The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
SUN.—The English Money Market has been without any
feature or business. The funds appear to have an inclination
to advance still further, were speculators to show any disposition
to enter into extensive operations. At the termination of
business Consols were 90,1 903/4 for Money, and 904 90i for the
Account. Bank Stock, 1654 1664 ; India Stock, 248 249;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48 ; New, 44 46 premium.
The prices of Fenian Securities remained firm. Belgian
Bonds were 10114, 102!!, : Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cants.,
51 514 ; the Five per Cents., 101 1014 • Danish, 82 83 .; and
Brazilian, 63 65. Mexican was quoted, 364 364.
The Share Market was exceedingly heavy, prices, however,
differed but little from those of yesterday—London and Birming-
ham were 178 180; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 W ;
Great Western, 86 87 ; the Half-Shares, 614 62 ; North Mid-
land, 59 60; the New Shares, 29 30; South Eastern and
Dover. 224 23 ; the Scrip, 24 3 ; Eastern Counties, 84 94 ;
Northern and Eastern, 404 414 ; Blackwell, 9 94 ; and
Brighton, 33 334 per share.
The Foreign Exchanges did not vary materially from the
state in which they were on Tuesday. Hamburgh advanced
to 13 11, 13 114 ; and Paris declined to 25f. 674 c., 2.5 f. 724 c.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 21 214 ;
Peruvian, 16 17 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 33i ; the
Three per Cents., 194 194 ; Spanish Five per Cents., '2l 214 ;
the Three per Cnts., 204 21.
The conversation in the House of Commons last night on
the subject of the Stade duties has attracted much attention in
the City among those who are eitterested in the trade with
Hamburgh, and as the commerce with that city is very ex-
tensive, it is needless to state that the question is worthy of
consideration. It may be fairly stated that, with the exception
of Russia, and until lately, Mexico, no trade has been subjected
to so much annoyance as that which has to pass up the
Elbe, asd that annoyance owing solely to this impost. The
rates charged by the Hanoverian Tariff, and fixed upon arbi-
trary principles, and without the slightest reference to Ham-
burgh, which city is more intimately interested, have
been collected in the most vexatious manner, the slightest
deviation making the parties liable, however innocent
they might be of any intention to defraud, to the
most . annoying proceedings and 'heavy fines. If the de-
scription of the goods in the market from this country:.differ
in the slightest degree fromihe Hanoverian book of ra , the
trouble and additional charges are numerous. For instance, if
the duty be levied by the package, and if it be in a bale and
termed such in the ship's papers, it pays a certain rate; but if
the German word tallen, which means precisely the same
thing, be used, but one half is charged. In shipping beer from
this country, it is understood to be a British manufacture, but
if it appears as such in the documents submitted to the col-
lectors of the duty, it pays exactly ten times as much as it would.
if called beer. Examples have been cited, upon trifling errors,
by which the loss to that country would, had they been
permitted to pass undiscovered, have been but trifling, have
been visited with the confiscation of ship and cargo, which
have been released, only by submitting to very heavy penalties;
one, in particular, where by rnisdescribing a small parcel of
goods the difference would not have been Ss., the fine levied to,
procure the restoration amounted to upwards of 2151. The
duty was originally fixed at one-sixteenth per cent., but by
innovation the charge now varies from one-half to five per
cent.; besides this, there is the trouble of paying no less than
eight different exactions : first on the ship, then the cargo,
each article being separately enumerated, next a commission
of six-and-a-quarter per cent. on these to the officers,
as a fee for their trouble of collecting them; then harbour dues
under the denomination of " ship's expenses," a separate com-
mission also upon this ; next a certificate of return, and lastly
a tax upon the passing Stade outward bound ; this last being
doubtlessly the most cheerfully paid of them all. Much doubt
exists as to whether the Congress of Vienna, and the subse-
quent Convention at Dresden in 1619, did not abolish those
duties in Coto ; but even if they be legal, it is no less imperative
upon the Government to take the necessary measures to re-
lieve one of the principal branches of trade from the great op-
pression, under which it now labours.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.I
Amsterdam CF. 12 8

Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8i
Antwerp l2 7b
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 '
__ . .

