The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

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THE FJJND S77(C

OSING PRICES;
FUNDS.
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Pin
Ditto under £l,OOO B3 pin
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, I,OOW. .134 d 62 ptn.
Ditto 5001...,.....«.»,. 62 pin.
Ditto 62 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct —
Consols for Act lOO3
India Stock for Acct —
I FUNDS.
Russian, 5 per
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Spanish, Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 24
Ditto, 1841..«,...«,„,»,«..
Ditto, Ditto, 1842 000000 ..••
Ditto,
Ditto, 1844.....».».„.«.....
Ditto, 9 per Cent 353(
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct...
French, 5 per —t. -c.
French, 3 per Cent....... —f. .
Exchange ....... —f. —e.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
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BRITISH
Bank Stock et div. 205%
9 per Cent. Red 99%
3 per Cent. Cons. ............ 100%
3% per Cont. Red ......
New 3% per Cent............. 102%
New 5 per Cent................
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860...............
Oct.
Jan. 1960
Indian
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FOREIGN
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Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent
Brazilian Bonds 89
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
Chllian,6 per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent —
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct 93
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct

SH,
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 69%
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) ......
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 75
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
Midland (100 paid)
North British, 5 paid ~.. 5
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid 12%
Sheffield and L incoln hire, 114 paid
south Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto. New Share,, 4 paid... ......... ............"
Trent Valley, 2 paid
York and North Midland (50 paid) —
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ...............
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 pai0........0 67%
Ditto Extens on ... .... " 01......•••• 12
Parisand Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. ZU paid ................... ......... .... 39
Rouen and Havre, 10 paid

CRIMINAL COURT-(TIIIS DAY
OLD COURT.

