The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

THE STN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1841.

MR. HANDEL GEAR'S BENEFIT.—On
Thursday a concert was given at the Hanover-square
looms, for the benefit of Mr. Gear. It commenced with
a quartetto, in which Miss Bruce Wyatt, Mr. H. Gear,
Mr. Stretton, and Signor F. Lablache sang the delight-
ful air by Donisetti, " Chi mi frena" (Lucia di); after
which a fantasia on the pianoforte, by Mdlle. Borchardt,
a child of ten years of age, with whose performance the
company were astonished and delighted. Mr. John
Parry sang " Fanny Grey" and " County Commissions,"
during which he kept the risible faculties of his audience
quite in activity. Being loudly encored in both, he very
kindly added his " Italian Master and Scholar," and
"Wanted a Wife." Among the English compositions,
a ballad sang by Miss Adeline Cooper, the " Alpine
Shepherdess," composed expressly for her by Jaguerod,
attracted particular attention ; there wits a softness and
sweetness of delivery which called forth repeated plau-
dits. In expressing our delight, we may mention that
it was in perfect unison with that of a delighted audience,
by whom she was loudly and enraptuously encored. Mr.
Clinton performed a fantasia brillante on the flute,
Mr. Wolf an aria on the violin, and Mdlle. Launitz on
the pianoforte.
MA RYLEBUNE ELECTION.—In Paddington all
is bustle .`tad activity. The canvass exhibits the immense
interest th o people take in the approaching struggle.
Sir B. Hall ius.lled in that district, when returned four
years since, s'i2i3 votes; Mr. Eu art 280 ; the number of
voters registere,i being 995. The prPsent register con-
tains 1,191 voters',. of which number Sir B. Hall has po-
sitive promises up to last evening of 539 ; Sir Charles
Napier, 533; plumpors for Hall 8, for Napier 2. The dis-
qualifications by death, removal, &c., amount to 200. The
excellent arrangements made in that district will ensure
a majority over the Tory' crew of
ddi upwards of 300. In-
so
deed, Mr. Cabbell's speech at Pangton:green has
entirely disgusted all good inen, that this hitherto Tory
district will boldly, fearlessly, and heartily perform its
duty.
We have received from Loughborough the par-
ticulars of a case of extreme severity, by the Bench of
Magistrates sitting there, upon a poor man, for the
alleged offence of stealing two-penny worth of cabbage.
Though the man bore an exemplary character, he was
conveyed to prison for three months, during which time
the county will have' to support him, and the parish his
Wife and numerous iamily.—Plyntoubi Journal.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.— Thursday, about
three o'clock in the afters won, during the heavy shower, a gen-
tleman ran across Abehm.ch-lane, to take refuge under the
porch of the White Hart tavern, when he slipped over the
iloorcloth. On being pickei up, it was found that his right
leg NN as broken just above the ancle. Be was taken to Guy's
Bospital, where he gave his name, Mr. Samuel Ellis of Bel-
mont-terrace, Vandsworth-road.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A LADY.—A
Coroner's inquest was held on Thursday morning, at the Bedford
Arms, Tottenhr.nm-court-road, before Mr. Wakley, on the
body of Mrs. Atm Newham, aged 63 years. Mrs. Margaret
31`Queen, of 225,. Tottenham-court-road, stated that she had
known the deceased for the last fourteen years. She was a
widow of independent property, and had resided with wit-
ness about sixteen months. The deceased had been suffering
from an attack of nervous fever and depreFsion of spirits for
the last fort night, and had been attended daily by a medical
man. "Witness salx her last alive about eight o'clock on
Monday evening. She then appeared to be in as good health
and spirits at; she had been for some time previously, and told
witness she was going' up stairs. Mr. Joseph Elwell, of 225,
Tottenhont-court-r0.14, grocer, stated that he went in search
of the decteasied about ha:f-past eight o'clock on Monday night.
After havi gig gone all over the house, he went into the dust-
hole, where- be found the deceased in a standing position, with
her head and arms immersed in a small cask of water. Wit-
ness imrnedi; itch, carried the deceased, who appeared to bo
quite dead, ii.,l,o'her be droom, and sent for a surgeon, and he
endeavoured i, a vain for more than two hours to restore anima-
tion. Verdict ;,' Tempo/ ary insanity.
STRATII :BOGIE PRESBYTERY.--NEW PRO-
CEssEs.—Th minority of um Presbytery of Strath-
bogie have rf used an am-ion of reduction of the decrees
of interdict c btain,,td by the majority—lst, against the
sentence of s uspens.ion pronounced by the Commission
of A.,:sembly o:: the 11th of December, 1839 ; d 2d,
against the fief itence continuing said suspension pro-
round dby the General Assembly in May, 1840.. The
majority of th 3 Presbytery have also raised a reduction
of the clopositi on prorounecd against them by the last
General Asset ihly, in addition to the process of suspen-
sion and inter dict already raised and served upon the
Assembly. A n account of the interview between Sir
Robert Peel stir id the deputation of the Church of Sect-
land having be en in circulation, to the effect that Sir
Robert Peel was undecided in the expression of
his hostility, /o the views of the majority of the
Church, we im been requested to insert the following
extract from a second letter, received by W. Liddell,
E from _ kiex. Vunlop, Esq. :—" Sir Robert's de-
claration was , filr too decided to admit of its being ex-
plained awn y. was most resolute and determined ;
and so far f :0131 not seeing his way at present to carry-
ing the vies is of • the majority of the Church into effect,'
he saw his way perfectly clear—but it was to extinguish
these Niel, ts, and crush :he majority by the force of a
Legislati re enafA meat. Ant? then, when Dr, Keith and
thepure p. mend out the :ruin he would bring on
the Chure an Mt, ministers, who wo"ild be driven from
their livi-igs,'l% -r-e, flied, slightingly, that it was nem'
SA' a :yvetrotisieerg.isia.
