The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-08 00:00:00

-:_-_--4.-e----,-,----Z-- `---'.
, ,
'------=---______---,
f tuents Oki this point—. Ilertum of very great 'Mollie
, 7
_., /--7/1/47;4,27/ '
~/..."--4,---ie_i 1 geiine,wh, :-.'il.iii.t:;at t . navigation
-laws otigVt to-bo re-
'
e.qa,,5e....,, '', e- 1 ;
114"----..\\
,„ ,
, , . ..,
Pt:able"r'se::Zej:i'.ll:',l-es 1-7 a ,
. , -
',7 lamuot satisfied thaL tie.v ought
/ ' '/-
, .
. . _.
_. ,
~
- -.-- • 0.1-4., ' ;, , ,
' ' // principle of the navieution-laws ought not to be re-
.
app ~..
~..._,/ , - .ealed.—(Cheers.) This being so, I voted accordingly,
d opposed Ministers in every stage.—(Cho erg.) After
„ ~. e this, it pleased one of the members of the
•" Government, Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for
the Home Department, to offer to me, in a manner
highly gratifying, because the offer was altogether unso•
licited on my part, the office of Under-Secretary of
State for the Home Department.—(Hear, hear.) Did I
accept that? I—who am supposed to be the hunter
after place? ("No, no," and cheers.) I did not.—
(Cheers.) I said I would adhere to my own pro-
fession, and I said so, because, had I accepted the offer
which was made to me, I should have had to leave Par.
liament, and should not have been eligible fur re-elec-
tion. Had I accepted that office, I.siiculd have been
compelled to leave the service of the dieters of Hull
within seven Months after the time when they had ho-
noured me with their confidence; and I hit that such a
course would not be a fitting return for the trust they
had reposed in me, and would have been a very poor
reward for the trouble which the friends whom I see
around me had taken to secure my election.—(Cheers.)
Would such have been the conduct of a place hunter?—
(Cheers, laughter, .and cries of " No, no.") If I had
been a place-hunter, should I not have said to you, " I
have got a place that will suit me very well; so now you
may proceed to another election as soon as you like.
(Hear, hear.) I declined that place, and yet it is one
which had its temptations; for Sir George Grey is an
able Minister and an amiable man, and. I should have
thought it a great pleasure and a privilege to act along
with him.—(Loud cheers.) Under the circumstances I
have stated I did not think it right, however, that I
should accept that office.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Gentlemen, at the close of the session, I was called
away suddenly from town, after having spent, I believe,
some six months of as diligent and laborious Parlia-
mentary attendance as Member ever went through, for
I can say this truly, that I was at all times amongst the
first in the House, and among the last out of the House.
Every day I was thinking what I could do to promote
the interests of my country, and:my constituents in par-
ticular. I attended to the letters I received from you.
I appeal to the humblest and the meanest man in station
in Hull, and I ask him whether he ever addressed a
letter to me that he did not receive an answer by the
first post.—(Loud cheers.) I beg to ask whether that
has not been the case, or whether I did not do my
best to promote the interest of every man, whether he
voted for me or against me at the last election? ,I
made not the slightest diffeience. I considered my-
self the Member for Hull, representing every indi-
vidual in Hull to the best of my ability.—(Cheers.)
Then, gentlemen, at the eud of the year, when I least
expected it, I received a notification from her
Majesty's Government that they were willing to offer
for my acceptance the situation of President of the Poor
Law Board—a situation which I will venture to say is
in point of difficulty, in point of importance, in many
respects second to none under the Crown. Now, what
we have to do is this—to see, on the one hand, that the
fund which is set apart by the wisdom of the Legisla•
ture for the relief of the needy and destitute, is not tip:
propriated to purposes of imposition, indolence ant
fraud. That is what we have to see on the one hand,
and we have to see on the other that every real cause
of genuine destitution does receive relief'—(Loud ap-
plause)—and that that relief is not administered in a
grudging, or insolent manner, which I think the law of
this country, and which those laws that are superior
even to the laws of our country—the Divine laws them-
selves condemn.—(Loud cheers.) That is the double
duty which I have to perform in the situation to which I
have been appointed. It is said that I have promoted
my own private interest in what I have done. Why, I
see Learned Friends of mine about this table to
whom I may appeal, and ask them whether they think I
have made a good bargain in a pecuniary point of view?
