The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE. GREAT BALLOT MEETING OF THE REFORMERS. A great meeting of the Reformers of the Borough of Marylebone was held yesterday at the Theatre of the Colosseum, Regent's Park, for the purpose of taking a ballot to determine which of the two Liberal Candidates, Sir Charles Napier, or Mr. G. A. Young, should retire from the approaching contest. The arrangements made by the Joint Committee appointed to take the ballot, were such as were apparently well calculated to secure a fair estimate of the sense of the electors; but complaints were made this morning that, through some failure of the Post-office arrangements, many Reform electors had not received their letters or ballot-cards. Before the time appointed for taking the chair upwards of 800 electors were assemhled, and the side-boxes of this spacious theatre were filled with elegantly-dressed ladies. The Chair was taken at two o'clock, by Mr. Protheroe, the Member for Halifax, who was greetedwith enthusiaS tic cheering.. The CHAIRMA.N said that he would not detain the meeting a moment with any reference to himself, further than to thank them for the distinguished honour C 07.1- ferred or( him by electing him to the Chair, and to assure them that he had a perfect sense of the responni bility of the office, and he would discharge the duties With strict impartiality.—(Cheers.) He might now than ik them for the assistance which he had 'received from them in his 'endeavours to obtain the papers of the Vestry Act.—(Cheers.) Their conduct in electing him to the chair reminded him of the practice which pres-rtiled in the small Italian states, of choosing a podesta, or 'go vernor from distant provinces, in order to secure impartiality in the government.---(Hear.) But the electors of Mary-lebene had gone to Halifax for their chairman of this day—(Cheers and laughter)--and he as sared them that they should not be disappointed in I heir expectations of an impartial podesta.=(Laugh ter.) He begged` simply to state that the meeting was assem bled to select a proper candidate to start with Sir Ben jamin Hall. They were to decide which of the two was to be their candidate at the ensuing election. Be fore he sat down he hoped he might be per mitted to state, as an old Member of Parliament for his years, to compliment them upon their conduct on the present occasion, and to contrast it with that of the ( Sec tors of the suburbs of-London, before the passing o 7 the Reform Act. The ofily electors at the time residing in the suburbs of London were the outvoters of the (Effer ent boroughs, who gave their votes for the purpose of exciting mere fun and merriment, and who Were or opinion that the less the principle the better the pay. — (Cheers.) Their conduct, now they were enfranchised, contrasted post favourably with that of the outeoters. They were now to proceed to their choice, and by their conduct that day they were exhibiting to the electors of the kingdom an example of dignity, firmness, and princi ple. They did not wish to put either of their candidates to any useless expense, and they were carrying out their principles without needless display. It was now for them to determine which of the two should be the candi, date chosen to fight the Tory candidates, and; as far as ' his humble efforts want, nothing should be wanted to carry out the object they had in view. Sir CHARLEg NA PIER was then introduced by the Chairman, and was received with loud cheers. When:. the cheering had subsided, the Gallant Commodore spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, your Honourable Chair man has so clearly explained to you the objects of this meeting, that it is quite unnecessary for Ma to say a. word more on the subject ; I shall therefore proceed at once to explain the reason why I come forward as a candidate for the borough of Marylebone, to ask you for your votes to elect me as your Member in the ensuing Parlia ment..—(Cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) I knew full welt that Sir Benjamin Hall was your Repre sentative in the Liberal interest. I knew that Mr. Young was a candidate for your suffrages.—(Cheers.) I naiad that this was the fourth time that Mr. Young had Come for ward.—(Cries of " No, no," and " Yes, yes.") The first time Mr. Young came forward he did not go to , the poll, but he published his address. In 1833 Mr. Young• went to the poll and polled 378 votes; in 1837 he went to the poll and polled 764 votes. In 1838 Mr. Young supported. Colonel Thompson (Cries of " Ah, ah I " and cheers) and polled 16$ votes, and the Tory candidate, as' you well know, became your representative.—(Hear.) Now, Gentlemen, it was to avoid this evil that I came forward to offer myself to your notice,—(Cheers.) At the public meetings I attended every effort was made on the other side to confound and confuse them s' but I believe there was no gentleman present who will not admit that lasarried very large majorities throughout all these public meetings.—(Cheers, and cries of " Yes," °"No.") These meetings were very numerously attended, and in some cases there were 400 or 500 electors who could not obtain admittance. These are the rea sons why I come forward to ask your suffrages, and I ant ' now here because I have declared, that if I thought Mr. Young had the smallest hope or chance of. being returned I should instantly retire.— (Cries of Hear, hear, and " Very honourable.") Gen tlemen, a few days afterwards I received a letter from Mr. Young, proposing a public meeting, at the same time admitting that it was impossible to exclude non-electors. I thought it of so much importance that I laid the letter before my Committee. They proposed what would have saved a great deal of expense and trouble had it been adopted. They proposed that Mr. Young should choose one elector, and myself an other, to go round the several districts, and take the sense of the voters.—(Hear.) That was not acceded to, and the measare which has now brought you together was agreed upon. Gentlemen, all I ask is to be allowed to state plainly what my opinions are ; and I do trust and hope that my opponents not pervert those opi nions, or put words into my mouth which I never used.—(Loud cheers.) They will scarce be able to do that, because if a man speaks the truth he is sure to be right, and if he tells falsehoods he must have a good memory to be able to an swer them. I have been accused of being favourable to the Poor-laws, but at the first meeting I attended I dis tinctly stated that I had been two years absent from England, and did not know how the Poor-laws worked, but that I would tell them how it had worked in the district in which I was a guar dian.—(Cheers.) We insisted on the old and infirm poor being relieved out of doors in their own houses— (Loud cheers}—and that those who were compelled to take refuge in the workhouses, should be treated kindly, and in the same manner as they treated the inmates of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals. I have attended numbers of meetings where I have fre quently expressed my opinion of the operation of t hePoor raw, and yet am again called on to express those opinions. Gentlemen, there is another question asked of me, one which, as a naval-military man, I feel called upon more immediately to answer—the aboli thm of corporal punishment. That question de pends not upon the admiral, the captain, or the officer to effect its abolition, but more properly upon the Government to give better pay. and thus gain a higher class of men to serve in our army and navy. Now, Gentlemen, I might have gained a few stray votes if, like my opponent, I pledged myself to vote for the abolition of corporal punishment ; but, Gentlemen, he who offers this pledge has never seen 400 or 500 men of various degrees of character in the operations of war fare—:n the storm of the battle, when the worthless will skulk below—or perhaps he would be more chary in the assertion that corporal punishment can be dispensed with ; but, Sir, all other men would be most anxious for its abolition, if it was consistent with the efficiency of the Army and Navy.— (Loud cheers.) But I will never run the risk, when France and Russia have large fleets assembled, for the sake of a few stray votes to endanger the safety of the bulwarks of this country. I have also stated that I full an advocate for the vote by Ballot, and with respect to the assertion, that I said I thought the eetension of the suffrage would rather be an evil than otherwise, I must call attention to the feet, that in the borough of Marylebone we we have no less than 32,000 101. householders, and yet from the non-payment of poor-rates, intimidation, and various other causes, the actual number who voted wag comparatively trifling, and would he so until protected by the Ballot. — ( Hear, hear. ) There I;as w heen another charge brought against me ; that I at present held a commission in her Majesty's navy; and am, therefore, unfitted to represent this borough is Perliaa sen a a Gentlemen, I think it would orm nl tha t be rather severe conclusion becsaise of' :being a naval officer. tI was f o y fit, as Mr. Young :has expressed himself, to look after the guns and sails a man-of-war. I have been forty years in the service of my country, and, therefore, I think I may lay claim to some distinction.