The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-03 00:00:00

LON DON- , T R, I) AY , JUNE 3, 18-11

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
THE Vacancy in the Court of Directors hay-
ing been supplied by the unopposed election of Major-
General RoLertson, I have the honour to renew my declara-
tion of the 4th ult., that, as the senior candidate now before
you, it is my deteminatton to proceed to the Ballot on the first
ensuing vacancy.
The very powerful interests which have decict•d to affordme
their aid, and the encouraging state of my canvass, lead me to
entertain confident hopes of success, to ensure which I beg to
repeat my earnest solicitations 'for an early intimation of the
support of those Proprietors who have not yet declared them-
selves, for which I shall be most grateful.
My claims on the Proprietors for long service to the Hon.
Company, habits of business, and having my sime disposaLle
entirely to the duties of the station to which I aspire, have
been often urged; I therefore confidently rely on my preten-
sions to your support being favourably received.
I have the honour to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
JOHN CLARAIONT WHITEMAN.
24, A, Bryanston-square, June 2, 1841.

GROUND RENTS.
MR. G. EYRE BROOKS will SELL by
AUCTION, at his Gallery, 28. Old Bond-street, on
TUESDAY, June 8, 1841, at Twelve o'Clock,
LEASEHOLD IMPROVED GROUND .RENTS, arising
from SIX HOUSES held for a Term of 75 Years, at a Pent
of 22/. per Annum, and Let for the whole Term at 132/. per
Annum.

Particulars may Ito bad of Mr. G. Eyre Brooks, Surveyor,
28, Old Bond-street.

WARWICKSHIRE.
TObeLET,ELEGANTLY FURNISHED,
STREET ASTON HOUSE, in the parish of Monks
Kirby, on the road from Rugby to Hinkley, and Coventry to
Luttleworth, in the centre of an excellont hunting, with four
packs of hounds. The residence is in most complete repair, and
ts surrounded by pleasure and flower gardens of the greatest
beauty and variety, capital kitchen garden, hot-houses, conser-
vatory, greenhouse, coach-houses, stabling, and twelve acres of
grass land.

Apply to Mr. G. E)re Brooks, 28, Old Bond-street, in
whose Cosmorama a view may be seen.

ROYAL•
OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
OFFICE, 21, LONIBA RD-STREET, MAY 26, 1841.
The COURT of DIRECTORS of the ROYAL EX-
CHANGE ASSURANCE do hereby give Notice, that their
TRANSFER. BOOKS will be SHUT, from TUESDAY, the
Bth of June next, to TUESDAY, the 6th of July following; and
that a GENERAL COURT of the said CORPORATION
will be holden at their Office, No. 21, Lombard-street, on
WEDNESDAY, the 23d of June next, at Twelve o'clock at
Noon, to consider of a Dividend.

ALEXANDER GREEN, Secretary.
The Chair will be taken at Twelve u'clock precisely.

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CORN AVERA GE N.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII CORN,
For the Week ended May 2', 1841, matte up from the Returns of
the Inspector; in tha different Cities and Towns in Englan.. a d
Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat, his. td. Oats
6.*rley Pd. I Rye I ..... 355. 70 Pease Sis ed.

REPEAL OF THE UNION
MEETING.
MR. O'CONNELL IN MANCHESTER.
A meeting convened by placard, and at which it was an •
nounced that D. O'Connell, Esq. M.P., John O'Connell,
Esq., M.P., R. Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P. and H. Grattan,
Esq., MP. and rs would attend, was to have taken pi ice
et Carpenters' Hall yesterday , when,".as 31aca,!.elasall.
lug the meeting
would be clearly demonstrated, and the necessity
sated, " the evil effeutsof the present union
r its repeal
advocated." e-hertly after the appointed h. ur, eleven
o'clock, several hundred people hail assembled in th.t
hall, and several thousands were outside, awaiting Mr.
O'Connell's arrival. About half-past, eleven, the Rev.
D. Ilearne announced, from the platform, that Mr.
O'Connell had arrived, 'but was carried away by the
mob, anti could not get into the hall, and had gone
into G anby-row Fields, where he would address the people ;
and that those who had pail for admission into the hall might
have their money returned. On this announcement being
made, the hall was cleated extraordinary disi•atch, and
the reporters, heath d bs' Mr. Hearne, made their way through
a dense crowd of people in Granby.row Fields, to a caniage
from which Mr. O'Connell was speaking, and into which they
were admitted. Mr. O'Connell was then saying, that many in
England supposed that the repeat was a separation of the two
countries. But the repeal was not a separation ; it we., con-
sistent with perfect alleAance to the Crown, infin:tely beyond
that of the Tory faction, who affected it for their own base pur-
poses. The repeal of the Union was only the repeal of an Act
of Parliament. He wanted Ireland to ;hive the power
of legislating, for herself. If Ireland were represented,
she would have now 170 Members in the Ili use of Commons,
instead of 108. The House of Lords was bigoted and selfish ;
and the Tories had got passession of the House of Commons,
and had bribed and corrupted the Chartists. The leading
principle of the present House of Commons was bigotry
against the religion of the Irish. Ile then alluded to the dif-
ferent Continent al kin uloins having populatiOns varying from
one million to three millions, and which had independent Go-
vernments. Even Hanover, he said, with only a million of sub-
hects, had an independent Government, and he was glad they
ad a boy of their own to govern them.—(Loud laughter. )
Ireland had eight million,; and, in point of population, then,
he contended, she had a right to a separate Legislature,
He adverted to the Lily of the Chartists in resisting the cry
for cheap food, and said 13e should like to know if a shop-
keeper told one of them latt,tnight have two pounds of bread
for a penny, whether he welder-sneerer, "No, I want the Char-
ter, and must give you two-penee."—(Cheers.) He sad he
was for four of the five points of the Charter; but the fifth,
Annual Parliaments. he thought, would be an injury, by ren-
dering people careless. He concluded by an eloquent descrip-
tion of Ireland, which, he said, contained all the elements of
of a great and prosperous country.—( Loud cheers.) There was
then a cry for John O'Connell ; but Mr. O'Connell said he
had not come, as he was wanted in Kilkenny, for which place he
was a candidate at the ensuing election.—The multitude then
separated, with cheering, about one o'clock. In the evening a
dinner was given to Mr. O'Connell in Carpenter's Hall.
After " The Queen," the "Princess-Royal and Prince Al.
bert," had beets drunk, the Chairman proposed " Daniel
O'Connell, and a Repeal of the Union," which was responded
to by Mr. O'Connell in a speech of considerable length and
power; and in the course of which the Hon. Gentleman pour-
trayed, in eloquent language, the injustice of the Corn-laws ;
and stated that he should not be able to attend the meeting on
the Corn-laws this day, unless he received a letter from his
son, stating that his presence was not required in the House of
Commons. The next toast was, " A total and speedy repeal
of the Corn-laws," which was ably responded to by Mr.
Warren, the Pres:dent of the Operative Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation. The health of the Chairman was next given, and the
reporters then lelt.—Mrachester Guardian.

