The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

lONIAN 'ISLANDS.

Yesterday the Hon. C. GTearrer, having been charged
with the mission by his countrymen, presented to the
Right Hon. Lord Charles Fitzroy, at the Duke of Graf-
ton's seat, Euston Hall, a medal from the inhabitants of
the Island of Zante, as a testimonial of their grateful
f eelings for his Lordship's exertions in their favour. The
medal is of solid gold, and unusually large size, designedand executed by M. Barre, the Director-General of the
Royal Mint at Paris, representing on the one side the
bust of his Lordship, with qv inscription—
AOPASII KAPOASII (1)ITEPOHI
OEPIVII/I TOT lONIKOT AAOT ZAKTNOIOI
ETFNOMONOTNTEE.
- 1841.

" To Lord Charles Fitzroy, the ardent friend of the
lonian people, the Inhabitants of the Island of Zane,
ever mindful."
On the other the interior of the House of Commons, at
the moment his Lordship is making his, first motion on
the state of the lonian Islands, with the inscription—
" Debate on the motion of Lord Charles Fitzroy, in the
House of Commons, Tuesday, June 23, 1840."
The whole of the medal, particularly. this side, de-
serves peculiar attention and praise, being. most ably
executed, the smallest details most highly finished. The
Hon C. G. Carrer, on presenting the above, delivered
the following address :
My Lord,—The gratitude which my fellow-country-
men feel to your Lordship has made them subscribe for
a medal of honour, as an offering to you. To-day, in
their name, and in the fulfilment of a mission which is
dear to my heart, I present it. This pledge ofgratitude, from
people who willingly and cheerfully placed themselves
under the protection of the British Sovereign, whose
legalized sway might gradually qualify them to partici-
pate iriprivileges not unlike those which have elevated
England to her present proud position, will be endeared
to your Lordship by the feeling which it evinces, rather
than by the value which it possesses. The medal will
recal the glorious day when your Lordship rose in de-
fence. of the lonian population,—that day, my Lord,
when you taught the House of Commons, and through
them the British nation, to judge more justly of a people
till then unappreciated and neglected. May the future
renew to your Lordship an hour of similar generosity,
and of more satisfactory results. May your Lordship's
example rally to the cause of the oppressed and weak
fresh defenders, and your efforts Jbe crowned with
success. The lonian empire is sanguine, because they
know that your Lordship belongs to .a nation where the
cause of man's welfare has found its most illustrious
champions, and they remember that success has been
ever the reward of perseverance. Your courage, my
Lord, will not, I trust, fail, before that day when you
will have obtained a conquest which will promote our
happiness, thus adding fresh glory to Great Britain, and
increased honour to your Lordship."
The following letter, from the Committee of the Sub-
scribers to the medal in the Island of Zante, was then
handed by the Hon. C. G. Carrer, to his Lordship :
My Lord,—The inhabitants of the Island of Zante, •
ever
_mindful of your Lordship's noble conduct, at the
time when you represented among-them the glorious na-
tion which protects us, and of the benefits for which every
one blesses your name, express to your Lordship, through
our means, feelings of the deepest gratitude for the true
and generous interest with which your Lordship has un-
taken to support the rights of a people that deserves to
be more considered. You, my Lord, better than anyother, are qualified to judge whether the grievances
which it has expressed have a real foundation. Our
country asks only for the opportunity of proving that it
deserves the indulgent attention of the generous British
nation, in bestowing on them an existence more free, and
more consonant with justice and international law.
May she obtain, through your noble perseverance;
all that she has implored from the justice of our Soves
reign Protectress ; and your Lordship's name will be
handed from father to son to the remotest generations
with respectful gratitude. Trivial, my Lord, is this
offering—the pledge of our gratitude ; but it is pre-
sente4 by a grateful people, who have fixed their hopes,
upon your energetic defence. Receive it with courtesy,
keep it with fondness, that the most distant ages may
know the generosity of your conduct, and the depth of
our gratitude.
We have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most humble, obedient servants,
NICOLOS-COUNT LUNZI.
GIORGIO COMITTO.
GLADIANO COUNT ROMA.
PIETRO COUNT MACE'.
ANDREA GAETA.
D. PLESSA, L.L.D.
NIC OL 0 C ARVELL A, LL .D.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Fitzroy, M.P. '
Zante, Sept. 25, 1840.

