The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'clock.

The Special Commission appointed for the
trial of the northern rioters was opened at
Stafford yesterday, on which occasion Sir Niclio-
LAS TIN DAL, the Chief Justice, delivered a charge
to the Grand Jury, which deserves praise for the
general moderation of its tone, and the clear and
distinct manner in which the law of the land is
expounded, as it bears upon such riotous combi-
nations as took place last 3 ul•y in the manufac-
turing districts. His Lordship, after giving a
brief; general outline of these illegal • transac-
tions, whose origin he attributed to certain dis-
putes between the masters and men on the
question of wages, proceeded to state the
difference between legal and illegal combinations,
observing, " that if the workmen of the several
collieries and manufactories, who complained
that the wages they received. were inadequate to
the value of their services, had assembled them-
selves peaceably together for the purpose of
determining upon the rate of wages or prices
which the persons present at the meeting should

The following is an extract from a private
.etter:— • ,

" The commercial treaty with Great Britain is
again beginning to be talked of, and it is even asserted
in some political and diplomatic circles, that the pro-
ject has been actually discussed between the Regent,
his secretary (General Linage), a Spanish statesman,
supposed to be M. Gonzales, and Mr. Aston, our
Minister. The last correction was said to have been
given to it so far back as the 20th•of August. It is
thought that the Government will present it to the.
Cortes, together with the projected treaties with Bel-
gium and Holland, and that whilst the discussion is
proceeding Zurbano will be kept in Catalonia to over-
awe the cotton spinners and manufacturers of Bar-
celona. M. Cortina, aware of the conclusion of this
treaty, and of the plans of Government for carrying

it through the :COrtes, is concerting measures, not
only with his Parliamentary friends, but even with
secret societies of Barcelona, to procure their failure."

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday,
but with the exception of a supposed insult offered
to the French flag, they contain little news. It
appears that the British brig Cygnet, employed
for the prevention of the slave-trade on the
African coast, had fired with ball, ahead of a
French vessel called L'Aigle, to bring her to, and
as the captain paid no attention to this, a second
shot was fired, and two Englishmen boarded her,
when, finding all was right, the. vessel was al-
lowed to depart. While the mutual right of
search continues, we really cannot see any part of
this proceeding of which the French commander

require for their work, and had entered into an
agreement amongst themselves for the fixing of
such rate, they would have done no more
than the law allows them. Unfortunately,
however," his Lordship added, " those who
were discontented did not stop here," but assumed
the power of interfering with the right which
others possessed, of exercising their own discre-
tion on the subject of their alleged grievances.
" It is unnecessary to say," the Chief Justice
went on to observe, " that a course of policy so
utterly unreasonable in itself—so injurious to so-
ciety—so detrimental to the interests of trade—
and so oppressive of the rights of the poor man
—must be a gross and flagrant violation of
the law, and is to be put down, when guilt
is established, by a proper measure of punish-
ment." Upon this point there cannot be two
opinions. Justice and common-sense alike re-
pudiate such oppressive combinations, as being
injurious to—indeed, as tending directly to impair
—the integrity of the social system; andthe calm,
eqUable, but emphatic manner in which they
are denounced by his Lordship, will, we confi-
dently hope and believe, have a far more whole-
some effect on the minds of those misguided men
who took part in the late strikes, than if such
warm and over-zealous language had been re-
sorted to, as the Judges of the land were not un-
frequently in the habit of using in the ultra-Tory
days of PITT, SIDMOUTH, and CASTLEREAGH,
when the great object of Government—in such
cases of riot and sedition as the present—seemed
to be, less to administer impartial justice, than
to ensure the conviction of troublesome and ob-
noxious opponents. His Lordship wound up
his succinct, lucid, and temperate charge,
by some appropriate remarks on edu-
cation, the diffusion of which generally among
the working-classes was, he said, the only effec-
tual method of rendering them good men and
good citizens, and of counteracting the attempts
of designing political incendiaries to undermine
their principles, and array them in hostility to
the established institutions of the country. From
the spirit that pervaded his Lordship's charge,
we feel satisfied that the law Will be
administered—as it always ought to be,
but, alas! not as it always has been_
in a firm, equable, and considerate manner; and
that no erroneous system of Terrorism will be
adopted, which, like exquisite cunning, always
overshoots the mark, re-acts injuriously on the
Government which sanctions it, and aggravates
the very evils which it was intended to remove.
We cannot close these hasty observations
without alluding to the sermon preached before
the Judges, by the Rev. Mr. COLDW ELL, previous
to the opening of the Commission; wherein,
alluding to the riots, he traced them exclusively
to the " deism and infidelity that were widely
spreading through the land," adding, " that the
men engaged in them, first set aside the Bible,
then brought into disrepute the Church, and de-
clared open hostility against its ministers." This
is sad clerical cant. The riots in question
had nothing on earth to do with the Church or
the parsons.
They were altogether a belly af-
tfiluitri—ont." A resuforlt
tof: mingled ignorance and desti-
e Gentleman's statement
that those who took part in them were Deists
and Infidels, we firmly believe—and we make
the remark in no disrespectful spirit—that the
majority of them were quite as good Christians
as himself, though they were not perhaps so well
laid for their Christianity.

