The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-31 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION--

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A WORKING MAN ON CHAR,TIM!
TO THE EDITOR OR THE SUN.
Slll,—lf the Charter is a truth, and people acknowledge
its consistency, they arc not obliged to agree to :11 that
may fall from its advocates The << People's Charter" ill
one thing and Chartism another. The former is aWe
block of principle unwedgible and indestructible, and round
which some future generation may gather to do homage;
but Chartism, on the. contrary, as developed by the speeches
and actions of its leaders, is devoid of all principle, tibe
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of justice or expediency, having fa.len away to were se;
tarianism, and is now felt but as a clog on the actions
of
the movement party.
The Chartists may be powerful as a sect to work IT•
easiness to their friends, but never, until allied to the
large liberal party cf the country, can they be of the I‘l.,
they—
annoyance to their foes. In act, it may
an be questioned
occupied with their reeftotalism d other shallot
theories—may now, in a strict sense, be called a peliticl,
party. For a political party, as distinguished from a set,tic
(the mere propagators of a creed), must act on the Pau'e,
mind by means of an active and tolerant intelligew"
amongst its leaders, applied to the passing every-daY uc;
currences of the time, whilst the sectarian, led by :bpi
blind fire of feeling," fierce and intolerant in the he'' 'd
that he alone is right, and tl.at to giblet the feelings, an.
hold up to the ridicule of au excited mulftude, all thr
who in any degree differ ens him in opinion, is a 13°44
duty which in no case can by him be overlooked.- • t
Where, I ask, is there to be found in the Charrb
rank that large-hearted and charitable strength 5,,1ce
alone can overcome the obstacles of interest or prekTi.
opposed to them? Where the English spirit and liveie
buoyant intelligence which bespeaks a confidence in weld
tried principles? Is it.. in the puerile end leaky ia.."l
which, child-like, says--" If you don't give me obi%
want by a certain day, I will newel ask you for it agail
but will sulk for a month ?" What but these self-6We
leaders of the people has made the Chartist ridiculeas'
and his name a bee-word of contempt.
It is not in the & niAse of there who have taken an 11
s
terest in their proceedings, in tire reviling cf all the et 7-
sures which have helped us to the presenttrge of ours Pe;
provernent, that these men can hope for aid or symPt,'
from the majority ; nor in dealing broad and sweer:.
anathemas against the institi.eions of the country, motiiuun:
at the word sacred as applied to them, and ell3t
their eyes to the principle of freedom, which enables theirt
to talk with impunity, as they do, that, which if
was not nonsense, would be sornetliog worse, that their
can hope to convey a conviction to the mind that thal
principles arc just and honest.
Do these men, in the r senseless opposition to the portir
A netre themselves, ever toflect on the amount of Pusel
in we.lth and intelligence or, eyed against them as dea;
foes to their Charter ? First, as highest intellect e.,11
the elements of teal power, stand the Pusevites, a sal
but rapi ily.iereeasing p, d
rty, one that will eventuallYl -
the ground is narrowed Leteeser aristocracy aed deo%
cracy, absorb the majority of the Ilieh Church and S'Bl
party, as Inc ss:ty forces them to combine for the Pri;
seiv:tion of their privileges. Next may be named t
clergy of the Establishment, which. f,r corn' inatian and
the spirit of party, is unrivalled, wi It great wealth, ast:
by aid of its ca ling, immense influence ; then the arid
tocracy of privil‘ege, the nobler, the owners of the 11;
many of these insignificant as and v:duals, many On ~°Ol
high chivalrous spirit, but the who've united Ili elle 1".0 .
against the Charter. The aristocracy of wealth are of
ambitious, unscrupulous class, from which the ranks
the above classes arc recruitr,d, physically and fieeatiallY!
all of these hostila to the Charter. tbs
To the middle classes, then, comprising tha ,
scientific, the pre fessional, and trading communities, 80%,
the Charti-t leaders mere particularly ci eot 4beir attieog
tion ; this is the numerous and iseleential body oceePY'es
the station midway betwcen the two contending Ple-a.
in the country, holding the balance telvveen thstee
Fable, at any time as in the case of the Rif am Bill, of
deciding, by the weight of its influence, any treasure volt
fore the country. They are our sareguard against :test
wars, protecting each party alternate ly against the %Ire
by the aid of public opinion, awakened through the P°
press in favour of peace and the rights of both perst) 110
property, Now is it just or exper imt the Chartists '6
level their most virulent abuse ag linst this party, th6er
It•
by whose ; H alone they can peaceably gain their ew
and to talk of gaining it by force, with this party 4111'4
sition, and the whole array of aristocracy to boot, i3ssun
against both reason and experie.ree. e'ag
The above must be taken as the opiriions of a we're!ea
man and for what they are worth. • It is tut an attesP:tte6
the part of one who is fsveurable to the People's-Char m, r
to show ..hat all its advocates are not alike hostile to
middle classes.

