The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-03 00:00:00

WEEK DAYS.

P. 4011 THE BRUNSWICK PIER, FROM THE TERRACE PIER,
.. BLACKWALL. CRAVESENP
alorning, i past 9. Morning, i past 7.
41 ... past 10. ... 4 past 8.
t""on, if past 1. ... 4 past 11.
. _ . _

. ,
past 2. r Afternoon, 4 past 12.
• 4 past 5. ... 4 past 3.
. 8. I ... i past 6.
F.ares--Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fore Cabin, Bd.
Aforni.- ON SUNDAYS.
"g, 8 past 9. I Morning, 4 past 7.
Aft,,...."•• past past S.
°Oll, 4 past 2. Afternoon, 4 past 12.
••• 4 past 3. ••• 4 past 1.
• 8 past 6. ... 4 past 4.
••• 8. I ..• i past 6.
Trains Pares—Chief Cabin, 1s 6d. ; Fore Cabin, Is.
and iof the Blackwall Railway start from and to London
the Brunswick Pier every quarter of an hour, from half-
?aft. i.ht '
10 N.. ii•
Tlniethe morning, till a quarter before ten at night.
passage has been performed in one hour, and, El-
howlltrn for the variation of the tides, will rarely exceed one
.„............._and a half.—May 26, 1841.

STE.EMARGATE and HERNE BAY
Dailmay, London Bridge Wharf, next Thursday, at Eleven ;
itY. at Twelve ; Sunday, at Half-past Eight ; afterwards
t Elevn, except Sundays, then at Twelve, and Sun-
-61r at Half-iot Eight ; by the fast and favourite Packets,
V. of CANTERBURY or RED ROVER.
113 Fenehtuch- street, and at London-bridge Wharf.

NMITH MIDLAND RAILWAY.
TIIE MIDLAND HO T EL AND POSTING HOUSE,
RAILWAY STATION, DERBY.
diC)SEPH HALL bees to announce to the
Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, that this
oittel, under his management, is now open for their accomo-
i, 13,t, and where he tiuqs those who honour him with their
:211'nege will find the Style and Comfort of the Establish-
Porters,..?t equal to any in the country.
„ are in attendance on the arrival of every train for
the removal of Luggage, &c. to the Hotel.
Derby, Jun I,e 1541.

THE EGIS OF LIFE.
" Hominem pagina nostra sapit."
"Our page relates to man."-111 WM L.
los, I,op-14' dical Canmentary on cause Indi cretions that ca,e the
or 8,7. ola,hood, in which the nsture, sympt, ms, and baneful effects
Witt:a-abuse, Intemperance, Libert &c. are ully developed ;
rractical tibservations on Sexual Debility and Mental Irnta-
to which 's added a Series °Wailes.
rY GOsS a d CO., Consulting Burgeons, London.
r,
1' Natura beatis
' rt •
nthus CSSe dedit, Si pile cognnverit utl " CLAUDIAN.
•,i. C,e leaven to all the fun.l of bliss supplies,
" tigal application mark the wise."
sy
torn .s -',_•. PH I LISI a Familiar Treatise on Dist,' ders
oftarisng
roartt, Gonuorrlicea, Stricture, eic , with a variety re.
byby ca;eosccurring in a most extensi. e practice, each section explained
I"eide "EI A NA, a Non-Melical Anal,sis of some Complaint
ithich
.ltal to ',mai, s, as Leucorrhcea, Ne. vous Irritation, ekc in
"tie, t‘t‘re offered some important adm nitions on the ectiltar
ellffing their circumstances, svmpathi.s, and formation. The
t ut.terility is especially dwelt 'tiptm. Interesting and import-
,. S .
ustr to the subject.
Quo fugit Venus ? lieu! quove color decent ?"
it Hor. Lib 4,
4. 1, hither flies L, ye ? Ah ! where the charming bloom ?"
Ththe foundation of a flourishing maturity and healthful old age
ethaeV,he easily laid ; t 1 it does appe rto us that the basis is del ,edly
tovinte of the goardians and tutor, ot oung persons. p!oper
r,,,..,a11ti0ns of the causes which create disease an -Norte life, cn.
110,1'1judicious blending of such examples as arte_.bths
di;
orth 0 impress the memory, awaken the f ars, or.eaci e ;I;
Ch rbe„lnTil, could net be otherwise than pr-ductave of a bene icia
in the habits of the rising gcneration."—oss's
l
TItSIIIMONIAI.B.
tt.:!;bheSe books can bc safely recommended, as well for the moral
anti, ';heY contain a, for the extensive and successful result of the
a experience.—London Morning Journal.
tit,7l! Precepts contained in this work are interesting and useful.—
Th;_ith Paper
.work (Hvgeiana), is properly called an analysis of some female
b',.aln lt written in a very peculiar style of moral admonition
•rt‘:`Ain Morning Journal.
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1414,AIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC
PILLS.
. ,

