The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

MINES.

,000 Albion Copper 5? s'' 2;1. pd 12
4,000 U. 54. Alton l5/. sh. 121. 9t pd 10
10,000 ....... Anglo Mexican,iss. 5/.1,111.1001. sh. a' 'i d 13,t,
Ditto Subscription 95/. pi.l 1!i
',MO 1 ,/, Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 35
10,000 It. les Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pin... 35/. 8/1.20/ pd 12
6,000
11,000 Ditto St. John Dal Rey ...2(11. sh. 14/ pd 21k
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 211/. sh. 201. pd 1
10,000
20,000 ... ...... British Iron ',04 sh. 551 pd 1
,000 British Copper 51. sh. 4il. pd IN,
.: ..... .. C l'. tßr •nca 6l/. pd IN
Candonga......
111,00f1 1/ Copiapo ... ..... ........... 20/. sh IV. .1 95
Colomblan, ios. 54. pm. —.55/. sh 551. pd 01,5
8,566 .0
Enligh
XO,OOO General
...3..1..... G_enzral M_iningAssociation2o/ 111..1C51 ii>dd 3
71 1,-s'ss'
......... Mexican Company ......1001. sh. 575/. pd 6
' Polberou Consols lO/. sh, W. pd 4
3,048 .........
Real del Monte, Unregistered 11,500
..... ....
Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160
so 000
........ United Mexican, iss. 2 pia. 40/. sh. all pd 24
o Dalt. Scrip 31,5
Ditto New Scrip 5/ rt 5%
West Cork ................ ..... 501. sh 50/. pd 38

LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
%mg .. London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. irt
INV
R
70 0
King' College lOOl. It 3.
MISCELLANEOUS.
.IXII 15a. Australian Agricultural.lool.lsh. 28/. pd try%
)00 1. par sent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 10
I ,0(,0 1. per Gent. Canada Company ... ...... 100/. sh. 301. pd 31,1 i
00.000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City Bonds, 4 per cent IOIN
21,000 IL 6a. General Steam Navigatien 15/. sh. 111. pd `25.4
101. percent. Hudson's Bay Stock
,000 11. London Com. Sale R00m5......... 75/. :h l9
0,000 ..... .... Caoutchouc Company 1211. nd 12
New Brunswick Land Compsay...sol pd l'..'
11,754 IL per cont. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 118
2,662 Si. per sent. Ditto New 1001.:h. 100/. pd 117
4.000 a Thames Tunnel 5O/. sh. all psi li%
10.000 61. Van Dtemer.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 171/. pd 9

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
3FEB. 6, 1841
BANKS.

I,olloair. 61. p. et. Rank of Scotland ..?”1.65. fiti„,sh, all pd i 62
2,000,110e101. 6 p. ct. llcyal of Scotland W.,.. sh. all pd 151
500,0001. Bp. ct. Brinsh Linen Company 0:00/.sh. „II pd -,,29
500,0001. el. p. ct. Commercial
600,000‘. a n. ct. I.l,tionai
500,0001. V. p. ct. (II tsgow Union „.. .l(Xl.sh. 10:. pd 14
1,000,0004 6p. ct. Western of 5,c,,,, ,30/ sh. 501. pd Si
land 2001.* sh 40/. pd 74
INSURANCS
r.,,,,TMPANIES.I
1110,000 sh. 6} P. ct. Scottish;,7,506 7p. et. 1-Ic(cao.„ U°',o/. ch. 11. pd 255.6 d.
100,0110 sp. ct. Ins' ,rance Co. of Scotlamil.loll h.ost.l.a 101.
1111:),c11 1:13);:,
80,000 Bl} et. 14',rth British 400/. sh. 10/, pd 18%
1,000 'P. Ct. -Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 20
~,SPC'en,„ 4) p• e,:t. Edinburgh Li/e 1001. sh. 10/. p.. 4 11w.
,s
s.',.vuu ii) -,,. et. Wee of Scotland lO/. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,618 Edin. and Was. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1,)
.....
Ditto Allocated) 50/. sh. all pd 47
„..5,„"f_.. I per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water 25/. sh.,all pd 35
:,wala 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founder/ 501. sh 48/ pd 53
wAXII S per cent. Edinburgh A Leith Glass 20/. sh. 16/. pd e
4.5n0 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas... .251. sh. all pd 50
10 per neat. Glasgow Gas
71 Per cent. r_.eith Coal (;as 251 sh. all pd 51
20/.sh. all pd Sli
- ......... Edinburgh and Dalkeith rtailway 50/. sh so
V 8

