THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844 



^antofThrce-and-a Half per to nearly two 



to deal with •J» n tt . nt if consists of four several kinds of 

 ni^Ja and fifty millions, anacui gtock ongin . 



JSf^lS first :i- ^^Srfs ?he>oanXtion of stock of this 

 Sfcreated in I8!8.wh id fc J » tnc ,. Tnc nex t is the reduced 

 ^don, and amounts to 10, oo , ^.^ %yas first csta- 



Kd-a-HaU per Cento-. be injr a Cent. Stock, 



i^ed in the year ^^f^Sced to Three-and-a- Half per 

 Hdtn at various PJ^f^V '4s Chancellor of the Exche- 



ZLT. in 16:4, ^"^^000/- The next is the Three-and-a- 

 )Zmr It amounted to 0/,-ul.w t g Cent., which 



S3* p. Cents., ori^ ?^^the growth of capital 

 to tte'fiadoal Process of tw c res( > urce5> under gone two 

 ini eonC f n / n one 7n ,822, when Mr. Vansittart was Chan- 

 *^ I reductions-one in id » t tQ fo and the 



of the Ewheqaer, from five pe ^ of holding the 



Jfe in 1830, when J«hadtani«e" j^ d to ^ 



cBct he now filled, and w n nas ever since remained. 



^■••^♦.K is "he one "ailed the Old Three-and-a-Half per 

 The last rtock is the on ^^ ^ ^ d h d b 



Cents., which was an ir^is ^ ^ ^ Qf Uf6o0|OO0/i . the 



ft^n time to tl ™ e .* u /5o Cks was 249,600.000/., or, in round 



whole ^ oon S of th ^ e fl moant lie at first stated. Now it might 

 numbers, nearly the ™™™™£ t t0 have dea lt separately with 



certainly h^.^" 1 ^ ^Three-and-a-Half per Cent, stocks ; 

 these separate branches oi t legally CQ t> 



but he conceited mat J iiw tllough t it would not be 



would be essentially unjust. He g^ ^ ^ advantage of 



beC0 2 i f t rt navicular branches of stock being of small amount, 

 tfftwo P« l i c A ™ ' iietors who have invested their money in 

 w t0 r C n a rt»°to subff ^ a reduction, which, from their being 

 *f, ? dumber ^ they could not resist. He had there ore re- 

 ^mmetde^ rule should be applied to all these 



S2E. and t at the reduction of interest shall be made at once 

 «££ the whole o : them. He therefore proposed the following 

 «C- To reduce the Three-and-a-Half per Cents, to 3* until 

 Fh? io~th of October, 1854, and to 3 per cent, to the 10th of 

 n/tXr 187< (without any addition to the Debt), being a 

 neriod of wenty years, during which the interest would not be 

 JSEid | beioS "s per cent. He stated that two other plans were 

 opeS to him, but that they would all add to the ex.sting deb . 

 if the Threc-and-a-Halfs were reduced to Three per Cents., it 

 would add 10 millions, and if reduced to Two-and-a-Half per 

 Cents., it would add upwards of 50 millions to the debt. He 

 therefore preferred a more gradual and a more equitable plan, 

 which would not relieve the present generation too much at the 

 expense of their successors. After a few more observations, the 

 resolutions were read and agreed to. 



CITY. 



Money Market, Friday, — Consols have advanced to 

 D$l ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 102| to 102$, 

 the latest quotation being 102£ ; Exchequer Bills, 71 TS ; 

 Bank Stock, 3£ per Cents., &c. shut for the dividends. 



GAZETTE OF THE WEEK—BANKRUPTS N. Bt.akb, Edgware. 



rotd, linen-draper— C. Vf. Mottram, Friday-street, Cheapside, warehouse- 

 man— W. Ciihwrman, J- Hodson, and \V. Olivkr, Brighton, chinamen— W. 

 R. Hawim, Brighton, common brewer — E. Tuck, Haymarket, silversmith — 

 J. BooatMt, York-place, High-street, Portland -town, and Vernon -pi ace, Bafj- 

 nij«e wells-road, pmlterer— J. Tarver, Daventry, Northamptonshire, iron- 

 fcuoder— -C. J. Ru-DKY, Little Creaton, Northamptonshire, innkeeper — C 

 Corrn»iA!«. Edward-square, Kensington, carpenter— J. Joseph, late of Rich- 

 ■wad, Surrey, but ni>w or" Pcter's-hill, London, clerk to a book-keeper — H. 



