The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-22 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES)
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ... lOWA% 100%
3 per Cent. Consols ..
New 314 per Cents. IO4IA 104 M
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ll 15-16 % 11%
' Ditto 30 yc ars, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0004. ...... ......
Ditto under 1,0001. . .......
Consols for Account.... ......
India Stock, for Account 283 283
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, I%d 6l 65 pm. 69
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small •• pm. 69
Ditto Advertised 64 67 pm. 67

ONE
O'CLOCK.
89%

CLOSING
PRICES.
90
894
101
14%
901,-?2

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Sinai!
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • . ..... 101
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 14
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent... 90%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ...
Ditto, Account ...!
..
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...
Ditto, Converted
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto. Account ..... ... ......
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%% 9834
PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birming. and Gloucesterloo l3O 131 l3l
Ditto New Shares ... 171,% 33 32
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Calatl ' 5 7%1A% .....
1/4

_..iocionian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 3
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway 2%...... 31A1A
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 17%14%
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
,2
Ditto New % Shares... 2% 5
Grand Junction ...100

Ditto Half Shares 5O
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
5
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo

Ditto New _
5 —
Great Western SO ... .. 17414
Hull and Selby 5O
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock)...
Ditto 14 Shares 2
London and Blackwall.. 16% - 7N%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79

Do. consolidated 8 ths.. 16
Ditto New 2l/2 1241/2 •••
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 181,4
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and York
Lynn and Ely 2l/2
21/2 —••
ganchester and Birmin. 40

. _
Ditto Quarters
Midlandffirm andDerby.loo
Newracle and Berwick 11/2 ...... 15 141/2 ...
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 4X35%
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 39.1401/439% ..
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3 2lh Bq%U
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales
Trent Valley
West London,Old Shares 20
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..... . 31/3
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1/2 Shares .. 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto Extension ...... 114 l3 121/2
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 2
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Lyotis 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen 2O
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 -
Tours and Nantes 1

351,4

3
8
178
83/
3
17%

97/
-/S
601/2

121/s
7

43
1751 A

30%
230
28%
7%
58
10%
79,E

1211!2
18/1

6O'

14%
16%
3%

39%
15%

114
4%
19,8

51V2
43
1214,

423/
23
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DA.T. tri;

GLOBE.—The debate on the motion for inquiry into the
alleged detention and opening of Mr. Duncombe's letters at
the Post-office, terminated at an early hour this morning,
after a spirited debate. The numbers were—for the proposed
Committee, 145; against it, 240; thus giving a majority to
Ministers of 95. By refusing inquiry, the House has shown
itself far more regardful of the wishes of the Government,
than desirous of possessing the respect and confidence of the
country. With the motives which actuated the majority of
the honourable House we have no disposition to meddle. That
they were pure and disinterested, there can be no reason to
doubt. Those who compose it are all honourable gentlemen.
And yet we should be unwilling to impute to one of them,
in his individual capacity, and outside the walls of Parlia-
ment, the conduct which they have unitedly approved. To
plain, unsophisticated minds, unskilled in the logic of St.
Stephen's, the question appeared to be as simple as the prin-
ciples it involved are important. A Member of the Legis-
ture, from his place in the House, complains that his
letters have been intercepted in their passage through,
and opened at, the Post-office. The letters of other
persons had been similarly dealt with. Both Houses of Par-
liament had appointed Committees of their own to investigate
and report on the other cases ; but in the case of the com-
plaining Member, his especial case was not included in the in-
quiry nor alluded to in the report. With this he was naturally
dissatisfied; and avails himself of his privilege as a Member
of Parliament, to ask the Home Secretary whether he had
issued any warrant authorising the Post-office authorities
to detain and open his letters. That the Home Secretary
ossessed power to issued such a warrant was not denied.
That he is responsible to Parliament for the way in which
be uses that power, is beyond all doubt. The question was
one of course, and ought to have been replied to in a mono-
syllable—" Yes," or "No," as the fact might be—without
equivocation or explanation. The Home Secretary thought
proper to shroud himself within the veil of official secresv.
His oath of office would not admit of his disclosing the secrets
of hie department ! That which, under the special circum-
stances of the case and of the country, might be capable of a
good and substantial defence, becomes mysterious, and isjustly
suspected of being an arl itrary nad wanton application of a
power, the use of which can only be justified under circum-
stances of extreme peril to the peace and safety of the
country. As Mr. Chas. Buller, in the course of his admirable
speech of Thursday evening, observed :—" I certainly
think one of the most justifiable questions I could ask
any man, if I suspected him of opening my letters, would
be, Pray sir, did you open my letters ?' I don't
think that is an idle question. I conceive that a
man's letters ought not to be opened ; and that, if
he finds they have been opened, he has a right to
an explanation. No reason can be given why
there was not a Yes' or a No,' at once. Every-
thing would have gone right if the Secretary of State
for tho Home Department had been able to give a civil
answer to a plain question." By refusing to supply the re-
quired answer, Sir James Graham has surrounded himself
with suspicion ; and exposed himself to imputations which,
in private society, would be intolerable to a sensitive mind.
We can readily understand that duty may demand from
a public functionary the performance of acts from which
he would, as a private individual, instinctively recoil.
But, we apprehend, when placed in such a position, he
will be anxious to show that, in being a party to those
acts, he had no alternative. If when he is asked as to his
participation in those acts, he wriggle and twist ; admit and
retract ; and, finally, take refuge in the secresy of office—
whenever conduct such as this is exhibited by a public officer,
those who witness it will be apt to cast upon the individual
the odium of acts which might be defensible, and even praise-
worthy, if done under the imperative obligation of public
duty. Lord John Russell, in his more-than-usually ex-
cellent speech of last night, placed this part of the ques-
tion in a powerful point of view. We are persuaded, that
the Noble Lord's clearly defined distinctions will be generally
regarded as the constitutional ground on which the power
invested in the Executive can alone be allowed to rest, either
with safety to the rights or in consistency with the honour of
the country. The question, as presented to the House by
Lord John Russell, seemed really to forbid the possibility of a
negative being placed upon it. The Noble Lord's observa-
tions in condemnation of the practice of using the extra-
ordinary power—vested in the Executive for the preservation
of the public peace of this country—for the gratification of
Foreign States, were conceived in a spirit, and delivered in a
tone, which will be responded to by every man who under-
stands and appreciates the benefits and blessings which dis-
tinguish Britain from the continental states of Europe. We
feel assured that henceforth that invidious power can never
again be put in motion for purposes so base as those which
occupied the attention, and called forth the indignation of the
country in the course of the last year.

NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—Messrs. llumfrey, Butt'
Hayward, and Gurney, were sworn in this morning in the
Chancellor's private room at Westminster. Mr. Sergeant
Channell received a patent of precedence at the same time.

MARRAT INTELLIGENCE.
Prices per ton at Ca
closedZ MAtitherinilarerke•t :—Adair's Main,
165 tSel ; Buddle's West Hartlof,
3;
al6s Gd ; Carr's \Vest Hart-
iv, 16s 6d ; Hasting's Hard:, Holywell Main, 178 6d ;
IV env Tanfield, 16s 3d ; old vo'nrs l
Tanfieial: 1556 d ; Ord's Redheugh,
153 ; Old Tanficld, IGs ; ,Nvor, 198 Gd ; West Hart-
; nea J., Clark and Co., 168;
ley, 175; West Wylam, 1686 d .
13,; Hilda, 173 6d ;
Clennell, Hs ; Elm Park, 178
Eden Main, 18s 6d ; Braddyll's HetTo 18
1, s 3d ;
T•adoc, 20s ;
rs 6d ; Lambton, 205; Lumley, 188 • lan,z:r °8 31.; Hylton,
Rus-
sell's Iretton, 193 6d; Stewart's:2os4l3.°Z
Ileughall, 18s 3d ; Kelloe, 195; Leasingthorre, 1 ; Adelaide,
19s 6d ; Brown's lleanety, 18s 6d ; Evenwood 1.
198 6d ; Anthracite, 20s ; Cowpen Hartley: 1; d ; Tees,
198 -Le ws,
Merthyr, 218; Morgan's Stone, 21s 9A ; Snapethorpe, 17a 6d.
Ships arrived, 4.
(From the Loudon New Price Current of Feb. 21.)
SI:GAIL—To-day the quantity of
.West India
.Sugar sold in
private was only 120 hhds
orters , w
.hich
The isadvancate in to be tribuprice ted
is 2s to
to the
high rates asked by imp
3s per cwt.
REVINED.—To• day the Refiners appeared very desirous to
Make sales, in consequence of the measures Government pro-
pose, which appearto press hard on them. Foreign refined
m bond prices remain much the same, with a partial business
doing, and very littk of Crushed or Loaves could be purchased
for present delivery.
EAsTiliDlA.—This afternoon the market was well supplied