The morning was principally occupied in disposing of
cases of petty larceny, which were of the most unin-
teresting character.
Thomas Robinson, a sailor, aged 17, was indicted for
having, on the 30th of October, attempted to steal from
the cabin of the schooner Mary Ann, lying in the River,
a watch and chain, the property of William Gordon
Brown, a Custom-house officer, who was asleep there.
The offence was clearly proved.
The RECORDER said there could be no reason to doubt
that the prisoner was there for the purpose of com-
mitting the felony. He was a stranger on board the
vessel, and had boarded in the middle of the night. He
had no account to give why he was there, excepting that
he wanted a night's lodging.
The jury found him Guilty, and
The RECORDER, after informing him that the offence
was punishable with fifteen years' transportation, and if
transported at all, the least term was ten years, but there
was a power of mitigation; and in consideration of the
prisoner's youth, the sentence was, that he be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for one year.
Isaac Higgs, aged 28, a paper-stainer, was charged
with having assaulted Robert Collins, a City policeman,
in St. Paul's Churchyard on the night of the 21st of
October.
Mr. Wuxi/4s appeared for the defence, and said that
by his advice the prisoner threw himself on the mercy
of the Conn.
The RECORDER said that it might be as well to hear
the evidence.
The policeman having been heard,
The RECORDER, in addressing the jury, said that this
assault could scarcely be of that character contemplated
by the statute, as of "intent to do some grevious bo-
dily harm ;" but it was left to their discretion to say
whether the assault was such, or whether it was an un-
premtditated blo 3-, induced by some premature exertion
of power on the part of the constable.
The jury found him guilty of a common assault, and
he was, after a sev.•re admonition from the Bench, sent
to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard la- I
bour fur six calendar months.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FLOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE—The surplus revenue which is now at
the disposal of the Minister, is r(garded by the landed
interest as a circumstance which may be rendered
subservient to their own special advantage. The re-
peal of the malt-tax is now agitated by the land-
owners, and the aid of the farmers is invoked to
press this relief to the agricultural interests upon
the Government and the Legislature. Thus the
surplus revenue which the income-tax has wrung
from the community, and of which the agricul-
turists have paid a lesser proportion than the other
classes, is to be at once swallowed up. The removal
of a tax in which the agriculturists have an imme-
diate and special interest, and from the abolition of
which the other classes of the community would derive
only a remote and doubtful benefit, is sought to be
procured by this enormous sacrifice of the general in-
terests. We must, however, guard against miscon-
struction and misrepresentation. We should be glad to
see the malt-tax repealed, if the price to be paid for the
repeal were not exorbitant in amount and unequal in
• its distribution. The income •tax—that iniquitous
and unnecessary imposition, still oppresses the nation
by its unequally-distributed weight, and insults it by
the inquisitorial investigations into their affairs, to
which it especially subjects the merchant and the
trader. 'The coming session will compel Sir R. Peel
to develope his views and intentions respecting the
modifications or removal of this odious tax—a burden
for which, it is now made evident, there was no real
necessity; as the deficiency for which it was to provide
would have been made up from other sources. That
Sir Robert Peel would be quite willing to purchase
an extension of the term for which the income-tax
was originally imposed by a repeal of a considerable
amount of taxation, there is little doubt. The income-
tax is prolific—is collected with considerable ease—
and places at the disposal of the Minister so con-
siderable an amount of surplus revenue, on which he
can rely, that there is good reason to believe that Sir
Robert Peel would not be indisposed to relinquish the
malt tax, or any other tax of equal amount, if he
could obtain, as an equivalent, the extension or
perpetuation of the income tax. It is even probable
that he would propitiate the agriculturists, and re-
enlist them in his support, by yielding to their
wishes in this matter. For these reasons we deem
it necessary to draw the attention of the public
generally to this subject, and to state our objections
to the movement among the agriculturists to obtain
the repeal of the malt tax at the present time, and at so
great a sacrifice of the general interests of the coupe
try. If the surplus revenue—as it appears in the official
returns of the quarter and year ending October 10,
1844—be referred to, it will b 3 seen that the malt
duty is nearly equivalent to that sum. Repeal the
malt tax, and the case of the Minister in his attempts
to continue the odious income-tax is established. The
surplus revenue is swallowed up ; and, as the re-
venue for the coming year would be minus the
amount of the malt duty, the income-tax must be re-
tained to supply the deficiency thus created. The
advocates of malt tax repeal will remind us that the
abolition of a tax is not necessarily a sacrifice of
revenue. The sum remitted on one article of con-
sumption will, we shall be told, by reducing the
price of the article to the consumers, find its way
back to the Exchequer from other sources. The
consumers of beer and British spirits, having less to
pay for those articles, will be able to expend more
on other exciseable commodities • and thus the con-
sumer will be benefited, and yet the revenue
will not sustain loss. That this argument
is valid, and would, to a certain extent, be
borne out by the result, we believe, and are
willing to admit. But we must, in such a case, look
not merely to sound financial principles, but to the
general policy of the party in power. These princi-
ples were propounded by the late Ministry ; and, by
successfully opposing their practical application, Sir
Robert Peel managed to obtain the Government.
Sir Robert Peel provides for present and prospective
deficiencies in another way. his plan is to meet
financial exigences by increased taxation. The know-
ledge of this fact is sufficient to caution the public
against indulging any expectation that Sir Robert
Peel will relinquish the income tax, and repeal the
malt tax. At all events, let the former be removed
before any appeal be made to Parliament for the
abolition of the latter.
STANDARD.—WhiIe we have to lament the
apostacy of a few fops and fribbles in our own
Church, we are happy to know that we are receiving
in profitable exchange some of the elite of the Church
of Rome—men who abandon their profession not in
a thirsty pursuit of suplice services, and an admira-
tion of absurd antics; but from an inward conviction
that the faith and practices of the fallen Church are
not the faith and practices inculcated in the Gospel.
We lately mentioned the case of Mr. Macnamara—a
man
.to whom his neighbours, of all ranks and re-
ligious persuasions, give the highest character for
probity and purity of life, and who declares that he
'has been led to the studies and convictions that caused
him to abandon the Church of Rome by the beastly
immoralities of the Irish Romanist clergy, and the
protection extended to those beastly immoralities
by the Irish Romanist bishops, one of whom sought to
bribe him, Macnamara, to silence upon the point, by an
.offer of high promotion. This is not a proposition on a
pint of doctrine, upon which a man may be mistaken.
1 is evidence in the matter of fact, by a compe-
tent and an unexceptionable witness. I,Ve have
-seen no attempt
rtornananswer Mr. Macnam. ara s heavy
charge. In Ge
move," as will be seenY'b the
"the straw begins to
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peared in many of the journals of Ge h"
-ralany, and
an impression of no less than fifty thousand copies
of it has been taken from one publisher of Leipsic
in eight :days. The;Chapter of Breslau has cen-
cured the priest, who will be probably dismissed.