has a right to complain. His Protest, and ithe
reply of Captain WILSON, the commander of the
Cygnet, will be found in another part of the
paper.

- The Journal des Debats states that M. PAGEOT I
had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, I
and charged to fill, ad interim, the post of Minis-
ter of France at 'Washington, in the absence of
M. DR BACOURT.
The Moniteur Parisien announces that the
King of PaussrA received most- graciously the
authorities of the French town of Pontarlier, on
his passage at the Saut du Doubs, on the 28th ult.
His MAJESTY expressed deep concern in speak-
ing to the Sub-Prefect at the painful loss sus-
tained by France in the person of the Duke of
ORLEANS, and inquired with the greatest interest
after the health of the Duchess of ORLEANS,
whose rare qualities, he said, had left the most
honourable and flattering impression in Germany.

Accounts frotn Eu of the 30th ult. state that
the KING, QUEEN, and Royal Family walked on
that day from the Chateau to Hotel Dieu to visit
the sick. Their MAJESTIES were received at the
gate of the hospital by the Prefect of the De-
partment, the Sub-Prefect of Dieppe, and the
Mayor of Eu. The Duchess of MECKLENBURG
SCHWERIN was to leave for St. Cloud on the
morning of the Ist, and the KING, QUEEN, and

rest of the Royal Family , were to ,have started
in the evening, so as to reach St. Cloud early
in the morning of Sunday.
The Quotidienne states, that during the week

ending the 29th ult. there were 611 oxen returned

to their owners from the markets of Sceaux and
Poissy for want of buyers. " This fact," adds
the Quotidienne, " is a striking proof of the de-
pressed state of the agricilltural interests and cf
the excess of production over consumption." If
this remark is founded on truth; we may soon
expect to see French cattle in the English market.

