The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY:
CHRONICLE.—The Morning Post is, it appears, to
be the organ of the Ministry expectant. Its functions
commenced yesterday, by the announcement that Sir
Robert Peel will not oppose the re-election of Mr. Shaw
Lefevre to the Speakership. The Times is passed Over,
we presume, on account of its " tainted " character ;
the great disqualification in the " new moral world " of
Toryism. A Whig Speaker is, then, the first item of
the mysterious Tamworth prescription. The party takes
it with a wry face. It is- a bolus for the friends of Mr.
Goulburn, and a bitter pill for those of Sir Eardley Wil-
mot. There are many fdr whom this foretaste of the
future will be rather melancholy. They had not dreamed
that to step into office could require such a sacrifice' to
decency on the threshold. The most convincing demon-
strations have just been offered to the public that the
Speakership could not remain in the same hands with-
out a gross violation of political principle. But the
reign of expediency is at hand, and this is only the first
of many conscientious principles and valorous determi-,
nations which the Tories will have to swallow. " There's
pippins and cheese to come." The Speakership is one
of. many apples of discord. Perhaps by
allowing a Whig
to have it, Sir Robert may think to avoid an unseemly
squabble amongst his own partisans. It is not for us to
object tolis purpose. We have always thought Mr.
Shaw Lefevre a well-qualified person ; and his conduct,
while in the chair, has been distinguished for ability and
impartiality. If there have been any occasion on which
we did not regard him with entire satisfaction, it was
that of his vote against the proposed address to her Ma-
jesty for the liberation of persons confined for political
offences. We thought that he need not have stood in
the way of mercy. The address would have been a gra-
cious and graceful procedure on the part of the House,
and was by no means the sort of motion which we should
have expected the casting ve4tof a Speaker to nega-
tive. At the same ti.ntr-eelilwtist admit, that there
was some vindication in the circumstances of the case.
The existence of Tory promises made to the Char-
tists, for electioneering purposes, was notorious. The
liberation of their martyrs was part of the -bribe for
which an unprincipled portion of that body had sold
itself to the enemies, not only of their inordinate preten-
sions, but of their just rights. The fact oozed out from
the Chartist Convention just at the period when the
Times was proclaiming that "Radicalism has its root in
real evils and real grievanCes, and that, to be Conserva-
tive, it was not necessary to " sacrifice the common good
to class interests." Much may be said for the Speaker's
not allowing a vote of the House of Commons to be
made the instrument of fulfilling this disgraceful com-
pact. We rest no argument on Sir Robert Peel's having
praised the Sneaker for his interposition. Sir Robert
availed himself of what_wer additional party votes might
hate been thus obtained ; 'and if' the promise had only
turned a single election (the leasteffect that can probably
be assigned to it), that single election gave him all his
majority on the no-confidence motion ; but we do not
imagine he ever meant the pledge to be redeemed. Let
his laudation go, therefore, with a.quantum valeat. The
casting vote remains an exception, but a question-
able exception, to our general estimate of Mr. Shaw'
Lefevre's Speakership ; which, else, we praise unre-
servedly. We repeat, therefore, the notification .of Sir
Robert Peel's first avowed intention with much pleasure.
It is, nevertheless, a departure from his principle of not
prescribing until he " takes the fee ;" a principle now
irrevocably fixed upon him by the unfortunate and blus-
tering interposition of his own confidential organ. Sir
Robert Peel has not yet been ",allowed access to the
patient," in the private rooms of the Downing-street
Sanatorium ; he is not yet " regularly called in ;" he
has not felt the pulse or purse of the nation ; and yet he
begins to prescribe, and " administers the physic" of a
Whig Speaker. Have we convinced him that his silent
system was that of a quack, and not of R. regular politi-
cal practitioner ? Or cannot his con;isteacy, under cir-
cumstances that begin to be trying, hold out for any ten
days' in succession ? Must every week illustrate the
fluctuation of his sliding scale of political morality.
TIMES.—We shall surprise none of our readers who
have had their attention called to the letter of "Pittacus"

