The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-01 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY I, 1840.

EXCISE OFFICE, OLD BROAD-STREET, JUNE 30.
FOR SALE, by Order of the Honourable
the COMMISSIONERS of her MAJESTY'S
EXCISE REVENUE, in a Spacious Room at the Chief
Office, Old Broad-street, on Tustsnar, July 14, 1840, at One
o'Clock in the Afternoon precisely, about 16,000 Gallons of
FOREIGN Bit ANDY, and 6,000 Gallons, of GENEVA,
which have been regularly condemned and re-distilled, now m
vats at the Excise Distillery, St. Katherine's.
Catalogues may be had, and Samples seen, at the Excise
Warehonsekeeper's Office, Old Broad-street, Three Days pre-
ceding, from Ten till Twl o'Clock, and on the Morning of
Saie from Ten till Twelve o'Clock.

QUARTERLY SALE OF INITSCELLANEOUS FOR.

FELTED PROPERTY.

I.EBENLIAM and sTolut will SELL by
AUCTION, at their Rooms, King•strect, Covent-
garden, on AloNnAv, July 6, and following days. at Eleven.
An assemblage of valuable FORFEITED PROPERTY
(reservad agreeably to Act of Parliament for quarterly sale),
comprising a powerful toned a •If-acting organ, in Noble maho-
gany case ; square, horizonta', grand, cabinet, and cottage
pianofortes, pedal harps, fine old violins, and a variety of musi-
cal, mathematical, surgical, and philosophical instruments ;
several thousand volumes of books; a collection of fine original -
paintings, drawings, and engravings; fine bronzes, busts, carv-
ings in ivory and marble; cameos, intaglios, china, &c. &c,
pledged in months prior to August, 1839, with the following
Pawnbrokers, viz. :—Nathan, Young, and others.

Slay be viewed, and Catalogues had at the ROM.

PARLIAMENTA} DIVISION.

(From the Totes and Proceedings of Me house o.f Commons.)
MoNnAr, JuNz '29.
WEAVER CHURCHES BILL

Motion made, and question proposed, " That the Bill, with
the Amendments, be engrossed.' Amendment proposed, to
leave out from the words " That the to the end of the ques-
tion, in order to add the words " Minutes of Evidence taken
before the Committee on the Bill be laid before this House,"
instead thereof. Question put, " That the words proposed to
be left out stand part of the cuestion." The House divided.
MAJORITY—AYES, 1,

Acheson, Viscount
Acland, Sir 'Thomas
Ainsworth, Peter
A lsager, Captai.c
, Arbuthnot, Hon. 11.
Ashley, Lot d
kttwood, M.
Bagge, \Vm.
Bagot, Hon. W.
Baillie, Colonel
!bailie, H. J.
Baldwin, C. Barry
Baring, H. B.
Baring, W. B.
Barrington, Lord
tell, M.
lientinck, Lord G
Bethell, R.
Blackburn, John I.
Blair, J.
Beriah
Bradshaw, James
Brainston, T. V.
Broaclwood, H.
lirooke, Sir A. B.
Bruco, lord E.
Bruce, C. L. .
Mardi, Sir C. M.
Burroughes, N. N.
Calcraft, J. 14.
Canning, Sir S.
Cantilime, Lerd
Cartwright, W. R.
Cholmondeley, H.
Chrivojiher, R. A.
Chute, W. 1..
Clerk, Sir G.
Cochrane, Sir T.
Coilrington, C. W.
CQlcitihoun, J. C.
Compton, H.
Conotly, Colonel
Courtenay, 'I. P.
tresswell, C.
Darby, George
Darlington, Earl of
LPlsraeli, Benjamin
Dot tin,A. It.
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Dowdcswell, W.
Drummond, II 11.
Duffield, Thomas
Dugclale, W. S.
Du Pre, George
East, James Buller
Eastnor, Viscount
Eaton, Richard J.

