The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The following notice, issued by the Admiralty at Genoa,
has been received at Lloyd's, from their agent at that
port :

" Navigators are advised, that from the date of the 15th
of January, 1841, and after, the illumination of the pharo
of the Grand Lanthern of this port, which is built on the
extremity of the promontory of St. Benign°, in lat.
44 deg. 24 min. 18 sec. N., lon. 6 deg. 34 min. E , will
be effected by means of lusticular apparatus of the first
order. The flashes of light and eclipses will succeed each
other from minute to minute. The elevation of this light
is found at 114 metrical measures above the level of the
sea, or ordinary tide. Its appearance, in clear weather,
will be visible at the distance of 10 marin,.! leagues. The
Ices brilliant fixed fire, in the intervals between the fl
will be clearly distinguished at 5 marine leagues, and the
oclipses will Hot be total but beyond the raid distance."

The following has been received at Lloyd's from thci
agent at Savannah :
" State of Georgia, Port of Savannah, Custom-
house Collectors' Office, Dec. 18, 1840.
" To mariners having ingress and egress with this port,
notice is hereby given, that a Light-boat has been moored
b,lwecn Nlartin's Industry S E. point and the North Bank
off Port Royal entrance, and will be lighted up on the first
Right in February next.
" The bearings of this Light is as follows, viz..—
N. Point Trench's Island N. W. N. ; Bay Point N. W.
by N. ; Tyher Light-house W. S. S., distance about 18
miles ; depth of water 61 fathoms at half ebb. Shows
one bright light, which is elevated about 22 fejt above the
surface of the water. Distance from nea-est land about
eight miles.

A TURKISH PREACHER.—One day Nasir-cd-
din ascended the pulpit of the mosque, and thus addressed
the congregation 0, true believers I do you know
what lam going to say to you ?" " No," responded the
congregation. " Well, then," replied he, " there is no
use wasting my time on such an ignorant set ;" so saying,
he came down from the pulpit. lle went to preach a
second time, and asked the congregation, "0, true be-
lievers ! do you know what I am going to say to you ?"
"We know," replied the audience. " Then there is no
us:e in me telling you," said Nasir.cd.din, and again he
descended frhin the pulpit. When next he came to peach,
and asked the usual question, the congregration resolved
to have a trial of his powers, answered, " Some of us know
and some of us do not know." "0 !" said Nasir-ed-din,
" let those who know tell those who do not know, and I
shall be spared the trouble of preaching." So saying, be
came down from the pulpit Turkish Jest Book.
EXTRAORDINARY FLOOD IN CANTERBURY.
—Owing to the rapid thaw on Thursday, and the heavy
snow trs that tell the greater part of the day, the water in
the Stour rose to a considerable height ; so much so as to
overflow all the marshes from Tunford-bridge to Westgate
farm. The orchard in St. Dunstan's was one sheet of
water, and several pumps were employed in ejecting that
which had found its way ;into the kitchens of the houses in
St. Dunstan's-terrace. Yesterday the water rose much
higher ; it advanced to within a few feet of the turnpike-
road in Westgate ; and in St. Peter's-place three parts of
the houses were flooded. The water was up to the extent
of the street. Great alarm was felt by the inhabitants,
and much inconvenience was experienced. To describe it
in the words of one poor old wo:nan, who had been ex-
posed to its unpleasantness from sleeping on the ground-
floor the night before, she literally " slept In the water."
it was two feet deep in her house. In other houses it was
equally peep.... Canterbury Journal of Saturday.

The terrible severity of the weather did not, contrary to
all anticipation, mar in any material degree the splendid
display of opposition from all classes of Reformers in Ire-
land against the disfranchisement scheme of Lord Stan.
Icy. The requisition, to which I hare more than once
alluded, recorded the sentiments of the friends of honest
and impartial government in every district of the country,
arid of many of the great English Whig proprietors, such
as the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Fitz william. That
requisition contained the signatures of forty-three Peers,
fifty Members of the House of Commons, a great number
of Baronets and sons of Peers, upwards of four hundred
Deputy-Lieutenants and Magistrates, and more than a
thousand landed proprietors, members of the Bar, and
merchants.