in our paper of Monday, and perhaps all who have not,
by the announcement which we have to make respecting
the Speakership. Contrary to the wishes of Sir Robert
Peel himself, as many of his friends assert, has a species
of tribunical victory been achieved over the constitu-
tional forces of the new Parliament. By what strange
infatuation this unfortunate subversion of right principle
has been consummated, it is useless at this moment to
inquire ; but so it is, and the result is a chilling damp
on the very first rejoicings of a well-earned triumph.
The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre is virtually re-
elected to the high office, of which the incapacity of his
party had virtually deprived him. The history of this
arrangement we believe to be as follows :—lt appears
that, previously to taking any definite mea-
sures with respect to the election of a Speaker,
Sir Robert Peel, with a_ deference, more amiable
than dignified in his position, to the opinions of
others, deemed it advise s-- tw, ascertain the inten-
tions of a - considerable :71tnber, amounting to be-
tween 20 and 30, of his own party. These, with three qr
four exceptions, returned answers favourable to the re-
election of Mr. Lefevre, and thus rendered the success-
ful termination of a contest doubtful, if not hopeless.
In consequence of this, Sir Robert Peel came to the de-
termination to relieve Mr. tefevre of all anxiety on the
subject, by disabusing him of any apprehensions which
he might naturally entertain of his re-election. Enviable
man ! to whose matchless abilities foes have vied with—
nay, have outrun—friends in doily,. homage. Generous
and manly politicians, who, like well-matched champions
in the ring, shake hands before they commence the ardu-
ous contest ! Thrice enviable office, the solace of a defeated
' Ministry, which, in two brief years, has sufficed to relieve
its tenant from the onus of political responsibility ! The
arrangement, then, as far as Sir R. Peel is concerned, is
virtually settled. But what are we to say of its con-
sequences ? The principle which Mr. Lefevre's Con-
servative supporters profess to reverence is, that the
Speaker should be chosen solely on account of his abili-
ties as such, and quite independently of his political
sentiments. What, then, will -their colleagues, the great
majority of the Conservatives, say to this implied inca-
pacity on their part to fill this honourable office? What
will they say of this petty altercation with him whom
they regard as their leader ? What will the country say to
Mr. Lefevre, aWhig, filling the chair in a House of Com-
mons of which the majority is Conservative, after his
vote in 1835 disqualifying Mr. Manners Sutton for the
same office, because he was a Conservative, and the ma-
jority of the House of Commons was at that time of the
Whig party ?
ADVERTISER.—The Government is virtually de-
funct, although the Ministers still occupy the offices of
Downing-street,-and draw their salaries from the Trea-
sury. The people, however, must not indulge in 'repose,
or fall into a state of inactivity. Extraordinary excite-
ment is naturally succeeded by a corresponding listless-
ness, and against this the public mind should just now
be particularly cautioned. Such promises as we have
of the intended policy of the Conservative Government
that is to be, give little reason to regret the breaking up
of the Whig Cabinet. If we have-no promise of a better
state of things, so far as mere profession is concerned,
we have none of a wove. The Whig Government has
long been, de facto, a conservative Government, their
real principles of national policy, whether foreign or
domestic, differing in no material respect from the views
which the Times alleges to be entertained by the party
about to supersede them in office. Hence the weak-
ness and discomfiture of the Whigs, and the certain ad-
vent of a Tory Administration. There is nothing very
cheering for the public mind in this circumstance, how-
ever. It is not retrogression that is to be feared, so
much as a stationary or non-advancing policy. Upon
many points of legislative and administrative policy, the
Whigs have departed, and no doubt with benefit to the
State, from the routine of their predecessors ; but for
many a long day with no one question of importance,
affecting in its practical results the condition of society,
have they shown any ability or disposition to- grapple.
Nor will their successors evince any greater aptitude to
advance the general weal,-so long as -it shall be found
possible to push on in the old course. The impetut for an

improved and advancing policy must come from without;
and upon the people themselves depends the. prosperity or
the distress of the country. "This," says the Times," will be
the Conservative principle in the variable matter of politics
—constant improvement, development of useful tendencies,
this rule
By
; in
retrenchment of inconsistencies, or impediments to good,
accommodation to the progress of society, submission to
the
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of
tradef. the
e people.and commerce
financial reforms and leobil reforms ; in police and sana-
tory regulations ; in the secondary parts of questions,
such as the Poor-law and the laws relating to the Parlia-
mentary franchise, and, indeed, in the practical details of
every question." We repeat it then, that it depends upon
the people in how far the Conservative Government shall
be a reforming Government. The Conservatives them-
selves place the question upon this issue—they refer it to
the public to determine how far and how fast the Go-
vernment shall proceed " in the direction of the greatest
practicable utility," making it the first duty of a states-
man to " pay homage to public opinion," in things re-
ferable to the category of "expediency," embracing in
that category the whole class of subjects relating to trade
and commerce, finance and law, police and pauperism,
the Parliamentary franchise—in a word, the practical
details of every question relating to " variable politics."
The present hour, then, is pregnant with great events,
for good or for evil : the fortunes of the country are in
the hands of the people-
HERALD.---In the midst of profound peace the
Morning Chronicle clamours for the commercial advan-
tages to England of a Continental wac. While we
keep moving all the world must stand still, and Ger-
many especially must not move a muscle. No nation
must dare to weave a pair of stockings for itself, or place
on the backs of its people a shirt or coat of home manu-
facture. If they do, everything at home is wrong, every
principle of our commercial system must be abandoned
as effete and worn out. We must rush headlong into
the trackless ocean of speculative legislation ; we must
throw away what we now have, and shut our eyes, open
our ports, and see what the gods will send us. The
strong practical sense of the people of England has re-
jected, and will continue to reject, such advice, founded
as it is upon ignorance and presumption. The feeling of
" live and let live" is not yet excluded from the national
mind, and Englishmen, notwithstanding all the special
pleading and mis-statements of the well-paid Dr. Bow-
ring and the would-be-well-paid Mr. Villiers, him no

