The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1E3.41.

than his, as he would not sign his declaration, is
perhaps to be taken as one of the last efforts of a
man guilty of many subterfuges to conceal his
greatest delinquency. At present no other per-
son is implicated than these two gentlemen, and
they share all the guilt betwixt them.
We are glad that the secret inquisition is at an
end, and that the fraud, like other frauds, is to
be investigated by the ordinary means, before the
ordinary tribunals. It will no longer be easy to
whisper away reputation at the West End, and
character in the City. What has been done will
now be revealed, and who has done it.
We have read of late some strange phrases,
which harmonise well with a secret inquisition,
such as "several other parties are placed under
surveillance," a French system and a French
word,—but which grates most harshly on our
English ear. We hope not again to hear the
words, and never to see the system to which they
belong introduced here.
We cannot object to the Treasury examining
Mr. RAPALLO for several hours in private, when
he volunteered his statement ; but as soon as it
was discovered that his information went to
criminate himself, and when Messrs. GoULBURN,
PEEL, and GRAHAM meant to take advan-
tage of it, they ought to have informed
him. He is a Genoese, and perhaps not well ac-
quainted with our language, nor with our cus-
toms. Such circumstances should be, and we
are satisfied they will be, now that the investi-
gation is to be public, taken into consideration.
Mr. RAPALLO, too, has now an able defender,
and we say GOD defend the right, and the right
only. In the mean time, his examination at the
Treasury ought to be taken with the allowances
we have hinted at, and which will not be neces-
sary for his public examinations.
What transpired yesterday is so far satisfac-
tory, that it implicated no well accredited per-
sons. All the agents employed were of inferior
note, and the public is probably relieved by the
disclosures from many painful suspicions, both of
respectable men in the City, and of men high in
office. Though the extent of the evil is not yet
known, much relief is given by clearly pointing
out the channels through which it has flowed.

By the packet ship Rochester, Captain WOOD..
HOUSE, arrived on Wednesday night at Liver-
pool, we have received New York Papers to the
17th ult., being one day later than the Journals
brought by the steamer Acadia. They con-
tain no news of any interest. The following is
the latest intelligence of the state of the New
York Money Market :
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, OCT. 15.

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The sales at the Stock Board, to-day, have Seen to a
fair extent, and prices, with the exception of the United
States Bank, which declined 4 per cent., generally im-
proved; Delaware and Hudson -3-4; Harlem 1 ; Long
Island h ; Stonington i I
; Mohawk ,
United States Bank bills are selling at a discount of
45 per cent. The liabilities of the Southern Life and
Trust are bought at N. Sistares, 13, Wall-street, at 45
cents. on the dollar.
This has been bill-day for the Boston steam packet,
which takes her departure to-morrow for Liverpool. The
supply of bills has not been large, and the events to
which we have alluded on former occasions still conspire
to render buyers extremely cautious as to the character
of the bills they take. Those drawn by known houses
against actual shipments of coin are most in favour, and
command the full rate of 10 per cent., at which price
shipping specie to draw against is a profitable operation.
The amount going forward fur this purpose will be about
$500,000.
The rates on the Continent are less firm than at the
last packet. If the Southern Banks resume with the
opening of the crop, the bills drawn against produce
would command more confidence, and the shipping of
specie would soon cease to be profitable, and it would
find its way south for circulr.tion, instead of remaining a
burden to the New York Banks.
In State Stocks no material change has taken place.
The Government loan, for which proposals were issued,
being $2,000,000 of the $12,000,000 authorised at the
late Session, has been partly taken at par fur a six per
cent. Stock, in small lots here and at Boston. It is very
heavy upon the market, in consequence of the want of a
vent for stock abroad. The State of New York issued
proposals for $150,000 Six per cent. Stock, to supply a
deficiency in the Safety Fund, but can obtain no offers.
This is partly the result of a combination among the
agents of the foreign houses to compel the Federal Go-
vernment to authorise 7 per cent. at the next session.
The following is a table of prices of stocks as compared
with former packet dayS :
RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE,
$2,000 Indiana D. Bonds ...... 47
4,000 New York State; 5i
2,000 Illinois, 6's, 1870
25 Shares Delaware and Hudson
•25 Ditto Stonington.... b 28
10 Ditto Auburn and Rochdale... lO5
50 Ditto Long Island H slo 523
600 Ditto Harlem Railroad b 3 &c. 16i
100 Ditto do s 15 16A
25 Ditto do
100 Ditto do b6o 16i
25 Ditto Seventh W. Bank
50 Ditto Mechanics' Banking Association
50 Ditto United States' Bank ......... s. 10 4i
56 Ditto Jackson Ins 4O
95 Ditto Farmers T.
25 Ditto Mohawk Railroad . . b. 6U 64
SECOND BOARD.
25 Shares Delaware and Hudson nw
107
107
50 Ditto Harlem

