The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-09 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION

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THE FUYDS—(CLosfNG PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock ... India Stock ...245
3 per Cent Red. — Ditto Bonds 2pm
3 per Cent Cons BBi Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red..
New ai per Cent 9Bi Ez. Bills, 1,000/....24d 13 pm
New 5 per Cent — . Ditto 5001 l3 pus
Long Annuities to expire , Ditto Sma11.
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian 80nd5....
Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent —
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824. —
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct —

'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 3O
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent ll2l
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 2li
Ditto, Deferred ...
,French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 51
Ditto, 5 per cent 991

SHARES -
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)... ......... 40i
London and Blackwall Railway (2'5 paid) 9
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (2/ paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 78

INSOLVENT COURT.—THIS DAY.
The Court was occupied during the day in hearing
applications to bail.

IN THE MATTER OF SAMCEL GARWOOD.

The insolvent, who had been in the employment of a
gentleman named Parkinson, as coachman, and was ar-
rested for the small sum of 21., applied to be released on
bail. The Learned Commissioner, in accepting bail, was
informed by one of the sureties that he came forward at
the request of the insolvent's master, upon which he re-
marked from the schedule it appeared the debt was in-
curred to the detaining creditor for a public-house
score, and it did certainly strike him as rather odd that
the insolvent's master should interest himself so much
in getting bail, when the original debt (since raised by
law costs to 9/. or 10/.) was only 21. There was more in
it than he could fathom.—Bail accepted.