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FIVAITIIIt EVENING PIPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Poor-I,:nr Amendment I3al was last night, on
the motion of Lord Juba Russell, read a second time

—a majority of 147, out of -255 Members, affirm-
ing, by their votes, the principle of the ,new law,
and the propriety of continuing its operation. The
debate, although lengthy, elicited nothing new in ar-
gument. The subject has well nigh exhausted the in-
genuity of opponents, who are now driven to gather up
fragments of the fragile weapons they formerly dis-
charged against the Bill, and to hurl them with all the
force their feebleness can collect against the measure
now before Parliament—with what result within doors
the division of last night attests. As the advocates of
the Bill included the most distinguished men of the two
great parties, we may safely assume that their sup-
port is sincere—the result of conviction, derived from ob-
servation and experience, that the new law has wrought
extensive good to all classes of the communil y. If
the debate produced nothing new in argument, it
furnished new and striking illustrations of the lengths to
which popularity-hunters w:ll proceed in the path of ab-
surdity, and the sacrifices of consistency they will make
to the passions and prejudices of the multitude, in order
to obtain the object of their ambition. On the other
band, we see the difficult position in which the indivi-
dual is placed, who, ig the prosecution of an impera-
tive duty, undertakes to arrest the course of evils which
have gradually incorporated themsek rs with the habits,
and have ministered to while they created many
of the vices and miseries of the poor. The Government
by which the New Poor-law was introduced, and un-
der which its machinery has been wrought, has
been placed icy this difficult position. Nothing but
a firm confidence in the principles of the law, and
in the urgent necessity which demanded its intro-
duction, joked with a consciousness of their own
integrity in its construction and administration,
could have sustained them. The opponents of the
change have had much to recommend them to the par-
tiality of their auditors. They appealed to their hu-
manity—and in behalf of the poor ! They exercised
their powers, lifted up their voices, and employed their
pens, in behalf of the destitute, who had no other
friends, and of the helpless, who had no other helpers!
There is something in such an exhibition that is calcu-
lated to prepossess the mind in favour of such advo-
cates—to hold them up in a light of very advantageous
contrast, either with the selfishly indifferent, who " care
nothing about the poor," or with the " cruel oppressors
of the poor," who introduced and employ the law as
the instrument of their oppression and cruelty !
(From the Standard.)
The facts that transpired in the discussion of Mr.
M'Leod's case, last night, illustrate, in a remarkable
manner, the danger of leaving unsettled all disputed
points of international relations. It now appears that
the question of the seizure of the Caroline has never
yet been adjusted, though surely nothing can be
imagined more capable of a simple arrange-
ment than the case in question. The fact
that the Caroline was employed in a piratical war
against the British territory, and that in order to
defend her Majesty's dominions and her subjects, it was
necessary to seize the vessel, is unquestioned, and, in-
deed, admits of no question. Whether it was right
to seize her in the waters of the United States is the
only topic of inquiry ; and this, in our view, could
not be a difficult topic to deal with. It' the American
authorities affirm, contrary to the fact, that the law
and government of the States were in full vigour at
the port from which the Caroline conveyed arms,
provisions, ammun.rion, and reinforcements to the
pirates at Navy Island, they acknowledge that the
States prosecuted an undeclared war against Great
Britain. If, on the other hand, they admit, as truth
would compel them to admit, that the Caroline was
sent from a port that had renounced the law and govern-
ment of the States, they have no cause of quarrel,
for the port in question for' the time constituted
dc facto no part of the Union. In punishing her
own enemies, Great Britain was only chastising
their rebels. The neighbour who pursues a
burglar into another's house, and seizes him
there, surely commits no wrong to him whose
house he may unceremoniously invade, but rather ren-
ders him a service. But, however the question of strict
law might be decided, there was still to be considered