—(Loud cheers.) It is well known that but for the officers of the the navy, an d it s discipline, you would have been at war with Frarce at the present moment, and therefore it is not t'9o much for an officer of the navy to claim your suffeages.----(Cheers.) It has been eonfi dently stated in the borough that I still held my command in the Mediterranean. T.e this I answer, that on the 31st of March I was ordered to strike my pennant, and am now as independent as any one of you. Again, it is said that I am seeking after command ; this again is false.. But I do say, that if called upon to serve my country, I would at once seek the breach, and resign my. seat in the House.—(Hear, and cheers.) There is another topic to which I would wish to address myself, and that is, the impressment of men to serve it the navy—a prac tice disgraceful to an enlightened nation like England. Mans , applications have Imade, for tin , last thirty years, to Members in the House to wipe away this plague spot of the English statute-book, but in vain. On the subject of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill, I have always declared my aversiov to them. — (Cheers.) They are unjust and imneeessal y clogs upon the frnnehise.(Cheers.) If it be right to punish a man for not paying his taxes, some other mode should be found without depriving him of as suffrage.—(Cheers and great applause.) I was yesterday at the greet meeting held in the city ofLondon by the friends of Lord J.ltussell ; and I never saw a more respectable ',sleeting in my life.— (Cheers.) Lord John Russell thoroutshly and clearly ex plained to the electors th e re a son s wikich led to the deter mination to dissolve Parliament. The nvcessities which had arisen for an increase of the navy had caused expenses to which the revenue was inadequate, and Government thought it better, instead of laying on new taxes, to reduce the duties on corn, timber, and sugar.— (Cheers.) Lord John Russ 11also declared that the C orn - laws imposed hle at e ax upon the people equal to the —(fleas}----.byatittaexptici:revenue of the -country benefited only the landlords, an d the present contest instead of the rich. With respect to could regret more than re, I assure be divided, and if theyou that' nobody do that the borough should division of this day shall be against me, I shall retire, and do my best. to promote the return of Mr. Young with Sir Ben jamin Hall. The Gallant Commodore then sat down amidst the most enthusiastic applause. • Mr. YOUNG was then led forward by the Chair man, and was rec eived with considerable applause, and some hissing. He said, Mr. Chairman and Gentle men there is no man, however high in station—ehowever gifted in talents and endowment, ivhb weaci not add lustre to his character by being chosen as the free and independent representative of such a borough as this. —(Cries of " Hear, - hear," and cheers.") Many men might appear before the electors with greater claims upon their confidence, from past public conduct, than I can pretend to —many might present themselves with stronger recommendations of birth or of lineage—. and as I am surrounded with none of those ad vantages, I will, with all courtesy to the Gal lant Commodore, beg • leave to make sonic ob servations on the remarks which he has addressed to you.—(Hear, hear.) The Gallant Ofiicertells you that I have been four times a candidate, and have been four times defeated in this borough.—(Hear, hear.) But, Gentlemen, here are the facts ? In 1833 I ad dressed the electors, but I did not stand. In 1835 I did stand, but retired from the contest.— (Cheers and laughter.) In 1837 I stood again, and was ' defeated by the electioneering skill of my opponents, I believe, rather than from. any other cause.—(Hear, and laughter.) In 1838 I supported Colonel Thompson.— (Cheers and laughter.) Thus I was in fact defeated twice, and from these facts the Gallant Commodore draws the in ference that I haVe been four times a defeated candidate. (Laughter, and cries of " So you were.") The reasoning of the Gallant Commodore reminds me of the Cambridge problem, " Give the length of the mast, the number of the gains, and the name of the ship, to find the name of the Captain."—(Great laughter.) But passing all personal considerations, I will tell you the grounds on which I stand here to-day. I have been ballotted for in two large societies in the borough, and their selection was confirmed by the largest public meeting ever held by the Reformers amongst us.—(Cheers and contradiction.) Gentlemen, Sir Charles Napier tells you that he knew that Sir Benjamin Hall was in the field, that he knew i -was a candidate ; and yet with the knowledge that he-could not come forward as a candi date fur this borough; without dividing the Re form interest, he comes forward as a third Reform candidate—(Cries of "To keep out Teignreoutli" " the Warren-street Association"). Who has divided the Reform interest in the borough if it be tr; the gentleman who tells you le that he came .i esrward knowing there were two Reform:candidates in e field? Who then is it that is fighting the battle of the Tories ?—(Cries of "You, you," and great confusion.) Now, with regard to the Poor-law Amendment A c t, Sir Charles Napier is under the impression that lie has been misrepresented on the subject. I ask you to take his explanation of his opinion this day as to that Act, and, I ask, can any elector of this borough, who is faVourable to a repeal of the Poor-law Act, be prepared to place any confidence in the declaration oflis eeenions which Sir C. Napier has made this day.—(Cries of " All, all ;" " No, no ;" Yes, yes," and much confusion.) The great object of the atrocious and inhuman Poor-law Amendment Act is to make honest poverty a crime.—(Hissing, and cries of " Yes, yes," and great confusion.) Has Sir Charles Napier repu diated that principle ?—(Cries of" Yes, yes," "No, no.") The Board of Guardians are elected under the Poor-law Amendment Act by a plurality of votes. Does Sir Charles Napier . propose to repeal that power ? Does Sir Charles Napier, in speaking of the poor being taken • care of in places like Greenwich Hospital, say any thing of repealing that provision ? Gentlemen, the principle of the Poor-law Amendment Act is, that the honest and industrious man should be imprisoned, not for any crime, but on account of misfortune.—(Cries of " No, no," hiss ing, and great confusion.) I now come to the question of the franchise, and I ask you to judge of Sir Charles Napier by his declaration here this day. He is for extending the franchise, when the Ballot shall be obtained. Why, the House of Commons will never pass the Ballot, and yet until the Ballot is carried through the House of Commons and through the House of Lords, where it never will obtain ten votes, until then we are to have no extension of the suffrage, Sir C. Napier asks me what I can know of corporal pu nishment, and doubts whether I ever was at sea in my life.—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear.") Now it so happened that I have been for upwards of four months on ship-board at one time.—(Roars of laughter, and cries of ".name.") I have been asked to name the ship. It-was a name that will be closely allied with the present contest—it was the Victory.—(Cheers.) But I have yet to learn, although I am a civilian, that I am incapable of forming a judgment on flogging. I know a good deal about the French army, and I be lieve they are kept in excellent order and discipline without flogging.—(Cries of the " French navy.") I believe the Gallant Commodore has formed a most erro neous estimate of the character of the British navy.— (Cries of Hear, and much laughter.) I leave this question of flogging to you, anal ask you whether you will elect a man who says it is impossible to conduct the discipline of the army and navy without flogging.—(Cries of " No, no.") Gentlemen, I leave the question in your hands. I come for ward, put in nomination by my friends and neighbours. Sir Charles Napier is here as a tinsel Reform candidate ; uncon nected with the borough, and almost uninvited. —(Cries of " No, no," and cheers.) I now b eg t o withdraw, appealing with the utmost confidence to the result of the ballot which is about to take place.—(Cheers and cries of " Timc..") The CHAIRMAN said he was anxious to say a word or two in the way of eiplanation, as he was unwilling that any cause of dissatisfaction should exist on the part o: the electors. He understood that each candidate was to speak for half an hour. The meeting, however, did not commence till half-past two o'clock, and according to that arrangement Sir Charles Napier had a right to speak till three o'clock. Sir Charles, however, like an old naval man, thinking that action was better than words, did not avail himself of the whole of his time. Mr. Young was then entitled to half an hour, but he had only spoken for twenty minutes, and was entitled to speak for ten minutes more, if it was the pleasure of the meeting to hear hina.--:(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG then resumed. On the question of the Corn-laws I have only to say that I was returned as an Anti-Corn-law Delegate for Marylebone, and I brought forward resolutions more than once for the total repeal of those laWs.