manufactures. At one time that commercial league-is
stated to be about to enter into a cominereisit treaty with
the United States, based on the preferential admission of
German cottons into the Republic—in utter forgetfulness
that any such engagement would be a gross violation of
the commercial stipulation of the United States with this
country, and still more forgetful that the United States
would require, as a compensation, the free admission into
Germany of her tobacco, now subject to an enormous
import duty, and that such admission would at once de-
stroy one of the most profitable sources of German agri,
cultural wealth—the culture of the tobacco plant. Ger-
many would as soon dissolve the league as injure her
agriculture by such a measure ; and no one knows this
fact better than Mr. Dodge, the United States commer-
cial agent in Germany. At another moment the alarmist
journal protests that there is nothing but ruin for England,
because the Zoll Verein and Brazil are negotiating commer-
cial relations. Now this assertion is purely imagination;
there are no negotiations in progress for any such pur-
pose. But if they were concluded, they would not
damage England. Germany already takes all the coffee
and sugar that Brazil with her present population can
grow ; and to suppose that Brazil would commit so sui-
cidal an act as to engage to consume German dear cot-
tons in preference to British cheap cottons, when by so
doing she could derive no advaid age, is to suppose that
common sense and national int,' !t are wholly driven
from the minds of Brazilian spr4Usmen. Mn were the
Brazilian GoveNtnent to enttfMto so foolish a stipula-
tion, the Brazilian people and. consumers would quickly
abrogate it in practice. The consumers of every nation
will, in spite of all treaties and laws, buy of the cheapest ;
and if they cannot do it legally, they will illegally. The
Morning Chronicle frequently quotes from the writings
of the political economists. We think it might, without
much difficulty, find an authority in them for this
proposition ; but, perhaps, as the Devil does from the
Scriptures, it only quotes their " wise saws and
modern instances," when it suits its own purposes.
POST.—The advocates of what we consider excessive
manufacturing and trading, complain of us that we oc-
casionally comment upon their hard-heartedness. But
how can we do otherwise while they display such insensi-
bility to that which chiefly concerns the happiness of the
mass of the people ? If they will cease to advocate a
cruel and hard-hearted policy, we shall be most happy
to hail the auspicious change, and to give them every
credit for having learned better the duties which thy
owe to their fellow-creatures, and the feelings with whiCh
they ought to regard them. So long, however, as
we find the party which calls itself 66 Liberal," doing
its best to upset the agricultural industry of this coun-
try, and to hand that great source of employment and
wages over to foreigners, while it is expected that
by this policy a great increase of manufacturing
business may be obtained, we cannot help accusing the
party of selfish insensibly to the welfare of the people.
We must speak the truth, and to us it seems that if

there be any truth more palpable than another respecting
the condition of the mass of the people of England, it is
that the agricultural labourers are a far healthier, hap-
pier, and in every way more estimable race- of people
than they who are doomed to the labour which goes on

in manufacturing towns. If, therefore, it were true,
which we think it is not, that the wealth of this country
would be more promoted by abandoning agriculture in
a very considerable degree—by trusting to foreign coun-
tries for a great portion of our supply of corn, and by
manufacturing more largely in order to pay for this
foreign supply, still we should continue to hold the
opinion that for the sake of the working people, the
nation ought to resist this *node of becoming inure
wealthy. We quite agree with the sentiment expressed
some days ago by 1117. Benett, M.P., for Wiltshire, at
the Salisbury Agricultural Meeting, he asked,

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" What is wealth without comfort and happiness ?"
What does it signify to a virtuous statesman, that a cer-
tain system of commercial policy would possibly add to
the capital of the country, if by that very system a
change in the employment of the mass of the people
would take place, which change would be very prejudi-
cial to their comfort and happiness ? In . putting the
case thus, we are very far from admitting that the pro-
posed " Liberal" system of policy would add to the capi-
tal of the country. We are well satisfied that it would
have precisely the opposite effect.
STANDARD.—TEIESPEAKERSIIIP.—It is not our in-
tention to enter into a controversy without our friend of the
Morning Herald, whether he or the Standard is best able

to give early and exclusive information—the public can
and will form their own judgment upon that point—but
we wish to set ourselves right with our Contemporary as
to a matte.r, of act,„, In tbeittraitt of this -ramming we
find the following `:=