Tuesday being the festival of All Souls, and a
close holiday in all Roman Catholic countries,
only two of the daily journals appeared in Paris,
the Presse and the Courrier Francais. The

former, which is a Ministerial paper, expresses
great satisfaction at the acquittal of APLEon, and
deprecates the thought of a war between two
great nations, whose mutual interests are inter-
woven with the preservation between them of
the most friendly relations. The Courrier Fran-
cais, which is the organ of a faction hostile to
England and to peace, is indignant at the report
of the King of the FRENCH having offered
to act as a mediator between the two countries.
We believe that the CITIZEN-KING has made no
such offer; but were he to do so he would be only
repaying a debt of good neighbourhood, which
France owes to England. Nor can we regard
Royalty in a more glorious light, or one better
calculated to elicit the approbation of all good
men, than in that of interposing its mediation to
maintain the peace of the world. As warriors,
Kings are the curses of their species ; it is only
as conservators of the peace of nations that men
owe to them fealty, allegiance, and reverence.
General O'DONNELL narrowly escaped being
delivered up to EspnivrEno by the soldiers whom
Ile seduced and betrayed. The house in which he
took refuge was surrounded by the troops, and
he only escaped disguised as a common soldier.
For two hours was he compelled to walk

down the bed of a stream which marks the
limits of the Spanish frontier. Had he been
taken, his death was inevitable. MONTES DE
OCA died with great firmness. In his pocket
was found the draft of a letter, complaining
with great bitterness of having been abandoned
without instructions, money, or ammunition.
Madame MuNoz was more solicitous about her
dollars, than about the brave men whom she
corrupted, and abandoned to a dishonourable
death.

The Avignon diligence was about to start a few even-
ings since from Sorgues, for Orange, when the passen-
gers, 15 in number, who had found the water from the
floods previously up to the axletrees, expressed their un-
willingness to proceed, but were overpersuaded by the
conductor. They had not gone more than the distance
of two gunshots from the town when the water entered
the coach, and those inside called upon the postilion to
stop. The conductor, however, persisted in going on
until the horses had lost all footing, and were actually
afloat. The postilion wished to turn round, and go back
into Sorgues. The danger of this was too apparent to
the travelers, who fortunately were all men, and they
obliged him to take the horses off, while some of them
mounted to the top of the coach, some remained inside,
some got on the horses, and others attempted to save
themselves by wading through the water. After a time
their cries were heard by an innkeeper on the road, who
came with his two sons in a boat, and by their exertions
at length rescued the whole party.
A quarrel took place, a few days ago, at a public-
house at Clervoix, near Compiegne, between some sol-
diers of the 7th Regiment of Hussars and some civilians.
One of the soldiers, having called for a glass of eau
sucree, complained that sufficient sugar was not given to
him, and the altercation between him and the waiter
becoming violent, the civilians interfered, on which the
Hussars attacked them with draw swords, and they de-
fended themselves with sticks. The guard was called
in and separated the combatants, but not before some
severe wounds had been inflicted. One of the civilians,
a boatman, was so much injured by a sword wound in
his side, that he was dead before surgical assistance
roeur
eietdh.r trial Fiveive ofby
athe Court-martial.
The arrested
and conveyed to the military prison, the Abbaye, in
Ic3oaurrrlidlsie be
Cowpto await
rier de Grenoble mentions the following as
amongst the results of the recent inundations :—"Ten
houses have fallen at Vienne, the bridge of la Gabetieres
which was destroyed by the last inundation and provi-
sionally replaced, has been again carried away, and a feot
bridge has had the same fate. The route of Beaurepaire
and the route Royale;with the Rampe des Croza-de-Re-
ventin, have been rendered impassable, and the bridge of

