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London, England, 1841-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBIZR 2g, _ 4_l.

amount of bank paper in circulation between
the years 1817 and 1841, which puts to the route
a whole army of errors. In the former year the
Bank of England circulation was 3),000,000/, and
the country bank circulation of England, ac-
cording to Mr. M'CULLOCH, not less than
20,000,0001., making an aggregate for England
and Wales of 50,000,0001. bank-notes in circula-
tion. In-December, 1841, the joint circulation
of all the banks of issue in England and Wales
was about the half of this sum, or 9.5,463,309.1.
There has been, then, a great and a continual
decrease in the amount of bank-notes in circula-

tion for the last twenty years. In the same
period, however, the population and trade in the
country have continually increased, and it is
probable that by means of 25,000,0001. notes in
1841, at least one-half more business is trans-
acted than by the 50,000,0001 notes in 1817. At
the same time, as the Times, with a view of
frightening the isle from its propriety, informed
the public, a few day ago, there has been a great
increase within a few years of joint stock banks—
thus confirming Mr. KENNEDY'S statement,
that as banks are multiplied the issue of promis-
sory notes decreases. Thus a great and con-
tinuous reduction of bank-note circulation has
accompanied, and must accompany, an increase
in banking facilities. There are a great number
of important deductions from this view of the
subject, but we must content ourselves with
stating that the issue of bank paper, to which so
much good and evil, is attributed is of much
less influence than is generally supposed.

The Paris Journals of Monday contain but
little political news of any interest. Their in-
dignation against the Government, which they
regard as bent upon the destruction of the free-
dom of the Press, engages their attention to the
exclusion of nearly every other topic. The Dc-
hats and the Presse alone support the policy of
'the Cabinet, but yet with reservations which in-
dicate that they would rather certain stretches
of power were not had recourse to by the Go-
vernment.

The Presse repeats its former account of the
decline of British influence in the East. In
confirmation of its statements it quotes the fol-
lowing extract from a letter from Alexandria of
the 7th inst. quoted by the Commerce :
" You must not fancy that British influence is so
powerful here as is imagined in. Europe. The Pacha is
fearful of the English ; he therefore does not act openly,
but he loses no opportunity of using underhand means of
showing his aversion to them. In Syria they are not in
an enviable situation. A red coat cannot show itself in
the country without an escort of a hundred men. If the
English penetrate into the mountain districts, they must
lake off their uniforms, and declare themselves Catho-
lics. They lately attempted to take away from the
Druses the arms lately. attempted
themselves given to these
mountaineers for the purpose of insurrection, but they
did riot succeed.
" Mehemet Ali is deluding both Russia and England,
because he first of all wishes to make himself secure ;
but he acknowledges that, in spite of her late conduct,
France alone possesses his sympathies, and those of the
people of Egypt and Syria."
We shall not contest the statements of the
French Journals upon this question. That ME
HEMET Am should profess to tear the only Power
that left him at the mercy of his enemies,
when he trusted to her for support, is something
more than improbable. But if by such braggart
unfounded boasting as this, the self-love of the
French people is at all gratified, we shall not be
at the trouble of disquieting them.
The following mysterious statement appears in
the Temps. We must say that we attach not the
least importance to it. It appears to us a fiction,
but if true the concealed persons were very likely
thieves. In France treason assails Royalty at
noon-day encircled by the national chivalry :

