The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-15 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE.

Mr. GOULBURN moved for returns of the gross
znd net revenue of the Post-office, for certain periods in
the years 1839 and !840.—Ordered.
NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, a new
writ was moved for the county of Louth, in room of
Henry Chester, Esq., who had, since his election, ac-
cepted the office of steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mr. HUME then rose to move that an hemble
address be presented to her Majesty, that she will be
graciously pleased to recommend to the Trustees of the
British Museum, and to the Trustees of the National
Gal!ery, that those places be opened for the admission
of toe public on Sundays, after divine service, at such
hours as the houses of the licensed victuallers, of sellers of
beer, and of gin-shops, are now legally open to the public;
and observed that the higher classes, who had always a
large portion of time at their disposal, could seek re-
creation in various places on Sundays. For in-
stance„ the Zoological Gardens were open the
whole of the Sabbath day ; but the working classes
who were doomed of necessity to incessant labour
from Monday moreing till Saturday night, had no
means of recreation on the Sabbath. If a rational
innocent and instructive mode of passing that part of
the Sabbath day not devoted to religious exercise
could be adopted, it would be productive of health to
tire bedy, aa-d amu etneu: and instruetiou to the
min :. At the corner of evet y great street public houses
were open, with flogs hoisted on the house top, as a
temptation to the worry passer-by to indulee in their
"poisonous liquors. He thought, judging from what
had been dune in other co rutries, and looking,
at the effects produced in those. countries, a whole-
some change might be nettle, not only so as to
avoid evil, but to do good. By the 21 and 3d
Victoria it was enacted that no licensed s ictualler
should open his house before the hour of one in the
afternoon. There v..as a return to which he wished to
refer the House. He found by that return that in the
year 1838 the number of licensed victuallers amounted
to 4307, and the number of beersellers was 1,702,
which made? a total of 6;009; and he might say that all
:hose houses afforded the labouring classes temptations
to dissipation, which, for want of other amusements, they
were unable to resist. Ile would ask them that the
British Museum, which was so capable of affordieg
amusement and instruction, should be thrown tepee to
them during the time the public-houses were allowed
to remain open. In every other country such a system
prevailed as that fur which he was contending ;
and why should it not be equally introduced to Lee-
-1 lad ? Engiislimen were considere f by foreigners as
having no taste for works of art, and, in fact, being
incapable of enjoying rational amusements ; but he
(Mr. Hume) believed, on the contrary, that Lig-
lishmen were as anxious to avail themselves of oppor-
tunities of such amusement as any other people
could be. He was then proposing a measure which he
thought would be a means of enticing the English artisan
from those habits into which bad legislation had
heretofore led him, and which would give him
an opportunity, after Divine Service on Supday, of
making choice of an amusement which would ire-prove
his condition. Every one would admit that drunken-
ness was the great vice of our population, and lie
thought it the duty of Parliament to do all in their
power for its suppression. He would admit that
within the last Svc years the returns, showing
the number of persons who had been in cus-
tody for drunkenness, had much diminished.
Yet, notwithstanding this, it appeared that there were',
more drunken persons taken into custody on a Sunday
than on any other day. This was naturally to be ex-
pected, for, if the day should happen to be wet, they
were precluded from taking a country walk, and they
had no alternative but to retire to their own homer, or
to go the public-house. Those who had visited
the abodes of the poor, well knew how few
inducements there were for them to remain at
home, and it was not to be wondered at that society
and a good fire should tempt them to visit the public-
house. Looking at the question in either a moral, a
religious, or a political point of view, he submitted that
the House ought to agree to his motion, as one calcu-
lated to be beneficial to the morals of the working el asses,
to improve their religious habits, and to make them better
men, and more wiling to obey the laws. During the year
1839, 65,965 persons had been arrested for drunkenness,
and no man could be surprised at that, who had once
entered a public-house and might be led astray. He
considered this motion tended to improve the education
of the poorer classes, and it proposed to substitute for
an unhealthy and expensive recreation one that was
healthy, and unattended with expense. He had re-
ceived various communications on tho subject since
he had given notice of his motion, but he
would read only one, a letter he had re-
ceived from a labouring man, and which showed
the great interest the working classes took in the
subject. (The Hon. Gentleman here read the letter
expressing the gratitude of the writer to him for bringing
forward the 'tilt ion stating it would be desirable that
the Tower,'Sf. Paul's, and Westminster Abbey, should
also be open on a Sunday, and also that the writer had
been for forty years a labourer, and had never had an
opportunity of visiting those places, because he must
lose a day's work for the purpose of doing so, and
lose a day's wages.)—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now
was it unreasonable in him to make this motion ?
The Hon. Gentleman then quoted at length the lee-
,:
ture delivered by Sir J. Hersehell at the opening of the
Windsor Mechanics' Institution, showing the absolute
uecessity of providing rational amusements for the
overworked people. Ha remembered the time when
he was told that Englishmen were different in their na-
tures from other men, and that although greater
facilities for amusement were given to them they would
not avail themselves of them. How was that proved by
the occurrences of late years? With respect to the
British Museum, the number of visitors had risen from
266,000 to 383,000 ; let them throw open the doors on
Sundays, and he would promise that the visitors during
the next year would amount to upwards of 600,000.
—(Hear, hear, hear.) The same had been the case
with the National Gallery—during the last year the
number of visitors was 397,000—0 pen it in the after-
noon of Sunday, and they would double the numbers,
and empty the public-houses. Again, with respect to
the Tower in 1837, when the price of admission was
25., the number of visitors was only from 10,000 to
12,000 persons ; in 1838, when the price of admission
was reduced to ls., the number had increased to
42,000 ; while last
year, when the price of admission
was lowered to 6d., the number rose to 70,000—
it was a public edifice, and if it were opened
upon a Sunday afternoon the numbers would
be more than doubled —(Hear, hear.) Again,
with respect to Hampton-court, since the palace there
had. been thrown open to the public, the number of
visitors had very greatly increased. In July and Au-
gust of last year the number of visitors was 57,441,
lelthough it was situated so far from town. The same
reiti:;q had been shown in the throwing open of
the lee:et India Museum upon Saturdays—tire
number‘isitors last year was 35,000. For-
merly the Regalia of Scotland could only be seen on
the payment of Is., when no inure than 4,000 or 5,000
persons passed through in one year, but during the last
year it had been thrown open, and no less than 46,000
persons had availed themselves of the privilege. On
her Majesty's coronation day, 25,000 persons passed
through the Museum of tire Royal College of Surgeons,
Zdinborgli, without the least damage to the property,
or to:eieletit to any person having occurred. He held
that the welts of the British Museum and the'
National t?alletT, there were means for carrying out the
object he hag ww.vc, ljjes
_II was to win the popula-

