The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-13 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10.

iit st Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pr:c.. Prier.
e re,' eh 5 per 'eon ll5 Si ... 'l6 10 ... I's 95 ... 11 95
4 per Cents l(u 7s) ... 11,0 75 ... 1 0 75 ... h 0 5
3 per cent,... - SO 35 ... SO 35 ... 80 35
Loan ....
4,-.5t o: eram•
Lafflite Mink 1./.14,, •'.., arse li 42 50 ...11.41 50 ...1042 50 -.1040 50
%,.:, ;. ...,,.. area t. 1.190 -51:90 ....!,090 ...SC9U
Belgian 5 per Cent,
S 1....,r Lort:., IE4O 102% ... 102% ... 102% ... 142%
vp..in 'Eh Active
Pass.re 5 -.. 5 ... 4% ... 4%
!di,apolit...
Rosner, ex. div. :f2 ... IV2 ... 102 ... 10 %
PAILW A.-1 311.414E5.
St. Germain 740 ... 740 ... 740 ... 740
It e:4111144. L.ri 2„O .. 290 ... 200 .. 200
IL 11 319 50 ... 512 50 ... 311 25 ... 311 25
Rouen
urtean .
Strashurs:toßaif .shares red. 232 50 ... 232 50 ... 232 59 ... 232 50
DUTCH FU NM-AMSTERDAM, Nor. 9.
Monet. Bills.
Actual Ihtt. 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arnett Svndic,4si per cent 9l 91'4
Ditto, ditto, 3}(4 per cent 75% 76%
Commercial Company, 4,g per cent 155% .55U
Ditto (1825 and 1537) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.. 97 9; js
Exchange on London, One month l2 744
Two months .....
Hamburgh, One month 35 81%
Two months' ' 35 8614
Dutch Papers, Nov. 10.
6 It; L.Ol All I. t 1 ti 1):,-.ciausastis, Nov. 11.
Actuzi Oebt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Lew], 5 per C..nt lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. .92
3 per Cent.
71%
.(1.4.11) ' lOl.O,
Loan of City, 1'42,4 per Ccti:........ .........
Society et Commerce, 4;., per ijeyt ........
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent..."....!:.....- 71)4
NationalS.elety. - i:14..:.,.
Exchange on London (short) - -
—Brussels Papers, Nov. 10.
ADS-1111A .ti 1,1/14115.-VIENNA, Nov. 3.
tire per Cents. Metailiques
Four per Cents. ............ ....... ' 9S,
Three p.r Cents.
..
Bank tit:J. R
....41(gemense Zelluag, Nov. 7.

Thirty.seven.

SHARP PRACTICE.—The Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes are putting the inhabitants of
many of the London districts to great inconve-
nience by the mode they have lately adopted
for raising money. Circulars have been sent
round beginning thus
:
"Pursuant to directions from the Commissioners of
Stamps and Taxes, I have to inform you that in a sche-
dule delivered on the Bth instant, in compliance with the
Acts relating to the land and assessed taxes, by the
,col-
lector of your parish, to the receiving officer for this dis-
trict, you are returned in. arrear, after demand made, for
the undermentioned taxes, payable on the 20th of Sep-
tember last."
It is then intimated, that unless the tax is
paid forthwith, processes will be commenced,
and the persons in arrear will be saddled
with costs and expenses. During these hard
times, probably one-third will be unable
to pay within the period. This mode
of raising money is contrary to practice,
and meetings should be held to protest against
it. It is a fair specimen of Tory Government.
They demand six or nine months to consider
what to do for the relief of the people, but they
will have the money out of their pockets in less
than six weeks.

Public meetings are being held all over the
country to address her Majesty and Prince
Albert on the happy birth of the Illustrious
Stranger. The county of Cornwall ought to take
the lead, followed by the principality of Wales.
Lambeth is booked for to-morrow, at the Horns,
at three o'clock.

A PLEASANT PROSPECT FOR JOBBEIIS.—
The Times, yesterday, suggested that a duty should be
levied on the owners and occupiers of houses for the
improvement of the metropolis. It only wishes for an
additional 87,0001. a-year to the present parochial and
county rates. Such a sum forimprovernents must make
the mouths water of a host of architects, engineers, and
schemers. The people would not feel such a trifling
addition, and there would be no repugnance to misap-
propriate it. We shall cheerfully support such a levy,
when the rate-payers shall be able to control the ex-
penditure ; but every shilling raised under the present
irresponsible county, city, and parochial authorities, is
only an encouragement to fraud and jobbing.
A Society for Promoting Free Tra,de bas been
formed at Sheffield. The originators of it state that the
commercial affairs of our country have ,assiimed an as-
pect truly alarming. That all classes in this once pros-
perous town were suffering great inconvenience, or se-
-Vere distress—that this distress had not arisen from
trade being conducted upon unsound principles, either
from over-speculation or over-production; and yet, at the
present time, numbers of manufacturers were rapidly
consuming the hard-earned profits . of former years,
while thousands of industrious artisans have low,-' been,
and still are, in utter destitution—the victims of disease
and want, or keenly suffering with their families the most
distressing privations. That manufacturers were suffer-
ing for want of demand—that shopkeepers were suffering
fur want of customers—that artisans were suffering for
want of employment--and that these are chiefly trace-
able to the present scale of Import Duties (high on most
articles, and both high and fluctuating on the paramount
commodity of corn), which have a direct tendency to
check the demand for British goods, and thus encourage
ether nations to manufacture. It was therefore resolved
to found an Association, to be called " The Sheffield So.
clay. for the Promotion of Free Trade." The first
meeting is called for Nov. 15, when Earl Fitzwilliam is
expected to be present.

OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW.—The arrogance
of assuming that the law is bad, in opposition to the wis-
dom of Parliament, appears to the Post to be coupled, as
punishable, with that of recommendino resistance to it.
Now we never shall recommend other than legal resist-
ance to the worst of laws. But we never shall abstain

from characterising the Corn-laws as we consider their
due, despite the wisdom of Parliament, and the terrors

of t Tory Attorney-General. If denouncing those laws
to the indignation of all who suffer from them be a crime,

of that crime we shall most assuredly not cease to be
. u
ity; indeed we are encouraged by these evident ter-
rors of a bad conscience, to redouble our efforts, instead
of "trembling intensely" at these Chinese proclamations.
There
is no charm in the • words " wisdom of Parlia-
ment," that should give us pause. The wisdom of the
present Parliament consists in the fears of squires and
farmer:. " Thu next," as Lord Shrewsbury says very
sensibly (we are glad to quote his Lordship when he
does talk sense), "may be again the Parliawnt of the
Boroughs, as was the first under the Reform Bid."—Globe.
NOVEL EXPEDIENT.—Last week, a person re-
siding not more than a hundred miles from Calverton,
stole some rails, with the intention of burning them ; he
had them sawn up, and put on the fire to boil the kettle,
but they bad not been there long before an explosion
took place, and the kettle was driven violently up the
chimney. The owner of the rails happened to be a
wheelwright, and he bored a number of holes, charged
them with powder, and afterwards plugged them up ;
thus he discovered the thief.—Nottingham Baum.