TO MR. TROUT, 2.A STRAND, LONDON
Dartford. Jan 2 lq I.
?4,-1 have witch pleasure in stating to you that Blair's Gout'
and
ric6lsinatic Pills have-of he gretest service to me. Between
ttiLe “nd t n months ago I became oficted with that mot painful
tl,--,„14t Sciatica ; the agonising pain which I suffered in loy legs and
• it'ir'for co long a pe•io ~ haffl,s any description which I can pos.
est Htserif tny then miserable s•ate I could • eldom obtain eit. er
t'oz._ or sleep I had the best med,cal advice, 'ncluding trat of to o
sicia sin London, without obthining any essential relief I went
1,14, ‘qa, gate, and h..d the best ir edi •al ..dvice, trying the warm bath
Stl'e and at taker places, without obtaining any benefit.
NA, , hit time ago I was rec mmerh e i to try Blair's flout and ‘,„,,UTll:etie HU., ; and v a the: eby induced to purchase a box of this
al7eltable medicine of Nle srs I iammond and Co Chemists of this
.iwn, ond hai e I I' ad taken the quintity therein' contained, I was
a fl_tr°l3' fYee from p3in, and ,peedily recovered my health ny taking
4..ry ',lore fills, aini ha pity there ha, been no return of this di. th',..4lnie n•EilAdy Y u are at liberty to publish my cae, in the ho
telpe
'fly that this excellent m dicine may be the
nieans of relieving
lr:
I am, sir, your:, respectfully,
J. B Mistetsi, Brewer and Malester, Dartford, Kent.
,t.),' • S.—lf I could possiole speak in stronger terms of your invalu-
""ts,„'e Inedi toe I should be most happy, for it i, impos ible for lan.
e I. devribe the relief I have es.p.erleneed.
crie iierer t +ding effect s of Is LA IR b GOUT and It HEU NI ATIC
'I L . . - •
._1 .I.Si in Diem
every de crip ion of Gout and Rh umatisin, have
:.r urcd.to them a c lebrity unequalled hy any med tine of past or
D esent lin es 'I hey no only give relief in a few hours, v here the
ratient
oas be n (trivet] nearly to perfect ill
the excruciating
Zvloytures of thi• disease, but restore to perfect health in an incon.
~..gably short space of time. They are equally speedy and certain in
ieZtnatisiii, either chronic or acute, lumbago, sciatica, pains in the
gae. or fac,indeed for eve.ry rheumatic andy affection ;in
t h.s, such has it en t!-.e rapidity, perfnt ease, comphete safety of
?- I. 4.ntydicitio, that it has ast.,nished kingdom,e contains a there
Ig, n ta' city, 'town or villac,e in the but mar,
atclul evic:encei'of the benign ihfluence of this medicine • -,
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THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.