view to eon* ongeneral principles, and le with a
ce
possible contingencies.' "--Greenock
J' xtural 4

LETTER, FROM EARL RADNOR

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WILTSHIRE INDEPENDE:ZT.
Grosvenor-street, June 20, 1841.
Sin,—l wish to address, through you, to my neigh-
bours and friends, and others connected with agriculture,
a few words on the present outcry about what is called
Protection to agriculture, and the expediency of up-
holding the prdsent Corn-laws for the purpose of giving
that protection. I would then inquire,
1. Whether protection is afforded by the present law,
and—

2. Whether any protection at all is necessary ?
With respect to the 'first inquiry—lf by protection
is meant exclusion of wheat of foreign growth, it is
clear that that sort of protection is not afforded by the
present law. By Parliamentary Paper (house of
Lords, 1841, No. 161) it appears that in the last ten
years there have been entered for home consumption
a far greater qUantity of wheat than in any former
period of the same length. The annual average for ten
years ending 1820, being 429,076 'quarters ; for ten
years ending 1830, 534,762 quarters ; and for the last
ten years, 908,118 quarters. indeed, in this respect the
protection afforded by the present law is less than that
afforded by the Act of 1815, for by Parliementary
paper (House of Lords, 1841, No. 151) it appears that
the annual average: quantity of wheat entered for home
consumption from 1815 to 1828 (both inclusive), was
389,442 quarters, whereas the annual average of the
twelve years from 1829 to 1840 (both inclusive), during
which the present law has been in operation, has been
1,025,250 quarters.
If by protection is meant high price, in this respect
also the present Act is less efficacious than that of 1815,
inasmuch as the average price for the whole of the first
period was 645. id., and for the latter, 58s. 4d.
Does any one then propose to revive the Act of 1815?
I trow not ; for the suffering it occasioned to all classes
of the community was so great, that the necessity of its
alteration was admitted by all parties.
Now, as to the second inquiry—whether any protec
tion at all is necessary ? or in other words, has agricul-
ture, when it has not been protected, languished or fallen
into decay ?
Up to 1815 it was in that predicament. In 1793 in-
deed, and again in 1804, Acts were passed to give it pro-
tection ; but during the whole period from 1793 up to
1815, during which these Acts were in force, wheat kept
above the prices at which they would take effect ; so
that they never came into operation. Did agriculture
languish or fall into decay from 1793 to 1815 ? I be-
lieve there never was a period in which landlords' rents
rose and tenants' profits increased more, or so much, as
during that period ; and I repeat, that during the whole
of that time agriculture had no protection whatever. But
it may be said, that the greater part of this time was time
of war. True ; and it is also true that at the same time
a debt of many hundred millions was contracted, and
most heavy taxes were imposed. Will, it be contended
that war and taxation (the income tax and the increased
malt tax for instance) are advantageous to agriculture ;
and that war produces plenty and prosperity ?
Again, since 1815, agriculture has had protection.
Has it flourished since that period ? Have rents risen ?
Have farmers made great profiits and realised large for-
tunes, as heretofore ? Directly the reverse. In some
cases, indeed, where they have been affected by the vi-
cinity- of mineral or manufacturing districts or towns,
rents may have risen, but in purely agricultural dis-
tricts, in which alone I am personally interested, ac-
cording to my experience, they have fallen. The result
of a reference to books, which exhibit the amount of
rents—received on account of eight farms in different
parts of the country, vow in my possession, at or about
the years 1780, 1815, and 1538, is, that at the first period
they yielded 1,7661., at the second, 3,7771., and at the
third, 2,8911. ; being increased without protection in the
first period nearly 150 per cent., and having fallen with
protection, in the second, more than 34 per cent. I happen
also to have been able to ascertain the rent of an estate
belonging to a charity. This estate, in 1639, was let, at
rack rent, at 301. ;in 1769, at 63/. ;is ISI3, at 1801. It
is now let at 1201., the present tenant having been in-
duced to give that rent by the permission to break up
from 20 to 30 acres of pasture land. During this period
of protection, too, have we not often heard of agricultural
distress—of farmers ruined—of rents paid out of capital,
and of abatements claimed ?
But it will perhaps be said, that the• thange of the
currency, the withdrawing of the 1/. notes of the coun-
try, and cash payments, have caused this. If so, all
property would have been affected alike, houses as well
as agricultural lands. Has this been the case ? I have
some property in London, about the centre of the town,
not liable to be affected by fashion, or any other acci-
dental or local circumstance, and I find that this pro-
perty has increased in value in an uniform progression
from '1790 to the present day. Taking the amount of the
rents in 1790 at 1,000 I find them to have been in •
1795 as 1083 I 1815 al 1458 I 1935 as 2125
1800 ... 1125 1820 ... 1541 I 1840 ... 2208
1905 ... 1208 I
1825 1791
1810 ... 1333 1830 ... 1875
Houses have had no protection; land has; the rent of
land has fallen; that of houses has risen. Where is the
good of protection ?
