The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

NEWARK.

On Saturday the retuininiC)fficer made proclamation
of his intention to proceed to the election on Tuesday
next. Mr. Gladstone arrived here on Wednesday, and
immediately commenced canvass. Mr. Gisborne is re-
ported to stand on the Whig-Radical interest.
On Friday Mr. GLADSTONE addressed the constituency
from the Clinton Arms in the market-place. His great
desire was to do all in his power to better the condition
of the labouring poor. He did not, however, think that
the much-mooted question of repealing the Corn-laws
would produce that effect. On the contrary, it would
most probably reduce the agriculturists of this country
to the state of the Russian or the Polish serf—(Hear)—
and thinking thus, he felt it to be his solemn duty as a
guardian of the people's interests to warn them against
delusive hopes, which would only flatter them to their
destruction.

In the evening Mr. Gladstone was entertained at Gil-
strap's Hotel, by a select party of his supporters.

STATE OF TRADE.

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FORFAR.—The beautiful weather now set in will
enable the reapers to conclude the harvest in this quarter
very soon. On some farms it is already finished, at
least, all cut down. The crop is, according to all ac-
counts, above an average ; in short, nature appears to
have done her work well ; but, to the great mass of man-
kind, her bounties are of little avail. They are more
than counterbalanced by the machinations of selfish
men. Small, indeed, will be the working man's share
of the fruits of the earth this season ; he has not the
wherewithal to procure them. These remarks are pecu-
liarly applicable to this town and neighbourhood at the
present time ; work is so very scarce, and wages so very
low, that starvation in the midst of plenty seems to be
our lot. Our social condition is every day becoming
more degraded, and how, in such a state of things, can
it be otherwise ? A sullen, gloomy apathy has, to all
appearance, seized the minds of our working population,
produced by excessive toil and scanty food.—Dundee
Chronicle.
ASHBURTON.—The privations the working classes are
driven to in this town and neighbourhood are truly de-
plorable, for want of work, and from the high price of
food.— Western Times.
Trade is improved. Wools are firm, and yarns have
advanced id per lb. Still the state of business is any-
thing but satisfactory ; the general distress in the
country has long incapacitated the working classes from
purchasing as usual, there is consequently such an ab-
sence of the ordinary demand as to make even the dimi-
nished supplies of the last few years greater than what
the market will absorb ; a vast deal of business had been
done to no profit, and in many instances to actual and
repeated loss, the competition in the meantime is unpre-
cedentedly severe, and the prospects on the whole under
existing circumstances, are anything but encouraging.—
Leicestershire Mercury.
Though we have heard of no further failures this
week, and some which took place in that preceding turn
out to be merely temporary, we are sorry to say that we
can report no further improvement in the state of trade,
either local or general. Our docks are crowded with
shipping, but the only sign of life on the export side is
in the emigrant vessels, which are exporting, not the
products of capital and industry, but the hands and skill
which vainly seek employment at home. We believe
business was never known to be so dull with the trades-
men of Liverpool, or money so scarce, as at the present
moment.—Liverpool Journal.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, SEPT. 11.—George Welsh Owen, Esq., of
Tiverton, has presented the Rev. George Welsh Owen,
of New Inn Hall, to the rectory of Calverleigh, in the
county of Devon, to which he has been instituted by the
Lord Bishop of the Diocese.
Lord Portman has presented the Hon. and Rev. Sid-
ney Godolphin Osborne, of Brazennose College, to the
vicarage of Bryanston-cum-Durweston, in the county of
Dorset.
The Rev. F. Downes, Panter of Trinity College,
having been recently appointed by the Society for Pro-
pagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts a chaplain to
Prince Edward's Island, in the diocese of Nova Scotia,
took his departure a few days since, to that place, ac-
companied by his lady and four children.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. William
Lee to the vicarage of Stanton-upon-Arrow, in the
county of Hereford • and also the Rev. James Sabben to
the incumbency of gt. Dennis with Naburn, York.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester has presented the
Rev. John Daintry to the rectory of Patney, in the
county of Wilts.
The foundation stone of the new parocial school, in
St. Thomas's parish, in this city, was laid a few days
since, by Miss Tawney, the daughter of the Mayor. The
choristers from Christ Church sang part of the 72d
Psalm after the stone was laid, and the vicar offered up
a prayer, and concluded a pathetic address with the fol-
lowing words :—" 0 that men would therefore praise the
Lord for his goodness, aad declare the wonders that he
doeth for the children of men."

