The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-17 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

nial trade. It is there that the real strength of tir,ut
_Britain is to be found. It is there that an antidet2 bas
been silently prepared for all the errors of our modern
ommercial policy ; and it is by confounding the
Growth of our distant colonies, and the immense trade
•
which has sprung up from: their influence, with the
erects of the reciprocity system in our intercourse with
the European States, that its advocates have been able
to conceal from the world the real tendency of their sys-
tem. The number of ships built for the United King-
dom and its possessions in Europe is just about the same
as it was twenty-five years ago, while that for the trade
for the colonies, during the same period, has nearly.
quadrupled."
When we find our foreign trade so stationary, even
D.Ln3rding to the opponents of it, it is high time we
should attempt to resuscitate it, by every possible means.
Tea was flat this afternoon. Company's Cougou at
IS. 51d.

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLE-

BONE.

RESUME!) BALLOT MEETING OF REFORMERS.

The Ballot proceeded with great briskness up to half-
least six o'clock yesterday, when Mr. Protheroe, M.P.,
again took the chair, the theatre being fully crowded,
and the number of electors present being certainly not
less than 2,000, perhaps not less than 2,500. The side
boxes were again filled with ladies, amongst whom we
observA Lady Napier.
The CHAIRMAN would not detain the meeting beyond
stating a decision which he had come to, and which lie
hoped would be considered important.—(Hear, hear.)
He had not been consulted in the morning as to the
manner in which it should be decided who should speak
first. That was determined by tossing up a halfpenny—
(Hear and laughter)—and the Gallant Commodore won
the first turn both times.—(Cheers and laughter.) But
if that arrangement were adhered to, it would give Mr.
Young the advantage of the reply both times,- and that
gentleman had put the matter into his (the Chairman's)
hands, thereby imposing on him a very painful duty.—
(Hear, hear.) He was guided, however, by the usage of
other assemblies, and, according to that; he had thought
it would be the fairest way for Mr. Young, who had the
reply in the morning, to speak first in the evening, giving
the Commodore the opportunity of speaking last.—
(Hear, hear.) With that decision Mr. Young was satis-
fied.—(Cheers.)
Mr. YOUNG accordingly came forward on the stage.
Ho said, that whether he spoke first or last, his only ob-
ject was to place before the meeting a candid statement
of his views and objects.—(Hear, hear.) He had left
the matter to the Chairman, who, he thought, had de-
cided properly.—(Applause.) He had been called on to
state what were his opinions as to the repeal of the Corn-
laws ? For answer, he might refer to the part which
he took in the Anti-Corn-law League, both in London and
in Manchester. He had been delegated by the vestry of Ma-
rylebone to represent the parish in that body, and he had
there signed a resolution in favour of total repeal, and
declaring a fixed duty to be a fixed injustice.—(Hear,
hear.) He was therefore only in favour of the proposed
alteration as a step towards total repeal. To the other
measure* brought forward by the Government nobody
eouid,ehject. . But at the same time that he approVed of
hoee measures he was not prepared to place unbounded
confidence- in the Ministry who proposed them.—(Ap-
;!au.se .-.rani disapprobation.) He was the friend of con-
r.lext.l and progressive. Reform, which Mr. Fox had de-
clared to be pa=t and parcel of the British character, and
he held-the opinions which Lord Grey professed in the
alouee of Commons when he presented the petition of
the Friends of the People--(1-rear, hear)—and which
Russell expounded when he first brought in
t'ee Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) He supported the Whig
candidate on those prinaiples at the first election that
took place in this borough—(Hear, hear)—and if any
.ehange had since taken place, it was not in him.—(Hear,
13,f.::r, and laughter.). When the Whigs passed the
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lil3ll Cocri.ion-Bill, when year after year they resisted
qr. Grote's motions for the Ballot, and used all their
illt-hrmeo to oppose other measures of ' improvement,
f riaded c+a the pr:nciples which they adroea* before they
came into power, then he declared that he had not, and

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could not have any- confidence in them. Were these grounds
ttaon which he v",:e.:s fairly chargeable with change of his
o;inion.a?—(" NO, no.") The change had been in the
Whigs, who had resorted to popular measures, for the
purpose of retaining office; look at their dwindling majo-
ritiea.—(Hisses and •apPlause.) He challenged any one,
to show in what he had changed his opinions.—(Ap-
plause.) It•was the Whigs, whose desertion of their
opinion had caused division in the ranks of the Re-
:former:, and endangered the Liberal interest in that
horongh.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) If however, he
surrendered in the approaching contest, as he believed
he should—(Cheera, laughter, acid cries of " Oh, oh)—
he wetild do all he could to Lupport the gentleman who
represented in. Parliament the Whig party in
in Mar yleborie, so- far as' there was common „Tround upon
which they could work together.—(Hear.) If he did
not succeed this day, then he would give his best sup-
port to promote the cause of Sir C. Napier.—(Great ap-
plause.) He had been chosen by a large body of Re-
formars as the person to be put in nomination to repre-
aent them ; and he could not, in fidelity to them, aban-
don the position in which they had placed him without
theirconsent, which would only be ascertained by some
such proceeding as was at length resolved on. He assured
Sir C. Napier that if at any of his meetings he had let
-Tall any expression which gave the Gallant Commodore
pain, he'ri-gretted it.—(Rear.) rut he believed the Gal-
lant Otlicer did not agree with him and his friends in all
points ; certainly not as to the conduct of the Ministers.
Sir C. NA PIER—Yes, I do.—(Laughter, and cheering.)
Mr. Yong—The Gallant Commodore was reported
to have said that he and his friend Mr, Wall had mis-
represented him. But he had heard the Gallant Commo-
dore say at the Yorkshire Stingo, and he was so reported
in all the papers, that the evils of the Poor-law Act were
owing to the guardians of the poor who did not do their
clut,y,•and that the limit was not in the principle of the
Poor;;Iaw.