GREAT TRIUMPH-ROSCOMMON
AND GALWAY COUNTY MEETINGS.

(From the Dublin Pilot.)
The famish-price men and double-dealing Tories have
received a signal defeat at the great meeting held- yes-
terday in the county of Rozcommon. The Tories, under
the management of Lcrd Lorton and the High Sheriff,
Mr. Mahon, got up a requisition for a meeting• to peti-
tion Parliament on the subject of the Corn-laws, and
procured the signatures of a number of the Liberal gen-
try to it, under the pretence that no party designs were
entertained. With characteristic bad faith they imme-
diately set about preparing for a party triumph.
The county assembled yesterday—the Tories in great
numbers, from all parts of the country. The resolution
in favour of the present torn-laws was brought forward.
Mr. Grace, of Mantua, moved, as an amendment, a reso-
lution condemnatory of the present Corn-laws, as haying
been proved by experience to cause great uncertainty of
prices, and to have transferred to monopolists and mis-
chievous speculators the legitimate profits of the cultiva-
tor and owner of the soil, and in express terms approving
of a fixed duty in the measure brought forward by Go-
vernment. - Mr. 1). Farrell, of Becchwood, seconded this •
resolution, and it was carried almost unanimously !
Mr. Grace and Mr. Farrell were both requisitionists.
and are both gentlemen of very large estates, besides
being both practical farmers on a very large scale.—
Their support of such a principle is, therefore, of the
greatest importance. •

- A resolution, warmly approving of the entire Minis-
terial policy, was in like manner proposed and carried
with enthusiasm.

This entire proceeding is a signal instance of the good
sense and honest spirit of our people.. If any topic
could have cajoled them, this was that only one, and
upon this they have given an example which will be felt
by the heart's core of every honest man in Ireland, and
in England too, and be followed wherever the plotting
monopolist presents himself. Hurrah for the honest men
of Roscommon, and down with the monopolists !
On Tuesday a meeting, convened by the Sheriff of
Galway, was held at Loughrea. There was a large fair
there on that day, and private circulars hat brought the
Tories together to a man. The terms of the requisition un-
equivocally pledged every man to a distinct approval of the
present Corn-laws, and the object was as clearly to give a
blow to Ministers. The plot has been a total and ruinous
failure. Ministers have had a great triumph. Again, down
with monopolists and fandsh-price shuffler 3, whether
Whig or Tory Hurra, then, for Roscommon and Galway !
These both are almost exclusively agricultural counties
—both counties which. it was believed could be gulled
and practised upon, and which schemers thought would
give a tone to the rest of agricultural Ireland in their
favour. Glorious counties, you have set an e:iample !

