The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

-EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS FOR
THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)
This exhibiting will be opened to the public this
rJorning at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as we hese had
already occasion to announce. Yesterday the pri-
vate view took place, and we had an opportu•
pity of inspecting the collection, which in many
points a remarkable one. Tee drawings and mode',
10 in number, are arranged in the great gallery on the
eastern side of the principal front, and in the] smaller
gallery on the northern side ; the drawings are by for
the best, and are contributed by the most emieent ar-
chitects of the capital ; the models, with one or two
exceptions, are of an inferior kind, and very clumsily
executed. This being an occasion on which the full
enthusiasm of national architects might be expected
to be displayed, we were not a little anxious to wit- '
ness tile efferts of what is on the whole as strong
a school of architecture as any in Europe ; but we
are compelled to confess that the number of really
grand and suitable designs is much smaller than we had
anticipated. Many of the plans sent in are evidently
the works of very young men, in which eccentricity has
been mistaken for originality, and in which much
more attention has been paid to tile isolated effect
of the tomb than to any attempt to harmonise
the erection with the magnificent budding in which it
is to be placed. As a general fault of nearly st'l the
drawings, wei may remark that of those which are not
Egyptian, or of other orders to which no possible de-
signation can be applied, the greater number are far
too Grecian either for the subject they are intended
to comnLmorate, or for the great dome under
which they are to be viewed. Some of them are beauti-
ful in all their details, and admirably drawn, and a few
come up to the level of what the country requires.
We shall single out the most remarkable, and
will commence with No. 24, on the left hand side
of the Eastern Gallery, by M. Duban, architect
of the edifice in which the plans are placed. It consists
of a s trcophagus, with richly decorated sides, supported
on a basis against which figures stand like pilasters, and
on which the names of the Emperor's victories
arc inscribed. A model accompanies the drawing ;
they are both of bold and severe outline, of Grecian
character, and on the whole confer much honour on
their author. M. Lassus has sent in a design of the
same description, No. 10. It is rather lighter in
outline than that of M. Duban, and is more delicate in
its details. The model which accompanies it gives a
very excellent idea of the plan, and like the preced-
ing design, furnished by M. Duban, is highly credit-
able to the architect's correct taste. In No. 25 M.
Lemaire has contributed a design in very good taste,
with the figures of the principal Marshals placed erect
round the Emperor's tomb ; at various parts occur bas-
reliefs of the principal victories of Napoleon, and on the
whole it would form a very practicable and not unsuit-
able monument. No. 37 is an anonymous drawing
of good design, only much too Grecian in its details;
and M. Bouchet, in No. 27, has sent in a similar de-
sign, to which the same remark applies. Both these
plans, however, are full of merit. No. 26 is a plan by
M. Gauthier, in which the Emperor is represented
under a canopy supported by pillars, sitting on the
rock of St. Helena, while on the dome of the canopy
he is standing in his Imperial robes ; a design at once
incongruous and unsuited for a monument. There is a
large and elaborate plan by M. Visconti, which, as the
architect has the ear of the Government, is not at all un-
likely to be adopted, independent of any other consider-
ation. His plan is to make a circular crypt or lower
chapel under the dome, open to the interior of that part
of the church, and surrounded by a balustrade. In the
midst of this is placed the Emperor's sarcophagus, and a
long approach to it is made through vaults under the
nave of the church and opening in the middle of the
great court of the Hotel. Over this opening, in the
court, a colossal equestrian statue of the Emperor in
bronze would be erected, and in the vaults would be
arranged the tombs of Marshals and Governors of the
establishment. There is a great objection to this plan,
arising from the heavy expense it would occasion. M.
Due has exhibited in No. 11 one of the most beautiful
designs we ever saw. It consists of a sort of a temple
in gilt bronze, with open-worked lattices between
the pillars, surmounted by an elaborate canopy,
and inclosing a porphyry sarcophagus with the Emperor's
remains. The decorations consist of crowns, the let-
ter N, and eagles. The temple is surrounded by a
circular marble enclosure with a balustrade, and two fe-
male figures in white marble are seated in advance of
the tomb, holding globes in their hands. The effect
is exceedingly beautiful and original, and it is one
of the most exquisite drawings we have ever
seen. Another design, and it is the boldest idea to be
a practicable one we ever heard of, is that by
?,I. 11. Labrouste. It consists of a subterranean
chapel, like that of M. Visconti's plan, in the midst of
the dome, in which the Emperor's sarcophagus would
be placed in the middle, with the imperial crown and
sword of Austerlitz at the feet, and the standard of
Austerlitz at the head ; over the top of this chapel is
placed an immense elliptical shield in gilt bronze,
of the most chaste antique design, resting on four
t ogles, and allowing the sarcophagus to be per-
ceived below. The shield is about 50 feet across in its
greatest length, is richly ornamented with laurel
wreaths, and has a large N. in the middle. The de-
sign, which is most elaborately drawn, has this great
excellence, that it does not interfere with the architec-
ture of the dome, but is of gigantic effect combined
with great simplicity. It is well worthy of inspection,
and will be found immediately on the left hand on
entering. Of the models in the second room, No. 55,
without any name, is a beautiful temple with a do-
mical top on which the Emperor stands, while under the
dome is his coffin, borne on the shoulders of soldiers.
No. 67 is a very chaste model, by M. de Ligny, a na-
tive of Corte, in Corsica, and the sculptures of it by
M. Guyrard, of the Institute. This is an exquisite
Italian tomb, and would be well worthy of a place any
where ; though, perhaps, it is hardly grand enough for
the subject.
The visitor will field colossal pyramids, obelisks,
globes, and all kinds of designs sent in ; some of the
very worst possible taste. One is curious, as being an
immense bronze eagle, with expanded wings, stretch-
ing all across the dome, suspended from the side-walls
by the tips of the wings, and holding the Emperor's
coffin in its claws, a kind of idea borrowed from the
fabled sepulture of Mahomet. There is one of a colos-
sal statue of the Emperor, in the Court of the luva-
lides, nearly as high as the Dome itself !—and many
other absurdities. We recommend all our readers who
can to hasten to this exhibition.

