The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 19.
Number Dividend Price

of per
Otero. Annum.

CANALS.

per
Paid. Stinie

1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldhans...Average97l.lBs.sh. 10134
1,492 41. Ashhy-de-le-Zouch Average 1131.03. 72
1;260 Basingstoke 1001.1 h. 5
1,065 Sft. Brecknock and Aber gav enny l5Ol. sh. 92
8,000 1.16 th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ...91. k 711. 200
1,000 .......,. Ditto & Liverpool Junc.i.lQ9l. sh. 100 p 4 $1
606 it. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/. sb. all pi -
100 51. Chelmer and Illsekwater .... ' 1001. sh. 105
309 321. Coventry ................... . . ... 1001. sh. 300
Croydon.. . Avenge3ll.2B.lod.s3 . -
2, 110 51. Cs Dudley..........•••••••••••••••••• ........ i 001. e h. 04
600 131. Derby ..... ..... .......... 00000000 ......1001•sh . 120
24,0:0 4 Per cent. Danube and dayne .... ..... 411.138. 4d .pd 30
3,5751 4' Ellesmere and Chester Avenge 133/.16. 75
31 621
Erewam • . . .......... .....1001.en. 735
,2107 351. Forth and Clyde....Averafe4ool. 16s. h. 6V)
11,600 7t. Grand a unction.,,.,„ 1001. s n 110
2,8494 255. Grand Union ..... ................ .. . lool.sh . 26
',500 ......... Grand Surrey ..... ..............1001.sh• 15
40001 61. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
296 Grand Western ........ .O. sh. allpd 1054
600 131.125. ild. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 d. 420
749 12s. Grantham ....... l5Ol. sh. 220
6ns 21.0*. Huddersthld Average 5 /1. 6s. 6d. sh. 26
•100 Kensington ....................100 oh. all pd 10%
25.329 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.184.10 d. sh 2231
11,6991 V. 7e. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d 28
2,897 f 30/. Lecd e and Liverpool lool.sh 710
545( 111. Leicester .... ....... .. 1401.11. 150
,897 51.45. Leicester & Nortl4a..ptonAver 631.10 s 7134
2,409 101. Monmouthshire 1001.81: 200
256 101. Melton Mowbray .„';, ...........1601.5h. 117
SOO '25/. Mersey and 'melt •4 ..........1001.sh. 550
.. 3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield ".....1001. sh. allpd. 23
IV 171. Reath
2,400 51. Peak Forest. Aves.ge about 78/. sh. 72
21,418 94. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. sh. 9
2.669 61. 'Rochdale ........Average 361.5 h. 66
500 81. Shropshire .... ................„,„.„,.1151. sh. 137
800 101. Os. Somerset Coal
3,600/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Y 5t0e2..”...12/. 106. Db. 11%
700 361. Staffbrd A , - .......140/..h. 69G
500 15/ Shrewsbury -.... ....... ....125/. sh. 280
300 91. 3tnurbridge........... iii ... ...... ....ISM. sh. 396
3,647 V. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ea ecr....791.95. bd. sh. 35
533 isit Swansea lool.sh. 265
3,762 21. 10s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. ,h. 45
2,600f5h, 39/. 108. Trent and Mersey, f share lOO/. sh. sbo
8.149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 2
I.ooosh. 16/. Warwick and Birmingham , 1001.,h 250
I,ooofsh,
950 13,. Warwick and Nero.. 1001. sh. 115
7,000 41. Worcesisr & Birmingham Av.79/.Bs. sh. 55
5.101 36c Wilts and Berko Average 671. 108.8 d. oh. 28%
800 6.. ‘Vyslev and Essington 125/. sh '74
.26 w;eneacn . ..... ....• 1:151. sh. 50
203 1/ Wey and Arun. ...... ....H... llO/. sn. 20
DOCKS.

