The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1839.

METROPOLITAN POLITIC AL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of last evening has the following observa-
tions upon the pretensions of Colonel Thompson to re-
present the people of Manchester, in opposition to Mr.
Greg, the other Reform Cedidate :—" We do not
know how far gentlemen of Col. Thonmson's temper de-
ceive themselves ; how far they mistake the irritations
of self-opinion for public spirit. We can tell them this,
however, if they do not know it. They are retarding,
not advancing, the cause of progressive Reforms by
these vagaries. They put themselves forward, as
they say, to divide the Reformers from the Non-
Reformers. This they certainly accomplish, at the
risk of benefiting the Anti-Reformers. We may
differ, however, from these Gentlemen as to who
are, and who are not, Reformers. We admit that
they would be very good Revolutionists, if that were
the game. The insatiate pretensions of vanity, the
hot-headed extremes of opinion, the utter want of
consideration for all views or interests but their
own—these are qualifications for leaders in a vio-
lent revolution, exactly in proportion as they are dis-
qualifications for taking the lead in well-considered, and
just, and reasonable reforms. If these men are accele-
rating a revolution by disgusting the cautious and mo-
derate, and promoting a Tory re-ascendancy, they may
possibly in that way be preparing the way for their future
triumph, as they imagine they are doing—but assuredly in
no other. They are affording the enemies of all changes the
pitiable spectacle of the extremes in language and con-
duct which even educated men will espouse, when they
find they cannot make a figure in parts more worthy of
them. These are amongst the undeniable dangers of
times of reformation—the perverted efforts of persons
not without talent, and not without energy ; but who
find that moderate changes will not place them where
they desire to stand—that they cannot get moderate
men to think Mein suitable leaders."
The Courier has the following remarks upon the
same subject :—" We regret to find that Colonel Thomp-
son, whose writings have sn essentially served the cause
of just and liberal principles, and whose political
conduct was for so long a time in harmony with his
professions—leaving no more question of his pru-
dence as a practical Reformer than there could
be of the power and ability which he brought to the
advocacy of freedom—is determined to fulfil his
threat of becoming the third candidate in Manchester,
and of thus repeating the Marylebone game—Which we
had imagined to be far too inglorious for repetition.
Nobody can be a gainer by this perverse step but Sr
George Murray. Colonel Thompson himself must be
the heaviest loser."
The Standard is indignant at the appointment of
General Jackson to succeed Sir John Colborne as
Military Commander-in-Chief in Canada. " Whatever
he the talents of General Jackson," says the Standard—
" and we cannot learn that he has had the slightest expe-
rience as a Colonial Governor in any part of the world—
it will not, we pi esume, he anticipated that he will prove
as adequate to the delicate and complicated duties of
Commander of the Forces in Canada as the expe-
rienced officer who now fills that post. We are
therefore, to have a new Commander in Chief and
a new Governor General at the same moment ;
(when all that energy, gallantry, and experience can
offer, has scarcely been found adequate to preserve
the peace of the country), and such a Governor-General
as it would have been almost an insult to its inhabitants to
have sent to the torpid, turtle-seeking Island oiAscension.
So conscious, indeed, do Ministers appear to be of the
enormous absurdity of the appointment,that, in order that
hisdeparture may anticipate the petitions which are in
course of signature in different parts of the country on the
subject, Mr. Poulett Thompson is to be shipped off on
Saturday next by the Pique ! The job is to be ren-
dered irrevocable, unless at the expense of a retiring
pension, even although the whole country unite in the
expression of its opinion on the subject !"
The Times of this morning has - the following coarse
remarks on the rejection of Mr. Gibson by the electors
of Cambridge :—" Poor Mr. Gibson has been not only
beaten, but soundly beaten, at Cambridge, and Mr.
Sutton returned by a glorious majority of near one
hundred. It is clear Gibson won't do in this country.
His shabby conduct has sealed his fate with the consti-
tuency of England, and unless Daniel will take pity on
him (for a consideration-1,0001.----say 1,0001.), and
get him returned for some Papist borough, he has no
chance of every sitting in the House of Commons and
betraying a party again. It is clear what must be done
with him. He must be sent in some capacity or other
to Canada. Why not match the appointment of Mr.
Thomson to the office of Governor-General by making
Mr. Gibson Commander of the Forces ? His father,
we believe, is, or was, a Major-in the army, and that
certainly constitutes as good a qualification for this post
as anybody can possibly allege for Mr. Thomson's ap-
pointment."
The Morning Chronicle remarks as follows, upon Mr.
O'Connell's avowed determination to devote the rest of
his life to the effecting the Repeal of the Union :
" We admit all that Mr. O'Connell can possibly ad-
vance, as to the injury which Ireland has suffered
