The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

PliE SITk; LANI) ON, S N- G, APR I

under indisposition. Having the honour of being their chair-
man, he might also consider himself a sort of stage manager ;
and it therefore behoved him to look about for some one to..
take the part.---(Cheers and laughter.) He begged to pro-
pose as a substitute his respected friend Richard Cobden,
Esq.—(Greit cheering, the whole company rising.) He
would only say, as their Speaker says,;" The ayes have it."—
(Cheers and laughter.) In connection with the Anti-Coin-
law League, he begged to propose the health of Richard
Cobden, Esq.—(Great cheering, the company again rising.)
Mr. COBDEN, on rising to respond to the toast, was received
with, many rounds of most enthusiastic applause, which it
seemed very difficult to restrain. Silence being obtained, the
Hon. Gentleman proceeded to speak nearly as follows :
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, fortunately for me, as
the phreeolognits tell me who have examined my head, I
have neither sell-esteem nor the love of approbation, or you
would spOil me.—(Laughter and cheers.) I regret exceed-
ingly that our friend Mr. Wilson- is not- here to return his
thanks for the honour you have done him. In his absence, I
shall be sorry to let the occasion pass of giving my humble
tribute to his great worth and usefulness to this great cause.
(Hear.) He is not much accustomed to public exhibitions;
but to those who have been constantly and actively 'engaged
in this cause for the last five years like mrlf, Mr. Wilson's
merits are known and well appreciated.— Hear.) I have no
hesitation inaaying, that without his ca and cool judg-
ment, his clear -sagacity, his great perseverance, and his
courage, Which never knows what it is to be beaten—if we
had not had his power of combination, his suggestive mind,
to have guided us in' our operations, the League would not
have been -what' it at The present day.—(Load cheers.)
For myself-:--it may be said of Mr. Wilson, as
applied to me—" Go, and lie goeth ; come, and he cometh ;"
for I am always perfectly safe when I am at his disposal, be-
cause I am sure, if he has made an engagement for me, it is
always to do good to the cause.—(Hear, hear.) You have
spoken of the League in connexion with his name. It is five
years this week since the first number of the organ of the
League, the Anti-Corm-law Circular, first appeared—on the
16th of April. And it is more than five years since the first
great meeting was held in Manchester, where the great
movement of this agitation took its origin. During that time
we have had considerable changes in the aspect of
our cause. When we began our' agitation, we had many
difficulties to encounter ; but the greatest of all our difficul-
ties was, that nobody would pay any attention to what we
said, or take the trouble to answer us. We were literally the
creatures of contempt ; and if in the course of our early ad-
vocacy of this cause, we were a little more boisterous, or, as
our enemies say, we swaggered too much, it was literally no
more or less than the assumption of a degree of importance
which we knew we had not in the world, and we thought by
that means to draw a little attention.—(Hear.) Well, La-
dies and Gentlemen, we have arrived at that point now
when our enemy comes down from his lofty eminence, and,
no longer viewing us with scorn and contempt, condescends
to take level ground with us and contend with us in this
great cause. Now we have home forbearance to show them.
--(Laughter.) They are youtig in agitation ' • and if they
should commit a few blunders, we must learn to look with
leniency upon them.—(Hear, hear.) I recollect five years
have elapsed, and they are not aware of it—five years
since this great controversy began.—(Hear.) What
wonder it we should see, that whilst we have been making
great progyess—while we have been changing, altogether
changing in the circumstances of our case—they hive been
fast asleep, and they are unconscious of all these 'things ;
