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London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

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t for a common place as for observation. He
professed always to love and seek peace ; and
this virtue could not proceed out of fear and softness,
! ! for he was valiant and active; and, therefore, no
doubt, it was truly Christian and moral. It wa.s also
much that one who was so great a loverof peace should
lat. so happy in war, for his arms were never unfortu-
' nate, neither did he know what a disaster meant."
This has been called flattery of Henry, but the
most angry of Louis Philippe's detractors must say
that it is strict truth of him. And if Bacon drew, 1%4
it is supposed, merely a fancy portrait of a perfect
monarch, France may well be proud that the great
, philosopher's ideal of the best of monarchs is realised
in her Sovereign. Yes ; France has reason to be
proud of her King—the King that has for the first time
exhibited what France can really be—a nation of free-
men, obedient to the laws, a nation advancing in wealth,
happiness, prosperity, and improving in purity of
morals, and manliness of sentiment, at the same time?,
a nation the most powerful of the continent of Europa,
and that which still is almost the least distrusted by her
neighbours, and that from which the weaker staters
least fear oppression. This is true glory—glory
such as France, had she been able to make Napoleot
immortal, and to invest him with invincibility would
never have attained by war. Napoleon overran Eu-
rope, but did he ever conquer the respect and affectiori
of its inhabitants for France, as Louis Philippe
has conquered both ? No, Napoleon's victoriel,
ever won more enemies to the country he ruled, thani
either of territory or glory. And what did he fol.
France himself ? But this is a question beyond our
province. We can claim an interest in the happiness
of our neighbours only as we are members of th
human family—but as such we are grateful to Louis
Philippe for all that he has done for France; and
few 3 ears will have passed before Frenchmen wil I
blush to compare the more than doubtful honour c f
the Napoleon era with the true glory of the governmen t
of 1830. The heroism of good government ever survive s
in memory and gratitude, as it ought to do, the heroisn a
of conquest. Millions reverence the name of Alfred,
who probably never heard of his military achievements,
and to whom the name of Eddington, the scent
of his greatest victory, occurs now for the first time.
And such, in future ages, will be the distinction be-
tween the conqueror and the peaceful rulers among
the sovereigns of France in the nineteenth century—
the conquerors will be forgotton, while he who now
honours us with his presence will be remembered
among the great benefactors of the human race.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of October.
1844, present the Queen's most excellent Majesty in
Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in
Council, that the Parliament which stands prorogued to
Thursday, the 10th day of October inst., be further pro-
rogued to Thursday, the 12th day of December next.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be.
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning the Right
Hon. E. G. S. Stanley (commonly called Lord Stanley),
to the House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron
; Stanley, of Bickerstaffe, in the County Palatine of
I Lancaster.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend.
John Mackay to the church at .Lochephead, in the=
parish of Glassry, in the presbytery of Inverary and..
shire of Argyll, vacant in consequence of the transporta-
tion of the Reverend Donald Jackson, late minister•
thereof, to the parish of Kilmartin.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
C. Wordsworth, jun., Ductor in Divinity, the place and
dignity of a Prebendary of the collegiate church of St.
Peter, Westminster, void by the death of the Rev. Dr.
H. V. Bayley.