THE KIRK.
The Presbyterian Kirk of Scotland is equal
So said
in pro-
portion to the Church of Rome any day.
Lard Melbourne, in a recent debate regarding eccle-
siastical policy in Scotland, and the generality of people
p,eocplii
subscribe fully to the truth of the i:remark.r
test now depending between the majority of the Scotch
clergy and the supreme con: is of law in Scotlaed, is
viewed by many as proofs of great clerical presumption.
Oa the other hand, it is maintained by the clergy that
they acknowledge the supremacy of the law in all ques-
tions of temporal power, and merely seek to defend their
own spiritual jurisdiction. The dispute raves with
great keenness beyond the Tweed, and the settlement
of it must form another of the many measures to be
brought forward by the Peel Minis:ry in the wonderful
mouth of February, 1842. NVe shall trot interfere in
the meantime by offering any premature opinion ; but if
the Baronet of Saint Katharine's-410d be able to frhre
a 13.11 satisfactory both to the Kirk, e4l e patrons, an Ore
people, he will prove himself •ra creverer chief" than vc
supposed had ever stood in his sheis. He has, howeveri
by his speeches and letters at lislrecent election after
assuming the office of Lord Ad calve; excited the hopes
and fears of all parties. He was reported, first of all,
to have spoken of the Duke of ArgylE's Bill " as an in-
stainunt," He afterwards den*Ad ' having used the
words .
imputed to him,,but Wi6te in a way to leave
the For) Cabinet intended to grapple
an impression that
with she questing.
Under these circumstances the filling up of the second
collegiate charge in the parish church of Elgin, vacant
by the removal of
the Rev. Mr. Walker to another liv-
ing, attracts the attention of " braid Scotland," and,
being in the gift
of the Crown, the manner in which it
Secretary will bo taken as
is dealt with by the
of the \Vhig Government,
an index to the viewslioartehe Executive. The vacancy
occurred before the break u
Wi llacetown, agrceab:y to
and Lord Normanby proinisped to eive the presentation
to the Rev. Mr. Stewart, of
petitions so he was not
from the heritors, magistrates, town-council,
elders, and heads of families.
Government dur-
ing of the
only In doing
following out the con
Sir Robert) Peel,
ing all the years of Whig Administration, but that also
which had been adopted by Mr. (now
artment,
when Sectaary of State for the Home Dep
who alwasposed of the Crown patronage in Scotch
burghs according to the wishes of the t°7
-councils,
Rev. Mr.
when well supportiAl by the heritors. The
Topp, who succeeded to the first cellegiatme charge In
Elgin, a few years back, on the death of the Rlv.
Gordon, was presented to the living by tl:e Whig
'ferment, entirely in accordance with that principle
which has now been so long and uniformly followed out
in the disposal of Church patronage in Scotland in the
gift of the Crown as to be considered by the people in
the light of an established and settled practice.
The inhabitants of E!gir, therefore, naturally ex-
pected that the old rule would be adopted in appointing
a clergyman in room of the Rev. Mr. Walker ; and
being desirous that the Rev. Mr. Stewart should be '
placed over them in charge of' that important office, pe-
titions in his favour were forwarded to the Home-office,
signed as follows
I. By three-fourths of the male heads of families.
2. By all the elders, except one.
3. By the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council,
with only two dissenting votes.
4. By a majority equal to three to one of the burgh
proprietors, that is, of the proprietors of the town of
Elgin, containing a population, we believe, of nearly
6,000 sonic.

