The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback, yes_
terday morning, in Claremont Park.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales, and the Princess Royal, left Claremont at three
' o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for town,
escorted by a party of the 12th Lancers. Their Royal High-
nesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, and the Lady in Waiting, the Marchioness of Douro;
the Lord in Waiting, the Earl of Morton ; the Master of the
Household, Major General Bowles; the Equerry in Waiting,
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey; and the Equerry in Waiting
to Prince Albert, Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon, followed
in four carriages and four.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal party
arrived at Buckingham Palace at twenty.five minutes be
fore five o'clock, escorted by a party of Lancers. Her Ma-
jesty and her Royal Consort were received at the Palace by
the Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the Horse, the Earl of Listowel, Lord George
Lennox, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Edward Cod-
rington, and Captain Francis Seymour.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with her
Maj-sty and her Royal Consort last evening, at Buckingham
Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse,
honoured Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister,
with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at his
Excellency's residence in Grosvenor-place.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
, bridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse,
visited and inspected the Caledonian Asylum on Monday.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge gave Mr.
Dalton a sitting for the completion of his portrait yesterday.
The Royal Duke is represented in the robes of the moat
noble Order of the Garter over a field marshal's uniform.
Senor de Toro, the Venezuelan Minister, had an inter-
view with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the (Ace of
the Board of Trade.
Lord Hatherton, Mr. Beckett, M.P.. and a number of de-
legates of various canal companies, including Messrs. Rhodes,
Wilson, Ilordern, Cradock, Marchant. and M. C. Allan, and
Mr. Craig (engineer), had an interview with the Right Lion,
Edward Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Comifiissioners
of Railways on the subject of the impropriety of allowing
railway companies to have any control over canals.
Lord Monson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday,
at the Colonial-tEce.
Dr. Lindlay had an interview with Sir George Grey yes.
terday, at the Houle-office.

THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES OF THE REFORM
1311.1..—0 n Monday a public meeting of the inhabitants of
the parish of St. Pancras, was held in the Vestry-rooms,
Gordon-street, Gordon-square, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill, and
petitioning the Legislature for their repeal. The chair was
taken by the churchwarden, who having briefly ad-
verted to the object for which the meeting had been called,
several gentlemen addressed the assembly, showing how
heavi y the rate-paying clauses affected the great majority of
the householders, many of whom, in consequence of not
being. able to pay their taxes in time, were annually dis-
franchised. Resolutions in accordance with the views of
the speakers having been adopted, a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman, and the meetag separated.

MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELEC-

TORS OF WESTMINSTER.

In The San of Saturday, Feb. 13, the following
letter from a correspondent was inserted:—

MR. COCIIRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WEST-

MINSTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 61, .

Sir,---As an elector of Westminster ::flow me to ask,
whether the Mr. Charles Cochrane, who now so ostentatiously
parades his pretensions to represent Westminster, is the same
person as one Senor Juan de Vega, who some few years back
published a journal of a tour through Great Britain and Ire-
land, and who then paraded a series of adventures in various
towns and places at which modesty and docency felt ashamed,
and whose public avowal signally proved the want of goad
taste and common propriety in the writer.
If they be one and the same person, the electors of West-
minster ought to know it. If not, Mr. Cochrane cannot too
soon disown the identity.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
St. James's, Feb. 12. ALPHA.
[We cannot answer this query. Doubtless Mr. Cochrane
will.—Ea. Sun.]

On Monday, Feb. 15th, appeared a letter from
another correspondent, as follows :

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SEX.

Sir,—A correspondent in your excellently-conducted
journal asks, " Who is Mr. Cochrane, the present candidate
for the representation of Westminster?" "Is he the same
Mr. Cochrane who, some years since, travelled through the
country as a Spanish minstrel ?" "Is he the party who
published a descriptive account of his wanderings through
Kent and Sussex ?" These questions require a straight-
forward answer, since it must not be borne, it must not be
tolerated, that the large and influential city of Westminster
shall be represented by a person who, in the disguise of a
travelling musician, succeeded, in many instances, alas !
too many instances, in insinuating himself into private fa-
milies, and afterwards exposed the flirtation of sundry misses,
some in their teens, and others approaching that question-
able age when ladies begin to think they are forgotten by
the sterner portion of the sex. I do not state that Mr
Cochrane is the man who thus acted ; I do not aver that he
is the individual who published sundry amours in.his book,
which he pretended took place at Canterbury, Dover, Has-
tings, and Brighton ; I can scarcely believe that a man who
could betray the confidence of any female, after having been
fed and pampered to satiety by her friends, and supplied with
money, believing the said individual to be in the condition of
an unfortunate political exile, would dare to affront a highly
respectable and honourable constituency with his presence.
But, Sir, you say—" Perhaps Mr. Cochrane will inform the
electors whether he is the person I have thus hastily alluded
to." My reply is, do not take Mr. Cochrane's word for his in-
nocence. Iknew the wandering minstrel—the poor amiable
young man who had been driven from.friends and home, owing to
political disturbances in his own country—l have seen him
often, but not since he gathered silver and gold from
those who pitied his pretended misfortune—from those who
fostered the viper, who felt for and sympathised with him in
his assumed distressed condition, and I might be able to
identify him; yet, there is a probability of clearing up the
point beyond the possibility of doubt. The minstrel's work
was printed by Mr. Brettel, of Rupert. street, Haymarket ;
and I have reason to know that that gentleman is perfectly
acquainted with the person of Mr. Cochrane, and can, there-
fore, without difficulty, set the matter at rest, and thus ease
the minds of many parties who have promised Mr. Cochrane
their support, but who would at once withdraw it if Mr.
Cochrane can be identified as the wandering minstrel.
Allow me to add, that, for years, Mr. Brettel has taker, a
very prominent part in the Westminster election; he is a
Liberal too; and would, no doubt, not only for the credit of
the House of Commons, but for the honour and reputation of
IVestminster, set the matter at rest.

