The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

THE SOUND DUES.

It was recently stated by Mr. Labouchere, in the
House of Commons, that a treaty had been concluded
with Denmark, by which a considerable reduction would
be made in the Sound dues, collected by that Govern-
ment. We have been favoured with a letter received by
a mercantile house in this town from Elsineur,,dat2d the
15th instant, and stating that from that day the' follow -
ing important changes would be made in the duties on
some of the principal articles of commerce :
Cotton Twist, per 1001bs. 16 stivers (Is. Bd.) instead of

36 stivers.
Coffee, per 1001bs. 6 stivers (7d.). instead of 24 stivers.
Raw Sugar, per 1001bs., 5 stivers (WO, instead of 9

stivers.

Logwood and Fustic, per 1,000 lbs., 8 stivers (I0d.), in-
stead of 36 stivers.

Manufactures of cotton of all descriptions, with the
exception of ordinary white cottons and the descriptions
hereinafter enumerated, are to pay one per cent. ad va-
lorem. The excepted descriptions—viz., cotton stock-
ings, per 50 pair, the duty is reduced from 30 stivers to
6 (about Md. sterling) ; and cotton socks, per 100 pair,
precisely ale same amounts. Cotton thread, Turkey-red
cotton twist, and cotton embroidering yarn, respectively
from 30 to 15 stivers (Is. WO; and cotton knitting yarn,
from 18 to 15 stivers.

In addition to these changes, considerable reductions
appear to have been made on about fifty other articles of
smaller importance.—Manchester Guardian.

INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY.
(From the Polytechnic Journal.)
In the " Philosophical Transactions" the singular
case of Henry Jenkins is recorded. This man died at
at the very advanced age of 169. A few years before his
death he appeared in a court of justice, and gave evi-
dence in ft cause. The celebrated case of Thomas Parr,
of Wennington, Shropshire, is also 'detailed in the same
publication. He died in the year 1638, at the age of 152.
1)r. Harvey, who opened the body after death, states that
he found it to be in a most perfect state. His death was
caused by plethora, brought on by more luxurious living
in London than he had been accustomed to in his na-
tive country, vi here his food was very plain and homely.
Parr lived during the reigns of ten kings and queens,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He married
a widow after he was 120 years of age. lie is said to have
been a man of very different stamina from mankind
in general. When he was 151 years of age, he was
brought to London by Thomas Earl of Arundel, and car-
ried to Court. The king said to him, " You have lived
longer than other men, what have you done more than
other men?" Parr replied, " I did penance when I Was
100 years old." His chief rules for longevity were well-
known:—" Keep your head cool by temperance; your
feet warm by exercise; rise early and go soon to bed;
and if you are inclined to get fat, keep your eyes open
and your mouth shut;" or, in other words, "be moderate
in your sleep and diet."
Maffeus, a Portuguese author, who wrote a history of
the East Indies, mentions a man of the name of Numus
de Cugna, a native of Bengal, who died in the year 1565,
at the almost incredible age of 370 years.
Maffeds represents. him to have been a person of
great simplicity and quite illiterate ; but of so reten-
tive a memory that he was a kind of living chronicle.
relating distinctly and exactly what had happened
within his knowledge in the compass of his very long
life, together with all the circumstances attending it.
He had four new sets of teeth, and the colour of his
hair and beard had very frequently changed from black
to grey, and from grey to black. He asserted that in
the course of his life he had 700 wives, some of whom
had died. and others he had put away. The first cen-
tury of his life was passed in idolatry, from which he
was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued to
profess until his death.
J. Jacobs, a peasant on the estate of the Prince de
Beautremont, lived to the age of 120. He travelled at
that age from the Jura mountains to VerSailles, to
thank the National Assembly for having released him
from the feudal yoke. He was received by all the
members standing and uncovered, was allowed a chair,
and to sit-with his hat on. A collection was made for
him among the members, which amounted to 5001.
The tables of longevity published for the year 1817,
in the' Russian empire, give the following results : •
" Amongst 828,461 persons who died, all belonging to
the Greek Church, there appear to have been as fol-*
lows :-1 above 140 years of age, 1 above 135, 7 above
130, 21 above 125, 51 above 120, 83 above 115, and 783
above 100."

gOn the subject of longeity and mortality in Prussia,
Dr. Hoffman states (Medicinische Zeitung, N. IV.,
1839), that during the 18 years, commencing January 1,
1820, and ending December 31, 1837, the mortality is
12,626,379, being the average population of Prussia dur-
ing that period, amounted to 6,653,167 ; of this number
149,058 attained. the age of from 80 to 85 years.; 67,754
that of from 85 to 90 years ; and 31,516 attained the age
beyond 90. Thus 248,328 individuals, or 3.732 per cent.
of the population, attained an age beyond 80.

