The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-09 00:00:00

SECOND DAY.

The Wilton Stakes of 30 SOTS. each, h. ft., for two yrs old; colts,
Bst. 51b; and fillies, Bst. 21b. Those by untried stallions, or
out of mares whose produce never won, allowed 3lbs ; if both,
51bs. T. Y. C.

Mr. Attwood's b. c. Avicenna, Duke of Cleveland's b. f. Sister
to Eliza, Mr. Howard's eh. c. Fitzroy (51bs) ; Mr. Meiklam's bl.
c. by The Mole, out of Marianne.

THIRD DAY.
Sweepstakes of 20 sons. each, for two yrs old ; colts, Bst. 51b ; and
fillies, Bst. 21b. T. Y. C.
Mr. Clark's ch. c. Benjamin, Mr. Parkin's b. c. Naworth,
Mr. Attwood's b. c. Parcelsus, Mr. Cookson's b. f. own Sjster
to Lanercost, Mr. Bowes's b. c. by Memnon, junior, out of Hen-
rietta; Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Kaleideseope, Duke ef Cleveland's
ch. c. by Emilius, out of Farce ; Mr. Smith's b. c. The Jovial
Bachelor Mr. C. M. St. Paul's b. f. Calypso, Mr. Meiklam's
f. Remedy.
Sweepstakes of 30 sous. each, 10 ft., for three yrs old ; colts, Bst•

- Mb ; and fillies, Bst. 21b. Milo and a quarter.
Colonel Cradock's br. c. The Provost, Mr. Clark's br. c.
Dragsman (late Uncas), Lord Eglinton's b. g. Uriah, Colonel
Cookson's b. c. Doctor Oliver, Mr. Attwood's b. f. Arinette,
Mr. Bowes's b. c. Hetman Platoff, Mr. Gascoigne's b. f. Ebo-
rina, Mr. Arrowsmith's b. c. Troy, Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. by
Langar, dam by Macbeth ; Mr. Smith's b. c. by Margrave, out of
Lady Fractious ; Mr. Howard's b. c. Quid, Mr. Heseltine's b. f.
Shadow.

THE PARSON'S CHARTER.

( From the Oxford Chronicle.

A person, wh) was passing the window of a room wherein
the " Cranmor Memorial Committee" were assembled, picked
up a sheet of paper containing the following abstract of " the
Parsons' Charter," got up, it is presumed, in opposition to
" the People's Charter." The finder carried it into the
Committee-room, but strange to say not one of the Clergymen
present would own the document.
Preamble recites that divers and great inconveniences have
frequently arisen to farmers and tradesmen from the exercise
of the elective franchise, and that many who have voted con-
trary to the wishes of their landlords and customers have on
th account been deprived of their farms and of the custom
of such customers, and that therefore it is desirable to exempt
from the franchise all persons whatsoever except Clergymen
and Magistrates.
Clause 2. Sets forth the :evils of the Reform Act and re-
peals it.
3. Sets forth the evils of the Religious Equality, and re-
peals the Catholic Emancipation Act.
4. Extols the Test and Corporation Acts and re-enacts
them, and further enacts that all Members of Parliament
hereafter elected shall, at the table of the House of Com-
mons, before they take their seats, take the following oath :
" I, A B, do sincerely detest that damnable doctrine that
the people ought to be taxed by their representatives only,
and I do firmly hold that the people have nothing to do with
the laws but to obey them, and nothing to do with the taxes
but to pay them."
5. At all future elections of Members of Parliament In-
cumbents of Livings (except as hereinafter mentioned) are to
have as many votes as there are Freeholders and Copyholders
in their respective parishes; and Magistrates to have as many
votes as they have fitly-pound tenants, and no other parties
whatever to have any votes.
6. Whereas it requires
" About two hundred pounds a year
To make all doctrines plain and clear,"
no Incumbent, whose preferment is of a less annual value than
two hundred pounds. is to be entitled to vote.
7. Entitles Incumbents to impose Church-rates on their
parishioners to any amount and at their own disrection, and
parties refusing to pay such rates to be liable to seven years'
transportation.
8. Enacts that a certain pamphlet on Church Reform,
written by a certain Curate in Oxfordshire, shall be publicly
burnt by the common hangman, and the writer thereof sent
to Coventry.
9. Condemns, excommunicates, and sends to Coventry all
other advocates of Church Reform, ani all persons who shall,
at any time, in any manner, presume to censure this Charter.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF

ADULTERY.

