The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-31 00:00:00

(From the Paper of the M&I of March.)

We have little to record or to remark upon this week as
regards political affairs, there being very little news stirring,
either foreign or domestic.

Consols may be quoted at present at 89 14 for the Account,
with little doing.
We have no political news to communicate.
In the Foreign Market it is settling day. The Account as
yet is going off' well.
The chief fluctuation this morning has been in Brazil Stock :
it has been down as low as 63, went up again to G 5; at present
it is 64 to 65.

THREE O' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 80 U.

DE VERE, BY THE AUTHOR OF TREMAINE
—lt is well known how many useful lessons for the guid-
ance of the young and enthusiastic through the difficulties
of life, are supplied in the pages of this admirable novel,
than which there are very few more closely and deeply
',underl on human 'Moire. It i•, therefore, satisfactory
to find that " De Vere" is to form the June number o
Colburn's Modern Novelists," a collection of the mos'
celebrated works of living writers, now issuing at a lower
Brice than the Waverley Novels. To those who are en-
rerng on the circa and struggles of life, such a stud, as
Vere" presents cannot fail to render essential service.

DOCTOR DOYLE.—._We have heard with re-
gret that the air of Harrow ate has not had the salutary
t ff,ct contemplated by his phy.icians upon the health of
this most distingu•slied prelate. He has been ordered t.,
try the mote geoid influence of a Somersets.iire or Devon.
shire climate, for the summer months. We cannot bring
oursebb-s to contemplate the loss ot such a man without
feelings of the de.-oest sorrow. He is at present only in
his 49th year.— Wexford Independent.

An old man belonging to Largs, who died
about three weeks since, had, by penurious habits, amassed
between 2001. and 300/., which, at his decease, cane into
the possession of his sister. Elated by the change in her
circumstances, she declared she would have her dying of
it, and not hoard it up as her brother had done. Follow-
ing up her intention, she thank to excess, and on Sat.,rday
last was found burnt to death iu her house.—Edinburyli
Eventing Post,

NEW BANK CHARTER

BANK OF ENGLAND.--(THIS DAY.

At two o'clock this day a meeting of the proprietors of
Bank Stock was held at the Bank for the purpose of con-
sidering the subject of the Bank Charter. The room way
excessively crowded long before two o'clock, the Meeting
having been originally appointed for twelve.

At two o'clock the Governor and several Directors
entered the room.

Mr. RAIKES, _ the Governor, stated that the
reason why !he meeting had been postponed from twelve till
two o'clock was, that Lord Althorp had written to
him, legging him to do so, because he feared that if the
meeting took place at twelve o'clock, the even-
ing papers would take an account of the proceedings, and
Members of the House of Commons would have them
in their hands before he could make his statement in the
House. His Lordship thought that by postponing the
meeting till 2 o'clock, this would be utterly impossible.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read,
A PROPRIETOR asked, as it was Lord Althorp's wish
that the proceedings should not be reported in the Evening
Papers, whether the Court should not take some steps to
prevent the report getting into those papers ?
The GOVERNOR said that the Court had always been
open to the press, and having complied with his Lord-
ship's wish, he did not see that it was necessary to take
any further steps.
A PROPRIETOR said, that if the Court were to express
a wish on the subject, he should imagine that the editors
of the Evening Papers would nut report the proceedings.
T. e subject was here dropped.
The Governor then read a letter from Lnrd Althorp, of
which the following is the substance. The H tn. Gen-
tleman read it so rapidly, that we cannot answer for
every word of it ; but it is ill Substance correct I

" Downing-street, May 2. 1833.

" GENTLEMEN,-After duly considering the conversa-
tion I have had with you, the sul,stance of which I have
reported to my colleagues in his Alaje,ty's Governmenr,
they have directed me to make the following proposalN
to you far the renewal of the Bank Charter :

1. We propose to renew the Charter for 21 years,
subject to this consideration, that if at the end of 10 years
the then existing Government should so think fit, they
may give 12 months' notice to the Bank that it was their
int-ration the charter should expire at the end of the
11th year.
2. No banking company consisting of more than six
partners shall issue notes pa able on demand in the metro•
polis at within sixty five miles thereof. Banking com-
panies consisting of a greater number of parties than six,
carrying on business at a greater distance than sixty-five
mil:•s from London, shall have the right to draw bills on
Loudon, without distinction as to their amount, and to
issue notes payable in London.
3. The Bank of England notes shall he a legal tender,
and shall nit be payable in gold, except at the Bank of
Et lard, or at its various Branch Banks.

4. Bills not having more than three months to run
before they become due shall not be subject to the usury
laws.

5. An account similar to that laid before the Bank
C,mmittee shall be transmitted to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer every week, stating the amount of bullion in
the Bank and the amount of notes in circulation, such
account to be considered cmafidential between the Govern
ment and the Bank. These several weekly accounts to
be consolidated at the end of the quarter, an average to be
struck, and published in the succeeding quarter in the
Gazette.

