The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-29 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON.

We were favoured on Monday with a private view of
a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, which has been
painted by Lady Burghers!), and is to be seen at
Messrs. Welch and Gwynne's, in St. James's-street,
and from which an cngiaving is now being executed by
Hodgetts. The painting represents his Grace sitting
in a small inn near the village of Waterloo, busily en-
gaged writing home his official account of that celebrated
battle. The likeness is a strong one, and the colouring
throughout the picture is effective, without being at all
gaudy or exaggerated.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(TUESDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—In the early part of the day the
English funds improved + per cent. on the closing quota-
tions of yesterday, Consols being quoted at 91+ sellers
for the Account. This rise was produced from a general im-
pression that the difficulties attending the Eastern question
had been much exaggerated yesterday, and that the affair
would terminate in negotiation. The advance, however,
was not fully supported, the closing prices being 91-k for
the Account, and 90i for Money. Exchequer Bills were
quoted Is. lower, being 235. to 255. prem.

TIMES.—The causes of the fall of yesterday in the
funds are beginning to be more clearly understood, and it
is now well ascertained that it would have been far less
in extent, and consequently have excited much less
attention, had not the peculiar situation of the market
assisted and increased the effect of the sales which
actually took place. The jobbers had been what is
termed " full of stock " for some days before ; there
were few speculators for the fall, and those acting for
the rise were understood to be weak, so that when the
stock was offered, which parties having a distrust in the
situation of political affairs had given instructions to sell,
confidence gave way generally. Many followed the ex-
ample set without knowing the motives for it, and other%
sold stock to cover the speculations with parties who were
supposed through their weakness to be incapable of sus-
taining any reverse. These things combined produced
the greater pact, if not all, the effect which was described
yesterday. The original sales were certainly caused
by the disclosure of the' fact of a treaty having been
concluded with three of the European Powers for the
settlement of the affairs of Turkey and Egypt, to which
France was no party, and the apprehension that England
might thereby be placed disagreeably in collision with
that Power. This was a calculation, there Fore, of future
consequences with which many other capitalists coincide,
but there was no real information of any disagreement be-
tween M. Guizot and Lord Palmerston, of which therefore
no belief now exists. The market has partially recovered
to-day, but is still lower than on Saturday, which proves
that the mere speculative transactions have adjusted them.
selves, and that the difference between the price of Con-
sols now and on Saturday represents the whole effect of the
sales prompted by the state of politics. In other respects
the prospects of the market are considered rather favour-
able than otherwise, as there is a demand for stock, which
any decline commonly brings on, for investment by the
public. The notion of a speculation for the rise prevails,
however, in hardly any quarter.

SUN.—The exports of bullion from the port o
London, in the week ending Thursday last, were as fol.
lows :
Gold Coin to Ceylon
••• Boulogne B7
Silver Coin Hamburgli
.. Rotterdam
Silver Bars Ditto 4,000
- -

The Foreign Exchanges were nearly the same this
afternoon as on last post lay. The rate for bids on
Paris was 25f. 50c. to 521 c. ;on Hamburgh 13 81 ;
and on Amsterdam 12
The Funds closed rather more buoyantly, viz.,
Consols for Money, 90i 91, and for Time, 91i to I ;
East India Stock rose to 2561. The excitement of
yesterday materially abated this afternoon.
Spanish Stock left off higher, viz., at 06-g- for the
Actives. Portuguese were depressed at 33- to 34,
Colombian at 26, and Dutch Two-and -Half per
Cents. at 53.

Shares were rather brisker, and a trifle better, than
yesterday.

