The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask 5t0ck.."......ei dm 206 Indian 5t0ck...............

3 per Cent. Red ....... 99% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons ..... 100% Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red ..... ;Ditto New Annuities ...
New Slit per Cent.•......•...• 102% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 134 d •.• 73 pm.
New 5 er Ditto 5001. 73 Pm•
Long Annuities to expire Ditto '73 Po.
Jan. 12% Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859............... 12 Consols for Act.......... 100%
1860......... India Stock for Acct.... --

FOREIGN -FUNDS.
Austriae, 5 per Cent ......... Portuguese, 5 per Cent B4
Belgian, 5 per Ditte, New
Brasilian Bonds Prussian, 5 per Cent .....
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian 5 per Cent —
Chllian 6 per Cent ..... -- Ditto, Metathc
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... §panish, 5 per
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent 35%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent . Ditto, Deferred..................
Danish, 3 per Cent ..... French, 5 per Cent. —t. -
c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange .... ..... —f. —c.
Mexican, S per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1831.-- Dutch, 2% per Cent......
Peruvian, 1625, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent ......... 98%

SHARES
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)— ..
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid 5
Eastern Counties (23 paid) .....«..........,..«.« 13%
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
Lancaster and Carlisle;lo paid
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 75
London and York, 234 paid 3 %
Lynn and Ely, Ili paid
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Midland Counties (100 paid)...... ..... .... ........ «
Birrsingham and Derby, £lOO paid Bt)%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
South Devon, 5 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 25 4d paid) .....« —
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
York And North Midland (50 paid)......... .........
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ... . ..... ...........
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ........« 3%
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3%
saris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid ..... ............. .......... ..... 40

