The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-20 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

against life or property. The prisoner said, " No,
by no means," 1 said, " I hope you tell me the
truth." He said, " 1 do, indeed ; for there has
been a meeting of the delegates." I believe he
sad fifty ; he did not say where. I believe be
said at Duke's Town (in the hills). It was there de-
termined that the first man who did anything against
property or life should be shot. He said, "He had
promised to be at Newport by nine o'clock that morn-
ing," and he said, I believe, by this time Newport is in
I;o.ession of the Chartists.
The poisoner declined saying anything in his defence
at present.

The prisoner was then informed by the Chairman
that he stood committed for high treason and sedition.
He appeared much affected by his situation. He is a
person of respectable appearance, and is possessed of
some property in the town.
James Moode was placed at the bar charged with
riot, and after evidence had been gone into, he was com-
mitted.

TrlE MAYOR OF NEWPORT.—Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to confer on the Mayor of Newport
the honour of Knighthood, as a testimony of the Royal
approbation for the promptitude, zeal, and courage,
with which he acted in the late serious outrages of the
Chartists in the town of which he was the Chief Magis-
trate, and by which, in conjunction with the efficient
aid he received from the other Magistrates, and the
great body of the inhabitants, backed by the cool cou-
rage of the handful of military stationed in the town,
the lives and property of its inhabitants were, under
Providence, saved. We understand that the honour
thus conferred on the Mayor of Newport was promptly
offered to that estimable Magistrate, but which, from
a delicacy that will be at once appreciated, he was left
at liberty to decline. After two or three days' deli-
beration it was accepted, with a grateful acknowledg-
ment of the honour it confers, and of the manner in
which it was communicated. This correspondence was
in progress, and this gratifying recognition of the Mayor
of Newport's meritorious conduct only kept from the
public knowledge, in order to afford time for the subject
of it to recover sufficiently from his injuries in the con-
flict, and to confer with his family and friends as to
whether this peculiar mark of her Majesty's high ap-
proval of his conduct should be accepted, while the
Times was accusing the Government of coldness and
insensibility to services which deserved and promply re-
ceived the most gratifying marks of the Royal pleasure.
—Globe.

MONEY MARKET and UITY NEWS.

(TUESDAY EVENING.)
J TIMES.—By the. advice from Hamburg the price of
gold is 428 per mark, which at the English Mint price of
' 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce, for standard gold, gives an
exchange! of 1:3. 61, and the exchange at Hamburg
on London at short being 13.44., it follows that gold is
i 0 94 per cent, dearer at Hamburg than in Loudon.
Tho prem;ual on gold at Paris is 8 per mille, which,
i at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. the ounce
,-IVCS an exchange of 23.35, and the exchange at Paris
i On !,ondon at short being 25.371, it follows that gold
1 is. U. 1t) per cent. lower at Paris than in London.
I An improved tone continues to prevail in the English
Stock Market.
The Foreign Exchanges are rather higher to-day with
1 the exception of Hamburg, which is a little lower than
on Friday. The quotations were—Paris, 25f 35c to
.4(;e, ; Amsterdam, 121 to
,i, short ; Hamburg, 13. 9i-
' to 10, at three months.
t By the usual official return, published by the Customs,
I tile exportation of the precious metals from the port of
I London to Foreign and Colonial ports, for the week
1 t rettng the 14th of November, is as under—
t Silver coin to Hamburg 246,081 ounces.
i British West Indies
Moga4ere 2,400
2,500
An iinpudi:nt anJ silly attempt is making to defend
i
the garbling of the accounts of Mr. Biddle's bank, by
1 stat,,'r that the first published is a condensation of the
se) ond, " by merely taking the balance of items which
appear • 0 n both sides. and throwing others together."
i The extent of the engagements and transactions with
other banks, and " branches" and " agencies," was a
iu.,terial feature of such an account, and the mode de-
' eised for first putting it forward to the public was ob-
i viouAly to present a more favourable aspect than the
-ase justified. If the result was the same, why not
p...1.•e the true account at first? It was not materially
long •r than the other, and is much more intelligible.
It ii: Liomething, however, to have the admission that
the large." account is the true one, and when the wind-
int,itio corm's on, it is that which must be referred to as
a glitt,e
•1. The disclosure it makes of the extent of the
I discounts on "personal security," and of the business
1:
tr :n.sacted with branches, without going into other items,
will alone show ho 7411ifficult any liquidation must he of
I
ti such a concern.

