The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,

throw the letter aside without returning the cheap civitt.J.,
7
of a reply; and we can state, that in the present instance
they. have nctit departed from that dignified course. In at
least three-fourths of the cases where ;applications have
foctn mate, and ought in common justice (to say nothing
of common humanity) to have been anpvered with a con-
siderable remittance in cash, no answers of any kind have
Seen received, nor ,over will be. Will the Times now say
that the pilce of Hour Fag no direct action on the comfort
of the starving peasant, ot that he has not even a wish to
taste it ?

FROM THE MORNING PAO.RB OF THIS DAY.
(From the Dimes.)
It has long been to us and a numerous claii of Society,
a subjeet of unfEdgned regret that Lord Durham laboured
for so many months under ari illnetta; Which, We fear, was
a
a butdeprived a r
to tletheheleaim'trsia
o!f16,)
ate
Consolation
npsa?iina;t:i
01. as. wassatnhjoeseb protracted,l
olvwh o
wrhieicraeln dt i
attached,
alatise and falenst has. also released him from a state of
the most oppressive sui?Jihse. 'The l'ioble Earl was
considered by those who knew burn btsis to' he te
mats of straightforward truth and integrity, with little
in .him of a sordid or ungenerous nature, and with
a heart quire to ahlb df kind .and warm affections.
The faults of this departed Nobleman came more
tinder the head of temper than of principle. He
4iSs tsaid td be arrogant, though perhaps without cause
—imperious in his dotnest;3 c!ro.,; yet his imme-
diate family lewd
,him—irritable when op'piaHtlOhough.
s,et tearer heard that fie was vindictiv.e7-end it fa ! fiaSie
sible that the pt'ontieaei 'hexcitement with which be has
often been reproached may have proceetk's'. attic from an:
varying and harassing ill health, than from original into--
mite of the moral temperament. Ilespectiag Lord Due-
ham'3 capacity or solid atiainrilenn d 7 c etatesman, we can-
not conscientiously affirm much to his advantdgd. was
all his life a flashy politician—talked of, boasted of, aspitta
itig to be prominent—but never, thet we know of, accom--
Wishing eh}, nets or exhibiting any powers oh which per'
sons of segeelaea judgment could rely, as indications of
eminence thereafter. in his Rueti:M mission his Lcirdship
was generally looked. upon as having rathet evaded any
difficulties which a bolder mind; and one more tefise.oiae
of high purpose, might hate strrigefeel With, although
perhaps unsuccessfully, than to have feiale encoun-
tered and overcome them. His whole derneanet": nt
the Court of St. Petershurgli, if not foully slandered,
was thatatterised by obsequious complaisance
towards the Sovereign, whose unfriendly feelings and
purposes against this country he had, as the advos
cates of Lord Palmerston assert, been instructed to pa,.
netrate and to traverse. Of the so:styled " despotic "
niission to North America little can with truth be re-
marked, but that it was a failure the most entire, and, as
the history of a few years will show, the most calamitous
to the empire that has attended any effort of colonial po-
licy since that series of horrible absurdities which ended
in the establishment of the United States Republic ;
while, so far as concerned himself, the whole course of his
autocracy was vainglorious, perverse, and reckless of na-
tionel consequences—beginning in buoyant self-conceit,
and ending in feeble-minded petulance said mortification.
Lord Durham had some disciples among the most shallow
and unscrupulous of the revolutionary rabble. But they
knew not their man, nor did he know them. They thought
he might be trusted in his demonsttations of democracy—
he flattered himself they might be made subservient to his
ambition, and led after his footsteps. The first practical
trial would have undeceived them both.
( From the Morning Advertiser.)
The spt.ech of Mr. Fox Mauls, on Monday evening, in
reply to Sir Robert Peel, on the subject of Non-Intrusion,
was one of the most masterly speeches which has been de•
livered in Parliament for some time. It'displayed all the
bold decision of' purpose and fearless expression of the sen-
timents of the speaker, which might be looked for is one
who Peels that his principles are grounded on the rock of
truth—that those principles are of infinite importance—
that they have the impress of divine sacredness upon them
—end that, however much worldly men may, for a time,
oppose them, they are destined to achieve an ultimate and
glorious triumph. If we could persuade ourselves that
there were any faint-hearted wavering persons in the ranks
of the Nen-littruatenists of Scotland ; if we imagined for
a moment that an);
evangelical clergyman or layman
in the bosom of the Scottish
could be so far
worked upon by the machinations of those who, be-
cause hostile to all vital religion, are doing whatever in
them lies to rivet the fetters in which the Church is
held at this moment, or rather in whin slit; is attempted
to be held, to the secular power—as to lcok with gloolsiy
foreboding; as to the result of the struggle now going
on in the Scottish Establishment; if, we say, we could
persuade ourselves there were any such person in the
Northern Church, we would tell bin to go end suffer
the word of rebuke administered to him in the noble.:
minded speech of Mr. Fox ;Vault. It was a speech
worthy of a man, and what is more, worthy of a Christian.
It was a speech which would have done honour to the most
illustrious Scotchman that ever adorned the ranks of the
Covenanters. And here we may remark, that coilld
thN
Covenanters but have risen from their graves and heard
the Hon. Member for Elgin deliver such a speech in such
a place, and to such an assemblage, their bosoms would
have beat with joy at the circumstance, mid they would
have gloried in having so worthy a descenclanti
(From the Morning Herald.)
Momus with a dice-box would, in a thousand instances,
be a fitter statue for an English court of law, than the ac-
cepted type of Justice—a comely maiden, blindfolded and
with scales in hand. The whim, the humour that often
dictates a sentence, smacks more of the eccentricity of a
jester than of the dispassionate serenity of a sage; the
judgment would seem rather a thing of aces or sixes than
the result of nicely-balanced testimony. We think it
would be difficult to find an attentive renter of the reports
of Assize—those apparent common-places, yet pregnant
with the greatest human interest, abounding with the most
instructive traits of character, graced and deformed with
the noblest feelings and the basest passions—who has not
been startled with the great good luck falling to the cul-
prit at the bar ; who, on the other band, has not felt his
campassion moved towards an offender, whose sentence is
severely disproportionate to the amount of his guilt? Tine
question becomes this—not. who is in the dock, but who
is upon the bench? The sentence of the prisoner is
not so much the bitter fruit of his guilt, as of his good or
ill-luck in his Judge. It is not what he has done, but
who he is tried by. The offender has transgressed the
law ; nevertheless, if good luck be upon his side, be falls
to the circuit of Baron X., a mild, meek judge, who
visits the culprit with the hard labour of a couple of
months : but wo to the evil-doer if he be arraigned before
otiffoent,"dfoerd: sevenl years
daitcelfbaosl
Baron Z. for to that inexorable functionary, transporta-
tion' the
rattled. gentlestone sentence of
was reported
tread-mill,—the less fortunate wins the !hl'e hulks. throws
In the
Herald of Tuesday
at Wortester, before Mr. Baron the trial James Welch,
meLhpeieasee.u.sewed
had stolen from a confectioner's shop three.
of the stolen articles-was found in his pocket. The' ca
was fully proved, and the man found guilty; whereupon
Mr. Baron Parke, having assured the prisoner that "he
would never do any good where he was," sentenced him,
for having stolen three meat pies, value three-pence, to—
transportation for seven years ! It must be observed, how-
ever, that the man bad been only a few days released from
gaol for robbery: nevertheless, we think James Welch
might have been more fortunate in his judge. That he is
a thief, there is no doubt; nevertheless, ho is a luckless
varlet who has thrown deuce ace : on another circuit, it is
more than probable that to the same thief sixes would have
turned up. Can the reader, attentive to the various penal.
ties passed at the Sessions on various offenders, doubt the
chance ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE 't

