The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-04 00:00:00

No. 14,946.

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA-
RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
offer many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HENRY BEER and CO., BANKERS, PARIS,
Who have CEASED to contract for LOTTERIES, are NOW
SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Per-
sons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions,
may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS-
PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing WITH-
OUT DELAY, a line to
HENRY BEER and CO. PARIS.
THE NEXT DISTRIBUTIONS contain
SEVEN HUNDRED DIVIDENDS,
Amounting to £72,170,
The Dividends being
£25,000 £BOO £l5O £lOO £7O
5,000 600 120 90 60
1,500 400 110 110 50
1,000 200
And the following Distributions contain 25,200 Dividends,
Amounting to £954,888, the Dividends being
` £15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10
7,500 300 50 0 37 0
3,800 200 42 0 36 0
1,800 150 40 10 35 0
1,200 100 39 0

PRIVATE PUPIL.
AVACANCY is now open for a PUPIL in
the FAMILY of a CLERGYMAN of long experience,
residing twelve miles from London, the number of whose Pupils
not exceeding five or six. He can offer the most satisfactory
References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose sons have been
under his care.
Letters to be directed for the Rev. R. H., Post-office, Pe-
tersham, Surrey.

SIMPSON'S YORK HOTEL,
ST. HELEN'S SQUARE, YORK.
TANE and ELIZA SIMPSON beg respect-
fully to return their most grateful thanks to the Nobility,
Gentry, and Clergy for the very liberal support they have re-
ceived since the decease of their late parents, and to inform
those travelling to the North, by railway or otherwise, that
their continued and unremitting attention will be devoted to se-
cure that patronage which they have hitherto had the satisfac-
tion to acknowledge. The situation of the Hotel will be found
for convenience and comfort net to be surpassed by any in the
City, and the Potting Department, conducted on the same
scale which his always secured to this Establishment so large a
share of public favour.
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N.B. Horses and Carriages from the York Hotel are always
in attendance at the Railway Station.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1840.

Just published, price &;.,
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the
PROSTATE GLAND and its DISEASES; together
with Suggestions for an Improved Mode of Treatment,
By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, &c.
CONTENTS.

PUBLICATIONS.

• DEDICATED TO DR. ELIOTSON.
This day is published, with Two Lithographic Plates, price
12s . clo.h boards
FACTS IN MESAIERISIU ; with Reasons
for a dispassionate Inquiry into it.
By the Rev. CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND, A.M.,
Late of Trinity Hall. Cambridge.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

This day is published, 18th edition, with Maps, price 18s. in
boards ; or 18s. Gd. half-hound in parchment.
pATERSON'S ROADS of ENGLAND
and WALES, and of the SOUTH of SCOTLAND.
By EDWARD MOGG.
Arranged upon a plan entirely novel; and remodelled and aug-
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PARLEY'S NEW SCHOOL ATLAS.
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carefully coloured iu Hancock's Patent Caoutchouc binding,
cloth lettered.
DETER PARLEY'S ATLAS of MO-
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in Australia, North America, and Africa.
Also, his REMARKS upon the RIGHT USE of MAPS,
and of LEARNING GEOGRAPHY. With a Complete
Index.

Darton and Clark, Holborn-hill.

Now ready, Vols. 111. and IV., with Engravings, being
THE CONCLUDING VOLUMES CIF THE
MEMOIRS of the-COURT of ENGLAND
UNDER THE STUARTS.
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Anatomy of the Prostate Gland Stone in the Prostate—Symp-
Acute Inflammation of the toms and Treatment
Prostate Symptoms and Scrofula of the Prostate
Treatment Enlargement of the Prostate
Retention of Urine from Acute from a Varicose State of its
Inflammation—Treatment Vessels
Abscess of the Prostate—Symp- Cancer of the Prostate.
toms and Treatment.

CHRONIC ENLARGEMENT of the PROSTATE
GLAND in OLD AGE, the Symptoms that indicated its com-
mencement, and the consequences that ultimately result there-
from. With concluding Suggestions for their Prevention or
Cure.

Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; and all Book-
sellers, in Town or Ceuntry.

