The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1844.

No business of the slightest importance took place`
in the House of Lords, if we except the motion for
the third reading of the notorious Bill of the Bishop
of rivuTER. Lord FOLEY moved that it be read a.
third time that day six months. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON concurred in the motion, as her MAJESTY'S.
Government had informed themselves on the subject,
and would at a future period bring in a Bill on the
subjecd. We doubt the statement. The Bill was,
withd.-:awn, and the House adjourned.
The .House met again at six o'clock, when argu-
ments were heard in reference to the Irish State
Trials. It is understood that judgment will be given
in this Lac nster trial in the course of this day.
In the Commons, after the presentation of peti-
tions, Mx. WALLACE gave notice, that when the
House divided on the Railways Bill, the names of
Members interested in railways should not be received.
Mr. T. DuNcomuE moved for copies of the cor-
respondence which had taken place between the Home
Secretary and the Governor of Guernsey relative to
the late disturbances. Sir J. GRAHAM said the sub-
ject would, in a few days, come before the Privy
Council, and it would, therefore, be better to post-
pone the motion. Mr. DLNCOMBE assented, and post-
poned his motion for a fortnight.
The Irish Presbyterian Marriage Bill was read a
first time.

Mr. CHRISTIE then brought forward a motion on the
Danish Claims. This is no new motion. The question
has been discussed and decided several times, and, we
believe with only ona exception, the decision has been
in favour of the claimants. Indeed, so far did the
House of Commons admit the justice of the claims,
that they drew up an address to her Majesty in fa-
your of the claimants, and that address was graciously
responded to ; the Whig Government, however, re-
sisted the decision of the House of Commons, and con-
trived some new scheme to defeat the petitioners, who
have now for nearly 40 years been denied justice. The
Tory Government have unfortunately imitated their
example. They mustered all tin forces they
could last night to defeat Mr. CHRISTIE'S
motion. It was a desperate run, and the
Government carried their point, only by a ma-
jority of four. Is not this a most disgraceful
mode of conducting public business? The Commons
have repeatedly decided that a Committee of Inquiry
should be appointed, and Whig and Tory Cabinets
have resorted to the most contemptible shifts to
deprive men of their just claims for no reason that
any man can see but to have command of more
money. They will, however, be compelled to
yield. The Baron DE BODE, who has been kept
out of his property for thirty years, is a living
instance of the robberies committed by moral
Governments, and of the just retribution of
crime. He has hunted them to the last—
he has, after - trying in -vain the honour of
the Legislature, appealed to the honour of au

aaglish jury, and he has triumphed. An honest
5;1)317 decided that be was entitled to a sum ex-
c ceding 300,0001., with interest, which had been re-
( :ei ved from the French Government, and expended
b 5 - GEORGE the FOURTH, under the administration of
4.3 rd LivEnrooL, in a way only known to the KING
‘rid his Ministers. Yet Lord LIVERPOOL had the
character of an honest man. So has Mr. GOULBERN,
uld more, he is a religious man ; yet he resists, for
State purposes, claims which are even stronger than
dose of the Baron DE BODE. We wish him joy of the
majority of four, on a question which had repeatedly
la ?en decided by the Commons in favour of the
vl aimants.
The House adjourned at Eight o'clock.

Those of our readers who may happen to be ac-
quainted with GOLDSMITH'S works, can scarcely have
forgotten his diverting, full-length portrait of
Croaker, in the comedy of the Good Natured Man•
['his Croaker, like his prototype Ileraclitus of
o Id—who certainly ought to have been an Eng-
Vshman—is a born genius for grumbling. He
b aids the reverse of POPD'S famous axiom, that

" whatever is, is right," and stoutly maintains that
‘"- whatever is, is wrong." Where other more cordial
Spirits find the materials for consolation, if not of
hope, he finds only the materials of discomfort and
cilespondency; and is never so much in his element as
when discovering some fine, fresh grievance, "war-

zultei genuine"—as our shop placards have it—on
which he may descant with all the powers of his
gloomy and splenetic e!oquence. Just such as
Ras Croaker in private life, is the Morning Post in
pcilitics—tbat is to say, a grievance-hunter of the
Ei-st water. As the former was always indulging,
in e a JEREMIAH or a CASSANDRA, in the most dole-
I -al vaticinations, so is the latter never so completely
at .home as when terrifying his numerous readers with
11 sorts of dire predictions. We have not the good
f brtune to be acquainted with the person of our
xiste Contemporary, but whenever we see a
gentleman in the streets looking more downcast and