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LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.—The following is a copy of a letter
received at the Underwriters' Rooms this morning, addressed
to the Secretary, from his correspondents at Lisbon
Lisbon, May 24,1841.
" Sir,—Af er writing to you, on the 17th instant, rela,ive
to the Conde de Palma having seen a large steamer on the
23d ult., Capt. Sartorius, of H. M service, and Vice-Ailmi•
ral in the•Par..goese na.%), calk! upon nit, and statrd that he
had only just then heard the report, awl that be Considered
the steamer in question might be the President ; and, from
the variable winds prevailing generaily at this time of the
year, in the latitude where the steamer was seen, a disabled
vessel might not be able to reach a port of safety without some
ass.stance. He thought. therefore, that some measures should
be adopted, and suggested the propriety of making further in-
qiury.
" We waited immediately upon the master of the Conde de
Palma, in company with Captain Sartorius, and the latter
appeared more convinced of the probability that the steamer
seen was the Pecrident. He then stated his opinio.l to her
Majesty's Envoy at this Court, who ordered out the brig Es •
p ir, Lieut. Pauls.m, which was the only British vessel of war
in the Tagus; and Count Bornfirri, the Portuguese Minister of
Marine, at the suggestion of Captain Sartorius, sent out two
small vessels of war with provisions, &c. Although we have
very faint hopes of these succours being available, it is well that
the merchants and underwriters of Liverpool should be made
acquainted with the liberal and benevolent conduct of the Por-
tuguese 'Minister of Marine, in promptly ordering out on such
vague and uncertain intelligence as that brought by the Conde
de Palma, two vessels of war to cruize in expectation of being
of service to the President.

" We are, ;sir, your most obedient servants,
(Signed) " ARTIN and DOUGLAS,
" Agents for the Liverpool Association of
Underwriters."

" Thomas Court, Fsq.".

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" Her Majesty's brig Espoir and the two Portuguese
vessels of war had instructions to cruise in such different latir
tudes and longitudes as it was thought a vessel under the cir-
cumstances of the st-nmer seen by the Conde de Palma was
likely to he in, provided she was disabled, and not lately to
work to windward with her sails."

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Thomas Dick I.auder's Legendary Tales of the Highlands, 3
vols., with numerous illustrations by Phiz.—And 13, Oliver
Cromwell, an Historical Romance, Edited by Horace Smith,
Esq., 3 vols.
THUNDER STORM IN IRELAND.—On Thurs-
day morning, about six o'clock, after a very sultry night, Lime-
rick was visited by a most awful and terrific thunder-storm,
which endured for an hour. It commenced with a hollow
rumLling noise, resembling the roar of distant artillery, and
incre .sing at intervals so as to convey the idea of a heavy can-
nonade, and then became more quick and continuou , like the
freq,•ent discharge of small arms, and the rattling feu de joie of
mus.setry. while again a tremendous crash boomed along
with a violence which no human power could be expected
to Froduce. The sky was in the interim dark as twilight,
and the air was charged with vivid flashes of forked
lightning, which followed ePch other with much rapidity. The
rain poured down in violent torrents for above an hour. It
was truly a fearful scene. A young woman, named Ann
Clanchy, residing at Clonmacken, while sitting by the fire with
her inv band about seven o'clock A. wt., was struck by a flash which
ran down the chimney, and laid her prostrate on the floor. Her
husband sustained a slight shock, and was left insensible for
some time, but on coming to himself, and attempting to raise
his wife up, he found to his horror that she was dead. The
Mayor held an inquest on the body, which exhibited livid
streaks from the head to the waist, when, after a very minute
inquiry, a verdict was returned—Died by the visitation of God.
Limerick Chronicle.