2.6001 k 1 3n. c. Commerc al ....... lOW. sh. 61
1,065j5h. ,
5 per cent. East and West India .........5t0ck 101%
3,138,31031. 31. p. ct. London Stock 72
Ditto Bonds
2,209 3!. tis. sd. Bristol ... ....... ..... Average 1171.25. sh '7s
68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO6
352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 915
500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds
20%000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
..... .... Deptford Pier ...............201. sh. 20!. pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,600 IL Hammemnitb 501. th. 21%
7,231 Southwark, Old ..... ...Av. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 3%
1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, Now. of 7i per cent., ')ol.sh. 15%
a,OOO
5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. rol 21
5,000 19e. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 18%
nO,OOO/. 5!. per cent. Ditto Bonds 99%
5,948 27s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/10s Albion
6 per cent.] •
59,000 i Alhanceßritish &Foreignloo/. sh. 111. pd 13%
and 15s.
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 5!. pd 5
14,000 +l. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14
L2ooish. 51. Birmingham hire 5O/. sh. 55/. pd 10754
90,000 41. percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 40
11,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. oh. 51. pd 6
5,000 M. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001.5h.2110s pd •%4
4,000 31 Oa County lOO/. sh. 101. pd IC
2,000 so. Eagle
10001. sh. 2501. pet 406
''''''' fasnpder3oc/ebnat..]
Economic Life
1,271 91s, per cent. European Liar
"0!. sh. all pd 12
50000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. V. ?id 1%
.000,0001. fJ.per et Globe Stock 118
20,000 51. Guardian
30,000 4s. 01. Hope 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 55►
2,400 51. 12s. Oct. Imperial Fire 5OO/. oh. 501. pd 133
7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 110%
13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine ... ...... 1001. eh. 81. pd 20
1,020 31 104 Kent Fire 5Ol. sh. all pd SI2
3/. Ditto Life .50/. pd 66
10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/.lh. 10/. pd
5,000 10s. London, Fir- 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 184
3,900 104. London, Ship .........251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 184
1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh.
590,000/.
36,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lite 5O/. sh. 21. pd 216,
50,000 51. per cent. Protector 'He 201. sh. 2!. pd 18.0 d
10,000 4 per cent. .Protestant Dissenters ....1001. sh. 51. pd 554
4.500 11. Provident Lite lON. sh. 10/. pd 20
200,660 4s. Od. Rock Life
89,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock ISO
6,000 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 51. yd 54
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. oh. 51. pd 74
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. ah. 101. pd
15,000 S per cent. Australasia 40!. sh. 401. pd 31
10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/. oh. 10/. pd 13%
30,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 201. pd 21%
60,000 51. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 101. pd 1258
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 90
25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 121/. pd 10%
50,000 71 per cent. Manchester and Liver I 501.5 h. 151. pd 9%
pool District
20,000 7 per coat. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 5
10,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. oh. 251. p 4 41
10,000 li rer cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. oh. 17F. pit 1554
10,000 6 per cent National Prov i.lcial Eng.loo/. sh. 35/, pd 34%
10,000 Ditto New ..• 101 oh. 101. pd 10
10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. eh. 10/. pd 32
6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Bath 2Ol. sh. 161. pd 22
st°oo ..... ... British 4O/. sh. 161. pd 18
5,000 V•riercenti Ditto Provincial 2Ol sh 19/. pd NU
n Bs. 6..
928 51 lOs Birmingham 50/ sh. 96
5,250 2/ 0. Bristol .... 2Ol. oh. 36
2,250 31 103 Brighton 2O/. sh. 13%
750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9
1,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2O!. oh. allpd 054
4,000 7/. 10s. Continental Consolidated ....751. 621/.pd 105
1,000 10/. City of London.. ON. sh. all pd 195
1,000 6!. Ditto, New
4,000 31.05. Equitable 5Ol. pd 20
10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh! 59
800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 18%
c 0 501. sh.:2h. 471. pd 273%/. pd 18
1,350 61. per cant. Independent .......
.1001. sh. 75/. pd 150
.30/. sh. all p. 56
9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 32
1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff IOW. sh. 80!. pd ti 3
,000
2,000 51. per cent. United General 50/. s
140 51. per cent. Warwick
50!.
sh 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield
2,000 31. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. sh. 58
6,000 Ills. Ditto New
780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. IS!. pd

