The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1841

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DA Y. )
CHRONICLE.—The funds have been firm to-day, and
Consols have improved slightly. To-morrow being settling
day the options were declared to-day, the result of which was
that Consols were called at 90ti by the jobbers, and from the
appearance of the market'. it would rather indicate a Bear
account.

THE EASTERN QUESTION

This being settling day in the Foreign House, the job-
bers were principally engaged in settling their accounts. The
differences to be paid, however, were unusually small, the fluc-
tuations in the various securities during the account having
been extremely limited.
It has been reported to-day, that the liabilities of Messrs.
Wakefield and Son had assumed a more serious aspect ; but,
we believe there is no reason to estimate them at more than
70,0001.

TIMES--More business has been transacted in the various
Government stocks to-day, and, what with money being easy
and purchases made by the speculators to arrange to-morrow's
account, values have improved nearly * per cent., the market
closing firm.
The vacancy of broker to the Equitable Assurance Company,
occasioned by the failure of Messrs. Wakefield and Co., has
been filled to-day by the appointment of Messrs. Capel, Cuer-
ton, and Cundy. It is understood the applicants for this ap-
pointment were 21 in number.
The arrangement with the holders of the " United States
Bank" debentures, part of which will become due to-morrow,
will be effected in the following manner : The whole
amount, which is 800,000 i., is already secured by a
deposit of 82,662,000 Pennsylvanian 5 per Cent. Stock,
$900,000 Michigan 6 per Cents., and 8888,000 Missis-
sippi 5 per Cents., amounting altogether to 84,450,000.
For the portion which falls due to-morrow namely,
400,0001., an additional deposit of 8225,000 Pennsylvanian
5 per Cents. has been made, and this additional secu.
rity procures the consent of the holders to postpone their claims.
With respect to the half-yearly coupons attached to the deben-
tures, they will be paid to-morrow as usual. The remaining
400,0001. of the principal debt falls due on the 15th of April,
1842. The application of so large an amount of assets belong-
ing to the " United States Bank" as security for only an in-
considerable portion of their debts, proves how completely the
whole must have passed beyond the reach of the shareholders
and the more immediate claimants upon them.
By the usual official return published by the Customs, the
exports of the precious metals from the port of London to fo-
reign and colonial parts for the week ending Thursday, the Bth
instant, was as under:—

Ounces.
Silver coin to Hamburgh 208,200
Silver coin to Rotterdam
Silver coin to Belgium
Silver bars to Hamburgh

HERALD.—The transactions in the Funds have been in.
considerable, but the quotations improved and were well sup.
ported. _ _

It is understood that a fiat has issued against the Messrs.
Wakefield to-day, whose liabilities are carriedby report as high
as 200,0001., which however appears an incredibly large sum
considering the limited extent of their banking business. The
profitable appointment of stockbrokers to that ponderously
wealthy concern, the Equitable Assurance Company. which
they had long enjoyed, has been conferred to-day upon Messrs.
Capel, Cuerton, and Cundy, a firm of well-known respecta-
bility and high standing on the Stock Exchange.
Two or three failures of an unimportant character were re-
ported to-day in the vicinity of Fenchurch-street. But one
occurred in the tea trade of an old established concern to a
more serious amount; not, however, said to exceed 60,0001.
The tea market notwithstanding was more film to-day and
prices rather better. The delay which must intervene before
any arrivals can be expected from the coasts of China, and even
before cargoes can be taken in and completed at Whampoa,
supposing that the preliminary convention of Captain Elliot be
confirmed and a treaty founded on it finally concluded, which
many peop!e are inclined to doubt, has contributed to allay the
panic among the holders of tea and to stop the downward ten-
dency of prices.

POST.—The operations of the Stock markets were con-
fined to-day almost exclusively to the home securities, the
quotations for which are again upon the rise. Money for
stock-jobbing purposes is easy, loans for short periods on the
deposit of English stock being obtainable at from 2 to 3 per
cent. ; discounts are also procured without trouble.
It was the half-monthly settling slay in the Foreign funds.
No difficulty arose upon the occasion that we are aware of.
The transactions in this branch of the Stock Exchange have
not during the fortnight been extensive.
The stoppage of a house of some standing and respectability
in the tea trade was the subject of conversation on 'Change.
The liabilities of the party are considerable, though they can-
not perhaps be called absolutely large. Amounts have been
named, and not without some confidence. Nothing that can
be at all depended upon on this point is, however, yet known.
The late fall in the prices of the leaf upon a heavy stock, part
of which is becoming due, is the cause assigned for the present
suspension. Company's congous were sold to-day at Is. si-d.
per lb. cash.