DROPSY AND CONSUMPTION CURABLE,
Exemplified in a Treatise entitled
FAMILIAR ADVICE, Medical and Dietetic,
on Consumption, Asthma, Gout, Rheumatism, and
Indigestion, descriptive of a peculiarly successful method for
their prevention and cure. Price Is.

Also,
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the Nature, Symp-
toms,Treatment, and Cure of DROPSY. Price 3s.
By RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D. and M.R.C.S.,
25, Ely-place, London.
To be had of the Author, who may be consulted, as usual,
daily till One o'clock; and of all booksellers.

" These works evince great professional and scientific ta-
lent."—Oxford Chronicle, April 11, 18,10.
" A successful mode of treating diseases so formidable, so
fatal, and so common as Dropsy and Consumption, which assail the
human frame from so many, and frequently from such opposite
causes, must obviously be an inestimable benefit to mankind.
There is scarcely a disease to which flesh is heir that may not
terminate either in Dropsy or Consumption, from the simple
cold, which inflames the mucous membrane, and obstructs the
secretions of the body, to the more appalling aneurism or ossi-
fication. From an enemy, therefore, that threatens from so
many quarters, and lurks in such complicated ambush, all men
have been anxious to be delivered ; but hitherto their wishes
have been disappointed. Dr. Bright details, step by step, his
mode of dealing with Dropsy and Consumption, the Medicines
he exhibits, and gives many actual cases of patients cured after
they had been given up by eminent members of his profession."
—London Conservative Journal, Jan. 4, 1840.

VAN BUTCIIELL ON FISTULA, &c.
Fourth Edition.

Just published, in Bvo. cloth boards, price 7s. 6d. enlarged,
-PACTS and OBSERVATIONS relative to
1: a successful MODE of TREATING PILES, FIS-
TULA, HEMORRHOIDAL EXCRESCENCES, TU-
MOURS, and STRICTURES, without CUTTING or
CONFINEMENT; illustrated with numerous cases. Being
a familiar exposition of the practice of S. J. VAN BUT-
CHELL, Surgeon Accoucheur.
Published by H. Renshaw, No. 356, Strand ; sold also by
the Author, at his residence, No. 16, Percy-street, Bedford-
square.
Few men connected with the complicated departments of
surgery are deserving of more grateful mention than Mr. Van
Bu'chell, whose unwearied dedication to the cure of those most
painful of all diseases, which this book treats of, has resulted in
a continued course of success'in cases of the most hopeless and
forbidding nature We find nearly every page re-
cording some astonishing cure in patients whose sufferings
had been of many years' duration, and most excruciating in
their nature. The warmth of expression with which the gra-
titude of some of the restored is couched must be truly gratify-
ing to the feelings, and highly creditable to the skill and judg-
ment, of Mr. Van Nutshell.' True Sun.

Just published, in royal limo., cloth, price 3s. ; and sent in
Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d.,
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf..
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.

By G. HENEAGE JESSE, Esq.
" Mr. Jesse delineates the portraits of the celebrated per-
sonages that occupy his pages in the clear and distinct manner
which places them in the same relation to historical painting
which biography holds to history. In this ho has succeeded to
admiration - and, whether he has drawn from Thurloe, Gram-
mont, Evelyn, Pepys, Anthony Wood, Granger, Reresby, the
Duke of B'ickingham, or any other of the numerous chroni-
clers, memoir-writers, or from the pamphleteers of the age,
he has managed to set both characters and events before us in
a manner at once distinguished by great ease and identical ex-
pression."—Literary Gazette.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

CAUTION.
CHUBB'S PATENT LOCKS and FIRE-
PROOF SAFES.
As several insecure and paltry imitations of these inventions
are now offered for Sale, the Patentee begs to state that all of
his Locks and Keys are stamped Chubb's New Patent, 57, St.
Paul's Church-yard, London, and that his Patent Fire-proof
Safes and Boxes can only be purchased at his own establish-
ment, where he has on sale Detector Locks for every purpose ;
Fire-proof Safes for securing all kinds of valuable property ;
Deed Boxes, and Cash Boxes.

N.B. PATENT COMBINATION LATCHES for Street-
doors, which are simple in construction, low in price, and quite
secure. The Keys are particularly neat and portable.

