The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-26 00:00:00

Ztittion

THE FUNDS7-JC

USING PRICES
FUNDS.

BRITISH
Bank Stock
3 p,r Cent. Red.
3 pt.r Cent. Cons 93i
ait per Cent. Red 100 i
New 31 per Cent... loli
Ne a 5 per Cent —
Lorg Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860
( ict. 1859 ..
Jan. 1460 l2 11-16
FOREIGS

India Stock 254 pm
Ditto Bonds ....... 50 pm
Ditto Old Annuities ...
'Ditto New Annuities...

Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 59 pm
Ditto 500/...... 59 pm
Ditto Small ...... 59 pm
Bank Stock for Acct.

!India Stock for Acct...
Consols for Acct. 93,
T FUNDS.

Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 37
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russian, 5 pes cent —
IDitto, Metallic ..... ..

Ar Arian, 5 per cent. —
Be!sian, 5 per cent
Br,zilian Bonds... 644
Bt ...nos Ayres 6 per cent.
CL,lian, 6 per cent. B3J,
Co:.;mbian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cesa Bonds, 6 per cent 79/1
Danish, 3 per rent
eek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 321
Disco, 6 per cent. 1837
Per v i an, 1825,6 per ct. ,
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ...... 41i
Eastern Counties (•.E3 paid) • •
Ditto Debentures ( paid) 9S
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 47
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 4i
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid ....
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) •• ....
London and Brighton (50 paid) ....-
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ...........
London and Blackwall ( paid) ....... •..
London and Birmingham (90)

!Spanish, 5 per cent l7,
Ditto, Deferred.... ..

French, 5 per cent. —e.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2} per cent. 524
Ditto, 5 per cent. 1001

361
10i
1811

London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 5
London and South Western (4116 s 10dpd) 59
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... 90
Ditto New Shares (20 ......... 374