ALARMING FIRE AT WINDSOR.—About
seven o'clo-k on Nlonday evening a most alarming fire broke
out in the house of Mr. Layton, confectioner to her Majesty
Thames-s tree t, Windsor, which, at one time, threatened
destruction to the whole house and the surrounding neighbour-
hood. The fire was got under before it had reached the draw-
ing-room floor. The three upper stories were completely
gutted, and property to the amount of nearly 1,0001. destroyed.
The fire was occasioned by the ignition of a foul flue, commu-
nicating with a beam in the laundry. An immense quantity
of confectionary, jellies, ices, preserves, &c., prepared for the
royal Montem breakfast at Eton College, and for the parties
given by the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood to cele-
brate that festival, were wholly destroyed by the water pouring
down upon them through the house in every direction. As soon
as intimation of the fire reached the castle, her Majesty and
Prince Alb, rt. attended by Lord Uxbridge, Colonel Wemyss,
and several others of the Royal householtt, proceeded aero-s
the quadrangle nit to the north ternaee, far the purpw of wit-
nessine. the conflagration ; but no view of tho fire being ob.
tained.from this part of the castle, the Royal party returned
to the summit of the round tower, where they remained until
all danger had ceasrd. Lord Melbourne and Major Keppel
walked from the cas'le in'o Thar Les-street, to observe the pro-
gt e,s of the flames

Povur,Aa NEW NOVELS.—The following in.
teresting new works of fiction have Just been published by Mr.
Colbuin, of Great Marlborough-street, and may new be had
at all the Libraries :—I. De Clifford ; or the Constant Man,
by R. Plumer Ward, Esq., author of " Tremaine," and " De
Vere."-2. The Trustee, by the Author of " The Provost of
13rnm," 3 vols.-3. The Love Match, by Mrs. Moberly, au-
thoress of F' 4 vols.-4. Joan of Arc, the Maid of
Orleans, an Historical Romance, 3 vgl3.-4, The Engagemetit,
a Novel, 3 vols.-6. The Marriage Mart; or Society in India,
by an Indian Officer, 2 vole.-7. The Moneyed Man ; or the
Lesson of a Life, by Horace Smith, Esq., author of " Bram-
bletye House," &c., 3 vols.-8. Greville ; or a Season in Paris,
by Airs. Core, 3 vols.-- 9. Peter Priggins. the College Scout,
Edited by Theodore Hook, Esq., 3 vols., with Illustrations by
Phiz.-10. Mr. Roby's Popular Traditions of England, 3 vols.,
with numerous Engravings on Woo 1.-11. The Histo-y of a
Flirt, related by Herself, gecon4 OiliQll, 3 Vois, —l2. sir
Thoinao Dick Lituder's Legeneary Tales or the Highlands, 3
vols., with numerous Illustrations by Plitz.—And 13, Oliver
Cromwell, an Historical Romance, Edited by Horace Smith,
Esq., 3 vols.

r 3.6 ,OLD BOND-STREET, AND 1, OLD JEWRY,
CtiE4PaiPIZ,-P4tronised by the Royal Family, her Msjcsty the
Queen of Hanover, the Duchess of Richmond, Duke of Newer.stie,
ySitroAttlilteholitye
Duke of Leeds, the late Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Wel.
Bulstrode.street,
'edify, &c.; Sir J. E. Anderson, M.D , 11, New Burlington-street;
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Carlisle, F.R.S., Langlunn.place ; J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.R.S ,
Queen, 15, Albemarle.
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numerous other Medical
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of E. Solomon
street; C. Aston Key, Esq., Smior Surgeon to Guy's Ifospital ;
Senior Surgeon
eminent standing have given the most flatter.
and Co.'s Patent flpeetaeles, testifying to their peculiar power of
softening the light to weak and irritable eyes, and the immediate
log certificates
and continued reli,4 that its chastened transmission affords—their
attributes of ordinary gl. •
freedom from the pernicious asses; in short,
to a combination of properties which render them superlatively
pre-eminent an pieeprying the powers of vision unimpaired to ex.
treme old age. Their Voice cii44l4,3t6ry extend the most elf. ci ual
relief in cases of Deafness, and additional satigrw:tirar is devised
from the fact that they are worn entirly unseen. In consequence
of the mistakes arising from a similarity of names, the Paravrcas'
address should be particulaTlT noted? 36, Old Bond.street, and 1,
Old Jewry, City.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.--
" The Duke de Montebello feels infinite pleasure at
,beine• ahl,
to inform Mr. Holloway that his Ointment and Pills' have
performed an almost miraculous cure upon his leg which for
three years was little le-s than one mass of ulcers which no-
thing could cure. if the publicity of this circumstance may
Le of any service to the public Mr. H. may consider himself at
liberty to make it {saloon. Hp may also state that the cure
was performed in less than three weeks, Rue la Fitte, 6th
April, 1841." These extraordinary medicines are sold at the
Propriotor's Establishment, 244, fqtrand, seven
doors from
Temple-bar, and by every regulable Chemist throughout the
kingdom, in I'ot4 and Boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d
4s , .6d , I ls.,
225. and 295. cacti.

A new and well-nppointed row horse coach,
called the Rival, has just bteu 51artcd on the road from Lou.
den'to Cheltenham, rt he Rival is the only coach on this rciu'
whiZh altogether avoids '. the rail,'' and it and the Defiance
arc, we believe, tho only two that now pass via Henley :nd
Benson, to Oxford.

ELFCTION FOR MARYLEBONE.

