The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-24 00:00:00

041TENINCi EDITION

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—When shall we have done with Lord Car-
digan ? During the last twelve months the Noble Lord and
his regiment have certainly caused more trouble and annoy-
ance to the Commander-in- Chief, and to the other func-
tionaries at the Horse Guards, than the whole army list
besides. Scarcely has the public mind recovered from the
astonishment and disgust excited by the capricious,
overbearing, and tyrannical conduct of this notorious
Popinjay, than some new exhibition of his Lord-
'ship's contempt for decency is supplied, to bring him
again before the public, invested with those peculiar
claims to notoriety which the Press, as the guardian of
public order and the vindicator of outraged rights, is
compelled to seize upoe, in order to warn others against
attempting to raise themselves to the same "bad emi-
nence," and thus subject themselves to the same enduring
disgrace which Lord Cardigan has succeeded in obtaining
for himself, as commander of a regiment in her Majesty's
service. Had the Horse Guards performed its duty on
the perpetration of the former freaks of this insolent inno-
vator upon established rules, and subverter of discipline
and subordination by the very means he profes-
sedly employs to maintain both, the last outrage upon public
feeling would have been avoided ; those who undertake
to exculpate and extenuate the former freaks of their
protege would have been spared the necessity of making
another experiment upon the public patience and forbear-
ance; and Mr. Macaulay would not, in the Hous'e of
Commons, on the first night after the recess, have bad
imposed OA him the unthankful office of a-tempting to
put a construction on a proceeding cf Lard Cardigsn,
in tho performance of his military duty, which the facts
and circumstances of the ease would not sustain; and thus
become a sharer in the obloquy deservedly iucurred by an
act in which ho had no part, and which he is now compelled
to admit, so far from being justified, merits severe condem-
nation. We confess that when we saw in the columns
of a Contemporary, the narrative of the circumstances
attendant on the infliction of a military flogging on
private Rogers, of the 11th Hussars, we were slow to be-
lievethat the statement was correct. We thought it im-
possible that so gross an outrage upon public religion and
decency could have been perpetrated, even by Lord Car-
digan; and abstained from copying it into our columns,
under a conviction that there must have been some mis-
take or misrepresentation, which would call for explana-
tion or retractation by the journals which gave it currency.
STAN DARD.—Leed Morpeth announced last night
that it is his intention to substitute an eight pound rating
for the five pound' rating originally proposed in the
Ministerial Registration Bill for Ireland. Tho an-
nouncement is said by the Morning Herald to have
been received by some of the occupants of the Minis-
terial benches with derision, and by Mr. O'Connell
with a sneer. Mr. O'Connell afterwards expressed his deep
regret at the promised change. We have been prepared for
this farce by the Romanist journals of Dublin, which have
been for some time hinting that a change of the kind pro-
posed would be recommended—according to some of
these journals, by Lord Howick ; according to others,
by the Noble Secretary for Ireland; and now that it
has been presented,' we think that the public will be at no
loss to gee through it. Lord Morpeth proposes an eight
pound rating, and Lord Howick may, as surmised, propose
a 20/. rating, in the hope that the essential principle of the
Reform Bill—the principle that property is to be the basis
of representation—shall be got rid of ; but this trick
must not be suffered to succeed. A tenant
rated at eight pounds, or eves at twenty pounds, may be
a pauper, and will be a pauper if he is rack-rented, as too
many tenants is Ireland are. What is the worth of the la-
bour of a man and his family ? Is it not more than 8/. or 201.
a year? Yet a mere rating even of the higher sum named
only insures that the tenant shall be in a condition
to receive less than the worth of that labour, The
tenant, with any beneficial interest, although he were only
the old 40s. freeholder, would be, according to all cal-
culation, a more independent proprietor than the 201.
rated tenant, who is in truth no proprietor at ell.
