The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-19 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CL
BRITISH

OSING PRICES.)
FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .... ... Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5....
3i per Cent. Red... — Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... loli Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 51 pm
New 5 per Cen. — Ditto 5001...... 51 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... Bank Stock for Openg —
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 . Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 'Ditto New Ditto
I ,
Brazilian 80nd5.......... (Russian,
5 per cent.
BuenosAyres6 per cent. IRusstan, 5 pei cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Meta11ic...........
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... . .
Danish,
3 per cent French, 5 per cent.ll9l. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent..... 341 French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent. 521
Peruvian, 1b25, 6 per ct. I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 1021
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid ....
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 55
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B2i
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid) 6l
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ..... .. 182
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
London and South Western (411 Os 10d pd) 571
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) 22
Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... 22t
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... .... 89

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The eleventh session of' the Central Criminal Court,
during the present Mayoralty, commenced this sporn-
ing at ten o'clock, at the Sessions-house, in the Old
Bailey, before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the
Recorder, Alderman Thomas Wood, Sheriff Rogers,
and the usual civic authorities. The calendar con-
tains the names of 169 prisoners for trial. The Grand
Jury having been sworn.
The RECORDER proceded to address them on the
nature of their duties. During the course of the
charge, the Recorder stated that the number of pri-
soners at present in Newgate amounted to nearly 200,
and that before the termination of the sessions, it was
expected that there would be rather more than that
number of persons for trial—but that number, how-
ever, was less than the number usually committed for
trial at these Sessions. The charges which the Grand
Jury would have to investigate, were, for the most
part, of an ordinary character. There was one charge
of murder alleged to
.have been committed on the
high seas. .4 was charged against a captain of a
vessel that he had been guilty of the heinous crime of
accelerating
,9r occasioning the death of one or more
of his seamen by ill-treatment. There were also
in the calendar several cases of forgery and at-
.Nr4g forged instruments, and also several
1 cases of stealing post-office letters, containing
money, with intent to defraud the Postmaster-General.
These last were cases which affected the interests of
the public in a very eminent degree, involving, as
'they did, the safe delivery' of money sent thrOugh the
Post-office,- and of orders made for the payment of
money. In neither of these charges did he anticipate
that the. Grand Jury would have any legal anticipate
dif-
ficulties to deal with, and from the facts stated in the
depositions, he thought it material that they should
undergo the fullest investigation. Should any difficulty
arise in the course of the discharge of those duties which
had devolved on them, the Court would afford them
every assistance in its power. He did not, however,
anticipate any such difficulties, and would not, there-
fore, detain them longer, but would at once remit
them to the discharge of their duties.
The Grand Jury then retired.
The Court then proceeded to impanel the different
Pettit Juries, and, as usual, several most ludicrous ex-
cuses were made to endeavour to escape from serving.
The number of deaf; however was not so great as on
former occasions. One of the summoned begged
hard to be let off, on the ground that he was very
feeble on his feet, opining, no doubt, that the Court
would consider a man weak in the understanding as
unfit to serve on a Jury. The Court, however, was
inexorable, and there being no Corn-law for Jurors,
the feeble-footed faltered forward into the box.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FRO3I THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—We have endeavoured to show that
the recent and present distress in the manufac-
turing districts is traceable to a cause external to
what isealled the manufacturing system. Indeed,
,those- who most bitterly denounce that system
might be somewhat puzzled to point out whereto
tiley ascribe its maleficent agency. Is it the
giving employment to masses of men whom the
soil cannot employ profitably? Is it ceasing to
~
give them employment ? If so, the giving
emplo.y ine
nt' pro tanto, was a benefit. Is it
encuura,, '
lir,
de -ie d '
an excessive increase of popu-
lationon precarious subsistence.
To prove lent
anieliTtP—ulastteiTpi ~ it ought to be shown, that
want
steeped to
manufacturing employ-
a Populationaily
manufacturing of to the lips in wretched-
ness for
insuch resource, increase
slower than
sustained at a higher
grade by
sinhoitwsnoNt%l,lnatni
manufacturingltUrej capital. It ought to be
and
industry is precarious
(AP
not by three of a legisla-
tion which forbidsexchange of its products fbr
necessaries. Of course, ntyrom industry
connexion must
with be
precarious that is cut
the soil and its produce—that is neither em-
ployed directly in thatraising produce, nor re-
gularly in supplying the
other 1:1-d a
anntsc
eo, of
athose
l
who do raise it in sufficientlabru