The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY I'APERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.---We cannot help noticing a somewhat cool
proposition of a Tory print, that those who talk so much
about the public distress should pea their halide into their
own pockets, during the recess, fur the purpose of reliev-
ing it. This is something like the recommendation of Sir
Robert Peel some few years back, who, when. applied to
for protection. to property, on account of the disturbed
State Ofths cottntry, told the applicants they must protect
thernselrea, for he had no assistance to tea them. Now,
there is no doubt that there are many wealthy and en-
eellent men, on . both sides in polities, who would
cheerfully contribute from their own means to the relief
of their distressed fello:v-countrymen ; but tem-
porary
private charity is not a fit, and could
not be an effectual, remedy for evils of which
the cause and the root are allowed to continue
permanent. It is also to be remembered that a system of
bounty, if it exalts the giver, must in almost every
case humble the recipient ; and there will always
he a suffieent field for hs exercise as a Christian virtue
in those accidental and unusual cases -which should be
the exception and not the general rule—for independence,
and not dependent e, ought to be the condition of the
people, at leant if we ere to desire the elevation of the hu-
man character. It is the duty of government to make pri-
vate charity in its common acceptation as much as poesible I
needless, by exalting the condition of the people; and no
risk will be run ofnsiving a check to good feeling, for there
are many nobler and better ways than giving money, in
which the truly charitable may practise the duty of bene-
volence. We hopes with our Tory Contemporary, that
the hand of bounty will be liberally opened to the poor
during the ensuing recess ; but we think it unworthy
of a Government to shelter its own insensibility to the
sufferings of the people behind the expected sympathy
of individuals, which, however freely exercised, cer-
tainly cannot be practised to the extent required in
alleviating the sufferings of the poorer classes of the
community.
STANDARD —ln the House of Lords last night
Lord Radnor was pleased to make another display. He
began by lamenting that the Duke of Wellington had
put a final negative upon the proposition that the Corn-
laws should be in any respect modified, treated the corn
question as a question per se, which ought to be dis-
cussed without reference to any other subject, and
argued that the abundance of corn in the country
was no proof that the people might not bs in want of it.
We have already exposed the gross misrepresenta-
tion of the Duke of Wellington's words ; and last
night his Grace himself took the unnecessary pains to
expose that wilful and very gross misrepresentation ;
but it may not be improper to touch upon Lord Radnor's
other arguments?. First, it is, however, useful in con-
sidering this, as in considering every dispute, to recal
attention to the thing disputed. The thing disputed in
the lase before us is the necessity of immediately discuss-
inn tto o.rn-law question as an efficient means of present
relief to the pub:'.: distress. Now, how do Lord
Radnor's ar..un(n!L app:: to this question ? He says
that the Corn-1.2.w qtumttty.2 is a question per se.
Setting on one side the monstrous nbsurdity of a proposi-
tion, that a law affecting the whole frai2e of social indus-
try, can be treated in this iselated manner, ie it quite clear
that any measure, one of the effects of which snould be,
seys Lord Charles Russell, instantly to withdraw two
millions of acres from the plough, must not produce more
vresent distress than it can possibly relieve ? We are not,
in the discussion now in hand, to look to future
results.. Granted that such results might be as bene-
ficial as, in fact, they must prove.calamitousis it, we
repeat it, qnite clear, that to deprive instantly of em-
ployment the labourers upon two millions of acres,
and instantly to deprive of their accustomed trade
sa who find their principal purchasers among
lard-ve-ners, professional men, farmers, and others
dependant upon the land for their incomes,
would not genatlY
augment, instead of relieving,
•
)he present nisteeen ? This is a view of the matter to
winch Lord Radnoie has not condescended ; but it is,
nevertheless, an important one, in regard to the question,
whether an immediate discussion of the Corn-laws, either
per se or -cum aliis, would effectually relieve the present
distress ?
COURIR.—Our neighbour of the Chronicle is, or
afieos to be, c'.seatistied with our valuation of the official
capacities and seevices of Lords Clarendon and Clanri-
cards And Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer. We are, to our
loss perhaps, so little esecustomed to the favour of his
approbation, and as little to Cater for his peculiar palate,
that we have all the less difficulty in consoling ourselves
for this unaveidable misfortune as €ict we may. And
yet we do net find that he has much imp„sved upon our
estimate either of the Lords or the Common.". IT"
former, indeed, are briefly and coolly dismissed by ."1131-
self with very poverty-stricken testimonials to character,
as thus in reference to Lord Clarendon. " Upon such
a point, however, we presume the testimony of the Duke
of Wellington will be deemed satisfactory-. and such
was his Grace's estimate of Lord Clarendon's (then
Mr. Villiers) capacity, that when called to power in
1835 he solicited him to retain the appointment at
Madrid." Upon this it is necessary only to remark that
the same compliment, for into nothing else but compli-
ment can it be 'tortured, was paid to Mr. Villiers as to
nearly every other diplomatist then in active service. He
was requested to remain because, as the then Govern-
ment regarded itself as only provisional, and rightly an-
ticipated the advent, so soon-realised afterwards, of an
adverse parliamentary majority, the Great Duke, with
equal disinterestedness and delicacy, refrained from more
interference with existing arrangements than was abso-
lutely indispensable, in order not to embarrass his suc-
cessor and interfere with his policy, if policy as a system
he may be said to have had. We believe that he did
not disturb, or offer to disturb, a single appointment in
any of the legations. That Whig practice under the
same circumstances would have been essentially the re-
verse, there is ample evidence in the reckless jobbery and
shameless precipitation with which every vacant place,
and vacancies purposely created by forced retirements,
were filled up on the instant, to the last moment of appa-
rent official life, and even indecently booked in the Ga-
zette after formal announcement of the resignation of
office, since the famous " No Confidence" vote by which
constitutionally the condemned Ministry should have
felt itself interdicted from action of any kind.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
SUN.—The Market for the English Securities wore an
improved appearance this afternoon in consequence of
the telegraphic despatch, announcing the evacuation of
Canton. Consols rose immediately from 88i- 89 to 89*
and 894, being for the Account, which is the 14th inst.,
at nearly the sense range. The Market did not close
quite so high. Exchequer Bills remained at 12 to 14
premium, and East India Bonds at par to 2 premium.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 981 to
and India Stock was to 1 per cent, higher, being
marked 246.

