The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 121- per
mile, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25 46A-, and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
don at short being 25 67k, it follows that gold is
'0.84 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is
434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. ills. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13 9k, and the exchange at Hamburgh on
London at short being 13 14 it follows that gold is
0.57 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
The market for public securities exhibits consider-
able firmness, and prices to-day were quoted a shade
in advance, the demand for investment carrying for-
ward the weight of stock offering for sale. No bar-
gains of magnitude were entered into, but the ge-
neral currency of business was such as to induce the
jobbers to believe a further increase is likely to follow.
The present abundance of money, and the few chan-
nels open for a profitable employment of it, is one of
the principal arguments in favour of a rise in the
value of the permanent stocks.
A letter from the secretary of the Greenwich Rail-
way contradicts the statement, that there are no seats
in the second-class carriages. "It is true," he says,
"that the fares have been altered from 6d. and 9d. to
and ls., but the former second class carriages were
not enclosed and had no seats.

Although there are the best reasons in the matter
of the pending inquiry into the frauds on the revenue
for not making public the names of individuals who
have been accused, on the most suspicious testimony,
of participating in them, great public interest attaches
to the nature of the frauds themselves. The whole
trading community may be said at this moment to be
influenced by the most intense anxiety to learn how
the imputed frauds have been possible at all, or so
long allowed to be practised with impunity, and what
means are to be devised by the Treasury for protecting
the fair trader against a repetition of them.
CHRON IC L E.—The operations of the Govern-
ment broker as a purchaser, on account of the gua-
rantee fund of the East India Company, were repeated
yesterday and to-day. In adverting to this trans-
action on Saturday last, it was stated inadvertently,
that the interest to re-invest amounted. to 600,0001. on
the 2,000,0001., whereas it should have been only
60,0001. The dividends have been re-invested as re-
ceived since the fund was set apart, and the original
principal stock and accumulations now amount to
from .50,000/. to 60,0001. semi-annually.
The following are the official returns of the exports
of the precious metals from the port of London for
the week ending Thursday last, viz. :
Silver Coin to Calais .. 170,000 oz.
Rotterdam .. 10,000 oz.
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" A South American Bondholder" suggests that it
is now more than ever the duty of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to use all its powerful influence and exer-
tions with the States of South America to insure the
regular payments of their hitherto irregularly paid
dividends, inasmuch as by the Income-tax they would
produce a considerable amount of revenue, and thus
tend to alleviate the pressure of a tax that bears so
heavily upon the community. Our correspondent
thinks that Lord Aberdeen must consider himself
bound to adopt efficient measures, with the view of
enforcing the claims of the English bondholders on the
non-paying states in South America.
SUN.—The Stock Market closed about the
same as it had opened in the morning, not being
quite so buoyant as towards mid-day. Consols for
Money were d 3.1 sellers, and for Account 934 buyers;
Exchequer Bills touched 59 prem.; India Stock was
firm at 253. The Bank broker took 10,0001. stock
for the Savings' Banks.
Spanish Bonds advanced to 17k, but yet no clue
to the cause beyond a rumour about the Almaden
mines. Portuguese Old Fives were done at 58 ; and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved to 52,1.
Shares were quiet, but firm.
The Exchanges were a shade better on Antwerp,
viz. 12 5f to 5i ; barely so high on Amsterdam,
12 61 ; without alteration on Hamburgh, 13 11f to
12 ; and also on Paris, which was 25 871 to 92k.
The Indigo sales closed this afternoon. They have
gone off well.
A failuie in the fruit trade was hinted at on 'Change.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam CF. 12 9 Gibraltar .. .« 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 :91 Genoa 26 10
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice .. 47
Aliens
Paris, 3days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per ez 1201
Ditto, 3 months 26 Lisbon
Marseilles ...... .26 10 Oporto 524
Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro 234

Frankfort on Maine 152
Petersburgh, 3 Us. 37
Berlin. 7
Vienna, effec. fi. 3 M lO 2:
Trieste, ditto lO 3
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ... 36

Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 461
Philadelphia 4f
PRICES OF BULLION, PER
Foreign Gold, bus4:3 17 9
Portugal G eld Cent ...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars... 0 4 Ilk

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 24.—At two o'clock yesterday
afternoon Sir Edward Sugden, accompanied by Lady
Sugden and other members of his family, arrived at
his residence in Stephen's-green. Sir Edward will
preside in the Court of Chancery at the opening of
Michaelmas Term, on Tuesday week.
FALL IN PRICES. _ .