6. A Bill shall be introduced into Parliament to regu-
late country banks, the provisions of which shall be such
AS to encourage joint stock banking companies in the
country to issue the notes of the Bank of England.
His Majesty's Government have desired me to call your at-
tention to the advantage which these different propositions
are likely to confer upon the Bank. Their tendency
must be to extend the circulation of its notes, and by re-
lieving Bills at short date from the operation of the usury
laws, will facilitate its transactions. The only relaxation
of the exc usive privileges at present enjoyed by the Bank
is the permission to be riven to Joint Stock Banks at a
greater distance than 65 miles from London, to draw
bills and issue notes payable in London. His Ma-
jesty's Government, therefore, think they have a right to
expect considerable pecuniary advantage from the Bank.
They therefore propose that the Bank should be repaid 25
per cent. of the fourteen and half millions at present due
to it front the Government, and that the Bank should
make a deduction of one hundred and twenty thou-
sand poulids from the sum now paid for the management
of the Government business.

I hope that this proposal will be satisfactory to the
Bank, And that the arrangements here suggested will
speedily put an end to the suspense now existing.

(Signed) ALTHOIII3."
A PROPRIETOR asked whether the Directors had ac-
ceded to the plan thus detsiled ?
The GOVERNOR replied, that if the measure respecting
the country banks spoken of by Lord Althorp were passed,
the Directors had resolved to accept of the proposition
made.

(We 81:all give the conclusion in a SE,cond Edition.)

DUR !TANI CATHEDRAL.-Some fine and rich
specimens of ancient architecture were discovered in the
ante room adjoining the Chapter-room of the cathedral,
ou Wednesday last. By the removal of certain plaster
work, some fine arches, correspondiug with those recently
disms red in the chapter-room, were brought to light,
1111(1 will now, like them be restored to their original state
la! the Dean and Chapter.—Newcastle Journal.
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR. KEAN.
—KERN was a man all of impulse. It is told of him,
Oa on returning home after the first night of his Sir
Giles Overreach, his wife, in her delight at his Fuccess,
inquired how Lord Essex (,hen an active patron of the
actor) was pleased. In the fervour of joy at the reception
which the tumultuous and excited audience had given him,
he broke out with "-- Lord ESSEX !—the pit rose at
me

A TROPICAL SUN.—An Englishman cannot
understand a tropical sun ; the clog-days of our temperate
isle would tie refreshing mqrnents to the toasting, at wing,
enervating -ours of so African purgatory; frequenly no
breath or air sweeps over the w4ters to root your parched
,kin, or else it comes like "bl ous from hell," and you
i,diale air that almost burns your lungs, so hot and arid is
it. Wish night come the ittllptill4 hilt too fatal dews,
and a rernithine hreez.:

"The morrow comes, when they are not for thee!"
—Service Afloat.

ITALIAN FIG TREE.—Among the time-
worn ruins of the ancient castle at Reetilver, in the island
of Thanet, an ancient fig-tree stretches forth its venerable
111119 to the breez , and attracts the attention of the visiter,
not more fry tht venerable aspect it presents than by
historical reco ds with which it is cournctei. This tier,
according to the traditions of the neighbourhood, claims
Italy for the soil of its nativity, and Roman hands for
those of its first planters; its age, consequently, canon:
he less than from 1,345 to 1,888 years. the Burnins
having first linded at Deal in the summer of the fifty.fifth
year before the birth of our Saviour, 1,888 years ago;
and having fin slly quitted Britain in the year of our Low
448 or 1.345 years ago.
i
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—The following s
a copy, verbatim et literatim, of a written defence put in
by a culprit, young in years, but an old offender, tot
stealing a gold sing from the shop wMclow of a pawn-
broker in the Nese-cut, Lam eth. The prisoner
convicted, and Bents-m,d to transpottatto‘..
" To the Gentleman of Chowrt of his Majesties Jestis.----
For the Prisoner James Fullford—Gentleman on the 29 of
AReril last i had bean of Anarrant forr my Granmother in to
Bishopgait Street for sum Cocko (cocoa) And in my Helen,
To The New Cut i Saw a Ladd Runce from the winder of pro-
secekitor And drop a Pease of Paper which i Unfortunate
Picked up And in the same time The Prosecucitor came up ann
Collard me And ,:trucker me in the mouth And said I had
stolennen a wring i ham in Tinley innercent of But Bean con-
vitured on the 18 Febry last you may think I ham Guilty of
the charge laid Against mee wich i ashour you i ham not.
Therfor i hope by the murcy of the honinable Court And by
sich murcy you will Take the Trubles of unfortunate Boy
inconsideration."

The reading of this document puzzled the Clerk of Ar-
raigns not a little.