and they are now treating this cause precisely as they
ought to have treated it, and would have treated it, if they
had begun five years ago. .They take our arguments as we
applied them 'then, and they are now beginning to condemn
those arguments, forgetting the change that has taken place in
the circumstances of the day.' I find them answering my
speeches that I made in 1840, and when I complained that
we should not have corn cheaper if we had free trade. They
don't know—how should they know?—they have been fast
asleep all the; time—they do not know that wheat, run up
in the spring of 1839 suddenly to 80s. the quarter, and that
last June it was down to 745. the quarter—they do not know
that all this has taken place—and, therefore, if they blunder
in their arguments—if they are out of time, out of tune, and
out of place—let us learn to look upon them with a lively dis-
play of charity, and forgive thetn.—(Cheers.) Then, gentle-
men, I find many of them not very well informed on other
matters. They donot seem to have had very extensive read-
ing—some of them. The 'other day one of' my friends hers,
who is fond of reading from the works of an author whose
name appeats among the list of invited guests, Thomas Car-
lyle(—Meers)—one of my friends, I say quoted him. The
'next day we' heard one of our opponents charging us with
being infidels, and said we had been quoting a man who was
convicted and imprisoned for blasphemy ! They do
not read Thomas Carlyle it appears I I would ad-
vise them to _do so, for there is more of suggestive thought in
the price of his books than in a volume of what they are
ordinarily accustomed to read.--(Hear, hear.) Again, our
opponents—some of them—are not very learned. (Hear,
hear.)' The other day one of the free trade newspapers in
Hertfordshire, in a very able leading article upon the. Anti-
League movement, alluded to the defection from the right
cause of an old and very esteemed Nobleman there, Lord Dacre,
and he exclaimed in the familiar_ phrase, Et tu, Brute?"
The next day a long letter came from his Lordship's land
steward, but an active opponent, denouncing the editor for
calling Lord Dac:re, bratet--(Loud laughter.) I might
multiply these instances, showing that our opponents neither
learned rnhaed happened but I
willare verytroubigee you h onlyodlogwiictiansn yetonorem
voerrye.
a southern village where the derv/nail of the parish
presided at a public meeting. t was held in a
small parish, . and. some of our friends called it " a
little go ;" it was an Anti-League meeting, where about a
hundred people ;were assembled. One of the leading persons
in it was the sexton. In the course of the clergyman's
speech he said we were a body of utilitarians. The next day
the sexton was busy spreading the report throughout the
village that there was not a single churchman among us all,
for he had heard the parson himself say we were all Unita-
rians I—(Laughter.) So you see, when you -take into
account the extent of the experience of our oppo-
nents, the amount of their knowledge, and the quality of
their natural talents, you must make allowances for any little
blunders they may fall into.—(Hear, hear.) I have seen it
stated the other day—the day before yesterday, I think—in the
Times newspaper, that this League—this" great fact," as they
call it—is upon its trial, and that these Leaguers, a few. cotton
men, and men of that stamp, who have been suddenly
thrust into notoriety, are upok a pinnacle, and in dan-
ger of a great fall, Now I do not think the League
or the Leaguers are upon' their trial ; it is some-
thing . else which ais upon trial, namely-7-monopoly.
That is the culprit on trial, the English public is the Jury,
and from the evidence which pours in from all quarters, we
have no doubt that the verdict will be Guilty.—(Loud
cheers.) Mr. Cobden then pointed out the baneful effects of
on the audience, and, on taking his seat, was enthusiastically
the present system, in a way which made a great impression
cheered.

