The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

GUILDHALL —(THIS Da, Y•)

CAUTION TO NVOIIKINIEN.—J den IV yse, a workman
in the employ of Mr. Bryant, tinman, Barbican, mug
placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Magnay,
charged with stealing four metal pots, and implements,
value 31., the property of his employer.
Mr. Bryant stated that he had recently been
robbed of tools to a great extent by some
of his workmen, and the manner in which he was
robbed by the prisoner was exceedingly cunning and
barefaced. On Saturday evening last the prisoner told
him that there were four old melting pots lying by- of
no use, for which he would give Is. 4d. each, being, fie
said, quite as much as they were worth. Mr. Bryant:
told him not to touch them, and that he (Mr. B.)
would look at them on Monday morning, and see what
they were worth. The prisoner, however, immediately
after his master's baek was turned took away the pots
and sold them, with a soldering iron, value 2s. Gd., the
property of his master, for old metal. The conduct of
the prisoner was exceeding ungrateful, as Mr. B. had
some time ago assisted him with the loan of money to
bury his wife, and whilst I/. was still due the prisoner
left his work for six weeks at a time when Mr. B. was
much pressed to execute a foreign order.
The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday, to give
the complainant an opportunity of ascertaining whether
the tools sold by the prisoner were his property or not.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The impending Municipal Elections are matters
of more than ordinary interest at this moment. The
• Tories well know that the strongholds of Reform, of
freedom, and of Constitutional Government are in
the municipal boroughs and cities. Once sap these,
by fraud, by bribery, by intimidation, by increased
activity, or by any other means, and then they carr
calculate on their long hoped-for return to the
sweets of office, to their old and halcyon days of
plunder, power, and oppression. It behoves, there-
fore, all Reformers who look to higher objects than
local triumphs, to put their shoulders to the wheel,
skid to prove, that whatever may be the influence of
Toryism among ignorant and manacled farmer-ten-
ants, enlightened and comparatively uninfluenced
burgesses and citizens, are as sound at heart as ever.
Liverpool at this moment is furnishing a noble
example to all municipal constituencies. With a
large proportion of old freemen, with the influence
of the last election of Members of Parliament
against them, with all the artifices of seduction, the
threats of intimidation, profligate bribery and in-
toxication, men arc rallying at the call of
their old champions for Reform and for
public rights, and thousands are meeting
almost nightly, in one ward or another, to
listen to the speeches of the Rathbones, Curries,
Branckners, and Blackburns. Public virtue, aided
by a consistent private life, and commanding intel-
lectual powers, will have its way. It is a noble
sight to behold such a man as William Rathbonc,
the first Reform Mayor, and whose mayoralty was
so truly just and impartial that even the Tories de-
clare it to be unimpeachable—it is a noble sight to
behold him, notwithstanding his advanced age, ad-
dressing thousands upon thousands, night by night,
with all the ardour and fervour of youth and pa-
triotism, in favour of the cause of the people, of
public good, and public rights against private and
selfish interests, and fanatic opposition to general
education. The two chief grounds on which the
Tories rest their attacks on Liberal town-council-
lors, is the support which the latter have given to
dock warehouses for the protection of property, and
of education to all, without limit as to sect or
party. "By your rejected dock warehouses, you
will lessen the value of the warehouses that many
private persons have at prcz,ent," say the Tories.
" We shall not," reply the Reformers, " because
the measure will so increase the business of the
port, by giving protection to goods, which does not
now exist, that the increased demand for
warehouse accommodation will rather add to the
value of such property ; and, besides, we have
private warehouses as well as you." Again, as
to education, the Tories say, ".No Dissenter should
be allowed to have anything to do with public
education, unless he or his children will conform to
the Church of England." The Reformers answer,
" We will not doom to perpetual ignorance tens of
thousands of poor Roman Catholics and Dissen-
t tern, solely to accommodate your real or affected de-
votion to a State Church." " Then out you Shall
go," is the reply.

It is time to correct these evils, and many others
connected with municipal elections. In Liverpool
and in Leeds, for the Tories are objecting to
thousands, and the Liberals following their exam-
ple, registration has not only been a perfect farce,,
but a most expensive, annoying, and intolerable
nuisance. Perhaps this evil might, to some ex-
tent, be remedied, by making the registration trien-
nial, and not allowing any man of straw to object
by wholesale, without some security for costs or
loss 'of time. These, however, are subjects re-
quiring discussion, too long to be contprised in one
communication.