with Bengal Sugar; the qlsantity offered at public sale
amounted to 4,874 bags, the principal part was taken in at
high prices, and the remainder sold at an advance of 6d per
cwt; fine white fetched 68s, good 66s 6d, middling 64s to 64s
6d, low 62s 6d to 635, damp brown 45 to 495, middling sound
yellow 57s to 58s 6d, low 56s to 56s 6d. Of Madras, 4,150
bags in bond were sold at Is per cwt advance; good damp
brown fetched 28s, middling 25s to 26s 6d, low 22is to 245,
very low lis to 21s, common sound date 22s fid to 24s per cwt.
MOLASSES.-A brisk demand for West India, and an ad.
vance of is per cwt has taken place. Demerara of middling
quality fetched 223 6d to 235. At auction, 95 casks of Bengal
Treacle were taken m at 21s, buyers at 20s per cwt.
COCOA.-The market has still a dull appearance for British
Plantation, and prices going down. Of 253 bags of Grenada
at public sale, a part only found buyers; good ordinary dull
red at 41s to 425, and very low 35s per cwt. Trinidad 40s to
48s, but very little business transacted privately. Foreign
met increased attention, and an advance has taken place;
155 bags Bahia at auction were all sold at 37s 6d to 38s 6d
per cwt for fine bright red.
FOREIGN.-This afternoon at public sale, 48 pkgs of sea-
dam Bahia were only partly sold, white at 21s yellow
18s 6d to 20s, brown 14s to 18s. Privately 200 Chests of
old white Bahia, and 100 chests of ditto brown have been
sold on the spot for refining in bond at 22s and 18s per cwt.
COFFEE.-This afternoon holders of Berbice were more in-
clined to sell, but 99 casks 62 barrels at public sale were only
partly sold at a decline of 4s to 5s per cwt, low middling went
at GOs to 635, fine fine ordinary very unclean 455,
and ordinary 38s ; 120 bags Plantation Ceylon were
taken in, fine fine ordinary colory 655, and fine of li-
nary 60s; 148 barrels Rio were only partly sold, middling
colory at 50s fine fine ordinary grey 455, being cheaper;
27 bags of Mysore fetched 39s for good ordinary; 138 bags
Bahia were all taken in, fine ordinary at 30s 6d to 335, and
good ordinary 28s 6d per cwt. In good ordinary pale Ceylon
sales were madeprivately at 47s to 480 per cwt.
TEA.-Since it has become known that no alteration is to
be made in the duty on Tea, there has been a falling off in
the demand for black, and more desire has been manifested
on the part of holders to realise. Although a decline on
late rates of id to ld per lb has been submitted to for Con-
gou, buyers have been cautious in their proceedings, and a
small amount of business has been transacted by private treaty.
common at 10d to 101 d, good common 100 to I Id, but mid
coarse 111 d to is, mid and good blackish leaf Is lid to
Is 6d, fine is 7d to is 9d, Pekoe flavour Is 10d to 2s 4d,
choice and rich 2s 5d to 2s 7d per lb. A reduction of Id per
lb having been submitted to for Pouchong, occasioned the de-
mand to be excellent, and large parcels have been disposed of
at 5d to 8d per lb for low to good ord. Twankay was pur-
chased with caution, yellow leaf at 1821 d to Is 3d, brightish
leaf is 3%d to is 7d; superior and Hyson kind, is 8d;
to 2s 4d per lb. An increased demand for Hyson, an and
advance of id to 2d has taken place. Young Hyson wanted,
and is fetching full rates. Hyson Skin sold at former cur-
rency. The demand is good for Gunpowder and Imperial,
and prices continue high. The value of fine Scented Orange
Pekoe is 3s 4d to 3s 6d per lb, and little to be had. At public
sale 6,775 pkgs have been offered, and 1,900 sold.
Rti3l, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.-Prices have further
declined for Calcutta Rum, and a limited businesstmnsacted ;
the private operations are 160 hhds at is 10d proof strength.
Buyers of Demerara have operated more freely, a further
decline in prices being taken : the sales are 150
puncheons 30 hogsheads, 33 to 41 per cent 0 P
at 3s, and hogsheads at 3s ld per gallon. In Leewarde
scarcely any business done, to 2. to 28 ld for proof strength.
Fine and very fine Jamaica wanted, and are fetching stiff
rates, but the market is in a very dull state for low and mid
kinds ; 21 to 26 0 P 3s 3d to 3s sd, 26 to 29 0 P 3s 5d to 3s
3d, 30 to 36 0 P 3s 7d to 4s, fine 31 to 36 0 P 4s 6d to
ss, and superior and high flavoured 5s 4d to 7s per gallon.
The business done in Brandy has been extremely limited,
mid a further decline has taken place ; Cognac, best brands
of the vintage of 1838, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; 1839, hhds 4s
9d, puns 4s 7d ; 1840, hhds 4s 9d, puns 48 7d ; 1841, hhds
4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; 1842, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d ; 1843, hhds
4s 3d, puns 4s Id, common 2s 7d to 2s 10d, mid to good mid
2s lld to 3s 10d, and Bordeaux 2s 6d to 2s 9d per gallon.
Geneva sparingly at is 9d, home consumption sort at 2s 4d to
3s. The market is still firm for British Corn Spirits at 10s 2d
per gallon, cash.
RICE.-For Bengal 'previous rates are sustained, some
parcels of mid and good mid white sold privately at Ila to
lls 6d, but at auction 820 bags were taken in at lls 6d to 12s
for good mid. Madras wanted, and prices are advancing.
Java sought after, and stiffer rates paid, privately. 600 Mats
of good mid white were sold at 11s, and 300 bags at 9s 6d per
cwt. Cleaned Rice a good sale, and prices are firm at 13s 6d to
17 for Patna, and 23s to 28s per cwt for Carolina.
• SricEs.-This afternoon at public sale 10 cases Singapore
Mace sold at 2s 8d to 3s ld for good, and 23 3d to 23 ad for
middling ; 3 cks 6 cs Nutmegs fetched full value-good
brown 3s 10d to 4s, good mid 3s 5d to 3s Bd, mid 33 2d to
3s 4d, and rather small 3s ld. Pepper met little attention,
409 bags of Malabar, and 635 bags Sumatra were offered at
public sale-the former all withdrawn, and the latter take%
in at 2%d for light stalky ; 5 casks Amboyna Cloves taken
in at is 21(.1 to is 3d for fair, 48 bags of Bourbon at 10d per lb,
and 936 bags of East India Ginger at 18s per cwt for Bengal
and Malabar. Pimento wanted, and 400 bags at auction
fetchedstiffer rates-mid 3d to 3%d, and low mid 2%d tend.
TALLow.-Prices have a downward tendency for Russian
Tallow, and on the spot 39s 3d to 39s 6d having been ac-
cepted for P Y Candle of first quality, and 37s to 393 per cwt
for inferior kinds. The best quality .for the last three months
of the year at 398 3d to 39s 6d per cwt, but buyers operate
with reluctance. Town Tallow 39s 6d to 40s nett cash, but
buyers operate largely, and the market is nearly cleared.
American and New South Wales holders are compelled to
reduce their prices.
OILS.-This afternoon at public sale 426 pkgs of South
American Tallow were only a part sold at 36s 3d to 38s, low
32s 6d to 36s ; 108 casks of North American 358 9d to 398 3d,
and 44 casks of New South Wales at 38s to 40s per cwt. '
_

