The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-27 00:00:00

THE CONTEST FOR SHERIFFS.

The Liberals of the City have redeemed themselves by placing the Li-
beral C4didate for the ShrieValty at the head of the poll, and the least
objectionable of the others in a position to be returned with him. At the
close of yesterday (the second day), the numbers were—

For Mr. Alderman Wood 514
' Mr. Alderman Johnson
Mr. Joshua Wilson
Mr. Ambrose Moore

Atsd the resignation of the two latter is advertised. It is necessary,
however, that the poll should be kept open until Monday next ;
and as we are informed no official notice of the resignation has
been received by the other-Candidates, we caution the Livery of London
against the chance of a Tory trick. The advertisement may be acknow-
ledged or disclaimed, to suit any existing purpose. Acknowledged if
Mr. Wilson can be slily polled a-head of Alderman Johnson, to save the
penalty of -ICU if the former should decline to take office with a liberal
colleague, and disclaimed if the agents engaged should place both their
employers in a position to be returned. Let not a vote be lost, there-
fore, nor a moment in recording it for the popular candidates, but let
every enlightened liveryman do his part towards securing and increasing
the disgrace of the Tories.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 26.—Wind fog.—Came down from the River and
sailed, the Halifax (packet), Head, for Prince Edward's Island ; Lord
Eldon, Worsell, for Sydney ; Brittomart, M`Donald, for the Cape of I
Good Hope. Arrived and proceeded the Harsoy, Black, from Newcastle
to Marseilles; Aulaby, Wear, from Hull to Oporto ; Thompson, Pot-
tinger, from Sunderland to Oporto.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 26.—Wind W.N.W., fine.—Sailed the Plato,
Tubbs, Eastward.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind
FALMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind N. to N.N.W., fresh breezes with
showers.—Sailed the Liverpool (steamer) for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9.6.—Wind variable and light.—Arrived the
William Miles, Kindley, from New Orleans; Farmer, Smardon, from
Adra. Sailed the Angelique, for New York ; Ann. for New Orleans.
CLYDE., JUNE 24.—Arrived the Science, M`Lillau, from Trinidad.
DUBLIN, JUNE 25.—Arrived the Britannia steamer, from London.
COOK, Juis%24.,—A.rrived the Mary, Owens, from London.
HULL, JuNE.26.—Arrived the William IV. steamer, from Hamburg.
FALMOUTIJ, JUNE 25.—The Fanny, Bowen, from Arundel to Tenby,
was run into this morning WI the I.izard by a large outward-bound
barque, and immediately sunk—crew saved. The bark lost j,b-boom,
and proceeded without rendering any assistance. •

Aniong the preparations 'for to-morrow, the statue
of King Charles at Charing-cross has undergone a strange > meta-
morphosis. Around the railing elevated scats are erected, covered by
a dark pavilion-like roof or awning ; peering over which may be seen
part of the equestrian statue, but the prancing paw of the noble quad.
roped is invisible, and the [loyal Martyr, viewed from the eastern al,-
preach, seems as if swimming in a pool of. black mud.
Therc are intervals in the busiest life which afford
opportunities of doing sundry little things, which, to a man who has
nothing to do, appear too laborious to be undertaken.— Wilberforce.

The Right Honourable rat (Sir J. Graham) ap-
pears to be sore, partly on his own account, partly on that of Earl
Cawdor, who acted a very extraordinary part during the last election for
Carmarthenshire, in coercing his tenants, through his agent, to rote
apinst their conscientious political principles. The conduct of Earl
Cawdor in late political affairs, has been a matttr of surprise and concern
totally inexplicable to his old political friends. He has made choice on
the present occasion of a very bad advocate, for to be defended by a per-
son of no principle, like Sir James Graham, is in itself a disgrace.—
Cambrian.

THE PEOPLES' CHARTER.-Demoustrations, a
correspondent informs us, are making its many pasts of the country in
favour of the Bill with the above title, emanating from the Working
Men,' Association, • which has beets previously noticed in The Sun.
W e understand that the Birmingham petition for Univeral Suffrage and
the People's Charter, form the united objects of these meetings ; and it
has been arranged amongst the Radicals, that, on the presentation of the
Birmingham petition, some. Membee of- Parliament will move for leaVe
to bring in the Bill of the Working Hens' Association. We said, too,
that very soon a large public meeting will be held at Birmingliain„ when
the Charter trill be presented to the inhabitants of that town and its
vicinity; and subsequent to that, these will be a large gathes lug of Radi
cal Reformers from all partS of the country in London. irons the pro.
ceedings of the Birmingham. Council, it appears Messrs. Vincent and
Murphy have been at Birmingham to arrange those proceedings. The
Birmingham Journal devotes a large portion of its space to report the
observations of Messrs.• Vincent and Murphy at the Council, but we
cannot find room, et this gay season, for their remarks. The move.
ment of the Working Men, however, on the subject,, conducted as it is
with care, and even dignity, may not he without momentous conse-
quences to society.