" A few nights ago three persons got secretly into the
little park of St. Cloud, and were proceeding by stealth
towards the palace, when they were seen by a sentinel,
who cried out " Qui vive," to which they replied "Ronde
de surveillance." The sentinel having desired them to
advance, they did so, but no sooner were they close to
him than one of them attempted to take his musket from
him, another struck him on the side, and the third seized
him by the throat, as if for the purpose of strangling-
him. In the struggle of the sentinel to extricate himself,
the musket went off, and his assailants, alarmed lest the
report should bring assistance to the spat, made their
escape. Some doubt was at first entertained as to the
truth of the story told by the sentinel, but drops of
blood were found on his cross-belts, although he was not
wounded, from which it is inferred that one of the assail-
ants had received a wound in the struggle, and his sides
were found to be severely bruised by the blows which he
had received. He stated that he could only distinguish
the. person of one of the assailants, who, he said, was
respectably dressed."
The following extracts include all the miscel-
laneous news in the French papers :
A letter from Copenhagen, in the Bamburgh Gazette,
states that two delegates from the Anabaptists of Eng-
land have recently presented a petition to the King of
Denmark, soliciting the liberation of two of their com-
munity, who had been arrested in his dominions. The
King replied that they should be immediately set at
liberty, if, they would give a formal promise to abstain
from all acts affecting public worship, until it should be
legally decided within what liMits they might enjoy the
liberty of exercising their religion. The imprisoned
parties replied that their consciences would not allow
them to submit to such a stipulation ; and so they re-
main in confinement.

Extract of a letter from Beyrout, 29th ult., in the
Semaphore of Marseilles:—" Some Protestant Ministers,
having obtained a few proselytes, had proposed to build
a church at Chawaifat, a village to the north-east of
Beyrout, but the English Consul has diverted them
from their purpose, as being likely to call down
the anathemas of the Patriarch, not only on the
Protestants, but on the English in general. There
has just been decided a suit between the nephew of
the Emir Bechir, now at Malta, and the three sons of

the Emir Youssuf, of which the following is the
foundation. When the old Emir Bechir, 35 years
ago, treacherously seized the three unhappy brothers,
put out their eyes, and cut out their tongues, he divided
their domains between his own three sons and his ne-
phew. Since the publication of the hatti-scheriff, and
the loss of power of the old Etnir, the three victims of
his barbarity have reclaimed their property. The ne-
phew refused to restore his share of the spoil, on the
ground that the claimants were precluded of their right
by lapse of time, but our Cadi has given proof of his
justice by decreeing an entire restitution to the rightful
owners.'

The following railroad accident is related by the Me-
morial Bordellis to have taken place on Tuesday last :
" The branch leading from the Bordeaux and Teste road
to St. Medard had not been closed, through negligence,
and the live o'clock train consequently deviated
into it, and came in contact with four waggons,
two of which were laden with earth. The shock was
so violent, that these last two were broken into frag-
ments, and the others thrown upwards of 300 yards
along the rails. Through a wonderful piece of good
fortune, not a single passenger was hurt, and the men
on the engine escaped as by a miracle. Signals being
made, another locomotive was brought and drew the
train back into the right•line, and then on as far as
Gazinet. Here, however, the axletree of the tender
broke, and the whole of the passengers were obliged to
pass the night on the road, and did not reach Teste till
five o'clock the next morning. The same fate•befel
those who took their departure from Teste for Bordeaux
at the same hour, and who did not arrive at their desti-
nation till seven in the morning."

Three days ago, the body 01 a gardener, named Theu-
nis, was found on the railway near Antwerp, with the
head actually severed from it. An Antwerp journal
states that there is every reason to believe that the man
had placed himself across the rails in order that he might
thus put an end to his existence. This is the second
instance of such a suicide.
On the night of the 28th ult., during the voyage of
the Tancrede French steamer from Constantinople to
Smyrna, a seamen, who was entrusted in the Sea of
Marmora with two bundles of despatches for the shore,
fell into the sea as he was getting into the boat, and
every attempt to save him was for a long time fruitless.
At length, however, when all hope was nearly at an end,
they heard a voice exclaim " Fear nothing, I am safe,"
and sending a boat to the spot from which the voice pro-
ceeded, the poor fellow was found with his arms out of
water grasping the despatches, of which notwithstand-
ing his danger he had kept last hold.
The Memorial de Rouen gives the following from Bar-
neville, in the Eure : —" A young female, apparently at
her ease as to fortune, and who had evidently been accus-
tomed to superior society, some time ago fixed her resi-
dence at Barneville, where she continued to live in a state
of seclusion, having for her companion only a female ser-
vant, who did not, however, sleep in the house. Re-
cently, this lady, whose name was Mademoiselle V—,
lost the key of the outer door of her house, and had an-
other one made. Shortly afterwards, on returning
home in the evening, she heard a noise in her bed-
room, and having called in the neighbours, and
made a search, a young man of Barneville, was found
concealed in a chest. His answers to the questions
which were put to him left no doubt that his object was
theft, but Mdlle.V— entreated, from considerations for
his aged mother, that he might not he prosecuted. He
was arrested, however, and when called upon formally to
defend himself, he had the infamy to declare that he
was a lover of the female, in whose house he had been
found, and that she herself had given him the key of
the outer door, in order that he might enter. Mdlle.
V—, on hearing how she had been calumniated, was so
much affected, that taking one of the loaded pistols,
which she kept by her as a security against housebreak-
ing, she put its point to her breast and fired. She died
a few hours afterwards in great suffering."'
The following horrible murder was committed a few
days ago at Hurtrel, in the Vancluse, by a farm servant,

