The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1850.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tins - DAY —Morning 55 min. after S I Evening 27 min. after 9
To-lioiaow— Morning 52 rain. after 9 I Evening 32 min. after 10

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY IS.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAI)E.
74—highest since noon yesterday.
62—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.04.

the million the duty of evincing their
gratitude to great public benefactors before
their words of homage and sentiments of affectionate
recognition fall unheeded on " the dull, cold ear of
death." We are solicitous that the almost simulta-
neous lamentations which are rising up around us
from so many different classes and professions should
inspire society at large with a greater readiness to
acknowledge before it be too late the services ren-
dered to the world by the great and good, the bene-
volent and intellectual.
According to an old adage of such universal ap-
plication that it has become proverbial in all languages
—" No man is a prophet in his own country." With
equal accuracy we might say that no man is great
to his own generation. Before any resplendent mind
can be duly appreciated it must have passed through
the alembic of dissolution. It is as if we refused
to recognise the beauty of any architectural master-
piece until such time as it should have partially
crumbled away, or until it should be partially clothed
with the ivy of sepulchral recollections. Undoubtedly
there are divers exceptional instances which might be
adduced of men whose glory has been seen and
reverenced before their beams have been multiplied
and refracted by the haze of the tomb, before their

sun has sunk below the horizon of life, before their
names have been sanctified by an apotheosis of intel-
lectual immortality, and the splendour of their careers
illumined by the everlasting sunset of memory. It
was so with AROUET, when in his eightieth winter
he was borne triumphantly from the theatre on the
shoulders of the Parisians. It was so with the monk
of Vaucluse, when he was crowned with bay leaves
in the capitol. It was so with the Stagyrite when
honoured with the friendship of the Macedonian
conqueror. But in the vast majority of cases it has
been deplorably otherwise. Insomuch so that we
have lingered with a sense of consolation over those
ejaculations of egotism through which we fancy we
may recognize the self-consciousness of greatness on
the part of the most illustrious. With this feel-
ing of joy the student of HOZACE may exult
over the vanity and ostentation perceptible
at times amidst the music and pomp of his
epicurian verses ; while a similar emotion of plea-
sure may be derived from the self-laudatory phrases
audible at intervals among the melodious sonnets of
SHAKSPESE• " And you too, BOUBRIENNE, you too
will be immortal 1" "How so, General ?" " How ?
—Are you not my secretary ?" It is not always
thus, however. Genius, the truest genius, is as re-
markable for its humility as for its inspiration. Nor
would we have it otherwise. The child-like simpli-

city accompanying the loftiest order of intellects en-
dears to the hearts of mankind what must otherwise
be the subject of a cold and awful veneration. It is
consequently pleasant to hear of the great VERELA➢d'S
almost infantine fondness for the flowers of the field
and the garden. Hence also, humanity loves to think
of NEwToN (of that wonderful NEWTON of whom
POPE wrote—

" Nature and Nature's laws lay bid in night,
God said 'Let Newton be !' and all was light;")

according to the shape in which he depicted him-
self, namely, as a child picking up pebbles on the
shore of the infinite ocean of Truth. A congenial
simplicity of character is observable among the more
conspicuous traits of perhaps the most extraordinary
philosopher now living, a peculiarity which, not less
than the depth and scope of his wisdom, entitles him
to the fulness of contemporary admiration. Neither,
we repeat, would we by any means have it otherwise
What we acknowledge ourselves solicitous to behold
assuming a different position is, not the estimate in
which the illustrious benefactors of humanity hold
themselves, but the estimate i❑ which they are held
by their contemporaries. We would see the State
elevating its own character by acts tending less to
what might be called the reward than to what
should be more appropriately termed the re-
cognition of genius. We would see the re-
cognition manifest itself substantially before
the death of these distinguished ornaments of all