VI3

(WEDNESDAY EVENING.)
C HRONICLE.—The English Funds were somewhat
flitter at the opening of the market, Consols for the
Account being sellers at 91. Prices, however, soon ex-
perienced a slight improvement, having advanced to 91k to
I, but a depression took place again in the after part of
the day, owing to some large optional sales having been
effected, and the market ultimately closed at 91 for the
Account, and 90 .to s for Money. This fresh decline in
the Furi4t was occasioned by renewed romoars that unfa-
Voilrable intelligen,7!* bad been again received from Paths
relatile to the Eastern qi:estion, although nothing of a
positive chaileter. was stated. The 'Meat language,
however, of the French press, and fall in the ftentes, gavt;
si colour to the reports, and still excite the apprehensions
of some speculators, who seem to think that the French
Minister is resolved to stand out in support of the Pacha
against the Porte and the other European Powers.
In the Foreign House an improvement took place in
Spanish Actives, which advanced to 261 to ; subse-
quently, however, prices receded to 261 to at. which
they closed. The low prices received from Holland no
doubt had some influence in producing this alterattm, and
iome putter vtill have it that Barcelona be been declared
On a state of siege. In the mean time we may observe,
that tile le'ry Clear and authentic account of the events at
Baicelona, eatitai* in the lead from our correspondent
there in the Chronicle d to-day, which tensility leads to
a very different conclusion, has been the subject of much
term+ and commendation in the City. Portuguese And
South American Securities are agaid a shade lower to-day.