The county franchise in this country is given to
none, one class excepted, who have not a beneficial
interest, above all charges, of 10/. a year, aied if the
interest be of no greater value than ten pounds, an unex-
pired term of at the least twenty years. The excepted class
is that of tenants by the year who are bona fide liable to the
payment of a rent of fifty pounds; and every one is aware
that a farm rented at fifty pounds must be always rand
higher. But this is not all ; the cultivation of a firm
rented as high as fifty pounds presumes in England the
possession of considerable capital; so that, although the evi-
dence of the possession of property by the fifty pound annual
tenant is not so direct as that which ensures the proprietor-
ship of other electors, it is not less conclusive ; and ya
we are told every day that the fifty pound )early
tenants are not independent electors, and that the Chandos
clause (as it is called) by which this class cf farmers are
enfranchised, is " a blot upon the Reform Bill." And we
are told this by the very same men who lately voted and
wrote for a five pound rated franchise in Itelend, which,
if the tenant is to have a living out of his tenement,
must be a nothing rented franchise, and who hope now to
gull the public by raising the rating sonic 60s. As to the
fragment of .a term of 14 years, it may be a single year,
or even less, by which Lord Morpeth pretends to
qualify this shape of universal suffrage it is mere
delusion, and Lord Howick, it the Rill Romanist
papers speak truly, has so much resi. ect for deeency
as to discard it; for his plan, it is said, is to dispense with
any interest beyond bare possession, taus placing the Irish
rated 201. tenant exactly in the position of the English
50/. rested. Thus, to use too figure applied to •• the
Chandos claim." converting the whole Irish Relarre Ball
into one great blot—deeper in intensity than the English
blot—as twenty pounds rating is less than
fifty pounds of
rent.

CO WILE R.—We dt not, often notieo the repeal ra-
vings of O'Connell and his underling egiPators, but they
have latterly assumed such a shape that we do not feel it
right to pass them over in utter silence. Tire account given
in yesterday's Courier of the last day's sitting of the As-
sociation in Dublin, exh.bits in a striking light the ant'-
national and dangerous views of these Iri it demagogues.
Not content with advising their Irish Friends to he passiv-,
in case a war should break out, and to give no assistance
to repel a foreign enemy, shoule any dare . to take up arms
against this country, they now bestow their sympathy ie au-
other quarter from whence hostile operations against
England might by possibility be organized. To say
the least, it does seem somewhat strange that the
Repealers should think it right to affect sympathy pre-
cii.ely in those directions where hostility towards England
was at one period expected. Thus, when, the hot-headed
and foolish scions of Young Fr vie r were venting all sorts of
invective and injurious menace towards England, these Re.
pealers suddenly discovered that there was something in the
French people which deserved sympathy and adrr. iretiun.
Nay, they went farther, and ie no equivocal terms de-
el.red that they would not act against them. A great deal
was said about the assistance BEI-Jed by Irish soldiers during
tt e Peninsular war, and hints were thrown out of the difficulty
in which England would be placed if such powerful aid were
a ithheld at another time. O'Connell did not scruple to avow
his real motive in advising the Irish to withhold their assist-
arce, but plainly intimated that his object was to prove to
the Government that it would be dangerous to refuse re-
peal. It appears from the resolutions recently voted to the
kind-hearted lied enlightened friends of Ireland" in
the Unwed States, that these blab Repeale:s have been
seized with the s :me regard for the turbulent spirits of
America, which they pretended to feel, when it suited their
purpese. for the equally-disreputable scourings of the
Paris fauhourgs. 111-natured people might think that
there was something like treason, or at all events a most
dangerous disregard of the interests of this country,
in tae manifestations of sympathy with n.tioes not upon
the best terms as i.h the Snvcreign fir e horn they pretend
to have so much loyalty and affection. France was in a
state of isolation from England, but the repcalers
thought proper to fraternise with some of her people
et that peculiar moment ; and now that there
is a misunderstanding with America, which by possibility
might lead an war, although we pray Heaven to avert such
a result, they think it a cOnveilient and seasonable moment
to concoct resolutions and addresses couched in terms
cf extravagant eulogy, and expressive of affection and
gratitude towards such choice sprits as the Lynch-law
gentlemen of Lockport, who would have done summa-y
justice upon an Englishman even before trial. If such men
of Irish
as these are subj, et e for the sympathypeople, we
do not envy them theirdiscretiorejud,,ment oretoodfceling,.
• ,

W ARRA N 6TON.

PRESENTATION OF TWO MASSIVE, CUPS TO
MESSRS. WM. AND, JOSEPH STUBS, BY
THEIR WORKMEN.
intelligenc.e is now a
little past
[Though the following
a ,deseription,dand so valuable in
liberalityi thy,
date, it is of so gratifying
illustrating the intLence of kindneas an.
treatment of the working classes by their caw eyerfs over
their moral character, that we willingly find. a placeorit.]