from her connection with England. It is impossible
to account for the matchless misery of the great
body of the people on any other principle than that
the bayonets and guns of England enabled the
English aristocracy, transplanted to Ireland, to perpe-
trate all manner of abuses and oppressions with impunity.
The English have made the Irish a nation of pauper
peasants ; and the extremity of the evil is such, that
it is difficult to conc.ive a remedy for it. Even if the
people of England were willing to consent to improve
the condition of the peasantry by an alteration of their
relations with the Irish landlords, the English aristo-
cracy, who make common cause with their brethren in
Ireland, would never consent to it. But the people of
England. though unable to prevent the misery of Ire-
land, will never suffer the Irish to effect a separation.
It is impossible to persuade them 'that, with an hide-
pendent Irish Parliament, Ireland might not, in critical
times, be the means of placing England in jeopardy."
In the Morning Post we find the late announcement
of the Ministerial changes thus called in question :
" We have reason to belie% e that the official arrange-
ments announced last week by the Ministerial Papers,-
upon authority,' as having been fully determined on,
have encountered considerable difficulties, and under-
gone some material alterations. Sir George Grey has,
we understand, refused the seat in the Cabinet which
was offered him ; but we are not able to say whe-
ther this refusal has arisen from the conviction of
Sir George Grey that the office of Judge-Advocate
is one which ought not to be held by a Cabinet Mi-
nister, as from an apprehension on his part that the
less intimate his connection with the present Govern-
ment the more likely it is to conduce to his own last-
in, honour and advantage. To the appointment of
Mr. It Gordon to • the Treasury, some of the Lords,
we arc told, manifested an insuperable objection. It
is said that matters, which, a day or two ago, were very
crooked indeed, have been put straight again by giving
Mr. Gordon the office of Secretary at War without a
seat in the Cabinet.
'I he Morning Herald concludes an article denouncing
the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Go-
vernor- Generalship of the Canadas in the following;
acrimonious strain :—" If Mr. Thomson's Administra-
tion, as Commercial Minister of the Crown, has been e
decided and miserable failure, as it surely has, how is it
to be expected that he can successfully discharge the
duties of Governor-General of Canada? OF affairs of
trade he has a smattering, but of the science and prin-
ciples requisite to the government of provinces circum-
stanced like the Canadas he absolutely knows nothing.
If Lord Melbourne merely wanted to get rid of him as
an incumbrance on the Cabinet, without wishing to
Gieneig him, after the manner of Lord H •ek, why (m
did he not give him some sinecure office, like that which
Lord Holland has in the Duchy of Lancaster, or Sir
John Newport in the Exchequer ? To sacrifice the two
Canadas, in order to make a provision out of the Cabinet,
for one whom it was not convenient to retain any longer
in it, is rather too serious a price to pay for the accom-
modation or whim of the fribble chief of the Bed-cham-
ber Administration."
The Morning Advertiser takes quite a different view
of Mr. P. Thomson's appointment :—" The appoint-
ment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Government of
Canada," says our Liberal Contemporary, "13, we hold,
one of Vie wisest and best which Ministers could have made.
Lord John Russell is now the Secretary for the Colo•
nies, and as such will have to introduce into the House
of Commons and take charge of all measures affecting the
Canadas. Need we say how desirable it is that there.
should be an entire unity of feeling and a friendly inter-
change of sentiment on Canadian affairs—considering
the critical state in which those affairs have been
placed for some time past—between the Governor-Ge-
neral and the Colonial Secretary ? And where, let us
ask, is there a man to be found, between whom and
Lord John Russell a greater harmony of principle and
purpose exists on this subject, than between the Right
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AN INCORRIGIBLE TIIIEF.—On Wednesday
at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions William Dunderdale, 18
years of age, who has previously been committed to the
House of Correction and for trial no less than 23 times,
was charged before Sir William Wiseman, Bart , the sit-
ting Magistrate, with felony. lle was once more com-
mitted to Newgate. After his removal to the station-
house, Winder, the sergeant of the local police, went to
the lock-up to see if Lhe prisoner wanted anything, when
he discovered him sitting on the floor, and notwithstanding
his hands were handcuffed behind him, and his legs ironed,
his neckerchief was found tied by a slip knot round his
throat, and the other end fastened to one of his leg irons,
which he was stretching out with his full power. lie was
entirely black in the face, and his eyes were almost burst-
in.' 1 orn their sockets. The sergeant immediately cut the
neckerchief, when the prisoner fell on the floor, and al-
though surgeons were instantly fetched, sonic time elapsed
before he returned to consciousness.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

