The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

ItEPRESENTATION OF MARYLE-

BONE.
The contradiction given by Mr. Cabbell in one of the
papers of Saturday morning to the widely-circulated
report in which he was used of expressing his ha-
tred of the Reformers in no very polite or Christian
terms, has created a very great sensation in this borough.
Ww have seen an elector who was present at the meet-
ing, and he assures us that the statement was perfectly
true ; and several respectable inhabitant householders
a.se ready to come forward and corroborate it, if neces-
xry, by their oaths. How far the positive disavowal of
the unbecoming (if not impious) language attributed to
him will, under these circumstances, set Mr. Cabbell
right in the estimation of the respectable and religious
pact of his friends is considered very doubtful. The
learned, pious, and charitable gentleman does not put
Ms candle under a bushel, or neglect to seek a reward
for his alms-giving. The following is a copy of a cir-
cular addressed to each of the Licensed Victuallers in
Marylebone. It was received on Saturday morning by
one of the most respectable and liberal publicans in the
borough :

JUNE, 1841.

Sis—Allow me to beg the favour of you to post up
owe of the accompanying bills in each of your most
public rooms. You will notice amongst the ' Schools"
and " Benevolent Institutions" the following :—Licensed
Victuallers' Schools, 10 Guineas ; Hotel and Tavern
Keepers' Benevolent Institution, 20 Guineas ; Licensed
Victuallers' Asylum, 10 Guineas.
Perhaps you will think my finding such donations
among Mr. Cabbell's other charitable gifts some excuse
Cr my presuming to ask the favour.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
JOHN WORD,ELL,
28, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square.

THE SANKEYITES.
We have learned that Commodore Napier and Sir
a Hall have had an interview with the small body of
estranged Reformers who, since the retirement of Mr.
Young, have been persuaded to put forward Mr.
I,nkey, for the purpose " of breaking- up," as it was
said, " the power of the Whigs in Marylebono," without
directly voting for the Tories.
On the entrance of the Liberal candidates into the
room they were cordially cheered, and after a long ex-
planation it was admitted by the leaders of the meeting
that those gentlemen deserved support, the only objec-
-1:.on to vote for them being that they were put forward
by a party.
Sir B. HALL exposed the folly and injustice of op-
posing a man who had served them faithfully, because
wane of his supporters were personally obnoxious to
them.
In the conclusion several of the followers of Mr.
Douglas, who has hitherto led the disunionists, cordially
promised the Liberals their support, and even Mr.
i)ouglas, we understand, expressed his regret that he did
not now feel himself at liberty to do the same.
We may add here that we have heard of several
instances of direct and audacious intimidation similar to
that ment'oned by Mr. Stockton, in the letter which ap-
peared in Saturday's Morning Edition of The Sun.
It is a fact which cannot be gainsaid, that so hard are
the " Blues" run at last, that on Saturday morning two
wentlemen were despatched from the head-quarters of
*bbell and Hamilton, the Colosseum public-house, Port-
land-road, the one to Brighton and the other to Lincoln
zo obtain promises from two supposed friends, who are
rusticating in those places.

GREAT MEETING OF ELECTORS.
On Saturday evening a very numerous meeting of
electors of Marylebone, resident in the district of Kentish-
!own, was held at the Assembly House, Mr. Johnson in
:he chair.
Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir Charles Napier, who were
r:!ceived with the same enthusiasm which has greetorl
Th.eui at every other meeting to which they have pre-
-sented themselves in the borough, gave similar exposi-
tions of their public conduct and political opinions to
:bow which we have already reported, and which are now
and Satisfactorily known to every elector in this im
-).:>rtant, intelligent, and influential division of the metro

