The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

Plig SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY', JULY-27, 1841.

seriously mistaken if the very magnitude of that ma:,ority
be not felt by himself to be one of the most embarraSs-
ing circumstances connected with his present perplexing
and painful position.
HERALD.—Of all British Ministers, he who presides
over the Foreign Department is the least uncontrolled,
and is, except on rare and momentous occasions, practi-
cally irresponsible. During the past ten years, the people
of these kingdoms and their Representatives have been
so exclusively devoted to altering and changing, and
piecing. and mending their domestic institutions--to war-
ring with each other on grounds to a great extent imagi-
nary, that no event beyond our own shores, however
dangerous, no encroachments on the rights of Europe,
however open, could arrest public attention, or bring the
nation to a perception of its material interests. During
this decade of national perversity Lord Palmerston in
the Foreign-office of Downing-street was in reality as
despotic as the Autocrat himself. The pages of " Ilan-
sard's Debates" of the reformed House of Commons on
subjects of foreign policy would not form a moderate-
sized pamphlet ; and on no occasion when that dis-
tasteful subject has been .discussed—Spanish politics
only excepted--has Lord Palmerston fairly met the sub-
ject. If papers were.winted, or explanations asked for,
his Lordship interposed the public interests ;" if some
determined Member of the Opposition or retired diplo-
matist did get a House to listen to his exposition of some
grievous injury or national insult, his Lordship turned
to the Treasury benches, and scattering forth insinua-
tions—ambiguas voces—of factious motives, as a signal
for Ministerial cheers, proceeded to avoid—his Lord-
ship is a complete master of the art of " avoidance "
the question really before the Legislature by a series of
vague generalities, such as
"peace," "civilisation,
•`liberty," " increasing commerce," " interest of na-
tions," and hosts of general propositions embodied in
other similar abstract terms, all introduced for the pur-
pose of carrying away men's minds from the examina-
tion of any tangible thing connected with their country's
safety or-interest.

MONEY MARK tilt and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS' OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—A correspondent, who writes under the sig-
nature of " Fair nlay" seems to have taken quite a
wrong view of our remarks on the minor Stock-etchange,
founded by the " shut out," as if the difference between
them and the members of the " House" were merely
that between large and small dealers ; or, 6 use his own
illustration, between wholesale and retail. Now, the ob-
jection to the inferior class of stock jobbing is not to the
quantity sold, but to the species of security Which forms
the commodity of the market. The smallest quantity of
Consols, for instance, can be purchased on the Stock-
exehange, to suit the convenience of the " retail dealer"
(if that expression may be used) ; but certain stocks have
become so much disgraced, that the committee of the
Stock-exchange have altogether refused to quote them.
These are, however, sought after by certain petty specu-
lators, who are distinguished from the members of the
house by their total disregard for the worth of the secu-
rities they deal in, or th dishonesty which may have
given rise to them. The comparison should properly be
between the respectable grocer and the dealer in da-
maged tea, and not between the traders in large and
small quantities.
ADVERTISER.—The letters received to-day from
Germany add very little to what has already transpired
respecting the failure of the Vienna bankers ; but some
of the advices before us state that it had been discovered
that there was a deficit in the firm of Guy Muller of one
million of florins as far back as 1839. This had given
rise to expressions of indignation among a few of the
wealthy depositors with the firm, and most of the noble
families and annuitants were reducing the balances they
held at their different bankers, from a feeling of appre-
hension engendered by their stoppage. The Empress
Dowager, it appears, will be a loser to some extent. The
readiest way of accounting for the unfortunate money
crisis in Vienna, is said to be the political occurrences of
1840 and the July treaty, and the enormous depreciation
in the value of the Austrian State securities and shares
that has been going on ever since, under the fear of a
war, and which, from that period to the 15th instant, is
estimated to have been not less than thirty-one millions
of florins. This, therefore, was so much capital taken
out of circulation in the brief space of twelve months,
and it may be some time before a reprise occurs to any-
thing like such an extent. . _

HERALD.—Accounts from Graham's Town to the
13th May have been received. Great exertions were
making by the inhabitants for the general prosperity of
th 3 colony ; the necessity for the means of quick com-
munication with Cape Town, was not only acknowledged,
but plans were in progress for accomplishing so desira-
ble an end. The loss of the unfortunate steamer, the.
Hope, was an additional incentive to exertion, and upon
the proposal for purchasing another being made public,
6,0001. were sascribed in two days. It was considered
that one would not be sufficient, but that two at least
would be required, and that scarcely twelve months
would elapse when the town of Albany would be brought
within four days of the Cape, and less than two months
from England. The capabilities of the country would,
by the immigration of labourers (the want of whom was
severely felt) be fully developed, and and another rich
colony be added to the empire.
POST.—The altered state of the weather, which has
at length become all that the most anxious farmer could
desire for the ripening of his crops, has of course pro-
duced a sensible depression at the Corn Exchange. No
positive decline was admitted to-day, the rates of this
day week being again demanded, though in few in-
stances, if any, submitted to. But, if the weather should
only be equally propitious for 7,14,. few weeks' to tonne, it
cannot happen but that the quotations must go down ra-
pidly. Such a movement will be promoted in a very
great degree by the knowledge possessed by the public of
the fact that importations upon rather a large scale are
sure to take place.
SUN.—The Funds were buoyant to-day, and slightly im-
proved in value, on account of the more genial tempera-
ture and the cessation of rain. For the present transfer
Consols were quoted 894 to 90, and for the August set-
tlement 90 to 90*. Exchequer Bills were 17s. to 19s.
premium, and India Bonds 6s. to 9s. premium. The
Market closedfirmly. Bank Stock was not higher than 170
to 171 ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Halfper Cents. touched
991- and 991 ; the New Three-and-Half per Cents. 981
to 99 ; and the Three per Cent. Reduced 90* to 90g.
In the Foreign Market, the transactions were very
limited to-day. The Stock of Portugal was dull at 30C
to 301 for the New Five per Cents., and at 18* to 184
for the Three per Cents. Colombian Bonds were marked
20 to 20*, and Cuba 71. Belgian Old Bonds realized
101+ to 1011 ; French Five per Cents. 114 f. 75c., and
the Three per Cents. 76f. 25c. Dutch Five per Cents.
were 1011 to 102. Spanish Active Bonds were much
the same, viz. 20A- to 201.
The Railway Shares were not brisk, but they brought
good prices. The Great Western were 21 to 20i ; the
New 7 to 91 ; the Fifths 41 to 5 ; the York and North
Midland New 11 ; and the Grand Junction 103 prem. ;
Brighton were 6+, and Cheltenham and Great Western
40 discount. London and Westminster Bank; Shares
were 2+ to 21 ; and Provincial of Ireland 16s. prem.

