The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

cessary to state, that, the Bill was in a great measure
founded on a similar Bill introduced by him during
the preceding session, and that the great merit of
the LORD CHANCELLOR consisted in giving full effect to
the plan. To this credit Lord LYNDHURST is cer-
tainly entitled; and considering the opposition of
those interested in maintaining the present abuses,
including no fewer than seven or eight hundred pro-
vincial Cotnmissioners, it is obvious that nothing but
a firm determination to exert the whole power of the
Government in what he knew to be a right coarse
could have enabled him to succeed as he has done.

A most important appendage to the bankruptcy ex-.
tension is the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, introduced by
Lord BROUGHAM, by which a considerable advance is
made towards the " Cessio Bonoruna" principle, and
by which the abolition of imprisonment for debt may
be said to be substantially accomplished. To thii
proposition the Government willingly gave its sup-
port, and by the combined effect of the two measures
have given to the public a system of proceeding, which
although perhaps still susceptible of some improvei
ment, will unquestionably enable the law to be ad-
ministered with advantage and economy to creditors,
and without cruelty or • injustice to those who may,
from misfortune, be reduced to a state of insolvency.

An Act by Lord LYNDHURST has also been intro-
duced, having for its object the diminution of expense
and delay in the Court of Chancery. If we remember
rightly a similar attempt was made in 1833, which,
however, the then Government was unable to carry
against the powerful opposition it encountered, but
which, in the last session, was speedily overcome by
the willing agency of the LORD CHANCELLOR. The Law
ofEvidence Bill also, though introduced by an Opposi-
tion Peer (Lord DENMAN), received his support.
Willing,
to
however,
.the
conduct of the Government, and to
testimony
the obligations which the country owes them for those
important improvements, we deeply regret they
should have been induced to postpone, even for a sin-
gle session, their County Courts Bill, a measure in
which the great mass of the people are more imme-
diately interested than in any other of their legal
reforms. We do not believe that this postponement
is fairly attributable to party motives, but rather to
the interference which the Bill would cause with the
private and local interests of certain individuals.
We trust, however, that only a very few months will
elapse before this shall be added to the other reforms
so successfully effected, and for which the Government
may rely upon our giving them at all times full credit,
however opposed to their views upon other subj'ects,
or to their general political speculations.

The speech of M. COBDEN, at the meeting of the
Anti-Corn-law League in Manchester, on Thursday
evening last, relative to the disturbances in the manu-
facturing districts, has created quite a ferment among
the Tory Press. Mr. COBDEN'S hard hits at the Go-
vernment have told amazingly. The Tory Press does
not like to be told that the infection has spread to the
middle classes, and that among them the consequences
of mal-legislation are numerous conversions to
Chartism. Such statements, made by practical,
experienced men, are calculates to alarm the
Ministry, whose policy must fall to the ground the
instant the middle and operative classes make com-
mon cause with one another. " With regard to the
proceedings here," said Mr. COBDEN, alluding to the
turn-out, " lamentable and deplorable as they are, I
consider them to be a natural corollary from the pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons. I told you this
question of the Corn-laws was settled in the House of
Commons, so far as argument and discussion went.
The country saw this ; but when the country saw that
truth and justice, though established in the House of
Commons, had no effect upon the measures of that
House, what was the conviction which was naturally
begot in the minds of a people eminently attached to
the 'principles of truth and justice ? DESPAIR ! Ido
not speak of the working classes only ; I speak also
of the middle classes." The Hon. Gentleman then
went on to prove this by the number of electors
who voted for Chartist candidates at Nottingham,
Southampton, and Ipswich. With regard to the
assertions of the Tories, that the Anti-Corn-law
League was at the bottom of the rising in the manu-
facturing districts, and supplied the rioters with
funds, we quote with pleasure the ample and con-
clusive contradiction of Mr. COBDEN :

