The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICEF3)

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced . . 1007'
1 3 per Cent. Consols: lOOll
New 314 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 121
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ll%

Indian Stock
India Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,000/.
Bank Stock for Account 212
Consols
India Stock for Account .. 5.:,89y2
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1y1.... 63 pit!.
Ditto 500/. .... 65 pm.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUN DS.

Columbian Bonds 6 an Cent--- l4s'
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840,
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... ......361k
Dutch, 21,1 per Cent

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid . 76
Cambridge and Lincoln, 11/ paid . 21(1
Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid
... 5 47:
Direct Northern, 2% paid ... .
2,:i
I)ublin and Belfast Junction, 21/2 aid ..... .... 5
Great Southern and Western (Irelapnd),. 5 paid. 10
Cireat Western, 75 paid 166
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid ...
Hull and Selby, 50 paid
Lancastr id Cr '•

70

,;er am 10 paid ..
London and Birmingham (Stock) ... 229
London and Brighton, 50 paid
Ditto L,)an Notes, 10 paid l2l/!,
London amt South Western, 41j paid
Ditto N ow
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9,1. r aid ...... 161/(z
London and York. 21/2 paid
Lynn and Ely, OA paid 2l/2,
Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid... 86
.Newaafitie and Berwick, 11/2 paid
iV orth Kent. 23/4 paid
Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid
York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid ....
Lyons and Xvi Zion, 2 paid
Orleansan.,l Vi ,n. 2 naid.....
Paris and Orleans, 20 paid ....
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid
Strashourg and Bale, 14 paid

31;
10

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SPIIIIT of the PUBLIC •-iOURNALS.
VROM THE EVENING PAPERS• or THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The public balarAce-sheet, which will
b'., found in another column, 'will be regarded with
general satisfaction by all io whom the prosperity
of his country is a ".,cortree of satisfaction. It
not merely shows an excess of income over ex-
penditure : that miglA be the result of increased
taxation, producino:o for a time, an immense
revenue wrung fr'ain the already diminished means
of the commit. Av. The finance accounts now
before us indicate a steady increase of revenue
from those s
,ounces of taxation which rise, or fall,
according a- the trade and commerce of the country
is in a s'Atte of profitable activity or depression
The " bu,:iget" of the approaching session will be
looked ;or with no ordinary anxiety by the bulk of the '
patio.,,. The " surplus " upon the April quarter—.
whl.ch will include the saving effected by the reduction
O the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., estimated at 1,300,0001.—wi1l raise
the gross revenue at the disposal of the Government
to upwards of 3,000,0001. In what way will Sir
Robert Peel apportion the relief which this " surplus"
will enable him to afford ? The removal of the in-
come and property-tax at the expiration of the three
years for which it was originally imposed, is an
almost necessary consequence of the large surplus
remaining after the nat'onal expenditure has been
met. The contingency on which Sir Robert Peel
placed his possible application to Parliament for an
extension of the period to five years, has not arisen..
The country is, happily, in a state which does nr,t
require tits subjects to be harassed and oppress, .dam
by an impost at once inquisitorial in the n: Ide
of its assessment; unequal in the distribution e`f its
burdens ' • and oppressive, by the amount
vvldich it
wrings from the humbler classes of those engaged in
trade and professions. Had the resoure-,s of the
country been as flourishing as they no-,v are, there
would have been no pretext for the 'income-tax, to
which Sir Robert Peel flew, as by an instinctive im-
pulse, because it was a means of 'revenue of all others
the most odious in the eyes of the nation. Nor
can it be forgotten that the 'estimate which Sir Robert
Peel gave of the probable amount of the proposed in-
come-tax fell far shot of the sum it has actually
realised. His estimate of its yearly produce was
3,770,0001.; its actual produce in the past year, when
it may be fairly taken to have settled down into some-
thing like its legitimate results, is 5090,000/. ; being
an excess over the Premier's estimate of 1,420,0001.
This excess over the estimated sum it would produce,
constitutes a ground on which the nation may rest its
claim for a discontinuance of the tax. The nation
will have paid a larger sum than it was originally
proposed should be raised by means of the tax within
a given period. It has, therefore, a right—irrespec-
tive of other considerations, which tend to show that
the imposition was wholly unnecessary—to be re-
lieved from the load.
STANDARD.-IVe this day insert what we are
happy to consider the close of the correspondence
between, the Provost of Oriel and the Bishop of
Exeter. We must, however, add, that our satisfac-
tion at the termination of the correspondence, does
not arise from any disapprobation of the tone of
either of the writers ; on the other hand, the
correspondence on both sides is a model of the
style in which gentlemen and Christians ought to
treat each other when they state their differences ;
a Model which we could wish to see generally
imitated ; we rejoice that the correspondence
has terminated, solely because we must always
regard with pain any dispute between men
whom we are bound to venerate and to love.
Akin to this feeling is the satisfaction with
which we publish the first letter of the
admirable series with which we have been
honoured by our correspodent " A Provincial."
Without being Puseyites, as a Shrewsbury journal
(patronised, if not written, we believe, by Mr. Ben-
jamin Disraeli the Younger) asserts we are, we feel
that it is high time to pause in a popular agitation
when we find men proposing to carry the system of
the Church for repair to a Parliament in part con-
stituted of Socinians and other Infidels, Protestant Dis-
senters, and Roman Catholics. This, we submit, is a
warning that we may be going wrong, not in opposing
the Tractarian heresy, but in the manner of opposing
it. We wish the Church to be re-established by the
Church, not by a mixed Parliament. Let the true
friends of the Church look to the course taken by the
authorities at Oxford, and they will see that the greatest
of the Universities is nobly doing its duty in
the right way—prostrating a system of falsehood
founded on a vile fraud, by cutting away the root
of the fraud. We trust that the Bishops, who have
it completely in their power to put an end to
Tractarian preaching, and may by their just influence,
supported as they will be by the people, put an
end to Tractarian practices—we trust that the
Bishops, whose complete power to extinguish the
heresy it were gross hypocrisy to affect to doubt,
will but imitate the authorities at Oxford, and we
shall not be under the ignominious necessity of
supplicating Mr. Joseph Hume and Mr. Tom Dun-
combe, Mr. Benjamin Hawes and Mr. Benjamin
Disraeli, Mr. Dan. O'Connell and Mr. Patrick
Somers, to reform the orders of our Church. Mean-
while, let us give the Bishops time, and a calm op-
portunity to obviate the necessity of appealing to the
lay Church reformers named, and others like them.
The Oxford statute is now the great object—let all
energies be bent to carry that. If this statute fail,
.we see no resource but the terrible appeal to Par-
liament.

