The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-24 00:00:00

FORM

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, per cent
Brazilian Bonds...
Bnenos Ayres 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BOA
Danish, 3 per _eat
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1625,6 per ct.
SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ...
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 58
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) -
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ..... 9
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) lO
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip (90 paid)

Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, Deferred.... ..
French, 5 per cent. —f —e.
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2 per cent. —
Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 1001

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—We shall not enter upon a controversy
as to the causes of the distress which desolates Paisley
—where out of a population of sixty thousand, eleven
thousand are daily dependent on the precarious, in-
sufficient, and necessarily decreasing supply afforded
by private benevolence. It would militate against
the design with which we bring this lamentable
exhibition before the eye of the public, were we
to make it the text of an argument, possibly
- leading to a controversy, but little advantage-
- OU3 to the general sympathy we would fain create
for the sufferers. It may be, and probably is,
true, that the staple manufacture of Paisley has
ceased to be in demand, because of the change which
ever-varying fashion has undergone. Shawls of a
cheaper fabric, manfactured elsewhere, have super-
seded those long almost exclusively produced in Pais-
ley. With distress, however deplorable and extensive,
caused by such fluctuations, the Corn-law, say its
advocates, can have nothing to do. But if want of
employment fur the labouring population, occasioned
to a great extent by the restrictions imposed upon trade
by this and other modes of protecting class-interests
ot the expense of the community, had not inflicted
distress and suffering upon every manufacturing dis-
trict in the kingdom, the unemployed work-people of
Paisley would have sought, and many of them would
have found, a market for their labour in other places ;
while those who remained would have obtained relief
by the benevolent efforts of the inhabitants. The
local funds would not have been taxed, as they have
been, beyond their powers of endurance; and these,
if necessary, would have been increased by supplies
sent from other quarters, raised by those appeals
which are never made in cases of real necessity,
without being responded to with promptitude and
effect by those who possess the power of doing
good. But the widely-spread depression of trade in
the manufacturing districts has called for the utmost
efforts of the benevolent, who possess the means, to
mitigate the sufferings of the unemployed who dwell in
their own localities. The help which would have
been readily extended to Paisley by those resident in
Manchester, has been demanded by masses perishing
around them in their own town, or in those other
densely-populated places within a short distance of it.
The general distress of the country, which we charge
on the Corn and Provision-laws, has paralyzed the
powers of extended benevolence, byl restricting its ex-
ertions to the localities within which its agents have
their own residence. Thus are the Corn-laws, and
their kindred enactments, chargeable, either imme-
diately or remotely, with national distress, and with
such instances of local destitution as is presented by
the population of Paisley.
STANDARD.—There has rarely occurred a case
in which the exposure of deliberate and systematic
fraud has been so complete, as in the recent attempt
to excite discontent and alarm in the agricultural
class by the threat of a meditated change in the pro-
tecting laws. The enterprise was begun by a series
of misrepresentations of the speeches of noblemen and
gentlemen connected with the landed interest, and sup-
posed to be in the confidence of the Government—
misrepresentations as gross and audacious as ever
were employed to deceive the public. These misrepre-
sentations supplied texts from which the Whig-Ra-
dical journals expatiated, day by day, upon the un-
grateful and dishonest policy of the Government. -At
length the artificers of fraud had wrought themselves
up to the pitch of confidence to dare anything, and
forth came the impudent lying announcement of the
Globe, that the graduated scale was forthwith
to be replaced by a fixed duty. It is not
to be wondered at that a scheme of false-
hood, so artful and so audacious, succeeded in
swaying the opinions of some of even our most in-
telligent and honest journals, particularly, if like
the Times, these journals had a bias in favour of
the change announced ' • perhaps it is as little
astonishing that the pseudo-Conservative journal,
written and compiled in concert with the evening
organ of the Whig-Radical Ministry, affected to
give implicit credit to a story dishonourable to Sir
Robert Peel's Government, and even went beyond
its Whig-Radical playfellow in pretending to cast
doubt upon the contradiction of the lie, when
that contradiction appeared by authority in the Stand-
ard. That this combined movement of Whig-Radicals
and mock Conservatives, which succeeded to some ex-
tent in imposing upon even honest and intelligent
journals, has proved at least temporarily injurious to
Sir Robert Peel's Government cannot be doubted. It
was designed for that purpose, and for that purpose
only ; and how could it fail of misleading simple-
minded men, who believe others as honourable and
candid as themselves, such as constitute the majority
of the agricultural lass ?
DREADFUL FIRE at LIVERPOOL.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
Great as the destruction is, the result may be con-
sidered as a fortunate escape, and the town owe the
credit to the fire-peke in particular. No accident,
happily, oc curred to life or limb, so far as we could
learn, though one man had a fearful and narrow escape.
The first estimates made of a loss are generally
much exaggerated, and for this there may be some
excuse. The loss, we believe, will be found (in
place of 70,0001. to 100,0001.) to be, in all, from
45,0001. to 47,0001.—chiefly in the following articles
7,000 to 8,000 quarters of wheat,
1,400 bags of cotton,
50 casks of madder,
100 barrels of tar and turpentine,
30 to 40 tons of dyewood, &c.
About 91 tuns of olive oil, worth about 5,0001. (not
included in our estimate), are vef in the cellars of the
eastern warehouse (called " Crane's"), but every hope
is entertained that it will be saved. The western
warehouse is called " Guyton's." The fire was so far
subdued by one o'clock, the flames being reduced to
the vaulted cellars under the west yard, that little ap-
prehension was entertained of its spreading to any of
the adjacent property, much of which was long in
jeopardy.
The two warehouses were both of great height, and
eovered an area (together) or 1,460 yards. One con-
tained principally grain, wool, and some brimstone; the
other cotton, grain, fustic, and tallow.
During the early part of the fire, Lieutenant But-
ler, in command of H.M.S. Etna, sent his marines on
shore, in charge of Mr. Wright, chief officer under
him ; Captain Cumming, of the 15th Regiment, from
the barracks, Duke-street, without requisition, also
brought up his men, and rendered efficient services, in
maintaining order and keeping ample space for the
firemen, until their services were gratefully dispensed
with.—Liverpool Standard.

HORRID MURDER, near ILKLEY.
On Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of Ilk-
ley, Addingbam, and the neighbourhood, were hor-
rified by the finding of the murdered body of a man,
aged about 50 years, in a field in the township of
Nesfield, through which the public highway from
llkley to Beamsley and Bolton Bridge passes, about
a mile distant from Middleton Lodge, the residence
of W. Middleton, Esq., and less than a mile distant
from the village of Ilkley.
The gamekeepers and watchers of Mr. Middleton
(six in number) found the body about two o'clock on
Saturday morning. Life was not then quite extinct.
The deceased was laid on his right side, and his hat
over his face. On the keepers attempting to raise him
up,.and on removing his hat, they discovered that his
head was broken to pieces, and his hat nearly filled
with blood. He expired immediately on being moved.
A short walking-stick with a most formidable head
• was found by the body, covered with blood. The
body was then moved to Ilkley, by the constable,
whom the keepers at once applied to, and the body
was identified as that of Wm. Hustwick, of Beamsley,
a labourer, who, it was ascertained, had left Ilkley
about half-past ten o'clock the night before, in com-
pany with his cousin, Joseph Hey, of Beamsley,
carpenter.
On the body being undressed, a mast frightful spec-
tacle was presented. Although the thee was not much
difigured, the head was literally smashed to pieces,
and almost the entire body and Bulbs were covered
with bruises. ley was immediately inquired after,