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MONEY MARKET and 07. %.ITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The innocei it holders of the
spurious Exchequer bills have in )t received much
consolation from theannouncernt ;nt. that a Royal
Commission is to be issued to inquire into so
much of the manner in which thE fraud of Smith
and Rapallo was perpetrated as may elicit infor-
mation tending to secure the put the against simi-
lar frauds in future. The inq airy which the
bona fide holders of the ;spurious paper call for is
into their own perfect hon.c.:sty, an d into the entire
freedom from suspicion with -whic; i : they lent their
money on the bills deposited; i nt o the perfect
impossibility also of their boiL a ble to distin-
guish genuine from fictitious. Th e test of the
counterfoils, resorted to by the i F xcl iequer,shows
that the public could not possibly d etect the spu.
rious,paper, and
.that the Gover. 1111 E :nt adopted a
methoLl ofdeciding on that point t .ota tly apart from
the signatures. If, however, ti: Le d isposal of the
bills impounded at the Exchec nwv,, to wait the
directions of the Lords of the T rea '...4ury, is to be
referred by their Lordships f;m• the consideration
of Parliament, and the claims of ti holders to
full compensation thus kept open and entire,
they could have no particular object ion to an in-
quiry of the special character is r co urse of pre-
paration. That inquiry, indeed,m ty be a very
proper one with the view of enabli 'lig' the Govern-
ment to re-model the Exchequ et bill depart-
ment, and to decide upon the bes t ;plan of issue
and management for the future. . In that light
the prospective character of the 1 iroposed official
inquiry seems likely to be product lye of beneficial
results. But if the inquiry pos: toss not ample
retrospective powers—if its funs 'lions shall be
restricted to protection for the future, and
do not go to the very root of 11 at extensive
fraud which has been committee it i the past, it
cannot meet the exigences 0: f the case.
It is, indeed, difficult to conceive .hc 'w the mem-
bers of any court of inquiry that: :an be issued
to inquire into the means for the future preven-
tion of fraud can avoid directing t 11, eir attention,
in the first place, into the whole facts and cir-
cumstances connected with the p; a;t commission
of it. The very guarded mature: r, however, in
which the subject is introduced tt ) public notice
has excited suspicion that the phi a of fixture in-
quiry has been resolved upon to o .ct as a blind
against investigation of what has lately taken
place. If the Commissioners, honvt :ver, extend
their inquiries into the way in v Thich Smith
passed the bills to Rap.allo, and ho w the latter
conducted his operations in order tc make them
the means of raising money, tin the channel
would be entered that, if followed ou t and traced
through all its branches, turnings, and windings,
• cou. Id not fail of eliciting the t ruth. Let full
inquiry' be instituted, so as lo bring
,the
whole ',truth to light, and Ita.tm, but not
then, the public will be satris fled. Justice
a.nds inquiry and investigation ,•into the whole
ramiccations of the Smith and Pa !pall° conspi-
The Government labour in ider complete
deluysion .:1 theYimagine that by tt trowing out a
tub to the wil' ale in the shape of inquiry into
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`reventinm fraud for the future,
the means of 1,, • 1-
ic attention ..irorn insisting
they can draw oft.i. past shall be
'ery of the
that the whole mys,
brought to light. into :he awkward
entering Without again .
alto
Queen wed to g'set
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manner in which Rapallo was ,
away, .his admission as approver, Px fl,rown
evidence, after the law officers of the I+ •It I
must have been perfectly well aware that Sm.,
would plead guilty, and that no evidence would-
be required against him, makes it plain to the '
dullest capacity that there were reasons for the
blundering line of conduct pursued, which have
beenstudiously concealed. There are three sepa-
rate points involved:-Ist. Compensati©n to the
innocent holders; 2d. Discovery and punishment
of all the confederates of Smith and Rapallo;
and idly. Protection against similar frauds
in future. The Government, by their expected
commission, appear to have begun at the wrong
end, by taking up the third point before settling
the first and second. We doubt much, however,
whether they can arrive at any satisfactory opi-
nion on the third point, without instituting such
inquiry as must throw great light upon the se-
cond ; and by doing so clearly establish the jus-
tice of the first. No Jury would give a verdict
in favour of the Crown against the holders, on
the plea of forgery, as tested by the counter-
foils. Such a plea, we imagine, is totally un-
known in our 'law courts as sufficient to establish
forgery. The Government officers declared a
large portion of the unfunded bills to be genuine,
when they compared them with reference to their
whole ex facie appearance. Printing, plate,
numbers, seals, signatures, and all were admitted
to be unexceptionable, and it was only on second
thoughts and after such admissions, that by the
mechanical process of testing by the counterfoils
they came to the conclusion of changing their
opinions and pronouncing those instruments to
be forged which they previously declared to be
genuine.
HERALD.—The article in this morning's He-
rald about the Exchequer-bill business has made
quite a sensation, and the remarks are in every
body's mouth. An Evening paper, however, ob-
serves that the Herald should now speak out
about " the names" of the parties implicated.
Our Contemporary is too insidious. But in fact,
if speaking out is to be the order of the day,
there is another Morning Paper which should
be the first to speak out, as it was the first to al-
lude to " two Noble Lords" implicated by report
in the bill transactions, before the rumour,
although known for days before, was noticed un-
this head, and a Marquis and Viscount noticed
by title as the parties pointed at.
It is right to notice that a meeting of the Com-
mittee of the Stock Exchange was held to-day,
and lasted a considerable time. It is understood
that the subject of discussion was this Exche-
quer bill affair, with a view to afford all the in-
formation possible for unravelling its compli-
cated frauds to the commission said to be ap-
pointed for the purpose of investigation by the
Government.
TIMES.—From facts that have recently trans-
pired, it appears that the failure of Mr. Howe, of
the Stock Exchange, which was announced in
October, was occasioned by an order from a party
in Calais to make operations in Spanish Stock.
• • nrincipal it seems did not come forward in
therefore Mr. Howe was left Ha-
- -ces, which were very large.
-sed at the non-appear-
-,..counts" usually
-re usually
the