Again, I am informed that the value of land ascertained
in another way, had fallen since 1815. Eminent sur-
veyors have told me that whereas before 1815, land
would sell in the market at thirty years' purchase, since
that period it has not generally fetched more than twenty-
eight years, except, indeed, good pasture land (1. c. land
not specially protected by the Corn -law.)
And if it be said, that bad as the case of agriculture
has been, this has net been owing to protection, and
would have been worse without it, to this I answer,
first—that at all events protection has been contempo-
raneous with distress, and has not prevented it, or
effected its purpose ; and secondly—that the trade of
agriculture, or manufacture of bread, cannot be supposed
not to be subject to the same law as any other trade,
that it is demonstrable in theory, and proved by uni-
versal experience, that all protection of trade acts as
restriction ; and that trade only flourishes, or to say
the least, most flourishes, when left to its own resources,
unfettered and unprotected.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
RADNOR.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—A commission
of lunacy was opened on Wednesday at Gray's Inn Coffee-
house, touching the sanity of William Pinckes, Esq., an elderly
gentleman, possessed of large landed property, and described as
of Breachwood-green, Hertfordshire, and at present residing at
No. 24, Great Warner-street. The Commis ioners were
Messrs. Phillimore, Winslowe, and Blunt. The subject-
of the inquiry, who was described to be extremely in-
firm and suffering under a defect of the eyes, nearly
amounting to blindness, appears to heve no relatives.
Having amassed considerable wealth in early life, he laid
it out in the purchase of land, but from the circumstance
of his being a foundling, the estates of which he is possessed
revert to the Crown should the writ be sustained. It is re-
sisted by a person named Arnold, who has for some years had
the management of Mr. Pinckes's money matters, and who
now, by virtue of a will, stands in the character of sole
executor. The investigation was reaumedoa Thursday, but there
being a great number of witnesses to be called, the inquiry was
again adjourned.
A CORRUPT VOTER.—A gentleman in pub-
lic company. commencing a song, was entreated by a
friend to desist. You will never, said the latter, gain
anything by your voice. You are wrong, replied the
former, my voice as a voter, at the late election, gained
me a round sum of money.
THE MARKET-GARDENERS AND THE NEW
POLICE.—For several weeks past a great degree of ill-feeling
has existed between the police of the F division and the
green-grocers and fruiterers and market-gardeners attend-
ing Covent Garden-market, arising from the arbitrary conduct
of the police, and which will furnish matter for the gentle-
men of the ong robe, in the course of the present sittings
after term. It appears that about two weeks ago some
gentlemen made a complaint against the police of their not
being able to pass through Covent Garden-market in conse•
quence of the obstructions created by the carts of the retailers of
vegetables and other produce brought to market; the result was
orders were issued to remove all the vehicles, and so strictly
was this order enforced, that carts, whilst at a distance from
the footpath, were seized and taken to the Green-yard, as well
as the goods in them, and the proprietors conveyed before a
Magistrate, and, in general, fined Os., besides having to pay
some 7s. or 83. for fees at the Green-yard. In conseqnence of
this state of affairs, a meeting of the gardeners was held, and
the opinion of Sir W. Follett having been taken and been de-
clared to be favourable to them, actions are about to be com-
menced against the alleged offending parties.
TIIE'PRESENT ELECTIONS.-111 running one's
eye along the list of candidates at the present elections,
one cannot fail being struck with the important fact that
amen,g the Liberal candidates are to be found nearly all
the historical names consecrated in English history, such
as the Russells, Howards, Cavendishes, and, with one ex-
ception, the Stanleys.
RAILWAYS.—The following are the amounts
of the receipts of the principal railways in operation for the
last week, up to the date to which the respective returns are
made :—London and Blackwall,9sol. ; Hull and Selby, 750/. ;
North Midland, 4,380/. ; Midland Counties, 2,844/. ;
ham and Gloucester, 1,639/. ; Birmingham and Derby, 1,188/. ;
London and South-Western, 6,8951.; Great. Western, 12,400/. ;
London and Greenwich, 935/. ; Northcrn and Eastern. 769/ ;
London and Birmingham, 19,555/. ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 210/. ; Eastern Counties, 8671. ; Great North of Eng-
land, 1,3531- ' • and Croydon, 6881.
PARIS TRADESMEN.—In Paris the tradesman
assumes the right of dictating to the taste of his cus-
tomers ;in London he only administers to it. Enter a
Parisian shop, and ask to be shown velvet, silk, or riband,
to assort with a pattern you have brought of some pard-
cular colour or quality, and the mercer, having glanced
at it somewhat contemptuously, places before you six or
eight pieces of a different tint and texture. You tell him
that they are not similar to the pattern, and he answers,
" That may be ; nevertheless, my goods are of the
newest fashion, and infinitely superior to your model."
