The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-10 00:00:00

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JOHN COLLJNS.
ARTHUR O'NSILL.
TO THE MIDDLE CLASSES OF THE UN-
KINGDOM.—ADDRESS, No, I.
Gentlemen,—Many years have elapsed since BritAin
witnessed a scene similar to that which took place at Leeds:
on the 21st ult. A scene that has strengthened in us the
hope long cherished, that this year will not be charac-
terised, like the past, by the flagrant neglect of that duty
so important to both the employer and the employed, of
meeting together, and consulting each other on subjects of
mutual interest.
A deep chasm, produced by mutual pride, prejudice, and
ignorance has long separated the two classes. We hope
the day leas at length dawned that shall see that breach
filled up by mutual necessity, forbearance, and intelligence,
so as to form a common ground whereon to stand in united
opposition against the common foe.
In the public interview at Leeds, the unanimous declara-
tion of the Chartist Delegates was, " That the People's
Charter was the only fulcrum on which the powerful lever
of the masses eculd rest."
You will ask what has given rise to the deep-seated and
almost universal desire of the millions to establish the prin-
ciples of the Charter. It is not because they are opposed
to any number of individuals as such—it is eot because
they desire to take away power from one section of they
community, and confer it upon another; it is because the►
full perception of the evils necessarily connected with that
demon monster, irresponsible power (by whomsoever pos-
sessed), has penetrated into the depths and dens of po-
verty, and, enforced in a tenfold degree by their increas-
ing necessities, has found a home in every heart, and an
echo upon every action of the unenfcanchised many. Its
wars, taxations, tyrannies, persecutions, and open enmity
to the best interests of manufacturer and operative, have
made them miserable, whether it appeared under the name
of Toryism or Whiggery. No wonder, therefore, that in
the People's Charter they hail principles, which, by con-
ferring power on all who aro justly entitled to it, shall so-
control the Legislator as to make him the virtual repre-
sentative of the will and interests of all.
From their thorough conviction of the necessity of a
change in the Government (without reference to indivi-
duals), they refused you their assistance in the Anti. Corn-
law agitation ; they felt persuaded that, although by a
momentary pressure the lion was forced to give up its
prey, they had no security, that as soon as the pressure was
removed ho would not stretch out his unhallowed paw,
and take it in again, being still possessed of the power.
In addition to this, they felt that, ie their unjust exclu-
sion from the franchise, they were slaves. Their desire
was not to obtain that which would have only made
them well-fed slaves. They desired liberty for her owra
sake. The degrading thought was constantly before them,
that they were deprived of a right which a few bricks and
mortar conferred upon others, no more industrious, vir-
tuous, or intelligent than themselves. And however much
many may doubt it, there is a deep-seated desire among
the millions to obtain by the development of their minds
that intellectual and moral importance which alone en-
nobles man, and without which he is but a worm, frowever
gilded and however rich. Gentlemen, these are the rea-
sons that have given rise to that deep determinatien.of
the masses never to agitate for any measure short of
justice to all. We rejoice that the same effects that
nave been produced in our minds are now displaying
themselves in yours. We have long deplored the ex-
istence among you of a peculiar spirit of caste that has:
hitherto prevented you from holding intercourse with.
those whom you supposed birth, rank, or riches, had.
pieced below you. It has prevented you from examining
our principles. We fear you have too often cherished
groundless prejudices ; believing a press that has always
pandered to these prejudice,, as a means of securing suc-
cess, and confounding the fortuitous and rash conduct of
"a few men with the mighty and sacred principles they
professed to atvocate. Actuated by these feelings, and
swayed by these errors, you have neglected your true in-
terests till, although there is still abundant field for com-
mercial enterprise, some of the richest advantages have
been lost never to be regained. We rejoiced that in your
desire to extend to others their rights you proclaim you
are wiser to-day than you were yesterday ; too long
have we all been ignorant of that truth, that to be happy-
' and prosperous we must be just. That to feel all the hor-
rors of banki uptcy and misery we require only to be serAsh
and exclusive.
How little real power does the present franchise confer
upon you ? Witness the reception of your Anti-Corn-
law Bill by your nominal representatives. In truth there
is no representation ; your power only enables you to no-
minate, once in seven years, an individual who then be-
comes independent of your opinions, and too often careless
of our interests.
It there be one feeling of contempt in your minds for
any man, it is for him who, possessing the franchise, looks
down with supercilious pride on those who have it not ;
his power is but a name, his pride is that of a maniac, who
points to his straw coronet and wooden sceptre, and thinks
himself a king, though chained and miserable.
Every day and every hour the commercial prospects be-
come more gloomy ;* universal bankruptcy is inevitable,
unless exclusive prejudices are speedily thrown away.
There is no hope but in a union of the oppressed classes
to secure for themselves virtual instead of nominal repro-
eentation.

We remain your unenfranchised fellow-subjects,
JOHN COLLINS.
ARTHUR O'NEILL.
" The news of the New York panic, come to hand since
the above was written, fearfully verifies it.

