The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

caive,d from--a correspondent, on whose respectability we
can rely, the; following note :—‘ I have just seen a sample
of coal, discovered a few days since. It appears to be of
the best description. All I could further learn at the
moment was, that it was found within twenty miles of
Adelaide, near navigable waters, and that thousands of
tons can be raised at comparatively small expense.' "
It is hardly necessary to add that statements of this
nature should be read with a due allowance for the exag-
gerations often indulged in by the authors'of them.
TIMES.—The feeling in the Foreign Market to specu-
late in Spanish Stock continues, and the ground upon
which the speculators are said to base their operations is
that Spanish capitalists have been buyers of the Stock in
the house to pay off their arrears due to their Govern-
ment on the purchases of national property. This is
certainly a cause to influence prices, but it remains to be
seen whether it does not originate with a view to make
a profit rather than the actual intention of taking the
Stock out of the Market for the purpose stated. Ma-
noeuvres of this kind have been before practised, and the
public especially ought to be on their guard.
The accounts from Liverpool to-day are again of an
unfavourable nature. The well-known houses of Moly-
neux, Witherby, and Co. have come to the resolution of
suspending their payments. This firm imported cotton
to a great extent, indeed to such an extent that some
report they are the largest importers in the country. In
the best-informed quarters, their stoppage has occasion-
ed little or no surprise, as it had been considered for
some time past that they were carrying on business be-
yond their means, and their bills in London have by no
means been thought of unquestionable credit. *
Private letters recived from Amsterdam, dated the
31st of August, state that the Second Chamber of the
States-General had finished its previous examination of
M. Rochussen's plan for converting the Passive debt.
No less than 45 members took part in the discussion, and
the great principle of the plan—viz., that the Govern-
ment is entitled to pass over the law of February, 1818,
and return to the law of May, 1814—has been admitted
by a great majority, the law of 1818 being regarded
merely as a temporary power granted to the stockholde.is
by Government, with full liberty to revoke it at plea-
sure, and the present financial condition of the country
being considered such as to justify the exercise of that
liberty. The other principles, viz., that the Govern-
ment has a right to anticipate the conversion, which,
according to the law of 1814, is annual, but which
is now proposed to take place at once ; that the Govern-
ment can equitably give the holders for their Deferred
Stock Active Stock at the rate of 52 (the market price),
when they are entitled to a conversion at par ; and that
the discount may be fixed at the rate of 4 4-5 per cent.,
which is far above the rate in the country—have been
likewise agreed on. To the details of the measure, how-
ever, some objections have been raised, and it is expected
that the Minister will have some alterations to make be-
, fore he cati procure its adoption. The Budget has been
less favourably treated, and it is expected that, unless
some of the Ministers contrive to reduce their expenses,
the chapters concerning them will be struck out, if in-
deed those Ministers are not themselves obliged to resign.
Papers from Bogota, which have been received to the
2d of June, are chiefly filled with documents giving a
detailed account of a complete victory of the Government
forces over the rebels commanded by Vesga at Salamina.
A great number of the enemy were killed and wounded,
and among the prisoners was the leader Vesga, while by
• the Government forces scarcely any loss was sustained.
Among the persons on the Government side of whom
honourable mention is made, a heroine, named
Maria Martinez, is specially noticed, as having at-
r tended the army through its perils and fatigues, and
• appeared armed with a spear in the field of battle. The
victory seems to be considered the most decisive that has
. yet been gained over the rebels. Telegraphic despatches
r showed that order had been completely restored in the
• provinces of Cauca and Buenaventura.

- The Sydney papers of the 25th of April state that
business in all branches was dull. There were no local
topics of interest afloat. Wheat was 7s. per bushel, and
flour ranged from 19s to 26. per mob. Poultry was
scarce and dear, as were also provisions.

THE NEW TORY MINISTRY.
HER MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL.

DEPARTURE OF SIR R. PEEL AND HIS COLLEAGUES
FOR CLAREMONT.—A numerous meeting. of the Members
of the newly-formed Tory Administration of Sir Robert
Peel's concoction, as well as of Conservative Members of
both Houses of Parliament, took place yesterday morning
at the house of the Right lion. Baronet, in Whitehall-
gardens, previously to the departure of the new Premier
to attend the Privy Council held by her Majesty in the
afternoon at Claremont.

Many of the Lords and gentlemen who had attended
the meeting quitted Sir Robert Peers about eleven
o'clock, shortly after which hour the Earl of Aberdeen
drove up to the house of the Right Hon. Baronet in his
close carriage and four post-horses, and after remaining
in deliberation with the new Premier for about a quarter
of an hour, the Noble Earl and the Right Hon. Baronet
took their departure together in the carriage of the
former.

