The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-09 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JULY J.

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SUN OFFICE Three o'clock.

The Duke of RICHMOND informed the House of Lords
li•ist night that a witness called before the Oaths Cons-
mittee had refused to give evidence on oath, and he
moved that the witness's reasons. for not swearing, and
the.questions put to him, should be printed. This wit-
. ness was..not a member of the Society of Friends, or he
. -would have had no difficulty in evading the taking of an
oath. 7We gather from this, as well as from numerous
difficulties • which have lately been thrown in
the way of the .administaation of justice by the dis-
inclination of witnesses to take oaths, that there is a
_growing conviction throu:hout the, religious world, that
the,otiole system of book-swearing is exceedingly
.quitous, and directly contrary to the express command
of the Founder of our holy religion. We rejoice at this.
There is by far too much swearing, and it leads to
:the impression that a man cannot open his mouth
. without giving utterance to a lie without a book
in his hand. Is any Member of the House of
Commons a jot the more loyal for having taken
. the oath of allegiance at its bar ? Is he one iota the
better Protestant fur having insulted his Catholic fel-
low-subjects, by swearing not only that he believes the
Thirty-nine Articles, but that he believes the Mass to
be " idolatrous and damnable ?" Let oaths be retained
for the especial benefit of such persons as feel that they
cannot speak truth without them ; but compel no
man to swear who r; ligiously objects to take an oath.
As to swearing tide-waiters, guagers, and other revenue
officers, it would be quite a farce, but for the awful and
daily mass of perjury to which it gives rise. Oaths
rarely, if ever, bind the consciences of these men. They
;ire honest in many cases from principle, but we appre-
hend in most by dread of detection, loss of situation, and
certainty of punishment.

The vote of the House of Commons upon Mr. WAL-
LACE'S mctiton will fill the working classes of thia..coun-
try with feelings of dismay and despair. That only
forty-nine Members of that House should be found to
tote for an inquiry into the extent of their sufferings,
proves the little sympathy which is felt in that assembly
for their overwhelming distresses. Tho Whig and
Tory speakers who voted against the inquiry objected to
the way in which the resolutions were drawn up ; but

they had not the honesty to propose amending them.
Mr. WALLACE, in the most conciliatory spirit, offered to
adopt any amendments proposed upon his resolutions,
but Alknisters preferred getting rid of the subject alto-

togetheT, by rejecting thorn in the lump. A cry of hun-

ger is heard throughout the land—every breeze from
' the manufacturing districts wafts upon it the wail of
famine; and yet the Government will neither pledge
itself to relieve it, nor allow corn to be brought in, free
of duty, to feed the starving people. What inheritance
have the starving millions in such a Government ?
:Why should they be toiled, and taxed, and coerced, and
. manacled for its support ? These are questions which
the people wit ask themselves, and to which their hearts
wNI give responses but little in accordance with the
sentiments of Sir lionEryr PEEL. The Government is
treading, upon dangerous ground. Millions of our fellow-

countrymen approach the House of Commons and the
Ministers, in the attitude of suppliants—suppliants for
• the coarse means of physical existence ; they tell that
House and those Ministers, that they are absolutely
and literally dying of hunger ; they implore relief and
permission to exchange their labour for untaxed foreign
wheat, and their prayer is rejected ; in an assembly
of,upwards of six hundred legislators, only forty-nine are
found to vote for an inquiry into the extent of their
wretchedness ! Is it to be supposed that this treatment
will not sink deep into their hearts ? They were less
than men if it did not. It will engemler sad, bitter,
and terrible feelings, which they will .bequeath as an
inheritance to their children. The names of the forty-
nine Members who voted for Mr. WALLACE'S motion
vial become household words throughout the land—the
list of them will be found in many a cottage when Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government is forgotten, or remem-
,bered only for its rejeetion of the prayer of millions of
starling Englishmen.