Prices still coltirTne to decline at the cattle fairs.
On Thursday last, at the fair at Tuam, the supply of
stock was large, but there was very little demand, and
prices rated even under those of Ballinasloe fair.
NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
This day the usual weekly meeting was held at the
Corn Exchange, Mr. Hamilton in the chair.
The LORD MAYOR moved the suspension of the
standing orders, to enable him to make a motion, of
which due notice had not been given.—Passed. His
motion was, "That a petition be presented to Par-
liament, praying for the removal of the present Poor-
law Commissioners, and for the appointment of men
in their place free rom the taint of bigotry." He
mentioned the case of a woman named Martha
M'Keon, who went into the poor-house a Pro-
testant, and soon after became a Catholic. She
was appointed by the ;schoolmistress to as-
sist in keeping the children in order. When this
was found out by the Protestant clergyman, he
ordered the woman to be dismissed from her little em-
ployment. The Catholic clergyman said she should
not, without the authority of the Board of Guardians.
The Board decided that M'Keon should not be dis-
missed, whereupon the Poor-law Commissioners wrote
an " impudent" letter to the Board, ordering them to
remove the woman, and which contained a censure on
the Catholic clergyman for his interference. The
fact is, that it was the Protestant clergyman who ex-
ercised undue interference, and it was a strong proof
of the bigotry of the Poor-law Commissioners, for which
they should be removed.—(Hear, hear.) The Lord
Mayor mentioned several other causes of complaint
against the Poor-law Commissioners.
Dr. GREY also spoke in condemnation of the Poor-
law Commissioners, and seconded the adoption of the
petition for their removal, which passed with accla-
mation.

After the admission of several members,
The LORD MAYOR rose to address the meeting on
the present position of public affairs. He said that,
whenever England was strong, and in a state of pros-
perity, she invariably oppressed Ireland. If, on the
occasion of the late outbreak in the manufacturing dis-
tricts there were 4,000,000 of Repealers enrolled in
Ireland, would the demand for a repeal of a grievous
Act of Parliament be refused ? If 4,000,000 Re-
pealers were to demand this act of justice, would they
not stand a chance of being treated like the Canadas
There the people turned out in open rebellion, and prices
were set upon the heads of their leaders—while here
no breach of the laws took place. One of the Cana-
dian rebels, for whose head 5001. were offered, had
just been appointed to the office of Attorney-General.
He was glad of this, because it was the proper reward
of the Canadians for their fidelity towards each
other, and their genuine patriotism. He wanted
no violence—no breach of the laws—but he
wanted a powerful combination of the people
to be ready, with a loud voice, to demand justice
as the price of their assistance to relieve Eng-
land from her troubles. It was a remarkable fact,
that when nations were on the point of falling to
decay, their leading men did desperate and mad acts,
which facilitated the catastrophe they would avert. It
so happened previous to the downfal of Rome and of
Greece. When the Turks were battering down the
walls of Constantinople, the Greeks were cutting
their own throats about some points on theology. Was
not the English Ministry mad?—(Hear, hear.)
Within a few months, six hostile tariffs had been
adopted by as many great kingdoms for the exclusion
of British goods from their markets, and instead of
giving blow for blow, what did Peel do ? Why, in-
stead of retaliating by excluding their produce, he
threw open the English market—the only one left
to the English manufacturers. The result of his
measures was, that insolvency was spread over the
land. Lord Ashburton had truckled to America, and
Lord Aberdeen had truckled to France. From this
aspect of affairs there was no doubt that England would
want the cordial support of the Irish, and she should
have it, but she should give the bribe of repeal. Peel,
however, apprehended the late outbreak in England,
and he thought he was very clever by the issue of his
proclamation calling in the light gold. Much of it
did find its way to the coffers of the Bank, but the
effect of withdrawing it from circulation added to the
poverty which previously existed. Peel was called
the " farmers friend." Why, there was no interest
in the United Kingdom suffering more than the agri-
cultural, as was proved by the depression of all kinds
of stock, still further to be depreciated by the impor-

tation of stock from the very countries that lately de-
cided upon excluding the produce of the British ma-
nufacturer. lie concluded his speech by declaring
that he saw no prospect of England being relieved
from her embarrassments unless a gold or diamond
mine be discovered and left at her mercy.
The week's rent was announced to be 741. 3s. 3d.,
and the meeting adjourned.

