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London, England, 1839-11-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

VIONEY MARK ET and CITY NEWS.

a bold front, and resist to the death unjustly usurped autho-
rity. In what way shall we characterise such language as
this, or the conduct of the man who could be capable
of using it? It immeasurably exceeds in indecency—
atrocity would, pbrhaps, be the fitter vrord—expres-
sions, so far as our knowledge extends, ever before em-
ployed in speaking of a reigning Sovereign of
Talk of the Chartist leaders! Why, there is not one
among them that ever, when speaking of royalty, pol-
luted his lips, or outraged the ears of his audience,
rr by e
epithets half so foul. Feargus O'Connor, Bronte
O'Brien, or even Julian. Harney himself, would be
ashamed to speak of the Sovereign in such unbecom-
ing language. If the charges which this Tory fanatic
brings against her Majesty were just, she would be
liable, by the Constitution of the country, to a pu-
nishment we shall not name. To charge her with " think-
ing.- that it the monarchy only lasts her time it will
be enough," is to accuse her of treason to the Con-
stitution, and of a violation of the solemn oath she
took at her Coronation to support :the monarchy to the
best of her ability. We are not advocates for State
prosecutions ; but w.here, let us ask, is the use of an
Attorney-General, if the Sovereign is thus not
only to beg rossly slandered in general terms with im-
punity, but to be disinctly and specifically charged with
the highest crime which, in her capacity of Queen, it
were possible for her to commit? It would be frightful
to contemplate the probable consequences of such lan-
guage, were the accusations preferred against her Ma-
jesty by this infuriated Tory believed by any consider.
able portion of the commubity to be founded in truth.
Her people's affections would not only in such a case,
become utterly estranged from her, but disloyalty would
be regarded as a virtue of the first magnitude. Nor
does the enormity of the thing rest even here. Her
Majesty's personal safety is involved in the matter.
Let no one startle at the statement ; we make
it advisedly. if this Mr. Bredshaw believes in
the truth of his own charges against the Queen,
he necessarily—if he be a logical reasoner—mwt
be of opinion that to take away the life of the
Queen would be one of the most meritorious actions
which could be performed. We do not mean to say
that he ought, according to his principles, to conceive
that this ought to be done by a private hand ; he might
think that it should only be done by the Legislature of
the land, as in the case of previous Sovereigns. But
then what security has he that every other person will
reason in the same manner? The natural tendency of
his language, when he represents the Queen as " think-
ing it enough if the monarchy lasts her time," is un-
doubtedly, when read by persons of weak minds and
strong monarchical views, of a nature to make all re-
flecting persons feel uneasy respecting the personal
safety of the Queen. With such a furious Tory zealot
as Mr. Bradshaw, it were vain to use a word in the way
of argument or remonstrance. Such intemperate and
outrageous characters as he can only be effectively
dealt with by the strong arm of the law. But what
shall we say of those persons—said to be one hundred
and fifty in number—several of them reverend gentle-
men, and all of them moving in a respectable sphere
of society—who wore present on the occasion, and
who not only gave no intimations of disapprobation
or dissent, but actually greeted him throughout his
address with the most deafening applause. These
persons, by their "„loud cheers," their " long-continued
applause," their " renewed cheering," and their
" tremendous bursts of applause," as the apostle
of ultra-Toryism gave utterance to each successive
sentence, have given their sanction to the mass
of sedition of which he delivered himself. And
yet these are persons who, until within the last
year or two, have had the cool effrontery to pretend,
that they and their party were the only loyal individuals
in the land. How great the change has been of late, in
this respect, come over the spirit of the Tories' dream !
Mr. Bradshaw's violent tirade against her Majesty will
not be without its uses to the nation. Who, after the
reception which that ourageous effusion met with from
his audience, can for a moment doubt, that were cir-
cumstances ever to place the Queen in the power of the
Tories, they would be prepared to resort to any expe-
dient, no matter how insulting or tyrannical, which they
might deem necessary to enable them to retain her in
their grasp? With a Tory Government, her Majesty
would be in a worse condition than the humblest of her
subjects : she would be as much a prisoner in her own
palace as if actually shut up in the Tower for some real
or alleged state offence.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Having freely spoken our opinion on what appears to
us the too nice and modified resistance of the National
Society Committee to the imperious demands of school
inspection advanced by the Committee of Privy Coun-
cil, we shall now briefly consider the substantial merits,
or rather demerits, of the case. The Committee of
Council on Education, be it remembered, was ap-
poiuted on the 10th of April of the present year, and
the first order relating to this demand of Privy Council
inspection was dated June 3. Now, it was prior to this
order, and without the most remote expectation that it
would ever tiers been issued, that nearly all the national
schools whose applications are at present before the
Council, were either begun or contracted for. Yet
they wish to compel them, by this ex post facto
regulation, either implicitly to submit to their man-
date, or to forego their portion of the grant. So
little could these schools have anticipated this sud-
den demand of a Privy Council inspection, that they
must have been commenced or contracted for, under the
conviction that the inspection would have remained
altogether in the hands of the National Society. On
the 4th September, 1838, a letter from the Treasury
was addressed by Mr. Baring to the Committee of the
National and British School Societies, expressly pro-
posing that the sum of 500/. should be respectively
granted to both these Societies for their inspection by
officers of their own appointment. And then it was the
British School Committee reported, " that a system of
inspection, conducted on the principle proposed by the
Government, would not be satisfactory to the country ;"
whereas the National Society was ready, at once, to
comply with the Government proposal. We ask any man
to say, whether it can be right or equitable to punish these
schools for refusing to submit to an inspection, of which
they could not have originally conceived the remotest ex-
pectation ? Such is the law, such the equity,which English
Protestants may henceforth expect from a Popish Privy
Council. They act on the well-known principles of the
High Court of Commission and of the Star Chamber ;
and we should not be surprised if, in the plentitude of
their power, they were to recall and alter the charter
of the National Society, or to refuse to issue any further
Royal letters for the:support of its schools. They may
find abundance of precedents for similar proceedings in
the times of our Second James. Nay, such is the auda-
city with which they already count on the triumph of
their projects, that they treat the schools of the Church
of England as if they were actually outlawed and ba-
nished from the Constitution. So surprised, astonished,
and intoxicated are these Papists with their triumph
ova, our Protestant Peers and Prelates, that they are
now acting as if we were living in the indicative of Po-
pery, and in the preterpluperfcet of Protestanism. To
argue logically, or to supplicate pathetically before
such a tribunal, were as hopeless as for a heretic
to demonstrate his orthodoxy before the Popish
Inquisition, or to look for a tear in answer to his
groans and convulsions. It is nothing short of the
public indignation of the whole kingdom which can
drive these men from their seats, or which can bring
the monarchy to an anchor. They have prevailed on
her Majesty to sanction a Committee of Council which
is altogether foreign to our Constitution—a Committee
which tramples on the Church and the Bishops, and
which disdains to regulate its proceedings either by
law or equity—which is so arbitrary and mutable, that
it demands implicit obedience to every one of its changes.
If gentleness of manner—if the strongest argument,
couched in the utmost civility, could prevail with such
men, then the Committee of the National Society might
hope to influence this Committee of Council. But the
fable of the " Wolf and the Lamb" forbids us to indulge
in any such childish expectations. They may yield to
fear and necessity—to a strong demonstration of public
indignation, but they will never yield to the force
of reason, or to the tenderness and terrors of conscience.
The case is clear as dates and facts can render it—
that this Privy Council Committee is now threatening
to cut off the schools of the National Society from all
participation in the Parliamentary grant, by a regulation
which was made long after the expenses of their bu'id-
ings were incurred, and of which they could not have
anticipated the remotest probability. Yet the flagrancy
of this injustice will only add to the certainty and delight
of their punishment if the public and the Parliament
do not powerfully interfere for their rescue. The mi-
nutes and orders of the Privy Council resemble neither
the proceedings of the Courts of Common Law nor of
those of Chancery. They bask in the meridian of pre-
rogative, and delight in the "sic volo, sic jubeo," of the
Court. That Whigs, Radicals, and papists, should have
conspired to bring our national education under this
arbitrary and irresposible swayl forms only another
evidence that our English liberties were not advanced
by the Reform Bill, or that whatever. was gained by
political reform has been lost by what is most absurdly
named Catholic emancipation.

