The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-21 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOS[NG PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.... 92/ Ditto Old Annuities ... -
4 per Cent. Red.....—.. Ditto New Annuities...
New 3/ per Cent... ..... 301 Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 49 pm
Ntw 5 per Cen'„,,r • Ditto 500/...... 51 pm
Long Annuities t 6 expire Ditto Small ...... 51 pm
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859 — India Stock for Acct...
Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct....... 93
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent. : Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 351
Brazilian Bonds... b7i Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 20 Russian, 5 pet cent —
Chilian, 6 per/cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... .. ....
Colombian, g per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 18e24 — Ditto, Deferred.... . --
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange .—f --c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 35 French, 3 per cent. —f. —c,
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2A per cent....... 52A
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 10'21
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd... 40
' Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 40
Ditto New Shares (17A paid)
Eastern ,Counties Railway (23 paid) ... —
DittdNew Shares ( paid) .... ..... .... 81 45 2d
Edit burgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 471
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid ..
great Western Railway (65 paid) B2l
Ditto New Shares (50 pud).. .........
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) • . 331
London and Birmingham (90) - ... 182
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 58*
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)...... 24
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) —
Ditto Scrip.(lo paid) ..............

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPF.Lts OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The more closely the treaty nego-
tiated by Lord Ashburto-a with the American Go-
vernment is examine--a, ?muse for dissatisfaction
With the terms on w'Aich it has been concluded,
at least so far as tl..e people of England are con-
cerned, will a.pp,ettr. Although_ among the first
to express ar./opinion that British interests had
not been sl:erllciently protected by the nobleman
to whose, 'keeping they were entrusted, we de-
clined to commit ourselves to a precipitate judg-
nw-xili a matter involving consequences so ha-
rm-tam as the maintenance of pacific relations
between two great nations. For the " care and
caution" we felt it a duty to exercise, we were
taunted by a Contemporary; who asserted
the positive excellence of the treaty, and eulo-
gized the wisdom of the functionary by whom,
on the part of the British Government, it had
been negotiated to.a conclusion. In the interim
between the first perusal of the treaty and the
application of the taunt, we " carefully" ex-
amined the treaty, and "cautiously" compared
the boundary between the two countries, as set-
tled by it, with the line laid down by the Com-
missioners, whose boundary definition was in-
corporated in the treaty of peace between the
jJrhted States and Great Britain in 1783. We
nest compared it with the award of the King of
the Netherlands of 1831. The result of both these
met,ititds of testing the merits of the recently-
co/c'uded. treaty, viewed in its bearing upon
13ritish interests, is the same. We pronounce it
an utter -failure—a surrender to America of
advantages for which an equivalent is in vain
looked for in the treaty itselt, and in any col-
lateral act .of her Legislature and Government.
The boundary prescribed, and the path assigned
' between our dependencies of New Bruns-
wick and Lower Canada, is the least con-
venient, -and the most liable to obstruction
and annoyance, in the event of hostilities
between Great Britain and America, of any
that cou'd have been marked out. The
treaty assigns to the United States a larger por-
tion of land than even her wildest claims, when
put info a tangible form, ever before ventured
to ask ; and, in addition to this kind and liberal
dealing with the American Government, Lord
Ashburton' has conceded the free navigation of
the St. John, through our colony of New Bruns-
wick, to its very mouth. In addition to this
valuable concession, which may be turned against
us whenever the Power for whose special a,; van,,tage it is granted is disposed to annoy as, or to
encroach upon our territory, the trea,cy gives up a
disputed point on Lake Champlal.-.4 to the Ameri-
can Government; and most :::osurdly recognizing
it, as though founded in justice and ascertained
by an application of '.,he principle on which
the original treaty of 1783 defined the boundary
of the two•countrie„ Jpledyes the British Govern-
to pay to the Government of the United
States, the a 409Unt of Inonies received under the
name of "•;The Disputed Territory Fund;" us
though ,41(e had, during the period which has
el tii%ed since the territory was in dispute, been
wrongful possessors, and were equitably liable
to the American Government for the amount of
" rents and profits" which we had received, or
the State of Maine might have received or de-
rived, front the land in question during that
period. No wonder that the Americans have
feted and feasted Lord Ashburton !—that his
Lordship has become the idol of their praise-_a
perfect pattera of future negotiators!
STANDARD.—The Morning. Chronicle of
this dayAias a most warlike article upon the
.Amerman treaty, charging the Ministers not
very obscurely with having sacrificed the inte-
rests and horfour of the empire, from fear of a
• quarrel with the United States. Such a charge is
a grave one. Peace is no doubt a blessing above
all price—except the sacrifice of honour and se-
curity; but honour and security are more pre-
cious than peace, if for no other reason, for this,
that without them peace itself must be pre-
carious. The charge, then, which the Morn-
ing Chronicle brings against her Majesty's Go-
Yertimetit is a most serious one. The greatest
crime' that a Government can commit, next after
deteriorating the Constitution of the country com-
mitted to its charge, and deprdssing the condition
of the people, is Inc sacrificing of its honour arid
interests abroad—these are the greatest crimes of
a Government; but there are adjacent to these
crimes of almost a's-deep a dye, though, notwith-
standing their real proximity to the others, of
a seemiegly different cha.racter. These are, the
putting the Constitution of a country and the hap-
piness of its people '4n peril by radi or interested
experiments- thtt putting its external honour
and its intrAy to hazard by unnecessary
wars. To confine ourselves, however, to the
consider? on of external relations. To sacrifice
. honour rid security, from fear of danger, is the
grew st crime7-to risk honour and security by
wurionly rushing upon danger, is a crime next
in degree, h. crime divided from the other by a
very slight difference. To avoid both these crimes,
in short, to preserve peace without sacrificing
honour and security, is, in cases of difficulty, the
highest .triumph of statesmanship, and this
triumph we contend the present Government has
achieved in/4ffecting the late treaty.