IN THE MATTER OF JOHN MOORE.
The insolvent applied to be bailed, and called, as his
sureties, two persons, one of whom, Mr. Salmon, a
tanner, residing in Red Lion-street, underwent a strict
examination by the Learned Commissioner, and was
eventually refused.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS—Mr. Salmon, have you
ever been bail for any other person before. Mr. Salmon
—Yes, and I would be bail for you if you wanted it.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS—You will please to re-
collect yourself, and not be so flippant in your answers.
In how much might you have become responsible in
those cases ? Mr. Salmon—l can't exactly say.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS—About how much ?
Mr. Salmon—l gave you your answer before.
Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS (throwing the papers on
the table)—l shall not accept as bail an individual who
insults the Court, and I shall take care he shall not
appear here again in that capacity.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
THE REVENUE.
STANDARD.—In consequence of the 10th of Octo-
ber filling on Sunday, the Quarter's Revenue will be
made up this evening. We understand the account will
show a trifling increase on the corresponding quarter of
last year. There is a slight falling oil' in the Customs.
In the Excise there is an increase ; the Post-office re-
venue has slightly increased, but not to any amount.
The principal increase is in the Sugar Duties, which
confirms the soundness of the opinions expressed by Mr.
Goulburn in May last, when Mr. Baring brought for-
ward his proposition for an alteration of the duty on
foreign sugar. As we before said, however, we under-
stand that on the aggregate the amount of the quarter's
income will be rather over the corresponding quarter of
last year.
GLOBE.—The American correspondence of a Morn-
ing Paper contains an intimation that the M'Leod affair
is not likely to end in a war, because Sir Robert Peel
has been placed at the head of the Government. We
really cannot see how the fact of the Right Honourable
Baronet's accession to power can possibly affect the deci-
sion of the Jury in the case of M'Leod, any more than
the verdict of an inquest at which he might happen to
preside, could be influenced by the return of Mr. Wakley
as Member for Finsbury. During the trial, that is by this
time, we trust, at an end, we do not suspect that the
Counsel on either side attempted to give in evidence the
change in the British Government, as being at all mate-
rial to the issue ; and it is therefore mere rhodomontade
to declare that M'Leod's case has a better chance of
being satisfactorily disposed of now that Sir Robert
Peel has been allowed to form a Ministry. The decision,
then, that will be arrived at cannot in the smallest
degree depend upon the recent formation of a Tory
Cabinet ; and it would be absurd to ask whether the con-
duct of the British Government, in the event of the con-
demnation of the prises..., will b• difroresit, now that the
Conservatives are in place, from what it would have been:
if there bad been still a Liberal Cabinet. In case of an un-
satisfactory result the Whigs had instructed their Minis-.
ter to withdraw at once. Could the Liberals have done more,.
or will the Tories do less ? And if Sir R. Peel sanctions this.
course, how on earth will his accession to place have•
lessened the chances of hostility ? With regard to any
particular sympathy between the British Government
and that of the United States, which might induce the
1 atter to fall more readily into the former's views, it
can hardly be
~supposeel that republican rulers can.
co-operate more cordially with Tories than with
Liberals ; particularly when it is remembered that:
the English Conservatives have greatly censured the
Whig Ministry for not assuming a much more de-
cided tone of hostility to the American authorities than
was considered by Lord Melbourne's Cabinet either ne-
cessary or expedient. We ardently hope, and strongly
anticipate, as we did long before the Tories came into
office, that peace will be maintained ; but the blessing,
if we are allowed to enjoy it, will have been, under Pro-
vidence, the work of the late and not of the present Go-
vernment, however strenuously the latter may strive to
pilfer the merit of its predecessor's policy.
COURIER.—There is nothing so disgusting in the
whole range of party polemics as the wilful and
habitual frauds and falsehoods perpetrated by Whig-
Radical writers and parties on the Corn-law question,
whenever the comparatively venial offence of absolute
ignorance cannot be pretended. The Morning Chronicle
is the most patent, because a diurnal, practitioner
in the two schools both of ignorance and sys-
tematic aberrations from truth. A recent article
on the effects of the Corn-laws upon wages, or ra-
ther on the quantities of bread which certain rates
of wages of the same descriptions of workmen will pur-
chase respectively here and abroad, is the last striking
illustration of the correctness of the facts we have chal-
lenged. The writer, in the first place, commences with
taking for granted, as an irrecusable authority, a report,
published some time since by Mr. Symons, on the
comparative rates of wages in this country and on the
Continent. Now, although we believe Mr. Symons to have
executed his mission and made his inquiries in a much
more conscientious spirit, and with a more scrupu-
lous regard to truth, than the Smiths, Cobdens, and
Bowrings, yet we are far from conceding that he pos-
sessed, or possesses, those indisputable and special qua-
lifications for such a task, without which any statement
or opinion must be liable to prove extremely fallacious
when brought to the test. If, however, the Chronicle
had only fairly reported his authority, he would hive
acquainted hl3 readers with the conclusion arrived at,
and partially avowed by Mr. Symons, that, with all the
disad'vantages of high-priced food the condition of the
English labourer materially and physically is superior
and much more enviable on the whole than that of the
continental workman. As we have remarked on, the
want or special qualifications for exact research which -
muse- -always tend to impeach the competency of that,
gentleman as a standard authority in the case, it is only
proper to state in our justification that, whatever May
be his pretensions on the score of gTeral principles, he
is so utterly wanting in all knowledge of the practical
details of trading and manufacturing economy, as to be
quite incapacitated even for instituting a comparison of
wages betwixt British and foreign mechanics apparently
of the same class, and engaged in the same description of
labour.

STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 28.—One of the most
important questions of political economy will probably
bc soon decided, as far as the Royal Council is concerned,
namely, that ofa fixed duty on the importation and expor-
tation of corn. Like England, we have had for severalyears
a slidding scale. As the King himself proposed in the
last Diet, and the proposal in its principal feature was
approved by the Estates, we should not think it possible
that difficulties could arise in the final decision, and yet
some persons contemplate obstacles hard to be overcome
on the part of members who allege supposed privilegse.
By the death of Dr. Forester, uncle of Lord
Forester, a large amount of Church patronage becomes
vacant, the Rev. Dr. having, as appeared by the Report
of the Ecclesiastical Revenue Commissioners, held the
following preferments :—Prebend in the Cathedral of
Worcester ; vicarage of St. John, Bedwardine, Worces-
ter; rectory of Little Wenlock, Salop ; rectory of Brose-
ley, Salop; rectory of Linley, Salop; and perpetual curacy
of Benthall, Salop. The vicarage of St. John, Bedwar-
dine, is in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Worcester ; the rectories of Little Wenlock, Broseley
and Linley, are in the patronage of Lord Forester ; and
the perpetual curacy of Benthall is in the patronage of
tlAe vicar of Much Wenlock, Salop. By the Act of 1.9.`„
and 2d Vict. c. 106, no clergyman can in future hold
more than two livings, and the two must be within ten
miles of each other, and under a certain amount in value
and also in population.
We have to announce the death of Lord Monson,
which took place on Thursday. His Lordship was born
in February, 1809, and succeeded to the Peerage while
in his first year. He married in 1834, Theodosia,
youngest daughter of Latham Blacker, Esq., by whom,
he has not, we believe, left any children. If so, his
successor is Mr. William John Monson, only son of the
late Hon. Colonel William Monson, who is married and
' has a family, his eldest son, William john, having been
born in February, 1829.
On Monday the Teviot, one of the steam friga'.es
intended to carry the mails to and from the West ladies
was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. I.Cobert
Duncan and Co. She went off in fine style, air:idst the
cheers of a vast concourse of spectators. The 'Teviot is
the sixth vessel of this line that has been built in the
Clyde.—Geenoch advertiser.

MIDDLESEX COURT OF RE-

As that vaie in whose busorn tile bright ers

And so, no doubt, the monks of Whitefriars in days
of yore sung in jovial " roundelaie," of the pretty little
valley which, in the language of Fitzstcpbens, received
the "choice fountains of water, sweet, wholesome, and
clean, springing forth among the glistening pebble
stones," from " Holywell, Clerkenwell, and St. Cie-
' ment's well ;" and it would not be altogether wicked to
opine that as their holinesses, after indulging in a joy-
Gus gaze upon the then delightful uplands of Hemp-
stead and Highgate, sunk into delicious repose to the
murmurings of " the River of Wells," they dreamed of
other things than that
" Their souls, like its waters, might mingle in peace."
The most prophetic of that idle folk, however,
never dreamed of the mishap that would befal
Master Frederick Gulley in the waters of the
said valley rt hen " tie River of Wers' should
be metamorphosed into—F!eet ditch, and the " ver-
dant slopes" and " sweet-retiring walks" should bo
" transmogrified " into Saffron-hills, Back-hills, Cow-
crosses, Field-lane!, and Farringdon-tnarkets. With-
out attempting to unwind a most learnedly and in-
tricately spun discourse upon the strange and innumer-
able mutations of our metropolitan streams and valleys,
let the case of " Gulley v. Frampton " furnish an ex-
emplification of the vicissitudes to which they are sub-
jected.
Mrs. Gulley's son Frederick had " just had all his
clean things put on," and gone out to fly his kite in
the neighbourhcod of Battle-bridge, when the son of
Mrs. Frampton joined him. The Lite was " rose," as
Mrs. Gulley described it, and Mrs. F.'? 500 wanted to
send " a messerg er" up to it ; Mrs. G.'s son refused
permission, and a bout of fistycuffs ensued, during
which the latter was by the former rolled into the
" River of the Wells," and got a soaking in its " sweet
and wholesome waters" for his juvenile urbanity.
" Here, Gentlemen," said Mrs. Gulley, who had be-
come animated as she proceeded with her tale "here,
Gentlemen," said she, "is Master Freddy's white
trousers," untying a bundle which she had placed on
the green-baized table, and holding up to the view of
the Court with as much tenderness as if they had been
tinder, a pair of blue-black miniature unmentionables.
" White trousers, ma'am, did you say ?" inquired a
half-dozing Juror.
" Yes," answered Mrs Gulley, " white trousers,
clean on the very afternoon he went out with his kite."
" And where was it he fell in, did you say ?" asked
the Juror.

