The Sun. — London, England, 1839-07-18 00:00:00

los t . • - NEWCASTLE. " 1: • 1 Jt rho P 34 EVENING EDITION. TO THE ED 1., kixt OF THE SUN. ~'Y , Sta—Since I wrote you on Thursday last, this town has been in a continual state of excitement—the nightly meet ings increasing in numbers, and all breathing impatience for the " National Strike," which they now expect to take place on Monday next. Last night the Hibernian Society, which has hi:hcrto held aloof, joined in the procession, which must have amounted to 12,000 men at least. At thi s mim nt the Hibernians are marching past my shop, six deep, healed by the Winterton bind of music, with banners of various deicrirtion3; I perceive the motto of one to be, a rty at whatever cost." The procession is now returning from the other side of the water, and is moving in one dense mass to the place of meeting in foe Forth. The trades here are forming themselves into a " Life Protection Association." The middle classes might yet put an end to this alarming and distressing state of affairs, if they would only step out and compel the Government to do' something fur the oppressed and plundered millions. The brcach between the parties may, perhaps, be too wide for any amica'de arrangem_mt. I am, Sir, yours in haste, July 16. A CONSTANT READER. MONTGOMERYSHIRE ASSIZES. MONDAY, JULY 15. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) The Commission was opened on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Pattison. The Grand Jury were summoned for tep o'clock to-day. ie Great interest appeared to have been excited by the approaching trial of the parties charged with the disturbances, multiplied into a variety of technical legal offences which have lately transpired at Llanidloes and Newtown, and which occupied so much of the public attention at the time, and which, from the number of bills presented, seem to have effsrded no small share of patron age to the legal profession of the county. The Right Hon. C. \V. eN. Wynne, M. P., presided as foreman; the Hon. Gentleman appeared in very delicate health; and having, after the business had a hole proceeded, retired from over fatigue; singularly enou g h, Sir John Edwards, the Men.be • for the Burghs of Llanidloes and New town, with these adjuncts, became the forem n. It ap peared infelicitous, for Sir John, with his new-fledged Lonours, c 'fluor have quite forgotten that he was sitting upon the exparte cases of scm.! of the very individuals who had not very long ago assisted him—nay, principally as sisted hire, to the acquit-, ment of those same honcurs. IF the wsrthy Sir John has rogott,,n it, be may rest assured his former friends have not. Earl Powis sat on the bench. After the Ministry's proclamation against vice and immo rality had ben read, which excites as much attention as a thrice-to d tale, and not quite so much as a wet t•ballad ; and on the. oath being administered to the Grand Jury, the very terms of wh ch go to imply that there is apossibility of the Jurors either etoteting from or not knoeieg their duty, his Lordship pr,ceeded to address them. We caanut vouch for Li., minute ci rreetres of it, in consequence of cur unfavat ra situetion is Court and frequent interrup iio ; and niu-in do we regi-ct the circumstances, as his Lordsh'p's address was very able and luminous : it savoured much of Legal tact; end we are bound to say, with all due respect to the L.iareed Ju ige, seemed to us to predispose the eases. U.s Lordship proceeded to observe to the effect the att,:nLien of the Grand Jury was called upon this OCC Son to inv. stigate cases not of an ordinary but of unusual charec eo • It was very true that, for some time, opinions had been encouraged among the lower orders, by which they have been taught to believe that they we.e the protiucti,e portion of society, and that they ooglit to have some share in Vie representation of the coun try. His Lordship di 1 not hold it his duty to enter upon any I olitical questions, or econerny—it was sufficient for bin to point vest the few. Men in this free country were at :.berry to give their opinion, and to communicate that pinion to thers, so long as they did not induce a breach of 'he poOlic peat;; but it was well known, when a multi• ude of people were assembled together that they may be easily ;ed to vlo'ence aed disorder—the law, therefore, checked the turbulent and protected the peaceable. His Lordship then pointed out to the attention of the Jury the Act against training and being trained to the use of arms, and to the practice of mi litary evolutions, (the 60th George the Third,) which enact. d that training- or (tilling to the use of arms or beets; taught such, was held dangerous to the public peace, aid which iirfl eted transportation for a period of seven years, on persons convicted of drilling, or commuted iimpri team nt of not more than two years; and for being d, tiled, cr asst ting, or aiding, imprisonment not exceeding that period. 'abet suture was still in force. The y would have 'o consider whether some of the cases that would be submitted to them, would not fall within th e p rov i s i ons o f that Act. The earned Judge pointed out to their atten tion that there was a distinction in the punishnient for training and in that for being trained. He then adverted to a statute which had been since specially enacted against seditious meetings—but it has expired. But the common law of the land did not permit those who attended or ad dressed public meetings, to make use of violent language under the pretence of seeking to effect n change in the law—such meetings should be conducted with discretion. It was seditious (as we understood the Learned Judge) to h Id up the Government to hatred, and the law to con tempt, so, as thereby, to incite the public mind or any por tion of it, to remove the former or desert the latter. He did not mean every idle word which' might be uttered in the warmth of an address, but such language only as should appear to have been deliberately made for the purposes he b-d mentioned. It was for them to consider whether the expressions which would be brought under their notice would bear that construction. This county had been one of quiet character, but latterly that quiet had been dis turbed—latterly public meetings had been held, when in flammatory language appeared to have been used. The Magistracy had been induced to interfere. Some persons thus charged had been apprehended. Others, for other acts arising from such conduct, had been ap prehended at Llanidloes. Riots had ensued by which they were rescued, and damage done to a dwelling-house. He did not think it necessary to enter into particular charges—it was sufficient to draw their attention generally to the subject. He observed that all these public disturbances appeared to have originated with some persons who bad harangued the public—who taught them to look on their rulers as their oppressors. Words, it was true, were not so safe a criterion as acts. Memory is sometimes treacherous. It might be, that the individuals thus charged with sedition, might seriously en tertain the opinions expressed, and might only strongly express such to the multitude ; if so, and they confined themselves to proper limits, their conduct would not war a seditious intent ; but if they induced the people to acts of violence against the public peace and disaffection to Government and the institutions cf the country, belied no hesitation in saving, that in the latter case they were liable to be indicted for sedition, and punishable. As to some of those actively engaged, it was more than probable they acted through ignorance. Very possibly it might be so, but they all found that ignorance of the law excused no one ; but ignorance might be fairly taken into conside ration as to punishment. He understood that in certain cases notices had beet. very properly issued by the Magis trates that certain assemblies or meetings for training were contrary to law. The parties who attended these meetings afterwards could hardly plead ignorance. They would observe that the parties charged with drilling or training to arms had in fact no arms. He understood that besides training parties went about the country demanding arms. Any thing obtained by menaces or threats from individuals— such persons were guilty of robbery, provided the taking was with the intent of applying to their own use. The Learned Judge then referred to the recent statute of I Vic. relating to arms. The question would be whether arms were demanded with intent to steal. A party ob taining property against the will of the owner, meaning to convert it to his own use, that was a robbery, though he might not convert it into money. It was not a lawful as sembly if the parties assembled of their own authority for the execution of a purpose of a general nature, and it was no matter whether the object was lawful or unlawful. The doctrine of constructive treason had been reduced. With reference to the Llanidloes riots the object was the rescue; that was of a private and not of a public nature, and there fore it was to be treated as riot, and not as a subject of con structive treason—that was if the disturbance was to the terror of the people. Such an