The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

posT.—fas British Packet, that
the Buenos Ayres Government has any intention of
improperly interfering in the affairs of Paraguay in
the way which it has been accused of doing, although
groat pains are taken by the people of Monte Video to
establish the fact. The following paragraph is ex •
traced
from a lengthened article on the subject :
,: rst, is stated that General Rosas harbours
designs against Paraguay, and that, but for the ob-
stacles he throws in the way, nn important commer-
cial intercourse would be kept up with that country.
The fact of his having declined to grant facilities to
certain diplomatic gentlemen to proceed thither is
adduced as a proof that he claims Paraguay as an in-
tegral portion of the Argentine Confederation, and
that he is only waiting his opportunity formally to
assert that claim. Of course, it is assumed that a
radical change has taken place in Paraguay, and that
this El Dorado of many day-dreams isionging for
the arrival of foreign adventurers to relieve it of its
superabundant riches."
The British Packet proceeds to explain that, from
what it can learn, little or nothing of what was an-
ticipated on the demise of Dr. Francia has been real-
ised, the system of the Dictator outliving its founder ;
and that, although some slight modifications have
been introduced, the principles which constit
basis remain unaltered. There is little doubt, it is
added, that there' is a disposition on the part of the
Consular Government to adopt a more enlightened
policy, bat it is questioned whether it would be con-
sidered safe or expedient at once openly to attack the
prejudices of a people, who, it matters not what is
said to the contrary, fondly cherish the memory of the
late Dictator. The -admission of foreigners into the
interior of the country, with liberty of egress, is, it
appears, nearly as rare now as was the case under the
dictatorial regime, nor is it pretended that any ma-
terial change has taken place in the Doctor's singular
mode of levying and collecting the duties, or in the
patriarchal manner of transacting business generally.
It is declared to be an error to suppose that Para-
guay offers an important outlet for foreign manu-
factures, and that, paradoxical as it may seem to
some, all who possess correct notions respecting its
population and the prevailing mode of living, will
readily agree that one Liverpool cargo would suffice
to supply the wants of the people for more than a year.
From the geographical position of Paraguay,
which formed one of the provinces of the ancient
vice-royalty of Buenos Ayres, it is considered that
whenever she relinquishes the state of insulation she
has so long preserved, she must seek to cultivate the
most intimate relations with the Argentine republic,
since she can maintain an intercourse with foreign
nations only through its territory. The character of
these relations is not as yet defined, and it is held to
be highly prudent on the part of the Buenos Ayres
Government, so long as this state of uncertainty shall
continue, to observe such a line of policy as shall
awaken Paraguay to a sense of the importance of
abstaining from contracting obligations which it will
be impossible for her to fulhl without the concurrence
of the republic, 700 miles of whose territory must be
traversed before any other direct intercourse can be
effected with other nations.

TEDIES.—By the official returns published by the
Customs, the exports of the precious metals to foreign
and colonial parts for the week ending Thursday last
were as under : ox.

Silver coin to Rotterdam
Silver coin to Calcutta 39,750
Silver coin to Hamburgh 5OO
Silver coin to Hongkong and Macao 213,647
Silver bars to Calcutta 25,208
The Buenos Ayres papers of the 16th of July, re-
ceived in the City, allude to the escape of the Revis-
tera squadron, seen off Martin Garcia, out of the
reach of Admiral Brown, whose flag-ship had got
aground, and prevented his proceeding. The three
vessels, it was expected, would take an uninterrupted
course to the Parana, and there co-operate with the
troops on its banks. The British Packet gives the
particulars of the interview of the new Brazilian
envoy with Rosas, who had received that delegate
with the honour necessarily due to his character and
station. A slight reaction in the quotation of the
Exchange would lead to the supposition that business
was not so brisk as it had been ; the last quotation
was 3d. per paper dollar. There were 61 vessels in
portlat the latest date.
The same arrival has brought a financial document
of some intere3t, being a "general statement of the
operations of the public stocks frOm their commence-
ment on the Ist of January, 1822, to the end of June,
1842 ; together with a cash account from the Ist of
April to the 30th of June of the present year." From
this it appears that the whole debt created in that
period was $2,000,000 in 4per cent., and V 2,360,000
in 6 per cent. stock; that of this amount there has

