The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1 41.

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCIS.,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Shire.
1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/. ins.sh. II:
108'0 41. As toby.de-le-Zouch Average 115;.e1s • '72
1,n60 Basingstoke • l6ol.sh. 5
1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny-...150/.sh. 93
5,00., • 16th . 10!. Birmingham. Is IGth share ....fill. & 711. 261
4,1'07 Ditto & Liverpool Juncelno/. 611.109 pd 26
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunt on.lool. sh. all pd
100 5/. Chelrner and Blackwater ......•.100?, sit. 101
500 221. Caventry 1001.1 h. 600
.. ..... .. Croydor. Ave-age 3 ii.tis 0.
2,060 5!. Oa. Dudley.... .. ..... ... lOO/.dh. 97
609 131. Derby•
100/.sh . PO
20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne .........411. l'ae. 4,1. pd : 1
3,5751 4' Ellesrassre and Chester Averegel33:.sh. 81
231 621 Erewasn lOO/.23. 750
1,297 301 Forth and Clyde.... Average W-101.16. en. 610
11,000 81. Gratin Junction .. ....lON. s r 137
48491 255. Grand Union lolll.sh. VS
1,500 ... Grand Surrey ••. sh. 15
1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 11.01.
2.000
600 131.125. 9/1. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 13,. 4d. 2,
'749 Ile. Gran thann lie q sio Belo
3,238 2/. Os. Huddeteenld Average bit. 6s. tid. sio 27
100 Keneington lO6 sh. all pd 10
/5.128 1/.los. Kennet end Avon, Av. :39/. Vs. 19d. sh 2t yi
11,6991 I/. 7s. Lancaster Average 47/. fn. 8d 273.
2,897 e 301. Leed 5 and Liverpool lool.sh 750
545/ 111. Leicester 140 i. It 146
1,807 51.01. Leicester & Northampton Aver e3/.101 733;
2.400 101 Monmouthshire lOO/.81 200
150 101. Melton Mowbray
500 95/. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh . 550
3,000 St 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. :h. al! pd 343
247 171. Neath lool.sh, 02?
2,400 51. Peak Forest Avstege about 7nl.sh. 75
21,418 SS. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. sh. ;0
8,6119 61. per cent. Rochdale Average dsl.s h. S 7
500 N. Shropshire
800 10/.03. Somerset Coal
3,600/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 1.1.11%
3ed, Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 650
700020 151, Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 080
2JO 9 3taurbridge1.............. 1451.5 h. 396
3,647 91. Os. Stratford-on-Avon A ver....791. Us. Isd. sh. 41
533 Int Swansea lool.sh. 265
3,762 21.83. Severn and Wyc and Railway A v. 351. sh. 45
2,60015 h. 32/.108. Trent and Mersey, 1 share lOOl. :h. 590
d,149
1,0005h.7 , el. 'Warwick and Birmingham ...... 1001. sh • 245
1.00015h..1 ""
980 131 • . Warwick and ilaptrn. H.V. 3h. 175
7,000 41 1 • Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs.sh. 564
11,000 • 370. - Wilts and Barks Avernee 671. 10s (Id. sho '27
860 6.. Willey and EaUSlngton..... ...... ....10.14. sh 74
.243 .. .. Vnneseacn . .....»...«....«....».. -Inn:. sh. ao
goy :117 Wey and A ruu llOl. en. 22
DOCKS.
"3" 3p C. Commerc al lOOl. sh. 6.1%
1.06511 h. '
East and West India ....Stock 03
3,239,31011. 60s. p.ct. London . Stock 66%
Ditto Bonds
2.209 3!. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14-7.05. sh. 75
68,3211. 5/.percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 95%
500,000 4/ per cent. Ditto Bonds
20(1.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 20!. pd 10
BRIDGES.