act was clearly unlawful; it was to rescue persons apprehended of misdemeanor. Rescuing persona in lawful custody was itself a misdemea nor in the law ; and we understood his Lordship to refer to an Act 16, Geo. HI., against rescuing persons charged, not for treason or felony, but with misdemeanor, whereby the party would be guilty of a misdemeanor; therefore, in dependent of the riot, the parties would be liable fora mis demeanor, and seriously so, if the rescue were under cir cumstances of violence and terror ; and if they assaulted the peace officers they would be also liable for that offence. The Learned Judge then referred to the Act against be ginning to demolish, and read a portion of the Act. Whe ther they were liable under that Act depended on the intent. Whether it wes with the intent to demolish it was for them to say. If the object was merely to rescue and to assault or attack the officers, and in furtherance of that object they did mischief to that house, they might not come under the provision s of that penal atatute. They might have to dis tingu;sh between the cases ; there might be some where the party intended to demolish as well as to commit other mischief, and might have been prevented; it depended on cir cumstances. If any parties went away voluntarily when they had the power, it would go to show that they did not intend to pull down. The n t h ere were casesfor assaults ()tithe mili tary and yeomanry cavalry. Allpersons collected to pro tect the peace, or aiding or assist t i h n e g therei n , were o f course entitled to the protection of Judge observed that i n the a depositions.instl wThe Learned so me women were implicated in o ff ences ag the public peace. There could be no distinction in their unless where any party was married, and she acted_ciansette presence or If acting when under the coercion of the hueband, latter were not present they arc liable. liable as principals, must be punished in p 0 the part they took. There might be chargesrfoPr°stiun to without taking part ; such persons would be liable, though there were but few instances in which such cases had 0 -11 eurred ; he then referred to the case of a person soliciting an engraver to imitate a foreign bank note. If an indict_ rnent on such a charge were prepared, it ought to be sup pored by strong evidence that such person knew the na ture of the incitement. He regretted that such occurrences had happened in the country, and entertained the hope the misguided people would cultivate better feelings, and abstain from repetition. The law was strong enough to put down all turbulences ; any amelioration must be sought or obtained by petition or remonstrance, other conduct would defeat the object in view, and bring down the interference of the law. All good men would seek an amelioration of the law, where necessary. Some of the M i schief might be owing to the want of more regular su perintendence. There might be many difficulties as to the mode of appointing a rural police, and as to the mode of paying them ; still he could not but think the peace of the county would be best consulted by the introduction of such a force. The anger of the multitude was directed against the metropolitan police ; they became ex •*.py jealous of suc h power, which might be another Areo l OW . for the employment of a located force. Such are 00010ines of what we c ou ld collect under disadvantages.' hei-/elress occupied some time in the delivery. His :t i r e r""""-n."""''"""-""""'""a""""'""'"'"'"'"'"'"""••••".•+Nmm.-......t A.. 4 Lordship sometimes referred to a paper, probably con taining notes or headings, and his address was evidently well considered, and delivered with a neatness of verbiage. and perspicuity, of which this report can but convey a feeble notion. The Grand Jury shortly brought in true Bills when the trials proceeded in the following order. THE QUEEN V. JOSEPH DAVIES, FOR TRAINING. The Attorney-General, addressed the Jury. The prisoner was charged with drilling; the punishment was to a great extent discretionary with the Court. The cases which would be brought before them differed ; some were trifling, some of importance ; each case must depend on the circumstances. He then referred to the Training Act. It would seem that these men, evil disposed persons, went about the country imposing on the poor people, tel- ' ling them they had grievances to redress, and advising them that if they did not obtain it peaceably to resort to physical force, and that they must prepare by drilling. If not deterred by the strong arm of the law who can tell the consequences ? He would not mention names ; one of those persons stood charged at the present Asizes ; he would not prejudice his case. These men had called meet ings on the 9th of April last, at the public rooms at New town, advised the people to seek redress, advised physical force and a resort to arms; these were the instigators, they were possibly tools in the hands of worse men ; their ob jects were to overturn the Government of the country. If such were the case the strongest would take the pos. feiSIOES of the weak. They were deluded madmen, led of by ether men to these dangerous doctrines, and imposed them on the mind of the populace as their duty to adopt and follow. The Jury lived in the country, and were no doubt acquainted with the circumstances. if these men were misled, and were sorry for what they had done, it would be considered in their measure of punishment. The pri soner was the commanding officer in drilling others to the use of arms, according to what he had been possibly led to consider as a duty. Mr. Yardley, for the prisoners, objected that the indict ment contained two description of offences, and cited Rex v. Murphy and Douglass, and that prosecutor should be put to his election. The Court observed, after argument, that in the case referred to the indictment contained separate and distinct offences, one for conspiracy, the other for libel, by one of the defendants, and the prosecutor was therefore required to elect on which of the charges to prove. Mr. 1-1111 proceeded to state the facts shortly, and called witnesses. John Williams, a native cf Newtown, called and sworn. —I am a machine maker. I was at the Dingle, by New town, on the 9th of April last; there were from 500 to, 600 operatives present. I saw them training, they were forming four deep. There were persons giving advice. Joseph Davies, the prisoner, was one; ordered them to farm four deep; did so; ordered them to " stand at ease," they did it ; ordered them to " attention ;" I did not see them march, they marched to town abcut ten at night. I was in the ranks ; had two fifers, they played a tune ; they marched to the time. Davies was standing by their side, and commanded. There were two companies formed. The persons who were so together bad nothing in their hands. Cross-examined by Mr. Yardley.—l was in the ranks merely. There are Friendly Societies in Newtown. They went to town with music. I was at Montgomery Gaol. I did not mention at first I have been in gaol once since I was apprehended in April. I gave evidence against the prisoners before the Magistrates. Re-examined.—l was committed to give evidence. I joined the ranks, and the fifers played " Rory O'More." I went up to the hedge, George Evans came up to me and said, " Jack, what do'st thou do here, thou wilt want a big-loaf, as well as we ;" and he gave me a cut across the legs, and I joined them. Mr. Yardley submitted he ought not to be permitted to implicate another party. The Court—YOu attempted to impeach his testimony, and he may explain. Re-examination resumed—l did join the ranks on this, and marched to town. I did not join as a member of a Friendly Society. Mr. Charles - Thomas Hoosnam examined by Mr. Temple —I was at Newtown on the day in question, in April. It was near dark. I saw the procession come from the Llanidloes road. I can't estimate the number—a long string. Might extend 150 yards. They were two-and two, with some stragglers on the outside. A fife played bafore them. Cross-examined—l am attorney for the prosecution. I never gave evidence to this effect before. I was never re quired to do so. I was present when the last witness was examined before the Magistrate. I have seen the last witness since his committal. He has had money from me for necessaries, to repair his shoes or clothes—five shillings the first time, and 2s. 6d. the last. I can't say who main tained him in gaol, I suppose the county has to pay it. I do not know that the county is pledged to pay it. Mr. Yardley addressed the Jury for the defence, and re quested them to dismiss all prejudice from their minds. They Lad to consider whether this was an offence calcu lated to endanger the public peace. This was the evidence of an accomplice. They had no arms with them, and there was no evidence tending to show they intended to commit outrage. Persons might be so ordered iu a pro cession of a Benefit Society. The Learned Judge turn - med up, and directed the Jury to divest themselves of all prejudice, and so consider the question of guilty or not guilty. There was but one wit ness to the fact—the other in corroboration. John Wil- Hams did not stand as an accomplice; he sto xl on the ground and was forced ; yet, the circumstance of his having gone and marched, would have to weigh with them. His training did not seem to better the situation of the prisoner. A Juryman remarked that he had been e tiled out as a volunteer in tho time of the war, and he never understood he could practice military exercise without arms. The Learned Judge explained—The words of command given —the forming two or four deep—these were evi dently the manner in which soldiers were drilled. It was for them to say whether the prisoner and others met for that purpose. Verdict—Guilty of training, without arms. THE QUEEN V. EVAN PUGH, FOR TRAINING. Mr. Hill stated the case to the Jury. The prisoner was engaged in the same manner as the last prisoner. John Williams was brought forward to speak to the facts, His evidence was "a repetition of the former one. On his cross-examination he stated that he went to the Ma gistrates to clear himself. Mr. Edward Morgan Stephens, attorney, Newtown, corroborated his testimony, having witnessed the marching down to the town. He was not subpoenaed to give evi dence. The Learned Judge summed up, and the Jury returned. a verdict of Guilty of training, without arms. SCOTCH CIRCUITS, 1839. WE ST. Lords JUSTICE-CLERK and MONCREIFF. Inverary.