The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-21 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 20..
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 56; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.20.—W IND, E.S.E.
NOTE.—The figures which follow the words " Lowest" and
Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

being placed in the same predicament, and ♦ictory has
at last declared for those who vote against their poli-

and Furpese,3l,i ; Great Paris and Lyons, 415.; Lyons and
AvigtOfignglishs, 2% 3; Northern of France (English),
Rosamet's (English), '2l. lls. 6d ; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux (English), 121/."2 ; Paris and Lyons,
(Laffitte's), 3; Ditto, (Ganneron'6) 2 g ;• Ditto (Calon's),
2/. 2s. ; Paris and Strasburgh, 2%; Verona and Ancona

tical interests, who prefer duty to any selfish considera-
tion, and who assist even an enemy in restoring peace
to a distracted country. The Government, whatever
some foolish writers may say, owe their safety entirely
to that party whom the firebrands of Toryism—nay,
even moderate Conservatives—denounced as haters of
the Church, as Destructives, as Radicals, and infidels,
and as men ready to sell themselves to any party at any
price for the sake of power and place. They have nobly
given the lie to these wicked calumnies, and saved their
enemies from absolute destruction. This is a
sacrifice which, as regards politics, is above
all price, but they have made still greater sacri-
fices—they have offended several of their staunch
supporters, they have weakened their interest in many
large constituencies, and produced a coldness among
not a few of their ardent admirers, by refusing to join in
the cry against the Catholic religion. It would be dif-
fitUlt, nay, as far as our recollection serves, impossible
to point out in the history of th's country so noble a
display of political virtue in any one great party3in the
State, and it reflects an imperishable lustre on the Wi.igs,
and seals their character fur consistency and d:sin-
terestedness ; but how the act contrasts with that of
their opponents, who east to the winds, fur the sake of
place, every consideration that should guide humus
conduct, reprobated the conduct of Lord NORMA:NBY
and Lord EBRINGTON, for their attachment to the
Irish people, threw every obstacle in the way of
reconciliation, goaded the people to madness by regis-
tration Bills, by opposing corporation reform, and con-
stantly upl.raiding the Melbourne Government because
they did not by sabres awl bullets put don n the just
complaints of an entire nation ! That was not all. The
very clergy of the people, so revered by their flocks, were
insulted by the most opprobrious epithets; no calumny was
considered too low, n imputation too mean—renegade
Catholic priests and savage Orangemen, in the garb of
ministers of peace, were encouraged to travel through
England as missionaries, and to assemble multitudes
at Exeter Hall, to excite the most fiendish pas-
sions against their fellow-subjects and felLw-Christians ;
but we will not pursue the painful subject further.
A new light has atiscu—the da) of peace has dawned on
Ireland, and Whigs, and -Tories at last cordially agree
in the justice, the mercy, and the absolute necessity, of
treating the Irish as subjects of the same Sovereign.
And we cannot mention the name without paying
a tribute to our beloved QUEEN for the deep intereet
which she has always taken in the welfare of Ireland. It is
needlesss to recount all that we have heard respecting
the fixed, the unalterable sympathy which she has dis-
played—it is enough to say that the reconciliation of the
Irish nation to England is the wish dearest to her
heart. Her Ministers have cordially joined in such
noble sentiments. Concession and justice to Ireland
were the themes of Sir J. GICAIIAM'S speech, and these
were re echoed on Friday night by Sir R. PEEL. "I know
not," said he, " what the consequences may be with
regard to the kindly relations between England and
Ireland ; but this I know, that the proposition has been
the means of calling forth the most kindly feelings iu
the minds of a grateful people." And he will not stop
here. GOD forbid that he should. He has yet other
measures in store, and wisely rejected the earnest and
deceitful solicitations of the chief opponent of the
measure to say where he would stop. The peroration
of his speech is worthy of ale cause. It shadows forth
that real union with Ireland is now his first object, and
that he will join even the ranks of his op-
ponents in asserting such an inestimable blessing
to the United Empire. "In the course of this
debate," said the Right Hon. Baronet, "it has
been supposed that an occasion might arise when all the
energies of the country should be called forth in our
defence. May GOD forbid that so great an evil may
fall upon us. But whatever may be the result of this
debate—to whatever hands the destinies of this coun-
try may be committed, I shall take my place by the
side of my successors, and give them every sup-
port in my power to this just end honourable cause.
If the calamity of war should befal us, it is my earnest
hope that when it occurs it will find the people of this
empire united inillsalty to the throne, in mutual confi-
dence, and in a 16Tql,f those institutions from which they
derive the highe.st benefits. Isis my earnest prayer
that the result of our measures vv ill be so to unite the
people of this realm, as to ensure the triumph of a just
cause."

