The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

ZRRATUK—In the Sonnet in Tueaday`a Surf, Bth line, for
‘,‘ Time., hand," read Times.
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PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS DAY .1:1 ONE o'ci.ocx.
India Stock
India Bonds 625.
South Sea Stock
flu Annuities
Ex. Bills Pti pr.
Ditto Small
Bunk for Act..
India filr Con. Acct.
Cons. for Act. .B3i

clank Stet.l(
3 per Colt. Red: ‘hut
ter Cent. t;nnm. .......
3 per Cent •
( shut
4- per Cent. -I Now
per Cents. 1797 .
Blink Long A nn. .
Imp. 3 pet t, entzt..

shut

PRICE; or FOREIGN STOCKS Ix IiONDON, t;x1"1'. 11,

A r ON I. O't;LOCK.

French

.f
Five par Cents. 00.
1 Scrip, 21 pr.
riz pei,Cents. 00.
Five per Cents. (.11ctallic) 00.
Vitt, New 834.
Five iy_r Cent: Bonds, 00.
Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Fire per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00.
I)itto
Ditto . 1821, 341`1.
1822, 28to.
( Five per Cent. Bonds, 00.
1 Ditto New, 00.
Five por COIL Bonds, 00.
71i.
six per Cent. Boxda, 53}.
New Loan, 00.
IBank Shire £2l 151.
Seven per Cent. 00.
Six per Cent. 934-101
Five per Cent. UB-100.
Three per Cent. 70.
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.T,LONDON BRI POE TO-MORROW.
ea after 6. 1 Evening, 20 minutes after 7.

Russian

espoLttan
A uerian

'zipaziah

Priissian

Danish
Chili

eoloiribUin
Peruvian

Arnerican

HIGH WA TEItA
klArning. b 8 minut4

THE SUN.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBERii, 1823.

We have no foreign news of any importance by
eur usual arrivals. An Express from Paris britigs
the French Rentes, we understand, at -901. 35c.
We do not learn that any news from Spain has
been received by this conveyance. It is thought
in the City that a Negociatiou is on foot for the
surrenderof Cadiz.

CITY, Twelve o'Clock.—Consols opened this
morning at 828, and got up to 83k to 1, at
which price they remain steady up to this hour.

FOREIGN Matta ET.—Little has been done in
the above Market this morning. A New Re-
gency Loan has been contracted for at Paris at
60, and the Contractors are using their efforts to
segociate part of it in our Market.

We are informed, from a respectable quarter,
that the Contractors of the Colombian Loan are
daily expecting arrivals from Bogota with the
ratification of the old Loan, and that the new
erne will be contracted :for, the price of which
will not fall.short of .80.

Immediately on the receipt, yesterday tnorri,
ing, of a copy of the Report of the Committee
of the House of Commons on the West India
Doclu, we hastened to request the attention of
the Public to a document which is of great im-
portance, not only to the West India Dock
Company, but, by the principles of Political
Science involved in the decision, to every
class of the people, separately considered,
and to the best and most substantial interests
of the Empire at large. Since our last,
lee have given a further examination to the Re-
port, and we hesitate not to affirm, as our delibe-
rate conviction, that we have never read any paper
of the same length, the reasonings contained in
which were more fallacious and inconsistent, or
built upon an assumed principle which is more
unsound in theory,or more mischievous in practice.
Our observations yesterday were chiefly re-
stricted to the consideration of this assumed and
spurious general principle. The whole of the
question as to the merits of the West India Dock
Establishments, and as to the advantages derived
from them to the State,and to the Commerce of the
Country,as well as to the Company of Proprietors,
is not only conceded by the Committee of the
House of Commons, but is accompanied on their
part with an almost unqualified eulogiutn,more
than once repeated, and of which the follow ing
expressions, quoted from the Report, form a
part :

" Much evidence has been adduced to show the perfection
of the system, and the value of the regulations introduced
and practised in the management of the West India Docks ;
and the effect produced by them in affording security to
the collection of the Revenue, protection to the property
of the merchant, and facility in the conduct of his business.—
With some slight exceptions in the latter point, your Corn-
tnittee ate disposed to give a ready concurrence to all the
claims preferred by the Directors of the Dock Company on this
head. Both from' the evidence they have received, and from their
personal observation, they can venture to state, that no Etta•
blishrnent of the kind can, in their opinion, surpass, in these
partkalars, tau Establishment of the (Vest India Docks : but it
is not the positive excellence alone which it is their duty to
consider—it is fthe comparative, or rather erclusivc excellence,
belonging to them, that must be regarded, and by which the
grounds of their decision are to be furnished."

What, then, are the grounds ou which an un-
favourable decision has been formed against an
establishment, thus acknowledged to possess
" positive,"" surpassing," anti even" exclusive cx•
edlence ?" They are simply these,—that it has
been asaumed) in the teeth of all experience) that