The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-16 00:00:00

CLOSING PIatCES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 165 India Stock. ...
3 per Cent Red. 86,71 Ditto Bonds 1 pr
3 per Cent Cons BB Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red 963 Ditto New Annuities...
'` ' New 31 per Cent 9B Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm
,' ' - 5 per Cent 125 ' Ditto 5001........ 13 pm
New . •
-itiestoexpire I Ditto Small. ...12 pm
Long Ann-
.... 12 5-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Jan. 1860
~2i ,India Stock for Acct....
Oct 1859
Jan. 1860.
FOitEIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. ....
Belgian, 5 per cent — ,Dltt4o, New Ditto 3O
Brazilian 80nd5.... 55 ,Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ...., ,Russian, 5 per cent ll2}
Chilian, 6 per cent nitto, Nletallie
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5
Colombian, 6 per cent... Span...‘h, per cent 2Ol
Ditto, 1824. 194 Ditto, DeL"red •• 10it
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f.
Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — ;Exchange ... , —f• —c•
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 241 !French, 3 per cent. ---f. C
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 4 per cent. ... 51
Peruyian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent ... 99J
SHARES
Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 63
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 75
Ditto New Shares (50 paid ... 54
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 4O
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (2} paid)
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 321
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Thirds (10 paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 78

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 8 Genoa . 25 60
Antwerp l2 7 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB/
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon
Marseilles

Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27'
Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia

Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres
Berlin--
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Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia -
Trieste, ditto 9 57 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid
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Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona
Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars 0 0 0

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roz.ExaN.

The King of the French was presiding at a Cabinet
•Coancil•when the news arrived of the suppression • of the
attempted insurrection at Madrid. M. Duchatel, Who is
opposed to the intrigues of the Kin: for the restoration.
of Christina, proposed that M. Salvandy should at once
stout as Ambassador. to Madrid, and by his presence'
satisfy Spain that France was not disposed to sanction
attacks upon the established Government. The King
and some Members of the Cabinet, including M. Guizot,
opposed this, but M. Duchatel insisted that a delay
would be regarded by Europe as hostile to Spain, and
would inevitably lead to a serious misunderstanding
with England., The Ring yielded with difficulty, but
finally gave directions that M. Salvandy should at once
proceed to the Spanish capital.
Tfie Spanish ;Ambassador at Paris demanded the re-
moval fro:n that capital of MM. Toreno, Martinez de la
Rosa, :and. Zea Bermudez, who compose Queen Chris-
tina's Coundil. This demand the French Government
has complied with, and on Wednesday it was intimated
to these gentlemen that they could no longer be suffered
to remain in P4iS.

A few days ago:Auvergne was subjected for 48 hours
to a violent storm, of wind and rain. Many houses were
unroofed, and trees torn up by the roots. 'The Dore and
other streams have overflowed their banks. Great da-
mage has been done to the vineyards at Clermont, and
in some parts the roads are rendered impassable.
The country of Arles, in Provence, is suffering dread-
fully from the stagnant waters left by the late inunda-
tions. Intermittent fevers are raging in parts where they
have not been known for ten years. The plain of the
Crau is suffering so severely and extensively that it is
said there is scarcely a man to be found capable of Work-
ing. In the hospital at Arles there have been 200 fever
cases at a time. Even the wards built in 1835 'to receive
cholera patients, are filled, the beds of convalescents.
being immediately occupied by fresh subjects. •
The Temps states that the number of persons incul-
pated by Quenisset, as his accomplices in the attempt
against the Royal Duke, is eight, as already stated, and
that ten individuals arc now in custody. Numerous ar-
rests have been made at Lyons, of persons supposed to
be implicated in this affair. It is not expected,that the
preliminary inquiries can be terminated before the end of
next month.

The St. Etienne papers state that some persons have
been arrested in that town on.charges of being affiliated
to secret political societies at Lyons. The Courrier de
Lyon says that documents of some importance have been
seized et the p!ace of meeting of the individuals belong-
ing to the secret society called the Char bonnerie Re-
formee.

