The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-05 00:00:00

LINCOLN.

The full wing extracts from a spirited speech made by
lair E. L. raulwer at. the election will be read with inte-
rest :—" Mr. Swann considers my support of the pre-
sent Administration as disqualifying me from being your
representative ; but he only looks at my speeches and my
vote in behalf of the Government, he does not make
any account of those given against them. He reminds
me of the Sultan who had only one eye, and who would
have his portrait taken ; the artist was in a dilemma,
for it would have been high treason to have represented
the Sovereign with only one eye, whilst, if he had drawn
him with two, the faithful would not have known
him ; he at length hit upon the expedient of draw-
ing the Sultan in profile. Now, Mr. Swann has been
looking at my votes in profile ; with the one eye he sees
my support of the Ministers, but with the other he is per-
fectly blind.—Cheers.) I allow that I have supported the
Government in all their great measures for the advance-
ment of human liberty. I have voted with them for
carrying out the principles of Parliamentary Reform,
and also the Municipal Reform, but I have opposed them
on qneations on which Colonel Sibthorp himself has
supported them. I opposed them when Colonel "Sib-
thorp voted with them respecting the great question of
immediate emancipation to the negroes. W e carried it
by a small majority, and those who were present as de-
legates from anti-slavery societies have been pleased to
say that it was in a great measure owing to the speech
with which I closed the debate that the majority was
gained.--(Cheers.) I voted against the Government on
the question of ballot, when they were also supported
by Colonel Sibthorp.—(Continued cheers.) In the late
Session I voted for an inquiry into the conduct of Lord
-Cardigan—(llear)--and was opposed to the Government
and Col. Sibthorp. Again I was opposed to them on the
question of some mitigation to the imprisoned Chart-
ists, for although I disagree as much as any man with
the sentiments they have expressed, heaxeu forbid that I
should wish the man who differs from me in political
opinions to be treated as a felon. I therefore say that
my votes and my speeches have not been fairly exam-
ined, and that they have been entirely overlooked where
they were opposed to the Government. I was glad to
hear Colonel Sibthorp just now disclaim the new-fangled
name of Conservative, and call himself a Tory ; I was
always s'arprised that they should be giving up their old
names to fag sneaking under an alias ; it is only bad ser-
vants who clainge their names, when they have been dis-
missed for dehOuency.—(Cheers and laughter.) To
resist change when everything else is altering ; when
machinery has made such rapid progress, that human
labour is risen almost to a science ; when, if our ancestors
could arise, and walk down the streets of Lincoln, they
would suppose all that they beheld to be the effects of
magic ; in politics, and in politics alone, there is to be
no progress, Now the railway will -convey us from
Nottingham to London in six hours and a half, instead
of the old slew and sure coach which performed the
journey lii four days and three nights, " God willing."
We are stiil .to adhere to the old Constitution, under
which witnesses'-were put upon the rack, and old women
were burnt as wig.ailes.—(Land cheers.) My principles
are totally the reverse.. Ido not advocAe change for its
own sake, but that our snstitutions shall advance with
the progress of society ins:',DAl of standing still. What
does Sir Robert Peel offer exa'ePt this stand-still, do-
nothing principle, should he ewe` into office ? Does
he held out any hope, any expootlstion of political
amelioration ? He throws to the winds the hypocri-
tical argument about the horrors of sia„,,ary ; and
though it is inconvenient now to alter, he d0...4' not
say what he would do hereafter on the subject of t.‘l. e
sugar duties. Then, in regard 4) the Corn-laws—
it has been said that my address woo ambiguous—what
does Sir Robert Peel say ? He askls you to make him
prime minister, and then he will tell you what he will
propose fairly and candidly. He says he is in favour of
a sliding scale, but whether that is to be up to 30s. or
405., or down to 2s. 6d., he does not tell you—all is ambi-
goous. Talleyrand once said that speech was given to
man to enable him to disguise his ser.timents ; he cer-
tainly must have had Sir Robert Peel in his eye when he
said that.—(Cheers.) Amidst so vast a variety of topics
as have been introduced, two subjects I shall touch upon
briefly; they are the Poor-law and Prince Alberts's an-
nuity. I have always said that the law is capable of much
mitigation, and I would greatly extend the principle
of out-dour relief to persons above a certain age. and
I am against the separation of aged couples ; I am
anxious for every amelioration and mitigation that
is compatible with a Toper distinction to industry
over indolence. Whatever has been-the effect elsewhere,
here there has been no unholy alliance between Tories
and Chartists—no entrapping men as supporters of se-
dition, who, in the clays of Mr. Pitt, would have been
hung up by dozens, and in those of Sidmouth and Cas-
tlereagh, would have been trampled down by hundreds
on the plains of Preston and Peterloo. It is said of Mr.
Wilkes, that, on one occasion, being charged with the
profligacy of his public life on the hustings at Middlesex,
he dexterously evaded the matter by solemnly asking
the accuser " who murdered his washerwoman last
Monday," and who on this imputation himself
searcely escaped being murdered. So do these peo-
ple bring their cases against the Poor-law, founded
on some manufactured report in Mr. Walter's Times,
" who starved such a man in the bastile ? " " who
murdered his washerwoman ? "—(Loud cheers.) On
the subject of the annuity to Prince Albert, the ques-
tion having been fairly put, it is right that I should
neater on my defence regarding that vote : but let us
look at the circumstances. A short time previously, Sir
Robert Peel was called to office, and demanded the right
to nominate all the female attendants upon the. Queen.
'chat demand was unconstitutional, and her Majesty
ticted as the free Sovereign of a free people in refusing
to be shackled in the • choice of those who should 'sur-
round her. Attendant upon that re-action was the dis-
appointment of hungry courtiers, all of them anxious
for the golden fishes : then came the violent speeches at
*Canterbury and Rochdale : then there were the calum-
nies on the Queen. Now, I would ask, were they per-
fectly sincere in their professions of economy when they-
voted a continuance of his former allowance. to the King
.of Iranover, which he employs for the oppression of his
wronged and unhappy subjects ?—(Cheers.) How was it
that they had alreadygranted twice as great an allowance
to Queen Adelaide as that proposed forPrinca Albert, but
because the Duke of Cumberland was an Orangeman, and
queen Adelaide friendly with the Conservatives, whilst
Prince Albert was suspected of being a Whig ? When
I considered all the expenses to which the Prince would
be subject, I did not think it an unwise policy to grant
liberal allowance; and I will venture to say that should
the Prince ever turn Tory, Sir li. Peel will propose to
double his allowance. And now, as it respects the Bud-
get. The Ministers propose, without any additional
taxes, but with a modification of them, to raise the de-
ficiencyr and lay. the foundation for a future reduction.
I am opposed to a fixed duty upon corn, and all parties
seem to have forgotten that nobody had ever proposed
to aboliSh the Corn-laws altogether ; still it is impos-
sible to enter upon the other questions without some
modification of this ; but I am opposed to the duty,
because, in a time of high prices abroad, it will be
impossible to support that additional duty at home.
And now as to the prospects of this election ; in regard
to the system pursued by Mr. Collett's advisers, I would
seriously ask him whether he sanctions this system of
the pot-club, by which now for nearly two years they
have been seducing the reason of the electors through the
medium of their appetites ? What but traps are they,
laid in holes and corners, and baited with three pots of
ale to tipple them in their unguarded moments out of
their senses ? Their motto on the tickets was pro rege,
lege,' grege, that is, a pot for the law, another for the
Queen, and another for the people ; but after the election
you will find it—a fig for the people.—(Cheers.)

