The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1844.

speak, and Sir JASits GRAHAM, Mr. P. SHAW, and
Arr. SrEAKER, too, were all obliged to listen to him
in solemn silence, while he was vociferously cheered
by those Members who stood up for the liberty of
the subject. Never did any Minister of the Crown
come out of a scrape with so little credit. The
Home Secretary is the greatest enemy of Sir ROBERT
PEEL. He has dispersed, by main force, public
meetings peaceably assembled to discuss the griev•
antes of the people, and he now imitates the policy
of foreign despots, by opening private letters confided
to the Post-office. These are the acts of a Conserva-
tive Government. This outrage upon public liberty,
however, cannot rest here. Sir JAMES GRAHAM must
undergo some further interrogations, and if we mis-
take not, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE will compel him to make
a full•confession.

An exceedingly edifying discussion took place in
the house of Lords last night, on the subject of the
Bishop of EXETER'S Bill for the suppression of bro-
thels, when Lord CAMPBELL, with a delicate and vir-
tuous consideration for the morals of the community,
and of the reporters in particular, suggested that the
discussion ,should be taken with closed doors, so that
none should be made acquainted with the awful facts
detailed by the ghostly Prelate—whose speech, to do
him justice, exhibited an infinite variety of research,
and proved t' at he was thoroughly master of his subject
—but their Lordships and the Bench of Bishops, to
whose apostolical purity and simplicity of nature
the heinous disclosures made by their episcopal bro-
ther would of course be unintelligible. Lord
CAMPBELL'S suggestion, however; was not adopted
by the House, and, to say the truth, we
are by no means sorry for it, for if
the discussion had been carried on with closed doors,
the " pensive public" would have lost one of the
richest bits of cant that was ever indulged in, even
by the Bishop of LONDON. In reply to some forcible
remarks: made •by Lord BROUGHAM respecting the
exclusion of BYRON'O statue from Westminster Abbey,
the Right Rev. Prelate observed :—" All the objec-
tions which had been urged against the eloquent his-
torian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
might be urged with equal justice and with equal
force against the works of the great poet whose name
had just ben mentioned. Almost every one of his
poems contained inuendos, descriptions, and assertions
which, on the ground of morals as well as of religion,
disqualified the writer from any right to
claim admission after his death into a sanc-
tuary consecrated to the worship of CHRIST." Lord
BYRON has certainly put forth many careless random
opinions in his works, and he was notquite so orthodox
a Churchman as the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
could perhaps wish; but to compare him with GIBBON
in this respect, is to do his memory the cruellest in-
justice. The historian of Rome, gravely and deli-
berately, by argument and by sarcasm, and ingenious
twisting of the truth, endeavoured to sap the founda-
tion of Christianity ; he brought learning, method,
and a deep-rooted spirit of infidelity to his task ; and
with.solemn pompousness in his text, and epigram-
matic point in his notes, laboured to show that the
earlier Christians were by no means what the world
supposed them to have been. Far otherwise was
it with poor BYRON. He had no cold, settled, inveterate
hatred to Christianity. He did not diligently
bring all the powers of his great, but ill-regulated,
mind to bear against it. Deism was not a faith—a
ruling principle of action with him. We could
quote upwards of a hundred passages from his works
informed with the truest and most fervent religious
feeling ; and know not where to look for a purer—
more sacred—more inspiring body of sentiment, than
lit() be found in his Evening Address to the Virgin
in " Don Juan." But Lord BYRON, says the Bishop,
was immoral Well, and was not PRIOR immoral—
grossly so?. Was not CONGREVE the most immoral
dramatist of his age--so flagrant in his immorality
that it is scarcely possible to represent his playson the
stage, or recommend them for perusal in the boudoir ?
Was not DRYDEN—" glorious JOHN," as he was
called—immoral in many of his poems—immoral in
his exquisitely sycophantic and lying dedications—
still more immoral in his reckless change—from a
sheer desire to advance his worldly interests—from
Protestantism to Popery ? Yet all these great men
have statues in Weatmingt9rAb4eyt.,4esPitillieir-4
,strd, -now,-' in the hineteenth
century—a century which boasts of its perfect free-
dom from intolerance—it is gravely insisted, in the
highest Court of Judicature in the kingdom, that Loaf
ByßoN's statue has no right to be introduced into a sanc-
tuary where CONGREVE, and PRIOR, and DRYDEN are'
deemed quite moral and virtuous enough to be repre-
sented in effigy ! Shame on this sickening cant, which
is alike unworthy of the age in which it is uttered,
and of the episcopal dignitary who uttered it!
BYRON immoral ! Impossible ! Had he been so,
surely the late respectable publisher of that High
Church and State periodical, the Quarterly Review—
the patronised of LordS and Bishops—would never
have dreamed of republishing " Don Juan" with all
the passages, which were once thought objectionable
and expunged as such, diligently restored to the text!
If there be one fact more discreditable than another
to the much vaunted spirit of the age, it is the studied
exclusion from Westminster Abbey of the statue of
the most genuine poet that the world has known since
the days of SHAKSPEARE.

