The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1839.

HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As a movement is about to be made for the
attainment of Household Suffrage, permit me thrbugh
the medium of your widely-circulated Journal to make
a few remarks upon that important subject, in order to
show (as I think) the absurdity of confining the suffrage
strictly to householders, and also the inconsistency of
persons in bringing forward such a suffrage in preference
to Universal, because they say that the "people" are too
ignorant for the latter.
First, then, Sir, to show the absurdity. I am a
householder of 401. per annum. I let out apartments,
the rent of which nearly pays the whole of mine, and
yet these people are not to vote, although they are in
every way qualified to do so—one being a merchant's
clerk, another an artist, and a third a mechanic,
all of whom are connected with a philosophical
institution. Does not this, Sir, show the absurdity
of such a franchise—a franchise which will exclude all
the intelligent lodgers (for take them as a class they
are the most intelligent in the community) and take in
all the ignorant agricultural labourers ; for most as-
suredly if there is any ignorance in the country the
greatest part of it is with them ; and yet with House-
hold Suffrage nearly all will become voters.
Is it not ridiculous to go forward for such a measure
when the same degree of agitation would get the
lodger represented as well as the householder ?
And does not this show the inconsistency of
these persons, who are about to commence the move.
meet for Household Suffrage, in preference to Universal,
because, they say, that the people are too ignorant for
the latter ? It convinces me, to a certainty, that these
parties have an interest in politically humbugging the
people. But I hope that such a measure will be re-
sisted, because I am certain, with our present electoral
system, that Household Suffrage would be as bad, if
not worse, than the present.
Hoping, Sir, that the movement will be made for the
lodger as well as the householder.
I am, respectfully, &c.
A LOVER OF JUSTICE.
Grafton-street, Fitzroy. square, March 26.

SPIT ALFIELDS and BET RN AL-
GREEN BRITISH SCHOOL SOCIETY.

Yesterday the foundation-stone of the new schools,
one to accommodate 300 boys and the other 200 girls,
was laid by the Right Honourable Stephen Lushington,
M.P., at Abbey-street, Bethnall-green, where the Bri-
tish School Society have purchased a site of freehold
ground for their erection. The Rev. Mr. Simpson
having invoked the blessing of Heaven on the undertak-
ing, Mr. Hanbury, the eminent brewer, in a suitable
address, requested the Hon. Member for the Tower
Hamlets to lay the foundation stone, which ceremony
was performed amidst the cheers of thousands. Several
small coins were lodged in the cavity of the stone. Two
small cannons were discharged and a balloon set off at
the same moment. Dr. Lushington then addressed
the meeting at a considerable length on the great
blessing of education. Previous to this imposing
ceremony, a meeting of the Spitalfields and
Bethnal-green British School Society was held at
53, Brick-lane. T. F. Buxton, Esq. in the Chair,
when the Report of the Committee was read ; when it
appeared that the parish of Bethnal-green contains
70,000 inhabitants, and that there ought to be school-
room for 9,000 children. From actual survey, the ex-
isting public daily schools are not capable of accom-
modating more than 2,000 scholars. On a special ap-
plication made to the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, a grant of 7501. has been made
towards the building, and subscriptions have been re-
ceived to the amount of 1,1001., which leaves a sum
of about 7001. still to be subscribed. Amongst the sub-
scriptions the following sums were announced :-1261.
from Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton, and
1131. 10s. I Id. from a Charitable Fund, per W. Clay,
Esq. ; E. N. Buxton, Esq., 601.; Anonymous, 'per
Mr. Bidford, 50/. ; Messrs. Durant and Co., 50/. ;
Samuel Gurney, Esq., 311. ; Messrs. Hanbury, Taylor,
and Loydd, 311. 10s. ; Messrs. Charrington,
.Head,
and Co., 25/. ; G. W. Alexander, Esq., 251. ; W.
Clay, Esq., M.P., F. Baring, Esq. M.P., R. E. Slaney,
Esq., M.P., 101. each, &c. &c.

BENEFITS TO TRADE OF THE
EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.