UNIVERSIT Y COLLEGE, LONDON.
Ott Saturday the annual distribution of prizes in the
facultFof arts and laws took place.
Mr. Sergeant'Talfourd. M.P., presided.
Profassor MALDEN. read the Report on behalf of Pro-
fessor 3.lerlet, the Dean of Faculty. It
gratifying account of the progress of thgealnest, most
during the past session, more especially
in the higher
science, arts, and laws. Al-
though of literature, Al-
though the number of students had not increased this
year, there had been a very considerable increase of the
school, and it was only reasonable to conclude that the
fuller the fountain the more abundant would be the
stream. The attainment of honours was the best evi-
dence of proficiency. Four students of the first class
and four of the second had taken the degree of B.D
and one in mathematics and one in classics had bee,'
distinguished • and two pupils had carried off
the scholarships endowed by Dr. Williams, requiring the
study of theology for ministering to Dissenters, which
had heretofore been confined to of the Scotch,
and B.A.s of the English Universities. During the last
year a drawing class had been established, which in the
next session would be far more important, as a class for
the study of civil engineering had been introduced,
which Mr. Charles Vig-noles, a gentleman of high
imit emi-
nence, had consented to superintend for a led
period, and would next session deliver a course of lec-
tures in that important department of practical science.
The several Professors then awarded the prizes as
fotlows

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GREEK.
SENIOR CLASS.—Professor Malden. Ist Prize and
Ist Certif. R. H. Ellis. 2d ditto, ditto—P. B. Lewis.

