The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

IRON RAILWAYS.

6,300 ........ Birmingham and Derby - ...... 100/ pd 55
9,..5t•0 ......... Birmingham and Gloncester......lo3/. pd 5534
15,000 ......... Bristol and Exeter llllli. sh. 60 pd 2is
7,5(41 ......... Cheltenham & G.Western 0.0/.sh. 02A 4 17
3,004 ......... Clarence ..... ...-....- ..... 100/. sh. 1001 pd 20
8.00( ......... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 5/. pd
no,one ......... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd 8
10,0(0 Great North of England 1001. sh. 901, pd t 5
10,91 8 13 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd XOO
95,(5, 9 3 per cent. Great Western 'OOl. sh. 651, pd 76.4
2.5,C041 ....»... Ditto New .50/. sh. :0/. pd 54.4
6,00ps 5 per cent Gosport Junction.. 501 sh. 50/. pd 51%
2,000( 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1501. oh. 100/. pd 145%
a,OOO, ......... Hull and Selby -.04 oh. 50/. pd 39
,100, 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby lno sh. 65%
5,1064, 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester l'3ll.sh. 100/.p.1 199 N
ymiiii; 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 90
11,495. 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 254 pd 45
WOO ........ London and Brighton 501. sh. 501. pd 43
poAjd, London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 251. pd 9%
20,00 e, 3 percent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sl.. 20/. pd 7%
15,000, piper cent. London & Birmingham. 100/. -h. 904 pd 160
25,000, 21. Cs. Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 51. pd 2134
31,250 ......... Ditto New Shares 12/. sh. 324 pd 53
30,010 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. OSI, 17s. 9d. 51 ji
33,e04 ......... London and Croydon/
Av. 13/. 158.9 d. 13
Ditto New Scrip.... 13
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. '7O/. pd 5'34
13,0001 . Ditto Half Shares SOL 251. pd 24
10,000. .... ..... Manchester and Birmingham 701.8h.401. 21%
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 214
10,000. 21.0 s. Midland Counties ..... ....lOW. sh. 100/. pd 75
15,000 H. Os, North Midland ......... 1.01. sh. 1001 pd 6514
11.10 s. Ditto New 4Ol. pd 323ir
10,2 & ......... Ncrthern and Eastern.... 50/. sh. 35/. pd 15
Alio ......... Preston and Wyre .... .... .50/. sh. so/. pd :16
ue,ooo ......... Eouth Eastern and Dover .. .. 3,/. 14
1,001., 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ..::::..100/.shpd . 265
0,060 ......... Thames Haven 501. sh 5!. pd
6.000 ......... York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 77
MINES.
8,000. ......... Albion Copper 541 i'.. 2i/ p 4 12
4,000 11. Si. Alien ............. ........ 15/. sh 12/, .pd
10,006 ........ Anglo lilexican,iss. 51. pm .1014. 611.'12. i d 1°134
Ditto Subscription P .
2,000 lot. Bolanos ,.... ......
........1504 sh•2:l pd I3i
17,060 IL lOs Brazilian 1m p. iss. 51. pm... 33/, sh. 201 35
.7.,,,,,,,
......... 11Iacauba.s ci Cncaes United 2.51.5 t .p4 5
?;,7.'4;
...„ ..... 1/Itto St. John Del Hey .....)0/. sh'.-1.-}l- pd dm
~;`,„,
......... rolivar
CopperCo Company. 201. sh. 2,1,1 i nrl.- - 1. .roxon
....... Ditto rip..... .............ior sh: I,i- .-- •
;von ......... British Iron ...................jed .11 1. Pd 2
• - . 60/ pd
,000 ••••••••• British C0PPer......... ....... 31 hil
„.. ..... Cats Branca ........... •5 . af• pd 1%
Candonea........ .................... ........... 7Pd 671'
I i Ceniario .
.... :i4 7 7-k- ; 1.• Pd 5
10,000 Columbian. its...K.- . rre",-... .
..., • '"' ':3l. Ps'. 10
m,oor, •••.....1. ph. 54/ Pd naL
Id, .
2.f 50 31- F4gl--------- .........141. fis: ptHp - '
IPOI. Bh, 57:1. Pd 1 -20.000
...
..... General Mining Asscciation2tn.h / -
6,155
....
..... Mexican Company
Polherou Consols ... In, , . rd 6
3,00 H •••• Real del Monte 11 nr.o.gistered....... Si..
21,
........ u, sn pd 4
11.500 ......•" Ditto Loan liiit e. .
• Y5O-I
....
- -
Mex i c iui , iss. 2 pr,r.4l-i..r..h,ii Pd 160
United
30,000
Mtn.. Scrin....-.....
Ditto New - '
West Cork ..
LITER A IIY I NSTITUTIONe..
London, with Bronze Ticket ...75 .
1,000,,,,: -- London University ..... ../D2, g-• Sh. 1434
•• • sh. all p 4 7
..,...- ••••••••1 .... i,
it
. nussel, •••••••••- ................ ••••••...25gi. yh. 6
w "...". King' College lOOl. 1934
MISCELL A NEG US.
.
iss Australian Agrieultural.loo/. sh. 28/. pd 39
ICI, Vit British American Lan.d..C.,,,,omp_a_n.y 3 s i,i. pd 6%
6,10) 1. per cent.
10,0:0 61. percent. Canada Company...,,. •„1001 so 325,. psi 2834
30,000 5!, per cent. Upper Cana -a Loan
City Bonds, 4 ii..r cer:t lool,¢
20,000 1/. Os. General Steam Navigatimi 15/..h. 14/. pit 25
104pe 254rcant. Hudson's Bay Stock
.090 11. London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sh l2
3011 C .......... CaoLtchoiic Company 1 11. pd 12
New Itrunswick Load Compras,y...nel. pd 12
2,154 51. per cent. Rev ersit•nary let. 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 95
lOW 5/. per cent. Ditto New 11101. al'. 104% pd 107
4,000 ........, Thames Tunnel 5O/. sh. 211 td 10
10,000 6s. Van Dir.ner.'s Land.... 1141/. ;h. I'7/11. pd 3,71,E