It is now for the people to be true to their So-
vereign and themselves. Shall it be said that the Queen
of Great Britain was anxious to " provide for the pub-
lic service" "in a manner least burdensome to the com-
munity "—that with this generous and patriotic resolve
she appealed to the British people for support—and that
both Sovereign and people were compelled to forego
their object, and succumb to the tyrannical, corrupt,
and plundering opposition of a monopolising factiolt ?
This is the question for the constituent body to
decide. :Whatever the result, the merits• of the case
must remain unaltered. As in many former cases,
the success of-the Tories would only more cog fitly _ '
demonstrate the inefficiency and fraud of our present
representative system, and the refusal to modify the pro-
hibitory duties, that is, the perseverance in the scheme
of supporting the monopolists by starving the people,
would only make thOse now stickling for the finality of
the Reform Act become the disciples of further organ'.
change. It is thus that by opposing moderate reforms,
the Tories provoke the introduction of those of •L it ora
extensive character. 'Thus extremes meet ; and w.lile
the excessive deinands of lee Chartists induce.miiny to
incline to the despotic discipline of Tory policy, the re-
sistance of the Tories to just and necessary concessions,
on the contrary, induces many, otherwise moderate Re-
formers, to become advoeltes for asserting the extreme
principles of democratic government.—Adrertiser.
PAYING FOR REPARTEE.--Duelling was not
only resorted to by men of the sword, but by men of
finance ; and the celebrated Law of Lauriston, who wis
placed at the head of this department, had commenced
his famed career by several hostile meetings. Howbeit,
he so managed matters as not to compromise the secu-
rity of his gambling-house in the rue Quincampoix by
quarrels, although an assassination ultimately exposed
this hell to a serious investigation. One of the mur-
derers was a Count Horn, a Belgian nobleman of dis-
,:inguished family ; but who, notwithstanding the power-
ful interest made in his behalf, was sentenced to be
broker; on the wheel. The Regent in this case was in-
flexible; nor would he even commute the punishment
into a les,.s degrading execution. This firmness was
attributed to his partiality for his creature Law, whose
bank was of gizsat assistance to his constant debaucheries.
Madame de Creciui, who wat' a relative of the criminal,
and who exerted her best endeavours to save him, attri-
butes this murder of what she ca.i:s " the Jew who had
robbed him," to other motives ; tt..ld. asserts that his
Higimess's implacable hostility arose from having once
found him with one of his favourites, ~tlie Countess de
Paraliere ; when the Duke disdainfully,, said to him,
" Sortez, Monsieur !" to which the other rkslied, "Your
ancestors, sir, would have said Sortons I"—,Dr. Malin-
gen's Histiny of Duelling. . ,
HOUSE-BREAKING' AND DARING ROB-
BERY IS PriaLico.—Another of the frequent and daring
instances of robbery which have lately so Much a
bounded
in this vicinity, was committed on the premises of B.
Buchanan Dunlop, Esq., in Westbourn-plaee, either late
on Friday night or on Saturday morning last. ;ire
appears to be a gang of most expert house-breakers in-
festing this neighbourhood, who both disregard and :let
at nought every' attempt of the police to prevent robbery,
by attacking the rear of these houses, to which they have-
ready access by scaling the garden-walls from a large
open space of ground in Caroline-street, formerly Occu-
pied by a builder for his saw-pit, workshops, &C., as
well as from a gentleman's stable yard in Colesillstreet,
the
which extends in a parallel line a!ong the bottoms of four
houses in Westbourn-place. In the present instance
attempt
and four servants, were unconscious +
4): any
servants
family consisting. of Mr. and Mrs. Tharlop, 'two children,
having been made upon their house, until the
vhen a.
got up at seven o'clock on Saturday
nimr f;se'lf, the-
scene of the greatest confusion presente
plate, but
been searched with extreme care for money ()tor
the top of
whcle of the lower part of the house atpcared
the latter had been nearly all carried to have
found.bool
does not exceed 201. They are sup
- number of boxes.
the house, consequently the total amothmicteidloftowethirseetior.e been,
several hours on the premises from tl,iv
and drawers, besides chiffoniers, is
they con-
it probablevingo of
i 1
nti
ornamentsint afatnttl:ea ys.
were eventually alarmed by
broken open, and ransacked ;
lying on the table ready wto
the lower part of the house,
there were several portable eacuaLri'etvialoular,baaL
fined their search entirely door door was open to them, and
although the drawing-room
of trinkets, snuff-boxes, and much
contained a variety
might easily have been con-
verted into money withou .
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A •,§EAMAN.
—On Tuesday
evening an inquest was held, at the Le-
public-house, Shadwell-market, on David
beck's Head
Cargill, aged thirty-three, a seaman on board the brig
Albion, of Montrose, who committed suicide b 7 throw-
himself into the river. On the evening of fuesday.
throw-
ing •
the 13th instant, the deceased, who had collie on board.
very drunk the night before, and who had spent all his;
wages
• which he had received on the previous Saturday, all
at once exhibited symptoms of wildness in his manner, and
accidentally fell against the chain cable, 'by which he cut
- his eye in a very serious manner. After some time he ap-
peared in a complete state of madness, and ran about the
deck, threatening to throw himself overboard. He made
use of the most blasphemous expressions. A seaman
named Moody interfered, and attempted to secure him,
and receiving a violent blow from the deceased, he left
him, and was deterred from further interference. The
deceased then ran forward, and jumped from the gang-
way into a barge alongside, from whence be immediately
jumped into the river. Before any assistance could be
•
ven he was carried down the stream by the force of
gi
the tide, and was drowned. Verdict—" That the de-
ceased committed self-destruction while labouring nucler
mental derangement."
AN AMERICAN LOCK.---A recent American
paper contains an advertisement strongly recommending
a newly invented lock ; and, after 'giving numerous
praises of its various excellencies, sums up with the fol-
lowing exceedingly questionable quality for a lock that
is intended to be serviceable. " This lock (I,says the
advertisement) has been in use nearly eight years, and,
although frequently tried, has never yet, in any one in, ,
stand, been opened,',

MORNING EDITION

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.
(FROM CORRESPONDENTS. )
RADNORSHIRE, JUNE 22.—Lord Harley arrived here to-
day from canvassing the western side of the county. His can-
vass has been a glorious one, the electors everywhere received
him with open arms, indeed so thankful have the great
body of tha electors been that they regard his appearance
among them as a godsend. The electors are so disgusted at
the Tory candidate Sir John Walsh and his crew, that they
are determined to emancipate themselves. The Tories are
resorting to all sorts of intunidation ; their cause is so fallen
that as soon as Lord Harley arrived at Presteign, the Tory
agents used their utmost efforts to prevent the bells being rune-.
Sir John's unpopularity has become so great that many of his
own party say they will vote for a Radical in preference.
His imperious and supercilious conduct, but above all his bi-
goted and narrow-minded views, justly render hint one of the
most unpopular men of the day. A bright day is opening,
when Radnor's honest sons will again act as manfully as they
did in 1825, burst their chains of slavery, and once more be
free.
STROUD, JUNE 21.—Mr. Symons has very honourably re-
tired (though backed by a strong feeling in his favour) rather
than risk a loss to the cause, or avail himself of Tory support.
Messrs. Scrope and Stanton (a resident Whig) will, -therefore,
be returned by a large majority over Sir Wm. Wraxhall, the
Tory candidate.
LICHVIELD.—The Tories here got the start of us ; Captain
Dyott has'been in the field ten days. lam glad, however, his
Lordship arrived amongst us last Thursday. He has been
actively engaged ever since, and is in excellent health
and spirits. In a few days I trust I shall be able to announce
that the cause of Toryism and monopoly has sustained another
blow by the return of his Lordship as one of our representatives.
BRIDPORT, JUNE 20.—Mr. Warburton arrived here last
evening; his reception Ras the most enthusiastic we ever wit-
nessed, and must have been as gratifying to his feelings as it
was honourable to the electors of Bridport, who thus showed
how highly they appreciated his distinguished services. He was
suet at the entrance of the town by at least five thousand per-
sons, comprising a large proportion of the wealthy and intelli-
gent as well as of the humbler classes. This immense assem-
blage, preceded by a band of music and numerous banners
bearing appropriate inscriptions, conducted him to the inn.
The scene was of the most animated character ; all classes of
the inhabitants vied with each other in doing honour to the
man who, for the last fifteen years, has so faithfully represented
the interests of this borough in Parliament, and who has been,
through evil report and through good report, the untiring
champion of the rights of industry and conscience.
The people of England may rest assured that Bridpert will
do its duty at this important crisis. Not only will Mr. War-
burton be again our representative, but we may now confidently
assert that Mr. Mitchell (an eminent London merchant, who
has already canvassed the town on free trade principles) will be
his colleague, notwithstanding the vain boastings of his Tory
opponent, Mr. Cochrane, and the disgraceful means adopted
by the agents and friends of Mr. Cochrane to induce the elec-
tors to break the promises of support which they have so freely
given to Mr. Mitchell.
DOVER, JUNE 22.—The three candidates are continuing
their respective canvases. It appears quite clear that Mr.
Rice and Sir John Reid will be re-elected, and, indeed, many
doubt if Mr. Sergeant Halcombe will go to the poll.

