The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .170* India Stock 251 pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 92i Ditto Bonds ..... 36 pm
3 per Cent. Cons 92 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cont. Red. lOl Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i, per Cent... loo* Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 49 pm
N.!,,v 5 per Cen: Ditto 5001...... 49 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 49 pm
Jan. 1860 ... l2i Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2* Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent. ll3 IPortuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent iDitto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buell() P Ayres 6 per cent. IRussian, 5 pet cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent —i Ditto, Metallic ..... .. ....
Colombian, 6 per cent — !Spanish, 5 per cent 204
Ditto, 1824 -.-1 Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1823, 5 per cent — ;Ex.-hange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 35 ;French, 3 percent. —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 ,-- Dutch, 24 per cent. 52,i
Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 102:1
SHARES. •
Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ... —
Ditto Debentures .. ..-..° ...-.... ...... ...101 Ils 8d
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 47
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ...
Great Western Hallway (65 paid) B7i
' Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid) 62
London and'Brighton (50 paid) .
i • itto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. . lO4
London and Birmingham .(90) ...... ...... .. 182
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 474
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... 3O
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d pd) 5
- • Ditto Preference, or Privilege ... l7l
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 6.2}
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto Ne (30 paid)
Paris and 8 paid)
At
••• 18
South E r nd Dor- (50 paid)... ."
.

:er
Ditto Scrip (10 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) .........
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
(FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.)
GLOBE.—The improved state of the country,
so far as its peace and security were threatened,
may be attributed to two circumstances. The
first is; we think, too manifest to admit of rea-
sonable doubt. There- was no widely extended
conspiracy, the object of which would have been
to arrange u- simultaneous rising, and precon-
•certed attacks upon property. This obvious ab-
seace 'of- co-operation enabled the Government
and local authorities to deal. effectually
with the commotions, and to suppress
them with comparative ease, and at a trifling
loss of life among the misguided people.
To impute any part of the disturbances, now hap-
p:ly suppressed, to an arrangement entered into
- by the master manufacturers to lower the rate of
wages, in order to provoke their work-people
;• into a general strike, in the hope of fomenting an
insurrection, is really so monstrous, that—fitmi-
liar as we needs must be with the absurdities into
. which the virulence of party hostility will impel
• those who unscrupulously commit themselves to
its guidance—we could hardly have predicated
anything so .utterly absurd and wicked even
from this sufficiently fertile source. Yet this
is the new cuckoo note of the Tory journals.
• . Without alleging a single fact in corroboration
of a statement which involves a charge so grave,
that it o;ight not to be hinted at without " con-
. iirmation strong as proof from Holy Writ," viz.,
that of having involved the country in tumult
. and brought it to the verge of an insurrection,
- this charge is recklessly made against men,
- whoae .property would haVe been the first to
fall under the fury of the multitude; because
he first which would have presented itself to
eir view, and as belonging to those whom
tin .3r had been taught to regard with dislike as
.ynitA,-ing themselves rich by paying inadequate
war.:ts to their starving operatives! If there
-were any necessity for repudiating so foul an ac-
. cusat ion by any other evidence than that which
arises out of its own absurdity, it would be found
in the _Fact we have stated, that no•plan was ob-
served i,t the movements of the insurgents. The
extent of the disturbances proves the prevalence
of discontent, the result of deeply-seated and
-widelp.spread distress and suffering among the
ItHasses of the population. But there was no
pLn—no plot—no conspiracy—no general -un-
tlerstanding, by which a simultaneous movement
would have been directed towards one common
abject, for the purpose of accomplishing a well-
miderstood and general design.
STANDARD.—The disorders in the mann-
facturing districts of the north appear to be vir-
tually at art end, as far as the working classes
are concerned._ The labourers are rapidi‘y
turnintc to their employment -in all the places
recently disturbed, anti apparently returning in
.no ill-hut:loW . in South Wales, however, a
strike fur wages bas been commenced; but this,
it is plainly an imitation of what has occurred
in 1-21 e northern counties, will doubtless complete
-the copy by a prompt and peaceable termination.
Chartists everywhere continue their meet-
• ings and their mischievous noise ;• but, deserted
~ as they., are by the, populace, they are -again
contemptible. SOrne of our respected Contempo-
raries complain of a want of energy and decision
4)(1 the part of the Government, and say, perhapS
truly, that by prompt and sharp measures- the
'movement might have been checked earlier, and
with less of injury to the rioters themselves.
!Otis is a complaint in which we cannot join.
.otti• readers will be so just as to remember that,
.tite commencement of the affair, and before it
was possible for us to know what course Sir R.
Peel's Government would pursue, we strongly
ed
.ur.. propriety of that very course which
• ...
been a,dopted ; our approbation of the same
co t age now ...cannot therefore be ascribed to any
disposition to flatter the Government. It may
be very well to say that the prompteSt and
most vigorous measures are always, in the
end, the safest, irtld the most just. And so they
are when you have to deal with incorrigible
-traitors—so perhaps i..ltey may be when, tyrant-
like, you are indifferent to the temper of the
people whoM you coerce. But in repressing the
excesses of a moral and really well-disposed
people at bottom, an alacrity of rigour is the re-
verse of politic, for it is sure to end in making
enemi,s of those whom you did not find such.
Again. our Government is not a tyranny which
can affect-to despise the feeling of any consider-
:able portico of the people; and whatever the
present gairt of acting with promptitude and deci-
.Sioc, it is infinitely overbalanced by the ultimate
itijury of acting with unnecessary harshness.