We learn, from Madrid Journals of the 7th, that
MUNOZ., the,llllolind of the QUEEN MOTHER, has
been made a Grandee of Spain. The fact is an-
nounced iri these words in the papers :—" By a royal
decree communicated to the chiefs of the Palace, her
Majesty Queen Donna ISABELLA 11. has been
pleased to raise Don FERNANDO MUNOZ, now residing
at Paris, to the rank of Grandee of Spain, with the
title of Duke de RIANZARES." NARYAEZ, and the
Minister of Foreign Affairs were daily expected at
Madrid, when it was generally believed some new
coup d etat would be announced. Among the reports
that prevailed, it was affirmed that the Cortes would
be immediately dissolved ; and that steps were in
progress to make important changes in the consti-,
tuencies. It was said, also, that the new 'Finance
Minister intends to make a rigid inquiry into the
financial operations of the late Cabinet, and that,
owing to some suspected malversations, BRAN()
and CARRASCO had been ordered to remain at
Madrid. The funds still continued greatly depressed.
On the 7th, the Three per Cents. were done at 27 !Or
cash, and 27 at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at
204 at 60 days. •

Most of the Paris journals again advert to the
commencement of hostilities in Morocco, but without
adding any fresh intelligence, and if we except one
journal, without any bitterness against, the Govern-
'ment or this country. The National is the exception,
but its unmeaning hostility to England, its unwar-
rantable imputations against the good faith of this
country, and its rabid articles, intended only to stir
up war between two great nations, are so well
known," that any opinion expressed by that journal,
on a question which involves the national interests.
of England and France, is entitled to very little
weight. Nothing short of the entire conquest of
Morocco will satisfy that organ of the Republicans.
"The blow," it says, " should be given at once with
all our might and main. A decided victory is the
only negotiation possible, for the Koran itself pre-
scribes submission to superior force. We are able to
assail Morocco with our troops—to take possession of
her coast by means of our ships. Bold, rapid, and
well-combined movements would enable us in a very
short time to carry our arms into the very heart of
the empire, and, by reducing its chief to a state of
impotence, we .should in a very short time obtain a
decisive influence over the whole of the tribes of
Algeria. A conquest of Morocco would be a death-
blow to that holy war, which is incessantly raised
against us."
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, a
lengthened discussion took place on the Orleans and
Bordeaux Railroad. The arguments turned chiefly
on one point, whether the new lines should be con-
structed by the Government, or left to companies,
M. DE Boaz' moved that the lines should be executed
by the State. The motion was opposed by the
Minister of Finance, chiefly on the ground that the
surplus revenue which had existed for several years
had all been absorbed, and that it would be a
hazardous experiment, under present circumstances,
to borrow money to the amount that would be re-
quired. " Some years back, in 1838, he had sup-
ported the system now proposed by the Hon•
Deputy's amendment—of having the railroads exe-
cuted by the State exclusively. His motive for so

doing was, that scarcely anything was then
known about railroads, and that no company had,
at that period, come forward to take part in
their execution. Since then, two great compa-
nies had sprung into existence, and had executed the
Rouen and Orleans lines. He had also another mo-
tive—that they then possessed a milliard, which had
since been expended in increasing their naval and
military strength, and in supporting for some time a
considerable army. If they had a similar sum at
present, he should side with the Hon. Gentleman's
views."

