The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-23 00:00:00

ALMACKS.

The balls at the above fashionable place were resumed
on Wednesday night, when nearly 500 of the principal
haul ton were present. Dancing commenced to the music
of Collinet, Musard, and Micheau's band, shortly after
eleven o'clock, and did not terminate until a late hour in

the morning.
PRlNCES—Frederick of Prussia and KosMilky.
Du Es—Newcastle and De Noja.
Duclimus—Richmond and De Noja.
MARQuisses—Hastings, Douro, and Cliuiriearde.
l'ilsßelllONESSlZS—LOndinlderry, Lothian, and Clanricarde.
EARLS—Jersey, Uxbridge, Jerinyn, Vernlam, Liverpool, Cloi
men, and Errol.

CtingTassas—Jersey, Euston, Cowper, Sefton, Mansfield, An.
trim, Verulam, Clonmell, Errol, and Stanhope.
Loans—Villiers, Melbourne, E. Somerset, Kinnaird, Ranelagh,
Marsham, Waterpark, J. Russell, Howick, Flphinstone, King,
De Tabley, Palmerston, Burghersh, and Falmouth.
LAntas—Keith, Molyneux, E. Murray, C. Murray, Kensing-
ton, Rivers, Gore, E. Palk, Vaughan, E. Marsham, Durham,
' Lilenborough 11. Mitchell, C. Berne, C. W. Melville, A. Pet.
ham, C. Capri, C. Barham J. Kerr, F. Kerr, A. Paulen, hams_
den, H. Gruustone, S. Jenkinson, C. Scott, E. Talbot, C Somer-
set, A. Vane, A. Beresford, S. Lennox, jolitle, S. Marsham, F.
Marsham, Rose, Anson, Amherst, K. Manners, Morley, Mild.
may, G. Clinton, Batot, G. Grey, Hernlocke Cotirington, M.
Cotes, Langford, E. pickling, Hardy, and M. 'Walpole.
lloNounAutst Mneraussas—Bowles.Prevor, fi. :Jerningham,
J. Gage, Wynn, Win. Herbert, G. Heitert, Cadogan, Pellew..
HONOURABLRMISSES—EIphinstone, Forrester, Pitt, Law,
Garner, Montagu, E. Montagu, Kinnaird, Kinnaird, Gard-
ner..JerninghamF. Anson C. Waldegrave.
IhrtottaAnut I‘lassas.—Pitt, C. Murray, A. Harris, A. Cole,
Dutton, Wm. Bligh, J. Stuart W. Law, A. Liddell, Win.
Temple, Curzon, F. Spencer, Wm. TreArsig, G. Upton, Kin.
naird? E. Foley, F. Phillips, S, Jerningham G. Jerningham,
Fielding, J. Pelham, A. Trevor, Villiers, G. Berkeley, H. Fitz.
roy, Devereux, Cecil Forrester.
SIRS—J. Cathcart, Mart., J. Gore, E. Codrington, H. Wil.
loughby, W. Jolliffb, A. Gordon, G. Montgomery, C. Grevile,
W. Riddell, Ogilvy.
BA Hwy s—Cet te, Missing.
Cousrrs—Danneskiold, G. Batthyony, Redeni, Metaxa, R.
Potockiz Morel de Champemont, Matouchevitz, Stphas Dannis.
kiold, Chevalier Vanviletti.
Colonel Trench, Capt. Bagot, Capt. Eden, Capt. Delete
Radclitre, Col. Elphinstone, Capt. Bentiuck, Col. Cavendish,
Capt. M. Drummond, Lieut.-Colonel Hare, Capt. Ogle, Col.
Ellison, C. Vyner, Capt. Pellew, R.N., Hon. Major Keppel,
Capt. de Roos, Rev. A. Fara:acme, Capt. Mildmay, Col. Cunt,
Capt. Wm. Anson, Capt. Ellis, Hon. Capt. Cadogan, Capt.
Needham, Capt. Meynell, Capt. Edwards, Capt. Hoed, Major
Beauclerk.

Fitselarenee, liemlocke, Wellesley, Fitzroy,
Bagot,ldmay, Brandlings, B D
Barham, Somersets, e Roos,
Gage, Cadogan, Riddell, Cavendish, Forrester, &e.

