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Tancred.
The Jew. A Poem.
Specimens of Modern Italian Poets. By M. H. Rankin.
Sonnet. By Sidney Giles.
The Breaching Tower.
The Young Mother at her Infant's Grave. By F. W.
Cronhelm, Esq.
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Morning. By the Author of the " Star Seer."
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'Eva Moriarty. Chapters 30 and 31.
Notes of the Month.
Review of Books.
Meteorological Tables.

CONTRACT FOR LIFT PUMPS.
THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE. SEPT. 24,
DEPARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
.he UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 15th
October next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
mch Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's Dock Yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham,
1840.
Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, with
LIFT PUMPS,
for pumping Water out of Ships' Holds.
A Pattern of the Pump, and a Form of Tender, may be seen
at the said Office.

No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day
of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an
Agent for him duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad-
rnii and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender
for Lift Pumps ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
place, accompanied by a Letter signed by a responsible per-
son, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the
sum of 2001., for the due performance of the Contract.

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WHEREAS, by a Decree of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause of
SHEPHERD against TAGGER, it is amongst other things
referred to Sir GIFFEN WILSON, one of the Masters of the
Court to inquire and state to the Court who was o r were the
HEIR or HEIRS-AT-LAW of JOHN FOX, late of
Barnsley, in the County of York, grocer (who died in the
month of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Eleven). and also of MARTHA SCHOLEY, late of
South Kirby in the said county of York (who died in
the month of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Thirty-eight), at the time of their respective deaths, and
whether they, or either of them, are or is dead, and when they,
or either of them, died, and whether testate or intestate, and
whether levying any and what child or children, and who was
or were their, his, or her heirs or heir-at-law, and also to in-
quire and state to the Court who was the eldest son of ED-
WARD FOX in the Will of the said John Fox named, at the
time of the decease of the said John Fox, and whether he isdead,
and where he died, and whether testate or intestate, and who is
his Heir-at-Law. And whereby it is also referred to the said
Master to inquire and state to the Court who were the Resi-
duary Devisees of the said John Fox, and whether they are
living or dead ; and if dead who are their Heirs-at-Law, or
legal personal representatives.
Any person or persons, therefore, claiming to be such Heir
or Heirs-at-law, or legal personal representative or representa-
tives as aforesaid, respectively, or claiming to be such other
relations to the said John Fox, as are sought to be discovered
by the said inquiries, is or are, by their solicitors, on
or before the 2d day of November next, to come in and prove
such claim, or respective claims, before the said Master, at his
Office, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or
in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the be-
nefit .f the said Decree.
Dated the 18th day of August, 1840.
W. M. WILKINSON, 44, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
Plaintiff's Solicitor.

ALDERMAN HARMER AND THE

PEOPLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—What do persons who -are opposed to the pre-
sent Corn-laws believe ?
Ist. That millions who are at present in the most
miserable destitution would, by the abolition of those
laws, be made nappy.
2(1. That by the abolition of those laws, thousands
who annually perish of long and lingering disease caused
by hunger ! might be saved to pour their grateful
thanksgiving to God for his bountiful plenty.
Had I the abiLty, I should not pause to examine the
truth or fallacy of such belief; but I ask a Christian,
I ask an Atheist, if such there he, what can the man be
made of who holds such opinions, coupled with power
to spread them, but who still holds back, and for vile
purposes ?
What can the person be made of who by his honest
exertions might, or thinks he might, make a people
happy who are now in misery, might make a people glad
who are cow in despair ? - •
Such a person is ho who has raised the Lynch-law
yell against Mr. Harmer ; such a person is he whom the
citizens of London are now following.
London ! which has always stood foremost—London
which has not unfrequently stood alone and successfully
in the cause of liberty, is now about to be tricked by a
vile, a most detestable special pleader, one who sacri-
fices what he believes to be the dearest interests of his
country for a traitor bribe.
Citizens of London, awake! The weal of this land
depends upon your following the footsteps of your
fathers !
Citizens, your consistency, and a great principle, are
at stake.—Earnestly and respectfully,
Sept. 30.

