The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1838.

satisfy them that cheap bread and comfort for the working
man and his family do not go together, but the contrary.
Cheap bread and general distress of the working classes
:lave commonly existed together, ever since our taxation has
been at its present height, and, indeed, if we could afford
the time and space, we might without difficulty demonstrate
that, chile such a revenue as that of England is to be
raised from the capital and industry of the country,
it is impossible that corn can be very cheap without being
accompanied with general distress. The working people
,vill learn, not from the vain pedantic babblers who affect
peculi :r profoundness in political science, but from their
own practical experience, that whether the money price of
corn be high or low matters not to them who do not hoard
money ; but whether they can get little corn or much for
their week's labour, does matter to them very much.
Now, in the countries where corn is cheapest men get the
!cast guar:tits- of it for their week's labour,, and in those
periods in which corn has been cheapest in England—at all
,vents fur the last fiur-and-twenty years—the working
people have been able to get the smallest quantity of it for
their labour. It has happened, either from the absence of
employment, or the low waves when employed, that the cheap
bread time was the least prosperous time for the working
man. And so it would be again, let babbling conspirators
against the Corn-laws say what they will. Let them then
to concert.
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last Session of Parliament, could exposeits derelictions with
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an effect at all proportionate to that manifested by the mi-
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ntory aspect which the millions are now assuming in differ-
ent parts of the United Kingdom. The meetings at Bir-
mingham, Dublin, and Manchester—the proceedings of
'which we have lately published—prove at least one thing,
that the people are by no means satisfied with the conduct
of their representatives and hereditary guardians. The
British people, though immovably tenacious of their pur-
pose, are not fond of political commotion, nor desirous of
change merely from a love of novelty ; on the contrary,
they are proud—and in some instances justly so—of their
laws and institutions ; they glory in their constitution,
even to its very faults, and from these national charac-
teristics it is that when they make a general demonstra-
tion like that now in course of action, two things may
be regarded as indisputably certain ; first, that there is
something grievously wrong in the State ; and, secondly,
that a power is evolving itself which will redress that
wrong in despite of opposition. Though less numerously
attended than at Birmingham, the meeting at Manchester,
an account of which appeared in Saturday's Advertiser,
evinced a no less determined spirit to enforce the ameliora-
tion of our institutions. Nor was the memory of the mas-
sacre at Peterloo—a massacre perpetrated on those guilty
of no crime but that of claiming rights, a portion of which
have since been conceded, and the rest of which are now
demanded with loud acclaim in all parts of the United
Kingdom—calculated to diminish the enthusiasm or in-
crease the forbearance of the assembled multitude. Let
it not be supposed from our fervid sympathy with the
meetings referred to that we arc abetting revolutionary
excitements—quite the reverse ; we regret the necessity for
such multitudinous assemblies ; but when the Legislature
neglects or betrays its sacred functions—when industry is
swindled out of its due reward—when the great majority of
the people are excluded from the right of suffrage, and those
enfranchised controuled in its exercise by undue influence—
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of relief resolve, petition, unite, and by a combined effort
do that justice to themselves which Parliament denies them.
We regret the necessity of such demonstrations, which
tend to stimulate the people to an exertion beyond that
healthful agitation essential to a free Constitution, and
because they interrupt business and are liable to be
more influenced by the passions than the judgment ;
but great as is our regret in this regard, it would be
infinitely more so were the people to rest slavishly pas-
sive under old-standing oppressions, and the insults by
which these oppressions have been still farther embit-
tered. Thanks to the energy, and still more to the
intelligence of the people themselves, they need not mourn
like those without hope, as a steady, combined, and above
all, peaceable perseverance in the course they have com-
menced, must secure such a perfect consummation of their
wishes. Eighty-nine towns have already appointed dele-
gates to a Central Committee, to meet in London, under
the denomination of a National Convention. Had Parlia-
ment done its duty by the people, there would be no neces-
sity of confiding the redress of grievances to any hands but
those in which the Constitution has vested the Guardian-
ship of the national interests. On Parliament itself must
therefore devolve the responsibility of having provoked the
present mighty combination, and of the results which may
ensue froM it. Of these results, however, we are not ap-
prehensive, but it would be more agreeable to see them ac-
complished by voluntary concession than by compulsion.
The masses, however, are now in motion—may they be
guided by wisdom—united in sympathies, and in peace
obtain the perfect accomplishment of those rights which
nature ordained their inalienable inheritance !—Morning
Advertises'.

