The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Courier.)
The intense interest excited in the public mind by the
extraordinary murder of Lord William Russell, a gen-
tleman of quiet and unassuming manners, and of retired
habits, has by no means been diminished, as the Coro-
ner's Jury anticipated, when they adopted the unusual
course of returning a verdict before their investigation
had properly terminated. Their duties are not, as
imagined by the foreman, confined simply to an inquiry
into the causes of a violent death, but when there
are strong suspicions that it was not self-inflicted, or
innocently occasioned, they Are bound to continue their
investigations from time to time, until they are satisfied
that they have reasonable grounds for charging some
person with the fact, or are thoroughly convinced that
they have obtained all the evidence that can be pro-
cured, and that it does not fix the crime upon any
known party. In the present case, evidence was given
that the valet hid a visitor, yet, though his residence
was pointed out, the man was not produced, nor were
tha servants or occupants of the houses in the im-
mediate neighbourhoood examined. Until this had
been done, it is perfectly clear that the vcriict was
premature. Under these circumstances, the haste with
which the inquest was terminated was the least likely
means to obtain the result which the foreman expected
when he recommended a verdict at their first and only
sitting. The evidence was decidedly imperfect, and
an adjournment of the inquest in order to allow time
to complete it, was the best course to allay the widely-
spread suspicion to which the foreman adverted.

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY

Ships arrived since

last market day, 76.

Chester
Carr's Hartley 2O 0
Holywcil Main l9 o
Pontop Windsor IS C
bussell's High Main
T ownley l7 01
Tantield M00r....
Wylam , l9 0
Walls End Clarke and Co l7 ti
Walls r nd Hcat....-1
Walls End Hotspur .... 13 0
Walls End Killingworth ... IV i
Walls End Riddell's

Wall. End Walker l9 3
Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton .21
Walls End flett.,d 22 0
We's End Lambton
Walls eIA,I Stewart's et 3
Walls End Whawell
Walls End Hartlepool . . ... 2';'. 3
Walls End Kelloe 21310
ennant's Hartlepool 2l 3
Walls End Evenwood lB 6
&nthracite 35 0
hillinovorth Trader l9 0
beasts Main l5 0

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

( From the London New Price Current of May 8 )
SUGAR. —The British Plantation Market being very
,scantily supplied with samples has operated against buying
this wed( ; the grocers have much sought after brown a;
well as yellow descriptions, but more particularly the for-
! mer and lower kinds of the latter ; from the Refiners there
!us also been a good deal of inquiry, but a large business
has been prevented from the cause stated above, all the
parcels offered at reasonable rates have again been
bought up.
This afternoon the rates previously estaLlished for West
India Sugar were fully supported, but there was not quite
so muck] desire shown to do business, iu consequence of
the public sales of Mauritius, and the wind being more
favourable for arrivals. The purchases for the week are
900 hhds, and the advance gonerally is to is 6d per ewt,
the show is very small.
REF INED. —The grocers have been eager buyers of all
descriptions of Refined Goods since this day week, and
have beeu obliged to pay a further advance of Is 6d to 2s,
the supply being short. For Standard Lumps 86s to 86s
6d has been freely paid, 87$ to 90s for good to fine Titlers,
81s to 83s for low, and 84s to 85s for good and fine brown
lumps. There is nothing of Patent Goods to be bad now
under 86s per cwt. Treacle of common quality 33s 9d
to 345: Patent is fetching 36s 6d per cwt.: For Bastard,
common qualities are fetching 60s to 623, middling to
good 633 to 633. Pieces, low and middling sorts, selling
at 63s to 70s, good and fine 71s to 755. per cwt. Bonded
Crushed Sugar at 34s 6dto 3459 d. Loaves, 101bs have
fetched 38s to 38s 6d, and 14lbs 37s to 37s 6d. Treacle
at 143 6d to 133. Bastards at 18s to 203, Pieces at 233 to.
275. Dutch Crushed at 335.
To day the advanced rates quoted above were fully sup-
ported for all kinds of goods, but the grocers did not buy
so freely, still a fair business was done.
Manamus.—This afternoon the biddings were less
animated at the public sides of 8648 bags 100 casks, but
nearly the whole was disposed of at former rates ter brown
and middling yellow qualities, for good and fine sorts
however prices gave way 6d per cwt; good to fine brown
fetched 65s 6d to 66. 6d, low yellow 67s to 67. 6d, mid-
dling to good middling 68, to 695, good to fine 69s 6d Ito
lls 6d, arid one lot ver) superior 78s per cwt.
EAST INDIA. —The rates previously established for
Manilla have been fully supported, and for refieing here a
good demand has prevailed, chiefly for common kinds, but
tor shipping there is little disposition shown to buy,
This afternoon 500 bags Bengal, and 1,076 bags Cochin
China were olf: red at auction ; the former sold at full

I races, viz. good white 71s to 71s 6J, middling to goad
middling 693 6d to 703, good to fine yellow 684 6d to 695,
the latter was nearly all damaged and sold at stiffer prices
—damps fetched 223 6d to 245, washed 21s 6d to 235, a
few lots sound sold at 23s 6,1 to 24s for low greyish white,
and middling 24s 6d to 25s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—.White Hav,nnab, good quality of the new
crop, at 395, and ord old soft at 31s a 32s ; yellow at pre-
vious rates. White qualities of Brazil, prices have under.