IHE INFANT SAPPHO, LOUISA
11 VINNING, three and a half years of age. This won-
derfulkwoly nativetalent has been listened to with theirac-
Royal Highnesses the Dukes of
nedsgpe,(ciimdeelnig ofhtb
Sussex and Cambridge, the Princess Augusta, and a great part
of the Nobility. UNDER COMMAND of HER MA-
JESTY she is to be introduced at the Palace. The most emi-
nent Professors have afforded unqualified admiration of her
Musical Talent. This beautiful little Girl will take a principal
part in a MUSICAL MELANGE of two acts, in which her
Father, Sister, and other talented Performers will also take a
part.

Between the acts the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE
will have its vast powers exhibited on the most interesting ob-
jects of the season.
The Musical Melange will commence on WEDNESDAY
EVENING .NxxT, the sth of August, at Eight o'Clock pre-
cisely, and finish at Ten.
Tickets may be had of Mr. Vinning, 29, Thayer-street,
Manchester-square, as well as at the Institution.
Mr. NI . H. ADAMS will preside at the Pianoforte.
Doors open at Half-past Seven. To be continued for a
limited number of evenings.
Admission to the body of the Theatre, 2s. ; to the Gal-
lery, Is.

- POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
309, REGENT-STREET.
The MORNING EXHIBITION, with 1,100 interesting
Scientific Works and its varied experiments, amusements, &c.,
together with the ALPINE SINGERS, are continued as
usual. Admission, Is.

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY,
Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 69, Lombard-street, London.
Notice is hereby given that the HALF-YEARLY GENE-
RAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this Company
will be held on Tuesday, the 25th instant, at the Company's
Office, 69, Lombard-street, at One o'Clock precisely, pursuant
to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to
declare the dividend for the half-year ending June 30, 1840.
JOHN WILSON, Secretary.
London, August, 3, 1840.

BANK
CHAIRMAN-WILLI.
DIRE(

3 F A S I A.
L JARDINE, Esq.

TORS.
Thomas H. Brooking Robert Hichens, Esq.
Sir John Campbell, K. C. H. Captain John Hine
E. Stillingfleet Cayley, Esq., John Kingston, Esq.
M.P.John Richards, Esq.
John Chapman, Esq. Alexander Rogers, Esq.
James Cockburn, Esq. James Walkinshaw, Esq.
Stephen R. Crauford, Esq. Lieut.-General Sir J. Wilson,
Thomas Goldsworthy, Esq. K. C. B.
AUDITORS—Thomas Chapman, Esq., C. F. Weber, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—J. Edwardes Lyall, Esq.
SoLicxToßs—Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, David Row-
land, Esq.
BwNxtes—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co.; Messrs. Herries,
Farquhar, and Co.
I. Capital 1,000,0001., divided into 10,0(X) Shares of 1001.
each.

11. The Shares will be issued in two series of 5,000 each :
the second series not to be appropriatad until the business of the
Bank requires their allotment, and the holders of the first se-
ries to have the preference, pro rota, in their distribution.
111. Each series of Shares will have a portion reserved for
distribution in India; and the dividends will be payable there,
or in London, at the option of the Shareholders.
IV. The Bank will in the first instance be established under
a Deed of Settlement, which will contain the most effectual
provisions for the protection of the Shareholders.
V. The general management of the Company will be vested
in the Board of Directors resident in London ; its operations
will be those of a Bank of Exchange, Discount, and Deposit,
for which the commerce of India and the Eastern hemisphere
affords ample scope, and the business of the Bank will be con-
ducted after the manner which has been found by experience to
answer so successfully in the other colonial banks whose chief
agency is in the British Metropolis.
VI. A deposit of Si. per Share to be paid on the Allotment,
Si. per Share within thirty days afterwards, and 15/. per Share
at intervals, within the ensuing twelve months. No further calls
to exceed Si. per Share, of which calls sixty days' notice shall
be given.

- VII. A General Meeting of the Proprietors will be held An-
nually, at which a full report of the affairs of the Company will
be submitted to the Shareholdlrs.
Applications for Shares are to be addressed to the Secretary,
at the offices of the Company, 62, Moorgate-street.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY MARTIN, Secretary.

