The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-26 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

ONE CLOSING
-PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FELCES.
3 per Cent. Consols . lool'g 99%
Bank Stock for Account 215 215
Consols for Account.... ...... IOOM 993/4
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001, IlAd.
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm.
CLOSING
PRICES.
91%
15%

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds ......... ..•
Columbian, Bonds, ex Venezuela l5 14%
Danish, 3 per Cent ... 904
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
' - Ditto. Account ..... ..• ...
Ditto, Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 32% 3312 331/
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 674
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ............ ... .....
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred
Dutch, 21t; per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% 991,E
PRICES OF CLOSING
FAH). AT °NZ O'CLOCK.
II All WAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coltraine, and
I'ortrush
Birming. and Glcucesterloo
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 .....
Cal Alonian
Cara ridge and Lincoln 11,4 ...... 6% 7%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21,2
6% 74
Dublin and Galway. 2%...... 3 ... ......
Eastern Counties 25 ..... 21%%%
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....41.135. 4d ll/8
Eastern Union lO .. .
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
Dlreland) ......... .
itto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New'
Great Western BO .. . 180 181
Ditto iii Shares 5O
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fani'in,Ports. 21/4 ..
llarwich
Hull and Solby 5O
Ditto Quarter Shares 12% —
Do. Half Shares
Kentish Coast
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock) 234
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters
London and Blackwell. 161. 13s 4d. 7%...
London and Brighton.:. 50 ...... 63
London and Croydon, 131. 15:. tot. 17% 18
London a.AI S. Western 41166 10<1 791...0 80
.00. New
Loudon and Y0rk.,....•.. 21/21/2...... 37 01%7 %
Lynn and Ely
Blanchester and Leeds 73 147 145
Do. % Shares '32
Midland.— 100 143 141%
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo lOB% lO9
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 24 ...... 47/1
N •w,as,li. and Berwick 11%
144%
Newark and Sheffield 11,4 -41
North British
Do. New
North Wales
Norwich and lirandon... 10
• Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Richinondand I•Vest End
.;unction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
cuttish Midland i 1/i ••• 2i•••
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... 4% 51,4 ..,.. ..
South Devon... lO
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 43 42%
Do., No. 1 8
1)o., No. 2
n... Do~ No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales ... 2% 64
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 3%
West Cornwall ... 14. 4%
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New 8 —
York and North Midland 50 lOO 101 99% ...

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,Ditto IA Shares.. ..... . :15 -
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Do. Selby
Do, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS
Boulogne and A miens—. 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and ...
Cette ..... ... . ... ..... 2 ..4... 2304.
Great North. of France.. 4
.LyOns and Avignon..
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 181 17 Ii
t )deans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's .)
2iii 3
Pans and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ... ..
Paris and Orleans 2O 51
'Paris and Rouen
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
San:bre and-Meuse .... 2
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
.'Tours anJ Nantes, Mac-
ken zie.'s 2
Ditto, ditto, Levevres 2