A meeting of the electors of Marylebone, resident in the
district of Kentish-torn, was held la t evening at the Assem-
bly-house, to take measures for securing the return of two
s'aunch 'Wormers to rei resent the borough in the next Par-
liament. The Chair was taken at eight o'clock by Mr.
'Th
vehement
CHAIRMAN
tozpVt:Tra.Aeonr:sdeßpue)lapoicot,ifsih.:,ent:(tti;)hreni,iiirgt
rnteaahgutt.dhhi aboutaet
theirerdo.,l-Ohmt eis:cheering.ivfriendsd electorsoaci hailedpt
a, pre-cut, e:st
tnht
Houghton, one of the Churchwardens of the paid h. • •
T
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the dm
most
upon curilev'ge,htblevuvris,
the Tories was opened. They were about to tight the good
fight once more, and to encounter the enemies of free-
dom in the field of war, in which they would have 0 e
as.istance of the Gallant Englishmen who had already
fought the battles of England and of freedom in other pints of
the world, and had earned the title of the Nelson of the age.—
( Great cheering.) That Gallant Officer was present, and
would state to this meeting, as he had done in other district: of
the borough, what were the principles on which lie asked fur
their suffrage.—( Hear, hear. )
Sir CHARLES NAPIER then reee, and was greeted with a
universal burst of applause, which lasted several minutes. He
again explained his view; in favour of the Bathe, without
which, he repeated, an extension of the Suffrage would be use-
less, as was clearly proved in the case of the borough of Mary-
lebone, in which out of 38,000 persons qualified to vote,
only 8,000 had ever gone to the poll, the rest
being deterred from exercising their right by the want of any
protection against the persecution of the wealthy Tories.—
( Hear, hear.) He also repeated his declarations in favour of
the shortening the duration of Parliaments, ani expresed his
determination to give every support in his power to the propo-
sitions of her Majesty's Ministers respecting the duties on
corn, timber, end sugar.—(Loud and repeated cheering.) He
had seen that some of his "fieeds" thought fit to represent
him in a public advertisement as the supporter of flogging in
the army and navy, and of Poor-law bastiles.—( Great laugh-
ter.) Now, it was very well known that he had declared at
every met ting at which he was present in the borough, that no
man was more averse to flogging than he was, and that no man
had done more than he had done to put it down, as
far as the present system of manning and governing
the army and navy would admit.—(Cheers.) As to the Poor-
law bastiles, it was also well known that he was an enemy to
bastiles of every kind—(Cheers)—and an far was he from
wishing to shut up the poor in workhouses, that he had always
insisted upon the right of the worn-cot poor to be received in
those places, as in places of refuge and shelter, to which their
rag services entitled them as much as the inmates of Green-
wich were entitled to that asylum, with perfect liberty to go out
and take their exercise and enjoyment as they pleased.—( Re-
peated cheering.) In reference to some observations which
had appeared in some of the newspapers respecting alleged
differences between him and Admiral Stopford during his
co.nmand in the Mediterranean, the Gallant Officer denied
that there was any ground for the allegations so far as he was
concerned. His explanation gave the greatest satisfaction to
the meeting, and when he sat down there were given, in the
most hearty manner, " Three cheers for Napier."
Mr. A. JOHNSTON then said he had great pleasure in pro-
posing Commodore Sir C. Napier as one of the representatives
of the borough of Marylebone at the ensuing election ; and
he hail no doubt that the electors present would readily pledge
themselves, and faithfully redeem their pledge, to wee their
best exertions to secure his return as a worthy colleague of
their estemeed representative Sir Benjamin hall. He con-
cluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the meeting
approved of, and would support, S r C. Napier and Sir B. Hall
as representatives of the borough at the next election.--
(Chesrs. )
Mr. Wiecox had taken time to consider whether or not he
shouli support the resolution just read. He had carefully come
to the opinion that the question about to be put to issue
in the next election was—whether a few should govern
the nation for their own purposes, or that a few should he com-
pelled to govern for the good ot the people?—(Cheers)—and
he felt that whatever difference of opinion there might exist
amongst the Reformers, it was the duty of individuals to merge
small differences in the abstract- to secure unity of action
(Cheers. ) If they did not act on that principle, they would be
easily defeated, through their division, by any small body who,
like the Tories, would act with singleness of purpose and unity
of action.—(Applause.) The questions of 'he Ballot arid
Universal Suffrage were still subjects of much difference ; but of
this there could be but one opinion, that all those who
were desirous of the free exercise of the franchise, by what-
ever means that was to be secured, and all who were
desirous of carrying out the representative principle, ought to
unite in exertion to exclude from power the Tories, who would
only use it fur their own advantage. It was their interest to
support Whiggery, which, under whatever firm it appeared,
had this grand principle of republicanism—that those who
exercised the powers ot the Gorernment should do so, not far
themselves, butfor the people, and should bt coati oiled by the
will of the people.—( Cheers. ) Having pronounced a warm
eulogium upon the personal and political charac.er of the can-
didate before the meeting, he concladeA, amidst vehement ap-
plause, by seconding the resolution.
Dr. Cooe TAYLOR, in an eloquent speech, which was ve-
hemently applauded, supported the resolution, which eves car-
ried by an immense majority, only seven hands being held up
against it._

-Sir C. NAPIER observed that his " seven friends" seemed
to stick, for he found them present in the same numbers, and
no more, at every meeting he attended in the borough.—(Great
laughter, and cries of " Mat's true ; they basil no more.")
After a discussion of a merely personal nature, although
very much protracted, between one of the " szvEN" and a
gentleman named Portioner, who accused the gentleman (Mr.
Young), with whose opposition they threaten Sir. C. Napier,
if gross inconsistency,
Professor Kay moved a vote of thanks to tie) Cliarntau,
which was carried by acclamation.
Three cheers were then given for the " Commodore," and
the meeting separated.
Sir C. Napier was attended to his carriage by an immense
concourse, of whom a great part followed most of the way to
his residence in Baker-street, repeatedly cheering, and crying
out, " Hurrah for the Hero of Acre—the true Patriot Sailor!'