leases for their farms—they hairs called upon them to
be no longer serfs, but to demand that just portion of protec-
tion which the law ought not to deny to any man. They
have not appealed in vain ; for the tenants are now deter-
mined that they will have that protection of long leases
which is given by our friends in Scotland, and which sound
policy denies to no man.-(Hear, hiar.) It is shown that
they are now protected by laws which are on a false basis.
They have gone further ; they have Ahown that the agcul-
turists are worse off than the manufacturing population.
They have called upon the peasant- to vindicate his rights.
They have asked him whether it is to his interest to have
cheap bread, cheap clothing, cheap butter, cheap bacon,
and other articles ?—(Hear, hear.) They have asked him
whether keeping _up the prices of :such articles is not an
incumbrance upon his rights ?—(Loud cheers.) These gen-
tlemen have, by their exertions in the diffusion of knowledge
on this subject, produced the most heneficial influence—dif-
fusing the light of truth and intelligence even to the hum-
blest cottage in the country.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,
we are united in one common caise, involving the inte-
rests of the :commercial, manufacturing, ,and agricultural
population, against one predominant and controlling in-
terest—the unjust, tyrannical, and , oppressive land-
lords of this country.—(Cheers.) Let -me not be sup-
posed to speak of the whole mass, but of a class determined to
uphold monopoly, and at war with the best interests of the
community. I have opposed them in Parliament, and will
continue to oppose—knowing Many of them-4s an oppres-
sive and tyrannical class of persons.—(Loud applause.) Then
I look around, and :I see intelligence on the subject of free
trade—thanks to the exertions of those around me—univer-
sally diffused from one end of the toutitrx.ta. the other. I
behold the darkness dispersed, and the bright-beams of me-
ridian splendour supplying its place.—(Hear.) (After some
further observations the Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst
loud applause)
The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, I am quite certain that I
speak the opinions of every individual in this assembly when
I say, that no circumstance connected with our meeting this
evening affords us, more sincere gratification than the pre-
sence of the Right Hon. Fox Maule.—(Loud cheers.) Mr.
Fox Made, I need not tell you, is a member of one of the
most distinguished families in Scothind.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Maule belongs to a family of great- lauded property and
wealth ; and yet he has the good sense _to, see that the pros-
perity of land does not depend upon the restriction of trade,
but, in faet, depends upon the removal of commercial restric-
tions.—(Great cheering.) - Gentlemen, -Mr. Fox Manle has
filled various offices in the Government of the country with
high credit to himself. He is a gentleman of excellent talent,
of exemplary private character, a most welcome guest among
the free traders of Liverpool, and I am, 'therefore, proud to
introduce him to your notice. (The health of Mr. Maule was
then drank with great enthusiasm.) -
The Right Hon. Fox MAULS. M.P., rostamidst the loudest
plaudits, and said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, the very
flattering reception which you have been nleased to give to
this toast has almost:rendered me -ineapibli; of uttering the
few sentences which I feel called- upon to do, in returning you
my thanks, for I entirely and cordially respond to the senti-
ment which this toast contains. ,-(Cheers,) With no other
prospects to look to but those which emanate from land, I
entirely concur in' the view, that the interests-of the position
which -Inlay be called upon hereafter to occupy, can only be
promoted . to their utmost extent "by unrestricted
commercial intercourse with all the world. (Tre-
inendous cheering.) Gentlemen, I feel that in ut-
tering that sentiment I deserve- -- no credit, be-
cause I am merely taking that course which I know is best
to promote my own personal and " selfish" ends—(Cheers)—
and I am surprised that those who are similarly situated with
myself have been so slow to view the matter in the same
light that I do. What is it, gentlemen, if we inherit lands—
if we are entitled to support our rights, as you call them here
—if at the same time we are to be looked upon as an incubus
upon the face of the country ? Ai a body,' we always stand
in the way of improvement of the commercial intercourse of
the world, and the improvements of the habits and position
of our countrymen.—(Cheers.) According to the mode in
which society has been ordered by Providence, men may be
born to station—they may be born to title—they may take
to themselves credit for the position in which they stand ;
but I would remind there of the words of.the poet—
