The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING„ SEPTEMBER 20, 1852

ashe hears with
feelingsunut-
te
of lowest
instinciow ns(lte r efa,es: 3'
3 the first cries cf her
new-born babe. , Common in part to her
with the inferior animals, we uld prompt her rather to
tevrearbVie flw of
the
ee
endanger her own life tirsn to hazard that of her
babe's. Where the natural barrier is thus all but insur-
mountable, it must be some almost irresistible impulse
which carries the unhappy mother over it—an impulse
far less controllable than that which impels to ordinary
murder. It is also to be borne in mind that feelings
which, unlike revenge or avarice, call rather for our sym-
pathy than our reprobation, really drive the distressed
and almost bewildered mother to the commission of
her dreadful crime. Do we then apologise for in-
fanticide ? Assuredly not. We only suggest that it
does differ from ordinary murder. The female, sensi-
tive enough to find in the shame of her fall a rack on
which she is tortured out of her natural feelings, is
just the one to have had those feelings most strongly.
We could hardly be human not to sympathise with
the unbearable mental distress to which not noire-
quently a too generous confidence has brought her,
while we ehould scarcely be human if we could sym-
pathise at all with the motives to ordinary murder.
If a father, or any other man, had murdered the help-
less infant, no punishment could be too severe when
the motives must have been so mean and so vile. It
may be added, too, that in the adult the law has,
after all, snore to protect than in the new-born child.
Every juror, we apprehend, intuitively perceives that
the mother who has destroyed life as it was com-
mencing has not done the same thing, nor caused
the same amount of suffering as the murderer of the
adult. The death of the latter is a cruel infliction
generally on a circle of mourning relatives and de-
pendants ; but we need not dilate on the obvious dif-
ference here.

It would deeply grieve us to lessen,iby any rea-
soning, the sentiment so happily distinguishing
civilised from feudal times, of the sacredness of
human life ; yet it is this very sentiment, which, in
the jury-box actually acquits, if posaible, the
mother who takes the life of her babe ! We
apprehend, then, that some modification of the
law might do something towards arresting the pro-
gress Painful crime. In an over-peopled
conntryofthis, when early marriages are frequently impos-
sible, and yet the shame of forfeited virtue so great,
the temptation to the unnatural crime of infanticide
may often be great, and severely punished it must
s uif
ffi sufficiently
e nptul
yn Punishment a
ncdo ualtd the b e
samefo untdi
mwhich
of their office, it surely
cbwaeou.usledßjbuuerzes and judges to waver in the discharge
But
were well worth the trial.
With the maudlin tenderness for crime indulged in
by some sentimentalists, we have no sympathy what-
ever. It harmonizes neither with the dictates of
morality nor religion, nor, indeed, with the manly
good sense of Englishmen ; but, on the other hand
punishments at all severer than the safety of society,
or the nature of the offence demand, are proverbially,
known to defeat their own end. We commend the
subject to the consideration, at least, of humane and
intelligent law-reformers.

o Leasin Business
Railways. ~ Nominal Prices.uompanies. to-day.
Bdf. & Bitch., all p Lon.&N.W . .
Bin& Oxf., gua. all Gt. Westn. 2bi4 30%
Do. without, all p Do.
Bir.Wolv. & Dud.,
guar all pd,i Do.
Do. without, all pi Do.
Buckinghash. all p,Lon.&N.W ••• •••
Clydsdale Jc., all p,Caledonian 52 —53
E. Lin., gua. 6 per'
cent IN/. pd Gt. Northn.llso 152 151
Gloucest. & Deanl
Forest 'dl pdiGt. We.strn. 32 —33
Hartlepl. Dk. & % I Yk. New.
Railw. pd Z & Berw. '" ***
Hull& Selby, all p Yk. &N 113, 115
Halves., alves., all p Do. 1 56% 5714
Do. Quarts., all p Do.
Leeds& &cif., all Midland
Lon. & Grenw., all S. Eastern 1334 14%
Do. Pref....all pd Do. - 26%
Lowestoft., gua. 4
per cent...all pd Norfolk
Do. 6 p. ct., all p Do.
Middle-she & Red-
car, 6 p. c., all p Stktn &Dar
N. & E., sp. c., all E. Counties 63 —65 64% 65
Do. 6 p. ct., all p Do.
Do. F. 5 p.c. all pd Do.
Presto. & Wyre, L.& N.W
all paid j &La•&Y "" •••
Ditto, Halves, A,
100/. pd Do.
Roy. & Hit.,loo/4Gt.Northn 149 --- 151
Do. Shep. Ex., all' Do.
Shf. Rth. & Goole,
sp. c., 18.11.6 p Lan. & Yks „,„
S. Staffdsh., 9% plMai•Clean
Wear Val. 6p all IStckt& Dar 30 -- 31
Ditto ditto, all pi Do.
La 649 iii: NW. WA Wykitali 10i s. 105

FONLEIGN.

