The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-25 00:00:00

MERIONETHSHIRE NOMINATION

On Tuesday, the nomination of the candidates took
place. We proceed to tell the Tory tricks at the nomi-
nation. Sir Robert Vaughan 'and his friends got up a
procession in aid of their nominee, Mr. Richards,
consisting of all the chaises, cars, &c., that could be ob-
tained ; some of these were empty, and some contained
labourers and workmen, who were sent to Harlech to hold
up a majority of hands : for the men of Harlech and the
vicinity, were so resolutely hostile to Mr. Richards,
that unless he had imported the tools from his own
vicinity the shew of hands would have been deci-
dedly against him. We are informed that a contri-
vance very unworthy of Honourable combatants was
resorted to, viz.—the solicitor of Sir W. Wynne called
upon the Under-Sheriff at the inn, at nine o'clock, to make
an arrangement as to the hustings, &c., suggesting that the
Hall would not contain one-fourth of the attendants at the
county meeting ; and that an attempt to hold the meeting
in so confined a space might endanger lives. This sugges-
tion was admitted to be proper : an assurance was given
that after the preliminary forms of proposing the Candi-
dates had been gone through, an adjournment should be
made to the Castle, or some other spacious and con-
venient place, so that the electors might be addressed,
and a show of hands fairly taken. The Under-Sheriff,
or his clerk (who is connected with Nannau) promised
that when the Sheriff was consulted, a communica-
tion should be made to Sir W. Wynne's agent, im-
partially. This was not done. On the arrival at the
Hall of the procession of chaises, &c. assembled by
the coalition of Sir R. Vaughan and Mr. Richards' friends,
trumpets were sounded—the Hall doors were opened—and
the space was filled, by this manoeuvre, with one party
only—namely the Tories—the retainers of Sir Robert
Vaughan. Even the popular candidate, Sir W. Wynne,
was not permitted to enter the place to address the
electors ! So much for party spirit and party tools.
At length, however, the veteran soldier, Sir W. Wynne,
did make a breach into the fortress of Packed Tories, near
enough to the High Sheriff, and then demanded an ad-
journment to a proper situation.—" I demand this," said
Sir William, "as a freeholder of Merionethshire ;—I
demand it as an elector ;—I demand it as a British
subject."

The cool answer to this from the Sheriff was, that it
was better to keep within doors rather than get wet. This
contemptuous treatment excited great indignation among
the free freeholders out of doors as soon as they heard it.
The question was put whether the meeting should ad-
journ ; but as the Hall was packed with the Tory party,
the decision, of course, was, that every thing should be
done snugly, as has been usual, in Merionethshire.
RICE PRICE, Esq., of Rhiewlas, proposed the Tory can-
didate, Mr. Richards ; and HUGH REVELEY, Esq., se-
conded the motion.

Captain THRUSTAN proposed Sir W. Wynn ; and a
Cambrian Freeholder rose to second the proposition ; but
the violence of the Tory party extinguished all reason and
argument. The adjournment was made to the days of

Such was the violence of the hurricane yesterday
afternoon, that one of the largest trees in St. James's Park
was uprooted. The paths were strewed with the boughs of
other trees also.

A COLLlSlON.—Yesterday the tandem of a Shef-
field gentleman and the travelling carriage of the Bishop of
Carlisle came roughly into " collision" at the door of the
King's Arms Inn, in this town. A serious catastrophe ap-
peared inevitable. His Lordship did not appear alarmed at
this " collision," but had the tandem been somewhat heavier,
the odds are, that it would have been " down with a Bishop"
under unwished-for circumstances. The Tories who beheld
this incident construed it as a favourable omen for the Peer-
age. —Kendal Mercury.
Last week, at the funeral of a young woman at St.
John's Church, Wakefield, the sexton could only procure one
strap for the purpose of lowering the coffin into the grave ;
and as a substitute for the other, a rope was used, which
slipped from under the coffin, tore open the lid, and exposed
to view the corpse, as it was precipitated to the bottom of the
grave. —Kendal Mercury.
WARWICKSHIRE ELECT I o N.---Notwithstanding
the boasts of the Tory candidates and supporters, we feel firmly
convinced that the cause of justice and liberalism will prevail in
South Warwickshire; and that by this day week we shall be
able to announce Sir Grey Skipwith as the sitting Member for
the vacancy in our representation. It is our intention to publish
the facts of intimidation which come to our knowledge—in-
cluding the names of the oppressor and the oppressed. —Lea-
mington Chronicle.

