The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-24 00:00:00

TIRICES OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank itr,K. - I India Stock

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Wig 1 j Din° MIMS 2 dis. E ar
------ -ISfauth Sea Stock
9044 Old Atinnities
.08%14 New Ditto

3 pet Cent. 'Red.
fi ye', Cent. Cont....
11Y. per Ca.,.
ant*o Rat

New I”.C. p ,r Cent -
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New 1, per Cent - I Exch. Bills, .1-:1,000 ... ... 11 13 Kn.
Bark Lot gAnnuit' esto expire ! Ditto 500 ll 13 pin.
Jan. 5, ISM- ........ .....15,% '3-16 i Ditto Small
Oct. 10 , Mal l5 9-16 'lDitto Commercial — pm.
Jan Li. 188 o — , Ditto Advertised -.- pra.
Jan. :•• 1' .80 .
Anril 4 iss,,,,
. : India Stock for Account —
Ja.r. , Is7o
Orn, lur i Pm. '

P 3.V.:ES OF FOIIFIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
AuV rian Bonds 'Peruvian Bonds .
Bel, 'fan BO:: ii 4
7 ,itto Account.
at.azilian Bonds .„, ..... ...„, — Ditto A ccoind
Du'ro Account
:Buenos Ayres F.,n,:s
Dhro Accotx d.... Ditto, 3 per cent. 53% 4
Cnilli-:n Bondi . — Prussian Bonds —
Ditto Acenur - Russian Bonds, 1e:23 —
Columbian 'tie ,id, — Ditto Account ......... ....... ..
3 Ditty' Ace, unt ... ........... - .......... .....
Colural.iar Bonds, :5,21 — Spanish Bonds —
1)*II) ."~cc.,unt.
D•noch .3onds
I-htto Account
Greek Bonds ......... ..-........... ' French, 5 per cent........... —f• --c•
r. —c.
Dir
.oßonds, Is ,5 i 4 per cent. .......... --..
e.
'); ..to Account — '.:. per cent. .......... I
Mx :lean Bonds, 5 per cent 24% 5 -- Exchange.......... —f. —,...c.
' utto Account !Dutch, 2 ,:, per cent.
Ditto 6 xo. cent
!litto Acc0unt.......
-23,apolitan — I Ditto Account —

the House. The majority, however, was against him
—an unanswerable proof that the people, notwithstand-
ing all the advantages they have derived from the Re-
form Bill, are not yet fully represented in Parliament.
Still, it is not to be denied that the question has made
considerable progress even within the walls of St.
Stephen's ; for the numbers in favour of the Ballot are
this year far greater in proportion than they were last
year; which convinces us that at no distant date,
secret voting will be the Election law of the land. As
for the "un-English" character of the measure, which
its opponents are so, fond of dwelling on, this objection
has been so ably met and refuted by Mr. GROTE,
that we need do no more than recommend our readers'
attention to his speech. In allusion to another equally
puerile objection, that a vote is a trust, and that a
man must be made responsible for it, Col. THOMP-
SON well observed, that " he could urge many in-
stances in which the Constitution and the Laws did
impose on the voter, and that under the most urgent
circumstances, that he should vote in secret, and in
no other way." He alluded to the case of military
and naval officers voting at courts-martial—exercising
most important functions—sitting on cases of life or
death on one man, or perhaps many men ; and the
demand upon them was, to vote secretly, on the ground
that' there should be no chance of mal-practices from
any quarter in exercising oppression upon them. He
would ask whether this was not an example which
might well be followed in the exercise of the elective
franchise. Our limits prevent us enlarging further
on the subject of the Ballot to-day ;we shall close,
therefore, with the remark, that had common sense
and sound argument been allowed fair play, the ques-
tion would have been carried last night by a large
majority.

It is fearful to think that in a country such as Ire

and, with a fine climate, an excellent soil, safe har

bours, the first situation in the world for foreign trade,
a dense population taught to look to the labour of their
hands for subsistence, and not more able than willing
to work—famine, gaunt famine, should annually, for
months together, stalk through the land, treading down
the hearts and enfeebling the hands of the miserable
peasantry. The people of this country can have but a
faint conception of the horrors of famine in the Sister
Kingdom, norlis the frequency of such visitations of late
calculated to awaken their sympathies for the sufferers,
so much as to render them indignant against those
who have so long protracted such a state of wretched-