The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-14 00:00:00

NORWICH TORY FETE.

" At the hour oar journal is going to the press, the grand
Conservative Festival is preparing in St. Andrew's Hall
with suitable magnificence. Blinded by party rage alike
to moral sense and political policy, alike to present disgrace
and future consequences, the Magnates of the county
have not disdained to join the right hand of fellowship with
the infected itching palms of the Norwich Corruptionists.
They have stooped to herd their sound stock side by side
with the rotten cattle of the Norwich market. But they
may hereafter repent this association. The disease is
catching. The partition between the honest and the dis-
honest voter is now thrown down. The contagion had al-
ready reached them, and now through the example of their
leaders it will spread like wildfire."
We find the foregoing judicious notice of the contem-
plated Conservative gathering in the columns of the Nor--
wick Mercury of this morning. Our Contemporary after-
wards proceeds to deprecate the attendance of the Marquis
of Douro, asking if " the Duke of Wellington will allow
his sou and the heir of his high honours to appear as the
representative of the basest constituency in the empire by
the basest instrumentality, and to take his place in the
pageant of a triumph, the disgrace of a; hich can only be
Measured by the atrocity of means by which it has
been gained."
Our respected Contemporary concludes his just remon-
strance with the Marquis of Douro, urging him to avoid
the contamination of taking any share in what the persons
who seek his countenance call a " Conservative triumph,"
in the following powerful and appropriate terms :—" We
have scan within the last few years, and with more true
,ortow than we can express, for we still love and venerate
the institutions of our country—we have seen a Lord Lieu-
tenant of a county in violation of the spirit, and in direct
defiance of what had been the letter of the Constitution down
to a late period, preside at an election dinner—we hive
seen another " Peer of Parliament" assume a similar
place for the avowed purpose of screening a Lord Lieu-
tenant from the justly apprehended visitation of the Crocco
and Government—we have seen a lawyer elevated to the
Bench end called to the Peerage after the Narrowest esca; e
from expulsion from the [louse of Commons for undue
election that ever lawyer had—we have seen all these things
done Ix,' and happen to persons holding the rank of Noble-
men, and having the language of Conservatism on their
lips ; but God forbid that the world should witness this last
and wort degradation of the aristocracy in the person of
the immediate heir and successor to the honours of the
Dukedom of Wellington."

The hereditary Prince of thange was to leave Stut:-
gard on the tith inst., to, proceed to Italy, by the way of
Munich. There nppears to be no longer any doubt that
his Royal Highnesi will shot tly receive in marriage the
hand of the Prioeess Mary of Wurtemberg.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE LONDON AND BLit-
miNunAm RAILWAY.-On Saturday, the 7th instant, an
inquest was held at Bradweil, Bucks, before J. W. Cow-
ley, Esq., on view of the body of Henry Johnson, aged
sixteen, who was killed under the following circumstances :
The deceased was employed on the railway to drive wag-
gons. On the previeus day he was improperly riding on
the first waggon of a train laden with excavated earth, and
in attempting to get down, in order to guide the horse at
one of the moveable points or switches (which are used to
effect a junction between one line and another), unfortu-
nately his foot slipped, and he fell across the rail, and the
wheels passed over his body and almost divided it, thereby
causing instant death. In the course of the investigation,
it was found the boys were generally sanctioned by their
employers in getting up and down as they pleased, notwith-
standing the length of the vehicles, and there being no pro-
jection or convenience for that purpose. The jury returned
a verdict of " Accidental death, with a deodand of one
shilling upon the horse and waggons ;" accompanied with a
caution to the contractors, as, in the event of a similar case
coming before them, they should certainly feel called upon
to fix a much heavier deodand. On the 9th instant an in-
quest was also taken before the same Coroner, at Soulbury,
on the body of Michael Halley, aged twenty-five, who with
others were engaged in removing the centre of an arch ex-
tending over the railway. After successfully taking down
a small portion, one of the props (being a three-inch deal
plank) bent, as was described, like a bow, and sprang from
its position with considerable violence upon deceased, who
survived only a few minutes. The propping was extremely
slight, and the jury recommended the principal to be more
particular in future, and entrust such difficult work to more
experienced hands. Verdict—" Accidental death ; deodand
one shilling."
The grand canal tunnel at Coseley, near Bilston,
which forms part of another important work undertaken
by the Birmingham Canal Company for the improvement
of their navigation, was opened to the public on the 6th
nstant. In the construction of this tunnel care has been
taken to obviate the delays and inconveniences experienced
at narrow tunnels on many of the old canals. The water-
way being 17 feet in width, and a horse towing-path being
provided on each side, both horses and boats are enabled
to pass through it either way uninterruptedly at all hours;
and the severe labour to which boatmen are subjected at
narrow tunnels, in propelling their vessels by the process
called " legging," is, as regards this tunnel, entirely super-
seded. By th completion of the new or improved line, of
which the tunnel forms a part, the direct canal route be-
tween Birmingham and Wolverhampton has beon further
shortened four miles ; and when the other works now in
progress shall have been completed, the route will be equally
short with the turnpike-road. The cost of the line now
opened exceeds 65,0001.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
A splendid monument is to be erected in St. An-
drew's Church, Plymouth, to the memory of Northcote,
the celebrated painter. This talented man was born in
Plymouth in 1746, where his father was a watchmaker.
He was intended for the same employment, but evinced so
strong a predilection for the Fine Arts, that through the
intervention of a Gentleman residing in his native town, he
was placed under Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in the course of
a few years attained to a very high degree of perfection,
displaying in most of his historical works that force of con-
ception which is the true characteristic of genius. He died
on the 15th of July, 1831. The monument, with one to
be raised in London, is to be erected under a provision in
his will.

The Semaphore of Marseilles mentions that Ad-
miral Lalande is at Naples with his squadron, and that he
is returning to the coast of Africa.
We grieve to hear that poor John Clare, the
Northamptonshire poet, is at this moment confined in the
Lunatic Asylum at York, where he was sent about three
months since—and it is much feared that his case is hope-
less. Other, and equally melancholy, reports of a man of
far higher genius have been current in the daily papers this
week, to which we do not more specifically advert, out of
delicacy to the individual and his family, and in the con-
fident hope that they are exaggerations. Nor should we
have mentioned the situation of John Clare, but that the
poor fellow mast be friendless, at such a distance from his
native home ; and in the hope that some one in the neigh-
bourhood, now informed of his situation, will take care
that he does not want for such trifles as would contribute
to his comfort, and are allowed by the rules of the esta-
blishment.—Athenceum.

HERRING TRADE.—SaIes here during the week
have been rather dull. Packed, 20s. ; re-packed, 21s.
Scarcely any of the latter description have been made up
this sea9on. Not more than 3,000 barrels remain for sale
in the Wick district, and it is supposed that the quantity
unshipped does not amount altogether to more than from
nine to ten thousand. Freights to Ireland have fallen con-
siderably since our last, and now rule from 2s. 3d. to
9d., according to the distance of the ports. Our accounts
from that country, as regards prices, continue still to be of
rather an unfavourable nature, although the demand is pretty
good, which is invariably the case there, when the article
can be procured at moderate rates.—JolinO'Groatiournal.