A. W.

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FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY,
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Capitole, we perceive, lays claim to a knowledge
of the object of the meeting of the Cabinet Council
here on Monday last, and the determination at which
it had arrived. To determine that the treaty of the
15th July shall be carried fully into execution, involves,
as a matter of course, the rejection of the propositions
of Mehemet Ali. For what were these propositions ?
To cede Candia and Adana; Candia he cedes, because
he knows he cannot keep it ; and it is ridiculous to sup-
pose that so trifling a cession as Adana would be in the
least regarded. After long diplomatic discussions,
throughout which the French Government appeared to
very little advantage, the Four Powers found themselves
obliged to come to a determination respecting the
affairs of the East without France. The treaty of
the 15th July was, however, signed. The French
next tried to prevent the ratification of the treaty.
The ratification took place. And now the object is
to seek, by all conceivable means, to prevent the
treaty from being carried into effect. The treaty was
signed on the 15th of July. The knowledge of the
treaty reached Constantinople by the beginning of Au-
gust. We are now arrived at the beginning of Octo-
ber. The last accounts from Constantinople, however,
do not come further down than the beginning of Sep-
tember. What has happened in the interval? The
knowledge of the treaty operated like magic at Con-
stantinople. The partizans of Mehemet Ali were
silenced. The Court is unanimous. The Ulema
(the Supreme Council of Turkey, in which the heads
of the Church have a paramount influence) at once
proceeded to excommunicate Mehemet Ali : vessels of
war were placed under the command of an English
officer, an amazing effort in Turkey. Six thousand
men were embarked for Cyprus, who have been seen
off the coast of Troy. And orders have been given
for the speedy embarkation of 10,000 additional troops
for the same destination.. This is confessedly an asto-
nishing display of energy for Turkey. And again, with
respect to Mehemet Ali, what has happened? We
are pompously told by the French journalists that he
would rather bury himself in the ruins of Alexandria,
than depart one iota from the resolutions he had an-
nounced, and that Ibrahim would be ordered to march
without delay on Constantinople. But Mehemet Ali
has displayed none of this ungovernable ardour. He
tries by cessions, utterly inadequate no doubt, but still
cessions, to gain his object. So far from ordering Ibra-
him to march on Constantinople, the position of Ibra-
him shows that the Pacha is greatly alarmed for Syria,
and not without cause ; for the landing of 16,000 troops
in a country of which the inhabitants are only deterred
from rising by fear, must at least find occupation for all

. _
his disposable force, Even in Alexandria there is any
thing but unanimity ; and the public bodies of the place
have made representations to him strongly recommending
concession. In what respect, then, does the state of
things now justify a departure front the Treaty of Lon-
don? Governments are supposed, when they conclude
a solemn treaty, to mean that it sh:11: be executed. Has
anything arisen since the 15th of July to render it un-
advisable to give effect to the treaty ? A few paragraphs
in the French papers indicate that the treaty is not in
good odour with the people of France, and that, as
they strongly sympathise with Mehemet Ali, they would
be gratified if the treaty were not to be carried into ef-
feet: But what would be thought of the Four Powers,
were a reason of this kind capable of influencing them ?
In the face of Europe they would proclaim themselves
idiots on the 15th July, or miserable cravens on the Ist
October. Treaties of such moment as the 15th July
ought not to be lightly entered into, but, when entered
into, the execution cannot be lightly abandoned.
(From the Times.)
Having already inflicted pretty ample justice upon
the recent apology for the Whigs which a venal print
of theirs had borrowed from a Scotch Paper, it was
our intention to have said nothing more upon the sub-
ject ; but, as it appears that our recent article, besides
destroying the elaborate web of our opponents, has
sorely provoked their wrath, the advantage which their
loss of temper puts within our reach is so extremely
inviting that we cannot consent to overlook it. People
(lAA usually get into a passion for nothing. If state-
ments arc put forth so feeble or so false that nobody is
likely to be impressed or ensnared by them, one natu-
rally treats them with becoming indifference. Nay,
a tissue of gross misrepresentations, requiring nothing
but a temperate exposure, is generally rather ser-
‘iceable than otherwise to the party it is meant to
injure. Accordingly, when we wrote the article in
question re ceitainly felt, that although the Ministe-
rial defence might warrant us in giving it a quiet anni-
hilation, we could well afford to dispase of it with the
utmost apathy and disdain. On this account the Go-
vernment menial who had patronised and paraded that
defence has thought fit to assail us with a pail of un-
filtered Billingsgate, and because we cannot allow our-
selves to be discomposed by the bungling frauds which
he and his accomplices persist in palming upon the
public, we are at length arraigned upon the heinous
charge of treating them "wills an almost phkosophic in-
difference." Now, to be candid, we must admit that
this, even though uttered by the Globe, is strictly true.
The loose lucubrations of that Journal, albeit we some-
times take the trouble to brush them away, never
excite in us any other feeling that that of calm con-
tempt. But, while thus acknowledging the compliment
paid us by an enemy, we regret that we cannot return
that compliment to the quarter whence it proceeds. The
Globe, as it gallingly shows, cannot feel any such indif-
ference toward the '1 imes. Oa the contrary, if its
paltry inanities fail to disconcert us in the slightest de-
gree, it gives abundant evidence that the quiet and con-
clusive way in which we sometimes deign to despatch
them occasions it infinite TOOT titivation and agony.
Hence it is always sprinine ground upon uswith a volley
of petty resentments ; and, along with its angry impa-
tience under the treatment we bestow upon it, it pre-
sents such an utter incompetency either to despise or to
invalidate that treatment, as clearly shows that its
ability to defend its Whig suborners is reduced to the
last shift.

