The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-01 00:00:00

daining such a prayer, they can hardly have the more stringent laws such e
passed, for public feg
face to maintain a law which deprives the people ;in would not allow such harshness to be exercised
on board merchant vessels. The defendant had no
of food, and has actually compelled men to de-
right to strike the boy at all ; if he had misconducted
stroy wheat, by throwing it into the Thames, himself a complaint should have been made to the
because that law would, not allow them to give it 'I captain, who might, if •
circumstances demanded it,
either to man or beast. If we may believe the I and, after due inquiry, have ordered proper and tern-
reports from the United States, there is at this Aerate chastisement.
moment food going to decay there which the
owners would gladly send for the use of our
people ; but those very men who now ordain a
thanksgiving for a plentiful increase of food, will
not allow that abundance which the ALMIGHTY
has sent to be used by his suffering creatures.
Men in authority may fleece us by an Income-
tax—they may even starve us by a Corn-law—
but they go too far when they interfere with
our prayers, and ordain that our lips shall utter
a solemn mockery' of our own hearts, and of our
, belief in the goodness of GOD.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday had not ar-
rived at the time our paper was put to press.

MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
A report being current that favourable intelligence
had been received from India, the Money Market ex-
hibited a degree of firmness, and Consols improved a
shade, notwithstanding the mercantile accounts are of
a very gloomy character. The corn market has again
been much unsettled by the suspension of a highly re-
spectable firm, whose assets, it is stated, are more
than sufficient to cover its liabilities. This has been
occasioned by the failure of certain large speculators
on the Continent, with whom it was Connected, and it
is apprehended that its extensive connexions may
be all more or less sufferers ; hence may be traced
several unpleasant rumours which have been current
during the day. Consols left off at 925 for
Money, and 93 buyers for the Account. India Stock,
247 249. The circumstances above alluded to
caused a continued demand for money, and the
premium on Exchequer Bills declined to 51 49 for
the Old, and 60 4$ for the New.
The principal occurrence in NI Foreig,n market was
the announcement that a fresh loan would be brought
forward on account of the Dutch Government; this
caused a decline in the price of the bonds, and the
Five per Cents. closed at 102 1025; and the Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 511 515 ;13elgia,n, 102 103 ;
Danish, 83 84 ; and Brazilian, 66 67.
The Mexican bondholders and the agents of that
Government have been brought into collision, in con-
sequence of instructions from our officials to deduct
the Income-tax from the dividends. This is an ex-
tremely harsh proceeding, so much so, that it would
appear to be only necessary to represent the circum-
stances under which the money is to be received, in
order to obtain a remission. The quotations for the
Bonds were rather lower, being 345 355.
The receipts of the railways this week exhibiting
an increase generally, the firmness of' the Market his
aoatinued, and the shares in the Brighton line have
improved, the sum received having amounted to 4,5231.
London and Birmingham Shares were 183 185,
earnings 17,264/. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 39
41 ; eat Western, 81 82 ; the Half Shares, 59 595,
earnings 14,632/. ; South Western, 575 58, earnings
6,6571.; North Midland, 56 58 ' • the New Shares,
27 28, earnings 2,8221.; South Eastern, -235 231;
Eastern Counties, 8 61-, earnings 1,0771. ; Northern
arid Eastern, 35 36; B ackwall, 61 7 ; and Brighton,
35 351. The Shares in the following lines are not so
frequently offered in this market as to warrant a
constant quotation, but their takings in the past week
were—Hull and Selby, 1,062/. ; Birmingham and
Derby, 2,214/. ' • Greenwich, 735/, • Great North of
England, 1,3231. ; Midland Counties, 7,841/, ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 5,018/. ; and Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 1,9981.
The Exchanges were again rather higher. Amster-
dam, -12 61, 12 6.'1; Rotterdam, 12 61 ; Antwerp,
12 41 ; Hamburgh, 13 111 ; Frankfort, 1501 151 ;
Paris, 25f, 80c., 25f. 85c. ; Vienna, 9 56, 9 561 ;
Trieste, 9 57, 9 58 ; Naples, 40+ 405 ; Leghorn,
30 25, 30 30 ; Lisbon, 525 ; radrid, 361 37.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian,
20+ 21.; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 35+ 351 ; the Three per Cents., 21 211 ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 158 151 ; the Three per
Cents., 201 204.
(From The San of Last Night.)
There was scarcely an alteration in the funds to-
day, either in price or the extent of business. Con-
sols are 921 925 for Money, and 93 for the Ac-
count. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001
1005 ; India Stock 249 250 ; India Bonds, 36 ; Exche-
quer Bills, Old, 49 51 ; New, 48 50 prem.
lii Foreign Securities transactions have been small,
although this is the half-monthly settlement ; time
bargains in these bonds, as well as in shares, being
now unknown. Dutch Bonds have been sold a shade
lower ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 515; and the
Five per Cents., 102/. The quotation for Mexican
is not quite so good, being 35 355.
The Shares which have changed hands to-day have
been—London and Birmingham, Quarters, 471 47; ;
Great, Western, 82 ; Fifths, 71 74 ; South Western,
51 58 ; South Eastern Scrip, 12 ; Eastern Counties,
81 ; Brighton, 341 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
21-; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 461.
Phis being the day for arranging speculative ope-
rations- in the Bonds, some alteration has taken place
in the quotations for Spanish, the Five per Cents.
being 155; and the Three per Cents., 201. Buenos
Ayres are quoted 205 also.
The most important feature in the produce market
has been the commencement of the large sales of tea.
The quantity to be brought forward extends to up-
wards of 25,000 packages ; and as far as the sales
have proceeded, they have gone off more favourably
than was expected.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 29.—
We cannot report any improvement in prices to-day.
Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 185;
Manchester and Birmingham, 211 22 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 705 71 ' • ditto Halves,3os 1; South East-
ern, 221 23; ditto Scrip, 115 1.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3si
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent 2O/ Russian, 5 pet cent......
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic .
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 155
Ditto, le4 2oi Ditto, Deferred.... .
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Danish, 3 per cent — Exchange —f --e.
G reek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, '3 per cent —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 35 Dutch, 25 per cent. 515
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per, cent. .. 1025
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 165
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway(loo pd... 37
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... 85
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ....•• 46
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) . .
London and Brighton (50 paid) 355
London and Birmingham (90) ......
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 475
London and Greenwich Rai1way......15s 4d pd) 5
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 58
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) 10
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)...
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 235
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid)
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.

