The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TIitTRSDAY IVIOIINtsTG, SiEPTEMBER 15, 1842

Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1032 50 .A 035 ...1032 50...1032 50
5,000 L-5050 —5030 _5050 ...5050
Belgian Bank 7BO ... 780 ... 780 ... 780
Belgian Fives 1044 ... 104* ... 1044 ... 1044
1840 losi ... 105* 105 ... 105 k
Spanish Active 22i ... 22g. ... 22 ... 2211 i
Passive
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitan .. lO7 10... 107 10... 107 10... 107 10
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES
Versailles, L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 95
R. 13 255 ... 255 ... 242 50... 247 51
Rouen
Orleans. 582 50... 582 50... 582 50... 582 50
Strasburg to Bale 203 206 25... 205 ... 205

. LOCUSTS IN GREECE —DITTO IN ENGLAND.—
We learn by the last accounts from Athens, that such
vast clouds of locusts have appeared in the provinces
of Greece, that King Otho has -issued a Proclamation
on the subject, wherein he exhorts all " good citi-
zens" to endeavour, each to the best of his ability,
to extirpate these destructive insects. Locusts are not
• confined exclusively to Greece, for, thanks to Sir R.
Peel's Income-tax, they swarm abundantly in
England, where, under the unsightly form of tax-
gatherers, they are occasioning a world of tribulation
Andnnxiety. Such ravages as these pestilent vermin
threaten to commit on the exchequers of all respect-
' able individuAs ! By the fifth of next month there
:will.not be a decent breeches-pocket left uninjured by
their depredations. The seven plagues of Egypt com-
bined Were scarcely a greater public nuisance than
this one plague of locust tax-gatherers, which, we
are warned, is.to last for three years, in order that
we may have ample opportunity of appreciating the
severity of the visitation.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEnNESDAY.--Their • Roya• Highnesses
the Prince of -Wales . and the -Princess 'Royal were
taken out to-day for a. drive in an open-tarziage.
After an excursion into the Great Par;;, the Royal
Infants were.taken.to Vrogniore Lodge, the residence
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of-Kent. • .•
In the forenoon the Princess 'Royal --iode out On-
her Shetland pony. The Prince of Wales and the.
Princess Royal, acco:npanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, were taken their accustomed airings yes-
terday, both morning and afternoon.

Her Royal' Highness the Princess A ugnsta of Cam-
bridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron
Knesebeck, arrived in town yesterday morning from
Kew. Her Royal Highness visited and inspected• St.
Paul's Cathedral, and also
.Westminster Abbe-. The also paid a visit to. the Pantheon. •
Her Royal Highness. attended by Baroness Ahle-
feldt, returned to Kew in the. afternoon. •
The Dowager Lady Holland has returned to town
from Brocket Hall, Hants.

_.__._
MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The prices of the Funds left off this afternoon
a shade lower than those in the morning, but still
without a positive decline, Consols being 92i 921 for
Money,. and 92+ 93 for the Account; India Stock, 249
251 ; Lxchequer Bills, Old 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem.
Foreign Securities remained as yesterday ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half, 521 521 ;_the Five per Cents., 102 i•
zl
it :
6173ei1g6i Belgian, 10,r2h1e0q3u;
otpatairloirsish,ofB3MBe4xicaanndßßonrda;
e:nreslooStxth‘t,aehir• are
vilLelosa
tnreldireontn, caaN ialil
ids
Bxv
ieorrinr);
ihnflegraintl,aaman nd dEwere Gatasrteelrtno IllArBree2rs
e-;
Were 351 35,4.
rteattlirn
Birmingham and Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western,
81 82 ; the Half Shares, 58:1 591 per Share; South
Western, 57k 58* ; North . Midland -56 58 ; the
New Shares, 27. 28; South Eastern and Dover, 22
22+ ; Eastern Counties, 81 8a ;
Northern and East-
ern, 36: 37i. ; Blackwall, 7 7:4.; and Brighton, 33+
331 per share.
