The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

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as the lawyers phrase it, the medical men upon
whose certificate the unfortunate alleged lunatic has
been incarcerated. As a proof of the impropriety
of permitting clergymen to interfere in the manage-
ment of :lunatics we will suppose a case. When
JOHN WESLEY founded the society of Methodists his
college companions considered him a lunatic. Had
they, instead of merely considering him a harmless
lunatic, considered him a dangerous one, and de-
nounced him as such to the authorities—had he been
a rich man and worth incarcerating, no doubt he
would have been incarcerated, and had the bishops
and clergy then possessed the power which this Bill
proposed to give them, that incarceration would
have been an incarceration for life. Any difference
of opinion from the superintending clergyman on
theological points will be considered by such clergy-
man (if a bigot) as proof sufficient of madness, while,
on the other hand, if he should be a liberal minded,
unbigotted man, the very fear of having such an
imputation cast on him might induce him to set
at liberty certain religious monomaniacs, the re-
lease of whom from all restraint would be dan-
gerous to society. In the opinion expressed by
Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE, of the manner in which
the Lunacy Commissioners perform their duties, we
entirely concur; of the necessity of great and sweep-
ing changes in the law relating to the management
of lunatics we have long been convinced ; but we are
equally convinced that the Bill in question would
tend rather to aggravate than to mitigate those evils,
and therefore we do not regret that, yielding to the
judicious suggestion of the Home Secretary, Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE has withdrawn the measure. We are,
however, rejoiced to find that Mr. T. DUNCOMBE is
determined to watch the proceedings of the Commis-
sioners narrowly, and we would beg respectfully to
suggest to him that in the next session, instead of in-
troducing a Bill similar to the one he has withdrawn,
it would be more advisable that he should move for a
Select Committee to inquire into the laws relating
to lunacy and the management of lunatic
asylums. The public are not aware of the atrocities
practised in many of those asylums—.of the manner
in which the present state of the law favours the
plots of unscrupulous relations to coerce aged or
timid, but perfectly sane persons, into a disposition
of their property contrary to their wishes—of the
practical repeal of the Habeas Corpus (by the recent
decision of Lord DE/quAN) as far as persons accused
of lunacy are concerned. These and many other
evils would be brought to light by the ap-
pointment of such a Committee, and then we
should be in a position to devise a measure
which, by rendering absolutely necessary a pub-
lic inquiry into the sanity or insanity of any
alleged lunatic, before authorising the detention of
such alleged lunatic in any asylum, would afford a
sufficient safeguard to the liberty of the subject;
while, by abolishing all private asylums, it would
secure for those who were really lunatic a humane
and judicious course of treatment so long as the
disease should last, and a certainty of their rectors-
on to liberty immediately on their recovery.

Another of those important measures affecting in
the highest degree the safety of a very considerable
number of our countrymen was yesterday brought
under the consideration of the House of Commons,
and necessarily postponed, in consequence of the ad-
vanced state of the session, and of the impossibility of

any Bill brought forward by a private Member un-
connected with the Government successfully encoun-
tering the determined opposition to which it would

be subjected by interested parties. The Hon•
Member fur Finsbury bad, however, good reason to

be satisfied with the impression he made, and
the acknowledgments elicited from the Home

Secretary as to the necessity for some legislation

with a view to the adoption of precautions ca]

culated to reduce the number of accidents which

have lately taken place in mines and collieries
with such appalling frequency and such heart-
rending fatality. Experience has proved that even
motives of self-interest are not sufficient to induce the

parties conducting these gigantic establishments
to adopt the regulations necessary for the
protection of the lives of those employed
under their superintendence; an unaccountable
apathy appears to be manifested by all, as
well overseers as workmen the latter will

daily incur risks of the most serious character, they
will subject themselves to the chances of a lingering
and painful death, rather than adhere strictly to the
simple rules prescribed for their governance, and by
which these shocking catastrophes might be averted.
True it is that the proprietors may lose thousands of

