The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(C

OSING PRICES)
FUNDS.

BRITISH
Beak 5t0ck...... .... ex thy 206 11
3 per Cent. Red 99%1]
3 per Cent. Cons. ..... 100%
11% per Cent. Red —
Nrw SU per 102%
New 5 per Cent —
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860....—•..•..•• 12
Oct. 1859...............
Jan. 1860..........».. 12 5-16
Indian
FOREIGN
Austrian, 5 per Cent 113
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 13%
Danish, 3 per Cent 89%
Greek, 1815, 5 per Cent —
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan per
per Ct —
Prussian Bonds. 4 per Cent —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct

Ditto Bonds £l,OOO pm.
Ditto under £l,OOO b3 pm.
ISouth Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities ...

Ditto New Annuities ...

Ei. Bills, 1,0001. I)6d ... 64 fr.n.
Ditto 5001............... 65 P,n•
Ditto 5ma11............... 65 pn.
'Bank Stock for Acct.... ::,05

Consola for Act.... ..... 100%
India Stock for Acct....

FUNDS.

Russian, 5 per Cent...» .....
Ditto, Metallic —..............
Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840... 2.%
Ditto, 1841
Ditto, 1842..»....„.»........
Ditto, 1841.............._ ....
Ditto, 3 per Cent .........
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct._
French, 5 per Cent., —s. - c
French, 3 per Cent-- —f. —c.
Exchange ..„..........» —f. —C.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto,:s per Cent ...

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 98%
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid 2%
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) .............
Direct Northern, 2% paid 2%
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland (100 paid) .... ........ ....... ...... ............
Ditto Fifths, 2 paid BO
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
York and North Midland (50 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) .... .......... 514
Orleans and Bourdeaux, I paid
earls and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid ...... ........ .. .......... -.. S
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

