The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

JOURNALS

MEETING OF NON-ELECTORS IN SALFORD•
—A most important meeting of non-electors took place
n Thursday evening, on Shaw's Brow, Salford. Up-
wards of 4,000 persons were present. Mr. John Scott,
a working man, who was called to the chair, opened the
proceedings in an appropriate speech • after which he
called upon Mr. M. Savage, who, after dwelling upon the
ruinous effects of the Corn-laws, the fallacy of the as-
sertion that wages would be reduced if those laws were
repealed, and the necessity of union on the part of all
classes of Reformers, moved the first resolution. Mr.
J. F. Finnigan seconded the resolution, which was put
and carried unanimously, amid loud cheers. Mr. Abel
Heywood was loudly cheered : he dwelt upon the rela-
tive merits of the two candidates, denounced the alliance
between
." professing Liberals" and the Tories, and con-
cluded by calling upon all to support Mr. Brotherton—
and by unfurling a white flag, on which was inscribed
" Brotherton, and no Bread-tax," which was greeted by
three times three hearty cheers. At this moment J.
Brotherton, Esq., arrived upon the ground, and was tri-
umphantly escorted to the platform. lolis arrival was
the signal for the most tumultuous applause, which lasted
for some minutes. When it had subsided, Mr. Joseph
Stanley seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech.
The resolution being carried unanimously, loud calls
were now made for Mr. Brotherton, who presented him-
self, and was again loudly cheered ; he addressed the
meeting very effectively. The resolutions adopted were
as follow :—" That this meeting of non-electors, and
other inhabitants of Salford, consider the total, imme-
diate, and unconditional repeal of all monopolies, but
more especially of the corn and provision laws, is a mea-
sure essentially necessary to the prosperity and even exist-
ence of the labouring millions.—That this meeting of
non-electors and others, suffering dreadfully under the
direful effects of monopoly, and having no other means
of influencing the electors or of counteracting the inti-
midation and corruption exercised by the enemies of the
people, solemnly pledge themselves to support by all
means in their power those shopkeepers and others who
. will pledge themselves to vote for the candidate who ad-
vocates the total and speedy repeal of the Corn and Pro-
vision-laws.—That a Committee of non-electors, consist-
ing of the Chairman and the movers and seconders of the
resolutions, with power to add to their number, be ap-
pointed to wait upon the electors, and to report their
answers to this meeting. —Manchester Times.—[Let other
non-electors do likewise.]
ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE DUKE OF BUCK-
INGHAM'S GAMEKEEPERS.—On Saturday night last,
about nine o'clock, Joseph White, one of the keepers on
the Duke of Buckingham's Wotton Underwood estate,
residing at Grenville Cottage, at the end of the avenue
at the back of his Grace's mansion, was " lookinc, out,"
when within about thirty yards of his cottage he ob-
served a rabbit, and raised his gun to shoot it ; on his
pulling the trigger, an explosion took place, the barrel
burnt in pieces, and with the stock, lock, and screws was
completely shattered ; the poor fellow's left hand was
dreadfully injured, two of the fingers being blown off,
the thumb nearly so, and the whole hand cut and
bruised in a sad manner ; fortunately no other part
of his person was hurt. Richard Allen, another
keeper, went to his assistance, and accompanied him on
his way to Brill, that being the nearest place at which
a medical man could be found. After walking about
40 yards White became faint and unable to proceed
further. Allen went on to Brill, and Mr. Knight, a
surgeon there, quickly attended to the wounded man ;
and after stopping the bleeding, and lending what as-
sistance was immediately requisite, accompanied him
to Aylesbury for the purpose of obtaining professional
a,i4 in amputating the injured limb ; by two o'clock the
folloWjug morning amputation below the elbow was
safely peiformed in the Buckinghamshire Infirmary,
where White remains, and is going. on well. lie is
a native of Bedfol7lshire.
and has been in the service of
the Duke of Bucking:4l.in three years. He is 34 years
old. It is a singular factthat this was the first time of
his firing
borrowed it from
been used to kill wild ducks with,
Allen. It was an old-fashioned, ::Qavy piece, which had
off the gun, he _laavillg
sionally heavy loaded. White being vet, result au had been occa-
the charge which produced the unfortunate
'result was
careful man,
light, not more than is put into small modern
..eie
Allen had been using it not five minutes before. Wet
are pleased to hear that his G race has given instructions
for White, his wife, and family of four children to have
every necessary found them at his expens3.