pounds sterling by each accident. Their machinery
may be damaged, their works stopped. They may,
under the Act of last session, be called upon to make
pecuniary compensation—so far as any amount of
money can be a compensation—to the widows and
orphans, or other surviving relatives, of those who
have prematurely perished, when the loss of their
lives can be in any manner ascribed to negligence or
carelessness on their part, or those of their servants.
They may thus be reduced from affluence and inde-
pendence to comparative indigence and penury in one
single moment; and yet, so strangely constituted is
the human mind,' that they will prefer the pos-
sibility of such occurrences to submitting them-
selves to a systent of inspection and super-
intendence, which, as the Member for Finsbury
stated, " should not amount to undue interference
with the affairs of the owners, but which would
afford security to life and limb to the working people
employed."
whom they
We are convinced that no pecuniary penalties, no
civil or criminal consequences, however serious they
may be, will ever be sufficient in themselves, to lead
to the necessary remedies for the acknowledged evil.
In such case, then, it becomes the duty of the nation
to interfere, and to insist that everything which may
be deemed necessary, or even useful, should be had
recourse to. We admit, as a general rule, the im-
policy of any needless interposition between the em-
ployers and their workmen, that persons will regulate
their own affairs, if left to themselves, far better and
in a more eligible manner than if continually inter-
fered with by Government inspectors ; but there is a
point beyond which this argument cannot be carried
—a limit within which it must be restrained. In
anything relating to the health, the morals, or the
lives of the people, there is a paramount claim on
the authorities which cannot be evaded or neglected
without actual criminality on their part. These
claims have gradually been recognised, and a greatly
improved spirit is observable in the manner in which
the wants, the interests, and the wishes of the less
wealthy classes, of the hard-working artizans, by
whom the national wealth is created, are now dealt
with in the Legislature. The statements made by
their advocates are no longer sneered at and disre•
garded; they at least command the respect-
ful attention of the House, and although the
remedies may for awhile be withheld, they are
certain ultimately to be adopted. The Government
have evinced an anxiety to do justice to the people;
true it is, that an occasional stimulant must be ad-
ministered, their attention must be directed to the
grievance, and the manner in which it may success-
fully be encountered ; and, this can only be done by
the energy and zeal of private Members who, actuated
by tit;; floblest ambition, desire to ameliorate the con-
dition of their feiiow-men, and devote their labours
and anxiousur card
to the subjects demanding reform.
Thentandpressing deniands upon the Ministerial
time prevent the leading members of the Cabinet
from originating
investigations, and searching out
abuses which are not prominent and notorious. A
primlifacie case must be made out in the first instance.
The public gratitude
who may bring to a swneilelessbefuiduteertntointahtieonMitnhiesters
re-
quired measures of reform, but it will be due in a
still higher degree to the individual member by whose
perseverance and assiduity they have bee
been forced
upon, and led to the considerationof the
ject. In this respect the Hon. Member for
Finsbury has indeed deserved well of the
country. He has been indefatigable in the
exposure of abuses, and his statements, although per-
haps controverted when first brought forward, have
subsequently had their accuracy and justice admitted
and acted upon. The Home Secretary, in the pre-
sent instance, has undertaken that the serious consi-
deration of the Government shall be given to the sub-
ject during the recess. He has expressed a hope that
they will receive much valuable assistance from the
labours of Mr. DUNCOMBE—assistance which that
gentleman will, doubtless, be most happy to afford—
and tie ilas expressed their readiness, if practicable;

)to propose a. satisfactory measure on the subject
during the course of next session. Under these cir-
cumstances Mr. DIINCOMBE could not do otherwise
than consent to the present withdrawal of the measure,
in order to secure its ultimate and certain success.

