The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-05 00:00:00

.TUESDA.Y, Just It_

ASCOT RACES.—
The Oatlands Stakes closed oi
Memnon, 5 yra. Sot 41b.
El Dorado, el yrs, Sat. 014.
Aidelira, 5 yra, Bst. Ulla.
Dervise, 4 yra, fist 41b.
Garcia, 4 yra, I.L.
Black Swan, 4 yra, 7st. ltlb,
Monarch, 4 yra, ist. 121 b.

The following declared fort
Double Entendre, 6 yrs, Bit. 91b.
Fps Fye, 4 yrs, bat. 91b.

Saturday night as follow
Androssan colt, 4 yrs, ist. I2lb.
Royal Oak, 4 yrs let. lUlb.
Br. to Barefoot, 4 yrs, 711. 1011.).
Upae, 4 yre, lit. Mb.
Syntax, 3 yrs, 70.31 b.
Filly by Oalnsbro', S years,
Get. Mb.
it by the time prescribed :
Madame Poki, b yrs, 7st.

FIGHT BETWEEN JONES (THE SAILOR BOY)

AND RAINES, FOR 25/. A-SIDE.

These men met yesterday to decide the second match
which had been made between them. The first match was
but for 10/. a-aide, and was to have come off in Cam-
bridgeshire ; but the beaks having interfered before the
merits of the combatants were fully ascertained, no satis-
factory result was obtained en either side. As, however,
the friends of each were equally sweet upon their favour-
ite, fresh articles were drawn up for tke increased sum of
251. a-side, and thus additional consequence was given to
the event. Jones was trained in the neighbourhood of
Cambridge, nnder the auspices of his backer, and Raines
took his air and exercise at the Welch Harp, in the Edge-
ware-road. The place of fighting was to be decided by
toss, and that having been won by Raines' friends, he
appointed tke neighbourhood of Watford, in Hertfordshire,
for the rendesvous—the Essex Arms having been named
as head-quarters.
At two o'clock the men entered the ring, Jones attended
by Frosty Faced Fogo, and the facetious Jack Clarke ;
and Raines by the Lively Kid, Ned Stockman, and Ton
Woolley. On stripping, it was obvious that both men
had paid proper attention to their training. Their condi-
tion was in fact of the first order. Betting was slack,
guineas to pounds being offered en Raines, but no takers.
In point of weight they were nearly equal.
Tux Fnaux.—lt may be recollected, that when these
men were opposed to each other in the former battle, from
the caution exercised by Raines, three rounds were pro-
tracted to thirty-five minutes without any decisive issue.
In the present instance, he adopted precisely the same course,
and from his contenting himself with stopping Jones's left.
handed jobs, without attempting to make a return, no lees
than fifteen minutes elapsed before a blow was struck. At
length Jones, who was all along anxious to draw him to a
rally, succeeded in planting a blow with his right on his
nob. A quick interchange of compliments followed, and
at the same moment there was a cry of " first blood" from
both sides ; Jones exhibiting a slight scratch on hie ear, and
Raines having the claret drawn from the region of his
dominoes, while Jones, who scarcely exhibited a mark ex-
cept a slight scratch on the ear, was declared the victor.
Raines hail the worst of the fight from the beginning, and
on time being galled for the thirteenth round, Raines
(severely punished), prudently said " Enough."

CHINESE LAmus.—At the Grand Saloon,
94, Pall-mall.—This Exhibition is the most
c,:rious and interesting, that has ever appeared
in Europe, and is daily visited by crowds of the
Haut Ton and Cognoscenti, who invariably
express themselves highly gratified with the sight
of these singularly interesting Women, the only
of their sex ever seen out of the Celestial Em-
pire, and even there as inaccessible to the sight
of Foreigners as the Harama of the Grand
Seignor. The very diminitive feet of the Chinese
Ladies (but three inches long) have been hitherto
appreciated only by the sight of their shoes in
the cabinets of the curious, and only excited
doubts as to their reality, which may now be
proved by ocular demonstratien.—Open from 11
till 6.—Admittance One Shilling.
On the afternoon of Saturday last, a tre-
mendous storm of rain, accompanied with loud
thunder and vivid lightning, passed over the vil-
lage of Addingham, near Otley. The rain was
mingled with hail, and descended in torrents.
About a mile from the former mentioned place,
the electric fluid struck a cow-shed, by pene-
trating the eastern wall, near the roof, eight yards
of which were thrown down by the shock ; and
descending through the hayloft, it penetrated the
shed, in which, unfortunately, the owner, Timothy
Brear, was at the time engaged, along with his
son. As soon as he was discovered, after the
awful visitation, he was apparently lifeless, all his
clothing having been burnt and torn from his
body in such a manner that he was in a state
of nudity, with the exception of one shoe and
stocking still remaining on his person ; even the
hair on his head, as well as that on his body, was
singed to the very surface, and the greater part
of his person dreadfully burnt. The remains of
the shattered garments were distributed in various
parts ; one of the shoes was torn in pieces, and
the soles were split from each other ; his hat
could not be found. Mr. Duckworth, surgeon,
of Addingham, promptly attended, and after ad-
ministering repeated applications, the unfortunate
sufferer showed signs of animation. On Sunday
morning he was able to speak ; his eyes are
injured, though the sight is not destroyed ; and
he is quite deaf. Hopes are entertained of his
recovery. The son, who was standing about five
yards from his father, received no other injury
than that of partial dealhess. A. calf, at a short
distance was killed, and a cow was nearly
suffocated. Such was the force of the fluid, that
large stones were thrown from 50 to 60 yards.
York Herald.

