The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

(THURSDAY EVENING.)
TIM E S.—To-day money has not been so much in de.
mend as it was yesterday, and the English market is
firmer. Consols here advanced a little, and are 92:1 to
92
afor
ExchequerMoneyand
Billsthi ar
this Ace 22s.cou to 245. promnt,andat23(.buyers) for
July.
In the Foreign House there has been but little doing.
Portuguese Five per Cents, maintain their price of 351
to 351. Spanish Actives are a trifle flatter, and are
quoted at 28i to 281; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
arc firm at 541 to 55 ; Mexican are 324- to 32,i ; Colom-
bian, 261 to 26i. A transaction in Buenos Ayres Bonds
gives a quotation of 18;.}.
Great Western shares are rallying to-day, and leave off
261 to 271 premium--an advance of about 1. The Share
Market altogether looks 'better than yesterday, and the
prices for all the good lines have a buoyant appearance.
Blackwall are l N to 24- premium ; Brighton, 43 to 49 dis-
count ; Birmingham are steady at 36 to 38 premium.

HERALD.—The Funds have nearly recovered from
the depression of yesterday, and Consols improved to 921
to for Money and Account. Exchequer Bills were 225.
to 245. premium. Bank Stock 176 to A-. It would ap-
pear that whatever may be the wishes of the Bank, its
power ofrestrietive action upon the circulation is in effect
and must be greatly contraried by the large amounts of
deposits, not only in its own holding, but in the hands of
private and joint-stock banks in town and country. These
owners of these deposits will, of course, be anxious for
any sort of investment which may seem to promise a fair
return of interest, instead of leaving their money unpro-
ductive in bankers' chests, where so far as they are con-
cerned, it may be looked upon as dead stock, or lying in a
kind of mortmain security.

SUN.—Everything is still very dull in the City, and
attention is now directed to the probability of the cir-
culation of the Bank of England being contracted
within such limits as will prevent excessive speculation
in Stocks and Railway Shares.

The Funds were not in the least affected by the re-
sult of Lord Stanley's motion, which is likely to prove so
short-lived a triumph to the Tories, as to leave no time
for a depression in prices, even were parties to be found
who would " job" the market under the expectation of
political changes. Consols closed this afternoon at
921 -a for present transfer, and at 93 to for July.
Exchequer Bills were at 21 to 23 premium ; Bank
Stock at 1761, and the New Three and-a-Half per
CentsT heatlo favourable w
1 frreommaisnepdaiant ahbaodu tn 40 t ptehreelaeents.t
effect upon the Active Bonds, which further declined
Mnoenesy
from 281,- to 281 4 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents.
continued at 35i ; and the other Foreign Securities
were without change.
The Share Market was not so animated, and prices
were again heavy. The Brighton Railway Shares
closed at 44 ; the Croydon Trunk at ; the Northern
and Eastern at 6 ; the Midland Counties at 5 ; the
South-Eastern and Dover at 101 ; the Birmingham at
11 ; the Hull and Selby at 24 ; the Great North of
England at 6 ; the Bristol and -Exeter at 21 discount.
The Manchester and Leeds at 23 ; the North Midland
at 44, the New at 11 ; the York and ditto at 194 ;
the Great Western at 271, the New at 13i ; the
South-Western at 14-1, and the Blackwell at 2 prem.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Post.)
The country has a right to expect that Vie further pro-
gress of Lord Stanley's Bill through the House of Com-
mons will not be obstructed by artifices equally foreign to
the merits of that measure, to the ordinary practice of
Parliament, and to the relative strength of parties who
retpectively support and oppose it. Parliamentary forms
of proceeding were never intended to enable a coarse and
unscrupulous minority to overrule eventually the deliberate
decisions of the majority of either House of Parliament,
however necessary and efficacious they may be as a means
of preventing an accidental and temporary majority from
reaping the fruits of a victory snatched by surprise. The
employment of these salutary forms for the purpose of pre-
venting or retarding the progress of a measure, in favour
of which the majority of the House has deliberately and
unequivocally pronounced an opinion, would be a manifL st
abuse of them—an abuse which it is the peculiar interest of
the Executive Government to discountenance, and, if pss-
sible, to prevent.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
For the conduct of Mr. C. Wood and Lord Howick it
it is difficult to account. The public rumour is, that both
are on the eve of joining Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, and their colleague renegades front the Reform
camp ; but this report we do not believe. Mr. C. Wood
has more sense, as well as more regard for his old friends,
than to dream for a moment of such disgraceful conduct;
and Lord Howick, we believe, having indulged his Com-
mittee fancy, will, either upon the Report of the Com-
mittee being brought up, or upon the third reading of the
Irish Disfranchisement Bill (for so we must term it),
show that he is not an unworthy scion of a noble and
patriotic race. _