MORALITY OF CORNWALL.—By the Criminal
Returns from the Home Office, it appears that Sornersetshire
is the most wicked county in England ; out of every 393 peo-
ple, one is committed : this is a higher proportion of crime
than exists in any county in England. In Devonshire, it is
one person out of 736 ; in Cornwall, one out of 1,071 ; so that
Somersetshire is twice as wicked as Devonshire, and nearly
three times as wicked as Cornwall.— West Briton.

On Monday evening Moses Roper, a runaway
American slave, addressed a numerous and highly respectable
meeting in the Trades' Hall. It could not have been ex.
pected that he should exhibit a fluent oratory (it is net above
eighteen months since be began to learn to read); but his na-
tural talents are evidently of a superior order, and his diction
is amazingly correct. His subject was, of course, negro sla-
very, as it now exists in the United States of North America,
and he was able to keep up the interest of his hearers to the
end, through the striking nature of the facts he detailed, and
his evident personal experience of what he related. He pro.
duced specimens of the implements of negro torture, employed
by the Republican Americans and of the irons which are made
to fetter the limbs of the slave, suspected of indulging a wish
to be free. He is quite a young man, apparently twenty-two
or twenty-three years of age.—Glasgow Argus.
FIGIITING.—This day week, a fight between a
man from Mansfield and another from Warsop, took place at
Cuekney-Norton. The quarrel arose out of a bet which they
had made previous to the Mansfield races, and they agreed to
fight fur 191. The fight lasted an hour, arid one of the corn.
batants was severely injured, and was conveyed home some
hours aftewards.—Doneaster,Gazette.
On Friday evening an inquest was held at Middle-
sex linpital, on the body of Ann Woodford. From the evi-
dence of several witnesses it appeared that on Friday after-
noon last deceased, who had a canful of milk in her hand,
was crossing the road from the Green Man and Still, Oxford-
street, and made her way between a cab and a hackney.
coach, which were standing on the rank, at a period when an
omnibus was proceeding at a moderate rate towards Pad-
dington. She was called out to by the waterman, and en-
deavoured to recede; but, before she had time to do so the
pule of the vehicle knocked her down, and two of the wheels
went over her shoulder and neck. The poor creature was
picked up and conveyed in a coach to the hospital, where,
from the dreadful injury inflicted on her person, she expired
on the evening of Wednesday. No blame whatever is attri-
butable to the driver, who pulled up as speedily as possible,
and afforded all the assistance in his power. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

A SUTHERLANDSHIRE PATRIARCH.— Mr.
Donald Nl•Kay, Crombach, expired at Brawlbin, on the
4th instant, in this county, at the patriarchal age of 108.
Tne deceased served in the Reav militia so far back as the
year 1745, the memorable one of the rebellion, and was one
of those engaged in the capture of the money which had been
forwarded from the Continent for the use of the unfortunate
Prince Charles Stuart. The old man had a store of anec-
dotes relative to the history of the eventful period alluded to,
at also of many remarkable individuals who then figured in
the scene of action. M.Kay was the intimate friend of the
celebrated Rob Doun, the bard of Lord Reny's country,
whose poetical effusions were held by him in much estima-
tion, and some of whose favourite songs he was in the habit of
chaunting until within a few days of his death. He was
Man of exceedingly sober habits, having been rarely or ever
•known to indulge in ardent spirits. During the latter part of
his life he was employed in selling cattle and horses, and
visited the Ikauly mtaket for this purpose so late as the year
1832. —John o' Groat Journal.
TEE-TOTALISM.-A meeting was held on Wed-
nesday evening, at the Queen's Dock, of the Marine Total
Abstinence Society. It was most numerously attended, and
seventy•four members enrolled their names. The speakers
were warm and energetic in the cause, and the meeting was
obliged to be adjourned to yesterday evening._Liver_
pow
Mercury. —[Meetings of this kind are of almost daily occur-
rence throughout the entire country.]
Grouse shooting commenced on Monday morning,
and the game is said to be plentiful. The coaches from the
north that arrived in town on Tuesday and yesterday brought
each a number of boxes filled with game. We understand
there has been more posting on the north road this year than
for a number of years past.—Edinburgle Courant.
The 'wandering piper performed in the Saracen's
Head lon Hall, Paisley, on Monday evening last, Mr. Fraser
having tendered the use of the room and the gas gratis for the
occasion. After defraying the expenses of advertising, the
piper handed over the balance, amounting to 71., to James
Caldwell, Esq., for behoof of the Paisley Widow and Orphan
Society. The piper, on a former visit to Paisley,
the sum of 71. Ids. to the House of Recovery. Presented