- -- -
WATER WORKS.
1,800 3.10. Birmingham 25' oh. 251. pd 21
4,433 7!. East London 100/ sh. 1112
5,500 21 150. Grand Junction Average 411. 138.4 d. sh. 55
1,000 '2l. Kent 100/. oh. 5234
372 10!. Liverpool !tootle 2'201 oh. 3:5
1,500 2 /10s I.ltvr River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,486 21 Ins Manchester and Salford 1001 sh 54
1,000 5 per cent, Snuth London lOO/ gh 08
8,294 Oil. West Middlesex Average 631.120. ild. sh. 00
1.300 11 1411 York Building f,o, Lessee I'rOl4 1001. ah• 35
Birmingham and Derby lOOl
IRON RAD,WAYS.
6,300 pd 47%
9,580 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester !CO/. pd 19
15,000 ... ...... Bristol and Exeter lOOl. FM. (01 pd •zr;
7,500 ...... ... Cheltenham& G. Western 1001. sh. 62K 1. :4,,',
3,00 A Clarence 1001. sh. 100/ pd 20
8,000 Dublin and Drogheda ...... 100/. oh. Si. pd
30.00(; .
......... Eastern Counties 25/.oh. '221. pd 7%
10,000 Great North of England 100/. sh. 901. pd - 63
10,918 IS per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 19 4
25,e00 :1 per cent. Great Western It!!)!. sh. 65/. pd 7814
25,000 Ditto New 51/. sh. 101. pd 56tq
6,000 5 per cent Goliort Junction.. vv. sh. 50/.1-0. 52
1,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool lOO/. oh. 100/. pd 145},
8,000 Hull and Selby 5O!. 4h. 501, pd 39
2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 051.;
5,1110 10 per cant, Liverpnl& Manchester 16( /.sh. 1001. pd 19934
7068 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares .r,h/. pd 1)0
.
11,195 10 per cent, Ditto Quarter Shares 51. Pd 45
36,000 .... ..... London and Brighton...... 501. sh. 501. pd 37
94,000
10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich...2o/. ids. 201. pd 6'
25,000 el per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 90/. pd 155
25,000 V. 0s Ditto Quarter Shares ....251. oh. 51. pa 21 74
31,250
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 38/, 17s. M. 54
33,1100
Ditto New Scrip....l2
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. 70/. pd 5634
13,0110 Ditto Half Shares 5O/. :25/. pd 24
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 101. 22
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2%
10,000 21.1e5. Midland Counties 'ON. oh. 1001. pd 86
15,000 0/. Os. North Midland
11.10 s. Ditto New 401. pd 31%
10,2L6 Northern and Eastern.... 50!. sh 351. pa 22Ni
.ci,605 Preston and Wyrc 5O!. oh. 30/. pi 36
8,000 .....„... South Eastern and Dover .... ...... 211. pd 9.0
1,000 10/.per cent. Stockton and Darlington . ... . ...100/.sh. 265
0.000 ......... Thames Haven SO/.01 N. pd
6.0430 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 86
MINES.

8,000
4,0f10 11. 51. A Itcn
10,000 ... A n Albiong losClcoxlipcearn ,ivs . 5 1 .1p5i.miii...t0..e.1h.r500:1...d1;..2..
‘2... h. 2.1a.:4)41C1.. 1.111)pidl; 1102134,',
Ditto Subscription
2,000 101. Tlolanos ,... ..... .... ...... 1504 sh all pl 35
13,i()00 U. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss• 51. pm„.25/,sh, 901', pd 5
(1,000 ... ...... Pt acaubas A tocaes United 25/.5h,25/. pd 4
11,000 Ditto St. Jahn 'Miley ...20/. sh. IV. pd 134;
201. s h. 20!. pd 1
101, sh. 10!. pd 2
10(11. oh. 64 pd
2(3110( :: rouot. 2)
......
. " B151°;iil tti Dittolvissahl ri ISr!coB,lpP c Capperr
..... . . . Company,... ....... 5/.sh. 4 } 1 . pd 1%
Cat, Br.lllo ............................641. pd 6%
Candonga ...... . .......................... 71/. pd 5
100, ,500000 ... 1 1
Columbian,Ccpia po .. . . ..pni ~..:..0..,
..15.i..
1....
...i...
~.
mi.
...
....... 2.5.
..05.1./:...u.5.,.,.hh0.
.h..
..51:.
0.53/1.1..
... 1.1 p).)
4.44. 1001
::
2,850 V. English . ,
s. . ........ 111. Gs. ixt 2
20,000
/1,155 Mexican Company ......... 100/. oh. Cot pd
3,000
11,500
Ditto Loan Notes. ................ 150/. pd 160
30,000
501. sh 501. pd 35
i n 0 0 L.
I rt. °TR:ED:en:aI:OA: Cc:: ilo,t;:::::1:Itnh14:8.i'Ul: Bronze:.:.il: :.I
TicketON 5...7 5 g s . eh.
• is, •••••••••
London University ~,.,,,,,1001. sh. all pd 7
1,500
700 Russell... ................................. 25gs. sh. 6
King, College .... ..................... lOW. 19%