classes and of all professions. It was the glory of
the magnificent LORENZO (as it was that, more or
less, of all the MeDims) that from his princely mu-
nificence, the painter and the sculptor, the poet and
the architect, derived solace and encouragement. It
is not less honourable to say of the most extraordinary
man of modern and perhaps of ancient times, that he
was the friend of TALMA and CANoVA, than to record
of him that he constructed the road of the Simplon
and compiled the Code Napol6on. Why cannot the
Government of England in its popular form, and as
the expression of free and popular institutions, by thus
fostering genius in all arts and in all professions, emu-
late the glory of NAPOLEON the Great and of LORENZO
the Magnificent ? We should then hear somewhat
less frequently of great minds perishing in poverty,
and almost in destitution. We should see the cares
of a public benefactor solaced and his sufferings as-
suaged, instead of seeing his exertions recompensed
by the tardy homage of an epitaph and a monument.
His powers might then be celebrated more frequently
by the household gods, and less frequently by the
funereal divinities : while the national sentiments of
approval would find a more agreeable expression in
the words of gratitude than in those only of grief and
lamentation.

Must these things always remain as hitherto ?
Is genius doomed for ever to misfortunes ? Are
the good and the great to receive only a crown of
cypress in death, and to be passed by with merely
petulant depreciation when living? A change might
readily be effected, and such a change is due to the
humanity, the generosity, and the munificence of
England.

ATTEMPT OF THE UNKNOWN CHARTIST TO
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY PRISON.
This forenoon shortly before twelve o'clock a daring
attempt to escape was made by the Chartist prisoner,
who has just been sent to the City Compter from the
Guildhall Police-court, for failing to find securities for
him to keep the peace towards her Majesty, her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, and her subjects for the space of twelve
months. It will be remembered that the prisoner in
questio❑ hoisted to no small extent of his being a deter-
mined Chartist, and that he always abstained from
giving his name, address, or occupation. It appears that
he has been in the prison about a week, and during that
period he has behaved himself very well. Yesterday,
however, he commenced haranguing his fellow-prisoners
whilst at dinner upon the Charter and its six points, and
advised them to work strenuously on their liberation
for its attainment. Ills place of contiLement
was in the second floor of the right• hand
wing of the prison, in that portion nearest Newgate-
street. The window of his cell looked into Giltipur-
street, and was about thirty•fise feet from the ground.
The prisoner had succeeded in removing ta o squares of
glass from his cell window, and as on the point of re-
moving the middle bar, when he was noticed by those
passing below. An alarm was instantly given at the
door of the prison, and messengers sent up to prevent
him carrying his scheme into execution. When they
reached his cell they found a leather hag, something like
those used by tho Post-office fur newspapers, attached to
a long piece of strap, with which, no doubt, be intended
to let himself down. When he discovered that he was
found out he grasped the iron railings at the window of
his cell and delivered a very touching appeal to those be-
low. He swore that he was wrongfully imprisoned, and j
would one day be avenged. It required three men to
remove him from the gaze of the spectators, who could
not have numbered less than 500. The excitement was
very great.

DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY AND THE COURT
FROM TOWN FOR TILE SEASON.—(THIS DAY.)—The
Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince
j,rin
Consort,ces
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Alfred and Arthur Patrick, and the Princesses Royal,
Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and attended by the Countess
of Desart (Lady in Waiting), the Hon. Miss Paget
(Maid of Honour), the Hon. Colonel Gordon (Equerry
to the Prince) and the Muter of the Household (Major.
General Bowles). left. Buckingham Palace this afternoon,
escorted by an officer's party of the 16th Lancers, for the
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NsVestern Railway was in readiness to convey the
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continent.

COLOMECNI AND CYCLORAMA.--The following dis-
tinguished persona visited the Colosseum during the last
CountessaLlt.
Lady
du n
io of
as hr ew s
party,-
Markse Lord
week :—Countess of Lichfield andparty,
bury and party, Lady Grenville, I.ord
Lord Sudeley and party, Lady Wilaen
Vivian and party, Lady Ros., lion. ..r.'II. andY
Lady Hoed and party, lion. Mr. ant Mrs. Gage, Lady. Tracy:..t,
Lady rahner, Lady party
and party, Sir H. and Lady '.e:
Lam-
bert, Mrs. Hind and party, &c.
THING AND REIGATE RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the
Master in Chancery Dowdeswell placed on the list of contri-
butories, as liable to pay oil debts, the majority of the forty-
two members of the provisional committee to this company
mpraudveedpianyemyeidnetze, of their having acted,
or given guarantees to
bsointntilieledert:rli
consents,behalf
asf 0 f
the company.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