After speeches fur and against the amendment the
general discussion closed, and a vote of 54,000,000 f.
was taken for commencing the line between Tours
and Bourdeaux.

On Thursday the French Funds had improved.
The Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 70c. , and the
Fives at 122 f. 20c.

THE BOURSE-THURSDAY, JUNE 13.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Clnts• ••• •• 122 10 .. 122 15 .. 122 .. 122
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.— • 81 55 .. 82 60 .. 82 55 .. 82 GO
Bank of France• •. • • • • 3042 50 ..3050 • • 3042 50 •.3050
Lailitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll32 50 • • 1132 50 . • 1132 50 .. 1132 50
5,000 f. Sharesslos —510.5 ..5105 ..5105
lielgian Bank.. • • • • • • • • • • • • 660 .. 660 . • 660 660
Belgian Fives, 1831.•
1840
1842 •••• • • • • 1091 .. 1094 • • 1091 • • 1001
Spanish Active ••••• • • • • • 301 .. 301 .• 301 • • 301
Threes •••••• • • • • • • 34/ .. 341 .. 344 .. 341
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 461 .. 461 • • 461
Neapolitan 99 70 .. 99 70 • • 99 GO .. 99 60
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain • • ....... • • • • • liBs

• . 885

.. 88

.. 885

-
Versailles, R. 8.• ••••• • • • • 372 50 .. 37.5 • • 370 • • 372 50
L.B •••'••••••••• 248 75 .. 248 75 .. 245 .. 247 50
Rouen.
.9.41 25 .. 941 25 .. 941 25 .. 941 25

Rouen to Havre ..... •••• • • • 750 .. 750 50
Orleans .• • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • 960 • • 960 .. 950 .. 955
Strasburg to Bale• • • • • .
Avignon to Marseilles.. •• •• 748 75 758 75 .. 748 75 . 750
RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15Tu JUNE.
St. Germain • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 875 • . 275 .. 870 870
Versailles, R. 8.• • • • • • • •• • • 372 50 • • 375 .. 372 50 .. 372 50
L.B • • • • • • • • • • • • 250 .. 250 .. 245 • • 245
Rouen •••••• •••••••• • • • • •• 940 947 50 . 938 75 .. 945

Rouen to Havro• • •• • ...... • 755
Orleans

•• 755
•• 965

Strasburg to Bale..
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 748

• • 740
.. 950

•• 742 50
•• 957. 50

•• 240
•• 755

•• 233 75 .. 235,
•• 747 50 •• 750

THIS bAY'S NEWS.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their august visitor, the King of Saxony, and at-
tended by the royal suite, returned to Buckingham
Palace this day frOm Claremont.

A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock this af-
ternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. All
the Ministers attended.

