The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-20 00:00:00

hisLquieaurtt.erJsa.meHs Te htoiemdpsiolins,
sAadsijlut,
cruiting District, hanged himself on
brought it over the door, and insid
round his neck, while standing 0,
kicked the stool away. When fount.
unfortunate deceased was a native of Truro, Cornwall,
and has for some period laboured at times under an ab-
berration of mind. He was a most temperate, amiable
man, and much respected.
Major Barry, of the Royal Engineers, lately stationnd
at Limerick, has been appointed to the command of
the Engineer Department at Birmingham, in succession
to Captain Jebb ; and Lieut. Renwick has replaced
Captain Scrvante at Kilkenny, the latter officer being
ordered on foreign service.

The depot companies of the 50th Regiment embarked
at this port on the 10th on board the Britannia
steam-vessel, and sailed for Belfast.

Captain Conroy, Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutoaant-
General Commanding, Sir E. Blakeney, K.C.8., ,has
returned to the Royal Hospital.

DINNER OF THE CAMBRIDGE
REFORMERS TO T. M. GIBSON, ESQ.

n Wednesday last a public dinner was given to this
ge. otleman at the Town-hall, which was attended ,by
abo, ut three hundred persons. That veteran., and
steam eh Reformer, Henry Gunning, Esq., M.A., and
Senior Esquire-Bedell, occupied the Chair ; and was
supported on the right by I'. M. Gibson, Esq.; and lm
the left by George Pryme, Esq., M.P. for the boron*
The Cs AIRMAN proposed the first toast—". The
Queen—Qu,len Victoria, a long and happy reign :to
her." This toast was drunk with the most deafening
cheers, and one cheer more, many times repeated.
The CHAIRMAN----That our Sovereien's reign might
be long and prosperous, he was sure they all ''wished.
And when they looked to her sex, they could say, as
was observed with regard to the other sex, " It was 'riot
good for woman to be alone." This only bar to her
happiness, he was happy to say, was about-speedily to
be removed. It was her privilege to choose her hus-
band, and she had exercised that privilege by choosing
the Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg.—(Cheers.) And
when they looked at his family history, they would see
that his family had sacrificed life and property in sup-
port
of the Protestant religion ; and, therefore, the
Tory cry on that subject went for nothing ; and it was
forfeited,we l l known,
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sm. ar ri eHed, a
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had)
somewhat digressed ; he rose to propose " The health
of the future husband of the Queen." This toast was
received with the liveliest demonstrations of loyal en-
thusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of "'her
Majesty the Queen Dowager."
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Duke of Sussex
—(Cheering for some minutes)—and the rest of the
Royal Family"—(Renewed cheering, and loud cries of
" now in England").
The CHAIRMAN proposed as the next toast, " the
health of her Majesty's Ministers."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then said, knowing, as I do, the
een,timents of those amongst the Cambridge constitu-
efloy who dare to be Liberal, I will not say one word
respeet;ag the toast I am about to propose, but at once
name to y.ou Thomas Milner Gibson, Esq., our guest.
—(This ens a signal for plaudits, such as have been
seldom heard within the walls of she old Hall, and
they were many times renewed, and seemed to be in-
terminable.)
When the applause had subsided,
Mr. GiesoN rose, and said that he had not been in-
attentive to public events, and especially to those mat-
ters connected with Cambridge, which reached him
through the medium of its local press. Amongst these
he had recently read with no little astonishment the
proceedings which had taken place at the' great Educa-
tion Meeting held at the Town-hall. It appeared Satis-
factory, on reading the announcement of t.`ie meeting,
to find that the clergy of the Establishad Church
in this district, after a long and deep slumber,
seemed " awakened"—to use the expression' of Sir
Robert Peel—to the importance of extending the mean.s
of education to the humbler classes ; but when he
looked at the sentiments promulgated on this occasion,
he was at a loss to understand how those who gave ut-
terance to them could call themselves friends to popular ,
education.—(Hear, hear.) The speeches of reverend,
right reverend, and other distinguished persons, esquires,
and justices of the peace, seemed—some of them di-
rectly, some of them indirectly—to have but one object
in view ; and that was, to effectually hinder, under va-
rious pretences, the mental education and moral im-
provement of the working classes. It had been said by
one present at the meeting, " He thought the Bible
the only book the poor would desire to read, and he
would have them taught to read this book at the right
end."—(Great laughter.) What must the working classes
think of all such public exhibitions ? Would not the
common sense of the nation demand of such men, were
they willing to confine themselves to the Bible ? and
if they did, where in that sacred volume could they
point out such selfishness, such intolerance, as they
themselves practised ? They would teach the 'peo-
ple nothing but the Bible, and the prelates end the
priests, and the deacons, carrying the pftnciple out, say
