The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-05 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE TI REE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

LONDON and BIRMINGHAM- RAILWAY.
ACCELERATION OF NIGHT-MAIL TRAIN.
The Public are informed that on and after FRIDAY, the 12th April
next, the SPEED of the. BIRMINGHAM NIGHT-MAIL TRAIN,
I'P and DOWN, will be ACCELERATED; and that it will cease to
call at the Blisworth and Wtitford Stations.
For particulars see Time-bills.
By order, R. CREED, Secretary.
Euston Station, April 4;1844.

BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-EASTER
'HOLIDAYS.
EXCURSION TICKETS on EASTER MONDAY, TUESDAY,
and WEDNESDAY, returnable on any of those days, to BRIGHTON
and back, 125., Bs., and 59., by all the Trains.
By order, (1: R. MACKENZIE, Sec. •
London Terrnhitis,,Aprll 1, 18.44.

LINCOLN AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.
The PREVISIONAL COMMITTEE beg to announce that the
WHOLE of the SHARES in this UNDERTAKING have been ap-
plied for, and will he.allotted after the sth of April, with•duo consi-
deration to local and other interests involved.
The Committee have also the satisfaction of stating that they have
made arrasgeinents for:investing the amount of deposit at an interest
of 3 per Cent. per annurn,.until it is lodged with the Accountant-
General next year, in accordance with the Standing Orders of Par-
lament , -

ENTWISLE
Chairman of the Provisional Committee, pro. tern.

13, George-street, Ilanover•square, March 30, 1844.
BRITISH and FOREIGN INSTITUTE.
The Literary Department of the Institute being now complete
in its rea4ing-rooms, lectures, and soirees, and its Club Department
being put upon the footing of the Athenaeum as to prices, to those
whodesilV aCcomMpdation; candidates who were awaiting the
settleme4 of this question before they entered may now be proposed,
andon payment of their entrance fens only, their priority of admis-
sion may be secured on the present terms, before the rise, which will
take place with the next enrolment 01 members, while their:annual
subscriptions may be. reserved till.the commencement of the second
year of the Institute on the Ist of June next. The present terms
are : _ _ _

Town member's entrance 49 9 .. 44 14 6
Country ditto.. •••• .. . • 414 GI Annual ... . 116 0
Lectures and soirees are given on alternate weeks ; the lectures on
Thursdays, and the soirees on Wednesdays, each at half-past eight
o'clock exactly. The club-room is open daily, and in the adjoining
building foreign and country members and their families will find all
the usual accommodation of an hotel on a fixed scale of moderate
charges during their stay in London. Personal or written applica-
tions may be made to the undersigned for farther information.
JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM, Resident Director.
THE SOUTH LONDON FILTERED
WATER. COMPANY.

Capital 200,0001., in 20,000 shares of 101. each
Deposit 1/. per share.

To be empowered by Act of Pailiament, and the responsibility

limited,

Shareholders In South London to have the option of receiving their
share of the profits in cash, or in purified water, charged to them at
probably 50 per cent. less than they now pay for impure water ; the
public at large to be charged about two-thirds of the present prices.
As it is proposed to take the water from the purest part of the
Thames near London, neither expensive purchases nor determined
opposition can arise from the rights or claims of the mill-owners.
Arrangements will be made to secure the exclusive possession of a
system for filtering large bodies of water, which is the most econo-
mical as to space, time, and money ever known ; and which, being
patented, renders rivalry for 13 years impossible. The water sup-
plied will be that which the water of the three existing Companies
ought to be, in compliance with the clauses of their respective Acts
of Parliament, viz. effectually purified by means of filtration.
The profits to the general Shareholders of this Company will be at
least 10 per cent., on the most moderate calculations.
This advertisement appears apparently prematurely, for two rea-
sons—first, to satisfy the Impatient desire universally expressed
throughout the populous districts south of the Thames, that a Self-
Supplying Water Company should be formed ; and, secondly, that
the Direction should not be filled up until the largest of the intended
Shareholders should be ascertained, so that the interests of the Com-
pany might be protected by those who had the greatest stake in it.
The names of the Directors, Engineers, Bankers, and Solicitors
will be advertised as soon as the list is filled up. In the meantime,
applications for Shares, or further information, may be made to Al-
fred Flower, Secretary pro tem., at the tempOrary offices of the Com-
pany, 27, Stamford-street, Blackftlars.

THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY
DIVIDENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS
MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends
of— £6B £7O ' £72 £BO £9O
£lOO #llO ' Xl2O £l5O £2OO
£250 £3OO £3OO £6OO £750
£l,OOO £1,209 £1,750 £4,000 & £21,000
Amounting together to £154,308 sterling.

