The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

EVENING- SUN*

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JO . (esTWTHER I. kr.TicUlAßSl.)lorninfrt
police.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
URN 4LS FIRE at 'WOOLWICH DOCK-YARD'
the constable 291 R,
who
u‘liiiti%ll.l,-, eulneyrlton Pier. disco-
GLOBE.—A.ware of its utter destitution
base
fact, About half-past three on Saturadaty
and conscious that without facts on which to aseeat a
end of the dock-ya,
„rd, j
n , frem a wooden building in which
semblance of argument, all attempts to
fmialk
make out
Pest Lat the western
wa s pr 1 ,argil.
rt
rattle,
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Grant's6l n e
instantly
pi sas taeivunei, "
af
int ela 1 faorrrns t eha)m
s- bp o at e
ringing
case in favour of monopoly must utterly
has adopted the common practice of personas_ who either Re _ g .
cannot or will not reason—viz., that of calling names. mid in a vet')
'son the drums
h town,
as. well as to the garri ,
soldiers
short time the utmost Ise.-( nfusion
" We called," says our discreet Cantetnporary—al: preyaiked. An express having been s_ent
IS Were rule.),
_oo.ff to the
lading to his article of yesterday, in which t—lia,t, are pohetaitc,ehiengtlese
similar flowers of rhetoric were thickly strewed
called the writers of the Whig-Radical partyanniagesounded. the fire-bel
Lt.) at the Dock-yard,
' diabo- were
spedisie,en zaeracdh i iatgh
rfo'it•togniit 0 ael I qt.uha,r t etros.ccnan. d tlhnespael alarm
Heal miscreants.' We adhere to this
..
ili
..u.s dis.
Robinson, who
was
asanroln rocee.cled, in company with
We find an apology for our assailant. in
bt.fic_ IthrsY
played throughout the entire article in w t
in%
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is
takingdetachmenof
the .
gunge is found. When that temporary_ adi lan- mustered
his
st
men,o the Pl.sth Foot, to the spot,
subdued; and reason resumes her seat, lie
_will be 1 t?unfeortunatelsvmtahlelDen;
yea.
was
se ni
lig isneeesh alongban r withpa ie
,
more ashamed of the offence he has committed
h,l.sortioakmeedioN‘w-nereupbonurtshtbiengroafrao.lilOhnena,raritrilintga:tthe
propriety than we are offended by it, d Noegt:lietlit- 1 1:1-pilt., itt
ourselves wed to amalgamate the ingredients of the patent fuel,
standing the care with which we
against the possibilityof i
misconception, '!en the obser- threatening froma thheeiceokmbusatiilbainle
gn,a.tiaiared ofentheenax
ttto.„7:l. 1
_-........0ve
vations we introduced upon the utter petency to demolish
thace"awaats of smithy adjoining. A mall. -...-o,tne, known as the
West pump Engine, was heought up and got to
of private benevolence to provide
the thousands of the operatives d for.
€.9rivetl of bread,
the
wholly, or
-mask, but little good WAS done. Subsequently two en-
partially, of employment, and consequen y
cae,aning per-N7 1 glass from the sappers and miners' barracks, one from
we find our language misconstrued, itsthe marines, and another from the artillery, were brought
wtoabterrar
bug lobbeiiiilnsontainonbluiltdlr,b:i gn.ood
ilyeptiplinyt (2)
of
verted, and the motives which induced it signalled. . \ e
are accused of discouraging the exercise of benevolence
toward the suffering poor, because we observed that izt- great exertions the smithy and engine-house
rate charity must fail to provide a sufficient fund to sup- were saved, but the bitildin whero the fire ftst
We are charged broke Oil!, was burnt to the ground in loss than
ply the wants of the abounding misery !
with telling Taint,ayers to begrudge, and Poor-law an hour. As rzorning broke, a 4aug, of 250 convicts
guardians to st parochial aid" to the suffering were set to work, anti before many hours had elapsed,
masses, who must absolutely perish if not assisted from all trace of the building or of the catastrophe was re-
such sources. And why ? Solely, because we put forth moved, puringtho dei)se., fog feet mewled a boy he-
_to a collier, lyins, off Woolirichi- left illtei_tbe
a proposition which the Post found itself unable to dis- longingbasin
and was drowned, A seaman was also hurt. This
prove ; viz., that the insane and selfish policy" of .
second time that t
is the he bull
the Corn-laws—we use the terms which Sir James .clipg, iq which the patent
fuel is prepared, has been destroyed," -
Graham employed to designate his opinion of their
principle and operation—had wrought, was ?Jot-king, and
must continue, so long as it is pursued, to worke-incaculable injury to the trade and manufactures of the
country. Is it not evident, beyond the power of successful
disputation, that the distress of the labouring classes,
produced by the fatal incubus which presses down the na-
tional industry, must increase, as population increases