DEATH THROUGH DREAD OF HAVING TAKEN
Allar.teStiffA,KoEett,
tabtethbeeDdyukoefomf Wellington,eßa,roeOgkeed-
POlSON.—.Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was held
ary Fc
It appeared that on Monday forenoon last deceased
bafiirtfeyoe-r
ote; e
asked her servant to give her is bottle from the cup-
board, containing some beer, and the servant gave her
instead a bottle containing a gout mixture, the principal
ink redients of which were rum and colchicum. The
mistake was not discovered till deceased's husband came
home to dinner, when, seeing the bottle on the table, he
said, " My God, you have not been taking say of that,
there is poison in it." The mixture having operated
violently on deceased, the husband did not think it ne-
cessary to send for immediate medical advice, and re-
turned to his work after dinner. Deceased getting
worse, Mr. Petty, a surgeon, was called in at half-past
three o'clock, and decease died in an hour afterwards.
Mr. Petty said when he was called in he could not
precisely learn what deceased had taken, and he sent to
the husband to obtain correct information. In the mean
time he went home, and the messenger not returning
within an hour, he went back to see deceased, but found
her dead. The husband told him the reason he sent
back no message was, that, considering the mixture,
from the way it operated, harmless, he thought there
was no danger.
By the ConoNER—I think deceased died from na-
tural caused, but that her death was hastened by the
i
fear she was thrown into by having been told that she
had taken poison. Not having opened the body, how-
the body of William Mur ph
y,
I cannot positively state the exact cause of death.
Verdict—" Natural death, accelerated by fright."
Y
Two LIVES LOST IN A " LARK.—Thursday an in-
quest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Black Horse,
1-igh-street, Poplar, on p
Johnßamsay, master ofy
a
tigie ed
ballast 32, a ballastbrg e heaver.belonging
Heavers' Company, said, that on Monday week last,
a
in the forenoon, he was passing-, having deceased and
a man named John Fitzgerald on board, in his barge,
through Woolwich-reach. When he got opposite Ham-
creek, deceased and Fitzgerald began " a larking," and
the latter gave the former a smart shove on the shoulders
ai he was standings n the stern sheets near the side of the
and with hi back to the water. Deceased was
barge,
d backwards overboard
in consequence pushe , and in fall-
in
he caught deceased by the collar, and pulled him into
the river also. Witness instantly got out of the barge's
boat and pulled to their rescue. When be was within
about a dozen yards of
Ftzgerald, who was a good
swimmer, and who was making for the boat, Murphy
caught hold of him, and dragged him under water.
They both then sank, and din not rise afterwards. Wit-
ness gave an alarm, and
.several boats with drags came,
finding
but were not successful in either of the bodies.
The body of deceased was found on Wednesday morn-
ingoff the manufactory of Messrs. Mills and
floating
Ravenhill, engineers, adjoining to the East India Docks.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."
The body of Fitzgerald has also been found, and an
inquest was be.d upon it last evening. Similar evidence
was adduced,and a similar verdict recorded.

