The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

LON DON, 1 UEDA Y, OCTOBER 20, k4O.

TO WAREHOUSEMEN, TRADERS, AND OTHERS.
WANTS a PLACE as LIGHT PORTER,
or make himself otherwise useful, a Youth, Eighteen
Years of Age, from the country. For honesty and integrity
of character, security would be given to any respectable
Establishment.
Letters, pre-paid, to R. S., 113, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street.

ZEITTER and CO., Nos. 4 and 5, New
Cavendish-street, Portland-place, acknowledge with
gratitute the distinguished and extended patronage which has
been accorded to their celebrated PATENT GRAND PIA-
NOFORTES. The principle upon which they are constructed
has now become so well known, and its superiority so generally
admitted, that to enlarge upon it is utterly superfluous. Their
present object is to apprise the nobility, gentry, and public,
that they have applied all their admired improvements to cabi-
net, cottage, and piccolo pianofortes, for which description of
instruments they are ready to receive orders at prices not ex-
ceeding those manufactured in the ordinary way, and to which
they respectfully solicit attention at their warehouses, 4 and 5,
New Cavendish-street,

TO HOTEL KEEPERS AND OTHERS.
TO BE LET, with Immediate Possession, a
highly-respectable
FAMILY HOTEL and POSTING-HOUSE,
with or without Eighty Acres of Land.
Stock and Furniture to be taken at a valuation, which may
amount to about 1,5001.
This Property will be greatly improved by the intended
Western Railroad.

For particulars apply to Ali% Vussev, Waybrook. Alphington,
near Exeter, who can give &satisfactory reason why the present
occupier relinquishes this lucrative concern.
Dated Waybrook, Alphington, October l9, 1840.

PAY AND ALLOWANCES IN THE
EGYPTIAN NAVY.
Mehemet Ali pays his naval officers liberally. They
all bear military, rank, as in the Russian service ; in fact,
all the Egyptian sailors are taught the manual exercise,
and to consider themselves marines and soldiers also.
A Pacha ( Meer Meeran, Admiral or General) Soliman
Pacha, the former Colonel Selves, for instance, bas per
month, 241 purses, each containing 500 piasters, which
are equal to 5/. sterling, with 90 rations per day for
himself, and six rations per day for his stable. Each
ration is reckoned to be worth 43 piasters per month ;
a Bey of the first rank (Meeraleewa, Vice-Admiral or
Major-General) has 23} purses per month, 42 rations
per day, and 4 more per day for horses ; a Bey of the
second rank (Meeruly, or Colonel of a brigade of 4,000)
has 16 purses per month, 32 rations per day, and 3
beside for horses. His 4,000 men are named an ally.
Kaimacam (Captain of a line-of-battle ship, or Lieut.-
Colonel), 6 purses per month, 10 rations per day for
self, and 2 for horses. Second in command of a brigade
or ally, Bimbashi (Captain of a frigate, Major, or
" head of a thousand "), 5 purses per month, 5 rations
per day, and 5 for horses. There are four bimbashis in
each ally. Saacollas (Captain of a corvette, or bim-
bashi's " right-hand captain," four to an ally), has 2i
purses per month, and 4 rations per day. He and all
beneath him are dismounted. Husbasha Owell
(first " head of a hundred "), 600 piasters (not
purses) per month, equal to 61. sterling, and 3 rations per
day. This grade only exists in the navy and artillery. In
the latter there are 16 to an ally. Husbasha Saanee
(second" head of a hundred"), 500 piasters per month,
and three rations per day, 32 in the ally of infantry, but
on!), 16 in that of artillery ; Mulasm Owell (First Lieu-
tenant), 300 piasters per month, two rations per day,
32 to an ally : Sulasm Saanee (Second Lieutenant),
250 piastres per month, two rations per day, 32 to an
ally ; A Soloollas, (captain of a brig) 2 purses (not pia--
tars) a month, and four rations a day ; A Solcollas (in
the army, Bimbashi's " left-hand man"), four to an ally,
75 piasters a month, and two rations per day ; Musaid
Owell (First Midshipman), 150 piasters a month, two
rations per day; Musaid Sansee (Second Midshipman),
100 piasters per month, and two rations per day ; Phy-
sician to the Nile steam-frigate (the Pasha's yacht),
William Spence, a Scotehman, 2,000 piasters per month ;
Physician to the fleet (Dr. Bichene, an Italian), 1,500
piasters per month, and five rations per day ; Surgeons
(army and navy, English, Italian, and French), 1,000
piasters per mouth, and four rations per day ; Assistant-
Surgeons (Italians and Greeks), 580 piasters per month,
and three rations per day ; Arab surgeons (Clot Bey's
eleves in the schools of Paris and Cairo), from 250
piasters to 1,500 piasters per month ; Pursers, from 200
piasters to 500 per month, and two rations per day ; In-
spector, 1,000 piasters per month ; Boatswain (Bash-
rice), from 150 to 250 piasters per month ; Gunners,
150 to 250 piasters per month.
These three last mentioned naval grades vary in re-
muneration according to the size of the vessel. Every
person is entitled to two rations when his pay amounts
to 150 piasters a month ; orily jmno ration.
The following five are rated according to age, aef‘"
vice, and ability at the pleasure of the captain—viz.,
carpenters, from 40 to 300 piasters per month ; boat.
swain's mates, from 55 to 175 piasters per month ; guar-
ternaasters-from 90 to 250 piasters per month ;
era from 50 to 250 ; • and seamen from 15 to 30 piasters
a month. 100 piasters are equal to 1/. Sterling.
The English engineers on board the steamers are paid
by contract from 200/ to 3751. each per annum.
The rations allotted to each man per day, both in
army and navy alike, are—Biscuit, 200 drachms (of 48
English grains each) ; if soft bread be served out in-
stead, 300 drachms ; rice, 40 drachms ; maize, 25
drachms ; beans, 40 drachms ; gee, a specie of coarse
butter, or lard, imported from Russia, 7 drachms ; oil,
8 drachms ; vinegar, 10 drachms ; olives, 20 drachms ;
salt, 5 drachms ; wood for fuel, 200 drachms ; mutton,
30 drachms. N.B. Seldom served out.
Both soldiers and sailors thrive very well on this al-
lowance, and are never heard to complain of it, being
much better than they could procure if they stayed at
home. In the fleet the Egyptian portions of the crew
seem to considers themselves as masters, and take upon
themselves to hold the Turks to their duty. The re-
moval of the Turkish officers will completely establish
the Egyptian supremacy.

