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

RAILWAY SHAR*,

St. Germain - 682 50 ... 61712 50 ... 682 50 ... 639. ' 0
Versailles. ...... 215 ... 99.0 221 25
K. B 357 5o 245 ... 1",37 ;Au
Orleans' ....

9tr3sburc to Bale 235 ... 137 50 ... 235 ... 216 25

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—The usual Ministerial
Circular to the Members supporting the Government
sets at rest the question of the meeting of Parliament.
It, is in the following words

" Downing-street, July 31, 1841.

" Sir—As, upon the meeting of Parliament, on Thurs-
day, the of August, the House of Commons will
imme(!letiely proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to
tne-Consideration of business of the highest importance,
I take the liberty of earnestly requesting your attend-
ance on that clay.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient, faithful servant,

NICK NAMES.—Some of our Tories call the present
Ministry the Deficit Ministry, and will of course be pre-
pared for us to call their friends the Monopoly Ministry,
the Thieving-by-1:w Ministry, the Ministry for exe-
cuting the Devil's laws, the Anti-Social Ministry, the
Anti-Trade Ministry, the Anti-Civilization Ministry,
the Squirearchy Ministry, or the Starvation Ministry.
At least, such is a sample of the epithets they well de-
serve, from the principles on which they are coming
into office ; and some one of those, or similar epithets,
will be applied to them, according to the taste and fancy
of different parties. Looking to the subterfuges of Sir
Robert •Peel, the contemptible accusations of Lord
Stanley, and believing that they will be powerless to give
effect to their own otetestable doctrines, we shall be in-
clined to call them—the Mean Ministry.
A TORY LIE.—It having been communicated to us
that Lord Campbell had left this country for England—
and such a departure, under his Lordship's circum-
stances, being necessarily final—we made the announce-
ment to that effect. It now appears that we had been
misinformed. His Lordship, with Lady Stratheden and
the lion. Miss Campbell, are at present on a visit to
Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, at Malahide Castle.
—Dublin Evening Mail.
THE SPEAKERSMP—We have reason to known that
Sir Robert Peel has communicated to Mr. C. Shaw Le-
fevre his intenticn to support the re-election of that gen-
tleman in the event of his being proposed, on the meet-
ing of the new Parliament, as Speaker of the House of
Commons. We may add that those personal and poli-
tical friends of' the Right Hon. Baronet to whom this
intention has been imparted, concur unanimously in
the propriety of the decision. It is known to our readers
that we should have preferred a different course. We
are perfectly aware that a different course would have
been preferred by some valuable Conservative Members
of the ilotise of Commons; but this does not prevent the
expression of our firm belief and of our earnest hope,
that, all circumstances being duly considered, the
Conservative Members of the House of Commons will
unanimously embrace the decision, adopted, for himself,
by Sir Robert Peel.—Morning Post.
ANOTHER TORY LIE.—AII the Tory Jour-
nals have greedily copied from the Manchester Courier
the falsehood, of which the following letter, addressed to the
Standard, is a correction Temple, Aug. 4.—Sir,—
Your habitual truth and candour in your advocacy of
political principles prevents the suspicion of any inten-
tional deception in your re-publication of a paragraph
headed " American Cheap Bread, from the Manchester
Courier;—"_ Five pounds of bread sold in Philadelphia
for a shilling !" and a comparison with the 61b. of bread
sold in Manchester for 100. ; by which you would make
it seem that bread is much cheaper in England than in
Philadelphia. The shilling, however, in Philadelphia is
not the sterling coin, but a coin of which there are eight
in every dollar, each of them value about sixpence ster-
ling. Therefore 51b, bread is sold in Philadelphia for
sixpence, whilst in Manchester 616. is worth told. You
will now perceive that bread of the first quality is much
cheaper in Philadelphia than in Manchester.—l am, Sir,
your obedient servant,—A TRAVELLER."

4,- MAN DROWNS HIMSELF AND ANOTHER
city on Tue,glaY
thrown himself' ;2.
LOOKS ori:.--clOnsiderable sensation was excited in this
aitiedintiltitift)titilide.a4toeembepatnirtio:
afternoon by the report that a man had
tailor.
ice, stood coolly to the Basin and was drowned,
insteadti of rendering assist-
*te 70::kiiinem, his
alpoiep:LikeTr,heanrdeptehret
0 xri,.:n who committed
person who accomiad him to the fatal )°t was a
1
cti, to of a creature nad William Brown, a,
er . been drinking together the greater part,.‘.of
t e day, tit 060,rdied att five o'clock, Bill leaving
Brown about the prdliiAs 81 ilie Swot and Falcon public-
house. About seven o'clock llill fel-wined and asked
Brown to walk with him towards the Basin in order
that he might receive some money due to him by a ship
captain. On reaching the Basin, Hill all of as sudden
.threw off his waistcoat (he wore no coat) nd ,
and exclaiming, "Good bye, Bill," threw himself
into the Basin. Brown went to the edge and looked
at the drowning man, then picked up the hat, putting it
under his arm, and sat down quietly on a convenient
resting place, smoking his pipe with as much ndifference
as though nothing particular was going on. An inquest
was held on the body on Wedn.,aday, when, after Brown
and several witnesses had been gAtulaind, the Jury re-
i
turned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had
drowned himself, being at the tithe in 'a state of tempo-
rary insanity, with
.a strong expression, of censure as re-
garded the coAduci Ofßrown.—Gloiiceitershire Chronicle.

t;,:..