INDIGO.--For Madras a further advance on the rates of the
last quarterly sales of 2d to 3d per lb—the sorts most in re-
quest are those at and under 2s 10d per lb. Bengal pur-
chases to a fair extent have been made at 2d per lb advance.
The market has a very firm appearance fur every kind of
East India. Spanish in fair request upon former terms.
COCHINEAL—This afternoon at public sale 100 cs of Cam-
phor went at 61 5s ; 185 chests of Shellac taken in, thick
blood 40s, block 38s ; 1,357 packets of Bengal Turmeric
were sold at 13s for good ; 58 tons of Sapan Wood 151 to
151 17s 6d; 15 tons of Red Sanders Wood 51 12s 6d to 5115 s ;
215 bags Pegue Cutch taken in at 22s per cwt.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES
ON RAILWAYS.
The Committee, after hearing formal evidence, decided that
the Standing Orders had bean complied with in the following
Bills :
The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal.
Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway.
In the case of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,
opposition was offered, on the part of the Duke of Montrose,
by Mr. Deans, on the ground that the description of the line
was not accurate. No witnesses, however, were forthcoming
in support of this allegation, and it, consequently, fell to the
ground.
Mr. DEANS then took an objection to the petition, in con-
sequence of an omission in the plan of a description of the
radius of a curve. The Committee referred to the plan in
question, and the omission appearing, the question was
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
As it was stated that there would be great opposition to
this petition, the Committee postponed it till Monday.
The Committee then adjourned.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
eap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day of
February, 1845.