5. By the landward heritors or proprietors of the pa-

rise btyond the bounds of the toren, six cut of eight in
number, and in value as 4,600/. is to 1,600/.
A more decided and unequivocal demon tration of
the popular choice could not have been mate, and its
accuracy cannot be gainsaid. Lord Normanby looked
upon the case as admitting of no doubt, and had be re.
mained in office the presentation would have issued in
favour of Mr. Stewart. But his successor iu the Home-
office hesitates, neverthelcss, because Major Cumming
Bruce. the Tory Member for the county of Dgin, Mr,
Baiilie. the Tory Member for Inverness, and the noto-
rious Mr. Win. Gladstone, all friends to monopoly and
Tory rule, wish to give this piece of Church preferment
to some tool and toady of their own. All eyes in Scot-
' land arc, therefore, turned to the conduct of the Peel
Ministry in the disposal of it, because, from the result,
the people in that quarter will be able to form some opi.
nion of what they may expect hereafter from the tender
mercies of the men in power.—Chronicle.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MOANING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The examinations at the Mansion-house re-
lative to the Exchequer bill affair, have necessarily occu-
pied almost exclusively public attention, as people look
to that source now for something like authentic informa-
tion, instead of dealing with rumours and conjectures.
That judicial investigation, moreover, renders it ob-
viously improper to give circulation to many state-
ments which are current on the subject, as that might
interfere with the course of justice or prejudice the
parties accused.
On inquiry among the City banking-houses, it appears
that very slow progress is making to-day in the delivery
of Exchequer bills marked as genuine ; indeed, so much
so, that very great complaints are made on the subject;
and making allowance for dark days, as well as a slug-
gish rate of performance, the general belief is that the
investigation will last out the year. It is said that
Lord Monteagle manifests very great anxiety to con-
vince those bankers and capitalists who visit the
Treasury on this occasion, that his system of ma-
nagement is a very complete one, and, in fact, such as
to render fraud or an irregular delivery of bills quite
impossible. This in itself has in some instances made
a favourable impression on the parties ; but then they
naturally ask themselves whether that can possibly be
a good system which has produced results so notoriously
bad as those now before the public ? hence, however
plausible the Noble Lord may be, his efforts are treated
on the whole with a great deal of ridicule, and they
place him in this very awkward dilemma, that if his
system really was a good one, it was very badly admi-
nistered, so as to reduce it to a very defective or bad
one. It seems to remind people of what happened at
the Royal Exchange, when all the "fire-proof" chests
and boxes were found, when opened, to contain tinder
only, though in the newspapers of the same day there
appeared various advertisements from the makers of
" infallible fire-proof boxes."
The business in Stocks to-day was not large, but quo-
tations were pretty steady. In the early stage of deal-
ing an improvement of full per cent. upon the latest
values of yesterday were quoted, but they were not quite
so good at the close of the day.
CIIRONICLE.—The propriety of waiting upon the
Premier by a deputation of bankers and others, to re-
present the case of the bona fide holders of Exchequer
bills, has been discussed in the highest monetary circles,
and in the meantime postponed in consequence of the
apprehension of Rapallo, who was remanded for ten
days, after a lengthened examination at the Mansion-
house to-day, at which Mr. Perceval, the Deputy-Comp-
troller of the Exchequer was present. Mr. Perceval, it
is said, brought a parcel of bills with him, amount-
ing to 15,000/. or 16,0001., which he exhibited as
forged, stating that at first he had great difficulty
in dietinguiThing the genuine from the fictitious,
but that he now felt no such embarrassment, and
could at once detect the spurious bills. The only reason
we have heard adduced for this certainty of detection is
that the stamps on the fictitious bills are less vigorously
impressed on the paper than on the genuine bills, and
that there are private notches, or marks, in the margin
of the checks denoting the relative positions of the bills
in the books at the Exchequer-office. That there are,
for instance, three bills on each page, 1,2, and 3, and
that there is a corresponding mark on the corner of
each genuine Exchequer bill issued, which does not
exist in the spurious paper. This looks very like a se-
cond or after thought ; at least we cannot perceive
the sense of asking the holders to send up their bills
to be examined with the counterfoil, if the Comptroller-
General was possessed of private marks of any kind
by which he could at once detect the forgeries.
If this be the case, the Government notice should
have declared the fact at first, and intimated to the