—(Loud cheers.) But that will not induce me to oppose the Government measures, which I think are extremely good as far as they go, but I shall vote for the repeal of Lord John Russell's fixed duty, in the event of its being carried, whenever the op portunity offers.—(Cheers.) I think the freight from .Dantzic and _other ports of the Continent will always be a sufficient protection to the English corn. grower.— (Hear.) I hail these measures also as an approximation to the great principles of free trade, and a more ex tended system of commerce for this country.—(Much cheering.) These measures, therefore, small have my hest support ; and if I am returned as your representa tive, I pledge myself to endeavour, to the best of my ability, to promote and extend these principles.— (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, the time is now expired, and I shall leave it to you by your votes to decide whether you shall have the nomination of your own can didates or allow a stranger to step in and take the re presentation out of your hands.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said the polling would now com mence, and would continue till six o'clock, when the Can didates would again address them. The polling would be again resumed at seven o'clock, and finally close at ten o'clock. The meeting then separated at half-past three o'clock EVENING MEETING. The Ballot proceeded with great briskness up to half past six o'clock, when Mr. Protheroe, M.P., again took the chair, the theatre being fully crowded, and the number of electors present being certainly not less than 9 ,000, perhaps not less than 2,500. The side boxes were again filled with ladies, amongst whom we observed Lady Napier. The CHAIRMAN would not detain the meeting beyond stating a decision Tehich he had come to, and which he hoped would be considered important.—(Hear, hear.) lie had not been consulted in the morning as to the manner in which it should be decided who should speak first. That was determined by tossing up a halfpenny— (Hear and laughter)—and the Gallant Commodore won the first turn both times.—(Cheers and laughter.)• But if that arrangement were adhered to, it would give Mr. Young the advantage of the-reply both times • and that gentleman had put the matter into his (th e Chairman's) hands, thereby imposing on him a very painful duty.— guided, (Hear, h ear .) H e was however, by the usage of other a ssem bli es and, according to that, he had thought it would b e t h e fairest way f M or r. Young, who had the reply in th e morning, to speak nit first y in of the speaking e e v a ng i ng, the Com mo d ore the opportunity (Hear, hea r .) With that decision Mr. Young was Lir. satis fied—(Cheers.)l-oeNoaccordieely came f orwar d on t h e stage. He said, that both whether‘iiespoke' first or last, his only ob ject was to place before the meeting a candid st a t e ment of his views and objects.—(Hear, hear.) He h a d l e ft the matter to the Chai rman, ( he thought, h a d de cided properly.--(Applause.) —(Applaus.) had beencalled o n nto . state what were his opini ons as to the heeo to repealtit of the Corn laws part which laws ? For answer, he might r betook in the Anti-Corn-law League,b London and in Manchester. He had been delegated by the vestry rylebene to represent the parish in that body,and he had of Ma- there Siened a resolution in favour of totlrepeal, deelfteing a fixed duty to be a fixed injustice.--( f Hear, and hear.) He was therefore only in favour of the proposed alteration as a step towards total repeal. To the other meas ures brought forward by the Government nob o dy could object. But at the same time that he approved of those measures he was not prepared to place un b oun d e d c onfidence in the Ministry who - proposed them.—(Ap ' please and disapprobation.) He was the friend of con tinual and progreeeive Reform, which Mr. Fox had de clared to be part and parcel of the British character, and he held the opinions which Lord Grey professed in the House of Commons when he presented the petition of the Friends of the People—(Hear, hear)—and which Lord John Russell expounded when he first brought in the Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) He supported the Whig candidate on those principles at the first election that took place in this borough—(Hear, hear)—and if any change had since taken place, it was not in him.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) When the Whigs passed the Irish Coercion Bill, when year after year they resisted Mr. Grote's motions for the Ballot, and used all their influence to oppose other measures - of improvement, founded on the principles which they advocated before they came into power, then he declared that he had not, and could not have any confidence in them. Were these grounds upon which he was fairly chargeable with change of his opinions?—(" No, no.") The change had been in the Whigs, who had resorted to popular measures, for the purpose of retaining office; look at their dwindling majo rities.—(Hisses and applause.) He challenged any one to show in what he had changed his opinionsee-(Ap plause.) It was the Whigs, whose desertion of their opinion had caused division in the ranks cf the Re- a formers, and , . endangered the Liberal interest in that borough.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) If however, he surrendered in the approaching contest, as he believed he should—(Cheers, laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh) — he would do all he could to support the gentleman whO represented in Parliament the - Whig party in in Marylebone, so far as there was common ground upon which they could work together.—(Hear.) If, he did not succeed this day, thcn he would give his best sup port to promote the cause of Sir C. Napier.—(Great ap plause.) He had been chosen by a large body of Re formers as the person to be put in nomination to repre aent them ; and, he could not, in fidelity to them, aban don the position in which they had placed him without their consent, which would only •be ascertained by some' such proceeding as was at length resolved on. He assured Sir C. Napier that if at any of his meetings he had let fall any expression which gave the Gallant Commodore pain, he regretted it.—(Hear.) But he believed the Gal lant Officer did not agree with him and his friends in all pots ; certainly not as to the conduct of the Ministers. Sire. NAPIER—Yes, I do.—(Laughter, and cheering.) Mr. YOUNG—The Gallant Commodore was reported to have said that he and his frienl Mr. Wall had mis represented him. But he had heard the Gallant Commo dore say at the Yorkshire Stingo, and he was so reported in all the papers, that the evils of the Poor-law Act were owing to the guardians of the poor who did not do their duty, and that the fault was not in the principle of the Poor-law. Sir C. NAPIER— That is not correct.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. YOUNG had so understood him, and so all the re porters seemed to have understood him. They who framed the New Poor-law proposed that its object was to raise men from the condition of parish paupers to that of independent labourers. (Cheers and disapprobation.) But what were the means adopted for carrying out that object ?—(Hear, hear.) The institution of a central board of three Commissioners with despotic powers, such as no man or set •of men should exercise in a free country—such as the Legislature had no right to confer upon them.—(Cheers.) The guardians them selves were elected by plurality votes and proxy votes.—(Hear hear.) Here, then, there was av. ide dif ference between him and the Gallant Commodore. Sir C. NAPlER—No.—(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG—They said that the union workhouse was a test to distinguish the industrious from the idle and dissolute poor. Well, he would give up to them the idle and dissolute, but he insisted that they should not inflict the punishment of crime on those who were poor by no fault of their own.—(Cheers, and cries of "Hear, hear," from Sir C. Napier.) He would not off en d th e ears of that meeting. by specifying other parts of the Bill ; but he would say, that when the . father had deserted the child who was tainted with infamy, and when all other friends de serted, and every tie of kindred was broken, the law should not burst the last link that bound the unhappy girl to humanity—nor deprive her of woman's claim and nature's claim upon the author of her misfortune.— (Great cheering.) The law had done so : and no wonder thatdespair should point out murder anti infanticide as the only means by which she could escape from the hor rors in which she was plunged. Mr. Young then re ferred, amidst much interruption, to the state of a young woman, who, having been driven from a union workhouse in Kent, destroyed her child in the New River in that parish. He then alluded to the charge which he said the Gallant Commodore had made against him, that he was once a Tory and now a Radical. Sir C. NAPIER explained—What he had said was, that it had been so stated twice at public meetings in the bo rough.—(Hear.) Mr. YOUNG would be glad that the person who did so would come before him there, and receive from him, in the presence of that meeting, the most decided contradic tion it was possible .to give. He had never given a vote for a Tory.