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

Increase in Assets

Balance of Assets

Rest, now X 2,739,000
••• last time 2,687,000
Increase X52,000
These figures present the points worthy of notice.
The one, the increase in the circulation and in the se-
curities, which is to be attributed to a revival in trade,
the expansion consequent upon the July dividends
having appeared in the former return, when it exhi-
bited an increase over that for June of 484,0001., and
which consequently has to be excluded from this ac-
count. The other, the amount of bullion which at
this peculiar season of the year, with the prospect of
the harvest, and the states of the exchanges preclude
the probability of any great drain for the payment of
foreign corn. Compared with August, 1841, the circu-
lation has increased by 1,724,0001., the deposits by
1,374,000/. ; the securities are less by 487,000/., and
the bullion more by 3,390,000/.
The Income-tax in itself is sufficiently odious, and
was only made palatable by the promise that the
working-classes would be relieved by the amount
necessary for the purposes of the State being raised
by a more equal distribution of the burden among
those who were better able to bear it. A report has
been current to-day, which, if it be correct, is to be
deeply lamented—it is to the effect that a firm, ranking
among the first of any in the metropolis, are about
this evening to deduct one shilling from the wages of
each of their workmen, avowedly to enable the masters
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 mem-
bers, who were mainly instrumental in negotiating
the forged Exchequer bills: After a careful perusal
of the evidence, it appears difficult to exculpate any of
the parties from a want of common prudence in the
various transactions, but it is equally difficult to dis-
cover, by the same authority, why these should have
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 such
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 garabling in Foreign

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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 ; bad they
thus been attended to, much of the present evil would
have been averted.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS the Prince of Leintrigen has
just arrived at Bru.s: r herrir!sg andprincess of
Saxe Gotha, coming from Ostend, arrived this day at
the Palace of Brussels. Their. Majesties the King
and Queen, in deep affliction for the death of the
Duke of Orleans, do not yet receive visitors at Lacken.
The King came after dinner to Brussels to see his
nephew and niece.
Yesterday the Minister of War reviewed all the
troops of the garrison. It was observed that many
soldiers were taken ill in consequence of excessive heat.
Vi§ognt de St. Aignan,_ Prefet of the Department
of the North, MY At Brussels, in order to prepare
the removal of difficulties whleh may WllOll the
two sections of the iron railway fmnf Valenciennes to
Quiveram, and from Lille to Mouseron, aro opened to
the public, A eoIifPRITIP will sllartly be held At
Lille, where Belgian Vommissioners are pipecte.d.
M. de IturfilgliY, the French Aniba§sader in lielginln;
of thig POTI6,IIP 'herewill be one of the members
is Town) to hope that the remaining difficulties will
be soon removed,
Bensons, Axons', 10.—Ale Awnel th • Om*
merce d'Anvers has the following article The
Wilberforce steamer, which, according to the Royal
decree concerning the steamboats, csould only depart
on Tuesday, kept to its usual day, and left on wed-
nesday for "London with two carriages and 70 passen-
gers ; among the latter wore Lord Fitzgerald, Sir
Edward Parry, and the Rev, Air, Hankinson, We
learn that the steamer has paid to the agent of the
Government of the Netherlands the Scheldt toll,
under a protest against the Belgian Custom-house,
the opposition being fizilll434Tl on the fact that the re-
imbursement of this toll is decreed by the Legisla-
tive Chambers without any restriction, and that the
Government has no right to 49100 this prineiple
without a law."
GOTHA, AUGUST 12.—A dreadful fire broke out
yesterday in the village of Tambach ; the flames were
driven by the wind, and spread with such rapidity,
that all exertions to check them were in vain. Of
820 houses, 142 were burned, besides the church and
the buildings attached to it. By this calamity, 1,400
persons have lost their all.
MONZUNGEN ON THE NAHE, AUG. 13.—Yester-
day wine was drank in the house of M. Fuak, made
this year from, the produce of his own vineyard. It
was excellent. In general we expect that the vintage
will be of a superior quality, for the weather which
we have had, for some weeks past has contributed to
the early ripening of the grape. We remember that
in the remarkable year 1811, the first wine was tried
a week later, and this was considered something very
extraordinary. . _ _