named Montjalard, aged 20, on the person of a female
servant named Saignon, aged 25, who was in a state of
pregnancy by the murderer. In order to conceal the
connection between them, and avoid the consequences,
the murderer induced his vi,tira during the night to
leave the house where they 1.1%-:?(1 and walk with him.
Having arrived near a deep well, he threw her in. The
poor girl in falling caught at the branch of a tree which
was hanging in the well, as low as the surface of the
water, and entreated mercy. The ruffian however threw
an enormous stone at her, in hope of forcing her to let
go her hold, but as the stone missed her he left his vic-
tim for a time to go and fetch his gun, and on his return,
finding that she was still clinging to the branch, he pre-
tended to take pity on her, and gave her his hand to raise
her out of the well. She- had no sooner, however, got
out than he struck her violently on the head with the
butt end of his gun, and repeated the blows until he had
crushed her scull. The murderer returned home tran-
quilly, but was soon after arrested, when he confessed
his critne, and related these horrible details.
A disgusting scene was witnessed at Toulouse a few
days since. Two women, of the lowest class had a
quarrel, and set to fighting in the street ; when one of
them, who was pregnant, received a kick from the other
which caused her death the day following.
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, Ist inst. :
" Said Bey is still treated with great consideration by
the Government, and it ip affirmed that his suit for the
hand of the young Sultana Adiieh, who is only eleven
years old, has been favourably- received. Preparations
are making for some grand ceremony. Large purchases
of silks and furs have been effected for the Sultan's
harem. We shall not therefore be surprised if, in a short
time, an intimate alliance between the Sultan and Me-
hemet Ali is formed."
The. frigate La Forte, of 60 guns, which has been
twelve years on the stocks at Cherbourg, was launched
a few days ago.
The Gazette d' Auvergne says :—" On Saturday last
the soldiers in garrison at Clermont, after removing the
barricades which they had erected in their defence at the
Place d'Espagne, the Poterne, and all the streets leading
to the Hotel-de-Ville, returned to their barracks, and
the free passage of the streets was again restored. On
the same day the Cathedral was re-opened, and public
worship recommenced. Some more arrests have been
made at Clermont,. and some of the small towns in its
neighbourhood. The total number of arrests is 125."
The Correctional Tribunal of Paris was yesterday oc-
cupied with the trial of eighteen more of the men arrested
during the recent disturbances in the Faubourg St. An-
toine. Acquin, a hair-dresser, was sentenced to fifteen
months' imprisonment, and a fine of 100 francs. All
the rest received judgments of from three months down
to five days' confinement, except an Englishman, named
Hewett, who excused himself on the ground that being
a foreigner, and not acquainted with the laws and cus-
toms of the country, he did not know that the rolling
of the drum meant that the crowd should disperse, and
upon this plea got off with only twenty-four hours' in-
careration. One man only was acquitted.
The Rouen journals give an account of an accident
which happened, a few days ago, to the steam. boat
Union, No. 1. She had left La Bouille, in the evening,
with upwards of 400 passengers, many of them return
ing from the fair of Bourg Achard, and . had arrived
off Dieppedalle, when the boiler exploded, and all were
soon covered with smoke and flame, water and
steam. The alarm and confusion on board was na-
turally great, but, fortunately, a number of boats
came off from the shore, and took about 200 in, though
with great difficulty and delay, on account of the dark-
ness, and most of the people being females. Two men
jumped into the from the cabin, and one woman, in her
terror, threw herself from the deck, but they were all
saved. The .steamer being thus lightened, and the
flames got under, the rest, with the crew, waited the ar-
rival of the Union No. 2, which left La Bouille an hour
later, and, on coming up, took the disabled vessel in tow,
and brought her safe up-to Rouen. It appears that no
one received any injury beyond some slight contusions.
" About a hundred workmen," says the Moniteur Par i-
Lien, " left Paris on Wednesday for Havre to embark in
the Caroline for Brazil, with the intention of establishing
a phalansterian colony in the country. A second and
more numerous emigration of workmen of this society is,
it is added, to take place in a few months." The same
journal informs us that the Abbey of Citeaux, with all its
dependencies in the department of the Cote-d'Or, has
just been purchased _by Mr. Young for the purpose
of converting it into a -phalanstere upon the principles
of Fonder.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 27. _