600 10s. Hammersmith 50/. sh. 21
7,,231 Southwark, Old ...... ...Av. 631.25. Bd. sh. 230
1,700 11. 151. Ditto, Now, of 71 per cent.. 501. sh. 13
0,000 ... ...... Waterloo 1001. sh. 3
5000 20s. W. Ditto, Oid Annuities of 8/ 60/. p 4 nn
%
5,000 Ine 341 Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd IS%
30,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds • 99%
5.848 26s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 102. 3d. sh„ 261%
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,600 31100 Albion 5OOl. oh. 501. pd 72
50,000 t Glieird cips.t.}Allianceßritish &Foreignloo/. oh. 11/. pd 1333
60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine l6Ol sh. 51. ed 5
4,000 1/. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14%
1,2001114 5L Birmingham 1' ire ..• 250!. sh. 55/. pd 107%
20,000 4/. percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 51)!. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. MI. 5/, pd 6%
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medi-41 Life, ICOL sh. 2110 s rod 41%
4,000 310 s County 'OOl. sh. 10/. pd If
20,600 Is. Eagle 501. sh. 51. pd 5%
°Ai, (5 per cent.l Li
se tai,d 301 bs.s Economic te 1000!. sh. 2501. pd 406
2,271 225. per cent. European Lies .0/. sh. all pd 52
50,000 2s. Ditto, Now "01. sh. 2/. 03 1%
1.0b0,000/. 6Lper et Globe Stock 119
20,000 51* Guardian
30,000 s. 3d. Hope 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 5%
2,400 5!. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 134
7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 10
13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. Si. pd 29 ,
2,020 31 108 Kent Fire .
501. sh, all pd 92
31. Ditto Life W. pd 4.6
10,000 les. Law Life IOU!. sh. 101. pat 00%
5,Ci10 10s. London, Fire 25!. sh. 121. 105. pd lan
3,0,10 108. London, Ship 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 10%
1.000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Ja le lOW. sh.
500,0001.
30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lilo .... sh. 2/. pd 016 s
50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 00/. sh. 2/. pd 184 Od
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters „a 11,01. sh. Si. pd 5%
2,500 1/. Provident Lose lOO/. sh. 10/. p 3
20
200,009 7s. Rock Life
59,2201 5!. per cant. Royal Exchange Steck 183
6,003 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 514
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life
ANKS. 100/. sh. 51. pd 71A
OCK B
25,1100 Agric. and Com. of I reland2s/. sh. 10/. pd
5,000 8 per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 401. pet 5032
10,006 10 percent. Bank of Bit noingham 501. sh. 10/. psi 113%
10,000 IP per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 20
37,000 6 per cent. London & Westmster 1001. sh. 25/, pd 24%
60,001.1 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 12%
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ...... ...... lOOl. sh. 201. pd nO
25,000 Liverpool lOOl sh. 101. )d 50
50,000 71 percent, Manchester and Livers] 501.31 ). 151
pd 10
pool District
20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO/. ch. 2.5/. pd 43.
20,000 Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. 9h. 9..L1.pel 431/3
50,(100 5, er cent. National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 17//. pd 15
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng.loo/. sh. 3.5/. pd 24ii
10,009
10,000 Gloucestershire 513. sh. 10!. p 3 12
0.000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 54 pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Bath 20!. sh. 161. pd 22
5,000 British 401. sh. 16/. pd 1014
5,00 U girtin:77.l 17stto Prosinciao ..... Ztil. an. Ise. ya 20
Bs, la.
928 4/ 10s Birmingham 59? sh. 66
4,250 2/ Os Bristol 'OOl. sh. 26
9,250 3/ 100 Brighton 2O/. sh. 14
750 31 100 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2O!. sh. allpd 9
4,000 7!. Os. ContinentalOs. Consolidated ..75/. 621/. p
pd 110
1,000 101. City of London.. ....... .....1 00/. sh. all pd 195
1,000 61. Ditto, New 100!. sh. 751. pd 150
4,000 :`l.os. Equitable 5O/. pd 50
10,000 2f per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. 57
800 51. Der cent. Isle of Thanet 25!. sh. 20/. pd 183{
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 30/.3h. all r.,,, 49
9,000 41 per cent. Phoenix 5O/. all. 39!. pd 34
1,000 4! per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 801. pd 63
4,000....... . South ntytropolitan .50/. sh. 19/. pd 17
9,000 41. per cent. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd 30
240 5/, per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50
400 sf. per cent. Wakefield 251. sh. 22
2,000 3!. Westminster Chartered
6,000 12s. Ditto New 5l/.3h. 10!. pd 11%
780 1.1 per cent. Yarmouth 2O!. sh. 181. pd
WATER WORKS
•
1,800 IN. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 52
4,434 71. East London 1001. sh. 161%
5 non 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 133.4 d. sh. 62
• •
2,1100 21. Kent 'GO/. sh. 453¢
372 IN. Liverpool Bootle "201. sh. 326
1,500 2 /10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... €0
0,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford 109/. sh. 55
1,000 4 per cent, South London lOO/.
8,204 41/. West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. oh. 101
1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAII.WAYS.