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FRANKFORT, AUG. 15.—The speculators in our
wine district, expecting a very productive year, flat-.
tered themselves that the meeting of the Deputies of
the Customs Union at Stutgard would comply with
their wishes, expressed in a petition, and impose a
very heavy duty on the importation of French wines.
We learn, however, that this petition has not had the
desired effect, the Deputies being resolved not to
enter upon a course that might lead to prohibition
and reprisals, the consequences of which would be very
injurious.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AunTeneimr, Ana. 19.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent
Jitto. ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Syndio,4si per cent.... ............
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent..........
Commercial Company, 4% par cent '43% 144
Ditto (1525 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loon 1837, 5 per cont. l9 A 103
Exchange on London, One month l2 17%
Two months .. 12 11
Hamburgh, One month 35 811. E
Two months 35 6(2,4
Dutch Papers, Aug. 20.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Banssirts, Aua. 13.
Actual Debt, 254 per Cent, 521
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 10076
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l
------------ Three per Cent ....
-- Thirty-wen Milli, ns, ditto ..
-----.... (1840) IOOA
Loan of City, 1/412, Four per Cent. ' 92
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 86
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent • •.• 77
National Society..
Exchange on London (short) ... -
-Brussels Papers, Aug. 19. •
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ana. 11
Five per Cents. Metalliques
: -• HS%
Four per Cents. lOl%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ...... .... .•... .... . . ......•••.........
illlgerneinc Zeitung, August 16.
HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE. Ana. 19.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1655 1656
Anglo-Russian Loan 119% 109%
Russian 5 per Cent., lit series, Certificate 103%1 103 X
Inscription, Ist series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 94 ' 9714
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) Bll 8954
Dutch Actual Debt, u)i per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
polish Bonds —
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Loin, 3 per Cent. BOX 80%
Spanish, New 5 p r Cents. lB
EXCHANGES ON LONDO.6.
1 IMiIIIVICII, A.IIG. 19 —l3 9%, Two months 13 7%.
PETERSBURG. ACG 12.—Three months, 371 pence.
ItIGA, Aua. 11. -Three Months, 38.
,STOCKIIOLaf, Aim. 12.- Seventy-five days, 12 15.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Ana. 16.
• - Bits. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. . . ... ............. 104 10354
Prussian English Bond', MO, i per cent. I. 21 102%
Exchange on London. — 6 22%
Prussian Slate Gazette, Aug. 17.

MONDAY EV_bINING, AUGUST 22, 3812

" Who runs may read."

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MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.
The contraband business in Spain is carried on to
an incredible extent. The value of cottons alone in-
troduced by this means is estimated at about 3,004,0001.
sterling per annum.

- NAVAL AND MILXTARY.
Another portion of the Niger expedition arrived at
Woolwich yesterday, only six persons of the Albert
steam-vessel, including Corporal Edmonds, having
survived the effects of the climate and river fever.
The rest of the Royal Sappers and Miners who ac-
companied the boats of the expedition are also on their
way to England.
It is reported that a hundred of the oldest Captains
in the Navy, not under 60 years of age, are to be
allowed to retire with the rank of Rear-Admiral on
20s. per day. -

LAW AND POLICE.
Upwards of 100 prisoners from the disturbed dis-
tricts have been lodged in York Castle, while the ori-
ginal calendar itself contains no fewer than 137 pri-
soners. The trial of the latter alone will occupy three
weeks.

William poorhouse and John Townsend were tried
at the York Assizes on Friday for a burglary in the
house of the Rev. James Nelson, at Warby, and sen-
tenced on two indictments to e transported for 15
years

There are at present 397 prisoners in Newgate, 265
of whom are males, and 92 females.

A meeting of the firm of Messrs. Acramans, Mor-
gan, and Co.'s bankruptcy was held at Bristol on
Saturday, at which Mr. Thomas Holroyd, one of the
bankrupts, passed his examination on his personal estate.

LIMERAIZT AND SCZENTXPEC.
An doge was pronounced last week at the Institute
in Paris, by Baron Walokenaer, on the late Major
Rennell.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Duke of Hamilton left town last week for
Holyrood House, Edinburgh.
The Archbishop of York has, arrived at Bishops-
thorpe, his palace, near York. .
The Marquis and 'Marchioness of Camden will see
company next week at the Wilaerness, Kent.
Lord and Lady Walsingham have arrived at Merton
Hall, near Thetford.

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Lord Stanley and Major Graham have had excel-
lent sport on Bewoastle-moors.
Farl Howe iH still residing at Gopsall Hall.
The Earl and Countess of Kinnoull left Hamden
House on Saturday, for Scotland.
The Countess of Beverley came to town on Satur-
day, from Richmond.

Viscount and Viscountess Beresford are expected
to pass the autumn at Brighton.
Colonel and Lady Alice Peel returned to town on
Friday, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ailsa, at Isleworth.

IVIISOMANEOUS.
The Lady-dav in harvest was celebrated at Lime-
rick last week by a general holiday of the labourers
and townsmen.

