The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-31 00:00:00

BANK ISSUES.

The Gazette of last night contains the following re-
turns under the new " Act to make further provision
relative to the Returns to be made by Banks of the
amount of their Notes in circulation." The period is
twelve weeks • prior to the 27th of April last, and the
average amount in each case is certified by two of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes :
Taunton Think, at Taunton, Dunster, and Barnp- £
ton—ll. and R. Badcock
Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old
Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marlborough
Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Runge r-
• ford Bank, at Marlborough, Hungerfbrd, and
Calne—W. Tanner and G. 11. Pinckney 19,073
Stamford and Rutland Bank, at Stamford, Up-
pingharn, and Oakharn—Eaton and Co 31,858
Kendal Bank, at Kendal—Wakefield and Co.
Worcester Bank, at-Kidderrninster—G. Farley
, and A. Turner 14,Z709

Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Corn •
pany, at Stamford, Spalding, Boston, Oundle,
and other places 55,721
North Wilts Banking Company, at Melksham,
Devizes, Bradford, Trowbridge, and other
places
North and South Wales Bank, at Liverpool,
Chester, Wrexham, Oswestry, andother places 63,991
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Com-
pany, at Nottingham, Newark, Mansfield, East
Retford, and other places 29,477
Halifax Commercial Banking Company,at Halifax 13,733
Pares' Leicester Banking Company, at Leicester,
llinckley, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray,
and Lutterworth
Bank of Westmoreland, at Kendal 12,225
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, at Wake-
field 14,604
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, at
Sheffield 23,524
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, at Stourbridge, Kidderminster, and
Stratford upon-Avon
Stockton and Durham County Banking Com-
pany, at Stockton and Guisborough 8,290
Shropshire Banking Company, at Shiffnal, Wel-
lington, Newport, and Coalbrookdale 47,951
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, at
Whitehaven and Penrith

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOB E.—This mornings Post publishes the fol-
Jowing paragraph 44-4
"TRANCE'AND EN(GLAN)D
"At an early hour this morning we were'AtifOrmed,
on what we were assured was good authority,- that an
important crisis has now arrived in the relations between
England and France.
"According to our informant, the receipt of the in-
telligence from Mogadore on Tuesday night was im-
mediately followed by the dispatch of a special courier
to Paris as the bearer of a communication from Lord
Aberdeen to M. Guiaot. His Lordship is said to have
demanded the immediate evacuation of the island of
Mogadore by the for* under his Royal Highness
the Prince Joinville, and to have intimated that; in
the event of a refusal to' withdraw the French troops,
measures would forthwiths,be taken, in comformity with
the established usagein suniliir circumstances.
" The deep interest involved in this statement makes
-us regret that, at the period at which we write, it is not
Possible flit- us, of our own knowledge, to affirm or deny
the truth of it."
We have, of course, no official means of confirm-
ing, or contradicting, this piece of intelligence; but
we think we have sufficient previous evidence to lead
..us to disbelieie it. Our Ministerial prints of yester-
'4 made out the Mogadore doings rather
[tffiOsfactory than other wise ; and we do' not
i*lppOSet they would have thus treated so serious a
`matter absolutely without hints from head-quarters.
Independent of this apoaryphal piece of news, there
is abundantly enough of undoubted authenticity to
justify no ordinary anxiety in the consistent friends of
peace in both countries. Amongst those friends of.
peace we take leave to claim our, however humble,
rank; and to deny altogether the soft impeachment
(from a soft source) of " our warlike Contemporaries."
' Warlike we are not, most assuredly; but we assuredly
would have been betterprepared for war. The charge of
faction we repel with. condign' contempt. We are
not of that faction which sounded the war trumpet
five years back or so, when nothing like war threat-
ened. We are not of that faction which, while in
Opposition, made it a merit to encourage increased
armaments ; and which' no sooner obtained place than
it Inade a merit of cutting those armaments again
down. We are not of that faction Which cried
wolf! wolf!" in 1839, and when the wolf really
prowled, .had lulled the nation to sleep with the
entente cordiale.

