The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

are the popular feelings, sympathies, or predilec-
tions. A day's journey upon any railway, a day's
sojourn in the coffee-room of any one of
our large hotels, will tell a very different
tale, indeed, as to the direction in which
the sympathies of the English people tend, in this
fierce and terrible struggle between North and
South for supremacy. France and England so
sympathising—the one through her people, the
other through her Government—with:the cause of
the Confederates, it would be difficult to believe
otherwise than that that double sympathy must
" tell" upon the fortunes of the belligerents.

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and, unfortunately for them, their livelihood
goes with it. These humble market-places are by
no means regarded by their occupiers with the con-
temptuous indifference with which they are
treated by the police authorities. They appear to
have been held for the most part by steady,respect-
able persons, who each had their regular position,
and some of whom boasted of having held the same
stall in their families for thirty years. Many of
the stall-keepers are aged persons, unfit for any
more laborious occupation, and the hardship is con-
sequently much increased for them. Their removal
was owing to a resolution passed by the Westmin-
ster Board of Works, from the laudable motive of
preserving the thoroughfare of the parish from in-
terruption. It had been represented to some of the
members that these stalls created confusion, and
interfered with the legitimate trade of the neigh-
bourhood. In both these pleas it appears that the
complainants were mistaken or misinformed, as
plenty of persons have since come forward to
declare that, instead of producing any inconve-
nience, the stalls supplied a public want, while a
very convincing proof of the sentiments of the
resident tradesmen was afforded by their active
exertions to obtain the rescinding of the resolution.
A number of the regular shopkeepers united in
forming a committee to secure the return of the
stalls to their old position. Their efforts were
strongly seconded by the general feeling of the
neighbourhood, and the result was that the West-
minster Board were induced by their representa-
tions to rescind the original motion. Great were
the rejoicings of the poorer classes at this
supposed victory, and hearty their grati-
tude to those who had laboured so suc-
cessfully in their cause. The members of the
Board proved that they had been actuated by no
prejudiced or personal motives by their ready
admission, that their former resolution had been
based on a mistake, and by their willingness to
retract it. Some of the members who had been

'oremost in passing the original motion came pro-
minently forward in the subsequent discussion to
declare the change in their views, and it was confi-
dently anticipated that a very few days would see
the stalls restored to their old position. All these
pleasant expectations were, however, premature.
Sir RICHARD MAYNE was absent on the continent,
and therefore the matter had to be left in abeyance
until his return. Patience was the motto, and no
more was heard of it beyond the immediate vicinity
until very lately. Sir RICHARD MAYNE, whose
original proceedings were taken upon the represen-
tation of the Board, has again appeared on the scene,
but declines to comply with the present wishes of
the instigators of the mischief. In spite of public
dissatisfaction and private exertion, notwithstand-
ing the distress of the poor and the expostulations
of the wealthy inhabitants, the Chief Commissioner,
frota some reason or other, refuses to give permis
sion to the stall-keepers to occupy their old ground.
It is difficult to understand why Sir RICIIARD
MAYNE should act with such unwonted severity.
There is no apparent reason why stalls, which are
permitted in Tottenham-court-road, in the Borough,
in Clare street, and a dozen other busy and populous
places, should be especially objected to in West-
minster. If they obstruct the thoroughfares, the
inhabitants have the first right to complain, and so
long as they stedfastly maintain the contrary,
there can hardly be much need for interference.
It seems that a deputation from the acting
committee in this matter waited upon Sir
RICHARD MAYNE last week, and represented to
him that the permanent removal of the stalls would
entail great privations on many of the poorer in-
habitants of Westminster, and urged upon him
that the resolution on which he had acted had been
rescinded by the local Board of Works. In answer
to these arguments the Chief Commissioner stated
that he had no alternative but to enforce the law.
He further said that he understood the stalls were
the resort of thieves and bad characters, and that if
a market was really needed in Westminster it could
be opened in due form. Upon this another meet-
ing was held in the Temperance Hall, Broadway,
to which Sir RICHARD MAYNE'S decision was com-
municated. The discussion was earnest and ani-
mated, and that the assembly did not restrain the
expression of their sentimenta may be seen from the
terms of the resolution, which was carried with
loud applause :—" That this meeting, having heard
the report of the deputation, is of opinion that the
Chief Commissioner had entirely and most unjusti-
fiably set at naught the wants of the neighbourhood,
the necessities of the poor, the requisition of the
Board of Works, and the general business of the
district; and that the traffic of Strutton-ground,
Great Chapel-street, and the Broadway was not
obstructed by the stallkeepers, and that the Chief
Commissioner had acted on his own caprice rather
than on the principles of the law of the land." We
should
hope some compromise may be arrived at, as
it N scarcely probable the respectable inhabitants of
the district would have taken up the cause so
warmly if the stalls had been the resort of dis-
orderly pereons •
decent , and if they were conducted in a
end reputable manner, giving occupation to
many Poor persons -
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Mr. BEECHER is determined
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opportunity of appealing to
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Certainly,
.orat.ory,
the „ to lose any
eatiraents and
isympathies of the English prople, but it
that he reckons without his host, and afterl3lsY be
excitement and enthusiasm excited by his all the
the question will remain where it was;
-rtaitay
on Tuesday evening, he tried all that ingenuity can
devise, and bold assertion can effect, to make his
cause appear the only true and laudable one, and
to induce his audience to believe that the party of
which he is a shining ornament is greatly maligned
and often misrepresented in this country. Mr.
BEECHER certainly possesses one merit as a speaker
—he is straightforward and consistent. He boldly
lays down his line of argument, and unflinchingly
asserts his views, without a shadow of hesitation or
a particle of mystery. In the first p'= ce he endea-
vours to fix the limits of the point at issue to the
questionquestionOf slavery. He dented that they would
make
slavery worse by meddling with it, and did