The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

THI4I SUN, LONDON, ITESDAY, DECEMBER- 14, 1841.

RENPREWSHIRE.
COUNTY MEETING.
(Abridged from the Paisley Adveitiser.)
On Thursday a full meeting of the Noblemen, Gentle
men' Commissioners of Supply, Justices of the Peace,
and Magistrates of towns in the County of Renfrew, was
held in the County Hall, to consider the distressed state
of the unemployed inhabitants, with the view of adopt-
ing such measures as might seem necessary for the alle-
viation of that distress.
On the motion of W. M. ALEXANDER, Esq., of South-
bar, the Convener of the County, 'Sir William Napier,
was called to the chair.
Mr. BARR read the minutes of the meeting which took
place in Glasgow on the Ist instant, for the purpose of
devising measures for the relief of the unemployed
operatives in Paisley.
A letter from Dr. Bur v was read, addressed to the
Convener, stating that he wished to attend the meeting,
and would crave a hearing.
Y. M. STRwART, Esq., M.P., would move that Dr.
Burns should be heard, as the leader of the Deputation
to London.

Lord KELDURNE seconded the motion.
Dr. Burns was then introduced, and gave a long ac-
count of the proceedings of the Deputation in London.
The CHAIRMAN here stated that be bad received a
letter from Mr. Brewster, craving permission to present
some petitions, and to make a few remarks in their
support.
The Bev. Mr. BAIRD, however, first rose, and said he
came to Paisley nearly seventeen years ago, and dtig
the first twelve, amidst all the painful depressions of trade
in town, he was sure they could not have found one out
of fifty wishing to emigrate. What was the case now ?
Why, he did not believe they would find one mar. out of a
hundred willing to stay at home. The affections of the peo-
ple were at last alienated from the land that gave them birth,
although never was there a class of people more attached
to their father-land than the people of Paisley. That
attachment was now annihilated, and when such was
the case, a community was not very far removed from a
storm which ought to make them tremble. It has been
well said, send six philosophers to a barren island of
the sea, and in six days they will become cannibals, and
try to eat one another. If time allowed, he would de-
clare himself an advocate for the rights of property. He
did not believe any country was worth living in where
the rights of property were not protected. But no class
should be protected over the other. He would ask what
was the poor men's rights of property ? What was the
property of the trillions—the masses, which was firmly
rooted, and which was the basis of the social pyramid ?
It was their labour, and before humanity and in the
eyes of God, that property was as much deserving pro-
tection as any kind of property in the land. After a few
further observations, Mr. Baird: concluded by thanking
tke meeting for the indulgence they had shown him.
Mr. BREWSTER then rose and laid several petitions on
the table, and requested leave to read one of them and
make a few remarks, which was granted. He said the
petition spoke for itself. All that it asked was a suffi-
ciency of food and clothing; and all he now asked of
this respectable meeting, was, that they would consider
the prayer of the petition. The other petitions were
similar; they asked them to give them enough ; they
were willing to work at such work as they could. With
regard to the Barrhead petition, he believed there were
numbers who refused the out-door labour of breaking
stones in the depth of winter ; but this was in cases
where they had no clothes. He did not wish to take up
their time by referring to what had been said regarding
the effect this would have upon the education and morality
of the country, or what the remedies should be, and how
applied. What he had in view was one object, and that was
to give a sufficiency of aliment to the suffering opratives.
And as to the allusion made to the rights of property.
he held the opinion of some of the most celebrated
moralists, which was this, that the rights of property
were secondary to the rights of what was called extreme
necessity. Now it was come to this state, that 13,000
human creatures were at present placed in a state of
entire destitution. He hoped they would allow him to
say it was neither right nor safe to allow so many perish-
ing creatures to remain without support. This was all
they had to look to, excepting the miserable pittance of
three- halfpence per day, for the support of their families.
What was the duty of a man under these circumstances?
If his life, or the lives of his family were in danger, ac
cording to the authority, it was his duty to take the first
food and clothing within his reach, even without the
owner's permission.— (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I
am merely stating the opinion of Dr. Paley.
CHAIRMAN—You are out of order, Mr. Brewster.