STANDARD.—The Morning Post, of this day,_
publishes,an. announcement of Communication made
by LonliAberdeen• IQ Oil Witich Gpvernwent:
is one of qhaie cOnvenient 41.iternents, which, for
the day at'least, it impossible to contradict;
because there is no one who can directly cow
tradict, except the Foreign. Secretary himself,
and his lips are sealed. Lord Aberdeen might,
indeed, if he looked only to the particular case,
say (as we are sure ha can truth -fisieri)
that the whole is a pure invention ; but then,'
if a Foreign Secretary, were once to open the
practice of contradicting newspaper falsehoods, that
practice must in the end 'come to this, that he
must contradict every mis-statement put forward
to fish the foreign policy of the Government, which
would be the same thing as a daily publication of
the minutes and correspondence of the Foreign-office
Unable, however, as we are to contradict directly
from authority the mischievous statement of the
Morning Post, we think that there can be little
difficulty in demonstrating its utter falsehood by the
indirect process. It is, in fact, in the very highest
degree improbable that the Earl of Aberdeen has
made any such communication as that reported by
the Morning Post, and if his Lordship has
made any such communication, it is per.
fectly impossible that the Morning Post can know
anything of the matter. It is in the very highest
degree improbable, that the British Minister should
demand that the Royal French Admiral be ordered
to evacuate a post of which he has merely taken a
military possession, and upon which Great Britain
or an ally of Great Britain, has no claim, and
which notoriously beings to the empire with which
France .is at war. France might as well have
insisted upon our abandonment of Hong-Kong or
Chusan. The permanent occupation of the island of
Mogadore may be the subject of future negotiation
should France insist upon it, or should Great Britain
care about it, and we confess that we think the one as
improbable as the other, but it is apparent that the
time for such negotiations is not yet arrived,
nor, as we fear, very near at hand. France and
Morocco are still unfortunately at war, and it is
one of the incidental rights of . war to hold military
possessions of the fortresses and territories of the
enemy, unquestioned by third parties. As to the
demand of a provisional' engagement to surrender the
island at the end of the war, such a demand would
seem to be an insult to the Government which has
already disclaimed any purpose of retaining the
dominions of the Emperor of Morocco—and at
all events the one engagement would not be of
more worth than the other ; we do not say this
as slighting the value of the first engagement, for
we have an implicit confidence in. the integrity of the
present Government of France, which is in all re-
spects the opposite of the Cabinet that cheated us in
the affair of Algiers • we say it merely to mark
the improbability ;hat a second engagement
should be required specially relating to Moga-
dore. Next, admitting the wild hypothesis that
the Earl of Aberdeen has, in fact, made
the demand imputed to him, arises the question,
how was the Morning Post to know anything of
the matter ? The Morning Post, we presume, does
not claim to be in Lord Aberdeen s confidence,
and even supposing it to possess the key of M.
Guizot's bureau, there has not been time for
the news to make the journey back from Paris.
The we have said before,
an utter falsehood, and no one who has ob
served the effect of similar falsehoods upon the temper
of the French people will dispute that it is a most
whole is, then, as
mischievous falsehood.. There is little hope, how-
ever, that. any experience of the ill effect of such
practices will cause them to be discontinued. The
Duke of Wellington in his letters and dispatches
th
from the Peninsula between 1808 and 1813;
makes more frequent complaint of the gossip-
ing and not always accurate communications
of his officers to
annoyance ; London
yet
newspapers, than of
any other ()gh the honour of the
British arms and the safety of every man of the Duke's
army were more or less compromised by the indul-
gence of this vicious habit, it continued to be indulged,
and will continue, we fear, to the end of time.
When, however, the.peace of the world comes to he
perilled by newspaper gossipping and newspaper lies,
the subject assumes a very serious complexion.

MR. HAMPTON'S BALLOON ASCENT AT CHELTEN"
HAM.—On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Hampton, the in-
trepid aeronaut, made a most beautiful and majestic
ascent with his new balloon from Pitville Gardens, Chel-
tenham. This being the place where he distinguished
himself by a parachute descent, the inhabitants and visi-
tors of Cheltenham determined to give him every patron-
age and support. As the weather was fine and encou-
raging to his well-wishers, the gardens were numerously
attended by persons of rank and respectability. At
quarter-past five o'clock, the " monster balloon" left the
gardens amidst the hearty cheers of the spectators.
There being little wind, the balloon rose almost perpen-
and passing slowly over the town, a most dicularly,
splendid view was afforded and enjoyed. After being in
mid air for more than an hour, Mr. Hampton and his
companion, Mr. Carter, jun., descended on the west side
of Dry Mill, the locality where his parachute alighted in
the year 1838.
Cairmort.—ln reference to the case of Miss John-
ston, of 27, Charlotte street West, White Conduit-fields,
whose painful situation has been fully detailed, it is ne-
cessary to caution the public not-to be imposed upon by
parties who are suspected to be going about to obtain
fraudulently subscriptions in her name.

