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London, England, 1842-05-16 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS. _ _

Bank Stock -....
168 'lndia Stock ... 249 pm
3 per Cent Red. 9li (Ditto Bonds 2lpre
3 per Cent Cens 924 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red 993 !Ditto New Annuities...
New 311 per Cent
New 6 per Cent. — . Ditto 5001.... 39 pro
Long Annuities to expire ' Ditto • Small 39 pit
Jan. 1860.......... 12i Bank Stock for Acct ... '
Oct. 1859.......... 124 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860.
FOttEIGN FUNDS. •

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pei rent — Ditto, New Ditto 37i
Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. ~„
Buenos Ayres .6 fiercest Russian, 5 per cent....,,
Chilian, ti per cent..... 81 !Ditto, Metallic .
Colombt an, 6 per cent.. 264 Spanish, 5 per cent 23
Ditto, 1824............... 26a Ditto, Deferred.... . 103.
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825,5 per cent — 'Exchange —c.
Mexican, 5 Fer rent.... 374 French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1537 Dutch, 24 per cent. 524
Peruvian, 1825, F, per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ..
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Great Western (72k paid) 20
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 564
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64

Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and lirighton (50 paid) , !Al
London and Blackwall (25 paid) ll4
London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 4d pd) 54
London and South Western (3el 17s 9d pd) 634
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... 821
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Rouen (16 paid) • 17
Satoh fiastent and Dover (50 paid). . 30
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) • 74-