BURGESS V. BEAUMONT.
This was an action for services in the tuition of the
defendant's family.
The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff had
been guilty of dishonest and immoral conduct,
and was not fit to fill the situation of governess in a
gentlemen's family. To this plaintiff demurred, and
the argument came on this day.
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd appeared in support of the
demurrer, and the Court, after hearing Mr. Sergeant
Byles for the defence, resolved that the plea was bad.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FLOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL
GLOBE.—The Paris papers of Thursday last
contain extracts from the Zollvereinsblatt, the journal
of the Customs' Union, upon the new relations opened
to the German States in consequence of the termi-
nation of our treaty with Brazil. It is now no
longer doubtful that Brazil is negotiating with the
Zollverein. It is probable that Holland, who is
largely interested in the colonial trade, will join with
Brazil and the German States; and so adjust their
differential duties as to appropriate to themselves a
large portion of the Brazilian trade. Thus, our ship-
ping interest and our manufacturers will be again
sacrificed to party views, and the heterogeneous com-
mercial policy of the President of the Board of
Trade. In considering this question, it must not be
forgotten that early in last year Lord Aberdeen ad-
dressed a dispatch to our Minister at Berlin, com-
plaining of the then rumoured intention of the Zoll-
verein to increase the duties on iron ; and, generally;
of the unfriendly spirit of the Customs' Union
towards England. To this Baron Bulow replied
with no less spirit than truth. He reminded our
Foreign Minister that the British tariff was more
hostile to commerce than that of the Customs'
Union ; and instanced the articles of corn, wool, silk,
timber, &c., in proof of what he advanced. Baron
Bulow quoted and adopted the statements made in a
recent article in the Edinburgh Review, to the effect
that, "by our high duties and sliding scale, we had
made the commerce in German corn a mere specula-
tion." Baron Bulow also reminded Lord Aberdeen
that the duty on cotton velvet was "seven times
higher than any levied by the Union ;" and, in fact,
triumphantly met the complaints and expostula-
tions of our Minister by a reference to the com-
mercial policy of this country. Upon this cor-
respondence appearing in the newspapers, Lord
John Russell gave notice in the House of Com-
mons of a motion for its production. This, as ap-
pears from the reports of the debates, was postponed
from time isa time, on the ground that negotiations
were still pending, and that the correspondence was
not closed. We conclude, however, from the state-
ments in the German papers, that all negotiations
are now at an end—that the Zollverein is treating
with Brazil and Holland—and that the offer of Eng-
land to treat with the Zollverein has been repulsed.
After Baron Bulow's letter, England could only ne-
gotiate upon the principle of reducing her differential
duties on timber; a fixed duty on corn ; and an
adjustment of her silk duties. The Prussian Govern-
ment must also know that an offer of negotiation,
unless plainly and unequivocally made on this basis,
could not be sincere on the part of the present Go-
vernment. It is therefore not matter of wonder that
she has refused all further negotiation on the subject.
The English public has, however, a right to know
whether the offer to negotiate did, or did not, involve
the questions of corn, timber, and silk. If any reli-
ance can be placed,on the principles of either Sir R.
Peel or Mr. Gladstone, we conclude it must have done
so—however those principles may be hampered, in prac-
tice, by their desire to affect some consistency between
their tactics when in opposition, and their policy
in administration. But is the correspondence brought
to a close ? When Lord Aberdeen wrote to Lord
Westmoreland, Baron Bulow answered and demo-
lished the statements of his unguarded antagonist.
Baron Bulow's letter demanded a reply. Doubtless,
so active a pen as that of Mr. Gladstone has not been
quiet, but has attempted to answer the Prussian
Minister; who, at present, in common with the other
Courts of Europe, laughs at Lord Aberdeen's ridi-
culous position in this great commercial controversy.
The answer, if any has been made, could only ema-
nate—and, doubtless, one did emanate—from the
Board of Trade. When Parliament meets, the al-
most forgotten correspondence will, we presume, be
moved for, and must be forthcoming. We question,
however, whether Sir R. Peel wholly left the matter
in the hands of Lord Aberdeen and Mr. Glad-
stone. The ill-considered letter of the former—
which, of course, was sanctioned by, if it did not
originate with, the Board of Trade—would forbid
his doing this. If not, to have originated such
a correspondence is a signal instance of weakness
and folly, and deservedly exposes its authors to re-
proof and condemnation. There is, however, an in •
tertnediate hypothesis, viz., that a rejoinder was pre-
pared by the Board of Trade; but that, as it did but
involve the controversy in still further difficulties, it
was not forwarded to the Prussian Minister. As it
laid our Foreign Minister open to still more obvious
disadvantage, arid would have called forth another and
yet more damaging exposure of the inconsistency of
the British Government, it was quietly shelved. A
cooler and wore wary head than Mr. Glad-
stone's interposed; and on his advice the re-
joinder was hung up—in despair of satisfying
the metaphysical President of the Board of Trade, on
the one hand, and the plain, matter-of-fact Prussian
Minister on the ether. We hope that Lord John
Russell will, on the meeting of Parliament, take an
early opportunity of renewing his motion for the
production of the correspondence. The interests
of British manufactures and commerce are mate-
rially and deeply involved in this matter. They
have been seriously injured by the neglect of the
Government. This the
.production of the papers
will clearly show. The tariff of Sir Robert Peel is
manifestly working the destruction of British inte-
rests. The continental Powers have taken advantage
of the termination of the Brazilian treaty with this
country, and are actively negotiating for their own
benefit. They will succeed in depriving England of
the Brazil trade—that once important market for
British manufactures, and the extensive employment
fot her mercantile marine which that trade afforded.
Such Is the natural operation of the high differential
duties, which our Government, coerced by the class
interests, have determined to maintain, at all risks,
and regardless of all consequences.
STANDARD.—The month of November is gene-
we believe, a month pleasant only to the lawyers
—unless we are to except certain prowlers upon the
public, to whom lengthening of the nights is con-.
venient, whom uncharitable people might be dispostd
—but we forbear. To the lawyers, the thieves, and
Mr. Daniel O'Connell (the reader may refer him to
which class his judgment shall direct) is November
otherwise than a highly disagreeable month. But
upon none, perhaps, does this inclement season fall
"[lore heavily than the poor journalist. Campaigns
commence in sprin(r; we are therefore six months re-
moved frou: wars both a parte ante and a parte post.
"She sessions of Parliament commence about the be-
ginning of February, and end about the middle of
August; it is, therefore, too early to discuss future
measures—too late fo comment upon those already
.enacted. When to this severity of the season we
Add a continued state of peace and prosperity, we
surely place the journalist in a pitiable position
position " to move the hearts of barbarous
people and make Torn Butcher weep." There
as positively no topic of general interest at
this moment, and it would seem to demand
a fourteen-Whig-power of - mischief.—(there re
fourteen in the deficit Cabinot)—to produce
anoup2 of public calamity to create any sensa-
tion in tijs dreary month. In such a state of desti-
tution, what are we to do l'Plvond chronicling " acci-
dents and offences," except rear out thv
time in some such sport as roasting a inishop or
wrangling with brother journalists—amusens
which may be innocent, "but which are