Sir JAMES WILLIAMS, the venerable Magistrate of the
county, came forward, amidst the loudest cheering, to
esove a resotution to the effect that the electors present
!sighly approved of 'ha Parliamentary conduct of their
sleets/n:3d Representative Sir Benjamin Hall ; and that,
approving also of the sentiments expressed by Commo-
dore Sir C. Napier, they pledged themselves to use every
esertion to secure the return of the Gallant Commodore
and the Honourable Baronet to represent them in
the next Parliament. The venerable Baronet (Sir J.
Williams) said that his address must be very short, as
his strength and age would not allow him to make much
evertiou. He ruldresscd the assembled electors as a
seighbour, who had lied in the village for thirty-live
ears.—(Cheers, an I cries of " Yes, and loved by every
tmdy, young and cld ") But during all that time he
Ae.ver did, that he multi now recollect, attend a public
uss.eting in the village.—(Hear, hear.) Ile had, how-
ever, been all his lifetime nurtured in the cause of free-
dom, as had been all his ancestors, as far as he could
eeesee.—(Cimers.) But he had never engaged in discus-
asions which might disturb the peace of his neighbours,
osid he had always avoided t.) appear le 'ore the public
eas apartisan.---Slelea.r, hear.) Nor could anything bring
:.‘itn here to-night, except the importance of the occasion.
--(Cheers.) The question which lad ea ised the disso-
lution of Parliament, was the most important that had
aver been submitted to the considei ation of a free and
enlightened people.—(Cheers.) He must a ;knowledge, at
the same time, that for several years he could not, by
his own unaided judgment, see his way charly through
the disputed question of the Corn-laws; but after hearing
ail that he could hear from both sides, and reading
much of what had been weitten on both sides, giving his
best and unbiassed attention to all the facts and all the
arguments, he had come to the conclusion, that if any
a)bject was important enough to agitate the minds of the
people of this great and wise nation, it was the question,
Shall we have cheap bread?"—(Tremendous cheering.)
Ho would not find fault with men who thought diffe-
ready. because he once, with perfect sincerity and true
fe?nse encs, thought differently himself.—(Cheers.) And
ha felt that it was not always in any man's power to
think rightly.—(Renewed - cheers.) Every man was
bound to speak honestly and frankly his real opinions,
however much others might differ from him, and it was
the duty of his neighbours to hear his honest avowal of
sentiments, however opposite to theirs, with courtesy and
respect.—(Repeated cheers.) He remembered that a
staunch old Tory, the late Sir William Curtis, once tap-
ping him on the shoulder when he had opposed that
party on a public occasion, said, " Sir James, you are a
good fellow, and stand true to your colours." He (Sir J.
W.) would now take the liberty of tapping the gallant
Commodore beside him, and say, " Sir Charles, you are a
stood fellow, and there is no doubt you will stand to your
oolours."—(Great cheering and laughter.) On the sub-
ject of the Corn-laws, he would say to the rich and
affluent, " God has given bread as the staff of life, and
remember, that if it is of less importance to you who can
lowa meat and luxuries besides, it is everything to the
poor, who have nothing else."—(Cheers.) If he thought
that a large portion of the agricultural body would be in-
jured by bettering the condition of the manufacturers, he
would falter a great deal, as the distress would only
change hands.—(Hear.) But from all the examination
he had given to the subject, he was convinced that even
the farmers themselves would be benefited, and the
power, wealtl, and prosperity of all Britain would be
magnified by the happy change which was about to take
pace.—( Vehement and reiterated cheers.) He need now
say but little for the Hon. Candidates who had spoken
so well for themselves. They all knew Sir Benjamin
Hall. They knew how well and faithfully he had
served them ; and it was not necessary to tell them
that they could not do better then re-elect the
Honourable Baronet.—(Loud and continued cheers.) -
The Gallant Commodore had told them who he was,
but the whole world knew that already.—(Cheers and
laughter.) He told them on what side of politics he
foisted his flag, and did they ever know a British seamen
who disgraceerhis cause or went over to the enemy in
the day of action 2—(Enthusiastic cheering and repeated
applause.) The worthy Baronet concluded by moving
the resolution, and sat down amidst the loudest and most
eerdial demonstrations- of respect and attachment from
the numerous body of his neighbours by whom he was
surrounded.
Mr. WILCOX in an eloquent speech, which was much
applauded, seconded the resolution. It was carried ,
enaaimously and by acclamation.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Dr. C.
Taylor and Mr. Townsend, the former whom was
volatatously applauded throughout his of
eloquent and
powerfal address.
Sir BENJAMIN HALL requested the gentlemen present
tis remind their neighbours that the POLLING WOULD
LAST BUT ONE DAY—that it would commence at EIGIIT
o'ceocie in the morning of Thursday, and close at Foust
in the afternoon. It was absolutely essential that all
who proposed to support his gallant friend and himself,
should come down at the earliest hour possible and
tender their votes.—(Hear, hear.) On that account, it
had been resolved by his Gallant Friend and himself,
that they should meet and address the electors at each
extremity of the borough at seven o'clock in the morning
of that day (Thursday), one of them (either Commo-
dore Napier or himself) at Paddington, and the other at
Camden-town.—(Cheers, and cries of "We'll be with
you.")
Thanks were then voted (with applause) to the
Chairman, and after three times three cheers for the
Liberal candidates and the Queen, the meeting separated.