This Distribution contains as many Dividends as Bonds. Every
Bond a Dividend!

Smallest Dividend - - £6B
Largest Dividend - - £21,000
Direct for Prospectus, with full particulars, without delay to
HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh,
Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by INDENTURE
bearing date the 18th day of March, 1844, ROBERT
GREAVES BUTT, of 011erton, in the county of Nottingham, draper,
ASSIGNED ALL HIS ESTATE AND EFFECTS whatsoever and
wheresover, unto WILLIAM KIPPAX, of 011erton aforesaid, grocer,
for the benefit of all the Creditors of him, the said Robert Greaves
Butt, which said Indenture was duly executed by the said Robert
Greaves Butt and William Kippax, on the said 18th dsy of March,
in the presence of Henry Broomhead, of Sheffield, in the county of
York, solicitor, and Henry Patteson, of the same place, his clerk.
Dated this 2d day of• April, 1844.—8 y order,
HENRY BROOMHEND, Solicitor to the Assignee.
NOTICE is hereby given, that by INDENTURE,
dated the 7th day of February, 1844, WILLIAM AUSTIN,
of Conduit-mews, Paddington, in the county of Middlesex, builder,
ASSIGNED unto JOHN NATHANIEL HEMPSON, of Freed-
street, Paddington, gentleman, JAMES PONSFORD, of Cambridge-
square, Paddington, aforesaid, Esquire, and EDWARD MEDLI-
COTT, of Whitefriars, in the city of London, lime and brick merchant,
ALL his PERSONAL ESTATE and EFFECTS (except as therein
usention.d) upon the trusts therein mentioned, for the benefit of his
Creditors ; and that the said Indenture was executed by the said
William Austin on the day of the date thereof, and as to the execu-
tion thereof by him, the said William Austin, and the said Trustees
respectively, is attested by John Chishohne, of 3, Cook's-court, Lin-
coln's Inn, Middlesex, solicitor ; and notice is hereby further given,
that all Creditors who do not execute the said Indenture within three
calendar months from its date will be excluded from the benefit of the
trusts thereof. And the said Indenture now lies at the Office of the
undersigned for execution, by such of the Creditors as have not al-
ready executed the same. Dated this 4th day of April, 1844.
JOHN CHISHOLME,
Solicitor, 3, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn.

JEREMIAII RUST, at present, and for ten
, months past, residing at No. 1, Ladbrooke-grove, Notting-hill,
in the parish of Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, and for twelve
months previously thereto residing at No. 10, City-road, in
the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, and county of Middle-
sex, and beng a watch and clock maker, do hereby give
notice, that I intend to present a petition to the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street, praying to be examined touching my debts,
estate, and effects, and to be protected from all process, upon making
a full disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects, for pay-
ment of my just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice,
that the time when the matter of the said petition shall be heard, is
to be advertised in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun news-
paper one month, at the least, after the date hereof. As witness my
hand, this 3d day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1844.
EH RUST.
Witness, W. G. Thwaites, solicitor, 4, Lyon's Inn, Strand.

IJOHN PERRY, at present, and for twelve
7 a months past, residing at No. 1, Ann's-place, Lant-street, in
the parish of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the borough of Southwark,
in the county of Surrey, livery-stable keeper and postmaster, and
during that time carrying on such business at the Masons'
Arms-yard, in Swan-street, in the borough of Southwark, do
hereby give notice that I Intend to present a petition to
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingirall-strecei, London, praying
to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects,
and to be protected from all process, upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects for payment of my
just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice that the time
when the matter of the said petition shall be heard is to be advertised
in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun Newspaper, one
month at least after the date hereof ; as witness my hand this Ist
day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1844.

JOHN PERRY.
Witness, H. B. Roberts, 10, Church-street, Trinity-square, New.
ington.

THE TOAD AND THE ELEPHANT.
A Toad and Elephant (so we've heard say)
Were seen at fearful odds the ,ther day
The Toad, they say, began " the dread dispute,"
And foolishly attack'd the giant brute.
It swell'd with rage, and spat its p Ism', too,
And popp'd about as Toads are wont to do
The passive Elephant retnain'd quite calm,
And laugh'd at such attempts to do him harm,
Till, all at once, the warfare ceas'd to wage—
The spiteful "lead had burst itself with rage.
Now Loop would have thought, that after this,
Its simple moral would not be amiss.
And we would close this fabulous narration
By some. hing in the shape of application
The " Elephani" is that huge house of trade
Where the fam'd name of MOSES is display'd.
And that, of course, which fills the l'oad's position,
Is what the reader guesse s—. Competition."
Like the huge Elephant, our giant Mart
Smiles that the " Toad" should act so vain a part.
The house of MOSES will unharm'd es ape,
From " Competition" in its fiercest shape.
Which (bearing out t e story of the To,d,)
Will "swell" with "envious rage"—and then—. explode.'
READY MADE. d.