I am, Sir, faithfully yours,

J. w

Fleet-street.
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, another correspondery
thus wrote:—
MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF
WESTMINSTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—ls Mr. Cochrane the same person as "Don Juan de
Vega," or is he not ? If he be the same person, then the
violated hospitality and outraged kindness shown to him at
Brighton, Canterbury, Dover, and other places, will rise up
in judgment against him, and serve as a warning to the
electors of Westminster not to confide in any such wander-
ing personator. If he be not Juan de Vega, then why not
disown it? Let Mr. Cochrane beware, if he be the fraudulent
Spanish refugee that Juan de Vega pretended to be, that he
does not meet such an expose as he well deserves, if identical
with that vagabond.—Yours, an Elector, J. C.
Feb. 16, 1847.
On Friday, the lgth, we inserted another letter in
the following words :
MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WEST-
MINSTER.
TO VIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,--My attention has been directed to the inquiries con-
tained in your paper, relative to the identity of Mr. Coch
rane, the present candidate for Westminster, with one JUAN
DE VEGA, who some years back travelled through some parts
of England, professing to be a Spanish refugee, and then
published adventures of a most immoral kind as the account
of his trawls. I remember a person calling himself Don
Juan de Vega soliciting charitylin this town, not for himself
only, but for his fellow Spanish refugees. He came as a
Spanish peasant; a large slouched straw hat, and open vest,
a mantilla ciaak, breeches, and stockings, formed his dress; he
professed to speak no English—French and Spanish being the
only languages he knew. He was of slight figure, and dark
muulatto complexion. He excited much compassion in this
town, where he professed to be a Quaker, and attended the
Friends' Meeting House ; was fed, clothed, and had money
given to him in no small quantity; and yet was afterwards,
by his own published adventures, found to be an imposter,
a hypocrite, and a scoundrel. He endeavoured to seduce
every girl he could come near, and those whom he could not
ruin in person, he sought to lower in character, by imputing
in print the actions of charitable feeling to the promptings
of the most unchaste passion. I know, and could identify
the man. Ido not know whether the Juan de Vega, of
Brighton, be the candidate for Westminster. I can hardly
believe that the swarthy Juan de Vega can be the Mr.
Cochrane who appears at meetings of charity, dances with
the daughters of the Governor of the Licensed Victuallers'
at their annual balls, and is alternately heard of at the
Crown and Anchor and at Exeter Hall, in company with
Dr. Leifchild and Mr. B. B. Cabbell—l say I can hardly
believe it, and yet why does he not deny it ? If they be
the same person, I pity the deceived, I despise the deceiver.
But I will come up to London on his first public appearance,
and my own eyes shall, if I be spared to see him, con-
vince myself. If Juan de Vega be Mr. Cochrane, I will de-
nounce him, and the " Tallow-chandler and Grocer," whom
he so described, and whose hospitality he abused, shall shame
him from the Westminster hustings.—l am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, D. B.
Brighton, Feb. 17, 1847.
In The Sun of Monday night will be found the fol-
lowing advertisement :
"TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
WESTMINSTER.

" GENTLEMEN,—Some of you will doubtless have seen a
succession of personal attacks on me which have appeared in
The Sun newspaper, and which evidently have for their ob-
ject to pTejudice me in your estimation. After the very
flattering reception which I have met from you at public
meetings and in my private interviews with a large propor-
tion of your body, I deem it due to you to state that, acting
under the advice of the most eminent Counsel, I have brought
an action for defamation of character against the proprietors
of The Sun newspaper, when an opportunity will be afforded
to my anonymous assailant to prove, if he can, the charges
he has preferred against me.—l have the honour to be, Gen-
tlemen, your obedient aid grateful servant,
" CHARLES COCHRANE.
" Devonshire-place, Monday, Feb. 22, 1847."