—Tuesday, Septemper 10. Stirling.--Saturday, Septemper 14. Glasgow.—Wednesday, September 18. Robert Handyside, Esq., Advocate-Depute. SOUTH. Lords MEADOWBANK and COCKBURN. Jcdburgb.—Monday, September 16, Dumfries.—Friday, September 27. Ayr.—Tuesday, September 24. Cosmo Innes, Esq., Advocate-Depute. NORTH. Lords MACKENZIE and MEDVVYN. Inverness.—Thursday, September 19. Aberdeen.—Wednesday, September 25. Perth.—Monday, September 30. George Napier, Esq., Advocate-Depute. RAILWAY NOTICES. In the course of last month and a few days of the end of May, not fewer than eleven railroads have been opened, or the original lines continued from ten to six teen miles, in different parts of England. The " Rail way Magazine" urges on railroad directors the conside ration of a change alike essential to the proprietors and the public—the reduction of the fares for the interest of the passengers. In almost every line the high fares have operated to the disadvantage of the undertaking, and when directors know how little additional expence they would incur in conveying 100 passengers in place of 50, their obstinacy is in this respect quite unaccountable. A witness on the part of the Southampton Railway Co:upany stated before the Select Committee on Railways, his belief that "in a distance of thirty-eight miles the difference of expense to them would not be 55., whether they carry 50 or 100 passengers in one train." Yet, notwithstanding this evidence of indeed a well.known fact, they still charge 3d. per mile for the first class of passengers. Another proof of the absurdity of the system is the small propor tion of individuals that travel in the first class carriages. On the Great Western the number of passengers is four of the second class to one of the first, and in many others the proportion in favour of the cheap class, we believe, is co ns id era bl y greater. On this subject a writer in the Magazine makes the following judicious observations :—" This seems to be a branch of the ge neral statistical law, that what is the cheapest will be most widely distribut e d ; an d i t i s not the only applica tion of it to which the attention of railway managers might be called. It is established that the cheaper the fares are the greater amount is received ; and it is well worth the while of some of the companies to act upon this rule. Were the fares to Birmingham reduced to 105. only from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning, the uumber of passengers would infinitely increase, as it would be little more than the p rice o f a trip to Mar gate." A good -engine ear , cm pas sengers. The " North Star engineivey a thousand on the Great Wes c tern line took a train from London to Maidenhead, a distance of 26 miles, in less than an hour, and that train contained 617 passengers, nine coaches, and fif teen horses ; an d t a ki ng the estimate of as. for ev e!) , addi tional fifty passengers for the distance! of 38 miles, the expense to the company for conveying 1,000 passen gers, in place of 500, to Maidenhead, would be only 355.! In the summary of the first Report of the Select Com mittee o n R a il ways, some curious details are given as to the err oneous estimates of the expenses of projected railways. I n t h e Southampton line the cuttings were estimated at 6d. but have cost more than Is, ; by one deviation a t S t . G eorge ' s Hill, they knocked off three millions from a cutt i ng, which was to be three millions and some odd thousands —the land was estimated at 90,0601. and it has cost 260,000/. The first esti mate for the Liverpool and Manchester was 300,0001., thought very full at 510,0001., and it has cost 1,200,000/. • The Eastern Counties Railway trains are now pro ceeding with the utmo , t regularity, and avera ge the whole distance from Romford to London, including stoppages, at thirty minutes: On Faitlop day they brought down 3,645 passengers, and on the subsequent (the fair) Sunday 6,sB2.—Evening Paper. SIGNOR CAMPANARI'S INTERESTING COLLEC TRIN OF ETRUSCAN AND GREEK VASES. R. S,. LEIGH SOTHEBY will SELL b;,v AUCTION, at his House, 3, Wellington-street, Strand, TL)-11 toaaow, July 19, at One precisely, an interest ing COLLE( ;TION of ETRUSCAN and GREEK VASES, juust importe. i from Italy by that distinguished antiquarian, Signor Camps marl., having been lately discovered by him in the burying places; at Vulci, Tuscania, Tarquipa, and Palimarzo. TO TELE BREWERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 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Colossal Panorama, Modelled View of Mount Hecla, Ll] Ranson, during the Day, and at Dusk the Terrific Representa, ton of an Eruption of that Volcano. Feeding Hour Five o'Clock—Concert at Six. Admission One Shilling. THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JULY IS AT HAND. COUNTY VOTERS,—Before this Day you should make your claim to Vote in the terms pre scribed in the Reform Act, and.put the claim into the hands of the Overseers of the place where is situate the property which entitles you to vote. BORGUGH VOTERS,—Before this Day you should pay your taxes, that you may be entitled to he on. the Register of Voters for the current year. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot find room for the letter of our Correspondent from Paternoster-row, but we entirely concur in his censure on certain Magistrates, who take advantage of their position to attack tradesmen, who have as nice a sense of honour as some of those who sit on the judgment-seat. We believe A. F. labours under a mistake. A considerable proportion of the expenses of the Metropolitan Police is paid out of the Consolidated Fund; and why sheold -the people of Birmingham, or o f any other pl ace , i n case of a riot, not have the assistance of a police force to whose support they contribute? The propriety of having recourse to them on occasions of political commotions, is another .• question. The communication from the Trades Hall Committee, is an advertisement. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Mornin ,, 29 minutes after 7. J Evening 54 minutes atter 7. "sty., • (I,r" „ ; •,:ilr4 ...v. - „ , _ •" 1 - 4t44 --it ,. . - TIC ----Ul-X+ LONDON: THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1839. Sir THOMAS COCHRANEtOOk his seat for Ipswich last night. Amongst the petitions presented there was one by Mr. MACAULAY, signed by 5,000 persons, complaining of clergymen being intruded on parishes against the will of the people, and claiming therefore, to a certain extent, the election of their own clergy. They have been too long deprived of that right to win it back very easily. Mr. HUME, too, presented . a petition from Mr. HAYDON, complaining of the Royal Academy, which, after some resistance on the part of the Tories, was or dered to be printed. The Birmingham disturbances were brought before the House by Mr. MACKINNON giving notice of his inten tion to bring them under the consideration of the House, and at the same time asking if the Government meant to institute any inquiry into conduct of the Magistrates. Lord JohN RUSSELL entered into a history of the whole transaction, beginning with the application of the Magistrates to him for assistance, recounting their ill advised arrests of the people, and stating that after the men were arrested and sent to Warwick goal, the Mayor and Magistrates wrote to say that the town was in a state of tranquillity, and that they did not think • it necessary to send any further accounts to the Home • Office. He, however, insisted on daily reports. The Noble Lord also gave a brief account of the subse quent events, which differs nothing from what has sp..' peared in the papers. He stated that in a memorial transmitted to him it was said, that the town was in the hands of the rioters for an hour and a half, and that fact would induce the Government to institute an in quiry in order to ascertain the facts. The Noble Lord entered into a vindication