The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-01 00:00:00

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B dak Stock lB5
3 par Cent. Red.
3 ,er Cent. Cons.
3i p.n. Cent. Red... 1021
ew 3} per Cent....
'New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ......
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
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FUNDS.
India Stock pm
Ditto Bonds
,Ditto Old Annuities ...
{Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/. lid. 66 pm
Ditto 500/...... 66 pm
Ditto Small ...... 64 pa
Bank Stock for Acct. 18.41
India Stock for ....
Consols for Opg.
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Anstrtan, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, b per cent 'Ditto New Ditt0.........
Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, b per cent....
-Blenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent......
°Whin, 6 per cent — DiAto,Bietaffic ....•
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 224
Ditto, 1824 — IDitte, 3 per cent.... 3l
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent ll* Ditto, Deferred.... ..
Danish, 3 per sent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange .... —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent. ... IFrench, 3 per eent. —f —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 IDutch, 2% per cent. 54%
Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. 23 :
SHARES. Ditto, b per cent.... 100
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ........• 57
Ditto New Thirds (25 paid) ..... ..... ... 184
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 64%
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. ...... .
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 85
Great Western (65 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths (12 paid) ... 19%
Hull and Selby (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 pa d)
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... .. ......
London and Blackwall (16/ 13s 4d paid)
London and Birmingham (100 paid) 237
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 54
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 14%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...- lOl
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Ditto Quarter Sharon ( 2 paid) 7l
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Scares (15 paid) 2l*
Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid' 295
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) ... 29%
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .. ... 34
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ... . ... ............ 33*

