The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

THE
.SUN, LONDON THURSDAY,JUNE 17, 1841.

Britain is -o be found. It is there that an antidote has
been silently. prepared for all the errors of cur modern
commercial policy ; and it is by confounding the
ro*M.ll of our distant colonies, and the immense trade
which hits sprung up from their influence, with the
effects of the reciprocity system in our intercourse with
the European States, that its advocates have Lem able
to conceal from the world the real tendency or their sys-
tem. The number of ships built for the United King-
dom and its pOssessions in Europe is just about the same
as it was twenty-five years ago, while that for the trade
for the colonies, during the same period, has nearly
quadrupled."
---When we, find our foreign trade so stationary, even
according to the opponents of it, it is high time, we
should attempt to resuscitate it, by ecery po 3 3ible means.
Ted was flat this afternoon. Coil' any's Congctt at
ls. 51d.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
I.lVErrooi, COTTON MA MX F.T. t; NE 15,—This beinly,
Tuestlar, and Manchester Market day, we had but a limited
business done in the Cotton market. The sales in.,: 2,5(0 bales
to the trade, at steady Fins
LIVEXPOOL SHARE 111.11LKET, JVNE 15.—The trat.sactions
at the Stork Exchange this day hare been extremely Imited,
and the rates still continue exceeding)y dei4rEss"d :
Liverpool and Manchester, 193; London and Birmingham,
old Third Shares, t.'314.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 15.—Our "nuke!
still continues inanimate. London and liiiminghain, iv 9 ;
Grant Western, 9112 92 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 62; Man-
chestm and Leeds 53 ; Illancheiter and Birmingham 23k;
North Midland Thirds, 6; Union Bank of Manchester, i 4.

Consols opened this morning at the leavinz off prices of
yesterday, and may be quoted. at 891 for th::, Account; Re-
duced, 89; Exchequer Bills, 5 7 premium ; Bank Stock, 167
169 ; India 80nd..,, 2 dis., 2 preen.
In the Foreign Market all the prices are nominal as vet :--
Spanish Active as they left off ./2ii a; Deferred, 10:7%. 11,
Passive, .514 ; Portuguese, 33%; Three per Cents. 19:f 0;
Brazilian, 671.2 681; Colombian, 211 ; Mexican 274 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cows. 9912 100.
SHARES.—Great Western, 261 271.1 prem. ; New, 123
prem. ; London and Brighton, 54 5 dis. ; Blackwall, 7 6
dis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prcm. ; .Soutlympton, 54 55 per
share ; Croydon, 1314 14 per share ; Greenwich, 7tl B.i per
share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 17 16 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 160 ......
Ditto Nev 2% 3
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Liverpool and Manchester .....100
London and Brighton i 9
London and lllackwail ...... 25

London and Birmingham . : .... 90
London and South Western le& .. to 53i
South Eastern and Dover

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial ...

We have a dead calm in the
.City to the present hour; but
in the funds, commercial affairs, and intelligence. aithough
money continues at an easy rate, there is not the least specula-
tion undertaken; consequently we are in a very dull state.
'I he Tories and \Vhigs are chiefly employed in reading Lord
John's speech at the London
.Tavern, and upon which there
are various opinions, according to their political principles.
Up to the present hour there is not a feature in the British
Market worth communicating. Cooso's remain at the leasing
off price of yesterday, 89A for the Account ; Reduced, 89! ;
Three-and a-Half per Cents. Reduced, a shade loser, 976,
have been 98; Exchequer Bids, 4 6 prem ; Bank Stock, no-
thing done.
In the Foreign Market only five quotations; it continues
in the same sombre state as that of the British. Spanish Ac-
tive, 24 ; Deferred, 11 ; Portuguese, nothing done; Russian,
131; Danish, 78; Dutch, also nothing doing.
In the Share Market scarce anything doing. Great Western,
91 ; Ditto Fiftl s, 10f, ; Liverpool and Manchester, 1991 ,
London and Brighton, 441; ; London and Birmingham, 157 ;
Londoa and South Western, 534.
Money is said to be scarce at 5 to 7 per cent., but it is to be
hoped the pressure arises from a revival of trae its some par-
ticular departments, rather than from this wants of elec-
tioneering rgents. The unfunded debt feels the influence of
tho demand for money more than Consols.
The rumour circulated yesterday about the President has no
foundation. 'I he men picked up off the coast of North Ame-
rica are proved to have belonged to the William Brown.
The influential men in the City are busy with electioneering
matters. Lord John Russel's success, after the result of the
glorious meeting yesterday, is considered more certain than ever,
notwithstanding the attempts made to cast reflections upon the
character and standing of the immense and highly respectable
assemblage—one of the most gratifying, indeed, that has been
held in the City for a long time, both as respects unanimity
and enthusiasm.

