The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

MURDER AT SEA.

HavtiE, Auc. 14.—The melancholy fate of the six-
teen passengers of the Willi:an Brut% n had not been
effaced from our sad remembrances,- nor our indigna-
tion lessened that such enormities had been allowed to
pass, under the plea of " necessity," without a public
investigation, when another and more horrid murder,
without the plea of " necessity" being advanced to jus:
tify it, is made known in Havre ; and I much fear
the perpetrator of this bloody act is likely to escape.
The sufferers of the William Brown were poor crea-
aubjeets--speking under a friendly flag
shelter in a foreign country, where they might earn a
rivelihood by their daily labour. This new victim was a
llritish sailor engaged under the protection of another
friendly flag to perform his voyage from Monte Video to
Havre. We shall by and by be enabled to ascertain
what is the protection of " friendly flags" afforded to
British passengers and British sailors.. The ship Leo-
poldina Rosa, belonging to Monte Video, left that
place in the month of May, bound for Havre.
The crew was composed of English and American
seamen, the captain and mate were Frenchmen ; there
were sixteen passengers on board ; -the men stipulated
for coffee for breakfast and a full ration of meat- They
had not been at sea more than a week when the meat
was reduced to half allowance, and two sardines
were substituted for their coffee. Two of the men
remonstrated, and were placed
,by the captain in
irons, but liberated after a confinement of three days ;
they were marked, however, as objects for annw
ance. On the 16th of May, the captain, after abusYng
one of these two, an Englishman, named James Dickson,
struck him; a scuffle ensued. The third mate took a
handspike, and attempting to strike the seaman, missed
him, but struck the Captain on the head. The men came
up, and the row was put an end to, the man, Dickson,'
retiring with the remainder of the .triga to the forecastle.
The Captain retired to his cabin, with die-mates, and hav-
ing provided himself with a sword, .and given the mates a
pistol each, came on deck ; not finding Dickson, he went
to the top of the ladder of the forecastle, asked if he was
there, and being answered in the affirmative, sprang
down, and instantly ran the man through the body three
times. He then came on deck, and desired the men to
bring the fellow up, they replied they could not, as his
bowels were hanging out, and lie was bleeding away.
The surgeon of the ship came forward for the purpose
of assisting the poor wretch, but the captain refused
to allow him to touch him or render him the least as-
sistance. The miserable man soon, died, and three hours
after his body was thrown overboard. On the arrival of the
vessel in Havre a report of what had occurred reached
the police, the Captain was arrested and sent to,prison
the passengers were examined, and their deposi-
tions taken by the Procureur du Roi, who re-
portel the case to the Procureur-General. Strange
to relate, an order was immediately sent down
for the instant liberation of .•the Captain, on the
ground " that no notice could be taken by the French
authorities it- any act committed ut sea under the flag
of a foreign power." The Captain was set at liberty.
The English Consul having examined the crew, who,
with the passengers, declare there7l no attempt at
mutiny, and agree in the details of the murder, dtmaude(l
the recommittal of the captain, the .murdered man bons
a British subject. This, as well as a copy of the deposi-
tions_ of the passengers taken before the I:rrealo du
Roi, has been refused, and the murderer is walking
the streets with-complete impunity:

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR I—l have been much gratified by seeing in yoirr
valuable paper, the spirited exertions which the R form-'.
ars of St. Ann's, Soho, and St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
arc malting to rre
over the late disaster which the Libe-
. r •
of Reformersinster in St. argaret'shat and
ral cause has sustained in estm.
M But w ar;
numerousthe
-list, about? Are they not preparing
.ba:rint3
St. John
iibohg'e Tories " on the first opportunity
,adE
vulgar abuse and personal misrelireseniation I despise
as much as any man can do ; but' hosvcver estimable
may b
tthoa bte ,il ioffers ?
n
be the private character of the Captain lions,
I hope I am guilty of no disrespect to the Gallant
Officer, in expressing my conscientrous opinion, that he
does not represent the sentiments-tic the majority of the
electors of Westminster, and, notwinmtunding late oc-
currences, I trust he 4111 find, on St future occasion, that
I am right in my conclusions.
Your obedient servant, AN ELECTOR.
Rutland-gate,' Ang.l4, 1841.

•
OPENING OF :THE GREAT PARE IN THE
REGENT'S P.AaK.----On Sunday morning; at aix o'clock,
y commaad of the -Commissioners, of Woods and Fo-
rests, the new entrance-gates (six in number) were
thrown open to the public. The suspension chain-
bridges over the ornamental waters adjoining the planta-
tions of the Marquis of Hertford's house were particu-
larly .admired ; they are paved over with large York-
shire paving-stones, and are level with the gravel-walks.
They are the first production of the new patent granted
to Mr. Dredge, who has contracted with the Commis-
sioners to erect a most superb one, fifty-six yards in
length, over the broad part of the ornamental waters
fronting Sussex-place. Tho Commissioners of Woods
and Forests have granted to the Marquis of Hertford
four acres of extra laud, to be added to his plantations-;
two acres to Mr. Goldswid, and three to Mr. Holum],
fronting orth Lodge-gate. Numbers of smiths are
busily engaged erecting light iron fences around the
grounds, as also between the walks on the banks of the
ornamental waters.

