The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-26 00:00:00

Liverpool steamer, which is looked for about the 4th
of November. Should he succeed in obtaining the
loan which he seeks for in Holland, it is plain that the
transaction will be attended with benefit to this country,
as it will be a fund to draw upon ; and it has this supe-
rior feature to that which the Bank of England made
with the Bank of Paris, that, being fixed for five years,
it does not require re-drawing, which, we suspect, must
be the case as regards the last-mentioned arrangement,
unless bullion should previously flow into their coffers
from other quarters, to enable them to repay the large
amount of assistance which they have received from
France.

HERALD.—The exchanges with the Continent
appear to have fully turned against this country. It is
true there are exceptions against certain bills drawn,
but on 'Change this afternoon we have had proof that
the general rates of Tuesday last have been but barely
maintained, whilst on the Northern parts of Europe they
are rather lower. On Paris the quotations are 25f. 60c.
a 62c. a ;on Amsterdam 12 4; on Rotterdam 12 4
a 1; on Antwerp 13 31 a ;on Hamburg it is un-
derstood that Messrs. Barings have been drawing
largely, which has reduced the rate to 13 9/. The ob-
ject motive of this transaction has not yet been revealed,
but it is evident that the Money Market here and on
the Continent bears evidence of a rottenness which has
not come directly or indirectly to light.

POST.—The funds have left off this evening much
the same as they did yesterday in both markets. There
was no news in circulation during the day of a nature to
affect the quotations from any quarter. From Ham-
burgh we learn that money had again become so easy
that the rate of interest had been reduced to 4 per cent.
per annum by the bankers in that city. Gold was,
however, certainly not lower than last advised, but
rather the contrary, so that, although the Bank of
France is full, and no longer purchases specie, it will
still find a good market in the North of Europe. The
reduction in the price of wheat in Mark-lane, and the
consequent rise in the duty, which now is at 16s. Bd.
the quarter, is a favourable symptom, as it may be
taken for granted that no such alteration would have
occurred had it not been pretty fully ascertained that
our native crops are less deficient in point of quantity,
whatever may be the case with regard to quality,
than has been so generally apprehended. At
this high rate it is not to be expected that
any quantity will be cleared for consumption.
Some cargoes are, we understand, on their way
from Spain, as well as others from the Baltic ; but when
it comes to be known abroad that the duty is so mate-
rially higher, and the price proportionably less, the ex-
portation of the article to British ports will no longer be
persevered in. The late fine weather has enabled the
farmers in the northern counties, and likewise in Scot-
land and Ireland, to get in the remainder of their crops
in excellent order. The effect of this has been most
sensibly felt at the Corn Exchange, and, high as the
duty is at present, a further advance in the course of a
week or two, is confidently calculated upon. The fac-
tors are slow to give way, but the supply of secondary
qualities will, it is believed, in the course of a few weeks,
be very large, if not absolutely overwhelming ; and
hence the expectation of a further rise in the duty. The
Bank of England will be much relieved by this state of
things in Mark-lane, and it is to be hoped that we shall,
before long, hear that a corresponding reduction takes
place in the price of bread and other articles of food.
The Share Market is kept exceedingly flat by the
operations of the Lancashire and other country deal-
ers, who, at a time of pressure like the present, are al-
ways found to be among the principal sellers. All the
joint-stock interests are brought forward just now in
very considerable quantities for the purpose of being
realised, as a means of raising temporary supplies of
money. The Railway Shares, however, greatly pre-
dominate. Great Western are quoted 4/ to 3/ dis.,
ditto New / dis. to par, London and Brighton 13 to
12 dis., London and Blackwell 2/ to 1-1, dis., London
and Birmingham (new shares) 15 to / prem., and Lon-
don and Croydon 9to -,J2- per share. Danube and Maine
Canal were done to-day, after a long cessation of busi-
ness, at 24/, the paid-up price being 411. 13s. 4d. per
share. The speculators in this concern have apparently
to thank the late Mr. Rothschild for a very valuable le-
gacy. A discount of 171. per share on 20,000 shares
leaves the gaping greenhorns an aggregate loss of
340,0001., exclusive of premium, which was at one tim•
as high as three to four pounds per share. But this is
not all. Were sales to be made, or rather attempted,
to any extent, the depreciation could not fail to be ma-
terially greater.

TIMES.—The tendency to improvement in the
Funds has been rather more decidedly manifested to-
day. The Foreign Exchanges are further receding, but
the rate on Paris is rather better maintained than the
others, thus reversing the position of them, when the
credit of the Bank of England with the Bank of France li
was first opened, at which time the northern exchanges
were higher in proportion. With all the aid of that
credit, which is now supposed to have run out to nearly
its full extent, the course of exchange is scarcely at
all altered for the better.
According to the statement given in 4.l6rn's Commer-
cial Glance, recently issued in Manchester, it results
that the imports of cotton for the nine months of this
year amount to 979,329 bales, against 1,297,125
for the same period last year, so that the decreased im-
portation is 317,796 bales, or nearly one-fourth. Add-
ing to the imports this year the stocks on hand at the
opening, the whole supply this year, after deduction of
exports, appears to have been 1,399,760 bales, and
consumption taken at 20,000 weekly for 39 weeks,
being 780,000, would leave the stock at the close of
the quarter just ended 619,760 bales, which at the
same rate of consumption was equal to the consumption
of about 32 weeks. The total exports of yarn during
the same time this year have been 72,695,7841 b. against
85,231,9891 b. for 1838, which shows a decrease for
this year, as compared with last, of 12,536,2051 b. In
the export of plain calicoes an increase appears of
2,710,000 yards, and of printed and dyed calicoes of
24,622,388 yards, as compared with last year. From
the decreased export of yarns it may be inferred that the
Continental cotton manufactures have not been in so
prosperous a state this year as last, although upon the
whole the depression has, perhaps, not been so general
as here.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Times.)
We regret to say that the columns of the papers
published in the agricultural districts afford but too
many proofs of the alarming prevalence of crime in
them. In one single number of the Wiltshire Indepen-
dent (of Thursday last), we see a fearful catalogue of
robberies, to which, no doubt, the privations of the la-
bouring classes, from the inadequacy of their wages to
supply them with food, have in many instances led. IH

