The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-18 00:00:00

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RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOK.
Austr an Bonds
Re'gian Bonds lnc, Hitto Attiniii ... ••••-•-
Ditto Accounts:.
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Chillian rrdllAs... ...... ..........
—; Proysirm '.f0nd5............... .
Ditto Account ..... ..... : ... .. —' Itu,sinn 80n.1.1, 184.2..........

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Cfliimbian Bonds -. Ditto Account .........
Ditto Account ..
,:olionbion Booth, :821
Ditto Account -
Domicil Bonds ... 7114 3t Cairo Bonn's. M. 31. .... ........... 211,41, 4
Ditto Account
Greek 80n.45......._. ............ - I iii 4
Ditto Bands, 1,'9.5 4 per cent —l —c
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%lexicon Bs nth, 5 per cent
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Ditto, ti per cent. ........-.. —, ihtto Account 535,
Ditto Account ....
Sleopolitor .......... ........ ...... —' Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

Great Western Railway Company
London and Birmitigharn Railway Company
London and Greenwich Compvny
liindon and Westminster Bank
N stional Provincial Bank of Ensrland

Paid.
85
2.1
20
35

Per Share
42 I%
17%
!:144

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, num IN, MAY IS.
'I per Cent. Consols 8934 Grand Canal Deb.. ( per cent 88
tktto Reduced — i Ditto, 4 per cent 39
314 per Cent. Stock 9714, Hibernian Itank
Ditto New, 1830
I,‘ per Cent. Debentures 9u1,4 National Insurance Co ...... ...
Rank Stock l97' City Dybet-mires, 4 per cent...
Royal Canal Stock — Ballast (Alice Debentures, 4
Grand Canal Stock — ' tie, cent —

MAILS.

Arrived. Due Arrived. • Duc.
0 America 0 I France... ..... .... 0
0 Brazil
0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0
0 Carthagena 0 (1 Holland
I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica
1 Flanders ...... ... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0

Arrived Due
0 Lisbon 0
0 Matta
0 Mexico 0
0 Ostend.. ....... 0
0 Sweden 0
1 Waterfurd 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'ID-MORROW.
Morning 9 minutest after 1. I Evening...... 35 minutes after I

Next week will be published, in 3 vols. post Bvo.
FUREKA : a PROPHECY of the FUTURE
By the Author of " Mephistophiles in England."
London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1837.

The Lords did not sit yesterday.
In the House of Commons, but little of the business of
the country was transacted, and that little possessed not
much of interest, if we except the rejection of Dr. Bow-
RING'S motion to omit that clause in the Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ayr Railway Bill, which prevents railways from
being used on Sundays.
On the motion of Mr. STANLEY, a new writ was ordered
for Glasgow ; Mr. OSWALD having accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds

The House went into Committee on Mr. CHARLES
BuLwEß's Controverted Election Bill, which has for its
object to reform the mode of trying controverted elections.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who, with Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET, Mr. POULTER, and Mr. WYNN, expressed some
doubt as to the efficacy of the proposed measure, moved
that the Chairman should " report progress and ask leave
to sit again." The discovery was subsequently made that
there were not 36 members present—the House was conse-
quently adjourned.

The. Saints were at work again last night in the
House of Commons, and committed as pretty a piece
of Agnewism as we ever remember to have heard of.
On the motion for the consideration of the Glasgow
and Ayr Railway Bill, a clause was proposed, and
carried too ! for the purpose of preventing all travel-
ling on the Sabbath, on the plea that it would give a
shock to the religious feelings of the community. Sir
ANDREW AONEW, of course, was warmly in favour
of this clause, which was as warmly opposed by Mr.
ROEBUCK, who observed that the " question was
merely an affair of pounds, shillings,. and pence,
and that the Sabbath had nothing to do with
it. He should like to know how many mails tra-
velled on the Sabbath ?" The Honourable Mem-
ber should not have confined himself to this single
question, but should have put a few others to the
Parliamentary Puritans, He should have asked
how many fashionable clubs are kept open through-
out Sundays at the west-end of the town ? How
many aristocratic dinner parties are given on that
day ? How many carriages roll along to the crowded
Zoological Gardens on that day ? How many great
men's cooks, and valets, and grooms, are kept hard at
work on that day ? We have no patience with that
cant which would make religion a mere matter of
form and ceremony ; and the abstaining from harm-
less amusement the sole test of godliness. Is Christianity
injured, because the poor man, who cannot afford the
luxury of a caiage, feels a disposition to travel by a
railway ? Is there heresy in the quiet motion of the
steam-car, and the- strictest orthodoxy in the rattling
wheels of the chariot ? Out upon such maudlin cant !
It is worthy only of those days when men sat for years
in one position, with heavy chains about their necks,
as the surest means of propitiating the favour of
Heaven. For all their pretension, we do not find that
our modern Mawworms are one whit better than the
other sons of Adam. If they be regenerated, it is
only iu their own opinion. They can see the mote in
another's eye, but they cannot detect the beam in
their own. It was but the other day that one
of the most notable puritans in the House of
Commons, was caught travelling on the Sunday in
his own private carriage ; vet here we find his
fanatical brethren ind►gnantly denouncing the poor
man's journey by the Railway, who, perhaps, on no
other day in the week has an opportunity of taking the
slightest recreation, But this is what is called show-
ing one's regard for religion ! This vexatious med-
dling with the amusements of the people, is your only
true sanctity I Well, we have always protested against
such cant, and always shall do so, taking as the ground-
work of our objectio❑ the Divine Command " Do unto
others as you would they should do unto you."