" Et genus et proavos, et qua non feclinns ipsi,
• Vix et nostra voco." - •
That is my motto, gentlemen. I want to be distinguished,
not by any nobility or title; to which I may be called by the
accident of birth, but I wish to be distinktiithed by the one,
through life, of doing as much good as- can to others.—
(Cheers.) And, gentlemen, in forwarding that object; I
think that those who are connected with land will do it beat
by forwarding amongst the agricultural-population of this
country correct and proper views of free trade.—(Hear.) I
delight to say that I can myself testify to the citizens of
Liverpool, and this assembly and motif respectable company,
that amongst our agricultural body- in Scotland free trade
principles are making rapid advances--(Loud cheers)—
and I say it without wishing to cast any reflections upon my
southern neighbours—l say that they will make more ad-
vances with us in the north than it is possible they will for
some time do with you in the iouth. :Too will ask me my
reason for this, and I tell you it is that our tenantry are in a
moreindependent position.—(Cheers.) -
,In our country our
tenantry have leases.—(Cheers.) I am sorry to say that a
great many of them have not much capital, but it has been
frittered away, because they have been pursuing unsound
• views ; but they are independent, so far, because of their
leases. That I consider one of the greatest safeguards which
the farmer can enjoy. We have another system that in
our country puts the tenant-farmer out of all risk • of
loss by changes, such as we hope to obtain by the abo-
lition of the corn-laws—l mean a system of grain or corn
rents.,-(llear, hear.) Then, gentleinen, we have that which
I hope you will never have in this country ; we have an-
Other obstacle to agricultural improvement—we have a stern
and relentless climate sometimes to, contend with ; and it is
to put ourselves upon somewhat of, a footing with you in the
south that we are obliged to study the utmost economy and
the best means of managing our farms,' and that we pay the'
rents that we are enabled to pay in Scotland.—(Cheers.) I
trust, however, that the views of free trade, notwithstand-
ing the progress they • have made, will yet make
'gall further progress in my native= land; because I am
quite sure that there is no system se lad as that which
leads the farmers to consider themselves, a distinct body
from the rest of the community. The farmers, as a body,
do not surely mean, in this great country, to be a distinct
race among themselves. Farmers' eons are not all farmers.
in their turn ; farmers' daughters are not all destined to wed
farmers' sons.--(Cheers.) They must branch out into the
other stems of society,. and, among the rest, the army. It
is true you are told, it is culled from the agricultural as well
as from the manufacturing districts; but let us look to the
nursery for our navy. Surely those who say that the agri-
cultural interests are those which ought to be most fostered,
and to be the most prominent in -the country, over-
look the fact, that the great glory of. this country, the
" wooden walls of old; England," owes-its greatness not to
the agricultural race, but to the .commercial marine of the
country, which is supported by the commerce which flows
from foreign lands ?—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the farmers will
soon come to see, that without a thorough amalgamation
with the manufacturing classes, 'neither of them will at-
tail/ to that height of prosperity-to which, united, they
may fairly aspire.—(Hear, hear.) It is commerce that has
raised this country to the position which it now holds. Agri-
,culture has been fostered, in order to .do that in the home
markets which it has engaged, and which it has failed to
do. ' Each by itself will fail, if it be attempted to support
each in the position in which they stand, unless they agree
now cordially to amalgamate ; and yoikmay depend upon it,
that however prosperous they may be at- this moment, that
that prosperity is merely ephemeralt and that a day of
reckoning will come, when we shall.: sink . into one common -
abyss. Arr. Ewart has just stated to you, that a foreigner,
.landing here, would naturally reckon upon a great town like
Liverpool as the source from which free trade principles
would emanate. When I landed upon. :these magnificent
docks, and saw the flags of every different nation floating,
and the mercantile marine upon them, I; could not help saying.
to myself, " Is it possible that thisgreat city, instead ofbemg
the 'beacon light of free trade, should: be one of the
closest and restricted with respect to commerce
little of any city in the world?" • I look around, and see"
e
knots of monopolist interests in various quartet 8. I see
the
timber frightened for its existence ont Ihe one hand, and see he
timber trembling on the other--(Leughter.) Isee various
