The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-07 00:00:00

Talton

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 168 India Stock ..... ........
3 per Cent Red. 914 Ditto Bonds 2opn
3 per Cent Cens 92% Ditto Old Annuities ... -
3% per Cent Red 99i .Ditto New Annuities... —,
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 39 pu.
Jan. 1860 ..... 12i Bank Stock for Acct ... •
Oct. 1859. ........ 12 7.16 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860..........12 13-16 Consols for Acct 924
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 psi cent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — .Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds.— ...... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 percent !Russian, 5 per cent.....,
Chilian, 6 per cent..... 78 ;Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent.. !Spanish, S per cent.. 234
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... . . 126
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll9'. 50c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange... ---i —.c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 33% French, 3 per cent. . —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent. , 53
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 194 I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101%
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Great Western (724 paid) 16i
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... ..... 94
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)....... ... 55
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 864
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 934
London and Brighton (50 paid) :36%
i ,itto Loan Notes (7% paid)
I.ondon and Blackwall (25 paid) ...... 12 '
London and Greenwich Railway ( pd) 5%
Ditto Preference, or Privilege ... l7 a
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. 87
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) .. .... ... 38%
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 284
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ...M.... 4.3

North Midland Railway (l 00- — 66
South Eastern and Doter (50 paid) 3oi
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 93