I%n° - ....... 100/ pd 70
9,509 Birmingham and Gloucester.... ICO/. pd 78
15,1.0 0 Bristol and Exeter lOO/. :h. 11i pd 31
7,509 Cheltenham & G.Western 100Lsh. 62 e./. 27
:3,009 Clarence 104)1. sh. 100/ pd 33
13000 Dublin and Drogheda 100!. sic 5/ pet
60,00 . ..... ... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. `413/. pet 8%
10,000 Great North of England 100/. sli. 701. pd Ca
10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sha all p 3 501
25,000 Great Western 100/. sh. G5l. pd 88
•
6,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 50/. sh. 401.-pi! 45 ia
2,090 5 per cent. Hartlepool 160/. sh. 100/. pd 14532
8,000 ......... Hull and Selby 501. sh. 50/. pd 4334
2,100 4!. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. US%
5,100 10 percent. Liverpool & Manchester 101.1.5 h. 100/.pd 195
7,068 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. pti 45
36,000 ....an London and Brighton 501. sh. 50/ pd 433
94,000 London and Blackwell 251. sh. 25!. pd 19..,
10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sn. ea pd (i 4
25,000 kl per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 901. pd 169
25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....t?5/. sh. 5/. pd 56%
31,250 Dit o New Shares .11. oh. 32/. pd Pt
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. lid. 5531
33,000 ...... ... New London a Croydon/ Av. 131. 15s. ild. 122
...... ..• Ditto New Scrip.... 114,
13,000'
i 3,000 • Ditto Half Shares 'Ol. 25/. pd 30
10,000 Manchester anti Birmingham 701.51 i. 40!. 2.114
Ditto Extension '7l. pd 2%
CounV-- 100/ sh. 100/. pd '7B
..... . _

-
10,000 Midland -ounties
15,000 North Midland ..... ... --1 01. sh. 140 b p
70
Ditto New . 40/. I.cl 35
5,128 Northeirn and Eastern....lool. sh. 501. pd 22
'2,6t0 Preston and Wyre 5O/. sh. 301. pd 36
2,000 South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 3.3/. pd It %
1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington .........100/. sh. 275
9,004 .... ..... Thames Haven 50/. sh 51. pd
6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501, pd 79
MINES.
8,000 .. . . ... Albion Copper 51.1 i 23/. pd 12
4,000 1.1..55. A lten l5/. sh 12/. it: pc! 10
10,000 ......... Anglo Itlexican.iss. 51. pm.lool. sh. a' ', d 1%
Ditto Subscription Il5l. pa 1%
2,000 10/, Bolanos • 150/. sh all p.l 35
10.000 11. 10s Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm 351. sh. 00!. pd 8
6,000 ...,,».. Macaubas & Locaes United 25/.811.2u. pd 6
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2Ol. sh. 14/ 0 2k
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company. 20/. sh. 201. pd I
000 .......w Ditto Scrip lO/. sh. IN. pd 2
20,000 British Iror 501. Eh. 55/. lid
,0043 British Copper 5/. sh. 431. p 0 1%
..: ....... Cr. i BrAnea 64/. pd 7
Candonga ..... , 73/. pd 5
10,000 11 Copiapo
8,500 ... Columbian, its. 51. pm. 55/. sh. 551. pd 0%
2,850 3/. English 14/, Gs. pd 2
20,000 ......... General bliningAssociation2o/ Eh. Is!. pd 1%
6,155 ......... Mexican Company lOOl. sh. 5731 pd 6
3.000 Polberou Consols .. ...... ...10/. sh. Si. pd 4
11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 234
Ditto Loan Note. l5O/. pd 160
30,900 United Mexican, ins. 2 pm. 40/. sh. all pd 2%
DIM, Scrip 31,4
Ditto New Scrip 51 ?El 5%
West Cork .......•........ .... .501. sh 50/. pd 38
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1,000
1,500
700
King' College lOO/. 193
MISCELLANEOUS.
10, YYI 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/.lsh 28!. pd 39
6000 1. per cent. British American Land Company 3`3i. pd
10,066 61. per cent. Canada Company lOOl. sh. 301. pd 31%
90,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City Bonds, 4 par cent loo3{
20,000 11.65. GeneraiStearn Navigation 151. sh. 141. pd 25%
ow
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
it. London Coin. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh l9
,090
......... Caoutcheuc Company 1231. pd 12
New Brunswick Land Company...so/ pd 12
~:54 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50e...100/. sh. 100/. pd 117
2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100/. pd 117
4,000 0
• ..... ..., Thames Tunnel 5O/. sh. all pd 10
10,00 o Van Die.ner.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 173/. pd 9
LIST of SCOTTISH
COMPANIES' PRICES
11.
