The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-09 00:00:00

MORNING ED ITION.

cad of Temperance.. Societies and societies for the education of
the people in the principles of the national Church. They
would find them go to Church with red morocco Prayer Book,
and on the Monday, or even on their return from Ghut eta, they
would whisper that the election was safe. for. they had opened
the beer-shops.—( Cheers.) Was that religion ? Was that
honest ? Was it common sense ?—( Cheers. ) It was a bate
purpose, joined to base means, to be used to base ends. arid, ase
they debauch them with drink, so they would sell them for gold.
The two Tory candidates had claimed for themselves peculiar
religious considerations. lie would leave them to be dealt
with as the electors of Bath knew how to deal with such men.
' Let them manfully express their detestation of such proceed-
ings. Let them act upon it. Let them tell it to their neigh-
brs, and let it be known far and wide, He • thought than he
need hardly trespass on their time further. He was sure that
the electors knew well the battle theyhad to win. He was
sure that they were fully aware of the means they had ia their
bands to carry on the warfare, and it was a pleasing thing for
him to say, that wherever they found 'the people improving
there they found their friends, and wherever the temperance
movement was goAse cm there they tumid their friends. In
short, they had virtue and right on their side, and were sure to
be successful in the end. The Tories as a party had em"
ployed the moat improper means to carry out their views,
and as a party they must be branded f,r it..—( Great cheering. )
It had been said to him, " How is it, Mr. Roebuck, that yotr •
are here in . Bath ?" The Noble Lord had thought tit to
answer that question. All that I shall say is, that my
answer is here.—( Great cheering.) " Why," it was again
said, " are you in Bath again, sowing dissension ?" His
answer was,- " If you can show me that I, am mall sowing
dissension—if you can show that lam standing in the way of
a better man, or one more likely to conciliate ail parties, do
so, and I will not stop here another hour." lie, however,
could not find a man but who- had stated, " If you leave us,
so far from dissension being avoided, your friends will say that
they had been deceived, and disunion would be inevitable."
That was his answer to the question.—( Cheers.) In Bath, he
believed, union was.of -great benefit, as it would enable aerie
to obtain good ends and good laws. Ile cared not by whorn,he:
got these good things, but they might depend upon it,
that without a Liberal Parliament, they could not have Libe-
ral Alinisters.---(Great cheering ) A name was nothing, but
principle was everything. Principle went a great way, and he
thought that if he and his friend were long together, they
would go a little further than was expected from them at the,
present moment. He was sure that he should be among men
who, when they knew what he was at, would act upon 'the old
proverb, and say that the devil was not quite so black as they
heught him.--(Laughter.) He had come there to tight the
battles of the electors of Bath, and not that of party. Thee.
were of the people's party, and no ether. He had never called
himself of any party but that of the people, and in peptic of
that he might reler to his present deeds. elle called uptot aue,
of the electors present to point nut if they could a siug;e ire-.
stance in which he had opposed civil, er religieus
Through his whole life he had advocated the causesn •
in every sense of the word. No man had a -pore' .
humble opinion of himself than be had. No 'man
had perhaps committed greater errnrs than himself.:
but all that he asked was, that when he eiti err, he should her
turned round and told that such aild such a thing was his four
deed, because he did not see why one false step --should mar a
whole life.--(Cheers.) When the people thought long upon,
a thing they generally thought right, and they might depend
upon it th it the people would not take up the fragment of any
man's character and pronounce their oeinion upon it; but
they would juti e him by his general conduct, and not by any
perticular act. His Hon. Friend h, d spoken about the Corn-
laws, end some-one had asked hint if he wie-for a total aboli-
tion. He thought it was unnecessary for him to state that he
Was in favour of total abolition.—( Loud cheers.) He had 110
doubt that the slidin;; scale and the fixed duty would -soon die-
appear. They would find that a free trade in corn was a trade
without any shackles.
Lord DUNCAN said, although he advocated a fixed duty he
did not mean for a moment to say that it should be final.
Mr. Roteuce thought there would be great difficulty in car-
rying through the fixed duty or 'a total abolition ; but if it was
shown him that they could not carry the total abolition,
but , that they would carry a small fixed duty, he would
take that in preference•to nothing. Everything was to be ac-
complished step by step. All the great revolutions that had
taken plate had been accomplished step by step. Even the
Reform Bill and the other great measures that had been passed
by the present Ministry had been accomplished by deg: ees. So
witli respect to civil liberty—that had not been brought shoat
at once. He trusted that in all the great questions to which
he had adverted, the people of Bath would bear and forbear.--
(Cheers.) He trusted, that they would never give up that;
which they were entitled to—civil and religious liberty for
themselves and their descendants. If the people adopted that
course, he thought the battle of freedom would soon be won.
and this country would become what he believed God intended
it to be—a great, a powerful; and a happy nation.—( Cheers.
The CHAIRMAN then put the questiun that Mr. lloehneli.
and Lord Duncan were fit and proper candidates to represent
the city of Bath in Parliament, and declared it to be carried
unanimously.
Three cheers were then given for the Queen, and three for
Lord Duncan, and three for Mr. Roebuck.
Lotd DUNCAN proposed three cheets for the example that
had been set by the electors of Bath in the union of himself and
Mr. Roebuck, and may, continued the Noble Lord. that ex-
ample be followed by the other constituencies of the kingdom.
A vote of thanks was then unanimously carried to the Chair-
man for his impartial conduct in the chair, and three cheers
having been given for the Mayor of Bath, the meeting sepa-
rate'.

Lord Duncan and Mr. Roebuck were enthusiastically cheered
on leaving the Hall.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION BY FIRE

OF ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.
A stley's Amphitheatre, the scene of the glories of old Philip
Astley, and of the more recent triumphs of Ducrow, is now a
heap of ruins. Shortly after four o'clock yesterday morning a
tremendous fire broke out at the back of the Theatre,
and in less than three hours the whole of the premises, with
the exception of the front towards the Westminster-bridge-.
road, was totally destroyed. The fire is supposed to have hail
its origin in the stable facing Stangate-street, and to have
arisen from some defect in the gas pipes, but on this subject
it is impossible, at present, to obtain an• accurate
informaion. Three of Mr. Ducrow's valuable horses have
perished in she frees, and an unfortunate tienkev, which was
in the stables at the time, has also fallen a sacrifice. kVe are
sorry to add, that this calamitous fire has not been unattended
with loss of human life. One of Mr. llncrow's female servants
was suffocated in the flames, and the bo.ty, dreadfully burned,
was yester.tay morning dug out el the ruir.s. 'there were three
watchmen in the interior of the theatre, and the first knowledge
I they had of the existence of the fire, was from seeing it break
in one mass into the body of the theatre. The building, we
understand, was insured in the Wrist of England office, but
we tear that the furniture, stage properties, scenery, &c. were
uninsured. Several houses adjoining the theatre Mere at the
time in imminent peril, but we are happy to state that al-
though several are much injured, none are actually de-
stroed. lhe flames were got under at about half•past sir
o'clock, at which hour the entire building was destroyed.