Gibraltar ... ....... 46
Leghorn . .. .. 3O 23
Genoa 25 90
Milan .

Venice

Altona

Paris, 3 days' sigkt 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85

'Naples .........
iPalerrno, per oz 1191
(Lisbon
Oporto 521
Rio Janeiro 261-
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 4131
Philadelphia.
PRICEI, OF BULLION, PER Ca.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold C0in...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars.. 0 4 10
Silver in Bars... 0 4 11

Marseilles
Bourdesxm 25 90

Frankfort on Maine... 151 i

Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37
8er1in.....

Vienna, effec. el. 3 M 957
_ . M.

Trieste, ditto 9 58

Madrid
Cadiz 36t
Bilbao 36

Barcelona
Seville

CORONER'S INQUEST.
SUICIDE BY A CHILD NINE YEARS OF AGE.

Last evening an inquest was held at St. George's Hospital,
before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Emily Cowdroy, aged nine
years. Mrs. Thomas, of York-terrace, Chelsea, a married
woman, stated that she resided at No. 6, Church-terrace, Chel-
sea. Deceased and her parents occupied the second floor.
There were five children of them altogether. On the 15th
instant, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the mother of the
deceased was in her room, and some of the children called out
that Emily had broken a mug. Witness told the mother not
' to beat her, and she said she would not.. The deceased was that
\
on the stairs, and seemed distracted about the accident,
went upstairs and was shortly afterwards followed by the
mother. There was a screaming then by all of the children,
and the mother came down stairs again. In a moment or two
1 the screaming was resumed more violently, and in a minute or
two afterwards witness heard that the deceased had thrown her-
\
self out of the window, and saw the landlady of the house
carrying the child up stairs in her lap. The children were not
treated harshly by the parents.
A little girl, a sister of the deceased, about six years old,
stated that the deceased asked her to undo her dress, which She
took off and threw into a corner, and said, " Thank you."
She then kissed her little brother, and got up on the window-
seat, and opening the window, was getting out, when she (the
sister) attempted to prevent her, but she kicked her from her,
and threw herself bead foremost into the area. Their mother
was then down stairs.
The father of the deceased, who was affected to tears, stated
that the deceased was a most affectionate and sensitive child-
, The mug in question was a mere child's plaything, but the de-
, ceased set great store on it, as it belonged to one of her sisters.
The deceased was quite naked when picked up in the area.
Several other witnesses were examined from whose testi-
mony it appeared that the mother entered the roam at the
' instant the child was in the act of getting out of the window,
' and franticly rushing forward was only just time enough to
' catch hold of the deceased's hand, but was not able to retain
her hold of her. The reason assigned for her undressing her.
r self was, that she was ashamed of her clothes which were very
shabby. It also appeared that she had been impressed by the
I father, although not intended by him, in a serious way not to
[ break that mug.—Verdiet, " Died from having thrown herself
, from a window while in a state oi mental excitement."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
8/ rt_A paragraph having appeared in a daily Journal, copied
from the Windsor Express, stating that the Guard of Honour
of the 15th Regiment, stationed at Claremont during part of
her Majesty's late stay there, had been removed in consequence
of the misconduct of the men, I am authorised to inform you
that there is not the slightest foundation for such a statement.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. GREY, Lieut.-Colonel,
Buckingham Palace, July Equerry in Waiting.
20.1

t de Bonnald, Archbishop of Lyons, arrived on.
the Marseilles, on board the Minos steamer, from Rowe,
Whither he went to receive the Cardinal's hat. 1.1. de
, orbm Janson, Bishop of Nancy, was a passenger in the
same packet.
The Church Intelligencer contradicts the rumour
that Miss Gladstone of Liverrol, has apostatized to the
Roman Catholic Church. Vic statement, it is said, is
entirely without foundation.