SPORTING INTELLIUENCE.
HIPPODROME RACES.—YESTERDAY.
Speculation has received so severe a cheek from the un-
favorable nature of the settling for the Derby and Oaks, that,
although the list promised large fields and excellent sport, the
betting-stand was badly attended, and business was languid in
the extreme. With this exception the meeting may be pro-
nounced unusually good ; the sport was abundant, the weather
propitious, and the running-ground in excellent order. Thy
company was numerous enough to prove that the exec tions of
the proprietor are better appreciated than hitherto by the pub-
lic; nor was it wanting in rank, a hasty glance at the stands
having enabled us to note down the following names :
Marquis of Normanby, Earl Wilton, Earl Milltown, Earl Jer-
sey, Lord Bruce, Lord Maidstone, Lord G. Retain ck, Lord
Andover, Baron Austen, Sir F. Collier, Sir C. Cockerell, Sir
F. Goodricke, Hon, G. S. Byng, Hon. Col. Anson, Hon A.
Villiers, Col.nel Peel, Messrs. Greville, Payne, Ruth, Etwall,
W, Payne, Gregory, Fulwar Craven, Pettat, Gardner,
Colborne, Bulkeley, Codrington, Hawker, Portman, Newton,
jun., Shelley, Brand. Richatdson, Ponsonby, Coekerill, &c.
The Hammersmith Free Plate of 50/. for three yrs olds, 6st
71b ; four yrs, Bst 31b ; five yrs, Bst 101 b ; six and aged,
9st ; mares, &e, allowed 31b ; winners this year once, 31b ;
twice, 51b extra (matches excepted). The winner to be
sold for 3001. Mile heats.
Mr. J. Day's b f Executrix, 3 yrs (Percy) 1 0 1
Mr. Rush's ch cby Plenipo, out of Obelisk's dam ... 0 1 0
Mr. Balchin's Dromedary, 4 yrs
Mr. Goodman'o Mungo Park, 4 yrs
Mr. Tichnarsh's Lincoln, aged
Mr. Worley's Pansey, 4 yrs
Mr. Jones's Maid of Gwent, 5 yrs
Mr. Booth's Colchicum, 5 yrs
Lord Iluntittrnwer's Iby Langar, 3 yrs
First heat, won easy ; second heat, won by half a length ;
third heat, won cleverly by a length.
The Willesden Stakes of 10 soya, each, with 50 added by the
Proprietor, for three yrs old, 7st 51b ; four, Bst 71b ; fillies
and geldings allowed 3113; winners once, 31b ; twice, 51b ;
thrice 71b extra. 'I he winner to be sold for 5001. Three-
quarters of a mile. (6 Subs.)
Mr, J. Day's Alulciber, 4 yrs
Fulwar Craven's Benedetta, 3 yrs
4tol on Benedetto. Muleiber made all the running, and
won in a canter.

The Hippodrome Paddock Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100
added by the Proprietor, for two yrs old colts, Sst 61b ; and
fillies, Set 31b. Half a mile. (2I Subs.)
Mr. Etwall's br c Palladium
Mr, Sadler's Mule
The following also started, but were not placed : —Mr 'l'.
Coleman's br or bl f Gazelle; Mr. Booth's St. Jean d'Acre;
Mr. King's Tommy; Mr. Owslcy's Happro-lucky ; Mr.
S. Lucas's The Traitor ; Mr. llouldsworth s 'Darling ; Mr.
Balchin's The Dandy ; Mr. W. Ongley's c, idy Camel, dait of
Pandora; Mr. Connop's Little Johnny; Captain Gardnwr's
'
filly, by Sheet Anchor • Mr. H. T. Worley 's Conjugation ;
and Colonel Peel's e, by Camel out of Jason's dam.
Betting-6 to 4on Palladium ; 4 to I agst Gazelle ; and 5
to I agst Mule. The favourite made all the running, Mule
waiting behind him in company with Gazelle, till within 159
yards of home, when he challenged and made a neck-and-neck
race to the chair, the judge's fiat being " Palladium by a
head." Gazelle was third, Colonel Peel's colt third, Tommy
and St. Jean D'Acre well up. Palladium and Mule are in the
Derby.
The London Handicap of 30 soya. each, 15 ft, with 3001.
added from the City of London ; the second saves his stake;
about two miles (35 subs, 20 of whom paid 5 sovs. each).
Mr. Payne's Welfare, 4 yrs, Sat 21b
Mr. Treen's Fitzroy, 4 yrs, 9st 2
The following also started, but were not. placedl:—Mr.
Houldsworth's Confederate, 4 yrs, Sst I Ilb ' • Mr. I. Dav's f by
Nimrod, out of Busk, 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; Mr. Grevitle's Perseus,
4 yrs, 7st 71b ; Captain Rous's Nicho'as, 4 yrs, 7:t 2.1 b ; Mr.
J. Watson's Humility, 3 yrs, 54 10Ib ; and Col. Ansun's The
\Vitch of NVltorley Hill, 3 !rs, sst 71b.
Betting-2 to I agst Busk filly; sto 2 agst Welfare ; and 5
to I agst Fitzroy.
Perseus made all the running, the Witch of Whotier Hill
and Fitzroy lying second and third to the foot of the hill in
returning, when Fitzroy took the lead, followed! by Welfare ;
half way up the distance the latter challenged, and wow by a
length. Perseus and Confederate were third and fourth.
A few minutes before starting Humility ran away with the
lad, stopped short cloie to the paddock. and threw the lad with
fearful violence against the paling: although not seriously in-
jured, the poor fellow was too much shaken to remount, and
another boy was put up.
ASCOT HEATH, 1841.