'sh 28/ t d 39
Ci,EnLALgAriNcuEitOtiUng..lool.
1(4)0 Land C • • •')
6,)C11 J. per cent. ilritish American ompany 34 /. pd 9
10,060 61. per cent. Canada Company
10,003 N. per cent. Upper Cana, 'a Loan ................
,_
City Bonds, 4 Psi' cent..... 1
IN . A u si‘tirlaSl
1,/ •_atie. •••••.... ......... 100
20,000 11. 6s. General Steam , avig n 151.. h. 14/. pd 21
s Bay Stock
lol.per cent. Hudson'. .........
,008 I/. London Coin, Sale Rooms ..., Ay. 75,
.............. .... 254
,000 Caoutchouc Company ....... . sh. 11:)<,
......... 121/. pd 121,
New Brunswick Laud C0mp,,,,,T...50,.
pd 1,2,
• /54 5/. per cent. ltercrsisnary Int. 50c...100/, sfi loot ,d p 5
''
9,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 1( • • I )0/. As. 100:. pd 107
4,03 ...... „, Thames Tunnel
ni ner.'s Land.. Ion? ~
50/, sh. all pd 10
10,000 6u. Van —c` •• • '"• 1811. pd "I'
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LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
NOV. 13. 1841.
BANKS.

r R k ot-h'evotland
it81:45
pop,/ , 61, p. et. —an ,_ , AR, Bd, It,. all 156
pommy, p, ct. Royal of Scotland.••B3l.
100/.sh. pd 151
500,00 w, 81. ct. British Linen Compan y..,100/.x h.
an
pd
211
500,000/. ct. Commercial
500,000 t. o. ct. National
1,500U0r000)11.. 861,
pp.. ct.
Cassgt(ClUolniSocnotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 60
INSURANCE COMPANIES. •
250,000 th. 6} p. ct. Scottish Union
u!. s 1/. pd 255.0 d.
7,500 10 p. ct. Hercules , 101,1. sli. 10/. pd 13
100,000 10 ct. Insurance L and „ ,h. all
pd 9►q
50,000 10 p. ct. North firitis.
pdp(t 137:
1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonizo Fire loot. sh. 10/. pd 40
5,000 10 p. Cl. FAinhurlel
100,000 3} p. et. Westof Scotland ....................• 10/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 Edin. and Olas. Un. Canalso/.sh. all pd 10
Ditto Allocated'
Leith
201,
.......................................... :ph: 440390
96/. sh. all pd
225,40(. ei per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck Water.2,s/, sh. an
pd 34
p
I 044.
10
041
1(5:1 so3oob 21;0013
sp
irrrr.
:ccc.
tttt
ES Edinburght
7.
dhal
nitsnbtgbsuoulwrrrsgahGah
Cadkso
anodul
Dnact
ksr
.... 25/. sh. all pd 53
769 7} per cent. Leith Coal Gas ...... 70/.41. all rd 21