Chanas which formed part of it has been carried away. I
An inn at a short distance from the bridge fell down, and
an ostler was buried in the ruins."
A letter from Tarascon, 26th ult.,represents the Rhone
to have made wide breaches in its banks, and so inun-
dated the country that all communication is cut off, the
new-sown seeds washed out of the ground, and all hopes
of the next year's crops destroyed: The waters have in-
vaded several parts of the town, and a regiment of chas-
. seurs has been forced to remove from its barracks to
Nismes. It was expected that the whole town would be
inundated, and the inhabitants, as well as the country-
people, were in a state of despair.
A letter from Tours says that the Loire has become
so swoln, that, on the 30th ult., it bad risen 11 feet 5
inches above the usual water-mark. The wind was from
the north, and if it remained in that quarter no serious
consequences were to be feared.
BOURSE--PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 2.

first , Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents ...... ll5 60 ... 115 80 ... 115 60 ... 115 75
3 ner Cents... ...... 79 90 —BO 20 ... 79 90 ... 80 90
New Loan ..... ..... Bl 10 ... 81 30 ... 81 10 ... 81 30
Bank 01 ',ranee [34o —2315 ...5.340 ...5340
...505s
UMW/ Bank 5,000 f. St.ares 505 —5055 —5055
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per LOW., 1840 lOl ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
ipantsh Active ..............
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 4% ... 4%
Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... f. 2% ... 52% ... 52%
20
Neapolitan
R05nan......, .... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHAMES.
Versailles. LB 2.3 75 „, 203 75 ... 203 75 .. 203 75
Rouen ..... ..... .......
Orleans . 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75
itrasburgtoßale„shares red. 23.5 ... 235 ... 232 50 ... 233
BELGIAN V UNDS—Bausane, Nov. 2.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
B/1
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
---------- Spec CenL ..... ease ...
. 71%

Thirty.seven.

IM) ...
101 Y
Loan of City, 1:32,4 per Cent. ........ ......... 93
Society of Commerce, 4 li per Cent 93
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ......
National Society. .... —
Exchange on Londe% (short) ........... ..... 11 95
_Brussels Papers, Nov. 2.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 26
Five per Cents. Ilfetalliques
Four per Cents. •••••••••• ........ •••••••••••••••••••
Three per Cents. .•. ...... ••••••••••••. .......... ••••• ...... .• .7:N
Bank Shares ..... ........... .................
—4l/genseine Editing. Oct, 30.

-THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAlR.—Rapallo, the
stock-broker, who was arrested onWeduesday and
examined at the Mansion-house, charged with
being a confederate with Smith, in issuing fa-
bricated Exchequer bills, underwent another
long examination yesterday. The Lord Mayor
elect, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Sir George Car-
rol, and a number of other civic functionaries,
were present. The examination, which will be
found at length in another part of the paper, led
to some important disclosures. At the conclu-
sion, the prisoner was remanded till Wednesday
week.