NoNV;' gentlemen, I would venture to nay, and if nothing
else that fell from me should go forth to the public, I
hope that this at least will do so—l will venture to say,
in
.the name_of the—Council of the Anti-Corn-law League,
that not only did not the.members of that body know or
dream of anything of the kind such as has now taken
place—l mean the turn-out for wages—not only did they
not know, concoct, wish for, or contemplate such things,
but I believe the very last thing which the body of our
subscription would have wished for or desired is the sus-
pension of their business, and the confusion which has*
taken place in this district. And I pledge my honour
as a man, and my reputation as a public man and a pri-
vate citizen, that there is not the shadow of the shade of
ground for the accusation which has been made against us.
It is not necessary for us, who have always de-
fended the proceedings of the League, knowing as we
did, that it had nothing to do with the strike, to publish
at length Mr. COBDEN'S speech. His arguments against
the Corn-laws are familiar to our readers, and the state
of the manufacturing districts are become too pain-
fully familiar to the whole of the inhabitants of the
British empire. It even excites continental attention,
and in several of the French journals we find articles
on the subject which cannot but influence the foreign
relations of this country. The Journal des Debats,
the organ of the French Court and Ministry, thus
commences a long article upon the subject in its num-
berof Friday :
The great manufacturing towns of England, which
for some days have been given up to anarchy, are gra-
dually returning to tranquillity. The masses of insur-
gents having received some lessons, written in blood, dis-
perse, but murmur vengeance. The machines begin to
resume their perpetual revolutions, and the famished
workmen raise towards Heaven their henceforth useless
arms. Revolt no longer shows itself in the public places,
but it still murmurs, and increases in their ulcerated
hearts. The cries of hunger have been stifled, and the
outbreakings caused by misery have been repressed; but
these two hideous spectres still dwell among the labo-
rious portion of the people.

We fear that there is too much truth in this de-
scription of the feelings of the operatives at present.
But the evil is not, as the liebats supposes, without a
remedy, and a sufficient one too. Our people are still
sound at, heart ; and it is in the power of the Govern-
ment, and the two Houses of Parliament, to make
them as contented, as cheerful, and as happyos they
are now discontented, distrustful, and wretched.

There is no news of any political interest in
the Paris journals. The Chamber of Peers are
exceedingly out of humour because the Deputies
and the KING have left Paris, and left them to
pass the Regency Bill without doing them the
compliment to suppose they will propose an amend
ment. It would be difficult indeed to manifest greater
contempt for the Chamber of Peers.
The King left Neuilly for the Chateau d'Eu last even-
ing at seven o'clock. In his Majesty's carriage were the
Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Duchess de Nemours,
Princess Clementine, and the Duke de Montpensier.
The Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Grand
Duchess ofifecklenburg, went in a second carriage with
the Count de Paris, attended by the Marchioness de
gins. The Duke de Chartres was in a third carriage,
attended by Dr. Blacke. The aides-de-camp and orderly
officers of the King, and the ladies of the Queen and
Princesses, followed in several other carriages. The
cortege was escorted by a picket guard of cavalry. The
Prince de Joinville remains at Neuilly, and the Duke
d'Aumale at Courbevoie. The King is expected in Paris
on Tuesday next. The Duke d'Aumale will shortly go
with his regiment to Compiegne, and at a later day join
the Royal Family at Eu.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 27.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 119 80... 119 85... 119 75... 119 85
3 per Cents 78 90... 79 ... 78 90... 79
L0an........., 7B 85... 78 85... 78 85... 78 85
Bank of France 3250 —.3250 ...3250 .. 3250
Laffitte Bank 1,001 1035 ..1035 ...1035 ...1035
Belgian Bank 775 775 775 775
Belgian Fives lO2l ... 102 i ... 102 i ... 102%
1840. 102 i ... 103 ... 102 k ... 103
Spanish Active 211 ... 22 ... 21i ... 22
Passive 4 4 ... 4 ... 4
New Deferred 9 9 ... 9 ... 9
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitan... lO6 50... 106 60. 106 50... 106 60
Roman _ 104% 104 i 104%

RAILWAY SHARES
Versailles, R.B ...... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50... 387 50
L.B 92 50... 92 50... 92 50... 92 50
Rouen
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 201 25... 201 25

- - -
HAMBURGH BURSEN HALLE. Auo. 26.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1652 1648
Anglo.ltussian Loan 1094 11,94
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103i4 1e34
Inscription, Ist series L
Russian 5 per Cent Hops and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 94 976
Ditto in Certificates 971( 976
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 894 894
Dutch Actual Debt. ::14 per Cent. .. . ......
Ditto , 4] per Cent. -
Polish Bonds .. -- _ ., . -
New Tickets ... 168
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent........y ..... 81 80%
Spanish, New 5 per Cept. mi. t01ic....
asim 18 ....

EXCHANGES ON LONDOL.
HAMSURGH, AUG. 9%, TWO months,) t 714.
PETERSBURG, Auo 19.—Three months, 37% pence.
RIGA, At o. 18. -Three Months, 38.
STOCKHOLM, Atm. 19.- Seventy-five days, 13 15.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Ant. 23.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond-, 1630, 4 per cent 1.3% H 2%
Exchange on Lond0n....
Prussian State Gazette, Aug 24.