VAUXHALL GARDENS —Nearly 7,000 per-
sons paid for admission to the Gardei:s last evening, to
the great annoyance, as it would appear, of the
waiters. One of them has sent ris a ]otter complaining
that he lost one pound on the occasion, owing to
the strict and severe rules of the purveyers to the
visitors. Everything, he says, must be paid for before
taken from the bar, and where there is a call for more
bread or beer, or wine, and he runs to fetch it, the cold
fowls or the guests are flown, but the money is not re- .
turned. _ _

The warmest manner in which one Brazilian can
introduce another to a family is :--c'This is a mold, if
e steals anything lam accountable far it:'

SECOND EDITION

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

PRICES OF CAN AL, DOCK, ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 17.
Number Divileed Price
of per CANALS. cer
,
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs. oh. 107
1,482 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Arcrage 1151.8 h. 72
• 1, 60. ......... Basingstoke... lOOl.O. 5
1,005 sfl. Brecknock and Abeigavenny ISO/ . sh. 92
1,000 1.16 th. 10/ Birmingham, 1-16th share ....8%1. & 711. 200
4,000 Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l4'.ll. sh.loo p• 1 25
609 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. all pi -
400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lool.sh. 101
300 321. C0ventry1.......... ......... ......... lool.Bh. 560
..«.... Zroydoe. Average 311.2 s 10d. sh. -
2,nen 51. Os, Dudley.... .. -- 1001.,h. 94
600 • 131. Derby lOOl sh . 120
1I ( 4 per cent. Jasmine and Mayne ... ...... 411.135. 4d.pd 30
3,5751 4' Ellesnwre and Chester Averegel33:.ll4. HI
231 621 Erewasn ... ....... ........ 1001.20. 750
,2.17 351. Forth and Clyde.:. ..
...Avcrareti.:o/. 168. n. 61'0
11,6,70 71. Grand ..r unction - •... 1001.sn 'leg
2,e4d1 255. Grand Union lOOl.lll 26.
r ,500 ..... Grand Surrey...-. _ 1001. sh. 15
1,0001 a...percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
iii 6 ........ Grand Western ............ 11. sh. all pd 10
100 131.123.9 d. Glamnrganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 230
749 12s. Grant:laser .... ........ ............. lsol.sh. 20*
6,933 21. Os. Huddersfield Average i,/1. tis.6(l. sh. 28
100 .... ..... Kensington ...... ....... ... . . 100 sh. all pd 10
95329 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 3;1. 18s. 10e1. sh 224
11,699 f It. 7s. Lancaster Average 47/. Os. 8d 28
2,897 f 301. Leeds and Liverpool , 001. sh 750
5451 111. Leicester 1401.11 154
1,897 51. es. Leicester & Nort nampton Aver 831.10 s 73
2,109 101 Monmouthshire lOO/41' 200
250 10/. Melton Mowbray • .....-.1001.5h. 21.13
300 254 Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh . 550
3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield ........„ ........ 1001.8 h. all pd 34%
247 171. Neath lOOl.Bl, 325
2.400 51. Peak Forest........Aver.ge about 78/. sh. 71
21,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.135.8d.5h. 8%
5,669 61. ltochdale Average 351.. h. SI
500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137
800 101. Os. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 180
3,600/: 4f percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 11%
700 361. Stefrord and Worcester 1401.5 h. 600
500 y 5/ Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280
390 91. 3taurbridge.....--....... ....... 145/.sh. 396
3,647 21. us. Stratford-on-Avon Aver... 791. Us. tat. sh. 35
533 1211 Swansea ..** ..... ..... . .... ..-... lool.sh. 265
3,762 21. IN. Severn and Wyc and Railway Ae.35/. sh, 45
2.60010. 22:. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share . -.1001. sh. 50
8.1 tg ......... Thames and Medway Av. 191.58. Bd. ah. 2
1,0005 h./ 161. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh 238
1.00015h.3
!PO 13 . Warwick and :tea Wei. sh. 150
7,000 41 Worcesitr & Birmingham Av.7tl/.Bs. sh. 55
5.000 r. 6 ~ Wilts and Berke Average 671. 105 Bd. sh. :30
em 6.. Willey and tssington 1251. ah 74
.20 ...... w;areacn . ....... . ... . .... = ah. 30
pee. 11 Wey and Arlin. ..... ...•••••• ..... IBM. en. 224
DOCKS.
aL0n6.570.1 3p. c. Commerc al ........ 100.1. sh. 6i
5 per cent. East and West India c-,......... Stack 98
3,238,310;1. :31. p.ct. Imndon ....... ... ...........5t0ck 70
Ditto Bonds
2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol ...............Average 14'1.95. sh 75
68,3241. M. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
352,75/ 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 93
500,00 4f per cent. Ditto Bonds
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
......... Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10
BRIDGES.
IMOI/. Hammersmith ...... ,,,,_,,,z0/..h. 21
1,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Bd. sh. 3%
1.700 I/. 158. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent., 501. sh. 16
J.llOO . . Waterloo 100/. sh. 34
... .
5,000 0.2.5. (1:1*. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 60/. p 4 21
5,0(10 Ws. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4Ol. pd 1834
51,0(10/. 5!. rer cent. Ditto Bonds
5,848 *.:74 Vauxhall .....„..Average 701. 103. 3d. sh 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,00(1 3/10s Albino 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72
61,f1„, f 6 per cent./ Alliance British & Foreignloo/. sh. 111. pd 13%
' t and 15s.
!WOO 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100!. sh. 51. pd 5
24,000 1/. per sh. Atlas 501.8h. 51. pd 14
1,20015 h. 51. Birmingham t ire- ..... ....250/. sh. 55/. pd 107%
20,000 4/. percent. British Fire 2501.8h. 50/. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British. Commercial 5Ol. s'i 5!. pd 51.4
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOL sh. 2,110 s pd a%
4,1100 310 s County lOOl. sh. 101. pd If
7,000 3s. Eagle .501.3 h. 51. pd 5
2og S-5
en Per 301 '•ens.ti Economic Lif, 1000!. ah. 2501. pd 406
Sts
2,271 225. per cent. European Lie
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 204 sh. 21. pd 14(
.000,000/. t/. per ct Globe Stock 1154
20,0(81 51. Guardian
341,000 4s. &I. Hope s' 50/. sh. 5!. pd 5%
2,400 5/. 123. 60. Imperial lire 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 132%
7,590 9s. Imperial Lile lOO/. sh. 10!. pd 10
13,459 51. percent. Indemnity Marine lOOl. sh. 81. pd 29
2,020 31 108 Kent Fire 5O!. sh. all pd 92
3/. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 68
10,000 16s. Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd now,
b,0‘41 Its. London, Fire 25/ sh. 12/. 10s. pd 194
3,900 10s. London, Ship "3' sh. 101. 10s. pd 1834
1.600,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh.
5'..),000/, - ......... 24 ss. pd 1%
30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216 s
50,000 5/. per cent. Protector L'fa 201. sh. 2/. MI :Seed
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant /dissenters .... 1004 sh. 51. pd 5%
9,500 1/. Provii.lent Lire
20e,00,0 Is. I'd. Rock Life ............. ......... . ........... 2/. pd 8%
89,2214! 51. percent. Royal Exchange Stock 1:7
6,000 5 per cent. Unirersity Lite.... ... ........ lOU sh Si. pd 534
10,000 4 per cent. United KingdomLife..„..lool. sh 5/. pd 7%
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 ... ..... Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. sh. 10/. pd
15,0n0 8 per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 401. pd 58
10.00.1 lit percent. Bank of Sir imingham .50/. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 la per cent. Birmingham Bank 504 sh. 10/. pd 19
31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001 sh. 201. pd al%
60,001.1 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 101. pd 12%
.1,009 4 per cent. Lancaster ...... ......... ..... 1001.1 h. vv. pci :so
25,5550 1+; per cent. Liverpool 100! sh. 1011. pd 19
50,000 71 per CONE Manchester and Liver / 50/.3h. 151 pd 10
pool Distri".
29,000 7 rer eve t. Manchester looi. sh. 10/. pd
20,000 8 pe; sent. Provincial Bank eflrelandloo/. sh. 251. la 40%
10,400 6.er . cut National Bank of Ireland 50/..sh. 171!. pci IN
10,000 6 per cent National Prov,.iclal Eng.lool, sh. 3.51. pd 34
10,003
10,000 ..... -. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 101. pd 32
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. oh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPA N lEe.
_ .

