The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-09 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock -
per Cent. Red....« 9l
3 per Cent. C0ne................ 92 91%
354 per ..... 98% Vt
Ditto Red. ..... 119.104%
New 3% •
per Cent,
4 per Cent ..... -
Bank LongAn n ui ties to expire
Jan. 5,1880..»....»...........16 %
Oct. 10, 1859 lB 11-16
Jan. 5, ........ 17 %
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, IWO
Jan. 5, 1870

New 5 per Cent. -
India 5t0ck........„.„..... 259% 8
Ditto Bonds 2l 1 pm.
South Sea Stock --
Old Annuities S7 %
New Ditto --
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151 --
Exch. Bills, .£l,OOO 4l 40 pm.
, Ditto ..... ......., iSIIX/ 4O 42 pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds —

Belgian Bonds
_ Ditto Account

Brazilian Bonds ...... .... SC% a .v-
Dittc, Account ..... ..... SO%
Buenos Ayres 80nd5.... —
Ditto Account 37
Chillian Bonds 36% U
Ditto Account
Cllumbian Bonds. .......

Ditto Account.
Columbian Bonds, 1924 44 54 5
Ditto Account .......» 444 5% 5
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
@reek Bends
Ditto Bonds, 1925 —
Ditto Account —
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —l
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditt, Account 45%% 81
Neapolitan

—.— ..... -.______. __ .
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial.... - pm.
Ditto Advertised pm.
Bank Stock for Opening ... --
India Stock for Account --
Consols for Account 92%%3i

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account 'l6 3.5i4
Portuguese Bonds. ..... ... .....
Ditto Account
Ditto New Bonds ......... 96% ii
Ditto Account 96)4 7 6%

Prussian Bonds ,_
Ditto Bonds,lB. —
Russian Bonds, 1822 lOB%
' Ditto Account —
' Ditto Metalilc IO6M
Spanish Bonds 66%%
Ditto Account
Ditto Bonds, 1823 —
Ditto Account
French, 5 per cent. 107 f. —o.
------. 4 per cent. —f. —c.
-- 3 per cent..•" ...... —l. ...-o.
Exchange 2SE 45c.
Dutch, 2% per cent....... 55%%
Ditto Account ..... .... 555.L.4.74
Ditto, 5 per cent.— 10. sAii %
Ditto Account 103%%

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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Bolivar Copper Mining Company, Scrip 2O 11
Ditto Scrip 3 5
Real del Monte Mining Ca.. Registered 631. 10s. 6d.
Ditto Unregistered 36

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 6.
3 per Cent. Consols 91% Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 91%
Ditto Reduced ...........
3% per Cent. Steck 98% Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, 1830 99 City of Dublin Steam Co le.%
34 per Cent. Debentures 9lg National Insurance Company :29
Bank Stock 226!4 City Debentures, 4 per cent... 92%
Royal Canal Stock 31134 Ballast Office Debentures, 4
Grand Canal Stock 243,i per cent. 92

BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, APRIL 7.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lO2
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 99%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 121%
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ... I`‘...N,

MAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.' A rrived. Due.
0 America.... 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0
0 Brasil 0 1 Guern.&Jersey 0 0 Malta 0
0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico ...... .. 1
0 Carthagena. 0 0 Holland 1 0 Ostend 0
1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0
1 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0

HIGI-1 NY ATE!t AT LONDON BRIDGE 10-MORROW.
Morning... .57 minutes after 11. Eveninc, 0 minutes after 0

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUNN.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Comedy if
THE RIVALS.
Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr.
Wallach; Acres, Mr. Harley.
Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover ; Julia, Miss E. Tree; Lydia Languish,
Mrs. Nesbitt.
In the course of the Evening a Grand Concert.
To conclude with the last Act of
GUSTAVUS THE THIRD ; OR, THE MASKED BALL.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be performed Auber'a Opera of
LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE.
testecq, Mr. E. Seguin; Count Goloffkin, Mr. Bedford; Dimitri
Mr. Wilson. The Princess Elizabeth, Miss Shirreff.

To conclude with—THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Grindolf, Mr. G. Bennett; Lothair, Mr. Cooper; Count Frederick
Ftiberg, Mr. Brlndal; Claudine, Miss Taylor.

To-morrow there will be no performance.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 nzinutcs past 3 o'clock.

LONDON.
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1835.