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

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Sin—l scarcely know how to express the indignation
that I felt on seeing it calmly announced that Sir R.
Peel, after passing a few necessary votes, intends to
prorogue Parliament till January or February next !
Good God, Sir, is it possible ? Are these fellows mad?
Do they wish to drive us to rebellion ? Or are they,
as some here charitably believe, utterly ignorant of the
distress and suffering so long and so patiently borne by
the people ? It may be that, surrounded by luxury, re-
moved from the very sight of poverty, and feeling
nothing of its gripe themselves, they are indulging the
fatal error of unbelief as to our real condition, and ac-
tually think with the Duke of Wellington, that every
honest man is sure of a competence, if willing to work!
What infatuation I What heartless mockery ! How long
will it be endured ? Will nothing but a popular out-
break of the starving millions convince these lordly aris-
tocrats of the danger of trifling thus with hungry, angry
men ? Pray, Sir, let your voice be constantly heard on
our behalf, and warn these men in high places that if
they should dare to separate to enjoy their hunting and
shooting, without first having done something to relieve
the distress of the nation, on their heads will be all the
awful consequences of so mad a course.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A WORKING MAN.
Manchester, Sept. n, 1841.

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A PAUPER IN A
UNION WORKHOUBE.—On Friday Mr. Payne, the City
Coroner, and a numerous Jury sat in the Board-room of
the West London Union Workhouse, West- street, Smith-
field, to determine the cause of the suicide of Ei.
Wilkinson, aged 64, an inmate of that workhouse.
Several of the guardians of the union were present.
Isaac Stephens, a pauper, said he had known deceased
for two years, and saw him last alive in the water-closet
between three and four o'clock on Thursday morning.
Witness spoke to him, and received no answer, and left
him in the closet. He saw no more of him until dawn,
when deceased was brought up stairs dead. Deceased
was a very still, quiet man, and would hardly answer
when spoken to. Several other inmates of the work.
house were examined. They said that latterly deceased
appeared rather queer," and was in the habit of walking
to and fro silently in the yard, looking very ill. They alsc
proved that, having found the door of the water-closet fast-
ened inside, and hearing within a noise like that made by
a person snoring, they burst the door open, and foundde-
ceased sitting on the seat of the closet, with his throa:
cut, and a fork sticking in the wound. He was quite
dead, and a kitchen knife, stained with blood, lay by
weresoldoss
of
blood as tc
his side. Mr. Mott, master of the workhouse, said de-
ceased had been under his care for about twelve years.
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d.. e Lynch,eease's throat was an
inch
workhouse,chd surgeon to tht
He was extremely deaf, and on that account was very
uncommunicative. There was nothing otherwise parti-
cular about him, and witness could not account for the
commissionna and
da
of faa
half
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depth
and three inches in length.
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, but several of the
lesser
cause death. Witness knew of nothing that could cause
which ief vessels
produced
cleivhid ae
deceased to commit suicide, unless from a feeling of de-
, spondency, the effect of frequent illness. Verdict,
" Temporary insanity."
A foot race took place on Tuesday afternoon
last, on the North Road, near the Town Moor. New-
castle, between a man named Gillie, belonging to Tweed-
mouth, and a person known in Newcastle by the appella-
tion of " the Doctor." The race was for 40/. a-side, and
the distance was about 140 yards. The " Doctor'' won
by about three and a half yards. The race was run}, in
fourteeu soonds.—Durhant Chronicle.