Consols. Acccunt, 89. No alteration in the . Foreign
Funds, and nu business ‘%hatever doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... -- India Stock

—...... .
3 per Cent Red. B9 Ditto Bends
3 per Cent Cons :— Ditto Old Annuities ...
311 per Cent Red.
New 3 per Cent 9B; Ex. Bills, 1,000/....‘2id 6pm
New 5 per Cent — i Ditto 500/ 5 pin
Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto Small lo pm
J ari. 1860 l2l 'Bank Stock for Acct...
Ca. 1659 :lndia Stock for 0pg,....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — 'Ditto, New Ditto
Bramlian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent !Russian, 5 per cent ll3l
Chilian, 6 per cent ;Ditto, Metallic '
Colombian; 6 per cent.- !Spanish, 5 per cent 22i
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ll
Danish, 3.p& 'cent.— 78 ;French, 5 per cent. —I —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. ;Exchange —..f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per, cent..... 27 French, 3 per cent -AI. -c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. i Dutch, 21 per cent.-,, ...
• Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 991
SHARES , , .
Birmingham and Gloucester Railw av (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (21 paid) ......... ..... 3
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Great Western Railway (65.ptid )
~
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 62
Ditto Filth C 4 paid) lO4
Gosport Junction Railway (40.0)
Liverpool and Manchester (100 paid) 199;
London' and Brighton (50 paid)... 44
London and Blackwali Railway (25 paid) lB
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 157
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 24
London and South Western
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... Isi