LITERATURE.
THE IDLER IN FRANCE. 2 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1841.
The " Idler in France" is the best name that
could possibly have been selected for these vo-
lumes, which are from the pen of Lady Blessing-
ton, and abound in light, agreeable anecdotes,
sketches of French and English character, al-
ways leaning to the good-natured side, and such
cursory reflections on the course of events as
would naturally suggest themselves to one who
watched the signs of the times that immediately
preceded the second revolution in.Fiance, in that
year of European revolutions, 1830:. . Her Lady-
ship chanced to be in Parisduring this stirring
period, and has recorded her personal experiences
in a lively, graphic spirit, though she communi-
cates little in -the way of anecdotes of the chief
-actors in the outbreak, that has not already
found its way into print.. Her work, as may be
surmised from its title, is of an exceedingly
.slight and desultory character; affording scarcely
a peg for criticism to hang a remark on ; but it
has the charm of cheerfulness and bonhonimie,
and will, no doubt, therefore find favour with all
but that class of readers, who, like the learned
Sinellfungus recorded by Sterne, are fond of
going from Dan to Beersheba, and finding all
barren. As a favourable specimen of her man-
ner, we quote Lady Blessington's sketch of M.
Thiess :
_ _ _

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T.
".He is a. sort of modern -Prometheus, capable of creat-
ing and vivifying with the electric
_spark of mind ; but,
whether he would steal the fire from Heaven, or a less
elevated region, lam not prepared to say. He has called
into life a body—and a vast one—by his vigorous writ-
ings, and has infused into it a spirit that will not be soon
or easily quelled. Whether that spirit will tend to the
advancement of his country or not, time will prove; but,
en attendant, its ebullitions may occasion as much trouble
to the powers that be as did the spirit engendered by
Mirabeau in a former reign.
" The countenance of Monsieur Thiers is remarkable.
The eyes, even through his spectacles, flash with intelli-
gence, and the expression of his face varies with every
sentiment he utters. Thiers is a man to effect a revolu-
tion, and Mignet would be The historian to narrate it.
" There is something very interesting in the unbroken
friendship of these two men of genius, .and its constancy
elevates both in my estimation. They are not more un-
like than are their respective works, both of which,
though so dissimilar, are .admirable in their way. The
mobility and extreme excitability of the French, render
such men as Monsieur Thiers extremely dangerous to
monarchical power. His genius, his eloquence, and his
boldness,- furnish him with -the means of exciting the en-
thusiasm of his countrymen, as surely as a tornh applied
to gtrnpowder prodes an explosion. In England these
qualities, however elefated, would fail to produce .simi-
'ir results ; for. enthusiasm there is little known, and,
when it cows' forth, satisfies itself with a brief manifes-'
t' don ansi swift y resigns itself to the prudent jurisdic-
tion ,of reason ,'Napoleon himself, with all the glory
associated with his name—a glory that intoxicated the
French—would have failed to inebriate the sober-minded
English." •

CoRoNER's INQUEST.'-On Friday evening, be.
tween the hours of six and seven o'clock, the inhabitants
of Old Bond-street and the neighbouring vicinity were
thrown into the utmost alarm, in consequence
fofelanntre-
mendous explosion similar to a
which was ascertained to proceedflasetll eexteonsive moan:
nufactory of Eley and Company, cartridge and 7ercus-
sion cap manufacturers, of Emmees-mews, Old
cußond-
street. A vast number of persons immeat y pro-
ceeded.to the premises, accompanied by "a number of the
police on duty near the spot, when they found that great
destruction had taken place. The consternation of those
enga;,,ed in, the concern was so great, that at first little
could he collected from them ; but after the first confu-
sion e‘ery,effeirte,was made to ascertain whether any
parties had perished, and also the extent of chunage.
It was very shortly discovered that Mr. Eley, the pr?-
prietor of the manufactory, and who carries on his busi-
ness in St. James's, at the corner of Jermyn-street, had
perished. On search being made, through the dilapidated
premises, he was discovered stretched on the floor of
the counting-house, a frightful spectacle to behold. He
was surrounded by a quantity of dark coloured blood.
His left arm and hand were blown off, his right thigh
was nearly severed, both his feet were blown to atoms,
his person in other respects was mutilated and blackened,
and scarcely a remnant of his apparel was left about
him. An inquest ;was held on the body on Saturday '
befi)re, Mr. Gen, the Coroner for Westminster. After
the Jury_ had viewed the body of the deceased, the ful-
lowing evidence was produced :—Mr. Charles Eley, of
Cheshunt, said that deceased was in the habit of using
detonating or fulminating mercury, a composition of a
most combustible and dangerous nature. He had no
doubt the deceased was stirring the composition when it
exploded. Mr. —, a solicitor, of Regent-street, stated
on belralf of" Mr. Emmet, the proprietor of the: premises,
that he had not been aware of any combustible matter
being used by the deceased, that had the fact been known
to the neighbours, the unfortunate deceased would have
been indicted. Ann Stubbins, servant to the deceased,
stated that the whole of the parader' and roof of the
room in which the composition was made had been more
or less carried away and injured,. and all. the windows
destroyed. Joseph Long and James Price, both in the
deceased's employ, stated that the detonating mercury
was obtained at Mr. Diamond's on(Holborn-hill. After
the other evidence had been heal% the Jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental Death." Vile-deceased, who has
left a. large family, was much respected.
In order completely to dispose of the falsehoods
of the faction, we can -state, and upon competent au-
thority, too, that
to
tltt he connections of Lord Plunket, with
the same o
eiples in which they havel,romote the sound political prin-
been educated, will not only
give- their votekt, ,bnt
operation to the `Li every
legitimate and cordial co-
part
or I clause, in the City of Dublin
and every other
perty anti infbience,_D °lid where the:: 'possess pro-
. Evening Poe:.

