The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-20 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
SUNDAY NiO/IT.
Since Friday evening, when Mr. O'Brien and other De-
legates addressed a large concourse of persons in Smith'
field-market, no meetings have taken place, either in the
town or at Holloway-head. The utmost tranquillity pre-
vails, and the apprehensions which were entertained by
many from the excited state of the populace immediately
after the examination of Messrs. Brown and Fussell, that
the public peace would be disturbed, have now given way
to the conviction that no further attempts will be made to
collect meetings in the public thoroughfares, which are
alone likely to lead to interference on the part of the so'
thorities. Indeed, all classes of the respectable inhabitants
have reason to feel grateful for the forbearance which the
Magistrates have exercised in the discharge of their duties,
which were certainly trying and onerous in the extreme.
Nearly the whole of the members of the Convention have
separated for the respective stations assigned them through'
out England and Scotland, and the meetings, which bave
been called " simultaneous," will commence on Mond*
and be held on various days throughout the present week.
Friday is fixed for the great Birmingham meeting, and 115
the Whitsun fair takes place on Thursday, and continue
till the close of the week. there is every probability, bow;
ever it may lack in vigour, that there will be no want of
numbers to add to its importance. As the long and accurate
reports which have already appeared in your paper of tbe
recent proceedings here may hare the effect of creatino
an impression unfavourable to our commercial interestsy:
may be well to make known, as extensively es Pes°ibtit,..e
through the medium of your valuable journal, that the
most tranquillity prevails, and from the good feeling last tea
respectable and thinking portion of the working-c rious
there is little reason to apprehend any outbreak of r the
or permanent character. The resolution adoptedt.OThe
Convention, and circulated through the country "y
ex_
Sun, deprecating the use of violent language, or the at-
hibition of arms at public meetings, has already be en
tended with the best effects, and has given confidence to
those whose fears lei them to apprehend consequences in-
jurious to the peace and prosperity of the country.
I observe in two of the Morning Tory Journals
of
Saturday a statement that the police, in their search for
Brown and Fussell, stumbled upon a person, at a house la
Ffeeman-street, who represented himself as being.e Re"
porter to The Sun Newspaper. As the impression
tended to be created on the mind of any one read-
ing that statement cannot be easily mistaken, I
thought it might be as well to make some inquiry
into the circumstance, from which I learned that a
" penny a liner" did " bed and board" at the house men.
tioned. I also learned that_ this " penny a liner,"
although having the impudence at first to represent himself
as being connected with The Sun, did afterwards acknow-
ledge that he had been sent from London by G: and-
mamma. This latter statement would appear to be cor-
rect, judging from the facts of the house in which he
was found belonging to a tea-totaler, and Grandmamma
being such an admirer of the doctrine of tea-totalism.
No one could, therefore, give a better description than
himself of his own beautiful countenance, which, he tells
us, is " ferocious-looking) nor could any one of course
better describe the tones in which he besought the police
to "have mercy upon him :" but I caution him against, in
future, representing himself as being connected with The
Sun newspaper. I have also ascertained that this person,
and a " liner " for the Times, known in Birmingham by
the cognomen of " Jonathan, " went together to an ale-
house near the railway offices, where they concocted theft
reports. This will account for their similarity.;