The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-01 00:00:00

for really her moral character is looked upon with so
much suspicion by one half of the worldj, and she
it cltEmed so unfashionable a personage by a large
proportion of the other, that it is scarcely credit-
able for a staid sober man, and the father of a
family like myself—(Laughter)—to have anything to do
with the unfortunate woman.—(Continued laughter.)
Still something may be said for her.--(Loud applause.)
'lf, with some few yet bright exceptions, her authors
and actors have somewhat fallen below the standard of
former days, pardon me when I say, that a defleieriey
of vegetation is not always the fault of the soil, it some-
times proceeds from want Of sun.—(Loud cries of hear,
and applause.) The truth is, the drama has, een some-
what " left and abandoned of her velvet friends,"—the
higher classes ; and, of course I think them wrong.
Their presence,--especially the ladies,—acted as a sort
of moral police, before which no manager or performer
dared court the applause of the million by one act or 1
word repugnant to right feeling or good taste.—(Conti-
need applause.) Theatres are powerful engines ; and
you may raise or degrade them, but you cannot crush
them. Sir Walter Scott has told us that " a love of
theatrical amusement is inherent in human nature ;"
and I am certain that we might as well attempt to
sweep the name of Shakspeare from the page of our na-
tional' literature, as banish the art he has immortalised.
(Loud cheering.) Then let us hope that the upper ranks
will rally round the drama, and prevent her from being
made a positive evil, in vitiating the tastes of her more
humble patrons.—(Continued applause.) I own her
prospects in this respect are mending—(Applause)—
and I augur most favourably from the return of Mr.
Macready to theatrical management.—(Applause.) His
great taste and talent as an actor, and what is of more
consequence, his moral worth as a man, must benefit the
cause.—(Loud applause.) He is also the friend of our
distinguished guest—and I may, possibly, add the
names of Knowles, Talfourd, and of Bulwer—one
whose pen would do right good service to the stage,—a
pen which has proved its mastery over all thC passions
of the human heart in every rank of life.—(Applause.)
I need not mention names—(Loud applause)—range
from the dark malignity of a Ralph Nickleby, to the
noble generosity of the Brothers Cheeryble.—(Applause.)
Look at Newman NOggs.—(llere the remembrance of
Mr. Murray's performance of that character caused long
and tremendous cheering.) Observe the wreck of a
kindly heart peering through the dirt dissipation has
thrown around him, and then contrast his bloated fea-
tures with the pallid cheek.of the infant withering under
the lash of that mercenary pedagogue whom my friend
Mr. Robertson so admirably contrasted with the honest-
hearted Dominie.—(Cheers.) In short, Gentlemen, range
from one end of his writings to the other, and tell me if
such delineations would not create actors.—(Great ap-
' plause.) We should again hold the mirror up to nature
—again breathe the fresh air of truth, instead of 'beim, „
stifled amidst the red and blue fires of melodramatic ab-
surdity.—(Great and long continued applause.) Gen-
tlemen, I truly appreciate the compliment you have paid
me by listening so patiently at such an hour, and con-
clude with laying before you my best and most grateful
acknowledgments.—(Great applause.)

Captain HARRINGTON proposed the health of Mr.
Fletcher and the other Stewards, after which the meeting
separated about twelve o'clock.

SECOND EDITION

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRIcES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ' .. 164 'lndia Stock —
3 per Cent Red 904 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons lDitto Old Annuities ...
3/ per Cent Red 99 'Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent - !Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 9pm
New 5 per Cent — I Ditto 5001 l2 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ll pm
Jan. 1860 ... 124 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 314
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 22
Ditto Deferred
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f. —e.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 51
, Ditto, 5 per cent —
SHARES
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)
Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) ..
Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 71.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 62i
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ll
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 37i
London and Brighton (50 paid) 464
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 134
Northern and Eastern (30 paid)
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 14i

