The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-06 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CI
BRITISH
Bank Stock ex dlv 2Ol
3 per CcAt Red 99%
2,per cant. Cons. ..... 100
'Xs per Cont. Red
r.ew 3U per Cent. lO2
New 5 per Cent..
Long Annuities Co; expire
Jan. 1860 l2l
Oct. 11 13-16

,OSING PRICES).
FUNDS.

Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Pm.
Ditto under £l,OOO Pm•
South Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities ...

Ditto New Annwties...

Es. Bills, 1,0001. 1)4(1... (35 pm.
Ditto 5001............... 65 pro.
Ditto Small..— 65 pm.
(Bank Stock for Acct.... 7.

Jan. 1860............. 12 3-16
Indian .....

Consols for Act. lOO
India Stock for Acct....

FOREIU

FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent 101%
Brazilian; Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
Chllian, 6 per Cent 101
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent —
Mexican, 5 per Cent .....
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct —
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, S per Ct

Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Metallic .....
ipanisli, 5 per Cent., 1840 24'
Oitto, 1841
Ditto, 1842
Ditto, 1843.
Ditto 1848
•

iper Cent . ........ 35}..
Venezuela Bonds, `..), per Ct
French, 5 per Cent.... —t -c.
French, 3 per Cent.
Exchange ........ —c.
Dutch, '234 per Cent
Ditto,: per Cent

SHARES.

Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) ....... ..... .. •
5
Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... ..... ... l3
Ely and Bedford, 1 paid
...... .............. ... IX
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid ... 10X
Great Western (75 paid'
Ditto Fifths, 12 jia:,d ' 2si
Lancaster and Cs•: lisle, 10 paid
London and !touth Western (41/. 6s. 10.1. paid) 74
Lynn and e.ly, IX paid
Manctsster and Birmingham
r;itto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
).4ewcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 41 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
York and North Midland (50 paid) —
Ditto Scarhoro' Branch, 10 paid
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 79
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .....
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid '7i
earls and Orleans (20 paid) l9
Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 8%

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.

GLOBE.--The coloured man, Fraser—whose
affecting case of complicated distress and suffering,
as described by himself on an application for relief
to the magistrate at Queen-square Police-office, and
published in the newspapers, had called forth
strong sympathy, and produced a considerable
subscription for his relief—has proved to be a
heartless impostor, and his tale of woe a tissue
of falsehoods. It appears that some doubts of
Frazer's sincerity had been produced in the
mind of Mr. Bond, the magistrate, in consequence
of a letter, signed " Justitia, ' in which the writer
suggested that the party was the same who, by a
similar tale—but varied so as to show, if Fraser and
the individual he alluded to were identical, that the
representations he made were false and fraudulent—
had imposed on him some months ago. These suspi-
cions were communicated by Mr. Bond to Frazer, who
was questioned by Mr. B. as to the circumstances
mentioned in the letter. The fellow stoutly de-
nied any knowledge of the circumstances, and ad
leered to his original story. Mr. Bond observed
that he would not act upon anonymous infor-
mation, especially where the statements were
positively denied by the person accused. The pub-
lication of the proceedings has, however, brought
forth further proofs of the imposture ; and Dr. Ayton,
of Soho, yesterday put the matter beyond all doubt,
by calling at the Police-office and requesting to see
Frazer, whom he strongly suspected of being the
same fellow who three years ago endeavoured to im-
pose on him. The applicant's evasion of close ques-
tions, and refusal to give any reference to persons
who could substantiate his tale, created suspicions of
his truth, and he declined to relieve him. On Frazer's
being introduced to Dr. Ayton, the worthy Doctor
immediately recognised him as the individual who
had endeavoured to work on his sympathies. The
account, as given in the report of the pm:eedings, is
quite a scene :
"Frazer entered the hearing-room, and was imme
diately recognised by 12;r. Ayton as the person of whom
he had spoken.

