The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-06 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOcititi THIS DA'Y AT ONE O'CLOCK.

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rank. :1,,,k.
:per Cent. li ee 89%.4% , °ht., gonds 36 38 pm.
:3 per Cent. Cons 9n!q%
,Sov th Sea Stock .... ....... ..... --
:`iii. per Cent .... ....
)D:tto Red ... ..... .. 971/4 7 NE w Ditto —
:New :3 per Cert.. ...... .....98%% 44 , 3 per Cent. Annultcs, 1751 -_-
:New 5 per Cent-- ......... ...... 1 r.:;xch. Bills. Zl,OllO .- ...... 37 39 pm.
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rank L^neAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto ..... ..........500.... ..... 37 :0 pm.
Lin. 5,1 u P l4i 9-16 i t3n,to Small
Oct. it., !859 — ' Ditto Commercial ..... „.. - - Pin
Jan. 5, :MU 14% Ditto Advertises:..„........ - - Pte..
Jan. 5 88 ' ............ --13ank Stock for Acc0unt......... ---
April 5, I 54.-••••• — • India Stock for Acc0unt......... ..--
Jan- 5,187 e — Console for Account ............ 90%
Cranium - pm.
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_PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS 1.71-11 S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds ......».« —I P r wit..n Bonds ..».Beteian 80nd5.... ....... .. ..... lOl Tii ! Ditto Account ....... ..... ......
Ditto Account —' l'', Iv., -•iigueserkinds.......... ........
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Brazilian Bonds ..—.......
Ditto Account ........ ........ . —1 Ditto New Bonds 47%
Bucnos Ayres Bonds ....... ..... —1 Ditto Account ... 47%
Ditto Account —l Ditto, 3 per cent. 3l
hilli:in Bonds —, F cussian Bonds .................»..
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds .«.«....»..... Ditto Account ............ ......
Ditto Account . ....... —........-- Ditto Metallic..., ..........«..
Columbian Bonds, 1824. — Spanish Bonds ...... ........ .......
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Ditto Account . - - Ditto Account —
Danish Bonds ... - --, Ditto Bonds, 1631 ..... ....22% 3 274
Ditto Account - Ditto Account .4 23!ig 4%
Greek 80nd5......_ ...... ------ ---' French, 5 per cent.......... —t. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1.9.5 —' 4 per cell. —t. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —C
31.mican Bonds, 5 per cent —' Exchange —f. —c.
Ditto Account ...... .......«.. Dutch, 2,4 per cent 52% 3
Ditto, 6 per cent. ....—..... —, Ditto Account —
Ditto Account ................ Ditto, 5 !IT cunt. lOO
Neapolitan....... --........ Ditto AccUunt —

PRICES OF SHARER 'THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
Brazilian Imperial Mining Cc ►. r issued at 51. pm.) 20 20
Brighton Railway Company ...
Brighton (Rennie's)
N rth Midland Railway Coma Lny lO 9
South Brighton, Lewes, and !.iewhavea Railway 2
General Steam Navigation C tympany

MAILS.
Arrived. Due Ai eyed. Due. Arrived Due
0 America.. ..... ... I 0 • France ..... —.—.. I 0 Lisoon 0
0 Brazil ..... ....... 0 1 Gue-n. &Jersey 0 0 Malta
0 BuenosAyres.. 0 0 .Hamburg ........ 0 0 Mexico I
0 Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland
1 Dublin... ...... 0 0 .Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0
I Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER . LONDON BRIDGE
M0rning.........'27 minutes id ter 3. Evening....

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...43 minutes after 3.

The publication of Tub: SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 mine les past Three o' Clock.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 6,1837.

In the House of Commons yesterday several Railway Bills
were read a third time. and passed. The third reading of the
Oxford and Great Wrtstern Union Railway Bill was resisted
by Captain PrcnELL, +whose amendment, however, was nega-
tived by a majority of 30.
Sir A. AoNzw made his appearance with a bundle of peti-
tions, all with little variation of voice, praying for what the
Hon. Gentleman mist tames the " Better Observance of the
Sabbath."
Some petitions, re%ative to the New Poor Law Act, were
presented by Mr. MANGLES, Mr. FLEETWOOD, Captain BoL-
DERO, and Mr. Wr.LTER.
Petitions for wad against Church-rates were presented.

