The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

DINNER TO LORD .lORPETH.

The National Banquet to Lord Morpeth will take place
this evening, in the Theatre Royal, Hawkins's-street.
The Marquis of Clanricarde will preside. So great a
number of tickets as 700 has been sold, although the
price is 1/. 12s. 6cl. Reformers from all parts of Ire-.
land have come up to attend on this most interesting
occasion.
The address to this justly popular Nobleman has been
numerously and respectably siined by the Inhabitants of
Clonmel, and duly forwarded to the committee. On this
day the men of Carrick-on-Suir will hold a special meet-
ing fin• the purpose of addressing Lord Morpeth on his
retirement from office. Since Lord Fitzwilliam's time
there never were English litihlemen more anxious to do
justice to Ireland than the Marquis of Normanby and
Lord Morpeth ; and they have the only reward which
hearts like theirs can covet or appreciate—the lasting af-
fection, the unpurchaseable gratitude, of a brave and
high-spirited people.—Tipperary Free Press.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—AIO/4DAy,
At the meeting this day Mr. O'Connell made a long,
speech in favour of Repeal, and then moved the adop
non of the following- petition :
" To the Right _Honourable and Honourable the Com-
mons of Great Britain and Ireland in Patliament
assembled.
" The humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabituns
of Ireland— _

" Humbly showeth—We approach this Honourable
House in manner the most respectful, but with a deter-
mination the most resolute, to obtain, by peaceable and
constitutional means, the restoration of the Irish Parlia-
ment, and the judicial independence of her Majesty's
most faithful subjects, the Irish nation, What we seek
for is, in its nature, perfectly constitutional, and would

" 7. The Act of Union was passed by the suppression
by military violence of all constitutional opposition. The
County Court of the Queen's County, didy convened by
the High Sheriff, attended by the Magistrates and gen-
try, as well as many other freeholders duly convened,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the
Union, was dispersed by ruffian military force, and a
similar outrage was committed on a similar meeting con-
vened by the High Sheriff of the county of Tipperary.
" 8. The most profligate corruption and bribery were
used in purchasing the votes of the Members of the Irish
Parliament. More than 3,000,00 a. were expended in
direct. bribery ; 1,275,0001. were paid for the purchase
of boroughs, and there was no limit to the open and pro-
fligate offers of bribery, of every kind, made to those
Members who still remained faithful to their country.

"9. That all these means were found insuffieient to
obtain a, majority of the Irish House of Commons to vote
for the measure, but several of those who would not
vote for it were induced by bribes to vacate their seats,
and those seats (being nomination boroughs) were pur-
chased by the Government, and filled with English and
Scotch officers who had no property in, and no connec-
tion with, Ireland, save their casual military command
therein.

"That your petitioners are ready to prove all their
allegations at the bar of this Honourable House ; and,
as there is not the least rational pretext for saying that
the Union was or could be beneficial to Ireland, may it
therefore please this Honourable House, if any doubt be
entertained of the allegations of your petitioners, which
are all of historical truth, to appoint a Select Commit-
tee to report thereon. Or, if these facts be undis-
puted (as they really ought to be), then your peti-
tioners submit that an Act of Parliament, obtained by
such fraudulent and atrocious means, ought not to be
allowed any longer to subsist, but that her Majesty's
most dutiful and truly loyal subjects of Ireland, attached
as they are, from the purest principles of allegiance,
and emotions of respectful gratitude,, to the throne and
person of her most gracious Majesty, should be re-
stored to their legislative and judicial independence, by
the repeal of the cruel and unjust Act of Union."
The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL then announced that on the next day
of meeting he would bring up a petition on some other
point in which the repeal question might be regarded—
and that petition should be followed by one for the
amendment of the Corporation Bill, which would test
Lord Eliot.—(Cheers.)
The amount of repeal rent for the week was an-
nounced to be 1461. 17s. 11d.; after which the meeting
adjourned.