ABINGDON ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR--A paragraph, has appeared in your columns, rela-
tive to the " Abingdon Election," and intimating that the
Corporation oppose Mr. Moberly, their present justly-
popular Representative, not because they dislike his Par-
' liamentary conduct, but because they want some one to
support the trade of the town. A more hollow pretence
for an unprincipled combination was never invented ; for
how can Mr. Maitland support the trade? The only
trade (I believe) in which he has ever been concerned is
the trade in rotten boroughs—a trade very profitable to
the dealers in political corruption. In jobs of this kind
Mr. Maitland has, no doubt, been au adept. The truth
is, Mr. Moberly was first elected by the popular voice, in
spite of the manoeuvres of the Corporation, about twelve
years ago ; and for this offence a course of consistent,
patriotic, and unwearied labours in Parliament for the
national welfare, have not been able to make an atone-
ment. But all the principal burgesses of Abingdon
(thirteen in number) are not against Mr. Moberly. Three
are non-resident, and have therefore no vote ; two are his
firm supporters; one, perhaps two, are pledged to neu-
trality ; and, consequently, not more than half the prin-
cipals can be brought to vote against Mr. Moberly,
Some of the Corporation, indeed, are instinctively op-
posed to all liberal sentiments, and would persecute any
man who adopts and adheres to an enlightened policy ;
and you must be well aware that Mr. Maberly's votes on
the 'rest Acts, the Catholic Question, Taxation, Colonial
Expenditure, Negro Slavery, and on every measure affect-
ing civil and religions liberty, must entitle him to the dis-
tinction of being hated by every devotee of Toryism and
tyranny.
And pray who, and what is Mr. Maitland ? lie has
PbuntrltivaZetnthe hhalsowevehresagiodt oorndeeinenio'iti
nows
tl neg H t bah
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esf seatta
on;
inCommons
mons is absolutely unknown. So won-
derfully prominent have been his public services, that most
persons here have only just learned that be has any right
to affix the letters M.P. to his name.
Abingdon, July 22. DETECTOR.

SPORTING INTiiLLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

A very thin attendance yesterday, and little or no bet-
ting. An important change was effected in the Derby
odds, 30 to 1 having been offered against Washington by
a gallant Captain, who seemed very anxious to get on
against bhp. Caleb was backed at 22 to 1 ; the general
odds, however, did not exceed 20 to 1. Nothing of note
was done on the St. Leger. At the Club-houses in St.
Jatnes's-street several engagements have been made on the
various Stakes at Goodwood Races, which promise to be
of surpassing interest and importance. The following it
a correct quotation of the present prices on the different
races now in the market:—

GOODWOOD GOLD CUP.
7 to 2 aget His Majesty's Fleur de Lis
7 to 1 apt the Duke of Richmond's Wandering Boy

GOODWOOD DRAWING-ROOM STARES.
7 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Malunoud
9 to 2 ago Lord Tavistoek's Gondolier
5 to 1 agst Mr. Stonebewer's Variation
7 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Cetus

GOODWOOD STAKES.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Bigg's Whisk
6 to I agst Captain Bulkeley's Bustle
lIKIGHTON STAKES.
6 to 1 apt Mr. Gulley's Tanby (taken)
MCKIM.
20 to 1 apt Mr. Shard's Caleb
30 to 1 apt Lord J. Fitzroy's Waibington

OAKS.
to 1 apt Duke of Grafton's Oxygen.

RT. LEGER.
to 4 agst Mr. Chiffney's Priam
to 1 spit Mr. Clifton's Alms Rose
to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Rally
to I apt Mr. Petre's Ilrunswicker
to 1 apt Mr. Powlett's Emmeline.

STAMFORD RACES.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21..-..Burghley Stakes of 25 sovs. each.
Colonel Chaplin named Coroner, 5 yrs 1
Major Pane named Anti-Catholic, 4 Yrs ••• 2
Noblemen and Gentlemen's Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each,
for 3-
Lord Exeter's Red Rover 1
Mr. Platers Rill
Sir G. Ileathcote's Cantatriee
Donation Cup, of 50 soya, value.
Mr. Standwell's Doubtful, aged 1 I
Mr. thaner's Bradbury, aged , 3 2
Mr. Gossip's Henry, 5 yrs 2 3
Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of 50 sovs.
Lord Exeter's b. f. by Sultan, 3 yrw 2 1 1
Lord Tavistock's Envoy, 3 yrs
Moulin Cup of 100 soya value.
Mr. Sowerby's Coroner, yes
Lord T. Cecil's Varna, 4 yrs
Sweepstakes of 20 Isom each, for 2-yr-olds.
Lord Exeter's b. f, by Sultan
Mr. Pistol's Peter
The Town Platl of 50 soya. for 3.yr-olds.
Mr. Regers's Ferman •
Sir G. Ilestheote's Cantatrice
Lord Exeter's Red Rover 2 dr

JONATHAN RAIN; JOHN WILLIAMS, and
'ft.rugmett Pot.Locx' Eegra. were errors in yeeterdey, at
w House of Lords, before the Loan clitoral:lmm, on
14;4 re-appointmelit, kiliee Counsel,

ADDRESS FROM TAVISTOCK TO

MR. 11U111E.

