The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-30 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF THE MORNING
JOURNALS.

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HERALD—The Herald, after presenting their readers
with the conflicting state of the poll in the City yesterday,
whereby each party appropriates to itself the greater victory,
proceeds to argue on the supposition of the " Liberal " state-
ment, which claims to itself a return of two Whig-Radicals
and two Conservatives. If this statement prove, says the
Herald, untrue, even in its general features, as to candidates
actually returned, and their precedence on the poll, it promises
to visit that party with heavy vengeance, for attempting to
mislead and deceive the constituency of the whole empire--for
the falsification of its returns, and the eager and instant diffu-
sion of that falsified statement to every corner of the empire.
Again, it states that if the returns prove equal, not equal will
be the triumph of the respective parties. That of the
Conservative will be plus—that of the Whig-Radicals minus—
by all the influence of the Court and the Government, which
were brought to bear, in the most powerful but the most in.
delicate manner, (i.e. in the person of the Minster), against
the mere personal influence of private character, intelligence,
and mercantile station of Messrs. Masterman, Lyall, Attwood,
and Pirie, even if it prove it was in continuation but a. drawn
battle, still it will have yielded the most essential fruits of a
victory to the Conservatives, seeing that every nerve, energy,
and resource of the Whig party—the dominant party in the
London Corporation, were taxed to the utmost effort.

TIMES.—The Times occupies itself by putting into juxta-
position Lord John Russell's address to the city electors on
Mondry, and Sir Robert Peel's speech to the Tamworth elee
tors on.the same day. It, of course, considers Sir Robert's as
one of the most statesmanlike manifestoes ever published on a
political occasion, while it characterises Lord John's as:a petu-
lant farrago of the usual Whig topics of declamation. It then
enters into a magniloquent review of the Tamworth speech,
and discovers, by some unaccountable analogy, a likeness be-
tween the position which Sir Robert has ever occupied in the
senate to the retreat of the Duke of Wellington at Torres
Vedras. Surely the contrast is a most unfortunate one—few
can fall much lower than retreat. A second article proceeds
to ground some remarks upon the Ministerialist admission that
they have lost two seats. It postpones further remarks hereon
till the Sheriff's return be made, when, if it prove that the
Ministerial leader of the House of Commons is defeated, they
promise themselves a luxurious comment, the sharpness of which
will be heightened by their present abstinence.
CHRONICLE.—The Chronicle has further a very sarcastic
article on the Tamworth speech of Sir Robert. Sir Robert,
it says, complains that the newspapers will not allow him to
speak for himself. The complaint is true, as regards the
'I ory Journals, for the obvious reason that it would not be con-
venient for Sir Robert Peel to say in his own person all that it
is convenient for his partisans to say in order to hold together
his heterogeneous faction. Sir Robert confesses the existence
of great embarrassment and distress, and deeply regrets it,
but his mighty manifesto contains not the shadow of a mitiga-
tive remedy. On touching 'oval the Corn-laws, he circumna-
vigates the glob,: for images to plump out his skeleton theory,
while heknows all the while he is " angling for impossibilities."
Hitherto the great towns, with the exception of London,
justify our anticipations—Southwark, Portsmouth, Bath, Not-
tingham, Le.cester, Derby, and Coventry return Reformers.
Bath has been wrested from the Tories, and Mr. Walter has to
rue the day he ever set foot in Nottingham. It would seem as
if certain parties in that old citadel of civil and religious liberty
had determined, by way of freak, to join the Tories in order to
give Mr. Walter a brief taste of the House of Commons.
As the election proceeds the Reformers will gain rapidly on
the Tories. The latter are notoriously strong in the small
agricultural boroughs, whence the first returns are received.
In the great towns, again, the Reformers have a decided ad-
vantage. This day will make a great change.
On one point, Sir Robert Peel cannot complain of not being
allowed to " speak for himself." Nobody prevents his telling
with what new taxes he would commence his administration.
Most people have a wish, as all have an interest, to know. It
is a portion of the policy on which the public is invited to
judge between him and her Majesty's Ministers. Here, at
least, he is allowed to speak ; and he maintains an " expres-
sive silence." So will not the people, when his new burdens
are lashed upon their backs.
POST.—The Morning Post has the following delectable
statement :—" We hear that from the beginning of the day
the word was passed through the Committees of the Ministe-
rial party that Lord John Russell was to be at the head of the
poll, and in order to accomplish this purpose they have, it ap-
pears, resorted to the easy expeoisnt of deducting one hun-
dred and sixteen from the poll of Mr. Lyall, and adding one
hundred and sixty-five to that of Lord John, by which means
his Lordship is placed above Mr. Lyall, who was realty at the
head of the poll, and also by an unit above Sir Matthew
Wood, to whom these faithful reporters have assigned the se-
cond place. The truth will, we believe, turn out to be that
the position of Lord John Russell on the poll is not first, or
second, or third, or fourth, but fifth—the position which was
certainly due to his Lordship's political position—that, namely,
of leader of the losing men.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
SUN.—As if by common consent business pursuits seem to have
been completely abandoned in the City to-day. Not a single
public sale of produce has been in7progress, if we except that
of Tea, most of which has been withdrawn, though certainly
at rather improved rates. The returns of the number who
have polled at the different places were very contradictory.
The business in the Funds was very limited, but the few
bargains entered into were at very low prices, and in some in-
stances at a trifling improvement. Probably it might be the
wish of some of the jobbers to pretend that the market had be•
come firmer, on account of the result of the election in favour
of the Tories. Consols were marked 893 to 4, for the open-
Mg. Exchequer Bills were at Bs. to 10s. premium ; and East
India Bonds at 2s. premium to par. Bank Stock brought
168, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cen's. 983
to 99.
The Foreign Securities have been heavy, and a shade lower.
Spanish Active Bonds at 22 to 211 ; Portuguese New at 33 to
Brazilian at 671, and the Dutch Five per Cents. at 1001.
The Railway Shares have been dull, but steady. Great
Western at 2.5 i, the New at 11 to the Birmingham Quar.
ter at 18, and the South Western Tenths at prem. Brighton
were 4, and Hull and Selby 13 discount.
The Foreign Exchanges evinced the same firmness, the
alteration in the rates being very trivial, or most currently
these :—Paris, 25f. 621 c. to 674 e. ; Hamburg)), 13 101 to 4 ;
Amsterdam, 12 4i to 4 ; Frankfort, 150 ; Antwerp, 12 4 to
; and Trieste, 9 58 to 59.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JUNE 30.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 62 I Highest 65 f Lowest ...... 48
Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

FRENCH CONVERSATIONS.—I observe that
few English shine in conversation with the French.
There is a lightness and brilliancy, a sort of touch and
go, if I may say so, in the latter, seldom, if ever, to be ac-
quired by strangers. Never dwelling long on any sub-
ject, and rarely entering profoundly into it, they sparkle
on the surface with great dexterity, bringing wit, gaiety,
and tact, into play. Like summer lightning, French
wit flashes frequently, brightly, and innocuously, leaving
nothing disagreeable to remind one of its having ap-
peared. Conversation is, with the French, the aim and
All enter it prepared to take a part,
object of society.
and he best enacts • it who displays just enough know-
ledge to show that much remains behind. Such is the
tact of the Parisians, that even the ignorant conceal the
poverty of their minds, and might, to casual observers,
pass as being in no way deficient, owing to the address
with which they glide in an a propos oui, on non, and an
appropriate shake of the head, nod of assent, or dissent.
-,-Lady Blessington's Idler in France.