Ail
Adam, Admiral Sir C.
-Aliton, R.
Archbold, R.
Baines, E.
Barron, W. H.
Birry,(l. S.
Basset, John
Bowes, T.
Blake, W. J.
Bodkin, J. J.
Bowes, J.
13ridgeman, H.
Brocklehurst, J.
flrodie, ♦V. B.
Brotherton, J.
iliyan, George
Buller, C.
Buller, E.
Bustield, W.
Callaghan, Daniel
Cave, 11. G.
Clay, W.
Clements, Lord
Clive, E. B.
Collier, J.
Craig, W. Gibson
Crompton, S.
Denison, W. J.
D'Esoncourt, C.l'.
Divett E.
butt; James
l)uncombc, T. S.
Dundas, C. W. D.
Outidas, J. C.
Dundas, Sir It
Dungaction,Viscount
Ellice, IV. Hon. E.
Ellice, E.
Ellis, Wynn
Evans, (i.
Evans, William
Ewart, W.
Fielden, J.
Ferguson, Sir Ronald
Ferguson, Robert
Finch, Francis
lohn

load

Eliot, I.nr
Ellis, John
listcourt, T. G. B.
Feilden, W.
Fellowes, Edward
Fitzroy, Hon. H.
Follett, Sir W. W.
Forester; Hon. G.
Freshfiela, J. W.
Gaskell, J. M.
Gladstone, W. E.
(Ilynne, Sir S.
Core, 0. J. R.
(lore, 0. V.
Goring, 11. D.
Goulhurn' 11.
Graham, Sir J.
Granby, Marquis
Grant, Sir A. C.
Greer., T. G.
Crimston, Lord
Hamilton, Lord C.
Hartlinge, Sir H.
Hawkes, 'l'.
Herbert, Hon. S.
Hillsborough, Earl of
Hodgson, It.
Hogg, J. W.
Holmes, W.
!lope, Charles
Hope, G. W
Hotham, Lord
Hountoun, G.
Hughes, W. B.
Hurt, F.
Ingestre, Lord
Inglis, Sir It. H.
Irton, Samuel
Jackson, J. D.
Jenkins, It.
Jones, T.
Kelly, F.
Kemble, Henry
Knatchbuil, Str E.
Knight, Henry Gaily
Lefroy, Dr. T.
Lemon, Sir C.
Lincoln, Earl of
Litton, E.
Lockhart, A. M.
Long, Walter
Lowther, Colonel
Lowther, J. H.
Lygon, General
Mackenzie, Thomas
Mackenzie, W. F.

[NORITY—NOES,
Dillon, W. 0.
Gordon, R.
Grattan, 11.
Guest, J. J.
Hastie, A.
Hawes, B.
Hector, C.J.
Hill, Lord V., M. C.
Hindley, C.
Holthotiso, T. 11.
Hodges, I'. L -
Borman E.
Hoskins, K.
Howard, P. H.
Hume, Joseph
Hutt, W.
Hutton, Hubert
James, W.
jervia, J.
Jervis, S.
Langdale, Hon. C.
Langton, W. C..
Leader, J. 'l'.
Lister, E C.
Lushington, Charles
Lushington, S.
M‘Taggart, John
Maher, John
Marsland. H.
Haute, lion Fox
Melgund, Lord
Morris, David
Muntz, G. F',
Murray, A.
Muskett, G. A.
O'Connell, J.
O'Connell, Maurice
Ord, W.
Oswa'd, James
Parker, John
I'attiscn, J.
I'echell, Captain
PQndarves, E. W.
Philips, G. 11.
Power, James
liawdon, J. D.

66.
Maclean, D.
Mahon, Lord
Manners, Lord C.
Marsland, T.
Martin, G. R.
Maunsell' T P.
Miles, I'. W. S.
Miller, W. H,
Milnes, It. M.
Mcrdaunt, Sir J
Neeld, Joseph
.J.
Norreyv, lord
Nort riland, Lord
O'Neil, J. B. It.
Palmer, R.
Palmer, G.
Parker, M.
Patten, John Wilson
Percecal, Colonel
Pipit, It.
Polhill, F.
Pollen, Sir J. W.
Pow erscourt, Lord
,Pringle, A.
`z.Pusey, Pri dip
tae, Sir William
iards, Richard
hbrooke, Colons
don, Lord
**lett, Hon. Y.
Shir, F.
Sheppard, Thomas
Shirley, J. E.
Sibthorp, Colonel
Smyth, Sir G. 1.1
Sotheron, T. E
Stanley, t dward
Stanley, Lord
Stult, 11. C.
Teignmouth, Lord
theidger, F.
,Thornhill, George
l'ollemactie, F. J.
Tomline, George
Tyrrell, Sir J.
Vere, Sir C. B.
Vivian, John Ennis
Williams, Robert
Williams, T. P.
Wodehouse, relrnon
Wood, Colonel T.
Wynn, C. W.
Young, John

TELLERS.
Egerton, Sir P. G.
Egerton, W. 'P.