Two important notices were given last night ; the
first by Mr. VILLIFrts, to more on Monday next, on
t motion for a Committee of Supply, for a repeal of
the Corn-lan'3. That is bold and useful policy. On
the 14th July, Lcrd Howicx is to move for a Cone-
mines of the whole House, with a view to propose
" That it is expedient that wheat imported from
foreign countries shall, until the Ist of
.March,
1843, be admissible for home consumption, on payaient. of '
'a duty not exceeding fourteen shillings a quarter."
These are two excellent notices, the first especial:y ; and
we trust that Mr. VizadEns will give way to no per-
suasions, and will as boldly carry his notice into effect
ns ho has honestly given it. We are sorry to see
indications on the part of the Whigs of a
wish to give a preference to the motion of Lord
llowicK, and throw overboard that of Mr. VILLIERS.
We must at once tell them that the country will regard
this as a shabby proceeding, The vast distress demands
a great and a bold remedy, and the total repeal of the
Corn-laws will place our trade on a permanent basis ;
while Lord Howacx's motion; were it successful, would
continue all the uncertainty which now prevails. The
total repeaters must earnestly prefer Mr. VlLLiEtt's 'no-
tion to that of Lord Illowicx.

lYe beg to call attention to the petition (a copy of
which will be found in this day's Sun) presented to the
llouse of Commons on behalf of the claimants for losses
sustained through the reprisals made by the Danes for
our unjust and unprovoked attack on that State in 1807.
Be it undeastood that the property of which these un-
offending claimants were despoiled, was not lost in a case
of war, but in retaliation for the Danish ships, and other
property, seized from Denmark whilst we were profes-
sing to be in a state of friendship with that power, and
by, the 3alo of which Danish property, upwards of a
million sterling was paid into the British treasury.
Now it appears to us to be one of the greatest cases of-
arbitrary power which can be exercised by a Minister,
• to deny redress to the.r claimants, after the repeated
decisions of the Houseof Commons, and her MAJESTY'S
gracious answer in their favour. This injustice
seams to be increased when we consider the
ridiculous distinction which has been made in grant-
ing compensation to the owners of such a portion of a
cargo as happened to be taken out of a ship lying
on the wharf at the time of seizure, and refusing it to
the owners of the other portion which happened to be on
board the ship which was discharging that cargo at the
same wharf, the whole of which, landed and unlanded, was
taken pozsession of at the same time. It is one thing, ,
however, to do a pure act of justice to suffering indivi-
duals without power, and to propose the grossest job
where the Minister's influence is concerned.

The Preach Journals of Thursday contain nothing
let election news. Among the absurd rumours set
afloat by the Opposition Journals is one to the effect
the British gold is extensivety employed in procuring
the return of Deputies favourable to M. GUIZOT ! We
have too much to do at bottle with our gold. There are
sinks deorruption enough in England to swallow up all
the surplus cash of the Tories.

The Madrid and Barcelona Journals come down to the Ist
of this month.
*le accounts from the provinces to the north and south of
Spain- are favourable ; the greatest tranquillity prevails in
those countries.
The 7th Regiment of Infantry, which was to come from
Aragon, and the trovincial battalion of Salamanca, being part
IL:f the corps of Cienetal Zurbano, were expeeted from Barcelona.
A letter from Amsterdam, of the 28th of Juno, says—
" Great sensation has been excited on 'Change to-day, by a no..
tire given by the house of Hope and Co., which announces
that the coupon of the American stock, which becomes due on
the i‘t of July, will not be paid, because the house has re-
ceived nOthing to make the payment. On this point there is not
much to No, because it was foreseen that the funds for the pay-
ment of this coupon would not arrive. Dot what is
openly blamed. anil will probably be the foundation of an action
against Hope and Co. is, that their bankers, having been fur-
nished by the Bank of the United States with a quantity of
effects ( Valeurs) as security fur the tenders, have thought
themselves authorised to part with a portion of those securities
in exohange for others. As chance would have it, though the
nominal value has remained the same, it turns out that Messrs.
Hope and Co. have parted with the most valuable, in exchange
for sixth as have hardly any Pa at all. We need not sly that
vttte holders are furious."—Commerce.

