The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-19 00:00:00

EVENING, MAY 1 1842.

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MONEY MARIA...ET' aDd CITI NEWS.

FROM, THE 3:011.NL.V.) PAFT,RS Or THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—MonPy- is . still •in demand on the
Stock Exchange, but the extreme pressure which was
experienced during a considerable part of yesterday has
subsided. It is difficult to account for this sudden de-
rangement of the Money Market, and various causes
have been adduced. Sonn-! parties say that-tile general
prespectof ths coining InarveJ- iinfaVontable,' and that,
a considerable portion otpur Iloating-tapitat has been in
request to remit for the'parchnse-of.foreign corn. Others
say that the payments to the Exchequer, on account of
the revenue, under the new system of collection sweeps
the markets just now for. Bank notes, and keeps the'dis-
count houses bare, as the collectors in the country are
not now permitted to use the public money above ten
(lays. Formerly the stamp distributors and district re-
ceivers of taxes had " a ride" of their collections for a
month, or even three months, during which they lent
their balances, at easy rate, in Lombard-street; which
thus was always well supplied with money for short loans,
a source of supply now very considerably curtailed.
Others maintain that ;the demand has teen occa-
sioned by an approaching revival of trade upon the
strength of the new tariff, through remittances for the
importation of toreign and provisions. These in-
genious prophets of coming prosperity, however, are
clearly shooting beyond-the mark, as it is not by any
means probable that the money would be remitted for
such purposes until the tariff has become law. The more
prevalent opinion ill well--informed quarters, and that
which seems most reconcileable. with the circumstances of
the case, is that the scarcity -of money, which so sud-
denly sprung up on the Stock Exchange, was occasioned
by the operations of the great Insurance Companies,
who were losers by the great fire at Haniburgh. These
Corporations have always a considerable amount of their
assets invested at call, or on short loans, to meet emer-
gencies, and it is supposed that they have felt it expe-
dient to call up a portion of their money so lent to remit
to Hamburgh.
There have been no sales of Stock by the public to
account for the enhancement of the value of money, and
taking all things into consideration, the most likely cause
of this-change in the Honey Market is the calling up of
loans by the Insurance Companks.
SU.N.--The English Market has recovered from the
depression of yesterday, which is attributed, in quarters
likely to be well informed, to the Aiivery of several par-
eels for the heavy stocks well, li -hill -been privately sold
a few days back. ConsolS left. off at 9-2-1- 92t for Money,
and 92 921' for Account.; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India
Stock, 249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, 37 39 premium.
The Foreign Securities .were rather higher, especially
Dutch and Belgian. The Two-and-Half per Cents.
Stock of the former 'kingdom closed at 52-i 52k, and the
Five per Cents. loq 1011,, and the bonds of the latter
nation at 102 103. Danish remained at SOT!, 811, and
Brazilian G 7 GS.

The quotation of Mexican is lower than yesterday
being 36-i- 37. _ _
Railway Shares were firm. London and Birmingham
179 181 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 53 55 ; Great
Western, 92 93 ; the inn. ..Shares, 64 64:V ; South
Western, 63-i 641 ; Gosptirt, 63A • 64A ; North Midland,
•;
.65 67, the New Shares,: 334 ; -South Eastern and
Dover, 30 .304, the Scrip, 7A ; Eastern Counties.
92 94 ; Blackwall, Hit 11k,
.the New Shares, .9i 9y ;
and Brighton, 36i to 36j- par share.
The
.bonds of the insolyent„States were quoted—Co-
lombian, 264 271 ; PeruKian, 191 20 ; Portuguese Five
per Cents., 371 37at ; the - Three per Cents. 221 22;1 ;
Spanish Five per CentS4 and the Three per Cents.,
23 23-,1.
It is to be observed that .Peruvian is marked some-
what higher than yesterday. This alteration is •conse-
quent upon a report that. the
.Government have assigned
the right of collecting guano, a species of manure, to cer-
tain individuals, the proceeds of which are to be appro-
priated to the payment of the dividends. If this rumour
be correct,-it-shows a degree.-of honesty which other
nations similarly situated would do well to follow. •