There was during the early part of the morning, in
the immediate vicinity of Whitehall-gardens, quite a
" sensation." The usually quiet locality was all bustle—
Dukes, Lords, and Commoners were each instant com-
ing and going, and a number of people assembled in
front of Sir Robert's house to take a peep at the distin-
guished personages who flocked to worship the ".rising
sun " of the in-coming party.
On the departure of the two Ministers from White-
hall-gardens, Sir Robert Peel was slightly cheered by a
small knot of Conservatives, who followed his carriage
out into Whitehall. The Right Hon. Baronet, who
looked unusually thoughtful, acknowledged the cheer by
a slight bow as the carriage dashed out of the sight of his
admirers.

The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham,
Lord Stanley, Lord Ripon, Lord Liverpool, Earl de
Grey, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Eliot,
Mr. Goulburn, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir James Graham,
Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Earl of Haddington, and Lord
Wharncliffe, who had all been summoned to attend the
Council, severally left town for Claremont at different
periods of the morning.

Sir James Graham has appointed his brother to be
his Private Secretary.
We believe we may state with certainty that the
" new writs" will be moved in the House of Commons
on Monday next, and that both Houses, at their rising on
that evening, will adjourn until Monday fortnight (the
20th inst.).

EARL FITZHARDINGE AND THE

lIERALD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.

(Copy.)
Berkeley Castle, August 31, 1841.
Sir—My attention has been drawn to an article in
your Paper of the 27th instant, in which some one
of the Peers whose titles or elevations in the Peerage
were announced in a late Gazette, is charged with a
crime of the greatest enormity. If you believe that
one of the Noblemen referred to did commit the atro-
city described, you must feel that he has no claim to
your forbearance, and that the fullest exposure would be
a due, though not an adequate, punishment of it. You
do not, however, name the criminal, but you bring the
others, who are innocent, under the suspicion of the guilt
of the one. You thus wrong unoffending, honourable
men (for to subject honourable men even to a passing
suspicion is a wrong,) by the very same reserve by which
you spare the real criminal.

But you may plead the fear of the libel law, under
which truth may be punishable. I, then, as one of the
Peers who fall within the scope of your charge, pledge
myself for my own part, that I will not institute any
legal proceedings, if, in answer to the call which I now
make on you to name the person whom you mean to
accuse, you should name me ; provided you prove the
truth of your accusation, which I denounce as a wicked
calumny and unmixed lie, so far as regards myself.
I have had no communication whatever with any of
the Noblemen included in the charge, but I hesitate not
to declare it on their part, as well as my own, a gross
falsehood.
The charge you have made (however improbable) is
that of consummate villany ; and, let me observe, that
next in wickedness to the commission of such guilt is
the false accusation of it. You have now either to sub-
stantiate your charge, or to remain under the infamy of
having made a false accusation.
For the proof of your case, you shall have every
facility ; I will confine you to neither time nor place.
And if you can prove that there is any ground what-
ever for the story, or that by any plausible
construction so infamous an imputation can be
made out, I will patiently submit to the dis-
grace. But should you have preferred so heavy
an accusation, without being able to present any
evidence or authority in support of it, and without any
purpose but that of offering an insult to the Queen, and
flinging a calumny on persons whose politics you dis-
like, the public will know what judgment to pass on
such conduct compounded of malignity and mendacity.
It is possible that you may say the tale is not your
tale, and that you have given place to the representation
of a correspondent. But surely no journalist pretend-
ing to respectability would publish a communication
impudently addressed to her Majesty, and making so
heavy a personal charge, a charge of "crime," accord-
ing to the words of the writer, without having prepared
himself to adopt and justify it by evidence of facts.
Accusations of so very grave a sort cannot be thrown
out on the mere assertion of Correspondents, except,
indeed, in publications which, having no character for
truth, can hurt no character by their falsehoods.
I am, &c., FITZIT ARDINGE.

SUICIDE THROUGH DlSTRESS.—Thursday
an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Bell, Red
Lion market, St. Luke's, on the body of Thomas Myatt,
a tailor, aged 25. Elizabeth Myatt, deceased's sister, de-
posed that she resided with her brother at No. 3,Bunhill-
row, St. Luke's. For the last two months deceased had
been in a low, desponding state, and, at times, would stand
for an hour, looking in a most vacant manner, and then
complain of a shade being before his eyes. He had been a
long time out of employ, and she attributed his despond-
ency to that. He would go out, and stop away from home
at nie:ht, roaming about the fields. A short time since a
friend of her brother's destroyed himself by hanging,
hold of a paper which contained an ac-
count of eo,fgttitheeinngquest, cut that part out of it, and had car-
ried it about with him ever since. On Wednesday after-
noon she left home, about a quarter-past seven o'clock
in the evening when she returned, on going up stairs,
found the room in darkness, and, feeling about, disco-
vered the deceased hanging to the bedpost. An alarm
was raised, and be was cut down. Mr. Mather, a sur-
geon, was sent for, but he could do nothing for him. The
deceased, when six months old, was knocked down by a
gentleman's horse and his head injured. Verdict—Tem-
porary insanity.
Mr. Charles Ketnble has arrived in Paris, his
numerous friends will be gratified to learn, in a state of
convalescence, after his long and severe illness.