tion of the country. from those vices which, he must
confess, had idea great degree been engendered by
the laws that had been passed.---(Hear, hear.) If
the House allowed men to enter pubic-houses,
and take spirits there, he did not see why they
should not allow them to amuse themselves by exa-
mining works of art. The Hon. Member concluded
by making the motion of which he had given notice, for
an address to her Majesty.
A Message from the Lords here brought up the
Canada Government Bill, with amendments.
Mr. HAMILTON rose to second the motion of the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny. He considered that aloe
tion as a sort of commencement of the best Sabbath
Bill ever brought into the House.—(Hear, hear.) He
was persuaded that every one would admit-that the
motion was one which particularly affected the middle
and working classes. Sunday was the only day which
those classes could devote to food for the mind, and so
far from shutting the British Museum, or any other
public institution on such a day, be thought it was their
duty to endeavour to seduce the working classes from
the beer-shop by measures: similar to that of the
Honourable Member. A great desecration of the
Sabbath had hitherto taken place in that country.
But how could they expect anything else but dissipa-
tion on the Sabbath under the present system ? The
Hon. Member had so fully stated his case, that he
should confine himself to seconding the motion, believing
that by so doing he was contributing more to the pre-
servation of property oa the Sabbath-day than by any
other measure which could have been brought forward.
'rhe question having been put from the Chair,
Sir ROBERT INGLIS said that he had hoped
some Member of her Majesty's Government would have
stated what were their opinions on the subject, as being
official conservators of public morals it was their duty to
have done so ; but as no Gentleman connected with the
Government had risen to address the House, he would
state in a few words the grounds of his opposition to
the motion. The Honourable Member for Kilkenr y
seemed to be labouring under an extraordinary self-
delusion when he represented that the object
of his motion had a tendency to promote morals and
religion—( Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume, and cheers
from the Ministerial benches)—and he seemed to regret
that he had not included Good Friday and Christmas
Day in his motion.—( Hear, hear.) He believed the
tendency of the motion would be to shock what the
Hon. Member might call the prejudices, but what
he must call conscientious scruples of the great
body of the people respecting the sanctity of the
Sabbath. If there were no other objection, that
alone would, in his opinion, be sufficient. He would
like to know in what part of the divine law the Hon.
Member found that it was permitted to divide the Sab-
bath into two parts, end to keep one part holy and to
desecrate the other. The Honourable Member
for Kilkenny seemed to forget that there were
other parties who, if his motion were carried,
would be compelled to work seven days of the
week, or 365 days during the year. That the officers
of all those institutions would be compelled to labour
additionally without any provision being made for it, and
that solely to minister to the rleasuras of the people.
The great question at issue was whether Glut House
would by an address solemnly call upon her Majesty
to ssnct:on for the first time—yes for the first time—
by the authority of the Crown what he would call a
systematic desecration of the Sabbath. The Ho-
nourable Member had said that the English alone
were held up to the opprobrium of the whole
world for narrow-mindedness and bigotry. What
the Hon. Member meant by that sentence, he (Sir R.
Inglis) did not clearly understand. If he intended to
say that there was no other State wherein the Sabbath
was observed as well as in England, in the State nearest
to us, in Holland, the Sabbath was observed ae well as
it was in this country. He denied that it was a
question all to be settled upon the principles of
the Rule of Three. The returns clearly proved
tint teey did not increase the number of visiters
oy giving greater facilities to the public. The ques-
tion was, not whether inure persons would visit those
establ.shments if throe) open upon the Sundays, but whe-
ther a system should be aemmenced, for the first time, by
which the Lord's Day should be treated as a common one
—by w hich, as far as time amusements of the people are
concerned, there should be no difference between the
Sendly and the Monday. The proposition, even as it
s'ood at present, violated the sanctity of the Sabbath,
and although the motion of the lien. Member was cot:-
fined to opening the public establi,liments after divine
service, next year they would be thrown open altogether.
He trusted that the better sense and better prireiple
of the House would lead them to join with him in
meeting the motion w:rh a direct negative.
Mr. WARBURTON thought it would be quite ,
enough to meet the argument of the Right Hon.
Baronet by saying that the motion of his Hon. Friend
did not at all allude to the seventh day of the
week nor to any day set apart upon divine authority ;
that it was a day set apart upon human authority
for the exercise of religious worship. That was not
the description of argument he would address himself
to, because such an observance of the Sabbath, as the
argument of hirHon. Friend would lead to, had never
been practised in this country. His Hon. Friend, the
Member for Kilkenny, had alluded to some of the
.relaxations the wealthier classes indulged themselves in
on that day ; and very few of the gentlemen he had
the honour of addressing scrupled to avail themselves
of the opportunity of viewing those private galleries
and paintings that were opened to them by their
friends on that day. (Hear, hear, hear.) The
other day a propositicn was made by a small
minority of the members of the Zoological Gardens to
pass a self-denying ordinance to the admission of mem-
bers on Sundays ; Lut at one of the largest meetings
that ever took place of that Society, only seventeen
hands were held up in favour of the p-oposition,
t‘hile bctiifeen 200 and 300 were held up against it.—
(Hear, hear.) He could not understand upon what
principle they allowed these enjoyments to the wealthier
classes, while the poorer classes were denied them.
He would not appeal to the present day, but would
allude to the practice in the reign of the most religious
King that had sat on the throne for many years—
George the 'Third. What was the observance of the
Sabbath during that reign Was not the Terrace of
Windsor Castle the general resort of all those who
chose to visit it on that day? Did not bands of
music play there, and did not his Majesty and his
family walk there along with his subjects? Well, such
being the case, he would ask which was most calcu-
lated to engender religious feelings—walking on the ter-
race at Windsor, or visiting the British Museum, where
the wonders of nature were exhibited ? Could any one
doubt the latter ? He believed that the mode of ob-
serving the Sunday pointed out by his Hon. Friend was
calculated to repress vice and raise religious feelings in
the minds of the people. He should therefore most
cheerfully support the motion of his Hon. Friend, and
he agreed with the Hon. Gentleman opposite that Lille
was the best Bill for the observance of the Sabbath he
had ever seen.