TltflAft IK* ~m, a. fall A £CJ,L! M m «:»....U,. T C* _*._. am O^.fc^M fit mIWIAC ( A 1>. 





rdahire 



ittettopoKs anti its Whinilv. 



r The Russian Company. — The annual dinner of 

 this Company took place on Saturday, .the Governor, 

 W. Astell, Esq., M.P., in the chair, supported 

 by the Russian Minister, Sir Robert Peel, the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the 

 Board of Trade, and the Paymaster General, and a great 

 number of persons connected with the commerce of the 

 city. In returning thanks for the toast of his health, 

 Baron Brunnow the Russian Minister, adverted to the 

 recent visit of the Grand Duke Michael, and said— 

 ''After an absence of five-and- twenty years, the Grand 

 Duke was happy to see that whenever a Member of the 

 Imperial family of Russia visits this country, he may be 



nuw d l ° find amon S st J ou the true hospitality of good 

 Old England— that unanimous feeling of friendship and 

 respect which is in conformity with the relations so happily 

 existing between Great Britain and Russia, and which I 

 trust will always continue to subsist between the two 

 governments, and between the two great nations. Gen- 

 tlemen, I feel a peculiar gratification in stating this my 

 cnn.w,"- u ~'— ' "• -, Ministers — before 

 . — r » .,«,«« aw me ueau 01 her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment to whom I feel most particularly indebted for hav- 

 ing honoured this meeting by his presence. If I am 

 «^ur in S under a certain difficulty in finding myself 

 «hed upon for the first time to make a public speech 

 41 P resence of ^is great statesman, I can feel 

 assuredly no hesitation whatever, but on the con- 



imkr i* feel tlie g reatest pleasure in expressing 

 fri a 1 and frankl 7 m y sincere gratitude for the kind and 

 ^nendly support which he constantly lends me in the per- 



f-: rni ?? ce of m y public duties for the maintenance of the 



inendly relations between Russia and Great Britain, 



°segood understanding is so essential, not only for 



of ei .K° Wn mutual interests, but also for the preservation 



' lh « general peace of the world."— Sir R. Peel, in 



ennowiedging the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers/' 



el t at some length on the relations of this country and 



thTA la \ " l hope '" he saiJ » '* that the account which 

 »e Archduke Michael will give of us, after 25 years' 

 ence m Russia, will induce a yet more illustrious 

 liJi f r °- f . that hou se— the Emperor of Russia himself— 

 th P « ,V 8lt this cou ntry, and to receive from us within 



conviction before her Majesty's 

 m 7 respected friend at the head of 



we will then offer 



to h ? m ' thC COrdial dci »onstration 

 the el Je f fc y of res pect for his personal character and 

 Enp-rk stati °u he occupies, and of the desire every 

 few i 1 an mUSt entertain to cement with him the feel- 

 friendl r er !? lraents of mutual good understanding. This 

 7 feeling iq favour of amicable relations between 



Great Britain and Russia stands too, I trust, on a footing 

 too well secured to be dependent upon any accidental cir- 

 cumstance, or upon the personal character of any man 

 entrusted with high office or authority. But this, I must 

 add, that so far as the exertion of any one man or the 

 agency of any single individual can contribute to the pro- 

 motion of this good understanding, the two countries are 

 under the deepest obligations to that distinguished noble- 

 man who is present here this day as the representative of 

 the Russian empire at the Court of Great Britain. There 

 may have been diplomatists occupying higher diplomatic 

 station, but there never was a man entrusted with the con- 

 fidence of the Crown who discharged the duties connected 

 with his office in a more honourable or exemplary manner 

 than those duties have been performed by Baron Brun- 

 now. I can undertake to say that there never was a 

 Foreign Minister more zealous for the promotion of the 

 interests of his own country, or more unwilling to make 

 any compromise of its honour, or of anything that could 

 qualify his obligation to watch over the interests of which 

 he is the representative ; but, rising above all the petty 

 arts of intrigue, and by the suavity and simplicity of his 

 own conduct, his Excellency has gained the confidence of 

 every Ministry with which he has been called upon to act, 

 and without sacrificing the interests of his own country, 

 has secured the personal good-will and esteem of all those 

 with whom it has been his lot to act. This country is 

 under the deepest obligations to him, and I therefore beg 

 to propose to you a toast which is in the nature of a 

 chartered sentiment with this Company, and one which I 

 am sure you will receive with every demonstration of cor- 

 diality and enthusiasm— the toast of " Perpetual amity 

 between Great Britain and Russia." Several other toasts 

 were drank in the course of the evening, including the 

 Chairman and Directors of the East India Company, the 



Governor of the Bank, &c. 



