The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-01 00:00:00

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rHE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced .... 10041% 1001/s
3 peiCent. Consols 995% 99%
New 314 per Cents ... 103 A 104 103%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12% 12%
Bank Stock for Account — 214
Consols for Account..... ......

Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 62 59 62 pm. 62
Ditto 5007. .
Ditto Small — pm.
Ditto Advertised 57 60 pm. 60
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds .
834
Ditto, Neiv, 1829 and 1 86% 871/ 87%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • ...... 1002 101% , 101%
5
Columbian' Bonds, ex Venezuela. 13% 14% 14g
Mexican, per Cent. 1837 ... 36%% 36
Ditto, Account 36%% 36,
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Ac6unt
Spanish serr Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account --, -
Ditto 3 per Cent..;;; '
Ven4uela Bonds, 2 pbr, Cjitp 44% 44%
Ditto, Deferred ..... . .. .
Dutch, 2% per Cent ...,.;.. 6,3%14 631%4
Ditto. Account . .....
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%% 99%
PRICES OF
PAID.
RAILWAY SHARES PAT ONE O'CLOCK.
RICES,
Aberdeen
9
Binning. and Gloucesterloo 13411, 135 CLOSING
- A

DittO- % Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New.... . ......... 2 ...... 6%
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 17%% ..... ...
Eastern Union lO .. ...

- - -
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 21A 51% ... .. .....
Great South. and West.
1/(lreland)
Ditto Extension -
Great North of England..loo I —
Ditto New
Ditto New 2 —
Great Western BO ......177

5%

11'I
7
188

18%

176
100%
... 39%
.... 414
.... 21A
.... 90

Ditto IA Shares
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21/2 ... .. 4%
Hull and Gainsborough 1% 2%
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlis1e... 15
London and Binninghm (Stock) —
Ditto, Quarters 2
• • •
London and Brighton... 50 .
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d lB 19
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79 -
78%
Do. New consolidated Bths 6 •..... 24
Ditto New 2ll 12% 12
London and York ........ . 2 ...... 7
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Manchester and Birmin. 40 —.67% 66% 68 66%
Ditto Quarters
Midland 100 127
Ditto New
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 1% ...... 141,1 15 .....
North British
Ditto, New
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Ditto New 1
Richmond and West End
/unction
Scottish Midland ll/2 ... 13/4 2
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 21,4 4%
......
South Devon... lO ...... 164%
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 421/21/1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3 2IA B% 9
South Wales 2% 4%
Trent Valley 2 ... 20%
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ......
West Cornwall
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50 lO3
Ditto 1% Shares 25
Ditto Extension —.14 133/4 143/4 14% 151,1 15
FRENCH RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon...... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 164 17
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and 0r1ean5.,,,,,,,, 20
Paris and Rouen ......... 20
Tours and Nante5......... 1

33
231%
30
63%
19
78%
24

57
140
66
11%
127
8%

473/4
31

133
.... 31
15

2%
6
17
471 A
43

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial .................. 25
Union of Australia ...... 25
Do. New .............. 2% 251
_ .... ...... /8