THE MAILS.—WC understand that extensive
alterations are intended shortly to he made in the South and
North mails through Derby. It is believed that the night
down mail will leave London at half past eight r.st., and ar-
rive at Derby at a quarter Fist three A.M. The up mail will
leave Leeds at seven r.m., arrive at Derby at a quarter past
ten r. m., and reach London at five A.I. It is said that the
day mail will be despatched from London at half-past nine in the
morning, arrive at Derby at a quarter past four, and at Leeds at
half-past seven in the evening. The up day mail will leave
Leeds at half-past three in the incrning, arrive at Derby at
seven in the morning, and reach London at half-past one P.m.
—Derbyshire Chronicle.
I THE WEATHER.—A most welcome change
has taken place in the state of the weather, and five days have
passed without rain, or at least the showers have been so light
as to do little more than moisten the surface of the soil. The
sunshine, however, has not imparted that warmth which is so
necessary to promote vegetation, but an absence of th e torrents
of rain which have distinguished the last two months is deci-
dedly beneficial, and we begin to indulge the hope that at last
the weather has taken up, and although the harvest mast be at
least a fortnight later than was anticipated in the end of April
or beginning of May, all may yet go well, and abundance crown
the hopes of the husbandman.— Glasgow Herald.
ARCHERY.-,—The silver arrow belonging to the
Salisbury Archer Club, was shot for by that body- in their
! grounds at St. Ann's, on Thursday last, and gaimsel by Mr.
Alexander Walker.--Edinburgh Courant,

(PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The House of Lords was last night occupied by a
long discussion on the Ecclesiastical Duties and Reve-
nues Bill, which was ultimately read a second time.
The numbers on the division were :—Contents, 99 ;
non-contents, 48.—Majority, 51. The measure may
be therefore regarded as safe ; and the Tory Jour-
nals are relieved from the embarrassment which the
discussion of such a measure necessarily occasioned.
On the one hand, their professed respect for the
source whence it emanated, and the high ecclesias-
tical authority with whose approbation and sanction
it was introduced to and supported in Parliament,
strongly impelled their commendation ; while, on the
other hand, their inveterate habit of resisting all re-
form in our national institutions, however trifling the
change proposed and imperatively necessary for their
preservation, counteracted the influences to which
they would otherwise have been obedient, and reduced
them to a state of indecision at once painful to
themselves and ludicrous to beholders. At one moment
disposed to commend, in obedience to their reverence
for authority ; the next, yielding to their innate attach-
ment to corruption, they condemned the proposed
changes as fraught with danger, from the encouragement
it would afford to attempt further innovations. The
Times is " fully aware how delicate a subject this is
from its relation to the most venerable and venerated of
our establishments, and shall therefore treat it with cau-
tion." The Post prudently drops the subject as too
delicate to be touched with hands profane : the Standard
employs special pleading to explain away the obvious
meaning of the Duke of Wellington's plain and pungent
rebukes administered to the malcontents : while the
Herald opens the floodgates of its grief, and by alter-
nate lamentations and reproaches, relieves its bursting
bosom of the sorrow _which this heavy calamity to the
Church had caused to one so devoted to its interests.

(From the Standard.)
The Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill was read
a second time last night in the House of Lords, by a
majority of 99 to 48, after a debate of great length, con-
ducted with a degree of ability and dignity, of .which
few examples can be found in our time. No man, what-
ever may be his views of the question discussed, can
justly complain that his opinions were not asserted with
every possible advantage of learning and eloquence ;
as little can it be alleged that any unfair, or uncandid,l
or otherwise unbecoming arts were resorted to by the
advocates on either side. It was, in short, such a
contest as, whatever be one's feelings as to the result,
must gratify all who are sensible of the importance of
the Upper • House of Parliament maintaining its
ascendancy, in all respects, in the opinion of the people.
The first speaker alter Lord Melbourne, who con-
fined himself for the most part to quotations from the
speeches of Sir Robert Peel, and who freely acknow-
ledged the deficiency of the temporal means of religious
instruction, and the duty of the State to supply that de-
ficiency—an ackno vledgraent of importance from a
Prime Minister and the leader of the anti-Church party—
the first speaker after Lord Melbourne was the Bishop of
Winchester, who opposed the Bill in an argument of ex-
traordinary power, and concluded by moving that the Bill
be read a second time in three months. The Archbishop
of Canterbury followed on the other side with equal