A:few days ago, says the Echo de Vienne, the
Baron de Jouveuel, of Bagniere, near Veyrac, in the Lot, while
on
his way to Cuzance, at half-past nine in the morning,
received a pistol-shot from a man who was behind a wall.
The ball broke his right arm and passed through his body.
n turning round the Baron received a second ball which
broke his left arm and also entered his body. The assa,•sin
then fled. The Baron, notwithstanding his wounds,. attempted
edto, buth so
his house
hoounsefbel by seine
soexhausted
mepelsobiv,s lwoshs of blood.
utoerv,egliasincohnivselsmme
and died in a few hours. The mAive of this crime is not stated.

FROM TIIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Lord John Russell, with that confidence in
the integrity of his principles and purposes which has
marked the whole course of his public life, cast himself
upon the support of the City of London ; founding his
expectations of being returned as one of its represen-
tatives on its approval of the great measures of fiscal
and commercial Reform which he, as the representa-
tive of the Government in the House of Commons, had
brought forward, and on which an appeal was to be
made to the country. From the moment on which it
was known that his Lordship had determined on taking
up this bold and proud position, the whole artillery of
Tory rancour was opened upon him. The power-
ful corporations, which hold their central seats in
the City of London, interested in the perpetuity
of restrictions upon trade, put in force the mighty
influences at their command against the statesman
whose liberal policy was diametrically opposed to their
exclusive systems. His . enlightened and expansive
views rebuked their selfishness. The determined pur-
pose with which he pursues the course dictated by a
sense of what is required for the promotion and secu-
rity of the public interests, convinced them that their
attempts to perpetuate the monopolies to which they
cling would prove abortive, when assailed by his
arm, nerved by a sense of right, and encouraged
by public opinion. Hence the extraordinary exer-
tions used to defeat his election by the close corpora-
tions and combined class interests of the metropolis.
The advocates of corruption in the Corporation also
aided in the. general design. Lord John Russell's at-
tempts to include the City in the great measure of Mu-
nicipal Reform, and his subsequent endeavours to abolish
its senseless and injurious exclusive jurisdiction—which
is at once a source of enormous expense to the citizens,
and of embarrasment and delay in the prevention, detec-
tion, and punishment of crime—were industriously
charged upon him as a contemplated innovation of the
City's privileges ; and urged upon the livery as a reason
why they should exert themselves to prevent the invader
of their chartered rights from being elected as their re-
presentative in Parliament. These, and other considera-
tions, were employed as auxiliaries to aid the Tories in
the struggle against the Member of the Government
whom they most feared, and therefore regarded with
intense dislike. Their efforts failed. The close of the
poll, though not favourable to the Liberal cause to the
extent which was expected, included Lord John Russell
among the successful candidates ; and this afforded to
the Liberals a solace under partial defeat, the value of
which was seen in the deep disappointment and mortifi-
cation of their opponents. The impudent attempt to
conceal their chagrin, by setting up a fabricated state-
ment which excluded Lord John Russell from the list of
the candidates elected ; , and the industry with which
they gave publicity to the lying announcement, that it
might serve the purpose of a short-lived triumph in places
where elections were yet pending—showed how confi-
dently they had reckoned on success, and how great was
the importance they attached to it.