BO ''''''''''''' JULY 7.

hirat Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. Prier.
yremsh 11 per cont... no 85 ... !20 ... 119 81 ... 119 85
..... •
,4 I e• Cents ..... lO3 50 ... 1, 8 50 ... 108 LC ... 108 50
4perCshis. lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... IC2
Spar Cents. ..... : ..... 79 95 .. 79 95 ... 79 75 ... 19 75
jii --ik as !rants 32E6 25 ...'..V.Ou ...32,6 25 ...all()
Laffltte Bark 1,0(0t. Bh.ars. 1015 _lOl5 ...1015 ...1015
Belgian 5 per Cents. 1.3% ... 103%
184("*" In4ii .... 115 ... 1C41; .. 105
Spanish Active.. ...--
._ 22% „. t 3 „. 22% ... 23
Passive—. 0*- ~- ..... ~,4„% —4% ..„ 4% ... 4%
lieapolitan .•.,.. ..... .. '06." .. . ... ~, ... It 6 ... 106 ... 'C6
it0man.......;..........—. '"•*"" 104 ••• 104 ... 104 ... 104
tIAii.WAY StlititXs.
atzfienman ..., ; 815 ... 815 0 . 815 ... 815
Versailesl -ft B. ...... 1.41 cl .
. n - 3,0 -. 300 ... 3,.,0
4
-. .' ..• .. 56 .. 92 50 ... 90 50
goners ............, ~.•
' . L 62 50 502
Strlaing;-- vr:
~,, 50 •••• 201 SO ... L 62 5;
atrasburg ai5.4.,4-..„,.„„, 2(11 25 ..):'," '''• 25.n 201 2)

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 23
fireper Cents. Eletalliques • - lt Sgt,
Fokr perCant5........... ............ . ............ . ... IrO%
Three par Cents.... ' 7734,
Bank Mares

AMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, JOLT 5.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... ll6
Bank Shares 1678
Anglo-Russian Loan 1(9% AN
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 163
Inscription, Ist series lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., ;:c1 and 4th
Series 98%
Ditto in Certificates .. foi3N,
New 4 per Cent. (1840) ... 83% 88%
Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent .... ..... ...... 51
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds — —..
New Tickets IGS
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. '7B% '78%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDOc".
HAMBURGH, JULY 5.-13 7%, Two months 13 6.
PETERSBURG, JUNE N.—Three months, 371 pence.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 28.—Seventy-five days, 1 6.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 2.
Bills. Money
St. SchuldSch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond,, MO, 4 per cent 103% 102%
Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazette, July 3.
BELGIAN N UNDS—BRUSSELS, JULY 6.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO2
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93
-- 3 per Cent.
----..-Thirty.seven-----......".. 71%
--(1340) 102%
Loan of City, P:32,4 per Cent. 93%
Society of Comincrce, 4 Y., per Cent Ati
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 75%
National Seoiety
Exchange on Louden (short) -
-Brussels Papers, July 6.

