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London, England, 1841-10-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBIA,R, 28,

fr.l—all those acts of iniquity, oppression, and political
insanity which have scandalized the world—the Chris-
tian world—and cruelly exasperated the nation, behold
the principal, the real cause, the efficient cause, of the
last insurrection, which the excess of so many evils had
rendered inevitable. _ _ . . _ _ _ _ _

" But, as if the Revolutionists in their implacable fury
were not satisfied with having wrested from the hands of
her Majesty, first the Regency of the kingdom, and then
the guardianship of her Illustrious daughters—as if their
rage was not yet satiated by the obstinate and cruel per-
secutions with which they have poisoned, for the last
year, the existence of her Majesty, they now perfidiously
seek to cover her with opprobrium. After • having
plunged her in misfortune the Revolutionists are strivirg
to extort from her lips an iniquitous condemnation of
those who, in resisting the most odious tyranny, have
confidently invoked her august name. In their blind
delirium they aspire to nothing less than to obtain from
her Majesty the sanction of all the acts and all the scan-
dals of the Government of Madrid, which rekindled in
Spain extinct discords, and they wish, moreover, that her
Majesty should lay the responsibility of this new confla-
gration to the noble defenders of the laws indignantly
outraged. Their frenzy prompts them to call on her
Majesty to avow herself indirectly the accomplice of
those who have the shameful impudence of calumniating,
by charging them with regicidal projects, the men who
have courageously taken arms to deliver august and
helpless orphans from the hardest bondage.
" Her Majesty would cover h: reek with shame if she
were to accept so ignomioious a posidon. She will
never sully her name by so black a stain. The Queen,
as great in misfortune as she was in prosperity, may
nobly submit to suffer the most poignant trials of adver-
sity, but will never consent to enter into a compromise
regarding questions which affect her honour, such as that
of disowning generous Spaniards at a moment When
they have sealed with their blood their unshakeable loy-
alty to the throne.
Such are the intimate sentiments which the Queen
entertains at the bottom of her heart, and such is the
mature judgment which she bears on the last events of
Spain. Her Majesty directs me expressly to make this
known to your Lordship in her Royal name. in answer
to your despatch of the 17th, in order that your Lordship
may communicate it to the Government which has accre-
dited you to the Court of France, it being well under-
stood that her Majesty will immediately publish the cor-
respondence, since your Lordship presumes so lightly
to inculcate the intentions of her Majesty, even in the
prudent and inoffensive silence which she has hitherto
observed. The Queen desires me to repeat to your
Lordship what her Majesty. wrote herself on the Ist of
June last to the Duke cl Victory, respecting the guar-
dianship. Her Majesty, after stating that :he was not
accountable for the circumstances which afflicted Spin,
that the situation of the kingdom was not her work, that
the responsibility of the evils that might follow should
not fall upon her, added these words:—
" 'You may be certain that cowardly considerations
will never induce me to sanction what my reason, my
rights, and my convictions reprove, nor accept what is
repugnant to my conscience, and my duties condemn.'
This manifestation, equally applicable, and which her
Majesty applies to the present case, must convince your
Lordship that it would be vain to attempt, by vexatious
menaces or calumny, to deter her Majesty from tke scru-
pulous accomplishment of all her duties towards God,
towards her august daughters, and towards the Spanish
nation.

" ller Majesty desires I at the same time should tell
your Lordship, that the present writing contains the
exact and faithful meaning, the true signification of what
her Majesty said to your Lordship the last time your
Lordship had the honour of being admitted into her
Royal presence. The Queen declares not only that the
expressions whieh your Lordship has mado her use have
not been pronounced as reported by your Lordship, bat
that those which your Lordship has ascribed to her could
only be produced by the fallacious memory of your Lord-
ship, who supposed her Majesty to have expressed ideas
and words which she did not utter.

"Finally, I n...st inform your Lordship, by express
order of the Queev, that the present communication is
the last that I shall address to you in the name of her
Majesty. " God presorve your Lordship many years,
"JOSE DEL CASTILIO Y AYENS.A.
" Paris, Oct. 24, 1641."

PROTEST OF THE PRINCE OF

MANTUA.

We have been requested to publish the following copy
of a Protest sent to Prince Metternich, President of the
Court of Chancellery of his Majesty the Emperor of
Austria, &e.

