The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

STEWARDS.
11. A. Aglionby, Esq., M.P. ;Daniel W. Harvey, Esq., M.P.
Robert Archbold, Esq., M:P. ;John Henry, Esq.
James Anderton, Esq. W. James, Esq., M. P.
Thomas Anderson, Esq. W. H. James, Esq.
John Anderson, Esq. 'Lord Kensington.
W. H. Ashurst, Esq. !John Kelly, Esq.
Joseph Brotherton, Esq., ALP.' William Kensett, Esq.
Edward Raines, Esq., AL P. Col. Sir J. Scott Lillie, C.B.
Reginald J. I3lewitt, Esq. M. P ;Richard Latham, Esq.
Hon. Colonel Butler, M. P. .1
William Laurence, Esq.
Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., M.P. Daniel Lister, Esq.
M. J. Blake, Esq., M.P. iJohn Maher Esq., M.P.
R. Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P. ,Edward Matins, Esq.
Charles Boyle, Esq. ;John Mullins, Es".
Charles F. Barkley, Esq. Thomas Nias, Esq.
John P. Burnard, Esq. IDaniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
Dr. Bowring IM. J. O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
James Blair, Esq. ;Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P.
W. F. Burton, Esq. !The O'Conor Don, M.P.
John Butler, Esq. George Offor, Esq.
Chas. Salisbury Butler, Esq. 'Gilbert Pouncey, Esq.
Sir M. L. Chapman, Bt. M.P. Charles Pearson, Esq.
Joseph Carpue, Esq. Henry Patten, Esq.
Jesse Cullum, Esq. 'l'. N. Redington, Esq., M.P.
Edmund Costello, Esq. John Robertson, Esq.
David Cannan, Esq. George Rennie, jun.. Esq.
Lord Dunboyno. - Major Revell.
Sir James Duke, M. P. Sir W. ltobert Sydney
John Dennistoun, Esq., M.P. Joseph Scholefield, Esq., M.P.
T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. James Shillito, Esq.
John Dillon, Esq. Michael Smith, Esq.
Thomas De Vear, Esq. William Simpson, F.sq,
William Ewart, Esq., M.P. James Sedgwick, Esq.
George Evans, Esq., M.P. Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P.
John B. Eisdell, Esq. Richard Taylor, Esq.
Henry Eisdell, Esq. John Taylor, Esq.
Joshua Evans, Esq. P. A. Taylor, Esq.
H. B. Fearon, Esq. Charles A. Tulk,
Esc,
J. W. Fulton, Esq. N. A. Vigors, E•sq., M.P.
Francis Godrich, Esq. Sir Henri Webb, Bart.
Edward B. Carey, Esq. Robert `,,lallace, Esq., M.P. Alexander Galloway, Esq. r_rl:,mas Wakley, Esq., M.P.
Rd. Hodgson Galloway, Esq. chomas Wyse, Esq., M.P.
Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P.. Benjamin Wood, Esq.
Charles Ilindley, Esq., M.P. Thomas Jas. Wiltshire, Esq.
W. E. Hickson, -Esq. William Wickens, Esq.
John G. Hammack, Esq. Henry Waymouth, Esq.
Patrick llughes, Esq. John Ashton Yates, Esq., M. P.
J. SCOTT LILLIE, Chairman
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JAMES LEARY, Secretary of the Dinner Committee.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY CONTRACTS.
The following CONTRACTS on the above Line will be
LET from sealed proposals in the order hereinafter stated :
The plans, sections, working drawings, specifications, and
also the i'rafts and contracts, may be seen and copied, and
printed forms of tender obtained, at the offices of the Company,
or of the Engineer.
The Line is distinctly trigged out on the ground, and branded
pegs set down at every chain length, and will be pointed out by
one of the assistant engineers if required.
The tenders are to be delivered in sealed, and addressed t•
the Secretary, at the offices of the Company only.
No tender will be entertained, unless made and filled up on
one of the printed forms, nor unless the parties proposing, or
their representative, attend personally, and produce an under-
taking (on a form of letter whieli will be supplied, to be pro-
perly filled up) and signed by two responsible parties, engaging
to become sureties, in the event of the tender being accepted.
The Directors will meet at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, to open
the tenders, and declare the Lettings, upon each of the days
following those appointed for the delivery of the respective pro-
posals.