The Church Extension party is making great
literary exertions, preparatory to a demand on
Parliament for hinds to extend the Church. It
i 3 arranging hall its forces, drawing up all the
arguments that can be mustered in its favour,
counting all its friends, and, after showing its
whole moral and physical strength, it appeals
earnestly and threateningly to the PREMIER.
He is told that the Church moralises the State ;
that it is the soul of all goodness in society; his
own opinions of the necessity of the State pro-
viding religious instruction for the whole people
are not forgotten, and he is emphatically told
that unless he wish both to break up his
own Administration, and demoralise the
people, he must, as one of the first
measures of next Parliament, propose a
large grant to build more churches and pay
more parsons. At any rate it is plain that the
next onslaught of the Conservatives on the
national purse—for which they live and breathe
—is to be made from the portals of the Church,
with the clergy for leaders.
The time seems favourable for the attainment
of their object. Great evils exist in society, the
origin and cure of which are not exactly known,
but the clergy dogmatically and positively assert
—and in :general they are believed—that their
teaching is the only, and that it is a certain, re-
medy. Church Extension is already favoured
by a large portion of well-meaning persons as a
cure for our present social disorders, and it is
very likely that the disputes and discrepancies
of opinion amongst those who recommend
worldly remedies will cause many other well-
meaning, but not strong-minded, persons to
swallow with indifference and submission, if I
they have no lively faith in its effects, the dose
prescribed by the Church Extensionists.
There cannot be, we are afraid, any resistance
on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on account of
the insufficiency of the national resources. The
Income-tax which the clergy have powerfully
helped to recommend to the trader, fanner,
and manufacturer, will yield a large surplus,
which can be no better employed, according to
the estimation of the Extensionists, than in show-
ing gratitude to the GREAT GIVER by pro-
viding for.an increased number of His ministers.
In addition to the Income-tax, also, will Sir R.
PEEL not obtain a great sum from cattle.iinported,
and has he not got most unexpectedly a full
million sterling from the bread of the people ?
His Corn-law, in conjunction with the early
harvest, has been productive of revenue, if of
nothing else. To carry on war, or to build
palaces with the produce of a tax on food, might
be unseemly, but the end of building a church
might hallow the means, and the greater the
sacrifice of the people, the more sweetly might
smell the incense of new churches, and the
prayers of a much enlarged hierarchy. In the
present temper of the public, and in the present
flourishing condition of the revenue, we think it
not unlikely that the Church Extensionists will
succeed.

And why should they not? The clergy art
generally spoken of as indispensable to society ;
they are generally idolised ; and we can scarcely
conceive anything:which they may demand, as es-
sential to the performance of their duty, which
those who idolise them must not be ready to
grant. We think that they may succeed, and
we express our fears, to put those on their guard
who, differing from the Extensionists, feel
bound to resist them. Their exertions must be
met by corresponding exertions—not to sub-
stitute something else for Church Exten-
sion, be it education, or new sanitary re-
gulations, or a sharper police, but to dis-
prove the asserted usefulness of the Church
Extension, and to establish the insolent arrogance
of those who, after much experience of the in-
efficiency of the Church, urge her claims now as
if she had never been tried and found wanting.
We have, in fact, already too much Church, and
too much of the priesthood, and to add to their
wealth, power, and numbers, by taking a single
sixpence by taxes from the industrious classes,
would only hasten and embitter the quarrels
which are impending over the State.

