The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. Fat DAY. SEPTEMBER 17. IS4I.

not yet know where the meeting would take place, as he
had left the arrangement entirely in the hands of the
other party ; but Tuesday was the day . fixed for the
discussion. His object in meeting Mr. Hetherington
would Le to adduce truth ; and if there were divisions to
arise amongst the Chartist body, to let the blame of such
divisions lie at the door of the erring party.—(Loud and
long-continued cheering.)
several other gentlemen having spoken, the meeting
adjourned about eleven o'clock.

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MEETING AT BRIGHTON.
BRIGHTON, SEPT. 15.—Last night, one of the largest
meetings, 'perhaps, that ever took place, was held at the
Town-hall, to petition Parliament for an extension of
the suffrage and vote by ballot. Upwards of 2,000 per-
sons were present. Amongst those on the platform were,
Capt. Pechell, M.P., J. N. Wigney, Esq., M.P., Colonel
Trickey, Major Allen, Mr. Hilton, and many of the
most respectable tradesmen of the town. Mr. Hilton
rose to propose the first resolution, to the eff,!ct " That
it was the opinion of the meeting that a full, fair, and
free representation of the people is essential to good Go-
vernment ; and that, however well intended, the Reform
Bill had failed in its object, as all the evils that ex-
isted under the old and corrupt system of repre-
sentation have not only been perpetrated,' but actually
increased under that Bill ; that the real sentiments of
the people are never expressed or known, and an
estrangement exists between the Government and the
people. That to remedy the evils effectually, it was
necessary to establish vote by Ballot." He (Mr. Hilton)
was satisfied there must be an extension of the suf-
frage before the evils of the country were remedied.—
(Hear, hear.) Great distress prevailed throughout
the land, not only among the small shopkeepers, but
it was extending to some of .the first merchants of
country.—(hear, bear.) Something must be wrong
to cause such a state of things, and nothing but an
extension of the suffrage, coupled with Vote by Ballot,
would set the affairs of this great nation in their proper
light.—(Loud cheers.) They all knew that the result of
the late general election was against the people's interest,
but it would not have been so if every man who ought
to have had a vote' had been able to record it. He
cared not how far the suffrage was extended, so that
it was accompanied with Vote by Ballot. Let the
people have both, and it would go a long way to re-
medy their distress.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Colonel
Trickey seconded the resolution. The Rev. Mr. Ed-
wards proposed the second resolution, to the effect that
a petition be presented to Parliament, based on the re-
solution just passed, which was seconded by Mr. Cooper.
Captain Pechell rose to address the meeting, and was re-
ceived with much applause. He said it was very satisfac-
tory to be present at such a meeting. He had always
been of opinion that the elective franchise was confined to
too narrow a basis, and they might be satisfied he would
seize every opportunity of recording his vote when its ex-
tension was sought. It had been proved in Brighton that
protection to the voter was indispensable. As elections
were now conducted, they were a mockery and insult to
the nation. The franchise was of little value without a
barrier was set up against the corruption and intimi-
dation which prevailed. This intimidation had b4en
carried on to a fearful extent, and many persons were
now suffering fun. exercising their independence.—(Hear,
hear.) It was on these grounds that he should do all in
his power to promote the object of so respectable a
meeting. J. N. Wigney, Esq., M.P , next addressed the
meeting amidst cheers and much uproar. He said that in
conjunction with his Hon. and Gallant Colleague, he
should have great pleasure in supporting the prayer of
the petition.—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. Member went
into a long explanation about a recent vote he had given
in the House, which dissatisfied agreat number of his con-
stituents, and congratulated them upon the unanimity of
their proceedings. He hoped they would ultimately
obtain their object, which would be an ample reward for
all past privations and misery. After a vote of thanks
to the Chairman the meeting separated.

GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CITY LAW COURTS.
CITY LANDS COMMITTEE.—It has not escaped the
active members of the Corporation of London that, at a
time distinguished by extraordinary alterations and im-
provements as regards the thoroughfares of the City,
and the approaches to this wonderful emporium of com-
merce, the Law Courts at the Guildhall were remarkably

defective in many raspects, and the Judges, the barris-
ters, the solicitors, the jury, the suitors, and the wit-
nesses, had certain claims of accommodation and conve-

nience upon those who had power over the City funds.
The subject was a short time ago taken up in the Court
of Common Council, and referred to the City Lands

Committee, of which Deputy Bridge is the Chairman,
and the most scrupulous inquiry has been made into the
many inconveniences complained of with the view of
removing them altogether.
'The Committee found, upon inspecting the site of the
Law Courts at• the Guildhall, that between the Court of

Queen's Bench and the Court of Common Pleas another
Court could be raised upon the same level, of almost
equal size, in which the Exchequer business could be
transacted, but not without materially diminishing. the
existing accommmodation. They, however, ascertained
that by a complete alteration within the walls, such a

change could be effected as would set at nought anything
like an objection, and produce such vast improvement as
would meet the warmest approbation of the Judges, who,

as is well known, have complained of these Courts until
they have been actually tired of using the language of

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expostulation..
The present Courts are in conformity to tho state of
scienco at the time of their erection, built with enor-

mously high ceilings, in the erroneous supposition that
altitude was indispensible to health ; mid their length

was preposterous, in order to bear the character of pro-
portion. The conseluence has been, that the distance
between the floor of the Courts and the skylights makes
the short days very short indeed, and interferes in such
a manner with sound, that he must be a very skilful
man in the science of intonation to mike himself under-

stood by allavhose business it is to hear him. It is also
the fact, that the impure breath and damp ooziags from
the mass of persons assembled below, and which are
caught up into the skylights, return in filthy drops upon
the gentlemen of the bar, who sit immediately under
these receptacles, of that which it is so necessary to drive
out as expeditiously as possible.
The Committee called Dr. Reid and Mr. Montague,
the City Surveyor, to their aid. From Dr. Reid they
learned that in rooms of extraordinary height and length
complete ventilation cannot be so easily accomplished as
in rooms of Moderate size and elevation ; and that the
change most favourable to that paramount object would
be the reduction of the height and • length, and the intro-
duction, by mechanical means, of an equal portion of
pure air through a number of small apertures in the
lower part of the Courts, and by providing fur its escape.
when heated, through small perforations in the cornices
and other part of the ceiling, ornamentally disposed
for that purpose. Dr.- Reid expressed an opinion that
the objects which the Committee seemed to have in view
might be attained by a false ceiling of glass at the required
height, leaving the flOor''of the projected three Courts at
its present level ; but he 'considered it to be infinitely
preferable, as suggested -by some of the Committee, to
raise the floor, so that three Courts, well lighted and
ventilated, could be erected in the space now occupied
by two ; while a spacious hall, and an extensive suite of
rooms, would be appropriated to the use of suitors, counsel,
attorneys, jurymen, and witnesses attending the Courts.
Yesterday the Committee sat for the purpose of com-
ity, to a decision as to the course of proceeding they
should recommend to the Common Council, of which a
Special Court has been called, according to the terms of
the notice, to receive a Report from the City Lands
.Committee, on the references relative to the Courts of
Law at Guildhall." Mr. Montague, the City Surveyor,
exhibited a model, formed by himself, of the proposed
improvements, with a proximate estimate of the expense
of completing these immensely beneficial alterations, the
whole having been effected under the inspection of Dr.
Reid, so as to secure the advantages of his judgment,
and to provide for the application of his improved ar-
rangement in respect to sound and ventilation, and, when
necessary, of warming every part of the building. From
the model, it appeared that the accommodations. in every
respect would present the most glaring contrast to the
present miserable condition of the City Law Courts, which
really may be considered as a slur upon the taste and
humanity of the Corporation.
It was stated that Baron Gurney, the only Judge in
town when a deputation from the Committee went to
consult the Bench upon the necessity of making altera-
tions in the Courts, had seen the model, and after an ac-
curate examination of that and the drawings connectcd
with the Courts as they now stand, approved of ali the
contemplated changes.
Mr. WIRE appeared before the Committee to impress
upon them the necessity of recommending to the Court
of Common Council the adoption of the changes ac-
cording to the model of Mr. Montague, and the admirable
system of ventilation so ably introduced into the Houses
of Parliament by 1)r. Reid. He referred with force to
the various matters touched upon in the foregoing state-
ment, and expressed a confidence in the warm approba-
tion of the community.
Sir PETER LAURIE strongly approved of the model,
by regulating the interior of the building, according to
which a new .and. complete suite of mot commodious
apartments would be obtained, at the same time that a
third Court would be formed for the transaction of
public business. He congratulated his brethren of the
Corporation upon the perfect success of Dr. Reid, in
giving new lungs to the long-diseased Courts and
apartments of the Old Bailey, an Merculean task which
was accomplished in a perio.i which appeared to those
who viewed the alterations to be miraculously short.
The expense of the construction of the New Court,
and the reconstruction of the two old ones in the man-
ner proposed, including the adoption of Dr. Reid's
method of ventilation, is estimated by Mr. :Montague
at 8,6001.
The Committee unanimously agreed to a Report
drawn up by Mr. Saunders, the City Comptroller, re-
commending the adoption of the p.an, thus recognising
the expediency of accomplishing the all-important object
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gaged in the arduous duties of' its administration.