The uncertain state of the law of Parliamentary
Election, as administered by Election Committees of
the House of Commons, has long been felt as a great
evil. These Committees are so chosen, and their
decisions so contradictory, that no reliance can be
placed upon them. If a Committee happen to consist
of more Members from one side of the House than
from the other, the leaning is in favour of the candidate
whose political sentiments accord with those of
the majority. Thus, party motives usurp the place of
justice and honour ; six individuals forming the majo-
rity of a Committee arbitrarily set aside the choice of a
numerous constituency ; and the character of honour-
able Committees, if not of the Hon. House itself,
is brought into discredit and contempt with the
public. Nor is it difficult for those Members
who evince this partiality towards men of their
own party to find a plausible enough justification for
their conduct ; for they can adopt no course for which
they will not find a precedent in the decisions of pre-
ceding Committees. It was only the other day that
two Election Committees, sitting at the same time,
came to a directly opposite conclusion on the very
same question. The one decided that the register
was not to 6e opened—the other that it was. When,
such a latitude of procedure is allowed, it is quite
clear that each party in a Committee will think them-
selves absolved from every other consideration than that
of how they may most effectually advance the political
cause to which they have attached themselves.

A Committee was lately appointed to inquire int()

tt:1) ttlbt,tl than dying tms cvi!, "!nil
bill was brought in by the Honourable Mem-
ber. for Liskeard founded on their Report. It
was discussed in the House last night, and
did nut Beetii to meet encourage-
For ilk.; M6fits d the 1111 *e
refer our readers to Mr. BULLER'S speech, in which
they will find its provisions briefly stated. For our
own part, although there me many of his suggestions
or which w tarthdt apprdVe, 1,t6 think the Hon.
MeMbel' d'es'efie§*ell df tof the attedipt he
has made to improve the constitution of Election
Committees. It is always a great point to have•made
a beginning in a good work.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday have all readied us.
They contain no news from Spain of a later date than
the advices published in the London Evening Journals
of yesterday. What is very extraordinary, neither the
Charte of Monday night nor the Moulteur of Tuesday
morning—both official organs of the Governtrient—
contain a line relative to the capture of llernani by
ESPA RTERO. This omission has given rise to some
doubts of the authenticity of the despatch announcing
the capture of that important position, which, in
common with our Evening Contemporaries, we copied
from a Morning Journal into our impression of yesterday.
We cannot speak positively upon this point ; but the
probabilities are all in favour of the accuracy of the
despatch i❑ question. The Paris correspondents of
all the other Morning Journals admit that a rumour
prevailed in the political circles of that capital
at a late hour on Monday night, that the Chris-
tinos had taken Hernani ; and one of them writes
that he was only prevented from sending an ex-
traordinary courier, with the intelligence to London,
by the apprehension that the report might prove un-
founded. The London journal that first received and
gave insertion to it, has also on several occasions, pub-
lished advices received by the French Government pre-
vious to their appearance in the Moniteur ; and
though their authenticity was at the time questioned,
a few days served to remove every doubt upon the sub-
ject. It is, therefore, barely possible that our Contem-
porary may for once have been misinformed ; but the

probabilities are all against such a supposition
Nevertheless there is dishonesty in some quarter. I

the French Government have really suppressed the
publication of such intelligence, the motive for silence
must have been a dishonest one. We pretend not to
know what such motive was, because we 4 can-
not possibly imagine that the members of the
Government have their hands full of Carlist stock,
or that they would prostitute the telegrO to
the advancement of the Pretender's causi,l. If,
on the contrary, the despatch communicating the
capture of Hernani prove unfounded, we shall receive
with caution every future communication from the