" I, Prince Alexandre de Gonzaga di Mantova, Prince
of the Boman Empire, Prince of Castiglione, Due di
Salferino, Marquis di Medote, &c., lineal descendant of
the Sovereign Princes of Gonzaga di Mantova, pay alle-
giance to his Majesty the Emperor Ferdinand of Austria;
but, although I conform to the sentence of the Diet of
Ratisbon, pronounced in 1708 against the last Sovereign
Prince Ferdinando Carlo de Gonzago, Due di Mantova
et di Montferrat, &c.,

" I protest against the legality of the agreement by
which Prince Luigi di Gonzaga, who was born at Venice

in 1745, and died-at Vienna 10th of September, 1819,
renounced the principality of Castiglione, the Duchy of
Salferino, and the Marqiiisate of Medote, in favour of
the Empress Maria Theresa, for the annual sum of ton
thousand florins.

"1. Because hereditary possessions cannot be ceded
under any condition, without the consent of the nest
nearest heirs.

"2. Because Prince Luigi di Gonzaga knew perfectly
well that the lineal descendants of his great grandfather
Prince Ferdinand VI. de Gonzaga, Prince di Casti-
glione, were still living in Spain, and that consequently
the concurrence of the younger branch of the Prince de
Gonzaga di Vescovado in this affair was illegal ; and
"3. Because the marriage of the grandfather of
Prince Luigi with Anna Aneuissala was declared null,
and by this fact alone the rights of Prince Luigi to dis-
pose of these possessions were inadmissable.
" My father, Prince Guiseppe Luigi, born at Madrid,
was completely ignorant of the existence of the
agreement between Prince Luigi de Gonzaga, his
cousin, and the Empress ; and by the death of ,my
father in 1818, as well as of Prince Luigi in 1819,
I became the head of the family, and I demand,
as lineal descendant of the Princes di Castiglione
to be reinstated in my possessions of Castiglione, Sal-
ferino, and Medote, and to have my claims examined
by the next Diet of Sovereigns which may be held, or
by Congress; also that his Majesty the Emperor of Aus-
tria, whose justice is well known, would be pleased to
accept my allegiance, and deign to confirm me, as my
ancestors, in the hereditary privileges of the Princes of
Castiglione, &c.
"I renew my written declaration to the Minister of
Police at Vienna, dated the 12th May, 1837, against the
person who forged my signature to a paper stating my
decision not to again enter Austria. I protest that I
have never either read or seen that paper, and that I
could not have attached my signature to such an act of
stupidity at a moment when family affairs required my
presence at Vienna.

"These protests are signed and sealed by me,
"PRINCE ALEXANDER DE GONZAGA, &c.
"Done at Baden-Baden, Oct. 12, 1841."

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT O'
THE NAVAL FORCES OF BRITAIN, FRANCE
AND AMERICA. ,
GREAT BRITAIN.
Seamen in tho Royal Navy
Boys 2,000
Marines 9,000

Total Royal Navy.
Merchant seamen

Total Sailors
Fishermen, &c. 150,000
351,000
FRANCE.