You say, " You prefer the colour of your pattern, and
must match it." He produces half-a-dozen pieces still
more unlike what you require ; and to your renewed as-
sertion that no colour but the one similar to your pat-
tern will suit you, he assures you that his goods are su-
perior to all others, and that what you require is out of
fashion, and a very bad article, and, consequently, that
you had much better abandon your taste and adopt his.—
Lady Blessington's Idler in Fran .e.
'A r.mAcK s.—The first ball of the last subscrip-
tion, on Wednesday night, was, notwithstanding the many de-
partures from the metropolis since Monday, the most brilliant
reunion of the season. It being generally understood their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess cf Cambridge would
honour the ball by their presence, the vouchers granted by the ►
Ladies Patronesses did not exceed 500, and consequently the
company included the elite of the haute noblesse remaining in
town. The Ladies Patronesses, the Countess of Jersey, Coun-
alnldi gal ititi
attended
insdeesd theb y
Coun-
tess of Brownlow, Countess of Lichfiealede,o:nripscaonuiendtesbsyPail,rminecr-e
stop, and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby! were amo: g the early
ua et. nAe aburgoi
Augusta
sgteaCambridge,
Somerset,
and Captain
arrivals ; and at half-past eleven, their Roy al
DGuekoregeanadndDpurcihnecsesssoAf
Jones arrived, and were received by the Ladies Patronesses in
the supper-room, and conducted by them to tl e digs at the end
Baron Krieseheck, LadyuCg
of the ballroom, the band, on the entree of the Royal party,
playing the national anthem. Shortly before twelve dancing
commenced, and was kept Tiet intermission until nearly
five yesterday morning. r Royal Highnesses and attea.
dant.s did not retire until nearly two o'clock,

TO REFORMERS OF ALL CLASSES,
ANI) TO CHARTIbTS INP.A.IITICULAR.
Fellow Countrymen,—The present dissolution will mike us
ask, are we to go back to Toryistn, and are. we to keep on. with
the Whigs, or are we to make progress with political Reform ?
It will be necessary to take a short review of the different
parties as they at present are, and to see how far they act up
to the best pritimples of society.
First—NV hat are the principles cf the Tories, arid what will
they do ? A genuine Tory (or no Reformer) looks on all things
which have existed for ages with the greatest veneraion ;
they appear to him that having existed long, they are rooted,
as it were, and ought not to be torn up or eradicated. His
mind is so prepossessed with this idea, that his feelings in that
respect lead his reason triumphant ; and all that he may ar-
gue will be in favour of the feeling which at all times will be
uppermost in his mind. It matte( s not if they be bid; in the
majority of instances he will be in their favour if they have
antiquity on their side. -Now, him is it possible- for such a
man to judge correctly of things when his .reason will be se
clouded by his feelings as to take a seeenstplace only in his
judgment ? He cannot, however wiling be itay be to (lo so,
act according to his reason, because bit veneration acts so as it
will riot let him.
The Whig (or half Reformer) has in him a great deal of the
Tory character, but he has not so strong au antipathy to
change as the Tory has ; he will Reform a little, lee will go
somewhat towards improsing things without feeling tie force
of areiquity to strong upon him. He can see that changes are
necessary, and where his prejudices are not too strong against
them, he will be their supporter, but in many cases where
those changes are necessary, the spice of Toryism that is in
him preven:s his bringing them forward or supporting them.
He acts in such eases through fear of ping too far.
The Radical (er thorough-bred Reformer) does not allow
those prejudices to cloud his reason ; he sees things as they
are, he observes the elects they produce, and acts accord-
ingly. He does not pin his faith to this or that mile of conduct,
never to swerve from it, for he well knows from experience
that whatever any man may lay down as a rule, is liable to
error, and that it is only when we arrive at the actual natural
laws by which things are bound together, that we can come to
anything like correctness in our judgments.
Nuw, I will put. it to you. Which of these three is most
fitted to represent you ? The Tory who cannot reform ; the
Whig, who will reform a little; or the Radical who is both able
and willing to reform every political wrong that may exist?
Reformers, wherever you can get a Radical, vote for him ;
he may be rough or unpolished, but recollect he is honest, he
will work for you, you will not find in him that gloss of cha-
racter which but too often passes current for real merit.
If you cannot get a Radical, but you can get a Whig, do not
let such a chance as that be thrown away, for though he will
but refarra a little, yet recollect that lit le is le ter than none.
But Reformers do not support the Tory, do not split your
votes so as to let him have only one ; every vote you so give is
one against yourselves. You are stop ping the current of re-
,
formation ; you are preventing the energies of your country
from being put into proper execution. - Politi a'ly do not. as-
sist him in any way. He may he a very got d private charac-
ter ; he may be an excellent ni ighbour ; be ras.y have all the
other excellencies of character, but' bear in mind, and it is
your duty to do so, he is no Reformer. In that respect he
cannot serve you, for his feelings will not let hint.
You have the Tory party against you, and their porier and
influence is great, and it will require great exertions on your
part to oppose them successfully; but if you are sincere, op-
pose them you must. You want among you men of talent and
energy, men who can see things clearly, and who have intel-
lect enough to observe and carry out the natural laws of things
as they find them. You do not want the stormy orator who
can do nothing but speak ; you want those who can enter into
;slain simple dt tails of thing=:, and can observe their proper
bearings, and who can see clearly into and expose the errors of
a wilful and refine 1 sophistry.