W. Is.
We find that in reference to the necessity for an alteration
in the duties on butter and cheese some remarks by Messrs.
Keeling and Hunt, whom we quoted under this head, as good
practical authorities, are not considered by our Contempo-
rary, the Post, as being sufficiently clear. When we
point out, however, that the leaning of Messrs. Keel-
ing is in favour of an important article of consumption
coming in at a reduced duty, and that this
by extreme protectionists is sure to be considered an
encroachment on agricultural rights, we need feel no surprise
that the matter appears less plain to that paper than to the
brokers. The meaning of the latter, however, as we take it,
is the meaning of all who desire to see trade re-
' lieved from some of its shackles, and especially as
regards the importation of food, and may be thus very
easily explained. . A merchant imports 1,000 firkins of
foreign butter; part, being of prime quality, may realise 955.
per cwt. ; a second portion, being somewhat inferior, may
sell at 635. ; a third 50s. The two former prices will enable
him to pay the duty of 21s. per cwt.; but the third, if the
duty was to be paid, would leave him but 295. per cwt.
nett. And then comes his alternative of having this portion
destroyed by tar, and cleating it for grease purposes, for
which he would obtain 40s. per cwt., without any
duty being paid. Therefore, he would gladly let
the public have his butter at the least difference
in his own favour compared to what he would get
by destroying it. The same system of protection, if ex-
tended to any other article of every day consumption, would
so puzzle the mind of a merchant, as to the ultimate re-
sult of his investment, that the best judgment in the world
would be defeated by the uncertainty it engenders.
With regard to the union workhouses consuming foreign
cheese, it must be recollected that not one-third of the
farmers make this article ; therefore the former have
no other alternative than resorting to foreign—and conse-
quently they have to pay the price of the protection or must
put themselves in a position to compete with the foreign
market, to produce the material at the same price as the
foreign article. The question then lies between the union
workhouses having foreign cheese or none at all. They have
no choice, and such is about the case with most protected
articles.
According to the Bank of England returns, the issue of
notes has decreased in the week to April 12, by 135,195/. ;
stock of bullion is less by 181,275/. ; the public deposits have
been diminished by 2,568,9401., and the other deposits in-
creased by 1,307,072/.
Although the majority on the Mavneoth question is so
decided, prices have declined in the F.,eglish Stock Market.
Consols have been 99 to % for Money, and 99% to 99 for
Time. Exchequer-bills continue at 60s to 58s. premium.
Bank Stock is firm at 21034.
'The Foreign Securities are rat her lively. Mexican have
been well supported at 38 to te ; Portuguese Converted have
:ieen 661 ; Spanish have receded a little, being 303 is for
the Active ; Brazilian are steady at 89 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. have realised 631,,,:2
The Share Market has been brisk, and there is fair sup-
port given to the quotations. Direct Northern have ad-
vanced materially, owing to the compliance with standing
orders.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 38 minutes after 0 I Evening •. 18 minutes after 1

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES,
Bank Stock ...
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 7-16% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860
_ll%