NEUMAN.
PALNIERSTON.
BULOW.
BRUNOW.

GRAND ROWING MATCH.

CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD.
Yesterday was fixed for the decision of the fourth
great rowing match on the Thames between the students
of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. The Cam-
bridge men having won in the three former contests,
the greatest interest was excited amongst the lovers of
this manly exercise as to the issue of this struggle, in
which the Cambridge men. were either to establish their
superiority, or to give the Oxonians an opportunity of
retrieving their lost honours. Last Wednesday was
originally fixed upon as the day of the race, but the
authorities of both Universities interposed, and forbad
the young men to engage in a coetest upon which lame
sums of money were staked in Passion Week. The
unfavourable state of the weather yesterday would have
induced the managers on both sides to a further post-
ponement, but for the near approach of the Easter
Term, when the gentlemen must present themselves at
their respective Colleges.
Notwithstanding the rain and cold of yesterday, the
bridges from Westminster to Putney were crowded even
to the tops of the lamp-posts, before the time of start.
rng ; and at the former bridge there was as large a col-
eetion of boats of every kind—skiffs, cutters, and
steamers—as ever were seen there upon any similar oc-
casion. At six o'clock the rival boats took their places,
above the middle arch of the bridge.
The crews were as ender :
OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE.
COLOURS--TRUE BLUE. COLOURS—LIGHT BLUR.
CREW. CREW.
No. 1. Mr. Bethel—Bow No. 1. Mr. W. Croker—Bow
2. Richards 2. L. Denman, Hon.
3. Mountaine 3. Richio
4. Royds 4. Puddley
5. Hodson 5. Pobbald
6. Lees 6. Penrose
7. Meynall 7. G. Denman, Hon.
9. Cocks—Stroke 8. Vials—Stroke
Cock3wain—Woollaton. Cockswain—J. Croker.
The average weight of each crew was list. 51b.
The length of the boats was each 52 feet 7 inches—
breadth 3 feet 10 inches.
At twelve" minutes past six o'clock they started fairly,
when Cambridge drew a-head directly, and soon got up
to about six boats length, keeping the distance with
apparent ease the whole way. In Chelsea Reach, the
distance was considered by the best judges to be fu
200 yards.

- It is understood that a docket has been struck against
Messrs. Wakefield and Co. upon the petition of a creditor in
Suffolk. The debts owing by this firm are estimated at the
large amount of 200,000/.

SUN.—AII continues suspense with respect to the
President steamer. Insurances have been effected to-
day at 35 guineas.
Some notice has been excited to the legal proceedings
threatened by Senhor Zulieta against a Morning Con-
temporary for certain allegations against him, in his cha-
racter of finance agent to Spain, and as having been
privy to Mendizabal's conversion, or rather, ruination
scheme, a few years back. Some curious exposures,
we are informed, would come out in the event of the
matter being brought into a Court ,of Law.
The Funds closed well. Consols for money at 90
to 4, or a rise of about a 4 per cent, on the quotations
of the morning. Exchequer Bills at 11 to 13 premium ;
Bank Stock at 1721 ; and the Reduced Three-and- a
Half per Cents. at 97i to 98k.
The Foreign Securities became more animated, and
improved slightly in value after the Half-monthly Ac-
count was adjusted. The differences payable on
Spanish Active Stock were about 1 on Portuguese,
New 1/, on Mexican 2, and on Dutch 11 per Cent.
The current rates to-day were 23 to 23/ for the Ac-
tive Spanish Bonds ; 33i to 331 for the New Portu-
guese ; 19i to 20 for the Three per Cents. ; 301 to
for the Mexican ; 221 to -I for the Colombian ; 24
for the Buenos Ayres ; 18 to I for the Peruvian ; and
69 to 11 for the Brazilian. Belgian Bonds were at an
advance to 103 ; French Three per Cents. at 78f. 50c.,
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 51i- to 521.
The Railway Shares were all saleable at former
rates. Great Western brought 291 to 301 ; the New
l 4,1; the Fifths 74 to 8 ; the London and Birming-
ham 69 ; the York and North Midland 31 ; and the
South Western 181 premium ; Brighton were 3 to 31 ;
Blackwell 51 ; and the Eastern Counties 131 discount;
Croydon were at par. Colonial Bank Shares realised
9 premium.