DUTCH VUNDS.—AMBTERDAti, OCT. 1.
111 oney. Bills.
ACLII:4I Deb . 254 per Cent 52%
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amain Svndic, 44 per cent 95 t 534
Ditto, ditto, Bli per cent 77li
Commercial Company, 4!;, per cent l3i% 136 g
Ditto (18'35 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent
Exchange on London, One month l2 20
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 87%
Twomonths ...
Dutch Papers, Oct. 1.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TLJREE.
But little has been done in the Funds this morning ;
the Market has not exhibited quite the same firmness
as it did at the close of business yesterday. No altera-
tion can, however, be made in prices beyond that of
there being sellers rather than buyers. Consols are 92+
93 for Money, and 93 93i- for the Account; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 101* ; India Bonds, 37 39 ;
Exchequer Bills have improved, the Old to 50 52,
and the New to 49 51 prem.
Foreign Securities are again better, and it would
appear that more attention is now paid to these as in-
vestments. Dutch and Belgian have been the more
sought after, the Two-and•a- Half per Cents. of the
former country being 52 52+, the Five per Cents.
100+; and the latter, 103+.
Mexican Bonds also are quoted higher, namely,
.331 ex div. The opinion that the disputes between
that country and Texas will be amicably settled gains
ground, and it is known that the latter are extremely
anxious to avail themselves of a treaty lately signed
in London, for England to arrange the affairs which
cause the present hostile feeling.
Brighton Railway Shares have again been the'
principal feature in this market, and have been sold
as high as 36i, but some parties being anxious to
realise their profit, and having appeared as sellers,
they have receded to 36+, and the loan notes 10k.
The other transactions have been—Eastern Counties,
Eik ; Blackwell, 7 ; South Western, 38 ; and Manches-
ter and Birmingham, 60; the whole of which are
higher.
More speculation has to be noticed to have taken
place in the Bonds. Colombian are quoted at 21 ;
Portuguese Five per Cents. 36 ; the Three per Cents.
211; Spanish Five per Cents. 16*, and the Three
per Cents. 21+.
The number and amount of bills due to-day, we
understand to be very large, but hitherto all has passed
off well. It is satisfactory to state, that in the present
depressed state of business, the notaries complain
greatly of want of employment.
MANCHESTER STOCK ]EXCHANGE, OCT. 3.—We
have had a limited business to-day, and prices remain
steady. quotations as follow :—London and South
Western, 57i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 211 to
221 ; North Midland, 56+ to 57+ ; New South
Easterns,l2 to 12*; Eastern Counties, New, 71.198.2 d.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds ....... 39 pm
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 5O pm
Ditto 500/ st pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct.
'lndia Stock for Acct...
Consols for Acct.
r FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 36&
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russian, 5 pet cent —
Ditto, Aletallic . . ..
Spanish, 5 per cent., 166
Ditto, Deferred—. .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2i per cent. 52
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 i

We occasionally give brief reports of the pro-
ceedings and decisions of the Revising Barristers
in the Registration Courts, while at the same
time we are aware that no intelligence in a news-
paper, not excepting even the long speeches
made in favour of a Repeal of the Union, is read
with so little interest. The individuals who claim
votes, and a few of their friends, may take some
interest in the business, but as regards the
public in general, it is a matter of perfect
i„difference whether a Whig or a Tory name
is struck off or retained. At the first revi-
sion of the Voters' Lists, after the passing
of the Reform Bill, these Courts_ were crowded
with anxious expectants for electoral privi-
leges, and the papers were filled with long
details of objections made against different par-
ties, while, at present, half a column is con-
sidered ample space, even in journals which have
room enough, and to spare,- for recording the re-
sults. This is certainly a remarkable change in
the political feelings of the people within the
brief space of eight or nine years, and it may,
therefore, be interesting to inquire into the
cause. It cannot be attributed to a general
apathy regarding constitutional rights, for at
no period did such a general conviction
prevail as at the present time, that the people
are not represented in Parliament, and that re-
forms must be introduced into both Houses for
depriving the aristocracy of their monopoly of
power, and protecting the great body of the
people against the abuses of class legislation.
The apathy must, therefore, arise from some
well-grounded conviction that all the valuable
provisions of the Reform Bill have been set
aside, and that it is useless to trust to a charter
which has been found so completely in-
operative. Bribery is carried on to a greater
ex tent than ever, there are still small
rotten boroughs in abundance, and in large towns
canvassing, accompanied with promises and
threats, never exhibited such unusual vigour as
stilla more painful to
(luring the last election. It is painful to witness
skuncohwa that
be traced to themy
political conduct of certain parties in whom the
people at one time placed confidence, Lord
JOHN RussELL'S " finality" speech, the ejection
of Lord BROUGHAM and Lord DURHAM from the
Cabinet, and the infusion of others in their place
of all but Tory principles, have alienated the
people from what has been called Liberal go-
vernment, and made them look out for other and
more faithful leaders. But the task appears all
but hopeless, for if even as large. a number of
honest Reformers were returned to Parliament
as the present state of the suffrage would admit,
what could they do against the Tories with the
finality man at their back ? Are we to wonder,
therefore, that the Sturgites and the Chartists,
and other political parties, should be driven to
the necessity of devising some scheme for the
abatement of these evils, and that, in despair of
finding a sufficient remedy by ordinary means,
they should go much farther than many of the
middle classes consider prudent or practicable?
Such demonstrations, however, are marked symp-
toms of the defective state of society, and require
the immediate and careful attention of our rulers.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons 92i
3i per Cent. Red —
New 3} per Cent... looi
Now 5 per Ceti',
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 7-16
FOREIGI

