The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-04 00:00:00

TIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, :844.

the law which would enable a poor man to get, aid
render the rich man more amenable to, justice !"
" The Sacristan, he says no word to indicate a doubt,
But puts his thumb up to his nose and—spreads his
fingers out."

served for M. BRu&r. The latter placed the ex-
Consul on board one of those vessels before he de-
livered him up to his countrymen. If we are
to exhibit ourselves to those savages as bar-
barous as themselves, it is needless for us to
have gone thither." There is great truth in
this admission, for it must have appeared to
the natives that the hostility between Protestants
and Catholics said little for the common religion of
both, and that the boasted civilisation of Europe was
a mere mockery, when among the first of its fruits
was the bombardment of their peaceable homes. We
may therefore hope that this storm has blown over,
and that M. GUIZOT is prepared to make such repara-
tion as will satisfy the British Government. It is
painful, however, to reflect that such a contemptible
occurrence on the other side of the globe might hare
led to a general European war. The French Go-
vernment, if we are to believe certain journals, are
disposed to show moderation in their demands for re-
paration from the Emperor of MOROCCO. It is said
that, notwithstanding the success of Marshal Bu-
GEAUD and the Prince DE JOINVILLE, the French have
not risen in their demands, and will only require the
fulfilment of the conditions first proposed. If these
statements are founded on facts, there will be a
speedy settlement of the question. LOUIS PHILIPPE,
by this policy, may boast that he has afforded
his son an opportunity of successfully displaying
his naval skill and bravery, and Marshal BUGEAUD
the glory of having defeated a Moorish army with one-
third of their numbers. He may then visit the
Queen of ENGLAND with the prestige of victory and
the
om emblems of peace. We cannot say that all this
tin th
e warlike appearances and their
commotion—all
peaceable termination may have had some personal
and family objects in view, but it cannot well be
denied that the great and prime actor in them has a
very long head. M. TIIIERS'S paper, too, is becoming
peaceable. It admits that the British Consul, Mr.
Hwy, in his negotiations with the Emperor of
Morocco, was acting 'with perfect good faith, and
that he was urging on the EMPEROR the same con-
ditions as those proposed by France herself. On
Sunday that journal published a letter from the banks
of the Isly, dated Aug. 18th, four days after the
battle. The substance of the letter is as follows :

HONE Y AND COMMERCIALNEWS.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
Stocks closed quietly this afternoon, but there was
still an absence of general activity. Consols were 983
99 for Money, and. 99?,- for Account. The Unfunded
Debt remained as in the morning, and in the heavy in-
vestments there was no alteration.
There was no feature either in the Foreign Market, if
we except a slight advance in Mexican, viz., to 35* 1.
Chilian, on the other hand, declined to 101. Portuguese
Converted were at 44, and Spanish Three per Cents. at
33i. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. touched 61} 1.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 261 ; Eastern
Union, 1 ; Great Western, 66 ; Birmingham, 123 ;
Croydon, 31 to y, ex New ; Manchester and Leeds, 54 ;
Ditto, Half, 23 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 26 ; North
British, 1 ; Northern and Eastern, 11 ; Do. Scrip, 10 ;
Norwich and Brandon, 94 ; South Devon, l 4 ; South
Eastern, 4-3 to 53 ; ; York and North Midland, Scarbo-
rough Branch, 221- ; and Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
1 premium. Blackwell have been 91; Brighton, -11; and
Thames and Medway, 9} discount.
There was a general steadiness this afternoon in the
rates of the Foreign Exchanges.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last:—
Silver Bars to Hamburgh
" London 65,700 oz.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were yesterday 5,000
bags at kd per lb. decline on the rates current before the
arrival of the steamer. The sales included 1,000 Surat,
at 21d to 3id ; 300 Peruvian, at 6d ; 100 Egyptian, at
61d to 7d; and the rest American, at 31d to 5d per lb.—
A large business had been done in Railway Shares, and
the quotations were higher, except for Manchester and
Birmingham :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 1091 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 6a ; Dublin andCashel, 7 ;
Eastern Counties, Registered, 13k ; Glasgow and Ayr,
59 ; Great North of England, 113, ex div. ;-Liverpool and
Manchester, New, 364 ; London and Birmingham 221 ;
London and Brighton, 473 ; Newcastle and Berwick,
41. 11s ; Manchester and Birmingham, 511 ; Midland
Counties, 109 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 85 ;" South
Eastern, 381; Ditto, 11::; Paris and Orleans, 37i ; Paris
and Rouen, 37 4 ; Bouloge and Amiens, 48s. 15d.
An acffertisemint has appeared in the columns of The
Sun announcing..a large sale of foreign provisions. A
public inspection took place this morning, at the sale
rooms, in• Monument-yard, and on all hinds it was ad-
mitted that the bulk of the foreign provisions were ex-
cellent. Many additional improvements are in progress
as to the mode in • which provisions will in future be
cured for sale in our markets.
From Nova Scotia we hay, the following laconic
speech of Lord Falkland, on the prorogation of the
Legislative Assembly :
" Mr. President' and Honourable Gentlemen of the
Legislative Council ;
" Mr. Speaker and- Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly
" I thank you for the expedition with which you have
dispatched the important business that, in obedience to
the instructions of her Majesty's Government it became
my duty to bring before you, and I have much pleasure
in dismissing you to your ordinary avocations."
The Shobroohe (Lower Canada) Gazette, states—" We
are glad to learn that the final arrangements have been
made with a body of competent engineers to carry into
immediate effect the contemplated survey of a railroad
from the Province Line in Stanstead to Montreal, and
that a beginning will be made in the course of next
week." Lower Canada is at the present moment in a
highly prosperous and tranquil state.
From Gibraltar we learn that a proclamation has been
received there, desiring all Moors who had fled from
Tangiers on the approach of the French fleet to return,
perfect security being guaranteed.
A rising market has prevailed for the British Secu-
rities to-day. Consols for Money and the Account have
reached 99&. The Commissioners bought 5,000/. Consols
at 99g. The premium upon Exchequer Bills is still
heavy, at 735. Bank Stock opened at 1991, but after-
wards fell to 199. India Stock has been sold at 281 for
the Account.
There were but a few bargains done in the Foreign
Stocks. Brazilian were heavy, at 841 ; Chilian at 102 ;
Mexican at 351 ; Spanish Five per Cents. at 221 i ;
and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61i
An improvement has taken place in most of the Ra
way Shares to-day.
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock., ..... 190% 199
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 98%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2
New 33 per Cent. Annuities lO.
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1800..» 12% 1-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860
India Stock
South Sea Stock

