The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS

Austrian, 5 per cent — , Portuguese Bonds, sper cent.
Balgian, 3 per cent — , Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds 74% Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — ' Russian Bonds, 5 per cent....ll3}i
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic.. —
2-' Coloinb.an, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1524 25 Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent 754!.4 'French, 5 per cent. f. —c,,
Greek Bands, 1525, 5 per ct — ' Exchange -
Mexican, 5 per cent — ' French, 3 per cent l'. -C.
Ditto, 6 per cent., 15.25 2Y t)titch,•',2 per c,...t..
Peravian,lsl2s.6 per coit — Ditto, 5 per cent.

SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway
Eastern Cowan., liailway
Great Western Ranway
I )itto New Shares ...... RAN
London and Brighton Railway
London and liminingham Railway 151
i)itto New Share,
Linidon and South Western Railway 43k2
London and Croydon Railway (Trun..) lO.
North Nildiland Rziilway
Ditto ditto Extension Ell
I)ttto New Shares

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
Mr. Villiers predicted to the landowner, some years
ago, that they would East Ret/ordise tne Corn-laws ;
and it is impossible to read the proceedings of the
great meeting which we report in another place,
without being apt to think they have gone far
already towards that consummation. We would ap-
peal to all of that body who can see farther than the
next rent day, and ask them whether they really lima_
gine demonstrations of this magnitude, becoming yearly
more and more numerous, indignant, and resolute,
are matters to pass over like a summer cloud, and
leave their interest basking in unclouded sunshine !
We will tell the landed body that no preponderance
they possess in the Legislature can, in the long run,
maintain their cause, by mere force of voting, against
a " pressure from without.' backed by intelligence,
wealth, numbers, and justice. It is true that the Re-
form Act has enabled the landed interest to oppose* g
more extended front, and a stiffer resistance, '‘o a
change in the Corn-laws than probably they co.,iia have
done before that enactment, when Monopo',y more di
reedy represented its own brecebes-;,ocket. Mr.
Cobden observed--

The Reform Bill has altered the tactics of agitation.
It was all very well to storm the citadel of corruption,
which formerly existed by a sudden onslaught. When the
aristocracy could only rely on Gatton Old Sarum,tbey
ielded to the strong demands. for Catholic Emao_
cipation, for the repeal of the Test Acts, and for
the Reform Bill. If, hitr.vever, we now rise up, and de_
mand the repeal ot. the Corn-laws, the aristocracy
fold their arms while we make our complaints, and
retort upon us that Winchester, Chichester, St. Albans,
and Salisbury send men pledged to vote in favour of ther,
laws. This is the breakwater to the current of ptiolic
opinion, and until we can convince the farmer that Lis in-
terest is identified with ours in getting released from a
wretched servility, and the peasant that he is reduced to
want and suffering by the present system, our efforts w,tlj
be in vain."

e would
wise
nd safe to drive
calmly askthe lands r:o
e r a n
practical
whNewhether it is wie a
men into these " tactics of agitatte,o?" We ask them
to look in time whether the nation.4l interest, and
therefore the national rip !it, is on the side of
change ; and to consii!,er whe'..ner, if this be so,
they are not staking far snore than the Corn-laws
on the issue of this struggle with determined and en-
lightened assailants, They are straining the landed
power of the Legislature against the leagued trade of
the empire. Victorious in such a struggle, they may
in tho end, rue the effects of victory—vanquished.
legislative authority is dragged down in their
class-
defeatl