The meeting took place in the Theatre Royal, Hawkins'.
street, every part of which, stage, boxes, pit, and galleries,
was densely crowded at one o'clock, notwithstanding the
high prices required for admission, on account of the ex-
pense of hiring the building.
The platform was crowded with gentlemen resident in
Dublin, or who had come up from the country. Amongst
them I observed the following. :—Lord Brabazon, M P.,
lion. Constantine Dillon, Hon. Martin J. lifreneh, Sir
;V. Somerville, Bart., M. P., Sir Percy Nugent, Sir Ar-
thur Clarke, Sir Henry Jervis White,Bart., Daniel O'Con-
nell, M. P., John O'Connell, M.P., James Power, M. P.,
Henry Grattan, M. P., Robert Dillon Browne, M.P.,
Robert Archbold, M.P., Hon. H. Westenra, M.P., D. J.
Ross (Rostrevor), Messrs. Lynch (Tara Hall), Robert
Cassidy, Charles Bianconi, Richard Ferrell, Elias Cor.
belly, J. P., John H. Sheill, J. P., John Perrin, Thomas
Dickson, Q C:, John Hatchell, Q.C., John Ches-
ter (county Louth), Robert Grimshaw, J. P. (Belfast),
Nicholas Fitziimon, M. P., Carew O'Dwyer, Hudson
( Belfast), Thomas Tennent, J. P. ( Belfast), John O'Brien,
Anthony O'Brien, Barron, R. O'Gorman, A. S. Craw-
ford, William Nugent, John H. Lethbridge (son of Sir
Thomas Lethbridge), Robert M'Clelland, Peter Purcell,
James Nugent, Leland Crosthwaite, Thomas Hutton,
James O'Dowd, Charles Joyce, T. O'Mara, J. J. Arm-
strong, R. De Verdon ( Louth), Thomas Boylan (Mill-
town House), Pierce Mahony, Thomas M.Kane, William
Murphy, John Lentaigne, J P., T. P. Kelly, David
Lynch, Esqrs. ; Surgeon Cones, Rev. Dr. Yore, Rev.
A. O'Connell, Rev. Dr. Montgomery (Belfast), Licut..
Colonel Morris, Captain William Dillon, Major Dunne,
M,,j.,r Edwards, &c.
A great number of letters from Noblemen, Members of
Parliament, end other influential persons, were then read
by the Secretary, in which they apologised for their un-
avoidable absence from the meeting. Among those whose
letters were read were the Marquis of Headfort, the Earl
of Arran, Lord Creinorne, Lord Clements, the Earl of
Listowell, Lord Wallscourt, Lord Lismore, Lord Carew,
Lord Gormanstown, Lord Stuart de Decies, the Catholic
Archbishop of Tuam, Lord Marcus Hill, the Right Rev.
Dr. Crolly, &c.
The applause of the assembly ran loud and long conti-
nued as each popular leader entered the theatre. Lords
Cbarlemont and Brabazon, and Sir William Somerville,
were recognised and received most enthusiastically, and
reiterated peals of applause marked the entry of Mr.
O'Connell.

About two o'clock the chair was taken by the Earl of
Charlemont.