The following later, signed by many of the inhabitants
of Tavistock, to Mr. Hume, with his answer, is plain.
larly deserving the attention of the Electors of the United
Kingdom at the present time:—

(corr.)
TO JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., M.P.
fits,—Wr, the undersigned, inhabitants of Tavistock
and its vicinity, beg leave to offer you this testimony of
our admiration, for the indef►tigable zeal and attention►
which you have unceasingly evinced to protect and secure
the real interests of the British people in the House of
Commons.

Through a period in which a disposition to boundless
extravagance in every department of the public expenditure
has marked the course of Ministerial policy—when the
distresses of a suffering people, appealing for retrenchment
in the expenses of Government, and economy in the appli-
cation of that revenue which it is so severely taxed to
maintain, have been met with open scorn, or contemptuous
indifference—when night after night the enormous charges
of our civil and military establishments were voted with-
out inquiry or concern on the part of the miscalled repre-
sentatives of the people—we feel the snore forcibly what a
high degree of value must attach to that firm opposition
which you often, we lament to say, almost unaided, have
given to those wasteful and corrupt measures.
Convinced as we are that those to whose hands is com-
mitted the power of imposing the burdens of taxation, and
the regulating every application of the public money, are
totally unworthy of that high confidence—we yet more
clearly perceive the importance of those expositions which
have resulted from your zeal and industry, since the eyes
of the nation must at length, by such means, be opened
to the unfitness or incapacity of its LAislators. With this
worthy devotion of your talents to the service of our best
interests, we cannot forbear contrasting the conduct of
those Members of Parliament, many of them connected
with our own county and vicinity, who, after snaking the
fullest professions of a determination to urge by every means
in their power the necessity of economy and reform, yet, in
the important moment of action, are either absent from
their post, or remain only as silent spectators of the
national spoliation.

(Signed by) EDMUND EDGECUMBE, and
a number of inhabitants of Tavistock, including Clergy-
men, Bankers, Surgeons, Attorneys, Merchants, and
.fradesmen.

To whieh Mr. Hume returned the following answer :

(corv.)

Bryanstonolaare, 20th July, 1830.
GENTLIMRN,—IC is very satisfactory to me to learn that
so n►any of the inhabitants of Tavistoek and its vicinity
approve of the course of public conduct which I have con-
sidered it my day to follow in the House of Commons.
It is truly distressing to see the representatives of the
people generally evince so n►uch apathy to the sufferings
of the country under its overwhelming load of taxation;
and 1 earnestly hope the electors, whenever they are free to
choose, will now resist all paltry temptations of individual
interest, and vote for no candidate who will not pledge
himself to support every economical reform in our esta-
blishment, civil and military.
Could all sinecures and unnecessary expenditure lie re-
duced, the country would he benef►tted not only by the
reduction of its pecuniary burdens; but, by lessening the
means of corruption, a better chance of good Government
would be secured.

I have ever had this desirable object in view in so
strenuously pressing every measure of retrenchment ; and,
if again returned to serve in Parliament, I shall steadily

persevere in that line of conduct which has met your
approbation.

With thanks for the honour you have done me by this
expression of your favourable opinion.
I remain, your obedient bumble servant,
(Signed) JOSUPII 11E1E.
To Edward Edgecumbe, El. and other
Inhabitants of Tavistock who have
signed the letter to Mr. flume.

INTERESTING PARLIAMENTARY

PAPER.

REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE ON MA
NUFACTURERS' EMPLOYMENT.
(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
OBSERVATIONS.

These are the general outlines of the plan pro-
posed, and will be liable to such improvements as
may be deemed advisable; the detailed rules of each
particular society, formed on the above principles,
would be determined by the members.
The general advantages of such a society appear
to be the following:—
First, A secure fund will be provided from good
times against want of work in bad times.
Second, The amount and continuation of assisit-

once to any member would be proportioned to his
own previous industry and forethought ; and no idle
or improvident man would draw upon the means
of others.

Third, As the liabilities of the society would
never exceed the amount in their hands, each mem-
ber's claim would be secure at all times.
Fourth, A very considerable part of each mem-
ber's share would be at his complete disposal, under
the circumstances stated, and at his death devolve to
his family.

Fifth, ills payments would be received little by little,
to provide against a severe practical evil, and could
not be diverted or withdrawn for any other purpose.
Sixth, A considerable addition to each member's
share would accrue from his dividend of interest,
forfeits, deductions on deaths, &c.
Seventh, That hereby a member once entering
he society, would have a strong inducement to con,
tinue in it.

