The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-07 00:00:00

_.EETLNG OF THE TOWER HAMLETS.
Yesterday a meeting, consisting at-least of one thousand
persons, Assembled 'at the Eagle Tavern, Mile end-road,
pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of " considering
the propriety of petitioning the House- of COIIIIIIOIF, to re-
ject the destructive alterations, by the House of Peers,
the Bill for regulating the Irish Corporations, or to defer
mine on such other measures as may meet the present'most
important crisis of public affairs." Shortly after 8 t't'elocke
the chair was taken by Mr. Simpson ; and on the,hustings
were Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., W. Clay, Esq., M.P., -
Dr. Lushington, M.P., Messrs. Hammick, Owen, Coates,
Morriss, Scales, and other respectable gentlemen of influ-
ence in this important borough: •
The CHAIRMAN, in stating the requisition for this great
meeting, observed that it contained the substance of all be
had to-say. The Representatives of Ireland had most c.f..
fectually contributed to the passing of the English Reatrm
Bill, and he considered it would be the grossest iujustice if
Englishmen did not assist their Irish brethren in efti.eting
that measure-of Reform.
The Rev. ROBERT ASHLAND proposed the fist resolu-
tion. The present period was really one of cri'.ittal impor-
tance ; for disguise the matter as people might.; while Irish
millions had reason to be dissatisfied and were treated with
indignity,
there could be no peace for the people of Eng-.
land. The Tories loved the Church ; vary true ; but they
loved it only as the farmer loved his mitch_cow—(laughter)
and the moment it became dry, it was sold to the butchers.
--(Very true.) Give to Ireland justice, and by the same
means they could give to England peace.
The resolution, condemnatory of the alterations of the
Bill as sent up from the Commons, was then put and agreed
to, after a.Very able address from GEORGE OFFER, ESQ.,
J. P., for which the crowded state of our coluw will not
afford us room.
Mr. HUME (who was received with loud cheers) said
to be carried
however it might be
dt the
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ahsicthhti
this
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edeßcei ter,
into as full effect in Ireland as it had *fortunately been in
England and in Scotland?—(lt be.) He had been
taunted for expressing aP,..tpinion favourable to the
existence of a second %:econd chamber in the Le-
gislatnre of the conntry ,; and he would boldly say that he
still thought it to
te necessary ; always however, pro-
vided, that the second chamber, whether called senate,
-tgtate, or a House of Lords, should be coosi-
,olertaMl:tt:drlield to be, an accountable and responsiMe body.
-..--(Tiravo, Mr. Hume ;we ask no more.) The him-
self was responsible through his Ministers ; the Members
of the House of Commons were responsible to their con-
stituents (as they ought to be), for the due discharge of
their duty ; and why should an hereditary 'House of Peers
alone be permitted to frustrate the best intentions of h wise
and, at all events, a well-meaning Governtnent? The To-
ries hated the liberal Government—the Tories Laced -any-
thing like the exercise of popular control—and, the Tories
now
wo
opposedgranted tChaetlAmiloicoiEeimpaalnciitpeaftoiormn
.fßordi, test fear of civil war,
those
yei.i
Catholics whom they elevated to the rank of freemen,.
should have the power of managing tlaeir own local affairs.
He came there to ascertain the opinions of this influential
borough upon this important,question at this extraordinary
crisis—and he wished to ask tiaem, would they support r.ny
Government who would not give to their Irish brethren
equal privileges to those which they themselves enjoled._
" They must have' t—nothing less." " Then, Gentlemen,'
said the Hon. Member, "my course is clear ; I am no pr.,-
phet, there may be a compromise—I can say nothing about
it: 1 shall have no irresponsible, no unaccountable H',use
of Peers ; I shall have no half measure of justice to Irish-
men-because they are Irishmen ; and Mr. O'Connell has a
lead (as he deserves. to have) in the management of their
public affairs ; but I'll tell you all, honestly, what I mean
to do, and that is,-to take what I. can obtain, as part pay-
ment of a debt, and keep urgieg on the payment of the re-
mainder, because I know the less I have to get the sooner
will the Tory debtor pay me."—(Cheers.)
Dr. LUSHINGTON said that when he first solicited the
suffrages of
.the intelligent and wealthy constituency he
(prophet-like) krc:warncd. them of the danger with whiCh
the
,extensio-a of their liberties would be threatened by tha
Lords.—(True enough ; you are a trump, and
no ;joke!) The House of Lords had opposed every exten-
sion of the privileges of the people of England ; they were,
however, extorted from them, and now they sought, under
the-shelter of their irresponsibility, to deny them to the
millions of the Irish. people. If the liberties of Ireland.
were denied, the privileges of Englishmen could not long
remain.• If any Chamber of Peers were suffered to exist
without responsibility, then the monarch and the people
would be subjected to an un-English despotism.—(Bravop ;
that's the fact.) He, for one, would never subunit to such •
a domination.—(Bravo.)
Mr. CLAY, M.P., in a very able and eloquent speech,
advocated the justice and necessity of extending to Ireland
the same rights anl pr;.-vileges which the Irish Members of
Parliament had assi-sted in securing for England and Scot-
land.