Madrid papers of the 24th ult. have arrived.
The Infante DonFRANCISCO DI PAULO, the father of
the King Consort and the uncle of the QUEEN, was
summoned before the Cabinet on the 23d; and accused
of being a member of several treasonable societies,
among others of the " Carbonari," of the " Com-
munists," and of " the Avengers of Alibaud." The
objects of these societies are to destroy the monarchy
and to introduce a republic. Don Fuaxcxsco de-
clared that he was ignorant of the designs of the
members of these societies, and promised to cease to
have any intercourse with them for the future. All
was quiet in the Basque provinces, The QUEEN had
gained much popularity by pardoning three Carlists
who had been sentenced to death at Lerida.
The Bolsa was closed on the 24th in honour of the
feast of St. John.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
Every day brings to light some fresh instance of 1
corruption on the part of the French Conservative
Ministry, and these charges are made and proved, not
by their political opponents, but the members of their
own party—by men who are to the full as corrupt as
those whom they charge with corruption. Who be-
lieves in the immaculate incorruptibility of such men
as M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN ? The letter read from
the tribune by M. Guizor, in the debate of the 18th
of June, as effectually settled the question of M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN'S honesty as it did that of M.
GUIZOT'S honour. Nevertheless M. EMILE DE
GIRARDIN continues his edifying revelations, and
those revelations continue to gain credence
because, from the known character of all
parties concerned, it is considered much more
probable that they should be true than otherwise
It will be remembered that M. DUCHATEL accused
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN of railway jobbing, and the
proprietor of La Presse admitted the soft impeach-
ment. He held certain shares, but he had paid for
them, and he retorted by a to quoque, whereupon M.
DUCHATEL waxed wrath, and denounced as a ca-
lumny the accusation that any Cabinet Minister had
jobbed in railway shares—" Such a Minister would
be infamous." In the Presse of Monday, M. EMILE
DE GIRARDIN shows that the firm of CUNIN GRIDAINE
and Sons had received 500 shares in a cer-
tain railroad company, M. CUNIN GRIDAINE
being at that time Minister of Commerce,
of the Soult-Guizot Government. In the Moniteur
Parisien of Monday night appears a letter from M.
CUNIN GRIDAINE, stating that he had withdrawn
from the general business of his mercantile house at
Sedan as early as 1834, reserving to himself only a
share in the manufacture of cloth, and that he was a
stranger to the other transactions of the house. This
explanation is regarded as anything but satisfactory.
The Presse says very justly—
" M. Cunin Gridaine may have abandoned since 1831
the direction of his old commercial house ; but that does
not do away with this fact, that the signature to which
allusion has been made was presented to the Minister of
Public Works in these terms—Cunin Gridaine, pere
et fils."
The National thus comments on this very sus-
picious proceeding :
"It will be remembered that the other day M. Du-
chatel exclaimed in indignant accents, that ' a Minister
who should have taken shares in a railway, the Northern
or any other, would have committed a shameful action !'
' An infamous action 1' forcibly added M. Guizot, where-
upon the whole Chamber applauded, and M. Dumon
gave very visible signs of cordial approbation. The
Pi esse reproduced yesterday the text of the Moniteur, in
which this scene is described, and it added :—' What
would the Minister of the Interior say, if one were to
show him the name of one of his colleagues inscribed for
500 definitive shares (20 coupons of 25 shares, Nos.
6,301 to 6,320) on the register of one of the companies
admitted to the concession of the Northern railway,
as settled the 22d August, 1845. This does not concern
one of the dismissed Ministers.' The accusation this time
is precise; the number of shares subscribed, their re-
spective numbers, the period of the subscription, all is
set forth very clearly. Who is the Minister not dismissed
who has committed the shameful action—the infamous
action? The Moniteur Parisien of last evening informs
us officially. The note it publishes is as follows:—' The
journal the Presse insinuates this morning (insinuates is
charming) that a Minister is inscribed for 500 definitive
shares on the register of subscriptions of a company
admitted to the concession of a railway. If this journal
intended to allude to the subscription of the house of
Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, of Sedan, we are authorised
to declare that M. Cunin Gridaine, Minister of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, is is complete stranger to this
subscription. Since 1834 he has abandoned the
direction of his old house of business, which has
since bolonged to his two eons. He has only
preserved an interest of small importance in
the affairs relative to the manufacture of cloth,
