The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-29 00:00:00

bring to trial, and punish a whole county, for
what the inhabitants believe to be no offence
whatever. The late rising was not a turn-out of
hundreds or thousands, but of tens of thousands,
for the legal object of obtaining a " fair day's
wage for a fair day's work." That some wicked
people tried to mislead them for party purposes,
and to involve them in illegal conflicts with the
constitutional authorities, we at once admit; but
these incendiaries have contrived to elude the
arm of the law, and only their dupes have been
seized. If the Government desire to put down
Chartism, it will prepare to treat the errors
of the working people with lenity. Instead
of laying snares for them by means of Spe-
cial Commissions, it will throw open to them
a door by which they may return, without fur-
ther apprehension, to their customary employ-
ments. The operatives are not so ignorant as ti
justify any attempt to coerce them through the
influence of terror; and therefore there is no fear
that they will either misapprehend or abuse a
policy of moderation and compromise. They feel
no impatience of the laws for the maintenance of
social order, as is sufficiently evident from the
few outrages committed during a long season of
unprecedented distress and misery. The wisest
and safest course for the Government to pursue
is to discourage the rage for prosecutions now
springing up among the Tory officials in the
lately disturbed districts. Ministers have an ex-
cellent opportunity now of inspiring popular con-
fidence in the sincerity of their oft-repeatsd
sympathy for the unexampled distress, and
consequent despair, of the operatives of England
and Scotland.