Tweed Taglion is
Ditto, superior quality, with silk collars, cuffs, and facings.... 0 16 0
Cashmerette coats in a variety of shapes, handsomely trimmed I 0 0
An immense stock of Holland and jean blouses from 0 3 6
Splendid summer vests from 0 2 6
An endless variety of cashmere and Persian vests, splendid
patterns
Washing satin vets, warranted
Clot's trowsers . from 0 9 0
Single milled does from 0 11 6
A great variety of summer trousers
Ores s Coats edged from 1 H (1
Frock ditto ..... 1 4 0
MADE TO MEASURE.
Tweed coats, trimmed with silk, made in any shape, water.
proofed • from 018 0
Cashmere, fine Saxony, and other light summer materials,
made in the first style of fashion from 1 5 0
Figured quilting vests, 7s. each, or three for
Cashmere vests, in recherche patterns ... from 0 9 6
Summer Trousers, In great variety of materials
Single milled Victoria, and plain doe trousers..... 0 17 6
Best quality West of England 1 2 0
Dress Coats
Best manufactured 2 15 0
Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices :--
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest and trousers from 1 16 0
Boys' ditto, jacket, vest, and trousers from 0 18 0
Istroarssr.— Piny article purchased or ordere', if not approved
of, exchanged, or the money returned.
Obsene—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail
Woolen Drapers, Outfitters. and General Wareh ousemen, 154, Mi.
nories. and 86. Aldgate,City, opposite the Church.
Caen oat.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public
agail.st imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of bein7 connected with them, or it's the same cencern,
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment,
and those wko desire genuine Cheap Clothing should kto prevent
. disappointment, 8:e.) call or send to, 151, Minories, or 66, Aldgate,
' opposite the Church.

Ni: 5..." To Mr. THOS. PROUT, 22:4, STRAND, LONDON.
„
.., k IR, —The great benefit which I have received by
,'-.."cisice: mtaektiOginl3thrmLKlß'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS in.
....„,
-which sks ago I
you of the articulars of my case. About three
became afflicted with a severe attack of rheumati m,
30 .
-w, for three days and nights, p evented my having rest or
sleep, and
GI , recornmencT" totally incapable of attending to business, when I was
ed to try Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, which I did, • A. BI3UIt N' S AN 11-DoLortiu OIL.
; . and took them regularly 'or four days, by which time the pain had
C
entirely left trie and on the fifth day 1 was able to attend to business . REPORTS FROM MEDICAL DISPENSARIES.
whios WWI. I shall. endeavour, by every means, to recommend a medicine .. To Mr. CA BBURN=Sir, I have great pleasure in informing
ch has given me -o much relief. If the publication of my case you your Oil is much recommended and highly approved of here, by
~, • esider
lany service, you are at liberty to use it. hthaes, nobility, who all tell me it is the best thing of the kind they
am, Sir, your obedient to rvant, G. E. SMITH,
Assistant to Mr. Ba' rraclough, Snuff Manufacturer to the Right of
Rheumatism,
yet tried, and is sought after as a sovereign remedy in cases
Rheumatism, Gout, Sic., &c.—l am very respectfully yours,
Lot ..• • Honourable the Lord Mayor, 46, Ludgate-hill, London.
Rept. 11, 1.843. "STEPHEN WHITE.
.. medical Dispensary, 77, King's-road, Brighton, March 3, 1843."
The above recent testimonial. is a.further proof of the great efficacy . An eminent physician, who was suspended from his professional
/1 f, of this valualile medicine which is the only effective remedy for duties by Rheumatic Gout, in a few hours obtained such relief, that;
" .. gout, rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, tic doloroux, pains in the head
~, and face, often mistaken
1
for the tooth-ache, and for all gouty and instead of being lifted in and out of his carriage., he could leave it with.
out assistance or inconvenience.
" Hereford, Ledbury, Oct. '2l, 1841.
rheumatic tendencie
,_l.t is gratifying to have permission to refer to J. R. Mandall Es q.. ' "To Mr. CABBURN—Sir, Mr. Bridges, a FurgeGn of considerable
‘,..oner, Doncaster the R 1
, Rev. Dr. Blomberg, the Chevalier' de I, practice at Weston Begard, was for some time so very much afflicted
cGoa_rde, Lieutenant Masters, late of the Royal Newfoundland Veteran
milanies, Mr. Nliskin brewer with Rheumatism, as to be unable to sit on horseback ; having heard
s, and mangler, Dartford, Mr L.
Chard Stonea.ilLiiton. John G. Giles, E.-q., Frimley, Mr. Inwood,R. of the Ant.Doloric Oil, he was determined to give it a fair trial, and
he says afters he use of one 45. I'd. Lottle, he was astonished to find
Perbright ;himself well. He has since purchased several bottles of me, and has
of ',horn have received benefit by taking this meth.
tine; and have allowed the proprietor the privilege of publishing the used it successfully in his private practice. He is now trying it on a
patient (with prospects of si.ccess) who has been discharged from the
lame for the benefit of the afflicted.
n_abSitdl'ibledy
Thomasicm. Prout, 229, Strand, London -, and by all respect., Hereford Dispensary as incurable. I remain, yours, &c.,
-. J. S. BA GSTER.''
e Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Price
Ask for •
Cabburn's Oil for the cure of Rhei.mat sto.
.s. sm. per Box.
for BL AIR'S AIR S GOUT and RHEUMATIC' PILLS, i--n 1 ob. ; To. be had at most Patent Medicine Vendors, in bottles, 2s. 9d ,
• retiethe name and address of .. Thomas Prout, -229. Strand, Lon-
. ston," ix e
1 it. ,___ 1). eased upon the Government Stamp atliud to each box of 44.143d'es.iiroulosn'ieasn may a2y2 s also be seen in the Shipping Gazette,"ols Wed-
. vv=lllB Metotne. ; nesdays

