The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-12 00:00:00

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ME FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 34 per Cents .. 101%14 101 101%
bong Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 11 7-16% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... RS 11
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 1134 11 11-16
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/.
Bank Stock for Account 214 214
Consols for Account. 99 98% 98%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001~ 11,id.
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCS.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15%
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 88
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837.., 361
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 6514
Ditto, Account earn"
Russian Bonds
..
116
- -

CLOSING
PRICES.
15%
88%
36%
32

65%
65
116

Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. -
_
29%
Ditto, Passive t. 7 7
Dutch, 2% par Cent • ,',. 6276 63 631
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certilic ":":. 97 97
PRICES OF
11 AILWAY SII-4,RES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 21,i%
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 13714 138 13614
00. New
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter 7O
•.. •

Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 623/ ...••...
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln I% •••••• 954 .3 4 I,‘
Chester and Holyhead-. 5 - 165/
4
Churnet Valley
..
....
..
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ••• PA 33/.....
Coventry and Leicefter 1q N% 314
Diss, Beccles, Yarmmith I%
Direct Northern .........24 4% 5
Dublin and Belfast June. 2
Dublin and Galway 2h.....• 474%
......
..
Eastern Counties
... '
Eastern Union
..
Ditto Extension
••••••••••—•
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 11A 3 ..... ...
Great Grimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great Western ......... ... 80 ......188 186 ll%
Ditto % Shares 5O —
103
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21..... 6y 6
Harwich
2%
Hull and Gainsborough 1% 1 A ............... fr
50 - 97'/ 97
9052

3%
62%

Hull and Selby ............ _ "A
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle ls
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...235 234
Do. 4 Shares ......... 2
.•. ••
London and Blackwall. 16/.135. 4d. 841 ..
London and Brighton... 50 ...... 62% 63
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. ...
..
......
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... 103/
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 81,3/
Do. New consolidated Bths 6
Do. New
Do. New
London and Y0rk...... •.• 2' . 3

1/

147
59

Lynn and Ely -
6112 2 .
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby 100 115
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Do.. New Brandling... 10
Neweaaile and Berwick 11
Newry and Enniskillen. 2
Newark and SLeffield ... 1 A...... 6 534 6
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l% ..... 4
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 414
South Devon lO ...... 211/2
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 411% 41:4
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales ..... ...... ... 21
West Cornwall
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and North Midland 50 lOl 100 102 lO2
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Do. Extension

11
.... 21/2
5%
3%
12
17%

31%
15

18%
5
66

34
17

44p7 4
4

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette ..... • ... ... 2
Dieppe and Paris Junc. 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
•...
Louvain and Jemapp ... 2 ... • 3%14 •••
Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
'lam's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 ••• ......... •••
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 2
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's

234
21,E
48
42
23/
j 4
81
3%
p/2

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster. 20 ......
Union of Australia
Do. New

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21/2

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPAIORS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—The Sugar Duties' Bill was ushered to its third
reading in the House of Lords last night, with a repetition
of much of the transparent sophistry- with which it had been
supported in its previous stages. Lord Dalhousie modestly
in-
troduced the subject with a repetition of the chief arguments
in its favour—declaring that the measure would cheapen sugar
to the middle and lower classes—that the classification sys-
tem worked well in France, the United States, Sweden
and Java—and that slave-holding Louisiana could not afford
to send her sugar to this country. That the penny
saved on the pound of sugar is to be returned in the
income-
tax—that no classification which can be fairly compared
with ours is, or ever has been, in successful opera-
tion, either in the countries referred to, or any
other—and that sugar the produce of slave-labour
has already entered our market for home con-
sumption—the Noble Lord appears to have forgotten. We
cannot be surprised at this. When it becomes necessary
to make short work of facts and principles, wide views and
long dates are excessively inconvenient. No man who kept
a retentive memory would be fit to preside at the Board of
Trade under Sir Robert Peel. The presence of Lord
Brougham gave an intere,t to the debate, without which we
should probably not have felt tempted to notice it. His
Lordship gallantly volunteered a defence of the Bill; and,
with his usual eccentricity, must needs do so upon ground
untrodden by any one else. The fine distinction already drawn
by the friends of the measure between slave-importing and
merely slave-holding States, is not half fine enough for his
Lordship. There is a vulgar breadth about the sophism
which appears to disgust him. He sees that the work is
but half done, and that clumsily; and with all the skill of a
retired professor, and all the ardour of an amateur, he sets
himself to finish it. Thus, as to North America :—The
slave trade is abolished ; the war-captives of the inte-
rior of Africa are no longer saved from sacrifice or
slavery at home to be sent thither—no longer torn from
their kindred, and dragged through the horrors of the middle
passage, to swell the field-gangs of Louisiana or Carolina.
They are now born and brought up in the land of their
slavery. Yet, beyond doubt, there is something to be said
on the other side of the case. The field labour of the
Southern States still, as of old, kills the slave before
he can produce another to succeed him. Importation
is still necessary. And it is effected through the
agency of the Northern States ; who, employing their
slaves chiefly in domestic offices, take advantage of their
more easy condition to breed slaves for the destructive
labour of the south. Lord Brougham completes the case
previously defective, by broadly stating this fact—pushes
the distinction between Cuba and Brazil- and the Southern
States to the extreme verge of the truth—where, in other
hands, it would disappear altogether—and declares that
though he must set his face against receiving sugar of the
former, yet when called upon to give his sanction to our
consuming that of the latter, it is " a totally different con-
sideration, and gives rise to different feelings, different argu-
ments, and leads to a different conclusion !" No doubt the
young and mature negroes who are annually selected for the
Southern market by the travelling dealers, chained in gangs.
and driven seven or eight hundred miles to the marts where
they are to be sold like cattle to the highest bidder, find the
forced separation from their kindred extremely painful;
they can have no more hope of return than if they were
about to cross the Atlantic; and they undoubtedly go to sup-
ply a demand caused by the gradual extermination of those
who have preceded them. " But he denied that this was as
bad as the slave-trade of Africa. Could any man who ever
heard of the horrors of a slave ship, of the rapine
and murder committed for the purpose of kidnapping
theun
committed slaves, and, above all of the wholesale
murders mitted 'on board the vessels going the
same footing with the intercourse between different
tmhieddi e passage—could any plan put those horrors on