The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

THE LEVANT MAIL.

We have received a summary of the news
brought by the Levant mail on the 2.2 d to Mar-
seilles. The dates are Constantinople the 7th,
Smyrna the 9th, Alexandria the 7th, Candia the
3d, Malta the IGth, and Naples the 18th.
The health of the Sultan was improving, al-
though rumours had been current of his being
poisoned.

The Echo de l'Orient and Journal de &vole
of the 9th state that the Porte was waiting for
the advice of the London Conference, in ord,:
conclude definitively the Eastern quest= to
Our private letters are confider
4... that the hatti
scheriff of Turkey will be ir—octified.
The Smyrna papers p_-
csert that there were to
be no changes in t12..e system of reform in conse-
quence of the tall of Reschid Paella • but our
corresponcience contradicts this statement, by
an nou,_‘,,ing the dismissal of the Board of Admi-
ral' and the Commission of Public Utility.
The .Augsburgh Gazette of April 22, announces
thatßescliid Pacha will be Ambassador in London.
Colonel Hodges, it is asserted in the Oriental
Observer of the 9th, is to return to Alexandria
as Consul-General when official relations are re-
established with the Pacha.
Mr. Wood's appointment as Consul at Beyrout
is denied.

Lord Ponsonby, according to our letters, will
probably resign, being dissatisfied with the con-
cessions to the Pacha, against whom his Lord-
ship is said to bear "an unaccountable antipathy."
General Jochrnus arrived from Syria on the
Bth, at Smyrna, on his way to Constantinople.
The British fleet was at Marmorice and Malta,
and the Austrian squadron at Smyrna.
The insurrection in Candia was not over on
the 31st ult.

Rear-Admiral Sheppard died at Malta on
the 4th.

The plague still existed in Egypt.
The letters from Alexandria of the 7th state
that the Pacha's armaments continued.
Ibrahim's health better.
Accounts from Corfu, dated 30th, state that the
Senate had voted an Address of thanks to Sir
Howard Douglas, who made a suitable reply.
His bust in marble is to be placed in the Senate.

TUNIS.
In consequence of the French buying up so
much cattle for Algiers, the Bey has prohibited
the export in two months from March 22.

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ENTRANCE OF CABRERA INTO SPAIN.
The Madrid Eco del Comercio of the 19th, in
a letter from Gerona of the 12th, states that the
official authorities of that town had announced
the arrival of Cabrera, with Zorillas, Burg,o, and
nine other persons, in Catalonia.
This intelligence is not confirmed by any other
advices.

The Spanish Chamber of Deputies on the 10th
rejected a motion by 123 against 50, that the vote
for the Regent or Regents should be taken by
ballot.
The r:artisans for the triple Regency gained
Fround on the Deputies, but the majority of the
.crenate was for the sole Regency of Espartero.
50,000 men are around Madrid to preserve order.
The dispute with the Pope became daily more
complicated.

Tile Queen Christina was still at Lyons on
Sunday last.

GREECE.
Letters from Athens of the sth announce that
on the 31st, M. Tricoupi embarked for Malta,
on his way to his post as Ambassador in London.
Sir Edward Lyons remained at Athens.
M. Cochelet, the French Consul General at
Alexandria, was at Malta in quarantine.
The Marseilles papers state that disturbances
had broken out in Thessaly.
The Prince de Joinville had returned to Paris
from Cherbourg.
According to the Frankfort papers the north-
ern Courts are negotiating for a grant of 230,000
francs per year to Don Carlos from the Spanish
Government.