`We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
They all comment on the remarkable speech of
General LAMORICIERE, delivered on Tuesday just
before the close of the discussion of the Law on the
Press. The General in the course of his speech thus
described the parties into which France is divided :
There were two great parties there present: one,
when the day of revising the constitution would arrive,
would propose legitimacy, surrounded with coustitutioeal
institutions—would it not?
" Several Voices—Yes!
" General DE LAmorircurir, continuing —And the
other would propose the Monarchy with republican in-
stitutions springing from the revolution."
After stating that he himself preferred the Repub-
lican form of government but that all wished for
liberty and parliamentary government, the General
thus proceeded to warn the Assembly against the
machinations of the Imperialists :—" Let nut the As-
sembly come to the assistance of a party which neither
wished for those who thought, who spoke, or who
wrote, and which had excited a war, which he re-
gretted, between the press and the tribune, and which
wishing to have neither one nor the other, had placed
them in presence in order to get rid of them both.—
(Prolonged applause on the Left.) That party would,
on the day of the revision, propose the Empire, but
the Empire without its genius, its grandeur, and its
glory."
This denunciation, which seemed to give utter-
ance to the thoughts of almost all present, was re-
ceived with a triple salvo of cheers from all parts of
the Assembly. The Genera 1 proceeded, "It is im-
possible to imagine a greater humiliation for France."
Again he was interrupted for some moments by ve-
hement cheering; when it had subsided he thus con-
cluded the most telling speech that has been ever
delivered in the Legislative Assembly of France :
" Beware, then, lest you labour for that party.
The day of the revision of the Constitution,
that party will be in power, it will be
armed with all those laws which you have
so imprudently given it, and may it please GOD that
you may not have to repent having given them ; for
everything that you have done, or that you may do
against liberty, will on that day be turned against
yourselves.

M. BartoczE, who was totally unprepared for this
attack, merely observed in reply, that the period for
revising the Constitution would not arrive for 18
months. He thus left the honour of the sitting en-
tirely to General LAMORICIERE.

The Ministry is very weak in debating power,
there is not a single man who can improvise a reply.
The Journal des Debats thus speaks of the passing
of the law of hatred against the press :
.....

" We were preparedfor this result: what we said of
the Bill during thr discussion we persist in saying after
the vote. The Bill is destined to strike not only the bad
press but the good one. Let the enemies of liberty
triumph; they have attained their end. During fifty
years the press has passed through many regimes, more or
less hostile. For the first time during fifty years the ene-
mies of every colour have discovered the secret of its
strength and its power, and they have believed that they
struck it to the heart in striking it is its collective
organization. The instinct of hatred has served them
well; they have not failed in their blow. Yes, the law
which has just been voted is perhaps the most fatal blow
which has been given to the liberty of the press during
the last fifty years. The Republic will have the glory
of having accomplished the work of destruction
before which the worst reoimes had recoiled. There
were not as yet sufficient ruins accumulated
about us ; to the ruin of the institutions which
fur thirty years have constitu'ed the prosperity of our
country, the Republic will have the honour of adding the
ruin of the press, the ruin of that liberty which in better
days was respected as the most vital of our liberties.
That which M. Ledru Rollin and Pascal Duprat had
dreamt of in the days of their power, MM. de Tieguy
and de Laboulie will cave the honour of having ex-
ecuted. MM. de Tinguy, de Laboulie, and the majority
of the Legislative Assembly have merited well of their
country. ,Now that the blow is struck, we will not be
so weak a 3 to complain or give in our resignations.
The answ.:r would be' So much the better, that is what
we wanted.' No, wo will continue to exercise as much
of our rights as are left; we will fulfil our mission to
the end. We know what wo owe to ourselves, to our
cause, to our principles, to the traditions which our pre-
decessors have bequeathed to us. The law which wounds
us in our rights, in our legitimate interests, we will exe-
cute it legally and without evasion; we will not attempt
to elude it in anything. We have been allowed two
months to conform to the prescriptions of our new code;
in two months we shall be ready.
The editor of the Pouvoir, M. AUGUSTE LAMAR-
TINIERE, has engaged M. CHAIX D'ESTANGE to de-
fend him at the bar of the Legislative Assembly on
Thursday.
PARIS BOURSE, JULY 17.—Latest prices : Five
per Cents., 96f. 15c.; Three per Cents. 57f. 95c..;
Bank of France, 2,330 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JULY 17.
_ _ _ _ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 74i—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 144, ex in.—East Indian, 7:!A ex in.—Namur
and Liege, 7—Northern of France, 141,4 ex in. and ex. div.—

