The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

H SUN, LONIDON,_MON Di Y IVIORNIVG, MAY 16, 1842

for most descriptions of Stock, except Edinburgh, and Glasgow,
and South Western, which are firm at the quotations. Ea,tern
Countries, 9} ; New Debentures, 5/. Is. Bd. ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 54 ; Grand Junction, 185 ; London and arming-
ham, New 32/. Shares, 3li • South Western, 64 ; South
Eastern, New Two and a Half, 2/. Bs. 9d. to 2/. 10s.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 13.—Our market
to-day has been very inanimate, and little business done.
Prices have a downward tendency for Manchester and Bir-
mingham, Leeds, &c., but Edinburgh and Glasgow are in
r good request; 30s. premium is freely offered for the new
Quarters. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 543/4 ; Northern and
Eastern, 4234 ; Leeds, 82 83 ; Ditto, Halves, 36 36f.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 1674 'lndia Stock • ••.
3 per Cent Red. 9ll Ditto Bonds ........ ....... 21Pw
3 per Cent Cons 92,} Ditto Old Annuities ...
31 per Cent Red 99,1 ,Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities :.o expire Ditto Small .. 41 pm
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 121 Bank Stock for Acct ...
Oct. 1959. ........ 1:4 !India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. ........ , Consols for Acct 92i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 psi cent.— ;Portuguese, 5 per cent. 634
Belgian, 5 pet cent — (Ditto, New Ditto 371
Brazilian 80nd5.... !Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres ,ti percent Russian, 5 per cent .....
Chilian, t) per cent..... 80 Ditto, NI etallic ..... ..
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent., 234
Ditto, 18`24............... 254 'Ditto Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —'. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange —l. -- c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 374 French, 3 percent —'. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 I Dutch, 21 per cent. . 528
Peruvian, 1825, fi per et 15_ Ditto, 5 per cent. ..
.. 101

SHARES.

Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 4%
Cheltenham and Great Western (72i paid) 1911
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... —
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 55i
Great Uestern Railway (G 5 paid) 924
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)...... 64
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) fl6a
London and Blackwall (25 paid) ......
London and South WAestern • 64i
. _

Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... —
Ditto Quarter Shares.( 2 paid) 4l
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... . 29i
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ......
Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ... 33

THE CORN-LAWS.—A preliminary meeting was held
on Friday evening last, at the George the Fourth Ta-
vorn, New North-road, Islington, for the purpose of
forming an Anti-Corn-law .Association in the district, to
co-operate with the Metropolitan and Islington Associa-
tions, to procure a total abolition of the obnoxious and
oppressive " Bread-tax." It was attended by Mr. Burts,
Mr. Gregg, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Glover, and other gentle-
men, and after an animated discussion it was agreed to
hold another meeting in the same place on Friday next,
to carry into execution the intention of forming an Anti-
Corn-law Association.

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" Who runs may read.'

There is nothing in the original columns of the Paris journals
for us to extract from or analyse. The articles are either en
the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, respecting which
there are no observationsof an interestingnature, or un the late
melancholy catastrophe, without adding anything important to
what has been already said on the subject. Our Contempo-
raries aware that, under the influence of the feelings inspired
by the recent disaster, the public would take no interest in party
political discussion, almost generally abstain from it.
he Temps says that the Prince de Joinville, before he sets
out for his voyage round the world, will make an excursion on
the coast of Italy, and will visit in succession Tuscany, the
Roman States, and the Gulf of Naples.
The investigation which commenced immediately alter the
discovery of the projectiles, bombs, &c., in the Passage Violet
and other places, is still pursued, says the Gazette des Tribe-
naux, with activity. The number of arrests up to the present
time amounts to about ten. All the objects seized have been
deposited at the Registrar's office. The projectiles are made
in a perfectly new manner. A stone bottle, not very thick,
serves as the envelope; this is covered outside with a thick coat
of the inflammable matter which is applied to the extremity of
those matches called elamiques allemandes. Inside, a quan-
tity of powder and bullets are strongly pressed together, so as
to produce a terrible explosion, if the inflammable coating of
the bottle should come in contact with any resisting body. Nu-
merous w►tnesses have been already heard, and they are aeon
to be confronted with the prisoners.