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, Aro. 18.—The Herald, 28, Captain Nias,
Major-General Sir R. Arbuthnot on board, to take command
in the island of Ceylon, sailed this morning for the East In-
dies, calling at Plymouth.
The Athol troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, arrived this
evening from St. Sebastian. She brings no news. She con-
veyed out provisions, stores, and reliefs, and brings home a few
invalids and Captain Tinitlar,, appointed to t!ie command of
the Hand of Ascension.

The Apollo troop-ship, Mr. Earley, master, sailed on Sa-
turday, with the depot companies of the 56th Regiment on
board, for Cork.
The Rover, 16, is ordered for commission at Plymouth,
Commander T. C. Symonds is appointed to her.
The Cracker cutter, tender, sailed on Tuesday, for Jersey,
to urotert the Britsh oyster fishery in that quarter.
The Racer hac been taken out of dock this week, and or-
dered to be brought forward immediately for commission.
Sir W. Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, and C. Wood,
Esq., Secretary o! the Admiralty, have been waiting here for
two days the arrival or the Firebrand steamer from the River,
with some of the Lords of the Admiralty on board, on her
way to Plymouth and Pembroke for the purpose of inspecting
the establishments there. She arrived this evening.
Mr. Sadler, the second Master Attendant at this Dock-
yard, is ordered to Pembroke, to bring round to this port the
Daphne, 18, recently launched.
The Minden, 74, Captain Sharpe, C B , arrived at Gibral-
tar from Lisbon en the 28th ult ; and the Weazle, 10, Lieut.
J. Simpson, on the fallowing day, eleven days from Plymouth.
The latter proceeded on to Malta the same day. The Jasseur,
16, Commander Boultbt,e, arrived there on the 30th ult., in
seven days from Plymouth, and went on to Malta on the 2d
inst. The Harlequin, 16, Captain Erskine, arrived there on
the 31st ult. The Rastellan, R. Y. S., P. S. French, Esq.,
arrived on the 28th ult. at Gibraltar, and sailed for Cork on
the 2d instant.

The Messenger steam-transport is found to be so defective
as to render it necessary to bring her into dock. Her condition
is supposed to be such that, after a survey has been held upon
her, she will be sold or broken up.
The Venerable, 74, is to be towed round to Plymouth by the
Gordon steamer. This ship was to have been sold on Thurs-
day last, but as the estimated price was not obtained for her it
is presumed she is to be broken up.
Sailed, on Sunday last, the Robert Small, Fulcisers, for
Bengal ; the Eagle, Patterson, for the Cape and the Mauri-
tius; on Monday, the Mermaid, Chapman for Bombay; the
Wellington packet, Chadwick, for New Yotk ; Victoria,
M'Auliffe, for the South Seas ; Morley, Evans, for Bombay ;
Star, Fletcher, for Barbadoes; Malvina, Burton, and War.s-
brick, Thickbroom, for Alexandria; and Albion, Ives, for
Cadiz; on Tuesday, the Carnatic, Voss, for the Cape and
Madras; on Wednesday, the Wellington, Liddell, for the
Cape and Madras; on Friday, the Atlas, Hunt, for the Mau-
ritius. The ships Livorno, Laurel, and Lively have arrived
this week from the Baltic, with hemp and spars for the dock-
yard.
At Spithead—Edinburgh, Pique, Tribune, Columbine,
Atholl (troop-ship.)
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Hastings, Excellent,
Royal George, Actaeon, Orestes, Pantaloon, Firebrand and
Messenger steamers, and Gipsy tender.
The Buzzard was commissioned on Wednesday, at Ply-
mouth, by Lieutenant Charles Fitzgerald.
Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicholls sailed on Tuesday,
in the Carnatic Indiaman, to take the command of the army
in the Madras territory.