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The organs of the ultra section of the
Tories begins the year with a manifesto against Sir
Robert Peel, and the Ministry of which he is the chief.
Retrospection supplies matter for reproach—" the
future' is invested with gloom, across which frightful
forms are seen to flit, inspiring apprehension of coming
calamities. " Twelve months," says the Post, " have
now rolled by since, at the close of 1842, we gave sorrow-
ing and reluctant testimony on the nature and conse-
quences of the political course which, denounced on the
hustings by Conservative candidates, had been supported
in Parliament by Conservative legislators." . .
Allowed ourselves to hope better things for the future."
But " the future"—to which the excited fears of the
Post looked forward with alternate anxiety and hope—
brought no diminution, much less a removal, of the
causes which inspired disappointment and " sorrow" in
the organ of the deceived and betrayed Tories. " When
the last session of Parliament had reached its ignomi-
nious close," the Post " took occasion to represent how
the patient expecting friends of the Government—tire
patient and suffering people who elected it"—had been
duped and injured by " the Ministry which they had
placed in office." The Pose therefore—in the name of the nu-
merous and influential section of the Tory party—proceeds
to justify the dissatisfaetiori with which that party con-
templates the policy of the Government. The ineotn-
petency of Sir Robert Peel for the post he fills is set
forth in a variety of particulars, extending to every part
of the policy of his Adn.iniseation. As a financier,
his estimates are shown to have, been erroneous. The
46 grand scheme of finance," by which the Minister
boNly undertook to restore the exhausted exchequer,
and on which he consented to rest his claims to
public confidence, has proved a failure —a source of
disappointment to the country, and a proverb of reproach
to the charlatan who, with the confidence of a quack,
propounded it as a remedy for the national maladies.
erhe " Arms Bill"—which the Ministers pressed through
feeliament with a pertinacity that indicated the irn-
portence they attached to its provisions in dealing
with the popular excitement in Ireland—that chef
dneurre of the Cabinet, is branded by the Conservative
Post as a " contemptible" measure ! The Premier's
Church-extension scheme is designated " an ingeniously-
contrived illustration of the mountain-in-labour fable ;"
while " great and important measures, as the Factory
still and the Poorlaw—measures grounded on the
actual pressing necessities of the poor —were muti-
lated, withdrawn, postponed, ' got rid of' in any way
-that temporary expediency might suggest." To the in-
difference evinced by the Government to the outbreaks
in Wales, and the consequent inefficient means em-
ployed to suppress the disturbances, and then to remove
-the dissatisfaction which had produced them—to this
-want of perception and promptitude is ascribed the in-
surrection which ensued :—" The Welsh Rebeccaite
-tumults, ostensibly originating in local grievances of a
subordinate character, were [thus] eusily inflamed to the
aspect of a semi-political rebellion." The course pursued
by the Government in dealing with discontents and corn-
emetions in Ireland, meets with the same unqualified con-
eer,,,7ation. With reference to our Indian empire, the Post
The conquest of Sinde, and the revolution and
m
massacre by which the Sikh territory has
been adr
plunged el into blood and anarchy, will not fail to
reumre
produce chang.es in the face of our empire in the East."
"It is undecided whether the Punjaub
shall continue an independent ally, or be incorporated
with our enormous rt,liatie dominions." These changes,
and the uncertainty' . in which they invest the
future with respect to India, are regarded with ap-
prehension, if not le th positive alarm. The in-
le and Spain is then alluded
ternal condition of Frans
to in terms anything but calculated to inspire re-
spect for the foreign policy of the British. Government.
Had Lord Palmerston directed that department, the
agents of France would have been detected, and their
machinations would have been defeated. No such
scenes—at once humiliating and disgraceful, would have
:been transacted. To the solemn imbecilities of Lord
Aberdeen—no match for Louis Phillippe and his Mi-
misters in statemanship—the fearful condition of Spain
is to be attributed. The Post pants for the return of Ab-
seils-dimes:a cure for the anarchy which now prevails. We
desiee the restoration of Constitutional Government, which
was overthrown with Espartero, and the consequent re-
moval ,of the foul traitors who, having acquired power by
treachery and perjury, use the child they have placed
on the throne as alternately a puppet and a tool ; and
thus insult, degrade, and endanger the monarchy they
hypocritically affected to reverence and professed a desire
-eo uphold. Louis Philippe, the ally of England, with whom
elle Government is not merely on terms of amity, but to
whom the Sovereign of this country has recently paid
a visit of friendship and interchanged cordial tokens of
roygl regard—this Prince is selected as the subject of
the c'est's vituperation ; his person insulted—his right
to the throne he fills impugned—and the speedy down-
fal of hill dynasty predicted. And all this by a Con-
servative journal ! But the fortunes of foreign nations
must not ,ilvert our attention from troubles and ca-
lamities that elict our own. Such is the exordium with
which the Post ie'etroduces a description of the condition of
the national interes:s at home, " now we are in the third
year of the officio./ and parliamentary supremacy of ' the
most able body of stettesenen whom the present generation
has seen embodied in one Cabinet." What are our gains
by their wisdom and ability ? " The English producer"
is " going headlong to beggary ;" while the condition of
the manufacturing population is not permanently im-
proved. We might continue the topics of retrospective
,condenination—of present ci%;,ssatisfaction—and of antici-
pated ruin to each of the great national interests that
were to revive and flourish under the protection and
guidance of the heaven-born Minister. To his abandon-
ment of the policy which he gave his supporters reason to
econclude would be the system of his government, is
meferred all the past, present, and predicted mischiefs
seehich have, dv, p will afflict the community.
45through the space of four columns of mourning,
hernentation and woe, the Post describes and deplores the
fail leve of the Peel Administration. The topics thus dwelt
u et fay a Tory organ, we have, on many occasions, fully
disco'' If we have not started from the same points, we
tine oncearrived at the same conclusions as our Con-
have
CmPprary. A growing dissatisfaction—the
'disappointment in some,and of a confirmed con-
product of
ters, that a change of administration, as the
viction in ot
of a change of policy, is essential to the
only assuraac,
an, 4 prosperity of the empire—pervades all
tranquillity
classes. Events ,are co-operating, with the growing dis-
satisfaction ; ana',lnclicate, most clearly, that the disrup-
tion of a Cabinet eieieounced by most and confided in by
none, is not distant.
'e a-re able to contradict, in the
STANDARD.—Vit
naost distinct and positive terms the statement put for-
ward by the Globe and Morning Chronicle, that the Cabi-
net has resolved upon the recal of Earl de Grey
word from
of
the Viceroyalty of Ireland, There is not one
truth in the story, or even a shadow of foundation for it.
The cee4leaemes in office of the Nf oble
for, Earl have eve
Lieu-
ry
reason to .be satisfied with, nay grateful the Lord
tenant of 1. "elands conduct in his arduous office, and he is
not the man to abandon his post in circumstances like
these in whit. h Ireland is now placed. The fable which
we contradict is merely one of the natural productions
of the season. The least observant reader of newspapers
knows that such .fabrications come as regularly at this
time of year as the . short days—we were going to say the
snow, but that has .n 'ot this year kept time as regularly
as the political fob. nlists. We repeat it, there is
no more truth in the stesyy than in the projected repeal
.of the corn-laws, -which We? had to contradict not many
days since. Earl De Grey Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, and will re eosin Lord aeutenant of Ireland as
long as it shall plessse him ; and we trust it will please
him to remain to 'the enjoyment of that pacific triumpi',
in laying the foul% dation of which ;le has bad so large
a share.

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Till!: CORN LAWS.
Vbe turn of the ye ar, like the turn of the road, always seems
to •000 r a new prop, ct, and men begin to think of the meeting
of PitOiament, now : no longer at a distance of months, but
LA Wlsekolmll only by d.a r, as the chief object of interest and
Asp.. ...,-14taotio.n.:;-- What IN ill be the leading feature in the new see-
,t ,1,151.-Pu'iL.,l"---,, skin?''. 'How will' I Ministers meet Parliament ; with firmness
"11-."._asked,'"ln• lut, 4,tation•,?" tare the questions which now begin to be
Z:i-,.-, . T -Tr-all. socie- ties:
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r, .<-.....,, aiiii. in lie: na 1,
.partly, no doubt, with a view to create
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\'"d %.•••--for• a ihtitit #4. " ;.v"4
s .ve ranks, and partly in order to prepare
been hn,v t„,,, , 1." In disappointment and indignation—have
see-
sloe of, Ftai,Tl
ni ~11,1111 past in, assuring ns, that the next see-
Mho tikesKSV the c meet either complete, or at least commence,
ei zirepeali, in all probability, p
posed by -Sir Rob out, maelf "No an" said the
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