14
27
2%

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAT.
GLOBE.—Sir R. Peel grows wanton, or careless, and
seems inclined to trifle alike withjhis supporters and the
country. One or two triumphant divisions happening to
combine with a little personal altercation in public, have ap-
parently weakened his discretion ; and he is tempted to abuse
his " little brief authority" with those "fantastic tricks"
which " make even angels weep." Members of Parliament do
not weep,—but then they are not angels. Mr. Hogg, looking at
the new differential duty on East India sugar, as a dry matter
of business, and having faith in the Premier, sees nothing
fantastic in the attempt to declare a difference by Act of Par-
liament where there is no distinction in fact. He, therefore,
gravely remonstrates, makes a motion and a long speech ;
and Mr. Hume seconds the motion in a short one. We do not
counsel weeping in such cases ; we think laughing would here
have been somewhat more to the purpose. The utter impos-
sibility of carrying into practice a distinction between sugars
" equal to white clayed," and " not equal to white
clayed," is evidently not unknown to these gentlemen, and
might, we should have supposed, have been deemed
a sufficient guarantee that the attempt would either
never be made, or be very quickly abandoned. Mr.
Hogg's proposal to add the words, "in quality," and
so make subject to the higher duty only sugars " equal
in quality to white clayed," does not get rid of, and
scarcely diminishes, the difficulty. The other pro-
posal, to adopt as a test the amount of saccharine
matter contained in the sugar to be charged, has the ap-
pearance of being more definite; but the adoption of any
such standard is clearly at variance not only with the propo-
sition of the Government (so far as that can be made suffi-
ciently definite to admit of comparison), but also with every
other proposition yet submitted, and also with every distinc-
i •
lion, in respect to quality, hitherto made in fixing the
duties. It can scarcely be necessary to say that it is
not in the quantity of saccharine matter it contains, that
the superiority of refined over raw sugar consists. The chief
points of its superiority are, obviously, a higher degree of
crystallisation, and a comparative freedom from colouring
matter. But the former increases the quantity of the water
of crystallisation in a given weight of sugar, and so tends
to diminish the proportion of saccharine matter. Now,
both the degree of crystallisation and the colour
may, and do, vary infinitely; and if we may place any
dependence upon the assurance of those who possess the
best practical information on the subject, it is not possible
to draw a line at any particular point of refinement suf-
ficiently definite to be made the basis of any fiscal re-
gulation whatever. No two sugar dealers in England are,
we believe, at this moment agreed as to what precisely
is, and what is not, white clayed sugar. The Govern-
ment pretends ignorance of this. Mr. Goulburn knew
it last year, and made good use of it in the debate upon
the last alteration of the sugar duties. Yet, this year,
Sir Robert Peel has not yet arrived at a know-
ledge of it. But then he declares he was not at liberty to
make inquiries. Had he done so, people might have formed
some notion of what he was about. The present measure re-
quired careful and secret preparation. Admitting this to be
true is, at least, highly characteristic. Like a conjuror behind
his curtain, preparing his next trick, Sir Robert is con-
tent to " dress up his statement" in the dark—to
give altogether to his audience the benefit of what-
ever light there may be, in order to preserve the more com-
pletely the mystery of the coming display. He is willing to
be ignorant of what everybody else knows, provided he can
only keep
theth emfrem guessing at what he is going to do.
However,
display has now been made, and the effect
found decidedly defective. The audience have enligh-
tened our worthy conjuror, and he will retire to con-
sider, and, if he can do no better, withdraw his "trick."
A definition of what is meant by " white clayed sugar"
is loudly called for. Sir Robert will try to make one, and
—if he finds he cannot—why, he'll give it up :—" To the
consideration of this point the Government would apply
themselves; they had had communication with the
Custom-house, but it was, of course, difficult at present
to speak to details ; and, under the circumstances,
he should say the best course would be to allow
somrestablished rule as to what
; and, unless the Go-
fiend Should be at liberty to make
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a motion similar to that he had now proposed to the House.
In the interim the Government would consider the question."
Of course, what does not exist it is idle to seek for ; but if
the new duty he at once abandoned, we shall escape the dis-
putes which must have arisen from having upon the statute
book, even for a short time, a distinction which could not
have been enforced in practice.
STANDARD.—Mr. Duncombe last night brought for-
ward his motion, and what is more, brought forward his
proofs. Mr. Duncombe 's notions of a proof are extremely
amusing, but not quite original. The genius of Fielding has
in fact anticipated, though it has not equalled, the concep-
tion of the gay Member for Finsbury. "Can you deny,"
says Mrs. Gobble, " that you are a vagrum and a dilatory
sort of person ? Han't the man with the satchel made an
affidavy of it?" "Can you deny," says Mr. Duncombe, " that
you opened my letters; did not my man with the satchel,
M. Mizzini, tell me last summer that some Post-office clerks
told him that they had opened your letters two years be-
fore?" And this is Mr. Duncombe's whole case. We are ,