public that those which were not genuine could be at
once distinguished, and that the others would bo im-
pounded or rejected as forgeries. This story of the pri-
vate mark goes far to prove that the Governfieent begins
now to feel the fallacy of the test of the counterfoil, and
that they must have stronger means of proof. The com-
parison of the counterfoil is not only untenable as a proof
of forgery, but it is evidently useless, unless every bill
were cut out separately. If two or more bills were cut
at the same time, a spurious bill might pass the test of
the counterfoil with impunity, and there might be vari-
ous bills presenting the same identical checks in
the margin, so as to correspond with the counter-
foil. But, apart from all risks and possibilities of
that description, let it be supposed that the signa-
ture " Monteagle" has been written, not by the
Comptroller-General or his deputy, but by Mr.
Beaumont Smith, which is the worst view of the case
possible for the holders, it seems very doubtful whether,
even in that case, the Crown would successfully main-
tain the plea of forgery amongst those who give a fair
value for the bills. In every respect, with the sole ex-
ception of the name, the spurious bills are genuine, the
watermark, the printing, the Government stamp, the
numbers, and every distinguiehing feature on which the
public could rely, or by which they were called upon to
judge, are genuine, official, done by Government order,
or by Government officers, and the only defect is said
to be in the writing of the name " Monteagle," which
on the genuine bills is admitted to have been
signed legally by three different persons. The
simple question to go to law about would be
whether the supposed evidence or confession of Mr.
Smith, that he signed the name Monteagle and used the
bills so signed for his own purpose, is or is not sufficient
to reject the claims of the innocent holders, on the
ground that the bills are forged. Whethee there be some
little corner notch or other private cut in the corner
of the paper, which shows the relative part of the book
from which the bills were cut or not, there can be eo
doubt whatever that the paper itself, the printing, the
numbers, and the stamps on the spurious hills are ge-
nuine. The only point, the only case for the Crown
is, whether the possible evidence or confession of Smith
be sufficient to prove forgery, coupled with the evidence
of Rapallo, and the opinion of the Comptroller-
General or his deputy, as to the false or genuine
nature of the signatures. Were the latter, how-
ever, crow-examined in the witness-box, it would soon
be proved that they could not tell their own- signatures if
shown a bundle of alts in which there was a mixture of
good and bad ; and as to Rapallo's testimony, as far as
we have yet seen, it only proves that he knew Smith's
necessities, and was not scrupulous about ascertaining the
means by which he obtained the bills. Even if Rapallo
should be finned cognisant of the manufacture of the
bills by Smith, we do not see that his possible guilty
knowledge could in the slightest degree impugn the
rights of the innocent holders. The question at issue
can be in no degree changed, as respects the bona fide
holders, by any addition to the number of parties who
may be implicated in the guilt of Sniith. The only case
for the Crown is still restricted to the mere legality of
the signatures, the disputed bills being in all other re-
spects clearly and indisputably genuine. The Commit-
tee of the Stock Exchange met yesterday and to-day,
to examine farther into the transactions of the suspended
brokkrs with Smith and Rapallo, but came to no decision.
SUN.—Our securities maintain a firm appearance, in
the absence of any perticular incentive to speculation, end
the investments just now are on bona fide account. To-
ilay the Market wits buoyant, and at one period Consols
ranged a per cent. ;Above the prices of yesterday, but
subsequently k percent. was the more general average im-
provement. For present transfer Consols closed at 88
to 89, and fur Account 89 to 89,1. Bank Stock was worth
164 - to 1651, and India Stock 246 to 247, being a rise of'
1 to -1
per cent. on the former, and to 11 per cent on the
latter. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth
9S-Te to 99k. and the Three per Cent. Annuities 87,i to SS.
India Bonds 2s. prem. to par.
In the Foreign Stocks there was only a moderate bu-
siness done, but prices were supported ; Brazilian went
higher. Spanish Active Bonds to day were marked 21,}
to 211 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. 291 to e 9 ;
the Three per Cents. 184.- to 14; Colombian 19 to 19 ;
Mexieaa 25k, and Peruvian 1315. Brazil Stock was quo-
ted 58 to 59 ; Belgian Bonds were 100 t, and Dutch 'Two-
and-a-Ilalf per Cents. at 511 to 51;'s.
In the Share Market there was a greater degree of ac-
tivity than usual, and many of the leading lines improved
TuNalue- Great Western went as high as 144 ; York
Brtilgto,ritilit,titilileaciitdo3it,daisicidoßluilrt!nilLgolniadnoinNaentdv -‘)N% psrtc;ltiih.i.!
ster Beek Shares •were- marked 1 prem.

