The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

CITY TRADE.

Ashes—Pots have advance to 5d 25c. to sd. 50c. per
brl., and Pearls to 6d. 25c. ; Turpentine, is 2d. c. per brl.
for North Country, and Tar 2d. ic. ; There has not been any
material alteration in the Flour Market ; Western we note
at 6d The. to 7d. ; New York, &c. 6d. to 6d. ; and Southern
kinds, 7d. 4c. to 7d. ic. ; except Richmond City Mills, which is
held at Bd. 4c. per brl. Wheat— American, is Id. 45c. to
ld. 50e., and Foreign may be noted at Id. 30c. to Id. 37ic.
Corn, 95c. to Id.
United States Bank Shares sold to day (16th instant), at
1221 to 124 per Share; Farmers' Trust Co. 114; American
Trust Co. 115 per Share.
FREIGHTS.

Cotton to Liverpool, 5-16th to -3-. in square and round
Bales ; Turpentine, 2d. 6c. To London—Cottton, ito i
per lb. ; Naval Stores, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per brl.
THE BANKS OF CANADA.-Sir George Arthur has issued a
Circular inquiring when the Banks of the Upper Province
will be able to resume, and it is likely the resumption will al-
most immediately take place.

THE PRECURSOR SOCIETY OF IRELAND.—In
alluding to the meeting at which Mr. O'Connell delivered the
speeches reported in our columns to-day, the Southern Re-
porter remarks that Mr. O'Connell's plan is simple:—" It
consists in the enrolment of persons who pledge themselves
to procure twenty names, at least, .at one shilling each, as
members of the ' Precursor Society of Ireland.' The Dis-
trict Society for the County and the City of Cork was formed
on the spot, under the auspices of Mr. Hayes, and in a short
time upwards of one hundred names were enrolled, thereby
securing two thousand subscribers at the first formation. The
object of the Society is expressed in the resolutions which
were passed at the Corn Exchange some days ago. As num-
bers and universality are the principal objects, it was thought
advisable to limit the subscription to one shilling each, at the
same time binding the more active and substantial members,
as above, to procuring each twenty members at the least.
There can be no doubt that this system will be adapted univer-
sally throughout the country, and that, before a twelvemonth
shall elapse, as Mr. O'Connell himself said, one million of
members will be enrolled in the Society."
THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this
Company was held on Wednesday, at the London Ta-
vern, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the
Directors. James Esdaile, Esq., was called to the Chair.
The meeting was well attended, and the proceedings
were of a highly satisfactory character; for facts were
stated fully bearing out the great advantage which this
undertaking will be to the public, when completed. It was
established upon calculations submitted to the meeting that in
the article of coals alone there would be a clear saving of at
least 105. a ton to the consumers in London. And it was
also proved that the price of fish would be lessened conside-
rably, while, from the facility of communicating with the
London markets, the character of the article itself would be
greatly enhanced. The advantage to the shipping coming to
the port of London, was also pointed out, in making this dock
a harbour of refuge ; and upon the whole the utility of the
undertaking was exhibited in a very striking light. It appeared
from the Report of the Directors that a contract had already
been entered into for the formation of the works, and that the
contract was within the estimate made by the engineer. The
company subsequently took a trip on board the Victoria
steamer to the site of the projected dock, and had there an
opportunity of witnessing the men actively employed on the
works, so that there can be now no doubt of their being pro-
ceeded with with all possible despatch. A very handsome drjeuner
was provided on board. In the course of the evening several
appropriate toasts were given, in reference to the above un-
dertaking, and the company separated highly gratified with
the result of the day's proceedings.
The following incident occurred at the Central
Criminal Court, on Tuesday last, as the Judges took their
seat. A person got into the witness box and asked the Court
to excuse him from any further attendance as a juror. The
Court inquired the ground of the application. The gentle-
man said that he had given offence to the Counsel by an ob-
servation he had made during the progress of a trial, and he
had been challenged, and all the Counsel declared that they
would not have him again on the Jury. The Court said that
it could not entertain the application then. The applicant
said it was no use for him to wait if he was not to be allow, d
to act as a juror. The Court again told the applicant it
could not relieve him. He still continued, however, to im-
portune the Bench, and the Court at length told him that he
must retire, and not interrupt the business. The applicant
then retired reluctantly, but he suddenly appeared to recollect
himself, and be return 'd and said, addressing the Bench,
" My Lord, the Counsel say they won't have the any more
e
for a juror, you can let me go at all events fur to.day." The
Court, after consultiog the Clerk, consented to allow the gen-
tleman the release be required.

