The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-08 00:00:00

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

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Ships arrived since last market.day, t 2.
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Aoeir's
I 21 0
Cart's Hartley lB 6 Walls End Morrison) :7 6
Old Tanfield ..... ........ ..... ... 14 0, Walls End Stewait's 26 6
Wylam
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Walls End Killingworth ... 16 6 Walls End Seymour Tees l7 0
W. E. Braddyll'iHetton ... 20 6 Watts Ei.d Tee,
Walls End Haswell. ... 20 0 Garnant Stone '3 6
Walls End Hetton 0 0

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—We are not sure that, in alluding to
the disgraceful exhibition which Mr. Ferrand made
of himself last night in the House of Comnyins, we
are not contributing to his gratification, by aiding his
efforts to acquire notoriety. That honourable dis-
orderly gentleman has so often shown himself in-
sensible to shame, that it were vain to endeavour,
by reproof, to make him conscious of indecorum,
however gross. To appeal to the rules which
are recognised and obeyed by those who move in the
Society of gentlemen appears altogether ineffective
when .Mr..Ferrand is in question. After the experi-
ment of last night, the Hon. Member for Knares-
horough must be allowed to utter what he pleases,
Without being held responsible for his language. It
would be only co-operating with the notoriety-hunter's
,desire to get up a scene, that he might play the chief
part in it, to demand explanation from him
of any personal allusion, however injurious, in which
he had indulged—for the . authority on which he
had rested any accusation, however gross, or the re-
t:actation of any assertion, however offensive. A man
of honour is as careful to avoid giving offence as he is
prompt in vindicating his feelings or his fame from
indignity or injury. Mr. Ferrand indulges in calum-
nies without seeming to imagine that he can be con-
sidered responsible for their truth. The assurance
that he has heard them, or something like them, from
some nameless individual, is the authority on which he
rests their claim to credence ; and his making the state-
ment within the walls of Parliament is the protection
which screens him from consequences that would ne-
cessarily follow the indulgence of his propensities
elsewhere. The tumultuous proceedings of last night,
by, which the business of the country was impeded
and the sitting of the House abruptly broken up,
will, we trust, be the last of the kind the public press
will have occasion to record. It cannot be that such
scopes can take place in the House of Commons
without materially lowering its character and in -
pairing its dignity in the estimation of the country.
STANDARD.—After the termination of the pro-
ceedings upon Lord Ashley's proposition, the House
went into Committee upon the tariff, when an obser-
vation was made by Mr. Ferrand that Dr. Bowring's
statements upon foreign trade ought not to be received
as an authority, because the inquiries of the learned
.gentleman had been partial and imperfect. A prodigious
clatter of " personality" was raised upon this expression
of Mr. Ferrand, and it more or less disturbed the debate
ititrough the remainder of the night's sitting. This
stratagem of constructive affronts and mock passion is a
very convenient and therefore a very trite one. Every
one, however, must see through the trick—must see
that there was no offence given or intended in Mr.
Ferrand's telling that that had been the case which
it was evident beforehand must be the case. Dr.
BoWring is, we believe, a perfectly honourable man,
hut he is a thoroughly bigotted political economist,
and, as such, he was selected and sent abroad by
the late Government, to aid their views of forcing
measures founded on their politico-economic theories
upon the country. Could such a man act fairly,
however honourable his intentions ? The thing was
impossible. .He could not consult all ; and there-
fore, in the selection of those whom he was to con-
sult, he would be determined by his opinion of The
intelligence of the parties ; but this opinion would
necessarily be formed from the agreement of these
,parties in his own doctrines, viz., the doctrines
of the political economists ; all others would be
rejected as narrow-minded, ignorant, antiquated
persons, behind the light and intelligence of the age.
A Dr. Bowring's commission was not merely
Amain, as
to receive evidence, but to analyse and digest it, can
there be a doubt that he must give a preference to
those views which most nearly coincided with
-his own ? The fault was not in Dr. Bow-
ring, but in those who sent him out. The
Learned Gentleman is not to blame for acting
as every prejudiced man must act, how honourably
disposed soever ; but the late Government is greatly
culpable for sending a prejudiced man on such a
mission. Dr. Bowring is—we repeat it cheerfully—
= honourable man ; but he certainly is not one jot a
more honourable man that Mr. Ferrand. Now, what
would the country think if Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
oient were to send Mr. Ferrand alone to inquire into
an d report upon the state of the factory districts, %with
a v.iew to measures of general legislation ? We have
no doubt whatever that Mr. Ferrand would do his
part honourably ; but we could scarcely have the
face to represent his opinions as possessing any
substantive authority, or to defend -the Government
.employing the honourable gentleman as its sole organ
for collecting information.

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MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The Marquis of Wa-
terford Was this morning married at Whitehall Chapel, to the
lion. and accomplished Miss Stuart, daughter of Lord Stuart
de Rothsay. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the
Archbishop of Armagh, in the presence of a numerous host
of friends and relations of both parties. The noble father of
the bride gave his daughter away. The Noble Marquis and his
bride were loudly cheered on their leaving the chapel by the
ercwd which had assembled,
02:FORD UNIVERSITY HERALD OFFICE, TUESDAY,
JUNE 7, JB42.—At two o'clock this day the question of the re-
al of the slatute of 1836, expressing a -want of confidence in
Hampden, the Regius Professor of Divinity, was brought
forward in Convocation, when, after a debate a division took
place, the numbers being—
P1ace5..................... 219
NonPlacets... ....................... ........ 334
Najority against Dr. Hampden . . .... 115

IMPERIAL =PARLIAMENT:
- (THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.

Sir H. INGLIS presented a petition from certain
electors of the borough of Nottingham, stating that if
any bribery or corrupt practices had taken place, they
were not parties to it, and submitting that, according to
the law of the land, a new writ ought to be issued.
The Hon. Baronet also moved that the petition be
printed with the votes, and gave notice that he should
to-morrow call the attention of the House to its prayer.

Mr. GRIMSDITCH presented a petition from Mac-
clesfield in favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTON, presented a petition from the
borough of Salford, praying for a restriction of the hours
of labour in factories.

POOR-LAWS.
Sir T. D. ACLAND presented a petition (we (lid
not hear from what place) against the Bastardy Clause
in the Poor-law Act ; and praying that the age to which
the putative father is bound to maintain the child may
be extended to nine years. •
MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from the members of
the London Mechanics' Institution, numerously signed,
praying that all public institutions may be relieved from
the payment of assessed taxes. Also a petition, praying
that the tolls might be taken off the metropolitan bridges.
Also a petition against prosecutions for blasphemy.
Mr. WYNNE ELLIS presented a petition from the
Leicester Mechanics' Institution, praying that it, and
similar institutions might be exempted from the payment
of assessed taxes.

Mr. SHIEL presented petitions from Ashton-under-
Lyne and Clitheroe, complaining of Roman Catholic
grievanfes

POOR-LAW.

Captain PECHELL presented a petition, agreed to at
a Meeting at Seaford in Sussex, against the continua-
tion of the new Poor-law for five years, and praying for
its repeal in England and Wales. The petition was
signed, on behalf of the meeting, by Mr. Brooker.