ORANGE
The worst feature shout ult this outrage is,
IRE LAND
ON MR. MURPHY.
impression that it was a Roman
OUTR D.
pCatholicertra perpetrated
eluattledctrhatthitehethat it was
miscreantsii had in their hands,
and that it was an aged atxL
i;,.,.i.\\Te are not enabled,
were thus ill-treating and insult'
perpetrators of this
helpless
st
it:inviunt:hetiratofth
ighbourhood :ith‘e•
at present, to point out the culti
assembled
nt:farious act ; all we know i,4,
"entry of Tipperary and the Ile'
at Caher that day, for the races.
who
We understand that Mr. Murphy has made
appointed Mr.
statement of the whole proceeding to- Lord --i-F;,e a full
received him 'courteously, and, of course,arp(r-60-,—i(s)et'd
redress ; but what can he expect frorn Government
that makes Mr. Lefroy a Judge, and has
Brewsta. counsel at the Castle ?
Nothing can equal the indignation of the 10101, _ a
tholic 'community at this insult to one of their'll(l2 -
and most respectable members, to say nothing ostt•
war: thy
the intended outrage upon the most venerable Catholic
.
Bishop in Ireland.—Thiblin Evening Post.
____

The Dublin Statesman says, that the repeal
" reptile would do well to put in its horns and wait
quietly housed in its shell for better times." If this be
meant to imply better times for repealers, they will not
have to wait long under the present Government,
Patience, Repealers ! patience Chartists ! patience Re-
volutionists ! the Tories will do your work for you. No
receipt is so effectual to destroy a Government, as to in-
sult. oppress, and outrage the bulk of the people.
The large fortune and estates left by the late
Prince Butera, have devolved to Major Wilding of the
Hanoverian service, half brother of the Prince.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

rr.om THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
HERALD.—We have already expressed a very

- -
strong opinion that on the result of all the evidence as
yet before the public, a case of extreme lathes and un-
business-like management in his office of Comptroller
of the Exchequer attaches to the well-paid Lord Mont-
cale. Having watched with very great attention ail
the proceedings which have been subsequently taken in
the lam,ntabie affair of Mr. Beaumont Smith, end the

enormous depredations charged against him, we liment
to state that our opinion of the blameable deficiency
of his Lordship's " controlling- " administration of his
own department remains unsl:aken. We have net
Lean moved from it even by the plausible circulars
which have been issued under his Lordship's signa-

turc, impressed with all the cunning end fencing
though they be which arc so cVaracteristic of his
apelogetic genius. The first of these actually seemed
to claim, on the part of the Noble Cotnptruller,
same rner:t with the public for the parental and foster-
ing care with which he had adopted a process of exami•
nation and collation calculated to allay all unnecessary
anxiety in the minds of the holders of Exchequer bills,
in the shortest possible interval of time. To read it
no man, uninformed upon the premises, would suppose
it to be possible that the worthy gentleman who was
about to be so provident and prompt in informing the
victimised of the actual extent of their loss, was the