2.5(40 les Od Bath 20/. sh. 161. pd 2•2
5,000 ..... .... Bn net itg. sh. 16/. pd 181.
5,000 51 percent.'" .
Ditto Provincial ...« ......... sh. 19L pd 24
land Bs. 65.3
9.8 51 ins Birmingham 500. sh. 96
1,250 21 Os Bristol 'W. sh. 36
2,250 3/ Ins Brighton 2O/. sh. I3A
750 31 Ins Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 101. pd 9
2,471 4} per cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 9%
4,000 71.1:)e. Continental Consolidatsd -.Mt. 6:2}!.pd 103
1,030 101. City of London.. ....... -.IOW. sit. all pd 195
1,000 01. Ditto' New lOO/. sh. 75/. pd 150
0100 31.05. Erkuitable 'o4 pd 20
pl,OOO 01. per cent. Imperial W. sh. 504
SOO U. per cent. Isle nt Thaitet 25/. sh. 20!. pd 18%
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 'IOLA. slip. 55
n.,000 41. per Cent. Phoenix 5O/. sh. Xn. pd 33
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff ... ..... ...... ......100!... sh. 801. pd 10
,ooii ...... ... South netropol..itaii ...... SOL oh. 10/. pd 14i
).00.1 5/.per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd 31
240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. oh. 50
400 51. per cent Waxeflold 25/..h. 22
2,000 31. Westminster Chartered
6,000 Its. Ditto New .5(1.114 lit/. pd 11A
700 3 per cent. Yarmouth ...... .... ....... 2Ol. sh. IS!. pd
WATER WOAKS
4,4100 Its. Birmingham .25/. sh. 25/. pd 21
1,133 71. East London 100/. oh. milli;
kselit 2/ 15e. Grand .; unction Averaoe 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 61
9,000 31. Kent 1001. sh. 47
372 Int. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326
1,500 2 /10s NC77 Atver London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,45 e 21 les Manchester and Salford 1091. sh. , 5331°
1,000 5 per cent. South London 1001. sh. 98
8,294 411. West Middlesex Averse 631.'125. 9d. sh. 90
1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON/RAILWAYS.
/von ......... Birmingham and Derby lOO/ pd 44
0.500 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester !CO/. pd 60
Isom ......... Bristol and Exeter ........1001. sh. 60 pd 3i%
7,500 ..... .... Cheltenham& G.Western 1001.8 h. 62N/. 201%
3,00 n Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/ pd 30
coon
...... ... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 51. pd
00.006
...... ... Eastern Counties 25!. sh. 231. pd 7%
10,000 Great North of England 100/. sh. 901. pd F 9
10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 2011
24,000 ......... Great Western 1001. sh. 651. pd 81
25,0(10 Ditto New 50/. sh. 10/. pd 5534
5,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 501. sh. /.0/. pd 52
2,0,4 5 per cent. Hartlepool' lOOl. rh. 100/. pd 1453 v
8,900 ««..... Hull A 1 1(1 •seiby 5O/. sh. 50/. pd 3.5%
2.100 41. per cent. Leeds and Selby ....... ... ..... ......-..100 sh. 65%
5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& 51anchester Int I.sh. 100/4,4 199%
7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. pd 90
11,195 10 per cent. Ditto !,)uarter Shares 251. pd 45
3601)161
••••••••• London and Brighton 501. sh. 501. pd 43 mum
...•••••• London and fnackwall 25/. sh. 254 pd 14
0,000 3 per Cent. London and Greenwich _2Ol. st.. 201. pd 8
25,0101 Bper cent. London ,c Birminghnin lOW- sh. 901. pd 160
25,000 ......... Ditto Quarter Shares -.25/. sh. 5/. pd 123
31,250 ••••••••• Dtt o New Shares 321. oh. 32/. pd 5 i
36041 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av.:381,175. 9d, 52
33,000 ......... London and Croydon]
Av. 13/. 15s. _.0,1 11.2.2y.„Vi
Ditto New Senp...
13,000 aper cent. Manchester and L:_s•eils...loo/. sh. 70/. pd 51
13,0110 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 254 pd 21
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.s h. 404 80%
I htto Extension
..- ...... 71. pd 2%
......... Midland Counties... ...... 103. oh. 100/. pd S 2
North Mioiand
...... ... i. 04 sh. 1001 pd 6;
Ditto New
......... • ..... .. 401. 14 32 Northern and Eastern-aim. sh 60/. pd 20t„
prsston• and Wyre ...... .501. sh; 04)1 ild .fl.
5,128 .... .....
~,,C',,,,,"/ ......." South Eastern and Dover -• • -
**••••••• 3"4- Pd 16%
5.,,- .pe....r..c..ent. Stockton and Darlington ... .... .1004 sh 255
