The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The approach of midsummer and consequent finish to
our spring business, is pretty apparent along the har-
bour and throughout the city generally. But few vessels
have arrived since July sot in, and those with indifferent
cargoeS. There have, howe, er, been very light winds
for several days, so that most of the vessels, steamers
excepted, were unable to make much headway, even if
there was business requiring their services.
Among those going west, we observe a large number
of German, Swiss, and English immigrants, who are
mostly seeking Wiskonsan Territory. Whatever por-
tion of them remained at ports along the sea-board, we
must confess that such as have reached this city do not
present that spectacle of squalid poverty and destitution
which many of the city prints speak of. They all appear
healthy, with ample means of reaching their new abodes
in the west.

There has been but little doing in the Grain Market
for several days. Sales of small lots of beat Flour have
been effected at $5 25, and Wheat is held atil 10. Corn
continues at 35 cents., and Oats 25 per bushel. It is
generally allowed that we are to have but little more of
the old crop this season. At Cleveland the market is
entirely bare.
The business of the Canal-office in this city for the
first week in July was as follows :—Tolls received,
11,369 duls. 83c. Number of boats cleared, 160.
The millers of Dayton, Ohio, have refused any further
contracts for Wheat at 371 cents per bushel, and there
is not the least doubt that Wheat will be sold this fall in
the interior Western States as low as 25 cents per bushel;
every thing indicates this.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, JULY 14.

RATES OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
54,000 Shares s's, 1858
•5,000 Illinois Bonds s6o 171
201

:,'2,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds
;:$2,000 Ohio 6's, 1856
$2,000 Kentucky 6'6
20 Shares Mechanics' Banking Association..... 55
1 do. Bank of New York lOB
31 do. Am. Ex. Bank each 59
70 do. Farmers' Loan l9+
50 do. New Jersey Railroad 59
25 do. Canton Company cash 21
25 do. Mohawk B R sl5 38

300 do. Long Island H R cash 49a
100 do. Harlem Railroad 23
New York 6 per Cent lOO

SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD, JULY 13
50 Shares Harlem H

Stocks generally show a slight decline. Illinois Bonds
fen. off k ; Kentucky 6's a farther decline of 2 per cent ;
Am. Ex. Bank, 4 ; Mohawk, 2 ; Farmers' Loan, 1 ;
Harlem rose 2i- per cent. from the closing sale of yes-
terday ; the sales today were only 500 shares.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
Exchange on London (City bills) 7 a 74-, dull.
Do. on France (City bias) 5 37i- a 5 421.
Do. on Amsterdam, 381 a 39
Do. on Hamburgh, 344 a 35 nominal.
Do: on Bremen, 751, a 76
There is no demand for specie for export, and almost
all descriptions can be obtained at par.

The House of Commons last night rejected Mr•
ROEBUCK'S resolutions by a majority of 136 votes against
47. This is no disappointment to us. We knew very
well that the Committee was not appointed twenty-four
hours before Sir ROBERT PEEL heartily repented having
supported the motion of the Honourable and Learned
Member for Bath ; and that it had not sat a day
before he had resolved to oppose any measure founded
upon the only Report which he knew it could
make. But, as was well said last night, by
Mr. AGLIONBY, the Premier unwittingly assisted
Mr. ROEBUCK in planting a tree which will yet
bear good fruit. The Report may be got rid of now—
it may be buried with the other lumber of the session,
but Whigs and Tories combined will not be able to pre-
vent its resurrection. The real importance of this inquiry
is not in the least affected by the refusal of the House to
found any immediate measure upon it. All we immediately
expected from it has been accomplished. It was reported,
and believed, but denied, that bribery to an unprecedented
extent was carried on at the last general election. It
was affirmed, and believed, but denied, that in conse-
quence of corrupt compromises the petitions against
the returns were for the most part with-
drawn, and that gentlemen legislated in the House of
Commons, who, if justice was fairly administered, ought
to be expiating their crimes in Newgate. The Report
of the Committee has removed all doubts upon these
matters. It is now proved that a general system of
bribery was carried on at the last election throughout
England and Ireland. It is an established fact, that but
for the Bill of Indemnity, which preceded Mr. ROEBUCK'S
inquiry, several gentlemen who voted with the majority
last night would have been liable to be prosecuted as
public criminals. The House of Commons adopted the
Report, and in doing so admitted that its Members are
not the representatives of the people, but of their own
purses. Mr. ROEBUCK'S first resolution was unnecessary.
Nothing which the House of Commons can do will take
away from it that which it never had. Now the present
House of Commons never had the confidence of the
country, nor did any of its proceedings inspire respect.
It cannot, therefore, suffer in public opinion by hug-
ging in its bosom a system of corruption engendered
by itself. But it is a matter of immense importance
to have its iniquitous composition laid bare by its own
Members, and so recorded as to place the question
for ever beyond the reach of cavil. It is much, in point-
ing to the brand upon its brow, to be able to say the
mark of infamy was self inflicted. For these reasons,
we are in some sort reconciled to the loss of Mr.
ROEBUCK'S resolutions. The Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman distinctly stated that the great object of his Com-
mittee was not so much to expose the infamy of in-
dividual acts, as to lay bare some of the ramifica-
tions of a general system, and that he has done most
effectually. We now know who are the great criminals.
We know the low standard of morality which exists
even among the staunch champions of the Church in the
House of Commons. Even the " Monk of the Middle
Ages," the Hon. Member for the University of Ox-
ford, who, some nights ago, enunciated the priestly
maxim, that popular ignorance and bad taste is favourable
t, virtue, admits that he looks with a lenient eye upon
gentlemen who approach the confessional of the House
of Commons, to unburden themselves of no greater guilt
than bribery, corruption, and perjury. But the day of
judgment for that House will and must come. The end
is not yet, but it is nearer by years than it would have
been but for Mr. ROEBUCK'S Bribery Report.

The inhabitants of the metropolis hay, occasionally
lust cause of complaint against the conduct of the Ma-