The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
3razilian Bonds... 7O
Buenos Ayres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1624 2l}
Cuba Bonds, 8 per cent Boh
Danish, 3 per :ent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 er cent 3o-
i 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct.
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... 46
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .
London and Brighton (50 paid) 35
London and Birmingham (90) ........ 190
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 5O
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)... ......... ..• 34
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d ,d)
London and South Western (411 65 10d pd) 61}
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
• Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) lO
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)__ _ 2.5 i

Spanish, 5 per cent...... 18i
Ditto, Deferred ..
French, 5 per cent —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, per cent. 53
Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 i

South Eastern and Doirer (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...
i
Ditto New Shares (20 paid) ... ........

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MARYLEBONE—(THIS DAY).
Thomas Hunt, an elderly cabman, No. 5,131, was
charged with robbing Mr. Henry Harris, of No. 14,
Adenham-street, Somers-town, of three sovereigns.
The complainant stated that he hired the prisoner's
cab last night, after twelve, from the corner of Sid-
mouth-street, and ordered him to drive to Aldenham-
street. On the way, witness changed his mind, and
ordered the prisoner to drive to Muskett's Coffee-
house, in Ossuiston-street, which was done, and the
cab discharged Witness said, however, that the pri-
soner might have a cup of coffee at his expense, and
he (the prisoner) accepted the same with thanks.
After waiting about ten minutes, prisoner informed
him that he would charge for time spent there, and
demanded eightpence more than he had previously
paid him. Witness having no change, held out three
sovereigns in his hand, saying, "Take your charge
out of that ;" and the prisoner took them, walked out
of the room, and drove off. Witness was quite asto-
nished for a time, but finding that he did not come
back, he gave intelligence to the police, who took him
into custody.
Police-constable 114 S said he found the prisoner
on the stand in Holborn, and when he charged him
with the robbery, he replied " that the money was a
free gift, and he would give it up to no one."
Mr. LONG said he did not know which was the
more extraordinary conduct, that of the prosecutor
for giving, or the cabman for taking, money in such a
manner. As it was he would commit him for trial.
Alfred Ingall, a stout young man of eighteen, was
charged with a criminal assault upon Helen Amelia
Cranstoun, a girl of eight years of age, and fully
committed for trial.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET_(COURSING)CHAMPION MEET.

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ING, WEDNESDAY.--(CONTINUED.)
First Ties for the All-Aged Stakes.—Minerva beat
Selina •, Railroad beat Willy-go-faster ; The Miller's
Only Daughter beat Victorina ; Margaret beat Admiral ;
Westwind beat Knab ; Banner beat Jewess ; Busy Body
beat Agrippa ; Ajax beat Lapwing.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH.—The Thunderer, 84, Captain Pring,
is ordered to proceed f;om the Downs to Plymouth,
and, according to report, there to be equipped, to re-
inforce the squadron on the South American station.
The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, is
ready for sea at Spithead, waiting final orders. She
is to proceed again to the North American and West
India station.
The new steam-ship Thunderbolt, built at the
dock-yard, is commissioned by Commander G. N.
Broke, 1840, reported for the Mediterranean. She
is equipping in the basin. The new steamer Fire-
brand is to proceed to the river, iu order to receive
her engines and machinery, preparatory to being com-
missioned with the Cormorant.and Acheron steamers.
The Racehorse, 18, recently paid off at Plymouth,
is being surveyed for re-commissioning.
The Lily, 18, Commander Allen, according to
letters of the 12th September from the Cape of Good
Hope, is expected to be in England by:Christmas, to
be paid off.
The Salamander steam-frigate, Commander A. S.
Hammond, put into Funchal Roads, Madeira, on the
llth October, bound to Rio de Janeiro, having on
board the Special Minister to the Cov!t of Brazil,
the Right lion. Henry Ellis.
The brig Wasp, 18, Commander Drew, remains at
Spithead for final orders. She takes out dispatches
for Sir Charles Adam, in the West Indies, also several
assistant-surgeons to join the flag-ship Illustrious, 72.
The _Dutch corvette, Boras, 24, still remains at the
Motherbank, wind bound.
The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, and War-
spite, 59, Captain Lord John Hay, have not yet ar-
rived from Gibraltar. The former will go to Chat-
ham to be paid off, and the latter, it is said, to the
Mediterranean.
The ships fitting out in this harbour are the Sama-
rang, 26, Captain Belcher, for surveying the coast of
China ; Frolic, 16, Commander Willis, and Thunder-
bolt, steamship, Captain G. Broke.
The Southampton, 52, Captain Hillyar (late flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.8.), was,
paid off on Saturday, at Chatham.
TUESDAY, DEC. 6.—The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord
John Hay, C. 8., returned to-day from Gibraltar, to
which place she had conveyed his Excellency-General
Sir Robt. Wilson, G.C.8., appointed Governor of that
fortress, vice Alex.lWoodford. The Rodney, 92, was
the only ship of war left in the Bay at the departure
of the Warspite, the Cambridge, 78, having left
.for England, and may hourly be expected. The wind
having veered to northward, the Pique, 36, Capt. the
Hon. M. Stopford, sailed early this morning for her
destination, the West Indies. The Wasp, 18, Com-
mander Drew (distinguished for his gallantry during
the Canadian outbreak), still remains at Spithead,
destined for the West Indies.—Brighton Gazette.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—We must really come to the rescue of
Messrs. Acland and Dickinson from the ruthless Post,
ere it utterly make an end of these twin pillars of
the Ministry of its own party. "We have again,
says the Post, " looked through the speeches of the
Conservative Members for Somerset, upon which
we commented yesterday. The object of our
search was to find some avowal of some high
principle of duty—some
.patriotic sentiment—
some generous sympathy—some affectionate re-
mark. Our search has been in vain. We find
nothing that a heartless Whig might not have
spoken." We shall not contest the Post's remark,
,that the Peel Conformers are heartless Whigs.
Heartless men generally appear when they address
uncongenial audiences with unwelcome truths,
which truths they had previously suppressed, to
gain votes from those audiences. Heartless men
generally appear in enforcing views not the product
of their own minds—and views the hearty enforcement
of which displaced others, to make room for them.
Heartless men generally appear when confronted
with those other, who—their hearts tell them—
have a right to feel 'theirs swell with an honest pride
in hearing their convictions echoed by those who had
decried, their views adopted by those who had de-
nounced them. All this is heartless work enough for
the party in power doubtless : they are naturally
enough heartless Whigs ; but we, the Outs, have ac-
quired ample right, by the new tendencies of our for-
mer opponents, to take heart, and exclaim Sursum
corda !—as Sir Robert Peel (after Burke) one day
admonished the Glasgow students. It is good for us
to be here ! The Ins who drove us out, now carry us
out. Far from the fact being, as has been somewhere
asserted, that Whigs have grown ashamed of the
name, you may know a Whi&snow by his loftier port,
and his air of rectitude vindicated.
Men met each other with erected look,
The steps were higher that they took,
• Friends to congratulate their friends would haste,
• And old inveterate foes saluted as the paes'd.
But we return to our apology for 'Messrs. Acland and
Dickinson—" Things," exclaims the Post, " have
,changed so as to enable Mr. Acland to throw aside
ell delicacy in alluding to the Whig gentle-
man, Mr. Sanford, and .to be very glad to
meet him upon a public occasion. 'We wish Mr.
Acland would speak out, and tell the inublic what
he means." Now this is very hard on *r. Acland's
" delicacy." On the occasion of the rape of the Sa-
hines, we don't suppose the ladies spoke out, yet it
appeared afterwards they were not sorry to be trans-
ferred to the opposite camp. Here has evidently been
a rape of the Tories ; these delicate " deserters," as the
Post calls them, have been borne off in triur,ail in the
nervous l ical grasp of Lords John Russell and ogPal-
merston. Mr. Sanford sits with his blushing conquests
beside him, who " throw aside all delicacy:" We wish
him joy of his brace of bowies fortunes, pet haps unex-
pected in their frankness.