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—That which Sir Robert Peel's Go-
ver invent is to the monopolists, the proceedings
of Sir Cuarles Begot, as Governor-General
of Canada, seem to be to the knot of Tories
whc. enjoyed exclusively the patronage and pay
of Government in Canada. Who would have
thought that the good old plan of making the
personal and political rights of the many subser-
vient to the aggrandizement of the few—a sys-
tem of policy which had prevailed in Canada
unti i it had alienated the bulk of the inhabitants
fror i the British Government—who could have
anti cipated that such an excellent and long-
exi .ting system of Tory rule, should have re-
eels ed its coil], de grace from a Tory hand,
dire cted by a Tory Government! This was a
blow so unexpected, and so positively astound-
ing that the" Family Compact" in Canada has
bee n almost frightened into fits by the surprise,
anc the Tory journals at home are one day specu-
lati. ig as to the cause, and the next lamenting
over the consequences of the catastrophe ! That
a Tory Governor-General should recognise the
W. ,ig-Radical doctrine of " responsible Govern-
me .t," and endeavour to allay ancient feuds and
con -tiliate estranged affections, by admitting to a
shaee in the Government two gentlemen who
post ess the confidence of a large party in the,
cohuy, was certainly an epoch in its history.
We. trust and believe that from it will be dated
the commencement of a long, uninterrupted
coy rse of tranquillity and prosperity; the Go-
ver sment in unison with the views and feelings
of t ie people, and the people reciprocating con-
fide nce in the Government and a cheerful
obedience to the laws. That Sir Charles
Bae;ot is merely the instrument of effect-
ing the changed policy of the parent Govern-
ment towards Canada, there is every reason to
believe. It is not probable that he would have
taken upon himself—without being guided and
fortified by the directions of the British Cabinet
—Cie responsibility of a " revolution"—so the
Ministerial Post designated the change—so cer-
tail of causing the loudest imaginable complaints
fro. e the clique which has deprecated every con-
ces: ion to popular opinion, and who were sure to
be ..ncouraged in their opposition by the organs
of 3 oryism at home. The alternative of gratify-
ing .he ascendant few at the risk of provoking
rest stance from the many—resistance which
must embarrass the Government, if' it did not
dist arb the existence of social order in the colony
as too fearful to be encountered. Conciliation
wa: determined on. The admission of two or three
Lit orals into the Cabinet Council of the Governor-
Ge :oral has furnished a gratifying pledge of the
tat .re policy of the Administration, and has
been accepted as the earnest of that ameliora-
tion in the state, and improvement in the posi-
tion, of the French Canadians, who form the
bun- of the population of Lower Canada—a
cha -.ge which had become essential to the re-
pos , and necessary to the development, of the
res( arces of the colony. The Herdld of this
moaning says:—" Sir Charles Bagot is really in
a most unenviable position; the bid he has al-
rett(!y made for the support of the quondam pro-
moters of insurrection, is not high enough he
meet make a further advance, or they will
quickly return to opposition, invigorated by the
importance he has thrust upon them." The dis-
sati.ifaction of the Herald with the "position" of
Sir Charles Bagot, arises from a conversation
which appears to have taken place in the House of
Assembly at Kingston, on the 19th September last.
" Mr. Moffatt thought this a fitting moment to ask
the Ministry two questions—firstly, whether they
-were prepared to support the Union Act as passed by
the Imperial Parliament; and, secondly, to maintain
the Civil List as it at present stands ?
" Mr. Hinckes replied that he individually had
never pledged himself to support the Union Act; and
lie was opposed to the Civil List unless voted by the
Asse.nbly, and not by the Imperial Parliament."
TJ pua this conversation—or rather upon the
reple of Mr. Hinckes to the question put to the
Mir istry of which he is a member—the Herald
founds the following comment :
" it is clear from that answer, that Sir Charles
Bagot permits the terms dictated by the Imperial Pa-
r to be open questions in his Administration ;
while :.he probability is, that the recent admissions
theret,l have given a majority to those of his present
advisers who agree with Mr. Hincices,—those admis-
sions must at least have increased the strength of the
Oppo: ition therein to the fundamental stipulations on
-whicl: the Imperial Parliament restored constitutional
Bove: nment to the Lower Province."
We put a different interpretation on the
answer. Mr. Hinckes, and those of his col-
leage es in the Ministry who occupy the same
xelatve position with respect to parties with
Jiimezelf, were doubtless admitted to the
Cabieet without being required to recant the
aopidons they had openly expressed under other
circumstances, engendering other feelings, than
/hoar by which they were now actuated. The
object of the Government was concession : to
have fettered the offer of a share in the Govern-
sent to the leading members of the popular
party with conditions, would have defeated that
object, and have revived the remembrance of
grievances it was desirable should be forgotten,
and provoked exasperation at the moment when
friendly co-operation was essential to the good of
all perties. It is quite possible for Mr. Hinckes,
.and other members of the Cabinet who concur
-with him in his views on that question, to be
the medium of friendly dispositions between the
Canadian party and the Government, and yet to
zeta, their views on that question. "For a Go-
vern, r-General," says the Herald, "to select
advisers regardless of these conditions"—theap-
vrovel of the Act of Union, and the voting of the
Civil List by the Imperial Parliament—" is to
the province almost equivalent to the Sovereign
at h.,rne summoning to the Royal councils Mi-
inistres who were favourable to a repeal of the
union between England ia and I rel and." Not so :
it railer resembles then admission of persons to
the councils of the Sovereign who, previously to
the passing of the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill,
were known to be friendlyt
o the measure, and
Catholic inr...iably voted for Emancipation;
whi,.ll, for several years before that great conces-
sion to a proscribed people became
law,sc in the British Cabinet. ,N,vas an
0:„ n question"
Wh
did not the late Lord Sydenham seek the assistance
in la i Cabinet of any representatives of the French
Ca: adians ?" Because social order, so sadly
disje;nted by the
insurrection, was not suffi-
cieL.ly tranquillised and settled during his go_
verement. Had his valuable life been spared,
and ..e been allowed to remain in the government
lie had so wisely administered in the spirit
of ceeciliation, he would, doubtless, have intro-
duced. to his councils those whose assistance Sir
Chap .cs Bagot, animated by the same views, has
sucti.eded in obtaining. The great mistake which
the lierald, and those who in this country and
Canada condemn the course the Governor-Ge-
nen 1. . has adopted in this matter, is, that he had
an a::ernative—except, indeed, that the adoption
of rhiele would have risked another insurrection.
The question was, Shall the- government be
administered in conformity with public opi-
nio; or by the application of physical force?
Shall it be a military despotism,, or a Govern-
mei. t,of law and of social order? The interval
-which elapsed since the insurrection was a transi-
tioi state, in . which it was impossible for the
cal:Ty:to remain. To retrace the path, for the
ur; ose
of restoring the ancient regime, would
p •
haw provoked resistance halite which the Go-
vernment would have fallen, if the colony itself