S
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(From the Brighton G
Now this general and growing discon gt,t4lritat -
ambitious and further going of the Radis piefg
tcnsive support in the country—has made tiviabig.Tro & 6a"
more than ever slighting y of the Melbourne Administration and
of its measures. "We regret, se) s the Scotsman, "to per-
ceive a disposition on thz part of the Ultra-Radicals in various
parts of the country to divide the Liberal interest." The
Spectator mentions three Liberal papers of some character
which have declared during the last week against the Ministry ;
to which we may add the London Examiner and the Hertford
Reformer. The laver speaks of " Lord J. Russell's ill-starred,
ill-advised, ill-omened resolution at the beginning of the Ses-
sion ;" the former descr bes the Ministers, in an article on the
past Session, as the servants of the Tory Peers, as having acted
on a principle of submission, and as having violated the car-
dinal principle on which their Administration was formed. The
breach, therefore, which exists in the Liberal party is widen-
ing apace. The general disposition of the people shows that
this is not so much the result of individual ambition or of in-
dividual intrigue as of some general laws and Radical and ex-
tensive defects in our institutions. We shall reserve our ob-
servations on those defects for a future paper, confining our-
selves now to the next immediate consequences of this widened
breach.

First, it is plain that the Ministers, deserted as they will and
must be by those Members who are radically inclined, or
whom Radical constituencies can influence, must go out. It
is impossible they can remain in office. They positively re.
fused at the beginning of the last Session to put themselves
at the head of the Reformers; they agreed, in fact and sub-
stance, to govern the country in obedience to the wishes of the
Lords, the squires, and the parsons, and sooner or later, and
we think now very soon, they will be deserted by all those
who oppose the Lords, the squires, and the parsons—that is,
the extreme Radicals, the manufacturers, and the Dissenters.
Their party is broken up. The wonder indeed is, not that it
should now be dispersed, but that it should so long have held
together.
_

We have supported them beceause we thought that we
thereby obtained the countenance and assistance of one sec-
tion of the aristocracy to democratic principles, and because
their possession of office kept out of the Government, vigor-
ous, strong-handed, coercive-minded Tories, who would have
driven, first Ireland, and then England, into sedition and re-
bellion, producing a violent revolution. We are by no means
assured that this great danger is past ; but as long as the Go-
vernment remains in the hands of the present Ministers, it is
staved off and avoided. As long as Government remains in
their hands, its ancient powers—powers, however, be it ob.
served, that were only exercised for oppression and for
wrong—are gradually frittered away, and gradually the po-
pulace will gather such ascendancy as to secure what is right
and just without the possibility of the priesthood and the aris-
tocracy resisting it, and with a continually decreasing proba-
bility that any violence will arise. The inefficiency of the
Ministers, not our love for them, has recommended them to
our support; and we cannot understand on what principle
either complying and compromising Tories or coercive Radicals,
of whom the number is not small, who desire to see what is
called " a strong government" in existence, and all the
powers of the executive preserved, have so long supported an
administration which has weakened, degraded, and frittered
away the executive power. We cannot comprehend how
those who desire to preserve respect for the Government have
tolerated men, who, repudiating coercive Toryism and refus-
ing to acknowledge free, independent liberalism, have been
kept in office by fighting one great party against another, and
so demonstrating that the administration can be carried on
without being in close alliance with any of the great parties or
interests into which the community is divided. Their exist.
ence as Ministers degrades Government into a personal thing ;
neither the buttress of the Church and the aristocracy, nor the
lover of the democracy, neither the abstract representation of
the interests of the past, nor the pioneer to the interests of the
future. If we had not looked with complacency on whatever
degrades the Government because we know its principles to
be unsound, we should long ago have preferred that its affairs
should have been administered by the character of a Welling-
ton, the official skill of a Peel, the straight-forward tyranny of
a Hardinge or a Stanley, the business-like capacity of a Gra-
ham, and the legal and legislative discretion of a Lyndhurst,
to seeing them administered by men who have demonstrated
that they are either above or incapable of guiding its official
and routine duties.
As the first consequence of the split will be the breaking up
of the present Ministry, the next will be to give them succes-
sors. Who will they be ? We cannot conjecture. The prin-
ciples of the Tories would involve the country in wide-spread,
violent revolution, and the leaders of that party, with all their
boasting and all the rhodomantade of their Journals have not
sufficient wickedness for such a work. They will not, we pre-
sume, forego their principles : and govern the country on
them, particularly that one of upholding the Irish Church,
they cannot. The Peers may be with them, the House of
Commons may be with them ; but it is a grievous error for
Peers and Commons united to suppose that they can make
wrong right, or make men conscious of possessing over-
whelming power and conscious of being wronged submit
to oppression. They must look beyond the two Houses of
Parliament and beyond the governing bodies for the principles
of Government; and beyond them genuine Toryism has
scarcely an existence. We do not believe; therefore, that the
breaking-up of the present Ministry would be the admission of
Tories to office for any length of time. They might hold
power perhaps for one Session ; but to hold power and pre-
serve their principles seems to us as incompatible as the co-ex-
istence of light and darkness. We do not say that they might
not establish a despotism ; but we do not believe they are
wicked enough, and between that and governing this country
onrespgriinneitphleeswoafy
of Reform,extensive Leixbteernadliisnmg,thnemsk,iinffgrageeonatnindugael
getting
of the Church, there is no intermediate principle in which
any Government can last above six months.