hypochondriacal than the general run of London
peripatetics, as if some alarming grievance were fer-
orienting in his prolific imagination, we always feel
tempted to exclaim with a sigh cf affectionate
compassion, " there goes the Morning Post 1" We
lope that our desponding Contemporary may not
be discovered some fine morning self-suspended

to the lamp-post in front of his office—a vic-
tim to overpowering affliction . brought on by his
conviction of the present ruinous state of the agricul-

tural interest ; but we must confess that such a catas-
trophe, however it would. grieve,' would not surprise
us, for nothing can be inure nugubriousnothing
more , hopelessly dejected than the language which
he held yesterday. That we. may 'not be sus-
pected of-exaggeration, we will just beg leave to cull
a few sprigs frein his plantation of henbane, hemlock,
and nightshade. " When distress'.shall return," he says,
" and distress such as our agriculturists have never
yet known, cannot be far distant, let not our Par:ia-
mentary landowners affect to ascribe the ruin of
to ants and the disaffection of peasantry to some in-
scrutable dispensations of Providence. Recent legis-
lative measures 'will account for the utter ruin of the
agricultural interest." Again—" In the autumn
of 1845, if not earlier, our Parliamentary land-

owners will have an opportunity of witnessing the
action of the economical principles which they have
embraced since 1841. When farmers shall be sold up
by hundreds—when involuntary idleness and disaffec-
tion shall have spread to a fearful extent among our
artisans and peasantry—when the throat of the land-
owner shall blacken under the gripe of the mortgagee
—then will the agricultural supporters of Sir R. PEEL
understand the true nature of that great statesman's
enlightened principles." This last vaticination is in
our Contemporary's finest spirit of horror, and was
evidently penned with a view to depress the spirits
of those country gentlemen who may happen to
have been too much elated by the lato; decision on
the corn-laws. But, though no very_ ..enthusias-
tic admirers of the Premier, we are farindeed from
anticipating that such awful calamities as the Post

conjures up, will be the inevitable results of his policy.
The agricultural interest need fear no very great or
decisive injury at his hands. He stands too much in
need of their support to work them any serious mis-

chief—at least for some years to come. The pear is
not yet ripe. The hour is not yet arrived when he

may safely throw them overboard, and form an al-
liance, offensive and defensive, with the free-trade
party. Sir R. PEEL'S present policy is to commit
himself to no parties, but to establish a sort of claim

on all of them, by alternately cajoling and threaten-
ing them, and blinding them by such vague pro-
fessions of good will as may fill them with hopes

destined, most probably, never to be realised. One
day he throws out a lUre to Mr. Comm; ; the
next, to Mr. BANKES, of Arcadian-happiness
notoriety. Last year, he advanced a step towards
the free-traders ; this year, he makes a retrograde
movement, and falls back on the Monopolists. Those
who may have seen two school-boys playing at see-
saw, and watched with what clock-work regularity the
one goes up as the other goes down, will be able to form
a pretty correct idea of the Premier's system of policy.
It is a perfect game of see-saw between the manufactur-
ing and the agricultural interests. The Minister fur-
nishes the plank on which the two parties are seated,
and as they go up and go down alternately, he
boasis of the impartiality with which the game is
played, and the cogent reasons that each party has to
be satisfied with it.

Madrid journals of the Ist inst. have been received.
According to a ►etter in one of them from Barcelona,
the Emperor of MOROCCO had replied to the ulti-
matum of the Spanish Government in so insolent a
style as to leave no alternative but war. The con-
clusion of the conferences and the commencement of
hostilities had been communicated to the diplomatic
body. The Madrid Gazette of the Ist contains the
following revolting summary of the executions in
only one district of Catalonia :
" Between the Ist of February and the 15th of June, the
faction' in the Macstrazzo have sustained the following
losses :—Killed on the field of battle, 54 men ; shot, after
being made prisoners, 120 men ; pardoned, for various rea-
sons, 107. Among the prisoners shut are the chiefs El Ser-
rador, Viscaro, Lauva, and Taso ; Marsal and his lieutenant,
Pilaren, Cotarro and his second, Martinez El Serano, Taran-
ques, and Galo de Santa Oleon ; and 25 generals or officers,
including one colonel, one commandant, three captains, and
thirteen lieutenants. Since the 29th of May fourteen spies
and nineteen officers, coming from France, and a certain
number of douaniers who had joined the bands have been
shot. General Don Juan de Villalonga has, by his energetic
activity, not a litee contributed to this result."
The Funds have again receded. The Three per
Cents. closed at 26* cash, and 261 for 60 days; the
Fives at 191 for the same period.