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We would direct attention to an advertisement
in another column, bearing the title of " London Library,"
This excellent scheme, of establishing in London a large com-
prehensive library, from which books may bo taken out, to be
Out' s the of
_had at home both in London and the country, has now been for
some time before the public, and its great usefulness and its
hatvhee made the
gets terms practicability must alone ensure its success. The terms of sub-
scription proposed by the Committee, viz., Si. entrance, and
21. a year, are exceedingly moderate—so moderato indeed, that,
unless with some thousand subscribers, we cannot see how the
library is to be established on anything like an adequate scale.
order subscription
e wr
iep
tp, presume utinh
Lies tlhoass, t thein to open
Committee
library to as large a number of persons as possible, and
cure the widest possible co-operation ; and we trust, to pro-
cure rust that •
one who has intellectual wants of any kind to satisf • every
can appreciate the general benefits of a coroprehensineari who
library, will come forward to support this infant institution,
thereby not only procuring advantages for himself, but •
in the realization of a national benefit. The advant, assisting
library to persons in the country will, as is explained theignecif this
vertisement, be as great as to residents in the metropolis. ad-
vertisement,
OF THE LATE JAMES Q
°MITI!.
Those lovers of wit and humour who knew the late James
Smith only as one of the authors of that most brilliant of modern
jeux d'esprit," The Rejected Addresses," will be no less s
prised than gratified to learn thatt he w
ons b as the writer of innnur-
merable facet/ re of various descripui_
_. oth in prose and verse-
which were privately, as well as pt. bl 1 ifc y, circulated during the'
last twenty years, and that a seelec Lion
his
them
lisped the point
of making its appearance, edit,d, by h
Re-ectsedeec°mp brother,
Horace, the other author of
lifej and aAddresses," and ac-
companied by memoirs of his
sfarnes Smith selection from his
private correspondence.
A• of his da as unestionably
one of the most popular wits
rs of y;
both in asocial and
a literary point o ' f view, the love tun and
f its kind that has been drollery, may
look for the highest treat o offered -to
them for many years.
R A ILWAYB*---VVe 1
EFFECTS ON --
was earn from a
railway
Correspondent that
since the ~.. opened to Lancaster,
faculties of t
there have been already increased ravelling from
two additional
Kendal • but on Monday nand
he othe b coaches—one
and t r v Holm by
Croall, 'Sheldon, C0.,., the road betvreen- C es, Fisher,
and Co.—will be put upon
ite,
through arlisle and Lan-
caster. After that there will and from Kendal
daily— . .. 6
3 miles each way .....•••
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10
5 coaches do .....................
—l6 coaches th
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4 coaches, in and out ..............
2 swift packets in and ou , ll
three
packet being equal to .
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coaches ....................... 12
_ starting from Kendal.
Altogether, as thirty-six coaches,t.
etoand through the town of
Kendal; whereas it was but ' h
could b other ay ' that the only
public conveyance *the town con oast of was a (literally)
heavy coach three times a week, which occupied sixteen hours
ill the journey from Kendal to Liverpool (seventy-flue miles),
aod in which space of time a person can now travel from Ken.
dal to the South coast, Southamptonh
(366 miles). This is
certainly a good prospect for the proposed Kendal railway.
Give facilities and get passengers • it tlyay Tmes.
lialbirnie liaise, the romantic spat of John
Balfour, Esq., in Fifeshire, was
the arrival
of great rejoicing on
of Air
Wednesday last, to celebrate . Balfour, and
his lovely bride? the Lady Georgians, daughter of
the Earl of
Cawdor. Triumphal arches of titre
e erected in the park and
pleasure grounds through which carriage Passed, and the
tenantry, workmen, &c., were sumruottsly regaled.

MONDAY EVENING.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
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published by the Aut.liors, and sold by Balliere, Medical
Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ;
S,range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Budges-street,
Strand; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin ; Duncan
114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had ofall Booksellers
The Work which is now presented to the public is the result
of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec-
t►ons, which for some unaccountable reason have been either
altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and.almost in-
difference, by the o dinary practitioner. To enter into the
details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to
mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical,
which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits,
would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have
no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of
society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whe-
ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA-
RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN.