Every one connected with the mechanics or manufac-
turers, of this country must have heard of the resp,e,u -
able firm trading under tho firm of " Peter
.S.tubs. as.
Lancashire file and tool manufacturers, established for
the last fifty years in this town. Last December
,a
meeting of the large body of workmen connected with
their works took place, and those present, feeling con-
vinet.d that it was to her manufactures that this country
owed its present greatness, and believing that one prin•
cipal means of her maintaining the superiority acquired
over all other nations of the civilised globe, would be found
to exist in a good understanding between the employer and
the employed, at once resolvieg on raising a subscription
amongst themselves and their fellow-werkmen at
Messrs. Stiaba's steel-works, at Rotheram, in Yorkshire,
for the purchase of two pieces of plate, to be presented to
their employers, " they having" (quoting the words of the
re-solutions) :` invariably acted with the strictest sense of
justice, combined with a boundless liberality towards their
workmen." Agreeably to the object of that meeting, a
subscription MU accordingly set on foot, two massive silver
gilt cups were purchased, and Saturday week was appointed
for the presentation of the same. At five o'clock on
that day, upwards of two hundred of Messrs. Stubz's •
workmen celebrated the event by a dinner in the
town-hall. Mr. James Mason, the manager of the works,
occupied the chair, Mr. Wm. Stubs sitting on the right,
aid Mr. Joseph Stubs on the left of the chairman.
Wm. Heath, Mr. G. Stubs, Mr. Dakin, Mr. Evans, of
Wigan, Mr. Wm. Wagstaff, Mr. J. Litton, Mr. T. All-
cord, Mr. Skaife, Mr. Kekewick, the manager of the Ro.
theram works, and Mr. J. Mason, jun. also occupied seats
at the cross table. Ample justice having been done to
a very ample supply of provisions served up by the joint
culinary skill of Mr. Lamb, of the Bull's Head, Bridge.
street, and Mrs. Thomas, of the Three Crowns, in the
Corn Market, the cloths were removed, and " Non
nobis Domine" sung by Messrs. Taylor, Broadhurst,
and Brown. The health of " the Queen " was then
given from the chair, and drank with three times
three. The national anthem, " God save the Queen,"
yrati,thep sung verse and chorus, accompanied upon the
organThislonging to the musical society, by Mr. Eaude.
s' The Princess Royal, and H. R. [I. Prince Albert,"
" The Duke of Sussex and the lest of the Royal
Family," " The Earl of Derby, Lord Lieutenant of
the county," " John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., the
Lord of the Manor, and thanks to him for the use of
the ball," baying been duly proposed from the chair, and as

duly quaffed in bumpers of Warrington ale—save and ex-
t cept by some fifty of the workmen, who ranged themselves
under the teetotal banner, and confined themselves to plain
pop and sods water, the chairman proceeded to call the
attention of the company to the immediate business of the
day—the presentation of two cups to the Messrs. Stubs by
their workmen. He was happy to say that there was not
a man in their employ who had not contributed towards
the purchase of them—each man had apparently sought to
outdo his fellow-workmen, and although they could not all
win the race, yet, certain it was (as the cups testified) they
had all reached the distance-post.—( Cheers.)
JOHN RIDGWAY, the secretary to the Committee formed
for raising the funds to purchase the cups, then read the
minutes of the different meetings held on the subject. The
cups were then preseatcd by William Boond and Wil-
liam Howard, two of the oldest workmen. They were
precisely alike, except in the inscription, one bearing the
name of " William Stubs, Esq.," and the other " Jo-
seph Stubs, Esq."—silver cups richly gilt inside and
out, covered by glass shades, and resting on rich crim-
son velvet cushions. In form they are antique, with han-
dles and covers; they contain about three quarts each.
They are covered with a profusion of shells, scrolls, and
flowers, the family arms, an arm and battle axe, embossed
in high relief, and presenting a very rich and massive
appearance, reflecting great credit upon the taste and skill
of the manufacturers, Messrs. Henry Wilkinson and Co.,
of Sheffield. The weight of each cup is between 80 and
90 ounces. The shields bore the following inscriptions :
—" Presented to William Stubs, Esq. (on the other cup,
Joseph Stubs, Esq.), by his workmen at Warrington and
Rotherham, as a testimony of their esteem for his honour-
able conduct towards them as their employer, 1841."
