The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-28 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

The only circumstance worth notice on Saturday
in the money-market was a fallof 5 0r.6 per cent.
in Bank Stock, and, occurring just at the time
when the Committee on the state of banking
affairs is commencing its labours, it was very na-
turally ascribed to some disclosures which are
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are hardy enough to affirm that this reserved
fund is now discovered to have diminished to
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supposition is strengthened by the well-known
fact, that since 1819 heavy losses have been sus-
tained by the Bank, and I • e uring great part of the
aboutsu m of
time the profits on banking have been exceed-
ingly low, notwithstanding which no dividend
of less than 8 per cent. has been paid on the
stock : so that it becomes matter of fair infer-
ence, that the dividend was occasionally assisted
out of the reserved fund. Indeed, many persons
in the habit of attending to Bank proceedings
have been long prepared to find the whole of this
fund exhausted whenever the time for making a
disclosure should arrive.

Tnis is the most plausible explanation we
have met with to-day. The eagerness with
which any such indications of what is going on
in the Committee are watched, proves what a
degree of interest is attached to its proceedings.
There is, perhaps, on the whole, less disposition
manifested on the part of the private bankers in
the city to oppose the renewal of a large portion
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This is a point which should therefore be duly
taken into the account by the Committee, should
it appear in the course of the evidence that the
interests of the public and those of the private
banks, as at present constituted, are opposed to
each other.
The members of the Committee on Bank
affairs will have, of course, through their early
knowledge of what is brought to light by the
inquiry, many advantages over the rest of the
public, in making bargains either in Bank or in
Government Stock, which may alike be affected
by the result. Their operations will conse-
quently, should they attempt any, be very closely
watched. We believe, however, that they are
all men of tco high character to take any such
advantage, though they may, through want of

caution, impart some share of their knowledge I
to others who will be less scrupulous, and the
public would be in that case equally the suf-
ferers.— Times, Saturday.

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN LONG-ACRE.

This morning the neighbourhood of Long-acre was
thrown into a state of much consternation in consequence
of the shocking suicide of Mr. Salisbury, the celebrated
coach-lamp manufacturer, who for a series of years has
carried ()I an extensive business in that line. Mr. Salis-
bury rose this morning about six o'clock, and took break•
fast with his family, nothing being observed unusual in hie
manner. Having concluded his meal, the unfortunate
tnan went up stairs and remained there until a little after
•en o'clock, the family supposing that he was trans•
awing business ; hut a little aft. r that hour the
woole of the Acre was thrown into a state of alarm by
his suddenly precipitating himself from the third story
front window, and, falling upon his head, was dashed td
pieces. He was taken up by some passengers quite dead,
a id conveyed into the house, where the body now lies to
await the Coroner's inquest. No cause can be assigned
for the committal of the rash act; the deceased was in
good and thriving circumstances, and was one of the first
carriage-lamp manufacturers in England. The only con•
elusion that his family can come to is, that he was sud-
denly attacked by art aberration of intellect, as some years
.:go he was confiled on account of insanity. He has left
a wife and handy to deplore their loss.

It is a fact, not generally known, that tar
rubbed on rat or mouse holes will immediately banish those
vermin ; hut when it becomes dry it must be renewed.

We have reason to fear an attempt will be
made, so soon as the Reform Bill shall have nassed into a
law, to convert both the northern and southern districts
of this county into what may be termed close boroughs, if
that term be applicable to a constituency of 5,000 per-
sons. The old Blue, or Tory party, have two objects in
view—one, to create divi,iion in the camp of the liberal
party ; the other, to bring about a reconciliatiOn between
themselves and what may be designated as the Whig in-
terest. The probability is, they will fail in bomb, and that
the influential Whigs never will again consent to be
pirties to any arrangement of this description.—Esser
Independent.