The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining away,
and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of
some disease, which for want of a careful investigation of its
real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption,
will, on perusing this work be astonished to find that in nine-
tenths of the cases of young persons of both sexes, who perish
of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tabes,
&c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in
certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more fre-
quently than is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds temporarily, at least
the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by perusing this
work, be directed, and very much assisted in investigating and
detecting the too often concealed practices so often introduced
into schools, whereby the health and ultimately the lives of his
pupils are sure to be compromised, unless the evil be checked
in proper time. He will here find a clue to guide him through
the intricate mazes of this moral labyrinth, and a standard
whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to
attack any of his young charges, what the real cause of such
attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in
its incipient state,
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred'character, is at once
concentrated the twofold relation of parent and instructor, will
herp be directed as to the nature of those habits, to which
youth is addicted he will also be enabled to point out the
disastrous consequences which pe pre to follow from them, if
not relinquished.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence,: No. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Ten till Three, and
Five till Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are
...as
re-
questedto tthoebdeuaras
tmioinnnotfetahe spcoosmsiib,llaein, int titherdseyt;ipl theirsymptoms, age,
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liinsgt,laend4coceperauppaatniioed by
the "usual Consulta-
tion 9.t the party ; the
tion Fee of 1/.," without which pp POPP Fhatever can be
taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable
secrecy may be relied on.
N.B. Seven doors from Soho-Tare.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

TIME S.—The excitement in the Stock Market con-
tinues. Several commercial letters received in the City
speak with much apprehension as to the state of the Funds
in Paris. The fluctuations in Consols have been consi-
derable. A correspondent complains, that having offered
a 501. Bank of Ergland note at the branch at Birthing-
ham for cash, it was refused, the parties at the branch al-
leging as an excuse that they had orders not to cash bills
to so large en amount, unless some guarantee was offered
for the respectability of the party presenting it. About
the goodness of the note there does not scca to have been
the slightest doubt, as the holder, on putting the question
whether it was a good one, was answered in the affirmative.
This method of transacting business, of refusing to cash
at the branch the notes issued by the head establishment,
seems to be dictated by a narrow spirit, but our corre-
spondent is quite mistaken when from this practice he ar-
gues that bank-notes are virtually not a legal tender. If
a bill offered in satisfaction for an existing debt could be
legally refused, such a bill would not be a legal tender;
but a mere refusal to give change, when no debt exists at
all, has nothing whatever to do with the question whether
the note is a tender or not.

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CHRONICLE.—AIthough the Monileur of Saturday
contains the official ordonnance calling out the reserve
of the conscription of 1836, and the entire conscription of
1839, with authority to raise funds for a large increase
to the navy, both in men and ships, Consols opened at
90 buyers. The event had been in some degree antici-
pated, and the conviction is still retained that although the
situation of matters is rendered more complicated by this
demonstration on the part of France, yet, eventually,
the affair will be settled without war; this is
still the prevalent opinion in the city, and some
parties begin to think that the French Cabinet
will get out of the scrape by inducing the Pacha to ac-
cept the terms of the treaty signed by the Four Powers.
Considering, however, the obstinate notions of that per-
sonage, others think this may prove a more difficult matter
than might at first eight be imagined, supposing it were
the case that Thiers had sent a special envoy to Egypt on
such a mission ; but that course of policy is no doubt in
the reach of the French Cabinet, and certainly opens a
door to them for retreat, unless they have committed them-
selves by previous engagements.
The report of the British Commissioners on the disputed
boundary with the state of Maine has added to the prevail-
ing uneasiness, and those who are disposed to take the
gloomy side of things speak mysteriously as to the proba,
ble conduct of the French Canadians should any serious
rupture occur between France and Great Britain. But
there is little or nothing in these anticipations. The boun-
dary question will be settled by the mixed commission, and
the state of Canada is satisfactory.
There is no pastime more dangerous than that of playing
with edged tools, and if France be not serious in her pro-
fessed declarations, the sooner that she removes the mask
the better. In the mean time people here cannot under-
stand why France should augment the strength of her
armies and her fleet unless she has some settled object to
attain by employing the extraordinary means thus called
into existence ; and seeing that the purpose assigned by her
is so frivolous and so much at variance with a liberal and en-
lightened policy, they suspect that she must harbour some
concealed purpose at bottom. This, however, is mere con-
jecture, and while some parties argue in that way, insinuating
that France wishes to convert Egypt into a colony, there
arc a few, and only a few, who are disposed to think that
Thiers is sincere in his avowed hatred to Russia, and in
his fears that the subjugation of Mehemet Ali will open
the gates of Constantinople to the Autocrat. But public
opinion is more united in support of Lord Palmerston's
policy on this momentous question than it has been on any
occasion since the era of the Reform Bill. The disciples
of the Thiers policy are scarcely to be heard of in the City,
and, although hostilities with France would prominently
affect commercial interests, we believe the British mer-
chants cordially approve of the conduct of her Majesty's
Government in regard to the affairs of the East, and ac-
knowledge that Lord Palmerston has ably maintained the I
honour and best interests of the country.

