The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-26 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ....•...............• 1 Indian Stock
3 per Cent. Red ....... ....... . ;Ditto Bonds .. ....
3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ...... 99X 'Ditto Old Annuities
;36 per Cent. Red — Ditto New Annuities ...
Kew S% per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1)4(1... 76 pm.
New 5 per Cent - Ditto 5001. .......—..... 7d Plal-
Lone Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11........."..... 76 pm.
Jan 1860....•—..•..•• Bank Stock for Acct.... 208%
Oct. 1869•••••••••••«.• Consols for Act. lOO%
Jan. 1860. .... ......... India Stock for Acct.... 268
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ...: :: iPOrt4l7ese, 5 per Cent ......
Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ... — Ditto, New Ditt0....... ..... ...
Brazilian Bonds - :Prussian, 5 per Cent .... .....
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent 3734 Russian, 5 per Cent............
Chlllan 6 per Cent -
Colomblan, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1 4..„.......„....„.„ — Ditto, 3 per Cent .......... ..... 35
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Deferred.....„.„.„.....
Danish, 3 per Cent .. . — ;French, 5 per Cent...—. —t. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent. — Exchange ......, ....... ~,.. —if, —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837...- — ,Dutch, 234 per Cent...-. 62%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO7
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (81 68 8d paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid ... 6%
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
Lonion and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) IS.X
London and York, 2% paid 414
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid .......... ltii
South Devon, 5 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ....
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO4
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
Boulogne and Amiens, '2 paid .... ...... ...........
?arts and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid
Rouen and Havre, 10 paid 1,%
Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) 9%

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—The Herald has opened its columns to
an apology for Alderman Gibbs. If wedo not griev-
ously mistake, the statement, which is headed
"from a Correspondent," is from the pen of the
worthy functionary himself. The circumstance
of the Alderman being likely to have his suc-
cession to the Mayoralty postponed, un-
til the prejudices, which his conduct as
Churchwarden of St. Stephen's Walbrook has accu-
mulated around him are removed, has called forth this
wordy and involved composition. In a recent ar-
ticle in our columns on the anomalous position in
which Mr. Alderman Churchwarden Gibbs has
placed himself (and to which the statement in the
Herald professes to reply), we suggested the neces-
sity which circumstances seems to impose both on
the Livery and the Court of Aldermen, to hesitate
ere they take a step by which the dignity of the
office of Chief Magistrate may be compromised, or
its efficiency impaired. Without imputing dis-
honesty to Mr. Alderman Churchwarden Gibbs in
the application of the parish funds, we confidently
submitted that sound policy requires that his election
to the Mayoralty he postponed) for the present year.
While the proceedings to which the parish has been
driven to obtain from him a verified account are pen-
dente lite, it would be premature and censurable to anti:
cipate die result. But we adhere to the position
which in our former article we assumed—it remains
unshaken by anything adduced by the Herald's
" Correspondent," or in the Herald's remarks upon
the case. Where a public officer, being in the
receipt and having the control and application
of public funds, allows his accounts to remain
unaudited for a period of nearly twenty years, and,
when required to produce his accounts by the pa-
rish whose trustee he is, with the vouchers by which
their integrity may be ascertained, refuses to do so—
meets reiterated applications with quibblings—im-
pugns the legal competency of the parishioners to ask
for such accounts—and interposes every obstacle in his
power to prevent them from obtaining such satisfac-
tion—we say, such a man makes out a prima facie
case against himself. He has himself to blame for
any inconvenience he sustains—for any injury to fame
or feeling which he incurs. We do, therefore, in
sober earnestness, ask whether such a functionary,
having placed himself in such a position, can, with
any reasonable hope of having his claim allowed, look
to his fellow-citizens to place him in the highest
post of the Corporation ; and confer upon him the
honours, and invest him with the functions of Chief
Magistrate of their city ? To comply with his request
would be to adopt the responsibility of a possible
result to the investigation by the Court of Chancery
of his suspiciously-withheld accounts. If the award
he against their validity, his administration of the
trust he held would be impugned, and his integrity
seriously damaged, if not irretrievably ruined. Nor
would this be the extent of the evil. The high
office of Mayor of the Metropolitan City would
be exposed to no small portion of the odium and
disgrace. Can the postponement for one year of
Mr. Alderman Gibbs' election to the office to
which, it seems, he still aspires, in the influences
such a postponement would exercise upon
position, be comparable to the mischiefs which
would inevitably be inflicted on the Corporation, should
the chair of its Chief Magistrate be filled by an indi-
vidual whose claims to public respect and confidence
are of a doubtful kind ? The reputation and influence
of the Corporation would be lowered in the estimation
of the city and the nation; the administration of jus-
tice would be deprived of respect ; and the office be
denuded of efficiency. After the controversy that has
been raised—after the painful interest that has been
excited by the extraordinary conduct of the Lord
Mayor expectant, and the appeals which have been
made to the Livery and Court of Aldermen to
pass Mr. Alderman Gibbs by for the present
year, and choose the Alderman next in succession—.
