The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

PARTY NEGLECT OF THE LATE

MINISTERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-I have read, with much satisfaction, your artielP
in Saturday's Sun, on the mismanagement of ttye leaders
of the late Ministry, which contributed so much to the fTc..„,
downfall of their Government. But you might Itav9 car-
ried your case much further, because I haveriwpri fo
believe that the personal demeanour of.those leaders had .",TV
been very far from satisfactory to their political sup-
porters. Men like civility in political as well as social
life, and that cheap commodity was too often wanting, I
fear, on their part. Lord John Russell's coldness and
reserve may be partly constitutional, and, doubtless, are
so, but they sometimes savour strongly of aristocratic
hauteur, and I believe some of the subordinates wero
rather notorious for their brusquerie. Not having been
in the last Parliament, I cannot speak from personal ex-
perience or observation of what then took place ; but the
complaints I have heard are fully borne out by what I
have seen as a new Member of the present House. I
believe I shall only speak the general feeling Gf the new
Liberal Members when I say that the most of them on
entering the House on this occasion have been treated wi th
entire neglect by the leaders of their party. On ap-
proaching the House, for the first time, no person was to
be found belonging to that pdrty to offer them the
slightest information or assistance in respect to the forms
of the House, or the ceremony of taking their seats, nor
any one to greet them with the faintest welcome. For
my own part, happening to know several of the old Mem-
bers, and some of the late Government, I experienced,
myself, no inconvenience from this neglect ; but I know
some who did, and who felt it perhaps more keenly than
they chose to express. What was the case on the
other side of the House ? Let those who observed lie
activity and studied attention of Sir T. F-, and above
all, those who experienced his courtesy and kindness,
answer the question.
Sept. 6, 1841. A NEW MEMBER.

The grounds of the petition against Sir Thomas
Winnington's return for Bewdley arise from fourteen
persons in the Far Forest having voted for Sir T. E.
Winnington, who had no legal right to do so, inasmuch
as they reside in a detached part of the parish of Ribbes-
ford, which has been recently discovered to form no
part of the Parliamentary borough. Kidderniinster
Messenger. _ _

EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY.—The Se-
lect Committee of the House of Commons, lately ap-
pointed to inquire into the operation of the existing laws
affecting the exportation of machinery, have just pub-
lished their second Report to the House. This Report
is much too lung to allow of any detailed reference to it,
but we subjoin the final recommendation of the Com-
mittee on the subject, which is to the following effect,
viz. :—" That, considering that machinery is the only
product of British industry upon the export of which
restraints are placed, the Committee recommends that
the law prohibiting the export of incebinery should Le
repealed, and the trade of machine making be placed
upon the same footing as other departments of British
industry."
THE LATE COLONEL BooTu.--The officer
of the 43d Light Infantry regiment have intimated to
the widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Booth, K.H.,
of that regiment (in which he had served nearly thirty-
six years), their wish to erect a tablet to the memory of
their highly distinguished and much lamented command-
ing officer, and have requested her to signify her wishes
as to where such monument should be erected.—Shef-
field Mercury.
EDITORIAL FISHING.—We beg to acknow-
ledge the receipt of a beautiful dish of soles sent us
from a friend in Tenby this week—they were most
acceptable. He, as well as other friends, need not fear
offending us by sending us anything he may consider
worth accepting.—Carmarthen Journal.
LIVERPOOL FISH COMPANY.—This Company
was dissolved last week, at a special meeting of the Pro-
prietors, held at the Clarendon-rooms, the whole of the
surplus and two-thirds of the capital having been ex-
hausted. It appears, that in the course of five years, the
concern has incurred a loss of between 16,0001. and
18,0001. The boats of the Company are advertised for
sale.—Liven pool Journal.

NEWNHAM PADDOX. The Hon. Douglas
Pennant, M.P. for the county of Caernarvon, has taken
Newnham Paddox, the seat of the Earl of Denbigh, as
a country residence, for two years.—Coventry Herald.
THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.—Owing to the
little moisture in the spring, the breeding season was
somewhat unfavourable, but still partridges are said to
be numerous. A great many leverets perished in conse-
quence of the heavy rains of the present summer. The
harvest being so late is rather tantalizing to the sports-
men, and it is well worthy of consideration whether it
would not be better by common consent to pestpone the
commencement of shooting in such cases. In France the
time for beginning the spurt is varied according to the
season.--Manchester Times.

The Duke of Bedford has arrived at Woburn
Abbey, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland at Longshawe
Lodge, Derbyshire.
DEPARTURE OF THE CALEDONIA STEAM.
SIiIP.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.—The Royal
mail steam-ship, Caledonia, for Halifax and Boston,
commanded by Capt. M'Kellar, sailed from the Mersey
this morning, carrying out upwards of 100 passengers.
Lieut. Bury has charge of the mail bags. The vessel
may be expected to arrive in Boston about the 19th inst.
MANGANESE ORE.—The Duke of Richmond
does not intend working -his iron mine on the estate at
Tomintoul, owing chiefly to the long land carriage ; but
a vein of manganese has been discovered at the flame
place, which promises to be productive and valuable.
Men are at present engaged at this new vein.—Aberdeen
Hera].