I air, Sir-, your oLed'ent servart,
A POOR \YEAST"'

Spitalfields, March 29.

THE WEATHER.

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ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAI
STREET.
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NooN, MABcO 30.
134rometvr 29.95 11).
Thermometer
Highest sB's
LoAest 4l
Wind W. by S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg°

Sir Robert, Lady Fitzwygram, and family
rived yesterday at Connaught-place from Torquay.
erly
One day last week Mr. John Briggs, forinnjog
a garnekeepir to the late arl ef Durham, alas APba.
ncsr to the Fatfield station E
of the Stanhope and ,;$4l.
Rairoad ; aad, seeing a child in danger of being rol,.eb it
by a train of cosy-w,ggon3; he rushe forward V) era,,:,et;
from impending destruction, He succeeded in that n'll- be
but one of his feet g. Hag fist below the of the ranged
could not get himself clear la fore the train cam-00
passed over his leg, mangling it so dreadfully that sela`eirlg
Lion uas Nicessary. He is, we are happy to Lear, -
tolerably well.— Tune Pilot. Atli
The Earl of Devon returned to town in th otl
Fart cf last week from Powderham Castle. Lord soel
Lady Courtcuavy left that seat last week to visit his DA to
lency Vi-count Ebrington at Dublin Castle and Wert.; t,f
have. left yesterday for thl family estates in the col' fear
Limerick, where the Noble Lord and Lady Pa"
weeks previous to their returning to Devonshire. p
Noble Earl does nct intend to go to Ireland this sPr.l,li 011
LIVERPOOL A SSIZES.—There are s:lbeen
special Jury causes, though appointments have asle:ol°
made in only two, viz., Acton v. Blundell, which -star
for to-morrow week, and Davidson v. Sir Thenla!„,. is
ley, which is appointed fur Friday nest. The intl.-intr.(
case which excites great interest in this and the aue-eeisi
county of Chester. It is an action by the Cornl3.o.
Bank of Chester, against Sir Th. mas M. Sianiev'ooo)
on certain Bills of Exchange (to the amount 6f 7' .00
drawn in the name of Sir Thomas by a person:" isai
Bluodcll, who was formerly his steward, and win:
la.ety sentenced to transportation for embezzling ta."ll-000
perty of his master. The question is, whether Sir a sal •
can be rendered 1 ahle upon the se bills by sboc.'Fb,foh°
authority in Blundell to use his name as droner. aioroceis!
Campbell (the Attorney_General), attends nn,ard' oil' •
retainer on behalf of the defendant. The 13"11-aierillialit
case (Middleton v. Sherbouree), in which Sir t_litni
Follett attends on behalf of he plaintiffs (the heirflaiodal
has not been positively fixed fora l)/ day, though b tett
the Bth of April, and Monday the 12th, have lAtday
named. It is probable that the former will be the
inaerc.l
timotely chosen. The cause excites the greatest .e cog' T
iu Lancashire, especially throughout the Cashel' OO
munity, to which both parties belong. Liverpoo
rood
INQUEST.—An inquest was held oil
afternoon at the Goat, Pimlico, before H. Maneing'oo
Cr tamer for the precincts of the Royal Palaces, goys'
stablest George Hayter, aged 42, a helper in trhe
, who hung himself last Friday Light. tartiaf'
titulars of the case appeared in The Sun ut '3,„erlf
It was deceased who first discovered Flicker, for-7 ttf°
coachman to her Mjesty,
days after her Majesty's visit to Guildhall, on th:„jed'
same peg from which deceased was found inn)"
who hanged himself in 183 'fed.
, Ve-dict, '' Tempt nary Insanity."
Vt.",
