The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-09 00:00:00

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THE T.AyNDs--(C

,OSING PRICES).

Ban' BRITISH
_ div.
.7 Or Cent. Red 99
I per Cent. Cons. 100%
;PA per Cent. Red
lisovr Sk per 10214
New 5 per
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 12 1-16
Oct. 1859........«.»..

FUND&
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — pm.
Ditto under £l,OOO — pm.
South Sea Stock ...
Ditto Old Annuities

Ditto New Annuities ...
Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 134 d ... 66 pm.
Ditto 5001. ..... 66 psn.
Ditto 64 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct....
Consols for Act...„..... 100%
India Stock for Acct...
.1 FUNDS.
M Russian, 5 per
!Ditto, Metallic ..».„.....„«
Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 2434
Ditto, 1841..„.„.».......«
Ditto, 1812..»....,........«
Ditto, 184 a........ .....
Ditto, 1844
Ditto, 3 per Cent 36
-Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct —
French, 5 per Cent...—. —t —c.
French, 3 per Cent.... —f
Exchange ..„. ...... —f. —c.
Dutch, 2% per... ...... ;2%
IDitto,ls per Cent, - 99%
RES.
(100 i.r2.Cl) lO2
73

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Jan. 1860. ......
.. •••• .0.1 -
Indian 3t0ck.•,.....•....”..."..
FOREIG

Austria*, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent 101%
Brazilian! Bonds ••••••• in
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
Chllian, 6 per Cent — 1
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent...— —
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 peg i:t —
Prussian Bonds, 4 -per Cent —
Peruvian Bor.d;„_6 per Ct —
Portuguese ilon6k, 5 per Ct 87
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Birmingham and Gioucestei
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid).... -
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Cambridge and Lincoln, t% paid 2%
Chester and Holyhead ( "., laMd)
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Direct Northern 2% paid 2%
Dublin and Belfast J-dnction, 2% paid 4
Eastern Count;;:s (25 paid)
Grand Jtiticl!.ton, 100 paid 212%
Great So'.ithern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
rlatto Half Shares, B) paid B5
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 9
London and Croydon
London and York, 2% paid 3
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland (100 paid) •••••••• 105
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid ...... 48
North British, 5 paid . 5
South Devon, 10 paid l2
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid 8
York and North Midland (50 paid) ll2
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid '79
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ._ 4%
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3%
Parts and Orleans C2O paid) ..... 39%
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ... .............. ................ 3N
Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid 2%

