The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SECONDEDITION-

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
. .
3 per Cent. Red 924 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 91i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red........ 1001 Ditto New Annuities... 89*
New 3i per Cent
New 5 per Cent ...
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 24 pm
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct...253i
Jan. 1860... l3 Consols for Acct......... 91d
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditt0......
13razilian Bonf's... ..
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ... 115 i
Chilian, 6 per clnt 4.li Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 26*
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .. 121
Danish, 3 per cent.... French,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange .
Mexican, • 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. _c,
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 29i Dutch, 2* per cent...... 524
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 102 i
SHARES.

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 74
Bristol and Exeter Railway
Eastern Counties Railway
Great North of England Railway
Great We.tern Railway
Ditto New Shares 54
Hull and Selby
•London and Brighton Railway ..... ... 26i
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway
Ditto Quarter Shares
London and South Western Railway ... 57
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) lll
North Midland Railway
South Eastern and Dover 7i

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PXPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The termination of the Session naturally suggests to
us, whose business it has been to discuss its measures
and record its acts, another duty, no less imperative.
The results of the Session, and the prospects of the
Government and of the country, as indicated by the
position of parties at its close, are no less interesting to
the public than they are to the politician. On the Ist
of January last we wrote as follows, in an article in which
were largely discussed the position and prospects of
the Government and its opponents at that time :
"The retrogression of the Tories from the false position
they took up for the purpose of imposing on the unthink-
jag part of the people, and the bold and undisguised avowal
of the principles which constitute their system, has placed
between them and office a distance far greater than that
which seemed to exist at the commencement of 1839.
The intermediate space between two points may be in-
creased by the retrogression of the one as well as by the
advance of the other. The Tories have furnished proof
of what we have invariably asserted, that Toryism is un-
changed and unchangeable. We need not insist upon
the utter impossibility of a Government formed on Tory
principles, even if permitted to assume office, being able
to retain it. In the unmistakable exhibitions of unmiti-
gated Toryism we see an accession of strength to the ex-
isting Administration, seeing it fjrms the only barrier be-
tween the Tories and office." _ . .

The well-feigned ridicule and indignant scorn with
which our predictions and anticipations were received
by the Tory journals will be remembered by many, and
may be seen by all who feel sufficient interest in the
twitter to induce them to refer to the files of those Jour-
nals. Whether the event has not justified the predic-
tion is, happily. now no doubtful question ; it is seen in
the distracted, disjointed condition of the Tory party—
it is read in the reproaches and upbraidings of the or-
gans of that party, which vie with each other in heap-
ing contumelies on the Tory leaders, whom they were
moot to hold up as infallible by their wisdom, unim-
peachable in their patriotism, and immaculate for their
purity T.

(From the courier.)
If the American Presidents be too diffuse in their
seasonal speeches, they do certainly communicate some
inforttation to their temporary subjects. But who
can peruse the Speech of a Sovereign of France or
Ea;land and say that he has learned anything
which he has not previously known ? We leave
our neighbours to the care of their own mock-
displays of wisdom, and confine ourselves to the ridi-
culous Whig compositions which are annually deli-
vered from the throne, and which, notoriously the com-
position of some self-conceited politician or dabbler in
literature, disgrace the country if they are to be consi-
dered in any other respect than matters of courtly
form. The Royal Speeches under the present ad-
ministrations rtflect no credit—no great c!cdit—
upon the authors, unless, as we have intimated
an opinion, they may have intended to conceal
what they formally profess to explain or de-
clare. Inasmuch as nothing of public value re-
sults from these things—to give them the best name they
deserve—and inasmucn as both French and English
appreciate them, why should such Tom-foolery
be practised ? The Herald, whose natural and ac-
quired talents are well worthy of better objects, has
been at the pains to dissect the last piece of trash of
the class that we notice. If Ministers cannot write
better things than for a great number of years we
have received from the Throne, let Parliaments meet
and dissolve without the trumpery. There might be
same occasion for official speeches when the iron-clad
warrior, whose whole attention was directed to the
smithy and the stable, was a legislator ; but now that
the cons mon people are competent to judge for them-
selves they need no instructions from Lords Russell,
Melbourne, and Normanby.
(From the Standard.)

We have heat d of a plan calculated to promote ex-
pedition in the art of printing, by which it is proposed
to cast whole sentences in single types ; so that, on
this principle, all the hackneyed portions of a minis-
terial address in Parliament may come before the public,
if necessary, at a few minutes' notice. There is
certainly no clas of composition whatever, which would
afford a more favourable opportunity for testing the prac-
ticability of such a device than a Royal Speech ; or cer-
tainly
that would occasion, under such circumstances, so
little trouble to the printer, as the parliamentary pro-
logues and epilogues which are usually put into her
Majesty's mouth by her present Ministers. A " case"
with some four or five partitions would suffice to hold
materials for a dozen such speeches ; their " common-
places" differing only in the order of their arrangement
as occasion might require. Be the condition of the
country what it may, whether we have rebellion at
home, the immediate prospect of war with the nearest
and most powerful of our neighbours, or are over-
whelmed with pacific assurances from all parts of
the world—a superabundant revenue or an impe-
rative demand for new taxes—a closely-balanced
House of Commons, which leaves Ministers in a bare
ni,nority on several of the most vital questions of the
Session, and affords their opponents a moral triumph
up)n all ; or a large majority in their favour, whenever
they condescend to require it—whether our foreign po.
liey is the admiration or contempt of Europe—what-
ever be the circumstances under which Whig proroga-
tion speeches are concocted, they differ in no material
respect from each other. The same stolid indifference
to danger from without or reproaches from within, in-
ariably characterises them , the amount and warmih
of the congratulatory period: with which they abound
being carefully proportioned to the number of difficul-
ties oy which the country may happen to be surrounded
at the moment.

PRINCE ALBERT.—The r ported accident to
hii Royal ftehness Prin Aitwit, which atippeared in a
part of our impression, happily proves without the slightest
Curviation.

DEPARTURE OF TILE COURT FOR WINDSOR.
—This afternoon her Majesty the Queen, his Royal I-Bgh-
ess V ince Albert, with a numerous suite, left Bucking-
ham Palace for Wit,dsor C•i,itle, where they would arrive
Wore dinner. The Queen and Prince were accompac.ied
hr- their illustrious visitors, the King and Queen of the
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LIFE AT TILE LAEKEN.