The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-28 00:00:00

THE FUNDS,

Consols, which closed yesterday at 931- i for Money and
Account, tpened at 931 i ; and for July Account 931.
This being settling-day in the British Market, the chief
business doing at present is adjusting the accounts.
Exchequer Bills 26 28; India Bonds 30 32 ; Bank
Stock 195 196 ; India Stock 255 260.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 191,; Portuguese
851; Three per Cents. 214; Brazilian 79i 80; Belgian
101 i 102 ; Colombian 30.1 31i ; Mexican 26i ; Dutch
TO2 wo-and-a-Half per Ceuta. 85i 56i; Five per Cents.
1i i.
We have very few arrivals.
Bank
FRICS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Stock 196 5 5' India Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
......... .......92%% Ditto Bonds 3O
93 pm.
3a per Cont. Cons
—.
% per Cent.............. - Old Annuities... .............
Ditto Red, 99 r4N New Ditto ..
—.
New 3% per Cent till lOU% 1% 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
---,
New 5 per Cent. --.
pExch. Bills, £l,OOO 27 24 28 pm.
Jan. 5, 186
Bank Long Annnities toex ire Ditto... ............ 500 ... —O. 14 7-16% Ditto 5ma11.,.,,,, pm'
........ 25
Oct. 10, 18,5,i l4 3-16 Ditto Commercial ..... pm.
Jan. 5, tEr,o 14 11-16 Ditto Advertised ....... 24 2.
per. 6 p
Jan. 5, YBSO .— Bank Steck for Account .. Aprils, 1680. — India Stoek for Account ... ---
Jan. 5 1870 — Consos for Account ...... 93% K.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE,O'CLO
Austrian Bonds —l Peruvian Bonds... ............CK.Belgian
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds
! Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account ......... ..... j Ditto Account 01541
Chilian Bonds

atto Account ..„ ......... .. Russian Bonds: Mt
Columbian Bonds i Ditto Account
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 .. j Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account •:E Clli 1 SON , Ditto Account.
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds —' French, 5 per sent. ....A 11 f. 50:-
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — • ---- 4 per cent...„.. —f. —a.
Ditto Account ' ---- 8 per cent. —f. —r.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — , --- Exchange. 2sf. 4Ce.
Ditto Account ' Dutch, 24 per sent
Ditto, 6 per Cent. • Ditto Account 56
Ditto Account
Neapolitan. ' Ditto Account.... ......
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per are.
Eastern Counties Railway ................ 16 164,4
Great Western Railway C0nepany............ .. 65 734 j
London and Southampton
aiLuchester and Birmingham Rai1way........ 15
Do. Do. Extension
worth Midland Railway Company ........
Colcnial Bank
25

8054

RALF-A ST eivx
We have no further arrivals to communicate.
The settling of the Consul Account is going off well to
the present time, and no doubt will end without any culties being experienced, as the extreme fluctuation dur-
ing the Account has only been about 1 Y per cent. ; in the
early part of the morning itk was a Bull, since which it
has rather turned Bearish.
Consols, which in the course of the morning reached
932-, at present may be quoted 934 for Money, and 93t
for July Account ; Exchequer Bills receded to 24, but
have improved to 27 28; India Bonds 30; India Stock
2561 2551; Bank Stock 196.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 19i; Portu-
guese 35i; Three per Cents. 21i ' 1; Colomkian 301
Mexican 26;} • Danish 74; Dutcb-Tvro-and-a-Half per
Cents. 56,} ; Five per Cents. 1024.
LLOYD

S' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind EI
S. E., fine.—Came down
from the river and sailed, the Magnet, Spark, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 27. —Wind S.—Sailed the Owen
Glendower, Polley, for Madras and Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind variable.
FALMOUTH, MAY 26.—Wind variable.—Sailed the
Elysio, Callers, for St. Petersburg.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 27.—Sailed the England, Garner, for
Quebec. Off port the Bootle, from Porto Cabello; Dam.
frieshire, New Orleans ; Victor, Mobile.
Dom:, MAY 26.—Arrived the Sophia Cecilia, Rade-
loff, from Amsterdam for Surinam, very leaky, and
must discharge.
Cowan, MAY 27.—Arrived the Christiana, "Celver,
from Stockholm.

BRIDPORT, MAY 25.—Arrived off port, the Fortuna,
Boulaw, from Memel.

POOLE, MAY 26.—Arrived the Seal, from Cadiz.
SALCOMBE, MAY 26.—Arrived the Hector, Kincaid,
from Amsterdam ; and Apollo, Bordeaux.
Sue°, MAY 25.—Arrived the Industry, Barret, from
Memel. Sailed the Hope, Douglas, from Quebec ; and
Jassy, Jackson, ditto.