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
PRINCE ALBERT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
PORTSMOUTH, Aria. 29.—This morning his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by Mr. G. E.
Anson, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ;
Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting ; and two servants
of the Royal Household, arrived at the Gosport terminus
of the Smith-Western Railway at 18 minutes to eleven
o'clock, iii a e;u3eial train; which left the Farnborough
station at 12 minutes id fling o'clock, The special train
was accompanied as far as Farnborough statute. by Mr.
Chaplin, the clis.irman of the South-Western Railway
Company, and by Mr. C. Stovin, the general manager ;
Messrs. Martin and Gouch, engineers ; and several
others of the principal officers of the South-Western
Railway. The visit of his Royal Highness was strictly
private ; not an individual, excepting the officers of the
railway, was in waiting at the terminus to receive his
Royal Highness; who, with the few attendants, ap-
peared in private dress, and totally unaccompanied by
any outward insignia of? royalty. His Royal Highness
walked, without loss of time, accompanied by his attend-
ants, to the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, a short
distance from the railway terminus, where the august
party was received by the Captain Superintendent of
that establishment, Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8.,
superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, and the members
of the Hon. Board of Admiralty, now on their annual visit of
inspection to this port. The barge of Rear-Admiral
Hyde Parker was in waiting at the stairs of the Royal
Clarence-yard to receive the royal visitor; into this he
stepped, and, accompanied by his suite, was speedily
alongside the Admiralty steam-vessel Black Eagle, Mr.
4,,c9o4,l4gootoomthiegli*,-ithich iirtived from
lreiiri.,iCh in the night, and was moored in the harbour
with her steam • up, all ready at a moment's warning.
'lmmediately on the embarkation of his Royal Highness
a royal salute of 21 guns was fired from the several ships
in harbour, which hoisted the royal standard, and
manned their yards, but so unlooked for was the visit,
that no one knew to whom the honour was paid, but all
suppostd- to the 'Lords of the Admiralty. The royal
standard floated from the mast-head of the Black Eagle,
which went out of harbour without a moment's delay.
On passing the Platform Battery no salute was fired;
but on nearing the Collingwood the royal standard was
run up to the main, the yards manned, a salute of 21
guns fired, and three hearty cheers, heard, high above
the roar, greeted the splendid vessel .and --her noble
freight. In twenty minutes after his Royal Highness
landed, at Cowes; but further than thafhis Royal High-
ness's visit relates to the approaching residence of- her
Majesty at the Isle of Wight, and that he had come to
conclude the necessary arrangements for her Majesty's
reception, we were unable to ascertain, the visit and
negotiations being strictly private. - The Prince left
the island about twenty minutes to three o'clock
on his return to the railway station, where the
train which conveyed his Royal Highness was
ordered to be in readiness by four. Vast numbers of
respectable persons assembled on the pier at Ryde, to
witness• the return of the royal party, and every glass
was in requisition,_ and pointed to the general object
of interest, On leaving Ryde, the Black Eagle was
steered alongside the Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart,
when his Royal Highness went on board, accompanied
by Colonel Wylde and Mr. Anson, and inspected the
internal fittings of that noble ship. His Royal High-
ness was received on the quarter-deck by Rear-Admiral
Sir George Seymour, whose flag she carries, Captain
Smart, Commander Broadhead, and a distinguished
paity of officers and ladies. His Royal Highness par-
took of - refreshment, and at twenty-five minutes to
four re-embarked on board the Black Eagle. On leaving,
the Collingwood, the yards were again manned, and a
royal salute again fired. On nearing Portsmouth, the
inhabiiants, having beCome acquainted with the visit of
his Royal Highness, 'crOwded the walls, anxious to gain
a glimpse, if not &Nis Royal Highness, of the beautiful
vessel which carried him, and being at the part of the
day 'when the streets are generally crowded, the spec-
tacle was most etlliVeninF, thousands or spectators
having assembled. This time the Platform . Battery
poured forth a salute of 21 guns, the royal Standard
floated from the liing'S bastion; and the scene was one
,of the most enlivening description. The steamer passed
,up the harbour at a +tarter past fnur-,-4,1.0ck, Mid was
`•ikalutcid with g I &pp, (Oa the, V,iiii:toir,-12neen,afld "Ex-.
dr yards `mantled:
...On arrival the Prince 'disembarked; at othe Itoyal Cla-
Te4ce-yard, and at a few minute before five o'clock, re-"
entered the train for Windsor.