Nov 23,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



whatever flag, arriving at any of the ports of Cuba with 

 slave?, will be confiscated. — The Penguin packet brings 



papers to the 28th September, from the Brazils. Com- ,— - v , 



lercially the advices are without interest, but politically this was nothing compared to the reception which he 



ing up in front of the Mansion-house, a vast concourse 

 of persons assembled. As soon as the Lord Mayor pre- 

 sented himself, he was assailed by a shower of hisses, but 



mercially the advices are without interest, Out politically mis was uummg «™p«™ ^ «^ ,wo F WH •»«■»■ «« 



it would seem that affairs were not going on smoothly in met on his arrival at Guildhall. At this place there were 



all par's of the empire. The southern provinces were nearly a thousand persons of all ranks and grades as- 



_.-ii /•-_ e l :ii:._.i j-_i_ »ivu«..~u u»ia i« sembled, and the instant the Lord Mayor descended 



from the State carriage to enter the hall, one loud burst 



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still far from tranquillised or orderly, akhough held in 



check, and therefore prevented from any marked overt 

 demonstrations by the presence of military force. The 

 date from Buenos Ayres is the 31st August. The Argen- 

 tine Minister, General Guido, had informed the Bra- 

 zilian Government that Buenos-Ayres would consider 

 the departure of General Paz through their terri- 

 tories as an act of hostility, and accordingly Paz 

 had been detained at Rio. This had caused a great 

 sensation at Monte Video, and the circumstance 

 was con i !ered as most unfavourable. A protest against 

 arbitrary and injurious impositions by the Monte Videan 

 Government had been signed by the various British 

 residents and mercantile firms in that city. 



Tahiti, — Later accounts have been received from the 

 Society Islands by way of the United States, from which 

 it appears that there has been another battle between the 

 French and the natives, in which great numbers of the 

 latter have been destroyed by their assailants. The Fis- 

 gard English frigate has conveyed Queen Poniard to the 

 Island of Bolabola. 



CITY. 



Mousy Market, Friday. — Consols for money 

 and the account closed at 100 i; Red. Three per Cents. 

 99J ; Turee and a Quarter, 102 Jj Long Annuities, 

 12 1-16 ; India Stock, 286 to 288 ; Bank Stock, 206 ; 

 Exchequer Bills, 64 to 66 pm. ; India Bonds, 81 to 83 

 prem. 



OAZRTTE OF THE WEEK— BANKRUPTS.—/. Sbbmaw, Queen- 

 itreet, < -ipiiile, London, colour merchant — J. Lavkbnck, Northampton, 

 tobi -C S Harcuv, < reor«e-street, Hanover square, dressmaker — 



C. Cash, l techapel-road, ironmonger — T. Coomb, Aldgate Hi^h-streef, 



coffeehouse keeper— S. Harviv, Fast Mersea, Essex, cattle dealer— S. T. 

 Wat* hi IY.Bybii, Skinner street, City, woollen warehouseman — J. 

 Chweh, J Hardmaw, and G. Cravkn, jun., Wakefield, dyers— J. Cravki", 

 and J. Harpiman, Thurnes, Wakefield, Yorkshire, dyers— J. Broadrk*!-, 

 Kexby, Li Inshin", wheelwii^rht and carpenter — B. Osbornb, Sheffield, 

 Yorkshire, table knife manufacturer— M. R kihbstkr, Hartlepool, Durham, 

 butcher— S. B. Pai.mkr, Bath, watchmaker— C. B >sns, Btth, shoemaker — 

 T. Mann, Leicester, paperhan^er— J. Siiarplbs, B ackburn, Lancashire, 

 cotton manufactmet — J. Scgdkn, Leeds, machine maker — T. S. Sherwood, 

 Tilrhurst, Berkshire, brick maker— J. Burokss, Chatfield, Suffolk, farm er 

 — J. E. Vardy, Portsmouth, draper- J. H. Urn no, Newman-street, Oxford- 

 Street, up rer— W. J\< ■■; Charlotte-street, Fuzroy square, paper- 



hanger-F. .NewSarum, Wiltshire, grocer— J. Staples, Cotten- 



ham, Cambridgeshire, plumber— S. Ecct.rs and C RrniKos, Manchester, 

 cotton manufacturers— W. Newton, Bath, coal merchant — M. Tokkiksox. 

 Kidderminster, linendraptr. 