(From the Essex Herald.)
A writer in the Norwich Mercury, of Saturday last,
thus describes the benefits to trade from the works of
the Eastern Counties' Railway :—" The first operation.
is of course the excavator,' which would directly give
full employ to every able-bodied adult now within our
walls, and invite and bring many hundreds more into
this district and neighbourhood. There are now be-
tween six and seven thousand workmen in their se-
veral callings employed on the works and connected
with them, night gangs and extra engineers, that there
may be no cessation of the progress of the works.
Simultaneously with the excavators, the whole of the
combined business of the whole mechanical world is
called into operation—the carpenter, joiner, brick-
layer, plumber, glazier, painter, smith, and every
other artizan, finds instant employ.. One contractor at
this time, at Chelmsford, is burning ten millions of
bricks, which sounds somewhat " trumpet-tongued" of
infusing joy and spirit into the hearts of every tradesman
in the town and neighbourhood. Why ? because it
naturally follows that all this extra-population (with
increased wages) will, as they can so well afford it,
eat and drink the more. It follows of course the
brewer, the maltster, the shopkeeper, the baker, and
the butcher, arc benefited, and of course all their
hangers on, connexions, and contingents. Why the
rails and chairs and iron work required between hence
to Yarmouth and Eye would alone employ ten times
the number of founders now in the whole country,
" pioneers and all." Then I would go to the more
polished matter connected with a railroad, the con-
struction of the engines, and the carriages, all of which
could be done here at from 12 to 15 per cent. less
than in London. I had the gratification of seeing
between 30 and 40 of the latter in one manufactory
nearly completed for the Chelmsford district, very beau-
tifully made, worthy of the great taste and talent, and
like everything done under the direction of their engi-
neer, Mr. Braithwaite, carried into execution, and of
the best construction, for the conveyance of the passen-
gers on the Eastern Countries' Railway." The writer
adds—" It is desired by the greater part of the London
Proprietory, and the few and meagre scanty share-
holders along the line to this place, to divide the line
into five divisions thus, London and Chelmsfdrd Ist,
Chelmsford to Colchester 2d, Norwich and Yar-
mouth 3d, Colchester and Ipswich 4th, Ipswich to
Norwich sth. The northern lights, if they are not
out-balanced in time by the spirit and awakened enter-
prise of the intelligent here, will of course, for the pre-
sent, curtail and confine the line to Colchester and
Harwich,—Harwich, with the grass now growing in
its streets, literally knee deep, yet they can find two
hundred thousand pounds. For what ? Why to
sneer at, and deservedly, the improving town and
borough of Great Yarmouth.' Now, as to the profit
of this speculation,' as some very weak minds would
please to call it, but a more inappropriate term can-
not be, for here there is no alternative, it must pay,
and a goad per tentage too, it being (as I heard a most
eminent railroad engineer say 'in London the other
day) the best projected line laid down in the United
Kingdom. The more it conies east from Colchester,
except as from Norwich to Yarmouth, the less it will
pay, I readily admit, and were I to cease to be a
citizen of old Norvicum, as a shareholder I should
rejoice, but with deep regret for the blindness of those
of my native city. I should of course vote for the ter-
minus being at Harwich in lieu of Yarmouth. The
advantages, the all-important advantages,that must arise
to, those " Twin Sisters," as I said before, up-
holders of the consequence and importance of this
city and its suburbs, the Norwich Union Life and Fire
Offices, with all their concomitant dependants and
consequent incumbrances, are incalculable, and will
arouse, I do hope and trust, the influential members con-
nected with them, respectively at home and abroad, and
not allow the men of the north to snatch this now-to-be-
attained golden opportunity for the re-establishment of
our former prosperity, and not allow it to be deferred or
delayed. Let us unite one and all ; for it is, it must be
equally beneficial to the landlord, the tenant, the
farmer, and the tradesman ; and here the hydra-head of
party is entirely shut out, and hides its diminished head ;
and if we cannot bring our courage to the sticking
place, to follow the example of the little town of
Harwich, (0 monstrous !) let us form societies as has
been suggested, and form ourselves into shareholders of
two, three, or four in one share, whose proportion to
each then would be the enormous sum of six pounds five
shillings each, and which by the Act could be called for
only by instalments, and thus relieve us of every burden
that now presses so heavily upon us."