LOOO 10/.
Thames Haven 501. sh 51. pd 9,0C0
6,000 York and North Midland SO • sh. 501. pd 73
....... ..
MINES.
Albion Copper
51.1 h, 214 Po 12
•11.:b. ARM l5l. sh 121. li.11;; pd lo
Angle Mexican,' ss.. 51 . pm.lool. sh. al ~ d
Ditto Subscription ............ ....... • , I%
1501. sh 7. • 0' I K
2,000 10/. Bolanos
U *ted 251 • -vi• Pd 5
10,000 11. Ins Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 251. sh ..,,,I psi 35
13,000 Matsubas & Locacs nt
....,..._ r 4
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey Y',4 ;h7 til A
2%
201.5 h. 20t pd 1
IC,OOO ... ...... Bolivar Copper Compan'; f
10,000 Ditto Scrip -. 10/. sh. 101. pd 2
20,000 British Iron
,000 ... ...... British Copper 54 sh. 441. pd 1%
CV.I Branr, 91. pd 616
Cand^ •A 714 pd
la
10,000 1 1 C e-,
lnape
... . .904 sh l3l. pB.l . B)
,500 ...
3:. c01ruman.,.i.;;.5:17m.. ..
......... sh 551. Pd oii
,e5O English 14/. Gs. pd 2
20,000 s General Mining Association2ol. sh.lBl. pd I%
6,155 .... ..... Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 5711. pd 6
3,006 .... Polberou Consols lO4 sh. 81. pd 4
11,500 ......... Real del Monte, Unregistered 2%
Ditto Loan Notes. 150!. pd 160
30.0 n ;......... United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. oh. all pd 2%
DWG Scripl)l4
Ditto New Scrip.... ......... ... ..... ...5/ p 4 4
West Cork ... ..... .. ...... ....50/. sh 50/. pd 38
LITERARY INS'IITUTIONS.
1,000 ... London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 14%
1,5/;0 Lominn-University lOOl. sh. all pd 7
790
King' College lOO4, 19%
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,x1 15s. Australian A gricultural.loo/. sh. 281 pd 33
6, )C9 1. per cent. British American Land Company 3,44 pd 7
10,0(0 6) per cent. Canada Couipany 1004 sh. 3244 pd 211 i
10,01.0 51. per cent. Upper Cana .?a Loan
City Bonds, 4 per cent ........ ............ WI
20,(1,1311 lg. As. General Steam Navigation 151.:4'
10/. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
A% 1/. London Corn. Sale Re- -............. .. . . 254
,000 ... ...... CooLlchoue Corn- ..ins ....Av. 751. ;h. 19
New Ptrunsw. irony 124/. pot 12
cal, 5/. pet coot Rever, ...It Land Cornpany...so/. pd 12
2.633 5/. per cent. ' ...nary Int. 50c...1001. oh. 1001. pd 101
Thames 4.000
•• - -Mt° New 100/. sh. 100:. pd 107
••••• _
19,000 •es," Tunnel 5Ol. sh. all sit 10
Van Dic.rer.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 17;1. pd !7%
FIST of SCO 7' 7'ISH COMPANIES' PRICES
AUG. 14, 1841,
BANKS.
Lotto,eote. .p. ct. Bank of •scotland -.83/. Os. 843. di all pd ;59
I,smenc. . p. ct. Ni yal of Scotland 1004 sh. all sod 151% !)00,,0ng.. p. ct. British Linen Comp4ny 100/.sh. :ill pd 'IS
041.0001. fil• ?- et. Cntillnercial ,11111. sh. lOW. pd 165%
6
601,04143.. ~. et. k,nlional IOCI. ah. 104 pd 14
5014,0441. 71.11. Cr. Glasgow Union.... 2504.0. 50/. pd 06
1,000,A01. 6p. Ct. Western of Scotland t;01. sh 40/. pd 70
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
2Eli.oooin. 64 p. et. Scottish Union .291.1 h. IL pd :3, 6d.
7,5414 7p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 10!. pd 13
100,040 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of see tland .101. sh. ail pit 1, ii
50.00 Bp. ct. North British .01. oh. 10/. pd 17
1,014 2p. ct. Caledonian i'ire 1004 sh. 101. pd 20
5,0u0 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 1901. sh. 10/. pet 11%
100,000 34 p. :t. West of Slotland ...... ................ 10/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 ........ Ellin. 4nti Glas. Un. Canalso/. di. all pit 14
Ditto Allocateil !161. sh. all pit 43
1i25,40( 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. aii pd 34!4
',Mush 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcrv......soLsh 481. 43
0,000 3 per coat. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.2o/.sh. 164 pd 3%
4.500 'Ones cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas ...... 251-81- all Pd 10
4.450 10 per cent, Clasgow Gas . 251. sh. all pd 59
7411 74 per cent. Leith Coal Gas ...
.. 201.0. all pd 19
11,144 •••»•••• Edinburgh and Da ficeith dailway 50/. sh 39
A