STATE OF THE RlVER.—Since the memor-
able frost of 1814, when a fair was held on the Thames,
the river has not keen in so bad a state, or covered with so
much ice, as it was on Monday afternoon. The increase
of the ice has been most extraordinary during the last four
days. On Sunday, just before high water, the tiers of
colliers near Bell Wharf-stairs yielded to the pressure of
the ice, and were driven from their moorings. The ships
were forced against each other in all directions, and spars and
bowsprits u ere breaking, while occasionally bulwarks were
stove in. Some of the vessels were driven over towards the
south shore, and many were carried by the ice a mile or a
mile and-a-half up the river befere they were secured.
The Lady Saumarez steam-ship, chartered by the Commer-
cial Company to proceed to Boulogne, left Fresh Wharf,
with about sixty passengers, on Sunday, at ten o'clock,
and proceeded as far as Globe-stairs, Rotherhithe,
where her further progress was stopped by the ice,
which formed a complete barrier across the stream. The
steamer, after making several ineffectual attempts to
cut through the ice, was compelled to put back and re-
land her passengers at the Custom-house, and after-
wards cast anchor off St. Katharine's, where she still
remains. On Monday the navigation was almost entirely
suspended, and we believe the Dundee steam-ship, from
Dundee, was the only arrival during the day, with the
exception of a few coal-harps, each navigated by three
or four lightermen. The navigation above Blackwell
was suspended. The Gravesend and Woolwich steamers
have ceased running, except two vessels from Blackwell,
and very little business was doing either in the docks or
in the wharves alongshore. On Monday the Thames Po-
lice received information that the body of a man bad
been seen floating amidst the ice in Blackwell reach, and
could not be got out. It was said that a lighterrien an-
swering the same description had been seen alit? on
Sunday morning near Woolwich on the ice, that he was
calling loudly for help, and that no one could reach him,
or succeed in throwing a line to him. It is feared he af-
terwards perished of cold.
About a fortnight ago, a man while engaged in
breaking up an old covered drain, in the neighbourhood of
Aberdeen, came upon a litter of three your,.. foxes, appa-
rently about ten days old ; he was about to 'kill the " var-
t
mint," when his son, a boy of twelve years of age, suggested
that they would be a good prize for " grumphy," an old
sow that had brought forth a few days before: Grumphy
strutting forward with a grunt, picked them up one by one,
and carried there to her inner chamber. The fate of the
young reynards seemed so inevitable, that no one thought
it necessary to superintend their destruction : the surprise
of the honest ditcher's wife, however, may be judged of,
when on looking in on the second following day, the young
foxes were all found snugly ensconced among the young
pigs—there they still remain and are thriving. What is
strange connected with this same pig is, that a couple of
years ago, she formed an intimacy with a goose ;.
hh the two
were inseparable, the pig lying on her side allniagndt
hda. •
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the goose between the fore legs, and the neck
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in a mysterious manner about a
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mas.day. It turned out, how
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had not travelled far from home,.
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insight into its
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easilywhich
identified,t he foxesfa
fate. Thus
were,
the truth of this story, but as the
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Italians say,
deen Herald.
had his attention called to a dreadful noise
EAloAnieNlCloAnildaLyg mOoniCnig,Rtith:
from a stable belonging to a carter named
ds. Being unable to effect an entrance to
the matter, he hastened to Newlands' house
aajlSo'etot::coheletnwochectieelkNadLtfieonewwgoi ittaahsn, of Lochend-road, and brought him to the
place; when, on entering, what was their amazement
and horror to find a herd of six swine, belonging to
an old man, the aejoinieg
tenant, busily engaged in
devouring Newlands' horse I The pigsty was se-
parated from the stable by a wooden partition ;
but impelled, it is said, by hunger, they actually
tore down the partition, and seized upon the poor
horse, which being tied to its manger, could make little
resistance. So desperately ravenous were the brutes, that
it was only after additional assistance had been obtained,
and the mutilated animal dragged out of the stable, that
they were overpowered and driven from their prey. The
horse was by this time in such a state of agony that
to the painful occurrence
him immediately. What adds
hu-
manity prompted Newlands to procure a gun and shoot
is, that Newland's sole dependence for the support of him-
self, a wile, and five children,
by death on the previous
that he had lost one of his children
was his horse and cart; and
day. —Scotsman.
VICTORIA THEATRE.---COUllt D'Orsay, Lord
Chesterfield, Woodhouse Adam', Esq , Sir E. Scott,
Esq., honoured the victoria Theatre on
Bart., Colonel Foster, W. Goodson, K. N., and J. W.
fluddlestone,
Monday with their presence to witness the first performance
in England ofthe Incredibles of Paris.
The total eclipse of the moon on Saturday.morn-
ing was not visible here, from the cloudy state of the.atmo-
, ,pbere.—Edinburgh Courant.,.