—',hear.) He regarded the Tories as enemies who must be put down, as they would put down the people.—(Cheers.) There could be no comparison be tween him, or those who supported him, and the Tories. There must be perpetual hostility between them; and if successful that day, he would lead the electors on to the fight, but if Sir C. Napier were preferred, he would de votedly serve in the ranks.—(Great cheering.) The time was now expired— Sir C. NAPIER—No, go on, I'll give you five minutes of my half-hour, ormore if you like.—(Cheers, and a laugh.) . . _ Mr:YOUNG declined the offer, and concluded by hoping that his friends would agree with him that, whatever might be the result of the ballot, some such manifes tation of their sentiments was necessary to the interest of the Reform party in the borough. He sat down amidst much cheering. Sir C. NAPIER (who was greeted with the most en thusiastic and reiterated cheering) said, that he was first "desirous to explain something which had passed at the morning meeting, relative to his friend Mr. Young, if he might call him so—(Mr. Young here rose and bowed good-hummtredly to the Commodore, which was followed by applause and laughter.) He had stated that Mr. Young had been three times a candidate, and that this was the fourth time. If that was incorrect, he had only to beg pardon ; but it appeared, however, that it was quite true that this was the third time of his offering himself to the electors.—(Bear, hear.) With respect to Mr. Young's having been once a Tory, it was stated publicly at two meetings of the electors, by a gen tleman who, he was sure, would not be angry at his name being mentioned—it was Mr. Portwine.— (Laughter and hisses from the Youngites, and cries of " Portwine said the truth," from some others.) Mr. Portwine stated that when Mr. Young was Chairman of Sir 'William Horne's ,Committee, he said his politics were of the Wharncliffe school—(Cheers and laugh t er)—and if that was not a Tory school, he did not know what was. —(Cheers.) Mr. YOUNG—I never said I was of the Wharncliffe school, nor anything like it.—(Cheers.) Sir C. NAPIER said Mr. Young had seemed to doubt whether he (Sir C. Napier) was not still in command of a squadron in the Mediterranean.—(Laughter.) To satisfy Mr. Young he read a letter from the Admiralty, dated the 31st May, and informing him that, in consequence of his having written to their Lordships, his private affairs would not allow him to sail for the Mediterranean with the next packet, he and his retinue should be dis missed from the Powerful from that day.—(Cheers.) Another charge against him was that he was a " Queen's Officer."—(Hear.) He was proud to say he was, and he hoped to die at his post as a Queen's officer. (Tremendous cheer ing.) His being an officer did not deprive• him of his rights as a citizen.—(Hear, hear.) He • had never hesi tated under any Government, Whig or Tory, to denounce whatever lie saw going wrong in the navy, and he had never sheltered himself under an anonymous letter.— Mr. Young had said'that the French army was as brave as any in the world, and that flogging was not resorted to. he (Sir Charles Napier) admitted that the French army was brave, though it had always been beaten by the I?.nglish. But they were to bear in mind that the Trench army was differently composed from ours. Men were raised there by the conscription, which extended to all classes of the people, from the noble to "the peasant. Whereas our army was recruited from the manufacturing towns, and frequently from those pereons who enlisted from idleness, and chose the army as an escape from the labours of industry.—(Hear, hear.) But in the French navy, what were the punishments? He would tell them what he had seen. The punishment was, when a man committed a fault., to tie a number of shot to his legs, and then let him drop from the yard arm into the sea, as deep as the shot would sink him.— (Shame, shame.) A man would suffer three or four dips of that sort ; and was that .a punishment which they would wish to see introduced into the British Navy ?-41 (No, no.) Mr. Young • had acquired his knowledge of naval affairs in a four months' voyage, in a merchant ship, with a crew of thirty or forty men. Bat could he suppose that the same discipline would suffice in a ship of war, with a crew of six or seven hundred men, like the Powerful, as in such a craft ?—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Young said that the name of the merchant ship was the Victory, and he hoped, therefore, to have victor to-night ; but his (Corn. N.'s) ship was the Powerful, which, he doubted not, would make a prize of the Vic tory.—(Great cheering and laughter.) , He would not say that Mr. Young perverted st hat he had said on the sub ject of the Poor-laws, but he would repeat what lie did say, and he had never varied what lie said at all the meetings, nor would he vary it for all the votes in Mary leboae.—(Cheers.) When he was one of the Poor-law guardians in his own district, they set the mandates of the Commissioners at defiance, and allowed 6s. a week to the aged poor in out-door relief.—(Cheers.) lie said that where that relief was not granted, and the condi tion of the poor was not ameliorated, it was the fault of the guardians. He had said, also, that those who were obliged to go into the workhouses ought to find that a place of refuge and comfort, like Chelsea or Greenwich Hospital, and not a prison. This he now repeated for the sixteenth time.—(Loud cheers.) He would not go the length of repealing the new Poor-law, because he thought the abuses of the abuses of the old system were destroying the poor, and destroying the country ; but he was not favourable to the continuance of the Corn tnissioners, as he did not think them necessary. But he could assure the meeting that neither Mr. Young nor any other man would go further than he would to secure protection, comfort, tranquillity, and happiness to the aged and industrious poor.—(Vehement cheering.) lie also disapproved as muchasanthe part any man of of of the p o plurality and proxy voting.—(Hear.) As to on which Mr. Young had touched with eloquence and feeling, he would only say that he thought the law was formerly and against the man. and now it was worse egainst the woman.—(Hear.) He would do everything in his power to correct the i nj ustice.--a Cheers.) As to the rate-paying clauses, they were the worst parts of the Reform Bill, and he would do his best to get them re moved.—(Cheers.) What he had said upon the subject of an extension of the suffrage was, that so large a portion of those whO now had the power of being elec tors were afraid to use their rights for want of the pro tection of the ballot, that- he thought it uselesa to en large the franchise until they first got the ballot. He was, as he had already told the eh:eters, much mere than a Whig. But he approved of much that the Whigs had done. They had given the country the Reform Bill, only for which he should not have had the honour of ap pearing before the meeting on that occasion.(Cheers.) They had passed the Corporation Reform- Bill, and other useful measures, which they would have made better if the Tories had allowed them.—(Hear, hear.). He would support them, if he should be returned, in every measure of reform and improvement, and especially in the destruction of every monopoly in the kingdom, as well as of the corn, timber, and sugar monopolies.— (Cheers.) ' If they did not go on in that way, he would do as much to oppose them as any civilian in the king dom.—(Cheers.) He had also stated before that he would support a property tax, and the abolition of Church rates. He considered the former the most justeof all taxes, and impost, bee lat :usetcr a nom o m st an un o j u u g s h t' t t i o rnp be required and olie to payeiugi for s irreligious a Church to the doct r i nes o f w hi c h h e was oppose d.— (Cheers.) He found h e h a d now ten m i nutes to spare , but he had rather go to a et i on —(Ch eer s an d l aug h ter )— lo THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 441. and he had Lot the smallest doubt that the result of t'• e'r ballot would be to secure the return of two Reformers. The Gallant Commodore then sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheers and cries of the "Ballot." This was immediately proceeded with, and the electors came pouring in crowds from all parts of the borough to the poll. At ten o'clock the poll was closed, and the theatre, boxes and all, and.even to the back of the spacious stage, was crowded to excess. We have no doubt that 3,000 persons were by this time crammed into the building, whilst a great crowd was collected in the street, anxious to hear the result. At a quarter past eleven o'clock, The CHAIRMAN announced the total number of elec tor;, who had polled, to be— For Sir C. Napier For Mr. Young 1,031 945 MAJORITY FOR SIR C. NAPIER 986 The announcement was receWeiihi;;Cli/.iiOuscil.Ter ing and some hissing. Mr. Young and the Gallant Commodore stood on each side of the Chairman, and cordially shook bands amidst reiterated cheering. Mr. YOUNG then said, that having polled nearly one thousand votes, he hoped that was sufficient to justify him. in supposing that he was supported by a large body of the Reformers.