Railway:.

&mine! Price:.

Cent. France (0.V.) all
Charl. & Erquel all pd
Demerara all pd
Dijon & Besancon, 2 pd,
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pdl
East Indian all pd
GL Indian Penin. all p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg ...14/. pd
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd
Do d
Do. (Canal) 2% pd
Lyons & Avignon, 5 pd
Madras 2s. pd
Maria Antonia 27i pd
Do. New 8% pd
Namur & Liege all pd
Do. ex int ..... all pd
North. of France, all pd
Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 111. pd
Paris & Lyons 101. pd
Do. Bonds ... 12 pd.
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. ...all pdi
Paris, Caen, and Cher-
bourg. 4 pd
Rouen & Havre...all pd
Sambre & Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd
West Flanders all pd
West. of France 6!. pd

..''. •••

5/8 -' - ' Y 8 P
%di& % p
734 B%p
2 —2% p
1 —1% p

7%- 734
434 - 5
Ix - ii,i
Iy, - IA
3%- 4

... _
318 - -2% p
7 9

2 -

814 - 9

614 - 7
27% -281 A
13% - 14;i
P
11% I- iti LA p

57 - :5-Y
34 % - 35
29 -29 %

1%- I`4P
14% - 15%
10 -10%

... ... di,.,
414 5

Agna Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian 5/. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. ss. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobre Copper ...401. pd
Colonial Gold 1/ pd
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Grd. Duch. Baden, all p
Great Polgooth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Liberty ... all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com all pd
Mariquita.... all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd.
Port Philip all pd,
Quartz Rock all pd'
Santiago de Cuba 103/4
South Australian, all pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa all pd
Yuba 1 paid

, 41A -4% p.

MINES.

% p
par % p

''" •••

7/8 • - nip
% 1
% % dis.
% % die.
y 4— % di2.

••• - ••
6 -• 7

i4dis. par
44 —46
% % p

5A t —— • % dis.

% di&
par
I% 15/8 p
3'adis.
y 4— 3/4 P

34 % dis.
%clis. par
4 5
% % dig.
% 34 p
% %P
11% 12%
lidis. par
12 —l3 1

JOINT
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 25/. pd
Com. of London 20/. pd
London Com:. Bank of
Australia
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22 LA p 1
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pdl
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd.
Do. New all pd
Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold
Importing Com. Ipd
Union of Austral. all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 10/. p
Union of Madrid all pd

6% —7% I
Vic— par
'-STOCK
55% 56
57 —59
15 —l6
29 —3O

4 - 5

18%--19
31 -33
44 -46

18% __ió
38 —39 x.d
46% 47
16/8 17%

MIS
Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p
Canada 321,E pd
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . all pd
De. Preference, 7i4 pd
Crystal Palace ... 5 pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1 p
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p
Penin. & Or. St. r'l pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2!. p

496 % - 861,4
17 -18

ICELLANEOI7I
8 - 4
50 -51

30 -30 IA

••• .... •••
4% -5%

ii% = 29 3'

