The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

TI-11-4: SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY,

nearly exhausted, all he should say would have reference
to the righteous cause of those who insisted upon the re-
peal of the Corn-laws. He would advise the people to stick
to the great movement which aimed at another mono-
poly, viz., the monopoly of power.—(Cheers.) He
had become an agitator for the repeal of the Corn-
!aw•s, from having witnessed the extreme destitution
and suffering which those laws had occasioned in the
district in which he was a Minister.—(Cheers.) They
had been told that those men were enemies to the
working classes who had been the means of separating
them from the middle classes. Now, for his part, he
:lid nct know how the working classes could be
separated from the middle.—(Cheers.) This, however,
he did know that the people themselves were the first
to see the evils of the monopoly of the Corn-laws.—
(Cheers.) They had been told that if the landowner
would not see the justice of the repeal of the Corn-
laws, the people might at least find out that they could
do without the landowner.—(Cheers.) Now, for his
own part, he thought that the people had found that out
long enough ago.—(Great cheering.) He would tell
the middle classes that if they again deceived the
people as they had done with regard to the Reform Bill
—(Cheers)—if they made promises now which it
was not their intention to fulfil, the) would
find out that they could without one or the other
of them —(Great cheering.) The people would
easily find out. this. They were the producers of every-
thing.—(Cheers.) No one could entertain a doubt
that the middle classes in their station were exceedingly
useful—(Cheers)—and gladly would the people maintain
a union with them ; but this he would say again, that
if the middle classes should make such promises as had
been made in good faith, and then broke them, they
must look to themselves, for they might depend upon
it the people would be no longer deceived.—(Great
cheering.) He held the Corn-laws to be the worst
monopoly in existence, and, therefore, it was that he
joined heart and hand with those who sought their
repeal. Those laws it was that were fast stealing away
the trade and manufacture of the country.—(Cheers.)
He warned, therefore, the landowners, to consider
well what they were about, let them recollect
that if the present state of things continued, the farmers
would not be able to pay their rents ; and that with an
impoverished middle class, and millions of labourers out
of employment, the inheritance of the landowners must
be forthcoming for the purpose of alleviating the dis-
tresses which their pernicious protective system had
engendered.—(Great cheering.) If this system was
continued, who could doubt that the property of the
landowner must be appropriated to the support of the
pauperism of the country The Rev. Gentleman con-
cluded amidst enthusiastic cheering by seconding the

resolution.
The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, stated
that he had pledged himself to give a hundred a•year
in support of the repeal of the Corn-laws until they were
totally annihilated, and he was most happy to say that
several gentlemen to his right and left had pledged
themselves to do the same thing.—(Great cheering.) In
conclusion he had only to express his thanks to all
present for the impartiality with which they had heard
all who had addressed them. The resolution was then
put- to the meeting and declared to be carried unani-
mously.
The Chairman having left the Chair, and the same
having been taken by the Mayor of Leeds, a vote of
thanks was unanimously carried for his impartial con-
duct during the day.
Mr. SMITH, in returning thanks, felt highly gratified
that the glorious cause in which they were engaged,
like the snow- hall, increased as it rolled along.
The meeting then separated.

PENNY POSTAGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,-JObserving the warm interest taken in your
journal on the subject of the Penny Postage, which may
well be reckoned as one of the greatest achievements
of the age, tending, as it will, to induce all classes to
learn to read and write, and acting as " a great blow
and a heavy discouragemont" to the wish of many to
keep the lower classes in ignorance, I would beg leave,
through your columns, to suggest to the enlightened
part of the public, the propriety of rendering a na-
tional tribute of gratitude to the zealous and successful
originator, Rowland Hill, and no more appropriate or
effectual mode of doing so occurs to me, than by
raising a penny subscription throughout the United
Kingdom. A public meeting should be convened in
the metropolis without delay, to take preparatory mea-
sures, and appoint a Committee of some of the most
influential mercantile and other individuals, and let
them request the Government to direct that all the
Post-office boxes in the kingdom be open to receive
the tribute-money for a week, and I doubt not that
hundreds:,of thousands will not postpone beyond that
time the prepayment of so small a sum, to testify the
sense of the British nation of the great obligation they
are under to the great Multiplier of Letters- And
to induce an honourable rivalry, it should be under--
stood that the amount received from each town, with
above a certain population, will, with the number of
its inhabitants, be stamped on whatever offering may
be deemed worthy of Mr. Rowland Hill's acceptance.
E. J. D.
Parthenon Club, Jan. 14, 1840.

tin inserting this letter on account of admiring the in.
tention, we must add, that it would be prudent to
wait a little to see how the plan works —En. Sun]