00000000 3
sh 501. pd

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES

OCT. 2. 1841.
BAN fi.S.
/linii.(l",. (ii/. p. et. rank of Scotland ...S.l/.155. bd. sh. all pd , u
• 5!;),
1,000.,t0. . Ct. p. ct. RI yal of Scotland 10C/ gn all ru i
540.0 t; , 81. p. et. British Linen Company 1110 . st+. all pd
all. h. 1 001. pd 1 %2.4
115
C. (
500 ),(51. tit. p. ct. Commercial
.Z, I
504000,r. i, or. National I C/. sh. ltd. pd
504004. B'.p• ct. (itastrow Union iisol, sh. 50/. pd 85
100,tr,01. tS p. ct. Western of Scotland
—.2001. sh 401. pd t 9
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
250.0005 h• 'lip. cc. Scottish Untnn 511. sh. 11. pd .4s Cd,
7,500 lo p. ct. HerNitef. ,uci. sh. 104 IA lj ygt,noooo lo p. et. Insurance Co. cif bcoil.nd .101. a, all r 'is! ' 50, 10 1
p. ct. North British... ..... ,i_si:/.sh. 10414 17
,I,up 10 P. d'i. Coleooni,n virc I‘,o/. st, lut. rd 2o
5,14110 10 P. ct. Edinburgh I..'e 'Mt. sh. 152/. 1, ~ lit
Irto,Otst Lti P. rt. W eat of Scotland ..... .......... ..... lid. pd
1415CELLAN EO US.
4,818 ...:...... Edin. • tid (tau!. Un. Canalr.,ot. sh. all pd 10
Ditto A ilociitml 901. sh. all pd 4,
SI/5,40( FI per cent. Edinh, Joint Stii•ck Water b 231. sh. all pd li t
imoii•in 2.i per cent. Shotts Iron bounder,/ 501. sh 48! pd 4.1 0,000 J Per ex.t• EdinburJh & Leit 8 Citass 20/. sh. la po 33
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas. ..... 25/. sh. all po 40
4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd 59
750 lf per cent. !....ci,ti Coal (las
......" 2O/. eh, all pd 20
~154
......... Etlinhurgh anti balkeitit anoway 501. sh 9'
Th, C-

-hanceilor of the Exchequer, in a few
days, will remove from his house, 28, Albemarle-street.
to his official residence in Downing-street. The Right
Hon. Gentleman has purchased of his predecessor the
principal part of his (Mr. Baring's) furniture in
Downing-street, and the remainder was removed this
morning to his (Mr. Baring's) country-house at Lee.