FIRE AT MAZE-POND.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
From the report made by Mr. Braidwood of the property
destroyed and damaged, it appears that the loss is between
15,000/. and 20,0001. The warehouses belonging to Messrs.
Harris and Billiter are insured, together with the dwelling-
house in Maze-pond, in the Phoenix-office, to the amount of
2,b00/., and the stock, contents, &.c., is insured in the same
office, to the extent of 5,0001.
The warehouses and other premises destroyed belonging to
Messrs. Fisher and Sons, leather-merchants, are said to be in-
sured in the Sun Fire-office to the extent of 10,0001.
Among the adjoining premises that have sustained damage
by the fire in Maze-pond are St. Olave's Charity Schools (a
new brick building), tul!y insured in the Cnion Fire-office ;
and No. 1, occupied by Mr. Jackson, cabinet-maker, which is
also insured.
The houses Nos. 7,8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, Western-street,
and some others in Little Maze-court and Great Maze-court,
have sustained more or less injury. The buildings are sup-
posed to be insured, but unfortunately it is not the case with
the tenants, who are great sufferers.
In the early part of yesterday the outer walls of the ware
houses of Messrs. Harris and Co. fell down, but happily no
accident happened.

DUBLIN COURT OF CHANCERY

RETIREMENT OF LORD PLUNKETT.

__________
Th Court was greatly crowded on Monday forenoon
by an a iclitmy deeply anxious to witness the retirement
ot Lord Plunkett from the Chancery Bench.
After his Lordship had pronounced judgment in a
will cause, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Michael
O'Loghlen, Bart., entered the Court, and took his seat
beside the Chancellor.
Mr. Sergeant GREENE, who had been deputed by the
bar to address the Lord Chancellor on the occasion of
his retirement from his judicial duties, then arose, and
in most complimentary terms, alluded to the long con-
nection of Lord Plunkett with the Chancery bar, and
the suavity of his deportment towards its members, who
now begged to express their deep respect for this Lord-
sh7p, and their anxiety for his future happiness.
Ar. GODDARD, upon the part of the solicitors, made a
imilar address.

Lord PLUNKETT then addressed the members of the
bar, and after giving expression to his feelings of gra-
titude and satisfaction for the kindly sentiments they had
conveyed through Sergeant Greene, proceeded to advert
to the circumstances connected with his retirement from
the bench. Efforts had, he said, been made to induce
him to tender his resignation, but deeming such a step
on his part unnecessary and unwarrantable, he had de-
clined to comply. However, an application had been
subsequently made for the same object, and from a quar-
ter where he owed such deep obligations, that he felt
himself 'coerced at once to give way ; but with the cir-
cumstances which had led to his resignation he had no
connection whatever, directly or indirectly. With the
proceeding he had no connection—he strongly disap-
proved of it, and he did not feel himself in any manner
responsible for its consequences. In now taking his
fa rowel! of the bar, he begged to repeat his gratitude
fcr their kindness, and to express his high sense of the
talents and attainments of its members, who were not
surpassed by the bar of England, Scotland, or of any
other country.

SIUGULAR MATRIMONIAL
CEREMONY. _ _

On Monday last, at the Police Court, Liverpool, two
men, Isaac 111'Nedle and John Henderson, were placed at
the bar ; the latter, a young man, on a charge of falsely
personating himself as a clergyman, and marrying a
couple in a private house ; and the other, his senior, with
aiding and abetting in the deception. The newly but
falsely wedded couple appeared together in the witness
box. The bridegroom, a decent looking and rather well
dressed country-looking man, of apparently about forty-
five years of age, said he had come from Ireland the day
before, in company with his female partner, who ap-
peared to be somewhat under thirty. He was on his way
to Manchester in search of work, and being desirous of
getting married to the young woman, who would proceed
no farther with him unless the nuptial knot were tied,
he (simple man) accosted the elder prisoner in the street,
and asked him the way to a church, stating that he did
not like to disclose his own affairs to a stranger, b'st
that a friend of his wished to be married without loss of
time. The prisoner pointed to the church ; but imme-
diately afterwards told complainant that he could not be
married there without the banns being put up for three
successive Sundays ; but he knew a man who was quali-
fied to do so for a very moderate sum without that pre-
liminary, and who had solemnized the marriage of his
own sister, who had since lived in great comfort and hap-
piness with her husband in Cheshire. Thus persuaded
the loving pair accompanied him to a house, he knew not
in what street, where it appeared preparations were soon
made to inveigle them, They found some men and two
women there, and were ushei ed into a room. up-stairs,
which the female (an equally simple country
very finely furnished. "Inan)
de-
scribed as being
and the yeunser Booksprisoner were
placed on the table,
, proceeded
to perform. the ceremony. Books were placed the
table to give th.e. matter a show of publicity. on
Tth:
assumed divine joined the hands of the couple, placed
the ring on her finger, and went through the
ceremony
with a gravity that. lulled their suspicions at the time,
cencluding by making: them both kneel. The charge for
the service performed was stated at first to be 10s.. ' butr
as the bridegroom had not so much, it was agreed to take
65., which was handed to
." the elergyman," and by him
to his accomplices. Marriage lines (produced) were af_
terwards given to the parties. The Magistrate read ab-
stracts from two distinct Marriage Acts, showing that to
personate a clergyman and marry a couple, not in a
church, or licensed plice, without a special license so to
do, was to all intents and purposes a libel, and even sub-
jected the party or parties to fourteen years' transporta-
tion. He strongly, reprehended the conduct of
.the
'offenders, the youngest of whom said he was drawn into
the act in mere joke, and committed them both for trial,
expressing a wish, that in so heartless a ease the penalty,
severe as it was, would be carried into eFfeet.