of the appointment of the Magistrates, in making which the Noble Lord seems to have used ail proper discretion. We were glad to learn from his statement, that the great body of the operatives in Birmingham have no sympathy whatever with the author:: of these outrages. We be lieve that : we hope, too, that the operative classes generally, as Lord JOHN called them, are not in clined to do mischief of any kind, but that it makes it the less necessary for the Magistrates hur riedly and rashly to interfere with them, and makes it. more necessary that justice should speedily be done them, that they may not become tinctured with the evil dis position of others. Lord JOHN RUSSELL deprecated discussion of the whole matter while the inquiry into the conduct of the Magistrates is pending, in obedience to which we are not disposed to make any observation on the late disturbances. Some conversation, however, took place on the subject, in which Mr. W. ATTWOOD censured the supineness of the Magistrates, and Mr. HUME inquired whether the Lord Lieutenant of the county was at his post. The Soldiers' Pension Bill went through a Committee, with some opposition to the second clause, which em powers the Poor-law Guardians to take the soldier's pension if his children be in the workhouse. It was however carried by 59 to 7. The Timber Ships Bill was read a second time after a few remarks chiefly from Mr. WARBUnTON. The object of this Bill is to prohibit ships coming from America to carry timber on their decks. Perhaps the Members of the House will kindly instruct sailors how their ships should be ballasted and laded ? The readers of The Sun know that this legisla tion is a wretched piece of quackery to bolster up, if possible, a little while longer the timber duties, which now cause an annual average loss of nearly thirty ships, according to the returns from LLOYD'S, and of a still greater number according to the House returns—doom ing to the most cruel and lingerin g death, annually, more than 300 o f our seamen. So th Legislature kills by wholesale, and tries to cure by detail. The motion for committing the Shannon Navigation Bill was opposed, and Mr. RICE was obliged to enter into a long explanation of his own conduct. It was not the more satisfactory to us bs' the Right Hon. Gentleman appealing repeatedly, in which he was backed by Mr. O'CONNELL, to the House on he half of Ireland. \Yeti Ireland to have nothing. done for it ? We are friendly to Ireland. But while its people are in the most wretched condition, it has absorbed moie money for public works:than England and Scotland to gether. In fact Irelaml, has long been a great nest of THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1839. jobbing, and the public money goes to enrich absentees, who do what they can to starve the people. In our estimation it would be more consistent with Mr. RICE'S duty to bring in the Postage Reduction Bill than trouble himself to earnestly about a measure of which the advantage will certainly not be so great for the poor of Ireland as the reduction of the postage. The motion for a Committee was carried by 64 to 25, and the clause appointing a Commissioner by 58 to 18. The Bill went through a Committee. The Metropolis Police Bill was read a third time. Other measures were forwarded a stage and the House adjourned. We regret to see that the chief instruction which some Liberal Journals seem inclined to derive from the events at Birmingham, and to impress on the Legislature, is the " necessity of a more effective local police, and of some adequate organization of civil force to protect property and the industrious classes." Now, however useful and effective a police force may be, we dislike such a suggestion, because statesmen are very willing to adopt every suggestion which increases their power, a n d a d opt i ng i t w ill serve as an excuse for doing nothing more. The people are too apt also to rely on such a force, and then they will take no pains or thought to remedy the deep seated grievances which are at the bottom of all such outrages. Some doubts, too, may well b e en t er t a ined whether such a force will accomplish the object in view. Where is the police force local and general, most complete, and best arranged? Where is it a model for other countries ? In France. The police of Paris too is the best ; and in Paris the people break out into sedition once every six months. B e f ore we re ly on a new police as a panacea , l et it be well weighed, that in Paris, wh ere it i s per fect, there is a sedition every six months. The other towns of France have by no means been exempt from emeules, within the last - twenty five years. They were, in fact, not unknown before the Revolution of 1830, and they have been not unfrequent since. They occur much seldomer in Germany ; which is less owing to the goodness of the police than to the general well-being of the people, and the equal diffusion amongst them of education. For our parts we have no wish to see an emeutc in the streets of London or Birmingham every s;x months, and we therefore are for removing the causes of political discontent, not for merely banishing the symptoms from the surface to form a deep-seated gangrene in some vital part. Of all such contrivances as a police, no effects so certain as th e ir exp ense . They constitute at all times an additional bu r th en on productivein dustry, and are certain, therefore, to aggravate in one sense the discontent they are organized to sup press. Far too great a sum is already taken from the produce of lab our t o p ro vide for internal and external security ; and before that be augmented the present extravagance should be cut down, and the present means of public defence should be made efficient. We had occasion to remark a few days ago, that within the last three years three murders are known to have been committed in the metropolis, the per petrators of which have not been discovered. Now, with such facts before us, with the experience of France, with the conviction that the only way t o provide for the permanent security of all classes is to do justice to all, we deprecate very much all at tempts to skin over our present social disease by new contrivances of local and general police. There is one point of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech, in relation to the Birmingham Magistrates, to which we must especially advert, because it seems aimed at ourselves :—" He wished the House to recollect that comments were made on the Magistrates of Birmingham, for having, w i t h great violence and an excess of zeal, interfered with the peaceable meetings of the inhabitants of Bir- ' mingham. He stated this, because it was impossi ble that such comments should be made without tending a great deal to shake the disposition which the Magistrates had to place themselves in a position in which they might be made the subject of such remarks. The Magistrates ap peared to be satisfied with the state of the town." They were hurt at being publicly reproved for their first rashness, and so they committed a second fault, and were overweeningly confident and forbearing. They were so satisfied with their own valour in the first unnecessary onslaught that they concluded the -- people would be terrified, and would never again lift up their heads. As Lord JOHN R us- SELL said, they were deceived, and their last confidence was the proper compliment to their first rashness. Both first and last they did not take those wise and humane precautions to prevent mischief, which would do infinitely more honour to a Magistracy than the vigorous slaughter of a hundred offenders. We see nothing, in what we have said of the Birmingham Magis trates to retract ; for Lord JOHN , RUSSELL por e proceeded d to last night said the Magistracy , had arrest the people in the Bull-ring, without. taking the usual and sufficient precaution ;" which is pre cisely what we said. We quoted in our Paper a few days ago, a para graph from a Leicestershire paper, describing the rise bigotry of aconsequence of the and persecution chapelofciution in the Cler g y man o f the Anglican Church. The treat meetin g o f th e Ca tholics at the Freemasons Tavern on Monday, is another example of the effects of persecution. It grew out of the brawlings of the Exeter Hall people, and justice requires us to say that the proceedings contrast most advantageously with those of the M‘GrrEEs, M‘NEms, and other orators of the furious breed. Such meetings will tell power fully on the country in the behalf of the Catholics. Their regular, organised clergy, the antiquity of their Church —possessing, if any Church possess, the tru e apostoli cal succession—the solemnity and pomp of their worship, are well calculated to prevail with the people, against the irregular, ill -organised clergy of the Anglican Church, boasting only a modern origin, and retaining most of the unmeaning f orms of Catholic worship denuded of their splendour. Now that the Catholics are enabled to lift up on high the mitred front bf their Prelates, all these cir cumstances will tend to their advantage, and CHARLES JAMES of London will find Dr. BAINEs no contemptible rival, while HENRY EXETER may yet live to rue the day