The second leading of Mr. TREVOR'S Sale of Beer Bill was
withdrawn, in consequence of the decided opposition it met
with.

In angwce to a question from Lord ASHLEY, Mr. POULETT
TnomsoN stated that it was the intention of Government to
bring in a Bill for the regulation of labour in factories, but that
it would not comprehend any alteration in the ages of children
as established by the existing law. Lord -ASHLEY, on this
a,Rucance. wiLivlrew his motion, which stood for to-night ; but
said that he would move it as an instruction to the Committee
on any Bill that night be introduced, to mac provision that
in future no female between the ages of thirteen and eighteen
should labour in any factory in the United Kingdom more than
ten hours zi day, or fifty-eight hours a week.

Colonel TnomPsoN then brought forward his motion relative
to the army. The lion. and Gallant Member's object was to
r_',,tore the Constitutional practice as regarded the control of
the army. He was of opinion that there ought to be now, as
heretofore, an Officer or Commissioner at the head of the
army responsible to Padiamcnt. " When a Tory Adminis-
tration came into power," said Colonel TnompsoN, " was the
Duke of MAttr.zonot'on kept as Commander-in-Chief one hour
longer than, that Tory Administration thought it necessary?
and when the 'Vhigs came hack again into office, was not that
Soble Duke again placed in that situation ? la the army at
present und,r the control of Parliament, or does there exist a
c..recaled and par:mount power behind the Throne?"
Mr. Henn, who intended to second the motion, not hasing
arrived io time, and no other Hon. Mernhcr appearing as a
seconder, the motion of course f-ll to the ground.
The. House then went into Committee on the Army Esti-
mates. For the discussion which took place on the several
votes we refer to our Parliamentary Report.
.Tr. Alderman Woon's Hackney Carriages (Metropolis)
Bill was read a second time.
Several returns were ordered on the motion of Mr. Ht7mE
Sir J. Hounouse moved for leave to bring in, and brought
in, two Hills—one for the suspension of the fourfold nomina-
tion of Candidates for the East India College at Hailer bury ;
and another to repeal tir. prohibition of the payment of sala-
ries and allowances of the East India Company's officers dur-
ing their absence from their respective stations in India.
The House then adjourntd between 11 and 12, o'clock.

The Revenue Returns for the financial year ant,
quarter e►►ded yesterday, will he found in another part
of The Sun. Taking into consideration ti►e large re-
duction of taxation which has been effected since tin
commencement of the bygone financial year, the pros-
pect presented by these tables is most cheering. It is
true there is a decrease upon the quarter of 60,4091.:
but then the year presents an increase of 2,288,929/
The Customs shows a decrease of 13,3331.; the Exc:se
28,869/. ; and the Stamps 79,422/.; but there is an
increase of 1,000/. on the Post-office, and under the
head " Miscellaneous " we find an increase of
9,591/. The greater part of the decrease on Scamps
was evidently caused by the late financial pressure.
which happily passed away without being felt by the
working classes. As it was to a great txt tit an idli
pa►tic, it withdrew no capital from the employment
of labour ; but it occasioned a large deficit in
this item of the public revenue. The effect of the
reductio►► of the Stamp Duty upon Newspapers can-
not be ascertained before the present system has come
into full operation. This the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER state:l would require two years—of
which o►►ly six dull months have )et elapsed. Upon
the whole we congratulate the country upon the un-
questionable evidence afforded by these tables, of the
flourishing state of the National Revenue.

On most questions of practical Reform our opinions
coincide with those of the Hon. Member for Middle-
sex. Where we happen to differ with him, our differ-
ence has regard much oftener to the expediency than
to the principle of the question at issue. The princi-
ples involved in the Hon. Gentleman's motions of pecu-
niary reform are unobjetionable ; but the motions them-
selves are brought forward with an undiscriminating,
unstatesmanlike zeal, " in season and out of season,"
which only tends to bring contempt upon them when un-
successfully made. This is greatly to be regretted. Mr.
HumE, as is well known throughout the British empire,
is one of the most hardworking and most useful men in the
House of Commons. Recently, on occasions of great
emergency, he performed a distinguished part in saving
the country from the clutches of the Tories. But
Mr. Humes love of economy, in whatever relates to
the national expenditure, frequently blinds him to the
fact, that there are occasions when a trifling pecuniary
saving is the greatest extravagance—when " a shilling
saved" is a guinea lost. It is thus with the reduc-
tion of our present military force, which the Hon.
Gentleman pressed so strongly on the Government
last night. Surely an hour's reflection would have
convinced him that the preSent is not the time when
his MAJESTY should be requested to disband any
portion of our standing army. With the Peninsula
in a ferment, and Russia preparing for another grand
struggle for the empire of the East, it would be sheer
madness in any Minister to advise the disbanding of
a single regiment. Mr. HUME is exceedingly fond of
alluding to the strength of our army in 1792 and 1796,
when " France and Europe threatened us ;" and of asking
what we want with a greater force now than then
Without having recourse to the obvious answer sup-
plied—by referring to our increase of population—of
trade—of Colonies and of Colonists—we respectfully
ask the Honourable Gentleman, whether he has studied
the history of the period to which he refers, with such
care as to be able to determine that a stronger military
force in 1792, and the years immediately following, would