THE NEW FIXED LIGHT ON THE

GOODWIN SANDS.

DEAL, SEPT. Is.—The frequent dangers arising from the
Goodwin Sands to the mercantile shipping of all nations has
at length rendered it imperative to neglect the general safety no
longer, but to erect upon them a fixed light, which shall serv.s
as a guiding beacon, and the accomplishment of which is en-
trusted to Mr. Bush, the civil engineer.
To such readers as are not naval or seafaring, it is neces•
sary to state that a mile westward of Deal is the village of Up-
per Deal, opposite which lies that channel of the sea called the
Downs. It is a safe and commodious roadstead of about eight
miles in length and six in width, excepting when a W.S. wind
blcws in the Goodwin Sands. On the opposite side of this
channel, on a parallel line with Deal, are the Goodwin Sands,
which are divided into two parts, though the channel or swatch
between them is not navigable except by small boats. The
length of these sands, from the south sandhead opposteWalmer
Castle to the north opposite the North Foreland, is nearly 10
miles, and the breadth nearly two. The material of which
they are composed is soft, porous, and tenacious, and tradition-
ary testimony, the records of history,* and living experience,
all go to show that, should a ship of the largest size strike on the
Goudwins, it would be se wholly swallowed up by the quick-
sands that in a few daysno vestige of it would remain to be seen.
Here millions upon millions of property have been swallowed up,
and thousands of lives lost,. When the water is off, these banks be-
come hard and firm, but the moment the tide begins to cover
them they are again soft, and shift to and fro with the waves,
occasioning that redness of the water which is plainly discover-
able from the town of Deal and the
,neighbouring shore. The
immense losses sustained by the commerce of England on the
Goodwins about half a century ago induced the Trinity-house
immediately afterwards to direct their attention to the practi-
cability of erecting a lighthouse upon them. With tins view
they sent down several experienced engineers, but these
gentlemen deeming the design impracticable, it was given
over. A floating light was, however, (laced at the back o the
North Sandhead, which, although of advantage, still leaves
everything to desire, whether in relation to commerce, science,
or humanity. It was not, however, till the latter end of
the past, or the beginning of the present year, that Mr. Bush,
civil engineer, actively engaged in this humane undertaking,
which every lover of his species desires to tee
crowned with success. The idea, which he hopes in a
very short time to see accomplished, had long inueel been
floating in his mind, as will be seen in the evidence given by
him before-the Committee on Shipwrecks, of which Mr. J. S.
Buckingham was Chairman; but no practical steps had been
taken to put it into action till within the last few montl.s.
When, however, he secured the favourable attention of the
Duke of Wellington, he commenced in right earnest, and
caused to be made at Thorneliffe Ironworks, near Rotherham,
in Yorkshi.e, the immense base or shaft of the pillar on which
" the Light" is to be placed. Formed of cast non, and hollow
within, this base or under shaft, on which the column is to be
raised, is 64 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter, and
above 200 feet in circumference. The whole is divided into
three parts with a view to facilitate the transport. The
base is 64 feet long, the column Bi, and the summit, which
is surmounted by a cast-iron statue of her most Gracious
Majesty, is forty feet in length ; the total altitude will there-
fore be 190 feet. The weight of the lower shaft alone is 120
tons ! and it at. this moment lies near two Government stea-
mers, which arrived here yesterday from Woolwich in order to
toN it to the North Galloper Sand-head, where Mr. Bush
proposes to sink it thirty feet below the sands, on a chalky
substratum.