when he roused, by his in temperance, the kindred ire and zeal of JoH TUAM. While we, as public journalists, equally hostile to the arrogant pretensions of the priesthood of every Church, must say the Catholics now display more modera tion and less insufferable, infallible, self-conceit, than the Anglican clergy, we see with no pleasure these contentious wranglings of rival orders of clergy and of rival sects. Truth and righteousness are more likely to be stifled than promoted by such criminatory and recriminatory assemblies. From the first we condemned the contemptible crusade against DENS, and the miserable farces which were got up in Exeter Hall ; and if the Anglican clergy should suffer from them, if they should lose n o inconsiderable number of their followers and there were three converts to Catholicism amongst the speakers at the meeting—they will have their own senseless intolerance to blame for the result. They have done much to restore Catholicism to splendour and power. • We have already adverted to the incomes of the French Bishops as compared with those of the English, a n d po i nte d out t h e v ast disproportion, and also adduced some circumstances not the most flattering to the heads of the English Church, the would-be ex c l us i ve super i nten d en ts of education, religion, and morality. The petition presented to the Common Council the other day by Mr. F. BUXTON, suggests more melancholy contrasts. It stated that in the district of Bethnal - green , one mile long by a quarter broad, and contain nig a populatio n o f s i xty - t h ousa nd persons, there was only on e pl ace o f wors hip, and then de scribed the cause of this destitution, and the de plorable effect of it, in these words :—" The im provements in the City of London having removed a vast proportion of the population from the ancient churches, and compelled them to seek refuge in Bethnal-green and ot h er di s t r i c ts around London, where, not having been supplied with churche s , schools, and clergy men , they have fallen into a deplorable state of ign orance , vice, and irreligion." But Bethnal-green did not spring u p yesterday, and these guardians of public morals and religion, who are paid 150,0001. a_year for the cure of souls, have suffered this ignorance, vice ' and irreligion to pre vail unchecked and unheeded till the present day, when in one littl e di str i ct, w i t hi n the diocese o f the Bishop of LONDON, there are 50,000 person s without any church and without the means of moral and religious education. The petition itself suggests a remedy. The inhabitants have been removed from the churches, and the churches ought to follow them. But no, that will not suit the views, nor increase the patronage, of this religious Bishop. He has already the patronage in whole or in part of fourteen livings in the City, and out of the ten new churches wanted for the poor inhabitants of Bethnal-green, he claims the patronage of eight. This is the man that Dr. CHA LMERS would ally himself with to prop up the Episcopal Church in England, and the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, and to abolish patronage which the Scotch Profes sor considers the bane of religion in his own country. Within a small space in the City there are from 70 to 80 churches. The population within the walls is only 56,000, and including that without the wails it amounts to 123,656, or about twice the number that reside in Bethnal-green, with only one church. Could not ten of those he spared, and could not the Bench of Bishops have contrived to get a Bill passed to adapt the locality of the churches to the expandi:ig population ? There are many churches that would not he missed, either for their beauty or their usefulness ; and the value of the ground on which they are built, and where they are not wanted, would possibly be more than suffi cient to rebuild them in places where the popula tion arc sunk in " ignorance, vice, and irreligion." Where there is a will there is a way," and we would advise Mr. F. BUXTON first of all to try what effect he can produce on the will of the Bishops. Letters from Constantinople of the 27th ult.—three days anterior to .the death of the SULTAN—have been received, which announce that all the prisoners for debt were released, and their debts paid by the SULTAN, that they might offer prayers for his recovery. Great lar gesses were given to the poor for a like purpose. The interest of these letters is anticipated, and the specula tions of the writers rendered of no account by the arrival of the news of the SULTAN'S death. Brussels, Dutch, and German Papers have been received this morning. They contain but the following paragraphs of any interest : TRIESTE, JULY 7.—lt is asserted here, today, that a congress on the Lffairs of the East is to be held either here or at Vienna. The Jupiter, with Prince De Jainville on board, is now in 'he harbour of Vourla. On the 19.11 the Austrian :rigatc, Medea, Captain Bandiera, from Syra, anchored in our road. No ships of war are now here, except the English corvette Hazard and the Austrian brig Veneto. Prince George of Cambridge has arrived from Constantinople on board the Lodovico steam-boat. There have been lately some cases of plague here, on which account all ships from this port arc sikbjected to twenty-one days' quarantine at Constantinople. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JULY 16. Money , Bills. Actual Debt, c." per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 pee cont. A loot t Syndic, 41, per cent... .. ............ Ditto, ditto, 3y per cent filY., &IN Commercial Company, 4, per cent 172 l,i, 173 Ditto (1,x'32 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1' , 37, 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 0: Two mon tha BELGIAN .1•U N OS—Bitussei.s, JULY 16 Actual Debt, 24 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent l, 1:14 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. -- ---- 3 per Cent. ',ON Lean of City, 1832, 4 per Cent — Society of Commerce, ‘Il: per Cent llB Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 741 National Society . ... - -Brussels Papers, July 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmpos, JULY 8 Five per Cents. Metalliques Fotir per Cents. Three per Cents. Bark Shares 1494 —AlZgemeine Zcitung, July 13 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 12 Bills. Money. St. &hold. Sch., 4 per cent 1032.4 103! 4 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1K3 1 ,6 102% toccliBlige on London, three months 6 21% —Prussian Stale Gazette, July 13. Immediately after the receipt of the telegraphic dispatches in Paris on Tuesday, announcing the death of the Sultan 11IAttmonn, a Cabinet Council was held, at which the KING presided, to deliberate upon the course which the French Government ought to adopt to bring about a speedy solution of the Eastern ques tion. Nothing transpired of what took place, but the general opinion was that the main obstacle to the paci fication of the East was removed. The account of the battle fought between the Turks and Egyptians on then Ist ult., derives considerable pro bability from the fact that on the 11 th MEHEMET ALI addressed, from Alexandria, the following letter to IBIeatJIM DACHA " You write that the Turks have occupied sixty villages, maltreated our soldiers, and raised the population against us, and repeating their conduct in the district of Aintab. You say it is not prudent to let the Turks go on in this aP4/9_u_demartd_ orders. If things be ao, and the - Turks resit) , commence the war, drive them beyond the frontier, and do what you may deem best. The more patient and reserved we have been, from condescension towards the Powers of Europe, the bolder our enemies have grown, making progress, until, by and bye, the evil would be irremediable. There is nothing left but to march against them a n d b ea t th e m ; their provocation will justify us with the European Powers. As soon as you shall have received this letter, attack the Turkish army, and give it battle. If God and fortune be favourable to you, advance straight on Malatia, Karpout, Orfa, Diar bekir, without passing the defiles of Kulek Boghas." There is no domestic news in the French Journals of any interest. The conduct of BARBES has made a favourable impression on the public mind, and is now allowed by his enemies to have merited for him the exercise of the prerogative of mercy. His voluntary declaration on quitting the prison, not for Brest, as stated yesterday, but for the Fort St. Michel, which is a still further extension of his sentence, that his political career was ended, let what like happen, was regarded as an acknowledgement of the conditions im plied in the Royal act by which his life was spared. The French Government have required from the Bey of Turas the fortress of Kelf, as belonging to Constantine. Letters from Castellan de la Plana, a town in the king dom of Valencia, situated at the distance of fifteen leagues from the capital of that Province, and the population of which exceeds 12,000 souls, state that on the 30th of June there was an engagement almost under the walls of the town, between the troops of Cabrera and those of the Christino