Sit; C. NAPIER—That is not correct.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. YouNG had so understood him, and so all the re-
portm; seemed to have understood him. They who
framed the New Poor-law proposed that its object was
tora,ise Men from the condition of parish paupers to that
of independentlabotwers.—(Cheers and disapprobation.)
13ut what were the means adopted for carrying out that
object ?—(licar, hear.) The institution of a central
board of three Commissioners with despotic power 6,
ueh as no man or set of men should exercise
in a free country—such as the Legislature had no right
to confer upon them.—(Cheers.) The guardians them-
wr,re elected by plurality votes and proxy
otek;-41-iear hear.) Hero, then, there was a wide d'it-
fiAl.,rl,e between him and the Gallant Commodore.
.Na u—No.—(Cheers.)
M4r.- Youn;—They said that the union workhouse

t. a test. to distinguish the industrious from the idle
atAillisolute poor. Well; ite would give up to them the
i,dle and dissolute, but 'fie insisted that they should not
inilict.the.punishmAg of crime on those who were poor
tut fault of tkelt.: o-wo,----(Cheers, and cries of "Hear,
`r.'4lAnu.riir C. Napier.) He would not offend the
'That by silecifying other parts
tht:-: ; • but be would say, that when
Ctth;.:r had deserted the child who was
cairaed wiLh inea y, :,ral when all other friends de-
and ,Nezy- t3t, i,C kindrod was broken, the law
z;11'0, ,!d CVt burst thieilut link that bound the unhappy
I':rltq liurnanity---4:*deptive her of woman's claim and
catr,re'.:; claim upon the author of her misfortune.—
.The law had done so : and no wonder
despair s;ioidd. Point out murder amt infanticide as
,nly za,7:ans b %-hi(li,she could escape from the her-
r-!-s in sne -,vas ?hinged. Mr. Young then re-
..Enidst ranch interruption, to the state of a young
-a:eznan. hariu.-- Leen driven from a union workhouse
ya ..Zert!, destroyed her child in the New River in that
-pat tllon alluded to the charge which he said
conimodore had made against him, that he
was',Ace- a r,:cory and now a Radical.
Sjc. C. NAlnElt explained—What he had said was that
public meetings in the bo.
it .bta- I been so stated twice at

you-NG would he glad that the person whe did so
Ivoitld,come before him there. and receive from him, it
the presence-of that meeting,
..ie the
.mostt..never given a vote
for i''Tory.—(flear.)
decided contradic-
tiont l
it was possible to give, i
lie regarded the Tories as enemies
who-must be put down, as they would put down the
peoiite2—' (Cheers.) There could be no comparison be-
tlv2iin. him, or those 'who supported him, and the Tories.
There must be perpetual hostility between them; and it
electors rs on
wouldto the
successful that day, he would lead the
fight, were if air C. Napier ere preferred,
de-
votedly serve in the ranks.—(Great cheering.) The time
was now expired
Su C. N.Ama—No, go on, 11l give you five minutes
of ray half-hour, or more if you like.—(Cheers, and a
laugh.)
Mr. Youico declined the offer, and concluded by hoping
that- his friends would agree with him that, whatever
.-night be the result of the ballot, some such manifes-
tation of their sentiments was necessary to the interest of
the reform party in the borough. He sat down amidst
much cheering.
Sr C. NAPIER. (who was greeted with the most en-
thusiastic and reiterated cheering) said, that he was first
desinius to explain something which had passed at the
morning meeting, relative to his friend Mr. Young, if he
might call him so—(Mr. Young here rose and bowed
good-humouredly to the Commodore, which was followed
.by applause and laughter.) He had stated that
Mr. Young had been three times a candidate,
and that this was the fourth time. If that was incorrect,
he had only to beg pardon ; but it appeared, however,
that it was quite true that this was the third time of his
offering himself to the electors.--(Hear , hear.) With
respect to Mr. Young's having been once a
Tory, it was
stated publicly at two meetings of the electors, by a gen-
-demi/I who, he was sure, would not be angry at his
name being mentioned—it was Mr. Portwine.—
(Laughter and hisses from the Youngites, and cries of
" Pertwine said the truth," from some others.) Mr.
PP:twine stated that when Mr. Young was Chairman of
Sir William norne's Committee, he said his politics were
ef'tho Wharncliffe school—(Cheers and laughter)---and
If that was not a Tory school, he did not know what was.
—(Cheers.)
Mr. YOUNG—I never said I was of the Wharnclifib'
school, nor anything like it.—(Cheers.)
Sif C. NAPIER said Mr. Young had seemed to doubt
hether he (Sir C. Napier) was not still in command of a
sqmtclron in the Mediterranean.—(Laughter.) To satisfy
Mr. Young he read a letter from the Admiralty, dated
tir hist hay, and informing him that, in consequence
o .ifla having written to their Lordships, his
private
'`ti's would not allow him to sail for the Mediterranean
mritte next rket be ,he and his retinue should dis-
iradriatorfrom... e Powerful from that da_y.—(Cheers.)
„ een,awm,.l-sr. against him was that he was
say ~ n
he was, and ear-) . He was proud to
p05,..0..,as a Quet,n,s
0., hoped to dis at his
mg.) ills being an ofrieerulee?"- (Tremendous cheer-
rights
as a
citizen._.(HearAd not deprive him of hit
fated under any Government,eliVia lie had never hesi--
g or Tory, to denoutre
whateTer he saw going wrong is the 11"3", and hs had