—(Hear, hear.) But he would now abide by his pledge, and give every support in his power to Commodore Napier—(Clicers)—and he called on all his friends to do the same. The Hon. Gentleman was enthusiastically cheered. Sir C. NAPIER then came forward and thanked the electors for the honour they had clone him. He had next to thank Mr. Young for his honourable and sincere con duct throughout the day's _proceedings ; and if he (Sir C. Napier) should be calle“ away upon the service of his country he hoped the electors would give him (Mr. Young) his due, and return him to Parliament.—(Cries of " You're both trumps.") He recommended the electors that although they had now a fair prospect of beating the Tories, who would retire from the field if they saw that meeting, yet unwearied exertion was still necessary to secure the victory.—(Cheer..;.) Thanks were then voted with vast applause to the Chairman, who, in acknowledging the compliment, said that he had been one of the twelve Members of Par liament who voted - for the ballot on Mr. O'Connell's motion—(Cheers)—and the proceedings of this day more than ever convinced him of the efficiency of that mode of voting. He highly complimentsd the two candidates on their candid and honourable conduct, and was loudly cheered. After several rounds of cheers for Napier and Youn alternately, the meeting separated. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in town at five minutes before four o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four, from Nuneham, Oxfordshire, the seat of his Grace the Archbishop of York. Two of the Royal carriages and four followed, containing Ltdy Barham, Lady in Waiting ; Hon. Miss Paget, Maid of Honour in Waiting ; Lord Poltimore, Lord in Waiting ; Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting on Prince Albert ; Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; and Sir Edward' Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Her Majesty and the Prince were received at Buck ingham Palace by the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Lord Byron, the Vice-Chamberlain, Hon. Sir William Lum ley, and the Master of the Household. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. - Lord _Byron and Lady Gardiner had the honour of joining the Royal Circle in Buckingham Palace at dinner last evening, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner p ar ty last eve&ng at Cambridge House. The company were the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailesbury, Marquis of Normanby, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lord Foley, Lord Ossulston, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain James Macdonald. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Marlborough House on Tuesday evening from the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager in Bushy-park. His Serene Highness afterwards embarked at the Tower Stairs for the Continent. Dr. MTarlane and a deputation had an interview witl, Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Charles Bagot had an interview yesterday wit: Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON AND MOULSEY HURST RACES. WEDNESDAY. These popular races commenced yesterday under the most favourable circumstances as to weather and com pany, and the sport, if of less importance than some of the great events decided at Epsom, Ascot, and other places within the metropolitan range, was excellent in its kind, and plentiful enough to keep the spectators on the qui wive until _near six o'clock ; it had the re commendation of a handicap on the fashion able- plan,: to which sixty-two noblemen and gentlemen had subscribed, realising to the win ner about 6001., a sum infinitely superior to anything pre viously-run for on Moulsey Hurst. Its introduction en hances the character of the meeting, and doe 4 great credit to the promoters. We are enabled to extend - our laudatory remarks to the arrangements on the ground, which were conceived in a liberal and comprehensive spirit, and very efficiently carried out. The fashionable portion of the attendance included his Royal Highness Prince George • of Cambridge, Lords Chesterfield, RoSslyn, Adolphus Fitzclarence, William Lennox, :V aidstone, G. Bentinek, Macdonald, Somerton, Southampton, Andover, Paget, E. Russell, .&c. ; Baron Austen ; Sirs C. Kent, W. W. Wynn, Gilbert Heath cote, and G. Seymour ; Honourables A. Villiers, H. Rous, G. Fitzroy, H. Pitt, Paulett, J. Macdonald ; Colonel Wyndham ; Messrs. Greville, Payne, Gregory, Shelley. Maddocks, Magennis, Williams, Phillimore, Brand, Pettit, Gardnor, Knox, and several officers of the household troops.' We subjoin.a description of the sport : The Gold Cup (in specie) by subs of 5 sous. each, with • 401. added by the Proprietors of the course, for all ages ; 3 yrs, 7st 71b ; 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 31b ; 6 yrs anka,ged, 9st 71b ; mares, 8.x., allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 2001. Heats, once round and a - - dis. (6 Subs.) -- Mr. Booth's Isabella, 6 yrs (-;iy) 2 0 1 1 Mr. Goodman's Bedford, 5 yrs 0 1 2 2 Mr. Scott's Windsor, 3 yrs Hon. J. Sandiland's Moleskin, 4 yrs Mr. Hornby's Revoke, 5 yrs 0 0 dr Lord Chesterfield's La Gitana, 3 yrs First Heat—Bating-6 to 4 agst Bedford, 2 to 1 agst Windsor, and sto 2 agst Isabella. Isabella made all the running to the distance, where Windsor, who had been in the centre, went to her, and after a good race, won by a neck. Second Heat-5 to 4on Windsor. Re voke cut out the work in this heat, the others lying up to the last turn, when Bedford took the lead, and kept it to the end cleverly. Third Heat-6 to 4on Bedford. Isa bella was never headed, and won in a canter. Fourths Heat—High odds on Isabella, who won in a canter, and was eTaimed. The surrey and Middlesex (Handicap) Stakes of 20 says. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 501. added by the proprietors of the course, the second saves his stake. Two miles. (62 Sub's., 49 of whom declared.) Mr. Payne's Welfare, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Nat) Mr. Tr' en's Fitzroy, 4 yrs, 9st The following- also started, but were not placed—Lord Chesterfield's Molineux, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; Mr. Cole man's Chemist, • 6 yrs, Bst llb ; Mr. Goodman's Mungo Park, 4 yrs, 7st 71b ; Mr. Shockers Cantle, 4 yrs, 7st 61b ; Mr. Greville's Perseus, 4 yrs, 7st 41b ; Mr. Coleman's Carlos, 4 yrs, 6st 61b ; and Mr. Stirling's The Pocket Viper, 3 yrs, sst 71b. Betting-11 to 8 agst Welfare, .5 to 2 agst Fitzroy, 4 to 1 agst Perseus, 6 to 1 cost Camille, and 8 to 1 agst Mango Park. _ _ Carlos took the lead at a great pace, followed by Fitz roy and Mungo Parke, all the others lying well up, ex cept Molineux, who was beat off. In making the first turn, Carlos resigned the lead, and Fitzroy went on with the running. followed by Mungo Park, Cantle, Perseus and Welfare joining them at the last turn. At the distance Perseus and Welfare challenged Fitzroy, and ran nearly head and head to the betting stand, where Perseus was beaten, the other two continued the struggle to the chair, Welfare winning a hard fought' battle by a neck. Nothing was up except Perseus. The Strawberry Hill Stakes of 3 sow. each, with 30 added for horses' that never won 53/. in plate or stakes. Winner to be sold for 1001. Mile and quarter. 'Heats (seven subscribers.) Mr. S. Scott's Abel, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Butler) 1 1 Mr. Jenkin's Kate Kearney, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b Mr. Goodwin's St. Priei:x, 4 yrs, Bst 51b 3 3 Mr. G. Clifton's Playfellow, 3 yrs, 7st 51b 2 dr. Mr. Harman's Wonder, aged, Bst 121 b • 0 dr. Mr. Coleman's Carlos, 4 yrs, Bst 51b Mr. Wisdom's Maid of Sussex, 5 yrs, Est 121 b The first heat was won by a length, easy, the second, cleverly. RIOT ON SAFFRON•HILL.—On Monday night, about half-past 11 o'clock, Saffron-hill was thrown into the greatest riot and confusion, arming from the following eircum.. stance. Patrick Gannon, an Irish labourer, had about twelve years ago come to London, leaving his wile and two sons at Galway, and shortly after his arrival formed an acquaintance with Ellen Ryan, whom he married in St. Giles's church, and by whom he has seven children. On Monday last his first w,fe and her sons arrived in London, Lavin.- received intimation of Gatmon's perfidy, and then, with a ho '' dy of Irish friends, en tered his Louse, when both parties laid to with tongs, shovels, and chime's in the most. furious style. Hatton Garden re.. reived them on Tuesday, when Gannon - acknowledged the bigamy which he had committ, d, and with w hich Mts. Gannon the second threatens to ch:rge him, while Mrs. Gannon the firs', and her coadjators in the assault, were ordered to find bail, in default of which they were locked up. Lady Louisa Hay, OH daughter of the Mar quis of Tweeddal_ ,e and sister of the Countess of Dalhousie and Is a ch;oness of Douro, was married on Friday at )(ester House, the family seat in Haddingtonshire, to Mr. Hobert Bal four Wa-dlaw Ramsay, of Whitehi I. Dl. P. Mr. and Lady Louisa Ramsay have arrived it the York Hots!, from Scotland. The price of cider in Davonshire has advanced to 10F. per hogshead, in consequence of the apples having stiff( red from blight. —Bristol Journal. PRESTON ELECTION.—No doubt any longer remains as to a second candidate on the Reform interest in this borough. Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P., has signified his intention to stand for Preston. The conduct o f t h e T or i es on Tuesday in the House of Common s was marke d ve ry characteristically. They mustered in great num b ers at an early hour, having been canvassed to c arry tome j o b o f a Private Bill, and they adhered to their seats until the division—all they wanted. Afterwards they shirked the debate on Mr. Seholetield's motion, having only three of their body in the House when it was counted out, MARYL3BONE ELECTION, ?THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING It. the ELECTIONSf COMMODORE SIR CHARLES NAPIER beg to annle that the result of the BALLOT taken THIS DAY as' llows —and they earnestly express a hr.pe that all Reformers-! ill now unite in teeurin4 the Elte tion of Sir Benjamin HA and Sir Charles Napier : Naiier t it Young... ...... 94'.3 MAJORITYYOR NAPIER •— 986 The Coinmittee for etunlucti•ig the Election of. Sir Ben jamin Hall and Sir Charles Naiier sits daily at the Cafe, Co losseum, New Road. June 16, 18-11. JOSEPH IVIMEY, Hon. Sec. TO THE ELECTOIIS OF THE CITY OF I.O:NDui. THE Requisition-to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, signed by 5,000 Electors, requesting his consent to be put in nomination as a CANDIDATE-to represent our Me tropolitan City in Parliefient, has been responded to by his Lordship in a manner atAce consistent with our anticipations of his high-spirited and di,interested character, and gratifying to our most ardent hoka. No private considerations have been permhted to inter:cLe with the sense of public duty or with the call made upoti his Lordship by the Electors of London. A Member of file •• House of Ru >sell, a tame sanctified in the estimatioa of. every English_ mm by its memo] cramection with the Civil and Religious Libel ties of IA country ; the author of tit, Reform Bill, the measure by wbieh your right of exercising that judg rarnt to which we now appeal, has been either created or secured ; the Ministerialo.eader, under whose firm and a.1),1 direction thelegitimate knits of Reform have been gradually developed ; the intrepid•.4tatesman, who has .crowned a long series of valuable public terviees by the recent proposal of mea sures, the just and necessity resubs of the Reform Bill, foundet upon the pinciple of Free Trade as opposed to Monopolies, and the promotion of the geoeial and public good as opposed to the unjust protection of partie§lar interests, has placed him,elf, and the fate of the measure with which he is now identified, in your hands. s The first City of this Treat Empire in point of importance, you will also be the first an po'nt of time, to pass your judg ment upon the question now submitted to the Electoral body of the United Kingdom. S. Your position is an important one ; your decision must powcriffully influence the result of other elections. Approach the einestinn now before you with the calm ness and the solemnity which belong to the momentous con -e -quences which are at isstrk; and let your decision be consistent with that unalterable attlehment to the principles of enlight ened liberality and equal Itstice, in every branch of our legis # lotion, which has always inguished the citizens of Lond o n. A great crisis in our ft cial and commercial affairs ha s ar rived; of tbis fact nor' bcting man can entertain a doubt. Our commerce requires tie most fostering care to maintain a progressive prosperity coWensurate with the'continuous and fearful increase of our ropulacturing population; foreign na tions, profiting by the S,Spportunities of pease, are becom ing our rivals in the' marke:s of the world ; and, jealous of our restrictions and protections, they are driven in self-defencdnto retaliatory measures of the same character; the stability cf our monetary system is en dangered by the sudden aral'vinlent convulsions of our foreign trade, engeadered by a fese system of artificial interference and partial protection, ailst our manufacturers are pining under an insufficient denabd and falling prices for their pro ductions, and our industrious population is subjected to the evils of irregular and ins4cient wages, aggravated by an arti ficially high price of the Kel:cessaries of life. Why is it, with the multiplied advantagel which this country possesses— skid, capital, machinery; coal, means of communica tion by land and by sea, intelligence, industry, end a moral tone of feeling superior to most other countries, we are still thus distressed? It is because, in the vain hope of serving a few favoured interests, we interfere with trade, and make that, which can only exist in a healthy state when left free t 3 pursue its own objects, the subject of restrictions equally absurd and unjust. To meet these complicated and growing difficulties a system of measures has been proposed, by which we firmly believe that a moderate and comparatively steady price may he secured to the necessaries of life, without permanent injury to the agricultural cr other interests of the country ; by which the foreign detnand .for the products of our Manufacturing industry may be extended, the profits of capital raised, and the field for the employment of our population ex panded; whilst at the same time our friendly relations with foreign countries wi'l he strengthened by the increase, of mutual intercourse productive of reciprocal benefits, and the necessity for the imposition of further' burdens upon the people, in the form of taxation, will be either altOgethete obviated or g.eatly diminishsd. A Mids'ry instructed in these wise ' and patriotic purposes by a formidable combina tion of party-spirit and class-interests, has made its solemn appeal to the country ; and it now rests with those who arc the final depositaries of political power, the Constituencies of the kingdom, to decide upon what principles they will henceforth be governed. The issue is now in the han is of the Electors; the question before you is plain, simple, arid distinct. You have to decide between Monopoly on the oue hand and Freedom on the other ; that monopoly which has been justly described as the parent of scarcity, of dearness. and of uncer tainty, and that free commercial intercourse by which alone the prosperity of nations can be permanently sustained. In 1831, the battle was fought in defence cf the Rotten Boroughs, the fortified entrenchments o Monopoly and Class interests ; and the Citizens of London nobly bore their part in the victory of that day. The same principle has again reared its demon form in de fence of laws by which the public interest is unjustly injured for the benefit, supposed rather than real, of a few ; anti again the Constituency of London is called upon to be foremost in the fight and to do its duty in the great cause of liberality and justice. You have before you the grounds on which we solicit your aid and c r-operation in the great cause in which we are em barked—look also to the consequences of hesitation or indif ference. If the measures proposed by our present Alinisters, and which are now submitted to your judgment, be rejected, to what alternative mast we look ? Read the addresses of the Tory candidates : do you - find in them the suggestion of any real awd definite means by IN hich the difficulties of the country are to be met and overcome ? Do they contain anything but dextrous ambiguities, and phrases, the only effect of which is to conceal the meaning of those who use them ? Turn again to the speeches of their leaders in Parliament : do you there meet with anything more substantial or satisfactoi y ? Do they not find fault N\ It. h everything, and suggest n o thi ng ? Deceive not yourselves, Electors, nor suffer others to de ceive you. If the opponents of the existing Govtriiment are thrust into power, either the present measures will, under acme specious disguise ; be carried by those who are now the loudest in denouncing them, in which case not only the efficacy of the measures themselves wil be impaired, but all confidence in public men will be utterly subverted ; or, in place of the wise and beneficial policy now recommended to you, we must look for a heavy increase of direct taxation, accompanied by the reten' ion of those commercial fetters by which your power of sustaining even your present burthens is seriously re ippled. Electors 1 we feel assured that this appeal will not be made to you in vain. ' We • can be impelled by no motives, we can have no interests to consult, but those which are common to the electoral body at large. In pledging ourselves, individu ally and collectively, to shrink from no sacrifices, and spare no exertions by which we can promote. the triumphant return of Lord John Russell, we are imposing upon out selves duties which no ordinary considerations would induce us to under take : but we do it under a deep and well-considered convic tion that the measures of which Lord John Russell has bean the proposer and most powerful advocate, are founded upon principles of wisdom and justice, and that they are equally essential to the present relief and to the permanent welfare of the country. By reforming our commercial code, with a view to the ulti mate adoption of 'the principles of free trade, we believe that the resources of this country and the happiness of its people are still susceptible of an alms st indefinite development ; whilst frem the absolute and contemptuous rejection of all measures directed to the removal of monopolies and the reduction of vexatious impcsts, which we have recently witnessed, we can anticipate nothing but the continuance and further inerease of our present difficulties, the augmentation of our fiscal burdens, the exasperation of commercial and national jealousies, that prosperity, which we might have enjoyed, passing away to other lands. and, in the end, danger to the peace and safety of the empire. From such calamities may the wisdom and independence cf the Electoral body at the present crisis prove to be a sufficient safeguard ! 