GRAND MILITARY INSPECTION
OF THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.
Shortly after nine o'clock this morning, detachments
of the First Life Guards, the Granadier, Coldstream,
and Scots Fusileer Foot 0 nerds, to the amount of several
thousands of men, assembled •on the. Grand Parade, in
front of the Horse Guards, for inspection, in honour of
the celebration of her most gracious Majesty's birth-day.
A few minutes before ten' his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Hill, the Duke
of Wellington, and upwards of forty General Officers
assembled on the ground; when the three Inf..ntry bands
united hailed the noble party With the National Anthem.
The troops were then instantly formed into line, when his
Royal Highness, attended .by his numerous staff, pro-
ceeded down the front line, the bands playing in a
masterly style his Royal Highness's favourite waltz.
The First Life Guards, pieceded by their fine brass
band, then marched by the staff, followed close by the
Infantry in slow and quick time, and with that precision
for which they have always been celebrated.
Shortly beibre eleven the inspection terminated, when
his Royal Highness Prince Albert expressed himself in
the most satisfactory manner to the several Officers of
the Regiments assembled, highly complimenting them on
the healthy appearance of the men and their truly soldier-
like appearance.
The Frst Life Guards, for the first time, mounted a
newly improved helmet, of far more agreeable appear-
ance than those hitherto worif, and which 'eeined to ex-
cite the approbation of those military officers present.
There were not less than 20,000 persons present, and
not a single accident was heard, of.