It ,ill be in the recollection of our readers that
an indictment was laid against Moxon for the publica-
tion of Shelley's poems, which were brought out in num-
bers with many standard works. This has been really
a severe hardship upon Mr. Moxon ; the trial must ne-
cessarily have cost above 200/. In the case of Hether-
ngton it is well known that the prosecutor was insti-
gated by a well known radical barrister to lay the in-
dictment. Others are now talked of against Murray for
publishing Gibbon. Hetherington was imprisoned for
his offence, and all these schemes are put in practice for
the express purpose of endeavouring to excite a feeling
in the country against our present law regarding the
publication of blasphemous works. Moxon cannot now
be brought up for judgment before next term, whch takes
place in November, but if-we may judge from the words
of Lord Denman, no very severe judgment can be ex-
pected against Mr. Moxon. Lord Denman said, "If we
look to the mere tendency of prosecutions of this sort,
the queition of how far they are prudent with a view to
rot down such publications, may be matter of considera-
-11 for those whO undertake to prosecute them ; but, in
my Opinion, the best plan of dealing with these works is
answsr, to refute them, and to show that they are not
f atakd in truth,
.:I,r better than to an
in the interests of human nature.
o associate that
whi7l, them into courts of justice, and
a:li are in the habit of adoring
with a feeling of perse-cution."— Observer.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—Most unwarrantable use having bee made
of the name of the Duke of Bedford by the Comm ttee of
Captain Rous, founded upon a letter of the most private
and familiar character, the Duke of Bedford has ad-
dressed to Captain Rous the following letter, w ich will
set at rest all doubt, either as to the Duke of Bedford's
politics, or as to his conduct to his tenants. That a land-
lord should not coerce his tenants to make them follow
his own political course, is to a Tory inconceivable
" Friday Evening, June 25.
" Dear Rous,—Since I saw you to-day, I have learnt
that the most unfair and unwarrantable advantages have
been taken of my letter to you, and the grossest misre-
presentation founded Upon it. I must again request of
you not to lose any time in stating to your Committee,
that if I take no part in the Westminster Election, it is
on the principle of not interfering with my tenants and
tradesmen, and that I am only following the course
which has been pursued by my father and myself in
other recent elections for Westminster.
" You know that my political confidence has long
been given to the present Government.—Your's truly,
(Signed) " BEDFORD."
In proportion to their diminishing hopes, the Tories
put forth Increasingly confident assurances of certain
triumph. Their Journals this morning with most susyi-
cious unanimity, affirm that the results of the pending
contest will place their party in a proud majority. We
do not for a moment imagine that those who allow them-
selves to be made the channels of communication between ,
the parties specially interested in the results of the con-
tests, and the public whom they seek to delude, place any
reliance on the statements they are induced to put forth.
In some of the instances we know they possess the
means of arriving at the truth ; and would readily
publish it—if it were convenient to do so. A few days
will dissipate the delusions of those who place any con-
fidence in such prognostications. The truth will burst
upon their astonished senses with appalling certainty.
The City of London election is, according to the Post,
virtually decided :—" The Election Committees of both
parties in the City of London made up their canvassing
books yesterday. We are happy to be able to state that
even the most sanguine Conservative could scarcely have
expected a more favourable result than that which the
canvassing books of the party indicate ' • and we believe
we may safely say that very great care has been taken to
put down no votes as certain, but those which have been
actually and positively promised." The Times, with its
usual slap-dash daring, exclaims—" The main interest,
however, will undoubtedly centre in London. Should
Lord John Russell be rejected by the metropolis, as we
confidently expect he will, and Lord Morpeth by York-
shire, a defeat which is also said to be nearly inevitable,
with what face will the Whigs present themselves to the
new House of Commons ?" To which may fairly be re-
plied, should Lord J. Russell be elected by the metropolis,
and Lord Morpeth byYorkshire,what becomes of the Times'
reputation for foresight, or common acquaintance with
notorious facts • and with what face will the monopolists
present themselves in the new House of Commons ? The
