The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-25 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1841.

THE ANTI-CORN•LAW ALMANACK,
for 1842, being the the Twenty. seventh Year of the
Bread Tax, is now published, price, large sheet, only 2d. ;
Book, 48 pages, only 3d.
Agent for London, R. Groombridge, Panyer-alley, Pater-
noster-row.

The Almanack will be found invaluable to Free Traders.
Any person forwarding three postage stamps to J. Gadsby,
Manchester, may have a copy of the sheet sent free to any part
of the three kingdoms ; or for five pdstage stamps, a copy of
the book will be sent free in like manner.

TO WHITE LEAD, COLOUR MANUFACTURERS
AND OTHERS..
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
.THE WHOLE OF THE VALUABLE
PLANT OF THE KREMNITZ WHITE LEAD
WORKS, BELVIDERE-ROAD, LAMBETH.
These works are extensive—have beet erected in the best
and most substantial manner within the last three years, and
are admirably adapted to the manufacture of White Lead, Car-
bonate of Barytes, or any Colour or Manufacture, wherein the
use of Carbonic Acid Gas is required; there being means of
producing from common coke, 5,000 cubic feet of this gas in a
perfectly pure state, per hour.
There is a Dissolving Vessel of copper, capable of containing
3,000 gallons, and a Precipitating Do. of 2,000 gallons. Very
large and superior Backs, two Hydraulic Presses, viz. a 15 .inch
Ram and a 6-inch do. with pumps complete. The Presses have
been proved under a pressure of five tons per square inch,
Drying Rooms, capable of drying 12 tons of White Lead per
day, Coke Ovens, Reverberatory Furnaces, Colour Mills ; in
short, every requisite for manufacturing in the best manner, on
an extensive scale.

For particulars, apply to Mr. Betts, on the premises.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
WANTED TWO TRAVELLERS to
take a COMMISSION in a PATENT ARTICLE,
sold principally to Furnishing Ironmongers and Cutlers
throughout the United Kingdom; also a Commission will be
given to a Traveller doing businesa..l4h Confectioners and
Hotel Keepers. Unexceptionable. noes and Security
required. Letters, stating rout and present Line of Business,
addressed (post paid) to A. 8., care of W. S. Paterson, Esq.,
Solicitor, 7, Boaverie-street, Fleet-street, London.

The prisoners, who declined saying any thing in de-
fence, were then fully committed for, trial, and the wit-
nesses bound over to prosecute.

MONEY /11ARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE 3IORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

POST.—To judge from the well-concerted statements
we meet with in some of the newspapers, and which
may, we presume, be regarded in the light of feelers, the
Lombard-street houses are desirous of negotiating for
the temporary use of the moneys periodically paid
into the Bank en account of the Exchequer. The more
rapid and imperative mode of getting in the public re-
venue alluded to by our Contemporaries, as now in ope-
ration, aggravates beyond all question, and this in a
material degree, if indeed it does not occasion, the
sudden pressures for money which are at times so
grievously felt and so loudly complained of. Such
pressures, whether arising partially or entirely
from the causes indicated, are alike injurious and
unfair in the influence they exercise upon the
commerce of the country. The mercantile com-
munity at large is unreasonably prejudiced by
them, but it is upon the minor class of traders, including
shopkeepers and other retailers, that they bear with the
most ruinous severity. Parties of this standing are
comparatively unknown among capitalists and bankers,
so that when the adverse season sets in, they have no
alternative but to have recourse to the usurer, who is in
a situation to make his own terms, and, be those terms
10, 15, or 20, per cent., they must be patiently, if not
even thankfully, submitted to. The Bank has not, we
believe, demanded more than 5 per cent. for accommo-
dation since the year 1839, yet there have, in the inter-
val, been many periods when Bank notes were not pro-
curable for ordinary discounts, and when the bankers
were driven to the Bank of England for an issue at their
rate of 5 per cent., exacting any advance on that rate
which the assistance required by the mercantile classes
might justify. From 6to 7 per cent. has been not.un-
commonly demanded and given.
It must be apparent tti every one that the periodical
accumulation in the hands of the Bank of England of
millions of the present necessarily contracted amount of
circulation, while the surplus bullion of the Bank does
not exceed four or five millions, cannot but be produc-
tive of great derangements in the Money Market. The
only remedy for such a state of things is for the Bank to
lend out the public moneys accumulated to trustworthy
persons at a rate of interest somewhat below that at
which they make their ordinary advances preparatory to
the close of the financial quarter. The object would
thus be attained ; but the jealousy the Directors would
have to encounter, and the difficulty of making pre-
ferences that might be most consonant with the general
interest, form what many may think an almost insuper-
able barrier to the successful adoption of any expedient
of that nature..