GRAND FETE OF THE TRUE HIGHLAN-
DERS.—(From a Correspondent.)—Copenhagen fieldsnaFnrdidthaye
adjoining meadows presented a most animated scene o . e
body
of
last, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, a
*the Society of True Highlanders, in full costume, having
met
:there to celebrate the glory of that day. The
objects
of the
Society are of a:purely philanthropic character, the funds being
applied to the relief of Highlanders requiring temporary. aid in
this metropolis. Several ancient games were played during the
day, and Highland reels and "flings" to the sound of the phl-
broch and the wild chorus of the dancers, added much to the
gaiety of the fete, perfectly novel in this country. The phibroch
was played by the respective pipers of the Duke of Sutherland
and of the Society. The boys of the Scottish school were pre-
:sent during the amusements and imitated their elders by join-
ing in similar games. They were liberally provided with re-
freshments. A dejeune a la fourchette took place in marquees
erected for the occasion, to which the lady visitors, of whore
there was a goodly and elegant company, were invited to par-
take. A dinner was given in the evening in the house attached
to the grounds, Air. Forbes APNeill, the President of the So-
ciety, in the chair. The President was dressed in a costume
copied from that presented by the Duke of Perth to Prince
Charles Edward, upon his arrival in Scotland, in 1745. The
customary loyal toasts were drunk with the usual feeling; and
those of the Queen Dowager, the Earl of Inverness, and the
Navy and Army, coupled with the name of Commodore Napier,
were re:ponded to with Highland honours, and the stron"est
demonstrations of affection. His Grace the Duke of Suther-
land excused himself from attendance, but intimated a desire,
by letter, to give an annual prize to be played for at the ancient
cr.:, of shinney." Among the company were Sir John
:Sl' Neill, Commodore Sir Charles Napier, Chisholm of Chisholm,
J. Frazer, Esq., Captain Wylder, Captain .31'Kenzie, Colonel
and many other representatives of high and distin-
guished Scottish families. No allusion whatever was made of
a political nature, nor did anything tend in the remotest degree
to mar the pleasure of a gala really beautiful and recherche.
Several subscriptions in aid of the funds ere reed by the Se-
cretary during the evening,. Previous to taking his departure
the gallant Napier, the Chairman, Colonel MrNeill, and Mr.
11I'Lean danced a highland reel.
Dovzit, JUNE 22.—Her Majesty's packet
Widgeon, Capt.
ceive on board taarnir , sailed yesterday for Ostend to re-
Belgians, and to conve Ma the King and Queen of the
Captain Deana Viuenvntli,s-morrow to Woolwich.
aloCralesr,lf.f
tohfet4l-I\.edmOirradlntya,naneed,
is to he appointed one a
tube aucceded in his otifittee at the Ordnance by Colonel

