The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

TO. THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin, `Having seen a paragraph under -the head of
"Public Nuisance," in your paper of the 30tli. inst.,
stating that the house, 125, Strand, was in a dangerous
state, and requesting the parish authorities to look to it,
we beg to inform.you that in consequence of the house
next door about being rebuilt, our house has been sur-
veyed (by-the District Surveyor, and also by the Jiiry of
the Duchy to Aieli the property belongs. The Jury
have. pronounced it perk-Ily safe and secure. The falling
or the .shores, which was the extent of damage, arose
from the high-winds of nniday, and we have to add, that
we were exceedingly glad that there was not any acci-
dent arising 1 oln it.--We are, your Obedit.nt serklints,
• RICHARDS and CO., Hatters,.l2s, Strand,
Dec. 1, IS-11.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

PROM TYE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES:—The premium on gold at Paris is 5 per
mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100,
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 27.
and the exchange at Paris on Loudon at' short being
25. 45.,- it follows that gold is 0.72 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 428
per mark; %Ada; at the English Mint price of 31.175. lOid.
.per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 6i,
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13. 7i-, it follows that gold is 0. 58 per cent.dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
110 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.43 per cent. in favour of England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above
difference.
POST.—A considerable amount of business was clone
in the English Funds again to-day, and, as a large pro-
'portion of it was through., the Chancery sad Govern-
ment brokers, the sales preponderating over the pur-
chases, the ingenuity of the dealers has been a good
deal taxed in the endeavour to ascertain more clearly the
cause of the movement. The putting out of stock, to
make good the assumed deficiency in the five million
Exchequer bill operation, is one among the many that
have been surmised as probable, but it has become a
question with well-informed persons whether the distress
which unfortunately prevails among the labouring classes
in some.parts of the country, may not have led to an
unusual draft upon the funds of the savings' banks, The
supposition that such is the fact may be by no means a
correct one. There are possibly several motives for the
sales that are going on in action together ; yet the sug-
gestion seems to be entitled to the attention of moneyed
men. On the close of the transfer-books for Consols,
which. will take place in the course of two or three days,
preparatory to the payment of the January dividends, it
will at all events be seen how far the operations of the
leading brokers are in connection with the savings'
banks. If sales of stock on their account should still be
found indispensable, they will be made, of necessity, on
the payment of the accustomed fee.
Money, in the English Stock Exchange, ruled at 5 to
6 per cent.; in the Foreign, at 6 to 7 per cent., on the
security of Stock.
The Spanish finance agency in London, which was
for some years conducted by Mr. de Zulueta, has, we
hear, been transferred to the wealthy and respectable
firm of Aguirre, Solarte. and Murieta, of the Old Jewry.
The arrangement appears to be very satisfactory to the
bondholders, and speaks well alike for the discrimination.
and honest intentions of Senor Surra y Mill.
Portugal postpones the payment of the interest due
to-morrow (December Ist) on part of the old bonds and
on her Treasury bonds. This early break flown of the
new arrangement on the 50 per cent. abatement principle
will shake the nerves of recent purchasers of her Stocks.
A failure of large extent at Bordeaux, that of the house
of Balgueric and Co., merchants and shipowners, was
mentioned on 'Change yesterday, but to-day it became
the leading topic o conversation. Bordeaux lost the
chief portion of her commerce upon the great change that
took place in the affairs of St. Domingo, the trade of
which, in the south of France, was engrossed almost ex-
clusively by the merchants of that single port. Lately
there has been little doing there, except in the wine and
brandy export business, and in this there has been an
active competition to sustain with Marseilles, Nantes,
and other towns. The fall of the leading he:use named
is, under the circumstances, ascribed to th. 6 gradual ex-
haustion of its resources. The failure of a Munburgh
firm, with liabilities to the amount of 25,0001., announced
here this morning, was also a subject of discussion.
The importation of sovereigns from the Continent
continues upon a large scale, and nothing but a deficiency
in the weight of a proportion can prevent the accumu-
lation of a quantity perhaps inconveniently great in th e
coffers of the Bank of England. Of heavy coin comin g
in, however, the supply is by no means inconsiderable.
A new feature in this branch of business has to be
noticed, as it appears to be quite a novel one of late.
The iinpOrting house's': have, for the first time, received
gold in bars for sale onaccount of their correspondents. "

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOtRNALS.