ABUSES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.—In the month of
March we stated from authority that regulations had
been issued by the Board of Customs for increased
facility and despatch in the passing of passengers' lug-
gage at the London Custom-House ; and that a second
landing waiter was to be appointed to assist in the exa-
mination of the luggage, whose duty was to be confined
to the examination of such of the passengers' luggage
as did not exceed one packet. Now, this announcement
by the Board of Customs was either a direct false-
hood, or their order has been wantonly and shamefully
disobeyed. Yesterday one of the steamers of the Gene-
ral Steam Navigation Company reached London-bridge-
wharf from Boulogne at eleven o'clock, with 102 pas-
sengers, and a vast amount of luggage. A Custom-
house fficer was present to see the passengers leave the
vessel, and in several instances he refused to obey tha
order just referred to. We make the statement
from personal experience. A passenger, with only
one small packet, containing the necessary arti-
cles of dress for a few days' stay, exhibited it open
for inspection, but though informed that it was the only
luggage the passenger had, the Custom-house officer re-
jected it, and handed thepacket to one of his colleagues to
be placed among the vast heap of luggage. Remon-
strance was vain—the passenger was obliged to quit the
vessel, and, after waiting for more than hour, and finding
that ho would probablylbe compelled to wait four hours
more, he returned on board the vessel, and, at last, suc-
ceeded in obtaining the small packet. The poor travel-
lers, to the number of some sixty or seventy, worn out
with sea-sickness, and want of sleep, were collected to-
gether in a waiting-room, several of them only with
one packet each, and could neither get their luggage
nor the slightest information when they had any chance
for it. Indeed no person connected with the Custom-
house could be seen, except a door-keeper, who
referred them to an insolent lad about sixteen
years of age, and this functionary seemed to take
delight only in displaying his authority. All
the small luggage could have been cleared in twenty
minutes, and as it was announced by this juvenile
hanger-on at the office that every one must take his
turn, whether the packages were small or great, or
numerous; some of these unfortunate victims must
have been detained at least four hours. Such
conduct is a disgrace to the country. Foreigners
have heard much of the despatch and skill of the
English in almost every department of trade, when
they are left to manage their own concerns ; and here
they find not only insolence, but the most sluggish
and arbitrary system of proceeding, when public
officers are paid, whether they work or not. The
system of bribery under despotic Governments is
infinitely preferable to this. Perhaps one-half of the
passengers would willingly have given money to these
officers only to induce them to do their duty. In France
an officer is specially appointed for the purpose of pass-
in.- small packets, whether there are five or fifty, or
whether a passenger has one, two, or three, and
every proceeding is conducted with the utmost
good order and politeness. It may be proper
to add, that the English Custom-house officers,
when remonstrated with, behaved with civility, and
said they were not to blame, but the system, for
there were too few hands. The Board of Cus-
toms, in fact, should be abolished, for whether it is
their fault originally, or the fault of those under them,
it is clear that the whole mode of conducting that de-
partment is radically bad. To crown the scene, passen-
gers, after being thus tormented for hours, had to pay
sixpence for each package, but into whose pocket this
money goes we cannot tell. Why not take a bribe at
moo ?

THE MACHINERY QUlBBLE.—Compelled reluctantly
to admit that the distress under which the country at
present labours is almost unexampled, the Tories, who
are never at a loss for a sophistry, have discovered that
this alarming state of things has been brought about by
machinery. " Machinery," say they—and Sir Robert
Peel, who is the very genius of equivocation, of course
endor.,es the fallacy—" machinery has done it all !" Are
the people eating boiled nettles at Paisley, and disin-
terred calves at Akington ? It is machinery that has brought
them to this pass ! Are they rotting by hundreds off the
face of the earth at Stockport, Manchester, Leeds, Burn-
ley, and other great commercial districts ? It is ma-
chinery- that is to blame for their destitution ! Mr. Cob-
den triumphantly disposed of this Tory sophism last
night in the House of Commons, and showed that in
Nottinghamshire, in the Staffordshire Potteries, and in
numerous other districts, where not the slightest im-
provement in machinery had takenplace for the last two
centuries, the distiess was actually appalling it was
the same in the mines and colleries, where
machinery was just what it was years and
years ago. In Ireland, according to Mr. O'Con-
nell, the state of things was just as bad ; and yet
so far is this country from being overrun with ma-
cphinery, that it has not even the " machinery of taxa-
tion," greatly to Sir Robert Peel's annoyance, as he him-
self assured his faithful Commons at the commencement
of the session. Deprived of the aid of this sophism, the
Tories, we suppose, will next attribute the distress to the
visitation of Providence ; and should this ground, too,
be cut from under them, they will, doubtless, as a last
resource, assign it to the malignant interposition of the
Devil.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
ROYAL ASSENT.

