The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITIC tiL
SUMMARY,

The settlement of 14fr. Richardson's account was post.
poned, in order to afford the Secretary an opportunity of
communicating with him with respect to a sum of 12/.
received by him from Caine, and which he had not given
credit for.
The several items of the various accounts were then
gone throug
confirmed, and the Report ordered to be received and

THE DEFENCE FUND,
Mr. O'Corrivon moved the appointment of a Committee
of five to investigate all matters connected with the De-
fence Fund Committee, and to report thereupon.
The motion, having been seconded, was agreed to, and
Mr. James Taylor, Mr. Bussey, Mr. Jackson, Mr. F.
O'Connor, and Mr. Richards were nominated to form the
Committee.

DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
Dr. TAYLOR then brought forward the. motion of which
he had given notice, for the adoption of the Declaration of
Rights presented to the Convention by Mr. Schroeder. It
would be for them to say whether they
would adopt it
clause by clause, or make any general objections that might
seem fit. As he had before observed, it was one of the
most masterly comments he had ever read, or that had ever
been laid before the country. The Convention would do
itself honour by adopting that address, and placing it
before the public as a declaration recognized and sanc-
tioned by them. Ile thought such a measure would go
farther to do away with the calumnies and obloquy that
had been heaped upon their proceedings than almost any
other they could adopt. It would show the people that,
instead of wishing to destroy the Constitution, the object
of the Convention was to go back to their ancient rights
and privileges, and establish the Constitution on its original
basis. They would thus give justice and fair play to
the poor, and secure the liberties and happiness of all.
If the document were well founded every law and every
Act of Parliament that had been passed since the people
were deprived of Universal Suffrage were illegal, and
need not, or indeed ought not, to be obeyed. Many of
the middle classes were opposed to them merely because
their views and motives had been grossly misrepresented;
but when these were fully explained, it would render them
friends instead of enemies. It was unnecessary for him
to take up their time further, but he would merely give
one instance. He had been among some of the middle
classes last night, and many of them were opposed to the
views of the Chartists. In about ten minutes, he (Dr.
Taylor) explained to them what the real views of the
Chartists were, and before he left the room these men
had become weekly subscribers to the Chartist fund.—
(Cheers.) Dr. Taylor concluded by moving the adoption
of the address.
Mr. F. O'CoNtcoe said there was once an old woman
in Ireland who was very fond of stirabout, but one morn-
ing she complained of it as bad ; her servant said the
fault was not in the stirabout but in the meal; that was
an answer t I Dr. Taylor's remarks respecting the middle
classes—it was the men that made and perpetuated the
system. He did net think the Convention ought to
adopt the document as their declaration of rights, for if
they did so, they must recommend the country to set
aside those laws which had been made, which were in-
novations upon Magna Charta and the 8.11 of Rights.
They were not in a condition to do so yet. He mouldtherefore move as an amendment that the thanks of the
Convention be given to Mr. Schroeder for his diligence,
ability, and research, and that they recommend it to be
perused by every working man in the country. They had
two objects in view, first to return their thanks to a gentle-
man who had put forth the most important document of the
time, and then to get the people to study it.
Mr. PITKEITHLEY seconded the amendment.
. Mr. CARPENTER hoped Dr. Taylor would press his
motion. He did not see the difference between the re-
commendation of the declaration of rights, and the adop-
tion of it by the Convention. By adopting it he did not
see that they at all recommended the people to disobey
the law, but merely that it was their declaration of what
they knew to be due to them.
Mr. WOLOTENHOLME would support Dr. Taylor's mo-
tion, and suggested that it should not only be adopted by
the Convention, but the Convention ought to recommend
that it should be signedty the people. He had no doubt,
in a very short time, it would be signed by four millions
of the people.
Mr. SCHROEDER begged to be allowed to say a few words
in favour of the declaration, although he was not a dele-
gate. The declaration was the result of years of hard
labour and research into the Constitution of Eng.
land ; and he thought it ought to be put forth by the
Convention as their own faith and creed, in order to re-
pudiate those charges which had been thrown out so foully
and falsely against Chartism. They ought to remember
what it was that led to the Revolution in Germany. What
caused that mighty change but the declaration of rights
put forth by Luther, Melancthon, and Zingluis ? Let them
also remember what took place when William the Third
arrived here with his few Dutch guards._(Hear,
hear.) He lay for eleven days at Southampton,
and it was not until he bad signed the declaration of
rights that he was seated upon the throne, and that decla-
ration was then embodied in an Act of Parliament. Let
the Convention send the present document forth with their
full sanction, and probably before they again met it might
have worked out a bloodless revolution. His only object
was to do good to his fellow-countrymen.
Mr. Bessay thought they were bound either to reject or
adopt the document.
Mr. Deegan, Mr. Skevington, and Mr. Richards were
in favour of adopting the document as their own.
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have Dr. TAILOR then moved that the Council ought not to
Mr. CARPENTER said the
question had been so often
discussed before, that it would be a mere waste of time to
go on discussing it again. He suggested 'that it would
be better to appoint a committee to consider and report
upon the whole subject.
Mr. BuRNs thought the adoption of that course would
render it necessary to send for Mr. Fletcher.
Mr. PITKEITHLEY did not think they would be enabled to
come to any better conclusion thatmode
sorted to.