The quotations upon the Bonds were—Colom-
bian, 20+ 21 ; Peruvian, 15 16; Portuguese Five
per Cents., 354 351 ; the Three per Cents.,the 201 211
per Cents., 21+
Spanish' Five per Cents., 16k 16+; and
20+ 21.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Funds have been extremely dull again to-day,
and prices rather lower, Consols having been sold at
94, but they have. since improved to 924928 for Mo-
ney, and 93 for the Account ; New Three-and-a-
Halfper Cents., 100+ 101* • Bank Stock, 168 ;Indian
Bonds, 36 37 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 49 51 ; New,
51 53 prem. .
In Foreign Securities, Brazilian Bonds have been
sold at 681, and Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cts. at 52k.
Cuba Six per Cent. Bonds have risen to 80, in con •
sequence •of continual purchases on account of the
sinking fund. The sixteenth dividend is now in
course of payment by Messrs. Harman and Co., the
agents of the Company, to which the Government at
the Havannah has lately sold the railway for
3,500,000 &Ears. The loan, originally for 600,0001.,
was contracted by the Commercial Junta of Cuba, for
the purpose of constructing the railway into the inte-
rior, and the whole revenue was pledged as security;
profits considerably
sanguine expectations ; the
the railway, however,
net
sink-
ing has succeeded beyond the most
exceeding the sum required for the interest and
rietors of the island, is
composed of the richest prop _
highly advantageous to the Bondholder;, who thereby
fund. The late sale of the railway, to. a Company.
original contract, The Junta stipulate
they shall show that the Corn-
pany
- t
obtain further security for the due performance of the
shall extend the railway ,
to the Junta that they have remitted approved bills
fund, at least
for the payment of interest and sinking
three months before the dividends fall due; that they
annually remit 30,0001. for redemptinn)ofbonds, either
by purchase, or if not to be prc'e"e'drhi 'ev
whole
such bonds to be paid off at par-the
of the 860.
In the event of any default on the
part
of Com-
pany, the Junta retain the right of repossession. . the
bonds, now about 510,0001., to be redeemed by 1
being still held
railway—the revenue of the island
performance of all en-
responsible to the. Bondholders. f The Company. to
give, good security for the due per
security of
the. Company, the railroad, and the whole revenues of 1
gageinents of the Junta in respect to the loan. It
thus appears that the Bondholders have the
the island of Cuba, guaranteed for the due payment
of their principal and interest.
The quotations for Mexican have declined, in con-
sequence of several parties having app
eared as sellers
and it is now marked 351 for A and for the loney,
Account. '
With the exception of London
have been sold at
which maintained their price, and
and Birmingham,
with but, little
1821-, Railway Shares, are ower,
33 33k, the
801 81+, the New Shares, 59 ; Brighton, 33
24:
Loan Notes., 10X; South- Eastern and 1)
1 and Glasgow,
business ; South Western, 571 58 ; Great Western,
Midland Counties, 613-;----find Edinburgh
47-.1- 471.
The now avowedly bankrupt condition
of
~ the
Spanish Government, and the impossibility of any
Minister grappling successfully with the finances in
their present statr', appear to have paralysed all spe-
culation in the various bonds ; a single bargain In
Spanish Five per Cents. at 161, and in Portuguese at
3514-, being all the transactions of the day.
The most' important feature which the produce
market now . presents is the periodical sale of wool,
which commenced yesterday evening. These sales are
always looked for with some anxiet b arties who
may not be immediately connected with the trade, as
being indicative of the state of business in the
country, as well as of importance to all who may be
interested in our Australian Colonies, to which the
result is of so much consequence. The quantity at
present brought forward has been rather larger,
and contains a greater portion from New South
p
Wales, than usual, and as far as progress has
yet been made, it has not been very satisfactory. It
appears as if an urgent necessity existed to dispose of
the various parcels at once, without any support being
given to prices by the importers, and the buyers, though
numerous, apparently taking advantage of this feeling,
are refraining from p urchasi ng,in the expectation ofrates
being still lower. So far the
Prospect is unfavourable
for the grower, but it has been ascertained that this
apathy on the part of the consumers does not
in reality arise from an indisposition to buy, but
merely from the hope of buying more cheaply.
F 4 that part which has been sold, a fall of from one
penny to three, and in some few instances four pence per
lb. has been submitted to, but the prices which have
which the colonists have to contend, is the rate of inter-
estbeen obtained are still remunerating.
upon advances, and the system of compound interest.