I POST.—The English Funt:.i were quoted at a frac-
tional advance to-day, but the imp.rovement in the mar-
ket was more particularly observable .n the heavy secu-
rities (the New Three-and-a-Half per C,:nt., the Three
per Cent. Itsluced Annuities, and others the same
class), in which the transactions were cons!rlerable.
Consols left off at 90a to for Money, and 904 to a
fi,* Account. Exchequer Bills have fully maintained
their recent value. The small bills were done in the
course of the morning as high as 4s. prem., and the
Larger amoonts at par. For the former the final quota-
tion was Is. to 3s. prem., and for the latter 2 dis. to par.
I Lank Stock left off at 178 to i•
The transactions in the Foreign Market were con-
/ tined very much to the Spanish Securities. The Ac-
tives left off at 264 to for Time, and the Deferred at
r _lli to s. The late sales are suspected by many to
e been for account of the estate of Mr. Sims,
whose melancholy death was recorded in the Morning
Jost on Saturday. If Mr. Sims was so unfortunate as
to have embarked his funds in so despicable a bubble
as the :::,luntiish at an early period of its creation, we
can scaicefeel surprised that his intellect should
have been th'sturbed by the severity of the loss that
must have accr,aell to him as a bona fide holder,
hut we hope ant' believe that there is no truth I
in the rumour that q actually did so. Had Mr.
Sims been a holder of tii I bonds, it is hardly to be
supposed that the realisatio7l .of them would have
been so 'nastily resolved upon by his successors. It is
still the more current opinion that the large sales of
yesterday were made principally by parties in connec-
tion with the sporting clubs at the West-end of I:le town.
It was rumoured in the City to-day that the ac: vices
seat out to Captain Elliot, her Majesty's Superintet;-
dent in Chief of the China trade, by the Ariel, are of
a decidediy hostile character. Captain Elliot is said,
though we are unwilling to place the smallest reliance
on the statement, to have orders to make reprisals of
Chinese shipping, and to blockade the Chinese ports, so
as to cut off all communications from without, until
satisfaction for the dffiruction of opium which has taken
place at Canton shall have been given.

t __
SUN.—In the foreign exchanges there was not much
alteration in the quotations of last post day—if we except
the rate on Hamburg which was a shade lower—viz., at
il 13 9to I 3 10. The rates on Paris were 251. 621 c. to
23f. 671,c. ; on Amsterdam 12 34 to 12 3, ; on Frank-
-1-ort 1361 i. ; and on Antwerp 1:2 31 I.
The principal markets for Colonial and other pro-
duce were heavy this afternoon. Teas however ex-
cepted, which continue rather on the rise than other-
( ultsc. The Wool and Indigo markets, too, are rather
( firm.

Consols closed at 9O for money, and 9O for time,
being a shade higher than in the morning. Exchequer
Bil:s were done at 2 dis. to par, and the other stocks
were without alteration.

Spanish Consols rallied to 261 ; Portuguese New
Five per Cents. to :32i ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. to 524. Belgian Stock declined to 1001 -Fl-•
Tile Railway Shares were heavy. The Brighton at
discount, and the New Great Western at 31 dis.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROH THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The late Mayor of Newport has, if the Globe be
correctly informed, received the honour of knighthood,
in acknowledgment of his services, during the Chartist
insurrection. Our Ministerial Contemporary points to
this movement on the part of Lord Melbourne, as fur-
nishing a proof that that most energetic and public-
spi
those spirited Minister is not " insensible to services" szrch
asWe os rendered by the worthy Magistrate in question.
suspect that the public will draw a different in-
ference from the fact
mentioned by the Globe. We
believe
on thethat thepublic will regard the " honour" con-
ferredlate Mayor of Newport as an " after-
thought"—as
acommunication attcmpt at atonement for the frigid
in
Which it pleased Lord Normanby to
the se
acknowledge rvices of Mr. Phillips, and of the
loyalists by whom he
wasai
l supported. But our Mi-
nisterial Contemporary engde.s that a negotiation on
pending the subject has been for " two or three
days !" Suppose the statementmg true, has not ca fort-
night elapsed since Mr. Phillips
tardily
did the State that ser-
y and so ungraciously
vice, which has been so a
ach.nowledged ? Lord Melbourne
and
his colleagues
have,. obviously, been compelled offerto some token
it
of Korai approbation to the
man Javmaided so
materially to baffle the late ally of the
Frost. Ministers had no great devotion to the —4lera
which the Globe insists on placing to their credit
they really appreciated the late Mayor of Newport's'lf
service's, as those services ought to be appreciated; Mi-
nisters would not have confined their civilities to that
gentleman--inasmuch as Mr. Phillips, nobly as he dis_
charged his duty, did not discharge that duty more
nobly than did the military by whom he was supported.
YPt no fitting acknowledgment has even yet been
offered to the gallantry and discipline of the officers and
soldier: of the small party of the 45th who saved New-
port from pillage and conflagration! The Whig Mi-
nisters ar,..!, obviously, much more at ease, when be-
stc,:ving honours on men like Frost, than in rewarding
the loya lists who deprived Frost of his power to do
mischief.
The Irish gaol-deliverer-general can scarcely
be expected to understand the claims on public grati-