MR. O'CONNELL'S ANSWER TO
LO RD SHREWSBURY.
(From the Freeman's Journal.)
The coarseness of those who make a trade of as-
sailing the Liberator of his countrymen having been
adopted by an English Nobleman—a Catholic, too,
Lord Shrewsbury—Mr. O'Connell, in his admirable
and unanswerable reply to the abuse of that Noble
Lord, has the following beautiful, just, and appro-
priate passage in reference to the compensation which
Ireland annually pays her champion for his unex-
ampled services :
" I will not consent that my claim to the rent'
should be misunderstood. That claim may be re-
jected ; but it is understood in Ireland ; and it shall
not be misstated anywhere without refutation.
"My claim is this. For more than twenty years
before Emancipation, the burden of the cause was
thrown upon me. I had to arrange the meetings—
prepare the resolutions—to furnish replies to the cor-
respondence—to examine the case of each person
complaining of practical grievances—to rouse the
torpid—to animate the lukewarm—to control the
violent and inflammatory—to avoid the shoals and
breakers of the law—to guard against multiplied
treachery— and at all times to oppose, at every peril,
the powerful and multitudinous enemies to the cause.
"To descend to particulars. At a period when my
minutes counted by the guinea; when my emolu-
ments were limited only by the extent of my physical
and waking powers; when my meals were shortened
to the narrowest space, and my sleep restricted to the
earliest hours -before dawn ; at that period, and for
more than twenty years, there was no day that I did
not devote from one to two hours, often much more,
to the working out of the Catholic cause. And that
without receiving or allowing the offer of any remu-
neration, even for the personal expenditure incurred
in the agitation of the cause itself. For four years I
bore the entire expenses of the Catholic agitation
without receiving the contributions of others to a
greater amount than 741. in the whole. Who shall
repay me for the years of my buoyant youth and
cheerful manhood? Who shall repay me for the lost
opportunities of acquiring professional celebrity, or
the wealth which such distinctions would ensure
" Other honours I could not then enjoy.
"Emancipation came. You admit that it was I
who brought it about. The year before emancipa-
tion, though wearing a stuff' gown, and belonging
to the outer bar, my professional emoluments ex-
ceeded B,oool.—an amount never before realised in
Ireland, in the same space oftime,by'an outer barrister.
" llad I adhered to my profession, I must soon have
been called within the bar, and obtained the prece-
dency of a silk gown. The severity of my labour
would have been at once much mitigated, whilst the
emoluments would have been considerably increased.
I could have done a much greater variety of business
with less toil, and my professional income must have
been necessarily augmented by probably one half.
" If I had abandoned politics, even the honours of
my profession and its highest stations lay fairly be-
fore me.
" But I dreamed a day-dream—was it a dream ?
that Ireland still wanted me; that although the Ca-
tholic aristocracy and gentry of Ireland had obtained
most valuable advantages from emancipation, yet the
benefits of good government had not reached the great
mass of the Irish people, and could not reach them,
unless the Union should be either made a reality, or
unless that hideous measure should be abrogated.
" I did not hesitate as to my course. My former
success gave me personal advantages which no other
man could easily procure. I flung away the profes-
sion—l gave its emoluments to the winds—l closed
the vista of its honours and dignities—l embraced the
cause of my country; and—come weal or come woe
—I have made a choice at which I have never repined
—nor ever shall repent.
" An event occurred which I could not have fore-
seen. Once more high professional promotion was
placed within my reach. The office of Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer became vacant. I was
offered it. Or, had I preferred the office of the Mas-
ter of the Rolls, the alternative was proposed to me.
It was a tempting offer. Its value was enhanced by
the manner in which it was made, and pre-eminently
so by the person through whom it was made—the
best Englishman that Ireland ever saw—the Marquis
of Norinanby.
" But I dreamed again a day dream—was it a
dream ?—and I refused the offer. And here am Inow
taunted, even by you, with mean and sordid motives.
" I do not think I am guilty of the least vanity,
when I assert that no man ever made greater sacrifices
to what he deemed the cause of his country than 1
have done. I care not how I may be ridiculed or
maligned. I feel the proud consciousness that no
public man has made more, greater, or more ready
sacrifices.
" Still there lingers behind one source of vexation
and sorrow ; one evil, perhaps, greater than all the
rest ; one claim, I believe, higher than any other,
upon the gratitude of my countrymen. It consists in
the bitter, the virulent, the mercenary, and therefore
the more envenomed hostility towards me, which my
love for Ireland and for liberty has provoked. What
taunts, what reproaches, what calumnies have I not
sustained ?—what modes of abuse ?—what vitupera-
tion, what slander have been exhausted against me ?
what vials of bitterness have been poured upon my
head?—what coarseness of language has not been
used, abused, and worn out in assailing me ?—what
derogatory appellation has been spared ?—what trea-
sures of malevolence have been expended ?—what
follies have not been imputed ?—in fact, what crimes
have I not been charged with ?
" I do not believe that I ever had in private life an
enemy. I know that I had and have many, very
many, warm, cordial, affectionate, attached friends.
Yet here I stand, beyond controversy the most and
the best abused man in the universal world ! And,
to cap the climax of calumny, you come with a lath
at your side instead of the sword of a Talbot, and you
throw Peel's scurrility along with your own into my
cup of bitterness.
"All this have I done and suffered for Ireland.
And let her be grateful or ungrateful—solvent or
insolvent—he who insults me for taking her pay
wants the vulgar elements of morality which teach
that the labourer is worthy of his hire; he wants the
higher sensations of the soul, which enable one to per-
ceive that there are services which bear no comparison
with•money, and can never be recompensed by pecu-
niary rewards,
" Yes : I am—l say it proudly—l am the hired
servant of Ireland and I glory in my servitude."

