The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-20 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Lord JOHN RUSSELL has, it is understood, left
town this morning for Windsor Castle, to have an
audience of her M AJESTY.

Sir JOHN HonnousE, and other political leaders,
called at Lord To RUSSELL'S residence, in Chesham-
place, this morning.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of

last night:—

The death of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, which was an-
nounced in our early Edition, opens the door to Par-
liament for Lord MORPETH, and enables the new
Ministry to boast among its members the represen-
tative for the West Riding of Yorkshire
The Cabinet arrangements remain secret.

It is reported, but we hardly believe it, that mr.
AUSTIN will be the new Solicitor-General. it,
AUSTIN rS a man of transcendant power, and of great
wealth, but what has he ever done for the Liberal

party ?
Absurd rumours have been afloat in the Courts of
Law as to Lord COTTENHAM refusing the seals, and
the appointment of Lord DENMAN as Chancellor, with
Sir THOMAS WILDS for Chief Justice. We notice
them only to contradict them.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

A Privy Council will shortly be held at Windsor
Castle, at which the new Ministers will be sworn
into office and receive their several seals from the
QuEEN. At present, however, nothing positive is
known as to the day of the Council.
The members of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Administra-
tion will also attend at Windsor Castle on the same

occasion, for the purpose of delivering their seals of
office.

This morning the usual daily meeting of Lcrd
LANspowNi and the other leading political supporters
of Lord JouN RUSSELL took place at his Lordship's
private residence in Chesham-place, Belgrave-square.
The meeting broke up at three o'clock.

We are not at all sorry to find Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL hesitating long before he undertakes the dif-
ficult task of governing the country. Unless he can
see his way clearly, and calculate with tolerable
certainty that he can conquer resistance in the Lords
as well as the Commons, it would only be a waste
of precious time to assume office. The result of
a division in the Lower House on the question of
" total repeal" would be at best doubtful. A gene-
ral election cannot be much longer delayed, whatever
may be the result of the present crisis. The Tory
county Members will, therefore, be anxious to repre-
sent on a division the sentiments of the constituents
that returned them in 1841, and will vote against a
measure so sweeping and unexpected, in order
to secure their next election. The influence of Peers
in county elections is still enormous, and we
are convinced that they will use that influence to
maintain the corn-laws with the utmost pertinacity,
till they find, as in the case of the Reform Bill, the
machine of Government stopped, and the country
threatened with some dire convulsion. Would it,
therefore, not be the more prudent course to allow
the obstructive party to form a Government and try
their hands at the settlement of this long-agitated
question ? Possibly that was Sir R. PEEL'S real ob-
j ect in resigning, for, though he recommended the
QUEEN to send for Lord J. RUSSELL, he could not
fail to see that a Whig Ministry would have still
greater difficulties to contend with than those which
he dared not encounter, and that ultimately they
would be compelled to come to the same conclusion.
Present appearances justify the supposition that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL can make no progress even in
forming a Cabinet. Possibly the Marquis of LANs-
DOWNE, and others of the old Whig school, are not
prepared to go the whole length ; it is not impro-
bable, also, that they cannot forget their predilec-
tions in favour of the landed interest, and dread the
infusion into the Cabinet of those principles which
distinguish the free-traders of the day, and which, for
aught we know, may be as unwelcome to them as to the
RICHMOND" and TYREELLS. One thing, we believe,
is certain, that the management of the House of
Commons is not the least of the difficulties that sur-
round the new leader of the Whigs. Unless, there-
fore, he can get rid of the obstructions of his
colleagues, and form an administration, not only
unanimous, but enthusiastic in the cause,
he would only expose himself and his party
to defeat and ridicule. Sir R. PEEL has evidently
made up his mind on the subject. Let Lord J.
RUSSELL do the same, and at once. The people of
this country have already been sufficiently long in a
state of anxiety and suspense—they know the real
cause, the reluctance of the Peers to give up their ill-
acquired gains, and they would be pleased to see the
task of forming an administration cast upon those
men who will neither work themselves nor allow
others to work. This would bring affairs to a crisis.
They could not hold together for six weeks, even
with all the abilities of STANLEY, and all the courage
of RICHMOND and BUCKINGHAM. They have not one
man in the Commons fit to oppose even a third -rate
speaker of the fifty that would be opposed to tht m.
They would be resisted to the last by sixty
or seventy Irish Members, by the whole of the Liberal
party, headed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and by from
eighty to ninety of the moderate Conservatives, under
the banners of Sir R. PEEL. In a few days the
question would be settled by a simple process, called
the "reductio ad absurdum," and the deeds of MILES
and TYREELL would form even a more amusing epi-
sode in English history than those which broke up,
amidst universal ridicule, "Barebone's Parliament "
Whatever may be the result of the present crisis
however, all the real friends of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
are anxious that he should not persevere in his
attempts to govern the country without a fair chance
of success, and that it would be better to give up the
struggle at once than form a Ministry which could
not secure itself against defeat.