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 12.—One of the principal com-
mercial houses littie has commtmicated to us the follow-
ing extract from the Hamburgit Courant :-
4' limmunGH, JUNE ,7 friend has communicated
to us the following intelligence from Singapore to the
9th of April,- and from Batavia to the 12th of March,
which have come- overland. It was said that in the be-
ginning of March there were new and great embarrass-
ments at Batavia, in consequence of which all the mer-
chants' houses in that place insisted that the exchange
debts should be converted into value in account current,
in Order..,fe- be paid at periods to be afterwards fixed.
This sacrifice, required by the shareholders of the Bank,
has caused i , great sensation. The necessity of this
measure is proved by the fact that u the Bank shares,
which two years ago were not to be had for 1,800 florins,
.might have-been.- had for 10 florins, if the capitalisation
had not been atropted. This has been done, and ail neces,
sary steps have been taken to render the payment
of the debts as easy as possible, and it is thus
that not only the shareholders, but the Bank
itself are relieved from their embarrassments. The
time for payment was not yet fixed, but it was supposed
that it would be seven years with six per cent. interest,
and the clause that such debtors should not discount
with the Bank. On the 24th of February a revolt sud-
denly broke out in Sumatra, in consequence of which
the only road to the north by the mountains was inter-
cepted by the natives. Fort Ducock was invested, and had
water for only five -.days ; the inhabitant's of Tigsblas,
near Pada*, were still quiet, but the Europeans re-
mained seten. miles from Padang, and all the ships were
detained in order to take them on board in case of
danger."
We have received from Batavia direct news of the 6th
of March, the authenticity of which we answer for, and
-which-say..that five great commercial houses in that city
have stopped payment, and that the general embarrass-
ments which has been thereby caused had led to a gene-
ral assembly of the proprietors of the Java Bank, in
which -it was resolved that the - bank should withdraw
and destroy all the papers of the bankers' houses, and
should debit them for the amount with six per cent.
interest to be gradually repaid at intervals to be deter-
minedt the said houses engaging not to put any new
.paper into
.circulatiam till the liquidation shall be ended.
This arrangement has given great satisfaction at Batavia,
and his Exeellency the Governor-General has guaran-
teed the permanent circulation of the Bank paper.
No mention is made in this-last account of an insur-
re:Alen-in Batavia, as spoken of in the Hamburr,h Cou-
rant; however, we do nut positively knoiv whether news
from Sumatra of. the 24th of February, could have been
received at Batavia on the 6th of March. We learn
from persons acquainted with the country that so im-
portant :apiece of. news might have been received at Ba-
tavia in the time specified.
AMSTERDAM, JUNE 14.—We are still of an opinion
that if there had been such a serious revolt in Sumatra
on the 24th of February, it must have certainly have been
known at Batavia on tile 6th of March, of which day we
communicated direct accounts from that city, which
make no mentioraof it—Hande/ablad, June 14 and 15.
HAMBURCH, JUNE I.—Councillor Von Hufenden,
Hanoverian'Deputy in the Stade Commission, left our
city a few days ago, and returned to Hanover. The two
English Deputies, Messrs. Ward and Hanbury, are still
here. . The negotiations are not concluded, as has been
reported, but merely delayed for some time, because the
Hanoverian Government objects to the great reduction
of the Stade toll which is required by Great Britain. It
seems that Mr. Ward entirely disputes the validity of
the rata of the toll existing since 1891, whereas Hanover
affirms that it was approved by the Commission which
met at Dresden in the tanne year. It is therefore be-
lieved that the Elbe. Navigation Commission will be
assembled this year either at Dresden. or Magdeburg,
when' the question of the Steele toil will be the subject
of farther negotiation. (We refer to the following
letter)
Haahat7acin .TUNE 3.—We hasten to acquaint you
with an event respecting the Stade toll which will not a
little surplice the Mereantileworld. Though thisis only
one of the many irregularit:es in levying the Stade toll
it 'appear:. the more enanortant at a moment when a
Commission has been appointed to examine into an-
tiquated r
ights.h It appeared that in April, IS.IO, the
English brig. T ornly, Captain Fm oran, arrived at. Ham-
burgh, with a cargo of various gooda, from Liverpool,
among which waso
on which' the receiver of the Stade toll charged after the
parcel of East India eruseoa nuts,
bill of lading from Liverpo( 1, according the value therein
not( It 'erpeara farther that in Ala.
V, 1841, that is
about thirteen months later, the same ship came again to
i ;:i#4l,llaurgh with a cargo of coals, on which occasion the
aa,s ef•ormed, on the part of Hanover, that in
the precedVig yeala hp le of
violat.etid the regulatieras
Staala, because the unto' llnts was much be-
jow the market price, and, therefore, 14. Wge the

differono' of the toll for the higher value, and to pay a
fine b<isides. The captain endeavoured to prove his in-
nocene.a by observing that he was only the cam eyor of
the nuts, and had ro further knowledge of their value
than the bill of Indite.; afforded, which is the
more natural, as bills of tailing have generally the words,
The contents, &c., unknown." This circumstance
alone ought immediately to, have eaerdpated him. For,
supposing there had been reasons to levy to penalty, it
could not be on the eapat in, but rather on the shipper or
the receiver of the goods, against whom, after so long
an interval, no action for further payment can be brought.
Clear as these reasons are, they are rejected with con-
tempt by the Hanoverian -Ministers, and, at the same
time, notice was given to Captain Forman that he must
submit, or that the certificate of the return, without
which he could not pee•-, Brunhaunen, Would be;: refused
till he had either paid the sum demanded cegiven se-
curity for it. As he found, in the end, that all remon-
strances were vela, and that neither the English Consul
nor Mr. Ward could immediately obtain justice for him,
he was obliged to yield ia' °alert() avoid further annoy-
ance and loss of time, or to engage in a law suit, the re-
sult of which woeld have been Unfavourable to him. These
are the main filets; but what is most worthy of notice
is the circumstance that Captain 'Foreman shelved to the
Hanoverian authorities to letter from Mr, Preston, Secre-
tary to the 1--;tade Commission, in which Mr. Ward ex-
pressed liia regret that lit: -.could not assist him while
negotiations were pending, brit that, nevertheless, he un-
equivocally cleelared that the British Government did
not allow the Crown of Hanover any right to make esti-
inatan of the value of goods at its• owa pleasure. or to
inflict arbitrary penalties ; that he hoped the time
was -riot distant when British and foreign ships
would%e freed from the irregular exactions of the Stade
takll, such has had occurred in the present,case of Nvhich
the captain very justly complains. So much is certain
that the right to enforce arbitrary estimates after a lapse
of a year, and to inflict penalties for violations of the
regulations which cannot be proved, puts an end to the
secur
shipowner,personsityor or aciatpdtaint
property and exposes the mer-
chant,
awe, and hostile treatment. fthe
right to fix a higher value upon goods after an interval
If
official
Hanover des ppo4isams. se ir
of thirteen months, because the price had risen in the
mean time, then on the other hand the receiver must
have a right to require an indemnity from the Custom
House if the price had fallen, and it is evident what con-
fusion would arise front such a state of things. These
evils owe their origin to the concession of Hambitrgh to
allow a Hanoverian Custom House in its own hoUndary,
and to permit its officers freely to inspect the registers
of the CuStom-house of the city. Though it is evident
that such a syatem Must soon be,brolten up, if the nume-
rous adversaries of it would seriously set about it, the
long continuance of it is another int.lant'hi-dy proof of the
wound which farmer divisions have infix: veil on our dig-
nity and our interest.
OW Cll FUND% —Amsit. LDAXI, JUNE IA
Nene,. Lids.
A _Lim! Dal it, per Cent
ditto, clittg 5 pet test.
t SP' Iles 4N. per cert. ............
;ALM, ditto, per cent
Commercial Compary, per ccut lt C. I' 34,
111',.t0 (1835 and !r•l'i,) 5 per cent )CI% :02
1e137, 5 per cant.
Ex,:itange cm London, ()herr:olllh l2 7.4
Two mon ni
Dutch Papers, June 15.
?RUSSIAN FUNDS.—Braturi, JCNE 11.
Bills. Alone),
St. Sch ilk:. Sch., 41, per mit lOl
Prussian English Loan, 153!I, 4 per vent 101%
.Exchange en Landc,n, three months 4S ;8%
—Prussian Siate'Gazeile.

