The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

inn _Stat.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1842.

We arc reminded by the loud complaints of
some of our Contemporaries as to the condition
of our streets, that we saw at Manchester a few
months ago a very ingenious machine for sweep-
ing the streets. It was a cart, followed, as it were,
if we remember right, by revolving scrapers and
brooms, which swept up all the dirt as the cart
moved on, and lifted it into the cart. The form
of the machine, however, is of little importance;
it is sufficient to know that it has been frequently
tried and been found completely to answer the
intended purpose. It is, we believe, the inven-
tion of the Messrs. WHITWORTH, who are also
the inventors of that celebrated instrument, the
iron " Jem Crow," which will hand their names
down to a remote posterity with great honour
long after the American " Jem Crow" (Mr.
RICE), and the English " Jem Crow" (Lord
MONTRAGLE), or any other towering politician
of our day, shall -have been completely forgotten.
This street--sweeiiing _machine of the. Messrs.
Wn IT Ve OUT ly 4,whieh we have, beeu thus, ire,
minded, seerni.to us, looliiag to the presene'clis-
cussion about machinery, to teach a moral lesson
well worthy of the public attention.

Whv is not'tbis machine, or some similar ma-
chine, brought into general use, and the streets
swept, at a small cost, two or three times
a day ? The occupation of street scavengers is
at once disgusting and degrading. Almost every
one has learnt from experience that these men
are as rude as they are dirty. Bespattered, he-
plastered, and begrimed with mud and filth,
they seem to like, when an opportunity offers,
to make others share their extreme uncomfort-
ableness. All their organs, if sense be not
wholly obliterated, must be continually offended.
Though the vulgar phrase of clean dirt seems
strange, it is correct; but the dirt which they
have to remote is the dirtiest of dirt. To get
rid of such an, offensive, disgusting, and de-
grading occupation, would be both morally and
physically a bonefit to society. But there is, in
every parish, no inconsiderable number of per-
sons to be maintained at the expense of the
parish, who are fit for no other than this de-
graded occupation; and if the parish, or the
contractors, could not employ such men, they
must be sustained in idleness. To introduce
street sweeping-machines, would be to deprive
them of employment ; and as long as they must
be maintained, the use of the machine would
scarcely be any saving. The machine is, conse-
quently, not brought into use, and, to keep indi-
viduals employed at this disgusting and de-
grading occupation, the march of mechanical
improvement is suspended.
The same principle may be generally found at
the bottom of Most of the obstacles, and of
most
the objeetkwaa to
..the introduction .of .new and
useful maehinetT., - walk of life• there
is a great number otitOeiiiiliAiti4idpersOns

whom society think it proper and just to
condemn to toiling and noisome occupations, in-
stead of allowing them to be performed by ma-
chinery. In that we see an unwise and niggard
spirit of economy. Invention gives birth to in-
vention ; one machine makes way for another ;
and it would be in the end a great saving of
wealth to society, as well as a prodigious saving
of human feelings, were such men as scavengers
pensioned off to live in comfort, when their place
can be supplied by machinery, and such noisome
and disgusting occupations for ever consigned to
the willing and unfeeling exertions of birch and
iron.

We have given a brief account, all our space
allows, of the great Anti-Corn-law Demonstra-
tion which was held at Glasgow on Friday last.
There was, first, a meeting of Deputies from all
the surrounding towns, at which the reports of
the condition of their people were read, which
draw a dismal, but accurate picture, of that once
flourishing neighbourhood. Numerous examples
were given of wide-spread and rapid deteriora-
tion and decay; and a general opinion was ex-
pressed, that unless something be done to arrest
this downward progress, it must end in convul-
sion. We miss at the meeting that fervent elo-
quence which was so honourable to the Conference
at Edinburgh, but we meet with more details and
more facts, denoting the practical, businessspur-
suits of the parties. But both the moral elo-
quence of the ministers at the Conference and the
facts of the men of business equally lead to the
conclusion, confirming and strengthening each
other, that the continuance of the present im-
moral and iniquitous system of Corn-law legisla-
tion is an impossibility. The Ministers, strong as
they may be in Parliament, and strong as they
may be in the country, are deplorably weak,
from the unrighteousness of their cause, and they
must give up the system or involve all our insti-
tutions in one common ruin. We respectfully
solicit the attention of the Tory Premier and his
supporters to the evidence which the meeting at
Glasgow affords of the incompatibility of mono-
poly with the national welfare, and of the impos-
sibility of continuing it.