(From the Morning Post.)
The speech of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the
inauguration of the Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin
confirms the suspicion we have more than once ex-
pressed that her Majesty's Ministers have some scheme
in contemplation for keeping the places which Mr.
O'Connell gave them, and getting rid nevertheless of
the encumbrance and disgrace of his alliance. The
project is coming out by degrees, and the declaration of
Lord Ebrington, that no more places are to be given to
Repealer', is a great disclosure. It is amusing
enough to see the thimbles move, but the spec-
tator who fancies he can guess whereabout the
pea is will probably in this, as in other analo-
gous cases, see himself deceived. It would not sur-
prise us to find Lord Melbourne and his colleagues giv-
ing more end better places than ever: to Repealers in
atonement for Lord Ebrington's affront to these esti-
mable gentlemen. The following is what his Lordship
said upon the subject to which we refer :—" He de-
clared for himself and the present Government that
they held the maintenance of the Union between the
two countries, now existing forty years, to be in-
dispensable for the present security and permanent
stability of the United Empire. To repeal the Union
by legal and constitutional means, such as its abet-
tors declare to be the only means by which they
wish to obtain it, he declared to be utterly im-
practicable. If an attempt were made to force it
by any other means it would recoil with disas-
trous effects on the country, but still further
on those who would attempt its attainment, and
would miserably disappoint those who were now
its most prominent advocates. If attained it would
be speedily followed by separation, and that would be
fraught with the deepest calamity to England, but
worse to this country. It was his determination to
withhold all Government patronage from those who
took part in the agitation of it. Out of respect for the
constitutional rights of British subjects he did not sup-
press the meetings for its agitation. The sentiments
expressed at some of those meetings with respect to
foreign countries would justify the Government in inter-
fering to prevent them, and if there was cause of alarm
he would be found as ready to exercise the powers of
the law as he was to show respect and forbearance for
the constitutional rights of the people."
(From the Morning Herald.)
We understand the Government have resolved -to
afford to the rabble of the metropolis the disgusting
pastime of a scene of strangulation on the scaffold next
Monday. The case is one into the particulars of
which we will not enter—it is one which a right-minded
Government would never be anxious to enforce upon
the public attention. An execution upon a charge like
that for which the wretched culprit is doomed to suffer
has not occurred in London for eighteen years—we
mean as to any case arising in London itself, or in the
metropolitan county. There was, indeed, an execution
DA moneys
in-quirks have been of this sort at the gaol of Newgate five years ago, but
the moneys raisefd for Grace Darling and it was a Surrey case. What we said on that occasion in_
742/. 16a, 6d. stock- ' jog such a polluting spectacle to the people,
madG, Rr
eAs
pC
ege t Ding
others who assisted at thewsrieactkfeorothatthe Forfarshire steam-
boat, we have authority to we may
have been vested in the funds.r _ ,endeavouring to dissuade the Givernment from afford-
race, in the names of as well repeat on the present occasion, for it is as
the Duke of Nortbumbla.d, the Rev. W. N. Darnell.
Archdeacon Singleton; 2461.
Archdeacon Thorp, and m rits—there were two—who were ordered to be re-
12s. 7d. has been paid to., ru. D.arling, and 27/. to
each p
/ ea for excess-
wcastle Journal. applicable now as it was then. Speaking of the cul-
, moved from the gaol in Horsemonger-.a
of the seven boatmen. Ave
A letter from the .department of l'Ain has the
following ;--..."
vermont. The crop
We twre. in the midst of our vintage at Re-
in several cantons surpasses all ex-
In fact, its abundance has taken us so much „Their crime, and the' remembrance of it, ought to be
buried in the silence reandmseclusion of the prison-
tion at the Old Baile we thus expressed ourselves
pectation. do net know
by surprise, that we where to place the Young and old to the offence by a pub
grape*" this sort, does great mischief to public morals. It pol-
house. The attracting the attention ainiod
spectaclecuriosity of