"In the list,' which we gave on the 21st of July we
subjoined these passages in reference to the name of Mr.
Shaw Lefevre

" The Speaker of the House of Commons—the Right
Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre (whose re-election it is said not to
be intended to oppose).'
" And again ; on the 22d of July—
"' We are by no means of the same political opinions
as Mr. Shaw Lefevre. But we abhor any propositions of
party' in relation to any gentleman, Whig or Causer-
vative, who has filled the Speaker's chair with dignity,
with honour, and with impartiality' 'lt is
certain that Mr. Lefevre has earned_ the respect of all
parties in that position. It is equally true, that although
the above notice (dated Pall-mall, July 21) made its ap-
pearance subsequently to our leading article of yester-
day, we remain under the same impression, on the subject
which we then and therein announced.'

" Never, to be sure, was a little expedition of discovery
the subject of more animadversion than ours. We were
attacked,. immediately, right and left, by all our craft and
calling. The. Times, the Chronicle, the Morning Post, the
Globe, the Courier—all were angry—all reproved us,—
some disputed one or two of the nominations in our list,
—and even our fellow-labourer in the good cause, the
Standard, at first rebuked our inopportune promulgation
of such intelligence. The Sunday journalists took up the
theme, the country papers after them: but with the Cou-
rier and the Post, the 4 head and front of our offending'
appeared to be the having appropriated the Speakership
to Mr. Lefevre."

Now, it is undoubtedly true that the Courier and the
Morning Post gave the Speakership to Sir Eardley
; but the Standard did not deny the accuracy of the
Herald's statement in that respect. On the 20th bf
July the evening preceding the publication of the
Herald's "list," the following paragraph appeared in the
Standard:—

" (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" We have reason to believe that the announcement
in a Contemporary of a determination on the part of the
Conservatives to oppose the re-election of the late
Speaker, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, is premature ; as we ap-
prehend that no definitive resolution has yet been taken
'on that important subject."
And again, on the following day, the 21st, we said—
" We give the following, as we have received it, from a
respected Correspondent, but-we believe that we are cor-
rect in saying, that nothing has been decided with respect
to the Speakership. It is true that what we have said else-
where of the indelicacy and indiscreetness of bestowing
offices in a Government yet to be formed, does not apply
to the election of the Speaker, which is a matter com-
pletely within the power of the Conservative party, who-
soever shall be the Minister ; but it is obvious that while
so many Conservative Members are absent from town,
nothing can be definitively. arranged.
" Tun SPEAKER.— Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., the
Conservative Member for North Warwickshire, it is now
confidently stated, will be the Speaker of the new Par-
liament. The re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre was
never for an instant thought of by the Conservatives,
who are quite aware that any such step would be taken
as a proof of weakness and disunion in their party. So
soon as Mr. Goulburn had decided to accept the Home
Department, it was arranged that Sir E. Wilmot should
ba elected to the Speakership. The Conservative leader
is just as likely to second the Address to be moved by
Lord John Russell, as to consent to the re-election of
Mr. Lefevre;' the Radical Member for South Hants.
" Pall-mall, July 21, 1841: "
It is clear, therefore, that so far from saying that the
re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre was to be opposed, we
hinted the very reverse ; but what' we did say we now
repeat, that until Sir R. Peel shall be called upon by the
Queen to form a Ministry, it is neither delicate nor dis-
creet to anticipate the names of those noblemen and gen-
tlemen who are likely to become members of his Cabinet.
COURIER.—If 'ever a Ministry in its death-bed
struggles had reason to pride itself on the difficulties,
embarrassments, and financial deficits bequeathed to its
successors, the Melbourne unquestionably has, for it has
thrown all the'affairs of the State, financial. foreign, co-
lonial, and domestic, into such perplexed and inextricable
confusion as to require the efforts of the ablest and most
experienced statesman to readjust, arrange, or methodise,
them. It is quite unnecessary for Whig writers to tax
their imaginations in devising visionary difficulties for
Sir Robert Peel's Government, as the out-going
Cabinet has, with the admirable foresight and high-tened
patriotism characteristic of its party, provided an
accu-
mulation of them sufficient to satisfy the wildest desires
' of faction itself. Any one of them separately would
test the capacity of the most skilful Minister, but in
their combined complexity they seem almost to set at
defiance wisdom itself. The State is labouring at this
moment under a complication of disorders that may
well challenge the utmost skill of the physician, and the
quacks now in attendance,. finding themselves on the
eve of dismissal for ineapaetty and neglect, are endea-
vouring,, with all theirmight and cunning, to aggravate
the distemper, and consequently. enhance the difficulty
of the cure. There
is, for instance, the China war,
hardly yet blunt
with its attending expenditure and
risk—that war, upon the successful and happy termina-
tionc of which the Whig press had been so eloquently i
agant in January last. There is the M'Leod affair,e
so' simple in itself, yet so delicate and so perilous ;
affair which if timely handled had been settled withoutan
danger or difficulty, but which being 4w 0_ _
sli
iletntaded
with :so many entanglements, demands for its ami-
cable adjnstm. ant (if such a oontingensy be Still pos-
sible) an effort of the highest statesmanship What
i need to refer to the menacing and troubled aspect

