The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

PINE ARTS.

Landseer, the artist, is at Windsor Castle, painting
a portrait of the Princess Royal, with a favourite dog
and the diminutive horse recently presented to the
Queen. A German artist is also taking full-lengths
of her Majesty and the Prince.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

The Cambridge ode, recited on the late installation
of the Duke of Northumberland, by its author, the
Rev. T. Whitehead, Fellow of St. John's, has been
set to music by Professor Walmesly, and is spoken of
as a fine composition.
The beauty of the scene, in the account given by
Captain Currie of his balloon ascent with Mr. Green,
from Dorset, on Friday, is said by him to have been
indescribable. The clouds below had the appearance ,
of an interminable ocean of snow. The balloon was
shadowed by reflection on the clouds, and both the
aeronauts were astonished to find it also surrounded
by a double halo, with all the prismatic colours of
two rainbows clearly defined.
THEATRICAL.
The Opera closed on Saturday with the first act of
Mafan Tutte, an act from the Sonnambula,
and Mozart's
theCosi
tlast scena of 11 Pirata. Divertissements, and
the ballet followed.
SPORTING.

Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., is on a visit to the
Marquis of Abercprn at Ardverykie, the Noble Mar-
quis's shooting-box in the Highlands.
Lord Vane Powlett has joined the party assembled
In the Highlands, for the purpose of grouse-shooting.

COURT-FASIIION.B.33LE.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are
expected to be present at the marriage of Lord
Prudhoe to Lady Eleanor Grosvenor. They leav e
Sion House the following day for Alnwick Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort returr 1 to
Beaufort House early this week from Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Listowel left Pset rave-
square on Monday last for Cowes, Isle of Wight.
The Marquis of Hertford is daily expected •at Dor-
chester House from Paris.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westmi• aster re-
turned to Grosvenor House on Thursday las t.
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor had a dinner
party on Friday in Grosvenor-square. -
The Earl and Countess Powis are txres 2ted daily
from Powis Castle.
The Earl of Loiudale still remakas in town in
good health.
Lord Eliot and Lady Jemima Er
a day or two for Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of G'
for Caher Castle, Ireland.
Lord and Lady Beauvale iengall have left town
left town on FridAY for
Brocket Hall, Herts.
A large rerolite, or mr.iteoric stone, P Ai at
BUSCELT.ANZOITS•
s since. furrow-
gate, Belfast, a few drys ' aissed through
the air during the storm, and was sf en to fall like a
dark object. It was warm to the tone' a-when taken uP,
and weighs about half a ton. Dr. magill, who ex-
amined it, says it is Composed of I Basalt,
The of flint, and album Gra n m.
The Duke of Cambrid,-fe has af ;cepted the invita-
tion of the inhabittnts a s,:inclel :land to a banquet
with small
fixed for the 94th instant. His i Trace also honours
the Mares. and Marchioness of Londonderry with
his presence at Wynyard Park, of i the occasion of the
festivities of Lord Seahana's cone ' ng of age.

_lot leave town in

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, SATURDAY EyENING•
The general opinion held in the City upon the sub-
ject of the outbreak in the North is, that as far as
present consequences are concerned, nothing more is
to be feared ; much gloominess, however, hangs over
the future, but chiefly as far as the men themselves
are concerned. Business is now apparently about to
recommence in the usual track, the exhibition b!
daylight last evening through the principal thorough:
fares of a number of boys and girls, having taught
the citizens exactly the danger they have to fear.
The Money Market became heavy at the close of
business, occasioned partially by some sales, and by
the intelligence from the North of 'Europe, published
in the second edition of The Sun. This corroborates
a piece of intelligence which appeared some days since,
of an attempt having been made on the life • of the
Emperor of Russia, by means of instruments con-
cealed in a chair. Consols left off at 91i sellers for
the Account ; Bank Stock, 170.171 ; India Stook.
250 251; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 .51
prem.

The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian,
1014 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 52
521 ; the Five per Cents., 1014 1021 ; Danish, 821
834 ; and Brazilian, 65 66.
The quotation for Mexican was 344 for Money, and
35 for Time.

