitted by all. By
the extracts from the Quotidiennc, it appears that
the absurd and mischievous custom-house war
between France arid Sweden is at end, and that
the two kingdoms are about to adjust their corn-
mercial relations on sound principles. The Echo
du Midi announces that the Session of the Cham-
bers will open between the 15th and 125th of
February. The private correspondence of the

French Papers from Spain would dispose us to
expect after all that the Duke del Infantado wilt
prove the devoted instrument of the apostolic
party. There is a great mass of pretended news
from Greece in these papers, but it supplies us with
few additional facts worthy of credit. Redschid
Pacha still remained before Missolonghi, but there
was no reason to apprehend that he could, be suc-
cessful at this season of the year. The Albanians
have deserted him, and famine and fatigue daily
increased the general discontent of his army.—
Ibrahim Pacha is stated to have summoned the
Greek Government to evacuate Napoli di Ro-
mania before the arrival of his reinforcements
from Egypt. If they do not capitulate before
that period, be threatens to storm the town and
put all the inhabitants to the sword. In conse-
quence of this menace, it was supposed the
Greek Government had resolved to withdraw to
the islands of Salimino or Egina. We must not
forget, however, that all this intelligence comes
to us through those German papers which are
avowedly hostile to the Greek cause. The
French Funds are improving as well as our own.
The Five per Cents. advanced on Wednesday
40c., and the Three per Cents. 50c. During the
late panic on the Paris Exchange, it is said the
sellers were principally small holders, whose
losses have consequently been felt very severely.
The alarm was at one time quite as great as any
thing that has lately been witnessed in Capel-
court.

[NEW TIMES.]
The result of yesterday's operations may be
said to be, upon the whole, favourable ; but, pro-
perly considered, it proves nothing but The inti-
mate connexion that exists between the French
and English Money Markets. Consols had been
on Thursday as low as 85, but yesterday they
advanced, notwithstanding some very heavy sales
which were effected for the evident purpose of
beating down the Market. The sustaining cause
was the arrival of French Expresses with the
price of 68f.40c. for the Three per Cents., which
is fully one per cent. better than they were two
or three days ago. Consols opened at 85i for
Account, and closed at 8511.—1 n the Foreign
Market the fluctuations yesterday were consider-
able : Colombian Bonds of 1824 were, at one
period of the day, up to 66, but left off at 644 ;
Mexican (1825) had reached 722, but closed at
70. French Rentes opened at 98. 50., closed at
98, and upon the whole it may be said that the
Foreign Securities left off worse than they began
the day. In the Share Market business was
nearly stagnant.

[MORNING HERALD.]
A Bradford Paper, alluding to the late dissen-
tions between the masters and their workmen,
says—" It is now ascertained, that the number
of men, women, and children, out of employment
amounts to no less than 3,280 ; and as the Union
funds admit of but one shilling a week to
each man, and two shillings if there be a large
family, it is obvious that the sufferings and
privations of these individuals must be great."—
This comes to what we not long since said—
that Governments have nothing to do with com-
binations, but to let combinators have their
own way, so long as they do not proceed to
actual violeuce, or squirting vitriol in peoples'
eyes. Combinators themselves will effect a
cure for combinations. I t is evident that the
wives and children of these combinators will
not let the latter proceed much longer in their
career. Two shillings a-week for a man, his
wife, and family, will not do much, so that the
combination fund must soon break up. It Is
lucky for the masters that the Parliament is not
sitting, or it might be doing some stupid thing
to protract the ending of the combination mania.
We should like to know whether the mas-
ter manufacturers go on educating the little
girls and boys belonging to the combinators.—
Mr. Brougham says that the education of the
poor is a cure for all political evils. We hope
the Bradford master manufacturers agree with
Mr. Brougham ; but in this case, will education
fill the void in the stomachs of the weaver, his
wife, and their children, caused by the difference
between two shillings a week and twenty shit-
Hugs a week? We should like Mr. Brougham
to resolve this position when he next makes one
of his speeches on the blessings attending the
teaching every body to read, write, and cast up
accounts.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Lord Chancellor was, on Thursday, par-
ticularly great on two of his favourite subjects of
complaint—the publication of ex-parte state.
meets, and his own expulsion from Lincoln's Inn
hall at three o'clock. With regard to the first
point, his Lordship said, that he had observed
a hundred times, that when he first came into
Westminster Hall, no publications were allowed
until the whole case was completed ; adding,
that how the law has been altered in this re•
spect was more than he knew. Had his Lordship
considered the effect of this doctrine once,
instead of repeating it a hundred times, he would
have perceived that it would operate to the sup-
pression of nearly all reports of Chancery pro-
ceedings under the best of Chancellors. If no
publications were allowed until the whole case
was completed, it is pretty evident that we
should have to wait till the day of judgment for
the report. The completion of a case in Chan-
cery is an event which mortal man cannot ex-
pect to see, and therefore, as by the terms of
our brief existence, we are debarred from the

