The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

TORY LILS.

THE BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-1 beg to direct your attention to a pita,graph in this
day's Morning Herald, under the head of " Election Move-
ments." The "lies" therein will prove to the public the despe-
rate shifts to which the Tories are driven to bolster up their
rotten cause. _ _

Having inanceuvred (this is the fact) to get rid of Lord
Teignmouth because his Lordship would act honestly on the
privilege question, and give fearless), and conscientiously
his warm sopport to the Poor-law Act, the "quack'
politicians of this borough (the Tory "Local and Constitutional
Association" will know what is meant) began to look out for a
second monopoly candidate to stand with Mr. B. B. Cabbell.
Well, Sir, they hunted high and low for such a person. " All
that we want him to subcribe," said the cormorants, "is
2,0001., a mere trifle, we declare, and he is slue to come in."
They tried Mr. Hope, M. E'. for Gloucester, but he knew the feel-
ing of the borough, and declined the honour. A dozer other
gentlemen were thought of, but all of them squinted like the
gentlemen in George Cruik,hank's Omnibus, and buttoned
up their breeches pockets dircetly the name of Marylcbone
was mentioned, What was to be done ? The Election
Committee held meeting after meeting. To-day one
"quack" (of course I am nut personal) was to bring
forward a candidate in six or eight hours. They
gave him a couple of days. To-morrow came, but it
bought no candidate with it. Another adjournment was asked
for and granted, but " the Lord help 'em," as poor Paddy
would say, no candidate could b " caught." A third adjourn-
ment (a fact) was earnestly solicited, and, after much squab-
bling, granted, and yesterday the afore-aid cormorant Election
Committee met determined to settle the hash ; some dozen or
fifteen persons there were ; I believe they resolved to send a re-
quisition to Sir James Hamilton ; but if you, Mr. Editor, will
look in tLe Morning Herald of this day you will find it gravely
stated that a great meeting of the electors was held, and that the
requisition to Sir James was numerously signed. All this is
entirely false. The only Tory meeting held in Nlarylebnne
y,!,sterday was that of the cormorants alluded to, and I chal-
lenge these " foul birds," or the celebrated (?) reporter who
dishes up their food, to affirm that 50 electors could, by
any possibility, have been applied to for their signatures to
the requisition when the paragraph alluded to was concocted.
But, Mr. Editor, will Sir James Cockburn spare his son-in-
law (Sir James Hamilton) the 2,0001. ?
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
AN ELECTOR OF THE BOROUGH,
AND AN ANTI-MONOPOLIST.
Marylebcne, June 3, 1841. •

THE GRAND OPEN AIR MEETING

IN MANCHESTER.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This grand demonstration has been viewed, not merely by
the A nti- Corn-law League, but by the aristocratic bread-taxers,
as a decisive trial of strength. The walls of the town had
been placarded for several days with inflammatory appeals to
the prejudices of the men against their masters, and calling
on the Chartists to muster in all their " majesty," and put
down with their " myriad voices" the " humbugs" who were
trying to des ive them. These placards (costing hundreds of
pounds), have all purported to emanate from the Chartist As-
sociation—a body without funds, and with scarcely any remain-
ing organization.
A Doctor :tzleigh, an agent from the Duke of Buckingham's
Agricultural Association, has also been for some days in Mari-
chester,,along with Mr. Charles Wilkins, the Tory barrister,
who figured with Nightingale at Walsall. ''here is a,report in
the Manchester Guardian of to-day, that a cheek: for 1501.,
signed by the Duke himself, has been cashed at Jones and
Lloyd's bank. le this as it may ; money has been poured out
With a lavish hand by the brecit-taxers. The neighbouring
towns and villages have been visited by the Chartist lecturers,
and their whole strength has been summoned for the occasion.
This morning the Anti-Corn-law Committee were astonished
to find that a large hustings, with a kith and strong barricade
in front, had been erected in Stevenson-square during the
night, close beside, and a little in advance of, the platform
prepared for the speakers at. the meeting. This hustings was
taken possession of by a b of police, by the orders of Sir
Charles Shaw, to prevent the disorder which would have en-
sued from two bodies attempting to address the meeting at the
same time.