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM; or ENGLISH
11 OPERA HOUSE.
THE LAST NIGHT OF MR. C. H. ADAMS'S ORRERY.
TO-MORROW EVENING, April 6; Mr. C. H. ADAMS will have
the honour to illustrate his LECTURE on ASTRONOMY with the
most brilliant Celestial Scenery ever elthibited. To begin at Eight
and end about Ten.
Balcony, 4s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes, One Guinea
and Malf-azGuhiea. '
Tickets, &e., at ;the Box-effice, from Ten till Four, and at the
principal Libiaries.

ACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER
• HALL.

On TUESDAY EVENING, Next, April 9, 1844, will be again
repeated,

HANDEL'S ORATORIO,'" THE MESSIAH."
. PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS, -
Miss Rainforth, Miss LucoMbe, Miss E. Birch, Miss Dolby, M.
Dup?ez, and Mr. Leffler.
The Band and Chorus will consist of aboveTive Hundred Performers".
Tickets, 3s. each ; Reserved. Seats, 55.; may be had of the principal
Music-sellers ; of Mr. Rowley, 53, . Charing-cross ; Mr. Mitchell, 39,
Chiding-cross ; anti of Mr. Ries, 102, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall.
- - THOMAS BREWER, Hon. Sec.

QUEEN'S CONCERT ROOMS, ITA.NOVER-SQUARE.
111 R. CORRIE,. Master of the.. Cerethonies, in-
forms'his numerous friends that • his FOURTH BENEFIT
BALL will take place on the 16th inst.
Ladies' Tickets, 7s. 6d, Gentlemen's, 10s. 6d ; Double Tickets, 155.,
supper included.
Tickets to be had only of Mr: Corrie, at 3f,, Bedford-street, Strand.

Mr "Adams's Band kill aitend,

I.AIPORT T NOT IC E.-EGYPTIAN
HALL. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON
U.:SEUM; the most 'magnificent and extentive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed
by One-Berson, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and. to completely illustrate; in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON,,-in MI. This unique Museum has been visited Often,
during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been' able to increase, by several very ftne
pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MSS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated that it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis-
sion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.

The NAPOLEON MUSEUM-is to ye seen only at the " Egyptian
Hail," Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk, on and -after Monday
next, as the previous days will necessarily be required to properly
arrange the additional Pictures, 84c.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The arrangement for the EASTER HOLIDAYS Includes the
'Exhibition of LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE, a new Instrument
which shows the humam face on a Disc magnified to the size of
Twelve Feet. The OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, with Electrotypes in
Gold, after a Selection from the Elgin Marbles. A New Set of /HS,
SOLVING VIEWS, including the OLD and NEW HOUSES of PAR-
LIAMENT, with the FIRE. POPULAR LECTURES, with brilliant
Experiments by Dr. Ryan and Professor Bachhoffner, illustrated by
ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE and other Ap-
paratus. CARY'S OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, DIVER and
DIVING- BELL, &c., &c. MODELS of various kinds of MA-
CHINERY in Motion. Open from Eleven to Half-past Five, and
from Seven to Half-past Ten.
Admission, is.; Schools, Half-price.