JUNIOR CLAss—lst Prize and ls t Certiff.—James
Ayrton. 2d ditto, ditto—John Clapham.

HEBREW.

SENIOR CLAsS—Professor Wurwitz. Prize—James
Ayrton.
JUNIOR CLAS 3—Pri ze' H. IL Hutton.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Professor Latham. Prize—Rice Harris.
FRENCH.
Professor Merlet. Prize—Henry Ilabbage.
ORAL EXAMINATION.
prize—W Richards.

ITALIAN.
SENIOR CLASS—Count repoli.
Towler.
JuNion Cress—Prize, Thomas Colfax.
GERMAN.

Prize—Charles

SUNIOR CLASS—Professor Wittich. Ist Prize and Ist
Certilf.--Alfred Crowley. 2d ditto, ditto—W. Richards.
JUNIOR CLASS—Prize, R. B. Martineau.
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND LOGIC.

Professor Dr. Hoppus. Ist Prize and 'lst Certiff.-
3. IL Stratton. 2d ditto, ditto—Thomas Hunton.

MATHEMATICS.

Professor de Morgan. SENIOR CLASS, Huber a-
partment—Prize, A. Anthony Spenser.
SENIOR CLASS, Lower Department—Prize, EZgar A.
Bowring.
JUNIOR CLASS, Higher Department-Ist Frize, A.
Albert Mott. 2d ditto, A. W. Ridout Wills.
JUNIOR CLASS, Lower Department—Prize, Joseph
Mdkito.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Profeßsot- Sylvester. Ist Prize and Ist Certif.—A.
Alartineat. 2d ditto, diip—Heary Thompson.
3d ditto ditto_.. Field'

JUNIOR CLASS.-Ist Prize and Ist Certif. equal—Ed-
gar A. Bowring, J. H. Lewis.
HISTORY.
Professor Creasy. Prize-J. H. Ellis.
DRAWINGS.
Mr. G. B. Moore, Teacher, Prize—Joseph Croucher.

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ZOOLOGY.
Professor Grant. Prize—John Hudson.

BOTANY.
Professor Lindley. Prize—Joseph J. Fox.
ENGLISH LAW.
Professor Cary. Class—Outlines of Private Law :
Prize W. W. Bromley. Criminal Law Class : Prize—
T. J. Freeth. Contracts Class : Ist Prize—H. W.
Bromley ;2d Prize—T. J. Freeth ;3d Prize—J. D.
Saddler. •

INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Professor Graves. Ist Prize—James Stanfield. 2d
ditto—Frederick Thompson. 3d ditto—C. J. Forster.
ENGLISH EQUITY.
Prize—C. J. Forster.
ROMAN LAW.
Ist Prize Sydney M. Hawkes. 2d ditto—E. M.
Molyneux.
The distribution of the prizes havin concluded amidst
the cheers of the company—
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD rose and said, it was then his
duty and privilege to make a few observations upon the
interesting ceremony in which it had been his good for-
tune to participate. If he had something of the mo-
desty of those young gentlemen who had not come for-
zyard to claim the well-earned reward of their high