13(i.
Reddington, T. N.
Roche, E B.
Roche, W.
Rut herfwd, A.
Sanford, L. A.
Shell, It. L.
Shelburn, Lord
Smith, Benjamin
Somerville. Sir W.
Stanley, E..T.
Stanley, W, 0.
Stansield, W. R.
Steuart, R.
Stock, Dr
Strickland, Sir G.
Strutt, Edward
Stuart, Lord J.
Style, Sir Charles
Tancred, IL W.
Thornily, Thomas
Trench, Sir Frederick
Troubridge, Sir T.
Tufnell, Henry
Turner, W.
Vigor., N A.
Villiers, Charles P.
Vivian, Sir R. H
Wakley, Thomas
Walker, R.
Wall, B.
Warburton, H.
Westenra, J. C.
White, Andrew
_White, Henry
Williams, W.
\Vilshere, W.
Winnington. Sir '1
Wood,
Woo +, Benjamin
Worsley, Lord
Wrightson, W.
Wyse, Thomas
Yates, John A.

TILLERS.
Wilbraham, G.
Grosvenor, Lord H.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

For the last three weeks some cxcitem,:nt has been oc-
casioned in the neighbourhood of Hampton in consequence
of an e policema, whic., was committed on
the morningage on a a
of the sth ult., by four gentlem, n. Infor-
mationutr of the occurrence having on the following day
been communicated to the bench of Local Magistrates,
sitting at Twickenham, they immediately commenced a
rigid inquiry into the ciicumstances of the case.
The Magistrates, after taking the deposition of Police
Sergeant Churchill, who spoke to the riotous cory`uct of
the yotilemen, proceeded to the residence of the injured
policeman,. Charles Wheatley, at Kingston, whom they
foundill, and whose deposition was then taken as
follows
very
" Charles Wheatley, police constable, No 224 V.
sworn. Ahout a quarter before one o'clock yesterday
morning. I came up to Sergeant Churchill at liornp-
ton- Wiels• Near the Swan public-house, I observed
four genth men and the sergeant, and alit) a fly about
twenty bards off. The sergeant told me to turn the light
en their faces to see if I knew ,ta•ho they were. I did so.
He then directed me to go to the fly to ascertain if
there was a name 01 number upon it. I was going
to look, when one of the• four prevented me, and
pushed me almost down. He had a light coat on, and was
about five feet eight inches high. I think I should know
hint ;again. I took him into custody by the sergeant's
orders, and was going to convey him to the watchhouse,
when the rest of the party came and laid hold of me, and
began beating me. They were all three upon me. I was
thrown down upon the ground, when they kicked me upon
the hands. I kept my hold of my prisoner, but after a
great struggle they got him away, leaving his boot in
my hand, which I could not find afterwards. I got up
again and pursued them ; they were getting into the fly,
and I renewed my hold of my prisoner, when they com-
menced beating me on the back part of my head with a
stick. It was a long stick. A sort cf walking-stick.
While I was holding to the legs of tke person I had taken
into custody, one of the party in the fly said, " See who it
is," and one of them gave eie a vi.-rent blow on my fore-
head, when I fell backwards on my head on the ground,
and the wheel of the fly passed over my feet, I was then
insensible, and laid there until I was picked up. A hat
was picked up an the spot.
The Bench then issued summonses for the attendance
of four other witnesses, and on the Wednesday following
the inquiry was resumed, when Mrs. Willis, the landlady
of the King's Head, and Wm. Hawkins, the driver of the
fly, and other persons, were examined. They appeared to
be very unwilling witnesses, but in the course of the exa-
mination it was elicited that the ticket for the fly was made
out in the name of the Earl of Waldegrave, and that the
four persons spoken of were taken up in the fly at the resi-
dence of that Nobleman at Twickenham ; that they were
dressed in masquerade dresses, and went in the fly to Kings-
ton, where a fair was holden, from whence they were re-
turning when the outrage was committed. A warrant for
the apprehension of " The Eight Hon. George Edward
Baron Waldegravc, commonly called Earl Waldegrave, and
three other persona, whose names are not known, but whose
persons are known," was accordingly issued, and placed in
the hands of the police for execution, and instructions were
in the meantime given that every exertion should be used
to trace to whom the hat belonged which was found on the
spot immediately after the outrage. That has since been
ascertained, and on Saturday, the 20th ult., some addi-
tional evidence was taken.