Mr. BREWSTER—He was entirely at the indulgence of
the meeting, and would now sit down by hoping that he
had satisfactorily supported the unemployed operatives.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Esq., of Blythswood, stated
that he had attended a meeting in Edinburgh of the
Subscription Committee for the relief of the Paisley un-
employed operatives, at which it was recommended that
a deputation consisting of the Convener of the county,
Sir W. Napier, and the Provost of Paisley, should be
sent to Edinburgh, to wait on the Lord Provost and Ma -
gistrates, to solicit their patronage to promote subscrip-
tions for the relief of the deststute in this district. ' Ile
made a motion to that effect.

COI. MURE cordially seconded Mr. Campbell's motion,
which was carried unanimously.
The PROVOST said that the Magistrates and inhabi-
tants of Paisley must thank the gentlemen for their at-
tendance here to-day. The Magistrates were of opinion
that a memorial should be transmitted to Government,
stating in a plain and impartial manner the extent of
the distress. The manufacturers had been looking for-
ward to a revival of trade, but from fresh failures which
had taken place within the last twenty-four hours, they
were afraid that their hopes would be blasted. He had
been informed by some intelligent manufacturers, that
a great Lumber of hands wouhl, be thrown out
of employment. In these circumstances, he thought
it was their duty to call on the Government,
but he would not say what they sould do, to re-
lieve the distress. He thought, however, it had
now become evident that private subscriptions would
not meet the approaching destitution in this inclement
season. It should be made known to the Queen, who
was a mother herself, that in hundreds of instances wo-
men in childbed were without sufficient food to sustain
life, or beds to lie upon. Ile, therefore, thought that no
time should be lost in representing' to Government the
distressed condition of the inhabitants in this district.
Great numbers of individuals had pawned nearly every
article they had of bed and body clothes; in proof of
which, he stated several cases of great destitution that
had come under his own observation. Many of the land-
lords were not in a much better condition. It was a fact
that the town was in that state at present, as if an Act of
Parliament had been passed to compel landlords to build
houses for the reception of paupers. He concluded by
proposing that a memorial should be transmitted to the
Queen, and another to the Government, with a statement
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of the prevailing distress, for their consideration. He
moved the appointment of a Committee, composed of
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meeting separated.