The Property Qualification is one if the greatest preventit es
to a email:4e Reformation. But such as it is, till the law •is
altered we must abide by it and get over it in the best way
we can.
It prevents men coming forward as candidates, who perhaps
have every mental qualification for such an office, simply be-
cause they have not 3001. or 5001. per annum of their own
property. Now, there is one way by which this state of things
may in some measure be put an end to. What should hinder
the 'Reformers in this country (as wed as those of Ireland) from
raising a fund for the payment of men so mentally endowed to
advocate their interests?
The qualification required for cities, town, and boroughs is
that a candidate must be possessed of property, of some kind or
other, of the yearly value of 3001. Now the population of
England, Wales, and Scotland is almost three times that of
Ireland, and perhaps six times as rich. Now suppose, (a.:(1
you will say 1 am drawing it rather strong) the Tory party
amounts to one-third of the population, there will then be two-
thirds of Reformers left, of all grades. They will be equal in
money value to four times the money value of the populations
of Ireland, Tories ineluded. Ireland has subscribed 13,000/.
per year for the support of one Men.ber cif Parliament. England,
WaLs, and Scotland could raise. by the same means 52,000/.
per year, which divided by 3001., the qualification for one
Member, would be capable of qualifying 173 perioss as candi-
dates, and as they would nece.sarity be persons of sufficient
ability, how much may be done by these means if you v, id but
set about it.
Reformers of Great Britain ! Up and be doing. Do not
call out " Reform ! Reform !" and while there ale such means
of acting as these prevent its being put in operation by your su-
pineness. Carry out this work. Make common cause against
the common political enemy, and success will and must be
yours. I remain, yours, respectfully,
JAMES P. GRELLET.
36, Seabright-street, Bethnal-green.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—The following
horrible suicide is related by the Cherbourg Journal:—
" A brigadier of the sth Dragoons, named Fabre, who
was in confinement at Saint-Lo for drunkenness, being
told by Lis commandant. that he should be handed over
to the gendarmerie, exclaimed frequently that a soldier
who, like him, had served thirty years, would not disgrace
his comrades by allowing a gendarme to lay hands on
him. As there was reason to believe that he contem-
plated suicide every instrument of danger was removed ;
but at the expiration of three days' confinement, he con-
trived to procure an old blade of a knife and an old pair
of scissors; with these he inflicted fifteen wounds in the
abdomen, and. finding that death did not arrive, he tore
i
out a portion of his ntestlnes, and cutting them into
pieces with the scissors, threw them at his feet. In this
state he was discovered still living, bat he died two tours
afterwards, perfectly sensible, and declaring that he
had resorted to suicide to spare his regiment from the
disgrace of one or their comrades being arrested by the
gendarmerie.
MARCH OF ItaTnEto,i,
ntE c T.—At a farm-house
N
in the ham of Teigb
blank form which was left for the uigranctranil oprall'ivshb, the
o
s N
taking the census, was thus filled up
Popman, aged 93; profession &c., sets by the fire; Ant e
Popman, 85, makes fire." "liy son Will hath filled up
your paper,". said the old farmer, " right, he told me ;
but I don't know anything about it. I can mind what
happened seventy or eighty years ago better than
what was done last year. I know very well, continued
he, " when the new style took piece ; I was then in my
eleventh year, and what a fine holiday there was on the
first new Christmas-day."—Western Luminary.
On Tuesday last a meeting of the Commis-
sioners of Supply and Justices of the Peace for Aber-
deenshire, was held in the Court=house, Aberdeen, for
the purpose of expressing their sympathy with the eight
ministers of Strathbogie, under their pretended deposi-
tion, and their disapproval of the conduct of the majority
of the General Assembly. Mr, Grant, of Tillyfour, the
Convener of the County, was called to the chaa'. Sir J.
Forbes, of Craigievar, proposed a series of resolutions
expressing regret at the severity with which eight re-
spectable clergymen have been treated, merely because
they bowed to the authority of the law of their country ;
as well as their warmest sympathy with the individuals
who have been made the victims of a protracted oppres-,
sion so entirely unmerited. Col. Fraser seconded the re-
solutions. Mr. Thomson, of Banchory, said that he
would not propose any direct amendment on the resolu-
tions, but would simply move that the meeting do now
adjourn, which was seconded by Sir W. Seton. On a
division, Sir JeForbes's resolutions were carried by a ma-
jority of 101 to 8.
ASSERTED LIBERALITY OF THE CHARTISTS.
—The Chartists call themselves Ultra-Liberals ; indeed
the liberty they allow themselves knows no bounds.
They are a mere fraction of the people—say they may
number ten or even twenty out of a body of six hundred
and twenty electors; yet this ten or twenty consider they
ought to be allowed -to send Representatives to Parlia- '
ment of their choosing, though they did not represent
the opinions of the other 600 electors ;.it is not even suf-
ficient that the candidates should vote for four out of the
five particular points in their politicial law, if he will not
vote for the fifth ; also, they vote for the man that votes
against their whole system. Was it not for the injury
to others it would but be an act of justics to them to
return all Tories, regular " Six Acts" men, to teach
them reason ; they richly deserve an )tier Castlele.igh.