interests all at work, and I see them limiting together to sup
Port in the rosin the mostabjeet of altmonopolies—the mono-
poly of food.—(Hear.) But I trust. he day is coming, when
ppurebvliaielo,p,ainuilowntipwehaivrcha,yastkhise
stotzatells
existwhich now upon
th our
t
must sooner or later
commercial statute-book. It is truly impossible a those
Wl6 are engaged in commerce in this community-7-thoseln
are the owners of capital, and those who can command e
wealth and resources of the land—it- is truly
.impossible
that they will sit quietly -by.:--be their politics
ealled
mbaryk
ewt hasttolennam. .and country
this
se market-
after
by our own foolish acts, and wretched legislation.—(Tremen-
dous cheering,) I think I can tra&—without pretending to
see further than my neighbours-1 think I can see a latent
ptedleas.rroanin d
disposition in certain quarters—l . think I can see certain
signs of the times, which convince me that the loss Of
dthewyres
forei marketsis coming somewhat homelto the considera
-d gnon of the powers that be.—(Hear.): When we see our
busy neighbour anxious—and Ido not blame her for that
take advantage of every opening for her infantine
commerce--when we see that busy neighbour nibbling at
the Brazils—a market which, if we were to lose, (and
we might retain it with the utmost ease)—a market
which, if we were to lose, there are many in Liverpool will
rue their obstinacy—(Tremendous' applause)—when we.
see that busy neighbour at work, it • behoves us to put all our
energies to work, and it behoves the people of this country
to ring-by agitation if you please—in the ears of the Go-
vernment of the day, that such things will not be submitted
to.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is impossible for us to main-
tain foreign markets, unless we are prepared to give to foreign
traders a ,retiprocity of trade. And after all, what is the
pure system, the plain system- of commerce ? I see it,
gentlemen, stuck up with • your mottoes there :
Commerce is barter." Call it by any . other
name you please—let writers mystify it, or . give any
other description of it—commerce is barter in the end ;
-`and every man ought to be entitled to barter with his neigh-
bour that which he produces for that which his neighbour
produces; without injury to himself„—(Cheers.) That is the
sure, the plain, simple policy of a commercial nation ; and as
for that which is required in the way of taxation, to support
the credit of the country, and to support the administration
of justice, and other ends which are necessary for maintaining
the dignity of the Constitution, it is indirect taxation—
and as little indirect taxation as is. possible will be suffi-
cient—and this great country will soon be ready to afford
it without any feeling of misplaced economy.—(Loud
cheering.) I, for one, have no feeling of jealousy
of my own countrymen that they would refuse indi-
rect taxation that was ever necessary to maintain the dignity
of the country--(Hear)—but at the same time we should
have it admitted that we should know to what extent we
were taxed, and that we should be enabled—to use a homely
but rather expressive phrase—to cut our coat according to
our cloth.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, I am straying from
the subject of my toast. The subject of the toast is purely in
reference to the interests of agriculture• as connected with
the interests of commerce. lam glad to find that we may
reckon on many names of great landed proprietors who are
connected with the viewswhich /on And I take upon this sub-
' ject. There are Lord FitzwiMim. and Lord Radnor, who are
veterans in this cause.—(Loud cheers.) We have the
direct testimony of the Marquis of Westminster, Lord
Spencer, Lord ICinnaird, and many other parties whose
names are familiar to you, and who are distinguished as men
whose object it is to maintain , themselves—net upon any
fleeting popularity of the day, but upon the sound opinion of
their countrymen, which is the best reward, let me tell you,
that public men can possibly have.—(Loud cheering.) Gen-
tlemen,'l,ahall close.with this observation. I thank you for
the reception which I have this day received from you. The
hospitable reception which you have given me will ever be
my greatest reward—no, not my greatest reward—my
greatest reward will be to live to see carried out the prin-
ciples which we together have been advocating, and to be
permitted at all-times to join yeu in 'your noble endeavours
to break clOwn monopoly, place; this great country in her
pos natural ition, and make heethe mart of the world. ,
The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the next toast, " The Anti-
Corn-law League, and thanks to-them for their zealous and
persevering endeavours to liberate British industry from the
bondage' of monopoly,"
the toast would be responded to btyhe
crptrtre Iwisti4staorxtlinat,
'""but be wa6' Ilantkast6l.7 64110 us. AlanQopter, Übounile

