The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Stock .1651 India Stock ........... .253 pm
Bank
Cent. Red. .. 93 Ditto Bonds ....... .... 48 pm
3 per
3 per Cent. Cod 93
934 Ditto Old Annuities ...
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New 3/ per Cent... ...... 1014 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 59
New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 59 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 59 pm
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Oct. 1859
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Belgian, 5 per cent...... Ditto, New Ditto 37/
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Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 pei cent ll2l
Chilian, 6 per cent - Ditto, Metallic .... --
Colombian, 6 per cent.— Spanish, 5 per cent l7/
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred.... ...
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 794 French, 5 per cent —f.
Danish, 3 per :ent — Exchangef c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent French, 3 percent. —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 32/ Dutch, 2/ per cent. 521
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent .., ... 1005
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.
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Ditto New (—paid)
Ditto Debentures ( paid) 9/
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Ditto New Shares (50 paid .... ............ 614
London and Brighton 00 paid)..
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid)
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Ditto Thirds ( paid) ..... —....„ ..... . 59/
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 595
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
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South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... •••••• 24
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) ....................... . 164

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOIMNALS

FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The inquest on Charles Beale, who
died soon after leaving the Northleach House of
Correction, has been brought to a close, and the
verdict affirms that the deceased died of a dis-
ease of the lungs, brought on and aggravated by
the treatment he received whilst a prisoner. Such
a decision as this must be regarded as strongly
condemnatory of the sort of discipline to which
the inmates of the Northleach prison are sub-
jected. But lest the censure of the Jury should
be thought to apply to the system alone, they
express " their unanimous disapprobation of the
conduct of the Governor Townshend, the surgeon
Bedwell, and the under-turnkey, Harding." It
has become a question with some of our Contem-
poraries whether a verdict ought not to have
been returned, not only censuring the parties by
whose fault the death of Beale was occasioned,
but declaring them to be guilty of a grave
offence, of which the law takes cognisance. Our
own opinion is that the verdict goes far enough.
k leaves the question of criminality still open ;
and, if the facts are strong enough to bring any
persons within the grasp of Justice, there is
nothing in the verdict to prevent them from
being yet placed upon their trial. It is declared
that Beale died of disease of the lungs, " brought
on and aggravated" by his treatment in prison.
It is not as if he had gone into the gaol with health
already impaired—when, perhaps,. the necessary
discipline of a prison might have aggravated a
malady of which the seeds had been previously
sown ; hut in this case the cause of death was
" brought on" by the treatment to which the de-
ceased was subjected. If there were more
severity shown towards Beale than was required
by the rules of the prison, the whole blame rests
with the individuals who occasioned it. But if
the management of the Northleach House of
Correction is such, that any person confined
in it is liable to contract a fatal disease
under the ordinary treatment, then must the
persons by whom that treatment is prescribed
and sanctioned be held responsible. We do
not see that Magistrates have any more right
than other individuals to order, or permit ia an
establishment un ler their control, such a curse
of management as may be destructive of human
life. The direction of the internal arran em!nts
of a prison is a duty to which responsibili y ought
to attach, as welt as to the exercise of . ny less
important functions. Though the loca Magis-
trates have, in the case of the Northleach House
of Correction, when sitting in judgment on their
own conduct, passed a verdict of self-acquittal,
they will not get off so easily at the bar of public
opinion ; nor ought they to escape a legal tribu-
nal, if they have been guilty of ordering
or permitting a series of enormities to be com-
mitted in the prison over whichthey had control.
With regard to the conduct of the governor, the
surgeon, and the turnkey, who are expressly de-
nounced by name with the disapprobation of the
Jury, inquiry cannot, of course, stop at the point
it has already gone to. The surgeon, at least,
must be wholly unfit for his office, if he erred in
ignorance ; and if the death of his unhappy
patient was caused by ill treatment and neglect,
we must forbear from saying of what we consider
the medlcal man to have been guilty. A memo-
rial has been forwarded to the Secretary of State,
and it is to be hoped that any inquiry that is un-
dertaken may he carried out in a different spirit
from that which is too often shown when the
conduct of persons in authority happens to be in
question. Let every fair opportunityofjustifica-
tion be afforded, and every facility given for the
establishment of innocence, if it exist; but if
there has been guilt, this is indeed a case in
which an example should be made of it.
STANDARD.—We are more vexed than sur-
prised to find that our remarks upon the Govern-
ment arrangements in Canada have provoked the
dissatisfaction of more than one of our Irish Con-
temporaries. Were our censors parties less re-
spected by us than they are, we could easily dis-
miss their reproofs by the short answer, " point
out what better could be done, or be silent;"
but giving .them full credit for sincerity, and
allowing for the strong sympathy that must exist
between the loyal men of Ireland and the loyal
men of Canada, upon the particular point
under consideration—sympathy arising from
the severe trials to which loyalty has
been subjected in both countries—and the cir-
cumstance that in both the absence of a wider
field of honourable enterprise in commerce and
the professions renders the patronage of the
Crown an object of very undue value—makin,,,
we say, these allowances, we feel thAt we owe
more explicit defence of the propositions we
have affirmed. Mankind are always the same;
and it is as true now as ;t was when Machiavel
wrote—nearly- four centuries ago—that there are
but two ways of obviating the consequences of
a rebellion ; the one, utterly to (16:able the
rebels from renewing the war against you ; the
other, to forget. as States only can forget, that
is, practically, that the rebels ever were enemies.
Men will, of course, differ as to the choice of
these courses, and that choice will, in the case of
wise men, be determined by circumstances. We
may, for ourselves, think that the first line is that
which ought to have been preferred in Canada,
and we have no wish to conceal our opinion that
the best arrangement would have been one
which, securing to the disaffected race the most
perfect enjoyment of personal liberty and of
their property, should have wholly stripped
them of political power. It was upon this
ground that we opposed the system of thew
Durham and Sydenham administrations, with
which we arc now reproached, as if such op-
position ware inconsistent with the opinions we
have lately offered. The choice, however, be-
tween utterly disabling the late enemies of her
-Majesty's authority in Canada, and an absolute
oblivion of their hostility, (the only choice, we
repeat it, open to any 'Government) was no
longer free when the present Administration
succeeded to office. The Ministers to whom
they succeeded had not only pardoned the hostile
party—in which, after the rebellion had been
suppressed, they were right—but invested
her Majesty's late enemies with a large
share of political power - to retract that
gift, once made, would be difficult, probably
unjust, and certainly without precedent in the
history of any civilised country. But to arm a
party with
power, and then practically to re-
member that that party had been hostile, such
practical remembrance rconstitating a real, con-
stant proscription, would be to commit the ex-
treme folly of equipping and organising, enemies
with whom to wage eternal war. There was,
then,. no course open to the present Govern-
; Thent but that of absolute oblirioit of all political
offences committed in the province for the last
fifteen years—an oblivion not merely nominal,
but sincere and practical.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 26.—The steamer Lady de
Sautnarez, Captain Goodridge, which should haye
reached here this morning from Jersey, with mails
and passengers, did not arrive, and intelligence reached
Southampton in the course of the day, that she struck
on the Casket rocks last night, owing to the tempest,
and lost her hilly:arks, and was obliged in consequence
to put into the Isle of Portland ; no serious accident
occurred. The Grand Turk encountered the terrific
gale also last night, on her voyage from Havre to this
port : nothing but the good sea-going properties of
-.tile Turk enabled !her to perform her voyage safely.
The immense steam power that she can put on enabled
her to: perform the voyage in spite of all obstacles in
14 hours.
What periodical paper has the greatest circulation ?
—The income-tax paper.—Punch.