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPIMS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—The conversation in the Lords, re-
specting the employment of children in collieries and
factories, is so far satisfactory as indicating concern
for the welfare of a numerous, and, under the present
circumstances, helpless portion of the population. What
is not satisfactory, however, is the superficial treatment
of evils whose source is deeper, and is not ascribable
to particular important branches of employment.
What could be more superficial than the remark
of the Bishop of London—" All the statistical re-
turns connected with this subject wcnt to show that
the mortality was greater among those employed in
manufactures than among those employed in agricul-
ture. Whatever evils might exist among the labour•
ing classes engaged in agriculture, those evils were
fearfully aggravated among the manufacturing popu-
lation." Here is not only fact—but theory as to the
causes of fact—a theory assuming it as self-evident
and incontestible that manufactures, and the manu-
facturing system, which he Right Rev. Prelate also
says is " eating into the very vitals of the country,"
are the cause of mortality in towns. We hold that it is
something very different which is eating into the vitals
of the country; and that it is not the manufacturing
system that is the cause of mortality in towns. In
order to settle this point, might it not be as well to
inquire whether towns destitute of manufactures are
exempted from this increased mortality—whether, on
the contrary, towns, as the towns of Ireland, which are
thus destitute, are not the seats of tenfold misery, and
tenfold mortality, and whether the wretched inhabit-
ants of those towns do not eagerly resort for refuge
to the great seats of industry, stigmatised with so
little reflection by the Bishop of London ? Those who
can find no footing on the soil—those whose labour
is in no demand there—those to whom the Bishop of
London can assign no place there but an Union
Workhouse—where does the Right Rev. Prelate
mean them to live ? Whom does the Right Rev. Pre-
late mean to employ and feed them? What indivi-
dual or collective industry does he mean them to
exercise ? Is it not, something idle, and something ex-
cessively dangerous to sentimentalise about the in-
herent evils of town life—when town life is alone left
open to so many industrious and commercial citizens ?
Is it not something idle, and something excessively
unjust, to fix the stigma of town mortality on the
great employers of town labour ? The decay of com-
merce, the closing of factories, the blowing out Of
furnaces, demonstrate too clearly whether labour bas
much to thank those lawmakers for, who declaim
against the mortality of towns,—having stinted their
food,—and protect children from over-work, while crip-
pling the commerce which provides parent employment.
It is with feelings of deep and unaffected dread for
the future, that we mark this minute attention to the
symptoms of evil in town life and labour, and con-
trast it with the interested indifference to the causes
which govern the condition of all labour. We be-
lieve that, speaking generally, Lord Fit zwiliiam is
perfectly right in saying that there is not the
slightest superiority in the agricultural population.
But be this so or not, the great departments of town
labour are necessary—and it is not to them, but
to the injustice which is done them, that are due
their worst evils. Employers and labourers suffer
under a had enough system certainly—but that sys-
tem is not of their own making or maintaining—its
authors are the lords of the soil. Whatever mitiga-
tion of its worst effects the towns have enjoyed, has
been owing to those manufacturing capitals which so
long upheld the value of town labour. When those
capitals have fled or perished, we shall see if town and
country are better without them. All this is no de-
fence of infant ill-treatment in collieries ; but is, we
think, not an uncalled-for answer to superficial treat=
ment' (even by a Bishop) of 'the question whether
manufactures or mow poly be "eating into bur vitals."
STANDARD.—The case of women and children
labouring in coal pits has been . forced upon public
attention, by the publication of three books of Reports
of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the sub-
ject. Two of these books are exceedingly large, and
all of them appear to be the work of men earnestly
and honestly resolved to bring the truth to
light, neither exaggerating nor extenuating any
part of it. The disclosures made are extremely
painful, exhibiting the condition of many of
our fellow-creatures •as so miserable and de-
graded that the representation' could not be
credited, if we were not prepared for it by what is
known of some of the factories, and by the sad
conviction which the experience of these factories
must fasten upon every mind, the conviction,
namely, that none are to be safely trusted with
the care of their fellows where gain is the object,
and human beings are the instruments. The
volumes of the Colliery' Commissioners are illus-
trated by well-executed engravings, and these en-
gravings speak much more sensibly to the mind
than words can : it is, therefore, a vain hope. to
expect to communicate in words anything like the
impression produced by the perusal of the Report,
aided by the sketches in question. Every one has a
rude notion of coal-pits, though few are aware of the
shape they take in the interior, as they branch off
in pursuit of the capricious ramifications of the
veins, or, as they are called, " seams" of coal.
These seams, however, are round of all sizes—some
very large, which permit men to work, in raising
and removing the coal, in an erect attitude, and
to avail themselves of the service of horses and
asses for the purposes of carriage ; but some
of the seams are small, though still thought
worth the working ; and from these the coal
must be extracted in a stooping, crouching, and
even grovelling posture, continued through many
hundreds of yards. It is in these smaller seams that
women and children, down to the tender ages of
seven, six, and even five years are employed. The
nature of the employment may be understood, from
considering that the smaller seams in their whole
width exceed very little, if at all, the width
of an ordinary chimney ue, and that they in-
cline or ascend in every variety of angle.
The poor workers in these channels are therefore in
a great measure employed as the climbing boys
who used to sweep chimneys before the humanity
of the Legislature imposed restrictions upon that
trade ; but the condition of the " seam-gropers" in
collieries is much worse than that of chimney sweeps
in many respects; first, the seams are always wet and
muddy; secondly, the seams almost always dip, so as
to render it necessary for the wretched creatures to
work most commonly with their heads downward ;
lastly, they have to drag a heavy load of from one to
two hundred pounds weight, on a truck without
wheels, and through mud, for the whole length
of the seam, which frequently exceeds many
hundred yards ; add .to this a perfect dark-
ness, ,add the close unwholesome air of a mine,
it may be 500 or 1,000 feet below the surface—and
here is a picture of physical suffering. which it is
impossible to exaggerate, even by the painful and de-
grading harness in which the sufferers are equipped
—a chain passing round the waist between the thighs,
, and attached to the slide truck. It may be easily

supposed that where so little account is made of phy-
sical suffering, much care is not bestowed upon the
protection of morals ; and in fact the most ordinary
guard of decency, clothing, itself is dispensed with.
The men in some mines work altogether, and the
women and girls nearly, naked. The necessary re-
sult is what it is painful to contemplate, what it would
be, if possible, more painful to describe.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY, MAY G.—
The wind has at length changed, and arrivals are coming in
fast. The greater part of the two small cargoes recently re-
ceived have been sold at rather extravagant prices, but the
general expectation is that the buyers will now do better. Li
London, prices are already rather easier, the sellers being much
more inclined to give way.—Bristol Mercury.