(THURSDAY EVENING.)
POST.—The settlement of the Account has not
Dossed off so well as usual, There were, we under-
stand, two or three cases of default, arising out of the
recent gambling transactions in the Spanish and other
dangerous interests with which the market is encum-
bered. There was, however, only one name declared
by the Committee—that of Mr. R. T. Twiss. Pro-
bably a hope is entertained that the difficuties of the
other insolvents may, in some way or other, be cleared
up, or compromised, and that the extreme penalty of
the house may be remitted.
Of the receipts granted by her Majesty's Superin-
tendent of the China trade (Captain Elliott), in ex-
change for the opium given up to him by the British
merchants, for the purpose of being surrendered to
the authorities at Canton, several have been remit-
ted to London on speculation. We do not hear,
however, that there is any sale for them, so that the
experiment will most likely turn out a very losing
one. The price paid for these receipts in India was
at the rate of 180 rupees per chest. The policy
pursued by Captain Elliot seems to have been singularly
rash and injudicious with regard to this unfortunate
opium que.tion, and it may be reasonably doubted
whether, in the appointment of that gentleman to the
important post he now occupies. even a worse selection
was not made by her Majesty's Government than in the
case of Lord Napier So jealous as England is upon
the subject of her revenue laws, it ill becomes her to
be attempting to force upon China tin article the
impor-
tation of which has been prohibited in that country by
the most explicit and solemn edicts—an article withal
which is regarded by the Government of Pekin as a
deadly poison. When it is considered what difficulties
are made at the London Custom-house about the pass-
(ing of a second pair of kid gloves, or a second bottle of
eau de Cologne, which a passenger on board of a
Calais steamer may chance to have in his port-
manteau, the idea of the views of the Chinese Su-
perintendent being supported by Lord Palmerston
seems quite preposterous. The effect of Captain
Elliot's foolish measures, the purpose of which was to
suspend Chinese products, has been that of 'throwing a most
profitable business into the hands of the American
houses, who seem to be fully prepared to take advan-
tage of his folly. That Captain Elliot should have
been supported by some few of the resident British
merchants was but natural, because the parties are no
other than those who have been foremost in the ntro-
duction of the contraband article into the Chinese mar-
kets.
The accounts from Lancashire unfortunately confirm
the anticipations we ventured to express some short time
since, as to the position of the banking and manufactur-
ing interests in that part of the kingdom. There seems,
at length, to be an end to that confidence between man
and man which has been so long maintained by the
banking power of Liverpool and Manchester. Some
failures are announced as having occurred at the latter
place, and it is to be feared that the system of false
credit which has been so extensively pursued must be-
fore long, produce consequences still more disastrous.

TIMES.—The Funds remain with scarcely any va.
nation in prices, and the market is almost entirely in.

active.
During the course of the settlement of the account
to-day in the foreign house the failure of a dealer was
reported, but, although a long established member, his
differences were not of any great amount, as they are
stated not to exceed 2,500/. The uneasiness of money
was exemplified in the lower rates of continuation at
which Stocks were carried over. At the last settle-
ment i per cent. was the current rate on Spanish and
other securities of the same description, whilst to-day
the rates have not exceeded i, and may be stated gene-
rally to have varied only between 1-16 and i. It has
not been a heavy account, as, excepting perhaps in
Portuguese at one moment, there has been little ten-
dency to speculations of any magnitude during its pro-
gress. It may probably be attributed to this state of
inaction or neglect that a decided fall of prices in the
more speculative Stocks may be noted.
The imputation against Colonel Campbell, mentioned
in the letters from Alexandria received yesterday, that
he had declined the offer of the Pacha of Egypt of a
steamer to convey the Indian despatches to Malta, is
wholly denied by his friends and connexions in the city,
who affirm that the arrangement for conveying the de-
spatches from Alexandria to Malta in the Pacha's
steamer was made by Colonel Campbell, and that he
also engaged the services of Mr. Waghorn to take care
of the despatches during the passage. It is but justice
to Colonel Campbell to make this denial as public as
the original imputation ; but if it is true, as stated in
the Alexandria letters, that the despatches from India
arrived there on the oth inst., two days after the de-
parture of the regular Mediterranean packet, and were
not sent on to Malta till the 13th, it remains to be ex-
plained with whom the fault rests of so extraordinary
a delay.