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS,
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The party malignity and falsehoods of the
Tories during the last few weeks have been unexampled. On
Monday we announced the appointment of Sir John Campbell
to the Irish Seals, and the fact that such high judicial office
had " been conferred and accepted on condition that the usual
pension is not to attach to It on his resignation or removal."
Notwithstanding the truth and notoriety of the renunciation of
the statutory pension, the Standard of the same evening de-
nounces the appointment as a rank job to pension a new Lord
Chancellor of Ireland ; and the Times of yesterday repeats
the calumny—that " the Whigs have promoted Sir John
Campbell to a high legal office, which they know he must
vacate at their dismissal, with a retiring pension of 4,0001.
a year." We are at a loss to imagine the motive of
such scandalous and short-lived misrepresentations. They
are probably designed to act on the coming elections,
and to increase the irritation of the Irish bar-
risters, who, in the Four Courts, view the elevation of an
Englishman or a Scotchman to the Irish bench with jealousy.
We eau excuse the Dublin barristers for feeling a little tem-
porary annoyance, but the falshoods of the English Tory
press are disgusting. Was the Peel preferment of Sir Edward
Sugden matte: of such grievance to the Irish bar ; or, his
briefly earned pension for four months' service such a scandal or
public burden in the sight of the Standard and the Times ?
If Sir Edward Sugden should shortly replace Sir John Camp-
bell, would a " round robin" be signed by the Conservative
Irish lawyers against the Tory English Chancellor ? We sus-
pect not ; but that they would fawn, as before, on the English
ermine. All this misrepresentation is, however, a compli-
ment to Sir John Campbell. The Tory press cannot
deny his high qualifications for the judicial office ; indeed, the
Standard admits, " though we do not admire his politics, we
know him to be immeasurably a better man, in every quality,
than Lord Plunket." This is high and disinterested pane-
gyric. We do admire his politics, and they ought especially to
find favour in the sight of the Irish Liberals. Sir Junn Camp-
bell entered public life, and allied himself with the Whig ,
party, when Toryism was in the ascendant, and the prospects
of promotion for a Liberal English barrister were faint in the
extreme. He was an early and consistent advocate of Ca.
tholic Emancipation. He was a stanch supporter, out of office,
of the Reform Bills in 1831-2, and much in the confidence
of the Government in the preparation of those great
national measures. He was a zealous advocate of
the Scotch Burgh and the English Corporation Bills, particu-
larly of the latter municipal reforms ; and he was equally
earnest in his aid of the Irish Corporation Bill till it was
finally carried last year. His argument on the Privilege
Question was one of the most masterly constitutional discussions
ever delivered in a court of justice. In 1840, and in the pass
Session, he particularly distinguished himself by speeches
against Lord Stanley's Registration Bills. His speech in July
last on that nefarious measure, and his prttest against the
finality of the decision of the Judges, was incomparably the
best answer which was given to Lord Stanley. We should
hope that these political virtues will not be lost on the
Liberals of the Irish Bar, however they may excite the
spleen of the Tory lawyers of Dublin. In his profes-
sional character, however, Sir John Campbell may
justly claim the respect and confidence of the entire bar of
Ireland. His professional pre-eminence is undisputed; and
he has maintained his superiority as an ads ocate and lawyer,
in Westminster Hall, for a longer period than almost any
predecessor. He owes nothing to family or party. By his
own talents and industry he has succeeded in reaching the
heights of his arduous profession. In the prime of lee he sur-
renders the largest income received at the bar for half the
amount in the salary of a Judge ; and without a retiring pen-
sion. It is not now alleged against Lord Loughborough or
Lord Eldon that they were not great Equity Judges because
they were originally common lawyers. Do the English
Tories admit that Lord Lyndhurst was an indifferent
Chancery Judge because he came from the Common
Pleas ? or do they object to Sir William Follett as a probable
future Lord Chancellor of England, because he practises in the
Queen's Bench ? But Sir John Campbell carries to the Irish
Seals peculiar qualifications for the equity bench. He has
had an extensive practice in the House of Lords and Privy
Council, in cases involving the most important and complicated
equity questions. Further, he has specially pleaded in some
of the most important snits in the Court of Chancery ; and he
was the Chief Commissioner in the real property commission of
1832-3, whence emanated some of our most valuable legal re-
forms. For the last six years he has had to advise on all the
Crown charity suits, involving almost every possible question in
equity. If Sir John Campbell was saddled upon Ireland
as a superannuated lawyer (as several English, Irish,
and Scotch judges are now panting for the advent of Toryism
to retire on pensions), the Irish bar might be entitled to pro-
test. But he is preferred to the Irish Seals in the full enjoy-
ment of his reputation and faculties—surrendering his income
at the bar for the comparatively small salary of a judge—and
willing to retire from office on the fruits of his own honour-
able industry, without any pension-charge to the public. We
repeat our hope and belief that such a man will meet with the
respect and support of his profession in Ireland. As a Judge
he will conciliate even those who are politically opposed to
him. The Irish suitors will not be slow to appreciate his
merits, which will obtain for him the regard of the nation long
after the unworthy attempts to represent his promotion to the
Irish seals, as a " job," and to excite a national prejudice
against him, will be forgotten, or only remembered to the
shame of the parties who could descend to such unworthy acts
of hostility.
HERALD.—Yesterday the prorogation of Parliament,
" with a view to its immediate dissolution," took place. Her
Majesty delivered a speech on the occasion, as to which we
must claim the full liberty allowed by the Constitution and
the custom of Parliament to its unreserved discussion. We
are permitted, on these authorities, to assume that the speech
is, nominally only, the Speech of her Majesty; and that it is,
in fact, one concocted by her Majesty's Ministers, and to be
regarded, in strictness of speaking, and in all reasonable con-
struction, as that of the existing Cabinet. To parody a noble
line of Byron's, it is
" Linked with one merit and a thousand faults."
It is mercifully and marvellously.short. That is its excel-
lence. it is ungracious to a degree ; flippant, supercilious, and
conveniently forgetful of, at least, some merits which the ex-
pirine Parliament might have pleaded, one should have thought