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TIMES.—The meeting of the Colombian bondholders
to take into consideration M. Fortique's proposal has not
produced any satisfactory result. To the principal of the
debt admitted by Venezuela the bondholders agreed, al-
though they had previously required that the payment of
so small an interest as 2 per cent. should only continue
for five years; after which it was to increase per cent.
per annum, whereas M. Fortique's plan 'would continue
the 2 per cent. for seven years. The difficulty which
prevented the parties from coming to conclusion was in the
settlement of the arrears of interest now diai for which the
bondholders last March demanded bonds at 100 per
cent., which should not bear interest till 1859, Phen
they should bear interest at 2 per cent., increas:Pg
per cent. per annum till they should amount to 5
per cent. M. Fortique's proposal was, that these bonds
should not bear interest till those for the principal of the
debt reached 6 per cent. (a period of 23 years), and then
should only commence paying s per cent., which was to
increase i per cent. per annum till they reached 3 per
cent. The bondholders were wiiling to allow 12 years
instead of 10 before the deferred stock should become
active, but were unanimously opposed to this plan, and,
as M. Fortique professes to be unable to act further with-
out.the consent of his Government, resolve to adhere to
their requisition of March last.
Consols were firmer in the early part of to-day, being
91 for money, and 91k to 4 for the account.
The consequence of the meeting of Colombian bond-
bblders has naturally been a dline in the price of that
stock, which left off at 25 to

H ERALD.—Both in and out of the Stock Exchange
money is remarkably easy. It may readily be obtained by
respectable people en stock at 3 to 3i- per cent., whilst
out of ne.
good bills for discount are scarce to be
t'
met with, and are dily done at 4 per cent. and even
ender. In such circumstances, Which are a test of the'
aburiddnta of unemployed capital, the AFessed stale of
the funds would dernly appear not to be refeeable to
causes originating at hditte, and therefore can only
be attributable to the disturbed and more compli-
cated state in which the foreign relation" of the
country have been recently thrown. As yet the full
extent of the Mischief involved in the capricious
changes of system at the Foreign Office cannot even
approximately be approached, but enough is known
to show that ill blood has been inflarbi'd in a consi-
defable, degree between the rival tapageurs (as !1e Thiers
sympatheticallj, Ehatneterises Lord Palmerston) of Deft-
ing.street and the Tuilefiett It is possible that all this
may end in the passage of sundry cliff notes, and a com-
peting interchange of saucy squibs, between' these two
Statesmen; more renowned in that line than for the perform-
ance fi4 Elie solid dtrties of office, but at the same time, it
must be remeniberid thet empty Babblers in a war of
words may chance, and, perlieps ifitentionally, to set the
world on fire, if only by way of rendering their own
premisesi. in the shape of salary here and stockjobtieg in ,
Paris, of greater value and profit to themselves, what-
ever may be the niiionnt ef damage to the community
at iarge. The French Pap'ets are extremely frothy
and furious about the quadruple alliance between Russia,
Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain, and whet& these is so
much smoke, it is generally accepted that there, rata be
some fire. Cooler reasonete apprehend however an ex-
ception to the rule in the present itietance, and are in-
clined to believe that the French steam, so doily up just
now, will eventually be effectually condensed into Cool
water by the freezing temperament a Louis Philippe, wbose
" voice" is not " for war," however belligerently his Mi-
'lister may be disposed. It is indeed not improbable that
if M. Thiers continue the present " flare up" in his papers
much longer, his master may contrive to extinguish him
altogether, to accomplish which hitherto a plausible occa.
sion has been wanting much more than the inclination.

POST.—Everything had rather a stationary appear-
ance at the Stock Exchange this morning. Consols did
not, however, close quite so well as yesterday, and a cor-
responding heaviness occurred, as usual, in the various
other markets. The unsettled state of affairs in the East
cannot of course but exercise an unfavourable influence on
prices, whatever importance is to be attributed to other
circumstances ; such, for instance, as are of merely do-
mestic interest.

SUN.—At the meeting of Colombian Bondholders
this afternoon all the new propositions of the Venezu-
elan Commissioner were rejected, and the Bondholders
have resolved to abief6 by the proposition they made
to the Republie in March last. From statements read
at the meeting it is proved that the resources of
Venezuela are steadily improving, and are amply sufficient
to enable her to offer much better terms to tbe Bond-
holders, if so disposed. Lord Palmerston has intimated
to the Government of the Republic, in terms about
which there can be "no mistake," that if justice is not
done to the British creditors, he must take the matter
up in a more serious form. A vote of thanks was passed
to his Lordship by the meeting for his energetic and
valuable co-operation.
The public Securities closed rather heavily. Consols
for Money at 904 1, and for time, 908 91 ; Exchequer
Bills remained at 255. premium, and the other Stocks
as in the morning. . .

