The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-16 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock: .169i India Stock .260i pm
3 per Cent. Red. . 93J !Ditto Bonds .... 51 pm
3 per Cent. C0n5..... MI i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent. Red.........100g 'Ditto New Annuities...
New 3isper Cent... ...... 10Ig
!Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 57 pm
Nqw 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001. .... .59 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 59 pm
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 7-16,Bank Stock for Acct. 170
act. 1859 ...... ... /India Stock for Acct...
Jin. 1:60 — Consols for Acct....... 94i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... ;Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lo2l] IDitto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Agres6 per cent. 22 Russian, 5 pet cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent. 9O Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent lBi
Ditto, l 824 — ,Ditto, Deferred.... . loi
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 j French, 5 per cent. —f. —r.
Danish, 3 per :ent B3i , Exchange
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. ;French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 33 'Dutch, oi per cent. -
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Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 'Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100/
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. --._
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SHARES,
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ......
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Great Western, (65 paid )
London and Brighton (50 paid) ..............
London and South Western (411 tis 10(11,0
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 raid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Norther■ and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).........
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The case of the shirt-makers of the
metropolis, which we alluded to in a short article
yesterday, is we are glad to see, beginning to excite
attention. A meeting was held last night at Stepney,
when it was resolved that a Committee should be ap-
pointed " to collect further information, to make re-
presentations to the persons engaged in the trade,
and if - necessary to call a public meeting on the
subject." We frequently hear bitter complaints
against the manufacturers, for the lowness of the
wages they pay to those whom they employ :
and it is true enough that industry gets but
a very inadequate reward—though the mono-
polits and the free traders are at issue as to
which deserves to be considered the cause of the dis-
tress that is the lot of the workman. With reference,
howeVer,- to the ..v,ery. nume.rous class•Uf. individuals
who are conipelleilto work at"their needle .£o..z'ea liveli-
hood, there can be but one opinion as, to their , being
shamefully.underspaid4 and no political question. can
be raised, leaving them to starve „while, their well-
wishers.of oppositaparties are dlsputing __about, the
different theories or lines
,o( policy ,tbr,rfilP-Ying, them,
At the' meeting- to. whiChWelnive alliided, it Was stated
that a shirt which it took a good hand fourteen
hours to make, the workwomen was paid only sixpence
for making, and that there were many thousands em-
ployed, who, by labouring all the day and a portion of
the night, could earn only fourpence-halfpenny. The
saving effected by the public through this odious
system of grinding down must be so insignificant,
even if the public had the benefit of it, that no one
who could afford to purchase a shirt at all would
object to pay one penny more, which is all the addi-
tion that the workwomen ask for making it. The truth,
however, is, that the public saves nothing whatever,
but loses a great deal in inferior workmanship, which
is rendered necessary by the miserable rate of remu-
neration that is paid for it. It is not only as a ques-
tion of humanity and justice that this matter deserves
to be considered, but it may be regarded also
as one affecting, in a great degree, the morals of
a large proportion of the community. We have
before us a letter from a correspondent, in which
he states an instance of " a female of respectable
family and great personal attractions," having been
finally lured from the path of virtue, after having
for a long time undergone the greatest privation and
misery in an attempt to earn a scanty subsistence by
needle-wo:k. This is a case, unfortunately, of every-
day occurrence, and there is no doubt that many fall
into a career of vice through .the grinding system
that is put into practice towards needle-workers, for
the benefit neither of the public nor the vendor, but
of an intermediate class, who traffic on the necessities
of their fellow-creatures, regardless of the misery or
crime that the victims of oppression are plunged into.
STANDARD.—The Morning- Chronicle of this
day commences a long and vehement solicitation to
contribute to the "League Fund" rather oddly, by
the following proposition :—" Whether agitation shall
exist in the country, in consequence of the Corn-laws,
is not a question. Those laws make agitation."
Now, if the laws by themselves make the agitation,
what need is there for a League, or a League fund ?