HE RA LD.—lt is a singular feature in the Stock Mar-
ket, that whereas the apprehensions of a possible hostile
collision with France, or even of hostile interference as
against the Pacha of Egypt, are considerably moderated
even amongst those of late most strongly disposed,
or so appearing, to entertain them, yet the funds
do not the less continue to decline, and the sellers
upon every re-action are remarked as displaying an
unhesitating confidence in their operations, This
boldness in the speculators for the fall adds strength
to the suspicion before prevalent among the jobbers
generally, that certain parties are in possession of and
acting upon some particular information more than has yet
transpired publicly. It is, however, probable after all,
that the almost certainty that force will have to be applied
to compel the Pacha into the terms of arrangement with
Turkey, which, as agreed among the four Powers are to
be proposed to him, has uo small share of influence up in
the calculations of the speculators, for should he be found
resolute in his demands, and resolved on resistance to com-
pulsory measures, it is not easy to foresee how far the hos-
ilities which will then follow may extend, and whether in
fact they may not lead first to indirect and gradually to
direct conflict with France, or even to a general war.
These are the considerations that probably influence the
fall in Consols, which left off to-day at 991 to 90 for money
and 90 buyers for Account, which show a depression in
prices of per cent. upon the closing quotations of Saturday.
POST.—The Paris advices received in town this morn-
ing, notice an improvement of about one per cent. in the
French Funds. This circumstance, coupled with that of
the present very promising state of the weather for the
harvest, might have been expected to produce a rally in
our own market; but, to counteract the effect of the
change, we have, at the same time, intelligence of an unsa-
tisfactory tenour from Syria, where it appears the dis-
turbances of which we lately heard were rather increasing
than otherwise, and, besides this, the alarm that has ex-
isted in the minds of many, as to the course that may pos-
sibly be taken by the French Government, with reference
to the treaty just entered into for the pacification of the
East, has certainly in no degree subsided.
The intimation that the Portuguese are becoming luke-
warm as to the negotiation of another commercial treaty
with us, on the ground that we shall continue to swallow
the disgusting trash which they send to this country under
the name of port wine, just as freely after the conclusion
of a treaty with France—if, indeed, such a treaty should
ever be concluded, of which doubts may well be enter-
tained—as we have hitherto done, is a new feature in the
Lisbon correspondence. We trust, however, it is a very
false one. As the Portuguese are so insensible of
the advantages they have for a long time past enjoyed
in connection with England, it is greatly to be de-
sired that our custom for wine, so extensive as it is,
should at least be participated in by nations who aro more
in amity with us, and who are likely to prove more grate-
ful for any preference or partiality we may manifest
towards them. If we break with France, there appears
to be nothing to prevent us from cultivating a more inti-
mate commercial intercourse with Prussia. Independently
of considerations connected with the wine trade, we have
the strongest motives for doing this at all events ; but, as
far as we are able to judge, the relish for German wines
is rapidly increasing in England, and, if so, in defiance
of treaties, Portugal and Spain will in all probability be
before long completely beaten out of the field. They have
neither of them any demand for their potent beverages
worth naming, but that which they acquire from the Eng-
lish consumer, and of this they are equally unworthy.

SUN.—Th. excitement with regard to our position
in the political world, now that France has made an ac-
tual show of warlike preparations, has not materially sub-
sided, and it is now rather earnestly debated whether,
under existing circumstances, it would not be politic in
our GovernMent to increase the naval force of the
country, even should no immediate necessity exist for
its employment. At any rate, we may now p'ead justi-
fication, for any measure of the sort, without exciting
the jealousy of any of our allies.