The Lombard-street houses feel, we dare say, the awk-
wardness of the matter ; but the suggestion made by
them through their particular organs, may possibly be
improved upon ; for it is certainly one that is entitled to
the attention of the public.

TIMES.—One remark made in the city on Lord Mont-
eagle's official notices respecting Exchequer bills is worth
repeating, which is, that though he informs the public
of the amount of bills stamped as genuine he says nothing
of those impounded as spurious. At his own proper time,
whenever that may be, this is a point which should also
he made known officially.
We are desired to state, in reference to a paragraph in
an evening paper, in which is announced, on the autho-
rity of letters from Kendal, the failure of a bank there,
" which has hitherto been considered very wealthy,"
that with respect to the two banks which would answer
this description, viz., that of 'Wakefield, Crewdson, and
Co., who keep their London account with Messrs.
Masterman and Co., and the Bank of Westmoreland, who
keep their account with Messrs. Glyn and Co., there can-
not be, it is supposed, the least foundation for this state-
ment, since neither of the London banking-houses re-
ferred to have any information on the subject ; but, on
the contrary, consider them to be removed from any
danger of that kind. The above are the only two banks
in the town of Kendal.

SUN.—The Market for Stocks has been good again to-
day, and rather a large business was transacted at the im-
proved rates. Consols for immediate transfer realised
884 to 89k, closing at 69 buyers, and for the January
Account 891 to Exchequer Bills were at Bs. to 10A.
premium. The new Three-and-a-Half per Cents, brought
98k to 99k, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 87k to
88k. Bank Stock was at 1641 to 165, and India Stock
at 248 i..
There was a corresponding degree of activity in the
Foreign Market, and prices all advanced. Spanish
Actives to-day rose from 237 to 241 e. Portuguese
New Five per Cents., 321 to 32-g, being to a per Cent.
higher. Mexican Stock was worth 251, Peruvian 14 to
14k, and Colombian
.19k to 20. Dutch Five per Cents.
were 998.
Shares did not lead to much speculation. Great Wes-
tern were 14 premium, and Brighton were 13 to 14 dis.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.-MAN-

SION- HOUSE.

At the last .Common Council the following mction
was carried :

Resolved and ordered,—That it be referred to the
Committee for General Purposes, to consider the pro-
priety of removing the projection over the pediment of
the portico of the Mansion-house, and to report their
opinion thereon to this Court.
Sir Peter Laurie, who has the merit of bringing this
matter before the Court, has in consequence received the
following letter upon the subject, from one of the first
architects in London :