Herald adds its testimony to the common stock. The
obscurity of the phraseology is, we presume, designed to
give weight to the authority on which the revelation is
made :—" If,in the matter of elections, it were safe for
any reasonable man to trust, after planting one foot on
the ground, to the usual succession of the other, we should
hear the footfall clvictory to the Conservatives re-echoedfrom
the Guildhall of London to the Chamber of Commerce at
Glasgow." If the Ly-all Committee have really authorised
the statements we have quoted, it is in perfect keeping
with the lying Contents of the placards they have put forth
for the purpose of calumniating Lord John Russell,
against whom the puny artillery of their groundless
hate is principally directed. His great talents, conse-
crated from an early period of his life to the cause of
civil and religious liberty, which he defended and ad-
vanced when its enemies were numerous, powerful, and
determined—the wise and Liberal policy of the Admi-
nistration of which he is a principal member, which
has invariably sought, and still seeks, in the face of a
powerful combination of monopolies, to relieve the dis-
tresses of the people, by releasing trade and commerce
from the restrictions which prevent its successful exten-
sion—these public claims, joined with the acknowledged
purity of his personal character, have justly rendered
him extensively valued and beloved. His Lordship is
the candidate who is more especially identified with the
measures which propose to extend the commerce of the
country, and thus to supply employment to the unem-
ployed and suffering thousands of our manufacturing
population.
STANDARD.—As there arc some persons whose fa-
culty of vision extends but a very little way before thorn,
though extremely accurate within its limited range, so
there are others with very exact powers of observation,
but wholly incapable of reasoning upon what they ob-
serve. The first may be confidently trusted to describe
the ground under their feet, but would be the worst
guides in the world to tell the direction of the road ; and
the second, no less competent to testify to the truth of
premises, are as little to be trusted in whatever' concerns
a conclusion. The Earl of Radnor is one of the intellec-
tually near-sighted persons of whom we speak. His
Lordship has caused to be printed in the Wilts Indpen-
dent a letter, from which we make the following extracts :
" If by protection is meant exclusion of wheat of foreign
growth, it is clear that that sort of protection is not af-
forded by the present law. By Parliamentary Paper (House
of Lords, 1841, No. 164), it appears that in the last ten
years there have been entered for home consumption
a far greater quantity of wheat than in any former
peliod of the same length, the annual average for
ten years ending 1820 being 422,076 quarters ; for
ten years ending 1830, 534,762 quarters ; and for the
last ten years, 908,118 quarters. Indeed, in this respect
the protection afforded by the present law is less than
that afforded by the Act of 1815, for by Parliamentary
Paper (House of Lords, 1841, No. 151) it appears that
the annual average quantity of wheat entered for, home
consumption from 1813 to 1828 (both inclusive) was
389,442 quarters, whereas the annual average of the 12
years from 1829 to 1840 (both inclusive), during which the
present law has been in operation, has been 1,025,250 quar-
ters. "If by protection is meant high price, in this respect
also the present Act is less efficacious than that of 1815, in-
asmuch as the average price for the whole -of the first
period was 645. Id., and for the latter, 58s. 4d. This is
extremely valuable information, and fully verifies
the prediction of Lord Brougham, that the ef-
fect of the Corn-laws must be to render corn
ultimately cheaper, and by a necessary logical
consequence that the repeal of those laws would
render corn ultimately dearer. Know this, you clamour-
ers for cheap bread. Lord Radnor, however, goes too
fast when he assumes, upon the fact cited, that the Corn-
laws do not operate as a protection to agriculture. The
very reverse is the fact. We might leave the question to
the judgment of landowners and farmers, who will, we ex-
pect, pronounce very distinctly upon it at the approaching
elections ; but it is not necessary to wait so long. The
bare fact that, with a vast increase of the population
since 1820, an increase, say of six millions in England
and Wales alone, the average increase of importation
into the whole United Kingdom has been but 600,000
quarters, or 10,000 quarters for each million of increase
in England and Wales—this single fact demonstrates
that agriculture has been protected, and has prospered
gloriously under the protection.