Mr. Commissioner Bowen, of the Insolvent Debtors
Court, is dangerously indisposed at his residence in
Portman-street, Portman-square, where he has been
confined some days with a pulmonary complaint. The
Learned Commissioner, who is much esteemed for his
amiable qualities, presided in Court on Wednesday
last, much against the recommendation of his medical
adviser, and was to have proceeded into Kent, on the
Home Circuit, but the serious nature of his illness pre-
vented the possibility of the journey. The other
Commissioners are on their respective circuits, and it
became necessary to make an application to the Home
Secretary to obtain permission for a barrister to hold
a Court for the hearing of cases at Dover, Canter-
bury, and Maidstone. The required authority was
obtained, on which Mr. Cooke, the barrister, left town
for the purpose of holding a Court yesterday at Dover,
and at Canterbury to-day. The Learned Commis-
sioner has held the situation upwards of twenty years,
and is besides a bencher of the Inner Temple. In
answer to the inquiries made yesterday morning, it
was stated that very little hope was entertained of his
recovery. He is between 60 and 70 years old.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about
four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at
Nicholson's Wharf, Lower Thames-street, to a lad
named James Williams, 13 years of age, employed at
the wharf. It appears that he was at work in the
third floor of the lofty range of warehouses, and
whilst in the act of giving some directions from the
loophole to the men below, he overbalanced himself,
and fell upon the pavement from a height of between
50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by
the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson m a
coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired in
a few minutes after his admission. He had been
about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly
cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful
how he approached the doorway of the loft.
Jonas Studdurt, Esq., of Atlantic Lodge,Kiatnede,
captured an enormous shark, on the western coast of
Clare, on Saturday. It was with great peril
amid terrible difficulties that he and his men suc-
ceeped in bringing the animal safe to shore. He at
once procured a car, and forwarded it to Kilrush, for
Limerick, to be prepared, and deposited in the mu-
seum of the Philosophical and Literary Society.

BURIAL OF PAUPERS.—The Poor-law ColllllliSsiol

ers, in their general workhouse rules, advise, with a
view, they say, to consult the prevalent wishes of the
poor on this subject, that the body of every pauper of
the Union dying in the workhouse, should in general
be interred in the churchyard of his own parish, un-
less the incumbent should object. An aged female,
named Frances Frances, belonging to the parish of
Great Leighs, died last week in Chelmsford Union-
house, when tho GoVernor, as he is directed, wrote to
the church clerk, to know when it would be conveni-
ent to inter the body ; the reply was written by the
rector himself ; it contained a peremptory notice,
without any reason being assigned, that the corpse
should not be admitted into his churchrrd. The bu-
rial fees have invariably been paid.—Lssex Herald.