10,000
15,000

8,000
4,000
10,000

- Sailor, lasi week, who was in want of money,
ilia stock being reduced to sixpence, went to a pawn-
ee in Berry-street, pledged his sixpence for three-
pence, and got it truly described in the duplicate ticket,
a "piece of sayer plate of beautiful Workmanship."
He then took his ticket to a public-house, and sold it
very readily to a pedlar for 2. 6d., pocketing 2s. 3d. by his ingenuity.—Betfast Vlndwator,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS or THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The incoming Government is in a cleft
stick. It cannot go on in the old track ; and cannot
strike into any new path, without demolishing the slid-
ing scale, and adopting a moderate fixed duty. If by
any jugglery, in the shape of a loan, or any similar ex-
pedient for meeting the exigency, the proximate Pre-
mier endeavour to obviate the necessity of grappling
with the monster-evil, the parent of the numerous pro-
geny of woes which are stalking through the land, spread-
ing distress and disaffection among the people—the event
will be fraught with yet more effectual destruction to
the monopoly thus sought to be continued. At the pre-
sent moment the country would be content with the fixed
duties on importation contained in the propositions of the
present Government. If the evils inflicted by the pre-
sent scale be allowed to continue, the nation, roused as it
is into action by the continually accumulating mischiefs
and miseries it inflicts, will rise in its demands, like the
bearer of the Sybiline books, and finally take as large a
draught of justice and retribution as their position shall
enable them to command.