BANKRUPTCY ANNUU.ED._J.Hau. and S. Vtffourr, St. Miry 

 Axe, London, wholesale tea and coffee dealers 



SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.— J. Shaw, Cupar, F.feshire, writer- A 



Horn. muchty, ma vcturer— J. Millar, Stmohome, Lanarkshire 



weaving agent. 



iWetropoIfe anti its Ffcinflfi, 



The N Lord Mayor — At the annual dinner of the 

 Innholdera' Company on Friday evening, at their hill in 

 Dowgate-hill, tiie Chairman gave as a toast, * The health 

 of the present Lord Mayor;" the proposition was met 

 with one of the I Jest bursts of indignation ever heard 

 within the walls of that building. Several members of 

 the Livery of this Company addressed the Chairman in 

 opposition to this toast, and expressed the feeling of dis- 

 approbation which they declared to be general amongst 

 the Livery at the conduct of the Court of Aldermen, 

 who were really the instruments in the election of the 

 Lord Mayor. It was emphatically denied that the 

 Livery bad anything to do with the election of Alderman 

 Gibbs, but asserted that it was a gang of hired persons 

 packed into Guildhall that had carried the show of hands 

 in favour of Messrs. Gibbs and Wood. Had a poll been 

 demanded, the result would have been against both par- 

 ties in point of numbers. The Chairman declared that 

 the toast he proposed was complimentary to the office 

 of Lord Mayor, and not to the man who filled it ; but 

 the opposition was persisted in after this announcement 

 still more furiously than before, and ultimately the 

 Chairman was compelled to withdraw the toast, amidst 

 the cheers of nearly the whole assembly. At the annual 

 dinner of the Tallow Chandlers' Company, at which 

 about 200 were present, the Master gave the old routine 

 toast of 200 or 300 years' standing, "The Right Hon. 

 the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of 

 London," when a burst of indignation burst forth 

 from the Livery assembled ; the Master rose and said 

 He had merely done his duty in complying with his in- 

 structions, and with a very ancient usage, and it was not 

 for him to alter such usage, but if the following toast 

 would be more in unison with the sentiments of the 



TtnTZ'f ♦? W r° •! P f r0 r P ° Se " The AWermen and Corpora- 

 ™ th6 i Clty ° f , London -" This was receivedwith 

 general applause, and restored the harmony of the meet- 

 ing. There were present at the dinner Aldermen John- 

 son, Farncombe, and Humphrey, M.P., and Mr. Benj. 

 Hawes, MP. for Lambeth. At the annual dinner of the 

 Lonners Company a similar scene occurred. After the 

 usual loyal toasts the Master proposed -The Magistracy 

 of the City of London." The moment be uttered it a 

 scene of the greatest uproar and confusion ensued • and 

 not a single person would raise a cheer. This confusion 

 lasted some time, and was only put a stop to by the 

 Master proposing "The Health of the late Lord Mayor 

 and the Magistracy of London." The same occurrence 

 took place at the diuner of the Stationers' Company of 

 which the late Lord Mayor is a member, and at those of I 

 other companies scarcely inferior in wealth or influence 

 Un Tuesday a Court of Aldermen was held, and being 



of yells and h'sses broke forth, which continued in spite 

 of the police, and was to be heard even after the Lord 

 Mayor had entered the hall. The same scene was 

 enacted upon the return of the Lord Mayor to the Man- 

 sion-house. As a contrast to these proceedings, the 

 Board of Guardians of the City of London Union, of 

 which the Lord Mayor is eh air man, have presented him 

 with an address of congratulation on his accession to 

 the Chief Magistracy. In this document they state that 

 they "have reason to acknowledge with pride and satis- 

 faction the indefatigable zeal and ability evinced by your 

 Lordship as their chairman, during a period of neatly 

 eight years ; and the experience they have thus gained of 

 your Lordship's character and talents gives them the 

 highest confidence that the same ability and proficiency 

 will be exercised for the benefit of their fellow-citizens at 

 large, in the wider sphere of usefulness which your Lord- 

 ship is now called upon to occupy." 



Court of Aldermen. — A Court was held on Tuesday, 

 at which it was unanimously resolved to present the 

 thanks of the Court to the late Lord Major, for the 

 faithful and honourable manner in which he had dis- 

 charged the duties of his office. — The Inquest of the 

 ward of Faningdon Within appeared at the bar, with a 

 presentment of 146 wholesale dealers carrying on busi- 

 ness in the ward without being free, and the Court, after 

 some discussion, resolved to lake immediate proceedings 

 against the parties. 



The Gresham Club house. — A neat and extensive 

 stone building, recently erected at the corner of St. 

 Swithin's-lane and King William-street, City, known as 

 the Gresham Club-house, was opened on Tuesday even- 

 ing for the accommodation of members for the first time. 