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Civil disabilities—as penalties for hold-
ing doctrines and observing ceremonies which differ
from those of the Established Church—are not yet
extinct. Roman Catholics have obtained emancipa-
tion, and Dissenters relief, from the invidious and im-
politic restrictions which the legislation of the darker
ages had imposed, and the intolerance of more enlight-
ened times had long refused to remove. The Jews,
however, still remain under the curse. The Corporation
of London, in its highest Court, clings to the prejudices
against Jews for which the Corporation was pre-eminent
in those days gone by when such prejudices prevailed
more generally than, happily, they now do. The
Court of Aldermen torture their little wits to twist
and distort a statute couched in plainest phraseology,
into a meaning foreign to its spirit and design, to
afford a pretext for their pre-determined decision.
The Ward of Portsoken had elected for its Alderman
Mr. David Salomons—a gentleman whose intellectual
superiority, great wealth, high position in com-
mercial society, unimpeachable honour, and ex-
tensive benevolence, unrestrained by sectarian dis-
tinctions, all men agree to admit and commend.
Mr. Salomons has served the office of Sheriff
of London and Middlesex with a fidelity, zeal, and
hospitality seldom equalled, never excelled. He
has also served the same high office in Kent, a county
in which one of his estates is situate ; and is a magis-
trate for at least two counties. Yet, on presenting
himself for the purpose of being admitted to the
office to which he had been elected, a form of de-
claration was placed before him, which he was re-
quired to subscribe ; but to which, as a Jew, he had
conscientious and insuperable objections. Mr. Sa-
lomons applied for a short adjournment, in order
that the question might be argued by counsel,
whether the required form of declaration is
applicable to his case ; and if so, whether the
obnoxious form is imperative on the Court, and com-
pulsory on the individual, or whether the former has
not a discretion vested in it by law, and the party
held responsible for exercising the functions of Al •
dermanic office, not having qualified in the terms of
the statute. This reasonable application was refused.
The election was declared void ; and a precept for a
new election at once ordered to issue from the Court.
Mr. Salomons has declared his intention of bringing
the question, as to the validity of the proceedings of
the Court, before a higher tribunal. When Mr. Sa!o-
mons was elected Alderman of another ward (that of
Aldgate), and was ousted by the Court of Aldermen
on similar grounds to those now taken, he was barred
from obtaining redress from the superior courts by one
of those technical objections by means of which legal
ingenuity frequently defeats the claims of justice.
He will, of course, take care, in the present case, to
avoid such an occasion of defeat. The whole ques-
tion will, we hope, be placed fairly before the Judges,
to be decided on the fair construction of the terms of
the statute, and in conformity with the principles of
law. The objection urged by the Aldermen who con-
tended against Mr. Salomons' admission as a member
of their Court, would equally apply to the admission
of a Jew to the Court of Common Coancil—it would,
doubtless, be taken if a Jew were to be returned as
one of that body by any one of the City wards. The
corporations of Birmingham, Southampton, Ports-
mouth, and other towns—to whom the Act pressed by
the Aldermen of London against Mr. Salomons is
equally binding as on the Corporation of London—
admit gentlemen of the Jewish persuasion to office.
The declaration required to be made is in lieu of the
sacramental test ; which was enforced or not, at the
pleasure of the corporations : some requiring a rigid
observance of
.the statute by which the tokens of
atoning grace were prostituted to the purposes of
party, and the most solemn rite of the Christian faith
was received as the passport to secular place. The
annual Act of Indemnity, passed every session
of Parliament, relieved persons who had omitted
to observe this required religious proof of peculiar
fitness ; and thus Dissenters, by a side-wind, were
admitted to corporate offices. The Corporation
of London was, however, among the most
earnest sticklers for the law of exclusion—ex-
cept, indeed, when the coffers of its Chamberlain
were exhausted, and the• fines imposed by their
charter upon persons who refused to take upon them-
selves offices to which they had been elected,
afforded the Corporation an opportunity of re-
plenishing their empty exchequer from the pockets
of wealthy Dissenters. Then, indeed, they were
liberal with a vengeance. Under such circum-
stances, the Corporation was in the habit of select-
ing the richest and most consistent Dissenters for
Sheriffs. These, of course, objected to take the sacra-
mental test ; and, to avoid the annoyances and more
substantial evils of resistance, generally paid the fines.
The records of the Corporation, still in existence, show
the use to which this monstrous perversion of a perse-
cuting statute was put in those days by the Corpora-
tion of London. An observation, which had passed into
a proverb from a conviction of its truth, is not yet for-
gotten, that the building of the Mansion-house was
paid for by fines imposed upon Dissenters. At length
the question as to the legality of these fines was
brought to an issue by a Dissenter named Evans,
who had the courage to contest the power of the Cor
poration to fine him for not taking upon himself an
office for which he was disqualified by law. The case
was carried by appeal to the House of Lords ' • and
Lord Mansfield's judgment, in pronouncing the deci-
sion of the House, is among the most luminous of that
Noble and Learned Judge's very able judgments.
STANDARD.—We have sincere pleasure in di-
recting attention to the proceedings of the meeting
held yesterday in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion-
house, for the purpose of adopting measures for
the establishment of baths and washhouses
for the accommodation of the working classes
of the metropolis. The proposed plan has been
already tried in Liverpool, where public baths
and washhouses for the poor have been es-
tablished upwards of two years, and we cannot
doubt therefore that such an arrangement would
tend most materially to the improvement of
the health [and comfort of the working classes of
this great metropolis. IVe could have wished that
this excellent design could have been associated with
some comprehensive plan for improving the dwellings
of the poor, and providing them with accommodation
not only of a superior order, but at a much cheaper
rate than is accessible to them at the present moment ;
but we must not reject an acknowledged good
because benefits of even greater importance re-
main yet to be supplied. The distinguished aus-
pices under which the meeting of yesterday took
place encourage the hope that the two objects may
eventually be combined. Meanwhile, the associa-
tion which is about to be formed cannot fail of
doing unmixed good. It is the melancholy con-
dition of the poor, that there is scarcely a necessary
of life for which they do not pay considerably
more, by comparison, than the rich. But there is,
perhaps, nothing for which the operative in a large
town is more extravagantly taxed than forrent. Pub-
lic attention has been prominently directed to this fact
by the'report f the Sanatory Committee of the House
of Commons. Miserable dwellings, in confined and
unwholesome situations, underlet in single rooms
to the poorest class of tenants, have been known
to yield three and even four times the expenses of
the entire tenement. Thus the metropolitan artisan
will often be called upon
weekly wages forthe sheltermereto pay
affordedafourth of his
self and his family by
a single to him-
sleep
In tins. cons-
fined domicile must they
criminately mingled), and the owhole soefxetsheln
do-
mestic affairs, including washing and cooking, be
performed. Yet, for a less rent, two comfortable
and well-ventilated rooms, with access to a wash-
house, might be afforded by the construction of
barracks, capable of accommodating a eon_
aiderable number of families under the same
roof ; each edifice, if desirable, being provided with \
the baths and other conveniences contemplated at
the meeting of yesterday. In order, however, to
effect this object, the matter should not be left to
were trading speculators. A guarantee fund should