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_ATAb ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning
a shocking accident happened in Walwcrth to a child named
Woodward, aged between six and seven years of age. While
passing the road in East-street, the carman of a cart belonging
to Mr. J. Page, of Greenwich, was driving through the street,
when the child was struck down by the horse, and the wneel
passed over her chest. 'I he child had only time to say where
she lived, when she fainted away, and was Immediately carried
to the shop of Mr. Howitt, a surgeon, in Apollo. buildings.
All attempts, however, to stye life were in.vain, and the child
expired after a few minutes' suffering.
The Kingstown harbour lights are altered by
order of the Dublin Port Corporation, from the present
revolving light shoxing red and white lights alternately,
and seen at ahort2r intervals of time. Another im-
provement is the fixing a small red light on the west
'pier head.

LITERATURE.
MEHOIRS f ROl3El:7' EMJIET and the
IRISH INSURRECTION of iBO3, V.
- S'ioP-line .

This is a republication. of
,some letters origi-
nally published in successive numbers of the
English Chartist Circular. Of the unfortunate
and imprudent, but gifted man to whom it re-
lates, we shall not speak 'further than to say that
we hope no person at present will think of
making him the model on which to form his own
conduct. The Memoir is well written, though it
is tinctured with some of that exaggeration in
language and sentiment which might be expected
from its origin. As a study it is more suited,
we are afraid, to the spirit of the times, than to
the calm wisdom of philanthropy.