of affairs in India—to the uneasy restlessness of Egypt,
or the suspicious watchfulness and half-hostile attitude
of France ? Equally needless would it be to dwell upon
the alarming deficit they leave behind them in the re-
venue, or the state of parylysation to which their rash-
ness, their folly, and their incompetency, have reduced
the industrial and commercial energies of the nation
And yet, if the Cabinet pro tem. be faithfully reprsented
by its organs of the press, it is upon such exploits as
these that they pride themselves, and ground their hope;
`of returning to office, sadder, but not wiser men. Than
is, however, one point of their policy, one result of thei3.
' ten years' rule, which as being that for which they chum
the highest degree of credit, challenges a more searching
notice than we have thought it necessary to bestow
oa their foreign or financial blundering. We need
hardly say, that we allude to the state of Ireland. " Look
to Ireland," 1N si the constant cry of these convicted cul-
prits. We-may have unnecessarily as wantonly involved
the country in war with China, we may have as im-
prudently as needlessly insulted and alienated France,
Russia may have duped us, America may hay
bullied us, our financial projects may have proved,
blunders ; all these things may be laid to our
charge ; but look to Ireland, there behold the ripe
and rich fruits of our policy, it is there our statesmanship
had widest field and fullest scope for the development and
exercise of its healing qualities and soothing virtues. We
found it discontented, disturbed, convulsed, and leave it
the scene of happy contentment and profound tranquillity.
—without a cloud on its horizon or a ripple on its sur-
face. And all these grand and gratifying changes resulted
from simply adopting a course of kind and conciliatory
policy towards that country. We put it to the candour
of our readers to say whether assertions of this
nature have not constituted the constant and
never-ceasing theme of Whig-boastings for the
last six years—and whether, when upbraided with
their failures abroad, -and the fanka and .follies of
their conduct'. at home—when chargecrwith a .-SYstem
of paltry intermeddling in affairs that concerned
them not, and with grossly neglecting what equally
concerned the. honour and the interests of the coun-
try—they did not invariably point to the effects of
their policy in the sister country, as a counterbalance to
all these accumulated imputations and disasters—as
an ample and more than eqvivalent atonement for
the series of crimes and calamities attending their
rule in every quarter of the globe. And ye;
on what grounds do these assertions rest ? On what
evidence are they put forth or maintained ? We well
recollect the state of Ireland on Earl Grey's acces-
sion to power, and have no hesitation in saving that it
was at that time less distinguished for agitation, ex-
citement, disturbance, or crime of any kind, than it had
been at any previous period of its history, or than it has
been at any time during the Whig regime. The waters
of bitterness and strife, so violently excited during the
agitation, and up to the very passing of the Relief Bill,
were then beginning to subside. Sectarian animosity
and religious rancour were then beginning to abate—
the great bulk of the people were returning to the
peaceful pursuits of industry, and even the staff of
brawling and brainless agitators were beginning to forget
their vocation and lay aside their mischievcas propen-
sities—the wealth and intelligence •of the recently
emancipated Roman Catholic body exhibited in their
conduct and language a grateful sense of the mea-
sure of justice and relief that had been conferred upon
them—the higher orders of the Roman Catholic clergy,
had met, and published to the werld their determi-
nation to abandon the field of politics altogether, as
utterly at variance with their duties and functions—the
repeal scheme was unthought of and unbroached—every-
thing wore the promise of peace, contentment, and re-
conciliation between those classes of the community
whom the Relief Bill had placed on a perfect equality.
Such is a brief, but correct sketch of Ireland's condition
on Earl Grey's assumption of power. And now, after
ten years' rule—after denouncing as an enemy to
his country, the originator of the repeal movement,
and then fraternising with him—after leading with
him for the destruction of the Irish Church, and shower-
upon his hungry and worthless dependents the richest
gifts in their patronage—how or in what condition have
they left it ? Have they not succededed in rekindling
the sense of strife and bitterness assuaged by the wis-
dom and justice of their predecessors ? Have they not
by their ill-timed concessions flattered the vanity, minis-
tered to the pride, and added to the 'power of their for-
mer denouncer and present dangerous ally ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM ZNE MORNING FATIRS OF TrtaRDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The heavy rains of last night gave a
fresh impulse to the dealers in Mark-lane to-day, where
a further advance took place in bonded and English
wheats of 2s. to 3s. per quarter.
By the Manchester Guardian, which we received this
afternoon, we perceive the failure of Messrs. Stocks and
Son, being the one we alluded to yesterday, had caused a
serious damp upon the market yesterday in that town ;
and its effect appears to have been increased by the un,
promising appearance of the weather.- Under these cir-
cumstances, it was not surprising that the market was, as it
is represented to have been, on of the worst, if not the
very worst, of the present year. For manufactured
goods there was literally no demand, and the few sales
made are stated to have been at a serious reduction in
prices. For yarn, however, the market was not quite so
favourable, and some business was done, though with
difficulty, and at gradually declining rates. We are glad
to state, however, that, with the exception of two small
concerns at Blackburn, no additional failures had been
announced.
The business transacted in Shares was limited.
Brightons were quoted a shade higher ; but in the other
lines of Railway there was no alteration in price.
Business in the Foreign Market was rather brisker
in the early part of the day, both in Spanish and South
American securities.
By the accounts received from Mexico by the last
packet, we are happy to find that the receipts at the
Custom-house were improving. The amount of dividend
warrants cancelled at the Custom-house being, at Vera
Cruz 42,680 dollars, and at Tampico 11,000 dollars,
besides the amount of 9,000 dollars which we have already
stated to have been received. This statement leaves
about 150,000 dollars of dividend warrants to be can-
celled, when the whole sixth portion of the customs will
be applicable to the• payment of the dividends in this
country, for which it will only require about 100,000
dollars to complete one half-year's dividend of 2- percent.
New Grenada has already about 300,000 dollars in
this country towards the payment of interest on her share
(501. percent.) of the debt. The final settlement with
the bondholders has been delayed by the efforts of some
of the provinces to bring about a federal state of Go-
vernment, which the South American States are en-
titled to have, according to the model of the United
States Government, originally promised to them ; and
the last accounts state that the Congress sitting at Bo-
gota had summoned commissioners or deputies from
each 'province to revise the constitution, so as to satisfy
all parties, and an immediate adjustment of the question
was confidently expected. In the mean- time the dissen-
tient. provinces have announced their intention of trans-
mitting their shares of the interest on the foreign debt
to London ; and Panama has, we understand, already
e last packet
on a remittance of about 3,000 dollars by th -
on this account.
POST.—The heavy rains that have fallen in the neigh-
bourhood of the metropolis during the last two nights
have of course served to stimulate speculation in the
corn trade. At the market of this day wheat was held
at materially higher prices than those quoted on Mon-
day, and these,.should the country continue to suffer
from unseasonable showers, may by and by in all
proba-
bility be realised. For the present we do not under-
stand that much actual business is ventured upon, under
the
persuasion that such will be the case. The weather
was to-day more encouraging for the farmer, and, whiles
the prices made for grain by the factors are no ' merely, we think it unnecessary to report the
advance
That
talked of as merely among the parties thernsehr,
a consiierable quantity of foreign wheat '
reagnit Yetclolt-ti-k-s7
ported there can be no question ; much is 41 bemiit forward ; but the prospects of the nati
are not yet sufficiently developed to war vent, thus early
ats:to the result of
in the season, any positive assumptioonr
the ensuing harvest, either one way
Connected with the speculative Opelorateioontteinr.
for the account
Mark-
lane, we hear of some occasional deal
These, howevger, have not, at
Mark-
in the public securities.
all events, so far as we can ascertain, been carried to an
extent worth speaking of ; and we are little disposed
as in the case of the rumoureda:traa,insactions in grain to
give currency to the doubtful
quotat'l 8 of
what
upon the subject. The we are told
without alteration, a eircumstan ,I°l/3 generally remain
that may be taken as
a pretty sure indication of the wariness of the public, and
of the determination of capitalists not to involve them-
selves in Stock Exchange responsibilities on the bare
hint of those whose fortunes are staked upon no safer
basis than the issue of the weather.
ADVERTISER _dye
we consider to be have been informed, on what
go • authority- that four or five ves-
sels have recently been fitted otit'from Hamburgh, by a
foreign merchant resident in tb t
osten-
sible
object ofwith the 4 city,
commerce, but which vessels are in reality
intended for the slave
speer to that purpose. Some rartd?4adeters may reniem-
some, bofeiong pd in ever re-
ber the case of the Echo, toe whichu we directed atten-
tion,a few months book, and will perhaps think with us,
that it is high time the more honourable portion of the
Hamburgh mercantile community should seek to prevent
such doings as may by implication hazard the fair fame
of the old Hans() 'town.
As so much has been said recently of affairs at
Vienna, it may not be altogether inappropriate to guard
against misapprehension, by certifying the firms which
have actually suspended, and thus relieving the credit of
others, respecting which unfavourable surmises would be
formed. As far ,as we can learn, therefore, the names
are as follow t--The nephew of Steiner, with liabilities
to the extent of 1,400,000 florins ; Steiner himself, said
to be for four millions ; Gey Muller, not yet pre-
but supposed for eight mil-
cisely ascertained,
lions ; Alexandre Voss for 60,000 ; L. C. Smekal
for 60,000 ; Adolphe Leon for 80,000 ; Pierre Bel-
-1 loni for two millions ; Moses Abraham for 100,000 ;
Osgi Askeroghi for 60,000 ; . J. W. Thomans ana Co.,
for one mill ralltenberg, the banker, for 200,000;
Yyiigyulien and Roechel for 100,000 ; Samuel de Meijo
ibr 20,000 ; and Polack, brothers, for 100,000 florins,
Some of these failures, it will be observed, are fortunately
not of great magnitude, but when summed up they give
a total of upwards of 13 millions of florins.
A farther advance In the price of bonded corn to-day