PUBLIC OPINION'.
The Morning Herald contains the following remarks on
the subject of taxation :—" The word • justice' was not a
little abused in the House of Lords on Thursday evening,
during the discussion of Lord Lansdowne's motion relative to
the extension of the Income- tax to foreign fundbolders. What
can justice have to do with taxation ? One tax may be lei;
unjust than another; but all taxation is in its essence unjust
and unequal, and to speak of any impost known to Chancellors
of the Exchequer being in accordance with 'the principles of
abstract justice' is a perversion of language. On what prin.
ciple can the collection of our national revenue—of nearly fifty
millions sterling annually—from sources so various and oppo-
site, be excused, save on that of spreading the injustice of our
fiscal system as much as possible over all-classes of the commu-
nity? We hear it, indeed, occasionally remarked that taxes
on commodities are less unjust than direct taxes, because they
are voluntary. The supposition of taxation being voluntary is
ridiculous. ',there is no such thing as voluntary taxation ;
and the taxes which are paid o,n sugar, tea, coffee, and tobacco,
are quite as involuntary as the Income-tax will be ; they,
offend, though indirectly, just as much against the principles
of abstract justice,' as the tax on income does boldly anti
directly; nay, they offend more, because they check consump-
tion—which must to many amount to a refusal by the State of
the necessaries of life—whereas the Income-tax is but a sum
taken away from what a man has."
In an article on the subject of election bribery and comp-
Mr. Warburton's case seems almost
ctihoonictehrethlan'intwhsatsals'—f Sudbury. 'there is a snug self-satisfied,
easy, matter-of-course, continual, standing corruption abut it
; all very well and businesslike for an old
professed ' to see no harm in that kind of
tbwh°hir:u g
thing,' but nb is iul°' ntOjetrrabawipheaot riot of the first water—a genuine purity
and ballot man—a little startling. It appears from Mr. War-
burton's petition, that when he first stood for Bridport it
was the custom in that borough to pay after the election 10/. to
each voter under the denomination of head-money ; but that
no previous promises hid been made; that every gentleman of
honour felt himself bound to pay this 'money ; that 2,000/. was
paid at his first election; and tnat in 1830 money wa- paid on
the same understanding,' Mr. Warburton certainly did the
thing in style—and so did the electors of Bridport. It was
not that two or three shy birds were to be secured by this tempt-
ing application; there was no nt nsensical interference of ageets
—no tenderness for the delicate scruples of the principal. Mr.
Warburton and all his predecessors' it would seem, paid each
of about 200 voters their 10/. a head as regularly as if he had
been a navy contractor bargaining fur beeves in the gross ; and
then, forsooth, because he buys his constituents, nut by auc-
tion, but by private contract, he cumes not only theinno-
cent, but even the man of honour over us."
The Chronicle thus notices a gross Ministerial blunder, as
respects the Corn Bill :—" A blunder committed in framing
the Corn Bill has given the commercial worll no very high
idea of the business qualifications of Ministers. The Bill re-
quires the new averages from a certain day—which happens
not to coincide with the day on which the old averages ceased.
There was consequently an interval of some days on which no
averages could be taken. The Liverpool merchants have
claimed the admission of a large quantity of corn free of duty
during that interval, on which no average could be taken. It
must be admittedsthat the blunder is a very gross one. The
present Government were always claiming credit for superior
csrrectness whilst the Whigs were in office; but one of the
blunders already committed by them since their return to
power, would show how groundless are their pretensions."
The following is from the Post:—" The policy of the Go-
vernment with respect to protective duties, and the statement
of the Prime Minister in proposing the reform of the tariff,
are both, perhaps, unexceptionable when tested by merely mer-
cantile principles. But, in a nation like this, where theinter-
ests over which a wise and careful Government is bound to
watch, are not merely mercantile, it may be questioned whether
the approbation of the merchants is alone, or most chiefly, that
to which the Minister ought to look. It seems to us that the
various interests of those concerned in production—from the
owner of arable lands and pasture lands, of mines, and quarries,
and fisheries, down to the labourers who depend for their
daily bread upon the 6nployment they can obtain—ought
to ,thaes
interests
eoldf
trade, or
obfythtehegreGatovbeordnymeorift
pweieplllea,s
cothne.
sidered merely as consumers. And we do not think that
the well-being of the classes concerned in production is to be
determined by the same principles as determine the well-being
of the mercantile class. The mercantile class may flourish by
laws and regulations which would be quite destructive to the
producing classes."

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ELECTIONEERING.
The inquiry into the validity of. Mr. lames Powell's vote,
before the Lyme Regis Election Committee, will, it was stated
by Sergeant Wrangharn on Friday, alone cost upwards of 5001.
LAW AND POI./CE.
Further hearing of Messrs. Williams and Mottram's case
has been adjourned to next Wednesday.
Six charges of felony were brought on Friday against Thomai
Kirby, a linendraper of Church-street, Shoreditch, for having
stolen plate,' upon all of which he was committed.
On Friday, William Adnam, a messenger in the Six Clerks'
Office, was brought up at Bow-street charged with stealing a
number of law-briefs. It having transpired that documents of
importance had disappeared from other offices, the prisoner
was remanded for a week, while further inquiry is set afoot.
LITERAIVX AND SCIENTIVIC.
Thalberg, the celebrated pianist, gave his first concert on
Friday morning at Willis's rooms.
SPORTING.
Epsom Races are expected to be honoured by- her Majesty
and Prince Albert on the Derby day, the 25th inst. During
the races the Court will remain at Claremont, and proceed from
thence to the Downs.

COUaT-FASITIONAICLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and family were pre-
vented attending her Majesty's Fancy Ball, in consequence of
the demise of the Dowager Duchess.
The Queen's entertainment on the 20th inst., will be a con-
cert of vocal and instrumental music.
The Countess of Jersey held a conversaelone on Satnrday
evening, in Berkeley-square, to which the Foreign Ministers and
their ladies were invited.
A marriage is on the tapis between Sir Thomas Winnington,
Bart., of Stamford 'Worcestershire, and Miss Doraville, daugh-
ter of Sir Compton and Lady DornviLe, of Grosvenor-square.
Sir Charles Napier appeared at the Dal Masque in the cha-
racter of Ali Pacha,.and performed the part admirably.
Captain Elliot wore a Chinese costume, supposed to have
belonged to his friend Commissioner Lin.
MISCEZAILANZOUS.
Lord Teynham (late the Hon. Henry Roper Curzon), took
his seat in the House of Lords on the 10th instant, having suc-
ceeded to the title on the death of his father.

The Tribunal de Premiere Instance was on Satur-
day occupied,
fur the greatest part of its sitting, with an action
for defamation, brought by Emile Girardin, the Editor of the
Presqe, against M. Pays, the printer, and M. Raulet, the
responsible editor, of the Emancipation de Toulouse, for an
article published on March 19. Al. Paya was defended by
counsel, but M. Raulet let judgment go by default. They
were condemned to pay a fine of 4,000 fr. each.
The Marquis of Waterford has ordered a new and
elegant town chariot to be built, which is to be completed by
the 26th inst., about which period his Lordship's marriage to
the lion. Miss Stuart de Rothesay is expected to be solemnised.