The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-20 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.—The accounts received in town
this morning from Windsor Castle, state that her Ma-
jesty continues in excellent health, but that her accouche-
n? ant is daily expected. Dr. Locock is in constant
attendance at the Castle.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office
ti-day at three o'clock. Previous to the assembling of
the Council, several of the Cabinet Ministers had inter-
views with Sir:Robert Peel at the Right Hon. Baronet's
residence in Whitehall-gardens.

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.:
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red lO2l Ditto New Annuities..,
New 334 per Cent 10238 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. llicl ... 73 pm.
New 5 per Cent......„ — 1 Ditto 5001' 79 pm.
Jan 1860 —
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto Small ........ ....... 79 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 — Consols for Act. ..... .... 99%
Jan. 1860 — tlndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian. 5 per Cent .. ..... . .Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — ,Russian, 5 per Cent. .... ...... 119
Chllian, 6 per Cent — .Ditto, Metallic ..... ..........
DittVilombian, 6 per Cent l4 'Spanish, 5 per Cent.... ..... —.
o, 1824 ........ ........ — Ditto, 3 'Jett Cent —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 'Ditto, Deferred — Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18::5, S per Cent — 'Exchange ...... ....... .... —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 61. X
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent ........101%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid 7l
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lOl
Ditto, New Shares, 173 id
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) '77
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 23i paid
12.,,,
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;.........
• Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,No. 1 1
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 824
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwall (16/, 13s. 4d.) 7%
London and Brighton (50 paid).
............ .....
London and Greenwich (12t. 15.5. 4d. paid) 7%
London and South Western (41/. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) 17%106
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ,
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
Midland Counties (100 paid) 99
Newcastle and Darlington Junction. 21 paid as
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (1234 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (IS paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO3
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ......
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JULY 17, 1944.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Alexander
Silver to the church and parish of Dunnottar, in the presby-
tery of Fordoun and county of Kincardine, vacant by the
transportation of the Rev. Alexander Irvine, late Minister
thereof, to the church and parish of Peterhead.
CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 19.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Birmingham—Richard Spooner, Esq., in the
room of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., deceased.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 12.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant P. T. M. Payne
to be Captain, vice. Brevet Major H. B. Mends, deceased ;
Second Lieutenant G. Drury to be First Lieutenant, vice
Payne, promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Liecestershire Regiment of Militia—Captain and Adjutant
H. F. Hawker, from the Queen's Own Tower Hamlets Regi.
sent of Militia, to be Adjutant, vice Deakin, deceased,
Id arch 22.

WHITEHALL, JULY 10.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed R. Fulford, of Exeter,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court 01
Chancery.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
E. Morton, Winchester-row, Paddington.
S. Lenox, sail-maker, Liverpool.
J. Firth, clothier, Leeds.
G. Leach, green-grocer, Bingley, Yorkshire.
J. Groom, cabinet-maker, St. Clement, Oxfordshire.
Rev. J. Williams, clerk, Grove-road, Mile-end-road.
. Greenwood, ealer in woollen-flocks Halifax, Yorkshire.
11. Rushbrook, veterinary-surgeon, Rayleigh, Essex.
C. Bampton, collar-maker, Woolwich.
E. Brown, governess, Brighton.
J. Breden, shoemaker, Liverpool.
J. Cosyn, harness-maker, Redburn, Hertfordshire,
W. E. Thomas, hair-dresser, Bristol.
J. Cherry, joiner, Stockport, Cheshire.
J. Robson, butcher, Manchester.
A. Morris, pork-butcher, Manchester.
W. Wagstaff, cabinet-maker, Liverpool.
H. Glazebrook, coach-maker, Long-lane, Bermondsey.
J. Sherwood, stationer, Carter-street, Walworth.
W. C. Fuller, green-grocer, George-street, Oxford-street.
d. Rownsley, waterman, Snaith, Yorkshire.
B. Roffe, baker, Millbrook, Bedfordshire.
C. Sewell, shoemaker, Gestingthorpe, Essex.
C. Bevil, attorney, Cambridge.
J. Lamb, deputy coal-weigher, Globe-terrace, Commercial-rd.
G. Newman, usher, Ealing, Middlesex.
J. Massey, tailor, Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
T. Fancy, licensed victualler, Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
T. Friend, cabinet-maker, Canterbury.
B. Knights, butcher, John-street, Edgeware- road.
J. M. P. Fellingham, clerk, King Ed:vard-st., Blackfriars.
W. Chubb, accountant, Bristol.
B Shaw, shipwright, Gatcombe, Gloucestershire.
IL Smith, shopman, Bowling-green-buildings, New-road.
