The men of money were on the alert at an
unusually early hour yesterday morning. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had fixed ten o'clock at the Treasury- Chambers as the time and place of' receiving tenders for the funding of the 4,000,0001. Exchequer Bills. About twenty gentlemen, including Mr. LIONEL ROTHSCHILD and the repre. sentatives of sonic of the first mercantile and banking-houses in Lon. don, ;assembled punctually at the hour appointed ; but no Chancellor of the Exchequer was there to meet them. At a quarter past ten the gentlemen began to be a little fidgetty ; at three-quarters past ten there was a general pulling out of watches; but sit ten mi• mites to eleven " The Viscount Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Exchequer" made their appearance. Mr. SPRING Rion, according to the Times, was evidently "labouring under mental excitement, from the general tremor of his frame." He asked a messenger, whether the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank had arrived ? and was, no doubt, much surprised when they immediately came into the room through the same door by which be had himself entered the minute be- fore. Mr. RICE, in a faultering and almost inaudible tone, attempted to explain the course lie intended to take. The tenders were then put in, (see the account in our report of the Money Market,) and the business closed. It occupied altogether a quarter of' an hour. The gentlemen of the City must have left Downing Street deeply impressed with the punctuality, the financial tact, and the knowledge of business displayed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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