MONEY and COMME—Catt L NEWS
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
Our own securities maintain a firm appearance, in the
absence of any particular incentive to speculation, and
the investments just now are on bona fide account. To-
day the Market was buoyant, and at one period Consols
ranged 4 per cent. above the prices of yesterday, but
subsequently * per cent. was the more general average im-
provement. For present transfer Consols closed at 881
to 89, and for Account 89 to 894-. Bank Stock was worth
1644 to 1654, and India Stock 246 to 2 74, being a rise of
Ito 1 per cent. on the former, and to 11 per cent on the
latter. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth
98* to 99*, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 87* to 88.
India Bonds 2s. prem. to par.
In the Foreign Stocks there was only a moderate bu-
siness done, but prices were supported ; Brazilian went
higher. Spanish Active Bonds to day were marked 2.11
to 211 ;Portuguese New Five per Cents. 294 to 29* ;
the Three per Cents. 18i to 18* ; Colombian 19 to 194 ;
Mexican 254, and Peruvian 134. Brazil Stock was quo-
ted 58 to 59 ; Belgian Bonds were 1008, and Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. at 511 to 51*.
In the Share Market there was a greater degree of ac-
tivity than usual, and many of the leading lines improved
in value. Great Western went as high as 144 ; York
and North Midland 31, andßirmingham New 22 preen. ;
Brighton touched 121 discount.. London and Westmin-
ster Bank Shares were marked 1 prem.
(From The Sun of Last Night.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 3.—The market
to-day has had a very drooping tendency, and we have to
notice a decline of *d. per lb on the inferior qualities of
American; in other kinds there is no change.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 3.—Grand Junc-
tion, 1901 ; Half Shares, 954- ; Quarter Shares, 254 ;
Great Western, 201. Shares, 84 ; London and Birming-
ham, 321. Shares, 52 ; New ditto, 238 ; Midland Coun-
ties, 821 ; New ditto, 201.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 3.—The Mar-
ket remains very quiet, and the only business done is
London and South Western, 511; Eastern Counties,
Her Majesty's packet Shelclralie has arrived at Fa-
mouth, with a mail, from the West Indies. The dates
are from Demerara, 20 ; Trinadad, 21 ; Barbadoes, 25th
September, and Jamaica, Oct. 1, but they do not con-
tain any news of importance.
The Barbadoes papers state that September has been
a glorious month for the planters.
Her Majesty's ship Orestes has arrived from the
Brazils. The dates from Rio de Janeiro are to the 12th
September. The papers do not contain any political
news of interest. Exchange on England was at 31, and
the Six per Cent. Stock 704
The Rio de Janeiro Papers state, on the authority
of a private letter from 'Pernambuco, date Aug. 27th,
that an attempt had been made to assassinate 1)r. Pedro
Chanos, President of Paraiba, on the 21st August.
Intelligence one day later from New York has been
received by the ship Rochester, but the papers do not
contain any news of impOrtance. Stocks were improving.
Both the English and markets continue to ad-
vance. Consols opened g per cent. higher than they closed
yesterday ; they are now 894- for Money, and 89* 4 for
the Account. Spanish Active Stock 21* Passive, 54;
Deferred, 101 11 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 30 ;
Do. Threes 181.
The British Market has declined since the early part
of the morning. Consols for Money are now 88* 89,
and for the Account 89*; Three per Cent. Reduced,
88 ; ',New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 98* ; Three-
and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 978; India Stock, 246; and
India Bonds have been done at 2 premium, and are now
at par.
The Foreign Market has also declined, although there
has been scarcely any business doing. Spanish Active
Stocks have been done as high as 21i, and are now 21* I;
Portuguese Five per Cents., 291, and the 'Three per
Cents., 181 ; Mexican, 254 ; Colombian, 194 ; Dutch
Two and-a-Half per Cents., 511, and the Five per
Cents., 991.
The Share Market continues without variation. Great
Western New. Shares are 57; London and Brighton,
365; Manchester and Birmingham, 20*.
Comols, Money, 88* 89 ; Ditto, Account, 89* ;
Spanish, 218 1.
The crowd at the Mansion-house has been very great
this morning, to hear the examination of Mr. Rapallo,
which is agate postponed to -the 17th instant. Ex-
traordinary interest is felt in the result, as many
parties are supposed to have qnite as strong
grounds of suspicion against them as this gentleman.
The plot seems to thicken every day, in fact.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 1651 India Stock ...... —.246
3 per Cent Red. Ditto Bonds 2 pr
3 per Cent Cons BB/ Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent .Red 974 Ditte New Annuities...
New 3/ per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d —pm
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. . —pm
Jan 1860 .. 12 7-16' Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9
FOREIGN FUNDS.
!Portuguese, 5 per cent 5O
Ditto, New Ditto 291
Prussian, 5 per cent.
IRussian, 5 per cent
'Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 2ll
Ditto, Deferred ... 103
French, 5 per cent. —f.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 percent —c
Dutch, 21 per cent 514
Ditto, 5 per cent.
SHARES
Cheltenham and Great Western (621 paid) 81
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 79i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5/
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 361
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 1
Ditto New Shares ( paid) 2l 16s 8d
London and Birmingham (90) ......
Ditto Quarter Shares ( paid) 214
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 111
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...• 201
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland-Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
Ditto Thirds (15 paid) ............. 14
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 81
V

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent looa
Brazilian 80nd5.... 5B
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct.

THE POLICE AND THE LICENSED ICTUAL-
LERS.—The licensed victuallers have for some time past
complained of the spy system and trickery in other
spects adopted by constables for the purpose of enabling
them to lay informations for alleged infractions of the
law. The Police Commissioners, who seem to be at last
convinced that the mode of Proceeding usually adopted
should be discontinued, have sent to the superintendents
of the various divisions the following order, which has
been read over to the men on duty:—" The police, in
visiting public-houses are to wear their uniform; they
shall not make any attempt to disguise themselves, nor
aro they to enter in any other way than by the regular
doors."
RAISING THE POSTAGE TO THREEPENCE.
—We are assured, on excellent authority, that the
Government have been making such inquiries regarding
the :penny postage as clearly indicate that they arc at
present considering and contemplating
the raising of
the postage to threepence. To this we may add, as a
striking proof of the educational good issuing from the
cheap postage, . a fact confirmed to
eus by
tor a benevaolent
clergyman, who has.made himself a bnefac to a large
manufacturing town by establishing schools. Shortly
after the passing of the Act,
fifty factory girls entered
one of the evening schools to learn to write, because, as
they said, " letters are so cheap now.
The waters are alarminglY"
high at Ely, and
vontinue rising rapidly ; but it is a fact that, from the
operation of steam-engines, the fens aro comparatively
dry, whilst the high lands are saturated with wet, and
ihe wheat sowing is so. much retarded, that fears are en-
tertained for the next harvest.--Bury Post,