DEAR BEEF 1N FRANCE.
(From Galignani's Missenger.)
The Debats has an article on the scarcity of butcher's
meat in this country, which places some points of the
' subject in a new light, and which is particularly of inte-
rest at a moment when there is a demand for the com-
paratively free introduction of another necessary of life
into a neighbouring country. The Debats says :-
1 " It is absolutely essential that the Legislature of 1842
should, at the very commencement of the session, take
' up a question which cannot perhaps be postponed
without danger. Many things may be put off, but
hunger admits of no postponement, and we must of
necessity listen to its claims. This fact admitted,
we must, however, observe that the question of the du-
ties on foreign cattle, important as it may be, is not the
essential point to be considered in this affair. We will re-
fer to a period when the duties were almost nominal—the
year 1820, for instance, at which time each head of
cattle paid only 3f. to 4f., and show how many oxen, &c.,
then entered France. The number of oxen and bulls
was 15,000, and that of cows and calves, 28,00 C—total
43,000. And now, with the much larger duties of 50,
25,_ and 15 f., which, by the way, have failed in pro-
ducing the object for which they were imposed. viz. the
protection of the breeder in France, and the develop-
ment of the bovine race, what is the number im-
ported
Zde 2r 8
5000 ?
ecOxen o and bulls, 10,000, and cows and calves,
,otohoe, sayold ttoartailff3. s,oolfo,wwe hwicehries
to reduce
dlueeses
than
the present duty of 50E to 20f., or even 10E—if we
we
wereuffie even
to
an increase as bring
back to the low duty of 1820, would
this
woulduteto the market from abroad such
ofimportance compared with
the annual consumption of France, which amounts te
3,400,000 head of cattle,such
i,i withoutthe
reckoning six or seven
millions of sheep ?
this country ; we will not sp. eak
eof theannual consumption in
po-
pulation, for, alas ! of this number
there 34 millionsie
a full of
third
who know not what it is to eat butcher'si:l-leat, and who,
rhivcedh our
Poi o
ie of the most ical Reformers
pamayonligttolethaetrtecnitviiocnr,igah to w
are deprived
dep
i
es-
sential, viz., that of recruiting physical strength
how far
h by
te
of
h things,
sub-
stantial and generous food. in order to
the duty on foreign cattle produces this sta.
1 for which a remedy must be found, it is only necessary
to state that the duty on foreign cattle imported into
France, under whatever tariff, has never exceeded 1 to li
per cent.
The Debats does not, when alluding to the fallinc, off
in the augmentation of duties, take into account the' in-
crease in the population of France, which would make
the 8,000 equal, perhaps, to 15,000 or 16,000. The par-
celling out of lands in France is prejudicial to the breed-
ing of cattle on a large scale, small farmers having neither
the amount of capital nor the extent of lard which are
requisite for this essential branch of siricu;ture. The
want of water in the south of France is meniioned by
the Debuts as one of the great obstacles to the lareeding
of cattle, and to remove this it recommends the fhrma-
tion of canals of irrigation, and mentions, as an instance
of what may be effected, that the Agricultural Comparri'
of Arcachon has succ2eded in converting nearly 30,0( I
acres of unproductive land into rich fields of pasturcl
To convey from different sources abundance t t
water to dry lands, and to drain those which ar
marshy, are measures which are within the means o
the nation ; but for which capital • necessary, and
hitherto there has been but little enterprise in the way
We remember that one of the favourite projects of M
Casimir Perier was to fertilize the waste lands of Bri-
tany, but that he was unable to form a Company for that
purpose, although he offered to devote a large portion of
his own fortune to the scheme, and invited the co-opera-
tion of foreign capitalists. The Debuts concludes as
follows:
" To *duce the price of butchers' meat would be ad-
. ,
vtaatineous to agriculturists, to breeders, and to the

oa ners of the soil, for if the latter have remained safe in
the midst of our political movements, they must not
forget that their interest is to conciliate the affection of
the mass. Cheap meat, like cheap bread, is one of the
most precious elements of national strength, of the con-
tentment of the people, and of public security. It is a
better guarantee to the owners of the soil for the pro-
tection of their property, than all the protecting tariffs
that could be made."