Nominations for her Majesty's Gold Vase :—Mr. Troen's
Fitzroy, 4 yrs ; Lord Exeter's Cesarewiteb, 3 yrs ; Sir G.
Ileatheote's Argos, 4 yrs ; Mr. Goodman's Belgrade, 3 yrs
Mr. Houldmorth's Confederation, 4 yrs; Mr. Wigrain's
Toeta, 4 yrs ; Mr. Dixon s Miss Stilton, 3 yrs; Lord West-
minster's Satirist, 3 yrs ; Mr. Thornhill's. E. 0., 3 yrs ; Mr.
Ramsay's Lanorcost, 6 yrs; and Lord Chesterfield's Knight of
the Whis'le, 3 yrs.

On Tuesday afternoon, as some labourers were
at work on the downs, near Coulsdon, upon land in the occu-
pation of H. Rowland, Esq., they discovered a man's nearing
appal el by the side of a deep pond. TlVey immediately pro-
cured a drag, and on dragging the pond they brought up the
(lthd body of a man in a state of oomplte nudity. It c10T,04
out that the deceased was a lahouring roan, named Thomas
Carey, and that he had been to a club feast cn the previous
night at the Rose and Crown, Itiddlesdown, and he left that
Owe at twelve o'clock at night, and nothing was heard of him
again until he was found in the pond. lie had yrevionsly been
heard to inquire the depth of the water in the pond; and it is
supposed that on his way home he went in to bathe, and that
from lo me other pipet liOrit:i4i
1;c4t;.•,gi.4(14 vith the
,cramp,
war removed to the oie
get out again. Ile boilly
unable to
end Crown, ‘Nbere it av sits a Coroner's inquest.

PRICE -5d

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM Tr.% 'MORNING PAPERS Or THIS DAT.
CH RO.NlCLE.—The.itiquir y whether Ministers possess the
confidence of the present House of :Commons will soon, we
trust, be altogether merged in the much more important ques-
tiou whether they possess the confidence of the country. In
fact, the one question is masted in reference to the other. The
topic of Parliamentary confidence i 3 raised partly to entitle the
()pposition to damage Minister:, if they can, with the country,
aiiii partly to obstruct the full development of that beneficent
policy an which the claims of the Government will substan-
tially rest in the gicat "Walks trial now impentlisie. Such
tactics, however, are not adapted to inspire confidence in honest
muds towards those who employ them. 'lhat Sir Robt. Pe,l
brought forward a motion having no practical aim, being
merely an oecasion factitiously cieated fur rasa-lung tie Mem-
bers of Government, and. tending to preclude inscussion on
the peop'e's right to cheap food and the plan of Minis-
ters for allowing theta to obtain it, will not attract
the confidence of those who look simply to the public welfare,
and prefer straightforward means for its accomplishment. Sir
Robert Peel's moti.in is disingenuously framed. Confidence
is a question of degree. If a Ministry is required to possess it
to such an extent as never to be baffled in its measures, what
Government can abide the test? If the motion mean this, it
goes upon a principle that renders the existence of a Govern-
ment impossible. We must sippose it then to mean that Mi-
nisters do not., stand sufficiently high in a graduated scale of
Parliamentary confidence. We will take this construction ;
and then we are entitled to ask, whether Sir Robert Peel
and his coleagues stand higher in that scale ? Plainly not ;
he would, else, have been in a majority and in office. If the
present Ministry stand too low, the projected Ministry stands
yet lower. A censure on the one implies a stronger censure
on the other. 'Hie alleged want of confidence, based
as it professes to be on the past, tells a fortiori
against the leader of the Opposition. If Lord Mel-
autrie ought not to be Premier, much less ought Sir
Robert Peel to be Premier. He disqualifies himself by his
own showing. He propisses to vote out his own pretensions by
extinguishing those which surpass his. And yet the drift, spi•
rit, and design of his motion is to displace those who have the
larger portion of confidence by those who only possess the
smaller portion, on the allegation that coAdenee is essential.
A commercial man wants an acting partner, and requires him
to be possessed of capital. His only choice is between two
men, one of whbm has 12,0::0/. and the other I 0 ,00W. ; the
latter says, " I 2,a a. is not capital enough, your acting part-
ner ought to have more; my rival is plainly disqualified by his
want of capital, and so take Inc; I propose that you instal vie
by a resolution declaring him to be too poor." Just such is the
purport of this want of confidence motion ; as fallacious, as-
suming, and disingenuous. 'I he resolution before the House
cannot be regarded on one side only. The Commons have
only to choose between Russell and Peel. There is no mean-
ing in affirming a want of confidence in the one, unless it be
also understood as an affirmation of sufficient confidence in
the other. The negative in the case inevitably implies the
positive.