they raise him to the Mayoralty; and the result of
the suit in Chancery, to which the parishioners hare
been driven by his inveterately obstinate and indefen-
sible conduct, unhappily terminate in an adverse
decisioa against that officer—on those who have re-
fused to listen to the suggestions of what is due to
the office and to the public, for whose interests it
exists' will the odium rest. If Mr. Alderman Gibbs
can induce the Livery to return, and the Court of
Aldermen to select, him for the Mayoralty on Sa-
turday next, he cannot be blamed. The blame will
rest on those who have so low an opinion of what
are essential requisites in the Chief Magistrate
of London, as to place in that office an individual who
has manage.) to render himself conspicuous by conduct
that has gratuitously involved his administration of a
public trust in suspicion, and subjected him to general
reproach. We really wonder that some shrewd fellow,
charged before Mr. Alderman Gibbs with embezzling
moneys balonging to his employers, has not set up a
kind or argumentum ad hominem defence. He might,
with at least some show of propriety, question the
right of his prosecutors to claim an investigation of
his accounts, or to demand the books and vouchers by
which they might be elucidated. The legality of their
partnership might be questioned—the form of the
deed, if any were in existence, might be impugned ; or
the absence of a deed might be adduced, to show that
no partnership existed ; and that the parties claiming
the moneys the prisoner was charged with illegally
detaining, had really no claim to either the right of the
aceounts, or the moneys. We do not say that the case
we have imagined is, pari passe, that ofMr. Alderman
Gibbs. But should such a defence be set up in a case
of disputed accounts, in which malversation was charged
against a party on the ground that no proper account-
current had been rendered, it is likely that the persons
in court would be remined of Alderman Gibbs, and
some of his reasons for refusing to produce and verify
his accounts, when called upon to do so by the pa-
rishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. The Times
of this morning, in an article on the subject which
is worthy of the serious consideration of the Li-
very and Aldermen, remarks—" The characters of
the chief men of a city, such as London, ought to be
worthy of the high reputation of the body over whom
they preside. The character of men in office is
the test of the soundness of the system which puts
them there." There is much which requires reform
in the existing constitution of the Corporation of
Landon. Recent circumstances have not tended to
enhance its claim to respect or confidence. 'We
should be glad to see a determined effort made to
raise its character, and retrieve its reputation.