Bank of England. — The Bank Directors have come 

 to a resolution to charge a commission on the sums re- 

 mitted to various parts of the country by means of the 

 branch banks. This measure came into operation on 

 Monday, and the system of charge adopted is based on 

 the principle that parties keeping an account with the 

 Bank, or its branches, should have a preference over 

 strangers. First, with respect to remittances. All sums 

 advised for the credit of a person having a drawing 

 account at the Bank, or a branch, are to be subject to a 

 charge of 6d. per cent, the minimum charge to be Is., and 

 every fraction of 100/. to be considered as an entire 

 100/. Thus 200/. will pay a Is. and 300/. will pay 

 Is. 6d., 400/. will pay 2s., and so on. Secondly, with 

 respect to payments. Where neither the party lodging 

 the money nor the party receiving has an account, the 

 charge will be ^ per cent, on sums not exceeding 500/., 

 the minimum charge being 2s. 6d. On sums exceeding 

 .-'00/., but not exceeding 3000/., the charge will be £ per 

 cent, on the first 500/., and J percent, on the remainder. 

 When the sums exceed 300U/. there will be the above 

 charge for 3000/., and Is. 67. on the excess. If on the 

 other hand, the party lodging the money have an account, 

 the commission on sums under 100/. will be 2s. Gd. per 

 cent., the minimum charge being Is. On sums of 100/., 

 and under 300/., the charge will be is. 61 per cent. ; on 

 sums of 300/., and not exceeding 3000/., it will be Is. 6 d. 

 per cent., and on sums exceeding 3000/. it will be Is'. 

 per cent. 



The late Forgeries on the Bank.— -We mentioned a 

 few weeks back the particulars of the fraudulent trans- 

 fer of 8000/. stock, belonging to Mr. Oxenford of the 

 Customs, by Mr. Burgess, one of the clerks of t':e Bank 

 of England, by the instrumentality of an accomplice, and 

 the escape of the parties with that amount in gold. It 

 appears that both the deliuquents have been traced to 

 America by John Forrester, that Burgess escaped bem* 

 eapUuvd by embarking in an open boat at Boston in a 

 dark night, and that the accomplice, Elder, was taken, 

 out committed suicide in prison. From the long ac- 

 counts which have appeared in the daily papers, we learn 

 that the parties were supposed to have sailed in the 

 Britannia steam-ship for America, but no positive infor- 

 mation on the subject could be obtained. That they had 

 gone on board there was no doubt, but it was repre- 

 sented that at the time they got on board there was only 

 one berth available. After much minute inquiry, how- 

 ever, the Forresters could not learn that they had ever 

 corns ashore after having once entered the vessel, and 

 Messrs. Freshfield, the Bank solicitors, immediately re- 

 solved to despatch John Forrester to make an experi- 

 ment of his skill and energy in tracing the fugitives and 

 the cash, and endeavouring to secure both men and 

 money in the New World. In the course of the in- 

 quiries, which were carried on in a very peculiar 

 manner, an intimate connection was found to exist 

 between Burgess and Joseph Elder, who was known 

 to be a horse-dealer, and the description of the latter in- 

 dividual having been obtained, was found exactly to cor- 

 respond with that of the personator of Mr. Oxenford at 

 the time the transfer was effected. J a Forrester - 

 certained that tiie Britmni had sailed for Halifax on 

 the 4th September, and application was made to the 

 Lord Mayor, who rendered every requisite assistance. 

 Depositions were prepared, and all measures were adopted 



in the next steam-boat ( the CaledoniaTth^rieTn^^T 

 Upon arriving at Halifax the indefatigable officer fSS" 

 to use his own language, " that he was all ri-ht " u ' 

 ascertained that the fugitives had proceeded tn'iw 

 and New York Thither he fo^lo^lh^S 

 from thence to Buffalo, Canada, and Ma™*' 11a 

 back again to Bos on, where they, it appeared residS 

 -one of them in a house and land which' he hid 

 -urchased, the other in an inn. Having discovert 

 that they had placed 7000/. in a bank, ™ 

 was immediately chimed upon the part of the Bank 

 of Lngland. This claim was immediately followed h» 