REPRESENTATION •OF MARYLE-

BONE.

At a meeting of the Unit;ibommittee of Reformers,
held yesterday at the Colosseum, New-road, it was stated
by several members, that members of the Cabbell and
Hamilton Committee confessed to them in the morning
that the two Tories had no chance—that the withdrawal
of Sir James Hamilton was nearly agreed to—and that,
whatever course might be taken, it was " a great shame"
to persevere in putting the eral candidates to ex-
pense; when the canvass had -already satisfied the Tories
themselves that their case was utterly hopeless.
A very numerous meeting of electors was subse-
quently held at the Portman Arms, Milton-street,
Dorset-square, Mr. Bigers in the chair, when the Libe-
ral candidates, Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier,
were received as usual in the most cordial and enthusi-
astic manner. A resolution pledging the electors pre-
sent to support, by every effort, the Liberal candidates
at the-approaching election, and to come early to the
poll, was proposed by Mr. John Savage, seconded by
Mr. Thorns, and carried by acclamation.
A similar meeting was held at the Bee-hive Tavern,
Chapel-street, Somers' Town, and a resolution to the
same effect was carried with the utmost enthusiasm.

GREAT MEETING OF THE TORIES.
.. A great meeting of the " Friends of Liberty " was
held yesterday at eight o'clock in the afternoon; at Cab-
bell and Hamilton's Committee-room, in the Goat and
Boots Beer-shop, Brook-street, New-road. The meet-
ing was convened by an advertisement froth the COl-
mittee of Sir James Hamilton and Mr. Cabbell, and at
the time appointed for taking the chair the room was
filled by a large number of electors, perhaps the most
respectable in the borough. Some delay having occurred
in the naming of a chairman by those who had called the
meeting together, an elector proposed that Mr. Langdon
Haydon, a well-known and proved Reformer, should
take the chair.
The resolution having been seconded, was carried by
acclamation,
Mr. E. JOSEPH then came forward, and moved a re-
solution to the effect, that " this meeting, feeling that
the benefits of the community at large is best consulted
by the destruction of all monopolies, more especially
that odious one of the bread tax, and to secure the vote
by ballot, and an extension of the franchise, do resolve
that Sir B. Hall, and Sir C. Napier, having unequivo-
cally declared their sentiments upon these most impor-
tant subjects, are worthy of the support of the meeting,
who do pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions
to return them to Parliament as the representatives of
Marylebone."
Mr. THOMPSON seconded. the resolution, which was
carried with only three dissentients.
Mr. ALLEN then moved a vote of thanks to the Chair-
man, and in doing so enlarged at great length; and
amidst much applause, upon the pernicious nature of mo-
nopolies,_ and the hypocrisy of the Tories, who main-
tained.those abuses, and pretended at the same time to
be the friends of the destitute and of the public at large.
The vote of thanks to the Chairman (Mr. Haydon)
was carried unanimously.
The meeting then separated with loud and laughing
expressions of surprise that the Tories could have had
the hardihood to'call such a meeting, and expose them-
selves to so complete and ludicrous a defeat.