been -redeemed, or otherwise put out of circulation,
about $750,000 of the 4 per cent., and $22,000,000
of 6 per cent. stock ' • and. that the whole remaining
debt of the Republic amounts, consequently, to
$1,250,000 4 per cents., and $30,360,000 6 per. cent.%
It further appears, from the " cash" account, that
the amount received from the Customs, 'to pa^ in-
terest and sinking fund, for April, May, and ,June,
was abeut $940,000 ; that about $460,000 was em-
ployed in redeeming stock for that quarter, and that
there was an available balance, to be employed in
July, for about $580,000 for interest, and $156,000
for sinking fund. This document presenting a satis-
factory account, beyond all question, of the financial
situation of Buenos Ayres, leads naturally to the
kiquiry, whether, the debt to this country has been
wholly laid aside and forgotten. It was originally,
we believe, only 1,000,0001. sterling, and negotiated
by the house of Baring at the fair market price of
the time, and the amount of counte duly remitted ;
yet no interest has been paid since 1827, and the
matter is as little asubject of discussion in the City
as if no intention existed of preferring any claim
for payment. As the States of Mexico, Colombia,
and Chili, if not doing all that they ought to do,
are making some effort, at least, for the satisfaction
of British claims, founded on advances instrumental
mainly to the establishment of their; independence,
the supineness of the creditors of Buenos Ayres,
supported, as they would be, by the powerful firm
who negotiated the ion, is most extraordinary.
This document, his to be hoped, will put them into
some, action,

The project, currently announced by advertise-
ments in the public journals, for raising the treasure
beloughw to the French emigrants, supposed to have
been sunk in the Telemaque, off Quillebceuf, in 1790,
naturally raises the very significant inquiry, made by
more than one correspondent, how it happens that
the French people, who have the most interest in the
result, quietly suffer so large a profit as that held out
to be reaped by the English ? As the answer to such
an inquiry is by no means an easy matter, people
begin to assume, as at least possible, that the real
object may be that of relieving the parties who origi-
nate it from the expense incurred in various pam-
phlets and advertisements, and other matters con-
nected with the affair, amounting, as has been stated,
to about 3,6001., by a dip into the pocket of honest
and confiding John Bull. An appeal to the public
for raising a joint-stock capital is always to be looked
at with suspicion when the sum is so small as to be
within the reach of any private capitalist from his
own resources, It seldom happens in such a case
that decidedly good things are offered to the public,
and we quite concur, therefore, itt.tlle suspicion ex-
pressed with regard to the Telamaque, French
treasure-ship,"
SUN,The market closed with more firmness
than yesterday, although prices remained nearly the
same. The jobbers have now taken so large an amount
of stock, in order to protect themselves from the
chance of A fall, that any sales, however trifling, are
almost certain to cause a depression, and until the pay-
ment of the October dividends it may safely be con-
tludod that they will remain without material altera-
tion. Consols left off at 92i 921 for Money, and 93
sellers for the Account. India Stock, 949 251 ; Ex-
chequer Bills Old, 51 53 ; New, 49.
.51 premium.