FERMENT AMONG THE BISHOPS.—We understand
that the serious illness of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury has occasioned an extraordinary ferment among
the Bishops, all of whom are as busy as a certain
notorious Personage is said to be in a high wind.
Exeter has laid aside his intention of paying a
second visit =at the public expense —to the
Scilly Islands, and is preparing, instead, a pam-
phlet, whose object is to prove that the present
Government is the best of all possible Governments,
and Sir R. Peel the best of all possible Premiers;
while London, equally on the alert, has been seen
frequently, within the last few days, flitting uneasily
to and fro between Whitehall-gardens and Downing-
street, and yesterday had not even a spare hour to
himself to count the atheistical wherries that
floated past Fulham on a pleasure voyage to
Richmond. The Episcopal Bench has not been so
active as it is now since the death of the last
Archbishop, or rather since the majority of the
ghostly Prelates combined to throw out the Reform
Bill. The news of the Pope's landing at Dover with
a cargo of faggots would not occasion half such an
excitement among them. We sincerely trust that to-
day's bulletin of the Archbishop's health may be
favourable, for he is really a kindly and tolerant clergy-
man, and his convalescence will tend to calm the
affectionate and disinterested disquietude of his ex-
pectant successors.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
We announce with regret that the accounts re-
ceived from Addington Park are unfavourable. A
bulletin, of which the following is a copy, was exhi-
bited yesterday at Lambeth Palace :
• " His Grace the Archbishop has had some hours of
restless sleep, and is much weaker this morning.
" Addington Park, Monday Morning, 7 o'clock,
Aug. 29, 1842."

'MONEY and COMM.ERCIAL NEWS
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

The market closed firmly, and towards the end of the
afternoon several purchases were made. The last prices
of Consols were 93 93i for Money, and 93/ for the Ac-
count. Bank Stock 167 169 ; India Stock, 251 252 ;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 52 premium.
Prices of Foreign Securities were generally a shade
higher. Belgian, 1011 102 ; Dutch Two. and-a-Half per
Cents., 52/ 521 ; the Five per Cents., 1021 1021 ; Da-
nish, 83 84; and Brazilian, 64 65.

Just previously to the close of business some bargains
were made in Mexican Bonds, and the quotation ad-
vanced from 34f to .35 for money, and for the next ac-

count.

The Share market was dull. with but little doing,
though late in the day some transfers were made. Bir-
mingham and Gloucester were 41 43; Great Western
841 851; the Half Shares, 601 611.' South Western, 621
631; North Midland, 57 59 ; the New Shares, 28 29 ;
Eastern Counties, 84 8i ; Northern and Eastern, 38
39 ex diV. ; Blackwell, 81 84 ; and Brighten, 324 334
per share.
The quotations for the Bonds were—Peruvian, 151161;
Colombian 20+ 204 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 34;
the Three per Cents., 20 201; Spanish Five per Cents.,
201 21 ' • the Three per Cents., 20 201.
['his has been settling day in these documehts, but it
passed off extremely quiet, inasmuch as not five legiti-
mate bargains have been made since the last account.
The rate for money has been unaltered ; no one now at-
tempts to offer these Bonds as a security.
(From The Sun of Last Night.) '
The market is exceedingly good, and prices have
an upward tendency, Consols being 93 buyers for
Money, and 93+ 934 for the Account. Three per
Cents. Reduced, 934 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 101 i 102 • New Three-and-a- Half :per
Cents., 101 101+; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India Bonds,
34; Exchequer Bills New, 49 52 ; 01d,51 53 prem.
Business in Foreign Securities has been but
trifling. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been sold at 524 ; the Five 'per Cents., 1021 ;• and
Danish, 841. The intelligence from Brazil, noticed
below, has had an unfavourable impression on the
Stock, which has been sold at 641.
To show the distaste evinced by the public for
speculating in the Bonds, no transaction has taken
place in Mexican to-day, although accounts have been
received from that country, and a further sum for
the dividends.
The Share market has been almost without busi-
ness. London and Brighton have changed hands at
334; Great Western, 841; Blackwall 8 8+ ; and
Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 31.
The Bonds quoted to-day are Colombian, 271;
Spanish Five per Cents., 21 ; and the Three per
Cents., 20.

