The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-10 00:00:00

RA IL WAY SHARE MARKETS.

MANCHESTER, APRIL 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The market was quite firm, but
rather dull. The sales were :—Eastern Counties, 1 l ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 604 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham (C quarters), dis. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 17k.
BRISTOL, APRIL 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business
to-day, and the market closed firm. Bristol and Exeters
were done at 88 ; ditto 4 per cent. preference shares at
89 ; Midland Stock at 57,i.
LEEDS, APRIL 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—A flat market for shares to-day,
and the only sales effected have been a few at the following prices :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, GO ; Midland, 58A ;
North-Western, n.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Tra ific return for the week ending April 8,
1854
£12,963 1 7
Corresponding week last year • 11,492 19 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 139,978 3 0
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 122,377 3 1
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college
at the meeting of the ,Court of Examiners, on the fith
inst.:--Messrs. Albert R. Waghorn, Hon. E.1.C.5.,
Bengal; Horace Day, Hon. E.I.C.S. ; William Birkett
Prockter, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland ; Dalton
Adolphus Haffenden, Hanwell, Middlesex ; Charles
Cooper Watson Wilson, Hon. E.1.C.5., Bengal ; R.
Hall, Bakewell, Waltham-abbey ; Lawrence Ormerod,
Rossendale, Lancashire ; Robert Wyatt Meadows,
army ; William Henry Medd, Stockport, Cheshire ;
James Edmunds, Burnham, Bucks ; John Manley,
Crediton, Devon ;. and Croft George Symons, Royal
navy.
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.113AiNDONMENT OF THE REFORM BILL.

(From, the Times.)
This day the Government is to give its answer
with regard to the future progress of the Reform
Bill—an answer naturally looked for with the
utmost impatience and anxiety by all,who regard
the national honour and safety, who wish for the
stability of our Government, and the eventual
promotion even of reform itself. We will not,
under the circumstances in which we stand, per-
mit ourselves for a single moment to doubt of the
answer, nor believe that a body of statesmen whom
the country has deemed deserving of its confidence
and adequate to the care of its destinies will ex-
pose us gratuitously to the perils of divided coun-
sels and the evils of political agitation. Heavy
has been the responsibility cast upon Ministers by
the events of the last year. They have have had
to choose between the danger of plunging the
country into war prematurely, and before the pub-
lic sentiment was ripe for the change, and the
accusation of having been slow and reluctant
to vindicate our national honour. They have
'ound themselves step by step, and in spite
of their wishes, their principles, and their re-
solutions, brought by circumstances into conflict
with the most powerful empire in the world,
and placed in a situation where to advance is
dangerous, and to retreat impossible. But, heavy
as this responsibility is, it is as nothing com-
pared with that which would be assumed by those
who should at the present moment insist upon
forcing a Reform Bill on the country. Whatever
be the risks and penalties of war, they are forced
upon us from without by the wild and inflated am-
bition of a despot ; but whatever evil may arise
from the agitation of a Reform Bill would be purely
self-sought and spontaneous. We cannot avoid a
war without immediate dishonour and probable
future loss. The accounts of every day show that
Russia has assumed a position in the European
State system from which she must be forced to
descend, if the independence of that great confede-
racy is to be preserved. Self-ddence, acting in a
spirit of enlightened foresight, prompts us to meet
on the banks of the Danube a danger which may
else have to be arrested on those of the Oder, the
Elbe, the Weser, or the Rhine. But no pressing
danger, no inevitable evil, long foreseen and gra-
dually advancing, calls upon us to meet halfway
and precipitate the solution of a reform in our
electoral system. Some reforms war not only
authorises but necessitates, but those are matters
relating to the war itself, and bearing on its suc-
cessful prosecution. Thus, in Turkey, it has been
found requisite, even in the midst of the present
tremendous struggle, to carry out alterations so
sweeping and so vast as to be more properly charac-
terised by the name of revolution than of reform.
The admission of Christian evidence in courts
of justice and the resumption of the property of
the mosques are vast changes, but they have been
rendered absolutely indispensable by the necessity
of conciliating the Christian races, and of providing
the Government withresources unprofitably devoted
for the encouragement of lazy and fanatical super-
stition. To supply the State with adequate re-
sources and to conciliate the support of a wavering
population are objects for which much may wisely
be dared. These things Ought long ago to have
been done, and it is owing to stupid and ob-
stinate bigotry that they have been delayed until
the hour of danger. How different is the case of
the changes proposed by the Reform Bill! More
than twenty years ago, in a time of profound peace,
the nation set itself to review its institutions, and,
listening to the voice of truth -and reason, adcom-
lished a peaceful and bloodless revolution, which
aas remedied all the prominent abuses which were
then complained of, and left the Parliament and
Government so much a-head of the people that the
one has been meditating theoretical changes which
the other scarcely seems to appreciate. We have
trimmed our ship in calm weather, and have no
occasion to resort to the hazardous experiment of
changing her ballast in a tempest. A second
specimen •of that reform which may properly be
effected even during the state of war is that of the
departments themseves by which war is to be car-
ried on. Unlike the Reform of Parliament, this
question has been grossly neglected during those
days of peace when it might and ought to have
been settled without difficulty and without dan-
ger. War has come upon us and found us with a
triple administration of that which ought to be
single, and a divided responsibility where it should
above all things be combined. The evils of the
system are too gross and palpable to be denied.
They are pressed upon us by all history and all ex-
perience, and the only answer that can be given is
that war is not the time for great changes, and
that, bad as the existing division of office may be,
it is better to bear with its known and acknow-
ledged evils than risk the untried and incalculable
dangers which wait upon innovations made at the
very moment of action. Is it not surprising that
from a Ministry which employs this argument with
so much earnestness on Friday we should be wait-
ing in anxiety and suspense to hear on Monday
whether they are not about to force upon an un-
willing country, not changes in the organisation
of official departments, but in the Legislature it-
self,—not questions relating to the details of busi-
ness, but to the constitution of the highest power
in the land ? It would seem incredible that a re-
form in the War-office or in the Ordnance should
be rejected because we are at war, at the same
time that an alteration in the body to which
these and all other departments are responsible is
contemplated, and a transfer of political power
from one portion of the community to another is
proposed. We should have thought that those
who recoiled from entering on the question of re-
'resentation might yet have entertained the ques-
tion of providing a Minister at War, but certainly
never that the converse could have held good, and
that men would have recoiled from establishing a
new Minister, as too violent a change for a time in
vhich they see no objection to establish a new Par.
Aiament.

