The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

guese loans, He had constantly letters of THE
complaint from suffering individuals, who had un-
fortunately invested their money in these and
other loans. Tnose who investigated the value of such
loans, and pointed it out, did, he believed, society
good service.—(Hear, hear.) All he had previously
stated with respect to Russia had been fully verified.
They must, however, take nothing for granted
with respect to Russia, as its Govern-
ment was a systematic fraud, and a lying
misrepresentation. The money waiting to be loaned
in this country would be in great part devoted to
promoting the system of espionage that was pursued
by Russia in bribing employes at Constantinople, and
the press of Germany, and of France.—(Several
voices, " And in England. The Times—burn it.")
They could not believe that the press of England was
bribed.—(Renewed cries of the " Times.") To be
sure some of the newspapers had done the work of
despotism right well—(Loud cheers)—and now
they seemed disposed to play the part of
vampires or ghoul.. No, they were worse.
No name had yet been found for that
indescribable monster that preyed upon those who
had fallen from lef y places, and were begging their
bread in want. How should he desciihe the wretches
who were base enough to traduce the characters of these
men ? lie spoke of ghouls and vampires ; they preyed
upon the carcases of the material body. They had
no monster akin to the character of him who lived
by destroying the character of a fallen foe (Pro-
longed cheering.) That was the way the money
would be spent. The Hor.Gentleman then defended the
Russian people from the charge of being warlike,saying
that such was the dread of the people to join the army-
or the navy, that when a man was taken by the con-
scription he left his town in a procession headed by
the priest, es if they were all going to a
funeral, and he mentioned the fact of a man
who being declared by the surgeon as unfit to serve,
ran out of the house where he had been stripped for
examination, in a state of nudity, such was his deliri-
ous joy at being liberated. Neither were they ag-
gressive people. They loved their country, and were
contented to stay in it, and though, like all serf-, they
were petty thieves, and indulged in the vice of
drunkenness, yet they had a great regard for human
life, and crimes of deep dye did not prevail. By re-
fusing loans of this kind they would teach foreign
Governments to promote the welfare of their people
and to govern them through their affections rather
than their fears. He exhorted those who thought of
investing their money in this loan to bear in mind
that the family to which the Czar belonged was not a
long-lived one—(Hear, hear)—and that his son
was utterly unfit to cope with the difficulties of the
Government. They would place their money on a
volcano, and they might rise one morning and find
this great empire rent asunder, and one scene
of devastation springing from the influence of
despotism, cruelty, oppression.—(The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded a speech of more than an hour's
duration amidst much applause.)
Considerable merriment was created at the conclu-
sion of Mr. Cobden's speech by a burly individual in
the meeting calling out, " Send the Emperor of
Russia a Reform Almanack, and let him see that we
have enough to pay without contributing to his loans."
Mr. J. B. SMITH, M.Pa for Stirling Burghs, said
he most cordially united in the expressions contained
in the resolution, which he begged to second. He
entirely agreed in the assertion, that every one who
contributed a portion to the proposed loan shared in
the crime of which it was to be the result.
Mr. Muer, supported the resolution. After the able
speech of Mr. Cobden, which was so convincing,
because so full of fact?, he almost despaired of being
able to gain the attention of the meeting to that
aspect of the subject which was more especially moral.
He would not cast any unnecessary imputation
upon those classes who negotiated the loan,
and who regarded themselves only as traders
in money ; for he believed they had at'
all times admitted the truth of the axiom, that
money, like water, must find its level ; that they
thought they wholly got rid of all sense of personal
responsibility in money transactions, and regarded
the application of all moral considerations to engage-
ments of a pecuniary nature as totally inapplicable.
The maxims which passed current on the Ex-
change were divested of the smallest degree of
morality, and were thought to enable them to perform
the most nefarious deeds without being sensible of
the pernicious consequences which resulted from them
to the world. The system of war loans led to the
destruction both of the body and soul of
mankind, and the present loan was an at-
tempt to perpetuate the supremacy of will of one man
over all the inhabitants of Russia—amounting, in
fact, to the destruction of all the faculties which God
had given us, and the conversion of man from a
thinking, independent being, into a mere machine to
be employed for the basest purposes, and to accom-
plish the objects t f the worst of despots.—(Loud
cheers.) The right of assembling to discuss
matters of this nature had been questioned, but
if that thing, that journal which, being without con-
science and without heart, would as soon slander the
character of one man as bespatter with praise that of
another, falsified the real state of things, and did not
enforce the principles of morality, they surely were
justified in speaking to their countrymen on
such occasions as the present. Tne leading
journal had declared the truth of the maxim that'
property had its duties as well as righte, and he
maintained that this applied to capitalists as well as
to landed proprietors. He concluded by expressing
his confident belief that the time would come when
transactions, private as well as public, would be held
to he subject to high moral considerations.
The resolution was then put and carried, amidst
loud cheers.
Mr. JOSEPH STOWE, of Birmingham, in proposing
the next resolution, briefly addressed the meeting,
saying that he had come all the way from Birming-
ham this morning, in order to be present, and assert-
ing his eelief, with reference to the security of the
loan, that the thrones of Austria and Russia were not
worth seven years' purchase.—(Cheers.) The resc-
lution he moved was as follows ;
" That in the opinion of this meeting loans for war
purposes and for the maintenance of :Wading armies
are unsound in principle and injurious to the interests
of nations."
The Rev. Mr. BUBicET seconded it in one of his
amusing but pointed speeches, asking the meeting to
make a loan to the Emperor of Russia, not of money,
but of their watchfulness and vigilance to his nefa-
rious proceedings, which would do more good not
only to him but to the world, than any amount of
capital.
The resolution having been supported by the Rev.
Mr. RICHARDS, was put and carried.
Mr. NIITCHELL, who was announced as the editor
of the Jewish Chronicle, expressed his great satisfac-
tion, as a Jew, that no Jewish capitalist had come
forward to advance any portion of the loan. lie
believed it was in consequence of the determined
expression of opinion, at the last meeting on the
subject of *the Austrian loan, that they had come to
the determination to wash their hands of this villanous
transaction.—(Applause.)
A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman,
and after three cheers for Cobden, and a similar
arated.
number of groans for the Barings, the meeting se-

