The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-16 00:00:00

merit. The Western Luminary contained, a few
days ago, the following paragraph :7-
DART3IOUTII REPRESENTATION.—It is with pleasure
that we are enabled to announce that the Conservative
Association has received intelligence of the intention of
J. Somes, Esq., one of the largest merchants and ship-
owners in London, to contest the representation of this
borough in Parliament on the next opportunity. In
addition to the building and fitting out a 600 ton ship here
every year, he will employ a large number of our young men ;
besides which, the great influx of trade in this port, con-
sequent on his shipping coming to it, cannot fail to be felt
by every individual in it.
This is barefaced bribery. Mr. SOMES an-
nounces that he will, every year, build and
equip a ship at Dartmouth, as a bribe to the
electors to return him for that place; and the
shipowners may emulate Mr. SOMES, and other
opulent cotton-spinners may emulate the PEELS ;
and so every borough may be brought, as the
counties are already brought, under the domi-
nion of a few rich men. The rights and liberties
of the people, so far as they are defined in Par-
liament, will thus be sold by the electors, and
bought by the rich, till the nation will be forced
to repudiate, with the utmost contempt, the au-
thority of Parliament as an instrument of a nar-
row and selfish oligarchy.
The Premier having established this system to
bribe the electors of Tamwortb, carries it out to
its clue conclusion. Not only must a PEEL re-
present the place, but those who receive there
gratuitous education must not differ in political
opinion from the Premier. For daring to re-
quest, believing as they do that the country is
in great distress, that Parliament should not be
prorogued, the Premier turns their children out
of his school. We have long dreaded that the
gentry wished to get hold of the education
of the people, only the more effectually to drill
them into habits of slavery and servility. They
pretend to be very charitable, and to act in a
spirit of kindness towards the poor; but here the
real motive creeps out—we have seen it at other
places and other schools—and that motive is to
cast more nets round the poor, and make them
more and more the slaves of the aristocracy and
the parsons.
Let it not be said that Sir ROBERT PEEL is too
much of a gentleman to do such a thing. After
Sir ROBERT PEEL has descended to garble the
Reports of the Fever Hospital at Manchester,
and after he has assumed office as the tool of the
monopolists, the head of the Starvation Minis-
try, deliberately engaging in a plan to continue
a great scheme of plunder—we consider him
capable of any political meanness. Has not
Lord STANLEY, who boasts far nobler blood and
a bolder mind than. Sir R. PEEL, unblushingly
used arguments, as a means of deluding the
people, of which any gentleman ought to
be ashamed; and why, therefore should any
man hesitate to believe that such Ministers will
use any kind of mean artifices which may serve
their ends ? Neither Sir ROBERT PEEL nor the
Ministerial press has denied the charge, though
we have allowed them ample time, and the
world has, therefore, a right to regard it as
proved. What does it amount to ? That Sir
R. PEEL, by gratuitous education, habitually
and systematically bribes the electors of Tam-
worth; and that the Prime Minister carries the
system so far, that he excludes from his school
the children of those parents who, on one parti-
cular and very important point of national policy,
happen to differ in opinion from him.

It is a prevalent theory that strong men and
rascally men are disposed to injure weak and
honest men, and Government is established for
the main purpose of protecting the latter against
the former. All its other attributes are subor-
dinate to this leading principle. It is bound,
above and before all things, to protect to the ut-
most of its power the persons and properties, the
liberties and rights, of its subjects from every
infringement and invasion. If, instead of per-
forming this duty, Government—meaning both
the executive and legislative powers—becomes
itself the instrument of invading their rights, if
it violates their property and injures their per-
sons, it then becomes a mere nuisance, to be
abated as speedily as may be. It is far more
criminal than the criminals it undertakes to put
down, for to their criminality it acids odious
hypocrisy and scandalous breach of trust. It is
degraded to the level of a bandit, who takes the
traveller under his protection the more securely
to rob him.