This excellent and truly venerable man, the father ref
the Church of Scotland, closed his long and honoured
life on the 13th instant, at the.manse of St. Andretv'e-
Lhanbryde, in the minty of Elgin, of which parisl-he
had been, for the space ofsixty years, the minister. - He
had attained- the almost patriarchal age of einety-two
years, during nearly sixty-fire of which he had held the
pastoral office, discharging its duties with uninterrupted
regularity, and without assistance, till within a few
months of his death.
To great vigour of badily constitution, Mr. Leslie
joined intellectual powers of a very high order, a Lich
he had sedulously cultivated. By extensive reading
arid much reflection, he had accumulated a large store
of well-digested knowledge, which be bad always
at hand, to be applied, as occasicns arose, either
to the b. ffairs of ordinary life, ors to the mere -Im-
mediate objects of his sacred profession. In the
pulpit his manner was unaffected, grave, and dig-
cified ; hie %oice sonorous and well modulated ; hia
delivery deliberate, earnest, and impressive. . Though
well versed in systematic theology, and never unwilling
to discuss points of controversy with his mieisterini
brethren, he seldom introduced abstruse subjects of spee
culation into the pulpit, blit confined himself to the
more important task of inculcating the great practical
duties of the Gospel, his aim being, as he himself user}
to say, to make his flock not expert disputants, hut good
Christians. His religious opinions were his Owe, not hot-
rowed as is too often the case with the Ministers of
an Established Church, from creeds and systems of
human composition, on which he set little value, haat-
drawn directly from the sacred volume, which he itid
studied with great care, and the language of whiolt he
' had, beyond most men, at command. In explaining•
and enforcing his views of religious and
morelmoreltruth, the
illustrations which he employed were slwa)s striking,
often original, asblt a copious use 0: actiptural phra-
seology three i over his style k tinge of the " olden
time," 10..;ich harmonized WA with the solemn charectr
of Taaatlic devotion.
L By his flock Mr. Leslie was regarded with affection
and cA teem, the natural consequence and appropriate
reward of Lis unwearied endeavours to promote
their welfare ; for he was not only their spiritual
instructor, but the arbiter of their differences, their
adviser in the management of their temporal concerns;
and to those who stood in need of other assistance,
most liberal benefactor. In the familiar intercourse of
private life he was no less amiable than he was exem-
plary in performing its weightier duties. His hospita-
lity was proverbial. Perhaps it was carried to an ex-
tent beyond what prudence would have dictated ; but
if this was a failing, it was one of those failings which
" lean to virtue's side," for in his hospitality there was
no alloy of ostentation ; it was the genuine offspring of
a heart in which the social affections glowed with pecu-
liar warmth. His manners were frank, but mild and
unobtrusive ; habitual cheerfulness lighted up his fair,
open, and manly countenance ; while a racy humour,
in which there was often a spice of quaintness, gave an
indescribable charm to his conversation. Ile retained
his mental powers unimpaired to the last, and closed his
earthly pilgrimage in that humble but steady hope of
a happy immortality which the Christian derives from
the consciousness of a well-spent life. It would be
superfluous to add that such a man could not as-
cend to the tomb unaccompanied with the regrets of al
who had enjoyed the happiness of his acquaiutence.
Mr. Leslie was descended from the noble and ancient
family of Rothes, and was married to a sister of the late
Earl of Caithness, whom he survived many years, and
by whom he bad four sons and ten daughters. Of those
one son and five daughters arc left to lament his less.

THE NEW METROPOLLTAN PO-
- CE BILLS.

GREAT MEETING IN MARYLEBONE.
EXTRAORDINARY AND UFRORIOUS PROCEEDINGS.
Yesterday a very large public meeting of the rate-
payers of the extensive and opulent parish of Marykbone
%vas held in the Workhouse-yard, New. road, for the pur-
pose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament
against the Metropolitan Police and Police Courts' Bills,
now before them.

