The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-11 00:00:00

BOURSE.-.PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 9.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 net Cents lll 75 111 75 111 35 ... 111 50
4% per Cents 101 '75 ... 101 75 ... Ell 75 ... 101 75
4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ... 98 .. 98
3 per Cents 77 30 77 30 ... 77 10 ... 77 10
sank of France
L,flitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1055 —10,5 ...1055 ...1055

5000 f. Shares 5100 ...5165 ...5165 ...SIM
ielglan Bank
5 per Cents IOIB,E ... 101% ... 101% ... 101 N
3 per Cents 7O 25 ... 70 25 ... 70 25 ... 70 25
New Loan lOl% ... 112 ... 101% ... 102
panish Active 25 ... 25 ... 25 ... 25
Passive 6 ... 61,6 ... 6 ... 6%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ... 12% ... 19% ... 1944
Neal olitan lOl 80 ... 101 80 ... 101 80 ... 101 80
Roman IOIBA ... 101% ... 101 M ...101%
......

RAILWAY SHARES'.
St. Germain
Versailles.R. B 407 50 ... 407 50 ... 405 ... 405
L.B. 315 ... 315 ... 313 15 313 75
Orleans ..
Strasburg to Bale 242 50 ... 242 52 ...:42 50 ... 24? 50
Montpellier to Cette
Rouen 4OO ... 460 ... 460 460
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCO 8.
Money. Bt.ls.
tctual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 87% 83%
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 160% lel%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1937, 5 per cent. 95% 96
Exohange on London, One month l2 02%
Trio months
Dutch Papers, Marck 9.
BELGIAN N UNDS—BatlisllLd, 111Aaci
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 11934
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per-Cent B9
---- 3 per Cent.
Thirty.seven— 69%
9J
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent BB
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent lO2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... 87k
National Society .
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, March 9.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.Vsanna, MARCH I.
five per Cents. Mctalliques
Four per Cents. 9:
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
....Allgemeine &thing, March 7

Madrid Papers of the 2d inst. have come to
hand, but they do not bring a syllable of news of
any. interest. There was but little business doing
on the Bourse. The Five per Cents. were nego-
tiated at 2S 13-16 at sixty days without premium,
and at fifty days with premium.

Sir Robert Peel has had a new office assigned
him by his Tory friends. He is said by a writer
in the Times to be " the arbiter between social
and political interests of such moment as the
world has never seen balanced before." Poor
Sir Robert, what awful responsibility! The past
and the future are in conflict, the aristocracy and
the democracy are at issue, Church Establish-
ments
and the Voluntary Principle are striving
for mastery, knowledge is in hostile collision with
faith, and of all these rivalries, only to be settled
by time giving the victory to truth, Sir Robert
Peel is now said to be the arbiter. The philoso-
pher in Rasselas, who was driven mad by the
thought that he was charged with the regu-
lation of the weather, did not assume such an
awful responsibility as the sane writer of the
Times heaps on Sir R. Peel. Arbiters, however,
are generally chosen for their impartiality.
Sir Robert Peel, on account of his par-
tiality, is repudiated by one of the great par-
ties. He is the liveried lackey of one party of
the aristocracy, and of Church Establishments,
and on no point, except, incidentally, on that of
knowledge, is he favourable to one of the con-
flicting parties and principles. To take a parti-
zan for an arbiter is absurd, and Sir Robert has
never been elected to that high office by the
voluntaries or the democrats. It is a mistake to
assign such an office to him, unless as dealing be-
tween the two factions of the Tories. The Mem-
ber of Parliament who .ascribes this office to
him is a Tory, and has unconsciously revealed
the secret of his party. It is split into a hungry
crew who will have office on any terms, and also
a bigoted crew who will seek it, and only accept
it, on the uncompromising principles of religious
intolerance. Sir Robert has to steer his course
and balance his cause between these two parties,
which is, we presume, what the Tory Member
of Parliament means by describing him as the
arbiter between the social and political interests
of the Tories.

THE COWARDICE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.—
The Scotsman justly says, "it is the cowardice of
the middle and wealthy classes which enables a
creature like Sir Andrew Agnew to assume the
privilege of prescribing to men of ten times his
capacity what they ought, or ought not, to do on
Sunday." Does the Scotsman include itself
amongst the middle and wealthy classes ? We
ask the question, because we keenly remember
that the Scotsman and its friends succumbed to
the priesthood on another point, when the Lord
Provostship of Edinburgh was at issue ; and re-
flected very unnecessarily, we thought, some of
the odium which the priesthood threw at Mr.
Harmer, on that gentleman. When such jour-
nals as the Scotsman lend their countenance to
malignant religious persecutions, we cannot be
surprised at the priesthood and their friends dic-
tating how the Sabbath should be observed. As
long as they are allowed to trample on the
liberty and fair fame of individuals, why should
they not prescribe to the slaves, by whose aid
they are enabled to persecute, how they shall
employ. their Sunday ? Time wealthy, middle,
and indeed all the mercantile classes who now
begin to groan under the dominion of the priest-
hood, affecting the conveniences of commerce, are
justly punished by that same heavy yoke they
Have long laboured to fix on the rest of mmkind.
God is just, and of our pleasant vices makes
instruments to scourge