WAR OFFICE, OCT. 8.
6th Dragoons—Capt. the Hon. 11. Crichton to be Ma-
jor, by purchase, vice Wollaston, who retires ; Lieut.
H. J. Denny to be Captain, by purchase, vice Crichton;
Cornet W. M. Powell to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Denny, dated Oct. 8.
13th Light Dragoons—F. W. Hervey, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Whitehead, promoted in the
7th Foot, Oct. 8.
3d Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. Howard, from the
43d Foot, to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Handfield,
who retires, October 8.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Fraser to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Talbot, who retires ; Cornet F. J. G.
Whitehead, from 13th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Fraser, October 8.
30th Foot—F. A. Edwardes, Gent., to be Ensign, by '
purchase, vice Molyneux, appointed to the 43d Foot,
Oct. 8.
31st Foot—Major J. Byrne, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, •
by purchase, vice Van Cortlandt, who retires ; Brevet
Major G. Baldwin to be Major, by purchase, vice Byrne;
Lieut. R. J. Eagar to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Baldwin ; Ensign J. Brenchley to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Eagar ; H. C. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Brenchley, Oct. 8.
34th Foot—Lieutenant T. Bourke to be Adjutant,
vice Talbot, promoted, July 30.
43d Foot—Ensign C. B. Molyneux, from 30th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Howard, promoted in 3d Foot, Oct. 8.
63d Foot— Lieutenant J. Thorp to be Paymaster, vice
R. Lane, who retires upon half-pay, Oct. 8.
72d Foot—Ensign A. D. Thellusson, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Corbett, who retires ; W. H. D. Fitz-
gerald, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thellusson,
Oct. 8.
75th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Ricard to be Captain,
by
,purchase, vice Simeon, who retires ; Ensign C.
Machen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ricard ;
V. J. Watson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
•
Machen, Oct. 8.
COMMISSARIAT.—Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Ge-
neral T. Graham to be Assistant Commissary-General,
June 15 ; Commissariat Clerk H. A. Oriel to beDeputy-
Assistant Commissary-General, Feb. 25.
Erratum in the Gazettes of 14th June and 23d July, 1844. •
3d West India Regiment—For Ensign A. M'Taggart
to be Lieutenant, vice Glen, promoted, June 5, rtad
Ensign A. M`Taggart to be Lieutenant, vice Reynolds,
deceased, May 18 ; for Ensign F. J. Cox to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Reynolds, &ceased, May 18, read Ensign
F. J. Cox to be Lieutenant, vice Glen, promoted, June 5.
MEMORANDUM.-- The Christian names of Ensign
Bancroft, of the 3d West India Regiment, are William
Charles, not Charles William, as previously stated.
BANKR I/ eTs.

ADELE PELLISSIER, lodging-house keeper, Ben•
tinck- terrace, Regent's park, to surrender, Oct. 23, at
half-past one, and Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;
Christmas, Raymond's buildings.
JOHN DANCASTER, painter, Brighton, Oct. 15,
at half-past one, and Nov. 13, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street- buildings ; Gals worthy and Nichols, Cook's- court,
Carey-street.
DANIEL PUGSLEY, warehouseman, Great Distaff-
lane, City, Oct. 15, and Nov. 13, at half-past two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Cole-
man-street-buildings ; Sole, Aldermanbury.
THOMAS WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH, draper,
Hulme, Lancashire, Oct. 19, and Nov. 8, at eleven, at
the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee,
Manchester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple,
London ; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidawell, Manchester.
ANN AKEHURST, baker, East Mailing, Kent, Oct.
26, at eleven, and Nov. 19, ut one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street ; Selby and Mackeson, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-
street.

JOB TRISTRAM, beer-housekeeper, Two Mile-
houses, Nottinghamshire, Oct. 25, and Nov. 13, at
eleven, at the York District Court. Young, official as-
signee, Leeds ; Baxters, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Wells,
Nottingham ; Payne, Eddison, and Ford, Leeds.
EDWARD RIGMAIDEN, spirit dealer, Liverpool,
Oct. 18, and Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. James Cazenove, official assignee, Liver-
pool ; Chester, Toulmin, and Chester, btaple Inn ;
Hodgson. Liverpool.

NICHOLAS. WANOSTROCHT, boarding house-
keeper, Blackheath-hill, Oct. 26, at twelve, and Nov.
19, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Eel-
ward's, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Thomas, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.
JOHN JAMES BREZ, tailor, Oct. 18, and Nov.
19, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Cook-street, Liverpool ; Thompson,
Newington Bold-street, Liverpool ; Norris, Allen, and
Simpson, Bartlett's-building, Holborn.
JOHN PRIOR and HENRY BRADY, brush manu-
facturers, Kingston upon-Hull, Oct. 18, and Nov. 13, at
vle%en, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official
assignee, Leeds; Willis and Co., Tokenhouse-yard,
London ; Colbeck and Thompson, Hull ; Horsfall and