The meeting of the Deputies was followed by
a Grand Banquet in the evening, at which up-
wards of 2,000 persons were present. More
would have attended had there been room. Lord
BELHAVEN and Sir J. GIBSON CRAIG were
snowed up, and could not get to Glasgow ; the
Marquis of BREADALBANE had other engage-
ments; but there was a considerable show of
Members of Parliament. The banquet set the
seal to the opinions of the Deputies and minis-
ters, and cautious p3liticians, who have hitherto
taken a different view, found it necessary to fall
in with the demand for the total and immediate
repeal. There was a time, Mr. OSWALD said,
when less would have contented them, but now
their demand is for justice, and they will take
nothing less than justice.

At the banquet, as well as at the meeting of
Deputies, it was intimated that the farmers in
various districts are made sensible, through their
own pockets, that the Corn-laws are not for
their advantage. Let us hope, therefore, that
these gentlemen will no longer sacrifice their
industrious countrymen and themselves, in order
to foster the bloated wealth, extravagance, and
pride, of the owners of rent. A brighter day is
dawning on our country, from the union of all
industrious and useful classes to resist the unjust
arrogance of the mischievous and the idle classes.
At both meetings the language was bold and
energetic ; and as we are convinced that it is
only necessary for sincere and honest men man-
fully to speak their thoughts to attain their just
ends, we infer from the manner in which the
Anti-Corn-law party have begun to speak out,
that the day of their triumph is not far distant.

Madrid Journals of the Bth instant have been
duly received. On the previous day the Senate
unanimously voted an approval of the conduct
of the Government in refusing to allow M. BE
SA LVAN DY, the French Ambassador. to present
hi's credentials to the young QUEEN instead of to
the REGENT, as provided by the ConstitutiOn.
This vote was received with the liveliest demon-
strations of joy out of doors.

The Madrid Funds on the Bth were stationary.
No bargain for cash was transacted in the Fives.
On the 7th, four bargains were done in the
Threes for 1,260,000 reals, at 23i for cash and
221 for sixty days; twenty-nine bargains in the
Fives for 15,020,000 reals, at 33i 33 for cash,
34, 334, I, 35f, 334, j, 1-16, for various dates.
Exchange upon London, ninety days, 371.

There is not much political news of importance
in the Paris Journals. M. DE SALV4NDY, the
French Ambassador, had arrived at Bayonne with
his suite. On Thursday the Chamber of Peers
adopted the Address in answer to the Speech
from the Throne, by a majority of 126 votes to
1 ; having previously voted the appearance
of the Editor of the Siecle at their bar on the
18th inst., to answer the charge of publishing
a libel upon that very sensible, but far from im-
maculate, body. N. CHAMBOLLE, the Deputy,
has addressed a letter to the President of the
Chamber of Peers, avowing himself the writer of
the implicated article in the Siccle. The Cham-
ber of Peers will not be likely to take any notice
of N. CIIAMBOLLE'S letter.

The draft of the Address of the Deputies, in
answer to the Speech from the Throne, pleases
the Paris press just as little as the Speech itself,
of which it is a mere echo.

A serious disturbance took place at the Italian
theatre of Alexandria on the 23d ult., during the repre-
sentation of Della Lucia di Lammermoor, in consequence
of adispute between some Italians, who were vocife-
rously applauding the prima donna (Signora Polani),
and some Englishmen, who wished to hear the perform-
ance. The Italians were severely punished by the Eng
lishmen's fists, and forced to fly. Ladies fainted, and
the performance was concluded with' the first act, every
one having left the theatre. The Mahometans who were
present were much scandalized, and exclaimed, " Those
are the EuroPeansovho have come here to civilize the
Turks I"
This affair produced an unpleasant result on the morn-
ing of the 26th ult. Dr. Grassi, accompanied by M.
Ceruti, the Sardinian Consul-General, and a M. Clere,
were walking on the square, when they were met by a Mr.
Brooke, accompanied by some other Englishman. Mr.
Brooke, addressing the Doctor in Italian, asked him " If
he had called him an ill-behaved person ?" to which
the Doctor replied, "It is true ; because you dis-
turbed public order in the Theatre." Mr. Brooke
then struck the Doctor with his fist on the face. M.
Grassi placed his hand on his sabre, but M. Clere pre-
vented him from using it. Mr. Brooke then snatched
the sword from M. Clere, and broke it into pieces. M.
Ceruti then declared, that he considered this a personal
insult, when another Englishman replied, that he was
ready to give him satisfaction on the spot. The Italians
then withdrew, and it was feared that they might, in their
anger, use their daggers against the Englishmen.