Mr. GOULBURN was decidedly opposed to the
motion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, and so far
from considering the proposed measure as the best means
for ensuring a better observance of the Sabbath, he was
persuaded that if not in its immediate, at least in its
distant results it would lead to its utter desecration, and
be the commencement of a revolution on the subject.
He maintained, therefore, that the proposed step would
be a most dangerous one in the progress of their legis-
lation. If they sanctioned any species of amusement on
the Sabbath, other and worse innovat'ona would follow.
It was true that desecrations of the Sabbath at present
took place, but that could be no argument in favour of
the motion, as the existence of one evil could not justify
the introduction of another. Hu admitted the extent
to which drunkenness now prevailed in this country on
the Sabbath day, and he could not but regret it ; but
he did not think that the motion of the Hon. Gentleman
would tend to its diminution. On the contrary, the
facts stated by the Hon Member would militate against
himself. For the last twenty years, places of public
amusement had been more accessible to the public than
formerly, and yet, drunkenness had continued, as there-
turns showed, constantly to increase. The British
Museum and the National Gallery had been of late
years visited by thousands without producing any change
in the morals of the people. They could not for the
sake of affording amusement to the public, violate a
public duty and open these places on an unlawful day.
The Hon. Gentleman had quoted Sir John Herschell,
but Sir John Herschell did not tell you to violate the
Sabbath by opening places of amusement ; but he argued
that in the common commerce of life, amusement should
be blended with business, and in that sentiment he (Mr.
Goulburn) entirely concurred ; but he believed that by
recognising Sunday as a day of amusement, so far from
improving the morals of the people, they would deteri-
orate from them. The Hon. Gentleman had argued as
if there were an analogy between the permitting public-
houses to be open, and the opening the British
Museum, and had contrasted the license per-
mitted to the former with the restrictions of the latter;
if there really existed this analogy, the Hon. Gentle-
man ought to move for the closing public houses on
the Sabbath, and not for the opening the British Mu-
seum.—(Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume, and laughter.)
But the Legislature had acted on the principle that
meat and drink being necessaries of life, must be pro-
cured on a Sunday as well us on any other day, and if
the permission to procure them were abused, it was
owing to that imperfection which necessarily attended
all human legislation. But with regard to amusement,
the case was different ; they had no right to hold out
that amusements were lawful on the Sabbath day, and
he should oppose this motion as the first step in a career
which, if followed, would be fatal to the morals and the
religion of the people.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was difficult in
matterssati
safaf
ettboar
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at sort to comet o acon)clur for Brd
sionthatiwopuolrd
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went on to state that they allowed persons to walk in
the Parks and the Zoological Gardene, 4c. Noly
that was scarcely a fair ar .urnent, and if they
nosy opened the Museum and the National G d-
lerv, it next v,,ar !night be urged that as they
allowed persons to go on the Sundays to the
British Museum and the National Gallery, why