very party without whose culpable permission of a sys-
tem which appears to have been disgracefully lax and
imperfect—a system over which he was placed with
the express purpose of ectuptrolling and secur-
ing its operations, at a large annual stipend—that
loss never could have accrued, or at any rate

have existed so long without detection and expo-
sure. In the second of those circulars, the same

fidgetty Peer—busy, active, and garrulous as a
cackling hen on discovering the loss of half her brood
of chickens—surpasses himself in the sharp-witted but
complicated contrivances which he propounds, as glibly
as if he had tested and confirmed their ready working.

Here, a plan for checking the bills ; there a plan for
stamping them ; here a receipt with " his" signature,
(if anything can prevent Exchequer bills from falling to
a discount, this must be the very trick) ; there, a
crowning plan for exchanging the wrified bills against
the " sign-manuei" receipts. All this is very Rice-ish.
But lo! with the usual fate of the ex-Chancellor of the

Exchequer's plans,—fiscal, financial or "superficial,"
(his Lordship knows our meaning in this last epithet),
this Exchequer-bills-exchange-receipt-and-bill-issue
plan break down two or three days after its
enunciation. Then comes the third circular, with
an acknowledgment that the sublime invention set out
in its predecessor will not work quickly enough, in
spite of that considerate regard (which Whig chiefs
usually betray for the convenience of their clerks),
wherewith he finds it necessary to exact the attendance
of the latter at eight o'clock in the morning, to make
good the mischiefs which may have arisen during his
own absence of eight weeks, or some such period, in
twelve months from the scene of his own official
greatness. This last circular, accordingly, suggests
a modification of the infant " plan," at this early
period of its existence, and by a happy obscurity
of language confounds the notion of " fraudu-
lent issue" with that of " fabrication and
forgery" of the bills in question. But we trust that
innocent holders of such bills will not allow themselves
to be deceived by this sort of assumption. Lord Mont-
, eagle has happily not quits so much official power as
' that which he thought proper to exercise in contuma-
ciously refusing to act upon the recorded opinion and
desire of the House of Commons in more than one vote
to which it came for the settlement of the claims on
Denmark ; and for the capricious prejudice with which
he combated, in a spirit almost personal, the appeals of
some large claimants on the funds long since subscribed by
France for the compensation of the just demands of Bri-
tish claimants upon her, under treaty and convention. We
strongly suspect that there will be very few bills to which
unauthorised signatures will be found to attach, and
consequently very few for which, in the end, the Trea-
sury will not be liable. We have shown in two
former articles that for these bills to be valid, negotiable,
and (as in Aslett's case) recoverable securities they
need not carry genuine, so long as they bear officially
permitted or recognised signatures. By a case, which
will be found in our police report of the day, it would
seem that the palpable irregularities which every new
stage of the evidence published as to this Ex-
chequer bills affair developes, are likely to com-
municate their evil influence even to the magis-

