The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1839.

whom the ignorance of the people is the staff of life.
It is a melancholy and humiliating reflection, that in a
country distinguished above all others for freedom of
opinion and boldness of thought, the violence of faction
should have achieved a triumph which perpetuates the
combination of poverty with intellectual darkness. That
the want of sound political knowledge, which would be
among the first fruits of a good system of education,
was the cause of the outbreak at Newport, no sensible
man can doubt ; and we trust that so fatal an experience
of the evils of ignorance will open the eyes of the
rational professors of Conservative principles. The risk
of life and property may perhaps teach a lesson which
ought to have been impressed on their minds by the
dictates of humanity. Let them silence the insane cla-
mour about Dissenters and Papists, and endeavour to
unite all classes in the bonds of charity ; let the Church
cease to be the rallying-point of faction, and lead the
march of civilization, instead of hobbling and growling
in the rear ; for by such means alone can " the throne
and the altar" be secured from danger, and peace and
prosperity be revived in our manufacturing districts.

SECOND EDITION.

THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES

BYtITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock ... ..... ..... .......... 177 f India Stack
3 per Cent. Red 9u Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Wis. .—Ni I Ditto Old Annuities —
3Y.,, per Cent. Red 99 IDitto New Annuities
New 3Y,'. per Cent j Ex. Bills, 1,0001 ~1 r dis.
New 5 per Cent 1 Ditto 500/....... ...... „„ 5 dis.
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto 5001 2 dis.
Jan. 1800
Oct. 1859
Jan 1900
..... 92 ~,i,
FOREIGN FUNDS
_

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds 7134
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent —
Chi Han, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent 2lsi
Ditto, 18-24 25
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek Bonds, 11325, 5 per ct —
Mexican, 5 per cent
Ditto, ri per cent.. NW:
Pernyian.lB23.6 per cent

Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russia?! Bonds, 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, Deferred
French, 5 per cent. —f: —c
Exchange
French, :3 per cent SOf. —c.
Dutch, :..3 per cent.
Ditto, 5 per cent.
ARES,

Grcat Western Railway s7},c,
Ditto New Shares hi
London and Brighton Railway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham: Railway 142
London arid Croydon Railway (Trunk) 9
Ditto Scrip
Manchester and Leeds Fa ilway
York and North Midland Railway 39

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
We find in the Christian Guardian and Church of
England Magazine an article on the subject of National
Education, which presents a gratifying contrast to the
tirades of the Tory Church militant. Those prints
of the party which showed so much solicitude to
disclaim the other Church Magazine as a veritable
organ of the national hierarchy, appear, by their
silence, not to be by any means anxious to claim
credit for liberality by the recognition of the views before
us. While they disown thorough-going intolerance, on
account of the odium which they know attends it, they
cannot afford to recognize the more liberal sentiments
which are sometimes put forth even amongst zealous
Churchmen, as that would deprive them of the
indispensable pretexts for attacking the measures
of Government. Being resolved to use the Church
as their cat's-paw, in spite of its own honester mem-
bers, they turn a deaf ear to all that is said, even
on their own side, which they cannot make subserve
to,thelfactious ends of the moment. The Tory organs
have been affecting prodigious anxiety for the better
religious instruction of the victims of Chartist delu-
sions. The hollowness of this affectation is evident
from their factious hostility to the only practical means
of effecting the object they profess to desire. When those
means are sincerely set before them, even by Conserva-
tive Churchmen, they bestow not the slightest notice on
the subject, and leave it to Liberal journalists to acquaint
the public that there are Churchmen who, although
by no means Ministerialists, are yet capable of post-
poning party bitterness to the honest promotion of the
object which, with the others, is a mere pretext—
and nothing more. The Christian Guardian, after
giving due credit to the present exertions of the
Presbyterians, Baptists, Independents, and Methodists,
in our mining and manufacturing districts, proceeds
to say that, " unless some far more decidedly ag-
gressive atracks are made on these neglected regions,
it is impossible to forbode the miseries which must
shortly result from the combined effects of infidelity,
popery, licentiousness, and rebellion "

