The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-18 00:00:00

from the source of the St. to the highlands, not
what is known as the disputed

Commis opened this morning at 35';4 * for Money, and
90* for the Account; being an advance of 4. per cent.
upon the closing price of yesterday ; Exchequer -:Bills,
are 12 14 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock, 221* ;_ Portu-
guese Five per Cents., 304 ; ditto, Threes 181 4.
The Hamhurgh Mail has arrived with the letters and
papers of Tuesday's date. Exchange comes the same as
before ; Gold, a half-mark higher.
The failure of Hohhouse at Bath, though the subject
of regret and conversation, has still not created any very
uneasy feeling in the City. It appears now pretty cer-
tain that all the banks not perfectly sound have had too
severe a trial by failures and derangements in the mer-
cantile world to stand their ground.
We have much pleasure in stating that during the last
feiv days the wholesale Manchester houses in the City
have been much busier than for some time past. • This
applies both to the home demand and that for shipping.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bulk Stock — India Stock ..247
3 per Cent Red — Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9l. !Ditto Old. Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red 99* IDitto New Annuities...
New 36- per Cent 9Bi iEs. Bills, 1,000/....21d 14 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ l4 pat
Long Annuities toexpire I I)itt 5ma11.... 16
Jan. 1860 .. —'Bank Stock for 0pg....247i
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct 9OA
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds 6B

'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.

Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent !Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... !Spanish, 5 per cent 226
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ..
Danish, 3 per cent 79i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange - c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 'French, 3 per cent 77f. 50c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 26 per cent. ... 51a
Peruvian, 182.5, 6 per ct. ' Ditto, 5 per cent 1026
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... ...... 784
Ditto New Shares (50 paid s4i.
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 46
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)...
Ditto New Shares ( paid) 4/ 16s 8d
London and Birmingham (99) ......... ...
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 166
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 75
•

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar . ... 46 '
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 711 Genoa
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13i Venice 47
Altona
Parii, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz 1181
Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 85 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1494 Bahia
l'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- ... ....... . .... 7 _ INew York, 21 days sight 461
_ ...,. .. . .

Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 950 Philadelphia — 46
Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OE
Madrid ...
Cadiz
Bilboa ... 36i .New Doubloons 0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville ... 36

New Dollars 0 4 lOi
Silver in Bars 0 4 Oi

GREAT PUBLIC MEETING IN
MANCHESTER,

TO MEMORIALIZE THE QUEEN NOT TO PRO.
ROGUE PARLIAMENT UNTIL THE CORN.
LAWS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED.

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER RECEIVED YESTERDAY

MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.

The meeting to-day went off in glorious style,
the Town-hall was crammed to sufibcation, and
quite unanimous. The Tories issued circulars
yesterday to all the voters in their interest, call-
ing on them to attend and oppose the proceed-
ings, as the meeting was called for unconstitu-
tional objects, and only got up to annoy Sir
Robert Peel. But the great body of the Tories
here are as much opposed to the Corn-laws as
the Radicals are themselves, and they did not
answer to the whip of their leaders. The Char-
tists were also plied with the usual substantial
arguments, but they refused to join in obstruct-
ing a meeting, called for the purpose of giving
bread and employment to the starving operatives.
The result of all the efforts of the Tories was,
that when Mr. G. Clarke (the Chairman of Sir
George Murray's Election Committee) attempted
to propose an amendment, the meeting refused
to hear him, and no seconder had the courage to
make his appearance. When the Memorial to
the Queen was put to the meeting by the Mayor,
only two hands were held 'up against it—one of
them belonging to the said Mr. ,Clarke, and the
other to that well-known politician, Mr. Flintoff.
Whatever falsehood the Tories may invent to
cover their discomfiture, I assure you I never
saw so numerous, so respectable, and so enthusi-
astic a meeting. Manchester may he said to be
united as one man against the bread-tax. The
Memorial to the Queen will go off this evening
to the care of Mr. Mark Philips.

