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London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

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Voters at the Hull Election, 1841
Householders. Freemen.
Sir John Harmer B3O ........ 1,013
Sir Walter James
Mr. Clay
Colonel Thompson ..... 1,020 ............
..... 625

E QUALIFICATION OATH.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
MACCLESFIELD, AUG. 23.—1 n the stirring ev ants
which have taken place throughout the United lenig donl
during the late elections, perhaps there is not a, town or
borough in the country which has got through a con-
tested election in a more peaceable and orderly manner
than the borough of Macclesfield.
However, an idea had been entertained by a portiGa
of the good people of Macclesfield, that the unpopular
Member did not possess the -requisite qualification as
prescribed by law ; and this opinion having been e %
tensively circulated obtained an additional stimulus 11}'
the failure of the bank of Daintry, Ryle, and Co., whit ,11
took place simultaneously with the election. The subje %t
became a matter of common conversation, . and it w: 0
generally believed that the Hon. Gentleman's. qup.lific: s-
tion would be tested. But what is everybody's busine
ss
is nobody's business,. therefore the matter seemed likelyto fall to the ground, when, to the surprize of those intt, r-
ested, two electors (one of them a weaver and the oth
a baker), came forward with the following requisition; —'
" TO THOMAS GRIMSDITCH, ESQ.
• " Sir—We, the undersigned, respectfully request
,yon
to take the qualification oath, as Member for the Bo
rough of Macclesfield, before the Returning Officer, ou
Wednesday next, Aug. 18th, 1841, at Twelve o'clock.' at
the Town-hall. " Your's respectfully,
"JOSEPH D.AVENPOR'S,
"ER
" Dated.this 17th day of August H.
, 1841 LEE."
C
The requisitionists were in attendance at the time and
place specified, but the Hononrable Gentleman_ did not
make his appearance.
Query—Will the Hon. Gentleman take iris seat in for the borough of Macclesfield

BERRY'S G.E:OMETRIe TABLE.
The difficulties in which geometry iF; now involved,
through its adoption of indefinite symlaols and abstruse
technicalities, have enveloped it in obscurity bey-,
v>acl what ;
the Egyptian inventors of the scie•lice contemplated, or
Euclid himself could have suspectei.l. Much of the labour"
of the present age is to dinlini.th these impediments,
which so obstruct the path of mathematical knowledge:,
and to bring the science tr, its primitive clearness. The.
King who wished there Ivere some " royal road to P3=4,.: metry," no doubt felt this fact acutely ; and yesterdaY'
exhibition of Mr. Berry's Geometric Table, at Mr..
Swaine's, in Fleet-street, was fully capable of persuading::
how much towards simplification can be effected.
No youth now enters upon the study of this first c 'f
sciences, which lies at and is the root of all others, br t
an immediate obstruction presents itself to him in th e
crabbed Greek of the technical words, and more partici,
larly in the intangible nature of the forms and figures pr
sented to his mind. In the exquisite simplification of the 30
consists Mr. Berry's plan. His geometric table is cot ,
posed of a square board, divided into 138 compartmen 'sr
which contain a vast variety of rhombs, angles, cub -?g,
quadrants, and other shapes, formed of vari-colou tea-
kinds of wood. To this table the youthful inatherlati—
cian is supposed to address himself. Instead of the in—
tangible triangle heptagon, or octagon of "Euclid's Ele—•
ments," composed of subtle and eluding lines, the stu-,
dent sees, and the sight only imprints the -figures
permanently on the memory, that the :tagora
is a palpable eight-sided piece—the cube, a so.-.
lid sexagunal block—the polygon, a piece with a mul
tiple of sides, &c. But here the invention stoj
not. These are but the simple elements whi,in can Ile
brought into more complex action. In thi utt,er compart-
ments of Mr. Berry's table the simple triangle, squat., .1,
and circle are conjoined into more elaborate forms, : ;o
that the scholar as he progesses can actually arrive at
the composition of such ..nvolved figures as a geomet
staircase, as exact in rroportion as any that adorns the
mansion of a noble, tar can build up the fortificatio7js of
a city, true to all t.'fle rules of art.
So plain, simpi.e, and intelligent a plan toward.; the
perspicuous u'iderstanding of this science, cann.Jt but
render it are immediate favourite in our academies and
schools.

