The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-16 00:00:00

THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT.

In a portion of our report of the debates of Friday last,
published in Saturday's impression, and which we extracted
from the Morning Post, we have unwittingly given inser-
tion to a very serious mis-statement affecting the character
of the Mirror of Parliament ; and on an application which
has been made to us by the Editor of that Journal, we most
willingly point the attention of our readers to the singular
misrepresentation of which he complains. The passage is
as follows :

" I have to say, that the scraps of speeches upon which the Hon.
Member for Tipperary has founded his allegations against the Noble
Marquis do not appear in the authentic reports of the proceedings
in the House of Lords. I have before me Hansard's Debates,
and there 1 cannot find them.
" Mr. SHELL—They will be found in the Mirror of Parliament.
" Sir ROBERT PEEL—I know not as to the Mirror of Parlia-
ment, but I have here before me a work certainly as authentic, and
certainly as, if not more, carefully edited than that publication, in
which I can find no such expressions as those attributed to the
Noble Marquis."

Now, we have the strongest possible reason to believe
that the report of Lord Londonderry's speech of the sth
August 1834, as published in the Mirror of Parlia»zeut—
and which is here alluded to—was not only very accurately
taken by the reporters for the Mirror of Parliament, but
that it was perused and approved of by the highest autho-
rity before publication. It further appears, froid the testi-
mony of many Members present at the discussion of Friday
last, that Sir R. Peel made use of no such expressions, in
speaking of the Mirror, as the Morning Post has put into his
mouth ; and, indeed, we have been favoured with the sight
of a letter from the Secretary of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to the Editor of that work, in reply to his inquiries,
whether the Right Hon. Baronet had instituted any such
comparison between the two works—had thus described
Mr. Hansard's work as authentic compared with the
Mirror, or had used any terms of disparagement whatever
in speaking of the latter? This reply must be very satis-
factory to the editor of the Mirror of Parliament. Mr.
Drummond informs him that Sir Robert Peel denies
having used the expressions attributed to him in the para-
graph of the Report extracted from the Morning Post—
that, moreover, it is impossible that he could have used them,
for that he had the Mirror of Parliament before him—that
he had been referring to it—and expressly admitted that
the words, said to have been used by Lord Londonderry,
were included in the report of his speech in the Mirror,
but were omitted in the Volume of Hansard's Debates,
which contained a report of the same speech.
We have lost no time, agreeably to our general practice,
in repairing a misstatement, certainly affecting—while it
remained uncontradicted—the high character of the Mirror,
and that of its Editor, to which we have unintentionally
given extensive circulation.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of
Sunday (yesterday), in which it is stated that two-thirds of the
town of Adrianople had been consumed by fire on the 24th of
February. The quarters which the Greeks inhabited are re-
duced to cinders; the warehouses in which the merchants de-
posited their goods are entirely destroyed. The Dutch prices
come lower-21 per Cents., 55j- ; 5 per Cents., 1019.
Cape Town Papers to the 11th January, and Jamaica
Papers to the 3d February, have been received at the North
and South Arneriaan Coffee-house.

The Cape papers also contain several proclamations issued by
his Excellency Sir B. D'Urban, Governor, proclaiming martial
law in several towns in the eastern district, and calling on the
inhabitants to take up arms.

The last account from Graham's Town was, that the Caffres
were nn the retreat.

The Jamaica papers do not contain any information of im-
portance ; tranquillity prevailed in the island.
The Marquis of Sligo has received a circular from Earl
Aberdeen. announcing his appointment as Secretary for the
Colonies.

Our arrivals this morning are one Lisbon mail by the Espoir,
March 8; one from Jamaica by the Mutine, sailed Feb. 3 ;
two French mails, two Ostend, and one Hamburg. Also, a
late arrival from China, with Canton accounts of December 5.
A proclamation was received there from Pekin, suspending the
Viceroy for not having blown the two English ships out of the
water.

In the course of Saturday there was an improvement both
in the British and Foreign Funds, which left off very buoyant.
This morning the Funds are again looking up ; they closed
on Saturday at 921 to for the account; opened this morning
at 92k, and 921 for money.
Exchequer Bills, 39 41 ; India Bonds, 24; Bank Stock,
2251 ; India, 2601.
In the Foreign Market it is settling day. Although the
Brokers and Jobbers are occupied in settling their accounts,
further improvements have taken place in the Foreign Secu-
rities on Saturday's closing prices. Spanish Scrip reached
8i prem. ; at present, 8+ ; Spanish Stock has been done
at 65, now 641 ; Portuguese, 93i.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols continue buoyant at 924- for the Account, and
924 for Money ; Exchequer Bilts, 38 ; India Bonds, 21-22.
The foreign market has not that energy as in the early part
of the morning, and the foreign securities are rather lower.
Up to the present hour the settling of the Foreign Account
appears to go off well, as we do not hear of any failures to the
present hour.

Spanish Bonds, 63 64 ; Spanish Scrip, 8 Premium ; Por-
tuguese, 931 ; Dutch two-and-a-half per cents., 56i i.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Console for the Account, 91i g.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stook
3 per Cent Red 93'9
3 per Ccnt Cons 92!,,
1!,, per Cent.
3',6 per Cent Red
New 3V, per Cent 100,A
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
IStV—
Oct lE+59
Jan 1&i0

India Stock —
Ditto Bonds °2 pm.
South Sea Stock ...
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities 90%
Ex. Bills, 10 i,/ ..
iiitto 5101 4O pm
Ditto 500/ 4O pm
Bank Stock for Act.
India Stock ihr Opg 2(30
J.
Consols for Opg.

HOUSE Ot LORDS,(THIS

The LORD CHANCELLOR, and Lords BROUGUADI nna 13
TIMIS; sat to-day to hear appeals.
FOSTER V. SD, R. COCKERELL. h the
Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with
arguments in this appeal, the question in which related to.tle
priority of a mortgage. The facts of the case are of no pub
interest.