This, then, is Mr. COCHRANE'S answer to the in
quiries of our correspondents—an action for defama.
tion of character !!

We think it right to lay the whole case fairly be-
fore the public, and the electors of Westminster in
particular, that they may judge for themselves as to
whether a public journalist is not bound to give pub-
licity to letters such as the above, and on such a sub-
ject. If Mr. COCIIRANE be not Senor JUAN DE
VEGA—if we have, even by implication, said one word
to his then undeserved disparagement—we are ready and
willing to apologise most amply and most unreservedly.
But if he be Don JUAN DE VEGA, and we put the ques-
tion fairly to him, whether he be so,—if he be the
author of a work in two volumes, containing an account
of his adventures, then not one word of recantation,
but many of bitter indignation, shall appear in The
Sun. We challenged inquiry into the identity of
Don JUAN DE VEGA, and the candidate for
the suffrages of the electors of Westmin-
ster—we are answered by threats. We laugh
at threats such as these, and we know little of the

electors of Westminster if any candidate can gain
their favour by attempting to put down inquiries into
who or what he is. Let Mr. COCHRANE state a

parentage, a conduct in life, and a character such as
may recommend him to the electors of Westminster;
but let him beware of the reputation which must

always attach to JUAN DS VEGA. Our answer to Mr.
COCHRANE'S threats is a very short query—Are you,
Mr. COCHRANE, the writer of two volumes, detailing
the adventures of JUAN DE VEGA; and are you that

personage ?—Aye or no. Upon your answer our

course depends.

RICB FLoug.—A parcel of rice dust, meal, or
flour, was lately imported by one of the vessels arriving from
the United States, which being a novel description of impor-
tation, was not specifically rated in the table of duties, but it
was considered to be liable to the duty of Is. per cwt. as rice,
and ordered to be charged accordingly. The duty on rico
itself has been suspended or temporarily repealed, and, there-
fore, the article mentioned would now, equally with rice, be
fog tf duty.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Fr, au The Sun of last Night.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Sales 5,000 hales, including 500 for export, and 500 on
speculation ; 4500 bales v,ere American, and realised Gid to
734t1 per lb; 200 Egyptian, 7%d ;o 9d; and 200 Surat, 4%d
per lb. The market closed rather firmer. Shares had been
rather dull.
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Melsrs.Lamond
and Co., was firmer; and as the Budget has been brought
out, more confidence was displayed; still there was no great
change in prices. The following are a few of the principal
sales :

East Indian
Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 4 0
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham 6 18 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4
Manchester and Southampton 1 6 0
Great Northern (London and York Reg.) 2 14 6
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4 5 6
Northern Counties Union
Buckinghamshire .
Shropshire Union and Canal 1 7 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension... .....
The details of the Budget are so fully given and Com-
mented upon in another column of The Sun, that it is un-
necessary to recapitulate them here, and we may merely
remark that they are considered to be quite as favourable as
could, under the circumstances, have been anticipitated, and
that although the Chancellor of the Exchequer has deter-
mined upon an open loan in preference to a funding of Ex-
chequer-bills, the advantages and demerits of which policy we
have alre..2.dy pointed out under this head, the limitation of
the amount to be raised to eight millions will serve to render
the operation much less onerous than it would have been,
and more especially if the instalments be Judiciously extended
over a given period. To arrange these preliminaries the city
capitalists will meet Lord John Russell and Mr. Wood on
Thursday neat, as shown in a communication in another
part of The Sun, which was read in the Stock Exchange this
morning.
The new loan can hardly be expected to come out so well
as the Canada debentures did, because money is now much
scarcer; and if par should be given for Three-and-a-Half per
Cent., this would hardly correspond with the rates
now current in the market. Capitalists now will be look-
ing probably for about 3% per cent. in the funds,
and of course the loan will come out in pro-
portion. Possibly for every 1001. stock, bidding, varying
from 109 up to 112 may be made, but of course we are now
merely giving the on Bits of the day.
The New Exchequer-bills to be dated March 16, 1847 are
to be raised to 2d. per diem, as advertised in another
column.
The Stock market is rather unsettled, and prices have re-
ceded about per cent. This is the natural effect of the
new loan. Consols are 90% % for present transfer, and
have been 9014 % for the Account to be arranged on
Thursday, and of which it may puzzle many to predict the
result. Exchequer-bills have risen to 10s. and 14s. prem.
Bank Stock is not higher than 203 to 1,4.
The Foreign Bonds are quite neglected. Portuguese Four
per Cents, are heavy at 34. The accounts fr Lisbon are
not very favourable. Mexican Bonds have ikkeded to 224
and 21%.
Railway Shares have been rather firm again.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. 203% 203%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 90% 5 91% 911
liree per Cent. Consols Annuities 90%%% 90%
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. 89 IA
Sew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 9'2%% 93
New Five per Cent. Annuities .. 122
Long Annuities, Expire •Jan. 6,1860 .. 9 9-16 %% 9%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9 5-16 %
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9%
Console for Account .. 90% % 90%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001... 10 14 pm.
Ditto. Small .... 15 10 pm.
Ditto, Advertised • • • • 9
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 22% 21%
Ditto, for the Account .. --
Portuguese Four per Cent .. 34
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 941¢
Dutch Two-and-a-Bait per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. certificates