liffailltßY 11};'• NEWS
AND
iNtiatc •tziptuton.

" Who runs may read."

rOILZIGN.
Tnesday being the least of All Souls, only two Jour-
nals were published in Paris. One of these—the F'resse—
'eativatalUtes Great Britain and the United States on
the acquittal of M‘Leod, and denounces as most suicidal
to both the idea of a war between them. The Presse
advocates our true inter ests in a far more patriotic spirit
than the Times or the Morning Herald.
The French Minister of Commerce and Agriculture
has nominated the following persons to be the Members
of the Council of Agriculture:—Duke Decazes, M. Girod
de l'Ain, Marquis de Cambis, Marshal Clause], Baron
Charles Dupin, Count de Gaspirin, Count de Rambuteau,
Baron Seguier, M. Beaumont, General Bugeaud, Count
Dangeville, Messrs. Darblay, Desjobert, de Gasparin, de
Lamartine, Lemaire, Duke de Marmier, Messrs. Pisca-
tory, Sannac, Tourret, de Tracy, Vuitry, J. Boulay, C.
Beauvais, Behague, Bella, Baron Buche, Dailly, Mathieu
Dombasle, Viscount Hericart de Thury, Julien Lefevre,
de Mirbel, Baron Silvestre, Soulange Bodin, Trochu,
Yvart, Count Angles, Count de Bonneval, Count de
Cautnont, Oscar Leclerc, Lefebvre Sainte-Marie, Leroy
of Bethune, Duke de Liancourt, de Mornay, de Morny,
Niviere, Pommier, Victor Rendu, Rieffel, Viscount de
Romanet, Baron de Tocqueville, and M. Villemorin.
General O'Donnell had a narrow escape into France
from his own soldiers, who, having a suspicion of his in-
tendons, determined to deliver him up to Espartero as a
rebel and a traitor, and to insist upon his being shot.
The Moniteur Beige states that several merchants from
Constantinople are now in Brussels making large pur-
chases of all kinds of goods, clothes, cutlery, glass,
tools, nails, &c., which they are about to send to the
East. These merchants have visited England and France,
and regard Belgian manufactures as equal to those of
these kingdoms.
The same Journal states that had the conspirators,
half Orange, half radical as they were, marched into
Brussels in the middle of daylight, with their guns and
flags, the citizens would have received them as a band of
masqueraders. So little did the War Minister care for
them, that he went disguised as one of them to see the
shells cast, and gave directions for improving them that
they might be sufficiently valuable for a place in the na-
tional arsenal.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald, after enumerating the evils of
machinery, and comparing the manufacturing with the
agricultural districts, giving of course the moral supe-
riority to the latter, goes on to observe :—" Mr. Cob-
den and his associates have converted free trade into a
question of life or death to the landed interest ; and yet
they profess to be astonished that the agriculturist.; should
compare the moral and • physical results of their oecu-
pation with the evil consequences of over-stimulated
mannfactures ; and their organs write dull and heavy
lectures on the abstract truths of political economy,
which no one denies or controverts. With all mode-
rate men the subject has now become a question of com-
promise, and the greatest enemies of peace and future
prosperity are the wild and perambulatory spout,ers
who infest and disturb the manufacturing districts. '—
If by the word " compromise" the Herald means that
the important question of free trade is to be settled, so as
to suit the interests of the Monopolists, then we say that
such a question will admit of no compromise. Trade
must be free in reality. A nominal or a partial freedom
will be wholly unavailing. Of what use is it to knock off
the fetters from a man's legs, if you keep his arms fast
tied behind him ? Those who advocate free trade do so
from a conviction that it will be most decidedly and last-
ingly beneficial to the country ; and thus thinkinT, they
should allow of no compromise. The very circumstance
that a Tory Journal suggests something of the sort should
be quite enough to put the Reformers on their guard.
In an article suggested by the returns of the municipal
elections, the Times says:—" What becomes of the
mi-
serable allegation, that Sir Robert Peel's Government is
only the creature of a landed aristocracy? Why, it is
emphatically the people's own Government, chosen, ra-
tified, and confided in by the overwhelming majority of
all ranks in the nation. The conviction that the Right
Hon. Baronet, notwithstanding the ruinous condition in
which the Whigs have handed over the country to his
care, will in due time restore it to a prosperous condi-
tion, is as strong among the middle classes, who pre-
brably commit their municipal interests to Conservative
councillors, as , among the high-born gentry who
rally around him in the national Legislature."—
It is not respect for, or confidence in, the Tories that
returned them in such force to Parliament at the late
elections, but a dislike on the part of the people—natural
enough, we must confess—to the halting, dubious, timid,
inconsistent policy of the Whigs. Any change, argued
John Bull, must be for the better, for it can scarcely be
for the worse ; and it was this impression that induced
him to give his old enemies the Tories one more chance,
on the honourable principle" of fair play. Well, they
are now on their trial ; and the result- will, we appre-
hend, be such as to convince John Bull that questionable
as was at times the policy of the Whigs, that of their
successors is a thousand times worse.
The Post says, in reference to Mr. O'Connell's election
to the Dublin Mayoralty :—" The letter of our Dublia
Correspondent affords ground for apprehension that the
new Lord Mayor of Dublin was not quite sincere when
he declared to his brother corporators that, as Lord
Mayor, he would have nothing to do with Repeal, and
that, for the year, he would do nothing, not even eat,
drink, or talk, but as Lord Mayor. Perhaps his Lord-
