The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-04 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBPR 4, MI

suggest to the Committee on the Budget to make itself I
the proposal for reducing the interest of the debt. The
Government would, by this means, relieve itself from the
necessity of bringing forward a proposal which it fears, and
which it has reason to believe unpopular."
The Director of the Customs, in a circular of the 27th
of October, has pointed out those goods which, when in
transit, must be accompanied by patterns. He adds to the
former list straw hats, and straw plait, which are admitted
as transit goods by the late ordinance.
According to the circular, the patterns forming a packet
carefully closed and sealed with the seal of the Custom-
house, must be put into square boxes, each side of which
is composed of a single piece, and the box is sealed with a
leaden seal, in such a manner that the string must cross the
angles of the box.-National, Nov. 2.
FRENCH FUNDS.--Fa BIN NOVEMBER 2.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 75c. 80c. 95c. 109 f. 108 f. 95c. 90c.
Four per Cents.. V9f. 20c.
Three per Cents., 81f. 40c. 50c. 55c. 6Cc.
Bank Actions, 2,2001.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 50c. 40c.
Roman Five per Cents., 104 104% 101.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents. 347 i.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 20X%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 54.
Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 34 34%.
Belgian Lean, Five per Cents., 10174%.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 89.
Haytian Loan, 270 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 53c. ; money, 25f. fssc.
Tame months, paper, 23f. 40c. ; money, 25f. 40c
-('our. Authentioue.
Boman Timex o'CLocK.-The settling-day has brought on
very great fluctuations ever since Saturday after post time.
The 3 per Cents. had then fallen already to 81f. 35c., and
this morning to 81f. 25c., to make up deficiencies. They
have, however, since rallied, and are now elf. 60c., and alf.
80c. for the end of this month. Spanish Securities are about
-1 per cent. better. For the end of the month, the Five per
Cents. were 109 f. 124 c. ; Three ditto, 81f. 824 c. ; Ducats,
99 674.
QUARTER TO FOUR.-FIVE per Cents., 108 f. 90c. ; Three
per Cents., 81f. 60c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 344 ; Three
per Cents. Spanish, 20k ; Cortes, 34k; Coupons, 194; Gueb-
bards, 34; Differes, 114; New Loan, -; Actives, 414;
Passives, 111 ; Ducats, 99 40 ; Romans, 104 ; Pedros, 89 ;
Belgians, 1011, ; Dutch, -f. -c. ; Haytians, 370 f. ; Miguels,
- ; Brabant Bank, -; Belgian Bank, 10 ; Continuation, -c.

In another part of The Sun will be found an able
article from last Sunday's Examiner, in reply to some
observations which appeared, a few weeks since, in the
Edinburgh Review, on the subject of the last session
of Parliament and the House of Lords. These ob-
servations we noticed at some length at the time when
they appeared, and are 'happy to find that the opinions
we then expressed are fully corroborated by our Sun-
day contemporary. The Reviewer's great objections
to any Reform in the House of Lords were, in the
first place, that it could not be accomplished without
great embarrassment to the public service, with the ad-
ditional probability that any alteration in the frame-
work of the House might have the effect of rendering
it still more Tory than it now is ; and secondly,
that if it were to be reformed on a popular
election principle, it could scarcely fail, under
any circumstances, to become a mere duplicate
of the House of Commons. These two objec-

tions the Examiner disposes of in a most unanswer-
able manner ; and acids, that even supposing the latter
were to be the case, still the public mischief growing
out of it could not possibly be half so great, as is the
case at present, when, Session after Session, we find
the Upper House of Legislature constantly arraying
itself against the Lower, and bringing all its tact—all
its finesse—and all its experience to bear upon Reform,
with a view of thwarting it at every stage of its pro-
gress. The idea of a duplicate Chamber—though we
admit that it were as well it could be avoided—is not

half so alarming to our nerves, as it is to those of
the Edinburgh Reviewer ; for surely after a public
question has been discussed in all its bearings, by two
experienced parties in the House of Commons, there
can be few solid objections left for the Lords to dis-
cover and act upon I Wg have already had ample

experience of the mischiefs arising from a non-duplicate
and irresponsible Assembly, and are not by any means
disposed to have them repeated next Session.

We regret being compelled, by a sense of public
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duty, to refer to the details of a motion made in the
Court of King's Bench on Monday, by the Re-
corder of London, in the case of " Rex v. Rotel',
Esq.," of which a report appeared in The Sun of
yesterday. From that report it appears that BENJA-
MIN RoTcu, Esq., the Chairman of the Middlesex
Sessions, gave certain evidence before a Committee
appointed by the House of Lords to inquire into
the state of prison discipline in England and Wales,
which went to charge the Court of Aldermen
with a gross abuse of the authority vested in

them, with respect to the committal of prisoners
to Newgate. When the Report of the Committee
came to be laid before the House of Peers and the
country, the Aldermen were indignant at the charges
preferred against them ; and that part of Mr. RoTca's
evidence, which accused the magistracy of the city of
London of an abuse of the power to which they laid
claim over the discipline of the prison of Newgate,
was made the subject of a motion before the Court.
The motion was brought forward by Mr. Alder-
man THOMAS WOOD, whose high character as a
magistrate and a citizen, is a guarantee for
the validity of the ground for such a proceeding.