lutes the imagination, and tends to disseminate the
depravity. There is a place set wholly apart for such
culprits in the House of Correction, Cold Bath-fields,
where they cannot associate with others. This prison,
we' believe, is under excellent management. At all
events, if its moral discipline should fail to reform such
offenders, its walls and bars can effectually protect society
from being contaminated by their presence. There are
crimes which it is better for society should be covered
with the oblivion of the solitary cell, than dragged
under circumstances of horrible interest into the light
of day. Reports of such executions are hawked about
the streets and villages—disgusting details are given to
gratify a vicious curiosity—and thus the exterminating
severity of the law is made instrumental to polluting
the morals of the people." It is one of those " moral
lessons" that the Marquis of Normanby and Mr. Fox
Manic are about to present to the idle and riotous
rabble of the metropolis. There is a " knowledge"
which is truly described as " power ;" but there is a
knowledge also, which, especially to the young mind is,
in itself, " pollution." We say to the Government—
" Dispense with the useless barbarities of the scaffold—
secure the culprit from the public eye, in the peniten-
tial gloom of the dungeon, and spare the morals of the
youth of London."

(From the Morning Advertiser.) •
A rumour prevails in Paris that M. 'niers had ad-
dressed a note to the Ambassadors of the Powers en-
gaged in the treaty of London, intimating that if the
terms proposed to the Porte by Mehemet Ali were
not accepted, such refusal would be regarded as the
evidence of a desire to attack the revolution of July,
rather than of a wish to preserve the integrity of the
Ottoman empire. Were it not for the absurd allege-
tioni to which the French Cabinet has lately given its
sanction, we should regard this rumour as too ludi-
crous for serious animadversion. But when it is pre-
tended that France has been insulted by the other
Powers interfering to settle a question, in the adjust-
ment of which she refused to take any participation,
and to the terms of which settlement she offered no
objection—when M. Guizot avows his despair of
England, Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Turkey united
being unable to rescue Syria from the grasp of the Egyp-
tian usurper, describes the means proposed to effect
that object as " inefficient and dangerous," and actually
threatens these Powers if they persevere in that object
with the indignation of Mehemet Ali—when M.
Thiers professes a desire to protect and preserve the
Turkish empire, and at the same time proposes to dis-
member it of Syria, we cannot be surprised if he should
crown his audacious absurdities by the fallacious and
daring assertion, that a refusal of the terms proposed
by Mehemet Ali should be considered as an attack upon
the Revolution of July, and not as an attempt to up-
hold the power of the Sultan. The fraudulent design
of this assertion must be as apparent to the people of
France as it is to the rest of Europe. It is not to
Louis Philippe or M. Thiers that France looks for the
:ssertion of the principles promulgated in the Revolu-
tion of July. On the contrary, in them she recognizes
the authors of its defeat. France preserves little of the
Revolution of July, but the mementoes of its failure, and
amongst these may be recognised Louis Philippe and
M. Thicrs as the chief. No doubt a more popular
cause of war could not be presented to the French
people than a defence of the Revolution of July ; but
against whom, then, should their hostility be directed ?
Who have been the direct assailants of that revolution ?
Who but Louis Philippe and M. Thiers ? Against
them, therefore, should the wrath of France discharge
itself.

310 NE MARKET and CITY NEWS

(THURSDAY EVENING.)

CHRONICLE.—The investment of a large amount
of the assets of the late Mr. Hammersley in Consols has
been the subject of some remark in the City ; but the
first and obvious duty of executors in such cases is to
place the funds which come into their hands in the
safest place ; and the Government Securities is gene-
rally the source of which they avail themselves.
It is, nevertheless, to be remembered that executors
of bankers stand in a different position from those who
represent private individuals deceased. The late
Mr. Hammersley had large sums belonging to others
in his hands, deposited there for a particular pur-
pose, and perhaps sold out of the funds until re-
quired. These persons may have anticipated a fall
in the public securities, and thought it right to
avail theniselsh.s of the market price. It may, there-
fore, be made a question whether the executor of Mr.