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—Aware of its utter destitution of fact,
and conscious that without facts on which to base the
semblance of argument, all attempts to make out a
case in favour of monopoly must utterly fail, the Post
has adopted the common practice of persons who either
cannot or will not reason—viz., that of calling names.
" We called," says our discreet Contemporary—al-
luding to his article of yesterday, in which that -and
similar flowers of rhetoric were thickly strewed—" We
called the writers of the Whig-Radical party diabo-
lical miscreants.' We adhere to this language."
We find an apology for our assailant in the fury dis-
played throughout the entire article in which this lan-
guage is found. When that temporary madness is
subdued, and reason resumes her seat, he will be
more ashamed of the offence he has committed against
propriety than we are offended by it. Notwith-
standing the care with which we guarded ourselves
against the possibility of misconception, in the obser-
vations we introduced upon the utter incompetency
of private benevolence to provide for the wants of
the thousands of the operatives deprived wholly, or
partially, of employment, and consequently of bread,
we find our language misconstrued, its meaning per-
verted, and the motives which induced it assailed. We
are accused of discouraging the exercise of benevolence
toward the suffering poor, because we observed that pri-
vate charity must fail to provide a sufficient fund to sup-
ply the wants of the abounding misery ! We are charged
with telling "rate-payers to begrudge, and Poor-law
guardians to stint, parochial aid" to the suffering
masses, who must absolutely perish if not assisted from
such sources. And why? Solely, because we put forth
a proposition which the Post found itself unable to dis-
prove ; viz., that the " insane and selfish policy" of
the Corn-laws—we use the terms which Sir James
Graham employed to designate his opinion of their
principle and operation—had wrought, was working, and
must continue, so long as it is pursued, to work—incal-
culable injury to the trade and manufactures of the
country. Is it not evident, beyond the power of successful
disputation, that the distress of the labouring classes,
produced by the fatal incubus which presses down the na-
tional industry, must increase, as population increases
and trade declines ? Can it be controverted, that
neither the private benevolence of the now wealthy,
nor the assistance which the parish rates could afford,
will keep pace with the claims of misery—while those
sources themselves must in time become exhausted—
dried up, as the monster-misery continued its march,
gradually ,drawing within its vortex those who, in the
first instance, contributed to stay its devastations ?
_ _

STAN DARD.—The irresistible inference from the
tables of the census is, that the manufacturing distress
complained of has been much exaggerated—that, as
far as domestic causes can have produced it, it is the
effect of an imprudent, and almost dishonest, certainly
an inhuman, competition on the part of master ma-
nufacturers, who have employed the machinery of
the New Poor-law, too successfully, to force together
multitudes of unhappy beings, to meet the occa-
sional demands of the market, and then to suffer
them to starve as soon as the market has been sup-
plied. This is a state of affairs which would not be
mended, but infinitely aggravated, by the repeal of
the Corn-laws—that, by increasing vastly the dispro-
portion between the profits of agriculture and the
profits of manufactures, would render much more easy
the collection of such crowds, and widen to a great
extent the field for gambling speculations. These
plain truths have reached the people, for, as the
Morning Chronicle
,complains, whimsically enough—
" The political economy of the question was, perhaps,
more distinctly understood by the great bulk at the
working population fifteen and twenty years ago than
it is now, even after the discussion of the lest four
years, and notwithstanding the very great advance which
has been made."
Do not, good Morning Chronicle, say "notwith-
standing" " the very great advance which has been
made," out rather "bccause of the great advance "
which has been made in every department of
knowledge. " The political economy" of 1816 was
sheer ignorance, and as the people have become
less ignorant they have rejected it; but the ignorance of
the people, or that which our respected Contemporary
calls such, is questionless an ill compliment to the paid
lecturers, and a modest acknowledgment for the Chro-
nicle itself, which has written the amount of some
portly folios to dispel it. In aid of such obstinate
ignorance, as we suppose we must call it, we beg to
direct attention to the extract which we have made
from " The Budget," the work of a very distinguished,
but plainly reformed political economist of the school
of 1416.

COURIER.—The whole scope and object of she
calumnies, the exaggerations, the loose logic, and false
reasoning of Whig-Radical journalism, tend to this—
that nothing effectual can be done; that nothing ought
to be attempted, either in the way of alleviating or
remedying the evils incidental to our present condition,
without being preceded or accompanied by a repeal of
the Corn-laws—the principle of which they have
discovered to be iniquitous, anti-Christian, and in-
compatible with the well-being of a commercial and
trading nation. Now, we say, taking all these asser-
tions as proven, they make it out a case against the late
Cabinet, and the whole body of its supporters, sufficient
to damn it to eternal infamy. The present system of
Corn-laws, if we recollect rightly, has been in opera-
tion only since 1828 ; the Whigs were in possession
of power during the whole of this period, except the
first two years ; and with them, during a large portion
of that interval—to propose was to carry—this odious,
iniquitous, plundering, oppressive, anti-Christian law was
in full force—and yet no voice was raised for its
abatement or abolition during that dreary period—
no hand was uplifted to strike down the fell monster,
by which British energy was being paralyzed, and
British enterprise repressed. There it stood on
the statute book, unquestioned and unchallenged, rob-
bing the hungry and the destitute of more than
half their parched crusts, transferring a large share
of he earnings of the labourer and the mechanic into the
pockets of monopolizing landowners, a monument of
injustice and rapacity, supported, defended, and main-
tained by the enlightened, the wise, and the patriotic
Whigs. Surely, if the protection British agriculture
has enjoyed under the present law be of that hideous
and cruel nature here represented—if the effect of that
lav: has been to sap up the foundations of commerce,
to deluge the nation with pauperism, to ruin trade and
starve the people—the Ministry which allowed it to
continue for a period of ten years, in full and vigorous
malignity, unchecked and uncontrolled, deserves the
most signal punishment ever evoked by an abuse and
perversion of power.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

