The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-30 00:00:00

EVEN I IN'G EDI ION•

CHARTIST MEETINGS IN MAN
CHESTER AND SALFORD.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
A meeting was held on Thursday evening last, in a
field adjoining the New Stretford Road, but not so near
the Hulme end of the road as the former meetings, but
at the end of Mecilock-street, on the north side of the
New-road. The meeting was much more numerously
attended than former ones in that neighbourhood. They
had a flag or two, one containing an inscription from the
writings of Paine, about the person of the working
man being his title-deeds. Amongst the speakers
was the Reverend AV. V. Jackson, who said that
if a man was hungry, and had no money to pur-
chase bread, he was perfectly justifiable in walking
into a shop, and taking a loaf! The meeting was held
at a later hour than usual, and probably amounted to
about 1,500 persons in number, including women at d
children. A man on horseback going along the New -
road, as the meeting was dispersing, was called " a spy,'
and pelted with stones. It is almost needless to add,
he rode off as fast as be could. During the meeting
pistols were discharged, from time to time, by parties in
the mob.

There was also a meeting held the same evening in
one of the fields in the low ground adjoining the river
Irwell, at the top of Broughton Road, Salford, near
Broughton 13ridg,. Several meetings have also been
held recently in Salford, on the large piece of vacant
ground extending from near St Philip's Church to
Broughton Road ; the attendance at some of them has
been large, and the language of the speakers, as at the
meetings in Manchester, of an intemperate and in-
flammatory character, including much abuse of the
Government, the local authorities, and the police.
Last evening there were other meetings one near the
end of Medlock-street, was attended by upwards of a
thousand persons. The speakers were individuals
named Caudill, Taylor, William Tillman, and others.

TWEED FISHING.—The fishing on the Tweed
has during the present and the latter part of the former
week improved immensely in its productiveness. The
late rains, which produced a flood, have been the means of
rendering the river more agreeable to the fish, and
they have consequently in greater ru nbers in-
gressed from the sea. The fishing on Friday
last was declared to be the best which had been
experienced for several years--we have beard it stated
for so many as twenty. The boats as they arrived at the
quay from the different stations, were so heavily laden as
to brim- the gunwale nearly even with the water. The
Manches'er steamer„ which sailed on Saturday evening,
had upwards of 250 boxes; and the Rapid which left yes-
terday, had a similar number. The grilse are now in
prime condition ; but they have not as yet been caught
in such great numbers as is generally the ease at this period
—the present increase is principally in salmon and trout.
—Berwick Advertiser.
. TIIE 43D OF ELIZABETH.—Isaac Shears was
summoned by the overseers of Winterslow, to show cause
why he refused to pay 205., due to the parish authorities,
the amount of au order made on him by the Magistrates
to contribute Is. per week toward the support of his aged
mother. Shears, to evade the order, married a woman
with two children, which, by the Act, exempted him. T e
Bench ordered him to pay all arrears, from January 18,h
last to the day of his marriage.— Wilts Herald.
THE WOODCOT MURDER.—It will be re.
collected, that a man named Morley, was taken up and
examined upon suspicion of being concerned in the murder
of Mrs. Phillips, in a cottage at Woodcot, in May last.
Sufficient evidence could not be procured to substantiate
the charge against him, and he was committed to Oxford
gaol upon a minor charge of stealing carpenters' tools, '
and at the recent Oxford Assizes, he took his trial, was
convicted of the theft, and sentenced to seven years
transportation. Since the sentence he made an ob-
servation to a fellow-prisoner, " that it was a lucky thing
for him, that the thatch of his own cottage had not been
searched." Information being given of this circum-
stance, a search was yesterday afternoon made, and in a
hole in the thatch, a brown bag was found; containing
guineas, sovereigns, and half-sovereigns, to the amount of
between 2601. and 2701. This was doubtless the property
of the unfortunate woman, who, strange to say, lived in
the utmost penury, and solicited the charity of her neigh-
bours. We surmise, that further proceedings will be in-
stituted against the prisoner Charles Morley, who was re-
moved, on Monday last, to the Ganymede hulk at Wool-
wich.—Reading Mercury.
HUNTINGDON ASSIZES.—This is, indeed, a
maiden assize. On the assembling of the Court and its
officers at the appointed hour, it appeared that their Lord-
ships might have adjourned until the next assizes, for
neither cause nor crime was there to be tried. It was
whimsical enough to see the Court opened with the grave
ceremonies established by ancient usage on such occa-
sions—the Learned Judges take their seats on the bench—
the counsel sitting with briefless bags at their table—
twenty-three grand jurors and sixty petty jurymen in
attendance, and all this to have the pleasure of making
their bow, and returning each to his own occupa-
tion. Mr. Justice Vaughan, in briefly charging the
grand jury, congratulated them on the peaceable and
honest state of things existing around them, which he
trusted would be as permanent as it was satisfactory. If
he lived another month (he said) he should have travelled
as a Judge 13 years, and had attended more than 100 com-
missions of assize, but had never before met with so novel
a case as to have neither prisoner nor cause for trial.
The grand jury then retired for a few minutes to their
private room, and presently returned and informed the
Court that " they had nothing to present," when they
wL:e discharged from further attendance. With the
strange inconsistency of human nature, and the inveterate
habit which exists in man to complain, some of the petty
jurors were very angry at " being called so far from home,
and all fur nothing"—not bearing in mind how much more
reason they would have had to complain if the state of the
calendar and the cause list had been such as to call for their
attendance for two or three days during this busy season.
MANCHESTER CORPORA TION.—A LEVY FOR
TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND POUNDS. —On Wednesday
evening last, a sheriff's officer, accompanied by Mr. Geo.
Gill, the high constable of the borough, proceeded to the
warehouse and cotton-mill of Mr. George Clark, the senior
churchwarden, and took possession of the warehouse, by
virtue of a warrant of distress issuing from the Borough
Court, for the sum of 23,0001. To enable the readers
of
the Mercury to understand the merits of this extraordi-
nary case some explanation is necessary. By the general
Municipal Act of 1834, it is imperative on the churchwar-
dens and overseers to levy a borough rate within a certain
period after the receipt of the Mayor's demand on behalf of
the Corporation. The churchwardens and overseers had
refusal to lay any rate at all for borough purposes, alleg-
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warrant of distress on their own goods and chattels. This
has, therefore, after every other means has been tried to
obtain the money, been done, and there is no doubt but
that his property will be sold if the money is not paid
forthwith. Since the above was written, we learn Mr.
Clark intends to replevy, and to bring the matter to issue
at the Assizes. The officer is not in possession of the mill,
to prevent which Mr. Clark has completely closed it, and
the hands, to the number of some hundreds, are thus tem-
porarily thrown out of employment.—Leeds Mercury,
ATHENS, JULY 9.—Professor Russeger, the
Austrian geologist, who has been travelling for some time
in continental Greece and the Morea, has made some im-
portant discoveries—amongst others, a large tract of good
iron-ore in Maine, several quarries of slate which might
be worked to advantage, and a large quantity of litho-
graphic stone in the island of Negropont, which is so
common on the spot that the houses of the whole adjoining
village are built of it. He has also discovered several dis-

