The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-05 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, NVEDNIT3D.A.V MORNING, ATT(rST Si ifma,

which should be circulated through all parts of the
kingdom, to which every man of feeling and hu-
manity should take every possible means of giving
publicity in his own immediate neighbourhood,
so that there would not, within a few short
days, be a single individual throughout the
length and breadth of the land who would
not be made acquainted with the finding of a con-
scientious jury, given under the obligation of an oath,
and have afforded to him an opportunity of comply-
ng with the appeal thereby made, and recording
his protest against the atrocious system, and his
prayer for its abolition, viz.:—
" The jury do say that Frederick John White died on the
11th of July, 1846, from the mortal effects of the severe and
cruel flogging which he received on the 15th day of June,
in the Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow; that the same
flogging was inflicted on him under sentence passed
by a district court-martial composed of officers
of the Regiment of the 7th Hussars, and duly constituted for
the trial of the said Frederick John White, &c. And on
returning-the verdict, the jury cannot refrain from expressing
their horror and disgust at any law among the statutes or
regulations of this realm which permits the revolting punish-
ment of flogging to be inflicted on British soldiers ; and
at the same time the jury would call upon every man in this
kingdom to join heart and hand in sending petitions to the
British Legislature praying for the abolition of every law
And regulation which permits the degrading practice of
flogging to remain one moment a slur on the humanity and
fair name of the people of this country."

The jury manifestly could not have returned a
verdict inculpating any of the military authorities.
The law itself which sanctions the frightful barbarity
is the target against which the weapon must be
directed. Everything was done strictly according to
rule and to precedent. The court-martial was
regularly constituted, although it is certainly rather a
curious circumstance that, being'a district court-mar-
tial, every single member of it belonged to the same
regiment as the prisoner himself, and it might as well
have been called a regimental court-martial, but
for one little point of difference, viz., that by being
dignified, with the title of "district," although
really " regimental," they were enabled to order
the infliction of fifty lashes more than would
otherwise have been within their power
to adjudge, a privilege of which they availed them-
selves to the utmost extent, and which the merciful
Colonel WHYTE took care should be most punctually
inflicted without curtailment or diminution. The un-
fortunate man pleaded guilty to the charges on which
he was arraigned before this court, he attempted not
to deny his offence, but he put in a
respectful and manly letter, written in a
style far beyond that which could have been
expected from a private soldier, and which, as well as
the letter to his brother, bears the clearest testimony
that his education and habits of life belonged to a
class far beyond that in which his wretched career
was brought to a premature termination. This at-
tempted extenuation, although we venture to say that
it would not have been lost on any of our
venerable Judges, was wholly without effect
on his judges, who forthwith sentenced him
to the very highest punishment within their power,
and added to their finding a clause wholly unneces-
sary, and we believe unusual—one which must have
had the effect of preventing any exercise of mercy on
the part of the Commander-in-Chief—we mean that
part which speaks of the conduct of the unhappy man,
in these words :—" And taking into consideration his
general had character, particularly towards
his superiors, does now sentence him," &c., &c.
We know not what may have been the evidence laid
before the c'mrt to warrant this addition to their
verdict, but it is most undoubtedly at variance with
that which was adduced before the Coroner's inquest.
Sergeant DARLEY himself, the person who had been
assaulted by WHITE, gave his opinion that " he was
a man that knew himself very well, and in fact, a
superior and respectable man, by no naeans an habi-
tual drunkard." N ow, if this evidence be correct, and
we see no reason to doubt its being so to the fullest
extent—indeed, it was corroborated by that of all
the other es itnesses who were interrogated on the
point, we think it is due to the surviving relatives
of the victim—nay, more, we think it due to the
characters of the officers who constituted that court-
martial—that the grounds which led to that clause in
their finding should be fully stated and set forth.
The letter of poor, unhappy, heart-broken WHITE
to his brother, written ten days after the flogging,
shows that his mind was more lacerated than his
body ; it testifies the existence of that wretched, de-
sponding, spiritless state which almost every writer
has stated to be the result of corporal punishment,
leading to the adoption of habits of intoxication
and recklessness, the total abandonment of every
hope—nay, of every desire for advancement in the
service ; it speaks trumpet-tongued against a system
which could induce such a state of feeling. The most
eloquent and powerful denouncer of the practise
could not write with half the effect which is pro-
duced by the few simple sentences of the
lashed soldier speaking unconsciously of the sensa-
tion his confidential communication to his brother
was likely to produce at a future period ;
he says, " I am very unwell, and feel disgusted with
the service, but you need not tell mother so, for she
would only fret." Again: " I had formed a reso-
lution to commit mischief, but, thank Gon, I have
for the present altered my mind. I have not that con-
fidence in myself I used to have. My star of destiny
frowns at me, and everything goes wrong.
Your letters give me a consolation generally,
but I cannot venture to read them always,
for I am very near approaching to LUNACY at times.
I am an old man now to what I was, and what a few
more years will make me I am afraid to guess
Poor creature ! a few short days had indeed produced
a fearful change in his feelings and prospects, and the
pouring forth of his heart necessarily recorded the
gloomy forebodings which he must have felt.
The want of interest, that hopelessness of feeling which
nothing can for a moment excite or banish, is well
expressed in the following :—" I have not seen Lon-
don yet, nor shall I, unless I change Illy mini. Every
one there is lost to me now." Again : " I hope you
will keep quiet to mother that I am ill, for her sake.
You must excuse my fault:, and forgive my failings,
for I cannot help them ;fate wills my proceedings, and I
must go with the tide. My paper is short, and I
must cut short my tale of woe, and resume my most
horrid and wretched duty of a soldier." Poor fellow !
his sufferings, both of mind and body, have been,
indeed, most frightful; but few, by their deaths,
will have achieved so great a benefit to
thousands. It cannot be doubted but that
the appeal of the jury will be fully re-
sponded to; neither can there be a doubt of
the happy issue of the agitation and petitions there
indicated ; but we sincerely trust that the public will
not restrict themselves to its abolition in the army.
Let our naval brethren also have the benefit of their
exertions—their prayers; and let not the unfortunate
JAMES SAYER be forgotten, who now pines in anguish,
awaiting the infliction of his sentence of death,
death certainly in a milder form—the more humane
naval court-martial having merely ordered him to be
hanged for striking his sergeant, by which his suffer:
ings will be more speedily terminated than if he were
sentenced to the lingering and painful, intensely pain-
ful, death under the still more degrading lash.