Mr. BURNS said that the vote was no money vote at al

it was merely a resolution that the Council should have
their wages while in London, but nothing was said as to
the amount.
Mr. O'Cosmort thought that the proper course would
be to move that the minute of tho vote of Friday, the 26th
of July, by which it was ordered that the Council should
be paid the same as the Delegates, should be inserted upon
the books, and to resolve that the Convention had no power to
rescind that order without notice, and that the resolution of
the 6th of August should not be recognised as an Act of
the Convention, and should be erased from the minutes
of the Council.

After a desultory conversation Mr. O'CONNOR withdrew
his amendment, and

Upon the motion of Mr. CARPENTER it was agreed that
the minute in the Council-book should be struck out.
Mr. HETIIERINGTON moved an amendment, that the
word " wages " in the minutes of the Convention of July
shall be understood to refer to the amount of wages paid
to the Delegates sent on missions, namely, 21. per week.
Mr. PITKEITULEY seconded the amendment.
After a somewhat warm discussion the Convention di-
vided, when there appeared—
For the motion
For the amendment
The CHAIRMAN gave his castinr, vote in favour of the
original motion, which was accordingly' carried.
Mr. DEEGAN then moved that each member of the Coun-
cil receive the same salary during the time he served on
the Council as he did previously from his constituents—
which was seconded by Dr. Taylor.
Mr. PITKEITHLEY and Mr. O'CONNOR opposed it.
There appeared—
For the 'motion 3
Against it JO
Majority against it...
AUDITING THE ACCOUNTS.
Mr. CARDO then moved that a Committee of five be
appointed to audit all the accounts of tho Convention,
which having been seconded by Mr. SKEVINGTON, was
carried unanimously.
Adjourned at three o'clock.

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THE NEW CALCULATING MACHINE.—In
Mr. Spring Rice's successor we see, on the whole, neither
any gain or loss. His opinions as to Reform are about as
objectionable to Radicals as those of his predecessor. ' He
has the reputation of being a good man of business and is
reputed next to Mr. Babbage's invention as a calculating
machine. If Plutu:, were in want of a doorkeeper, Mr.
F. Baring would be his man, and this is a recommendation
for the guardianship of the Exchequer.—Eraminer.