It was proved that the hat belonged to a gentleman
named Richmond ; that it had been stolen fram his head
at Epsom, and that he could not have been concerned in
the assault.

Other circumstances, which have subsequently come to
light, lead to the opinion that the gentleman who stole the
hat on the race-course WAS the same who wore it on the
night of the outrage on the policeman, and that individual
is supposed to be a person of considerable notoriety, and
whose name it would not be prudent at present to mention.
The police, after the issue of the warrant, used every
endeavour to apprehend the parties implicated, for which
purpose they went to Ascot races, thinking to meet with
them there, int were unsuccessful. On Friday last, how-
ever, they recognised two out of the four on the racecourse
at Ilampton, and on the officewrshicahequtialien:idngid,tlwiehcelnertkheoyf
the course with their business, he sent for the two gentle.
pn'reonvetdotocobmeetheto Ehairsl ofoffi Nciverlddegrave and Capt. William
Duff, who both entered into sureties to appear before the
:llag.strates to answer the charge on the following day.
0,1 Saturday the Noble Earl and Copt. Duff accord-
ingly appeared before the sitting Magistrates at Twicken-
ham, when the evidence previously given was repeated.
They were admitted to hail, themselves i.. 00/. each, and
one surety each in another 100/., and the witnesses were
bound over to appear and give evidence at the trial. The
police arc engaged in looking after the other two persona
implicated.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(TUESDAY AYANING.)
POST.-.-This was account day in the foreign funds.
The differences arising upon the.speculative operations of
the last fortnight have proved, however, quite limited, so that
everything passed over smoothly. The value of money
for temporary purposes, may be said to have ranged from
4 to 10 per cent., according to the nature of the security
pledged by way of guarantee, and the trustworthiness of
the party borrowing. The English securities, for instance,
were advanced upon at the rate of 4 per cent., while on
Spanish and some other descriptions of foreign stocks from
6 to 8 per cent., and en shares as much as 10 percent.,
was demanded. Little fresh business was transacted, nor
have we any material change to notice in prices.
The complaints of certain individuals connected with the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce of the fluctuations in the
currency are answered once more by the case of the Com-
mercial Bank of England. The persons who were loudest
in their vociferations against the Bank of England, and
who attributed their losses in business to the capricious con-
duct of the Directors of that establishment, will do well
now to examine into the reasons for the fact that three
banks of issue at Manchester, short as is the period dur-
ing which they have been in existence, have already
brought their affairs to a stand still, namely, the Nort'aern
and Central Bank of England, the Imperial Bank of
England, and the Commercial Bank of England. We
refer more particularly to the locality of Manchester,
because the. Chamber of Commerce ascribed much of the
depression of trade to the Bank of England, and, mis-
led by their specious statements, some highly respect-
able merchants and manufacturers presented a petition
to Parliament calling upon the Legislature to inquire
into the management of the currency by the Bank, which
they had been taught to believe was the cause of all their
sufferings; and a Committee being accordingly appointed,
the most prominent witness was Mr. J. B. Smith, a
director of the joint-stock issuing bank at Manchester,
called the Bank of Manchester. This gentleman, who
has been attempting to manage the currency in a small
way, thought he was competent to direct the Committee
