The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-27 00:00:00

peopla of Ireland that they have yet much to perform be-
fore they can obtain justice.

The Presbyterian Oaths Bill, to which Lord Baouslitim '
objected so strongly, and which was withdrawn at his sug- ,
gestion, has been re-placed by one of a more cornprehen- I
sive nature, as well as better calculated to effect the imme-
diate object of the former measure. The LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE of the Queen's Bench, last night, introduced into
the House of Lords a Bill, for which, if it shall pass into a
law, the Noble and Learned Lord will deserve the thanks of
the country. This measure provides that the indulgence
at present granted only to Quakers, Moravians, and Sepa-
ratists, in the matter of oaths, shall be extended to every
person who shall, when called upon to swear, declare that
he has a conscientious scruple to the taking of an oath. It
is proposed that in all such cases, a simple affirmation shall
be held equivalent to an oath, the party affirming being liable
to all the penalties of perjury, if he make a false
affirmatita IV ()observe it stated in the Parliamentary
report of same a ithe, Morning Papers that Lord DEtotAN,
in explaining the object of this clause of the Bill, restricted
its operation to Courts of Justice. This, we apprehend,
must be a mistake. If jurors and witnesses in trials in
which matters of the highest importance are decided—in
which life or death is the question at issue, be exempted
from swearing, when they object to the practice on con-
scientious grounds, there can be no possible reason for
refusing the same indulgence to tender consciences in cases
lof minor importance.

There are three Election Committees to be ballotted for
to-night in the House of Commons. One of these is to
try the merits of the petition against the return of the
four Members for the City of London ; it is therefore the
boundm duty of every Liberal Member to be at his post.
By the absence from the House of some of the friends of Re-
form, when their names were called to serve in Committees,
the Tories have, in certain cases, gained the advantage of
having a majority of their party selected—an advantage of
which they are not prevented, by any scruples of honour of
good faith, from making the most. The fate of an election
petition is never doubtful in the hands of such a Committee.
It is therefore necessary that the professors of liberal prin-
ciples, diminished as they are for serving on Election Com-
mittees by the nefarious proceedings of the " Srorris-
WOODE Gang," should be doubly vigilant and active to
defeat the unprincipled views of their opponents. The
Lorylon petition is one of the first importance. We
believe that the petitioners have not the most dis-
tant chance—that themselves do not entertain even
a hope—of succeeding in unseating any one of the
Members for the City of London, except through the
instrumentality of a Committee prepared to set at defiance
the claims of justice and the sanctity of oaths. Such a
Committee it is possible they may get ; but let it not be by
the fault of the Liberal Members.

The Paris Journals of Sunday have all been received.
On Saturday the Minister of War brought forward his
budget for increasing the military and civil establishments
in Africa, in accordance with the intimation contained in
the Royal Speech. He fixed the grant for the year at
eighteen millions of francs, and stated that to retain the con-
quests of France in that country it would be necessary to keep
a military force of forty-eight thousand men. and twelve
thousand horses, permanently in Africa. Betides, there
were fortifications to construct ; magazines, barracks, and
hospitals to raise ; roar's to make ; harbours to build ; the
cost of which, regarded prospectively, could not be less
than twenty-seven millions of francs. It is expected that
the debate upon this question will be very animated.
There is no news of any interest from Spain in these
Journals, and the little there is seems altogether im-
probable, Most likely it was manufactured in Paris.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

In the course of yesterday afternoon a notice was issued from the
Exchequer Bill Office, to the effect that bills to the amount of
9.4,623,600/., dated September 1837, and those authorised for the relief
of the West India islands, and for carrying on public] works and fishe-
ries, dated January, February, and March, will be paid off on the 1234.1 of
Mere!), 1 Sl3d. New bills, bearing interest at the rate of twopence per
diem, will be given, in whole or in part, for the first-named portion ;
but the bills issued for the relief of the West India islands, and for car-
rying on of public works and fisheries, will be paid off in money.
We have received Jamaica papers to the 19th January. We extract
the following:—

"The intelligence from the country is cheering. 'We have not any
account of di,turbacces in the country ; the holidays appear to have
passed off happily throughout the 13.. and, and the 'Negroes appear ge
nerally well disposed. The pollee in the Spanish Town have thrown
up qn,ir engagemenis, and with the exception of the sergeant, there
are no police to keep the peace cf the town."
Barbadoe.s vipers to the 16th of January state that sugar_
malting has commenced in the island, and they anticipate from
the very seasonable weather that this year's crop will equal that of the
last. The following statements are believe.l to be pretty near correct
of the produce shipped to the end of 1837:—Sugar 31,764 hints,
24,073 tierces, 1,007 barrels, equal to about 53,262 ; Cotton, 273
ba'es. The greater part of the Cotton made the last year is held up for
higher prices. As they calculate on et least 2,000 hhds.,of Sugar being
consumed in the Island, the crop has exceeded 33,000 'Aids.

