The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

PRICES OF SHARES
IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 27.

Dividend
Per
Annum.

Amount

Names of Com-
panies.

Psid. llPri

X s. d. X I.
97 18 0
113 0 0 --
100 0 0
150 0 0
8 15 0 -7
100 0 0 100 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
41 13 4 41 13 4
133 0 0
100 00 I
100 0 0 100 0 (
100 0 0 .-
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0 100 0 0
1'72 13 4
100 0 0
150 0 0 --
57 6 6
39 18 10
47 6 8
109 9 0
140 0 0
83 10 0
142 17 0
100 0 0
100 0 0 --
100 0 0
100 0 0 .
100 0 0 All►paid
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 0 0
33 16 8
85 0 0
125 0 0
150 0 0
12 10 8
140 0
125 0 0 --
145 I 0
79 9 8 .-
100 0 0
26 9 3
50 0 0
19 5 8
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 8 0
67 10 8
105 0 0 .-
110 0 0

100 0 0 ....
Stock
Stock i

167 9 0

Stock

soon

50 0 A
69 2 8
50 0 0
109 • 0

70 10 3

80 0
40 0

'5OOO 0 5100
25 0 0 5 0 0
100 0 0 11 0 0
100 0 0 5 0 0
50 0 0 5 0 0
250 0 0 55 0 0
50 0 0 5 0 0
100 9 0 210 0
100 0 0 10 0 0
50 1 0 5 0 0
1000 0 0 250 0 0
20 0 0 All paid
20 6 0 2 0 0
20 0 0 3 0 0
Stock
100 1 0 38 10 0
25 0 0 2 10 0
25 0 0 210
500 0 0 50 0 0
100 0 0 10 0 0
100 0 0 513 0
100 0 0 10 0 0
50 0 0 2 0
25 0 0 12 10 0
25 0 0 11 10 0
20 0 0 210 0
50 0 0 2 0 0
50 0 0 5 0 0
20 0 0 1 0 0
100 0 0 10 0 0
5 0 0 10 0 9
Stock

100 0 0 5 0
100 0 0 6 5
204 0 0 0 0

40 0 10140 0

40 e
50 0 0150

100 1 0 I"
- 25

100 0 i 20 0 0
100 0 0 20 0 0
50 0 0 10 0 0
25 0 0 710 0
100 0 0 25 0 0
10 0 0 10 0 0
50 0 0 1710 0
190 0 0 35 e 0
20 0 I 10 0 0
50 0 0 10 0 0
25 0 8 25 0 0
50 0 0 10 0 0

20 0 0 16 0 8
40 0 0 18 0 0
20 0 0 19 0 0
77 10 0 -

50 0 0
20 0 0 -
20 0 •-
20 0 0 20 lO9 • 0 100 0 0
100 9 • 75 0 0
75 0 0 31 5 0
59 0 0 28 0 0
50 0 0 560 0
50 0 0 50 0 •
25 0 0 20 0 0
90 0 0 30 0 0
500 0 390 0
100 • 0 90 0 0
50 9 0 25 0 0
58 0 0 48 0 0
50 9 0 -
50 0 0 10 0 0

25 0 0 25 0 0
100 0 0 -
41 13 4 -
APO 0 0 -

30 ' 0 -
100 0 0 -
63 12 9 -
LOS 0 0 -

e too 0
o too o
O 70 0 '
O 5 0
5 0
O 23 0
0 50 0
o 100 0
O 100 0
O 75 0
O 50 0
0 12 0 o
O 2 0 1
0 50 0 0
O 10 0 0
0 ICO 0 0
O 100 0 0
O 50 0 0
I 50 0
0 110
4

0
0

o 1100 0

2
92 0 0 , a 2 0
41 6 10

13 15 9
100 0 0 70 0 0
50 N 0 30 0 0
70 0 0 40 0 0
100 0 0 100 0 0
0 0 0 710 0
20 0 0 6 0 0
50 0 0 45 0 0
50 0 0 tis 0 0
20 0 0 20 0
20 0 0 20 0 0
20 A 0 12 0 0
100 0 0 100 0 0
50 0 0 50 0 0
20 0 0 18 0 0
ao A 0 50 0 0
25 0 0 25 0 0