?Int Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pm., Price
french 5 ner Cents. ex. div. 114 55 ... 114 69 ... 114 54) ... 114 50
44 per Cents 10.'• 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50 ... 105 50
4 per Cents l)7 50 .. 97 50 ... 50 .. 97 50
3 per Cents 79 79 ... 78 10 79
Rink of Trance
Leine /tank I,ooof. Starer 1025 —11'25 ...11.21
...Irian Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
per Cents., 1840 104% ... 104% ... 1044 ... 1944
ipanish Active.... .........» 124 ... 224 ... u 2% ... 22%
. .
Neapolitan ........ 105 .5 —. 105 25 —. I'ls 25 .05 y 5
Roman 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034

NAIEWAY A IlEg.

R. Germain --
--
725 ... 721+ ... 723 .... 725
• •
Versailles. L 8..... 206 25 .. 206 25 ... 205 ... 205
K. B
Rouen 4no ... 450 ... 4 nil ... 450
Orleans:.
HELL; t Aft! P !LNlls—BaussaLai, SEPT. 25
• Actual Debt, 25i pet Ccnt.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, t per Cent 93
--- 3 per Cynt.
----Thirty .11gV en ---.---.
(1 S4O) ----"' •• •
I 2 71%
---------
Loan of City, 1'232, 4 per Cent 1)0!4
Society of Coronwrce, 4 ki per Cent 933,
Bank of Belgium', 5 per Cent .. 14
Nationa IS4ciety .
Exchange on Lund,' (short)
Brussels Papers, Sept. 25.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIaNNA, SEPT. 19
rise per Cants. Metalliques
Four per Cents. psg
Three per Cents.
Bank Shan., :563
...Alizenteine &Using. Sept. 22
HA SIBURG BORSENHALLE, SEPT. 24.
Bills. Money
107%

Austrian syer Cents.

share-!

—..—.. .
Amirlo-11.ussian Loan 10.% 10S%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series IOIA 101 k
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th

Series .... ........ ... ..... ....... ........... .. ...... 984 98
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)..... ..... „..„„ ....... ..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
N'swegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Ciro:. ..
SpAnish„ New 5 per Cents.... lsg

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EXCHANGES; ON LONDON.
!Umatilla, SEPT. 24.-13 0.2.—Tw0 months, 13 4N.
PETPRSIIIMGII, SEPT. 14.-1 wo months, 39 pence.
RIGA, SEPT. Hi —Three Months, 394 v.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, SEPT. 1.1.
Bitls Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 41,,, per cent. lOO4 10414
Prussian English Loan, 1&.30, 4 per cent 102
igxclmnge on Landon, three months 6 19,Ai -
-Prussian State Gazette. Sept. 19.