A correspondent of the Gazette de Ilan° WO'
Be lin, March 15, says. apropos to the fair of Fran,i, for
sur-l'Oder :—The last fair had the most fatal restllOf
some of our manufactu- erg. Berlin calico, which glcr
sold the: e by hundreds of thousands of pieces, inn° t bee°
tale. The length and severity of the winter had Tor
favourable to the retail, and, consequently, 511°P
could not come forward to buy." -ja the
BAD BREAD.—Captain J. Payne being debit°
House of Commons the other day, during a bill
rtlativc to the navy, Lad a note conveyed up so
from another Member, desiring him to get._ we°
explain to the House c?rtain sea terms vibiethos
evidently misunderstood. The note began cofta:ll-
" Sir, as you are bread to the sea," &c. zige• sari
Payne took out his pencil, and answered
, uP°Diatb"red
paper, "I am not bread to the sea, but tne sea elf of
rre, and d—d bad bread it is."—Swinburne's Coo
Europe. if'°••
FIRES, AND DREADFUL LOSS OW fire
On Monday information was received at the differer?..tornetira.
surance offices in the metropolis of the following des 0,0 ,
and deplorable fires :—On Thursday last, bet' end
and six o'clock in the morning, a dreadful fire 11":1,1)
the village of Leekl,ampstead, near Newbury, in Ber re the
which wholly destroyed four houses, Ile premises
veloge!
property of a farmer named Coulton, residing in the O
lb'
who, together with his tenants, is unfortunately uninsur; 010 •
fire was occasioned from accidental causes. Of' t
morning a most distressing and fatal fire occurred a, to th •
ford, in Kent, by v hit% Three houses were burn yes ere
ground. It appears to have originated on the Preirjd vete 1,
copied by a poor labouring and his hank, saotat 5
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the top of Crockton .11, and to have broken out at 5 90°:
o'clock. 'fhe husband had left home with two ef
to go to their work about twenty rainutes Wor 00
his wife, who was deaf, and four children in bed asier feara,
the alarm being giaan the eldest daughter, a fine '
teen }ears :.f age, flung herself out of the back ro°l° 00'
of the first floor, with the youngest child in leo ihe!
and the other two were about following the examPe
one of them., named Aug. tamed back for th ,oia
of arousing her Msather, who slept in the front rnas, oat
and they Peilshads Both of them were observed at front rent
disappeared,asistauce, louTtbseoosnto after rt•-•_, flooring gave., for
nearly two hours, and sa-
W 4ke it aoyed. held a!" gob ,
on Fridaa ' air. Carttar, the coroner,
Ila Ye, te'.
in the vi
cast at the Chequers' Arms,, her da.
are,
yet o"f the sufferers, Mary Bisliman arta
sever he
Ma nn Hishman. The investigation lastedto hod
ther!i,es
"- as not ',urns
do
ot ;ad with el a ti..hvs_i:Y.eleireq:iseebse:
but no information could be obtained asre l2lfd o yes Te,
originated. The Jury, esdaY aisrlf
of "Found burned to deOn ir!
_n we* lop
struetive fire, supposed to be the work I
°belonging aro'
took place on the farming establishment hire, ap ley
Samuel Witt, at Swaffan Prior, in
.CZrldSnesTueadasgot
in consequence.
d.t t
perty was consumed to the extent of r
new fls ,
mg a portion of the cotton factory at thel veer
:hire, the property of Messrs. Roach 0ad...a."._a0 ,-.7rafe
stroyed. 't he damage is estimated at /aovY' of z• to
• houses fell a
ton, in Warwickshire, and three
flames. The loss is upwards of I,ooty. )
day (Tuesday) a terrible fire broke out in
t vses'eriaee to