THE RE-ELECTIONS.
SUNDERLAND.
SUNDERLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15.—The nomina-
tion took place this day. The Mayor, Rowland White,
Esq., acted as returning officer.
WALKER FEATHERSTONHAUGH, Esq., proposed Lord
Howick, and the nomination was seconded by M. H.
CLAYTON, Esq.
Dr. MILLER proposed Wolverley Attwood, Esq.. and
his nomination was seconded by R. SCARFIELD, Esq.,
one of the shipowners in the borough. The -speeches of
the proposers and seconders were inaudible, in conse-
quence of the tumult which prevailed.
Mr. WILLIAM MOWATT, a Chartist, and Mr. ALFRED
CARLISLE, another Chartist, proposed and seconded Co-'
lonel Peyronnet Thompson.
Lord HowicK then stepped to the front of the hust-
ings. His Lordship proceeded to say that the great dif-
ference of political opinions between Mr. Attwood and
himself might be resolved into two points. They dif-
fered, first, as regarded the commercial policy of the em-
pire ; and, next, as to the degree of confidence which
it was necessary to repose in those who had recently as-
sumed the reins of power. With respect to commercial
policy, Mr. Attwood had avowed himself what he called
the friend of protection to home industry. He (Lord
Howick), on the contrary, appeared before them as
the advocate for the removal of restrictions on trade.—
(Hear, and cheers.) . He appeared before them to con-
tend that, what was termed protection, to British in-
dustry- was, in the. sense in which it was used, a great
delusion. There was one protection, and one only,
which British industry required. Britain required that
every man should be protected in the produce of his own
labour—(hear, and cheers)—that he should not be
liable to be deprived of the fruits of his industry by open
violence or secret fraud, and that he should not be
liable to extremes of any description, and that was the
true and onlyprotection which British industry required.
All the duties said to be for the protection of British
industry were neither more nor less than taxes in dis-
guise. They were taxes not the less onerous because
they did not brine. money into the Exchequer. These
duties were all bad in principle, and he thought that Cus-
tom-house duties ought not to be imposed for the purpose
of raising revenue, and that there was no justification for
refusing to the people of England the liberty to
purchase what they required wherever they could get it.
But although he was the advocate of the general prin-
ciple, he would, as he had. always wished to do, proceed
with cautious steps. --(Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Atwood
had told them that their views were theoretical. Now,
he (Lord Howick) said, that instead of having anything
to do with theory, they were founded in the simple
dictates of common sense and experience. Ile had had
proofs of the distress which existed in Sunderland ; and
the same distress existed in all the great commercial and
manufacturing towns. He asked them, what remedy
was to be provided for this state of things ? The only
and obvious remedy was to give increased facilities for
exchanging the produce of this country for the pro-
duce of other countries. With America our trade
was languishing, because they could not pay for our
produce unless in produce of their own. The French
market was also shut to British industry, because
both nations had foolish protection tariffs. Were pro-
per steps taken, the exports from this country to France
in iron and coals alone would more than equal the whole
of the present exports. But more than this—the treaty
with the Brazils was about expiring, and the market in
that country would be destroyed if relaxations were not
made in our restrictive system. Unless, then, they were
allowed to send goods in return, our trade with fo-
reigners must cease. All indirect taxes were naturallyaffected by the. price of bread.—(llear They
were aware that of late years they had had a filling re-
venue, and that was owing, in a_great measure,i the totth
pthe ef-
fect of the present Corn-laws.—(Hear.) u 7ing pre-
sent autumn about
lowest duty of pe
2,000,000 ofquarterus of wheat
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by to
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late re-
venue by the sliding scale an
.Ministers was as between 800,000 and 100,000. Had the
fixed duty been adopted, the gain to the revenue would
have been the former sum. By the present plan, the ac-
cess to the revenue was only the latter.—(Cheers.) He
now came to the second point on which Mr. Attwood
and he differed—as to the degree of confidence to be
placed in the present Ministry. It appeared to him,
looking to Sir Robert Peel's past conduct as a Minister
and as a statesman, that he had given no evi-
dence of possessing that foresight or that discri-
minating judgment, which, above all other qualities,
were requisite in a leader of the Government. But,
above all, he (Lord Howick) withheld from Sir Robert
Peel his confidence, because he had avowedly taken his
stand on the principle of a fluctuating duty on corn, and
because he had included in his list of colleagues persons-
whom it was impossible that he (Lord Howick) could re-
gard otherwise than with feelings of distrust.--(Loud