The Globe of last evening, in an article exposing
the oppression of the Irish peasantry by Orange landf
lords, and more especially the monstrous cruelty o
turning them naked upon the world by dispossessing
them of their wretched cabins, alludes as fol-
lows to the mock Report of the Lords' Com-
mittee upon the state of Ireland :—" But their
Lordships did not examine the witnesses who are
really competent to give information upon this har-
rowing subject., It wont do' to throw dust in
the public eyes by asking two or three landlords if
they have not been very, very kind' to the
wretches they have turned out to beggary. They
should have brought forward some of the instruments
employed in these doings—the agents and bailiffs of the
cleared estates, the sheriffs and officers who were com-
pelled to assist in clearing them, the middlemen upon
whose shoulders all parties are so anxious now-a days
to cast the odium, and the hard necessity of resort-
ing to those unnatural proceedings ; and, above all,
they should have examined some of the unhappy
victims of modern improvement themselves. But
their Lordships knew a trick worth two of that : they
had their conclusions formed before they went into the
proofs at all, and it was necessary to confine the exami-
lion within the tract their upright and judicial minds
had prescribed. We expect that the first act of the
House of Commons, after the next meeting of Parlia-
ment, will be to appoint a real committee of inquiry, to
go over the ground which this mock inquisition has pre-
tended to delineate."
The. Courier observes as follows, on the rival preten-
sions of Messrs. Greig and Oliphant to repre-
sent the people of Perth in Parliament :—" Mr.
Oliphant has been tried in Parliament. and was not
found wanting. We trust that the expecta-
tions which are now formed of Mr. David Greig will
be as satisfactorily realized. Remarks have been made
on the absence of express declaration of opinion in the
Honouruble Gentleman's address, and some doubt of his
political principles has been implied in these observa-
tions. The Chronicle, however, vouches for him in the
strongest terms We are assured that if Mr. Greig
did not dwell at more length on his principles, it is be-
cause that he was addressing men thoroughly ac-
quainted with him, and reposing the fullest confidence
in his zeal for the good cause. A more stanch Liberal
than the Provost of Perth never sat within the walls
of the House of Commons.' This, after all, is the grand
point ; and aceordeigly we shall rejoice to find that
whatever temporary disagreement there may be as to
the choice of persons, there can be no permanent dis-
satisfaction as to the choice of principles."
The Standard endeavours to prove that the Liberals
escaped defeat by something approaching to a miracle,
at Manchester, and that so sensible were the Re-
formers of their danger, that they deemed it pru-
dent to provide for the worst. The following is
amusing from the cool impudence it displays :—" At
Manchester, as at Cambridge, the Whig party
appear to have provided a grievance on which to fall
back in the event of defeat. In one case we had a
bribery affair' most cunningly devised, and served up
with the sauce piequante of the 'general indignation,'
and a' that.' In the second, the friends of the Whig
candidate amused themselves by writing letters to each
other, professing the object of drawing mercantile
voters from the election! We do not hear
that any of these letters were so far relied on, as to
produce the object for which it was pretended they
were written. The assertion that any Maqchester
accountant' would have withdrawn himself from his
native town at such a moment, on the representation,
under fictitious signatures, that the insolvency of a
large mercantile firm' (no name specified) was about
to take place, will obtain as much belief as it is en-
titled to. If Manchester boasts of an accountant'
possessed of so little common sense, the less he is
employed the better. Equally absurd is the pretence
that an anonymous summons to two brothers (not
named) to the bed of a dying relative (also anony-
mous) should have been the means of depriving Mr:
Greg of their votes. That such letters are in exist-
ence we have little doubt ; but that the Manchester
Guardian or Leeds Mercury, arcades ambo, will afford
any information calculated to lead to the discovery of
their writers we will not believe. All that they have
at present deigned to inform us on the subject, namely
that the authors of these summonses are men of edu-
cation, does but confirm our opinion that the whole
story is a weak invention of the enemy.' There
must have been considerable apprehension of defeat, or
such contemptible tricks would not have been re-
sorted to."
The Times of this morning observes, in the course
of a leading article, the text of which is furnished by a
pamphlet recently published, under the title of "A
Letter to the Queen :"—" The truth is, that the ad-
ministration of the Whigs is altogether a new experi-
ment—an attempt to govern by the power of the
Crown alone, without the Commons, and against the
Lords. That has been suffered for a little while, in the
outset-of a ferrate-reign, from what Mr. Burke calls • a
generous loyalty to rank and sex,' and from the acci-
dent that the opposition was composed of Conserva-
tives ; but it is a kind of forbearance which the friction
of public business must speedily wear out. The