COLDNESS OF THE SEASON.--011 Thurs-
day, the I 7th intant, the hills, called Blaen-cwm.Tawy,
north of the parkh of Penderrin, Breconshire, were white
with snow, and had continued so for three days, in spite
of the power of a May sun. The highest peaks from the
Can Merthyr and adjoining bills were described to us by
a traveller as strongly resqnbling (with the sun upon them)
t'ae arwe..,ance of Mont Blanc from the Lake of Geneva.—
C an &km.

SHOCKING MURDER.—An atrocious nun.-
der w.is committed in this neighbourhood (Dunkeld) on
tie evening of Thursday last. A party of tinkers from
Athole, occasion.illy domiciled at Parkhouse of Findynate,
consisting of two brothers, named DUNCAN and DAVID
STEWART, with their wives and families, were seen quar-
relling and fighting in the neighbourhood on the forenoon
of that day. They had been prevented from entering
Dunk.ld by the police, and were on their way south,
when, it appears, they had quarrelled again between Bir-
nem Inn and Inchewan. About nine o'clock in theeven-
ing, two persons, while passing them on the public road,
saw one of the women strike one of the men twice on the
breast, upon which the unfortunate man immediately stag-
gered back for a few yards and fell. His death was
almost instantaneous. in consequence of a wound inflicted
by a shoetnaker's knife, used by the itinerants in the ma-
nuracture of horn spoons. It was Davin who thus fell,
and by the hands of his brother DUNCAN'S wife. The
party were soon after apprehended, and taken to the gaol of
Perth. 'lle result of the precognition has been the com-
mittal of the husband and wife to await their trial for the
clime of murder. —Perth Courier.

MONEY PANlC.—There was a great run
upon the B inks here for cash, last week, particularly in
the way of change for pound notes and payment in specie
for small deposit receipts. Some al:ege this to have taken
pace from a sort of concerted design, arranged through
the private correspondence of Politi al Uaionn or Clubs,
with a view to create a complete stagnation and embar-
rassment in ordinary business, by withdrawing the silver
currency in particular from circulation. We cannot see
that there is any reasonable ground for forming such an
opinion here—for the applicants were chiefly timid
persons quite unconnected with political societies, and
esp,.cially from the country. One man from the High-
lands demanded cash at the Perth Bank for a deposit re-
ceipt to the amount of one hundred pounds and upwards.
Silver coin to that extent was laid down before him, and
no le-s than ninety pounds of it was in sixpences. The
man was almost bewildered, he set to work to count off
his money, but being one of those who like " to look at
both sides of a shilling." he took some time to satisfy him-
self that each piece was genuine. He laboured during bank
hours on Friday, and ra muffled on Saturday, till he got
quite tired and confused, and begged to have a new deposit
receipt for what he had not counted off. Not a little em-
barrassment Was occasioned in retail trade throughout the
town, and it was scarcely possible to find change for a
note. The banks generally gave a sovereign for their own
notes of one pound, but the want of silver coin caused an
inconvenience which gold could not do away.—. Perth
Courier.