.50019

15 0 o 113 io
100 0 0 1100 o
1541 0 0 1150 V 0

35 8 0 21 0 0
25 0 0 25 0 0
20 0 0 15 0 0
I°° 75
20 00
0 7 100 0 0
.7 10 0

tO -0
01 g 0
55 0 0 55 0 0
20 0 0 20 0 0
50 0 0 10 10 0
10 0 0 3 0 0
60 0 0 , 50 0 0
25 0 0 7 0 0

150 e 0
5000 5000
25 0 0 10 0 0
40 0 0! 40 0 0

2 10 0

75 0 0 - 1
100 0 0 100 0
25 0 0 -
- 100 0 0 11

o o 10 0 o 1 1
O ) SO 0 0 2:
O 0 95 10 II 1
O 0; 9410 0 4;

•0
01 14 0 0 2
9 0 110 012
0 01 5 0 0
0 0, 3 0 0
0 0,1 7 0 0
- 0 0 21
25 0 0
0 • 50 0 0 et

- 3'
100 0 0 100 0 0 lit
2 0 0 20 0 0 91
SA 0 0 50 0 0
20 0 0/ SO 0 0 4

'A NIES' PRICE:,

100 1 17(
- 117

10 0
10 0
10
10 0
0
121 0
1 21 0 120
50 e
50 e
10
25 0
0 si

9%
50

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—To offer violence to a dead body, even
though it be that of an enemy, is regarded, by the
general consent of civilised society, as an act of
savageism at once degrading and disgraceful to the
perpetrators. If any considerable number unite in
the offence, it shows that the general state of society
in the place where it occurs is brutalised. What,
then, shall be said of the scene which the
Earl of Limerick's funeral exhibited ? The
body of the deceased nobleman was on its
ce• way to the tomb of his aneestors, followed
by his nearest relatives, and attended by about
70 1,000 of his tenantry, attired in hatbands and scarves;
7o the respectable inhabitants of Limerick testified their
5 regard for the deceased by wearing hatbands and
160 weepers ; and most of the shops were closed. A
iris large number of idle persons, who came in
9,35 from the neighbourhood and the adjacent
23080 country, were collected in the streets and prin-
-105 cipal thoroughfares. "As the procession passed"—
3154 the description of the scene is furnished by one who
63
440 witnessed it, and whose account we give in another
Ito column—" As the pr.,cession moved along there was
its
25 a good deal of shouting and groaning." Such
20 demonstrations of dislike to a deceased nobleman,
210 even had his life been marked by acts of in-
-8 famy, would have been indecent demonstrations.
185
21 None but the lowest vagabonds would have
IN indulged their personal feelings at such a time,
0
840 and whi!e beholding such a scene. The spirit of
139 the individual had passed to its final audit; and
71
1140 his body was on its way to be consigned to the
IL° tomb. While such a scene is passing slowly and
117 solemnly before the eye, the spectator—if he be not
372 devoid of intellect or destitute of moral sensibility—
Sea instinctively reflects upon his own mortality, and in-
-5°5 dulges the self-abasing considerations which the scene
4o
25 suggests. The Earl of Limerick had committed no
12
620 offence against society. He had perpetrated no po-
-123 sitive injustice—he had inflicted no injuries upon in-
-480
dividuals. The infirmities of advanced age had corn.
290 pelled him to withdraw himself from public life, and
3'4 in the bosom of his family seek the repose which
240 his decayed physical strength required. In private
t3° society the deceased nobleman had acquired respect.
10 He had the character of being considerate and hu-
-167 mane toward his numerous tenantry. He was
chargeable with no vice, and, confessedly, exempli-
fied many private and social virtues. And yet,
at the funeral of such a man—as though the
crowds of peasantry whom the procession had
st attracted to the spot had been divested of ti e
120 138 feelings, while they retained the form, of men
—as though demons had seized upon them, and
89 employed men to gratify their malice against the
117 human kind by impelling them to bring this reproach
lop, upon humanity—the outrages, thus commenced, con-
tinued to increase in enormity until they reached their
climax. It will be asked, what had provoked this
eliy disgraceful attack upon a funeral procession ?
p this outrage upon the dead—this brutal break-
-3g ing in upon the sanctity of domestic grief—this
:Is% assault upon the persons, extending to ender'.
120 gering the lives, of those who were performing
20(1 the last rites of humanity to the remains of one who
had ceased to be numbered among the living ? IV hat
had provoked the savages of Limerick—or rather of
ie its neighbourhood—to enact the scene we have (le-
-146Z scribed? The scene was " got up" as a demonstration
against the union. The Earl of Limerick was among
those who, at the time tt.at Mr. Fitt had resolved to
unite the two countries under one Parliament, assisted
534 the Government in its negotiations with the leading men
" who opposed the measure. The repeal agitators have
IL 13
2°
s succeeded in enlisting the passions of the Irish pea-
• sentry in their " cause." They have taught them
141
49% to believe that the union of the two countries is
16'a the source of their physical anl social evils. Many
189 of these calamities—the existence of which we ad.
16 mit and deplore—are created by themselves. Others
27"11 arise out of causes which the repeal of the union,
45%