and much wanted. The refiners are firm, and will not
sell under 27s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.-Former rates are support, d for good
and fine yellow sorts, which are wanted, and of such the
quantity offered has been small since this day week ; for
inferior yellow however pric, s have declined 6,1 to Is,
and for brown sorts is to 2s per cwt. This afternoon
42 bags at public sale fetched 48s for middling brown,
and 524 to 52s 63 per cwt for low yellow.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoota there was not much
demand for Bengal Sugar, and 2,274 bags at auction
went 6d to Is per cwt under former rates, Erne white sold
at 65s to 65s Gd, good 60s 6d to 62s ; mid 59s to 60s, low
5Ss to 58s 6d; damp and washed 57s to 64s 6d; sound grainy
grey 54s to 54s 6d, damp and washed 51s 6d to 54s 6d,
low and middling. sound dingy yellow 52s to 54s 6d,
damp 51s 6d to 52s 6d, and brown 44s to 45s ; 433
bags of Madras went at 50s to 52s 6d for damp yellow,
and inferior 48s per cwt. Manilla is still wanted, and
1,600 bags low damp brown has been sold privately at
14s 9d per cwt.
FOREIGN.-This afternoon Brazil Sugar was sought
after-113 chests of Rio at auction were sold at the full
value, middling greyish white fetched 22s to 22s 6d, low
20s to 21s 6d, good brown 18s, middling 16s Gd to 17s,
low 16s, and damaged 16s per cwt. By private contract
a good deal of inquiry existed for all sorts of Foreign
Sue•ar, but the stiff rates asked checked business.
6oFFEE.-Alt,hough lower rates have again been ac-
cepted for West India Coffee, still the home trade evince
little inclination to operate, and the qnantity brought
forward has proved more than sufficient for their wants.
To-day little business was transacted privately, and Ceylon
Coffee, 53s to 533 6d per cwt is the value of good ordinary
At public sale 139 bags of Madras and 196 bags of Ceylon
were offered, the former sold at 66s for fine fine ord pale
colory ; the latter went rather cheaper-fine fine ord
colory Plantation kind 63s 6d to 68s, pea berry 80s to
82s Gd, triage 18s to 34s per cwt. West India Coffee is
dull of sale, and for Mocha there are very few orders.
MOLASSES.-In the prices of West India little change
has taken place, but the demand has been otaly for small
parcels ; 22s 6d to 24s per cwt accepted for Antigua.
Holders are not inclined to press sales at existing low
rates. In East India there has been scarcely any busi-
ness done.
TEA.-The market has an improving appearance for
Tea. In Congou there has been a good deul doing since
last Tuesday at full rates, but holders at present are
unable to obtain any advance; common has been fetching
10d to 10ii good common lid to 1 lid; but middling
rather strung II id to is id; rather blackish leaf and
strung blackish leaf is lid to Is ; Pekoe flavour
Is 8d to 2s 4d, and superior 2s 5d to 2s 7d
per lb. The supply of Pouchong is nearly ex-
hausted, clean sorts fetching 7d to 9id, and supe-
rior 10d to is per lb. Twankay, ordinary at is lid
.to Is 2d ; bright leaf is 3d to Is 8d ; superior and Hyson
kind is 9d to 2s 6d per lb. Orange Pekoe 3s 2id to
3s 3d per lb. In plain Orange the transactions are upon
a more extended scale. In Souchong rather more has
been done at the previous prices. Gunpowder more
in request, but few parcels are to be met with in first
hands, and prices are still going up. There are ready
buyers of Imperial, and stiff rates given. Hyson 2s 7d
to 2s 9d per lb is the value of common. The trade are
turning their attention more to Caper and Young Hyson.
To-day there was less business transacted in Tea but
holders were firm, and would not accept lower rates, ord
sound Congou for cash was not to be purchased under
Iod per lb.
Cocoa.-For West India there has been more inquiry,
and stiffer rates paid. Trinidad fine red has been fetch-
ing 45s to 475, good 435 to 44s 6d, and common to
middling 40s to 42s 6d per cwt ; none has again been
offered at auction. The parcels of Foreign disposed of
have been at stiffer rates. The stock of West India is
getting small.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-Prices are fully
mointained for Jamaica Rum, and an extensive demand,
has prevailed to supply home and export orders, the
quantity sold has been 500 puns, 23 to 28 per cent over
proof at 3s 9d to 3s lld ; 30 to 34 over 4s to 4s 2d ; 36
to 39 over 4s 4d to 4s 6d ; and fine 5.3 to 5s 6,1
per gallon, of high flavoured sorts few parcels are
left unsold. Leewards at 2s 41d to 2s sd, Froof
strength. Demerara 3i 2d to 3s Gd per gallon is
the value of strong quality. Calcutta Rum, at 2s 3d per
gallon proof with certificate. An increased demand has
prevailed for all sorts of Brandy. Cognac, best brands
of the vintage of 1838 selling, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s 11d;
ditto 1839, hhds 43 lld puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds
4s 10d, puncheons 4s 8d ; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 9d,
puncheons 4s 7d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 6d, puncheons
4s 4d, low 2s ild to 3s 3d, and mid 3s 4d to 3s 10(1 per
gallon. Geneva is dull of sale; shipping sort at is 9d to
Is 10d, and fine for duty 2s 6d to 3s Gd. English Corn
Spirits in fair demand at lOs 4d per gallon, cash. To-day
several purchases were made in Rum, and stiff rates
paid ; Jamaica 30 to 37 per cent over-proof fetched
3s 10d to 4a 6d, proof Leewards 2s sd, and Calcutta
proof 2s 3d to 28 3id per gallon. Of Brandy several
parcels were sold at the prices previously quoted.
SPICKS.-This afternoon, at public sale, 29 casks of
Nutmegs were taken in at 3s per lb. 4 cases of bold
Malabar dry Ginger at 82s, and 80 bags of Barbados
at 47s per cwt.