tricts of coal. Whilst in continental Greece, he spent
some time in examining the large inland lake now called
Tobias (the ancient Kopai) between Thebes and Livadia,
with a view of draining it and restoring it for agricultural
purposes. This gigantic undertaking was commenced
by the ancients, who evidently intended to drain it by
means of a subterraneous channel under the surround-
ing mountains, and, accordingly, sixteen square perpendi-
cular shafts, of about five feet in diameter, were sunk at
convenient distances through the solid rock. These.might
easily be used for the same purpose now, though partially
filled up by rubbish, and the tunnel commenced in a hori-
zontal direction from the bottom of each shaft. The Pro-
fessor has sent in to the Government a plan and calculation
of expenses for effecting this purpose, according to which
it might be done in two years, at an expense of one million
drachmes (35,0001.), and thousands of acres of the most
productive soil might be reclaimed, and rendered avail-
able. This would be well worth the attention of foreign
capitalists. A very important discovery has been made in
boring the Artesian well near the Pyrseus, viz. :—a bed of
real sea-coal ; and orders have been given to open a shaft,
and examine the quality of the coal.
THE SUNDERLAND MURDER.—At the Dur-
ham Assizes, on Saturday, Jacob Frederick Ehlert, aged
28, was indicted for the wilful murder of John Frederick
Bcrkholtz, at Monkwearrnouth, on the 12th June. He
was also charged on the Coroner's inquest. The prisoner
was dressed in a black surtout and vest, and wore a black
and red neckerchief. He appeared to have sunk consi-
derably in his person since his committal, and had a very
dejected appearance. The indictment having been read
by the interpreter in the German language, the prisoner
pleaded not guilty. He was then informed that he had
the right of having six foreigners on the Jury, but he
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home to him, on the testimony of the apprentice boy,
who saw the whole transaction ; and he was of course
found guilty, and sentence of death passed upon him in
the usual form—his body to be buried within the precincts
of the prison. The prisoner, who during the Judge's ad-
dress had taken out his Prayer-book, was removed from
the bar protesting his innocence.