should you preclude them from seeing.. a .National
Drama ?—( Hear, hear.) The argument might_be used
for anything that was not in itself vicious. On the
other hand, he would not defend the consistency of the
present practice of shutting up every species of rational
amusements.—(Cheers.) But when the House of
Commons was called upon to agree to a resolution, and
then to ask for the concurrence of the Crown, it was
not proper that the object might of itself have an im-
proper tendency. Now the tendency of the motion of
the Hon. Member was to throw open extra places of
public amusement upon the Sunday. He objected to
that being done by the sanction of a vote of that House
and the sanction of the Crown. The motives of the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny were exceedingly good—all
would agree with him in his desire to raise the tastes of
the people, and elevate their intelligence by giving them
more legitimate pursuits—every one must agree with
him in that object ; and he was happy to say that there
was not only a general concurrence in the House, but
also throughout every large town in the kingdom.
If the Hon. Member said that it was necessary that his
object should be carried out on the Sunday, then many
who were in favour of his motives would object to the
proposed plan. The motion was rather curiously
worded, but its tendency was to start the British
Museum and the National Gallery against the licensed
victuallers and the gin shops.—(Hear, and laughter.)
Now he was not quite sure, if a great number of people
visited the British Museum on a Sunday, that the
licensed victuallers and the gin shops would not find
some advantage in placing their establishments near the
doors of the Museum.—(Hear, bear.) It was very
much the custom in this country for people, after
seeing a sight to go to a place of entertainment to
refresh themselves, and therefore, instead of starting
the exhibitions against the licensed victuallers, the
licensed victuallers might find they had a great many
Mr. AGLIONBY supported the motion.
Hear.)
additional customers on the Sunday..—(
Mr. MU NTZ said that if the Noble Lord objected
to open the British Museum he ought to shut the Zoo-
logical Gardens, for there was no more sin in looking
at the skin of the animal than there was in looking,
at the animal itself.—(Great laughter.) The ques-
tion appeared to him to be whether those who now
attended .public worship would be drawn from that
public worship by the opening of the Museum. From
his experience of the working classes, he could state
that those who now attended public worship would con-
tinue to do so, and that those who did not would not
keep away from worse places, and go to the Museum
and the National Gallery .—( Hear, hear.)
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it B2
;Majority against the motion —3B
CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, that at the com-
mencement of public business to-morrow he should
move the house do agree to the amendments made by
the Lords upon the Canada Government Bill.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL.
Sir E. SUGDEN inqured whether the Noble Lord
intended to press the Administration of Justice Bill that
Session in the absence of many Hon. and Learned
Members who were attending the Circuit ?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that if the Bill
came down from the other House this Session, he hoped
to be able to pass it before the prorogation of Parlia-
reent.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GI LLON postponed the motion of which he
had given notice, for an address to her Maj2sty, pray-
ing that her Mjesty would be graciously pleased to
appoint a
_Commission for the purpose of visiting every
parish in Scotland, with directiocs to inquire into and
report as to the means of education enjoyed within the
same, including parochial and all other schools, and
how far these means were available for the proper edu-
cation of the juvenile population of each parish ; the
number of youths of both sexes receiving, and the nun:-
bar destitute of public instruction ; with remarks on
the quality and amount of the instruction conveyed—
till next Session.

The HON. MEMBER was about to call the attention
of the House to his second notice, when
The SPEAKER interrupted him by stating that it
was informal, inasmuch as it was necessary that it should
originate in a Committ.:e of the whole House.
Mr. GILLON then bezgtd leave to withdraw it,
giving notice that be should that day week move that
the House resolve itself into a Committee on the
subj,ct,

Mr. MACKINNON rose to move the appointment
of a Select Committee to investigate if it was in accord-
ance with humanity and justice, and good policy, 'to
, sanction by legislative enactments the emigration of
Indian labourers, not only to the .Mauritius and British
Guiana, but to every part of the British possessions
In bringing forward this motion, he had not tne least
intention of annoying her Majesty's Government. All
he was anxious for was justice to all parties. He
thought that the importance of the suhject entitled it to
the consideration of the House, and he could net ap-
prove of the mat:r.er in which the Colonial Office had
treated the subject by introducing it in a clause of
the Colonial Passengers Bill. He thought that
the course pursued by the Government of limiting the
operation of the Bill to the Mauritius was extremely
objectionable ; added to which he considered that they
had entered on the subject without sufficient intorma-
' tion. It was not his intention in the present state of
the House to enter into the details of the measure.
His only object was to obtain justice, and he had no in-
terest whatever in view. Whether the Government
granted the Committee or not was immaterial to him,
but he trusted if they objected to it at the present mo-
ment, that they would give full attention to so important
a subject. The Hon. Member concluded by moving
the appointment of a Select Committee.
Mr. DALLY KNIGHT seconded the motion.
Mr. VERNON SMITH regretted the Hon. Mem-
ber should have brought forward so important a question
at so !ate a perion of the Session, and in so thin a House.
The Hon. Member had not at all entered into detail
of the scope of the inquiry which he proposed. He
had not stated whether he meant the labours of the
Committee to he confined to any particular colony, or
to the colonies in general, and in this state of things he
(Mr. V. Smith), without pledging hi.nself one way or
the other as to the course the Government would adopt
in future, must call upon the House to reject the mo-
tion. At the same time, he could assure the Hon.
Member that the Colonial-office had devoted its atten-
tion to the subject, and would do so still.
Viscount SANDON did not conceive that the ap-
pointment of a Committee at this season of the year
would be attended with any beneficial result. He hoped
that in the interval between this Session and the next
the attention of the Government would be di-
rected to the condition of the emancipated ne-
groes in the Brazils and the Havannah. He also
hoped that next Session the House would be
put in possession of information with regard to the
means that might be employed to induce negroes to
become emigrants to our colonial possessions, so that
emigration might be carried on not only with safety to
the negroes themselves, but with advantage to all parties
concerned.
Mr. C. BULLER said the anxiety which Hon.
Gentlemen opposite now manifested relative to free
labour was a tardy reparation for the injury they did the
subject early in the Session. He believed the Hon.
Member for Leamington (Mr. Mackinnon) voted against
the introduction of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius.
bTeheen rteosublrtingo all he
foreign
gtnsilr
a laboursve gr
ow n for
ugar into emancipationthe
Mr. WA aßuitToN was glad that the proposition
of emigration to the Mauritius had been defeated, and
contended that if the experiment of emigration of Hill
Coolies was even to succeed, it must be an emigration
to colonies where they could trust their public fooc_
tionaries, and where they knew the measures which the
Legislature had enacted would be carried into effect.
The Government ought, before proposing any plan to
the House for the emigration of Hill Coolies, to con-
sider well what the consequences of it would be, and in
what way it was likely to operate.
Mr. ELLIOT next proceeded to address the House,
when