EFFECT OF MONOPOLY

Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar,
n Mincing Lane, and comparing the same against that of
cr-eigt: sugars:—

London, September 6, 1839.
The Gazette of this night will quote the ave. Per Cwt.
rage price of British Plantation Muscovado
Sugar, exclusive of duty, at
The actual quantity sold in the week ending the 31
inst. on account of the importers, en which the above price
is computed, consisted, according
West India sugar brokers,of 1,111 hhds. 44 trcs. and 126
barrels, and not of 1,400 hhds., as estimated in the
market. _ to the returns of the

Foreign Sugars have been sold from 19s. to 255. per
cwt. this week, demonstrating that they are quality for
quality 17s. per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugar.
The market remains unusually quiet.

THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ABROAD.—At the
window of a private house in Cleveland-street, Fi:z-
roy-square, is a bill exhibited, from which the follow-
ing is correctly copied :-_" A day seem;nary for children,
by Jane Maddox. Needel work and tooition taught on r.cw
and improved principela. Bonets cleaned and altered to
the prevailing fashion."
OUR NATURALIZED FRUITS AND VEGE-
TABLEa,—Vegetables were imported from the Netherl ends
in 1500, there being no kitchen
gardens in England. Be-
fore this time sugar was eaten with meat to correct its pu-
treseency. Turnips and carrots are thought to be indigenoua
roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus, our
artichokes from Sicily, lettuces from Cos, a name vul-
garly corrupted into Gos. Shallots or eshallots from Asca-
lon. What roving ideas on commerce and civilization may
arise from a dinner and dessert ! The cherry and filberts are
from Cartana, in Asia Minor; the peach and walnut from
Persia ; the plum from Syria ; the pomegranate from Cy-
prus ; the quince front Sidon ; the olive and fig from
Greece, as also the best apples and pears, though also
found wild in France and even in this country ; the apricot
is from Armedia. The mountain wines come from the
mountains around Malaga. Tent is tinto tinged, or red
wine. Sherry from Xeres-Xeres (the Spanish Xis pro-
nounced sh or ch), in the south of Spain, where the great
battle fought between the Christians and the Saracens
ended in the conquest of Spain by the latter. Malmsey
was from Malvasia in the Peloponnesua, but afterwards
propagated at Alicant, the Canaries, and Madeira.
GROUSE SHOOTING.—One rule, the golden
rule, " give your dogs the wind," has paramount import-
ance, and ought to be particularly observed in grouse
shooting. The nature of the ground is strongly opposed
to the spreading of scent ; and as a dog may consequently
come within three feet of a pack and not wind, but sprieg
them, it is most essential to sport that you should never
hunt them to such disadvantage. At the beginning of the
season it is very common to see the old cock running
cackling, and leading the whole pack from the impending
danger, and unless you luckily floor him the first rise, you
may be sure of no little bother in getting at the pack.
Leave your keeper,and dogs about the pace they last rose
from ; let him be as little visible as possible, but sufficiently
so for him to guide. you to a point beyond the place where
you suppose the birds to have dropped ; having obtained
the point, walk briskly towards the marked ground, and if
they do not rise within shot at your approach, the old
cock's tongue is almost sure to betray their place of con-
cealment; then kill the gentleman, and the rest of the d
park are as good as bagged.—Sporting Review.
The Journal de Lot et Garonne mentions a
horrible outrage as having been committed lately
at Tonneins, in that department. An inhabitant of
that town, accompanied by his daughter, twenty-one
years of age, and of great beauty, a young female
friend of hers, and three young men of their acquaint-
ance, had been enjoying an evening walk by the I,a-
-side, and were returning home across the fields, when
they were attacked by eight or ten men, who at once
declared their intention of possessing themselves of the
persons of the young worn an A desperate conflict en.
sued ; four cf the ruffians kept the young men at bay,
while the remainder set on the father and the two girls.
They soon forced his daughter from his arms, and dragged
her away, while h:r father who was an invalid, hung on by
her dress, and was drawn along the ground. One of the
men turned round, and, giving him some violent blows
on the head, left hint for dead. They then car-
ried the poor young girl to a great distance across
the open country, until they arrived at a house, where a
woman allowed them to enter; and where they perpe-
trated their atrocious crime on their victim. In the mean-