not 'always safe, as we may sometimes
burn our fingers with the one, as is known
at Printing House-square, or come off second-
best in the other, as the Arcadian twins, the Globe
and Morning Post, are able, if they were willing, to
testify. Before proceeding to the subject which sug-
gests these remarks, let us, in candour, say a word
for this same month of November, our enemy though
it be. November is notoriously infamous for murders
and suicides, and other like crimes, but we believe the
infamy to be, in part at least, unjust. It is not that
many more crimes are committed in November,
but that the newspapers have more room for
the record of them ; and, to speak truth,
are more in want of them. Many an atrocity of great
pretensions is born to blush unseen, because com-
mitted in the heat of some important Parliamentary
discussion ; or when the eyes of men are bent upon
some anxious trial of foreign or domestic policy.
Mr. Thurtell was no doubt a distinguished Whig,
and a very eminent ruffian, but even he would pro-
bably be now forgotten, if he had not judiciously
timed the murder of his friend in the dead season.

" Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi ; sed omnes illacrimabiles
LTrguentur, ignotique longs
Norte, carent quia vate sa,cro."
In other words, the newspapers were too full to
record their achievements with the proper " penny-
a-line " emphasis and diffuseness. By the way
the " penny-a-liners" had a project of presenting
a piece of plate to Mr. Thurtell, which they, no
doubt would have carried into full effect but for an
awkward event at Hertford. We now come to the
occasion of our recurrence to the peculiarities of this
particular season. Within the last few days
most of the Opposition newspapers have given
intimation of approaching changes in the
Cabinet. The Whig-Radical organs, indeed, are
not sufficiently audacious to surmise any change
affecting the political character of the Administra-
tion ; but they amuse themselves with recasting the
parts of the Government in a new distribution of
its offices. This, besides supplying the " wicket
want" of something to write about, affords a hand-
some opportunity to insult and abuse all and each
of her Majesty's advisers in detail. The man gra-
tuitously removed from an office has proved
himself wholly unfit for it ; the man as gratui-
tously promoted to the vacant department is of
course so promoted because of his unfitness for every
other. In this way a falsehood, in itself not very
important, is made the occasion for filling a good
many columns, with nonsense to be sure, but with
nonsense that is sufficiently spiteful to gratify Whig-
Radicals, and that other section of miserahles
whom we suppose we must call Morning Postists,
since even Young England has cast them off.
Now when any of our friends ask us whether there
is any truth in these rumours of Ministerial changes,
we reply, as the truth is, that we have no direct
knowledge upon the point, but that we have
the most firm conviction, short of direct knowledge,
that there is not one word of truth in the
reports. The first ground of our conviction is the
complete harmony that, from the hour of its for-
mation, has constantly prevailed in Sir Robert
Peel's Cabinet—harmony so complete, that the
Cabinet, we have reason to believe, has not
divided as often as it has been years
in office. Our second ground of conviction is
the perfect satisfaction notoriously given by the
head of each department to all his colleagues, and,
we may add, to the country.‘ Our third and not
least weighty ground of conviction is that at which
we hinted at the commencement of this article, the
time when the reports take wing. Such reports al-
ways come over at this season with the woodcocks
and the widgeon, and come from a quarter as uncer-
tain and untraceable as that which serves for the sum-
mer abode of our feathered visitors.