The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-12 00:00:00


SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

MUMS!! FUNDS
Rank Stock — 1 India Stack —
3 per Cent. Bed 9114! Ditto Bonds ....... .....
3 per Cent Cuils. 93% Ditto Old Annuities t9•
3 per Cent, Red
New 3 ;,, per Cent 9.534 Ex. Bills, 1,600/ :2,1 14 pm.
New 5 per Cent — ; Ditto 5011/ 14 pm
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto Smail
Jan. MP -16 Bank Stock for ()pc —
Oct. 1859 • Irdia Stock fur r Opg —

Jan 180 ...
;3% (Consols for Opg, ......
f 0 HEM N FUN DS

Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, Spar cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bends lPrussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — 1 liussiam Borth, 5 per cent....
Chiiian, 6 per cent ..... :Ditto, Metallic —
Coloinh.an, Si per cent Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 11421.
P•anish. 3 per cent — Frencn, 5 per cent
Greek Bonds, 1525, 3 per ct. ,Exchange —f. —c
Mexican, 5 per cent............. iFi cech, 3 per cent
Ditto,6 per cent, 1825 — i Dutch, 24 per cent. 52 ii
Peruvian , 1823,6 per cent..... -7--. . lDitto, 5 per cent...... .100%

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SHARE!,
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
ondon 4nd Brightom Railway l9Ni
I'isn•lon and Birmingham Railway ..... .........
Ditto Quarter Shares 24
Manchester an:t Leeds Railway
North Midland 11,iilwaY
Ditto New Shares

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FR ,M THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
Hazlitt has a remark, exemplifying human inconsist,
enev, to the effect that there are persons who are disap-
pointed and displeased by the exhibition of the very virtues
which they had most desired to see exercised. These
people (he says) do not like you a bit the better
for realizing the good opinion they always enter-
tained of you." The conduct of some writers
on the Liberal side, daily as well as weekly, would
seem to indicate that the remark is founded, not on fan-
tastic speculation, but on a close observance of mankind.
The parties in question appear to think perpetual Pgree-
men,. upon one sul,ject tedious, and after months of con.
currence seek excitement in dissen,ion and conap!air.t.
They invert the maxim of Mrs. Malaprop, and ima-
gine that it is always better to end "with a little aversion."
They are so jealous of leadership, that they must pick an
occasion of quarrelling with it—" net in hate, but
all in honour !" Thus, because Lord J. Russell has
intimated an opinion that the House could not
go on for ever resorting to commitmeLts as the
only means of asserting and .maintaining its pri-
vileges— bec.u,,e he stated th t he had bald a conference
with the Lord Chanceller, and suggested that a declara-
tory law of a complete and comprehensive character
might, if obtainable from the House of Lords, prevent
future difficulties without a sacrifice of independence or
principle—the Noble Lord is a,ssiled in set terms, and
charged with " running away" and " irresolution "—with
misleading his own fiiends and not knowing his own mind !