lot have prevented the dreadful scenes which subse-
pentiv filled Europe with dismay ?
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In the present state of Europe the Cabinet of Lon-
don derives a moral power, which enables us to main-

•ain the general peace, from the knowledge of our
being so well prepared for war. Deprive us of our
excellent navy and our brave army, and before a
month half the nations of Europe would be in
aims against. We might raise levies en masse, but
w have only to look to Hernani to form an esti-
vate of the relative value of such a national sheet
anchor. When Spain is tranquillized, and bounds
set to the ambition of Russia, will we support a mo-
tion for the reduction of our standing army—but not
before that time.

A correspondent has called our attention to a letter
in the Shield Iris from a clergyman of that town,
by name LIVESEY. It affords a fine specimen of the
unscrupulousness of the clerical conscience when a fa-
vourite point is to be gained. The parsons, in their
blind rage against the only measure which can be ex-
pected to leave even the semblance of an established
Church for their successors, seem to have completely
taken leave of their senses, and to have set all no-
tions of decency at defiance. This Mr. LIVESEY, who
we believe is Vicar of one of the parishes in Sheffield,
writes a letter complaining of a misrepresentation
having gone abroad of something that he had said in
the pulpit, respecting the signing of petitions against
the abolition of Church-rates, and attempting to
vindicate himself from the charge of having used
unduly the influence of his office in procuring signa-
tures. The Rev. Gentleman, in this exculpatory
letter, adduces extracts from the sermon preached by
him on the occasion alluded to, in which we find it
stated that, though he " abhors to desecrate the
place where he was standing," or " to pollute the ears"
of his congregation "by any secular or political allu-
sion," he nevertheless feels it his duty to inform them
that " Petitions to both Houses of Parliament are pre-
paring to be sent from every Church congregation in
the parish." He then urges upon his hearers the duty,
of signing these petitions, from various considerations,
and sums up the whole by the following beautiful
imprecation :—" Perish the recreant hand which
would not move even a pen to preserve that
national benefactress, who is dispensing her spiritual
blessings, without money and without price !" This
is what a " Godly minister of Christ's holy Gospel"
utters, and on his own confession, too, in the pulpit,
and sees no harm in so doing. What, may we ask,
would such pious pastors think it unjustifiable to do
to obstruct the cause of truth and righteousness?
Where, after this, we should like to be informed, do
they draw the line beyond which they are not to pass
in their anathematizing denunciations ?
The richest part of the above quotation is the spi-
ritual mindedness—the disinterestedness of our holy
pastors. They, forsooth, look only to the interests. of
the flock, the idea of the fleece never once enters their
pure minds. All that they do is " without money and
without price," the precious creatures 1. What effrontery
these men possess ! We are told that a certain personage
who shall be nameless, can quote scripture when it suits
his purpose, but we think he would never misquote it
as this reverend prig does. That Scripture, indeed,
mercifully invites all " to come to the waters and buy,
without money and without price," but is this the
language of the Church ? No ; the maternal voice
of the ‘‘ national benefactress" sounds to her children
thus—" CoMe ye to the waters, or come ye not, you
must pay."

We have it constantly dinned in our cars by the
servile crew who arc eager to catch the crumbs
that fail from the Bishops' tableq, that the `Ves
leyan Methodists are so enamoured of Church-
rates that they are all to a man against their
abolition. We refer such persons to the report of a
Wesleyan meeting held the other day at Leicester, for
some information on this point. They will there aec
evidence that the Church-rates have no more able or
dctermincd opponents than the Wesleyan Methodists.
We also beg attention to the great meeting held last
night at Hackney on this all-engrossing question.