the necessity of the case. It was necessary to the safety
of her M jesty's territory, and for the protection
of her subjects, that the pirates of Navy Island should
be deprived of the vessel that constantly supplied them
with whatever they wanted from the New York shore.
Now, in cases of necessity, it is permitted to supersede
the authority of strict law, as houses are often pulled
down to prevent the extension of a fire ; all that can he
expected in such cases is that the party who suffers loss
shall be compensated to the full amount of the injury
sustained. If, therefore, the parties interested in the
Caroline and the autorities of New York felt them-
selves guiltless of wrong in the matter, they ought to
have demanded compensation for the loss of the vessel,
and an apology for the insult offered to their soil, and
it would not have humiliated the British Government
in the slightest degree to render both.
(From the Courier.)
According to notice, Lord Stanley proceeded last
evening to question the Secretary for Foreign Affairs
about the untoward incident which has arisen to jeo-
pardise our relations with the United States—in the
arrest, imprisonment, and approaching trial of Mr,
Leod, a British subject, on a charge of murder. The
result of this trial, those best acquainted with the con-
struction and official quality of the judiciary tribunals of
the separate states of the Union, as well as with the
state of morals and the unbridled passions of a too
depraved and excitable population, are disposed to
regard already as a foregone verdict of guilty against
the innocent and incarcerated party, and after sen-
tence we are told that execution must surely fol-
low. And, indeed, it needs but slight consideration

to induce the same conclusion in the minds of all men
who reflect on the enormity of the original outrage
committed on the person of this loyal and unoffending
citizen, for those who have not hesitated to kidnap are
little likely to be so dainty of conscience as to stop
short of his judicial murder. Leaving out of sight for
the moment the disloyalty and dishonesty of the pretexts
on which Mr. M'Lcod was arrested, we are bound to
say it, although with deep regret, that the fixed convic-
tions, practical or theoretical, of every man and every
writer, of whatever country, who has followed the work-
ings of the State judicial system in America, stand re-
corded in the sentence almost universally pronounced that
in cases involving party interests or enlisting political pre-
judices, to go no further, it would be as reasonable to ex-
pect grapes from thistles as justice from State tribunals
as now constituted. There is but one Court in the United
States whose decisions command respect and are entitled
to confidence, and that is the Supreme Court of Judi-
cature of the Federal Republic. Unhappily it can
have no aotion on the present occasion, for the state of
New York has taken the initiative and the right of
jurisdiction into its own hands, and we know with
what jealousy State's rights, as against Federal rights,
are pleaded and insisted on, so that exactly in pro-
portion with the notorious partiality and corruption of
these State tribunals is their supremacy within the
State asserted, and will be asserted, even in defiance
of that just claim to superior attributes on questions
of general and international interest, which, accor-
ding to the Constitution, are inalienably asst nod
in theory to the Supreme Coda of the Union.

GREENWICH RAILWAY.

COMPANY.

The first Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Pro-
prietors of the Greenwich Railway Company was held
at one o'clock to-day at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, Wm. Shadbolt, Esq., the Chairman of the
Company, took the chair.
The report of the Committee of Directors for the
year 1840 was then read. It stated that the traffic of
the last half-year showed an increase in the number of
passengers of 80,241, as compared with the same
period of the year 1839 ; and an increase of receipts
from passengers of 2061. Is. There now remained in
hand a surplus of 7,7441. 7s. 2d., out of which the
Directors recommended that a dividend of 7s. should
be paid on each original share.
Reports from the engineers and other officers were
afterwards read.