A horrible fratricide was perpetrated last week at
St. Just (Loire). Two brothers, named Tholome, having
quarrelled, the elder of them, on the same day, entered a field.
An which his brother was at work with his wile and two other
persons, and deliberately taking aim at him, at a distance of a
few paces, with a gun which he held, shot him dead.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
( From the London New Price Current of May 6.)
SUGAR. —The w:nd having changed, arrivals have com-
menced to come in ; buyers, however, have evinced less incli-
nation to purchase, and have submitted to a reduction en
former rates of 6d to Is per cwt.
To-day the West India Market exhibited a dull appearance,
the demand was limited both for the scale and the pan, and
the supply of Sugar being on the increase. importers were
compelled again to submit to lower rates, making the decline
for the week Is 6d to 2s per cwt, and the purchases only 500
hhds and tierces. The arrivals of Bengal and Mauritius Sugar
have commenced to come in freely, and of West India several
ships are daily expected. The market closed heavily for all
sorts of Sugar.
REFINED.—The home trade have been eager buyers of all
descriptions of Refined Goods, and have cleared the market
this week, paying an advance on former rates of is to is 6d per
cwt. To-day Refined Goods were taken sparingly by the
home trade, and lower rates were accepted; Standard Lumps
selling at 84s to 84s 6d per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar sells
slowly at 28s 3d to 283 6d per cwt.
MAURITZ us.—A good demand has existed both for brown
and yellow sorts, and the rates previously established have been
sustained. This afternoon the trade operated less freely at the
public sales, which consisted of 5,198 bags, 44 casks; the bid-
dings were languid, and not above half found bu)ers Is to ls 6d
under former rates ; fine yellow selling at 66s to 675, good
64s to 65s 6d, middling 63s to 645, low 61s 6d to 62s per cwt.
EAST INDIA—This afternoon several parcels of Bengal were
offered at public sale, viz. 4,352 bags duty paid, and 1,183 bags
in bond; the sales went off quietly, and prices declined is per
cwt : nearly the whole of the sugar however sold at the follow-
ing rates, duty paid—fine white at 68s to 70s, good 66s to
67s 6d, mid 65s to 655 sd, mid brown 45s to 47s 6d, good to fine
52s to 55s 6d, mid yellow 60s 6d to 645, strong fine yellow
(Dobah) 65s 6d to 68e 6d ; Sugar in bond went as follows—
white 38s to 40s, mid yellow 32s 6d to 36s 6d, low 27s 6d to
28s, low brown 23s to 27s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—In Brazil there has been a good business trans-
acted in both white and brown sorts, but at prices 6d per cwt.
under those of last week for all kinds; at 22e for white,
ann 17s for brown; at auction 200 cases 41 brls have
been offered, which found buyers at and after the sale—
Bahia, good mid white went at 22s to 22s 6d, mid 21s
6d, good brown I6s to 17s, fine 17s to 18s, foxy 16e, mid grey
185, dabs 11 s ; Pernambuco, low brown 14s, good 153 to 15s 6d,
low soft yellow I6s to 16s 6d, low soft white 17s 6d to 19s,
good mid dry white 22e to 22s 6d, mid 21s, lew 19s 6d to
20s 6d per cwt. Yellow Havannah is held with firmness, at
full rates.

MOLASSES—Prices have been fully sustained for West India
this week. Dominica of fine quality at 295, Barbadoes 31s to
325, Demerara common and good 25s to 275, St. Vincents and
Berhice 25s to 25s 6d per cwt. Bengal Syrup at 17s. Fo-
reign Molasses at 8s to 8s 6d per cwt.
COFFEE. —West India Coffee has been less inquired for this
week, and the business transacted has been upon a small scale
only, the trade taking only ample for their immediate wants.
Holders have been enabled to obtain full rates. This afternoon
few purchases were made privately in Coffee for home consump-
tion, and for shipment scarcely an inquiry existed ; at public sale
466 bags Dutch Company's Java via Cape, and 201 bags Bata-
via, all damaged, were offered, which went at steady rates, the
former as follows. Ist class sea damaged good ord pale at
45s 6d to 46s 6d, 2d do. 43s 6d, sea damaged and repacked Ist
class good ord pale greenish 46s to 49s 6d, fine do. 52s to
56s 6d, 2d clivs sea damaged and repacked good ord 45s to
.46s 6d, and fine 55s 6d; Batavia good ord yellow fetched
31s 6d to 345.

