The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

frbirb Wbition

THE FUNDS-(CI
BRITISH.
_ _ _

4OSING PRICES.)
FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds ....... 46 pin
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ea. Bills, 1,000/....2d 52 pm
Ditto 5001 52 pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct.
India Stock for Opg...
Consols for Acct....... 93/
I FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.
per Cent. Red.........101k
New 311 per Cent.........
New 5 per Cele
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860

FOREIG.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ll2
b per cent lO2
Brazilian Bonds 69-/
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent —
Chilia.n, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Boi
Danish, 3 per rent.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent--
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s,6 perct.

Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 384
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russian, 5 pei
Ditto, Metallic —
Spanish;s per cent
Ditto, Deferred.... . 10
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 21 per cent 521
Ditto, 5 per cent. ..

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 48
Bristol z.nd Exeter (70 paid) ......
Great Western, (65 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (90) . .....
Ditto Quarter Shares (25paid) 49 f
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 611
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22
Ditto Scrip (20 naid)

BHRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THB EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—A meeting was held yesterday in the
Ward of Tower, when a great number of merchants
and tradesmen of the highest respectability assembled,
to devise some means for protesting against the sur-
charges to which they bad been generally subjected.
Forbearing studiously from expressing any opi-
nion on the policy of the Tax itself, they em-
ibodied in a resolution their desire to denounce,
n the strongest possible language, the " improper
and vexatious system of surcharges " which had
been, without investigation or reason," and in the
face of " a solemn declaration," very generally im-
posed on them. It seems, from the statement of one
of the district assessors who attended the meeting,
that when he sent in his book according to the actual
return, it had been sent back to him with an intima-
tion that he must revise and raise the amounts—
an order with which he complied, according to his
own statement, " most reluctantly." We must
confess that if he could only do it " reluctantly,"
we think it was his duty to refuse to do it at all ;
for his reluctance could only have arisen from the
impression that the return first sent in was correct,
and no order of his superiors could justify his making
surcharges which he believed to be erroneous. If it
be true that the Government orders these sur-
charges to be made " without investigation or rea-
son,' it is little better than a robbery on the public,
who in many cases will prefer paying the unjust
surcharge, to incurring the trouble and expense of
appealing against it. If the district assessors are
desired, without discrimination, to raise the amount
of the assessments, it is indeed time for the public
to protect themselves against so gross an impo-
sition ;. and meetings ought to be held to denounce
an evil which individuals have neither the time nor
the energy; perhaps, to successfully grapple with.
The meeting in the Ward of Tower has furnished an
example which ought to be immediately followed,
and the revelations of the assessor leave no room
for doubt that surcharges have been made in a
spirit of speculation as to how much can be wrung
from the pockets of the public—dependence being
placed on the general disinclination of men of
business to devote trouble and time to such matters
as an appeal, involving a sum less in amount than they
might lose by neglect of their ordinary occupations.
Even the Government assessor, who wrote a letter to
the 'meeting in the hope of exculpating himself, makes
admissions that prove the justice of the complaints
made against the whole system. He says that several
hundreds of names were returned as having made no
assessments, which allegation, he declares, from in-
quiry, he believes to be partially untrue ; for he
thinks " some of the parties made returns,
and the assessors have mislaid or lost them."
Here is a specimen of the " secrecy " which the
public were promised should be provided for in the
arrangements made for carrying out the Income-tax.
Many of the returns were " mislaid :yr lost," and who
shall say how many hands they may have passed into
since the negligence of the assessor let them go from
his own possession ? It was mentioned at the meeting