The proceedings of Saturday next will have a
beneficial or injurious tendency. The effect of the
choice that will be then made—or should there be a
contest, which we do not anticipate, the result of the SNAP, WESTMORELAND.—It appears that the direc-
poll, and the selection by the Aldermen—will either tors and Mr. Stephenson, and the other contractors for
evince a criminal indifference to the qualities which the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, are determined to
.uppress the rep oand are requisite requisite to render the Mayoralty really respect-
erl conductfurther of the workmen enf abedgrut rand
able
on the line, and
able and efficient; or it will be seen that those who
to
to lend every assistance to the civil authorities for that
aspire to that office must not only be men of in- purpose A meeting of the directors was held on Thurs-
tegrity and worth, but men who are held to be such day last,
and 'it was agreed that efficient policemen be
by the universal consent of all who have had dealings engaged, and stationed at suitable distances on the line,
with them. to preserve the peace at Shap and other places, to be paid
STANDARD.—The occasion for reviving the Out of the funds of the company. Upwards of 200 spe-
profitless discussion of whether or not we have oh- chat constables have been sworn in at Shap, Orton, Pen-
tained the degree of roparation from the French rith, &c., to assist the police. All was peaceable at Shap
on Saturday and Sunday last, save a little
for the unauthorised conduct of a subordinate officer at
Otaheite—conduct which was reproved and punished cautioenu,l:'_.or two and it is to be hoped that every pre-
-14b.e taken to prevent disorder and riot on the
long before the Governmenta of either country next pay The magistrates are determined to pre-
could have had an opportunity of expressing any serve the peace.
opinion on the subject—is one which ought to have ADMISSION or A ROMISII CONVERT INTO THE
produced a very different result. We allude to the CHURCH OF ENOLAND.—An interesting service took
" Jubilee," as it is called, of the London Missionary I place in the new chapel, at Ellerker, in this Riding, on
allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, into commu-
Society, celebrated yesterday (its ,50th anniversary,) I Thursday, last week, in the admission of a person, pro-
it Exeter Hall. We are far from inaerisible to the fessing
innm—who attached to a arty
praiseworthy efforts which have been made nien with the Church_
aof England. The convert was a
by this Institution during its long and useful young man—Mr._l3eh
Government career; but over-much zeal is often as prejudicial to
Heov had been for some survey of the
conducting the
time in a course
a good cause as its very reverse ; and some of the 1 county of York.
speeches at a recent meeting of this society were ofincumbent of Ellerker
ofr the Rev.
of discipline and instruction, under the
G. F. Townsend, the ; and on
a character but little reconcileable with the pre- the ofe
presence the Venerable
Sinned sentiments of a body whose professed object Thursday was admitted,
into the
to preach "peace and good will," and not to holy communion of the National Church. At the con-
' Archdeacon- Wilberforce and other clergymen,
minister to the evil passions of those who elusion of the Litany, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil-
fall
within its influence. Meetings destined berforce proceeded to admit the convert into the Church
to afford an excuse for mere manifestos of of England.—Hull Packet.

PARIS CORRECTIONAL POLICE.
A young and pretty woman, named Warren, whose
manners and language indicated that she belonged to
a respectable station in society, and who indeed is the
daughter of a Lieutenant-General, appeared on Sa-
turday before the Correctional Police, to enter oppo-
sition to a judgment passed on her by default, in
1840, for swindling. She was also under a charge of
having thrown vitriol on a person named Lombard,
through motives of revenge. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner had received a good educa-
tion, but had, by her irregular life, been reduced to
distress. She afterwards contrived to interest some
influential persons in her behalf, and opened a school
in the Rue d'Astorg. She again became irregular in
her conduct, and, being forced to leave France, went
over to England, where she became governess in a
family of rank, and about eleven months back married
in that country a person of the. name of Warren.
She returned some months back to Paris, and again
commenced a life of dissipation. It was during this
period that she formed the acquaintance of M. Lom-
bard, and on his breaking off the intercourse existing
between them, threw the vitriol in his face. This
latter person deposed that he had gone to the resi-
dence of M. Poultier, the singer, who is one of his
friends, and whilst there, being called out, he found
the prisoner at the door waiting for him. He had,
he said, certainly known her before, but not suffi-
ciently to lead him to suppose that she could ever
think of revenging his breaking off his acquaintance
with her. She, however, after reproaching him
with his conduct, endeavoured to inundate him
with the vitriol, but he fortunately per-
ceived her intention in sufficient time to in a
great measure avoid the liquid. In answer to this
charge, the prisoner declared that she had purchased
the vitriol to clean the floor of her lodging, and that,
having it in her hand when speaking to M. Lombard,
the bottle by chance flew out of her hand, was dashed
against the wall, and some drops of the liquid fell on
his clothes and face. This was, however, positively
proved not to be the case. The case of swindling
was practised on a watchmaker named Legris. The
prisoner called at his shop in 1839, and asked to see
some watches for her mother, who was unwell.