Generals, Amer and Azmar, who continued the obstinate combat of which we have given an account, and in which, as we have stated, General Azmar was at first completely defeated. Amor coming to the aid of his col league with a fresh division, had renewed the action. The Royalists, without being dismayed, kept their ground, on the 30th of June, against these new assailants, and vic tory appeared already to declare in favour, for the town of Castellan was in the greatest consternation, notwithstand ing the number of its inhabitants, and the 8 or 10,000 men commanded by Generals Amor and Azmar. The troops of Cabrera amounted to eight or nine battalions. \Ve have news from the head-quarters at Onate, dated the Bth. No change had taken place in the state of affairs. —Gazette de France. From the statement of the produce of the indirect taxes published in the Moniteur, it appears that the total receipt in the first six months of 1839 was 313,748,000 francs, ex ceeding by 3,906,000 francs the receipt during the first six months of the year 183 S. The ship of the line Montebello, and the Victorieu3e corvette, are preparing to leave Toulon for the Levant, to , join the squadron under Rear-Admiral Lalande. A letter from Toulon of the 11th says—" We hear from Constantinople that the court-martial in that city has been engaged with the affair of the conspiracy which was disco• vcred on the Ist of May. The court has been severe. Five persons, among whom there are two Cadis, one of tililah, the other of Sahel, were condemned to be beheaded. It will be recollected that these persons were in connection with Achmet I3ey, and that their correspondence was for tunately intercepted. The oung Arabs who lately left Paris had returned to Constantine, where they were received by their families with great joy.—Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE.—Patas, TUESDAY, JULY 16. HALF-PAST THREE.—The Government has stuck up a copy of a telegraphic despatch fccry Strasburg-, announcing the death of the Sultan Mahmoud on the 30th June ; that his eldest son had been proclaimed Emperor by the Divan, and that on the 28th orders had been sent to suspend hos tilities. This event has not produced much sensation on the market; business has not been brisk. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 65c., and closed as yesterday, 79f. 50c. The Five per Cents. from 111 f. 85c., declined to 111 f. 65c., being a fall of 10c. For Money the Three per Cents. are 10c. higher, and the Five per Cents. sc. lower. The Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shares, have rallied sf. The Belgian Three per Cents. have not varied. The Spanish Active has been stationary at 19i. The Versailles Left Bank Railway Shares have advanced 17f. 50c., and the St. Germain sf. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. i'reach 5 per Cents 4!6 per Cents lO6 ... 106 ... 1:01 ... 106 4 per Cents lO3 50 ... 11,2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 3 per Cent Latfitte Bank I.ooof. Sh lO5O —.1050 ...1050 ...10:,0 5,00,4'. S/1 521) —.5210 _5210 —.52 i 0 Belgian 3 per Cents 72 30 ... 72 30 ... 72 30 ... 72 30 Coupons Spanish Ac ice Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% :':ca- olit.tii Roman 10 1 1,5 ... 101 y, ... 101 ... 1013 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Gerniabl Versailles, et. 1' CS7 50 ... 691 ... fiR5 ... 685 L. B. 325 ... 345 ... 325 ... 335 Flsivrc Orleans .. Strasburg to Bale ... 315 ... 315 ...:11. 50 ... 312 50 Bordeaux to La '1 este The General Steam Navigation Company's new steam ship, Ocean, arrived this morninl - r from Rotterdam, having performed the passage in the unusually short space of twenty• two hours. On her outward voyage she arrived at Rotterdam twenty-three hours after leaving London, two hours of which she was detained at the bar in conse quence of low water. PAROCHIAL ECONOMY.—Among the con tracts lately entered into by the Poor. law Union at Staf ford, the following will not. be yet aside by the Poor-lw,-; Con aiissior ers aceouht of i,s extroi,ganeo :—The guardians have contracted with a barber to shave and cut the hair of the paupers at twopence halfpenny a dozen ! Sheffield Iris. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended July 12, 1839, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the diiTerent Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat (ilk Oki. I Oats I Barley 375. 4d. Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE ?.1K WEEKS Cohntibian Bonds, 1824. —` Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account Ditto Account. Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Deferred BX, Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. —l. —c. Ditto Bonds, 16'25 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —; Exchange. -f. —c. Ditto Account I Dutch, 214 per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent — , Ditto Account — Ditto Account 1 —, Ditto, 5 per cent B 3!; 1 .74 Neapolitan. —l Ditto Acc0unt........ _ ___ ..... _ .......... ______ • PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . • • Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western Railway 3O 4" E ~tern Cottatted riatiway l6 7 'Ai ‘;', London and Croydon Railway Company l4l. 18s. rd. 12 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUMAN, JULY 13. VoCr cent. Conols I i ; per Cell'. Stock - Atto Reduced Ditto New, 1530 - '4; par Cent. Debentures... 91 •Y s ' National Insurance Company - stank Stock - Cisy Debentures, 4 per cent. - Grand Canal stock - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 - Royal Canal Stock - per cent - HALIf-PAST ONE. This day being the Quarterly Meeting for the Proprie tors of Bank Stock at the Bank of England, we hear that few of the Proprietors attended, and the meeting broke up at an early hour, and that nothing was said on the subject of the Dead Weight. The Bank Directors were going to meet again on the private affairs of the Bank, which is expected will last some time. _ _ . Yesterday was a day of business in the City, and ex citement, particularly in respect to the result for the bid ding of the dead weight, as well as the settling of the Consol Account. To-d , ,y is the paying and receiving of the differences of the various accounts, which is going off well, in consequence of which no speculations of conse quence have taken place to the present time. It appears to be a very quiet day in both the Markets, and nothing is known respecting the future operations of the Bank in re gard to the dud weight. Consols at present are 921 for the Account ; Money, 92 Exchequer Bills, 16 19 ; Small, 17 20 ; India Bonds, 24 ; Bank Stock, 18925. In the Foreign Market very little doing. In Spanish nothing done; Portuguese, 351 ; Three per Cents., 221 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i ; Five per Cents., 103,+ The Liverpool steamer is expected on Saturday, from New York. IPSWICH ELECTION.—TiIe actual state of the poll of the Ipswich Election at its close was— Cochrane Gibson Mr. Gibson polled only 601 votes when he was returned in 1837 by a majority of eight. The Post puts forth the following bit of fiction :—" One of the Ipswich voters, to whom the Ministerial party had generously given 451. on an understanding that he would certainly vote for the Radical candidate, Mr. Gibson, went soon afterwards to the poll, and recorded his vote for Sir Thomas Cochrane. On being reproached for dishonour able conduct by his bountiful patrons, he replied, " Not at all; I wished to earn my money, and I fancied the best way of earning it was to show that the conduct of Mr. Gibson in the House of Commons could not have been so very bad as his opponents give out, and for this purpose I copied it as closely as I cou ld . I h ope, gentlemen, you are not angry. LAUNCH OF TIIE VESUVIUS MAN-OF-WAR STEAMER AT SHEERNESS,-0 1 1 Thursday, at high water (noon), her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, burden about 800 tons, was launched at the dock-yard, Sheerness. The noble vessel, which has been built with the utmost rapi dity, her keel having been laid down only ten months ago, on the slip from whence the Acheron was launched in August last, was named, according to the usual farm, by NFss Hill, the daughter of Sir John Hill, Superintendent of the yard, and majestically glided into the waves. A large party met on board the Howe flag-ship to see the launch, after which, on the boatswain's piping to dinner, about 40 guests, chiefly ladies, sat down to a champagne luncheon in the ward-room. The Vesuvius, immediately on being launched, was taken into the basin, and in less than four hours was maated.—Kentish Times. Slit PHILIP FRANCIS.