The value of each cup is about sixty guineas.
Mr. J. RIDGWAY read the following address:—
" Gentlemen,—ln the presentation of these our humble
memorials of gratitude and esteem, we have deviated
from the course usually adopted on such occasions, by
taking into our own hands what generally belongs to the
province of the chair. By so doing we do not, however,
wish it to be supposed that we are unnecessarily infring-
ing its prerogatives, neither do we presume to cherish the
idea of being able to acquit ourselves in a more satisfac•
tory manner than our respected chairman would, were
he placed in our situation. The object we have endea-
voured to attain has been to delegate this high honour to
workmen who have been the longest under your employ,
and who have consequently had more opportunities of
marking the profound judgment displayed by you towards
the aggrandisement of this concern, and the welfare of
those employed therein, and we arc happy to congratulate
you on the success which has attended your efforts. We
also have chosen as our deputies on this occasion men
who have been in this establishment when it did not give
employment to a sixth part of the number of hands
who now earn their daily bread within its work-
shops; who were servants of your much-respected father,
and whose steps in the determination to manufacture su-
perior articles of workmanship they are proud to bear
testimony you have strictly followed, and to which we
think may be ascribed, in a great measure, the respect
which is every where entertained for your honourable
firm. With regard to the question of your meriting such
a token of our esteem, there can be but one opinion. No
masters give more liberal wages to those they employ ,
no masters strive to make their servants mere comfort-
able and happy ; and no masters arc better deserving of
their workmen's esteem than you I Need there, then, be
any surprise that we should thus seize an opportunity of
evincing our attachment to such liberal-minded employers ?
Certainly not. Yea, rather should we not conduct our-
selves in such a manner as to merit, in some degree, such
unusual advantages ? Should we not, by following your
example, strive to make our families as comfortable and
happy as you desire to make us? Should we not endea-
vour to raise curselves in society, by embracing those op-
portunities afforded by our good old town, for the improve •
meat of ourselves and the education of our children? And
among those who are foremost in strenuously promoting
the means for attaining such desirable objects, we ever
find the Messrs. William and Joseph Stubs. We also think
it not inappropriate to remark, that upwards of twenty
years have elapsed since the management of this esta-
blishment came into your hands. During that period
there have been many fluctuations in trade ; but in no
one instance, not even in the heaviest depression, have
we had cause to complain of your conduct towards us-
You have not, as would have been the case with many
manufacturers, discharged yuur servants, to go and seek
for work which they have been unaccustomed to, and not
being successful in obtaining other employment, to become
chargeable to their parish. No ! these alternatives you
have never made use of, but have left them to be em-
ployed by those narrow-minded manufacturers who will
employ all they can meet with when trade is flourishing,
and even take on numbers of apprentices to be discharged
on the least appearance of gloom, with the unwelcome fare-
well of a chance of employment at the return of trade 1
who use their men as mere machines, to be taken
on or turned away as suits their own caprice or interest !
in short, who do not consider the labourer worthy of his
hire. Would that these unjust practices were discon-
tinued amongst manu'acturers, and that there were more
following your laudable example; that we could find a
better understanding exist between masters and men;
and that they were not looked upon with such an air of
inferiority as they are by some ! If these things were im-
partially weighed by those who hold such opinions they
would be compelled to admit that great merit is due to
the working classes of Great Britain, in performing their
share towards placing her in that position of superiority
she now holds over all other countries, and also that their
cc-operation will be required in maintaining the same.
To you then, Mr. William Stubs, and to you,
_Mr. Joseph
Stubs, we beg to present these cups as au humble yet
earnest acknowledgment of those favours which have
been so unsparingly bestowed upon us at your hands, and
we know that although their value is trifling, yet we
trust that they will be received with those feelings which
hats, prompted their bestowment. We are proud to be
foremost in such an undertaking, and hope that our ex-
ample will be followed by other workmen, and that it
will stimulate other masters to use that conduct towards
them which has always been displayed by you, and which
they will find to their mutual interest. May you, Sir,
(addressing Mr. William) long live to fulfil those duties
which have beer: imposed upon you in your magisterial
capacity, since your retirement front the active duties of
this establishment, and which you have hitherto per-
formed with so much credit. May you, Sir (addressing Mr.