at Windsor. It has a great many indications of the hand of
Lord John Russell about it; and not the least characteristic of
these is, that fatality which waits on all his efforts at historical
association, whether he makes indifferent speeches on his own
account, or writes bad books for his booksellers, to the dispa-
tagement of their accounts. A very stilted effort pervades
this production at Elizabethan terseness. It has as little of
that as can be imagined, but much of her brusquerie. The
misfortune of the thing is, that the points of similitude which
are necessary to recal the notions of Tudor majesty, ruffled
by a stubborn Parliament, are wanting and cannot be supplied.
First, the times are not alike. Secondly, the Ministers are
not alike. Thirdly, there are other essential dissimilarities that
we have not time to mention.
POST.—'I he Melbourne Ministry has contrived to signalise
its latest moments of existence by the performance of two feats,
which, had they been described to us beforehand, we should
have pronounced, without hesitation, to be beyond all human
power. They have shown themselves to be more rapacious
and sordid, more ravenous of patronage and more indifferent to
principle, more reckless how deeply they wound the natural
and honourable feelings of large and valuable classes of their
fellow-subjects, and more hostile to the due administration of
the law. and to the sound princi•ifes of the Constitution, than
they had proved themselves by any former instances of miscon.
duct. The achievement, will at once be said, approaches to
the character of a miracle. But Ministers have accomplished
it, nevertheless. Tois is the first of the great feats to
which we allude. And the second is scarcely less amazing.
Ministers have actually found out the means of making Lord
Plunket, tLe late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the father of all
the Haienibals, descend from the bench, and take, for the rest
of hie days, four thousand a year instead of eight; and this,
though much, is not the whole, nor even the greatiet part, of
'heir achievement—they have made him descend from the
bench amidst the acclamations of the Irish people, and all the
evidences of restored popularity. We refer to the letter of
our Dublin correspondent for a representation of the scene in
the Irish Court of Chancery when Lord Plunket took his final
leave of the bar. The aged Judge heaped reproaches upon the
Administration for forcing him from a scat which he had no de-
sire to quit, and, in proportion as he vented reproach upon the
Administration, he became the object of increased popularity,
and they of execration and contempt—he, their late colleague,
popular for the mere merit of denouncing them as they deserved,
and they execrated and despised for the meanness, rapacity,
tyranny, ingratitude, enmity to Irish rights and feelings, of
which he justly accused them. His Lordship said that "-his
retirement was not of his own seeking, and that he could wet
but feel indignant at the manner in which he was compelled to
seek retirement." And again—" He owed it to himself—he
owed it to the members of the bar—to state that Tor his retire-
ment he was not in any degree answerable. At no time,
either directly or indirectly, had he sanctioned it." These, it
will be admitted, are extraordinary expressions—words en,
tirely without precedent in the mouth of a Lord Chancellor,
while descending from the seat of. judgment which he had oc-
cupied for twenty years and it is one of the numerous dis-
tinctions of the Whig-Radical Government that it is their
Lord Chancellor who utters them, and utters them with the
sympathy and approbation of every hearer.
TIMES.—The time for the long-expected struggle has at
length arrived : the first Parliament of Queen Victoria he
l at h
virtually ceased to exist. Her Majesty's Speech) on pro-
roguingef suchtPn documents,r
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tention
general election. In a few days the
victory of constitutional irinciples over jobbing eeashness,
lYistz agitation, and 1 tiocratical oppressien of the poor,
Wilt be Complete. I)3uut, in the ineahtiMe, every nerve
every energy exerted,
must be strained,all honourable means
and appliances
to °success tasked to' the utmost, in order
the artificesl glorious a result. We have all along foreseen
budget would yittt which those who have framed the Baring
this appeal to theerapt to misrepresent the true cheracter Of
ffigate manner in pro-
which ; we foretold the reckless and pro-
passions of the working
they would endeavour to stir up the
delusions by which ciasses'
the dangeretts and hypocritical
of the ignorant, ttheyorould practise upon the credulity
to be true, the •
rn sehoods which they would vouch
the base calumnies possibilities they would promieta
their oppments, the systemati which they would itsperse
which they would have recourse,cintimidatiem end bribery to
between grasping capitalists, the er The teutemplated league
workhouse, eager to ruin every o'thaenrts of the factory and the
era their own, and tkose aristocratical
for the sake of
Cave so long been sucking the blood of the
cratical leeches who
natistreet, Somerset-house, and Buckingham; in
Downing"
escape our notice. From the moment when the Palace, did not
bubble was first announced, visions ofplacards coupling
of Lord John Russell with the heartless lie e " the name
ployment and cheap bread," (benefits which no legfull"l
aem-
measure can ever secure to the people,) began to floatbeftoivere
our eyes; nor were we without a presentiment of leaves a yard
long and a foot high to be contrasted, as types of the Ministe
rial policy, with penny rolls almost concealed from sight
by labels identifying them with the name of Sir Robert
Peel. Our anticipations, of course, did not reach to every
particular ; we could not, for instance, have prophecied
that a Cabinet Minister who has always appeared
to take a peculiar pleasure in heaping insults upon
the citizens of London would, in return for those
courtesies, aspire to the honour of representing that city in
Parliament, muds less that any supporter of Lord J. Russell
against Messrs. Lyall, Masterman, Pirie, and Attwood, would
have the hardihood to placard London with the following words:
Who imprisoned the Sheriffs ? Why, Sir Robert Peel !"
We knew, however, that desperate men would take desperate
courses, and that a desperate cause must be supported by
desperate expedients. And as we expected, so the event has
turned out.
GLOBE.—The appointment of Sir John Campbell to
the Irish Chancellorship, is seized upon by the Tory
Journals with an avidity which shows their anxiety to
find a pretext for attack upon the Government. The
utter failure of the attempt to make out even a colour-
able case in furtherance of their object, is shown by their
direct contradictions of each other, and by the in-
consistencies into which they are led with them-
selves. If there has been one subject more than
another on which the Tory press has been found una-
nimous, that mianimity has been shown in an endeavour
to induce Lord Plunkett to retire from the Bench, on
the ground of his advanced age and in creasing in-