Government has explicitly divulged its intentions
with reference to Irish legislation. Vtre are sincerely
rejoiced at this circumstance, as the explanation of
the Premier and the Secretary for Ireland will be
productive of very considerable advantage to the
population of these islands. It will alleviate that
hope deferred which maketh the heart sick among our
fellow-countrymen across St. George's Channel ; it
will allay a thousand anxieties in their regard
among the other inhabitants of Great Britain, and it
will impart stability to the new Administration on a
matter with which the popularity of the Cabinet is
most inextricably associated. If one sentiment is
at this moment more prevalent than another
throughout this empire, it is a sentiment of
cordial sympathy is ith Irish sufferings, a
sentiment of honest indignation at her protracted
misrule, a sentiment of earnest anxiety to co-operate
with her leading patriots in the adjustment of her
embarrassments and in the organisation of her social
and political machinery. That some concessions were
requisite in reference to this integral portion of the
British dominions has long been manifest. The de-
claration made by Sir R. PEEL on his accession to
office, that Ireland would prove his greatest difficulty,
the precipitation of the free-trade measures in con-
sequence of the potato famine of November and De-
cember, the pertinacity of the repeal cry, the cala-
mitous and wholesale ejectments of tenantry, the
paroxysms of commercial apathy and commercial

.excitement which have alternated with such alarm-
,
ing rapidity in that community—have all demonstrated
the existence of more than one inw ster gri.!vance,
and have clamoured loudly and imperatively for the
arneliors.'ion of Hibernian distress. Anything that
ss mild tend to consolidate the vigour of our si•ter
island, that would insure the happiness of her chil-
dren, that would promote mercantile and agricultural
activity among her unemployed labourers, and render
them satisfied of the sincere good-will and fraternal
affection of England, would not merely oonduce to
the happiness and prosperity of Ireland, but would
stabilitate to an eminent degree the happiness, the
prosperity, the security, the tranquillity, and the more
extended civilisation of the millions who are bound
together in allegiance to the sceptre of VICTORIA.
Not only is this comprehensive and liberal reform
demanded in justice, not only are we called upon to
make such a reparation for wrongs heaped upon a
confiding and deluded race ever since the act of
legislative union passed by the Imperial Parliament at
the commencement of the present century—but our
own self-interest, our own aggrandizement, our own
peace of mind, plead for the alteration in voices that
cannot brook a denial.