PRIVATE VIEW of MRS. PARKES'S
(L PI: MR. BOWYER'S) ILLUSTRATED BIBLE.

in Lamartine's late poem, "La Chute d'un
Ange," he represents his holy hero as having in
his possession an inestimable Bible, which
bu'kled together with diamonds, and ose co-
verlid blazed with gold. Mrs. Parkes's Bible (at
the private view of which, yeste'rday, we made it
our duty to attend), though it attracts not equally
by external show, yet from its intrinsic contents
is invaluably precious; and the recondite and re-
markable nature of these, reasonably allow it to
be reckoned an unique and unparalleled book—
the " flos forum" of Bibles. The entirety of
our authorised Bible, including the Apocrypha,
is comprehended in forty-flve large folio volumes.
Of these heavy . tomes the text-leaves occupy
but an inconsiderable portion, the grand bulk of
the work being swelled out by 7,000 engravings,
which, on every imaginable subject have, by
the labour and research of years, been gradu-
ally accumulated and set in order. Scarce
a solitary bible-point of interest, whether 4
scientific, geographical, historic, or scenical,
but here assumes to itself some pictured
form. You open a page of Genesis, and forth-
wi:ll your eye is greeted with some early charto-
grapher's plan of " Eden rich in bdellium and
the onyx-stoue,"—or some painter's imagination
of her sparkling primal bowers. .The " gopher-
trees," about which there has been a world of
leariard criticism, are so represented from spe-
cies existing in the Holy Land, that you at once
acknowledge them the sanie , with which Noah
timbered his Deluge-ark. Passing par hazard
to the Exody, Bishop 31=kford's or Prideaux's
elaborate arithmetic on the dimension's of the
Ark and Temple puzzle. not the brain a second;
the " golden measuring-reed". of the artist has
already anticipated all perplexity, and helps you
at once to ell and cubit. Instead of poring over
the prosy " Prolegomena" of Dr. Widtini; or the '
" Phaleg and Canaan" of nhchart Ibr satisfaction
on some geographical point, here map and chart
enanre your accuracy at a glance, and all localities
from Dan to Beersheba, from the shores Of
Joppa to the Hills of Aramcea, appear clear to
the eye, as if the actual country were reflected
on the retina. Pass.to the animal department,
and the ant and the unicorn—Queen Slieba's
apes and .-Zachariah's red horses, are one and all
illustrated. The magna and minima of the
vegetable kingdom, " from the cedar of -Le-
banon to the hyssop that springeth up on the
wall," are as copiously displayed as ever they
were in Solomon's lost book. in fine, a com-
pleter ".Apparatas Biblicus" could not be ;
while the Allegories, Typ3s, and Parable•7—the
scenes or shadows of mysterious or historical
grandeur with w:kich the Bible abounds, from the
times of the Patriarchs to the " latter days of
Revelation," are amply illustrated by transcripts
from the lofty paintings which a host -of men,
with Rafaelle, Rosa, and Angelo, imagined.
The original draughts of De Loutherbourg
for Macklin, form spirited attaches to the begin-
nings and ends of the sacred books. They are
struck off in the style of Blake's uncouth imagin-
ings, and are invested with a vague and mystic
symbolism. The Dutch and Flemish schools
most prolifically furnish every page. Next to
these appears the Roman school, with the name
' of " Legion;" while the French and English
studios are comparatively scant of contribution ;
but-these, if few, are fine. Mezzotints, etchings,
wood engravings, and the tine steel and copper
productions of the present day, abound in every
variety,. from the largest plate to the minutest
block, in the shape of fieurons, tail-pieces, or
vignettes.
We would briefly observe, in conclusion, that
the obscurity of many texts is far better eluci-
dated by these pictorial commentaries than by
all the annotations of the " Critici Sacri." Con-
troversy as to whether Leah's mandrakes were
lilies of jaSmine, colocynth or balsam, is best
settled by seeing the plant itself, and calling it
by its Chaidee name, Dudaim. The Teraphim
of Labm are no longer stumbling-blocks, when
the identiecl idols appear upon the page.
This is valuable Bible is now advertised fur
3,000 guineas; equal it has none: and by the
e:!sy arrangements for its disposal by ten guinea
t'ckets, will. become the property of some one
for comparatively less than a pepper-corn.
Mr. Hiltjn's picture of the Triumphal Entry
of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid, forms a
second prize, for 599 guineaS; there are other
valuable enaanvinga also on view.