The notorious Vidocq, whose memoirs excited so
great an interest some few years ago, and who has for
some time past been employed in recovering debts,
&c., has been arrested, with one of his clerks named
Gouffe, for illegally confining an individual and com-
pulsorily obliging him to execute certain deeds.
It has been proposed that a strong wire fencing,
such as is used in the Zoological Gardens, should be
placed over the top of the Monument, reaching from
the iron rail to the summit of the column. This safe-
guard might be so coloured and manufactured as to
have very little, if any, unsightly appearance.
Herr Cline, the rope-dancer, has been killed at
Mexico by a party of brigands.

GREAT CHARTIST MEETING ON
KENNINGTON COMMON.

MOVEMENT OF THE POLICE AND MILL

TARY.—(THIS DAY.)
Great excitement prevailed this morning in the
neighbourhood of Kennington Common, by the ar-
rival of a large body of police as early as eight o'clock,
who were stationed in the different avenues leading
to the Common.

Their orders being not to allow any obstruction to
the free passage of the different vehicles and foot pas-
sengers, and to prevent the as;embling of idle and
evil disposed persons,

The inspectors doing duty last night have also re-
ceived orders from the Commissioners to send the
constables from the different Police Courts, as soon as
their charges may have been disposed of. These
bodies will be joined at five o'clock (at which time
they have orders to clear the Common), by detach-
ments from all the other divisions, when they will
amount to nearly three thousand men. The Com-
missioners have issued strict orders that no unnecessary
violence shall be used by the constables.
A battery of the Royal Artillery is also stationed
on Clapham Common, to render assistance if required.
Strong detachments of the Foot Guards and Life
Guards will be kept in readiness to assist the police in
their duty.
A large body of the L division have strict orders to
stop any multitude from passing over Vauxhall-
bridge, and to take into custody if possible the leaders
of the mob.

Several delegates from the disturbed districts in
the north, arrived yesterday by the Birmingham
Railway, for the purpose of attending the great
meeting.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG. 22.—Wind, this day at noon, E.
DEAL, AUG. 20.--Wind S.W. fresh. 21, S.W. mode-
rate.—Arrived Victoria, Holland, South Seas ; Lerwick,
Ceylon ; Resolution, Quebec ; Thirteen, Mackie, Rio
for Hamburgh ; Little Catherine and Caution, Sierra
Leone ; John Muir, Church, Jamaica ; Latona, St. An-
drew's, N.B. Sld. Bay, Greene, St. Kitt's ; Gilmour
and Wolfscove, Quebec ; Philadelphia, New York ; Coun-
tess of Durham, South Australia; John Mitchell, Bombay;
Superior, Trinidad ; British Queen, St. John's, New
Brunswick, with the rest of the outward bound. The
True Briton and Vernon (with troops) for Madras, are
coming through the Gulls.

PADSTOW, AUG. 19.—S1d. John and Mary, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Pioneer,
Graham, New Orleans ; Leila, M‘Donneugh, St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Tamerlane, Quebec ; Cheshire, Hen-
rickson, Bombay and Mauritius ; May, Benson, Africa,
left Bonny June 13 ; Trial, Jeans, Honduras ; Mary
Caroline, Brown, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld.
Wm; Wright, and Wilton, Jamaica ; Soutar Johnny,
Montreal ; Java, Calcutta ; :Champlain, Philadelphia ;
Oxford, New York; Canada, Adelaide, and Euclid,
Quebec. The Euclid, sailed hence yesterday for Quebec,
put back this morning with damage, having been in con-
tact with the Crosby Light Ships, and sailed again this
afternoon.

STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 21.—Arrd.Feronia,Mogadore,
OFF DOVER, AUG. 20.—Wilhelmina, Newcastle, Rio.
OFF BEACHY HEAD, AUG. I 6.—Beurs van Rotterdam,
Heeustra,

OFF MARGATE, AUG. 21.—Arrd. Lord Wenlock,
Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, AuG. 20.—Wind W., 21. S.W.—Arrd.
Aurelian. Sid. Jane Francis, Hobart Town ; H.M.S.
Pique, Estward.
CowEs, Atia.2l.—Arrd. New Holland, Ward, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Essex,
London for New Zealand ; H. M. S. Calcutta, Gibraltar.
Sld. Sir C. Napier, Hobart Town.

FALMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind S. to W.S.W. fresh-20.
S.W. to W.S.W. ditto.—Arrd. Oscar, Stockholm to
Batavia.

CLYDE, Atm 19.--Std. Hallyards, Demerara ; Jane,
Brown, Montreal.
SIIIELDS, AUG. 20.—Sa Iris, Rio.
Coax, Auc. 18.---Arrd. Kate, Duffy, St. Andrew's ;
Tarifa, Tucker, Barbadoes.

OFF THE WIGHT. AUG. 21.—Lord Hungerford, Pigott,
Calcutta, left St. Helena June 30.
OFF C ItOORIIAVE N, AUG. 16.—Highland Mary, Quebec.
DUNDEE, Atm. 19.—Sld. Elizabeth, Buenos Ayres ;
Caroline, Quebec.