The French Chamber of Peers did not sit on Sa-
turday, and the business in the other Chamber was
confined to a debate on two petitions from the town
of Bastin, in Corsica, complaining of the conduct of
the Prefect. The Chamber, however, rejected the
petitions, and passed to the order of the day. The
Committee appointed to inquire • into the expediency
of abolishing the duty on newspapers made their re-
port, in which they state that they cannot reccom-
mend the abolition of the duty, though they disap-
prove of the present system, and consider that a uni-
form duty of four centimes (four-fifths of a half-
penny) should be levied on all journals, whether
large or small. They are opposed also to a tax on
advertisements. The Constitutionel contains a strong
attack on the Government relative to the partial and
dishonest manner in which Government contracts are
made. According to law all contracts exceeding
50,000 francs are to be submitted to public compe-
tition, but in many instances the law has been
evaded. Several large contracts for rails and Go-
vernment supplies, it asserts, have been made by pri-
vate bargain with favoured parties to the injury of
competitors, and sometimes at ten per cent. higher
than the market price.
A dreadful fire broke out at Algiers on the night
of the 26th ult., which destroyed property to the
amount of 1,300,000 f. (52,0001.) The Akbar gives
the following details :

" The fire has destroyed all the barracks situated between
the streets Bab Azourn and the Dejeuinah. This building
has been greatly injured, and would no doubt have been en-
tirely destroyed but for the prompt and energetic means em-
ployed to save it. The whole of the citizens, directed by the
authorities, and aided by the military, navy, and militia,
vied with one another in zeal and devotion to the common
cause. The Sardinian legate Beroldoe sent a strong de-
tachment ashore, headed by their brave commander le Che-
valier Milece, whose vigorous and intelligent co-operation
tended mainly to the preservation of a large range of build-
ings in the street Porte Neuve. Towards midnight the pro-
gress of the flames was such that it was determined to isolate
the Dejeninah from the Manutention, which was done ac-
cordingly. The Bishop's palace, which was especially
threatened, was immediately denuded of all furniture, and

the Right Rev. Prelate himself in the street, surrounded by
his books and furniture, was desirous of lending a hand to
the work of extinguishment, and was only prevented on the
assurance that the numbers employed were already greater
than the nature of the work required. At midnight the fire
was completely got under. Some rather alarming reports
were spread in town as to the number of killed and injured.
We are, however, enabled, on the best authority, to state that
no one has perished, and the number of injured does not ex-
ceed thirty. It has been clearly ascertained that the origin
of the fire was purely accidental."