SNAKE FIGIIT.—The late Major T—, of
the army, a gallant officer who was severely wounded at
the sortie of Fort Erie, and died afterwards from the effect
of his wound, while a represent itive from his native
state in Congress, used to relate the following account of a
bath: which he once witnessed between a black and a
rattlesnake. He was riding on horseback, when he ob-
served the snakes in the road, a short distance ahead of
him. They were moving round in a circle, and apparently
following each other. A gentleman who was with the
Major, and who had witnessed a similar scene before, re-
marked that it was the prelude to a fight, and worthy of
the loss of a little time to witness. They accordingly
stopped their horses and watched the snakes. The cautious
manoauvre of following each other, in a kind of circle, was
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and place himself in attitude to strike. The rattlesnake
now passed round his antagonist two or three times, les-
sening the distance at each round, when he also stopped
and began to coil ; but before he was ready to strike the
black snake suddenly darted upon him. His evolutions
were too rapid to be detected, and when he was again
distinctly observed both snakes were stretched out at full
length—the rattlesnake enveloped in the folds of the black,
which had al-o seized the rattle-snake at the back of the
head, and held him there. After a sl.ort interval the
slack snake gradually unfolded himself, loosened the grip
with his mouth from the rattlesnake's head, and
moved away. On examination the rattlesnake was found
to be dead, and apparently every bone in his body was
crushed. The black snake is a constrictor, and usually
destroys his prey by enfolding and crushing it.—Li•
terary Gazette.
THE LOST WlG.—While Lord COALSTOUN
lived in a house in the Advocates'-close, Edinburgh, a
strange accident one morning befell him. It was at that
time the custom for Advocates and Judges to dress them-
se:yes in gowns, and wigs, and cravats, at their own
houses, and walk to the Parliament House. They usually
breakfasted early, and, when dressed, were in the habit of
leaning over their parlour windows for a few minutes, be-
fore S. Giles's bell started the sounding peal of a quarter
to nine, enjoying the agreeable morning air, and perhaps
discussing the news of the day. It so happened one morn-
ing, while Lord COALSTOUN was preparing to enjoy his
inatutinal treat, two girls, who lived iu the second flat
above, were amusing themselves with a kitten, which, in
thoughtless sport, they had swung over the window, by a
cord tied round its middle, and hoisted for some time up
arid down, till the creature was getting rather despe-
rate from his exertions. His Lordship had just popped
his head out of the window, directly below that front
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sooner did the girls perceive what sort of landing-place their
kitten had round, than in terror or surprise they began to
draw it up ; but this measure was now too late, fur, along
with the animal, up also came the Judge's wig, fix d soil
in his determined talons. His Lordship's surprise on find-
ing his wig lifted off his head was ten thousand times re-
'oubled, when, on looking up, he perceived it dangling in
its way upwards, without any means visible to hint by
,vhich its motion might be accounted for. The astonish-
ment, the dread, the awe almost of the senator below,—.
the half mirth, half terror of the girls above,—together
with the fierce but retentive energy of puss between,—
altogether formed a scene to which language cannot do jus-
tice, but which GEORGE Cauli.xstiasix might perhaps
embody with considerable effect. It was a juke soon ex-
plained and pardoned ; but assuredly the perpetrators did
ifrerwards get many a lengthened injunction from their
a-erits never again to fish ov, r the window with such a
''t. for honest men's wigs,.....Cliam'iers' Scottish Anec-
dotes.

4

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)
PARIS, SATURDAY, FOUR. O'CLOCK, P.M.

The last two days have been fertile in renewed
reports of an approaching change in the French
Cabinet. Lists of the new Ministry were handed
about at the Bourse, accompanied with confident as-
sertions that yesterday or this day they would h
found in the onicial part of the Moniteur. This has
wit been the case, nor is it likely that we shall find
any similar announcement in the columns of that
journal for some time. The King's approaching de-
parture from Paris with the intention of spending
the fine season at St. Cloud, on his return from
Compiegne, is indicative of a resolution taken to
leave the Ministerial arrangements as they ar,, until
a, more urgent necessity than exists at present obliges
him to aber them. The Ministry, as it is now com-
posed, is incl. ed weak and incomplete ; but as the
entire conversion of those candidates who could give
it strength, to the principles of the juste milieu, has
not proved practicable, it is chosen as a pis-aller, lest
a remodelling should lead to any modification of
that system of policy which M. C. Perier had
taken so much pains to establish.
The Carlist papers continue to represent this
country as being in a state of general fermentation,
owing to the delay of the third restoration, and
ascribe to it an infinity of distresses and evils which
arise from that cause alone. I do not know whether
it is worth while to take any notice of such bare-
faced mistatements, which find no willing readers
here but among the comparative few with whose
wishes they agree. The vast majority of the nation
look with contempt upon every thing that the Gir•
lists may say or do, and laugh at the impotent ma-
noeuvres of the agents of the party in those parts of
the country where they imagine that they stand a
chance of success. But it is amusing to see the
earnest tone with which their predictions about a
third restoration are echoed by some English
writers, who make their Tory politics a reason why
they should misrepresent the extent of ultra-royal-
ism in France. No rational man can understand
what good these parties expect they will bring to
the cause by endeavouring to mislead its friends as
to the state of public feeling regarding it. All they
could hope for would be to encourage a renewal of
attempts similar to the late foolish one of the
Duchess de Berri, attended by fatal consequences
to those who may be induced to embark in them.
The west of France has not yet been freed from
those bands of robbers who give to their calling the
dignified name of royalism; but the Government
has taken measures which must soon clear the high
roads of their presence. An affray lately took place
with a party of them and some gendarmes sent in
their pursuit, which the Carlists call civil war. It
appears, however, that a grand council of Carlists
took place at Nantes on the 23d, for the purpose of
consulting on oceedings to be adopted in conse-
quence of the Duke of Wellington's return to the
Ministry. They separated without fixing upon any
plan, but agreed to meet again for that purpose on
the 10th of June. If they do so, they are likely to
separate again in the same way, unless the autho-
rities, who watch over their motions, think proper
to lay hands on them.