2 - ix
84 -86

85 %
78 - 79%

1 Business done
to-day.
1

2M 3
%Yts 8 8
;2814
;7%

7% %3/8 54%
:5 4% 5
IV, Sys
1%
9% 3/
2i,i im

834 ja 5%
7
28% yt, 28

19
22% %

5814
3434, [3O
29% ya 30 29%

s'/
16%
io

43% 7/8
11 105/8 11

IVA % %

6% 7% 7 1A
29►%
45 % %
1%

4YB 1l
13

4% % %

4 5/8 y 8
a%
1 ;a

1% ys

1 Ova 1%

9 84 9 75C83'8 8

.KR.
57

16% 16

33% 14 33

50 yi

291,4

86 y&
36%

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 2,000 on speculation. The mar-
ket closed very firmly. The sales comprised 6,500
American, 250 Pernam and Maranhana at 64d. to
7.1., 200 Bahia at 6t31. to 61d., 400 Egyptian at
64d. to Bd., 600 Surat at 41. to 41d., and 40
Sea Island at Is. 9d. to 2s. 4d. per lb.—ln Rail-
way Shares only a limited business was done at lower
prices.
The Corn trade is very dull this morning.
The Railway meetings announced are the following:—
Caledonian, Sept. 22—London Tavern.
Irish South-Eastern, Sept. 25—Dublin.
Lancaster and Preston, Sept, 20—Lancaster.
London and South-Western, Sept. 24—Terminus.
Maria Antonia, Oct. I—Florence.
Midland, Oct. 2—Derby.
Newmarket, Sept. 29—London Tavern.
North and South-Western, Sept. 20—Office.
Rouen and Havre, Sept. 30—Paris.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Sept. 20—Wolverhampton.
Shropshire Union, Sept. 23—Shrewsbury.
Tourney, Jurb., Linden, and Hass, Sept 30—Brussels.
Accounts from Belgium state that the treaty of com-
merce between that country and France was exciting
opposition and remonstrance on the part of the silk
manufacturers at Lyons and the vine growers at Bor-
deaux, the dates under the new arrangement being
augmented. The French Government, in the interest
of its own subjects, will endeavour to procure a modifi-
cation, but it must exercise, we presume, more liberality
itself, ere a fair claim can be established.
The Amsterdam Stock Market, on the 18th inst., was
dull except for Dutch Four per Cents. Spanish Bonds
were animated, bat at lower rates. Austrian and Rus-
sian Stocks were rather feeble. There had been a can-
celment in the presence of authorized parties of 29,977,135
florins of Treasury bills, in virtue of the law of Dcoem-
ber, 1845.
Through India and by the Overland Mail, there are
advices of July 1 from Sydney. The general news is
very satisfactory.
The accounts from the Northern Mines (Maitland
district) are fully as brilliant as those by the last Over-
land Mail. The discovery had so increased the traffic
between the Hunter River and Sydney that a new Steam-
boat Company was in the course of formation at Maitland,
withl4o,oool, capital in 4,000 shares at 101. eacb, and a good
dividend was anticipated without affecting the position
of the old company, the traffic being double the amount it
was capable of accommodating. From the Western
mines some fine specimens of pure gold nuggets, one
especially of ten pounds weight, had arrived at Sydney,
and were purchased at 655. 6d. per ounce : however, the
operations of the miners at the wet diggings
were: for a time suspended in consequence of the
waters of the Turon being so high as to cause
many of the richest beds to be overflowed;
however, this district has been more than compensated
by the discovery of dry diggings in the dividing range
fifty miles west of Molong, which wore turning out ex-
ceedingly rich; 6 oz. per day had been obtained per man
by one party. The gold here is found in crystallized
quartz. A railway was projected from Melbourne to
Alexander.

The steamer from America is just telegraphed.
The English Stock Market has been very firm,
in the absence of any particular activity. The largo
amount of specie exported last week does not exercise
any depressing influence, because it is anticipated that
there wilt speedily be an influx from Australia and by
the West India steamer. Consols have been 100 to 1
for Transfer, and 1001 to 1 for Account. Exchequer-
bills have been 745. and India Bonds 87s. premium.
Foreign Stocks have been livelier, and tend upwards
again. Mexican have advanced to 251 11-, and Peruvian
Deferred aro 651 to 66. Grenada Deferred aro marked
124. The Turkish Loan has been up again to 91 and
10 premium. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been
dull at 384. Spanish Throe per Cents. have advanced
to 501 and 51, and the New Deferred to 231 H. Tho
Passive Bonds have been at 611 to and the Certifi-
cate is at 3. Sardinian Stock is quiet at 954. The
Austrian Loan is 44 to 51 premium. Russian Bonds
have been at 119, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 99.
The lino of railway from Charleroi to Erquelines is
to be opened on the 11th of next month. In the mean-
time coaches are running to connect it with the North
of France Railway.
Railway Shares have been very dull, but paces have
not keen further reduced, and Great Northern and North
Stafford are better. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, York and North Midland, and Caledonian,
are also higher. French Shcres aro generally
dearer,
and Belgian very animated.
Gold Mines are in more request, at fuller prices in
several instances. United Mexican are tendieg up.
wards still, and Imperial Brazilian fluctuate a good deal.