firmities. Expostulation, ridicule, and invective, have
alternately been employed to effect an object which these
careful guardians of the public service affected to consi-
der as no less essential to the interests of the suitors,

than to the dignity of the Court. The Government was
conjured, by a regard for its own reputation, to inter-
pose ; and, by calling upon the tenacious Chancellor to
relax his hold of the seals of office, exhibit a fit con-
cern for the dignity of the Court and the interests of the
suitors. This was represented as necessary to save
Lord Plunkett himself from the reproach of being
indifferent to both, by obstinately retaining his
hold upon office when no longer able to per-
form its functions with regularity and efficiency.
The Tories were not alone in their opinion, that the
period had arrived when Lord Plunkett—from the fre-
quent attacks of severe illness to which be was subject,
and the manifest decay of his mental as well as physical
powers—ought to retire from the bench, the duties of
which he was no longer able to discharge with honour
to himself and satisfaction to the country. On several
occasions, especially at the close of his recent long and
serious illness, which greatly prostrated his remaining
powers, a respectful but sufficiently significant intimation
from the Government was understood to have been con-
veyed to his Lordship from the proper quarter, that his re-
tirement was now not only generally expected by the bar
and the public, but was even due to his own character,
personal and official. The venerable Judge—retaining a
vivid recollection of his pristine vigour, but unconscious
of the failure of powers which were once acknowledged
by all, although their decay had become too plain to
every one else—still retained his seat. At length a vet
more significant representation was made—a correspond-
ence with Lord Melbourne, as Prime Minister, ensued.
The Premier fully confirmed the views taken by the
Lord Lieutenant as to the propriety of his Lordship's re-
signation—and, as the Chancellor's farewell address to
the bar too plainly proves, a reluctant relinquishment of
office was the consequence.
COURIER.—The speech delivered by her Majesty
from the throne is, as a collection of common places,
commendable at least for its brevity, and would hardly
ly.t good for more than the passing notice of the day on
which delivered, but for the extraordinary uses and
abuses to which it is sought to be prostituted by those
who framed it, and the slavish press by which they
are supported. According to that unprincipled press,
indeed, and notably by the least scrupulous mein-
ber of it, the Chronicle, the authorship of the Speech
is fastened upon the Queen herself, instead of the
Ministers, who, according to ancient • constitutional
1 usage, were invested with the responsibility, leaving
the Sovereign totally free from reflection for whatever
might chance to be repugnant to national sympathies
either in the acts of the Government or the language of
the address. In pursuance of the Whig-Radical tactics
of the present day, however, the Sovereign is saddled
with the responsibilities, whilst the Ministry monopolise
only the honours and profits of place, and it is accord-
ingly announced that " the Queen, as if inspired by the
tutelary genius of Britain, tells her subjects ' the para-
mount importance of the trade and industry of the
country, and my anxiety that the exigencies of the
public service should be provided for in the manner
least burdensome to the community, have induced me
to resort to the means which the Constitution has en-
trusted to me of ascertaining the sense of my people
upon matters which so deeply concern their welfare.'
The " tutelary genius of Britain," by whom her Majesty
is thus somewhat sacrilegiously made to be inspired, is
embodied, as we all know, in the personnel of the gay
and gouty Lord Melbourne, and the turning and trim-
ming Lord John Russell, so lately described by Mr.
Samuel Jones Loyd, in a figure of speech much more
resplendent than that more humble stretch of imaginative
creation applied to Majesty, as " riding into the City
with virtue and prudence seated by his side." It is
somewhat singular that no more important information
of public interest could be found for the groundwork of
a Royal Speech, embracing at- once the announcement of
a prorogation and dissolution, than the tardy discovery
of the " paramount importance of the trade and industry
of the country," a truism so trite as generally to be
familiar from the earliest years with the most unfledged
of those public men in embryo who, like the Russells, are
to be " swathed, rocked, and dandled into legislators."
STANDARD.—The Royal Speech, pronouncing the
doom of the late Parliament, is in the hands of the public,
who have learned nothing from it that they did not know
before. It is a short and meagre composition, more pe-
tulant in tone than any loyal Minister would place in the
hands of a Sovereign, whose interest it must always be to
act and speak graciously to her subjects. The second
paragraph is the reproof to the Parliament about to be
dismissed, and it is a most unjust one with reference to
the occasion of the dismisal
" The paramount importance of the trade and industry of
the country, and my anxiety that the exigencies of the public
service should be provided for in the manner least burdensome
to the community, have induced me to resort to the means
which the Constitution has entrusted to me, of ascertaining
the sense of my people upon matters which so deeply concern
their welfare."
The importance of the trade and industry is indeed
paramount; but why should the Speech assume that the
Parliament of 1837 did not duly appreciate this para-
mount importance ? Because that Parliament refused
to sacrifice ultimately the whole trade and industry of the
country—instantly, the trade and industry of thirty-nine
fortieths of the people to the chance of a temporary
advancement of the trade and industry of one-
fortieth. This is the ' real state of the question.
The Corn-laws and other protective laws have long
been treated on a much too narrow basis. We take
pride to ourselves that we never so treated them,
and our pride is not the less that we were the first
—and were for a long time alone—in treating these
laws as not landlord's, or farmer's, or colonist's, or
shipowner's questions, but as the high insular policy
of a great empire, which had grown great by these pro-
tective laws, and by a perseverance in the same insular
policy must remain great, and become greater. The
necessity of such comprehensive treatment of the ques-
tion is proved by the opportunity for the cry of monopoly,
which has been afforded by dealing separately with the
several interests attacked by selfish parties. Landlords,
farmers, colonists, shipowners, as each interest was at-
tacked, have been called monopolists for defending them-
selves ; but the absurdity of such an imputation become-s
manifest, when we come to the truth, that the only sense in
which they can be called monopolists is as partners in the
great monopoly of the British empire—a monopoly in
arts, in arms, in commerce, wealth, and character, which
causes this empire to be the object of envy through-
out the world. In this sense we are monopolists,
and we trust to remain such ; in any other
to speak of any monopoly in the empire, except
the monopoly which money must give everywhere, is
the grossest and most ridiculous falsehood. We read.in
placards on the walls that the agriculturists are paid out
of the taxes, we know not how many millions a year ;
and the reason given is, that their industry is protected
by the Corn-laws. Why, if this be true, every man
is paid out of the taxes to the extent of his in-
come, for every man's industry is protected, di-
rectly or indirectly, and all tradesmen and labourers
are protected in the protection enjoyed by customers
and employers. This is the insular policy which has
made the-British empire what it is. Abandon this insu-
lar policy, and you abandon all the advantages that you
have acquired. Political economists will tell you, no
doubt, that free trade is the best for all. Be it su ; then,
if it is best for all, it must be worst for those who have
secured the advantage—for the monopolist, that is, for
the British empire.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1841.