The necessity, however, of raising money upon such
may be
'nay yet be made in
Thegreat evil with
terms as 10 and 12 per cent. per annum is fortunately
be presumed that a de-
benefit of the
iAl2bl3aunrgchester, 2+ ; Union
telahleiecnoepmroiicfnefgrooefinxttoilnlsocntt,ioaal2nwod
peroito
lms,
taco
the
ANNolai7th ASlEidPlTand,s7 ;
manu-
facturer, without injuring the grower..
13.
We have had better business d ;
-o'ng to-day. Man-
Data Old Anti,'.ti..... '''''•
MANCHESTER STOCK EXIC;I:
and
Glasgow,
Quar_
Ditto New A nnUities—
tleßetarers]
its: asronfda3:l,lll
ao6nu;cehn Birmingham,e lta9enirk:
BoEd.
CLOSING PRICF,s .
BRITISH FUNDs,
Bank Stock
.. ............ • pm
3 per Cent. Red.
33:
perer Cent.c eiit
.Citrie
isi..: .. . 92
'Srnall. ..... 51 pm
New viper Cent... ... lOO Ei. Bills, I,oooi.
..„ ;•• 51
pm
New 5 ver Cen' — Ditto aro. ••
••••: 51 inn
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto
Jan.
1860 ... ...... Bank Stock for Open.g.l6B
Oct. 85 India Stock for Acct.•
.....
Jan. 1860 l2 7-16'Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS. _
kustrian, 5 per cent.... IP?rtug3ege,...?. Per cent.
elgian, 5 per cent !Ditto, New Ditto
..
Brazilian Bonds..
13uenosAyres6 per cent — Russian, 5 Pei cent...... _
a per cent, /.
.....„.
Chitin, 6 per cent
S per cent,
"•• Colombian, 6 per cent — i Spanish, • ....• 16i
Ditto, 1824 — ;Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — 'French, 5 per cent. ___f.
GI eek, 1825, 5 per cent — I Exchange ........... .._„f
_c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 351 French,
5 per cent.
...
Di tto, 6 per cent. 1837 —6Bi ,' Ditto,D ut Prussian,c ,12 tis4plile)iercree.l:. ......... . 5:2i
102 i
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. I Ditto,
• SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... .... 48
Great Western ltailway (65 paid).........,, 80i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) "• 69
London and Brighton (50 paid) • ' 33A
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid)
London and Blackwall.(— paid) ••.. 7f.
London arid Birmingham (90) ..... • ••••• •. 182 i
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 54
Midland Counties Railway ( 60i
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).
........ 29,1
100 paid) ..... . '

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so de-
's Adelaide Kern_
village damsel. - Her
and in her tasteful
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.---311S.
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gb not b
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part
or restored, but
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v e d
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metropolitanl'ooleto
board,long : d
, made, on
this occasion, her first appearance here for the last seven
to
years, in the part of Lisa. She was received on her entry
costume
lan
ewlaor(lewdealcotuelreyfro charmingall sid es,
the opera, proved her to be an e ffso:icet ilvvea
satymeirlyiariya
singing in the air at opening-, and in the last scene of
vocal force of this house. Her voice is full-toned and
highly agreeable, and it appears to have been cultivated
with good taste and assiduity.
applauded.
We are proud to be able to"-record the followi3g
anecdote connected with her Majesty's reception. We
give it not on rumour, but on most respectable authority,
such as we can in every respect rely upon. On her
Majesty's returning from the visit to Edinburgh Castle,
a Noble Lord in attendance, whom we could name, in-
quired how her Majesty was pleased ? The gracious
reply was, “ I am delightpd with the:• country and the
people. I did not think there was such a spot in my do-
minions ; and I shall not fail to pay Scotland a visit again
in a different style."—Stirling Journal.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NE WS-
PAPERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
am much pleased with the intention—so
far as the writer, perhaps, knew his own intention
—in the composition of the leading article of The
E °ening Sun of the 3d of September, as of many of
your leading articles. It has much of the shrewd
remark and good .design of most of the offhand
writings of your Papel:, with some portion of un-
steady reasoning and needless difficulties. It wishes
present legislators so instructed as most safely and
easily to guide society to the haven which it must
reach, at the very moment it has said that all former
legislators were nemr so instructed to guide society
to what it is at already—but that it has grown up in
the course of nature, and will most probably in fu-
ture as heretofore. " What is required, therefore,"
it goes on to say, "is to try to make the present
legislation as accordant as possible with the future
state of society." This is a jumble. We must first
know what that future state will be—which is plainly
impossible. It then modestly intimates the unfitness
of English journalists for such a task, and cannot be-
lieve party statesmen equal to it. It concedes the
task to philosophers—the great masters of thought—
though it knows of none such, either at home or
elsewhere. The present state of society is plain
enough ; the causes and cure are required, which it
considers as covered with obscurity and difficulty.