SACRILEGE.---The Church of St. -Cloud was
broken into a - few nights since, and many of the sacred
vessels were carried (A The poor-box was also forced
open, and the money in it taken away. No clue has
yet been obtained to the discovery of the depredators.
A LADY MURDERED BY A Muß.—ln last
Saturday's obituary was inserted the death of the wife
of Mr. William Kirkpatrick, of the Sadder I)ewanny.
This lady came by her death through the daring conduct
of a mob, and unedveerthgeshe v, as goingmostatili n .a buggy whichcircumstances.ctinig
On last Monday evening
was driven by a young gentleman ; passing the circular
road, not far from the burial-ground, they encountered
a large mob of apparently up-country bearers, by whom
that part of the road was nearly all obstructed. The
gentleman and the syco called out as loudly as possible
for the mob to clear a passage, but to no avail ; and
before anything could be done the shaft of the buggy
went against one of the crowd,' but without producing
any injury whatever. This, however, so infuriated the
miscreants that they attempted to stop the buggy, failing
to do which, they ran along in pursuit, hurling volleys
of -tremendous brick-bats at it. The buggy drove on,
but Mrs. Kirkpatrick, unfortunately, looking back at the
mob, was struck by a large brick-bat on her forehead.
The shock was so violent as to cause a fracture of the
skull. She lingered on in consequence in a state of in-
sensibility, and on Thursday expired. As it was a
matter of impossibillity to find the least trace of her
murderers, no stir has been made by her friends ; but
the case is here stated to afford a fearful and a fatal ex-
ample of the want of a proper and efficient police.—
Bengal Hurktru,
A LAWYER AWAKE.—Mr. George Stone, 'of
Taunton, solicitor, retired to rest a few nights ago, but
could not sleep through indisposition. He therefore oc-
cupied himself in reading a newspaper until two in the
morning, when he extinguished his light, and soon after
heard a cough in his room. This alarmed him, and he
continued to lie awake for some time. At length, how-
ever, he fell asleep, but was roused in about ten minutes
after by hearing the newspaper rustle. He sprang up,
and pn-ceived a man creeping from under the bed, who
eluded his grasp, and succeeded in getting clear off. It
would seem that the follow had secreted himself for some
villanous purpose, and when lie found the day breaking
thought it necessary to make a bold attempt to escape.
CORN-LAWS .—A red-hot monopolist, and a
Corn-law man, a large landed proprietor, was complaining
to
atsheneaxvet.rageHeofrewpbliaetdyboeu
vilree,t")aost ai
adinietntue:lielmyther, " let me know what
that a fixed duty would ruin the country. A party asked him
u
lifadh.e h,a,clWanellestthaetne
rent you have bad since 1815, and I will take it on lease for the
next 26 years, and
Lave received for the last 26 years, and also good security
h offer was refused.

ADDRESS OF THE POLITICAL
INSTITUTE TO THE ELECTORS OF GREAT
BRITAIN. .
Members of an Association, founded to aid the great move-
ment of the age towards a wide extension *of t opular freedom
and happiness, we think it our duty to atldress you at this
most important. crisis. The tools of no- faction, and biassed
by no personal interests or class 'associations against tl.e rights
of any division c f our countrymen, our suggestions will be
honest and independent ; it will be for your calm reason to de-
cide if they are just End prudent.
The first suggestion we submit to you is, that the present
struggle is one between the Aristocracy and the Democracy.
It is a struggle between them, not about the possession of
power, it is true, but about what is nearly as important, the
possession of the outworks and best strongholds of power—the
monopolies. The landed aristocrats levy on us, through laws
of their own making, an annual tribute of many millions, more
even than we are obliged to pay in taxes to the State. The
Colonial Aristocracy levy also another tribute on us, less in
amount, but equally unjust. and equally marking their feudal
superiority. The struggle is, shall these fiscal exactions, the
causes of um- wretchedness as the badges of our servitude, be
perpetuated or not ? The monopolists say they shall, and are
in arms to maintain them at all hazards. Every man who
hates the people, and would crush their liberties, supports
them. Every interest which can only IT maintained by injus-
tice and popular debasement, is with them. There is no
bigot, no unprincipled oppressor in any corner of Europe,
who does not wish them success. There is ao disguise then,
there can be no disguise; about the nature of the strugele.
It is between us and the extorting faction that r ale us, between
the people and those that prey on the peop'e. As we are fa-
vourable to the privileged and their monopolies, so mast we be
opposed to our own order and fair legislation. There are but
two sides, and the case admits of no setwardly neutrality—we
must join as freemen the ranks of the plundered Democracy,
or march as slaves in those of the plundering Aristocracy: The
monopolizers will unite to a man to enforce their reign of im-
poverishment and tyranny. Is these, then, one of the Demo-
cracy base enough to lend them his aid ? If, there be, he is
alike a traitor to his own order and to humanity. •
Misguided or unprincipled men have told you that. the Mi-
nisterial propositions are not worth your support. P,el;eve it
not. They extend not as far as we wish, or as far as they ulti-
mately must; but they are additions cf great value to a class
by whom the smallestimprovement is sensitively felt—the poor.