The North Galloper is situate midway between the North
and South Sand-head, about twelve miles distant from the
North Foreland, and three miles from the Gull Stream Light.
In this shaft there is a cell large enough to hold lOU men, with
provisions, store-houses, magazines, &c. ; and in the npper
portion or capital, if it may be so called, there is room for
twenty men, whose attendance will be constantly necessary to
manage, the light.
Preparations at at this moment actively going on for its de-
parture. For the last twenty-four hours the greatest possible
bustle has prevailed in the town of Deal, and not a bed was
last night to be bad at the hotel for love or money. '1 he Go-
vernment awl Trinity steamers are not the only-barbs which
will ‘• atendact sail" on Mr. Bush. There are a couple of
yachts now floating their canvass to the b-eeze in order to share
in his hoped-for triumph, and partake of his gale.
The Deal boatmen sport many different opinions as to the
probability of Mr. Bush's success. Some of them think his
lighthouse will undo their trade, and they therefore interestedly
rail against it. About sixty men are now engaged, with all
appliances and means to boot, in getting the light afloat, so
that it may be lashed between the steamers. The low state of
the tide has hitherto opposed a slight obstacle to this under-
taking, but in about an hour this feat will be surely, though
slowly, accomplished.
There is a large party of seamen here, who see some sort of
goodness in things evil, and who contend that the Goodwin
Sands are not without their uses. It is probably owing to
their position in reference to the Downs that the latter is so
excellent a roadstead. The Goodwins may be considered as a
pier or break -water in all the easterly winds, and even at high-
water and in the stormiest weather, the heaviest sea cannot
pass over them without being broken and dispersed.
At 12 o'clock yesterday the weather, which had been threaten-
ing for some time previously, suddenly changed. The rain fell in
torrents, accompanied by several claps of thunder, but, never-
theless, the workmen continued joyously at their labour, and
Mimi; half-past eleven o'clock the base of the light was got
afloat, and moored off the pier-head exactly at twelve. The
rain continuing, however, to fall in torrents, with somr hazi-
ness, it was deemed safer and better to postpone the floating
till to-morrow, when it will take place at nine o'clock in the
morning. Thousands of spectators were to-day saturated with
wet in witnessing the getting afloat, but their enthusiasm was
in no degree damped, and they hailed the mooring to the pier-
head with three distinat rounds of applause.
The Government steamers Fearless and Sheerwater r,ssisted
at the operation ; the former got on shore, but this contretemps
was soon remedied by the skill and science of Captain bullock.

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* See " Somner's Roman Ports," p. 20. "Lewis's Thaoet,"
p. 168.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ItivEa.----0111Vcd
nesday afternoon, as a merchant-vessel was coming up
the Thames, she suddenly struck on a sunken shoal,
which caused such a concussion that the master, who was
at the helm, was struck suddenly by the tiller, which
laid him senseless on the deck. It was found that his
jaw-bone was broken, and also several' of his ribs. No
time was lost by the mate and the crew in getting him
into the boat, when they conveyed him on board the
Dreadnought hospital-ship, where every assistance was
afforded him by the surgeon, but he expired an hou
afterwards.