(From the Courier.)
)
In the work we recently noticed of .M. Sarrans, it
will be remembered that his leading
disruption or abandonment by P m argument for the
- ace of the alliance
with England, was the falling str..te and perilous pros-
pects of the latter, described to b".; in the throes of rc•
volution, by which its 13°,1",r and resources were so
prostrated, that union ae, 1
ct close communion with this
realm could impart weakness only, an..l not strength.
He held that for ter own safety A
cease to cling to a sinking ship, lest
ar.,. aggrandiserneot,
France should
"..'id be irresistibly drawn into the vortex of
she too sho
the enl:l7;ifiing waters of confusion. It is not singule.,
the. even well-informed foreigners, like that wiiter,
should arrive at such conclusions after no ine:itentive
survey of the troublous aspect of our politir:al horizoi„ 1
for here, on the immediate scene of ace and with
crisis extent of the ,
meal s more assured of measuring dr
crisis by contact and acquaintance
intriguers, men not less intellir 'with the actors and
vent, although more
deeply interested, have avowed t'ae same convictions after
investigations not less patirat than r?ainful. Although
we do not partake in a like degree the apprehensions of
the one, or concur in th,e highly-coloured descriptions of
the other, it is impor.sible to deny that signs and pre-
sages are abroad, auspkious to all appearance of any-
thing but goocl. Take, for example, our paper of th:is
day, pregPlant as it is, of ominous matter. Here we 'nave
State trials recor(!ied of men taken in the act cif overt
rebellion and high treason in one part of the kingdom !
Supplementary to these, we find simultaneo,us risings,
and premeditated treason organising
in ether parts,
and even in this great metropolis itself,
l'..nder the very
eyes of the Government. Accessory to Chartir.n we
see Anti-Corn-law demonstrations elsewhere, fiercely
threatening revolution, and COD'Agning mercilessly to
wholesale destruction the greate_!st of interests—the vital
interests of the masses—of this mighty empire.
(From the. Standard.,) THREATENED CHARTIST INSURRECTION.—The 1
country is now reaping the sad aftermath of the sede
tion by whiel:. the Whig
office. 7: i. ie Chartist. Radicals fixed themselves in
e. have made some serioe.s move-
ment; (
menfr. n the West. Riding, and if we may trust to this
'reparations made by the Executive for proof., (
the metropolis, itself was last night threateued with
an insurrection. This is all the natural, aad in(!,eed
the necessary result of the Whig-Radical• lesson of
1831. The more ignorant part of the populace have
been expressly told that they may innociently embrue
their hands in the blood of their feriow-subjects to
effect what they in their wisdom may regard as
salutary political chang,A. The, doctrine was
preached to carry the Reform rsill, but its ready t
disciples apply it to carry the Charter, now that they i
find that the Refcerm Bill heAs produced to them no bene-
fit,
but rather 'injury. 'Pais is all in the course of na-
ture. At Sheffield five persons have been committed I
for I‘,:,gh treason, upon apparently strong prim_a
fo' vie evidence. At that town a murderous assault
was committed on Sunday morning upon a poor man, 1
hastening to bring assistance to his wife in child-bed—
a sharp skirmish also occurred between the troops an.d
another armed body near the town much r.‘bout the
same time—Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, and other
towns, were also attacked. The appre:nensions en-
tertained for the safety of London, appear from
the preparations made—all the r.nilitary in the
neighbourhood of London were,, we are in-
formed, held under arms all .light—the different
bodies of firemen received orders to be at their
several stations, and orA the alert. Like instructions
were given to the pol,fce force, and the Lord Mayor
was advised to t
done by of the City. :4othing, however, was
-,,e all precautions for the safety
the Chartists 1-,eyond the assembling of 700 or 800 At
the Trades.:nall in Abbey-street, Bethnal Galen.
We know nothing of the details of information sug-
gesting these measures of defence ; but malt:oar, col-
lecting probably from the particular inr,tructions
to the fire brigade, and from the. moving up
of the floating engines on the river, as well as from
the magazines of fireballs, grens.des, &c., seized in Shef-
field and elsewhere, and from the o'ovious policy of such
a mode of commencing a n'ight insurrection, states that
many houses were to have been set on fire in the hope
of distracting the attent:ion of the military and police,
dividing these forces, and throwing the city into con-
fusion.