Mr. Bright, Colonel Thompson,
.and other speakers fol.
lowed, and the meeting broke up, evidently highly delighted
with the evening's entertainment.

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages,
mer-
chandise
Week
ended horses, mails, and mu-

Name of Railway.

Total.
L. I. d.

- -- -- -
April- Arbroath and Forfar
6 Birminghani and Derby Junction 1,415 8 2
• 5 Birmingham and Gloucester * 2,108'12 7
6 Brandling Junction - ' 772 011
5 Chester and Birkenhead 650 18 9
-- 9 Dublin andliin' town • - • 903 17 11
7 Dundee 'and Arbroath 224 1 8i
6 Durham and Sunderland 498 5 4
.. ,
. 6 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,339 11 10
7 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,293. 6 6
• 6 Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr
6 Glasgow and GreenoCk BBO 1 3
6 Grand Junction - - - 7,443 8 2
6 Great North of England .........•••••• 1,319 18 7
7. Great Western
29 Liverpool and Mancheater
30 London and Birmingham
11 London and Bfackwall 1,131 12. 8
6 London and Brighton
9 London and Croydon • 4Ol 3 • 3
11 London-iMd Greenwich 2,595 4 3
' 7 London*and South Western ....... • -5,575.19
4 Manchester, Bolton and Bury ..... . ... - 774 3 4
• - 6 Blanchester and Birtningham - 3,086 5 1
6-Manchester, Leeds,_ and Hull Assoc. 76,094 13 8
6 BlidlandCounties
- 6 Newcastle and Carlisle ' 1,375 17 5
7 • Newcastle and North Shields 352 15 5
6 North Midland 4,296 I 2 0
5- North Union andßolton and Preston 1,242 19 9
2 Paris and Orleans 4,587 3 4
8 - Paris and Rouen '4,510 0 0
6 Preston, and l'Vyrs 237 18 7
6 Sheffield and Manchester 577 11 8
11 South' Eaatern
6 Taft' Vale] 686 12 6
7 Uliter 731 9 8
.6 York and North Midland

BANK STOCK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I find by the newspapers that much surprise
has been expressed at what is called "the very high
price of Bank Stock;" parties expressing that surprise
cannot possibly be aware of the immense value of the
property in which the proprietors of Bank Stock have an
interest. I will shortly endeavour to explain it.
In the first instance, I will explain that the Bank
stockholders have not one penny of their advanced
capital employed in the banking department ; what is
called the rest, now amounting to upwards of 3,000,0001.,
is most undoubtedly the property of the stockholders,
but it never was part of their advanced capital. It is
profit accrued from banking that has not been divided
when dividends have been declared. The whole of the
capital was in the hands •f Government, for which they
paid the Bank three per cent.; thus, when the Bank pays
seven per cent. dividend to the stockholders, they receive
out of that three per cent. from the Government and
four per cent. from the ptofits of banking. lam not
aware of the precise amount of Bank Stock on which the
dividend is declared. By taking it at 14,686,8001., the
amount due by the Government to the Bank in 1833, and
on which four per cent. was paid to the stockholders in
addition to the three per cent. from the Government, it is
evident that a profit of nearly 600,0001. must have been
made annually by banking over and above all and every
expense ; and this enormous profit may be deemed to
have been made on the capital employed of only
3,000,0001 (the amount of the rest) with the employ-
ment of other parties' capital which has been deposited
at the Bank without interest. However the Directors
may have been attacked for want of judgment in their
proceedings as bankers, I believe as regards the public
and the proprietors of stock, no company was ever con
ducted with such strict regard to honour and honesty.
As to the policy of the charter of the Bank as a
monopoly, that is another question.
Now as to the value of the property of the Bank
stockholders :