STANDARD.—And now one word to the discon- s,
tented Conservatives and to the Leaguers. Let these
persons answer the one the other. The discontented
Conservatives say that they have not sufficient pro-
tection ; the Leaguers, on the other hand, assert that
any protection is too much. The sayings of those in-
cendiaries are, indeed, worthless; but their doings
are, at least evidence in the matter of fact. Why are
there Leaguers ? Why is there a League ? Thieves
do nct force a house which they know to be empty; and,
generally, where there is nothing to plunder there will
be no thieves. The existence and activity of the
League is, therefore, proof that agriculture is pro-
tected under the present law, and protected to an
extent which stimulates the cupidity of the Leaguers.
How, then, are the majority of Conservatives, who
never demanded more than a reasonable protection
to industry and enterprise, inconsistent in avowing
themselves contented ? But the farmers are suf-
fering : we know it and lament it ; but if they
want to know the real • cause of their suffering
let them look beyond the Corn-law of last session,
let them look to the PoOr•law of 1834 ; that
is the law which has universally diminished con-
sumption. If they who have realised their
twenties and thirties of thousands of pounds per an-
num out of the reduced wages of labour, could, like
Mrs. Quickly's tyrant, " put all the substance .of
the poor into that fat belly of theirs," the farmers
might suffer less by the accumulation; but unfortu-
nately though the A.'s, and B.'s and C.'s of the League
starve by thousands—they eat but as units; and the
farmer loses in demand all that the money-
getters gain by starvation of the poor. The adop-
tion of the scheme to reduce the people "of
a coarser kind of food" was the severest blow
ever inflicted upon the agriculture of the country
Ireland does not grow in proportion to its extent
and population one-fourth as much wheat as Eng-
land; but wheat is nevertheless grown—and it
bears a much lower price in Ireland than in Eng-
' land. Why ? Because the mass of the Irish
people do not eat wheat. Let the condition of
English labourers be permanently brought down,
as the New Poor-law will bring it down, to the
condition of the Irish labourer, and three-fourths
of the wheat now grown in England would want
a market. In the same way it is the degrada-
tion and poverty of the labouring classes in Poland
and other countries on the Continent which enables,
or rather compels, the farmers and landowners in
those countries to send wheat to England to over-
whelm our markets, if there were no Corn-laws to
regulate its admission. " Live and let live," is an
excellent rule between landlord and tenant ; but is it
not just as good a rule between employer and la-
bourer ? The farmer who, according to the phrase,
screws his labourer with that instrument of torture
with which the New Poor-law furnishes him, affords
to the landlord a hint and a justification for screwing
him in turn.