HULL, MAY 27.--Wind S.W.—A'rrivad the Transit
(steamer). Roach, from Hamburg ; Elizabeth, Allen,
Ditto; Haabet, Hansen, Kiel; Trene, Ewart, Memel ;
Eugenia, Voltz, Dantzic ; Johanna Maria, Larsen, Got-
tenburg ; Erin (steamer), J:fayden, Dunkirk; Sea
Horse (steamer), Banch, Rott,erdam; and Anion, Tregar-
then, Gallipoli.
YAkMOUTII, MAY 25. Arrived the Einigheden, \Yd.-
son, from Gottenburg.
HARWICH, MAY 27.---Sailed Gute Bote, Runer, Memel
BRIGHTON, MAY 2N.. —Off port—Noah, Milne, Madc LA.

, •
We regret to. have to announce the death of
General the HOT,. Robert Taylor, uncle to the Marquis
of Headfort, at Us seat. Davestown, in Irelaad, on the
23d inst. The, Hon. General, who was in his 79th year,
was Colonel or the 6th Dragoons, or Carabinerz.
ETON COLLEGE ABUSES... \\7e some time
since noticed a question on the Law of Marriage, likely to
ttuderge a l-egal inquiry, concerning a privilege claimed by the Provost, and we believe exercised at Eton for nearly
a century past—the refusal to marry by any other than
his own license. The cause, from the time we first no-
ticed it, has been proceeding until within these few daps
when the Rev. Dr. Goodall, having discovered his error,
wrote an apologizing letter to the Archbishop, who has
consented to stay all further proceedings upon his pforeis-
ing never to offend in like manner again,-.-Beedirri Me.
A. 141.7

WHAT' SORT OF GOVERNMENT

ARE WE TO HAVE ?

