The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

SECOND EDITION

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

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BRITISH • FUNDS.
Bank Stock 159 i India Stock 247
rs per Cent Red
3 per Cent Cons B9-a Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red 96z, Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent 9B* Ex. Bilk, 1,000/....24d 16 pm
New 5 per Cent — ' Ditto 5001 l6 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small I 6 pm
Jan. 1860. l2& Bank Stock for Acct.., ~
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Opg. ...
Jan. 1860.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lOll Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5........ :Prussian, 5 per cent.
.1)
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, b per cent...... • it to, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9i
Ditto, 1824...:........... 20 Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent..:.... 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52h
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 1021
SHARES
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 32
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5Bl,
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Grand Junction Railway (100 paid) —
Ditto Half Shares (30 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)... .........
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) lsi
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 160
Lundon and Greenwich Railway (20 pd)
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
London and South Western

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING .PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

STAN DARD.—ThE SPEAKERSHIP.-It is not our in-
tention to enter into a controversy without our friend of the
Morning Herald, whether he or the Standard is best able
to give early and exclusive information—the public can
and will form their own judgment upon that point—but
we wish to set ourselves right with our Contemporary as
to a matter of fact. In the Herald of this morning we
find the following :
"In the list,' which we gave on the 21st of July we
subjoined theSe passages in reference to the name of Mr.
Shaw Lefevre
" ' The Speaker of the House of Commons—the Right
Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre (whose re-election it is said not to
be intended to oppose).'
" And again ; on the 22d of
We are by no means of the same political opinions
as Mr. Shaw Lefevre. But we abhor any propositions of
party' in relation to any gentleman, Whig or Conser-
vative, who has f►Cel the Speaker's chair with dignity,
with honour, and with impartiality . ' .
certain that Mr. Lefevre_ has earned the respect of all
parties in that position. It. is equally true, that although
the above notice (dated Pall-mall, July 21) made its ap-
pearance subsequently to our leading article of yester-
day, we remain under the same impression, on the subject
which we then and therein announced?:

" Never, to be sure, was a little expedition of discovery
th:i subject of more animadversion than ours. )Nre were
attacked, immediately, right and left, by all our craft and
calling. The Times, the Chronicle, the 'Morning Post, the
Globe, the Cowie`—all were angry—all reproved us,—
some disputed one -or- two of the nominations in our list,
—and even our fellow-labourer in the good cause, the
Standard, at first rebuked our inopportune promulgation
of such intelligence. The Sunday journalists took up the
theme, the country papers after them: hut with the Cou-
rier and the Post, the head and front of our offending'
appeared to be the having appropriated the Speakership
to Mr. Lefevre." _ _

Now, it is undoubtedly true that the Courier and the
Morning Post gave the Speakership to Sir Eardley
; but the Standard did not deny the accuracy of the
ilera!d's statement in that respect. On the 20th of
Ju!. , the evening preceding the publication of the
Heralds "list," the following paragraph appeared in the
Stnndard:—