An HoN. MEMBER moved that the House be
counted, and there not being forty Nlembers present, the
House was counted out at Half-pnst Seven o'Clock.

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EASTBOURNE.-SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF
LIFE.—On the light of Friday, the 3d instant, a French
chaste mar, e, laden with salt, about 100 tons burden, came on
shore near Berlin Gap : the night was very dark, and the fug
heavy, which prevented the helmsman from seeing the light at
fleachy 11,ad. The vessel went to Pic"'
very shortly after
she struck ; hot, owing to the prompt assistance of the officer
and men on this station, the crew,- four in number, were saved,
with the exception of a poor little boy,
who was left in the
cabin for security. The immediate breaking up of the vessel,
the darkness of the night, and the anxiety to avail themselves
of the as4istanee rendered them by the rocket apparatus
(whether Manby's or Dennett's, we cannot say) caused them
to fe-get the paor lad until it ssas too late. Too much cannot
be said in praise of these life-preservers, and the care and pre-
cision wiih which the instructions are attended to by the pm--
sorts liatwi,7 Atent in Oartre. The first shot, we understand,
na nt throuklb the rigging,* and at ti;is rcoment all are-dreadful
points in shipwreck were present ; the night fearfully dark, and
a sea raging, against which no boat could have advaneed ; but
for these most excellent ap..istann:, four valuable lives would
hava been lost.—Sussex Rrpress

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &t.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 14.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum Paid. Share
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham..Average97l.lBs.sh. 120
1,082 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch A'rzrage 1151.5 h. 72
1,260 Basingstoke lool.sh. 5
1,005 .11. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150/. sh. -
8,0001.16 th. 91.65. Birmingham, 1-16th share .....All. & 711. 215}
4000 ........ Ditto and Liverpool JunctlWll. sh. 100 pd 20
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton .1001. sh. all pd -
400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001.sn. 101
500 411. Coventry. ' 001. sh . 070
4,545 Croydon .... ...... .. Average 311.28.10 d. sh . -
2,0601 51. Os. Dudley ... 1001. sh. 99
600 131, Derby 1001. sh . 1:'8
20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd 30
3,5751 41. Ellesinereand Chester...Averz.gcl33l.sla. 834
231 631 Erewasn 1001. sh. 800
1,097 301. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4001.165. oh. 615
11,6€0 10 Grand Junction 1001. sh 149
2,8494 255. Grand Union 1001. sh. 244
1,51,0 .., Grand Surrey .., 1001. sh. 24
1,000/ 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 63
3,696 Grand Western lOOl. sh. allpd 12
600 131.125. pd. 012morganshire, Aver. cost 172/.130.4d. 2304
749 10/. Grantham 1501.5 h. 203
6,238 2!. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. sh. 29
100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10
25.128; I!. Is. Kennet and Avon, Aver. 391.185. 10d. sh. 26
2,8971 301. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 760
545: 154/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 200
1,897 51. 10s. Leicester an,l Northampton Aver 831.108. 79t,
2.400 101. Mon r.outlishire 100/.sh. 190
150 01. Melton Mowbray 1081. sh . 200
SOO 11. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 565
3,000 11. 105. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 46
247 171. Neath 1001. sh. 325
2,400 41. Peak Forest Avei.ge about 781. sh. 91
21,418 111. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 114
8,609 6!. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. s h. 954
500 8!. Shropshire 1251. sh. 180
800 10/. Os. Somerset Coal 1501.5 h. 150
3,600/. 41 percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 11
700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh . 650
500 16/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280
300 91. Stourbridge .... ......... 1457. sh. 396
3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Average 791.9a.1.0. sh. 741
533 101. Swansea 1001. sh. 265
„762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 42
2,60n45h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share 1001. sh. COO
8,149 Thames and Medway Aver.l9l.ss. Bd. sh. 2
l'°°°3hl 16/. Warwick and Birmingham ... 1001.sh: 261
1,00045 h.
960 151 Warwick and T./amyl lOO/. sh. 190
6,600 4/ 1.-- Worcester and BirminghamAv.7B/.Bs. sh. 664
5,000 255, Wilts and Berke Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 3.1
800 Os, W., riev and Essington 125/. sh • '74
.26 W;sneacn
903 11. Wey and Arun llOl. an. 22
DOCKS.