Seamen of the Inscription lB,OOO
Equipages de Ligne 7,000

Total Royal Navy 25,000
Seamen of the Inscription employed in
Commerce 27,000

Total Sailors
Inscription over ale, above 50 years B,OOO
Fishermen, &c. 23,000

Navy Sailors
Merchant Sailors

- 83,000
AMERICA.
6,000
61,000

Naval Pcpulation
Fishermen, &e.
not known.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The particulars given in the Tines of this
morning, regarding the forgeries of Exchequer Bills,
are calculated to create a wrong impression as to the
party implicated in the affair, and who, instead of be-
longing to the Exchequer Bill-office, has been long at-
tached to that of the Comptroller-General. The gen-
tlemen in the Exchequer Bill-office are in no way con-
nected with this affair, except so far as they have one
and all shown considerable zeal in aiding to detect the
parties concerned in . it ; and to the incessant energy of
one individual connected with this depsrtmennt—its Ac-
countant, whose inquiries have extended to transactions
of some years back—the discovery of the prin4mover of
the fraud may be in a great degree attributed. As there
is allowed to be no reason for concealing the name of the
individual chiefly implicated, as he has confessed his
participation in the transaction, •we can have no scruple
in mentioning Mr. Smith, of the Comptroller-General's
office, as the individual alluded to. It is understood that
to such an extent has the system been carried, that he
himself finds it impossible to say whether it is to the
amount of one, two, or three hundred thousand pounds
that Bills are outstanding which hare been issued
improperly. The posithin of Mr. Smith gave
him every facility for the fraud, since it was a
part of his duty to insert the numbers and dates
open the Bills, which are • consequently on the
proper paper, and arc in ivory respect genuine, except
as to de signature, and the improper use that has been
made of them. There are, it is true, three different
persons who have had to perform the duty of B:gain.;
the Bills, hut this arises from the fart that the cflie,er
who is under the Compttoller-General has been once
changed ; but it is the custom only to extend the
power in question to tlie immrdiate eputy of the chief
of the dep:.rtment. Tnc slur Lbat has been thrown by
the irnes on the Whig Administration, for its bile-
daring management of this department, can only apply
to the Tories, whose system has been merely followed
by their successors ; end it is just as likely to have been
under a Consci vative Government that the fraud was
first put in practice, since it l:as been continued for se-
veral years, according to the confession of the party
committing it.

It is but justice to the clerks in the Comptrellet Ge-
neral's office to make as pubic as possible the declara-
tion of Mr. Smith, who seems disposed t 3 disguise no-
thing, that he is the only official individual concerned in
this matter. It has become a question vehether these
Bids will be paid by the Government. If they had
been taken bona fide under circumstinces not Neely to
excite suspicion, it would be hard !lacked that the hold-
ers should lose ; but we fear that it will be found to be
the fact, that they were received upon terms that must
have raised a' doubt of their authenticity, they
having been in more than one instance deposited as
security for money raised, at seven per cent, in-
terest. A certain large toll-contractor, of the Jewish
persuasiou, and a well known coach-proprietor,
who has an office at the East and West ends of the
town, are understood to be holders to a very large
amount of the Bills alluded to. It is true tbat detec-
tion was exceedingly difficult, for if any doubt were ex-
pressed, as it was in one or two ireaaecee, the party
offering the Bills requested they might be taken to the
Exchequer—when Mr:Srnith himself was the officer to
wham they would be submitted, and of course would
have pronounced his own dates and numbers to he genuine.
It is net true, as the Times states, that Lord Mont-
eagle was unable to decide on the authenticity of his
own signature ; but it is true that one of the pa-ties
whose duty it is to sign was astonished when the coun-
terfeit of his cwn autograph was shown to him. The
discovery of the fraud was made through the courter-
foils— those portions of the Bids that are left, as
in check books, after the check or bill has been
issued—and these counterfoils upon examination at
once detected the forgery. The salary of Mr. Smith
was, we believe, 6001. a-yeer, which he had antici-
pated would have been advanced to 7001.; but his
hopes being defeated by the economy that has been
carried of late into all the public offices, he had re-
course to forgery as a temporary expedient ; and from
a sum of 5001., has been led by those of whom
it is believed he has been the dupe, to the enor-
mous amount of his forgery which we have above
stated. Surely remuneration should be regulated not
simply by the few hours of time required—which has
too frequently been the Treasury standard of value—
but the amount of trust reposed, and the extent of in-
tegrity required. We may, however, atlel that that a
member of the foreign Stock Exchange might, it is
supposed, give some material information upon the
subject we have been speaking of. Mr. Smith was
under examination at the Home-office yesterday for
several hours, having been in the custody of Mr. Par-
tridge, the Superintendent of Police, during the pre-
vious night. Mr. Smith is the nephew of Sir Sidney,
and his father, a most respectable clergyman, is living,
at the age of 80.