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lord
Charles Wellesley, second son of the Duke of Wel-
lington, and Miss Pierrepont, daughter of the Right
Hon. Henry Manvers Pierrepont, was solemnised
yesterday, in the presence of a most brilliant circle
of the relatives and friends of both noble and distin-
guished families.
Loss OF THE THOMAS, OF GLASGOW.—A letter
was received at Lloyd's yesterday, from the Ad-
miralty, containing the official documents relating to
the loss of the above vessel, on the coast of Guade-
loupe, the particulars of which were received about
three or four weeks since.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY TUESDAY EVENING.
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At the termination of business Consols were still
firm at 988 to 99, but rather inactive. None of the other
English investments were subjected to any fluctuation as
compared with the rates of the morning.
The Foreign Bonds closed rather heavily. Mexican at
354, and 154 for the Five and Three per Cents., Buenos
Ayres at 35, and Brazilian at 82. Spanish Five per
Cents. continued at 23, and the Three per Cents. at 334
to Venezuela were 404. Dutch Five per Cents. were
rather easier, being 1004.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Eastern Counties, New, 41; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 114; Great Western Fifths, 104; Bir-
mingham Thirds, 36 to 364; South-Western, 414 • Ditto
Scrip, 34 4; Croydon, 3-1.) 34; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 16; South-Eastern, 24; Ditto New, 7; Trent
Valley, 8; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1 to 14; Paris
and Orleans, 19; and Paris and Rouen, 194 premium.
Blackwall, 94; and North British, 4 discount.
The rate of Exchange on Amsterdam and Frankfort
was about the same as last Friday, on Antwerp a shade
lower, and on Hamburgh and Trieste rather firmer.
The following is the official r, turn of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last:—Silver bars to Hamburgh, 4,000 ounces.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales,
of which 1,200 were taken by exporters. The rates were
steady. Sales 200 Pernams at 54d. to sid., 50 Maranham at
M., 150 Egyptian at bid. to 64d., some Surat at 3d. to 30.,
and the rest American at 4d. to 74d. for Orleans. Shares
were rather healthier, with a good business doing.—Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 963 ; Dublin and Cashel, 47 ;
Eastern Counties Registered, 13; ; Glasgow and Greenock,
114 ; Grand Junction, 229 ; Ditto Half, 1143 ; Great Western
Fifths, 23%; London and Brighton, 46i ; Midland Counties,
Quarter, 234 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter, 104 ; South-
Eastern, 353 ; Trent Valley, 103 ; Lyons and Avignon,
11. 18s. 6d. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 14.
The commercial letters received yesterday from the Bra-
zils are not of a satisfactory character. Much disappoint-
ment continued to be expressed at the want of a greater de-
gree of liberality than has been shown towards Brazilian
produce admitted to British ports. A most extended
trade would be mulled on in our manufactures were but the
imposts upon sugar reduced a trifle only.
The attempt to introduce into the 'London market Aus-
tralian salted meats appears to have met with very indifferent
success up to the present time, and there are some who look
upon it as a decided failure, and' augur no better re-
sult for the future. 'We think, however, in reference
to the latter, that whatever may have been the
case hitherto, too hasty- a decision should not be
come to as regards what may be accomplished hereafter,
since it is a matter of considerable importance, and in which
perseverance would be ,highly laudable. We pronounce no
decided opinion, however upon the subject, and the heat of
the climate may be an objection ; but the following informa-
tion from Mr. Williams, the American Consul, at Sydney, to
the Editor of the Herald published there, seems very favour-
able : _ _

"Knowing the solicitude which is felt by this community
to learn the result of the salting experiments of the last
season, I have much pleasure instating, that.Capton Tabor,
of the American whale ship Tuscaloosa, who .supplied bis
ship with colonial salted beef, on his last visit to this
port, has informed me that he never • had beef on
board his ship which gave himself and • his crew better
satisfaction than that from Sydney. The.beef in_ question was
packed with Liverpool salt exclusively, and-he thinks might
not keep so well for a long voyage as if St. Übels_salt had
been used." The editors of the SydneyHeinOsayin,reference
to this communication :—" This beef we understand was
cured so far north as the Richmond River. We have also
been informed that the colonial beef shipped on board her
Majesty's ship North Star was so much approved .of, that on
her last visit to Sydney she landed all her Deptford 'cured
meat, and filled up with colonial."
As respects railway property the circular of a Manchester
firm, received to-da%, has the following remarks :—.4! The
Government and other dividends coming upon the market
alon,;; with rents, and the continued difficulty of employing
money beneficially, will work favourably for railway adven-
tures; moreover, the improving traffic for the last half year,
in comparison with the same period of the former, cannot
fail to have influence, especially under the increasing abun-
dance of capital, =required, as it is, for other purposes at
the present time."
The Funds are steady to-day. The dividends are now in
course of payment at the Bank, but parties receiving on the
first day, except bankers and trustees, are not generally those
who have a surplus for re-investment. Consols for Money
and Time are 984 to 99. Exchequer Bills realised 745. to 765.
premium. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought
1024 to ;), and the Three per Cents. 99A to 4. Bank Stock
has been firm at an improvement to 1994, and East India
Stock at 2844 to 285. The Government broker has bought
a small parcel of Consols.
Business in the Foreign Market is extremely dull. Mexi-
can have gone back to 354 4 for the Five per Cents., and to
15/ for the Deferred. Spanish are a dead letter for the pre-
sent. The Fives are called 23 to 4, and the Threes 33 to A.
Colombian Stock has been at 134 to a. Belgian Bonds are
quiet at 1034, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61.
There has been less business doing in the Railway Shares,
but, generally, the holders require very full rates. Birming-
ham have touched 127 to 128 premium. Great Western are
504 to 504, and Bristol and Gloucester, 164 premium. North
Midland are 2 to 3 discount.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY B.—We have
had a quiet market, without any material change in prices :
London and Birmingham, 226 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 551 1 ; Ditto Quarters, 31. 7s. and 31. 7s. 6d. ; Trent
Valley, 101 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank,
10 15-16.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock 1 936' Indian 5t0ck.,...„......., 225
3 per Cent. Red 90% Ditto Bonds ......... ..... 91 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 336 per Cent lOl% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. Ifid ... 76 pm.
New 5 per Cent. .........
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 76 pm.
Jan It.oo 1236 Bank Stock for Acct.... 199
Oct. 1859 Consols for Opg. ! 9
Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for Acct.... 2843!
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ....... IPortuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... ...... !Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds ....... ........ 82 I Prussian, 5 per Cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 35% Russian 5 per Cent —
Chllian, f. per Cent ....... ..... Ditto; Metallic .......
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent 23
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 par Cent 31%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 'Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 16.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 60
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — , Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100%

SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;.... .....
Ditto Registered (816 s Sd paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,Ns. 1 1
Ditto ditto, paid, No 2 lli
Edinburgh' and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7t(
London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid) 821)6
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) 173.4
Manchester and Birmingham
North British, 234 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto 'New Shares ( 4 paid)

Trent Valley, 2 paid 1

Orleans, Tours, and tourdeaux, I paid
Paris and Orleans (`Q paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 51 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight l2 4i Leghorn 3O 45
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Genoa 25 98
Antwerp 25 90 Milan —
flamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice ........ .......... 47
Altona - 13 13t Naples 39
Paris,3 days' sight— 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB

Ditto 3 ia-orithY 25 80
Marseilles 25 85
Bourdeaux 25 85

Lisbon
Oporto 534
Rio Janeiro 23

Frankfort on Maine 121 i
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign gold,:pars. £3 17 9

Cadiz
Lilbao 36

Portu—gal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.-- 0 0 0

Barcelona 36
Seville —

New Dollars 0 4 101
Silver in Bars 0 4 lli

THE WAIT or ERROR.—We received by the
Victory steamer, Captain Parker, on Saturday morning, the
London papers of Thursday evening, containing an ample
and most interesting report of the first day's proceeding be-
fore the House of Lords in the hearing of the writ of error.
We may take the opportunity of expressing our acknow-
ledgment, in common with our fellow journalists of the Irish
press, to the conductors of The Sun newspaper, for the highly
creditable exertion and enterprise by which they produce
such ample and accurate reports of public proceedings in
Parliament and the law courts in their afternoon editions each
day, thus anticipating completely, and to the great accom-
modation of the provincial press through the country, the
reports in the London morning papers. We have in its
number of Thursday a report embracing all the proceedings
before the Housil of Lords down to its adjournment, from
which we shall compile our report.—Cork Southern Reporter.
BLENHEIM PALACE.—Th infant Earl of- Sunder-
land, the first born of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bland-
ford, was baptized at the palace chapel, Blenheim, last week.
The Marchioness of Londonderry presented the child at the
font, who was named George Charles, the names of his
paternal and maternal grandfathers. Besides the sponsors,
then e were also present the Duchess of Marlborough and
Lady Louisa Spencer Churchill, Lady Caroline Stewart, Lord
A. Churchill, and Lord Seaham. the font, richly embossed
silver gilt, was presented by the Marquis of Londonderry to
the infant Earl, his first grandson.
CHEAP LIVING IN CARMARTHENSHIRE.—A friend
of ours, who was at Laugharne last week, informs us that a
family may reside there quite as cheaply as in France. At
present, comfortable houses are to be had from 101. to 151. a
year; ducks or fowls, la. 6d. to ls. 9d. per couple; fine
geese, 2s. to 2s. 6d. each; eggs are now forty for a shilling;
veal, 4d. per lb. ; mutton or lamb, sd. por lb. ' • servants'
wages, 31. to 51. per antrum ; fish, the same day it is caught,
from Id. to 4d. per lb. • oysters, in the season, 6d. per
hundred ; fresh butter sold there last Friday, Bd. per lb.
Sea bathing may be enjoyed on very fine sands, near the
town. A family may reside at Laugharne for one half the
expense that would be incurred at Bath or (Acheulian).—
The Silurian.