The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-31 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red q..,-34
3 ner Cent Cons. '.l.sii i.;
3,4 per Cent. 92
Ditto Red 917,,' 21,(., 2
ew :3;4 per Cent. 9:3'i 'Ai IA
3 per Cent Ann. 1726 ....
4 per Cent. 189.6
Rank Long Ann. to expire
Jan. 5,186 n 16 9-16 %
Oct. In, 3859 —
Jan 5, 1860 167„
Jan. 5, 1680 —
Aprils, FAO —
Jan. 5. 187C1...... —

\less, 5 per Cent.
:ndia Stock
:)itto Bonds par 1 pm.
South Sea Stock
flid Annuities

New Ditto 8.33
I per Cent. Ann. 1751

Ek. Bills, X1,006...11 10 12 on
Ditto ..500 ll 12 pm.
Ditto Small .lO 13 on
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Advertised ... 10 11 pm
Bank for Account

India for Account

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds 914
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account 76
Brazilian Bonds 4ll 854,:;
Ditto Account 494 9
Buenos Ayres 80nd5........
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds 16%
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds. ll
Ditto Account

Cons. for July lEI R 5 '7:i 7;3.

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Peruvian Bonds

Ditto Bonds, 1824
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds 674142
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds. 95
Ditto Bonds, 1825 ...... 31 30
Ditto Account 3O
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2.67 i
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent
Ditto Account Tti
Neapolitan

Ditto Account 1314
Portuguese Bonds

• „ ,
Ditto Account. 53%!,!,
Regency Scrip ONPro
Ditto Account 03SPII,
Prussian Bonds 99
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 1822 —
Russian Bonds, 1822...99 874 !)
Ditto Account —
New Loan 945,
Spanish Bonds, 1821 14!(,
Ditto Account l3
Ditto Bonds, 1823 l4'
Ditto Account 12% 13 i'i
French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c.
, Exchange —f —c.
:1 per cent...— —f —c.
Exchange f r
Dutch Scrip 44; !t,,
Ditto Account —
French Scrip

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at Si. pm.) XlOO 8
Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 167%
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 44%
British Iron Mining Company £5O 744
General Mining Association
Real del Monte Mining C 0...., — 25
United Mex. gin. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 5 4.!,, 5
Ditto New Set ip . 5N
Alliance Fire Insurance Comp .. 10 8%
Australian Co.
Canada Company 5O

This day was published, price 2s. 6d.
riIAITS EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,
No. 111., for JUNE.

Contents-1. Our Three Days-2. Cultivation of the
Fancy-3. What will the Army do ?-4. Miss Edge-
worth's Works-5. The Botheration of the " Personnel"
6. To a certai❑ Ex-Minister-7. The Bank Charter—
s. Goethe-9. To a Tame Deer-10. Irish Education-
-11. Power and Prospects of Russia-12. My Native Isle-
-13. Jean Jacques Rousseau-14. The Fourth Estate--
IS. The Contrast-16. Notes on the Crisis-17. Monthly
Register.

Printed for William Tait, Edinburgh; Simpkin and
Marshall, London ; and John Cumming, Dublin.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1832.

Two public events took place yesterday of
considerable importance, which those who have
the ordinary faculty of reflection cannot do
otherwise than look on as very striking signs of
the times. We allude to the PITT Club dinner
and the disfranchisement of the rotten boroughs.
At the very hour the Duke of WELLINGTON
was thundering forth the praises of Mr. PITT
at Merchant Tailors' Hall, the House of Lords
was busily engaged in giving the last finishing
touches to the Reform Bill. And yet it
was through the instrumentality of those
very boroughs, which their Lordships last
night doomed to destruction, that Mr. PITT
confirmed and perpetuated his power ! We
wonder the Club did not choose a more
fitting season for the celebration of its orgies, for
really there is something ineffably grotesque in
the idea of a squad of bigots commemorating
the glories of their patron saint on the very day,
nay almost at the very hour, when the system
by which that great political saint acquired his
spurious celebrity, has been pronounced by the
highest Court of Legislature in the king-
dom to be unworthy of being longer continued !
The Duke must have had wondrous powers of
face to have been enabled to preserve his gravity
while presiding at such an assembly on such an
_ _ _

occasion. But it is evident he is insensible to a
joke, or his sides must have split while sounding
the praises of a statesman, whose glaring political

errors it is the main object of the Reform Bill
to expose, and, if possible, to retrieve. Mr. PITT,
whatever he may have been in private, is, as a
statesman, no pattern of purity, no model for
imitation. He commenced his political career
as a stanch Reformer, he closed it as an apostate
from Reform, as the unscrupulous advocate of
every sort of jobbing, extravagance, and corrup-
tion. He saved his country after a fashion, it is
true, but it was only to plunge it headlong into
a far blacker abyss than he rescued it from, as in
the old days of the Inquisition, a heretic was
saved from the gallows only to be burned alive at
the auto-da:fe. To the interested few, such
as boroughmongers, placemen, pensioners, high
Tory aristocrats, and church pluralists, who
constitute a class by themselves, and whose every
interest is separate and apart from that of the
people;—to such men the triumph of Mr. PITT'S
principles was indeed a matter of salvation,
a blessing for which they could not be sufficiently
grateful ; but to the nation at large, it was a
curse, a deep, deadly curse, from the effects of
which we are only just now beginning to revive.
But the whole secret of the mischief incurred by
nr. PITT's system may be summed up in one word
—ambition. In the very worst and most extended
sense of the term, Mr. PITT was an ambitious
man ; to this he sacrificed every other considera-
tion ; to this he surrendered in mature age all
the generous, high-minded feelings of his youth.
He was a Reformer, so long as the advocacy of
such a principle (lid not interfere with his own

personal aggrandizement ; but the very instant it
stood between him and his ambition, he flung
it to the winds without hesitation and without