The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-05 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

Tke Average Price of Brown or bluscevado Sugar, for the
week ending Oct. 1, 1844, is 325. Sid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
28th day of September, 1844.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

X. X.
Notes issued ... 25,362,830 Governmentdebt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and
bullion
Silver bullion

X 28,362,830
M. MA:
Dated the 3d day of Octot

£28,362,830
RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.
,er, 1844.

BANKING V
X.

capi-
tal
Rest 3,568,518
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,sayings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tionalDebt,and
dividend ac-
counts) 6,010,235
Other deposits 8,286,772
Seven day and
other bills 1,052,280

.£33,470,80i
M. MA
Dated the 3d day of Octol

.£33,470,805
,SHALL, Chief Cashier.
r, 1844.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

rROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We see with unfeigned satisfaction the
sort of revival which seems taking place, in the sense
of social relations between the wealthier classes in the
country and its peasantry. An instance of this will
be found in our columns in the meeting at Ongar,
addressed by Mr. Raikes Currie. We cannot,
however, dissemble to ourselves that there art
lions in the path -to a more healthy harmony
between lower and higher classes. That the
atmosphere, in some way or other, will at
length clear itself, cannot be doubted ; but that
it will clear itself without storms, we dare not pre-
dict. There is so much to readjust, after so long an
artificial regimen, and so little certainty, at any time,
amongst mankind, of vigorous measures of improve-
ment from higher quarters, and definite and moderate
views in lower ones—or rather, there is so complete a
certainty, at all crises, of more or less deficiency in
both—that, while we rejoice in the evidences of an
improved spirit, we cannot but rejoice with trem
bling. This is the way to be dubbed alarmists
—a charge for which we care very little. Those
who can view without alarm the incongruities of our
present situation, and the provocations to criticism of
that situation administered from higher quarters to
multitudes, who were never so expressly called on to
canvass their condition before—those who can look
upon all this, and remember that, whoever may stir
social questions, there are always aspiring or embit-
tered spirits in society eager, in great numbers, to
work them, and to possess the people, called to
discuss those questions, with belief in the efficacy
of only such measures as only men malcontent with
the whole order of things would propose—but which
must find a fearfully sympathetic chord in breasts
enduring hardships under that order—those who can
regard these commencements, and contemplate those
hardly to be shunneA consequences, without alarm—
shall be welcome to call us alarmists, without
ruffling our equanimity. The truth is, that
the higher order of men (we mean higher
placed socially) whom awakened feelings of social
relations prompt to express generous sentiments
to those classes which have least reason for attach-
ment to their existing state, and perhaps a little too
apt to enjoy the pleasurable novelty of their own
posture, without fully appreciating the claims and
responsibility which must ensue. We consider
Young England, in some of its abler organs, a little
in this predicament. A gentle glow of enthusiasm in
the privileged may pass by a too easy transition
into a fierce and uncontrollable fanaticism in the
unprivileged. The labouring people are little ac-
customed to excitement on social questions ; but let
them be once fairly excited on them, and we di not
think a second Coningsby, or a second Bolingbroke
(see Smythe's " Historic Fancies "), will prove their
congenial or lasting orders. For such reasons, or
under such impressions as we have slightly indicated,
what we most desiderate at the present crisis are two
things—sobriety and decision. Sobriety in the
sentiments which are now so widely ventilated on
social themes—decision, and self-sacrifice, in the
measures of practical improvement. These may be too
much for our hopes, but they are net too much for our
needs. We are deeply persuaded that sanguineness
in words, and selfishness in acts, will soon come to a
settling day. Poets and novelists may excite agree-
ably " the new generation ;" but excitement of suf-
fering men will be no poetical or imaginative matter.
Stern realities must either be soberly and unsel-
fishly dealt with by our statesmen ; or sterner
realities will spring out of that very awakening
which has now begun amongst gentlemen. Generous
sentiments are a luxury ; indolent ease is a
luxury too. The utterance of the one, and indul-
gence of the other combined—will be public ruin.
It is, therefore, we read with particular pleasure
speeches like these of Mr. Raikes Currie ; and we
entirely agree with him in regarding religion as the
great principle of social harmony. But then it must
be social religion—it must be something really bind-
ing and connecting classes. It will no longer do
to recommend religion, like cheap soup, as an excel-
lent thing for the poor. The sense of religion
must be shown in public action ; not in mere
preachments. In holding out to the peasantry the
consoling 'prospect of a future life, gentlemen must
deal with the affairs of the country, and with their
own, so as to show that their own souls are not
swallowed up in the present. Inequalities involving
miseries must be mitigated—those of style end station
excite no envy amongst the masses, because they do
not stand near enough to them. The enviers of the
se
are a rather higher class; though it mayi!ap
formerly it has happened, that the "proud
supply
's con-
tumely," as
galling those just below, may
PPlyleaders
for the more substantially suffering multitudes.
STANDARD.—We copy from the Times a long,
and not very temperate, article upon some recent
transactions in the island of Jersey. We do not pin
our faith, as it is pretty well known, upon the accu-
racy of all our Morning Contemporary's statements ;
nor are we very confident in the candour with
which it reasons, even from facts which it
states accurately. Upon the merits of the par-
ticular case referred to, therefore, we offer no
opinion. Still there is enough in the anomalous
condition of the Channel Islands to suggest a
suspicion that some great change in that condition
is required, not only for the good of the empire
generally, but for the benefit of the islanders them-
selves, and particular inquiries have led us to the
conviction that in Jersey, at least, scarcely any
change can be made which must not be an improve-
ment. We are no admirers of innovation, and
hold still, as we have always held, th

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