The Crown Prince of Prussia has left Berlin
for St. Petersburg,h.
The hereditary Prince of Saxe Weimar is
affianced to the Princess Mary, second daughter
of Prince William of Prussia.—Morning Post.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The defeat of Ministers in the House of Commons,
though not expected to lead to any change in the Go-
vernment, as some of the Tory prints would fain have
us believe, has necessarily caused some flatness in the
public securities, far our readers must be made ac-
quainted with the fact, that there are Tory stock-job-
bers as well as Tory p!acewen, and that an opportunity
is seldom lost by either to turn a penny at the expense
of the public at large. Hence the attempt now to get
down the funds, on the plea of the Ministry being in
danger. For immediate transfer, Consols realised 90k
in the morning, subsequently receded to 89k, and left off
at 90. For the 25th proximo, the opening quotation
was 904. and the subsequent transactions were at 90k
to 4. Exchequer were not quite so good, being at 15
to 13 prem. ; India Bonds were markd 4 to 2 prem. ;
the Reduced Tiree•aed-a-Half per Cents. receded to
971- and 97i ; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
to 98i and 98i, and the Three per Cent. Annuities to
89k and to 89.

The Foreign Securities and the Railway Shares par-
ticipate in the dullness of the English Stocks. The New
Five per Cent. Portuguese Bonds were at 33/ to 84,
and Spanish Active Bonds were nominally at 23/.
The accounts by express from Paris of Cabrera having
entered Spain again, not being credited, did not lead
to any movement in the latter. Mexican Bonds of
1837 were worth 29/ to 308, Columbian Bonds 22k,
Chilian 61/, Brazilian 69, and Peruvian 178 to /.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, were 52/ to 52/,
and the Five per Cents. 99/ to -a.
Great Western Railway Snares were at 29 the
New, 13/ to 141, the Fifths at 78, and the South-
Westtirn at 19/ to 19/ premium. Brighton Shares
were up to 1/, and Eastern Counties were at 14 dis-
count. Australasia Bank Shares realised 18 to /, Co-
lonial Bank 11/, London Joint-Stock 2/ to /, and
London and Westminster 2/ to 3 premium.
This afternoon the Foreign Exchanges were again in
a depressed condition, chiefly as regards the rate on
Paris, whither it is said large remittances are making,
to complete instalments on shares in the Rouen Rail-

way. The quotations were for three months' Bills as
follow :—Paris 25f. 60e. to 621 e., Amsterdam 12 3,
Antwerp 12 3h, Hamburgh 13 94, Frankfort 1491,
and Trieste 10 to 10 1.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 26.—The Gatton
market continues exceedingly flat. The business to-day does
not amount to more than 2,000 bales to the trade, and every
tendency to a decline in prices.
LIVERPOOL SHAKE MARKET, APRIL 26.—A limited busi;
ness has been transacted in the Share Market to-day; prices,
however, have undergone no change since last report :
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock, 27i ; North Midland, 811; Half Shares, 394 ;
South Eastern and Dover, I 8
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 26.—The Share
Market has been flat to-day :—Manchester and Birmingham,
25%; London and Birmingham, 160; Do. New Thirds,
244 ; London and South Western, 564 ; Do. Tenths, 44;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 37,i.

The Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Tagus steamer,
and brings accounts from Lisbon of the 19th April, by which
it appears that the treaty between Great Britain and Portugal
was all but concluded, the draft of whi h was presented to
Lord Howard de Walden, and was returned by his Lordship
with his remarks and proposed alterations, and as soon as
copied out fairly, will be forwarded to Lord Palmerston fur
his consideration.

The influenza was very prevalent at Lisbon. The Queen
was confined to her room with it.

The Government having failed in all its endeavours to obtai
an advance of money from the Bank and the Confiance Com-
pany, has been obliged to announce that an issue of trea-
sury notes to the amount of 600 contos is about to take place.
For further particulars we refer our readers to another part ot
the paper.
Ministers being in the minority in the House of Commons
last night on the Irish Registration, has not had the least
effect on the British Funds. The Market continues steady
with nothing doing.
The Richard Anderson has arrived in the Mersey, fruit
Charleston, with papers from the above city to the 3d instant,
and we are sorry to state that the papers do not contain any
news of the President. . _

By the Hamburgh mail, arrived late yesterday, we have re-
ceived the price of the exchange upon London, which cornea
of a shilling higher ; gold the same 428%.