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THE GOOD OLD PEEL DAYS.---THE MAN."
CHESTER MASSACRE,—AIond,ty was the twenty -second
anniversary of the memorable and disgraceful
niassatxr
that took place at Manchester, on the I Gth of Auguete
1819, in the dispersion of a legally-assembled
3e"
form neeeting‘ by the armed yeomanry of that town t
and which, down to the present hour, has never
been investigated. Mr. (now Sir) John Cam Hob-
"louse, in his "supplicatory letter to Lord Viscount
Castlereagh," written immediately after, gives the fol-
lowing detail of the results of the slaughter :—" The
Manchester Committee have already relieved 300 persons
and have a list amounting to 410 wounded and griev-
ously itOred. Those who suffered from sabre wounds,.
amount "I" to 84 individuals (Lord Sidmouth in the:
debate said not one had been cut by a yeomanry roan !)•
are by no means such lamentable
objects as those who
were pressed under heaps of fugitives, and receiveee in-
ternal injuries. All the avenues to Saint Peter's-field,
except one, were blockaded, notwithstanding the asser-
tions made in Parliament ! The 88th Regiment bayo-
neted several persons endeavouring to escape through
those passages said to be left open • one woman was
sabred nearly a mile from the place oimeeting ! I learn,
through a respectable Manchester gentleman, himself ..
attached to the Magistracy, and acting as one of dee:
special constables on the 16th of August, that he is s•aied
he saw two thousand down on tire ground at trace
when the charge was made ! Ashworth, the special
constable, was killed close to this gentleman— but not,
as Lord Sidmouth said, by the mob—no—he wets ridden
over by the yeomanry. Mare than a hundre,d most re-
spectable witnesses might be brought—hut what is the
people,tbh
good to offer any proof?"—Glasgow Chron-lc.e.
SOLDIERS' UNIFORM.—With r, change of
Ministry there will be a new Master-General of the
Ordnance. The present we have always sincerely re-
spected as a high-minded soldier. It is, however, to be:
hoped that the successor to his Lordship. will make some, alterations in the dress and appointments of area
Royal Artillery. In. the first place, the yellow lace shomfd*
forthwith be taken off the gunner's coattee ; it is a dirty.
thing, and is. withiant'meaning ; a good plain red coiled
with red epaulettes, would
.make there quiteuperrg... r
this kind of thing
will decent ; and surely the loss of
to do
The yellow trash of lace requires eonstant..colo -la_
owl;
will be the better for a soldier who has enoughy
clean-
ingin other ways without being punished_ace 0 _ ,„.the
collars, &c., of the Serjeants,
Ser-eants. In &et, .
yellow cotton. Take all
leaving"thel
chevrons. The same with the Staff''red Serjeants_
and cuff;
ofei)°,ll their
give the whole regiment a plaol_n
whole ; forth a shabby-
the better, and pro--
olofoking thing in e worlid,
embroidery is not the
shouldbest-looking
be abolished throughout do:
boffiablyersthaenodffiee
Again, the musket
substituted. Do away
all,r
officers
theytll e
bestwill all
that worn by the Field ' -
with the.
regiment—the carbineeld
Waisteb„it, •
pipeclay cross. belts, :
-Fiat-
decidedly the worst thing substitute a• black
• for that is , „ a every in_
teries ;
lea are ashamed of appaarino. . .
troduced, and theln
, V.lthlt
in
nupt
us
bo
lmicet;hrt
bad in appearance, but 1,
.e Isere, was
ad foe ser-
i d military Gazette,
_....ivara. an
vice.
Cure of Goncelit! in th
-terthedepart-
ment, ."niteY:are ii.i the before
of li,l, in inistry, awl be-
the 13th MSc., the assize
for ha- e?
only
different._ to
e a congregation, said that the rzr,io'hLtion Of 1793 was
be-
fore
boiishirg the
"Kt became servants to the poor, and
" The ba,d icint. who. ... .
sanguinary, but thi!rhoadducedgTeat goo._ d in a
noblesse ;that , • i , mode %Pws ler a similar revalution
thaw
aaulissteoNa‘t-srio'ladteildli::l:oebuiel
p‘bv:oourght to the level of equality.lie
Reeord-w lthe rich
us is a Ci-
tizen King, but is in,
1 it 1 rich to crush tla.e
(forthe
clergy
are
411Y20p e must unite with tile clergy
o pair,t. of the
.people), and Mien
this new King, this ''•° •
turned a verdie'
and
we
shall ht citizen eing, will fall like the others,
eine the Celvernment." The Jury re-
. •
~ of guilty, anti the Cure was sentenced to
six months' i• ' fine 4 ''''''.and
Ilpri6orment, a 0..• ee, to pay the
costs of tip '
Acta,
amuse jted, rsecution.
"
1,,,, Ming to the census of the population of
e`alkes made for last year, the inhabitants of the capital
on the Ist of January last, to 337,865. The
hil'ats had been 13,916, and deaths, 13,46:5. Among the
latter was that of a woman at 103, and those of 129-
tither persons between 90 and 100.
The Univers says, ‘• A letter from Tangiers, ZIA
inst., informs us that the Emperor of Morocco has jet, t •
authorised an expeditionary cruise agaieet all the Pow rs
which have not official representatives at Tangiers. If
the I Zing of 'Sardinia, who is in this category, shouli : be
attic ked by the privateers of Morocco, ire recomo ,end
him to take advantage of the occasion for doing at. 'Tan-
-giere; 'what we have done at Algiers."