and trade declines ? Can it be controverted, that
neither the private' benevolence of the now wealthy,
nor the assistance which the parish rates could afford,
will keep pace with the claims of misery—while those
sources themselves must in time become exhausted—
dried up, as the monster-misery continued its march,
gradually
.drawing within its vortex those who, in the
first instance, contributed to stay its devastations ?
STANDARD.—The irresistible inference from the
tables of the census is, that the manufacturing distress
complained of has been much exaggerated—that, as
far as domestic causes can have produced it, it is the
effect of an imprudent, and almost dishonest, certainly
an inhuman, competition on the part of master ma-
nufacturers, who have employed the machinery of
the New Poor-law, too successfully, to force together
multitudes of unhappy beings, to meet the occa-
sional demands of the market, and then to suffer
them to starve as soon as the market has been sup-
plied. This is a state of affairs which would not be
mended, but infinitely aggravated, by the repeal of
the Corn-laws—that, by increasing vastly the dispro-
portion between the profits of agriculture and the
profits of manufactures, would render much more easy
the collection of such crowds, and widen to a great
extent the field for gambling speculations. These
plain truths have reached the people, for, as the
Morning Chronicle complains, whimsically enough—
" The political economy of the question was, perhaps,
more distinctly understood by the great bulk of the
working population fifteen and twenty years ago than
it is now, even after the discussion of the last four
years, and notwithstanding the very great advance which
has been made."
Do not, good Morning Chronicle, say " notwith-
standing" " the very great advacce which has been
made," but rather "because of the great advance"
which has been made in every department of
knowledge. " The political economy" of 1816 was
sheer ignorance, and as the people have become
less ignorant they have rejected it ; but the ignorance of
the people, or that which our respected Contemporary
calls such, is questionless an ill compliment to the paid
lectures*, and a modest acknowledgment for the (Theo-
wick itself, which has written the amount of some
portly folios to dispel it. In aid of such obstinate
ignorance, as we suppose we must call it, we beg to
direct attention to the extract which we have made
from " The Budget," the work of a very distinguished,
but plainly reformed political economist of the school
of 15316.
COURIER.—The whole scope and. object of the
calumnies, the exaggerations, the loose logic, and false
reasoning of Whig-Radical journalism, tend to this—
that nothing effectual can be done; that nothing ought
to be attempted, either in the way of alleviating or
remedying the evils incidental to our present condition,
without being preceded or accompanied by a repeal of
the Corn-laws—the principle of which they have
discovered to be iniquitous, anti-Christian, and in-
compatible with the well-being of a commercial and
trading nation. Now, we say, taking all these asser-
tions as proven, they make it out a ease against the late
Cabinet, and the whole body of its supporters, sufficient
to damn it to eternal infamy. The present system of
Corn-dews, if we recollect rightly, has been in opera-
tion only since 1828 ; the Whigs were in possession
ofpower during the whole of this period, except the
irst two years ; and with them, during a large portion
•f that interval—to propose was to carry—this odious,
iniquitous, plundering, oppressive, anti-Christian law was
In full force—and yet no voice was, raised for its
abatement or abolition during that dreary period—
no hand was uplifted to strike down the fell monster,
by which British energy was being paralyzed, and
British enterprise repressed. There it stood on
the statute book, unquestioned and unchallenged, rob-
bing the hungry and the destitute of more than
ball their parched crusts, transferring a large share
of the earnings of the labourer and the mechanic into the
pocke's of monopolizing landowners, a monument of
injustice and rapacity, supported, defended, and main-
tained by the enlightened, the wise, and the patriotic
Whigs. Sarely, if the protection British agriculture
has enjoyed under the present law be of that. hideous
and cruel nature here represented—if the effect of that
law has been to sap up the foundations of commerce,
to dtluge the nation with pauperism, to ruin trade and
starve the people—the Ministry which allowed it to
continue for a period of ten years, in full and vigorous
malignity, uucbecked and uncontrolled, deserves the
must signal punishment ever evoked by an abuse and
perversion of power.