On this account it seems to us that the instant
it is admitted that the Corn-law plunders the
people—that it raises rents, and enriches the
law-makers at the expense of the people, all
other arguments are superfluous. In fact, the
dignity of our cause is degraded by attempting,
after the admission, to argue it as a question of
expediency. Admitting the plunder, there can
be no question of more or less, for whether a
highway robber take only a sixpence from any
victim, or a thousand pounds, his offence is the
same. Admitting, too, that it be plunder, we
cannot, without upsetting all ideas of morality,
argue about its utility. Whoever heard of the
utility of being plundered ? We cannot even,
without great danger, tolerate arguments on the
subject, still less can we tolerate the plunderer
endeavouring to prove that plunder is beneficial.
For the landowning Legislature to plunder the
property of the people is, as we have said, highly
criminal, but for it to argue in favour of the
wrong, is adding insult to injury. It treats the
people as dolts as well as victims.

At the same time the evidence is overwhelm-
ing that the plunder, is like all other plunders,
infinitely mischievous. It wastes much more
than it transfers, and the booty obtained by
Noble, Right Honourable, and Honourable
lawgivers, does not amount to a tithe of the
sum abstracted from the people. Like war, too,
it carries pestilence in its. train, and dooms the
plundered people to famine, disease, and death.
We have so often pointed out its deleterious in-
fluence on the whole society that we hold it to
be superfluous continually to produce evidence
that its effects are of the most injurious and
revolting character. But when we find our
Tory Contemporaries labouring to prove, in
spite of the urgent distress whith prevails in
Glasgow, Paisley, Manchester, Bolton, and
Stockport—precisely because they itre plun-
dered both of employment and money—that
our people are well off, we cannot help briefly
adverting again to some evidence of the miseries
which the Corn-law inflicts.

We were yesterday reminded by the Herald,
that " Mr. JACOB assured the Committee of the
House of Commons which sat on the same sub-
ject, in 1833, that there must be at least two
mchiilelifonfsoodof the inhabitants of England whose
is potatoes." Since that time the
number of persons whose chief food is potatoes
has much increased, and when we add those in
• Ireland who live wholly on potatoes to those
wbo live on them in England, it is probable that
nearly 8,000,000 of the people live chiefly o
oes of the worst kind. At present
theren
are great multitudes who do not get sufficient
potatoes, and yet our Contemporaries gravely
discuss the question, whether the people of this
country get more or less bread than those of
other
tget bread countries. Why, millions of them do
o
at aW,
ll. They live on
tztaptoceos.:
nut
and oatmeal. At the same time
pie who are so wretchedly fed are the
most industrious, the most skilful, the most
assiduous, pains-taking, hard-working people in
the whole civilised world. The enormous
wealth of the empire, which is all the produce of
gr
their labour, and the eat number of persons
who live in ease and opulence, are proofs of their
industry and skill. They are sought for in all
other countries, and well paid when they go
thither. To institute comparisons between their
rewards and the rewards of other- labourers is
perfectly needless. The fact that our industri-
ous, skilful labourers do not get food enough,
while those who make the laws take away their
bread, and revel in extorted luxury, is not to be
explained away by any sophistry, nor can the
plundering law-makers be defended by any ra-
tional argument.

Perhais the reader will hardly be prepared to

believe that the Herald quoted the passage we
have borrowGd from it, to show that the agricul-
turists have gone to decay, under the system of
protection, but it was so; and the article which
contained the passage is so curious, when found in
a pro-Corn-law Journal, that we must beg atten-
tion to some portions of it.
The Morning Herald yesterday said :