Never since the revolt of the Roman Plebeians did
the ancient fable of the body and its members afford
such an analogous application to the government of a
country than at this juncture, and in reference to
Ireland. What was applied to the illustration of the
necessity of unanimity among the various classes in
the eternal city might, with a similar appositeness,
be applied to the illustration of the necessity for the
unanimity among the various divisions of the British
dominions, the limbs of the British empire. Without
a cordial reciprocity between those limbs, without the
most i mpartial regard to the moral and corporeal health
of all, the entire constitution cannot avoid falling
into a lamentable state of disorganization. The func-
tions would become deranged, and either an unnatural
sluggishness, or an unnatural excitement, be the con-
sequence. To the source of the vitality and the
seat of the presiding sentience of the con-
stitution—in other words, to the Parliamentary
and Government officers we look fur the removal of
whatever maladies have already appeared, and for the
accurate adjustment of all differences. Ireland still
continues to be the great Ministerial difficulty,
hut under the guidance of an enlightened policy,
and impelled forward by the accordance of
popular opinion, we are sanguine that thi3 great diffi-
culty is now on the eve of being definitely and per-
manently vanquished.

Thanks to Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, we are
enabled to form some estimate of the intentions of
the present Administration with reference to Ireland.
In answer to the inquiries of the Hon. Member
for Rochdale, Lord Jowl RUSSELL has revealed the
resolutions on this most important subject at which
he has arrived, after mature deliberation. Con-
sidering the miseries which will transpire meanwhile,
through the postponement of any Parliamentary
measure for the protection of the interests
of the Irish tenantry, we are deeply
grieved to find that the Premier objects to the intro-
duction of some temporary measures; but we are re-
joiced at the delay, considering the yet greater evils
which might possibly arise from the precipitate adop-
tion of any assuaging enactments.

" Why fly from ills we hare,
To others we know not of?"
Nevertheless, fir our solace during this requisite in-
terval, the Prime Minister has pledged himself to in-
troduce a Bill relating to the landlord and tenant
interests of Ireland "at the very commencement of
the next F ession ." And, according to the announce-
ment of Mr. LABOUCHERE, it was likewise the inten-
tion of her -MAJESTY'S Ministers to struggle for the
adoption of six other Bills, relating to the exclusive
privilege of trading, to the rating of property, to
ejectments, fisheries, district lunatic asylums, and the
encouragement of public baths and washhouses in
Ireland. Nothing, of course, can be expected in the
miserable remnant (of scarcely three weeks) which
yet remains of the eventful session of 1846. With
such a programme, however, as the foregoing, we
may safely anticipate the arrival of brighter days fur
Ireland, and the prevention of all further squabbles
among the adherents of her veteran Liberator.

The King of the Two SICILIES, accompanied by the
Royal Family and a numerous suite, and guarded by
a squadron of eleven ships-of war, arrived at Palermo
on the morning of the 11th ult., to be present at the
fete or St. Rosalie. His MAJESTY, following the ex-
ample of the POPE, has dissolved the Military Corn-
mission for the trial of State prisoners.

The Assembly of States of Holstein, in their sit-
ting of the 24th of July, adopted by a majority of 44
to 2 an address to the King of DENMARK protesting
against his letter patent of the Bth July on the sub-
ject of the succession to the Throne. The Govern-
ment, in opening the States, forbade them to receive
Petitions on this subject, and the States also protest
against this interference with the right of petition.
Letters from Vienna of the 20th of July state that
the Austrian Government intends forming a line of
railway from Milan through the Tyrol to the
Danube, which will be continued across the valleys
of the Etch and the Inn, and will terminate at
Braunau. This will give the advantage of
railway communication to the three principal
towns of the Tyrol—Trent, Botzen, and Innspruck.