COURIER.—The same morning paper which has
habitteily held up the whole landed interest and aristo-
cracy of Great Britain as no better then robbers and
Murderers, without other exception than the half score
erackbrained members of the order who herd with the
Anti-Corn-law gang, treats its readers this day with a
temporary relaxation of its remorseless rigours, to the
effect that—" We have no wish to hold up land.
owners to public indignation. Would they remain
contented with the great advantages which they pos-
sess in a country like this, without trenching on the
rights of industry, we might think them fortunate in
belonging to a country Nee this, but we should respect
them as necessary to the well-being of the social edifice.
Individuals having been vested by the State with the
ownership of the land, they arc of course entitled to
rent, regulated according to the principles whieli de-
termine its amount." There is something profoundly
absurd in the talk about " individuals having been
vested by the State with the ownership of the hod," if
it is meant to be pretended that they are more favoured
by the State in the possession and holding of landed
property than is the proprietor of a power loom, of a
cotton mill, or a modern haberdashery or gin palace.
The paragraph would read to much better sense if thus
paraphrased " We have no wish to held up
loan-jobbers to public indignation. Would they remain
contented with the great advantagus which they possess
in a country like this, of being able to sell their worth-
less foreign bonds at enormous premiums, incureing no
risk or responsibility themselves, without trenching on
the property and rights of industry, we might think
them fortunate in belonging to a country like this, bat
we should hardly respect them as necessary to the well
being of the social edifice." If the State really does
concede exclusive privileges to any class whatever, t er-
t3inly no class is so highly favoured es that which loans,
not its own, but the money of the public, and is htild
irreeponsible by law for the invalidity or worthlessness
of tine security, although industry., represented by the
trader, is held by law st;itt!y bound to give value for
" value received" on a Dill of Exchange.

INIONEY rdARKIT and CITY NEWS.

F PAM THE iItORNIEO TAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
I TIMES.—It is Understood to-day in the city that stiP
piciun has at length been directed to a
-Exchequer
ihdtvi-
duai relative to the fraudulent issues of Bills;
anti that the party connected with it has been taken into
custody. He is said to hold a high station hi Oho of the
Government offices, but at the pitsent state of the pro-
ceedings it would perhaps be scarcely right to mention
his name, although it is pretty generally spokeli in the
city ; moreover, it i 3 scarcely necessary, as it must of
course transpire officially within a very short
.period.
Besides, it seems that the party apprehended is not the
only offender, as, according to a nii confession which
he is said to have mak, a great many other pertine
are implicated its the transaction. The atfinttnt or the
fraudulent i.Ssue is said to be as high as 150,0001, of
200,000/. according to the confession of the fart 's
bills do not appear to have he strictly Speaking, a for-
Jry, if we may trust the general report, according to
which the signature of Lord Monteagle has been Mil
tabled hi a surreptitious manner. At the e x* tII± the.
practice which is suffered to hare *ihtnitl'ea in the office,
of allowing different pet,-..SOns 'Ativally to sign the name
of Lord Monteagle, nlid by his authority, was extes-
sivel,Y end calculated to give great facilities to fora
ern while great difficulties would be thrown In the
way of detection. There is rather a 'Curious anecdote
which is told in connection 'With the affair, and one
which is singularly illustrative of the carelessness with
which the business of the office has been conducted.
During the present, investigation, one of the bills is said
to have been shown to Lord Montca.gle, who observed
that he ready could not tell whether the signature Way
his s3oalure or not.
The circumstances which have transpired to-day would
seem to show that a great many of the rumours which
were afloat on. the first discovery of an irregularity in
the Exchequer Bill market, were totally false, and had
their source in idle conjecture, or,.what is more probable,
. in the endeavours of the parties really implicated to turn
suspicion into wrong channels, So much, however, of the
late rumours still appears to be true that the surrepti-
tious issues arc in some manner connected with the sales
of Spanish Stock. Now the chief anxiety in the city is,
admitting. the bills to. be forgeries (for the case will
hardly arise if they have actually been signed by
Lord Monteagle,) and also admitting the forgeries to '
have had a sort of Government currency, to know what
degree of liability will attach to the Government itself
to make good any sums tkat may have been lost by the
transaction. Had the parties holding them received I
them immediately from the Treasury, or with a due •
degree. of caution as to the parties from whom they took
them, it would not be the same case as if, lured by a high
reovfbediiin?tstehwree4sbst,ialiltsmheo:rtetiomok them of parties to whom they !
were utter strangers or whom, if they knew at all, they
obse
kof new to be in such circumstances, that honest possession
practicallyc:tgl e,it is rd. likely
partible. It;
eom polficatlitieonGolsv,
many experienced thisactuallyp odes by Lord
however,
ad.esvl.beierofonbree-.
h‘ icy aent
course urse
removeon thethepersAontspirnesetnhte itc iitys,ththeaotptthmeonsafott.
issues, and at once issue new ones,
which, whoever inuraoyssheestthnee partiesi aptctr"ue'aisielilnybteieitlno'
the bills of the present • Government
/6Wministraiiio ipsdltisre:atveniddn,
results from the
ignence and mismanagement
under the Whig
One of the latest rumours relative to this affair is the
capture of a party in the City, who is supposed to have
been the next chief implicated to the one already In ens- ;
todi. On this subject we have received the following
communication from a source on which we have reason
to rely :—" The frauds 'cOrumitted in respect to Exche-
, .... • „ , • . •, .