Since the above was in type, we have learned with
satisfaction that Lord Jowl. RUSSELL has acted the
more prudent part, and under all circumstances has
declined to undertake the Government. Sir R. PEEL
is now with the QUEEN, and as he has no prospect of
being able to form an efficient Administration, will,
probably, advise her MAJESTY to send for the Duke
of IVRLLnwToN. The country, in this case, is left
at the mercy of a leader who never carried any
measure without Sir R. PEEL, and who is now
within three years of fourscore.

We brought before our readers on Wednesday the
points in Mr. PARKER'S letter to Sir JAMES GRAHAM
which belong to his own case of grievance. There
are other points in the letter, relating to the conduct
of the Poor-law Commissioners in the Andover in-
quiry, which also deserve notice. The Poor-law
Commissioners must expect to have it meted out to
them with the same measure with which they have
meted out to Mr. PARKER ; and they who considered
Mr. PARKER'S recommendation of PRICE, in igno-
rance of his having resigned the mastership of the
Oxford:House of Industry, under a cloud, "a great
indiscretion, which they must notice in a marked
manner," cannot expect gentle treatment for indis-
cretions of their own. If no fallibility is to be al-
lowed to Assistant-Commissioners, the least that vi e
can expect is infallible chiefs.
That the result of the Andover inquiry has hitherto
been most unsatisfactory, there can be no doubt; and
that the Commissioners are to blame for this unsatis-
factory result, we think will not be doubted by any
one who reads Mr. PARKER'S pamphlet. The in-
quiry was commenced by Mr. PArmata. on the 25th
of August : on the 17th of September the Commis-
sioners ordered the proceedings to be suspended, just
as the evidence in support of the charges was con-
cluded, and the master was to enter upon his defence ;
then, on the 15th, Mr. PARKER was ordered to
resume the inquiry immediately. We will here
quote Mr. PARKER :

"On Monday, the 15th of September, I bad an interview
with Sir Edmund Head, who desired me to return to An-
dover forthwith, and resume the inquiry on the following
day. I strongly remonstrated against such an early re-
sumption of the inquiry, and stated that the legal gentlemen
who had been employed in the case could not be assembled
so speedily. Sir Edmund observed that he did not care
about their presence at the inquiry, and I stated that if I went
down to Andover that evening, I thought the witnesses
could not be got together by the next morning. I then
urged that it would be advisable to give a few days' notice, so
that there might to be no excuse afforded for adjourning the
proceedings. This suggestion Sir Edmund Head would not
listen to, and I immediately wrote to all parties, apprising
them of the intention to resume the investigation on the
17th September."