agents of the Madrid Government. Lying may Serve
momentarily the purposes of Stock Jobbing specula-
tors ; but in the end the practice will prove ruinous to
the parties having recourse to it, as the truth cannot
be concealed. Besides, it is disgraceful on die part
of any Government, either to sanction or to permit a
system of misrepresentation to be carried on in its
name, or by the agency of any official over whom it
can exercise any controul.
The following intelligence from Spain was commu-
nicated by telegraph to the French Government on
Tuesday evening :
" PERPIGNAN, MAY 15.—Xandero, the Chief hf the
late insurrection at Barcelona, was shot in that city on the
10th, according to his sentence, and on the 12th BarCelona
was tranquil.
" At the date of the 10th Valencia was in some fear of
the Carlists, who were around it ; but one gate of the town
was left open. Gen. Oraa was on the banks of the Lema
with Cabrera before him.
" A republican attempt at insurrection had failed at
Malaga.
" The fort of Canadella, abandoned by its garrison on
the sth, when they, with their Captain, joined the revolu-
tionists of Reus, was destroyed on the 6th by the insur-
gents. I3enicarlo has been pillaged by the Carlists."
Letters from Bayonne of the 12th inst. state that
the Christinos have now a force of 32,700 men at San
Sebastian, including 4,000 British troops ; while the
Carlist force is variously estimated at from 18,000 to
28,000. Of the Pretender's plans nothing certain is
known. His troops are in great want of proviSions
and annnunitioti,

The French Papers announce the arrival in New
York of Prince Lours BONAPARTE, on the 501 of
April. Annexed are extracts from
them :
The functions of Commandant of the troops in Africa
having been suppressed, Lieutenant-General Baron Rapa-
tel has received orders to return to France. He embarked
on the 6th May.
On the sth May an Envoy from Abd-el-Kader arrived
at the head-quarters at Algiers, with a letter from the Go-
vernor-General.

The Algcrinc ilfouileur of the Gth, which gives this
news, gives also an account of the excursion which General
Damremont had made towards Bledah. There is nothing
interesting in the account, since the enemy could not be
overtaken.

A letter-from Bayonne of
_the 11th, says that the Car-
lists fear they shall be short of ammunition if the contest,
which is on the point of commencing, should continue
several days In fact, the Custom-house officers have seized
a great quantity of lead and saltpetre.—Le Commerce.
The Gazette of Languedoc contains theJfollowing parti-
culars of the late events in Catalonia :
" From the Frontier, 10th May.—Another disturbance
is every moment expected at Barcelona, and will certainly
take place if Baron de Meer does not return, or if he re-
turns completely beaten.
" In the morning of the 4th, the English landed about
400 men, who repaired to Fort Alabaganas, and the citadel,
hoisting their colours ; in both an immense number of
peaceable citizens emigrate. Heaven grant that in the
new struggle all the French may not be murdered the first!"
The 112111 C Journal has the following reflections :
" England follows with perseverance its system of occupa-
tion in Spain. It possesses Gibraltar ; it has long secured
its influence' in Portugal ; it has established itself at St.
Sebastian and Passage ; and now its soldiers are in the
citadel of Barcelona. Thus the Peninsula is invested by
ten battalions of Great Britain. What will the partisans of
the English Alliance say ? Is the disgraceful and ridicu-
lous part which we are made to act sufficiently clear ?"
Gazette de France, May 10.

FRENCH FIINDS.-PARTS, MAT 19.
Five per Cents., Io7f. 90c. 05c. Me.
Four and a Half per Cents. 100 f. 65c.
per Cents., 9.q. 9. c. 99f.
Three per Cents. 791 79f. sc.
Bank Actions, 2,435 f.
Bente de Napless 991 60e 50c. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102 10114.
Spanish Actives, 25% '2O 2614%%%.
Spanish Diff'eres, ii iq y.
Spanish Passives, 6 6,4 1,4.
Belgian Lean, Five per Cents, 104.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 31%1A.
Haytian Loan, 31:2f. 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 32%c. ' • money, 251 321,:c.
"Fnree months, paper, 25f. 1234 c.; money. 25f. 12'i e.
Authentivre.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 198 f.
Three per Cents. 79E 10c.
Bank Actions, 2,435 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 65c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%.
Belgian Loan, 101.
Brussels Bank, 1,430 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 30%.
Haitian Loan, 312 f 50e.
Spanish Actives, 26%.
Spanish Passives 614.
Spanish Differes, 74.
New Differes,
United Belgian Society, 1,035 f.

We have received advices from Madrid to the 9th
instant. The Government was never in a more cri-
tical position. The Catalonian bands had attacked
two columns of the QUEEN'S troops near Lerida,_and
defeated them with the loss of the Commander-in-
Chief, who fell in the attack. Lerida itself was
threatened with immediate destruction, unless speedily
reinforced with men and a supply of money—
the latter a scarce commodity in Madrid. The muni-
cipality of Reuss, in Catalonia, had- also published
a decree re-establishing the Constitution of Cadiz, and
declaring the QUEEN'S Government illigitimate and
guilty of treason. The National, Church, and Con-
ventual property was all declared confiscated, and was to
be divided among the people ; and a Junta of five