The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN EXPRESS.

Our Expressed Report of the important debate which
terminated on Wednesday morning at three o'clock, ar-
rived in Dublin before six o'clock on Friday. The Sun,
through our indefatigable agents there, Messrs. Johnston
and Co., was immediately delivered to the Irish Govern-
ment, and the private Secretary at the Castle addressed the
following acknowledgment of his Excellency the Lord
Lieutenant : _

" Castle, .March 9, half-past five, P. M.
" Lieutenant Colonel Yorke presents his compliments to
Messrs Johnston and Co., and is desired by the Loan LIEU-
TENANT to thank them for the Express Edition of The Sun of
Wednesday last, containing the debate and division in the
House of Commons on that night, which they have been so
obliging as to send trine, and has been just received."
The Irish Journals, put in possession of the result of the
division by means of our Express Edition, exult in the
defeat of the Tories with that ardent earnestness which is
proper to their national character. They regard the majo-
rity at a most brilliant victory, affording decisive evidence
of the triumph of Ministers over all foes. " The Tories
(sly they) are threshed—Orangeism is in the sulks..-.the
Radicals arc nowhere—there are splits and recriminations
—there is mutiny in the Conservative Camp. Victory !
Victory !"
The late important debate and division in the House of
Commons, has placed us under another obligation to Mr.
Murdo Young, the ever-active proprietor of The Sun New;-
paper. The division did not take place till three o'clock on
Thursday morning, and we received the whole debate---four-
teen closely printed columns—on Friday afternoon, three hours
before the arrival of the mail. This is by no means a solitary
instance, but occurs on all occasions of particular interest.
We consider that all who reside at a distance from the metro-
polis—the provincial Press especially—are much indebted to
the skill end enterprise that ensures them such early intelli-
gence, and are, in justice, bound to acknowledge the obli-
gatian —Devonport Independent.
An express has just (March 9, I 1 p.m.) arrived in this
city, from The Sun office, and for which, as upon many for-
mer occasions, we are indebted to the extraordinary exertions
of Mr. Young, bringing the conclusion of the debate on Sir
William Molesworth's motion for a vote of censure upon Lord
Glenelg-. Carlisle Journal.
We are indebted to an express from The Sun newspaper
for this debate and division.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
'rho full report of the adjourned debate, and the division
thereupon, reached this city yesterday (Friday) by a little
after two o'clock in the afternoon, by an express forwarded
from the office of The Sun newspaper, to the spi-
rited proprietor of which the public, in every part of her Ma-
jesty's dominions, have been indebted for the earliest intelli-
gence, for many years past, on all occasions that called for
such extraordinary exertions. —Bath Herald.
Thanks to the public spirit of Murdo Young, Esq., the
talented proprietor of The Sun Evening Newspaper, we are
enabled to lay before our readers a very copious report of
the Wednesday night's debate, together with the glorious re-
sult of the division. The debate did not close till three
o'clock yesterday (Thursday) morning, and yet we received a
parcel of the Express Edition of The Sun by half-past ten
o'clock last night, containing thirteen columns. We cannot
refrain from noticing this additional effort of the unrivalled
Sun. It is not merely the benefit of receiving the intelligence
sixteen hours earlier than we should otherwise have obtained
it ; but it is for the opportunity that those sixteen hours afford
us for giving a digested report to our readers this week ;
shall thus be enabled to scatter the intelligence through the
lone homesteads, and scattered villages of our breezy hills,
seven days earlier than this portion of our readers would other-
wise get it. The public owe a deep debt of gratitude to the
gentleman who has thrown these facilities in their way, and
tile Reformers are especially indebted to his indomitable
energy and talent. We hope to see some popular testimonial
given to so honest and zealous a public servant.— Western