HALL and ALLAN,' of 69,. 70, and 71,
, ST. PAUL'S-CHURCHYARD, having -completed the ex-
tensive alterations found necessary by the great increase of their
trade; beg resPeetfully to invite Ladies-and the Public generally to
an inspection of their NEW and SPLENDID STOCK, selected in the
Home and Contineatal Marke s for the Season,, comprising every
novelty in French, Figared,:tual Plain Satins ;'Brocaded, Plain, and
Fancy. Gros tie with most recherché designs in Paisley and
LYmis.Shawls, Scarfs, Muffles, &c. Lama and Cachmere Dresses in
every variety of style. -
French Blondes, Collars, Lace, and every article in Millinery, in:-
eluding a -magnificent assortment of Ribbons, French Flowers,
Feathers, &c. Paris and Grenoble Kid Gloves. Lisle, Silk, and
Cotton Hose, &c.
The Linen Stock is replete in every department, and comprises
lots of 7-Stlis and. 4-4ths Irish Linens, Sheetings, Damask ClothS,
Napkins, &e., all of genuine fabric and warranted.
Prints and Printed Muslims in all the new designs.
Observe-WATERLOO_ HOUSE, •
. . , 69, 70, and 71, St. Paul's-Churchyard.

ATCHES, by WEBSTER and SON, Chro-
noineteiMakers to the Lords of the.itchidralty, established

134 years.

*WEBSTER and SON have REMOVED to 74, CORNIIILL,
here the advantages of the premises will enable them to bring the
workmen under their immediate inspection In the manufacturing
department. An extensive Stock, finished with the utmost care,
and at lower prices, considering the quality, than can elsewhere be
obtained, consisting of Compensated Duplex and Lever Watches,
adjusted to the variations of temperature, on the principle of their
Chronometers, to which Government awarded the prizes three years
In succession ; the Detached Lever and Horizontal Watches for
Ladies, of the smallest and most elegant patterns; Marine and
Pocket Chronometers, with long and accurate rates ; also a large se-
lection of Second-hand Chronometers and Watches, by the most
eminent makers, at half their original cost. Superior workmen are
employed on the premises in the repairing department, both for
watches and clocks. Foreign work of every (Zeseription careflilly
repaired by workmen engaged expressly for the purpose. Watches
taken in exchange. Post letters will meet with immediate attention.
W. and Son's publication, with the Equation of Time for 1844,
will be sent, post free, on the receipt of two stamps.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS.
The preparations for the coming Season are on an immense scale.
The Pictorial Model (seen and approved of by her Majesty) vast and
interesting- beyond all former efforts. Fountains, Statues, Extensive
Promenades, &c. The Carnivori are fed at Ralf-past Four o'clock.,

ESTABLISHED
_lB2l.

THE LONDON MARBLE AND. STONE
WORKING COMPANY, are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS,
containing the largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings ; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Esher-street, Holy }yell-street, Milbank, Westminster.
Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGEN T-
STREET, FEB. 15, 1844

BONUSES DECLARED, 529,3061. 17s. 7d.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons who hold Policies in this
Office, bearing date prior to the year 1834, may receive the present
value of the Bonuses which have been added to their Policies, upon
application at the Head Office, or to the Agents through whom the
Policies were issued. GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or ferfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on. the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums

LA POLKA.
MONSIEUR JULLIEN has the honour to an-
nounce that he has just Published the' POLKA, price 25.,
Postage Free, splendidly illustrated by Brandurd, with a short De-
scription of the Figure, by E. COULON. The Music composed on
National Melodies, by JULLIEN.
Many spurious Imitations of M. Jullien's Polka having been sold
to the Public under so many assumed forms, he has published the
Polka Dance at his own Office, 3, Maddox-street, Bond-street ; and
in order to secure the public against the possibility of purchasing In-
correct Copies, he has attached his signature to each. None. can,
therefore, he relied on which has not his Autograph. Correct Copies
of the Polka to be had at all the respectable Music Shops in the
Kingdom.
Also the ENGLISH- QUADRILLE, received with immense ap-
plause at the Author's Concerts, Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. La
Valse a deux Tempo, now a la mode at the Nobilities' Assemblies.
- The Bouquet Royal \raise and Irish Ec:oes Comic Quadrille.
3, Maddox-street, Bond-street.