RATES OF POSTAGE.
(From the London Gazette of this Evening.)
TREASURY WARRANT.

Whereas by a warrant, dated the 19th day of March,
1841, under the hands of three of the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, the said Commissioners, in exer-
cise of the power for such purpose vested in them by an
Act, passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the regulation
of the duties of postage," did (amongst other things) direct
that on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburgh, trans-
mitted by the post, and passing between Ham-
burgh and any of the countries or places men-
tioned in the schedule thereto, through the United
Kingdom (conveyed between Hamburgh and the
United Kingdom, direct by packet boat or private
ship), there should be charged and taken the rate
of British postage set opposite the name of every such
country or place in such schedule ; and that oh every
letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in
or addressed to Lubeck, transmitted by the post and
passing (either direct or via Hamburgh) between Lubeck
and any of the countries or places mentioned in the
schedule thereto, through the United Kingdom (con-
veyed between Lubeck or Hamburgh and the United
Kingdom, direct by packet boat or private ship), there
should, be charged and taken the rate of British postage
set opposite the name of every such country or place in
such schedule :

And by another warrant, under the hands of three
of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated
the 31st day of August last, the said Commissioners
did, in exercise of the power or authority in them
for such purpose vested, direct that en every letter
posted in or addressed to Bremen, transmitted by the
post between Bremen and any of the countries or
places mentioned in the schedule thereto, through
the United Kingdom, conveyed direct by packet beat
or private ship between the United Kingdom and
Bremen or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, or Hanover, there
should be charged and taken the rate of British
postage set opposite the name of every such country
ur place in such schedule ; and in each of the said
warrants, progressive additional rates of postage
were directed to be charged and taken on letters
transmitted as therein mentioned, exceeding half an
ounce in weight, according to the scale of weight and
number of rates in the said Act contained, estimating
and charging each additional rate at the sum which
any such letters would be charged with under such
warrants if not exceeding half an ounce in weight ;
and in each of the said warrants power was reserved to
the Commissioners, for the time being. of her Majesty's.
Treasury, or any three of them by warrant, under• their
hands, at any time thereafter, to alter or repeal any of.
the rates thereby altered, and the regulations thereby
made, and to make and establish any new or other rates.
or regulations in lieu thereof.
And whereas in consequence of the treaties with the
post offices of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, and the
intended reduction of the rates of postage on letters
transmitted between the United Kingdoni and Panama,
it is expedient that the several rates of postage men-
tioned in the schedules to the said warrants, and thereby
charged on letters conveyed to or from Hamburgh, Lu-
beck, or Bremen, through the United Kingdom, should
be altered.

Now we, the undersigned, being three of the Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of
the powers or authorities in us for such purpose,
vested in and by the said Act, and the said warrants,
do hereby direct and desire, that the several rates of
postage mentioned in the schedules contained in the
said respective warrants, and thereby charged on
letters conveyed between Hamburgh, Lubeck, or
Bremen, and any of the countries or places mentioned
in such schedules, through the United Kingdom, shall he,•
and the same are hereby repealed, on and from the lith
day of October next.
• And we, the said Commissioners, in further exer-
cise. of the power& or authorities in us for such pur-
pose vested in and by the said Act, and the said war-
rants, do hereby further direct, that, on and from
the said 11th day of October next, there shall be
charged and taken, in lieu of the rates of postage
hereby repealed, the rates of postage following (that is
to say); on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburgh, trans-
mitted by the post, and passing between Hamburgh and
any of the British colonies, or any foreign country
through the United Kingdom (conveyed between Ham-
burgh and the United Kingdom direct by packet boat or
private ship); and on every letter not exceeding half an
ounce in weight, posted in Or addressed to Lubeck,
transmitted by the post, and passing either direct or
via Hamburg'', between Lubeck and any of the
British colonies, or any foreign country through the
United Kingdom (conveyed between Lubeck or Ham-
burgh and the United Kingdom, direct by packet
boat or private ship); and on every letter not exceed•
ing half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed
to Bremen, transmitted by the post between Bremen
and any of the British colonies, or any foreign coun-
try, through the United Kingdom (conveyed direct
by packet-boat or private ship between the United
Kingdom and Bremen, or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven,
or Hanover) ; there shall be charged aßd taken
an uniform rate of British postage of sixpence, for
the conveyance of every such letter between Ham-
burgh or Lubeck, or Bremen, Cuxhaven, or Hanover,
and any part of the United Kingdom ; and also► such
a further or additional rate of British postage for the '
conveyance of every such letter between the port in
the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of
the packet or ship conveying the same, and the co-
lolony or foreign country to or from which the same
shall be forwarded, as shall from time to time, be charged.
and payable for British postage on letters, not exceeding
half an ounce in weight, posted or delivered at the port
in the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of
the packet or ship conveying the same, and transmitted
direct between such port and such colony or foreign
country.