SANDWICH ISLANDS:—In the Sandwich Is-
lands Gazette, Feb. 5, is an account of a visit to the great
volcano at Hawaii, giving a very vivid and glowing de.
scription of the crater, and its singular cessation from ac-
tion. The enormous and terrific aperture forming the
mouth of the crater is estimated at eight miles in circum-
ference, the bottom six miles, and the depth fifteen hundred
feet. The general appearance is described as frightful. The
travellers could sec three burning lakes in beautiful action,
as well as innumerable fires issuing from cracks in the lava,
and a copious display of the liquid matter discharged from
four small craters. The explosions from these craters were
in sound equal to the report of large cannon, and the
burning matter ejected from them had the appearance of
rockets when exploding in the air. One large lake of
lava was grand in the extreme. At one period the fiery
liquid assumed the appearance of a gentle ripple on a
brook ; anon it danced in fantastic waves, and finally as-
sumed the appearance of a vast sheet of liquid fire. There
can be no doubt that this vast crater has an influence on
the tides, the strange phenomena of which often cause
alarm and confusion at the Sandwich Islands. It has also
been observed, that the volcano at Hawaii stands somewhat
in operation with a large volcano on the eastern coast of
South America.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 26.
Mr. Commissioner Law left town yesterday for Hert-
ford, the last place on the Home Circuit.
Mr. Martin °siciyield Wray, the well-known medi-
cine proprietor on Holborn-bridge, renewed an applica-
tion to be discharged on sureties until his hearing.
One of the proposed sureties, a person named Davies,
was opposed, and a " wordy warfare" took place.
Davis " waxed wroth." It was alleged against him that

he kept a house of a certain description in Lower
Crown-street, Soho. He denied the imputation. He
was, he declared, " a respectable individual," a jeweller
and a general dealer. It was also alleged that he had
been hired to bail on the present occasion. He said he
had not ; he had bailed other persons, and had known
the insolvent for eight years.
He was asked how he knew him ? Davies—How
did I know him ? Why I knows him by taking his
pills.—(Laughter.)
Mr. COOKE supported the bail on the part of the
insolvent.
Mr. Commissioner LAW accepted him on the condi-
tion that the warrant would issue on a messenger of the
Court reporting that Davies had a stock in trade as a
jeweller.—The insolvent was discharged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUI2:7-KINGsroN, Maraca 26.

The Commission of Assize for the county of Surrey
was opened on Monday, and the Judges proceeded to
dispose of the business this day, Mr. Justice LITTLE-
DALE presiding in the Crown Court, and Lord MIN-
DER at Nisi Prius.

John Pullcn, 28, labourer, was indicted for feloniously
shooting at James Puttock, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm.
• Messrs. CLARKSON and ESPINASSE conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. BODKIN the defence.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
was the servant of a gentleman named Barrett, liv-
ing at Mersham, in Surrey, and the prosecutor was
the servant of another gentleman, named Bates, whose
property .adjoined that of Mr. Barrett. On the
night of the 15th of December, the prosecutor was
near his master's property, accompanied by a man named
Swansbury, watching some snares that had been
set, for rabbits, when they observed the prisoner and
went towards him. He called out " Hoy," and imme-
diately fired a pistol in the direction of the spot where
the prosecutor stood, but without doing him any injury.
When the prisoner was questioned, he admitted he had
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fired the pistol, and said he thought he was justified in
doing so, as the prosecutor had not answered when he
milled out to him.

The defence was, that the prisoner was going to his
own home, accompanied by his wife, when be saw the
prosecutor and the other man, and not knowing them,
and as they did not answer him when he spoke to them,
he thought they were after no good, and fired the pistol
to alarm them. It also appeared that the prisoner had
been attacked upon the same spot a short time before,
and wounded by a man with a bill-hook.:
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty of an assault.
The COURT sentenced the prisoner to twelve months'

mprisonwent in the House of Correction.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A GAMEKEEPER.

James Somerfield was indicted for feloniously shoot-
ing at Henry Barnard with intent to kill him, or to do
him grievous bodily harm.
The intent was also laid to be to prevent his lawful
apprehension for an offence he had committed.
Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
CHAMBERS the defence.