TOE YOUNG GIRAFFE.—This singular young
animal, about the birth of which the greatest interest has been
felt, already stands above six feet high, and is very beautifully
and distinctly marked. The horns are about an inch in length
and terminated by tufts of long black hair. This is the second
giraffe ever born alive in Europe. On the first occasion the
mother would not recognise her offspring, owing. as was sup-
an d takthtehseenpioeatriiicaoeedeooff itsge
sotflastiii offspring.
tgo.
belfile,
posed, to too great attentions having been aid to it, and being
hanoh.d too soon, so that the keeper had to act the parttof
foster parent, in consequence of which it only survived a week.
In the present instance no one was allownetdrotoomdisitnuwrbhilet,h ai
tu
isp t
the mother now fondles
male parent also shows his joy by caressing the mother and
coach lin this:route
3coonufinngedo.ne Throeugehvetnhte
proves
sf
teen months, or three months longer than that of any other
animal.
A new and well-appointed four horse coach,
called the Rival, has just been started on the road 6,0 m Lon,.
dwelita%Ghlto(gl'eetlniel7na'vOid;s -h:sßltei*rtiZ'th' anell'Yt- and the Defikw.*
:.re, we believe, the ugly. t wo_..that. now pis rig jiti4ey. aiid
Bensoi4 tar Oxford. - . '- : " :: -

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FnoM DAM' PAPERS OF WTERnaT.
CHRONICLE.—The meeting at Guildhall yesterday was
every way worthy of the first commercial city of the world.
The immense hail was crowded, and several of the first names
of thd City were present. Mr. Larpent alluded to a meeting
convened in the same hall in 1825, as which thirty resolutions
had been brought forward in favour of free trade, one of them
by Mr. Alderman Thompson, seconded by Mr. Buckle, recom-
mending the admission of foreign grain for home consumptidn
from all part, of the world at a fixed duty, limited to a fair
equivalent for such taxes and burdens as are borne by the cul-
tivators of the soil, either exclusively} ie a greater proportion
than other branches of industry, indeed the City of London
:gos:iyfnooiruo;
think that
has on many occasions come forward in behalf of free trale.
So fir hick as 1820 the merchants. bankers, and traders of the
city of London, embodied their sentiments in favour of free
and unrestricted trade in a petition, the first name to which
was Samuel Thornton, one of the first merchants in the
City, who had been Governor and was a Director of the
Bank. Mr. Alexander Baring pres uted. the petition to
the HouA. of Commons, and we well remember the ear-
nestness with which, on presenting it, he enforced its prin-
ciples. We have inserted this memorable petition at the close
of our reports of Corn-law meetings. Another meeting. to
protest against the mischievous nature of commercial restric-
tions, and more especially the corn monopoly, was held so late
as 1839; and the first resolution at that meeting was moved
by Mr. Horsley Palmer, who stated that it was of the utmost
importance, with reference to the currency, to have a fixed
'duty. No advocate of the Corn-1 -vs had the courage to face
theeistmheeeutinraign,imatiltdytwhehiceihrenuom:tance was so far a subject of re-
gret to Mr. Grote that he observe,—" Much as I:rhsetajiodllicelseo.misthoe
you,n en %any' iwohloBn2so
7: if:
ee
cause
ut
shee
that it hail been so far interrupted as that.. ame of those gentle-
d
forward to-day and sustained their argatoets,
;ch has been read to
toP prevailschargetitin a %I'll:
the fallacy of their reasoning and the iefflauity of their argu-
ments could easily be sawn."—(Ch errs.) Mr. Grote,
though he thought the best plan was to have no duty at all,
yet admitted that interests had grown under the present system
which it would be cruel at one blow to cut down.
'fl3l ES. The Coneervatiee,; of London had, we
doubt not, good reasons for iOratfig Litt gentlemen who as-
semtled at the Guildhall yesterday for the purpose of delivering
speeches against the Corn-laws, and who departed after the
business was over with " three hearty cheers, and one cheer
more for Lord John Russell," to conduit their proceedings as
they pleased without interruption. The statements made by
Alderman Thompson on Friday to the City Conservative Asso-
ciation had in some measure prepared us for this course, by
allowing that the constitutional interest is strong enough in the
City to justify them in giving a little law to their opponents.
If those statements may be depended upon (which we see no
reason to doubt), the approaching contest for the four metropo-
litan seats must inevitably result in the signal discomfiture of
the Whig party—a discomfiture which probably will not stop
short of the ejection of all the four sitting Members.
Under such circumstances it might well be considered
unnecessary to take any steps which, by producing a
violent collision of parties in the Guildhall, might possibly have
endangered the tranquillity of the metropolis, especially since
commercial men among the Conservatives themselves are
divided in opinion about the Corn-laws, the ostensible subject
for consideration at the meeting. We havealso reason to be-
lieve that the City Conservatives are as anxious as their oppo-
nents to avoid putting an extinguisher upon the projected can-
didateship of Lord John Russel for the honours ohm', to be
vacated by Mr. Grote, partly_ because thee desire to have a
foeman worthy of their steel," and partly because they think
the ditliculty of such an achievement as the defeat of the:Noble
Lord would be by no means proportionate to its glory. 'I lie
proceedings of the meeting, in which the Whigs were thus
quietly permitted to have their own way, furnish but little that
is worthy of notice. There was the old cransbe repetita of
Anti-Corn-law arguments, good and bad, upon this occasion
even more than usually diluted with the falsehood and nonsense
which make the majority of sober•minded men feel that a came
disgraced by such gross mountebankery and imposture cannot
be altogether a good one.