hope of seeing the whole of a case, we must,
perforce, content ourselves with such glimpses
of the progress of the suit as we can ob-
tain and derive from these observations some
idea of the machinery of Equity. How it
happened, that when Lord Eldon first went
into Westminster Hall, cases were only publish.
ed, when wholly completed, it is difficult to
understand ; for no Chancellor ever dispatched
business so rapidly as his Lordship (see The
Quarterl2 Review), and we all know that such a
rule would now amount to a total suppression
of publication. Large properties, such as get
into Chancery, are what the French cooks call
good pieces of resistance, and it takes a long
tune to get through them, and before they are

wasted they are not ripe for judgment. When
we hear the dseless clamour, then; about the de-
lays in Chancery, we always think of the answer
which the Clown gave to the Farmer, when
he was rebuked for wasting an immoderate
time in eating the Farmer's huge Cheshire
cheese, which had been set before him for
a luncheon, " Sir," said the fellow, as he
perseveringly munched away, " it takes a
greater time than you think to vat .up such
a large cheese as this." So it is in Chancery ;
it takes a greater time than parties imagine to
swallow up their properties, and people do not
reflect that the Court, like the Clown, sits down
to gorge nothing less than the whole of the good
thing before it. With regard to tl)e second com-
plaint of the Chancellor on Thursday, touching
his expulsion from Lincoln's Inn Hall, we have
only again to remind him, that the Court at
Westminster is now finished, and that. no bounds
will be set to his sittings there, where no dining
hours will shorten his hours of business, or inter-
fere with his devotion to the business of suitors.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A MEMBER OF THE STOCK

EXCH AN GE.