gone nu further change; brown sorts Teich stiff prices.
NlnsssEs.—For West India there has nut been much
enqu,ry, still a fair business has been transacted, and at
rather higher prices, the supply being small ; 300 puns
nave been eold, for ordinary Kitts 334 nits been paid, 3.5 s
for fair Dcmer4ra, 33s for common, and 37s to 38s for fine
Antigua.
Run, BHANDY, AND HOLLA.NDS.—The market for all
descriptions or West India Rum continues very quiet
Jamaica has maintained its former currency, but only bu
pubs have been itsposed of at 6s 23 fur 31 per cent over
Pr'of• AlVough a rcduction of id to Id has been submit-
to fur Leewards, soil it has led to only the dispo,al or
100 puns, proofs at 3s tip, 2 to 3 over at 3a 9d. In
other kinds of Rum there has b. en little doing. WO hhds
last Friday,
Calcutta have been sold at 4s 8d for 29 per cent over
proof.sinc.e The arrivals from the West Indies have been light
been good requarinstouaLr'itdingrtioecnil. 430 hbds, &c., and the
stocks held first hands are rather smith. Brandy has
iinB3C7oghnhadesofss toebd rather higher; o
lthlB36d33havesales
,
been made at 5s 76 d"ptiunibtsrabilstiKidp:
35,41 f
operations,lpBu3nBs
dI d ;Bh3do9wi t. ter:
eGlrB,e3nh9eahhdsGeneva
ha
has
beendb
been
1!42 Ild a ss; the
the vintages of
use is still worth
port at Is ltd a 23, fine quality
. The stuck
2s 4d a2s 6d. British Corn Spirits sell
fm.
homee request for ex-
port
is slltdohdaoeir ditto
vintage
nau
Ittn
s more than last
tracts have not been made under 103 a gallSonowly, but con-
of Rem, including Foreign,enehdn;epfliiunifsF:u" 5s 5d ; d.tto
year ; the importations arc nearly on a par.
Cocoa.—This afternoon 509 bags 21 barrels Trind ad
were put up to public sale, and only partly sold at former
tates, viz. middling d
ark red at 61s to 6ls 63, good fair
604 6d, good greyish 605 to 60s Gd per cwt.
Com:E.—The demand for clean qualities of British
Plantation continues on the increase for home consump
tion, and all the parcels offered since our last report have
found a ready sale at prices fully equal to those of this day
week : the supply is still small, and far from adequate to
the wants of the trade ; unclean kinds, however, continue
neglected, although offered much under late rates.
This afternoon few purchases were made by private
contract in Foreign. Coffee for hcme use was, however,
in fair request; 246 bags Semarang and 100 bags Ceylon .
were put up to public sale ; the former was taken in at
stiff prices, Tian fetched
at 68s for fine quality; the latter

FROSI THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
There arc men of sense and men of nonsense amongst
Churchmen and Tories, as well as amongst men of all
other outward connections. There are also men who
vibrate between sense and nonsense, and would fain
employ the passion-power which the latter affords them,
without forfeiting the esteem attached to the former in
public opinion. The first class are Liberal in opinion,
and Tory by accident. The second are bigots of the
Gladstone or Roden complexion. The third blow hot
and cold with one breath ; and affect zeal and modera-
tion alternately. These may be called the practical
section of the present Conservative party—they are
all things to all men ; and see in the sense or non-
sense of others nothing but stepping-stones. This
latter class of politicians do all they can to coax
their party to something like consistent tactics. The
thing is impossible ; Sir R. Peel cannot gag Mr. Glad-
stone or S:r Robert Inglis ; neither can Lord Aber-
deen muzzle the Bishop of Exeter. While the nominal
Tory leader declares the Church has no claim to meddle
with the education of those who dissent from her, his
associates demand for the Church State-subsidies to
teach the whole people. While Lord Aberdeen tells
his compeers of his " profound veneration" for the
Church of Scotland—a veneration of which we do not
doubt the sincerity—and adopts " the emphatic lan-
guage of a report of a Committee of the House of Com-
mons, which declared that there never was an institution
which, at so little cost, had accomplished so much good
as the established Church of Scotland"—the firebrand
of the Spiritual Bench beside him is burning to repeat
his denunciations of the Kirk as no Church at all, and
to refuse to it, in the name of the whole Apostolic Suc-
cession from Paul to Philpotts, all part and lot in the
privileges of a Protestant clergy!
(From the btandard.)
It will be seen by our Parliamentary report, that
the motion of Sir Robert Inglis on Church extension, is
now fixed for Thursday, the 21st. The Chronicle of this
morning says, " the number of petitions against a vote
of public money for what is called Church exten-
sion' has somewhat appalled our Tory contempora-
ries." " Appalled, forsooth! At what ? At finding
that the Bolt-court committee, after issuing the
most urgent circulars to all Dissenting congre-
gations in England, have succeded in producinf,
some hundred of petitions ! Why, this result
was as certain as the setting of the sun. And as to
their apparent numbers within the last few days, that
arises from the very simple arrangement of keeping
the bulk of them back till the moment when Sir
R. Inglis's motion was expected to come on, and then
pouring them in, en masse, to produce an elect! The
last Report of the Committee on Petitions which we
remember to have seen gave a total of about 1,200
petitions in favour of Church extension, and about 80
against it. That the Dissenting Committee has greatly
swelled this latter number within the present week is
certain ; but we feel assured that the predominance is
still vastly on the side of religion. We believe that the
Dissenting petitions are generally poorly signed, and
almost solely by the political agitators of each congre-
gation.