be provided, and a system organised, by
which numbers might be lodged in the
same building; and the experiment might be
tried for a sum comparatively unimportant
when the vast benefits it would confer
are taken into consideration. Associations for the
purpose of retailing to the poor cheap provisions, and
even cheap coals, are far from uncommon ; but we
have never yet heard of any attempt to carry out the
principle to cheap lodgings. In the present condition
of the poor the parlour of the labouring man, the place
in which most of his leisure hours are passed, is the
tap-room of a public-house—for want of that decent
accommodation which his home cannot afford him ;
and which is eventually, by his desertion of it for
such a substitute, rendered infinitely more miserable
than it need to be. Any scheme which would avert
such consequences would effect a purification at once
moral and physical; and would do more to benefit
the working classes than anything that has hitherto
been devised for their benefit.

CLERICAL INTOLERANCE.—A few weeks since the
following circumstances, disgraceful in their effect, and
ridiculous as proceeding from an individual appointed to
teach good will and charity with all mankind, took place
at the village of H , a few miles from Ipswich.
It appears that in this village stands a chapel attended by
a body of Christian Dissenters, in connexion with Stoke
Chapel, Ipswich. No regular minister being appointed,
the service is served by an occasional lay preacher, a
highly respected inhabitant of this town, who journeys
over for the occasion every Sunday. On the Saturday
previous to the day on which the circumstances we wish
to relate took place, a person living near the chapel was
surprised by the clergyman of the parish calling upon her,
and asking in a loud tone, " what time the abominable
practices would commence on Sunday." Not under-
standing him, she asked for an explanation, when it ap-
peared he referred to the performance of divine service.
She replied, that two services were performed in the day
—in the morning at ten, and in the afternoon at two.
The clergyman left. On the Sunday afternoon, while
the person who officiated as minister was seated in the
vestry previously to the service, he was surprised by a
loud knocking at the -door, and opening it, to his sur-
prise, he found the clergyman in full canonicals, book in
hand, and followed by a string of boys and girls. "I am
come to denounce your proceedings," quoth the Rev.
Gentleman, and began an excited oration. As soon as
the minister recovered his surprise at the novel scene,
he gave the clerical disturber to understand that such
proceedings would not be allowed, and if persisted in a
policeman would be called, and a charge exhibited
against him. This appeared, if not to produce a calm,
at least to prevent further annoyance, for gathering up
his robe, he retired, saying, " I can only do what I am
bound to do by the Scriptures—shake off the dust of my
feet as a witness against you." The zealot then per-
formed the action bodily !and quitted the spot, not how-
ever before a Church-taught labourer, thinking he might
save the parson some unnecessary labour, cried out to
him, " Well, you won't have much trouble to do that,
for we've had a heavy rain t' morn."—Suffellt Chronicle.
LYNN.—DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT COFFINS.—As
some labourers, lately, were employed in digging on the
site of Blackborough Priory, near Middleton, they dis-
covered three stone coffins in a good state of preserva-
tion, one of which contained a complete skeleton. We
understand that the proprietor of the land has presented
them to the Lynn Museum.—Bury Farmers' Journal.
i The weather at Killarney during the last week has
been very bad. On Wednesday a dreadful storm sprung
up on the lakes, and a large party had to take shelter
for the night, at Glens Cottage, as the passage across
the lower lake was extremely perilous. The mail-car to
Kenmare was thrown over the cliffs on the same even-
ing—the driver sustained serious injuries, and the horse
was killed on the spot.—Cork Examiner.
Such has been the effect of the mildness of the pre-
sent season, that in the orchard of Lieutenant John M.
..Liles, near Castleisland, an apple tree is to be seen, part
in blossom, part knitting into fruit, and part bearing the
full-grown ripe apple.—Tralee Chronicle.