SUN.—The private letters from Canton, delivered this
morning, state. that an opinion prevailed there among
many of the merchants that Captain Elliott had exceeded
his powers in guaranteeing payment for all the opium that
have been delivered up to the Chinese authorities.
Though credit is given to the British Superintendent
for the best intentions some distrust existed that the
Idorne Government would not approve all that he had
done in this respect.
We hear that the Batavier (due yesterday) has just
arrived from Rotterdam. The papers by her will be
delivered, it is expected, to-morrow.
The China and East India traders are in a feverish
state this afternoon, in consequence of the late news
from Canton and Calcutta. Teas are advancing—ln-
digo is heavy.
The Con-o 1 Market left off rather briskly this af-
ternoon, money being more easy than was expected on
the settlement of the Foreign Account. The news
from India still has a favourable effect upon the prices
of Stock. India Stock left off this afternoon at 248 i.
Consols for Money were firm at 90i, and for Account
at 901 j. The Stocks Market will be closed to-morrow
by order of the Committee, as is usual on the Ist of
November.
The meeting in the Bank-parlour passed off this
afternoon without any fresh notice being issued respect-.
ing the rate of interest ; this increased confidence in
the City : Bank Stock fell, however, from 181 to lBoi.
The failure in the Foreign Market of Mr. Twiss,
for about 1,5001. or 1,8001., had but little influence on
prices. The Markets were heavy, especially for Dutch
Stock, which fell to 51i for the Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., and to 99} for the Five per Cents. Spanish
fell to 28i, but closed at 29. Portuguese Five per
Cents. were depressed to 331 34, and Three per
Cents. to 2.2 i 23. All the other Foreign Stocks were 1
lower this'afternoon than they were in the morning.
The Share Market is on the fall. Birmingham and
Gloucester Shares have receded to 26i disc., the Lon-
don and Birmingham to 50 prem., Greenwich to 7 disc.,
and the New to 3 disc. British North American Bank
Shares are at 2i disc.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
A person who confesses to the proprietorship of the
name of Bradshaw, has, it appears, been " exhibiting"
at a Conservative guzzle, which came off the other day
at Canterbury. We are aware that in ordinary cases
considerable allowances must be made for speeches which
are delivered, or rather attempted to be delivered, after
the parties "performing" on the occasion have done
ample justice—which the Tories invariably do—to the
good things which "mine host" of the head inn has pur-
veyed for their grosser natures ; but that is an extenuation
which cannot be urged on behalf of the person who figured
so prominently at the Canterbury feed, he having been
among the earliest to play the orator among the various
Demostheneses who electrified the happy audience in the
course of the evening. The fact, we believe, is undoubted,
that Mr. Bradshaw was perfectly sober when be delivered
his oration : whether he was perfectly sane is another
question. We must, however, assume that he was. It
has been our lot at different times, in the course of our
connection with the newspaper press of the metro-
POll5, to hear and to peruse a variety (f most furious
attacks both on the Constitution and the Sovereign of
t 4
; but these have severally been mere mild-
.ness TeLf, compared with the language employed by
Mr. Bradshaw when assailing our youthful Queen in
his Canterburyofthe cooration. A more perfect . master of
abuse, rsest and most vulgar kind, it has
never been our fortuneaterrn to encounter. He seems to have.
liad every violent
fingers'
ends,
when
ern, ever y
inindecent epithet, at his
Sovereign. It
the Conservative work
of traducing his
is impossible to do
justice to his rhetoric by itnn;issi ectiot.is which can be
made from it ; :And yet
its
to resist the
temptation to cull a few of
i choicest flowers..:.-
46 Brought up under the auspices of the Cditizen King
of the Belgians, the serf of France,
,pfanetohpelge7uniod,fieacircbhyy
his influence, the Queen thinks that i
lasts her time, it is enough ; but the
Eng-
land will never consent that. the Crown shall° be e-
graded and debased for the inglorious ease of any created
being, nor that the personal wishes and caprices
of the Sovereign shall direct the conduct of the
Executive. Again, " The people of this country will
not be trampled upon by Pepe or Sovereign, still less
will they endure that a petty German ”Prince shall hold
the fair realm of England in fee farm. After describ-
ing the Queen's Ministers as the most profligate set of
men in Christendom, and loading the Roman Catholics
with every opprobrious epithet which his polluted mind
could suggest, this bright ornament of the Conservative
party resumes his vituperation of her Majesty herself;
in the following terms :—" Her 'Majesty is Queen only
of afaction, and is as much a partizan as the Lord
Chancellor him'eif." Mr. Bradshaw next proceeds to
represent her Majesty as a voluntary party to a contem-
plated destruction of the Church and State, and winds
up that part of his address by declaring with all the
bluster
of a Bobadil, that the Conservatives will not
quail at the impending danger ; but that they will present