" Frazer 'appeared very confused on Dr. Ayton put-
ting th.; question—' Don't you remember having paid me
a vuat at No. 1, Frith-street ?' and after much hesitation
replied that he did.
" Dr. Ayton, after repeating the story above given,
asked him if he did not say that he wanted to return to
his family at Guiana ?
" Frazer, whose confusion increased, replied that he
did not say he had got a colonial appointment there,
and added that he (Dr. Ayton) gave him nothing."
" Dr. Ayton replied he knew he had not, because he
would give no references as to the truth of his account.
He now pronounced him, in the presence of the magis-
trate, to be an impostor.
" Mr. Bond, addressing Frazer, said, he had particu-
larly pressed him as to whether he ever had any inten-
tion of going to Guiana, or had ever said so, and in an-
swer to his repeated inquiries he declared he never had.
" Frazer hung down his head.
" Mr. Bond ordered him to withdraw."
The timely detection of this impudent impostor—
who, it appears from numerous letters addressed to
the magistrate, has been levying contributions on
the charitable for some years—has prevented his
obtaining more than a small portion of the moneys
sent to the office for his use and benefit. But
we must confess our surprise that, on the full
detection of his imposture, Frazer was merely
ordered by the magistrate to withdraw. He ought
certainly to have been ordered into custody, and com-
mitted as a rogue and vagabond, if not prosecuted
as a cheat, who had obtained money under false
pretences. While distress abounds, as it does, in
this vast metropolis, it is gratifying to find that where
a case of well-authenticated suffering is brought be-
fore the public, subcriptions are usually forwarded
from different parts of town and country for its relief.
It, however, becomes the duty of those;who consent to
receive and apply such subscriptions to investigate
the cases, in order to test their truth. Such fellows
as Frazer arrest the current of benevolence, by excit-
ing doubts respecting the reality of accounts of genuine
distress. Of all impostors, those who impose on the
benevolent feelings of the charitably disposed, by tales
of pretended suffering, are, when detected, the most
deserving of punishment. We still hope that the
heartlass vagabond whose case we have alluded to will
not escape.
STANDARD.—As we anticipated, the promotion
.of Mr. Erle to the bench is made the subject of com-
plaint with that part—we rejoice to say a contempti-
bly small part—of the Conservative party who, by
their own confession, have taken their side in politics
principally with a view to make profit of their politi-
cal profession. " The Government," says the worthy
organ of this respectable band of mercenaries, "began
in Ireland with a certain Mr. Howley, who was pro-
moted for no reason that any one could find out, ex-
cept that he was a Whig. The same thing may be said
of the appointment of Mr. Erle to the bench, for,
although he is very unlike Mr. Howley in re-
spect to the public recognition of his fitness for pro-
motion in a professional sense, yet, with all deference
to him, there are several men of Conservative politics
at the bar, equally competent with him to discharge
the office ofla judge." The Government " began in
Ireland" with Mr. Sergeant Howley, and the Go-
vernment could not make a wiser, or more auspi-
cious beginning. Mr. Howley may be a Whig
for anyting we know to the contrary, or he may
be a Conservative ; he is, we know, certainly a
Roman Catholic. If, however, he is a Whig,
the Whig Goverament neglected for eleven
years the claims of a gentleman whose pro -
motion would be an honour to any party, and that
was a kind of honour of which the Whig Govern-
ment stood very much in need; we are, therefore,
inclined to suspect that Mr. Howley is not a Whig.
Be that, however, as it may, Mr. Howley's claims
upon the gratitude of the Queen's Government, whe-
ther Whig or Conservative, were the very highest
that could be offered by any man. He was for many
7ears the most hard-worked provincial judge
in Ireland, presiding at the sessions of the
most turbulent county in the island, Tipperary.
To the faithful discharge of his duty he sa-
crified
a respectable and rapidly improving
pral...Aice at the bar, and not only did he work hard,
he did his work well, according to the unanimous
'testimony of those of all parties who were the wit-
nesses to his judicial conduct. Repeatedly have we
ourselves been called upon by Conservative gentle-
men of his county to give publicity to his sessional
charges, distinguished alike by their ability and their
tendency to promote peace and the love of order in
a lawless and half-savage population ; and this has oc-
curred at a time when, under a Whig Government,
such notices were more likely to obstruct than to
advance his promotion. Now we say, observing the
distinction that we have taken above, between the
gratitude due by the Queen's Government gene-
rally, and partisan Government of any kind, that it
were a criminal neglect in any Government to over-
look such merits. Something surely is to be allowed
for services to the Queen and the country, though
these services are not rendered through any
party ? But Mr. Howley is a Roman Catholic.
Was not this a most fortunate circumstance in the
case ? Was it not a happy contingency, that at
the very time when Whigs and Repealers sought
to recruit their ranks by solemn assurances
that Roman Catholics, of all classes and
denominations and degrees of merit, were
to be proscribed and persecuted, a Roman Catholic
gentleman was found with such claims from talent,
character, and services, that by promoting him the
Conservative Ministers were in a condition to give
the lie to their incendiary calumniators? How se-
verely the blow was felt by both Whigs and. Re-
pealers, is proved by the alacrity withwh which they
united with the mercenaries in raising a clamour
against Mr. Howley's appointment to the coif.ur
We pass by with contempt the insinuated sneer
against Mr. Howley's competency. That gentle-
man's learning and talent are universally acknow-
ledged by those best qualified to judge of both, and
to judge of his pretensions. We come to Mr. Erle,
Ow competency 14 admitted! toolse it would be

