The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
lta nk Stock — India Stock .. ......... .25:3 pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 92L Ditto Bonds ............ 51 pm
3 per Cent. Cons 93a Ditto Old Annuities ...
3h per Cent. Red 100.4 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3•k per Cent... lola Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 58 pm
Ne,,v 5 per Cen' — Ditto 500/...... 60 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 60 pm
Jan. 1860 ... l2l Bank Stock for Acct. 253
Oat. 1859
Jan. 100 • ,Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent. — Ditto, New Ditto 3B*
Brazilian Bonds.— — Prussian, 5 per cent....
Buenos Ayres6 per cent 21.4 Russian, 5 pci cent...,. 113-/
Chilian, 6 per cent— . — Ditto, Metallic ..... .. ....
Colotnbian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent....., 18h
Ditto, 1824 2;)-7-, Ditto, Deferred.... .
Cuba Bones, 6 per cent 791: French, 3 per cent. —f. —e.
Danish, 3 per Aont — i Exchange
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. I French, 3 per cent —l. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent 341 Dutch, 2h per cent. 54
t itto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per een:. ... 100 h
P.,.,: Y ian, 1825,6 per ct. 16h- I
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 rail)
Ditto New ( paid)
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid .. tilh
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ....
London and Brighton (50 paid) . ..... 36h
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ...... ... 10}
London and Itlaek wall ( paid) .......... • 6
London and Birmingham (90) ........ 181
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 4Th
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........
London and South Western (411 Gs 10d pd) 51
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)
. Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 224
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 9oh

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUItNALS.
FllO3l THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.The memorial signed by the Jury
engaged in the investigation of the circumstances
attending the death of Charles Beale is confir-
matory of the opinion which has been expressed,
- 1 hat the case to which the inquiry immediately
referred is nut a solitary instance of the fatal ef-
fects that have resulted from the system adopted
iu Northleach prison. The language oldie me-
morial asserts the belief of those by whom it is
Signed that the treatment adopted in the House
of Correction has been " in many cases attended
with the loss of life, and in most of them with
loss ofhealth." A statement that is not lightly put
forth, but is founded on facts that came tinder the
observation of the Jury at the recent inquest. In
t!.e. letter of the foreman, which accompanies the
tneTnorial alluded to, it is alleged that the dete-
rioration of health in some cases, and premature
death in others, have arisen from " damp cells,
seunty fiiod, and over work," all !of which are
evils that a decent degree of proper feeliner
among those who have had the control of the
prison would have prompted them 'to remedy.
ft is not as if the mortaiity and sickness bad
been occasioned by causes connected with the
unhealthiness of the site, or any other circum-
stance that it might have been difficult to detect
or provide against; but here it is evident that
life has been sacrificed, and health destroyed,
by the grossest neglect of the commonest
clutes of humanity. It appears from the state-
meet of the Jury that there is reason to believe
many deaths have been occasioned by the system
pursued in Northleach prison ; and it follows,
therefore, as a matter of course, that offences to
which the law has appended certain minor pun-
ishments have been visited frequently with the
* penalty of death, when committed within the
jurisdiction of some of the Gloucestershire Ma-
gistrates. It must be startling to some of those
ultra-philanthropists who cannot hear the removal
or even a murderer by the hangman's hand,
when they read the memorial to which we have
referred, and in which it is distinctly stated that
in many cases loss of life has been the conse-
quence oldie Northleach system of prison disci-
pline. It is also the opinion of the memorialists
that the other gaols in Gloucestershire have been
the scenes of similar atrocities to those committed
at Northleach; and an inquiry is therefore suggest-
ed into the whole of the county prisons. Such an
inquiry must be extended to the whole of the
prisons throughout the kingdom; for there can
be no doubt, from the correspondence inserted
in the public journals, that the entire system of
prison discipline requires a general and thorough
revision. We are too apt to judge of secondary
punishments by their immediate rather than
their ultiraate effects; and a maximum of work;
as well as a minimum of food, Nv Lich may not be
insupportable or itisufficient for an individual
daring a short period of incarceration, may be
undertnieing his health and strength, leav-
ing him to suffer a combination of misery
when there is an end to the period of his legal
p!mishment. That the ameumorialists were not in
error when they attributed mismanagement to
the other prisons of the county, is proved by a
statement made ou Thursday at the meeting of
the Chelteuhatts Board of Guardians. A man
Avho had previously worked for his livelihood
was sent into Gloucester Gaol, where the system
pursued at Northleach, of turning the prisoners
hot and perspiring from the treadmill into cold
damp cells, is also prevalent. Since his release,
himself and his family have become a burden to
the parish. If economy be one of the reasons
for insufficient food in the gaols, it defeats its
own object when it incapacitates a man from
earning his bread after his release, and thus
throws himself, and all who depend upon him, as
a burden on the public pocket.