TIMES.—An Evening Journal in the Ministerial interest,
unable to vindicate the speakers at the City Anti-Cern-law
meeting from the charge which we brought home to them of
disgracing themselves and the cause they advocate by "false-
hood anti nsense," " mountebanker) and impostune," has
sheltered itteif under the convenient assertion that we garbled
our quotations from their speeches. If the journalst had
thought of anything except the shortest and most convenient
way of salving over the detected follies and knaveries of his
party, he might have 1 .arnt from the article, which he was riot
answer,' g but es ading, that we had been at the pains to anti-
cipate this ready resource of Whig controversy. by quoting,
not from our own report, but from that of a Ministerial con-
temporary. Af er stating.; he substance of certain observatiot s
made by a Mr. Dillon, we continued as follows :
" Mr. Grote, on the other hand (a man who, with all his
faults as a politician, has this merit—that he generally says
what he thinks), acknowledged that there had b• en en•
couraged in this country a fallacious system of cultivating
wheat, which owed its existence altogether to the Corn-lows,'
and which would be cut down at one blow', if they were but:-
delay repealed."
The evening journal gives this passage with its context, aid
comments upon it after this fashion :
" It is hardly necessary to say, that this is an utter misrepre-
sentation of the expres ions of Mr. Grote. for the purpose of
malting them seem grossly inconsistent with the statements of
the previous speaker, as well as grossly absurd and extrava-
gant in themselves. What Mr. Grote said was as follows :
There has been encouraged a fallacious system of cultivating
wheat in this country, to the exclusion of other produce, which
owes its existence altogether to the Corn-laws; and we owe
it to those who have been induced by our laws to embark in
it, that we should take a cautious and measured line in approx-
imating to free trade.' What the Times made Mr. Grote say
was an utter extravagance."
It is " hardly necessary," certainly ; for if the passage we
quoted was utter extravagance, the Times is not respons;',,e,
for basing put it into the mouth of Mr. Grote ; the
misre-
presentation" was that of an exceedingly ``
and stanch
Anti-Corn-law Paler, Tstrong he Sun, from which' e borrowed our
quotation, after first aseertain'ng that it ze!4•ieed with our own
report. What Mr. Grote may really 'cave said is of very little
importance ; though, as far as we can see, the words inserted
by our Contemporary, insteeT,' of improving the sentence,
would turn it into eith'er absolute nonsense, or the most
fooat the lisls of all.. possible untruths. We cannot be surprised
th exposure-, which we have thought it our duty to
make of the
polities of the Anti-Corn-law agita-
tors Sloo*.d• irritate the partisans of the Whig Ministry,
and "':.tike them impatient of our adherence to the views
we have always professed upon this subject. No doubt
they would feel the castigation less from persons whom they
I could plausibly describe as friends of monopoly, than from a
quarter opposed to the Corn-laws. They may, however, rest
assts ed that we do not intend to relinquish our opinions
merely because others endeavour to advance them by fraudu-
lent means, and for factious purposes. The course taken by
Ministers has certainly Leen calculated to convert a vast nuns-
, ber of sober-minded men, accessible to reason but oppoied upon
principle to mountebanicery and agitation, who were before
wilt-erring in their views, into steady supporters of the Corn-law,
and this, with all enlightened advocates of free trade, is a
lead ng gravamen of the charge against the Government.
Hut those who, like ourselves, had previously adopted
definite. views of this subject for definite reasons, can-
not abandon them without some weightier cause than
the iiiisconduct of these who seek to make them the stalking-
horse of an expiring faction. We would postpone them for
ever, rather than " stir society to its foundations" by lending
ourselves to the disseminition of delusive and inflammatory
statements, calculated to misrepresent the real question at issue,
and array the different classes of the community against each
other, and we shall ever protest against such methods of war-
fare. Nor do we stand alone in this. The ablest and most in-
dependent of the Liberal weekly newspapers has been no less
anxious than ourselves to strip away from the Corn-law ques-
tion the mass of falsehood and mystification with which the
supple foals of the Treasury have sought to encumber it. But
we shall never come forward as the advocates of a system which
does not recomniend itse,f to our deliberate judgment as based
upon ,ousd principles of na.ional policy.
TIMES.—As the Whigs are moving heaven and earth to
counteract the national outcry which insists on expelling them
from their Ministerial functions, it is proper that even the few
persons who. may possibly be imposed on by the pretended de-
monstra ions now in progress should be seasonably forewarned
against the shallow sophistry whereby their credulity is sought
to be abused. No doubt, if we except the indifferent muster
of tap-room politicians anti Lumber-troopers, who follow the
drums of the Anti-Corn-law League, the public generally are