of 3s. to ss. per quarter, added to the still unsettled state
of the weather, had the effect of checking business in the
funds, and kept prices a shade below the ranges of yes-
terday. This being the fourth of the month, too, occa-
sion was taken to whisper remarks prejudicial to credit
in general, but which it would be difficult to ,Mace to any
proper foundation ; for on the whole the paymenis on
commercial bills falling due were quite as promptly
met as could have been anticipated. There seems, in-
deed, to be marked pressure for accommodation at pre-
sent, owing to the entire absence of employment for
it in numerous channels where it formerly brought a
good return.
TIM:MS.—A correspondent calls attention to a sub-
ject which had not escaped our notice, but which even
now is so much enveloped in mystery that it is difficult to
arrive at a perfect comprehension of it. This is the an-
nouncement of the formation of a new banking institu-
tion to be called the "Stock Exchange Bank," the
functions of which are described by the declaration that
it is " for deposits and taking in stock and shares."
This is the whole description of the Bank and its tliture
operations which has hitherto transpired, and certaink,
as it is to be presumed that it is intended to be an insti-
tution of great public utility, it is to .be regretted
that there are no further details of the objects
which it is to accomplish, especially as this tar-
diness in giving information is not at all accom-
panied by a tardiness in commencing operations. It
was only on Friday last that it was pOlirly announced
that the share-list would close on the morrow, and that
all applications for shares were to be made forthwith to
that commercial locality " Dalston," while, as far as ire
can ascertain, no preliminary prospectus had been pub-
lished, nor had any idea been given who were the par-
ties supporting the institution. The title of the bank, to
be sure, would lead the casual observer to believe that
the Stock Exchange, or at any rate some of the leading
members, were in some measure connected with its
formation ; but if it does emanate from a Stock Ex-
change, it is certainly not that one which the public ge-
nerally know as the " Stock-exchange," and to which
the principal entrances are Capel-court, Hercules-
passage, and New-court. There are, indeed, men
who think that the members of the " Stock-
exchange,"—commonly so called—have no right
to arrogate that name to their own place of
meeting only, but that it might properly be extended to
the whole body of dealers in securities, whether they
transact business in alleys, rotundas, or subscription-
rooms. The Bank in question, however, is not as yet
known to be eonnected.with any " Stock Exchange" in
the most liberal acception of the word, but that does
not prove much, since knowledge of the transactions
of any of the markets, excepting those of the recog-
nized Stock Exchange, is not easily obtained. The
leading jobbers, far from being at all privy to the in-
stitution, profess not to understand from the title
how its principles can be made applicable to Stock
Exchange purposes. They cannot see the use of a
bank " taking in stock and shares," when it is well
known that no person having 1,0001. Consols, or any
other valid security, finds any difficulty in borrowing
upon it, nor ever has occasion to look for a lender. The
letters of appropriation, which are in a new and succint
form, are already issued, and showed that the prime
movers of the affair were not too sanguine in expecting
to fill their share-list so speedily, and great care has
been taken to distribute them widely, so as to prevent
overbearing influence in any one interest. It is under-
stood that these securities are dealt in already, but it is
not impossible that before they are extensively operated
in, persons may feel anxious to know the specific uses
to which the capital, when subscribed, is to be applied.