Business in Shares concluded very dull—London
and Birmingham we're, 180 182, ex div. ; Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 48 49 ; Great Western,
87 88 ; the Half Shares, 62 62k ; South Western,
62i 63 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares,
27k 28k ; South Eastern and Dover, 21k 22k; Eastern
Counties, 9k 91 ; Northern and Eastern, 38k 391 ei
div. ; Blackwall, 819 k ; and Brighton, 331 33i Per
share.
The Weekly Average of the Liabilities and Assets d
the Bank of England, during the twelve weeks ending
the 13th inst., when compared with that for a like
period terminating the 16th ult., gives the following
results :

LIABILITIES.
Circulation, now .£18,952,000
... last time 18,279,00
Increase.—
Deposits, now £ 9,330,000
••• last time 8,565,000
765,000
Increase.—

Increase in Liabilities X 1,4:;S.001)
ASSETS.
Securities, now £22,525,000
••. last time 21,713,000
812,000
Increase-.
Bullion, now X 8,496,000
"• last time 7,818,000
678,000
Increase

Increase in Assets

.. £1,490.000

Balance of Assets
now
last time 2,687,000
Increase £52,009 0
These figures present the points worthy of notic'
The one, the increase in the circulation and in the se:
curities, which is to be attributed to a revival in traw!.
the expansion consequent upon the July dividends
having appeared in the former return, when it exuld.
bited an increase over that for June of 484,0001:9 913,
which consequently has to be excluded from this acct
count. The other, the amount of bullion wilic",
this peculiar season of the year, with the prospec'cie
the harvest, and the states of the exchanges Preelu+ of
the probability of any great drain for the payrneu"
foreign corn. Compared with August, 1841,
the circu-
lation has increased by 1,724,0001., the deposits bjci
1,374,000/. ; the securities are less by 487,0001, en
the bullion more by 3,390,000/. a
The Income-tax in itself is sufficiently odious' -111,
was only made palatable by the promise that
working-classes would be relieved by the ame7f
necessary for the purposes of the State being 'lL's
by a more equal distribution of the burden are°ll,
those who were better able to bear it. A report
been current to-day, which, if it be correct, is to
deeply lamented—it is to the effect that a firm, ranking.,
among the first of any in the metropolis, are abon
this evening to deduct one shilling from the %vages
each of their workmen, avowedly to enable the master
to pay the tax, and that next week others will follow
their example.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have at
length resolved upon the expulsion of two of its won'
bers, who were mainly instrumental in negotiating,
the forged Exchequer tills. After a careful peros7,
of the evidence, it appears difficult to exculpate anY °
the parties from a want of common prudence in tile
various transactions, but it is equally difficult to als"
cover, by the same authority, why these should hs'
been particularly singled out. Such a mass of over-
reaching money-getting trickery was, perhaps, never
disclosed in any history ; that in the first commercial
capital, forged instruments, lodged by parties of sucli
a standing, and under the most suspicious circum-
stances, should have been allowed to circulate, for
upwards of five years, to the amount of nearly six
millions sterling, and without the slightest reserve,
avowedly for the purpose of gambling in Foreign
Bonds. The Committee have frequently been called
upon to remove some of these from the official lists,
and strong memorials were sent in not to allow a place
in them for the coverted Spanish Stock ; had they.
thus been attended to, much of the present evil would
have been averted.

(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The money market has been very quiet, with bud
little doing. Prices, however, are firm, Consols being
913 92, for Money and for the Account. Three per
Cents. Reduced, 92i ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents,
Reduced, 101 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.'
1003 ; Bank Stock, 170 171 • India Bonds, 34 ; El`
chequer Bills Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51, premium.
Foreign Securities are without business beyou'
a purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cats.'
at 52.
ceg?
No transaction in Mexican has been officially noti
Shares are firmly held ; London and Birraingle,
at 182 ; South I,l' estern, 624 ; Great Western, 8° '
and Cheltenham and Great Western, 24. A. in
Spanish Three per Cents. are the only ben""
„0.
which time bargains have been made. The opeluP°
quotation was 201 and it has since fallen to 203.
The private letters from the disturbed districts 211
but few to-day, but their contents are satisfactoli
and warrant sanguine expectations that tranquillity
about to be permanently restored.
'a Cfir
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG.
by
market is exceedingly depressed ; indeed, the dal
passed over without a single transaction.
CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
...... p 0
Bank Stock .170i India Stock ............ 3 lei:
3 per Cent. Red. .. 92 Ditto Bonds ....... ..•
.....,
3 per Cent. Cons 9li Ditto Old Annuities '"
3i per Cent. Red 100 i Ditto New I nnuities;• • 51 cal--
New 3} per Cent... IOOA Ex. Bills, ~000/....2u• 49 plo
NQIN 5 per Cen' Ditto 500/..• .• - pol
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small .....
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 9-16 Bank Suck for A ect..••
..._
Oct. 1859