pretty familiar with the feints and stratagems of that notable
recruiting-party : but, es there are always some whose igno-
rance may expose them to be preyed on by the salaried leaguers
who have a direct interest in beating nip for meetings, petitions,
signatures, and subscriptions, we shall briefly adduce one solitary '
fact which, in preference to a thousand abstract arguments,
must certainly convince oar readers that what is craftily
called the Anti-Corn-law agitation has really no noticeable
existence at all ; that. the said agitation is confined solely to
the mortified breasts of those who fail to excite it elsewhere ;
and that the people of England are universally treating it as
one of the fugitive hunibugs of a dying political faction. Apart
altogether from the expediency or inexpediency of subjecting
the Corn-laws to the revisal of competent statesmen at a pro-
per time, the striking and significant fact to which we ar.s
about to allude (namely, that the Anti-Corn-law leaders hate
proclaimed by advertisement, that the country does not sup-
port them) must at least demolish the reiterated assertions of
the Ministerial press as to the popularity of their cause. For
the last twelve months or more, our ears have been stunned with
noisy representations about the mighty gatherings of Anti-Corn-
law delegates, and the rapid extension of their principles
throughout the entire kingdo.n. Judging from the boastful
bulletins which have issued from h ad-quarters, one would
have imagined cot merely that the League was entitled to' the
preferable appellation of a Legion, but that its actual progress
had been that of a grand victorious airily. We now learn,
however, from late'r and more authentic accounts, that there
has been " somethng too mud" of this." Doubtless, even
in the absence of econdary resources, miracles of high achieve-
ment may occasionally be performed, particularly in paper
despatches; but in speculating on the reported aucce.ses of a
campaign against such a powerful adversary as exists in this
case, people seldom forget that the real effective strength of
die exultant party must always be determined by the state of
its commissariat. Now it so happens that the Anti-Corn-law
belligerents, notwithstanding their vaunted triumphs, are at
preseot peculiarly chapfallen on account of their destitution of
the sinews of war.
lIERALD.—Another night. has been devoted to the dis-
cussion of Sir Robert Peel's proposition to the House of Coro-
t/low, that it should record, by a solemn resolutions, its want
of confidence in her. Majesty's present Government. We are
disposed to feel increased "confidence," on a retrospect at the
speeches delivered last evening, in the nature of the consum-
mation that is destined to close tine debate. Any tiring so
Slippery, so precarious, so equivocal, as the hold whichhr r
Majesty's advisers appear to have on the disinterested attach-
ment or zealous co-operation of their own party in the Houte,
we do not remember., within our own experience, ever to have
Wi•nentstl. Some involuntary ebullitions of impatience, a few transient snatches of unextinguished affection for their com-
mon country, andan occasional expression of unappeased remorse
at their own shameful participation in the guilty uses to which
they have concurrel in prostituting her spirit, and energy, and
genius, are features in some recent speeches of Irish Members,
which cannot escape the attention of a careful ob-
server. These are indications of evil omen to the
despotic chief whom a large proportion of the representatives
of Ireland have ssrved too leng, and followed too implicity.
They have been eminently gui:ty of that worst of politicalc"
eiimes, selfish fasition. This " quality" of their "
offeneleave, the sin almost without extenuation ; it certainly.s
sr
extin-
guishes every redeeming property that might,. were this
absent, ripen into feelings of nobler excitement
all sympathy
I
poses of loftier nark. The total extinction
aovowe,.
1 jealousy
for the glory or the happiness of England—the mpathy
of her institutions, her power, and her respectthe imprecation
among
the na-
tions—the deprecation of her advancement,
of her downfall—the doparagement of her s.rcial condition—the
exaggeration of her political deficiencies—a sullen and reluctant
homage to her superiority. as the
.pricipal member in the
' principal
union of the three kineiloms—aiteinate. reproaches, site
tered in a spirit of the most flagrant ingratitude fee her un-
bounded generosity in recent
years[ ;-4 , j4.09.c,1 hr the muni-
fieent contributions cif lAer. private . y towards the relief of
.
oqr lufferiil4, starving, and homeless countrymen on the
western coasts of Ireland; and the most importunate and un•
blushing solicitation of that; nattharity, so often as the pressure of
similar distress on their neglected and °tea• et tenantry
becomes alarming to the real ,• aliens" from the whole system
of the domestic ins,itutions of Ire'and—namely, thst pe):tirel
demagogues and .
adventurers
of that kingdcsits who saes:tee
their time, their horsi, thair la'o4l:‘, their abilities, to par.
-4-sindisiesnent and official int.,-
I;onuon, ►e}ien they should be devoting thern. ,•-•
tire districts, to the moral arid nh"—
.
puirtriets Limo. `i"

.gue in

their respee-
,,,eat improvement of their
. pie a are the trrnas of the fatal corn-