We have accounts from Madrid of the 18th inst.,
which describe the effects of the news just received
of the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as
Prime Minister. The Apostolicals and the Arn.
s-
ters were quite overwhelmed with joy. A Cabinet
Council was immediately held, the report of whose
del,berations was transmitted to Aranjucz. On
coming out of the Council, Count d' Alcudia held a
conference of some hours with the Russian Ambas-
sador. A courier was subsequently sent off to Lon-
don, bearer, it is said, of instructions to the Spanish
Minister there to use his utmost exertions to obtain
from the new Cabinet an assurance that the alliance
with Don Pedro would not be continued. M. de
Reyneval, the new French Ambassador, had been
very well received by the Spanish Court, and
seemed on very good terms with the Ministers.
It would seem from the private accounts received
from Anemia, that the French expedition will lead to
effects quite the reverse of those which were pro-
fessedly in contemplation when resolved upon. The
small French garrison is unable to protect the citi-
zens who have made themselves in any way conspi-
cuous by their partiality for the invaders. Notwith-
standing the utmost exertions of the French com-
mander, secret arrests are daily made by the Papal
police, and numbers have already disappeared from
the place. If political persecutions have commenced
in the very presence of the French, what is to be
expected after their departure ? As to the political
institutions formerly spoken of, they are now wholly
out of the question. It is not likely that the Aus-
trians would have allowed the Papal Government
seriously to think of them at any time, and it is
evident that the Court of Vienna has never divested
itself of the notion that M. Perier's object in that
expedition related chiefly to his internal policy.
The Turkey post, which arrived here last -Thurs-
day, and which will most likely not be in London
before Tuesday, has brought u.s letters from Con-
stantinople of the 25th ult. It is painful to find, by
the best accounts they contain, that the Sultan, in
his gigantic endeavours to civilize his subjects, is
likely, after all that he has already achieved, to fail
through mere exhaustion of pecuniary means. The
preparations of a regular war against his formidable
vassal, the Pacha of Egypt, have completely drained
his treasury, and if he does not come out triumph-
ant, or finds no resource within his reach, his Nyzam
Gedid, or regular army system, must perish, and
with it all hopes of regenerating the empire. The
Sultan has applied to some of the principal foreign
mercantile houses about a loan, but he has failed in
raising one through them ; and as a last resource, he
intended to make applicat ons to some eminent capi-
talists in this and your part of the world, for the
negotiation of a 'regular loan. There was a report
at Constantinople that St. jean d'Acre had been
taken by the Egyptians.
The Pacha of Egypt seems also to be in a predi-
cament nearly similar to that of the Sultan, with
regard to pecuniary matters. His expenses during
the last five or six years have bean, on an average,
about five times as great as his income, and the late
