The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-19 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES).
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock .165 ?India Stock — pin
3 per Cent. Red. .. 924 Ditto Bonds ....... - 48 pm
3 per Cent. Cons 931 Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent. Red... 1004 Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent... lOll Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 57 pm
New 5 per Cen'
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 57 pm
Jan. 1860 .. 124 Bank Stock for Acct.
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 9-16 Consols for Acct....... 934
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... 113 Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent —
Bueno &Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 pes cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Metallic ..... ..
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l6*
Ditto, 1024 204 Ditto, Deferred.... .. .
Cuba Bnnds, 6 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. --e.
Danigh, 3 per :ent — Exchange f —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent..... Dutch, 24 per cent 524
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. ....« 1004
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 40
Cheltenham and Crest Western (80 paid) 20i
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 74
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Black wall ( paid) ... ....
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 54
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 57i
.North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) l9i
York and North Midland (50 paid) ....•...
Ditto New Shares (20 paid) 37

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Two sovereigns have been sent us
for " the service" of Alice Lowe, the girl against
whom Lord Frankfort has brought his extraor-
dinary charge of felony. The writer says, "he
knows how difficult it is for th weak and de-
fenceless to struggle against the rowerful," and
that he has no doubt "many will be found
anxious to come fbrward with a trifle to aid a
weak unfriended girl against so vicious a titled
profligate." We entirely sympathise with the
feeling by which this communication has been
prompted; and we have not the slightest doubt
that it will make itself known more widely.
We cannot, however, undertake to receive and
apply subscriptions for the service of any per-
son ; though we shall take care to transmit the
sum received to the Governor of Newgate for the
prisoner. As for the " struggle against the
powerful," which this case is supposed to exhibit,
we are happy to think that the imbecile and corn-
temptible profligate, who has brought it forward,
is one of the most powerless of beings in a country
governed by laws, and the law of opinion. If he
had any property worth looking after, we doubt
whether he would now be at large; but nobody
seems to think him worth looking after, except
that small number of persons to be found in every
large capital, by titled, or untitled profligates,who
will purchase their services. The peculiarity of
Lord Frankfort's case is the impotent folly of his
whole personal self-exposure—imbecility so ex-
treme (as in his former scuffle with an Italian '
organ-boy) as to render probable the construction
put by the opposite counsel upon his whole con-
duct. In a previous examination, Mr. Adolphus
said " his object had been to show that the state
of his Lordship's mind was such as to render it
highly probable that he might have given the
whole of the property freely to the prisoner, and
have lost all recollection of having so done."
We can find no other (we do not say excuse,
for we seek to find none) but explanation of
Lord Frankfort's imbecile profligacy than that
alluded to above. It is difficult to conceive
in any man, who retains the command of reason,
such senselessness in abandonment, and such
apathy in his self-exposure. It appears to us
impossible that any Jury can convict the girl
Lowe ; and we regret that any Magistrate should
have thought it his duty to send her to trial. The
security of property would be in no degree hurt-
fully affected by the judicial recognition that
there was no security for it when thus handled;
and if this recklessness proceeded from something
more than the usual insanity of vice, then the
blame of its consequences rest, with- those whom
private or public duty may have entitled to guard
against them. In any case, Lord Frankfort
comes with anything but clean hands into
court ; he has given too much evidence against
himself to convict another by his evidence; and
the best we can hope for his own sake (we say
nothing of the order to which he belongs ; we
will not commit the unfairness of treating his
conduct as characteristic of a class)—is that far-
ther proceedings will prove that his evidence
ought not, at present, to be taken against any-
body. What a feast fbr foreign and American
journalists will be the doings of this thing, bear-
ing the name of a LOrd !
STANDARD.—The Examiner of last Sunday
has a long article upon the new Corn-law and
the Tariff, fuller of contradictions and inconse-
quences than any article of equal length we
remember to have seen. It might be thought
such an article could be safely left to do justice
upon itself; but this would be an error. Many
people—nay, most people—in this reading age,
trot contented with generally reading only such
.Aiting as they expect to coincide with their
own opinions, take care to remember of what
they read only just as much as pleases them.
With such readers the grossest contradictions no-
thing mar the effect of any argument—they find
something in it to please; and for the rest, they
skip it, as boys say they skip the hard words in
their lessons. Now it is necessary to bring such
readers to book, to force them to see the contra-
dictions of their favourite instructor, whether
they will or no, and to leave them without ex-
cuse when they willingly yield to a deception.
Let us, with this view, show the inconsisteucy of
the Examiner's reasoning—inconsistency that
would be absolutely iucredible in an acute and
able writer, were it not that he is well aware
how easy it is to impose upon men who love the
cheat. Speaking of the Tariff' and Corn-law, this
writer says:—
" The farmers who, reckoning from a bad autumn
and an indifferent spring, calculated on getting 70s.
a quarter for their -wheat, may now be thankful if
they get 505., and thus on the whole consumption of
wheat alone, to say nothing of other kinds of grain,
they will be minus their estimate at least fifteen
millions! The corn merchant, it is said, will lose at
least Bs. on every quarter of foreign wheat which he
imports, and as this, along with flour, but independent
of other corn, will be near three, millions of quarters,
the result is, that the means of furnishing cheap
bread to the nation are, exclusive of the loss of all
other kinds of grain, literally swamped to the value
of 1,200,0001. If Sir Robert had enacted a law
which commanded the destruction of a certain
amount of the shipping, coasting craft, barges,
wagons, and horses, employed in carrying corn, he
could not more_ effectually have secured a supply of
dear and uncertain bread than by this proceeding.'
Dear bread, with wheat at 50s. the quarter !
But let us take a few lines further on :
" There is no sale for agricultural produce. The
hay, which this year has been a scanty crop, will yet
not fetch 31. a ton, while in a similar season, in the
prosperity of trade, it would have fetched 51. and 61.
Potatoes, and the crop, although fine in quality, is not
a large one, are selling at 4s. per sack, instead of 75.,
Bs., and 9s. Between the price of sheep and oxen
this, and even last year, there is a fall equal to one-
fifth part of the value. Fresh butter, which in thriv-
ing times sold at 14d. a pound, will hardly bring 10d.
Cheese, worth last year 80s. a cwt., sells for 605."
Here, then, is the effect of a means to secure
a dear and uncertain supply of bread—wheat at
50s. a quarter, and all agricultural produce ex-
ceeding the demand to an extent to be abso-
lutely unsaleable. Will any one reconcile these
propositions?