Whilst we demand for British agriculture adequate
protection against the inroads of unregulated importa-
tions of foreign grain, we disclaim any intention of en-
deavouring to keep up fictitiously the present price of
land, at the expense of the consumer, and to the destruc-
tion of the capital of the farmer.
The worst enemy to the landed interest is a landlord
who wittingly lets a farm at a rent beyond its value, or
who encourages the ruinous competition of the farmers
by letting his land by auction, or to the highest bidder,
simply because he offers most money.
The general inability of fanners to cultivate their land
profitably is ultimately very injurious to landlords ; it
exhausts the land, it prevents improvements being made;
it is a drag on the progress of agricultural knowledge;
but worse than all, it creates a diversity of interests be-
tween them and their tenants. Good and solvent tenants
are now rarely to be found ; and we could point out a
system of management on the estates of one of the
largest landowners in England, as giving a direct en-
couragement for the occupation of an insolvent and care-
less tenantry.
It is in vain to give protection to land, if the cultiva-
tors of the soil are to derive no benefit therefrom ;
and it is, we fear, too certain that farmers have not
derived the .advantage that might have been antici-
pated from the existing Corn-law. It was stated by
competent authority before a Committee of the House
of Lords on agriculture, in 1836, that "no less
than half the average rent of the kingdom was paid
out of capital instead of profits." The decreasing wealth
of the farmer operates most injuriously on the laiourer..
It is as idle to talk of tenants protecting:themselves, as
it is to speak of factory wages being regulated solely by
the supply of the labour market. The demand for land
gives landlords as much power over tenants as the de-
mand for employment and the low price of food give to
to the cotton-spinner power over the factory workers.
Should the landlords, as a body, continue to neglect this
great duty, they will most assuredly create in their te-
nantry a body having antagonistic interests, and will ul-
timately force those agriculturists who have preserved
any portion of their capital to transfer it to the cultiva-
tion of wheat in Upper Canada, or to the breeding of
sheep in the Australasian colonies. There is already
in the north of England and in the south of Scotland,
amongst the wealthiest and most intelligent of the youthful
farmers, a strong desire to remove from a soil where high
rents are rapidly consuming their capital ; and from the
banks of the Tweed, a district, though rich and fertile,
by no means over-peopled, there has already been a very
considerable emigration of money, education, intelli-
gence, and labour.
The decreasing prosperity of tenants has not, however,
been generally accompanied by a permanently improved
state of things amongst landlords. The great practical
vice of the present age is nowhere to be more easily ob-
served than among landowners. That vice is, that men of
fixed incomes too generally live beyond their means, and
by speculations foreign to their habits endeavour to grasp
at large fortunes by coups de main. The proprietors
of small estates, handed down from generation to
generation, with all their fine hereditary feelings
and sympathy for the poor, are rapidly disappearing ;
their possessions are bought " as an investment" by
some cold-hearted millionaire. who purchases pro-
perties as he buys into the funds, merely that rent-days
may come round with the same regularity as dividend
days, and who envies in his age the local importance of
those country gentlemen whom he has remembered from
his youth. Nor has this evil confined itself to small
landed proprietors ; it is equally destroying the moral
influence, the lofty independence, and the means of dif-
fusing around them happiness, of too many of the lords
of thousands of acres, whose patrimonial, inherited, or
acquired possessions, apparently bestowed on them—to
use Dr, Johnson's memorable expression—" wealth
beyond the bounds of human avarice." The insolvency
and embarrassment of some of the highest in honours,
the largest in landed, prOperties, and the most active in
politics of the present day, are as notorious as they are
criminal. We can conceive no sight more contemptible,
no influence more demoralising, than a man of hereditary
rank, of extensive possessions, and of great political in-
fluence, ruined or involved by his own extravagance.
Who may be meant by this last paragraph we
know not; but it draws a Noble Duke to the life
now in the Administration, and heretofore the
idol of the Herald, as he still is of farmers.
We, however, care less for the individual de-
scriptions than the general statement; and here
we have the Herald asserting that, in spite of
the Corn-laws, which are notoriously ruining the
manufacturers, the landlords are going to decay
and becoming insolvent, properties are changing
hands, rents are too high, the farmers are getting
impoverished and anxious to emigrate, and the
labourers in agriculture are reduced to live
chiefly on potatoes. All these matters are not
new to us, we have frequently stated them ;
butwhen we find them in a pro-Corn-law journal,
we ask if it be possible to require further evi-
dence that the plunder committed by the Corn-
laws is, like all plunder, equally injurious both
to the plunderer and the plundered? That
result illustrates and confirms old experience,
but we did not need it, and it is a disgrace to the
people that they need it, to make them rouse
as one man, and put down, with indignation,
the robbery committed by the landowning Legis-
lature.