SU N.—The Funds closed heavily this afternoon, though
no notice, as was rumoured, appeared from the Bank
of England for raising the rate of interest on discounts.
Consols were last marked 8S!, for money, and 884 for
time ; Exchequer Bills 7s. to ss. ptemium ; India
Bonds 6s. discount, and New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. 97,i.
In the Foreign Stocks there were but few bargains.
Spani.li left off at 23, Portuguese New at 334, Brazi-
lian at 754 ex. div., and Dutch Two-and.a.Half per
Cents at 50-i.
The Railway Shares were not quite so high, owing,
in all probability, to the drooping state of the market
at Liverpool. The most current quotations were:--
Great Western 174 to 19, the New 6} to 6i, the
Birmingham 76, and the Birmingham Five per Cent.
Bonds 14 premium. Brighton Shares were at 10A.,
Blackwall at 2i, Croydon Trunk at 21, and Easte;ri
Counties at 12 discount. London Joint Stock Bank
Shares were 2 premium.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

THURSDAY.

THE COURT AND COUNSEL.

Marshall, an insolvent confined in Southampton gaol,
applied to ha discharged on sureties ; they appeared in
person. Mr. Woodroffe opposed, and Mr. Cooke sup-
ported the application.
The proposed sureties, two persons named Bannister
and Middleton, underwent a searching examination
respecting the property they possessed. They both
swore they were worth upwards of 4001., the sum re-
quired in the case. It was proposed by Mr. Wood-
rare, after he had examined the bail, to call witnesses.
Mr. Cooke objected to such a course, and said the
rule laid down in the superior Courts was not to allow
affidavits to be read after the bail had been examined.
The rule had been acted upon in this Court in a case,
and on the same ground he submitted that witnesses
could not be called in contradiction.

Mr. Woodroffe thought it would be monstrous if the
inquirii s made could not be stated.
Mr. Cooke said the evidence must be given before
the bail were questioned, and cited a erse in which he
had been concerned, in which Mr. Justice Bailey acted
on the rule, and laughed when an attempt was made to
disturb it.
The Chief Commissioner said he should receive the
evidence and consider the point.
The attorney for the opposing creditor was called.
The Chief Commissioner said he had sent to Mr.
Commissioner Law on the subject, and he was of opi-
nion that evidence should be received. He (the Chief
Commissioner) thought the great object of all parties
was to get at the truth. It was the truth be wanted,
and therefore he should receive the evidence.
Mr. Cooke said he had merely stated the o:nion of
the superior Courts—an opinion on which t o had
thought this Court would have acted.
The Chief Commissioner, with some warmth, said
he knew what had been stated, and he l:ad given his
decision. lie vvou!d not be roplied upon.
Mr. Cooke declared that he had only mentio d
the opinion of a superior Court, and nothing mite.
Chief Commissioner (with increased warmth)—I
know you have, Sir, and I shall take the evithr.ce. I
have decided it.
Mr. Cooke, resuming his seat, said he had ment:ored
a Court where justice was administered.
Chief Commissioner—l know you have, Sir, B.:wed
the rule, and I have decided. Tue decision, Sr, it
mine—the responsibility is mice.
Mr. Baddeicy, the solicitor fur the opposing ere itor,
stated, in answer to Mr. Cooke, that he had great ex-
perience in the superior Courts, where bail were accepted,
and he never knew an instance where uffidavits were
read or witnesses called after bail were examined. The
rule was the reverse, and he did not know that he
should have been called.

The opposing creditor was also called.
Tue insolvent's brother was called contra.
h was contended that the bail could not justify for
the required amount.
Mr. Cooke, in his address, d,-.elared that he was as
anxiou • to elicit truth us any man, and had acted on
the pril'ciple during the whole of his experience, and
therefore thought the observation made was not. called

_ . .
liatumersley should have changed the investment of
the money deposited in the bad( of his late brother
without the previous assent of those to whom the depo-
sits belong. But we have no evidence that the funds
' invested consisted of deposit money. It may have
have been received from debtors of the deceased since
his death, and placed in the public funds as the safest
place until arrangements are made for a genet-AI mce:ing
of the creditors of the deceased.
The facts, however, which have come to light relative
to the affairs of Mr. Ilamtnersley, go far to sub-
stantiate the truth of what we have more
than once stated lately, that the law of banking is de-
fective. A system clearly requires reform which
enables a single individual, undar the mysterious veil
of " and C 0.," to mislead the public by inducing
them to suppose that he has other partners engaged in
business whoareparticipators in his profits and responsible
for his engagements, while one person only really con-
stitutes the firm. The very mild remedy which we ven-
tured to suggest was merely the periodical registration
of the names of the partners of all banks of issue, with-
out reference to the number of partners, and a direc-
lien to the Starnp•office to furnish such lists on payment
of a reasonable fee, so as to farm a guard against the
gratification of idle curiosity. If the law provided such
means of knowledge to the public, no complaint as to
concealment of the parties engaged in such establish-
ments could be advanced on good grounds.