THE NEW NOVEL, " THE HISTORY OF A
FLIRT."—This clever novel, the authorship of which has
been ascribed to one of the chief leaders in the fashionable
world, is receiving the greatest commendation from our cri-
tical contemporaries. The Athenaeum characterizes it as
" among the best novels of its kind for many years given
to the world by the English press. Easy in manner, sound
in moral, various in its display of common-place and un-
common character, the lively Louisa Vansittart's chronicle
of her misdeeds thoroughly succeeds in enchaining atten-
tion, and makes up a healthy, wholesome, agreeable book.
The Flirt contrives, even when most heartlessly playing
with hearts for stakes, to rescue herself even from the con-
tempt and disapproval of such severe moralists as critics
should be. We cannot cease to care for her though she
write down among her sins three distinct engagements of
marriage, and the calamities caused by her breaking the
same, because we wish her cured—we know sl-e must be
—and cured she is, most naturally, with enough of poetical
justice in the shape of suffering, to content us We heartily
recommend this book, as a genuine, useful, and interesting
antidote to the long evenings of the coming winter."
We understand that the Churchmen of Dundee
had some thought of purchasing the Chronicle as an organ
in defence of their ecclesiastical rights and privileges, and
the independence and liberty of their Church. But, alas I
though boasting that tliey have with them the wealth and
influence of the town, they were outdone in zeal and public
spirit by the poor Chartists, who appeared on the day of
sale backed with eight hundred pounds, while the poor
Churchmen were not in a condition to appear at all ! The
competition was keen, but the price exceeded the Chartists'
idea of its value.—DAJ,dee Chronicle.

