The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

HERALD.—The affair of Rapalli, and the
extraordinary conduct of the Government officers
in omitting to lodge a detainer against Inin,
until after his discharge legally from duresse, in
which he was so strangely kept a whole day
by the Recorder to 'wait such further proceed-
ings as might be contemplated against him, has
been the prevailing theme of conversation and
animadversion in the City today. It may be as
well, however, to reserve what remains to be
sal(' on the subject, until it is seen whether the
law officers are really in earnest about his re-
capture,
.about which strong doubts are freely
expressed. If in earnest he can hardly fail to be
again in custody by this time.
The suspension of the bank on the extreme
northern borders alluded to under thi3 head on
Monday evening, but without specifying the par-
ticular establishment, vlthough in possession of
the names, comes confirmed by the notice posted
on the Tweed banking-house in Berwick-on-
Tweed on Monday last, to the effect that "Messrs.
Batson, Berry, and Co. beg to inform the public
that owing to unavoidable circumstances they
are obliged to suspend payment." A Morning
Contemporary treats this failure as of little ac-
count and consequence. The contrary, however,
is the well-known fact. The bank was one of
undoubted credit, and extensive connections,
and once; if not now, of large capital. Berwick
is a place carrying on a very considerable corn
trade, besides large dealings in cattle, and, with
the country district around it, must therefore be
very deeply involved with the bank, which was
the almost exclusive centre of banking business
and deposits for the population. It is painful to
be obliged to add, that in consequence of the
banking failures in Chichester and Arundel, the
Sussex -baultshave all more or less been subjected
to a severe run; but it is more grateful to be
enabled to announce that the trial has been met
with a promptitude and punctuality evincing the
possession of substantial means, which must all
the more enhance their credit and standing here-
after.

TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 31
per mille, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives
au exchange of 25.28, and the exchange at Paris
on London at short being 23.43, it follows that
gold is 0.68 per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris.

By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 13.6, and the ex-
change at Hamburg') on London at short being
13.7 i-, it follows that gold is 0.38 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of excltange at New York on Lon-
don is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange
between Eng"and and America being 109 :23-40
per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.18
per cent. in favour of England. But the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at sixty
days' sight, the interest must be added to the
above difference.

SUN.—In the market for the British securities
the operations to-day were. not of magnitude, but
the quotations were well supported. There is
nothing just now to 'exercise any material influ-
ence upon speculative transactions. Consols for
Money realised 891 4, with the dividend, and for
the opening 894 ex div. Es/chequer Bills
were 10 to 12 premium, and India Bonds 2 pre-
mium. The Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities
were 884 to 884, and the- Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. Reduced at 984 to 1.

There was a partial revival of activity in the
Foreign Market, as regards the Active Spanish
Bonds, and, cr.ving to the improvement at
Madrid, the rates advanced a little, having
touched 24 to 21+ for Money, and 241 for Ac-
count, Portuguese New Five per Cents. were
heavy at 33k, and the Three per Cents. at 191.
the Mexican Bonds were as high as 26i, and
Colombian as 201 to 11. Brazilian Bonds of 1839
were at 55; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
realised 51-- to 422.
An advance occurred in Shares, which were
taken rather more freely by purchasers. All
the lines participated more or less in the improve-
ment. Great Western were 171 ; Gosport Junc-
tion, ; and Birmingham, 71 to 72 premium ;
Brighton were 14 to 131; Croydon, 21 ; and
North Midland, 34 discount. National Provin-
cial Bank of England shares were discount,
and Provincial Bank of Ireland, 153 prem.

ANECDOTES of CHANTREY, WITH
A LIST of his WORKS, CHRONOLOGICALLY
ARRANGED,
1782. On April the 7th, our Sculptor was born at Nor-
ton, a small village on the borders cf Derbyshire.
1790. Death of his fat'lier ; his mother, marries again,
and apprentices Chantrey to Ramsay, the poet, then a
carver and gilder in Sheffield.
1793. Leaves Ramsay, having served him three years.
During the leisure hours of his time, instead of making
ornaments or moulds for picture frames, he purchased
clay, and, in a small room in Sheffield, wrought, often far
into the morning, at his art. Let us notice, here, that
there is, among the treasures in the house of the Poet of
" Memory" and " Columbus," a table, with the ornaments
by Chantrey ; it was recognised, the story goes, by the
great sculptor when dining one day at the house of the
poet. "Who made that table ?" said Chantrey. The
poet named the maker. " No, no !" said Chantrey, "he ,
did not Make it, but I did ; I was in his employment ;
I wrought those ornaments." Mr. Rogers directs the
visitor's attention to the table in the MS. catalogue of his
curiosities.