Sugar from Brazils pays 669. per cwt., and occasionally enters
our ports. Ministers propose to reduce it to 365. So large a
reduction, independently of the profits it brings to the a: tivan
in increasing our foreign trade, cannot. be without its advan-
tage to the consumer. We pay 60s. or more a quarter for
corn. Change the law, we shall pay but 4(ls. or less. The
difference. one-third of the whole, must again go to the con-
sumer. We say this is much. It is mud: that pretectisn is
moved lower down the scale ; thatthe people are to know some-
thing about it, besides paying its charges. It is much that the
rich planter can no longer raise sugar to what price he
pleases, nor continue to charge us more millions a year to
revenge our stopping his slavery atrocities. It is much
that the idle landlord can indulge no more his luxurious
and demoralizing appetites from the starvation prices extorted
out of the poor man's loaf. Yes, believe us, Electors, there is
much of good in the charges themselves, and there is more in
the changes they must lead to.
Have you ever compared the condition of cur corn-growing
landlords with those on the Continent ? The foreign land-
lords' agricultural skill is less, their machinerymore imperfect,
yet they sell their produce to the poor and the destitute nearly
two-thirds cheaper than our lnxurious aristocrats. Clothing and
everything else we make in this country is cheaper than on the
Continent. Why, then, are the prices of agricultural manu-
factures so enormously disproportionate? Not, as our land-
lords say, because they pay one-third more wages, for their
poor labourers pay the difference back twice over. They pay
it in that mere than doubled price of food ; they pay it ia
working one-third longer than the foreign labourer ; they pay
it in woiking one thi d harder. The explanntion was in the
landlords' exclusive power of law-making. Their legisletori-
cal legerdemain gets them first more produce for less money,
it gets them, secondly, more money for less produce, and thus
they win, and the people of England lose, more than a hundred
millions a year. Happy power, most disinterestedly exercised!
And yet men wonder why there is wretchedness in the land.
If in national works, then, there be much in a conanence-
ment, it is something to have begun the business of humbling
our corn-growing aristocracy. No business ever more required
commencement; Europe holds no aristocracy so dispropor-
tionately rich, so demoralised, so insolent. They monopolize
the whole State ; the land is their's, the Army is their's, the
Navy is their's, the Church is their's, the Excise and Customs
are their's, the Colonies are their's, the Universities are
th .;ris, the two Houses of Parliament are their's, the rob-
bery of commerce is their's, the plunder of the people
is their's, the revenues of the State are their's, the honours
of the Government are their's, the power of the empire is
hair's, everything is their's bstt drudgery and taxation.
t Remember this against them, Englishmen, now that it may
tell against them, in your'elections. Be not seduced by their
septennial practice of varnishing over their wrongs to you with
professions of anxiety for your welfare. To evi ry specious as-
surance, to every sophistical defence, indignantly reply, " You
are the richest landlords of Emote ; why are your peasantry
among the most wretched ? You have governed the country
as you liked the last 70 years. How is it that there is no class
in it happy but your own ? The disinterestedness of your rule
is proved by your own overgrown luxury and insolence ; its
wisdom in our wretchedness and discontent. It is time to
bumble you."
Yes, Electors, it is time, high time, to humble them. And
now is the moment ; circumstances aid M. The measures of
Ministers put the means in our hands; they arc not perfect,
but they are serviceable— as such let us use them—let us u-e
them with energy ; they deserve it ; let us use them with pru-
dence—there is no success without it. Be united. Take any
man's aid who will fight your battle with the enemy. Forget toe
a while your more or less extensive views of Constitwional
Reform.
This is not their time. There is a practical good within
our reach. Our powers concentrated, 'tis WOO ; and the victory
of jestice can hurt no good theory. Disunited, 'tis lost,
and with it our common good. if the enemy win, it will mat-
ter little which of our theories is the best.
We advise you, therefore, first to give no vote to any candi-
date who will not support the proposed financial changes ;
their utility may be limited, but we cannot afford to forego it
for unlikely chances of greater.
2. To support no candidate, however liberal, who will divide
the popular party without any reasonable chance of success.
In such a ease to seek an impracticable good, is to find prac-
tical evil. Let us love democracy, but love it wisely.
3. To elect a stanch Radical wherever it is possible. We
want men who will fight the aristocracy at all points.
4. Where you cannot return a Radical, to influenee the
electors to select the most liberal candidate that can be pro-
cured. He will fight the aristocracy, at sores points, and, next
to the importance of having a good Member, is the having a
Member not bad.
b. Wherever there are two rival Liberal candidates, to decide
their pretensions forthwith by ballot. Our first principle is to
give the enemy no victory.
Finally, To adopt, as the great rule in your policy in these
elections, as in all other public proceedings, the question which
will most serve the cause of the people.
Electors of England !—Now is your time to serve that noble
cause. Arouse ye, then. Be no longer the tools or slaves of
your tyrant aristocracy. Stand now for the people. United,
prudent, energetic ; show by your conduct that you are
worthy of the occasion with which fortune now tr.os von.
Prove that you understand the character of the war—that-you
appreciate the nature of the crisis. Crush the monopolies—
take the fang out of the aristocrats—that is your minion of to-
day. A nobler mission awaits you—to which this but opens
the way. Fulfil boldly she vocation of the present, and the
day is not far within the future, when you will find yourselves
again united, teaching your insolent masters that ye, the
millions, are men and Englishmen as they, as much created
for the blessings of nature, as much entitled to the powers cf
self-government as they, when ye will declare to them, with the
resisless voice of an aroused and mighty people,that ye will
submit no more to their usurped and abused superiority—for
that the hour has 'at length arrived in which, rising in the
peaceful power of your right, you are calmly to vindicate the
dignity of manhood and the justice of Providence, impugned by
their long-borne oppre.rions.
