The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-28 00:00:00

loam of Aey has greatl , sturbed the. better feel-
ing not: das having b apparent yesterday in the
differegt markets.
HEB.ALD.—The aspect of business in the City
throughout the day has been very far from satisfac-
tory.- The very guarded - manner in which the
directors of the Bank of*England'ilre proceeding
very clearly shows that- the- rels:xation' of,, the Bank
Charter .Act is in practice- MereVnenainat It has
been now ascertained that the directors do' not 'con-
template' Making any advance;,, by ;way of lean "-or
otherwise, to the commercial :- classes :on dock-war-
ranti,:bills of lading, 'or by any, of the usual methods
of hypothecating produce, whilst the rates of interest
charged where discounts can be obtained upon.bilts
of exchange are far beyond' the' rites of 'profit oft
regular business, and are therefore only taken for
despeiate emergencies: respect 'to the rate's
charged for loans upon
.Stock,- -Exchequer-bills, &c.;
the directors do not appear to ,g.earern their conduct
by any specific per centage, bud reserve, to themselves
the power,of varying it: according, to circumstances,
but in no case is it-cluttged,within 1- per cent. of the
minimum. We mentioned_ aestferlday
_that a reP(irt
had been circulated that as much as the rate of 12
Pei- cent. had been Chatted,' but we have not been
able to find it stated on --such authority as
would -justify us in confirming:it. On farther in-
quiry to-day, however, wp • have 'leerned: on autho-
rity that cannot be questionedrthat the-:rate- of- 12
Per. cent. had actuallyl-411 paid YeAerdaY,'aildrot#
readers consequently, be able--to form- their
own opinion of: the x.etnal:.444i4icts. of affairs the
City.
Among the privatnbankers it daq be said there has
been a little, and but a little relaxation, as respects
the extent of their aceomnindaticils to-their enstiamers,
and the rule followed is to charge the minitmun rate
of the Bank of England forifirst-class paper. Here
and there there may be a difference of .1 per cent.
below this rate in very particular cases, but there are
a great many more where it runs 1 per cent. above it.
Beyond the range of the customers of the private and
joint-stock Iranktthere.has' been literally no diScount
market in the metropolis for now nearly six weeke
past, exceptdtbe by a lower grade of usurers, whose
rate
_of chafe we neither are nor wish to be ac-
quainted with.
An .instance has come within our knowledge to-day
which very forcibly illustrates the relaxed state of
commercial morality, the Onuine offspring of the
present pressure. A bill of exchange, drawn from
India, and accepted by a mercantile house in the
City, hitherto considered a respectable firm, which
had been discounted some time ago by a respectable
bill-broker, and rediscounted, with his endorsement,
by the Bank of England, reached maturity to-day.
On the bill being presented for payment the answer
was, that the acceptor had not received a remittance
from the drawer in India to meet it, and on his part
it was coolly stated it was not intended to pay it, on
that ground. On a remonstrance being made against
this strange and cavalier mode of proceeding the re-
joinder was, "We have nothing more to say upon
the subject, and if you are not satisfied, we beg leave
to hand you the card of our solicitor." We have only
to add, by way of finishing this portrait, that this
house has no idea-that they should be considered as
having stopped payment.

A VERY STRANGE STORY.
The Paris Presse publishes the two following state-
ments, which, it says, have been communicated to it
by an officer of the navy, whose shots, we suspect, are
only puffs for promotion :
" On the night of the 20th of June last, an English
brig fired, without any previous notice, two guns
loaded with ball on the French brig the Abeille, one
of the squadron of the western coast of Africa. The
commandant of the Abeille, a M. Legras, immedi-
ately returned shot for shot. The English vessel was
so astonished that it made signals to entreat that the
fire should cease, whereupon the French brig ap-
proached it, and the commandant exacted from the
English captain that he should instantly make an
apology. The Englishman accordingly went on
board the Abeille, and made an apology in presence
of the officers and crew, and afterwards entered the
cabin and repeated his excuses. Notwithstanding
this adventure, the English and French on the Afri-
can station are the best friends in the world."

The other story of the Presse is as follows :
" The Abeille was anchored off Quits, a Danish pos-
session in the Gulf of Benin, on the western coast o
Africa, when the Danish Governor demanded assist.:
ance, he being besieged in his fort by 6,000 blacks,
and having only a stock of two days' provisions. The
Abeille immediately sent out its men, who, by firing
grape shot and musketry, succeeded in conveying pro-
vision to the besieged; and this so frightened the
blacks that within 48 hours after they had all de-
camped. The Governor of the Danish possessions
then went on board the Abeille, and thanked the
commandant. He next requested that he might be
' conveyed to Affrie, another Danish possession, and
his customary place of residence; and with this re-
quest the commandant of the Abeille immediately
complied."

IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE
NOTICE.
Tha following notice was issued yesterday from the
General Post-office :
" General Post-office, October, 1847.
" The Postmaster-General of the United States
having given a notice for determining the agreement
under which the correspondence between Great
Britain and Canada has been conveyed, in closed
mails, through the territories of the United States,
as well as all other agreements subsisting between
the Post-offices of the two countries, the mails to and
from Canada will henceforth be landed and em-
barked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, instead of Boston, as
heretofore.
" All letters and newspapers, therefore, addressed
to Canada, will in future be forwarded by the way
of Halifax, Nova Scotia, unless specially directed to
be sent by some other route ; and as the arrangement
under which the United States postage has hitherto
been collected in Canada is also suspended by the
notice alluded to, all letters for Canada, which the
writers desire to have forwarded by the way of the
United States, should be addressed to the care of par-
ties in the United States, or they will otherwise be
'detained for the postage due for their transit through
the American territory.
" The postage on letters to and from Canada, for-
warded via Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be Is. 2d. the
half ounce, as at present, but no charge will be made
on newspapers either in the United Kingdom or in
Canada.
" By command of the Postmaster-General."
These regulations will take effect on and after the
3d of November next.

POST-OFFICE.—NEW REGULATIONS.—On and after
the 10th of November, letters exceeding
or four ounces
in weight, must be pre-paid in money, in stamps.
With this restriction, any weight ma y be sent by
post, but the packet must not x eceed two feet in
length, and nothing should be posted which will not
bear the crush in the letter bags.

THE SHAESPERE DTEUORIAL NIGHTS.—We are
being authorised to state that both the lessees
obtaltr in being
establishments of Covent-garden and Drury-
lane have generously given the free use of their respec-
tive theatres to George Jones, Esq., as Chairman of the
People's Central Committee, for the purpose of a
Shakspere Memorial Night." The lessee of the
theatres at York, Leeds, and Hull, has also granted to
the chairman the free use of his several theLtra, upon

which occasion Lord Morpeth, M.P. for Yorkshire, has
given his patronage. The members of the histrionic
profession will now have an opportunity of evincing
their sympathy in the good cause by their instant
volunteering, and thus support the enthus,astic efforts
of the chairman of the committee, who, upon this occa-
sion, re-enters the profession, and has given his gra-
tuitous servic( s to every principal theatre In the king-

dom.—Observer.
ALARMING INCIDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a
carriage and pair, belonging to Mr. Connal, broker,
while standing at a shop door in SAuchtehall-read, sud-
denly started off at a fearful pace, the hors!ci,o
itr seems,being
having been alarmed by the carriage
slammed to by the coachman. Fortunately there was no
one within the carriage, or the consequences might
have been serious, the animals rushing along with fright-
ful velocity; nor was it till they had reached Partick,
a distance of nearly two miles from where they started,
that they came to a stand-still.
that Such was the momen-
tum which they had acquired horsethe
and cart,of
which the driver drew across the road a
road in hope
checking their speed, were overturned in an instant,
though without sustaining any material damage. No
accident, we are
glad to say,
exception.—North
_ duringiv
ori h their
headlong career with the above, p
Bri-
tish Mail of Tuesday.
[ADYERTISEMENT.]—AN AFFECTION OF THE SPINS
AND LIMBS CURED BY IIIOLdLIOdWAY'S OINTMENT AND
Reynolds, of the William the
Fourth Inn, St. Ives, uarattscleahayd been ill for fourteen
months with an affection oft spine,se
her feet and legs
b
were dreadfully swoollen, and became perfectly
helpless. Several eminent surgeons and hy sicians at-
tended her, under whose care she derived no benefit,
but by the recommendation of Mr. Prior, druggist, Bed-
ford, she tried Holloway's Pills and Ointment.
These
fine medicines, in about nine weeks, so completely re-
stored her to health and strength, that she is now able
to resume the duties of her household with ease and
comfort —Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Hol-
loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
THE WINDOW DUTY A TAX ON COMELINBSS AND
GROWTH AS WELL AS ON HEALTH AND LIFE.—We 1,3
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here remind our readers, that it has been actually pred.
that individuals born and bred on the dark sides of streets,
or otherwise to the exclusion of light, are liable to many
evils and defects, and even to permanent decrepitude.
What a tax then on the health o f towns .I
the w
on
indow
tax! The powerful and peculiar inatience of light
add, tv:.a even been noted in the
animal life, we may
curious fact, that tadpoles, if screened from light, will
into frogs at all, as usual, but will merely
not grow up
continue to crow into the lower organization of enormous
tadpoles.--.Bgikkr.