CITY OF LONDON.
On 'Wednesday several case:paving been brought before
the Revising Barrister, involving points on which he L:e-
ferred judgment until yesterday at ten o'clock, upon
coming into Court,
The Learned Gentleman said—ln many of the cases
hich came before me yesterday I reserved the considera-
tion of the question as to whether the notices of objection
had been sufficiently served so as to authorise me to call
upon the persons objected to prove their qualifications,
and in default thereof to strike out their names. These
cases were of three kinds. In the first, and by far
the most numerous of the cases, the notice was
served at the house described in the list as the place of
abode of the voter, or at a house in the street, or such
place described in the list as his place of residence, in
each case the person leaving the notice being informed
that the voter at some firmer time hid lived there but
had since removed. In the second class attempts to serve
the notices had failed in consequence of the party failing
to discover the place of abode described in the list,
although every means had been tried to effect it.
A third case came before' me in which it was proved
that the voter had formerly lived at the place de-
scribed in the list, but the house in which he so
resided had before the 31st of July last been taken down
for the purpose of improving a railway station. I will
here observe that the Legislature has shown great jea-
kiusy of the Revising Barristers, and has very strictly
defined their powers, and declared that they shall
retain on the lists the names .of all persons
except in the eases mentioned particularly.
By the 50th section the Revising Barrister shall retain
.on the lists of voters for such cities or boroughs the
',ernes of all persons to whom Ito objection shall be made
in the manner before-mentioned. The manner in which
the Objections are to be made to persons inserted in the
livery lists, is stated in section 48. Now it is not pre-
tended that in any of these cases the notice of objection
has been left at the voters' usual place of abode, but it
has been contended that the names of those persons ought
to be expunged, or, if not, that the voters ought to be
held to have been sufficiently served for the purpose of
requiring the persons objected to, to attend and prove
their qualifications. Although I cannot accede to the
former proposition, I think service at the house described
in the list ought to be considered good ; but on an atten-
tive comparison of the different provisions of the Act
which relates to the subject, I am satisfied that the
wording of the 4th section will permit that con-
struction. In all cases of objection to borough voters,
the notice should be given to those by whom the lists are
made out. In the case of county voters the person
• objecting is required by the 39th section to give
to the person objected to, or to leave at his
usual residence, as described in the list, or to deli-
ver in person to the tenant occupying the premises,
a notice-to that effect. Now the county lists are made
out from the written claims of the persons entitled to
vote, and in every claim they are required to state their
abode. In these cases it ,would be reasonable to
hold that the claimant should be bound by his own
statement, even if it had not been declared by the
Act that service at the place of abode as de-
scribed in the lists would be good. But in the case
of the liverymen of London the description of
the place of abode does not come from the voter,
but from the clerk, or secretary of the Guild, and there
is nothing in the Act to require the voter to give notice
to such clerk or secretary of any change of resi-
dence nor is notice of a claim required, un-
less the name of the voter has been omitted.
There cannot be, then, the same reason to hold him
bound by the description of the place of abode, as was the
case with the country voter ; but if there were, the dif-
ference in the wording of th two clauses is so decided,
that I feel I could not disregard it. I must
hold that this difference was intended by the Legisla-
ture ; yet, in case of an objection being made to a
liveryman, the person objecting must prove that
the notice was either given to the person ob-
jected to, or left at his usual place of abode.
I am aware that by this construction of the 48th section
the power to object to liverymen is rendered to a great
extent inefficient, as the Act affords no means of ascertain-
ing the voter's residence, and it is therefore with great
reluctance that I have arrived at this conclusion. I have
tried in vain to avoid the inconvenience arising from it.
The intepretation of the 48th section is palpable. The
powers of Revising Barristers are clearly defined, and if
the Act be defective, the Legislature alone has the power
to amend it. It had been argued, that when it was proved
the party did not live at the place named in the list, I
ought to consider the place of abode as wholly omitted
from the list. However, Ido not consider myself justi-
fied in acting upon ex parte evidence in such a case.
Mr. Quin said that with respect to the first point he
considered the general practice of the Court had been de-
parted from. He understood the Court to have taken a
different decision yesterday.
The Revising Barrister said he had reserved all the
cases generally.
Mr. Quin' said he hoped the Court would not mis-
understand him, but he felt it his duty to trouble it with
a few observations, although they might, perhaps, be
useless. •

Mr. Trot said, upon the next case coming forward, it
would be open to any 'further objections which Mr.
Quin might choose to urge.
Mr. Quin said as the Court came to its conclusion he
had too much respect for it to urge it further.
The Revising Barrister said he was quite willing to
hear any further arguments which Mr. Quin might have
to advance, and give judgment accordingly ; but he un-
derstood them to have been concluded. The service of
notice of objection should be proved.