In thirty. two minutes from the time of starting, the
Cambridge men shot through Putney Bridge amidst
great cheering, and were rapidly followed by their com-
petitors, fully fourteen boats length behind.
The event bas disappointed not only the numerous
friends of Oxford, but some of the most experienced
men upon the river, who have been of opinion for the
last two or three days that the Cambridge men were
overtrained, although the rowing of the latter in their
recent exercises upon the river has been universally ad-
mired for their skill, precision, and strength.
It was ,aid last evening in Putney, that although the
stakes were but 200 guineas, the losses on the beaten
side amount to some thousands, as there was every re-
liance on the determination of the Oxonians to regain
their reputation. It is admitted on all hands that they
did their best, and their failure is by some attributed to
the fact that two of their men were hurt in the band be-
fore the rue, and rowed with pads.
The two crews, with their friends, dined together at
the Star and Garter, Putney, where the table, spread
for 110 persons, was found insufficient, and all the
apartments in the house were filled. We have been
informed that, before the dinner was brought in, nego-
tiations were in progress for a fifth match, to come
off in the next vacation, and that there is some like-
libood of such an early renewal of the contest being de-
cided upon.
The crowds upon the ¶ridge and river at Putney
were even greater than upon the metropolitan bridges
and the river between them ; and we have heard it ,
asserted by many of the oldest inhabitants of Fulham
and Putney, that, in the whole of their experience, there
never were assembled at one time so many craft upon
the water, or so many people and equipages in the
avenues of their hamlets.

THE PRESIDENT.—The following are the
tonnage and dimensions of the steam
vessel which now
excites
TBsoorenanmdaiee: interest, as compared with those of a
man-of-vrar built about the same period :
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after-
noon, the Noble Lord and Lady left town fur
pass the honey-moon.
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John Knox, and the candle-stick which
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at the time when an attempt
through which the bullet passed which was aimed at him
through the window of his lodgings. The cane was a
donation from Mr. Laing of London. The candlestick
was a presentation from Mr. Murray of Aytoun, and both
were /accompanied by memoranda, which left no hesita-
tion an to their being veritable memorials of this great Re
former.

The town of Pesth, in Hungary, had declared
several non-nobles, without distinction of religion, eligible
to city ot4oco; a progress for Hungary

East Surrey with these philosophical opinions, the Chronicle lence from your Majesty, your august Consort, and your Go.
was daily holding him up to admiration as the fittest man in vernment, of which I trust lam not undeserving, from the
the world to sit in Parliament and legislate for the people, the constant interest which I have felt, even as a private indivi.lual,
bribery at Ludlow in nowise notwithstanding. But the philo- in the prosperity of your Majesty and the Portuguese nation."
sophy which the same Chronicle preaches now, or did preach The Queen's answer was as follows :
within these two days, goes to prove that Mr. Alcock talked "It is highly agreeable to me also to receive from your
like an idiot at the very time he was so cried up as the properest hands the credential by which the Provisional Regency of
man alive to be sent into Parliament. That sagacious print now Spain, in the name of her Catholic Majesty, gives me another
ofa. insteadrd which%,T.ahree swoc,
asserts that the poor know that in every shilling's worth of trod of the desire to draw closer the relations that unite, and
I hope will ever unite, the two Crowns and the two nations,
bread they buy they are paying sevenpence-halfpenny for food,
and fourpence-halfpenny for tax. If this be true (our Con- whose happiness very much. depends on a constant and good
temporary will perhaps excuse us for putting hypothetically harmony. between both their Governments."
With respect to the Portuguese tariff, it ought to be viewed
what it so positively asserts), the fact must be so, for neither
poor nor rich can know that to be which, in fact, is not. Now with relation to the state. of things previously existing. The
if the Corn-law operates as a tax of fourpence halfpenny in the former duties on British goods were nominally, no doubt, fif-
shilling, the repeal of the law must, according to all the rules of teen per cent. ad valorem, but, with the exception of cottons,
political economy (not one jot or tittle of which the Chronicle which were valued here according to the declaration of the
can be so heretical as to doubt), bring down the price by 33 importers, the Portuguese Government having, as a check, the
per cent. at the least. What, then, comes of the Alcockian option of taking them by. paying ten per cent. more than that
philosophy, which represents the repeal as not likely to bring valuation; all other British manufactures, &c., were valued
down the price at all? And what becomes of the consistency according to a scale adopted some sixty years ago, and which
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was so far a change for the better, that it mot rid of
th o old absurd scale of valuation, though some of the du-
ties substituted afford grounds for complaint and for altera-
tion, it is to be presumed, in any future commercial treaty
between Portugal and England.