 the apprehension of Elder in his house. He was taken 

 before one of the tribunals for examination, and was re 

 manded for further examination nest day ; but he nut 

 an end to the inquiry by hanging himself with his pocket 

 handkerchief in the course of the night. Burgess wai 

 surrounded in the inn in which he resided, but ran out 

 at the back door without hat or coat, and succeeded in 

 getting into a boat in which were a pair of oars, and in 

 escaping, aided by the darkness of the night, in the di- 

 rection of some of the outward-bound vessels. Upon 

 Elder were found 400 sovereigns, and amongst Burgess's 

 papers were found 200 more, and the stocks and securities 

 in which the 7000/. were invested, have since, it is said 

 been made over to the agents of the Bank. Thus, by the 

 prompt measures adopted by the solicitor to the Bank 

 the establishment has succeeded in recovering the pro- 

 perty of which it was plundered, with the exception of 

 the mere expenses incurred by the pursuit of the persons 

 who committed the offence. It is understood that great 

 fears were entertained that the measures for apprehending 

 the parties would fail, in consequence of an objection on 

 the part of one of the judges to administer an oath to 

 an affidavit. That difficulty, however, was overcome 

 by the act of sending out a clerk from the Bank [of 

 England. 



Death of Sir Gore Ouseley.— In our Obituary of this 

 week is recorded the death of this respected baronet, who 

 expired at his seat, Hall Barn Park, on Monday last. Sir 

 Gore Ouseley was the second son of Ralph Ouseley, 

 Esq., by the daughter of Henry Holland, Esq., of .Li- 

 merick. He was born in 1770, and was consequently in 

 the 75th year of his age. In 1806 he married the 

 daughter of John Whitelock, Esq., and in 1808 was 

 created a baronet. He was a Privy Councillor, a Knight 

 of the Russian Order of St. Alexander, and of the Per- 

 sian Order of the Lion and the Sun. In 1810 he pro- 

 ceeded to Persia as Ambassador Extraordinary and 

 Min : ster Plenipotentiary, and subsequently went to St. 

 Petersburgh. He is succeeded in his title and estates 

 by his son, Frederick Arthur Gore, born in 1825. 



Westminster School.— The " Eunuchus " of Terence 

 will be performed this year by the Westminster scholars. 

 The three nights will be Monday the 9th, Thursday 

 the 12th, and Monday the i6th December; on the 

 two latter of which there will be a prologue and epilogue 

 spoken. 



Central Criminal Court.— In consequence of the 

 receipt by Sir W. Magnay, Bart., the late Lord Mayor, 

 of a letter from Sir J. Graham, recommending the con- 

 sideration of the project of discontinuing the evening 

 sittings of the Central Criminal Courts, the experiment 

 is about to be tried. On account of the shortness of the 

 notice, it will not be possible to discontinue the evening 

 sitting on the days appointed for the next session, but 

 preparations will be made for testing the efficacy of the 

 proposed plan in the second session of the mayoralty. 



Sir Henry Pottinger.— A. congratulatory address to 

 Sir H. Pottinger, on his return to this country, is in 

 course of signature among the merchants of London 



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speedy termination, "and in procuring a fixed tariff, and 

 the abolition of vexatious imposts. We learn also by 

 the local papers that a public banquet is about to De 

 given at Liverpool, to Sir H. Pottinger, "in testimony 

 of his services in opening the East India and Unna 

 trade." The Mayor will preside. On the same occa- 

 sion a massive service of plate, raised by subscription, 

 will be presented to that gentleman. , 



Rev. Sydney Smith This distinguished writer nas 



been so seriously indisposed for some weeks, that cue 

 Rev. T. Dale has been obliged to undertake his duty at 

 St. Paul's for the last hw Sundays. We are i happy » 

 state that there is now no longer any ground for a PP r ^ 

 hension. The unfavourable symptoms were tn0se 

 suppressed gout. The moment the disease took a aen 

 nite form, Mr. Smith began to get better, and M 

 longer considered in danger. In fact, he already pasw 

 several hours each day in the society of his more mi 



mate acquaintances. Thnr- 



Lord Byron's Monument.- -It is stated that in°T 

 waldsen's statue of Byron, so long excluded from 

 precincts of Westminster Abbey, is about to be erecie 

 in the cemetery of Kensall-green. ,-^mis- 



Poor Law Union Houses. -The Poor Law Commw 

 sioners have issued letters to the boards of guardians 

 Union-houses, recommending the more easy acces 

 friends visiting sick inmates of the Union-houses, a^ 



dispensing with the presence of the 

 during such interviews. 



The Will Forgers.— -It is stated 



aster or matron 



in 



an Edinburgh 

 is on her way 



for the apprehension of the parties uuder the treaty with 

 America, Sir J. Graham authorising the 



the first in the present mavoraltv H,p T Zav^L • i AUIcrM £> ^ ,r J - Graham authorising the whole" of the 



and was furnished with a free p-issage by govern 

 belongs to the ighbourhood of London, ana 

 7e believe, a governess in a private family. 