TnE ARMY.
(From the Limerick Chronicle, Jan. I.)
A strong troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards, under
Major Hodge, from this garrison, two companies of
the 35th depth from Nenagh, and Captain Cole's com-
pany, 15th, from Killaloe, made an extensive detour
of the country on Monday last in search of fire-arms,
in part of the disturbed district of Tipperary, includ-
ing Birdhill,
Derry, O'Brien Bridge, Keeper Hill,
Silvermines, and neighbourhood of Killaloe, accom-
panied by Lord Dunally, John Bayly, Esq:, Major
Priesticeey, K. 11., from Nenagh, with a strong police
for.
Captain Capel's company, 15th Regiment, is orde -ed
from this garrison on detachment to Newport, where
barrack accommodation has been secured. The com-
pany will march on Saturday.
First Lieutenant Lugard, Royal Engineers, in this
district, is promoted to the rank of second captain 'n
that force.

Lieut.-Colonel F. Maunsell, 85th, landed at B-
badoes, and has sailed for St. Vincent, to take
the
command of head-quarters, Major French returning
to command the depot, now in Derry. Captain
Coape, Lieuts. Keyt and Ogilvy, 85th, had relieved
the Grenadier company, 46th, under Capt. Peacock°
at Berbice, which then returned to Barbadoes head.:
quaraers.
Dep. Assist. Commis. GenerallM`Mahon, in charge
of the Commissariat at St. Lucia, has prefer. ed
charges against Lieut. King, Royal Artillery, and
Ensign Argentil, 3d West India Regiment. Lieut.
Colonel Bush, Ist West India Regiment, is ordered
from Demerara to preside at the court-martial.
The House of Assembly at Grenada presented an
address to Major Maclean, the officers, and men of
the 46th, on quitting that island for Barbadoes.
The 7th or Royal Fusiliers have embarked at
Gibraltar, in the Resistance troop-ship, for Jamaica,
to relieve the 46th Re,iiment on then West India sta-
tion, and which embarks early in spring for Canada.
Major Rawnsley's company, Royal Artillery,

