The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-01 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ........ - ........ 21414 215 215
3 per Cent. Reduced ........... .... 100% SA; 100%
3 per Cent. Consols . ................ 99%100- 1/4100 100
New 314 per Cents.. ............. ... 104 14 1041,i
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 12 3-16 1228516
India Stock .. ............ .•• 285 3-
South Sea Stock 117 117
Ditto Old Annuities
Bank Stock for Account... lO5
215 215
Consols for Account.... .......
India Stock, for Account 286 286
Exchequer Bills, LOON., 11.2 d 64 63 65 pm. 65
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred 16% 1,4 161,4
Ditto, Debentures --
%
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Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Account 29 28% 28%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted ... 591,,, N 591
' Ditto Annuities, 1855... ......
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account ...... 28% % 29
Ditto, Passive
Dittg, Deferred — 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent..........
Ditto, Account 407 1 IA 40%
Belgian 80nd5,414 per Cent — 101%
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent., Certific.... 98 6398%14
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birrnin and Gloucester. 1(X) ...122 29 27 30 281,4 128
Ditto New Shares ... 171,4 32% 32
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter ..... 70
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 •• ••• 51 50 55 53
Cal:donian :
Ca.nbridge and Lincoln 114 4 g AJA
Chester and Holyhead... 5 ...... 7 6% 6'
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Dublin and Galway 21h... . 21,4 i 2-1
D.rect Northern
1 )üblin and Belfast June 21/4 —
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 1
Eastern Counties 25 ..... 19 1814
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, so. 1.••• :35)/4 1
Ditto ditto, N 0.9
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) ...............5 ...... 12%
Ditto Extension
G eat North of England..loo ...... 152 151
Ditto New 2 —
Great Western
Ditto 14 Shares 5O lO4
Ditto, Fifths ............ 20
Bull and Selby 5O ....
Ditto 14 % Shares l 2
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
Loridon and Birminglim (Stock)... 236 235 237
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 ...... 281 28
London and Blackwall.. 16% 7
London and Brighton... 50
London and Greenwich.. 12% ll
London and S. Western. 41A; BO
Do. New consolidated Bths 6
Ditto New 2l/2 l3 123/4 131,...
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d lB7Bl/2 19
London and:York ...... .. 21,4 5l/25/- 1/63/4
Manchester and Leeds... 70 l3B 40 36 41 42
Ditto % Shares 3O .. .63 61
Midland 100
Ditto New 2 ~.... 9% 8% 9
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction . 24 ...... 68 0 67%
Neweastte and Berwick 11,4...15 15% 16% 15%
Northern and Eastern... 45
Norwich and Brandon... 8
Ditto, New Shares ... I
-- •••North British ..
Ditto New Shares 1
1
Rugby
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Binn
South Devon..
South Eastern & Dover 331,4 491
Ditto, New Shares ... 4
Ditto N 0.2.
South Wales ' 214. 5•Yi 6M...
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 214% ...
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby Scrip 2O
Ditto Extension .. ... 1q....., 131/.43/q
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... '2
Orleans and Bordeaux... '2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Great Sort h. of France... 53' — ..
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Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA
FAQIR T}l EVENING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAT.
GLOBE.—If there be a question connected with
the present condition of Ireland upon which the friends
of that country may expect to find themselves, in the
coming session of Parliament, stronger than on any
other, it is that which involves the position of the
Irish State Church in reterence to the education,
of the people. The grand error in the govern-
ment of Ireland has been the division of the
people, by English influence, into two distinct
factions, and the employment of that influence to,
support the one and oppress the other. The dividing
line was one of religion. It is, as yet, but hall
effaced ; and more than half its evil consequences I
still remain. Much may be done to ameliorate the
various collateral evils which centuries of blind and
obstinate perseverance have produced from this divi-
sion, but their source can be affected only by revert-
ing to the first great error, and abolishing, asfar at-
may be, every trace of the original division. In
doing this, it is possible that it may be necessary to
go somewhat further in concession to that portion of
the population, from which equal rights have been
hitherto withheld, than might be altogether requisite
or expedient had no previous injustice been done. It
is not our present intention to impugn the State
policy which upholds a particular form of religion
in preference to all others. That policy may be a
wise one when accompanied by as strict a regard
tojustice as will consist with it. But it ill be-
conies those who, confessing the commission of a
grievous wrong, and long perseverance in it, al
length tardily approach the task of reparation, to be
over-nice in the measure of what they yield. It may
be expected, too, that where the population of a
country have long had the just regard of government
dealt out to them with an uneven hand, confessedly
on no better ground than that the religion of the
majority was not the religion of the ruling few, there
may be something not altogether reasonable in the
tone or the de.hands of the oppressed party. It is not
to be wondered at, that those who feel the wrong are
not those who most clearly see the remedy. But let
a spirit of fairness—an open and candid purpose to
do whatever shall be found just and practicable—be
clearly displayed by those who may have to apply
the remedy, and much will be done and wisel3
done, towards making it acceptable. It may
be difficult to know how best to deal with the
relation of landlord and tenant, or with the electoral
franchise in Ireland. Both are in a bad state, and
plainly susceptible of great improvement ; but there
may still be much difference of opinion both as to
what should he done, and as to the best mode of doing
it. The position of the Irish State Church, its
undue ascendancy, and its influence in preventing
the establishment of a more just and extensive
system of education for the Catholic population of
the country, is, however, unincumbered by any similar
doubts. It is now quite time, in the estimation of
every liberal minded Englishman, that we ceased to
vi-it dissent, in any form, with civil disabilities. It
bad enough in England, but in Ireland, where it has
been productive of evils so enormous as to keep the
whole country in a constant state of agitation, almost
entirely precluding the social or political ad -
vancement of the people, it has become
'he merest madness to persevere in what is
so palpably iniquitous and mischievous. We are
glad to see thin the pressure of more imme-
diate topics of complaint does not prevent this one
from engrossing the serious attention of a most re-
spectable portion of those to whose well-directed and
disinterested exertions Ireland must, after all, chiefl.)
look for that elevation of her condition which she so
ordently desires. The present system cannot, it is
(dear, be permitted to continue ; and its overthrow,
anal the substitution of' something better suited both
nteessities of the sister kingdom and the spirit
of the itke' b matter for congratulation to the friends civil e • and religious liberty throughout the
kingdom.
sTANDARD —lt is not for us to disparage our
calling, but we must,.proo the way of caution, remind
the public of the they have lately had, that
if newspapers are som:t3.; usefulr they can be some-
times eminently misehienvioruB
affair, which jean,.
m.v,r mischievous. 'The absui.d.cal Otaheite
that
rider, was nevertheless very
.y causing an
European war, and though
peace
haceandh French
has been
avoided by the wis lons of the British nacenaaylr cha-
Governments, the price paid for
the serious agitation of the French people. as
Now,
oupposin; this matter had been fairly reported in the
frst ins'ance, is there the slightest reason to be-
lieve that a knowledge otit‘s
ut would
the ldhiave extended
beyond a few hundred people
Go-
vernment offices, or that the memory of it would
have lasted beyond a week. Let us suppose it
fairly stated, that Mr. Pritchard, a highly re-
'
spectable gentleman, who had filled the office
of Britbh Consul at the Court of Queen
Pomare, upon the forcible conquest of that
island by a French squadron, resigned his consul-
ship; and at the end of a few months from the
French conquest had become, justly or unjustly,
an object of suspicion with the French rulers
f the. place, who, in the exercise of an undoubted