Cbg

TALUPE, there had been gross and corrupt bribery; then

baying been spent, in a constituency of 850, on the part of
Mr. ELPHINSTONE and Mr. lIARFORD 5,0001, and on
that of Mr. FITZROY and Lord CANTALUPE 2,0001.
In the case of Reading a corrupt compromise was ad-

witted by Mr. RUSSELL and Lord CHELSEA, at a risk
to them of 2,000/. The constituency of Reading is
only 1,050, and notwithstanding the unwillingness of

the witnesses to afford any information, the Committee
found that nearly 8,0001. had been spent in corrupt

practices at the last election. As regards the
borough of Penryn and Falmouth, a corrupt com-

promise, bribery, and other corrupt practices,

were proved against all the candidates, with the

exception of Captain PLUMRIDGE. The whole sums
so expended were 4,0001. a-side, making 8,0002 for

that inconsiderable constituency. The refusal of Mr.
COCHRANE and his agents to give any information as to

the system of bribery carried on by them at Bridport,
leaves the evidence necessarily imperfect relative to that
borough. Nevertheless the Committee expresses a con-
viction that he was guilty of bribery to an extent fully
equal to that of the other candidates. We go farther.
We are persuaded that he spent more in bribery than
Mr. WAacuaTox and Mr. MITCHELL both together.
Mr. WARBURTON spent 2,166/. and Mr. MITCHELL
3,7300% at the last election.

Such is the substance of a Report which has at-
tracted more attention, and encountered more opposition,

than any appointed by the Legislature since the passing

of the Reform Bill. We have not yet had time to do

more than glance at the evidence ; but from the little

which we have read, we have been struck with the great

discretion and ability with which Mr. ROEBUCK per-
formed a task as delicate as it was difficult. He seems to

have fully appreciated the responsibility which devolved
•

upon :him, and to have suffered neither taunts nor

menaces to divert him for an instant from the even

tenour of his passionless course. Of the corrupt prac-
tices thus laid bare we shall take an early opportunity
of speaking in terms more commensurate with our im-

pressiou of their atrocity.

The only news of any importance in the French and
Spanish Journals, received this morning, will be found
in our Foreign Summary. We subjoin a few additional
items :

The Spanish Senate, in its last sitting on the 14th, voted
the Budget. The i%larquis de Julies proposed in the same sit-
ting to restore the dotation of the Queen-mother, Maria Chris-
tina, which was suspended in consequence of the events in
October. This motion was rejected by a majority of 40 to 17.
The Captain-General, and the political chief of Madrid, left
the capital on the 15th, to go to Guadalaxara, to meet the
eldest son of the infant Don Francisco.

The journals of Barcelona are of the 15th. General Zurbano
had left that city and gone to Gerona.
TURIN, Jury 16.—( From a Letter. )—" The King and the
whole Court returning from Genoa are gone to the Royal
Palate ;of Rumigni for the summer. It was hoped
that on this occasion, Charles Albert would have
extended the amnesty, granted to the persons impli-
cated in the revolution of 1821, to all the individuals con-
demned for political offences in I ts 33-4 ; but hitherto partial
favours oniy have been granted to some Genose condemned in
these latter years. Among others are the Marquis de Ravesedo,
who has obtained complete amnesty and liberty to return to his
native country. Doctor Orsini. who oas confined in the Fort
of Fenestrelles, and has just been set at liberty ; Marquis
Cattaneo, who has obtained permission to return to Genoa for
two months, it is hoped that he will be permitted to stay there I
permanently; and M. Noti, who has obtained permission to
finish, at Genoa, the five years' confinement which he had still
to pass at Fenestrelles. /leaven grant that these measures may
be extended to all other persons condemned for political offences
who are still in exile or in the public prisons."
A letter from Nantes of the 16th July, addressed to the
Journal La France, says:_" Our city continues to feel
the consequence of the treaty in the right of search. The
English ships take freight on lower terms, and with more secu-
rity in cur port than the ships belonging to the town. Accord-
ingly several merchants prefer shipping their goods under the
English flag. Such a state of things deserves the most serious
attention of the new Chamber, especially as it affects the most
valuable interest of our citizens.— Commerce.