one case, a robbery of Mr. Dean, a farmer, by four men,
assistance having been obtained, a pursuit took place,
when one of the robbers, after an hour's chase, dropped
down dead, but the ethers run over twenty miles of
ground, and two only were captured. It was necessary
at the Devizes fair to order out a number of special
constables to assist the ordinary police officers in pre-
serving the peace and protecting the farmers and others
attending the fair ; " but notwithstanding this precau-
tion," says the Journal in question, " a great many rob-
beries took place ;" and from the report of the pro-
ceedings at the Borough Magistrates' office, this asser-
tion is borne out. The Wiltshire Independent very
sensibly observes, with reference to these alarming
signs of the times :

The moral evil indicated by an internal need of pro
tcctive force is most melancholy. The causes of crime
are the most fruitful topic which the Legislature of a coun-
try can have to consider, and most peculiarly incumbent is
it just now on ours to consider it. It is necessary to re-
press violence, but it is doubly incumbent on us to trace
out and eradicate its causes ; for all popular crimes and
grievances are in a great measure necessarily the offspring
of misgovernment, whether by laws which restrict the
amount of provisions, and tend to panaerise the popula-
tion—or laws which aggravate and excite the poor, by
rendering justice dear and inaccessible."
(From the lifornzng Advertiser.)
A paragraph, copied from a local Paper, is now going
the round of the Journals, to the effect, that Mr. Thu-
rogood is still confined in Chelmsford gaol for contempt
of the Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. Thorogood, whose
private character is, we understand, in perfect accor-
dance with his name, was, as our readers may remember,
incarcerated in Chelmsford gaol six or seven months
ago, for refusing to pay a few shillings demanded from
him in the shape of Church-rates. Posterity will scarcely
credit the fact, that a man could, in the year 1839,hai e
suffered six months' imprisonment—how much longer
he is destined to suffer no one can tell—for daring to
be courageous enough to withhold a few shillings from
the support of an Established Church, and an eccle-
siastical system, of which he .conscientiously dis-
approves. Nor do we wonder at the probab!e
incredulity of posterity, when such a fact shall be
brought under its knowledge ; for we cannot at times
help feeling ourselves, though the fact stares us in
the face, that we must be labouring under some
unaccountable misconception. Talk of the persecuting
spirit of the Church of Rome ! Why, it would be diffi-
cult to instance a case of greater oppression in the most
Popish country under the sun. If we would search for
a pre-eminently persecuting Church among the various
communities into which the Christian world is cantoned,
we shall succeed in our inquiries without stirring a foot
from home. The National Church of England, as the
established religion delights to be called, has as much of
the persecuting spirit within her as her sister of the Church
of of Rome. The only difference between " the sisters'
that in some Popish countries her ladyship of Rome is
allowed greater latitude to her persecuting propensities
than she of England is allowed in this country. The
Church of England has always gone to as great. lengths
in the persecution of those who differ from her as
the law of the land would permit. Who has for-
gotten the virulence with which she persecuted the Dis-
senters previous to the repeal of the Test and Corpora-
tion Acts? or the harshness with which she treated the
Roman Catholics before the passing of the Relief Bill ?

TEA.—Yesterday the merchants submitted to rather
lower prices for common descriptions of black and
green ; common Congou sold at is to Is 10d,
Twankay l s 100, Hyson 2s 7d, Young Hyson
2s 8d to 2s 9dr Company's Congou Is 10id for
cash, and Is Ild with a prompt : is the finer kinds of Tea
little variation in quotations has taken place, but the demand
has bean limited. Accounts have come to hand from
Canton up to the 15th of June, stating that all English
residents had left, and that trade was still at a stand,
This afternoon the operations were on a small scale in
all kinds of Tea, but in prices there is no further variation.
Oms.—The operations in common descriptions of Fish
Oils have been to a less extent this than last week ; Cod
and Southern are held for the advanced rates previously
quoted, but the demand has been limited. Pale Seal 331.
sperm is held for previous rates. Linseed Oil 24s 3d a
24s 6d. Rape oft easier terms. Palm of good quality
37s Gd to 38s per cwt.
This aftenoon 110 tuns southern Whale, and 75 tuns
Sperm were submitted to public competition ; the former
partly found buyers at 261 lOs to 281 lOs for middling to
fine quality, the latter was taken in at 931 to 941 for fine
quality.
Ruts, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—A fair demand has
prevailed for Jamaica Rum, principally for home use;
strong sorts most in request, and full prices obtained.
Leewards. have secured a fair sale at previous quotation,
of the former 250 puns have been disposed of, 26 to 28