THE POETICAL FLIGHTS OF A FACTORY
1
YOUTH. By Joseph Kirkham.
CLave, Shoe•line.
We can write nothing -mere 'to the purpose
concerning this little production than what is
said in the preface, which, with sonic abridge-
ments, we transcribe :
The writer was born in Manchester, .on the sth of
December, 18:20, of pour but hontst parents, who took
care early to instil into his mind good and virtuous prin-
ciples, which they enforced by their example. He was
sent by them to 'a Sabbath-school, to receive the only
education they 'were capable of bestowing. on him, -en
account of their poverty and having a family of
other children, all incapable of maintaining themselves.
At the age of nine years, he was placed in one•
those dens of disease and rampant vice, a cotton-mill ;
where the body and mind of youth beeome alike cor-
rupted and destroyed. Here he was compelled, for the
first two or three years—subjected to the brutalities of
ignorant and vicious men, rendered tyrannical by the
cursed factory system—to toil fourteen hours a day for
the scanty pittance of three shillings a week ; and was
never able, even at the age of nineteen years, to procure
more than nine shillings a week.
Surely no place could be more unfavourable to the
developement of poetical talent than a cotton-factory ;
for there the mind is rendered callous to improVenient
by the ever-exertion to which the body is doomed;Yet—
under the depressing circumstances of such arduous toil,
the want of the common necessaries of life, the depriva-
tion of the society of those who might (from having re-
ceived the advantages of education themselves) have
been able to impart to him a portion of that knowledge
which the budding mind of youth so much thirsts for
and requires, and of being surrcunded by the 'mist.
mournful examples of. vice and drunkettness—he has
still, by applying his mind in an innocent, if not a pro •
fitable pursuit, succeeded in bringing forth a number of.
iniTior poetical effusions, which have, at least, the claim
of a purity of thought to recommend them tothe accept-
ance of the reader.
" Thoughts at Night" was originally inserted in No.
33, Vol. 111., of Ckave's Gazette of Variety and Amuse-
ment, and the editor noticed it. in the followimemanner:—
" We would direct the attention of the readers of this
days' Gazette to cur Poets' Corner,' fur a production,
which, though the writer be only a youth, devoid of any
other education than that which he himself has been en-
abled to glean during the brief leisure which a factory
life affords, we conscientiously believe to be little, if at
all, inferior to Gray's celebrated Blegy."Truly, we
may say we have seldom or ever derived so much plea-
sure from any poetical composition as from those
"Thoughts at Night ;' a pleasure, too, not slightly en-
hanced by the reflection that one of the humblest sons of
labour has thus Vindicated the working classes froth the.
foul libel which aristocratic scribblers are wont to cast on
them, by arrogating to the higher classes a monopoly of
taste and intellect."
'The " Hand that lays us low," which was inserted in
the Penny Satirist of the same week, elicited from its edi-
tor the following remarks :
" This poem, and some sonnets, equally good, were
sent us by one who calls himself a factory lad of nine-
teen years of age. If so, we hope he will make a good
use of his talent, and keep it as sacred as the innocence
of youth has begotten it. Beware of profaning a poetic
gift ; it is ruin—absolute ruin, and leads to drunkenness
and misery."
And in Lee's Penny Forget-Me-Not for 1840, in which
the " Morning Clouds" was inserted, the following notice

occurs :
`These lines are fron the pen of a poor factory lad of
Manchester. If, by inserting them, the editor should
be instrumental in procuring for the youth the patronage
of some benevolent mind, the reflection will afford him
lasting pleasul e. We have seen several other poe:ns b)
the same author, many of them possessing considerable
merit, and all of them evincing talent of no Ordinary
kind."

Most cheering to the writer, amid3t the severest pri-
vations, came these assurances of his merits ! But this
was not all. Two benevolent and charitable individuals
connected with the press in London, on whom the au-
thor had not the slightest claim whatever, save that of
suffering humanity—two of those truly philanthropic
men who

110 good by stealth, and blush to find it. fame;'
whose names from motives of delicacy, may be at pre-
sent cooeeaied ;—these men, with a generosity of mind
for which the author must ever feel the sincerest and
most unbounded sense of gratitude, learning that the
writer was out of employ, and consequently deprived of
the means of existence, alleviated his necessities. The
author having also expressed an earnest desire to try. his
fortune in the metropolis, they promised that if he should
determine upon (loin!! so, that they would not see him
starve ; but that, if he would be willing to " turn his
hand to anything"—(such were the words, and such the
inducements ofrered)—some small pittance should be
forthcoming for him. With this prospect before. him
(which many might hays thought very unpropitious, but
in which he felt the greatest hOpe of bettering his con-
dition), the author left his n itive town and relations, to
mingle with strangers, and walked the dreary journey,
from Manchester to London with but nine shillings
,in
his possession, where he was most cordially received by
those who had before given him such proofs of their in-
terest in his welfare.
The author arrived in London in the
beginning of
September last, and since then he has been,apprenticed
to the trade of a printer. His master having had the
kindness to lend him the use of type and furnish him
with everything necessary, he has composed and printed
the present little volume in his leisure hours, indepen-
dently of his usual employment ;—therefore those who
may be acquainted with that process will readily pardon
such imperfections of typographical execution as may
be detected by the practisdeye.
The productions of Mr. Kirkham are highly
creditable to him; but, as might be expected,
display more vigour than polish. Now that he
is removed to a situation more favourable to the
cultivation of his talents, there is every proba-
bility that he may turn out a distinguished man.