BOURSE—PARIS, TITURSDAY, JULY 21.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 117 ... 117 ... 116 90... 117
4 per Cents 101 30... 101 30... 101 30... 101
3 per Cents 77 10... 77 20... 77 ... 77 10
Bank of France 3175 ...3175 ...3175 .. 3175
Lafatte Bank 5,000 f 5035 —.5035 _5035 —.5035
Be!gian Bank..
Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 1021 ... 1021
1840 lO3l ... 1031 ... 1031 ... 1034
Spanish Active 226 ... 226 226 ... 221
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitan
Roman

... , _ ... .
RAILWAY SHARES
St. Germain BO5 . 803 ... 805 ... 805
Versailles, IL B 295 ... 295 . 292 50... 292 50
L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 .. 95
Rouen
Strasburg to Bale 2OO ... 200 ... 198 75... 200

THE PARSONS VERSUS THE PEOPLE.—ill his speech
last night in the House of Commons, on the subject of
the present distresses, Mr. Gibson took occasion to ob-
serve that—" some upheld the Corn-laws, on purpose
that the manufactures of the country should not advance
beyond a particular point ; the fact was so ; and even
the clergy, from whom better things were to be expected,
that doctrine from their pulpits, which was
no ether than that the People should be kept. at the
starving. point !"—Truly this is precious doctrine for
Christian pastors to inculcate, and cannot fail to put
their famishing. flocks into a high state of comfort and
satisfaction ! Mark, too, its comprehensive philanthropy,
so every way worthy of Him, who deemed it one of his
first and must sacred duties to feed the hungry multitude
in the wilderness ! But though the parsons are so wil-
ling tat " the Poople should be kept at the starving
point," we doubt much whether the experiment would
find favour in their eyes. if it were first to be
tried on themselves. A protracted Lent, would, we
fear, be submitted to by them with the same reluctance,
'With which Exeter's pet bishop submitted to the loss of
his rich rectory of Stanhope. Imagine the horror of
Cantuar, at
_being
,compelled to " find himself"
on nothing a day Conceive the stomachic suf-
ferings of plump London, after being kept for a
week at the ‘‘ starving point." Would not the
gol-
den Prebendaries of Durham shake in their stalls at the
idea of being subjected—though but for twelve hours—
to such an athciswal experiment ? Would not Deans
and Chapters:heap sackcloth and ashes' on their wigs ; and
dewlapped :Archdeacons, and triple-chinned Pluralists
cry out " the Church in danger ! the very instant that
the " starving" system was brought to bear upon
their ghostly rutundities ? It is one thing to starve
oneself ; and another, to recommend starvation to one's
friends. It is exceedingly right and proper that the

THE WEATHER.—Noon, JULY 23.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer.... 63 f Highest 66 Lowest 50
Barometer 30.42.—Wind N.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 3l minutes after 21 Evening 47 minutes after 2,