The Admiralty gold medal has been awarded to Dr. Charles
M'Arthur, Surgeon of the Rodney, for having kept the best
medical journal in the service.
ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieutenant Edward Bathurst, to
be Captain, at Chatham, vice W. S. Knapman, placed on the
retirement ; First Lieut. H. W. Parke, of the Royal Marine
Artillery, to be Adjutant, at Woolwich, vice Bathurst ; First
Lieut. Hamnett Parke, to the Royal Marine Artillery, vice
H. W. Parke ; Second Lieut. Christopher D. Harrington
promoted to First Lieutenant, vice Hamnett Parke ; Messsrs.
C. F. Menzies (son of Lieutenant-Colonel Menzies, K. H.,
R. M.A.), J. G. Alexander (son of the late Capt. Alexander,
R.N.), and H. Brooker (son of Henry Brooker, Esq., Mas-
ter, R.N.), are appointed Second Lieutenants. First Lieut.
Arnold and a party are to embark on board the Actaeon.
Mr. John James Winsom, Clerk of the Edinburgh, passed
his examination for a Purser on the Ist instant.

The following Warrant Officers have had pensions granted
to them this week :—Mr. G. Fleming, gunner, 301. ; Robert
Warwick, cook, 201. 4s. Id. ; Edward Davis, cook, 201. 4s. ld. ;
William Orr, cook, 20/. 4s. ld. ; and William Beal, cook,
18/. 4s. id.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant- Surgeons.—Mr. Booth, of the Hastings, and Mr.
George Jones, late of the Forte, to the rank of Surgeon.
Captains.—Lord John Churchill, to the Vernon ; Robert
Russell, to the Actaeon.

Commanders.—Peter Christie, to the Rose ; Sidney H.
Usher, to the Coast Guard ; Lewis T. Jones, confirmed to the
Princess Charlotte.

Lieutenants.—Benjamin Fox, to the Hercules ; J. A.
Mends, Roger Curtis, to the Actaeon ; Jocelyn Wailer,
Thomas Creser, Thomas Tribe, and Henry Johnstone, to the
Coast Guard ; John Lunn, to the Pluto.
Masters.—E. Couzens, to the Actaeon ; Lawson,
Master's Assistant of the Seaflower, to be Second Master of
the Pluto ; Edward Maunder, to the Penguin.
Surgeons.—John Dunlop, to the Actmon ; George Jones,
to the Favourite.

Assistant- Surgeons. —J. Macleod, to the Actaeon; Messrs.
J. M. Mustard, B. Horsburgh, and L. Campbell, of Bri-
tannia, to Melville ; Mr. Patterson, of Britannia, to the
Salamander; L. S. Cunningham, to the Espoir ; J. G.
Risk, and Alex. Brown (additional) to Royal Adelaide ;
James Peters, to Skylark, vice Crichton, to the Buzzard; W.
Hobbs, to the Bonetta ; Wm. W. Baynes, to Volcano.
Pursers.—J. B. Hutchings (late Secretary to Vice-Ad-
miral Sir P. Campbell, on the coast of Africa) to the Actaeon.
Mates.—Messrs. E. Davison and M. Lowther, to the
Hastings ; R. R. Easto, to Hercules ; C. Norman, to Royal
Adelaide.

Midshipmen.—Messrs. N. Heath, Lyons, Borland, and
Cerjat, to the Hastings ; W. Cudworth, to Excellent.
Clerks.—Mr. Barnes, to Victory; Mundell (additional),
to the Bellerophon ; Mr. H. Hunt, schoolmaster of Victory,
to be Clerk of the Orestes.