MY DEAR SIR PETER,—Augustus proudly declared
that he fowl.? Rome of brick and left it of marble ; a
somewhat similar exultation might be indulged in at the
present day with regard to the architectural aspect of
London ; we found it without. order, convenience, and
beauty—we shall leave it (if not throughout at least in
many quarters) beautiful and commodious. By the
formation of Regent-street the Crown set the example,
as in all that is fair and good it should, but the citizens
of London have so emulously followed in the right course
as to have, in some respects, outstripped the improvers
of the west. When all is done that is in progress in the
vicinity of the Mansion-house, few cities in the world
will present so fine an architectural scene.
It must, however, be remembered, that the more our
admiration is courted the more critical we shall become ;
errors that formerly escaped without much observation
will now be brought to light, and condemned to the
obloquy they deserve.
One of the greatest architectural errors of the last
cent,ry was the Mansion-house ; from Ralph and
Gwynn, down to the present day, few critics have failed
to have their fling at it. It is unnecessary here to enter
into a critical examen of this structure, which is,
indeed, rich in blemishes ; the great and paramount
fault is the anomalous excrescence which surmounts, or
rather oppresses, the principal front ; and which gives
to it an aspect that has not inaptly been likened to the
stern of an Indiaman. The efforts of all good citizens
should be united to effect the removal of this enormity.
The proper termination of this facade is the cornice and
balustrade. The cornice represents the projecting ex-
tremities of the roof, and the balustrade is but an orna-
mental-parapet, contrived by the Italian architects of the
middle ages, as a protection to persons walking on the
terraced roof. The prmternatural building, therefore,
which rises at the Mansion-house above the cornice and
balustrade is not only a sad disfigurement to the front,
but a manifest solecism. The dimension from the level
of the street to the top of this sinful excrescence is 101
feet, whilst the whole width of the front is but 100 feet.
It is questionable whether, among all the monstrosities
that architecture has ever given birth to, there exists in
Christendom one building, having any pretensions to be
a work of art, whose facae is thus proportioned.
The dimension from the level of the street to the top
of the balustrade is 70 feet ; which, with reference to
the width, is a perfectly good proportion, and such as
may be found in some of the best works of the Italian
masters.

Let us, then, "off with its head !" The materials will
at least pay the cost of removal, and we shall then have
removed a stigma upon the public taste, given light to
the surrounding narrow ways, and added one grace more
to the Queen of Cities—the emporium of the world

The public are under great Obligations to you, and
I am, my dear Sir Peter, very truly yours,
London, Nov. 20, 1841. S. S.

The General Purpose Committee, to whom it was re-
ferred, will bring up a Report recommending the remo-
val of the unsightly bulk, and among other reasons, that
the walls of the Mansion-house will not be able to sup-
port such a weight much longer, and that the rooms are
not required. A similar projection was removed from
over the Egyptian Hall, in the Mayoralty of Mr. William
Curtis.

OPENING OF THE THAMES
TUNNEL.
Yesterday a thoroughfare was affected in the Thames
Tunnel, and made useuf for the first time, by the whole of
the Directors, and some of the original subscribers, who
had assembled upon the occasion. The shield having been
advanced to the shaft at Wapping, a considerable open-
ing was cut in the brick-work, and it was through this
the party, who had met at Rotherhithe, were enabled to
pass ' • thus opening the first subterranean Communica-
tion between the opposite shores of the river. Upon
their arrival at the shaft the party were greeted by the
workmen with most hearty cheers. A curious and in-
teresting incident was connected with the event ; a few
bottles of wine, preserved since the dinner on the occa-
sion when the foundation stone was laid, with the under-
standing that it was to be drunk only when it could be
carried under the Thames, having been opened and en-
joyed by the company to the health of her Majesty and
the infant Prince. It was remarked, too, as a singular
coincidence, that a seal oti one of the corksbore the ii
press of the Prince of "Wales' feathers, a
circumstance
that caused some merriment. The veteran engineer, Sir
I. Brunel, appeared highly gratified at the happy result
of all his past anxiety and arduous labour. The shield
will continue its advance until it has afforded spec', for
the formation of the remainder of the Talmo, which is
expected to be completed in about three weeks.

GRONINGEN, Nov. 17.--M. Dienks was
yesterday declared by the provincial tribunal to be the
author of the Jets, and condetn9ed to two years'
im-
prisonment.