SAGO has been taken sparingly, and prices are on the
decline ; 245 bxs at public sale were only partly sold at
223 for line large bright pearl ; 201 tins Jamaica
Arrowroot 6d to 71d ; 38 bxs Bermuda 10d to Is ; 107
brls Tapioca 5d to 7d.
RICE.-This afternoon the demand was lively for
Bengal Rice, but higher rates being required tended to
operate against business, and 2,397 bugs at public sale
were taken in at 6d per cwt above the value ; viz.
at 12s per cwt for middling white ; there were
buyers at lls 6d ; Madras was sought after, and 1,709
' bags at public sale sold at stiffer rates,
.and fetched
9s 6d to 10s, for yellowish broken white Bengal kind lOs
to lOs 6d for better quality, 8s to Os fur sea damaged
srst and second class, 5s to is for third class, and is 6:1
for repacked.
FRUIT.—To-day there were sellers of new Patras
with. New Valentia Raisins are much
wanted,re to
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Cur-
rants at 473, and prime at 49s per cwt, but few purchasers
a
present there are none in the market.
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tention, and 833 bags Calcutta at public sale were readily
disposed of rather above previous rates and went at
24s Gd to 25s for ordinary grey Of per cent refraction ;'
24s 6d to 25s for 10f per cent ditto ; and 25s 6d for 7i
per cent ditto.
INDIGO.—The Quarterly Sale of East India com-
menced this clay. Of the Bengal one-third consists of
good and fine, and two-thirds middling and ordinary.
The Madras chiefly middling and ordinary. Kurpah of
good middling and ordinary in about equal proportions.
Oude principally middling and ordinary, and the Ma-
nilla middling and very low.
TaLLow.—The transactions have been upon a small
scale on the spot, and a decline in the value has taken
place : old P Y Candle in small parcels selling at 40s 961
to 41s, and new at 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. There
has been little business transacted for delivery
although there are sellers upon lower terms,
and 41s 3d is the quotation up to the end of
year. Town Tallow finds ready purchasers at 40s to
casks
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40s 6d per cwt nett cash ; in the value of other sorts
little variation has taker. place at present, although the
riasatbt'aeunctvioenll fseutpchpleided33; :t601.39s 6d for ordinary
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44s per cwt.
Ou.s.—The demand has been brisk for common de-
scriptions of Fish Oils, and former improved rates for
Seal and Cod are fully supported, the former selling by
private contract at 34/ 103 to 361 for Pale, and the
latter at 341, but for Southern prices have ad-
vanced 153 to 20s, and the transactions arc upon a
large scale. 108 tuns at auction ►were all sold,
fine quality at 321 lOs to 35155; good 32/ 5s ; middling
31/ to 31/15s ; common 28/15s to 301, and very low 261
to 271. A few lots of Foreign in bond went at 321
to 33/ 153 for good and fine, 80 tuns of Newfound-
land Whale Oil fetched 271 to 311 ss, and twenty-
five tun of brown Seal26l to 291 per tun. Sperm, four
tuns of common British at auction fetched 81 15s
to 88/ 15s, and 35 tuns of American of fine quality
88/ 15s to 89/. Palrn Oil, 344 casks at aution fetched

23s to 27s per cwt for low to fine.--eocOaNut at 271 to
29/per tun for low to good quality. Linseed Oil at 24s
to 24s 3d per cwt. Rape at 36s to 36s 6d for pale, snd
35s to 35s Gd per cwt for brown. Olive Oil at 441t0 451
for Gallipoli ; 411 to 431 for Spanish; and 391 los to 401
per tun fur Barbary. Of American Lard Oil there is
still little in the market.