LEITH, Aua. 20.—S1d. May, Mauritius ; Regalia,
Dalhousie.

SHIELDS, Aun. 19.--Sld. Protomelia, Cape.
The Lord Hungerford (East Indiaman), W. Pigott,
H. C. S., has arrived off the Isle of Wight. from Cal-
cutta, having on board Lord Auckland, the late Gover-
nor-General of India, and family ; her dates of leaving
are from Calcutta, March 12 ; Algoa Bay, May 27 ; St.
Helena, June 27.

MURDER ----
0n
THE I‘...URDER AT —WANSBA.— Wednesday
morning the coroner's inquest was resumed at the Town-
hall, and evidence was brought forward, which seems to
:how that the barbarous outrage was premeditated. By
the evidence of a young man, it appears that he, toge-
ther with the five murderers, were drinking together at
a public-house called the Rising Sun, and that they left
about twelve o'clock on Monday night. Soon after he
stated the whole six again met at the house of Davies,
one of the men implicated, but he denied that they met
there by appointment. It would appear that Davies, at
whose house they met, was the instigator of the whole
affair, simply because the deceased and some other Irish-
men had undertaken to work under price. After a very
lengthened inquiry, the Jury returned a verdict of
.. wilful murder" against the five prisoners, Whose names
are—William Davies, William Thomas, David Rees,
John Evans, and John Lewis—all natives of Swansea
and the neighbourhood. They heard the verdict with
the greatest indifference. The name of the unfortunate
deceased was John Bowling.
A SEASONABLE JOKE.—On a cause being called at
the last Liverpool Assizes, towards the end of a hot
day, the leading counsel was wanting, and the Judge
inquired rather warmly why the Court was delayed ?
On which the junior counsel for the plaintiff replied,
that his learned leader had gone out for a moment to
take a "mouthful of fresh air ;" on which his Lord-
ship coolly observed, " I wonder where he will find it.'
Twenty-seven rioters were sent off yesterday after-
noon, at two o'clock, to York Castle, in two caravans, es-
corted by a company of the 17th Lancers : they went
by way of Wetherby.—Leeds Mercury of Saturday.

HONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The accounts' from the North continue good, and
the mercantile letters received this morning represent
that all fear of any further movement is removed.
They mention, also, thoic some improvement is visible
in business, and that some additional orders have
arrived, but whir:n for the present, will have to be
supplied from 'ne former accumulation of stocks.
The Funds have been firmer to-day : Consols
being 914 '92 for Money and for the Account. Three
per Cents.,. Reduced, 92k 92k ; Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. Reduced, 101 ; New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., 100 k 1001; Bank Stock, 170 170 k ; India
Stock, 250- 2514 ; India Bonds, 36 ; Exchequer
Bills, Old, 49 51; New, 51 53 prem.
Foreign Securities have been -quite without busi-
ness, the only transaction having been in Dutch Five
per Cents. at 102 k.
Some bargains' have been made in Mexican at 36i
for Moue' 'ld

.y, and 34i for Time.
Extensive purchases have been made in the shares
of several lines of Railroads, but without material va-
riation in price. These would appear to indicate an
increasing confidence in this description of security,
and to evince a disposition to invest in them, at
a time when our own funds bear so light a
value. This has occurred, too, at a time
when the returns show an immense falling off in the
number of passengers during the past week on ac-
count of the late disturbances.—London and Birming-
ham, Quarter Shares have been sold at 47 ; Thirds,
594- ; New Thirds, 30 ; Great Western, 874 ; and
the New Shares, 62 ; South Western, 624 ; Greenwich,
44, and the preference 16:1, both ex div.; Biighton, 334,
and the Loan Notes 104 ; South Eastern, Scrip, 64 ;
Eastern Counties, Debentures, 101. s Us. Sd. ; York
and North Midland, 874 ; and the New Shares 36 ex
div.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47 ; and the New
Shares, 34.
Spanish are the only Bonds quoted to-day; the
Five per Cents., 204, and the Three per Cents., 20i,
both tin- time.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures Si. 6s. Bd. , 10/. I Is. 8d
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto New . .
London and Brighton ...... ... .. 50 . 334,„ to
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Birmingham 90
Ditto 4 Shares
to
Ditto Thirds
Ditto New
London and Greenwich
South Eastern and Dover...
Ditto Scrip '
York anti North Midland
Ditto New Shares.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 20.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 994 ' Grand Canal Stock ..
Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 1830.. 994 Ditto 4 per cent —
34 per Cent. Debs.
_914 Royal Canal Stock —
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 20.—The
greatest flatness prevails in the Share Market. Man-
chester and Birmingham, 24.