Mr. HOUEII., of Birmingham, moved that the Report
be printed and received ; and the motion having been
seconded was unanimously agreed to.
A sum of 2301. was voted to Mr. Ackerman, the
Secretary to the Company, for his exertions in their
service.

J. M. Childers, E-q., M.P., and Messrs. Corney
and Bonar, were appointed Directors for the ensuing
year ; the two first gentlemen having been re-elected.
The thanl,:s of the Proprietors were then voted to the
Directors, and the Meeting separated.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LoaD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'Clock.
The Bishop of LONDON renewed a motion for
papers relative to India, which had been ordered last
Session, but which in consequence of the late period at
which the motion was mule, had not been produced.—
Ordered.

LORD KEANE.
Lord MELBOURNE moved the Order of the Day
for taking into consideration the gracious INlessafe her
M.ij-sty had sent to the House yesterday, relative to
Lord Keane.
The Message having been read by the Clerk at the
table,
Lord MELBOURNE said he begged leave to
call their Lordships' attention to her Majesty's most
gracious Message, feeling perfectly certain that
it would be unnecessary to state in any detail the
grounds and reasons on which her Majesty had been
advised to send this message to their Lordships, or
the grounds and reasons on which he should move
their Lordships to send up to the Throne an ad-
dress entirely in concurrence with that messa.ge.--
(Hear, hear, hear.) It would be in their Lord-
ships' recollection, that the events to which this

Message referred were the subject of the unanimous I
vote of last year by which their Lordships' thanks
had been given to Lord Keane for the eminent ser-
vices he had performed. And when their Lord-
ships recollected the honours bestowed upon
Lord Keane by the Sovereign, be believed with
the general concurrence of their Lordships and of
the whole community, he thought their Lordships
would be inclined to ask why this proceeding
had been so long delayed rather than why it was now
brought forward. Into the reasons of that delay it
was not his intention, nor did he think it necessary, to
enter, but this he would say, that that delay did not
arise from any doubt whatever in the minds of her
Majesty's Government as to the propriety of marking
the services of Lord Keane in the manner it was pro-
posed to mark them by the address. Lord Keane
had been tried in every quarter of the globe. As a
soldier he had commanded her Mljesty's armies in
many countries, and he had every where displayed that
ability, talent, firmness, and decision, for which he was
selected, and, by the concurrence of circumstances,
entrusted with the command of that great ex-
pedition, undertaken by the Government across
the Indus.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The expedition
the conduct of which was attended with great
and almost unparalled difficulty by his genius
skill and energy, had been brought to a most
fortunate conclusion. It was for the services those
honours were conferred upon him, and it was to those
honours which he that evening begged their Lordships
to give their concurrence. It was not the usage of
Parliament to originate measures of that nature in that
House, but he trusted he was not expecting
from their Lordships their unanimous concurrence for
the accomplishment of the purpose pointed out by her
Majesty's Message.—( Hear, hear.) His Lordship then
moved an Address, echoing the Royal Message, and as-
suring her Majesty of their Lordships' cheerful concur-
rence therein. . .

Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he entirely
concurred in the Address, though not without some
feelings of regret at the delay which had taken
place. his Lordship then recapitulated the ser-
vices of Lord Keane in India, and passed a high
eulogium upon them, and particularly upon the Noble
Lord's judgment, fortitude, and perseverance, under
privations and difficulties. His Lordship also highly
eulogized the Indian army, and said he remembered
the Duke of Wellington telling him that he had never
seen an army which realized his idea of the Roman
legions before he saw the British army in India. There
could be no higher praise, and he (Lord Ellenborough)
hoped they would always deserve Hear, hear.)
'The Address was then put and agreed to.
The Marquis of BUTE presented a petition from a
place in Scotland against lay patronage.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that an order
should be issued for the attendance of certain witnesses
on the trial of the Earl of Cardigan.—Ordered.
The House then adjourned till Thursday next.