STAN DARD.—The millowners' conspiracy,
which has assumed the title of " The Great
League," had on Thursday a meeting at head-
quarters described by its organs as one of the
largest and most enthusiastic meetings -of the
League that has been held in Manchester since the
conimencement of the agitation. We should be
ungrateful to refuse our thankful acknowledg-
ments, for this display offered so seasonably in
this dullest of dull seasons, when a sober and
vigilant Government has left us almost without a
topic ; the greatest possible affliction to us
newspaper people, condemned as we are to il-
lustrate the truth of Lord Bacon's observation
—the easiest times to live in are the most diffi-
cult to write about. The League exhibition
does not command our gratitude, however, solely
on the ground of supplying- topics—it is in itself
an extremely lively and diverting- piece—we sup-
pose we must not call it a farce. The performers
on the occasion were Mr. Walker, Dr. Bowline-,
Mr. George Thompson, and Mr. Richard Cobden.
Mr. Walker's speech was the most tame, or the
least irrational (to speak strictly), as, according
to time laws of the drama, a first scene speech
ought to be, and, in conformity to these laws,
it gave an outline of the state of the parties
in the drama, and an intimation of the plot.
The business of the meeting was to collect
money, neither more nor less, and Mr. Walker
explained, as follows, that money is wanted for
domestic use no less than for foreign enterprise.
Even Lancashire itself is, it seems, in the dark-
ness of contentment, notwithstanding its liberal
shore of the 2,000 lectures and 5,000,000 of tracts.
Dr. Bowline- followed Mr. Walker. Dr. Bow-
wring is a clever, and a well-disposed man—but,
as often happens to such men, he has wholly
mistaken his vocation. Dr. Bowring, as well as
the other speakers, affected to treat Sir Robert
feel's amended Corn Bill and Tariff as conces-
sions to " the League ;" but if so why not treat
the reduction of the scale in 1827 as a concession
also 1 From the nature of things laws regu-
luting imports and exports must demand frequent
revismn, and such fevision. cannot be called con-
cessions, except
violent
they abandon a principle or
at
make very changes. It is the cry of all
the free traders,
thatSirß R. Peel is carrying out
the nlans of the
late .Ministers; but this cry
h foundation,
as just this much that as the r
late Ministers were for oldtioaising every
thing, whoever modifies anything must so far
proceed in their track ; though, as we have often
before said, the mean may bereally more exposed
osied
to the extreme, which in line it follows,
two extremes are opposed between themselves.ate
Just as -the man who walks half a circle is farther
from the starting point than he who completes
the circumference. Mr. George Thompson fol-
lowed Dr. Bowling., and informed the meeting
that lie is about to depart for India in the train
of Dearganauth Tagure, we suppose toflecture
about the Corn-laws, as the.-„e and the parochial
affeirs of Clerkenwell have constituted the only
sutjectuf this person's lifO's studies. Mr. Thump.
-;.'n is surely qualified to teach the natives of In-
na that there is a bombast in the west to mock
fife
that any
the Inflations of Oriental oratory. Mr. Cobden
p:i.rt of the
TI great League missing. 85,0001. of
fund went to defray the ex-
didof his e , Stockport.
did it gO? e ce,ton for Where then
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tiGAR-.MkRILET
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eevs _good
sugar,d,wilDlaEliTd.•f2oBr. 2B.—tire i" e haveand
verw, me has
. ,flail
4:—. . timer :48,ttici ls.
been cleared off a t a fur-
Geed grocery qualities, and
r l'is'&6l(t;:.. ."* c''(r. i, r4i are getting very ;earee.—B'rieol
' 401ereuris- ~.=.l
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0 ~`,lriV e 114-q ,14 eus ft list of nine firms at Mar-
/‘
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'‘,Weillfieliiiiasff
onneeted with the Corn-trade, all of
it.,Wchtavetzaled within the last fiirtnight, the aggre-
gate amount_being very
_large. It do6s not appear that
they will re-act upon London ;in fact the previous
failures have been the cause of those at Marseilles.—
Evening Paper. 1

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