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The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of 42.3.,000 £6OO, 120 £BO 5,000 . 400 110 70 1,500 • 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 800 100 The largest Dividend of the' Distribution cf Ist March last TWENTY-FIVE 'THOUSAND POUNDS, wai remitted to London and vicinity by BRO'fIIERS, who remitted. during a few years, 21 large Money Dividend!, from God. end upwards unto 254)001., besides many Dividends if smaller amounts to England, it elaod, and Seutlaa. aOYAI. SURREY THF-4.TRE. TINDER THE MANAUEMEN OF MR. DAVIDGE AN!) MIL TONES. Productien of the New Grand Ili.torical Opera, supportefl by the tir,t Vocalists in the Kingd , m, rtliss Romer. Mr. Wil soo, Mr. Leffler, assisted by Mrs. Serle, Mr. W. H. Ste her, a pdtverful Eand, and an cfficlentChorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stan!,Larv. THIS EVENING, JUNE 17, The Grand Opera (neverac;edinthis country), entitled A Qi:JEEN FUR A DAy. With all the Original Music by Adolphe Adam, New Scenery, and Pplemild A , ,,pointrnents: _ _ _ Francine, Mss Homer; Sirnonne, •Mrs. Seri?; Marcel, Mr. Wilson ; Tumbrel, Mr. Ltfiler. After which, 11031BASTES' FURIOSO. Bombastes, Mr. W. Smith ; Rstaffina, Miss Martin. UV-conclude with, • - • `• TEKELI. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, Bucking ham, Mrs. Vining, &e. Sic.. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. THIS EVENING. JUNE 17. An entirely new beautiful pathetic Domestic Drama, ir. Three Acts, with splendid scenery, decorations, &c., eniitled SUSAN HOPLEY ! OR, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI- TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL! . William Dean, Mr. E. F. aville ; and Susan Hopley. by Miss Vincent, the accepted Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, Sheridan Knowles' Fragedy of VIRGINIUS ; OR, THE ROMAN FATHER. Virginius, Mr. OsbalcEston ; Toiling, Mr. E, F. Saville; Siccitis Dentatus, Mr. Date; Appius Claudius, Mr. Seaman; Virginia, Miss Vincent ; Servia, Mrs, Lee. To conclude with, a new Burietta. ent;tlect THE PALACE OF GENEVA. 01,1 John, Mr. Gardner ; the Countess of Barotti, Mrs Howard, Boxes, 24.—Pit, is —Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Elalf-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. MORE WONDERS. Behold ! the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is not only,the Misteriaehist of this age of wonder, the Public have discovered that. he is the ALCIIYMIST of the NINE TEENTH CEN I URY; by his touch all things turn to gold; he proves his power of Alchymy the.s,-he has waved his " mystie rod" over this great metro:tolis,- its influence bath charmed within his Circle of Mystery 10,000 of the elite of London, during the lest six nights. This must be more than magic, considering the hot weather. But who can resist the Wizard's temptation? None ! The lovers of Science, Literature, inno cent amusement, and recreative philosophy, MUST be his Pa trons. Strartgeri and Visitors to the Metropolis of the British Empire, Remember ! the WONDER OF LONDON IS THE GREAT, WIZARD OF THE NORTH ! Visit him at his Mephistophelian PaLce, the Adelphi Theatre: Every evening during the week he will be found " at home," per forming his Acattlectie Wonders, proving his power of Alli eiency and Heteropties, displaying all his Thousand Feats of Modern Necromansistealogy, which has no .parallel in ancient Or modern magi. Admission-L'Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery, 6d. Se cond price at Nine o'clock : Boxes, Is. 6J. ; Pit, Is. Doors Alen at half-past Seven, and the Wizard commences at Eight, concluding at. half-past 'Tea or Eleven. Carriages in attendance at a quarter-past Ten. Private Boxes for six persons, IL 5s , to be engaged at the Theatre every day, or from every agent in London. Box Office open from Ten till Five. Parties wishing to secure places in the Dress Circle must seni to secure them. N. B. No gratuit;es to box opheri or attendants. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. UNDER HER MAJESTY'S ESPECIAL PATRONAGE. PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S and Superb GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND THURSDAY. The Promenade • Musicale will include Berlioz' Overture " The Inquisition"—a new Quadrille, composed for the ccca sion, " The Court of Flora"—Jullien'a celebrated " Nightin gale Waltz," with Piccolo Oblige.° by Master Hall—Grand Holeetion from " Ah.tria Stuart" and •‘ Oberon"—" Les Cent Suisses" Quadrille— Overtures to " Die Zauberflote" and " Za ti(tta"—and Handel's Grand " Firework Symphony." Open at Ten. Concert at Six. Girando!a at Dusk. Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESYQNIjENTS. We have read with care the letter from Enfield Highway, and feelregret that we. cannot insert it. The tone which pervades it leaves no doubt IA the amiable dis position and sincere conviction of the writer ; but we are convinced the publication of his s mtiments at the present time would rather 4 6 ; harm than good. HIGH WATER AT I.ONDCIN BRIDGE THIS DAY. Vornsug 51 inmutus :.f:zr 11 Evening 0 minutes after 0 4 t 44 : - .4-41) , A „ A wie;AZ--rgr,r6P-''&,13,301.1,' , , .4 LONDON: THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1341. The Lords did not meet yesterday. The Commons me as usual,' and passed the St. John's Hospital (Winchester) Estate Bill, after a division, by a majority of 23. Thy Adminlitiation of Justice Bill, a measure to en able the LORD CHANCELLOR to make orders for the regulation of his Court, and . for the conduct of suits, subject to the approval of the House of Commons, was read a second time without any division. Sir EDWARD St.;;;DEN, however, objected to the Bill that it conferred too great a power on the. LORD CHAN. CELLOR, for it enabled him to make laws. It was ex plained by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL that a similar Bill had passed last Session, with this difference, that that Bill made the LORD CHANCELLOR'S orders law after they had lain thirty days On the tables of the two Houses, of Parliamdslt, whereas this makes them law when issued, unless one of the two Houses objects to them. The Bib of last Session was ' , not acted on, because the LORD CHANCELLOR would have been enabled 'to alter any re gulation which might have been found injurious in less than a month. Mr. WA.m.,Y, by asking a question of Lord 'NOES TRE, brought to light the author, and something of the history of that thunder and lightning inventor, about which the Times raved day after day some six or nine months ago. The wonderful contriver, it appears, is a Mr. WARNER, and his great merits were attested by two such geniuses, each a master in his own line, as Lord INGESTItE and Sir FRANCIS BURDEIT. It further appears that after appealing to Lord MELBOURNE, after threatening, through the Tim s, to bloW up the Government, and after hinting that the secret should be sold to the enemy, the. worthy inventor has betaken himself to employ a Barrister to draw up a case for him, and submit it to the public in the shape of a pamphlet. The manager will not act his play, and so he publishes it. We were sensible from the first that the greater portion of the statements of the Times on thi s subject Was fudge and exaggeration; and the mode . in which the vast invention has dwindled . into " the most astonishingly small thing in comparison to its effects," as attested by Sir F. Butr,TT, proves, we apprehend, that we were correct. It must be mortifying to Mr. WARNER also to learn from the mouth of Mr. BROTHER- ToN,.that it is wrong to encourage at all the authors of such Murderous inventions. The House adjourned at Sin o'Clock. We must notice that again Mr. GODS .iN'A motion, rela tive to the bribery at Nottinghani, though it stood amongst the Orders of the Day, was allowed to drop, or be postponed, without any obscrvatio::. Some Tories in the City and in Parliament, unthinking creatures, imagine, and even go the length of asserting, that the deficiency of the revenue and maaufacturing distress have been caused by the final-administration of Whigs. ‘, We want quiet," say the City Tories, " and all will lg.! well." " it is the fault of the Govern ment, their neglect, their mal-administration," says Sir FRANCk3 BURDETT, " which has brought abOut the crisis in our affairs, which 'all ad mit." We do nct copy the words of these gen tlemen teNtnally, but we quote the substance of their opiniuns spread through many amplified pe:iods. Both accusations saem to us unfounded. The agitation is more the consequence than the cause of distress. The manuracturers subscribed their money, and got up an agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws, because their trade was gradually coming to a stand-still; because they were obliged to stop their mills, and turn off their hands, or lower their wages. All the agitation, including the Chartist agitation, which the City gentlemen ascribe to the Ministerial Budget, has been mouths and even years growing to its MORNING Ei.:DITIONL, present height. It p:ings from it was nourished by injustice, and the Budge t had no more to do in causing it than Mr. .3. 