The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-25 00:00:00

deed with Levason and Baker, in which he had cove.
nanted to pay this money, so that he was liable with-
out signing these notes, and had actually been sued
for the money, so that there was no breach of faith
with any persons.—(Hear, hear.) If persons would
read this statement of facts without a jaundiced eye,
and with a desire to understand the truth as it really
was, he thought every honest man must come to the
conclusion that Mr. Wood was an ill-used man, and
fairly entitled to be placed in that situation in which
the Livery were anxious to place him.---(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unani-
mously.
Mr. CURTIS proposed the next resolution.
Mr. MOWBRAY rose with great pleasure to second
this resolution. There ought to be some principle by
which these elections should be guided, and he con-
sidered that the principle of seniority had hitherto
carried the day, and he thought that it should be some-
thing very extraordinary that should prevent that
principle being carried out upon the present occasion.
He had gone carefully through all the papers relating
to this unfortunate transaction, and he felt that the
friends of the Alderman had easily disproved them,
and were ready to meet the calumnies. Every man
felt himself pledged to prove their falsehood.—
(Cheers.) He begged them not to rest satisfied with
placing the Alderman in the chair, but let them dis-
prove all the calumnies and slanders which had been
issued against him.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. SMITH then proposed the next resolution, which
was seconded by Mr. JOYCE, and carried unani-
piously.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then pro-
rosed, and carried with acclamation.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM TIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.--The premium on gold at Paris is 9f per mine,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10fd, per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
39 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 471, it follows that gold is 0.33 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4341
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10fd.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 94 ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 10k, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
SUN.—The public Securities close flatly, Consols at
99i sellers for Money, and 99i sellers for Account. In
the other English Securities there was not the slightest
variation.
Spanish Bonds continued rather heavy, the Five per
Cents. at 23f and the Three per Cents. at 341 The
Deferred were 13i to ;13. Peruvian were supported at
254 to 26. Colombian realised rather fuller prices, and
Brazilian touched 904. Mexican were 37 for Money.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 4 to 31;
Dublin and Belfast, 24 to a ; Ditto and Cashel, 8 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 3f ; Great Western,
69 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 1 ; Birmingham, 116 ;
South-Western, 30i ; Croydon, 2f ; London and York,
11 to 2 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 26 ; South Devon,
4 to 3i ; Whitehaven and Maryport, 1 ; Yarmouth and
Norwich, 8 ; York and North Midland, 544 to 53 ;
Ditto, Half, 251 to 261 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
; Paris and Lyons, t premium ; Midland, Birming-
ham, and Derby were 24 discount ; British North Ame-
rican Bank Shares were 7 discount; and Union of Aus-
tralia, 14 premium.
The exchange was firm for bills at three months in
the principal continental cities. Antwerp was scarcely
so high perhaps, but Amsterdam advanced.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver coin to Rotterdam
Silver coin to St. Petersburgh 87,000 oz.
Silver bars to St. Petersburgh 6,000 oz.
Silver bars to Rotterdam
Gold coin to New York 947 oz.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight l2 31 Leghorn .. 3O 50
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Genoa 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice ...
Altona l3 14 Naples 39i
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 55
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin
Vienna, effec: fl. 3 M 952 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9
Cadiz
I.3ilbao 36 New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 10
Seville — Silver in Bars O4 11

THE GREAT ST. LEGER STAKES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
read in your valuable newspaper last week,
under the head of" Sporting Intelligence," an account of
a discussion at Doncaster about the prizes for the forward
horses in the Great St. Leger Stakes. The Committee
who debated the point were anxious to obtain a greater
number of starters for the northern race—could not
this be the best effected by making the entry for the
Leger 30 sovs. each, p.p. remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, A 4,4, *
Liverpool, Sept. 24, 1844.