ACTIVITY OF THE MARKET LOOKERS.-
The Market lookers on Wednesday last seized and threw
into the river Croal, about 5,000 herrings in a putrid
state, which had been offered for sale in the fish market,
and yesterday.they seized nearly 1,000 herrings, in Little
Bolton in even a worse condition, and also the greater
portion of a cow, that had died of the distemper.—Bolton
Free Press.

As a young student was, two days ago, smoking
at a window, on a second floor, in the Rue Saint Jacques,
his pipe escaped from his hand. In making a sudden
effort to save it his foot slipped and he fell headlong into
the street. His skull was fractured, and before medical
aid could be called in he was a corpse.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—There is at pre-
sent in the possession of Mr. Archibald Bell, Melrose, a
hen, which has, for three successive years, changed the
colour of its plumage. It was originally a jet black,
then speckled, and is now completely white.—Scotch
Paper.
An Egyptian goose—a very rare bird in this
part of the country—was, a few days ago, shot at Wark,
on the south side of the Tweed, by Lord Ossulston's
gamekeeper.—Liverpool Chronicle.
A very thin young lady, in a room full of com-
pany, exclaimed, " I must retire or I shall melt." " Oh,
don't go," said a Yankee captain, " you'll not make a
grease spot."
PROLIFIC PCiTATOE. —An extraordinary
quantity of potatoes, the production of one root, of the
golden cup species, was last week dug up from the gar-
den of Sir Henry Fitzherbert, Bart., of Tissington Hall,
in this County, amounting in all to 160, most of which
were fit for use.—Derbyshire Chronicle.
WENTWDRTH•HOUSE MENAGERIE.—A birth
of an extraordinary nature took place on the 26th ult. in
in the menagerie at Wentworth House. The Noble Earl
Fitawilliam has been for some time in possession of a
male and female lama. This animal is very rare in this
country, and as far as we knew has never bred in Eng-
land before, with the exception of a pair belonging to
the Earl of Derby. The female has, however, produced
one young one, perfectly white in colour, and healthy in
appearance. This youngster, from its rarity, is considered
a great natural curiosity.—Leeds Mercury.
M. Moat, whose name is so well known to all
drinkers of champagne, more or less genuine, died a few
days since, aged eighty.—Paris Print.
DORSET.—GAME.—Thursday was the com-
mencement of the partridge shooting season. Birds are
plentiful and strong oti the wing; but we understand
that the sportsmen in this neighbourhood, in consequence
of the lateness of the harvest, have established a full
understanding to refrain from sporting for some days.
until the crops shall have been housed.—Somerret
Gazette.
A NOBLE-MINDED PEASANT.—AD
ral labourer named George Lett, of North rbranweme3y.":
who, by honest industry, sober habits, and economy.
saved a sufficient sum of money to purcasebe
received
house in the parish, stated that the first malt
Satur-
should be given away in bread. Accordingly
21, having
day last, half a year's rent, amounting Lo aarieuiitu-
b.a.owto furnish
bugday. A
been paid, he gave the money to the
to tne Sunday
bread to be distributed at church the fop
loaf was given to every child belon_gi
School, and the remainder to the most
_nctstressed poor of
fiord THE _rt/tamp/on Herald.
the parish who attended church.
BANISHMENT OF
, WINE TEE-TOTALLERS.
SACRA-
MENT OF THE LORD'S ourrEa,
respecting
the exclusion of wine
Ag
Tee" Correspondent who fur-
the truth of a paragraph
totallers has been denied by
ren, ao:
nhfaotr
the August,sticsed Conference
occasion
1 8 4 l ,
sfroomnet tahoeoSnaycor_aomusent by
writ he 1,
; shown us the number of the
nished the paragrapth
of two individuals wl7o appeared
which gives the naf
late
Huddersfield Tee-total Confe-
as delegates at. the, s
rence, where
Temperance A:tvocunaa e
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craa
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sind
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diun,
deem the use of intox
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of the Lord's Supper, as unwarranted by Scripture."—
•.s Letter.
Belfast Neu
EATHS.--S everal awful instances
SUDDEN
of sudden death have occurred within the last few days.
gra. Jamieson, who kept a small grocery shop in
Dudhope-crescent, while in the act of weighing some
coffee to an individual on the evening of Saturday week,
dropped down and instantly expired.—On the following
morning Wm. Mahon, sailors officer, also suddenly ex-
pired in his bed. About seven o'clock his wife rose to
kindle the fire. Hearing him groan, she turned round,
and found to her astonishment that he was dead. He was
about 60 years cf age.—The same evening Mrs. Tosh,
wife of David Tosh, master of the Tay steam-packet,
dropped down while in the act of taking a fish from the
fire. She had been twice at the church during the day,
and had no complaint prior to her demise.—Dundee
Warder.

The Courrier de Lyon relates that on Sunday
evening, about eight o'clock, as the citizens were return-
ing into the town from their walks in the meadows and
woods of the Tete-d'Or, many of them were set upon
by eight or ten ruffians, who with acts of violence robbed
the men of their purses, and the women of their shawls
and cloaks, till they excited a resistance which drove
them to flight. Only two of them were arrested and
delivered up to justice.