Vtainments, he should be silent on such an occasion.
Silence was often the eloquence of deep feeling. But he
could neither adequately express nor yet control the
high and heartfelt emotions which had been awakened
in his bosom by that day's proceedings. It was not alone
the delight he experienced at witnessing the marked pro-
ficiency of the pupils in those abstruse branches of study
hitherto so little cultivated, but he regarded it as an
augury of the prospective advantagei held forth by the
Institution. Not having had the advantage of collegiate
instruction, it might be said that he regarded it with a
stranger's love ; but his reverence for such institutions
was the natural offspring of a kindred spirit. He looked
without envy to the two great Universities of this coun-
try ; he gloried in them as the nurses of learning and
knowledge ; and it was in no spirit of hostility towards
them that he rejoiced to find that they had in that insti-
tution a rival which should urge them on to higher and
nobler achievements. It was meet there should be some
such seat of learning in this great metropolis, the
emporium of the arts, the repository of wealth, know-
ledge, and intellect ; but its chief feature and main re-
commendation was, that the blessings derivable therefrom
were conferred on all who sought them without distinction
of party or of creed.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, he rejoiced to
say, that no such invidious distinctions were recognised
there. It was based on the broadest, the purest,the most
comprehensive principles of universal philanthropy. It
was the diffusion of mental knowledge, the triumph of
mind over matter, which had penetrated even the track-
less deserts of America, the wilds of which were now
haunted by visions of beauty and loveliness.—(Cheers.)
And should it be said that those who speak the great
toneue in which Shakspeare and Milton wrote should be
denied the privilege of partaking in those advantages
which institutions such as that could impart ? No doubt
it was delightful to think upon the quiet and sequestered
retirement afforded in the academic groves of Oxford
and Cambridge ; but it mattered not whether the student
reclined beneath a gothic arch or a colonnade of corin-
thian pillars. Those whose studies had more immediate
reference to their future pursuiti, he alluded :especially
to, the professions of medicine and law, might look out
with advantage on the business of life, and study the
world bi its bolder outlines of reality. Nor would they
be likely to-prosecute with less effect those studies when
rewarded by the--
approbation of affectionate relatives and
sympathising frien:!s. By thus looking out upon the
map of life, they would hereafter be the more likely to
illustrate precept by practicc; and to seek for that glory
which was preferable to riches.' The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman concluded a very able and eloquent address
(of which our limits preclude the possibility of giving
more than a brief outline) by congratulatin7.the assembly
on the great proficiency of the pupils, wh:..!+ he con-
sidered as the very best test of the utility and importance
of that noble Institution.—(Cheers.)
The company separated at half-past four o'clock, all
evidently delighted with the proceedings of the day. •

NAVAL, INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.—The Implacable, 72, Capt. Ff.
Harvey, was to sail yesterday, from Plymouth, for the
Mediterranean. .

The Favorite, 18, in charge of Lieut. Dunlop, arrived
on the Bth of February, at Hobart Town, from New Zea-
land and Sydney.
The Edinburgh, 72, Captain W. Henderson, C.B. and
K.H., was this morning towed into harbour to be paid off:
She was yesterday inspected by Adm. Sir E. Codrington,
and was pronounced, with many eulogies, to be in a most
efficient and man-of-war-like state. _ _

The Thunder, surveying vessel, arrived on Sunday,
from the West Indies, and sailed on Tuesday, for Chatham.
The Salamander, steam frigate, arrived on Monday,
from Plymouth, and sailed to-day for Chatham.
The Wildfire, steamer, arrived from Weymouth, on
Tuesday, and returned yesterday.
The Cornwallis, 72, was paid advance wages, on
Thursday, and was to sail from Plymouth to-day for
China.

The Seaflower, cutter, sailed yesterday for Jersey.
The Alban, steamer, arrived yesterday with the re-
mainder of the 32d depot Companies, from Dublin, and
will sail on Tuesday next, with what few of the 82d
Regiment are remaining in this garrison, for the same
city.

In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Edin-
burgh, Dublin, Royal George, Bittern, Electra, Alban,
and Echo, steamer. _ _