—(Laughter and applause.) I have given up an income
which was about double the salary which I am ever
likely to have from this office of mine. I have given up
prospects which I think were not bad, for I heard it said
by my friends at the bar that by and by I might not im-
probably obtain a judgeship, or some corresponding si-
tuation—a permanent situation with a permanent in-
come, besides honourable and dignified. This I have
given up, and I have taken an office which is pre-
' carious in its tenure—which is much less in its in-
come than the income I have given up—with double
the difficulty and,doublethe labour—(Loud cheers)—that
I have ever been engaged in. And now I beg to ask that
gentleman who stans at the doorway, if he be still there,
after having made the charge, and having the manliness
to hear the reply—l ask him what there is in this trans-
action now explained, of which either I or my constitu-
ents need be ashamed?—(Loud cheers.) I have ac-
cepted this high office. and I mean to do my duty to the
best of my ability.—(Applause.) One important point,
gentlemen, with respect to the administration of this
office, is to bring in and carry through Parliament the
measures which are connected with the improvement of
the Poor-law. It is not a political office I hold; perhaps
my indisposition to engage in political warfare of any
kind may fit me particularly for the discharging its du-
ties. But I have accepted it. That necessarily has
caused a vacancy; but I now stand before you, gentle..
men of Hull, not shrinking from meeting you—looking
you boldly in the face, but I trust with no improper con-
fidence, and I ask you one and all, what it is that in
time past I have done deserving your condemnation—or
whether you are not now ready to say, " we believe you
have acted to the best of your ability and conscieece--
you may not have done all that an abler man oould have
performed—we believe, however, that you have done
your best—we believe you have acted conscientiously--
and we will not withdraw that confidence which we gave
you at the last election."—(Loud cheering.) Mr. Baines
then resumed his seat, but immediately rose and said—
There is one word more which I wish to say to
those gentlemen who have done me the honour to act as
my committee. I hope I need not assure them that I
feel most grateful to them for the countenance they
have honoured me with on this occasion. It is to me a
peculiar pleasure to be surrounded as I am, on the pre-
sent occasion, by so large a portion of all who are re-
spectable in the town, respectable both in station and in-
telligence. Gentlemen, I hope, as I said before, I shall
not be found unworthy of your confidence. If' there
is to be a contest here, I trust, gentlemen, that I shall
have your support to the end. I hope and trust that
nobody, for mere purposes of vexation, will think of en-
gaging in a contest on that account. But what I say is
this; whatever may be tbe result, Ishall undoubtedly per-
severe in seeking to obtain the honour of your suffrages.
—(Loud cheering.) I have not the least doubt but I
shall be honoured with them. If, in the course of that
contest you should be put to trouble, I can only apologise
to you for it. It is not my fault, and again I say how
truly grateful I feel for the countenance you have af-
forded me on this occasion, and for the trouble you have
taken on my behalf.—(Cheers.)

[PRICE SD.

THE AUTHOR OF "WHITEFRIARS."—A new his-
torical novel from the pen of this very popular author is
on the eve of publication. From the previous efforts of
the writer in this most attractive species of fiction, much
is anticipated from his forthcoming work, entitled
" Owen Tudor," in which it is said be has sought to
illustrate the chivalrous reign of Henry the Fitth—a
subject and period which will afford ample scope for
his brilliant and varied powers.

.
SALE or THE STOVE LIBRARY. —On Monday
,his sale was continued, the principal features being the
numerous editions of Shakspere, from the first edition of
1623 to the Pictorial Edition of 1846. The following
were the prices the most rare copies fetched:—A copy
of Shakspere's poems, in quarto, with fine portrait by W.
