The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

MORN 114C+ ED l'n.ON

Ilow it delighted hire that they bad :e it Mr.
Baines to prison—how pleasant it was to bin to rra
Englishmen as brothers in this spirit—how pleassiit it ;ass
to him, that he was thus called upon to scatter to the ssir"'
the calumnies that had been put fcrth against those of it a
creed.—( Hear, hear.) As to the great organs of tl'e
Conservatives, they were filled, page upon page, and dos'
after day, in villifs ing aid casting every dishonour up"n
the clergy and the people of Ireland—in denouncing the,
first as " surpliced ruffians," for such was the term appliati
to their clergy ; while the others were branded as " tit
squalid mob of murderers."—(Heer, hear.) Was it wise
—was it right—that, as Christians, this warfare should he
carried on ?—that such terms should be applied to these
who had ever been so useful to En,
'land ? That the debt
arm that had nevet failed her in the day of her redcisst
battles should be palsied by a spirit of calumny, and t'at
faction should claim as an element of power the psiarts
plc of hatred and aeimosity against Ireland.__( Loud
cheers.) He felt that he had wandered, but he could not
help it. He was there upon the occasion of the assertion
of the great principle of freedom of coneeience. He ,x"'
there to assert that the strife was in every way
justifiable:—(Loud cheers.) lie called, thou, upon tit"'
to assist themselves. If they faltered—if they wen''afraid, the Government could not assist them.—(Hear.)
The Government was pressed upon as much as they were'
There was only one thing in which he differed from the
first speaker. He must be allowed to say that he thought
that gentleman had cast too much blame upon the Go-
vernment. They were the Government, but they bad net
power. Their enemies and the enemies of the Dissen;ess
were the same. He did not mean to say, that if the
vernrnent had the power they would do all that they ought.
He believed that they would not. But then it would be
wrong in the Dissenters, because the Government did not
give them the support they required, to place themselves
in the power of their enemies. Paddy, he could tell them,
was more shrewd than that, far when he was asked, why he
voted for the Whigs, when he knew the 'Whigs did no gel
far enough for him ; and that he was aware that they isoelu
not assist him in obtaining his privileges? Paddy said he
knew that was very true, but still he voted for them on
principle—on the same principle that he acted when a pane
of glass was broken in his cabin wiadota, and he could get
no glazier to mend it—he then slipped an old hat into it, net.
said Paddy, to let in the light, but to keep out the celds
—( Laughter.) It was upon the same principle he voted
for the Ministerial candidate—not so much to keep in the,
Ministry as to keep out the Tories.—( Laughter gnu
cheers.) That, too, was his principle of action ; beesuh,
when these two things were before him—the bad se°
worse—he always preferred the bad to the worse.'"
(Laughter.) When, too, he hat to select between 0°
smallest good and the very bad, his choice would be t°
take the smallest good, and to fight off the very bed, as
long as he could,—(Cheers.) He called, then, upon the
Dissenters to rally together. He said to them, let no tean
apologize to him for having brought him there. He felt
it to be a great compliment to have been invited. When'
then, he spoke to them in the language of advice, let tbew
not suppose that he meant anything in the way of taunt
or reproach. Ile, said, however, it would be wrong is
them to have called that meeting—it would be wrung in
them to permit Mr. Baines to be in gaol; for he Meat
have hopes—all this would go wrong if they did ne,
immediately agitate, agitate, agitate,—( Cheers.) Le
them get up the steam everywheie.—(Cheers.) irelo
would reply to them. It would act as a little backing
engine.—(Cheers.) Let no man tell him that he col`
not do much, when there was no mast in that meeting
more insignificant than himself, lie had, front bit
mere son of a private gentleman—successful, to ut
sure, in his profession—.risen to:the degree of influence that
he could not but be conscious lie possessed; and this, ac
by talent, but by his persevering exertions—by his neVei,
sleeping over a grievance.—(Cheers.) lie said, fur lei
stance, to their first speaker, that lie had incurred a rea.
obligation to his kind, his class, and his creed ; that P'
was bound not to content himself with empty boasting'
not to be satisfied with a report of Lis speech in Let
newspapers, which might be talked of for a week; rpt
he was bound to act—act—act.—( Loud cheers.) i'4o
them, he said, agitate in every town, and, if possible, 1,
every county. Scotland would assist them—lreland 1
'at their service whenever they wished.—(Cheers.) Cheers. )
he said, Mr. Bsines be the last man in England isoPrh";
coned for Church-rates. Lot the name of Mr. Baines! •
engraven on the town-hail, with this inscription, "
ers
is the last victim of religious persecution."—(Cheeriii,
Let them, he said, show themalves worthy of being/
countrymen of M. Baines.—( Hear.) They had to
glorious cause to contend for—they had a noble 'victim e,
persecution- •to vindicate—they had the principle of r
ligious feeling to uphold--they who had these innitet
merits to energy hid trodden down the iron lords of foli,
days—let them not shrink before the silken lords and t
petticoat bishops of the pitesent day.--( Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. Mutt SELL, in seconding the resolntiti;
observed that he had only to urge them to follow out to,
advice that had been given to them by the Honourable4,
Learned Gentleman who had thus addressed them. did
Dissenters, he said, never would vote for any man wbo to
not support the equality of civil rights, without religi°9o,
distinction. It had, he heard, been said that such rC is,
lotion would embarrass the Ministry; but he might rerwer;
that which was good for the goose was good for the gat ig,
and that the Ministry bad too ling embarrassed the
setters. It was his opinion that if the Tories were to coro
into power, an united people would turn them out, alids
them lower than they had been before.
The resolution passed unanimously.
l'
The Rev. GEORGE LEGG moved the adoption of the
fa
lowing petition : •
" The humble Petition of the undersigned inhabitant
Leicester, of
our Petitioners consider the levying.d