and he has no interest whatever in any of the operations
not connected with the manufacture of cloth. The de-
claration made with honest energy by the Minister of
the Interior, in the sitting of the 25th, remains therefore
in all its force.' Undoubtedly this declaration is not
annulled; but though we read and re-read the authorised
note, we do not see in what respect it destroys the
accusation of the Presse ; it seems to us, on the contrary,
that this note confirms it from point to point. To whom
do the 500 definitive shares belong? Evidently the pro-
perty is determined by the name they bear. What is
that name? Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, of Sedan. Is
M. Cunin Gridaine pere the same as the Minister of
Agriculture? There is no doubt in that respect. It is
therefore to Messrs. Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, that
the shares subscribed for belong. By whom is
the operation made ? By the house in which
the Minister retains an interest : it is to the firm
Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, that the shares are
accorded. If, by chance, they were not paid for,
Cunin Gridaine pere would be as much responsible as
Cunin Gridaine fits. And if the Minister were, as he
says, an entire stranger to this operation, the shares
ought to have been subscribed for by M. Cunin Gridaine
fill, without reference to the house, and under another
name than that of the firm. Whether the Minister de-
sires it or not, he is bound—legally bound—by the sub
scription ; the shares belong to him in proportion to the
interest which he has retained in the house. His own
name, Cunin Gridaine, pere,;figures as that of one of the
proprietors of those shares. Such is the commercial
side of the affair. And now look at the date of the
subscription—it was the 22d of August, 1845, that the
register was settled. There are, therefore, at least
two years since the shares were demanded or ac-
corded. Has the Minister of Commerce been two
years without knowing that fact ? Has there been no
inventory drawn up in the house of Cunin Gridaine,
pert et fits ? Has he been ignorant that this house was
engaged in a very different situation to the manufac-
ture of cloth? Is it possible to suppose that? And
if he knew it, how has he allowed his name, Cunin
Gridaine, pire, to figure as that of a person interested
in a railway? How is it that he has not applied the
theory of M. Duchatel? Another reflection will cer-
tainly occur to every mind. The unbridled competition
of the persona who solicited shares will be remembered;
such a one demanded 500, and hardly obtained 50.
With the modest premium of 400 f , these 500 shares
represented a clear profit of 200,000 f. We know not to
what number these 500 shares was reduced when the
fusion took place between all the companies; but, what-
ever it was, there was always a profit of 400 f. per share.
This bait violently excited speculators; and can it be
believed that the name of Cunin Gridaine, pere, was
without influence in obtaining what it demanded for the
house of Sedan? Can it be believed that in this respect
the quality of Minister appeared indifferent? In what-
ever point of view we place ourselves, the official note
fully leaves the accusation in existence; and the words
of M. Guizot and M. Duchatel fall like a heavy weight
on their colleague who calls himself Canin Gridaine,
pere, at Paris, and Cunin Gridaine, pere et fils, at Sedan."
MM. CUBIERES, TESTS, PARMENTIER, and PAL-
LEPRA were interrogated on Monday by M. le Presi-
dent LEGEGNEUR, one of the Commissioners appointed
by the Court of Peers to assist the Chancellor in
conducting the trial. It is reported that General
CUBIERES has made a statement to the CHANCELLOR
and M. PASSY which seriously implicates one of his
Ico-accused, and will completely establish the charge
of corruption against him.
Tranquillity has been completely restored at Mul-
house.
Considerable gloom prevailed on the Paris Bourse, on
Tuesday, for which no political reason was assigned.
The Three per Cents., which closed on Monday at 77f.
50c., fell at one time to 77f. 30c., at which price they left
off. Shares were also out of favour. A trifling fall
(2ff.) took place, on Orleans, in Northern, and in Lyons
shares. Havre, Vierzon, and Avignon shares fell
respectively 51.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues-
dayc. ,
Shares,th e
iFive,26B
fp. er7Csce.n;ts.
Rouen,ll7f 7,06c5.
r; ; thenavOrre-,
Vierzon, 5901. ; Bordeaux, 505 f. ; Boulogne, 4051. ;
_Basle,
laofifs.a;tßGa7ir7lerfa.ota3odNorthern, 5661. 25c. ; Avignon, 678 f. 75c. ;
183 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4201. ;Tours and I\antes,
Bordeaux and Cette, 456 . 25c. ;- Spanish Actives, 2901 413:nu5afs.i
aI;InNP,Ea risss and
Do LNyEo nls ,s44of
.FOREIGN; Lvons and Avignon, 442 t. Joc. ;
RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 30.
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), 2—East
h—Great Western, Bengal, 1/s —Luxembourg, 1%
—Northern of France, 105/B—Paris and Lyons, 51/2—Paris
and Strasbourg, s—Rouen and Havre, 253/4.