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—By determining to retain the sliding-
scale, Sir Robert Peel in effect maintains the old mo-
nopoly. The great fault of the old Corn-law was, that
it excluded foreign supplies till the average had brought
:'own the duties to the lowest point; and then the fo-
reign corn in the bonded r, arehouses was let in upon the
market at once. Isnder the old law, the corn of foreign
growth was excluded from the market until the price had
risen to 7.)5. or 735. At what lower rate will the new
law admit the foreign article ? " See," said the Tory
journals, " how vast the reduction of duty effected
by the Premier's ameliorated scale of duties—the duty
is absolutely lowered more than one-half! Had the
old law been in operation, the duty on foreign corn
would have been 275.; it is now only 135." We admit
the reduction ; but we assert—and the assertion is esta-
blished beyond contradiction—that the duty of I3s.
it as completely a prohibition, as absolute an exclusion
of the foreign article from the English market, as that
of 275. Of 700,000 quarters in bond, not a single
quarter has been taken out of bond for home consump-
tion. Why ? Manifestly because the importers cannot
afford to pay the duty, and must, therefore, wait
for a higher rate of average, on which a lower duty
will be payable. The Corn-law monopoly is thus
practically maintained by Sir Robert Peel's new
sliding-scale as effectually as it was under the old
law. The alterations are mere sleight-of-handitricks,
rlayed off to delude the vulgar; but are perfectly
:cell through by the initiated. The exclamations of
astonishment and delight at the tricks of the wonder-
working Katterfelto, . are used by parties hired
ter the occasion, for the purpose of more effec-
tually keeping up the delusion, in the profits of
which they are admitted to share. The dissatisfac-
tion expressed by a portion of the Tory party at Sir
-itobert Peel's Corn-law and Tariff, we arc disposed
to regard as equally dishonest. It is employed to
gull the people into a belief that some substantial
good wilt certainly be achieved by their operation;
seeing the monopolists themselves appear alarmed at
the changes to he effected by it ! Lest the apprehen-
s:ons of the farmers that any substantial and
abiding injury should result to their exclusive in-
terests, by the reductions of duty on the importation
of live cattle and meat proposed by the new
Tariff, Sir Robert Peel has employed himself in de-
monstrating the impossibility of their interests being
affected by the new scale of duties, and has thus dis-
pelled the delusion. Indeed, so far has the Premier
carried his generous purpose of relict ing the anxieties
of his friends, and thus proved his sincere devotion to
their prejudices, that he absolutely sacrifices himself
as a statesman fbr their sakes, and stultifies his own
declared design in the grand financial and fiscal pro-
ject which he launched with so much pomp in the
House of Commons, amid the cheers of the Opposition
benches.
STANDARD.—Whatever course others may
take, we will not incur the responsibility of silence
while a chance remains that the New Poor-
law may be either repealed, or modified into
a shape of humanity : this is a responsibility
which we dread more than we dread the
displeasure of any man or set of men. If
we have carefully abstained from aggravating
the cruelties of which this law has been
the occasion, and we think it will be al-
lowed to us that, of the opponents of the
law, we have not been the least circumspect
in this particular—we have done the violence to our
feelings in the hope that the ascendant humanity of
the benevolent and Christian part of the population
would call imperatively for a mitigation of the harsh
code, and that sounder views of " a true political
economy" would reach those beyond the influ-
ence of human and religious feelings, with the
effect of causing them to act in conformity with
the call. Our hopes have been disappointed—
at least their realisation has been postponed.
The Whig-Radical law is to be continued for five
years at the least, if the people will permit ; and it
is now our duty to appeal from statesmen and Par-
liament to the sense of the people, while the people
can still constitutionally interfere. Let every
elector who gave a vote in the hope of a miti-
gation of the Poor-law, and upon the faith
of promises for its mitigation, now call upon his
Representative to redeem the pledge given ex-
pressly, or by implication, at the hustings. The
question is no party question in Parliament, let it
be none out of doors. Let us then have no angry
remonstrance ; but let gentlemen be held firmly
to their engagements, and warned of the cer-
tain consequences of violating those engagements.
The recess, though short, - happily affords an
opportunity, As we have said, the question
is not in Parliament allowed to be a party ques-
tion, but, if not a party question, it cannot pos-
sibly be a Ministerial question. The Minis-
ters, though they may be disobliged, cannot .be
it ured by a successful opposition. On the other
hand, defeat would be a true kindness to them.
Hitherto the harsh and insulting operation of the law
has been ascribed, and justly ascribed, to its authors ;
but from the day in which-it shall be renewed in Sir
James Graham's Bill, the obloquy under which the
Whig-Radicals have sunk will, with equal justice,
attach to the party of the present Ministers.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
CORK (COUNTY).
PATRICK O'SuLLivAN, in continuation from our
afternoon edition—The witness received a com-
munication from a person of the •opposite party
that it would be dangerous for him to return from the
poll on the Tuesday without an escort. He was escorted
home, therefore, by a party of police ; but even so he
thought it unsafe to go home the same road he came,
knowing that he would be waylaid. No voter in the
Conservative interest could be safe, going to or from the
poll, without an escort.
Cross-examined by Mr. AUSTlN—Witness was sub-
agent to Lord Bantry, under the head agent, Mr.
Payne. Was not a driver, but only a collec-
tor of rents. Divers were the persons who
executed warrants of distress, and drove off cattle for
non-payment of rent. Witness brought over eight
voters with himself—nine in all—one, named Sims, a
Protestant, the other eight O'Sullivans, and Catholics.
Witness had no trouble in cavassing them. They were
quite willing to vote. He paid their expenses until he
got into Cork, where he received from one of Leader's
agents the expenses of the voters he brought up. On
the way to Cork, he took on board the boat, at Bantry, five
voters. They were Catholics, except one Rich. O'Sullivan,
who was a Protestant. He had not canvassed those wit-
nesses, but he had sent them word by one of his drivers
that he would call for them in the Bay on his passage
from Beerham to Cork. The boat was about 24 tons
burden. The people threw stones at them when they
were in the broad part of the Bay, but could not reach"
them. When the voters were going ashore to a yawl
from the cutter, there being about eighteen persons
on board, stones were thrown in amongst them,
and a voter named Murphy was struck. They
called witness and his party Tory hacks, as
they were landing. Symes had a double barrelled gun,
by accident, which he was bringing to Cork to be re-
paired. Witness had brought from home a case of
pistols ; but left them with his luggage on board the
cutter. After three or four of his party had been knocked
down, he took the gun, and held it before him in such a
position, that another move would bring it to the shoulder.
They then got to the hotel, which were close at hand.
Afterwards witness got his pistols, and it was going up
the hill at Upton, thathe thought it was necessary to
take them out. Did not usually carry pistols about with him
There was no one with him but Timothy O'Sullivan.
They would have been pelted by the mob, who obstructed
the road, but that he produced the pistols, and told the
mob that that he would take the lives of two of them at
least if they threw a stone. They did not throw after
that. All the voters who went to Cork with witness,
except Timothy O'Sullivan, voted for the Conservativs.
O'Sullivan would have voted but that, having left Ihe
polling-booth with the intention of returning, he was un-
able to make his way back for the mob in time to vote.
These voters were still in the same tenancies; but it
would be very hard to get th tu to the poll again, if there Were too bgeo thpe same "goings on."—(A laugh.) There were a great
many soldiers and police with fixed bayonets about the
city, , In fact the streets were quite lined with them.