Consols remain at the leaving off prices of yesterday 90}
for the Account ; Money, 90A ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 pre-
mium ; Bank Stock, 172 173 ; India Stock, 2.5.5 A 256 k.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active same as it left off,
231 6 ; Deferred, 1:44 ; Passive, 54- ; Portuguese rather
lower, owing to the intelligence from Lisbon not stating any-
thing respecting the Bondholders, left off 33 34, at present
334 -Z,; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 22i- 23 ; Mexican, 29i
30A ; Dutch Two• and-a-Half per Cents., 52A i; Five per
Cents., 99A 100.
Sit.vitEs.—Grortt Western, 28 29 prem. ; New, 13A
14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 24 dis. ; Blackwall,
54 dis. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, .58 59
per share; Croydon, 1.34 14i per share ; Greenwich, 8* 4
per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 151 14 dis. ; South
Eastern and Dover, 141 14 dis.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and South Western 3Bl 58*..... to
Manchester and Leeds ... 70
Although money continues easy, the British funds have been
inactive during the whole course of the morning, and we do not
hear of a feature worth attention. One should have thought
that the fineness of the weather would have given some kind of
spirit for speculating, but they arc all waiting to ascertain the
particulars of the Budget.
Consols are at the morning prices, 904 for the Account;
Money, 904 ; Exchequer Bills lower, 15 13 prem. ; Bank
Stock, nothing done ; India &rya:, 2554 2541, lower ; India
Bonds, 4 2 prem.
In the Foreign Tvlasket

five bargains have been done;

it is in the same state as the British Market. Spanish Active,
23i ; Portuguese, 331,_ 34 ; Mexican, 30 ; Colombian, 226.
The Share Market is also idle. London and Brighton, 44;
Great Western, New Shares, 63'4 ; Eastern Counties, 9 ;
London and South Western, 58k.
Consols, Money, 89/ 90 ; Account, 9O i•
Mexican, 29& 30A ; Portuguese, 33L 34A ; Spanish, 23k 6.
Money Market heavy.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUG""'

Bank Stock .......... — • ,Aw• '
3 per Cent Red... • !India Stock 054 i
3 per Cell* '
31 - -- m00n5......... 89ic !Ditto Old Annuities
per Cent Red.. ...... 974 DittO New Annuities —
New 3i per Cent 984 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l3 pm
Ling Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l3 pm
Jan. 1860 ... 12 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 11-Itllndia Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. 'l3 1-16 Consols for Acct 9oi
FO REIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 34
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 69 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... 61i Ditto, Nletallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23i
Ditto, 1824. .. ... 224 Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 30 French, 3 per cent —f. —c,
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. .•• 52i
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 714 Ditto, 5 per cent 99
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... P
Great Western Railway (65 paid) .. '
Ditto New Shares (50 paid
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (.!
London and South West
Manchester and Leeds
York and North Midlani
Ditto New Shares (IC,
COURSE OF EXCHAZ
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .2 U. 12 6i
Antwerp l2 6
Hamburgh M.B. 13 12
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55
Ditto, 3 months 25 80
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 85
Frankfort on Maine... 1501
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37
Berlin....
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 1
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ..
Cadiz
Bilboa ... 35
Barcelona
Seville

10 paid)...

tern
(70 paid) .. 64
id Railway (50 pd)
0 paid) ..............214
NGE—(YESTERDAY).
Gibraltar 4B
Leghorn
Genoa 25 80
Milan ...
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per oz 119
Lisbon
Oporto 521
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 44
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold Coin £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... .......... 0 0
Silver in Bars 0 5 0

CO URT CIRCULAR.
The Qqeen, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen
took an airieg yesterday-afternoon in a landau and four.
or.i Alfred Paget, Equerry in Wsi ing, attended her
Majesty on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, rode out
on horseback at the same time, attended by Colonel Bou-
verie, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had
audiences yesterday of the Queen.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited Prince
Ali-ert yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an
airing yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four with
outriders.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen,
and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe,
Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Mr. Rich, Lord
Alfred Paget, Colonel Bauverie, and Captain Francis
Seymour, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence
last evening.
Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R A., had the honour yesterday of
a second sitting for the likeness of her Royal. Highness
the Princess Royal, by command of her Majesty..
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Anne Maria Dawson, honoured the Italian Opera
with her presence last evening.
After the Dinner party at Cambridge House on Monday,
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had an
evening party.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lord and Lady
Maryborough with his company at dinner last evening at
their residence in Saville-row.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign-office. All the Ministers were
present.
The Council sat an hour and a half.