DEATH OF LADY HEYTESBURY.
DUBLIN, OCT. 6.—About six o'clock, this evening,
the bell of St. Audeon's church intimated to the citi-
zens the melancholy fact, which had been for some
days apprehended, of the death of Lady Heytesbury.
A very general and painful degree of interest was
manifested amongst all classes, when it became known
that her illness had assumed a dangerous character.
This evening, at twenty minutes before four o'clock,
her Excellency breathed her last, at the Vice-regal
Lodge, in the Phoenix Park, in the presence of his
Excellency Lord Heytesbury, his brother the Hon.
E. H. A'Court, M.P. for Tamworth ; her Excellency's
son, the Hon. W. A'Court Holmes, M.P. for the Isle
of Wight ; the Hon. Miss A'Court, daughter, and
Mrs. Pennett, sister to the late Baroness.
Her Excellency had arrived but a short time in
Ireland, when she was attacked by the fatal
illness, gastric fever, under the effects of which she
so long and painfully lingered.
She was assiduously attended during her illness by
Sir Henry 11. Marsh, Bart., and Dr. J. Graves, the
,physician in ordinary to the household, Dr. George
Hatchell.
Thd gloom that this deeply lamented event will
cast upon the city, and indeed the country at large,
can scarcely be appreciated. It was arranged that
the Court would have been upheld upon the most
suitable scale of splendour had her Excellency been
spared to carry out their intentions.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 61
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 7
Antwerp 25 90
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
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Frankfort on Maine l2l
Vienna, BP r
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NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
New York,2ldys sight
Philadelphia

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons OO 0
New Dollars 0 4 94
Silver in tars 0 4 11

Barcelona 36

Seville

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

BROMLEY POLICE.

A young woman, named Anne Maria Cator,attended
before the bench for the purpose of affiliating her
illegitimate child upon a person named John Down,
in accordance with the provisions of the Amended
Poor-law.

The case was brought before the bench at its last
sitting, but the defendant did not appear upon that or
the present occasion. The magistrates thought there
was not sufficient corroborative testimony of the state-
ment of the complainant, and at the request of her
father they adjourned the further hearing until to-
day, the Magistrate observing that owing to the un-
avoidable difficulty of obtaining corroborative testi-
mony in such cases, the new law was, to a certain
extent, completely inoperative.
The complainant deposed that she was a single
woman, and that she was delivered of a male illegiti-
mate child on the 13th of April, and that John Down
was the father of that child. In addition to this tes•
timony a young woman named Miller proved that
there had been some familiarity between the com-
plainant and the person who was alleged to be the
father of her child.

Sir C. FARNAITY inquired whether there was any
further corroborative testimony ? The father of the
young woman stated that he had written to defendant
since the last hearing, and had received a letter from
him in answer, in which he expressed his willing-
ness to come to some arrangement without allowing
the matter to be disposed of by the magistrates.
The BENCH expressed their opinion that this admis-
sion of the defendant, coupled with the other facts,
established his :liability, and they should feel them-
selves justified in making an order upon him to sup-
port the child.

The father, with some warmth, said he thought it
was a cruel thing that parties should be put to so
much trouble and inconvenience to establish the
liability of a party committing an offence of this de-
scription. If it had been in his power to support the
child, he would much rather have done so than have
incurred the expense and trouble to which he had
been subjected.

The gaNcit said that it might be difficult to obtain
the necessary evidence, but the magistrates had
nothing to do with that matter. They must carry
out the law as it stood, and they had no power to
act unless sufficient confirmatory evidence was laid
before them to support the testimony of the mother
of the child.

The BENCH then made an order upon the de-
fendant to pay two shillings per week, and the neces-
sary process was directed to be issued to enforce the
payment of that sum, and also the amount of arrears
and expenses.