The French Journals of Thursday have all
been received. They bring a good deal of in-
teresting news from Spain, which will be found
in another part of The Sun. In the Illoniteur
of Thursday we find the following official des-
patches from the Spanish frontier, containing
for the most part repetitions of the intelligence
published in The Sun of Friday. The first is the
whole despatch of the 11th interrupted by
nightfall :

" Bayonne, Oct. 11.
" THE GENERAL CO3IMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY

DIVISION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.

"No further news from Madrid. The ordinary mails
still due. Pampeluna and Bilbao, on the 9th in the same
situation. Urbistondo has had a slight engagement,
without result, with Iturbe. Some villages in Alva, be-
yond the Ebra, have declared for the movement. General
Alcala still at Tolosa. Colonel Fernandez collecting
forces at Bergara in favour of O'Donnell. It is said he
has already 500 men. Bands forming in the environs of
Valcarlos."

" Bayonne, Oct. 12.
" THE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE

INTgRIOR,

" A manifesto of the Regent states that the banner of
revolt has been falsely unfurled in the name of Queen
Christina, and promises its prompt and energetic repres-
sion. On the 10th the citadel of Pampeluna fired can-
non on the town. The consequences unknown. As-
serted that the feral deputation of Guipuzcoa is about to
declare in favour of Christina. Saragossa has declared
against the movement. The second regiment of the
Guards, which had pronounced in favour of the move-
ment, has submitted and returned into the town."
" Bayonne, Oct. 12.
"THE MARITIME CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE.

" Advices from Passages state that the deputation of
Guipuzcoa has been to Urbistondo at Bergara. Thought
with the view of exciting a le►y en masse in favour of
the Queen Mother. .Portugalette has pronounced for
her, and Logrono for Espartero. A provincial battalion
from Burgos, summoned by General Alcala, stopped at
Vittoria with General Piquero. The return of General
Alcala to St. Sebastian is expected."
The two latter reached Paris only on the evening of
the 13th, in consequence of the state.of the atmosphere :
" Bayonne, Oct. 13.
" TIIE SUB-PREFECT TO THE MINISER OF THE INTERIOR.
" On the 11th Pampeluna was again summoned to sur-
render. On the refusal of the Captain-General, the
firing was continued, and caused great damage. The
Regent has replaced Ribeiro by General Ayerbe from
Arragon."

Queen CHRISTINA, it appears, has given her
Royal word that she will not quit Paris without
the consent of the French Government. A
stronger security than the pledge of a dishon-
oured and dishonourable woman, was exacted
from DON CARLOS when compelled to seek an
asylum in France. Is Louis 'PHILIPPE ignorant
that by the laws of the Spanish Monarchy
CHRISTINA, by her connexion with MUNOZ, cannot
fill the office of guardian to the young QUEEN ?
His MAJESTY is perfectly aware • that it is' not
yet three weeks since she gave birth to a second
or a third little MuNoz, and yet hardly do the
throes of travail cease to be felt when she sanc-
tions a murderous night attack on the palace of
her own daughter, and against the lives of her
guardians and protectors. Wherefore, then, is
CHRISTINA not sent to prison to keep com-
pany with her Royal brother-in-law ? For
what does she make war on Spain ?
Her daughter, whom she recognises as
Queen, is Sovereign of that country. As the
wife of MuNoz, she herself can neither be
Regent nor guardian of her daughter. She is,
therefore, without the shadow of a legitimate
pretext for disturbing the peace of Spain, and
ought to be proceeded against as the chief of a
band of assassins.
A few days since a suicide, attended with extraordi-
nary circumstances, cast a gloom over the commune of
Watermael-Boitsford, near Brussels. On the preceding
day, a well-dressed man, who appeared about 40, took=.
a vigilante, and desired the driver to take him beiond',
theatth
wood of
to fh Le ahCadamnbarmee;dt,oh Be oriegtsfuoersttd
.eUtphoen
dEirrivretirin.tog
return to Brussels with aletter to be delivered into the
hands .6r M. It—, his friend, living near the Canal.