I DON'T LIKE TO SEE—A dirty shirt covered
with a clean dickey ; a working man, who has two hats,
wearing the best every day ; the windows patched with
paper, rags, or turf ; a sweep or baker passing through
the crowd ; a woman's boot-lace dangling loose ; orange
peels thrown on the footpath ; an orphan girl tempted to
walk the streets for the purpose of prostitution ; good
meat thrown to the dogs ; a workhouse funeral nearly
without attendants ; a rich man's funeral blocking up
the streets ; a woman beating her child because it had
nearly got run over ; a country overseer putting out
a poor woman by the shoulders ; two men fighting
a pitched battle on Sunday afternoon, with a large
attendance of men and women ; a Methodist parson,
with stentorian lungs, holding forth to three indivi
duals ; a man, after breaking a square of glass in a
window, running away to escape detection ;• a child cry-
ing for hours together in a cradle ; a poor lad or girl,
at five o'clock( in a winter's morning, going to the fac-
tory much out of health ; a man stuffed with rich food
until his legs are obliged to be tied up ; a bed-room
comb left full of hair ; a servant waiting at the table
with dirty hands ; a woman slipping in at the back
door of a public house, with a little jug, at tea time ; a
justice fining persons for getting drunk, who frequently
gets "fresh" himself ; a beggar exhibiting his wounds
and deformation on the road side; an old man of seventy
and a young girl of seventeen going to church to get
married ; a drunken coachman driving his horses at full
gallop down a narrow street ; clothes lying to be moth-
eaten, while there are so many backs without covering ;
a coach-horse with bleeding shoulders ; a dog in a poor
man's house, who gets relief from the parish; children's
shoes unbottomed, and stockings out at the heel ; an
umbrella on a windy day with two broken bones ; a
shop with dirty windows; the baliffs carrying; the bed
and chair of a poor widow to the obelisk, to sell fur
rent ; a poor ragged wife seeking her husband at twelve
on Saturday night ; a man exceedingly drunk and noisy
at a temperance meeting ; atee-totaller coming out of a
" Tom and Jerry" wiping his mouth.—Educational Ma-

yazine.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.-011 Wednesday, Da-
vid Steel, a collier, belonging to Whitletts, lost his life at
the Fulshaw pit, in that neighbourhood, under the follow-
ing circumstances :—A man of the name of John M'Cul-
loch, ploughman to Mr. Gordon, Newton Lodge, was at
the pit with a cart for coals, and happening to have
been followed by a dog belonging to the farm, he ex-
pressed himself to some of the men employed at the
pit-head as desirous of getting rid of the animal.
The reply was that he might speedily do so by throwing
it down the shaft. This thoughtless advice was adopted
by M'Culloch, who immediately seized the dog and
pitched him into the pit. Unfortunately four persons—
the oversman, with a young lad who had got his hand
injured, and Steel and his little boy, who assisted him at
work—were in the act of ascending at the mo-
ment. in one of the buckets. Whey were within a
few fathoms of the top—the shaft being in all
about fifty three—when the dog in its descent
struck Steel somewhere on the shoulder or back of the
neck, by which he was instantly precipitated, head
foremost, to the bottom, the whole party narrowly es-
caping a similar fate. The unfortunate man was killed
on the spot, his body being greatly mangled by the fall.
The dog, strange to say, fell into the bucket, and was
brought up unscathed. On learning what had been the
result of his thoughtless conduct, M'Culloch was very
much grieved The case has been investigated by the
Fiscal, who has admitted him to bail. Steel has left a
wife and family.—Ayr Observer.
SPLIT VOTES.—This practice, so much in
vogue at the late election for North Northumberland, re-
minds us of the fantastic fashion which prevailed in Scot-
land during the thirteenth century, of clothing one-half
of the figure in one colour, and the other half in another,
and where this was not done, of having one stocking red
or blue, and the other green or yellow, so that the man
had the appearance of having stepped into one-half of
his neighbour's breeches or hose. Equally absurd is
the conduct of these political Merry Andrews.—Kelso
, Chronicle.