Austrian, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 1034
Brazilian Bonds...
Buenos A yres6 percent. 22
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 2l
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO
Danish, 3 per :ent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
,Mexican, 5 per cent 33%
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian; 1825, 6 per ct.
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd... 39
Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ..... 84
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ..... 81 la 8d
Great Western, (65 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) ...... 36t
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ...... 10i
London and Birmingham (90) ......
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 4B
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 574
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... .. 214
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... 234
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid)

THE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
WHITEcHAPEL MARKET.

We have news from Madrid up to the 25th of
last month.
The Corresponsa/ publishes a notice of the
Director of the Bank of San Fernando, an-
nouncing to the shareholders that they are en-

In consequence of the very moderate supply, both
of Flay and Clover, the demand was brisk, and our
highest quotations were fully realised for the finest
sorts ; even the ordinary qualities met a good market.
Of Straw the supply was short, with a good demand,
and prices without alteration. Clover, 21. 106. to
51.85. ; Hay, 21. Bs. to 41.75. ; Straw, 11. 113. to 11.155.

titled, for the present year, to a dividend of 4 ;
UMMARIT OF NEWS!L WIN
per cent., which will be paid to them after the
Ist of October.

AND
OPtntvfl.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French packet-boat Phare, which left Algiers
on the 21st of September, thirty-six hours later than
the ordinary mail, arrived at Toulon on the 26th. By
this conveyance we learn that General Bugeaud had
departed in haste for the province of Constantine, hav-
ing ascertained that Zidi-Zerdout had attacked Setif,
at the head of 4,000 or 5,000 Kabyles. The Flittas,
and other tribes about Medeah and Miliana have also
resumed arms. The lower Atlas, however, is
peaceable.
M. de Billeman, the Delegate of Monte Video, has
just addressed a petition to the Minister of Marine,
requesting that the crew of the Leopeldina Rosa shall
be put on their trial. The shipwreck of that vessel,
which cost the lives of 204 persons, is known to have
been caused by the refusal of the crew to obey the
orders of the captain.
A subscription has been commenced by the King
and Royal Family of France, to alleviate the losses
sustained through the late storm by the inhabitants of.
Fecamp, Yport, and Etretat.
Much snow has fallen within these few days on the
Pyrenees.
Twelve new Consuls are about to be nominated by
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe,
the East, and America.

The tenth sitting of the Scientific Congress of
France was opened, on tho 28th inst., at Strasburg,
about 600 being present.
Otho, King of Greece, it is stated, had a fall from
his horse a day or two since, but escaped with some
slight contusions.

GENCE

INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY•).

IN RE DAVID DE LARA.
The insolvent, who was a member of the Jewish
persuasion, applied on his petition to be discharged.
In his examination he stated that he attributed his
insolvency to the non-success of an invention upon the
perfecting of which he had expended a large sum of
money. He was the inventor of what was styled the
" self-igniting sealing wax," a specimen of which he
had the honour of submitting to her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who were graciously
pleased to express their approbation of the invention,
and gave him an order for 201. worth of the article';
151. for her Majesty, and Si. for the use of his Royal
Highness.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—What time was the
order given, and when was the money paid ?
solvent—l received the order from the officer of the
household In April, and was paid in May.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIs.—I see there are 62
creditors' names in your schedule; what profits were
realized by the sale of this article, besidewhat you got
at Court. Insolvent.—l can't call my dealings at
Court profitable, as I presented the self-igniting wax.
to her Majesty in a box, the preparation of which
cost me 101., half the amount of what I was paid.
The article itself was very expensive, and consequently
did not sell well.
After some further evidence the hearing was ordered
to be adjourned to Thursday next, in order to pro-
duce a witness, and the insolvent's bail was enlarged.