The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-08 00:00:00

being over, the same thing is not likely to occur
again. The importation of grain which has
lately taken place has no doubt had the effect in
some degree of turning the Exchanges against
us. If the present harvest had been a bad one,
or if the Government had permitted any thing
like a free importation of grain, there can be no
doubt that the Exchanges must have fallen very
materially. As to the gold which is now ex-
porting, the probability is that it is intended for
the payment of the Russian armaments. In re-
ply to some -observations of our's yesterday on the
probability of a new loan being about to be rais-
ed for Russia, an evening contemporary has the
following remarks : " It was some time ago as-
serted by a paper, which pretended to speak horn
positive Information, that the produce of the
last Russian Loan was not expended, but kept
in the treasury at St. Petersburgh in specie."
Now, if this were the case, we ask why the Rus-
sian Government found it necessary to purchase
gold at Hamburgh for the payment of the expe-
dition then about to proceed to the Mediter-
ranean ? Surely, if the fact was as the paper al-
luded to has asserted, they would have had no-
thing more to do than to unlock the Treasury,
and take out the necessary quantity of gold. In-
stead of which, however, their demands for gold
at Hamburgh occasioned a profit of between
three and four per cent, to the holders of that
commodity. We 'lava thrown together the
above hasty remarks, not so much for the pur-
pose of giving our opinion upon the present state
:of the Exchanges, and the Money Market, as to
put our readers in possession of the facts relat-
ing to this very important question.—Morning
Herald.

Another of those quibbles, of which the law
even in its reformed state, to the surprise of every
body, appears to have been of late more than
usually fruitful, occurred a few days since at the
Mansion-House. A man is taken up charged
with issuing a forged cheque upon a banking-
house, signed "L. Stanhope." The banker's
clerk proves that they have no such customer as
" L. Stanhope," and no person who has a right
to draw upon them under that signature. Now
this, we should imagine, in the absence of any
testimony on behalf of the accused to the con-
trary, is prima facie evidence of its being a false
bill, and as such, in the eye of the law and com-
mon sense, a forgery. But it turning out in evi-
dence that the prisoner had mentioned the name
of the Hon. Leicester Stanhope, and it appear-
ing also that there was likewise an Hon. Lin-
coln Stanhope, it was held necessary (though
one or both were supposed to be abroad) that
they should be summoned to attend, to speak to
the signature before the case can go to a Jury.
Now this we cannot for the life of us understand.
A prima facie case of forgery being made out,
surely it is the business of the accused to rebut it
if he can. In this case it may be rebutted for
aught we know ; and the observations we are
offering may rather tend, by the additional pub-
licity we thus give it, to its being so, than not.
But it appears to us, that if there be any thing in
the rule adopted upon the occasion, and if the
prosecutor is called upon to produce one " L.
Stanhope," he is equally bound to produce all the
L. Stanhopes in the universe. According to
this, a man has only to go to a tradesman and
say he is the friend of " Mr. Thomas Smith," pre-
sent a cheque signed " T. Smith," and though
the banker declares he has no " T. Smith" upon
his books, yet all the T. Smiths in the kingdom
(of whom there are one or more in nearly every
parish) must-be brought to the Old Bailey to
say the cheque in question is pot his. We may.
be wrong ; but the principle strikes us to extend
to this length, or to be nothing.-16a.
Last night's Gazette announces that his Ma-
jesty has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, appointing
Lord Goderich, Mr. Herries, Earl Mount
Charles, Lord Eliot, the Right Hon. Maurice
Fitzgerald, and Edmund A. M,Naghten, Com-
missioners for executing the office of Treasurer
of the Exchequer. It also states that letters
patent have been passed, to grant to Mr. Herries
the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
to Mr. C. Grant that of Treasurer of the Navy.
It will be seen by this arrangement that the
number of the Lords of the Treasury being
greater, as we stated some days ago, than that
authorized by Act of Parliament, (in conse-
quence of the sreparation of the two offices of
Fist Lord of the Treasury anti Chancellor of
the Exchequer) Lord Leveson Gower is, as we
also stated that his Lordship would be, the re-
tiring Member. The constitution of the Mi-
nistry is thus completed, even as far as points of
form are concerned, and the country will now
enjoy the benefit of a compact, strong, and
united Government. The permanence of the
system, which alone can promote her interests at
home and maintain her character abroad, is now
secured. All possibility of a change is at an end.
The enemies of his Majesty's policy have tried
their strength and done their worst, and the
struggle is past. The late crisis raised, but only
raised, to extinguish their hopes. Had it come
within the designs of Providence that they
should resume the direction of this great empire,
the difficulties which attended the settlement of
the Administration would have opened a way
for their return. A sudden and unexpected
lAA seemed breaking'upon them, but the
:,op-
portunity, the fairest and the only opportunity
which they could ever enjoy of regaining power,
has proshiced no change in their condition, or
merely served to inflict additional disappoint-
ment upon them. All prospects of ambition are,
therefore, closed for them, and if they are as wise
and patriotic as it is their wish to be considered,
all their future efforts will be directed, not to
impede the much of the Government, but to
assist it in protecting and advancing the best in-
terests of the country,--e-WelP Mies.

It has been said that Mr. Canning had, for
some time previous to his death, been engaged
in minute ;ininiries into the internal management
of the British Coloukes, and that he meant to
submit to the Cabinet some very extensive plans
of reform with respect to,their financial and poli-
tical administration. And without giving ear to
exaggerated statements of grievances, where the
facts very sego;:q
bear out the averments and
where the remedies sought, proceed, for the
most part, upon narrow and superficial views, it
may be conceded without reflecting either on
Governors or on the Government, that there is
much in our Colonial system that asks for revi-
sion. Not a
.fy7.l all portion of the irregularity,
which more or less prevaik..; in all our Colonies,
arises out of the circumstances under which they
were a.eluired. The Spaniards, the Portuguese,
and, mire 4te,ly, the Dutch—the other three
great Colonising Powers of Europe—formed
their rettletnents in America, .4.lf4ca, and Asia,
amidst a people so rude and uncivilised, com-
pared with their eonquerots, that the latter were
inclined to deny that they possessed a common
nature. It was not to be suppssed.in such cases
that customs or opinions which they despi,.:ed