Had seen soldiers before at the Cork election in 1833,
when Mr. Fergus O'Connor was a candidate. He could
not swear that there were soldiers in 1837. There were
either soldiers or mounted- police. Would swear that
there were not more military in 1837 than at any elec-
tion before Or since. Had no doubt that there were
military and police at the election in 1835, and at every
contested election since 1817. Mr. Longfield, the Con-
servative, was once returned for the county, though
there was a majority of 600 against .him.—(Great
laughter.) He got in on O'Conner's disqualification.
There had, with that exception always been Liberals
returned for Cork County since 1830 ; and there always
would be if things went on as they did last time.
Re-examined—Two voters left his party at Upton.
They were intimidated by the mob that came from Cork.
Two others were cut off at Bandon. Going up the hill,
he took out his pistols, though apprehension of injury to
himself and party. The stones which were thrown must
have been pretty large for they knocked down all the
persons that were struck. His own hat was cut through
and his skull so severely wounded, that he was in
danger for months. The Bantry voters had always gone
up cheerfully to vote for that party, and would go up
again, but for fear of their lives. Ilad no

doubt that the seven who were "cut off" on the way
to Cork, were afraid of their lives, and were only pre-
vented by that fear from going to the poll.
To the Committee—Witness was escorted to the poll
with his voters by a large body of their (the Conserva-
tives') own people, They were collected for the pur-
pose, and some of them had sticks. -
Mr. A. Warren Payne examined—Was a Magistrate
of the county of Cork. Resided in the 'Bantry, about
fifty yards from the hotel where O'Sullivan and his party
put up on their way to Cork. There was a great crowd
assembled in front of the hotel, making a great noise,
and threatening the party. Witness, considering
the latter in danger, went into his own house,
and loaded a brace of pistols, with the
intention of going to O'Sullivan's assistance. The mob
attacked his house in the meantime, broke the windows,
and endeavoured to force the doors. Witness produced
a double-barrelled gun, and soon after the crowd dis-
persed ; but the town remained in great disturbance,
and shots were fired in several places. Witness found
several of O'Sullivan's party severely wounded, and a
surgeon attended them. Witness went with them to
Cork, as had been arranged before. The whole yarty
was very much alarmed. At Dunmanway, which is the
country of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, the party met with
no molestation. That was owing to the interference of
Mr. O'Regan, the Catholic priest. When the party
were going up the hill, near -Upton, an immense
number of large stones were thrown at them,
and an old man, named Denis Sullivan, was knocked off
the car in which he was with witness, and lay in the
road insensible, so that witness thought he was dead.
The horse ran against the side of the noad, broke the
shafts, and ran away with the car. Witness was thrown
out, and the mob made a rush at him ; but on his pre-
senting a pistol they drew back, and he made a run for it.
In a quarter of a mile he reached his father's seat at
Upton. •

Tire examination of the witness was proceeded with,
but nothing appeared from his evidence more than was
stated by the last witness.

On his cross-examine 'on, by Mr. Austen, Mr. Payne
said he was asked to canvass the voters of Lord Bantry
by the Conservative Club. He did so as agent ; re-
ceived no instructions from Lord Bantry. lie could
have noted on Wednesday, but the contest was then over.
Re• examined by Mr. Serjcant WRANGHAM—If the
state of the town on Wednesday was such as it was on
Tuesday, he thinks he could not have voted, but at the
risk of his life.

It being now Four o'clock, the Committee adjourned
to Eleven o'clock to-morrow.

THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURG H.—The Queen,
with her usual sympathy and feeling for the sufferings
of the distressed, has ordered 2001. to be transmitted by
Messrs. Coutts and Co. in aid of the fund for the relief
of the Hamburghers deprived of their homes and all
they possessed by the recent calamitous fire. Prince
Albert has sent 100 L for the same benevolent object.
The number thus deprived of shelter is estimated at
30,000. 10,0001. was sent over in dollars and money by
the steamer, subscribed by some of the public com-
panies, merchants, bankers, and others in the course of
three days after the news of the catastrophe was know n
in London.

GREENWICH AND WANDSWORTII FAIRS. - This
morning, Whit-Monday, from the remarkably fine state
of the weather, the steam-boats front Hungerford Market
and London-bridge were crowded at au early hour by
holiday folks of both sexes, proceeding to Greenwich
and Wandsworth: fairs. The carriage trains on the
Greenwich Railway were crowded with passengers, and
extra trains have been put on to convey the company to
Greenwich.

T. QUEEN'S MASQUE.--It is a gratifying cir-
cumstance, that notwithstanding the unprecedentedly
magnificent display of diamonds and jewellery which
took place at the late splendid entertainment of her Ma-
jesty, very few losses were sustained, and those were
generally of articles of trifling value. The only loss of
any moment was that sustained by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, from the girdle of whose gorgeous dress
is supposed to heve dropped a valuable brilliant of the
first magnitude.