(From the June. Number of Tait's Magazine.) 1
After the very decided part which Lord John has
taken in counselling the Queen to resist the proposition
of Sir &len Peel for the remodelling of the Household,
as derogatory and unconstitutional—an indignity to her
station, and cruelty to her youth and sex—he -surely
could not, a second time, make over both Queen and
co'untr'y to the harsh and tyrannical sway of Sir
Robert ; who, like another inflexible John Knox,
could see " Fair Mary weep in vain ;" nor yet to
one resembling that stern veteran (the prototype of all
oppressors of princes), who was once heard to say,
" [letter that bairns greet than bearded men." But from
this severity and insolence, unconstitutional assumption
of power, or whatever else the Whig organs may please
to term it, there is no immediate hope of the Duke or
Sir Robert Peel receding. What then becomes the
duty of Lords John Russell and Melbourne to their
Royal Mistress, should they find, within a few weeks
or days, that they are exactly in the same position
with Parliament as when they informed her Majesty
that, having lost the confidence of the House of
Commons, thq could no longer, in accordance with
the principles taf the British Constitution, act as her
advi:ets ? They are surely bound, in every view
of honour and consistency, to uphold her Majesty
in the course which they have gravely sanctioned, and
deliberately justified, as strictly constitutional, as well
as in accordance with her dignity and her amiable
womanly itselings for her favourate ladies. They are for
ever tied utia from ever again consigning their young and
confiding mistress to the tender mercies of the
Tories, if the churlishness of the Radicals, or any
other cause should deprive them a second time of
the felicity of serving her themselves. They can no
longer, without offence and insult, give the Queen
what the Tory papers, during the Three Days'
Government, so often lauded as " the manly and
honourable advice of Lord Melbourne and Lord
John," to send for Sir Robert Peel and the Duke,
and to set her face against the Liberals. Failing them-
selves-rend they may fail—they are bound, by every
feeling of loyalty and of self-respect, to co-operate in the
formation of a Government in harmony with her Ma-
jesty's wishes and feelings. They have voluntarily
placed theme es in this position, and cannot
shrink from, It They are bound to counsel the
Queen to send for Lords Normanby, or Morpeth,
or Brougham, or Durham, or any noble Lord who
can reconcile his public duty with due consideration
for her Majesty's wishes ; or, haply, for Mr. Hume or
Mr. Grote. Any policy must be preferable to giving
pain to the Queen. " Keep out the Tories," " Rally
for the Queen," must henceforth be the war-cry in
Melt places, as well as among the masses ; and, though
out themselves, the lenders of the present Government
will, beyond all doubt, most lustily join in it. These
.considerations would warrant the hope of an improved
Govetmment, and at no distant day—the hope of a
Ministry that should deserve the confidence of the
nation, and be in accordance with the predilections of
the Sovereign, were our slippery, shuffling friends, who
are all-powerful at Court, to be judged of as ordinary
men, having the common grinciples of honour and
honesty.
Thai Lord John Russell can form a permanent mem-
ler of any Liberal Administration, is wholly out of the
question. He has incapacitated himself for being a
member of any Ministry which supports, were it but one
of those great measures upon which all Reformers are
weed. He has taken his position upon FINALITY ;
and can no longer be accused of deluding or hood-
winking -any man who dos; not seek a pretext for being
duped. Laid John is, therefore, in our opinion, to be
held as disposed of ; there may be more respect enter.
Dined for the individual than for some of the more
liberal of his colleagues ; but a Government, of which
Lord John Russell, with any regard to his own cha-
racter, can now form a member, is undeserving of the
rapport of any consistent Reformer. He is fairly out
of the field. Were he even to recant his wantonly
gratuitous declaration, his future usefulness would
perish with his sinking character. Lord Melbourne,
with all his faults, is composed of more yielding
material. Our opinion of that noble person has never
been concealed nor minced ; but he is a more practi-
cable individual, and a more flexible politician ; and one
is tolerably assured that he will not obstinately persist in
acting the part of the dog in the manger—neither do
himself, nor let others act—were he properly balanced.
The Reformers might, in short, at this time, better
spare a better man. Britain is a monarchy, and cour-
tiers have their uses. But in the event of his retiring,
he also is bound to give the Queen counsels very oppo-
site to those which preceded his late resignation. He
(and indeed the whole Cabinet) has identified himself
with that high-spirited conduct in her Majesty, which
has roused the sympathies and enthusiasm of the nation
" for our young and insulted Queen !" It was by the
advice of the whole Melbourne Cabinet that her Ma-
, jesty so summarily dismissed the Three Days' Tory Go-
vernment. With the smallest hope of a Liberal Govern-
ment, or a greatly improved Whig Ministry succeed-
ing, far be it from any *former to lament the Tory
downfall. The exultation and delusion of the country,
is one more proof of the inveterate hostility of the peo-
ple to that party. Anything is welcome, and everything
is justifiable in the eyes of a vast majority of the nation,
which thwarts and puts down the Tories. The Queen
is, by sudden reaction, at this moment, we believe, much
more popular than in the week of her accession, or that
of her coronation. Her Majesty has not, like King
William, professed any inclination towards Liberal opi-
nions; but she has displayed symptoms of a right
princely selfswil,l in what is at present deemed the right
direction. She has vanquished the veteran victor of
Waterloo—she has dismissed the Tories! " Hurrah for
' the Queen !" shouts O'Connell. "Rally for our Queen !"
respond the place-hunting or place-keeping Whigs ;
while many disinterested persons of generous feeling
and no great power of reflection are caught by tie melt-
ing and exciting picture of youth, royalty, tender
r, ()manhood, roused to resist indignity and oppression.
But if the Reformers of a former age were contented
to hail gospel-light even in so doubtful a source as
" Boleyn's eyes," it is quite pardonable that the Radicals
should exult in the advancement of their righteous
cause, through the generous and amiable attachment of
Queen Victoria to " the friends of her childhood " and
the Ladies of her Bedchamber. It is not their part to
long to sec the young Queen made over to Tory sur-
veillance, and Tory arts of all descriptions. One set of
courtiers at a time is quite enough for the strongest and
most experienced princely head.
And now that the Tories are shut out from the Pa-
lace, probably for a considerable period, What sort of
Government are We to have ? Her Majesty must be
aware—for she has learned it in sorrow, within these
Lw weeks, and from their own months--:that her ad.
visers, though they enjoyed her support and favour, had
lo*the confidence 04 the House of Commons, and were,
consequently, compelled to resign. She has restored
them by her Royal prerogative, but have they regained
the confidence of the country ?
A loyal people and a dutiful House of Commons will
no doubt make very considerable sacrifices to gratify
the wishes of their young female Sovereign, and to de-
fend her from Tory encroachment, perhaps even to the
length of stretching a constitutional point, that can by
• any ingenuity be construed in her favour ; but if the
Ministry, overthrown by the House of Commons, acci-
dentally restored, and holding office merely through the
favour of the Queen, persist in the same policy which
forfeited the confidence of the representatives of the
people, while the original cause and the attendant cir-
cumstances of their restoration must have further exas-
perated the alienated Upper House, what then is
to be the result ? It requires no prophet to fore-
see it. If the Whigs choose to become Reformers,
in deed as well as in profession, and cordially
unite with the Radicals for the advancement of
those objects which alone make it of consequence
to the people which set of men is in power, a hope-
ful,.struggle may shill be maintained, and a triumphant
rata predicted. But a mere Melbourne and Russell
Ministry can only be re-organized to work further mis-
chief for the brief space it continues to hang together ;
to distract and sow further dissensions among the Re-
formers, aultimately either to leave the Queen to the
unavoidable omination of the Tories, or precipitate her
into the arms of wild and extravagant Revolutionists.
Were it possible for the Whigs to overmaster this pre-
sent crisis in the strength of official patrbnage, the de-
lusion about6the Queen, and mere WThiggery, the chances
of Reform would be worse than ever.
But—What sort of Government are we to have ?
Parliament dismissed the Whigs ; the Queen dis-
missed the Tories ; and, if the opportunity of-
fered be -seized, and improved, the people may
obtain as improved set of rulers superior to both—
fit to defend the just prerogatives of the Crown
—to unite the Reformers once more on a fair
and definite basis, and for fixed objects—and to pro-
mote the true interests of all classes and parties. The
Tories will not challenge the power of the Queen to
choose her own servants ; the Whigs will not deny,
what they have just confessed, that they have lost
the canfidence of Parliament, and cannot longer carry on
the Government. There is, therefore, no alternative.
Tories cannot get in—mere Whigs canoat stay
in. The time is singularly propitious for the
acceeion of a really Liberal Government, or
of one composed of fresh Liberal elements. It
has cone earlier than could have been anticipated,
and avllladut *tat fiery trial of Tory domination, to
which every reflecting Reformer had made up his mind
rather than longer submit to the deadening effects of
Whig laxity and trickery, budding, as we have seen,
tato Whig effrontery, and to be consummated, if possi-
ble, in the bright perennial flower of undisguised modern
hitgerY—i. e., Finality—flourishing throughout the
rgn of Queen Victoria. Was this a state of
things to be desired? And are we ensured against it ?
It is the game of the Whigs to turn every incident to
their own advantage. If a little lip-liberalism may
serve the turn, they will in this pinch suffer a little to
escape them, while their underlines and hirelings
deal it forth by daily columns. Yet who has for-
gotten the nrarlyeivil speeches made by Lord Melbourne
to the Radicals ? But a few weeks—even since the