terial bench. Yesterday a Mr. Ernest Rapallo,
aged forty-three, said to be a stock-broker, was
examined at the Mansion-house before Mr. Al-
derman Wilson. At the request of the clerk to the
Solicitor of the Treasury, Mr. Burnaby, Clerk to the
Magistrates at the chief office, Bow-street, read a state-
ment made by the prisoner (who was charged with
having been a confederate with "a person already in
custody" in issuing false and fabricated Exchequer Bills)
before Mr. Hall, the Magistrate, at an examination
which took place there, into the circumstances con-
nected with the recent extensive frauds, at the
Trea-
sary, on the 25th of last month. Mr. Burnaby did so,
after stating that the prisoner Mr. Rapallo came down
to the Treasury of his own accord, on that occasion, ac-
companied by another gentleman, after being repeatedly
admonished by Mr. Hall not to say anything which might
criminate himself, and that all he -did say would be
brought as evidence against him. Mr. Rapallo made the
statement, for the remarkable particulars of which
we refer to the report in question. lie admitted among
other facts that he had known Mr. Beaumont Smith for
many years—that he first introduced to him a Mr.
Solari, since dcccased,with whom Smith had large trans-
actions in the way of advancing Exchequer bills ; that
Solari dying about a year ago, Rapallo succeeded to the
" heaviest part" as he emphatically termed it, of a vast
speculation, and thereupon made an application to Mr.
Beaumont Smith to assist him, which was done
with—Exchequer bills :—that he had had various but
not many, transactions of this kind with him, the vety
last about three weeks ago to the amount of eighty-one
thousand pounds of bills—and the preceding ores to
the tune of between one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds and two hundred thousand pounds and one hun-
dred and thirty thousand pounds I—that in every in-
stance Smith had been most solicitous in insisting upon
the return to him of the same numbers as those he
lent ; that Mr. Rapallo had in all cases returned every
bill, of the same number, &c., as that which had
been lent to him by Smith ; that he knew Smith would
demand them of him every time the usual Government
advertisement for funding or paying off such bills, so
numbered, appeared : and that he never supposed the
bills were other than genuine : that it was no business
of his to inquire how they were come by ; that he sup-
posed there was no irregularity in it ; that when he
wanted Exchequer bills he addressed his letters of ap-
plication to Mr. Smith at the Comptroller of the Ex-
chequer's office, and that he knew what Mr. Smith's ap-
pointment was and what its salary. He admitted that in
the earlier part of these transactions from the time of
Solari, downwards, it had been agreed that Mr. Smith
was to have a share of the profits of the specula-
tion "if successful ;" and that the last applica-
tion he had made to Smith was for bills (on which
he raised money) to enable him to pay his dif-
ferences on speculations in Spanish Bonds. These,
as we have stated above, he declared he had re-
turned. Now the legal adviser of Mr. Rapallo con-
tended that that individual ought never to have been
apprehended :--that he had of his own accord, and
acting as a free agent, presented himself at the Trea-
sury, to afford every information in his power ; that he
had done so, moreover, under the advice of his legal
friend ; that he now confirmed his former admission of
the "statement" taken down at the Treasury before
Mr. Hell by Mr. Bureahy, the clerk ; and that inasmuch
as there was nothing before the magistrate to criminate
Mr. Rapallo in axe), charge of forgery, or fraudulent
issue of these bills, knowing them to be forged or
fabricated, there was no case for his detention. The
clerk of the S alicitor for the easury pressed
for his detention ; but on Mr. Burnaby's exami-
nation it appeared that he had rowels for " be-
lieving" Rapallo to have been implicated in the
fraudulent issue and as a confederate with the party
lording the bills. On further questioning, Mr. Bur-
naby said, "he eculd state of his own knowledge,"
(which a day or two ago Lord Monteaele and his
deputy could not do of theirs), that certain numbers
among these fraudulent issues were forged bills :
and that Rapallo was implicated in the examina-
tions which had been taken of another party not now
present.
esent The legal adviser of Mr. Itspallo—very
properly We think insisted that there was no
charge of forgery, or of fraudulent issue, knowing
the bills to be forged, against hit client ; and he also
demanded how Mr. Burnaby could be held compe-
tent to speak to the genuineness of Exchequer bills ?
We wait to see this objectein and this question an-
swered. We do not hesitate to declare (albeit we
have our own opinions of Mr. Rapidlo's statement,
conduct, and responsibilities) that there was nothieg
to justify the course finally taken against him yester-
day. It was urged by Mr. Maulsr's representative,
Mr. Raven and Mr. Bornaby that the party whose
admissions impteaterl Mr. Rapallo was then under
examination elsewhere. What of that ? On what
ground did Alderman Wilson refuse bail for Ra-
pallo? The worthy Alderman admitted,—on none :
but then, he said, there was so much excitement among
the public,—the news of the " fraud" met him in so
many quarters—that he must commit the prisoner !
R,ally, if the Alderman had been told that Lord
Howick, the privileged finder of mare's nests, had
recently discovered that Sir Robert Peel was not a
statesman of an enlarged mind, but that luckily for
spoke,ma
mankind his ill-mannered but %cry credulous Lordship'
was—the " intelligence" of which Alderman Wilson
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soner, and probably would have taken his legal adviser's
guarantee for his appearance. From a parenthetical
observation of our reporter, however, we conclude that