THE ITALIAN OPERA.—There is at present a
great dearth of good singers in Italy, and should any un-
toward event occur to break up the illustrious quartett
coraprising Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache,
which has so long sustained the Italian opera both in Lon-
don and at Paris, it does not seem that a worthy successor
could be found at this moment to any one of them. Italy,
instead of being, as formerly, the nursery ground of musi-
cal talent, appears to have become the receptacle for
those whose period of blossom has passed, and who go to
yield up,ineetthils. D
and that produced
is a
it
thist them,
en
, otmhelt oastnre ofem
theatn
of their
first teners, and Ronal do Begnis one of the first soprani
in Italy, both of whom have long ago been voted obso-
lete by the dilettanti of the Haymarket. As the only.
possible successor of Rubini, a young tenor named Marian'
is spoken of, and even he, whose greatest triumph is
in the final air of Lucia di Lammermoor, is so bad
an actor as to place him in this respect infinitely b-. 3
low " the great European celebrity," whom he will
have to follow. In basses Italy is more promising, for it
boasts of Ronconi, Cartagenova, and Colletti, though the
last of these, with all his great and admitted talent, gained
little by the collision with Tamburini, into which eircum.
stances, much against his own inclination, last sea,on
brought him. Tamburini, we arc glad to say, there is no
chance of our losing just yet, provided he and the directors
of the Opera can come to terms, for he gives out to his
private friends that he purposes singing eight years more
before he retires finally into Italy. He has purchased a
splendid hotel in Paris, the whole of which he has let on a
lease of twenty years, excepting the stop story, which he
reserves far his own residence. Bulieni, who when in
London occupies a very unpretending first floor, is the pro-
prietor of several Italian palaces. It must, however, be
remembered that nearly every good sized house, though
the basement story may be occupied by barbers and cobb-
lers, is a Palazzo in Italy.

APPOINTMENT OF A MILITARY KNIGHT
OF WINDSOR.—The appointment, on the lower founda_
tion, just rendered vacant by the decease of Captain
Longford, will be presented by the Queen to Major
Wathen, an officer of long standing, who has, in his time,
" done the state some service," and who is now in
his seventy-eighth year. The son of Major Wathen
(then a captain, but now holding the rank of major in the
13th Light Dragoons) was brought before a court-mar-
tial some years since, when certain charges were alleged
against him by Lord Brudenell, the present Earl of
Cardigan. The result will be in the recollection of our
readers. Captain Wathen was honourably acquitted; and
Lord Brudenell immediately afterwards retired from the
command of the regiment.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY EVENING.)
TIMES. `MONDAY
arc strong indications in the ac-
counts received this morning from Manchester of ex-
citement produced there by the late resolution of the
Bank to restrict the term of bills discounted. It hap-
pens to have made its appearance at a period of the
year when the traders of that part of the country re-
quire more than ordinary accommodation from their
bankers, and when the printers have usually been drawn
upon at four months for the goods they purchase or
their processes from agents or manufacturers. This
branch of trade, therefore, if a similar restriction is
imrosed on the spot, must find its means at once ma-
terially cramped, and the influence of the measure
on the export trade is also expected to become a
very stringent one, so wide is the margin of credit
usually taken in the transactions of Lancashire.
It does not therefore follow that the measure
itself is an improper one, for some good may
be done always by checking long credits, which
lead to speculation often, rather than to safe and
wholesome business, arising out of supply and demand.
But before this state of things can be arrived at much
intermediate distress may be produced, and the general
complaint will be, that which we have heard so often re-
peated within the last few years, the suddenness of the
proceeding, and the uncertain vacillating character of
all transactions of the Bank of England connected with
the currency. It will require not one only, hilt a series
of wise and judicious measures, to restore that confidence
on the part of the trading commulty which past errors
have destroyed. The lately pubVall.iial evidence of the
tommittee on Banks of Issue has brought to light so
much weakness and infirmity of purpose, such a total
absence of all principle, and so utter a disregard of all
ordinary rule and method, that men of business will long
be incredulous in looking for good measures from such
a source, whatever their present motive and meaning
may be.
What renders it more difficult for the Bank to bear
up against that odium which they are sure to encounter
whenever any period of embarrassment arises like the
present, is their having yielded to that vice of all bank-
ing, but from which they as the conservators of the cur-
rency ought to have been free, in grasping at too large
an amount of securities, which has been the main cause
of all the commercial distress since the resumption of
cash payments. Had they been contented with the
same moderate limit which existed at that period, the
best judges are of opin;on that our currency would have
remained unshaken up to the present hour. At last and
under correction, the Directors manifest something like
a sense of right, but too late to regain public confidence,
which must be again severely shaken even by the con-
sequence of the attempt they have just entered upon to
place themselves once more in a right position.