Messrs. N. Roskell, Thomas Todd, and William Maury,
a deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce at
Liverpool, in support of a revision of the import duties,
and Messrs. J. Hornby and H. Harrison, a deputation
from the town of Liverpool, in support of a revision of
the import dut es, had an interview with Lord John Rus-
sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Lieutenant-Colonel Miller had an interview with Via•
count Melbourne yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing- street.

The Earl of Coventry had an interview with the Mar-
quis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office.
The Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office. _ _ _

Mr. Wisrburion and Dr. Lushington had interviews
yesterday with Lord John Russell, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches from the Governor of the Bahamas vre.tc
received yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.
We have already given an outline of the estimates
for the year 1841.42, which as stattd, we classed
under five heads. The following are some of the
items :

I. R'yal Palaces—(expense formerly charged upon
.he Civil List), 49,567/. ; public buildings, 27,0261,,
among which is put down 9901. 21., incurred by the
trial of the Earl of Cardigan ; New Houses of Parlia-
ment, for the continuation of the River front, and the
north and south flanks, and for additional foundations,
50,0001. ; Completion of the Model Prison, Copen-
hagen-fields, 30,000/, in addition to 45,0001. already
voted ; Hall for the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland, 5 000/. The proposed building• is to be
erected at the joint expense of the public, and the
City of Edinburgh, and is to be also used as a church.
The sum to be contributed by the public is 10,000/.,
of which 5,000/. was voted last Session.
2. Salaries and Expenses of the two Houses of
Parliament, 58,000/., being 12,000/. less than last
year ; Treasury, 54.000/. ; Home Department,
28,008/. ; Foreign, 72.9931. ; Colonial, 24,588/. ; Pay-
master-General, 34,978/. ; Penitentiary, Milbank,
22,221/. ; Poor-law Commissioner:, and Assistant-
Commissioners, 59,531/. ; Consuls abroad, 113,5921. ;
Mint, 46,405/. ; Official Postage, (in consequence of
the abolition of franking) 38,000/., of which 23,000/.
is put to the account of the Foreign-office.
3. Superanuations, 87,291/. ; French emigrants and
Americal loyalists, 7,5001. ; Refuge for the Destitute,
3,000/. ; criminal lunatics, 3,390/.
4. Secret service money, 39,200/. ; convicts at home,
58,206/. ; at Bermuda, 20,679/. ; and at New South
Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 265,000/. The num-
ber of convicts at Bermuda is about 1,000, and at New
South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 12,350 males
and females and 509 children ; captured negroes,
25,000/.; Unkersity of London, 6,1031. ; revising bar-
risters, 30,000/. ; Polish refugees, 12,000/. ; steam na-
vigation to lodia by way of the Red Sea, 50,000/.
5. Civil establishment at Sierra Leone, Gambia, and
the Gold Coast, 10,680/.; Western Australia, 7,099/.;
Clergy, North America, 11,590/. ; Indian Depart-
ment, Canada, 18,895/. ; Governors and others, West
Indies, 18,667/. ; Justices in colonies, formerly slave
colonies, 58,700/. ; education, ditto, 30,000/. ; Expedi.
Lion to the Niger, 39,974/., in addition to 61,263/.
voted last year ; New Zealand, 6,000/.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
STATE OF THE POLL.
NINE O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent 264

M +jot ity for Walter ...... 288
TEN O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent 750

Majority ...... .... 315

lIALF-PAST TEN.

Walter
Larpent 929

Majority
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpcnt

Mojority 306
TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Walter
Larpent

Majority

ONE O'CLOCK.