TEA.—To-day the operations inTea were extremely limited,
and it is difficult to quote prices ; the trade are waiting for the
public sales declared for Tuesday, the total quantity that will
be offered is expected to amount to 26,000 pkgs ; Is 9id to
Is 91/,d is the nearest value of Company's Congou, cash, and
common sound Free Trade Congou, 1 3 tics per lb. The public
sales declared for the 10th Slay comprise 15,300 packages.
Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLAND.—In Leeward Island Rum
former rates have been barely sustained. The purchases are
not worth enumerating, 2s 41c1 is the nearest value tor proof.
Jamaica, at 4s 6d to 4s 8d for 30 to 32 per cent. over proof for
common. Calcutta Rum at the low duty Is 10d, and a
small parcel at the high duty Is 61d to is 7d per gallon.
FOr Brandy we have to report a firm market. Cognac, first
brands of the vintage of 1836, hhds 53 7d, puns 5s 5d ; ditto,
1837, hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id , ditto 1838, hhds 5s Id, puns
4s I Id ; ditto 1839, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d; ditto 1840, blids
4s, puns 3s 10d per gallon. Geneva common at Is 11d to 2s.
per gallon. Prices have advanced 4d per gallon for British
Corn Spirits..
RICE. —Bengal Rice has met with fess attention this week,
good middling white went at lOs to lOs 6d, and middling 9s 6d
to lOs per cwt : Java yellow at as 6d to 96 6d, low white 9s 6d
to 10s, middling to fine 16s 6d to 12s per cwt . none has been
offered at auction. Carolina first sort at 30s, and ether kinds
at2.ss to 28s. Patna at 14s to 19s per cwt.
Ons.—For Cod Oil there has been a good demand this
week, at the advanced rates of 30/ lOs to 311 per tun, being lOs
to 15s higher. Southern Oil, common sorts at 281 lOs to
29/10s, mid to fine 301 to 311 13s per tun. Pale Seal 37/ 15s
to 38/for first sorts; brown sorts at 301 to 311, and yellow at
31/ lOs to 36/ per tuo. Sperm Oil at stiffer rates , fine British
at 78/ to 80/ per tun. Linseed Oil at an advance of 6d per cwt,
31s 9d to 35s on the spot, for delivery at 35s 3d to 35s 6d per
ewt. Rape OA at 47s to 47s 3d for pale, and 46s 6d per cwt
for brown ; Olive Oil has been in brisk request, Gallipeli at
61/, 'Spanish 56s to 571, and Barbary 541 to 55/per tun. Cocoa
Nut Oil, first sort at 39s 6d to 40s per cwt. Palm fine quality
at 31/ to 31/ 10s, and inferior 29/ lOs to 30110 s per tun.
TA LLOW. —This afternoon the trade operated with caution,
and 46s 3d is the nearest value of Petersburgh yellow Candle on
the tpot; at auction 121 pipes 47 hhds 57 brls South American
went at 39s 6d to 44s 3d for low to fine quality.
IRISH MARKETS.

°ORLIN MARKET NOTE for the Week ending APRIL 19.
From 1 To Averag
115 U 39 0 31 8
—0
—il 0
16 0 22 0 18 5
10 6 b 0 14 0
-0— 0 0
112 0 14 6 l3 10.

