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

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin—lf the boroughs do not return Anti-Corn mono-
pdy Members, the good cause will suffer, for most of
what are called Liberal County Members are averse
to the repeal of the obnoxious law. There is E. S.
Cayley. Esq., M.P., for the North Riding of Yorkshire,
although a good man on most liberal measures, yet he
is a Cern-law man. We have three candidates in the
fiehl for South Durham ; two who profess to be Liberals,
Bowes and young. Vane, one of the Duke of Cleve-
- land's sons, a sort of a mongrel Reformer; both these are
great sticklers for the broad-tax. Last Wednesday, at
Stockton, the great corn market for the county of Dur-
' ham, great doings were expected from them, and there
wax a very fui! town to hear their speeches. Mr. Bowes
never came forward to speak at all. Mr. Vane spoke a
few unmeaning words; hardly anything could be gleaned
from his speech, but the conclusion that if the Govern-
- ment measure was carried, the farmers would all be
ruined. This foolish speech of his set the Chartists all
in motion ; they, much to their credit, mustered in great
',force, and paraded the town with banners and music,
with a large loaf of bread as the foreign one, and a small
one as the English taxed loaf. Their leaders spoke well,
,ene of them a bricklayer ; his speech would have done
Credit to the House of Commons. The Chartists are,
I hope, coming forward in the right way, and will do a
great deal of good. The third candidate is a Tory of
the ultra-school, one of your No-Popery men. He is
stated ,o be something related to the late Lord Eldon ;
his ntr ao is Mr. James Ferrer ; he is very little known.
He wcs kicking up a bobbery on Saturday, at Stockton,
with music, banners, &c. He, too, of course, is a mono-
_ What are we to do ? We have only three to
Cltoa :e from, and both Whig and Tory are Corn-law
men. The freeholders for counties can do but little good ;
two ,or three leading families carry the sway, and how-
ever honest or independent a few individuals may be,
they cannot stem the current. It is different in boroughs.
The electors are congregated together, and they know
each other better, and their interests aro more alike.
You must it eulcate upon the boroughs to do their duty,
and send nione but staunch repealers.
An earl:,- insertion in your independent Journal, will
oblige an Old Subscriber and

ELECTOR OF SOUTH DURHAM.
Gainsborough, North Riding, Yorkshire,
June 21, 1841.

LORD JOHN 'RUSSELL AND LORD
PALMERSTON.
There will be found in another part of c
full account of Lord John Russell's triumphant . our paper a
don in the City of London, a reception not to recap_
don
by any welcome given to a Minister of State
in the capital for many t
years, whether we consider he
enthusiasm of all, or the commercial standing of mavn
of those who took part in it. No one can read the-
account of his Lordship's reception, without feeling that
the measures a free trade recently proposed by the 'Go-
vernment have sunk deeply into the minds of the corn_
tnercial community—of_ men not liable to be carri,d
away by temporary excitement, and whose mature
judgment may be safely, taken both as an index and
a guide to public opinion. There seems to be no
doubt that Lord John Russell will be returned in
triumph. This will be a victory of national import.
ante, and it is our firm belief, founded on a knowledge of
the state of opinion in Liverpool, that another triumph
for the principles of free trade, only second to the return
of Lord John Russell for the City of London, may be
achieved in Liverpool, if Lord Palmerston will come for-
ward, and give his sanction to the exertions which are
making her to secure his return. From the enthusiastic
manner in which his name was received on 'Change
Friday last, as well as from the great number of the fo
mer friends of Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresawell who have
signed his rsquisitioa, we feel confident that if he should
show himself amongst us, he will be one of the Members
for Liverpool in the ensuing Parliament —Liverpool
Times,

THE PRESIDENT STEAMER.
PARIS, JUNE 20.—The following letter, dated Naples,
June 12, has this morning been received in Paris. The
writer is a very respectable English resident in that
city :
" Capt. Hammond, of the British brig Venus, which
arrived here from Newfoundland on the 7th inst., re-
ports that he had on his voyage from Cadiz to New-
foundland, in the middle of April last, passed a large
steamer drifting on the ice, in which she must shortly
after have been blocked up. The Captain of the brig
hoisted his number, and the steamer in answer the
Iritish flag. The brig not having been reported by the
steamer, which was endeavouring to proceed home-
wards, Capt. Hammond supposes it must have been the
President. He was obliged to make a circuit himself of
more than one hundred and fifty miles to avoid running
into the same predicament. Whether the steamer seen
-was the President or not, there is no doubt of the fact
e her having been seen."
God grant that the steamer mentioned in this state-
iment, which has probably already reached you, may turn
cut to have been the President • but in such case the
probability of her reaching England is great. Having
en abundance of flour on board, the crew and passengers
cannot starve for months, and the only anxiety we can
feel is as to water. But even in this respect there is
fittle to be apprehended, for it would be very easy to
turn her steam apparatus to the. production of fresh
'water ; and Mr- Byrne, one of her passengers,
being a
ties
t)ractr
tliiceal chemist, would give the necessary instruc-14 as the Presressnt The main hope that this steamer
rot been reportedrbests the fact that the Veaus has
maysteamer which has arrived in
pave
.arisen from nogligenee,
or ?. tame still remain in doubt.
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