COURIER.—No better proof need be desired of the
triumphant progress of the constitutional cause, than
the chapfallen crests of the so late uproarious minions
of the Ministry. The Chronicle sings the funeral dirge of
the party in double-leaded pomp this morning, as before,
for days and week, it hallooed them on to certain. victory
with the same double-spaced honour of type and anticipated
triumph. The evening satellites twinkle, however, only
the more fiercely, as the morning luminary from whence
the light is borrowed is suffering the agonies of
eclipse. Nothing daunted by the detected fraud, un-
der favour of which Lord John Russell's name was
foisted to the head of the City poll, for the base and
pettifogging advantage of deceiving the country to the
miserable extent of one day's post only, one, and the
most dishonest, of this pair -of unscrupulous partisans,
consoles itself for the disasters of London, Westmin-
ster, and elsewhere, by the defeat of one of the Conser-
vative candidates for Nottingham, who is assailed by
name with ferocity of language equal to any ferocity of
Irish bludgeonism, wanting its desperate manliness, of
which the annals of "death's head and cross bones"
ruffianism in Ireland or England can furnish an ex-
ample. We have been accustomed to rate Mr. Wal-
ter's useful labours and public importance as highly as
most men, but never till now, amid the savage yells of
ministerial exultation over his temporary discomfiture,
were we able to appreciate so fully the full measure of
his value, and the corresponding extent of the public
loss in the bereavement by which for a time the people
are deprived of his services. lie has reason justly to be
proud of the distinction conferred upon him of being
the marked man par excellence, the extraordinary and
unhoped-for casualty of whose present retreat is, with
malignancy so vociferous, estimated as vastly more than
counterbalancing the degradation of Lord John in the
City, the ignominious rejection of Colonel Evans, in
Westminster, the hooting of Lord Palmerston's preten-
sions off the seine at Liverpool, and multiplied disgraces
everywhere.
grrANDARD.-Why will not the counties recom-
pense the men who,, have fought their battles in the cities
and boroughs, and in many cases sacrificed their prospects,
because they would not purchase support by betraying
the agricultural interest? Why should Mr. Walter, for
instance, be driven from Parliament by the Anti-Corn-law
League, because he would not declare himself absolutely
against the agriculture of the country? Why Mr.
John Gladstone—why Sir Geo. Murray ? 'We could
name many other gentlemen similarly circumstanced,
who had but to say "We will support a repeal of
the Corn-laws," and thus adding the voices of the
ignorant to those of their intelligent supporters,
they must have secured their election. Do the
agriculturists owe no debt to these gentlemen—or can
they pretend while such men are excluded from
Parliament that they must put up with Whig-Radicals
as a pis alien We can imagine nothing more likely to
improve the position of the agricultural interest, than
such a manifestation, at once of high spirit and of grati-
tude. In giving this intimation we are far from wishing
to advise a neglect of resident Conservative candi-
dates. We trust that wherever a faithful resident Con-
servative can be found to contest his county, that the
claims of such an one will be promptly acknowledged
and vigorously supported. Our suggestion only con-
templates the cases_where no residents can be prevailed
upon to come forward, and where, therefore, there is
danger of the Conservative cause being sacrificed for
want of a candidate. We should not indeed suppose
such cases possible, where it not for the number of letters
we receive daily, assuring us that such cases there are.

THUNDER ,STORM.—On Friday a thunder-
storm visited this city, the electric power of which surpassed
anything of the kind in memory, and the darkness was awful.
The rainrushed down with impetuous force, mingled with hail,
stones, and the thunder told its near approach with a noise
and effect equal to that of cannon, as if absolutely tearing
up the very pavement of ,he streets. The sensation was pro-
foundly grand and sublime. The saving mercy of Providence
was evinced during the above awful thunder-storm, in a
truly marked and gracious manner. A portion of the
electric fluid struck the angle of one of the main walls
of Ballymacreese hour, the residence of James S E
hine, sq.,
who was then sitting up stairs in the parlour with two ladies
and some of his children. Ihe lightning shattered a wall three
feet thick, ran down the chimney, and burst into the parlour
with an astounding shock, displacing a large stone over the
mantelpiece, but then most providentially was attracted at this
instant by the bell-wire, along which it shot down through
the door into the lower rooms, following this miracu-
lous conductor, burning the paper of the walls for several
inches at both sides, and melting the bell-wire, leaving a most
sulphurous smell throughout its rapid progress, accompanied
by a dense mist or smoke. The servants in the kitchen were
knocked against each other and tell, and a girl in a distant
room of the house had some glass broken in her hands in the
act of removing to the pantry. The stunning shock of this
dreadful visitation was felt for hours after by Mr. Shine and
all the inmates, who have to thank Heaven for their escape
under circumstances so awfully extraordinary.—Limerick
Chronicle.