quer Bills have been committed through the agency of a
person in the Exchequer Bill-office. Whether the dupli-
cate bills in circulation are forgeries, or whether the
bills, having been regularly signed, have been fraudulently
obtained, is yet uncertain, The bills, whether forged or
fraudulently obtained, were applied to speculations in
foreign funds, chiefly Spanish Stock. A gentleman, who
held a confidential appointment in the Exchequer Bill-
office, has been committed to prison."
In such a state of things as at present exists, business
at the Stock Exchange is much neglected, and the same
difficulty as heretofore experienced in respect to attempted
operations in Exchequer Bills continues ; their market
was to-day quite nominal at los. to 12s. premium.
CHRONICLE.—The discovery of the triplicate num-
bers of Exchequer Bills has led to the apprehension •of a
person holding a high situation in the Exchequer Bill-
office ; and it is reported that spurious bills have been
ascertained to be in circulation to the amount of 200.02.0/.
It is now the imperative duty of the Chancellor cif the
Exchequer to sift the whole affair to the bottom, and to
relieve the public mind as to the extent of the fraud. It
is understood that the principal offender on this occasion
has been carrying on the same system for upwards of
two years certain ; and for how many years hefore that
no one can tell, for the loose practice of allowing clerks
to sign bills is one of very long continuance. It i 5 in
vain for the organs of the monopolist Cabinet to endea-
vour to throw the Wame of it upon the Whigs, or to
make out any ease for panegyric in favour of Hr. Coul-
burn, for his personal investigation of the present case.
'These securities were first issued in 1636, to supply the
want of cash during the reeoinege which then took
place ; and, considering the unprotected form in which
they are made out, and the looseness of practice regard-
ing their issue, it is astonishing that no case of fraud
has been discovered until the year 1841. It is quite
possible that the brokers, who were the instruments of
raising money on the spurious bills, were entirely igno-
rant of their fraudulent origin. When a principal states
to a member of the Stock Exchange that he wishes to
enter into a speculation in foreign stocks, and offers
Exchequerßills as a security, it is nut customary for him
to ask the party who aplies to him to explain how he
came possessed of the security. The situation in life of
the party and personal knowledge of his respectability
are held sufficient on such occasions ; and we sincerely
trust that such may prove to have been the case in the ques-
tion under consideration. The delinquent may have had
no confederates, anal in so far as the transaction is con-
nected with the Stock Exchange, it is possible that none
of the members had the least knowledge of anything
improper being connected with the bills. The whole
sill& must, however, be searched to the very bottom, as
the market for Exchequer Bills is now at a stand still,
and the price marked of 10s. to 12s. premium almost en-
tirely nominal.