(From the Morning Herald.)
What is the next plunge into humiliation and infamy
which the Melbourne Government will be prepared to
make, in obedience to the commands of its tyrant task-
master of Ireland, we know not. But it is difficult for any
one to imagine a lower depth of shameless degradation
than Ministers have allots ed themselves to be dragged into
at the tail of the crafty barbarian, who insists that all the
influence which the enslaved advisers of the Crown can
command shall be prostituted to the perpetuation of the
revolting system of fraud and perjury connected with the
electoral registration of Ireland.
(From the Times )
The most offensive assumptions of Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell, and his most disgraceful charges against the motives
of Lord Stanley, have all been aopted by Lord John
Russell, and meander through the long-winded passages of
his speech. But that is not all, nor the worst. The
Noble Lord has now, for the first time, given a flat contra-
diction to the formal assurances of the Prime Minister, that
there was no political confederacy between the Whig-
Radical Government and O'Connell. Lord John Rus-
sell, throughout his whole speech, has professed his adhe-
sion to the most furious diatribes of the agitator against the
spirit of Lord Stanley's Bill, and the consequences which
were to flow from it in its restraint upon fraud, perjury,
and the fabrication of votes. Lord John Russell, with re-
gard to what he asserts of the curtailment of the Irish
constituency by this Bill, treads in the very footsteps of
O'Connell, by confounding a fictitious constituency with a
teal one. Lord John Russell indirectly, therefote, affirms
that fraud is a lawful and necessary element in the adminis-
tration of Irish affairs, provided only that the Melbourne
Cabinet can be thereby maintained in office.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Lord Howick votes against the disfranchisement of Ire-
land, as a man of -the world ; and. or her disfranchisement,
as a man of probity. Ireland will erect altars to the in-
tegrity of Lord Howick. It will console her in her pre-
sent perils to think that there is so much virtue extant as
to make a Liberal Lord vote conscientiously with a Tory
Nobleman, upon a question involving the life or death of
her Constitution. We should like to have a specimen of
this kind of a conscience for a museum of moral curiosi-
ties, where we should exhibit it along with Sir Francis
Burdett's political consistency, and Bishop Philpotts'
love of truth. Between conscientious Whigs and
most unconscientious Tories, the liberties of the Irish
people are in sad jeopardy. If ever there was a flagitious
attack made on the rights of a people, it is the Bill which
Lord Howick and his ally have suffered to escape, 'tihen
they might have utterly destroyed it, by simply adhering
to the line of conduct which they adopted on a former
stage of its progress. Had they simply been consistent,
the House of Commons would have been spared the igno-
miny of sitting in discussion upon a Bill subversive of the
Reform Act, and fatal to the franchises by that Act con-
ferred. Ireland would have been saved from the agonies
of suspense and the hazards of commotion. Tho career
of a bigotted, haughty, malicious faction would have been
stayed ; and a check would have been given also to those
who, despairing of any redress or justice from the Imperial
Legislature, are daily inflaming the Irish spirit with the
wild ambition of overturning the Act of Union.

CHURCII-RATES.—At a Petty Sessions held at
Hackney on Tuesday, May 19, for enforcing payment of the
Church-rate, it was stated by the Vestry Clerk that there were
more than one thousand defaulters. Amongst the appellants
were three Dissenting Ministers, the Rev. Dr. Cox, Rev. Mr.
Fuller, and the Rev. Mr. Ransom, wko all protested against
payment. Mr. Offer, the Magistrate, also a defaulter, denied
the validity of the rate, in wh►ch course he was followed by
Mr. ft Owen, who attended professionally for several rate-
payers. It was remarked by the Chaiiman, C. B. Stutfield,
Esq., that to no party is the present Church-rate system a
greater grievance than to theMag►strates called upon to adjudi-
cate in these casts.