BANKS.
1,000.008/. 61. p. ct. Bank (it Scotland...B3/. 6s. Bd. sh. all pd 162
2,000,0001. 6 p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland 100/ sh. all pd 154
500.000/, 8 p. ct. British Linen Company-1001. sh. all pd ;129
500,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial .5001. sh. 1001. pd 174
500,009 t. sp. et. National ........ ......... ....10C1.sh. 101. pd 14%
500,0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 8s
1,000,00 W. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland - 2001. sh 401. pd 74
INSURANCE COMPANIES.!
250,0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/ sh. I/. pd 255.6 d.
7,500 7p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. pd 13:Jr
100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 936
50039 Bp. ct. North British ....,...• 4OOl. sh. 101. pd 1834
1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/, pd 20
5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 10!. pd 14%
100,000 33 p. tt. West of Scotland lOl. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 .... Edin. and Lllas. Un. Canalso/.sh. all pd 10
Ditto Allocatodl. OW. sh. all pd 47
5,40( 5 per cent. Edinb. JointSteck Water:2s/. sh. all pd 35
2,00056 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh 481. vd 53
10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass:2U sh. 161. pd 8
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 50
4,450 10 per cent. C lasgow Gas
25/. sh. all pd 52
750 73 per cent, Keith Coal Gas 201.511. all pd 51
.. 1,200 .... .“ gdinburghandDalkeith daily/ay 50/, sh 89

• SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
( From the Times.)
Several journals have laboured very perseveringly for some
time past to connect the Times with what they are pleased to
call " Puseyism ;" and the fact of our having on Thursday last
expressed a feel ng of regret that we had. formerly spoken in
terms of einmerited harshness of the author of the Oxford
Tracts, is declared to be " ominous," by a Contempotary,
whose qualifications for deciding upon questions relating to the
doctrine of the Church of England are tolerably notorious.
Whene,,er we may he led (as must sometimes happen to ell
journalists) to place too much confidence in plausible ex parte
statements to the prejudice of any individual or body of men,
we shall always be ready, upon all fitting opportunities, to
express regret for having so done. But it is not to be sup-
posed that we, therefore, assume for the future an attitude of
liartisanship on behalf of those individuals, or hold ourselves
in any degree responsible for what they may do or say. Fair
play and no favour is all that any man engaged in controversy
can reasonably desire ; and it is all that we shall ever undertake
to give. It is n our vccation to intermeddle in theological
coutroversies ; the delicacy and the difficulty of handling them
w,ll, the reverence due to the subjects of which they treat, the
amount of leisure and research necessary to be bestowed upon
them (not to allude to any higher considerations), are sufficient
to repel us from the attempt.
( From the Morning Herald.)
In addition to the violation of international law which has
Leen committed by the Americans, in the detention of Colonel
M'Leod as a criminal, for acts the responsibility of which our
Government has formally taken on itself, of which the Ameri-
can authorities have had official notice, the very laws of Ame-
rica itself have been trampled upon by an armed mob, and a
B. itish subject, regularly liberated upon bail, is now a close
prisoner by virtue of a Lynch-taw decree. Such is democratic
legality—such is republican justice ! No doubt the respectable
b dy of Lynch-law gentlemen who assembled by sound of
drum and bugle to exercise their " gentle powers of persua-
sion," in inducing the sureties of Colonel M'Leod to sur-
render their pi incipal on the moment of his liberation, used
nothing but the softest blandishments of their pecu-
liar rhetoric to convince the bail of the propriety of
entering into the requisite formalities to release the accused
from prison only to return him thither instantly again. But
was there no-. Fro geaticulation.a-no highly intelligible,
though unspeaking action,; corne.yed as clearly as any
words could convey to ttfllletrriel of , that the decrees of
L. nch-law were not' " to, be trifled with," while " tar and
feathers" were to be had, or a little cord strong enough to be
used as an instrument of sylvan justice on the bough of a
neighbouring tree? Do we speak of imaginary things? Do
we sketch a fanciful picture of the democratic manner of getting
rid of the " formalities of justice" and the " law's delay" in
the great Transatlantic Republic? Oh no. It only surprises
us that we have not already had to record the "settlement of
the complications" of the case of M'Leod, by giving an ac-
count of his judicial suspension amid the acclamations of the
sovereign people, upon a branch of hickory. 'I he Lynch au-
thorities in the present instance have only donehalf their work
by dividing the tragedy into two acts. Generally the prologue
to such judicial dramas as theirs is followed so closely by the ca-
• tastrophe as to leave but brief space for intervening dialogue
or incident. Take an example. Republican slavery and
slave-breeding for the republican market are things too sacred
to be touched by the impious advocates of humanity in a land
impressed all over with the footsteps of " freedom," and where
" lie who runs may read," placarded on every wall—engraven on
every rock of the mountain—cut into the green turf on every val-
ley, and scratched upon the bark of every forest tree—the decla-
ration of the "'natural equality and inalienable rights of man."