-" He was wont to say that he had nearly survived the good manly words of assent and denial, the Yes and No of our ancestors, and could now hear nothing but unquestionably,' certainly,' unde niably,' or 'by no means,' and I rather think not ;' forms of speech to which he gave the most odious and contemptu ous names, as effeminate and emasculated, and would turn into ridicule by caricaturing the pronunciation of the words Thus he vvou!d drawl out unquestionably' in a faint childish tone, and then say, Gracious God, does he mean yes ? Then why not say so at once like a Tan ?' As for the slip-slop of some fluent talkers in society, who ex claim that thev are so delighted,' or so shocked,' and speak of things being pleasing or hateful to a de gree,' he would b ear d own u pon them without mercy, and roar out, To what degree ? Your words mean anything and everythi ng , an d no thing.' There needs no addition to this for the purpose of remarking how easily he was tired b y prosers (those whom it is the mode to call bor es) , come they even under coronets and crowns. Once when the Prince of Wales was graciously pleased to pursue at great length a narrative of little importance, Sir p. Francis, wearied out, threw back his bead on his c h a i r with Well, Sir, well ?' The sensitiveness of royalty at (MCC was roused, and the historian proceeded to inflict punishment upon the uncourtly offender by repeating and lengthening his recital, afte r a connectin g sentence, ' If Sir Philip will permit me to proceed.' A les s exa l ted performer in the same line having on another occasion got him into a corner, and innocently mistaking hi s ag i tation and guestures for extreme interest in the nar ra ti ve which he was administering to his patient, was somewhat con founded when the latter, seizing him by the coll ar ex claimed with an oath that ' Human nature could endure no more.' In all this there was a con s i stency and an uni formity that was '.extremely racy and amusing. He is not now present to cry out, What does that mean, Sir? What would you he at ? No gibb er i s h !' and therefore it may be observed that there was something exceedingly piquant in his cha,aeter."—Lord Brougham's Sketches. DEATH FROM A GOOSEBERRY.-011 Thurs day week an inquest was held at Kingston-upon- S,iar, touching the death of John Wakefield. Verdict—" Acci dentally choked by a gooseberry sticking in the throat," PRECEDING. Wheat... ...... 68s. 74. Oats Barley 3•,,s I 44. Rye DUTIIS ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat. l6s. F.d. I Oats Barley 4s. 10d. I R I ye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) H UNG ERFO RD MARKET. Fair supplies at market and a good demand, prices much as last quoted. Vegetables abundant. Turbot, ss. to Iss. Salmon, good, Is. 3d. to 2s. per lb. Soles, 10d. to 3s. per pair. Lob sters, 10d. to 2s. 6d. Beef, 7d. to 8&d. Mutton, 71d. to Bd. Veal, Bd. to 9d. Pork, 7d. to Bd. and 8-id. per lb. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Good supplies and a fair demand; prices steady. Turbot, 4s. 6d. to 15s. ; good Salmon, Is. to 2s. per lb. ; Lobsters, 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair ; Salmon Trout cheap ; Whitings, 4d. to 6d.: and Haddocks, 6d. to Is. HAY MARKETS. The supplies and demand moderate. Hay, 665. to 105 s. ; Clover, from 80s. to 120 s. ; Straw 365. to 455. per load. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. We have had a lair demand for Cotton to-day without material eirmge in prices. The sales, 4,000 bags, of which 1,000 have been taken on speculation. Arrivals this morning, French and Ostend mails; ship letters from Pniladelphia and New York of 25th June, by the Garrick. Late Papers have been received from the Sandwich Islands at the North and South American Coffee House to the 10th February :—'• Such a season for southerly winds as we have experienced, has not been known for many years. Since November 21st there has not been any regular trade. A faint land breeze two or three times fur a day or two, has enabled vessels to get out of the harbour. The ship Rasselas dragged, with about 40 fathoms chain, on the small bower; she was very near the Oscar, laying at the Wharf. The ship Nereide swung against the bank, where she remain e d till S u nd a y ev e ning. From Diamond Hill towards Barber's Point was nothing but one continued chain of seas breaking upon the reef, which threw a heavy swell into the harbour. It is said by the oldest natives that such a gale has not been felt there for more than twenty years." Our letters from Tahiti state that the French Frigate La Venus had visited that island for the purpose of de manding satisfaction for the unjust cruel assault made on the French Priests, at the time they were torn by the mob from the house of the American Consul, and forced on board a small schooner. The refusal of the Bank Directors of the sixteen offers for the Dead Weight, has caused but little excitement in the City to the present time, but it had the effect of im proving the British Funds. The various tenders contain ing the prices offered for the Dead Weight, were not opened by the Directors themselves; two eminent Stock Brokers, Messrs. Cole and Gribble, were sent for by the Committee of Treasury, who opened the tenders in their presence, as also a sealed paper, delivered to them by the Directors, containing, as supposed, the lowest price the Bank were disposed to take for the Dead Weight, which is still a secret; report says that the Bank wants 171. In all probability the minimum price will be ascertained in the course of this day. Consols which closed yesterday at 921 ex. dividend opened with an improvement, and may be quoted at 924 Money 921 ; Exchequer Bills 16 18 ; India Bonds 20 25 ; Bink Stock 289. 1 , 2903- ; India Stock 252 254. In tke Foreign Market, the prices as yet are nominal ; Spanish Active 194 ; Portuguese, 344 35 ; Three per Cents. 214 22; Brazilian 774 784 • Colombian 324 33 ; Mexican 25.y 1 264; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54 455 ; Five per Cents. 1034 4. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock PIO 89y4 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 92Y, !4%; South Sea Stock 31, per Cent Ditto Red. llOl4 100 New Ditto New 3 per Cent ..... Xe%% i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 17 ,0 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14 5-10% 7-16 Ditto Small 20 18 21 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 1414 3-16 Ditto Commercial — pro. Jan. 5, 1530 — ( Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank Stock for Account Aprils, 1880 lndia Stock for Account Jan. 5. 1870 92% 14 Consos for Account PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account • Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Dit6 New Bonds Ditto Account 'IN 5 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent 214; 2 , , Ditto Account — Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account 1 _. Ditto Metallic EV I-41,Ni I\T c, EDITION. CHILIAN LOAN OF 1,000,0001. CONTRACTED FOR IN IS c '' ) , BETWEEN DON ANTONIO JOSE DE YRISARRI, PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THAT RE PUBLIC AND THE HOUSE OF MIF.SSRS HULLETT BROTHERS AND CO. OF LONDON.. From the remarks made Im, some gentlemen who spoke at the two public meetings lately held at the London Ta vern, Bishopsgate-street, it is manifest that much igno- I rance prevails upon the following essential point, viz. : Ist. The merits of the contract itself. That the Chi lians, brought up with all the ignorance and pre . judices resulting from the social state under Spanish domination, should complain of a six per cent. loan, negociated at 671 per cent., and which produced 671,200/., is, perhaps, na tural, and not unaccountable ; but it is neither natural nor national for any well-educated English gentle man to be found so ignorant of what constitutes the credit of nations, of the basis on which rests that of his own nation, pre-eminent above all others, and of what con stitutes public faith, as to endeavour to apologise, at a public meeting, for the conduct of Chili, in withholding the dividends due to his countrymen, upon the grounds that the net proceeds of the loan received in Chili were were not as weighty as would have been those of a loan for a nation possessing, and deserving to possess, more credit than at that time was enjoyed by the Republic of Chili. But the political economists of Chili were en lightened upon this subject by their own plenipoten tiary who contracted the loan, Don Antonio Jose de Yrisarri, in a pamphlet of 49 pages, published under the title of " Emprestito de Chile," in Santiege de Chile, on the 16th of May, 1833, eleven years after the loan had been negotiated, and eight years after the final accounts had been rendered by Messrs. Hallett Brothers and Co. In that eloquent and truth-telling pamphlet, Yrisarri, after reminding the Chilians that when, in 1822, they were not even secure of their independence, when their resources were exhausted and the Government so discredited that those who advanced it fifty dollars on the security of an order on the Custom-house for 100 dollars, required in addition the personal guarantee of the collector, and when money in Chili was worth 24 per cent, per annum, he succeeded in London in estab lishing, a credit for the State, which it had not amongst its own citiSens, by negotiating a loan of 1,000,000/. at a rate of 41; per cent. higher than France, in 1816 ; per cent. better than the loan to Spain, byArdouin and Hub bard, and considerably better than the loans subsequently raised for the other South American Republics ; and that he had done all this with Huaett Brothers and Co., at a charge of nearly 4 per cent. commission less