Consols 'closed a shade better, viz., 89i to 90 for
Money, and 90k to 90 for the Account. Exchequer
Bills dropped to 21s. premium, and India Bonds to 3s.
discount. Bank Stock was heavy at 173/, 'and India
Stock at 252/. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per
Cents, were last marked 99k to 9, and the New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. 981 to I.
The foreign securities were rather animated, but they
all fluctuated a good deal. In the morning they had an
upward tendency, especially Spanish Stock. The
news from Madrid being considered somewhat more fa-
vourable ; subsequently, however, they gave way again.
Spanish Actives touched 25k in the morning, fell to 241,
and closed at 241. Portuguese New Five per Cents.
from 31 to 311, and the Three per Cents, from 214 to
21 1-29. The news from Lisbon was of no importance.
Colombian Bonds ranged from 25k to 241 for the Ac-
count, and Mexican from 28/ to 29. Belgian were as
low as 101/ to 101, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents, declined to 504.
The Share Market was in a very quiescent state all
day, and in prices there was a slight decline. The new
Great Western Railway Shares brought 14/ ; the South
Western 17k; the New North Midland 3/ ; and the
Manchester and Leeds New 15s. premium. The
Brighton were at 8i ; the Northern and Eastern at 8 ;
and the South Eastern at MI discount. Provincial Bank
of Ireland shares realised 191 premium, and Union
Bank of Australia New 41 premium.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Times.)
We have often had occasion to direct the public atten-
tion to that which is thz only marked and consistent fea-
ture in the domestic policy of the Whig-Radical Govern-
ment—that grasping love of power, patronage, and in-
fluence, and that overweening self-conceit, which consti-
tute the life and slut of the centralizing system. There
is certainly in Whiggism an inherent propensity to ty-
ranny ; and of all the methods which tyranny ever invented
for sucking out the essential vitality of free institutions,
without appearing materially to touch their forms, this
centralizing system is the most plausible and the most
pernicious. It is the most plausible, because its pre-
tended object is to carry out with greater consistency
and efficienCy purposes already recognized in existing

PRICE sd.

, institutions ; to insure an economical expenditure ;
to al ply to each subject matter the appropriate de-
grees of wisdom and experience, and to place all inferior
agents and inferior machinery under a vigilant superinten-
dence. It is also for these very reasons the most perni-
cious: men look at it in detail, and find it often very con-
venient in those particular branches of its operation which
touch themselves most nearly ; it saves them money or
trouble; its possible evil consequenc,ts appear to be of a
theoretical, while its benefits are of a practical, nature.
But in the mean time real power is passing out of the
hands of the people—that power which is their only true
security for the present and future enjoyment of liberty and
law. We think it the more important to look narrowly
into this matter, because the principle is evidently a fa-
vourite
one with two schools of politicians, differing in
tome respects, but both of them deserving, in our
opinion, to be regarded with the highest degree of jea-
lousy. One of these is the political economy school, a
school which cultivates . a subordinate department of
political knowledge, but which these miserable scialists
have attempted to elevate into the master-science of Go-
vernment. These are the men who look upon money as the
soul of a nation ; money getting the great object of human
life ; the production and multiplication of riches as the pur.
pose for which kings exist and Parliaments assemble. Of
the passions, the affections, the sympathies, the virtues, the
moral and religious sentiments and interests of immortal
beings, they seem to think only as of disturbing forces,
which must sometimes be taken into account in reducing
their abstract calculations into practice. In a case of col.
lision there can be no doubt which must give way :
‘. The harmony and the happiness of man
.‘ Yield to the wealth of nations."
The other school to which we have referred is not less
active, and in truth has a much deeper interest in promot-
ing the spread of the principle of centralization. We
mean the modern ultra-Liberal party, of which Mr. Flume
is so distinguished an ornament—a party which has bor-
rowed either from America or from revolutionary France
new and spurious notions of popular freedom, wtdch
worships as the summum bonum in politics the despotism
of a majority, and would sweep away every check which
stands between the " greatest number" and their will, how-
ever oppressive, foolish, and tyrannical to every one else
that will may be.