force of reasoning and eloquence, and in our humble
judgment with better success. The other speakers
were, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishops of Gloucester
and Lincoln, who supported the Bill, with Lord Lyttel-
ton, Lord Devon, and the Bishops of Salisbury and
Rochester, who opposed it. We have already told the
result of the division. Our own opinions upon the sub-
ject of the important discussion have been now for more
than five years before our readers, and we have within a
few days briefly recapitulated the arguments by which
we have been brought to adopt them. We refer to the
speech of the Most Reverend Primate for proof of the
irresistible force of these arguments in abler hands.
(From the Courier.)
In the House of Lords last night, the second reading
of the Ecclesiastical Revenues Bill, on the motion of
Lord Nlelhourne, was carried by a majority of fifty-one.
This measure, it will be remembered, is chiefly founded
upon the Report of the Ecclesiastical Commission,
which, appointed in 1835, under the auspices of Sir
Robert Peel, then at the head of the Government, laid
the first result of its laborious investigation on the
table in March of the following year. The general
principle of the Bill may be collected from the Speech
addressed by the King to both Houses in 1835.
His Majesty then said—" I have appointed a Com-
mission tor considering the state of the several dio-
ceses in England and Wales, with reference to the
amount of their revenues, and to the more equal distri-
bution of episcopal duties—the state of the several
cathedral and collegiate churches, with the view to the
suggestion of such measures as may render them most
conducive to the efficiency of the Established Church,
and for devising the best mode of providing for the cure
of souls, with reference to the residence of the clergy in
their respective benefices. The especial object which I
have in view in the appointment of this commission is to
extend more widely the means of religious worship ac.
cording to the doctrines of the Established Church,
hold upon the veneration and elec.
and to confirm its
tions of my people: Lord Melbourne was prin-
cipally occupied in replying to the Counsel who had
been heard at the bar against the present Bill, and
among other things he corrected the supposition of the
Learned Gentlemen that it was intended to suppress
cathedral establishments, when, in truth, the object
was to make such a reduction as wculd furnish
funds sufficient to remedy the spiritual wants
which notoriously exist in many populous districts. If
this alleged purpose be honestly carried out, we do not
v i perce e that the Church will be injured by the sup-
pression of a few canonries, provided there be always
left a sufficient number for the performance of cathe-
dral duties.

SATURDAYThe
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Peslonjee li
PORTSMOUTH,
Bonial4ee, transport, Lieutenant Crawford, agent, is loading
in this harbour with 3,000 bags of bread, having pre-
viously taken en board at Deptford 200 tons of other pro-
on Tuesday to
visions, and she will sail join the squadrons
in China. From the period of the year at which she sails,
she will, if she pursues the usual route, meet with the north-
east monsoon; her course, therefore, to Canton will be round
the southward of New Holland, and making a swe,p among the
Pacific Islands, will approachthe China Sea from the eastward.
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY. —Orders came
down on Thursday for Captain Cater and Lieutenant Collis, of
the Royal Marines, with 60 rank and file, to embark in the
Cambridge, 78, for the Mediterranean; and at the same time
Captain Steele and Lieutenant Parke, Royal Marine
Artillery,
with 60 men, were ordered to embark in the Pique, Captain
Boxer. The Pique sailed this afternoon for Gibraltar, and
h for Lieut.-Colonel W. Walker, and ' will call at Plymouth ker, some
additional Marines for the same destination. Captain Steele
takes with him a field train of artillery. The Pique, after
landing the Marine Artillery at Gibraltar, will immediately re-
turn to this port. The Revenge, 78, has sailed from Lisbon
far the Mediterranean.
On Saturday last the very valuable Indian sword,
presented by the late Earl of Dalhousie to the Royal Company
of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, was shot
for in Hope Park, and won by Nathaniel Spens, Esq., younger
of Craigsanquhar.—Edininirgh Courant.

Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For West India Rum
of all descriptions there has been a brisk demand,
both for home consumption and export; prices
have improved Id for Leewards, and 2d for Jamaica;
of the former the large quantity of 380 puns have been
disposed of, proofs at 3s 81d to 3s 9d, 3 to 4 per cent.
over proof at 3s *lto 3s 10d, 6 to 18 over 3s 101 d to 4s 6d,
20 to 30 over 4s 9d to 5s Gd, 30 to 40 over os 7d to 6s;
the purchases in the latter have amounted to 320 puns,
26 to 30 per cent. over proof at 6s to 6s 2d, 32 to 39
over 6s 3d to 6s Bd, fine 6s 9d to 7s ; superior
high flavour 7s Id to is 3d, and fur a very fine
parcel the high price of 7s 8•1 has been paid.
We quote Cognac, first brands, of the vintage of 1836,
5s 2d in hhds, in puns 5s ; ditto 1837, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ;
ditto 1838, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; ditto 1839, puns and
hhds 4s 4d to 4s 6d per gallon. Geneva has been in good
request for export at 2s to 2s Bd, which is 2d higher: for
home consumption 2s 4d to 2s 6d has been paid for small
parcels of fine quality. British Corn Spirits at lOs 2cl
to lOs 31.
TALLOW.—Tho demand for Russian Tallow on the
spot has been limited since this day week. Holders have
accepted Ms to Ms Gd for Petersburg Yellow Candle of
first quality, being a reduction on former rates of Gd to 91
per ewt. For delivery in the last three months there are
sellers at Ms Gd per cwt.
This afternoon for Russian Tallow the nearest quota-
tions, were Ms 6d to 51s 9d on the spot for Petersburg
Yellow Candle, and 52s for delivery in the last three
months.

TEA. —ln the early part of last week there was a good
demand for Free Trade Tea of all descriptions by private
contract, and prices slightly improved.
To-day the market was dull for Free Trade Tea, and
some parties being desirous to sell for cash, they have
been compelled to submit to reduction on last week's
rates of Id per lb, and have taken 2s Id to 2s lid for com-
mon coagou, and 2s ld for ordinary Twankay. In the
speenfatiyo market. there was scarcely any business doing.
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by private contract large parcels have been disposed of at
3d to 6d advance ; 14s to 14s 6d for good middling white.
Java by private contract 6d above previous prices. Caro-
lina for home use at 34s to 365. For exportation at 21s to
23s per cwt. This afternoon at public sale 498 bags Ben-
gal sold at 13s 6d to 14s for middling White but dusty ;
Java in good request.
ltintoo.—Since we last wrote the shippers have pur-
chased freely of all good and fine descriptions of Bengal
at the quarterly sale ; nearly all brought forward his keen
disposed of ; prices have improved and rule from April
sales' rates to 3d per lb discount.
To-day the quantity passed auction was 1,236 chest's
(including 486 withdrawn). The biddings were more lan-
guid to-day, and although the proprietors bought in 340
chests, and withdrew a further quantity of :80 chests,
prices were again lower, say good and fine 9d, and defec-
tive and ordinary is to is 6d per lb upon the last auctions.
CINNAMON.—At the quarterly sale which took place
yesterday there were few parties present, and little spirit
existed in the biddings, yet there was a fair demand for
Ceylon of first and second quality ; the former maintained
last sales' rates, and in some cases went 2d above them,
whilst the latter brought 3d advance for good and fine
sorts. Company's was the most in request: third sorts
maintained former rates, and the demand was steady.
Broken went off slowly, at previous prices : of the Tell'.
cherry a small part only was actually disposed of. Malabar
was all taken in.

SPICES.—This .afternoon 96 bags black Pepper at

auction sold at stiff prices, viz.—ordinary stalky and dusty
Sumatra at 3ad to 31d, and middling Malabar 4d Fr lb.
67 chests Cloves sold at 2s 5d to 2s 6d for good bright
Bencoolen ; 2; 84 for fine, and small dark Amboyna at is
4d to is sd, fine is 91 to is 10d, which is rather higher,
4 chests Nutmegs went at advanced rates; fine bold
brown Sincapore at 6s 4d, fair consumers 4s sd, from the
Cape 3s 10d.—Mace dull, and a part only of 17 pkgs at