SPIRIT of tae PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The evening sittings of the Central
Criminal Court have by no means tended to raise
the character of the Civic Judges. They are gene-
rally the scenes of indecorum, 'such as are witnessed
in no other court—nor in this, except after dinner.
The unseemly altercations between the counsel en-
gaged for the prosecution and the prisoner, the
passages of wit between the Bench and the Bar,
with occasional ebullitions of excited feelings from
the same quarters, have been often alluded to
and remarked upon by the press. They showed, but
too plainly, that the bottle had been freely circulated
at the festive board in the adjacent dining-room;
and that the effects were unfas:ourable to the suit-
able performance of the ti titles in which they were
engaged. We nerd only mention the subject
to those who have witnessed the post-prandial
" sayings and doings" of the two Courts,
in the evening sittings, to recal attention to
scenes which fully sustain our remarks. It
was therefore with some satisfaction tnat we
noticed a proposition made by Alderman Wood at a
Court of Aldermen held last week, the object of
which was to abolish the evening sittings of the
Central Criminal Court, and to establish an addi-
tional Court, so as to dispatch the whole of the
business before dinner. We had hoped that a desire
in the Court of Aldermen to prevent the recurrer.;:e
of unseemly exhibitions in a court of justi;e, would
have prevailed over even alderrinnic attachment
to the delicacies of the cuisine. The hope was de-
lusive. The propositi,n-i was scouted as one which
it would be derogatory from the dignity of the
Court of Aldermen to entertain. It did not even meet
with a seconder; but fell, still-born, to the ground.
One member of the Court—an ever-garrulous knight
—treated the suggestion with marked contumely. An-
other (Ald. Copeland) considered it as little less than
abominable ; and declared that, if carried, he would re-
sign his gown—the most expressive mode of showing his
abhorrence of the innovation upon the vested rights and
privileges of Aldermen. The proposal was thus all
but hooted out of Court by the indignant gastro-
nomes. At the close of the discussion Alderman Wood
observed that, if the Court of Aldermen did not set
about reforming the evil, they perhaps would receive a
hint on the subject from a higher quarter. The worthy
Alderman did not imagine that his prediction would
be so speedily realised. Great commotion was caused
among the civic functionaries who were assembled on
Saturday last at the Old Bailey, for the purpose of
meeting the Judges to fix the days for commencing
the sittings of the Court in the ensuing mayoralty.
A letter from Sir James Graham, recommending the
Court of Aldermen to take the abolition of the evening
sittings of the Court into its seri's)u consideration, was
produced. The letter of the Right Hon. Home Secretary
was alluded to yesterday at the Court of Aldermen,
and was treated rather cavalierly by the worshipful
assembly. " Alderman Wood wished that the letter
written by Sir J. Graham to the Lord Mayor, on the
subject of doing away with the evening sittings at the
Central Criminal Court, should be entered on the
minutes of the Court. He submitted a motion on the
subject, and Alderman Humphery seconded the mo-
tion. The Lord Mayor most decidedly objected to
the proposition, which at once fell to the ground."
The influence of public opinion, enforced by the
recommendation of the Government, communicated
through the medium of the Minister to whose de-
partment the duty of superintending the administra-
tion of the criminal justice of the country specially
pertains—even the decorous and satisfactory distri-
bution of justice in the Central Criminal Court by the
judges appointed by the Corporation—these are trifles
compared with the privilege of faring sumptuously at
the City's charge. Though the intellect may be ob-
scured, and even the decorum of demeanour requisite
to maintain the dignity of the judgment-seat be
violated, through the indulgences of the table—the
evening sittings of the Court will be continued, unless
the Government do something more than " recom-
mend " their abolition.
STANDARD.—The cause of federalism Proceeds
as slowly as Mr. O'Connell can desire, and almost as
slowly as he expected it woulfl proceed. Mr. Duffy,
of
it w the Nation, on his on behalf and that of his
friends, denounces as a cheat, and for once in his
life appears to have stumbled on a fact. Mr. Smith
O'Brien professes the deepest attachment to the ori-
ginal watchword; but is kindly " disposed to make
some concession of opinion, and try a federal constitu-
tiod by way of experiment." One would think that
this pompous but empty declaimer had intended to be
merry at the expense of his repeal associates, when
be enunciated the aphorism that the panacea
for every evil under which Ireland is labour-
mg at the present rnr,ment is self-government! This
as the great secret all the world over. No man is so
happy and free from disquiet of all kinds, as he who
possesses the important qualification of being able to
restrain a wild and erratic disposition. The axiom is
as old as the hills? and can never be too often
repeated. It is one, moreover, the value of which
has been appreciated in all ages. There are,
however, no class of men in existence less qualified
to practice this humanising virtue than Irish
repealers ; it being the very last lesson that
their instructors ever dream of teaching them.
When such men as Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Smith
O'Brien have learned the art of self-government
in their own persons, they will be better qualified
to recommend it to their countrymen. At pre-
aent they are but types of the mischief that would
ensue from permitting the national self-government
for which they clamour. The reason why self-
government, as a moral principle, is not more fre-
quently displayed, appears to us to be that every
man wishes to frame a system adapted to his
own wishes and circumstances. Thus, what
one man deems self- government, another considers
the wildest moral wilfulness ; until parties are
even more at issue as to its meaning than Mr.
O'Connell, Mr. Duffy, and Mr. Smith O'Brien. Mr.
O'Connell being unable to put any rein upon his
avarice, and finding the repeal rent in a progress of
rapid decline, would fain start a new hare. Mr.
Duffy, of the Nation, who is well aware that the
comparative prosperity of his seditious newspaper
depends upon the amount of agitation that is kept
afloat, demands self-government in the amplest
sense of the term. We wonder he does not super-
add a proposal to revive the Irish monarchy. Mr.
Smith O'Brien's definition of the phrase varies from Mr. Duffy's, inasmuch as he seems to consider it
somewhat squeezable. He asks high-minded men
how he can serve Ireland ; how he can rescue its po-
pulation from the unnumbered evils they suffer; ho 7,
he can " uplift and uphold the honour of his country."
He answers his own inquiry by the simple and ex-
pressive phrase of self-government. His notion is, a
return to the "international arrangement of 1782 be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland, and the reconstruc-
tion of the Irish Parliament upon a reformed prin-
ciple ;" in other words, the total and unconditional
repeal of the union. Unlike Mr. Duffy, however,
he will be content with any instalment of the
"debt" he can obtain, and professes to be "disposed
to make some concession to public opinion (we
thought the eight millions were all but unani-
mous on the subject), and to try a federal constitu-
tion by way of experiment." To accomplish his great
object, or, indeed, any portion of it, he is kind
enough to assure us that all will be considered as
44 fish that come to net ;" albeit, the convert should
bear " the ill-omened designation of Orangeman I"
" Let him (he adds) adopt the new and undefined de-
signation of federalism ; and if he labours to promote
the welfare of Ireland —if he cherishes its glory
as his own personal honour"—he will be eligible
for admission into the federal ranks ! But Mr.