• . .
j This was punctually performed: Immediately after the
' departure of the coachmaa, the stranger put his me-
lancholy purpose into execution, and, about two hours
afterwards, his body was discovered on the causeway,
near Boendael. On the left side was a wound inflicted
with a pistol that was lying by his side ; there were
also found near him a small phial containing a whitish
liquid presumed to be poison, a flask of aniseed, and a
drinking-glass. In his pockets were found 33fr. and a
' note, without signature, as follows :—" To M. R--,
at the Canal, near the Pig Market in Brussels, who will
recognise the unfortunate person who has put an end to
his life." M. R-- lost no time in repairing to the
spot, and the corpse was found to be that of Jean
Verbaere, tax-gatherer at Beerzele, a married man and
the father of three children. Hitherto. no cause has
been assigned for the act.
The Constantinople correspondence of the Constitu-
tionnel contains the following:—" Two remarkably beau-
tiful Terkish women have been recently carried off by
some Russians. Their master—for they were slaves—
laid a complaint before the Porte, and reclaimed
them, with some jewels they carried off. The jewels
were restored, but the women were -placed under the
protection of the Russian Chancellery, which refused to
give them up, alleging that they were Georgians. One
of them is really so, and speaks Russian with great
fluency, but the other is a native of Constantinople. They
had ccst the Turk 1:5.000 piastres. It is generally be-
lieved that neither of them will be given up." As a
pendant to this story, the Augsburg Gazette says that a
female has been lately discovered in the ranks of a Turk-
ish regiment, in which she had served four years as a
common soldier. She had left her home, in Anatolia,
from being on bad terms with her husband. She was im-
mediately taken before the Sultan, this journal &Ids, and
his Highness, after giving her several presents, directed
that she should have liberty to go where she liked, with-
out being compelled to return to her husband.
Baron d'Este, says the Echo of Lille, has been ar-
rested at the Porte de Gand at that city. He was re-
turning into France from Belgium, and, being without a
passport was taken into custody. This Journal adds
that he was much dejected, and had his eyes filled with
tears. It was stated yesterday on 'Change that M. d'Este
was going to return to Paris, and endeavour to settle his
differences.

The Correctional Tribunal of Brussels was occupied
on Saturday with a charge of adultery preferred by Mr.
J., aged 83, against his wife and a Mr. S. (ex-Captain)
both 53 years of age ! The Court, in consideration of
the extenuating circumstances, and that the damage
caused to the husband did _ not exceed 25 francs, con-
demned the culprits to only 15 days' imprisonment.
The Breton of Nantes, 12th inst., says :—" The Eng-
lish schooner Warlock, Captain Smith, from Sierra
Leone, with a cargo of palin oil for London, has put in
at St. Nazaire. This vessel, which carried on the slave
trade under Brazilian colours, was taken by the British
cruisers, and has been sent to England.
The Havre papers state that, during a fire of a counting-
house and other commercial buildings in that town, on
Saturday last, a pocket-book containing bills to the
amount of 10,000 fr. was abstracted. On Tuesday morn-
ing, M. Lecoq, the owner, received an envelope contain-
ing one half of the bills, with a note evidently written in
a disguised hand, intimating that as soon as the detainers
of the rest had gained their object they should also be
restored.