146" & 1 3p. c. Commerc al .,1001.5h. 65
1.065i5h.
East and West India ....Stock ICSI
3.239,310/1. 606. p.ct. London
Ditto Bonds lOl

2,2.09 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol
68,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
1.352,752 5 per c,.nt. St. Katharine Stock 101
500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .., loli
209.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years otil
..... Deptford Pier °ol. sh. 201. pd 10

_
BRIDGES.
1,600 10s. Hammersmith 501. sh. 221
7,231 Southwark, Old
1,700 11. 158, Ditto, New, of 71 re cent. ..... ..50i. sh. 13
J,OOO Waterloo
5,000 20s. Od, Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. . 1)0!. p 4 200
5,000 103. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 17;
60,000/. 5!. per cent. Ditto Bouda en;
• s
5,848 17s Vauxhall............Average 70!. 10s. 3d. sh. 25
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 31 lOs Albion 51304 oh. 50/. pd 73
6P er ,ri ci c 5
5n t, ]
50,000AllianceBritisn &Foreign 100!. oh. 11/. pd 14;
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 5!. pd 5;
4,000 gl. per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 5/. pd 151
1,200 Ist]. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire 0501. sh. 55/. pd 1071
20,000 4!. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 5)0. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/.0. 51. pd 5;
5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical & Medi...it Lite, 100/. sh. 2/10s pd 41
4,000 2l ;5s County 1001 oh. 10/. pd 4'2
£0,600 ss. Eagle
21)° a fsnpder:kcvebn,t..l Economic Lite lOOO4 sh. 2504 pd 406
2,271 225. per cent. European Lt'a 2O/. sh. all pd 22
50,000 Os, Ditto, New '3Ol. sh. 21. pd I;
1,000,000/. 6/. per ct Globe Stock 124
00,000 51. Guardian lOOl.O. 074/ pd :39
'O,OOO s. fi.i. Hope 50/. sh. 5!. pd 51
`, 400 51. '7s. Od. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 135
-,
7,500 Os. Imperial Lite 100/. oh. 10/. pd 101
13,459 54 percent. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8/. pd 2-'1
2,020 3/ lOs Keut Fire 504 sin all pd 02
3!. Ditto Life. 50/ pd 65.3
10,0;10 I tis. Law Life 1001.:h. 10/. pd 1.41
5.000 10s. London, Eir • 25/. oh. 12/. 103. pd 19/
3,900 10s. London, Ship 0.54 sh. 12/. 10s. pd In
I,el 0,00 0/. ... ..... Mincrva Life 1004 sh.
500,001)4 National Loan Fund V. ss. p 3 3
:30,0110 H. per cent. Palladium LIP- - 504 sh. 2!. pd '2l7s
50,000 4!. per cent. Protector Fire CO!. sh. 2/. pd IN Cd
10,070 4 i.er rent. Prate-tans
.lAssenters 11,0!. sh. nt. pd 51
2.500 11. Provident !Are lOlll. sh. lnl. pd Is
30,000 ss. Rock Life °Ol. oh. I!. pd 7
13) 70201 `d. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock,,. 203
0003) 5 per cent University Lite lOO4 sh. 5/. pit r 4
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 5!. pd 71
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 S per cent. Agric. en :1 Cum. of I reland2s/. sh. 10/. pd
5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 401. pd ('4
10,,103 10 per cent. Bank of 1-111 mingham 504 sh. 10/. pd 1:31
0,000 IP per cent. Birmingham Banl- 50/. sli. 10/. p 4 224
31,(100 6 per cent. London and IVestrninsterloo/ sh. 254 pd '23;
60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 104 lid 13
.3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1004 sh. 20/. pd 50
05,000 Liverpool 100/ sh. 101. lid 211
50,000 71 per cent Manchester and Liver-]
504 sh. 15! pd I'
noEdDirtrict-4-
00,000 7 per ere t. Manchester. 1001. oh. 25! pd 27
20,000 Provincial /lank of 1 re!andlooi. sh. 05/. p 4 55
sO, 00 5 er i c,. t. National Bank of Ireland Si.o sh. 174!. pi] H
11,000 5 per cent. National Prs viircial Eng. 100!. sh. 35/. pc? 38
10,000 ...... .. Ditto New ... IC/. oh. 10/ pd 161
10,000 Gloucestershire 504 sh. 10/. IA :30
0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE co_lirANlF.s.
2,500 16s Od Bath .5....;t:.'..20/. sh. 101. pd 22.
5,0110 British „e' 40!. sh. 104 pd ISls
.1,000 i s''''''erecnt'l Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 111 pi 25
and Bs. os,
908 51 lOs Birmingham 50". sh. 9 %
1,250 VOs Bristol 2Ol. oh. 30
2,050 3! 103 Brighton • °W. sh. II
750 3/ lOs Ditto, New 901. sh. 18/. pd 9
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 9
4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidatocl ....75/. 601/pd 110
1,000 101. City of London 100/, sh. all pd 195
1,000 01. Ditto, New lO9/. sh. 75/. pi ISO
4,000 31.05. Eenitable 801. pd 26
10,100 29 per cent. Imperial 504 sh. 501.0
200 54 per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pti 18
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent '-'Ol. 3h. all pd 50
9,000 4/. per cent. Phrenix 504 oh. ;39/. pd 33.14
1,000 V. per cent. Ratcliff lOO/. sh. 801. pd 03
4,1100 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 17
9.000 4/. per cent. United General 501. sh. 47/. pd 3.5
240 5!. per cent. Warwick 5O!. sh. 50
400 5/. per cent; Wakefield 25/. sh. 22
2,000 1. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. oh. 5714
0,1100 123- Ditto New 5(l. sh. 104 pd 11
78.0 apes- cen . Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd
WATER. WORKS
4,800 10s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/ pd 20
4,434 7!. East London lOOl. sh. 104
5,500 2!. Ins. Grand Junction Average 41!. Pis. 401. sh. 66
2,000 2/, Kent 1004 sh. 44
370 10!. Liverpool Bootle 2204 sh. 327
1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Ann... '9!4
0,486 2/ lOs Manchester and Salford 1004 sh. 5734
1,000 4 per cent. South London loa.sh. 1043
8,194 41/. West Middlesex Average 031.°125. !Id. sh. 101
1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 100/. eh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
0,320 Birmingham and Derby lOO/. pd 02
9500 Birmingham end Gloucester BO/ pd 71
15,070 Bristol and Exeter ... ...... 100/. sh. 50 pd 2 1
7,590 Cheltenham and G. Western 100/. sh. 50/. ry., If
'l2
3,0011 Clarence 1001. oh. 100/ pd 25
8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 1004 shn 5/. pi
80,06,1 Eastern Countici 25/. sh. 2(4 pd 15%
10,00(1 Great North of England 1001. sh. C 5/. pd .5,34
10,018 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. 41 pd 230
2 ~000 Great Western lOOl. sh. 05/. pd 104 Y,
2.5,r(10 Ditto New 50/ sh 30'. pd 4')
11,000 per cent. Gosport Junction., 5O!. sh. 254 pd 330 a
2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 14034
8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh 40!, pd 35
2,101 2/. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 05,
5,10 n 91 percent. Liverpool & Manchester 10(1.sh. 1004 pi 1051/,
7,5108 02 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 57'
11,193 0.1 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ',51. pd 45./.,
36,100 London and Brighton 501. sh. 35! nd 2807
21,000 London and Blackwall 5O!. sh. 20/. pd 21%
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich "201. s 4. '2Ol. pd 9
25,000 Spec cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 904 pc/ 109
25,001 Ditto Quarter Shares 2st. sh. 5/. pd 32
31,051 Dit o New Shares 321. sh. 244 pd 52
30,000 ... ...... London and S. Western Av. 381,175. M. 59
3.3,000 London and Croydon]
Av. 134 15s. rd 1114
Ditto New Scrip.... ' 127/
113,0(N) Manchester and Leeds-1001. oh. 051, pd
03,010 .. ...... Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 05/. pd 29
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701. sh. 30/, 21134
Ditto Extension 7!. pc! 5
10,000 Midland Counties :00/. sh. 10:4 pd 99
13,000 North Midland lOOl. sh. 100! pa 91
Ditto New 80/. 0 3534
5,108 Northern and Eastern..,. 60!. sh 30!. pd 4n
;.,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. oh 30!. pd 36
28,000 South Eastern and Dover
1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ... ION. sh. 711
9,000 Thames Haven .501. sh 51. pd
6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 50!, pd, 5
MINES.