protracted wsr in Spits is said to have given the
Coup dc grace to his coffers. He will want a large
army to oppose the Sultan, and the Arabs show no
disposition to fight against the banner of the Chief
of their religion without good pay.
The French Funds have improved to-day, in con-
sequence of the settled state that things are assum-
ing in England, and the absence of any cause of
agitation here. Business at the Bourse, however,
was not extensive. Z.
,Oc.Ree.CI9O,FUNDS.--PARIS, MAY 24.-Five per Cents. 96f. 95e.
Half per Cents .901'..85.85C: 96f.
9°c.
; Four and a
701 sc. 70f 70t. , Four per Cews., 821 ;. Three. per Cents.,
z. f.
63 20e.; itenel.oc. Sc. 40f. 69f. 95c. 70t. ; rational
Rente d'Es Naples, 82140 c. 20c. ;
,Roman Five per Cents.,
rtente Perpetuerla•gn. 10% yc, ; Royal Spanish Loan? 79 78Fs ;
","754 4 ; Haytiacn
Loan,
58%
,% % 3.6 ; Belgian Loan,
~ Exchange on London, one
month, paper, 2511 75c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 60c.; money,
,sf. 55c.-Cours Authen
FRENCH FUNDS r... 1,7 eiIAY 25
.-Five 98f. 95e. 97?.. ki! per, Cents., 961 ?Oc.
Three per Cents., 7011 76f Sc. 97f-,961. 95c. 97f. 961. 90c. ;
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9474.2(3;c5.;„11. anlc Stock, 1,6901. ; Rente de
Cents. 83 8274 83 82% 83 8.,„ • 821'. 25c. ; Roman Five per
Spanish Loai, 79; Rente Per Bauelrttie' Espagne, 10% ; Royal
Belgian Loan, 77% ; Haytran Loa", 21011. ;
_ot.
months,
on Lon_
don, one month, paper, 25r. 75c. ; three paper, 251 60c. ;
raoney, 251 55c.-Cours duthenique.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MAY 26 Five per Cents., 97f. 961
55c. 9711. ;Hit: 95c. 97f. 97f. 10c. 15c. ; 26.-Five
per Cents.,
90f• Four per Cents., 821 ; Three per Cents., 701 15c. 20c. 25c.
30c. '2se. 30c. 35c. 40c. 35c. 701'. 40c
Five
de Naples, 82f. 4t,c.
35e. 40c. Cc. 40c. 82f. st)c. ; Roman per Cents., 83 • Rente
d'Es
dtne, 10814 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 7954 • Rents Per'petuieillee
~,,.,pag„e 55% 38' • Bel ian Loa'n, 77%;
on .umidon, one iiionth, f.g7sc. ; three months, paper, 25f• 60c• ; money, 25f. 558.-Course Authentique.

le Pitt Club has made a demand of two
guineas from each of the members, " in aid of the fund
for general purposes." What are the purposes ?
A gentleman of the highest respectability,
tad of very moderate politics, who has recently returned
from a tour made in England, Scotland, and Ireland, after
travelling nearly 3,000 miles, states, that in every priori-
-41 sown, and in most of the villages which he visited,
44,' spirit pervaded the great mass of the people in favour
ti~lieform. In the principal manufacturing places bust.
4,,,," seemed to him at a complete stand, waiting, as the
-°Ple observed, the consummation of that measure.

PRICKS OF IRISH STlaerß, DUBLIN, MAY 25.
sank Stock ... ........ —:St. Patrick ' nsur.(per Share
onsols, 3 ner cent,
;ov. Stock, *.',, per cent 91 national Ditto '2'
iitto, New
per Cent — Hibernian Rank
lov. Deb. 314 percent.... i'rovincial Ditto
ioyal Canal Stock
;rand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine —
'itv Deb. 4 per cent. — Mining Co. of Ireland
tallast Office Deb. 4D. c. -- :.nmmercial fittildinvs