POST.—The debate upon the conduct of Ministers will be
resumed this evening. We hope it will afford no more exam-
ples of English members endeavouring to excuse inconsistency
by foolish refinements. These attempts are unmanly and un•
English. If a man will frankly say that he dislikes and
dreads the reckless policy of the present Ministers, but still
hates the Tories so fervently that he will keep the present
Ministers in power, that the Tories may be kept out—if a
man will say this, we may think little of him as a statesman
and a patriot, but we can still respect him as an honest and
plain-speaking man. This we cannot do with respect to those
who are afraid to vote against the present Ministers, and equally
afraid to state the plain reasons of their votes. Nothing can be
more absurd and offensive than the attempts which have been
made to bamboozle the public by persons who argue that
though they disapprove the policy of Ministers, they are con-
sistent In voting to keep them in office. Such persons only
show that they are conscious of their own duplicity of con-
duct, and so ashamed of it that they endeavour to hide it from
public observation, and perhaps from their own. Much better
would it be for such men at once to avow the real state of the
case, namely, that bad as the policy of the Whig-Radical Go-
vernment is, they would rather have it because it is Whig-
Radical, than have another Government whose policy they
would prefer, if that other Government were to be composed
of Tones. So bad is the position of Ministers, according to
the view to be taken of them from the point selected in Sir
Robert Peel's resolution, that their partisans are doing all they
possibly can to shift that point. Tney are incessantly, labouring
to misrepresent the question before the House. " You are
called upon," say they," to accept a Cove nment which has not
" stated its plans." This is not the question before the House.
It is not a question whether the Government of Sir Robert
Peel_is.ll,lp4y_ to be better than the Government of the Viscount
Melbourne. It is not a ifizeitiOn of comparson between the
merits of respective parties. It is a very much more impor-
tant question than this. It is a question whether a Govern-
ment has been unsuccessful in carrying its measures f r
six years, and is at length beaten upon a leading question of
finance, whether a Government so circumstanced does not act
unconstitutionally in presuming to retain office. This is a
question which goes far beyond the present erisi,, important as
ti at may be. It is a constitutional point, and not merely the-
oretical, as some constitutional points may be teemed to be,
but eminently practical. The fitness of the Conservative party
to administer the Government has nothing at all to do with
the question.