In 1833 the debt due by the Government
to the Bank was 14,686,8001. Parliament in
that year agreed to pay off one-fourth of the
debt, which left a balanoe due to the Bank of 11,015,100
2. The mode by which the one-fourth of
the debt due to the Bank was paid was this :
that for the quarter, or 3,671,7001., the Bank
was given 4,080,0001. Three per Cent. Re-
duced Stock, rendering the Government
liable to pay the Bank, at a future period,
just 405,3001. more than was duo ;_so this one-

-fourth of the debt due to the stockholders in
1833 is now worth to them
3. The balance over assets and liabilities,
called the "rest," which is the property of
the Proprietors, as declared 24th Feb., 1844, 3,137,000
4. Estimated value of Bank notes lost or
destroyed by parties out of the Bank, which
it is not probable will ever be demanded . 400,000
5. Estimated value of the Bank buildings... 1,000,000
6. The value of the banking business,
which is the cause of the additional four per
cent. paid to the Proprietors over and above
the three per cent. paid by the Government
on the present debt of 11,015,0001., and the
three per cent. realised on the 4,080,0001.
Three per Cent. Reduced stock, the proceeds
of a quarter of the debt paid by Government
in 1833, estimated to be fully equal to the
value of the amount of Bank stock itself,
which we will take to amount to the sum due

„...5.,... .... _
by Government to the Bank in 1833, before
the quarter was paid off 14,686,000

The grand total of the sum in which the
stockholders have an interest. 434,318,900
Thus we see that the value of the interest of the Pro-
prietors of Bank Stock is 150 per cent. more than their
amount of stock, or as 100 to 250. Yet, strange to
say, exclamations are made, " How very high Bank
Stock is," when it is but double, viz. 200.
I do not consider that I have exaggerated one single
point, but I feel assured that I hare considerably under-
rated the value of Bank of England property, in conse-
quence of the Proprietors having an interest in other
funds and securities that I am not able to get at.
On the 4th of February, 1843, in a letter of mine to
you, I stated that in the returns of the Direetors of the
Bank of England to the Stamp-office, they calculated
all the notes issued and not paid since the original
grant of the Charter in 1696 as being in circulation, and
that according to returns made by the Bank to Parliament
in 1832, nearly half a million of notes were in circula-
tion, that it was probable the Bank would never be
called 'upon to pay. Mr. Salomons, at the following
general meeting of the Proprietors, asked the Governor
if such were the fact—it was admitted by the Governor
to be so. Bank Stock instantly rose seven per cent., so
I may flatter myself that I conferred a benefit on the
Proprietors by my announcement, and I have no doubt
that if parties should find my statement as to the value
of Bank property to be correct, that we shall see Bank
Stock quoted at 2051. or 2061. in less than a week from
the publication of the above.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Ilfracombe, April 10, 1844. G ORDIUS.
P.S. I send you a paragraph for your City articleifor
September 1, 1844, viz., "Bank Stock at or above 2201."

TESTIMONIAL TO MR.ROWLAND
HILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU?

Slll,—On reading in your edition of yesterday the
article respecting the testimonial to Mr. R. Hill, I beg
to suggest that yogi would further Mr. Hill's interest
greatly, by informing the public what the testimonial is
to consist of, as a great many of my neighbours would
become subscribers, provided the money thus raised were
given to Mr. Hill, so that he can lay it out for his own
benefit. The rumour of a piece of plate being intended
to be purchased as a testimonial to Mr. Hill, prevents
Many people from adding their names to the subscription
list, and among them is the writer, who would gladly re-
mit you a guinea for Mr. Hill if he was assured that his
well-meant suggestion, or some similar plan, were to be
carried into effect.—l am, Sir,

--X
CONSTANT READER OF YOUR PAPER.
Huddersfield, April 12, 1844.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prinee Albert,
and their august visitors, the King and Queen of the
Belgians and also some of the Royal suite walked this
morning in the grounds about the Castle.
Colonel Buckley arrived at the Castle to-day, and has
succeeded Major-General Wemyss in the duties of
Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maid of Honour to her Ma-
jesty, has arrived at the Castle, in place of the Hon.
Alias Devereux.

