The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-25 00:00:00

KIDDERMINSTER, Nov. 22.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—Seeing in your Paper, dated Nov. 7, an article
headed Kidderminster, alluding to the peace of the town
and the state of the trade, we feel hound, not only for our
public character as mechanics, but also for that of the
town in general, to contradict that paragraph; the town
has been perfectly peaceable, and, in addition to the con-
stabulary force, not a single addition has been added.
The statement of the earnings, even if the trade was in a
flourishing state, is greatly exaggerated, and upon a mo-
derate calculation the earnings are in families in general
exaggerated about one half.
FROM THE BODY OF CARPET WEAVERS.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 22.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR.—We are all very quietly inclined in this quarter,
till very lately we were Anti-Reform ; but the exposure
Lord Londonderry makes of himself and some others have
in a great measure changed us, we are now all inclined
for Reform, which I doubt not must be brought about.
It is strange that it has not come under your observation,
how the said Lord could have ever been placed in so re-
sponsible a situation as Ambassador at Vienna, with not
less than 12,0001. per annum, including outfits ; not
surely to the credit of the Administratio❑ that made the
appointment. His attack on Prince Talleyrand was un-
pardonable, and showed how unfit he ever was for the
appointment—without temper or any thing else to recom-
mend him ; but he has now taken to cholera morbus, and
we now dub him the choleric Peer.

Your obedient bumble servant,
A CONSTANT READER OF THE SUN.

SHEFFIELD, Nov. 23.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIK,-What with the cholera morbus, body-snatching,
and the King's Proclamation for disannulling Political
Unions, we are in a pretty ferment here. With respect to
the first, great thanks are due to the public authorities
and medical gentlemen in the town, for the very prompt and
decisive measures they have taken for the prevention of
the spread of this dreadful malady. For my own part, I
never believed we had any other cholera morbus than all
Englishmen have been subject to for the last twenty years,
viz. the common belly-ache; the alarm, however, has done
good ; it has caused many a filthy den and nasty pool to
be thoroughly cleansed. In short, I should have no ob-
jection, were we every two or three years to be visited with
such a panic, as the benefits arising therefrom are incal-
culable. This is another instance of the necessity of the
Legislature attending more than they ever have done to
the necessity of providing employment and education for
the people.
2. The town was quite in au uproar last night, in con-
sequence of a fellow being seized with a subject for ana-
tomy, so early as half-past seven o'clock, in Tudor-street.
The body-snatcher and the corpse were conveyed to the
Town-hall; and from the imprecations I heard against the
diabolical violators of the grave, very little would have
been required to have visited the most summary punish-
ment on the delinquent. This morning the body was re-
cognized to be that of a respectable young man who died
of a malignant fever on Wednesday last, and was interred
on the following day in Attercliffe church-yard, about a
mile and a half from Sheffield. The body was restored to
the friends of the deceased this evening, but the execrations
are loud and determined against the aggressor. Ile will
be brought before the Magistrates on Friday, and whatever
may be the result, I have only to say, that from the ex-
tent and increase of these unhallowed ravages, and barba-
rous murders which have taken place in the metropolis and
elsewhere, Ministers will have to be as decisive in devising
some remedy for this curse, as for despatch in passing the
Reform Bill.

3. And lastly, the Royal proclamation for disannulling
Political Unions. In the present aspect of affairs, this is
even a worse calamity than the cholera morhus or body-
snatching. The members of the Political Unions have
hitherto so far embraced the wealth, the intelligence, and
the spirit of the manufacturing classes—men who have
something at stake—men who would exert all their in-
fluence for the preservation of public peace—men who had
pledged their honour, consistency, and character in sup-
port of a patriotic King, and what they believed an honest
Ministry—to be treated thus is too much. Is it conces-
sion to the Tories that requires the annihilation of the most
staunch friends of Reform—Political Unions ? Or do the
Ministers imagine they can do without the people' if so
they will find themselves lamentably mistaken ; because,
if our grand Sheffield Political Union is annihilated by the
fiat of this untimed and injudicious proclamation, I have
only to say to our timid and conceding Ministers, that for
one Union that now exists there will he fifty, for every
company will become an Union, without that counteract-
ing influence which the names of a Ward, a Knight, a
Bailey, a Pallreyman, a Baker, a Bramley, and a host of
others secure. We have some hope, however, in the fact,
that Parliament assembles on the 6th of December, when
it is trusted that some patriotic Member will bring this
most unpatriotic act before the House of Contemns. In
the mean time, whatever may be the consequences, the
Political Unions of Great Britain are exonerated by the
aforesaid proclamation from any blame.
I am, with great respect,
YOUR CORRESPONDENT.

