The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors 'capital.. 14,553,000
Nest • - • • • ..... • . 3,177,913
Public deposits (In-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and D-
ividend accouni,s) •• 6,086,141
Other deposits • . • 9,549,304
Seven day and other
Bills • • ...... 1,223,758

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) 13,241,768
Other securities •• • . 12,20,287
Notes ••••••• • • • • • .. 8,561,2f;5
Gold and silver coin.. b 76,796

1, 34,595,116

434,595,116
MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
1851.

Dated the lath day of Noveml

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam 11 17
Ditto, three mouths 18%
aotterdam .......... 11 18N
Antwerp • • ............ 25 40
Brussels • • • • .. 25 40
Elamburgh 13 1034
Paris, 3 dayesight .... 25 22%

•NGE.-(THIS DAY.)
GDraltar• • • • •• •• •• •• ••
Leghorn ........ • • 30 80
Genoa •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 50
Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Venice .. • • • • • ...
Naples •••••••• •• •• • • 40%
Palermo, peroz ........ 120%
Messina •••••••• •• •• •• 120%
Oporto •• • • • • •• a • • • •• •• 152%
Rio Janeiro • • ........
Buenos Ayres ........
stew York ,60 dayesight
Philadelphia

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Ditto, 3 months .... 25 40
Marseilles .... •.•• .. • . 25 40
80urdeaux......... •
Frankforton Mains.... 12034
Vienna, effec. flo •... 12 50
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 50
Petersburgh, SU. Ebbe.. 36%
Madrid .• .. • • ........ 493
Barcelona .. •.........
Seville.. • • • • • • • •

?SIM OP BULLION, TES OS,
Foreign Gold in bars ...VS 17 9
Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 103
Silver In bars ...... •• 0 5 0%

THE VOICE OF NATURE.

We come now to speak practically of the instincts
of animals. We say "practically," because we have
made these things our study from our boyhood up-
wards. Our idea of instinct quite coincides with
that of Paley, who, in his "Natural Theology," de-
fines instinct, with a nice discrimination, to be " a
propensity prior to experience, and independent of
instruction." This is strictly true. We, too, con-
tend that it is by instinct that the sexes of animals
seek one another; that animals cherish their off-
spring ; that the young quadruped is directed to the
breast of its dam for sustenance ; that birds build their
nests, and brood with such untiring patience upon
their eggs ; that insects, which do not sit upon their
eggs, deposit them in those particular situations in
which the young, when hatched, find their appro-
priate food. In short, that it is instinct which causes
the salmon and some other particular fish to leave the
sea, and enter rivers, for the purpose of safely de-
positing their spawn in fresh water.
What again can it be but instinct, that makes a
bird prepare a nest for the reception of what she has
never yet seen—an egg ? And what but instinct
could teach her, that when laid the eggs require
warmth to bring them to maturity ? I can imagine,
and admit, that when the embryon first receives the
principle of " life"—about ten days after the eggs have
been under the " parent in expectancy"—the case is
altered. Here, natural affection is called into exer-
cise, and every day brings with it pleasing evidence
to the senses that pain is by-and-by to be rewarded
with pleasure. The occupant of the egg is only gifted
with motion, but it utters a feeble cry long before it
is horn, and the quick ear of the mother knows, in-
stinctively, at a very early period, all about what is
to follow. Hence the difficulty of getting her to quit
the nest for food, when the time for hatching is nearly
arrived. Her self-importance at such a season is
ludricrously comic ; and it is even better than a play
when, like Alexander Selkirk, " monarch of all she
surveys," and stands confessed the astonished but
happy mother of no fewer than thirteen helpless
squeeling little chicks !—Kidd's Essays on instinct
and Reason.