At Spithead—Monarch, Indus, Vernon, and Ewe-
phalus, East Indiaman.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PeomonoNs.—Commanders to be Captains.—S. P.
Pritchard, Blenheim ; W. D. Puget, Melville ; C. A.
Barlow, Nimrod ; H. W. Giffard, Cruizer ; J. V.
Fletcher, Wellesley : T. V. Anson, Pylades ; A. L.
Kuper, Aligator ; T. J. Clarke, Melville ; W. J. Wil-
liams, Stromboli.
Lieutenants to be Commanders.—Joseph Pearse, Blen-
heim ; G. IL Coulsen, Blonde ; W. Haskell, Cruizer ;
H. Schomberg, Melville ; G. S. Reynolds, Larne ; W.
H. A. Morshead, Hyacinth ; T. Carpenter, Columbia ;
L. S. Tindall, Calliope ; R. Harris, Melville ; G.Bea,den,
Conway ; R. Collinson, Wellesley ; A. 11. Ingram,
Blonde ; P. B. Stewart, Alligator •, E. C. T. D'Eyncourt,
Calliope ; Richard Symons, Wellesley ; T. H. Mason,
Algerme ; W. B. Monypenny, Sulphur.
Mates to be Lieutenants.—R. C. Kevern, Blenheim •
J. M. Cooke, Blenheim ; W. Bligh, Blenheim ; S. B.
Dolling, Algerine ; B. Woolcombe, Alligator ; B. Drury,
Alligator ' • T. B. Christopher, Blonde ; W. T. Rivers,
Calliope ; H. T. D. Le Vesconte, Calliope ; T. G. Drake,
Hyacinth ; T. Carmichael, Larne ; T. Sibbald, Melville;
E. Fitzgerald, Modeste •, W. Kendall, Nimrod ; E. M.
Noble, Semarang ; E. Crouch, Semarang ; J. Strettell,
Wellesley ;J. Astle, Wellesley ; T. A. Lysaght, Wel-
lesley ; G. B. Dewes, Herald ; J. A. St. Leger, Mastiff ;
C. R. Egerton, Calliope ; P. Parkhurst, President.—A.
P. Ryder, having passed the best examination at the
Royal Naval College this half year.
To be Masters—W. T. Mainprise, R. Knox, G. Nos-
worthy.
APPOINTMENTS—Commander W2Louis, to the Strom-
boli steamer, vice Williams, promoted.
Lieutenants—J. A. Wright, to command the Skylark;
P. Autridge, to the Pigmy' Steam packet; J. R. Rodd, to
Scout; P. Sommerville, John Daly, J. Hancock, G. B.
Jeffreys, R. Edwards, A.Vyner, and G. C. Fowler, addi-
tional, to the Wellesley.
Masters—George Nosworthy, to Pylades; R. Mown,
Scout; W. Jeffery, to Tortoise.
Second Master—W. H. Williams, to Savage; B. Simp-
son, to Skylark; T. Bowen, to Tortoise.
Purser—D. G. Charles, to Scout.
Surgeon—M. Corry, to Scout.
Assistant-Surgeons—John King, to Revenge ; John
Philips, to Savage ; J. Ternon, to Scout.
Mates—W. Ponsonby, to Blenheim, and to take pas-
sage in the Cornwallis ; John Wilson, to Excellent ; W.
R. Surridge, to Magnificent.
Clerk in Charge—H. J. Pinhorn, to Skylark.
Clerks—H. C. Pool (additional) to the Dublin ; H. A.
F. Lusignam, to Electra.
Volunteer of the First Class—W. J. B. Elphinstone,
to Queen.

Acting Boatswain—E. Rouse, to Electra.
Royal Marines—Captain E. W. Churchill, and Captain
Gamy, have gone on retired half-pay.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—At Brentford, on
Saturday,
previous
following determined suicide occurred :
On the evening a young man went to the Three
Pigeons Inn,
desired andbreakfst
engaged a bed for the night. He
might be brought him in the morning.
Upon the s a
ervantgo.ng to his room the door was disco-
vered to be fastened
proved fruitless. Ifr and_ all attempts to arouse him
clothes; hadead
door forced open, when the the landlord, had the room
a si unfortunate young man was
tia.ittekdhandkerchief from the rail
discovered hanging b
at the foot of thebear
and cold. He was un-
dressed, but the bed
five feet eight inchesYven or twenty-eight
appearance he was about
light thin whiskers under his chin, years of age,
high,lt brown hair,
rather high cheek bones, stout made, ow, complexion,
black surtout coat, dark gambroon trousersand dressed in a
rather worn,
dark silk neckerchief with white spots, whit
blucher boots, nearly new, and black hat, nicat°l,l•s°cks,
W. ;Mite and Son, 88, Cheapside." In the maker's {lame
of his clothes was only found three keys, a penkii'—
ife pockets
which is scratched the words " Rivers, 1839, Hoibea,';:l,l,
a pair of kid gloves with " Rivers" marked inside, one
bad shilling, and a halfpenny. His shirt was also marked
R." and a mark on his handkerchief had evidently been
burned out. No documents of any kind were found to
lead to the discovery of his friends. The body awaits a
coroner's inquest. The discovery being made just as the
the Magistrates were taking their seats in petty session
in the adjoining room occasioned a considerable sensa-
tion in the town.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF GOSFORD.--.
We regret to have to announce the death of this amiable
lady, which took place on Wednesday last, at the family
seat, Worlingham Hall, in Suffolk. Her Ladyship was
the only daughter and heiress of Robert Sparrow, Esq.,
of the same county, and was united in marriage to the
present Earl in July, 1805, by whom she had issue Vis-
count Acheson, M.P. (united to a daughter of the Earl
of Meath), Mary, united to the Hon. James Hewitt, and
three other daughters, who, with the Noble Earl, survive
their severe loss. Her Ladyship, we believe, was in the
56th year of her age.
A sharp hail storm was felt at Bardsea a week
at some of the hailstones were as large as marbles.
Much damage was done to potatoes and beaus.—Lancas •
to Guardian. ,