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NEW ABSTINENCE MOVEMENT.—We men-
tioned, a fortnight ago, that a number of Corn-law re-
pealers entertained some scruples of conscience about
consuming in ale and spirits the barley which might
otherwise have been converted into food for famishing
as establishingmultitudes.
Snce then
society, to discourage the voluntary taxation thus incurred for
movementt' has been made
the benefit of the landowners ; and the following the object of which shall
decla-
ration has received the
signature of several active mem-
bers of the Manchester Anti-Corn-law Association :---
" We, the undersigned, members of Anti-Corn-law As-
sociations, declare that we will not voluntarily tax our-
selves, for the benefit of the landowners, by the con-
sumption of the barley grown in great Britain and Ire-
laud which is malted for brewing or distillation, and
that we will not give our aid to any Government opposed
to free trade by paying the duties imposed on the im-
portation of foreign wines and spirits ; and we therefore
pledge ourselves to abstain, until the repeal of tho Corn-
law, from the use of ale, porter, wine, and spirits." It is
intended that, when one hundred persons whose example
is likely to be influential shall have subscribed this de-
claration, they shall be called together by circular to
take into consideration the means of promoting this self-
denying movement.—Manchester Times.
TRAVELLING EXTRAORDINARY,,..—Two wise-
acres, residents of Petersfield, were last weak neatly
gulled himself a sailor. He stated to
those greenhorns by a man
calling
tbathe had about seventy pounds prize
money to receive, and that he had drawn ten pounds at
Portsmouth to convey him and pay his expenses to
London, but which he had unfortunately lost; the re-
mainder ho was to receive at Somerset Mouse imme-
diately on his arriving there, his papers for which he had
forwarded to his sister at Ratcliffe-highway. Ile very
generously offered the parties twenty pounds to convey
him to London in some vehicle, which they did, and
were to pay all travelling expenses. The money was
tope paid immediately on their arrival in London. The
party lived gloriously on the road, sparing no expense,
but on arriving in London Jack made a sudden bolt,
leaving his companions to travel back to Petersfield, and
to bewail their unlucky fate in having to pay the piper
out of their own pockets, instead of grasping twenty
pounds for so slight a service rendered.—Hampshire In-
dependent.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND " THE LIGHT
OF ALL NATIONS."—That very fidgetty personage, Dr.
Blomfield, has, within a few days past, taken a step I
which is almost beyond belief, and which we certainly
should have been sceptical in crediting, had we not
seen his Lordship's hand-writing on the subject. He has
actually protested against the intended Goodwin Sands
light-house being called " the Light of All Nations," on
the ground that such appellation is one of the titles of
our Saviour, and ought not to be " irreverently " applied
to a lighthouse. In the beautifully expressive and figa-
rativelanguage of Holy Writ our Saviour is called " a
door," "a fountain," " a lamb," &c. ; and yet, because
such is the case, will Dr. Blomfield say, that in speaking
of the things signified by such names,
we must seek for
other terms ? Nay, to go to one of his own titles,
reverend—is there not a text which, in reference to the
Deity, says, " Holy and reverend is his name ?" Why,
to be consistent, does not Dr. Blomfield cease to be a
" reverend?" It the vagaries of the Bishop were pub-
lished, they. would form a most amusing volume. A
melange might be compiled that would be infinitely
more laughable than the " American Broad Grins," or
old Joe Miller himself.—Sunday Ties.
A FEMALE PREACHER.--Much curiosity was
excited at the Wellington-road Chapel, on Sunday last,
in consequence of it being announced that a Mrs. Elaw,
a female of colour, from America, would preach two
sermons in that place of worship. The place was much
crowded on bath occasions, numbers being unable to
obtain admission. She speaks good English, and de.
livered two excellent addresses.—Manchester Times.
We are informed that the Duke of Portland
having resigned his office as Lord-Lieutenant or Custos
Rotulorum of the county of Middlesex, the Marquis of
Salisbury will be appointed iu his place.