"We alone are the persons to teach it ! We 'are the
only people to be safely entrusted with the giving of
education, if religion is to form a part." Now it was
strange, that the only places of education in which little
or no religious instruction was observable, were our
public schools, at which the youth of the aristocracy
were taught Latin and Greek, alone, and over which
those exclusive guardians of religion, the clergy of
the Established Church, were supposed to pre-
side with fostering spirit and a holy care. The schools,
on the contrary, of the middle classes, as they were called
by the privileged ones, but in the scale of intellect and .
virtue the higher ones, were remarkable for the whole-
some religious sentiments and sound principles of mo-
rality which were taught in them.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) They never would have a good system of na-
tional education without Government inspection. The
inspection of prisons was an example of the efficiency of
such a national system. At the time when the inspec-
tors were appointed, the Magistrates—the unpaid Ma-
gistrates, be it remembered—asked, was it thought that
they wanted looking after ? Was there a doubt as
to their integrity? Had they not got chaplains?—(Hear,
hear.) In fact, had they not got all the apparatus
necessary to carry out the scheme in a proper marner ?
But, despite of all the objections the Magistracy could
bring to bear against an inspection, their opposition
was overthrown, and the inspection was carried through ;
and (said the Hon. Gentleman) a wretched system
was reported to the House of Commons regarding the 1
manner in which the prisons were conducted. How
was it that the Aristocracy were willing to entrust the
people with the Suffrage, and afraid to entrust them
with the Ballot?—(lmmense cheering.) Why is the
Ballot called a revolutionary measure ? Is it that the
result of an appeal to the constituency would be far
different by secret voting to what it is under the pre-
sent system ? Sir Rebut Peel's chief plan of opposi-
tion to all measures which had for their object the in-
crease or further security of popular rights,
was to pick
holes and point out trifling blemishes in it, and lleclare
that it was not perfect. He did not make a In.anlY
stand against it on the broad and intelligible princip.t es
of the violent men of his party, but he adopted the
jesuitical course of marring its success by factious tills-
noauvre and delay. The Right Hon. Leader of the
Conservative party might manage, by his jesuitical
talents, to reconcile its jarring elements, and to make
them amalgamate, so long as they were arrayed in
opposition to the present Ministry ; but once let him
succeed to power, and undertake the affairs of Govern- •
ment, and the unnatural union from which the Tory
party derived its present strength was at an end.
And here it was remarkable how cautiously the Right
Hon. Baronet had delivered himself on the subject of
the Corn-laws. As if looking forward to the nexessity
of some change, he did not make a single obsemation
on the subject in his recent speech which did not boar
a double construction, and from which, with his usual
tact, he might not release himself hereafter. Sir R.
Peel was too clever and clear-sighted a politician not to I
foresee, with the progress which the question of the t
Corn-laws is making in the public mind, that neither be
nor any other Minister could stand his ground for two
years together, unless he made up his mind to grant
some alteration of the present partial and unnatural
system. Mr. Gibson sat down amidst the most en-
thusiastic cheering, which was renewed at brief inter-
vals, and kept up for a considerable time.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of their
able and honest representative, George Pryme, Esq.—
(Immense cheering.)
Mr. PRYME returned thanks in an eloquent speech,
and after some further proceedings of minor importance•
the meeting separated,

We are very much obliged to Emerson Tennent.
We are exceedingly rejoiced that the office-bearer of
Sir Robert Peel has thrown off the mask—and that
he has had the candour to propose the " Glorious and
Immortal Memory" to the Orangemen of Newry. It is
important that this should be known, for this Emerson
Tennent is somebody, inasmuch as he was chosen by the
Government of IS'34
to fill an important office—and
we may be sure that " the lad" would not betray hilt-
self on a doctrine of such paramount importance as the
revival of Orangeism in Ireland, if he did not know
that it would be agreeable at las head-quarters.—. Du-
blin Evening Post.
" PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE."
—So unusual a quantity of rain has fallen during the
last few months, that the earth is surcharged with
moisture, and the consequence, we fear, will be that
disease.c
especially in the dwellings of the poor, will be
prevalent. Low fevers, we have heard, are rather
in low situations. Under such circumstances,
generalvry
we beg to suggest to landlords of small houses that they
will be doing an act of charity to their tenants, and very
much improve the health of the town, if they will cause
their houses to be lime-washed—a practice very promo-
tive of health at all times, but especially so after such a
wet season as we have experienced.

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