HERALD. —There was a meeting yesterday of electors of
the City of London, held in the Guildhall, " to take into con-
sideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for an altera-
tion of the present Corn-laws." The Lord Mayor presided at
it. Considering the protracted period during which that ab-
surd Association, whose members announce themselves as
" agitators professed" against the existing Corn-laws—have
had to lay their plans—prepare their movements-74nd concoct
their speeches—we must declare that this was one of the most
lamentable fiilures that even the bungling pertinacity of the
" leaguers" has yet perpetrated. It has supplied much too slight
a text for the remarks we have been, from tune to time, desirous
of submitting to the reader on the general question of •Corn-
laws ; of their necessity, their modifications ;. of the point of
demarcation which a salutary policy suggests between that un .
restricted free trade in perhaps ihe most precious of commo.
dities, which Mr. Dillon advocated at the meeting in ques-
tion, and that regulated machinery for its control whiCh the
vicissitudes of seasons, not less than those of our political rela-
tions, really require to be established. But the meeting r,f.
forded a most signal illustration of the one-sided views, the
selfish prepossessions, the impracticable prejudice of the libe-
ral, disinterested, universal commerce, the free and unre-
stricted intercourse-school, which, arrogating to itself the "ex-
elusive " profession of the most enlightened views in every de.
partment of our domestic. trade, is really " exclusive" only
in its zeal to assert its own interests at the expense of all
others, in the welf.re of which that of the community is Wis.-
soluhly bound up.
GLOBE.—The Times of this morning, in its doleful
diatribe on the great City meeting hays that, ll.vehood
and tbnsense " make the majority Of sober-minded men
feel that a cause disgraced by such gross mountebankery
and impo;ture cannot be altogether a good one." 'rhe
Times is taking a monstrous deal of needless trouble to
find :noo
nt:
edge away gradually from the strenuous opponents to
the stolid advocates of the Corn-laws, Why cannot our
Contemporary take the benefit of the absolute freedom
he has so well earned from the troublesome respirements
of character Y Who expects consistency or honesty from
the Times, on this any mare than any, other question ?
Who is at all surprised that the ripie# ta to day devoted
to the monopolists ; or who will be Surprised if it tie-
sorts thorn again to-morrow ? Let the Times then
abandon its sliding-scale—its slippery gradations of.
apostacy. Let it fearlessly entbraec its ,fi.retl duty of de-
termined bullying. against ail it • twiliO.fty yestercluy,
and may bully again for to-morrow, It is an'udditional
dishonesty fit the Times to attempt to 4ppe4P honest.
" Oat, ye. villains ! play out flie play I" lyti pgrop with
the Tivie-s,.lio‘s.ever, that' "-falsehood 414 notisensei"---
" mountebankery and imposture,"—make sober-minded
men doubt the goodness even of their own cause, when i
they find it advocated by lawns capable only of those
modes of advocacy. We are therefore §,t) fat, oblihrpti to
the. Times for withdrawing its aid from the 4nti;Cotinr.
law cause. We make our opponents welcome to all its 1
" falsehood and nottse.tM4," " mountebankery and im- i 1
sdnehnsinetitdutieluwdigileat
?C,,onTsehrivsatiisvea Ministry
nnit
Ministers,
pa:4l3,a",
STANDARD.—A question has been repeatedly pm-
which it is plain
paied within the last fortnight or three weeks, "What
Sir Robert reel and his supporters, upon the 'pro-
Wonld - be to
pc sition now before the House of Commons, cannot
are not nor
leovofinlthmtipietrooplpiriaelritntyyp
:e.stilyarlidnfoied of , firm-
if, in their prreaesnoecsfnwldteees,rnspitoi.ensdriiTtestrohn:ledhyline. they should usurp t lie
province of the advisers of the Crown, by proposing_
a financial arrangement, It is not merely -tat they.
the occupants of office—though
objection in their nnaroidable
cairael ofde necessitytails
thoa
ptloan e:feduesteallt-7-11tMls' freim
elliil=
not merely
Itihriitstiwngerteheingusietlevessurco
any
yt
that they labour under this disadvantage ; there
ignorance mnranscieill of the future policy of the Government,
In every Government the financial departme4t is,
the name indicates, but a part of the sfysteM to be
pursued ; and • whatewie its importance, t .is it
stronger
part
call upon men, thPrPfwv, -to i'lYvid? Pecuniary re-
sources : for a course of policy which. they cannot
subordinate to and, dependent on
foreknow, - and which they are I-10 4) control is
to require theta ' to • " "4.4 the cow, of .a,
edifice of which they jlti,ye Ito plan or estimate--
it, a scheme of Oriaticg to
to calculate the4l contests
which may or may- not be embarked lit, and with
regard to which no term' whatever are stipplio? These
considerations must Aatisq" eVcry reasonable Man
of the injustice of dePl444irt "C. tillis WIN ;lye not
in office, and win) U.L.a net t 9 ,e h} Pul(") IT they who
make the demand can hall
meet the wants of the century, It is enough if the op,
.position give the implied plidr-7whieli. they do give,
',IN-lieu Ole)? -cOl fit' tbo disnP.!-;sY,l .of the Minist6.,;-,thet
the ptiblie service shall be!prov4k4 fur ; ,Without. calling
~iipou. them, first, to say ltOW.4lle PPYisioo4B 10 be, made?
.ite,t,. what is. to be its extent ?---rpoints npon .wli ela. it is
iniposi:ible, for any. but: the.hoiciets .--a-oilice-to,..be. aeon- I
4:11.4-ly infOrined, -,: •- - , ',,,.•+\.'1,ii,11 ifi=.
... ':. ...-.•'. ..?,
Ch4neeS and expenses iii
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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FR'JH THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