Madrid papers of the 28th ult. have been received.
The Eco del Comercio of the preceding day had
been seized by the authorities.
According to the Herald°, IBRAHIM PACHA was
expected to visit Malaga. The Governor of Gibraltar
and his suite paid a visit to Ceuta on the 17th.
There was a report in Madrid that, in conse-
quence of the representations of the Portuguese
Government, GONZALES BRAVO had been recalled
from Lisbon.
MADRID BoLSA, JULY 28.—The Three per Cents. 34 33y8
for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 21% for cash; Debt
without Interest at 6%.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
They are filled with the details of the preliminary
operations of the elections, such as the choosing scru-
tineers, assessors, &c., which took place on Saturday.
The elections took place on Sunday, and, as far as can
be hitherto ascertained, the result has been favourable
to the Ministry.
The Opposition made strenuous efforts to carry the
first electoral college in Paris. Their candidate was
General LAMORICIERE, whose successes in Algiers
have rendered him exceedingly popular. He is about to
be connected by marriage with the family of M. TRIERS;
and M. ODILLON BARROT published an address to
the electors, strongly recommending them to choose
General LAMORICIERE. Notwithstanding all the
influence thus used notwithstanding the pres-
tige attached to his name, General L
MORICIERE has been defeated by M. CASI-
MIR PERIER, the Ministerial candidate. In
Paris the Ministers have gained one seat from the Op-
position, and in the country, as far as the results are
known, they have been equally successful. M.
GRAS DE NEVILLE, the Father of the Chamber,
a Legitimist has been ousted at Tarrascon by M.
GASFARIN, a Ministerialist. At Nismes, M. RICHARD,
a Legitimist, is replaced by General FEUCIIERES, a
Ministerialist. Both these are Ministerial gains.
The Ministry gains two votes at Toulouse. In
the third college of that city a Ministerialist
replaces an opposition Deputy without a contest, and
the first college the mayor of the town, a Minis-
terialist, has beat M. JOLY, one of the leaders of the
Republican party, who was the former Deputy. At
Cherbourg, General MESLIN, a Ministerialist, replaces
the old Opposition Deputy, and in the third college of
Lille a Ministerialist has gained tie seat, which for
merly belonged to the Opposition. The Ministers also
gain a vote at Douas and another at Dieppe, while at
Orsen, M. SALYANDY, the Minister of Public Instruc-
Con , has defeated M DUPONT DE L'EUn.E, the celebrated
Opposition leader. The results of 74 elections were
known in Paris when the latest accounts left. In
these elections the Ministerial gain has been nine
seats. Ministerialists have replaced Opposition De-
puties in ten instances, while in one instance only (at
Rouen) has an Opposition candidate ousted the former
Ministerial Member. The re-elections have been 36
Ministerialists and 27 Deputies of the Opposition.
On Saturday considerable alarm was created in
Paris by rumours of the death of the KING. Accord-
ing to one account his MAJESTY had had a fit of
apoplexy ; according to another he had hten fired at
and wounded, and the Due D'ADSIALE had been

killed at his side. A delay in the publica-
tion of the Aliniterial evening paper, the
er, contributO to licrease the pxcte-
rnent, as it was c;)ts'.(l-1-cd corifirtm:toiy of the,
truth of tl.e rumours A length, however, it np-
ikared, containel the following- telegraphic dis-
patch, for the arrival if which it had probably been
delayed :—" A telegraphic dispatch from Eu, dated
this day, half-past two o':lock., announces that the RING
was in perfect health. flis MAJESTY expected the visit
of the Prince Royal cf BAVARIA at three o'clock."
A similar rumour was current on the same day at
Rouen. It is generally considered that these
rumours, which producKl most disastrous effects On
the markets, originated in persons connected with the
Bourse, who had some S-.ockjobbing purposes to serve
by their propagation.

The Chancellor of Frsnce has convened the Cham-
ber of Peers for Friday, the ith August, to take the
necessary prAiminary steps to forming itself into a
Court for the trial of HENRY.

BUSINESS DONE TN F)REIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE

LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, AucrsT 3

Bouln;rne and Amiens, P2-N-Dutch Rhenish, 646 -East Indian,
Yg-Gr- at Indian Peninsular, M -Louvain a la Sambre, 14---!a-
-drid and Valentia, 1-)orthen of France Constituted, 13--Orleans
and Bordeaux, B-Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5% -West Flan-
ders, 3 .

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(Frcm Tile Sun of last Night.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yez,terday was active,
the principal sales bring to the trade. Sales, about 10,009
blle,.—Sliar,s were steady.

S serious have been die losses sustained by the market
gardeners and florists by the late storm, that, without some
extraneous aid, hundreds of Indust! kus, and in their pro-
fession, able men, must be consigned to ruin. Not only have
a large number of the parties so situated lost glass, but their
valuable plants hare, in the great majority- of in-
stances, been entirely destroyed. A number of influential
persons in the southern parts of London (where the storm
proved most disastrous) have taken the subject up, and a
meeting has been convened to consider the best course to be
pursued to relieve the sufferers, which is appointed to be held
this evening at the Swan Hotel, at Stockwell.
There has been some attention directed in the Bankers' Maga-
ne to the convenience of bankers' drafts as substitutes for
Post-oilice orders. Jealous, and not, perhaps, without reason, of
the extraordinary increase in the amount of Post-office orders
granted, the private bankers have been, in some cases, turn-
ing their attention to the matter with a view to ascertain if
they cannot participate in the profits. At best, however,
the public could never by such means possess tL e same faci-
lities as under the almost universal system brought to bear
under the peculiar agency of the Post-office. For particular
localities, however, and for amounts above those which the
Post-office will grant in one order, no doubt the provincial
bankers can make themselves very useful, and perhaps at
the same time enhance their their own profits a little. It is
suggested that a party wishing to • send 111. 2s. 6d. from
Derby to Beccles, might be accommodated in the subjoined
form, which could be used as a re4ttance by the Beccles
ha 'k to Glyn and Co., who would flOkip the draught :
" No. "Derby, July IS, 18-15.