TIMES.—The funds were further depressed to-day—
not, however, from the scarcity of money, which was
much more plentiful than yesterday, and could be had
at the reduced rate of 5 to 54 per cent., but from the
slackness of business, and the preponderance of sellers
over buyers, which at all times produces heaviness in the
markets, and might be reasonably expected to do so now,
from the unsettled aspect of money affairs in general.
An unusual degree of anxiety exists in the money mar-
ket as to the measures, likely to be adopted by. the Bank
at the period, now very near at hand, when it has liken
the custom to afford some relief during the shutting for
the dividends. This feeling arises principally, out of the
Exchequer bill affair, and the apprehension that the Bank,
participating in the distrust of the public at large, may re-
fuse to make temporary advances on deposits of Exche-
quer bills. The more common opinion is, that the Di-
rectors will refuse them, and that India bonds will alike
be objected to, thus confining the accommodation solely
to deposits of bills of exchange. Undoubtedly the lat-
ter may be regarded as the more legitimate banking se-
curity ; but setting that question aside for the present,
and considering that Exchequer bills have been re-
ceived for years past as unexceptionable security for
such advances, the Directors should weigh the conse-
quences very carefully before they place them under
their interdict in the manner that is anticipated,
since that step on their part would materially add
to the distrust out of doors, and might paralyze the
circulation of the security, which is the most im-
portant reliance of the Government on its occasional
" ways and means." The present Administration, if
they have adopted, as is believed, the views expressed
by Lord Liverpool and Mr. Huskisson in 1826, cannot
have a very friendly feeling towards the continuance of
" exclusive privileges," which were then declared to be
" out of fashion ;" and yet the time is close at hand
when that very important question of the continuance of
the charters of the Banks of England and Ireland must
be forced upon the attention of Parliament. For these
reasons, their immediate policy with regard to the " tem-
porary advances" can hardly be otherwise than concilia-
tory towards the existing heads of the Treasury depart-
ment. Hence we incline to disbelieve the current re-
ports on this subject, though they are circulated with
very great confidence.
Respecting the pressure for money which has existed
for some days past, and which is one source of the
anxiety above described, it appears to have been in some
measure aggravated by a new regulation of the pay-
ments into the Bank by the collectors of the revenue,
who have been heretofore allowed 28 days' grace for
doing so, which is now reduced to a period of seven
days only for the country circuit, while immediate pay-
ment is required of the home circuit. Hence very large
sums, which were upon the market for general employ-
ment, are locked upin the Bank on occasions like the
present when they are much wanted. It may be sup-
posed that, as the Bank employ at all times their avail-
able balances indiscounts, this ought to make no material
difference to the merchant or banker who may be in want
of accommodation ; but, not to mention that higher
terms are always demanded for it at the Bank, there
is always,' more or less of reluctance to making known

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to the Board of Directors the fact that certain par-
ties are in want of accommodation, and there are very
many houses of undoubted credit who entertain this feel-
ing so strongly that they will submit to great inconve-
nience rather than ask for assistance in that quarter. It
is not meant, of course, to offer an opion on the propriety
of the measure by which the credits of the collectors of
the revenue are curtailed, but merely to describe one of
the causes which is now producing some tightness in the
Money Market. But if there is no question of safety to
interfere with it, business of this as of every other kind
is better done by the private money dealer and discount
broker than by a corporation, respecting which no reli-
ance can exist as to the discretion and secresy which is
the essence of all such transactions.