" Fleet Ditch," answered Master Frederick Gulley,
stepping from behind thQ protection of his mamma's
petticoat.

The Juror—What the Fleet Ditch as runs down
agin Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames?
" The identical ditch," replied Mrs. Gulley.
" It's a wonder he warn't smothered," ejaculated the
Juror—" a reeler wonder."
" And yet I've heard," observed a second Juror,
" that ships of war used to go up it, and that there was
a battle fought upon it romewherc near the Small-pox
Hospital."
A third Juror—l've the whole history of it at home,
from the hills at Hampstead down to Chatham-place.
" Indeed," said the two other Jurors, in one voice.
" Third Juror—Yes ; I bougbt it for fourpence.
There's the full particulars about what Hatton-garden
and all Clerkenwell was before ever Queen Elizabeth
was thought of, and

But the colloquy was cut short by the Commis-
SIONER calling upon the three learned pundits to attend
to the case.

It was admitted by Mrs. Frampton that her gon
rolled Master Gulley into the ditch, but she pleaded
provocation Much wag said on both sides, and ulti-
mately the parties retired to settle matters.
" If you two gentlemen will meet me to-night at the
-," said the fortunate possessor of the tourpenny
pamphlet to his brother Jurors, " we'll have a pipe to-
gether, and go through it."
Agreed non. con.

The Jurors are, doubtlessly, by this time, as well ac-
quainted with the ancient beauties of the " vallies com-
mencing at Battle-bridge, and extending to the banks of
the Thames," as Fitzstephens or the Danes themselves.

PARIS CORRECTIONAL POLICE.
A LUCRETIA (NOT BORGIA).—ThO hero of a case
which was heard a few days since, by name Guillaume
Lebeau, had li:tle to thank Dame Nature for in the
configuration of his features, for he was assuredly one
of the ugliest of her productions. Strange to say,
however, this Quasimodo had ingratiated himself into
the good graces of a very pretty young girl, who, after
due court, he had prevailed on to be his "for better,
for worse," and they lived very happily together. The
extraordinary disparity in the appearance of this worthy
pair, induced a gay Dan Juan, of the Faubourg to ima-
gine he might make an easy conquest of the lady. The
name of this Adonis, for so he considered himself, was
Anatole ; and, for the furtherance of his stherne on the
wife, he sought the acquaintance of her husband, and
became in a short time quite a friend of the family.
Finding himself thus situated be began to consi3er of
the means of carrying his plan into execution. While
thus pondering, fortune appeared to favour his views by
giving him an opportunity, during the absence of the
husband, of " unbosoming" himself to the lady, and of
" unfolding his tale" of love into what he hoped to find
her willing ears. But in this case be had reckoned
without either his host or hostess. The lady immedi-
ately threw a damper on his ardour, and told him that
if he persisted in such language she would inform her
husband of his intended treachery.
Anatole was not, however, to be discouraged, and at
another interview resuming his addresses, she really car-
ried her threat into execution. The husband, as may
be supposed, was in a frenzy at this disclosure, and
Anatole entering most mal apropos before the first
burst of passion had gone off, was immediately assailed
by the eraaged husband, and soundly reminded that it
was not handsomeness of features that could command
success with a virtuous wife, and the would-be Don
Juan retired from the scene of action with a face so
disfigured arto prevent all his schemes of seduction for
sa me time to come. It was for this assault and bat.
to ry the husband now had his place among the prisoners
at the' bar.
On being questioned by the President what he had
too say to the charge, Lebeau answered—Yes, I did
c einmit the assault, and let him state to the Court why
I did so.
Anatole—Because he imagined that I was paying
c ourt to his wife.
Madame Lebeau—There was no imagining in it ; it
w as truth, and it was I who told my husband of it.
Anatole—But a wife has no business to set on her
asband to beat one in this way.
Madame Lebeau—l told you several times to be
q uie t with your nonsense, and it was not until you had
p era isted the third time that I did tell him.
L ebeau---And I soon put an end to it ; and that is
the whole of the affair.
A natole—You beat we to a mummy.
L ebeau—Not at all. I only gave you a gentle tap
on y our nose to spoil your beauty and prevent your
bei.m; so vain of yourself, and trying to seduce other
me gi's wives.
Anatole—You pummelled me all over. I have the
eel lificates of the medical men who saw me.
Lebeau—Well, well, with all my heart. Let the
Co urt condemn me if I am in the wrong, but although
1, we my trial, I have saved my wife.
rh, Court, however, did not condemn him, but, ap:
pre( tie ting the manly conduct of the husband acquitted
him oa f the assault, and condemned Anatole to all'cosbs.
4rfhe pretty and virtuous wife tcok her Crustal:Alt arum`
awl t ripped gaily out of Court, saying to the, chagrined
Antt ale, " You see what you get by attempting to se-
d•uce other men's wives, although their husbands may
tot b e an Adonis."

