The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-25 00:00:00

that gentlemen, and they went together to search the
prisoner's house, where they found copper wire, pins,
needles, buttons, cards, cases for matches, books, and a
variety of other articles, which were sufficient to stock
a large house to be opened for the sale of such goods.
This property witness removed in several carriages to
the station-house, and a portion of it he now produced.
Police-constable Maddox, 40 G, gave corroborating
evidence, and the property having been identified by
Mr. Davidson, the prisoner was fully committed to
Newgate.

SECOND EDITION.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 9o* Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 90 Ditto Old Annuities
31 per Cent Red ...... .. 98Z Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent .. ... 98* Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 6pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 spm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm
Jan. 1860
Oct 1859 ... -
Jan. 18ti0 .. l2& Consols for Opg 9o*
FOREIGN FUNDS.
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A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto..... 32
Brazilian Boni!s .. .... Prussian, 5 per cent....
BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 Russian, 5 per cent. . .
Ghilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 251
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... 13.
Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f —e,
Greek.lB2s, spercent.
.. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —e.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2} per cent 5O,
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99,
SHARES.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lO%
London anti Brighton (50 paid) 431
London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) 18i
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 175
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) . 29
Ditto New Shares (24 paid)
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ......
Ditto New Shares (25 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ...... .... 26
North Midland Railway (WO paid) 77
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . 3B

South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)........ 13A
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 72