BurripaNGs.—Ey a paragraph inserted in our
paper, of last week from the _Mark Lane Express, it
will be seen that a new description of manufacture is
offered. }or public choice, as a substitute for thatch,
slate, tiles, &0., a specimen of which having been placed
in tho board room of the Agricultural Society
in London, we infer that it has merited the
attention of the Committee. A model, we are 'in-
formed, is preparing for the Polytechnic Institutir.in, as
a curiosity in manufactures, which it certainly is ; but
having minutely examined a specimen in I.4ossession of
the agent for Reading, we de rot hesitate to call public
attention to it as an artieie of merit for its utility, as well
as its novelty. Ira ilkghtness will effect great economy
in the genera\ practice of budding, and a)so facilitate
the erections of many tasteful specimens of archi-
tUture in wood, where bricks are not easily acces-
sible. It is interesting to trace the ingenuity and
art of man from his earliest and rudest to his more DISCHARGED
orn
the
City PRlSONERSferthe—puArpoesoemef miteatere.rylaitnags
polished state, sometimes embracing his native pro- been formed i
dnoe,--at others competing with nature's gifts, in the into,
object of attaining the most effectual coeritowooeudr effect a plan for providing a house of refuge for
o..2scharged prisoners. The present Sheriffs, Messrs.
buildings. The natural local productions—turf,
flat stones, and straw, were improved on by the maw]: number
oafndhoEmvaannse,
persons
k—ingamaonnzacotitynee.rsp,artth,eanpdasat
facture of tiles, and these again, by
.talking advantage of . Sheriffs and Under-sheriffs, and. several Magistrates,have
the bounties of nature, in aitllPtriinepatration of the modern subscribed ten guineas each, in aid of a fund of about
slate, the neatest covering ro. applied. Now art £B,OOO, the income of which is at the disposal of the
takes the field again :A an ingendious invenitioat called Sheriffs for the time beir,g, With this money and the
" Flexible Asphalte Roofing,"
co)o-uies and new merit the pail trues chat- subscriptions that will be raised, they intend to provide
leege inAtkiry into its
.la,elt,i
wise
hadeaarptitedis for the a place of refuge, in the first instance, for females of
in considerable requestsettlements.
, .already that class of disclJarged prisoners most likely to profit
mistake not, itl by such an insti'iution.
will occasion web an increased taste
afon
additionornamenttao
end ()they buildings, as will render NATION.AL PROVISION FOR THE ROYI.L
rho stock and establishments of builders and carpenters Huse/int.—Royal matrimony comes to be an awfully
.
indispensable ; for, if only half the quantity of timber real m,:itter-of•money to the tax paying. The "Bill
he required, it is fair to infer that very many more roofs providing for:Prince Albert"
tl:ireatens to be a ver yheavy
la ill be built, and labour more in demand. Still more
bill indeml ; and John Bull,, ever the prey df true purse-
milkers, begins to fear the approaching &Aims upon him
will this be the case if the new material be used as an
,to come " down with his dust." It is all very well to
outside covering to the walls of structares in woad, or look on and applaud this Royal game of billing and coo-
any ether material which tliis application will render im-
ow and then,ie
h it
pen ious to the maisAkie. of a humid atmosphere. As a tag ; it does evert old hearts good to see a pantomime
non-en;:'ittelee ~,f heat, it is equally efficaeious in a tro-
nit' it wr.:re only for the roar of hearty
O
1 W c,lialate, and therefore deserves the notice of emi- laughter
which
~end'..ienlg round the hat," why then—it'a
dom fails to provoke. But when
I
grants. In reply to the apprehensions we have ex-
it comes !4:. "
pressed in regard to tho effect of the excessive heat of a quite a d:frerent thing. The amusement may coarse to
tropical suu.,,,a specimen was placed in our hands that cost
more than it is worth ; for there is such a thing'as
has been exposed to a heat of 9.20 degrees, and it havine• i . paying too dear for one's whistle," even in the matter
been formed into vessels containing water for weeks, q4j: ' of Royal match-making.—Leeds Times.
oessively, without injury to the compound matoool
have no hesitation in recommending it to tilt .
we A new writ will be moved for to-morrow for the
•
1 at our readers.—Reading ilierewt.
A contest is likely to take place for the vacant seat.
atten'ti,im borough of Beverley, in the room of Mr. Laue Fob

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