Walter 1778
Larpent

Majority

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWA Y.—lt i 8 with
no ordinary satisfaction we inform our readers, that the con-
tracts lately advertised, from Bridgwater to Taunton, have
been let, so as to ensure the completion of these eleven
miles within one year. The terms are 18,0001. a mile,
including the rermanent way, and every other expense.
Notice has been given to the Great Western Directors,
the lessees of the railway, that the line to Bridgewater
will be ready to be opened for traffic on Whit Monday,
the 31st of May next. Tenders for loans on debentures
are being offered every day, and, in fact, the fulfilment of
the anticipations of the Chairman, at the half.yearly meet.
ing, sanguine as they were even then in the promising
state of the Company thought to be, is so fairly in pro_
grass as to render it likely to fall short of rather than to
exceed the reality. All this is the result of having firm
and resolute directors and officers. lids line would, for
years to come, have prevented a chaos of incomplete work,
instead of a well-finished railroad, returning a handson
dividend to the proprietors, and conferring incalculable
benefits upon the surrounding country•—Devonport
Telegraph.
HENLEY PEERAGE.—The House of Lords,
yesterday, decided that Lord Henley had established his
claim to vote in the election of Irish Redresentative Feers.
The members selected to try the King's County
petition on Monday are Mr. Craig, Mr. Price, Mr. Hays-
king, Mr, R. Palmer, Mr, Bethel!, and Mr, Yorke.

MORNING EDITION%

THE BRITISH NAVY.
The Journal des Debats of Saturday contains an ar'
tide on the present condition of the British 181/:
which is not without interest. After refurring .'";
outcry raised some months back in England, 061—
h
..arched state into which the Min stry had alloweettbe.
navy to fall, our Contemporary remarks that, for
_sow;
time, these reproaches have ceased, and that, no alt#e.
was made lately on this subject when the NoY.Pbt:
mates were voted. The Debuts then proceeds, 11104'
following terms, to assign the renson of this forlOW
ante on the part of the press and the Oriposition.We.
hers :
" Since September last the navy arsenals eratel
Britain have displayed an activity and an immensilie,
resources of every kind which are really predioe:e
Much has been boasted in history of that act of' the
netians, which, in order to prove to Henry lll,oiea
France of what exertions they were capable, corOu'e
in building, fitting up, and arming a galley duriefijOr,
day on which he visited their arsenal ; but the,eo
tions and resources displayed by the English arel r.
thinly not less remarkable. In the beginning of
tember, 1840, England had 27 vessels of the 1:m04
manner, though inefficiently, commissioned. Of the;''
15 were in the Mediterranean under Admiral StoP"'
3 were and are still on the Indian station, 4 wereinttl
English ports, waiting to be called on to sail; havillgY
tat their stores on board, but without their full compleON
of men, and 5 were and are in port, serving as dept"'
schools for naval gunnery, &c. At the end of Mu,rtchb;
1841, England had 34 vessels in commission. P
fleet in the Mediterranean, which had sent hone
vessels, and had received a reinforcement of 4t"°
which 2 were three-deckers, now consists of 17
of the line. Nothing had been changed in the number
of the Indian squadron, nor in the vessels which serve
4 11,,
e
as depots at home, but the number of vessels held
ready for sea has been increased by 9, of which ~:1.;
are three-deckers. Besides, England has increasede
frigates, which in September were only 3, to the 9-_,f91,n1:
ber of 10. Thus, in the short space of seven ment.4
the English Admiralty has armed 9 vessels of the al
and 7 large frigates of
.50 guns each. The crews°
some of these vessels alone remain incomplete throer
motives of economy ; and what is not less astocisbil
is, that all these vast expenses could Nava been Will
without the aid of supplementary credits, by sihi„t:
employing the usual resources granted for thejifiy.
Nor is this all. This marvellous activity has
liCo'lnfr;
dared a number of light vessels or steam-boaL:o
being armed and fitted out. A line of steam-vast,
touch at Canada and the United States bas bees',
ganised since last autumn, to commuoicate with M"
America and the Gult of Mexico, and will stoop bej;
full activity. The construction of the vessels alre'
commenced has also been urged on with extraordies;,/ i
vigour. For instance, in the yard where the It°Y;
George was launched in October last, may now be see
the Aboukir, of 90 guns, on the stocks, with her ram;
pass timbers already laid down. At Devonport, a üb°,l
steam-boat, of 500-horse power, which was commence
on October last, has just been launched, and it is air
nounced that four other vessels of equal power are'
td
speedily follow her. Whitt the royal navy of Er818"t
has been giving such marks of activity, the /nerd's;
service has signalised herself by enterprises which
if
serve attention. She has definitively arranged
steam navigation with the Pacific Ocean, and is,ct;
pleting the communication between England al?? 0
Asiatic possessions. A line of steam-boats or, 7-1,
horse-power is established between Alexandria and
English ports, and one of the directors of this plan, to
Anderson, is at present in Egypt, making arrangerne"6
for a regular line of steam-boats on the Nile, which. ilh'
to go up as far as Thebes, and which will alloy/ t-jie
Bombay couriers to stop at Kosseir. Travellers !to
gain by this route the advent tge of a more agreele
journey, and the navigation of the Red Sea
will
shortened by half. In addition, in place of briegivi °
from f;
news from Bombay only, the monthly courier fro
din will take his departure from Calcutta, and will te—'
at Madras, Ceylon, and Bombay. And to conclude tbis
account, a new attempt is made to shorten the direct
passage to India by doubling the Cape of Good Hop.
On this very day, April 27, is to sail from Gravesend'
for Calcutta, the Maria, of five hundred tons, construc-
ted with sails as for general navigation, and with Me,g
ville's patent steam apparatus, capable of being taketilfnet
and put on at pleasure. This vessel is to try the
calms
of steam-power in making way through those n'i ,0
e iy
common under the line, and which prolong so tediously
the passage between Europe and India."—Tinta•