" On Friday evening," says the Journal de la
Belgique, "a young man of 20, and a female of 17, after passing
some time in a public-house at Forest, near Brussels, where
they are supposed to have mixed poison in two glasses of
water which they drank, proceeded to the river Senne, and
threw themselves in. The young man, however, who could
swim, obeying the instinct of nature, returned to land, where
he stabbed himself three times with a'dagger, and then threw
himself into the river a second time. Some peasants who
witnessed the event drew him out of the water still living, and
conveyed him to the hospital. He was not dead when the ac-
count left. The body of the female was found on the follow-
ing day. The young man is a student in medicine, and the
female, who was a pupil of the Conservatory of Music, was the
daughter of a builder at Brussels. Despair in love was the
cause of this tragical event."
OPENING OF THE GREAT WESTERN
RAIL-
ROAD, FROM THE TERMINUS AT PADDINGTON, DIRECT
TO BRISTOL AND BRIDGEWATER.-011 Wednesday morn •
ing, at eight o'clock, the grand opening of the Great
Western Railroad, direct from the terminus at Padding-
ton to Bristol and Bridgewater, took place by a select
train, containing the directors, engineers, and others
connected with the great undertaking, quitting the ter-
minus at Paddington, with flags flying, and bands of
musicians, performing beautiful airs, on the occasion. A
few days since an experimental journey was made
throughout the whole line, for the purpose of trying the
solidity of the line of road, with carriages containing
immense weights, which proved highly satisfactory to all
those engaged on the line of. road, the immense difficul-
ties which arose at Box-hill having been, after consider-
able labour and expense, overcome. At nine o'clock the
public train of carriages took their departure, and the
journey to Bristol, a distance from Paddington of
1181 miles, was performed in four hours, and that to
Bridgewater, of 151 miles, in five hours and a half.
SUDDEN DEATH THROUGH EXCITEMENT
AT THE CITY ELECTION.—Last evening Mr. Payne held an
inquest at the School-room, Walbrook, on the body of Frede-
rick Beasant, aged 54, employed as messenger during the late
City election, on the Whig side. It appeared that about eleven
o'clock on Tuesday morning, as deceased was hurrying along
thr ,ugh George-street, Mansion-house, he was seen to stagger,
and then fall down suddenly on the foot pavement. He fell at
Mr. Hampton's door, whose clerks rencered hl
im ever l
y a,smist-
ance until the arrival of the police. Severa medicaen
were sent for, and Dr. Bell, of Wilbrook, came ; when he
arrived he found deceased had died of an effusion of blood on
the brain, or apoplexy, caused most probably not by over-ex-
ertion, but rather by over-excitement. Verdict—" Died of

The Viscomte M----, owner of the Cha-
apopiexy.
teau de Lannay, near Rambouillet, a few days since, in a fit of
madness, put an end to his existence. For some time past he
Lad shown signs of aberration. The report of a fire-arm having
b,;`,21 heard, the servants found their master dead on the floor,
havh,g blown his brains out. The Vicomte was formerly cap-
tain in Sig Cuirassiers of the Royal Guard, under Charles X.,
was but forty-two years of age, and leaves his widow in the
greatest distress of mind;
Last week, as a new married couple at Paysac,
in the Dordogne, were returning home with the procession
usual cn such occasions in the country, they were met by a
young man, who fired a double-ar barrethll ad e gun,
ed andat thet sho
mar-
dead
the father of the bride. It appes ten raft
riage, he had in the morning armed himself, and gone to a field
under pretext of working, but in reality to waylay his intended
victim. He was arrested, and delivered over to the authorities,