JERsBY•—Sir Charles Ogle, Commander-in-Chief
of the Portsmouth station, arrived here on Sunday after-
noon, and on Monday proceeded on a general inspection
of the island. He left about nine o'clock this day for
Guernsey, proceeding thence to England,—Jersey Times
Wpodisp

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS• 1

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cottun market at Liverpool yesterday was very
animated. There was an advance of 4d. per lb. in the ,
quotations cf American, Surat, Brazil, and Egyptian,
the sales amounting to 18,000 bales, and including
12,000 bales of American at Gld. to i 4d., 1,000 of Per-
nambuco at id. to Sid., 2,500 Surat at 4d. to 51d.
Speculators took 6,000 bales American, and 1,600 of
other sorts. In Railway Shares, as usual, when cotton
speculation thrives, business was not so brisk.
Accounts from Borneo state that the pirates in that
quarter had again been very troublesome, and that they
had made a descent upon the Island of Lepar in 22
, proas, and with 300 men, but were fortunately beaten

back
b with some loss.
The advices from various parts of the Continent con
tinue very favourable in respect to the grow ing crops,
and in the more southerly countries harvest operations
are going on vigorously.
The state of business is still gradually improving, al-
though not yet brisk. Money for commercial purposes
has been rather more in demand, but the payment of
the dividends may shortly be expected to afford ample
funds.
The English Stock market appears to be in a very
uncertain position, as far as Bulls and Bears are con-
cerned. Neither seem disposed just )et to operate,
though the inclination certainly appears to be to invest
rather than to sell. The operators for a rise look for
support and encouragement to the prospects of a good
harvest, the easy manner in which the payments have
hitherto been made for foreign corn imported, and the
bare possibility of bullion for the purchase of stock being
received from Russia. The opposite party reason, of
course, per contra, that our harvest is not yet secured,
nor are the supplies we shall need yet paid for, and that
the Russian operation has long since been concluded
by the taking of a portion of the new loan con-
tracted for by Messrs. Baring, and the drawing
of bills of exchange. Indeed, the Bears even
insinuate that there is enough of the new ioan
yet in the hands of parties who will be glad, at
existing rates, to deliver it on the account day. It is of
course impossible for us to decide when " doctors dis
agree." Consols are now quoted 89 to The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents are 91 to 4. The Three
per Cent. Reduced Annuities are 89i to Exchequer-
bills have been voted Bs. to 12s. premium. East India
Bonds are lOs. premium.
The Foreign Securities are very dull again. Spanish
Five per Cents. have reali.ed 21. Nothing has beer.
done in Portuguese. Brazilian Old Bonds have been at
84; Mexican are worth 191 to 19i; llute,h Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., exdividend, have been 57i to
4.
The Railway Share Market is not quite so active,
but holders are firm and the jobbers are short of scrip.
BRITISH FUNDS. CLOSING
PRICES.
89%
91%
9 1-Di
10 p
10 p
89%

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 89 % %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 91%
ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 10 p
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. • • • • • •
Consols for Opening, July 16 .. • . 89
ya
Exchequer Bills. l3Ad. 2d.
1,0001... 12 8 p
5001. -.— 10 14p
Ditto, Small •• •• 16 15 p
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84
Ditto, New Bonds. 1829 and 1839 .. 83
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 35
Danish, 3 per Cent -• • • •• .. 85
Mexican Bonds, 1816, 5 per Cent .. 19%
Ditto, for the Account • • • . 1914
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • • • • •
Ditto, for the Account ......
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • ..
Ditto, for the Account • • • •
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-lialt per Cent .. 57% %ex div 58 Li
Ditto, for the Account .• • • • • 57%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
ONE O'CLOCK.

ruicEs OF
RAILWAY S LURES.