Three were set aside, which she desired the watch-
maker to carry to a house in the Rue de Miromesnil,
where her mother would decide which she would
take. lle did so, and, delivering up the watches to
the prisoner to show to ',the invalid, was left in the
room by himself. Some time having elapsed, and the
lady not appearing, he began to grow uneasy, and,
going to the door, found it locked. He then disco-
vered that he had been tricked, and at last only got
out by calling to the porter from the window. A
year after he had some propositions made him by the
prisoner to repay him the value of the goods which
he had lost, but nothing came of it, as she had only
some china of little value to give him to make up his
loss. A charge of robbery was also brought against
her, but the evidence appeared inconclusive. During
the time the Court was deliberating, the prisoner ap-
peared in the greatest despair, and, throwing herself
on her knees, exclaimed, in piteous accents, " Oh,
spare me ! spare me ! I will go over to England, and
you shall never hear of me more." The Court con•
demned her to two years' imprisonment, and 50f. fine
Galignani.

A HORSE IN A CHINA SHOP.
On Thursday last, a gig and horse, in charge of a
servant of Colonel Low of Clatto, having been left
standing before Mr. David Reid's shop door while
the servant was inside executing some orders, the
horse got startled by the noise, it is said, of a wheel-
barrow which some person was rolling out of a neigh-
bouring court. He immediately darted into Mr.
Newton's stoneware shop opposite; and having broken
from his traces, left the gig at the door, in order to he
more at his freedom, and began dancing about among
the crockery. Mr. Newton having endeavoured to
stop this outrageous beast in his mad career, was soon
disposed of with his broad back on the floor. Tu-
reens he overthrew with his feet, basins he knocked
about with his nose, and he whisked the smaller art:-
cies of crockery off the counter with his tail, pricking
his ears all the while, and snorting with evident glee
and delight. Amidst all the fearful desolation
which he created, the inhuman creature, far from
feeling the pangs of remorse for his climes, seemed to
take a savage pleasure in the thing, and continued to
go-ahead, and try how much of Mr. Newton's
valuable stoneware he could destroy, knowing that
the whole was to be charged to Colonel Low's account.
Nothing so utterly lawless and wild in the dancing
dvartment as this beast's style of pirouetting arid
side-cutting was ever seen in this world, or even in
Cupar, within the memory of man. Luckily, the
finer branches in the stoneware line were in the back
room. The horse, now wishing to extend his depreda-
tions, set his face towards the quarter. Mrs. Newton,
who throughout the whole of this trying scene hail
displayed the utmost fortitude, had the pre-
sence of mind to fasten the glass door, and
to barricade it inside with the furniture as
well as she could, and then fled for safety and
for succour into a press, the door of which she kept a
little agee, in order that, if her life should be spared,
she might witness the issue of the day's eventful
transactions. In the meantime, the horse having
satisfied himself with smashing two pounds nineteen
shillings' worth of good pigs (Anglice, crockery) in
the front shop, resolved to have a shy at the elegant
china in the back room, and accordingly manfully
knocked his head through one of the panes of glass ;
but was checked in the assault by the defences skil-
fully erected by Mrs. Newton, who still maintained
her position in the press. While in this retreat she
saw the monster thrust his bleeding head and gory
locks into the room, and coolly stand and take a
vidimus of the whole premises—gazing earnestly upon
her, while he allowed the blood to flow from his reek-
ing temples into one of her most fashionable basins.
His spirits, however, being at last cooled by plentiful
phlebotomy, he was with some difficulty backed out
into the Bonny-gate. Mr. Newton does not recollect
of any customer having done so much business in his
shop in so short a space of time, and with so little
speaking.—Fifeshire Journal.