STAR LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, 44,
MOORGATE-STREET, LONDON.
The DIVIDENDS DUE TO PROPRIETORS at Lady Day last
are now payable at the Society's Offices. -
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MR. GLADSTONE AND THE CUR-

RENCY QUESTION.

the Bank 100,0001., and which, aided by the ruin of
many old and highly respectable bankers and mer-
chants, saved the Bank from an actual suspension of
payments. That a palliative alone at that time was
required, is evident, because in two or three months
after the panic, gold flowed into the coffers of the
Bank most plentifully. In the American crisis of
1836-7, the Bank of England resorted to the "-screw"
as a palliative ; and although it proved at that time a
safeguard to the Bank, British merchants and joint-
stock bankers were punished most severely, and many
parties to this day are still writhing under the sufferings
then inflicted. -In the scarcity of gold caused by the
foreign corn trade in 1839, the Bank of England was
compelled to seek a costly and degrading palliative
from the Bank of France, and thus was our national
bank, as well as many of our first-rate merchants,
brought under the operation of that foreign "screw,"
and made to pay exorbitant rates of interest for tem-
porary accommodation, until a very large amount of
British property was again sacrificed to that " golden
monster," whose power to destroy the value of British•
industry had been kept in check under the Restric-
tion Act for 22 years, but which Sir Robert Peel re-
vived by his Bill of 1819, contrary to the judicious
counsels of his own father ; yet, the abundant supply
of gold which we now possess proves that a judicious
palliative was all that was wanting to have averted
the host of evils inflicted upon this nation by this last
pressure. Unfortunately, our present excess of gold
furnishes no lasting security against a repetition of
the like deStructive operations, so long as our mone-
tary obligations are subject to the arbitrary control
of Peel's Bill. It was not more than eighteen months
before the distressing panic of 1825, that the Bank
had an abundant stock of gold. The Government
was enabled to reduce the interest on the Four per
Cent. Consols to Three-and-a-Half per Cent., and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer boasted of the very pros-
perous condition of the revenue. What security have
we now that a similar result may not speedily await
us ? Neither small local notes' bank notes, nor gold
sovereigns are necessary in the first instance to inflate
speculation. This can be done with bills of exchange,
and the same bale of cotton, without leaving the
broker's hands, may be made the basis of several bills
of exchange, each representating the full value of the
cotton. These bills can fulfil the functions of money
until one article after another may be enhanced 20 or
30 per cent. in money value, and then, when the re-
gular manufacturers, merchants, and traders have
got well stocked with every thing, but gold, the drain
for that article takes place ; then comes the operation
of the " screw," and, finally, a national panic. Thus
the steady and industrious classes are ruined; and
thus a few gambling speculators, who have reaped all
the profit, are made rich—boast of the soundness of
the " Peel's Bill system," and denounce all, however
wealthy they may be, who advocate a system of
steady credit, upon which the greatness of this nation
is founded, as a set of needy adventurers who want to
trade without capital.
I am reluctant to extend this letter further, but I
must not omit all notice of the injurious effect pro-
duced on British agriculture and commerce when
Peel's Bill first came into operation, and when the
Bank of England, to carry out the provisions of the
new law, suffered the "screw" to come into action
rather than enforced it. I believe the Bank Directors
at that time used the influence of this depressing in-
strument as gently as possible, yet so great was the
distress produced, especia.lly upon the agricultural in-
terest, and in the midst, too, of abundant harvests,
that Lord Liverpool, in his reluctance to admit that

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—My attention has been called to a letter
which appeared in the Times. paper of the 22d ult.,
from Mr. Gladstone, on the Currency Question, and,
•Is you did me the honour of giving publicity to seve-
ralof my communications on the same subject in
October arid November last, I hope you will allow
me, through the same medium, to make a few com-
ments upon Mr. Gladstone's letter.

Mr. Gladstone asserts " that the existing law which
regulates the currency, restricting the paper circula-
tion to notes of the value of 51. and upwards, making
'hose of the Bank of England convertible into cash
at the will of the holders, and those of all other bank-
ing establishments convertible either into cash or the
notes of the Bank of England, is the most safe and

convenient system that has yet been acted upon.".
Yet he soon lifter tells us that this safe and conve-

nient system has been " attended with considerable.
difficulty in the transactions of commercial men,
threatening convulsion and the destruction of mer-

cantile confidence."

Admitting the truth of the latter clause, the system
alluded to in the former cannot well be deemed safe,
whatever may have been its conveniency. Mr. Glad-
stone thinks so.himself, and to obviate the danger he

suggests that anew national bank shall be established
to supersede the Bank of England in some of its
most important functions.
The national bank which Mr. Gladstone would
create is to have no capital, but to trade on the na-
tional guarantee of Parliament. It is to issue its
notes, half in the purchase of bullion, and the other
half in the purchase of Exchequer bills and other
securities. These notes are all to be payable in cash
at the will of the holders. The bank is to be go-
verned by Commissioners appointed by the Crown,
few in number, who no doubt are to have

clerks under them resembling, I suppose, those
of the Exchequer Bill-office. The Commissoners
themselves are probably to have large salaries
with small responsibities, whilst their manag-
ing clerks are most likely to be entrusted with
large responsibilities and small salaries, as in the cele-
brated case of Mr. Beaumont Smith. Admitting all

this to be unobjectionable, which very few will admit,
it is not easy to discover how such a national bank
could avert the difficulties which Mr. Gladstone ad-
mits have threatened the destruction of mercantile

confidence' under our present system. For instance,
if Mr. Gladstone's national bank issues ten millions of its

notes, and employs them in the way which he suggests,
she can then have only five millions of specie where-
with to redeem her ten millions of notes, although
pledged to redeem the whole in specie. o meet this
difficulty Mr. Gladstone suggests, that whenever his
national bank is called upon by the public to redeem
one million of her notes, that she shall immediately
convert another million of her Exchequer bills, &c.