It is affirmed that Espartero intends to form on the
other side of the Pyrenees a cordon of 50,000 men
against the intrigues of Maria Christina.
Several members of the family of Rothschild are now
at Paris ; it is supposed that the object of this family
meeting is to come to an understanding respecting the
tender which the house intends to make on Monday next
for the loan of 150 millions.—La Gazette de France.
It is affirmed that the commercial negotiations between
Belgium and France, which seemed to be broken off, are
resumed. In support of this assertion it is added that
Mr. Haumanna, bookseller, of Brussels, has arrived at
Paris, specially instructed to treat on the subject of lite-
rary piracy. We do not know what truth there may be
in this news, but it seems to us that the Belgian Commis-
sioners, who left Paris, it is said, for the pur-
pose of obtaining fresh instructions, must have
been very expeditious. As for the mission of M. Han-
manna (if he has any mission), it appears to us wholly
out of the usual way. The literary piracy practised in
Belgium cannot be made the subject of a stipulation in
the treaty; no compensation, no indemnity, can be asked
in return for its suppression. This piracy is a robbery—
a spoliation, contrary to the modern law of nations ;
to enter into a discussion about this robbery, except to
demand that it shall be immediately and unconditionally
put a
,stop to, would be only acknowledging the Belgians
to have a right, which they have not.—Le Constitutionnel.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 14.

f !rat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per Cents. ex. div. 114 85 ... 114 93 ... 114 89 ... 114 90
4 per Cents 9B 59 ... 1/8 50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50.
3 per Cents... .......
dank in erance:..... ......
Belgian Bank
1841
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cents., 1840 IO2W ... 102 W ... 10214 ... 1925(
Dutch 236 per Cents. 52 ... 52 ... 52 ... 52
,p.mish Ac,ive XI' ... 91 ... 50% ... 20%
Passive 4% ... 478 ... 4% ... 4%
Neapolitan lO4 93 ... 104 93 ... .M 4 95 ... 104 95
lonian .... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
8 11.1-I.WAY SHARED.
Versailles.R.B 3OB 75 ... 308 75 ... 308 75 ... 308 75
LB 2,8 75 ... 201 75 ... 908 75 ... 908 75
Rouen ..... .......... ......
Itr.isourgtoßair.shares red 237 50 . 237 50 ... 235 25 ... 736 25

THE CALEDONIA STEAMER.—NO accounts
have been brought of the arrival of this vessel
by the Liverpool train, which left that place
about two this morning, and reached London at
half-post one this afternoon. This steamer
was to leave Boston on the Ist or 2d,
and Halifax on the 4th instant, and had she
started on that day, and made the passage in
the average time, she would have arrived
at Liverpool yesterday. It is therefore con-
jectured that she has been detained in order
to bring the account of INPLEon's trial. If
any intelligence respecting this event should
reach us by the six o'clock train, we will give it
in a SECOND EDITION.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING_(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, OCT. 16.—. Wind this day at noon W., variable.
RAMSGATE, OCT. 15.—Arrived the Briton, from
London for Smyrna, with eutwater and figure-head 'car-
ried away. Ellen, Bremen, for Charleston, with fore-
yard sprung ; Alniina, do., for ditto ; Eleanor, leaky,
having been struck by a sea, and with loss of anchor and
chain.

DEAL, OCT. 15.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrived
the Prince of Wales and Prince Rupert, from Hudson's
Bay ; Prince Albert, do. ; Shannon, Taylor, Quebec.
Arrived from the river the Markland, for Sydney ;
Thames, Jamaica ; Roselle, Berbice ; Penningham, for
St. Helena.