5% could it be effected, would enhance and multi-
-18 ply. To the lamentable state of the relations
16
2% which exist between landlord and tenant—a state of
{as things that existed before the union, and which the
21s. union has modified and diminished—may a still
24 larger share of the grievances which afflict Ireland be
5
182 traced. These are not topics to which the repeal
2 agitators allude in their addresses to the dupes
42
who crowd around them. The union of the two
13N countries is, according to them, the sole cause of the
woes and wants of Ireland. " Hurra for repeal !"
44is shouted by them at the top of their voices,
464 The names of those who took any prominent part
loge in bringing about the union, are banded with
15 infamy in the speeches of the agitators; and, living
26% or dead, are exhibited to popular indignation as
14 enemies and traitors to their country. It was,
45 therefore, as a party to the union—as one who
to* approved and aided its accomplishment, nearly fifty
IN years ago—that the Earl of Limerick's funeral
37
171, procession was assailed by a mob, and his remains
25 treated with indignity. It was a demonstration of
275,
1.% patriotism—a practical declaration of the Irish people
in favour of repeal. We designate the proceeding as
22 an act of savageism, which every Irishman, who has
any respect for his country's name will condemn and
25
130 denounce. Such acts necessarily tend to weaken the
sympathies of Englishmen for the inhabitants of a
25 country in which they are perpetrated, and thus to
7% discourage the efforts of those who pity, and would
150 aid them ; and to retard the progress of the practical
73 measures by which their real calamities would be
70
32 removed.
8.1
20 STANDARD.—GeneraI Napier has incurred the
60 displeasure of the Times by defending its designed
4C victim, Lord Ellenborough, in one of the most in-
-76
teresting and eloquent books of our day—the
34 " History of the War in Sinde ;" and the Times
62
la% indulges its resentment against the gallant officer
this morning in an attack upon, disguised under the
28 form of a defence of, the obsolete and grotesque and
225 most mischievous privilege claimed by the Channel
90
se Islands, the privilege namely of retaining the laws
6°57 and practices of the twelfth century, and of not having
35 the benefit of English laws. The attack upon Gene-
-127 ral Napier, charges him with having exercised his
lawful authority, in an " offensive, impolitic, and dis-
PS courteous manner." To support this charge not one
97 word of proof is offered, or can be offered—the Gene-
-6434 ral pardoned a prisoner, and when the lawful aufno-
-6 rities refused to respect the act of grace, sent a milli-
-15
et% tary party to release him. In this he did precisely
2.7 what it was his duty to do. The pardon is a separate
11°:,% question. Properly or improperly pardoned, the man,
90% ! once he received his pardon, was de jure a free
2 man. His imprisonment for a single minute was
7o illegal, and it was the Lieutenant-Governor's duty
11 to protect a fellow-subject from an imprisonment, of
213 the illegality of which he had judicial knowledge by
99h: all the means at his command. The offensiveness, the
51m,
12% impolicy, the uncourteousness was all on the side of
7% those who began the use of forcible measures to re-
-226 SiSt the Queen's prerogative of mercy. The Times
'27 is obliged to give up the judicial proceedings of the
76 Channel Islands as incurably corrupt, while it affects
1_2114 to maintain the integrity and fitness of the constitu-
tion under which the judicial system has been cor-
-114"% rupted ; this, we submit, is nonsense. Were not the
7% Legislature personally identical with the courts
'1 of law as to a great extent it is, the Legislature that
se allows the growth of a corrupted administration
• of justice is not worthy of trust. It is, says the
24,e. Times, like an old corporation. It is a great deal
23.5 worse than an old corporation, for they never
41%
27 oppressed any one, or resisted the royal authority
lat" when exercised for the protection of the people.
But grant it only as bad as the old corporations.
al( I Their charters did not protect them, though
3 many of them older and more explicit,
3 and derived from a clearer authority than the
4
7 Channel Islands' charters can plead. The strangest
31i of the Times' arguments, however, is that the
s victims of oppression in the Channel Islands are
11 " aliens, fugitive Englishmen, or persons ac-
cidentally connected with the island." The
r facts are not so ; but what if they were ?
they would not much redound to the honour of
it% these hospitable islands. We trust that the matter I
% will not rest where it is—we hope that the case will
come under the cognisance of Parliament, and then
4% it will be seen whether Englishmen are the only vic-
-18 HMS of oppression—whether " the poor sufferer," as
17 Sir Robert Peel once called her—the Exchequer—
has not reason to complain. .4
304%