MEETING of CHARTISTS.
A meeting of Female Chartists was held on Monday
.3vening, in the -.ll\ atonal Charter Association Hall,
Old Bailey, for the purpose of forming a " Female
Chartist Association, to co-operate with the Male
Association : and for other objects connected with the
:nterests of " The People's Charter."

On the motion of Miss SUSANNA INGE, seconded by
Mrs. WYATT, Mr. Carey was called to the chair.
After a suitable address from Mr. RIDLEY, in which
he commented on the present state of woman, and
pointed to the position which, according to his judg-
ment,. she ought to occupy in society, elevating her
thoughts to political aspirations,
. Mr. Coins expressed the high degree of satisfac-
tion which he had received from Mr. Ridley's address,
but could not help saying that woman, in his (Mr.
Cohen's) opinion, would be more in her proper cha-
racter and station at home, where she was the pride
and ornament of " the domestic hearth," than in the
political arena.—(Sensation among the ladies.) He
acknowledged the high anduseful talents of Miss
Martineau; but he did not consider that nature
intended woman to partakeof political rights.
She was not, physicallconsidered, intended for
it. He had the highest
resipect for the cha-
racter of woman, and sense of
what was due to
her in every point of consideration but he
would put it to the mothers present,
whether
hether they did
not find themselves more happy in
peacefulness •
and usefulness of the domestic hearth, than in
!'orth in public and aspiring after political riegehmitsng
(Hear, murmurs, interruptions, and cries of " Order.")
Mr. SAL3f9X, jun., said that Mr. Cohen's object was