THE FUNDS.
Consols, n hich were at one period in the course of yesterday 9
rather
animated by the favourable news from Canada, and done t ,2iC i
fir the Account, towards the close of the market receded to 02$ i•
and 92t 4 for the next Account, opened this morning at 921.
Exchequer Bills, 54 sr, ; India Bonds, 55 57 ; and those not marked
12 to 14 prem. ; Bank Stock, 206 to 207 ; India Stock, 264 265.
To the present time scarce a bargain is doing in the Foreign Se
cu.
riti;,s, and the prices are much the same as they closed at yesterday.
Spanish Active, 19 to I, with Coupons; Portugue,e, .27. k. to % ;.
Thren.per-Cents, 10 to ; Brazilian, a sLade higher 74 to 75 ; Mexi-
can, 29 ; Colombian 27 ; Dutch Two-and.a-lialf per Cents., 53} to Z.
PitICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2t6N india 5:dek.......... ................. 1
!.., per Cent. Ka .. 93'4% Ditto Bonds ................. •‘5 PM
3 per Cont. Cons.
3 per Cent...—. ... .... — Old Annuities .... ..... •••••" .....
Ditto Red.
-
NevNtiae n 1 r.3511i ege7.ZC7netn::: Itles t o e x.p9:1:801::,%1A i 557wthu5eait:t0t,k......................:
...............
0,0 3 i•er Cent. Annuities. 1-1-”••••
Exch. Bi!',l, £l,ven ......... 54 57 om.
Ditto Z 00.... • •• P n•
',7 55 pm,

Jan. 5,-IKO 'ls 4 5-1(11
Oct. it,, l', ,If
Jan. 5, ISCk l4
15-1(11
Jan. 5, li4SO —l
April 5, 1856.....,_......_
Jan. 5,10,7 q,„,„,,„„..,
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austral) hori:is ,„, 1
Beig,o Bend& ll3q
Ditto Account
Brazil:an ficnds
Ditto Account 75
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Acc;:unt..— ... .., —
.. ___

attl ..................
Ditto Conrnerzial .........
Ditto Ad v ,rrtisc4l ............ Pin
Bank Sto.!k for Account .........
Stock for Acc,:unt ....... ••
Cop mg* fc,r Account ............
THIS DAY AT ors, O'CLOC •
IPeruvi an LSonels ..............
Ditto Acccuat ...... •••••
Portugue4c Ecrids..—•••••• ........
Ditto A ccount ..... ...........
o
Ditto NA:cpvcreorull
cnr)d
etnnt.: .
. ......
. ...........
......... LI 4s

Bonds .....
Ditto Account ...........»...
C3luNnb‘.an Bonds

Fru:llan ...... .........
Russian Son<ts,
Ditto Amount... ..... ......
Ditto Metallic .........
Spanish Bonds ........---
Ditto Account ......
19,,4
Ditto Fioncl.i, t t ...............

Ditto Accomt .„ —
C)lumbian Bonds, 1824 /7 814
Ditto Account 274 8%
Ihnish Bonds ....„

. ''."

Ditto Account
rezk ..........
Ditto Bonds, 115•25
Ditto Account .....
Mexican aonqls, 5 per cent 25
Ibitto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account ...........

Ditto Accerint ..................
French, 5 per cant.......... —f. --c
--- 4 per cent. . ..... .. —c.
3 per Cant. .......... 19f. 95,.
Exctderige ........... t'sf.
Dutch, 9 per cont. ............
Ditto Account .............
Ditto, per cent. .........

Neapolitan -
PRICES OF SHARES TITIISO
Per Share.
raid.
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (lssued at 5/. pm.) '2.0 6
Ditto Masaubas Cocaes :n Y 4 19
Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 9O
DAYDitt o
AT Accountcls i . .... .......
0.. .... i . : ..
loN 11 4
Blrminghana and Gloucester Railway Company l5 9h 8 4
Bristol and Exeter Railway Compauv lO
51,4%
Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2
2lii
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway comoany ......
Great North of England Hallway Company l3
q• 834 7%
Great Western Railway Company 65 87
Brighton Railway Company
London and Blackwall Railway
6%34 Ditto Scrip 3
London and Birmingham Railway Company • 90 161
i c ndon and treenwich railway Company 2n 1945 i
London Grand Junction Railway
London, Saliisbury. and Exeter Railway 1 4s ad. 4s.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company
Ni)mckester and Birmingham Railway. 7 9%14
Midland Counties Railway Company 2O 20
Northern and Eastern Railway Company ... 6 51,4 6
North Midland Railway Company 35 43 2 3 41.4
South Durham Railway Company 2yy 1;t 4
York and North Midland Railway Company l2 12 13
Westminster and Greenwich Railway Company Si 11.
Colonial Bank 25
Ditto Scrip
Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l7 14 }I/
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols for bite Accstlnt,•

Letters have been received from Bogota of the 15th December,
stating that the Minister of Finance had, on the Bth of December,
transmitted to the coast for shipment, by the January Packet, 60,000
dollars towards their proportion cf the New Granada dividends on the
Colombian debt. There was likewise a surplus of 49,933 arroba of
second quality of Tobacco, which by the law was to be appropriated
likewise towards the payment of the dividend, to be sold there or con.
signed to London for sale.
This being settling-day in Consols the brokers and jobbers are chiefly
occupied in settling their accounts, and there is every appearance it wil
go off well. The extreme fluctuation has been, during the Accountl
near 2 per cent.
Consols are net so good as they left off yesterday, owing to Ministers
being in the minority in the House of Commons last night, and the ex-
citement which prevails for the issue of this night's debate. Consols for
April, 92/. Money, 92a.
received from Bo
Exchequer Bills, 54 57. India Bonds, 55. Bank Stock, 2051 I.
India Stock, nothing done.
nthesmk
Ftorei,gnowsifnagrkteot thethe ofnalvyobuurasbinleessacdcopiunngu eived is n Colombian an
Mexican
gota. Columbian, 28 to , Mexican, 29/ to %; Spanish, 193 ; Por
tuguese, 27/ e ; Three-per-Cents ,18 4 to 18 ; Dutch Two-and-a.,
Half, 53/.