STANDARD.—The Globe of last evening confirms
the general impression that Ministers intend that the
Speech from the Throne on the opening of Parliament
shall raise the question of the Budget. It all but avows
the fact, that the measures which have already been
rejected .by the Parliament and the country are
to be reproduced in her Majesty's Speech. The
Queen will not, we are told, change her advisers
on the verdict of the late House of Commons,
but on the decision of that which is about to
meet. Having taken the sense of Parliament on their
measures they repudiate its verdict, because they profess
to disbelieve that it is in accordance with the sense of
the nation. They dissolve with the intimation that if
the country should ratify the opinion of the House of
Commons they will retire. Their appeal to the people
is answered by a majority of from eighty to ninety
against them, but, instead of fulfilling their
promise, they propose to refer the issue a second
time to the decision of Parliament ; and the decency
of such a course is thus vindicated by the Evening
Organ of the Government :—" Supposing Minis-
ters to be on their trial before the country, and
that.the first jury has been objected to, is the condemna-
tion to he passed before the verdict is taken ?" The
cases are by no means analogous. Ministers, having
hdinitted the competency of the jury by which they
ave been- tried, have been found guilty. They have
appealed to the people as a court of cassation, for the
reversal of the judgment, and have had it confirmed
in a manner which can admit of no mistake. The
declarations of the jurors are before them, but, unable
to deny their conviction of the offences imputed to them,
they pretend an unwillingness to submit themselves to
their verdict until they have ascertained the exact
numb& by whom their appeal has been rejected. They
cannot, forsooth, be legally cognizant of their position
until it has been formally announced to them by the
tribunal whose opinion they, have already rejected !
COURIER—When the late Parliament had shown
by repeated decisions that it had withdrawn its confi-
dence from the Melbourne Ministry, they advised her
Majesty to appeal to the sense of her people, artfully
impressing her Majesty's mind with the notion. that the
effect of that appeal would be the reversing of the
sentence passed upon them ; but, when they read in the
election returns a terrible confirmation of that verdict,
they then had the audacious disloyalty to libel her
Majesty by representing her as anxious to resist, and if
possible annul that appeal, and retain as Ministers those
whose measures and policy the nation has so decisively
and significantly condemned. There is in this attempt
of itself sufficient to disgust the loyal and sober-think-
ing portion of the community; but its inherent offensive-
ness is greatly enhanced by the air of impertinent familia-
rity with which the organs of the discarded and doomed
Ministry presume to speak of her Majesty's feelings and
wishes, and of the manner in which she is likely to
act towards her future Cabinet. To prejudice her Ma-
jesty's character, as a constitutional Sovereign, in the
estimation of her people—to place her in a position
of antagonism with her Parliament would appear to
be the sole end and aim of their present factious
proceedings. It is for this purpose their con-
fidants tell us, that her Majesty's speech from the
throne will be degraded to the level and perverted to
the purpose of an Anti-Corn-law manifesto, and that it
will be made the vehicle of opinions and principles
which the House of Commons, as representing the na-
tional mind, must necessarily condemn, which every
man in the community, and the nation itself, has al-
ready repudiated and condemned. We will not ask what
can justisfy, because it is altogether unjustifiable, but
we may ask what can palliate such a violation of the
duty and so gross an abuse of the facilities of the respon-
sible advisers of the Crown, as the supposition involves.
Yet we would wrong conviction, did we affect to dis-
credit the rumour which charges them with the in-
tention of making the Queen's Speech an occasion for
raising a discussion on the Corn-laws ; and of thereby
incalculably increasing the difficulties of its future
adjustment, as well as placing her Majesty in the un-
seemly dilemma of being apparently opposed to that sys-
tem of policy, upon which will be founded her future ad-
ministration. But their knavish tricks will be frus-
trated, as the good sense and constitutional spirit of the
,people will teach them to distinguish accurately between
the framers and the deliverer of the Royal speech, and to
reflect, whatever be its contents, that in reality it can
only be considered as the expression of the sentiments
and opinions of its concoctors.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(THIS DAY)
Amsterdam CF. 12 6CGibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 7 Genoa
Antwerp l2 61 Milan
Hamburgh M. B. 13 12 Venice
A ltona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 45 IPalermo, per oz 114
Ditto, 3 months 25 70 ;Lisbon 5":

Marseilles
Bout deaux 25 75 Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 374 Buenos Ayre:,
Berlin.. . .
, 21days sight 46}
Vienna, effee. 11. 3M. 950 Philv,:teiplia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 54 } R/CES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid
Cadiz J-I Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
Bilboa .. 36 New Doubt .0

0 0
Barcelona
Seville

mencement of the sales, the proportion offered being
large ; towards the close, however, they rallied, and left
off on a par with those previously estcblished. The
quantity offered consisted of 14,960 pkgs black, and
13,833 pkgs of green Tea, making the total 28,890
pkgs, of which the large proportion of 19,000 pkgs have
been actually disposed of, nearly all for bona fide con-
sumption.