THE DEAD ALINTE.—On the 23] of April
lust th? 14oniteetr Parisien states, M. N., a gentleman
residing at St. Germain, left that place for Paris, with
tho, declared intention of taking a small lodging for his
wife and daughter, to enjoy the amusements of the
King's fete on .the Ist of May, carrying with him be-
tween 500 f. and -600 f. Day after day passed,
and no intelligence was heard from or could be
obtained of him, until the 10th ultimo, when
the journal of the Seine-et-Oise announced that
the body Of a man, pierced with many wounds, had been
taken: out of the river at Porcheville. This report hav-
ing increased the anxiety of the family to an intense
degree, the father 6f Mme. N. proceeded to Mantes with
another of.,his suns-in-law and a physician, and having
obtained such a description of the body of the man them led
found in the water a}k • to believe it must.
be that of the lost a N., they obtained an authori-
sation for its being disinterred for their examination.
This being done,. they discovered, or thought they dis-
covered, for the corpse was in an advanced state of de-
composition, certain known marks and indications which
convinced them it -wns that of him they sought. On
this confirmation of her fears being communicated to
her, Mine. N. was for several days in a state bordering
on insanity. At length it was decided by the familythat the remains
sheuld'be bru r rrht front Mantes to be
interred at Saint Germain, and-, the preparations being
complete, the day for the transport was fired, and notice
sent to Mine; N. who Was to be present at the solemn
ceremony. This letter arrived at St. Germain on the
instiuit, and was talieo up to Mme. N. by a person
whose appearance predticed upon her a sensation even
mere powerful, thr ugh of a very different nature,' than
all she had pn-viously experienced. It was M. N.
himself, who hail just returned from a long journey ; and
delivered into her hands the notice of his own ex-
humation, which he had received from the porter as he
came into the house. ,
Toy R E.—As the last shift, the Tory faction
have the fully to report that the Marquis of Kildare will
not sect pt the invitation of his fellow-citizens. 'We warn
our frit nds against this poor device of the enemy. The
cuffs, we have excellent authority for stating, will
act cpt cheerfully the , tribute of respect thus shown to
li'mself and his illustrious family. We have reason to
1 now that the choice of the people, and Ireland's only
Duke, consider the invitation from the citizens of Dublin
the highest honour that even a Geraldine could obtain.
• thifra Croni7a-kii for eves' ;—,P47)/in Ptlu
.

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