The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1844.

the labourer :was housed, fed, and clothud, with the
treatment bestowed upon their animals, and then to
answer •to the public and to themselves why the condi-
tion of those unfortunate persons had been overlooked."
En arguing upon the impossibility of not rererring
the Ptr,:wities of incendiarism to some such causes as

these, Mr. GIBSON showed that they could not be re-
ferred to the detestation with which so large a portion
of the labouring community regard the New Poor-
law; for similar crimes had prevailed (to a yet
greater extent even) under the Old Poor-law. When
it was considered how large a share of the labours of
legislation were devoted to moral and religious pro-
vision, as the House was told, for the rural and
agricultural population—what stress was laid, always,
on the necessity for keeping up a system, on their
account and behalf, of the most extensive pastoral
superintendence and church accommodation—it was
difficult to disbelieve that they could be actuated in
the commission of these incendiary enormities by any
feeling short of a sense of personal wrong, and
neglect, and injury, at the hands of their employers.
It was not to be credited, under such
circumstances, that any increase of the number of
churches, any additions to the body of the clergy, in
these districts ; or any legislative enactments artifi-
cially to raise the price of bread, would put down this
unhappy feeling, or prevent these infamous outrages,
if something more were not done to relieve the physical
distresses of the poor. For these, and other reasons,
the Hon. Mentber prayed the House to affirm his
motion.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM could not imagine, he said,
what could be the motive of Mr. GIBSON for bring-
ing forward such a subject. " Why had he thought it
his duty to state that the interests and comforts of
the poorer classes were neglected by that House ?
He begged to remind the House that there was such a
thing as fanning a smouldering flame."
The Right Hon. Baronet next schooled Mr. GinsoN
for playing truant from the school of St. Stephens's by
a short parenthetical trip into the country :
" The Hon. Gentleman, wishing to seek enjoyment,
had been absent while the other Members of the House
had been discharging their duty as legislators, en-
deavouring with the most earnest attention to devise
some means by which the misfortunes of their poorer
fellow-subjects might be ameliorated. But what was
the meaning of the comparison the Hon. Gentleman had
instituted l4etw•een the poor of this country and the abori-
gines—Hottentots. Caifres, and Esquimaux ? (A laugh.)
What was the meaning of the Hon. Gentleman's obser-
vations as to the selfishness and cold-hearted disposition
of the landlords ?"

But the vial of the Home Secretary's wrath was
poured out on the head of the Hon. and Rev. Mr-
OSBORNE. Mr. Ginsori observed he was a most excel-
lent man,—a distinguished clergyman.
" Sir J. Graham—A rev. clergyman ! He entertained
the highest respect for the clergy of this country ; but,
even among the most humane members of that body,
there were some indiscreet individuals. Nay, there was
such a thing as a popularity-hunting parson, just as there
were agitating Members of Parliament.—(A laugh.)"
Now, in this evasive, timid, hushing policy of which
Sir JAMES is so admirable an expositor, lies the fatal
vice of the present Government's legislation on great
social questions. The night and the day are equally
frighted by hideous spectacles of ruin in blazing home-
s teds and desolated farm-houses. Grain, cattle, furniture,
personal property of all kinds, live stock (and not sel-
dom human life), perish with awful frequency in these
devouring visitations, by the abominable crimes of the
cowardly incendiary. Yet Sir J. GRAHAM and others
would have us remain quiet ; not as we verily believe,
because of a perceptible decrease in the number of
calamities, but because he would not willingly find
Commissioners of Inquiry reporting to Parliament,
that want and misery—low wages and dear bread—
were at the bottom of their sufferings by whose ven-
geance it is surmised that these horrors are perpe.
trated ; or that cheap bread (which it is the duty
of the Legislature to give them) and higher wages
(from the necessity for giving which neither master
manufacturers nor master farmers, nor farmers' land-
lords, should be allowed to excuse themselves on the
plea of bread being cheap) would touch the:very root
of the evil ; and establish the hopeful reign of peace
and plenty, in place of the baneful dominion of famine
and despair!

The accounts from Spain are of a distressing cha-
racter. About six years ago General ESTELLER had
been killed in a popular tumult at Saragossa, and
little notice had been taken of the unfortunate event

till within a few weeks, when the Captain-General of
Aragon ordered Don F. LAGUNAS, formerly Com-
mander of the National Guards of Saragossa, and
two other citizens, to be tried for the offence. They
were tried and condemned, and they were shot on
the evening of the 10th in the square of San Fran-
cisco. The execution had excited the utmost indig-
nation and horror. Many of the inhabitants left the
city in order to avoid such a painful spectacle, and
so threatening was the appearance of the population,
that the General in command had declared Saragossa
in a state of siege, that is, proclaimed martial law.
If we are to judge from the acts of the Government,
the state of Madrid was by no means satisfactory.
The streets are patrolled every night by strong bodies
of troops, and the .reason given for this display is, li
that a dangerous plot had been formed against the
Government, and various depots of arms discovered
by the police.
The Funds, however, continued to advance. On
the 12th, the Three per Cents. closed at 274 at GO
days, and the Fives at 21 for cash.