BENEFIT SOCIETIES AND THE CORN-LAWS.-It is said
that the funds of Benefit and other similar Societies are
fast: disappearing in the manufacturing districts. We
cannot-conceive a greater calamity for the morality and
tranquillity of the people, than that the classes who,
by such institutions have provided for the casualites of
life, should now be obliged to devour their resources,
and become, in any time of trouble or difficulty,
wholly dependant on the parish. When we reflect,
too, ow the evils which the Corn-laws inflict on the re-
cipients of the funds of Benefit Societies, we know not
if any of their effects sets their inhumanity in a
clearer light. We know a case, for example, and
we dare say there are hundreds and thousands of similar
cases, of a hard working man who has for many years
subcribed to a Benefit Society ; he is now sick, and his
club allows his wife Bs. a week to maintain her sick
husband, herself, and a family of four young children.
The payment does not rise with the price of food, but as
this rises the value of the Bs. is diminished. Now the
Corn-law, without a pretence of affording them any re-
muneration, cuts a large slice off her loaf and her
children's loaf, and they must cry for food, perhaps perish
of hunger, that the mortgaged acres of the landlords
may be preserved. A sick husband, a hard working
man when in health, his industrious wife, and their
children, must all give a portion of their poor
pittance of Bs. a week to swell the rent-roll of the Duke
of Buckingham and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Justice and hunianity cry aloud against such a flagrant
violation of their laws. But what happens in this case
happens to all the pensioners on these savings-of labour-
funds throughout the empire. All these humble people
subsisting on 55., Gs. or Bs. a week, must give of their
little to add to the great heaps of the nobles of the land.

• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET—WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
BETTING.—CESAREWITCH STAKES.
6 to 1 ngst The Squire—taken
' 12 to 1 agst iliona—taken freely
18 to l'agst Zelmyra—taken •
20 to 1 agst Flambeau—taken
22 to 1 agst Bosphorus—taken
' 50 to 1 agst Errnengardis—taken
THE DERIIY.
18 to 1 agst Attila—taken
20 to 1 agst Wiseacre—taken
26 to 1 agst Hester c
50 to 1 agst Joanna c—taken
OAKS.
50 to 1 agst Eusebia—taken
Entry for the D. I. Plate (Wednesday).—E. 0. and
Flambeau.
Handicap Sweepstakes TX.C.—(Wednesday).—Ma-
rifler, Jabot, Bst, f by Bciram out of Dahlia, Bst ; Haitoe
by Sir Hercules, out of Apparition, Bst 41b, and f by St.
Patrick, d by Emelius, Bst 41b.
St. Leger (Wednesday).—Joachim, Syria, Simoom,
Thistle Whipper, Palremon, and Jack Sheppard, are
scratched, and St. Cross is not here.

SEPT.SAVINGS BANKS, W 0
`'WORCESTER, 2B.
—(Fitom A CORRESPONDENT.)—Peers statement con-
cerning the Savings' Banks is, so far as the manufactur-
ing poor are concerned, unfair. In the months which he
has purposely
picked out of the twelve, large sums are
paid for harvest-work, and there can hardly be any doubt
but that the deposits he so plausibly and
.cunningly re-
fers to arose from this source.
R A ILwAys.—We. understand that a railway is
pr.jected between Aberdeen and Ranchory-Ternan. We be-
lieve that it will be the commencement of the best line of a
railway between Aberdeen, Perth, and Glasgow, and form a
direct Communication with the whole of the English railways.
This line offers fewer great obstructions than any line between
Aberdeen and Perth which has yet been mentioned. The
railway now
pro might easily be joined by the Dundee,
Arbroath, and Forfar Railways, thus making a grand northern
line, conneetheg the five largest towns in Scotland—viz., Glas-
gow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Perth, and an im-
mense number oftowns of less importance.—Aberdeen Journal.
An author that lived somewhere has such a
brilliant wit, that he contracted to light the parish with
it, and did it.