CONCERTS D'HIVER.-THEATRE ROYAL
DRURY LANE. —These musical performances attract all_
the leading fashionables in London. Among the visitors
lag evening we observed the following :—Duke and
Duchess of Leilister, Baroness Biome, Baroness Cetto,
Duchess Cannizzaro, Lord Muskorry, Lord Tenterdcn,
Lord Kildare, Count Alfred D'Orsay, Lord Burghersh,
M. O'Forrall, Esq., Lord Mount Edgecombe, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, &c., &c.

THE ROYAL CHEESE.—This famed produce
of seven hundred and fifty cows progresses well in its ad-
vancement to ripeness and perfection, at the farm of Mr.
Dunkerton, of West Pennard, and still continues to attract
visitors from all parts of the country. No pariicular time is
fixed for presentation, nor is it yet determined in what
manner it is to be conveyed to London, but it is in contem-
plation it shall be drawn thither by eight of the finest and
most beautiful cows the West of England can produce.
The interment of the remains of the late Lord
Holland took place, as announced, on the afternoon of
Wednesday last, at the parish church of Melbroke, near
Anipthill, Bedfordshire. At half-pact two o'clock the
cavalcade resched the church, at the entrance of which it
was met by the Rev. George Carter Cardalc, M. A., the
son of the Rector. The solemn ritual of the Church was
then read by Mr. Catdalc, jun., and at its conclusion the
coffin was deposited in a new brick grave which had been
prepared in the chancel, closely adjoining to that of his late
Lordship's daughter, who was buried on the 9th of No.
vernbcr, 1819. The inscription on the plate of the coffin
was as follows : _ _ _

Henry Richard Vassall
Lord HOLLAND,
Born 21st November, 1773,
Died 22d Oct. 1840.

THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE IRWELL.
—On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Britannia public. house, Ordsnl-lane, Salford. before Mr."
W. S. Rutter, coroner, on the bodies of Clare, Davies,
Royle, and Mendoscroft, four of the seven individuals who
perished in the 'men. The facts adduced before the Co-
roner did not, however, materially vary from the facts al-
ready published, and the Jury returned a verdict to the ef-
fect that the parties came by their deaths accidentally. The
greatest commiseration is felt for the unhappy families thus
thrown into such deep distress, and no doubt public sym.
pathy will be manifested in a much more substantial form
than mere words.

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CARDIGAN.--In
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Cardigan in defiance of rubli npeardpdetitriotnd tob the acts of
outragingenrion3a,:a)nadnyn
appended to the list
play-bills this (l (Friday, OceteoPtri
'
y,\it, appears that one more is to be
best feelings of soviet • I
% e are informed that the Brighton
formance " unclear the
officers
patronage of the trot
of Cardigan and. lk.
public will not be at 'a
tcsesrtsoof the.
Lordship'sleithhisissars
announce
ut hn Eaapit the
mo-
tives in this essay ; and if he would have it believed that
this exhibition is an indication of restored harmony
between himself and the officers under his command—
as it is notoriously not the case—he willl indubitably
be punished for his intended deception. t has been
even hinted to us, that there may be yet another mo-
tive on the part of his Lordship in thus " bespeaking"
a p'ay. Some few evenings since the Brighton theatre
was in an uproar, in consequence of three cheers being
called for Captain Reynolds, and three groans for the Earl
of Cardigan; and his Lordship might now desire to test
public opinion, as he imagines, by buying up the tickets,
and packing the house with his hirelings prior to the com-
mencement of the performances. We shall see this even-
ing if the Earl of Cardigan's purse be long enough to
bribe the Brighton public. We with suspect that,
endeavours, " the strong man armed" will not be able to
compete with the strength of opinion and feeling
enlightened, reasonable, and right-thinking of an
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Chronicle. rig p„pic._
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absconded with 5,0001. in bills and 1 nudes has
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Bench has issued a special fiat , and the Queen s
Tipperary for his arrest. to the High Sheriff of