(From the Standard)
The eternal case of the .• martyr Thorogood," the
coolest and most business like sufferer for conscience sake
to he found in the whole Martyrology, occupied the House
of Commons last night during a considerable part of its
sitting. The wretched f tree of this man's mock
self-devotion had been long before expressed in his
correspondence with Mr. Boykett. But Mr. Thomas Dun-
comb,- did not think it rash to bring the delusion once more
under the scorn of all rational and honest men, and Messrs.
Baines, end flume, and Hawes, and the rest of the Sectarian
knot, made the customary speskehes. Lord J. Russell treated
the martyr with little respect, and Sir S. Lushington gave
a frank and a very amusing history of the several steps of
vexatious pettifogging by which Thorogood has made his
way to the goal of his wishes, the jail of Chelmsford.
If we had any inalignant feeling toxards Dissen-
ters, such feeling would be amply gratified by last night's
exhibition, inched by the whole history of the " Thom-
good persecution ;" for never was th.re a case
of more transparent hypocrisy and fraud, or one better
calculated to draw disgrace upon all who are concerned in
getting it up and patronizing it.
( From the Courier.)
Tie discussion in the 1-I,:trie of Commons last night, on
the affair which is generally known as the " Monteagle
Joh," exhibited the Ministers in their usual position of
shuffling and weakness. Mr. Liddell moved for the papers
relating to this transaction, and took occasion to say that
the matter, as it a' present stood unexplained. bad very much
the air of a Ministerial job. The circumstance of the simul-
taneous retirement of Sir .John Newport from the office
of Comptrolkr of the Exchequer, with a 'pension of
one thousand A year. ard the appointment of Llrd
M-nteagle to the office so vacated, could not fail to
give rise to the suspicion that the arrangement was a
contrivance for placing the late Chancellor of the
Exchequer in a sinecure, or an office which was nearly a
sinecure, of 2,000/. a year. To this charge the present
Chancellor cif the Exchequer attempted an explanation,
which, without presuming to say whether it was satisfac-
tory or not to the House, we are quite sure will not be
considered satisfactory by the country.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT FOR JOINT-STOCK
COM ra NIES.—A new point was decided yesterday, by the Se-
lect Committee on Petitions, which may affect many Joint-
stoak Companies applying- for Bills in Parliament. A joint-
stock Insurance Company proved the insertion of the regular
policies in the London Gazette, but declined to offer any proof
of similar instructions in mny other paper, on the ground that
as it took no land and affected no particular locality, so
further notices were not called for by the standing order, which
is in the following terms, " Such notices shall b published in
three successive weeks in the months of October and Novem-
ber, or eiteier of them, in the London, Edinburgh, or Dubin
Gazette, and in some one and the same Newspaper of the
said county in which the city, town, or lands to hick such
Bill relates shall be situate." Mr. Northhouse, Parliamentary
Agent, contended that in a Bill fcr powers merely to sue and
be sued, there was no necessity for any further notices, than
those in the London Gazette, though it was the prevailing
practice to give them. Mr. Greene, the Chairman of the
Sub-Committee, No. 4, conferred with Mr. Aglionby, the
Chairman of the Sub-Committee, No. 3, after which the
Committee deailed that the view taken by Mr. Northhouse
was correct, and the Standing Orders were declared to be com-
plied with.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr. CORBALLY, the new member for Meath,
returned in tire room of Mr. Morgan O'Connell, took
the oaths and his seat.
A great number of private Bills were read a first
time, or advanced a stage.
CORN LAWS.
Mr. OSWALD presented a petition from the Cor-
poration of Glasgow, for the repeal of the Corn-laws.
CHURCH EXTENSION. •
Mr. PAKINGTON presented petitions from places
in Derbyshire, in favour of Church extension, and
against the continuance of the Parliamentary Grants
for the support of the College of Maynooth.
Sir E. WILMOT presented a petition from a place
in Warwick in fLivour of Church Extension.

E. KNATCH BULL presented a petition
from Ashford to the snme effeet.
CHURCH PATRONAGE.
Mr. ELLIOTT presented petitions from places in
Scotland against the intrusion of ministers into parishes
without the approbation of the parishioners.
THE SHERIFFS OF MIDDLESEX.
Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from a place
in Middlesex, complaining of the imprisonment of the
Sieriffs, and praying for their liberation.
THE, CASE OF THOROGOOD.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented a peti-
tion from a place in Yorkshire,praying for the release of
John Thorogood, and against the jurisdiction of the
Ecclesiastical Courts.

Mr. 13ANNERNIAN presented a petition from
Aberdeen, against the present system of Church
patronage.
Sir T. FREEMANTLE presented a petition from
Edinburgh, praying for Church extew-ion.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from the
Moderator and Presbytery of Glasgow, against the in-
trusion of non-acceptable ministers into parishes in Scot-
hind ; also a petition from a parish in the county of Pcm-,
broke, complaining of the want of religious instruction,
and praying for increAsed Church accommodation. Also
a petition from a lorp number of Cotton-spinners and
weavers in Cornwall, pra3-ing, for an alteration in the
Corn-laws, and for the repeal of the duty on raw cotton.
Mr. WARD presn!cd a petition from a parish in
Essex, praying for the release of John Thorogood, and
the abolition of Chureh-rates. Also a petition from
Sheffield, complaining of the rWsrepresenta:ions of
Socialism, and praying that Robert Owen might be
examined before a Committee of the House.
LITHOGRAPHED PETITIONS.
The SPEAKER wished to call the attention of the
House to the fact that a petition which had been pre-
sented was lithographed. Now it was against the orders
of the Howe that any printed petitions should be pre-
seated, and the wished to draw the attention of the House