Lang before the hour of meeting a knot of Chartists had
assembled on the ground, who assaulted the first body of the
Anti-Corn-law party as they arrived, and broke their flag.
As soon, however, as the main bodies of the repealers, with
their bands of music from the different districts of the borough,
arrived on the ground, the tables were turned. The Chartists
had no flags at. first, but shortly after the meeting had filled
the square, estimated to hold 15,000 to 20,000 persons, a large
flag, quite new, borne by two men, was carried up to the front
of the hustings, followed by a party of Chartists. The flag
bore the inscription, " Down with the Whigs—no new Poor-
law." The party surrounding it was instantly attacked, the
flag torn to rags, and the poles broken to pieces. 1 fear a few
heads were broken in the fray. From this time the Char-
tists made no further attempt at annoyance. They saw their
weakness and gave the thing up. The speeches of the rei.eal
party were listened to attentively throughout ; but the meet-
ing refused to hear Dr. Sleigh, Wilkins, or the Chartist Bair-
stow, from Yorkshire. A large gathering of the Chartist
leaders, from all parts of the kingdom, was announced in a
placard, which gave the names of Pitkeithly of Huddersfield,
Binns of Leicester, and others from Bolton, Sunderland, &c.,
together with some whose address was not given, as Dr.
N'Dowall, all of whom promised to address the meeting, but
the failure of the attempis of the first of these to get a hearing
deterred the rest from making the experiment.
Never before was the alliance between the bread-taxing
Tories and the Chartist leaders so open and unblushing. They
were holding conferences in the public streets, and did not
for a moment disguise their co-operation. A more
deplorable failure could not be imagined. When the protest
against the Corn-laws was put to the meeting only five hands
were held up against. After the close of the meeting a proces.
sion, more than a mile in length, paraded the town in every
direction, amidst the cheers of the people. It ought not to be
forgotten that the Northern Star called upon all Lancashire to
muster on this occasion, to put down the " humbugs." We
shall hear no more of Chartist interruption to the Anti-Corn-
law party in Manchester; end the aristocracy may give up
their hopes of separating the working men from the middle
class in the manufacturing districts. A long process of suffer-
ing, in which both capitalists and operatives are equally in-
volved, has made them at last begin to unite against the com-
mon enemy.

We have received a third edition of the Manchester Guar-
dian of Wednesday, which fully bears out the statements of
our correspondent. Mr. Cobden was in the chair. The first
esolution proposed was brief, but comprehensive, " That the
bread tax is impolitic, unchristian, and unjust." An amend-
ment, by a monopolist, was proposed and rejected by the vast
multitude, not more than 20 or 30 hands being held up for it.
Mr. Warren, chairman of the Operative Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation, then moved a protest against the Corn-laws, which
was supported in short speeches by two operatives, and carried
all but unanimously. In concluding this hasty notice, we
must say a word or two about the numbers. Nut only was the
square
.for some time densely crowded throughout its area, but
Hilton-street, from the square to Oldham-,treet, and the
parts of Lever-street adjacent to the square, as at on each side
as the hustings could be seen, were occupied by very consider-
able numbers of people. Taking the dimensions of the square
alone at 100 yards by 35 yards (though this, we believe, is
rather below than above the truth), it would give an area of
3,500 square yard,,, which, at three persons to the square yard,
would be 10,5+,0 people ; and we should think that there must
hate been from twelve to fourteen thousand people present.

BATH ELECTION.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
It has been po itively determined that Lord Duncan shall
stand for Bath in the event of a dissolution, in conjunction
with Air. Roebuck, and a requisition, signed by upwards of
live hundred electors, has been this day obtained. ICo doubt
is entertained by the truly Liberal party, anxious to aid the
Government in their good measures for the country, that this
coalition of the Whig and Radical interest will l isuccessful
in returning to serve in the next Parliament two men who
will honestly represent the larger portion of the inhabitants
of this city, now mocked by the pretended representation of
Lord Powerscourt and Ludl.w Bruges.
A public meeting will be held in a few days, and a grand
demonstr.ition made to support Liberal Candidates.
Bath, June 2, 11541..

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning,
about half-past one, a violent screaming was heard to proceed
from the first floor of the house of a hairdresser named Nurle,
in Church-street, Blackfriars-road. Shortly after a female
threw up the window-sash, and was immediately precipitated
to the pavement beneath. She was taken up per fectly insen-
sible, her skull most dreadfully fractured, and her hands very
severely cut. The poor creature was placed in a cab and con-
veyed to Bartholomew's Hospital, where she expired shortly
afterwards. From subsequent inquiries it was ascertained that
the unfortunate deceased was a singer at the George, in Char-
lotte-street, and bad not been home many minutes before the
fatal event happened.
TfIE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—On Wednes-
day afternoon the Br;tish and American Steam Navigation Com-
pany, in Miter• court, billiter-square, were still without any
intelligence of their long-missing ship, the President. Cap-
tain Schultz, of the Prussian brig Thetis, arrived at New
York on the sth ult. from Bordeaux, alter 50 days' passage,
with a cargo of brandy, &c., rk ports, that "on the 3rd of
April, in latitude 39 40, longitude 72, he saw a large ship
entirely dismasted, but could not see any person on board. or
Ler name." If the weather permitted, Captain Sceltz ought
to have neared this vess 1, with the view of ascertaining her
name, and to render as-istance. Perha• s, aPhough he did
"nut see any person on board." some of the ship's ill-fated
crew were lying prcstrate on deck, unable any longer to stand
erect, or to war against the hot rors of famine.
A SKELETON.—In excavating the foundation
of some Irti,es near the Railway Station, Boxmem, on the
e,tate of *Mr.. Stephens, was dis,tveted, on Thur,day last, the
entire skeleton of &hurt, ab,,ut four feet itlow the surface;
and on Saturday ihaf-cf aimart; attoursit feet high, supposed
to be a trooper slain at the taking of BerkhemPsteall, about
200 yaw suave.
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