ship, who has long been accustomed to use two different
styles of expresion, and to develope two different trains
of thought, on the opposite sides of St. George's Chan-
nel, may think fit to adopt the same flexible policy in
respcct to the Corporation of Dublin and the mob of
that city. His Lordship is now in a position in which
he cannot help advancing the Conservative cause. If
he prefers to do so by,degrading the office which has
beets bestowed upon him, and the Corporation that
conferred it, rather than by another and more respect-
able course, we can only say, so much the better."—
It must be confessed that Mr. O'Connell is in a queer
position just now. In his official robes, as Chief Ma-
gistrate, he is confidently expected to de his best to
maintain the unity of the Kingdom ; in his capacity of
Repeal agitator, it is expected with equal confidence,
that he will do his best to overturn that unity. The
Magistrate and the Agitator combine to form a truly
Irish concord and congruity in his person. O'Connell,
in his robes at the Mansion-house, is as different from
O'Connell in the chair of the Repeal Association, as
light from darkness. It must be the duty of the one to
keep a wholesome check on the vagaries of the other.
In a word, the Lord Mayor must discountenance the
Repeal agitator; and, if necessary, take him into custody!
The following is from the Chronicb :—" Lord Stanley,
though held in less regard by the middle classes than
Sir Robert Peel, is a much greater favourite with his
party; and our readers cannot have forgotten the ques-
tion that was raised in pamphlets, Who shall rule us,
Peel or Stanley?' And yet this Tery statesman, second
only in importance in his party to the Premier, displayed
in the face of Europe an ignorance which must excite
universal astonishment. The people of the Continent
do not know how statesmen are f'ormed in aristocratical
England. An over-grown schoolboy acquires at an
university a superficial knowledge of the classics, and,
from his social position, lie obtains a familiarity
with good English. On this stock, if he be a
fluent speaker, he at once sets up for a statesman."—
This is too much the case in aristocratic England. Many
a speaker in Parliament has set up for a statesman on
the strength of an apt Latin or Greek quotation ; and
many a raw Etonian bsen looked up to as a future Pre-
mier, because he has shown great facility in the manu-
facture of hexameters and pentameters. As for an ac-
quaintance with the real business of life; with the coin-
inercial relations of England; and all that goes to make
the enlarged statesman, this is deemed beneath the notice
of an aspiring young aristocrat. Lord Stanley is one of
the most intelligent of the school he belongs to; but it is
a bad school, and now more useless than ever.
The Worcester Chronicle contains the following re-
marks:—" If any fear of war may, be reasonably enter-
tained at the present moment, it is not on account of
America, but of France that we should find ground for
it. The conduct of Louis Philippe in stirring up the
late insurrection in Spain, that, by restoring the chief
authority in that kingdom to the ex-Queen Regent
Christina, he might obtain from her the hand of her
daughter, the child-Queen, and a crown for his fourth
son, marks him for a man who will stick at no means,
however base and culpable, to aggrandise his family and
extend his influence. No matter how dirty the paths to
be trodden, if he set his mind upon gaining an end he
will travel forward through the mire without heeding
how closely it may stick to him."
The Dublin Evening Post remarks as follows, on the
subject of Mr. O'Connell's election to the Dublin
Mayoralty :—" He sought the office, we had been well
persuaded, and the result has proved it, not from any
vulgar motive respecting the rank it conferred, for to
him such things are valueless ; but on account of the
opportunity which it would afford him of de-
monstrating that the best mode of removing all pre-
judices against Catholics, is to render them perfectly
equal with the rest of their fellow-subjects—to give
them the means of exercising power, in order to prove
that they are incapable of abusing it. It was with these
views that Mr. O'Connell undertook the onerous duties
of Lord Mayor, and every sentiment which he uttered—
every opinion he expressed—proved that he was ac-
tuated by the most laudable anxiety for the welfare of
the citizens."
The Cheltenham Examiner, speaking on the question
of the Irish policy of Ministers, says 1—" Notwithstand-
ing the thin veil of moderation, in which the new Pre-
mier has shrouded his Irish policy, and the cautiousness
which the Orange regime has been hitherto administered,
we believe, that next to the Corn-laws, Sir Robert will
yet find that ' Ireland is his chief difficulty.' We ground
this opinion on the very nature of Irish Orangemen ; the
bitter, persecuting, and we might almost add, blood-
thirsty spirit which ever actuates your true Protestant
ascendancy Tory."
MONEY—TR./LDS—COMMERCE.
At the adjourned meeting of the Talacre Coal and
Iron Company, held on Wednesday at the Adelphi, the
report and accounts were referred back to a committee,
and an adjournment made sine die.
The new alterations just made by the Post-office are
as follow :—The packets from Liverpool for North
America will be once only in the month, instead of twice;
and in future two mails will be despatched in November,
and only one in March. The rate of postage to and from
the province of Panama, or any place on the western
coast of South America, are reduced from 2s. 3d. to Is. 2d.,
when not exceeding half an ounce ; 2s. 4d. when not
exceeding an ounce, &c.
The gun-making trade, both in London and Birming-
ham, are looking out for good orders in consequence of
the destruction of arms in the Tower ; the masons also,
and other classes of labourers, expect to profit by the
accident.

