The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1845.

terrace, Pimlico; Hadley, George, gentleman, Sloane-
terrace, Sloane-street—[Allegations without foundation.]
Haslewood, Rev. F. F., Rainham, Sittingbourne—[Allega-
pion withdrawn without any evidence called.]
Mortimer, Roger, stockbroker, 7, Shorter's-court—[No reso-

bullion cellars in payment of demands on account of
corn purchases, may provoke a home demand of twice
the amount, from caprice, fear, fancy, or speculation.
The sapient scheme which fixes the Mint or legal tender
value of gold at a specific rate, leaves everybody at full
liberty to draw it out of the Bank in payment of their
own paper, and carry it into the market next door for
sale at 20, 40, 100 per cent. premium, as it may happen.
Commercial panic may then tread with giant strides upon
the heels of a metallic scarcity;—the day of atonement—
that is the day of settling--for railway and joint stock
gambling operations may come upon us " like a thief in
the dark"—mercantile credit, public confidence, all
money transactions, determinable contracts, liabilities of
every kind, may be precipitated, convulsed, over-
whelmed. Legitimate trading and fraudulent specula-
tion may be swallowed up in the same common ruin of
real capital and its unreal representative. Enterprise
may be permanently crippled—credit annihilated—secu-
rities reduced to the value of the paper or the parchment
on which they have been engrossed. The horrors of
1825 may be re-enacted. Our commercial pre-eminence
may be tumbled down in headlong ruin, like some bright
planet suddenly dashed from its orbit and extinguished—
and in spite of all this, we can imagine Sir ROBERT at
tempting once more to ridicule the authority of Mr.
ALISON, and perpetrate those sorry failures which, in
the pseudo-currency of his own Tamworth mint, pass for
jokes—on the apprehensions of such practical authorities
SS Mr. SPOONER or Mr. ATTWOOD !

which are to be reviewed by the QUEEN and General
NARVAEZ, during the visit of the Duke DE NEMOURS.
The Gaceta announces the establishment of a new
bank called the " Union," by MM. CARLOS SAMSON and
G. P. SAIOLAN BAGUERES. The capital is 60,000,000
reals de vellon, divided into 15,000 shares.

lutior.]
Felder, Edward, Esq., Ladbrooke-place, Notting-hill ; Turner,
B. 8., gentleman, 3, Stepney-green—[Allegations with-
drawn without any evidence called.]
Hawkins, Thomas, 26, Thames-street—[Allegations not sus •
stained; but Mr. Hawkins, by his own admission, has
signed for another party, and is unable out of his own
means to pay the whole sum for which he has subscribed.]
Shotter, John, 13, Thames-street—[Allegation without

The Eco del Cormnercio states that the QtTEEN will her-
self lay the first stone of the Aranjuez Railway in Oc-
tober next.
MADRID BOLSA, Auo. 3. —The Three per Cents.
closed yesterday .4 for cash and a for account over the
previous prices. They are quoted 30 cash, and 30 at
60 days ; 13 millions done. The other stocks are not
quoted.

foundation.]
French, William, 12, Thames-street—[Allegation not sus-
tained ; but Mr. French has signed for another party, and
is unable, out of his own means, to pay the whole sum for

Sir Robert Peel is expected to leave town this al
noon for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.

which he has subscribed.]
Smith, John, merchant, 2, Adam-court, Old Broad-street—
[Allegation without foundation. ]
Baxter, M. R., solicitor, 48, Lincoln's Inn-fields—[Allega-
tion withdrawn without any evidence called.]
Fenn, George, 1, Staple's Inn ; West, James, 5, Bedford-street,
Bedford-row—[Allegations withdrawn without any evi-

dence called.]
It will thus be seen that only six out of the sixty-five
specific charges made by Mr. BRUCE have been sus-
tained before the Committee ; that in some others the
Committee have come to special resolutions, pointing out
some irregularity of proceeding ; that three cases have
not been decided by them ; but that in forty-nine cases
out of the sixty-five the petitioner's allegations have
either been withdrawn without the production of any
evidence, or have been quashed.
The Committee then go on to say that they have not
had time to go into the inquiry opened out by the fol-
lowing sentence of Mr. BRUCE'S petition :—" That your
petitioner, by his agents, is still further pursuing his
inquiry into the bone t fides and responsibility of the said
subscription-list ; and that your petitioner does not
doubt that he shall discover numerous other instances of
similar fraud besides those herein specifically alleged—"