_
"(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" We have reason to believe that the announcement
in a Contemporary of a determination on the part of the
Conservatives -tia oppose the re-election of the late
Speaker, Mr. Simile, Lefevre, is premature ; as we ap-
prehend that no definitive resolution has yet been'tzken
on that important subject."
And again, on the following day, the 21st, we said—
" " We give the following, as we have received it, from a
respected Correspondent, but we believe that we are cor-
rect. in saying, that nothing has been decided with respect
to the Spedership. It is true that what we have.said else-
where of the indelicacy and indiscreetness of bestowing
offices in a Government yet to be formed, does not apply
to the election of the Speaker, which is a matter com-
pletely within the power of the Conservative party, who-
soever shall be the Minister ; but it is obvious that while
so many Conservative Members are absent from town,
nothing can be definitively arranged.
" DIE SPEAKER.—Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., the
Conservative Member for North Warwickshire, it is now
confidently stated, will be the Speaker of the new Par-
liament. Tile re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre was
never for an
Th.,:___ant thought of by the Conservatives,
who are quite aavaie--Illat any such step would be taken
as a proof of weakness and disunion in their party. So
soon as Mr. Goulburn bad decided to accept the Home
Department, it was arraneed that Sir E. Wilmot should
be elected to the Speakership. The Conservative leader
is just as likely to second the Address to be moved by
Lord John Russell, as to consent to the re-election of
Air. Lefevre, the Radical Member for South Rants.
" Pall-mall, July 21, 1841.' "
It it clear, therefore, that so far from saying that the
re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre was to be opposed, we
hinted the very reverse ; but what we. did say we now
repeat, that until Sir R. Peel shall be called upon by the
Queen to form a Ministry, it is neither delicate nor dis-
creet to anticipate the names of those noblemen and gen-
tlemen who are likely to become members of his Cabinet.
COURIER.—If ever a Ministry in its death-bed
struggles had reason to pride itself on the difficulties,
embarrassments, cad financial deficits bequeathed to its
successors, the Melbourne unquestionably has, for it has
thrown all the affairs of the State, financial. foreign, co-
lonial, and domestic, into such perplexed and inextricable
confusion as to require the efforts of the .ablest and must
experienced statesman to readjust, arrange, or methodise,
them. It is quite unnecessary for Whig writers to tax
their imaginations in devising visionary difficulties for
Sir Robert Peel's Government, as the out-going
Cabinet has, with the admirable foresight and high-tened
patriotism characteristic of its party, provided an accu-
intilation of them sufficient to satisfy the wildest desires
of faction itself.."-Azor one of them separately would
test the capacity of the most skilful Minister, but in
their combined complexity they seem almost to set at
defiance wisdom itself. The State is labouring at this
moment under a complication of disorders that may
well challenge the utmost skill of Ile physician, and the
quacks now in attendance, finding themselves on the ,
eve of dismissal for incapacity and neglect, are endea-
vouring with all their might and cunning to aggravate
the distemper, and consequently enhance the difficulty
of the cure. There is, for instance, the China war,
hardly yet begun, with its attending expenditure and
risk—that war, upon the successful and happy termina-
tion of which tho Whig press had been so eloquently ex-
trauagant in January last. There is the M'Leod affair,
sti simple in itself, vet so delicate and so perilous ; an
affair which if timely handled had been settled without
danger or difficulty, but which being now surrounded
with so many entanglements, demands for its ami-
cable acljnstment (if such a contingensy be still pos-
sible) an effort of the highest statesmanship. -What
need to refer to the menacing and troubled aspect
of affairs in India—to the uneasy restlessness of Egypt,
or the suspicious watchfulness and half-hostile attitude
of France ? Equally needless would it be to dwell upon
the alarmir, deficit they leave behind them in the re-
venue, or the state of pu.rylysation to which their rash-
ness, their folly, and their incompetency, have reduced
the industrial and-6041inercial energies of the nation ?
And vet if the Cabinestpro
tem. be faithfully reprsented
by its organs of the press, is upon such exploits as
these that they pride themselves, and ground their hopes
of returning to office, sadder, but not wiser men. There
is, however, one point of their policy, one result of their
tto years' role, which as being that for which they claim
the highest degree of credit challenges a more seebarcstow
hing
notice than we have thought it necessary to
.1-)31 their foreign or financial blundering._ e need
hardly say, that we allude to the state of Ireland " Look
to Ireland," as the constant cry of' these convicted. cul-
prits. We may have unnecessarily as' wantonly involved
the country in war with China, we may have_ im-
prudently as needlessly insulted and alienated haveFre,
Russia may • have duped us, America may .
bullied us, our financial projects may have proved
blunders, all these things may be laid to our
charge ; but look to Ireland, there behold the ripe
and rich fruitS of our policy, it is there our statesmanship
had widest field and fullest scope for the development and
exercise of its healire, qualities and soothing virtues. We
Ihund it discontented disturbed, convulsed, and leave it
the scene of happy contentment and profound•tranquillity
—without a cloud on its horizon or a ripple on its sur-
face. And all these grand and gratifying changes resulted
from simply adopting-a course' of kind and conciliatory
policy towards that country. We put it to the candour
of our readers to say whether assertions of this
nature; Lave not constituted the constant and
never-ceasing theme of Whig-boastings for the
last six years—and whether, when upbraided with
their failures abroad, and the faults and follies of
their conduct at home—when charged with a system
of • paltry intermeddling in affairs that concerned
them not, and with grossly neglecting what equally
concerned 'the honour and the interests of the coun-
try—they did' not ' invariably point to the effects of
their policy in the sister country, as a counterbalance to
all theso accumulated imputations and disasters —as
an ample and . more than eqvivalent atonement for
the series' of crimes and calamities attending their
rule in every quarter of the globe. And yet
on what ~-,,ToundS• do these assertions rest ? on what
evidence are they put forth or maintained ? We well
recollect tho state of Ireland on Earl Grey's aches-
sioa to power, and have no hesitation in saying that it
was at that time less distinguished for agitation, ex-
citement, disturbance, or crime of any kind, than it had
been at any previous period of its history, or than it has
been at any time during the Whirr regime. The waters
of bitterness and strife, so violently' excited durir6e the
Itgitatien, and up to'the very passing of the Relief Bill,
avere then beginning to subside. Sectarian animosity
• Auld religious
and rancour
thwere • then beginning to abate—
e • great' bulk of the people were returning to the
pursuitseaseful
_of industry, •and even the staff of
raveling brainless agitators were beginning to forget
their vocall.an and laya_otrle in•tLt‘hu!.ir mischievous propen-
sities—the wealth
einalleipatca Roman Catholic body of the recently
body exhibited in their