NOTE ADDRESSED BY THE CONFERENCE OF
LONDON TO HIS EXCELLENCY CHEKIB
EFFENDI.
The undersigned have had the honour of receiving the note
dated the 11 th of this month, by which his Excellency Chekib
Effendi has had the kindness to announce to them, that in con-
sequence of the proofs which Mehemet Ali Pacha had given
of his submission, his Highness had graciously performed his
promise, by restoring him under certain conditions to the post
of Governor of Egypt with hereditary descent. The Ambas-
sador from the Ottoman Government communicated, at the
same time, the firmans published to this effect on the 13th of
February, 1841, together with the note addressed the same
day by his Excellency Redshid Pacha to the representatives
of the Four Courts at Constantinople, by which the Sublime
Porte announced that the Egyptian question was terminated.
The undersigned consider it their duty to express to the Ot-
toman Ambassador, in the name of their Courts, the satisfac-
tion this event has caused them, which, at the same time that
it brought the Eastern crisis to a definitive solution, fully
realised the benevolent intentions which have served as a guide
to the policy of the Courts who signed the Convention of the
15th of July. In this state of affairs the Four Powers have
replied in anticipation of the desire which the Porte has ex-
pressed to see the Consuls return to Alexandria; and the pro-
tocol signed at London on the sth of this month has already
invited the Representatives of the Four Powers to come to an
understanding with the Porte to fix the time at which the
aforesaid agents should return simultaneously to Egypt.
As to the details which regard the internal administration of
this province, and to which the firmans published on the 13th
of February refer, the undersigned have been informed by
despatches dated Alexandria, the 24th of the same month, that
the greater part of those articles have been already regulated.
In effect Mehemet Ali has acknowledged, without any re-
serve, that all the treaties and all the laws of the empire
should be applied to Egypt in the same manner as to any other
province of this empire. He has subscribed to the orders
which have been addressed to him by the Sublime Porte, to
regulate in Egypt the monetary system, the levies, the service,
and the uniform of the troops, and the construction of ships
of war. He has replaced under the orders of his Highness
the Sultan the land and sea forces of Egypt, of which the
Sublime Porte itself has determined the number; in a word
he is at present legally placed, with respect to the Porte, in
the position of a subject delegated to the government of a
province forming an integral portion of the Ottoman empire ;
and in conformity with the principle which the Convention of
the 15th of July was determined to re-establish, it is to the
authority of the Sultan alone that it now belongs to resolve
the questions relative to the internal administration which re-
main yet to be regulated, and to take into consideration the
wishes which Mehemet Ali has submitted on this subject to
the decision of his Highness.
Without in this respect entering into an examination
which would not be within their province, the undersigned
can only refer to the principles laid down in the collective
note which they have had the honour to address to the Ot-
toman Ambassador on the 30th of January. The principles
based upon the conditions of the separate act attached to
the Convention of the 15th July will serve as a rule for the
amicable explanations which the representatives of the Four
Courts may yet be called upon to offer to the Sublime Porte.
The undersigned are firmly assured that these explanations,
conceived in a sincere spirit of conciliation, would he received
by the Sultan in the same manner as he has ever received the
advice already offered by the Allies, disinterested and sincere
advice, which his Highness justly appreciated when he by an
act of clemency accomplished a work of pacification which the
Allies had honourably aided him in securing.
The undersigned avail themselves of this opportunity, &c,
London, March 13, 184 l . ESTERHAZ Y.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF
MOORE.

We copy the following from the Boulogne Gazette
as a curiosity. It appears there will be no end of
claimants to this celebrated ode. The French verses
below are word for word the same as those attributed
to Wolfe, who certainly left his right to the honour
which has been heaped upon him very doubtful :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BOULOGNE GAZETTE."
Sir,—Having observed in a recent Newspaper that
a new claimant had started his pretensions to the au-
thorship of the beautiful " Lines on the death of Sir
John Moore" (improperly called Atta Ode), which has
been generally ascribed to the late Rev. Chas. Wolfe,
1 am induced to send you for insertion in your Journal,
should you find sufficient space for the purpose, the en-
closed copy of verses in French on a distinguished
officer, who meta similar fate to General Moore, but
in a more distant clime from his native land. The
subject of the lines herewith sent was Colonel Beaurni.-
noire, a native of Britany, who was dat the siege
of Pondichery in 1749.