to verify in our West India Colonies the practical work-
ings of the system of free negro labour ; and latterly it is
satisfactory to observe, the French Colonists themselves,
the parties most directly concerned, have been applying
themselves to the same sources of information. Antigua
papers, recently received, announce the arrival there of
Monsieur Ciceron, a planter, and one of the most in-
fluential Members of the Colonial Council of the island
of Guadeloupe, with the special object of examining the
progress of the new system ; so that it may be in-
ferred that the Colonists are wisely preparing for an
event which it is felt cannot much longer be
postponed, and in the consequences of which the value
of property, and their own prospects for the future, are
so deeply involved. This anticipation has doubtless
been hastened by the disastrous condition to which
sugar cultivation has been reduced by the active
competition, until lately, of untaxed beet root sugar in
France, and the still comparatively favoured terms by
which, fiscally, that branch of national industry is en-
couraged. In the progress of the fierce contentions to
which rival claims have given rise, the Colonies could
not fail to perceive how much their cause was prejudiced
in the public mind by the odious distinction always
forced into the foreground of discussion, that slave pro-
duction, however legalised so far as by human laws it
could be or had been, was, by the innate immorality and
repugnancy of its character, less entitled to demand
protection and excite sympathy in behalf of dependent
interests, than free cultivation.
(From the Globe.)
The letters published in the Times of yesterday, from
the Secretary of the National Society to the Secretary
of the Committee of Council, display what is the nature
of the controversy which it is now the intention of the Tory
party to carry on. The Bishop of Exeterhimsclf, in a letter
addressed to a clergyman, published in Woolmer's Exeter
and Plymouth Gazette, and copied in the Times of Tues-
day, advances the following principles, as the tactics which,
in his opinion, ought to be adopted by the Tory party :
" It appears to me, in the first place, that the Govern-
ment has a right to expect that it should receive an
accurate report of the efficiency or inefficiency of every
school to the erection of which it has contributed. Se-
condly, I think that this report ought to be full,
not limited to the machinery and mode of teach-
ing adopted in, the school, but extending to the matter
of instruction—above all, to the matter of religious
instruction ; for, without such a report, I know not how
it cut be known whether, and in what degree, the
school attains the object for which it has been esta-
blished." The Right Rev. Prelate then proceeds to
state the objections to which he conceives the system
of inspection proposed by the Committee of Council to
be liable ; but in the former part of his letter he informs
us, as is confirmed by the correspondence published in
the Times of Wednesday, that " the National Society
adhere to their judgment, that schools in connection
with it ought not to be subject to the inspection of
any officer not appointed by the National Society, or
by the Bishops in their several dioceses, though the
Committee was willing that the inspectors of schools
which may have been built or supported with aid from
Government should be submitted for approval to the
Committee of Council." In these words the Bishop has
extracted the pith of the long letter of the Secretary
of the National Society published in the Times of
Wednesday. The position assumed is, that the inspec-
tion of the National Schools shall be conducted by in-
spectors deriving their authority from the Church,
instead of from the State, which latter was the
intention of Parliament. Before we call the atten-
tion of our readers to the important principle involved
in this position, we may remark by the way that the
National Society has not assumed the dangerous po-
sition of standing between the Clergy and Committee of
Council to interdict their acceptance of the Parliamen-
tary grant ; but simply expounds the pretensions of the
Society to an inspection differently constituted from that
brought under the attention of Parliament in the last
Session. We think we may presume that the Na-
tional Society could not have committed a more sui-
cidal act than in the denial of such concurrence
between the Clergy and the Committee of Council ;
and we are confident that the great majority of the appli-
cants will gratefully accept the money offered by the
Committee of Council, on the terms prescribed in
their Lordships' regulations. But the principle to
which we desire to draw the attention of our readers,
as that which we conceive the Tory party will assume,
is, that the Parliamentary aid is to be liberally and con-
stantly administered for the erection of national schools
throughout the country. either without any further in-
spection than a mere audit of a building account, and
an examination of the building erected—by which is
meant the total exclusion of all examination of the
management of the school for the purpose of reporting
to Parliament ; or, that if the National Society, with
the able Prelate whose opinions we have quoted, admit
the propriety of an inspection of the internal economy
and discipline of the schools aided by public grants,
that inspection shall be conducted by persons owing their
authority solely to an ecclesiastical appointment—or in
other words, that though Parliament distributes the
funds to the national schools, on the enjoyment of which
the right to inspection is tounded, Parliament ought not
to employ, for the purpose of obtaining reports of the
efficiency of the schools, inspectors appointed by her
Majesty in Council. To expose the unreasonableness
of this pretension, we shall devote a portion of our co-
lumns at the earliest convenient period.
(From the Standard.)
We yesterday copied from Fraser's Magazine a
table of the English registrations, as far as they have
been completed, and are known, to which we hope
our readers have given attention. This table is in
the highest degree satisfactory, even if taken as fur-
nishing per se an adequate test of the advance
of Conservative principles, but a moment's reflection
will lead to the conviction that it, falls greatly short of
such a test. In every calculation of the kind the former
votes of electors must be assumed as determining the
party to which they are to be assigned, but every one's
experience will tell him that this assumption is falla-
cious. In many constituencies, and more especially
in the larger constituencies, hundreds vote carelessly
and inconsiderately, and hundreds do not vote at all.
We may cite as an example of the latter fact the
last Finsbury election, at which not one-half of
the constituency appeared at the poll. To surrender
these careless or negligent electors as irrevocably
committed to the Whig-Radicals, is a manifest in-
justice to our own cause. We are, before making
such a surrender, first to inquire whether no general
change has taken place in the public mind, of force
to cause the hitherto careless to think, and the
hitherto negligent to act. The inquiry cannot
occupy any length of time : on every side
we see the unequivocal testimonies to such
a change. We see these testimonies in the regis-
tration tables—we see them in the divisions of the
House of Commons—in the honest and manly decla-
rations of one Member of Parliament after another, who
avow with Sir. Ralph Howard that they can no longer
accompany the Whig-Radical Ministers in the
march to a Popish revolution—and, above all, we see
it in the results of all the later elections. We say of
all, for the fact is as clearly proved by the final state
of the poll at Manchester, as by the triumph at Cam-
bridge. From this it is obvious, that we shall err if we de-
spair of any constituency—except in the reserved pocket
boroughs of the Whigs—merely because the Whig-Radi-
cal majority was formidable at the late general election.
The magazine of " enormous lies," by which such ma-
jorities were obtained, is, we trust, exhausted ; at
all events, the false coinage 'is exposed, and its
authors are known and appreciated. Conviction of
the truth has reached and converted many who were
amongst our most strenuous opponents : and surely
such conviction must have equal power to determine
the doubtful and to arouse the indolent. When, there-
fore, we find it demonstrated, as we do in the table
published by Fraser, that independently of these effects
upon what we may call the old Reform constituency, a
general election must give to the Conservatives an
efficient working majority of 150 in a new House of
Commons, we must be satisfied of the firm ground upon
which the hopes of the Conservates rest.