7.6 Wheat,perbarrelta. stone...«
Mere ......
117 Barley lO at0ne......
3,757
Flour, per cwt 8 stone....
74 Oatmeal 8 stone....
Sold to Bakers only.
8,:13.5 Cwt. ..... B U
I 24 0 I 21 0
Average price of Wheat and Flour 53. 4d per .ack
fleccipts of Flour, 12,2A11...,..nk1r5tn5.„. ....... from 138. Od. to 178 .0d
........... from 17s. Od to 24s 0d
Bales of Do. 14,4818 "••
r s ........ from Ps. Od. to 13. Od

TRICI Or BR !AM
Quartern boat Halt Vuat tern ..
CORK MARKETS..—ApnI 30.
Wheat (per 20at.)22s 0,1. to 225. Od.jUats (per 14bt.... Gs.o I. to 11,.. Al
Barley (per 16at.)11 0 13 0 'Floor (per c 7 0 SL
Oatmeal (per Od. to 138. 0.1
Beef, Gd. to tSid.—Mutton ISd. 41,1 to 5d
Pork. 4d. to sd.—Fresh 'Butte., Ild. to 12d per lb.
PRICY OP NUTTER.

To the Merchant& To the Country
First Quality•.. SO et NONNI WPM. 751. ••••••••••• ~Oh. • .4... 6.55
Second 00000000 "...•.............. 71
third ..................».».». 59
Fourth
Fifth .
Sixth

.43 .....................:.." 2
.39 ................................. 30
RKETU.ApriI 30
OPit.

CLONMELL MA

s. d. a. d. s. d. a. A.
New Butter ..... ()to 011 0 Hides oto 24
Oatmealm..- .. — 14 C 46 0
IterideeedlA r.cl 0 62 0 Heads
re r Bag.
Fleur,Becond., -- 0 40 0 1.10ur,Third0........ 0 28 0
—Household —. 0 38 o o
Per
Barre.
One (1 o I Barley .......... 1G 0 13 0
Raltetle.d.•••"•"....-- 13 0 Cants "
KILKENNY MARKETS.
Wheat ,pt a bar rel)2Bs. Od. to 3.19.0 d. Beet (per 04.111. t c O. NI
Barley 12 0 19 0 Mut 0 5 0 ti
0 lb 0 Pork ti 4 (l 1
Flour bag) 25 0 39 0 Veal n n 7
Butter 'cwt.) 0 0 98 0 k resit Butter 0 0 I 0
Baconlarge 0 46 0 Salt Ditto 0 6 010
1 0 1 2 Potatoes (per st.) 0 9 ti

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

WAR-OFFICE, MAY 6.
4th Regiment. of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant J. R. J.
Coles, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Turner, who exchanges, May 6.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—C. G. O'Callaghan,
Gent. to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Jones, who retires, May 6.
3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet J. Gardiner, from
half-pay 10th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, repaying the dif-
ference, vice Roche, promoted; H. C. Morgan, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Gardiner, who retires, May 6.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. E. J. Turner, from
the 4th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Coles, who
exchanges; Lieutenant J. W. Robarts, from the 10th Light
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Hyder, who exchanges, May 6.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. W. A. Hyder,
from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Robarts,
who exchanges, May 6.
16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major J. R. Smyth,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice A. C. Lowe, who
exchanges, receiving the difference, May 6.
4th Regiment of Foot—Ensign D. F. Chambers, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice'Kenting, appointed to the
Saint Helena Regiment, May 6.
Ensign H. Fitzgerald, from 14th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Chambers, May 6.
Bth Foot—Captain E. Cheney, from half-pay Unattached, to
be Captain, vice C. P. Trapaud, who exchanges, May 6.
I.ieutenant S. Brown to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Cheney, who retires, May 6.
Ensign A. Leslie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brown,
May 6.
Gentleman Cadet J. H. E. Roebeck, from the Royal Mili-
tary College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lesde, May 6.
10th Foot—M. C. Singleton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Charlton, whose appointment has been cancelled,
May 6th.
14th Foot—J. H. Graham, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Fitzgerald, appointed to the 4th Foot, May 6th.
15th oot—Lieut. H. G. Grierson to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Western, who retires; Ensign T. Hutton to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Grierson; W. D. Hague, Gent. to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hutton, May 6th.
21st Foet—Capt. the Hon. C. R. West, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain, vice N. Wrixon, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference, May 6.
24th Foot—Lieut. H. Paynter to be Captain, by purchase,
ice Preston, who retires. Ensign J. S. Shore to De Lieu-