If we mistake not, the evidence, purporting to be
given before the Committee by Mr. ROTCII was voted
substantially incorrect—we believe we might use a
stronger phrase—upon which, or antecedent to which,
(for the matter is of little consequence), the Lotto
MAYOR is reported to have said that the thanks of the
Court were due to Mr. Alderman WOOD for bring-
ing such " a scandalous matter " before it. To deno-

initiate what the Court of Aldermen had voted, or
were about to vote, a falsehood, a " scandalous
matter," was unendurable by a gentleman of Mr.
ROTCH'S' refined feelings. Like Squire Ralph°
in Hudibras, he laid more stress upon the name
than the thing. It was the sound, not the sense,
which mortally offended him. " His blood was up,"
and nothing short of blood could appease him. In
this frame of mind, so becoming a Magistrate—the
sworn guardian of the laws—he sent a challenge ; not
to Mr. Alderman WOOD, who had first called in ques-
tion the correctness of his evidence, and who, by
framing a motion on the subject, had given a solemn
attestation of his conviction of its untruth—but to the
LORD MAYOR, who had dared to call what his brethren
cited as a falsehood, " a scandalous matter !" Had the

affair rested here, we could readily find some excuse for
\lr. RoTCH. We would have supposed that the letter
was written in a moment of passion, and that he repented
of the circumstance in half an hour afterwards. But no.
When the chivalrous Chairman found that one letter
and one messenger were not attended to, other messen-

gers were found, and other letters were written, with a
view to compel the chief magistrate of the City of
London—a man too, well-stricken in years—to become
a party to the perpetration of a crime alike denounced
by the laws of God and man.
The conduct of the LORD MAYOR was in all respects
befitting his high judicial station ; creditable to him-
self as an individual ; and calculated to serve as an
excellent example to others who may hereafter be simi-
larly circumstanced. Instead of countenancing a breach
of the laws of his country, he has instituted legal pro-
ceedings against Mr. ROTCII ; and we sincerely trust,
that that Gentleman will have better cause for re-
gretting his conduct, than what may be found in a
verdict pronounced in the Court of King's Bench.
The poor artizan is hanged or transported if he in-
' fringe the law; the legislator and the magistrate of a
county claim respect for wantonly outraging it. The

miserable wretch who, to procure a morsel of bread to
keep him from starving, steals a pocket-handkerchief,
is transported for life ; and the Judge who pronounces
sentence upon him, rises and claims to be honoured
and applauded by his fellow-citizens, for offering to
avenge an insult by the death of a fellow-judge !
This is a state of public morality which no person
can contemplate with indifference, and we are most
happy to find that the question of duelling has been
taken up by the Court of Common Council, in a tone
and spirit worthy of enlightened Christians and Eng-
lishmen. For a report of yesterday's proceedings in
that Court, which will be found in another part of
this Journal, we refer our readers for the expression of
a general sentiment of approbation of the course taken
by the LORD MAYOR with respect to Mr. ROTCH'S
challenge. We trust that the motion of which Mr.
WIRE gave a notice will be agreed to, and that the
force of public opinion will induce his MAJESTY to
accede to the prayer of such an address. That notice
is to the following effect :
" That this Court, reprobating the unchristian practice
of duelling, do agree to present an address to His Most
Gracious Majesty, praying him to dismiss from his service
any person who shall send or accept a challenge to fight a
duel."

Most cordially do we concur in the propriety and
the efficacy of • the remedy which is here proposed to
put a stop to the barbarous and bloody practice of
duelling. We are not for any new laws on the sub-
ject, unless an Act which shall declare every man who
fights a duel, or who sends or receives a challenge, in-
capable of holding any office civil or military, or of
sitting in Parliament, either as a Peer or as a Mem-
ber of the House of Commons. There is no
fear now of such a law not receiving the sanc-
tion of public opinion. If there were, we should be
the last to recommend its adoption. But in truth the
code of honour which regulated the conduct of gentle-
men in the middle ages. is almost as unpopular as the
code of justice which was then administered. The
pistol is as much a proof of barbarism as the burning
ploughshare, or the water-trials of old women for the
the impossible crime of witchcraft.

Madras papers to the 12th July were this day re
ceived this day at the North and South American
Coffee House. We find from these papers, that
" two squadrons of the 4th cavalry, and the 17th re-
giment of native infantry, with four 9-pounders, lately
reached Jessore from Nusseerbad, and remain there en-
camped for the protection of Major ALVES and party,
until orders received from Calcutta." It is further
added, that " our troops at Balepore expect to be
called to Jazepore ; but the fact is, that Shekhawattee
itself requires their presence, certain symptoms of dis-
content and turbulence having recently been manifested
at Seekur, and hints have been received that it is con-
templated to retake the forts of Deoghur and Ru-
gurathgur.
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A letter received from Benares mentions that the
report of the murder of Jalaram was generally believed
there. It is said that his body was cut into small
pieces, put into a bag, and sent to the English
esiden cy.
We have a description of the new Rupee, which is
to be the current coin of all India. The propriety of
making it thinner than those at present in use, is
clearly made out, and it is added, that before long it
will be the coin in most general use.