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Standard.)
Notwithstanding the apprehensions that seem to have
been entertained by our Whig Gontemporaries, the
" grand" Whig-Chartist demonstration at Leeds passed
off as harmlessly as Mr. O'Connell's attempt to disturb
the good humour of the Protestant population of Ulster
—the " black North." We shall not pretend to analyse
the dozen columns which the Morning Chronicle has
devoted to the subject. No description, says our
Contemporary, can afford an adequate idea of the
violence of the language employed in speaking of Mr.
O'Connell. Notwithstandir.g the bitter animosity ma-
nifested at the purely Chartist meeting of the morn-
ing, however, and the vehemence with which its
flaming patriots denounced Lord Melbourne as the
" most incompetent" reckless, immoral, and bloodthirsty
profligate that has ever held office within the memory of
man," the usual coalition (" a sort of compromise,"
says the Morning Chronicle), took place between the
supporters of Ministers and the Chartists, by means
of which the latter were allowed a shelter from the
cold in Mr. Marshall's mill, on the condition of pay-
ing half-a-crown for the superior, and eigtcenpence
for the inferior scats ; which, if the numbers amounted
to half the 8,000 for whom seats had been pro-
vided, must have yielded a very pretty profit to the
enterprising owner of the establishment. This sen-
sible provision for the exclusion of the peorer order of
Chartists was, no doubt, cleverly contrived, but does
not, nevertheless, appear to have produced the desired
effect. According to Mr. Bsines's testimony—and he
may fairly be pronounced a pretty tolerable authority
for an account of the discomfiture of his friends—tli e
Chartists obtained the completest of all victories.
" They took captive, he tells us, the entire army of
the enemy" (i. e. the temporisers of the juste nidieu
and household suffrage classes). Poor Mr. Hume
was constrained to bawl himself hoarse ; but such
was the distaste exhibited by his ungrateful audience for
his oratory, that it became necessary to call its attention
to his admonitions by the blast of a trumpet. Notwith-
standing the compact entered into by the Whig-Ra-
dicals present on that occasion with the Chartists, that
the resolutions should be confined to a sinsple declaration
of the utter failure of the Reform Bill and the necessity
of conceding a due share of the representation to all
classes of the people ; and the astute precaution of
demanding money at the doors ; the Ministerial party
cut a most miserable figure throughout, and were
compelled to swallow their own opinions almost as
soon as they had uttered them, and listen with patience
to a torrent of indignant denunciation of the great pa-
tron of her Majesty's Ministers (Mr. O'Connell) the
guest whom they had invited to a snug breakfast on the
ensuing morning, at which, under the protection of the
police constables and the ladies, he practised his accus-
tomed vocation unmolested. He had evidently been
hiding in some hole or corner whilst the grand demon-
stration was going on, and was at length only induced to
make his appearance in the more limited arena, which
bad questionless been carefully packed for his reception.
(From the Globe.)
We never wish to speak. with mere indifference of
any attempted demonstration which, however unsup-
ported, unsuccessful, and incongruous with itself, we
nevertheless believe to have partly originated in
popular wants and feelings. Such is our opinion
of the double demonstration last week at Leeds, which,
though a thorough and total failure in all the os-
tensible objects of its two sets of movers, is notwith-
standing, by no means witoout its political lessons.
Not lessons in politics. Not a particle of direct in-
struction in political science was to be gleaned from the
(intended) Household Suffrage more than from the
Chartist meeting. Mr. Roebuck deprecated any man
setting up for political wisdom there, and we must say
that there was no attempt at showing such offensive
superiority. The gentlemen of more moderate
views seemed to have come simply to sacrifice
those views on the altar of submissive coalition
with pure democracy. The Leeds Coryphasus
of Household Suffrage, Mr. Hamer Stansfeld, kept
his peace altogether. Sir William Molrsvrorth, Mr.
Grote, Mr. Duncombe, and almost all the other gen-
tlemen who arc called Radicals in the House of Com-
mons, chose to be absent. The one or two other sup-
posed advocates of something short of Chartism-proper
regularly threw down their briefs, and at most adven-
tured a petition for mercy. The Chronicle says—" The
meeting at Leeds, were it to have had no other effect
than the bringing together the middle and working
classes, who have for some time been neutralising the
efforts of each other, will have been productive of great
good." We cannot agree with the Chronicle. The
middle classes (in any influential representation of their
body) may be said to have been as absent as the higher
ones. This was acknowledged by the Chairman, Mr.
J. G. Marshall (the spirit of whose speech, we must
say, abstsaeted from the opinions, we like better than
anScatber)—who observed—
" If the middle classes in this town have not yet come
forward so largely as might have been wished and ex-
pected to join us, we may, I believe, attribute that to a
cause not, I firmly hope, like to influence them perma-
nently. They have been misled and deterred by the hos-
tility to the principles of our Association of some leading
Reformers amongst mean the editors of the Leeds
Mercury."
To this the Leeds Mercury answers very conclu•
sively :
" Mr. Marshall pays us the compliment to suppose that
the middle classes of Leeds, have held aloof from the
Association merely owing to our influence. But this is a
very great mistake. The middle classes undoubtedly
think with us as to the Household and Universal Suffrage,
but they held aloof from the Association for months before
we said a word on the subject,"
This double demonstration, as we have called it, was
a double failure. The Chartist part of it was, in the
first place, a total failure, as a display of numbers. The
non-Chartist equally was a failure, as a display of poli-
tical knowledge or principle.
(From the Courier.)
On Friday we gave the resolutions which were passed
at the Railway Conference held at Birmingham on
Tuesday last. The wording of the resolution evinces a
strong impression on the part of the various Companies
as to the responsibility of their duties to the public, a
due discharge of which are essential to the interests of
the railways themselves. If steam-vessels had not
been made as safe as they are expeditious and commo-
dious, they would not have become the general means
of marine transit, and if the Itiilway Companies
do not net up to their professions of anxiety for the pub-
lic safety and convenience, they will fail in making
them a profitable investment for capital ; and it is
not
attained,alone
butjudi-
ciousdisciplinarians
in h
te
e
appointmentsuperintendents of able
u
on nd
each
independent of engineers and contractors, and of every
interest save that of duty to the public under the
control of the Boards of Directors. It would perhaps
be as well that the Directors themselves should never
meddle out of the boardroom with the detail or
working of the
line, and after such a code of signals
shall have been established as experience and a know•
ledge of the subject shall select, we sincerely trust to
mseiesethhieemi
ofnallmbaancykliinnetso
stluiepiorn onroignional places, as mem-
bersto himself everye
of a board or committee, and pot act in their in-
dividual capacities. This has been the cause of much
the South Western, arrogated
dn
Brighton will not follow so bgd an example. The two,
greatest evils that can attach to a railway 4.re' being a
c
should much prefer eeeing the
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Company.l tecphear ihrampwas%wp:rorrsoege
the
Stock'Exchange line, or isiift the exclq.tie Manage-,
went of the engineer, 04 ,the fifth resoldtion we
various Companies