FROM THE EVENING P.A.PERS OF YERTERDAY.
, GLOBE.—The University of Oxford is at this
• time the scene of a conflict, in which the con-
tending parties are zealously engaged in endea-
vouring to establish their claims to pre-eminence
in the University, and ultimately in the Church,
ostensibly originated in the questir,n, which of
two candidates shall occupy the Poetry Chair.
The real question thus placed hi issue is, whe-
ther the Puseyites shall be exalted or depressed
by the election or rejection of Mr. Williams, one
of the Tractarians. Dr. Pusey labours ear-
nestly in behalf of his disciple and coadjutor.
Mr. Garbett is put forward by those mem-
bers of Convocation who regard the theo-
logical doctrines of the Tracts for the Times
as tending to introduce the doctrines and prac-
tices of Popery into the Church of England.
The contention has waxed fiercer and fiercer as
the time fixed for the election approaches. Much
ink has been spilled and paper spoiled by the
active partisans on both sides. The odium theo-
loyicum is displayed in full activity ; exempli-
fying the correctness of the old adage, that di-
vines manifest a greater degree of rancour
in their contentions than any other class
of disputants. In the midst of this heated
controversy, the question, Whether Williams
or Garbett be the best writer or judge of
poetry—and consequently the best fitted to fill
the Poetry Chair—seems to be almost, if not al-
together, merged in the inquiry, " Which is the
most orthodox divine ?" according to the stan-
dard of orthodoxy adopted by the inquirer.
The Senate of Oxford has condemned, the
" Tracts"—Bishops have denounced then,as
strongly imbued with the doctrines of 3240pery,
and as leading the people of this Protestant-
country back to Papal R0me...., and yet,
gfaxprehen
with these unequivocal tokens of strre
wtohothferoCnhi uthreah,
taught for doctrinespolaceissaopfptrlZ
com-
mandments of men," and.'
nave, ea
u,
the batiot ot
o. td* at
17ogsee:
" the word of God v
Church have
tra-
ditions on a level with it
" 'fly placing human en ,
placing
rffiteycta,nmdade
in-
fluence—we find no 2
ecclesiastical censure passed
on the propounders of
_ these dogmas—no
t steps
taken to purge the Church of their heresies .
STANDARD.—Dr. Pusey assumes ,per saltum,
that the qualifications of NI WilliamsPfor the
Mr. ti
office of Professor of Poetry, by which, according
to the tenour of his argument, he must mean
talents as a poet and. a critic, are the very first
in the University--so incontestibly the first, that
no man can be opposed to him, except upon
some extraneous ground. This is going a little
too far for a man, whose verses have not been read.
or heard of, we are persuaded, by one of a
thousand of " the reading- public," and whose
prose works, we believe, are limited to the
"Tracts for the Times," including the Romanist
article on "Reserve,"—the duty of withholding
the Gospel from mankind. What! Mr. Williams
the only fit Professor of Poetry to be found in.
the Oxford Kalendar! We open it at a venture.,
and the first name presented by the sorter
Kalenderiw, is that of John Gibson Lock-
hart, a first class man, and rather better
known as a poet than Mr. Williams. The
Quarterly Reviewer, and the inimitable trans-
lator of the Spanish ballads, will be surprised to.
find his name in this article, but he must blame
his chance and the sortes. Why, there are in the
Oxford Kalendar fifty names of men whom we
should insult by comparing their pretensions as
poets and critics with those of Mr. Williams. It
is, therefore, altogether a gratuitous assumption
that Mr. Williams, because he has written mid-
dling verses, can be opposed only on theologi-
cal grounds. The having written swell verses,
and having written such verses only—the fact
of having written in "The Tracts for the
Times," especially the "Reserve" essay—
these facts aided by the championship of Doc-
tor Pusey, afford more than a Presumption that
it is only upon theological grounds that Mr. Wil-
liams has been brought into the field as a
second candidate. And these facts hold out
a full assurance that the election of Mr, Williams
will be received as "an assertion" solemnly made
on the part of the University, " that the opinions
of the Tract writers constitute a peremptory 7 •e-
-commendation for her offices of instruction." We
have no fears that such an assertion will be con-
firmed. It was, we know, made some time
since in Parliament, and then indignantly
repel-
led. The University is not likely to be better
disposed to acquiesce in it.