An Express Edition of The Sun just received in this town,
announces that Sir W. Molesworth's motion was withdrawn,
and the division on Lord Sandon's amendment gave a majority
in favour of Ministers of twenty-nine. We rejoice in the re-
sult, and hope it will be attended with beneficial effect on all
political parties.—Kendal Mercury.
We are indebted to the enterprising exertions of The Sun,
for an Express Edition of that admirably conducted Paper,
which we received on Thursday night, and by which we
learned that the Ministry on Wednesday night achieved a
triumph over the Tories and Tory-Radicals.—Hereford Tinzse.
EXTRAORDINARY RAPIDITY.-We have again to thank the
spirited proprietor of The Sun evening newspaper, for the
receipt of the division on Sir William 11Iolesvvorth's motion on
Wednesday night, contained in a second edition of that paper.
Considering that the debate was not closed till past three in
the morning, and the result was in Bristol by four o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, we are bound to give it our raced of praise
as one of the fastest expresses an record.—Felix Farky's
Bristol Journal.

THE COAL TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I must agree with " Veritas" in thinking that the value
of your paper must depend on the veracity of its statements; and
as you have allowed him to correct a to:fiing mistake of
371,366/. in the factors' profits, I think you will allow me to
correct as great an error which you have made, respecting the
loading and fraudulent measure of the colliers. In your
paper of March Ist, you say that the ship-owner loads and pays
for no more coals than the measurement of his ship ; that she
weighs out in London one-fourth more than she took up in the
North ; and the overplus is the source of the ship-owner's profit.
The fact is, that the coals are weighe I into the ship in the North
with as much nicety as they are weighed out of her in London ;
there is seldom the difference of six or eight tons between
what the ship-owner pays for in the North and what ho has to
be paid for in London. The ship generally makes out a few
tons less than she took in, instead of one-fourth more ; so that,
by this statement, the coal-owner could not sell his coals for
25 per cent, less than he does ; and the ship-owner, who has
to pay for every ton of coals that is put into his ship, has no
inducement to build her on fraudulent principles. Many of
the colliers were built for, and have been employed in, other
trades; and those that are built with the probability of baing
employed in the coal trade are fit to go round the world, and,
as plain ships, are superior to most other vessels.
You say, were the slips not obliged to await the factors'
pleasure, they might perform the voyage in eleven days, or
easily make two voyages per month. If the ships that are at
present in the trade were to make two voyages per month,
and let the rich have the coals for nothing, and the poor for
half nothing, London could not consume them even at that low
rate, but there would be a stock at the end of tavt.ive months
sufficient to set the Thames on fire.

You say, the Thames is free to all vessels, and not to the
factors. I dare say the factors will not deny this ; yet, if there
are more ships sent to them with coals than tha consumption im-
mediately requires, they must lie in the Thames until they can
be sold and delivered. If 300 sail were to arrive and be sold
on a market day, they would have to lie until the consumption
required their cargoes ; so, what difference does it make to tho
Thames whether they lie in it sold or unsold ?
In your paper of the 3d March, '° A Spectator" argues that,
because the coal-owner ships small coals for the foreign mar-
ket at 6s. per chaldron less than he ships the large for Lon-
don, he concludes that the low price should be sufficient remu-
neration to the coal-owner. He might as well say that, be-
cause the soap-boiler sells his small ends and cuttings for six
shillings less than he does the square soap, he ought to think the
low price a remuneration fur his whole stock. His remarks about
the shortness of meters, is last December, was satisfactorily
explained by the evidence of Mr. Beale, before the Commit-
tee, on Monday last, which evidence, I think, " Spectator"
cannot have seen.

Such evidence as Mr. Bentley's (factor), on Thursday last,
and the extraordinary evidence, as you call it, of Mr. R.
Clark (factor) in 1836, when compared with the double extra-
ordinary evidence of Mr. Bailey and James Fyfe, will make
the public more acquainted and better satisfied with those
much abused though good regulations.
I think this investigation will prove that London does not
contain a more respectable class of salesmen than the coal-
factors.
March 5, 1838. LOBSKEY.

It is rumoured that the title of Viscount Newhaven
;13 about to be revived in the family of IL Cheney, Esq., of
131ake Hall, Essex. Captain Cheney, of the 71st Regiment,
no:i quartered here, will, we believe, represent this title in the
event of its revival:—Kilkenny Moderator.