Eightb, That the feeling of co-operation and fel-
lowship among workmen would be likely to aid such
societies, and the contingent interest every member
had in the increase of the dividend would prevent
imposition or abuse.
Your Committee beg to state, that from informa-
tion they have received from various quarters, there
appears a great disposition on the part of workmen
in many places to avail themselves of any sate mode
of insuring a provision fora season of slack employ-
ment.

As it is the earnest desire of your Committee that
the plan which they have ventured to suggest should
be fairly discussed, and any fault in it exeosed, they
proceed to consider the objections which may be
urged against it ; some of which have been stated in
answer to queries circulated for information.

Your Committee may remark, that these objec-
tions are of two different kinds, arising from different
classes of person, and appear opposed to each other.
One set of persons assert that the plan suggested
will be inoperative, inasmuch as the working classes
will never embrace it; the other Suppose It will be
extensively entered into, and be wrested to evil pur-
poses of combination, for fixing a standard of wages,
and opposing subordination to musters.
It is urged on the one side, that " the Plan of the
Committee is nothing but a savings bank, with the
disadvantage of a depositor not having the control of
his own deposits, and losing part of Ins share at his
death ; and that no man would joint it I That if the
principle of mutual assurance and dependence, as in
benefit societies, was introduced, then indeed work-
men would enter it."

In the first place it may be remarked, this objec-
tion is rather to the probability of the plan being
popular, than to its advantage should it become in;
and it might be sufficient to answer, " It can do no
harm, and is worthy of tri,d."

Your Committee, however, believe the objeCtion
I in ngrent measure unfounded.

If the working Classes were all persons of great
forethought, firm economy, and steady self-control,
who, without tiny continual incitement to regular
deposits, would lay by, at the end or chch week, their
spare earnings, to provide against a contingent and
perhaps distant evil, then indeed savings banks would
he all they could want I, Even they, however, thew
deposits might be frerinctitly broken ha upen,
withdrim n, from caprice or temporary pressure
(which a little fortitude would have sustained) or

the depositors be induced to lend or hazard their
hard-worn wine, and find them unavailable when
mobt wanted.
It is found, however, by experience, that the
humbler classes are by no means generady endowed
with the restrictive virtues (rare 111 any condition of
life) which have been described.
on the contrary, they seem to Stittid in need of

, every artificial aid to assist that forethought and in.
dnstry, on which at last they must mainly rely; and
they are themselves (in their moments of reflection)
frequently conscious of this fact, and anxious to put
it out of their own power to waste or lose that
which, duly preserved, may sustain their independ-
ence, or increase their comforts.'' The plan sug-
gested by the Committee, would give a perfeetly
safe investment for the swan deposits of workmen
to provide against a severe calamity, and for this
important object the fund would be preserved in-
violate. The regularity of payments would be en-
forced by a strong motive, and one found Akita
in benefit clubs; at the same time, the feeling of
co-operation and love of belonging to a society of
their fellows (shewn to be so strong in all classes)
would be brought to operate upon the minds of the
workmen.
The right of managing their own money, electing
' their own Committee, and meeting occasionally to-
gether as members of the same body, is justly prized
by the working classes; these they would have as-
sured to them by the plan in questiOn, which would
in this respect lie, it is thought, much more popular
than a savings bank.
In support of this observation, your Committee
may remark that thousands belong to friendly sock-
ties who never think of making deposits in savings
banks.