A few days ago a discovery was made which has not only
pl inged the members of two respectable families into a state
of the deepest affliction and shame, but created the greatest
possible sensation throughout the neighbourhood where it has
occurred. The guilty parties are the wife of a highly respect-
able gentleman, holding. a responsible situation and one of
considerable emolument in a first rate mercantile establish-
meat in the metropolis, and
intimacy
Polish refugee, and the circum-
stances which led to their and subsequent detection
are these :
The refugee, in the first instance, obtained an introduction
to the family, and was engaged as a teacher of languages and
music to the younger branches of it, and so unassuming was
his demeanour and manner that he not only obtained the
unbounded confidence, but experienced the utmost kindness
and hospitality of the gentlemen whom he so basely injured,
and who, up to a few
.days ago, had not the slightest idea of
the profligacy of his wife (the mother of six children), or the
baseness of the man whom he had, in a great measure, from
motives of charity, so liberally patronised. It seems that the
lady, in an evil hour, proceeded to the residence of a "for-
tunein St. George's.in-
teller" the-East (she herself not
living far distant), when she was met by the Polish teacher of
her children, but what took place there it is impossible to say.
There is very little doubt, however, that means were taken
to introduce the unfortunate woman to a Jew who keeps a
house of an infamous description in the vicinity of the Hay-
market, who, as it turns out, is the brother of the woman
who personated the fortune teller, as it has been since
satisfactorily proved that he received her and her cher an:
at his house, and though he winked at their infamy, the
wretch soon began to turn the affair into a source of the
grossest imposition and vile profit. On the second visit of
the parties to the house the lady wore a gold watch, which,
on seeing, the Jew vagabond drew from her side and kept it
for several days, and it was not until he was threatened with
the interference of the police that he consented to give it up,
and not even then until he received three sovereigns. Having
discovered the residence of the lady, he extorted considerable
sums of money from her under threats of informing her hus-
band of her conduct, and continued to carry his system of
persecution to such an extent that at last she could not meet
his demands or endure his importunities any longer. Find-
ing this to be her determination the miscreant went to the
house of the injured husband, represented himself as a com-
mercial traveller, and, under the guise of friendship, and no
doubt in the hope of reaping a further reward for his vice, re-
vealed to him the disreputable conduct of his wife, and further
stated where the Pole was then to be found. The husband,
whose feelings at so horrible a disclosure may be more easily
imagined than expressed, lost no time in tracing out the man
who had destroyed his happiness, and on his being searched,
letters were found in his pocket from the lady, the contents of
which were of such a character as to leave no doubt whatever of
the criminal intimacy which existed between the parties. The
lady has since been sent home to her friends. It is much to
be regretted that the wretches engaged in so disgraceful a
transaction, viz., the Pole, the Jewess fortune-teller, and the
Jew brothel keeper, should go unpunished.