.ATANCITESTER.—On - Wednesday evening, at
about a quarter to seven, a fire was discovered at the exten-
sive spinning and weaving mills belonging to the Oxford-road
Twist Company. The roof of the building in which the fire
commenced, containing the spreading, picking, and blowing
rooms, about forty yards long and three stories high, soon
fell in, and the next floor, which contained a very large
quantity of ends, was in imminent danger : and though every
exertion was used to save this part of the property all efforts
were found unavailing. This catastrophe having, however,
boon foreseen, the attention of the firemen was directed prin-
cipally to the safety of the adjoining mill, known as the Old
MM. The mills in question are about 150 or 160 yards long,
and seven or eight stories high, in which are employed up-
wards of 2,000 hands. The damage is estimated at between
four and five thousand pound, but the whole of the property
is insured in the Sun, Royal Exchange, Norwich, and Imperial
Offices.

LANARK.--On Monday week, at the hour of lock-
ing up, cries of murder were heard issuing from the gaol,
which soon gathered a crowd before the gate. The authorities
were soon on the spot, and on their admittance into the court
they found the gaoler wounded and bleeding, and two of the
prisoners missing. One of them is the notorious Ken, who
made his escape about two months ago, and was recaptured at
the snow-hall riot, in Edinburgh, and brought back. The
gaoler reports that as soon as he opened the door of the room
where were Kean and the other prisoner, to conduct them to
thcir separate cells for the night, he was by them struck down,
heat, and kicked most unmercifully. A search was made
through the premises, when the other prisoner was found
snugly pent up in his hammock,, but Kean was nowhere to be
seen. It appeared from marks on the snow, that he had got
over the wall as be had done before, though his progress trust
have been attended with the greatest dantler to
Glsgo u rho/.
On Monday evening as Mr. Trondrow, of Ashover,
yas returning home from Matlock fair on horseback, he waS
:brown front his horse and killed on the spot. The horse's
coming without its rider first alarmed the family, who caused
a search to be made, and the body was found in the road.—
Perby Mercury.

ENCLOSURE F THE HAMPSTEAD
."
mE,Dows.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,--1 have waited until the eleventh hour, feeling reluc-
tant again to bring my name before the public, thinking that
some influential person would take up the question, which I
had hoped had been set at rest last session of Parliament, of
the impropriety of converting tho " beautiful village of
Hampstead," and its immediate vicinity into the city of
the dead. By the decided majority which threw out the
Portland Cemetery Bill in the House of Commons, and the
decision of the House of Lords., " That no satisfactory evidence
had been adduced to show the public advantage to be derived
from the adoption of the Necropolis Cemetery Bill," which
Bill has made its re-appearance, with some slight alterations,
read a second time, and now ripe for Committee, and up to
this hour without opposition.
I am aware the public taste is in favour of cemeteries; 20 am
I, in appropriate distances from London ; but these speculations
may be carried too far, and with your permission will enquire
if it be necessary for the Legislature to give further powers,
seeing that Acts have already passed authorising the enclosing
four hundred acres of land, for the forming of the followin,
cemeteries, most of which are commenced, and many of them
completed,,or nearly so :
General Cemetery, Harrow-road SO acreq,
London Cemetery, Northern `3:ation 5O
London Cemetery, Southern Station 5O
London Cemetery, Eastern Station 5O
South Metropolitan, Norwood
Westminster Cemetery
The contents of the Northern Burial Grounds, which have
lasted two hundred years, consist of about thirty.eight acres
of land, in thirteen of which there is sufficient space unoccupied,
according to the average of burials, for thirty-one years to
come. The additional quantity of ground provided for the
northern districts ( Harrrow-road and Highgate) by the Ceme-
tery Acts that have already received the assent of both Houses
of Parliament, and become the law of the land, is one hun-
dred and thirty acres, which Is sufficient for two hundred
and fifty-two years to come ; surely, then, these grave gentle-
men must fail in proving the preamble of their Bill, which
assumes that it will be for the benefit of the public, that the
Cemetery Bill should pass, when I think I have shown there
is ample provision already for burials, without enclosing the
fields immediately adjoining, northward of this great metro-
polis, and it is hoped that Honourable Members will seriously
turn their attention to this Bill, and not allow it to pass the
House of Commons as last session : and see if they can dis-
cern by that 13ill whereby a Company may purchase from
time to time land by the acre form, roads, for building frontage,
and sell by the foot, thus forming a cemetery from one to fifty
acres, and building a new town at the terminus of the London
and Birmingham Railway, around it.