... .......... ..... 278

India Stock
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities •
Consols for Account....
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 6O 58
Ditto SCO/. .
Ditto Small
ONE
PR ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds .
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela l5/3.16% 16%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 18.37 38% 38% 38%
Ditto, Account
Ditto. Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3114 311'
,fe
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 661% 661/2
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 30%34, 30%
Ditto, Passive
,' )/s 7%
Ditto, Deferred lB A .A, 18%
French, 5 per Cent llBl. —c. 118 f. —c.
Exchange 2sf. 80c. 25f. 80c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto. Account ••• ..... ..... 63•1/4 63%
Ditto, 4 per Cent , Certatic.... 97 98 98
PRICES OF CLOSING
B lILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE,.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush ... IN 3
137
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 136
Ditto % Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10
Bristol and Exeter -
Do. New ... ........ 2
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 62 ..... ••
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ........ ...... Iv. 5%
Coventry and Leicester 11,i 314 %%
6
CornwallDDl , ilus s r
be ,GB Neaocncri eh
Belfast
mYarmouthj .n. 321244. • • 3 5
5%%114 ..
%1A5%...
11L/2%,4 .....
Dublin, Belfast, and .
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway 2%...... 513/4%
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 334 4
Eastern Counties 25 .... 214 21
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d ••
Ditto ditto, No. 2...... 13s. 4d.• • 0%
Eastern Union ............ 15 .....22
Ditto Extension ...... 1%•••••. 33/4
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% ...... 61,,......
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) ............... 5
Ditto Extension ...... 2%••••'' 153/414 1514
Great Northof England..loo ••••••201
Ditto New .... ' 5 ......
DittoDitt o 47
Ditto New............... 2 ...... 24%
Great Western ......... ... 80 ...189% 191 189 190 190
52g ............ 10426% 106
42
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2%.•. •• 61A
lAfSthhsar.e.s. ..................
6%
Harwich .................. 1 . ..... 21/2%
Hull and Selby ............ 50 ...... 10: 105% 106 106
Ditto Quarter Shares 12%...... 24 23% .....
Do. Half Shares ...... 2 ••..••
London and Birminghm —
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 ...... 451 N 44%
Do. 1% Shares ......... (50ck)........ —3 . 3''
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s 4d. 8A IA
London arid Brighton—. 50 ...... 64
Do. Consolidated Bths 16 ..... 27
London and Croydon, 131. 153.. 9d. 18
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 81
Do. New .............. 2% ...... 15 143/4 15%...
2 10
New ...... 214
.........
-,cl York. r f 1
1)o. 74 381
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At•••

981
9914
pm. 58
pm. 60
pm. 60
CLOSI YG
PRICES.

83/4
62

Madrid journals of the 11th have been received, but
they contain nothing worthy of interest. The Money
Market was very dull, and prices lower. The Three
per Cents. clost d at 35i for cash ; for Account 354 ;
and the Three per Cents. fur Account at 25i ; Debt
without Interest, Si cash, and 9 for Account.

The Paris papers, which contain no domestic news of
importance, are much occupied with the discussion in
the House of COILMODS, and the excitement caused by
the Maynooth Bill. The Goyernment paper, the Joel nal
des Debatts, approves of the policy of Sir ROBERT FEEL,
with regard to Ireland, but still thinks it would be better
to govern with his party than without it and against it.
The Pa esse takes a different view of the question, and
after adverting to the insults heaped on the Premier by
a London journal, which called him the Al.tagro of the
Conservatires, says :—" Thus we find that party spirit
is every where and at all times the same. Only prove
yourielf to be more enlightened, more moderate, a better
judge of the wants and interests of society than others
are, and you are immediately denounced as a traitor and
a felon. Happily these accusations by narrow and
prejudiced minds are treated with contempt by most
of those to whom they are addressed." The National
contrasts the religious feeling in the two countries.
The Catholic religion," it says, "is treated as bar-
barous and idolatrous in England. In France that which
is barbarous and fatal is the right of examination, the
liberty of opinion, the independence of mind which seeks'
studies, and compares, and, freeing itself from the ac-
cepted dogmas, soars aloft to regions where thought
alone is sovereign. Let those sectarian violences appear
at the same time to all eyes ; we know nothing more
likely to get them appreciated than to show them side by
side. In England, as in France, the public good sense
will cover with its impartial disdain all these passions
of a time that is past."
The Sea tinelle of Toulon says :—" Rear-Admiral
TURPIN, commander of the Levant squadron, is recalled.
He is to be replaced by a Capitaine pt; VAISSEAII. This
measure has been concerted with the Cabinet of London,
which also withdraws the Admiral in command of the
British squadron in the Levant."
The intelligence from Switzerland is to the 13th. The
Presse says :