The Royal Family him been taken out airings in
carriages to-day.
In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert left
the Castle for an airing in an open carriage, the Prince
driving. Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting on her
Majesty, was in attendance on horseback.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her
Lady in Waiting, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, will join
the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Thursday, at Gloucester
House. Her Royal Highness afterwards went to his
residence at Kew.

Sir James Graham, and other Cabinet Ministers, had
interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Count Kielmannsegge, the Hanoverian Minstar,transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

DEATH FROM STARVATION —An inquest was held
at Rothwell; on Monday, before Mr. Jewison, Coroner,
and a respectable jury, on view of the body of William
Ward, aged 52, when the following evidence was ad-
duced :—Charlotte Ward, being sworn, said, " I am
own cousin to the deceased William Ward. He resided
in Rothwell; is 52 years of age; was formerly a coal
miner, but has lately been employed three days a week
by the overseers of Hunslet, at Is. 6d. per day, to
which place he went to work at any kind of labour in
the morning and returned home at night. He has a
wife and six children, four of whom are unable to work.
The other two, when in full work, earn l ls. a week, but
they were only partially employed, until the colliers'
strike ceased about a month since. The last month de-
ceased's income has been 15s, 6d. a week for eight per-
sons. I am sure he has sometimes wanted food ; has
often left home to go to his work at Hunslet without
breakfast, and taken nothing for his day's support but a
small piece of bread. He complained on Saturday of
pain in his breast, which continued till Sunday morning,
and then he was better until night, when the pain be-
came worse until Monday morning ; then they fetched
the doctor, who ordered a mustard plaster to
his breast, but gave him no medicine, and said
be was unfit to work, and that it was a shame he
should be set to work,' Deceased had very little use
of his bands when they were cold. He continued
to get worse on Monday, but walked about. He could
not bear to lie down for pain. I was sent for between
four and five o'clock to his house, when I found him
lying upon the floor behind the door insensible. Some
persons raised him up, but he was dying. He breathed
once or twice, and died. He has complained of want-
ing food many a time. I think he would have been
living now if ho had been better provided with
food. There are no marks of violence upon his
person. The deceased was a pious man, of ex-
cellent character, was well known to the jury, by se-
veral of whom he had been occasionally assisted, and
they were unanimously of opinion his death had been
caused from want of food. The following verdict was re-
turned :—That the„..aaid William Ward, on the Ist day
of April, at-his own house in Rothwell, suddenly
fell down upon the floor, and then and there instantly
died. That for the last twelve months he has suffered
great privations for want of the common necessaries of
life, and that be died from the effects caused by ex.
haustion and want of food.—Leeds Intelligeneer.
SOLICITOR.GENERALEHIP.—(From a Correspon.
dent.,--A general impression
prevails in Lincoln's Inn, that
)
Mr. John Stuart, Q.C., at the Chancery bar, will have the
Solicitor-Generalship conferred upon him. He is a gentle-
man of the most unassuming habits, of great experience and
ability, and, by.his courtesy and highly honourable principles
and conduct, is a favourite with the bar.

VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT TO GERMANY

His Serene Highnesa the Prince of Leinengen, who arrived
at Windsor on 'Thursday evening, with his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, having accompanied the Prince Consort from
Ostend to England in the Princess Alice Government
steamer, will remain in this country upon a visit to her
Majesty for about a fortnight. At the end of the present
month his Serene Highness will accompany his illustrious
mother, the Duchess of Kent, to the Continent, where her
Royal Highness is expected to remain for abetut three weeks
or a month. It is stated to be the intention of her Royal
Highness, upon leaving England, to proceed to Paris, and
thence to Germany, after a brief -sojourii in this French
capital. The Royal Duchess is expected to pay a visit to
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