FATE of the BRIM CEMETERY SCHEME.
The extent of the Abbey Wood Estate is 438 acres,
and the price asked was 40,0001., or about 931. per acre.
This the Board of Health were prepared to give, and
sought the sanction of the Treasury, stating their belief
that they would have no difficulty in borrowing the
requisite funds at 4} per cent. from the Guardian As-
surance Office. The Treasury assented to the purchase
and the loan, but the negotiation for the latter was
brought to an abrupt termination, owing to the preva-
lence of a legal objection on the part of the law advisers
of the company to the securities provided for lenders
under the Metropolitan Interment Act. The objection
was this:—lt was said that whilst the Public Health
Act, sect. 4, and the Metropolitan Interment Act, sect. 4,
provide that the corporate character of the Board of
Health shall be continued only " for five 3 ears next after
the passing of the Public Health Act, 1848, and thence-
forth until the end of the then next "session of Parlia-
ment," no provision has been made as to the mode in
which the engagements and liabilities of the Board are
to bo met after the expiration of that period. There
was a second objection to this effect:—" That as the law
now stands, therein nothing to prevent the formation of
new cemetery companies beyond the metropolitan dis-
trict to compete with the Board, and that as such com-
panies would be free from the heavy charges imposed on
the Board for compensations, &c., the Board would be
unable to support the competition. This objection goes
to the root of all the calculations upon which the Board
rest their estimates of a revenue, and can be removed
by nothing else but relieving the Board from the possi-
bility of competition." An endeavour to obtain the
money from the Exchange Assurance Company failed on
the same ground : the Treasury declined to make
advances; and directed the Board to put an end to the
negotiation for the Abbey Wood Estate, and to report
to the Treasury whether or not it was possible to ter-
minate also the proceedings for the acquisition of the
Nunbead and Brompton Cemeteries. The Board of
Health replied, that they had directed their solicitor,
Mr. Ellis, to take the necessary measures to end the ne-
gotiation for the purchase of the land at Eritb, and to
report the state of the proceedings as to the two ceme-
teries; and hero the accessible Minutes end, leaving the
burial question, which so much concerns the public
health, in a distressingly unsatisfactory condition.
B udder.

PORTSMOUTU GARRlSON.—Sergeant Flanagan, of
the Royal Artillery, found drunk on guard at King William-
gate guardhouse on Wednesday morning week, under cir-
cumstances which have led to the belief that a "run" of
spirits had been effected through the connivance of himself
and men of the guard, who were supposed to have been
bribed by a share of the smuggled cargo, received the
sentence of a court-martial this day; he is reduced to the
ranks. The other four men of the same corps forming the
guard in question have been sentenced to different periods
of imprisonment, with hard labour, in the military prison at
Gosport.
MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY AND CANAL COM-
-IP4NY.—The committee of management, in their report
which is to be read at the general meeting, to be held in
Gloucester, on the 19th inst., state that in pursuance of the
recommendation contained in the report presented to the
special general meeting of the 23d July last, the payment of
the dividend declared at the previous half-yearly meeting
was postponed in consequence of the absence of the necessary
funds, and they also express regret that they cannot recom-
mend the declaration of any dividend at the ensuing
general meeting, excepting a dividend at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum on the preferential shares created nnder the
Act of 1848.
YANKEE INGENUITY.--A man in Connecticut ob-
tained a winter's supply of excellent potatoes in the follow-
ing 'cute manner. He gave out word he was desirous of
obtaining a specimen of the best sort of potatoes, and would
pay three dollars for a peck of such, himself to be the judge.
Potatoes poured into his cellar from all the country round,
and when the avalanche had subsided, the man handed over
his three dollars for the best peck, and the next spring sold
potatoes enough to more than cover the original outlay, be-
sides having had a first quality article for home use all
winter.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov, 13.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN THE MATTER OF VISCOUNT DE SEGUEVILLE.
This insolvent, Charles Hypolitus Mansell, Vis-
count de Segueville, applied under the Proton A
in
for his final order. Mr. Cooke opposed for ecti
Captain
Bristow ; and Mr. Nichols supported.
The case has been before the Court on some former
occasions, the last time in July, when the discharge
was ordered, and the present bearing appointed for
the fitte order. The point now raised was tbat a

debt of 2001. had been incurred with Captain Bristow,
without reasonable or probable expectation of pay-
ment.

It appeared that the insolvent had been the mana-
ging director of the Duisburg Iron Company, which
failed through the political state of Germany a few
years back, and the affairs of the company were now
before one of the Masters in Chancery, under the
Winding-up Act. He obtained 2001. of Captain
Bristow on, it was alleged, some scrip of the com-
pany, but the insolvent alleged that it was a private
debt, to assist him in the formation of the same. Be-
sides the debt, Captain Bristow had been put to about,
801. law expenses by the insolvent pleading to an ac-
tio❑ he brought against him to recover the 2001.
Mr. Coors thought that the costs so contracted for
the vexatious defence might be considered as a debt
incurred without probable expectation of payment.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said the Legislature
had omitted a vexatious defence from the Protection
Act. It was certainly an anomalous state of things
that in the other Act, under which a man could not
apply without going to prison, it should be an offence,
and that under this indulgent Act, which was avail-
able without imprisonment, it should be omitted. It
was certainly very strange ; and as it was omitted he
could not consider that it came within the section of
contracting a debt without reasonable or probable ex-
pectation of payment.
The insolvent, on his arrest in May last, petitioned
under the Protection Act, and applied for his dis-
'harge before hearing. He was opposed on the part
of Captain Bristow, and his application was refused,
on the ground that the debt had been incurred with-
out reasonable expectation of paying it. He remained
in prison until the end of July, when he applied to be
heard, and was not opposed. On that occasion he was
discharged, and had remained at large till the present
occasion, when he applied for his final order.
Mr. Coors thought the Court had exceeded its
duty, as the discharge should not have been granted
till the final order. Captain Bristow was out of
town, and had not opposed when the application was
made.