CLOINu
riticEs.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. 2% •• .. 1% %•• . .
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .•• • ..... 1714,
firming., Wolver., and Dudley • • 10 .• .. 14% •• • .... • 14%
firming., Wolver.,& Stour Valley 8 8%..' •• • B.
a.
%
Buckinghamshire .. 61. 4s
. 30
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares 2% 2% 24
Eastern Counties .. .• 20 .... 21 21%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ••••• • •. • •
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. % p.... p
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 7% •••.• • . • • 7%
East Lancashire .. .. 20 .•.. ••••.. • • • •
Ditto, New ........10 .. •• .....
Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 1••••1%•• • • • • • • • • 1%
East Lincolnshire .. 654 7% ex int. • • Lint.
Great Northern • • • • .. 6 .... 4%.... • • 4%
Do., London & York Extension 2% .... 1% • •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 32 A, .... 3054 ex int 30% x.l.
Great North of England . ..100 —.237% .. • •
Great Western .• • 85 .... • .....•
Ditto, Half Shares ..50 .... 74
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .... 18% 18
ZDitto, New .. .• 4% .•• • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .•.. .• • •
Ditto, New .. .. 7% .. • ••••• • • • • •
Leeds and Bradford .. 40 .. 88 •. •
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 254 .... % .••• • • • •
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .• .. 56% 55% 5654
Ditto. Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 14 ...... •• • •
Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .• .. 55
London and Greenwich— 121. 15s. 4d... •. .
9 .. • ..... • •
London an North-Western • • 100 ... 182 184. .....
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 . ••13% It •-•• • • • •
Ditto, Fifths • • • . .. 2 .... 17% ••••.. • • • •
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (A) 5 •• • • ... •• ~
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) I ••• • •••• • • •
London and South-Western 411. Gs. 10d... 6754 67 ... •
Ditto, New .. • . 2754 ••••• • • • •
Ditto, Scrip • • .. • • .. S .... 5 ...... •• • •
Manchester and Leeds.. 82 .... 10354
Ditto, Half Shares .. • . 38 .... 4654 .• • ••• • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 445. -- • • • . -• •
Midland ..100 .... 131% 131 .••• •
Ditto, New ~ .• .• .. 36 .• .. 45% .... •.. • •
Ditto, New .. •. .. 6 .... 10% .••• .. •
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .• .. 295;14 • • .... •
Ditto, New .. • • .. 5 •.. 85g.. • •
Ditto, Extension • • .• .. 10 .... 10%
North British • • • • • • .. 25 •••• • • .
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 1254 1564 .. • • •
Ditto, Thirds .. • • ....
North Staffordshire • • .. 754 1034 3434 .. •• •
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 27% .... 1914 ..... •
Preston and Wyre.. • • .. 25 .... 38 37% •• • •
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 85(1 .... 13 ....
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 536 65%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 354 •••• • • • •
Ditto, Class 11 • • • • • • • • 3 •• .. 2% • ••• • • •
Shropshire Union .• •. .- 4 .... 254 %••• • • •
South Staffordshire • • .. 21. 125... % dis.. • •
South Eastern and Dovor •. • 33% .. • • 3754 •••• • • • •
Ditto, New (ice. at 32/.) No. 1. 20 .• 2134 22 .. • •
South Wales • • . • . • • • .. 10 .••• • • •
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
West ItidingUnion • • • • • 4/.25... %P• • • •
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western .. 425. •• • 214
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 20 • • • • • • •
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 •••• • • •
_•• Ditto, New............ 0 •.•• • • .
Ditto, Preference .... 12%34 • . •
York and North Midland _ .. 50 sBx,
Ditto, Extension • • .• .. 25 435 e ••• • ••
Ditto. Preference • • .. 6 .... 1654 .. ••• • •
Do. E. and W. Riding Extol 10 23% 24 ..
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • • • • • • • • •• 14 .... 1754 .. • •
Ceylon . • . • • • .• 55, _ • % %
Dutch Rhenish • • • • .. .. 7 .. 4.4 ••.. • •
East Indian . • • .. ss. ••• • • •
Great Western Bengal .. Ss.
Namur and Liege .. • . .• .. 10 3% 4.• • .
Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 10% % ... •
Rouen and Havre . .. .. 20 .... 2574 .. •• • •
Sambre and Meuse • • .. 14 .. ••• • • •
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Commercial of London • • •• 20 .... 22 ••• • • •
MINES.