THE TOWER OF LONDON.
(TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.)
O grey-walled London Tower !
Symbol of thrall and power—
Moated,•and bastioned, and curfew-belled—
Had not fair Thames's flowings,
And silver-winding goings,
By thee been long enough dark-sentinelled ?
Long, long enough
O'er the great Saxon city and its crowd,
Its merchant princes and its women proud,
Had not thy feudal frown
Flung its black shadow down ?
O blood-dyed Tower !
Why rose no vengeful hour
Wielding the People's axe or red-winged lightning,
To rend in twain thy seats,
Bastilles, and tow'rs, and tyrannous retreats ?
Why rose not God's oppressed—
God's people starving on the plains did stones—
And all thy turrets with their fire-brands bright'ning
Struck for their father's groans ?
Told by no feudal drum,
That hour delayed is come,
Iron-crowned William, England's Norman King !
How to-and-fro cloth reel,
Thy belfry-bell with its appalling peal !
How doth the fire-sheet spring,
Its red Gomorrah-flames around thee flinging;—
How doth the dread incendiarism spread,
Hearsing in flames the crimson-slaughtered dead ;
While the deep donjons to the topmost walls—
The Kings in their bright halls—
The charnels and their ghostly spectre-brood—
Burn in that fiery shroud.
0, London Tower
Sad-sailing down old Thames's dusky stream,
While sleep-ward Evenir.g's heavy eyelids ached,
O'er one who voyaged in a pensive dream,
Thy scenes and deeds to dim remembrance waked:
Thy fearful dramas—thy forlorn alarms—
Thy altars worn away by prayer and tear—
Men's agonies and sweats, and strifes of arms,
Crowded his eye and ear.
Dark-storied Tower !
At night's high noontide hour
Grim jailors came and dressed a funeral block,
Where in a hall obscure
A child and woman, beautiful and pure,
Knelt down imploring God,
Fair as two angels praying.—Forward stepped,
Armed with an axe, a headsman dark and dread,
Bound he the eyes of that sweet child who wept
Then cleft the bright-haired head.
Stained Tower ! another night
Locked in embraces bright
On a white velvet bed serenely sleeping,
With eyelids like closed lilies stayed from weeping,
An infant King, with his young beauteous brother,
Dreamed of their happiness, and home, and mother.
A lamp above them shone :
Two shadowy forms in funeral, folds of gloom
Sprang towards the couch, and with the murd'rer's
arm
Sealed those young darlings' doom.
• Tower, from thy fire-strewn wreck
Infamous Gloucester, the Third Richard King,
Seized blood-red from his nephew's hands his sway
There, most seraphic lady, sweet Jane Grey
Laid on the block her virginal white neck.
But the fierce storm-fire, void of reverence
Sweeping thine arches like a fiery main,
Spares not the very hall that once held France—
Held kingly Jean.
Proud Tower ! the smoke immense,
Like sable draperies roll o'er thy rifts ;
Thy front, uncrowned of its magnificence,
Shows to the sun but nakedness and clefts
Palace of ancient kings and golden reigns,
What of thy pomp or royalty remains ?
Old Tower ! now wrecked in dust,
To utter ruin thrust,
Thy cannons, and thy mortars thunder-voiced :
Splendid as sun-rays, thy ten thousand arms ;
Thy fasces, fusils, stores of war untold,
Thy steeds caparisoned in steel and gold,
Thy iron-vestured chiefs with sword and shield,
Thy black-pluined Prince and war-gods of the field;
But deaf oblivion in one common hole
Ignobly tombs the whole.
Titanic Tower! 'tis thus,
Citadel ruling other Citadels!—
Thine own annihilation truly knells
The fall of thousand forts less glorious:—
For, ever-flocking round thy sovereign feet—
Bowed hosts of towers, o'er-shadowed by thy wings!—
In the terrific flame
That shook thy giant frame
The people saw thy hoary-streaming head
•
Roll to the spot, where 'neath the keen-edged axe
Thy captives' rolled and bled.

IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1842:
The following is the selected list of High Sheriffs for
the ensuing year. In no case has the Government stepped
out of the Judges' list :
Antrim.—Andrew Henry Halliday, Esq., of Clifton,
Belfast.
Armagh.—James Caulfield. Esq., of Horkley, Armagh.
Carlow.—Robert La Touche, Esq., Sackville-street
Club, Dublin.
Cavan.—James Warring, Esq., Newry.
Clare.—William Fitzgerald, Esq., of Adelphi, Corofin.
Cork.—Robert Delacour Beamish, Esq., of Castleview,
Cork.
Donegal.—Wybrants Olpherts, Esq., of Ballyconnell,
Dunfannghy.
Down.—Robert Ward, Esq., of Bangor Castle, Bangor.
Dublin.—Arthur Crofton, Esq., of Roebuck Castle,
Dublin.
Fermanagh.—Viscount Loftus, Ely Lodge, Enniskillen.
Galway.—Denis Daly, Esq., of Dunsandle, Loughrea.
Kerry.—Arthur Lloyd Saunders, Esq., of Flesk, Kil-
larney.
.Kildare.—The Marquis of Kildare, Carton, Maynooth.
Kilkenny.—Robert Neville, Esq., of Marymount,
Johnstown.
King's County.—Thomas Bernard, Esq., of Castle Ber-
nard, Kinnitty.
Leitrim.—Coote Mulloy, Esq., of Hughstown, Carrick-
on-Shannon.
Limerick.—Michael Purnell, Esq., Cahirelly, Limerick.
Londonderry, City and County.—Henry Richardson,
Esq., of Somerset, Coleraine
Longford.—The Hon. H. King Harman, of Newcastle
Ballymahon.
Louth. —Lord Viscount Jocelyn, Dundalk.
Mayo.—Earl Altamont, of Westport House, Westport.
Meath.—llenry Singleton, Esq , of Aclare, Ardee.
Monaghan.--John Boyle Kernan, Esq., of Capers
Lodge, Carrickmacross.
Queen's County.—Edmond Staples, Esq., of Dunmore,
Durrow.
Roscommon.—Richard Irwin, Esq., of Rathmile, Tulsk.
Sligo.--Richard Gethin, Esq., of Craig, Sligo.
Tipperary.—Richard Wills Gason, Esq., of Richmond,
Nenagh.
Tyrone.—Joseph Goff, Esq., of Hallhouse, Dowton,
Wiltshire.
Waterford--Richard Charnley, Esq., of Saltstre
Bridge, Cappoquin.
Westmeath..—Captain Hercules Robinson, of Rossnead,
Castletown-Delvin.
Wexford.—Stephen Ram, Esq., of Ramsfort, Gorey.
Wicklow.—Joseph Pratt Tynte, Esq., of Tynte Park,
Dunlavin.

COPY OF THE PATENT CREAT-
ING THE DUKE OF CORNWALL PRINCE OF
WALES.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of
the Faith.

To all Archbishops, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Vis-
counts, Bishops, Barons, Baronets, Knights, Justices,
Provosts, Ministers, and all other our faithful subjects,
greeting,— _

Know ye, that we have made and created, and
by these our letters patent do make and create, our
most dear Son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony, Duke of
Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of
Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of
Scotland,) Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester ; and
to the same, our most dear Son, the Prince of the
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have
given and granted, and by this our present charter do
give, grant, and confirm, the name, style, title, dignity,
and honour of the same Principality and Earldom,
and him, our said most dear Son, the Prince of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
as has been accustomed, we do ennoble and invest
with the said Principality and Earldom, by girting
him with a sword, by putting a coronet on his
head, and a gold ring on his finger, and also by
delivering a gold rod into his hand, that he may
preside there, and may direct and defend those parts.
To hold to him and his heirs Kings of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland for ever, wherefore we
will, and strictly command for us, our heirs, and succes-
sors, that our said most dear Son, the Prince of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may have
the name, style, title, state, dignity, and honour of the
Principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester aforesaid,
unto him and his heirs, Kings of the United Kingdom of
Great Britnin and Ireland, as is abovementioned.
In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters to
be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster this
Bth day of December, 1841.
By the QUEEN herself,
EDMUNDS.

A SCULPTURED CORPS .—At Penshurst, in
Kent, there is to be seen a strange little model of a
corpse in a grave. All the circumstances of the scene
are moulded with curious fidelity; the damp and slime
of the dungeon; the worms crawling in and out of the
putrifying carcass, the rats frisking and feeding upon it,
are all horribly natural, and in tilt) midst of the fine pic-
tures among which it stands, the spectator's attention is
often called away to it, although he is surrounded by
subjects that are far more worth of remark.
A correspondent, of conserable experience as a
banker, informs us that from long connection with the
border counties that were daily in the habit of receiving
the notes of Messrs. Batson, Berry, and Co., in deposit,
he cannot estimate their circulation at more than 20,000/.
He adds that their business has been limited to Berwick
for many years. We quite agree with him that if the
English country banks would adopt the Scotch system of
exchanging their notes weekly at their head offices and
branches, it would create a more healthy circulation.
MODESTY.—Madame de Geniis, says some-
body, reproved her librarian for placing books written
by male and female authors upon the same shelf " Never
do it," said she, " without placing a prayer book between
thorn."