alluded to, that the party who had already paid his
Income-tax had a fresh charge made against him, and
though Sir R. Peel caused a letter to be written, pro-
mising " immediate inquiry into the circumstances,"
how is the individual to be repaid for his loss of time
and anxiety in rectifying a blunder which the mean-
est capacity and the commonest honesty, added to
ordinary care, could not have fallen into ? •
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this
morning, taking the same line as the sham-Peter—
a bad Champetre of the Globe (if the pun will be
excused)—magnifies Mr. Wilbraham, the ousted
Whig-Radical Member for South Cheshire, through
six columns of report and leading article, upon the
occasion of a picture of that gentleman being
presented to his lady. Mr. Wilbraham, who lost
his election, it is assumed, in consequence of
his support of the Bs. duty scheme, is placed
.by our Contemporary in invidious contrast
with the Conservatives, who, though they opposed
that scheme subsequently voted for Sir Robert
Peel's Bill, by which we have a duty of 205.,
now in operation. We cannot see any grounds of
contrast in the case. There is not, we are sure, a
Whig in England who does not perfectly under-
stand the difference between Bs. and 20s.—and
understand it well, too, for all practical purposes.
-Even, therefore, if this were all, there surely,
would be no inconsistency in voting for a pro-
tecting duty of 205., though one had previously
voted against reducing the protecting duty to Bs.
But this is not all : the fixed duty was notoriously a
fraud : almost undisguisedly a step to the abandon-
ment of all protection whatever. This may be a very
good reason for the money jobbers and mill gamblers
preferring it to Sir Robert Peel's law ; but we pre-
sume all farmers would rather have 48s a quar-
ter for wheat in this and in future years,
than
this year, and 30s. or less the year following :
and so for the future, we presume that all such
farmers think that they ha made a good exchange
of Lord Melbourne for r Robert Peel, and are
thankful to the gentlemen to whom they
are, ildebltetde for that exchange. As we have before
said
reduction in the price of corn is no more the effeectaof
Sir Robert Peel's Bill of last session than it is the
effect of the statute of premunire : but that the reduc-
tion has not been greater, much greatar, is the con-
sequ,ence of the principle of protection which that
Bill has carefully preserved.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
Pring,
Her Majesty's ship Thunderer, 84, Captain P
is now waiting orders. The crew was paid wages on
Wednesday last.
Her Majesty's steamer Locust, Lieut. Lunn, having
taken a supply of coals on board, and had her defects
made good, will sail to-day (Saturday) for the Medi
terranean.
The Pestonjee Bomanjee, transport, arrived from
Quebec on Thursday, with part of the 67th Regiment
on boar4l. The troops were landed on the same day,
at the Royal William Victualling Yard.
Ships in Harbour.--Caledonia, 120, Capt. A. Milne;
San Josef, 110, Capt. F. W. Burgoyne ; Locust
. steamer, Lieutenant John Lunn ; Confiance steamer ;
Diligence and Pestonjee Bombajee transports; and
Rochester lighter.
In the Sound.—Thunderer, 84, Capt. D. Pring.
We have received a letter from her Majesty's sloop
Champion, 18, Commander Richard Byron, dated
• Callao, Aug. 19. It states the country (Peru) to be
in a Most unsettled state from insurrection and civil
war, relative to the election of a new President, for
which there were three candidates in the field. One
• of the rejected has command of the troops, which he
had taken by force ; the one elected had a portion of
the troops, with the populace, and an engagement
was soon expected to decide it. The Champion was
• lying as guard-ship at Callao, waiting the ,arrival of
the Admiral, when it was expected she would be sent
to the Sandwich Islands or Mexico, being the only
small craft on the station. The Carysfort, 26, Captain
. Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, was daily expectod
• from England, and the Pearl, 20, Commander It. 11.
Stopford, from the Brazils.
Her Majesty's ship Druid, 44, Captain Henry
Smith, C. 8., arrived at Bombay, from 'Trincomalee,
on the 26th October, and was there on the Ist Nov.,
waiting orders for her return to England, where she
ma_y be expected about the beginning of April.
Her Majesty's ship Blonde was to leave Nankin
the latter part of September, with three millions a
. dollars on board, for England, part of the Chinese
tribute, and might be expected in March, 1843. Mr.
Conker, herm of the Cornwallis, is coining home as
Master of
three years in China. Blonde, front ill health, having been
. . Mr. Henry Liddell, surgeon (late of the Blonde,
and who. was acting on board the Cornwallis at the
is appointed to the Nimrod.
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