BOURSE--PARIB—, SATURDAY, JAN. 15.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pric.. pow,
fetich 5 per Cents... ..... ll7 80 ... 117 90 ... 117 80 „.117 80
S per Cents ....... 78 85 85 78 85 78 85
Loan ........ '79 30 ... 79 SO ... 79 25 .. 79 25
Sank of trance 3380 ...2085 ».3360 «3965
La Mite Bank I.ooof. Shares 1020 ...1020 ..1020
5,0001. Shares 5030 ...5030 ...5030
i.ielan Rank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cent!., 1940 lO5l/4 ... 1051/4 ... 1051/4 1051/4
3 per Cents .....» 7l 95 ... 71 95 ... 71 93 71 95
Vanish Active ..........»•»•• ••• 2514 ••• 25 ••• 25
Passive 5% .. 5% ... 51(
New Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
vsapoittan ........ 107 .. 187 40 107 W 7 40
........ 103% ... 104 ... 103% ... 104
RAILWAY sHARES.

Germain ••••••••••••••••••••• 831 25 .•. &76 25 .•. &111 25 ... 836 25
Versailles. K. B 337 50 237 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50
L.B 245 ... 206 25 ... 205 ... 206 25
tousn .....
Means ..... 512 50 ... 513 75 ... 512 50 512 50
itraenu fig to Bale 2n 50 232 50 ... 227 .. 232 50

Mr. Christopher is to be put on his trial a
Boston next Wednesday. The " crime and misde
rneanour" of which he is accused is " cutting and shuf-
fling" arts which he practised at Ipswich under the
name of Dundas. The farmers have .not forgotten his
abuse of Lord Worsley, Sir James Duke, and other con-
sistent men, from the balcony of the Peacock Inn, where
he professed his most unqualified approbation of the
Corn-laws as they are—" intact" was his watchword ;
but, lo 1 he is the very first to turn round. How
mortified the host of lords, squires, and parsons must
be, who bribed, threatened, and coerced wherever they
could, to bring in this great Corn-law pillar—this Her-
cules of the landlords—this " true farmer's friend 1"
What will be done at the meeting next Wednesday ?
Will the cheated farmers require Mr. Christopher to
vacate, his seat ? They ought to do so; and will, if they
have any of the true John Bull blood in their veins.
They rightly consider th <t Mr. Christopher's notable
speech has taken out of their pockets at least ss. per
quarter on all their unsold corn. This is paying rather
too dear for their whistle.— Lincoln Mercury.
Within the last week four paupers have died
in the York Union workhouse, whose united ages
amounted to 310 years.--Yorkshire Gazette. --

COURT CIRCULAR. .„ -
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—PTIIICC Albert left the Castle
this morning for Slough, where a special train awaited
him for London. Col. Bouverie and Mr. G. E. Anson
were in waiting on his Royal Highness.
The Earl of Liverpool, the Earl Delawarr, and the
Earl of Jersey took their departure from the Castle this
morning.
Part of the suite of his Majesty the King of Prussia
are expected to arrive at the Castle to-night.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
George Edward Anson, Treasurer, and Colonel Bouve-
rie, Equerry in Waiting, arrived in town at one o'clock
yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. His Royal
Highness and Suite immediately left the Great Western
railway terminus at Paddington for the City.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from his residence at Kew. His
Royal Highness and Prince George of Cambridge, at-
tended by Colonel Jones, left town to honour the Duke
of Rutland with a visit at his seat, Belvoir Castle, Lei-
cestershire.

Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, and
Count Kielmannsegg, the Hanoverian Minister, received
invitations last week, as Ministres de Fanale, to be
present at the Royal ceremony of the baptism of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; as also for the
dejeuner to be given after the ceremony, and for the
Grand Banquet in St. George's Hall in the course of the
day ; with the declaration that they are to remain at the
Castle until 'Wednesday, the 26th.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council,
issued invitations yesterday to the Cabinet Ministers,
and also to the Great Officers of State, for a grand
dinner on Monday, the 31st instant. The roll of Sheriffs
for the present year will be settled at the meeting at his
Lordship's residence in Curion-street.
Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Count Kielmannsegg, the Hanoverian Minister, had
an interview with the Earl of Ripon on Wednesday, at
the Office of the Board of Trade.

Despatches from the Governors of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

The Count and Countess de Adania have left Far.
rance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Paris.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The City festivities, though a source of grati-
fication to hundreds, have been, nevertheless, a hill-

drance to business, where such must necessarily be car-
ried on, as in the case of bankers and brokers. The
event, however, being so truly civic in itself—the foun-
dation of an Exchange for the merchant Princes of
England—the most plodding can hardly be disposed to
quarrel with the preparations and holiday movements
attending it.
The market for Stocks was affected prejudicially by
the heavy sales made again on account, as was before
and is still supposed, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
When we remark, however, that 210,0001. Stock was
thrown upon the market in one bargain, it will excite
surprise-that the decline was no more than to It• per
cent. Consols for immediate transfer ranged from 89i to
88i and 89 ; and from 891 to 894 for the 'Account.
The time bargains were not to any extent. Exchequer
Bills obtained to 15s. and 17s. premium, and East India
Bonds 10s. to 12s. premium. Bank Stock was worth
1661 to 167. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
brought 991- to -I, and the Three per Cent. Annuities
894 to 1.
Nothing definite has transpired yet on the sub-
ject of the capitalization of Spanish Bonds, and
there is, consequently, an indisposition to operate. In
the other Foreign Stocks there was only a slight increase
of business. The Active Spanish Bonds were done to-
day at 24i to I ; Dutch Five per Cents. were 100 i to
101 ; Chihan were rather better, being quoted 69 to 71;
Colombian were steady at 21k, and Mexican improved
to 291 and 294. Brazil Bonds were again quoted 64.
Railway Shares attracted but little attention. Brighton
improved slightly, viz. to 121 and 12 discount; Blackwall
were 13i; and Midland Counties, 16 discount, Great
Western New Shares were 111, and Birmingham 79 to
791 premium.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 15.—We have
had an extremely dull market, the sales 2,000 to 2,500
bales without change in prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 15.—Grand
Junction, 195; Half Shares, 971 ; Eastern Counties, 8; ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 474 a ; London and Birming-
ham, 321. Shares, New, 28 ;.North Midland New, 164.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 15.—We have
had rather more doing to-day, and prices generally continue
firm. Manchester and Leeds 711 and 711. ; ditto Halfs,
334 ; ditto Quarters, 31. 16s. 6d, 31. 165., 31 17s:, 3/.
16s. 3d., 31. 16s. 6d., and 31. 17s. ; Northern and Eastern,
341 ; South Lancashire Bank, 41. 95.; Manchester As-
surance, 91. 6s. 3d.

The intelligence brought by the Columbia steam-ship
from the United States, is of a far more gloomy nature
than has been received for a long time past. The pres-
sure for money is not confined to New York alone, but
exists throughout the country. The produce market
was exceedingly heavy, and both cotton and flour was
declining.
The Stock Market has been thrown into a panic by
the failure of the house of M'Mister and Stebbings,
large stockbrokers in Wall-Street. The failure of this
house grows out of their connection with the State of
Illinois.

United States Bank Shares had been done as low as
two dollars per share. Exchange on England, 8& 9 per
cent. prem._

Very little business doing in the Stock Exchange, and
prices remain with the exception of Spanish, which is
rather flat, the same as at the close of business on Satur-
day. Consols are 89-1,-, for Money, and 8911 for the
Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89g- ; ditto Three-
and-a-Half Ditto, 992. I ; Exchequer Bills 15 17 prem.
Spanish Active Stock, 24i 4 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 321 33 ; ditto Threes, 191 4.
Her Majesty's packet Ranger has arrived with a mail
from the Brazils. The dates are from Rio de Janeiro
to the 30th of November. Exchange on England had
declined from 32 to 30+. The decline may, in a great
measure, be attributed to the intelligence latterly received
of a large amount having been drawn in London upon
this Government. The Six per Cent. Local Stock gra-
dually declined from 741 to 73, at which there are still
sellers.