Their Lordships met this day at twelve o'clock, when
the loyal Assent was given, by Commission, to several
Bills. The Lords Commissioners were—the Earl of
Shaftesbury, the Duke of Buccleucb, and Lord Wharn-

The Usher of the Black Rod having summoned the
Commons the Royal Commission was read, and the
Royal Assent given to the following Bills :
The Customs' Duties Act (the Tariff), Forest of Dean
Poor Bill, Deptford Pier Bill, Court House (Cromarty)
Bill, Marine Insurance Bill, Manners' Estate Bill,
Stafford Grammar School Bill, York Cathedral Bill, and
llawkes' Divorce Bill.

Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday ai
ten o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The house of Commons met this day at twelve
o'clock to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission
to several Bills, and the Deputy• Usher of the Black
Rod appeared at the table to summon the House to the
House of Peers for that pnrpose.
The SPEAKER, on his return, informed the House
that he had heard the Royal Assent given by Commission
to several Bills (11)r which see Lords' Report).
CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTION.
On the motion that the House do now adjourn,
ry Sir F. BURDETT made a short statement relative to

Captain 'Warner's invention, and gave notice that he
would more for the appointment of a Committee on
Monday.
The House then adjourned.

GROSS OUTRAGE on the CAPTAIN.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Last evening, at the public meeting held in Fletcher's Chapel,
Finsbury-square, on the conclusion of the Rev. Mr. Massie's
detail of starvation and awful state of the operative classes,
the popular cry was, "Now state your remedy against this evil."
Mr. M. demurred, under side-looks at his colleagues, and at last
"broke the ice" by saying, "A repeal of the Corn-laws."
(Cries of " Put it as a resolution," with " We want
deeds, not talk, talk.") Mr. Massie concluded in evident
dilemma, and with hasty descent from the pulpit, he
seized Captain Aekerley by the collar, having at hand
a policeman, &c. The ceremony of ejectment took place,
with similar dragging away, under abuse, through the
streets, to the district police-office, when the Inspector
refused investigation, in default of evidence, the Rev. Mr.
Massie absenting himself. The Captain returned to the
chapel, amidst cheers, whose presence, as may be conceived,
disconeerted the party, who refused to put the resolution—this
hypocritical set of. money-talkers of distress without any mani-
festation by " acts"—to prove the sincerity of their intention,
or agree to a call for a positive remedy against the distress of
the people.

Gossz or TILE WEEK, &c.-:—Grisi was confined
on Friday last. The accouchement has, for obvious reasons,
bes,n kept a profound secret, but we give the fact from un-
(Whited authority.—The King of Prussia has just named
Meyerbeer his Director-General of Music. He will receive
an annual salary of three thousand thalers (about five hundred
guineas). —Mrs. Alfred Shaw has arrived in England from
Italy, after an absence of three years. —Di aniatic and Musical
Review

—IiE3IARRABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—About eight days
ago a swarm of young bees, from the stociltt oftl;:irtelds.t Eufnpolriznasbotemhtehe
Stephenson, of Dalton-in-Furness, left the parent hive in
search of a new habitation ; and after flyn
time alighted upon a small bird, which was
bough of a pear-tree, and which, strange as it maapypaaprepnetairy
allowed itself to be hived along with the bees, and after remain-
ing with them a short time flew out of the hive,
quite delighted with its novel adventure.—Lancaster Guardani
The corn merchants are playing their old game
again of raisingyrices, in order to lower the duty on foreign
grain, and we hed? they calculate on getting the duty down to
6s. per quarter in a few weeks—which we have no doubt they
will effect. This plainly'shows the absurdity of the present
Corn-laws; a fixed duty would be far preferable.—Exeter
Western Times.