There was not much sreculltion going on in Brazil
Stock, but revertheless the price fell again to-day from
1i to 2 per e, nt. on time bargains. though the advices
by the Columbus merchant ship to the 12th August from
Rio de Jiinero, and the Ist September from Pernam-
buco, brought no intelligence of importance, at least as
far as could be ascertained. The old Bonds were quoted
58 to 59i. The other Foreign Securities were also flat.
Spanish Active Bonds declined from 23* to 221. Por-
tuguese New Five per Cents. were at 31+, and the Three
per Cents, at 19. Colombian Bonds brought 20i. French
Five per Cents. were dull at 114 f., and Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents. at 51i.
Shares partook of the general flatness of the Money
Market, and there were a good many sales effected upon
easier terms. Great Western were 114, the New
South Western 12i, and York and North Midland 26
premium. Brighton were 7to 8, Black NV all 15 to 151,
and North Midland 34 discount. National Provincial
Bank of England Shares were 1 discount, and Provincial
of Ireland 151 premium.

..4.TEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
MANCHESTER—TuEsniy EVENING.
The attendance this forenoonhe only event touched upon was an average one for
the period of the year.
with any spirit was the important handicap race of
Tuesday next. Owing to the figures
Corner being so different to thefrom Hyde Park
expectation of yester-
day (when the Squire was eagerly supported in good
quarters at 6 to 1,
10 to 1), quite a ehange occurred
dnd 'Welfare at 7 and
in the proposals ;
five were offered in a capital quarter,
the field, or take six. Ruler's ,to be given versus
to about a score ; Ilionlrwas all
ee was 10 to 1, taken
a One gentle-
man (lid manage to put upwards of 501.
01
on
to 1. After the room broke up, the figure was asked her
at 6
~fur,
but half a point less was the top offer ; B o
was so often called out, and his price asked, 4 Pe""
that we
really thought he was going " a-head," but 200 to 12
was repeatdly oohed in a leading channel. The
Young-'un was in foree;,and was backed at 25 to 1, the
party desirous to go on. After the room broke up, our
figure was proposed ; 4 to I, to some money, would have
been taken on the two mares, say Iliona or Welfare.
After a variety of o&rs, and a desire to get against, out-
siders, we caught the prices as fidlow. These, however,
will no doubt alter when private letters and the absolute
finale to Tattersall's betting of last evening are on the
tables :

CESAREWITCH STARES.
55 to 10 agst Lord Palmerstors.re—t and then offlliona—off to take 6
s 8 to I agst Mr. Bell's The LAT
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taken
100 to 10 agst Mr. Payne's Welfare—taken
t and then off
r
100 to 10 agst Mr. Edison's The R
100 to 6 agst Col. Peel's l-
am-not-awaret and off
100 to 5 agst Mr. Holaies's The Young-' u
n—t then off
100 to 5 at st Mr. Goodman's Orelia—off
100 to 4 agst Bob Peel—off
100 to 4 agst Johnny—off
100 to 5 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau
100 to 3 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Half-caste-0T
t to 2
100 to 2 agst Emma—taken
Offers to back the Duke of Wellingta.: for a pony
against Wirrestrew or against Bosphorus.,
THE CLEAEWELL STAKES.
12 to 1 agst Attila—taken
TINL Mowrzx STAKES.-3 to 1 was repeatedly offered
on the field; talcxs of 4 to 1 agst Lampoon; 6 to 1 agst
Tuly, offered.
THE DEnny.—The only offer we heard was to sup-
port Attila at the Loudon quotation, to a score; 15 to I
was
the the bid whenthe majority of the speculators had left
room.
THE KNUTSFORD CCP (To-mouno).—Not a bet laid.
THE CHASE.—The Cheshire Hounds will meet on
Wednesday, the 13th, and Thursday, the 14th instant,
at Dunham Hall, Cheshire, for cub hunting.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—In the first e!ass
carriage, next to the engine of the train to which the
accident happened on the Brighton Railway, on Satur-
eay, with only one second class carriage intervening,
two ladies and a gentleman, who, with others in the
same carriage, escaped without the slightest injury, al-
though the carriage was smashed nearly to pieces, and
one of the ladies had her veil and clothes cut into shreds.