He then approached the "immedicabile vuinus"
inflicted on the profession by that clause of Lord
BROUGHAM'S Bill, which, according to the construction
of some authorities, would absolutely authorise the
unhallowed, unfeed hands, of an unprofessional friend
to draw up a starving debtor's petition. The Society
is "to prosecute all persons not duly qualified to
practise as attorneys who shall infringe the provisions
of the Act of Parliament relating to that body." The
Chairman's speech terminated with some pop-gunning
at poor Lord BROUGHAM for his "clap-trap phi-
lanthrophy," and some impertinent reflections, in very
bad taste, on that noble person for cutting down
attorneys' fees and costs; in other words, " for
beginning, after being elevated to a high position by
the profession" (so that "aristocratic attorneys"—not
Kings, nor yet Lord Chancellors, confer high judicial
rank), "to attempt to abuse and revile the source of
his greatness and his riches." Our readers have
possibly by this time had enough of this exhibition of
vulgarity and spleen. Yet we cannot forbear from
inviting their sympathy in the horror with which we
have read a Mr. GODDARD'S statement that "England
and Wales alone. contain 11,000 attorneys !" Well
may the bulk of our population be litigious, poor, and
unhappy. Shade of FREDERICK the GREAT I will

not this appalling fact revivify the mouldering hand
which was once pledged to so terrible a "short way"
,with lawyers ! " They contribute to the revenue as
their clerkship fees 1,200,000/., on admission to prac-
tice 250,0001., and from certificates, 100,0001. an-
nually." Can Sir ROBERT PEEL gravely reckon on
keeping up the public income at a prosperous scale
when it is supplemented so largely from such sources ?
And if such a body want " protection," forsooth, what
must be the desolate and desperate condition of the
men, women, and children, the widows and orphans,
out of whose wants or misfortunes--from whose do-
mestic misery arid privation, so large a portion of
this large sum for the mere professional license to
practise—is annually drawn ? 'We suspect the
" aristocratic portion" of the profession will think
that Mr. W.= has been very unnecessarily eloquent
in calling for a society of." protection."

" You are aware that we have captured the camp fur-
niture belonging to the son of the Emperor. In his tent
was found a casket containing his letters. Several offi-
cers were employed to decipher them, and immediately
afterwards they brought to the Marshal a letter from
Muley Abderahman to his son, in which he recounted
the mission of the English Consul, Drummond Hay, the
advice he gave him, and the conditions he offered. They
were precisely the same as those demanded by the
French Government, and a French Consul could not
have held more dignified or more firm language. No
doubt, the British Government by acting thus proved
how much interest they took that our differences with
the Emperor should be speedily terminated, but we must
acknowledge that they acted with the most perfect can-
dour. The letters of Muley Abderahman proved, more.
over, that the Marshal was right in requesting the Prince
de Joinville to strike hard. The strongest alarm is ex-
pressed in every paragraph."
The French Funds declined a little on Sunday. The
closing price of the Three per Cents. was 80f. 70c.,
being a decline of about 20 centimes as compared
with the price on Saturday.

BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER
RAILWAY.

Yesterday the first general meeting of this Railway
Company, which has been just established, was held
at the London-bridge terminus, at which Marwood
Kelly, Esq., took the chair. The Secretary read the
report of the Board of Directors, which stated the
steps that had been adopted for the formation of the
Society, and obtaining the required Parliamentary
powers, by which it appeared that the chief delay and
obstruction which had been caused in the progress of
the formation of the line was owing to the number
of shares required by the Act of Parliament not
being yet taken up. The Chairman then said, in
reference to the present state and prospects of the
Company, that they were unable to proceed with the
formation of the line as yet, owing to the length of
time occupied by the negotiations with the Duke of
Norfolk with respect to the right of crossing the
river close by the Shoreham terminus. His Grace
had erected a chain-bridge near that spot, and by
a clause in the Act he was entitled to charge
a toll upon all persons crossing the river within
a mile on either side of his bridge. The
Company was consequently compelled to enter
into an agreement with his Grace to pay the sum of
42,0001. for the right of running this line direct to the
Li.U.,•••• "laa to
be a most exorbitant and extravagant sum to demand
for the privilege, and afforded another strong. proof of
the grasping avarice of the aristocracy. The Chair-
man admitted that the demand WAS large, but they
were compelled by necessity to accede to it. Mr.
Henderson, one of the Directors of the London and
Brighten Railway Company, contended that, consi-
dering the large sum expended by the Noble Duke in
the erection of the chain-bridge, the sum demanded
was an equitable one. After a lengthened discussion
the report was adopted, and the Chairman moved a
resolution, to carry into effect a proposition, on the
part of the Brighton Company, to take up the unap-
propriated shares, having at the same time an option
to take a lease of the line at 44- per cent. ; which was
opposed by Mr. Scott, who moved,
" That the consideration of the subject should be post-
poned for a fortnight."as an amendment,
Ultimately, however, he
consented to withdraw his amendment, and the
original motion was carried unanimously. A resolu-
tion was next passed, by which the Directors were
empowered to adopt such steps as would be most be-
neficial for the extension of the railway from Chi-
chester to Portsmouth ; after which a vote of thanks
was proposed, and adopted unanimously, to the Direc-
tors for their exertions in passing the Bill through
Parliament, and the meeting separated.

Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account
India Stock for Account
Exchequer Biala, 150. 134d-
-1t
__oool. ••••••••..•.•••••...«•• •••••••••••0 75 73 pm.
5001." .."......... 00000 -- «„....„.. 75 73 rna..
Ditto gna1t................. ........" 75 73 pm.
Ditto Advertised
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Chilian Bonds,per Cent lO2
Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. .... ........ „ —
Ditto for the Account 35%%
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Spanish Bonds Five per Cent 1810.......„.„
Ditto for the' . Account ..... ............... 22%ii
Cents ...»......•N.„.«....».»....» 61% %
Dutch 2)4 per ...................
iitir1i"hVerhCetta":?....L...................... ... . .
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAIL Pea WILK&
Birmingham and Gloucester
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead 5 6504 ... to
Dublin and Cashel 2)4 7% to
Eastern Counties ...............,.....23 ..„ ..... 11% t.
Ditto New Registered...." 84 6s. NJ. ..... 13%
Eastern Union
Great Western ••••••••••••••••••••«•• 75 142 ..„ ..... to 141%
Ditto % Shares ...... 50 ........ 84% 85% to 86
Ditto Fifths
Harwich (Braithwaite)
London and Brighton so 4844% ... to
London and Greenwich
London and South Western
Ditto Eighths
T,..ynn and Ely k......... :4 ...... ... to 3%
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto )4 5hare5......„„........... 30 .... 52 ... to
Midland Counties .100 ......„ 110 111 ... to 109%
Birmingham and Derby lOO 79% 80% to 60
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunet. 21
South Devon
... 5
South Eastern and Dover ..... ... T 2% 38% % .., to
..... ..••
Ditto New 4
••••••••„•.....
Thames and Medway
York and North Midland ..„ ..... 50 .........107
Ditto % Shares
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 ...... ... 1%
Paris and Orleans...". ........ . ..... 20
Parisand Rouen 2O ..... .... 38 37%." to 38%
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster 2O
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 2.—Our
market is rather firmer to-day, but only a small amount
of business has been transacted. Lancaster and Preston,
2* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 51i cum. div.; Ditto,
Quarters, 4,3- ; Midland, 107 ; North British, 31., 31. Is.;
Manchester and Buxton, 21., 1/. 18s.; Boulogne and
Amiens, 2/. 10s.; Leeds and Dewsbury, 17 1-6 prem.
expire CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 199 Indian Steck 280%
99% Ditto Bonds
99 Ditto Old Annuities .., ON
102 :Ditto New Annuities
101% Ex. Bills 1,000/. 1,44.„ 73 pm.
Ditto 5004
Ditto Small 73
Jan 1060 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... 199 pm.
Oct. 1859 — Consols for Act...... ... 99
Jan. 1800 12 346 India Stock for Acct.... 281
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent - Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent
Chllian, 6 por Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... Vanish, 5 per Cent 2.
,
Ditto, 1824 — i itto, 3 per Cent... ........... 33%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto Deferred.„,. ..... ....... Danish, 3 per Cent - ;French, 5 per Cent —t. —c.
"'-
Greek,
18.5, 5 per Cent — iEtchange . ................. f.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837.... Dutch 2% per Cent." 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO%
SHARES.
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ........... „ ........... 55%
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid ........................ I
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
..................... 13%
Orest Western (75 paid)
141
London and Birmingham (Stock) ................
London and Blackivall (1131, 13s. 4d,) 6%
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (411. 6a. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
3%
London and Croydon (Trunk)
...... 17%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 21 paid
North British, 2% paid
3
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ................. .
Ditto rierlp (15 paid), 25
Norwich and Brandon, 4 p.id ..
South Devon, 5 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Plito New shares, 4 paid
Thititioi dnd Mettwsy, £m Si 84 paid 9%
York and Searborotlgtl Branch (2s paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bowden; 1 paid ~ ........
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 5 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight l2 31 Le ]torn
Rotterdam 2U.12 5 Genoa 25 85
Antwerp
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 13i Venice 47
Alton* l3 14 Naples 391
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 60 Palermo, per oz llBf
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon 541
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us.., 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 NewYork,2l
Vienna, effec. fi. 3 M 952 Philadelphiadyssight
Trieste' ditto
Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao 36 New Doubloons OO 0
Barcelona ... 36 New Dollars 0 4 Kik
Seville — Silver in bars O4I li

FOREIGN PROVISION SALE.
The tariff of Sir Robert Peel is beginning to work
well for the lower and middle classes. An adver-
tisement in our yesterday's paper announced that a
public sale of hams, pork, ox tongues, smoked beef,
y ges, with Irish salmon, and
turtle,family
derand u
swaouslad take place this day, at No. 2,
Monument-yard, by Messrs. Keeling and Ilunt, the
enterprising caterers of those generous viands with
which our transatlantic brethren tempt the English
appetite. We were tempted, like many of our me-
tropolitan brethren, to wend our way to the epicurean
shades of the " vulgar East," in order to ascertain
what "Heaven had in store for us." To the courtesy
of " the firm," we are indebted for much informa-
tion ; but as a mere analysis of it would occupy a
greater space than we can possibly afford to give, we
must content ourselves by assuring our very good
friend, " the public," that its time will not be mis-
used if it attends at this very important sale.

DEATH OF SIR PATRICK MAXWELL, BART., OF
SPRINORELL.—it is with feelings of the most painful re-
Sret that we record the sudden and melancholy death of
ir Patrick Maxwell, Bart., of Springkell, which took
place on Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock. On
Motiday night Sir Patrick was returning from Spring-
kell to Ktioekhill, where he was residing, when, on the
road between Kirtlebride and Ecclefechan, either his
horse had fallen with him (which we are informed it had
done a few days'previous), or some other cause not ascer-
tained,. he was thrown on the road, and received a severe
injury, which rendered him insensible. He was shortly
after found, and carried to the farm-house of Caldwell-
knowe, when medical aid was procured, and every avail-
able means had recourse to in order to effect his recovery,
but all to no avail, as he gradually sank till next morn-
ing, when he expired.—.Dumfries Standard.
A return has been made of the growth of wool,
from which we find that the total quantity produced in
Essex is 2,372,640 lbs. ; the value of which is 118,6321.
The total wool produced in England is 102,803,758 lbs.,
and the total value at Is. per lb. (the rate reckoned above)
is 5,140,186/. Yorkshire produces the greatest quantity,
8,263,658 lbs.—Essex ileralet