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

The Report of Mr. ROEBUCK'S Bribery and Cor-
ruption Committee, laid some days ago upon the
table of the House of Commons, has been printed and
circulated. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman has well
redemed the pledges which he made to the House when
moving for that Committee ; and the temperate and
dispassionate tone in which the Report is drawn up,
proves that its management could not have been
entrusted to any gentleman less capable of
wresting a great principle to personal, factious, or
party purposes. No attempt is made in the Re-
port to prejudice the House or the country,
against individuals, however deeply involved in corrupt
practices. All that is sought is to expose a system of
corruption which is overspreading the country, and
which, unless checked, must terminate in the destruction
of all public virtue. The Press, however, is not called upon
to be equally tolerant with Mr. ROEBUCK of the crimes
of men, compared with whom the miserable receivers of
bribes are the most venial of offenders.
The Committee commenced its inquiries with Harwich,
for which Mr. J. ATTWOOD and Major BERESFORD were
the returned Members, and Mr. BAGSHAW and Sir
DENIS LE MARCHANT the rejected candidates. There
there had been a corrupt compromise at a risk to Mr.
ATT WOOD of 2,500 i. Independently of this sum, Mr.
Arrwoou and Major BERESFORD expended the enor-
mous sum of 6,8001. at the election ; the greater part of
which Was distributed in bribes. No less than 3,000/.
was divided among 33 voters directly in bribes. Sir
OEMs LE MARCHANT spent 1,500/. in bribery, and Mr.
BAGSHAW 5001. Thus no less a sum than 9,3001. was
spent in bribery by the Tory Members for Harwich.
The Committee, having investigated the extent of
bribery at Harwich, proceeded to Nottingham. Here
the successful candidates were the Whig-Radical Sir
J. C.II6BHOUSE, once a branch in Westminster'S golden
candlestick with " Old Glory," and Sir G. LARPENT.
The return having been petitioned against, a corrupt
compromise was entered into with Mr. WALTER, one of
the rejected candidates, at an expense to HOBHOUSE of
1,0001., and a risk of 4,000/. provided the conditions of it
were violated.. The returned Members, HonHousE and
LARPENT,' expended 12,000/. in bribery and other cor-
rupt practices, and WALTER and CHARLTON, Who op-
posed them, from 4,0001. to 5,0001. The Committee ac-
count for the smallness of the amount spent in bribery
on the part of the Conservative candidates, by stating
that the poll was not taken.
In the case of Lewes, for which Mr. HARFORD and
ELPHINSTONE were returned, the Committee found,
that they being petitioned against, a corrupt compro-
mise was. entered into.. That on their part, and the;
of: the rejected candidates, Mr. Fmßoy and Lord CAN.

People should starve, for we have scriptural warrant for
it, in the case of Lazarus, who is their apt representative;
but what respectable person can endure to think of Dives
—the true parsonic type—being subjected to the same
plebeian and ungentlemanlike process ?
MR. GOULBURN A THIRD TIME.—The strange blunder
in the Tobacco Bill, which if allowed to remain would
have ruined one-half of the small shopkeepers, has been
expunged. A communication on the subject has just
been addressed from the Excise-office to Mr. Younger,
of Tower-street, who had written to complain of the pro-
posed regulation. " I am directed," says the writer,
"to acquaint you that the sth and 7th clauses of the said
Bill have been altered by the omission of the words
dealers and retailers.' Many will be astonished how
the words ever got there, but the fact is the great majo-
rity of our rulers are as ignorant of the habits and mode
of living of the lower classes as they are of the doings in
the moon, and are therefore totally unfit to legislate for
them. There could not be abetter proof of this fact than the
present instance, except, perhaps, some of the obnoxious
clauses in tho Metropolitan Police Act respecting Sunday
observance, which have only these effects—they harass
licensed victuallers and the public, excite hatred against
the Legislature, and prevent persons who might be in-
clined to attend Divine Service from entering a church,
because they will not be religious by compulsion. If the
Treasury would engage a number of shopkeepers, opera-
tives, and Chartists, as occasional advisers, they would
find them the cheapest and most useful of all public
servants. The income of one Bishop would suffice for
the maintenance of the whole.

Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort, accompanied
by their relatives the Hereditary Prince and Princess of
Saxe Coburg, are expected to leave town this afternoon
for Windsor Castle, attended by the Royal suite. The
Royal party are expected to leave Buckingham Palace at
three o'clock, her Majesty and the Royal circle travel-
ling by the GI eat Western Railway to Slough. -The
Court is expected to return to town for closing the ses-
sion of Parliament next month.