YARMOUTH, OCT. 15.—The Johanna, of London, was
in contact last night off Southwold with a loaded brig,
arid received damage.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Wind W.N.W.—It has blown
nothing but gales for the last three days, and there is
no appeaiance of a change.

VZSMS SPOKEN WITH.—The Princess Royal, from
Leith, to Quebec, 11th ult., off Bic ;. Java, Bristol, 19th
ult., St. Petersburgh, by the Astrea, arrived at Kings-
town. Arms, Boness to Restigouche, out 27 days, lat.
48, by the 'Susannah, arrived at Cork. Huron, Quebec
to Belfast, lat. 50, lon. 18, by the Naiad, arrived at Cork.
Alice, Amsterdam to Miramichi, Ist inst., lat. 50, lon.
30, by the Kingaloch, arrived at Newfoundland. Juliet,
Hamburgh to Placentia, 12th inst., 12 leagues E. of
Cape Race, by the Margaret and Jane, arrived at New-
foundland:. Avon, Liverpool to New Brunswick, 28th
ult., lat. 53, lon. 25, by the Mary, arrived at Newfound-
land. Avon, of Poole, for New London, 23d ult., lat.
44, lon. 34 ; Gipsy, of Liverpool, 4th inst., by the Rapid,
arrived in the River. Gertrude, London to New Zea-
land, Aug. 20th, lat. 25 S., lon. 33 W., by the Mary
Taylor, arrived in the Downs. Nymph, of Sunderland,
with foremast sprung, Ist inst. lat. 45, lon. 10, by the
Hamilla, arrived in the Clyde.

THE FUNDS—(CLOsiNG PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.

fink Stock 164 India Stock —.244
3 per Cent Red. B6a I Ditto Bonds 2 pr
3 per Cent Cons i
884, Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red..
New 34• per Cent 97i Ex. Bills, 1,0001—.21d 13 pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/... ..... 13 pra
Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto 'Small. ...12 pm
Jan. 1860 l2k Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct. 1859—, l2 3-16 India Stock for Acct....

Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 47
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 52 Prussian, 5 per cent -.-
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent._ Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, b per cent 2OA
Ditto, 1824 I9A 'Ditto, Deferred . 9;,
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
18:45, 5 per cent (Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 241 French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. --Ditto, 5 per cent 99
per cent, 1825 IDutch, 2i per cent. ... 51i
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 574
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 384
London and Blackwall Railway (25 Paid)... tii

SABBATH KEEPING IN HIGH. PLACES.—
From the Court Circular it will be seen that his Royal
Highness the Tory Duke of Cambridge had a dinner
party last Sunday, at which, among other fashionables,
Sir Robert Peel and his lady were present. It will be
farther seen from the same source, that the Duke of
Wellington and Sir Robert Peel had a conference last
Sunday—doubtless on the affairs of the State. It will
be farther seen from the same source, that Sir Robert
Peel forwarded an express from London last Sunday,
but whether on horseback, or by the railway train, is
not stated, for Sir Stratford Canning, the new Ambassa-
dor to St. Petersburgh. Moreover, though it is not
stated in the Court Circular, the fact is nevertheless
undoubted, and we hereby record it in the Scotch Re-
former's Gazette, that the Rev. Dr, Norman M‘Leod,
who, we are glad to -find, has
just received the appoint-
ment from his friend Sir Robert Peel of one of her Ma-
jeltrechaplains in Scotland, actually sailed from Lon-
don on Sunday, and arrived in Glasgow hakrand hearty
on Monday.--Scotch Reformer's Gazette.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—An accident
took place yesterday morning with the mail train ; the
engine ran against a truck full of sheep at Southall,
killed twelve of them, and injured several others. It is
snie(tiut we have not been able to inquire at the office)
:that it arose from it combination among the.rnen, in con-
.setinenCtof many of thein:having had their pay stopper'.
No injury ma done to thg mail passengers, nor incon-
venience caused, beyond a delay of two hours.—Railway
Magazine.