The French Government on Thursday received the
following telegraphic dispatches :

"BAYONNE, JULY 18.
"His Royal Highness Prince de Joinville arrived in the
roads of Gibraltar on the evening of the Bth, on board the
Pluton steamer. His Royal Highness proceeded to Tangiers
on the 9th, and in the evening, on his return, paid a visit to
the Governor-General. He was received with the utmost
distinction by the authorities of the town of Gibraltar, and by
the inhabitants who crowded around him."
"TANGIERS, JULY 10.

"A letter from the Paella of Larache declares, in the name
of the Emperor, that the Prince disavows formally the ag-
gression of the 15th of June, and that he has ordered his son
to expel the guilty from the ranks of the army, by dismissing
the principal chiefs."

Some of the Paris journals that should be best in-
. formed, take a different view of the question, and
infer from the repeated attacks of the Moorish troops
that the affair cannot be settled peaceably. The
Journal des Debats, on referring to the skirmish on
the 3d instant, says :—" This battle, of little conse-
quence in itself, acquires much importance from the
circumstances with which it is attended. It is no
longer the pacific EL GUENAOUI who holds the
command at Ouchda, but HAMIDA, the Kaid who
has long shown himself to be our determined
enemy, and is the devoted friend of ARD-EL-KADER.
The chief command of the Morocco troops
is given to the Cherif SIDI EL MAMOUN, of the Royal
family—he who has already made two attacks upon
us. The Algerian tribes who have emigrated, and
who at first treated humbly with us for pardon and
permission to return, now confidently brave us. See-
ing what is passing in the interior of Morocco, and
the great preparations for war being made, they con-
clude that the French must be driven out of Algeria.
In fine, ARD...ELKADER, who, in the two preceding
conflicts had been kept aloof by the prudence of EL
GUENAOUI, now marches openly with the Cherif EL
MAMOUN, who thus affects to make common cause
with the inveterate enemy of France. It has become
impossible to appreciate the disposition of the Court
of Morocco, or comprehend its conduct. If it really
wishes_ for peace, if it be in spite of it that its soldiers
made the htizekalpon us on May 30, how happens it
that thirty-four days-attgav .the. same act of aggression
should be renewed, and that Morom4 should assume
a general warlike attitude ? We repeat, that -,rfQ are
at a loss as to what judgment to form of the future
intentions of AND-EL..RHAMAN and his Ministers."
The-Con,stitutionnel also views the affair in a seri-
ous light. " The Moors," it says, " whom Marshal
BUGEAUD thought he had completely dispersed, have
again appeared before our troops, and forced them
into •yombat. ABD-EL-KADER, who was represented
as proscribed and a fugitive, was in the midst of the
Moors, exercising them in this war, which consists
in fatiguing the enemy, without themselves entering
on a decisive struggle, flying when the adverse party
is too strong, and seizing on some occasion to cause
them loss' and- cut off some heads. At the first offen-
sive demonstration made by our troops, the Moors
took to flight, without doubt to return at the voice of
the indefatigable EMIR. This skirmish took place on
tha territory of Morocco, in the neighbourhood of
Ouchda. Whilst ABD•EL-KADER was thus keeping
up hostilities between the tribes of Morocco and the
Frohph troops, the report has been current that a
fiC arrawrgefit has taken place between the pl.
_tijaArico- was ready to be can-
rEROR and Iran,
k NOLA apnts, I
eluded, thanks to the medium. -

The situation has scarcely changed, as may be seen.
An-DEL RHAMAN is opposed to the war, and his sub-
jects are waging it. he conditions of the peace
will be easily obtained; it is in the execution that
lies al; the difficulty. For the last point, there is
perhaps no other negotiator possible than the cannon."

Indeed, it is not at all improbable that operations
against Tangiers have already commenced. The
Prince de JOINVILLE had visited that place on the
9th, probably to deliver the ultimatum of the French
Government, which, in addition to the conditions
relative to the expulsion of ADD-EL-KADER, was
understood to make a demand of 100,000,000 francs
and 1,000 horses, as an indemnity for the expenses of
the war.

A letter from Oran, July 6, contains the follow-
ing announcement :
"At the moment at which I write, the Suffren, the Jem-
mapes, and the Triton ships-of-the-line, the Belle Poule
frigate, and the Asmodee, Gassendi, Veloce, and Pluton
steamers, are preparing to raise anchor. The squadron will
sail to-day for Tangiers. The Spanish war-steamer, the
Isabel, on her return from Melilla, where she took troops,
has put in to our port. An extraordinary movement reigns
here."