as useless to dispute it in this country, whete he
is known, as to dispute Mr. nowley's Wave,-
tency in the country that has witnessed the Learned
Sergeant's oareer. But, says the organ of the mer-
cenaries, though Mr. Erle is competent, there are
others as competent. Doubtless—but would thtse
others, Mr. Erle's equals in Competency and in
standing at the bar, take the office conferred upon
him ? Would Mr. Erie himself take it, Supposing
him a Whig, were his friends in office, or likely to
come into office ? We think not. This calls for a
little explanation. According to the rule adopted of
late years, and adopted, as we are persuaded, upon
good grounds, there is no promotion of puisne judges
to the chief seats. These are usually filled by the
Attorney or Solicitor-General, as vacancies occur. A
lawyer is therefore " shelfed," according to the phrase,
when promoted to a puisne'judgeship. Nobody ever
dreamed of naming Sir William Follett, Sir
Free prick Thesiger, or their probable successor s
for the late vacancy, because every one knows
that a chiefship is the object of ambition with
a first-rate lawyer, or one who thinks himself such ;
and this object is attainable only in ordinary cases by
passing through the office of Attorney or Solicitor-
General. It is upon this ground, we presume, that Mr.
Erie did not solicit a puisne judgeship from the Whigs,
who, absit invidia, promoted some gentlemen of very in-
ferior pretensions to his ; and it is upon this ground we
say that Mr. Erie (supposing him a Whig) would
not now accept a !mime judgeship were his friends
in office, or likely to be in office. But if none
of his equals in professional competency and
standing would accept of the seat conferred upon
Mr. Erle, how was the Government Ito act ? Was
it to descend to men of inferior profession com-
petency and standing, rather than promote a poli-
tical opponent, though a very moderate politician ?
Would this be to do justice either to the country or
to the profession ? We believe that the public will
not say that it would. But the lawyers, we are told,
abstained from voting at the late London election,
from a consideration of the too great liberality of
the Government in dispensing its patronage. This is
a self-contradicted falsehood. At the late Lon-
don election the Conservative lawyers had nothing
to complain of on this head—for nearly all the legal
appointments, if not absolutely all, from Sir Robert
Peel's accession to office, has been of Conservatives,
upon this good reason, that the majority of the bar are
Conservative ; and the late Government had provided
for all their best men who would take the offices
that happened to fall vacant. The imputation cast
upon the bar by our Contemporary is not only
false, it is libellous. The members of the bar are
not political mercenaries, as the organ of the mer-
cenaries would represent them. They are indepen-
dent gentlemen, and the reason why some of them
did not vote at the late London election was, that the
election occurred in the vacation, when they were
out of town ; many of them out of the kingdom. We
hope that we have said enough upon Mr. Erie's ap-
pointment. The interests of the country are not served
by keeping alive controversy upon such subjects.

INDISPOSITION OF SIR L. SHADWELL.—The fol-
lowing notice was posted in the Vice-Chancellor's
Court this morningt—" His Honour the Vice-Chancel-
lor of England will not sit to-day, in conseqUence of in-
disposition.—Nov. 6, 1844."
STATE OF TRADE.—The accounts received by the
late arrivals from India and China, do not appear to have
made any change in our market. Yarn continues very
scarce, and exceedingly firm in price ; in goods there is
a moderate and steady demand at unaltered rates.—
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 4.—There has
been snore business doing in the market to-day, but the
prises have been considerably lower. It is a general
rent-day in Rochdale this week, of which the merchants
take advantage, as it obliges the small manufacturers to
sell. Pieces have been sold to-day at a reduction of from
2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still remains heavy.
—Manchester Guardian.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—A highly curious and inte-
resting discovery, not only to geologists, but to others
likewise, has just been made at the Pentwyn ironworks,
near Pontypool. While the workmen engaged on those
works and occupied in one of the mine levels, were pro-
ceeding with their operations, they met with a fossil tree
of very considerable size. It was found in an erect posi•
tion and perpendicular to the plane of stratification. The
circumference at the base, immediately above the point
of junction with the root is six feet, and from thence it
diminishes to four feet, in a height of about five feet.
THE MARBLE FOR THE SCOTT MONUMENT.—This
ponderous block of marble, the largest, we believe, that
has ever been brought to this country, was on Friday
brought up from Mr. Maxton's yard, Leith, to Mr.
Steel's studio, Randolph-place. The workmen of Mr.
Maxton requested to be permitted, at nine o'clock, when
the time was their own, to give a hearty pull, in order
to be the first, as they said, to set in motion the block
that was to form the statue of the illustrious author of
"Waverley," and accordingly, on Friday morning. up-
wards of one hundred of the workmen drew the large
mass from the gate, a considerable distance along the
road, amid the loudest cheers. Twenty first-rate
horses were then yoked to the truck, and, after many
painful efforts, they succeeded in putting the wheels
in motion. They proceeded along Junction-street
and up Leith-walk, followed by a crowd of per-
sons, which increased at every step. Just before coming
to Leith-street, the horses were put to their speed, and
took the steep in a gallant style, amidst the cheers of
the spectators. The hill was gained in a short time, and
the cavalcade went slowly again. When it arrived oppo-
site the monument great cheering again took place, and
the horses were put to their speed. The car arrived at
Mr. Steel's stuaio, in Randolph-place, a little after
eleven o'clock, having been about an hour in its progress
from Leith. The streets through which it passed were,
in various places, indented with the marks of the wheels.
This splendid block consists of 200 cubic feet of marble
of the purest quality, weighing upwards of twenty-five
tons, and measuring nearly ten feet in height, and from
six to seven across. The expense of conveying it from
Leith will cot be less than 504—Caledonian Mercury.

On Monday, the 4th inst., a general assembly of the
Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts,
in Trafalgar-square, when Mr. William Dyce and Mr.
William Calder Marshall were elected associates of that
nstitution.