QUA RTES TO THREE.
• 100 t
▪ 100 t
ONE CLOSING
100 ./4
aPlptlaCrlpenOt!rcoonitstoTlissAtlrinFuiUNtieD3S..
.................
100
VETOE S
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under 1,0004,
••• 84 p
Consols for Account ............... 1014:r
0741 i!.
June.
100;
Exchequer Bills. 15i.d...
1,0001. ......................... 74 p 70 p
500/.
70 p ............ 74 p

Consols •••
Litto Account, Oct 13

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN' FUNDS. O'CLOCK;
Austrian 5 per Cent. Scrip 44 bYs P
raziiian Bonds, 5 per Cent, —
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Egnador Bonds

OLOSINCt
PSICEB.
54 P
104%
724
474

Grenada Bonds, 11/.i per Cent. —
Ditto, Deferred l2n
Voxiz:tn, 1816 3 p'r Cent., 25 tyl%
Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 6 per Cent — .....
Ditto. Deferred, 3 per Cent 65% 66 66
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
38
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
13 ns9 i a n Bonds ....a 119
Ditto, 44 per Cent
96
Sardinian Bods, 5 Fer Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent 50% 51 50% 5°
23%
Ditto, New Deferred ...... 237/8% 6 %
Ditto. Passive 6% n
Spanish Corn. Cert. Coup. not funded 3 3% per ant-
i() P
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 lO 9% 10 p
Dividends on the above payable in London.
_ ....-

12%
25%;

Dntch 21,4 per Cent. 12 (mild....
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates... 99

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY:?
LONDON, SEPT. 20.—Wind at noon W.N.W., LP'
breezo and cloudy at times.
Pl,v3rotrrn, SEPT. 19.—Wind W. N.W.-511Persiar,
Port
Philip; Emigrant, Port Philip; Time and Truth,
Melbourne.
LEMVIG, SEPT, 13.—The Elites Minde, Hull to Chris,.
tiansand, was wrecked on this coast yesterday during 0
gaHAle; crew say.
MBURG'',ed SEPT. 16.—The Eendreight, Flensafteburg
r
to Aberdeen, sunk the 13th instant, 54 N., 7 E.,
Icing in contact; crew saved and landed here. , ,a,
MALTA, SEPT. B.—The Liebe, Kara to Live
',—
put in with damage, having been struck by lighteing:
IS!!
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT, 4.---The Catherine, GU
t O
transhipping United
he
Kingdom,r
cargo arrived t
op
r e heresirepair
damage.
prior to 2d instant, is
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. J9.—The schooner Dart, of this.
port, Fowey to Cardiff, sank yesterday off ah® Lzard,
crew saved and landed here.
South
ot ho
dWoos,poc::
Nevin,
tpotuabllliyn
SUNDERLAND,
likely"torObßefrom
W
to New Orleans, is onC°tlnheni°l:llBobr
dainsdnmAstreSkdElooFrwff.t:tohle9N.Lilhadse.tle, has been assisted if],
Liverpool
me SEPT.
aSEPT.T
wreck; 1 9 . 1:c
crew
ee w Bahn ud r t
pp
so
sr
se 0 1
jogf and
eicl : II
has been wreckedl9'n—eaTr era landed.
Bridport, Saline,
DEAL, SEPT. 19.—Wind N,Vir.--at.• Good
Ceylon.—Arrived from the River, ?Jell' CoPe Aged
Hope; Gateshead, Madras; Laura, Africa. '
1° t Philip•
fromvv the River and sld.
alcutta, ditto; Arlemesia
, Jeannette, Mitchel, .1. or _O.
atnloo, Sydney, New South Wales; Union,
ats.
hartC Town; Hopewill, libeeres.choo,ne,ir ,tt lent, o_
G d o°Pe bet $
Ceylon S d
; -S-neY, Ceylon;
Apprentice,m Bussorab ; Eliza Hart, Cape oSf
Melbourne,cJ 610
he no foN:01
ou n t ,
1301,11 y .
Arabsoll r_.
arlborough, ditto; Janet, Valparaiso; , Que e;..
Tobago; Ocean Queen, New York Glenswelly
maHi
nAt Ro
pICa Hs;
COWES, SEPT. 19.—Wind S. to S.S.Pir.--Arrd. Cs°
ton, for Hamburgh. Sa°
to
sprung, SEPT.
19.—The&.
London, has been towed in with loss of foremast, au
LIVERPOOL, (coo;
Lord Farnhaln. -
Calcutta; Evangelist, San Francisco; Cumberland,
.1„._.,,,
Onward, New Orleans; Laurie, Charleston; 3 obailii"ji,
SEPT. 19.—Wind N.E.—Sld. 'Codger°.
cock, New York; Canada steamer, Boston; Sarenhcf ~5 rt,
steamer, Melbourne; Angelina, San Francisco. ‘,.. r° r
Only Son, Thomas ee, and Louisa. The Mail
from Dublin , around in the Ruth Channel, got °'"
10
has arrived here' without damage. Asia steamer,
York '
, arrived off Holyhead at 8 A.M. g Sia'
V --'
WATERFORD, 8 —Wind N. to 8.-- '
Baticela, Pictou. SEPT..
.
_ ,
stir:Dried