, POO Albion Col.pe^ 5/. s',. 21/. pi 12
.
4,000 11. 53. Alton l5l. sh. 12/, It ,pd In
10,000 .... Anglo Mexican,iss. 5/. pm.loo/. sh. al 'id 014
Ditto Subscription 25/. ito j'4
to
ii 1
.1/1
BBoralazni os i .
..
Si.p
...150/.. sh
.a 1 pi .1 316,2 y,
12:00c00
•liatilm ) isc pm ...351. sh 20!, ,o 1
6,000 Macaubas Az Cocaos United 25/. 5h.251. pd
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey —.204 sh. 14/ pd 2
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 201. pd 1
0 00000
Ditto Scrip lO/. sh. 10/. pd 2
/0, .........
British iron . 50/. sh. 50/ pd 521,i
b,OOO British Copper - 5/. sh. 41/. pd 1

c,tllll..nca(;.l.
pd
Candonga....... 7l 1. pd
Copiar- 131 -

10,000 Is Jpiapo
9,500 Columblan, iss. 51. pm 55/. sh. 551. pd Oly
2,850 ..31. English l4l. Cs. pd 3
20 000 Genoral Mining Association2o/ sh. IR. pd t
0,,155
Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 571/ pd 6
3,009 Polberou Consols lO/. sh. Si. pd 4
11,.;00 Real del Monte, Unregistered 4
Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160
10,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pra. 40!. sh. all pd 33,1
DUG Scrip 4 ),
Ditto New Scrip 5/ pod 7i
West Cork 5O/. sh 50/. pd 38
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 19
1,500 London University 100!. sh. all pd 7
700 Russell 4,5g5. sh. 7
King' College lOOl. 19