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Colonel Monroe Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards,
who some years ago figured at Illinois as a political
character, has been lately arrested at Philadelphia, hav-
ing obtained from two houses, by means of forged letters
of credit., about 50,000 dollars in cash, .44,000 of which
were recovered, in his trunk at the time of arrest.
In Bethnal. green, Spitalfields, and Shoreditch, out of
14,000 looms, 3,000 are .entirely out of work, and the
remaining 11,000 are only employed three-fourths of
their time

COIVIMERCIAL stEr °WV.
At a public Meeting of the Stepney Anti-Corn-law
Association, held at Mile-end-road on Wednesday
evening, Mr. Sidney Smith intimated that steps were
about to be taken to hold a conference of representatives
from all the Anti-Corn-law Associations now formed in
London and the country, at Manchester, at an early
period, to determine on some specific, vigorous, and de-
cided movements; during the recess, and to prepare for
the approaching meeting of Parliament.
• NAVAL AND MILITARY.
The final trial of the Devastation steam-frigate took
place at Woolwich on Wednesday, with a cargo of 320
tons of coal on board, and 61 tons of water in cask ; she
accomplished the measured mile against the tide in 5
• minutes and 48 seconds ; and with the tide and against
the wind in 4 minutes and 42 seconds, being nearly at
the rate of 12 and one-fifth statute miles on the average
per hour. Mr. Evart, the chief engineer, ordered to
report on the speed and efficiency of theyessel, said, " he
never timed any that could approach her in speed be-
fore ; she was decidedly the fastest vessel in her Ma-

jesty's navy."