Lord Nugent (Churchwarden) was at one o'clock WU-
nimously called to the chair, and opened the buskess by
reading the notice calling the meeting, and letters 'from!'l
Mr. P. Laurie, M. Weymouth, and Sir B. Hall, apolo.
gizing for their unavoidable absence, but fully coneurrin:
in the objects of the meeting.
Mr. GOLDSMITH took an objection to the proceeding o!
inviting one of the Borough Members and not the other.
He thought Lord Teignmoutit had also a right to have
been invited as well as Sir B. Hall..—Olear, hear, and,
uproar.)
Mr. KENSRTT, in moving the first resolution, to the effec t
that the Meeting could not but view with great alarm and
regret, the two Bills before Parliament, purporting to in. .
troduce new regulations in reference to the Police, a4-.d
Police Courts of the Metropolis, 'inasmuch as they Lod a.
tendency to abridge the rights and privileges of the sub-
ject, conferring exorbitant powers upon a paid and irrer
ponsible Magistracy, of an a!bitrary and uccoustitutional
character ; and that such meaaures were more &monolog
inasmuch as they had emanated from a Ministry from whose
professions and previous acts, the country had hoped for
measures of a more liberal nature ; and commented upon
the various clauses of the Bill, and declared it to be a
system of centralization, which, if permitted to go on,.
would involve the country in intermivable broils;
system, every man who bad the feelings of an Eneisb-
man, must deplore and conderim. Mr. Kettsett also ad-
adver ted to the cost of the Police to that palish, its com-
parison to their own old nightly Watch, and called oTon
the meeting to use every means in their power, to repel the advancement of tyranny by the in:roduction of the
present measures.

Mr. GIBSON briefly seconded the motion.
Mr. HUM E, M. P., rose to defend the two Pol'ee Bills
now before Parliament.—( Great exptel3lOtlS of surprise
indignation and uproar.) As a parishioner of Matcylehone.,
well acquainted with the subject, he wished to put his
fellew-parishioners in the right course.—( Oh, Oh.)
had sat upon the first Committee upon Police Courts in
1818, and he would assert that the most effieient means
contemplated for the benefit of the public vim the pee-
sent Police Bills.—(Tremendous uproar.) He agreed
that the appointment of the Magistracy, together with
the increase of salaries,- should 130 vested in the power
of the Secretary of State.—( Hear, and great uproar.)
With regard to the summary power of Magistrates. he
would say, was it not monstrous that a child, under existing
circumstances, should ba obliged to be sent to Newgate,
even for taking a turnip from a field, and subject to all the
formalities of a trial, let alone his being compelled to le
connected with the wort of characters.—( Hear.) Well,
then, he would say, let them pick out the clauses they \
were opposed to, and not reject the whole for one or two.
Mr. Hume concluded amidst great confusion by declaring
he would support the Bills.
After some observations by Mr. nibble, Dr. Webb, and
a rate-payer, named Barnes, the emotion was put and (ser-
ried unanimously.
Mr. G. A. Yourso snored the second resolution and des-
precated the course which the Hon. Member for Kilkenny
had declared it his intention to take with respect to two
Bill s that had for their object the violation of eve. y corpo-
rate charter, as well as the local rights of every parish in
the kingdom, and which was but the prelude to a system
of centralization equal in arbitrary character to that pursued
in France under the domination of Napoleon.
Mr. SAVAGE seconded this resolution, which, after some
further observations from Mr. Hume, was also carried.
' Lord Nugent here vacated the Chair, which was stip-
plied by Mr. Joseph, and in doing so expressed his sincere
concurrence in the resolutions; and his main reason for
doing so was that the Bills gave an extraordinary additional
increase of power without an equal degree of responsibility. e
His Lordship retired amidst general applause.
Sir B. HALL, who had just arrived on the hustingcstood
forward and was received with great cheering. Ho ex-
pressed his satisfaction at being there before the businoes
had closed. NVhatever might be the opinion generally
upon the two Police Bills before Parliament, he eras oue
who considered them most cruel, unjust, and neconstitu-
tional—(Het.r)—and he had determined, if they came on
for the second readieg that night to mote their entire re - •
jection.--( Loud cheers.) He was determinbd, so lone a 3
he held a seat in the House of Commons, to move the re—
jection of any such measures as would, like these, tend tb
abridge the rights and privileges of the subject.—(Lend
and long continued cheers.)
Mr. He ME det laced he would support the Bill and vote
against the Hon. Baronet's motion whenever it cameee—
( Great disapprobation.)
A petition founded upon the Resolutions
ben
and seconded, upon which a Chartist named . was
% Vt codes.proved
voured to move an amendment, whichhtn
however was
as
trated by the Chairman putting the question, wthen
carried, and at once dissolving the meeting, which
broke up.