than was usually charged by loan contractors. Yrisarri further tells them that, by the difference alone between the dividends on the loan, even at 71 per cent., and the Chili:no rate of interest, they gained yearly 161 per cent. on every 1001. ; or, in six years and 22 days, caved the whole million of the original loan ; after this it is not for Chili to disguise her perfidy, either under complaints of the terms of the loan or of the London contractors. But lest the fastidious advocate for Chili should feel any conscientious scruples about pocket ing the 6 per cent. dividends of that republic, let me re mind him of the rates and interetas of the foreign loans enumerated below,* and that, during the war in the year 1814, our Government had to pay 3 per cent. on 36,000,0001. negotiated at about 54 ; yet neither our own, nor any other G ivernment but that of Chili ever attempted to shuffle their creditors out of their property upon the ground that the interest contracted for was too high. If, after all this, his conscience absolutely rebel against se ceiving more than 3 for his stipulated 6 per cent., let him be comforted with the assurance of a Chilian Minister of Finance arid Plenipotentiary—in fact the very man who made the loan—that the Chilians after paying him the full 6 per cent., and even 11 more, wouldj still; gain 161 per annum on every one of his 100/. bonds, as long as they are unredeemed, and in 13 years have already of his " ONE TA LENT" made TWO other " TALENTS." 2dly. In treating of the non-fulfilment of the conditions of the English loan, people speak in general terms, myself not excepted, as if the whole government of Chili, or the whole people, were equally to blame. Now such an impres sion is unjust and ought not to exist. On the 2d October, 1827, by order of the President of Chili, Senor Egana wrote to his Majesty's Consul-general, that after March, 1828, the full dividends would be remitted, and that the Government engaged irrevocably to comply with the terms of the contract. In 1833 the President, in his speech to the National Congress, states that he had recognised Mr. Caldecleugh as official agent of the bondholders, and that he expected to make such an arrangement with him as would fulfil all the obligations of the republic. In 1834 Don Manuel Rengifo (the most honest and able of Chilian financiers, who, in four years, paid off 1,100,000 dollars of internal debt) pointed to the necessity and expressed the hope of providing for the dividends on the English loan, in his public exposition to Congress. In his exposition for 1835 he stated the same necessity more forcibly, and told the Congress the nation would cover itself with indelible' disgrace if it delayed to remit, when able to remit, the funds, which he calculated would be, at the latest, in 1837. His successor, Don Joaquim Tocernal, urged the performance of the same duty, and no intention of alter ing the terms of the original contract or of making a dis honourable composition was ever professed till the entrance into office, towards the end of 1835, of the late Minister Don Diego Portales, when, for the first time, propositions were made to the agent of the bondholdersin Chili, by Mr. Caldecleugh, in terms almost the same as those offered by Senor Rosales, at the general meeting of May 30. 1837, and he ventured even to discuss the possibility of forcing the bondholders to accept them, or of evading the fulfilment of the contract altogether. Mr. Calde cleugh, with the advice of her Majesty's Consul-General, at once rejected the terms of the Minister Portales-,. and, on the part of the bondholders, proposed to receive half dividends, up to the 30th September, 1843, but, after that period, the full six per eent. upon the capital and the arrears of interest. This did not suit the project of Por tales for getting rid of the obligations of the English loan by compulsory process, and hence the appointment of a special agent, to make the attempt in London. I would blame the Chilian Executive no further than for persisting in the unjust policy of a late favourite but not over-srupu lous Minister ' • and as for the Congress of Chili, th ou gh that assembly formally sanctioned the appointment of an agent to London, yet the decree expressed that it was to satisfy the just claims of the national creditor, and not to barter away the national name and honour for a paltry consideration of money, under pretences of insolvency, incompetency to raise taxes, or any other excuse of na tional impotency, which a real patriot would endeavour to avoid by every sacrifice, rather than expose his country to the contempt and scorn of all other nations for a scandal oust breach of faith, sought to be cloaked under pretexts no less false than frivolous. The third and last error which at present I shall touch upon is the supposition that in Chili there is any real ina bility to pay the full dividends. In saying so, Ido not; mean that she could conveniently pay up at once the. 780,0001. of arrears for 13 years, but she is quite able to pay 6 per cent. upon the original million, and in a very few years will be able to pay 6 per cent. upon the interest ca pitalised. The finance estimates for the years 1831, 1832, and 1833, amounted to 2,0 9 8,000 dollars, including a full. provision for the foreign debt; and as Senor Rosales him- , self confesses the Chilian revenue has reached 2,200,000 dollars per annum, it is not to be controverted that when the Government, nr.iw that the war with Peru is ended, returns to its peace establishment, there will be a surplus of upwards of 170,000 dollars yearly, after paying full di vidends, and that by the year 1849 the surplus will be up wards of 2,000,000 dollars, after covering all the expendi ture of the State. A SUFFERER Austrian Loan £2,500,000 5 per cent. 1823 negotiated at 82 Belgian 2,000,000 13razilian Greek . . 800,000 Ditto 1,000,000 Mexican Prussian Spanish 1,500,000 ..... . . 1823 But even the 13ritish Government from 1776 to 1784 for actual loans to the extent of 75,500,0001. had to acknowledge and pav interest on a nominal capital of 97,400,0001., and is it for Chili to say she has been hard used, when she got money at 67& per cent., though the actual average of her credit in London fur the last 13 years has been only 291. ! MUSICAL ELOPEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I raw, with painful sympathy, in Saturday's Sue. " Musical Elopement." If society were properly consti tuted no offender in that way would be countenanced. The offensive person in this case would meet in every circle th'2 just scorn and contempt due to such enormities —all such should be advertised in the Hue and Cry. Our Legislature might be fully as well employed in concoctim; a law to punish such offenders otherwise than by civil action, to quite as much advantage to the country as most of the absurd, crotchety legislation they turn out Session after Session, either is or ever will be. Can you say if th e following is in force—(sce page 24 " Gifford's English Lawyer, 18th Edit., 1833, Abduction and Adultery, West minster 1, 3 Edward, 1., c. 13")—by which the offender may be imprisoned two years ?" Your's, respectfully, A CONSTANT READER. [We cannot say whether such a law be in force or not ; s b e u i t , f t r it o l m ed t s h e e d o u p ce e r r s ati a o n n d of ad p u e l n t a e l re l r a twscotheyexempt would objection to enact them for the b ene fi t of others. have atv them selves nv.- What in the captain's but a choleric word— In the poor soldier is flat blasphemy."—En. Sex.] LLOYD'S SHIPPING. -(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JULY 17.—Wind E. S. E.— Sailed the Vera, Pea. cock, for Jamaica : Mullein, Vale, Malta; Brazil, Noble), Cadiz ; Griffins, Parsons, South Seas. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 17. Wind S. S. E. to E. S. E., fresh breezes. PLYMOUTH, JULY 17.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Ava, Havviek, from Miramichi ; Active, Dennis, Nantes. Sailed the Caroline, Williams, for Adelaide, South Australia. LivEltrooL, JULY 7.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Robert, from Benin. Sailed the Bolivar, Fenwick, for Rio Janeiro ; Cabot, Sumner, New York ; Birmingham, Farnham, Bath; John Walker, Gasken, Quebec; Marquis Ell,!n, Willis, Newfoundland ; May flower, Wakeham, Labrador ; General Washington, Margery, Alexandria ; Mar)land, Bury, ditto ; Nova Speranza, Naples. Off port, Columbian, from New South Wales ; Fame, Monte Video; Lemena, Nassau ; John, Quebec. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS. —It appears to be not generally known that all passengers tra veling by the " Great Western Railway," with luggage. re required to book it, to ensure its safety ; a very serious loss has been sustained by a lady this week from her not having taken this precaution — Reading Mercury. BANK OF IRELAND,--A meeting was held In Dublin last Monday, for the purpose of petitioning ment against a ren e w a l o f th e Ch ar t er . The meeting!, however, was adjo urne d to 'lshursday-, in consequence of the removal of th e requ i s iti on f rom th e table of the NestnP. room, and the conseq uen t thin a tt en d anc e. Parlia ment .\ ~:.~