Our private letters from Paris mention the receipt of
intelligence in that metropolis of the conclusion at Madrid
of a treaty of commerce and navigation between this
country and Spain. If the intelligence be true, we shall
of course very shortly hear further particulars.
POST.—lt was reported that a leading banking-house
in the West-end of the town, finding itself enoumbered
with a large amount of forged Exchequer bills, had com-
menced proceedings in Chanceryagattist a, Noble Viscount
by whom an individual who obtained advances upon them
was introduced. The express ground of proceeding
has not been openly stated, but may, perhaps, if there
be truth in the rumour, be easily euough inferred. We
refrain in the present posture of affairs from giving names.
Bonnet, the agent de change of the Paris Bourse, who
was found drowned the other day in the' Seine, is dis-
covered to have drawn bills a few months since on
Rapallo. It is possible he may not have had a guilty
knowledge of his Exchequer bill transactions. It is
imagined, indeed, that he took alarm ate he bare idea
of being in any way identified with tile-mon in his
situation.

The King of the French is understood to have directed
a diligent search to be made in order to ascertain if
the Parisians are implicated in the fraud, and to what
extent.

CIIRONICLE.—The Unfunded Debt is quoted Is.
higher, ExChequer bills leaving off at Bs. to 10s. prem.
A circumstance has transpired to-day- connected with
these securities which has attracted no small degree of
interest, and which certainly does not by any means
tend to impress the public with any higher idea of the
manner of transacting business at the Exchequer-office.
A gentleman went up with an Exchequer bill lately for
1001., dated so far back as the year 1825, signed by Lord
Grenville, as Auditor-General, and asked money for it,
when payment, we understand, was refused, on the
grounds that the counterfoils had been destroyed ! This
is not the way to restore public confidence in that class of
Government securities. The loss of sixteen years' inte-
rest, besides premium, would of itself be a severe sacrifice
to the holder; but the refusal of payment of the principal
on the shallow and most improper plea that the servants
of the Crown had destroyed the only test which they
could rely upon to distinguish the authenticity of the
document is so thoroughly injurious to the public credit,
that we are most unwilling to believe that the facts of the
ease are correctly known. We could easily suppose that
the chief officers of the Exchequer bill department might
evince caution at the first appearance of a bill so long
past due as the one in question ; and that they would
express some degree of surprise at its appearance, saying
that they could not pay the amount without some inquiry.
Lawyers will be able to tell whether the Statute of Limi-
tation would preclude the holder from payment. We do
not pretend to give any opinion on that point, although
we have reason to believe that in no case can an indivi-
dual set up that plea successfully against the Crown.
HERALD.—There can be no wonder that an opinion
should have been gaining ground for some considerable
time past, which is now greatly strengthened by recent
events, that either the Stock Exchange must be reformed
and thrown open, or that another institution, under better
guarantees for probity and morality, should be esta-
blished under the direct authority of Government and
the Bank. The real origin of Stock Exchange frauds,
or frauds arising out of stock speculations, may be traced
and fairly ascribed to the close corporation system by
which the public at large are excluded from the view of
the transaction of their own business. From hence grow
the prejudices universally entertained, with scarcely a
dissentient voice in any class of the community, that the
Stock Exchange is really no better than an intolerable
nuisance.

It is quite possible that on the trials of Rapello and
his confederates, with the examinations and cross-exa-
minations of Beaumont Smith, such details will tran-
spire respecting the concoction and organisation of
the Boulogne attempt at revolution in France, with
more full particulars of the parties implicated and
by whom got up, as may lead eventually to other
proceedings against those concerned on the part
of the French Government, either in the Courts
here, or, which it might be feared is not possible,
by extradition of the guilty parties for trial be-
fore the tribunals of Paris. There appears little
question now that the whole was a stock specula-
tion conspiracy, the principal means for which were
raised by fraudulent issues of Exchequer bills, and the
flagitious profits of which were coolly as atrociously cal-
culated upon the excitement of civil war in France and
the sanguinary sacrifice of thousands and tens of thou-
sands of lives. Guilty or not of Exchequer bill frauds,
persons capable and proved guilty of such nefarious con-
spiracies and combinations as this of Boulogne imputed,
and by one of the parties at least acknowledged, are, it
will hardly be denied, deserving of much severer sentence
than any to which by the laws they are now amenable.
The failure of a large establishment in Liverpool en-
gaged in the manufacture of soap is reported to-day. The
liabilities of the house are reported at 170,0001.