CITY IMPROVEMENTS. t,
Several letters having appeared in print dratvingi:t-the
tion to the subject, much notice has been taken
~:- suit
city of the intrusion of the plan upon which t,i„,,iffa
Fire-office is proposed to be built upon the general u",.," ,t
laid down for the public imprcvementa in that q 081;
91 the City, and which appears the more. unacsofr:.
able the more it is inquired into. The improverne
of Bartholomew-lane, wbich the Sun Fire-office sect°
determined to render of as little value as possible, .01
designed as early as the year 1800, when a Bill was par
for taking away the shops at the corner of Threadatere;
street, and making a road through the tower of 4--
church. This project would have been carried tote
t
effect had not the Act made it dependent on the COesn
of Bishop Rorteas, whose name wai mentioned, and 01
not that Prelate died before his consent could be
vr;
tained. It seems that had the Act mentioned the "
shop of London" generally, the improvement then pro-
jected would have been carried out long ago. The Aes•
authorising this project was granted to the Bank C,„
England, and• consequently, when the Royal Exchange
was burned down, the City Corporation, after obl2lll-
ing their own Act, sought to induce the Bank of Dag'
land to carry out that part of the undertaking that tre-
lated to the improvements in Bartholomew-lane. wheui
be observed that the Act granted to the Corporation pro'
vi-led that the Church should be pulled down alt°,„e;
they. According to the plan of the improvement wu%
the Corporation arranged with the Treasury, and whic,
was, it seems, signed by the Chancellor of the Excheqtf
and deposited in the Town-Clerk's office, a line was to v 6
drawn from the north. west corner of Messrs. Grotei bark-
ing-house to the south-west corner of the Bank of &OIL,
and this plan being so arranged, the Bank undertook sm",
part of the improvement. The Sun Fire-office occuPrd
a large pact of Bank-buildings, which are to be p.,,lie,
down to make an area in front of the new
change, where, it is said, the statue of the Duke of "e.
lington is to stand, and the Company, for the sae of that,
new office, have selected part of the site of the chteailf
intending thus to occupy the corner. The BO' in
England, which had undertaken the improvements to
Bartholomew-lane, transferred that undertaking 1,
the Sun-office, who commenced operations according 't;
and had scarcely begun, when the Exchange Commas
were informed that the south part of the new (Ace o°ta
project 6 feet beyond the proposed line, in contrareat%
of every understanding on the subject. The Exeb6e.fio
Committee, alarmed at this, at once sent a notice t"
Bank of England, and also to the Sun, of the env-00
ba
ment that the latter were making ; but the Sun, far frera
retarding their proceeding, pursued their work, it is 01d,
with increased activity, and it may now be observed, then
the wall which stands on the questionable side bs
been run up higher than the others. The Chairalaoof
of the Exchange Committee attended a meeting ue
the Governor of the Bank' and the Governor of tP
Sun Fire.office, at which, after some discussion, 8-
d
appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was Pro'
posed. A meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequers
took place on Saturday, and on this occasion Sir Reber
Smirke's opinion was produced, that the improvement
would be greatly disfigured by the projection of the
Fire-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer express
his regret that he had no legal power to interfere, and II;
posed a reference of the question to the Board of Work
which the Bank said they would consider. This is the Pr`'
sent state of the case, as far as we can learn from inquill
made on the subject.
These particulars only place in a still worse light sou