time the other young woman had escaped after some bad
treatment, and, running to the river, concealed hersrlf
among some rushes on the bank, in which place,
she was afterwards found. The three young men
had defended themselves courageously against their
assailants, who were much stronger, and one of
them, armed with a poinard, wounded two of the ruffians
so badly that they succeeded in capturing them, while the
two others escaped. luformation was immediately given
to the gendarmerie of Tonneins, and they set out in
quest of the poor young woman who bad been carried off.
The father was found and brought back ; and at length
they discovered his daughter sitting under a tree,
to which, after the villains had turned her cut
of the house, she had, with great difficulty,
dragged herself. Independently of the wounds and
other severe injuries which she had received, her cars
bad been slit by the pulling cut of her ear-rings .by vio-
lence, and her ravishers had forced her rings off her fin-
gers with their teeth, leaving her hands dreadfully ice-
rated. She was conveyed back to Tonneins in a most
dangerous condition. The men who had been guilty of
this diabolical attempt, with the exception of the two al-
ready mentioned, had not been arrested. The utmost in-
dignation and excitement is stated to prevail at Tonneins
and in the surrounding districts.— Golignani.
THE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION AND
THE DUKE Or BUCKINGHAM.—It is well known that the
Duke of Buckingham, when Marquis of Chandos, inte-
rested himself greatly in getting up the Agricultural Asso
eiation, with a view to party political purposes. Some
surprise was occasioned at his Grace's delay in sending
in his adhesion to the great meeting lately held at Ox-
ford ; and still more was the surprise at his Grace's having
invited the Judges and the Grand Jury to dire with him
on the very day on which that meeting took plsce—a
circumstance which, bad he been disposed, he could easily
have avoided. His Grace, however, we have reason to know,
k composedn o wded g etthhee
great
toastre a t
wrote to Mr. William Heyward, formerly a staunch Libe-
ral, but now a rabid Tory, renting a farm under his Grace,
requesting him to apologise for his absence, and to ac-
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THE FLEET.---The abolition of this prison is
cont..mplated. The expense of maintaining it is upwards
of 10,000/., and that of the Marshalsea 3,0001. per annum,
whilst in the latter prison the average debt of each of the
84 persons confined was only 101., thus showing that one
year's expenses would
pay the whole amount. It should
also be observed that the change will not add one iota of
expense in sending the prisoners to the Queen's Bench, as
there has been the same establishment of gaolers kept up
since the years 1814 and 1815, and will save at least
13,000/. per year to the country.
THE POPULAR MAN, AND THE MAN OF
ORIGINALITY.—The Popular man, and the man of true,
or at least of great originality, are seldom one and the
same; we suspect that, till after a strong struggle on the
part they are never so. Reasons arc obvious
et
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popular man stands on our own level, or a
hair's breadth higher ; he shows us a truth which we can.
not see without shitting our present intellectual position.
This is a highly convenient arrangement. The original
man, again, stands above us ; he wishes to wrench us
from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer
level : but to quit our old fixtures, especially if we have
sat in them with moderate comfort fur some score or two
of years, is no such easy business; accordingly we de-
, mur, we resist, we even give battle ; we still suspect
that he is above us, but try to persuade ourselves (lazi-
ness and vanity earnestly assenting) that he is below.
For is it not the very essence of such a man that he be
