The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

BRITISEi FUNDS

Bank Stock ........... ............ 17714! India Stack —
3 per Cent. Red 90%) Ditto Bonds ....... ....
3 per Cent Cuts. Ditto Old Annuities s; 7,,
3,,, per Cent. Red 9B; Ditto New Annuities
New :s., per Cent 1i.0% Ex. Bills, I,ooot *, , 1 dis.
New 5 per Cent Ditto POL.—. .......... I dis.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 1 dls.
Jan. IS6 I
0ct.1559
Jan 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent... ..... .... !Portuguese ponds, sper cent.
Bzigian, 5 per cent 10:M Ditto, New Ditto
nrazilian Bonds 713 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, ti per cent 17% 'Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... 111%
Chiliati, 6 per cent latto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent 24%
Ditto, 11,124 2l Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent ... 74 French, 5 per cent..... ..... —l. —c.
Greek Bonds, 15:25, 5 pet et. Exchange.. ............. ...... —f.
—c
Mexican, 5 per ceLt — Fiench, 3 per cell, —f. —c.
Ditto, ti per cent.. 1525 2Bk !Dutch, • per cent.
Peruvian, 1825,4 per cent.... iDitto, 5 per cent.
SHARES. -----
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• Eastern Counties Railway
Great Western Railway
Ditto New Shares
London and Brighton Railway l6
London and Blackwell Railway
'minion and Birmingham Railway ...... ..............
Ditto New Shares
London and Greenwich Railway l2
London and South Western Railway ...........
Loudon aila Citiyilon Railway (Truth.) :O%
Manchester and Leeds iimil way .—..- ........ ..—..
Manchester and Birmingham Railwa.4.
North Midland Railway ' ..... ......., 83
Ditto 'New' Shares .. .
IS
South Eastern and Dover .. . —.....— Q%
York and North Midland Railway 413 • ! 034
....,...........,

SPIRIT of the PUBLICJOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENJNO PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the_ Courier.) •
The activity with which.naval armaments are increas-
ing and preparations arc pushed in the ports and dock-
yards of France, cannot escape the notice of those who are
habitual observers of political movements and readers of
French papers. For this extraordinary activity specious
pretexts are not wanting, if in some waking interval
from sluggish slumbers drawling inquirers into the
cause should perhaps reach the Tuileries from a place
so little cared for now as Downing,-street. For France
contrives cunningly to have one or more petty wars on
hand, with the train laid for others in succession as the
first die dr, and can no more be decently maintained
under any pretence. Thus a crusade was got up against
Mexico, and about the same time the foundations laid
for a supplemental quarrel with Buenos. Ayres. On the
calculation, which events have disappointed, not disagree-
ably, perhaps,- of a more prompt termination of hos-
tilities in the river Plate, Algeria was goaded into out-
break, and is now enveloped' in the flames and deso-
lation of warfare. As a plausible cover for the one
great object, no subterfuge is too flimsy ; as an ex-
cuse for placing more ships of war in commission,
and gradually creating a formidable marine, no oc-
casion of offence is neglected, however slight, and no
power too trivial or contemptible, which may afford
the means for exercising naval forces in easy bat-
tle, for dazzling the nation with a show of
laurels at the cheapest rate, and fleecing the defener-
, less victims out of pecuniary fines ; for the wars of
Louis Philippe partake of the mercenary character
ascribed to the mind of the man, and amidst all the as-
pirations of ambition he never loses sight of the money.
'Tile contest with Buenos Ayres,- ostensibly for pretended
personal grievances of one or two French subjects, was
undertaken in reality to compel that republic into a treaty
of commerce with France on equally favourable terms
'with those existing with Great Britain and the United
States ; -with, moreover, the additional and insidious irk
lent of enviously damaging the flourishing commerce of
this country with that portion of South America. • -The
end accernplished,ilaccotriplished it stiali be,t he materials
are gathering for similar demonstrations against Vene-
:zuela, which has dared refusal of ratification of a treaty
concluded Without proper ins:ructions, and on conditions
onerous and or:sat;stactory, by some semi-accredited
agent Walt the French Cabinet. A pretext cannot be
wanting against Ciracit4, if, as in the Argentine State, a
French subieet can be found there, escaped from the
bngnes of France, convicted of that in Buenos Ayres, I.
and sentenced to the usual penally 'of the lawiL In I
the one case, as in the other, the felon can readily be-
converted iota a martyr, IL injured honour and his in-
carceration
set at a valuation of some twenty thousand
dollars, and a fleet of 'men oh war sent to exact pay
ment or thunder reprisals at Maracaibo 'and*La Guayra.'

(From the GLbe.)