MANSION-HousE.—Yesterday a Stockbroker was brought
before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having appropriated
to his own use the sum of 3001. which had been entrusted to
his care for the purchase of Stock in the Consolidated Three
per Cent. Annuities.—The Rev. Henry Hodgkinson, of Arbor..
field, in the county of Berks, gave testimony to the following
effect :—He had been in the habit of taking money from Mrs.
Elizabeth Howard, of Reading, in the county of Berks, widow,
to London, for the purpose of investing it in the public fiends,
and had several times employed the prisoner, who is a Stock-
broker in the City of London, to make purchases in the stocks
for that lady. On the 16th day of March, Mr. Hodgkinson
was in London, and called at the office of the prisoner, but
not finding him at home, left an order in writing, directing him
to purchase stock in the Consolidated Three per cent. Annui-
ties to the amount of 3001. in the name and on account of Mrs.
Elizabeth Howard. Mr. Hodgkinson also left notice that he
would call on the following day, and pay the amount of
the purchase. On the 17th of llarch he accordingly did call
at the office of the prisoner, who informed him that he had
made the purchase required, and gave. to him an account
thereof, which Mr. Hodgkinson believed to bear the signa-
ture, and to he in the proper hand-writing of the prisoner.
Mt. Hodgkinson, having looked over the account, paid the pri-
soner the money, amounting to the sum of 230/. 17s. Gd. con-
sisting of Bank of England notes, and notes 'of 'the bank of
Messrs. Stephens, Harris, and Stephens, of Reading. The
prisoner promised to forward.the stock receipt on the following
day to Mr. Hodgkinson, but that gentleman never received it,
and therefore wrote to the prisoner, complaining of the delay,
and requesting that it should be forwarded. He received by.
return of post the following letter :
" London, March 21, 1825.
" DEAR SIR—I am sorry to find by your letter this morn-
ing that you have not received Mrs. Howard's stock receipt.
I sent it to a friend on Friday, requesting him to procure a
frank, and forward it for me, but which I am fearful he ne-
glected to do. I have sent to him this morning, but am in-
formed he will not be in town till tomorrow, when I will call
and see that the receipt is forwarded, if not already done.
" I remain, dear Sir, your's, truly obliged.
" The Rev. H. Hodgkinson."
Mr. Hodgkinson believed this letter to be in the hand-writ-
ing of the prisoner. He, however, never received any receipt
from the prisoner ' • and after be found that the acknowledg-
ment was not forthcoming, he went to the Bank, where he soon
ascertained that the stock described had not been purchased at
all. The prisoner appeared to be astonished at' hearing of this
circumstance, but said it was too late to rectify- the error which
no doubt his clerk had made that day. The ratification, how
ever, never took place.
A clerk of the Bank of England stafed that Mr. Hodgkinson'
called to make inquiry about Mrs. Elizabeth Howard's account,
and upon referring to the books it was found that no entry had
been made—that no transfer had been made of the kind men-
tioned.

The Solicitor for the prisoner here submitted, that the pro-
secution could not be supported, inasmuch as Mrs. Hovlard had
instituted civil proceedings for the recovery ,of the money, and
an action was now pending.
Mr. Butler, clerk to Mr. Harmer, said, that by the Act for
the punishment of offenders of the description' now before the
Lord Mayor; the injured person could seek for both civil and
criminal means of redress.
The LORD MAYOR said the case was a clear one.
Mr. Hodgkinson, in speaking of the transaction to the Lord
Mayor, said he had, sonic months ago, lent the sum of 300!. to
the prisoner, out of his own pocket, to relieve him in his ne-
cessity. That money he considered totally lost. He certainly
attributed the conduct of the prisoner to misfortunes arising
from adverse speculations in the Stock Exchange during the
rage fir the possession of shares, and he had never betbre ex.
perienced any injury upon his own part, or the part of a
friend, from him. The prisoner's father, and the prisoner him-
self, had done business for him for 20 years.
The priioner's Solicitor assured the Lord Mayor that the un-
fortunate young man's calamity had been attributed to the right
cause. He requested, arid it was with the consent of Mr. Haig-
kinson, that his client should be remanded for a day or two ;
he said he was convinced that by that time something more fa-
vourable would appear in the case.
Mr. Hodgkinson humanely declared that he had not the
slightest objection, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded
until yesterday.
When the case came forward for re-examination yesterday,
no person appeared against him, whereupon
The LORD MAYOR said he had remanded the prisoner at the
uegent request of several persons of respectability, anti particu-
larly at the request of the prosecutor himself, who seemed to
take a humane interest in the situation of the young man. His
Lordship observed that he could well conceive why the injured
parties forebore to attend, but the case, upon the depositions
laid before him, appeared to be of such a nature, that he
thought it his duty to order the prisoner to find bail to answer
to the charge that might hereafter be made against him at the
Sessions.

The prisoner was then bailed in two sureties for 561. each,
and was discharged.
The Loan .MAYOR, when the case was thus disposed of,
said, he should in future be very cautious how he discharged
persons against whom charges of so serious a nature were
brought, except he saw there was a palpable deficiency of
evidence.