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T TER' A TURE.-
DECI.D.ED'PREPERENCE, I Vol,.
.Slraphin and Marsl -a-14 London, 1842.
" Decided Preference". is a .sentimental tale of the
"Children 'of the Abbey" selidOl, and its object is to
show •how exceedingly* kill ..it, is in young people. to
marry, who have not a' decked preference for each
r‘tber. This useful, but wit very original, moral is
- exeniplified in tlu loves 'of ilefiry-Forteseile ;did-Julia
..FraSer—a reintirk.dily-hittidoini. and •Well4fitentioned
couple; but Who, newerthOleSK-Ure far froth • being us
happy in domestic lifej as their amiable qualities,
are as numerous as the items in a Strawberry
Hill Catalogue—would entitle them to be. They are
thus picturesquely introduced to the reader's notice :
"Julia possessed the fairest form nature ever framed ;
her beautiful black eyes sp6ke volumes to the heart of
every beholder ; her raven tresses curled negligently
round her well-formed • head; and in her complexion,
were blended the lily arid the-rose. Henry, her cou-
sin, was two years her senior. ' He was tall and grace-
fully proportioned, had a fine, expressive countenance,
and dark ehesnut hair ; eyes were of a hazel colour;
and he possesSed, what was of far more intrinsic value,
every virtue the human heart is capable of." We
perfectly agree with the author that it is far better for
a man to possess virtue.; than even " dark chesnut hair,"
or " eyes of a hazel colour," though we fear that the
• majority of boarding school misses will be of a diffe-
rent opinion. Shortly after their marriage, Julia and
Henry come up to towds,Rn,a- visit to some friends in
Portman-square, where•thextormer happens to encoun-
. ter, at a fashionable evening` party, one of those hot-
' rible lady-killers whom young ladies of a susceptible
turn can never look on without the most imminent
hazard to their peace of mind. This monster, who
answers to the romantic • appellation of Octavius
Elliott, stations himself ear Julia, while she is sing-
ing
" Auld Robin Gray ;', and immediately she rises
from the yianoforte, there he is, standiner close beside
her ! " There was nothing -particularly striking in
his appearance," we are told, "with the exception of
a pair of very fine dark blue eyes, which were shaded
by long dark lashes ; but the greatest charm he pos-
sessed was his smile, which" was captivating to a de-
gree." This smile it is that does_ all the mischief.;
though it is but just to Mrs. Fortescue to add, that
when she first sets her eyes on the irresistible Octa-
vius, she holds him in orthodox horror, notwithstand-
ing his seductive simper,' • ." •An involuntary shudder,"
observes the author, 16 spread over her, but she could
not account for the feeling ; at length she saw her
husband approaching,-and never did she feel so glad
to see him, as if she thought his presence was a suffi-
cient safeguard against .the Evil One !" Alas, Mrs.
y. soon ceases to shudder at' the Evil One ! On a se-
vond interview she does not think him quite so black as
;he is painted ; a third enables her to discover that he is
uncommonly good-looking ; and at length she is
'brought to confem that.she really has a very excellent'
:opinion of -him; on her •saying which, the Evil One
threw himself on his knees before her, encircled her
:slender waist, and imprinted impassioned kisses on her
"hands and lips !" The sequel may be anticipated.
::The lady-killer and his victim start off, one fine moon-
:light night, full gallop for. the. Continent, leaving the
betrayed husband in a condition—to adopt the elo-
quent phraseology of .George Robins—" more easily
imagined than described." After remaining a short
time at Paris, Octavius. Elliott and Mrs. F. resolve on
• a trip to Italy ; but on their 'road, they are attacked
by banditti, who, after-slaughtering the former, allow
the latter to make her escape 'to a priest's house, which
happens to lie at a convenient' distance from the high-
way. From hence Mrs. Fortescue makes her way to
England ; finds out her husband, who has retired to
a sequestered cottage in the Country ; obtains pardon
at his hands ; and; after being safely delivered of a
little Octavius Elliott, dieS of a broken heart, in the
,'middle of an extract which the parson of the parish
jis reading to her from a pious Tract ! Soon after her
death, Henry FOrtescue forms an attachtnent to an-
other beautiful young ivoinaiiiMiss Frances Seymour,
of whom we are told that " sever was there a more
interesting being. Her -mild blue eyes expressed
both softness and feeling ; "ter light brown hair wound
in natural curls on her. alahaSter neck ; she was above
the middle height, but 'elegantly formed ; she pos-
sessed the most touching: sweetness of voice, and had
in an eminent degree an _unaffected simplicity, gen-
tleness, and• sensibility." This angelic being reci-
procates Mr. Fortescue's• attachment ; but 'alas, a
wicked
.Peer, Lord A., resolves to blight the lovers'
hopes,. by himself formally proposing for Miss Sey-
mour's hand ; and when she rejects him, he abuses
her sweetheart in a • way shocking to think of, and
tells her in plain English, If you do not promise to
be mine, by all the POwers of Love, I will blow that
fellow's brains out." On her reply that she will not
be bullied, he coolly takes out a penknife with a view
of sticking her and:him-Self too ; but being in-
terrupted in his diaboliCal purpose by. the
entrance of a morning visitor,he rushes in a paroxysm
out of the house, threatening all sorts of horrors. -And.
the wretch is as good as his word, for soon afterwards,
while Miss Seymour is taking' a walk before break-
fast in • the Regent's Park, he hires some ruffians to
gag her, and carry her off in a post-chaise and four
to a secluded " cottage,* situated at the bottom of a
long shady lane." He then 'presents himself before
her, hut being repulsed with virtuous indignation, he
instantly makes a point of getting drunk, by way of
still further reconciling her to his advances ; and in
this attractive condition, he attempts to " imprint a
kiss upon her lovely. lips," whereupon she very pro
perly knocks him down! . After remaining a few days
at the cottage, one of the servants, struck with re-
morse for the share she
..had taken in the fiendish
transaction, resolves to restore the imprisoned fair one
to liberty, and accordingly lets her out at the back-
gate—while Lord snoring drunk in bed.
Delighted at her unexpected restoration to freedom,
Miss Seymour hurries With her companion along the
high-road, "favoured by ..the light of the moon,"
when suddenly she perceives 'a chaise advancing ra-
pidly towards her, and cries out at the top of her
voice, "Oh stop, for mercy's sake, and protect two
young women, who are running away from a wicked
man ! The chaise of course stops, and equally as a
matter of course, out jumPs•jlNliss Seymour's sweet-
heart, who singularly enough, happens to be travelling
in the right direction, just in the very nick of time !
A most touching scene now ensues. She faints, he is in
agonies—she recovers,' he is in extacies ; and on their
reaching their journey's end, the most interesting ex-
planations take place, lifter which, the happy couple
are wedded, with the full consent of their guardians
and parents ; and go to spend their honey-moon at
Edinburgh, where they frequently visit the theatre,
whose manager, " Mr. Murray behaved to them most
kindly and gentlemanly, for which he is remarked;"
and as a token of his good-will, put one of the
wedding party "on the free-list!" It is gratifying to
be able •to add that the wicked Peer, • Lord A.,- as a
just reward for his nefarious conduct, is visited by
Providence with a broken leg, of Which he dies, about
a Week after his little affair with Miss Seymour! So
ends the story of '" Decided Preference," which
abounds in amiable, sentimental twaddle, such as
formed the delight of. our- grandmothers, and is just
the sort of work to- produce a comfortable siesta on a
hot summer-day.

