The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-23 00:00:00

CAFE DE PARIS-SUNDAY, JUNE 20.

HALF-PAST Two.—The Three per Cents. for the Account
are as yesterday, 76f. 90c., but sellers. The loan the Minis-
ter of Finance has been authorised to raise for some time
past served to give rise to numerous rumours, as well in
respect to the amount as to the period of contracting for it.
There appears some foundation for thinking that the .linister
of Finance will give a notice en the subject some time in August.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—We are informed that
Mr. Robert Stanhope Wilkes, who has announced him-
self as a candidate fur 'Westminster, has no chance
whatever of being returned. His appearance, therefore,
at the present moment as a candidate on the Liberal in-
terest, can only be productive of mischief. He may
mean no harm—he may only wish to obtain an electoral
sanction to a good principle; but folly sometimes effects
more injury even to those whom it loves than guilt, and
we trust Mr. Wilkes, particularly if he possesses all the
claims on popular support he mentions in his address,
will see the propriety of not forfeiting them, and will
withdraw from the ridiculous situation he has thrust
himself in. If he do not, the assertion which we have
heard, that he is acting under the influence of the Tories,
will appear credible, and will receive general credence.
One of the impudent and lying assertions of the bread-
taxers is that for every quarter of foreign corn intro-
duced into consumption in England, a quarter of British
corn would be driven out of the market. For several
years past we have imported on an average nearly
900,000 qrs. of foreign grain. Has there in that time
been 900,000 qrs. of British grain driven out of the
market ? Has a field been left uncultivated in conse-
quence of the importation ? No. The assertion, then,
is a bread-taxer's lie. It might be true if wheat were
down to 30s. per quarter—if the people were fed full—
were sitting in idleness—and wheat were to be sold in
Harnburgh for 15s. per quarter. At present our people
need much more food than they can get ; they are in-
dustrious, and to work, and the probability is
that importing foreign wheat would give them strength
to work more, and create a greater demand for British
wheat. The bread-taxers, in default of arguments, em-
ploy themselves in coining lies ; and the assertion that
every quarter of foreign wheat imported would displace
a quarter of British wheat in the market, is a thumper
of Their mint.

THE SHERIFFS AND SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Some of the
City wits, renowned for practical jokes, have shut up two
dolls in a cage, dressed like the Sheriffs ; and with this
emblem of the insulted privileges of the City, they warn
the electors against voting for Lord John Russell, who
asserted the privilege of Parliament. Unfortunately for
the party joke, Sir Robert Peel boasted in the House of
Commons in his speech on the sugar question that he
hid stood by Lord J. Russell throughout the privilege
question. The Tory wit tells, therefore, against the Tory
chieftain. Sir Robert Peel, who commanded the Opposi.-
tiOn, and controlled the Government, was the real
author of the imprisonment of the Sheriffs, as he has
always been the assertor of the privileges of Parliament,
add the clichiy of dub priTiAegps or people. the

caging of the Sheriffs, and the passing of the Poor-law, I
which for an electioneering purpose, are ascribed to the
Whigs, belong quite. as much tb .the Tories as them.
The sins of both are now brought home to them.
BOROUGH OF FINSBURY.—A meeting of Mr. Wakley's
friends takes place this evening, at seven o'clock, at the
White Conduit House, When the Hon. Member will be
present. „ . .
Tnlcjis OF THE TORIES.—The Standard last night
published the following placard which it receivint from
Bath :—" Cancel the national debt ! Free trade, cheap
bread,.and :plenty .ill. be the result. Let the people,
therefore, establish ' Anti-National Debt Leagues,' in
every town, for the purpose of accelerating that event.
Vote for Itoebnek and. Duncan ! natinal debt. No
Corn-laws." It is plain, on. the fitte of such a
is preposter-
ous notice,. that it the invention of some Tory, who
aspects by it to damage the popular cause. The national
debt will soon.be cancelled if the bread-taxers be allowed
much longer to. plunder and .irritate the people. The
Anti-Bread-tax League_have proclaimed again and again
that the
,national debt tt
the
and
nty-
bread-tax, iral pecgponleseqcaLiZtyPht3e7
holders are the bread-taxers, and their real friends are
those who seek to put an end to the bread-tax in order
that the nation may be able to continue the payment of
the debt. The placard is obviously an invention of the
.Tories, and even the bold and ingenuous Standard does
not venture to imply that it emanated from the Com-
mittee of the Radical candidates, or was known to any of
their friends. It is an insult to the understanding of any
reader to suppose that he will 1),, taken in by such a bald
artifice.

The .Eart of Mouritca.shel has addressed a letter to the
editor of the Times, regarding; the anecdote that lately
went the round of. the Press, respecting a young lady
who was attempted. to be seduced by a clergyman, in
which his Lorthltio observes, " no blame of any kind
could be attritAtted-to the friend of the young lady, and
the clel.Tsynian thoug h .he ought never to have put a foot
wittin the was of a house of the description, actEd on
a praiseworthy and honourable part." His
Lordship adds, " the occurrence is not more surprising
than another that has come to my knowledge, which
took place at Almack's, Ender nearly similar circum
stances."

A triumphal arch was erected on Monday by the inha-
bitants of Greenwich, in honour of her Majesty's pass-
ing through that town. It was decorated with evergreens,
flags, &c., in the centre was a double wheat-sheaf, under
which was displayed a banner bearing the motto, " God
save the Queen ;" at each corner, under a wheat-sheaf
were banners bearing the motto, " Melbourne, Peace, and
Plenty ;" mid "RuSsell, Peace, and Plenty." Her Ma-
jesty stopped as she passed under the arch, and appeared
much gratified with the attention and the mottoes. Tke
arch was erected from Captain Dundas and Mr. Bar-
nard's Committee-rooms across . the road, near the
Church. After the launch about two hundred of the
most influential inhabitants of the borough of Green-
wich, the supporters of Captain Dundas and Mr. Bar-
nard, sat down to a dinner at the Mitre Hotel, George
Barrett, Esq., in the Chair, supported by Charles Har-
wood and George Smith, Esqrs., County Magistrates, H.
Keeble, Esq., and other leading gentlemen. After din-
ner the health of the Queen, Duke of Sussex, Duchess
of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family in England,
Prince Albert. and the Princess Royal, her Majesty's
Ministers, the People, the legitimate source of all Power ;
Mr. Barnard and Captain Dundas, and success to the
cause of Civil and Religious Liberty ;
.Tharatts Law
Hodges, and the Liberal Electors of West Kent ; Mr.
Jolly, and the Liberals at Woolwich ; Mr. Wade and the
Liberals at Deptford; Charles Harwood and Geo. Smith,
Esqs., and the Liberal Magistracy of Kent, were given.
After the health of the worthy and excellent Chairman was
drunk with four times four, the party separated, highly
delighted and satisfied that their two candidates would
be returned with a most triumphant majority. It is well
to notice that the wheat upon the triumphal arch, as well
as the arch itself, gave great offence to the Tories on
Sir George Cockburn's Committee. One gentleman well
known threatened to destroy it.