with respect to the future administration of the Bank of
England. What light he may have been the means of
shedding upon the matter will probably be shown when
the Committee make their report ; but, setting aside the
want of delicacy in a director of a joint-stock bank of issue
presenting himself as the champion of the currency gentle..
men at Manchester, the evils of vicious curret cy have, we
may remark, been in a great degree caused by the mal-
administration of the issuing banks.
They have cn•ercd into such violent competition that the
result has been a cheapening of credit beyond all prece-
dent. In the eagerness of the joint-stork issuers to com-
mand custom, they have conducted some stanches of their
business upon terms inadequate to afford a profit, and
have, in too many cases, advanced upon securities, which
must be greatly sacrificed whenever the realilatian of them
is attempted. Ia this manner the manufacturing energy
of their neighbourhoods has been paralysed, people re-
ceiving an over stimulus at one time, and finding, in the
reaction, the want of support afterwards so necessary. The
issue of notes, contrary to the publicly-expressed wish of
all that is respectable in the commercial public of Man-
chester, has been defended on the ground of the
issuers being ahla, through that medium, to accommo-
date the public ; whereas the help derived from
them appears to be the real reason. But whether
this be the case or not, the respectable portion
of the mercantile community of Manchester ought not to
have their transactions disturbed by local issues in con-
tempt of their vviste a and interests. Nor ought the ina-
bility of the issuers to le ing men to their views to be re-
garded as being caused by the Bank of England, but to
be traced to its true source—the common sense of sound
mercantile men, and their dialtke of the speculative notions
which have, for the most part, guided the measures of
issuing barks. Ti .o tone of defiance which has hitherto
been used towards the Bank of England ought not surely
;hose joint-stock bank deputies wetohhneofipdeedriotdoictiaielliyr
to be moderated ; we may vent urrriia
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TI M E S.—The continued decline of Bank Stock is the 1,
leading feature of the English stock-market. The inquiry
after the cause has not been quite successful, but it is
probable that more causes than one are in operation.
Fending inquiry before 11.1 e Committee of the
fErovinerytohnee can sec the danger which hangs over tin Bank,
House of Commons, of some diminution of banking profits, '
if not of some invasion of the monopoly itself. There
are some reports, however, which go further then this,
and intimate that even in the Bank Direction itself
there is not that determined defence of is exclusive pri-
vileges which was reasonably anticipated by the proprietors
from parties so deeply interested: It his be so, the con-
clusion naturally is, the public being universally opposed to
the monopoly, that it rnut ceme, and the calculation of
the value . of Bank Stock in that cask', as need not be
stated, would be considerably below the present (potation.
All that is to be collected on the suij,ct, however, is
little better than conjecture.
Bank Stuck left otf today sat 173% to 4%. The pre-,-
sure for money
to-day has been considerably in the Eng-
lish stock- market. but. the .price of Wlehequer bills his
improved ; they re 233 to 25a premium ; Consols remain
91% to 4.
This was settling-day in the Foreign House, and the
accounts having hi en chiefly carried over y, sterday, instead
Of being deferred to the last moment, the settlement was
much easier, and without that pressure which many had
anticipated. The retreat
.of the Carlists into France is
talked of with some degree Gl interest, and Spanish Ac-

