The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

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ascertained, this account shall be debited with the same,
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the number of old shares held by each of them ; the
new shares to stand at 15/. per share, as they are not
connected with the losses which have been made : and
further, it is proposed that no dividend exceeding 5/.
per cent. per annum be paid to the shareholders until
the losses are redeemed, and the reserved fund amounts
to WAN. The dividend declared at this meeting
was 2J, per cent. on the old shares for the last half-year.
POST.—The Committee of the Stock Exchange
met in the course of the day on the subject of the late
revolutionary attempt of Prince Louis Napoleon and
his party. It has been publicly stated that Rapao, the
per: on who hired the city of Edinburgh of the Com-
mercial Steam Navigation Company, is a member of the
house. This the Committee distinctly deny, ard to do
them justice, we really believe they have every desire
that the matter should be probed to the bottom. Ra-
pello, who is an Italian by birth, is understood to have
been speculating deeply upon the issue of the enter-
prise, which bad been considered by the patties en-
gaged in it capable of results so important to all Eu-
rope ; and, if such be the fact, he cannot well fail to lose
(in connection with those associated with him in his
stock-jobbing adventures) a large sum of money.
This, we need not repeat, he richly deserves to do ;
but there are many respectable individuals connected
with the markets who consider that he desert es a
much more serious punishment than any that can be
found in a pecuniary disappointment merely. It i; not
for us, however, to prejudge the case. Circumstances
of a palliatory character may be elicited in the course
of the expected inquiry which may give a somewhat dif-
ferent colouring to the whole affair from that which
it has thus far assumed. The committee will, no
doubt, perceive the urgent necessity which exists for
the most searching investigation into the details of it,
and this with as much promptitude as possible ; for
however true it may be that Rapello is not actually a
member of the Stock Exchange himself, the extensive
stock transactions in which he is reported to have been
concerned must have been carried on, if at all, through
the agency of one who is, and the character of the es-
tablishment is, therefore, at least indirectly compro-
mised by them. The probability is, that there were
several persons in the secret of the disgraceful conspi-
racy besides those who shared in the immediate personal
consequences of its failure.
Gen. Jackson has published a letter in the Wash-
ington official paper (the Globe) contradicting certain
reports which had gone abroad, to the effect that his
confidence in the present Chief Magistrate, Mr. Van.
Buten, had been impaired. The ex-President ex-
presses much surprise that any one should have enter-
tained an idea that he could disapprove of the conduct
of a man whose opinions are so fully identified with his
own, and that he bad become indifferent as to the
choice to be made at the next election between him and
General Harrison. To suppose for a moment that he
would think of giving his support to such an individual
as General Harrison as a candidate for the Presidency
would, he observes, be a mockery of all public principle,
since he, Harrison, has never been identified with the
Republican party in any of its great struggles.
The following is the letter alluded to :
" Hermitage, June 23.
" TO THR EDITOR OF THE NASHVILLE UNION.

" Sir,--From the many letters which have been re=
eently addressed to me, asking for an expression of my
views relative to the leading measures of the present
Administration of the General Government, some of
which are from well-known and respectable sources, re-
presenting that efforts are made in various quarters of
the Union to incite a belief in the public mind that my
confidence in the present Chief Magistrate has been
impaired, it seems to be proper that some steps should
be taken by me to undeceive those who are thus imposed
upon. For this purpose, Sir, I beg the favour of you
to give a place in your columns to this note, which I
trust will be as acceptable to those who have written to
me on the subject as a direct answer in the form of a
letter would be.
" From whatever cause, or whatever authority, state-
ments may be made representing me as having changed
my views of the leading measures of the present
Administration, they are unfounded and unjust. Of
the wisdom and the importance of these measures, and
particularly of that which aims at the establishment by
Congress of a fiscal agency for the Government with-
out the use or aid of banks, time and the fullest oppor-
tunity for reflection have left not a doubt on nty mind.
And the ability which Mr. Van Buren has manifested
in developing the bearing of this great question, and of
its antagonist one, on the free institutions of our
country, and the firmness he has displayed in holding
on to the true interests of the people when there has
been so much temptation to compromise them, entitle
him, in my judgment, to a rank not inferior to that of
Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Madison as a patriot and states-
man.
" With such opinions of the present Chief Magis-
trate and of the measures to which he has given his
sanction—opinions which I have never failed to express
when I have had occasion to speak on. the subject—
it is surprising how any one could take up the idea
that my confidence in him had been impaired, or that
I had become indifferent as to the choice to be made
at the next election between him and General Har-
rison. Looking upon the latter gentleman as the re-
presentative of federal principles in the present con-
test, and knowing that he has never been identified with
the republican party in any of its great struggles against
the influences which have been calculated to take
power from the people and the States, and give it to
the general Government—to suppose that I should
for a moment think of giving my support to such an
individual as a candidate for the Presidency wouid be a
mockery of all public principle.
" In respect to the statements which have been
made in several of the newspapers of the day, that I
disagree with many of my political friends in the esti-
mate they have formed of General Harrison~ military
merits, I am not aware of having said anything to jus.,
tify them. Having never admired General Harrison
as a military man, or considered him as possessing the
qualities which constitute the commander of an army,
1 have looked at his political relations alone in tle
opinions I have formed or expressed respecting his pre-
tensions to the Presidency, and the consequences which
would result to the country, should the suffrages of the
people place him in that high office.
" 1 am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" ANDREW JACKSON."

HERALD.—By the Reindeer packet dates have
been received from Jamaica to the 30th of June, from
Demerara to the 16th, from Barbadoes to the 14th
and from Trinidad to the 13th. Neither papers nor
private letters contain anything of particular interest.
The riot affair, in which one of the Baptist missionaries
of the name of Ward was implicated deeply, the details
of which were given at the time, had terminated curi-
ously enough. Ward was discharged from further ac-
cusation, proceedings, or trial. Robertson, his relative,
who exceeded him vastly in brutality of conduct. and
language, as well as in excitements to riot, was let off
on bail to appear when called upon ; which will be never.
But some of the poor nigger labourers who were led
into breaches of the peace by one or both of these men,
were committed to gaol to take their trial, which of
course, reasoning from the specimens of Jamaica justice
aforesaid, means conviction and the treadmill. The
least guilty get the most punishment, upon the proper
principle of Fielding's Thwack-em, who flogged the
poor boys by way of example and in ferrorem to the
sons of the rick. The question :of immigration still
continued to occupy, almost exclusively, the attention
of the people in Demerara and the islands.