HINTS TO THE LANDED PROPRIETARY
AND AGRICULTURISTS OF GREAT BRI-
TAIN. London, John Crossland and Co.

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The object of this pamphlet is to recommend
the cultivation of beet-root to make sugar ; the
author being acquainted with a method of ex-
tracting the sugar from the root in such a state
that it is equal to, and not to be distinguished
from, colonial raw sugar. It is estimated that
an acre of ground cultivated with wheat will
yield a profit of only 101. or 151. an acre, while
an acre cultivated with beet-root will yield from
181. to 231. per acre. For the details, which are
curious, we must refer to the work, merely re-
marking that on principle we object to any such
presumed, or even proved advantages being made
the basis of legislation,

ELEMENTS OF PER _DRAWING,
DESIGNED BY AUGUSTUS DEACON.
Tablor and IValton.
This is a usefpl book for beginners. Its aim is
to lay a ground-work of exact knowledge and
manual dexterity, such as a child may acquire,
preparatory to the more advanced stage of
sketching from nature. The leading feature of
the work is the substitution of solid forms in place
of sketches or prints the learned to copy.
These consist of fifty-seven pieces, formed into
cubes, cones, spheres, pyramids,, cylinders, and
which can be combined into groups, • bearing
some resemblance to actual oNects, such as houses,
bridges, and pillars. This will 'ruin a delightful
amusement for the young mind; and as minute
details and complicated figures have been avoided,
no person can find any difficulty in carrying out
the plan of the delineator. For schools it is pe-
culiarly well adapted, but for individual scholars
)
i'lev (eigl t
we are afraid the high price of the box of Tao-
idteslo.s
general adoption.
ad
s.,
(.Ivpittihon4.s. fTiihret
0
in number), form a good substitute, and will
enable the learner to understand all the principal
rules of perspective, together with the theory
of light and shade. The following paragraph
from the Preface points out briefly and truly the
advantages to be derived from this beautiful
art :—" How often has it happened that the idea
of some design for a vase, a scroll, a monumental
tablet, an ornamental edifice, or a recollection of
the proportions of some fine temple, or of the
features of some departed or absent friend, is lost
for the want of the ability to put to paper the
image existing in the mind. Drawing is a uni-
versallanguage, `Drawing
yeoPle of every
country and all ages, besnics being lthe.only one:
by which a certain-classof ideas call be ex pressed.
A fe N lines drawn with skill and purpose convey
a meaning that pages of written description fail
to express."

LirticaiNG.—iit—e St. Louis Netu Era gives
'r
some further details of the Lynching of the counterfeit-
ers on the Mississippi, gathered from an officer of the
boat,drow '
Baltic, arrived at St. Louis. lie says that the number
captured was 50 to 75 that were put on board a trading
drowned When
en to an
Lire
Baltic unfrequentedpas s place,ed
up
the citizens were and all shot o
on their way down the river, engaged in the laudable
work of burning the houses lately occupied by the vic-
tims of their vengeance. No violence was offered to the
families who were in them, but they were ordered to
leave their homes for ever. It is further stated that the
cashier of the counterfeiting establishment was found in
the river at Columbia dead. Ail the implements of ras-
cality were found about the premises of the murdered
men. A largo amount of counterfeit bank-notes was dis-
covered, consisting of $3O and 0100 notes on the Com-
mercial Bank of New Orleans not signed ; and 1,2, and
$3 notes of the Third IlunicirtlitY NOW Orleans.

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