The Carlton Club.— It is stated that the Carlton Club 

 has purchased the leases of Mr. Evans, the booksellers 

 premises, and of those recently occupied by Mr. Mott in 

 Pall Mall, which will be pulled down for the purpose of 

 enlarging their present club-house and of building a splen- 

 did edifice. It is understood that several plans have been 



already sent in. «-j*a_ «* 



Sociely of Arts At the last meeting of this Society it 



was resolved to record on the minutes the regret of the 

 Society at the death of their late housekeeper, Miss 

 Cookings, who had faithfully served the Institution for 

 upwards of half a century ; and to pay the expenses of 

 her funeral. A subscription was also entered into by the 

 members to erect a tablet or monument to her memory. 

 The Humane Society.— The annual festival of this 

 society was celebrated last week at the Freemasons 

 Tavern. Lord Morpeth was to have presided, but was pre- 

 vented doing so by the ill-health of his father. In his Lord- 

 ship's absence Sir E. Codrington took the chair. The 

 honorary medallions given by the society to those who 

 had been instrumental in saving life during the last year 

 were then distributed J and among those who received 

 them were Dr. Butler, the dean of Peterborough ; Sir 

 Walter Riddell ; Captain James Corbin, of the Rainbow 

 steamer ; and Mr. Edwards, Jun., of Pentonville. After 

 the medallions had been awarded, the usual annual pro- 

 cession of persons who had been saved from drowning 

 marched round the room. The contributions amounted 



to upwards of 200/. 



Improvements in the Borough.— k meeting of the rate- 

 payers of the parish of St. George-the-Martyr was held 

 last week, at which a petition to the Commissioners of 

 Woods and Forests was agreed to, praying that a portion 

 of any sum granted for the improvement of the metropolis 

 might be applied towards the formation of a road through 

 the district called the Mint to the Great Dover.road.lhe 

 Mint was stated to be one of the most profligate places 



in the metropolis. , 



Free Church of Scotland.- Several meetings have been 

 held during the week in different parts of the Metropolis, 

 for the purpose of receiving the deputation from Scotland. 

 The objects of the seceders have been explained by the 

 members of the deputation, and several minis ters of 

 London Dissenting congregations have advocated the 

 cause, and promoted subscriptions m its behalf. 



Sons of the Clergy. -There will be no grand perform- 

 ance this year in the body of St. Paul's Cathe dra 1, as has 

 been the custom for a century past Objections having 

 been made to the erection of scaffolding, which interrupted 

 the daily service, the Archbishop of Canterbury, acting 

 under the advice of the Bishop of London, has decided 

 that the festival is to be confined to the performance of 

 one of the old services, with some increase of the choir. 



The Destitute Poor.-The Bank of England, the East 

 India Company, the Company of Mercers, and the Com- 

 pany of Grocers, have during the past week fch subscribed 

 200/. in aid of the funds of the Bishop of London s Asso- 

 ciation for Visiting and Relieving the Poor at their own 

 Dwellings. The |ross amount of the fund of this associa- 

 tion is now above 20,000/., and its operations are now 

 extended over more than 60 metropolitan parishes. 



The Coal Trade.-!, large meeting of the coal mer- 

 chants and factors of the city, and others interested n the 

 coal trade, was held last week, Sir J. Duke, Bart, in t e 

 chair, for the purpose of petitioning P*rliamen ton he 

 proposed new tax of 5d. per ton upon all coals imported 

 Ltd f London, to defray, as proposed by ^ernment, the 

 expenses of the contemplated Thames e™^™"*:^ 

 was stated by the different speakers that f7 m ^;; d ^ C i e n d . 

 charges on many of the railways and cana s coa Is ai * m 

 troduced from 'the midland districts, not on ly into the 

 metropolis but into parts of the country formerly suppl ed 

 from London, there being a great difficulty ^ in con petmg 

 with these rivals, to whom the proposed tax would be a 



positive bounty, while it would be deeply prejudicial to the 

 London coal trade. Petitions to Parliament against the 



measure were unanimously adopted. 



Anti-Corn-Law League. — The usual weekly meeting 

 of the League was held on Wednesday in Covent-Garden 

 Theatre, the Hon. C. P. Villiers (in the absence of Mr. 

 Wilson, who was attending a meeting at Manchester,) in 

 the chair. The meeting was addressed by the Chairman, 

 Dr. Bowring, Mr. Leader, Mr. T.F. Collier, and Mr. For. 



Anti-League Meeting — A meeting convened by Mr. 

 N. Doran Maillard, the Secretary of the National Anti- 

 League Association, and described upon the admission- 



card as a " Great National Anti-League Demonstration, 

 was held on Monday evening at Freemasons'-hall. Sir R. 