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belpan, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds..
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent —
Colombian, 6 per cent 2oi
Ditto, 1824.
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625 —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Lord John Russell, with that confidence in
the integrity of his principles and purposes which has
marked the whole course of his public life, cast himself
upon the support of the City of London ; founding his
expectations of being returned as one of its represen-
tatives on its approval of the great measures of fiscal
and commercial Reform which he, as the representa-
tive of the Government in the House of Commons, had
brought forward, and on which an appeal Was to be
made to the country. From the moment on which it
was known that his Lordship had determined on taking
up this bold and proud position, the whole artillery of
Tory rancour was opened upon him. The power-
ful corporations, which hold their central seats in
the City of London, interested in the perpetuity
of restrictions upon trade, put in force the mighty
influences at their command against the statesman
whose liberal policy was diametrically opposed to their
exclusive systems. His enlightened and expansive
views rebuked their selfishness. The determined pur-
pose with which he pursues the course dictated by a
sense of what is required for the promotion and secu-
rity of the public interests, convinced them that their
attempts to perpetuate the monopolies to which they
cling would prove abortive, when assailed by his
arm, nerved by a sense of right, and encouraged
by public opinion. Hence the extraordinary exer-
tions used to defeat his election by the close corpora-
tions and combined class interests of the Metropolis.
The advocates of corruption in the Corporation also
aided in the general design. Lord John Russeli's at-
tempts to include the City in the great measure of Mu-
nicipal-Reform, and his subsequent endeavours to abolish
its senseless and injurious exclusive jurisdiction—which
is at once a source of enormous expense to the citizens,
and of embarrasment and delay in the prevention, detec-
tion, and punishment of crime—were industriously
charged upon him as a contemplated innovation of the
City's privileges ; and urged upon the livery as a reason
why they should exert themselves to prevent the invader
of their chartered rights from being elected as their re-
presentative in Parliament. These, and other considera-
tions, were employed as auxiliaries to- aid the Tories in
the struggle against the Member of the Government
whom they most feared, and therefore regarded with
intense dislike. Their effoats failed. The close of the
poll, though not favourable to the Liberal cause to the
extent which was expected, included Lord John Russell
among the successful candidates ; and this afforded to
the Liberals a solace under partial defeat, the value of
which was seen in the deep disappointment and mortifi-
cation of their opponents. The impudent attempt tto
conceal their chagrin, by setting up a fabricated state-
ment which excluded Lord John Russell from the list of
the candidates elected ; and the industry with which
they gave publicity to the lying announcement, that it
might serve the purpose of a short-lived triumdh in places
where elections were yet pending—showed how confi-
dently they had reckoned on success, and how great was
the importance they attached to it.
COURIER.—No better proof need be desired of the
triumphant progress of the constitutional cause,' than
the chapfallen crests of the so late uproarious minions
of the Ministry. The Chronicle sings the funereal dirge of
the party in double-leaded pomp this morning, as before,
for days and week, it hallooed them on to 'certain victory
with the same double-spaced honour of type and anticipated
triumph. Tha evening satellites twinkle, however, only
the more fiercely, as the morning luminary from whence
the light is borrowed* is suffering the agonies of
eclipse. Nothing daunted by the detected fraud, un-_
der favour of which Lord John Russell's name was
foisted to the head of the city poll, for the base and
pettifogging advantage of deceiving the country to the
miserable extent of one day's post only, one, and the
most dishonest, of this pair of unscrupulous partisans,
consoles itself for the disasters of London, -Westmin-
ster, and elsewhere, by the defeat of one of the Conser-
vative candidates for Nottingham, who is assailed by
name with ferocity of language equal to any ferocity of
Irish bludgeonism, wanting its desperate manliness, of
which the annals of "death's head and cross bones "
ruffianism in Ireland or England can furnish an ex-
ample. We have been, accustomed to rate Mr. Wal-
ter's useful labours and 'public importance as highly as
most men, but nev(lr till now, a.inid the savage yells of
ministerial exultation over
.his temporary discomfiture,
were we able to appreciate so fully the full measure of
his value, and the corresponding extent of the public
!ifs whose present re reat
estimated as vastly m ire than
with
loss in the bereavement by which for a time the people
are deprived of his services. He has reason justly to be
proud of the distinction ccinferred upon him of being
the marked man par ex-Jellence, the- extraoi dinery and
malignancy unhoped-for
so vocasualty
ioc
counterbalancing the degradation of Lord d 01111 in the
City, the ignominic Jug rejection of Colonel Evans, in
sions off the seen
-Westminster,
e at Liverpool, and multiplied disgraces
everywhere.
STANDApdx_why the I' meting of Lord Palmerston's preten-
will not the counties recom-
pense the T'en who have fought their battles in the cities
and boron
and in many cases sacrificed their prospects;
because they would i.tot purchase support by betraying
the agricultural interest? Why should Mr. Walter, for
instance, be driven f romParliament by the Anti-Corn-law
League, because he, would not declare himself absolutely
against the agric
nature of the country ? Why Mr.
John Gladstone- —why Sir Geo. Murray ? We could
name many other gentlemen similarly circumstanced,
who had but to say
"We will support a repeal of
the Corn-laws," and thus adding the voices of the
ignorant to those .of their intelligent supporters,
they must have so 2nred their election. Do the
agriculturists owe no .debt to these gentlemen—or care
they pretend while such men are excluded from
Parliament that they n lust put up with Whig-Radicals
as a pis alter. We (2an. imagine nothing more likely to
improve the position of the agricultural interest, than