The Commerce asserts positively that. Christina and
Don Carlos have decided upon a union between Queen
Isabella and Don Carlos's eldest son, and that the fact is
incontrovertible.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times has a leading article on the subject of bri-
bery at elections, in which, after endeavouring to prove
that it cannot be stopped by an Extension of the Suf-
frage, our contemporary proceeds to observe :—" A
word or two upon the other plan of prevention, by in-
fliction of penalty. Did those who talk of penalties as a
Means of prevention ever hear of the working of the re-
venue laws upon other kinds of contraband traffic ? Do
they know that the strongest prohibitions on the export-
ation of the precious metals have been constantly braved
for a profit of an eighth per cent. ? Do they know what
penalties the smuggler has hazarded when brandy, or
tea, .or tobacco has been at a high duty ? Do they know
what risks the slave-trader is at this hour content to run,
not only of his property, but of his person ? And even
if there were not this actual experience of analogy,
does not common sense itself apprize them, that where
the poor man has that to bestow which the rich man
is desirous to obtain, there, in spite of all the
threats in the world, money will be the medium of the
transfer? Neither, then, by multiplying suffrages, nor
by imposing pecuniary or personal penalties, will you
ever stop the practice of bribery. The only proceeding
in the nature of a penalty which could be expected to
produce the slightest advantage, would be the forfeiture
of the abuSed franchise for the remainder of the voter's
life."—The Times here takes the Tory view of the ques-
tion, especially as regards the extension of the suffrage,
which there can be no doubt would greatly increase the
difficulties of bribery by multiplying the number of elec-
tors to be bribed. And even supposing that this increase
was among the poorer classes, who would be satisfied
with a small bribe: still, more money would require to
be expended than a candidate would like to give. Ex-
tend the suffrage, and conjointly with that extension give
the Ballot, and you will have done all that can be done,
to diminish the bribery and corruption now so generally
complained of, yet so generally practised.
The following observations are from the Herald .
" The aristocracy of England, to be respected, must be
full ' of moral and religious truth—both understood and
practised.' We gladly confess that the majority are
void of offence, that they are unobtrusively charitable,
personally decorous, and externally pious ; but they are
cold and reserved, and they contide not in the people ;
they seek not their easily -acquired confidence ; they do
not place themselves in their ',aural position, and direct
public opinion ; and above all, they do not disassociate
themselves from those who are discreditable to their
grd,_,r. The people see the aristJeracy too much through
their vices, too little through their virtues ; they ima-
gine themselves on one side of a gulf, and the nobles on
another ; they fancy they are feared, and their intui-
tively generous feelings are turned by neglect to gall.
The tempter interposes in the form of a Whig, a politi-
cal dissenter, a Radical, a Socialist, or a Chartist ; and
the people are taught to hate those whom they are dis-
posed to love and admire. The fault is not in the people ;
they will rely on some influence—evil if it be not good.
It is in the aristocracy, who disregard and fail to
cherish the most natural of all connections—that
between the highest and lowest of mankind."—
There is much truth in the Herald's remark about the
" cold and reserved" character of the aristocracy. They
are in the habit of keeping far too aloof from the people,
as if they were a superior order of humanity—fashioned
of precious porcelain, instead of mere clay. The worst
of it is, that this haughty exclusiveness does not stop
with them, for the -infection of their example spreads ;
And every aspiring adventurer who has scraped together
a little money, hastens to separate himself from the class
from which he sprung ; affects an aristocratic hauteur;
and copies as closely as he can, the cold reserve of those
above him, and into whose society it is the darling ob-
ject of his ambition to intrude himself. Thus by degrees
—for the process is slow but sure—society becomes split
into three distinct classes— the aristocratic, the would-
be-aristocratic, and the democratic—the twb first of
whom combine their energies to oppress and trample on
the last. Half the evils of society—which, by the bye,
no legislation can reach—arise out of these jealous dif%,
ferences !

The Morning Chronicle gives the following distressing
account of several recent heavy failures in the West of
Scotland :—" We
.regret to learn by letters from Glas-
gow that there have been within a short period three
commercial failures in that city. . The first, on Saturday
week, was a commission-house connected with North
America. Liabilities estimated at 40,0001. The cause
assigned was the want of remittances by the Britannia.
A considerable portion of this sum is due to that de-
voted town Paisley. The second was a calico-printing
concern, on Saturday last—not in extensive business.
The third, and most important, took place on Monday
last. It was in the shipping and commission business,
and the liabilities are estimated at from 40,000/. to
60,004 The failure was unexpected, and the cause as-
signed is over-investment in West India produce. A
Correspondent informs us that these failures had thrown
an additional gloom over this commercial city ;
and as there is no sign of improvement, the
future prospect, particularly that for the next two
months, is anything but cheering.' "—And While
these ominous failures are taking place at Paisley
and elsewhere—for the distress is by no means
confined to the West of .Scotland—what are Ministers.
doing—those Ministers who came into office for the ex-
press purpose of remedying the grievances of the coun-
try ? The answer is ready. • They are endeavouring to
shut their eyes to the truth of things, and-to persuade
themselves that there is no distress, at least none so
severe as to demand their attention ! Day after day,
hour after hour, increases the amount of suffering under
which the people are labouring ; and all we hear of
their; Tory rulers is, that some are shooting, others
hunting, and others idling away their time at watering-
places ! Well, the time of reckoning is at hand ; and
our ultra-aristocratic Cabinet may regret, when too
late, their infatuated policy in playing fait and loose
with the best interests of the people.
The Post observes—" A Contemporary has said, with
no less truth than point, that, in their late position as a
Government party, the Whigs could not afford to be
honest.' Ihe illustration given of this theory is the
fact that the Whig Ministers sometimes abandoned their
own measures—measures which they knew to be just,
and necessary for the remedy ofproved abuses—because
they found that some of their followers had an interest
in the abuses, and these followers they could not afford
to disoblige. This' is very true, but the observation
that in their late position the Whigs could not afford to
be honest admits of still wider application, and of more
important application, beeattae the change in their posi-
tion opens a prospect of a great change for the better.
They now can aflbrd to be honest, and we hope they may
avail themselves of the opportunity for consulting
their own honour, and the country's advantage,
is presented by the present state of affairs.
If the Whigs, when in office, could not afford to be
honest, how much less could the Tories afford to be so,
when deprived of the emoluments of place ? But no
yet accused Toryism of integrity,
thinkingnether in,m oa
rn
eeoutorf office. In the one case, it wits re-
markable for nothing but its innate genius for jobbing;
in the other, for its 'faetions and unprincipled opposition.
As for our Contemporary's eapression of a hope that the
Whigs will now be honest, he means that they can only
manifest a sense of honesty by ceasing to ass sit; id) an_
tagonist party to Ministers, and sanctioning all their mea-
sures, no matter how absurd, or bow short of the mark
they may be.
The.following is from the Dublin Pilot:—" The
hum-
bug of conciliation is abandoned, and Orangeism is once
more in the ascendant. The principles of the Irish Go-
vernment are now openly avowed. The appointment of
Mr. Brewster would of itself have been more than suffi-
cient exposure of the falsity and hypocrisy of their de-
elarations ; but the dismissal of Mr. Cahill has made
assurance doubly sure.' The one was promoted be-
cause he is a Protestant and a violent Conservative; the
other has been dismissed because he is a Catholic and a
Liberal."

The Wilts Independent has the following remarks on