A young fop, who had just begun to shave
nor a beard, stepped into a barber's shop, and after a
grand swagger desired to be shaved. The barber
went. through the usual movements, and the young
sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaiming, " Maw
Mine teLow, vs hat's your charge ?" " Oh, no charge,"
was the reply. "No charge ! how's that ?" " Why,
we are always thankful when we get soft calf-skin to
whet our razors on."—American Paper.
The bobbin net machine exporters were ex-
tremely busy during the last week, both in sending away
the hest workmen and the best machines. Several or-
ders are in town for machine insides for France, though
scarcely any machines have been building in Nottingham
since 1836, except those for Burton's new steam factory
at Mapperley. The number of bobbin net machines
since that year has decreased nearly one-half in Eng-
land. A branch establishment of the jingler stocking
frames are now making new frames in Ostend ; this
description of stocking frames was invented in London,
by Mr. Holland, the fleecy patentee, in 1836 ; his
--40--. frame now stands in the room of the Society of Arts, in
PROM THE EVENING PArER3 OF YESTERDAY, the Adelphi, Strand.—Nottingham Journal.
(From the Courier.) SINGULAR FUNERAL.—On Wednesday after-
The state of our West India colonies under their noon, at three o'clock, the following singular funeral took
present circumstances of transition from slave to free place at the church of St. Paul, Covent-garden. Mr.
n C ovent-
labour, renders the plans under discussion in France Cambray, a vender of fruit for many years i
for effecting the same object particularly interesting at garden Market, and who resided in Hart-street, Long-
this time ; to the proprietors of West India estates acre, expired last week. By his industry he accumu-
espich has beengenerallyaccomplish to all classes in this country,' lated a large fortune, and was of eccentric habits. He
which
possessed a favourite horse, which, in his will, he re-
theg great work of Slave Emancipation. It is with this quested to follow him to the grave. The funeral pro-
cvession quitted Hart-street in the following order ;
noticevlew that we take the opportunity of bringing before the
iz.
of our readers the progress of opinion in France re- , porters, state plumes, a hearse drawn by four
lative to this question, and the legislative measures which
are now in contemplation. The Commission, of which the horses, containing the body, followed by three mourning
cexelaembrinateedtheDgeutTi
eoectqiuneavlilllietsiscoaches, containing the relatives and friends of the de-
-1 d by his two porters, one •
, with new bridle and saddle,
at
bearings,the haenaddt,
c:appointedarrange
the to ceased,e the deceased's horse
oneach side. The mourn-
basis of a settled legislation ha processionpassed round
a recently made a Report, ful procCovent-garden Market to
from which it may be inferred the
that the Government the church where body was deposited in a vault.
come to the fixed determination of • have
deceased
grapplinc, with this The was highly respected by all who knew
perplexing difficulty. For some time •
past this result has him. T here was an immense number of spectators
been prepared for by the preliminary
delegation
of agents ' present to witness the novel procession.
.....

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SOVEMBER 1, 1839.

C
MIDDLESE X O URT OF RE
QUESTS.

A " Boor" man AND A " LUMP" master.—A journey-
man cabinet-maker summoned his employer for 1/. ss.
for work done under the following circumstances :
Journeyman—(addressing the Court)—About six
weeks ago I went " promiscuously" into the shop of the
defendant, and asked if he wanted a hand. He said
yes, and asked me what work I was used to. I told him 1
carcase work (heavy or large work), and he said he
could let me get up a "cabinet."
" So far you are correct," said the defendant.
" Wherein is it that you differ ?" inquired the Learned
Judge.W
" hy, Sir," said the plaintiff, " I'm a book man."
" And I," quickly observed the defendant, "am a

lump master."
Upon this bookish and lumpish question it was that
the parties joined issue.
The plaintiff swore most positively, that when he
promiscuously engaged to get up the " cabinet," he told
the defendant he was a book man, or, in other words,
that he beionged to the Cabinet-makers' Society, and
would not " go to work" otherwise than in the usual
literary manner, viz., unless he was paid according to
the sums laid down in the book of prices acknowledged
by the above•named body. The defendant as positively
swore that no such proposition was ever made, and that
if it had been he could not possibly have agreed to it,
and for these very obvious reasons—there were two de-
scriptions of cabinet-making men and master, viz., the
book men and masters, and the lump men and masters,
the former looking upon the latter as no better than
" niggers," and treating them as if their souls aspired no
higher, and their abilities were equal to nothing more
than deal tables and kitchen dressers. " Though, for
my parr," said the lump master," I can in my conscience
say that one is not a bit worse than the other. We
lumpers can make as good a sophy, and turn out a bit
of cabinet and wardrobe work, or polish off a rosewood
article, as well as the best of the book masters."
" But in a bit of solid work," said the journeyman
book-unionist, " such as turning out a dozen Windsors,
you ain't no use to us."
The defendant went on to state that these " Wind-
sor" men and masters charged according to the society's
book of prices, and the other in the lump, that is, that
that the men agreed to do a certain job for a certain
sum. With respect to his knowing that the plaintiff
was a society's man, the thing was preposterous. The
" books" and the " lumps" were the antipodes of each
other. The former were for carrying on matters in a
new way, upon a principle of equity which any given
dozen of bookmen and masters would interpret exactly
12 different ways. These persons, who professed to
be guided by the principle of mutual protection, and
by the book, could never come to any agreement as
to the particular department or head under which the
work done was to be classed. One person would
contend that the Corinthian carving of the pillars
of a bureau bedstead, or the twisted chiselling of a
"fancy cabinet," ought to come under five or six par-
tieular items in the book, and each of the remaining
11 of the dozen ivould declare that they ought to
be classed under five or six other particular items ; so
that, in fact, none of them knew what to call, or how
to class their own work ; and the best of the thing
was, that the more they deliberated the more they
'differed. Such were these new bookish cabinet
workers. Now, the limper: did things in the old
way ; they took a lump of stuff (piece of wood), and
master and man agreed that so much ought to be paid
for it. The sum total was mentioned at once.
The Jury gave a verdict of 19s. 9d., the plaintiff to
pay costs, as the 19s. 9d. had been tendered.