IL' UMOURS ANENT THE KIRK.

' C'.iere were yesterday a great Variety of rumours
a& it in town, with respect to the measure of Church
pat ification, which Sir William Rae alluded to in his
• ape ech at the late election for Bute. It was said that
a E ill For accomplishing this object was actually in the
prit lc r's hands—that it had been approved by the
lead in 4 Non-Intrusionists—that Sir G. Sinclair had
gon, a i o London in the end of last week with full powers
on the part of "the Church"—(as the Edinburgh clique
calls itself)—that a call by the majority of pa-
tishia tiers was to be the requisite plaster for all sores—
that,.l sets were to be introduced in the working of
pat? '0 nage, which, sinful though it be, and anti-scrip-
tur 11 , is yet to be swallowed along with the temporal-
itie a annexed to it—and, in short, that the Gordian-
ko at is to be neatly and quietly untied by some rmgi-
cal hand, hitherto untried in the fashions job of setting
th, i Kirk to rights. All this, we have good reason to
thi a.k, is sheer romance. It was impossible for Sir W.
R. r,„ who was at Rothcsay on Tuesday last, to go
the nc eto London, where he has since been, and from
wh 3a ce he has again departed, and to concoct even
the : rudest draft of an Act of Parliament in the
c,otirs, ) of two rapid jourreys within the week ;
and, t heretore, the printing aid all the rest of it may be
ffairly thrown overbor.rd as a weak invention of the
en coy y. Sir William Rae is too discreet a man to
cc nip romise Limse:f or his chief on an intricate subject
of th i 3 kind ; and Sir Robert Peel stands on too high
gr owl ,d to commit himself (after the Renfrew affair)
it to .the hands of such negotiators as Mr. Alexander
I- )e,,10p, Mr. Candlish, and Mr. John Hamilton. It
is not ver)' likely that the Government would commit
it ;elf rashly in this matte:, when reserve and de..
la 37, for the purpose of mature deliberation, is the
ii• to -of policy which has been adopted with regard
tP--- el very other branch of national affairs. It is
tafnitti 1 that Ow Ambassadors of the high party
who ht iv° returned from London, give out that they
have ; lot obtained anything by their voyage, except
that +.41, ley have learned that the other party have not
got tili- ear of the Government. Just so—Sir Robert
P( ;el ig nt t likely to make such ambassadors the depo-
si';orics of L is State secrets, and, in the meantime, we
small contt •nn a to treat all the sinister repolts spread
• t.bread on eil -i. subj.ect, for obvious purposes, as the 1
emanations of
14, tons Iraud.—.Edinbw•gh Observer.