—We are enabled to state that a
largCeli LErßem°itNtainCeefrOm the Bank of Lisbon, on account
of the Government of Portugal, was received by this
mail, to be applied to the payment of the dividends due
on the foreign debt. There is no intention of having
recourse to an issue of titulos, receivable on the Cus-
toms, although that has been stated by a Contempo-
rary. Such an operation would, indeed, be contrary
to the law of Portugal, which prohibits any such an-
ticipation of the public revenues. Portugal was per-
fectly tranquil, and the state of her Majesty most sa-
tisfactory. The report of the Finance Committee of
the Senate was to be discussed on the 13th instant,
and no doubt was entertained of its being adopted by a
large majority.
We are inclined to infer, from some points of Mr.
Webster's speech upon the currency, th at he had the
Bank of France in view as the model from which the
National Bank of the United States should in many
respects be framed ; but the speech, as reported in the
New York Herald, is evidently only a meagre outline,
and it would be imprudent to draw direct conclusions
from such imperfect data. This specimen of American
state eloquence has, however, been carefully reported by
one of the most accomplished stenographers in that
country, revised by the accomplished speaker, and has
been published in a separate and authentic form. Its
impression on the assembled multitude when delivered
seems to have been immense, and the anticipations of its
efficacy appear to have been more than realized. The day
was observed as one of full gala at New York. Every
ship in port displayed its colours, and Wall-street was
decorated with banners and streamers. Resolutions were
offered by Mr. Grinvel, and carried with tumultuous ap-
probation. They are too long for insertion, but in
ApiAnware of aouroki-aa ocia-,41,414,5peich, and
"act. the measures of the admfilistration as being
the cause of the derangement of the financial and
commercial affairs of the country._. A mixed currency,
ppoly meolli,a,andl3artly-paper,.witb r the•useerdfoereitit,
is doc4irad esseatial to the-prosperity oral: cortim-eitfin
nations. , The sub-treasury scheme iivattackeit4AA
measures hostility, as tending to concentratatthe -40htile
money power in the hands of the executive ; and the
danger is pointed out of its being open for the use of a
weak executive to break down all sound banking insti-
tutions. The excitement produced among the people
of the federal union on the currency is immense. The
adherents of the two candidates for the Presidential
chair have contrived to make the question purely poli-
tical, and thus we see the democratic masses of America
fully as much absorbed in the apparent discussion of
an abstract intricate point of finance, as if their minds
were agitated by some attempt to disturb their political
rights and franchises.

HERALD.—The papers by the British Queen
steamer from New York, delivered in the City past
business hours on Saturday evening, and whose arrival
therefore could not be known in time for the article under
this head, are only to the same date as those previously re-
ceived by the Britannia. A voluminous mass of in-
termediate papers however have now come to hand,
which fill up the void of some twenty dais for which no
advices had reached. The papers are however almost
wholly occupied with the presidential election, now
close at hand, respecting which as may be seen on re-
ference to the details and the correspondence in this
morning's Herald the excitement is intense. The sin-
gularity of the affair is the pleasant imposture of the
Van Buren party and their papers, that British gold
and British influence are employed against them. Of
sueh a ridiculous absurdity this country may be fairly
absolved, since if the wish was to retain the union in a
state of disorganisation, and consequently of impotence,
money could not be more serviceably squandered than
in endeavouring to keep the present men where they
are. It must not be inferred from this that Mr. Van
Buren is more unfriendly disposed towards this coun-
try than his opponents, but perhaps the reverse, but the
fact is that each party is so little scrupulous about the
means to accomplish its ends, that if the votes of an
influential state were made contingent on a declaration
of a war against this country, it may be assumed
from what is now passing and has occurred, that the
two parties would run a race which should bid highest
and first in favour of a vigorous vvaron any pretext.
So tar as either is concerned there is no British in-
terest at stake in this contest, and therefore, know-
ing the worst of the present men who govern it, it would
than their
.p
opponents.oliticfor
i‘ir. Van
here to support them
Buren
is
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very
his
administration, considerable
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abs a
i 1 i ty but those
composing b, i i i
i. y
if not
integrity, carry a very light feather indeed. The vot-
ing commences the latter end of this month, and is to
continue twenty days. The constitution provides that
istransmitted
a m o amount
nt
all the presidential electors must be chosen within 34
days next preceding the first i Wednesday in December.
On that day they are to meet in the respective capitals
of their States and declare their vfotes.
of Congress and Two
by special messenger.
The different States are entitled. to a number or electors
''
° senators. Pie °I
It
theto
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.Eut made
iaoini: out,
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ceohtnhiene or
the which
aggregate
according to Pori a
to the number of members
all parts of the country, and so for
will require about three weeks after the election is con-
cluded to hear from
all .
nearly two monthsbe turmoil and con-
fusion.
to come will