The prices of ' Foreign Securities were better--
Belgian, 102 103: Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
52* 52i; the Five per Cents., 102* 102 i ; Danish,
83 84 ;, and Brazilian, 671 681, The bona fide
dealers in Mexican bonds have not altered their quo-
tations for business, which were to purchase at 35 and
sell at 351.
The chief variations in the Share Markut were a
decline in Birmingham and Gloucester, and a decided
improvement in Brighton, the lattol"geing 33 331 and
the former 40 42; London ttn.',3.lliiriningliant 181 183;
Great Western, 89 89, ; the Half Shares, 591 60;
South Western, 1 : ' 58i ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the
New 8/litres, 27i 28i; South Eastern and Dover,
211 22 ; Eastern Counties, 81 iq ; Northern and
Eastern, 35 36 ; and Blackwall, 61 7 per share.
Very few bargains were made in the Bonds, the
quotations for which were nominally—Colombian,
20i 21 • Peruvian, 15 16; Portugue3e Five per Cents.
,
35i ,351 ; the Three per Cents., 21 21 i ; Spanish
Five per Cents., 161 161; the Three per Cents.,
21* 211.
udoutlrliitnig ,
the politically
twelve
cally to
Intelligence to the 17th July has been received
thfroenalcßcouuellittos w
Buenos
lAyres.iieliiavlc tadds
arrived
months ; the Buenos Ayreans, profeslang themselves
to be highly enraged with the inhabitants
Video, and the latter, if it be possible, of Monte
embit-
tered against the former. Were the
more
papers alone to be consulted, some e several news-
m n ight be made of the position le amusing extracts
of affairs
but mercantile letters represent at present,
most flourishing condition. Thesematters to be in a
between the two countries, each
petty squabbles
their aggrandisement, lead each carried on for
to no result as far
as themselves are conceeach run away as the rned; inasmuch as they
like an oppositi other may show any-
thing; but in this unsettled
state our interests are suffering materially. Not only
are they largely indebted for former advances, and

for which no return in the shape either of principal or
interest has yet been made, but the prospects of the
countries mainly rest upon British commerce, which
is now sorely crippled in its extension, as well u
proving a gretit loss to merchants, from the want of power
' to close former operations by these intestine outbreaks.
It would appear to be the aim of both these provinces
to obtain exclusive possession of the Rio de la Plata,
and to prevent it being navigated, lest the Power
which might do so should perchance assist either one
or the other of the belligerents. As long as Francia
existed as Dictator of Paraguay, so long its inhabi-
tants dared not exercise free commercial transactions ;
but since his death, every disposition to change the
late despotic Government has been shown, and a de-
sire to open a trade .with foreign nations, especially
with the English. This can be carried on sucee3s-
fully but by the •internal navigation through the
various branches of the river Plate, and Rtsas
i.
stated to be exceedingly jealous in allowing vessels to
pass Buenos Ayres, and to proceed up that st.•eam.
Thus it would appear that these two cities, which,
with the whole of their land and sea forces, could be
annihilated by a small squadron of British vessels if
war, are permitted to close a large portion of the in-
terior
a:ot,ocif‘3,vhtitiliasillceartl South American continent against us.
It would seem to argue a great remissness that a ter-
into
mination
eel.,:ameriLaplnegutteemetoem:itgilientssebnedortisrobetecet.ensw,enotfrer,roedantany i
injury by them.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, SEPT. 20.—The case of ex-
tensive forgery upon the Branch Bank of England in
this town, to which we have already adverted, came
on for hearing at the police-court to-day, before Mr
Rushton, stipendiary Magistrate, and Mr. Houghton,
one of the members of the Town-council. The indi
vidual charged with the offence is a young man who
has scarcely attained his twentieth year, and is most
respectably connected. His name is Devaines
Barnsley. Ile was defended by Mr. Myers. The
case for the Bank, and'on the part of the proiecution,,
was conducted by Mr. Robinson, and excited thy
attention of a very crowded Court, which numbered.
among its occupiers several of our principal
chants. The prisoner was charged with the comr„is.,
sion of two forgeries. The first consisted of ktheck,
dated the 10th of September, for 2441. 3s. 5a., which
purported to have been signed by Messrs. Corrie and
Co. cotton-brokers, of this town ; and the second con-
sisted also of a check, dated the 13th of September,
for 8471. Gs. 10d., which purported to have been.
signed by the same parties.