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it is pretty gen 1.
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eial world, that the paon-tantuirtikti.tbeir
ateounts with each other by a method which
they call the Clearing.- The following detailed
explanation of this eystem is taken from " Gil-
bares Practical Treatise on Banking," a work
recently published :---s
" Moat of those London bankers, who live
in the city, transact their business with each
other, at the clearing house. At this house,
which is situated in Lombard-street, adjoining
the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Smith, whose property it is, and of whom it is
rented by the bankers, a clerk attends from each
banking-house twice a-day. First, he goes at
twelve o'clock with those bills which he haa
upon other bankers. He drops the bills, pay-
able at each house, in a separate drawer, provided
for the purpose, and he enters in his book, under
separate accounts, those bills that may be dropped
in his drawer. At half-past twelve he returns
home. He goes again at three o'clock, with a
fresh quantity of bills and cheques, which he
delivers in the several drawers as before. He
then enters in his book those cheques that may
be delivered in his drawer. From three to four
ho receives further supplies of cheques, brought
to him from home by other clerks; these cheques
he enters in his book, and they are then de-
livered in the proper drawers. As soon as the
clock strikes four, no further cheques are taken.
He then casts up each account and strikes
the balance. These balances are then trans-
ferred to the balance sheet. The balance
sheet is a half sheet of paper, with a list of
clearing bankers, printed alphabetically, in a row
down the middle. On the left hand side is a.
space for the debtors. On the right hand side
is a space for the creditors. The clerk begins
with the house at the top of the list, If this
house owes him money, he places the balance
on the left side of the name. If he owe:6 money
to this house, he places the amount on the sigh's
side. Thus he proceeds through the whole list.
He then goes to the clerk of each house and
calls the balance to him, and if they both agree,
they mark it with a pen. If they differ, they
examine where the error lies, and make the ac-
counts agree. He then casts up each side of
his balanee sheet. If the total amount of debts
exceeds the total amount of credits, ha will have
to receive the amount of the difference. If the
credits exceed the debts, he will have to pay the
difference.

" If a banker does not choose to pay a bill or
draft brought home from the clearing house, it
is sent back, and dropped in the drawer of the
house by whose clerk it was presented. if tide,
draft was delivered in the first instance, in tk'e
morning clearing (that at twelve o'clock) it it
in all
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he clerks 6.'one by five o'clock, when
al‘loyr a short time for two pur-
poses, one purl is to fetch the money they
is Usually
have to pay, and the other is to see if their
balance on the sheet agrees with the balance of the
books at home. At about a quarter or half-past
five they return, and any clerk who has money to
pay pays it to any clerk who has money to re-
ceive. It is common, however, for three, or four
clerks to form a sort of club, and pay principally
among themselves. Hence, when one member
of the club has money to pay he will pay it to
some member of the same club who has money
to receive, in preference to paying it to any one
else ; by this means his friend obtains his money
earlier than he otherwise might, and gets off
sooner. It is obvious that all the money that
is to be paid must be equal to all the money.
that is to be roceived. If this should not appear
to be the case, there must be some error, and
the clearing house is then said to be wrong.
Two inspectors are appointed, with salaries, to
detect errors of the kind, by examining and
marking off the sheets ; their signature is also
necessary before any money can be paid from out
clerk to another.

" No gold, silver, or copper, is taken► to th
clearing-house, the differences under 51. that
may be left between the clerks who receive ink!,
pay with each other, are carried to account am,
the following day."

A CONSTANT RED:OER.

ORDERS IN COUNCa.