Your obedient servant,

W. H. JAMES.

Hampstead, March 6, 1838.
A compliment paid the village upon his late Majesty's visit to
the Earl of Mansfield.

DUBLIN-SATURDAY.

In the Irish Papers of to-day, there appears the following
not unimportant letter from Mr. O'Connell to the operatives
of Dublin:—

London, 7th March, 1838.
FELLOW CO uNTRYNIEN—The two aggregate meetings
which I was instrumental in bringing together during my last
visit to Dublin, having unhappily terminated without the for-
mation of any species of Association to watch the progress of
the proceedings of the then intended and now existing Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, on the subject of illegal
combinations, I have no other method for the present of com-
municating with you save that which I now adopt—namely,
through the Public Press.
I thus, therefore, inform you, for your guidance, that the
Committee have determined to take up, in the first instance,
the inquiry into the effect on labour and wages in the cotton
manufacture of illegal combinations of employers or workmen.
We have been pressed to commence with examining wit-
nesses from Glasgow, next from Lancashire, and afterwards
from Ireland. This order will, I believe, be observed. It is
intended to examine one or two witnesses of each class—em-
ployers and workmen—from each locality, and not to exceed
that number, unless the purposes of equal justice to all ap-
pear to require it.
I am therefore desirous to obtain the names of one or two
persons in Dublin who may be deemed by the workmen in cot-
ton the most useful for their interests to be examined. Such
persons shall be summoned as speedily as may be. They will
be entitled to be paid their expenses, and also compensation
for their loss of time.

Allow me to suggest to the operative tradesmen of Dublin, to
form, if it suits their convenience, a Committee to assist in
procuring evidence. The secretary of such Committee should
immediately communicate with me, and let me know who you
desire to have examined on your part. I will be able to trans-
mit to such secretary the minutes of the evidence as they shall
be printed ; and, indeed, the Committee will, I believe, allow
one " operative" from each locality to attend in the room
whilst the evidence is given. This is not usual upon such
Committees ; but our object is, in the discharge of an im-
portant—a most important duty—to give satisfaction to all
reasonable persons.
If you appoint a Committee for the purposes I mention,
you will have ample opportunity to have all the facts you deem
useful to your views and interests established in evidence.

'I
have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen,
Your faithful servant,
DANIEL O'CONNELL.

LEwls.—Malcolm Macleod, teacher of Garlic, in
the island of Lewis, Ross-shire, has been committed to the
gaol in Dingwall, for trial at the next Circuit Court of Justi-
ciary there, charged with the barbarous murder:of his wife. It
appears that the wretched man had for some time entertained
a feeling of enmity towards his wife, believing that she acted
unkindly to him. One day the poor woman was found deal
in her bed. Some marks of blood appeared about the house,
and as Macleod had turned his children out of the door only a
short time before the body was so discovered, suspicion fell
upon him. He was apprehended at the very time be was sit..
ting at the lykewake, with several other persons, round the
corpse of the deceased, but he succeeded in escap-
ing from the hands of justice. A diligent search was entered
upon, and in three days he was found in a peat-moss, and
brought to Dingwall gaol. lie now seems penitent, and re-
signed to his fate. According to statements said to have been
made by the wretched prisoner, he perpetrated the murder by
means of a towel, which, wrapped round the head of the wo-
man, produced suffocation. Observing blood to issue from the
mouth, he is reported to have washed array the fatal evidence,
and putting a clean cap on the deceased, laid the body in
bed. The mother of the deceased called shortly afterwards
to inquire after her daughter (who was far advanced in preg-
nancy), and found her in the awful situation described.—ln-
verness Courier.