• (Signed on behalf of the Members)
T. PIERS HEALEY _

JOHN HUMFFREYS PARRY.
A. MORTON.
EDWARD EDW&RDS.
W. SMART.
T. WILLIAMS, M.D.
A. WALKER. _ .

Provisional Committee.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In reading your leading article, inserted in last night's
Sun. respecting the line of conduct most likely to be alopted
by the clergy, 1 could nut help calling to mind the following
recent characteristic fact :
The Tory candidates for the West Riding. Wortley and
Denison, started from this town on their canvassing to Holm-
firth, Delph, and Marsden, last Wednesday. At the latter
place the Rev. M. Maxfield, the village pastor, introduced dir.
Wortley to the electors, who, in his address to them, made use
of the following language:—" Tho Whigs tell you that the
alteration in the sugar duties, brought forward by them,
would reduce the price of that article three-pence per lb. I
mean to tell you it is a d—d lie." Did the worthy incum-
bent rebuke this scion of aristocracy for his blackguardistn ?
Not he, indeed. Nay, did he not identify himself with this
low phraseology by neglecting so to do? No wonder there are
three Dissenters to cue Churchman, when the clergy of the
Church associate arid make ;common cause with such in:-n.
Mr. Denison also stated at the same place, that in the United
States the Americans hail a tax on corn ; but he was speedily
silenced by a person in the crowd calling ou', " l have lived in
that country lb years, and I know what you now state to be
false ; they have no tax at all upon what they themselves pro-
,: due e."—Your's, faithfully,
Huddersfield, June 25, 1841. JOHN SMITH.

LLOYD'S SHIPPiNG_(Tins DAY
LosnoN, JuNt. 26.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W.
DEAL, JUNE 25. —Wind S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrived the
Horn, Smith, from Sunderland, for Jamaica. Sailed the St.
Andrew, for Quebec. Remains, the Stedfasr, for Antip,ua.
RAMSGATE, JUNE 25.—Sailed the Belen Y. Lousa, fsr
Bilbao. •
DOVER, JUNE 25.—Arrived off, the Indian, Craighead,
from the Mauritius.
LIVE terooL, JUNE 25.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrived the Coon-
tees of Durham, from Maracaibo. Sailed the Grace Darling,
for Syra; Randolph. Batavia ; Mary. and Ann, Rio Janeiro,
Pakenham, Pernambuco ; Rotcoe, New York ; Pot4rnac,
Alexandria ;_ Plutus, Halifax ; Ganges, Quebec. Arrived off,
the Standard, from New Orleans.
PORTSIIOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind S. S.E.—Arrived the
Essex, from London, for Madras.
COWES, JUNE 25.—Arrived the General Evans, Dare,
from Lisbon ; Adelaide, London, for Philadelphia.
WEYMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Arrived the Commodore, Cou-
zens, from Mad ira, and ailed for St. Peter.,burgh.
Ore THE START, JUNE 19.—Arrived the InvinclUe, Ilay-
mly:, from Lisbon ; Charles Corral', New York, for Havre ;
Oscar,- Ellis, Leghorn ; Eliza, Gallon, Grenada. Sailed the
Pekin, Laing, for Calcutta.
SALCOMEL', JUNE 25,—Arrived off, the Flora, Quebec,
leaky, bound so London.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind S. S.E., strong gales.—Ar-
rived the Enyo, Smith, from Alalta.
VESSELS SPOKEN WiTH.—The Trinidad packet, Trinidad
to London, lat. 24, lon. 60, by the Jane, arrived off Ilastin-*s.
Ilebe, St. Domingo to Liverpool, 6th inst., lat. 42, lon. 45, by
the Alatthw, arrived in the River. Isabel, Liverpool to Leg-
horn, 3d inst., so wiles E. of Gibraltar, by the Albion, arri;ed
at Falmouth. Fanny, Oldhman, of Stockholm, lat. 42, 'on.
55, and supt•lied with provis ons by the Chevalier, arrived at
Hull. William, of Greenock, from Bombay, 4th March, lat. 5
N. lon. 77 E. ; Iris, from Calcutta, 11th ult., hit. 4 S., lon.
17 'Ncr. ; Shepherd, Mauritius to London, 25th ult., lat. 12 N.,
lon. 30; Victoinst.,
ine, Bahia to London, 3d lat. 30, lon. 41,
by the Lady Clarke, arrived at Portsmouth. Theodore, of
Sunderland, for Quebec, lat. 49, lon. 16; Antilles, from ua-
daloupe, 29th ult., off tle Azores; Daw, Grant, Liverpool to
Lima., 14th ult., lat. 46, lon. 11, by the Heloise, arrived at
lordeaux.

We regret to announce the arming illness of
Sir G. Pigot. Bart., of Patsh&l, near this town, the father
of R. Pigot, Esq., •the 3lember tor Bridgnorlh. The disease
of the esteemed Baronet is said to have been water on the
chest.— Wolverhampton Chronick.