The arrivals to-day are numerous, the principal of
which are the Columbia, with accounts four days
later from New York, and the Trent, with intelli-
gence from the llavannah to the Ist inst., and Vera
Cruz to the 12th of July. No new feature had oc-
curred in commercial matter. at New York.

The statements relative to produce in the West
Indies are extremely favourable, while trade continued
to be exceedingly depressed ; and much embarrass-
ment existed in monetary affairs, but which it was ex-
pected had now seen the lowest point.
From Rio Janeiro it is learnt that sanguine expec-
tations were held by the Government that the insur-
rection in the province of St. Paul would shortly be
put down ; private letters, however, are not so much
in favour of this opinion, and the outbreak having
spread into the mining districts, it is feared that the
consequences will be serious. Meanwhile the ship-
ments of coffee were going on at rather higher prices,
and the improved demand for European goods noticed
in the last accounts continued.
Mexican affairs remained much in the same state.
Santa Anna had completely gained the army over to
his interest, and the report that he is aiming at being
appointed Dictator receives a degree of confirmation
by these advices. A further remittance of 29,000
dollars has been received on account of the dividends,
and more is promised by the two succeeding vessels.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 27.—We
end this week without any material improvement.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 491 ex div. ; Ditto, Quar-
ter, 3-1; Union Bank of Manchester, 84 to Bt.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. . 934
3 per Cent. Cons....
3i per Cent. Red 102
New 3i per Cent... ..... lola
N,!w 5 per Cen',
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ......... 12a
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2 7-16
FOREIGS
Austrian, 5 per cent. ...
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds... 64
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent.
Chilian 6 per cent

India Stock
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New A nnuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 51 pm
Ditto 5001— .49 pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct —
India Stock for 0pg....
Consols for Acct.
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto..
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russians pet cent......
Metallic . ...„

Colombian; 6 per cent...

Spanish, syer cent.. 2l

Ditto' 2$ 1824
Danish, 3 per cent B4i
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 35
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct.

Ditto, Deferred— .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2} per cent. 524
I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 102 i
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 42
Bristol :and Exeter (70 paid) ..
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .
Ditto Debentures .. . 101 6s 8d
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 49i
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B5
' Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid)..
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) . . , 32i
London and Blackwall ( paid) 74
London and Birmingham (90) ...... 187
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ......... 311
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 623
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)

TILE TRIAL or Nicnoras SUISSE.—(From a Corre-
spondent.)—After the trial of this individal, which has
created so: much attention, the female witnesses as-
sembled at the New Inn Tavern, opposite the Central
_CriminalCourt, in the Old Bailey, amounting to
upwards of 20 in number, and agreed upon an address
to Mdlle. Borell, who took so conspicuous a part, as
a witness, upon the trial. The witnesses subpoenaed
on behalf of Suisse were, with few exceptions, foreigners,
and the address alluded to, of which the following
is a copy, was written in French :—" New Inn, Old
Bailey, August 27, 1842. Madame,—lt is a pleasing
duty for us. the witnesses and friends of M. Suisse, to
assure you that we shall ever remember the generous,
frank, and admirable manner in which you gave testis
mony to his innocence. More than that,. your position
before the Court was delicate and embarrassing ; ,and,
further, you have had the satisfaction of surmounting
the difficulties ; and we are gratified to say that the
answers which you gave to the questions, sometimes
most indiscreetly put to you, has but increased the
flattering opinion that we entertained of the goodness
of your heart and the elegance of your manners. Deign,
Madame, to accept this renewed expression of our ex-
treme regard, and," &e. Here follow the signatures.
The expense of the defence, it is said, will exceed 6,0001.,
and a large proportion of this sum has been paid in fees
to counsel. Upon the first trial of Suisse, the fee to Mr.
Thesiger is stated to have been 300 guineas. The other
fees to counsel were proportionably large, to which must
be added, consultation fees, refreshers, and additional
fees to attend the second and third trials of the accused.
The necessary expenses in " keeping together " the wit-
nesses for the defence have been considerable, and lastly
may be taken in account the style of the prisoner's living
while in durance.
BENEVOLENCE OF LADY DOVER.—It affords us
unfeigned pleasure to have it in our power to give pub-
licity to an act of benevolence on the part of Lady Dover
which deserves to be written. in letters of gold. Her
Ladyship has most generously- ordered immediate pre-
paration to be made for building two splendid residences,
one for the Catholic and the other for the Protestant
clergymen of the parish.—,Kilkenny Journal.