(From the Morning P 0.4.)
Among the many evidences which have reached us of
the apprehension and dissatisfaction with which the warm-
est friends of Church and Throne regard the Eccle-
siastical Duties and Revenues Bill, we cannot but give a
prominent place to the charge of the Bishop of Rochester,
at his triennial visitation, holden in the present month.
His Lordship is knows to entertain a strong opinion that
the oath which every Bishop takes at his installation ex-
pressly prohibits him from consenting to the partial con-
fiscation of cathedral revenues which this Bill proposes
to carry into effect. Upon this point he is expressly at
issue with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is of
opinion that the oath of a Bishop does not hinder him
from taking part in a legislative measure which, though
it may take away from the revenues of the cathedrals,
is intended tm be of service to the Church at large.
The Bishop of Rochester admits the opinion of Paley to
have been with reference to these statutable oaths, that they
may be dispensed with when a manifest inconvenience
would arise from their observance, but he doubts (as many
wise men }Jaye done before him) that Mr. Paley is upon
such questions an indubitable authority. His Lordship
refers to the coronation oath, and the opinion of many Rev.
Prelates—of Lord Chancellor Eldon, and of his Mjesty
King George 111.—that, however the dko Houses of Par-
liament might decide, the S.svereign was precluded by his
coronation oath from granting such civil and political pri-
vileges to the Roman Catholics as have since been granted
by the Act of 1829. As to this question of the coronation
oath, the Bishop of Rochester says it is one respecting
which many good and conscientious men have taken a dif-
ferent view, but he considers the oaths of the Bishops with
respect to the cathedral establishments of which they are
at the head to be of a much more stringent nature. It is
net for us to say more upon this subject than that the
Primates of the Church hold differently from the Bishop
of Rochester on this point. We regret that this is the
ease, but we consider it to be our duty to submit to au-
thority.

The effect of the panic on the English Bourse was
felt at Amsterdam on Monday, probably by anticipa-
tion, the domestic Funds having become exceedingly
heavy, and Spanish Stock having fallen I per cent.
The closing prices of Monday were, Dutch Two-and-
Half per Cents. 52 11-16 ; Ditto, F►ve per Cents. 101,
and Spanish Actives, 21.
This afternoon the Fareign Market was more animated,
but Colombian Bands fell to 25k, and Spanish from
26i to 261 ; Mexican rallied to 30k, but Belgian
dropped to 1041 ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents.
gave way to 102 fl
Shares were a trifle mere buoyant.

SPURTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOODWOOD RACES.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FOUR O'CLOCK.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours,
attended by Count de Cambis, General Colbert, and Madame,
d'Oraison, arrived yesterday evening in time to join the dinner
party at Goodwood, at which covers were laid for nearly 50.
We understand that his Grace's hospitality will extend this
evening to a still more numerous party.
Their Royal Highnesses arrived on the Course this afternoon
about two o'clock, and had not left when our account was for-
warded from the Course. Besides these illustrious personages,
most of the visitors at Goodwood are present, and the attend-
ance generally is highly respectable. The weather is delightful,
and the racing abundant. The following are the particulars of
the running up to four o'clock.
The Members' Plate of 501., with 501. added by the Ladies,
and IW. for the second horse ; 3 yrs old, 7st 41b ; 4 yrs
Bst 711) ; 5 yrs, 9st; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. Tho winner to
be sold for 350 sous., &c. Heats, once round.
Capt. Garclnor's Brother to Enterprise, 3 yrs (Nat) I 3 1
Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland, 6 yrs
Mr. G. Smith's Bedford, 4 yrs 3 2 2
Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, 5 yrs
The first heat won by a neck; the second by two lengths;
and the third by a length.
The Goodwood Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft., &c., the second
to receive 50 sous. Cup Course. (127 Sbs.)
Mr. Allen's Orelia, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (Percy) 1
Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff, 4 yrs, 9st 71b
Duke of Richmond's Glenlivat, 4 yrs, 7st llb 3
Mr. Shelley's The Drama, 4 yrs, Est bib
The following were not placed—Domino, 4 yrs, 9st; The
Potentate, aged, Sat 131 b; Mendizabal, aged, Bst 101 b; Adrian,
86 s yrs, r st),
b 8
Mickletonl ; Joanna,
Maid,yrs,
eBss,tpF73l:al
rbttlool;f.3,Pll;boH7;c
oktrpeio,ethieH24gDeyr:rctasuollne6lases,,nt 6144 i
vlyybarriss,:
6stßleOtltbin;g—Pl3uttoo, 41 yrs,agst 6Hstettlbanl
8 to 1 agst Mickleton Maid; 11 to 1 agst Orelia—taken ; 10 to
1 agst Domino ; 12 to 1 agst Mendizabal, 20 to 1 agst Adrian,
"0 to 1 agst Pocket Hercules, 20 to 1 agst Joannina, and 4,25
to 1 agst The Potentate. Won easy by two lengths. (Further
particulars in our next.),
A Plate of 501., the winner to be sold for 60 guineas, T. y. C.
Mr. Treen's Doncaster, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b (Roan) 1
‘Di ur2k.
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Queen's
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won easy by two lengths. The winner claimed.
Lord Eglinton's Interlude, 3 yrs
Lord Lichfield's Feather, 4 yrs ....
Lordj.D
Byt
Bruce'se Marchioness,s CiTnhacakl
Tamburini,
sbse
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ja,nl Volars
tile, Mr. Forth's
Mr. Smith's
Lord G. Bedford, 4 yrs
ertssile, yrs
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(Lye)
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2to 1 agst Chasseur, 3 to 1 agst Tamburini, 6 to 1 agst
Fe,artahme
br ,
uar
ind S
ni
roads to ag
i,ia3st , Interlude.followed by
Feather to the top of the
hill in returning, where the latter took it up, Chasseur lying
second till past the distance, when Interlude went in front and
won cleverly by a length.
Cur BETTING.-7 to 4 agst Charles XII., 2to 1 agst
Hetman Platoff. The others as before.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Times fell foul of us last week., in one of its usual
seramblinr, articles, for stating that the successful resistance
of the Irish landlords in Parliament to the importation of
foreign flour into that country has tended to aggravate the
distress which prevails there at this moment among the
labouring population. " Who ever heard," exclaimed
this ,all licensed ranter—" Who ever heard of the poor
of Ireland living on wheaten flour, or even tasting
it, or wishing to taste it, from one year's end to an-
other l—they are just as much fed on flour as they
are clad in jewels and embroidery. Any enhancement
of the cast of flour can have no direct action
upon the comfort of the labouring peasants, who
never, we make bold to say, dream of asking what pricy it
bears in the market, at least with any reference to a pro-
vision for their own necessities." All this, emblazoned
with many a dazzing trope of speech, the Times " makes
bold to say," without having inquired what foundation there
may be for what it says or whereof it affirms. It so hap-
pens, and a very extraordinary fact it is, that the Irish poor,
whose ordinary food is the potato, are, in the present dearth
of that weanest of human food, actually thrown back—if Dux,
we may be allowed the expression—in a great measure, i Mr. King,.
upon the wheaten loaf; aud, consequently, its price is to
to an D 0,..
them a question of the most vital import. The starving won easy by two lengt,._
weavers in the liberties of Dublin may be seen daily The Queen's plate of NV
2
s.
in hundreds collected about the Mansion-house of the Lord Eglinton's Interlude, 3 yrs
Lord Mayor to receive the benefactions which have been LordLrichfi;ld'shFaeather, 4 yrs
subscribed for their relief, not in potatoes, nor in oatmeal, !-•
d l3uForthe's'M carchsisoenuer'ss3 yrs_ ...... .
Mr.but in wheaten bread. In like manner, many local asse- yrs.,
Smith's Bedford, ors
ciations have been formed in the interior of the country,
,
Lord G. Bentinck's Sal
where, by the liberality of the resident country gentlemen, Mr. J. Day's Tambur'
bread i
assisted by the clergy, farmers, aed shopkeepers, 2 to I agst Chr
distributed to the sufferers at reduced prices. This fact Feather, and P
we can " make bold" to avouch ; for we have it from a
Tambu_.
gentleman worthy of credit, who witnessed what we de- it
scribe, within the last fortnight, in, the province of Con-
naught, and who, while he bears a cordial testimony to
the prompt and liberal charity of the Protestant clergy,
adds the disgraceful fact, that in very rare ins-
tances indeed have the great proprietors, or absentee
landlords, come forward to help them in the 1 The Earl of Derby continues his improvements
good work. The common practice of those grand at Knowsley Park. His Lordship's aviaries, which contain tie
beneficiaries, when applied to on such occasions, is to • rarest specimens of the feathered tribe, aro now completed.