1802. Chantrey, confident of his own genius, pur-
chases from Ramsay the remainder of his engagement,
and in April comes to London. Here he at first painted
miniatures, and entered tho Royal Academy, where he
learned to draw and model. 'He painted alikeness of him-
self in oil, which Allan' Cunningham has now over his
fire-place; .
1804. Chantrey's first exhibited work was.a Portrait
of D. Wale, Esq., on the Walls of the Royal Academy.
He then resided at No. ,7, Chapel-street West, Mayfair.
1805: In this year he was living at 22, Vine-street,
Piccadilly, and exhibited at the Academy three Busts :
one of a Gentleman ; one. of W. Younge, M.D. F.L.S. ;
and one of the Rev. J. Wilkinson, late Vicar of Sheffield.

1806. This year he exhibited a Bust of Bigland, the
essayist ; and was living in Charles-street, St. James's.
1808. When at 24, Curzon-street, Mayfair, ho exhi-
bited a Bust of Satan, still in his studio.
1809. Chantrey in this-year-received his first order,
one from Mr. Alexander the architect, for four colossal
busts of Howe, flia. Vincent, Duncan, and Nelson, for the
Trinity House and the Greenwich Naval Asylum. lie
also married, at Twickhenham Church, his cousin, Miss
Mary Alin Wale, the present Lady 'Chantrey, and re-
moved to Eceleston- street, Pimlico, a place he never left.
1810. In this year Chantry executed a posthumous
Bust of Mr. Pitt, for the Trinity House.
1811. In this year his career of fame and fortune com-
menced. Chantrey had six Busts in this year's exhibi-
tion, viz.-1. Mime Tooke ; 2. Sir Francis Burdett ;3.
J. R. Smith ; 4. Benjamin West, P.P.A. ; 5. AdMiral
Duckworth ; 6. William Baker, Esq. Horne Tooke and
Raphael are among the best of his busts. The delight
experienced by Nollekens at the Tooke, we have before
related. Chantrey was also elected by the City this year
to execute the Statue of George 111., now in Guildhall.
1812. Busts of Johncs of Ilafod, Curran, Stothard, and
-Northcote.
1813. A Bust of. Cline and six others.
1814. Busts of the King and Professor Playfair.
1816.18 Bustsls. Bust of o
James
ftheMliViraq tuti'
Marquis of Anglesey, Sir Everard
Home, and Sir Joshua Banks.
1817. Made an Associate of the Royal Academy.• - -
" The Sleeping Children," now in Lichfield Cathedral.
There is not a more exquisite tchfield Cathedral.
of modern sculpture. than this: group in the whole range
each other's arms, in the most uncO sisters lie asleep in
onstrained and graceful
repose. The 'snowdrops which the youngest had plucked
are undropped from her hand
artless beauty, and innocent, and both are images of
Busts of Nollekens, Sir j• and unaffected grace.
melist ; Birl, the paint Miles Clarke ; Bone, the ena•
ders now crowded in or; end Hokham Frere. Or-
to crowd before upon a upon him as they were never known
portrait statues, • Britishore sculptor. To busts and
than ho could well execute, were
added orders for poetic figures, left to his own selection,
fi•om the Prince R
Devonshire,
Sti Robert •
Regent, the Duke of Bedford, the Duke
of Peel, an excellent likeness ;
and a Bust, the last he lived to execute, of Lord Mel-
bourne, for the Queen.
: 1818. The Royal Academy created him an R.A., and
in this year he exhibited his Bust of Sir John Rennie, and
the exquisite Statue at Woburn of Lady Louisa Russell,
the present Marchioness of Abereorn. The child stands
on tiptoe, with a face of the most exipilsite and arch ex-
pression, proud with delight of the dove which she fon-
dles in her bosom. All who have been at Woburn will
will recollect this little figure.
1836. Chantrey was made D.C.L. at the same time
that his friend the Marquis of Camden was elected Chan-
cellor of the University of Cambridge. He at the same
time received the honour of Knighthood from King Wil_
oifered im; but h re-
liam IV. anti had a
fused, on 'th B
e ground that hearonetc lad no oneh uc to sceede him
in the honour.
Of.Chantrey's statues in bronze there are those of
George IV. at Brighton and Edinburgh ; of Pitt in Edin-
burgh an
• d in Ilanover-square, London; of Sir T. Munroe,
on horseback, at Madras; of George IV. on horseback, for
wherever her Majesty's Ministers may elexv.e to place
it; and an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellinelon,
for the City of London. This last, though ineonqiiete,
is lefkin that,advanced state by its great artist that a
common foundry man may give it all the finish that it