As a similar idea pervades the two poems, one of
which was published long before the other, it is reason-
able to suppose that the spirit was caught by the
English author, and embodied only in different lan-
guage ; at any rate, it is rare t o find such a coincidence
as to originals so approximating each other in their
ideas, as the poems in question present, without either
the one or other incurring the charge of plagiarism.
The French verses are to be found in the " Memoires
de M. Lally Tolendal" iu the appendix, but if I am not
mistaken a notice of them has been lately made by a
writer in one of the London Magazines.
Yours obediently, SCRUTATOR
Ni lc son du tambour, ni la marche funebre,
Ni le feu des loldats, ne marque son depart,
Mais du brave, a la hate, a travers les teaebres,
Mornes, nous portances le cadavre au rampart.
De minuit c'etait l'heure, et solitaire, et sombre,
La lune a peine offrait un debile rayon ;
La lanterne luisait peniblemeet dans l'ombre,
Quand de la bayonette on creusa Ic g3zon.
D'inutile cercueil, ni de drap funeraire,
Nous re daignames point entourer le heros ;
11 gisait dans lea pHs du manteau militaire
Comme un guerrier qui dort son heure de repoe.
La priere qu'on fit fut de courte duree ;
Nul ne parte de deuil, bien que le cur fut plein,
Mais on fixait du ',tort la figure adoree;
Mills avec amertume, on songeait au demain.
Au demain ! quand ici ou sa fosse s'apprete,
Ou son bumide lit on dresse avec sanglots ;
L'ennemi orgueilleux marchera sur as tete,
Et 11011°, see veterans, serons loin sur les Hots.
Its terniront sa gloire, on pourra les entendre
Nommer Pillustre wort, d'un ton amer ou fol :
II les laissera dire--Eh ! qu'importe asa cendre,
Que la main d'un Breton a confiee au sol.
L'eeuvre durait encore, quand retentit la cloche
Au som:net du bejj`roi, et le canon lointain
Tire par intervalle, en annoncant l'approche,
Signalait la fierte de l'ennemi hautain.
Et dans sa fosse, alors, le mimes lentement,
Pres du champ ou sa gloire a ete consommee ;
Nuns ne mimes a Pendroit, pierre, ni monument
Le laissant seul a seul avec sa renommee.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.

(PROM O'OR OWN CORRESPONDENT. )
Note itbstanding that the sevcre illness of General Fer-
guson gave very little hopes to any one that he would
survive the present Session, yet the intelligence of his
death came very sudden upon his constituents. The
Tories had previously been active, and had made ar-
rangements for bringing down Mr. Walter; of the Times,
to contest the seat on Tory principles. On Wednesday
Mr. Walter arrived at the George the Fourth Hotel,,ac-
companied by Colonel Sibthorp. On the evening befare
the Liberal party held a Meeting, which was attended
by a great number of the meat respectable Liberals.
Colonel Thompson was proposed, but be, it was deem-
ed, would have no chance without money, of
which he has very little, against a rich candi-
date, :and smarting from defeat. Attention was
then turned to sevaral others, but eventually some
letters were read from G. G. de H. Larpent,
Esq., in which his sentiments were detailed. He
declared himself a Radical in every sense of the word, in
favour of a Repeal of the Corn-laws, abolition of Church-
rates, the Ballot, and Extension of the Suffrage, anti other
excellent measures. Very high credentials from the first
liberal men in London were read in his favour, and it
was eventually agreed to invite him down to address the
electors, and a letter was despatched to him. He will be
in Nottingham this day (Thursday), and will, no doubt, be
the man adopted by the Liberal party. It is very much
to be regretted that a great split has taken place
lately among all parties on the Poor-law Question,
the Wh'gs having built a new workhouse on
the new principle, in spite of the efforts of the Tories
and Chartists to prevent it. Tice Tories have taken ad-
vantage of this, and, having joined with the Chartists,
got an ultra-Tory Board of Guardians returned on Tues-
day last, who have stopped the !building of the new house.
The Tories deeming they will be joined by the Chartists,
on proposing Mr Walter, who is an anti-Poor law man,
are sanguine of success, but their hopes are most falla-
cileß, for the Chartists, in full meeting at the Democratic
Chapel, on Monday night, determined not to support a
Tory on any grounds. The Radical principles of Mr. '
Larpent will just suit them—they will poll ;for him to a
man, and there is no doubt he will be returned by a ma-
jority of 500.