opening of the present Session of Parliament--it did
require a considerable stock of courtly assurance in this
same noble individual to convey to Mr. O'Connell the
information that the kindness and graciousness between
hitnself and that gentleman was all on one side. "If
the Radicals and Mr. O'Connell support my Govern-
ment, I am sure I have always treated them with the
proper degree of contempt," has been the plain import
of MPlbourne's language. It will he the fault of Mr.
0 Connell and the Radicals if any future 'Whig Minister
sh all ever venture to aet, with regard to them, in that
touch-and-go, swaggering style, vibrating between shuf-
fling, braggadocio, and insolence to which they have so
often submitted. It is not, however, precisely for their
personal feelings that we are concerned, but for the
interests which they represent, and which are in-
jured by tame submission to indignities. To use plain
terms, the Reformers will have great cause of distrust
in any Government of which Lord Melbourne is the
head. We do not exactly repudiate him ; but it would
require an extraordinary infusion of Liberal feeling and
of steady principle in the Cabinet—definite measures of
reform, and tried men to support them—to overmaster
the vicious influences and lax principles which have been
displayed there for the last few years. Nor are these
qualities wanting, and of a kind which will command
the respect of the nation. Lord Normanby enjoys the
confidence of the Irish people, which of itself is a mighty
consideration ; Lord Durham may be roused from his
lethargy, and may, perhaps, vindicate the opinions formed
of him by his zealous admirers ; and the whole tenor
of his life warrants us in saying, that Lord Brougham
may be surely reckoned upon, as soon as he can, with
efficiency, hope to serve the people by resuming office.
There is nothing in these names to alarm the most
sensitive Conservative, save the certainty that Re-
form would then be set about in earnest—that the
Whig "talkee, talkee," which served Tory purposes,
was at an end ; that the Reform Bill would
be reformed, the Suffrage extended, the duration
of Parliament restored to the old and constitu•
tional period, and the Corn-laws abolished, if
the efforts of Rulers and people were simultaneous.
Those persons, whether Whig or Tory, who dread
these things, would certainly have cause of apprehen-
sion. Lord Brougham's accession to the remodelled or
renewed Cabinet, would, of itself, be more alarming to
the Tories than that of any other individual whom we
can pitch upon. In the same dec=ree would it be a
guarantee for the fulfilment of the hopes of the country.
He has said that it must " be a very, very Liberal
Government to which he can accede."

To come more directly to the point—No man pre-
tending to the name of a Liberal, even in the most
Whig-ridden communities, can longer hold up his face to
give the Melbourne and Russell Cabinet an unqualified
support. " Open Questions," at the least, are required on
three leading measures. But who, in the present Cabinet,
are to hold to the Liberal side?iThe Whig adherents have
the sagacity to discern that mere Whiggery, the old
machinery, won't work. Formerly we had " Liberal
Measures," " Justice to Ireland," a " Municipal Irish
Bill," an " Appropriation Clause," and so forth. Now
we are to have " Open Questions," demanded by the
same individuals who denounce Mr. Hume as " traito-
rous," and Sir William Molesworth as " unprincipled,"
because they have given one vote which has shaken
Whig supremacy, and brought us the poor length of
" Open Questions."