" Me.,srs. Smith, Payne and Smith, Lond,rn-."
" Gentlemen,—Please to credit Messrs. Glyn and Co. wit,
fifteen pounds two shillings and sixpence, which charge to
account of your obedient servants,
" £l5 2s. 6d. " W. and S. EVANS.
(Crossed) " Messrs. Lacon and Co., Beccles."
No. " London, July 23, 1846.
" Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith.
" Pay bearer fifteen pounds two shillings and sixpence, as
per credit from Evans and Co.
" £l5 2s. 6d. " GLYN and CO."

The charge of 5/8 per cent. for the letter, and for cashing,
the credit would, it is said, be sufficient remuneration to the
banker, and to their customers no charge need be made.
In our paper of Monday there appeared a full report of the
first meeting of the shareholders of the Liverpool, Manchester,
and Newcastle Junction Company, to which we would direct the
attention of our readers. This amalgamated line gives rail-
way accommodation to a most important district of
country, and shortening as it does the distance between
Manchester and Newcastle by opening a direct communica-
tion between them, it will, undoubtedly, become a line of the
utmost commercial importance, for every one is now fully
alive to the fact that, in all commercial transactions, a saving
of time is a saving of money.
The Stock Market, although rather dull, continues very
firm, and the only security which at present exhibits any
weakness is Exchequer-bills, the premium being down to lls.
and is. Money is in some request, but the main cause of the
decline is the better rate of interest obtainable from other in-
ve-tments. Consols for present transfer have realised 95%
to 96. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have been
98 to lA, and the Three per Cents. 96% to 1/2. Bank Stock
is 20814.
The Foreign Bonds are very dull, but Spanish Three per
Cents. are up to 36%. The Five per Cents. have been at
26%. Pertuguese Four per Cents. were 45 to 46, being ra-
ther firmer. Brazil Stock is at 90.
Shares look well again this morning.

BRITISII FU.NDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 20S4i 20547,
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 9644 .*; 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 95l 96 96
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 981, 981,4
I.ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10 7-16 % 1044
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10M 1054
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 105$
South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. ..

Ditto, New Annuities 951 A
Consols for Account .. ,

Exchequer Bills.
1,0001... ..
5001.,.
Ditto, Small

134 d.

Itid.
11 7 11 pm.
11 8 12 pin.
12 pm.

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 90
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 88
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent
Peruvian Bonds, i per Cent.
Portuguese Four per Cent
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 26%
Ditto, Coupons .. • • ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds
Ditto, Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 98

•• ••
.. .. 45 46

.• •• .• -
.. .. .. 36%

BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DON E AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. 15 .... 9 .......... 9
Amber., lotting., Boston, and

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Eastern Junction 2% •• 2%%4 .... •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 ...• 8% ••• • • •
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 .. 88 ........ .
Buckinghamshire 425. .... % p
Caledonian .. 20 .... 17% 1634
Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1%
Chester and Holyhead 2734 .... 29 28%
Churnet and Blythe .. 2 .. • . It 4
Cornwall .. .. 5 .... .
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 274 .... 34
Direct Northern .. 2% 2% % .....
Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 24% % • • .
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 83s p• •
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... %
Eastern Union .. .. 30 ....
Do. Ipswich 86 Bury St.Edrnunds 9 N 34 .
Do. Extension to Norwich .. 234 .... 2% 2
East Lancashire .. .. 14 .. .. 25
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 ....

2414
8'54 p
2%

Ditto,Quarter Shares .. 12%.. • • 18% . ..... 18%
Goole, Doneast., and sheffleld,&e. 42.. .. ••.. • dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .... % 114 •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 25 .... 31 30)4 ......
Great North of England . .. 100 ....235 ..........
Ditto, New . .. 15 50
Great Western

I 1,4
3C%
23;5
50