REGISTRATIONS.
TO BOROUGH AND CITY ELECTORS.
The naxt General Election (should there be one
ithin 15 months) virtually commenced on Sunday, that
being the day on which the Overseers published the
list o voters for the ensuing year.
Every Reformer, should, therefore, attend-to the fol-
lowing instructions :-Ist. He should see that the Over-
seers publish their lists on all the Churches and Chapel
doors on the Bth of August, their wilfully neglectinto
do so rendering them liable to a penalty of 5001. 2dJy.
He should examine those lists on next Sunday, at
he residence of an Overseer any day before the
15th of Atigust, which any person may do without the
payment of any fee. He should see that his name, qua-
lification, and place are correctly described, and having
ascertained if the names of any persons, who be believes
to be entitled to be on such list, have been omitted, ho
should induce them to claim to be registered on or before
the 25th of August ; for this purpose the Reform Act
prescribes a form of claim which should be adopted, viz.
A CLAIM TO BE REGISTERED.
To the Overseers of the Parish.of
I hereby give you notice that I claim to have my
name inserted in the List made by•you of persons en-
titled, under the Reform Act, to Vote in the Election ofs
Member (or Members) for the City (or Borough) of
, and. that my qualification consists of a
at No. in in your Parish.
Dated this day of
(Signed) of
Insert the name of the parish, and the nature of the
premises, as *house, warehouse, counting-house, shop,
workshop, stable, shed, or as the case may be, .and the
name of the street, court,.&e. ; put in the date, -and sign
the names of the claimant, and his place of abode, at full
length. If a scot and lot voter, instead of tho words.
" under the Reform Act," insert " In respect of the Seat
and Lot Franchise."