And we further direct, that on every letter trans-
mitted as is mentioned in this warrant, exceeding
half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged
and taken progressive and additional rates of
postage according to the scale of weight and num-
ber of rates in the said Act contained as to letters,
estimating and charging each additional rate, at the
sum at which any such letter would be charged with
under this warrant if not exceeding half an ounce in
weight.

rind we further direct, that the terms and expressions
used in this present warrant shall be construed to have
the like meaning, in all respects, as they would have had
if inserted in the said Act.

And we further direct, that this warrant shall come
into operation on the 11th day of October, 1841
Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct,
that it shall he lawful for the Commissioners, for the
time being, of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three
of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time
hereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby
altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make
and establish any new or other rates or regulations in
lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what
time the rates that may be payable arc to be paid.
Whitehall, Treasury-chambers, the 30th day of
September, 1841.

HENRY BARING,
A. PRINGLE,
J. 2IILNES GASKELL.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THU DAY.
GLOBE.—Whilst it is the policy of the party now
in power to deny, or at least to underrate, the distresses
of the people, there is a strong tendency to exaggerate
the ditlicnlties in which the nation itself has been handed
over to the care of the present Government. Now
it is true that embarrassments have arisen—chiefly,
however, from the uncontrollable course of events, for
which no human wisdom could have provided ; but, as
Lord Melbourne la.st night most distinctly axtl em-
phatically declared, the affairs of the country have not
been left to the' men now in office " in a dangerous of
enormously difficult state," nor is there any barrier to
the restoration of prosperity, that will not give way
before a bold and vigorous, but at the same time an
enlarged and liberal policy. We know that the mo
tive of the Tories in overrating the extent of the ma-
lady is to claim undue merit for the expected cure ;
and the present condition of the country is made to
look very black, that it may be contrasted here-
after with its brighter aspect—as water is rendered
unnaturally and unnecessarily dark and muddy, toshkm
the virtues of a filter—or as a most rude acid illegibit
scrawl is exhibited in a writing-master's show-board, foi
the purpose of demonstrating the improvement that " six
lessons" can accomplish by a peculiar system of instruc-
tion in the art of caligraphy. We shall expect that, after
some few months have elapsed, we shall be asked by Sir R.
Peel's journals " to look on this picture and on this"—
when the exaggerated daub now painted to order, in which
every object is purposely blackened to a most unsightly
pitch, will be contrasted with a tableau in which the
opposite extreme will be reached, and where everything
will be highly and brilliantly coloured in the glaring
hues of overdrawn prosperity. We shall have speci-
mens, too, of the improvement effected in the nation&
prospects, after so many lessons from Sir Robert Peel—
lessons which, from past experience, will, we have no
doubt, be sufficiently severe, and may at least have the
merit of finishing the education of the public in the art
of properly appreciating a Conservative Government.
STANDARD.—The House of Commons did not sit
last night, but the proceedings of the House of Lord:
were so unusually lively as to com[ensate for tie silence of the other House of PpParliament.lianmaegnet.
a s Firs.
Minto commenced the business of the night with at,
apology for his dispensation of
Lord of the Admiralty. His Lordship mention,
aurae twenty promotions which he justified by rule:
laid down by his predecessors. This would be yen
welt if the twenty officers promoted had heel,
the only promotions made during the five years and up-
wards of the Noble Lord's administration, or if tht.
twenty, or any of them, had been objected to spe-
:hilly. The truth, however, is, that in five year,
Lord illinto has made, not. ty..enty, but five time,
twenty-perhaps ten times twenty--appointment::.
and of those which he mentioned last nigh,
if any, were the appointments objected to.
(dui ui s'exeuse s'accuse," says the pithy proverb.
Lord llinto, unchallenged—uncharged by any (mt..
came forward to startle the House with a defend
wholly unexpected ; and this defence ought to hart
been a complete one. When a man's conscience tell:
him that he ought to defend himself against the sus
picion of having atused his patronage, it will not do ti
present so lame an apology as Lord Minto offerer,
last night. It will not do to say that " out o
a hundred or two hundred appointments that
have made, see, here are a score perfectly in rule
for the obvious inference is, that the tuners will not
bear the light. We could without difficulty find
many, very many, appointments made by Lord Minto,
to which his rules will not apply, and which cannot be