Joseph), long continue to have the management which
has necessarily devolved wholly upon you from your
brother's retirement. May those who have the good for-
tune to succeed you in the same follow the steps which
have been so successfully marked out by you; in the
doing of which we trust they will find in us and our
children men who will further their interests, and main-
tain that superiority which we have attained in point of
workmanship. May the Almighty disposer cf events pour
down his blessing on you, your families, and ourselves,,
and may he grant to us all that which is most acceptable
to the generality of mankind—a good long life. And may
he grant that when wo ate gathered to the dust from
whence we came, this day's proceedings may be handed
clown to posteritt , as an incentive to their industry, an ie-
ducement for their good behaviour, and an example well
worthy their imitation."

The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Mr. William
Stubs, which was drunk with musical honours and the
most enthusiastic applause.
Mr. WILLIAM STUBS, in returning thanks, said he feared
1 that on the present occasion his feelings were too much
excited to permit of acknowledgieg, in adequate terms,
how highly he felt the compliment they had paid him by
the manner in winch they had drank his health; still less
far the testimonial of respect they hal presented to him,
and, lesi than that, for those marks cf respect and admira-
tion of his conduct which they had been pleased to express
towarls him in the address just read. Ile could only
assure them that the thirty-five years he had been a !el-
low-labourer with them, it had eser been his study to pro-
mote and extend the coinfcrts of every one connected
in any way with the works. His position at the head
of the establishment had not been without its moments
of care and anxiety. It was necessary that strict
discipline should be at all times observed ; and their
connection was not like one casually formed for
a short time only—it was one that had been con-
tinued for a series of yea's : they had to meet each
other almost daily, and though he and his brother
(Mr. Joseph Stubs) might have succeeded in establish-
ing the observance of strict discipline, and in their
wisdom and di,ercnion conveyed many comforts to
their homes, yet their vigilance must have rendered
I their conduct open to the charge of caprice. It was
' therefore a compliment highly to be appreciated to
find them now coming forward and saying that their
conduct had merited their approbation. The cups
which had that day been presented to them would be
handed down to posterity, and he should take care, by a
testamentary disposition, that they , should hereafter be con-
sidered as
objects
which he most prized. Nothing could
be a greater honour than such a compliment bestowed by
workmen upon any master. fie could assure them that, in
one
of
reality, this was
the proudest moments of his life.
Time, during their
connection together, had fled rapidly,
and this day Was not
without
sitts reflections. tie could not
pais over the events of the
had
et h e
her he
had that la
deservedtwenty years without asks
i'g himself
vadrad):ct * he would not
received at their
hands ?To tnem he left the this testimonial
of respect
which whether
pecttrust to his OWII SCIISO of justice in the
matter. One
thing, however, the ,events of the
day ,
an ~
u brought
to his mind. In his travels on the continent, when
at Naples, he had seen a representation of the
virtues ascribed to some celebrated
twenty-six in-
dividual. He believed the address just presented to
him and his brother did not go quite to the length
of giving them credit for such a number of virtues,
but they bad drawn such a beautiful picture that it would
be hardly possible to recognise the party who sat for the
likeness. However, there was an odd virtue which the ad-
' dress did not give them credit for. It was this, they had
been the first men in their branch of manufacture who had
had the sagacity to discover that in exact proportion to the
intelligence of the people they employed, so was their suc-
cess. Ile was proud to say that no body of workmen were
to be found possessing or displaying a greater degree of in-
telligence than those he was addressing. There was no
flattery there. The address itself, and the resolutions ac-
companying it, proved the truth of the assertion. It had
always been his study to increase, by every means in his
power, the intellectual stores of their workpeople. h taking
apprentices they all knew that the preference was given to
those who had the advantage of a good education. Odium
was cast upon him for so doing. It had been said that edu-
catien was the means of making workmen socially and
politically discontented with their state ; that it was the
cause of different strikes, formed by workmen against
their employers; but after a trial of more than twenty
years, the reverse had proved the case. There was
not a single instance of a strike, or the display of a
feeling of discontent, in the whole of their establish-
ment. His first public efforts had been directed to
the extension of the Warrington grammar school, so
as to make it available to the public at large. Find-
ing that impossible, be next tried what could be done
with a mechanics' institution, and that had succeeded
beyond their most sanguine expectations. What had
been the result ? Were they discontented with their
condition ?—( Cries of " No, no.") Were they dis- .