DEATH OF ►SIR WILLIAM BROWNE CAVE,
BART.—This respected gentleman died on Friday last, at his
scat Stretton-en-le- Field, Derbyshire. Sir William succeeded
to the title in 1810, on the demise of his cousin, Sir Charles
Cave, Bart., and was married to Miss Louisa Wilmot, daughter
of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., by whom he had several chil-
dren. He was in his 74th year, and is succeeded in his title
and estates by his eldest son, now Sir John Robert C. B.
Cave, Bart.

Among the arrivals on Thursday the 23d, from
Rotterdam, were the Chevalier Baursen (so well known as
the Minister Plenipotentiary from Berlin to Rome), his lady,
and family. His Excellency immediately proceeded to the
residence of his relative, Sir Benjamin Hall, in Wimpole-
street, where he at present is remaining. We understand
Madame Baursen is a native of this kingdom, being sister to
Lady Hall; and that the whole family are about to leave the
metropolis for Llanover, South Wales, on a visit to her mother,
sister, and brother-in-law, the present M. P. for Marylebone.
The Chevalier Baursen has so long been known as a distin-
guished ornament to the literary world all over Europe, that
his first visit to this island will be hailed with pleasure by the
learned, as well as by the numerous persons of rank and
talent belonging to this country, who have known him in
Italy, where he has resided in a high diplomatic situation for
near twenty years.
THE CITY MEDALLION OF HER MAJESTY.—
The Corporation of this ancient and loyal City have just pub-
lished a very splendid medallion of Queen Victoria. It is in
commemoration of her Most Gracious Majesty's visit to the
City and Corporation of London in last November, when the
celebrated banquet was held at Guildhall. On the obverse
of the medallion is a profile of her Majesty, in fine but mode-
rately high relief; the features, which from their mild cha-
racter must have required extraordinary care and skill in the
delineation, are, in our opinion, not only very correctly and
accurately drawn, but there is also a higher ein lity repre-
sented—that is, the individual and graceful expression which
is so evident in her Majesty's countenance, and it is in this
particular portion of art that the greatest taste and skill are
required. The execution of the other parts of the work dis-
play equal knowledge of the art of medalling. The reverse
of the medallion is a most exact exterior representation of the
Guildhall wherein her Majesty was received with civic hos-
pitality and splendour. Below this view of Guildhall is the
following ioscfption :—" In:honour of her Mjesty's visit tothe
Corporation of London, November 9, 1837." And no doubt
all lovers of the fine arts, and of their advancement in this
country, will be pleased to learn that this exquisite specimen
is by a British artist, who has acquired all his elevated ideas
and princii)le of art in his own country. W. Wyon, R. A., is
the artist whom the City committee selected with proper
judgment to show what an English artist can achieve.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—As
at present arranged, and if no unforeseen circumstance should
occur, it is intended to open the London and Birmingham
Railway throughout on the 24th September. The Directors,
in the first instance, being especially desirr us to secure the
perfect regularity and safety of the travelling on their line,
intend to make the time occupied by the journey between
the two termini six hours; so that, with a stoppage of half
an hour at Birmingham, the journey from Manchester and
Liverpool to London, and vice versa, will occupy about eleven
hours. Negotiations are at present in progress between the
London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Companies,
with respect to the most proper times for starting from each
end of their respective lines; but we may mention that, in ad-
dition to day trains, it is intended to run night trains, which
will carry the mails, &c. From London, we presume, the
hour of starting with these will continue as at present, half-
past eight, P.m. ; from Manchester and Liverpool it will
probably be about seven, P. m. —Manchester Guardian.
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entitled to vote at the election of Members of Parliament in re-
spect of property within the different parishes of the county of
Middlesex, will commence on the 15th of September (to-mor-
row Thomas been appointed by the Lord Chancellor,
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a revised the lists,
row fortnight). The Learned Barristera who have this year
Coven-
try, Esq., who has on two prey
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Castle inn, New Brentford, when the lists for the parishes of
Old Brentford), Hanwell, Heston, Isle-
worth,Ealing (including
Twickenham, and the township of New
Norwood,
d will be gone into. The Courts will open at 11
above day,
Brentford,
o'clock. The parishes in the other divisions of the county will
be subsequently taken on the days appointed by the barristers,
of which due notice will be given.
A fire broke out on the 18th inst. in the cavalry
barracks at Haguenan, in the Lower Rhine, and entirely de-
stroped one wi,,g of the with a considerable quantity
of equipment, straw, &c. The wife of one of the men in whose
room the fire originated, had left her infant child in bed, and
the poor little thing perished in the flames. The cause of the
disaster is not ascertaincd.