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Aecount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of January, 1850.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

• X.
Notes issued.• •• •• •• 3C,075,685

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities ..., 2,984,900
Gold coin arid bullion 15,798,608
Silver bullion 277,077

X 30,075,685

X 30,075,615
jir. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 17th day of January, 1850.
BANKING DEPAZTHEN T.

Proprietor s' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest • -••• . • . .. 3,19
Public deposits • (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 5,974,800
Other deposits ...... 11,241,118
Seven day and other
bills •. • ••• • • .•.. 1,156,409

irGovernment necuri.
tlii(inclVingDead

Weight Annuity).. 14,296,554
Other• securities •• 10.099,051
Notes ••••••• • • "• • • 10,990,185
Gold and silver coin.. 73,,,358

£36,124,148

X 36,124,145
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier,
1859.

Dated the 17th day of January,

COURSE OF EXCH

k,NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Lr.gborn •• •••••••••••• 30 SO
Genoa .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 26 25
Milan .• • • •• •• . •
Ka • • . • • • • • • • • • • • 40n
Falermo,peroz•—• •• •• 121
Messina .• . • • • • • • • • • • • iv
Lisbon.... • • ..........
/port° • • • • • • • • • • •• ••
•• 6314
gio Janeiro • • ........
ituenos Ayres ........
Sew York,2ldays'slght
l'hiladelphla •• • • • • • •
PRICES OF BULLION. PER CZ.
Foreign Gold In bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .• u 0 0
Spanish Doubinons .. 0 0
New Oollars •• • 0 4 loq
Silverlx bars . 0 4 1148

Amster lam •.. •• • • 12 2
I)ltt9, at sight ...... 12 0
!WM rdarn .... •... • • 12 24
Antwerp • • 25 65
liamburgh • M.B. 13 11 4
&Lona ••• • • ••••• • • • • • --
Paris. 3 dayesight • • 25 42%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 65
blarseilles ••.. •• • •• • . 25 65
. 25 65
Frankfort on Mains., e, 121%
Peter abuse', Sil. lible.• 37%
Berlin • • .. • • ...... • • • •
Vienna, effec. flo ••.. •• 11 24
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 24
Madrid ••.. • • ........ 49%
Cadiz •• l• •• • • •• • • •• •• 49%
Bilbao.. • • • • ,
Barcelona • • • • ........
Sevilla.. ..... ••••••

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WHITEHALL, JAN. 16, 1850.

The Queen has been plea.ed to present the Rev.
William James Poole to the Rectory of AberiTraw, in
the county of Anglesey and diocese of Bangor, the some
being void by the death of the Rev. Hugh Wynne Joner.