HIBERNIAN BANK.-MR.
Yasterday evening one of the most splendid dinners we
have ever attended in this city took place at Morrison's
Tavern, in Dawson-street, in honour of Mr. O'CONNELL.
At this entertainment there could not have been less than
three hundred gentlemen present. The Governor of the
Bank, IGNATIUS CALLAGHAN, Esq., was in the chair.
He was supported on his right by Mr. O'CoNwELT, and
on his left by Mr. FirzslaioN. A variety of excellent and
appropriate speeches were made, and the evening was spent
in the utmost harmony.—Dublin Morning Register,
Wednesday.

We have good reason to believe that the
immediate cause of convening Parliament on the 6th of
December is to pass, some measure for suppressing the
dangerous and unconstitutional Unions which are in-
creasing every day with such portentous rapidity...._
Brighton Gazette.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—At a recent
dinner party, composed of the principal Foreign Diplo-
matists and their ladies, the conversation is said to have
accidentally turned on the existing state of affairs between
Holland and Belgium, and the question arose, in the event
of the King of HOLLAND declining the proffered treaty,
and hostilities commencing, whether an English fleet or
a French army would be the first to compel the surrender
of Antwerp ? A great deal of badinage, it is added, was
displayed on the circumstance of the fleet returning to the
Downs, and the destination of the Admiral changed to a
very opposite quarter. A distinguished foreign lady, of
high rank, who is generally believed to take a more ex-
tended view of the politics of Europe than any other of
her sex in this country, is said to have expressed her opi-
nion decidedly in favour of the land forces of France, not
so much from their prowers, as from the greater inclina-
tion evinced by that country to enforce the treaty.

SUBSTITUTE FOR TEA.- A patent was
granted in February last to a tea-dealer " for a new mode
of preparing the leaf of a British plant for producing a
healthy beverage by infusion." According to the specifi-
cation, the British plant in question is the hawthorn,
from which the leaves may be taken from the month of
April to September inclusive; they are first to be care-
fully picked and cleansed, then to be well rinced in cold
water and drained; and whilst in the damp state they
are to be put into a common culinary steamer, where
they are to be subjected to the action of the vapour until
they change from a green to an olive colour ; the leaves
are then to be taken out and dried upon a " hot plate
well heated," and to be continually stirred up and turned
over until they are thoroughly dry, in which state they
may be preserved for use. When required for that pur-
pose, an infusion is to be made in the same manner as
tea, and sugar and cream are to be added to suit the taste
of the drinker.

Holland may boast of something still harder
than its (Dutch) cheeses—namely, the head of its King.
—Figaro.

Accounts were received in town yesterday,
from Farnham Palace, announcing that the Bishop of
WINCHESTER was considerably amended in health, and
strong hopes of the recovery of the Right Reverend Pre-
late are now entertained. In consequence of the current
reports of his Lordship's dissolution, on Tuesday, Winton
House, in St. James's-square, was visited by great num-
bers of the nobility and gentry, who called to ascertain
whether the rumour was well-founded. His Lordship's
complaint is fever, which, on Friday night, exhibited
symptoms so alarming that his medical attendants, and
Mrs. Sumloca, anticipated that he would not survive the
night. In respect to age, the Bishop is the youngest
member of the Right Reverend Bench, having only taken
his degree of B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1814, and has not yet completed hie forty-second year.