f .
(From the Morning Herald.)
We have lately exposed, in plain and pointed language,
the gross errors and mis-statements of the Times, in its
account of school inspection. We have shown, from un-
deniable dates and authorities, that the National Society
was, from the first, opposed to State inspection, and that
such inspection was originally suggested to the Treasury
by the British and Foreign School Society. Instead of
refuting our charges, or acknowledging its blunders and
mis-statements, the Times now affects to roar out fresh
threats and anathemas against the National Society—it
invokes the Gsvernment to revoke the charter—refuse the
royal letter, and destroy the very name of the National
Society—and this at the very moment that an acknow-
ledged compromise has been effected between the heads
of the Church and the heads of the Treasury—when the
schools of the National Society have been explicitly re-
cognised by the last Treasury minute,—and when all the
immunities, whether spurious or real, which have been an-
nexed to the veto of the Archbishops, have been conferred
on the schools of the National S.Jciety. We say this is
passing strange—that it indicates either treachery or mad-
ness—that the Times is bound to explain its conduct, not
only as concerns its own character for consistency with its
past opinions, but as relative to its present and future po-
sition, as the professed advocate of Conservative principles
in Clair:lh and State; and that it can demand no confi-
dence from any portion of the public till it has clearly and
fully explained itself en this strange and unaccountable
procedure.

( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The smoke from the shores of France, exhibited in such
abundance in all the Paris journals, if it does not alarm the
English public, has had the very natural effect of making
them very inquisitive. Every second person you meet
asks you what the French really want? Its newspapers
and its Government tell us that they wish to prevent all
such changes as may, by disturbing the balance of power,
endanger the general peace. To sound the alarm, by in-
creasing its army and its navy, is certainly, to our mind, an
odd way of labouring to promote peace. Not.
withstanding these demonstrations, however, we con.
tinuo to believe, with unabated confidence, that the
general peace will not be disturbed. In France, as in
England, the sober-minded and reflecting portion of the
community must eventually determine the course of
the governments ; and whatever may be the apparent in-
toxication of the moment, we trust to the influence of the
influential portion of the French nation, in subduing the
fiery zeal of heated politicians. The silly invention of
Lord Palmerston having practised concealmeat in his
communications with M. Guizot has passed off. This
equally unfounded nonsense of a majority of the British
Cabinet being opposed to the views and plans of its Fo-
reign Minister, known to be false in London, has ceased
to be useful in Paris. What next will be dished up to
serve the diseased appetite of an excited public, we know
not ; but this we know, that the French orders for the
raising soldiers and sailors will neither alarm the English
public, nor, we hope, change the course of the British
government, and the other three Powers. Such demon-
strations will neither induce them to abstain from what
they have resolved to do, nor tempt them, on the other
hand, to any counter armament, or retaliatory display.
(From the Morning Post.)
Among those who believe that a war with France will
not be the consequence of the present excitement, we are '
disposed, as far as we can yet see our way, to claiss our-
' selves. We are quite aware that a very contrary opinion
prevails wherever an unlimited confidence is placed in the
periodical Press of Paris as speaking the sentiments of the
French people, but we think that such confidence arises
either from a want of knowledge or from a confusion of
ideas. The writers in the French newspapers are ingeni-
ous ; they aro plausible ; they have enough of fire to
set Europe in a blaze ; but they are the creatures of
impulse, and the slaves of some favourite theory.
Calm reasoning is not their forte ; they have no
taste for patient application ; and they are apt to
look with something like contempt on the prudent
and industrious, because they have no sympathy with the
quiet and domestic enjoyments which form alike the re-
ward and relaxation of prudence and industry. It is not
surprising, then, that the middle classes in France are
unrepresented in the public journals; but the fact is im-
portant to all who would acquire an insight into the feel-
ings of an influential portion of the French people at the
present crisis. Nothing seems more clear than that we
must not look to the newspapers for the information we
desire. There, indeed, we may find the hopes and wishes
of the various political parties expressed in strong and
glowing language ; and that is all. Declamation abounds ;
but fact is given, no course of argument pursued, from
which the writers can themselves deduce an inference, or
by which they enable us so to de.