new ? And who will warrant us that, at the same time,
lie shall only be an intensation and continuation of the
old, which, in general, is what we lonr, and look fur ?
No one can warrant us. And, granting him to be a man
of real genius, real depth, and that speaks not till after
earnest meditation, what sort of a philosophy were hie,
could we estimate the length, breadth, and thickness of it
at a single glance ? And when did criticism give two
glances? Criticism, therefore, opens on such a man its
greater and lesser batteries, on every side : he has no
security but to go on disregarding it; and " in the end,"
says Goethe, " criticism itself comes to relish that me-
thod." But now let a speaker of the ether class come
forward ; one of those men that " have, more than any
one, the opinion which all men have !" No sooner does
Ile speak, than all and sundry of us feel as if we had betel
wishing to speak that very thing as if we ourselves might
have spoken it ; and forthwith resounds from the united
universe a Celebration of that surprising feat. What clear-
ness, brilliancy, justness, penetration ! Who can doubt
that this man is right, when so many thousand votes are
ready to back him ? Doubtless, he is right ; doubtless, he
is a clever man ; and his praise will long be in all the Ma-
gazines.—Carlyle.
,c Lord John Hay and Colonel Colquhoun,"
says a Spanish correspondent of the lifessager, .‘ had a
long interview with General
Umie.la.
Ituriza and an aide-de-camp
of Maroto on the 29th at • Simon la Torre, chief
of the army of Biscay, eight battalions strong, has adhered
to the first conditions which were accepted by Esparterei
and has remained neutral. This paralyses the Carlists.
On Thursday about two hundred children be-
lcnging to the various parochial charity schools in the city,
and east of London, were admitted to the exhibition of
the Works of Modern Artists now taking place at the
Eastern Institution, Commercial-road. The children were
all admitted gratis, as well as five hundred others on the
previous Menday, by the kind invitation of the President,
the Vice-Presidents, and Council of the Institution, and
appeared highly delighted with the treat thus liberally af-
forded them. This exhibition is the first of the kind that
has been opened in the Tower Hamlets.
THE LATE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.—At the
ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which
commence next week, Money
N-oses, his daughter, MN.
Abrahams; and the Caspers, who were convicted a few
months ago of the gold-dust robbery, will be brought up to
receive judgment.
It may be useful for many of our readers to
know that Newspapers directed to Wiesbaden, and we
suppose to other places also in that vicinity, with " via
France" written at the top, and " Germany" omitted, and
on which twopence has been paid in England, cost only
twopence more on delivery there, going by Paris quite as
quickly as by any other way ; while, if sent by the German
mail, through Ostend, the charge is 2s. &I.—Brighton
Gazette.

MANCHESTER ELECTIONS.

The first election after the passing of the Reform Act
took place in the month of December, 1832, when the fol-
lowing was the final close of the poll
Mark Philips 2,923 H. T. Hope (C)... 1,560
P. Thomson ...... 2 068 Mr. Cobbett 1,305
Jones Loyd
The second election (consequent upon the dissolution in
Dec. 28, 1834) took place in January, 1835, with the fol-
lowing results .

P. Thomson 3,356 Braidley (C) 2,535
Mark Philips 3,163 I Sir Chas. Wolseley 583
Another contest took place in May, 1835, on the occasion
of Mr. Poulett Thomson having vacated the office of Vice-
President, and accepted that of President of the Board of
Trade. Mr. P. Thomson was again opposed by Mr.
Braidley. the Conservative. The numbers were—
Mr. P. Thomson
The last election was that which followed the death of
the late King William the Fourth
P. Thomson 4,127 I W. E Gladstone( C) 2,324
Mark Philips 3,759