A pressure of other matter at the close of the Par-
liamentary session, followed immediately after by the
unhappy necessity imposed upon us of reporting fully
every particular connected with the state of the
manufacturing districts, has hitherto prevented us
from giving the sequel of the fourteen hours' debate,
which took place at the India House, upon this case,
on the 29th of July last. We now resume this duty.
In our columns of this day will be found the able,
argumentative, and dispassionate speech delivered on
that occasion by Mr. CHARLES NORRIS. This gen-
tleman filled for several years the high office of Chief
Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Upon his
resignation and return to England the Court of
Directors spontaneously offered to nominate him a
member of the Law Commission of India. This lu-
crative and responsible post he declined, satisfied
to render, as an East India Proprietor, what
benefits he could to that country, where an unin-
terrupted service of between twenty and thirty
years earned for him, among all classes of
men, European and Native, the high and un-
blemished reputation he bears for wisdom, talent, and
integrity. It is this gentleman who rose to speak at
ten at night in the Court of Proprietors, and who, in
speaking his deliberate conviction of the innocence of
the Raja of SATTARA, to him an alien and a stranger,
was compelled by the evidence of the facts he pro-
duced, all taken from the official proceedings in the
case, to arraign the conduct, to refute the opinions,
and to condemn the judgment of a most valued friend,
Mr. WlLLouunny, the writer of the Sattara Report,
one of the most prominent and persevering among
the accusers and judges of the RAJA.
One or two explanations are necessary to make
some of the facts adverted to by Mr. NORRIS in-
telligible to English readers. It is an obser-
vance of good manners, universal throughout In-
dia, for a visitor to ask the leave of his host
to depart. At the Court of Native Princes, the time
for soliciting this leave is intimated by a special
Officer of State, like the Lord Chamberlain, coming
round, followed by servants, bearing trays, and pre-
senting to each visitor, according to his rank and
station, one or more bundles of pawn, that is, of betel
leaf, rolled up in a neat and peculiar way, with spices
and aromatics inside. On receiving this compliment,
paid to all, the visitor rises and withdraws. Every
Court has its own mode and shape of preparing those
bundles. Their preparation is a particular depart-
ment of the household, and forms the daily occupation
of one or two hundred persons. A practice analo-
gous to it may be imagined, if it were the custom for
every daily visitor to the QUEEN, and at other Euro-
pean Courts, to receive at each a delicate and different
nosegay of flowers, made of roses, or jasmine, or car-
nations. If such a custom were universal, there
would be no more doubt as to the particular nosegay
in use at each Court, than about the peculiar uniform
of its courtiers. Two native officers sent, in
concert with their European officers, to hold
a secret interview with the Raja of SATTARA,
in his palace, and to bring back proof of that inter-
view, produce as proof bundles of pawn, which they
declared they received from the RAJA'S own hands.
The very sight of the bundles disproves that they
could have been so received. What is the plain and
palpable inference from this fact ? What would be
the inference, if two French sergeants in our service
were to say, that they had secretly seen the QUEEN
in her palace, that she had given them Royal nose-
gays with her own hand, which nosegays on pro-
duction proved to be totally unlike those made up
and given, time immemorial, at the palace ? Would
any man believe the statement ? But when it is fur-
ther established in evidence, that both the Native
officers first of all deposed diametrically opposite as
to the place where their interview with the RAJA
took place—one saying positively that he was led up a
staircase, consequently that the interview was in an
upper apartment of the palace; while the other declared
as positively, that, it was in the lower part, and that he
was not taken up, stairs, but then, five days after,
came forward and said he was taken up stairs—how
is it possible to repose the smallest confidence in such
glaring contradictions ? How oan the previous cha-
racter of these men increase our credibility in the
facts they depose to ? It is by the facts given in evi-
dence that the RAJA's guilt or innocence is, we pre-
sume, to be determined; not by their characters, or
by the characters of Messrs. WILLOUGIIIIY and OVANS,
or of the Governor in Council of Bombay, or even by
the character of the Court of Directors. Were that,
indeed, the appeal, were an appeal to the character of
the Directors, as exhibited by their scandalous treat-
ment of the RAJA down to the last fourteen hours' de-
bate, to be decisive of the innocence of that Prince,
there is not a just and honest man beyond the pre-
cincts of the India House who, we are satisfied, is not
ready to give his conscientious verdict in the RAJA'S
favour.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.
The advance in the prices of the Funds having been so
rapid, though not without sufficient cause, has induced
some parties to endeavour to close their accounts while
a certain profit was to be made, and hence a slight re-
action at the close of business, as compared with the
rates of the day. In looking at the present quotations
of the Funds, and the value of money, much cause for
despondence would seem to exist at the depressed state
of trade, were it not also to be observed that the issues
of the Bank of England, coupled with an increased stock
of the bullion, and the circulation of the kingdom gene-
rally, had been greatly expanded.
Consols left off at 92i for Money and 93 93* for the
Account. Bank Stock 167 169 ; India Stock, '251 252 ;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 premium.
Transactions on Foreign Securities were but small;
the prices of Dutch Two. and-a-Half per Cents., 521 52+;
the Five per Cents., 102, 102+ ; Belgian, 101+ 102 ;
Danish, 83 84; and Brazilian, 65 66.
The quotation for Mexican was 344 341.
The Share Market was dull, owing as much to the day
of the week as to the small number offering :—Lond( n
and Birmingham were 183 185 ; Great Western 64+
85+ ; the Half Shares, 60+ 61; South Western, 62+ 63+;
North Midland, 57 59 ; the New Shares, 28 29 ; Soutn
Eastern and Dover, 21i 22+; Eastern Counties, 84 8+ :
Northern and Eastern, 384 39 ; Blackwall, 8+ 81 ; and
Brighton, 334 334.
The quotations for the Bonds and Colombian, 201 201;
Peruvian, 15+ 16+ ; Portugueie Five per Cents., 334 34;
the Three per Cents.,2o 20+; Spanish Five per Cents.,
204 21 ; the Three per Cents., 19+ 204.

On Saturday night, about half-past eleven, a fire
broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Walker, Bri-
tish wine-merchant, in Seacoal-lane, Old Bailey. The
premises are five stories high, and the flames were first
discovered raging on the third floor, and in an incredibly
short space of time burst through the roof. The engines
were soon on the spot ; the firemen exerted themselves
with characteristic bravery, and it soon became evident
that the flames would give way under their skilful ma-
nagement. The difficulty of access to the back of the
premises increased their labour, but before one o'clock
the flames were quite got under, and all further grounds
of alarm entirely removed. Mr. Walker is stated to be
insured, and the value of his stock is estimated at 12,000/.
The Limerick Chronicle asserts that " instructions
of the most decided character were sent to India by the
last mail, to push on the two divisions, under Nott, from
Candahar, and under Pollock, from Jellalahad, against
Ghuznee and Caubul."