Orleans and Bourdeaux, 23g ex in.—Paris and Rouen, 2314
—Tours and Nantes, 41% ex in.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 12th have arrived.
There have been violent quarrels between the
KING, CHRISTINA, and NAItVAEZ, on the subject of
the title of Prince, proposed to be conferred on the
latter. CHRISTINA demands the same title for her
husband and his children, and this the KING-CON-
SORT refuses.

Madrid. The Duke de Rivas has declared to the Nea-
politan Government, that he was determined to remove
from the gate of his hotel the arms of his sovereign, and
to demand his passports, if the marriage was concluded.
Will this incident lead to the definitive abandonment of
the marriage? The general opinion is that it will not;
and if, as there is reason to believe, this marriage is de-
cided upon in the mind of the King, after a certain time
given fur the exchange of explanations, it will take
place. War cannot arise out of it, and tno relations
existing between the two powers, exchanging appear-
ances of friendliness for those of coolness, will vary in
form without varying in the groundwork."

The Conservatore of Florence, of the 10th, quotes
a letter from CivitaVecchia, stating that to judge from
the fortifications erected by the French in that port, it
would seem they were to occupy that position long
after the evacuation of Rome. Independently of the
cannon placed in the forts of Bicchiere and Michael
Angelo, they have erected works on the land side as
if they expected a siege. Between the Porta Ro-
mans and Porta Corneto, they have crowned the
bastions, with a double row of gabions, and also placed
gabions on the town-side. Captain BEnam....Ea of the
navy, has taken the command of the port. A large
number of French non-commissioned officers, picked
from various regiments, have arrived at CivitaVecchia
to undertake the drilling of the Pontifical troops.
Cardinal VANNICELLI CASONI, Archbishop of Fer-
rara, left Rome on the 6th, for his diocese of Ferrara.
General KALBERMATTEN, Minister of IVar at
Rome, his issued a notification, dated the 6th, in
which he announces that his HOLINESS has ordered
the creation of a police force of 8,000 men, divided
into four legions. He adds that a number of picked
men, who have seen service in other carps, have al-
ready been enrolled for the purpose, and invites young
volunteers to present themselves for enrolment.
The members of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin
have been specially summoned to attend the sitting of
the 15tIs. It is believed the royal decree of proroga-
tion will be read on that day.

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK.
(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
in the London Joint Stock Banking Company was held
this morning, at the bank in Princes-street, Mansion-
house,; Mr. Taylor, chairman of the board of directors,
in the chair.

The advertisement convening the meeting, and the
minutes of past meetings having been read, the following,
being the twenty-sixth, report, together with the ac-
counts of the bank, were submitted to the proprietors.
By the accounts which the directors have the pleasure
of rendering to the shareholders on the present occasion,
it Kill be perceived that the net profits realised by the
bank during the six months ending the 30th June last,
amount to 26,939/. 18s. 11d., which after the appropria-
tion of 18,0001. to payment of the half-yearly dividend
at the rate of 6/. per cent. per annum, will leave a
balance of 8,9391. 18s. I Id. undivided profit to be dis-
posed of at the end of the year.

The dividend, free from income-tax, will be payable on
and after Friday, the 26th inst.

LIABILITIES AND ASSETS, ON THE 30TH JUNE, 1850,

THE LONDON JeINT STOCK BANK.
X. S. d.

Dr.
To capital paid-up, viz., 60,000 shares
at 10/. each
To amount due by the Bank
To amount of " the
guarantee fund," 31st
December, 1849 £132,723 3 8
To six months' interest
en ditto. •at 31. per
cent. per annum ...