Tint
flue time, i—
biv fur the dilYert—

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germ 611fpri*e 18 expru....
Agee of the annual "finance

faidiiefore Parliament, and which
published d few weeks after the close 0.
session. That there ftillOt have been some con-
fusion in the department of the late Chancellor
of the Exchequer, through the time 01 which
the Ministry to which he belonged broke tip,
and difficulty in the adoption by his successor
of such accounts as he had to hand over to him,
may be readily imagined as a cause for 'some
delay, but cannot account for so long a procras-
tination. The hope, therefore, is that the time
has been spent in reforming or altering the plan
of those accounts, without which they cannot be
or much use to members of Parliament, or repay
the trouble crf investigating such a mass of figures.
The premium on gold at Paris is 6 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 25. 30, and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25. 471, it follows that gold is
0.70 per cent dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 42g per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 31.175. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.61, and the exchange at
Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 8, it
follows that gold is 0. 69 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on Lon-
don is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange
between England and America being 109 23-40
per cent., it follows that the exchange is O. 18
per cent. in favour of England. But the quoted
exchange at New York, being for bills at 60
days' sight, the interest must be added to the
above difference.
SUN.—The Funds were to-day somewhat flatter, and
sales of about 50,0001. stock by the Bank broker and
others, in addition to minor parcels, led to a slight re-
duction in prices. Consols, for Money, have been
marked 89i, and for the Account 88k to 89, at which
they closed. Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 10s. pre-
mium, and East India Bonds ls. to 2s. premium. Bank
Stock was worth 165 k ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. brought 98i to 99 ; and the Three per Cents.
88i to 891.
All the Foreign Bonds were dull. Brazil Stock was
done at an improvement to 641 ; Spanish Active Bonds
i;
were at 231 to 23i ; Portuguese, New, at 23 Mexican
at 26; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 52 to 51i
Shares were not so brisk to-dal. Great Western,
New, were 91 ; Goslort Junction, 6 ; London and Bir-
mingham, New, 244 ; York and North Midland, New,
16 ; and South Western, 19k premium. Brighton were
12 ; Blackwall, 14i ; North Midland, 29 ; and Man-
chester and Leeds, 51 discount. Union Bank of Lon-
don Shares were discount.
There was less business doing in the Exchanges to-