new proposals for a loan,
to
POST.—Tho accounthsatreeeived on Saturday from
advantageous
to the Porte, had been submitted to the Turkish Minis-
ters, and it would appear that the negotiations on the
be Constantinopleraised
in London upon terms highly advantageous
subject were at one moment brought to all but " a
favourable conclusion.
broke off the
it is affirmed, only because there were
negotiations, n which he
points
,' upon
this disagreed with the
The party sent over to yonstantinople
" certain
c case, there
can be little doubt that they will be resumed. The
Bank Directors should, therefore,l be careful what faci-
lities they afford to the loan contracting interest. All
effect of eneouraging,jobbing
bonds.
paper coming before them for the purpose of being dis-
counted should be looked at very suspiciously. With
iuleeh less anxious about the Bank
Alo reduced a stock of treasure, it would be a betrayal of
their trust of the most unpardonable kind to do any-
thing
persuasion of others. We
ah
dvWe
pet
ehacarutel could,a thioosnv hrvi ae vr ,e foreignntl
and the great capitalists than about that class of spe-
culators who have little to spare, and who are led into
before they go into Turkish
stock, to satisfy themselves that the dividends can and
lwohahnidtrraencsoametwioennsd bti'lese,
will be punctually discharged. The ability of Govern-
ments to pay their debts has been shown by the example
of the South American states, Portugal, and others, to
be no criterion by which foreigners can be regulated in
such matters. Where the integrity is notoriously want-

ing, it is folly to talk of the ability. On this point, with
reference to Turkey, it is remarked in the latest cor-
respondence from the capital, that the Sultan dis-
covered a laudable zeal and activity, and would no
doubt do much if he only knew how to set about it, and
were " more faithfully seconded by his Ministers," but
that many of these, " notwithstanding the new enact-
ments and the examples recently m4d.," are " ineorrivi-
bly corrupt." Instances are next given of gross disho-
nesty in their different departments. Much and de-
servedly, therefore, as the Turks are commended for
the correctness of their dealings in private life, it would
seem that, in a public capacity, even the most elevated
of them arc entitled to no confidence whatever. The
following extract of a letter, dated the 27th ult., as pub-
lished in the Morning Post of Saturday, gives an idea
of what might be expected from them by a creditor at
this distance :
" Riza Paella, the Grand Chamberlain, has just been
detected in trafficking illegally for army stores, having
sold a monopoly for shoes and other accoutrements. A
Councillor of State, also charged with the Commissariat,
has been guilty of the grossest peculation, and the bread,
under his auspices, has been so shamefully adulterated as
to be almost uneatable. The young Sultan, who on the
last field-day personally inspected the provisions of the
soldiery, and discovered this malversation, sent for the
offending functionary, and compelling him, much to his
distaste, to swallow the bad bread, and thus, in Oriental
phrase, eat dirt,' both physically and metaphorically, dis-
missed him from the service with ignominy."
With these facts before them will our little capital-
ists run the risk of beggaring themselves by by sup-
porting a Turkish loan ? Let them turn over their
South American, their Portuguese, and Spanish bonds,
and reflect on the probable consequences of the act.