LAW AND POLICE.
Messrs. Cubitt, of Gray's Inn-lane, are the builders of
..te new Equity Courts, in Lincoln's Inn, and are under
engagement to have the two Courts ready for the recep-
tion of the new Vice-Chancellors for the ensuing sittings

after Michaelmas term.
A mandamus was issued on Wednesday by the Court of
Queen's Bench, directing the gaoler of the manor of
Pomfret to give up the body of a prisoner of the name
of Forster, who had died in the prison. The keeper
had refused to deliver up the body on the ground that
Forster was indebted to him for necessaries supplied while

in gaol.
The Police Commissioners have issued an order for-
bidding the men on duty from enterinc, public houses as
spies. either in plain clothes, or by back-doors.
W. H. Mence, a messenger in the General Post-office,
was brought up for further examination on the charge of
stealing money-letters. Two cases against him were
heard, and he was remanded on a third till the 24th inst.

LITERARY AND scxzwripac.
The library of the eminent Physician and Counsellor
Stieglitz, which is rich in works relating to every branch
of medical science, and which the Duke of Cambridge
declared to be the brightest jewel in the Crown of lla-
nover, is now to be sold in that kingdom by public auction.

SPOUTING.
The Earl of Wilton has returned to Walmer Castle,
which he leaves for Melton Mowbray, for the hunting
season, at the close of the month.
THEATRICAL.
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The officers of the Queen's Bays, quartered in Sheffieh

are about to give a grand theatrical entertainment for
the benefit of the distressed operatives of that town.
We mentioned on Wednesday that an attempt was being
made among the friends and admirers of the celebrated
and now veteran tragedian, Charles Young, to induce
him to return to the stage for a few evenings, for the
purpose of enacting the most prominent of his histrionic
characters. We believe we may also state that a similar
request has been made to Charles Kemble.
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Newcastle is expected to remain at
Hafod until the early part of next month.
The Earl of Lincoln arrived in Portman• square yes-
terday from an excursion in different counties, under-
taken for the purpose of inspecting the state of her Ma-
jesty's woods and forests, preparatory to the introduction
of new and extensive arrangements.
A large party of distinguished fashionables are shortly
expected on avisit to the Duke and Duchess of Northum-
berland at Alnwick Castle.
Lord W. Pelham Clinton leaves town in a few days
for Vienna, having been appointed an attache to the
new Ambassador.
Lord Burghersh has not left town for Berlin, nor will
he depart for ten days or a fortnight.
The Earl of Westmoreland, and his daughter Lady
Georgiana cane, are still in Brighton. His Lordship,
although afflicted with the loss of sight, takes exercise
on horseback, by availing himself of the privilege granted
by the Queen of riding in the Royal stables.

IVIESCELLII.NEOUS.

On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House,when the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough
was sworn in as Governor-General of India. His Lord-
ship afterwards dined with the Directors at the London
Tavern, where her Majesty's Ministers, and many other
distinguished personages, were present.
The calamitous losses by fire, which the country has
of late experienced, no time or money can replace. They
have been—the Custom House, the Houses of Parlia-
ment, the Royal Exchange, the two fires in York Min-
ster, Nottingham Castle, Plymouth Dockyard, and last
the Tower. Besides these, °there have been attempts to
fire Westminster Abbey, Sheerness Dockyard, and the
old Church at Thirsk, in Yorkshire.
The Duchess Maximilian, of Leuchtenberg, the Em-
peror of Russia's daughter, was safely delivered of a Prin-
cess, at St. Petersburgh, on the 17th ult.
Born on- this day, in 1771, James Montgomery, the
Sheffield poet, at Irvine, in Ayrshire, a county distin-
guished also as being the birth-place of Robert Burns.
It is said that there are now almost as many wooden
pavements in the streets of London, as there are wooden
heads in the Cabinet.
A robbery has taken place at one of the principal
hotels in Brighton. Colonel Fludyer had placed in his
hat-box notes of the Rutland Bank to the amount of
751., which have been extracted. The police are hives-
titrating the matter.
'A
Devon Journal states that a maid-servant and a
fellow-rustic, in a farmer's employ at Ashburton, having
fallen in love with each other, the farmer, by way of
disturbing one of their tete-a-tetes, disguised himself in
a bullock's hide, with horns, and suddenly presented
himself before the enamoured couple, so much td the
horror of the young man, that he rushed from the spot,
and has not been billing and cooing since:—The farmer
did wisely to disguise himself in a bullock's hide, for had
he clothed himself in an ass's hide instead, the youth, so
far from being horrified, would merely have regarded
him as an animal of a congenial nature with his own,
perhaps as a rival.