Why, indeed, does cur -Contemporary bestow
daily so many columns of its eloquent writing
in blowing up a fire already in a blaze with-
out its assistance ? We may add a retrospec-
tive question. If the laws make the agitation,
. where was the necessity for employing Messrs. Sidney
Smith, Acland, Thompson, and Company,
,to deliver
2,000 agitation lectures, and to compose 5,000,000 of
agitation tracts ?—to what purpose was expended the
.100,0001. said to have been already expended ? Men
do not usually take so much trouble and squander so
much money in doing what they find done to
their hands. If the proposition quoted be true, the
subscribers to the League have not been fairly
dealt with ; ,and alas ! that we must say it, all the
fame which Messrs. Sidney Smith, Acland; Thomp-
son, and Company, have acquired by the supposed
success of their displays, and all •their wages too,
must be assigned to the description of goods and
money obtained under false pretences. This proposi-
tion, it must be admitted, exhibits the 'League in a
somewhat awkward light. ' That respectable body
3ays nearly in terms, "We have collected 100,0001.,
of 85,000/. of which it is not convenient to render
any .account whatever. We have collected this
sum of 100,0001. generally from very poor people,
and in a time of admitted public distress, in order
to agitate against the Corn-laws, and we want
502000/. more for the prosecution of the same
object." The Morning Chronicle turns sharply round
upon its friends, and says while affecting to recom-
mend their scheme, in this blunt remark, whether
true or false, " Your efforts are not wanted. Your
demand for more money is unreasonable, and imper-
tinent. The laws against which you propose to agi-
tate by the help of other them-
selves " make agitation." Our Cotillofeemesopuomrrsa:rryie
proceedsYlitho
to explain the prods, beginning
among the parties nearest to itsheart—the capitalists;wse
that is, being translated into English, the great rich men.
These objects of a just and natural compassion, oor
fellow, are, it seems, in a state of suffering that tpdis-
orders the mind :--" Capitalists, alarmed at the ab-
sorption of their profits, reeling under the still in-
creaking pressure, and seeing no prospect of a wiser
policy being so promptly realised as to avert their
ruin' would assuredly not remain tranquil as the
surfhce of some inland lake on a summer's
evening, but even without concert give those
signs of agitation which precede the shifting
of commercial prosperity from one region toanother."
ThiS poetical passage comprises both the essential
requisites of the genuine tragedy—pity and terror.
Who must not be melted at the contemplation-of rea-
son reeling, and ultimately sinking under an un-
wieldy ascites of stagnant cash ? or who can look
without alarm at the rebellion of the bags?--the
meek hosts of Mark-lane allied with the eager batta-
lions of the Stock Exchange and the heavy ordnance
of the mill country. Mason had some such horrid
movement in his head when 'he penned the war of
money-lenders and aristocrats in his " Heroic
Epistle."

STATE—OF—TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
The improved demand for goods, to which we
alluded last week, still continues ; and a pretty
extensive business has been done during the last few
days, at prices generally a shade higher than those
obtained a week ago. In the yarn market also, a
considerable amount of business has been clone for
Germany; the near approach of winter having ren-
dered the buyers anxious to close their operations for
the season. Previous rates have consequently been
readily given ; but no advance can be quoted.
Generally speaking, the market, without being at all
animated, is firm and healthy, and, from the general
absence of stock, seems likely to continue so, unless
disturbed by fluctuations in the cotton market.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, _MONDAY, Nov. 14.
—The flannel market has been much like that of the
preceding Monday,—a fair demand for goods, at low
prices. In the wool market, the dealers complain of
having little to do ; the manufacturer purchases as if
he expected lower prices; and indeed this article is
better to buy than it was a short time ago.
P' 'l3o, str

- Allis itiRSE AND FUNDS.—It was stated upon the
Bourse to-day that the long-talked of commercial
treaty been England and Spain had at length b e.en
finally agreed upon, and that the terms were of a
highly favourable character for British manufactures.
This news, following so immediately the failure of the
Belgian negotiation, rather damped speculation. Five-
per-Cents. opened at 119 f., closed at 118 f. Sae.;
Three-per-Cents. declined also in the same proportion,
at 80f. 20c. ; Spanish Active 23i; Passive, 35 ;
Belgian Five-per-Cents., 103} ; New, 1044.
0 O onday last 207,000- letters passed through
ei eed c!st-office—nearly a quarter of a million fnt
-,44.....§iiit•-a't 641 A :Y. through. one office! Immense
ffp- tflift.4o.-4.0 iii4llo,. p have be Immense
receiyed at the General
-4 p00.,c,- Mee ; With a the .last few. days from-Peniam-
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