The prosecutor deposed that he was a keeper in the
service of Mr. Page, a gentleman of property residing
at Cobham, and who is also a Magistrate for the county
of Surrey. On the night of the 99th of December he
heard the report of a gun upon his master's grounds,
and he immediately called up two of the other servants,
and proceeded in the direction of the place from whence
the report seemed to issue. When they got into
one of the plantations, he observed a pheasant fly across
from a meadow, and on going in that direction, he saw
the prisoner, whom he had known previously, and
asked him what he did there ? It was a moonlight night
and he was positive as to the identity of the prisoner.
The moment he spoke to him he ran _away, and witness
followed him for about sixty yards. The prison then
suddenly turned round, and deliberately levelled a gun
at him, and fired it off. Witness at the time was not
more than three yards from him, but at the moment
the gun was fired, his foot slipped, and he stumbled,
and the charge consequently missed him, but he felt it
pass quite close to his person, and the shots lodged in a
tree behind the spot where he stood. The prisoner was
taken into custody, and upon searching him a hen
pheasant quite warm was found in his pocket, and also
a quantity of powder and shot, and a gun were taken
from him.

Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the Jury.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up, and the Jury
returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for fifteen years.
Mr. CLxo.xsoN said there was another indictment
against the prisoner for sheep stealing.
The COURT intimated that it would be unnecessary
to go into it.

PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSIJR.
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26.
Number Dividend Pricc
of per CANALS. pin'
Shares. Annum. raid. Share
1,766 7 ye/ cent. Mitten and Oldham..Average 97/.lBs. sh. 130
482 41. Ashbr...c-le-Zouch Average 1161.5 h. ill
1,260
1,01:5 51, Brecknock and Abergavenny 150.. sit. 90
8,0001-ICsh. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share 841. & 711. 200
4,. (XX) Ditto and Liverpool Junctlwl/ sh. 100 pit £6
600 3/. Bridgewater and Taunton .1061. sh. all pd 64
4.02
.4/. Chehner and 'Backwater 1001. sh. • 101

500 48/. C Dventry 'ool.sh.
4.545 Croydon
2,060 41. Os. Dudley .. _. 100/.sh.
000 144. Derby 100/. sh .
10,000 4p cr cent. Danune and Mayne 4l /. 13s. 4d .pd
3,5751 V. Ellesmere and Chester... A v eragc 133Lsk.
231 621. Erewash 1001.50.
1,297 214 Forth and Clyde ....Average 414131.365. sh.
1,600 121. Grand Junctic- 1141/. sh.
2,049 k 11. Grand Union 1001 sh
1,500 Grand Surrey .. looi. sh.
0,0001 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl.
3_,i 96
600 13/.125. ed. Ghunorganshire, Aver. cost 1721. 136.441.
749 10s. Grantham 1501. sh.
6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 6d. sh.
100 Kensington 1W sh. all pd.
5.523 11.55. Kennet : nd Avon, Aver. 391. 185.1061. sh.
2,8971 301. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh.
5451 131. Leicester l4O/. sh.
1,897 61. Os. Leicester an.l NorthamptenAver *3l. tin.
2.400 10/. Monmouthshire It!Ol.sh.
.150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001. rh.
500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOW. oh.
3.000 11. !Os. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd.
247 171. Neath 100/. sh.
2,400 51. Peak Forest Aveh.ge about 78/. sh.
1,418 Its. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh.
5,669 61. percent. Rochdale Average 8-5/.Bh.
500 8/. Sitrorshire 1'25/. oh.
80(1 9/. 10s. Somerset Cc;al 150/. sh.
3,600/. 4i percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. IN. sh.
700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh.
500 96. Shrewsbury 125/. sh.
300 91. Stourbridge
.0,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on- Avoii ..verage 791. 9s. f..d. sh.
533 15/. Swansea 1001. sh.
3,762 U. 158. Severn and Wye and Railway Av 351. sh.
;601 sn. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh,
8,149 Thames and Medway Aver.l9/.55. ed. sh.
l'."111 16/. Warwick and Birmingham 100/.sh.
,1)00(61.
980 154. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh.
Cl,OOO 4/. Os. 'Worcester and Birmingham A v.78/.Bs. sh.
5,000 255. Wilts ar.d Betio Average 671. 10s. Rd. sh.
600 :11. IN yrley and Essington 1251. sh
126
200 li. Wey and Arun 110/. oh.

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13,324/. 5/.percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3
1,352,759. 5 rer cent. St. Katharine Stock Ill&
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2110.000 4 per cent, Ditto Bonds for 10 years loo°
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