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The transactions in" Cotton, at Liverpool, yesterday, were
rather extensive, amounting to 6,000 bales, at steady. prices.
There was a stronger market for Grand Junction and Bir-
mingham Shares. Eastern Counties, Ilk; Grand Junction,
217 ; Belfast Junction, 31. I ls. ; Leeds and Bradford,
V. Bs. 6d. ;, Birmingham, 219 ; Ditto, Thirds, 36 ; Brighton,
47} ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57*; and Leeds, 107;
Midland Counties, 931 ; Bicester, 37 ; Paris and Lyons, 3i ;
Ditto and Orleans, 38A ; Orleans and Tours, 2h ; Lyons and
Avignon, 21.35. ; Paris and Strasburg, 211.
The American advices received yesterday read tolerably
well but we apprehend, from all we hear, that the domestic
manufacturers of the States are supplying a very large pro-
portion of the. home consumption. In the Canadian produce
markets, ashes had declined considerably upon the advices
per Britannia, and' flour was dull, owing chiefly to the firm-
ness of the holders, in the face of the rather discouraging
accounts from England.
It is justly a matter for congratulation, that the commerce
of New Brunswick, so long' and seriously depressed, is likely
to revive. A- party writing from St. John's states :
"As soon as the -navigation opens, business of all kinds
-must take a start. The merchant from above will be down
for supplies, which are generally, pretty well exhausted by
the spring, and new life and animation will pervade all classes
and conditions among. us. Then, again, on the left hand side,
we shalt have the spring fleet coming into port, some laden
with Merchandise, and others less richly freighted, to carry away
the' staple articl4kof the" country_ for the English market.
We likewise have reason to Believe that a ne* field of enter-
Priae will be: obi Wain/miner; by some of our merchants
in the proseeutloalsf:onifesheries, since the Legislature has
been soliberatiti*aTfording meahs of encouragement. If this
business be eitkred upnit with anything like spirit there will
be no lack of employment for the labourer, as well
as the fisherman.— Adl. -have- enough to do. Nova Scotia
employs 10,000 peisins in the, fisheries. In fact, it 'is this
business that maintains that province in a commercial point
ofview. A straniert6 go round the wharves in Halifax, would
have -undeniable prod of this fact, for during the greater part
of the year, the wharves, one and all, we had almost said, are
literally-strewed with fish, drying in the sun ; and hundreds
of labourers employed- in attending—in - turning, gathering,
packing, mewing, and in fact. shipping them for the West
India markets. This business likewise gives employment to
coopers arid-carpenters; in the manufacture of hogsheads and
boxes.. Why should not our wharves present something of
this aspect?
. "Again, the ship-buildin,

business will revive • this like-

4subigiremeilfrls,ltrirttrtir mow"E'ven
though other inducements be held out for the encou-
ragement of. industry, the ship-yards must not be de-
serted. They have hitherto given employment to thou-
sands; they-Itsve hien the strong means'of building the
city, and spreading the name of our people far and wide, as a
people possessing an enterprising and .commercial spirit, and
worthy of the land that gave them birth. Let our ship-
yards, then, be re-opened. Let our lumberer's attend to their
occupations,—our farmer's to theirs. In short, let no business
be deserted."
are'happy to hear that when the Britannia left, some
of these favourable anticipations had already been resliied.
The determination of Sir Robert Peel, it appears, is, to
adhere to his Bank Bill, as printed, unless Parliament
force him into modifications.

The 'division on the Sugar • question having
gone against the Ministry, has had -no, effect upon
the value of the funds, although rather unexpected.
Consols for the opening have realised 98 to A, being fall rates.
Exchequer Bills have been marked 745. to 765. premium,
which are again rather better prices. Bank Stock is 1971 to
1981; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per. Cents. have
been 104 to 4.
An improvement has occurred in the value of Spanish
Stock, the Five per Cents. being 23 to and the Three per
Cents. 341 I. Mexican Bonds have been also better, as. the
accounts per Britannia advise the subsiding of the Texas ,an-
nexation excitement. The quotations are 341 to a. Portuguese
Converted Bonds have been steady at 47 ; Colombian are
13 to 121; and Peruvian, 27 ; Dutch and Belgian Ponds
maintain their value.
are at full rates.
kithee the
whichexception
litf
tthe; South Great
,
The Western
Westernß alaei ITin: vlddsamßyt st;Birmingareham
Td ,
IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock.... ....... ....... ........... 197% 198%
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities Wit
3% per Cent. Annuities 1818 lO2
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities ........ 101W4
Consols far Account . 98%
Exchequer Bills, • l%d.
130.
Ditto Small"... ....... •
..... ... 75. pm.
73 rm.
Ditto Advertised '
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent • .. . 103%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.. .......• • 56
Columbian • Bonds. l3 193(
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ..«.............. :1%
Ditto for the Account 311%%
Ditto Deferred Stock, l4
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 27
. Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent ..... 23%
Ditto Deferred 13%
Ditto Three per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents ....... 61%5(
Dutch 5 per ...... 10034
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA.T AT. UNE.