SUNDAY TRAVELLING.

A meeting of the Directors of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway Company was held upon Tuesday, and
terminated in the defeat of the party opposed to all
travelling on the railway on Sunday. An incorrect
statement of the proceedings having appeared in a Con-
temporary of yesterday morning, we have procured
copies of the motion and amendment which were actually
submitted to the meeting.
The motion, of which previous notice had been given,
was as follows ;—" That there be no travelling on the
railway on Sabbath, unless compelled by the Government,"
The effect of this motion, if carried, would, as we be-
lieve was stated at the meeting, be not only to negative
Sunday trading, but to deprive the Shareholders of any
opportunity of expressing their opinions on the subject,
as the Act confers on the Board of Directors the exclusive
power of regulating, all matters connected with the pas-
senger traffic. The amendment opposed to the above
was in the following terms :—" That it is the opinion of
this Board that it is their duty to provide trains for the
accommodation of the Post-office and the public, one in
the 'morning and one in the evening of Sunday, from the
cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively—and
under such rules and regulations as shall enable the ser-
vants of the Company, and all others travelling on the
railway, to attend divine service. But as this is a ques-
tion on which it is proper to consult the Shareholders
generally, the Board refers the decision of that question
to a general meeting of the Company."
Upon a division taking place, the amendment was de-
clared to be carried by a majority of 10 against 8.
The mover of the amendment then mentioned that he
held in his hands a letter from one of the six absent
Directors, authorising him to state his cordial concur-
rence in the principle embodied in it—that letters froth
two of the other absent Directors were in the hands of
the Chairman, also adopting the same view—and that of
the remaining three he could take upon himself to say
that at least one would have voted with him, if his
engagements had allowed of his being present.

PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER.

The MAYOR, at a meeting on Thursday last, said,
that having heard that the men employed on the Break-
water works were about to be discharged, he considered
that the authorities should be applied to, and requested
to suspend the order ; for it would be a very distressing
act to discharge a number of men at this season of the
year.—(Hear, hear.) He was assured that twelve men
had already been discharged, and 150 more would soon
follow. Ile considered it a cruel act towards the men.;
and, observing the governor of the workhouse present,
he would suggest to him the propriety of his inquiring
into the subject, as most of these men and their families
would moat probably be obliged to apply to their respec-
tive parishes for sustenance.
A COUNCILLOR having inquired what cause had been
assigned for such a course,
The MAYOR said, that want of money was stated to be '
the reason.
Mr. W. T. HARRIS said he should he most happy to
join in a memorial to the authorities.
After some observations from Mr. Fox, Mr.
TREEBY (who observed that if they discharged
the men, the staff of clerks would be kept up),
Mr. J. SHEPHERD, and several :other gentlemen, it
was understood that the governor of the workhouse
should make the necessary inquiries and then consult the
Mayor and Town Clerk on the subject of memoralising
the Government authorities ; and it was further recom-
mended that the attention of the local authorities of
Devonport, Stonehouse, and the other neighbouring pa-
rishes should be called to the subject.—Plyntouth Journal

SHIPS ABANDONED AT SEA:

During the past two months no less than six merchant
vessels are reported to have been fallen in with in vari-
ous parts of the Mediterranean, which being so unusual
a circumstance, leads us to fear that pirates have again
appeared in the Archipelago; probably some of the Can.
diot insurgents, making up at sea for their reverses on
shore. The Cyclops steam-frigate was the first to fall
in with a brig on the 23d of August, in lat. 36 deg. 58
min N., and long. 16 deg. 20 nun. 7 ste. E., water-
logged and abandoned by her crew ; this vessel was
also seen on the following day by her Majesty's ships
Britannia, Ganges, and Howe, and by several other ves-
sels ; and by subsequent letters received from Messina
and Trieste, it resulted to be the Austrian brig Intrapan-
dente Anger°, Captain Farina. The French steam. packet
Minos fell in about the middle of September, between
Cape Matapan and Cerigo, with the English brig Eli-
zabeth, water-logged and abandoned. On the 17th of
August the Maltese brig Vigilante fell in with another
wreck, apparently of about 250 tons burden, in let. 54
deg. 48 min N., and long. 21. deg. 51 min. E. On the
24th of September in lat. 33 deg. 3 min. N., and long. 25
deg. 35 min. E., the Maltese brig Ponsonby fell in with
a saccoleva of about 60 tons burden, also water-logged
and abandoned. On the 29th of September, in lat. 34
deg. 10 min. 30 sec. N., and long. 23 deg. 9 min. 30 sec.
E., the Maltese brig Heron ran foul of a vessel water-
logged and abandoned, without bowsprit or figure-head.
And on the 9th instant the Giovane Tagliaferra, on her
voyage to Alexandria from Malta, reports to have en-
countered, in lat. 34 deg. 11 Min: N., and lon. 23 deg.
31 min. E., a vessel of about 300 tons, apparently of
Genoese build, dismasted, with her eutwater standing,
and evidently plundered.—Plyntouth Journal.

THE ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF
VALUABLE JEWELS AT THE EX
iC-velelkEsCiallgoEn.
Our readers willyetuenber that a few
cer-
tain mysterious wlosp ern,ers were current concerning an
alleged discovery,
at the Exchequer,
of jewels to a very
considerable amount—je•
been empawned to meet tri'els' •it was said, which had
King Charles the Second, and
of the extravagant
and had lain there so
lung their existence had
theiT discovery was the result been forgotten, and that
fortune—a sort of set-otr againstof accident—a bit of good
Ex-
chequer bills. The matter was
the defalcations in Ex-
some of the papers, but all seemed delicately alluded to in
on the interesting subject. emed to lack information
venture to confirm the report, . One paper did, however,
had been exaggerated.
but to say that the matter
Exaggerated,' indeed, it was. I
what is vulgarly called a ~ mare's" fact,
the
affiiir was"'st."
A belief had,
however, existed in a high quarteri that property to a
large amount had lain by fora lung
of which it would be desirable to ansta period, the value
that in the year 1757 a box containingcer jewels It appears
sent from the Exchequer-office to theltaeweis had been
to be deposited in the Bullion-office ; an•dtik of England,
recently sent down to the Bank, to have all order was
thei mysteri-
ous casket examined. A day was accordingly appointed,
and the Governor of the Bank, Mr. Marstil.
Cashier, and several gentlemen connected' withth°
Chief
, . the
Governor assembled for the purpose of •
making
an official inspection, and reporting upon the same to
head quarters. They were, moreover, attended by seve-
ral jewellers called in professionally to decide as to the
" water " of the diamonds, and the value of the other
gems it contained. The conclave assembled—the box
was brought in ! But to the surprise of all it was no-
thing more than a lozenge-box tied with a red tape and
sealed on the top. It was opened and found to contain
a pair of diamot.d ear-rings, and a garnet brooch. A
general laugh was excited by the appearance of the
" ridicules tees,"- and one of the jewellers said he should
be sorry to
...ire forty pounds for its. contents. These
are the simple facts of the matter, which excited much
merriment among those engaged in the investigation.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Nmi 20.
MORRELL V.. SUTTON.

Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. KINDERSLEY' stated that the
case came on upon proofs of the case, and on the
Master's report, for preliminary inquiry. The sole ques-
tion in it was, whether a bequest made to a lady named
Calcott, in the will of Edward Lloyd, bearing date
April 15, 1789, was a bequest for her life, in events
which happened, or whether it was a bequest in events
which happened of an absolute interest. If it was a be-
quest of a life interest it was admitted by all parties
that the plaintiff was entitled ; if it was a bequest of
an absolute interest it was equally admitted that the
defendant was entitled. The bequest was as follows :
" I give and bequeath unto Anne Elizabeth Waring,
wife of the Iter. W. Waring, my cousin, Sarah Calcott,
the elder, and Mary Spencer, all my leasehold 'estate in
Gloucestershire, held under the Dean and Chapter of
Bristol, to hold to them for and during their joint na-
tural lives, and the lite of the longer liver of them, but
subject, nevertheless to, and charged and chargeable
with, the following annuities ; that is to say, one
annuity of 20/. a year to my relation, Esther Jerginson,
during her life, and with one aflutter annuity of 20/. a
year to Sarah Jerginson, daughter of the said Esther
Jerginson ;
.and with one other annuity of 104 a year to
rtnr.relation Mrs. Oddenbrook, and which several annui-
ties hereby direct to be charged on my said estate
in encestmthire, and to be paid half-yearly, as
and from
the
. rents of the said estate can be received,
Without
Waring, S. Calcott anyand deduction for taxes or otherwise,
vise, and bequeath
subjectlt
after the decease of the said A. E.
ueeotht the elder, and M. Spencer, I give, de-
said Sarah Calcott, my said leasehold estate in Glou-
cestershire,tothe said several annuities, to the
her executors,
administrators,
if she should be then liv-
ing.ianricstrators, and assigns, subject
to the said annuities
of her natural life. And 14;tdh thereon, during the term
said Sarah Calcott the
younger should die is the lifeetatmie of the said A. E.
lint. M. Spencer, leaving
Waring. S. Calcott the elder,
at. the decease of
the
any lawful issue that shall be
the survivor of them, the saidgiEve.
dv.Erianigi,dS. Calcott
deceases,
the
elder, and M. Spencer, then I
said leasehold premises after the several
said A. E. Waring, S. Calcott the elder, and M. of
the,
to such child or children of the said Sarah Calcott the
as shall be then living, to be equally
younger,
between them, if more than one, share and-shareed
said Saran
provided that if any child of thealike;,,
Calcott the younger shall be then deceased, leaving
issue then living, such issue shall be entitled to the
same share as his, her, or their parent would
have been, if then living, equally between them, if more
than one. But if tho said Sarah Calcott shall die in
the lifetime of the said A. E. Waring, S. Calcott the
elder, and M. Spencer, or either of them, without leay.
ing lawful issue, living at the decease of the survivor of
them, the said A. E. Waring,: S. Calcott the elder, and
NI. Spencer, then I give, devise, and bequeath all my
said leasehold estate in Gloucestershire, after their
several deceases, but subject to the said annuities, to E.
Jerginson, and her daughter, S. Jerginson, to Thomas
Jerginson, the son, and Charles Morrell, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, for the whole residue of my
said leasehold interest therein, in equal shares and propor-
tions." Testator then devised hisreal estate upon certain
trusts under which the plainti ff became entitled to them, and
directed the general residue of his personal estate to be
converted into money, and laid out in the purchase of
land, to be settled to the same uses. Sarah Calcott, the
younger, survived the three tenants for life, and mar-
ried a gentleman named Sutton, whom she also sur-
vived, and died in the year WS, without

DARING ATTEMPT TO SET FIRE
TO THE HORSE GUARDS.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
The above details of the attempt to set fire to
the Horse Guards and Charing-cross Barracks, we regret
to he obliged to confirm. Of the fact there exists no
doubt, :and the act, in both cases so fortunately frus-
trated, is supposed to be the work of some wicked
incendiary or demented enthusiast.
Nothing has as yet, we believe, resulted from the in-
quiry which was immediately set on foot.
The explosions,lboth at the Horse Guards and the
Barracks, were heard by many persons residing in their
vicinity;and that at the latter place, from its loudness,
excited considerable surprise and alarm in the minds of
the residents of Leicester-square and the streets in. the
immediate neighbourhood, the barracks being contiguous
to the south side of the square.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Her Majesty's packet
Penguin, Lieutenant Leslie (late Luce), and the Lyra,
Lieutenant Collier, were detained from sailing at the
usual hour to-day, but it is probable they will proceed
during the evening for their respective destinations, on
the weather becoming more moderate. The Penguin
has several passengers, chiefly for Jamaica. Lieutenant
Wedderbum of the 52d ; Mr. Perry, the Misses Perry,
governess, and maid servant ; Mr. Anderson, Mr. Mon-
santo, Mr. and Miss Knight, Mr. Mosey, Mr. Bissen,
Mr. Gunter, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Evans, Mr. Flamant, Mr.
Cumming, Mr. Adams, Mr. Kirkwood, and Mr. Smithett.
The Lyra's passengers, for Havannah and Mexico, were
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan, Mr. and Mrs. Welsh and maid
servant, 31. r. Kerford, BlLEttles, and Fran-
cis DAM