1 4. 0- TERMAN'S address. • • F. What mat-administration, let us wk : BURDETT, has stopped the working of the : 1 • 1311 ' chester mills? The Ministers negotiated cofr physical scant; Mercial treaties with Turkey and Austria, r ? e which the merchants have thanked them. the as is consistent with the laws of . England and the_ laws of nations, the Ministers have protected 07 trade of England in every quarter of the world. That it has been in some quarters interrupted bi the caprice of barbarians, to some extent, is 110; doubtedly true; for this the Ministers are no ib:e, hut they tuck prompt mean g ,i, e to procure redress or inflict punishment. complaints of the gentlemen in the " 3 and. in Parliament imply the exktence great crisis in our financial and political afia.. l '; but they have completely failed in showiutS it has been. brought on by the canducl. Ministers either at home or abroad. 4- e ace The welthre of society and the very eN's— of the Constitution ar e a t s t a ke; • and the ell tors, by the:r votes, will save or destroy b oth ' is b: , comes them, th.?refore, in every shire el" every borcusl7, to alk the candidates, wil ed of Whig .or Torn whether landed gentlernefo merchants, bow they prop o se to equalize th e l n - ce . venue and the exp en dit ure , an d how th e Y:;:ty pose to give work t o th e manu f ac t u rers, to sd the Chartists, and put an end to public discontelly - To reduce the expenditure, to any gr eat e teut, is admitted by all parties to be iulP t '' si.. oo . The complaint is, that the army is not nul=ler94 enough , to maintain o ur severa l - pO s sessioos' 37 0 7 - that the navy is not strong enough to, P rcge tb ic l: our maratime ascenda nc y i n E uro pe, ' l°l ' - t( ;:" the army is too n umerous an d the navY ' powerful. ihe other alternative is to increase th e i t: venue. If the Tories can do that, let them ° T . , conceal their art, and let not the nation them in ignorance of their skill. At anY li the electors must ask them, cchave they 111 t eeping some unexploied mines of public vr el iir , which they will divert into the public tref.,s, whenever the keys are put into their hand 'e t have not, how do they propose to Ill e , et a d • almost unexampled exigency in Britain ° I ficient revenue, a decaying trade, and a Ste' ' people ? er. a The people of London, as Sir THOMAS 1:1 .'"" n observed at Manchester, knOw little of the to At ble condition of the manufacturing districts' 0: c the same time, many of those who live e ast fo Temple-bar must be sensible that the dist ress o, e those districts is not simulated and is verY They must ask the shipowner and Aider t . i ld PIRIE, they must ask M r . W. Arrwoor'Y u st must ask banker MASTERMAN, they - 0 0 ask India Director LYAL L , by what ji n ,tei they propose to make up th e deficient rev e ;,'g and relieve the manufacturers' distress ? rr , fsc are subjects which cannot be paltered wit u : i if not relieved, the distress w ill au gment an d it "' ev er , and decay, and the ine qu ality h"t' c " or , becomeand the expendit ure greater tha n These are some of the financial qu estions`'' o 4. •the electors are now t o exam i ne an d decide' ~j 1! no man is qualifi e d t o re p resent a ny P° rf ' d t il o r the people, parti cu l ar ly th e great trading' n le a palis of the world, w h o i s no t prepa red to g i ‘ o clear and definite answer to these questions. u r are the revenue and the expenditure to be eq lit lized ? How is the manufacturing distress t° relieved ? Let n 2 man suppose that the advent °f 0d Tories to - power will operate like a charm' fill, the public coffers, or diminish the W.l . ' ti,) , tare. On the contra r y, th e e ff e ct seetns to be to put an end to the lingering hope of r yet entertained by the manufacturers, and r3: 1 4 1 them hasten to emigr a t e t o coun t r ies NViler e , is less taxed, and, trade more free, than ° l, e d At the same time, the Tory Government, elf , in Ireland, feared as well as hated by the ,ved lace of England, and not particularly abroad, would require to increase the e . * : •' L diture. d i e This seems to us a matter well worthy of ,ute consideration of all electors, and every CaOd Should be made to explain in detail that o f government which h e su pp ar t s , a nd by rrti to Ile expects to increase the revenue, and 11 °F d:niinish the expenditure. t off Again it must be known to Messrs. 1 % 1 the MASTERMAN, A TTWOOD , an d LYALL,t hs el" i bulk of the workin g c l as S es h ave s till a „-- of tag hope that their old allies in the e al '; 34 reform will yet do th em j us ti ce . 'At tbei r o3 ‘ .vel they still expect some extension'of the : u rta some modification of the rate-payin.o• elan' - th est the perhaps the p ro t ec ti on o f t h e ballot. , F to Tories they hope for notbing. Their in' their hatred o f th e Government, would r t ', v er; creased by th e access i on o f t h e T or i es to 1 3 `' es it and, difficult as i t now i s to govern t h e rin Is ;h e would then be tenfold more difficul t ' 1 114 electors are reasonable, intelligent men/ a' 31 t hei ll • will require the candidates to exligain ere the measures by whi c h th e peop l e are ..() !. ; j iii 3t ' conciled to the C ons tit u ti on; an d su ch c 3n as cannot do this, they must regard as !In't)eje' of " :Infit now to be entrust e d w i t h the Pc' s ' - legislation. • 0, 4 5 The Ministerial pla n m a y b e bad, but at jt Y it professes to surmount both difficuiti " 5 ' ~t to r avowedly intended to increase the revenn ment tmde, and to lessen, if it do not e: •=t ;° , l '. v vell' discontent, by increasing the comfort an' , the ,being of the people. Wh a t sc h eme , air ring , same noble ends, has been propound ed. I)Y ver , Tories? None, whatever. Ida few da3 s, the the power of legislation will be restated in' t i 'brit hands of the electors, an d t h ey will_ fail i n 41 1 duty to their co un t ry and their Go'.:), th ey , be cruelly unjust t o th e i r unen f ranc hised 0, g o t 'f they send any man to Parliamem 4 10 l o lie fully sensible of the present condition of the "ose', try, and prepared with some measur es to itic a r 11 1° '' the revenue, reli e v e di s t ress , an d recone , '" masses to the Government. ies of E Mr. HIN D LE Y , in describing ththelithe lc taxation the evening before l a st,. gave - lowing illustration, which ought to betthe weighed by all those who prom.ote or 1.C51- 10' reform of our fiscal system : Again the stamp duty on bills 4 1 01 t hie per cent., on bills of 100/. 4 s . per cent., and °11 „ 10 1 ;', J ef 10,000/. 3,1-d. per pent. O n receipts th duty 7 0 ' per cent., on 20/., ls. per cent., and on 10,600--.- cent. 2c ow as thre e -f ourt h s o f t h e 5t, 3 , 1 % I° l. o were collected on bill s b e l ow 100 2 , more clearly show the monstrous irkiVlStiC e Oe';0 1 committed on the middle and lower cl asses i _ ° „,G. :; Let them recollect that of five millions able - u 7 .4 6 , 13 1ec" • v‘ fo lt u s r , m th i e U re io f n o s re l% ,.- e cl r o B u unrepresented s d e u n t t 3 e r d o f in h e t that 0 ' ti ll s °:; oh - Il e ' fro ore; their interests. But if they took advantage of d , • in; to . extract tnolv than the fair share of the ta' ; '7 l - S 10 4 ..he persons who were unrepresented, it W 34.9,1 et , justice to insult. If he were to ask any 3-Le — t , l re' House if the shilling of the poor man ought not l o '0 ) 0 far as the shilling of the rich _one, he should at pi t ll O ceive for an answer, undoubtedly it should. n i 4-t • 7 0 1. was the fact ? 1 k had applied to a grocer to with a list of the articles furnished by hi ln g • person and to a rich one, and the result of - it s 1 while out of a weekly expenditure of ls• as:' * , washerwoman paid duty, having only . ne vi -L t r goods; the rich man, upon a weekly ex r t : r' o 113 s. 2d., paid only 3s. Eqd. S o that 13 :h ile -14 3.. . person only got 6i-d. val ue f or hi s shil lin g;,:: l 7 man got value for shilling.--( dear' be a ce 11' . The,mode in which this exorbitant equal taxation is brought. about is this .1 'e • rich - Man p lviveays no more duty Oil 111 5 •II `e 1_ youred Pekoe or gunpowder tea, for pot • pays 10s. per lb., name ly, 2d. 1-( 1 .7 tl ‘ washerwoman pays on the cheapest h ea ' l. f may be worth- no more than is. 81".011,13 (3 ; . ' Again, the rich man pays the same atri votoP. nOr duty on th e fi nest co ff ee that the P Pt+ l i:e r pays on the worst.. It is the same wit ted s . articles, and the result is, as tat • Ur. HINDLEY, that whet'a o' _ ets # , expends shilling on groceries, he 6 Qtatc value a forpoito,r womanandpa who spendsysoiily2id t: Q l hilliv , 3 while valu e _.l l td • 0 24 hnf q 1.. , pays SA. as a tax to - similar articles gets . tohnr‘l fill. S {le I ‘l!,, -•"" i 1