If the object of the Commissioners was justice,
why this hurry ? Natural justice counsels the
giving every reasonable advantage to an accused
man. On the 17th, then, Mr. PARKER attended to
resume the inquiries, and was immediately met by
the master's counsel with an application for an ad-
journment, to allow him to get together witnesses
who were dispersed, and to prepare the defence,
towards which nothing had been done, as they had
not expected the investigation to be resumed ; and,
with the consent of the counsel on the other side,
Mr. PARKER granted a five days' adjournment.
" This adjournment for firo days was acceded to by all
parties, and, considering the indefinite character and nature
of some of the charges, it must be acknowledged that an ad-
journment for five days was not of greater duration than the
master might fairly demand. The reasonableness of the ad-
journment will be apparent,-when it is understood that evi-
dence on the following charge alone—' That he has fre-
quently taken liberties with the younger women and girls in
the house, and attempted at various times to prevail upon
them to consent to gratify his wishes,' applied to the cases
of no fewer than eleven women, and that none of the
alleged assaults were of recent occurrence, and the greater
number of them were said to have been committed several
years since."

But so bent were the Commissioners on haste, and
so little mindful of justice, that they overruled this
Mr. PARKER proceeding to
Somersetadjournm eHnto;usea,nhdon
he
was sent back to Andover, and
ordered to resume the inquiry immediately. Mr.
PARKER endeavoured to explain to the Commissioners
the reasonableness of the adjournment—even en-
treated them not to overrule it ; but all in vain. A
letter was written by order of the Commissioners to
the accused master,
explaining their reasons for over-
ruling the adjournment; which letter, to say the
least, is a very extraordinary document :
" The Commissioners are of opinion, that au officer against

whom charges of the kind involved in the investigation now
pending in the Andover Union have been made on oath, is
liable to be called on to give an explanation, and enter upon
his defence with the least possible delay."
A) this altogether irrespective of the nature of the
charges, and of the evidence which may be required
to disprove them ! Why the falsest charges may be
the most difficult to disprove. The letter proceeds—
" The time that has elapsed since the investigation began
has been amply sufficient, in the opinion of the Commis-
sioners, to enable you to get together the materials necessary
for your defence,more especially as most of the charges relate
to facts to be proved or disproved by witnesses on the spot."

But the inquiry had been stopped, and it was not
expected that it would be resumed. Witnesses that
had been got together might have been dispersed
again. Besides, Mr. PARKER says that the witnesses
generally were not on the spot. There is another
feature in the case which makes the conduct of the
Commissioners even more harsh and unjust, that they
were aware that the master's funds were exhausted.
One more extract from the jesuitical letter of the Com-

The following are the quotations for other lines:—

Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), G premium ; ditto
(Caton), sf. 50c.; 131 ; ditto (Ganneron), 51.;
ditto (Lapinsonniere), 4f. ; Sud Est, 31. ; Ardoin, 31; Re-
cevenrs-Gen6ranx, 41; Paris and Strasbour, (Ganneron),
If. 30c. ; ditto ( Beetle; ), if. 5Cc. •, Tours and 'Nantes (Mac-
kenzie), 51.; ditto (Drouillard), sf. ; ditto O'Ne3J, 51.; ditto
(Carette), sf. 50c.; ditto (Lefevre), sf. • Lyons and Avignon
(Talahot), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe), lf. 30c.; ditto (Com-
pagnie Meridionale), 500 f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken-
zie), 500 f.; ditto (Espeleta), 61. 53c.; Creil and St. Quen-
tin, par; Charleroi (Kysaens), 4951. The Lyons Definitive
Shares sold at 75f. premium ; Strasbourg ditto, 20f. ; Tours
and Nantes, 411. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEGI. 19.
Anglo-Belgian — ;Madrid and Valencia...
Barba does

Boulogne and Amiens.. 8
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse

Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
Do. (Mackenzie's) ..
Callao, Lima, and Pa-
citie Coast
Central of Spain .....
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish 715
Dieppe & Paris Juliet —
Dijon and Mulhouse
It
East Indian
Fampeux & Hazelirouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted lB
Do. Pepin le Ilalleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Great Western 'Canada 33A
Jamaica S. Mid:Junction
Do. North Midland —
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jomappe —
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg

Nimbi'. and Liege
North Jamaica ...
,Orleans and Vierzon

Orleans and Bordeaux 9%
OverYssel
Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
Ditto (Ganneron's). 8%
Ditto (Calon's)....
Ditto (Sad Est) 2%
Paris and Orleans—,
Paris and Rouen .
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganii(ron's)
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2
Do. (Aymard's)
Paris and St. Quentin —
Rouen and Havre...— —
Royal North of Spain —
Sambre and Manse
Strasburg and Bale
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's) . 4%
Do. (Lefebvre's) 2I,E
Do. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad.....,
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders

THE WEATHER.—The barometer has fallen to
28 9, lower than it has been for a long period. The
weather is hazy, with occasional sunshine, and bois-
terous ; but we fear, from the very low state of the
mercury, that the accounts from the country will be
less favourable.

HIGH SCHOOL OP EDINEURGH.—The Town Coun-
cil of Edinburgh have just made the dangerous ex-
periment of appointing a foreigner to the office of
rector in this celebrated school. Dr. Leonhard
Schmitz, a native of Germany, is the fortunate can-
didate, and Lord Provost Black urged, as one recom-
mendation in his favour, the large number of books
he had published, the titles of which filled "a list of
a page and a half." This shows indefatigable
labour, and most German scholars may boast of
as much, but that is no criterion of a man's
ability to teach a school requiring so many high
qualifications, and will not even atone for an imper-
fect knowledge of the English language. Several of
the town-councillors manifested the utmost opposi-
tion to such a scheme, but they were, from some
cause or other, outnumbered, and Dr. Schmitz was
elected by a majority of 20 to 11. Will the appoint-
ment tend to raise the character of the school, which
is not in the best favour with many of the in-
habitants ?

VIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY; QUARTER TO TIMEX.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was without
any change. Sales, 3,000 bales.—ln Shares everything re-
mained very dull.
At Messrs. Lomond and 'Co's sale of Railway Shares
yesterday the following prices were realiseds :
London, Bristol, and South Wales ... 42s 016 0
East and West of England Junction... 1% 0 13 6
Oxford, Gosport, Portsm., and Southtn. 42s 1 0 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••. ••• 1 0 0
Ceylon ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5s 012 6
Madrid and Valentia ... ... ... ... 2 1 0 0
East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 6
Ditto ditto ... ... ... ... 0 6 0
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 019 0
Northumberland and Lancashire ... 42s 1 3 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries lAi 0 15 0
Great Kent Atmospheric ... ... ... 2!‘ 112 6
Ditto ... ... ~. .. 1 12 0
East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... 0 19 0
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 22s 1 0 6
Ditto ••• ... ••• ••• -- 1 0 6
East Dereham and Norwich ... ... 1 0 6 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• .. 0 6 0
Northam pton,Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 2 3 0
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock ... 42s 410 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 9 0
Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries 1 % 0 15 6
Grand Trunk ... ... ... ... ... 42s 018 0
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2% 1 5 6
Great Welsh Central ... ... ... ... 42s 1 2 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 0
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 22s 1 1 0
Ditto ditto ... ... ... 1 1 0
Sheffield and Macclesfield ... ... ... 42e. 0 16 6
N. Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries 42s 416 6
Lincoln & Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% 1 10 0
Ditto ditto ... 1 10 0
South and Midlands Junction .. ... 42s 1. 3 0
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 1 0 0
Ditto ditto ... 1 0 0
Direct London and Exeter ... ... ... 1% 0 5 0
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester . ... 2% 1 5 6
North Staffordsh., Churnet & Potteries 42s 416 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 015 6
Ditto ditto ... ... ... 0 16 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 73 0 8 0
Ditto ditto ... ... ... _ 0 8 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s - 1 1 0
Ditto ditto ... ... .. 1 0 0
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke .. 105 s 215 0
Manchester, Midlands, and G. Grimsby 1% 1 7 6
Shropshire Union and Canal ...
... 42s 1 10 0
• Ditto ditto ••• ... 1 10 0
Sheffield and Manchester Direct ... 42s 1 5 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 6
Leicester and Birmingham ... ..
... 22s 1 1 0
Ditto ditto ... ... . ___ 1 0 0
N. Staffordshire, Churnet,and Potteries 42s - 416 0
Ditto ditto .. 4 15 0
London and Manchester (Rem.) ... 234 1 .13 0
Essex and Suffolk ••• ••• ••• ... 1% 016 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s 0 8 0
Ditto ditto ... 0 8 0
Great Western of Bengal ..• ... ... 14 0 8 6
Ditto ditto ••• ••• ... 0 8 0
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) ... ... 3 2 1 0
Madrid and Valenti* ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 1 1 0
Irish North Midland ••• ••• ••• ... 1% 015 0
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 423 1 0 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 9 6
Ditto ditto ..• ••• ••• 0 9 6
Line. and Wainfleet Haven and Boston 2% 1 9 6
Ditto ditto ... ••• ••• ••• 1 9 6
Ceylon ... ... ... ••• ••• • • ••• 4 0 13 0
North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42s 416 0
Grand Union ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 1% 1 6 0
Nottingham, V. of Belvoir, & Granthm. 1% 119 6
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0
Manchester and Southampton ..• •.. 2 2 11 0
There are no later accounts from the British colonies to-
day.
Ile return from the Bank of England relative to its opera-
tions this week show an increase in the circulation to
26,626,350/. or by 85,870.
An increase in the Rest of 6,2021. or to 3,215,596/.
An increase in the Public Deposits of 573,9731. or to
8,684,374/.
An increase in the other deposits from 9,022,019/. to
9,089,705/.
A decrease in the seven dajPs bills of 0,880/.
Asnoinlc orreasteo
6,0
in the
notesl in the banking department of
560,5
The amount of bullion now held is given at 13,268,771/.,
showing an increase of 201,421/. . .
In the promissory notes of the various country banks
there is to be noted a general but not an extensive
increase since the previous statement was made public.
Consols for the Account have been very firm to-day.
Consols for the next settlement are now at 92%. The
Reduced Three per Cents. are at 9234 %; and Exchequer-
bills at 18a. premium. Bank Stock opened at 201, it is now
at 200. _ _

A fair share of business has been transacted in the Foreign
Funds this morning. Brazil new Stock are quoted at 78 ;
Chili= Deferred at 5234 ; Grenada at 21; Peruvian at an
advance to 41 • Spanish Five per Cents. at 2,84 ; and the
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. at 601.
The Railway Share Market is rather more firm this morn-
ing ; and where business has been done rather advanced rates
have been paid, as our list of corrected prices will show.
BRITISH FUN DS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ......... 201 200
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5............ 92%4'4%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities ......•••• 9454. 96 )1,,i
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... 10 0-16 %
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 134 d. I %d.
1,000/.
500/. .... ....... „ ..... ~, „„ „.. 20 18 pm.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.......... Cent..........—
Ditto Newßonds, 1829 and 1839 78
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent • —,,
Ditto Deferred Stock ............. .. 52i4
Granada, 1 per Cent. . . ,,..... 21
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 3O
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 4O 41
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account 2834
Ditto Deferreu
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,4 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARIE.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin...
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to
Aylesbury and Theme IA
Belfast & County Down VA.—. ..... to
Bideford and Tavistock .. U.'
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Birmingham and Leicester
Direct — to
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. ..--
Bridgewater and Minehead... 425......
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New ..... ..: .......... .. 2 to
• ••..••
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liverpool Janet. 21/2
Buckinghamshire 425.......
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian Grand Junction ... 42s — to
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 2%. ... to --
Ditto, New ...... l% 2% to •••• ,