THE ROYAL MINT.—The workmen of this import.
ant establishment are busily at work in striking off
tti
considerable quantity of new sovereigns and half-sove-
reigns on account of the Bank of England preparatory to
the payment of the October dividends, which will be in
course of settlement in the Rotunda on the 14th of next
month, The amount of bullion at present in the Bank is
15,197,000/. sterling. A large quantity of gald coinage
has also been struck for Government during the last
fortnight for the payment of the Army and Navy, the
half-pay and pensions and pay of the officials of the
Treasury, Foreign, Colonial, and Home-offices, Stamps,
Customs, Excise, &c., which are now in course of pay-
ment. An immense number of the new half-farthing
coinage, which for the last ten days have been selling in
the different thoroughfares of the metropolis at four and
six a penny by the itinerant street venders, have been
struck at the Mint for the last month, and will be issued
as legal tenders of our copper circulation in currency on
Tuesday next, the Ist of October, according to the Royal
proclamation announcing their issue a year and a half
ago, but which had been delayed in the United King-
dom, although in our colonies they have been for some
time current. The various shopkeepers, grocers, and
tea-dealers, in the Borough and different parts of the
metropolis, have large bowls full of this new but useful
coinage to the working or poorer classes in their win-
dows, as " half-farthings saved are penneysxained."
THE ARCHBISHOP Or CANTERBURY S VISITATION.
—Yesterday morning the Archbishop of Canterbury
rArch
held-
his triennial visitation at All Saints' Church, Maidstone.
There were present, A. B. Hope, Esq., M.P. ; A
deacon Lyall, Dr. Burnaby, and upwards of 100 clergy.
men. The usual ecclesiastical preliminaries having been
arranged, the Archbishop delivered a lengthened charge,
in the course of which he directed attention to the state
of education in this county, and to the prospects of the
Church generally. He stated that, from what he could
hear and see, and from what he could gather from the
speeches of the Dissenters at their various meetings, that
there was a growing dislike on their part towards the
Church, and that some serious designs for its overthrow
were in contemplation. From external violence or the
internal dissensions which at present agitate the Chnreh,
the Archbishop anticipated no ill consequences, although
he admitted that it was in the highest degree painful to
contemplate them. After discussing at some length the
subject of Church extension, the Archbishop recom-
mended the formation of auxiliary branches on behalf of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, and concluded with sundry points of advice to the
younger clergy as to the manner of conducting their mi-
nistrations. A dinner was given to the Archbishop in
the evening at the Star Hotel.
FATAL FIGHT.—MR. WAXLEY AND THE POLICE
MAGISTRATES.—Last evening Mr. Wakley, com-
menced an inquiry at the Warwick Arms, Warwick.
road, Kensington, touching the death of George Benson,
killed on Sunday morning last, in a pugilistic encounter
near the Kensington canal basin fourteen jurymen
having been sworn, the coroner asked whether there
were any persons in custody in this case. Inspector
Morgan replied that there were five persons in the New
Prison, Clerkenwell, remanded by Mr. Poynter, of Ham.
mersmith Police-court, until Thursday, when one of
them, named Jones, would be committed for murder as a
principal, and the others as accessories. The coroner--
I I requested that the men should be brought before me,
if there was any charge against them. The inspector—
I mentioned the matter to Mr. Poynter, and be desired
me to present his compliments to you, and to say that he
had no power in the case. The coroner—What are your
directions from the Commissioners of Police and the ma-
gistrates, with respect to coroner's courts, and the pro-
duction in them of remanded prisoners ? The inspector
—None with respect to the production of prisoners ; but
we are directed by the Commissioners, in cases of this
sort, and in cases of accident, to give every information
and assistance in our power. The coroner then said he
would not enter into the inquiry in the absence of per.
sons charged with deceased's death. Ho did not know
what the feelings of the jury were, but his were most
repugnant to going into an inquiry of that kind when
the parties accused were not present to hear the evidence
against them, and could not suggest a single question
or observation in their defence. He would call a witness
to prove simply the death of deceased ; and he would
hear some of the medical evidence, and then adjourn
the inquiry. Samuel Robshaw proved the death of de-
ceased, and identified the body. Mr. Waller, a surgeon,
who had opened the body, said deceased probably died
from external violence—apparently a blow. A boy,
named Browning, who saw the whole of the fight, said
he did not know the parties engaged in it, but should
recognise them if he saw them again. The inquiry was
then adjourned to Tuesday next, the coroner saying
he should in the interim communicate with Sir James
Graham.

It is understood that the Custom-house authorities
have it in contemplation to place officers on board the
steamers from the Continent, as soon as the vessels ar-
rive off Gravesend, so that the inspection of luggage,
&c., may be completed during the passage up the river.
The object of this experiment is to prevent the detention
of passengers after their arrival, and if it is found to give
adequate protection to the revenue, it doubtless .will be
contingd, and be a most importut improchnia,'