,nto specie. But this differs not in Principle from
the plan which the Bank of England has attempted
to act upon, and, by so doing, has always produced
those convulsions which Mr. Gladstone wants to

avoid. There is, however, another difficulty to be
surmounted. Mr. Gladstone does not tell us how
the National Bank is to dispose of the second million
of Exchequer bills for specie at those times when it
is more profitable to export gold than any other
article of merchandise, and when bullion dealers are
ready to give a premium above the Mint price for it.
How is the National Bank to keep up her stock of
bullion under such circumstances? Is she to give
Mr. Rothschild a premium of 100,000/. to furnish
her with gold for the support of the national credit,
as the Bank of England did in 1825 ? Alas ! the
National Bank is to have no capital of her own from
which she can pay it ; and the " guarantee of Par-
liament," under such circumstances, would only be a
't Bank Restriction Act" with a new name attached
to it, which the editor of the Times would denoubce,
as a piece of " rascality," and which, of course,
neither he nor Mr. Gladstone can contemplate. The
success of the plan in such cases, it seems, is to be left en-
tirely to the stringent application of "the screw," as it is
technically called, which, by stopping our domestic
circulation, strangles our trade both at home 'and
abroad, and produces those convulsions, which it is
the professed object of Mr. Gladstone's plan to avoid.
It does not appear, therefore, that Mr. Gladstone's
national bank promises anv advantages which we do
not at present possess under the Bank of England.
Under both systems, British credit is still to be sub-
jected to the arbitrary influence of the screw, the
chief difference being that Mr. Gladstone would vest
the power of turning it, in a few Commissioners ap-
pointed by the Crown and paid by the public ;
whereas the existing system gives that power to
twenty-six Bank Directors, who are entrusted with
the care of many millions of property and are elected
by the proprietors, whose capital is pledged to make
good any direct loss which may be sustained through
mismanagement ; whilst the public have some little
security against indirect losses being created through
the capricious or arbitrary application of the screw,
in the fact, that those Directors themselves, as mer-
.

" Peel's Bill" was the cause of the distress, accounted
for it in the over-production which the bounty of
Divine Providence was then pouring forth upon Great
Britain and the nations of the Continent. In 1822,
when the pressure could no longer be borne Lord
Castlereagh and Mr. Huskisson introduced their ce-
lebrated Small Note Bill, which proved an immediate
palliative, but a most delusive one, as every such
measure for the relief of the pressure on industry
must prove, so long as Peel's Bill is allowed to re-
main in existence.

I have seen with regret that some gentlemen in the
influential position of Bank Directors have lately pro-
posed schemes calculated to be equally delusive with
Mr. Gladstone's, or the one last mentioned, or with
the joint-stock bank scheme which, in 1826, was pro-
mulged under the patronage of Lords Liverpool and
Goderich, and which, like the Small Note Bill of
1822, performed great wonders for a short time in the
years 1833-44, and 35, but which has ended in the
ruin of an immense multitude of unfortunate share-
holders. The scheme which the above gentlemen
would urge upon Sir Robert Peel now, is the " One
Bank of Issue Plan," as it is called, and which is

brought forward under various shapes. These gen-
tlemen speak of obtaining a single bank of issue, as if
there were now any bank besides the Bank of Eng-
land, which had the power of issuing legal tender
paper. Perhaps they would wish to deprive the
people of their natural right to give or receive the
credit of each other, according to the dictates of their
own discretion. If they do intend this, and should
unhappily succeed in misleading the Legislature to
adopt their views—and nothing can be too absurd
for some statesmen to adopt if it affords a chance of
preserving Peel's Bill—then, great as our commercial
and agricultural difficulties have already been, we
must prepare ourselves to expect a struggle for the
continued existence of our national credit far more
severe than any we have yet experienced.
Admitting, therefore, with Mr. Gladstone, that,
under our present monetary system the transactions
of commercial men are exposed to considerable diffi-
culty, threatening convulsion, and the destruction of
mercantile confidence, it is, I think, very apparent
that a national bank on the plan pooposed by him is
open to very substantial objections, and if acted upon,
would still leave British industry exposed to the con •
vulsive pressure of Peel's " screw.' I think it also
equally apparent that all " palliatives" must fail of
giving any permanent relief, so long as that " screw"
is empowered to depress the value of all labour, and
its produce, to a fixed gold standard ; and that the
only effectual way by which British industry can be
emancipated, is to remove completely the money law
of 1819, and to supply its place with a system of
cash payments to be regulated by the market price
of the precious metals, agreeably to the suggestions of
the Court of Bank Directors in 1819. You, Sir,
have justly observed that a market price system of
cash payment was virtually acted upon during the
last French war, and so judiciously acted upon by
the late Mr. Harman and his brother Directors, as
amply to supply the pecuniary means of conducting
that fearful contest to an honourable and successful
issue. A system capable of such great national
benefit in times of such unexampled difficulties as
those were, is assuredly entitled to the serious recon-
sideration of Parliament.