Now I think that both causes and cure have been in
your own Paper pointed out very lucidly again and
again. The causes of the prosperity of the country
have been repeatedly stated in your own Paper, and
with perfect truth, to have been owing, under God,
to the superior skill and industry of the inhabitants
thereof, signally favoured by, wonderful local advan-
tages, and by a larger degree of liberty than has been
known elsewhere throughout the old civilised world ;
while the great causes of its all but overbalancing
adversity have been' old institutions unrepaired, and
unfitted to modern
,necessities, and, above all, class
legislation. Thus, Sir, you have been more of a
philosopher and master of deep thought than you re-
collected yourself to be—as .1 once knew a good
man, of first-rate genius and capacious memory, ac-
tually forget one of many sermons • which he had
written and published, and which had secured the
notice of all the pious reading population of Europe!
But, although you had forgotten, your present reader
had not ; and probably many of your readers bene-
ficially remember what you have written on such
all-important subjects. Let class legislation be de-
stroyed. Let every Englishmen be made free of the
State, and have his voice or vote in the arrangements
of his country. Justice demands this. Equity calls
loudly for it. It is not for us to know the hereafter;
but we all know what we ought to do at present.
We ought to do justly. The man who desires to be
a class legislator, desires to be, and will most surely
be, an unjust legislatOr. Such a man may be pitied
and borne with, but not so his wish. His wish
should be scouted and denied. Equity and justice
are the bright leading stars to future prosperity and
happiness. All other light is an ignis fatuus. Never
be weary of recurring to your own lights, Mr.
Editor ; they will prove sure guides to you and bles-
sings, through you and such as you, to your country—
more powerful in its defence than cannon and the
sword, and more stimulating, protective, and purify-
ing than they of all that is worthy in its institutions,
sciences, arts, and almost super-human inventions.
How you can get by the People's Charter, or the
Complete Suffrage scheme, I know not. What else
have you to propose? How else can you put aside
class legislation? In none other way. You clever
men are more for profound philosophers, and are
more afraid of the brute multitude, than you need be.
There are more philosophers and philosophy in the
brute multitude than you are all of you, perhaps,
aware of. Encourage them and it by conceding to
all equal rights. Justice, justice, justice to all, with-
out respect of persons. Set no limit to justice.
Your admirer and obliged,
September 7.

H. P.

THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF
THOMAS MUIR FOR SEDITION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l haVe read with much interest the extracts
of "A. M. from the trial of Thomas Muir, as lately
published in the Scotsman, who was transported to
Botany Bay for agitating a Reform of the 13ritish.
Parliament ; and although these extracts are taken
from Creeclie':3 edition of the trial, the publisher for
the party then in power, they cannot, I am sure, be
read without exciting the strongest feelings of indig-
nation at the gross perversion of law and justice they
exhibit.
It seems strange that there should be individuals of
the present day still ready to advocate the Tory prin-
ciples then inculcated, and that it should be urged
against the memory of men who were sacrificed for
advocating a cause now admitted to have been a just
and necessary one, that they suffered under the law
as it then existed. Tyranny exercised under the.
and colour- of law, is the greatest of all
tyrannies, and under this species of persecution, many
religious and political martyrs, whose blood stained
our native land, were sacrificed.
That Mr. Muir and his fellow-sufferers, to whose
memory the proposed testimony is to be offered, were
men of high talent, and of the purest character in
private life, are facts well established ; but, as it
seems unknown, or at least notacknowledged by those
who oppose a site b ing granted for the purpose
wanted, I will (like .A. Al.) furnish you with a few
extracts from Parliamentary proceedings in my pos-
session, and collected at the time, that may tend to
put tha facts beyond dispute.