VENIN SUN
VICTORIA TiiE Tr?, E.

,:clldet, B£,,id Cl:d D Oa' y d C; 1 the Zia? it iarcase, or AS 141
Bess qf Biltnysyate, the principle features of which are,
blue fire, combats three deep, and revenge.. It appeared
to be relished mightily by the deities, who, in euia'
lation, attempted to get up an interesting do-
mestic drama on their own account, as there were,fre-
quent indications of "pitching him , over," and other
phrases very interesting - to the individuals concerned.
This very pleasing part of the evening's amusement
lasted for about half an hour, when the " thunderof the
gods" became hushed. The performances concluded
with a nautical drama bearing the title of Sweet Pal, of liord3ydown, or Poor Joe the Marine, a kind ot
second edition of "Black-Eyed Susan," the principal-
character, "Pretty Poll," being supported by Mis. Howard;;
and, from the archness of manner, in which she;
played the character, we were not at all surprised that
a fine Post Captain should fall in love with a publican's
pretty daughter, and that the publican's pretty daughter
should prefer her own "true love" to the tendered affec-
tions of the Post Captain, especially when this same
Captain was the chosen of her father. We laughed
heartily at Mr. Gardener, who as a Cockney butter
was irresistibly droll, especially where, having
been " pressed" and placed on board of a man of war,
he•is being initiated into the mysteries of the mess-room,
and the kind offices of the ship's cook. The house was
crowded in every part, and the performances went off
with great spirit.

THE
0171)
It
EN.
TO THE EDITOR 'OF THE SUN.
SIR—I beg to inclose you the number of householders
and freemen who polled at the last election at Bull.
Sir Robert Peel need not boast of the change of feeling
in Hull, when he observes the majority of householders
who voted for -the Liberal candidates. With the BalM
alone the Reforu ers in Hull would have a majority Of
several hundred& notwithstanding the corrupt old five"
men were permitted to sell their votes to the Tories.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, • Regent-street, Aug. 23, 1840. A REFORMER.