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A correspondent suggests that on the evening of
the Coronation the iron palisading, near the entrances from St. James's
to the Green Park, and from the latter to Piccadilly, should be removed
some yards in extent for the egress of the populace. He states that,
at the Coronation of George IV., a considerable portion was pulled
down by the crowds, who could not make their way from the Green to
Hyde Park through the gates, and that riot, confusion, and broken limbs
were the consequence.

We re,,ret to state that Mr. Law, the son of the
Recorder of London, died of a pulmonary complaint, at St. Leonard's,
on Sunday last. Scarcely 12 months have elapsed since the Learned
Gentleman was bereaved of an accomplished daughter at the age of
twenty-two years.

REPRESENTATION OF CASIIEL.—R is not yet known who will have
the support of the liberal party in Cashel. Mr. Moore would be most
likely to succeed, but in good truth his liberality is of recent date, and
though a man of undoubted talent and high character, he is not quite
calculated to win the sweet voices of the out.and-out Radicals of Tip-
perary. Dr. Stock, the Liberal candidate for the University, who was
lately appointed Judge of the Admiralty Court, is spoken of as a candi-
date, but he has not yet addressed the electors. Mr. Welsh, brother-in-
law to Baron Richards, has addressed the electors upon Liberal principles,
but he is scarcely of. sufficient standing to be successful.
THE MAutsTitacv.-7The revision of the Magistracy is producing
strange effects throughout the country. In some quarters it has given
rise to public rejoicings, and in others to petitions for the restoration of
certain individuals. At Pallas-green, county Limerick, the people illu.
minated their houses and lighted bonfires at the dismissial of the Rev.
Mr. Coote and Mr. Darby Grady, the author of the celebrated "exter-
mination" letter. In Belfast there has been a meeting praying for the
restoration of the Rev. Mr. Boyd ; and in Athlone another meeting to
petition for the addition of some other gentlemen to the list. The gene..
ral feeling, however, is one of satisfaction and gratitude to the Govern-
ment for the greatest benefit which they ever conferred.
Tun PRESS IN IRELAND.—TIE EVENING POST.—Upon Saturday a
Dublin Corporation Jury brought in a verdict of 9.30/. damages (involv-
ing twice as much in costs) against the Evening Post, for a libel upon a
man named Grey, the keeper of a public-house in Ballybay, who was
appointed Sub. Sheriff of Monaghan by Captain Coote, for which ap-
pointment he was himself cashiered by Lord Mulgrave. The Post
called him a notorious Orange leader, tithe proctor and shcebeen house.
keeper, and apparently upon the ground of a quibble upon the word
notorious the Jury brought in the above verdict. The very utmost as-
tonishment -and indignation have been excited by it, and it is taken as a
proof of a conspiracy to extinguish the Irish Liberal Press. There has
been a proposition started for the establishment of an Irish Press Da..
fence Fund, and if some such step be not taken I fear the enemies of
liberty will be only too successful in their efforts to crush the expres-
sion of public opinion in this country. If an admittedly bad appoint..
meat can only be canvassed or attacked at the expense of seven or
eight hundred pounds, few will be found bold enough to cavil with the
very worst. The vindictive or litigious have the liberal journalists
completely in their power` under the present jury system in Ireland.
T.

'he Post insinuates that the prosecution was prompted by Lord Ross_
more, whose son was bail for Gray, and who came in for some hard
knocks from the Press for patronizing the Orange leader. If so it is not
the way to earn a British peerage from a popular Ministry.
On Thursday evening last the first meeting of a newly established
Mechanics' Institution was held in Dublin and was very numerously at-
tended. Professor M`Culloch took the Chair, and Sir James Murray,
Torrens M'Culloch, Esq., and several other distinguished gentlemen
addressed the meeting. Upwards of '2Ol. was subscribed.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL, JUNZ 25.—Wind N. \V., light —Arrived the Portland
Cowbre, from Sydney, New South Wales ; Rowena, Bell, from Paraiba ;
Sophia, Stewart, from Barbitdoes; Triton, Jones, from New Orleans;
Louisa, Freeman, from Mobile; Sophia, Johns, from Cliarlestbn ; Harriet
Scott, Arnold, from ditto; Brutus, Dawson, from Bonny; Hill,
Berrill, from Leghorn; Gem, M`Kenzie, from Smyrda.
HASTINGS, JUNE 25.—Arrived off; the Commerce, Tyburg, New York.
SWANSEA, JUNE 24.—Arrived the Creole, Sergenson, from Chili.
DOTER, JUNE 25.—Arrived off Port, the Preciosa, Ass:der, from
Charleston.