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Dec. 28.)
7%
5% The Produce markets having been closed since Friday,
B we have few transactions to report, and our remarks are
necessarily brief. On Wednesday, however, business
will be resumed ; at present few auctions are declared.
3)', The arrivals have increased from all parts since this day
e week. In the early part of the new year, a material
increase in the demand for Produce for home consump-
NI tion it is expected will take place, stocks in second hands
)m being small, and less than at this period in 1843.
SUGAR.—The West India Sugar market has been
'34 closed all the week ; but business will be resumed on
Wednesday, when 100 hhds of Barbadoes will be sub-
mitted to public competition.
REFINED Sugar is wanted by the home trade, and the
supply at market being small, prices have an upward
tendency ; several purchases made by the town and
country trade upon the following terms :—Brown Lumps
at 725 to 72s 6d, standard lumps 73s to 73s 6d.
Tittlers low to mid 72s to 73s 6d, good 74s to
755, fine 76s to 83s, Hamburgh loaves 73s to
81s, double ditto 82s to 90s, and wet lumps 70s to 71s
per cwt. Refined is cheap in proportion to raw Sugar;
there is a difference in the value of fine yellow West
India and standard lumps of only 5s per
MA.URITIUS.—By private contract some parcels have
been disposed of at firm rates ; the quantity at market
at present is small, but ere long it will be increased, five
vessels having arrived with 21.749 bags and 420 casks.
The stock exceeds that of last year by 9,371 bags. We
quote good and fine yellow 59s to 665, mid and good mid
555 to 58s, low 53s to 545, good and fine brown 49s to
525, and inferior 44s to 48s per cwt. •
EAST INDIA.--Bengal is wanted, and the rates paid by private contract are rather above those of the last

Proprietors' capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,Savings
banks, Cc minis-
sioners or Na-

AonalDelat,and
dividend ac-
counts) . 7,075,258
Jther deposits 8,348,738
Seven day and
other bills 967,934

£34,055,4431 £34,055,443
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 26th day of December, 1844.

TIIE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 27, 1844.
The Lorils Commissioners of the Admiralty have pro-
moted Mr. ,John Francis Tottenham, mate of the hya-
cinth, to tine rank of Lieutenant.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE„ DEC. 27.
The Lo ;el Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household
has appoii nod the Hon. Mortimer Sackvill a West to be
one of the (ientlemen Ushers Quarterly Wraiters in Or-
dinary to -11( ,r Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Heneage
Legge, (Itece ased.
.DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 2C
The Que en has been pleased to appoin t Frederick
Sedley, Esq., to be Inspector of Police for -the island of
Malta.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 26.
The Queen has been pleased to direct lei:tiers patent to
be passed Ipraci.n. the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Knight (3f the United Kingdom of Gra: it Britain and
Ireland wit() Chevalier Robert Schomburgh , recently at
the head of tl ie expedition for exploring the boundaries
of the colony of British Guiana.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 26.
Corps of Royal Engineers. —Second Captaii a A. Gordon
to be Captain vice Rutherford, retired on to 111-pay; Fisrt
Lieut. R. G;. I 1 a milton to be Second Captain , vice Gordon ; ,
Second Li ;uteri ant E. W. Ward, to be Fi ;st Lieutenant, 1