A few years ago, however, some persons isllo believed with
Sterne's philanthropist that " a negro might have a soul,"
and thought the aforesaid " inalienable rights of man" were
violated in his person, ventured in some of the States of the
Union to decry slavery and slave breeding as odious, un-
christian, and detestable. They exhorted their countrymen
to get rid of the guilt and curse of a system that treats in-
nocent human beings as outcasts from all the rights of hu-
manity, consigning them to a community of degradation with
" the beasts that perish." The mode a suppressing this
" licentious" vindication of the outraged rights of nature, by
the advocates of the inalienable rights of man, was summary
and decisive. One of their own newspaper oracles thus proudly
announced the prompt measures taken to silence the "'abolition-
ists" by the soveeeign people. It was in July, It 8:i, that the fol-
lowing paragraph appeared in a journal called the New
Orleans American, and which we noticed in such terms as a
just indignation furnished us with at the time, but.in none that
were at all adequate to express the feelings of civilized men of
its revolting atrocity. " A letter was received here on Satur-
day," says the American paper. "from Livingston, Missis-
sippi, stating that two itinerant abolition preachers had been
I seized by th inhabitants, who, alter receiving proof that the
wretches had endeavoured to create a revolt among the ne-
groes, and, after hearing their defence, caused them to ba
hanged in the streets, together with seven negroes, who had
listened to their doctrines." The American Journalist, who
evidently considered the dastardly massacre which he had re-
corded as a highly commendable exploit, tacked the following
passage to his narrative of blood :—" Warning is given to the
abolitionists that they may expect similar treatment all over
the south."

(From the Morning Chronicle )
Though it might be dangerous to punish an officer merely
because he contrived to be on bad terms with all who came in
contact with him, the language used by Lord John Russell,
in speaking of the Earl of Cardigan, went a great way beyond
the occa.ion. His Lordship was pleased to say that if this in-
dividual had not been an Earl, they would have heard of no
clamour against him. Does his Lordship wish us to believe
that in this aristocratical country, in which the worship of
titles is carried to an extent unknown in any other part of the
world, the officers of a regiment would be more prone to
quarrel with their Colonel bcause he was en Earl, than if he
were a commoner? Where is the proof of this? There are
many noblemen in the eummand of regiment., or d yet
the Earl of Cardigan is the only Nobleman so circumstanced,
as far as we have heard,. Who i 3 unpopular with 1.1.
The Earl of Rosslyn, forinstance, is Lieutenant-Colonel of the
9th Light Dragoons. Has he quarrelled with his officers?
Lord Charles Wellesley is Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th
Fo,t. Has he quarrelled with his officers? There is on the
part of the people of this country somewhat of an indisposition
towards men who have risen from a low to a high station ; but
this is the first time we have heard of a disposition to construe
the conduct of Noblemen less favourably than that of men of
inferior station. In fact, it is matter of notoriety that much
more will be borne from a Nobleman than from one of
snore humble origin. But Lord John Russell and Lord
Howiek, who defended the Earl of Cardigan, were then elves
on trial. It might be unjust towards the Earl of Cardigan to
drive him from his regiment, under the circumstances of the
case. But who placed him in command of a regiment, after
he was removed from the 15th in consequence of the sentence
of a Court-martial stigmatising his conduct as ungentle-
manly? A man does not behave in an ungentlemanly man-
ner by accident. Once a gentleman and always a gentle-
man. There are instances of thieves becoming honest men,
and the Duke of Wellington some' years ago mentioned a
case of a sergeant who had run off with th money of hi=
company, sentenced to be flogged, whose punishment he had
remitted, and who had since risen to high rank in the army.
