The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-10 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES

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BRITISH FUNDS.
Beak Stock lndian Stock 283
3 per Cent. Red ....."........ 99% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent, cons. .•-•..—.. to Ditto Old Annuities •••
3A per Cent—Bed 1044 Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent lOl% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d.., 77 pm
New 5 per Cent....... .....
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small,. 77 pin
Jan 11430 IN Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1559..„....,, 1::% Consols for Act. 99%
Jan. lelio — India Stock for Acct....

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent .....
Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds ..... Prussian, 5 per Cent ........
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent,— Russian, 5 per Cent.-- .. ...
Chllian, G per Cent ............ Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per Cent
ditto, 1824 ..„..—.......... ...... Ditto, 3 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent - Ditto, Deferred 12%
Danish, 3 per tent
Greek, IS 5, 5 per Cent" — Exchange ....... —t. --c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 2% per Cent..." 61%
Peruvian, 1t25, 6 per Cent... , Ditto, 6 per Cent lOl%

SHA RE:s.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) ll3
Chester and Holyhead ( ...paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
62
Eastern Counties (*Zi paid) ;
Ditto Registered (816 s dd paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 13e 4d. paid,Ne 1 1%
Ditto ditto, paid. No 2
14
Edit.buigh and Glasgow, 51 pale
Ditto Quarter Shares (1214 paid)
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid'
Ditto Half Shares, :Xi paid ' 84
Lancaster and CarliAle, 5 paid 4%
London and Blackwall (161. 138. 4d.) iii,
Lon ion and Brighton (W paid)
Lends and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) B7
Ditto Eighths (156. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland Counties (100 paid) lOB
North British, 2% paid 2%
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid 14%
South Devon, 5 paid
5%
South Eastern and Dover (ad 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto New shares, 4 paid
,
Trent Valley, 2 paid 9)%
Yarmouth and Norwich (li. paid)
York ,:nii North Midland (50 Paid) llO%
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (4 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—In the House of Lords last evening, the
Lord Chancellor and the President of the Council had
a tilting-match, with a manifestly mutual wish to gain
a triumph at each other's cost. This is bad manage-
ment. It exhibits disunion in the Cabinet on ques-
tions of " great pith and moment ;" and occurring, as
the disagreement does, at the close of the session, will
operate mischievously during the recess. Ministers
should, for obvious reasons, keep their bickerings from
the public eye and ear. The walls of the Council
Chamber should alone be privy to their altercations.
If opinions clash in the Cabinet, the brow should be
smooth, and the temper calm, when the disputants
come forth from the Council to the Houses of Parlia-
ment to which they respectively belong. There
should be the appearance of concord within
the wall of Parliament, whatever differences
may prevail elsewhere. To see the Lord
Chancellor and the President of the Council press-
ing their discordant views upon a rave ques-
tion upon the House of Lords with pertinacity, and
even dividing against each other, is a scene that will
be associated in the public mind with dissensions in
Cabinet deliberations upon the measure ; and cannot be
contemplated withoutdiminished respect and confidence
in the Government, the members of which show so little
respect for themselves, and of confidence in each other.
The occasion which gave rise to this strange exhibi•
tion—in which it is rumoured there is more than met
the eye of the amazed beholders of the scene—was
briefly this :—The House of Commons had made an
amendment in the Bill for regulating the Irish lavv
courts. As the measure had originally stood, the ap-
pointments to certain offices had been vested if 3 the
Lord-Lieutenant. The Lords had amended the clause,
and transferred this patronage to the Judges ; but the
Commons, upon the Bill being sent down for their ap-
proval, had rejected the proposed alteration; and re-
inserted their own clause, which vested the patronage
in the Lord Lieutenant for the time being. Lord
Wharncliffe had been appointed to conduct the
conference with the Commons, and had failed to
induce the managers of the Lower House to
forego the clause they had restored, and to adopt the
alteration of the House of Lords. His Lordship moved
that the amendment of the Commons should be adopted
by the Lords. The Lord Chancellor resisted the motion;
and with considerable warmth of feeling and acerbity
of expression, declared his intention of dividing the
House upon the question. The difference of opinion
between the Lord Chancellor and his colleagues on
this question was not sudden and accidental, but
deliberate and foreseen. It involves, as will be seen,
an important principle. It exhibits the strange and
unprecedented occurrence of the highest law officer
of a government opposed upon a question per-
taining to the administration of the law by
his colleagues in office; and that opposition openly
expressed, persisted in, and carried to a division in
Parliament. Lord 11/harneliffe " was of opinion that
the patronage of certain offices in the courts of law
in Ireland should still, according to ancient usage, be
continued in the Lord Lieutenant." The Lord
Chancellor pronounced this arrangement of the
patronage of these offices as " unwise and unjust; and
as degrading towards the judges of Ireland.'
STANDARD.—The proceedings in the House of
Commons last evening would have been of little inte-
rest but for Lord John Russell's annual resume of the
offences of omission and commission of Ministers'
during the session, and the reply which it provoked
from Sir Robert Peel. In the outset of his address,
however, the Noble Lord explained with commend-