The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-08 00:00:00


r (From the Satirist.)
The Walsall election was a fair stand-up fight be-
tween Corn-laws and no Corn-laws, small loaves rind
large loaves, abundance and starvation. There can be
no dispute about this ; bah sides tried their hardest ;
neither money nor industry wits waeting. The Anti-
Corn-law League strained every nerve, all manufacturers
threw iss their ielluence, and yet the seven hundred
electors of Walsall have decided by a majority of
twenty-seven in favour of the little loaf against the big
loaf, and of corn restriction against free trade.
We do not know what other motives may have in-
duced these worthies to vote for starvation and Glad-
stogie, or whether they received a good thumping bonus
in the shape of hard cash, for abusing their privilege as
electors, and imposing upon those who have votes the
obligation of paying a poll-tax of so much per men, so
much per woman, and so much per child, to every
country squire who chooses to live bejond his legiti-
mate means, and to snake the poor wretches who labour
in our factories, work in cur mines, and toil in our un-
healthy workshops, pinch their stomachs, and thrego a
proper quantity of wholesome food, in order that these
shooters of wild poultry, and hunters of vermin, may
reader their own particular properties worth double as
much es they would be worth if the possessors were
honest Jeer!, and kept their hands out of the pockets of
their neighbours.
Trust the Corn-laws are a robliery, and a robbery of
as ,tggrArated a character as ever was committed upon
the highway, there can be no dispute. Even the squire-
archy themselves would not dispute it in private, and
they make but a shabby show of disputing it in public.
The ten-pound householders of Walsall have now for-
mally declared themselves to be confederates in the rob-
bery, although they are among the multitude robbed.
Whether heavily bribed or not, we. neither know nor
care ; but we should fancy that no men could be such !
fools as to ass:st rubbers in robbing themselves, unless
they received a proportion of the plunder greater than
that they lost by the robbery. Bribed, terrified, or
coerced, however, matters bat little : the plain fact is
clear enough, that these ten-pound householders, who
havethus male themselves parties to this wholesale
rubbery, are not fitted to be trusted with the suffrage
at all, still less to be the only persons entrusted with it.
Of tide bread-tax, not one-tenth part is selid by these
ten-pound householders ; and of the suffering and star.
vetion which this bread-tax creates, not one-thousandth
part is felt by these ten-pound householders. The men
who pay the tax to the landlords are the swarthy,
ill-
fed, working millions, who are obliged to live upon bread,
and upon bread alone ; who cannot procure meat, and
who are compelled to subsist upon that vegetable diet
which the Corn-laws render scarce and dear.
These are the men who are really robbed, and these
-are the men whom the ten-pound householders assist in
robbing. These are the ;41^.-fl who hive no votes, 110
voice, no means of clefeediag themselves against the
robbery of the House of Commons.
We never have been friendly to the humbug of Uni-
versal Suffrage, or the brutalities of Chartism ; but if '
there is an areutneut to be found in favour of either of
these two, it is most decidedly to be found in the ini-
quitous ma suer in- which the .ten-pound householders
-betray their trust, aed, for the sake of a filthy bribe
Troth cornitmedeasheeded country squire, hand all their
'poorer neighbours over to want and destitution.
This 'Walsall election will make multitudes of Chart-
ists, and hundreds of thousands of Universal Suffrage
agitators. If we were ourselves day labourers, we do
aunt Inhere that we should be able to curb the indig-
etion which such an atrocious conspiracy against us
would raise within us, or that we should be able to re-
mist the temptations of joining with every or any set of
yersoos, whose object would be to knock up a state of
society from which we should palpably derive no benefit,
and by which we should feel that we were daily being
robbed, and worked to death and starved.
Something must now be done. We cannot go on
. ;;his way. If we do we shall soon have every work-
man in the kingdom cursir's every man who has a
tote, had combining to pull down the whole fabric of
• society. This Walsall election may be considered to
have settled the question of the Corn-law, at least for
this session. Ministers, of course, will not stir in it
when they would lose their places by doing so ; and
elle squires, after such a victory as this, will, of course,
pLack up heart, and feel themselves strong enough to
can robbing at least five years to come. The greatest
ater.e.tit which could now occur to this country, would
be three $uccezlive bad harvests, and three years of
famine ; everything would fall before this, and the
.country would, eventually, be a gainer.

MANcEIESTER.—At the adjourned meeting of
the Bankruptcy Commissioners on Friday, the case of Mr.
Jacob came on for further hearing, when Mr. Saunders
..said there were a few questions which he wished to put to
dine bankrupt, and, adclre.aing him, said,—" Mr. Jacob,
she assignees wish to know what is the amount of the pro-
b.:cells of the sale of your household furniture, and what
became of them ? Ti,ey scarcely see that is cleared up
to their satisfaction." Mr. Jacob—The balance sheet will
show. Mr. Saunders—There is another matter upon
which the assignees wish to Le more satisfied, and that is,
tahe expenses of your household establishment during the
cast 12 or 18 months preceding the bankruper. Mr.
Foster-1 household expenses put down t 2,4301. ;
how much time does that cover ? Mr. Jacob — Two
years and a half. Mr. Foster—Then, besides that, there
are rent and taxes—making it 2.5331. altogether; that
,makes it 1,0001. a year; and then the general trade
expenses and travelling expetues arc extra, and not in-
cluded. Mr. Sounders (to tho attrignee)—What was It
suggested itself to your minds, gentlemen, on this point?
Ur. Smith—Merely that we think the expenses extrava-