public sale sold at easier rates, middling bright went at 5s
3d to 5s Bd, middling dark mixed and mouldy 4s 5d to 4s
6d. The inquiry for Cassia Lignea increases, but holders
are still reluctant to sell; 78a has been paid for a parcel
of low middling quality of old importation.
OILS.—The demand for common Fish Oils continues
on the increase for home use. Seal at an advance on
formee rates of 206 to 30s per tun ; pale at 27/ 10s to 28/,
yellow and brown 25/ 103 to 261 15s. Southern at 241 to
25/ for middling to good quality. Cod at 29/. Southern
Whale at 231 15s to 2515 s for middling to fine quality.
Pale Seal for arrival at 27/ 10s. Sperm 951 to 961 for fit st
quality. Linseed Oil on the spot at 25s 9:1 to 26R, for
forward delivery 26s 3d to 26s 6th Rape 38s a 38s 6d for
pale, and 37s a 37s 6d for brown. Palm at 37/ to 371 10s
per tun. In East India Cocoa Nut former rates have been
fully supported.

MONNIOUTIL—EXTRAORDINARY TURNIP.—
A turnip of an extraordinary size, for the season of the year,
was, this week, taken up from a garden on the Castle-hill, be-
longing to Mr. Dawe, chemist, of this town, which measured
thirty-five inches and a half in circumference, and weighed six
pounds and an ounce ; it was perfectly sound and well shaped.
—Hereford Times.
A NOVEL DINNER PARTY.--A Correspondent
from Cardiff furnishes us with the following description of a
dinner party, which met in that town last week, and who were
witnesses in a cause wherein R. D. Gough, Esq., was defen-
dant
:—" This youthful group, in all about thirty, met to-
gether at the Horse Shoes tavern, in this place, where a good
repast was provided by the respected host and hostess, Mr. i
and Mrs. 11I•Leonard. On this interesting occasion ,
the worthy landlord presided, and to oblige my self-grati- I
fication, I just looked in, where I found the Chairman sup-
ported on his right hy young John Griffith. of the parish of
Llanguicke, with his curling locks, smiling o'er the age of 93; '
on the left was his youthful comrrde, Thomas Bowen, only 90.
The Vice-Chair was very ably and facetiously filed by Thomas
Griffiths, of the parish of Cadokton-juxta-Neath, aged 89 ;
next sat David John, of Llanguicke, in his 84th year ; William I
Williams, ditto, 83; Rees, George, Llangavelach, 89; John !
Bryant, Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, 80; Morgan Rees, Llan-
guicke, 80; Ezekiel Williams, ditto, 60; Jenkin Williams,
Langatock, 79. So that the first nine of this juvenile party
amounted to 839 years. Of the remainder, tho ages varied
from 62 to 76. Joke and anecdote filled up the va-
cuum of the afternoon, and I can assure you, many a tale
was again recounted of hy-gone scenes, of early mountain
I' frolic, and of fun.— Comir,an. 1
MANCHESTER, .JULY 27.—Last night the ex- 1
1 teosive cotton manufactory of Messrs. Samuel Stocks and Son,
situated at Heaton Mersey, was totally destroyed by fire. The
building was upwards of forty yards in length, about twelve or 1
fourteen yards wide, and s.2ven stories high. Nothin,, like an 1
heard
it estimate of loss can yet be formed; I have
it variously stated at from 15,000/. to 30,000/. The origin of
the fire is wholly unaccounted for. It is a matter of deep re-
gret
to knew, that between 600 and 700 hands will necessarily
be thrown out of employment by this calamity.
GREAT MEETING Or THE BRONISGROVE
OPERATIVE REPORMERS,—On Wednesday a public dinner of
the Operative Reformers of Brornsgrove took place in a mam-
moth tent erected on the bowling-green of the Bell Inn, and
previously a large assemblage walked in procession through the
streets. The procession was headed by bands of music, and
adorr.ed with a profusion of banners, flags, and other parapher-
nalia usually displayed on such occasions, and between it and
the afternoon festival the ancient town of Bromsgrove had quite
a gay air.— Worcester Herald.

The Earl of DEVON, on the bringing up the Re-
port of the Select Committee on the Grammar
Schools' Bill, suggested that the Bill should be re-com-
mitted.