J. burgess, jun., shoemaker, Southwold, Suffolk.
T. Sansom, baker, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
J. Cherriman, dentist, Wells-street, Marylebone.
A. Woodroffe, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk,
T. Lee, inn-keeper, Halifax, Yorkshire.
B. Twysden, Bearsted-green, Maidstone.
V. Bainbridge, jun., boot-maker, Fenchurch-street, City.
1 Mercer, carpenter, Horsemonger-lane, Soutliwark.
Burgess, Acle, Norfolk.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.-IVhen speaking on Irish questions, Lord
Lyndhurst is singularly unfortunate. Whether he ad-
dresses the House of Lords as a politician, or deliver an
opinion when presiding therein, in his judicial capacity,
the Nobleand Learned Lord is led to employ phraseology
which fails to convey the meaning he intends to express:
For instance, the Noble and Learned Lord's memorable
description of the Irish people—" aliens in blood, reli-
gion, and language," which was concise and pointed as
an epigram; meant anything but what, to ordinary ears,
the words seemed to convey. Whereas, the words the-
selves affirmed—and their connexion appeared to justify
the construction—that the Irish people had neither claim
to, nor fitness for English institutions and privileges,
which, by virtue of the Act of Union, they claimed
from the Legislature. Lord Lyndhurst subsequently
explained that the construction given to the words,
so far from being justified, was fisrced, unnatural, and
foreign from his purpose. The Noble and Learned Lord
was not, it is true, extensively successful in his at-
tempts to persuade people that the phrase had been
misunderstood. But this obstinacy in adhering to what
they asserted was the plain and obvious meaning of his
words, might arise from the proverbial power of preju-
dice—unless, indeed, the aphorism be accepted, that
language was given to man to enable him to
conceal his thoughts ;" and Lord Lyndhurst, acting
upon this principle, employed the offensive phrase to
conceal his deep affection for the Irish people, and his
earnest wish that they should enjoy privileges and
immunities in all respects equally extensive with
the other subjects
.of the United Kingdom. Then, an
observation of the Lord Chancellor, during the recent
argument before the House of Lords on the Writ
of Error has also becn the subject of a most un-
I irtunate misconstruction, which it became necessary for
Pis Lordship to set right by an elaborate exposition of
his real meaning. This the Noble and Learned Lord
did last night—with what amount of success, we leave
those who read the text and the comment upon the
words, as last night supplied by his Lordship, to deter-
mine. While Mr. Hill was pursuing his argument on
the omission of names from the special jury panel,
end explaining the manner in which the jury had been
composed, and which had been made the ground of
challenging the array by the defendants, the Lord
Chancellor interposed :--" There is no dispute about
the facts. It is clear from the record that there was a
fraudulent list; that the book was made up from that
list ; and that the panel was made out from the book."
At a subsequent period of the argument, the Lord
Chancellor observed—" The only question was, whe-
ther this was the right course of proceeding—whether
the fraud formed a ground of challenge of the array."
The Lord Chancellor has explained. But in so doing
has, to our view, rather mystified than rendered clear,
that which he conceived required elucidation. The
obvious meaning of the words his Lordship has " ex-
p'ained," was previously clear to every one who is in
the habit of taking words in their plain and obvious
sense. His Lordship states, that when he said, "It is
clear from the record that there was a fraudulent list,"
lie only meant, " It was so admitted for the purpose of
Vgal argument. It could not be denied. His statement
went to the fact that the admission was made for the
purpose of argument, and of argument only. But he
ever said, or intended to say, nor could their Lord-
ships or any other person suppose he could intend to
bay, that these facts, admitted for the purpose of argu- I
meat, were in reality true."
STANDARD.—We shall not be suspected of a wish
to limit the functions or to disparage the importance of
the public press, but we are bound to say that the tenor
of the debate upon Mr. Milner Gibson's motion last
right confirms us in the opinion we have long enter-
tained, that if ever the people of this conn try shall come
to think the press an intolerable nuisance it will be when
the public journals send roving commissions in pursuit of
grievances into-remote places, where a temporary excite •
pion t may, from any cause, exist. There is no part of Eng-
land which has not an ably conducted local press of its own,
amply supplying all the uses of a press to the
district. The conductors of this local press are men who
roust have much better means of information, and of
forming a correct judgment, than any itinerant who visits
the neighbourhood as " our own reporter," and they
must be responsible in character, which " our own re-
porter " cannot be. To what extent does it affect
the interests of a London journal, if all the
statements of its " own reporter" should be,
at the six months' end, proved absolutely false
or grossly exaggerated, as generally happens ? Mean-
while misrepresentation and encouragement of disorder
do their work. The local journals, on the other hand,
c innot dare this policy; they depend for existence upon
tlwir local character for veracity and circumspectness.
The temptation to send down " our own reporter" to any
excited quarter, is no doubt strong to vanity and not in-
considerable on the side of profit—but the practice is
naquestionably a great public evil..