",:re received yeetex-
dayTwato
tOherdcerusstionmC.Tiouunevzil, wthe consequences of
which will be important. A short time ago the
sugar•refiners addressed Government, on the sub-
ject of the exceedingly small supplies of Museo-
vades in the market, and represented the neees-
sity, to their operations of foreign sugars, not
elayed, being admitted for sale. The prayer of
this petition has been granted, on the condition
that the refiners pay a duty on foreign sugar re-
fined by them, of 2s. per cwt. above that paid on
British Plantation sugar, and that they enter into
a bond to export a quantity of refined sugar cor-
responding with their consumption of foreign
sugar. This regulation has our unqualified
approbation ; it is founded on the enlight-
oiled principles of commerce adopted wow
for several years by his 'Majesty's Ministers, It
can do no injury to our own Planters, for they
are at present unable to supply the raw material
requisite to the execution of foreign orders for
refined sugars, and it will give full employment
to the extensive capital embarked in the refining
sugar trade. The other Order in Council re-
lates to rice ; it reduces the duty on this article
imported from our own possessions in India, b.
per cwt., and it increases the duty imposed on
rice imported from the United States of North
America at Gd. per cwt. We know not what
; the citizens of America will think of this prefer-
ence given to the produce of our own Colonies;
but we do know that their conduct has renderal
the restriction not only proper, but absolutely
necessary. They are as yet only en infant
nation ; they have no great experience in politi-
cal economy, and they require to be taught that
England wants no intercourse with them which
is not perfectly reciprocal. We can find rice,
lumber, and cotton wool, without any obligation
to their agricultural labour ; and we do hope that
Government will impose. some farther restrictions
on American cotton, in favour of that grown in
our own Asiatic and Colonial possessions, until
the principles of reciprocal trade be acted on by
all independent nations. To consume the pro-
duce of any nation is doing, and not rereiving,
a favour ; and when any community solicits com-
mercial intercourse with us, it almuld only be
granted on the principles ofrecio:ocity.—Ledger.
•

We understand that a will has been found, iet
initia, of the late Mr. Farquhar'a, from which it
appears that he has not even mentioned hie
nephews or relations ; but that the principal part
of his property he has left to found an Univer-
sity, and the remainder to people to whom he was
not relate4o--111orning Paper.

LAUNCELOT COOPER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE:

SlR—The result of the Recorder's last re-
, •
port, seems to promise that the general.' voice
gains the indiscriminate punishment, by death,
)f every case to which the name of forgery will
low apply, has not been heard in vain. I allude
o the case of Launcelot Cooper, convicted of
he crime of forgery, at the last Old Bailey Ses-
don, whoie name was not included in the list of
hose ordered for execution on last Tuesday.
This unfortunate man is one of the many vic-
ims of the numberless temptations to the corn-
nission of this particular crime, which assail the
weak and unfortunate, as well as the vicious, in
his great metropolis. His case is one, which,
f fairly considered, must force, upon the most
sceptical, the conviction that the present state of
the law, regarding forgery, has produced (parti-
cularly amongst the London shopkeepers) an
indifference as to the genuineness of written do-
cuments, which holds out, to the weak and des-
perate, a facility of imposture little short of irre-
sistible. The outline of this unfortunate man's
case was this. He practised on several London
tradesmen, for a number of months, a system of
fraud so inartifically contrived, and so clumsily
executed, that the merest Tyro in business could
not have failed to detect the fraud, in every in-
stance, if he had only given a moment's conside-
ration to the circumstances accompanying each
attempt. His plan was simply this. He en-
tered the shop of the tradesman whom he meant
to dupe with a confident air, and ordered goods
to some tolerably large amount, generally from
601. to 100 pounds' worth ; ordered them home
to some fashionable hotel, and tendered, by way
of payment, his draft on some well-known Bank-
ing-house. These drafts were always drawn above
the amount of the goods ordered, and le in-
variably either received from the shopkeeper the
balance in cash, or carried away the goods,
promising to call for the balance the next
day, and in every instance he was fur-
nished with pen and paper to .draw the
cheque, by the person on whom he was im-
posing; of course the • drafts were disho-
noured on being presented, and, on application
at the address given, the drawer was not to be
found. Thus did he succeed in obtaining goods
and money to a very large amount, and though
he carried on this practice for several months,
in no one instance did it appear that he made
an unsuccessful attempt.
Now, Sir, is it not plain that these drafts
were accepted metely on the security of the un-
happy man's neck, and that the fancied guaran-
tee of this cruel security -which the present state
of the law holds out to willing dupes, super-
sedes, in their opinion, the necessity of exer-
cising the slightest caution in giving their pro-
perty in exchange for the paper writings of per-
ions of whom they have not the slightest know-
ledge?
I am ready to admit, that the total abrosa-
lion of the penal Statutes regarding this crime
might, in a great mea- are, destroy confidence in
large commercial negociations, where the nature
of the transaction will not admit of any imme-
diate enquiry, either into the genuineness of the
document presented, or the identity of the per-
son presenting it. But since, owing to politi-
cal necessity, the highest punishment-which the
law can infliet'has been reduced to the leYeT Of
a mere guarantee in commercial transactions, in
the name of mercy let not this security be ex-
tended to those who will not exercise their own