Warrant Officers.—..l4lr; Cudlipp, boatswain, and Jonathan
May, Carpenter, to the Actaeon; W. Kelly, Supernumerary
Gunner of Victory, to be Gunner of Herald.

(Froiti the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Aua. 18 —Her Majesty's brig, Royalist,lo, Lieut.
Hensley, Commander, arrived here last evening from San Se-
bastian, which port she left on Sunday evening last—all was
quiet—left there her Majesty's ship North Star, Commodore
Lord John Hay ; Phoenix and Comet steamers. Lieutenant
Randolph, promoted from the North Star, came passenger in
the Royalist.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are expected
to pay an official visit to this port on Monday next.
Her Majesty's brig Columbine, 16, Com. Elliott, will call
in here on her way to the Coast of Africa,
Her Majesty's packet brig Nightingale having been found
unfit for sea, is ordered to be paid off.
Her Majesty's brigantine Buzzard, 6, was commissioned on
Wednesday, by Lieut. Fitzgerald, for the, Coast of Africa.
Her Majesty's brig Rose, 16, has been commissioned at
Sheerness.

Her Majesty's packet Peterel was warped alongside the
Sheer-hulk on Tuesday. to have her masts put on board, pre-
vious to being commissioned.
The Goodwill lighter arrived on Wednesday from Chatham,
with stores, :The Duck lighter sailed .on .Wednesday, with
stores, for Woolwich.
Orders have been received at this Dock-yard, to bring for-
ward, with all possible dispatch, the Rover, 16, lately paid off,
for re-commission.

In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Hercules, Jupi-
ter, Pilot, Buzzard, Penguin, Skylark, Nightingale.

On Friday morning, between seven and eight
o'clock, a quantity of gunpowder exploded on the premises of
Mr. Lawford, gunmaker, of Cleveland.sticet, Fitzroy-squve,
which tore away part of the roof,- and seriously injured Mr.
Lawford and his sun, a fine youth, about 14 years of age.

A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night on the
London and Birmingham Railway to a dairy man named
Pritchard, who resided near Chalk Farm. He was returning
by the last train, with a quantity of hay he had purchased,
and when near to Kilburn, he by some means slipped off the
carriage, when the wheels passed over him and killed him on
the spot.
An inquest was held on Friday at the Constitution,
Great James-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of a woman
named Bolton, the Wife of a journeyman plasterer, residing in
the above neighbourhood. The inquiry excited some interest
owing to a report that the deceased had experienced treatment
of a brutal nature from her husband, but as the evidence of
many witnesses went to show that so far from such being the
case she had been well used, and properly attended to, the
jury returned a verdict of " Natural death."
An inquest was held on Friday night in White-
cross.s St.
tree, Luke's, on the body of a woman who, it was
,
supposed, , had committed suicide from the fact that a bpttle
was found inher pocket after death which appeared to have
contained laudanum, and because a quarrel had taken place
between her and her husband in consequence of certain alleged
misconduct on her part. A medical man who had examined
the body of the deceased both externally and internally de-
posed that he could not discover the slightest appearances to
account for death. There was not the least trace of laudanum
in the stomach or intestines, and it was his opinion she died
from natural causes. The jury returned a verdict of " Na.
tural death."
A WHALE.—On Wednesday se'nnight, a fish-
ing-boat, named the Friends Te Arran, from Loch Ranza, in
Arran, was proceeding on its way for the fishing ground,
when about tour miles from Mauchry Bay, it was suddenly
struck by a whale, and a large aperture formed in the right
side of the boat. Fortunately the planks driven in were on
the upper part, so that by stuffing their jackets and some sails
into the opening, and shifting the ballast to one side, the
party managed to make some way, the wind being luckily fa-
vourable for them, The boat, however, was no sooner within
the bay, and the men attained the shore, than she sunk. The
men describe the stroke made by the tail of the whale as re-
sembling loud thunder, and by its motion causing the sea
around to boil like a cauldron. Part of the skin of this mon-
ster of the deer was found attached to the boat. Scots Times.
BREAD.—Many of the bakers of Edinburgh on
Monday raised the price of the 41b. loaf one penny—the
highest price being now elevenpenee, although some bakers
sell it for 10d. or 100. —Edinburgh Courant.