The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-21 00:00:00

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A GOOD EXAMPLE.—MEETING OF NON-
ELECTORS.—Last evening a meeting of non-electors of
the borough of Manchester, convened by p?acard, was
held in St. George's Fields, in a hollow near St. aileorge's
Church, " to take into consideration • the best means
to be adopted in order to induce the shopkeepers and
other voters immediately dependent upon the labouring
classes, to support such candidates only at the ensuing
election as will vote for the total, immediate, and uncon-
ditional repeal of the man-starvation acts." The non-elec-
tore were called upon with " peace, law, and order"as their
motto, to unite as one man to shake the huge edifice of
monopoly to its very base. Notwithstanding the rain,
there was an assemblage of more than two thousand
persons. Mr. Melhearne was called to the chair, and the
meeting was addressed by Messrs. Finnigan, M‘Gowan,
and many others whose names we did not hear ; and re-
solutions were adopted to the effect, that the non-elec-
tors, composing the meeting, having suffered and being
still suffermggreat privation and distress from tho effects
of monopolies, especially that great monopoly the bread
tax, resolved to support those shopkeepers and trades-
men only who voted for those candidates that avowed
tlkemselvcs for a total, unconditional, and immediate re-
peal of the Corn-laws. The resolution passed unani-
mously, and with loud cheers ; and it was determined
that a committee should be formed to carry out the ob-
jects of the meeting. The proceedings were conducted
throughout in the most orderly and peaceable Manner..--
nchester Guardian.
It is really surprising how the Tories can put
forward such an election list as they did in the Tinws
of yesterday. Any person at all acquainted with elec-
tion proceedings must be struck with the gross misre-
presentations which abound in that list. We are.confi-
dent that if our? Contemporary. turns its attention
honestly to it, it will at once perceive and promptly ac-
knOwledge the errors into which it has been led. The
worst feature in theSe misrepreSentations is that they all
tend one way ; but it is as evidently the bias of igno-
rance,. for the blunders are so gross as to preclude their
being the inventions of any ingenious falsifier. Perhaps
we may here notice a little circumstance which is a most
strong proof of the probable stability of the- Govern-
ment, and of confidence as to the result of the elections.
Mr. Le Marchant, who is better acquainted with the
state of the constituencies and the state of public feeling
than ahnost any other man in the country, has given up
a permanent office of 1,5001.-a year to be appointed Se-
cretary' to the Treasury, an office which he must sur-
render upon change of Government.—Observer.
SHREWSBURY ELECTION.--The contest for

the representation of this borough has commenced wit
intense interest ; and no wonder— for this is a vita:
struggle on behalf of the working and trading classes
here and everywhere, against oppressive monopolising
classes. The candidates in favour of a new order of
things—in favour of free competition in trade and com-
merce all over the world,' for the sake of promoting an
interchange of benefits, and thus promoting civilization
and peace all over the world—the candidates in Shrews-
bury, on these principles, are General Sir L. Jones
Parry, and Christopher Temple, Esq., of the Chancery
Bar.—Shrcicsbury Chronicle.
Mr. Grogan, the favoured candidate for the
City of Dublin, put forward by the Carlton Club, has
saved us from what we had deemed a paramount duty—
namely. a full consideration of the results of a Tory Go-
vernment in Ireland. Mr. Grogan, the organ of Sir
Robert Peel, declares that " every man in the country
must have seen before this how the fading, blighting, in-
fluence of Popery was now pervading everything in the
land, and was it not time to uproot the. evil—to remove
the withering blight of Popery?" In other words, the
representative of Sir Robert Peel, the expounder of the
Tory policy, would extinguish Popery in the blood of the
Papists. Well do we know that Sir Robert Peel has no
such diabolical—such downright insane intentions ; but
then the party must be kept together by getting up the
steam amorig the Orangemen. -
Herrings have beep taken during the week upon
our coast, but, we are sorry to say, not in such quantities
as to render them universally obtainable by the hides-
trious classes. They are still selling as high as five for
sixpence ; but should calm, warm weather ensue, we
may expect a plentiful take and cheaper prices.—White-
haven Herald.
THE CITY TRICKSTERS.—On the 29th of
April last, a petition from the merchants and traders of
the City of London was presented to the House of Com-
mons, the allegations and prayer of which are as fol-
lows :—" That your petitioners are of opinion that the
present customs' duties and prohibitions are highly de-
trimental both to the general trade of the country and to
the revenue. That they. have the effect of greatly enhanc-
ing the prices to the British consumer of many articles of
first necessity, and of totally excluding others of foreign
growth, thus giving wore than a fair and reasonable pro-
tection to individuals interested in the produce of the Uni-
ted Kingdom and its dependencies, and laying a heavy tax
on the community without benefit to the revenue." Now, to
show the greater degree of importance that was, at that
time, attached to obtaining " such alterations in the ex-
cessive differential duties and restrictions as shall be deemed
fair and just 'to the consumer and to the British pro-
ducer," than to the hackneyed distinctions of Whig
or Tory, the following signatures of firms and inei-
vidual3 of the greatest commercial influence and
personal respectability, but who have not been remark-
able for liberality. in politics, are sufficiently concludve :
John Horsley Palmer ; Heath, Furse, and Co. ; Han-
son, Brothers ; Jacob W arner, Sons, and Co. ; Samuel
Dobree' and Sons ;P. and Van' Notten and CO. ,
Frederick Huth and Co.'; Bell and Grant ; A. A. Gow-
er,.
Nephews, and Co. ; John Hubbard and Co. ; John
Pirie and Co. ;
J. and H.-Ranking and
,Co. ; Sampson,
Batard, and Co, ;Bradbury
and Greatorex ;Chapman,
Marshall,' and C 0..; Robert Farrand. The, list nigh
b„ largely extended. With what face can these, or any
of them, oppose Lord John Russell?