The Board of General (•cers, o whief L.- Lieu t.
General Sir Charles Dalbiac is President, sit daily at
Whitehall, for the investigation .of matters -conneewd
with the military branch of the service.

MORNING SUM

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.'

U ,;DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 2,

Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr.
W. Harrison •, Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr.
Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ;
and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her fourteenth appear-
ance upon the English Stage).
After which the Farce of FREE AND EASY.—Sir John
Freeman, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Charles Courtley, Mr.
Bartley ; Michael, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Orger.
To conclude with ( Second Time) the Ballet Divertissement
of the WOODEN LEG. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert
and Miss Ballia, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and
T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c.
Doors to 're opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.;
First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, mss. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Second Price. 21.• Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the
Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan. at the Box-office, from Ten
till Four, where Season Tickets may be had tit en application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE

AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Extraordinary Novelty. First Week of the New French Drama.

THIS EVENING, DEC. 2.

Will be acted an entirely New Drama from the French, re-
plete with situations of ingenuity, intensity of interest, and
stronddrawn character, entitled THE TWO LOCKSMITHS,
011 POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs.
Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c.
After which, DAMON AND PYHIAS.—Damon, Mr.
Graham ; Pythias, Mr. Henry Hughes; Calanthe, Miss
Waverley.
TO conclude with Dibdin's popfar Farce of MY SPOUSE
AND I.—Dick, Mr. Walton.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
MR. OSBALDISTON'S BENEFIT.

Mr. OSBALDISTON cannot omit the present pleasing
opportunity of thus publicly and energetically RETURNING
HIS WARM THANKS for the splendid support which he
had the honour to experience on the occasion of his BENEFIT
on TUESDAY, November 23d, another gratifying and moat
convincing proof that his strenuous and never-tiring exertions
to render the Royal Victoria Theatre the first minor establish-
ment of the metropolis, has been crowned with that trium-
phant success which his best friends and numerous supporters
could never have anticipated to have been so fully and sub-
stantially realized, as every night's success must make palpable
to the most common observer. Mr. OSBALDIS'f ON also
begs to announce, that all parties having tickets or checks,
who were unable, in consequence of the immense pressure, to
obtain entrance into the theatre on TUESDAY, November 23d,
will be admitted THIS EVENING, December 2, when the
entertainments will consist of THE TWO LONDON
LOCKSMITHS. After which THE STRANGER. The
Stranger, Mr. OSBALDISTON ; Mrs. Haller, MISS VIN-
CENT. To conclude with CASPER, THE DOOMED;
or, The Victim of the Vault. _ _ .

Boxes, 25.—Pit, Is.— uallery, 6d.—lalf-price to the Boxes
only, at Hag-put Eight.
To-morrow, London Locksmiths, Nature and Art, and Cas-
per the Doomed.

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TIIE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 1.
ROY AL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 50 Highest 5l Lowest 42
Barometer 29.42.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 2.2 Deg.

HIGH- WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 53 minutes attar 3. Evening 21 minutes after 4.