REFUSAL OF THE MAYOR OF
SUNDERLAND, SIR HEDWORTII WILLIAM-
SON, TO PRESIDE AT THE PUBLIC DINNER
T 9 ITIS ROYAL lIIGIINESS THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE.
The following correspondence has taken place on
the above subject :

(No. 1.)
" Sunderland, Aug. 3, 1842.
" Sir,— -Ile inhabitants of Sunderland, at a meet-
ing held On' the 27th ultimo, having resolved to give a
public dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, on ;:is visit to this town, in compliance
with a resolution Onanimously passed, we have to
solicit the honour of yot.'r presiding on this occasion.
"A large party- of the ovhility, who will accom-
pany his Royal Highness, will dine • and it is dis-
tinctly understood that the most distant allusion to
buy political subject will be excluded. The surplus
fn nds, both of the dinner and a ball to be given in the
evet2ing, are to be appropriated in aid of the funds for
the tivemployed poor.
"We. will be obliged by the favour of your imme-
diate reply, informinc, us if you consent to accept the
office of President, and on your arrival here the toasts
will be submitted to your approval.
• " We have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your very obedient servants,
"RICHARD SCOTT,
"C. T. i'OTTS, Hon. Secretaries.
,1" To Sir Hedworth
• Beckett, Farringdon, Bucks."
(No. 2.)
" Beckett, Sunday, August 7, 1842.

" Gentlemen,—l lose no time-in replying to your
letter of the 3d instant, which I received here yester-
Aay by the second delivery—too late to answer it by
that ;light's post. lam glad that the inhabitants of
Sunderl.-ind propose giving a public dinner in testi-
mony of i espeet to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, ..n his visit to their town ; and highly ap-
prove that at t:ie dinner intended to be given all allu-
' :don't° politieal sub,ects will be avoided, as it will
promote the unanianty and good fteling so, very. de-
sirable on such an occasion.

" Have the goodness to state to the Committee, to
whom, I suppose, you are the honorary secretaries,
.'that I feel'Very grateful to the inhabitants of Sun-
for having done me the honour to express a
' that I should preside ; but, for reasons unneces-
Sry for me to trouble you with in this Wter' with
ve'ry..great respect I must respectfully decline s.toing
so. " I have the honour to oe, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient servant,„
" lIEDWORTIi WILT:LIAISON.
" To Richard Scott and C. T. Potts, Esqrs.,
Sunderland."