The resignation of Ministers was formally an-
nounced last night—by the Duke of WELLINGTON in
the House of Lords, and by Sir ROBERT PEEL in
the House of Commons. His Grace's speech on the
occasion was remarkably brief, as if he were desirous
to get rid of a disagreeable duty as soon as possible ;
but the Right Hon. Baronet entered into something,
like details. After stating that himself and his col-
leag adopted their present course " with the
utmost reluctance," because they were in possession of

ceived from his MAJESTY " the most cordial and un-
remitting support ;" he added, that they had not (Toile
so, " without the deepest conviction of its necessity."
The vote of last night, they considered tantamount to a
declaration of " a want of confidence in Government;"
and such being the case, they felt that they could no
longer retain office with honour to themselves, or advan-
tage to the country ; especially as they were " firmly
resolved to adhere to the principle of the Tithe Bill—
firmly resolved, whatever were the difficulties with re-
spect to tithes, not to adopt the principle of the vote of
last night." This is taking the right view of the question,
though we cannot but regret that Ministers did not adopt
it long before. They might have known from the
constitution of the House, on the very first week of the
Session, that they had no earthly chance of carrying
any Irish Church Reform which did not involve the
principle of appropriation. To this there was a
pledged majority ; and had they yielded to its wishes
at once, instead of putting off concession to the latest
possible moment, they would have saved themselves
much labour and anxiety, and the public business much
embarrassment. However they are gone now—better
late than never—and with them, as we observed yes-
terday, expires the last hope of Toryism. The
, puny rush-light has emitted its last flickering glare, and
is extinguished. Henceforth, every step taken in the
political world, will he a step onward. Day by day,
we shall remove further and further from the principles
of Toryism, till, on looking back, we find the giant
dwindled to a dwarf in the distance.
For this the Tories have, in a great degree, them-
selves to blame. It was they who produced the re-
action that has overwhelmed them. Had they re-
mained quiescent, they might possibly have protracted
the hour of their dissolution ; but, by a premature stir,
provoked for no other reason that we can see, than an
inordinate lust for place, they quickened public indig-
nation, and thereby hurried on their downfall. The
mingled feelings of astonishment and wrath with which
the country received the news—first, of the dissolu-
tion of the MELBOURNE Ministry; secondly, of the
dissolution of the Reformed Parliament, might have
proved to the Tories that, though they might succeed
in planting themselves on the Treasury Bench, they
could not possibly hope to retain their seats there
for any length of time. But this they either could
not, or would not, see. Buoyed up by old recollec-
tions, and mistaking the .cunning of decrepitude for
the sagacity of manhood, they resolved on making
one more experiment on the proverbial patience of
John Bull. They imagined that he who had borne
so much, could assuredly bear a little more, at their
hands. But past sufferings had, in the interim, taught
John wisdom. He was no longer to be duped ; and
as a proof of it, he has dismissed his Tory stewards,
and is determined for the future to look into affairs
himself.

We know not who will be our future Ministers, but
whoever they are, one thing is certain, that they must
adopt En Avant, as the fundamental article of their
creed. They must neither lag behind the age, nor halt
every now and then to look timidly and uneasily about
them ; but keep moving forward at a bold, stead.)
pace. Above all, they must not distrust the people,
but have a just and generous faith in them. On no
other principle can they, as honest men; take office.
They do not come in, because they are Whigs, or be-
cause they are Radicals, but because they are pledged
to the utmost of their ability, to promote the national

interests. It is indeed high time that all party
distinctions should be forgotten. They manacle
the individual ; they are the constant source of
embarrassment to the country. What can possibly be
more spurious—what more injurious than that sense
of honour which binds a man to his party, even at the

risk of injuring the interests of the people ? It is this
false system that has for a season (but only, we trust,
for a season) deprived us of the services of Sir ROBERT
PEEL. He imagines himself bound to a faction, with
which he has little or nothing in common ; and has
consequently offered himself up as a willing victim to
the High Church prejudices of a WELLINGTON, a
KNATCHBULL, and a GOULBURN.

The Commissioners appointed in 1833 to enquire
into the Municipal Corporations in England and
Wales, have made their first Report, and we rejoice
to think that, if a considerable time has elapsed since
their appointment, that inconvenience will be well
compensated by the advantages resulting from a com-
plete and searching investigation of those numerous
abuses, which have transformed institutions, originally
intended for beneficial purposes, into public nuisances
of the very worst description.
The Reform of those abuses is, as it appears to us,
an object second in importance only to the passing of
the Reform Bill itself ; for if these strongholds of
corruption are not pulled down, there is every reason
to fear that the salutary working of that measure would
not only be greatly impeded (as has been amply
proved by the experience of the late election), but,
clogged as it now is with the tenant-at-will clause,
may in time be entirely counteracted. On the baneful
effects of those receptacles of political and moral filth,
not only on popular liberty, but also on popular mo-
rality, in contaminating the principles of those who
are so unfortunate as to be placed within the sphere
of their influence, it would be useless to dwell. The
evil is too generally felt and acknowledged to require
exposure. All that was wanted to lay the ground-
work of a thorough reform, was an accredited report—
an official certificate, as it were, of the extent of the
abuses, long known to exist, and that has now been
supplied by the document before us.
In prosecuting their inquiries, the Commissioners
divided the country into eleven districts or circuits, to
each of which, with the exception of the two last, the
the Home Circuit and London, two Commissioners
directed their attention—the Home Circuit being
reserved for those who should soonest have com-
pleted the investigation originally assigned to them,
whilst London was made the subject of a separate in-
vestigation. Before the commencement of the per-
sonal inquiry, a printed notice was forwarded to the
principal functionaries of each Corporation, contain-
ing the chief points on which the Commissioners
wished for information. Much readiness was shewn
by the Corporation authorities, generally speaking, in
complying with the wishes of the Commissioners.
The only Corporations which absolutely refused all
information are Corfe Castle, Dover, Lichfield, Maid-
stone, New Romney, and several of the London
Companies.
The general result of the inquiry is thus forcibly
stated :