C H RON from-China, announcing the
occupation of the Bogue forts and factory at Canton by the
Briti,h forces, has kept the Funds flat ; but, in the absence of
details, the effect one way or the other has been but trifling.
The tes market has, however, exhibited increased animation,
and a rise of 20. per lb. for Company's Congou has been
rwilised on the prices of yesterday.
TIME preinium on gold at Paris i 3 10 per mille,
which, at the English ,Hint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce
for starriaril gold, gives an exchange of 25. 40, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25. 371, it follows
that gold is 0.10 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advises from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4-30 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17: 10141. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 7i, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. Bi, it
follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The announcement of the recommencement of hostilities in
China was regarded by the dealers in the English funds rs
unfavourable to the maintenance of present prices, and what
with this and the payment of the cash in satisfaction of the
stock sold on Chancery account, there was rather more than
usual heaviness in the market.

Great apathy is exhibited as respects business in the foreign
securities, and the character of the bargains that take place
is so unimportant that prices continue the same from day today.
In the tea trade the news from China gave a fresh zest to
speculation, and it produced quite a sensation at the public
sales, which were proceeding in M►ncing-lane when it was first
announced. At first there appeared a probability of the sales
adjourning, but this idea was soon relinquished, and as soon
as the news had been read they continued. Out of doors the
speculators were very busy in concluding contracts, and up
to, the , close of business on 'Change there still seemed the
desire to operate. However, there was that slight reaction in
prices which generally takes place when a considerable ad-
vance has been attained. At the sales, although a good deal
was withdrawn for higher prices, the few congoua that were
sold went at a rise of 2d. to 3d. per pound. 'l he most exre-
rienced parties still think, however, that'this disposition to spe-
culate is too hasty, aad that the supply will be sufficient to
meet all ordinary demand.
Notwithstanding the news from China slightly contributed
to depress the English funds, and materially affected the tea
trade, those persons in the City who have most carefully
watched the progress of affairs in China, and who may be con-
sidered to entertain the soundest views on the subject, express
no great dissatisfaction at the renewal of hostilities, thinking
that the negotiations hitherto carried on were of such a bung-
ling and unsatisfactory nature, that any change was for the
better, and indeed that those who were acquainted with the
Chinese character could anticipate no other result than a re..
turn to arms. It is said that Sir H. Pottinger, who set sail
this morning in the Great Liverpool steamer, together with
Sir W. Parker, who gces to take his station as Admiral of the
Indian Seas, is to act as sole Plenipotentiary in our affairs with
China, and will altogether supersede Capt. Elliott.
The settlement of the risks upon the President entered into
at Lloyd's, was to have taken place to-day, but was postponed
to the 11th inst., to allow further time for news respecting her.
New York Papers to the Bth inst. inclusive were received in
the City late in the day. It appeared by these that Mr.
M'Leed had arrived in New York, and was brought into the
Supreme Court on the 6th, and that the trial was set down for.
the 15th. The " United States Banks" shares are quoted at
about 17, and generally the price of the different State stocks
seemed to be improving in the New York 'market. The jug-
gling measure, which goes by the name of the " Relief
after being vetoed by Governor Porter, has been re-passed by
two-thirds of the Members of each House in Pennsylvania,