MISCELLANEOUS
10,000 15s. Australian Aoricultural.loo/. sh. 28!, pd 4i
6,003 41. per cent. British American Land Company 2:3,. pd 10
10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company lOOl. sh. 301. pd 37
90,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City Bonds, 4 Tor cent
20,000 1/, Os. GeneralStesm Navigation ISt. th. 144 pd .2.57,
10/.percent. Hudson's Bay Stock
,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms.... Av. 75/. sh l9
8,000 Caoutchoue Company 12,4/. pd 12
New Brunswick Lana Compa:sy...sol pd 12
2,754 5/. per cant. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 153
2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 'OO/. sh. 100/. pd 117
4,000
Os. Van Die.ner.'s Land.... 100/. sh. 17v. pd 12

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. !

17ROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
The continued occupation of Cracow by the three
Aiiied Powers was last night the subject of an interest-
ing discussion in the House of Commons. Sir Stratford
Canning, in bringing the subject before the House, en-
tered into a historical detail of the events which imme-
diately preceded the occupation, and the violation of
the Treaty of Vienna which that occupation in-
volved. By several articles in the Treaty of Vienna, the
town of Cracow was declared to be " a free, indepen-
dent, and strictly neutral town," by the eight Powers
which assented and subscribed to that treaty ; whilst
by that same treaty it was placed under the more im-
mediate protection of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
The specific motives which induced this last stipula-
tion it is difficult to discover. It was like placing the
sheepfold under the protection of the wolf, with the
hope that a parchment stipulation would counteract the
force of nature, and prevail to preserve tile tempting
morsel from those whose contiguity placed it continually
before their eyes, and within their grasp. A limit was
thus placed to the independence of that little State ;
and although we acquit the contracting parties to that
treaty from designing the result which ensued from the
stipulation, we cannot assign to them the possession of
that wisdom of which foresight forms a part.
(From the Standard.)
It would appear from the acknowledgment of the
Chief Justice by whom Mr. O'Connor was tried, and
the Attorney-General by whom he was prosecuted,
that neither had any idea of the degree of punish-
ment to which the - sentence pronounced upon him
had consigned him. The sentence upon political
libellers has heretofore been fine or imprisonment,
or both ; but Mr. Fox Maule attempts to justify
the mode in which political prisoners die now treated
by a Whig Government, by reminding his hearers
that sentences on offenders of this class are not now,
as they formerly were, visited with the two-fold punish-
ment of fine end imprisonment ! Wo are, however, at a.
loss to understand how this arrangement can have bene-
fited Mr. O'Connor. Any man taken from the edu-
cated classes of society, would rather forfeit his earnings,
fora dozen years to come, than subject himself to indig-
nities so gross, to persecution so savage, as that which has
been inflicted on him. We are anxious not to be misun-
derstood. We have no fault to find with the sentence
passed upon Mr. O'Connor ; we fear it must be ad-
mitted that he fully exposed himself to the penalty
which the Court of Queen's Bench supposed it had
inflicted upon him. Had it however been made
known to the Judges that the words " safe custody"
comprised a punishment ten times as great in one part
of the country as another, and that what was " safe
custody" in the prisons of the Queen's Bench or tile
Fleet, was slow murder in that of Chester, they would,
doubtless, have regulated his sentence accordingly.
(From the Courier.)
Colonel Sibthorp performed an acceptable piece of
service to the public in bringing before the House a series
of the grossest jobs ever perpetrated by any Govern-
ment in favour of any political partisan ; we mean the
grants of public moneys to a person of some notoriety
of the name of Dr. Bowring. It appears that during
a period of nine years this individual has con-
trived to pocket, with the connivance of the Trea-
sury, the sum in the whole of 14,8581. 12s. 3d. for
"services stated to have been performed by him." In
the course of the discussion which ensued upon the
nature of those services some curious disclosures were
made, and particularly by Mr. D'lsraeli, who displayed
an acquaintance with his subject and his man far sur-
passing that of any other speaker. It does so happen
fortunately that the " services" of this salaried schemer
are to be found consigned in certain blue books,
nearly all of which have been laid periodically on
the table of the Common's House, and therefore are
open to the judgment of tile public. Let us examine,
therefore, the ❑ature of the " value received" for the
handsome allowance of three guineas per diem, and two
shillings mileage hr t:velling, besides separate payment,
for the reports when made. In the first place, to begin
like Mr. D'lsraeli, with hia last record of " service"—
the Doctor's foray into the German custom's league.
Of that Report no less than seventy-five pages con-
sist of compilations from the works of German
statists, which, as the Honourable Gentleman observed,
were " in the libraries of most Members, and probably
in that of Dr. Bowring" himself before he: st out on
his travels. So far, therefore, this work and this expe-
dition for any useful results might have been performed
in his study with as much utility as in Germany. More-
over, it will not be contended that the papers supplied
by Mr. Irving and the Custom-house here, which form
another considerable addition to the bulk of the Report,
had necessarily to be improved by transport to Germany
among the doctor's luggage, or constituted any item of
charge either upon his brains or his banker.