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE LI-ENING PAPERS OF THIS DAI.
GLOBE.--" Pity the sorrows of a poor old man 1"
is the burden of his Grace the Duke:of Newcastle's letter
to the Stindal (1. We have transferred the document
to our own columns, as ;a curiosity of its class ; and are
impelled, by sympathy for the almost isolated state of
the noble writer, to offer a few remarks upon his
affecting appeal to the public ;in his own behalf
• With respect to the proximate matter of provoca-
,tion which prompted the Noble Duke to draw the
psn in self-de:ence, we think he has amply vindicated
himself from the imputations which were cast upon him
—if, indeed, anything more could be desired beyond the
triumphant answer which his son, the Earl of Lin-
coln, from his place in Parliament and as Chief
Commissioner of the Board of Works, made to the
ateick —responded to, as that justification of his own
and hi-3 father's conduct was, by the cordial concurrence
a the Clouse of Commons. This testimony is a volun-
tary offering at the. shrine of truth—equally due to a
political.opponent as to a political friend. We were not of
the number of the Duke of Newcastle's accusers, and
might thereforC be silent. Candour, if not a feeling of a
higher and stronger character, impels us to aid the
Noble Duke in vindicating his injured fame and feelings,
s hen ahe appeals to his countrymen of all parties
against an unfounded and unworthy accusation.
Other topics are introduced into this epistle which, if
not possessing equal claims on public sympathy, are not
wholly destitute of interest. The Duke of Newcastle
is now an old man; one of the very few now re-
maining of the Eldon school of politicians. To Lord
Eldon. in some respects, he bore a simili:ude in the
general character of his mind, aed to whom he adhered
when the majority of his associates forsook him and fled.
" Whet'. 'I began life," says the Duke of Newcastle,
!sJ Had the fairest prospects before me. In a political
s' point of view, I possessed great power." There is much
that is melancholy in the retrospect. The Duke, accord-
ing to the statement in his letter, has stood still, and
beheld most of his early associates in political life pass
into the grave ; while the few who remain have etel-
fered themselves to Le carried away by the current of
advancing opinion on questions which were, wish him,
sacred as articles of faith. He is left alone ; denuded of
his political power. and deprived of his political asso-
ciates. Though we cannot rev t the changes which
have taken place in the political institutions nod social
relations of the people to which he alludes, we can easily
understand the dreary feelings with which they are con-
templated in themselves, and in their consequences, by
one circumstanced with relation to them as the Duke
of Newcastle has been, and now is. We admit the
Noble Dillies claim to " having acted from a pure and
conscientious conviction, and with an utter disregard
of selfish consequences :—ln all the measures of which
I highly disapproved, whether Roman Catholic Emanci
ration, Reform, Ecclesiastical Commissions, old Corpo-
rations, Irish policy, Corn-laws, Free- trade, with many
. others, and more recently the Income-tax and Tarift;
Canada Corn, and National Eduction, &c., in which I
may rot have bad thie good fortune to concur with
the Minister of the day—on all occasions I have
not scrupled to disagree and oppose, whether as a
candid friend or a candid enemy ; nor can I do my
duty and abstain frem dissent, when I see such Bills
as the Jews' Disabilities Bill introduced into a Chris-
tian- Parliament, and look forward to the promised
measures which are to give a heavy blow and great
discouragement to the Protestant Church ; whilst
I'opery is to be elevated and encoursg, d, and enemies
to our faith, Heretics, Sceptics, or Infidels, are to
legislate for that Church which they abhor. Such
measures decsand the stern opposition of every Chris-
tian and every censcienti us Protestant, who must,
too plainly and fearfully perceive hew small is the
consideration or care for the Establishment, but hots
grt at for her de tallasst foes." 11 ith reference to the
policy, past and present, of those who now direct the des
fillies of this great country, the Duke mildly observes—
I am disclaimed by those who, I am compelled to
think, should be as I am." To the question, " Why,
th,tr, does lie not follow the ways of the world ?" the
Noble Doke replies, "Such ways are tot, my ways. I
could derive no satisfaction from exchanging principles for
'a expediency. ;ice like a wounded deer, I gin discounte•
s nanc-ed by the whole herd." We cease to war with the
is-e" ete e.oe stho has retired from the battle-field. Although we
ee7 r m
ta the same antagonists position to the principles
IrettVhich the Duke of Newcastle upheld when he occupied
insignificant post in the war of parties, we respect the
consistency which has marked his political career, as
a. V 'ts contrasted with that of the converts to expediency to
which he alludes, with a bitterness of feeling which their
•' desertion of him has provoked. His reproaches find an
apology in the neglect of which ho hes eloquently com-
. in the letter before us.
STANDethl.).—lt is among the earliest and most
iceportaot precautions adoptiel by the skilful defender
of a nbilitary position, to call in his troops from un-
tenable or chselesa posts, in which they would squander

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