The Government broker has been in the market to-
day, and sold to the extent of 230,000/. The Hebrews
were the principal purchasers.
Consols are now 89 for Money, and 89k R for the Ac-
count ; India Bonds, 10 12 ; and Exchequer Bills, 13 17.
The principal business in the Foreign Market is the
settlement of the account, which has p4ssed over up to
the present time with the exception of one defaulter in
the Share Market, and that only to a trifling amount.
Spanish is now 24- ; Portuguese Fives from 331; Ditto,
Threes, 191 ; Brazilian Bonds, 54 53.
Very little doing in the Share Market. London and
Birmingham, 169 ; London and Brighton, 57i ; Great
Western, New, 61 ; Ditto, Fifths, 10 ; Midland Coun-
ties, 83. - •

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Rank Stock .. 166 k
3 per Cent Red. 89%
3 per Cent Cons BBl
3% per Cent Red 994
New 3% per Cent 9B
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16
Oct 1859
Jan. 1860.
FO REIG'
Austrian, 5 per cent....
Belgian, 5 cent

' India Stock .
IDttto Bonds
;Ditto Old Annuities
IDitte New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2}d 17 pm
Ditto 5001...
Ditto Small l5 pm
Bank Stock for Acct —
r India Stock for Acct —
Consols for Open — B9a -
I FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent. 56
Ditto, -N - Dir --

a 1 an, o per . 0, New itto 33A
Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cm— Russian, per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24i
Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. --f. —e,
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. --u,
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent —
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent.
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. ...... . ... .. 25
Cheltenham and Great Western (72k paid) 15
Great Western Railway( 65 paid) —

_ .
Ditto New Shares (LO paid) ......... ..... 61i
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)..
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) lli
London and Birmingham (90)
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 12
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)

THE" DUKE OF CLEVELAND.
The following is a Copy of the Bulletin issued yes-
terday Morning: " St. James's-square, Jan. 17.
" The Duke of Cleveland has had some sleep during
the night and is more composed to-day.

UNIVERSITY INTEEXIGENCE.
OXFORD, JAN. rs.—The junior Proctor has given notice
that he will receive• the-names of those Undergraduates
who intend offering themselves for the responsions this
term, on Wednesday next, frotn one till three, and the
next day from twelve till two o'clock.
On Thursday, Feb. 24, the examination of candidates
for the Vaughan exhibition will commence; they are re-
quired to be natives of Merioneth, or natives of any other
English or Welch county, one of whose parents shall be
a native of the county of Aferioneth.
Candidates must not exceed 19 years of age, nor, if
members of the University, must have passed the-third
term for matriculation.
Declaration in writing of the nature of their qualifica-
tion, with certificate of baptism and testimonial from mas-
ter or tutor, is to be transmitted to P. Walsh, jun., on
or before the 16th of Feb.
The appointment of Assistant Minister of St. Mary's
Episcopal Chapel, Reading, has been made to the Rev.
E. 11. Haskins, of Queen's College.
The Rev. H. Downing, of Trinity College, has been
presented to the curacy of Wolverley, Worcestershire.
The valuable appointment of Deputy Judge-Advocate-
General has been conferred on F. N. Rogers, of Oriel
College.

The Prebend of St. Nicolas Penffoes, in the Cathedral
Church of St. David's, has been given to the' Rev. Natha-
niel Davies, of Pembroke College.

SUNDAY MAIL-TRAINS.—At a Meeting of
the Town Council of Linlithgow, held on Monday last,
the Provost moved that the council communicate to the
Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Com-
pany their approval of running mail-trains on Sunday
morning and evening, care being taken in doing so to
give as little hurt to publicleeting as possible ; which
motion being seconded, was• carried by a majority of
fourteen to four, two declining to vote—the minority of
four being of opinion that the Council should nOt inter-
fere in the rail4teri.

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