The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

LORD .CARDIGAN'S TRIAL.

(From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday.)
Lord Chamberlain's-office, House of Lords,
Feb. 13, 1841.
AEOULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED UPON THE ADMISSION
OF STRANGERS AT THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF
CARDIGAN, FEB. 16, 1841.
The entrance to the House, under the colonnade, to
be closed and guarded by the police, and no person
whatever to be admitted at that door.
All strangers having tickets for either of the gal-
leries, the scats below the bar, or the steps of the
Throne, including pass tickets and the reporters for
the press, are to be admitted at the Peers' entrance,
the doors of which will be opened at half-past nine
o'clock.

All persons so admitted are to produce their tickets
to the officers of the House, statioacd at the entrance,
ut to retain them nail they reach their plwies in
the [louse.

'Lie doorkeepers, assisted by the police, stationed in
the Royal Gallery, will examine the tickets, and direct
otrangers the way to their places.
At the entrance of each (Tanury, of the :seats below
lie bar, and in the lobby leading to the steps of the
Throne, the doorkeeper, stationed at each of these
xt'•rces, will receive the ticket from each stranger, tear
vif the corner, and return the ticket to the party, dc-
airing him or her to retain it for this remainder of the
Persons quitting the House cannot return with the
rame ticket ; and the doorkeepers and officers, sta-
/lotted at the entrance, arc, therefore, to take care that
xto person is admitted with a ticket the corner of which
las been torn away.
When strangers are ordered to withdraw from the
those who occupy the scats below the bar aro
to retire to the long gallery leading to the House of
Commons :—those in the galleries, Nos. I and 3, are
to be conducted to the Royal gallery :—the members of
the corps diplomatique to the robing-room :—and those
in the gallery, No. 4, to the lobby leading to the bar.
Ladies are expected not to wear bonnets in the
Court ; ',strangers will not be required to appear in full

dress.
(Signed) WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

COLONIZATION OF AFRICA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—Ha‘ing noticed the letter in your Journal of
this evening signed " Joseph Soul," in which the writer
gives an account of the progress of the recent discussions
at the Egyptian Hall, on the subject of the colonization
of Africa by the free negroes of the United States, 1
beg pet-minion to make a most opposite statement to
that of Mr. Soul.

Without having the pleasure of knowing either the
Rev. Mr. Gurley or Mr. Scoble, but because I have
taken an interest in this discussion—believing that the
system of colonization established at Liberia is that
which alone promises to be of the slightest utility in the
real business of the suppression of the slave trade, I
have attended these meetings very regularly, and can
state distinctly that the departure of Mr. Scoble from
the meeting on the night mentioned by Mr. Soul was
under widely different circumstances to those described.
Mr. Scoble was heard very fully, and considerably be-
yond the time which it appeared afterwards had been
pre-arranged by the principals in the dispute—receiving,
moreover, very loud applause at the conclusion- of a
powerfully worded, and energetically delivered speech.
But in the course of this speech Mr. Scoble had charged
the founders of the -African Colonization Society with
41 blasphemy—practical blasphemy"—and this the gen•
tleman attempted to prove by quotations from the
speeches of Mr. Clay and other supporters of the insti-
tution, but in which quotations his opponent, Mr. Gur-
ley, showed afterwards that he had most grossly misre•
presented the real sentiments of the speakers—in one
instance having stopped short in the middle of a sen-
tence, the conclusion of which, as given by Mr. Gurley,
reversed entirely the meaning of the speaker, and pro-
duced on the meeting an effect very little favourable in-
deed to the respect and confidence which the public
have been accustomed to award to the principal speakers
at Exeter Hall. That Mr. Scoble was most disgrace-
fully overthrown by Mr. Gurley, and that his retreat
from the rcom was in reality occasioned by the exposure
to which he had subjected himself, was the opinion of
the whole meeting, excepting of a few persons who re-
tired at the same time, after hootings of a disgraceful
description—these persons being said (though how truly
I know not) to be the agents of the Anti-Slavery Society
at Exeter Hall.

Permit me to say, Mr. Editor, that few things have
been more unaccountable to many respectable persons
tban'the opposition of the Anti-Slavery Society to Mr.
Gurley—a gentleman whose mission to England might
have reasonably entitled him to a fair and courteous
hearing, at least, of all who are really solicitous of abo-
lishing the slave trade.
1 am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
H. FAIRBAIRN.
23, Crosby Hall Chambers, Bishopsgate-street,
Fcb. 12th, 1841.