SCOTCH BANKS.
EDINBURGH COUNTY MEETING.
At a meeting of the freeholders, heritors, and
• commissioners of supply, held at Edinburgh last week,
Sir JAMES G. CRAIG said, that, at the request of
several gentlemen connected with the county, he
begged to bring betbre the meeting a matter of very
great imp eance. He had every reason to believe
that Sir R Peel had the intention to bring in a mea-
sure next session regarding the banking system of
Scotland. The rumour of this intention had excited
great apprehension in the minds of those who take an
interest in the subject. The nation was wedded to
the present system, believing it to be the best in any
country, and they naturally were exceedingly jealous
of any interference with it. He reminded the meeting
of the attempt which was made in 1825 to alter the
system; and when Committees of both Houses of
Parliament unanimously reported that it should not
be interfered with. If then there was no ground for
interfering with the system in 1825, there was less
ground now; arid, therefore, he begged to propose the
following resolutions :-
1. That the system *of banking which has been car-
ried on in Scotland since 1695, ant with the addition of
one pound notes, since 1704, has met with the most cor-
dial approbation of every class of the community, and
particularly of all those engaged in mercantile and agri-
cultural pursuits.
2. That so far from any change being called for, the
opinion throughout the entire country is, that no reason
whatever has been assigned for interfering with what has
worked so well and so beneficially for all classes, who
unite in deprecating any alteration in the existing system.
3. That constituted as the Scottish banks aro at pre-
sent, the safety of the currency may be considered be-
yond question. Independent of the responsibility of the
individual parties, the banks now in operation have paid
up capital of twelve millions and a circulation of notes
little exceeding two millions eight hundred thousand
pounds.
4. That although the Scottish banks make all their
payments in their own notes, and gold is scarcely known
in the circulation, the habits of the country, and the
peculiar mode of operating on cash accounts, have re-
stricted the entire circulation to the small amount just
stated ; which is found sufficient, with occasional varia;
tions to a very moderate extent, to meet the wants of all
classes, whether engaged in trade or agriculture; and the
improved mode of carrying on monied transactions has
tended to diminish the currency, notwithstanding an in-
crease in the number of' banks, as well as a great in-
crease both of mercantile and agricultural capital.
5. That the circulation of bank notes in Scotland
is much less, both in proportion to the population and
to the general business of the country than that of Eng-
land, although England has no Rotes under five pounds.
6. That the circulation of the Scottish banks has no
direct dependence, or at least depends in a very trifling
degree, upon the state of the foreign exchanges, but
varies, as is shown in the regular returns made to Go-
vernment, with the demands of trade, or with the regular
recurrence, of terms and great cattle markPts.
7. That the change from one pound notes to gold
would be atteuded with many inconveniences in a
country situated as are many important discricts of Scot-
land, not only from deficient weight and counterfeits,
but from the increased risks of transmission, rendering
it vexatious to the people, accustomed as they have bee-n
to a currency which for so many generations has ac-
quired their entire confidence.
8. That a diminution of so important a portion of the
circulation of bank notes in Scotland as those below five
pounds, extending to nearly three fifths of the whole,
would militate in an essential degree against the general
accommodation, both by the principal banks and their
branches by the means of cash credits on proper security,
to almost all persons beginning the world, whether as
merchants or farmers. That no class of the community
has derived more beneficial aid from this system than
the landlords and farmers of Scotland—the improve-
ments of the soil during the last century, and the im-
mense improvements now in progress, having been in a
great degree produced by the pecuniary aid afforded by
these credits, and any change which shall deprive the
banks of the power to grant them will be highly injurious
to agriculture from one end of Scotland to the other.
9. That for these reasons, and considering that the
system of Scottish banking has stood the test of the
rebellions of 1715 and 1745, the crisis of the French
Revolution, the panic of 1825, the great failures of 1837,
and the critical period of 1839-40, and passed through
all not only unscathed, but standing higher than ever in
general estimation, it would be not only impolitic, but
would be highly injurious to the best interest of the
country, to interfere with the present cnrrency."
He did not propose that these resolutions should be
adopted immediately. On the contrary, he thought
it of great importance that the subject should be de-
liberately considered, and with this view he begged
to move, that the resolutions be remitted to a Com-
mittee, who should be requested to report thereon to
the next meeting of the county, on Tuesday, the 19th
November. Some might be disposed to say, that this
was not the prOper time to bring forward this subject.
He begged to differ with those who held this view.
It was a matter of such importance, that it was better
to stop the measure before it was brought forward—
if there was any reasonable ground for stopping it—
rather than object to it after it was brought forward ;
and as he had reason to believe that some such mea-
sure was in contemplation, he thought it but just to
the Minister himself, that he should know the opinion
of the public before he had committed himself on the
subject.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of ROSEDERY expressed his concurrence
in the proposal to remit the subject to a Committee;
and the motion of the Hon. Baronet was unanimously
adopted.
Sir JOHN ITOPR then read to the meeting an extract
from the minutes of a meeting of the county cf. Had-
dington, held on the 17th September, on the subject
of the currency, recommending the county to direct
the attention of their representative to that subject,
and request him to communicate with the other re-
presentatives of Scotland, and in conjunction with
them to give the most determined resistance to every
measure which tended, in a material degree, to change
the system of banking and currency in this country.
ABERDEEN COUNTY MEETING.
On Tuesday, the Michaelmas meeting of the Land-
holders, Commissioners of Supply, &e., of this county
was held in the Conrt-house, Mr. Grant of Tilly-
four, Convener of the County in the chair.
After some routine business, a communication was
read from the Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow, re-
lating to the Bills anticipated to be brought before
Parliament, on the subjeet of the Scotch banks; to-
gether with the resolutions adopted by the Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce, condemnatory of any inter-
ference with the present system. Similar resolutions
adopted at a meeting of the Commissioners of Supply
of the County of Haddirigton, were also read.
Mr. GORDON, of Craig, said, from the important
nature of this question, it would not be expected that
this meeting could come to any resolution at present ;
more particularly, as they were yet in the dark as to
whether or not any change whatever in the Scotch
system of banking would be proposed in Parliament.
He would, therefore, move that these communications