These warlike preparations caused a slight depres-
sion of the French Funds on Thursday. No business
of any importance was transacted in the Chambers
either on Wednesday or Thursday. On the latter
day M. CHARLES LAFITTE took the oaths and his seat
for Louviers in the Chamber of Deputies.

THE BOURSE—THURSDAY, JULY 18.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
Frenchßank
perez.nts•• •••• 121 90 .. 121 90 121 80 .. 121 85
per Cents.• ••• 82 82 05 .. 81 95 .. 82
••.•••• • • .• • 3057 50 ..3057 50 • • 3055 ..3055
o f Three
F Five
r n e
Laffittc Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o • • 1120 ..1120 .. 1120
5,000 f. Sharesso6s ..5065 ..5065 —5065
Belgian Bank .. •••••• • • • • • • 675 • • 675 . • 670 .. 670
Belgian Fives, 1831.. ••.• • • • 104 • • 104 .. 104 • • 104
1840 •••• • • • • 1051 .. 1051 • . 1051 • . 1051
1842 •••••••• 168; .. 108 k .. 1081 1081
Spanish Threes • • ...... •• • • 33 .. 33 .. 33 .. 33
Active
Pa55ive................ 51 .. .. 51
Portuguese Five per Cents • . 441 • . 441 .. 44 .. 44
Neapolitan. ..... •••• • • • • • 99 • • 99 05 .. 99 .. 99
Boman

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.... • .
L.B 246 25 .. 248 75 .. 246 25 .. 247 50
Rouen ••••.•........
Rouen to Havre•• 766 25 .. 766 25 .. 763 75 .. 763 75
Orleans ..........• •• - • •
Strasburg to Bale• 240 .. 240 .. 238 75 .. 238 75
Avignon to Marseilles-- 767 50 .. 767 50 . 767 50 .. 767 50
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31st OF JULY.
Versailles, R. B.
L.B.••••-••••••• •• •• 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 247 50
Rouen•• 985 .. 985 .. 985 .. 955
Rouen to Havre,,••• • •••-• 763 75 .. 766 25 .. 765 75 .. 763 75
Orleans •...
Strasburg to 8a1e•......... 238 75 •. 240 .. 238 75 .. 240

Tire NELSON MONUMENT.—We are glad to- find
that the Lords of the Treasury have, at last, an-
nounced their intention of recommending to Parlia-
ment a grant of money for the completion of the
monument to the greatest of naval heroes. In a
Treasury minute, dated July 5, 1844, they state, as
there is no probability that any additional sum can
be expected from the present contributors ; and as
the monument has been erected with the full consent
and approbation of the Government, in the centre of
a square, on the embellishment of which so large a
sum has been expended, it would not be consistent
with what their Lordships feel to be due
to the memory of such a man, if they were to p?rmit
the monument to remain in its present unfinished
and unsightly state. It appears that the total sum
required for the completion of the work is 12,095/.,
namely, for granite steps, 3,095/. ; four commemorative
subjects in bronze, 4,000/. ; four lions, 3,000/., and
architect's commission, 2,0001. The Lords of the
Treasury recommend a vote of 8,000/., which, with
the subscriptions in hand, will be sufficient for the
purpose.

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There was no change in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday.
Sales 5,000 bales.—Shares were less buoyant. Birmingham
and Gloucester, 98/ ; Eastern Counties, 12A ; Eastern Coun-
ties Registered, 14; Great Western, Half, 80; London and
Birmingham, 223 ; Ditto 321. Shares, 46/ ; Ditto Quarter
Shares, 26A ; North Union, 124 A ; Sheffield and Manchester,
76 ; South Eastern, 36/ Ditto Scrip, 11A ; Trent Valley, 81 ;
Lyons and Avignon, U. 195.; Paris and Lyons, 2 9-20.
The following results are elicited by a comparison of the
present return of the Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of
England as compared with the former official expose:—
Circulation, Last time £21,327,000
- Now, 21,246,000

81,000
Deposits, Now
Last time

Decrei4

Increase

494,000
Securities, Now
Last time 21,916,000

Increase ......

555,000
Bullion, Last time
Now ....... ...... 15,767,000

Decrease £133,000

It seems that the dissentients to the plan for the conver
sion of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are to be punished
for their fractiousness. They will have the income-tax de-
ducted from their October dividends. Those wilts assented
are relieved from the impost.
The commercial advices from the West Indies received
this morning are not of any importance. The amount of
the precious metals brought by the Forth isnot by any meaas
so considerable as by the Thames, but which, in fact, con-
veyed a larger sum in bullion, gold dust, &c., than was ever
before placed upon record. The weather was fine in most
of the West India Islands.