A public lecture was delivered last night by Col. Thompson
on the Corn-laws, at the Horse and Groom, Great Portland-
street, to a most numerous assemblage. Smith Williams,
Esq. was in the Chair.
Col. Thompson began by observing that they were assem-
bled to consider a highly important subject, and one which
was now occupying the public attention to a very great ex-
tent. He wished to explain the effects of the restriction on
the importation of cheaper food on the community in gene-
ral, and on the working classes in particular.—( Hear, hear.)
He would suppose that any one of them had the means of
having his firewood cut at the expense of one shilling by a
sharp axe, and that any such person changed his practice
and adopted a blunt axe, the effect of which would be that
he bad to employ two men to cut his firewood, or, what was
the same thing, one man to cut it in two days instead of one
day. The consequence would be, that he would have to pay
two shillings instead of one, and it would be manifestly bene-
ficial to the fraternity of wood-cutters ; but there was an equal
loss to you who engaged to pay the expense. But was there
not a third person concerned, whose interest, if taken into
consideration, would show the performance to be most com-
plete folly? If you had retained possession of your shilling,
you would not have destroyed it; clearly you would not have
thrown it into the sea ; you would have expended it with some
tradesman, your neighbour, for some convenience or luxury.
There were those who lost a certain amount of custom in con-
sequence, namely, those upon whom you would have expended
the difference of price. There were two losses for one gain.
The balance was one shilling lost.—(Cheers.) If any society
went about to compass the acquisition of an object by the
dearest way instead of by the cheapest, there were infallibly
two losses for one gain, making in the aggregate, or on the
final balance, one loss. —( Hear, hear.) There were articles
that coul,l be obtained by barter with foreigners cheaper
than by making them among ourselves. Let them take the
article of gloves, which could be procured from France by
the exchange of two shillings worth of English commodities-
The English glove-maker could not produce the article for
two shillings, but he could for three shillings, and he was of
opinion that it was hard that his countrymen should not
employ him. Let them suppose, then, that the commerce
was stopped by Act of Parliament. There would be clearly
two shillings worth of trade engaged in fabricating English
commodities, to be sent to France in exchange, lost. There
would, he said, be clearly two shillings worth of commodities
in the shape of commerce put an end to. There was a
third shilling to be expended, moreover, on the English
glove-maker; and it was clear that if the English glove-
maker gained it, the English wearer lost it.—(Hear, hear.)
But was there not another party—namely, the trades on
whom that shilling would have been expended instead of
the glove-maker, if every thing had been left in its na-
tural course, that was a loser ?—( Hear, bear.) But, perhaps,
the consumer might be a rich man, and it was superfluous
to consider his losses. He would ask, had the manufacturing
class gained anything ? No ! There was a shifting and
changing, but on the aggregate there was no gain. But the
consumers were the working classes with respect to the article
he had in view. He was speaking about the great necessary
of life—about the restriction upon corn.—( Loud cheers.)
There was an absolute loss equal to the difference of price
between English corn and foreign corn. There was a mul-
titude of consequences that could not be brought within
the compass of a pecuniary consideration upon such an oc-
casion. If you diminish the amount of food to be con-
sumed, whilit you could not reduce the numbers of the
working men, the working man must work more hours
to secure his pittance. As the rations diminished, so the
exertions by which the share was to be decided must be-
come harder and harder. Each man strove against the other,
and in ages grew less and less. It was the consequence of
those absurd laws which said, you shall eat so much and no
more ; 3ou may multiply, but it shall be at the risk of dis-
tributing amongst three children what was good only for
two. The anti-populationists, though right in many of their
positions, had failed to expatiate upon what made the limit
to our food, and to animadvert upon the legislative restric-
tion against the importation of foreign corn.—( Hear, hear.)
Amongst the arguments urged against free trade there was
that which might, indeed, appear to be weighty, but which he
thought be could refute. It was said that if we depended
for food upon foreign countries, we might go to war with
them, and they would reduce us by famine. Was it not
within every body's recollection that an Emperor of Russia
attempted, when he was at war with us, to cut off from us
his tar and hemp, and that his people cut off his head in conse-
quence ? But corn could be procured from the greatest num-
ber of nations that could be imagined, and whenever we could
not obtain it from one country, we could have it from another.
He conc!uded a most eloquent and loudly cheered speech, by
hoping that the time was not distant " when commerce would
be free, and honest industry would be allowed by law."
The meeting did not break up without passing a vote of
thanks to the Gallant Colonel, accompanied by three hearty
rounds of applause.
The Meeting first assembled in the up-stair parlour ; but
after the Gallant Colonel had been speaking for a short time,
the landlord said the room was unsafe with such a crowd, and
the meeting was adjourned to the skittle-ground. No accom-
modation was there provided for us, so that we are unable to
give such a report of the lecture as its importance deserved.