The annual dividend would also create an inte-
rest in the meeting of members, and Whilst it in-
creased the fund of each, would give a slight pre.
mium for industry and frugality.
After much deliberation, your Committee have
thought it beat to reject the general principle of
mutual assurance, as applicable to the object in view.
It bus been thought that, on the whole, the working
classes will prefer a society in which each man shell
be insured his own with came increase, rather than
one where he may be called upon to contribute to
the assistance of others, and reap little for himself.
The main objection, is the insecurity of
the latter, unless the duration and: amount of allow-
ance are; strictly limited; also the difficulty of any
accurate calculations or rults to prevent abuse.
It would be difficult in any plan to compute the
time for which support would he wanted in different
manufactures; but this, the Committee think, might
be left to the experience of the members; nor would
,•any mistake prevent the society they recommend
from diminishing the evil in question, since, what-
ever their fund might be, it would :lessen or post-.
pone the privations of the workmen.
On the other side,; it has been objected to the
• plan suggested, that it would be wrested to the
purposes of combination to raise wages, and be in-
jurious to master manufacturers.
Your Committee will not here enter into a calcu-
lation of what the amount of workmen's wages should
be, but content themselves with observing, that the
remuneration of wolktnest ought to be sufficient for
their maintenance, and that when made up out of
the Poore Rate, it is much better a manufacture so
upheld should be lessened rather than extend itself
by a practice utterly unjust, as regards the rate-
payers, and ruinous to the comfort and independence
of the working classes. It seems unlikely that a
plan which only gives fecilities and inducements to,
individual provision against want of work, can ever
operate to raise wages by means of combination.
Your Committee would remark also, that among
'the rules suggested, there is one that no member
shall receive front the fund when it can be ,hewn he
can earn wages one-third (or some other propor-
tion) h;gher than the allowance ; and although, by
his rate of deposit, he may insure himself a pro-
portionate rate of allowance, yet this will be
,only
commensurate with his former frugality, industry,
and self moron! ; and, from the exercise of these
invaluable qualities, ha ought to reap great advantage.
On consideration, however, it will appear that as
each man will depend chiefly on his own fund, it is
probable that the amount in the name of each mem-
ber would be different, according to his forethought,
opacity, and skill. But if the fund each had us
depend on was different, it is unlikely they would
combine for a common purpose, the execution of
which must press very unequally on the several
members.

They might, indeed, be driven to do so by so low
a rate of wages as made it better for all parties that
the supply of labour should be slackened till the de-
mand again rose to a remuneration price.
At last, the power of each individual, or the, ug-
' gregate number of members, to decline work (even
without the rule cited) would be limited entirely by
the amount of their funds►; that is, by the fruit of
their former d►ligence and care. It seems highly
improbable that a number of such persons, Hut
having a common and equal fund to resort to, would
ever, in an unreasonable cause, waste that which
they bad with so much labour acquired.
On the other hand, the workmen would not ha
totally without resource In case of actual want of
work, or ruinously low wages; but would be able to
wait patiently and peaceably for a change; or, if ab-
solutely necessary, have time to seek subsistence
elsewhere, either at home or abroad.

Your Committee have little doubt that a proposi-
tion to facilitate and legalize societies where the un-
employed were to be supported by those in work,
might at first have been better received by work-
men titan the plan described; but, besides other
objections, it appears that such societies not resting
upon a fund, the amount and duration of which is
accurately known, but in great part upon contribu-
tions, the continuance of which can never be cer-
tain, would lead to miscalculation, and exaggerated
hopes and expectations injurious to the men them-
selves.

On the whole, your Committee believe that the
plan suggested will not be found liable in practice
to the objections urged against it. They are by no
means sanguine that it would be immediately or ex-
tensively adopted, but think, as tt becomes better
known, that it would make its way : and they can-
not but hope it would receive the concurrence and
assistance of many master manufacturers, and other
benevolent persons anxious to improve the condi-
tion of the working classes.
Ihe principal difficulty which any set of men,
anxious to provide against want of employment now
meet with, is to have an easy and safe investment
for their fund. If they trust it to a Committee or
an individual they canna enforce its due application
to the purpoie intended; if deposited in the name
of one member in a Savings Bank (besides the limi-
tation in amount), it appears his absolute property,
and on his death descends to his heirs. ,

These difficulties would (with respect to the So-
ciety described) be totally removed by law, and your
Committee believe many would, on this account
alone, be anxious to join it.
Your Committee have not thought it neretoary
to pint the evidence they brave received, but have
digested its results in the statements here brought
forward.

Finally, in submitting this report to the
deration of the House, your tomntttte,r In' to .04-
serve, that Friendly Societies, end, Savings flanks
(the advantages of which are.now so widely spread)
made but a slow progress at their first institution,
and that many objections were urged against them,
Your Committee hope that the plan which they
have suggested may, in like manner, prove the e'en-
mencement of useful Societies, tending to Imo,
the evils arising from the fluctuation of manufue-
tering employment, and thereby assist in elevating
the character and increasing the happinese of the
working classes in populous districts,

A LONG HORSL—A traveller, who todd a
horse of very largo size, and especially of uncommon length,
batty stopped at a pulilie-house in the -western part of
Mate.achussetts, aud ordered his steed to be put up in the
stable. Peeling anxious for the comfort of his four.feoted
companion, be afterwards inquired if he had Put up his
horse AS he directed. " Why yes," 5.4 ti Cutrycomb,
I've put up one end of him."' 4* One end-of him!" ex-
claimed the traveller, " and what have you done with the
other end,-Its you call it?" " Why, hag tor," ui i the
hostler,: '4 if I Could get thswhole 6111141'3*0 the stable,
so I left the other end wig 404 ordard 1"