Private letters from Jessore communicate further
details of the tragic events which have recently hap-
pened at that place. It appears that Major ALVES
was preparing to mount his elephant, when a man
suddenly advanced out of the crowd to attack him ;
and ere the fellow could be secured, he had inflicted
three severe wounds on the Major's head, which im-
mediately brought him to the ground. By accounts of
the 11th June, from Jessore, the man with several
others had been arrested.

TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving-off prices of
yesterday, 911 4 for the Account, and 914 for money, with
little business doing to the present hour. Omnium, 44 pre-
mium ; Exchequer Bills, 11 13 ; India Bonds, 1 3; India
Stock, 2551 61 ; Bank Stock, 2091 101.
In the Foreign Market 4 Spanish Active closed at 4244, at
present may be quoted, 424 4 ; Portuguese, 884 89 ; Three
per Cents., 574 58 ; Columbian, 314 321; Mexican, 37 38 ;
Dutch, 21 per Cents. 55 8 4 ; Five per Cents., 1004 4.
It being All-Saints Day at Paris, few French papers have
been received by the Express. Five per Cents., 108 f. 90c.;
Three per Cents., 81f. 60c.
Although we have no telegraphic communication from the
Spanish armies, it appears by the private accounts, that affairs
are going on very favourably for the Queen and there is
every reason to believe, that before long Don Carlos will be
obliged to re-cross the Pyrenees.
HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols have continued steady during the morning at 911
for the Account, and 918 1 for Money. Omnium, 44 prem. ;
Exchequer Bills, 10 13; India Bonds, 1 3 ; Bank Stock,
210 ; India, 2551 2561.
In the Foreign Market little doing ; but on the Royal
Exchange a great bustle prevails in the various Rail-road
Shares, which are carried on to a very extensive degree, and
they are sold at all prices—from 2d. to 5/. per share. The
Brighton has been the mania of speculation this morning, at
premium. Spanish Active, 424 s ; Old Spanish, 451 ;
l'ortuguese, 89 ; Three per Cents., 574; Colombian, 314 ;
Mexican, 371 38; Dutch, 21 per Cents., 5511 4. All the
Foreign Funds are lower ; also most of the Rail-road Shares.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91i I.

Mr. Balfe, the composer of the Siege of Rochelle,
is about twenty-eight years of age, and has been celebrated
for his performance on the violin since he was seven years
old ; before which he was articled to Mr. W. Rooke, the com-
poser, and was afterwards under Mr. C. Horn. He has
played the violin in Drury-lane orchestra, and led at some
festivals. He has been much on the Continent, and was
retained at the French and Italian theatres as primo buffo.
He has a capital baritone voice, and his Figaro, &c., are
said to be admirable.

CHILL—By accounts from Chili, we learn the
opening of the Legislative Chamber by Don Joachim
Prieto, the President. In his speech on this occa-
sion, his Excellency represents the present state of the
Republic as very satisfactory. He also announces
that an offer had been made by the Government
of the United States, of its intervention with Spain
to procure a recognition of the independence of the
Republic. He states that the situation of Chili would
have been more prosperous than since the revolution,
but for the fearful visitations of earthquake, by which
three of the most flourishing of its provinces had been
laid in ruins. A proof of the good effects of the improved
morals and industry of the people was found in the great
diminution of crime compared with that exhibited in
former years. Commerce had increased exceedingly, and
still further to extend this. the Government was seriously
occupied in repairing the roads and in constructing new
ones. The public revenues 0f1834 had produced 1,887,297
piastres, which was an excess of 116,527 piastres over the
produce of the preceding year, of which a great part was
from the Customs. The Government had been able to
appropriate 178,419 piastres to the extinction of the in-
ferior
floatinc, debt, and to redeem 24,700 piastres of the
Consolidated Debt, of which the bonds have been pro-
gressively advancing throughout the year. The Govern-
ment was also occupied in new financial measures, particu-
larly as regarded the coasting trade, and the export duties,
which much needed a complete reform, to enable the foreign
debt to be duly met, and the consolidation of the interior
floating debt.
A mechanic, named James Graham, was found dead
in a field, above the Dumbarton Road, near the Yoker, on
the 24th ult. He went out on the Thursday evening pre-
vious, to convoy some of his friends from Glasgow, who had
been visiting him that day, and hadzone into some house at
the Yoker, to have a parting glass, which, on proceeding
home, made him miss his way, and, unable to resist the in-
clemency of the night, lie had perished. The body had lain
two nights in the field when found.—Glasgow Herald.
AN IRISH WINE DRINKER.--A gentleman from
Ireland, on entering a London tavern, saw a country-
man of his, a Tipperary 'Squire, sitting over his pint
of wine in the coffee-room. " Blood an ounds I my
dear fellow," said he, " what are you about ? For the
honour of Tipperary, don't be after sitting over a pint of
wine in a house like this ?" " Make yourself asy, country-
man," was the reply ; " its the seventh I have had, and
every one in the room knows it."—Fraser's Magazine!