... 600,000 0 0
...2,908,149 4 10

1,990 16 11

134,714 0

To amount carried to profit and loss ac-
count ...

... 48,495 16 5

3,691,359 1 10

Cr. s. d.
By Exchequer-bill:, India Bonds, &c. 637,111 15 4
By bills discounted, loans, and cash... 3,026,497 6 6
By building, furniture,
Sze., in Princes-street £lB,OOO 0 0
By ditto ditto ditto
in Pall-mall

9,750 0 0

27,750 0 0

£3,691.359 0 10
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT OF TEE LONDON J ANT
STOCK BANK, FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDING 30TH
JUNE, 1850.
Dr.
To current expenses, proportion of
building expenses, directors' remune-
ration, bad debts, income-tax, &c
To amount carried to profit and loss,
new account, being rebate of interest
on bills discounted not yet due .
To dividend account for the payment of
half-a-year's dividend, at the rate of
61. per centum per annum, upon
600,0001., amount of paid-up capital
upon 60,000 shares
To balance, being undivided profit for
the half-year

E. d

14,393 11 5

Cr.
By balance brought down

7,227 6

18,000 0 0

MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool was steady, and a
good bu :mess was done, the sales being estimated at
from 18,000 to 20,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken for export, and 3,000 American, 2,000 Bra-
zilian, 500 Egyptian, and 2.000 Surat on speculation.
Prices of all kinds are id. per lb. higher than on Friday
last. The sales comprii. d 3 000 Pernam and Maran-
had at 7id. to 81d., 500 Bahia at BA-3. to Biti., 1,000 Egyp-
tian at Bd. to 9d., 3,000 Surat at 4i'd. to 6d., and 150
Sea Island at Is. 2d. to Is. 11d. per Ib.—Ratlway Shares
were fist, with the exception of Midland Stock, which
was rather firmer.

The sales of corn in the market which govern the offi-
cial averages continue small. The six wceks' average
price is 406. 6d. per quarter for wheat.
The following are some particulars of the corn
trade in the United States, as furnished in the latest
ad vices :

" From the knowledge dealers have of the present re-
sources of the country, they can calculate with some
degree of certainty how near the receipts of the en-
su►ng► months will approximate to those of 1848
and 1849. Much, however, dspends upon the harvests.
Late accounts from the south and west aro more satis-
factory in relation to the growing crops, and the
prospects at present are certainly very favourable for a
full yield.

" Up to the Ist of July the receipts of breadstuffs at
tide-water were much I►as than those to the corre-
sponding period in 1849; and it is very probable that
for the remainder of the season the arrivals will be
correspondingly less, even in the event of the harvests
proving more abundant than those of last year, from
the fact that the Western country has been so com-
pletely cleaned out of all surplus stock, that larger.
quantities of the new crop will be required to supply
the consumption of the grain-growing sections of the
country. The producers will not be able to sell such
a large portion of their crops as usual. The table of
imports at Buffalo, via the lake, from the opening of
navigation up to the Ist of July, in each of the past
three seasons, exhibits the scarcity of flour and wheat
in the country west of that port.
" The receipts of Indian Corn were in excess of those
last year. Reducing the wheat to flour, and the falling
off this year compared with last, to the Ist of July, was
Equal to 566,181 bbls. 'lbis gives a pretty correct idea
of the condition of the west, so far,aa a supply of bread-
stuffs is concerned."

There are private accounts from the Dardanelles,
which state that the locusts along the whole coast of
Asia Minor, from Smyrna to Broassa, had destroyed the
crops, and that the farmers bad been compelled to gather
in the corn before it was ripe, for the sake of the straw.
Upon former occasions we have adverted to the im-
portant benefits to be expected from the extension of the
system of joint-stock banking, so as to accommodate
a class of persons who had no opportunity of depositing
their small balances where they could withdraw them
when required. The Royal British Bank having offered
this accommodation, its success is a matter for congratu-
lation, and the publicity which it gives to its operations is
an excellent guarantee of bona fide management. The
last gazetted return is as under:—