Mr. Sc ALES also addressed the meeting in favour of very
strong resolutions against the House of Lords, for their in-
terf.;rence in the Irish Municipal Reform Bill.
Mr. E. L. SWIFT essayed a speech in favour of the Iloese
of Lords, which could not be heard, and the meeting sepa-
rated.

In many of the barouches-and-four, which pro-
ceeded to Ascot-heath races last week, gentlemen, apparently
front 9.0 to 30 years of age, wore gaur.: veils over their faces,,
with a view no doubt, of saving the beauty of their complexion
from the sun, as well as keeping their eyes from the dust. It
was, however, remarked that, in must instances in which the•
gentlemen were thus accoutred, the ladies, who rode with them
in the same carriages, wore no veils of any kind, r.od braved
the inconvenience of both sunshine and dust with a heroism
which their male companions ought to have envied. Oh ! the
lords of the creation.

TRAVELLING BY STEAM.—The Hambtirgh
Borsen Halle of the 30th ult., mentions a remarkable instance
of the Modern fac:lity and rapidity of communication with.
England by !learn. An English gentleman resident in that
city, those occupations did not allow him to absent him self
but for a few days at a time, relying on the reputation of the
John Bull steamer-for the punctuality with which that vessel
has made her trips between London and Hamburg:ft, em-
barked on Saturday morning, the 21st ult., and te.rived in
London early on the Monday morning; he continur4 in Lon-
don till the ensuing Saturday, 'Olen he started on, his return,
and in 48 hours afterwards was back at Harnhurg,h. having
been absent from his business 01.1 y nine days, five of which he
spent in London.

SEEDs.—EurthPl pouf of the continuance of g'e,r-
miaating power in seeds has been received, by the growth of
some taken frr:ot tombs dated in the time of Marcus -Aurelius,
and aho Clodwig.
(I;ItANGE TRRES.—A great quantity of apnies hay-
-Lag been left in an orangery, and suffered to become rotten,
the bad air arising from them caused the leaves of all the
urange trees to drop off.
CIIINE3E PAINTING.--A change is taking place
in Chinese art. The portrait painters of the Celestial Empire
arc beginning to imitate those of Europe. This year (1830
there is one in the exhibition at Somerset-house, that was taken
for the work of an European artist by the Academicians who
first saw it.—Mrs. Calcotes History of
MILD VEItSUS SANGUINARY LA WS.—Amtng
the celebrated lawgivers of antiquity, Draco tried to rtnovato
and invigorate the whole state by means of erir.,inal law.
Events, however, proved that Solon's system, ;,'hick was ra-
ther to promote and preserve the healths of o,e many, than to
eradicate the local diseases of the few, vv9-, far more success-
ful.— Von Raumur.

MURDER OF A MAN BY lIIs WIFE.—A murder
has recently been made known yone of the parties concerned
in it, which was committed 'in France two years ago. The:
particulars are as follotr :_Pierre Leglise, the ndarechai of
the village of Majelo':.,p, had lived peaceably with his wife for
many years, and }.:ad a family of five children. In the early
part of the rep; 1834, however, he became very unhappy from,
observing 'the improper intimacy which existed between his
wife and a man named Binier. His worst suspicions, although
well founded, he had never had an opportunity of confirming,
but when he returned to his house and found Hillier there he
bad on several occasions turned him out of doors and up-
braided his wife with encouraging him there. As soon as no
had turned his back, it appears on the confession of his
Billie: used to return to the house and there remain durlng
the husband's absence as long as he liked. In Max of that
year the wife of Leglise was encientc, and shortly t•xpecting
her accouchernent, when Binier one day said to her, .4 Perhaps
that child is mine, and if it should resemble ve.;.t, you will be
continually reproached about it, and how shall 1, who love you
so much, be able to see you unhappy? Do as I say, then
(he:
irieksielmbbel tgrogught
bad previously instigated her to muraerher husband), and render
us both happy." She had always before shrunk from his nor_
rihle proposal, but4o4theshtehpoausthsotmore
paramour, and the unhappiness it would cause her, 'made her
taken much when- he became sick,
tphoeisochni,ldw
resolve to comply,
her for the purpose, into a cake, and gave her husband some
afJn. He was sup.osed to be labouring-
under an attack of the cholera, and vt
nonfditvtcloroeilletd,
ittliipe had not
:as treated by his medicai man acer,'"aiingly. He lingered in great agony for nearly IL
ute^:,,, and then died, and was buried without any suspicinu
being excited sufficient to cause an investigation, although ten
fowls out of twelve which pecked up sonic of the vomit died
from its effects. In March last, however, the widow or the ill
fated man began to suffer greatly from mental anguish on ac-
count of the dreadful crime she had committed. 'this was;
exaggerated,by Binier refusing to marry her, as he had pro.
mised, and she at len2th became so infuriated, that she tw2
morning ran out of the house in a transport of rage awl th,s-
pair, and publicly declared te, the neighbours that she had
murdered her husband by giving him pcisou, and ;,hat she had
been instigated to it by I3inier, who brought her a white pow-
der (arsenic) for his destruction. As soon a 4 this dJelaration
was made known to the authorities, the body of the deceased
husband was exhumed, and the wifo voluntarily came forward
and made a full confession. They have since been tried,
found guilty, and sentenced—the woman Leglise to twenty-
years of bard labour, and I3inier to the pities for life.