BRITISH AND FOREIdN SOCIETY FOR THE SUP-
PRESSION OF INTEMPERANCE.—Yesterday morning the
Annual Meeting of the above Society was held at Exeter-
hall. Earl Stanhope in the chair. On the platform
were a great number of gentlemen, amongst whom were
the Bishop of Norwich, J. S. Buckingham, Esq., ])r.
Oxley, Rev. C. Stow!, and several delegates from Ame-
rica, &c. The Report, which was very lengthy, was
read by Mr. Green, the Secretary : it stated that the So-
ciety had greatly increased in numbers during the past
year, both in the metropolis and the country. A number
of excellent speeches in behalf:of the Society were de-
livered by the Bishop of Norwich, Mr. Buckingham, and
other gentlemen, one of 'whom, named Peck, narrated
the following interesting incident :—" In the month of
June, 1837, a woman named 'Wright, a very dissolute
character, while drinking at the bar of a gin-shop in
Drury-lane, offered to sell her child, a little boy, about
two years old, which she -awn held in her arms, for a
quartern of gin. A man named Myers, who is a water-
man, then and now rc'siding 'in Feather's-court, Drury-
lane, took the wretched mother at her word, paid for the
gin, and received the child from her arms. Since that
period up to the present time, Myers, who is a very in-
dustrious man, although he has at times experienced
great privations, has wholly maintained the child, to
whom he is greatly attached ; he has had the child
christened in the names of its.mother and himself. Since
the day the purchase and exchange were made the unna-
tural mother had never es pressed any solicitude about it,
and had latterly been lost sight of altogether." Mr. Peck
stated that he had made 'etlbits to get the boy into the
Blue Coat School, but without success. The thanks of
the meeting were voted to the Noble Chairman, and it
separated.
PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND.—The yearly
general meeting of the Proprietors of this establishment
took place this day, when the Directors made their report on
the affairs of the Bank, from. hich, it appeared, that the
amount of the rest or undividedprofits was 114,200/. ss. tid. ;
and it was announced by the Directors to be their in-
tention to pay, in July next, an extraordinary dividend
or )onus of four per cent. on the capital stock, in addi-
tion to the usual dividend of the same amount for
the half-year ending Midsummer next.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-=TWO LIVES LOST.—Last
night, between nine and ten o'clock, a boat, containing
five persons, was upset in the Pool, by coming in collision
with some barges, when two young men, named Edward
Calist and George Stanley,• were drowned, the other
three were fortunately saved try another party who rowed
by at the moment. They were returning from Green-
wich Fair. It is a singular fact that Calist was saved
from drowning no less than three times last summer.

REMARKABLE BIRD'S NEST.—In the Bell Tavern
at Eton College, there is at the present time a very re-
markable jackdaw's nest, and doubtless one of the largest
ever seen. It completely blocks up the tower stairs, oc-
cupies fourteen steps, and is 8 feet 10 inches in height.
It is only partially lined, as the birds, owing to the num-
ber ofvisitors, have since forsaken it. The whole of the
aterial with which it has been built, was conveyed by
the industrious pair through a loop-hole in the tower
wenty-four inches by seven inches, and some of the twigs
employed in its formation are twenty-Ow inches log.