POST.—The confusing of the Exchequer Bill market
continues, and whatever business is done in it must, for
the present, be under guarantee. A number of rumours
were once more in circulation relative to the alleged con-
spiracy, by which a state of things has been brought
about so greatly to the detriment of the public service.
It was said that two of the old police force, celebrated for
their alacrity in the detection of crime and criminals,
had been in the City in quest of suspected parties, and,
in tact, that three individuals were taken into custody,
one of them connected with this part of the town and
the others with a public department. Of the latter two
it was rumoured that one of them, who has been a con-
siderable time employed in an official capacity, was
found to have put out, on his own account, probably for
the purpose of covering his losses in the speculative
Foreign funds, an enormous amount of Exchequer Bills.
The sum spoken of was 200,0001. We cannot with safety
or propriety give the name of the individual on whom
suspicion is said to have fallen in this case, though it can
scarcely be said to be any longer a secret in the moneyed
circles. One of the principal brokers in possession of
bills, lodged with him under questionable circumstances,
is believed to have delivered up to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer 50,0001. to be dealt with as
Government shall think proper. A rigid inquiry into
the facts touching this extraordinary business is now,
from all accounts, in progress at the Home-office. An
anitous hope prevails, therefore' that the whole of the
iniquity, with the authors of, and participators in it, may
be speedily exposed. So extended has been the sy;item
pursued by the parties, and this for a series of years,
that the more considerable brokers have been totally
unable to place the large masses of bills sent into them
for the purpose of covering required advances; and
hence the necessity of handing over portions to a secon-
dary grade. These, in turn, have given smaller amounts
to those below themselves, or, in other words, the most
inferior order of agents; so that a-great number of per-
sons who are familiar with the process of raising money
in the City must have. been perfectly well aware that
there was something exceedingly dark and mysterious
in the background. Of the Committee of the Stock Ex-
change we have taken the liberty to say that nothing
has been sufficient to awaken them from their habitual
lethargy. We were, however, mistaken, as it appears
that they have, in the present instance, come forward
and most courageously tendered to Sir Robert Peel, Mr.
Goulburn, and others engaged in the investigation going
on at the west end of the town, the benefit of their valu-
able and disinterested assistance. Lord Monteagle, it is
understood, has been likewise in attendance at the Trea-
sury chambers, fur the purpose of co operating in the
pending inquiry,
FlNRAlll.l.—reople are naturally led to imagine that
the system of books and business must be extremely
loose an the Exchequer Bill-office, when frauds and fal-
sifications, if such-they should be and there committed,
are practicable without almost instant detection, and
even withoilt detection for years. It is not unlikely that
Considerable facilities for dishonesty were afforded by
the change in the Exchequer Bill law, silently and
without public notice introdneed by Mr. Spring Rice,
the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the effect of
rendering bills no longer payable in for Customs or dues
at any period before due, as before was the case, but
payable, or rather receivable, only when actually due,
a provision or permission clearly idle mid unnecessary.
By. this new Systtni, therefore, no bills once issued
Ottld Make their appearance again at the Exchequer
Bill-office, until at the expiration of the twelve months
when taken in to be paid off or exchanged ; nor, in like
manner, could any fraudulently issued bills be sooner
taken lea and detected; Thus the person engaged in the
Ace, if any there Were in {nese thaltirddtiCtkij Oita hi
no danger, or only the very slightest, of detection, ex-
cepting once a year, when all the bills of the date of
those falsely issued were brought in, or preparatory lists
of them sent in, against elcliange or paying.afr day.
It was Of criarst tieareely thbfe dlifigUlt fora patty to
prepare a new batch of false bills, and so re-place and
take in the old, than it would be in the first instance to
prepare arid Alit tint the told, -led kNelielvier Bills con-
tined to be receivable for Customs and does there
would, however,, have been constant dangee of detection
wiletlekti tlic billS *de dt fietif par; Its flied oftett
have been of late years, because at such times they
would so have been paid in; have reached the Treasury,
and the detection i Of Ode irregular bill altine, might at
any tithe, Mid Without the least ivatiihig, hditi blosin up
the Whole nefarious system with all concerned:

THE EXCITEquEit AFPA EFL,

The inquiry at the Home-office on Tnezday respect-
ing the fraudulent issue of Exchequer Bills lasted until
ha' past seven o'clock in the evening. The particulars
of the inquiry are kept a ptnfound secret j nothing
Whatever is allowed to transpire. The result, how.
O'er, Was, that at the 41ttse of the proceedings the
patty accused was taken away in the custody of two in=
specters of polities and the understand was to be brought
Up again for ftitther examination yesterday or to-
day: In the meantime the most seatchirm investi=
Bation it going forward at the Treasury and Exchequer
ill-office. Sir It. Peel, the Chanzellor of the Esehee
quer, and Sir James Graham attended the examination
or the prisoner, Which *as taken before Mr. Hall,
Chief Magistrate of Bow.strceta Lord Monteagle was
also present at the inquiry into this mysterious affairs
As the Oldie of the accused individdal is now very ges
ncrally mentioned, perhaps we ought, in justice to other
partieslholding official situations, no longer to withheld
it: We understand he has beeti [flatly yegrs in the offices
and is most rcs eetably connected.;
TitAng,