The accounts published in a second edition of the
Morning Papers one month later from China caused the
Tea market suddenly to become animated, and in Com-
pany's Congou extensive purchases were made through-
out the morning at an advance on the rates of 'yesterday
of 2d to 2id per lb ; parcels for cash realized 2s 89d to
2s 9cl. For Free Trade there was an excellent de-
mand, and large parcels were disposed of at a similar ad-
vance, Common Congou for cash realized 2s 7d to 2s
7kd, fair blackish leaf 2s 8d to 2s 9d, good 2s 9d to 2s
10d, and common Twankay 2s 60 to 2s 7d per lb : com-
mon kinds of Tea were the most in request, The de-
mand appears to be principally speculative.
This afternoon there was less excitement in the mar-
ket, ; free trade, however, was held firmly at the rates
quoted above, but Company's Congou closed at 2s 84d
cash, being rather lower. The news received is not
credited by some parties in the city.
RCM, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS.—A brisk demand
has existed for Jamaica Rum, and prices have advanced
Id to 2d per gallon ; the sales have been 320 puns, 30
to 32 per cent over proof at 5s 2d to 5s Gd, 33 to 35 over
5s 7d to 5s 9d, better quality Gs to 6s 2d, and superior
marks 6s 4d to 6s 8d ; Leewards met with a fair demand
at former rates, the purchases have amounted to 250
puns, proofs to 7 per cent over proof at 2s Id to 2s 4(1,
12 to 15 over 2s 7d to 2s Bd, 34 to 37 over at 4s 3d. to
4s 4d. East India has been in increased request, and
rather higher rates have been paid ;_ the sales have.
been 230 puncheons Calcutta at Is 7d proof. At pub-
lic sale 80 casks were sold at 2s for 27 to 30 per cent. over
and hhds 30 per cent over 2s lid averaging is 61d
proof. Brandy has been in good request at the following
rates :—Cognac, first brands, of the vintage of 1836,
hhds 5s 7d, and pnns 5s sd, 1837, hhds 5s 4d, puns
5s 2d, 1838 hhds 5s 2d, 1839 hhds 4s Bd,. puns 4s Gd,
1840 hhds 3s 7d, puns 3s 3d. Geneva has brought higher
rates, and a fair demand exists, common is worth 2s to
2s Id per gallon. English Corn Spirits have been in good
request at lOs 4d cash.

To-day Jamaica Rum was in good request, and sales
of fine were made as high as 6s 10d per gallon, but Lee-
wards moved off slowly, and 2s Id accepted for proof.
RlCE.—This afternoon there was less life in the market
for East India Rice, the favourable change in the weather
causing buyers to be cautious in their operations, and
privately few sales were made ; holders were more dis-
posed to realize: at public sale 1,780 bags Bengal, were
offered, and only partly sold at lls 6d to 12s 6d for good
middling and good white, being 6d lower.
This afternoon at public sale 348 bags Malabar Gin-
ger, 263 bags black, and 175 bags white Pepper were
offered. Pepper mostly taken in at full rates, heavy
Malabar at 4d.to 4d, white at 6d to 8d for ordinary to
good mid. Ginger sold at 14s for good rather bold,
being cheaper.
- SALTPETRE.—To-day Rough met with less demand
by private contract, and at public sale 841 bags were
only partly sold at 28s for 4 per cent refraction, being
barely former rates.

Low.—For Russian Tallow buyers have been com-
pelled to pay a further advance of 9d to is per cwt ; 49s
9d to 50s for first quality. For delivery in the last
three months, 49s 3d to 49s 6d per cwt. South Ameri-
can good to fine hard quality at 47s to 49s 3d, ordinary
to middling soft 43s 3d to 46s 6d, grease 42s 3d to 43s
per cwt. Town Tallow has sold freely at advanced rates.
To-day the maiket was firm, and the rates quoted
above were fully supported, but there was less business
transacted, either on the spot or for delivery. For pub,4
lie sale on Friday 500 casks, &c. South America are de.
dared.
OILS.—For all descriptions of common Fish Oils prices
have advanced 50s to 603 per tun. Pale Seal has fetched
341 lOs to 35/, yellow and straw colour 29/ lOs to 33/ 10s,
brown 27/ lOs to 281 10s, Cod 28/ lOs to 29/. Southern
went at 26/ lOs to 30/ for ord to fine quality. Sperm
are on the decline : British, not of approved quality, at
801 to 911 10s—privatel, first quality, 93/ per tun. Lin-
seed Oil 325, being is 6d above the rates of last week.
Raye at 50s to 50s 6d for pale, and 48s 6d to 49s for
brown. Cocna Nut Oil, first sort, at 39s to 39s 6d p&r
cwt. Olive at improved rates; Gallipoli 70/, and Spanish
63/ to 65/ per tun. Palm, first sort, at 331 lOs to 341
per tun.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBFRLAIN'S-OFFICE.
The Lord Chamberlain cif hor Majest:s's Household has ap-
pointed the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Wriothesley Noel, Chap-
lain in Ordinary to the Queen, in the room of the Rev.
Alexander John Scott, D.D. deceased.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 16, 1841.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap-
point William Pitt Adams, Esq., now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Bogota, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation to the Mexican Bei üblic.
'the Queen has also been graciously pleated to appoint Si-
Henry Pottinger, Bart., to be Chief Superintement of Bifitisi;
Trade in China.
The Queen has al,z) been graciously pleal,-1.
Charles A. Lander, Esq. to be her INlajest-;.s
to
appoint
Dardanelles. -7—uonsol
the