 P. Jodreil, Bart , was voted into the chair, but declined 

 addressing the meeting. The business was therefore opened 

 by two operatives forming a deputation from the Spitalfields 

 Weavers Union, who proposed resolutions against free 

 trade. Considerable uproar ensued, and a large body of 

 Chartists, who occupied the Hall, proposed as an amend- 

 ment a resolution condemning the League and the Anti- 

 League as being both useless for the attainment of the 

 People's Charter. After a great deal of riotous discussion 

 the show of hands was in favour of the amendment, and 

 it was moved that the Chairman do leave the chair, which 



was carried. . 



The Marquess of Northampton's Soiree.— The Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society held his second conversazione 

 on Saturday evening. It was a very full meeting, there, 

 being at least 350 fellows and visitors present. The Mar- 

 quess was unavoidably absent from indisposition, but the 

 honours of the reception were performed by Mr. C. S. 



Dickens and Viscount Alford. 



Liberation of the boy Bean.— This boy, who, it wilL 

 be remembered, was taken into custody for attempting to 

 annoy the Queen by presenting a pistol at her carriage, as 

 her Majesty was taking an airing in St. James's-park, 

 and for which he was tried at the Central Criminal Court,, 

 and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, was liberated 

 on Saturday, the term for which he was imprisoned 



having expired. 



Fires.— On Saturday morning the workmen connected 

 with the extensive premises of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, 

 in Guildford-street, Lambeth, were alarmed by a disco- 

 very which left no doubt that a wilful attempt had been 

 made to fire the premises. The spot fixed on by the in- 

 cendiary was adjoining the workshed, containing several 

 thousand pounds' worth of property. A reward of 200f. 

 has been offered to any person who would give such in- 

 formation as would lead to the discovery of the offender fi. 

 but no clue has yet been obtained. . 



Mortality of the Metropolis.— The following is the 



number of Deaths registered in the week ending *eb. 24 r. 



-West Districts, 161; Northern, 189; Central, 243; 



Eastern, 250; Southern, 272; Total, 1115. Weekly 



average for the last five years, 946 



iBrobtactal Netos. 



Agricultural Meetings.— The following meetings in 

 opposition to the League have been reported this week :-— 

 At Yeovil on Friday, Mr. Poole a tenant-farmer m the 

 chair, supported by Mr. St. John Mildmay, Mr. Wynd- 

 ham, Sir A. Hood, Bart., Mr. Moody, and a large num- 

 ber of landowners and farmers — At Chesterfield on Friday, 

 Mr. Clay of North Wingfield in t*» e chair, supported by 

 a great number of agriculturists ; considerable opposition 

 was manifested to the different resolutions by a portion 

 of the meeting, who attempted to appoint a free-trade 

 chairman, but the farmers on the platform would not allow 

 them to get possession of the chair, and the resolutions 

 against the League were adopted by a large majority .— 

 At Bridlington on Saturday, E. H. Reynard, Esq. of 

 Sunderland Wick in the chair, supported by a large oody 

 of tenant-farmers, landowners, &c, of the district.— At 

 Lynn on Tuesday, Mr. J. Beck a tenant-farmer m the 

 chair supported by Lord Sondes, Mr. Bagge, M.P., the 

 Mayor of "Lvnn, Capt. Fitzroy, Col. Mason, and about 

 550 7 tenant-farmers.-At North wich on Tnesday. Lord 

 de Tabley in the chair, supported by Lord ] Delamere, 

 WilbrahaL Egerton, ^^^^Jt 



GeT C' ifcfK TaUon Egerton, Esq., 

 MP and a large number of landowners and farmers. 



iiiLm.-A public meeting was held in this town 

 nnS^to receive Mr. O'Connell, « to consider 

 aieproprTet^of petitioning Parliament, and take such 

 She ^ steps as may be requisite to protect the constt- 



tattond liberties of the British W\^^Z£!^ m * 

 which recent proceedings in Ireland have exposed them. 

 Mr G Edmonds the town clerk presided m the absence 

 of the Mayor. Resolutions were adopted condemning 

 the recent 7 State Trials, and declaring « that the only 

 guarantee for the attainment and protection 0^ perfect 

 civil and religious liberty is to be found m a full, fair, and 

 free representation of the people, and this will be most 

 effectually obtained by the friends of the people in Parlia- 

 ment enforcing the ancient constitutional principle, that 

 redress of grievances should precede the jotinj of tup- 

 plies." Mr. O'Connell then came forward. The whole 

 meeting rose, and the applause which burst forth con- 

 tinued for several minutes. It was some time before he 

 could proceed. Silence having at lengthen obtained. 



he said, " to see this expression ui j-- • — => 

 to see that there is no longer remembered the^ 



of English and I^-° f .??"" '"fw .wL but that 

 men, of Welshmen, of Englishmen £ In.h * d ' th * 



you are determined on a union of sentiment an . v 