THE NORTH TERRACE—WINDSOR CASTLE
--About five or six weeks since a fissure was observed
in the wail at the north-western extremity of the north-
terrace, close to the Winchester tower, the residence o!
Sir Jeffrey Wyattville. The opening on the northern
s'de ekilended ft om the top of the wall to the surface of
the earth on the outer side, a distance of some twenty
or thirty feet ; and on the western side from the turrets
down to the archway entrance to the vaults beneath,
whieb eftcnd under the whole length of the terrace,
thus coseplotely cutting off the corner in the event of
that separatiso taking place which is now fearfully ex-
pected. The cause of the mischief is thought to be
the sapping of the foo43tions of the wall, in conse-
quence of the recent formation of a ditch or trench,
made to receive the water from the terrace after rain.
DEATH OF MME. GANg.—IVIMe.Pans, a lady
at Berlin, distinguished for her talents, her large fortune,
and her encouragement of literature and literary men,
on returning home Iraqi the theatre on the night of the
34 rest., found her house earrotinded by an immense
crowd. Having with great difficulty tirade her way in,
and reached ber chamber, she there saw 4 body of
armed police engages' with five robbers, who had broken
open t;.e doors and got io, whilst a sixth was dying on
the sofa, the blood flowing from two wounds in his breast.
The shock of ti; s horrible sight wins is severe, that
Mme, Gans, who wag ;,:.1 her 74th year, fell ti4vin in a
fit of apoplexy, and expired a:zno st instantaneously.
LAUNCH OF HER MAJESTY'S
PACKET LI-
ZAII.D.—On Monday 3 large assemblage of persons
flocked to Woolwich to witoeas the launch of her 414.4
jesty's steam-ship the Lizard froto the Royal Dockyard,
which took place at three o'clock in Clip afternoon.
There were beveral distinguished persons pre444.,
the ceremony of christening was performed by is
tive of the Earl of Derby, The vessel, on the blocks
being removed, glided beautifully joto tbe water. No
accident occurred, The Lizard is a very fii,iely-eon-
structed vessel, and has only been three ip
building, Her engines aro tp be 100-horse power, and
she will be ready for sea in a law 3veeks. There is
another steam-ship building in the dock.
NARROW ESCAPE.-z-wit. few days since
curnstance occurred on the areePivich Railway which
might have had a very fearful and Lie/ termination.
o
One of the evening trains, having left Greerew;44; ,fit the
usual time of starting,iia.d made a great portion of ;is
journey, when the engineer ctiaotiffi that he was on
the wrong iiite of rail by observing th 4 4 train of car-
riages was meet'lls him from the oppos'ite
Most providentially for the passengers in each tram the
discovery was made in time to allow the one to back
and the other is Slacken its speed. (in its arrival at
Deptford, after some time, the train was repiaciA on
the right line, but the passetiors aid not arrive in Lon-
don until one ixour after the usual time,

There is f.otne idea of opening her Majesty's
Theatre so early as the third week in February. 1a
case this is carried into clffet, tb inimitable' Grisi,
Mario. and F. Lablache will be herß C9r the opening.
A young 144 from Italy will alsn make t first AP,
pearance. M. Laporte is not yet arrived, but is daily
expected.
Some noise is making in the. fuhionabla world
just now by the fact of a Russian nohleinan baying be-
stowed very striking proofs of his attachment upon
lady of high connection. Similar marks of affection
have been long in vogue in Russia, though not quite in
bon ton in Paris or London ; for our readsrs will recol-
lect that Catherine 11. expressed strong doubts of the
sincerity of Prince Poteinkin's attachment towards her,
-nund that he had nev9r givo her a beatingl—
on the fp

Ga/ig„nani.
Madame DlArblay ((ore
the Friday previous to the retn; leaving London
merllYheMwisisll of the
Burney i
red before her family on
for Bath, where they will be buried on iVednesday
next. The personal estate amounts to about i5,01;9/.
Three per Cent Stock, out of which she has be-
pwathed to Mr. Burney, the hz,irrister, her eldest
nephew, an annuity of 1001. a year for life; and le-
gacies of various sums of money to other rteph,ews i-47d
nieces, leaving Mr. Barnett, her sister's grandspn, her
residuary legatee.
The Mail anathematised any one who would
again dine with the Lord-Lieutenant after Mr. O'Con-
nell had dined with him ; the ;Ifni/ assured its friends
and the public that no decent person would. Be it f.o.
But what does the Mail think of the following per-
sons who dined with his Excellency since the fulmina-
tion ? On Saturday last there dined with the Lord,
Lieutenant, Chief Justice Doherty! Mr. Justice Tor-
rens, Lord Clare—and only think of Sir Robert Shaw,
the sire of our worthy Reorder!—Pi/o/.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court
of Chancery, made in a Cause of HALL against GOUL-
TY, the Creditors of ELIZABETH GOFF, late of Clarence
Cottage, Clarence-place, Brighton, in the county of Sussex,
who died in the month of November, 1537, are forthwith
to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON,
one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ;or in default
thereof, they Will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
Dated the 11th January, 18=10.
CURRIE and WOODGATE, 3, New-squire,
Lincoln's Inn, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors.

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ICELAND

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DON'T HOLD THE COMMISSIONER-
SHIP, HARVEY—the ground is frail beneath; and,
besides, remember your vow'—
" I'll live and die Member for Southwark !"

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, JAN. 15,
Will be performed
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.
Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W.
Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs.
Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth ;
Lucy Lockit, Madame Vostris.
After which, a Comie Burletta, called
PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.
Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To conclude with the New Grand Comic CF.ristmas Panto-
mime entiiled
HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED-
MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE.
entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De-

eorations.
Har.equin. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Pantaloon. Mr. Morelli • Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co-
umbine, Miss Fairbrother.
Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, '2.s. 6. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, wh re Season Tickets
cagy be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr Andrews. bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.