justified upon any grounds ; but we willingly resign the
matter to our excellent contemporary, the United Service
Gazette, which has a kind of property in his Lordshii,
and his doings—a property paid for not only in money,
but in long services, for which the Noble Lord ought now
to be grateful ; for to the active vigilance of the journal
in question he owes it that the schedule of charges of
abuse of patronage against him, heavy as it is, is not
much heavier.

COURIER.—The proceedings in the House of Lords
last night present a few strikingly noticeable points.
It does not surprise us to find the Whig ex-First Lord
of the Admiralty betraying symptoms of touchy uneasi-
ness at the nature and tendency of the notice fur a return
of the Commissions (with the name attached) issued
since June by the Admiralty, distinguishing those issued
after the 30th of August, the date of the virtual extinction
of the late Government, as we have a tolerably strong suspis
cion that the information derivable from these returns, and
the light they will throw upon the doings of the Admi,
ralty in the interval between the suspended vitality of
the Whig Government and its final diStolution, will serve
neither to enhance the character of that department
over which the Noble Earl presided for impartiality, nor
to excite regret for its loss in the profession more im-
mediately subject to its influence. But if Eat: Minto
fancies that his lame and impotent attempt at vindica-
tion last night will weaken the force, much . less dis-
prove the charge, of favouritism and partiality in its
distribution of patronage, in its promotions and appoint-
ments, that have been publicly urged against the late
Board of Admiralty, and his Lordship as its head, or
if he supposes that such explanations as he gave
will outweigh the evidence of the official ga-
zette, invalidating the returns sought for, and
holding up his administration of naval affairs as a
model of disinterestedness and impartiality, we must,
take the liberty of undeceiving him ; as to us the
studied care with which he shirked the real gravamen of
the charges of which he so pathetically complained, and
the eagerness he evinced to encounter and demolish
twally different ones, afford confirmation strong as holy
wait—not of these charges being well founded—although
of that they ftirnish a prer6mant indication—but of his
Lordship's consciousness of inability fairly to meet and
refute them. If we recollect rightly, the charge against
the Noble Earl was one of nepotism, of showing undue
and undeserved favour to his own relatives and con-
nections, as well as to those who were known to agree
in political opinions with the Whig Government.
And certainly the number of Elliots . • appointed
and promoted to offices of emolument and re-
sponsibility, gave colour if not substance to it ;
and then the vast number of promotions that
took place on the very eve of his departure
from office --- the choppings and changeS that oc-
curred, creating vacancies and furnishing fresh supplies
of patronage, looked, to speak in_ the mildest 'terms of it,
very suspicious. But how has the Noble Earl attempted
to explain away those ugly appearances? Whj, by citing
those instances of promotion that were in accordance
with the rules and precedents that usually regulate such
matters.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, OCT. 2.
The Queen has Leen plraacd to al paint Doctor Norman
M'Leod to be one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in
Scotland, in the room of Dector William Brjce, deceased.
CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 4.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

COUNTY OF SLIGO.—John Ffolliott, of Holybrook, in the
said County of Sligo, Esq., in the room of Alexander Ptrei-
vr.l, Esq., who has accepted the office of one of the Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord High Treasurer, &c.
COUNTY OF CAVAN.—JOIII Youcg, of Baidebcro-castle,
in the said county of Cavan, Esq.
Bocouou OF EAST RCTFORD.—The Honourable Arthur
Duncombe, of Brook-street, Hanover-square, Captain R.N.