chants and bankers, are many of them liable to par
ticipate largely in the ruinous effects of that trip
pling piece of machinery to which Peel's Bill has
given existence, and which in its application has
already ruined some of the earliest and warmest
advocates of his system of cash payments, to which it
is a necessary adjunct. If, therefore, British indus-
try and commerce be still to remain under the cor-
rective influence of the " screw," it seems to me far
better that "we bear the ills we have" than fly to
those which Mr. Gladstone would provide for us.
It is not, however, necessary that we should
continue to " bear the ills we have." This is made
evident in the memorial which the Court of Bank Di-
rectors presented to the Government in 1819 when
Peel's Bill was in progress. You, Sir, have done
the public great service by republishing that
memorial in The Sun of the 22d instant. The diffi-
culties which Mr. Gladstone now deplores in our
monetary system, and for which he seeks a remedy,
are precisely those which the late Mr. Jeremiah
Harman and his experienced colleagues, who drew up
that memorial, then foresaw, as the natural result of
that unfortunate measure. The market-price system
of cash payments, suggested in that memorial, as the
alternative for our present system, requires only to
be understood to be approved. Mr. Gladstone tells
us that the Bank ought at all times to possess a stock
of bullion bearing a relative proportion to their paper
circulation. This, we have seen, is much easier said
than accomplished. As a practical suggestion, he
might just as well tell us that to guard against the
effect of a partial failure of our corn crops, the Go-
vernment ought always to hold in store a .rtserve
stock of corn, bearing a certain relative proportion to
the annual consumption. Experience has shown that
one suggestion is about as practicable as the other.
With far more reason, the advocates for free trade tell
us that the most effectual way to avoid a scarcity of
corn is to leave the trade therein and its price as free
from artificial restraint as possible. And so, Mr.
Harman and his fellow Directors of the Bank of
England argued in 1819 with regard to gold. They
deemed that the most effectual way to secure a uni-
form supply of gold was to let the traffic and the price
of it be also free from arbitrary control. Their argument
is so simple and unanswerable that it might have been
thought no practical merchant could have rejected it,
much less, that it should have been rejected upon the
strength of a mere assertion. Yet Mr. Gladstone so
rejects it, asserting that the market-price system
of cash payments, with an issue of small n rtes, would
only act as palliatives, producing both delay and in-
convenience, without striking at the root of the evil.
From Mr. Gladstone speaking thus of the market-
price system of cash payments, I think it is
clear that he quite misunderstands the nature of that
imperfection in our monetary circulation, for which
he has undertaken to prescribe a remedy. Were it
not so, he would have perceived that such a practical
palliative afforded the most effectual mode of attain-
ing a radical cure for the disease. In a short supply
of corn, any palliative by which the people may be
supported until the succeeding harvest arrives, is not
merely a conveniency but a remedy. " It sustains
the horse till the grass grows,"—so, in the case of a
sudden withdrawal of specie from a nation like ours,
which, in the natural course of commerce, can always
command a full average supply of the precious me-
tals, any plan capable of effectually palliating the evil
until the current of trade can resume its accustomed
course, is the best remedy the case admits of. Such
a palliative the market price system of cash payments
would have been, had it been adopted in 1819. Un-
der it the Directors of the Bank would have been
protected from the unreasonable obligation of selling
gold at 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce at those times when,
from some temporary obstruction, they might be
compelled immediately to repurchase it at a much
higher price. In the absence of the natural pallia-
tive which the market price system would have af-
forded, the Bank Directors have been compelled to
resort to such palliatives as have been costly to the
Bank and injurious to the public. In the panic of
1825, Mr, Rothschild supplied a palliative which cost

I had written a considerable portion of this letter
before I saw your important remarks upon Mr. Glad-
stone's letter, and I am much gratified to find that
you view Mr. Gladstone's suggestions in the same
light as myself.—l beg to remain, Sir, your's very
respectfully, lOTA.
April 2, 1844.