" Sho,A-eth,—That

'hittin-ti%olabjeestay'sgrsiZeucsts wrong
innictL
uCih,ounrcahl-arragt,e,spi,n,rtilo:nng;
e' Ith
heavy and unequal burdens on those who, at their own earto
provide f:,r the untintenance of places of worship, and for tollo,
religious instruction which their own sincere and honest cof
victions approve ; and that their exaction invades the tights
conscience and the freedom of religious opinion. s
"T n hat your petitioners regard the Ecclesiastical Court eir
which that impost in sever..l instances has been recently,
forced, as incowatib:e with the due administration of in? tscot
' and hostile to the civil a id religious liberties of all who
from the Church as estabiislicilbv law.
"'Fat your petitioners have been deeply grieved and I
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nant at the incarceration ol one of her Majesty's best and cos,
loyal subjects, Mr William Baines of this town, for bit
scientious refusal to pay a Church-i ate, by a ‘srit obtain'
thecclesiastical ourt. r
" That your petitioners, therefore, earnestly pray Y°u: „fie
nourahle House immediately to adopt such measures as it' for
(loin may dictate, for the entire extinction of Church-rate,,_;beir
the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts, or the restraint of r.at
jurisdiction to the members of the Church, or such matt" of
concern not the conscience ; and for the immediate liberal to
Mr. Baines, believing that such measures will put an age
those bitter strifes and feuds that because of these thingce to
tate and distress her :\lajesty's subjects, and greatly.cole
the strength of the nation and the prosperity of religion., fle
(Loud cheers followed the reading of the petition./ oil
wished, he said, that the spirit thi.t actuated the Inete t is
could find its way iato St. Stephen's. He knew
t Sod
would be borne there by their excellent representative'lioi
by his own countryman (Mr. Plume), at whose elec
for Aberdeen he had shouted when a boy ; and by apj
individual whose eloquence still echoed in their e2rs',ber
would long live in their hearts.—( Cheers.) Many titiJ
were who said to him that the Church was in danger' the
his reply to them was. that it was in danger, not
Dissenters, hut from Churchmen themselves.—(Bear'that
Mr. Misx, in seconding the resolution, observeuidal
Mr. Jolly and Mr. I3erridge, who eau ed that delig,,ter)
meeting, were entitled to their gratitude.—(Laug- nts'
No town had more reason to be proud of its rcpicscoill
tives than Leicester. So said Mr. O'Connell, alai i°
he.—( [fear, and cheers.) vett
It was moved and carried unanimf uslv, " That the o.
tion be adopted, signed, and presented to the /14:-,000
Lords by Lord Bro-.lgliam, and to the House of Cosn';(0(
by J. Easthope, Esq., and \V. Ellis, Esq., Mernhcr
the borough." i°
The Rev. Mr. MeasaLt rropo-ed a vote of thanuo" 0,
q

Mr. Easthope, Mr. Ellis, M.r. O'Connell,
Alderman ELLIS seconded the resolmion which P$
unanimously. ud
Mr. Easthope, Mr. Wynn Ellis, Mr. O'Connell,
Mr. flume severally returned thankc.
Which
Thanks wera then proposed to the Chairman,. SC
were passed by acclamation, after which tlle m.,eut/g'
parated.