(From the Manchester Guardian)
MAtthiEsfEit,-116re was no Adage whatever
lb the letting of the market yesiertlak, bit deinpared
with that of the preceding week. For yarn, suitable
to the German itarkct, and ready for immediate de.,
Itiott was a jail. demand, and hOlders bad no
d tlleulty in making saes at pres,ieus rates ; but the
bt4rets shoWed Cary little inclination to make contracts
for future delivery. For manufactured goods the
market continued exceedingly
heavy and discouraging,
and few silks eettld be effected; except at prices a shade
lowcr than those of last wait. Two falluieS heV bleu
announced within the la3t few days---one o! a 111DOUrfle-
ili.ing hctise in Mosley,s:reet, the enot,,vcrat,i,ts of
which are st .tel to be :114664 ; the °thee tf u bleolter
at Bolton, which, we believe, is of smaller importacce.
Tlyere IP.vc been 549 Wile failures at Hsmburgh ; but
two do net leatn that they are likely to hate +a ittlmej
ditto eff,et en this market to any serious extent,
trotitbati: tiaNNEL 'MAetrti MONDAY, Ocr,
25.—Thrre has been a very fair demand for iLanoli
to-day, though the market has been bet thinly attended.
Prices remain the same t indeed theta hots been no
change for some Weeks back. The wool market has
been more than usually dull ; and, on account of the
prices giving way, the manufacturers; btly very Sparingly.

INTEREST AND DISCOUNT.---these items
fa:in a serious amount of ehargas on trade in the ac-
counts of merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, in
th..sc troubled monetary tirnes—t!le saving Which DIV
be effected by tile accurate calculation of tlwni 4111QUI1t*
to a large sum annually. There are no tables so well
calculated for general uti:ity, on account of the variety
of rates given, as those by Gumersall, the celebrated
Bill-broker of Lombard-street, a Sixth Edition of which
ha been lately published at an extremely moderate price.
FINE FOR REFUSING AN OATII.—At Nor-
wi;:h City Sessions, which commenced on Tuesday before
the Recorder, Isaac Jermy, Esq., the Grand Jury were
about being sworn, when Mr. Macro, woollen-draper,
London-street, presented a letter to the Court addressed
to the Recorder. The Town Clerk read the letter, by
which it appeared that Mr. Macro did not think it right
to take the oath required by a Grand Juryman, and his
objection was, that he read in the Bible, " Swear not at
al?." " Above all things, swear not, but let your yea be
yea, and nay nay ;" and that if he kissed the book con-
taining those sentences, his conscience would dictate
that he was doing wrong. The Recorder told Mr.
M4cro that he considered his scripture annotations
totally misapplied; and ttiat'if he persisted in refusing to
be sworn', he must be fined. Mr. Macro, however, would
be neither convinced nor threatened into swearing ; he
was consequently fined sa.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT..
CASE OF BLAKESLEY.

Shortly after fir. Arabin had taken his seat
upon the Bench, at nine o'clock this morning, Robert
Bhkefiliy was placed at the bar for the purpose of plead-
ing to an indictment, charginghim with the wilful murder
of James Burden; a second indictment charged the pri-
soner with the murder on the Coroner's Inquest.
The prisoner who is a remarkably fine-looking young
man, seemed to pay great attention to the proceed-
ings. His demeanour was firm, but without
the slightest appearance of levity, and he seemed per-
fectly aware of the awful situation in which he was
placed. His personal appearance has improved greatly
since he has been in custody. On being called on to
plead he, in a firm voice, pleaded—Not Guilty.
One of the Jurors applied to be excused from serving
on. the trial of Blakesley, because he had been long in-
timately acqtiainted with the prisoner's family.
Mr. Sergeant ARA.EIN said it was no:, probable that
the prisoner would be tried to-day, but if he were the
applicant should be excused. The prisoner was then
removed.

At ten o'clock Lord Abinger and Mr. Baron Gurney
took their seats on the Bench, when Blakcsley was again
placed at the bar.
Mr. PAYNE, on behalf of the prosecution in the case
of Blakeslcy, said he understood that the prisoner was
not at present prepared to go to trial. On behalf of the
prosecution he had no objection to postponement ; and
perhaps their Lordships would state the (by which they
would fix for the trial.