Swiss papers of a late date have art ived. 'f he Jesuit
question was discussed in the Diet at Zurich on the 4th
and sth. On the sth, a division took place, the result of
which is, that the question remains in stutu quo, neither
party having obtained the required majority of twelve.
The votes were given in the following manner :-
1. Not to enter at present on the question, or, in other words,
the order of the day—Uri, Unterwald, Zug, Valais, Neufcha-
tel, Appenzell (Inner), Bale city, Friburg, Schwitz, Lucerne
(eight whole States and two half ones).
2. To consider the affair as federal—Berne Soleure, Schaff-
hausen, Argau, Tessino, Vaud, Thurgau, federal—Berne,
Appenzell
(Outer), Bale-country, Glaris, Zurich (ten whole States and
two half ones).
3. To call on Lucerne amicably, looking at its directorial
position, not to proceed with invitation to the Jesuits-
-Geneva, Tessino (two States), Grisons not voting for or
against it.
4. To call on the States harbouring the Jesuits (Friburg,
Valais, and Schwitz), to send them away :—Thurgan, Grisons,
Appenzell (Outer), (two whole States and a half one), Zurich,
Schaffhausen, Hans, and Tessin() not voting either way.
5. To summon Lucerne to renounce calling in the Jesuits :
--Berne, Tessino, Thurgau, Grisons, Appenzell (Outer),
Glaris, Zurich (six whole States and one half one), Vaud,
Schaffhausen, Soleure, and Argau not voting either way.
6. Expulsion of the Jesuits from the whole of Switzerland :
—The same ten States and two half ones, named above, declare

but they are of opinion, from the character of the evi
deuce which they have heard, that there is no ground
for recommending any further investigation.
They add, that in the few cases which the petitioner
substantiated, or partly supported, much ofi the evidence
was collected after the presentation of the petition ; and,
on the whole case, they are of opinion that Mr. BRUCE
did not, in one instance, adopt the most ordinary means
of inquiry before he made his serious charges against so
many individuals, and that the petition was presented
with the view of defeating the London and York Bill,
and promoting the private interest of the Cambridge and
Lincoln Company, and that Mr. BRUCE has been guilty
of a great abuse of the right of petitioning.
The Committee consisted of the following nine Mem-
bers:—Mr. IlawEs (Chairman), Mr. BECKET DENISON,
Mr. B. BARING, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, Mr. WARBURTON,
Mr. B. ESCOTT, Mr. ASTELL, Lord CLIVE, and Mr.
CHRISTIE. We understand that all the resolutions were
passed by majorities of six to two, or seven to one, the
minority being generally composed of Mr. WARBURTON
and Mr. ESCOTT, and sometimes Mr. WARBURTON alone-
We understand that some light was thrown, in the
course of the inquiry, on the character of the sub-
scription-list of the Cambridge and Lincoln Company,
the aggressive parties. Not only had Mr. BRUCE, the
petitioner, signed his place of business in the City, as
his place of abode, in the Cambridge and Lincoln list
—a proceeding which he charges as false and fictitious
against many of the subscribers of the London and
York Company—but Mr. THOMAS HAWKINS, one of the
London and York subscribers, who is charged with being
utterly irresponsible, was discovered to be a shareholder
of the Cambridge and Lincoln Company ; and a ficti-
tious address, 14, Darlington-place, charged in Mr.
BRUCE'S petition, was found also to occur in the Cam-
bridge and Lincoln. Mr. SHACKELL. the Charter-
House pensioner, was found to be as large a subscriber
to the Direct Northern as to the London and York.

the question to be federal.
7. Expulsion of the Jesuits by every means:--Berne, So-
leure, Schaffhausen, Argau, Thurgau, Grisons, Appenzell
(Outer), Bale country (six whole States and two half ones),
Zurich, and Glaris not voting either way.
8. To interdict for the future the introduction of the Jesuits
into a Swiss canton :—The same ten States and two half ones
which considered the question as federal.

The article which we reprinted from the Sentinel in
our paper of Saturday, has a scope of incidental applica-
tion about it which reaches far beyond the latitude of