SHIPPING INTELLIGfiNCI:o
(LLOYD'S.)
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LoNnos, JAN. 23.—1 t commenced b10....ing very frii,!,,ool,
Saturday at about 9 p.m. from the northward, and corl'
greater part of the night, when 4 veered to the northwata'
„,00!
westward with light rain, but cleared up early yesterday ce
ing, with every appearance of a fine day, until 12 at noon, 04,
dark heavy mass of clouds came hurrying from the nertilo
and suddenly broke with terrific violence into a heavy scluddeol
wind and snow, which lasted ten minutes, when it as 2° ;1131
cleared up, and the remainder of the day was tine, with a ,erf,
frost, until about 4 30 p.m., when it commenced b10wi4.,,,je0
fresh, with heavy squalls, from the northward, and eltja-tetl.
with occasional lulls until near midnight, when it au'eli•rroil
Wind this day at noon, light westerly breeze and fine
weather.
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DEAL, JAN. 23.—Wind N. \V., moderate, 24, N.
fre.sh breeze.— Arrived the Florence, Davis, Madeira; tit
de Lannog, Pitt, Gambia. Sailed the outward bound. of
GUERNSEY, JAN. 22.—Several casks of butter havoc
on shore during the last day or two. fr°ll
Jimmie, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Maria Jane, Kell'',
Prince Edward's Island. „
MILFORD, JAN. 22.—The Hawk, Harris, got c-ferit'
with the Chester, 20th inst., in the haven, and lost Wl'
&c., and the fot suet stanchions, bulwarks, 8:c.
CLYDE, JAN. 22.• —Arrived the Hectorina, DeraeizioP
Gipsey, Gowan, Newfoundland. Sailed the Matthew
Smith, Barbadoes.
Wall:ea-on f
o, JAN. 2l.—Arrived the Eliza, Bellordr r°°
Taganrog. idger
CORK, JAN. 22.—Arrived the Mary Brock,
llonduras. 11/
LIVERPOOL., JAN. 23.—Wind N. W. 24, W., 1!.,c-atlle
Arrived the Colombus, Greene, trom Pernambuco--`k
24th ult. ; Lady Leitrim, Clements, Cayenne, has lie,olsl
shore on Dover Point ; John Francis, Demerara ;
Cole, Honduras ; Siddaus, Cobb, New York ; Jane Au"jah°
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Hero, Wickham, Faval‘i,
Campbell, White, Bombay—sailed Stli October, and ""b"oci"
lena 17th ult. ; Hereford, Calcutta ; Cheshire, 'Pernalloot'
Phillips, Stott, Arica—sailed 7th October ; Daniel re`"
.re
Minty, Valparaiso—sailed 17th October ; Aurora, '''
New Orleans ; Timoleon, ditto : Canton, Quebec. itieffs''
PevatouTtr, JAN. '23.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the
Gilbert, for Sydney, New South Wales. eelf°'
FALatotilas,- JAN. 22.—Wind W. to S.W., fresh hto
23, N. to W., ditto.—Arrived the Lapwing packet, fr°,fe,tio
Janeiro—sailed 26th November ; Mercury, Maxtor], ,'6,014'
America and Cape of Go,,d ]lope ; Trewartha, Beckfora,
Sailed the Monkey, APEwen, for Antwerp.
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We understand that arrangements have bee"
by the Board of Works for the preparation of the Ensn,nce
built by King William the Fourth, while Duke of Cis,
(known as Clarence-house) for her Royal
Duchess of Kent. It is expected that her RoyaLviiii be
ness will take possession soon after sth April. I,:t serf
remember. d that this is the mansion eccupie" bye
Royal Highness the Princess Augusta up to the
her decease.