MR. EGERTON SMITH.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
It is with feelings of grief, the poignancy of which
none can conceive but those whose who have long and
intimately known the deceased, that we have to announce
the death of Mr. Egerton Smith, the founder, editor, and
principal proprietor of the Liverpool Mercury. This
melancholy event took place on Thursday night. Mr.
Smith had been unwell for many months, but neither he
nor his friends anticipated a fatal termination to his ill-
ness until within the last day or two. When he knew
that his last hour was come, he met it with a cheerful-
ness, fortitude, and resignation, which must have arisen
from a consciousness that he had spent a long life in
doing, or attempting to do, good to all mankind,—that
he had never wilfully injured any human being,—and
that if it be indeed true religion to cheer the hearts
of the widow and the fatherless,—to provide a home
for the destitute, and ever to act upon the golden
rule, "Do unto others as you would that they
should do unto you," then the change must be for him a
blessed one. No man that ever lived had better ground
for such reflections ; and it must be some consolation to
his friends, notwithstanding the magnitude of their be-
reavement, to know that the tears and blessings of thou-
sands will follow him to the grave. His universal phi-
lanthropy, extending even to the brute creation, has
made his name known to the farthest corner of the world.
As a patriot, husband, father, and friend, he has left no
superior ; and we arc sure that all who read this hurried
and imperfect notice, to whatever political party or reli-
gious creed they may belong, will sympathise, more or
less, in the feelings with which it is penned, and admit
that in Egerton Smith Liverpool has lost one of its best
citizens, the poor a benefactor, and the cause of huma-
nity, freedom, and civilization, at home and abroad, one
of its most zealous, most consistent, and most disinter-
ested champions.

THE ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF
VALUABLE JEWELS AT THE EXCHEQUER.
Our readers will remember that a few weeks ago cer-
tain mysterious whisperings were current concerning an
alleged discovery, at the Exchequer, of jewels to a very
considerable amount--jewels, it was said, which had
been empawned to meet the exigencies of the extravagant
King Charles the Second, and had lain there so
long that their existence had been
.forgotten, and that
their discovery was the result of accident—a bit of good
fortune—a sort of set-off against the defalcations in Ex-
chequer bills. The matter was delicately alluded to in
some of the papers, but all seemed to lack information
on the interesting subject. One paper did, however,
venture to confirm the report, but to say that the matter
had been exaggerated.
Exaggerated, indeed, it was. In fact, the affair
beliefaffair had,was
what is vulgarly called a " mare's neat."
however, existed in a high quarter that property to a
large amount had lain by for a long period,
It
the- value
of which it would be desirable to ascertain
that in the year 1757 a box containing jewe'ls had appears
that
sent from the Exchequer-office to the Bank of England,en
to be deposited in the Bullion-office ; and an order was.
recently sent down to the Bank, to have the mysteri-
ous casket examined. A day was' accordingly appointed,
and the Governor of the Bank, Mr. Mashal, the. Chief
Cashier, and several gentlemen Connected with the
Government, assembled for the purpose of making
an official inspection, and reporting upon the same to
head quarters. They were, moreover, attended by seve-
raljewellers called in professionally to decide as to the
" water " of the diamonds, and the value of the other
gems it contained. The conclave assembled—the box
was brought in ! But to the surprise of all it was no-
thing more than a lozenge-box tied with a red tape and
scaled on the top. It was opened and found to contain
a pair of diamond ear-rings, and a garnet brooch. A
general laugh was excited by the appearance of the
" ridicules mus," and one of the jewellers said he should
be sorry to give forty pounds for its contents. _
muchThesc
are the simple facts of the matter, excited
merriment among those engaged in the 111VCSEIgat
lon.

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Eighteen of the twenty-three lieutenancies in
the 62d Regiment are for purchase, a circumstance
un-
paralled in any other corps of infantry on the India es-
tablishment. The 62d is at Ilazrcbaugh, and, as there
were fewer subalterns with the regiment last September
than on any former occasion, and some of those sick,
the duty came heavy upon five or six officers. Captains
Astier and redder had applied for leave of absence to
England, but have been refused until next year.—Lime-
rick Reporter.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-•-• 011 Saturday morning, be-
tween seven and eight, Robert Atkinson, a bricklayer,
aged forty years, expired at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
from the dreadful injuries he sustained by falling from
off a scaffold two storeys high. The unfortunate man
has left a widow and four children to deplore his loss ;
they are totally unprovided for.