When the Right Honourable CHAIRMAN made his
appearance on the platform he was greeted with the
most enthusiastic applause. His Lordship said :
Gentlemen, it would ill become me when I see
around me so many gentlemen from all parts of
the kingdom, ready and willing on all occasions to coma
forward and partake of the struggle for the liberties of
Ireland—to assist in obtaining justice for that country,
in whose defence we are all willing to live and die—it
would ill become me, I say, when I see those gentlemen
around me, to detain you by any lengthened prefatory ob-
servations, on assuming that position to which you have
done me the honour to invite me.—( Loud cheers.) I am
sorry to be obliged to tell you that my brother is not here
this (lay ; but will any ono suppose that a man who
bears his name and springs from the loins of Charlemont
can be anything but a friend to Ireland.—(Hear, and loud
cheers ?) The truth is, gentlemen, my brother is absent
from this mect'ng solely on account of the delicate state
of his health.—(Cheers,) Gentlemen, the next person
for whom I have to apologise is my excellent friend
and faithful associate in the cause of Ireland, Lord
Gosford.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He was re-
solved to be here this day, but has been prevented by a po-
tent and unrelenting enemy to liberty of motion—the gout
—Lord Gosford is wow suffering from a severe attack of
that enemy, and is unable to rise from his bed. Now,
Gentleman, (Lord Charlemont continued), there is an-
other honoured name, another dear friend of mine, who
is not present this day, and whose name is not in the re-
quisition—l mean the Duke of Leinster.—( Loud cheer-
ing.) A certain malignant party in this country have
not hesitated to say that he refused to Aix his name to
the requisition ; but, Gentlemen, that party reckoned
without their host. I have lived in great intimacy with
that illustrious individual, and I know the fervour of his
love for Ireland. I kno.v that his heart pants for her
welfare, and that his love of liberty never swerves
from its dictates.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) F will
stake my existence that there shall not be a sin-
gle resolution moved here to-day, that the Duke of
Leinster would not cordially second.—( Immense ap-
plause.) Now, Gentlemen, one word as to the object of
the present meeting. I have lived long enough to see
Ireland pass through NO phases, and many arduous
struggles, and she safely emerged from every crisis, and
advanced in liberty by the intelligence and unanimity of
her sons.—( Loud cheers.) Have I ever despaired of my
country ? No, Gentlemen, and when I look around me
and see gentlemen from every part of the kingdom as-
sembled here this day ; when I see men of all parties,
except the Tory party ; when I behold men of every shade
of Liberal opinion met here, sinking all minor considera-
tions, I cannot but consider this demonstration of great
national value, as an earnest that we shall, by perse-
verance and unanimity, defeat Lord Stanley's Bill for the
disfranchisement of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) I grieve
to see a man of his rank losing the proud position which
he had won, and ought to retain, in order to do what?—
affix more firmly the galling chains of Ireland. But he
shall do no such thing ; he shall, he must be defeated.
The Noble Earl resumed his scat amidst renewed and pro-
longed cheering.
Lord BRAPAZON came forward, amidst loud cheering,
to move the first resolution. Previous to doing so, he
said—lt has been confided to me to move the first reso-
lution, and lam happy to say it is of such a nature that
it requires no advocacy on my part to induce you unani-
mously to adopt it. ( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
Lord Stanley's Bill has been the immediate reason of our
assembling here to-day.—( Hear.) That Bill has raised
the patriotism of Ireland from one end to the other ;
and brought together, within these walls, the men
of Ulster, Leinster, Connaught, and Munster, to re-
cord their indignation at the attempt, and to express
their determination for having their rights, their
full rights, and nothing but their rights.---( Cheers. )
It will not alone do to have a united force of Ireland with
I us, but we must also enlist the sympathies of the English
people—( Hear, hear.) I think we have them with with
us ; and it is consolatory to reflect, on entering into the
struggle, that we have their assistance—that we have the
assistance not only of the enlightened in England, but of
all that is sound in Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Is it at the
very moment when education is spreading abroad through-
out the land, and when our institutions are becoming mere
enlightened—(Cres of " Hear ")—is it when the mind
of the rising generation of Ireland—rising, too, under
the influence, and receiving a participation in the full
advantages to be derived from a religious and moral edu-
cation, from industry, and good conduct; is it at. the mo-
ment when we have in the country temperance and tem-
perance societies, at the head of which stands a man in
whose praise I feel I cannot say too much—( Loud cheers)
—and on whose virtues I feel I cannot dwell too highly—
(Cheers)—when those societies are formed under the in-
fluence of that good man, whose Christian virtues are only
commensurate with his philanthropic feelings—( Hear,
hear, and cheers)—when we have reclaimed the peasantry
from the besotting and brutalising vice of drunkenness,
which is the cause of all crime, and one particularly that
blackened the page of Irish history—when the stamp of
improved habits is on the people—when civilization is pro.
greasing—when crime is diminishing daily and hourly, in
as extraordinary a degree as it pleases we to record it—
when the resources of the country are in process of deve-
lopment—when agriculture is improved—when trade
and manufactures are experiencing a rise, and en-
couragement they never hitherto had, and which I
trust will be as lasting as I know it is beneficial—
when all these things arc taking place, and I have
not overdrawn the picture—what party or individual can
be found ignorant or base enough to say that we are not
entitled to the privileges enjoyed by the people of Eng-
land, or not able to use them as well as they ?—(Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, you arc all aware of the dissimila-
rity that exists between the English and Irish Reform
Bills. The population of Wales, including the boroughs
and towns, amounts to not more than 800,000 ; the
popula-
tionhe of the county of Cork, including the city
and
number
boroughs within its limits, is about the
same
to
c
($00,000), yet the constituent body in V
37,800, while the constituent body in Cork‘a is
ql i ty —n ay,
Wales
uaonlya 14,500.
ine
Can there be a more glaring instance
Hof car, hear.) I am
I will say, injustice, than that ?
prepared to show it even stronger than that. I will give
up the population of the towns and boroughs, and the popu-
lation within their limits, and take the constituencies of
the rural parts in both -countries, and show the difference
between them. The population of the counties of Wales
is t; i 0,000 ; the population of the county of Cork is
700.000. (Hear, hear.) Yet the constituent body in the
Welsh counties is 25,800, and the constituent body in the
,
county of Cork is but 3,Boo.—(Hear, Now, these
ale stern facts, derived from authentic documents, Perna-
nicntary documents, that cannot he denied ; and I ask can
anything more glaring be put b, fo!e you than the differ-
ence made between the two countries in the working out
the Reform Bill?—( Hear, hear.) The boon, however,
was great that wee conferred on H 3 by the Reform Act ;
though scanty, indeed, in comparison to what was
given to England, Was that boon ; but how-
ever, we did derive many advantages from Hear.)
It was asserted last year that Lord Stanley's Bill merely
meant to purge the electoral list of the dead men and fic-
titious voters that remained on it.—( Hear, hear.) I ask,
would any man object to that? No ; so far as that, I and
the great body of the Reformers went entirely with them ;