lie on the table.
Sir MICHAEL BRUCB seconded the motion.
Mr. GORDON, of Cairnbulg said, although no dis-
tinct announcement had yet fallen from Government,
yet, from various circumstances that had taken place,
it was extremely likely that some change as to the
one-pound notes was contemplated. If this were the
case, so important would it be to the country, that
every exertion ought to be made to oppose the intro-
duction of any substitute in their place. lle was not,
however, at present prepared to move any resolution
on the subject.

The CHAIRMAN said there were two ways open to
the meeting—either to adopt Mr. Gordon of Craig's
motion, or to appoint a committee to consider the sub-
ject, and report to a future meeting. He would leave
it entirely for the meeting to decide as to the better
mode of the two, but he was rather in favour of a
committee.

After some conversation,
Sir M. BRUCE said it appeared to him that to
attempt any change in the currency would have the
effect of rousing the whole of Scotland against it ;
but, unless they were possessed of more proof of the
intentions of Government to interfere, he did not
think it proper to go so far as the county of Hadding-
ton had done. He hoped it would meet the wishes of
all present, if to Mr. Gordon of Craig's motion a
clause were added, deprecating any fundamental
change in the Scotch banking system.
This was unanimously approved of; and it was
further understood that the Convener should call an
early meeting, if any measure be proposed by Govern-
ment on this important subject.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had, by the
last letters received from Germany, arrived at Dresden,
from Berlin, and were to quit the Saxon capital this
week for Vienna.
WESTMINSTER IMFROVENIENTS.—RIGIIT WASON'S
LINE.—Some of the inhabitants of Westminster having
seen a plan for the proposed improvements, invited their
neighbours to meet them on Tuesday last to consider the
same. They had been unable to obtain a copy of the plan,
but from what they had seen of it. reported that it was very
neatly the same as that formerly projected and known
as " Rigby Wason's Line," only rendered still more ob-
jectionable than that very objectionable line was. The
following are some of the principal defective points which
it was agreed to lay before the Commis,ioners of Woods
and Forests and the public:-Ist. By "Rigby Wason's
altered line," Westminster Abbey, which ought to be
thrown open to public view, is left equally obscure as
now. 2d. Instead of a direct approach 'to Pimlico from
Westminster Abbey, it is a curved street from West-
minster Abbey to Vauxhall-bridge-road. 3d. It does not
improve the approaches to the Palace, but diverges fur-
ther and further from it every yard it proceeds. 4th. It
leaves the sewerage of Westminster unimproved, and
does not touch the bad lanes, courts, and alleys, branch-
, ing out of York-street, in the neighbourhood of the
Palace, which are a continual source of malaria and con-
sequent fever. There were other strong points of objec-
tion to the proposed plan, but the foregoing were con,i-
dered such radical defects that it was thought it would
only be needful to call the attention of all parties con-
cerned to them, to insure its rejection, and a subscrip-
tion was entered into, and a committee formed, to take
the necessary steps to effect this.
Lord Wharncliffe arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing, from Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.