JUSTICE FOR IRELAND.—The proprietor of a
Tom and Jerry shop, named the Thistle, in the neighbour-
hood of the London Docks, wishing doubtless to get as many
of the Irish labourers to become customers for his beer as he
possibly could, has the following notice, painted in large let-
ters on a board, affixed to his house :—" Justice for Ireland !
at the bar of the Thistle, 3d. per pot."
..._.

The temperature had increased in Paris on Thurs-
day to 25i degrees of Reaumur (nearly 89i of Fahrenheit).
A shock of an earthquake was lately felt at Venice,
Mantua, and several other cities of the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom. On the 12th instant, at half-past three o'clock in
the morning, an undulating shock was experienced at Milan.
It was not violent, but must have extended as far as Modena,
for letters from that duchy announce that the inhabitants were
roused out of their sleep by a similar shock at the very same
hour.

ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE B.—A letter from
Potschen to the Government of Tschernigord says--" From
the middle of April, N. S., we had fine spring weather--all
was green and in blossom. Suddenly, on the 2d of May,
snow fell to the depth of four inches, and the thermometer
was at the freezing point. The meadows covered with snow
formed a strange contrast with the bright green trees that sur-
rounded them, and with the fruit trees in full blossom in the
midst of the snow. Still more strange was the song of the
nightingale, which announced the return of the spring amidst
the cold mist. On the 23d warm weather returned, and we
hope that little mischief has been done Much injury has
been done in many parts of the Crimea by night frosts. On
the ith of May seven houses, fourteen barns full of corn, and
a public-house were destroyed at Astrachan by fire. The da-
mage is estimated at 200,000 roubles, Bank assignats."
BLOOD IN THE HUMAN BODY.—With regard
to the quantity of the blood in man, Haller supposed that about
fifty pounds of fluid circulated in a person weighing one hun-
dred and sixty pounds, of which he considered twenty-eight
pounds to be blood. There has not, however, been yet con-
trived any mode of ascertaing the precise quantity of blood in
different people, and it is not at all improbable that the quan-
tity may vary much in the same individual at different times ;
neither is it at all certain whether persons afflicted with diseases
which are relieved by the abstraction of blood from the system,
have had an undue quantity of that fluid. It is generally con-
sidered that, in proportion to the size of their body, young per-
sons have a greater quantity of blood than adults, that adults
have a greater quantity than the aged, and that fat people have
also less blood than the lean.—Dr. Wardrop on Blood-letting.
THE CIRCULATION DURING SLEEP.—One of the
first and most efficient phenomena of sleep is a relaxation of
the circulation, attended with a diminution of the quantity and
velocity of the blood usually contained in the vessels of the
brain. For where the cerebral circulation is kept up by in-
tense thought, fever, or other cause, sleep is banished. This
view has been questioned by some physiologists, who have con-
sidered these vessels to be unusually distended with blood
during sleep—a theory which they have regarded as receiving
support from what takes place in apoplexy, in which there
exists an unnatural pressure upon the brain, leading to the
most profound snoring sleep. But it should be recollected
that such pressure upon a yielding mass of unsolidified matter
like that of the brain must necessarily result in the actual de-
crease of the quantity and velocity of the fluids circulating in
its vessels, and consequently dispose to sleep. And more than
this, Blumenbach and other physiologists have taken advan-
tage of the operation of trepanning, in which a portion of the
skull has been removed to relieve the compressed brain in cases
of fracture and depression of the skull, in order to inspect the
condition of the brain during the sleep of the patient, and have
observed it invariably to sink from the aperture and collapse,
which could:only arise from a diminution of fluid in its vessels.
_Davis's Art of Preserving Health.
The question now put in Dumfries-shire is not
" Are we to have any summer at all ?" but " Did you ever
see such beautiful growing- weather ?" Grass everywhere is
coining faster away than the cattle can eat it, and great is
the improvement which has taken place in the appearance of
every kind of stock on hill, dale, and meadow land. The
wheats are getting rapidly into ear, but very unfortunately
wherever the soil is light, that ear was formed during th
drought.