" We have now laid before your Majesty, as concisely as
possible, an enumeration of the principal defects which we have
found in the constitution and management of the Municipal
Corporations in England and Wales. We humbly certify to
your Majesty, that the statements contained in this Report are
amply confirmed in detail by the results of the inquiries insti-
tuted in the several Corporations, which results are embodied
in the separate Reports to which we have already referred.
Even where these institutions. exist in their least imperfect
form, and are most rightly administered, they are inadequate
to the wants of the present state of society. In their actual
condition, where not productive of positive evil, they exist, in
the great majority of instances, for no purpose of general uti-
lity. The perversion of Municipal Institutions to political ends
has occasioned the sacrifice of local interests to party purposes,
which have been frequently pursued through the corruption
and demoralization of the electoral bodies.

!' In conclusion.', we report to your Majesty that there pre..
vails among the inhabitants of a great majority of the incorpo-
rated towns a general, and, in our opinion, a just dissatisfac-
tion with their municipal institutions ; a distrust of the self-

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popular control, and whose acts and proceedings, being secret,
are unchecked by the influence of public opinion ; a distrust of
the municipal magistracy, tainting with suspicion the local ad-
ministration of justice, and often accompanied with contempt
of the persons by whom the law is administered ; a discontent
under the burdens of local taxation, while revenues that ought
to be applied for the public advantage are diverted from their
legitimate use, and are sometimes wastefully bestowed for the
benefit of individuals, sometimes squandered for purposes inju-
rious to the character and morals of the people."

This statement is very appropriately closed by the
following recommendation to his Majesty, in which we
are sure every honest man in the kingdom will cor-
dially concur :

" WE THEREFORE FEEL IT TO BE OUR DUTY TO REPRESENT
TO YOUR MAJESTY THAT THE EXISTING MUNICIPAL CORPORA-
TIONS OF ENGLAND AND WALES NEITHER POSSESS NOR DESERVE
THE CONFIDENCE OR RESPECT OF YOUR MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS,
AND THAT A THOROUGH REFORM MUST BE EFFECTED BEFORE
TIIIIY CAN BECOME WHAT WE HUMBLY SUBMIT TO YOUR MAJESTY
THEY OUGIIT TO BE-USEFUL AND EFFICIENT INSTRUMENTS OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENT."

The pamphleteers who were beginning to support
the hole-and-corner addressers by taking the field in
favour of Sir ROBERT PEEL, will now, we presume,
beat a retreat. A thick-witted gentleman, who signs
himself " AN ENGLISHMAN," strongly recommends
to him the necessity of retaining office in spite of the
House of Commons, constituted as it now is. Had
it been what it was before the Reform Bill, then,
indeed (he admits) he ought to have bowed
to its decision ! "i The wh.olly changed nature and
character of the House of Commons," says he, " then,
supplies one powerful reason for no longer dealing
with its views and decisions as it would formerly have
been right to do." To leave no motive unattacked
which he thinks assailable in the Premier's moral
constitution, he tells him that " the recording angel
(the Recorder of Bristol, we presume) waits, if I may
so speak, in breathless expectation, to see whether you
abide the conflict and grasp the laurel, or retire, un-
scathed indeed, but without honour, from the field,
just as the battle is about to rage most fiercely."
While on this subject, we may take the opportunity
of condoling with, among others, the Conservative
Addressers of Bath, on the disappointment they will
experience in being " a day after the fail." We have
received copies of the Addresses to his MAJESTY and
Sir R. PEEL, to which, we understand, the indefati-
gable hole-and-corner gentlemen at Bath have been
moving heaven and earth to obtain signatures. These
specimens of Tory zeal had been signed, we are in-
formed, by about 350 rabid Conservatives, half-pay
officers, non-resident and political parsons, and de-
pendent tradesmen, under the name of the "inhabi-
tants of Bath and its vicinity," and it was expected
they would be signed by about as many more.
They contain the usual twaddle about " the pre-
rogatives of the Crown"—" momentous crisis"--
" supporting the Constitution in Church and
State"—" alarm and dismay, danger to Protes-
tantism, and destruction to the rights of property,
from the principle of diverting the revenues of the
Irish Church," &c. Printed circulars, applications
both personal and written, broad hints to tradesmen
—all and everything has been done to swell the list of
signatures. AndGnow, alas ! that all this zeal, these
exertions, this patriotic devotion of money, time, and
trouble, should be thrown away I Oh, that the ad-
dresses from Bath had but arrived a few days ago
They might perhaps have averted the sad catastrophe
which they were intended to prevent. They might
have struck dismay into the hearts of the Opposition,
and have been the means of rendering Sir ROBERT
PEEL another " Pilot who weathered the storm."

We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday.
The Members of the French Bar have come to the
determination not to appear at the approaching trials
without the solicitation of the prisoners. They have
also discovered that the order of the Pre9ident of the

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