CORK, JUNE 23.—Arrived the George Lawrence, Belcher, from
Trinidad; Emma, Tape, from Newfoundland.
ARBROATH, JUNE 23.—Arrived the Lady Jane, Logan, from Riga;
Diamond, Porter, from ditto; Thomas and Ann, Duncan, from ditto;
Susan and Ann, Cargill, from ditto.
HULL, JUNE 25.—Arrived the Lee, steamer, from Hamburgh ; Sea
Horse, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Marianne Bertha, from Memel;
Earle, Turnley, from Stockholm.
HUMBER, JUNE 2G.—Arrived the Rover, Hall, from Odessa; Princess
Victoria, from Wyburg ; Arbus, White, and Alice, Wardle, front Riga.
Arrived off port—the Lydia, Brunton, and Thos. Hodgson, from Riga.
DUNDEE, JUNE 23.—Arrived the I'rosperity, Reid, Margaret, Chris.
tophers, Eliza, Barnly, Helen, Munro, Rapid, Miller, and Thetis, Do-
naldson, from Riga; Centurion, Wood, from Pernambuco.

The Emerald, Goodson, bound to London, has put back to St. John's,
Nev Brunswick, after being on shore, and it is supposed must discharge.
The Snowden, from Calabar, put into Sierra Leone with loss of rud.
der, bound to Liverpool.

A HANDKERCHIEF FOR THE QUEEN:---.We were

on Wednesday gratified with a sight of an exquisite piece of Ayrshire
needlework, destined for royalty—a handkerchief sewed in Ayr for clpr
youthful Queen Victoria. It is sewed upon the finest lawn, and is en,

broidcred round the sides with peculiar richness and taste—while on ore
corner a so all crown is beautifully worked with the word " Victoria"
underneath in Old English characters, and on the border on one of the
sides " Ayr, 1838," is pointed in the most delicate style. As a whole,
the handkerchief is the most beautiful specimen of Ayrshire needlework
that ever came under our inspection, and excited the highest admiration
of all who saw it.—Glasgow Chronicle.
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF, THE. CORONATION.
—ln order that the Sunday Times of-July I, 1848, may contain at full
length the official account of her Majesty's Coronation on the 28th of
June, the Proprietors have determined to present to their Subscribers a
Stamped Supplement, gratis, which, in addition to containing every par-
ticular relative to the occasion ln London andthe country, will be ae-
companied by a splendid Engraving, the largest ever attempted on
weed, or given with a newspaper. It will contain faithful Portraits of
the Queen, the members of the Royal i'amily, aisd Nobllity,-forming a
correct view of the interior of Westminster Abbey during the impor-
tant ceremony.—Printed and published by J. K. Chapman, 72, Fleet..
street, London ; and orders received by all Newsvenders.
A correspondent says, as soon as her Majesty in
troceeding up the Abbey in procession comes in sight of the Queen's
scholars of Westminster School, they will all with one accord, with their
masters at their head exclaim, " Vivat Victoria Regina."

Mr. Forrest has been gathering fresh laurels by his
personation of Macready's character in Ilulwer's play of The Lady of
Lyons. In thus " stepping out of Lis earlier sphere to gain more vivid
laurels in a new one," says the editor of the Boston Morning Herald.
" We unhesitatingly pronounce Claude Melnotte to be his best, most
perfect, and most pleasing performance—best because it is the most na-

tural ; most perfect, because it is open to few, if any, objections; most
pleasing, because his voice, his actiotAhis whole exhibition show power
and beauty of kinds which we could not never before give him credit for
popessing."