-The first witness called was Mr. W. D. llaggar,
the teller at the Branch Bank of England., situate in
Hanover-street, in this town, who gave evidence as to
the cashing of the cheque.
John Cooper, who was employed by the prisoner
to get the cheque cashed, identified the cheque, which
he said he knew by a mark it contained or,- the signa-
ture, and said it had been cashed by Mr. Haggar, the
former witness..
Mr. John M. Corrie, one of the London partners,
was next called, and said, the cheque for the 2441.
was not in his handwriting, neither did it hear his
signature, but it had a wry strong resemblance to the
signature of a Mr. Bernard, who had been a member
of the firm in the beginning of the present year.
Mr. Frederick Bernard stated, that his partnership
with the firm bad been dissolved upon the 30th of last
April, and that the signature to the cheque resembled,
but was not his own signature.
Mr. John Gray deposed, that he was a cotton-bro-
ker, and that the prisoner had been in his office for a
year and three quarters. The body of, as well as the
signature to the check for the 2441. was in the pri-
soner's handwriting. Witness searched the prisoner's
drawer on Wednesday morninghtst, and found a num-
ber of papers in his portti4iO, on some' of which the
name of " Corrie and Co." was written by him seve-
ral times ; so also were a number of figures, and
among the rest, the figures " 244/. 3s. 5d.," the exact
amount of the check, as though he had been repeat-
edly endeavouring to imitate the handwriting of Mr.
Bernard. Witness had been in the habit of keeping
his cheque-book in a drawer in his office, which is
sometimes locked and sometimes open, and two cheques
had been missing therefrom, the numbers of -which
correspond exactly with those on the 244/. and the
847/. ones already produced.
Mr. William Baird deposed, that he was a superin
ten4ent of police in Montgotneryshire, anti that he ap
prehended the prisoner on the night of Sunday, the
18th inst., at Aberystwith. Upon searching him lot
found 1001. in 10/. and 5/. Bank of England motes,
91. 10s. in gold, and 4s. l Id. in silver and copper. He
also found some memorandums upon him, wine]) con-
tained entries of receipts of money from varie-os par-
ties, and also some blank cheques were discovered in his
pocketbook.
_ _

The case, as regarded the cheque fe:r the 2441. hav-
ing here closed, some evidence was given with respect
to the forgery of the larger elnek, and the forgery
proved. _

Mr, Myers admitted ilia the case appeared ex-
tremely arcing against the unfortunate prisoner, and
that he hail felt it useless to cross-examine the wit-
nesses ; but lie earnestly hoped that the Beneb would
admit the prisOner to bail, the more particularly as he
was very respectably connected.
ltusuTort said, he was aware of his respecta-
bility, but that respectability was far ever gone when
a man stood under such circumgiances in the dock.
lie might be willing to admit him to bail, it the case
presented any features to entitle him to commisera-
tion ; but when the contrary was the tact, and when
it was a direct forgery, and an attempt to entrap lads
of a tender age into crimes of a serious character, no
bail could be taken.
The prisoner was accordingly committed for trial
at the nut assizes.