tude, which may be acquired by men who aid 1
in filling gaols with traitors. We shall be told,
of course, that some months ago, Frost ceased
to be an ally of the present Ministers. But
did riot the Home Secretary, 1,1,h0 appointed Frost
a Justice of the Pease, raise O'Connell to the Magis-
terial Bench ? Frost's crimes are venial, when weighed
against O'Connell's ; and we have heard of no intention
to depose O'Connell from the Commission of the Peace
—that peace, of which, during his worthless life, be has
been the cunning and the cowardly disturber! But why
should we dwell on the fact, that O'Connell is per-
mitted to officiate as a county Magistrate? Did not
the Whigs e'er to make him Chief Justice of Ireland ?
And these same Whigs pretend to urge as a claim to
public confidence, that they have actually struck
Frost's name from the roll of Justices. The wretched
placemen who infest the purlieus of the Court, have,
since they first crawled into office, thriven by trea-
son. They charged, let it be recollected, the Con-
servative Government of 1830 with direct responsi-
bility for the Swing riots of that period. Having
failed in all their early attempts at statesmanship, the
Whigs appealed directly to the spirit of sedition, as to
the only power left by which they might retain their
places. They used the riots at Bristol and Nottingham
as instruments by which to overawe the Conservative
party into an abandonment :of its natural right to admi-
nister the affairs of the country ; and at this moment,
the last resource which is left to their impotence, is to
threaten Sir Robert Peel, in the event of his accepting
office, with a bloody rebellion in Ireland ! Without
the aid of treason and sedition, the Whigs of 1830
eould not have remained in office for six months.
Without the active aid at this moment of Irish
traitors, they could not retain office for an hour.
Each day proves more clearly the wide diffusion of
Chartism amongst the labouring classes ; and all the
causes that have aided in the promotion are proved, in
like manner, to derive their efficacy from the principles
and policy of the Whigs. A correspondent states, that
in Essex, amongst the agricultural labourer:, the doc-
trines of Chartism have taken deep root. We fear that
the statement is only too accurate ; but, of this, we
feel, at the same time, assured, that but for the opera-
tion of the new Poor-law, Chartism would never have
exerted the slightest influence over the agricultural po-
pulation. The new Poor-law is a direct embodiment of
the vital principles of Whiggery. It is, emphatically, a
Whig measure. The Ministerialists boast, it is true,
that certain distinguished Conservative leaders have
supported the Malthusian Act, in all its stages. The
fact, undoubtedly, is so ; but the sanction which the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel have extended
to the new Poor-law involves, we are sorry to say, a de-
viation on the part of these distinguished statesmen,
from the principles of true Conservatism. The error
into which the Duke and Sir Robert were betrayed in
1829, fatal as it has proved, was not more fatal than the
error, into which they have fallen in regard to the new
Punr-law. Until that Act shall be repealed, the spirit
of Chartism will never, we fear, lose its activity and
r power.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
There is one grand axiom in political science of
which, though its illustrations are of daily occurrence,
the conviction seldom appears active in those assuming
the guidance of public opinion. This axiom is—the
impossibility of permanently imposing on public confi-
dence or credulity. Duplicity may succeed for a time ;
the Tories may deceive some by their professing a
desire to carry into effect all safe and practical reforms ;
the advocates of physical force may mislead others by
their assurance that reform can be effected only by san-
guinary means ; Ministers may deceive themselves in
their imagining to strengthen their position by conces-
sions to Toryism ; Mr. O'Connell may deceive the
people of Ireland by kaleidoscopic visions, and many
other deceptions may achieve a temporary success ; but
public opinion is as certain to rectify itself in respect
to such delusions as is the traveller in the desert to
discover, though perhaps when too late, the optical
illusion of a mirage. Therefore, though we at present
perceive all parties to be in a false position, and public
opinion to be without any true and steadfast guide of
action, yet we do not despair of seeing, before the as-
sembling of Parliament, the good sense, sterling purpose,
and native love of truth and right, which characterise
the people of Great Britain, triumph over all these de-
ceptions, and combine with even more effect than hitherto
for the accomplishment of those improvements in our
institutions so imperatively called for by the wants of
the age, as to make their longer delay imminently dan-
gerous. All parties at present appear in a false position.
The Reformers have been placed in a false position by
the advocates of physical force—Ministers have placed
themselves in a false position by not adhering more
steadfastly to the principles which carrried them into
office—the Tories are in a false position when they
calumniate the Sovereign, and imagine by their
vituperation to .force themselves into her councils, in
opposition to her own more enlightened and philanthro-
pic sentiments, to her personal predilections, and
to the feeling of the great majority of the people of
whose Government she is the head. In such confusion
of parties it is more than ever incumbent on the British
people to make an effort to rescue the country from
the dangers which on all sides beset it. Physical force
is to be first of all suppressed beyond the possibility of
revival ; next are the Tories to be convinced of the im-
possibility either of succeeding to office or preventing
the staady progress of Reform ; then are Ministers to be
made aware of the necessity of conceding and enforcing
a respect for public opinion far greater than has been
extended to it during their previous administration ; and
in fine, the more prominent leaders of public opinion
are to be taught in such manner as to admit of no mis-
take, the grand axiom which we have made the text
of these remarks—" the impossibility of permanently
imposing on public confidence or credulity." Hence
naturally arises the question—" How is all this to be
effected ?" The answer is—" By a peaceful, univer-
sal, well-organised, and energetic effort on the part of
the people themselves"—and by this means only. To
confide in anything else is to trust to the mirage in the
desert.