Mr. Commissioner Prnuirs was of opinion, as
there was no opposition when the application was
made, that the insolvent was entitled to his discharge.
Mr. CooKE still urged upon the Court that the
2001. debt had been contracted without reasonable ex-
pectation of payment, and referred to the insolvent's
schedule and the debts he owed at the time he ob-
tained the advance.

Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS, without deciding
whether the money was advanced on scrip or as a pri-
vate debt, was of opinion that, looking at the debts
the insolvent owed, it was incurred without reasonable
means of payment. He could not consider that the
the expectations of the insolvent, as to certain specu-
lations, were to be considered reasonable. There was
no fraud in the case, but he could not grant the final
order.

At the rising of the Court, the Learned COMbiIS-
SIONER said he had considered the three months' im-
prisonment the insolvent had already suffered, and
he might come up in a week.
The insolvent asked for protection.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLirs told him he would
willingly give it, but he had no power ; he might
come up on Thursday next for his final order.
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

William Griffiths Kemp, a porter, was placed at the
bar before Alderman Sir Robert Carden, charged with
forging a cheque for 391. 10s., in the name of William
Palmer, draper, of 18, Aldgate, with intent to defraud
the London and Westminster Bank.

Sir R. W. CARDEN said he thought the prisoner bad
been made the dupe of some designing person, and
therefore remanded the case for inquiry.

WORSHIP-STRE-Ef.

A middle-aged man, named John Jeffries, described
as a hawker, was charged before Mr. Hamniill with
an assault of an aggravated description upon a young
married woman named Elizabeth Edwards, residing
at Baden-place, Hackney.
The complainant stated that while standing at the
door of her house about three o'clock on that after-
noon, the prisoner came up with a bundle of hearth-
brooms, which he offered for sale. She told him she
was not in want of such articles, and attempted to
close the door, but the prisoner forced it open, and,
following her along the passage into the back kitchen,
immediately made overtures to her of the most
scandalous kind. The prisoner at the same time
placed a shilling on the table, and offered to present
her with one of his brooms if she would comply with
his wishes, but she indignantly repelled his importu-
nities; and on telling him that she would give him
into custody unless he instantly left the house, the
prisoner threatened that if sbe ventured to do so he
would charge her with having robbed him of the shil-
ling. He then endeavoured to lock the door, but she
succeeded in preventing him from A o doing, and at-
tempted to escape frown the room to raise an alarm, but
the prisoner caught her firmly round the neck, and
proceeded to the commission of acts of the grossest
description. After a violent struggle she succeeded
in disengaging herself, and hastened into the street,
followed out by the prisoner, who walked rapidly
away, but she pursued him until she met with a police-
man, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner, in an impudent manner, cross-ex-
amined the prosecutrix, with a view to prove that she
met him the same morning at a public-house in the
neighbourhood, but she positively denied that there
were any grounds for such an imputation.
Police-constable 67 N stated that upon the prose-
cutrix giving the prisoner into his custody she appeared
much alarmed and agitated, and that on taking the
latter to the station, he said that he was sorry he had
not met him first, for he would then have given her
into custody instead for detaining a shilling.
The prisoner was about to enter upon a rambling
and irrelevant defence, but was stopped by the magis-
trate, who told him that he had better reserve what
he had to say, as it was his intention to commit him
for trial ; but he should order him to be remanded till
Saturday, for the completion of the depositions.
LAMBETH.

John Mason, alias the Rev. William John Butler,
alias the Rev. Charles William Talbot, alias Blind
Johnny ; Jane Ferrar, alias Fisher, alias Farr, and
Elizabeth Thomas, alias Wood, who have been before
examined upon various charges of imposition, were
again placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton.
Several cases against the prisoners have already
been reported, into which it is unnecessary to enter
again. The additional evidence to-day merely related
to the taking of lodgings in Lambeth-square; but the
magistrate, in the course of the proceedings, took oc-
casion to complain of the dress of the prisoners in
Horsemonger-lane Gaol being changed before trial,
so that it was difficult to identify them.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.
Mr. Roberts, who attended fur the prisoner Ferrer,
applied for the restoration of a savings-bank book be-
longing to her, and was told by the magistrate that it
bad been taken from the other female, for whom he
did not profess to attend.