tires have been firmer to-day than fur some time past. The
last quotation is 261 to 1:-.
'I he pressure on the Share Market being at an end, the
prices are becoming steady. Great Western are 40 to 1
premium ; South Western, 60 to 1 per share. Black 'a all
are advancin:;, and are quoted 2:11 to 3 prem; a'so Brighton,
which are 65 to discount. Birmingham arc still 9:3 to
100 premium.
Th, re was a fair amount of business doing in the Foreign
exchanges to-day. The amount on Holland being large,
and exceeding the demand, the rate of exchange advanced
in consequence. On flamburgh bills being rather more
in request, the priee was a shade lower, and Paris remained
the sane as last post.

SUN.—The exports of the precious metals in the
week enema Thursday last were only 87,204- ounces
of rill e, coin to Hamburgh, a fact which accoonts fit
111! recent improvements in the foreign exchanges. On
Paris bills were negotiated this a'terno n at 25f. 55,.. to
571 e., n Amsterdam, at 12 24 to 12 3 ; on Hamburgh
at 13 93, on Frankfort, at 149, to 150.
Consols closed steadily at 914, Exchequer Bills at
235. prem., and Bank Stock at a rally to 174.
The lorcign securities were dealt in, on the whole,
to a very limited extent to-day. The account in Spa-
nish Bonds, and indeed most of the Stocks, were rather
in favour of the speculators fur a rise. Since it com—
menced the Active Spanish Bonds hate alternated 2i
per cent., Colombian, 94, and Mexican, 11 per cent. The
continuation on Spanish Stock was not above five per
cent. per annum at any time of the morning, the price for
money being .261 to and for the 15th proximo, 26i
to 4. Portuguese New Five per Cents. have been
dull at 351, and the Old Bonds at 69. - The Colom-
bian stock, owing to an expected favourable communi-
cation from the Venezuelan Commissioner, has risen to
27i. Dutch Bonds have been dealt in to some extent,'
the Five per Cents. at 1024 to and the 'l'i o-and-a-
Half per Cents, at 54i to
The Railway Shares are all advancing again. The
more current quotations to-day were, for the Birming-
ham 98, for the Great Western 41, for the Manchester
and Leeds New 14, for the Old Shares 26, the North
Midland 3, the New 11, and the South Western 20,1
premium. The Hull and Selby were 1, the Birming-
ham and Gloucester 8, the Brighton 61, and the Mid-
land Counties 2 discount.:

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

.
(NlOll THE MORNINO TAPER! OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Post.)
The rays of glory with which our Ministerial Contem-
poraries have attempted to surround Mr. Poulett Thomson
since that Right lion. Gentleman undertook the govern-
ment of the Canadian provinces, and the task of framing
a new constitution for these important possessions, have
been divested by the House of Lords of much of their
lustre. The debate of last night will be attentively read
and deeply pondered by the people of England ; and it
will have at least the iff,ct of curing them of the folly, if
they have ever been justly chargeable with it, of suppos-
ing that a new scheme of government fur a scattered and
heterogeneous population was likely to be successfully
projected by a person who, although a very great man
among such men as constitute the present Administration,
has never acquired in England the slightest pretension to
be rated above the ordinary level of the numerous and very
industrious and meritorious class of persons who in the city
of London occupy the positions and discharge the duties
of merchants' clerks.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We have to congratulate the country on the sentence
passed last night on the measureh
taot of
theS i r
debate
et
was H. Inglis.
lonng ltihse.
It is a curious circumstance
point of being confined to the worthy baronet and Mr.
Gaily Knight, for the gallery was cleared for a division.
Mr. Villiers Stuart interposed in behalf of the representa-
tive for Oxford, and seemed to think that he had been
hardly treated by the Ministerial side of the House. But
Mr. H. G. Ward vindicated the course they had pursued.
Referring to the absence of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stan..
ley and Sir James Graham, and nearly all the
leading Tories, the reason, he said, which had ex-
isted for no member on that site of the House
rising in his place " to continue the debate, might
be very easily assigned to the fact, the mention of which
had been so scrupulously avoided by those who had spoken,
that until within the last ten minutes there had not been
more than twenty Honourable Members upon the Oppo-
sition benches--( Cheers)—and that none of those lion.
Gentlemen who were looked upon as the leaders of the
Conservavve party had been in their places to give their
attention to the speech of the Hon. Baronet.—( Hear.)
Another reason might be given in the suggestion that the
motion of the Honourable Baronet had been varied from
its original form—( Hear, hear) —and he thought that that
was not the honest mode of proceeding which they had a
right to expect from him,"—( Hear, hear, hear.) In tact
it was notorious that the Honourable I3aronet had been
guilty of not a little disingenuousness in not stating what
he really meant, this departure from his original intension
having been the result of a compromise entered into with
the view of obtaining votes from those who were hostile to
his scheme. The lateness of the hour, and a pressure of
matter, will only allow us to refer generally to our report
of the discussion. Mr. O'Connell was peculiarly happy
on this occasion. The fate of the motion will be felt as a
great relief by the distinguished friends of the Honourable
Representative for Oxford, who gave him their vote, but
very reluctantly gave him their presence during the dis-
cussion.