Lord ABINGEII—Let it stand for Friday.
The prisoner was then removed.
Joaeph Kemp and Philip Sampson were indicted for a
highway robbery, attended with violence.
The case, which presented no features of interest, was
clearly proved against the prisoners, and in the course
of the trial it came out that it was considered dangerous
for a person residing in the neighbourhood of the place
where the prisoners resided to give evidence against them.
The Jury having found them both Guilty;
Lord ABINGER, in passing sentence on them, said he
considered the fact of its b,lng dangerous for a person
to give evidence against them a great aggravation of
their offence, and sentenced them to transportation for
life.
Charles Edward W ilson, 35, Win. Culaman, IS, Themes
Beardsmore, 17, and Henry Pattick, 24, were indicted for
feloniously stealing 15 sheep, the property of Daniel
Maydwelf. _ -

Mr. Doane conducted the. prosecution, and Messrs.
Phillips, Chambers, Payne, and Espenasse, appeared for
the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor was
an extensive farmer, residing at Leatherheacl, and on the
Bth Sept. he had a flock of 205 sheep at one of his farms;
and on the following day 15 of them were missed. It
was proved that the prisoners, Coleman, Wilson, and
Beardsmore, were seen in the possession of the 15 sheep,
which they placed to graze in a field at Ilford ; and
one policeman swore that he also saw Puttick in
company with the other prisoners, and it was proved
that the prisoner Beardsmore was seen near the field
in which the sheep had been placed by the prosecutor's
servants, and that he was making inquiries about the
manner in which the sheep were folded. It also
appeared that while the prisoners were in custody at
Ilford gaol, a letter came into the hands of the Governor,
and the next day the prisoner Wilson told him he was
very sorry that leiter"had been written, for that it would
do him more harm than all the money he had spent
would do him good. The prisoner Coleman also told
him that
.he had cut his finger, and that he wrote the
letter in question with his blood. The letter was read,
it was written in blood, and not addressed to any one, but
commenced—" My dear fit thcr and mot/fee-and sister," and
went on to request that three or four persons might be
brought forward at the trial to swear that he (the writer)
was at home on the night the sheep were stolen, and that
this was the only thing that could be done for him to do
him any good.
The Learned Counsel having severally addressed.the
Jury on behalf of their respective clients, with the ex-
ception of Mr. Espinasse, against whose client the Court
expressed its opinion there was not sufficient evidence
to call upon hini for his defence,
Lord ABINGER summed up, and
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty' against Wilson,
Beardsmore, and Coleman, and acquitted Puttick. The
Jury recommended Beardsmore and Coleman to the mercy
of the Court..
Lord ABINGER said that Beardsmore had been before
convicted of felony, and it was necessary to pass a severe
sentence. Beardmore and Wilson were then ordered to
be transported for fifteen years, and Coleman was ordered
to be imprisoned and kept.to hard labour for 12 months.
There was another indictment against the prisoner
Wilson for stealing eight sheep, but it was not pro-
ceeded with.

Fanny Jackson was indicted for feloniously cutting
and wounding Fanny Kemble, with intent to do her
some grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutrix stated that she lived in St. Ann's
Terrace, Waterloo-road, and that she was an " unfor-
tunate" woman. The prisoner lived in the same house
with her, and on the day mentioned in the indictment,
the prisoner abused her, and took a knife from a drawer,
and made a stab at her face, and when she raised her arm
to protect her face, the prisoner stabbed her in the arm
with the knife, and she was taken to the hospital, where
she remained for a month in consequence of the injury
she received.
Mary Taylor, the landlady of the house where the
parties lived, prosved that the prisoner was telling her
of a depredation that had been committed in her house
by the prosecntrix, and the latter attempted to force
her way into the room, and ultimately did so, and as-
saulted the • pri?oner several times; and the prisoner
told her, if she struck her again, she would mark her ;
and while 'the prosecutrix was in the het of striking her
ain, she took up a knife that was lying upon tho
table, and inflic:ed a wound on her arm :vith it.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she was very sorry
for what she had done.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty of an assault.
Mr. Baron GURNEY directed that the prisoner should
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two calendar
months.

Joseph Kemp, aged 20, and Philip Sampson, aged 22,
Were indicted for a robbery, with violence, upon George
Noble.
Messrs. Payne and Ballautyne appeared for the pH-.
soners. The prosecutor was walking down West-street,
Smithfield, on the night of the 4th July, when he was
attacked by the prisoners and several other men, who
pinioned his arms and forcibly took his watch from him.;
and one of the prisoners was seen to run away with it;
and when they were afterwards taken into custody, and
the policeman told them what the charge was against
them, they did not make any reply, or in any way con-
tradict the statement made against them.
The Jury found the prisoners guilty, and the Court,
after commenting upon the aggravated character of the
offence, sentenced the prisoners to be transported kir life.