for from the Court. ►le had stated tho rule laid
down in the tupetior Courts, where the Learned Judges
were aoxious to get at the truth, and he believed this
Court would act on the t ule laid down in the other
Courts, and which rule had never been disturbel. Tha
Learned Counsel spoke with much feeling when he al-
luded to his own conduct.

CornenisEioner said, in reference Jo the observa-

TIMES.—A circular from the French Minister of
the Interior to the prefects of the departments has been
published in the Moniteur, which is on much the same
principle as one noticed a few days ago, that is to say,
it is issued for the purpose of preventing imprudence in
the contraction of loans. The law of May, 1838, for-
bad any loan to be taken by a department, except under
legislative authority. The object of this law is to
hinder the departments from pledging future revenues
for present purposes, and to preserve them from the
danger of being obliged to fulfil obligations at a time
when the most rigid economy may be called for. At-
tempts have been made by several departments to evade
these salutary regulations. Some have made tacit agree-
ments with contractors for this purpose. Thus, when a
project was approved by the competent authorities,
tenders were received for the whole of the works, high
as the expense and uncertain as the means of payment
might be, and tho contractor, instead of being bound
to execute his work each year, no more than to the
extent of the means disposable, was authorised to exe-
cute the whole, being paid only according to tl-)e credits
opened each year in the budgets. In other depart-
ments the revenues have not been anticipated by ar-
rangements with contractors, but with the proprietaries,
who might be interested in the completion of such or
such a scheme (a road for instance), and from whom
loans have been obtained. Hero the evasion consisted
in taking such an advance of funds as it was pretended
did not constitute a loan, because the term of repay-
ment was not always fixed, and the interest was not
always chargeable to the department. This Minister
has thereture written to show that these are really
evasions of the law, and to warn the prefects that they
are personally responsible in the event of a repetition of
such illegal acts. These measures will, no doubt, be
useful in France in preventing improvident borrowing
as well as lending.

tions of the I—,arned Gentleman (Mr. Cooke), that he
should make no comment on some of the rumarks made.
If it was gratifying for persons to make them he did not
wi.l) to deprive them of the gratification.
Tar: Court ultimately rejected ti.e proposed bail.

POST.—That the foreign exchanges may be ex-
pected to be immediately and extensively altered in fa-
vour of England, were there a tolerable certainty of the
preservation of the general peace, may be supposed
from two very important circumstances which have been
brought forward in the course of the present day—an
advance in the foreign duty on wheat to 18s. Sd• per
quarter, and the arrival of one of the largest masses of
bar silver which has been known to come to England in
a single vessel, a million and a half of dollars reported,
in her Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk, from the Pacific
Ocean and Brazil. The duty on foreign wheat is now
further ascertained to be certain to advance to
00s. Sd. on or before the 14th of the present month ;
and at the same time all the accounts from the
continental ports represent the corn markets as
declining, under the prospect of small exp
rations being required for England, the Itos.cOre.
packet-ship, from New York, bringing also accounts of
falling markets for flour, the consequence of large orders
countermanded on English account. From every part
of the three kingdoms the intelligence is that of almost
unexampled abundance in the miscellaneous crops ; for
though the quantity of wheat may be not more than
o which f
the average of years, there is a
great superabundance
of other descriptions of grain and
renders potatoes, turnips,
impossible
fruit, and other productions,
the prevalence of very high prices throughout the en-
suing year. The temporary depression of the foreign
exchanges is, therefore, of no true importance in the
affairs ; for, though a few
petty potentates may thiak that silver ought to be
secured for their military chests, this drain of bullion
will be soon rendered needless were a final arrange-
ment of the Eastern question effected between England
and France. The uncertain state of the foreign ex-
changes,
wit.h the continued exportations of silver,
• i created a considerable number of reports in the