Dr. Chalmers haS•written T 1 lorig address (the Pope
would ^art it an Allocution) to the dignitaries and eccie-
siasties at large of the Church Of England, to enlist their
sympathies in fa%inur. of the Kirk of Scotland in her
presert state of warfare witty the legal tribunals.
ft wilt soon be high tithe ror Sir Robert t 6 remount
his." humble but faithful steed,"—and, ---" disregarding
the distance, disregarding the .winter"—to trot down
amongst his northern adherents; and tie up again the
lay and clerical bundle of faggots, which hate quite fallen.
asunder. Dr. Chalmers reminds the " Chtirchmen and
Conservatives of England" that he and his Kirk have
fought side by side with them for their kindred objects
and vet he expreves shrewd misgivings what sort of en-
tertainment (should the Conservatives maw into power)
they will give to our question, and how they shall
of it.
"Certain it is 'that the ultra-Conservatives among us
are, unennscioui to themselves, pulling at the same rope
with Radicals and Voluntaries ; and, if rot with the inten-
tion, at least in tendency and effect, for the overthrow of
the Church of Scotland. We should then see what a
Conservative Ministry would do. If. misled by partizans
in this country, cr in ignorance of the rooted principles
and feelings of our nation, they attempt a blow at the
spiritual independence of our Church, the time cannot be
.far distant when the cause cf- religiouS establishments shall
be abandoned as having a taint and leprosy of evil essen-
tially and incurably adhering to them."

The conclusien'of Dr. Chalmers (a perfectly just one,
if we concede 'his premises) ought really to teach high
Churchmen, whether Scottish or English, how senseless
is their subserviency (when it is really endured frem de-
vout motives) to the purposes of a party, which most as-
suredly will not pro:note theirs. Surely sincere Church-
men, the wa,mth of whose zeal has made them Tory
agents, should see, if they would but open their eyes,
that the Tories are less disposed than any party to sup-
port than in turn in purifying or popularising their reli-
ginus establishments. We say nothing at present of the
wisdom of the steps they take towards that end ; the
end itself will excite no sympathy in the leaders
of that party to whom Churchmen seem bent on sacri-
6cing their best prospects of popular influence, and their
best opportunities of striking in with the grand operations
against Popular ignorance which have now become a Stare
necessity, and should command the aid of the clergy
throughout thewhole of our empire:Dr. Chalmerskowever,
makes it a merit with English Churchmen awd e'onserva-
tives, to have opposed himself to the Go'dernment plans
of popular education, &c., and, on strength of these
merits, puts forward the claims of the Kirk to the sup-
port of the Conservative party in her present preten-
sions.

(From the Standard.)
The Examiner of yesterday gives Sir Robert Peel
credit for a degree c;f sagacity and foresight from winch,
high as -is our estimate of the Right Hon. Baronet's
accomplishments, we must make Rome abatement. The
following is our Contemporar)'s proposition upon which
having rejected the hypothetical part, it reasons absc-
!Lady at some length --
" If Sir Robert Peel foresaw in '29 the agitation which
has followed the fair working of his measure, be must
have seen in it the most cunning snare that ever was de-
vised for the embarrassment of st tival party. He must,
in this case, have foreseen that honest men in power
must be exposed to the No Popery clamour, and ob-
noxious to whatever bigot prejudice remains in the
nation."

Now we are of opinion that Sir Robert Peel could
not foresee anything sq monstrous—as he has seen
—that he could not foresee the Government patro-
nising and promoting Papists, not because they are
Papists simply, but because that of all their hostile
sect they are the ' most bitter enemies of the
Protestant Church--actually the men who raised
a rebellion against the State for the purpose of starving.
the Church. Sir Robert could not possibly foresee
that a British Ministry would, as part of the price
a Popish support, place one Papist at the head
of the commerce, another at the head of the navy,
and a third at the he'd of the public education
of Protestant Britain. Sir Robert could not foresee
the thirga which are the causes in part, but in .part
only that have provoked the present indignation of
Protestants. We will tell our Contemporary, how-
ever, what Sir Robert did foresee, but what he took so
little care to disguise, that be made the antici-
pi tion a part of his apology for the Bill of 1829.
He foresaw, then, that if the apprehensions of
his opponents, ten years ago, should be realised, if the
promises, pledges, and oaths of Papists should
prove vain, that then all Protestants would become
united which they were not when he spoke, in
resisting the aggressions of Popery. The apprehensions
of the Opposition of 1829 have been realised, and
more than realised, and we rejoice to say that Sir
Robert prediction i :in rapid progress of being
realised also. The perfidy of the Papist party (we
always use the word Papist as distinct from Roman
Catholic) has been made manifest, and Protestants, as
the Examiner knows, and, indeed, complains,are uniting
in firm resistance to that perfidy.

EXTENSIVE MALT SEIZURE.—On the even-
ing of Sunday last Wssrs. Coath and Pringle, excise
officers, of Ballyclare, succeeded in detecting a private
milt-house, nearly opposite to the distillery at Carrick-
fergus, and seizing therefrom about five hundred bushel=
of illicit malt.

The quantity of 'w.beat exported from Limerick
since the Ist of Sept. last has been the one-thirteenth
part of the quantity of oats sent to tbe.same destination.
The Marquis of Ailsa is suffering from a severe
attai.lt of the gout, at St. Margaret's Isleworth.
The Rev. Lord Wriotheley Russell has twice
mined to be nominated to the vacant Bishopric of
4ehfield.—Slorkport Advet