Still, a shopkeeper who should trust a servant who had been
detected robbing his till, or a banker a clerk who had run off
with his money, would be in danger of a verdict of a Jury de-
priving them of the management of their affairs. A single
ungentlemanly act is indicative of the idiosyncracy of the indi-
vidual. No mars who saw another patiently put up with a
kick in the breech would think of inquiring whether the dis-
play of patience was accidental. The public have a right
to complain of the Whig Government for restoring the Earl
of Cardigan to a situation for which he was proved unfit lay
the sentence of a Court-martial approved of by the Crown.
(From the Globe.)
The dissensions between Lord Cardigan and the
officers of the El!venth Hussars, with the state of
incffieiency into which that regiment has been brought
by those dissensions, together with the injury they are
ealcul tted to inflict on the character of the service ge-
nen:lly, were last night brought under discussion in the
House of Commove. It was proper that they should
be noticed in Parliament ; and the occasion selected
was, of all others, the most appropriate. When
called upon to vote a large sum from the general taxa-
tion of the country in order to provide its means of de-
fence, it would have been a dereliction of duty, a virtual
abandonment of the high functions with which it is in-
vested by the Constitution, had the House of Commons
passed over, as a matter of ordinary occurrence, as an
affair a Itually insignificant in itselr, and in its probatle in-
fluence on the service, a state of thir.,,,,s which, according
to the recorded opinion of Sir J. Macdonal f, the Ad-
jutant-General, had reduce an entire regiment,
maintained at a heavy charge on the country, to in-
efficiency, arising out of constantly-recurring disputes
between the Colonel and the other officers • thus render-
ing it unfit to encounter an enemy, should the exigencies
of the country require its services in the field, and a re-
preach to the service while at home. We, therefore,
cannot sympathise with those Hon. Members who lilt
" surprise" and "regret" that such a topic had bean in-
troduced into the discussion of the army estimates.
We should have been much more surprised, and felt
much deeper regret, had the occasion been suffered to
pass over without alluding to the subject. The ground
to Mr. Hume, by
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yn broughtbreplyinget rfuo emard is, in our view,
that there war no-
thing in any one of the numerous cases of dissatisfac-
tion and dissension which had occurred in the regi-
ment to call for a court-martial on Lord Cardigan;
stil less for his being placed on belf-pay, which
would have been construed into' an expression
of h
conductstrong Quarters of
have required a distinct, tangible charge, founded on
The former would
an alleged violation of The Articles of War ; the latter
would have been to degrade the half-pay list, by using it
as a stigma. It would have been cowardly on the part of
disapprobation
command.
from
the Commander•in-Chief, as though he feared to abide
the issue of an inquiry : it would also have been inju•
rious to the service, as inflicting reproach and punishment
upon an officer, without a preliminary investigation.
But there was another course, to which Mr. Ma-
caulay did not find it convenient to allude, but which
appears to us the very proceeding which the disturbed
and disorganized state of the regiment required should
be taken. A con' tof inquiry should have been ap-
pointed—the investigation should have been compre-
hensive and searching. The whole of the Earl of Car-
digan's conduct in his command—whether at the bead
of his regiment or presiding at its mess—his tone and
bearing towards his officers in their private intercourse,
as well as in directing their regimental duties—should
have been subjected to the test which, though difficult
to define, is perfectly understood by all whose educa-
tion and habits are those of gentlemen.
(From the Standard.)
The debate last night upon the Army Estimates ex-
hibited the Conservative patty in its proper position—
and that proper position is always one of honour,
always the ground of patriotism. Embroiled as the
foreign relations of the country are—whether by

an unhappy conjuncture, or by the misconduct of
the Government, matters nothing—but embroiled
as the foreign relations of the country are, it would
be easy for an unprincipled Opposition to defeat
any Ministry ; and if such an Opposition were
to raise the cry of economy, there is too much reason
to fear that that most mischievous and fallacious cant
would still have influence to ensure them a popular
support. We know how the Whigs have uniformly
acted in such circumstances, and how in such circum-
stances a Whig opposition would act again. What
is the conduct of the Conservative opposition ?
Do they try to embarrass the measures of the Exa-
cta: ve in vindication of the national honour, and
in snaking provision for the national safety ? No ;
they are found the firm and sincere supporters
of the Ministers, whenever tie Ministers 'are found
doing their duty by the country—the supporters of
Ministers a;ainst the most powerful section of the
party that keep these Ministers in office—indeed, the
only supporters upon whom in such cases the
Ministers can confidently rely. But _it is

said that the Conservatives support Ministers
is maietaining the defensive ett iblishments, he-
cause they (the Conservatives) wish for war. Then
it mud be confessed that they take a course for
the grit fication of their. wish such as never Ras
taken before for the like purpose ; hitherto it has been
thought that preparation for war is the best guarantee
of peace. But let the enemies of the empire be the
witnesses, and tae, cxprsition of their sentiments affords
the most unexceptionable testimony. Do they love the
Conservatives? Do they take encouragement from the
language of Conservative speakers and Conservative
writers ? Oh no I. When they would excite rage against
this nation they quote the words of the Whig Ministers
and Whig journalists.
