The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the
Royal Agricultural Society with his presence at the meeting
held on Saturday. His Royal Highness visited the DuChess
of Glocester at Glocester-hone, and in the afternoon re-
turned to his residence at Kew, attended by Baron Kijese-

beck.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipp-
sthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge oil
Saturday evening at Kew.
The Lord Chancellor and Sir Robert Peel arrived in town
early on Saturday morning from a visit to Her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.
The Turkish Charg6 d'Affairs transacted business at the
Foreign-office ou Saturday.
Lord Wharncliffe returned to town on Friday afternoon,
from attending the Privy Council held at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from Sir G. Glpps, Governor of New South Wales. •
The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
held a meeting on Saturday in the Council-chamber. There
were present the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Mr.
Justice Erskine, and the Judges of the Admiralty Court.
Sir A. Johnston and Sir E. East sat as Privy Councillors.
After disposing of a motion in an appeal from Canada,
" Hutchinson v. Gillespie," the remainder of the sitting was
occupied with an appeal from Bengal, " Maharajah Metter-
jeet Singh v. Haris of Jesureut Singh." Mr. Jackson con-
cluded his address for the appellant, and Mr. Serjeant
Spankie was heard for the respondent. The Court then rose.
WINDSOR, Sunday.—This morning the Queen and Prince
Albert, her royal highness the Duchess of Kent, and the
royal suite and visitors, attended divine service in the private
chapel within the castle. The Hon. and Rev. Edward S.
Keppell officiated.
Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Warwick, Lady Caroline
Cocks, Hoe. Miss Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. Murray,
attended divine service this evening in the Chapel Royal, St.
George's.
Yesterday morning her majesty and the Prince walked for
some time on the terrace. His royal highness afterwards
enjoyed the sport of pheasant shooting, at Cranbourne Lodge,
attended by the Earl of Warwick, Sir Edward Bowater, and
Mr. G. E. Anson.
In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert took an air-
ing in a pony phaeton, his royal highness driving, attended
by the Countess of Gainsburough, Lady C. Cocks, the Hon.
Miss Cavendish, and the Earl of Warwick, in a carriage; and
by Col. Arbuthnot, Sir E. Bowater, and the Hon. Sir W.
Lumley on horseback.
The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Jersey, and Sir R. Peel,
took their departure.
The Earl of Lincoln arrived at the castle.
Her royal highness the Duchess of Kent walked for some
time, attended by Lady Fanny Howard.

MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE

SATURDAY EVENING

The home stocks were a shade better to-day, Consols
closing at 81/ to 1 for the opening. Bank Stock 165 to 6.
Exchequer Bills 10s. to 12s. premium.
The variations in foreign stocks have been unimportant
excepting in Dutch which were heavy at a decline in prices;
the Two-and-Half per Cents leaving off only 51% to 24, the
Five per Cents 99/. to %. Belgian 1001 to Ik. Spanish Ac-
tive with the Coupons were 23k to 4. Portuguese Five per
Cents 33 to 1, the Three per Cents 19k to 20. Mexican 26
to 1. Colombian 20k to I.
The market for Railway Shares was not so good to-day,
but prices were little affected. London and Birmingham
were 71 to 3, Great Western 19 to 20, the Half Shares 94 to
10, Gosport 51 to 61, Blackwell New 1 to 11 premium.
Birmingham and Gloucester 56 to 8, South-Western 55-4 to
71, North Midland 68 to 70, the New 33 to 4, Brighton 361
to I, Blackwall 91 to 10 per share. South Eastern and
Dover 25i to 5, Eastern Counties 15k to 14% discount.
The Exchequer bill affair, and its extraordinary issue so
far, together with the sort of management which it is taken
for granted has characterized the proceedings lately taken
and ended, has had the natural tendency of generating all
manner of strange rumours. To one of these it was not, and
would not, have been deemed necessary or advisable to refer,
although aware for some days past of its currency in high
circles, but for the formal notice of it in the leading depart-
ment of a morning paper, which broadly states that " two
noble lords" are hinted at as implicated somehow or other
in these nefarious frauds. It is with infinite pain that the
circulation of such a calnronious tale, for calumnious it as-
stredly is, is referred to here ; but the fact of such a rumour
should serve to impress upon the proper quarter the urgent
necessity for the most free and full explanation of all the
particulars and information arrived at from the disclosures
of Smith, and from other sources, relative to these unprece-
dented malversations at the Exchequer office. One of the
noble lords so freely spoken of is by rank a marquis, and the
other a viscount, neither of whom were ever before named
in connection, either directly or indirectly, with the business.
It would be manifestly improper more particularly to desig-
nate the noble persons alluded to, cruelly and unjustly as
they are injured by these vague and unfounded reports.
There was no feature in either Tea or Tallow to-day. The
former was dull at Is. 9%d. per lb. cash for Company's Con-
gou, and the latter steady at 48s. 6d. for P. Y. C.
There has been rather a good business doing in the pro-
duce markets this week, but the sellers are not, in many
instances, satisfied with the prices obtained.

EQUAL

JUSTICE

(From the Examiner.)

" What a notion it is that persons can take a sentence in
one place and a sentence in another, and apply to them a kind
of foot rule, to say here are the circumstances of another,
and that therefore there was a gross disparity.—Lord Denman
on Lord Waldegrare's Case.

The sentences of seven years' transportation for stealing a
sovereign from a letter, and transportation for life for stealing
a penny, have struck the public as rather irreconcilable with
common notions of justice. The penny theft was as bad as
the pound theft, and deserved the same punishment, but
certainly no more. Chief Justice Denman was, however,
the judge in the penny case, and he has signally shown that
the indulgence charged against him in the Waltiegrave affair
is not always his disposition. In his rigour to the miserable
letter-carrier he has amply made up for his leniency to the
lord.
The sentence of seven, years' transportation for the theft of
the sovereign was passed by Mr. Baron Parke, one of the
firmest and steadiest administrators of justice. The judicial
merits of Lord Denman and Baron Parke are, indeed, pretty
fairly represented by the two cases in question, Lord Den-
man's being to the other as a penny is to a sovereign.
For stealing a penny from a letter the carrier is transported
for life. For the Exchequer-bill fraud Mr. B. Smith is
transported for life. Things that are equal to the same thing
are equal to each other ; therefore the Exchequer-bill fraud
and the robbery of the penny are, in the eye of the law, equal.
Here the foot rule fits both to a hair, but it is quite at fault
when applied to the theft of the sovereign with the seven years
transportation. The lesson to carriers, according to Lord
Denman, seems to be, that if they have set their minds on
stealing, they should take care to steal gold at least. A little
stealing is a dangerous thing. Steal much, or filch not.