He was also ready to show that his design. could be
completed for 150,0001.
Also referred to the Committee.
REFORM OF THE CORPORATION.
Mr. WHEELER moved that the Bill for diminishing
the number of representatives sent from Bridge Wards'
to that Court be read a second time.
Mr. PONDER was much against such partial legisla-
tion, and felt it his duty to move as an ;intendment,
" That it is inexpedient to proceed in the equalization
of the members of this Court throughout the different
Wards by any other than a general measure, which shall
affect the whole city."
Mr. Low seconded the amendment.
Mr. LAWRENCE was anxious to see a reform, and an
assimilation of the members allotted to each Ward, but
he could not agree to any such partial legislation as was
contemplated by the Bill before the Court. There was
certainly much injustice done by the members for small
Wards being put upon every Committee, but he
suggested 'chat that abuse might be altered beneficially
by putting two small wards, or wards sending few mem-
bers to the Court, into one list. He could not support
the Bill in its present shape.
Mr. WILLIAMS said if the Court were to agree to
the motion, and take away any members from the
Bridge Ward, who was to say where they were to stop
in such innovations. If he supported the motion before
the Court he would hold himself bound to vote for every
similar motion that was brought forward.— (Hear.)
He thought it was the duty of the Court to oppose such
innovations in the very outset.
Sir P. LAURIE would certainly.vote for maintaining
the present number of members for Bridge \s ard,
unlesss corruption or abuse w ere proved against the
ward or its representatives. He would have no objec-
tion to a change in the mode of nominating Committees,
but he would decidedly oppose any alteration in a dimi-
nution of the number of members. He heard many
rumours, and amongst them it was said they would
have the Government amongst them —(Laughter.) No
such things—the Government ha d had enough of the City
of London during the last six months. If the Corpo-
ration let them alone he was sure they would not
trouble the Corporation. No, no—they would not
touch pitch.—(Loud laughter.) The ward of Bridge
was a good ward, and he would support it with his
humble vote. Lessen the number of representa
tives and they would immediately introduce
jobbing and corruption. Their great safeguard against
both was in their numbers and the openness of their
proceedings. He hoped the representatives of the
Bridge Ward were in their places ; and would resist
the proposition as one man.
Mr. OBBARD said the worthy Alderman and Knight
had discovered that Bridge Ward was a good one—so,
no doubt was Aldersgate, and in fact all the other
Wards—they were all honourable.—(Laughter.) A
great • deal had: been said about the Ward
of Bassishaw—it bad only two members more than its
proper number, but the Bridge Ward had four times
more than it should have.—(Hear, hear.) He was in
favour of a general measure ; but when he could not
get the larger he was content to take the smaller, for
anything would he an improvement. He would vote
for the motion—not as against any one of the members
for Bridge Ward—for none were more respectable—
his vote would be against the system.
Deputy TYARS defended the Ward of Portsoken
from some attack made upon it by Sir P. Laurie. 11-
thought the member who brought forward the proposi
tion was perfectly justified in so doing—he was defeated
in the general measure by a majority of only one—he
had a right therefore to attempt to carry it by piece-
meal. The Ward of Portsoken had as much property,
and a greater number of inhabitants, than Bridge Ward,
yet the former was represented by only nine members
while the latter had fifteen. That was an inequality
which ought not to exist.
Sir C. MARSHALL (Alerman for Bridge Ward) was
very glad to see so full an attendance in the Court,
as he was sure that perfect justice would be dealt
out to the Ward of Bridge. The representatives
of that Ward merely said,—" make the measure
a general one, and we will conform to it, but do not
siugle us out for attack, unless you have, some charge
to make against us. He trusted that upon that occa-
sion the Court would agree to the amendment.
Mr. STEVENS said, according to the old charter, the
Corporation consisted of the whole of the citizens of
London. Suppose a meeting was held in the Hall, and
a measure was proposed anal carried, it would be car-
ried by a majority of the citizens, but that was not the
case in that Court, for the members for large and popu-
lous wards were outvoted by those who represented
small wards. He considered the proposed measure an
excellent one, it was a small reform certainly, but he
accepted it in the hope of obtaining th e larger measure
which he had no doubt would greatly benefit the city
of London.
Mr. JONES of Bishopsgate was a consistent Reformer,
and had voted for the general measure, but he could not
support such a partial one as that before the Court.
Mr. ROGERS supported the amendment.
The LORD MAYOR said upon the last Court day the
Bill was referred to the Law Officers to prepare it for
a second reading. Before proceeding further it would
be better to hear their opinion read.
The TOWN CLERK then read the opinion. It
said the expediency of reducing the number
of Members for one Ward without reference to any
other Ward, was extremely doubtful, and any such re-
duction must be just, reasonable, and for the benefit
of the City genecally —(Cheers.)
Mr. WIRE suggested the propriety of referring the
matter back either to a Committee, or the Law Offi-
cers.—(No, no.) It appeared they had not sufficient
data before them upon which to form an opinion.
The LORD MAYOR considered that there was an end
to the whole question upon the opinion of the Law
Officers, unless the Court were prepared to take the
opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor Generals.
Mr. WIRE—The Law Officers of the Coporation had
not had the whole case before them, and therefore their
opinion (mid not he considered perfect.
The COMMON-SERGEANT—We bad no case what-
ever before us. A Bill was put before us, but, as it
stood, they could not have passed it for a second read-
ing, because it was illegal. We knew nothing of the
rateable property or of the population of Bridge Ward,
nor of it as compared with any other Ward in the City.
We had no data upon which to found any averment.
Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Pritchard, and several other mem-
bers' spoke all at once, amidst much confusion, which
rendered it impossible for us to hear their sentiments.
Mr. PEWTRESS was firmly of opinion that the Court
could not legally effect what they were now trying to
accomplish—they could not legally pass the present
Bill.
The LORD MAYOR was glad to perceive that there
was a determination among the members of the Court
to go to a division on the present question, because lie
was satisfied if' the Court had the power there were
sufficient averments in the preamble of the present Bill
to call upon the Court to pass it.—(Hear.) In his
opinion the Court could not do better than pass the
present measure, leaving those who disputed its legality
to carry it to tne proper tribunal for deciding that
point.—( Hear.)
Mr. DAVIDSON rose amid loud cries of " Question."
He called upon the Court not to pass the present Bill,
as by doing so they would be placing themselves in a
labyrinth from which it would be most difficult to extri-
cate themselves.
Mr. WHEELER having replied,
A show of hands was taken, which was declared by
the Lord Mayor to be in favour of the amendment. A
division was then called for, and having taken place,
the amendment was pronounced to be carried by a ma-
jority of 6.
THE OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY POLICE.
Tile Court then proceeded to the election of a Com-
missioner of the City Police, when Mr. Daniel Whittle
Harvey was elected to the office unanimously.
THE OFFICE OF CITY SOLICITOR.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 soy. each, h ft, for foals of 1837 ; colts, Bst
71b ; and fillies Bst 41b. T. Y. C. (4-Subs. )
Mr. Greville's c Proteus by Cetus (sat) 1
Lord Exeter's f by Sultan ............ 2.
6 to 1 on Proteus, who won by a length.
Subscription Plate of 501. ( Handicap), for three-yr-olds Tina
upwards. D.I.
Lord Jersey's Jeannina, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Robinson) 1
Mr. Shelley's the Drama, 3 yrs 6st ..... 2
Lord Exeter's Adrian, 5 yt s ist 3
Lord Lichfield's c Feather, by Actaeon.. ......
Duke of Rutland's Revoke, 3 yrs 7st ........................ 5
Duke of Portland's St. Peray, 4 yrs, 7st 91b... ..................
Betting-2 to 1 asst Feather, sto 1 agst Joannina, sto 1
agst St. Peray, sto 1 Revoke, sto I agst the Drama, and
6to 1 agst Adrian. Won by half a length.
Sweepstakes of 50 soy. each, h ft ; for two-yr-old colts, Bst 71b ;
and fillies, Bst 41b. Ab. M. (19 Subs. )
Lord G. Bentinck's ch Capote (W. Day) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's gr c Grey Milton ............... . ........... 2
Mr. Wadeson's cby Buzzard .... 3
Mr. Grevill's ch c Preteus 4
Betting-5 to lon Grey Milton and Capote, and 6to 1 agst
Proteus.
Sweepstakes of 13 sous eacit ; for two-year olds, 7st ; and three,
Bst 121 Is ; fillies allowed 21b. T. Y. C, The winner to be
sold for SOL, &c Six Subs.
Mr. J. Bogers's Miss Hawk, 3 yrs. (Rogers) 1
2
Mr. Pettit's Miss Romer, 2 yr 5..... ......... .
Lord Lynedoch's Re:amosa, 2 yrs .............................. •Lord
3
The following also started, but were not placed
Lichfield's Sister to Hector, 2 yrs ; Lord Exeter s f by Sultan,
out of Palais Royal, 2 yrs ; and Mr. Rayner's Miss Betsey,
:

yrs.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Retamosa (taken), 3to 1 agst Miss
Hawk, and 4to 1 agst Sister to Heetor. Won by three parts
of a length.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS OF WEDNESDAY'S RACES.)
T.Y.C. Plate.—Maid of Ipswich, Muleteer, and Remnant
laid together in front of the c )rds, where Camelino joined com-
pany ; a few strides up he left them, and won easy by a length;
Remnant was well up, Stamboul fifth, and Mist beaten e
re ff•
Some false starts, and a great loss of time, arose from the s"
tiveness of tamboul. The winner was claimed.
A. F. Plate.—Antler and Roscius made the running to the
bushes, where Quo Minus took it up, followed by .tEther, the
two being fairly singled out; half-way up the cords .iSther
challenged, and after a fine race won by half a length.
The wea•her COD inues fine, but the wind is still in a cold
quarter, and strong enough to make a long stay on the heath
far from agreeable.
Latest betting :

NURSERY STAKES-FRIDAY.
2 to 1 agst Garry-Owen—taken
9 to '2 agst Assassin—taken
5 to 1 agst Nicholas—taken
5 to 1 agst Little Wonder
12 to 1 agst Constantia colt
13 to 2 agst Miss Romer and Ten-pound Note
THE DERRY.

16 to 1 agst Wardan—taken
18 to i agst Launcelot—taken
18 to 1 agst Nluley Ishmael
20 to 1 agst St. Andrew
25 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid
30 to 1 agst Lucetta colt—taken
33 to 1 agst Bokhara
15 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken
THE OAKS.