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CHRISTENING BY WHOLESALE.—On Satur-
day, Mr. John Dickinson, of Elias, Northumberland, an eccentric cha.
racter, proceeded to the parish church of Knardall, Northumberland,
taking with him eight of his children to be christened, and thirty..
nine of his friends and neighbours to act as sponsors. The father
headed the procession, playing most of his favourite airs on the violin ;
and the mother brought up the rear with the youngest child in her
arms. At the church they were met by the Rev. Mr. Butcher, who
christened the eight children, observing afterwards, that he had never
before met with such a circumstance. The sponsors, who had break-
fasted with the family before the ceremony, returned with them from
the church, and the day was was closed with mirth and jollity.—Gates-
head Observer.

THE CORONATION.—Company visiting the me-
tropolis at this interesting time, would do well to inspect the extensive
and elegant assortment of all kinds of ornamental hair at Ross and Sons.
119, Bishopsgate-street, particularly their newly invented Ventilating
Perukes and Scalps, Head-dresses, and fronts, in which the use of both
weaving and sewing silk is entirely superseded, thus rendering them the
nearest imitation of the'natural hair of any extant. Importing thi.ir
Foreign, and' manufacturing on their premises, all their Biitish Perfu-
mery, including every description of Combs and Brushes, they are 6a-
bled to offer them of the most superior quality, and at a moderate price.
A visit to their Grand Neapolitan Saloon for cutting and arranging the
Hair in, is particularly requested.
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`I lIE
SWELL MOB AT RUNDELL AND BRIDGE'S.
—Saturday being the l&st day on .which the Coronation Crown of her
Majesty was to be exhibited, a vast concourse of persons of both sexes
flocked to the establishment of Messrs. Rundell andßridge, where every
thing went on very well until between four and five o'clock in the after-
noOn, when, amongst the numerous parties who presented their tickets
for admission, were two very fashionably dressed young men. From
some peculiarities about their appearance, a person present was induced
to watch their motions, and he subsequently gave information to Inspec-
tor Martin and Sergeant Walker, of the City police. These two officers
accordingly forced their way to the room in which the visitors were, and
at length they saw one of the gentlemen with a purse in his hand, and
the other was in the act of putting Isis hand into the coat pocket of a

gentleman, when they were instantly seized by the ()dicers and conveyed
into a private apartment and searched, and directly afterwards they were
taken to the Compter, where they refased to state their names, or give
any address.
ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITC-
Tiox.—On Saturday evening the Anniversary Dinner of this Insti-
tution took place at the Freemasons' Tavern. - The Society, was
founded in I Sl4, and as there is another Society with a title somewhat
similar already in existence, it is right distinctly to state that' the object
of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution is to extend. relief to all

distres,ed meritorious artists, whother subscribers to its flint's or not,
" whose works are known and esteemed by the public, as well as to their
widows and orphans," merit and di,tress constituting theclaims to be-
nevolence.. Since the foundation of the Society 566 cases have been•re-
.6eyed by sums amounting to 5,2041. Sir,T. Acland tvas,in the'cliair, and
performed the duties of his situation Ma manner winch gave satisfaction
and greatly promoted the interest of the charity and the festivity d.f the
evening. The announcement made by the Honourable Baronet that her
Majesty had voluntarily signified her intentiod to be the patroness of
the Society,• was received with loud applause.. The amount of subscrip-
tions.collected to the course or the evening was 4441., among which were
10/. from the Duke of Sutherland, 5/, .from Lord Francis Egerton, 10
guineas from Lord Northwick, 101. from the Duke of Norfolk, 50/. from
the Marquis of Westminster, 101. from Sir T. D. Acland, 51. from Mr.
Acland, M.P., 2001. by bequest. from. Lord Farnborough, 5 guineas
from Sir M. A. .;lee, Si. from Mr. Phillips, R. A., 10 guineas from
Sir J. Rennie, 51.• from Sir D. Wilkie, and 20 guineas from Sir D.
Chantrey.
QUEEN ADELAIDE.-----WC understand that the
medical advisers of the Oueen Dowager have been anxious that her Ma-
jcsty should pass the winter in a warmer climate. The Mediterranean
has been recommended, and we believe her Majesty will take her depar.
tore in a ship of war the beginning of the month of September.
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Last week one of the
most daring proofs of female heroism ever known was witnessed in
Chester. A female named Mary Bell's, in the employ of Messrs.
Walker, ascended the Shot Tower, with two other girls, and no sooner
did they gain the top than she mounted one of the small chimneys, with
Which the tower is surrounded, a4ll leaped all round from one to the
other. Those who beheld this extraordinary proof of strong nerve were
terrified beyoi.d measure. We understand that a similar feat was per-
formed by one of the men employed in the erection of Chester Tower,
on its comple ion, lot has never been attempted ►iller, until this fair
amazon completed the task.