1841,

On or before the 25th August, give this claim to. an
overseer, and afterwards attend before the Revising; -Bar-
risters, who hold their Courts between the 15th Sep..
tember and the 25th October. A correct copy of this
claim should be kept, and the party who serves the claim
should immediately write on the copy to whom the claim
was delivered, and the day of the month and year.
He should then copy from the Overseer's list the.
names of any pDlitical opponent that he believes not be
be entitled to a vote ; and, should he be disinclined to
take the trouble consequent upon objecting himself, ho
should forward his information to a Reform or. Regis-
tration Society, if there be one in that borough or city.,
or to some active Reformer residing therein, —as it is
necessary that the objector, or some con on his behalf,
should appear in the Revising Barris is Court to sup-
port the objection, though the proof of qualification will
fall on the person objected to.
The following aro grounds of disqualification, viz.:-
Ist. Not having been in occupation of the premises for
12 months previously to the Ist of July.
2d, Not occupying as tenant, but only as director, se-
cretary, clerk, servant, &c.
3d. Premises not being worth 101. per year ; or, if
described as a house, not having control over a separate.
door. This is no(necessary for any other premises, as
shop, warehouse, counting-house, &c.
4th. Not being rated, or not having claimed to be
rated, to all poors-rates made since July 31, 1840.
sth. Non-payment, on or before the 20th of July, of
window-tax (if assessed) due before the 6th of April, or
of the poors-rates which have been demanded per-
sonally, or by a notice left at the premises, before the
6th of April.
6th. Not having resided (slept) within seven miles,
since the alst of January last.
7th. If in partnership, not having been so tweln.
months before the 31st of July, or premises not giving
10/. for each.
Stli. If an alien, infant, idiot, or lunatic, officers of
excise, onstoms, stamps, post-office, assessed ta.:es
appointed by Assessed-tar Commissioners), or new po-
lice, pauper, or if convicted of bribery, felony, &c.
The following notice of objection can only be signed
by a person whose name is on the overseer's list, and
must be delivered to an overseer on or before the 25th
of J.,:iigust

NOTICE OF OBJECTION.
To the Overseers of the parish of
I hereby give you notice that I , object to the name
of
being retained
in tho list of persons entitled, under the Reform Act, to
vote in the election of a Member, (or Members), for the
city (or borough) of
bring forward such objection at the tinioaonfdtthhearteervissieg
of such list.
Dated the

day of August, in the year 1841.
(Signed) '

THE REGISTRY.
ELECTORS—See that you are registered. The over-
seers aro bound to place the lists of voters on the church
doors on Sunday, August 8.
COUNTY ELECTORS—Look at the county list. Note
the name of every man you know to be dead, to have lost
or sold his qualification, and' mark especially. the tiulged
votes of the farmers sons, and of the men without legal
qualification. If you are on the list for the county give
notice of objection to the party and to the overseers on
or before August 25. If you are not on any list your-
self, find some friend to give the notices.
BOROUGR ELECTORS.—Examino the list of voters for
your borough ; see that your own name is inserted cor-
rectly ; if it is not, give a written notice of claim to the
overseers on or before August 25. See what bad votes
are in the list, and give a written notice of objection to
the overseers on or before August 25.

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from the misfortune. In this state of things many of
my friends proposed to me divers remedies, none of
which, however, had any effect, but at last I was induced
to try your Maccassar Oil, which. in a short time quite
restored my locks, so that I have now a remarkably good,
head of hair for one of my declining years. I am,_g•exi...
tlemen, your most indebted and obedient servant,
LIAM SHEPHERD."

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