RAILWAYS. - --.
:MA
Chester and Holyhead ...... . . PAW.
..... '. . 6. .. ...:. 'b Si
it .mla.
..... to —•
Chiehester and Brighton b -•. ' ' -441 - . to
' Dublin and Casbel...... ........ ..... 234 ..,.. wit ...... to -
- Great Western
Ditto 34 Shares fiQ .4......tIS
. ' Ditto Fifths ' •' - -19 ....:.: 14 ... to
London and Birmingham...„ l4O
tiviroinngtoelz.:7l....ct...
421021x::::::7., j..1.7....:-::.:...
tottloo:
....4437
Lo
London
NewcastleDn London
noaU,anSaddntisoßrdaruDieriss:;
• Northern and Eastern • 45 ... ~..,,,,-6-r't 7.. to
North Midland •'•••••••••••••••• ••i•i• tee I`t 7. -
. Ditto Thirds 2l.t. 1311. 4d 34:4 to —.-
South Eastern and Dover 32% .4.. A- 444
Ditto New - 4..... to '
York and North Midland .44... ,50 ....- 1 li• ' • 4. ' - to 11431 7 _ ••••••
Ditto 34 Shares 25.:x..... 4 • .4.•• to 59
t --.Paris and Orleans
.....211 •-•• • - •„„ to 37%,11
Paris and Rouen.... ......... ..... 20 .......•.'-' ... to SS
Orleans, Tours, and fordeaux... ..... ... 1 'l., ... to -.PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, .3 .43,
3 per Cent. Consols p....'”98%
Three and a Half Stock
Ditto New, 1630 - ....... -102
334 per Cent. Debentures ., 94
Bank Stock .41,..i.....",
Grand Canal Stock ......• , 1334
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. ' ••,,, 84
LAST PRICES OF SHARES; -
RAILWAYS. PAID. 'Pis SHARE.
Dublin and K. Road
3rogheda 55.i„.•.1. e 5
~,,
Dublin and Cashel ditt0...,
Hibernian Bank 25 .4 3
National Bank
Royal Bank • -• 10. 4 11%
National Insurance 25 ..1!.!' 36
4
.. ...
Patriotic ditto . , 9k ..... .... 8%,
Wicklow Copper Mines -5 - - 203 i
City of Dublin Steam Company 'loo ' jpo
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Steam Ship Building Company
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 14.—We cannot
report any improvement to-day. Edinburgh and Glasgow,
661 ; Manchester and Leeds, 107 ; Manchester and 13irming-
ham Quarters, 4a premium.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS‘DAY)

LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind this day at noon,: light, north-
westerly 'breeze, and fine.
DEAL, ''JITNE 14.—Wind, A.M., W.N.W., moderate; P.M.,
W., fresh; 9 P.M., W.N.W., light.—Arrd Corsair, Grieg, Port
Adelaide; Columbia, Bombay; Louisa, Munro, Ceylon ; Iris,
Fisher, St. Helena. Sld. Princess Alice Maude, Halifax.
PORTSMOUTH JUNE 14.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd.
Lion, London for Calcutta; Westminster, London for New
York.
COWES, JUNE 14.—Arrd. Coverdale, Benson, Bahia ; Tele-
graph, Alder, and Amo, Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Acrd. Kerswell, Newport for Bos-
ton, with loss of mainmast.
GLOUCESTER, JUNE 14.—S1d. Lord Stanley, St. Jago de
Cuba.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Theresa,
Rio for Hamburgh ; Henrietta, Surinam for Amsterdam ;
Margaret Parker, Tobago; Johann Julius, Porto Rico for
Altona ; Catalina, Havannah for Antwerp; George Stevens,
New Orleans fur Amsterdam ; Isaac Hicks, New Orleans for
Havre; Hansa, and Mary Phillips, New York—both for
Hamburgh.
Mirxonn, JUNE 13 —And. Venilia, Sierra Leone. The
Margaret, Rees, from Porthcawl to Waterford, sprang a leak
and foundered in St. Bride's Bay yesterday ; crew saved.

THE SHIPPING INTEREST.—Shipping to a value
exceeding 40,00 W. has, it is said, changed owners at the port
of Sunderland within the last month,