The mercantile _letters from- the Brazils are not of
much interest. Many are the complaints of the want
of liberality on the part of ' the British Government
in not conceding points in favour of a more free inter-
course of manufactures and products between each coun-
try. "It is scarcely possible (says a Correspondent) to
limit the requirements of this country (Brazil) for British
goods, if you will take our sugar upon more liberal terms
than are imposed at present."
From Hayti, we learn that affairs remained in as bad a
state as ever. Anarchy and confusion was the order of the
day. The dates are much later than those received before.
Several ships of war had been ordered to the spot to protect
British subjects and property. At Cuba affairs too are in a
bad state; several British subjects had been imprisoned for
alleged political offences.
This was pay-day in the Consol Market. We have not
heard of any failures. Consols for the Account, as well as
for Money, have just been quoted at an advance to 998.
Exchequer Bills are at 76,5. 78s. premium ; India Bonds are
at 955. premium ; Bank Stock is at 1998 ; and the Reduced
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 104.
Business has been brisk in the Foreign Market, but the
quotations are about the same as yesterday. Spanish Three
per Cents. are at 354 4 ; Portuguese for the Account at 45/ ;
Russian at 119 ; and Mexican at 354.
The demand for the Railway Shares has improved, and so
have most of the prices, as our corrected list will show.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 19.—Our market
continues firm, but owing-to the scarcity of stock business
has been limited. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63; Ditto,
Quarters, 154 ; Sheffield and 'Manchester, 754 ; Ditto,
Quarters, 108- to 8 ; South-Eastern, 36k; Huddersfield and
Manchester, 18s. 9d.

• CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 19954 Indian Stock
3 per Cent. Red lOO% Ditto Bonds 95 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. .. .......... 994 Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red ............ 102 S Ditto New Annuities
New 3% per Cent...... ...... 10'2% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. l%d
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ... .. .
Jan 1080 — Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 — Consols for Act.... ... 99%
Jan. Pm ..... ... , - India Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... .... ,Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent lO l% Ditto, New Ditto.... ...... —..—
Brazilian Bonds . .... . ...
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 'Russian, 5 per Cent. .... ll9
Chllian, 0 per Cent ... ....... .. ;Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 14 ;Spanish, 5 per Cent..., .......
Ditto, 1824 ......... ........ .. ..... Ditto, 9 per Cent ... ........
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — (Ditto, Deferred...........«.. ..
Danish, 3 per Lent — ;French, 5 per Cent.......121t. 50c.
Greek, 18Z, 5 per Cent — 'Exchange ......... ..... .... —0 —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — ,Dutch, 2)4 per Cent 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 5 per Cent lOl%

SHA RES
Birmingham and Derby, .£lOO paid 7l
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid. lOl
Ditto, New Shares, 173 paid
Bristol and Exeter (70paid)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid 4%
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ;. l2
Ditto Registered (8/6s Bcl paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 44:1. paid,Ns. 1 1
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto 'Slew Shares ( 5 paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 82%
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
71
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.)
London and Brighton (50 paid) .. ... .................
London and Greenwich (121. 15$. 4d. Paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) .. .............
134
London and Croydon (Trunk)...
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .....................
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid. ..... ..
Midland Counties (100 paid) .................. ,
Newcastle and Darlingron JUIICgOII. 21 paid 3B
Northern and Easters, (45 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (123 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid ll
,
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....« 37
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO6
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ......
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .._.......... ........ .
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The Court of
Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons for England, at
Lincoln's Inn, after a deliberate examination, have admitted,
on last night, as members of the College, the following gen-
tlemen, namely, John Lowry, Esq., of the town of Tipperary,
Ireland; Mr. William Heathcoate Snape, of Gray's Inn
Hospital ; Mr. 'William Browne, of Russell-place, fitzroy
square ; Mr. Josephus Septimus Green, of Haughton ; '3lr.
Henry Smyth Palmer, of Mortlake, Surrey ; Mr. Edward W.
Woodstock, of Caythorpe ; Mr. Francis'Berrington, Croydon ;
Mr. Edmiard W. Bowman, Calcutta, East Indies ; Mr. Peter
Pemel, Canterbury ; Mr. Fortescue J. Morgan, Whitechurch ;
Mr. John Postage, Scarborough ; and Mr. Charles M. Aldage,
Witham. There were six candidates rejected en the occasion.
THE MISSING JURY LISTS.—A person who filled
a subordinate situation in the office of the Clerk of the Peace
when the jury lists were mislaid has been appointed to a
situation in the Castle worth 3001. a year ! Can it be at all
possible that this gentleman could afford any information
with reference to the missing lists P—Freeman's Journal.
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—The parishioners
of St. Paul, Shadwell, dined together on Thursday to corn-
Memorate the 145th anniversary of their charity schools,
w4,en occasion was taken to present their rector, about to
Te'sin the living which he had held upwards of 30 years,
with 4 Wry haplsoule iifre • i