We cannot say that we sacrifice to the war so
good a Reform Bill as that of this session without
regret ; but there are undoubtedly many other
sacrifices we are called upon to make for the same
object which we feel much more deeply. The ma-
terials for a Reform Bill will always remain, and
that which is unavoidably postponed for this year
may be resumed on a future occasion and under
happier auspices. A salutary change is delayed,
but not endangered—deferred, but not lost ; but
who shall give us back the commerce we are sacri-
' fieing, the treasure we are lavishing ; and, dearer
and sadder than all, the lives we are staking on the
cast of this deadly game ? Our surplus must be
converted into a deficit, our financial improvements
nto retrogression, the process of gradually lighten-
ng taxation, to which we have become so familiar,
must be reversed, and the best blood and the best
energies of the country devoted to destroy those
resources of our enemy which our commerce and
our capital have so long been employed in fostering
and creating. These are sad reflections, and, amid
so many irreparable losses, may teach us to bear
with patience an evil so easily repaired as the post-
ponement of a Reform in Parliament.

GREAT FIRE IN WESTMINSTER.—Last night, about a
quarter to eight o'clock, a fire,. attended with a large
destruction of property, broke out in the extensive range
of premises in the occupancy of Mr. Williams, japanner,
in Marlborough-place, Whistler's-ground, Great Peter-
street, Westminster. The building was nearly 100 feet
long, and adjoined, on one side, the gas-meter works of
Mr. Thomas Edge, whilst the extreme end of the fabric
stretched as far in the other direction as the Chartered
Gas Works in the Horseferry-road. Some dozen houses
also flanked the premises in Marlborough-place and
Whistler's-ground, so that at one time the neighbour-
hood was placed in jeopardy, as it was feared that
the fire would extend to the neighbouring gasometers,
which were fully charged. The moment the dis-
covery was made, intelligence was sent to Pigott, the
person in charge of the Horseferry-road Brigade
engine, who promptly attended, and forthwith
sent for additional aid. As quickly as possible several
other engines of the Brigade, and of the West of Eng-
land office, attended, when it was found that the entire
length and breadth of the first-named premises were
enveloped in flame. Before the engines came up, the
mains of' the Chelsea Company yielded an abundant
supply of water, from which the engines, under the
direction of Messrs. Staples, Connorton, and Tozer, went
to work. The first thing sought to be accomplished was
to cut off the further extension of the conflagration in
the direction of Messrs. Edges and the gasworks. For-
tunately Mr. Carter, the superintendent of the latter,
was present, and he gave such orders that the two esta-
blishments were saved, but the damage done to Mr.
William's premises must amount to a considerable sum.
Fortunately the owner was insured in the West of Eng:
land office. As to the origin of the fire nothing is known.
FIRE IN THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—Yesterday (Sunday)
morning, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, the
inhabitants of Cornhill were alarmed by the discovery of
a fire in the premises of Messrs. Barrup and Co., sta-
tioners and bookbinders, No. 12, Royal Exchange, a
part of the main building opposite the Exchange-build-
ings. By the vigilance of a policeman, and the activity
of the firemen, the flames were discovered and subdued
within an hour, but the damage done by fire and water
was not small.

Mr. R, W. GEE:'.--Before offering himself for elec-
tion at Liskeard, Mr. R. W. Grey resigned his appoint-
ment of Private Secretary to Lord Palmerston, it being
contrary t o law for a member of the House of Commons
to hold such an office, or at least, to receive the salary
attached. Lord Palmerston has appointed Mr. Charles
Cavendish Clifford (son of Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart.,
Usher of the Black Rod), to the vacancy. Mr. Grey,
however, will continue his services without emolument,
in the same way as, he formerly
did to Lord John Rus-
sell, when sitting for Tynemouth, and as is now done
for the Chancell,Jr of the Exchequer by the Son. F.
Lawley, member for Pontefract.