marched from Athlone f
,or Dublin ( n Monday, and
will aarive on Saturde,fi next, to embark for Woolwich.
ArA detachment of r j•ap_tain Tylden's comoany, Royal
llery, will ar
a4.ve at Cork, on Saturday next,
ti
from Duncannor
A Fort. This day, an officer, ser-
geant, and 20 `zunners of Captain Tylden's company,
left Derry for Banagher, to be stationed.
The 73d, • in Dublin, expect to change quarters with
Castlebar.
theA6scothp,
apauy of the 69th is ordered from Temple-
more to Borrisokane, there to be stationed.
TYJe 66th Regiment has sent a recruiting party
fro'.n Dublin to Boyle.
Lieut. Edmund Peel, 11th or Prince Albert's Own
Tklussars, has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
Serjeant Joseph Taylor, on the staff of pensioners
in Tralee, and late quartermaster serjeant of the
depot, Ist Battalion Royal Regiment, has been pre-
sented with a medal 'and gratuity for long service
and meritorious concluct.
The Ist battalion Ist Royal Regiment Depot, Clare
Castle, have sent a recruiting party to Ennistimon,
county Clare, in place of Enniskillen.
RENzruiting parties 6th Regiment, Richmond Bar-
racks, Dublin, have marched for Castle Connell and
Newcastle, there to be stationed.
Moneygall, Borrisokane, and Newport, will only
be occupied by troops at present. The company, 35th,
at Portumna, under Lieutenat Henry and Ensign
Morton, which was under orders to join the head-
quarters at Nenagh, will remain, being counter-
manded.
A company 34th Regiment, Athlone, arrived at
Carrick-on-Shannon on Christmas-day,, from head-
quarters, and occupied bat:acks.
Major Harrison's ',!ompany of the Bth battalion
Royal Artillery, consisting of First Lieutenants
O'Connell, M'Crea., and Smyth, 3 sergeants, 2 bom-
bardiers, 48 gu_orders, 1 trumpeter, 9 women, and 13
children, e'ltnarked at Kingstown on the 27th Dec.,
on 1313°:id of her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee, for
verance to Cork, and on landing marched for Bal-
P...ncollig.
Captain Stokes' Company of the 6th battalion
Royal Artillery, consisting of First Lieut. Hon. W.
C. Yelverton, Second Lieut. Baddely, 2 sergeants, 3
corporals, 2 bombadiers, 1 farrier, 1 wheeler, 1 car-
riage smith, 1 shoeing smith, 62 gunners and drivers,
embarked at Cork, yesterday, for Bristul, en route to
Woolwich, to join head-quarters.
Royal Marine Artillery, Spike Island—A detach-
ment of one sergeant and five gunners marched from
Cork, 26th December, for Tarbert Fort, Shannon
River.
The third and last division of the 67th Regiment,
three companies, under the command of Major Orange,
consisting of 2 captains, 1 subaltern, 20 sergeants,
3 drummers, 171 rank and file, 23 women and 32
children, arrived at Kingstown from Liverpool, on
the evening of Christmas-day, were disembarked,
and proceeded by railway to Dublin, and occupy
Richmond and Island-bridge Barracks.
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.—Quartermaster General's
Office, Dublin Castle, Dec. 2, 1844. Memorandum.
—ln all marches of troops in Ireland, and in all
embarkations coastwise, or to England and Scot-
land, reports will be made to this office immediately
after the march is ended, or the troops have dis-
embarked, or have arrived at their destinations, show-
ing how the troops have been billitted or accom-
modated on board ship ; also showing whether the
marches 'were long or harassing, or whether the men
have suffered from the inclemency of the weather,
eith,..lr by land or on ship board ; also showing if the
Provisions were good. Anything extraordinary will
'oe reported. These reports will be made direct from
the officer commanding the division or detachment,
addressed to the Quartermaster. General, Dublin, by
post, and not through any 'other commanding officer ;
the object of which is that this office may be put in
possession of the required information as soon as pos-
sible after the march or voyage shall have been corn-
pleted.—By order of the Lieutenant-General com-
manding.— Signed, &c.
Major-General Turner inspected the 16th Regi-
ment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell,
and a division of the 61st Regiment, in the barrack-
square, Cork, on Friday.
Captain J. H. Rutherford, Royal Engineers, has
been allowed to retire upon full pay, after thirty-one
years' service.