Brussels and German Papers have been received,
but they contain no news of any political interest.

DUTCH FUNDS—AstsTuttexm, APRIL 1.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, =2.4 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ' 10.1,-, 1(1
A mort Syndic, 4y.; per cent. 914 93%
Ditto, ditto, 31,4 pet cent. itiq 764
Commercial Company, 4:. per cent 1824 18t%
Ditto (11i32 and l&33) 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l' 05
Two months
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MARCH 25.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques

Four.per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares

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—4:ll:euzeine Zeitung, April 1.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, APRIL 1.
gilts. Money.
Austrian Meta"iques, 5 per cent.
Dittu ditto 4 per cent. —
Di' _ tilt to :1 per cent.
Liao !tank shares 1110 I 43.4
Anglo-Russian Loan
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent —
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and lth
Series
Ditto, Certificates
rortuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent 46%
Ditto, 3 per cent. 2914
Dutch •2'.., per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish 6onds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets :53!4 15.3
A ,igle.Danish Loan, 3 per cents 714+.4 71 4
Norwegian lisan of 1834, tp. r cents.
Spanish' in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes 1... an, 5 per Cent 9014 21
'Greek t per cents. 1533, guaranteed by France 93 9-4..
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Marten 31.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent lO2 101
Pilbtidill English Loan, 1830, 4 per e, nt 99?,,, 99'n
Exchange on London, three months 6 24je
—Prussian State Gazette. April I.

RATHER FRENCH.—" Strauss, the Napoleon of
the Waltz" (says the Constitutionnel), " has returned to
Vienna bending under the weight of gold and honours. His
ex ursion has produced to him 100,000 florins (6,0001)."

On Saturday night last M. Nourit, the celebrated
singer, took his benefit, and his leave of the stage, at the Aca-
demie Royale de Musique. The house (although the prices
of places were nearly trebled) was crowded to overflow, and
the scene is described to us as exceedingly interesting. His
intended successor, Duprez, is said to have been present, hav-
ing arrived in the course of the day from Leghorn.—French
Paper.

Despatches were forwarded on Tuesday from the F-
oreign Department for Lord Durham, the British Ambassador
at St. Petersburgh.

A labouring man, named John Wood, who wa3 en-
gaged in cleaning the exterior of St. Bartholomew's Hospital
yesterday morning, fell from the scaffolding, at a height of up-
wards of forty feet, and received such severe injury that he is
not expected to recover.

A young woman, very decently dressed, was yester-
day morning killed in Broad-street, St. Giles's, by being run
over by a coal-waggon, under the wheels of which she fell when
intoxicated. Both wheels of the waggon passed over the
lower part of her body, and she expired before she could be
removed to the hospital.
The Dissenters resident in the small parish of St.
Benedict in this city, have set a wholesome example to the un-
compromising advocates of the compulsory exaction of church-
rates, the calumniators of the principles of dissent, and those
who from the pulpit thunder out their denunciations against
the communicants of dissenting places of worship.—Lincoln
Gazette.

On Tuesday evening between eight and nine
o'clock, a daring attempt was made to steal a fine young stal-
lion, the property of Mr. Hanbury, a tradesman residing in
Pultney-street, Islington. The depredation was attempted by
two men, one about six feet, the other five feet ten inches, in
height, attired in Brighton beaver coats, and having the ap-
pearance of coach-drivers, and who had been observed lurking
about the neighbourhood all the evening. They had forced
open the door of the stable, which was secured by one of Bra-
mah's patent locks, had placed the riding saddle and bridle on
the horse, and were only awaiting an opportunity to be off,
when they were fortunately disturbed by the appearance of the
lad who had the care of the horse, and who was proceeding to
the stable for the purpose of feeding him. The lad, observing
that the padlock and staple were gone, supposed that the horse
had been kicking, and had broken open the door. He was
looking about for the padlock, when he observed the two men,
who immediately made off. The lad ran after them a short
distance, when they took to the fields and ultimately escaped.
He came back to the stable, immediately secured the door,
and gave an alarm. The police of the Ndivison were soon on
the spot, and hopes aro entertained of the speedy apprehension
of the offenders.