which, according to the constitution of the State, is sufficient
to make it a law, in spite of the veto. It will be remembered
that the constitution of the Federal Government makes the law
respecting the passing of Bills precisely the same in the event
of a veto by the President:
POST.--The Committee of the Stock Exchange met to-,
day to determine what should be done with the Portuguese
half dividend bonds, issued under the conversion scheme of
November 2. A resolution was passed to the effect, that it
was inexpedient to recoi,mise and quote such bonds for the
present. The words for " the present" show but too plainly
what the Committee would do if they could—that they would
be at their old tricks again, as in the case of the Spanish swin-
tile of 1834; but they cannot. The iniquity of the thing is
too palpable, and their open sanction of it would most likely
lead to the destruction of their monopoly. They entered fur-
ther upon the consideration of the propriety of altering the
lists also, and the result of their profound deliberations is,
that prices may be changed and others introduced before the
publication of the lists, if they are duly vouched for in writ-
ing by both the buyer and the seller, the statements upon the
subject beieg formally hid before the Committee on the suc-
ceeding board-day, we consider that the authorised lists of the
house are completely vitiated by this foolish arrangement, and
and that, under it, all sorts of abuses may be expected to en-
sue to the detriment of the public.
Mention has been made of an assignment of a portion of the
assets of the United States Bank as security for their post and
other notes held by various banks. We have now some parti-
culars upon the subject, a copy of the assignment haring been
put on .the file of the Recorder's office, with a list of the
trustees named on the part of the banks at Philadelphia, namely,
Messrs. James Ijundas, M. D. Lewis, S. W. Jones. Robert
L. Pittfield, and Robert Howell. It may be interesting to
the shareholders here to know what part of the assets of
the United States Bank have been hypothecated. They
are enumerated as follows : Bonds, mortgages, at Phi-
laslelphia 168,924 dollars ; real estate d►tto 1,242,651
dollars ; real estate, Mobile 1,258,067 dollars ; property
and effects, Buffalo 464,912 dollars ; stocks and loafs, Phila-
delohia 1,703,233 dollars ; property in district of Colombia
447.707 doll trs ; property and effects in Cincinnati 1,099.279
d' liars ; bills and notes, office at New Brighton 372,721 ;
bills, notes, and real estate,.office at Pittsburg 655,602; bills
and note:, office at Erie 337,128. The total amount is
7,772,250 dollars. The aggregate of the post notes cuvered
is 5,078,444 dollars.
• The Canada accounts notice the opening of the river St. '
Laurence, which was at length clear of ice, and steam-boats
had commenced running between Quebec and Montreal. The
first arrival at Quebec for the season was the ship Vete, on
the 29th ult., from Pool. On the following day (tulle in the
barque Great Britain, from London. That vessel encountered
some ice on the Banks, and large quantities in the Gulf of
St. Laurence.

HER ALD.—It is clear already that the anticipation of the
French loan begins to tell on the Funds, and it may be confi.
dently stated that vat ions capitalists, both in the Stock Ex-
change and out, are making preparations for so far getting out
of home stock as to be able to enter for certain amounts into
the new French loan operation when brought out, should the
terms be, as anticipated, of an advantageous nature. Indeed it
may be fairly assumed that in the present unpromising state of
money and commercial affairs the French Minister of Finance
is much too shrewd a man to apply for a loan, had any other
option for the satisfaction of present pressing necess;tios been
open to him, and therefore that, as necessity has no law, he
will not, and cannot, scruple in such an emergency to consent
to large sacrifices, and by way of attracting capital and invest-
ments to proffer some considerable and tempting bonus in some
shape or other.