STAMFORD.---A
,shocking murder was perpetrated
on Tuesday morning last on the body of a female named
Elizabeth Longfoot, aged about 51, who was possessed of a
little freehold property, on which she lived. The deceased
was of very eccentric habits, and had on many occasions
alarmed the neighbourhood by cries of murder. Cries of
murder were heard about four o'clock in the morning, but were
disregarded, the hearers imagining that it was the deceased in
one of her customary fits of mental aberration. About seven
o'clock in the morning, hownver, a woman gave the alarm, and
on entering the house, the door
of which was open, the body of
the deceased was found lying in the first room a kitchen, on
the stone floor, quite dead. Much blood was found in the
room, and likewise in the yard, where it is supposed that she
must
have been first struck on the temple by some blunt instru-
ment and stunned, and then the murderer, kneeling on the clay
beside her, completed his diabolical deed by stranglingher with
his fist, the marks of his knuckles being very visible on the right
side of her neck. A wound about a quarter of an inch in
circumference, on the left temple, exactly on the temporal
artery, was supposed to have caused instantaneous death, and
from this the blood had flowed copiously, suffusing the hair
(which was in paper), the bonnet, and the cap of the de..
ceased. Andrew Porter, of Easton, baker, was on Thursday
committed to Oundle prison for re-examination on Saturday
next, on suspicion of being concerned in the above murder.
The three brothers (Archers) were late in the evening re-
leased for the present. The investigation still continues--
Northamptonshire Herold.

On Monday evening, a great excitement was caused
in the vicinity of Goodramgate, York, from the following cir-
cumstance :—The female servant of a gentleman, living at
Dringhouses, had been, about six o'clock in the morning, de-
livered of a child without any assistance. In the afternoon,
she went with a bundle to Mr. Grant's house as above, and in
passing through the pessage she nut down the bundle and
quitted. A neighbour having picked up the bundle, took it
into the room where the girl and her friend were at tea, when
she owned it, and said it was the still-born child of a friend,
and that she would give the woman a shilling to bury it, which
was accepted. The woman took the child
to her own place,
where, about two hours afterwards, she heard a child scream,
and on opening the bundle, she found the infant alive, although
its bead had been tied between its legs, and a cord tied round
its throat. Information was given to the girl's master, who
immediately had her taken into custody, and ordered the in-
fant to be taken care of for the present at his expence.— Ywh
Courant.

On Tuesday afternoon a little boy, about four years
of age, the son of Joshua Taylor, a joiner, residing at Pitts-
o'-the-moor, near Bury, was seen playing in an entry adjoining
the Horse and Jockey Inn, on one side of which was a hole
looking into the brewing cellar of the public-house, and be-
neath the hole was the brew-pan, at that time filled with
boiling liquor. On the brewer going into the cellar and stirr-
ing up the liquor he perceived through the steam a substance
like a bundle, and on further examination be pulled out the
body of the little boy abave-mentioned, of course quite dead.
—Leeds Intelligencer.

.
In the m,ght of the 28th ult. the tower of the an-
cient church of Sollies Ville, in the Var, was struck. y \ight7
nihng, which destroyed the works of the
descen',l,jl into
te vestry, shivered the eliP.4: 'An which tl.l. priests' robes were
'4ca
deposited, and t'en made ifs way
to the sanctuary, whence it
-'l2e(l ivy the window, breaking a quantity of the coloured
glass, and knocking away the keystone of an arch.
A FIoPPING BET.—A gentleman laid a wager that
he would hop on one leg a hundred yards in fifty hops. On
Friday several gentlemen assembled in Hyde Park, to w tness
the feet. The gentleman put on a pair of thin pumps as best
calculated for hopping ; but ere he proceeded half way the
treacherous pumps burst. He then put on his boots, and he
accomplished the hundred yards in forty-seven hops.