The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, OCT. 2.

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Price Price. Pric. Prix•
French 5 per Centr. ex. dlr. 114 60 111 75 ... I'4 60 ... 114 75
4 per Cents ..... 87 ... 97 50 ... i. 7 1,7 50
3 per Centr ...... 79 30 79 65 ... 79 341 ... 79 65
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Zelgian 5 per Cents.
,-.er Cent:., 1840 1C4,1 ... 10-4% ... 11.41
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Passive ...... 5% ... 5% ... 51A
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Versailles. LB '2117 LO .. 20s 75 ... 207 5,1 .. 208 75
It• B 312 50 .. 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 31i 50
Rouen 445 ... 445 ... 445 ... 445
StraspUir LU bait ,thares red 2,5 25 .. 226 25 ... 233 25 ... 235 25

A MOVEMENT AGAINST TEE CORN•LAW is going on
" out of doors," which perhaps indicates a more deep-
rooted and general dislike to that law than all the osten-
tatious agitation of the summer. Meetine-s are recorded
in a great number of places, to petition the Queen against
prorogation until the question of the day shall have been
fairly discussed in Parliament. Manchester began the
new movement a few weeks back, and it has increased in
strength from week to week. It differs in many essen-
tial circumstances from any previous agitation for the
same object : it is evoked under the auspices of no party
in power; it occurs on the very heels of a -seeming defeat
at the General Election ; its immediate purpose is more
sure than ever of being frustrated at once, for cart-loads
of memorials to the Queen will not prevent the new
Ministry from proroguing Parliament next week
Nevertheless, the people meet, confer, and memorialise,
N%-ith as much perseverance as if they were certain of
success. That must mean something. It probably
means this, that the people are tired of petitioning the
House of Commons; that they have lostconfidence in their
own House ; and so they appeal to the only other of the
Three Estates whose disposition towards them admits of
a hopeful construction : yet, as they cannot, and oh-
vionsly do not, expect much practical result from that,
they are simply going through a form. When a people
consent quietly and uniformly to go through set forms, a
sort of moral drilling, it is certain that they must have
some very distinct and determined object in view. The
next popular step will be a matter of great interest to the
speculative politician : the statesman will be wise not to
neglect the present.—Spectator.

FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—III the course of
last week twenty-seven tradesmen, residing in the pa-
rishes of Fulham and Chelsea, were convicted by the
Magistrates of Kensington for cheating the public, and
chiefly the poorer classes, by means of false and fraudu-
lent weights, measures, and balances ; and on Saturday,
at the Mansion-house, Islington, seventeen offenders of
the same stamp were convicted of this heavy crime. It
is repeatedly denounced in Scripture, and dpclared to be
an abomination to the Almighty yet the penalties in-
flicted by the Magistrates (and some were for the second
offence) did not exceed 20s. each, with costs. If the
poor had any hand in making laws, or if the Bishops
performed their duty, would this " abomination to the
Lord " be treated as the most venial offence, while
petty thefts, committed often from want and starvation,
are punished with imprisonment or banishment ?
THE REV. R. S. Bearrost.—The Lancaster Guardian
of Saturday published the remainder of the proceedings
in the case of the Rev. R. S. Barton. The result was,
that the Commissioners pronounced " That on the evi-
dence there is not a prima facie case to institute further
proceedings."
LORD bIonPETEL—It is settled that a meeting shall
be held at Wakefield on Wednesday, October 17,- Earl
Fitzwilliam in the Chair, to consider of the best mode of
testifying the respect of tite freeholders of Yorkshire
for Lord Morpeth, and their regret at the loss of his
services.

MARLBOROUGH-TREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Florence Foley, a master basket-maNr, living in
Stacey-street, Seven-dials, was placed at tl.%e bar before
Mr. Hardwick, for an assault upon John llays,
whereby
his eye-sight was completely destroyed.
The complainant, who had been a soldier in the East
India Company's service, stated that while abivztd he
lost the sight of his left eye. Last evening he entered a
public house in Seven-dials to procure some refreshment,
when the defendant, who was wrangling with two or
three others, came up to him, and without his giving
him the slightest provocation struck him a blow on the
ball of the right eye, which instantly closed it up, and
complainant had since been informed by a surgeon, who
had examined it, that the sight was for over completely
destroyed.

The defendant said he was struck first Jay the com-
plainant.
A witness disproved this.
Mr. liAnowicK advised the defendant to make his
peace with the complainant by giving him some remu-
neration.

Complainant said that no money could compensate him
for the loss of his sight, as it deprived him of the means
of getting his living; in fact, added he, when I lewye this
office, I am unable to see my way home, and I here
money to pay any one for chewing me. I therefore beg
your Worship to send me to some institution where I
shall be taken care of for the present.
Mr. HARDWICK directed him to be taken to Middlesex
Hospital and committed the defendant to the House of
Correction to hard labour for one month.

THE WEATHER.-IVoorr, OCTOBER 4.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 59 Highest 64 f Lowest ..... 45
Wind E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

THE HOUSES UV PARLIAIHENT.--It WaS I
fully expected that the masons would return to their
work this morning, but such was not the case. On Sa..
turday Allen, the foreman, requested to have an into:
view with the men, but this was refused. This morA.
ing a meeting of the body was held at the Paviors' Arms,.
Johnson-street, Westminster, when it was deter/I:Wed,
upon that nothing short of the discharge of Allen:sh‘jiiici
induce them to return to their work. The strike begins to
bo rather a serious matter, as the time allowed the co a-
tractors is within a day or two of expiring. It is In i-
moured that Messrs. Grissell and Peto will rather thro w
up their contract than discharge Allen.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 2.—The King and the Roya 1
Family returned to Laeken yesterday afternoon. Messrs. •
Barrett and Van Mistitz, the Dutch Cominissionors, are
going to return to the Hague, in order to consult with
their Government on the basis of an arrangement which
has been laid down in the conferences in which they..
took part.

They write from Mont°lieti (in the Aude) that,
on the morning of the 16th ult., the whole region of the
black mountain, whicfi forms the boundary between the
Aude and the Tarn, was devastated by a frightful storm.
'While the rain deluged the surrounding country, the
lightning struck the church of Fonties Cabardes, and
threw down the cure, who was officiating, but did' not
kill him. The electric fleid, having first cloven one of
the main beams of the roof, fell upon the altar, and then
made its way to nearly every other part of the church,.
leaving traces of its destructive force. Several catOe
were killed in the immediate neighbourhood,