In the House of Commons, on 27th January, 1794,
the question as to the legality of the sentences against
Muir and others; were transiently alluded to by the
late Lord Commissioner of. the Jury Court, then Mr.
Adam, upon giving notice of his intention of intro-
' ducing a Bill to assimilate the criminal law of Eng•
land and Scotland upon certain. points; and Mr. Fox
and Mr. Dundas took a part in the discussion, wherein
allusion was made by Mr. Fox to the general opinion
of these sentences being illegal, when Mr. M.Angelo
Taylor begged leave to inform the House—" That he
was in Edinburgh the day after the sentence of trans-
portation was pronounced against Mr. Muir ; that he
-conversed with several gentlemen versed in the laws
of that country, who informed him the sentence was
in every respect illegal, the authority of one of them
(the Hon. Henry Erskine) he would depend upon as
soon as that of any gentleman on the other side of the
House, who had declared in such strong terms the
sentence to be legal; and of his opinion, Mr. Taylor
declared himself to be."—(See Caledonian Mercury
of Ist Feb. 1794.)
In the House of Lords, Earl Stanhope moved, upon
31st January, 1794, an humble address to his Ma-
jesty to stay proceedings against Mr. Muir, who had
been condemned to exile, till the particulars were in-
quired into ; and in the course of his speech he cha-
racterised the proceedings of the Court against Mr.
Muir "to be of the most extraordinary, and, in his
mind, of the most unjustifiable nature that ever came
before a court of justice."
The Earl of Lauderdale warmly expressed a similar
opinion, and was "not surprised that the nation should
look with disgust at the oppressive and illegal pro-
ceedings of the High Court of Justiciary with regard
to these unfortunate sufferers."—(See Caledonian
Mercury of 6th Feb. 1794.)
The late Mr. Sheridan presented a petition to the
House of Commons on 24th Feb. 1794. on the part
of the Rev. Fysche Palnier, complaining of an illegal
judgment of the Court of Justiciary of Scotland, and
during the discussion that' followed, Mr. Fox gave it
"as his most decided opinion that the sentences of
Messrs. Muir and Palmer were illegal and abhorrent
to every principle of justice that actuates the mind of
• man."
"The sentence," said Mr. Sheridan -(of Muir and
Palmer), "I affirm in every respect to have been the
most hostile to the principles of the Constitution, and
in its nature the • niost unjust, illegal, and oppressive
—it is such a sentence that if it had taken place in
England, I should not have been surprised that the
country had risen up in arms to oppose it ; and as
little should I have been surprised if the attempt to
introduce the law on which this sentence is founded
into the country, should have cost the head of that
Minister who should have dared so grossly to insult
the • principles of the British Constitution."—(See
Mercury of Ist March, 1794.)
During a renewed debate in the House of Com-
..mons, upon 10th March 1794, Mr. Fox said, that "in
examining the trials he could never believe they were
accurately stated until he heard the Lord Advocate
avow the same doctrines which had been attributedt6
him—doctrines, which made his blood run chill with
horror; they must infuse sensations into the breast of
any man who retained his love for liberty or the bles-
sings of social life."
Mr. Grey (now Earl Grey) said, the sentences in
question would have been a disgrace to the tribunals
of this country in the worst periods of our history;
and he could not conceive how the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman could possibly reconcile to his own mind the
idea of executing these sentences, since these unfortu-
nate gentlemen had stolen every word of their sedi-
tion from what had formerly been stated by the Right
Hon. Gentleman himself (Mr. Pitt) at the Thatched-
house, when he was an advocate for a Parliamentary
ei7orin. lie said he was not sure that those unfortu-
nate gentleman had not got into their present distress
in consequence of what he had brought forward on
the subject of a Parliamentary reform. They had
done no more than every Member of Parliament had
done who was a friend to that Reform."—(See Mercury
of 17th March, 1794.)
The following letter from the late Lord Holland
to Mr. Hume, M.P., shows the opinion which he
entertained of the treatment of these early Parlia-
mentary Reformers
South-street, March 7th, 1837.
"DEAR send you my subscription to the
Monumnlts intended to be erected to the memory of