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. 2%
. % dis.
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Real del Monte, 17nrealstered —.. .... ......

HABEAS CORPUS.

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[We insert the following letter as an act of justice to
one who has been hardly dealt by, and from re; pect to the
son of a great man. We do not, however, agree with
the writer in his conclusions.]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—There is no end to the outcry that this is a
" land of liberty" whenever an infringement is made
upon the privileges of any of the great men whose
pedigrees state that their ancestors " came in with the
Conqueror," and, in fact, whether the ancestors "came
in" with William I. or William 111. the cry is equally
loud, and generally successful, in vaunting and insisting
on the forms of laws to secure liberty, which forms were
established or re-established by the Saxon ancestors of
the bulk of this nation. Now I, one of the bulk, have
been in prison seven years, charged with being a rebel
and a contemner of the laws, but without having been
convicted or tried. My keeper having certified on the
return to my habeas corpus to the effect that I had been
tried and convicted, I was remanded to his custody. I
brought my action on the case for a false return; he
pleaded " not guilty," and no o'her plea, and Lord Den-
man, on Saturday, the 19th inst., before a jury of the
country, held that the return must be assumed to be true
until it was proved to be false, and that the onus of proof
lay on the party making the charge. Now what would
be the proof of the truth of the return? Simply the
warrant in the keeper's office. What would be my
disproof of the return? Nothing but the same warrant,
which I must produce by subpce is of one of the
detendant's own officers. I should like to know how I
could prove that that warrant was falsified? I cannot
put leading questions to my own witness ; but he, the
willing witness against me, is open to leading questions
in the shape of cross examination by the defendant, and
cross-examination affords the best evidence.
In the times of Charles 1., so much abused for tyranny,
corruption had not sunk so deep that jailers would cer-
tify matter not in their warrants of commitment, as
appears by the Petition of Right (3 C. 1., c. 1, s. 5); but
it this doctrine that the party complaining of the return
has to disprove it, had then sprung up, the judges of
Charles might have been spared the difficulty and odium
of remanding persons, as stated in the Petition of Right.
who by the returns appeared to have been committed
illegally on vague charges by the Lords of the Privy
Council. If this doctrine is now law, the result of course
is, that the return is never to be supported on oath, and
that I am debarred from cross-examination of the agents
of the officer on whose unsworn statement I am detained,
sad that therefore I have no remedy but the troublesome
one of indictment at common-law, in which I may be a
witness.
I think, Sir, that this being a matter in which public
liberty is concerned and common sense the test, the press
is the proper quarter to appeal to; and therefore, not on
individual but on public groundsrecti, I hope the press w
the
respond to this appeal by ding its n
subject, not only in England, but in Ireland and Scot-
land. Lord Denman observed that his opinion was given
in the absence of any authority for my view of the point ;
but I h,pe that the precedent in this case will end by
becoming such authority, on my motion for a new trial,
and on the public opinion expressed through your dis-
cussion of the question.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
WM. COBBETT.
Queen's Prison, June 22, 1847.

Wednesday a ballot was taken at the East India
House for the election of a director, in the room of
Major. General Archibald Robertson, deceased. At six
o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scru-
tineers, who reported that the election had fallen on Mr.
Wilnom Joseph Eastwick.