London am. ore ...... •.. , _
Londonderry & Coleraine 2 th. ..... 3.,A
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen .................. ..• 24? ...... 310 . ..,
Lynn and Ely ..... „ ..... `21,/ ...... YIA
Lynn and Dereham ...... 1% ...... 34%
Manchester and Leeds... 73 ......
Do. 1/2 Shares ......... 32 .... 64
Midland... .................. 100 ..... 158 157%
Do. New ............... 2 .•• 19
•••
Midland,Birm.,Derby...loo ...... 119-1/2 118
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ......... ... 25 .•••••
Do. New Brandling... 10 ...... 32
Newry and Enniskillen. 2 ••• -61 L
Newark and SLeffield ... 11/4 ...... V2 • •
Northern and Eastern... 45 ......
North Wales .. ......... :1 lA, ......
North British ........... 10 ...... 181
Do. New
North Kent ............... 23/4.. - :314
Norwich and Branaion• • • 10 ......
Do., New ... ..... •.... 1 ...... 4%
Preston and Wyre ...... 50 ......
Kichmondand %Vest End
Junction
Rugby, Worst r, & Tring 1 ...... 5 4%3/4
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland i h... 414
Shrews., WolverhamP,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .. 4%%...
South Devon l5 . ..... 2711 A 27 ....
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d,.. 42 ,1
Do., No. 1
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1 21,f3 11A
South Wales ... 2% 614 7..........
Trent Valley 2 ..... . 204 ............
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 •••••• 4 ••• ...... ••••
York and North Midland 50 - .......••••••

" The canton of Lucerne has anticipated the wishes of the
Diet. The Grand Council has authorised the Executive
Council to enter into negotiations with the governments of
the other cantons for setting its prisoners at liberty. Even
the Lucerne refugees, who have been captured, are to be
brought before the tribunals, and tried according to the law
on the Free Corps. But there is reason to believe that this
process will be a mere matter of form, the Grand Council
having shown a disposition to listen to all appeals for grace
that may be made to it."
On the Paris Bourse there was much speculation in
railway shares, which closed with a decided fall. It
was settling day, but no defaulters had been named.
The following are the prices of shares in the principal
companies: —Paris and Orleans, 1,207 f. 50c.; Paris and
Rouen, 1,100 E; Rouen and Havre, 935 f.; Avignon,
1,042 f. 50c. •

The Money Market closed as follows :—Five per Cents.,
for cash, 117 f. 30c.; for account, 117 f. 55c. Three per
Cents., for cash, 851. Soc.; fur account, 85f. 85c. Bank
of France. Shares, 3,23Q1.
_Neapolitan, 104 f. Spanish
Threes, 42. Spanish Fives, 40i. New Loan, 86f. 45c.

Do.lA;Shares
Do. Selby
Do. Extension

FRENCH RAILWAYS•

..
Boulogne and Amiens... 4 _
111,0 g••• .........
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ...
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's ,
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's' ... ..
Pans
and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse' -.... 2
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's

T IIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1845.

, -
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 18.—The sales
are :—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 10 1-16 ;
D:tto, New Quarters, 5% prem. ; Preston And Wyre, 32%;
Barnsley Junction,
Carrick-
fergus, 51(2 ; Birkenhead, Mancester, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 10% 94 • Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 13-16;
CAleclonian, 13'34 ; Cambridge and Line°ln, WA" Clitheroe
Junction, 4 11-16 prem.
8% ; Belfast., Ballymena, and
Northern, 33/4 3i) ; Ely and Bedford, 31,4 ; `Goole, oncaster,
Sheffield, and Manchester, Iv, ; Huddersfield and Manchester
; Chum et Valley, 91,4
Railway and :Canal, 5; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,
81A ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 11-16 ; London
and York, 41%; Lynn and Dereham, ; Manchester and
Buiton, '53/4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 6% ; North Western,
Direct
51. ; Preston-and Wyre Extension', 32% pre:. ; S°uth-
poit andi Euxton, 23/4 ; Trent Valley;lo-W; Can;
tinuation, 41/2 prem. ; West Yorkshire, 6 1-16 ; Bordeaux,
Toulouse, and Cette, 234 ; Paris and Lyons (English),
3- 16 ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2 13-16 3A ; Peak Forest
Canal, 44.

DRIIRY•LANE TMEATRE.—Fiveerformances, after
case this evening, and M. Duprey will to delight the
habitues of this theatre, fur we have ascertained, beyond
any question, that his engagement cannot be extended,owing to the immediate appearance of Anna Thillon.
Those who wish to hear the first of living singers have
not a moment to lose,

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