Marshall, printed in 1640, and very rare, sold for 71.105.
" Shakspere's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," pub-
lished according to the true and original copies, with
portrait by Martin Droeshout, first edition, 1623.
This was a sound and perfect copy, with the ex-
ception of Ben Jonson's verses to the reader
before the title being inlaid, the title-page lined,
and the top line "Mr. William" being added from an-
other edition, Mr.Bohn purchased it for 76/. The.second
edition, a fine, tall, and sound copy printed in 1632, was
bought by the same gentleman for 11/. ss. The third
edition, almost as rare as the first, on account of
1i the
greater part of the impressions being destroyetribi h
fire of London, sold for 351., Mr. Cook being
o fore
only
pur-
chaser. The fourth edition, imperfect Id
imperfect,
by George
41. 6s. Shakspeare's Dramatic Works
the
most distinguished
ueprcooopfsy
Swtietehvelnoso,
letters,
Boydell's collee-
a plates, uni
q
etchings, sold for 32/. 10s. Shakspetrse,
from pictures illus-
trative of 100 large and beautiful prin
by
trative of Shakspere, paintedbelieved to be unique, sold
arti,ts, with a set of etchings,
ohfefßoroeydell s revised
beautiful
sndmedsiettioonf,
purchaser. In addition to
for 431., Mr. Parker being the P
some- of the other books
the works of Shakspere
most
in the day's
livvcas,luaanbdletriatlrsact&s
relating
interesting character.
o„„ f one hundred and fifteen engrtre-
A fißsoalecopwyeroef
thoef
comprised
Gallery," "usllsi-idif, pope r, sold for 10/. 10s. A. c 011.., ings, proofs on .
, c., 0 per-
d in the rebellion of 1745, consistin
sons concerned
g of
eetc bound in a v
broadsides and tr -, olume, was bought
Mr Redd for fifteen guineas. Lerd Somers.
history and constitution ofthese -
cbtoyiollnec_otifo.nbis.otofriess,ca.erocuernaanlsd,
to the
doms, sold for 41. 17s. A curious Collection
king-
of Loyal Songs, written against the hump Par-
liament, between 1639 and 1661, with 50 portraits and
plates, sold for 6 guineas. A remarkably fine copy of
(
Sir W. Scott's Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque
Scenery of Scotland, upon large paper, sold
for Si. 2s. 6d. Sir Hans Sloane's " Voyage to
Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Islands
of Madeira, Barbadoes, Sr. Nieves, and St. Chrs-
topher," very scarce, printed in 1707, sold for 3L 13s. 6d.
Captain John Smith's " General Historic of Virginia,
New England, and the Summer Isles"—a scarce book,
printed in 1627, and containing a rare portrait by W,
Pass of the Duchess of Richmond, sold for 31. A. fin()
copy of Shaw's History and Antiquities of Stafford-
shire, with many plates and maps, sold for 81. The
day's sale produced near 5001.
SACRED IlAamoiNic SOCIETY.—.The next perform-
ance of this society, which takes place on Friday next,
the 9th inst., will consist of Beethoven's service in C
(one of the greatest choral works of the modern school),
and Mendelssohn's " Lobgesang; or, Hymn of Praise,"
a work in which the two (formerly) distinct classes of
composition, the symphony and the cantata, are so hap-
pily united. Some smaller pieces, by various composers,
are also included in the programme, which is altogether
one of great:interest.
ATTACK BY A LULL—On Saturday evening, about
eight o'clock, an old woman named Mary Balfour, NA "lila
about the bottom of Leith-walk, opposite Queen's-place,
was attacked and knocked down by a bull that was
ro-
ceeding up the Walk in an infuriated manner. p
Th un-
fortunate woman had a few of her ribs broken, and was
otherwise so much injured, that the medical attendants
called in pronounced her in a very ;I
.4anprous condition.. —Caledonian Mercury.