gnat ; and perhaps Mr, Jacob can state how he was in-
duced to live at the rate of 1,0001. a year? Mr. Jacob—It
requires little explanation on that point. It is very well
known that I had a large house, and that I kept a good
.deal of company, and that the money has been spent. That
ist the only explanation I can give; I don't see any other;
it has been spent. I don't think it very extravagant, 1,000/
.st year, kccoiag a gig and horse, arid a large establish-
ment, 201. a week is soon gone. Some weeks cost a good
dual less ; some cost some more. Mr Brierley—'There
were many journeys to London ? Mr. Jacob—Yes, and
you'll find them in additioa. There is no other information
I can give on this point ; of course, the money has been
*pent. Mr. Saunders—Do you mean to state, that the
atanev has been expended on your household expenses ?
Mr. Jacob—I do mean to state it, and I have sworn to it.
After a lengthened examination, the usual form of depo-
!sition woe reed over to the bankrupt, and he declared, that
the books, accounts, and papers, he had delivered, con-
tained a full and true disclosure and discovery of his
estate and effects; and also showed, after what manner,
and fur what consideration he had disposed of his goods,
merehandise,, ; and that he had not concealed or kept
back say goods, merchandise, money, becks, ace mote, or
writinKs. He then signed the depostion. Mr. Foster—
You have heard this read over, and are prepared to say,
that you have honestly given up, for the benefit of your
creditore, the whole of your property, and ad books and
papers relating to it, or containing any thing important to
your estate ; and that you have neither concealed from
them books, accounts, or property ; in short, that you have
faithfully divested yourself of all your property. Mr.
Jacob—Yes. You haVe been sworn, and you say, upon
- your oath, that this deposition is true do. The bank.
rupt then having passed his examination, the proceedings
termiitted about twelve o'clock.
BIliDs FROZEY TO DEATH.—Tate hapless
condition of the poor birds during the late snow storm was
strikingly evinced in many instances, where forgetting
their natural shyness, they forsook tha fields and woods
for the warmth and shelter of the barn and farm-house.
A gsntlemati in Aberdeenshire, writing us a few days
since,says—" I saw a touching sight last week at Tel-
loth, near Ballater—about a dozen of small birds frozen
to the branches of a tree, and some more upon a cart, all
quite dead. Another incident of the storm, was the some-
what ludicrous circumstance of a poor cat that had gone
outside of a cottage window, and was found standing as
stiff and starched as a German soldier, frozen to the spot,
but not dead."—Inverness Courier.
No BOY CHIMNEY-SWEEPS ALLOWED. By
as Act of Parliament. passed in July, 1840, on and after
the let of January, 1842, a penalty of not more than 101.
far 'met than 3/. is imposed upon all persons who shall
compel or knowingly allow any young person, under the
age of 2.1 years, to ascend a chimney for the purpose of
sweeping it, oe for extinguishing the urn therein. It also
forbids chinmey-vvreepers employing in their business any
person under she age of sixteen years, whether 83 an ap.
prentice or otaerwiee,] and impose; the same penalty for
the violation of this prohibition. Ta relieve chimney-
seeepers 0,1- their apprentices, and other children whom
t ley may employ, they must turn them over to the
ulcer. the parish in which the employer resides, and
such apprentices or children are to be considered as set-
tled in such parish. Police officers are to apprehend
till chimney-aweevere' boys and send them to the wrek-
isouse. One shilling to be paid to the bearer fer his

trounlo. - .
NEW PROC.r.sS OF COPYING STATUES.—An
in4enious instrument; ascribed to M. Collas, has been
invented in France, which professes to copy, without the
Resistance of an artist, and with extreme correctness, any
•medal, 'Jas-relicf, or statue, whether of wax, plaster,
wood, niarbie, or metal ; to reduce or enlarge its dimen-
sions without insto*ing the harmony of its proper-
Cone, and to copy it on wood, stone, ivory, or marble,
with as accuracy such that the artist himself could not
distinguish the original from the copy. All this the
Collas process is . states to accomplish easily, and at
an inconsiderable cost. " We have already admired,"
says a Paris Journal, " the bas-reliefs of the Par-
thenon, the originals of which aro in London ; the Venus
of Milo. -still so beautiful, despite of her mutilation ; and
several e)ther precious models, 'educed to proportions of
twafilths or a half, with a truth scarcely conceivable. 'The
Parthenon metopes, those venerable monuments of art at
its origin, are moulded in plaster, with their parts worn by
time and their mutilated projecturt s. We have also re-
marked seirf•r7.1 I Ims-rellef•; reduced upon steatite to
Advocate,with a
the proportions of a cameo. Nothing is wanting in them.
The most fu,;itivc detailopies. _i,wen
sof,t,hemoiteoes
lare le
lens in those charming copies.
There are its the French tariff' sixty-five prohi-
bitory articles, .most of them manufactures, whilst in the
Prussian tariff of the German Customs Union there is not
one, and the hig hest rate of protecting.' duty For national
industry is only It) per cent.—Courrier Francais.
STOCKPORT COURT OF REQUESTS.—I-Ienry
Coppock, Esq
.ow n-eicrk of Swckport, las been ap-
pointed Deputy- Cimok to the Court of Requests in that
town, in place of -St. John Yates, Esq., resigned.