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before the conduct of the parties concerned in thisVeYA!!
like aggression upon good taste and propriety. So 10:0
clue is there to this matter, that people are driven to 1„
supposition that it may have arisen out of a spirit of riveiri
between two architects who have lately maintained to
0
eager a contest to be very good friends towards each other.
We are far, however, from entertaining any such bellf'
and must wait till sonic, one better informed can enlighten
s
the public. What renders the case peculiarly anomalou
is, that at the very time the City is threatened with this
disfigurement in one of the greatest public undertaking't
they arc expending money fol. the removal of the French
Church, because in its present situation it has an unsightly
projection, which is of far less consequence than the oil
contemplated by the Sun-office. NVhatever the motives o
that Company may be, one thing- seems certain, narriclY,
that the conduct of the Bank of England has been highlf
reprehensible in this affair. They here intrusted with the
performance of a great public duty; the Exchange Cell':
mittee, when they intrusted them with that duty, could he'
y
have had a notion that any but themselves were to perfornt
p n who have abused it. rf bni
conduct of the Bank of England cannot lot. characterized
otherwise than as a gross dereliction of a public dutY.'"
tith;ey and
tr .
anster it to the Coin v, yet, no sooner is the authorit in their hands th
Times.

LORI) CARDIGAN AND SUNDAY FL°G.
orrio.— Lord Cardigan seems to be one of these
unfortu-
nate individuals who cannot for their lives keep oat of lA4
water. Ile has scarcely got out of one scrape ere beLis
right into the heart of another. Mischief seems to be tug
.by iroiulting his officers and whipping his
very element he lo.e. in. He alternates his amusements
mg Tucket:s with hair-triggers, and plying the c,,t,h();;
nine_tails on the backs ot his men. flow long w," 'Th
madman be allowed to disgrace the ranks of the array', a.'-'
thus t, art humanity, decency, religion, and morals, alike
at defiance ? The man himself has no sense of sham
about him; but those to ale .m he is officially responsible
are greatly to blame in having so long tolerated such
nuisance in the public service. —Leeds Times.
FORCE OF HABlT.—Alderman Newman, vvi'v.
had scraped together out of the grocery line Six hundrre!:
thousand pounds, enjoyed no greater luxury the last tb 7_
years of his life than to repair daily to the shop, and, Pr'd
Prirates--shoot:
cisely as the clock struck two (the good old fashione•
hour of city dining), cat his mutton wiili his successor. f
The late Thomas Rippon, chief cashier of the 13811 k 0f
England, was a similar oddity. Once only, in a Servis,oa.c,.
fifty years, did he venture to ask for a fortnight's bolid
rambic
He left town, but alter a three day's unhappY -- ye,
through beautiful greets fields, ho grew moping. pod pre,
maturely returned to the blissful regions of Threadnee
street to die at his desk.

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