The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-25 00:00:00

RITIVZOURS OF THE DAY.

Mr. O'Connell, confident of being elected Lord Mayor
of Dublin, has ordered a splendid state carriage aad.
liveries to be ready for the occasion.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM TICK MORNING TAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Some new light has been thrown to-day on
the Mysteriaus transactions in Exchequer Bills, which
for some days past have nearly engrossed attention in the
City.; It is satisfactory to be able to state that the suspi-
cion which at first attached to these transactions, of
their being based in forgery, has now evaporated. That
suspicion arose, it seems, at first, from its having been dis-
covered, in the course of the inquiries on the subject,
that there were bills in circulation of the same num.
ber and date. Hence, as the parties interested had a
very large stake in the issue, a reference was made to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to ascertain to whore.
certain bills, the numbers of which were stated to
him, had been issued. At first it was the iurpression
of Mr. Goulburn himself, who applied hir.liself most
earnestly to the investigation as soon as the facts
were made knOwn, that the supposed duplicates mur't
have been forgeries, but on a reference to the suleurti;'a te
officers of the Treasury, the whole was explair ,d: aI
appears that out of a grant of 11,000,0001, of r..,;"'
Bills made in June, 1840, 158 bills, beg
equert
numbers
8,403 to 8,560, remained unissued
I March, 1841,
when a new graht came forward of
public service. All these were -10,751,550/. for the
;
of bills which took place on ssued on the exchange
'the 15th of March, and
were numbered from 1 to 8 ,694 ; and at the same time
with this issue
was
issuer', the 158 bills above-mentioned,
the residue of the gra- it of 1840, which were also dated
the 15th of Mare),
were duPlicaiP Consequently, to that extent there
as to date and number, introduced
into the circulation. As these marks are alone usually
referred
to by holders of Exchequer Bills, the different
- ...ling of the body of the bill, relative to the grant to
which each beloiged, wholly escaped observation. It has
1 been a most gratifying circumstance to discover that
1 their alarm as to forgeriesis without foundation, but the
source from which the bills so deposited at usurious rates
of interest originally came has for the present wholly
escaped research. So cautious have the individuals been
to prevent detection, that the bills are believed to have
passed through no less than five or six different hands
before they came to be presented as a deposit for loans
of money. There is now little doubt, however, but that
they must be discovered, as the holders of the bills, find-
ing their alarm as to forgeries put an end to, will readily
give all the assistance in their power towards tracing
them back to their origin. The interest taken in thee
subject at the Treasury has been extreme, as the officers
that e *are well aware what injury is caused to the general
market for Exchequer Bills by such circumstances as
these which have lately occurred, and they are deter-
mined to do everything in their power, both to detect the
original movers in these deposits, and to prevent such
things from recurring in future.
It is a singular feature in these transactions, and one
that has not the least contributed to give them a suspi-
cious appearance, that, although the brokers connected
with them have been of high respectability, other parties
l have offered the bills of no standing whatever, indeed in
such humble circumstances, that persons are totally at a
loss to conjecture how they could have been trusted with
so large an amount. For instance, one party who
offered them, and who was known to be possessed of
no property worth mentioning, was the bearer of
bills to the amount of 60,0001. Circumstances like
these would seem to argue that concealment
was even a greater object with the parties at
the bottom of the affair than the security of
their propty. Another fact which has come to
light is, that some time ago, when one of the bills had
found its way from the hands of a party with whom it
was lodged, the greatest pains were taken to trace it, and
recover it, as if there was the most painful anxiety to re-
cover the identical bill, and that no other bill would
answer the purpose, an anxiety which has shown itself
on different occasions. This anxiety, it is considered, it
would be difficult to account for, were there really a firm
'title to the bills, as, under ordinary circumstances, one
bill would be just as good as another, provided the in-
trinsic worth were the same. The suspicion of forgery
being removed, the question as to the rightful possession
of the bills in the first instance becomes more interesting,
and to that question will public inquiry be now chiefly
directed.
• POST.—The late Government had entered into con-
tracts for the eonveyance of 1,500 regular, and 800 Com-
, pany's troops to China ; the transports taken up for the
purpose to be ready for sea by the latter end of DeCeni-
ber. A leading shipowner has just purchased a largo
vessel, supposed to be for this service, and it 'is under-
stood that the new Government has arranged for the em-
-1 barkation of the force at a much earlier period. It will
' I be afloat, we hear, in the early part of the ensuing month.

The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Sir Edward Banks, from RotterdaM, arrived
off the Custom-house, yesterday; with the' Dutch.
Als(i thelJohn Bull, from Hamburgh; arrived off the
Tower, at 1 P.M., yesterday, with the liamburgh mail.