(From the Courier.)
' It must be presumed that no one would attempt to
dispute the advantages to be derived by this country,
and by British India, from the establishment of an ex-
tensive system of steam navigation. If it has been con-
sidered desirable by the Legislature that, for the pur-
pose of procuring quick communication by railway
for the three miles between the City of London
and the East India Docks at Blackwall, all sorts of pri-
vate interests should be invaded, all sorts of damage and
inconvenience on individuals should be inflicted, and that
even the urgent remonstrances of the Corporation of the
City of London should be disregarded, a fortiori it is
incumbent on the Legislature to provide facilities for
rapid and cheap communication with our distant posses-
sions in India, by which intercourse is to be accelerated
not by a few minutes of time but by many weeks ; and
in which project are involved not the comparatively
unimportant profits of individual speculators, but the
vast interests of Great Britain in the security and well
being of her East Indian dominions. It must be consi-
dered as a point settled that the country will be satisfied
with nothing less than the most extensive and the most
perfect system of steam communication with India that
can be devised. The only question that remains for
inquiry, is, what plan and what route, under all the cir-
cumstances—political, commercial, and social—are the
Lest to be adopted ? This is an enquiry which the
country expects Parliament to enter on without delay ;
and it is to be hoped that the subject will be discussed
dispassionately, and without reference to party consi-
derations.

(From the Standard.)
The Duke of Palmella caused the letter, of which
the following is a translation, to be published in the
Lisbon Government Gazelle of the 10th inst.:—
" Lisbon, Dec. 9, 1539.
" Sir,—An assertion, as extraordinary as it is false, in
which my name is compromised, as also those of two high
personages (both of them deserving the greatest respect),
was published in one of the last days of the last month in the
Morning Chronicle, and copied from that paper into
others, both in London and Paris. Those journals to
which I allude declare, that when her Majesty
Queen Adelaide was at this Court she entered into
conversation with me and with other persons, in the
course of which she used expressions of censure
towards her august niece, the reigning Queen of Eng-
land. As such an imputation, in the highest degree
injurious to the high personage to whom it is attributed,
is not only false, but without the smallest shade of founda-
tion, 1 have thought it my duty to take such means as offer
themselves to me to contradict it without delay in the face
of the Portuguese public, and to declare it calumnious,
before the contradiction can appear in the English Jour-
nals, to which I am going to address it.
" I am, &c.,
" DUKE DE PALMELLA."
This letter leaves nothing to be added in refuta-

ion of the slanders upon Queen Adelaide.

It will

be remembered, that the first version laid the scene
of the Queen's objectionable discourse in the Duke
of Palmella's house, and when it was discovered that
her Majesty had not been in the Duke's house at all,
during her visit to Lisbon, the first misstate-
ment was excused on the ground that if not in the Duke's
house, the discourse complained of was had in the Duke
of Palmella's presence. The Duke himself sets both
stories at rest. Now, we ask, what would be said of the
Conservative Journal that had deliberately published,
and pertinaciously adhered to, a falsehood so malignant
and so groundless as this ? Would it not be said, and
justly said, that such a journal deserved to be excluded
from the borne and hands of every one pretending to call
himself an honest man ? The thing will, however, be
passed over very lightly in the case of a Whig journal.
There is some reason in this seeming partiality in
the indulgence allowed to the newspapers of the
several parties. The public wishes to read on both
sides of every question—to read truth, no doubt, for
choice—but still to read on both sides. Now the Whig
journals can no more keep their columns free from
falsehood than the Whig party can support itself without
" enormous lying," the very basis, as a very clever
Whig, Mr. Charles Buller, has acknowledged, of the
party's existence.

CLEAN STAELES.—As for the straw which is
impregnated with urine, it is the invariable custom of
nineteen grooms out of twenty to allow it to remain at
the bottom of a horse's bed for several days, when it
is at length cleared away ; I remember having heard
that a crusty old merchant, whose name I will not
mention, was always in the habit of asking an applicant
for a clerk's berth whether he was a good hand at
" scratching out." If the answer was in the affirma-
tive, the reply always was, " then my good fellow,
you won't do for me, for my clerks must never make
mistakes." You may, therefore, previously to hiring a
groom, ask him" how often he mucks out," and should
he say" once a week, or twice a week, Sir," the sooner
he "mucks himself out" the better. Some of these
gentry, indeed, think that to look after a horse properly
requires no sort of training to the business at all ; and I
have known one of them who applied for the situation
of groom to a gentleman, who kept hunters too, acknow-
ledge very cavalierly" that he did not know much about
nags, but had looked arter a kiow (cow) a good bit !"
Old Sporting Magazine,
On Friday evening a very large and beautiful
meteor was observed from the New Bridge in this town.
Its direction was from the zenith due north, but as the
lower part of the atmosphere was cloudy, the latter part
of its course was obscured. It had the appearance and
magnitude of a rocket, its motion, however, being down-
wards ; and it left in its train brilliant corruscations.—
Dover Chronicle.