Court appears to have been amused with thd vain
hope that the people at large were favourable trci; the
Ministers, and that the loud and formidable voice of their
represenatives in the House of Commons would
overawe the Peers into acquiescence. The event, on
the contrary, turns out to be, that the Ministers, on
their most vital questions, can comreaud no greater
preponderance in the House of Commons than' a ,ba-
lance of from two to five : insomuch, that when we
deduct the votes given by the Ministers themselves for
the prolongation of their own tenure, the Oppositionll
are an actual majority of the whole representation of
the people. Month by month the forces of the Mieiiistry
are waning away. Their strongest garrisons surrender.
Mr. Gibson has been repudiated with scorn at Cam-
bridge ; and Manchester itself, the very citadel of ultra-
Whiggery, has been made so sensibly to feel the " rock-
ing of its battlements," that the next attack will pro-
bably plant the standard of the Constitution on its walls.
In this state of things, the country is left with Out a
Government, and the sense of that deficiency has become
strong and general throughout the nation."
The Morning Chronicle, alluding to the Marquis of
Londonderry's reply to the recent remonstrances of the
Clergy of Ripon, Thirsk, and the neighbourhood, res-
pecting his duel with Mr. H. Grattan, makes the follow-
ing observations :—" Notwithstaading the 'retort,' not
quite courteous,' which they brought on themselves,
we by no means profess to blame the clergy on this oc-
casion, to question their motives or to impugn their doc-
trine. The interference was a much more creditable
one than that which recently exposed the clergy of Win-
chester to the more consistent and poignant rebuke of
the Directors of the Southampton railroad, wh.cit those
reverend intermeddlers desired entirely to dote on the
Sabbath day. The Durham clergy had plainer precept
and higher purpose. Their censure was aimed at lords
instead of labourers, at the enforcement of moral duty,
and not of mere ceremonial; at a sanguinary custom,
and not a timely relaxation ; at a public nuisance, and
not a public accommodation. But these very ditnren-
ces in their favour, are the circumstances that
have drawn down the thunders of a London-
derry on their devoted heads. As his Lord-
ship has done so much, let him do more,
and fairly expound the conditions on which his
faction allies itself with the clergy. Let it be told out
that there is one Christianity for exalted station,' and
another for the inferior classes of society. That while
judgment is preached to the multitude, every soldier
and gentleman is his own best judge.' fhat the
proper duty of clergymen, in their holy alliance with
Toryism, is to thwart all practicable schemes of popular
education ; to bullrag Dissenters in the pulpit, and to
harry them on the bench ; and to be a standing agency
for the purpose of electioneering. In return, the other
high contracting party guarantees the continued right of
taxing Dissenters for the expenses of the Established
worship ; the monopoly of all funds and endowments,
with as little duty as possible ; the pleasure of Irish per-
secution ; the dignity of Ecclesiastical ascendancy, in all
points not trenching on the emoluments or practices of
the aristocracy ; and the toast of ' Church and State,'
with all the honours, and the favourite glee of ' A jolly
full bottle,' at every Tory demonstration."
The ,horning Herald thus comments on some of the
flagrant misstatements and misrepresentations recently
put forth by the enemies of negro emancipation :
" The enemies of negro emancipation, though often de-
tected in their mis-statements so pompously put forth
to deceive the British people, with respect to the effects
of that most just and humane measure, have bad the
audacity again to attempt insulting the common sense
of this nation by a new series of misrepresentations
relative to what they are pleased to term " the dis-
graceful conduct of their negroes." This is certainly
very bold language, and would be of very great im-
portance if its authors would only condescend to give
us the facts upon which these violent assertions have
been founded ; but as those amiable children of;Moluch
have not had the hardihood to go into the particulars ne-
cessary to establish evidence of general misconduct on
the part of the emancipated negroes, it is naturally con-
cluded that these gentle and kind-hearted task masters
are unable, though nothing loth, to bear out their foul
assertions, and that if these matters were properly inves-
tigated, it would he found that the white tyrants who so
lately were mercenary traffickers in human flesh, are
still the same incorrigible oppressors which they ever
have been, of the African or of any other race, white or
black, which might have experienced the infliction of
being placed under their control. Lnng habituated to
deeds of revolting cruelty, their blood-stained hands are
evidently itching to seize again the lash and the brand-
ing-iron, which the genius of British freedom has struck
from their unholy grasp, we trust for ever. That some
irregularities and insubordination may have manifested
themselves amongst the late slaves we are not prepared
to deny, but, on the contrary, we think it not improbable
that the superior misconduct of certain despotic planters
may have caused their labourers to quit their employ-
ment."