The Queen has also been gracio,i.
sly pleased to appoint Ro-
bert Steuart, Esq., to be her
Con,ul.General to the Re I:_dajesty's Charge d'Affaires and
public of New Granada.
The Queen has also,
been graciously pleased to appoint Al-
fred '''-'ePtimus I'Vr.... no, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Cairo.
bertThe Ql...een has also been graciously pleased to appoint Re.
T ,
„. dytor, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Bagdad.
she Queen has also been pleased to appoint Edward Thump-
eon Curry, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Ostend.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Richard Ryan,
Esq., to he her Majesty's Consul at Para.

S. P. Allen to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice G. A. F.
Paget promoted; Henry, Marquis of Worcester to be Cornet
and Sub-Lieut. by purchase, vice Allen; Aug. 17.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. the Hon. A. G.
F. Jocelyn to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smyth promoted;
Cornet P. Buchannan to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Jocelyn ;
E. A. Croker, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Buchannan, August 17.
10th Regiment of Foot.—Assistant.Surgeon :R. Wood,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Brodie, promoted
on the Staff, August 17.
17th Foot.—Quartermaster-Serjeant J. Mulhall to be
Quartermaster, vice Sarson, deceased, August 17.
I jlBth Foot, Ensign H. D. Burrell to to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Bentley, appointed to the Roy al Canadian
Regiment; H. A. Ward, Gent., to be Ensign; vice Burrell,
17th Aug.
23d Foot, Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Curry, M. D. from 34th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Connell, promoted on the
Staff, Aug. 17.
24th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel H. D. Townshend to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Hughes, who re-
tires upon full-pay; Brevet Major C. H. Doyle to be Major,
vice Townshend ; Lieut. A. G. Blachford to be Captain, vice
Doyle ' • Ensign E. J. I. Fleming, to be Lieutenant, vice
131achford ; H. S. W. Hackett, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Fleming, Aug. 17.
3Sth,Foot—Assistant-Surgeon E. Le Blanc, from the Staff,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Foss, promoted on the Staff;
Aug. 17.
_ _

49th Foot—Lteut. J. L. Dennis to be Captain, without
purchase, vice IVilkinson, deceased; Ensign G. Band to be
Lieutenant, vice .Denis, May 17 ; Ensign C. A. Halthide to
be Lieutenant, vice Rand, whose promotion. on 25th June,
1841, has been cancelled, June 25 ; Ensign J. G. Wilkinson,
from the 62d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Half hide, Aug. 17.
50th Feot—R. Rentoul, Gent., to his Ensign, by purchase,
vice Parker, promoted, Aug. 17.
COth Foot—Lieut. A. A. T. COnynghame to be Captain,
bp purchase, vice Stewart, who retires, Aug. 17 ; Cupt. A.
Careen, from the 2d West India Regiment, to b Captain,
vice Hamilton, who exchanges, Aug. 18; Second Lieut. C.
W. H. Sotheby to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Cunynghame ; W. Roche, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Sotheby, Aug. 17.
62d Foot. —E. S,, Harrison, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Wilkinson, appointed to the 49th Fout, Aug. 17.
63d Foot.—Ensign H. Lees to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Nash, deceased ; Ensign J. Hardie to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Lees, whose promotion by purchase,
_has been cancelled; W. Mayne, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Hardie, promoted, Aug, 17.
67th Foot..—Captain C. B. Vane, from Halfpay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice T. Unett, who exchanges, receiving the
difference, Aug. 17....
99th Foot —Assistant-Surgeon G. R. Smith, from 65th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Byrne, promoted to the
Staff, Aug. 17.
2d West India Regiment.—Captain F. W. Hamilton, from
the 60th Foot, to be Captain, vice Carden, who exchanges,
Aug. 18.

Royal Canadian Regiment—Lieut. C. T. Bentley, from the
18th Foot, to be Adjutant and Lieutenant, July 23.
UNATTACHED.—Capt. J. R. Smyth, from tue 6th Dragoon
Guards, to he Major, by purchase ; Lieut. Lord G. A. F.
Paget, from the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, to be Captain,
by purchase, Aug. 17.
1112.31011ANDUM.—Major H. Piers, on half-pay of the Royal
Staff Corps, has been allowed to retire from the Army, with
the sale of a Majority, he being about to become a settler at
the Cape of Good Hope, Aug. 17.
Brevet Major J. W. Wilson, on half-pay 3d West India Re-
giment, has been allowed to retire from the Army, with the
sale of a Company, he being about to become a settler in Ca-
nada, Aug. 17, 1841.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.
Sir Pyers Mortyn, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant, Aug. 3.

WHITEHALL, AUGUST 9.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Richard Ingram,
of Halifax, in the county of York, Gent, to be a Master Ex.
iraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.