CLOSINC

.. 92%% 92%
PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT
PRICES,
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. • • • • •• 25 .... 23% .......... 23%
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . • • • • 2% .... 2% 2%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14% % . 1414
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. .... 10% 10%
Bristol and Exeter • • • • .. 75 .. 77 77
Buckinghamshire .. .• • • • • 84s. •• • • %% ...... P
Cornwall . _ 5 ... ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. ..
Direct Northern Scrip .. .... 2% % .. 2%
Eastern Counties .. 20 21,4% 21%
Ditto, York Extension .. 4 4%
East Lancashire .. .. 14 ..
Ditto New .. .• • • • • 5 •• • • 7% 4•••• • • • • 74
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 77 ...... 77
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 15 ....
Ditto, New . • • • • 2% •• • • 3% ••••• • • • • • 334
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. 2% .... 2% %•• .. • • 2%
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% .... 3% • •••• • • • • 3%
Great Western .. 85 ....121 122% 122%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 71 • • ........ 71
Ditto, New 414 •• • • 83%% ••• • ••
Ipswich aNd Bury SLEdmunds .. 14 •••• • • • • • 12%
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... 3% ••• • • .
Leeds and Bradford .. 35 80 • • ...... • • 80
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 27% —
Do., Old Extension (Green) .. 2%.... ..
Leeds and Thirsk 22%.... 19% . • .• • • /9%
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. 3% • • • • • • • • 5
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% . ...... 83%
Ditto, New, No. 1 .. 4 5 .....
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. 55% 56 55% 56
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... 9% %•••• • • • • 9%
London and North-Western • • ..100 ... 184% 185%
Ditto, Quarters • . .. 2 .... .....
Ditto ditto, New Shares .• .. 2 .... 14%
London and South-Western • • 41/. 63.10 d. .
Ditto, Scrip.. .. 5 .... 5%
London and York Extension Scrip 2% .... 238 . ......
Lynn and Dereham .' .. •• 15 .... 17 .. ••.. • •
Manchester, Buxton, ft Matlock 425. % p• •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1 1 -
Midland —lOO ... 1224 .. 122%
Ditto, New .. 2 .... 65t 554 554
Midland, Binning. & Gloucest.• .100 .......... 123
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 32% % 3214
Newmarket and Chesterford • . 10 .. • . 1014% • • • . 10%
Norfolk .. •• ..100 •... ••••• 149
Ditto, Half Shares •. .. 10 . 14%.... • ..... 14%
Ditto, Extension .. • .. 6 .... ........ 6%
Ditto, ditto, Waveney Valley.. 2 .... ..........
North British .. 25 ..........
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 12% 16% ..........
Ditto, Extension .. .. 1 %
Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 •• • • 33g •• • • ••• • •
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 •• • • 8% 34 • •
Preston and Wyre .. • . 25 .... 344 % ..44.44.
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .... 11
Ditto, ditto (B) 1% 1%
Reading, Guildford and ,Reigate 5 .. • • 4% % • .......
Scottish Midland .. 17%.... 22% 21% •• ..
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 ....
Ditto, Class B •. • • • . 1% .... 13,8 ..........
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 4 dis _
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% ........
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 13 .......... 23
Trent Valley and Midland June. 425..... 1 p• • .... • 1 p
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... .......... 4%
West Riding Union .. 425..... I p p
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 36% 364
Ditto, New.. , 11% _ „ „
Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 8X 8%
York and North Midland .. 50 .... 863 y 87 87
Ditto, Extension .. .. 20 .... 364 3674,
Ditto. Preference .. .. 2 .... 12% 11

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 18 .... 14% ..........
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • • • • • . 10 .... 13 ..........
Dutch Rhenish .. 7 4%14 .....
East In tia.,, . ..........
Namur and Liege .. • • .. 8 •• .. 3
Northern of France .. • . 8 .. ... 12;3
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 .... 34%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
MINES.