ALARMING FIRE AT WHITBREAD'S BREWERT._
This morning, shortly after one o'clock, a fire broke
out in the above , brewery, which for some time
threatened the most serious consequences. It appears.
that the firm has long been in the habit of manufac.,
turing their own gas for consumption on the pre,
wises, and the apparatus for the purpose is situate. at
the southern entrance, in Chiswell-street. At the
hour above-named one of the watchmen on duty ob-
served a strong glare of light through the windows of
the building containing the gasometer, and before an
alarm could be given, the whole of the place was in
flames. The private engines of the establishment,
were got out, and messengers dispatched to the vari-
ous brigade stations. Mr. 13raidwood, with the Wat-
ling-street engine, and those from Jeffreys-square and
Farringdon-street, as well as the West of England,
were soon on the spot, and a supply of water being
obtained, the ravages of the fire were most fortunately
confined to the building in which it originated. The
supposed cause of the accident is, that the gasometer
was overcharged, but how the ignitem took place re-
mains a mystery. The cooperage is closely adjoin.
ing the gas-works, and had not the flames been cor.-
fined to the latter building, the whole .premises worald
most probably have been destroyed. Although all
danger was at an end before two o'clock, it was found
impossible to extinguish the gas, and the reflection of
the blaze might be occasionally seen from ull parts of
the City.
1 ANOTIIER EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES.
—lnff,,rmation was yesterday received at Bow-street,
that," on the afternoon of Thursday
last, there w: ,y
stolen from the person of a gentleman, in the streetsoof
Edinburgh, a yellow morocco pocket-book, about` si,
ii)nocthes
ezeboynsiszlg o
three, containing tat‘ilnvintrtl2iews.uonnieoff,o4r24/. 101_, int,tr.votnfkor-
5/., and 04 for 1/., of Sir William 1 ort2s r.nd Co.
anlidat;ikaiss°of
bankers. Edinburgh; also one for 100 Z,, two for 20/.,
in florins
one for I vi., one for 404 and one for 20/., which had
been cut in two, and pinned together, and very dirty;
and one for 101. of th Rofiarl
Gltilera.ria:miknaallor;o:Sniacdtnoh,teoluage,
by
two for 101., and two
Englishvilelirt:h!siptsseci:orities,orinTfloirEitils
iinnongelt3tn,d'ex
Messrs. Rothschild, dated "Vienna, 1839,,i
anthle"Gs
and worth.
about 70/. • a money bill in florins money,
ll:rielscesedwisein
expressed
i language, upon Messrs. Rothschild, au .d
of t value of about 37/. 10s.; and two - , --....
curb. No description of the thieves
Baden Go-
Money, expressed In the
German language, and of the value of about;
begivsenl., lo
lAaqua , WELLESLEY.—
their 'apprehension.
We regret to learn that
a reward of 501. has been oifered for can
the above distinguished
from severe indisposition at
Kingston IluonoNseve.
Nobleman is suffering
is 1 abouring from its
debilitating venerable
efie Marquis
ts_ n wain' mei,
yl
,a a tu
11 from a.diarrhcetic attack, and non
week, very
olfttismsfiroliyfe 1
connectionsitsltsi. t,m,lainedh
heitisUrosrdsosmhipe,suneexasteinnseissvet6o,,ctiee
Marquis, and we are able
does trot dniofftkagrteohefnodresec
Dr. Chalmers is in attendance on the
:Nisi:tenth:l:e gwe ni_at:rigeumavas
any immediate danger% a:though
advanced age is taken into consideration. Rumours
het to
say
of rather an lilanning nature were in circulation last
evening at the western part of the metropolis ; but
the above authentic information sufficiently proves
their exaggeration. The Marchioness Wellesley
COW" to WWl' to-day.
A CROWNED HEAn.—Among the incidents which
served to break the monotony, and divert the attention
cwt
of the crowd, when her gracious Majesty visitr4
Stirling, was the following :—A poor insane creatr
known l
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running about in arA t
and tartan trousers, with an immense crown cc*
great'Stirlin
created Stirling by
by ,
laughterby the name of "Daft P a
made of
painted tin upon his head. lie ran hither arid
to the great diversion of the crowd butt
;
intended as a burlesque upon Royalty,
con-
stables, thinking, perhaps, that his ainted
P ln-own was
theehitherbe removed from his head.
Lan-
cashire turn-outs came to Slaithw,aitc,e.`coafuts:dem_itaeto.
A POSER FOR TILE TURN-OUTS.-13.1man the
se-
costed an old fellow thus—" Ine er ss.w sick a soft set
as you are here, you dare do nought." " Soft 1" replied
he, " nay. We have just cut one of your set his head
off, and given it into his hand to take houuawith him"—
Correspondent of the Liverpool Courier.