(From the Courier.)
The Irish Poor-law Bill is, it Aeeras,heing worked
for the special uses of the O'Connell and Whig factions
in Ireland, a fact which very justiiy-. called- down .the
animadversions of the Duke of We liagton yesterday
in the Lords, and, upon this case stated by Lords4Gloss.k.
gall, was even admitted by Lord Normanby himself`
to be an extremely irregular mode of construing the
law. Grave as may, however, be the inculpation and
tleorving of all reprobation the Poor-law Commissioners
for Ireland, we are compelled to hold the offence as
veniil in comparison with that scandalous course of cal-
culated fraud, pitiless oppression, and unmitigated des-
potism, by which the English Poor-law, from its first
concoction, and through ail the phases of its adminis-
tration since, has bean rendered remarkably notori-
oug. Not one word however escapes their Lordships'
House in condemnation of the abominable princi-
ples on which this unchristian law was constructed, or
the kindred spirit in which carried out in England,
although when the safety of a Tory vote in Ireland be-
comes jetpardised by the one-sided action of a Popish
Poor-law partisan and valuator, great are the griefs
and loud the denunciations about the party damage so
surreptitiously inflicted. It is truly lamentable, and a
• portentous cxemplifiation of the degeneracy of the
times Atlas to find men of high repute, legislators of
acknowledged eminence and desert in sill other regards,
so painfully sensitive on tl:e lesser ill, whilst wilfully
blind and neglectful of the progress of that great run-
ning sore which is fast spreading over the whole
moral and physical face of once hale and happy Eng-
land, engendered by the ruthless application of the new
Poor-!a-s blister, by which want is inflamed into the
most cardinal of diseases, to be cured and killed only
by swift deilAing regimen in those most pestiferous
of gaols known as union workhouses. We might'; have
holed that the Right Rev. the Bishop of London, so
eloquent in his place about the scandal and indecency
of bals masques and masquerades at Drury-lane, would
have reserved some small measure of the ovetflawings
of speech and sentiment for those other performances
and enormities perpetrated in union prisons, details of
which, so frequent and loathsome, have almost daily
filled the columns of the press, bet in which the parts,
instead of being cast among French opera artistes and
prostitutes, are distributed among assistant Poor-law
Commissioners, guardians, workhouse masters, and
paupers, the last appearing in the double character of
actors and victims.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM TAR MORNING FAPERS OF SATURDAY.
TIMES.—The fall of the " United States Bank naturally
draws attention to the loans contracted last year in Europe by
that institution, as they show the very great extent of liability
recently entered into, and have been so quietly conducted in
general as &most wholly to escape public notice. To meet its
pressing engagements, then, at the period referred to, the Bank
has received the following loans :—Two in London ; the first
for 800,0001., of which half will fall due in April, 1841, and
the remainder in April, 1842: and the second for
900,0001., payable in egnil sums in October, 1841, and
October, 1842 ; also the Dutch loan for 700,00 W., redeemable •
in 4; These..enAln6d...:..+kcwrinnait. n mctively
to 2,-100,0001., to which is to be added the 1,000,0001.,
of credits on the new agency recently established in Philadel-
phia ; all entered into within the space of about two years, and
'nearly the whole unfortunately derived from English capital,
employed too, be it remembered, to save a part of the loss
which otherwise must:have fallen upon the Americans them-
selves. It was a current remark in New York, when the large
credits in London in favour of the United States Bank were
made known, that they had served to realize for New York an
equal amount of " suspended debt," and to throw the whole
weight on England. Such a wreck of a great banking con-
cern has probably never before occurred. The $lOO shares,
which used to be at 251. to 261. previous to the first suspension
of specie payments, ate now quoted at 41. 10s., and that is
almost a nominal quotation. It seems to be the nearly univer-
sal opinion that nothing is now left but a liquidation, and that
the longer it is delayed the worse it will be for the creditors.