( From the Morning chronicle.)

The late charge of the Bishop of Exeter much more
resembles a military than an episcopal charge. It is a
continued assault ; a long war-whoop. The spirit of it
less beseems a minister of the Prince of Peace than a
priest of Mars or of Moloch. Dr. Phillpotts is a well-
known character. The public have not now to form
their opinion of him, or of his fitness for the station which
ht: occupies in the Church. Nevertheless, if he will
keep L:imself and his peculiar qualities and temper before
the eye of the public, the disgust which they produce
must also have its prolonged or reiterated expression.
Familiarity with 13,...ct proceedings may have long made
them cease to excite sia7Prise ; but it does not thereby
abate the nuisance. Con;!dered merely as a party
pamphlet, the visitation charge which the Bishop has
just published, would deservedly brand its author as
a writer of most unseemly violence, as a thorough-
going partizan, a most unscrupulous controversialist, one
addicted to gross and bitter personalities, careless of con-
sistency, and capable of perverting whatever is most
true and sacred—and should be most kind and gentle—
to the purposes of faction. Nor would any but a reckless
and desperate faction acknowledge such a writer as its
advocate. But these characteristics assume an infinitely
more offensive character as connected with a nominally
spiritual function and religious occasion. Bad enough
in the garret or pothouse of tha needy pamphleteer, who
sells his soul to party for bread, they incur—when
exhibited in the Cathedral, from the episcopal throne
of a Christian Bishop—a moral reprobation which
it is difficult to find terms adequately to express.
Nearly twenty pages of this pamphlet relate to the
wholly irrelevant topic of Colonial Government, In
Canada and Australia the Catholics and Dissenters
are not kept down sufficiently to satisfy the domineer-
ing spirit of this insolent Prelate. And be has un-
doubtedly, a right to argue that point in the House
of Lords, where his spiritual function entitles him to a
seat. But what can the Bishop and Clergy of the
diocese of Exeter, at the triennial visitation, have to do
with the Government of Canada or Australia ? By
what authority are the Clergy of Exeter constituted a
court of appeal from the Colonial-office, or the two
Houses of Parliament ? The discussion of such
topics has no tendency to improve the race of parish
prieats in the west of England. It makes no cler-
gyman a better preacher, or a kinder visitor of the
poor and afflicted, or in any way more fit for the
useful discharge of his sacred duties. It is an im-
pertinence. It distracts attention from the proper
business of the time and place. It involves in the
fiercest contests of party, those who ought of all men
to be most untainted by the spirit of party. It makes
election brawlers. The cure of souls is swamped in
the canvass for votes. Our churches and cathedrals
were never raised for such purpses, nor ought the
offence to be
lightly regarded, whB-n they are sub-
jected to such degradation and prostitution. That por-
tion of the publication which discusses the Church Dis-
cipline Bill may be palliated as more legitimate in its
introduction. It affords a singular specimen of the de•
gree in which a nominally Protestant Bishop may rival
the daring pretensions of the Romish hierarchy in its
most palmy days of power. The claim of an inherent
and independent judicial authority in Bishops is not
only most ridiculous in itself, but shows the most con-
temptuous disregard of Protestant principles, and of all
that is implied in the national establishment of a church,
The monk Hildebrand had larger views and a purer,
ambition than Dr. Phillpotts ; but he had not an'
atom more of insolent pretension or domineering
temper. By a letter from Mr. J. C. Symons, which
we inserted a few days ago, our readers were apprised
of the Bishop's having claimed that gentleman's autho-
rity for an opinion directly the reverse of that which
he had distinctly stated in the volume from which the
quotation was made. It is not every man who could
hold
p ' 'up his head after this detextion. In the very
same note that contains the quotation
from Mr Symons's
volume, the 813
• hails the authority of Lytton
Bulwer" for
it cited
writer imagine
als!i°milar position. Whose authority did
the imagine his readers would suppose he had
c
He may say
forthatsi
it is not his fault if they take
Mr. Lytton Bulwerr Lytton Bulwer, and do not
Henryunderstand by it Mr. Bulwer; gild 4ey can