The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-08 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

Two occurrences, of a character deserving
notice, took place yesterday upon_ the Stock Ex-
change. One may serve as a comment to the
other. The first is this (which .we extract from
an Evening Paper) :—" In the Stock-market, the
" Shares of two new Companies hare appeared :
44 one, the Castello and Espirito Santo Brazil
" Mining Association," (it has just within one as
many names as the Duke of Cuniberland's boy),
" the Shares of which were done at five per cent.
" premium, and are at present about four. The
44 other, a Devonshire Granite." So much for
the text : eit3w for the commentary, which we
have receivedfrom the City ;—" The Committee
" of the Foreign Stor,k Exchange have issued a
" notice, to, caution the members against dealing
" in the Shares of any Company, with the re-
" spectabiiity and fair conduct of which they
" are - not perfecly satisfied."—A ha ! Gen-
" tlernen of the Foreign Stock Exchange, we
should say, you are too late in cautioning the
members of your body against thus dealing in
shares of mushroom companies. The suspicion—
the more than suspicion—of the public has long
ago been excited against such ephemeral specu-
lations ; ail still—such is the blindness of ava-
rice, such the infatuation of the gambling passion
—mentwill be found to venture their money in
the most distant hopes of exorbitant gains. This
is the very vice that descended into the lowest
ranks of life during the vigour of the lottery spe-
culations. With respect, however, to the Stock-
Exchange, the present, though the most glaring,
is not the first immorality acted upon that stage.
What are time bargains? They are knaveries of
more prompt solution than these mining concerns:
but gambling—gambling all ! Time bargains
went on," and prospered ; that is—,between two
sets of gamblers, one prospered and the other was
ruined. The Committees of the Stack Exchange
moved but little to suppress that nuisance. Now
come forth these mining schemes, which, as the
greater serpent swallowed up time less, cast time
bargains into the shade. Should share companies
eontinne,• some greater and more atrocious
ini-
quity. will succeed, and throw -them into obscu-
rity.; for nothing is stationary in this world,
every thing is progressive or retrograde. I. or
the present, then, we should wish to recede to

time bargains ; and, having returned thither, we
should hope to quit soon even that, contaminated
spot, and reach at last the barrier from whence
we started—that of common honesty and plain-
dealing.

[l.tcw TIMES.]
This has been " a dull Session," exclaims the
ci-devant oracle of disaffection ; the plain Eng-
lish of which is—l have not been able to raise a
clamour against any single measure of the Legis-
lature. Much has been done in Parliament, but
it has all been done usefully and well. We have
seen a law of plain and impartial justice between
masters and workmen enacted—a law of justice
as to the relation of merchant and factor—a law
repealing the obsolete Bubble Act—a most im-
portant law for the regulation of Jurors—an-
other to prevent frivolous and fraudulent writs
of error—a whole series of laws for the im-
proved regulation of the Customs—an Act for the
regulation of.. Consuls and Consulage Fees—for
the amendment of the Navigation Laws—of the
Quarantine Laws—of the Ships' Registry Laws
—amid numberless objects of the greatest import-
ance. Within the last fifteen days of the Session
no fewer than 161 Statutes were enacted, includ-
ing those which we have specified. This may
be mighty " dull" work in the estimation of our
fastidious contemporary ; but those who delight
to see powerful intellect applied to the promo-
tion of public utility will judge very differently
from this incompetent critic of the labours of the
Session.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the Gth inst. and the Etoile
of Wednesday reached us last night by Express.
The Quotidienne and the Journal des Debats con-
tain little else than -lamentations about the re-
moval of Baron Hyde de Neuville from the em-
bassy to Lisbon. They speak of his great ser-
vices, of his sacrifices and losses, of his self exile
in the cause of the Bourbons, and of the splend-
our of his abilities, and infer that his disgrace
must be a concession made to British policy. Now
we were going to express our astonishment at
the importance suddenly attached to this in-
dividual, who has hitherto only been known
asa violent Ultra declaimer in the Chamber of
Deputies, but we find that the Etoile has been
beforehand with us. After declining to enter
into any explantion of the measure, "because
it is connected with a policy which cannot and
must not become a subject of disctission," it
adds in a most cool and contemptuous tone :
" We are ignorant whether the personage of
whom they speak has done any thing to incur
their regard, but we should be much astonish-
ed if he were not embarrassed by it." If
things were sifted thoroughly, it would be a
point of some interest to ascertain whether
or how far that individual was acquainted
with the plot to force the King of Portugal
to resign his throne to his Son and rebel-
lious Queen, which was defeated last year by
the energy and decision of the British Ambassa-
dor and of the rest of the Diplomatic Body.
Certain it is, that if he he innocent, great injus-
tice has been done by report to his character.—
Letters from Cadiz to the 29th ult. state, that a
French armed Avis° had had a smart action with
two privateers in the Straits of Gibraltar, which
probably mistook it for a Spanish trading vessel,
and which were ultimately beaten off, but not
without difficulty and danger.