Flogging in the Royal Navy, and other cruet

ties inflicted on our seamen, often for the most
venial offences, have long been a reproach to the
country. The system was a disgrace to humanity,
and, like all other acts of injustice, recoiled upon
the oppressors. Some of the best of our sailors
fled to the United States, and either engaged in
the merchant service, or enlisted in the navy to
fight against their own countrymen. Since the
public voice, and the Press, began to denounce
the cruel and wretched policy of our rulers, the
evil i►asbeen greatly abated, personal punishment
is inflicted with less severity, and greater attention
is paid to the health and comfort of the men. It
appears, however, by recent trials and convic-
tions before the Magistrates, thatithe Royal Navy
is mot the only department where these brutal
exhibitions take place, and that similar atrocities,
not sanctioned by law, or any investigation by
the officers, are constantly committed on board
ships engaged in the merchant service. Not a
week passes without several charges of this kind
being brought before the Magistrate at Thames-
street Police-court, and, disgraceful and inhuman
as flogging is, that mode of punishment is even
surpassed by the violent and barbarous con-
duct of petty officers and captains of ships.
They generally inflict punishment when in a
passion, strike their victims with some dangerous
weapon, the first generally they can lay their
hands on, and in many instances the unfortunate
sufferers die in consequence before they reach
their native country. Some legislative enactment
is required to put an end to this system of

Amsterdam C F. 12 9
Ditto, at sight
edam 2 U l2 9i

Gibraltar
Leghorn ........ 30 40
Genoa ... 26

Rotterdam
Antwerp th
Hamburgh M. B. 13 14
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine... 151 i
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 36i
Berlin
Vienna, effac. 11. 3 M 959
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz 36.6
Bilbao 36
Barcelona
Seville

Aan ,lil '
Venice
'Naples
'Palermo, per oz 120
Lisbon
Oporto 524
;Rio Janeiro 234
(Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight 4fa4
'Philadelphia 4tf
PRICX6 OF BULLION, FEB Ur.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars ... 0 4 11i

tyranny. The law as it exists certainly provides
some remedy, but unfortunately the Judges look
upon the authority claimed by commanders of
vessels with such respect, and impress upon
Juries the dangers of disobeying orders, however
harsh and unwarrantable, that a lenient
verdict is often returned, and a still more
lenient punishment is inflicted by the
Judge. Two remarkable instances of this
bias have lately occurred. A respectable
tradesman, who was convicted of some trifling
assault on a policeman, if assault it could be
called, when he was not the aggressor, was sen-
tenced to work for twelve months on the tread-
mill; while the cantain of a vessel, who had com-
mitted cruelties which led to the death of one of
his men, was sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour. This is an absolute per-
version ofj,tstice in favour of a particular class.
If deeds of this kind were punished as they
deserve, banishment for life, or for a cer-
tain number of years, would soon put an
end to the system. It has reached such
a pitch that even the Police-Magistrates
cry out against it, and seem to consider the law
insufficient to protect the weaker party. On
hearing two charges made by sailors against
a mate and a commander yesterday, Mr. BAL,
LANTINE made the following remarks, which we
trust will attract the attention of the Govern-
ment :
'

Z 19,914,000
5,098,259
2,819,749

Bank of England
Private Banks
Joint Stock Banks

SCOTLAND.
Chartered and Private Joint Stock Banks 2,648,549

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland
Private and Joint Stock Banks 1,663,012

Total
Bullion in the Bank of England £9,816,000
JOHN THORNTON.
Stamps and Taxes, Sept. 30, 1842.

He heard of these things almost daily, and the
tyranny and cruelty of those encrusted with a little
power on board ship, and who did not know how to
use it, either drove seamen to make resistance, which
was mutiny, or else to leave the ship and forfeit their
wages. . If thR law was not sufficient to protect sea-

ra PA RS these.

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PROMISSORY NOTES.
( From last night's Gazette.)
Aa account of the average aggregate amount of Promissory
Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circula-
tion in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those circulated by
ee, Privatehy Bthane Banks in Scotland, by
ks, and by Joint Stock
the Bank of Ireland, and by all other 14anks in Ireland, and of
Banks,tthe
Bkn
oEngland E gi
nin
andd' b Wales,
the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during
the four weeks ending the 17th day of September, 1842, pursuant
to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :
ENGLAND. _

PLEASURE EXCURSION ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAlLWAY.—Thursday morning a special train, which
was a curiosity from its length and freight of pas-
sengers, arrived from Bristol at the Paddington
station of the Great Western Railway, propelled by
two powerful engines, and containing between 700
and 800 of the inhabitants of Bristol and its vicinity,
who had availed themselves of the opportunity fur--
nished by the Directors of the railway, of making a
trip at one half the usual fares to London, to pass
Michaeltnas-day among their friends, and see the
sights of the great metropolis. The train left Bristol
at 7 A. M., and arrived at the Paddington terminus at
a quarter to twelve, half an hour beyond the usual
time, the delay being caused by the high wind which
prevailed, and the loss of time occasioned by the train
stopping to take up an additional number of passen-
gers, at the Bath, Chippenham, and Swindon stations.
The parties, who were incumbered with little in
the shape of luggage, beyond a few goodly geese for
presentation among their friends, will leave town, on
their return to Bristol again, by a special train at five
this evening.

The Government contract for the supply of 100,000
gallons of rum for the public service was taken at