CHRONICLE.—The continued depression in the funds
has been produced by fears as to the result of the affair of
11PLeod and that of the Boundary question. The alarm has
been sustained by a long preposterous article which appeared
in a morning paper to-day, where war, and nothing else, is
conjured up, and a demand made for an immediate increase in
the army estimates. We have conversed with some of the
best informed parties in the City, connected with America, on
the affair of M'Leod, and certainly find no cause to apprehend
any bad results.. The tenor of the private correspondence in-
dicates that the merchants of New York and Philadelphia are
quite unaware of the excitement entertained upon the subject
in this country, and it is almost, we may say, notorious that
M‘Leod was not present at the destruction of the Caroline.
It is also important to remember that General Harrison's inau-
guration as President took place yesterday, and that the charge
of the proceedings against 11I'Leod is now in the hands of
Mr. EV elrster, as Secretary of State. His moderate and en-
lightened views upon the subject of the Boundary question
may be depended on, and when the trivial and contradictory
evidence on which the Grand Jury found a true bill against
M‘Leod comes under his consideration and that of Mr. Crit-
tenden, the new Attorney •General, they will, no doubt, see
the propriety of quashing the proceedings. Much stress has
been laid by the " bears" upon certain hostile resolutions said
to have been passed by the Legislature of Maine, authorising
the Governor of that State to remove the troops of the Queen
of Great Britain now quartered on the territory called disputed
by the British Government. On examining the authorities on
which this threatening step is alleged to have) been taken:by the
State of Maine, we aro inclined to think it is founded on a mis-
take altogether, and that the proposal of the resolutions in the
Legislature of Maine has been held to be synonymous with
their passing. The American papers say certainly that the
Legislature of Maine had recently passed such resolutions, but
they cicse the subject by stating that " the resolutions were
referred to the Committee on the North-east Boundary ques-
tion." Had they passed the House, it is not easy to see cause
for referring them to a Committee, and it is much more likely
that they Lad been so disposed of upon • their being moved in
the House, than that any such madlike and futile resolutions
were adopted by the State of Maine.
It is generally expected that the Legislature of Pennsylvania
will legalize the suspension of specie payments by the Banks.
A specific resolution, authorizing it for one year, that is to the
15th of February, 1842, had been moved in the House of Re-
presentatives by Mr. Hinchman, and leave given.

POST.—There was some little pressure upon the Ex-
chequer Bill market to-day, the quotation receding to 6s. ets.
prem. Otherwise, the public securities remained at much the
same figures as at the close of business yesterday.
The Money market has been disturbed in some degree since
the beginning of the week by announcements of failures. Be-
sides the stoppage at Liverpool, to which we at the time
alluded (that of Pritchard Brothers), involving liabilities
to the amount of from 80,000/. to 100,00 W., one in the
same branch of business, the drug and seed trade, has
occurred here. The debts in this case de not, it is said, ex-
ceed 30,000/. to 40,0001., but much mischief has been done
by the fa-lure, owing to the high opinion that had been enter-
tained of the circumstances of the party and the consequent un-
expectedness of the event. The difficulties of the house are under-
stood to have been brought on by the stoppage of Messrs. Garry
and Curtis, to whom it had come under acceptance, in antici-
pation of some Riga produce that was to have been placed in
its possession. By some, however, they are with more confi-
dence ascribed to a failure in the country. Yesterday it be-
came known that a house in the wholesale grocery line had
been obliged to suspend its payments, and this, we have reason
to believe, will prove a heavier matter than the preceding, the
liabilities being pretty generally estimated at something ap.
proaching 100,0001.
The stoppnges of concerns of this description, which hive
but little in the nature of speculative contingency belonging to
them to excite distrust in the minds of bankers and others,
will, if they continue, do more to destroy confidence than have
done those of some of the larger establishments that have be-
come embarrassed through vicissitudes to which they are known
to be at all times exposed.

At the Louth Assizes a respectable young man,
a farmer, named Patrick H.gan, was found guilty of the
abduction of Miss Sarah Anne Weir, with intent to marry
her. The young lady was entitled to some fortuce, and
having been at a party at the house of tho prisoner, on her
way home with her sister and brother-in-law, a party of
men stopped the vehicle upon which they were driving,
and carried Miss Weir off forcibly. The police found her
out next day, and restored her to her friends. The
Learned Judge Torrens, after dwelling upon the enormity
of the prisoner's crime, directed th,t " Judgment of
death" be recorded against him, subject to any commuta-
tion the Executive might think suitable.

CUXHAVEN, FEB. 28.—There is still some
floating ice in the mouth of the Elbe, near Cuxhaven, Ot-
terndorif, and Dobrock. Off Stade the Channel is quite
full of it,