10 to 3 agst Crucifix
11 to 1 agst Lallah Rookh
12 to 1 agst Currency
The following matches have been made :
FRIDAY.
Trojana, 7st 41b. First half of Ab. M. 50, h ft. G.
Lord Lichfield's Sister to Hector, Bst 71b, agst 111 r. Greville',
Lord Lichfield's Sister to Hector, Bst 71b,
Bentinck's Sal Volatile, 7st. First half of Ab. M. I°l3' h
SATURDAY. Bentin
• cies
Mr. Graydon's Roscius, Bst 71b., agst Lord G.
Capote, 7st 21b. T. Y. C. 100, h ft. sold
f..--
Previous to the races the following racing stock was
Chincilla, by Camel, 200 guineas; Young Maniac (C°. 11,,,i1-:
60 pine—
sionee's dam), 130 guineas; Flora, by Partisan,
colt foal, by Clearwell, out of I.iska, 67 guineas; Alacier c ),
agst Lord
ft.
Sister to Neva, 25 guineas ; and Sister to Confusionee (a .
16 guineas. . _

GRAND ROWING MATCH ON THE R
MERSEY.
THE THAMES AGAINST THE CLYDE. the
This event, which has excited so much interest among
..
admirers of aquatic sports, came off on Wednesday. It was ala
nounced by advertisements that several of the steamboats vrot,
leave Liverpool for the Rock Ferry as early as nine eons,
cote;
A.m., and it was supposed in consequence that the
would take place on the Cheshire side of the river. A grt to
concourse of persons availed themselves of the steam-boats I
cross the river ; but as the tide would not serve for the Math,
taking place on the Cheshire side, it was determined th ~
trial should be made along the piers opposite. At tviei‘r-
o'clock the promenade of the Prince's Pier was crowded--i v
deed, there were as many spectators as witnessed the first fie-
parture of the Liverpool steamer for New York. The betti'ag,
both at Liverpool and Manchester, upon this highly
A ;iffini $1;
esting contest, has been very extensive, hut it is --,ge
to tell s, hich of the competitors were favourites. ' -
circumstance of the Clyde watermen having been success-
ful in all their matches induced a feeling boatmenr fa'
your ; but the known skill of the London also
challenged the odds. Charles Campbell, the champion
of of the Thames, as previously announced, was entrusted vi.
the selection of the Thames watermen, and in addition to him-
self, Phelps of Fulham, Pocock ('Lambeth),
Campbell, were named as the rowers. W. Caropbell was
Bunt, about
about
pointed coxswain. Mr. Thyne's gig, built by Han ._ .2
She is 0.
four years since, was fixed upon for the match.
been in
feet long, and weighs 139 lbs. The Clyde crew had _
active training, and looked well at starting. Three brothers!
and George
named Barr, were selected to row, but subsequently one cii;
Two
withdrawn, and a boatman named Fraser substituted. ,i' '
/
boats had been built for the purpose, one weighing 224 p
The
and the second 237 lbs. The latter boat was chosen•
oars pulled with were such as are used on the Thames. The g,
bet was for 1001. a side, and each crew provided its OWP iv'
without any restrictions as. to length,palling
tons, &C. animated
The river during the morning presented a very
appearance, a very considerable number of steamers
fide'arr
oars, with but
and small boats were crowded with spectators. At
nutes to one o'clock the boats of the competitors were backed.)_.e..
to the lin? of polite Queen's Dock, and by a given sigt.tl the
paration was made for starting. In order to distinguishi.%
different boats the one from the Land of Cakes was painted eu
and the other yellow.
the Lon
-
About one o'clock the firing. of a gun announced the coca'
About
of the trial of speed. Both started fairly: t „..
don boat having the very trifling advantage of nearing
andsa•'
verpool shore. To the distance of some 300 or 400 y .D;
advantage was gained, but subsequently the skill of the Lon l. al
rowers was perceptible. The Scotchmen still pulled rnanfan'
and gained a temporary advant4re, but it was quite evident tua
the superior strength of the metropolitans would gain the prilea
The London rowers, when opposite the Prince's Pier, b,a‘,
gained more than seven boats' lengths, and after rounding t" '
boat moored according to the regulations, came in more than t<
quarter of a mile in advance ofthe Scotch boat.
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.IVER

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN AIARKETS

Wheat , Barley. l eats.

Mr. Charles Pearson was elected to the office of
City Solicitor by a major►ty of 28—the numbers being
for Mr. Pearson 129, for Mr. Saunders 101.
The Aldermen who voted for Mr. Pearson were—
Humphrey, White, Copeland, Lawson, Harmer, Sir
John Key, and Pirie, who was his chairman.
The Aldermen who voted for Mr. Saunders were—
John Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Sir Peter Laurie,
Gibb-, and Magnay, who was his chairman.
Mr. PEARSON, in returning thanks, declared that he
had so many votes of members of all parties, he was dt....
termined never to use the word party again.—(A laugh.)
Mr. SAUNDERS, in returning thanks for the sup-
port he had met, said he felt confident that if he had
commenced his canvass as soon as his able competitor had
taken the field, he would have been at that mo►ne„t in
the situation which his friend Mr. Pearson had just
succeeded in obtaining.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Pearson was then introduced to the Court as
City Solicitor, and toMs his seat at the table.
COMPTROLLER OF BRIDGE-HOUSE ESTATES.
Mr. Brand was unanimously chosen Comptre--
the Bridge-house Estates —Adjourned.

ea..s.

Dr. Haviland, Regius Professor of Physic in
Cambridge, has resigned the office of physician to Ad-
denbrooke's Hospital. His successor is Dr. Paget, of
Caius College.
Prince Louis Napoleon has taken the spacious
mansion of the Earl of Ripon, in Carlton-gardens, over-
looking the gardens of her Majesty the Queen Dowa-
ger, at Marlborough House. The Prince, who intends
to fix his residence in this country, is about to give
up Lord Cardigan's mansion, the term for which he
had taken it having nearly expired.
AUCIITERARDER CASE.—The Presbytery of
Auchterarder have just appointed the Rev. Peter Mor-
rison, from Newcasle, to supply the vacancy there, in
the face of a unanimous protest, both by the Session
and Congregation. The Session and Congregation, we
are creditably informed, offered to pay the interim
minister if they were allowed to elect him, but the Pres-
bytery, who have the sole power at present, would not
listen to this proposal, and hence the Session and Con,
gregation, to show their abhorrence of such inconsistent
conduct, have protested against the appointment.—
Scottish Pilot.