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Jan. 1860 — IConsols,or Acr.l. *****
FOREIGN FUNDS. . ...-
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 113 IPortuoese, 5 per ea"' -.-
Belgian, 5 per cent DittotNew 1 Atte .........
....
Brazilian Bonds — Prussra, 5 per cent. ..•
Buenos A yres 6 per cent — Rusran, 5 .per cent. •••••
~....
Chilian 6 per cent --Dif.b, Metallic ..... .. ••" 201
Colombian, 6 per cent — •9,psrish, 5 per cent...••• ,
Ditto, 1824 •-•• Dtto, Deferred.--, .....0‘
Danish, 3 per cent. ...
Freich, 5 per cent.
....., ~..e,
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. —. Expange ........... J.. .....c.•
Mexican, 5 per cent 34i French, 3 per cent' 59
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Duni, 21 per cent.....
.....
Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. •• "'
SHARES. 23
Cheltenham. and Crest Western (80 psid)••• 861
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 621
Ditto :New Shares ( 50 paid).* ......... ...
..,
Londeti and Brighton (50 pail)) „. ......... .• jot
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid.) ........ )1
LorAdon and Birmingham (90i .......
• Ditto New Shares (2: paid) ... ........ ... fai
London and South Wft, tern (.11 6s 10d pd)
......
Manchester and Leeds. (70 pad) ............ 4
Ditto Quarter Shrces ( 2 laid) ..•......... 3E4
Northern and Eastern (45 pail) ............
......
North Midland Railway (100 ...............

•
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.---lire 111,31 e;
heard a rumour that the expected gratification of
Majesty's loyal subjects north et' the Tweed is tO
here
postponed. Probably the state 'of Scotland, icheic,,
the colliers do not exhibit themsd.ves as the most
cile of human beings, has induct; ed her Majesty ilthe
visers to recommend her Maj(esty to countermand 5,
orders for her excursion to t'aat part of her dominion
EXPENSE OF Commismoss.—By the Parliamentary Paper, No. 449, it appears that the cost of Coninn'e,
sions, appointed within the last few years, to pr°s4
cute various inquiries,_ and carry on new branchespui.
the Administration, has been no less than 1,128,6'2,°A
Of this sum the Poor-1 aw Corunission has absorn
359,1181., exclusive of 6,5651., the cost of the Conr,
mission for the i'a inquiry into the operation of the o!'01
Poor-laws. •Tfre Commissioners for inquiring .18b.2;,
public chasitif,s have cost the country, since
79,3671. The expense of the Commission to inquir
into the best system of railways for Ireland, the 1-ii,e;
port of which remains a dead letter, was 24,842/. I\
lets than 140,722/. has been expended on the C°111:
mission for settling the claims of the slave-ownerst;
and 20,4141. has been swallowed up bya Comm
the
to adjudicate on claims of British subjects on
ti'
French, Spanish, and Danish Governments.

• - ,
ING AND CROWNING.—Murder upon
HANG CRoWNING.—ure
• a small
scale—no I that is not good: Why ? Because we oft;
used to see men hanged for it. Murder on the large
scale-0, that is must excellent ! Why ? Because W
are used to see men crowned for it.—Bentham.
The Duke of Richmond, accompanied by the Earl
of March and a party of friends, has, during the weel‘o
been at Glen Fiddich, and some hundred head of
051
have been killed. The Duchess and family had reachol
Gordon Castle, all in excellent health when the last
letters were received from the north.

WINDS
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