Mr. Quin—But we have no place to go to to serve
the parties. The Reform Act was called by many
a mass of absurdity, but here the clause was clear and
easily understood. The 48th section reqnires the notice
to be served at the usual place of abode, but the diffi-
culty was, what was the place of abode. How was the
Court to know it ? Suppose a man had no fixed resi-
dence—suppose he was removing from place to
place—what is the legal mode of service if the
place described in the list be not so ?
Suppose a man was to go to Otabeite was he to be fol-
lowed there? The Court had remarked that these
claims were not made out by the livery. He contended
that they were, in the same way as they were made
out by the county voters. The liverymen had
many advantages which were not possessed by
the county voters. Their names were placarded for
fourteen days in the two most public parts
of the City, the Guildhall and the Royal Exchange.
It had been said that the Reform party were, generally
speaking, adverse to the liverymen ; but in this
act they gained great advantages ; and yet he
was now to be told that a new construction was
to be put upon the words " usual place of abode."
The Act requires that the official of the Guild
shall make out a list, and this person had no means of
doing so but from the addresses put in by the livery-
men themselves. He (Mr. Quin) would suggest
the immense 'difference between this Court and a
Court of Review. The Learned Barrister was here
as a Court or Revision, and to come to the root
of the word " revise" perhaps it would be found most
distinctly defined in its application to pointing where
the revision was only to correct the typography, without
trenching upon the spirit or meaning of the manuscript.
If A. B. is described as living at 14, Throgmorton-
street, and that he is found to be gone to
Calcutta, is that a reason for the Court to
turn round and say he has not been served with a
notice of objection ? Why, the very fact which dis-
entities him to vote is the very means ny which his name
is retained. He believed that he should be able to show
that persons whose names were still on the list had
been dead upwards of seventeen years. The Registry
would become one mass of confusion, and with
all respect to the Court, he should say any further exer-
tions on his part would be utterly hopeless ; and he
should sit down, saying he had no further objection to
make to 'any one:of the livery.—(Several of the Con-
servative party here cried out " Hear," and manifested
other marks of approbation.) The Reform Bill was
burden sufficiert on their shoulders without adding to it
imaginary faults, and he believed that the Court, on
looking at this matter again, would retnrn to the deci-
sion which he (Mr. Quin) understood it to have pro-
nounced yesterday.
The Revising Barrister—I have act.td according
to the best intentions, and construed this act the same
as any other one. I consider that I have no power to
expunge a name from the list, unless notice of objection
has been served upon him personally, or left at his usual
place of abode, I therefore consider that the names under
revision are entitled to remain on the list.
J. Brockwell, a kiveryman of the Barbers' Company,
described as living at Great Carter-lane, Doctors' Com-
mons, was objected to by Mr. Quin, as he resided at
present in Fatten-prase, West Ham, Essex.
The claimant, being examined, said that he still re-
tain a portion of the house in Great Carter-lane, and
paid the taxes fur all the premises.
Mr. Quin said the 32c1 clause of the Act required the
voter to live six calendar months within such borough, or
seven miles thereof ; and under those circumstanees, as
West Ham was above seven miles from London, he con-
tended that Mr. BlackWell's name should be expunged.
The Revising Barrister said his residing in West Ham
was unimportant, as-he-might have two residences. It
did not follow, because he resided in West Ham, that he
had not another residence in Great Carter-lane.

Mr. Quin applied toVavetlre—nameoll3eiei Harris
Abbott struck off the list. The subject of the applica-
tion had been, as was pretty well known, one of the
official assignees in the Court of Bankruptcy, and it
was needless for him (Mr. Q.) to explain circumstances
connected with thi4 individual, which were already so
publicly known: If was impossible to find out where he
was now, so as to enable him to be served with a notice
of objection.
Abbott not having been served with the usual notice of
objection in accordance with the judgment of the Court
delivered in the morning, the name was retained on the
list.

THREE YEARS OLD STEER.—A fine three
years old steer, of the short horn breed, the property of
James Bell, Esq., of Ravensworth, was weighed on the
machine at Richmond, last week, which weighed 114
stone 7 lb. He was bred by Mr. Bell, and never had any
oil cake or any extra feed.— York Courant;