The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-22 00:00:00

GOLD COIAGE.

Mr. C. BULLER said he wished to correct a mis,
take into which he had fallen the night before, when
he mentioned the name or a firm. He ought
not to have mentioned names at all—(Laughter)—
particularly as he was wro:ig.—(Laughter.) He stated
p,sterday that Messrs. Howell and James had deducted
Cd. for every sovereign they had taken since the procla-
mation. He had received a letter from them, in which
they stated that the moment the proclamation was issued
they directed their cashiers to tF.ke all sovereigns heavy
or light. They had taken upwa'als of 2,000 in the course
of ten days, and they found. only 150 to be light, and
the loss only amounted to about 1/. 14s. Gd., or 3d. each.

Mr. FOSTER wished to ask her Majesty's Govern-
ment if any steps were about to be taken with respect to
the silver coinage. lie was aware that great inconveni-
ence was felt by the public owing to the limited supply
cf silver coin.

Mr. GLADSTONE had received complaints of the
inconvenience which the public had recently suffered
from the want of an additional silver currency, but he
was not certain that that inconvenience was at-
tributable to any actual deficiency of the sil-
ver currency itself. The apparent scarcity or
silver coin was owing to the circumstance that the
half-sovereigns had suffered from depreciation
much more relatively than the sovereigns ; they had of
course become more discredited, and there was in
consequence a greater demand for silver to sup-
ply the place of the half-sovereigns. Attention had been
Maid to the subject, and an issue of half-sovereigns
would take place at the earliest possible period to supply
the place of those which had been discredited.
Dr. BOWRING complained that the answer of the
Right Hon. Gentleman was not quite satisfactory. The
inquiry of his Hon. Friend was, whether there was any
intention of snaking an additional issue of silver coin ?
He (Dr. Bowring) could bear testimony to the great.
scarcity of silver coin ; he had been informed that very
morning by his own bankers that there was a very great
deficiency of silver.
Mr. GLADSTONE said, that if it should prove that
the inconvenience was really owing to a deficiency in
the silver coinage, means would be taken to remedy it;
bat he doubted if there were any actual scarcity of
sliver, for, only about four weeks since, complaints had
been made by the bankers o£ a surplusage of silver coin.

STADE DUES.

Mr. HUT r begged to remind the Right Hon. Baro-
net at the head of the Government of the promise
hick he had given some f,me since, that he (Sir R.
Peel) would inform him (Mr. Hutt) of the result of
the measures which the Government had adopted fur
the settlement of the Sttule dues. As he had received no
communication from the 'Right Hon. Baronet on the sub-
j. ct, he was afraid that nothing satisfactory had been
lone. He therefore gave notice that, on Thursday next,
he should ask the Right Hon. Baronet what steps had
been taken for the settlement of the Stade dues.
Sir R. PEEL would give all the information in his
power on the subject of the Stade dues immediately.—
(Hear.) The negotiations on the subject were not yet
concluded. He had within the last few days had an in-
terview with the Envoy of the Hanoverian Government
on the subject, and the Envoy had stated that the propo-
sitions of the British Government could not be accepted
by the Hanoverian Government. He was not able to
give any further information on the subject.
SLAVE TRADE PRIZES.

Captain PECIIELL wished, with reference to what
had taken place on Thursday last, to ask where the
money arising from the sale -of the prizes cap-