i;iTltie;-in distinguishing between the sham
-draft of the designing-swindler, and the genuine
sovereign of the Sir purchaser ; and let it be re-
served for those who are excluded by circum-
stances from the pale of enquiry, and constrain-
ed to accept as genuine the documents presented
them, to prevent the absolute stagnation of com-
mercial intercourse. Thus, not only will the
lamentable and merciless sacrifice of human life
if) that Moloch of legislation-political necessity
—be materially checked, but public confidence,
in the minor commercial concerns of this great
kingdom, be placed on a much more stable and
equitable founftation.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, MEDIUS.

MESSRS. HIIRgT, ROBINSON, AND CO.'S
STOCK.—At the sale of Hurst, Robinson, and
Co.'s stock, a large paper copy of Wesham's
British Gallery of Pictures was sold for 351.145.
Young's Catalogue of the Angerstein Gallery of
Pictures (a large paper copy, with India proofs)
brought 6/. 15s. Young's Cata
Ilo7e of
Col-
the
Marquis of Stafford's Gallery, 3/. s.gu A
lection of 100 Plates, illustrative of Shakspeare's
Dramatic Works, 16 guineas.- Sir George Chet:
wynd yesterday gave eight guineas for Claude's
Liber Veritatis. Twelve guineas were given for
a large paper copy of Forster's British Gallery of
engravings, and 6/. for Boydell's Graphic Illus-
trations of Shakspeare's Dramatic Works. A
large paper copy of Effigies PoeticT, with India
proofs, sold for 11/. Neale's History and An-
quities of Westminster Abbey, a large paper
copy, with proof plates, 9 guineas. In this sale
is a magnificent collection of Rubens' Works,
including the Luxembourg Gallery. Sir M. M.
Svites's copy of Pilkington's Dictionary of
Painters, in 10 volumes, with about 2,000 Illus-
trations, and a Collection of 400 Portraits and
Views, illustrative of a Chronolobical Detail of
Events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged,
from the year 1612 to,his death, in 1658.
SALE OP LITERARY PROPERTY, COPY-
RIGHTS, &c.—Mr. Southgate sold on Saturday,
by order of the assignees, the remaining portion
of the stock of Messrs. Knight and Lacey, The
, . „
sale consisted principally of large portions of
books, published by the bankrupts—about
22;000 numbers of " The Economist, and Ge-
neral Advertiser," sold for 36/.; and about 6,000
numbers of the " Housekeeper's Magazine," for
18/. ; 590 copies, in quires, of the " Modern
Athens," 361. 17s. 6d. ; about. 2,142 numbers
of the " Lancet, and 81 volumes of the same
üblication, in boards, for 20/. ; 13 copies in
boards, and about 25,850 numbers of the
" Chymist," together with the copyright, and
the stereotype plates of the work, nearly 60
sheets, brought 1311. 55.; a copy of " Nichol-
Eon's Builder and Workman's new Directory,"
with the copyright, 140 copper-plates, 480 wood
engravings, and ,500 impressions of plates, 246/.
155.; a copy of $‘ Emerson's Mechanics, a
quantity of the numbers, and about 36,000
Plates worked, together with the copyright, the
stereotype plates, 82 coppers, and SO wood-cuts,
were knocked down for 136/. 10s. ; about
10,031 numbers stitched, 11,925 in quires, 310
parts stitehedr23
line, the stereOiyPe
-*eel plates engraved in oqt-
.._
of
plates' 35 sheets, together
with the copyright
"Stuart's Dictionary of
Architecture," 601.

YOREIGN NISHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamatnton, Jots 1.-3 t O.—Two months, 36. 5.
CHRISTIANIA, MAY 23.—Three months, 6. 14.
s'roctutoxikt, Mar 25.-13 rix dollars, 5 sch.
LRIPRIC, MAT 28.—Three months, 6. 16)4.
BURLIN, MAT 29.—ThreemOnths, 6. 27.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-3toßnow.
Morning ...55 minutes after 10. j Evening ...i0 minutes after 11

Easurum.—The List of Peers in our Paper of yesterday, who di-
vided on the Amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the
Corn Bill, should have been " MAJORITY," and not MINORITY
as printed by mistake.