of settliiim' things, but it is, at the same time, an example that
we are not ambitious of imitating.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 82 per mine,
which, at the English ftiint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 23. 36, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short beinr, 25. 37k, it follows
that gold is 0.C6 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 429 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101-Ad. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 7, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 71, it
follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgit.

CARLOW ELECTION
(Abridged from the linin Pilot of Monday.)
CARLOW, SATURDAY NIGHT.----'ShOrtly after eleven
o'clock this morning Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his
son John, Messrs. Steele, Reynolds, O'Neill Daunt, and
the Rev. Messrs. Maher and Tyrrell, proceeded from
Carlow to Bagnalstown, for the purpose of addressing
the people who were then assembled at the market. The
whole face of the country presented a most delightful
and cheering prospect ; the crops, refreshed by the late
salutary rain. are in a flourishing condition, and give
promise of an abundant harvest. Mr. O'Connell
and his friends arrived in Bagnalstown shortly after one
o'clock, and immediately afterwards proceeded to the
house of the Rev. Mr. Lalor, P.P., and vicar-general of
the diocese ; convenient to which a spacious platform
was erected for the accommodation of the gentlemen who
were to address the people, and around which several
Thousand persons had already taken up their position,
with a view to secure in time good hearing places.
Mr. O'CONNELL then came to the front of the plat-
form, and was greeted with the most enthusiastic accla-
mation. Most of them present remembered the battle
for Emancipation—they remembered that, oppoSed to
justice and the rights of the people, there was the Duke
of Wellington; the hero of a hundred fights, and yet
they conquered him.—(Cheers, and cries of " We will
conquer again.") No doubt they would conquer again,
and, what more, the conquest was much easier at present
than it was when he won the Catholic Emancipation, and
trampled under foot the spirit of bigotry that actuated
the Newtons, the Burens, and all the Orange faction.
He (Mr. O'Connell) would say to the non-electors that
they should go round to the houses of the voters and
reason with them, and their honest wives and daughters,
and ask them how it would be possible for them to •be
such Judases as to sell themselves to the Britons and the
Newtons, who would, if they dared, re-enact the horrid
penal laws with more than their former sanguinary fe-
rocity. Let them tell the wife to beg of her husband that
he should not be marked out as a black sheep—let no
handsome young woman marry the son of a black sheep
—let them be marked out as degraded creatures who sold
their God and their country for some paltry considera-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) They should do them no harm, but
merely mark them out as traitors to their country and-to
their own familieS. He would tell them' what the people
of Clare did to mark out the black sheep there after the
election; they would not prevent them from going to the
chapel or hearing mass; indeed the unfortunate people
wanted to pray more than ever they did, in the hope that
God would pardon them their crimes—but they fixed up
a kind of pew in the chapel, like a dock, and there the
black sheep, were put, so that the honest, virtuous
part of the congregation might have no communication
with them.—(Cries of " We will do the same if any fellow
be found bad enough to go against God and his coun-
try.") Yes, that was the way to treat them, but he
plored of them to use no violence to any man. If the
Tories came into power they would appoint their own
Sheriffs, their own Judges, their own Juries, and the ad-
ministration of justice would be a mockery throughout
the land. They had all heard of the blood-stained tithes.
—(Cries of "We did, to our sorrow.") If the Tories
were in power, they would keep up the remaining three-
fourths of the tithes, for that odious impost still existed
in the shape of rent-charge ; they would still perpetuate
the wrong and the injustice of the people paying the
parsons of a different religion ; they would never redress
any of the evils which the country groaned under. Let the
people assist him, and he would take off the taxes, and let
them remember that every man who voted for Bruen voted
for keeping on the Grand Jury Cess.—(Hear, hear.)
No honest man, Catholic or Protestant, will vote for
him—no man who is not blinded by prejudice, or dead to
the true interests of his native land, will vote for him.
Let the honest wives, if they could not get their husbands
out till the day of voting, imitate the conduct of the wife
of a freeholder in Longford, named Prunty.—(Cheers.)
Her husband was shut up for about a fortnight before the
election by the exterminators ; his wife and family were
not allowed access to him, and on the second or third
day. of the election he was brought fiorn his prison in a
chaise, guarded by dragoons, up to the hustings ; his
faithful wife watched him, and in the crowd got near the
step of 'the chaise as he got out, and exclaimed, " Oh,
Peter, remember your soul and liberty !" and that memo-
rable appeal which embraced, in a word, both her tem-
poral and eternal prospects, sunk into his heart ; and al-
though brought up upon the tally of the exterminators,
he did vote for liberty and his conscience.—(Cheers.)
The patriotism and virtue of Mrs. Prunty were not al-
lowed to pass without some mark of esteem, and the
Association in Dublin sent her a present of a horse,
bridle, saddle, and pillion, and she goes to mass every
Sunday mounted behind her husband, and looked up to
by all her neighbours as a model worthy of imitation.
Again, he would conjure the people to assist him to put
an end to the supremacy of that fell faction, who, from
the days of Queen Elizabeth down to the massacre at
Rathcorrnac desolated Ireland. The Honourable and
Learned Gentleman sat down amidst loud and long-
continued cheering.
Mr. STEELE came forward next, and addressed the
meting in a strain of fervid eloquence, which was most
loudly cheered.
Other sp
e,:yers then addressed the meeting, after which
Mr. O'CONNELL came to the front of the platform, and
called for three cheers for the Queen and Old Ireland,
which were heartily respont.:9d
Mr. STEELE called for three cheers for O'Connell and
the Repeal of the Union, which were Answered with equal
enthusiasm. •
The people then quietly separated, declaring that they
were almost to a man teetotallers. -
Mr. O'Connell will be at Rathvilly to-morrow, and to
-barony of St. Mullin's on Monday—and it is thought he
will not return to Dublin for another week.
CARLOW, SUNDAY.—The rain fell in torrents this
morning from five to twelve o'clock, but, as soon as
the day cleared up Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by Mr.
T. Reynolds and some gentlemen of Carlow, proceeded
to the town of Rathvilly, which is situated on the borders
of the county, adjoining Wicklow, where Mr. O'Connell
again addressed a numerous and enthusiastic assembly.
I have just now heard that upwards of two hundred
freeholders are locked up in the castle of Kavanagh, at
Borriss, and their wivesi daughters, and sisters were to
go in a body some day this week to demand the release
of the captives.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. John Tracers, of St. Swithin's-lane, merchant,
was summoned upon an information to show cause why
he refused to make a return according to the Act of Par-
liament, of the names, ages, and occupations of the in-
mates of his house. The defendant had been previously
summoned on the subject, but did not appear. He was
also absent yesterday when his name was called.
Sir PETER LAURIE, who directed that a second sum-
mons should be issued to Mr. Travers upon a written
information, in consequence of that gentleman's neglect
of the first, presided, and desired that the case should be
proceeded with.
Mr. Alfred Nelson Wicks, registrar of births and
deaths, in the south district of the City of London,
stated that having appointed Mr. White to call for a
census of the population in the district, that gentleman
left one of the usual forms at Mr. Travers' house, and
the paper. was returned with a mere general statement of
the number of males and females, the defendant having
refused to make any other return.
tit Prim LAURIE required, as he intended to make
the Met-Want responsible in a higher penalty than he
believed was the practice, in consequence of the inatten-
tion to the first summons, to have all the evidence that
could be adduced.
Mr. White stated that after he had received the
part filled tip in the general way above stated, he ap-
plied to the defendant to do as the Act specifically
required, by stating the names, ages, and occupations of
all the individuals in his house. Mr. Travers in a
conversation of some length with him, refused to state
any of the required particulars, and the Registrar upon
being informed of the defendant's determination, thought
himself convened to issue a summons, and have tie
matter decided before a Magistrate. Witness again
waited upon Mr. Traverse and represented to him that
if be persisted in his refusal the Registrar would be
obliged to proceed against him by information, and
after the hearing of the summons td tniforce the
fittisah7. The reply of the defendant to the
.last ap-
plication Ito, that he could give no further particulars
than the paper contained, and that the matter must
take its course.
SIR PETER LAURIE--Was this before the informa-
tion was acted upon ? Witness—lt was. He was
summoned before the information was obtained, and
he neglected to appear. Several days have elapsed since
he was first applied to.
Sir PETER LAURIE--Then Mr. Travers cannot com-
plain that we have been hasty.
Stroud, the marshalman, said that he served the copy
of the writ personally On Mr. Travers, who was in the
Committee-room of the candidates for the representation
of the City of London, at the Guildhall Coffee House, at
the time. Witness told Mr. Travers that the summons
was the secor.d served upon. him relative to the popula-
tion census. " Give my compliments," said Mr. Travers,
"to the Lord Mayor, or any Alderman who may sit for
his Lordship, that I cannot come, situated as I am, and
that I will not come, and I disagree with the law alto-
gether. I have made a return as it was wished, but to
question my servants as to the particulars required is
what I will not do. lam acquainted with the fine, and
I shall leave that to the Magistrate."
Sir PETER LAURIE—Then I shall not hesitate to de-
cide in the absence of the defendant. If Mr. Travers
had appeared and answered to the first summons, I would
have fined him no more than forty shillings, the lowest
penalty, but as he utterly disregarded it, I shall inflict
tly., highest penalty of 5/. -
The Registrar applied for costs, but Sir Peter Laurie
refused at once to grant any.
A young man ofvery respectable appearance and good
address, named Watkins, was brought up for re -examina-
tion, charged with having picked the pocket of a gentle-
man, named Cassel, in the great room of the London
Tavern during the meeting, when Lord John Russell at-
tended to address the constituency-. At the first examina-
tion the prisoner, upon being spoken to on the subject,
immediately acknowledged that he bad committed the
offence, and produced the handkerchief from his pocket,
stating, at the same time, that want had compelled him
to disgrace himself.
The officer into whose custody the prisoner was given,
stated that the gentleman who saw what had occurred
said that he observed the prisoner the moment before
wiping his face with another handkerchief, and kis im-
pression was that both handkerchiefs had been stolen.
The prisoner declared that the handkerchief which he
had first put into his pocket was his own, which, on ac-
count of its bad condition, the pawnbroker refused to
lend him anything upon. The other handkerchief he
confessed he had taken, but it was the first dishonest act
lie had ever committed in his life, and he
.was really
driven to it by want.
The LORD MAYOR observing that the appearance of
the prisoner did not indicate any extremity of the kind,
desired him' to give some account of himself.