SP-I-Ri÷ of- the-PUBLIC JOURNALS,

FROM THE EVENNG i'AP.'4ZRS. OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—There is something very amusing in
the pertinacity with which the majority in the House
of CommonS continue to fallow Sir Robert Peel,
though nearly every step they take is in. a direction
diametrically. opposite •to that in which they expected
to have:: been . - , The .. Premier's cop-
•
. duct may - compares!, 7 that of certain Oinni-
bus cads, wlmo . desire to ,111 l.: their- •
out any particular regard to the destination: 'of
their passengers, whose remonstrances -are briefly dis-
posed of by an assurance that it is " all right," though
they have a shrewd suspicion that it is all wrong,
when they occasionally get a glimpse of the road
they are travelling. ft has caused much astonish-
ment to certain simple gentlemen, on the Conservative
side of the House, that the sentiments which they
were encouraged to put forth upon the hustings
are to be suppressed in the house, and that in fact
the clap-trap which was so strongiy recommended
for election use is discountenanced by the Premier
as being ill-adapted to Parliamentary purposes.
From the language held by certain candidates on
the subject of the Poor-law, it would have been
inferred that the majority of Tory Members
would have come into Parliament prepared to anni-
hilate the present system at a single blow ; but, to
the utter astonishment of perhaps many of the majo-
rity themselves, they are called upon to follow their
leader in a proposition for confirming the existing
law in all its essential points, and thus sanction the
alleged enormities they have so long been striving
to exterminate. Again, with regard to many
points in' the Tariff, the Conservatives are being
carried along in a road. that they have not only
been unaccustomed to travel, but in which they
have over and over again expressed their determi-
nation not to proceed ; and if a refractory Member
ventures to suggest that the party is taking an
unusual course, he is advised tolet the Premier alone,
for that he, ofeourse, knows very well what he is doing.
It is evident that many of the Tories are only recon-
ciled to the road they are compelled to go, on the
principle that " needs must when—Sir Robert drives ;"
and, indeed, they would have turned refractory long
ago, but that they are every now and then subdued—(as
children are by an allusion to Old Bogy)—with a threat
of the return of Whig government. We remember
seeing the clown in a pantomime get into a sedan chair
with neither top nor bottom to it, when be shrewdly
remarked, that " but for the look of the thing" he
might just as well walk ; and it really appears to us
that if Conservatives are to be placed in awkward po-
sitions by their own leaders, they gain nothing, except
in the " name of the thing," by the accession of a
Tory Ministry. This truth will no doubt burst upon
them at last, after they have been voting in oppo,
sition to their own views sufficiently long to have lost
the power of which it is the Premier's policy to de-
prive them ; and when they, are no longer formidable,
he can afford to throw them away with the contempt
that is certainly due to their extreme credulity.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle devotes
a very long article to-day to the proof that the Con-
servative party is declining. Our Contemporary,
indeed, commences with an acknowledgment that it
could scarcely withhold —an acknowledgment,
namely, that, "the famous majority of ninety was on
the whole gained by the decision of Committees"
—a prima facie confession, at least, that in
the representative assembly the Conservative
body has not suffered any material deteriora-
tion. We are far from denying that success so
triumphant as that achieved by the Conservative
party last summer has been unattended by the. con-
sequences always inseparable from such success—
a _diminished estimate of the value of the object ob-
tained and a slight oblivion of the danger escaped,
in all ; with some disappointment of too sanguine
expectations in sections or individuals. To suppose
that the Conservative party has not had to pay
this. price of victory, were to suppose that party
different from what men have always :been and
always will be, while our nature remains the same.
The Morning, Chronicle, however, goes further than
this, and intimates a conviction that the Conservative
party is dissatisfied with the Ministry of
.its choice,
upon account of certain specified measures which that
Ministry has Adopted. Now, as ,these measures are
all, as described by the turning Chronicle, measures
identical in kind, though differing in degree, with
the measures of the party opposed to the Conserva-
tive party, this surely proves no weakness in the
latter; at most it hut
_proves that the Conserva •
tive party, which possesses "a famous" and
" increasing majority" in the House of Commons, is
more hostile to the Whig-Radical party than is the
Conservative Ministry—a proof, an incontestible
proof for strength ; for surely that host is strongest.
in which the main body is more eager to en-
gage with the enemy, than its more cautious leaders
are willing to permit it. - - The utmost that can
be inferred from the Morning Chronicle's argu-
ment is, 'that the Ministers are weak in the Party.—
not that the party is . weak. This inference
would, however, go much beyond the truth. The
modified Corn-law, the tariff, and the inemne tax,-
three of the measures upon which, according to
our Contemporary, the Conservatives are dissatis-
fied with the Ministers, never met any serious opposi-
tion in time Conservative party, although here and
there might be heard the expression of doubt and ap-
prehension, which every _change naturally provokes
from among a numerous body of men thinking for
themselves; these expressions, however, soon yielded
to the force of reason, aided by the effect of candid
explanations, and they are heard no longer. We are
persuaied that were the measures to •be again pro-
posed in the present instructed state of the public mind,
they would scarcely challenge a whisper of opposition.