The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

IRON RAILWAYS

6,300 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby ..... lOOl pd 56
9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester !CO!, pd 55
15,000 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 70 pd 364,
7,500 . ...... .. Cheltenham& G.Western 100/.sh. 72x1. 1234
3,00 Q Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 pd 21/
8,000 .., ...... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. Si. pd
50,0011 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd 936
10,000 Great North of Englandlool. sh. WO/. pd 83
10,918 12 percent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 163
25,000 3 per cent. Great Western IHOI. sh. 651. pd 87
25,000 Ditto New 50/. sh. 50!. pd 61
6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction 50/. sh. SOL pd 50
2,006 6 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 1453,4
8,000 Hull and Selby 501. ah. 5014 pd 39
2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby , 100 di. 65%
5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 1(R/.ah. 1001. pd 192
7,988 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5ll/. pd 90
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 254 pd 45
30,000 ... ...... London and Brighton 50/. sh. 50/. pd 35%
24,000 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 25/, pd 1134
10,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 201. sit. 201. pd 6 tii
25,000 91 ner sh. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90/. pd 167
25,000 21. 7s rd. Ditto Quarter Shares ....251. sh. 5/, pd 343
31,250 :IL Os. 4d. Dit o New Shares 'l2/. sh. 32/. pd 2856
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 38/. 17s. 9d. 5844
33,000 .... ..... London and Croydon/
Av. 13/. 153 9d. 11%
Ditto New Scrip.... • 114:
13,000 9. per cont. Manchester and Leeds...loo/..sh. 70/. pd 7334
0,000 Ditto Half Shares 5O/. 25/. pd 313.4
10,000 ...... ... Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 401. 28
Ditto Extension . 71. pd 21i
10,000 2/. Ica. Midland Counties... ...... 1004 sh. 100/. pd 78
15,000 2/. Os. North Midland
1/.los. Ditto New 40/. pd 34
10,256 1/.los. Northern and Eastern.... 50/. sh 401. pd Soli
2,6t)0 .......,. Preston and Wyre ... ...... 50/. sh 30/. pd 36
.48,000 South Eastern and Dover
1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lool.sh. 265
9,000 Thames Haven 501. ah 5/. pd
6,000 10/. per cent. York and North Midland 50 . ah. 501. pd 88

' WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

Men of England! AlL.hough again disappointed,
do not despair ! We still retain much that is value-
able. Our land and minerals are still here ; our
mills and workshops are not thrown down; much
of our (capital is :yet at home ; our ',hard-working
men are all ready to start labour ; and thou-
sands are waiting the first gleam of hope to embark
in a variety of speculations. All we want is, to
defeat a few selfish aristocratic obstructives, who have
set their interests in opposition to the people's. It is
a painful crisis, but one which we must look boldly
in the face. Nothing will remain for the people
but poverty, and starvation, and exile, unless they
get the mastery of the aristocracy. The Parliament
has decided that we shall have dear bread, and
that it has no remedy for our commercial embarrass-
ments. It is not the people's Parliament, it is the
landlords' Parliament, and has no sympathy with the
people. Many have long since been tired of peti-
tioning, but still they have done good, by giving them
an opportunity of mocking the people. What is wanted
now is unity and self-denial. Let all enemies of
bad government, and all genuine lovers of liberty,
forget their animosities, and make common cause
against a common foe. This effected, is it possible
that empty titles can resist the will of an united
nation ? This is a solemn moment. There are
two powerful reforming parties in the State each,
contending for important changes ; but, being disunited,
will probably accomplish nothing. This disunion
is the triumph of the oppressor. These bodies are the
Chartists, and the Corn-law repeaters. The enemy
at present has possession of the field ; each party may
charge in vain, for without a perfect bond, all their
valour and energy will be scattered to the winds. Im-
mortal fame will rest upon that man's memory who
can now step forward and organize such a union as
shall prove well based and permanent • and unworthy
the name of Englishman be he who should at this
crisis be so impolitic as to impose the slightest obstacle.
Fond as I am of the sweets of domestic life,
and the comforts of home, no one has naturally a
greater reluctance to public agitation than myself.
When at all engaged in public, I have always felt
the greatest happiness at those meetings which had
a direct tendency to improve the morals of the
people ; and this I hope I shall never abandon. But
there seems a prior question even to this, and that is,
how shall the people continue to exist ? Nobody
knows the extreme misery of the people but those
who personally visit ; nobody can imagine the
privations and hunger to which they are ex-
posed ; no man can believe, unless he see with
his own eyes, the shocking condition of poor
people's bedding ; how wretchedly off they are for
want of clothing ; and the sickness and mortality
which are found in their houses ; and few can
conceive how utterly powerless all institutions
now are for educating their children, or main-
taining any proper respect for good morals. Sur-
rounded as I am with poverty, overwhelmed with
the cries of hunger and destitution, and utterly
hopeless of any relief from the legislature, I am
now ready to co-operate in any measure that
affords the , slightest chance of giving relief to our
unhappy country. A NATIONAL UNION. must be
formed, a comprehensive plan of agitation must be
agreed upon ; self-denial must be. ,practised ; every
one must forget and forgive old offences, and begin
in earnest to work out his country's salvation. In
the mean time let all Reformers be determined to
keep the peace, and to refuse the leadership of every
man who would incite them to any illegal act.—The
Struggle.